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Week
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2004 |
Staff BriefingA joint initiative by MIS, Corporate Communications and Inprint & Design |
Edition
170 
Next edition of the briefing
- Monday 21 June (afternoon)
Please send entries through in plenty of time to guarantee entry to the briefing.
Email: briefing@bradford.ac.uk
Yorkshire Graduate Recruitment Fair
The Yorkshire Graduate Recruitment Fair, jointly organised by Career Development Services and the University of Leeds Careers Service, will be on Tuesday 15th June at the University of Leeds, Sports and Exhibition Centre from 10.00am to 4.30pm.
The Fair is the biggest one yet with nearly 100 organisations attending, all of them offering opportunities for new and recent graduates. It is open to graduates from any University, so please feel free to invite any graduate jobseekers you know to come along.
There is also a special Local Employment Zone at the event for those graduates seeking work within Yorkshire.
Further details from http://www.leeds.ac.uk/yorkshirefair (external link, will open in a new window) or Susan Wilson, 4996, s.wilson@bradford.ac.uk
Final reminder to all Staff who want to attend the July award ceremonies
2004
The deadline for applications is Friday 18th June, we cannot guarantee a ticket/ robe after that date.
If you wish to participate in the academic procession or apply for a guest ticket in the auditorium please complete the Staff Reply Form now available online at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/student-registry/awards/staff.htm
In the event of any query regarding the above please contact Claire Cuvier ext 3057 or C.M.Cuvier@bradford.ac.uk
Down a Rainbow
2 for 1 tickets for University of Bradford staff
Jeremy Nicholls & Theatre in the Mill present
Down a Rainbow
Thursday 17 and Friday 18 June at 9pm
Atrium, JB Priestley Library
Tickets £6.50, concessions £4.00
The second of Theatre in the Mill's special commissions, this time in partnership with the J.B. Priestley Library, Dr. Christine Finn and film-maker Jeremy Nicholls.
In 1954 Priestley and his wife Jacquetta Hawkes visited the American South West with a set purpose, to explore man as a social animal. Whilst Priestley explored the male dominated, stainless steel-clad Texas of the oil-boom, Hawkes reflected upon the arts, crafts and immemorial rites of the Pueblo and Navaho Indians. From this journey emerged a remarkable book 'Journey Down a Rainbow'.
Fellow in Theatre, Iain Bloomfield, Dr Christine Finn and film-maker Jeremy Nicholls (Frantic Assembly, Oily Cart) create a piece for film and actors that reflects upon this magnificent book and aims to contribute to the reassessment of the work of Jacquetta Hawkes, prior to the publication of her biography by Christine Finn.
Please note that seats are strictly limited to 25 per performance
Box Office 01274 233200 (quote
staff briefing offer)
Email theatre@bradford.ac.uk
(quote staff briefing offer)
Free Lunchtime Concerts 
Tasmin Little Music, University of Bradford Centre presents Free Lunchtime Concerts at Gallery II and the Yorkshire Craft Centre
Contemporary
Connexions
New
music by composers with a Yorkshire Connection
Yorkshire
Craft Centre
Wednesday 16th June, 12.30pm
Robin Michael
solo cello
Programme
- B.A. Zimmerman - Sonata (1960)
- Colin Matthews - Palinodes
- Christopher Fox - Generic Piece no.3
- Ian Dickson - Mirade Fuerte (Society for the Promotion of New Music Piece)
- Britten - 3rd Suite for solo cello (op.87)
Gallery
II
- alongside exhibition of paintings by John Blenkinsopp
Wednesday 30th June, 12.30pm
Rowland Sutherland, flautist
Programme
- Eugene Bozza - Image
- Peter Maxwell Davies - Nocturne (alto flute)
- Kazuo Fukushima - Requiem
- Henry Cowell - The Universal Flute
- Elliott Carter - Scrivo in Vento
- Sadie Harrison - 3 Expositions
- Joe Cutler - Songs of the Kioti
- Rowland Sutherland - New Work
- Dai Fujikura - Ophelia (alto flute)
Wednesday 21st July, 12.30pm
Darragh Morgan, violin
Programme
- Bill Campbell - Flight Home
- Bryn Harrison - Cassiopeia
- Christopher Fox - How Time Passes
- James Saunders - 511 Possible Mosaics
- John Cage - 8 Whiskus
- Joe Cutler - (re)Gaia
- Yannis Kyriakides - Snake Music (UK Premiere)
Bradford Gallery Yorkshire
Craft Centre
Carlton Street
Bradford BD7 1AY
Enquiries - Mark Robinson
01274 233191, e-mail music@bradford.ac.uk
Yorkshire Craft Centre - 01274 433334
Contemporary Connexions gratefully acknowledges support from the Holst Foundation
Staff Development Events
Places available on the following Staff Development Unit events:
Get That Interview! - a 2-hour session for staff who are interested in improving their applications for jobs internally within manual, clerical and technician grades to help them understand the process of getting shortlisted for internal jobs and how to improve their skills in this area. Thursday 24 June 2004, 12.00 - 14.00. For further information and booking: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=660
Excellence through Diversity - a 5 hour customised diversity workshop to develop specific skills in managing the challenges raised by workplace diversity and recognising the importance of inclusion-based practices. This course is specifically for staff who have already attending an 'Introduction to Managing Diversity' Course. Wednesday 30 June 2004, 09.15 - 14.00. For more information and booking: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=438
Clearing Helpline Training - A 3.5 hour session to prepare those staff who deal with telephone enquiries from potential students during the period immediately after A-level results are circulated, and to ensure that potential students and their parents get the highest possible quality of service from the University, during the time admissions staff know as "Clearing". Suitable for those staffing the Central Helpline or School Base Rooms. Wednesday 30 June 2004 either 09.00 - 12.30 or 13.00 - 16.30. There are also two sessions on both 9 and 21 July 2004. For more information and booking: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=544
Disability Issues - a 1-day course to raise awareness of the issues for staff recruiting on behalf of the University or for staff who wish to understand the implications of Disability issues on their work. This course (in addition to the 2-day Recruitment & Selection training course) is mandatory for staff who wish to recruit and select on behalf of the University, but is also very relevant to staff who wish to understand further implications for students and students. Friday 2 July 2004, 09.00 - 16.30. For more information and booking: http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=423
Learning Support Seminars from TQEG
Learning Technology Strand
- Video Conference Seminar:
"eLearning Strategies - Knowledge Management Strategies - do we need
them?"
Presented by Helen Hayes, Vice-Principal for Knowledge Management and Librarian to the University of Edinburgh on 15 June 2004.
Further information and programme can be obtained via: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/tqeg/Programmes/LSSeminars03-4/videoconference.htm
Excellence Plus Strand
- Teaching Quality Information on 18 June 2004
Further information can be obtained via: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/tqeg/Programmes/LSSeminars03-04/excellenceplus.htm
To book a place e-mail tqe-sec@bradford.ac.uk or phone ext 3286.
Research Newsletter
The first copy of the new Research Newsletter has been published by the Research Office on the web and this can be found at http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/rsil/Newsletter/newsletterfp.htm
We hope we can get news and research information out to everyone quickly by publishing this Newsletter every fortnight on-line.
If you have any items which you would like including in the Newsletter, please send details to l.d.nuttall@bradford.ac.uk
Mass Bike-in to Work, and Free Breakfast - Wednesday 16 June
Monday 14 - Sunday 20 June is National Bike Week, and the University is encouraging staff to cycle to work.
If you live in the Aire Valley, join dozens of other cyclists in a mass bike-in on Wednesday 16 June, which leaves Keighley at 7:15 am and passes through Crossflatts, Bingley, Saltaire, Shipley, Frizinghall, Manningham Lane, and arrives at the Richmond Building by 8.25am - (full timetable at http://www.brad.ac.uk/campus/uni-cyclist/).
There you can have a free breakfast in the foyer, sponsored by Bradford University's Catering department and Bicycle User Group.
If you would like to cycle in along another route, or on a different day, we may be able to fix you up with a 'bike buddy' who can accompany you. Contact Brian Ford, b.r.ford@bradford.ac.uk, (ext 3421) or David Dodwell, d.dodwell@bradford.ac.uk (ext 5356).
New cyclists to work in National Bike Week will get FREE membership of the Bicycle User Group, entitling you to use of bike lockers, showers and a number of other benefits.
For more details of local and national activities for National Bike Week visit http://www.brad.ac.uk/campus/uni-cyclist/
Warning to motorists.
Because of the number of cyclists on the road your journey may be delayed by up to two minutes. You may wish to adjust your time of travel or find an alternative route.
Summer
closure of catering outlets
As of the end of term (Friday 11th June) Jazzmans and the Staff Refectory are closed for the summer period.
Thank you from the National Blood Service
The National Blood Service would like to say a big thank you to all of the organisations who show their community spirit by allowing staff and / or students to donate in working hours.
They have send through a PowerPoint presentation detailing the organisations who have donated over the past three years.
See
the presentation (large PowerPoint file)
University Eye Clinic news
The University Eye Clinic, on Listerhills Science Park (opposite Longside Halls), will be open Monday - Friday all Summer to provide Eye Examinations, Contact Lenses, Spectacles, Diabetic Eye Screening, Binocular Vision assessments (incorporating our new Paediatric Clinic - for infants & children under 10) and Low Vision Assessments.
The Summer clinics will provide further clinical experience for students on our pioneering BSc Career Progression course in Optometry, an intensive calendar year course for qualified Dispensing Opticians with additional qualifications in contact lens practice.
For more information about our services, see our web pages, www.brad.ac.uk/acad/lifesci/optometry/clinics/index.htm , or for more details (or to book an appointment), phone ext 4649.
Widening
Participation Forum - 17th June 
JB Priestley Library room 01.58 4.00PM - 5.00PM
All staff and students are invited to this new, university Widening Participation Forum.
The aims are to:
- Widen the real participation of staff and students within the arena of widening participation
- Share best/good practice/strategies in widening participation
- Keep abreast of University and Government developments
- To work across School boundaries in addressing widening participation issues
- Encourage communication and debate in the field of widening participation
The first meeting will focus on the achievements during 2002-03 as reported in the University's own publication 'Achieving Student Diversity'. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and discuss the activities described in this report.
All attendees will be asked to contribute suggestions to the future frequency and content of the forum's meetings.
To book, please email Rebecca Heaf r.s.m.heaf@bradford.ac.uk, ext: 5363.
If you have not already received a copy of 'Achieving Student Diversity', or wish to receive further copies, please email Anne Weston a.c.weston@bradford.ac.uk, ext 3211.
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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