JUNE09
WRAP: Raising your research Welcome to the June edition of the Research Exchange profile
Wolfson Research Exchange newsletter
newsletter. We have a busy summer term ahead hosting a The Warwick Research Archive Project is number of conferences and other interesting research the University’s electronic repository focussed sessions. Read on to find out what has been housing full text journal articles and happening in the facility over the past month and for further theses by University of Warwick authors. information on upcoming events. Since launching in August 2008, WRAP has gone from strength to strength and Graduate School PhD poster competition now holds in excess of 600 items, raising The Wolfson Research Exchange hosted the the visibility and research Graduate School PhD Poster Competition on profiles of the authors Tuesday, 5th May. This event through i n c r e a s e d accommodated more than 70 exposure via search PhD researchers from across a engines such as Google. wide range of disciplines and All authors across the at different stages of study. The panel of U n i v e r s i t y a r e judges included members of the external encouraged to send their full text journal business community in addition to University staff members. articles to WRAP, either through My.Profile or on the WRAP submission form at: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/irsubmit To find out more go to: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk As in previous years, the standard of the competition Researching the Research remained high and judges were Exchange impressed by the ability of Warwick Dr Jennifer Parkin from Nottingham Trent researchers to communicate their work to University has chosen the Wolfson a n o n ‐ s u b j e c t Research Exchange as a model to specific audience. investigate academic work spaces in The awards were higher education environments. Results announced for the faculties of Arts, from her study will soon be available on Science, Medicine and Social Studies with our website, please look out for further Collette Solebo of Medicine being Overall details! Winner and Jennifer Udeh of WMG being the winner in the interdisciplinary category. Winners will Check out latest updates on our Blog at: compete further at regional level at University of Nottingham http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/researchexchange/ on 7th July (see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/gsp/ Or follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/ResearchEx for more information).
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What’s on... June 09 WEEK 7 1st June:
9:30am - 10:30am Chemistry Group Meeting
WEEK 8 8th June:
9:30am - 10:30am Chemistry Group Meeting
Seminar Room 1
Seminar Room 1
2nd June:
9th June:
10am - 12:45pm
1pm - 3pm
Meeting of the University Information Policy and
Academic Coaching - drop-in session
Strategy Committee
Informal Work Areas
Seminar Rooms 1 & 2 1pm - 3pm Academic Coaching - drop-in session
10th June:
12pm - 1pm
Informal Work Areas
Land Reform in the African Anglophone Postcolony:
3rd June:
Seminar Room 3
11am - 1pm
7pm - 9pm
ePortfolio Drop-in session
English Reading Group
Informal Work Areas 11:30am - 3pm Workshop for Research Staff on Dealing with Difficult People
Seminar room 1 12pm - 1pm Law School presentation on ongoing research
Seminar Room 3 7pm - 9pm
Conception, 'Theory' and Analysis
Seminar Room 3 11th June:
9am - 5pm Half-Past: Writing Recent History
Seminar Room 1 and 2 12pm - 4pm Research Staff Forum
Seminar Room 3
English Reading Group
Seminar Room 3 4th June:
11am - 1pm Physics Researchers' Talks
Seminar Room 1 5th June:
All-day Comparative Histories in a Transnational Age
Seminar Rooms 2 and 3
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What’s on... June 09 WEEK 9
WEEK 10
15th June:
22nd June:
9:30am - 10:30am
9:30am - 10:30am
Chemistry Group Meeting
Chemistry Group Meeting
Seminar Room 1
Seminar Room 1
16th June:
23rd June:
1pm - 3pm
1pm - 3pm
Academic Coaching - drop-in session
Academic Coaching - drop-in session
Informal Work Areas
Informal Work Areas
17th June:
24th June:
11am - 1pm
8:30am - 8:30pm
ePortfolio Drop-in session
Department of English and Comparative Literature Annual
Informal Work Areas
Postgraduate Symposium
11:30am - 3pm Workshop for Research Staff on 'The Research Landscape'
Seminar Rooms 1, 2 & 3 25th June:
Seminar Room 1
10am - 11am
12pm - 2pm
Seminar Room 3
Institute of Advanced Study Early Career Fellow Meeting: Forum for Interdisciplinary
Seminar room 3 4pm - 6:30pm
Research Group Meeting
29th June:
9:30am - 10:30am Chemistry Group Meeting
History department seminar - Unmarried Motherhood in Seminar Room 1 Britain: 1970 - 2009
Seminar rooms 2 and 3 7pm - 9pm English Reading Group
Seminar Room 3 18th June:
10am - 11am Research Group Meeting
Please not that the events are subject to change at late notice and not all events are open access. Please contact researchexchange@warwick.ac.uk or check the website for more details.
Seminar Room 3 12pm - 1pm Festival of Social Sciences: Brown Bag Seminar
Seminar room 3 12pm - 1pm Careers CV clinic - OPEN TO ALL
Informal work areas and seminar room 1
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