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Staff BriefingA joint initiative by MIS, Corporate Communications and Inprint & Design |
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Next editions of the briefing
- Monday 15 November
- TUESDAY 23 November
- Monday 29 November
Please send entries through in plenty of time to guarantee entry to the briefing. Please don't use capital letters for headings or sentences - they only get changed back to sentence case!
Email: briefing@bradford.ac.uk
Get a Home Computer at University prices though the UBYou Staff Home Computing
Initiative
Why should students get all the best deals?
The University is the first in the UK to launch this brand new scheme. It allows our staff to buy computers for their families and home at very competitive 'Buy It Now' prices or to save even more cash and pay for it through wages over three years using a tax beneficial government scheme.
If you are a standard rate taxpayer you could have a brand new PC with three years warranty for as little as £3.29 per week or a Notebook for £4.04.
For more details of this fantastic new scheme see the attached poster below and visit http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/it-services/pc-purchase/.
If you want to find out more why not visit the UBYou promotion stands and ask any questions. The stands will be located as follows:
- in the Richmond Foyer on November 10th from 9:00 to 17:00
- at Seasons Refectory, Emm Lane on November 17th 09:00 to 13:00
- in Unity Building on November 17th 14:00 to 17:00
The 'window' for expressing an interest in the initial promotion is running from November 8th to November 19th. We hope that orders placed will be available for Christmas delivery.
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From Santa's Little Helpers in Learning Support Services
Celebrating Our Research
Research Showcase Event
Tuesday 23 November 2004
All academic staff and research students are invited to a research showcase, to be held on Tuesday 23 November (10 am - 4 pm) here at the university.
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HERA - progress
Come along and hear about the progress that is being made on the assimilation of staff onto the new single spine and have your chance to ask questions. I will be giving a presentation on progress made and will be available, with a member of the HERA team, to answer your questions.
You can attend any of the following sessions:
- Friday 12th November - 1-2 pm, Main Lecture Theatre, School of Health
- Monday 15th November - 12-1 pm, C1.3 Chesham
- Wednesday 24th November 2-3 pm, N&P Lecture Theatre, School of Management
- Thursday 25th November 9.30-10.30, John Stanley Bell, Richmond
Janet Jones
Director of
Human Resources
HR
strategies - volunteers needed
Are you willing to volunteer to comment on the impact of HR strategies in terms of the way you were recruited, trained and developed, consulted, managed and rewarded?
HEFCE has commissioned KPMG to evaluate of the funding that has been made available over the last 3 years to implement our HR Strategy.
KPMG are looking for 4 lecturers or research staff who work at the University of Bradford to attend a focus group at Leeds University on Monday, 15 November 2004 between 10.00am and 12.30pm.
Please E-mail Shirley McTurk (s.a.mcturk@bradford.ac.uk) if you are willing to attend and she will pass on the contact details.
Thanks
Janet Jones
Director of Human Resources
Applicant Visit Days - notice about parking arrangements
Over the next few months UCAS applicants to the University will be invited to visit Departments, both for interview and to be shown Department and University facilities.
Full details of parking arrangements on these days are available here.
Corporate Communications are having a bit of a swap round!
Corporate Communications will be having an office swap-around on Monday 15th November. As such the office will be closed all day, some of the phone lines may not work and some of us will be without PCs for the day. Best to email our general address on that day - corp-comms@bradford.ac.uk and we will do our best to reply as soon as we can.
And do pop in from Tuesday 16th to see who is sitting where!
Thanks
Enterprise Week
Enterprise Week will kick off from the 15th November and there are activities planned for the whole week across the country.
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Enterprise
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ThinkBusiness is co-ordinating activities at the University which include:
Enterprise Week Seminar
Monday 15th - 2pm at John Stanley Bell Lecture Theatre
Speakers from the National Enterprise Network, Invest in Bradford and
Suma Wholefoods - The Radical Company.
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Enterprise Show
Thursday 18th - 10am to 5pm Great and Small Halls, Richmond Building -
and ThinkBusiness Incubator Open Day
Music/Enterprise Skills
Workshop
Friday 19th - Communal Building 3pm
Getting Started in the Music
Industry
Friday 19th Communal Building 4pm
Presentation by First Word Records on how to make your mark on the music
scene.
For further information see the information sheet above or contact Shahid Rasul on ext: 5681, email s.rasul1@bradford.ac.uk.
This week at Theatre in the
Mill - all free!
Monday 8th November at 7.30pm
Acting Skills 2 - BUTG workshop (all welcome) run by Iain Bloomfield.
Fellow in Theatre. FREE.
Wednesday
10th November at 12.30pm
Sonic Theatre. Free.
Chrissie Lockwood - Live vocal electronics, Mark Robinson - Trumpet, Phill
Harding - Percussion, Paul Hopkins - sound projection. Perform works by
Stockhausen, Cage and Christina Lockwood
Friday
12th November at 7.30pm
Free Rehearsed reading of extracts from 'Oxygen' by Djerassi and Hoffman
To mark the bicentenary of the death of Joseph Priestley the piece explores
the nature of discovery and originality in terms of the 18th Chemical
Revolution.
Monday
15th November 7.30pm
Writing workshop, BUTG (all welcome) run by the Theatre in the Mill's
newly appointed writer in residence Michael Stewart. Free.
Full details from Theatre in the Mill's website.
Email: theatre@bradford.ac.uk or ring ext: 3185 to reserve free tickets for Oxygen or for further details on the workshop programme.
New Exhibition at Gallery II
Uncle Eric's Box
An Edwardian gentleman-explorer; a government entomologist in 1920s Egypt; tea with Queen Natalie of Serbia . . .
Uncle Eric's Box is an ongoing series of work based upon the journals, diaries and imagined history of the artist's great-uncle. Using a single, rusting metal trunk the artist has cast in muslin fifteen boxes. A small recess in the lid of each box contains artefacts, memorabilia, entomological field notes.
Henny Burnett works as an installation artist and printmaker. In recent years her work has taken on an overtly autobiographical element, part factual, part invented. She draws in particular on journals, artefacts and memorabilia inherited from obscure and sometimes eccentric relatives and distant family members.
Henny studied Sculpture, Printmaking (Post Graduate Diploma) and Design (BA) at Edinburgh College of Art, and is now living and working in Salisbury, Wiltshire. She has exhibited widely in Scotland and the South West; however Uncle Eric's Box offers a chance to see Henny's work in Yorkshire for the first time.
This is a rare opportunity and an exhibition not to be missed.
Tel: 01274 23(5495)
Email: gallery@bradford.ac.uk
Free Lunchtime concert
Wednesday 10 November 12.30pm
Sonic Theatre
Theatre in the Mill
Free
- Chrissie Lockwood - live vocal electronics
- Mark Robinson - trumpet
- Paul Hopkins - sound projection
ARIES - for trumpet and tape
(1977) Karlheinz Stockhausen
Stockhausen realised that music can be about the way sound moves around
space, the way different sounds collide and clatter. His electronic music
has paved the way for all sorts of groundbreaking genres from prog-rock
to techno.
Three Piece Suite - Little
Pieces of Me (2004)
Christina Lockwood Combining improvised vocal techniques with the MAX
computer programme, Chrissie records up to 16 tracks and loops them with
pre-composed electronic music. The results are mind-blowing.
Living Room Music (1976)
John Cage In Cage's Living Room Music the players use any part of the
'living room' as an instrument.
Royal Institute of Philosophy Seminar
This seminar has had to be cancelled due to illness (updated 9 November)
Roger Hausheer, formerly of the Department of Modern Languages will give a lecture on "Liberty".
Wednesday 10 November, 4pm, in N24.
Learning Support Seminars and Events from TQEG
Progress Files1: University Framework on 15 November at 1300-1400 in Room 1.7, JBP Library Building - Presented by Prof Peter Hartley of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Does Work in Widening Participation Really Raise Aspirations? on 17 November at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Caroline Hart and Nadira Mirza of the School of Lifelong Learning and Development
Learning Outcomes and Assessment Practices on 24 November at 1300-1400 in Room 1.7, JBP Library Building - Presented by Dr Chris Alder of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Engaging with Young People on 1 December at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Nadira Mirza and Sophia Khan of the School of Lifelong Education and Development.
Assessing Key Skills on 8 December at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Prof Peter Hartley of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Training for Invigilators on 15 December at 1300-1500 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Dr Jon Owen of the Academic Standards and Support Unit.
Details of the above events and online booking can be found via: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_courselist.pl
Please contact Christine Rayment or Beverley Lyons on 5138 or email tqe.sec@bradford.ac.uk if you have further enquiries.
Places available on the following Staff Development Unit events:
Assertiveness and Dealing with Difficult People - a one-day course for any staff to provide strategies and techniques for identifying behaviour types and communicating effectively, particularly those people we find difficult. Wednesday 17 November 2004, 09.00 - 16.45.
Legislation Overview - a one day course for managers to raise awareness of the implications of employment legislation on their role as manager. Friday 19 November 2004, 09.15 - 16.30.
Learning in Groups Weekend - a Friday evening to Sunday afternoon with undergraduate students. To help staff learn more about how to organise student learning in groups. It's also good for your own team development skills and lots of fun. Friday 26 to Sunday 28 November 2004, Friday at 6pm to Sunday at 4pm.
NB: A briefing session (including lunch) has been organised for staff who are interested in attending the Learning in Groups weekend, on Thursday, 11 November between 1pm - 3pm.
Managing Change - a half day course for middle managers to help: understand the general principles of managing change and how to assist staff through the uncertainties of a change. Friday, 29 November 2004, 09.30 - 12.30.
Places available on the following Knowledge Transfer events:
Enterprise - a 1-hour session for teaching staff to discuss how they might work across the university to embed teaching in creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in the curriculum. Tuesday 9 November 2004, 12.00 - 13.00.
News from Student Financial
and Information Services (SFIS)
Late Student Loans and NHS bursaries - help us to help students
Many students still have not received their funding, we are loaning money to them to keep body and soul together. Some may not receive any funding until December or January, many of these have childcare and a mortgage to pay. We have sent information to all students several times, put up posters and informed staff but there are still many who have managed to avoid the information.
If students are unsure what to do please send them to us, we can help (this only applies to home students).
We are in touch on a weekly basis with the DfES. They are trying to speed the process but it is not looking good.
We are doing everything we can to help our students out, so let them know that we are here for them - SFIS, communal building.
Very hungry students
Many thanks to those staff who have donated food for those without funds. We are now running very low on food to give to those with little or no money. If you have any non-perishable foodstuffs please let us know, we can collect from you. The students are really grateful.
Recycle your goods
The students' union is always very happy to receive clothing, (especially for children and babies), household items and anything else that you think students could use. Dig out your old pram, pushchair etc and donate to the Union. This helps students out when money is very tight.
Nominations for Honorary Degrees
There is an opportunity for staff to submit nominations for the award of honorary degrees for consideration by the Honorary Degrees Committee at a meeting to be held on 24 November.
Proposals to include biographical details and a full supporting statement should be sent under confidential cover to Nick Buck, Student Registry, by no later than Wednesday 10 November.
Further details with regard to current policy and associated guidelines can be found at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/student-registry/awards/Honorary_Degrees.htm
Staff
Attendance at December Award Ceremonies
Information for staff who wish to attend the award ceremonies on Wednesday 1 December 2004 is available via the Student Registry web site. If you wish to participate in the academic procession or apply for a guest ticket in the auditorium please complete the Staff Reply Form available on line at http://www.bradford.ac.uk/admin/student-registry/Degreeceremonies2004/staff.htm
If you should have any query with regard to the arrangements please contact Claire Cuvier ext 3057 or C.M.Cuvier@bradford.ac.uk
Please note - the closing date for applications is Wednesday 10 November 2004.
Christmas Lunch 2004
Wednesday 8th - Friday 10th
December
Monday 13th - Friday 17th December
Lunch Bookings at 12noon
£8.00 (Inclusive of VAT)
All bookings to be made through
the catering office on ext: 4901.
Job Vacancies at the University and College
Current vacancies at the University and College can be found at the Personnel website:
http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/personnel/jobvacancies/
The weekly bulletin can also be found as a pdf from the same page.
All queries should be directed to Personnel: ext: 5347, email: personnel@bradford.ac.uk
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