Graduate School Newsletter, April 2019

Nucleus Issue 02/19 (34) Read on for all the latest news from the Graduate School. Don’t forget you can get in touch with us via Facebook or by email at graduateschool@nottingham.edu.my. Highlights Shaping UNM’s Graduate School for research leaders of the future  In VPRKE blog post 6, Professor Deborah Hall gives an update on initiatives …

1st Call: 3 Minute Thesis Competition

This is posted on behalf of Dr Jiin Woei Lee and Dr Tissa Chandesa, Research Training Development Managers.  An 80,000 word PhD thesis would take 9 hours to present. Their time limit… 3 minutes. First developed by the University of Queensland in 2008, the Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT®) challenges research students to communicate the …

Getting Started! Workshop for Part-Time PGTs

This post is written by Dr Tissa Chandesa, Research Training Development Manager.  Since January 2018, Graduate School has extended its support to Postgraduate Taught (PGT) students on campus. Since most workshops that we deliver takes place at our Semenyih campus, therefore, many part-time PGT students are unable to attend them. On Saturday (23rd February 2019), …

Research @ UNM & Research Supervisory Seminar Series: An Introduction

This post is written by Dr Tissa Chandesa, Research Training Development Manager. 2019 has started off on the right foot! As Graduate School continues to establish a strong foot hold in developing its Early Career Researchers’ (ECRs) programme, we ran two back-to-back workshops aimed at ECRs on January 23rd and 24th 2019 respectively. The first …