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Qualitative Methodology: Interviews, Focus Groups, Research with Children
Dr Jane Callaghan will be running two qualitative methodology workshops for the Graduate School on Thursday 4th December.
The morning workshop will look in depth at both interviewing participants and using focus groups. The afternoon workshop will cover the ethical and practical issues of working with children. Both workshops will be held in Sunley Conference Centre.
The workshops are open to any student currently registered on a research degree programme or early career researchers at the University of Northampton.
Booking is via eventbrite:
- Interviews and Focus Groups: https://interviewfocusdec14.eventbrite.co.uk
- Working with Children https://workchilddec14.eventbrite.co.uk
Graduate School Workshops: Highlights for November and December 2014
From now until the end of December, the Graduate School are offering doctoral students at UN a variety of skills development sessions.
For new PGRs: Two Development days are on offer – Getting Started 1 and 2 – containing no less than 6 different skills workshop.
For those students who are well into the task of writing: We have the skilled and knowledgable Adair Richards coming in to run an academic writing day – a skills training session AND practical writing retreat. Only 11 places left on this so book soon!
For those near the end of their PhD: Chris Roe’s Preparing for the Viva will run as an evening workshop and a careers workshop will support those looking for research work in academic and non-academic fields.
For all: We are also running two SPSS training sessions, these are open to Early Career Researchers and PGR students.
See below for booking details and more information …. Read the rest of this entry
Getting Started on your doctorate?
If you are in the first year of your doctorate, you might want to book on Thursday 13th November’s Getting Started 1 workshop.
This Development Day contains three workshop sessions and has been designed for research students who are in the early stages of their research degree, covering:
- Systematic Literature Searching
- Risk Assessing your Research
- Word: Working with Long Documents.
All Development Days include lunch and refreshments and the opportunity for students to meet and chat with students from other disciplines. Read the rest of this entry
PGR Student Induction: What’s next?
To help our new inductees find their way around the research degree procedures and regulations, here are some links and some useful information: Read the rest of this entry
New research students: getting started
FAQ: I am a new research student and the next induction week is some time away. What do I need to know now?
First of all – welcome to the University of Northampton! There are plenty of people here to help you get started with your research – your supervisor of course, but also a number of people in the Graduate School and the Library. If you have any questions, please don’t be afraid to ask for help.
Your top priority will be to make sure that you can access the university computer network and the various services that it offers. The checklist for new research students elsewhere on the Research Support Hub (this blog) describes what you need to do to achieve this.
Now that you have all the right login details you should be able to find all the key information you need about being a research student at Northampton.
Doing Interpretive Qualitative Research: A workshop on 3-4th November
Dr Jane Callaghan will be running a qualitative methodology workshop for the Graduate School next Monday and Tuesday 3-4 November.
There are just a few places left on Jane’s intensive 2-day workshop, which will explore different forms of interpretation in qualitative research, drawing on phenomenological approaches and Interpretive Interactionism to work with a range of textual, visual and spatial materials.
The workshop is open to any student currently registered on a research degree programme or any Early Career Researchers at the University of Northampton. If you are interested in attending please book here.
Workshop: Finding Resources on the Web
Nick Dimmock, Research Information Specialist in Research Support, LLS, will be running “Finding Resources on the Web” on Thursday, 30 October 2014 from 11:00 to 13:00 in the TPod, Rockingham Library, Park Campus.
Open to all research students and early career researchers, the workshop will focus on ways to ensure the information you find is useful and usable.
Supervisor Development Programme 2014-15
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 2014/15 the workshops will run 9.30-4.00 on Thursday 5th March 2015, Tuesday 10th March and Friday 13th 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 2014/15 and have not yet contacted Ian Livingstone, please do so now. (x 3362; email: ian.livingstone@northampton.ac.uk)
Get out your cameras… or pencils! Images of Research is back
Some images from IoR 2013
Images of Research is back! So charge up your cameras, or dust off your sketchbooks, and come up with an image which captures the essence of your research in a visual, artistic or photographic way.
This years IoR will be a ‘gentle’ competition, where viewers can vote for their top three favourites – a people’s choice you might say! Entries for IoR 2014 must be submitted by November 6th 2014.
