Academic Careers - Getting Your Research Funded
How important is funding to an academic research career? How do you successfully attract funding? Karen Petrie, Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Mateja Jamnik a member of the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) electoral college, will answer these questions during this session. We encourage the audience to bring their own funding questions and experiences along to the discussion. A representative from the EPSRC will also be available to give hints and tips from their perspective.
Speaker: Karen Petrie
Karen is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkins Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and her research is in the area of Constraint Programming. Problems often consist of choices. Making a choice that is compatible with all other choices made and optimal is difficult. Constraint Programming (CP) is the branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI), where computers help us to make these choices. The goal of CP is to find one solution, all solutions or a good (optimal) solution to a problem. In her work, Karen looks at how these techniques can be used to solve both problems from the real world and mathematics. Karen is also the chair of BCSWomen, the BCS Specialist Group that provides networking opportunities for all BCS professional women working in IT around the world. The group's main objective is to provide support for female IT professionals, as well as mentoring and encouraging girls/women to enter IT as a career.