Anglia Ruskin University

IIMP Seminar - Assessing the value of university regional engagement

Date: Monday 10 June 2013
Time: 12.30 (starting with lunch)
Venue: Cambridge, HEL 114
Speaker: Professor David Charles, IIMP Visiting Scholar from the European Policies Research Centre, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Strathclyde.
Title: 'Assessing the value of university regional engagement'

All staff and students of Anglia Ruskin University are welcome to attend.

There is considerable interest at present in assessing university engagement and knowledge exchange including its incorporation in various ranking approaches. This presentation examines various approaches to the measurement of engagement and identifies a number of challenges arising from the diversity of forms of engagement and its nature as a shared activity with external partners. It will be argued that whilst we can measure specific forms of engagement, and examples will be provided, ranking of universities on such measures is fundamentally flawed. Instead data can be used in benchmarking which allows the development of university engagement strategies and a process of mutual learning between universities. An example of a tool for such learning processes will be presented.

For more information about the IIMP seminar and to book your place, please contact Katalin Horvath - katalin.horvath@anglia.ac.uk

IIMP Seminar - Doing Qualitative Discourse Analysis: Introducing Critical and Multimodal Approaches

Speakers: Prof Chris Ivory and Dr Will Turner
Date: Monday 10 June 2013
Time: 2.30-3.30
Venue: Sawyers Building, Chelmsford Campus
Room: Saw 003

All staff and students of Anglia Ruskin are welcome to attend.

Discourse Analysis comes in many forms; it is anything but a unified field of enquiry. That can sometimes make it difficult to know how to make the most out of qualitative data. Whether we analyse interviews, surveys, media texts or some other form of representation, there are invariably social, political and ideological stories to tell. The critical question is of course how to access and appreciate those hidden stories.

Professor Ivory and Dr Turner will present an overview of some established approaches to that question. They will give practical and down to earth insights into how to undertake and organise qualitative research in ways that combine subtlety, rigour and effectiveness.

For more information and to book your place, please contact Katalin Horvath - katalin.horvath@anglia.ac.uk

IIMP Seminar - "How to write and publish quality journal articles based on quantitative data"

Speakers: Prof Teemu Kautonen and Prof Emanuele Giovannetti
Date: Tuesday 18 June 2013
Time: 11:00am, followed by lunch
Venue: Marconi Building, Chelmsford campus
Room: MAR 112

All staff and students of Anglia Ruskin are welcome to attend.

In this event Professors Emanuele Giovanetti (economics) and Teemu Kautonen (entrepreneurship/management) will discuss the tricks of the trade of preparing journal articles that apply statistical methods. The purpose of the talk is to highlight critical issues that are specific for quantitatively oriented articles and discuss good practices for overcoming typical pitfalls. Writing good quantitative papers is not witchcraft - but developing tacit knowledge of the rules of the game makes your writing more efficient, increases your chances of success in high-quality journals and lets you focus most of your energy on the academic content rather than on how to translate it into a good paper.

For more information and to book your place, please contact Katalin Horvath - katalin.horvath@anglia.ac.uk