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Research School Irregular
Published: Wednesday, 02 October 2019A newsletter for PGR
Research School Irregular - Contents
- 1. Equal Mobility Travel Grants
- 2. Better World Awards & Funding Competition - two Social Responsibility calls in one:
- 3. Call for participants! HRI Experiment - play a game with Pepper!
- 4. Brilliant and Black presents: Professor David Olusoga
- 5. The Inspire Women Awards
- 6. From the house that tweets to bringing dinosaurs to life, Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM Distinguished Eng
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Equal Mobility Travel Grants
Funds are available to support the postgraduate research students with caring responsibility, to enable them to travel to a conference to present a research paper. The maximum grant per student is £500. See the Department wiki page (https://wiki.cs.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/Student_Grants_%26_Funds#Equal_Mobility_Travel_Grants_.28PGR.29) for how to apply.
Simon Harper
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Better World Awards & Funding Competition - two Social Responsibility calls in one:
Better World Awards & Funding Competition - two Social Responsibility calls in one:
- FSE Better World Award is now open for nomination - until Friday 22nd November 2019. If you are or know of a member of staff or student who has done something to make this world a better place (e.g., volunteering or developing some impactful technology), please email Uli Sattler with a brief, informal description of this activity and we can nominate you for this award. See here for more information.
- FSE Better World Funding Competition is now open for application - until Wednesday, 23 October. If you plan an activity to make this world a better place (e.g., around environmental sustainability or Social Responsibility in the curriculum), you can now apply for funding for up to £3,000. Again, please email Uli Sattler if you have a question or need support.
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Call for participants! HRI Experiment - play a game with Pepper!
Take part in a research study – play a game with Pepper!
The aim of our research is to investigate the interaction between Humans and Robots. Participants will be asked to play a price judgement game with Pepper (for example, to estimate the price of books and toys).
We are looking for people that don’t have much experience with Robots.
The study will take approximately 30 minutes and your participation will be rewarded.
If you would like to participate, please express your time slot preference using the link:
https://doodle.com/poll/uek4xstf4cahmk5c
(please make sure to write your email alongside your name in the Name box)
or contacting Martina Ruocco:
martina.ruocco@manchester.ac.uk
or Dr. Wenxuan Mou:
wenxuan.mou@manchester.ac.ukAlessio Sarullo
Brilliant and Black presents: Professor David Olusoga
Public lecture given by David Olusoga OBE to celebrate Black History Month at The University of Manchester
October is Black History Month (BHM). This national celebration aims to promote and celebrate Black contributions to British society, and to foster an understanding of Black history in general.
We host many events throughout the University to mark BHM and celebrate Black achievement and for our flagship event this year we are delighted to welcome our Professor of Public History, David Olusoga OBE. David will be delivering a keynote presentation considering the joint histories and shared pasts between Britain and people of African descent.
David, who presented the BBC's landmark series Civilisations in 2018 alongside Simon Schama and Mary Beard, is one of the UK’s foremost historians whose main subject areas are empire, race and slavery. He was made an OBE in 2019 for his services to history and community integration and joined the University earlier this year.
The celebration event will be accompanied by Manchester based musicians Jali and Don Hartley with opportunities for networking and hearing more about relevant work and initiatives at the University.
This free event is for all our staff, students and members of the general public and will take place at the Student’s Union on Thursday, 10 October 2019 from 12.00pm.
Please visit our event webpage for full details and registration information:
The Inspire Women Awards
The Inspire Women Awards celebrate the huge wealth of outstanding contributions women have made to Bolton and wider North West region. It’s a night of celebration and achievements of women from all walks of life in our diverse and thriving community, showcasing extraordinary examples of courage, triumph, kindness, compassion, transformation, skill and success. For more information on these Awards, visit the Inspire Women Awards at http://inspirewomenawards.org.uk/about/
Nominations for 2020 open on 20th September 2019 and close on 6th January 2020. You can self nominate and/ or nominate others. Details of the process can be found at: http://inspirewomenawards.org.uk/process/
To nominate someone, go to the website: http://inspirewomenawards.org.uk/nominate/
From the house that tweets to bringing dinosaurs to life, Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM Distinguished Eng
From the house that tweets to bringing dinosaurs to life, Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM UK is a master inventor with experience of innovating in both his personal and professional life.
A self-confessed electronics hobbyist, specialising in technologies which help to make the planet smarter, Andy is a software engineer with a difference. As a TEDx speaker and with appearances on the BBC, Andy is well versed in sharing his amazing career highlights and what life is like at IBM – an environment in which it’s OK to innovate.
If you want to hear about how to rapidly innovate technology products in the areas of IoT, AI and Quantum Computing then this event is for you.
- Time: Wednesday 2nd October: 2pm – 4.15pm
- Location: Kilburn Building: Lecture Theatre 1.1
- Register now at bit.ly/Andy-Stanford-Clark
Come and find about more about Andy’s exciting IoT projects and how he’s using automation to solve the world’s problems.
Andy Stanford-Clark is the Chief Technology Officer for IBM in UK and Ireland. He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Master Inventor with more than 40 patents. Andy is based at IBM's Hursley Park laboratories in the UK, and has been working in the area that we now call the Internet of Things for more than 20 years. He has a BSc in Computing and Mathematics, and a PhD in Computer Science. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Newcastle, an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southampton, and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.
