Stream 3 - open call

impactQM is pleased to announce calls for Stream 3, an open call for collaborative funding with external partners. If you are a Queen Mary academic who has identified an organisation who wants to collaborate on a project, then  impactQM can provide cofunding. This is an open call with applications reviewed monthly. See http://www.qmul.ac.uk/impactqm/forms/ for application forms and full details of the scheme.

If you are a Queen Mary academic who wants to learn more about working with industry, has a broad idea of a collaboration but does not have a specific organisation in mind, or knows of an organisation who might be interested in the scheme, please contact impactQM at impactqm@eecs.qmul.ac.uk

And a reminder that there is still time to apply for our schemes for PhDs and postdocs.

Stream 1 If you are a current or very recent Queen Mary PhD student, an impactQM scholarship gives you the chance to set up a workplacement in a company or with other users of research, to network with employers at regular events, and to access professional short courses. Deadline 30th September.  Details at http://www.qmul.ac.uk/impactqm/forms/

Stream 2 If you are a current or very recent Queen Mary postdoc, an impactQM scholarship gives you the chance to set up a salaried short term position with in a company or with other users of research, to network with employers at regular events, and to access professional short courses. Deadline 30th September.  Details at http://www.qmul.ac.uk/impactqm/forms/ Read more

Announcing the call for scholarships

impactQM announces the formal call for the 2009-10 impactQM scholarships for Phd students and research staff with a deadline of 30th September. Go to
www.qmul.ac.uk/impactqm
to download the application forms and further details.

Please address any queries to impactqm@eecs.qmul.ac.uk

The scholarships are open to current and very recent Queen Mary Phd students and research staff in the science and engineering sector and related interdisciplinary areas. The offer the chance to spend time working in a company or with other users of research, to network with employers at regular events, and to access professional short courses.



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Scholarship call tiny delay

The scholarship call was already to go out  when on Friday at 4pm we discovered that the fonts on the form were all an illegible pale yellow in certain versions of Microsoft word. We decided to wait till Monday.

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Visit from Lord Drayson

Lord Drayson, Minister of State for Science and Innovation, visited Queen Mary today to see the Centre for the Cell, and also had a briefing on impactQM from the director and Queen Mary's new principal, Professor Simon Gaskell. He was  pretty positive, especially about the idea of placements in high-tech SMEs giving people a flavour of how cool innovation can be, and about the broad range of interactions that universities and business can have.

And if you hop on over to Lord Drayson's twitter feed at
http://www.twitter.com/LORDDRAYSON
you will see he has tweeted us "Listen up hi tech start-ups! Get a PhD student or post doc seconded 2 work 4 U 4 FREE! New govt funded scheme: ImpactQM http://is.gd/2PQKJ " (And yes, he does his own tweets). What an endorsement to kick-start the project....

You can follow impactQM on twitter at
http://twitter.com/impactQM
but we are not as popular as the science minister (yet).

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