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ARC26 Programme – UON Annual Research Conference – 24+25 June – 2026

Final Programme - Updated with MS Form Link 4 - Annual Research Conference - UON - 24+25 June - 2026Download

ARC26 Programme – UON Annual Research Conference – 24+25 June – 2026 Final Programme – Updated with MS Form Link 4 – Annual Research Conference – UON – 24+25 June – 2026Download

ARC26 Programme

Test 1 Test 1 Text Final Programme – Updated with MS Form Link 4 – Annual Research Conference – UON – 24+25 June – 2026Download

Images of Research 2026: voting now open!

The Graduate School’s 2026 Images of Research (IoR) is now open for ‘People’s Choice’ voting. This year we have a collection of 11 fabulous research images from across the university. IoR showcases research in a unique way – researchers produce an original image, which can be a photograph or artwork, and write a short, engaging summary describing how the image links to their research....

Images of Research 2026: voting now open! The Graduate School’s 2026 Images of Research (IoR) is now open for ‘People’s Choice’ voting. This year we have a collection of 11 fabulous research images from across the university. IoR showcases…

Being Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable: Lessons from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) in Türkiye

Ian Hall at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) in Türkiye Blog post written by: Ian Hall Attending a NATO ARW in Türkiye last month was an exercise in learning how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. From the outset, the workshop felt like a new Community of Practice I had joined, alongside others working in resilience modelling, supply chains, and contested logistics, areas where I have little technical expertise....

Being Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable: Lessons from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) in Türkiye Ian Hall at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) in Türkiye Blog post written by: Ian Hall Attending a NATO ARW in Türkiye last month was an exercise in learning how to get comfortable with bein…

The PGR Induction Experience

For me, this was re-treading old ground anew. For me, this was a small, calm homecoming. Although I have been back to the Northampton area since I was last a student there a few years ago, I have not set foot onto campus in quite some time. Not since I was robed out for a graduation. That ceremony in all its robed circumstance felt like the termination of something special; now, being inducted once more at the University of Northampton, that special something is being revisited and re-experienced....

The PGR Induction Experience For me, this was re-treading old ground anew. For me, this was a small, calm homecoming. Although I have been back to the Northampton area since I was last a student there a few years ago, I have n…

5 Things I Loved About the PhD Induction Week

Starting a PhD can feel a bit vague at first, so induction week was actually really helpful in making things feel more concrete. Instead of trying to cover everything, I thought I’d share with you five things I really loved about the induction week. 1. How genuinely welcoming it felt From the moment we arrived, it didn’t feel stiff or overly formal, which I think everyone was probably half expecting....

5 Things I Loved About the PhD Induction Week Starting a PhD can feel a bit vague at first, so induction week was actually really helpful in making things feel more concrete. Instead of trying to cover everything, I thought I’d share with you …

Becoming an Insider: Research, Language and Identity

Starting a doctorate is about more than timetables, systems and introductions. It is also about beginning to inhabit a new identity: that of a researcher. This week I was privileged to spend four days with over 20 people from across the world at an induction event hosted by Dr Xose Rosales and his amazing team from the Graduate School. It was a week of new beginnings and the creation of a new identity as a postgraduate researcher at UON....

Becoming an Insider: Research, Language and Identity Starting a doctorate is about more than timetables, systems and introductions. It is also about beginning to inhabit a new identity: that of a researcher. This week I was privileged to spend four d…

How it started and how it’s going

As I reach the first year milestone of my PGR journey and sign up for year two, I find myself reflecting on how the year has gone. It started with training on the systems, processes and some consideration of the road ahead. It was great to meet the other PGR students and the support team tasked with guiding us through. Everyone was daunted at the prospect of going it alone and losing the weekly structure of seminars, even those that had been working in between....

How it started and how it’s going As I reach the first year milestone of my PGR journey and sign up for year two, I find myself reflecting on how the year has gone. It started with training on the systems, processes and some consid…

Connections and Cowrie Shells: My PhD Journey

My mother had a shell on her dressing table. I liked to hold it, to feel its smooth round body and its blunt row of teeth. Egg-like. Dappled. I looked it up one day in an old encyclopaedia which had a double-page spread on sea creatures. Cypraea tigris. A tiger cowrie. I read that its disrupted colouration served as camouflage from octopuses and mollusc-eating cone snails, and that the word ‘cowrie’ derived from the Swahili term for porcelain....

Connections and Cowrie Shells: My PhD Journey My mother had a shell on her dressing table. I liked to hold it, to feel its smooth round body and its blunt row of teeth. Egg-like. Dappled. I looked it up one day in an old encyclopaedia which ha…

CALL OPEN: Images of Research 2026

‘Balancing the scales of traditional farming with Artificial Intelligence (AI)’ by Henrietta Farrugia, the 2025 IoR Judges’ winner All researchers (staff and research students) at the University of Northampton are invited to participate as the Call for Images is open for our 14th Images of Research competition. Create a unique image – a painting or a photograph – that captures the essence of your research or captures an element of it in an artistic way....

CALL OPEN: Images of Research 2026 ‘Balancing the scales of traditional farming with Artificial Intelligence (AI)’ by Henrietta Farrugia, the 2025 IoR Judges’ winner All researchers (staff and research students) at th…