Notices
Launch of the National Student Survey (NSS) 2017
The NSS will launch to final-year undergraduate students at QMUL on Monday 30 January. The NSS page on Connect has information on central and school-level promotional activities, including an activity plan, advice and guidance on successful and appropriate promotion of the NSS, and various digital resources which you can download and use in your promotional activities.
Update on the ‘One CMS’ project
Over the past year, colleagues from Marketing and Communications have been working with consultants from Terminalfour (T4) – providers of QMUL’s new web content management system (CMS) – to migrate a number of pilot sites into our new CMS platform. These included sites for the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film (9,000+ pages) and the Library (2,000+ pages). During March and April, they will completing migration of the major school, institute and department sites hosted in Rhythmyx – a project involving over 100,000 items of content. More on the 'One Web' project blog.
QMUL Proof of Concept Fund applications now open
The current call for expressions of interest for the QMUL Proof of Concept Fund is now open until 5pm on Monday 20 February. The QMUL Proof of Concept Fund is designed to provide funding for fast-track commercial validation of research. More.
Planning an activity with school or college students?
The Widening Participation team have put together a booklet to help colleagues who are considering planning and delivering an activity with school or college students (and what is different if you wish to aim your activity to Widening Participation students). The booklet and various appendices can be found on the Widening Participation intranet pages, under resources.
Talking to your alumni or collecting data
Did you know that you can contact your alumni? Tell them about events, courses and news or ask them for profiles and to volunteer. Alumni Engagement can send alumni messages on your behalf – just fill out the data request form on the Alumni intranet which only takes a few minutes and let the team do the rest. For further information, drop them an email.
QMUL delegation deliver translational skin biology workshop in Vietnam
A team of academics from the Centre for Cell Biology and Cutaneous Research at QMUL recently visited Vietnam to take part in a workshop on Translational Skin Biology, with the aim of promoting collaborative basic and clinical research for novel therapies in Vietnamese patients. Find out more.
Call for STEM Ambassadors
Centre of the Cell invites QMUL staff and research students to share their experience and enthusiasm as STEM (Science Technology Engineering, Maths and Medicine) Ambassadors. Anyone with an enthusiasm for science and a wish to convey that enthusiasm to children and young people is welcome. More.
Save the date: Barts and The London State of the Art Annual Congress 2017 – Wednesday 1 March
This annual mental health research congress brings together the best psychiatric research from international experts. This year, there will be cutting-edge research presentations by international experts including: Professor David Skuse, Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, UCL; Professor Carmine Pariente, Professor of Biological Psychiatry and Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust; and Angela Hassiotis, Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in Intellectual Property, Division of Psychiatry, UCL. More.
School of Business and Management research seminar programme
The School of Business and Management research seminar programme for semester B is now available to view on Connect. Seminars take place every Wednesday lunchtime, 1–2pm, in room 4.04/4.08 of the Bancroft Building, Mile End campus.
Grand Round
Grand Round continues on Thursday 26 January and will be taking place at 12.45pm in the Morris Lecture Theatre, West Smithfield campus. The theme will be 'waterlogged to desiccated' and will be delivered by Dr V Wolstenholme, Dr H Rozati and Professor W Drake. Please contact Will Drake at w.m.drake@qmul.ac.uk for more information.
Chinese peony painting class
QMUL Confucius Institute will be hosting the celebrated Chinese artist Jiang Hongsheng (Jack) on Monday 30 January, 6–8pm, where he will be running a class for beginners on the art of Chinese brush painting. More.
The 5-2 Diet trial
Do you want to lose weight for the new year? A new research study is comparing different ways to lose weight. If interested, please visit the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine website for further details.
Events
Vacancies at Queen Mary
Recent vacancies advertised on the HR website include a Lecturer in Physician Associate Studies in the Institute of Health Science Education, an International Student Advisor in the Advice and Counselling Service, and an Associate Lecturer in Applied Economics and Policy (fixed term for two years) in the School of Business and Management. See jobs.qmul.ac.uk
