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EXTRA PLACES ADDED! Exploring Career Options Beyond Academia (Biological & Health Sciences) Friday 19 April
Thursday, April 18, 2013
We have added some extra places for tomorrow’s Exploring Career Options Beyond Academia (Biological & Health Sciences) event, which runs from 13.45 – 17.00 in the Main Building. To book a place, click here or call 029 2087 9408.
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NEW SUPPORT SCHEME for PGRs Who Teach
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
In Spring 2012, the University Graduate College piloted a scheme to assist PGRs with gaining sufficient teaching experience in their applications for Associate Fellow Status recognition from the Higher Education Academy. Following the success of the pilot scheme, we are pleased to announce that a regular Support Scheme is now in place. For further information, [...]
CALL FOR PAPERS for Critical Ideologies Student Conference – Friday 24 May
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Friday 24 May 2013 Venue tbc ‘Once Nature becomes environmentalized, its workings are submitted to the competing environmentality designs of various ecocritics’ – Timothy W. Luke This conference seeks to shed new light on how researchers across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences conceive the interface between human behaviour and the natural environment not [...]
Public Engagement: A Student Showcase – Thursday 25 April
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Thursday 25 April 2013, 13.00 -16:00 Main Building Postgraduate Researchers play an important part in the University’s public engagement. Whether as part of big events that draw in hundreds of schoolchildren, small group sessions, or individual ventures, students are often at the heart of these activities. This [...]
Mock PhD Viva (Sciences) – Tuesday 30 April
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Tuesday 30 April 2013, 16:00 -18:00 Birt Acres Lecture Theatre, Bute Building This entertaining event aims to de-mystify the PhD viva by providing an example of a ‘good viva’ and a ‘bad viva’. A team of staff from the sciences will take on the roles of Chairman of Examiners, Internal Examiner, External Examiner, PhD Candidate [...]
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Impact Lecture! – Tuesday 23 April
Thursday, March 28, 2013
‘Transistors, Mini Skirts and Global Warming’ – Research with Impact and Its Commercialisation Tuesday 23rd April, 3.30 pm, venue tbc. The issue of Impact is rising steadily in the consciousness of Researchers, PIs and University Management. The UK has become the World Leader in ‘Impact studies’ (there are over 270 listed on the RCUK web-site), [...]
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CAREERS EVENT! – Friday 19 April
Monday, March 25, 2013
Exploring Career Options Beyond Academia: Biological and Health Sciences Friday 19 April, 13:45 – 17:00 (to be followed by a cheese and wine reception) This event for postgraduate research students and research staff provides an opportunity to explore the range of career opportunities available within the biological and health sciences beyond academia. Speakers from a [...]
Cardiff Postgrad Wins Scientific Award
Friday, March 22, 2013
A Cardiff postgraduate student has been awarded first prize for the best scientific presentation at a national MRI conference. Jess Steventon, a PhD student in the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) fought off stiff competition at the annual postgraduate conference of the British Chapter of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine [...]
WANTED: Musicians and Poets for Alternative Modernisms Conference
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The Alternative Modernisms Conference taking place in the University from Wednesday 15 May to Saturday 18 May is an international event that will bring over 220 delegates to the city from around the world. The conference is being hosted by the School of English, Communication and Philosophy. The School would like to present an evening [...]
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PhD Comics Event – Only one week left for priority booking!
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
We are pleased to say our PhD Comics event is booking up phenomenally fast, with over 370 bookings already! From Monday 25 March, we will be accepting bookings from other Universities for the final few tickets. To avoid disappointment, be sure to book yours this week! PhD Comics: ‘The Power of Procrastination’ – A Talk [...]
