ANSTO Young Researchers' Club

Informal lunchtime session: Data Management July 8, 2011

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Join us on Tuesday (12/07/2011) for a lunchtime discussion on data management in the Huxlin training room. Share your ideas on how data, whether experimental, simulation or other, should be shared and stored or even deleted.

Inaugural Young Researchers Conference June 21, 2011

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On Friday 29 July we will be holding the first inaugural young researchers conference. Young researchers will be given the opportunity to present their research to the broader ANSTO community and potentially walk away with a prize.
Title submissions are now open to anyone willing to take the challenge.

Please email the title of your talk to either Catriona or Aimee.

External Speaker: Prof. Steve Meikle (Brain and Mind Research Institute) April 21, 2011

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You are invited to a talk by Professor Steve Meikle from the Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney on research done in his institute. Steve is head of the imaging physics laboratory and will give an overview of the research done by the medical imaging physics and biomodelling team.

Details are as follows:
Date: Wednesday, 27th April 2011
Time: 3 pm
Locations: Huxlin Training Room, Library.

Afternoon tea will be provided.

Science at the Shine Dome March 21, 2011

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The Academy of Science has invited early career researchers to a special programe in conjunction with the Science at the Shine Dome (4-6 May 2011, Canberra). Please consider attending.

Early Career Researchers Program

Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Funding Rules March 11, 2011

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This is a new initiative from the ARC.

The Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Funding Rules for funding commencing in 2012 are now available on the ARC website

The closing date for submission of Proposals is 5:00pm (AEST), Wednesday 18 May 2011.

The ARC will provide further notification when the scheme opens and the RMS Proposal Form and other relevant documentation become available.

Further information regarding the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award scheme is available here

We will be hosting a lunchtime Q&A session with the research office on 16 March at 12 in the Huxlin training room. Please come along to find out more about this fellowship and how to apply.

Research speed “dating” January 18, 2011

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Let us know if you would be interested in joining us for a speed research meeting, which works on the same principles as speed dating but with the aim of creating collaborations of a research nature. The tentative date for the first speed meeting is the afternoon of the 17 Feb.

In case you are unfamiliar with the principles of speed dating, click here

December 10, 2010

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Hopefully you saw the invitation, but there is a BBQ on the 15th of December, 4.30 at the ANSTO pool/BBQ area, and then we might go to the pub!!

ANSTO Young Researchers Group CHRISTMAS BBQ!

Come, eat, have a chat, maybe a swim, then later, chat and a drink!

The plan: BBQ beside the pool, with your friendly chefs, Aimee and Catriona THEN come and have a drinky with us…

Where: ANSTO pool/BBQ area THEN afterwards a pub – tbc on the day (cos we can’t have beer at ANSTO)

Hope to see you there!

Catriona and Aimee

Women produce fewer papers than men over a lifetime ; advice on how women can raise their research productivity and status in the academy October 1, 2010

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Interesting article directed at young woman researchers (but no reason why men can’t follow the same advice) on how to raise their reseach productivity and work towards getting into senior positions