Title: Advancing in academia
Location: Conference Aston, Lakeside Centre, Birmingham
Date: 1st June, 9am – 5pm
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Description: Are you interested in advancing your academic career in the UK?
Do you know what’s required? Do you have a plan?
The research carried out by the UK’s higher education sector is held in extremely high regard by the international community. [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2009’
Vitae Event: Advancing In Academia
How To Find Travel Funding For Research
One question we get asked frequently in the Research Office is what sources of funding are available to fund international travel for research purposes. Often travel costs can be included as part of a larger research grant. For example, a bid to a Research Council will usually include travel costs to disseminate research at conferences [...]
NIHR Funding: Tips from East Midlands Research Design Service
I attended a very useful meeting yesterday led by the NIHR-funded East Midlands Research Design Service (RDS). The local RDS is there to help researchers in the region increase the quality and success rates of bids to NIHR programmes. They specialise in bids to Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB), but are willing to comment and advise [...]
Research Excellence Framework: “RAE with numbers”?
The Times Higher has just published a very interesting and informative analysis of the REF (Research Excellence Framework), the replacement for the RAE:
Structural Adjustments – The REF Unscrambled
This detailed article is effectively the “story so far” of the REF, the next generation of one half of the dual support system. It’s important because the REF [...]
Play Games on Facebook (and take part in research into social networking behaviour)
Ben Kirman of LiSC (Lincoln Social Computing Research Centre) writes:
Lincoln Social Computing Research Centre have created two Facebook games that are being used to research social behaviour on Facebook. Everyone is invited:
Familiars is a game that finds out what your “animal companion” would be based on your Facebook activity: http://apps.facebook.com/familiar
Familiars are the animals that represent your [...]
AHRC Regional Events
Title: AHRC Regional Events
Location: RIBA and UCL, London
Dates: 20th – 21st May 2009
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Description: As part of its 2009/2010 programme of regional events, the AHRC is holding its London Regional Event on the 20th May at Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and 21st May at University College London (UCL).
The programme will highlight [...]
Engaging Science Grants Workshops
Title: Engaging Science Grants Workshops
Date: 22nd May 2009, 10.30am – 5pm
Location: Wellcome Trust, Euston Road, London
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Description: The Wellcome Trust provides funding for artists/arts agencies, broadcast media, museums/cultural attractions and scientists, among others, through the Engaging Science grants programme, which offers over £3 million per year to support projects that engage the public [...]
Asian Innovation: The Current Debate
Title: The inaugural Asian Innovation seminar from the Asia-Pacific Technology Network and the R&D Society
Date: 21st May 2009, 4pm – 6.30pm
Location: Linklaters, One Silk Street, London EC2Y 8HQ
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Description: This will be the first in a regular series which will be run by Asia-Pacific Technology Network and the R&D Society and which will [...]
