Fields Launch Event
Tue, 16 Feb 2016 01:50:00 GMT
(Picture above: Featured from left, Pro Vice-Chancellor Prof Christine Jarvis, James Fox, Beth O’Donnell, John Aulich and Fields editor Prof Janet Hargreaves)
The second volume of the newly established FIELDS: Journal of Huddersfield student research is now published. Following from the success of Volume 1 which has had more than 1,700 downloads in the period of January to December 2015 the content of the second volume can now be found online.
The launch event took place on Thursday 11 February in Heritage Quay where student authors and staff gathered together to celebrate. As a result of this some of the students are going to be presenting their research at the British Conference for Undergraduate Research (BCUR) in Manchester next month. Read more on the Teaching and Learning Institute Blog Post
Bethany O'Donnell, Criminology BSc(Hons) graduate said: “I feel extremely privileged to be chosen. Fields is an excellent idea to help students get their work out there and I'm proud to be a part of it. I thought it was useful to meet everyone involved with the journal”.
Her Research title was "Male and female murderers: are they portrayed differently?". She told us: “I chose this topic because I studied it briefly in my first year of study and it really caught my interest. It is an area of study that doesn't have much research into it and I wanted to compare two murderers that had not been looked at before”.
Fields is a unique journal that gives predominantly undergraduate students the opportunity to make their work openly accessible via a rigorous academic peer review process. Fields is a showcase for this excellent research and it also allows the students the chance to engage with the publishing process; an experience they can put to good use in any career they might choose.
Christine Jarvis, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Teaching and Learning at the University attended last week's event and said “I just want to say that here at the University of Huddersfield, we believe that teaching and research are inseparable and that whilst our students learn about knowledge that has already been created and shared, they also learn how to critique that knowledge and make new knowledge of their own, and that is, of course, research. So the existence of a student research journal is very important for us – it is a symbol of the belief we have that students are partners in a process of intellectual enquiry, part of an academic community committed to the generation of new ideas – not passive consumers in any sense. I’m very proud that we have this journal to demonstrate that.”
James Fox, Music BMus (Hons) graduate said: “It was a delight to be present at the launch event for the Fields journal and to be able to show my appreciation to everyone who is committed to publishing student research. I’m very excited about presenting my paper at BCUR16 in March alongside several other Fields journal contributors. I hope we can assist in bringing further positive attention to the journal and encourage more students from wide a range of subjects across the University to consider submitting their work for future volumes”.
James Fox is now studying Music (MA by Research) at the University of Huddersfield. His Research title was ‘It’s a-me, Mario!’ Exploring dynamic changes and similarities in the composition of early Nintendo video game music. Read his full research on the website
The editor, Professor Janet Hargreaves, said how immensely impressed she had been with the diversity of research topics and fascinated by fields of research that she had not previously encountered. Prof Hargreaves also called for more subject areas to be represented in Fields, more students to be aware of the journal and to strive to publish work which was not text based.
For more information about Fields please contact Kathrine Jensen by email at tali@hud.ac.uk
