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Weekly Newsletter |
26 November 2012 |
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News from the Head of SchoolTony McDonald arrival Tony has been appointed as the new Health and Safety and Environment manager. Tony has a background in civil and electrical engineering and has worked at the University for eight years. His phone number is 56118 and email is Tony.Mcdonald@manchester.ac.uk. Recognising and Rewarding Exceptional Performance The Policy provides for staff to be rewarded for:
Applications for reward should be able to demonstrate aspects of performance that have significant impact over and above normal standards; examples may include:
Applications are usually made by line managers and must be submitted using the standard form which is Appendix 1 of the Policy. It is possible to ask your line manager to make an application on your behalf but if your manager feels unable to support the case, you may make a personal application. For the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, all School based staff applications (Academic, Academic Related and Support) should be addressed to the Head of School Administration. Applications in respect of academic related and support
staff should be made by 1 February 2013. Academic and Research staff applications should be made by 21 December 2012. All applications will first be considered locally, with recommendations being made to Faculty for consideration and decision during March 2013. Charity update Altogether £875.00 was raised for Children in Need - the annual online auction raised £615.00 and the giant football card raised £124 pounds. Meanwhile the Movember team has raised £569 and is now Ranked 3,279th out of 30,298 teams in the UK. There is still time... http://uk.movember.com/team/830989 Order and receive new library books directly from your office! The Library has recently developed a new service enabling academic staff to order books directly, removing the need to send the orders through their library contacts. This service can be accessed directly via My Manchester (via My Library tab, ‘Library requests’ drop down option and ‘New Purchase’ tab)
In tandem with this new initiative the Library has launched a delivery service whereby purchases can be delivered directly to the office of the academic who has made the request. All staff need to do is tick the reservation box when they submit the request. Once an item is received by the Library it will be fast-tracked, issued to your library card and delivered by Estates staff. You can expect delivery within 2 working days of receiving a notification email from the Library. For auditing and tracking purposes, you will be required to sign for the item on receipt. Featured publications this week (by Robert Stevens)EventsSchool seminar 28 Nov 12 Xeon Phi: a many-core architecture for high performance computing Dr Roger Espasa. Intel 28 November, 14:15, Lecture Theatre 1.4, Kilburn Building Lecture Capture - free workshop for EPS staff 19 Dec 12 Lecture capture is a hot topic, and there are many examples across the Faculty of it being used as a teaching aid. But what is good practice in the use of lecture capture? We are offering you the opportunity to sign up for a free workshop on best practice in lecture capture. Sign up for your place by registering here. This free workshop will aim to get participants thinking about best practice in the use of lecture capture in teaching and learning, as well as the technologies which can be used. It will take the form of six short, informative presentations by people using lecture capture, followed by facilitated group discussions on identifying and implementing good practice. Venue: George Begg Building, Room C002, University of Manchester Date: Wednesday 19th December 2012, 9.30am – 1pm Topics and speakers: · Will Video Kill the Lecturing Star? Patrick O’Malley · Introducing the University’s podcasting service; Stuart Phillipson · To capture their ears you have to first capture their eyes; Grant Campbell · Richness, responsiveness and relationship: using rich media to enhance teaching of core concepts; Fiona Saunders · Lecture capture with complementary eLearning; John Moriarty · A practical view to creating lecture screencasts using Camtasia; Megan Jobson For further information please contact Lynn Cullimore. Funding OpportunitiesSchool Research Office Please contact us through researchsupportcsm@manchester.ac.uk. There is information about support for grant writing and submission at http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/reso/ Pump Prime Funding Grants Available 20 Dec 12 The Neuroscience Research Institute has pump-prime funding available for up to 4 projects at a maximum value of £5000 each. The funding is to provide support for research projects related to Neuroscience that will support future externally funded research. However we also welcome applications for public engagement activities, which will raise the profile of Neuroscience. Projects will be eligible if they meet the following criteria: · Benefit to the Manchester neuroscience research community
To apply for this grant please send the following details to Nicola Lawton · A brief description of the project and details of the how the grant will be used · Include details of why the proposal can’t be funded from elsewhere and plans for future external grant application · Note if it is to purchase equipment, state why it cannot be purchased from existing grants and attach a quote. · Outline of activity for public engagement
Please note – the NRI must be kept informed of the progress and subsequent impact/outputs arising from the pump priming. Also any funding awarded will have to be spent by 31 July 2014. Applications should be limited to one page only (in 12 point font) Deadline for applications is 20 December 2012 and applicants will be informed in early January. Call for interdisciplinary projects - 13 fully funded PhD students 30 Nov 12 NowNANO
is an EPSRC funded doctoral training programme designed to promote
interdisciplinary research in nanoscience leading to a Ph.D. It is run as a
joint programme between the universities of Manchester and Lancaster. A key
feature of the programme is the opportunity for students to select the topic
of their Ph.D. research, after completing a wide-ranging course of lectures
and projects on fundamentals of nanoscience during the first six months of
their PhD (Sept. 2012 – Mar. 2013). This call
invites potential project supervisors to submit proposals for one of the 13
fully funded Ph.D. projects for April 2013 start. The proposal guidelines
are:
Format: The project description should fit on a maximum of one side of A4. The students will be given a booklet of selected projects and advised to contact the potential supervisory team to discuss the proposed project. In addition, a poster session will be arranged that will allow students to view the projects on offer and talk to proposers. Proposal Timetable: Project proposals are due by Friday, November 30th, 2012. Poster session
at the University of Manchester- late January/ early February (Details
TBC) Booklets distributed to students two weeks before the poster session. Student selection finalised -March 15th. Research
project starts April 2013. Proposals in PDF format should be sent to Georgina Lewis. Research and Grant AwardsCongratulations to all those involved in the following successful awards! OSSMETER EU FP7 STREP Project on Automated Measurement and Analysis of Open Source Software. PI for Manchester: Sophia Ananiadou Funding for Manchester: €556,109 OSSMETER aims to extend the state-of-the-art in the field of automated analysis and measurement of open-source software (OSS), and develop a platform that will support decision makers in the process of discovering, comparing, assessing and monitoring the health, quality, impact and activity of open-source software. Building an
equipment sharing ontology Funding Body: EPSRC PI: Robert Stevens Award Amount: £10,000 Additional EPSRC Sponsorship funding is being used over 4 months to write an ontology written in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) that describes the large investment scientific equipment of the N8 consortium. This will help to improve how equipment can be shared between the 8 North of England partner universities in a flexible and maintainable way. EPSRC
Doctoral Prize Fellowship Awarded to: Chiara Del Vescovo (supervised by Uli Sattler) Thesis Title: The Modular Structure of an Ontology: Atomic
Decomposition and its Applications MRC
Centenary Early Career Awards Awarded to: Eleni Mikroyannidi (supervised by Robert Stevens) Project Title: Pattern driven quality assurance of biomedical terminologies in ontologies Award amount: £34,000 Have we missed something? If you have some award news
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