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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">FYI</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">----------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">The 9th UK wide Doctoral Researchers Awards (DRA) competition is now accepting applications from young researchers. This year, our main
sponsor is Springer Nature Applied Sciences (SNAS). With the DRA, we aim to promote and reward academic and scientific excellence among researchers pursuing doctoral degrees in the UK. For more information, please visit the competition website <a href="http://www.drawards.org.uk/" target="_blank">www.drawards.org.uk</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.drawards.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="240" height="160" style="width:2.5in;height:1.6666in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://static.tildacdn.com/lib/unsplash/758cd998-ddae-9f9d-8c59-4b36f13ab333/-/resize/504x/photo.jpg" alt="https://static.tildacdn.com/lib/unsplash/758cd998-ddae-9f9d-8c59-4b36f13ab333/-/resize/504x/photo.jpg"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.drawards.org.uk/" target="_blank">DRA / PhD Research Competition</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#666666">The are three main different categories in the competition! Natural & Life Sciences. Enter some desciption here! dasdadada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#A6A6A6"><a href="http://www.drawards.org.uk/" target="_blank">www.drawards.org.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">CATEGORIES <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">1. Natural & Life Sciences <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">2. Management & Social Sciences <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">3. Engineering Sciences <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">AWARDS <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">1st place (x3): £300 and Springer Book voucher<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">2nd place (x3): £200 and Springer Book voucher<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">3rd place (x3): £100 and Springer Book voucher<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">4th-5th place: Amazon voucher and Springer Book voucher<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">Honourable Mentions: Amazon voucher and Springer Book voucher<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">Application Deadline: 31 March 2020 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">Awards Ceremony: 30 May 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">Could you please circulate this email to the departmental emailing lists or to anyone who might be interested? The application deadline
is 30 March 2020. Please note that this competition is open to all PhD students and recent postdocs (up to 1 year) regardless of their nationality. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">Best wishes, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">DRA Organising Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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