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Posts from ‘July, 2009’

Weekly Digest for July 31st

Shared 3 links.

Research on young people who do not drink or drink very little | Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Medical Research Council - Discipline hopping grant
Research on young people, alcohol and locality | Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Shared 3 links.

EPSRC: Career Acceleration Fellowships 2010 – Call for Applications
EPSRC: Leadership Fellowships 2010 – Call for Applications
EPSRC: Contributions to Next Generation [...]

NIHR Calls For Health Technology Research Topics

If you’ve got an idea for future research topics for the Health Technology Assessment programme, run by the National Institute for Health Research, you can submit them using the electronic form on their website:
Suggest a research topic
The HTA programme commissions research on the effectiveness of different healthcare treatments and tests through a variety of funding [...]

Weekly Digest for July 11th

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ESRC-DFID Joint Scheme Phase 2
EPSRC: Collaboration Fund – Call for Expressions of Interest

Shared FEAST >> Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology cooperation
The Forum for European–Australian Science and Technology Cooperation (commonly known as “FEAST”) is an organization est…

Repository Advocacy and Training in the Library

This morning I delivered a short presentation to about 15 HLSS staff on the benefits of using an institutional repository. You can see the slides here (thanks to Joss Winn whose slides on Open Access formed the basis of this presentation).

Bev Jones and Jill Partridge, the library cataloguers, then took on the far more difficult task of [...]

The Impact of Research on Public Policy: RCUK Report

Research Councils UK today published a report which gives an overview of the impacts of RCUK-funded research on UK public policy:
Impacts: Success in Shaping Public Policy and Services (PDF)
The document includes a number of case studies which highlight how publicly-funded research has significant impact outside of academia. It’s interesting to read about research which crosses [...]

EU Culture Partner Search

If you’re looking for a partner for a bid to the EU’s Culture Programme, try searching EUCLID’s partner database:
partners.culture.info
There are only a few projects and partners on the database at present, but you can add your project or partner search by sending a blank email to partnersearchlisting@culture.info.

Food Science: FP7 Information Day

Title: EU & international science: FP7 Information Day
Location: Aston University, Lakeside Centre, Birmingham
Date: 17th July 2009, 10:15 – 16:00
More Details: Click here
Description:

Anyone with an interest in food research is invited to find out more about funding opportunities and ongoing European research projects at a seminar in Birmingham on Friday 17 July.
The event is organised by [...]