PhD in Multicultural Malaysia and UNMC
December 18, 2017
This post is written by Mariam Altaf Tarar, PhD student from the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, and edited by Dr Lee Jiin Woei, Research Training Development Manager. A PhD degree is getting more common day by day. The number of doctorate is increasing worldwide with time. However it does not mean that …
[Call for Applications] U21 PGR Travel Award 2017/2018
December 12, 2017
This post is written by Dr Tissa Chandesa, Research Training Development Manager. The application call for the 2017/2018 Universitas 21 (U21) Travel Award is now 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 …
Christmas & Year End Celebration
December 8, 2017
A Celebration with Postgraduate Students Our annual Christmas and Year End Celebration was held on 6 December 2017. The celebration was very well attended and the postgraduate students seemed to appreciate the opportunity to have an early celebration of Christmas before everyone is off for the holiday season. The celebration also included a presentation of …
Winners announced in 2017 Images of Research Photography Competition
December 7, 2017
Winners We are pleased to announce the 2017 winners of our annual Images of Research photography competition. The full results are as below: Winner – Chan Zi Yang, PhD student from the School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science People’s Choice – Nguyen Nhat Tan, PhD student from the Nottingham University Business School (NUBS), Faculty of …
Graduate School Bulletin, December 2017
November 30, 2017
Issue 05/2017 (05) This bulletin provides monthly updates on upcoming events and activities by the Graduate School. Researcher Development Programme (RDP) Upcoming RDP courses are listed below: Date Time Course 4 December 2017 11am – 1.30pm Word Essentials for Researchers – Beginners 4 December 2017 2.30pm – 5pm Word Essentials for Researchers – Advanced 14 …
Coffee and Cake Session #6/2017
November 28, 2017
The sixth and final Coffee and Cake session for this year was held on 24 November 2017. It was a casual session where postgraduate students from across all three faculties met and established rapport with one another whilst enjoying coffee and cakes. It was also a good platform for postgraduate students to temporarily get away …
Teh Tarik Session Vol. 1
November 24, 2017
We recently held our inaugural Teh Tarik Session Vol. 1 on 15 November 2017. The session featured a talk on the product development journey for the Electronics and Telecommunications industry by Professor Amin Malek Mohammadi. The session was well attended by postgraduate research students. It was an in-depth exploration of the challenges, learnings and successes of …
Images of Research Photography Competition – vote for your favourite entry!
November 20, 2017
We are pleased to invite all staff and students to vote for the People’s Choice Award for the Images of Research Photography Competition 2017. The competition is designed for postgraduate students to take interesting and innovative photographs that best capture their postgraduate experience. The theme this year is Resilience in Research where postgraduate students can creatively …
Global Career Webinar Training Events
November 9, 2017
The Careers Advisory Service is running a series of global career webinar training events in November and December 2017 and we would like to encourage all our postgraduate students to participate in these webinars. The global career webinar training events are part of the programme under the University’s Passport Career System. This system has been specially subscribed for …
The Doctoral Journey: Perspectives
November 3, 2017
This post is written by Dr Kalaimani Markandan, UNMC alumna. “Easy choices, hard life; hard choices, easy life,” Jerzy Gregorek. Four years ago, it was time for me to make a tough decision; declining an offer as process engineer and deciding to pursue PhD at University of Nottingham. My road to PhD had been exhausting …
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