Sentences with phrase «of doctoral researchers»

Beyond the initiative of individual institutions, a U.K. - wide sharing of best practices is being encouraged by Vitae, a membership program which was initially funded by the U.K. Research Councils to promote professional development of doctoral researchers and research staff throughout the United Kingdom's higher education sector.

The charter and code of conduct have also given scientists» groups in Europe more clout to initiate changes from the bottom up, says Jorge, who in 2010 cofounded ANICT, an association defending the interests of doctoral researchers in Portugal.

«Up to now, this program has been functioning fairly badly because it is difficult to establish a correspondence between the skills of a doctoral researcher and an identified and limited need of a company,» Forest says.

Not exact matches

He is also a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Charismatic and Pentecostal Studies, University of Birmingham

Deborah completed a two - year post doctoral internship with Dr. Gordon Neufeld, is an award winning researcher, and has over 20 years experience as a teacher and counsellor working with leading institutions such as the University of British Columbia, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, the Canadian Mental Health Association, and the Vancouver School Board.

The author of the report «Deal or No Deal: How to put an end to party funding scandals» is also a doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex.

The free schools policy is hanging in the balance, as University of Birmingham doctoral researcher Rebecca Morris has pointed out in a commentary on the future of free schools.

Joshua Townsley is Democratic Dashboard's Research Assistant and a doctoral researcher in local campaigning and voter mobilisation at the University of Kent.

Jack Bridgewater is a doctoral researcher in English party politics and identity at the University of Kent.

Other Kansas State University researchers involved include Thomas Barstow, professor of kinesiology, and Ryan Broxterman, 2015 doctoral graduate in physiology and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah.

The team, led by doctoral student Adam R. Burns, now a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, compared what they found in the fish with predictions from computer modeling of microbial dynamics performed by co-author Elizabeth Miller of the META Center for Systems Biology.

Embarking on his mathematics career, Crowdy didn't choose the U.K. standard route for researcher training of 3 years of undergraduate studies plus 3 years of doctoral training.

When Tobias Erlöv, who at the time was a doctoral student in biomedical engineering at the Lund Faculty of Engineering, discovered that there is a fairly simple mathematical calculation that can be used to interpret ultrasound signals and thereby figure out whether the plaque in the carotid artery is harmful or not, the researchers were somewhat surprised.

The Investigation Group for the Development of New Pharmaceutical Formulas at the CEU UCH, headed by the dean of the Health Sciences Faculty, Alicia López Castellano, undertook the research, a result of the doctoral thesis of María Sebastián Morelló, as well as teachers and researchers María Aracely Calatayud, Vicente Rodilla and Cristina Balaguer, who are coauthors.

From Mexicali to Harvard by V. Chase, 8 July 2005 Luis León, a third year doctoral student studying immunology at Harvard University and a recent recipient of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Graduate Fellowship, talks about his path from minimum - wage jobs to academic researcher.

«The proposed hydricity concept represents a potential breakthrough solution for continuous and efficient power generation,» said Rakesh Agrawal, Purdue University's Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering, who worked with chemical engineering doctoral student Emre Gençer and other researchers.

«One general expectation is that tree ranges will gradually move toward higher elevations as mountain habitats get hotter,» said Michael Van Nuland, the project's lead researcher and a doctoral student in UT's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

If a civilised discussion with your supervisor fails to resolve the problem, you should try to get objective advice from someone else, says Janet Metcalfe, head of Vitae, an organisation devoted to advancing the careers of research staff and doctoral researchers.

An Experienced Researcher, according to the EC's definition, is one who has acquired at least 4 years of research experience (full - time equivalent) since gaining a university diploma giving access to doctoral studies in the country in which the degree / diploma was obtained, or researchers already in possession of a doctoral degree (Ph.D.).

Sander van der Linden is a doctoral researcher in social experimental psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Xiao is a former doctoral student of Huang's at Northwestern who then went on to work as a postdoctoral researcher in Rogers» lab at Illinois.

To study the role of sweet taste receptors, Cohen and lead study author Robert J. Lee, PhD, a post doctoral researcher in his lab, partnered with colleagues from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Monell Chemical Senses Center to analyze cultures and tissue samples from the upper respiratory tract of patients who were undergoing sinonasal surgery for a variety of conditions.

The researchers signed the letters with a variety of names — male and female — that apparently signaled that the doctoral students were white, African American, Hispanic, or Asian.

Adams is partnering with doctoral student Sambuddha Basu, associate professor and neurosciences researcher, Associate Professor Yoon - Seong Kim, and scientist Subhrangshu Guhathakurta to study Parkinson's, which affects motor functions caused by a gradual loss of brain cells.

• This week in Letters, three researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge responded to a policy forum article about U.S. immigration policy as it applies to doctoral students.

All students and Ph.D. candidates should «know that there is space for their needs, that there is space for their voice to be heard,» says Vassiliki Chatzipetrou, policy officer for the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers.

«These are the first studies to show that exercise can have an effect on your gut independent of diet or other factors,» said Jeffrey Woods, a University of Illinois professor of kinesiology and community health who led the research with former doctoral student Jacob Allen, now a postdoctoral researcher at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.

The findings reveal a crucial and underappreciated role that animals have in ocean chemistry on a global scale, explained first author Daniele Bianchi, a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University who began the project as a doctoral student of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Princeton.

Washington State University doctoral student Malavika Sinha, left, examines new mutant of Aspergillus carbonarius with researcher Birgitte Ahring.

The university's Indus Valley archaeology program has encouraged researchers from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to finish their doctoral research in India.

Prof Preiser's research team of six from NTU's School of Biological Sciences includes a post-doctoral researcher, three doctoral students and one undergraduate student.

In principle, it is a good idea, as the Habilitation, substantially a second doctoral thesis after the PhD thesis, delays scientific independence of junior researchers, thus creating intellectual dependency.

In her doctoral thesis, Henni Pulkkinen, Researcher at the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), explored how the various sources of uncertainty can be taken into account in fisheries stock assessment by using Bayesian statistical models, which enable extensive combining of information.

Ram and her collaborators — including Wenli Zhang, a UA doctoral student in management information systems, and researchers from the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation — created a model that was able to successfully predict approximately how many asthma sufferers would visit the emergency room at a large hospital in Dallas on a given day, based on an analysis of data gleaned from electronic medical records, air quality sensors and Twitter.

The computer scientist is a doctoral candidate at the Saarland University Graduate School for Computer Science, and also a researcher at the Center for IT - Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA), one of three security research centers in Germany that are specifically funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF.

Additional authors include UC Berkeley bioinformatics researcher Therese Mitros; former UC Berkeley doctoral student Eric Edsinger - Gonzales, now at OIST; Oleg Simakov of OIST; and Caroline Albertin, Z. Yan Wang and Judit Pungor of the University of Chicago.

In order to see if presenting the nutrition information graphically would change diners» purchasing behavior, Nakamura, along with doctoral student, Nathan Pratt, and a team of other researchers set up two experiments using a visual, 2 - dimensional plot showing the values of fiber and protein per calorie for each menu item.

But the actual trick used by Daniele Foresti, former doctoral student now a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, is based on acoustic waves.

Led by Jamie Weaver, a WSU doctoral student in chemistry, the researchers are studying materials from the mysterious Broborg hill - fort in Sweden, where a tribe of people around 1,500 years ago melted rocks to strengthen fortifications against invaders.

The researchers, University of Illinois psychology professor Andrei Cimpian and doctoral student Shelbie L. Sutherland, said this «knew - it - all - along» illusion suggests that children's minds more readily absorb information about broad categories than about specifics.

But Kevin Zmetra, a recipient of a Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Zmetra, a doctoral candidate at the University of Connecticut, along with leading researchers, has tested the use of Ultra-High Strength Concrete (UHSC)-- a strong material used to repair bridges much more quickly at a much lower cost.

Although the government has promised larger grants for trainee science teachers and doctoral students as well as improved salaries for science teachers and postdocs, Cotgreave is dismayed that it has done nothing to improve the chronically poor salaries of university researchers.

«Calling oneself «spiritual but not religious» turned out to more of an antisocial characteristic, unlike identifying oneself as religious,» said Baylor researcher Aaron Franzen, a doctoral candidate and study co-author.

Classes numbering hundreds of students — particularly in introductory courses — have become common at many universities, said researchers Kevin Dougherty, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology in Baylor's College of Arts and Sciences, and Brita Andercheck, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Baylor.

Other Kansas State University researchers include Harold Trick, professor of plant pathology; Andres Salcedo, doctoral candidate in genetics from Mexico; and Cyrille Saintenac, a postdoctoral research associate currently working at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique in France.

The atmosphere is full of excitement as 566 exceptional young researchers — undergraduates, Ph.D. students and recent doctoral graduates — meet each other and 23 Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureates.

Money is the most pressing concern for European doctoral students, according to the first Europewide survey of working conditions for young researchers, which is set to be released today.

In a new study published in Materials and Design, noted materials researcher Nikhil Gupta, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, his doctoral student Fei Chen and former student Gary Mac show how certain intentionally induced defects can disappear when the part is printed under a very specific set of conditions.

The four grid projects will support the work of eight doctoral students and one postdoctoral researcher.

Using enzyme assays and mass spectroscopy investigations, Dr. Johannes Lehmann, a researcher at the Chair of Organic Chemistry II at TU Munich, demonstrated during his doctoral work that the new inhibitor blocks especially the enzymes Pks13 and Ag85, which play a key role in the development of mycomembranes.