Posts Tagged ‘Careers’
Microbiology Clearing at Leicester
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
There won’t be any formal clearing for Microbiology places at Leicester this year because basically, we’re full. (If you’re holding a place and haven’t responded yet, please contact us as quickly as possible.) The UK government caps the number of students we can take, although we do currently have room for a few more overseas (non-UK/E.U.) students, so if you’re interested in a place to study Microbiology or Medical Microbiology, please contact us soon.
Other than that, I hope you got the results you wanted, and we’ll soon be accepting applications for Microbiology places next year.
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Innovation in Microbiology Learning and Teaching
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Tuesday 30 March 2010
Follow this event on Twitter: #sgmed10
When asked what they are looking for in a microbiology graduate, employers often stipulate a well-rounded individual who is self-motivated, can solve problems and interacts productively with fellow scientists. This symposium, organised jointly by the SGM and the HE Academy UK Centre for Bioscience, will give you the opportunity to discuss innovative approaches to delivering this paragon. The first half will look at how we can foster the key skills of creativity, problem-solving and enquiry-based learning in the laboratory and field. This will include a keynote presentation about an exciting ‘Phage-Hunting’ project from the University of Pittsburgh, which allows students from a range of educational backgrounds to engage in authentic scientific enquiry. We will then explore the impact of social networking tools, both on our students’ learning and on our own teaching practice. The symposium should be of interest to anyone involved in teaching microbiologists who wants to learn how to exploit the power of emerging approaches and technologies. If you think Twitter is just for chatting to celebrities, it’s time to take a fresh look!
Promoting key skills in microbiology teaching:
0830 Carol Wakeford, University of Manchester: A culture of creativity: techniques to foster new ideas.
0930 Tina Overton, Higher Education Academy, Hull Problem solving.
1100 Gus Cameron, eBioLabs, University of Bristol: Laboratory skills.
1400 Graham Hatfull, University of Pittsburgh: Where there’s smoke there’s PHIRE: authentic research projects for novice researchers.
Using Web2.0 technologies for teaching microbiology: information overload or filter failure?
1500 Cameron Neylon, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot: Information overload or filter failure?
1530 Vincent Racaniello, Columbia University Medical Center, New York: Social media in microbiology education and research.
1630 Kevin Emamy / Jason Hoyt, CiteULike, London / Mendeley, London: Automated discovery of scientific literature.
Innovation in Microbiology Learning and Teaching
Saturday, March 13th, 2010Tuesday 30 March 2010
Follow this event on Twitter: #sgmed10
When asked what they are looking for in a microbiology graduate, employers often stipulate a well-rounded individual who is self-motivated, can solve problems and interacts productively with fellow scientists. This symposium, organised jointly by the SGM and the HE Academy UK Centre for Bioscience, will give you the opportunity to discuss innovative approaches to delivering this paragon. The first half will look at how we can foster the key skills of creativity, problem-solving and enquiry-based learning in the laboratory and field. This will include a keynote presentation about an exciting ‘Phage-Hunting’ project from the University of Pittsburgh, which allows students from a range of educational backgrounds to engage in authentic scientific enquiry. We will then explore the impact of social networking tools, both on our students’ learning and on our own teaching practice. The symposium should be of interest to anyone involved in teaching microbiologists who wants to learn how to exploit the power of emerging approaches and technologies. If you think Twitter is just for chatting to celebrities, it’s time to take a fresh look!
Promoting key skills in microbiology teaching:
0830 Carol Wakeford, University of Manchester: A culture of creativity: techniques to foster new ideas.
0930 Tina Overton, Higher Education Academy, Hull Problem solving.
1100 Gus Cameron, eBioLabs, University of Bristol: Laboratory skills.
1400 Graham Hatfull, University of Pittsburgh: Where there’s smoke there’s PHIRE: authentic research projects for novice researchers.
Using Web2.0 technologies for teaching microbiology: information overload or filter failure?
1500 Cameron Neylon, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot: Information overload or filter failure?
1530 Vincent Racaniello, Columbia University Medical Center, New York: Social media in microbiology education and research.
1630 Kevin Emamy / Jason Hoyt, CiteULike, London / Mendeley, London: Automated discovery of scientific literature.
Microbiology Anyone?
Sunday, February 14th, 2010Over on our Facebook page, Heather Collins asked:
And another question – why do so few (UK) universities have microbiology departments these days? There’s been a trend towards bigger academic units, and disciplines who can’t recruit enough students tend to get merged with other departments into units usually called something like “The School of Life Sciences”. In addition, non-human microbiology is out of favour these days, with most of the money going to medical microbiology, and this killed off some microbiology departments who couldn’t or weren’t willing to adapt.
So why do UK universities find it hard to recruit microbiology students? When the A level syllabus changed a few years ago, microbiology all but disappeared. Actually, there is a little bit still there, but not until the A2 stage and it’s no longer offered by all schools. But A2 students have already filled out their UCAS forms. AS students don’t know what microbiology is, so why would they apply to do a degree in it? (They know what genetics is because there’s lots of that at AS level, so many apply to do that as a degree).
Fortunately, there is a solution! At the University of Leicester, we offer you not one but two chances to study microbiology. ”Microbiology” is a broadly based course including environmental microbiology, which “Medical Microbiology” is … well, see if you can figure it out ;-)
Of course, if it’s a bit late for you to be thinking about degree choices, we also offer lots of microbiology PhD and postdoctoral places, so check us out for all your microbiology career requirements :-)
Related:
Insight into NHS microbiology careers
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009Nice video from the University of Wolverhampton:
PhD Research Scholarship: University of Leicester
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Applications are invited for a PhD Scholarship commencing in October 2009 to support research on the following project:
A new family of sigma-factor binding proteins; role and mechanism of transcriptional regulation.
Principal Supervisor: Dr Helen O’Hare, Department of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation.
The Scholarship will start on October 1st, 2009, run for three years and provide a waiver of University tuition fees and a student stipend equivalent to that of a UK Research Council award, £13,290 from October, plus an annual £1,000 research training support grant and £300 student conference/travel allowance. Candidates must hold a First or Upper Second Class honours degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline. This Scholarship is only available to candidates who are eligible to pay the Home/EU tuition fee, i.e. permanently resident in the UK or another EU country.
Further details about each project are available from the Principal Supervisor. Applications should be submitted as soon as possible by post or online.
Related:
- MicrobiologyBytes: University of Leicester
- University of the Year 2008
- New influenza vaccine research at the University of Leicester
- Filling up fast
Filling up fast
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Places to study at the University of Leicester are filling up fast:
Student application figures at the University of Leicester – named University of the Year for 2008-9 by the Times Higher – have rocketed. While applications nationally increased by over 7% – at Leicester applications are 16% higher than last year. That means that almost 20,000 students will chase 2,500 places at the University. Leicester has seen one of the largest increases in applications in the UK. In fact, over the past three years (2006-9) our applications have increased 49% – the 3rd biggest amongst traditional pre-1992 universities. This success is attributable to the strong research and teaching record Leicester enjoys and our very high student satisfaction record. Applications from Home and EU students for undergraduate study are up by 14% and overseas by 48%. Post graduate taught applications are also strong with an increase of 14% from home / EU students and 77% from overseas, an increase of 69% overall. Applications for postgraduate research are 37% higher than at the same point last year. In total, over 20,000 students study at the University of Leicester.
The good news is that in response to this, from 2010, you have not one but TWO choices to study microbiology at Leicester:
What the heck do you microbiologists do all day long?
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009Nice microbiology video from the Royal Sussex County Hospital NHS Trust.
