Retired Professor Keith Wigmore Memorial service
I am trying to contact as many people as possible who remember Keith Wigmore. He died in his 80s at the start of the pandemic and his daughter , Sarah Tibble has arranged a memorial service for him 1pm Tuesday 22nd February at St Paul’s church Brookhouse LA2 9JR
I knew Keith through St Paul’s church. I realise it is many years since he retired to look after his wife but he was such a delightful gentleman I thought there might still be people who remember him. I should be most grateful if you could spread this message appropriately. Thank you
Susan Brown
Retired Consultant Paediatrician
Roger Jones, Peter McClintock, Mark Giltrow
Overleaf Survey
Representatives of the Management Science Department of Lancaster University are conducting a survey to measure demand for Overleaf subscriptions across faculties. Overleaf is the service for online collaboration on scientific documents in LaTeX. We want to understand whether there is a demand for a university-wide subscription. This survey will not take more than 3 minutes of your time, but your responses will help us prepare the application if we find out that there is a demand for the Overleaf. Please follow this link to the survey: https://lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3804UtyhJMtWd0y
Philip Simpson / Ivan Svetunkov
EPSRC CASE Awards: Call for applications
EPSRC CASE Awards: Call for applications
Submission date: Friday April 22nd, 2022
Please send applications to: Simon Vaukins – s.vaukins@lancaster.ac.uk
EPSRC continue to encourage industrial collaboration through CASE awards in science and engineering. These awards are a type of doctoral studentship designed to incorporate an element of collaboration and industrially related training to broaden experience. As part of delivering economic impact and increasing company involvement in provision of doctoral training, the EPSRC are committed to increasing impact by increasing the proportion of collaborative studentships within the DTP. To support this, institutions in receipt of DTP have a target of converting 10% of the funds into CASE awards (DTP CASE-conversion).
Further details can be found here: EPSRC CASE Award guidance 2022
If you have any further questions, please contact Simon Vaukins – s.vaukins@lancaster.ac.uk
Philip Simpson / Simon Vaukins
Dr Stijn Mertens & Alessio Quadrelli – MSI Lunchtime Seminar
FASS Meeting Room 2
Teams
Wednesday 23 February 2022
1:00pm to 2:00pm
The MSI are pleased to restart their lunchtime seminars, starting with two talks given by Dr Stijn Mertens & Alessio Quadrelli. We have booked FASS meeting room 2 (click here to see the room on a map) for anybody who would like to attend in person. We will also be streaming the seminar on Teams. Please could you let the MSI (msi@lancaster.ac.uk) know if you are planning to attend in person, for catering purposes. Please see information about the speakers and talks below.
Rachel Lyon
Replacing the path next to the Underpass
Facilities have informed us that work will begin on Wednesday 16th February replacing the path alongside the building by the underpass. This will entail some noise whilst the deteriorating concrete base is broken up and removed. Please let me know as soon as possible if this is an issue.
Shonah Ion
Extracurricular Language classes – enrolment is open for courses from February to June 2022
For anyone interested in developing their existing language skills or picking up new ones, the Department of Languages and Cultures is opening a new session evening classes open to university students & staff, as well as members of the public. Classes this year are taught in person, but we are also offering some online, via Teams. Please check our timetable for more information. We are offering classes in French, Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish.
The courses are designed to equip participants with communication skills in the foreign language of their choice, whilst also discovering the multicultural aspects of language learning. So, if you want to learn a new language, brush up or develop your skills, join us!
More information can be found on our website: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/languages-and-cultures/languages-for-all/, or by email: delcextracurricular@lancaster.ac.uk. You can enrol by Friday 11th February. Classes will start w/c 14th February and run until the end of June.
Romain Bardot
EPSRC Vacation Internships: call for applications
Deadline for applications: Friday March 25th, 2022
Decisions to be confirmed by: Friday 22nd April, 2022
The EPSRC Vacation Internship scheme is designed to give undergraduate students a taste of what it is like to do research. The students should be given practical, first-hand experience of working on and carrying out research in a UK university.
Eligibility
The selected students should be undertaking an undergraduate degree, which must be within EPSRC’s remit, and should be able to fulfil EPSRC’s doctoral training grant eligibility requirements at the end of their undergraduate degree. The nominated student should be at the end of their second year of study, or the third year of study if on a four year programme, by the summer of 2022. The scheme may not be used as a bridge between the undergraduate degree and doctorate or other work, therefore students who are currently in their final year and who will have completed their degree by the summer of 2022, are not eligible.
The projects undertaken by the students must be clearly defined, within EPSRC’s remit and must not be part of a normal degree course.
Timing and Payment
The internship should take place in the summer vacation before the student’s final year of study and should be ten weeks in duration. Students will be employed as interns during the period of their internship. All students undertaking Vacation Internships will receive payment equal to at least the national living wage even if they are aged below 25.
Applications for Vacation Internships should be made using this form: EPSRC Vacation Internship application
Questions on Vacation Internships can be sent to Simon Vaukins, Faculty Graduate School Manager: s.vaukins@lancasterac.uk
Simon Vaukins
Futures-thinking in Teaching and Research
An event series from the ISF showcasing futures pedagogy across Lancaster University
Microsoft Teams
Tuesday 25 January 2022
9:30am to Friday 25 February 2022, 10:30am
Join us for a four part series on the future of pedagogy.
Louise Bush
Sending International Mail – mandatory customs data
In order to meet International Shipping requirements for your exports, it is now a legal requirement that all non-personal correspondence items travelling internationally are accompanied by complete and accurate electronic customs data so they can be delivered successfully.
Electronic customs data is now mandatory when you send items/goods abroad (excluding personal correspondence). You are required to provide customs data electronically in addition to the physical customs declaration (CN22 or CN23). Failure to comply is likely to result in delays, having items returned or even destroyed.
Celine Neimark / Grainne Wilkinson