Aug 13
I read a rather interesting (and already recycled!) blog post from the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog at the end of last week on the use of YouTube to communicate research. It provides a useful insight into the common dilemma of using the internet to communicate research effectively and in an engaging way, while maintaining …
Jun 12
A few of us from RBS are heading down to Southampton tonight for this year’s Association of Research Managers and Administrators conference, subtitled “Making a Difference!”. Taking place over 12th-13th June, the conference provides an opportunity to hear from our peers on a range of topics related to research management, from ways to improve pre-award …
Jun 07
Last week the Northumbria Research Support Blog hit a milestone of 100 posts! Now that we’ve been running for 6 months, it’s a good time to take stock of where we are and look ahead to some new things that you’ll see over the next few months on the blog. Where we are now: Looking …
Feb 04
Thanks to the helpful folk in the Northumbria University LTech department, we’ve recently moved our blog from it’s old home on wordpress.com to research.northumbria.ac.uk/support. Although you probably won’t notice any major differences in the way the blog looks (at least not yet!), this move to a hosted WordPress installation will allow us more flexibility and …
Jan 09
The blog now sports a lovely colour-coded calendar of forthcoming funding opportunities, courtesy of Research Professional and Google Calendar. It looks like this: The colour key to the different types of events is as follows: FP7 Funding Non-FP EU Funding RCUK Funding Postgraduate Funding Travel Funding You can click on the individual funding opportunities to …
Jan 03
Welcome to the new blog from the Research Support team at Northumbria University. We are part of the Research & Business Services department and we provide research funding support, advice, and guidance across the University. On this blog, we’ll be writing about research funding news, opportunities, events, hints, tips, and policy analysis. Our aim is …
