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Finalists for the Engagement and Enterprise Awards 2018 announced

The Awards recognise outstanding achievement in public engagement, academic enterprise, student enterprise and public relations. Congratulations to all those who have been shortlisted for an award. The winners will be announced at the Awards ceremony in February. Find out more about all shortlisted projects on the Public Engagement website.

Welcome to our first Erasmus+ exchange students from India

Vanya Gupta, an exchange student from the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), said: “I picked Queen Mary because its School of Law is pretty well recognised around the globe, but also because London is a city where you can discover something new probably every day of the week. As an ambassador for my home institution, I hope that both Queen Mary and NLSIU see this exchange programme as encouraging for many more years to come. More.

Transformation of Mathematical Sciences building begins

Works are underway to transform the Mathematical Sciences building at the Mile End campus, including complete internal refurbishment, recladding of the existing tower and a single-storey extension to the north. Home to the School of Mathematical Sciences, the £18m project will fully modernise the building which has been a familiar site on the Mile End Road since the 1960s. More.

More news from across Queen Mary:

  • Congratulations to Richard Bourke, Professor in the History of Political Thought, who was awarded the Honourable Mention in the 2018 Laura Shannon Prize from the Nanovic Institute for European Studies for his book Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke. More.
  • The new Universities Minister Sam Gyimah has said that a review of student tuition fees is on the way. He was speaking at the Mile End Institute at Queen Mary, in his first public appearance since his appointment to the role. More.

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.

Notices

Queen Mary’s Student Survey Season launches Monday 5 February

For the first time this year, Queen Mary is running a Student Survey Season, bringing together the three major surveys for all taught students.

  • The National Student Survey (NSS) runs from Monday 29 January to Monday 30 April and is open to all final-year undergraduates
  • The UK Engagement Survey (UKES) runs from Monday 5 February to Friday 23 March and is open to all undergraduates except final years
  • The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) runs from Friday 5 February to Friday 25 May and is open to all postgraduate taught students.

The Student Survey Season will launch on Monday 5 February with a number of promotional activities around our campuses. Please use the links above for further details and to find out how you can get involved. Contact Catriona Heaton at c.heaton@qmul.ac.uk if you need any more information.

Meeting the requirements of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) Open Access (OA) policy

A reminder to make sure that your research outputs are compliant with the REF 2021 OA policy. Any published material that is not compliant with the policy, or covered by a valid exception to the policy, will not be eligible for inclusion in the REF. Being prevented from submitting high-quality outputs for this reason could have a significant detrimental effect, on reputation and financially, to your school or institute, and overall to the university. The OA policy in the next REF applies to journal articles, and conference papers in proceedings with an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number), and came into force for all papers falling within these categories and accepted for publication on or after Friday 1 April 2016. More.

Enter the Get Active triathlon for free

Sign up now for the annual indoor triathlon taking place on Tuesday 13 February in Qmotion Sport and Fitness Centre at Mile End, involving a 2km row, 6km cycle and 2km run. You can complete it individually or as a team, and you do not have to be a gym member to take part.

Events, lectures and seminars

  • Writers @QMUL: Anjali Joseph reading and in conversation | RSVP
  • Grand Round continues on Wednesday 31 January at 12.45pm in the Morris Lecture Theatre, Robin Brook Centre, West Smithfield. An out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivor and his wife who witnessed the collapse will start the presentation, followed by clinical presenters Dr Ajay Jain and Dr Anthony Bastin, and then some audit figures from the Barts Heart Centre around cardiac arrest. Please contact Dr Will Drake for further.
  • Join the Life Sciences Initiative's (LSI) postgraduate research networking event, aimed at bringing together all those researching or working within the remit of life sciences, and to celebrate the achievements of our LSI PGR students | Find our more
  • The Knowledge Quarter invites Queen Mary staff to help mark its third anniversary at a one-day conference of talks and workshops on the ‘Future of knowledge’ in an age of untruth | Find out more

Training and development opportunities

Vacancies at Queen Mary

Recent vacancies advertised on the HR website include a Halls Manager in Estates and Facilities, a Non-Clinical Lecturer in Dental Materials in the Institute of Dentistry, and a Senior Planning Officer (Returns) in the Strategic Planning Office. For more information, see jobs.qmul.ac.uk.

 

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