Tips for finishing your PhD thesis on time
June 20, 2014
Anybody who has done, or is doing, a PhD will know the pressures that come at certain times. Often these come at the end, as you strggle to write up, and submit, within the prescribed time. The article, that recently appeared in the Times Higher Education, might just help! Header Image: Typing: Downloaded from Google …
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 …
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 …
Professor Dominic Foo is a Thomson Reuters Highly-Cited Author
May 19, 2014
Professor Ir Dr Dominic C. Y. Foo was announced by Thomson Reuters as the Highly-Cited Author for his paper entitled “State-of-the-art Review of Pinch Analysis Techniques for Water Network Synthesis”. The paper has a total citation of 117 based on 10 years record in Web of Science, i.e. between 1 January 2003 to 31 October …
First year UNMC student (Yen Yi Loo) publishes monsoon study
May 15, 2014
“A first year Environmental Science student at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) has had a literature review of the Southeast Asian monsoon published in the academic journal Geoscience Frontiers. Her research concluded that future climate warming could lead to a 15 day delay in the monsoon onset in Southeast Asia by the start …
Graham Kendall invited to serve as Associate Editor on two new journals
May 8, 2014
Professor Graham Kendall has recently been invited to serve as an Associate Editor on two new journals (International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics and Operations Research Perspectives). Graham now serves as an Associate Editor on ten journals. This post follows a number of recent announcements of UNMC staff being asked to serve as …
UNMC featured in Asia Research News 2014
April 25, 2014
We have been fortunate enough to have three pieces in the 2014 issue of Asia Research News. The featured articles are: Page 6: Natural protections for tropical fruits prolong shelf life Page 29: Crossing continents: Where we drive affects how we drive Page 50: Exposing the secret life of endangered elephants An interactive version of …
New Centre for Environmental Geochemistry and opportunities for research collaborations
April 16, 2014
This post was contributed by Suzanne McGowan New Centre for Environmental Geochemistry and opportunities for research collaborations The British Geological Survey (BGS) and the University of Nottingham have announced a new research facility, the Centre for Environmental Geochemistry. http://www.environmentalgeochemistry.org/home.html The centre will involve multiple Schools within the University and is headed by Professor Melanie Leng, …
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