Bath Spa Research Network

After the success of our Summer Symposium BSU ResNet is now looking forward to building the network, hosting a new seminar series and a range of social events in the new academic year. This will be our 2nd year and there are plenty of developments at the University to discuss which will help decide how our future will be shaped.

You can download  our October Resnet Reader from our ‘Reader‘ page, which includes a report on the events of our first year, including our Symposium, and a guide to our plans for this coming year.  These will be updated on the ‘Events‘ page of our website soon.

Obviously many of you will be aware that the Graduate School has moved from Newton Park to Corsham Court, so this year we intend to spread our activities around the various facilities at Bath Spa (including Sion Hill) and perhaps outside of the University too.

We look forward to meeting any new students and we hope you can join us and start contributing to the network. If you would like to contribute any material to this website please do not hesitate to get in touch and sign up to edublogs here. We also encourage you to create your own academia.edu profile (like mine here:http://bathspa.academia.edu/HenryKnight), which we can link to our profiles page here.

Get in contact with us whenever you like, our contact details are here and our general email is resnetbathspa@hotmail.com

We hope you enjoyed yourselves.

Pictures will be posted soon.

Please write any feedback here.

Details on our Symposium page here:

http://bsuresnet.edublogs.org/events/resnet-annual-symposium-2009/

Sessions will be run simultaneously.

Dear all,

This blogsite has been set up as a tool to help everyone involved with Resnet, or even vaguely associated with research at Bath Spa, put out their ideas in whatever format the internet will allow. This might be to attract interest from people within or outside of the university, self-promotional, or for simply testing out an idea. The content does not have to be publishable, peer-reviewed or a ‘finished product’, it can be whatever you want.

My own example posted below was done in about 3 to 4 hours and was designed to help me think through a couple of my own philisophical questions; about Orientalism in particular relation to a key figure in the area of history I am studying. ANY feedback is welcome, no matter how short or even disparaging. The big mistake I made was probably in trying to make it look somehow ‘official’, perhaps making it seem like you had to read the book to have any valid response. This is not the case. I do not suggest that is a model of what should be put up, it is just one of many possibilities for what you might like to post.

Seriously, anything is welcome. If you haven’t mastered the basics of blog-posting, do not hesitate to email me the content, and I will arrange it for you. This will not be too much of a burden on my time, I have little better to do than help make this site better and hopefully allow it to make our general PhD experience better too.

Best,

Henry.

Pallavi Pandit Laisram, Viewing the Islamic Orient: British Travel Writers of the Nineteenth Century, Routledge, London, 2006. Available online and from the British Library.

“The experience of travel in the Orient made some popular travel writers – James Morier, Alexander Kinglake, Richard Burton, and Gertrude Bell… Even as they subscribed to a reductive view of the Orient, their personal encounter with the “other” and the physical and psychological displacement caused by their travel experience led them to question and challenge their culture’s assumptions of the Orient.”

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Linda, hope you don’t mind I’ve started out using some of your work as a tester. Trying to get the size right so we can embed this on the right hand side too.

Basically what it allows for is easy access to photos, or videos or any work and an ability for instant response and interaction. As you might see you can add video, audio or text responses.

Might be good.

 

Just a brief update to explain that we will now be having our Summer Symposium at Corsham Court instead of Newton Park. Details about Corsham can be found here.

Further details about the symposium can be found on our events page here. The page will be updated with our finalised agenda for speakers/subjects, and arrangements regarding catering, after-event (in Corsham) and music/dance performance. Any suggestions or advice is welcomed, so feel free to leave a comment below or post on our forums.

If you do intend on coming please RSVP, so to speak, in the comments section either here or on the Symposium page, or get in touch by email - Thanks in advance!

Corsham Court Centre: Corsham: Wiltshire: SN13 OBZ

April 2nd, Thursday, 11am-1pm

Details about Corsham Court here: Bath Spa Home

Directions here: Google Maps

Discuss here: Forum

We’re edging close to the deadline of March 31st for handing in papers, although this is perhaps not entirely set in stone.
 

For more information about the event follow the link below, but it is worth repeating that all and any subjects are acceptable, so please do not hesitate to send something in.

Ellie has been the principal organiser and has been dealing with most applications, but there are several contacts who you can submit the information to here: http://bsuresnet.edublogs.org/about/contact-us/

Symposium 2009 Page: http://bsuresnet.edublogs.org/events/resnet-annual-symposium-2009/

Forum: http://bsuresnet.forumotion.net/main-board-f1/brown-bags-t2.htm

Next Wednesday (25th March), usual time 12-1pm, different place. This time we’re in the big room on the left hand side of Sophia, as suggested by Jenny, which is at the top of the Newton Park Campus above Stable (and ironically near some actual stables).

For you Undergrads this will be a chance to ask any question you like to people that have already been through the postgraduate experience (at various levels, courses and institutions) or are experiencing the joys and diffculties of it now. For current Postgrads it will be a chance to discuss either the problems you face or, hopefully, the reasons why it’s been a valuable experience for you.

The general point of the series is to promote inter-disciplinary discussion, between students and teachers at all levels, in a relaxed environment, where you can bring your own lunch - coffee, tea and biscuits will be provided.

We expect to have student representatives from at least 3 schools and hopefully some tutors from others (to be confirmed closer to the date, so keep checking back).

To find out more info on this and any other Resnet event check out our events page or check out the forums (links below). Please be assured that everything you have to say we will listen to and for any follow up information you can check back here, leave a comment, or get in touch with us on the forums.

Event: http://bsuresnet.edublogs.org/events/march-25th-brown-bag/

Forum: http://bsuresnet.forumotion.net/main-board-f1/brown-bags-t2.htm