Posts by Graham Kendall
Taking tissue regeneration beyond state-of-the-art
June 11, 2014
“Researchers in the United Kingdom and Malaysia are developing a new class of injectable material that stimulates stem cells to regenerate damaged tissue and form new blood vessels, heart and bone tissue. Their aim is to ….” … so starts an article that was recently published in Medical Xpress. This project is part of the …
ACU Summer School Bursaries
June 10, 2014
UNMC is offering five partial bursaries for Malaysian & Singaporean students to attend the ACU Summer School and Christine has asked me to get in touch with you about publicising this. The deadline is this Friday 13th – short notice as we have already closed the general application process but still have a few places …
Knowledge Exchange & Innovation Awards 2014
Monday 2 June 2014 East Midlands Conference Center, Nottingham, United Kingdom “Celebrating excellence in knowledge exchange and innovation” marked the beginning of inaugural Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Awards by our Vice-Chancellor, Professor David Greenaway in the late evening of the day. The awards were presented in two categories, which were the “Knowledge Exchange Awards” and …
TheConversation: To write English like a professor, don’t rely on Google translate
June 9, 2014
“Thankfully, nobody speaks academic English as a first language. The English of the university is a very particular form that has specific features and conventions. Sometimes, this is just referred to as ‘academic style’. It used to be a matter of instinct – what felt right. But now ….” … so starts a piece written …
IAPS Small Research and Publication Grants
This post was contributed by Michael Connors IAPS Small Research and Publication Grants. Applications for a Small Research and Publication Grant of between 3000 and 5000 ringgit are now invited from members of staff engaged in any aspect of research in the social sciences or arts that has an Asia-Pacific focus . Preference may be …
Grant Writing Workshop (12th June 2014, KLTC)
June 6, 2014
The Research Support Office (RSO) and Research Training and Academic Services (RTAD) are organising a grant writing workshop on the 12th June 2014, 10am to 5pm at KLTC. This workshop follows a series of other successful workshops, which have been aimed at developing research proposals in a supportive, collaborative environment. The workshop will be supported …
UNMC Publications 2014: How are we doing?
June 5, 2014
In our irregular review of UNMC’s publication record, below are the Web of Science and Scopus publications that we have recorded for 2014. As we approach the half way point of the year, it seemed a good time to take stock. As part of trying to streamline the MyRA data collection we will be working …
Success for UNMC at the Inaugural Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Awards
June 4, 2014
On the 2 Jun 2014, the university held its inaugural Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Awards at East Midlands Conference Centre, UK. Awards were made to people from all three of our campuses (UK, China and Malaysia). From the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Lim Jaan Cherng, who created a virtual reality prosthetic arm to help amputees …
E-Staff Profile: PLEASE update
June 3, 2014
When we do our MyRA return, we now take the ISI/Scopus publications from those bibliographic search engines. For our other pubications (e.g. most conference proceedings, most book chapters, non-ISI/Scopus publications etc.) we rely on you entering this data into your E-Staff Profile (ESP). In fact, you should enter all your publications into ESP as, although …
MyResearch: Networking event for UK companies based in Malaysia
June 2, 2014
On the 27th May 2014, MyResearch held a networking event that was aimed at UK based companies that are based in Malaysia. MyResearch is a MIDA R&D status company and offers Malaysian companies a tax efficient way to invest in Research and Development. The event was hosted by the acting British High Commissioner to Malaysia …
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