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‘When is it ethical to carry out medical research in developing countries?’
A guest lecture by Professor Michael Parker, Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford.
Thursday 18th April 2013
5:30pm reception, 6:00pm lecture.
Sunley Conference Centre.
Hosted by the School of Health, University of Northampton.
R.S.V.P. by Thursday 11th April 2013 to Karen Haines on 01604 892373 or at karen.haines@northampton.ac.uk.
Postgraduate Perspective Newsletter: February 2013
The February 2013 issue of the Postgraduate Perspective newsletter is now available. Featuring the theme of ‘sustainability’, articles include:
- The virtue of Sustinere is its sustainability
- Helsinki prize winner Aylwyn Walsh
- Social network phenomena
- Multiculturalism and sustainability
- The Research Support Hub
- Sustainable educational development
- The student experience
- Student finance and sustainability
- Book review corner
- New students and completions
- Postgraduate Annual Conference
- Graduate School training programmes
If postdoctoral life is about playing by the rules, what are the rules?
This article about postdoc careers might be of interest:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2013/feb/25/post-phd-rules-academic-mentors
Research assistant post advertised
The University’s Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education is seeking a full time research assistant.
The vision of the Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education at the University of Northampton is to enable transformational learning experiences through inspirational teaching. Research to practice is central to the Institute’s activities. We are seeking to appoint a full-time Research Assistant to contribute to and coordinate the research, development and consultancy activities of the Institute, internally and externally. The successful applicant will coordinate the Open Northampton project, which focuses on open educational resources and associated practices, and provide administrative support to the Institute of Learning and Teaching.
For details, go to https://jobs.northampton.ac.uk/vacancy/research-assistant-ilt-163024.html
Alan Ayckbourn play at Royal & Derngate on Monday 25th March
As part of the Summer School for the Marie Curie funded Consortium Constructions of Home and Belonging (CoHaB) being hosted by the School of Arts from 21 to 27 March, we are inviting all the delegates to a theatre event at the Royal and Derngate on Monday 25th March, This is to see a new Alan Ayckbourn play, Mr Whatnot.
There may be some tickets over (at £11.00) each and if you would be interested in attending as one of the party, can you let Janet Wilson and Larissa Allwork know — we will treat htis on a first come, first served basis.
Please get back to them by Sunday 24th February at the very latest, as we have to let the theatre know about the pre booked tickets as to how many we actually need.
You should contact larissa.allwork@northampton.ac.uk and janet.wilson@northampton.ac.uk
Managing your research data – forthcoming workshops
As part of our ongoing engagement with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) we have arranged the following workshops:
- Managing data through the research lifecycle
- Managing your PhD research data
- Research Council requirements for data management
All sessions will be led by experts in data management from the DCC.
PG researchers wanted for East Midlands Research Conference!
The East Midlands Postgraduate Research Group (EMU) are holding their annual research conference on 6th September at the University of Derby and are inviting research students to contribute by submitting a short paper, a research snapshot or a poster. They are also offering the chance to chair a session. Read the rest of this entry
Library & Learning Services (LLS) Advisory Panel
Avenue Library
As part of our commitment to meeting the real needs of students we want to recruit Advisors to sit on a new LLS Advisory Panel, where you will help to shape the services, resources, environments and future of LLS.
Commitment would be mainly via a NILE forum, where we would ask for comments on a wide range of issues, but we will also hold occasional, informal Panel lunches. Discussion points might cover anything from the split between silent and group work areas in library buildings, opening hours, e-books versus print, how we communicate with students, how best to target study and information skills sessions or what makes a good NILE site.
No special qualifications are needed and you will not be representing anyone’s views but your own. All we ask is that you are interested in shaping how we support your studies and are committed to joining in the discussion.
So, if you would like to make a difference and enhance your cv at the same time, please give your name and email address to the desks at either library or email Chris Powis, Head of Library and Learning Services (chris.powis@northampton.ac.uk) to register your interest.
New bibliometrics workshop: What can it do for you?
Would you like to know how to use bibliometrics to evaluate the performance of other researchers and to increase the impact of your own work? Dr Miggie Pickton and Nick Dimmock from Research Support will be running a 2 hour workshop, on Tuesday 22nd January 5-7pm at Avenue campus, on bibliometrics and how to apply it.
Bibliometrics (or the statistical analysis of published literature) has come to the fore recently as a method for assessing research performance. Citation analysis in particular is now used to rank articles, journals, authors and even universities.
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