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 …
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 …
Engineering Research Divisions: 2011 Activities
December 3, 2012
You might be interested in a nice set of web pages from UNMC, that outlines some of the research activity being carried out in the Engineering divisions. These pages are specifically from Sustainable Process Integration, but you might want to look around at the other activities.
Do you have something to disseminate?
November 9, 2012
If you have any suggestions for things that could be featured on this blog, please let me know (Graham.Kendall@nottingham.edu.my), or register on the blog and write an entry yourself. Any posts will be moderated (and might be edited) and we will only accept registrations from University of Nottingham email addresses. I am thinking of (but …
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