The Mess Around Graduate HiJack
October 30, 2008
Web: http://www.kclsu.org
Job Opportunity
October 29, 2008
Operations Manager
£30,973 to £45,756 per annum including London Weighting
The Careers Group, University of London need an Operations Manager with a passion for planning and delivering complex cross-team projects many of which have a strong online and social media theme.
The successful applicant will manage the processes behind a major HEIF-funded project, co-ordinate the resourcing and meeting of project milestones for a dozen other projects and work closely with senior management to identify and tender for other relevant work.
The role includes up to seven weeks holiday and a generous final salary pension scheme. It is a three year contract terminating in July 2011.
Closing date: 12pm, 21 November 2008
For more information, click here.
Science Policy Fellowships
October 27, 2008
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology has been running 3-month parliamentary science policy fellowship schemes for PhD students for many years now. Most of the UK research councils and several learned societies have special collaborative arrangements to support these fellowships at POST. However, some students were previously excluded from applying as their funders are not collaborating with POST. The new Open fellowship scheme is targeted at students that previously did not qualify.
The deadline is 7 December 2008.
All further details can be found by clicking here.
Guide to Intellectual Property
October 27, 2008
Monday 27th October 2008 – Guide to Intellectual Property – 5.30pm – 7.30pm
Venue – Graduate School Training Room, Floor 4, Waterloo Bridge Wing, Franklin Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus.
Presenter:- David Mozley, Technology Transfer Manager, King’s College London Business
Do you wonder about the following:-
- What’s the value of an idea?
- Who owns the intellectual property I generate?
- Can I protect my idea?
- I have an idea but I don’t know if I can talk to you about it or not!
- What is a confidentiality disclosure agreement?
Come along and learn more about ideas and intellectual property from our resident IP expert.
(Tea, Coffee & Biscuits available).
Five Skills You Need to Become a Lecturer in Higher Education
October 26, 2008
Five Skills You Need to Become a Lecturer in Higher Education is a web page on the jobs.ac.uk site. You can access the page by clicking here.
The five skills listed can all be developed and enhanced by engaging with King’s Researcher Development Programme. You can attend face-to-face classes and/or go through the learning modules on our Virtual Learning Environment. Links to both can be found on the right-hand side of this page.
2008-09 King’s College London Graduate Business Plan Competition
October 21, 2008
The next Business Training Seminar for the Lion’s Den will be held on:-
Wednesday 22nd October 2008
Title – ‘Networking for Entrepreneurs’
Time – 5.30pm – 7.30pm.
Venue – River Room, South Range, Strand Campus.
Refreshments available.
This session will enable you to develop your understanding of networking for entrepreneurs and how to use it as a tool to develop your business ideas. You will have an opportunity to practice your networking skills via an amusing game of networking bingo! The session is also designed to help participants to meet people who they might want to collaborate with for the competition.
If you were not able to come along to the launch and are still interested in entering the Lion’s Den, be brave and come along to this seminar!
Producing Culture: A National Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students
October 20, 2008
20-21 February 2009
Goldsmiths, University of London
Producing Culture is a student-led colloquium for postgraduates that will explore the ways in which culture is manifested through and defined by social practice.
This call for papers invites students from all fields to consider the mechanisms by which culture is produced and consumed. Papers should also seek to explore the dissemination of culture as pertinent to the
construction of social identity.
Organised by the Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group at Goldsmiths, University of London (led by Professor Maria Shevtsova), this event will provide an opportunity for postgraduates across the UK to engage with their peers across disciplines in a challenging and supportive environment. This is a unique
opportunity for postgraduates across the country to meet, network and exchange ideas in a truly interdisciplinary context.
We welcome submissions from postgraduate research students for individual papers or practice-based presentations that do not exceed 15 minutes. Please submit your name, department, university, conference paper title and 250-word abstract to stpr.group@gmail.com.
Deadline for applications is 1 December 2008.
Online booking sytem for training courses
October 20, 2008
The Graduate School is delighted to announce that from 9am on Monday 20th October 2008 all postgraduate research students and postdoctoral research staff will be able to access the Researcher Development Programme (RDP) electronically via a system known as “Skills Forge”.
Skills Forge enables researchers to evaluate their existing skills and identify potential areas for development, book workshops online and record all of their development activities undertaken.
Skills Forge will automatically manage workshop bookings and waiting lists, and will send automated emails to users confirming their places on courses.
All postgraduate research students and postdoctoral research staff should be able to log into Skills Forge using their usual KCL username and password and start using the system from 9am on Monday 20th October 2008.
If you have any queries about Skills Forge or the RDP, please e-mail gradtrain@kcl.ac.uk.
Please note that wherever possible bookings for RDP workshops should be made via Skills Forge from Monday 20th October.
The Neville Butler Memorial Prize
October 17, 2008
The Neville Butler Memorial Prize is a new award, aimed at promoting early career reseachers whose work comprises longitudinal research that both contributes to knowledge in a significant way, but also has evident social value and public relevance.
The prize is open to all longitudinal researchers at the early stage of a career within five years completion of a PhD or an equivalent professional qualification or experience, currently engaged in longitudinal research in the UK. in any academic or policy field interdisciplinary research within the ESRC remit is eligible. Exceptions may be considered if an applicant has had a formal career break taken for family care responsibilities, health or other reasons. In such cases details about the interruption must be provided.
For more information, click here.
ESRC Knowledge Transfer Learning and Development Workshop – Engaging with the Third Sector
October 16, 2008
The ESRC is organising a two day ’Engaging with the Third Sector’ workshop. This workshop is for students who are funded by ESRC and are undertaking research of potential relevance to the Third or Voluntary Sector.
The workshop will be held in Birmingham on the 8th and 9th December 2008.
The workshops are designed to be extremely interactive and will include case studies and attendance from external stakeholders in the Third Sector domain.
The application form is available by clicking here.
The closing date for applications is the 31st October 2008.
Attendance will be limited to 20 and delegate places will be confirmed shortly after the closing date.
If you have any queries please feel free to contact kirsty.johnson@esrc.ac.uk.
