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Weekly
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26 May 2014 |
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News
from Head of School
Carole Goble nominated for Inspiring Women
2014
Carole Goble was nominated for the Technology category of the 2014 Inspiring Women Awards. The awards ceremony was held on Thursday 15th May at the Midland Hotel. The photo shows Carole with Dr Sheila Kanani who runs @STEMMsisters and who won the Technology award. News and
announcements
University of Manchester Postgraduate Summer Research Showcase Deadline for
applications: 17:00 on Wednesday 28th May 2014 Event: Tuesday 24th June 2014, Whitworth Hall, University of Manchester Manchester Doctoral College are proud to announce the launch of the inaugural University of Manchester Postgraduate Summer Research Showcase (UoM-PSRS), a unique poster-session that will exhibit the diversity of research conducted by postgraduate researchers across the entire University. The event will provide a great opportunity to network, whilst providing exciting new avenues for interdisciplinary collaboration. For postgraduate researchers, UoM-PSRS is a special chance to present your own research before peers and senior research staff, and gain constructive feedback on your presentation skills. The experience will be invaluable in building your academic profile, by both showcasing your research before a non-expert audience and by making key contacts. For academic staff, UoM-PSRS is not only a chance to appreciate the vast multitude of research that takes place, but it also presents an opportunity to meet groups from different schools and faculties who may have common areas of interest. Further information on showcase Faculty of Humanities Urban Research
Directory Cities@manchester is a research
centre based within the Faculty of Humanities which seeks to draw together
staff from across the university who are committed
to an increased understanding of the global urban condition, past, present
and future. It has a directory of university staff who are doing urban-focused
research. If
you would like to publicise your research interests and city specialisms via
this directory please email the following information to sophie.king@manchester.ac.uk:
You’ll
be added to the directory with a link to your main university research
profile. FET
Consultation Invitation 15
Jun 14 Closing date: 15 June 2014 The Commission has launched an
open consultation on the 9 thematic areas currently covered by the FET Work
Programme:
- Time for time (exploring the
notions of time); - Constructive symbiosis, - Bottom-up intelligent construction; - Ecological technology; - New possibilities at the nano-bio-chem interface; - Nano-optomechanical technologies; - Quantum technologies; We are also asked to consider any new state-of-the-art ideas and scientific and technological challenges that need to be tackled in the next 5-10 years and which are not currently covered by the 9 topics. Consultation is being done mainly through online discussions but there is an email address to make direct contact too – you can also contact Craig Sharp National Contact Point for the UK in this area: Craig.Sharp@tsb.gov.uk. 2016/17
FET Work Programme As well as information from the public consultation, the FET Advisory Panel will also feed into the future FET
work programme. There are two UK based panel-members: Prof. Muffy Calder
from the School of Computing and Science (Glasgow) and Prof. Nigel Gilbert,
Director of the Centre for Research in Social Simulation (Surrey). At
the February meeting Muffy Calder was appointed as chair of the FET Advisory
Group - other members of the Panel include representatives from EC and DG
CONNECT. To make the Panel more visible, all papers and agendas should
be made available to the public online. 2014/15
Calls Update FET-Proactive Results of the FET-Proactive calls should be known by 1
Sept - FET Proactive supports emerging themes and structure communities of
promising exploratory research themes which are not yet ready for inclusion
in industry research roadmaps - FET Proactive helps to build up and structure
new interdisciplinary research communities around these new themes.
Three themes were covered in the April call - Time for time; Quantum
technologies; and Global Systems Science - a further call on HPC closes
25 Nov - http://tinyurl.com/qhr9brd. FET-Open The 1st cut-off date of FET-Open will be on 30 Sept - FET Open represents 40% of the overall FET budget - FET Open supports early stage joint science and technology research around new ideas for radically new future technologies http://tinyurl.com/kebmfxg. Events
Human
Behaviour Network Seminar 27
May 14 Accessibility of Big/Broad Data: Adapting Interfaces to Suit Our Senses 12-13:00, Atlas 2, Kilburn building Dr Simon Harper from School of Computer Science. Free to attend. Link to registration page: http://emarketing.manchester.ac.uk/universityofmanchesterlz/EventMgr_BookEvent1.aspx?eID=16 Link to our website page: https://www.informatics.manchester.ac.uk/news/Pages/TheNextHumanBehaviourNetworkSemina.aspx EPSRC
Assistive, Adaptive and Rehabilitative Technologies Sandpit 5 Jun 14 Closing date: 5
June 2014 Event: 1-5
September 2014 Call for participants: The EPSRC is running a sandpit in the broad
area of assistive
and rehabilitative devices
in order to try to engender a radical change in the research undertaken
in this field in the UK. SupraBiology:
Supercomputing for Systems Biology 16-17
Jun 14 MIB Lecture Theatre Promoting UK-China collaborations…This BBSRC-sponsored event includes
talks by Prof. Pedro Mendes on Simulating Systems Biology (16th)
and by from Neil Swainston on Mapping Life (17th). Both days
include session on possible common projects and joint research. Registration link:
Centro Hack Weekend Challenge 21-22
Jun 14 Centro will be running a Hack Weekend Challenge with overnight stay at
Centro House, Birmingham. A Hack Weekend Challenge is essentially an intensive session of teams
developing code and from that, a prototype, which may be further developed
into a complete App. Whilst participation in the Hack Weekend Challenge
is unpaid, there are intangible benefits such as increased experience and
kudos for the participating teams and individuals. Prizes include Apple
products and High Street vouchers. The event is being targeted at students and recent graduates from the
UK and wider Europe and we are inviting them to form teams of two or three to
work overnight to develop a European travel app. We will provide the data
sets, plus food and refreshments. The event is for over 18s only. More information can be found here or by emailing education@centro.org.uk. EPSRC
theme: IT as a Utility Network+ Meeting 19-20
Jun 14 Southampton
Hilton Reports
from all of the ITaaU projects and secondments will be available
together with the following keynote speakers: ·
Joe McLeod, Global Design Director at ustwo ·
Shenja Van Der Graaf, iMinds, Belgium ·
Elizabeth Churchill, Director of Human
Computer Interaction, eBay Research Labs at eBay Inc. ·
David De Roure, Professor of e-Research at
University of Oxford, Director of the
Oxford e-Research Centre ·
Lizbeth Goodman, Professor of Inclusive
Design & Chair of Creative Technology Innovation at University College
Dublin ·
Food Standards Agency, UK – tbc Registration
required. Contact Steve Brewer, Network Coordinator for more information.
Join the ITaaU mailing list: http://jiscmail.ac.uk/itutility Funding
Opportunities
Research Support Office Please contact us through researchsupportcsm@manchester.ac.uk. There is information about support for grant writing, submission and
successful examples at http://staffnet.cs.manchester.ac.uk/reso/
and through EPS. The EPS blog The Word contains features
News, Events and comment relevant to Postgraduate Researchers, Research Staff
and Supervisors or PIs. Important: Changes in EU Funding Opportunities More detailed information is available now that for Horizon2020 has
started (the successor of FP7 EU programme). EU research funding is important
for the School and it’s important to understand what’s available http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/index.html Reminder - H2020 information available EU funding-related documents are placed by the University's EU team
at: A great resource recommended by the ICT
National Contact Point is http://www.ictic.org/,
which also provides handy overview documents. Looking to apply
for NERC funding? A new version of
the NERC research grants and fellowships
handbook has been published. British Council Researcher Links workshops – call 9 Jun 14 Closing date: 9 June 2014 Under the
Researcher Links initiative, the British Council are inviting Leading
Researchers to propose themes for bilateral
workshops to be held in one of the 18 partner
countries (see below), which will bring together early-career researchers to
discuss their research and start to build international relationships.
Successful workshops will receive funding, and the applicants (Leading
Researchers) will, with the exception of certain countries, be responsible
for organising the workshop. Some countries have priority areas, and only
themes within these will be considered. Successful workshops must take place
between 1 October 2014 and 1 March 2015. Country list 2014-15: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt,
Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar,
Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam. The Health
Foundation, Scaling Up
Improvement 16
Jun 14 Closing date: noon
16 June 2014 The Health Foundation has over £3 million available for teams to take successful health care improvement interventions and deliver them at a larger scale. As part of the new Scaling Up Improvement programme, we are looking for projects that aim to improve health care delivery and/or the way people manage their own health care. Novel
Ways of Detection for Humanitarian Demining 25
Jun 14 Closing date: 25
June 2014 This
EPSRC Call for Expressions of Interest aims
to stimulate the academic community to propose truly novel approaches to the
humanitarian (land-)demining challenge. If you are interested please contact Sarah Chatwin. International Exchanges Scheme 1 Jul 14 Closing date: 1 July 2014 This Royal Society
scheme enables UK-based scientists to undertake collaborative work with
scientists overseas through either a one-off visit or bilateral
travel. Funding of between £3,000 and £12,000 is available, dependent
upon the length of the visit. The International
Exchanges Scheme replaces the former International Travel
Grants and International Joint Projects schemes. EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account – 6th call 2 Jul 14 Closing date: 12pm 2 July 2014 The 6th
IAA call for
proposals is open. Funding is for research based on EPSRC funded research: ·
Relationship Incubation (up to £10k available) Engaging
with businesses and business communities to sow the seeds of new
collaboration and enhance strategic engagement ·
Concept Development and Feasibility Studies (up to £30k available) Support for
the very early stages of transforming research outputs into commercial
opportunities ·
Exploitation Secondments (up to £60k available) Flexible
support for secondments between The University of Manchester and businesses and
other organisations ·
Knowledge Exchange Fellows (up to £80k p.a.
available for 2 yrs) Support for
sustainable Knowledge Exchange Fellows to deliver multiple short-term
industry focused projects Simon
Harper and Sean Bechhofer have
both previously been successful in IAA calls. Colombia Newton-Caldas Fund Expected early Jul 14 Closing date
(expected): early July 2014 The Newton-Caldas Fund (NCF) seeks to create real, measurable outcomes to address poverty in Colombia and support economic development, through investment in research and innovation. As a secondary aim, the NCF will also seek to develop long lasting system relationships between Colombia and the UK’s research and innovation community. £100k-£1M is available per project and must include Colombian partners. Projects will address, but will not be limited to: ·
Development of future cities; ·
Competitiveness in the agriculture sector; ·
Stimulation of entrepreneurship and economic competitiveness; ·
Institutional strengthening of science and innovation within central
government and national policymaking; and ·
Climate change planning and mitigation. For more information contact Sarah Chatwin asap. Featured
Research Outcomes
Did you know… papers featured in the newsletter also go
on display in the Kilburn Building (outside 2.7)? Send your new publications
to Robert Stevens so that more
people get to know about your research. Recently presented at the SPIE Photonics Europe last month: Adaptive
skin segmentation via feature-based face detection by Michael J. Taylor
and Tim Morris Generation of a phonetic transcription for
modern standard Arabic: A knowledge-based model,
Allan
Ramsay, Iman Alsharhan and Hanady Ahmed Tom Thomson and Georg Heldt’s Applied Physics Letters
paper Topologically confined vortex oscillations in hybrid [Co/Pd]8-Permalloy
structures is out and featured on the front cover. Have we missed
something? If you have some award news that you would like us to know about
please contact Sarah Chatwin. |
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