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BriefingOne of the main themes for the Staff Development programme for 2011-12, is Customer Focus: Enhancing the Student Experience and to complement this theme there are several training courses scheduled over the next few weeks. The one-day ‘Delivering an Excellent Customer Service’ seeks to give staff a good understanding of what it means to deliver good customer service and focuses on what they might do to improve their own performance in this area.
We also have a series of bitesize workshops designed to complement the one day course. These bitesize sessions can be attended in any order and staff can elect to do one, two or more to suit their learning need. There are still places available on all these sessions some of which will be delivered by external trainers.
Date |
Course |
Further Info |
27th October 2011 |
Bite Size Workshop Series |
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28th October 2011 |
External Trainer |
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15th November 2011 |
Bite Size Workshop Series |
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21st November 2011 |
Bite sized Workshop Series |
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23rd November 2011 |
Bite Sized Workshop Series |
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25th November 2011 |
External Trainer |
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29th November 2011 |
Bite Sized Workshop Series |
Robert John Naylor D.Sc.
Professor Robert Naylor retired from the School of Pharmacy on 30 September after being here for 47 years. Robert, along with 59 other B.Pharm students, gained his pharmacy degree in 1966 and was one of the first graduates from Bradford. He went on to work with Dr Jean Olley in Pharmacology and went onto to become international ‘names’ in pharmacology. The names of Costall and Naylor could be found in literally hundreds of publications. More recently Robert was commissioned to write a book on ‘Medication Errors’ which was well received and gained an award for the European medical book of the year. He provided the Bradford School of Pharmacy a world-wide reputation for excellence in research.
Full details of Robert’s time at the University and career
Dr Liz Kelly
Dr Liz Kelly retired from the Bradford School of Pharmacy at the end of the last academic year. Liz gained her first degree here and joined the neuropharmacology research group headed by Professors Costall and Naylor. Liz became an expert in modelling behaviour and helped to develop new potential therapies to mange mental illness. Liz was also an accomplished teacher and this culminated in her receiving the Chancellor’s award for excellence in teaching. Liz’s interests in teaching practice extended nationally where she was involved in creating materials for the Pharma-CAL-ogy consortium.
Pharmacy Welcomes Professor Alison Blenkinsopp
Professor Alison Blenkinsopp has joined the University’s School of Pharmacy in the newly created post of Professor of the Practice of Pharmacy. Having graduated from Bradford School of Pharmacy, Professor Blenkinsopp has held academic posts at several universities and was Founder Director of the NHS Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (England). Her research includes a national evaluation of nurse and pharmacist independent prescribing, and a study of benefits and costs of cardiovascular risk screening (NHS Health Checks) in community pharmacies.
Step 1: Check the student is using their correct Windows Live ID - this is their username plus @student.bradford.ac.uk, eg:
branybo6@student.bradford.ac.uk (NOT b.r.anybody6@student.bradford.ac.uk).
Step 2: If the student still cannot login, ask them to change their password at a password kiosk in the Hub or near the printers in J B Priestley Library, or on the web (www.bradford.ac.uk/lss/it-services/password/index.php) and to WAIT ONE HOUR before trying to login again.
Passwords MUST:
- be between 8 and 16 characters long;
- contain a number, lowercase and uppercase letter in the first 8 characters.
Passwords MUST NOT contain:
- recognisable names or words;
- spaces or non-English characters.
- their username (e.g. jrbloggs@student.bradford.ac.uk CANNOT have the password jrbloggs, jrBLoggs or jrBloggsisAce);
Step 3: If this is still not successful, ask the student to try logging into Blackboard (http://blackboard.brad.ac.uk/) :
- If they CANNOT, they have not remembered their password correctly and will need to change it (following the criteria above).
- If they CAN, there is a problem with Microsoft accepting the password - the student will need to change it (following the criteria above).
Please book your tickets as soon as possible to ensure your seats in the Media and Conflict Interchange film festival next week. Also don’t forget to register if you wish to attend the Thursday workshops.
5 films are being screened at The Pictureville, National Media Museum next Tuesday and Wednesday, accompanied by guest speakers. Tickets are free for our students and staff. You can have your tickets reserved by ringing the museum box office (0844 856 3797) and giving them your student/staff card details, along with the films you intend to see, or you can collect your tickets in person from the museum. (Don’t try to book through the National Media Museum website as this is designed only for the paying public).
View the schedule and more information
The Bradford Cognition and Brain Group (BCBG) are a group of academics, students, and other individuals across the University of Bradford who share an interest in cognition or any type of brain functioning or behaviour. Please follow the link below for details of our forthcoming seminar series, which this year includes several invited speakers. We hope that you will be able to join us. All talks will take place on Wednesdays from 1pm-2pm in Richmond L30.
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/psychology/Research/BradfordCognitionandBrainGroup/
Please contact us Dr Valerie Lesk v.lesk@bradford.ac.uk or Dr Gill Waters g.m.waters@bradford.ac.uk if you would like to join the BCBG email list or would like more information about the group.
The BBC Head of Religion and Ethics programming, Aaqil Ahmed, will be giving a talk in Student Central Room SC0.51 on Tuesday November 1st from 1.30 to 2.30. All are welcome to this event organised by Bradford Media School.
Stage two of the fire alarm replacement scheme within Richmond Building has now been completed. In order to ensure that the system is functioning as required it will be necessary to undertake a full and thorough test to ensure everything operates as we need it to.
Therefore it will be necessary to close the Richmond building between the hours between 8am and 4pm on Saturday and Sunday, 5 and 6 November. Should the work be completed earlier than anticipated Security will be advised that the building may be occupied at the earlier time.
JBP library toilet on level two will be closed from Monday 24 October for refurbishment. Once complete refurbishment work will commence on level One. We aim to have both levels completed by Christmas.
Access for the contractors and delivery of materials will be via the staff lift and storage will be managed locally in each of the refurbishment areas, which will be cordoned off as the contractor's site during non working hours.
The Atrium passenger lift will be out of service from 12.30-4.30pm on Wednesday (26 October) to enable cleaning of the internal shaft and glazing. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
Staff Training Opportunities
| Course ID | Details/Booking form | Start date | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Start time | End time | Venue | Leaders |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01010379 | ECDL/ITQ Workshop | 31-OCT-11 | - | - | - | 13:30 | 14:59 | F29, RICHMOND | IT Training |
| 01010393 | ECDL Tests | 31-OCT-11 | - | - | - | 15:00 | 16:00 | F29, RICHMOND | IT Training |
| 01010645 | Prof'l Reward & Recog for LTA | 01-NOV-11 | - | - | - | 14:00 | 16:00 | D0.09, HORTON | Centre for Educational Development |
| 01010572 | Managing Stress Through Relaxation | 02-NOV-11 | - | - | - | 12:30 | 13:30 | To be included with joining instructions | Staff Development Unit |
| EVAC111102 | Evac+Chair Training | 02-Nov-11 | - | - | - | 09:30 | 12:30 | D1, Richmond Building | Steve Wiggins |
| 01010613 | Being a Great Module Leader | 03-NOV-11 | - | - | - | 14:00 | 16:00 | 01.58, JBPRIESTLE | Centre for Educational Development |
| 01010310 | Using Site Manager for Moderators | 03-NOV-11 | - | - | - | 09:30 | 12:30 | F29, RICHMOND | IT Training |
| FIR1111108 | Fire Safety and Practical Fire Training | 08-Nov-11 | - | - | - | 13:00 | 16:30 | D1, Richmond Building | Steve Wiggins |
| 01010506 | New Staff Induction | 08-NOV-11 | - | - | - | 13:20 | 16:45 | To be included with joining instructions | Staff Development Unit |
| 01010271 | Using Site Manager for Contributors | 08-NOV-11 | - | - | - | 13:30 | 16:30 | F29, RICHMOND | IT Training |
| 01010716 | Being a Great Personal Academic Tutor | 08-NOV-11 | - | - | - | 14:00 | 16:00 | D0.09, HORTON | Centre for Educational Development |
| 01010830 | Ethics Overview Session | 09-NOV-11 | - | - | - | 12:30 | 14:00 | D2, RICHMOND | Research & Knowledge Transfer Support |
| 01010382 | ECDL/ITQ Workshop | 09-NOV-11 | - | - | - | 09:30 | 11:00 | F29, RICHMOND | IT Training |
| 01010366 | NVQ IT Half Workshop | 10-NOV-11 | - | - | - | 13:30 | 16:30 | F29, RICHMOND | IT Training |
| 01010750 | Managing Your Stress/Building Resilience | 10-NOV-11 | - | - | - | 14:00 | 17:00 | To be included with joining instructions | Staff Development Unit |
| 01010410 | Windows Essentials | 10-NOV-11 | 11-NOV-11 | - | - | 09:30 | 12:30 | F29, RICHMOND | IT Training |
| 01010646 | HE Academy Fellowships | 14-NOV-11 | - | - | - | 13:00 | 14:00 | , | Centre for Educational Development |
| 01010412 | IT Systems at Bradford | 14-NOV-11 | 15-NOV-11 | - | - | 09:30 | 12:30 | F29, RICHMOND | IT Training |
| 01010488 | Listening To Our Customers | 15-NOV-11 | - | - | - | 14:00 | 15:30 | To be included with joining instructions | Staff Development Unit |
| 01010556 | Assertiveness | 15-NOV-11 | - | - | - | 09:30 | 13:00 | To be included with joining instructions | Staff Development Unit |
| 01010618 | Prof'l Reward & Recog for LTA (Webinar) | 15-NOV-11 | - | - | - | 09:30 | 11:00 | , | Centre for Educational Development |
Current Internal Job Vacancies at the University can be found on the Information for Staff section of the Human Resources website (UoB username and password required).
The page is password protected so you need to click on the Internal Job Vacancies link on the left hand side and you will be prompted for your details.
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Email: briefing@bradford.ac.uk with the title "For the briefing" in the email subject.