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Fellowship to focus on nanotechnology

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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Aug 11, 2004

The University of Bradford has been awarded GBP 375,000 to appoint three new fellowships to give contract research staff more attractive and stable paths into academia.

The University of Bradford has been awarded GBP 375,000 to appoint three new fellowships to give contract research staff more attractive and stable paths into academia.

Following the Government's strategy for science, engineering and technology, "Investing in innovation", published in July 2002, the Government has provided funds to create new five-year academic fellowships under the Academic Fellowship Scheme.

Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation Professor Phil Coates said: "This is a fantastic opportunity for three researchers to begin their academic career at the University of Bradford, whilst undertaking work in some fascinating areas of cutting-edge research".

Training provision will be provided during the fellowships, and the fellows must undertake outreach to communities.

Annual performance appraisals and personal development advice will also be provided.

Bids were successful from the following areas.

The School of Engineering, Design and Technology's (EDT) Polymer Interdisciplinary Research Centre and the Polymer Centre for Industrial Collaboration has been awarded funding for one fellow.

This fellow will focus on research into nanotechnology, managing a team of researchers, as well as supervising research students.

The Department of Peace Studies has been awarded two appointments.

The first will be in the Department's International Centre for Participation Studies and will support a major study which will contribute to the process of learning between practitioners and policy makers from the global South and those working in situations of poverty and exclusion in the Bradford District and the Yorkshire Region.

The second appointment will be in the Centre for International Co-operation and Security to support its research programme on Armed Violence and Development.

The fellow will focus on the role of police reform in developing societies as a means of combating violence, with emphasis on its role in combating cross-border banditry and organised crime.

Dean of EDT, Professor Andrew Day, said: "We aim to use the exciting opportunities provided by academic fellowships to enable an individual to develop personally in their academic path, but also to operate successfully as part of an interdisciplinary team to achieve maximum benefit to themselves, the school and the university".

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