Newcastle University

Writing Across Boundaries - Postgraduate Workshop

26th & 27th March 2012 at St Aidan's College, Durham University

Each year the Writing Across Boundaries Project runs an intensive, two-day, residential workshop for social science PhD students in their third year to explore analytical and practical approaches to writing and offers participants an opportunity to reflect on the writing process itself as a form of social science thinking.

Eligible Participants
The workshop is targetted at PhD students in the social sciences in their third year of study, who:

• Have used qualitative methods of data collection;
• Are at the point of translating this data into written out-put
• Have completed their fieldwork and have data they have begin to process.

How to Apply
If you are interesting in attending please complete the online application form by Friday, 09 March 2012 (5pm).

Please note that the online application form requires a letter of support from your principal supervisor to be attached.

Conference Competition

Summer School takes place between May 5-9 2012. An all expenses trip is on offer to those interested in healthy ageing.

For more details see

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/fms/postgrad/funding/groningen.htm 

College of Occupational Therapists Merit Award

Congratulations to Christine Elliott, an Occupational Therapist and current PhD student at Newcastle.  The British Association of Occupational Therapists have awarded Christine a highly prestigious merit award for her contribution to the profession.

The merit awards were established in 2008 to celebrate excellence as recognised by a British Association of Occupational Therapists member's peer group.

Developing Digital Literacies

An invitation to participate in an important UK wide initiative

As part of the Developing Digital Literacies programme, Vitae invite staff involved in researcher development and researchers (doctoral and research staff) to complete a short online survey that focuses specifically on the digital literacy of researchers and institutional staff in researcher development roles.
 
The  anonymous results will be published in February 201 and will enable Vitae to refine sector activities that focus on digital literacy such as the extremely popular Digital Researcher event for researchers and research staff, and will be used to support the researcher development community to establish new approaches for developing digital literacy for researchers and the researcher development community in higher education.
 
The closing date for submissions is 24 January 2012.

Seeking Global Poverty Ambassadors

In 2012, The Co-operative Membership and the Global Poverty Project will be working in partnership to get people across the UK involved in the movement to end extreme poverty. This is an exciting opportunity to take part in an inspiring and empowering project by becoming Global Poverty Ambassadors. 

All Global Poverty Ambassadors will be provided with training which will enable them to deliver the groundbreaking 1.4 Billion Reasons Presentation in their local communities, workplaces, schools, universities or faith groups.

For further information, please visit the Global Poverty Project website.