Postgraduate Welcome Week 2014 – Day 2

The second day of the Postgraduate Welcome Week began with a ‘So What’s It Really Like’ session or better known as SWIRL, where we had 3 current Postgraduates, in different level of PhD studies, who shared about their lives as Postgraduates. Wilson Ho, a 3rd year PhD student from the Faculty of Engineering, gave a …

Postgraduate Welcome Week 2014 – Day 1

The Postgraduate Welcome Week was held on 24 – 26 September 2014. It is an annual event organised by the Research Training and Academic Development (RTAD). The Postgraduate Welcome Week provided a series of varied and vibrant programmes and activities designed to welcome all new and returning postgraduate students to the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus …

Sustainability Research Network @ UNMC

Sustainability Research Network (SRN) was founded in May 2013 by five PhD students from five different schools/departments at the University of Nottingham, UK. These PhD students identified that sustainability research was going on in many different faculties across three campuses of the University, yet researchers who are interested in sustainability might only meet at chance …

Images of Life as a Postgraduate

The Graduate School of the UK Campus launched an image competition specifically for Masters students – Images of the Postgraduate Experience Competition, where students are invited to capture the essence of their studies and experience with a single photographic image that they have taken themselves. The image could be anything that in some way represents, …

Sharing from Travel Prize’s winner

Cochin to Austria via UNMC   I find this caption perfect for a travel report because it explains my experience as an international student in UNMC who got great achievements from UNMC to travel to different places in the world for academic purposes. Before travelling to UNMC I have never expected that I can travel …

RTAD: November’s Highlights

GlobalTNA A briefing session was held by GlobalTNA to introduce their ‘Information Mapping’ method which supports writers in their goal to analyse, organise, and present information based on the audience’s needs and the purpose of the information. The briefing was delivered by Ms Molly Tan, the Business Development Manager of Global TNA Sdn. Bhd. Coffee …

Ever wondered what getting a doctorate really means?

Many of us who are either doing or have just recently completed a doctorate, like myself, often wondered what is exactly a doctorate? I think Matt Might, professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah, explains it perfectly in a graphic presentation. Click on the link to find out more.

Graduate School Welcome Week 2013

  What’s on during Welcome Week? All postgraduate students are invited to our Graduate School Postgraduate Welcome Week immediately before the start of the academic year. It is a chance for all new postgraduate students to engage with university life. Five-day Induction Programme: 1-5 October 2013 All postgraduate students are invited to our Graduate School …