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Research School Irregular
Published: Tuesday, 12 October 2021A newsletter for PGR
Research School Irregular - Contents
[ top ]Research School Irregular
IT Services Availability and Reporting Issues
If you are experiencing issues, such as accessing a university system or connecting to WIFI on campus, please visit the IT Service website. Here you will find service availability information, where any issues currently being experienced on campus are reported and updates on when they hope to fix them. Regular updates are also provided on Twitter.
Any IT issue you are experiencing should be reported via the IT Support Portal. This will help to ensure that the Head of IT Services is aware of all of the problems colleagues are facing.
Graham Richardson
[ top ]Owning Your Research Project
Opportunity for PhD students | Conception X Cohort 5
Conception X is the UK’s leading deep tech venture programme that helps PhD students turn their research into early stage startups. Over the past three years, Conception X has helped more than 200 PhD students acquire entrepreneurial skills and launch their own startups. To find out more about the programme and how you can apply, sign up for a Discovery Session on the 19th of October or the 16th of November and hear directly from alumni teams about how Conception X has helped them get where they are.
Conception X is a non-equity and zero-fee programme open to all PhD students in the UK. The programme runs from March to November every year and to find out more please see our website or join one of our Discovery Sessions listed above. Any questions feel free to get in touch with the Conception X Hub Manager Olivia Ash olivia@conceptionx.org.
Simon Harper
[ top ]Wider Research Community
2022 UK Cyber Security PhD Winter School, 10th - 12th January
We are pleased to let you know that there will be a 3rd Annual UK Cyber Security PhD Winter School to take place on 10th - 12th January 2022, supported by the National Cyber Security Centre. The event will be open to research students and early-career researchers in cyber security.
We are in the process of scheduling three full days for the event. There will be a range of activities including keynote speakers, talks about current research, student-led activities, interactive group sessions and challenges to explore emerging cyber security challenges and future trends, and more. The event will allow you to meet like-minded researchers and professionals and give you access to information about on-going research projects. We will send out a registration link soon but for now please save the date.
The Winter School is open to all Cyber Security PhD candidates and ECRs irrespective of their university.
Please contact sccs@surrey.ac.uk for more information.
[ top ]Health and Wellbeing
A message from Alice Larkin regarding report & support
At some point in the last few weeks, the address of a website containing racist, anti-Semitic hate material and graphic images was written on one of the whiteboards in a PhD student office in the Alan Turing Building. This is totally unacceptable behaviour and will not be tolerated. Circulation of discriminatory literature falls under the category of a hate incident, see https://www.reportandsupport.manchester.ac.uk/support/what-is-a-hate-crime.
I would encourage anyone who has experienced any form of harassment, discrimination or hate to report it anonymously or report it and get support from an advisor at: www.reportandsupport.manchester.ac.uk
The University, School and Departments take hate incidents extremely seriously and will investigate them thoroughly and deal with them as appropriate. If left unchallenged, prejudicial attitudes and racism can become normalised, which risks creating a culture of hatred, intolerance and discrimination. It is up to all of us to take responsibility and challenge and reject discrimination and racist behaviour. If anybody has any information about this particular incident, or any other incidents of harassment, discrimination or hate then please do use report and support.
Many thanks
Alice, Sarah & Partha
Alice Larkin, Vice-Dean and Head of School of Engineering
Sarah Mulholland, Head of School Operations, School of Engineering
Partha Mandal, Head of EDIA, School of Engineering
