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The return of two great events run by the Graduate School. First, at the end of May we have the 3 Minute Thesis Competition. Watch as Leicester research students try to present their manga opera  in under 3 minutes. if you would like to attend  please reserve your place . At the end of June we have The Festival of Postgraduate Research. This is always a fun event, where 50 PhD students present their work in a poster session. The best posters will receive prizes from the judges. No booking required, just turn up on the day. 

RefWorks allows you to manage all the references you have used in your assignments or research. New RefWorks Users   Create and organise a library of references that you can access via the web Store and annotate the PDFs of articles Import references from bibliographic databases and other information sources Cite while you write using add-in Word/Google Docs features Automatically create bibliographies If you have never used RefWorks then see our  Getting Started Online Tutorial Existing RefWorks Users Why should you upgrade to new RefWorks? New RefWorks has lots of extra features: Store, view and annotate PDFs Tag your references Quick Cite function Save to RefWorks browser button Word 2016 citation toolbar (Add-In) Google Docs citation toolbar (Add-In) When should you upgrade to new RefWorks? We had previously advised people to upgrade by September 2017 - this advice has now changed: New RefWorks and legacy RefWorks will now both be available to us

A common question we are asked by people doing literature reviews is: which database should I use? Google Scholar is good for finding specific articles, including grey literature. But it has limited functionality if you want to build a more advanced search, or extract lots of results at once.  So we would recommend using a literature database designed for you subject. Not every subject has a good database, but many do. Below are a selection, you cna find more resources at the My Subject page s. For further information on doing a literature search see our advice here. Archaeology British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB) Biological Sciences and Medicine      Medline      PubMed Criminology Criminal Justice Abstracts Economics     EconLit Education British Education Index (BEI) Educational Resources Information Centre (ERIC) Engineering  IEEE/IET Electronic Library History  Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) Historica

College of Science and Engineering Thursday 11th May 2017 17:00-18:00 More information and book your place . College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Wednesday 24th May 2017, 17:00-18:00 (reception 18:00-19:00) Dr Rebecca Gordon, School of Archaeology and Ancient History Feeding the city: animals, food and city life in post-medieval England (AD1500 -1900) The zooarchaeological enquiry of animals and their products in the post-medieval period has largely been disregarded in British archaeology. Yet, there is a multitude of ways in which animals can inform upon the profound social and economic changes that took place during this era. Animal bones excavated from urban sites were analysed along with zooarchaeological data to understand the transformations in the production and consumption of animals. These investigations showed that innovations in agriculture and the industrialisation of food production had a considerable effect on husbandry regimes, urban provisioning