The Missenden Centre has released a list of its specialist seminars taking place in 2010 to support researchers, supervisors and senior academic staff. The full list is as follows:
1. Effective supervision | 6/7 May 11.00 start
2. Making a successful research grant proposal | 20/21 May 11.00 start
3. Research Strategy and the REF | 10/11 June 4.30pm start
4. Examining doctoral candidates | 17/18 June [...]
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New Missenden Centre Seminars to Support Research
Beyond Blackboard: The Virtual Research Environment – 17th March
Joss Winn and CERD are running a lunchtime session on the development of the Virtual Research Environment (VRE) as part of the “Beyond Blackboard” series at Lincoln on Wednesday 17 March in MB1010, 12-1pm. If you’re interested in how a VRE could support your research, why not come along:
“VREs are evolving to manage the increasingly [...]
Next Bid Writing Surgery: 1st April 2010
The next Bid Writing Surgery with Dr. Martin Pickard is taking place on 1st April 2010 in MC3102. Please contact research@lincoln.ac.uk to book an appointment. Appointments typically last 45 minutes to 1 hour and are usually one-to-one, but you can book a consultation for a small research group if you prefer.
For further information about the [...]
Need a Postdoc or Research Fellow?
Find out how to bid for Marie Curie Fellowships from experienced external bid writer, Dr. Martin Pickard.
In this lunchtime seminar open to all Lincoln academic and research staff, Dr. Martin Pickard will outline the Marie Curie Fellowships scheme and explain how to write a good proposal. Martin has over 20 years of bid-writing experience and [...]
Vitae Events To Support Researchers
Vitae, the national organisation championing postgraduate and research staff training and career development, has released information about three upcoming training events for researchers and postgraduate students:
Vitae is running three national events for researchers in March 2010.
For both postgraduate researchers and research staff:
Digital researcher, 15 March 2010, London The British Library and Vitae are running this [...]
EPSRC Regional Meetings 2010
The EPSRC has recently announced a series of regional meetings open to the engineering and physical science research community. For more details and booking forms, please check the EPSRC webpage:
EPSRC Regional Meetings 2010
The closest meeting to Lincoln is in Loughborough on 5th March. The closing date to register for this meeting is Friday, 19th February [...]
Monthly Bid Writing Surgery
From 4th March 2010, URO will be running a monthly bid writing surgery with an experienced external bid consultant, Dr. Martin Pickard (Grantcraft). The surgeries will take place on the first Thursday of every month until July 2010.
Martin has been writing and supporting grant applications and projects for the past 25 years and has a [...]
How To Find Research Funding: A Series of Lunchtime Workshops
The University Research Office is now running monthly practical sessions on Finding Research Funding. They’ll take place on the first Wednesday of every month. The next one is on 3rd February at 12pm in Computing Services Training Room 1, on the 1st floor in the Main Administrative Building.
These hour-long lunchtime workshops will show you how [...]
