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EPSRC Funding Applications

I was recently at a university which prides itself on maintaining links with the industry and getting funding for hot research projects from the research councils. I managed to attend an extremely...

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Vitae

The following is an excerpt from a press release on the UK GRAD Programme website. It is the launch of a national organization to support doctoral students and researchers. It seems to be the joining...

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Funding For Travel

Concerns about funding for conferences and workshops have been a ongoing theme in my conversations with other graduate students. This is especially the case in the UK where doctoral students do not get...

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Grant Applications

My university recently arranged a grant writing guidance session. The following were some of the lessons I came away with. Common sources of funding are research councils (AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, MRC,...

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RAE 2008

The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008) to gauge the research standards of the UK’s higher education institution has been completed and made public. RAE is an evaluation that takes place every few...

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The Power of Graphs

Graphs are mathematical structures that model pairwise relations between objects.  They are represented by vertices and edges where the edges may be directed or undirected. Whenever I am working on...

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New Year, PhD?

At New Year people take time to reflect and start to plan for the year ahead. I imagine some people will be exploring the possibility of starting a PhD so I thought I would post a little bit about how...

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What To Do Whilst Waiting

                                                  I’m travelling home to Brisbane from Auckland and I’m sitting in a cramped plane seat, waiting for the next 3 hours and 20 minutes to pass by as...

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Funding Applications and Good News

A few months ago I submitted my first ever grant application (as a Co-Applicant with my main Supervisor as Principal Applicant and my second Supervisor as another Co). The funding body we applied to...

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