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The Festival of Communities welcomes over 3,000 people to explore living and learning in Tower Hamlets
On Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 May, over 3,000 people experienced more than 80 stalls, demonstrations and activities featuring QMUL staff and students alongside local organisations and charities. The varied programme featured family activities and community conversations together with opportunities to actively contribute to current QMUL research. We worked closely with local organisations and community groups to offer something for everyone and the feedback received so far has been very positive, including comments such as “it makes me proud to live in a borough with a university” and “there’s lots of great research going on here that can benefit the community”.
The festival launched on Wednesday 17 May with a celebration of community, bringing together those living and working in Tower Hamlets to exchange experiences, ideas and celebrate outstanding examples of collaborative community projects involving QMUL staff and students. Academic and professional services staff were recognised along with students in eight different community engagement categories. More details on the winning projects can be found here.
You can find out more about the Festival of Communities and Community Engagement Awards on the festival microsite. Plans are already underway for next year's festival, so if you'd like to get involved please get in touch via communityengagement@qmul.ac.uk. |
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QMUL ranked 10th in Europe for biomedical and health sciences research
QMUL has been named 10th in Europe for research quality in biomedical and health sciences in the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2017, based on the proportion of publications being in the top 10 per cent of the field. The ranking lists QMUL among other top UK universities such as Imperial College London, and above universities such as Edinburgh, Exeter and Glasgow. |
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Professor of labour law wins prestigious legal book prize
Congratulations to Professor Lizzie Barmes from the School of Law, who has won the 2017 Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize for Bullying and Behavioural Conflict at Work: The Duality of Individual Rights. The prestigious award is granted annually by the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) for the most outstanding piece of published socio-legal scholarship. Professor Barmes was announced as the winner of the 2017 prize at the SLSA annual conference. More. |
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QMUL professor appointed National Clinical Advisor to the NHS
Congratulations to Professor Adrian Newland who has been appointed as the National Clinical Advisor to the NHS. Professor Newland held the position of President of the Royal College of Pathologists from 2005 to 2008, a position which is next to be held by Professor Joanne Martin, also from QMUL. This will mean that members of Queen Mary hold the two most senior posts in pathology in the UK. Professor Newland also notes that of the last seven presidents of the Royal College of Pathology, three have been staff at Queen Mary, with two others having been undergraduates and trained here – a tribute to the standing of pathology within the School of Medicine and Dentistry.
QMUL awarded over €1m of Erasmus+ funding
Over 300 QMUL students and staff will be able to benefit from EU grants for an Erasmus+ mobility to Europe and beyond. As well as continuing to coordinate the European student and staff mobility exchanges, the Global Opportunities Office will now embark on a two-year Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project to deliver exchanges with partner universities in China, Columbia, India, Israel, Mexico, Russia and Uganda. More.
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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. |
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Carla Valentine is Technical Curator at Barts Pathology Museum. She’s had a varied and exciting career in the field of pathology, and has recently published her book Past Mortems which details her experiences working as an Anatomical Pathology Technologist. We caught up with her to find out a bit more about her work, and what’s in store for the museum in the coming months. More.
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Notices
Changes to password management
From January 2018, you will no longer have to change your password every six months. The next time your password comes to a natural expiry (between June and December 2017) or gets reset on request, you will be asked to choose a longer, 12-character password. Once that's done, you will not be required to change it again. On-demand password resets and resets as a result of account compromise will continue as normal. To reset your password, please contact the IT Service Desk on 020 7882 8888 or use the Password Reset Manager (PRM). More.
Graduation 2017 – get involved
There’s still time to get involved with the graduation ceremonies taking place between Monday 17 and Friday 21 July:
Farewell event for Principal Simon Gaskell
All staff are invited to attend this informal occasion on Monday 12 June at the Charterhouse Square campus, 1–3pm, and Mile End campus, 4–7pm to mark Principal Simon Gaskell's retirement. If you can come along, please register your attendance here before Wednesday 7 June.
Launch of Centre for Childhood Cultures
The Centre for Childhood Cultures is a long-term formal partnership between the V&A Museum of Childhood and QMUL. To mark the launch, Dr Anna Kemp from the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film will be in conversation with multi-award winning author Dame Jacqueline Wilson on Saturday 17 June, 2.30–4.30pm. More.
Donating unwanted belongings
There are three permanent British Heart Foundation (BHF) bins on our Mile End campus, located between Beaumont Court and Creed Court, between Maynard House and Varey House, and outside Lock-keeper’s Cottage. For those looking to tidy up before the summer holidays, the following items can be donated to BHF: books, CDs, DVDs, clothes, electrical items, handbags, games, toys and homeware/kitchenware. Items must be put into BHF bags, which can be collected from France House reception. For more information about disposing of all kinds of waste, please visit the Sustainability blog.
PhD students and postdocs – are you interested in writing for The Conversation?
PhD students and postdocs interested in writing about their research for a wider audience are invited to a special one-off session with the editors at The Conversation. The events are split by faculty to tailor them more specifically to your disciplines: Science and Engineering, and Medicine and Dentistry – Wednesday 7 June; Humanities and Social Sciences – Wednesday 14 June. More.
Events
Vacancies at Queen Mary
Recent vacancies advertised on the HR website include a Peston Chair in Economics and Finance in the School of Economics and Finance, a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Organismal Biology in the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, and a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the School of Physics and Astronomy. For more information, see jobs.qmul.ac.uk. |
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Got a story? Please send your staff news to e-bulletin@qmul.ac.uk.
e-Bulletin is sent out by the Internal Engagement team every Wednesday. The deadline for copy is the Monday before publication.
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