The Careers & Employability Service offers a fantastic programme of career development workshops and employer presentations to help our students maximise their chances of career success. The workshop sessions are crammed with information and practical tips, whilst our employer presentations offer students the chance to network, find out about job opportunities and what organisations look for in potential candidates.
Encourage your students to take part in the range of career development workshops and employer presentations taking place on campus next week:
Considering teaching?
12:30, Monday 27th February 2012, Crewe, Frances Wood FW-0-02
Going Global: finding work outside the UK
13:30, Tuesday 28th February 2012, Room 310, Aytoun
Successful interviews: get that job!
13:30, Tuesday 28th February 2012, Room E423, John Dalton Building
Networking: make it work for you
10:00, Wednesday 29th February 2012, Room 3.03, Sandra Burslem Building
How to write great CVs
13:30, Wednesday 29th February 2012, Room 2.08, Sandra Burslem Building
How to present like a professional
13:30, Wednesday 29th February 2012, Room E0.07, John Dalton Building
How to write great CVs
13:00, Wednesday 29th February 2012, Crewe, Frances Wood FW-0-08
INNOFLUX competition 2012
9.00 am (registration from 8.30am) - 4.30pm Wednesday 29th February 2012, The Shed (Behind the John Dalton Building)
Full details can be found at www.mmu.ac.uk/careers/events Please encourage your students to attend.
MMU Careers & Employability Service
Events are subject to change. Please check www.mmu.ac.uk/careers/events for the latest information.
Academic Practice Development
Short Courses 2012
The Centre for Learning and Teaching (CeLT) is pleased to announce a selection of short courses running in the summer term at the All Saints Campus. Most courses will run on a Wednesday morning for 4 weeks unless otherwise indicated.
Courses running on 18 and 25 April, 2 and 9 May
· Leading a Programme (Wednesday afternoons)
· Employability in the Curriculum
· Creating and Embedding Resources and Media to Enhance Learning
· Mental Health and the Student Experience
· Assessment in Higher Education
· Simulation in Healthcare
· Postgraduate Research Supervision and Examination
Courses running on 23 and 30 May, 6 and 13 June
· Leadership in Higher Education
· Technology Enhanced Assessment and Feedback
· Introduction to Support of Learning in a Practice / Work Based Setting
· Education for Sustainable Development
· Postgraduate Research Supervision and Examination
For more information and to register online, please go the CeLT website:
Tuesday 28th February, E34, John Dalton East Building, from 1.00-2.00pm.
Predicting Species Diversity: Woody Plant and Bird Species Richness in Kenya
Dr Richard Field, University of Nottingham
There is widespread misuse of the word ‘prediction’ in biogeography, particularly when talking about the fitted values of correlational statistical models. There has been surprisingly little emphasis on prediction in biogeographical research, despite the increasing concern over how the biotic world will respond to environmental change. Where this is attempted, various approaches are used, but recently the most common by far is using species distribution models. While I will discuss these, my focus will be on work I have done, with colleagues from Oxford and Mainz (Germany), on predicting emergent species richness and its patterning. The main geographical focus is Kenya – its birds and trees. In presenting this empirical work, I will discuss the associated challenges for predicting species diversity both generally and for species distributions models specifically.
If you wish to receive seminar abstracts each week by e-mail, please ask to be added to the EGS Seminar Mailing List by contacting Daphne Lai at D.Lai@mmu.ac.uk. Thanks.