Recent Blog Posts

We occasionally look around the UoN blogs just to see what other people are writing about. Two posts recently caught our eye, as they are very much Malaysian focussed. Malaysian rainforest project (from Alumni Life blog) Malaysia plans to be the first Islamic financial superpower (from the Centre for Risk, Banking and Financial Services blog)    

CEPB Blogs

This post was contributed by Asgar Ali. The following blogs might be of interest to those working in Food Security or Post Harvest Technology: http://www.ng.hu/Tudomany/2012/12/elelmiszerbevonatok_uj_korszaka http://earthsky.org/feeding-the-future/asgar-ali-edible-coatings-keep-fruits-and-vegetables-fresh-2 http://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/blog/index.php/2012/03/grow-not-waste-not/#more-785 http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?sec=education&file=/2012/1/29/education/10538865 http://www.farminguk.com/News/Making-sure-the-food-we-grow-is-good-enough-to-eat_22647.html

Postgraduate Blog

I am sure that many of you know, but we just want to alert you to the fact that we now have a UNMC Postgraduate Blog. The blog (to quote from them): “This blog is produced by the Graduate School at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus. With this blog we plan to keep you …

Centre for Post-harvest Biotechnology: Custom Tag

In a recent post I said that I would tag posts for specific groups so that you could use them on your own web site (for example) to give you a URL that provided easy access to blog posts. At that time, I set up a MEME tag, which gives access to all the posts …

What’s Happening Elsewhere

We occasioanally like to look at some other blog posts from around the UoN blogs, just in case you missed them. They might not all be related to Research and Knowledge Transfer, but they are interesting nonetheless. Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia: understanding business from beginning to end (from Better Business blog) UK SMEs and …

Life Cycle 3

Although the header picture may not look like some of the team are enjoying themselves at that precise moment :-), I am sure they are all immensely proud as the Vice Chancellor leads the team as they set off for Life Cycle 3 earlier this week. I would encourge you to follow the ups and …

250 Posts and Counting

Since launching this blog in October 2012, we passed the 100th post on the 23rd January 2013 and we are now pleased to report that this post marks the 250th post. As we said, when we marked to 100th post, when the blog was started we were a little worried that we would not have …

What’s Happening Elsewhere?

We occasioanally like to look at some other blog posts from around the UoN blogs, just in case you missed them. They might not all be related to Research and Knowledge Transfer, but they are interesting nonetheless. Selamat Datang ke (Welcome to) Malaysia! (from Malaysia Student Life blog) I can’t quite remember (from Pharm Life …

WordPress/Blogging Training

Following our post asking if anybody was interested in WordPress/Blogging traing, last Thursday (11th July 2013) we run a one day WordPress/Blogging course. The aim of the course (at least from my point of view) was to provide more people will access to the University’s blogging platform so that more people are able to blog. …

Nottingham Global Network 2013, Binus University, Indonesia

Last year, we held the first Nottingham Global Network (NGN). For the second NGN, we moved from Malaysia to Indonesia, hosted by Binus University, Indonesia (1-2 July 2013). We’d like to thank our friends at Binus for hosting, and arranging, such a well run and informative event. The aim of this network is to bring …