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New Workshop: Follow research activity with social media

Graduate School WorkshopsKeeping up to date with the research activity of others in your field is crucial for all researchers.

This brand new workshop introduces ways to make the information you need come straight to you! Even if you already use social media, this session will introduce you to alerting services, RSS feeds and research relevant websites which you can quickly and easily monitor without hassle.

Highly relevant and extremely valuable workshop for all research students.

Wednesday, 28 November 2012 from 16:00 to 18:00

T-Pod, Rockingham Library, Park Campus, University of Northampton

Book at http://socmedia2nov12.eventbrite.co.uk/

Workshop “Creating harmonious relationships with your supervisor”.

Graduate School WorkshopsEstablishing a good rapport with your supervisor can help your research degree life run smoothly and without stress.

There is nothing worse than experiencing conflict and tension in the relationship; it will cause anxiety and eventually affect your research. Why not attend this unique workshop on November 29th, run by a skilled relationship  therapist and trainer?

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Workshop: Communication and Presentation Skills on Tuesday 20th

Graduate School WorkshopsTuesday 20th November: 16:30-18:30 MY120 Avenue campus.

How good are your presentation & communication skills? Do you fear speaking in public or have trouble explaining your research succinctly? As a research student you are required to do many different types of presentation. And as a researcher good communication skills are vital. We will look at ways to give your communication skills a boost, explain the range of presentations you may have to do within the University and externally, as well as tackle some of your fears and worries to inspire confidence.

This workshop is most relevant for pre-transfer students or those not experienced in making presentations.

See more details and book at http://presskills1stnov12.eventbrite.co.uk/

“Research dissemination using social media” workshop now on NILE

The workshop held on 1st Nov 2012  “Research dissemination using social media” is now available in Powerpoint slide form on NILE.

So if you missed it, here’s your chance to catch up!

Log into Nile, go to RES001: Postgraduate Research Training, choose Training Materials from the left hand menu, followed by Research Training Workshop Materials.

Grad school workshops in November – book now!

13 November 2012 Introduction to SPSS (part 1). Paul Rice 17:00-19:00 Grendon 151
14 November 2012 Evaluating Qualitative Research. Prof. Nada Kakabadse 16:00-18:00 SE101.
15 November 2012 Preparing for Transfer. David Watson. 17:00-19:00 T-Pod, Rockingham Library
20 November 2012 Presentation skills: research student primer. Simone Apel. 16:30-18:30 MY120, Maidwell, Avenue.
27 November 2012 Basic Inferential Statistics in SPSS (part 2). Paul Rice. 17:00-19:00 Grendon 151.
28 November 2012 Keeping up to date in the age of social media. Miggie Pickton/Nick Dimmock. 15:00-18:00. T-Pod
29 November 2012 Creating Harmonious Relationships with your Supervisors. External trainer Karin Blak. 17:00-19:30 T-Pod.

Coming up:-
8th December Saturday school including Writing and Structuring your Thesis, Statistics SPSS session, Planning your Project and Time Management.

Research Methods: Distance learning workshops on Nile are available now!

Available on Nile are the excellent Epigeum online workshops in “Research Methods”. There are workshops in each of the following areas – Social sciences, Arts, Science and Literature Review. Go to “RES001: Postgraduate Research Training” and choose “Online Research Training” from the left-hand menu.

Disseminating your Research Workshop – book now!

Graduate School WorkshopsNew Ways to Disseminate your Research: Social media

Thursday, 1 November 2012 from 14:00 to 17:00
T-Pod, Rockingham Library, Park Campus, University of Northampton

This workshop describes some of the tools that may be used to disseminate research to a wider audience.  It will introduce a range of social media, including professional networking tools (e.g. LinkedIn; Academia.edu; ResearchGate; Mendeley), blogs (e.g. Blogger; WordPress) and microblogs (e.g. Twitter).

Book now at http://dissresnov12.eventbrite.co.uk/

Graduate school skills workshops

Graduate School WorkshopsThe full list of our generic skills workshops is now on the University website.

Our first workshop is on the 16th October – Introduction to Qualitative Paradigms. Book now!

New transcription service launched

Transcribers needed – Northampton

The role involves typing up transcripts for a couple of University of Northampton staff and researchers. This will be on an ad-hoc basis at times that suits you and your studies. The hours of work available depends on your availability.

This role will be based from your own home and is paid on the length of the transcription. For example a transcript that is an hour in length will be paid a certain amount for example £15.

They have a number of recordings that are waiting to be transcribed so are looking for people to start as soon as possible. They estimate they have a number of hours that can be spread over a number of student transcribers. Read the rest of this entry →

Welcome to the Research Support Hub

Welcome to the all-new Research Support Hub!

The Hub is a combined initiative from the Graduate School, the Research and Strategic Bidding Office and Library and Learning Services at The University of Northampton.

It aims to be a one-stop-shop for researchers – a place to come for the latest research news, forthcoming events and research support.

You can follow the Research Support Hub by visiting the website at https://researchsupporthub.wordpress.com/ or following its RSS feed.

If you are a researcher at The University of Northampton and have something to share with your research colleagues then please let us know.