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- Teaching as a Career?
- Busy with your PhD or Masters? Ever thought about a career in teaching? This Evening Career Event is your opportunity to find out more about teaching as a career or short term activity.
- PhD Internships
- Two PhD Internships currently available. One for a PhD from Management or Psychology. One for a PhD with excellent IT skills, to develop a training programme for e-book. See further detsails ...
- PGR Survey on Joint Internship Programme
- De Montfort University and the University of Leicester are jointly organising a PhD Internship Scheme which offers PhD students the opportunity to gain experience working with a local company or public sector organisation. We would be grateful, therefore, if you could answer a short questionnaire on this topic, which should take no more than 5 minutes of your time.
- Careers in Marketing and Publishing
- An Evening Career Event for those interested in a career in either of these areas. The event is designed to provide insights into the realities of careers in these fields. This is an opportunity to learn where those initial career openings may be found along with how applicants can best position themselves to take advantage of those opportunities.
- Cafe Research - November 2012
- What do Romans, Gamma-rays and E-learning have in common? They are all subjects of our researcher presentations in the November 28 edition of Cafe Research! Come along to Cafe Piazza at 6pm to hear some great talks and network with researchers from across the university. As usual, pizza, wine and soft drinks are provided, but booking is essential.
- Mathematics Plus
- The latest in our series of Evening Career Events brings together a number of speakers applying their mathematical skills in a range of employment sectors. This event is relevant to all numerate PhDs from mathematics and other numerate fields such as Economics, Physics and Engineering.
- Postgraduate Careers Symposium
- The 8th annual Postgraduate Careers Symposium for the College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology takes place on Wednesday January 9th, 2013. This year's event includes speakers from a wide range of employment sectors, as well as networking opportunities, employability workshops and an exhibition of research funding bodies.
- The Effective Part-time Researcher: Effective Part-time Progress
- This new one day course is being run by Vitae on Friday 12 October at the University of Nottingham. It is specifically for part-time researchers.
- Café Brain - Wednesday 15th August
- This is a special edition of Café Research, focussing on neuroscience and psychology. Come along to Café Piazza on the evening of the 15th of August to hear about some of the exciting research being undertaken by PGRs at the University of Leicester. We will have talks from four PGRs, with plenty of opportunity for discussion; drink and pizza will also be provided.
- Elee Kirk wins two prizes at regional poster competition
- Congratulations to Elee Kirk, PhD student from Museum Studies, who won two prizes at the Vitae Midlands Hub Postgraduate Research Exhibition and Poster Competition. Elee was awarded the third prize overall for her poster, plus the runner-up prize for the written summary that accompanied it.
- Café Research - Wednesday 4th July
- Café Research has arrived! Come along to Café Piazza on the evening of the fourth of July to hear about some of the exciting research being undertaken by PGRs at the University of Leicester. We will have talks from three PGRs, with plenty of opportunity for discussion; drink and pizza will also be provided.
- Doctoral Inaugural Lectures - College of Science and Engineering
- Two outstanding doctoral graduates will present their research: Dr Stephen Grebby will talk about "Seeing the geology for the trees: New tools for mapping the Earth’s surface", and Dr Andrea Gumiero will discuss "A glimpse of the invisible: Hydrogen atoms in the chemistry of heme peroxidases". The lectures will take place on Wednesday 20th June, 5.30-6.30pm, in Bennett Lecture Theatre 2.
- Internship Opportunities for PGRs
- We have internship opportunities available for PGRs who are currently studying for a PhD at the University of Leicester. These opportunities include internships for people with expertise in languages and an opportunity for a PhD with web skills.
- Café Scientifique is dead… long live Café Research!
- Café Scientifique is now Café Research! We’re currently looking for enthusiastic postgraduate researchers who want to share their research with other PGRs from across the university, in a friendly and relaxed environment.
- Biotechnology YES 2012
- Biotechnology Young Entrepreneur Scheme (YES) aims to raise awareness of the commercialisation of bioscience research amongst researchers. Participants compete in teams to develop a hypothetical business idea with the help of expert mentors from the biotechnology sector.
- Postgraduate Research Conference - East Midlands
- Practice your presentation and networking skills in a conference setting... without the conference stress! The Postgraduate Research Conference, taking place on 5th July 2012, is an annual event open to all postgraduate researchers from East Midlands universities.
- Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards: don’t miss out to win prizes of up to £20,000 !!
- Collaborative Researcher
- A two day event on 31st May and 11th June 2012, suitable for final year postgraduate researchers.
- Interdisciplinary Dialogues in Education
- Do you want to prepare for your future career?
- Registration is open now for the FLEX programme, part of the Leicester Award for Employability. The FLEX programme is run entirely on-line, supports the development of a clearer career plan and teaches you essential employability skills to prepare for your future career.
