Graduate School Bulletin, August 2019

Issue 05/19 (17) This bulletin provides monthly updates on upcoming events and activities by the Graduate School. Training Course & Workshop Researcher Development Programme (RDP) We are offering the following RDP courses in August 2019. Date Time Course Monday 5 August 2019 10am – 12noon What Do I Want to Get Out of a Conference? …

Grant Writing Workshop

How to write a successful grant proposal for fundamental research? This was the question we delved into during the Grant Writing workshop held on 23 July 2019.  The workshop was divided into two sessions to accommodate the different academic domains. It was aimed at educating, guiding and helping researchers in writing grant proposals for the …

Call for Applications: Research Programme

Overview This highly-selective, two-day programme is designed for researchers and postgraduate research students to work together to identify research questions of urban mobility and waste to wealth in Malaysia and outline what would be needed for a competitive funding application to the Newton-Ungku Omar Fund Grand Challenge 2019. Scheduled for 22 & 23 August 2019, this programme is to …

Winners announced in Graduate School’s inaugural Pecha Kucha Competition

A challenge for early career researchers to creatively communicate their research work with 20 slides, 20 seconds each We are pleased to announce that Dr Vasanthi Sethu from the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering is the winner of our inaugural Pecha Kucha Competition. Dr Sethu won with her presentation Green Water Treatment Solutions which …

Invitation: Pecha Kucha Competition Live!

Join us at our inaugural Pecha Kucha Competition Live! Wednesday 17 July 2019 10.30am – 2pm Great Hall A challenge for early career researchers to creatively communicate their research work with 20 slides, 20 seconds each At Pecha Kucha Live! you will hear about the world-changing research happening at the University directly from the researchers. …

Graduate School Newsletter, July 2019

Nucleus Issue 03/19 (35) 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 Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT®) 3MT® challenges research students to communicate the significance of their research to a non-specialist audience in just 3 minutes. Our annual …