Tara de Cozar
Internal Communications Manager,, Pope Building, University PArk
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Technician – and proud!
August 8, 2013
The blog post below first appeared on the Guardian’s Higher Education Network last week. Written by Kelly Vere, a senior technician at the University, it outlined the technician’s lot and painted a picture of an invisible layer of University and research sector employees of whom little is heard. But it’s very clear that, without them, …
Gurkhas get lunch!
July 19, 2013
Some nice pics here on the Practical Action Flickr stream. UoN engineers are working with Practical Action and Kathmandu University on the Score-stove – which is designed to be a clean cooking stove. This is of particular relevance in Nepal as cooking on open fires in popular – and as it’s so cold there, this …
Nottingham Catalyst — funding now available
June 27, 2013
We’ve blogged before about the Nottingham Catalyst project — a University project linking research and public engagement across all faculties. It’s now launched a Partnership Fund. The Partnership Fund will provide academic and research staff and students at UoN with grant funding of up to £500 to support public engagement activity. The fund provides the …
Design at Nottingham – you really should have a look
June 14, 2013
I was wandering back from Chemistry earlier (where I was talking to Sam Tang about some very interesting video material we have – watch this space…) and my route to the office took me past the Engineering and Learning Sciences Centre. I was confronted by these… I was intrigued, so ventured in. Turns out it’s …
UoN at the Houses of Parliament
March 15, 2013
UoN PhD researchers are heading down to London next week to exhibit at SET for Britain, an event at the Houses of Parliament. They’ve produced posters outlining their research for MPs to peruse. The idea behind the event is “to encourage, support and promote Britain’s early-stage and early-career research scientists, engineers and technologists who are the …
Nottingham Catalyst — public engagement opportunity for researchers
January 25, 2013
Not entirely unrelated to our last blog post is a new pilot project being set up by the University’s Community Partnerships‘ team. Nottingham Catalyst is a new programme which helps link research and public engagement across all faculties and schools. The idea is to link up researchers with sections of the public relevant with their area of study, …
EU funding – how do I access it?
January 10, 2013
The University of Nottingham has received more than €100m in EU research funding since 2007, with 232 successful proposals submitted to its Seventh Framework Programme — or FP7, as it’s more commonly referred to. That’s a huge amount of money — €101,460,000 to be exact. And it’s helped to fund projects as wide ranging as …
Interdisciplinarity explained…
September 12, 2012
So, we’ve been plugging this conference a bit over on our Twitter feed… Interdisciplinarity: Grounding social research and practice in a age of complexity. It’s the 5th ENQUIRE postgrad conference – an annual event aimed at bringing postgrads and early career researchers in social sciences together to discuss contemporary issues. This year’s is on the …
Being a lab rat – driving simulator
August 21, 2012
I’ve worked for the University for six years now. One of the things I like most about the job is getting access to cool stuff. I get to hear a lot of the calls for volunteers that researchers put out, looking for guinea pigs to help prove, or disprove, their latest theory. I’ve been in an MRI …
Making Science Public
January 24, 2013
So, here’s an event that I’m already registered to attend – ‘Making Science Public: Challenges and Opportunities‘ on Feb 11 up at the Trent Building. Unusually for me I’ll be going to the whole thing – often I only get time to dip in and out of conferences and launches. But as well as looking …
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