Conflict and controversy in the ethics of stem cell research
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing present:
‘Conflict and controversy in the ethics of stem cell research’
Wednesday 12th March 2014, 1-2pm, Sunley Conference Centre.
Research Theme Leader for the Institute of Health and Wellbeing
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing is looking to recruit academic leaders for each of its newly established research themes:
- Family Health and Wellbeing
- Health and Wellbeing of the Ageing Population
- Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Physical Activity, Health and Wellbeing
- Environment, Health and Wellbeing
- Organisational Health and Wellbeing
We are seeking expressions of interest from individuals across the University who have the energy, commitment and drive to develop these themes into successful and high profile programmes of activity that engage colleagues from across a range of academic disciplines and deliver research, social enterprise, training and CPD, consultancy and postgraduate opportunities.
Academic research now available from your local public library
Under the recently launched ‘Access to Research‘ initiative, public libraries are now able to provide walk-in readers with access to a wide range of academic articles and research.
Following the recommendation of the Finch report that the major publishers should grant public libraries a licence to provide free access to their academic articles, the two year Access to Research scheme will enable a new audience of the general public, small businesses and independent researchers to access scholarly research.
New resource: Emerging Markets Case Studies
Submitted by Joanne Farmer, Academic Librarian
We now have access to 250 ‘Emerging Markets’ case studies on the Emerald database. Our new subscription includes perpetual access to all of the 2014 reports and also an archive back to 2011. These reports cover a range of subject areas including Entrepreneurship, International Business, HRM, Management Science, Marketing, Strategy and Tourism and Hospitality. Each case study comes with notes for teachers, which may be accessed via a separate login (teaching staff please contact your librarian for details).
Congratulations, Dr Neil Hand
Neil Hand will receive his PhD degree certificate at the Winter Award Ceremonies in the Royal and Derngate theatre this weekend. Neil’s PhD by means of published works thesis brought together a body of papers that Neil had worked on over a number of years in the field of histopathology. This month Neil retired from Nottingham University Hospitals Trust and his contribution to the trust and the field of histopathology is celebrated in the Nottingham Post. Read the article at http://www.nottinghampost.com/Pioneering-scientist-calls-day/story-20554685-detail/story.html#comments
congratulations, Neil!
Graduate School workshops in February
We have a variety of Graduate School workshops coming up in February for research degree students.
We have 4 places left for Hugh Kearn’s Research Student workshop “Seven secrets” which will be held at Sunley Conference Centre next Tuesday 11th. Hugh Kearns is recognised internationally as a public speaker, educator and researcher and regularly lectures at universities across the world, including Oxford, Harvard and Stanford. Research students, please don’t miss this great opportunity.
Other workshops include our Finishing Development Day for students close to completion, an Institute of Consulting event and a Grounded Theory qualitative methodology workshop. Read the rest of this entry
Academy Scholarship Competition 2014
The Institute of Ideas Academy Scholarship Programme offers a small number of full time students (any academic discipline) attendance tickets for the three-day annual Academy weekend for only £60, which includes three nights accommodation, full board & an events programme! The Institute of Ideas Academy is a residential retreat running from Friday 18 July to Monday 21 July, in which you can be unashamedly esoteric and intellectual for a weekend. There are three parallel lecture series on Classics, Literature and History as well as a plenary History of Ideas series on moral thought. To be in with a chance to win the Academy Scholarship read on! Read the rest of this entry
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