Daily Archives: 18 March 2014

Information Session on Research Opportunities in Canada

For those in WA:

The High Commission of Canada presents: Information Session on Research Opportunities in Canada

This presentation will provide information on Canadian research grants in all disciplines available to academic staff and postgraduate students.

It will cover funding available from Canada’s three major federal research councils – the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

The High Commission of Canada will  also provide information on the prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program and Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships, and other grants offered by some of the provinces, as well as other non-government organisations.

Date: 8th April 2014
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Venue:  Council Chamber, Building 100, Level 3, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley
RSVP: Email ORDResearchSupport@curtin.edu.au with the subject: “Research Opportunities in Canada” by Thursday, 3rd April 2014

University of Melbourne, Dean’s Lecture: The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge: A Case Study

University of Melbourne, Dean’s Lecture
“The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge: a Case Study in the Evolution of the Art Museum”, Duncan Robinson

Date: 26 March 2014
Time: 6:45-7:45pm
Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne
Register: Free, but please register here: http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/duncanrobinson

The Fitzwilliam Museum was founded in 1816 by the bequest made to the University of Cambridge by a wealthy alumnus, Richard Viscount Fitzwilliam.

In this lecture, Duncan Robinson traces its development, reflected in its architecture, from the private collection of an 18th Century aristocrat to its position today as one of Britain’s foremost art museums in which full, public access is combined with objects-based research, conservation facilities and teaching at all levels in order to fulfil its founder’s commitment to ‘the increase of learning.’

Duncan Robinson, CBE, FSA, was, until his retirement in 2012, the Master of Magdalene College Cambridge, and a Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is a graduate of both Cambridge and Yale Universities and a former Professorial Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He worked at the Fitzwilliam as Assistant Keeper then Keeper of Paintings and Drawings, 1970-81. He then became the Director of the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, 1981-95, before returning to Cambridge to take up the Directorship of the Fitzwilliam Museum (1995-2007.)

Mr Robinson served as one of the first members of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board (1998-2003). He was a Governor of the South Eastern Museums Service, 1997-9, of the Museums Service, East of England, 2002-3, and of its successor body, East England Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, 2003-4.

In recent years he has been a trustee of a number of bodies. He currently chairs the Henry Moore Foundation, the City of Cambridge’s Public Art Panel and the University of Cambridge’s Advisory Panel on Human Remains.