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School
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Weekly Newsletter |
6 June 2011 |
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Contents |
News from Head of SchoolPreparing for REF The
school currently receives over £3 million a year from HEFCE through its
quality related (QR) funding stream for research. This means that we receive
an average of around £50K a year for each academic returned in the last RAE.
As the current funding formula rewards only the top two quality bands, with a
steep drop-off from the first to the second, it is crucial that the school
prepares carefully for REF 2014. With a
view to ensuring that individuals make well-informed decisions when planning
publications over the run up to REF 2014, the school is collecting
information and carrying out consultations with potentially returnable staff,
as described in Howards email of 3rd June. Although this is extra
work, actions that improve our profile and increase the numbers of staff that
can be returned will be crucial to our reputation and funding levels,
respectively. As such, please take this as an opportunity to reflect on your
publication practices, with a view to ensuring that the school comes out of
the forthcoming REF in a strong position. Legal Issues This
note seeks to bring to your attention two legal areas where caution is
required: · Competition Law: as universities have significant (and growing) flexibility in setting fees, care must be taken to ensure that we do not take actions that could be felt to reduce competition. Thus, for example, it is not appropriate to discuss future fee levels with colleagues from other universities until these are fixed and publicly available. · Borders Agency: with overseas students, it is essential that the university knows of any periods of prolonged absence, and that there are never grey areas concerning registration status. For most periods in taught programmes there are mechanisms in place that should identify problems, but please ensure that the student support office is kept informed of any complications relating to research students and masters students on projects, where central day-to-day monitoring by the school is reduced. EventsWeb sensing for real time disaster detection and tracking 10 Jun 1114:15, Atlas 1, Kilburn Building Prof Nigel Collier. National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo Careers event for PhD researchers 10-15 Jun 11 PATHWAYS 2011:
the essential careers event for all PhD researchers *Friday 10th June: Explore your Options A full day of Q
& A panels with PhD qualified experts and professionals from a wide range
of sectors including academia. *Monday 13th
June: Succeed at
interview and assessment A series of workshops and practical sessions to help
you secure your ideal job, either inside or outside academia. *Wednesday
15th June: PhD and
Research Career Zone Talk to employers
who recruit PhDs & researchers and learn how to market your experience
effectively. Venue: The University of Manchester Free places for
all University of Manchester PhD staff and researchers. One, two or all three
days - your choice. Each year over
400 Manchester researchers attend. Find out more and book a place Beyond the PhD: Academia vs Industry 17 Jun 11 14:00
Start of the session (participants introduce themselves) 14:30
Start of the panel discussion 15:30
End of Panel discussion followed by a networking session IT building room
407 Conventional
myth that PhDs are for academia and bachelors and masters are for industry is
changing as more and more companies focus on research and development
activities as part of their business. Research methodologies and office
culture being practised in the industry may or may not be similar to that of
academia. It is interesting to see how the PhD program has helped individuals
to succeed in both academia and industry and of course it might even help
current PhD students to have a different perspective on their future. In the
light of this, mentors of the School of Computer Science, University of
Manchester, are organising an event in which people from industry and
academia express their views on the subject. Participating
People Dr.
Daniel Owen IBM (Manchester) Dr.
Ugo Ekweozor Solution Analyst at Computer Sciences Corporation Dr.
Matt Horsnell Research Engineer at ARM Dr
Barry Cheetham Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester Prof
Ulrike Sattler Professor, University of Manchester Dr Simon Harper
- Lecturer, University of Manchester Tea,
coffee and snacks will be served throughout the session. Funding OpportunitiesNational Institutes of Health NLM Advanced Informatics for Health 25 Jun 11 The purpose of the NLM Advanced Informatics for Health
grant is to foster exceptionally innovative informatics research that, if
successful, will have an unusually high impact on a problem in health or
biomedical research. The research topic for this funding opportunity
announcement (FOA) relates to computational support for complex health
decisions: NLM seeks innovative applications to strengthen and support
patients' decisions in complex health areas by taking advantage of advances
in computational search and analysis techniques. More specifically, it seeks
applications to construct an intelligent computer program that offers health
advice to a person about a complex health problem, based upon knowledge from
(1) the person's computer-based health records and (2) knowledge
sources in the public domain. The personal information may be drawn from a
personal electronic health record maintained by the patient or from
electronic medical records managed by a caregiver or hospital, or both. The
intelligent computer program should be able to explain its reasoning and
defend its conclusions to the patient, and state the certainty and
reliability of its recommendations. Closing date: June 25th 2011 Royal
Society Wolfson Research Merit Awards 7
Jul 11 Jointly funded by
the Wolfson Foundation and BIS, this scheme aims to provide universities with
additional support to enable them to attract to this country, or retain,
respected scientists of outstanding achievement and potential. Awards are
made to the university and as such researchers must remain at the university
named on the application. The focus of the
award is salary enhancement. Research expenses are also considered for
research costs not suitable for Research Councils' research grants
applications and for overseas applicants to support integration into the UK
research and funding environment. Eligibility: Applicants can be of any nationality and
must hold, or be guaranteed, a permanent post at a UK university. All
applicants must have their basic salary wholly funded by the university.
Place of
tenure: UK
university. Please note that these awards are made to the host
university and cannot be transferred to another university.
Closing date for approved applications: 07
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