Sessions for the BU Researcher Development Programme in January 2012 are below. Booking is essential as places are limited, details of how to… Read more »
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PGR Training Workshops – Dec 2011
Sessions for the BU Researcher Development Programme in December 2011 are as follows: Research Ethics Professor Holger Schutkowski Date: Wednesday 7… Read more »
PGR Events – Researcher Development Programme
Sessions for the BU Researcher Development Programme in November/December 2011 are as follows: Managing your Thesis workshop (Part 2) Using MS Office… Read more »
Life as an AHRC Panel Reviewer
At the moment the Arts and Humanities Research Council are recruiting new members for their review panels. I have been… Read more »
Sometimes a kick in the teeth can be good for you!
My rationale needed to be contextualised, my aims were too tentative and I had a weak dissemination strategy. Apart from… Read more »
AHRC still seeking nominations for peer reviewers – excellent opportunity!
The AHRC are still seeking nominations for new members to be appointed to its Peer Review College (PRC) who would… Read more »
Upcoming Missenden Centre workshops – funding available for BU staff to attend
The Missenden Centre still has places available on a number excellent workshops this autumn/winter. The Research Development Unit has some… Read more »
Getting Out There
When I finished my PhD here at BU in 2006, all I had to show for it was…a PhD. There… Read more »
How to kill your funding application
Funding proposals are not the easiest (or quickest) thing in the world to write. Not least for multi-tasking academics up… Read more »
Research bid do’s and don’ts
The Do’s of writing a good research bid: C – O – M – P – E – T- E… Read more »
The AHRC are seeking nominations for peer reviewers
The AHRC are seeking nominations for new members to be appointed to its Peer Review College (PRC) who would be… Read more »
What do funders look for in a research application?
Funders look for a research application that is novel and that addresses an important research question pertinent to their strategic… Read more »
fEC step by step guide to costing! ~ Step 2 Estimating staff time
This week is fEC week on the Blog! Each day we will be explaining a different element of fEC as… Read more »
Bag that Bid
Richard Brooks and Katherine Timms, Officers from CRE Operations, recently attended a training session called Total Proposal run by Aron… Read more »
Research Council Success Rates
The Research Councils have created central web-hubs with all the key data on success rates in addition to other useful… Read more »
Referencing Dutch, Flemish & German names in the Harvard System
For academics writing and citing in the English language there is often confusion and misunderstanding about how to reference my… Read more »
links for 2011-08-02
Interesting research related webpages that were bookmarked on the BU Research Delicious pages this week: Is the crowd opening up… Read more »
Internationalisation and the research process
Dr Sara Ashencaen Crabtree and Professor Jonathan Parker from the School of Health and Social Care discuss some of their recent research that… Read more »
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