Conference report: 9th China-Europe International Symposium on Software Engineering Education
Submitted by Dr Scott Turner
Two members of the Computing Team, School of Science and Technology Gary Hill and Scott Turner on 12-14th May 2013 presented a paper Electronic Online Marking Of Software Assignments (EOMOSA) in Milan at the 9th China-Europe International Symposium on Software Engineering Education. This conference was held in Northampton two years ago.
This conference series brings universities in Europe together with some of the top universities in China, in the field of software engineering, to discuss industrial orientation software education. As well as presenting, one member of the team chaired a session and members of the School of Science and Technology continue on the programme committee.
Quiz: What type of digital researcher are you?
Rachel Maxwell, one of my Learning Technology colleagues, has just drawn my attention to this quiz from the University of Exeter: What type of digital researcher are you?
Intended for research students, the quiz comprises a series of short questions, designed to establish the areas of digital scholarship you already find valuable and to identify areas you might like to think of developing further.
Outputs include your rating on a series of axes: media savvy; infomation junkie (that’s me!); research networker; career builder; digital specialist; and digital sceptic.
Why not give it a go? – it is Friday afternoon after all!
Social Enterprise and the Health Sector: A lunchtime seminar
Submitted by Ruth Hughes-Rowlands
The UN School of Health, in association with NHS Northamptonshire, presents a seminar:
Social enterprise, is this a benefit to the health sector?
Wednesday 12th June 2013, 1-2pm at Sunley Conference Centre, the University of Northampton, Park Campus. Includes a sandwich lunch.
“And the winner of the 8th Graduate School Poster Competition is…”
The University of Northampton’s Graduate School hosted its eighth Annual Research Student Poster Competition to give research students the opportunity to showcase their work. The event was held on Wednesday 8 May in the Dialogue Cafe in Rockingham Library and was opened by Professor Ian Livingstone, Head of the Graduate School. The competition was open to all research students from all years of study and the aim was to create a poster that described their research to a mixed audience of non-subject specialists.
The winners were announced by Professor Nick Petford, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Northampton, with a top prize of £100 and two runner up prizes of £75.
Saneeya Qureshi, from the School of Education was named as the winner, with her poster, ‘Like a Cog in a Wheel’, with two runner-up prizes won by Roshni Khatri and Nutmeg Hallett, both from the School of Health.
Graduate School Workshops coming up!
Don’t miss out – click on the Eventbrite links to book!
Funding your postdoctoral career, Katie Jones
Thursday, 16 May from 16:30 to 18:30
T-Pod, Rockingham Library, Park Campus. http://fundpostdocmay13.eventbrite.co.uk/
This session aims to demonstrate the range of opportunities available to fund your postdoctoral research and detail the services offered by the Research and Strategic Bidding Office to support you in bidding for funding.
Working with Children, Dr Jane Callaghan
Thursday, 23 May from 17:00 to 19:00
MY120, Maidwell Building, Avenue Campus. http://workchilmay13.eventbrite.co.uk/
In this session, we will consider ethical and practical issues in working with children. We will draw on both ‘mainstream’ and ‘critical’ insights to construct a sense of how best we might work as researchers with children and young people. Particular attention will be paid to models of consultation, involvement and participation. Read the rest of this entry
School of the Arts researchers on the radio
Submitted by Larissa Allwork
Alan Smith broadcast on American Radio
It is a great pleasure to announce that Alan Smith, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of the Arts has recently been interviewed for North Carolina Public Radio. You can listen back to his interview, ‘Debating Philosophy in Prisons’, using the player below, or access it from the show’s website.
See also the celebration of Alan Smith’s work in The Guardian.
TV Fangdom Conference on Radio Northampton
On 8th May, Reader in Television Studies, Dr Lorna Jowett appeared on BBC Radio Northampton to talk about the upcoming TV Fangdom Conference on Television Vampires which will be held at the School of the Arts (7-8 June 2013).
To listen back: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0182rl8
You will find it approximately 2 hours and ten minutes into the show.
Workplace Wellbeing Event by our School of Health
Submitted by Ruth Hughes-Rowlands
The School of Health at The University of Northampton presents, in association with NHS Northamptonshire, a Workplace Wellbeing Event incorporating The Peggie Kellam Memorial Lecture. The event will be held on Thursday 23rd May 2013 from 10.30am to 2.30pm at Sunley Management Centre, Park Campus, the University of Northampton.
The Programme of Events will incorporate the Peggie Kellam Memorial Lecture presented by Colonel A P Finnegan, followed by our keynote speaker, Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes. This year’s event will examine issues relating to work life balance, occupational stress and mental health within the armed forces and other professions.
Additional speakers will include Neville Davies, Paul West & Claire Zambuni — Fishing for Heroes. Lunch will be provided
For further information and to book a place please contact: Email: chwr@northampton.ac.uk Tel: 01604 892820.
Conference report: University of Zaragoza ‘Acts of Remembrance’ conference
Submitted by Dr Larissa Allwork
Dr Andermahr and Dr Allwork’s Santander Funded visit to the University of Zaragoza ‘Acts of Remembrance’ Conference (24-26 April 2013)
Last week, Dr Andermahr and Dr Allwork gave papers to the University of Zaragoza ‘Acts of Remembrance’ conference, organised by Constanza del Rio Alvaro and Maite Escudero Alias. In a panel dedicated to ‘Agency, Trauma and Memory in British Women Writers’, on Wednesday 24th April, Dr Andermahr addressed the audience with her paper on trauma in Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?’ while fellow Winterson scholar Susana Onega (University of Zaragoza) spoke on ‘Class, Trauma, Shame and Spectrality in Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger. Speaking to the conference on the same day in a panel on ‘Holocaust Memories’ with Christoph Houswitscka (Bamberg University, Germany) and Rudolf Freiberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), Dr Allwork talked about trauma and researching and writing the histories and memories of the Holocaust. Both Andermahr and Allwork’s papers were well received, reinforcing our academic partnership with the University of Zaragoza’s Research Group in Contemporary Narratives in English and raising the international profile of the University of Northampton.
Accessing electronic theses
FAQ: How can I get hold of a PhD thesis on my chosen topic?
Other people’s theses can be useful for both content and framework. Not only are they useful models for new PhD students, but also they contain comprehensive literature reviews, detailed methodologies and interesting findings which can be compared with one’s own.
There are a couple of key sources of UK theses: EThOS and Index to Theses. Printed copies of Northampton theses are also available in the two university libraries and indexed in NECTAR.
Enhancing the Impact of Publishing : Emerald Author Workshop
Submitted by Nadeem Khan (PhD research student NBS)
Emerald Author Workshop: Tuesday 30th April 2013
The author workshop held at Emerald publishers head office in West Yorkshire brought together the editors of journals and the authors of papers in an insightful and rewarding dialogue. This full day workshop enabled Emerald to better understand the challenges and demands of authors in offering a high quality integrated service. With 2 papers a minute a being published and snail-mail giving way to electronic formats the issue of maintaining quality and time taken to publication were the hot topics.
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