Dear HYMY doctoral students,
Villa Lante Grant (in Finnish)
Villa Lanten Ystävät ry julistaa lokakuussa 2018 haettavaksi yhden 4000 euron suuruisen apurahan Roomassa tehtävään väitöskirjatutkimukseen.
Väitöskirjan aiheen tulee liittyä arkeologiaan, historiaan, klassilliseen filologiaan, italialaiseen filologiaan tai taiteiden tutkimukseen. Myös muiden alojen jatko-opiskelijat voivat hakea apurahaa, mikäli heidän tutkimusaiheensa on relevantti antiikin tai Italian tutkimuksen kannalta ja tutkimustyö edellyttää Roomassa työskentelyä. Apuraha on tarkoitettu tukemaan mm. aineiston hankintaa.
Hakijan tulee tehdä vapaamuotoinen, yksisivuinen hakukirje, josta käy ilmi, miksi oleskelu Roomassa on olennaista juuri tässä väitöskirjatyössä. Hakemuksen liitteenä tulee olla korkeintaan viisisivuinen tutkimussuunnitelma ja korkeintaan kolmisivuinen ansioluettelo sekä yksi suositus. Ansioluetteloon voidaan sisällyttää hakijan mahdolliset julkaisut. Hakemukset ja suositukset lähetetään sähköisesti 11.11.2018 mennessä Samuli Simeliukselle, joka myös vastaa apurahaa koskeviin kysymyksiin. Tiedosto tulee nimetä hakijan sukunimen mukaan ja se tulee lähettää liitteineen yhtenä pdf-tiedostona.
Villa Lanten Ystävät tukee stipendillä Suomen Rooman-instituutissa tehtävää tutkimusta yhteistyössä instituuttia ylläpitävän säätiön Institutum Romanum Finlandiae kanssa.
“Publishing in Academic Journals: Tips to Help You Succeed”18th Annual Aleksanteri Conference on Friday 26.10 at 11.30-13.00.
Dear doctoral candidate,
You are cordially invited to participate a roundtable session on “Publishing in Academic Journals: Tips to Help You Succeed” that takes place at 18th Annual Aleksanteri Conference on Friday 26.10 at 11.30-13.00
7C: Roundtable: Publishing in Academic Journals: Tips to Help You Succeed*
*You can participate this particular session on publishing without registering for the whole conference!
Venue: Hall Consistorium, University of Helsinki Main Building, 2nd floor, Fabianinkatu 33
Chair: Elizabeth Walker (Routledge, Taylor & Francis)
Terry Cox (University of Glasgow, UK)
Markku Kivinen (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Birgit Beumers (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)
The session will consist of a presentation by Elizabeth Walker from Routledge, Taylor & Francis covering areas such as how to choose a journal, writing for academic journals, writing with a specific audience in mind, the submission process, peer review, and ethics for authors, as well as some brief advice on how to promote your article and make an impact. This presentation will be complemented by the view from the academic journal Editors participating in the panel, who will share their advice from the ‘frontline’, what they look for in a good submission, and specific advice for submitting to their journals, including, Europe-Asia Studies, the principal academic journal in the world focusing on the history and current political, social and economic affairs of the countries of the former ‘communist bloc’ of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Asia.
The panel will end with the distribution of some printed resources for researchers/early career scholars.
Intended audience: this session is aimed at Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and those looking to publish in journals for the first time, or who are still relatively new to the publication process, as well as more experienced scholars who are looking to publish in international and/or English-language journals for the first time.
More information on the conference:
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/liberation-freedom-democracy-1918-1968-2018
COURSE: Open Data – Open Science – Data science
Registration is open!
HYMY-909, 5 cr, Kimmo Vehkalahti, 30.10.2018 – 11.12.2018
Open Data – Open Science – Data science
Our era of data – larger than ever and complex like chaos – requires several skills from statisticians and other data scientists.
We must discover the patterns hidden behind numbers in matrices and arrays. We are not afraid of coding, recoding, programming, or modelling. We want to visualize, analyze, interpret, understand, and communicate. These are the core themes of Open Data Science (Open Data – Open Science – Data Science). And this course is THE course for learning these skills.
General learning objective:
After completing this course you will understand the principles and advantages of using open research tools with open data and understand the possibilities of reproducible research. You will know how to use R, RStudio, RMarkdown, and GitHub for these tasks and also know how to learn more of these open software tools. You will also know how to apply certain statistical methods of data science, that is, data-driven statistics.
Registration via Weboodi
Grant writing courses
Improve your chances to get your research plan funded by taking a grant writing course:
Autumn 2018
Does Happiness Lead to Success?
The Happiness advantage: Research linking Happiness and Success.
Ted Talk by Shawn Achor
Behavioral Insights Seminar on Oct 15
You are warmly welcome to the BEHAVIORAL INSIGHTS SEMINAR on October 15th 2018 between 13:00-15:30 at Laurea Tikkurila Campus (Ratatie 22, Vantaa), auditorium B101.
Chair: Markus Kanerva, CEO of Ajatushautomo Tänk
Programme
13.00 – 13.10 Opening words, Kaisa Hytönen, Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu
13.10 – 14.00 Keynote: ‘Richard Thaler, Misbehaving Nobel Prize Winner’, Martijn van den Assem, VU Amsterdam
Professor Martijn van den Assem from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam will guide you through the academic achievements of Richard Thaler, founding father of Behavioral Economics and Finance and the most recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Together with Thaler, Van den Assem has used TV game shows to gain a better understanding of how we make decisions.
14.00 – 14.30 ‘Like Moths to a Flame: Investors and Salient Stocks’, Michael Ungeheuer, Aalto University
14.30 – 15.00 ‘Motivation and Behavior Change in Health Contexts’, Keegan Knittle, University of Helsinki
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee and networking
Welcome!
Event is free of charge. Due to the limited availability of seats early registration is strongly recommended to ensure your participation. Please register no later than 7th October.
https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/Behavioral_Insights_Seminar_151018
Feel free to contact kaisa.hytonen@laurea.fi if you have any questions about the event.
Lecture: Distance from Home and the Effect of Visitation during Imprisonment on Offenders and their Families
Invitation: Guest Lecture in the Criminological Seminar
Lars Højsgaard Andersen, PhD, will give a lecture on
Distance from Home and the Effect of Visitation during Imprisonment on Offenders and their Families in the Criminological Seminar (Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences).
Chair and Discussant: Research Director Mikko Aaltonen, Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.
The lecture takes place in 7 November, 2018, 14.15-15.45, at Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40, Room 7 (3rd Floor).
Lars Højsgaard Andersen, PhD in Sociology from University of Copenhagen, is Senior Researcher at the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has researched the concentration of criminal justice contacts within and across generations, the effects of confinement conditions, and the role of family processes in the criminal justice domain. Andersen’s research has appeared in leading journals such as Criminology, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
The lecture is open, no pre-registration required.
Welcome!
PhD Kick-off November 5th, 2018 at City Hall
PhD Kick-off, Monday, November 5th, 2018 –the major orientation and networking event in the PhD year at the UH welcoming newly started Doctoral Candidates in both Helsinki and in the University. It is an excellent opportunity to find out about living, studying, and working in Helsinki and in the University. Welcoming program and information booths on immigration, finances, housing, healthcare, free time and all sorts. In addition, the participants will meet their fellow doctoral candidates, mingle and make friends, and get familiar with different societies that bring doctoral candidates together.
The event is organized in collaboration with the City of Helsinki, University of Helsinki, and the Association of University of Helsinki PhD Students (HYVÄT)
Save the date and follow your email for further information coming up this fall.
Research Professional database training 25 October 2018