{"id":453,"date":"2010-04-13T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/blogs\/adam_malpass.php"},"modified":"2013-06-06T20:54:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T20:54:02","slug":"14-april-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/14-april-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Academy of Engineering Advanced Leadership Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

What was I saying about this term getting ever crazier again? Well, it\u2019s just got even better now I\u2019ve been presented with the Royal Academy of Engineering Advanced Leadership Award I blogged about last time! I\u2019m absolutely delighted, completely over the moon! It\u2019s going to open so many doors for me and I\u2019m so excited about what the next few years will hold!<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me explain a little more about what the award actually entails, since I didn\u2019t go into much detail last time given the already epic length of the post. Firstly, I am assigned \u00a35000 of funding over the course of the next three years to go towards my professional development. This can cover all sorts of things, from various training courses in areas such as project management, language courses and to covering travel expenses to visit engineering firms all across the globe. There is no fixed framework \u2013 I get to pick exactly what I want to do which is one of the reasons it\u2019s so exciting! One thing I definitely want to do is visit Japan, since it really is the motherland of all things hi-tech! Hopefully next summer I will get the chance to take an intensive language course over there, followed by a period working for some of the best research and development companies in the world! I\u2019ve always, always wanted to go there, and so the fact that is it now tantalisingly close to becoming a reality is just so fantastic!<\/p>\n

However, even with funding in place, there\u2019s no way I could organise such a trip myself. I simply would not have the kind of contacts necessary to be able to do such a thing. Until now. You see, that\u2019s where this award kicks in again as I\u2019ll have the full backing of the Royal Academy of Engineering behind me, as well as being assigned my own personal career mentor. I\u2019m so excited about all the possibilities this is going to create and I can\u2019t wait to get started now! For any first year students reading this I can\u2019t recommend highly enough that you apply for this when the nominations<\/a> for next year\u2019s award open in September as it really is a fantastic opportunity. For students in other years you could apply for one of the Standard Awards<\/a> which would still be a brilliant achievement. It would be great for Southampton to be represented again next year and in the years to come!<\/p>\n

In other news, I\u2019m off to the Undergraduate of the Year awards ceremony on Friday, where I\u2019m nominated for the First Year of the Year award category (see blogs from 12th and 28th February)! Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What was I saying about this term getting ever crazier again? Well, it\u2019s just got even better now I\u2019ve been presented with the Royal Academy of Engineering Advanced Leadership Award I blogged about last time! I\u2019m absolutely delighted, completely over the moon! It\u2019s going to open so many doors for me and I\u2019m so excited about what the next few …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33315,33309,33311],"tags":[316629,151274,430919,430917],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronic-engineering","category-project-work","category-southampton-university-life","tag-engineering","tag-funding","tag-professional-development","tag-royal-academy","column","twocol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BSCk-7j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}