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The ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize is an exciting new opportunity to celebrate the outstanding economic and social impacts achieved by ESRC-funded researchers. There are six categories for the prize: |
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Two companies, Dialogue Matters and Project Maya, are offering training based on LWEC's Knowledge Exchange Guidelines in 2013. There are both one day and three day courses on offer. Leading researchers who helped to develop the Guidelines have also been closely involved in developing the training. The earliest available courses are being held in February 2013. Details and an application form are attached. |
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Carbon dioxide mission to the Southern Ocean A team of scientists from the UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme are setting out this week for some of the coldest waters anywhere on Earth. They will be studying the effect of ocean acidification in waters near Antarctica. |
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The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has joined the Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) Partnership, bringing the number of partner organisations to twenty-two. STFC funds research in particle physics, nuclear physics and astronomy, hosts and provides access to large research facilities that serve the whole UK research base spanning many scientific and engineering disciplines. |
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A new knowledge-sharing website for rural advisors is launched today. The Landbridge website is a platform for interprofessional learning and debate. It will also provide opportunities for knowledge exchange with the research community. Set up by the Rural Economy and Land Use programme, it is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Living With Environmental Change Partnership. |
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A UK-led team of researchers has identified 15 issues that could affect the diversity of life on Earth in 2013. Many of them relate to new forms of energy production, changes in how we produce or store food, and synthetic biology – the creation of new forms of life in the lab. They include using synthetic DNA to genetically modify organisms, soaring demand for coconut water, and competition for land to grow plants for fish farming. |