UNMC Three Minute Thesis Competition

The UNMC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition was held on the 8th Sep in the Great Hall. I always look forward to this event and I was fortunate enough to be invited as one of the judges again this year. From memory, this is the fourth or fifth year that I have been invited to …

Nominations Now Open for the 2014 U21 Awards & Gilbert Medal

The following is taken from the U21 web site:. More details, along with the relevant forms can be found here. Both the U21 Awards and the Gilbert Medal have been awarded by U21 since 2012. U21 Awards  The U21 Awards are awarded to indivduals from within the U21 network. They recognise individual efforts towards particularly innovative …

U21 Workshop on Dealing with Research Misconduct

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 …