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Dr Bike dates for April
April 8th, 2016
Appointments are now available for April’s Dr Bike maintenance service.
Please use the links below to book yourself into a free 30-minute slot.
- Friday 22 April Portland Building, University Park
- Monday 25 April Coates Road, University Park
- Tuesday 26 April Jubilee Campus
- Thursday 28 April Sutton Bonington
- Thursday 28 April King’s Meadow Campus
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Professional Services Quality Survey results
April 7th, 2016
The results are in from the Professional Services Quality Survey (PSQS) 2015. They have been considered by Heads of Services and responses were provided to University Executive Board.
The PSQS measures key aspects of Professional Services at The University of Nottingham using feedback from staff as service users. All University staff were invited to take part in the survey, which asked seven simple questions about the services they had recent experience of and how frequently they used the service. The same survey was undertaken at the same time by staff in the Universities of Bristol, Cardiff, Oxford and York, allowing us to benchmark results, and will be repeated at regular intervals in future.
Thank you to all staff who took part – your feedback is much appreciated and valuable in helping us evaluate our Professional Services.
For more information, to see the PSQS results, and read what the Services are planning in response, visit the Strategy Support Centre.
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Nottingham hosts Woven Network Conference: “Insects as food and feed: the way forward”
April 7th, 2016
UK ‘Ento-preneurs’ will meet to tackle the future of protein in food and feed at the first Annual Woven Network Conference, Monday 11 April at The University of Nottingham.
The planet’s population is expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050, and current food production will need to almost double. In 2013, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation stressed that a new approach to food production was crucial if we are to avoid future shortages. Their suggestion: Edible Insects.
Woven Network is the UK consortium for Insects as Food and Feed – with a focus on connecting businesses, researchers and others working on the role of insects in the human food chain.
Around 2 billion people around the world already consume insects as part of their regular diet due to their high nutritional value, versatility and flavour. But it is their sustainability credentials that has lead the UN to highlight insects as the potential future of food, requiring minimal resources to farm and producing substantially less waste than conventional livestock.
Despite the obvious benefits, western society is yet to adopt the practice on a large scale. With our influence over farming R&D and investment, the UK can play a pivotal role in developing the infrastructure behind insect farming for the benefit of future generations.
A growing number of entrepreneurs & researchers here in the UK have been looking into our aversion to insects in the food chain and how they can change our minds. Woven Network and RES presents an opportunity to share learnings, collaborate on building public awareness and affect government regulation concerning the industry.
Attendees and speakers include;
- Josh Bentham and Harry Harrison from Mophagy – EU insect distributer for the renowned Entomo Farms
- Christine Spliid, creator of Crobar by Gathr Foods – Best new concept winner at the World Food Innovation Awards 2016
- Matt Anderson and Adam Routledge from Edible Bug Farm – Winner of the Shell LiveWIRE Smarter Future Award
- Shami Radia and Neil Whippey from Eat Grub – with their imminent release of a new insect cook book
- Indroneel Chatterjee and Janine Dermody from Oxford Brooks University – On the Neuro-science behind our disgust for eating insects in the west
- Jonas House from Sheffield University – Examining the willingness of EU consumer to switch to eating insects
- Maureen Wakefield – Senior applied Entomologist at FERA and Andrew Salter, Head of Nutritional Sciences at The University of Nottingham – Shed light on how research and industry can work together
Tickets are now sold out, however you can keep up to date on the Woven Network website, and follow the action on Twitter by following @WovenNetwork and using #wayforward16.
Tags: Andrew Salter, food, nutrition, School of Biosciences, Woven Network
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University of Nottingham shortlisted in 2016 THELMAs
April 7th, 2016
The University of Nottingham has been shortlisted for three awards celebrating leadership and management.
The Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards, also known as the THELMAs, celebrate those that work in the ‘engine rooms of our institutions, guide them through challenging terrain and lay the foundations for future success’.
For the eighth annual awards the University has been shortlisted in the following categories:
- Outstanding Development/Alumni Relations Team – for The Campaign & Alumni Relations Office’s innovation and excellence in philanthropic giving- specifically around the Impact campaign, the Cascade Alumni grants project, and alumni volunteering.
- Knowledge Exchange/Transfer Initiative of the Year – for the Business Engagement and Innovation Services team’s innovative Arts to Business programme which uses expertise and insights from Arts academics to help businesses look at their issues in a different way.
- Outstanding Administrative Services Team – for the development of a suite of international clinical trial agreements to aid clinical research overseas.
Dr Paul Greatrix, Registrar, at The University of Nottingham, said: “I’m delighted that we have been shortlisted for the THELMAs.
“This national recognition is testament to the hard work and dedication of our talented professional services team. Well done all.”
Winners will be revealed at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 23 June 2016.
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PhD student wins Additive World Design Challenge award
April 7th, 2016
An innovative electric motor casing design by an engineering PhD at The University of Nottingham has scooped an award at the 4th Additive World Conference in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Cassidy Silbernagel beat 47 competitors from academia and industry to win the student category of the Additive World Design for Additive Manufacturing Challenge 2016 held on 23 March.
For his winning design, Cassidy redesigned an electric motor casing that was built to convert a motorcycle from petrol to electric power.
Cassidy Silbernagel with his award
In switching the motorcycle power source, a number of components needed to be removed and the design optimised accordingly. The overall casing comprised of two identical parts which are easily assembled thanks to a bevelled channel to aid alignment.
The design incorporates multiple functional features into an enhanced, lightweight component which eliminates the overall number of parts. Cassidy’s motor casing consolidated eight different parts and merged them all into a single design.
The new motor casing design also encompassed internal channels (shown in blue on the illustration below) to improve cooling around the part; these channels could only be embedded into the component by using the build freedoms additive manufacturing (AM) allows.
Cassidy Silbernagel’s winning redesign of a motorcycle motor casing
When asked about the design, Cassidy said: “I really wanted to show what Additive Manufacturing can do; take an existing design, and make it better.”
Cassidy believes AM shows incredible promise for the future and he wanted his design to show the world what it is already possible using the technology.
As a winner, Cassidy bagged himself an Ultimamker 2+ 3D printer, licences for solidThinking Inspire from Altair and Autodesk’s NetFabb, and a metal 3D Additive World award from AddLab.
Cassidy is a Canadian postgraduate student at the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Additive Manufacturing in the Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Group at the University of Nottingham.
Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing (AM & 3DP) encompass technologies which fabricate components, usually layer by layer, using digital data.
These technologies enable the creation of very complex shapes which is simply not possible with other conventional manufacturing methods.
The use of digital design data is fundamental to this approach and research into design for Additive Manufacturing is a fundamental theme of the research being conducted at The University of Nottingham.
To keep up to date with news from the Faculty of Engineering, visit their website. You can also find them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter @UoNEngineering.
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Introducing Research, Enterprise and Graduate Services
April 7th, 2016
Professor Dame Jessica Corner joined the University in January 2016 and has been reviewing the structures necessary to optimize successful delivery of Research and Knowledge Exchange as set out in Global Strategy 2020.
As a result Research and Graduate Services (RGS) and Business Engagement and Innovation Services (BEIS) will merge from 1 May 2016, creating a new Research, Enterprise and Graduate Services organisation.
By bringing together these key departments the University will increase operational effectiveness through closer working on impact, bids, and contracts.
The organisation will be led by Dr George Baxter, who will report in to the Chief Financial Officer, with a dotted line to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange.
Three new Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor roles will also be created, reporting directly to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange. Dr Richard Masterman will be APVC for Research Strategy, Policy, Performance and REF. The APVCs for Graduate School and Research Career Development, and Innovation, Impact and Business Engagement are yet to be appointed.
Professor Dame Jessica Corner, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange, said: “Our plans for research set out in the Global Strategy 2020 are ambitious and far reaching. By combining these departments into one integrated organisation and creating the new roles we will give ourselves the best, most supportive platform from which to achieve those ambitions.”
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Can you link a student with a local business?
April 6th, 2016
The School of Humanities is developing a new Undergraduate Placement module aimed at four departments including History of Art, Classics, Philosophy and Archaeology.
The Placement module involves in-house development from September 2016 and external placements in organisations from February/March 2017 consisting of one day a week for eight weeks. The employer will benefit by gaining a committed second year undergraduate to assist their organisation and will have full control to select the student who fits your business best according to a CV, statement of interest and interview. The placements are part of the accredited degree so the students would not need enumerating and the demands upon organisations concerned would be minimised through a professional structure managed in the School of Humanities.
The Placement Providers Information Pack can be viewed for more information. If you have any links with local businesses/organisations which may be interested, please contact the Placement Project Administrator at helen.stevenson@nottingham.ac.uk or by telephone at 0115 9515862 for further information.
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Outlook 2013 for staff and postgraduate researchers
April 6th, 2016
Staff and PGR email will be moving to the Office 365 email platform starting in April. The first step on the journey will be to upgrade the Outlook 2010 desktop application to Outlook 2013.
Read the IT Network blog for a preview of what to expect.
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New Provost and CEO for UNMC
April 5th, 2016
A new Provost and CEO is set to take over at The University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNMC).
Professor Graham Kendall will lead the campus, the first British University to set up in Malaysia, from August 2016.
Professor Kendall is a Professor of Computer Science and currently Vice-Provost (Research and Knowledge Transfer) at UNMC.
Since his appointment in Malaysia in 2011 he has been responsible for developing and delivering the strategic aims of the University in the areas of Research and Knowledge Exchange. His period of office saw a step change in the volume and quality of research, resulting in a five-star rating in the Malaysian research assessment exercise – MyRA.
He is also the Chief Executive Officer of MyResearch Sdn Bhd. This company has MIDA R&D status, enabling companies to invest in Research and Development in a tax efficient way.
He succeeds Professor Christine Ennew who is taking up a new role as Deputy Vice Chancellor and Provost at Warwick University.
Professor Ennew was instrumental in setting up The University of Nottingham’s Malaysia Campus 16 years-ago and has been at the helm as CEO and Provost since 2013. During her time as Provost and CEO, Professor Ennew has led on the development and implementation of Strategic Road Map to guide all aspects of the campus’s development through to 2020.
Her period of office has seen a significant growth in research performance, the development of innovative off-shore programmes and a restructuring of a number of organisational functions to support UNMC’s ambitious strategy as “Britain’s Global University in Malaysia”.
She said: “I am delighted that Professor Kendall will be taking on this key role at UNMC. He has vast experience of Malaysia as well as the UK campus and has supported me immensely during my tenure. I know that under his leadership UNMC will continue to flourish and develop to its full potential.”
Professor Kendall said: “This is an incredibly exciting opportunity and I am looking forward to building on Christine’s hard work and leading the next phase of expansion in both our teaching and research activities.”
Professor Sir David Greenaway, Vice Chancellor at The University of Nottingham, said: “We had a hugely impressive short list for this role, which testifies to the current standing of UNMC, and its future potential. Professor Kendall has the vision and experience to ensure that potential is realised, and I look forward to working with him in his new leadership role.”
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New Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Global Engagement appointed
March 31st, 2016
The University Of Nottingham has appointed a new Pro-Vice Chancellor for Global Engagement.
Professor Nick Miles OBE will take up the position on 1 September 2016, providing support to the Vice-Chancellor and other Members of the University’s Executive Board to drive forward Nottingham’s pioneering international strategy.
He succeeds Professor Hai-Sui Yu, who will take up a new position at the University Of Leeds.
Professor Miles, who is a former Provost of The University Of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), will combine the role with his current position as Pro-Vice Chancellor for Advancement.
Professor Miles was appointed Professor of Mineral Process Engineering in 2000. Since then he has been continuously involved in senior management; as Head of School, Associate Dean in the Faculty of Engineering and Dean of Science and Engineering at The University Of Nottingham Ningbo China, before taking on the role of Provost of UNNC. As Provost he had overall responsibility for the operations of UNNC, over a period when student number grew from 3,500 to 7,000, and research capacity expanded dramatically.
In the 2013 Queen’s Birthday Honours he was appointed OBE in recognition of his contribution to furthering UK/China educational cooperation.
He is a member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and the Minerals Engineering Society.
Professor Miles said: “I am delighted to take up the responsibilities of Pro-Vice Chancellor for Global Engagement. My work at UNNC enabled me to play a pivotal role in strengthening global relationships, whilst building an increasingly comprehensive and confident University. I look forward to building on the University Of Nottingham’s pioneering reputation in this arena.”
Professor Sir David Greenaway, Vice-Chancellor said: “It is self-evidently the case that for Britain’s global university, global engagement is critical.
“Nick’s extensive international experience in general, and his immense knowledge of Asia will help us take our international vision to the next level, as well as developing our strategy to further showcase our world-changing research and excellence in teaching and learning.”
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