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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Please see details of some workshops that may be of interest to some of you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Neil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
<a href="mailto:studentships@stfc.ac.uk">studentships@stfc.ac.uk</a> <<a href="mailto:studentships@stfc.ac.uk">studentships@stfc.ac.uk</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> 19 April 2018 16:51<br>
<b>Subject:</b> STFC Funded Summer Schools for PhD Students<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Head of Department<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I would be grateful if you could publicise the
<a href="http://www.stfc.ac.uk/funding/studentships/stfc-support-for-short-courses-and-summer-schools/">
STFC-funded summer schools</a> listed below to your PhD students:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/653899/">8<sup>th</sup> NExT PhD Workshop</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Queen Mary, University of London<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">25-28 June 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/busstepp-2018-tickets-44675683171">British Universities Summer School in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics (BUSSTEPP)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Oxford<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">20-31 August 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Lancaster University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">2-14 September 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://space.soton.ac.uk/summerschool2018">Advanced Summer School in Solar, Solar-Terrestrial and Solar-Planetary Physics</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">9-14 September 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.astrobiology.ac.uk/events/asb-stfc-astrobiology-summer-school-2018">Astrobiology Society of Britain (ASB) Introductory Postgraduate Summer School</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Edinburgh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">2-6 September 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">3-7 September 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Many thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Susan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Susan Blackwell
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<span style="color:#5F5F5F">and</span> Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, SN2 1SZ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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