Technicians rule
July 25, 2014
We’ve got a lot of love for the University of Nottingham technicians, you know that. Elsewhere on this blog you can read about how the University’s Technical Focus group is promoting professional registration, or how one of our ranks is the HEA Technician of the Year. Well, we’ll have even more news on them and …
Party party party
July 17, 2014
If you were anywhere near the science and engineering section of University Park yesterday lunchtime/afternoon you might have heard the sounds of the School of Chemistry summer party. If you didn’t know it before, you know it now. Chemists do not party quietly. They like to throw down. I popped along for the tug of …
BME research focus? WE NEED YOU!
July 11, 2014
It’s Black History Month in October. Throughout the month we’ll be joining forces with the University BME (black and minority ethnic) Staff Network to promote all manner of BME-related news, research and events taking place across the University. We do it through our Black History Month blog. It’s worth having a look to see the …
Calling all technicians! Are you interested in professional registration with the Science Council?
July 9, 2014
Technicians! The University’s Technical Focus Group are holding a professional registration event on Thursday 16 July. The Institute of Science and Technology are hosting the event in the Trent Building — room B46 — and the session runs from 10am to 12noon. They say: “The Registered Science Technician (RSciTech) and Registered Scientist (RSci) registers were …
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 …
