Research Showcase roundup part the second – including the winner!
June 25, 2014
Continuing with the Research Showcase roundup (the first one’s here). Next on my list of ‘ones to watch’ from an artistic flair perspective were (drum roll, etc)… Beili Shao, Clinical Sciences, ‘Toxic sugar leads to ‘flooding’ in the brain’ Beili’s poster featured a picture of a dog in a raincoat, illustrating the blood/brain barrier. What’s …
Research Showcase roundup
June 24, 2014
The Research Showcase 2014 took place last Wednesday, with the exhibition in the Engineering and Science Learning Centre and the public lecture – by science broadcaster Simon Singh – held in the Keighton Auditorium. It was organised by the Graduate School who, as ever, did a bang up job. It was a brilliant day. I know …
Standing up for the invisible workforce
June 2, 2014
We’ve heard from technician Kelly Vere in this blog before, when we reproduced a post she’d written for the Guardian’s Higher Education Network. Did you know she’s been made HEA Technician of the Year? She’s kind of a big deal… We did a press release about it here. She’s also set up the Technical Focus …
Sharing your research — what does Simon Singh think?
May 12, 2014
The Graduate School’s annual Research Showcase takes place on Wednesday 18 June. It’s a great event, showcasing the variety of PhD research taking place at the University. Sixty researchers will present posters they’ve designed about their work — communicating their ideas to people with a limited or no knowledge of their field. For the students, …
Addressing the imbalance — WinSET conference 2014
April 30, 2014
I attended a planning meeting for the WinSET conference 2014 yesterday, and the programme is looking good. I’ll give you a quick overview… The keynote speakers are Baroness Brenda Dean, honorary president of WinSET, and Sarah Dickinson, Policy Manager at Athena SWAN. Baroness Dean was created a Life Peer in 1993 and a member of …
Comics and classics part four — dog-skin caps
April 26, 2014
Comics writer Kieron Gillen spoke at the Classical Association annual conference, held at the University at the end of April. Prof Stephen Hodkinson was the historical consultant on his recent comics series Three. I’m writing a series of posts on their roundtable discussion ‘Story telling and historical authenticity in a visual medium: the comics series Three’. The original post is here. The …
Comics and classics part three — statues and helmets
April 25, 2014
Comics writer Kieron Gillen spoke at the Classical Association annual conference, held at the University at the end of April. Prof Stephen Hodkinson was the historical consultant on his recent comics series Three. I’m writing a series of posts on their roundtable discussion ‘Story telling and historical authenticity in a visual medium: the comics series Three’. The original post is here. …
Comics and classics part two — Helots and Spartans
April 24, 2014
Comics writer Kieron Gillen spoke at the Classical Association annual conference, held at the University at the end of April. Prof Stephen Hodkinson was the historical consultant on his recent comics series Three. I’m writing a series of posts on their roundtable discussion ‘Story telling and historical authenticity in a visual medium: the comics series …
Where comics and classics collide — story telling and Three
Kieron Gillen is kind of a big deal. The comics writer came to the University last week. He spoke at the Classical Association annual conference, a three-day classics extravaganza that UoN hosted. If you’re not into comics, you might not get why that’s so exciting. But Kieron wrote Phonogram — of which comics superstar Warren …
Nottingham represents at the Collider exhibition
April 16, 2014
Have you been to the Collider exhibition at the Science Museum yet? I recommend, it’s very enjoyable — pitched at the level of non-scientists with an interest in science. Which is me, basically. Explaining the purpose and science behind the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, it’s beautifully visual. Particularly the part where you sit inside …
