Powerpoint
Alison Giles, Information Services
Session 1 - (open session)
Library - S21, 9.30am - 11.30am
18th November 2004
Session 2 - (open session)
Library - S21, 2pm - 4pm
18th November 2004
The aim of the Course is to provide an introduction to the main features
of PowerPoint by enabling participants to identify the skills needed to
create simple and effective presentations.
By the end of the course participants will have opened and created a
presentation,
created new slides within a presentation, viewed the presentation using
Slide View, Slide Sorter, Outline View and Notes Page View, used the
slide master to bring a consistent look, formatted titles and main text
on a slide, inserted images into a presentation, applied a variety of
presentation designs, applied a colour scheme, set slide transitions,
animated the slides, run the presentation as a slide-show
There are still a few places available on these sessions. If you wish
to register, contact Information Services Helpdesk on 7250 or email
Information Centre.
NOTE: I cannot take registrations for these sessions
Sylvia Barnes
Secretary, Planning & Research Office
Room 3B1
x 7041
2005 Samsung/ Royal British Legion/ British Korean Veterans Association
Scholarship
Telephone: 020 7973 7256
www.britishlegion.org.uk <http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/>
Applications are now open for the 2005 Samsung/ Royal British Legion/
British Korean Veterans Association Scholarship. This innovative
scholarship offers a unique opportunity for a postgraduate student to
live and study in the Republic of Korea(South Korea) for one or two
years.
The scholarship covers:
* University fees for post-graduate study in the Republic of
Korea to begin in March 2006.
* Maintenance and accommodation grants in the Republic of Korea.
* Intensive Korean language course in the UK before departure.
* One return flight ticket to the Republic of Korea per academic
year.
Further details are available from the office of Sue Freeth, Director of
Welfare at The Royal British Legion on 020 7973 7256. The closing date
for applications is 1 June 2005, and all applicants will be notified by
mail before the end of July 2005
Wilma Ellis
Research Services Officer
Planning and Research Office
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
Tel: 01786 466691
Fax: 01786466688
Stirlingshire Educational Trust
Applicants belonging to the county of Stirling Types of Grant: awards of
between £300 - £450 and can be for undergraduate or postgraduate courses of
study.
Note: Suggestion that grants are for people who were born in, or have lived
for five years in, Stirlingshire...check with Trust.
For an application form, contact : Clerk and Treasurer, Stirlingshire
Educational Trust, 68 Port Street, Stirling, FK8 2LJ.
Please respond to Shuna Marr (Institute of Education) s.a.marr(a)stir.ac.uk
PhD Society
At the SGRS Induction day, Wilma Ellis invited people to contact her if they
wished to be involved with the PhD Society. I was seemingly the only one who
contacted her - but I'm sure that I wasn't the only one who wanted to see a
PhD Society in the University.
Having a PhD society would be a good thing, I think, for many of the
university's research students, both as a support network and as a means of
socialising.
I would be willing to organise this society, but I can't do it on my own.
However, I think that people don't like to put their name forward in case
they end up with lots of extra work. So, I thought I'd specify what
involvement might be expected. I envisage 4 levels of commitment:
1. STEERING COMMITTEE:
There would need to be at least 3-5 people on a small steering committee to
make decisions about what was happening and when.
The commitment from you would likely be a meeting once a month. Whether this
changed or not would depend on the committee itself and how much we agreed
we would be prepared to give of our time. We are all busy people.
2. ASSOCIATE MEMBER:
However, 3-5 people is probably too small to actually run larger events so
another 5-7 associate members would be needed to draw upon for specific
events.
The commitment from you would be very small. You would be asked to turn up
for specific events to help out on the day - probably 1 or 2 times per year.
3. SOCIETY MEMBERS:
There would also need to be a large body of research students who would be
willing to turn up to support events that were organised.
The commitment from you at this stage is your e-mail address so I can keep
you up to date with what happens. Later on we would ask you to support the
events.
4. WEBSITE EDITOR:
We would also need someone with some computer ability to be willing to tend
the society website and put events on the notice board.
Do you see yourself as a 1, 2, 3 or 4?
Please contact me by e-mail and advise me if you want to be on the steering
committee, an associate member, society member or would be willing to help
with the website. Let's hope this gets off the ground.
I'll keep you posted with the response.
Cheers
Shuna Marr
s.a.marr(a)stir.ac.uk
Wilma Ellis
Research Services Officer
Planning and Research Office
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
Tel: 01786 466691
Fax: 01786466688
Hi All,
Just to remind you that the next CCWS seminar is on Tuesday 2 November. Our
guest speaker is Robert Bringhurst and he will read from his own poetry. He
is a Canadian poet and story-teller who works with Native American oral
texts. His seminar will start at 7.30pm and will be in Pathfoot Room B2.
Please do come along if you can.
If you know of anyone who would be interested in this seminar or who would
like to join the email directory we would be most grateful if you would
bring it to their attention and ask them to email their email address to
either Professor Angela Smith at a.m.smith(a)stir.ac.uk
<mailto:a.m.smith@stir.ac.uk> or to suzy.dryburgh(a)stir.ac.uk
<mailto:suzy.dryburgh@stir.ac.uk> .
We look forward to seeing you there.
Kind Regards,
Susie Dryburgh
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Postgraduate Secretary
Department of English Studies
Pathfoot Building
University of Stirling
FK9 4LA
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email: suzy.dryburgh(a)stir.ac.uk <mailto:suzy.dryburgh@stir.ac.uk>
phone: + 44 (01786) 467510
fax: +44 (01786) 466210
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Amended. NB examination dates. Please respond to Rachel Lawlor -
<mailto:r.a.lawlor@stir.ac.uk> r.a.lawlor(a)stir.ac.uk
SAAP Invigilators
The University is looking to recruit PhD students (1st year preferred) to
oversee examinations for students receiving additional examination
arrangements from the Special Academic Arrangements Panel (SAAP). Applicants
should have a high proficiency in English, good communication skills, a high
level of organisation and an ability to keep calm in pressurised situations.
The examination period is 7th-20th of December and it is essential that you
are able to fully commit to work during this time. An induction/ training
day will take place on December 6th at which attendance is compulsory.
If you feel that you are a suitable candidate and would like to join the
team of SAAP invigilators you can contact me to arrange an interview, no
later than November 5th please. Interviews will be held the following week
and interview times will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Please note that it is also essential that candidates provide two
satisfactory references in order to be appointed, one of which must be an
academic reference from the University of Stirling.
Rachel Lawlor
Senior SAAP Invigilator
ral1(a)stir.ac.uk <mailto:ral1@stir.ac.uk>
'Time Management'
Professor John Field, Deputy Principal, (Research) & Director of SGRS
Cottrell 2A17, 10am - 12 noon
3rd November 2004
Professor Field will lead an introductory session in which participants will
explore factors which may contribute to difficulties in meeting goals or
achieving deadlines on time, and suggest methods which may help people
organise their time more effectively.
The session is aimed at research students or junior research staff at any
stage in their career, who have not previously attended a session on this
topic.
There are still some places available for this seminar. To book email
myself or the gradlist.
Sylvia Barnes
Secretary, Planning & Research Office
Room 3B1
x 7041
SAAP Invigilators - please respond to Rachel Lawlor, Senior SAAP Invigilator
- ral1(a)stir.ac.uk <mailto:ral1@stir.ac.uk>
The University is looking to recruit PhD students (1st year preferred) to
oversee examinations for students receiving additional examination
arrangements from the Special Academic Arrangements Panel (SAAP). Applicants
should have a high proficiency in English, good communication skills, a high
level of organisation and an ability to keep calm in pressurised situations.
The examination period is 7th-20th of May and it is essential that you are
able to fully commit to work during this time. An induction/ training day
will take place on December 6th at which attendance is compulsory.
If you feel that you are a suitable candidate and would like to join the
team of SAAP invigilators you can contact me to arrange an interview, no
later than November 5th please. Interviews will be held the following week
and interview times will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Please note that it is also essential that candidates provide two
satisfactory references in order to be appointed, one of which must be an
academic reference from the University of Stirling.
Rachel Lawlor
Senior SAAP Invigilator
ral1(a)stir.ac.uk <mailto:ral1@stir.ac.uk>
Wilma Ellis
Research Services Officer
Planning and Research Office
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
Tel: 01786 466691
Fax: 01786466688
'Qualitative Research'
Alison Worth, Nursing & Midwifery
Cottrell 2A17, 2pm - 4pm
27th October 2004
A broad introduction to qualitative methods (interviews, observation, focus
groups etc), and including an overview of qualitative theories i.e.
ethnography, phenomenology.
There are still some places available on this session. To book, email
myself or the gradlist.
Sylvia Barnes
Secretary, Planning & Research Office
Room 3B1
x 7041
