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Week
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Edition
195 
Next edition of the briefing
- Monday 10 January 2005
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
Places available on the following Staff Development Unit events:
Managing Diversity Wednesday 12 January 2005, 09.00 - 17.00 Target Audience: All staff, especially managers Raises awareness of issues relating to equality and diversity.
Performance Management Monday 17 & Tuesday 18 January, 09.15 - 16.45 Target Audience: Anyone who manages other staff This course aims to provide techniques for: managing good performance, and setting targets for improving poor performance; dealing with unacceptable behaviour, including how to use disciplinary procedures and sickness absence.
Coaching Skills (2 days) Thursday 20 & Friday 21 January 2005 Target Audience: Anyone who manages other staff. Techniques and insights that enable managers to be more effective coaches. For more information and booking:
Blackboard unavailable
The Blackboard service will be unavailable on the following dates to allow for essential upgrade work:
- Wednesday 5 January 2005
- Thursday 6 January 2005
- Monday 10 January 2005
We apologise for the inconvenience.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact Ken Panko at k.j.panko@bradford.ac.uk or ext. 3328.
Special
Offer to staff at the University from St George's Hall
Raymond Gubbay presents
The Russian State Ballet of Siberia
The Sleeping Beauty
St George's Hall, Bradford:
Saturday 8 - Sunday 9 January 2005
Save £5 on selected ticket
prices
The offer applies to the performance on Sunday 9 January at 7.30pm and to tickets priced £27.50 & £25.50 only
With its timeless themes of love, innocence and the triumph of good over evil, The Sleeping Beauty has enchanted generations of children for well over a century. Tchaikovsky's magnificent score perfectly captures the magic and mystery of this wonderful fairy tale, and the Russian State Ballet Company of Siberia has produced a visually breathtaking production.
Call 01274 432000 and quote 'Sleeping Beauty offer'.
This offer is subject to availability and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. It does not apply to tickets already booked.
Conditions apply.
More details available from the St George's Hall website (external link, will open in a new browser window)
The Unit for Educational Research and Evaluation is moving
The Unit for Educational Research and Evaluation is to move office from the Tumbling Hill Street Annex to Unit 24 in the Science Park on Monday 20 December 2004.
We apologise for any break in communication that may occur during this time and can confirm that all existing telephone numbers and email addresses will remain the same.
A Happy Christmas and New Year to all!
Linda Fox
Research Administrator and Personal Assistant to Professor Ivan Reid
E: l.j.fox@bradford.ac.uk
T: 5984
Christmas Wine Offers at the SU Shop
Check out Christmas Wine Offers at the Students' Union Shop, Communal Building.
Free gift bag with every bottle purchased.
Lynda Smith on behalf of UBU Shop.
Activities
for students staying in Bradford over the Christmas vacation
For details of activities for students staying in Bradford over the Christmas vacation please see http://www.brad.ac.uk/international/christmas.php
Please can you bring this to the attention of any students that you are aware of who may be lonely during this time.
Research Bulletin - latest
edition
The 17th December issue of the Research Bulletin is now available on the web and can be accessed at http://www.bradford.ac.uk/admin/rsil/Newsletter/newsletterfp.htm
Included in this issue:
- Move of Research Support Unit to Room C.56 in the Graduate School
- Research Showcase, Prizewinner
- BBSRC - Research Grant Application form updated
- Food Standards Agency Strategic Plan 2005-10
- NERC Pinboard - Open Call for Ideas
- Research Councils' Follow-on Fund
- British Academy - closing dates for small research grants, British Conference grants and Overseas Conference grants
- BBSRC - responsive mode application deadlines for 2005
- Research Councils UK - Basic Technology Research Programme
- Home Office - Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Materials Science and Technology Programme 2005
Bradford
Local Academic Women Network 
The Bradford Local Academic Women Network will be starting 2005 with an early exciting event, please mark this down in your diary, and we hope to see as many of you as possible.
This LAWN event will take place on January 10th, 2004, 12.30-1.30 in the Board Room, D Floor, Richmond Building, University of Bradford. Tea/Coffee available, please bring in your sandwich.
Keynote Speaker: Erica Williams
Erica will come to present the activities of the UK Resource Centre. This is a centre of excellence, continuing to break down barriers for women in science, engineering and technology. It provides an information base for girls and women, careers professionals, learning providers, employers, professional institutes and membership organisations and draws on the knowledge base that currently exists nationally to share and develop best practice.
We also provide best practice guidance in HR practices for employers and academia.
Erica Williams is Information and Knowledge Coordinator at UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Bradford College, Great Horton Road, Bradford, BD7 1AY
- Web: www.setwomenresource.org.uk (external link, will open in a new browser window)
- Web: www.letstwist.bradfordcollege.ac.uk (external link, will open in a new browser window)
- Web: www.jivepartners.org.uk (external link, will open in a new browser window)
This will provide an ideal platform to start out activities within our Local Academic Women Network.
Please confirm to Axele Giroud (a.l.a.giroud@bradford.ac.uk) that you will be able to join. Have a great christmas break, and see you on January 10th!
We need your stamps
Shirley Moorhouse in the Students' Union Advice Centre would like to ask all staff to save their stamps from the festive season and overseas to go towards Guide Dogs for the visually impaired.
You can send stamps all year round to - Shirley Moorhouse, Student Adviser in the Students' Union Advice Centre, Room 0.111, Communal Building. Many thanks.
The Eye Clinic, Listerhills Science Park
The Eye Clinic is open to staff, students and general public.
We are open Monday to Friday offering morning and afternoon appointments.
We have a large range of frames available with 25% discount off all frames and lenses!!
To make an appointment plese contact reception on ext: 4649.
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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