From Who Can Tell?…! to Such A Long Journey: New Radio Play Rehearsals Announced
On the evening of 5th June 2013, Dr Victor Ukaegbu and Dr Jumai Ewu hosted a very special re-union of the production team and cast members behind the 2008 JAWI Theatre collective production, Who Can Tell?…!.
This community based play was based on material from the oral history archives of the Northamptonshire Black History Association (NBHA) and gave theatrical voice to black people’s experiences of living and growing up in 1960s Northampton.
Event report: The Personal is Political Revisited
Submitted by Lisa Robertson.
The Personal is Political Revisited: Investigating Notions of Place and Space
An Interdisciplinary Symposium hosted by the School of the Arts, The University of Northampton
Saturday October 6, 2012
This one-day interdisciplinary symposium hosted by the School of the Arts brought together scholars from around the globe to revisit the concept of the personal as political and consider its effect on the perception and experience of space and place.
Call for papers: Food security conference on World Food Day
The 16th October 2013 is UN World Food Day. To tie in with this, the University of Warwick is holding a one-day conference, “Food (In)Security Research Network: International and trans-disciplinary perspectives”. Supported by BISA-PGN and GEM PhD School, the conference will be the starting point for a new multi-disciplinary postgraduate community focusing on issues and ideas relating to food security.
School of the Arts researchers keep going global
This June researchers from the School of the Arts will be engaging with creative practitioners from all across the world. Read on for more details.
English and Creative Writing at the School of the Arts Summer Show
English and Creative Writing will be contributing three events to this year’s School of the Arts Summer Show at Avenue Campus. All three events are open to University of Northampton staff members and visiting members of the public. To reserve a place email larissa.allwork@northampton.ac.uk.
Bitesize resources for researchers!
Another selection of Web resources, recommended especially by UN research students.
Social Research Hub: A forum, Twitter feed and Blog for social researchers in a wide range of fields, including human geography, education, linguistics, law, psychology, sociology.
Research blogs: From the publishers of Research Fortnight and Research Professional.
PhD life: A personal blog about the PhD experience.
Literature Review HQ: A literature review toolbox containing articles, podcasts and other resources.
So you want to blog?: Instructions on how to get started on a Blog of your own.
Next week – watch this space for statistics resources online!
If you have any good research Web resources that you’d like to share please email them to Simone Apel.
Free trial: new resources from Web of Knowledge
Until 31 August Thomson Reuters are offering free access to additional databases on Web of Knowledge. They say:
“In addition to active subscriptions to Web of Science, BIOSIS, and Medline, member institutions now have access to:
- Comprehensive research data from international data repositories
- Bibliographic and table of contents information from world-leading scholarly journals and books
- Authoritative research information in all applied life sciences fields like biomedical, animal studies, agriculture and more
- Coverage of applied research in food science, technology, and nutrition
- Bibliographic and citations information from 1,200 core science and engineering journals published in the People’s Republic of China
- A comprehensive index to the global journal and proceedings literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities
- Patent and patent citation information”.
Featured Researcher: Roshni Khatri
Roshni Khatri, Postgraduate Research Student
Runner up in the UN Graduate School poster competition 2013
On 8th May at the Graduate School Annual Poster Competition, Roshni was awarded a runners-up prize of £75 for her poster entitled “A Survey of Upper Limb Neurological Splinting Practice in the UK“. The Vice Chancellor, Professor Nick Petford, presented her prize.
The aim of Roshni’s study was to determine the current practice of occupational therapist’s (OT’s) that use splinting for upper limb rehabilitation with stroke survivors. To achieve this a survey was sent to all OT’s who belong to the Specialist section for Neurological Practice (SSNP), working with stroke survivors to determine the nature of their practice. Data collected from the group of participants will serve to determine the devices and techniques used for the assessment and treatment process, as well as the nature of the clinical reasoning process and the factors that influence practice within the current health care climate.
Roshni is a Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy and can be contacted at the University of Northampton’s School of Health.
June workshops and events from The Graduate School
We have five workshops still to run this academic year for UN Research Students;
- “How to Argue”
- “Your Thesis: Working with Long Docs”
- “Writing Bids”
- “Interviewing for Researchers”
- “Negotiation in work and study”.
And two great events;
- Our Annual Update Day for Research Students and Supervisors on June 18th.
- And our Annual Research Student Conference on June 27th. Read the rest of this entry
Supervisor Development Programme 2013/14
The university runs a development programme for supervisors who are new to research degree supervision, co-ordinated by Professor Ian Livingstone. It is a validated university postgraduate course and it is delivered as two modules – Workshops and Observation. It is a requirement of our research degree regulations that everyone who is new to supervision takes the first module – the workshops. The second module is optional but if you complete both you are awarded the Postgraduate Certificate in Research Degree Supervision which you can count as one completion when putting together supervisory teams. Even if you have previously supervised research students, there may be some elements of the programme that you would find useful.
In 2013/14 the workshops will run 9.30-4.00 on Thursday 27th February 2014, Tuesday 4th March and Friday 7th March. There will be a further session of seminars led by participants – dates to be negotiated.
If you are intending to join this programme in 2013/14 and have not yet contacted Ian Livingstone, please do so now. (x 3362; email: ian.livingstone@northampton.ac.uk)
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