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WIPH Staff Welcome Booklet 2025

View our comprehensive Staff Welcome Booklet

Congratulations on your appointment and a warm welcome to the Wolfson Institute of Population Health (WIPH).

This section is put together to help you hit the ground running in your new role.  Below you will find information about WIPH along with useful resources to help you settle in.  The WIPH has a vision to implement health system change, improve population health, and nurture social equity. Welcome to the team.

The WIPH Welcome Booklet can be found here:

WIPH Welcome Booklet 2025 [PDF 1,029KB]

Mandatory Training 

To support our ethical approach and our compliance obligations, we expect that all members of staff to complete particular training during their time here. Please refer to the HR Webpages for information and instructions on mandatory training

All research active staff (includes technicians, postdocs and academics) must be aware of the QMUL’s Research Integrity policy and understand their responsibility in upholding the policy and the consequences of not doing so.

All research active staff are required to complete the Epigeum research integrity training course within 4 weeks of their start date. Please note that it will take approximately 3 hours to complete the course in full, reading all course material, participating in the activities, and successfully completing the final test. The refresher course takes approximately 1.5 hours to complete and should be done every three years.

1. To access the Epigeum course please go to: https://courses.epigeum.com/register

2. Complete the user registration form. a) IMPORTANT – only register with your QM email address i.e. @qmul.ac.uk. b) Enter the following token on the form – 75d865e4. c) For your specialism, please select ‘Medical and Health Sciences’.

3. Once registration is complete, users will receive an email to activate their account. Click on the activation link and log in.

4. Under ‘My Courses’, select ‘Research Integrity, Second Edition’ then ‘Research Integrity: Core’.

5. Complete the course and send your course certificate to your Institute or Research Manager.’

Information on Probation and Appraisal

The normal probation period is set out in your terms and conditions and is dependant on the role that you are carrying out. 

More information, including the QMUL probation procedure, can be found here.

Queen Mary’s Personal Appraisal and Development applies to members of staff who:

  • have successfully completed their probation period 
  • have a contract longer than a year

More information on the QMUL appraisal process can be found here.

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