Posts by Graham Kendall
The end of journals? Open access, impact and the production of knowledge
December 20, 2012
There is a lot of debate at the moment about Open Access publishing and Warren Pearce (a PhD student) has written an interesting blog post as part of the University’s Making Science Public blog. The post is motivated by the fact that research funding agencies are increasingly insisting that the research they fund is Open …
CFFRC: Let’s remind ourselves what it’s all about
December 19, 2012
The Service Level Agreement between UNMC and CFFRC has recently been signed and the first set of postgraduate students being funded by CFFRC will be starting very soon. It is probably a good time to just take a step back and reflect on what CFFRC is all about. This University of Nottingham youtube video, although …
Droning On: The MEME Project and ETH Zurich
December 18, 2012
You might be aware that drones are used in some of the research carried out at UNMC. The drones, which took the pictures shown in the links below, were being flown as part of research conducted by the ETH Zurich, Ecosystem Management Group, who are studying the reproductive ecology of dipterocarp trees and forest Carbon …
400 pupils to get a Christmas lecture
This is the opening from a recent piece that appeared in thisisnottingham.co.uk: “Hundreds of schoolchildren will get an insight into engineering at the University of Nottingham. More than 400 14- to 16-year-olds will attend the …. “. The full article is available here. The header image is courtesy of http://www.krakatau-tour.com/
Quentin Willson visits The University of Nottingham to refuel hydrogen car
December 17, 2012
Published on the 21st Oct 2012, this youtube video reports on a visit to the Jubilee Campus by motoring journalist Quentin Willson. The blurb for the video reads: “TV presenter and motoring expert Quentin Willson visited The University of Nottingham to film part of a short film put together by ITM Power about their Ecoisland …
Dominic Foo: Book Launch on Process Integration
December 15, 2012
A book launching event was held during the 26th Symposium of Malaysian Chemical Engineers, in conjunction with the 4th International Conference On Chemical And Bioprocess Engineering (SOMChE-ICCBPE-2012) recently at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Malaysia (21-23 November 2012). The new book entitled “Process Integration for Resource Conservation”, was authored by Professor Ir Dr Dominic Foo, the Founding …
Seeing the world through the eyes of an orangutan
December 14, 2012
I was just digging around youtube (as you do), searching for the University of Nottingham and I came across this video from Neil Mennie. It was posted on the 27th Nov 2012. It’s well worth a watch if you want to know what the Cognitive and Sensory Research Group at UNMC are up to. Or, …
Thar’s gold in them thar vaults: Martyn Poliakoff has seen it!
December 13, 2012
You might recall the Royal Society Rutherford lecture that we hosted recently, was given by the University of Nottingham’s Professor Martyn Poliakoff. One of the things that Martyn is famous for is his youtube The Periodic Table of Videos. They must have made an impression as Professor Poliakoff was recently allowed into the Bank of …
Web of Knowledge
In case you are unfamiliar with some of the facilities that are available to you as a researcher at UNMC, we thought it might be useful to briefly cover some of them. Many services are subscription based so you either need to be on campus (when the IP will give you access), or you can …
Research and Knowledge Transfer Executive
December 12, 2012
You might be interested to know about some of the university committees that members of UNMC sit on in order to represent our campus, as well as the wider university. Also, as the structure of the Research and Knowledge Transfer Committees has recently changed, it seems an opportune time to outline them. Research and Knowledge …
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