Computational Foundry Residency (Susan Dray and David Siegel): Introduction to Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) and the Newton Fund with Invited Speaker Dr Susan Dray

College of Science

- A CHERISH Digital Economy Research Centre Event

Speaker

Dr Susan Dray

Speaker's Biography

Susan M. Dray, PhD, CUXP, is a recognized leader in usability, human factors, and human-computer interaction. Susan has a PhD from UCLA, and a B.A. from Mills College, both in Psychology, and is a Board Certified User Experience Professional (CUXP).

She contributed to the founding of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). She was elected a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society in 1994. She is the 2006 recipient of the Lifetime Service Award from SIGCHI, and was named a Distinguished Engineer by ACM in 2008. She is currently the Director of Publications on the Board of Directors of the Usability Professionals' Association (UPA).

Since 1993, as President of Dray & Associates, Inc., she has provided contextual and ethnographic user research, usability evaluation, and interface design consultation for a wide range of products, systems and applications. She has worked in many countries around the world and is widely known for her expertise in international user studies. Her many clients include firms such as AT&T, Cargill, eBay, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard, Ideo, Intel, Intuit, Medtronic, Microsoft, Motorola, Nortel, SAP, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, Texas Instruments, Trane, and Xerox, to name but a few.

From: 5 Jun 2018, 10 a.m.
To: 5 Jun 2018, noon
Location: Zoology Museum, Wallace Building, Swansea

This session will start by providing an overview of the GCRF and Newton Fund, you will learn all about these funding streams and how they can support and fund your research projects. The session will also include details on any current open opportunities for funding. The session will also include some details on what Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) means and how to best demonstrate compliance when putting together funding applications. The session will conclude with a presentation from Susan Dray

This talk is targeted at academics but open to everyone


Contact: Julia Harrison (Email: j.f.harrison@swansea.ac.uk)

Website: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/science/computationalfoundry/events/computationalfoundryresidency/


Event created by: j.f.harrison