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» School Photographic Competition winners announced 14/07/2010
View the winning selection of this years fantastic entries.

» Stuart Harrad awarded co-ordinator for €3.5 million Marie Curie Initial Training Network 09/07/2010
Stuart Harrad will be the Co-ordinator of a Marie Curie Initial Training Network entitled "INFLAME - Indoor Contamination with Flame Retardant Chemicals: Causes and Impacts". Investigating how flame retardant chemicals used in every-day consumer goods and construction materials enter humans and of the risk to health that such exposure presents.

» £3m project focusing on nanoparticles in the environment 28/06/2010
Jamie Lead is Overall Project Lead on a joint US-UK funded project aimed to develop validated models of nanoparticle environmental exposure, bioavailability and toxicity, which are both scientifically sound and immediately useful to regulatory agencies.

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Research Opportunities

» Phd Opportunities for 2010

» Understanding and Enhancing the Resilience of Edge City Economies: The Functioning and Governance of the Southern Staffordshire Economy
ESRC Case Studentship, Closing date for applications is 31 July 2010

» Innovative Public Procurement and Local Economic Development: The Benefits, Opportunities and Risks Associated with the Adoption of Outcome-based Procurement
ERSC Case Studentship, Closing date for applications is 19 July 2010

» MRes Human and Environmental Health Impacts of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (HEINN) (one year full-time)
This postgraduate programme is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of nanoscience and its potential environmental and human health related risk.

» Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials
Summer School, 28-29 September 2010

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Upcoming Events

» 6th International Conference: Climate Change - The Karst Record
27-30 June 2011

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