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Imminent Grad School workshops – book now!

Basic inferential statistics in SPSS, Keeping Up to Date in the Age of Social Media, The student-supervisory relationship.

Basic inferential statistics in SPSS – Click to book
A follow on from Paul’s basic SPSS workshop on the 13th.
Tuesday 27th 5-7pm in Grendon 151, Park

Keeping Up to Date in the Age of Social Media – Click to book
Learn how to QUICKLY keep up to date with research activity. Valuable for every researcher.
Weds 28th 4-6pm T-Pod, Rockingham Library, Park

The student-supervisory relationship – Click to book
Creating / keeping a harmonious relationship with your supervisor. Unmissable.
Thurs 29th 5-7.30pm T-Pod, Rockingham Library, Park

Conference report: UN Business School representation at the 20th anniversary conference of CGIR Journal

Prof. Kakabadse with PhD students Nadeem Khan and Ourada Dsouli

On 28th – 29th September at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Nadeem Khan and Ouarda Dsouli from UN Business School attended the Conference of Corporate Governance An International Review Journal (CGIR). The joint paper with Prof. Nada Kakabadse is titled – National Governance Bundles: A comparative of G20 Countries and Forbes 200 Corporations (2009-2012).

The paper presented compares and contrasts the social and financial performance of Nations with Corporations based on deeper characteristics such as Board structures; Debt; employment during the post Global Financial Crisis (GFC) era. Where Corporations dominate the top economies in the World (Fortune Magazine, 2011) Governments are grappling with Austerity. Further, a cause of concern is that out of the extra $2.4Tn spent by Nations, $1.9Tn has gone to Bank Bail Outs.  Read the rest of this entry

Must all postgrad research have ‘impact’?

Interesting piece in The Guardian last week – http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/nov/14/postgraduates-higher-education

Forum report: IMD and Grosvenor Business Forum in October

Nadeem Khan, PhD student from NBS attended the IMD and Grosvenor Business Forum on 15th October 2012 at which IMD President Dominique Turpin presented – “Leading with a Global Mindset”.  The forum was attended by delegates from Industry along with IMD alumni and invited guests.

The essence of the Key Note speech highlighted the critical difference between international and global firms and identified global leaders as being/or having 8 traits: Open minded, sensitivity and empathy, the ability to connect, respect for others, cultural curiosity, multi-lingual, willingness to experiment, cosmopolitan.

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Bursary for women postgraduate research students in HISTORY or ENGLISH LITERATURE

This Bursary is offered annually to women postgraduate students whose research in HISTORY or ENGLISH LITERATURE requires a short residence in London in the summer. Read the rest of this entry

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/

Developing methods for the microanalysis of online data

Date: 9-10 January 2013

    Venue: Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

          Workshop fee: none. Lunch and dinner (day 2) and coffee/tea are included. Read the rest of this entry

PhD transfer seminar “Fine sediment dynamics in the Nene river basin”

Research student, Simon Pulley, will be presenting his PhD Transfer seminar entitled “Fine sediment dynamics in the Nene river basin” on Thursday 18th October at 1330 in Newton NW013.

All are welcome to attend.

Thumbnail credit: Jon Smith (Flickr) – Creative Commons

Transfer Seminar “The Use of Hedgerows by Macro-Moth Species in Agricultural Landscapes”

Research student, Emma Elkins, will be presenting her PhD Transfer seminar entitled “The Use of Hedgerows by Macro-Moth Species in Agricultural Landscapes” on Wednesday 17th October at 1300 in M4 in the HE Centre at Moulton College.

All are welcome.