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Issue 3 - Hilary Term 2013

Welcome to the latest issue of Student News, containing a roundup of information on news and events from the University. Check out the Student Gateway or follow us on Twitter for up-to-the minute information.

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Graduate Photography competition 2013, ‘Behind the Scenes’

Graduate students and recent alumni are invited to demonstrate their experiences at the University and their college by entering the Graduate Photography Competition 2013. The theme is the more informal sides of academic, college, and social life at Oxford, images from ‘Behind the Scenes’: pictures that go underneath the public face of Oxford, to the students and staff who drive Oxford’s dynamic community through their everyday working and social life. Photos of Oxford colleges or permanent private hall from a student perspective are particularly welcome. Two winners will each receive Amazon vouchers worth £200 and there will also be £20 discretionary prizes each week throughout the competition for outstanding college photos. The competition is open until Friday 15 March 2013.
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Interested in social media?

Are you a graduate student willing to share your views on how social media can be used for communicating with prospective students? If you would be interested in talking to the Graduate Recruitment team over light refreshments, please get in touch by emailing graduate.recruitment@admin.ox.ac.uk.
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Jenner Institute: Clinical Vaccine Trials

The Jenner Institute are developing vaccines against major global diseases and want healthy volunteers to take part in trials of them. If you are aged 18 to 55 and are in good health, get in touch to receive more information. Participants will be paid compensation for expenses and time put aside to take part. Email VaccineTrials@well.ox.ac.uk or call 01865-857406 or visit the Jenner Institute website. Each study will require short visits to an outpatient clinic over 4–12 months. A response to this advertisement will be recorded, but carries no obligation to take part.
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Turnitin and the avoidance of plagiarism

If you would like to have your essay or thesis chapter submitted to Turnitin (plagiarism software) to check for any text that matches with other electronic sources, please speak to your tutor or supervisor. They will mentor you in interpreting the Turnitin Originality Report.

A Plagiarism support site is available in WebLearn providing information, links to online tutorials and videos, and other useful resources about plagiarism and how to avoid it. IT Services offers a free course for students once per term: Plagiarism – How to avoid it (for students). You can either register to attend the course at IT Services, or speak to your tutor or supervisor if you would like them to organise the course in your department or college (minimum 10 students).

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Deadline reminders for scholarships, grants and travel awards

  • Charterhouse European Bursaries and Scatcherd European Scholarships: Awards of up to £6,500 are available to undertake a period of study in Europe ranging from 3 months to 1 year. The closing date for applications is Friday 15 February 2013 (5th week Hilary term).
  • Jenkins Memorial Fund Scholarships: Up to £10,000 available for graduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences to study at Europaeum partner universities ranging from 3 months to 1 year. The closing date for applications is Friday 15 February 2013 (5th week Hilary term).
  • Santander Academic Travel Awards: Awards of up to £1,000 are available for graduate students to participate in academic-related activities in Santander network countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela). The closing date for applications is Friday 22 February 2013 (6th week Hilary term).
  • Postdoctoral research grants to study at the Free University of Brussels: The Philippe Wiener-Maurice Anspach Foundation is offering awards to candidates who have obtained their DPhil from the University of Oxford to conduct research at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) [Free University of Brussels] for up to two years. A grant will be provided and part of the laboratory and registration fees are also covered. The deadline for applications is Friday 29 March 2013.
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Call for papers for Green Templeton College Human Welfare Conference

The annual GTC Human Welfare Conference VI on 3-4 May 2013 brings together leading student-scholars from around the world to debate welfare issues that have real-world ramifications. It is organised by students, and in keeping with tradition, the 6th HWC will take place in the Radcliffe Observatory, Green Templeton College. Discussions will be led by established academics, with the conference being opened and closed by prominent keynote speakers.

Graduate students from all disciplines are invited to submit papers (based on their own original work) that either: address the conceptualisation of human welfare, based on the perspectives of a specific discipline or a given cultural understanding; or contain an interesting process of defining, operationalising and/or measuring the concept of human welfare, as part of an empirical study or other piece of work. Examples may include such diverse topics as:

  • Philosophical discussion of what constitutes human welfare/wellbeing
  • Human welfare in the context of science, technology and medicine
  • Defining human welfare in relation to human rights
  • How ideas of human welfare might be shaped by migration and global movement

Please submit your abstract (500 words max) with a title to hwc@gtc.ox.ac.uk by February 15, 2013. Submissions will be reviewed anonymously and evaluated based on research excellence and relevance to the theme. For more details visit the Human Welfare Conference website.

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Events

UoG-AAPS Student Chapter on 25 March 2013

The AAPS-UoG Student Chapter is organizing a student initiated conference a the University of Greenwich main campus on 25 March 2013 covering a wide spectrum of research areas in science. The main aim of this student led event is to promote diversity of students from a wide range of Universities within the UK and EU scientific community aiming towards their professional and scientific developments. All science research students are invited to attend and present their research (either via posters or oral). Online registration and the details of the conference can be accessed from the AAPS-UoG website or from the Student Chapter conference poster (797kb).
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Staying in the UK to work

Monday 25 February 12-1pm, Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road. The Visa and Immigration Advisers will be giving a presentation for students wishing to remain in the UK to work. More information is available on the Careers Service website.
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