February 5, 2018, by Lisa Chin

Graduate School Bulletin, February 2018

Issue 01/2018 (06)

This bulletin provides monthly updates on upcoming events and activities by the Graduate School.


Postgraduate Student Teachers (PST) Programme

Upcoming PST courses are listed below:

Date Time Course
5 February 2018 10am – 12.30pm  Preparing to Teach in Higher Education
5 February 2018 2pm – 4.30pm  Health and Safety
6 February 2018 10am – 12.30pm  Demonstrating in Laboratory Practicals
6 February 2018 2pm – 4.30pm  Lecturing for Learning
8 February 2018 2pm – 4.30pm  Marking and Assessing
9 February 2018 2pm – 4.30pm  Small Group Teaching

To register, please click on the course title. This will direct you to our Moodle page where you can log in using your university credentials.

Call for Applications: U21 PGR Travel Award

The application call for 2017/2018 Universitas 21 (U21) Travel Award is still open. This is a competitive award to support high quality doctoral students to develop their professional profile via a month long visit to any U21 universities (preferably a U21 university based in Australia).

Travel prize: £3,000

Application deadline: 7 February 2018 (midnight)

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Call for Nominations: Postgraduate Prize Awards 

The nomination call for our Postgraduate Prize Awards is still open. The awards recognise accomplishments in research, publications, conferences and contributions to the postgraduate community.

Each school is invited to nominate one postgraduate research student for the awards. All applications will be assessed by a panel and the successful students will be invited to a prize presentation event on 10 May 2018. Please approach your supervisor(s) and Head of School for support and advice.

Award prize: RM750

Nomination deadline: 28 February 2018 (noon)

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Call for Applications: Postgraduate Teaching Assistant Award

The application call for our annual Postgraduate Teaching Assistant Award is now open to all postgraduate research students and research-only postdocs who teach. This award recognises and celebrates examples of innovative teaching and support of learning.

All applications will be assessed by a panel and the successful student will be invited to a prize presentation event on 10 May 2018.

Award prize: £100 voucher

Application deadline: 1 March 2018

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Invitation: Chinese New Year Celebration 

Our annual Chinese New Year Celebration for postgraduate students is scheduled for 7 February 2018 at 1pm in H1B12.

We welcome all our postgraduate students to join us in celebrating the festive occasion.


Please email us at graduateschool@nottingham.edu.my should you have any enquiries.

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