scholarly journals Providing grants to attend scientific meetings

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 43
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Travel Grant ◽  
Scientific Meetings ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
The University

In June 2002, Ross Holland travelled to the United Kingdom, from New Guidelines for Zealand, and attended the conference ‘Biocatalysis in the Food and Applications Drinks Industry’, held at the University of Westminster Harrow Campus, London, with the help of £300 from the Biochemical The rules and regulations for applying for a Society. A Travel Grant can be used by members anywhere in the world, to go to a conference anywhere in the world.

Bioscience enterprise: Postgraduate education at Cambridge and Auckland

1969 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Allan ◽  
Joerg Kistler ◽  
Chris Lowe ◽  
Wendell Dunn ◽  
Claire McGowan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Leading universities around the world are addressing the demand for science-business-skilled professionals with a variety of novel programmes. The University of Cambridge (the United Kingdom) and University of Auckland (New Zealand) have each developed a Master's in Bioscience Enterprise programme providing specialist business and legal skills relevant to employment in the bio-economy. The biotechnology contexts in which these programmes were developed are significantly different and are reflected in the internship choices, thesis topics and postgraduate employment opportunities. In each case, industry feedback has been excellent to date as evidenced by the increasing engagements of companies in these programmes.

scholarly journals Alison Cullingford. The Special Collections Handbook. London: Facet Publishing, 2011 (distributed in the United States by Neal-Schuman Publishers). xiv, 210p. ISBN 9781856047579. $125.00

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-205
Author(s):  
Laurel Davis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

This short, easy-to-use handbook was written by Alison Cullingford, the Special Collections Librarian at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom. It covers the world of special collections from soup to nuts in ten relatively brief chapters, capturing basic points and then pointing the reader to a variety of additional resources for more information. Each chapter ends with a list that includes further reading suggestions, examples and case studies, and useful websites. The focus is on special collections in the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia, though much of the information is universally applicable.This is a particularly useful . . .

scholarly journals WHAT FUNCTIONS DID EDINBURGH’S TOWN COLLEGE PERFORM IN THE PERIOD C. 1583-1760?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
YI-FEI LIU
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University

The University of Edinburgh is a renowned university in the world now. However, it was only a town college back in 1583, and the function of Edinburgh University varies from period to period. It was functioned as a religious, educational institutions in the first place and gradually involved in British politics as well. Moreover, the University of Edinburgh witnessed and promoted the Scottish Enlightenment. Eventually, Edinburgh University becomes an essential university for high-level education in the United Kingdom with advanced and diverse curriculums.

scholarly journals Collecting Criminology: an Introduction to the Radzinowicz Library of Criminology

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Stone
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The World ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Financial Pressures

AbstractThe Radzinowicz Library is the specialist criminology library of the Institute of Criminology, a research and teaching department of the University of Cambridge. As Stuart Stone explains, it is the premier academic criminology collection in the United Kingdom and indeed it is one of the major collections in this subject in the world. The library primarily serves the Institute and the University but also the wider community of criminal justice researchers, many of whom are regular visitors. In common with other libraries, financial pressures are a continuing concern, especially because of the interdisciplinary nature of the subject. Outreach and engagement with organisations outside academia add to the distinctive characteristics of the library.

Disposing of John Lindley's library and herbarium: the offer to Australia

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. LUCAS
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Final Disposal ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Royal Horticultural Society ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
United Kingdom Government ◽  
The University ◽  
Joseph Hooker

Shortly before he died, John Lindley decided to dispose of his herbarium and botanical library. He sold his orchid herbarium to the United Kingdom government for deposit at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and then offered his library and the remainder of his herbarium to Ferdinand Mueller in Melbourne. On his behalf, Joseph Hooker had earlier unsuccessfully offered the library and remnant herbarium to the University of Sydney, using the good offices of Sir Charles Nicholson. Although neither the University of Sydney nor Mueller was able to raise the necessary funds to purchase either collection, the correspondence allows a reconstruction of a catalogue of Lindley's library, and poses some questions about Joseph Hooker's motives in attempting to dispose of Lindley's material outside the United Kingdom. The final disposal of the herbarium to Cambridge and previous analyses of the purchase of his Library for the Royal Horticultural Society are discussed. A list of the works from Lindley's library offered for sale to Australia is appended.

British Council as an Instrument of Public Diplomacy of Great Britain

2017 ◽  
pp. 305-312
Author(s):  
Mykola Trofymenko
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Foreign Minister ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
British Council ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

Public diplomacy of Great Britain is one of the most developed in the EU and in the world. The United Kingdom has developed an extremely efficient public diplomacy mechanism which includes BBC World Service (which due to its popularity boosts the reputation and the image of Great Britain), Chevening Scholarships (provides outstanding foreign students with opportunity to study in Great Britain and thus establishes long-lasting relations with public opinion leaders and foreign countries elite) and the British Council, which deals with international diplomatic ties in the field of culture. The British Council is a unique organization. Being technically independent, it actively and efficiently works on consolidating Great Britain’s interests in the world and contributes to the development of public diplomacy in Great Britain.   The author studies the efforts of the British Council as a unique public diplomacy tool of the United Kingdom. Special attention is paid to the role of British Council, which is independent of the governing board and at the same time finds itself under the influence of the latter due to the peculiarities of the appointment of Board’s officials, financing etc. The author concludes that the British Council is a unique organization established in 1934, which is a non-departmental state body, charitable organization and public corporation, technically independent of the government. The British Council, thanks to its commercial activities covers the lack of public funding caused by the policy of economy conducted by the government. It has good practices in this field worth paying attention by other countries. It is also worth mentioning that the increment in profit was getting higher last year, however the issue of increasing the influence of the government on the activities of British Council is still disputable. Although the Foreign Minister officially reports to the parliament on the activities of the British Council, approves the appointment of the leaders of organizations, the British Council preserves its independence of the government, which makes it more popular abroad, and makes positive influence on the world image of Great Britain. The efficiency of the British Council efforts on fulfillment of targets of the United Kingdom public diplomacy is unquestionable, no matter how it calls its activities: whether it is a cultural relations establishment or a cultural diplomacy implementation. Keywords: The British Council, public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy, cultural relations, Foreign Office, Her Majesty’s Government, official assistance for development

Offshore technology—advances at the dawn of the new millennium reviewed from a UK perspective

2000 ◽  
Vol 214 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
G J Lyons
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Offshore Technology ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
New Millennium ◽  
Technology Advances

This paper considers the technologies that have enabled offshore hydrocarbons production to reach the existing limits, and what may be required realistically to extend these limits further at the beginning of the new millennium. Advances are considered which relate to many parts of the world. Each has its own particular challenges. The viewpoint presented here is, however, from the United Kingdom.

How Do Campaign Spending Limits Affect Elections? Evidence from the United Kingdom 1885–2019

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER FOUIRNAIES
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Campaign Spending ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Electoral Campaigns ◽  
Limit Formula ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Legal Constraints ◽  
The Cost

In more than half of the democratic countries in the world, candidates face legal constraints on how much money they can spend on their electoral campaigns, yet we know little about the consequences of these restrictions. I study how spending limits affect UK House of Commons elections. I contribute new data on the more than 70,000 candidates who ran for a parliamentary seat from 1885 to 2019, and I document how much money each candidate spent, how they allocated their resources across different spending categories, and the spending limit they faced. To identify the effect on elections, I exploit variation in spending caps induced by reforms of the spending-limit formula that affected some but not all constituencies. The results indicate that when the level of permitted spending is increased, the cost of electoral campaigns increases, which is primarily driven by expenses related to advertisement and mainly to the disadvantage of Labour candidates; the pool of candidates shrinks and elections become less competitive; and the financial and electoral advantages enjoyed by incumbents are amplified.

Experience of Canada, The United Kingdom, Finland and Spain for formation of media literacy among the students

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zlatina Dimitrova ◽  
◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Educational Models ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Habits

The theoretical research focuses on the educational experience for the formation of media literacy among school-age children in different countries around the world. The article presents various options for the formation of media literacy, based on three educational models. According to the first model, media education is represented in the form of a compulsory subject in schools, which is studied by students in different grades. According to the second educational model, media habits are acquired within the interdisciplinary (integrated) approach – the use of the media in traditional school subjects, including native and foreign languages, literature, social sciences. The third model offers practical and informal integration of media education as a supplement and replacement of specific subjects or the intersection between them. The article examines in detail the media training opportunities offered in Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland and Spain, as their experience in media education is applied in a number of other countries around the world. Special attention is paid to the first steps in the introduction of media literacy training among students in Bulgaria, which is carried out only in the last 5-6 years.

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