Battle unveils awards
SCIENCE minister John Battle has announced awards totalling Pounds 116,000 for 16 proposals in the first round of a research funding aimed at supporting collaboration between Indian and British...
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Risky post
A lectureship in clinical risk management has been created at University College, London, to advance knowledge of how to prevent accidents which injure patients during the course of medical care. The...
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Loughborough cash
Engineers at Loughborough University have been awarded more than Pounds 500,000 in research grants through the funding councils' Joint Research Equipment Initiative. The main grant, worth Pounds 460,...
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Estuary inquiry
Southampton Oceanography Centre researchers are to lead a Pounds 1 million project to look at how human activity and natural processes interact to produce unique coastal environments. The Southampton...
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Coventry takes lead
Coventry University is to lead a Pounds 800,000 project aimed at helping development of electronic guidance and navigation systems for cars and trucks. Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences...
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Leeds opens Pounds 4m state of the art biomolecular centre
A NEW Pounds 4 million centre for research in biomolecular sciences at the University of Leeds, which opened last week, brings together for the first time the high-technology equipment needed for...
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Scots arrive in enterprise zone
Scotland's first Technology Enterprise Show, aimed at helping academics commercialise their research, had a distinct feel of the Tardis to it. A small entrance within Heriot-Watt University's...
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Scientists venture into capitalists' terrain
Manchester University biologists have raised Pounds 20 million and formed a company to exploit their research. Kam Patel reports Within the next three months entrepreneurial biologists at Manchester...
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A biased court with no appeal
The viva oral exam is an unfair way to assess a thesis, argues Ewan Gillon One of the hardest tasks facing a PhD supervisor is assisting a student to prepare for their viva examination. The doctoral...
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Only the rich and gifted need apply
Low pay and the spiralling cost of first degrees means that life for PhD students is tough and is getting tougher despite some funders' efforts to abolish postgraduate poverty by paying salaries The...
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Wellcome to the ivy league
Low pay and the spiralling cost of first degrees means that life for PhD students is tough and is getting tougher despite some funders' efforts to abolish postgraduate poverty by paying salaries The...
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Civil service's loss becomes lake's gain
The University of Greenwich's Natural Resources Institute, once a an official state agency, is leading efforts to revive one of Africa's natural wonders, reports David Jobbins Lake Tanganyika is one...
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Study your opportunities, they may not be to your liking
Jobs for the new millennium:Ayala Ochert continues our series with a hard look at the prospects for a research career After a PhD, what could be more logical than the progression to postdoctoral...
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How to become a science plagiarist
A FIELD GUIDE FOR SCIENCE WRITERS. Edited by Deborah Blume and Mary Knudson. Oxford University Press, 287pp, Pounds 18.99. ISBN 0 19 510068 9 Most of us learn about science at second or third hand,...
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Millennial tension on the network
BITS OF POWER: Issues in Global Access to Scientific Data. National Research Council (US), 235pp. Pounds 36.95 - 0 309 05635 7 The traditional paper-based way of communicating scientific research has...