News and events round-up
Published: 8 October 2014
A round-up of University news and events from across the Campuses
Remembrance
All members of the University are invited to attend the Remembrance Service in Bute Hall on Sunday 9 November 2014 at 10.45am.
Please go to https://uogremembranceservice.eventbrite.co.uk to register your attendance. Please note that all staff, students, alumni and members of the public are welcome to attend.
Those wishing to join the academic procession are requested to assemble in the Hunterian Museum by 10.30am. Academic Dress (gown and hood plus dark long tie for men) will be worn on this occasion. It is important that all wishing to join the procession should also email Staffgowns@glasgow.ac.uk by Friday 31 October 2014.
Please don't hesitate to contact Amber Higgins if you have any queries.
Lord Kelvin / Adam Smith PhD Scholarships - proposals wanted
From 1 October to 5 November 2014 proposals are being sought for the prestigious Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith PhD Scholarships.
Scholarships will again be awarded to facilitate the development of new partnerships in novel research areas between members of staff who have not researched together before. Projects should address four critical areas: Collaboration, Innovation, Sustainability and Impact.
Students who are recruited to the successful projects will benefit from the following:
- Each scholarship will run for up to 4 years and will provide the successful students with an annual stipend at UK Research Council recommended rates (estimated to be £14,002 for 2015/16).
- Annual consumables budget for research and travel costs (currently £5,300 but may vary).
- Appointed students will receive a full fee waiver from the host College.
More information regarding the application process and terms and conditions can be found on our website:
www.gla.ac.uk/services/postgraduateresearch/scholarships/kelvinsmith/
Tenovus Symposium
University of Glasgow Tenovus-Scotland Symposium 2014 Cardiovascular Inflammation: To The Heart of The Problem
The 2014 University of Glasgow Tenovus-Scotland Symposium was held in the Wolfson Medical School on September 15th. This year’s symposium was a joint initiative between the Institutes of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences and Infection, Immunity & Inflammation to promote collaborative interactions in the cardiovascular inflammation area.
The meeting was attended by over 100 delegates, with presentations from internationally renowned basic and clinician scientists from Glasgow and other UK centres of excellence in cardiovascular research. These included the host Institutes’ Directors Professors Rhian Touyz and Iain McInnes, Dr. Gillian Gray (Edinburgh), Dr. Jason Johnson (Bristol) and Professor Ziad Mallat (Cambridge). Subjects ranged from a discussion of clinical links between rheumatoid arthritis and vascular dysfunction through to elegant studies of the molecular basis of inflammation in several models of cardiovascular disease. The multidisciplinary nature of the symposium made for a successful event and an extremely engaging day of science. The symposium concluded with the presentation of the 2014 Tenovus Medal to Dr. Joseph Boyle, a British Heart Foundation Senior Clinical Research Fellow at Imperial College, London. Joe carried out both his Pharmacology and Medical degrees at the University in the late 1980s before achieving great success as an independent clinician scientist. A very deserving winner of the Tenovus Medal, Joe gave a stimulating presentation on his work examining how macrophages can trigger vascular dysfunction, and how these mechanisms could potentially be exploited to improve anti-inflammatory therapeutics for cardiovascular diseases.
Learning and Teaching Centre
The Learning and Teaching Centre's programme of events for 2014-15 is available at: www.gla.ac.uk/services/learningteaching/events/
This session's events focus on different aspects of learning, teaching and assessment and include:
- Continuing professional development (CPD) workshops
- Technology enabled learning and teaching (TELT) workshops
- Student Learning Service (SLS) workshops
- 8th annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference on 14 April 2015
Events can be viewed by date, keyword or type, by following links off the web link above. All the above events are open to University of Glasgow staff, Graduate Teaching Assistants, and staff from the University's validated institutions. Full details including booking forms are provided off the link above. If you would like to suggest a topic for future Learning and Teaching Centre workshops, please contact:
Only Human?
- "Only Human?": A public festival of the humanities exploring what it is to be more-than-human in today's world
- 14 – 16 November 2014
- Various times – from 10am to 8pm
- Gilmorehill Halls, 9 University Avenue, University of Glasgow, G12 8LT
- http://onlyhumanglasgow.wordpress.com/
- Prices: Free
Only Human? is part of the UK’s first festival of the humanities, Being Human, with more than 150 events staged across the UK from 14 – 23 November 2014.
National festival curator, Dr. Michael Eades, from Kings College London, said: ‘A lot of people are unsure about what the humanities are, and how researchers in this subject area spend their time. Being Human aims to change that, and to build public awareness not only of the range and diversity of humanities research, but the ways in which it connects to our everyday lives and culture.”
Only Human?, led by arts and humanities researchers from the University of Glasgow, is designed to build, debate and challenge ideas of ‘being human’ by focusing on our interrelations and interactions with the more-than-human. Researchers, artists and writers from film, geography, philosophy and theatre invite festival participants to learn more about everything, from a nearly extinct Hawaiian tree snail species, to water and weather-recording, architecture and islands, family pets and gravitational fields. According to festival organiser, Professor Dee Heddon, “to be human is to be always more-than-human – and in a context of climate crisis and environmental degradation, it is important that we recognise and understand these inter-relationships, the things that connect us. We are much more inter-related and therefore more inter-dependent than perhaps we fully realise. The arts and humanities offer innovative ways for us to think about and explore those relationships and dependencies, to consider what it is to ‘be human’ in a world with others.”
The Only Human? festival hub is the multi-purpose Gilmorehill Halls, host to a stimulating programme ranging from exhibitions, installations, performances and films to talks, guided walks and pop-ups.
Contributors to Only Human? include: Dr. Thom van Dooren, a philosopher and anthropologist from the University of New South Wales whose most recent book, Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (2014) explores what is lost when a life form disappears from the world; Glasgow-based artists Dr. Minty Donald and Nick Millar, whose practice explores human/water inter-relations through performance and installation; and, Dr Ian Shaw, cultural geographer at the University of Glasgow who approaches the drone as a political actor, proposing that drone technology is slowly but definitively changing a host of relations, from the social to the territorial to the sovereign. The festival also features contributions from ecoarts Scotland and Scottish environmental arts organisation nva.
For further information about and a full schedule of Only Human? visit
http://onlyhumanglasgow.wordpress.com/
For a full listing of the national festival, Being Human, visit http://beinghumanfestival.org/
University researchers benefit from £4m in Royal Society of Edinburgh Awards
More than 100 distinguished academic researchers, the majority of whom are based in Scotland, are to receive £4.1m in awards from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. This is the highest figure ever granted by the Society, under schemes funded by both public and private bodies.
The awards provide funding for individuals to pursue academic research or investigate the commercial potential of their work. A range of schemes is covered, from Scottish Government-funded personal research fellowships for post-doctoral projects, to travel grants for arts and humanities researchers who are seeking to collaborate with their counterparts overseas.
The University of Glasgow's recipients are:
JM Lessells Travel Scholarships
- Mr Shahid Naseer University of Glasgow
Cormack Undergraduate Vacation Scholarships
- Mr Magnus Woods University of Glasgow
CRF European Travel Fellowships - Outgoing
- Dr Costas Panayotakis University of Glasgow
Scottish Government Arts & Humanities Awards - Small Grants
- Professor Christopher Jon Berry University of Glasgow
- Dr Geraldine Parsons University of Glasgow
- Dr Gavin Miller University of Glasgow
- Ms Zoe Strachan University of Glasgow
- Dr Rhian Williams University of Glasgow
- Dr Saeko Yazaki University of Glasgow
Scottish Government Arts & Humanities Awards - Networks
- Dr Anita Quye University of Glasgow
- Professor Lynn Abrams University of Glasgow
- Dr Marina Moskowitz University of Glasgow
- Professor Carole Ann Hough University of Glasgow
- Dr Roy Scott Spurlock The University of Glasgow
Scottish Government Arts & Humanities Awards - Workshops
- Professor Callum Graham Brown University of Glasgow
- Mr Mungo Campbell Hunterian Art Gallery
- Dr Ben Andrew Colburn University of Glasgow
- Dr Hugh Lazenby University of Glasgow
- Dr Lisa Kelly University of Glasgow
- Dr Katherine Champion University of Glasgow
- Professor Simon Newman University of Glasgow
- Professor Jan Stenger University of Glasgow
Enterprise Fellow - Scottish Enterprise
- Dr Olivia Feng University of Glasgow
Scottish Crucible
- Dr Andrew George Stewart University of Glasgow
- Dr Kathryn Elmer University of Glasgow
- Dr Laura McNamara University of Glasgow
- Dr Manousos Valyrakis University of Glasgow
First published: 8 October 2014
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