U21 Graduate Research Conference on Ageing – 1st to 4th July 2014, New Zealand

Graduate Research Conference on Ageing 1st – 4th July 2014, University of Auckland, New Zealand This is an exciting opportunity for up to five research students from the University of Nottingham campuses (UK, Malaysia and China) to attend this conference and present on their research. Funding for registration, travel and subsistence will be provided. There …

Researcher Boot Camp

What do PhD students need to help them get started on their research degrees? During the week of February 10-14 Chris, Tissa and Sue delivered an intensive programme of courses to help new postgraduates to get going with their PhDs. The courses offered were: Nature of the PhD and the supervision process Planning research and …

Graduate School Tea & Yee Sang Session

In celebration of the Chinese lunar calendar’s most important festival, the Graduate School had organised a Tea & Yee Sang session on 14 February 2014. The session started with a short presentation about Yee Sang, also known as Spring Toss. The Chinese New Year is a time for many things: family, reunion dinner, mandarin orange …

From Tweet to Blog Post to Peer-Reviewed Article: How to be a Scholar Now

An interesting article on publishing in the modern world http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/09/25/how-to-be-a-scholar-daniels/