Our List of Issues
You may recall that around 6 months ago we created a list of issues that were affecting many of the activities we are engaged in. Sarah Mulholland has worked with the appropriate PS teams to generate a set of helpful responses associated with each. You can see our original list and responses via the link below. Please feel free to comment in the appropriate box if needs be.
Training and Leadership Courses
Those of you who are interested in developing your leadership skills may like to sign up for some of the University’s training courses. These would be particularly useful to do if you’re interested in moving into a leadership role in the future - they’re also a good way to meet other colleagues across our University:
https://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/staff-learning-and-development/programmes-and-courses/
Congratulations to Jiaoyan
Finally, congratulations to Jiaoyan on his recently funded EPSRC New Investigator Award “OntoEm: Semantic Embedding for Ontologies”. The project will focus on representation of an ontology with its semantics (partially) kept in a vector space. Such vector representations of the entities, a.k.a. embeddings, can directly benefit many prediction tasks in ontology construction such as ontology completion and alignment, augment the combination of symbolic knowledge and machine learning for addressing challenges like sample and explanation shortage, and can be applied to science and engineering problems where ontologies and knowledge graphs are used for data modelling, such as protein function prediction with the Gene Ontology.
Best wishes
Andrew