Posts by Graham Kendall
U21 Workshop on Dealing with Research Misconduct
December 11, 2012
Richard Masterman (Director of Research Graduate Services), Margaret Dowens (Chair of UNNC Research Ethics Committee) and myself recently (10th – 11th Dec 2012) attended a two day U21 workshop in Hong Kong that focused on research misconduct and how to deal with it, especially when more than one university is involved (things get even more …
Engineers need higher salaries to stop them leaving the profession early
This is the opening to a report that recently appeared in the Daily Telegraph in the UK. “Sir James Dyson is right to point out that we need engineers to stay in Britain for the long-term good of the country (Letters, November 30). We also need our best engineers to stay in the profession. There …
The detectives of corrosion
December 10, 2012
“Corrosion costs the oil and gas industry billions of dollars every year, it can also have far reaching environmental consequences. But so far no one has managed to stop corrosion happening. ” This is the start of a recent press release from the University of Nottingham, which describes the work of Andrew Spowage and his …
Birmingham-Nottingham Strategic Collaboration Fund
We recently received this email from Professor Saul Tendler (Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research)). If you are interested in accessing this fund, please contact Lydia Johnson in the first instance just to make sure that your proposed project can be supported under this initiative. Message from Professor Saul Tendler, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) – please disseminate to all …
View of UNMC Campus from a Drone
December 9, 2012
We have recently posted several blogs about drones, particularly the work of the MEME project. The drones being used at UNMC are predominantly being used to track elephants in Borneo but the use of this technology is almost limitless (might be worth thinking about how you could use drones in your own research). As an …
Cost of a degree: Malaysia looks good?
I know that UNMC are sometimes thought of as an expensive option (I like to think that it is value for money) when studying for a degree in Malaysia. The Independent (a UK newspaper) suggests that the true cost of doing a degree in the UK is about £100,000. See the article here. Suddenly we …
A new era of food coatings
December 7, 2012
An article has just appeared on the National Geographic web site. It focuses on the work of Asgar Ali. The article begins: “Every day we face a maximum payload of packed shelves deburring, sticky texture of fruits, home and fret that the sticky coating used to protect crops, almost impossible to wash off.” The full …
Military Technology Offers Hope for Malaysian Wildlife: Drones and Elephants
This is the closing of a piece that has recently appeared on Voice of America (you can view the full article here). “Professor Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz explained how researchers are tracking elephants to help keep villagers safe. ‘What we see is an animation of data collected through the GPS satellite collar on the elephants to …
Google Scholar: Stand on the Shoulder of Giants
This is part of an irregular series as to how you might raise your research profile. These articles are all filed under the category of Research Profile in this blog. Google Scholar has been around for a few years and, in some senses, it performs the same job that citeseer does. That is, it searches …
We want your research news
December 6, 2012
This blog has many aims, which includes disseminating the world class research that is being undertaken at UNMC. So far, we have only had a limited number of reports in this area (for example see here), but this is because we have not made calls for your research successes. We have disseminated other research being …
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