Archive for the ‘Funding’ Category

The Power of Graphs

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Graphs are mathematical structures that model pairwise relations between objects.  They are represented by vertices and edges where the edges may be directed or undirected. Whenever I am working on some research problem using graphs, my friends who are unfamiliar with graph theory question why I am thinking about graphs and not writing programs. Although I try my best to give an easily understandable reason, OxDE has  explained it really well: (more…)

RAE 2008

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008) to gauge the research standards of the UK’s higher education institution has been completed and made public. RAE is an evaluation that takes place every few years. It is carried out by peer review panels of academics in and out of the UK. The timetable for the latest exercise is here. (more…)

Grant Applications

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

My university recently arranged a grant writing guidance session. The following were some of the lessons I came away with.

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Funding For Travel

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Concerns about funding for conferences and workshops have been a ongoing theme in my conversations with other graduate students. This is especially the case in the UK where doctoral students do not get as much funding as in the US. So what is the way forward? (more…)

Vitae

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

The following is an excerpt from a press release on the UK GRAD Programme website. It is the launch of a national organization to support doctoral students and researchers. It seems to be the joining of forces of UK GRAD and other organizations. Vitae is supported by Research Councils UK (RCUK) and managed by CRAC: The Career Development Organisation. (more…)