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How to book Graduate School workshops and events on Gateway
All workshops and events organised by the Graduate School are now available to view and book via Gateway, our online postgraduate research management system.
- Go to Gateway.
- Log in, choose the link ‘Calendar’ from the left hand menu.
- Click on the title of the workshop you’re interested in – all workshops/events are in date order.
- Click on the Green dot ‘Respond’.
- Choose ‘Attending’ then submit. You have the option to write a note, for instance if you know you’re going to be late arriving at the workshop.
- If you subsequently need to cancel your place just repeat the process and change the response to ‘Not Attending’.
- If you are interested in the workshop but cannot attend the date scheduled then choose Defer. This will let me know that you are interested in attending another time. We may be able to schedule the workshop again.
- To check which workshops you have booked onto and generate a list of attendances, read on.
Graduate School workshops for researchers in October and November 2016
The Graduate School Development Programme is designed for all University of Northampton researchers, research students and early career researchers. The following workshops are coming up and are open for booking through Gateway. See the instructions at the end of the post to see the full calendar, or you can click on the links in the table below to the individual workshops. [Please note: you will need to log into Gateway to access the information].
| Finding Resources on the Web | 19 Oct 2016, from 14:00 to 16:00 |
| Shut Up and Write! writing session | 31 Oct 2016, from 10:00 to 13:00 |
| Preparing for the Viva | 08 Nov 2016, from 17:00 to 19:00 |
| Smarter speed reading | 15 Nov 2016, from 12:00 to 15:00 |
| SPSS 1 beginnner’s workshop | 16 Nov 2016, from 14:00 to 16:00 |
| Grounded Theory | 24 Nov 2016, from 10:00 to 12:00 |
| SPSS 2 (follow on workshop from 16th November) | 30 Nov 2016, from 14:00 to 16:00 |
The 2016-17 PGR and ECR Skills Development Programme
The 2016-17 Graduate School’s development programme for postgraduate research (PGR) students and early career researchers (ECRs*) is now live in Gateway!
Booking is open for postgraduate research students, so just log into Gateway and click on Calendar (left hand menu) and you will see the full list of workshops, development days and events coming up. For full instructions on how to book and on Gateway’s development tools for research students, see this Hub post.
Robinson Crusoe, apps, smart cities and harvest mice!
On Tuesday 14th June diverse research topics took the stage at The University of Northampton Graduate School’s 2016 Postgraduate Researcher Conference. 18 postgraduate research students, in various stages of their research degree, each presented a 10 minute paper, with other student colleagues chairing or helping organise the event.
The conference is held annually to give the University’s cohort of doctoral students a chance to present to a friendly audience, practice communicating their research and engaging a general academic audience with their project. They also get a chance, in 5 minutes of questions, to discuss their research in a supportive environment with an audience of fellow students, academics and supervisors. The conference was opened by Andrew Scarborough, the Chair of the Board of Governors, and speakers were chosen from across the University’s six schools. Read the rest of this entry
Open invitation to the Graduate School PGR Annual Conference 2016
2014 GS conference
The University of Northampton Graduate School are holding their annual Postgraduate Researcher Conference on Tuesday 14th June and would like to invite staff and students from the University of Northampton to join us.
The conference provides an ideal development opportunity for new researchers to present their research, discuss and share good practice with others in an informal and non-threatening setting. There will be representation from all Schools and feature a diverse range of research activity. Read the rest of this entry
Graduate School workshops – to turn up or not turn up!
We’re coming to the last few months of workshops in the 2015-16 programme and I thought a reminder on the delicate subject of attendance is perhaps overdue!
We have had (like most other universities offering free skills workshops) a problem with researchers booking a place on Eventbrite but then not turning up, or turning up half-way through a workshop. Neither of these scenarios results in a happy workshop facilitator, as they have spent hours preparing and then delivering the material to an expected number of bodies, in a planned time-frame. Please remember that by registering on a workshop you are committing to attend.
Many other Universities charge a booking fee or deposit, but we have chosen not to do this, so if you book a workshop please don’t abuse the system by not turning up.
So, here’s the booking etiquette….. Read the rest of this entry
Call for papers: 2nd Annual Northampton Business School Research Conference
A call for papers from NBS staff and NBS doctoral students for the 2nd Annual NBS Conference has been announced. Changemaker for Tomorrow: creating business impact through research is this year’s theme and the conference will run on 15th and 16th June 2016. The deadline for abstracts is May 3rd 2016.
If your research area relates to any of the following themes:
- Sustainability
- Logistics and Supply Chain
- Emerging Economies
then why not submit a paper? Please email your abstract, along with a brief personal biography to Sandy.MacDonald@northampton.ac.uk
Researcher help desks – Summer 2016
I’m so sorry – we’ve been having a somewhat hectic few weeks and I completely forgot to post the new term’s help desk dates!
These are the dates we have planned but of course you can always contact Nick or myself directly to fix up a time to meet that suits you better.
Park Library R2.20:
- Friday 29th April – 2 to 4pm
- Wednesday 11th May – 10am to 12 noon
- Monday 23rd May – 10am to 12 noon
- Friday 10th June – 10am to 12 noon
- Thursday 23rd June – 2 to 4pm
- Thursday 7th July – 10am to 12 noon (**updated)
Avenue Library MG1:
- Tuesday 3rd May – 10am to 12 noon
- Thursday 19th May – 10am to 12 noon
- Wednesday 1st June – 2 to 4pm
- Monday 13th June – 10am to 12 noon
- Tuesday 28th June – 2 to 4pm
We look forward to seeing you at Park or Avenue library.
