Why have the changes been made? The Code of Practice has not been updated since 2016. A number of internal and external changes have led to a lot of the information within it becoming outdated. As a result, the University…
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Inside Government Research and Innovation Conference The annual UK conference on research and innovation further emphasised the Government’s commitment to support the academic community to work with the UK business community. The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund remains the spearhead funding…
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December is peeking around the corner and with it the prospect of 2019. There are lots of exciting ways to engage different publics with your research, and to learn a new skill along the way. The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas…
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Internal Funding Competitions Research Funding Competition 2018-2019 RIO was delighted to see 45 applications submitted for this years Research Funding Competition, and after a rigorous two stage review process, 26 proposals were ultimately supplied with funding. Researchers across the University…
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Last week Yaso Kunaratnam, Policy Officer at UKCDR delivered a presentation on “The evolving research for development landscape”. UKCDR are a collaboration of government and research funders working in the international development arena and together they provide high-level strategic coherence…
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Research news stories and events can be recorded in Worktribe as part of your profile. Guidance on how to do this can be found on the RIO intranet research management pages. There is an approval step between adding the information…
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Applications are now open for the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards 2019 – deadline for applications is 5pm, Friday 30th November 2018 and the winners will be announced at The Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards on Thursday 21st February 2019. If you…
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Peer-review is important in research to ensure the quality and integrity of research activity. It is also an important part of the research funding process both once you have submitted to the funder, but also within institutions before you submit…
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Here’s the second of our ‘meet the academic‘ interviews – where we ask researchers a few questions about their work, and tease some tips from them. Dr Katherine Staines is Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in the School of Applied Sciences.…
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Hopefully you will all have been enjoying the lovely summer weather and taking a break. Over the summer we have been busy working on a number of different projects which are to enhance the support for research at the University.…
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