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IP seminar – new date
Submitted by Debbie Christopher
The postponed Intellectual Property (IP) Seminar has now been rearranged to Thursday 23rd January 2014 and will be held in Cottesbrooke C326 from 12.00 – 2.15pm.
How do you manage publication vs secrecy?
IP assignment or licence, which option is best?
Delivered in partnership with ProspectIP, this event will introduce attendees to four key areas of intellectual property:
- Concepts and understanding
- Entitlement and Ownership
- Confidentiality, publications and copyright
- Exploitation
The 2 hour seminar will be delivered by IP experts and will cover a range of IP topics. Click here for the full programme.
After the seminar there will be FREE 15 minute 1:2:1’s available for you to discuss any IP queries. To book a slot please contact Debbie Christopher.
Lunchtime seminar: Normalising childbirth – use of water and maternal position
Submitted by Katie Jones, Manager for the Institute of Health & Wellbeing.
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing presents Normalising childbirth – use of water and maternal position, a lunchtime seminar at Sunley Conference Centre on Wednesday 11th December. Read on for further details and booking information.
Social Enterprise and the Health Sector: A lunchtime seminar
Submitted by Ruth Hughes-Rowlands
The UN School of Health, in association with NHS Northamptonshire, presents a seminar:
Social enterprise, is this a benefit to the health sector?
Wednesday 12th June 2013, 1-2pm at Sunley Conference Centre, the University of Northampton, Park Campus. Includes a sandwich lunch.
‘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.
Research seminar in the School of Science and Technology
Submitted by Professor Jeff Ollerton
The following double-header research seminar is taking place on Wednesday 8th May 1200 to 1300 in NW205. All welcome.
Professor Kate Rowntree (Department of Geography, Rhodes University, South Africa):
“Integrating geomorphology into the classification of ecological condition: GAI and the Ecostatus model for South African rivers”
Professor Roddy Fox (Department of Geography, Rhodes University, South Africa):
“A comparison of modelled and recorded rainfall for the extreme weather event of February 2011, Ganora, Sneeuberg Mountains, South Africa”
Kate and Roddy will each speak for about 30 minutes. Further details are available from Ian Foster.
Image credit: delayedgratification on Flickr 
RDM workshops for Graduate School and NBS – slides available
Yesterday’s research data management (RDM) workshops with Sarah Jones and Marieke Guy of the DCC sparked a lot of interest from researchers. For those that were unable to attend, the slides are here:
Event at the British Library – Open Data: What’s the Use?
This event is part of the British Library’s ‘Inspiring Science’ event series. Pre-booking is essential.
TalkScience@BL Open Data: What’s the Use?
A discussion with Professor Nigel Shadbolt
19 March 2013, 18.20 – 20.30
The British Library (Terrace Restaurant)
£5, Booking Required, Light refreshments provided. Booking is via the Box Office
School of Health lunchtime seminar on 13th February
Submitted by Lynn Marriott.
The UN School of Health, in association with NHS Northamptonshire, presents a lunchtime seminar entitled
“The influence of acute and chronic tissue loading on muscle-tendon stiffness”, presented by Dr Anthony Kay.
The seminar will run from 1-2pm on Wednesday 13th February at Sunley Conference Centre, University of Northampton, Park Campus. Read the rest of this entry
School of the Arts Research Seminar: Tuesday 11th December
Submitted by Dr Larissa Allwork
On Tuesday 11th December at 12:00 noon (Avenue Campus, Room MY120), the Division of Media English and Culture will be warmly welcoming Professor Richard Godden from the University of California, Irvine to give a research seminar on ‘Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park and the Exquisite Corpse of Deficit Finance’. Professor Godden teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Irvine. His publications include, Fictions of Capital; Fictions of Labour: William Faulkner and the South’s Long Revolution and William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words. He currently works on the narrative poetics of finance capital.
Staff and students from the University of Northampton are welcome to attend and for more information please contact: larissa.allwork@northampton.ac.uk
Remembering the Apollo Moon Landings
Lewis Goodings, Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Roehampton University, is coming to the University on Wednesday 12th December to speak about an analysis of people’s memories of the Apollo moon landings. All University of Northampton staff and research students are welcome.
Wednesday 12th December at 3pm in C204. Refreshments will be available. Read the rest of this entry
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