Research Priorities Workshop – 1

As part of the process of reviewing the research priorities across the University (not just at UNMC), we are holding two workshops (they are the same format, but we are holding two to accommodate all the people that wanted to attend). The first was held earlier this week (24th April 2013). Ten people attended, with …

Horizon Digital Nutrition Sandpit … and the winners are ….

Last week we reported on the Horizon Digital Nutrition Workshop. We said that we would would report the outcome of the event, as the results were not known at the time. We are very pleased to announce that the winning team’s project is called Understanding Underutilisation. The members of the team are shown in the …

Horizon Digital Nutrition Workshop

On the 21-22 Feb 2013, we hosted a Horizon Digital Nutrition Sandpit, held in collaboration with UNMC and CFFRC. The aim of the sandpit (which was run similar to a UK EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Sandpit) is to generate ideas from all the participants, which the aim of arriving at a project …

Workshop: Research in Malaysia and Southeast Asia – Context and Collaboration

Last week (11th Jan 2013) Rom organised an excellent, thought provoking workshop. We were fortunate to have two guest speakers who gave two very good talks, which created  a lot of user engagement. Rom should be congratulated, and thanked, for organising such a successful event. The two speakers were (the slides are also available for …

MOHE Workshop and Proposals

You will recall an MOHE workshop that we held last year (details on other MOHE activity can be seen here and details of other workshop activity can be seen here). The aim of the workshop was to give you more information about MOHE proposals and also for you to start thinking about your proposals a lot …

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 …

Scholar Innovation Week: Free event (26th Nov)

We have recently received information on this event. If you are interested, please let us know that you are going, but please make the arrangements yourself. We have tried to disseminate to undergraduates but feel free to do so yourself if you think that there is a particular need to do so. The documents you …

MOSTI Workshop: Report

The MOSTI workshop, organised by Nash and his team took place on the 21st Nov. We were fortunate enough to have three guest speakers: Roles of National Science and Research Council and the Focus of National Research Priorities by Dr Vilasini Pillai, Head of National Science and Research Council Malaysia (You can download the slides …

MOSTI Workshop (21st November 2012)

The following email was sent by Nash a few days ago. Dear all Some of you might be aware that the second in a series of research workshops organised by the Research Strategy Committee would take place on Wednesday, 21 November. The theme for this workshop focuses on  Ministry of Science Innovation and Industry  (MOSTI) …

Researching the Internationalisation of Higher Education

Date of Workshop: 31st Oct 2012 This email was recently sent by the Knowledge without Borders team.