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WED 29 JULY - WEBINAR on Publishing your Doctoral Research

There are still a few places available for our free webinar on "How to Publish your Doctoral Research" on Wed 29 July (2.30pm EDT / 7.30pm BST / 8.30pm CET).
The panel will comprise Dr Jasmine Shadrack, formerly Senior Lecturer in Popular Music (Northampton), Dr Lyle Skains - Creative...

NINE NEW MEMBERS ADMITTED IN JULY

This month we welcome six Full Members and three Associate Members to the ranks of NCIS.

NEW FULL MEMBERS

Ayman Abouhamda (SAUDI ARABIA/SCOTLAND) earned a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery Ibn Sina College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and is...

SPECIAL RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANTS

As a non-profit member organization NCIS is committed to supporting members’ scholarly endeavors, and this includes disbursing six grants annually to support research activity and conference attendance. However, the impact of COVID-19 has meant conferences and research trips being cancelled, so...

"Publishing your thesis" webinar hosted by FIRE-UK

The Forum for Independent Research Endeavours (FIRE-UK), the new UK-based NCIS-affiliated group held its first webinar on Wed 8 July, on the theme of "How to Publish your Thesis." The FIRE-UK steering committee of Hannah Pethen Barrett (Essex), Janet Smith (Brighton) and chair Linda Baines (Oxon...

NCIS Research Grant awarded to Phillip Reid

In the summer cycle of NCIS Grant Awards, the committee has awarded a Research Grant to Phillip Reid, towards research expenses for his project "A Boston Schooner in the Royal Navy: Commerce and Conflict in Maritime British America, 1768--1772". We wish Dr Reid 'God speed' with his research and...

URGENT! CALL FOR MODERATORS for H-Scholar and H-Net

URGENT CALL FOR MODERATORS - H-Scholar and H-Net
Margaret DeLacy has put out an urgent call for list-serv moderators for the Humanities Networks H-Scholar and H-Net. When these lists were established 25 years ago, NCIS was the source of list moderators, and the success of...

WELCOME TO TEN NEW MEMBERS ADMITTED IN JUNE

Our Membership Committee have had a particularly busy month, with many applications. Of these, six new Full Members (all from the USA) and four new Associate Members (from Britain and the USA) have been admitted to NCIS. They represent an impressive range of research interests, with half in STEM...

FIRE-UK HOLD THEIR FIRST VIRTUAL SEMINAR: PUBLISHING YOUR THESIS

Our new British-based Partner Group, the Forum for Independent Research Endeavours (FIRE-UK) has held several informal online meet-ups, and these exchanges have led to the group scheduling its first virtual seminar for UK-based indies. The theme is "How to publish your thesis" and the event will...

WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST MEMBERS

In May we welcomed another six new members to the NCIS fold. They hail from England and the USA and their disciplines include linguistics and translation, history, electrical and computer engineering, psychology, and international law.

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NCIS WELCOMES SIX NEW MEMBERS FROM THE UK, USA AND NIGERIA

FULL MEMBERS
Tom Barney (UK) earned his PhD in Poetry and Linguistics at the University of Lancaster, and his academic background also includes an MA in Linguistics. He has written on linguistics, stylistics, and the history of the county of Middlesex, is...

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