REF: Results of the pilot

At a briefing on the Queen’s Lawn at Imperial College HEFCE announced the interim results of the pilot REF process which 22 institutions (not us) have been involved in. It seems that HEFCE have now decided that expert panels will continue to be the main way in which block research funding will be allocated, though [...]

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Graduate School poster competition

Last week the Graduate School held a poster competition for postgraduate researchers to present their research to a non-specialist audience. There were entries from all three Faculties, with participants representing 18 different Departments. However the following members of the Science Faculty deserve special mention.
So, congratulations to Lisa Kelly (Human Sciences) for her poster on thermal [...]

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Top authors in the Institutional Repository – March

In our regular review of the Insitutional Repository, the pages with the most visits in March amongst the Science Faculty authors are:

Norris et al
Houghton et al
Sepulveda and Binner

Who will be in the top 3 for April? Don’t forget to add our RSS feed to your reader to find out!

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Top authors in the Institutional Repository – February

In our regular review of the Insitutional Repository, the pages with the most visits in February amongst the Science Faculty authors are:

Jo Bryant
Michael Norris
Stephen Fletcher

Who will be in the top 3 for March? Don’t forget to add our RSS feed to your reader to find out!

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Great new Journal Tables of Contents Service now available

 I tried out the TicTocs Journal Table of Contents service this morning. Wow. You can search 12,000 journals from 430 publishers and, faster than you can say Gail Trimble, Corpus Christi you have the TOCs matching your search terms.  It’s even faster to load relevant references into RefWorks.  You can retrieve the full text where we have a subscription [...]

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Top authors in the Institutional Repository – January

In our regular review of the Insitutional Repository, the pages with the most visits in January amongst the Science Faculty authors are:
1. Michael Norris et al.
2. Ray Dawson et al.
3. Lili Yang et al.
Who will be in the top 3 for February? Don’t forget to add our RSS feed to your reader to [...]

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Top science stories in 2008

Cath O’Driscoll writing in the Chemistry & Industry magazine has produced a pick of the chemical science stories for 2008. These include the potential for a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak and the finding of iron-based superconductors. For more top stories of 2008 see the 12 January issue of the magazine.
Aside from chemical science, what research [...]

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Top authors in the Institutional Repository – December

The pages with the most visits in December amongst the Science Faculty authors are:

Shalika Gajasinghe
Gary Critchlow et al.
Tom Jackson et al.

Be sure to sign up for our RSS feed to find out who will be in the top 3 for January!

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Top authors in the Insitutional Repository

Congratulations to Mark Hepworth and Marian Smith whose page saw the most visits in November amongst the Science Faculty authors!
The ‘top 3′ by page visits in November are:
1. Mark Hepworth & Marian Smith
2. Tom Jackson, Ray Dawson & Darren Wilson
3. Louise Cooke
Who will be ‘top dog’ for the month of December?

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Funding focus on research

Professor Paul Wellings, VC  at Lancaster University speaking to the Times Higher Education in advance of a keynote speech is recommending that research funding should be focussed on no more than 30 institutions specialising in postgraduate research. He suggests that by 2020 each region in the UK would have just one or two graduate schools. [...]

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