Contribute
Alison Giles, Information Services
Session 1 - (open session)
Library - Seminar Room 9.30am - 11.30am
9th December 2004
Session 2 - (open session)
Library - Seminar Room, 2pm - 4pm
9th December 2004
The Aim of this course is to introduce participants to the main features
of Contribute and enable participants to edit existing web pages and
create new ones.
By the end of the course participants will have been introduced to the
basic features of Macromedia Contribute, seen how to access an existing
web site using a Contribute "Key", modified and uploaded an existing web
page, created new web pages based on a template or existing page,
uploaded new web pages, used a variety of formatting options: Headings,
Tables, bulleted and numbered lists, inserted an image, inserted
Hyperlinks to navigate between web pages, created and used named anchors
There are still some places available on this course - if you wish to
register, please email Information Services or call them on 7250
Sylvia Barnes
Secretary, Planning & Research Office
Room 3B1
x 7041
'Starting a Business'
Alasdair Gammack, SURE
Cottrell 2B121, 2pm - 4pm
8th December 2004
If you have even an inkling of a business idea, SURE (Stirling
University Research & Enterprise), can help you work out what you want
from your business and consider various methods of attracting
investment. This session offers advice on how to formulate your
product, identify your market and observe the strengths and weaknesses
of your competition.
There are still some spaces available on this session. If you wish to
register, please email me or the Gradlist.
Sylvia Barnes
Secretary, Planning & Research Office
Room 3B1
x 7041
Please see the attached sheet which gives further information on the ORS
Award scheme. Please note also the Clinics which are being run by Wilma
Ellis
Tuesday December 7th 2-4.30pm Pathfoot G1
Thursday December 9th 2-4.30pm Cottrell 3Z3
Come along if you have any queries you want to discuss
Sylvia Barnes
Secretary, Planning & Research Office
Room 3B1
x 7041
Application forms for the above award scheme are now available in the
Planning & Research Office (room 3B1) for collection, or can be sent
out electronically on request. Please see the attached flyer re
eligibility.
Sylvia Barnes
Secretary, Planning & Research Office
Room 3B1
x 7041
If you are interested in taking part in this scheme, please speak to you
supervisor in the first instance, and ask them to make contact with me.
Wilma Ellis
Research Services Officer
Planning and Research Office
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
Tel: 01786 466691
Fax: 01786466688
-----Original Message-----
From: martin.frost(a)shu.ac.uk [mailto:martin.frost@shu.ac.uk]
Sent: 23 November 2004 16:29
To: Wilma Ellis
Subject: Researchers in Residence
Dear Research Director/Supervisor,
Re: Researchers in Residence
We would like to take this opportunity to ask you to support the
Researchers in Residence scheme funded by the UK's Research Councils and
the Wellcome Trust, by encouraging your PhD student(s) and/or post
doctoral researchers to take part.
The Researchers in Residence scheme is now in its tenth year and
involves current PhD students spending the equivalent of 4/5 days in a
secondary school science department. Although their time in school is
relatively short they can offer and gain a great deal. Their expertise
in problem solving together with their current subject knowledge is
invaluable to science teachers and their pupils. Their own personal and
professional development is not overlooked, with participating PhD
students commenting on how their communications skills have improved;
not to mention enhancing their CVs and coming away with a sense of
satisfaction from having "given something back". Given the Roberts'
recommendations that all PhD researchers to engage in two weeks of
transferable skills training each year, Researchers in Residence can
offer some of this training (1 day of briefing and 4/5 days in a
school).
With this in mind, we would like to ask you to nominate up to 3 PhD
students or post docs who could become Researchers in Residence. If you
are concerned about how this will affect their research, please be
assured that the Research Councils would not be funding such a scheme if
it were detrimental to the cause of research. Also, the time commitment
of each student can be spread over a whole academic year, if desired.
Please look at our website (http://extra.shu.ac.uk/rinr) for further
information and application forms but please don't hesitate to telephone
if you have any queries.
Also on the website <http://extra.shu.ac.uk/rinr> is a list of the
briefing days arranged for January - March 2005. Please ask your
researchers to indicate which event they would like to attend, and to
send this information back along with their completed application form.
They will be sent the final details prior to the event in enough time to
make any necessary travel arrangements.
We would greatly appreciate replies by Friday 7 January 2005 at the
latest.
We hope that you will support the Researchers in Residence scheme and
recommend it to other researchers you may have, as well as to
colleagues.
If Researchers in Residence is something that you are already involved
with, we would like to thank you for your continuing support.
Regards,
Marilyn Brodie
Researchers in Residence Project Manager
Sylvia Barnes
Secretary, Planning & Research Office
Room 3B1
x 7041
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christine McDougall
> Sent: 15 November 2004 10:17
> To: Wilma Ellis; Aileen Inglis; Alasdair Gammack; Alice Stewart; Alison Lindsay; Bill Smith; Brian Sharp; Charlie Hasson; Christine Harkness; Christine MacInnes; Christine McDougall; Claire MacLean; Claire Maguire; Daniela Bolle; David Lawrie; Dawn Farmer; Emma Whyte; Eric Gibb; Gail Pringle; Ian Macfarlane; Isabel Piper; Jackie Ogden; Jen Shearer; Jennifer MacPhee; John Craig; John Gordon; Joy Tomlinson; Julia Campbell; Karen MacPherson; Kirsten Strachan; Kirsty Stocks; Laura Harvey; Linda Scott; Lisa Holman; Lynn Campbell; Margaret Mack; Marion Ward; Mary Frances Kerr; Maxine Michie; Michelle Innard; Moira McMinn; Morag Campbell; Pamela Sinclair; Paul Burns; Ron Kenny; Sally Dimeo; Sheena Gray; Sheila Thomson; Sylvia Barnes
> Subject: FW: SURE Innovation Awards 2005
>
> FYI
>
> Christine McDougall
> Departmental Secretary
> email : cm1(a)stir.ac.uk
> Tel : 01786 467124
> Fax : 01786 467194
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniela Bolle
> Sent: 15 November 2004 09:48
> To: Tania Ellis; Christine McDougall; Katherine Balloch; Kay Anderson; Lorna Whyte; Pat Norman; Sheree Atkinson; Sylvia Barnes
> Subject: SURE Innovation Awards 2005
>
> Departmental Assistants - Could you please circulate this message in your departments. Thanks.
>
> -----------------------
> Dear colleagues,
>
> SURE have issued the new call for Innovation Awards, which provides pump-priming funding of up to £10,000 for projects with commercial potential in the areas of project/service development or full-cost course development. Your students can win up to £1,500 for business start-up projects. The competition is open to all staff and students.
>
> Please see our website for details or speak with me for advice:
>
> http://intranet.stir.ac.uk/sure/sure_awards.htm
>
> Closing date is Thursday, 27 January 2005.
>
> Best wishes,
> Daniela
>
>
> Daniela Bolle
> Marketing Manager
> SURE (Stirling University Research & Enterprise)
> Stirling University Innovation Park
> Stirling FK9 4NF
> Tel: (01786) 458139
> www.sure.stir.ac.uk
>
Project Management
Wednesday 17th November - 2pm-4pm
Cottrell, 2B121
Project management is essential both to the individual worker planning
his own work and the multinational company developing new production
facilities for the next century. The first stage is to examine the
possible projects, estimating their costs, benefits and risks. The best
options are then analysed in more detail: their costs, time schedules
and resource implications are all assessed. Alternative project plans
are considered and the best plan is implemented. Throughout the project
the manager must keep control of the schedule, cost and technical
quality to ensure successful completion on time and to budget.
Peter Flett of Management & Organisation will expand on his Induction
Day presentation on Project Management.
There are still some places available on this session. Email myself or
the gradlist to book your place
Sylvia Barnes
Secretary, Planning & Research Office
Room 3B1
x 7041
Please circulate to all supervisors and post grad research students.
The newsletter is best viewed on the web at
www.scieng.ed.ac.uk/ukgradhub/news1104.htm
This newsletter includes:
- Latest news from the Research Councils on Roberts' Review
funding for skills training.
- News on national policies developments including the revised
QAA Code of Practice for postgraduate research programmes and UKGRAD
Scottish Good Practice Workshop
- Details of the 2005 programme of GRADschool courses, a
competition where students can win a free GRADschool place and free
GRADschool information session for universities.
- Support available from the British Library, the British
Council's 'Going Global Conference' and much more.
Wilma Ellis
Research Services Officer
Planning and Research Office
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
Tel: 01786 466691
Fax: 01786466688
Just wanted to draw your attention to this resource for finding
scholarships. The ISAC bulletin contains details of the latest
scholarships and courses, and this information, together with many other
recently advertised scholarships, and a wealth of resources on studying
overseas, is also available on the ISAC website:
http://www.acu.ac.uk/adverts/isac
Wilma Ellis
Research Services Officer
Planning and Research Office
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
Tel: 01786 466691
Fax: 01786466688
