June 21, 2020

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...

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May 29, 2020

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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May 29, 2020

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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May 21, 2020

Lightning during Pandemic

Barbara Williams Ellertson reports on the creative solutions which rescued the "Image of the Book" sessions, whose original physical conference format was disrupted due to CV-19. 
The coronavirus pandemic delayed but couldn't entirely stop our “Image of the Book” sessions...

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May 21, 2020

BASIRA signs partnership with Penn Schoenberg Institute

Barbara Williams Ellertson, our indefatigable Partner Group Liaison Officer, is a founder of the BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art) and we are delighted to announce that BASIRA has just signed a new partnership with the Penn Schoenberg Institute. 
In alliance with the Schoenberg...

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May 13, 2020

Kathleen Stein-Smith publishes on "The Independent Scholar as Change Agent"

Congratulations to NCIS Communications Officer Kathleen Stein-Smith, whose latest article, "The Independent Scholar as Change Agent: The Case of Foreign Language Advocacy," has been accepted (with revisions, of course :)) for publication in the Journal of Language Teaching and Research...

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May 13, 2020

New contribution to horror (film) literature by NCIS member Matt Jones

Congratulations to Matthew Jones, whose essay "Reanimating Collective Ecological Nightmares in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives" was recently included in Horror Homeroom's "Friday the 13th at 40" Special Issue alongside some other fairly prominent scholars of horror and film.
The...

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March 23, 2020

Eight new members from Britain and the USA

We are delighted to welcome no fewer than eight full members to NCIS this month.
Leni D. Anderson MLIS (USA) is a visual artist (painter and installation artist) who has been exhibiting his artwork for nearly 30 years nationally and internationally. He has exhibited at...

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March 2, 2020

WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST MEMBERS

We welcome four new Full Members members from the USA, and a new Associate Member from Egypt; between them they hold advanced degrees in American Literature, Materials Science, Pastoral Studies, Hospitality Science, Education and Biblical Archeology.
Stephanie M. Stella (USA)...

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March 2, 2020

WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS FROM THE USA AND DENMARK

We are delighted to welcome the following new members this month, with some fascinating research interests ranging from aesthetics to cell biology and from ethnomusicology to the human animal bond.
Stacy Nicole Hand (USA) earned a PhD in Art History at the University of...

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