BU Research Blog

July 3, 2012

BU summer mock REF exercise gets underway

BU research, Research assessment Anita Somner

The fourth in a series of mock Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercises is currently underway at BU, with the paperwork… Read more »

June 21, 2012

Some Calls for Tenders including biodiversity, culture, Chile, Latin America and China!

EU Corrina Lailla Osborne

Implementation of 2020 EU Biodiversity Strategy: The European Commission, Directorates-General for the Environment/Climate Action, has published a call for tenders… Read more »

June 20, 2012

Visit and STRC seminar not to miss next Tuesday: Image and Signal Processing Group of University of Valencia (26th June at 15h 30’ in PG16)

BU research, Featured academics, REF Subjects ebballester

Dear Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to the visit of two members and a postdoc researcher of… Read more »

REF 2014 Equality and diversity

32. I haven’t been able to produce four outputs in the required period. Can I still be submitted to the… Read more »

Staff eligibility

7. How do I know if I’m eligible to be submitted to the REF? See the examples below or section… Read more »

REF 2014 Overview

1. What is the REF? The REF is the system for assessing the quality of research in higher education institutions… Read more »

May 18, 2012

Interesting Talk Next Wednesday: Evolving Simple and Complex Structures To Combine Predictors

Featured academics, Uncategorized ebballester

Our next speaker of the STRC seminar series will be Dr Athanasios Tsakonas. The talk will take place next Wednesday,… Read more »

April 30, 2012

The future of EU Energy funding

EU Corrina Lailla Osborne

Two exciting developments related to EU Energy funding are now in the public domain. The European Commission has recently… Read more »

April 19, 2012

Partner searches for water and energy research

EU Corrina Lailla Osborne

UKWaterResearchDirectory: An online directory of UK researchers has just been developed to support the Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) UK… Read more »

March 30, 2012

The Grants Academy – Strand Three: Post-award training

BU research, Guidance Caroline O'Kane

Strand Three – post-award training The third strand of the Grants Academy will focus on post-award project management for Principal… Read more »

February 22, 2012

New EC website with listings of current projects

EU Corrina Lailla Osborne

The EC has set up a new page on its Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) website with an… Read more »

February 20, 2012

My EUNF success

EU Corrina Lailla Osborne

My EUNF application relates to one aspect of a program of research that is in the early stages of development…. Read more »

February 9, 2012

Ethics and Conduct and Governance….OH MY!!

Guidance, Post-award Julia Taylor

Similar to Lions and Tigers and Bears, these nasty words often send a chill down the spine of researchers across… Read more »

January 30, 2012

Hello everybody!

BU research, PG research tzhang

I am Tiantian Zhang, the new Head of the Graduate School, I started on 16 Jan and have enjoyed the… Read more »

January 12, 2012

What is Erasmus Mundus?

EU Corrina Lailla Osborne

What is Erasmus Mundus? Erasmus Mundus is a European Commission funded programme which provides support to organisations (such as BU)… Read more »

December 9, 2011

EU funding available for higher education and training between the EU, Australia and Korea

EU Corrina Lailla Osborne

Industrialised Countries Instrument Call for Proposals: Co-operation in higher education and training between the EU and Australia and The Republic… Read more »

November 24, 2011