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2018 Academic Promotions round – briefing sessions

The Academic Promotions round opens in January, and eligible staff will be able to apply for promotion to Senior Lecturer, Reader or Professor. In November and December, HR is holding briefing sessions on the promotions process in terms of how it happens and what you can do to help your application. Details on how to sign up are on the HR website.

QMUL Giving Month

During November, students will be helping with the annual telephone campaign to raise money for the Annual Fund. This is a pot of donations that supports three key strands: student support, student futures and student experience. The support will be targeted at students who need them most, including those who are the first in their families to go university or from low-income backgrounds. If you would also like to make a donation to support our students, please visit: www.qmul.ac.uk/alumni/supportingqm.

Anti-social behaviour at Whitechapel campus

Staff and students have been reporting concerns about the behaviour of some individuals who have been sleeping in the Newark Street area of the Whitechapel campus. For those who travel through this area, or know anyone who does, further information and guidance are available on Connected.

Horizon 2020 workshops

The EU Unit is holding workshops during November to coincide with the recent launch of the European Commission’s (EC) Horizon 2020 final work programmes for 2018-20. The UK remains eligible to apply to Horizon 2020 until exit (March 2019). All work programmes are published with some calls now open. Academics and researchers are encouraged to apply, where relevant, to the many EU research funding opportunities for both bottom-up and topic-specific calls published on the EC’s Participant Portal.

QMUL and Barts Health Innovation Day and Awards

This new event is an opportunity to celebrate and reward innovations arising from QMUL and Barts Health NHS Trust. Hear from entrepreneurs in life sciences and healthcare, and find out more about the new joint crowdfunding platform. Winners of the Postdoctoral Innovator Award 2017 will be announced. A new ‘Pitch your idea’ competition will also take place for those who have an idea of invention that could lead to commercial opportunity in following categories: diagnostics and therapeutics, digital health, novel technology, and service improvement. Deadline for submissions is Friday 17 November. More details are on the Queen Mary Innovation website.

Workplace Options information sessions for managers and staff

Find out more about QMUL’s employee assistance programme – a free, confidential and independent resource to help you balance your work, family and personal life. Visit Connected for further information about these sessions and details on how to book.

Events, lectures and seminars

• ‘Decorating dissidence: feminism, modernism and the arts’ is a two-day conference exploring the enduring importance of female contribution to the arts as political protest throughout the twentieth century to now | RSVP
• Grand Round continues tomorrow, Thursday 2 November at 12.45pm in the Morris Lecture Theatre, Robin Brook Centre, West Smithfield. Department of Clinical Pharmacology colleagues present 'Sometimes more is less'. Contact Dr Will Drake for further information.
• Presented by QMUL’s Centre for Global Shakespeare, the ‘Other Shylocks’ symposium takes place this weekend, Saturday 4 to Sunday 5 November. This is part of the wider Shakespeare In and Beyond the Ghetto project, supported by the European Commission under the Creative Europe programme and sponsored by the Romanian Cultural Institute. An art exhibition and puppet workshops will also be taking place this week as part of the celebrations. For details, visit the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences pages on Connected.
• Due to popular demand, QMUL’s Confucius Institute is hosting additional Chinese culture events in November for all staff and students, including a Chinese painting workshop and a Chinese calligraphy class.
• The Confucius Institute and the Students’ Union Table Tennis Club are hosting a table tennis tournament. Great prizes are up for grabs, and players of all abilities are welcome to take part | Sign up
  
• Dr Hasan Shaheed, National Teaching Fellow 2017, presents ‘Research-teaching integration’ | Academic Development Seminars
• This is an open invitation to an exploratory event gathering together interested people in thinking through and defining the future scope of QMUL’s newly formed Centre for Sound Cultures. Hosted in partnership with the Arebyte Gallery, this event takes place on Monday 13 November in the context of ‘Concertina’, an installation by artist Richard Wentworth and architectural practice APPARATA | Contact Ella Finer or Rhiannon Moss for more information
• QMUL’s Life Sciences Initiative and the Centre for Population Genomic Medicine are co-hosting an afternoon of industry-led lectures on the ‘Fundamentals of drug development’ | RSVP
• Professor Douglas Edlin from Dickinson College presents ‘A Constitutional Crisis? The United States Today’ | Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences lecture
• This year’s Being Human Festival runs nationally from Friday 17 to Saturday 25 November, and a number of QMUL colleagues are taking part:
  • QMUL’s Centre of the History of Emotions invites you to enter a pop-up world of activities, talks and performances investigating what we feel about objects, covering everything from fetishes to the hidden objects found in houses | RSVP
  • ‘Lost and found through the migrant experience’ will explore how objects, such as photo albums, smartphones and personal artefacts, can evoke complex stories of displacement, as well as their representation in exhibitions, film and through social media. The event is organised by the Centre for Childhood Cultures, a partnership between QMUL and the V&A Museum of Childhood | Join the waitlist
  • Organised by the School of English and Drama, 'The great Yiddish parade' is a re-enactment of a protest march by Jewish immigrants in Victorian Whitechapel, demanding better conditions for all East End workers | RSVP
  • ‘Music in the age of artificial creation’ will explore how staff in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science are using state-of-the-art machine learning methods to enhance human creativity in both music performance and composition | Buy tickets
  • Dr Matthew Ingleby from the School of English and Drama presents ‘Bloomsbury and the grounds for philanthropy’ and will lead a panel discussion exploring the role urban geography has played historically in revising the bounds of human sympathy | RSVP
    
• ‘Lunch and learn: Data protection for digital health startups’ is a workshop hosted by qLegal that will explore topics including: European data protection and online privacy standards, compliance requirements, fines; current and most common data protection mistakes and unfit privacy practices; and, what you should be doing to protect your current or potential business | RSVP
• ‘Migrant children - dreams and reality’ is a benefit event featuring a screening of Ugwumpiti, a film directed by the School of Geography’s Eithne Nightingale that is shortlisted for the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s prestigious 2017 Research in Film Awards. Proceeds will go to Hackney Migrants Centre, Child Migrant Stories and Calais Children initiative | Buy tickets

Training and development opportunities

• Join the Centre of the Cell’s STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) ambassadors programme and engage with schoolchildren during their 90-minute ‘pod’ shows to help explain the games, share career advice and inspire the next generation of scientists | STEM ambassador induction
• Professional Development courses coming up next week include ‘Safeguarding adults at risk’ and ‘Art of Minute taking’ | Sign up via the booking system
• The Professional Development team are trialling an informal mentoring scheme and are looking for mentors. They have organised a training session for those interested in taking part| Sign up via the booking system

Vacancies at Queen Mary

Recent vacancies advertised on the HR website include a Legal Advice Centre Administrator in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, a Biospecimen Coordinator in the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, and a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Centre for Haemato-Oncology. For more information, see jobs.qmul.ac.uk.