Funding opportunities, guidance and research news from URO at University of Lincoln.
Over on the Lincoln Academic Commons blog, Joss Winn has posted about a number of training events geared towards helping raise awareness of the institutional repository:
Monthly training sessions have been scheduled to raise awareness of the institutional repository among the University’s research and teaching communities.
Each session aims to show how the institutional repository can [...]
The Medical Research Council has issued guidance to research administrators covering the top reasons why applications are returned to institutions for further editing. Although this is not strictly speaking a rejection – since the applications can be returned to the MRC within a specific timeframe – it does delay the assessment process significantly. MRC found [...]
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Join the Toshiba Fellowship Programme R&D team in Japan for up to 2 years – Toshiba Europe
Joint EPSRC and POST Postgraduate Initiative 2010
TAF Access Home
Shared AHRC: RegionalEventNorth.
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AHRC: Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact
Researching Environmental Change
Shared BIOCIRCLE FP7 Food Agriculture Fisheries and Biotechnology brokerage day.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England has published its recommendations on the nature and structure of the forthcoming Research Excellence Framework, the successor to the RAE:
Consultation on the development of the REF
The consultation runs until the 16th December.
We’ll publish more when we’ve had a chance to digest the document, but at first glance it [...]
Following the success of its first regional events in 2007/8, the AHRC are holding a further series of events. Through the regional events programme, the AHRC hopes to give arts and humanities researchers, senior HEI staff and support staff, as well as non-academic stakeholders the opportunity to find out about AHRC strategic priorities, attend focused [...]
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BBSRC – DRINC: Apply for funding
nsf.gov – Funding – International Collaboration in Chemistry between US Investigators and their Counterparts Abroad – US National Science Foundation (NSF)
EPSRC: Sustainable Urban Environment: Integration Across Scales – Call for Proposals
University of Gloucestershire: ICT Learning Spaces
Shared University Research Office Blog.
One of the most requested topics for research-related training has been sessions on finding research funding opportunities. Following URO’s popular and successful Working Smarter with the Web workshops, we’re pleased to announce we’re now running monthly practical sessions on Finding Research Funding, starting 23rd September at 12pm in Computing Services Training Room 1.
These hour-long lunchtime [...]
The AHRC have recently announced an additional 10 Collaborative Doctoral Awards for 2010 to support projects in Museology, Design and Applied Arts and Crafts.
Deadline: 29/10/10
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Pages/CollaborativeDoctoralAwards.aspx
These awards provide opportunities for doctoral students to gain first hand experience of work outside an academic environment. The support provided by both an academic and non-academic supervisor enhances the employment-related [...]
