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What’s up doc? blog for postgraduate researchers
Welcome to What's up doc?. Articles and comments are invited by all postgraduate researchers and those interested in their development. Therefore the views expressed are personal and not necessarily Vitae's. To keep this a supportive, welcoming online community please abide by the terms of reference.
Capitalisation in journal articles
Do you know of any hard and fast rules about when it is appropriate to use capital letters and when not?
29 April 2012
Categories: practical tips
BBSRC public engagement training
If you are a BBSRC funded researcher or working on a BBSRC funded project, this training opportunity may be of interest.
19 May 2012
Categories: development, training
London based job in science communication
Some of the readers of this blog may be interested in this job opportunity...
11 May 2012
Categories: career
Nominations are open for the Women of Outstanding Achievement Awards 2012
The high profile annual photographic exhibition, the Women of Outstanding Achievement Awards is a collection of creative and dramatic portraits that profile outstanding contemporary women within science, engineering and technology. Deadline for completed entries is midnight on Monday 11 June 2012.
06 May 2012
Categories: mentors, role models
Departmental awaydays - encouraging interaction
Do you know what research goes on in the lab across the corridor from your own? Should you make an effort to?
15 April 2012
Categories: Research, research staff, support, Community
Are you an informed researcher?
What is research about if not finding, absorbing, creating and disseminating information? To enable you to be more clever in how you manage, store and disseminate information, Vitae collaborated with the Research Information Network (RIN) and the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL), to develop The informed researcher booklet (which I was involved in writing) and an Information literacy lens on the Vitae Researcher Development Framework.
30 April 2012
Categories: Research, practical tips
MIT launches free online 'fully automated' course - BBC News
This is a BBC article about a free MIT course that is part of an overall plan of theirs for in depth online learning. The first course to be made available is in Electronics.
14 February 2012
Categories: Learning, development, training
Occam’s typewriter
Just to point people in the direction of this fantastic multi-author blog. Their slogan is ‘blogia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (blogs must not be multiplied beyond necessity)
29 April 2012
Categories: Research, career, development, role models
Pregnant women in the laboratory
Radioactive work and chemical are obviously not ideally done in pregnancy. Where, between female postdoc/PhD student and her department, does the responsibility lie in deciding what work should be done and what work should be avoided?
14 April 2012
Categories: Research, support, practical tips
Strictly Engineering
Engineers from across the UK are challenged to turn their work into an exciting, eye-catching poster with the support of graphic designers and public engagement specialists. The posters will be exhibited at the British Science Festival to spark conversation about the implications of engineering in our everyday lives and draw attention to the world-class engineering going on in the UK.
22 April 2012
Categories: role models, practical tips
