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News from Head of SchoolSchool Planning Meeting The school plan for each year makes explicit key steps that the school will seek to take, and progress is monitored monthly at School Leadership Team meetings (so the things in the plan really do tend to be done). The plan contains the best viable ideas we have, so it is important that many people have the opportunity to contribute to its production. This year there will be opportunities for all staff to contribute to forming the plan by participating in an open meeting, and to comment on the draft that emerges following on from that meeting. The meeting that will inform the plan for 2011 is scheduled for 3:00-5:00 on Wednesday 1st December (venue TBC). It will include a review of progress against the 2010 plan, ideas for the 2011 plan from the functions (UG, PGT, Research, …) and breakout groups that seek to generate new ideas or refine those presented. National Day of Protest A national day of protest is being planned by the UCU and NUS for 10 November. If you have teaching responsibilities that are likely to be affected by your participation in this event, please advise students in advance of any classes that are likely to be cancelled. Every effort should be made to ensure that alternative arrangements are in place in order that students are not disadvantaged by any such cancellations. The Students’ Union Executive has been asked to advise students to alert teaching staff if it is their intention to absent themselves from any teaching and learning activities taking place that day. Please try to ensure that students missing classes at least have access to material that would have been provided on the day. Please can all PSS staff who wish to attend this event advise their managers. EventsWhat’s this article all about? Identification of genes in scientific text 11 Nov 10 Joerg Hakenberg, Computer Science Department, Arizona State University & Disease Translational Informatics, Hofmann-La Roche Inc. 13:00, 11 November 2010. Room 406, IT building Cyber
Security Summit 2010 11
Nov 10 Cyber
Security Summit 2010 taking place on Thursday 11th November at the
QEII Conference Centre, In an effort to increase the IT security skills in the Cyber Security 2010
Summit will help the education
sector raise standards by demonstrating the value of getting
involved and providing young people with a formal route to becoming a
recognised and respected information security professional. With representation from the Office of
Cyber Security, GCHQ, CBI, NPIA, SOCA, the Information Security Awareness
Forum and CREST, this event will put you in front of the The event is also CPD certified so will count towards your
professional development. Full conference details can be found at: http://www.cybersecuritysummit.co.uk/
MathsJam weekend 13/14 Nov 10 The MathsJam is an opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together and share stuff they like. Puzzles, games, problems, or just anything they think is cool or interesting. The event is intended to help people remember why they ever enjoyed maths at all. Maybe you don't need reminding, but a lot of people find that they used to enjoy maths, but it became a bit hard, or a bit tedious, or a bit mundane, and it lost its sparkle. Annual Sustainability Focus event 17 Nov 10 Come along to the University's Focus on Travel exhibition on Wednesday, 17 November and learn more about what we as individuals and as a University can do to reduce the carbon emissions caused by our daily commuting and business travel. The University is committed to reducing its carbon footprint by 40% by 2020 and transport-related emissions make up a significant part of this footprint. The exhibition will run from 10am to 2pm at www.sustainability.manchester.ac.uk/campus/travel EPSRC Grantsmanship Study Day 25 Nov 10 A Grantsmanship study day has been organised to give university researchers who are thinking of applying to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council an overview of how the organisation works and an insight into the peer review process. The session will run from 9am – 4pm and will typically involve: · Presentations – introduction to EPSRC, the peer review process and funding opportunities · Tips on proposal writing – first steps in Grantsmanship from Professor Hugh McCann · Mock panels – attendees have the chance to practice a prioritisation panel meeting with real grant proposals · Plenty of Q&A time If you would like to book onto this session please at your earliest convenience email Stephanie Ball as places are limited.
Please consider the following before booking a place: · If you are accepted on the course but can no longer attend the study day you should Stephanie Ball immediately so that your place can be offered to someone else. · Please be aware that in preparation of the mock panel you will be asked to complete some work and should put aside a few hours in advance of the study day for this. · This study day is intended for academics who will be applying to EPSRC in the future. Funding OpportunitiesRoyal Society International Joint Projects 25 Nov 10 The Royal Society Joint Project programme is designed to enable international collaboration by providing a mobility grant for researchers and members of their research teams to cover travel, subsistence and research expenses. It also aims to provide seed money for research that will lead to further collaboration and greater funding in the future from larger funding bodies. Subjects Covered: All areas of the life and physical sciences, including engineering, but excluding clinical medicine. Eligibility: The Project Leaders must be from
academia, of at least postdoctoral status or equivalent and hold a permanent
or fixed-term contract in an eligible organisation which, if it is the
latter, continues at least for the duration of the project. Collaborations
should be based on a single project involving two teams lead by project
leaders, or individuals: one based in the Length of Tenure: 2 years Value of Grant: Up to £6000 a year for 2 years for travel and subsistence. Within the £6000 available each year, up to £1000 can be used for research expenses (excluding computer hardware). Countries covered: Currently Joint Projects are
available to those in European and Former Soviet Union countries, Cost-share arrangements: Depending on which country your collaboration is with proposals can be submitted either as a ‘direct’ application (to the Royal Society only) or as a ‘parallel cost share’ application. The latter entails the UK team leader submitting a proposal to the Royal Society AND the Overseas team leader simultaneously submitting a proposal to a partner organisation (usually an Academies of Science abroad) with whom the Royal Society has cost share agreement, in which case the travel and subsistence costs are shared between the Royal Society and the overseas Partner. Please note that ‘direct’ applications are still accepted even if a cost share partner is available. Please check appendix 1 of the scheme notes for cost share countries/partners. Opening and Closing dates: The 2010 round for Royal Society International Travel Grants 9 Dec 10 The International Travel Grants scheme enables UK
scientists to engage in collaborations with overseas scientists in order to
explore opportunities for building lasting networks or participate
(excludes organising/selection committee and poster contributions) in
overseas conferences, workshops and seminars which are of particular
strategic importance in order to engage with scientists (available to UK
scientists only). The International Travel Grant Scheme is available
for all countries outside of the
Length of tenure: Lasting up to 12 weeks (except in
the case of Value: A maximum of £4000 is available for activities. Opening and Closing dates: 2010/R4: opens 05 November 2010 and closes 09 December 2010. Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships 11 Jan 11 The Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships were established through the generosity of the Leverhulme Trust and seek to provide opportunities for academic researchers to be relieved of all their teaching and administrative duties to allow them to concentrate on full-time research for up to one year. Subjects Covered: All areas of the life and physical sciences, including engineering, but excluding clinical medicine.
Closing date: 11 January 2011 Research AwardsSagecite:
citing large-scale predictive network models of disease Funding Body: JISC |
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