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There is a school teams group for discussing grant applications.
Managing PhDs at Leeds Computing
- There is a course you should take (Effective Postgraduate Research Supervision) before supervising students. This was vague enough for all faculties (e.g. humanities my only supervise PhDs once a month), so contained very little read information, I finally got a link to the university regs out of the supervisors.
- There is another course to be an internal examiner (The Role of the Internal Examiner).
- You should record PhD progress (i.e. once a month) in GRAD. GRAD will email you every time any action is taken on any student you are connected with - add an email filter and forget about it!
- The "Engineering & Physical Sciences (EPS) Graduate School" minerva organisation has GRAD resources, additional course details (e.g. technical English), and a PhD student assessment roadmap.
- University supervision resources here.
- Simon Jones' video on how to write a great research paper
- Eric Atwell can answer school-specific questions about the process.
- When interviewing PhD candidates, Eric says "For future reference, when you interview a PhD applicant, the Gradaute Office standard interview form has a box "Bench fee" - this is where you can write "£7000 for essential consumables and equipment". to request a bench fee from sponsor, This is then included in the offer letter sent to applicant and sponsor. The sponsor MAY decline (eg HoS may say no for School studentships) so then at least you will know you dont have one. But they may just say yes."
Grants. Uni grant-writing-overview. For a financial details for a grant, email faculty research. They also like to know the outcome. I suspect we are also meant to tell Tony about past/present/future grants. You search/add alerts for funding using a site like Research Professionals (use Leeds account to login).
Recording publications
REF. Research excellence framework / five yearly excercise from UK govenment. Wikipeida has the best overview :/. No real motivation to engage with this (all star-ratings are anonymous). Determines the baseline research funding from central government (4 star paper is worth about £100k to school. Staff just have to write mysterious "100 words" for their publications (Tony's video).
IRIS allows you to annotate research outputs for REF:
- This is populated autoamtically from Symplectic
- You can nominate your 4 papers for REF on the "Outputs Review ->Nominate Output column -> check box next to the ones you want to nominate"
- Through some undisclosed procedure, the nominated outputs are assessed externally. This can be found by clicking "Outputs Review (purple), -> scrolling down -> and clicking the tiny '+' to show the review and assessed REF classification (green)" (Click image to embiggen):
My notes on research compute (servers, GPUs etc...).