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Photo: Professor Titirici with the laurel wreath received at the ceremony

Professor Magdalena Titirici awarded honorary PhD from Stockholm University

Congratulations to Professor Magdalena Titirici from the School of Engineering and Materials Science, who has received a prestigious Honorary PhD from Stockholm University for her work in sustainable materials for renewable energy. She was awarded the degree from the Natural Sciences Faculty (Chemistry) in recognition of her collaborative research efforts with the Swedish institution.

She said: “My work is mostly on sustainable materials and their applications in renewable energy. Sweden has a lot of bio resources so I’ve been working with the University on various applications like making materials from biomass and using them to store energy in supercapacitors.” More.

The Aurora Programme welcomes latest cohort of future leaders

QMUL is again participating in the Aurora Programme for 2017/18 and the latest cohort started on the autumn programme on Thursday 12 October. This is the first time that QMUL is funding 20 places centrally, which is a result of feedback from QMUL’s silver Athena SWAN application process that highlighted the need for more central support for colleagues looking to take the next step in their career development. More.

Principal Professor Colin Bailey interviewed by Times Higher Education

He spoke about his background and new job at Queen Mary. He also mentions the QMUL Model and efforts to provide students with “social and cultural capital” through career support and work placements, which will help them to gain top graduate jobs. He said: “I don’t see [another] university with our student profile that is producing so much globally recognised research and world-leading innovation.” To read the article, click here.

Going the Extra Mile (GEM) Award recipients

Congratulations to our professional services (PS) colleagues who were nominated for a GEM Award during June and July. If you would like to nominate a PS colleague, please send the name of the person along with a few sentences stating why you are doing so to gemaward@qmul.ac.uk.

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Queen Mary in the Media

If you would like to receive daily updates on Queen Mary in the media or submit a story to the PR team, please email press@qmul.ac.uk. The views expressed in the articles do not reflect those of Queen Mary University of London as an organisation.

QMUL People

Anna Fons Garcia is the Employability Coordinator at the Students’ Union, helping students engage with all of the development opportunities available to them at QMUL. We caught up with her about her projects to help our students develop work-ready skills and how staff can get involved, her amazing work supporting student societies, and her exciting new series of alumni talks. More.

Notices

Helping you to support our students

We’ve recently created a page on Connected which aims to help staff to find the resources they need to support and advise students. This page is most useful for support and pastoral staff, but should be used by any members of staff who feel that they would benefit from learning more about student support at Queen Mary.

Reports of an increase in phishing emails

IT Services is receiving reports of a rise in phishing emails from unknown sources in relation to your QMUL mailbox being full and PayPal accounts. QMUL will never send you an email asking for your username and password or bank details – do not click on any links provided or respond to the email. Please report all phishing emails to report-phishing@qmul.ac.uk. If in doubt, please call the IT Service Desk on x8888 or raise a ticket. Free cyber security awareness training is available for staff and students on QMplus.

Students offer consultancy work through QConsult

Led by Careers and Enterprise and the School of Business and Management (SBM), QConsult places SBM students into a 10-week project in which they undertake research and offer a series of recommendations on the given issue. If you are interested in having a QConsult consulting project in your team during semester two (January to March 2018), please email h.green@qmul.ac.uk for details.

Participate in the winter graduation ceremonies

A reminder that all staff are invited to participate in the winter graduation ceremonies taking place from Monday 18 to Wednesday 20 December, either in the graduation procession, in the role of mace bearer, as a stage marshal, or by being a helper and providing information and guidance to our guests before each ceremony commences. It is a wonderful opportunity to see our students achieve their ambition to graduate from QMUL in the company of their families, friends and the QMUL community. The schedule is available to view online and details about how to take part are on Connected.

Call for proposals for Teaching and Learning Conference 2018 – deadline for submissions is Monday 6 November

The 2018 conference will take place on Wednesday 17 January. The Academic Development team is seeking contributions in the format of posters, roundtables and interactive workshops that address the conference theme of rethinking assessment and feedback. For more details and to download the proposal form, please visit the Academic Development website.

Events, lectures and seminars

  • Dr Georgios Kavetsos from the School of Business and Management presents ‘The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness’ | Details listed under the 'Events' tab on the Centre for Globalisation Research website
  • People’s Palace Projects will host a research discussion exploring cultural value and the creative economy as part of Relative Values, an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded research project led by Professor Paul Heritage from the School of English and Drama in partnership with Professor Leandro Valiati, one of Brazil’s leading cultural economists | RSVP
  • Join Dr Suzy Lishman, President at The Royal College of Pathologists, as she performs a virtual autopsy on a live model to investigate the effects of the plague on the human body | Centre of the Cell’s Big Question Lecture series
  • Dr Hasan Shaheed, National Teaching Fellow 2017, presents ‘Research-teaching integration’ | Academic Development Seminars
  • Book launch: The Struggle for Development by Professor Benjamin Selwyn from the University of Sussex | RSVP
  • Professor Douglas Edlin from Dickinson College presents ‘A Constitutional Crisis? The United States Today’ | Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences lecture
  • Kevin Maguire, Associate Editor at the Daily Mirror, presents ‘The Media and Politics’ as part of QMUL's George Lansbury Memorial Lecture 2017.

Training and development opportunities

  • Professional Development courses coming up next week include ‘Building personal resilience’ and more ‘Unconscious bias training’ | Sign up via the booking system

Vacancies at Queen Mary

Recent vacancies advertised on the HR website include a Director of Estates, Facilities and Capital Development in Estates and Facilities, a Research Excellence Framework (REF) Manager in the Office of the Principal, and a Student Enquiry Centre Officer in the Academic Registry and Council Secretariat. For more information, see jobs.qmul.ac.uk.

 

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