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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘training’
New Missenden Centre Seminars to Support Research
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Raising Your Academic Profile with the Institutional Repository
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 [...]
Finding Research Funding Workshops
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 [...]
How To Draft A Successful Proposal for FP7 Funding
From the AHRC website, but relevant to researchers from all disciplines:
To enable UK researchers to put in the best FP7 application possible the UKRO will be holding a one-day proposal writing course in two different venues (Salford and London) for researchers and research administrators involved in preparing FP7 proposals. The course is designed to help [...]
