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Week ending Friday 28 October 2005 |
Staff BriefingA joint initiative by MIS, Corporate |
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Please keep entries concise with, if necessary, a link to further details on the web. Please check entries for accuracy and timeliness before sending. Deadline for entries is (generally) 12 noon each Friday.
Email: briefing@bradford.ac.uk
European Week of Safety and Health
Monday 24 October - Friday 28 October 2005
A number of events will be occurring during the week for staff and students. These include fire safety, personal safety, giving up smoking, Victor Marshall Conference, manual handling training, display screen equipment (VDU) training and much more.
A full programme of events is displayed at http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/safety
Special Offers at the Sports Centre
As part of Health and Safety week, the Sports Centre will be running a number of special offers.
- Buy a 12 month Choice membership, get one month free
- Buy one class, get one free (exclused salsa)
- Buy two aromatherapy or Sports Massages, get one free
- £5 off a deluxe facial
To take advantage of these offers, or for more information, call into the Sports Centre or telephone ext 4871.
Home Computer Initiative
The next window for staff to order a new computer for home and pay for it by tax-saving direct payments from your salary under the government's Home Computer Initiative opens on Monday October 31st and closes on Friday 18 November 2005. Any equipment ordered will be delivered in time for Christmas. Details of the HCI scheme and links to frequently asked questions and prices are provided at
htp://www.bradford.ac.uk/lss/it-services/ubyou/staff/
You can view the range of laptops, desktop PCs and printers that will be available at the following locations:
- Richmond building foyer - Wednesday November 2nd, 10.00 until 15.00
- School of Management, Senior Common Room, Emm Lane - Thursday November 3rd, 10.00 until 12.30
- School of Health, Unity foyer - Thursday November 3rd, 14.00 until 16.00.
Prices and specifications and an online ready reckoner to calculate your payments will be available at the start of November.
Nursery Scheme - Busy Bees
The University is able to offer all of its staff a Tax and National Insurance saving incentive scheme against payment of Nursery costs. The Scheme is run independently by Busy Bees and their promotional material is below for your information.
There is a separate scheme for the University-run Nursery, details of which can be obtained from either Glenda Dekker in the Nursery (g.dekker@bradford.ac.uk or ext. 4866) or Kevin Jeeps in Finance (k.d.jeeps@bradford.ac.uk or ext. 5743).
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Day trips for international students
We have a well established programme of day trips for international students once per month, and more frequently in vacation times, to places of interest in the local area and a little further afield. The trips usually take place on a Saturday or Sunday.
If you would like to volunteer to be a chaperone for these trips, please contact Sue Baker, International Office (s.m.baker@bradford.ac.uk or ext 3080)
Donations of toiletries and towels
Donations of unused toiletries, new hand towels and face flannels would be gratefully received by Student Financial and Information Services or the International Office, to supplement basic packs that we are arranging for students who find themselves in emergency situations.
Please deliver to SFIS or the International Office, or contact Sue Baker (s.m.baker@bradford.ac.uk, ext 3080) to arrange collection.
Career Opportunities Day
The University’s Careers Service is inviting students and graduates to a free careers event on Wednesday 9th November 2005.
The ‘Careers Opportunities Day’ will be held in the Richmond Building from 10am until 3pm.
A mixture of regional and national graduate employers such as ASDA, Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust and Marathon Oil UK Ltd offering predominantly regional opportunities will be there to provide information on job prospects.
Students and graduates will also be able to find out about other opportunities available to them such as voluntary work, postgraduate study and starting up a new business. Visitors will also be able to bring along their CV to a CV drop-in clinic.
For further information, go to the Career Development Services website at www.careers.brad.ac.uk.
Alternatively, contact Career Development Advisers Shirley Marsland or Hermione Berry on ext: 4991 or email: s.marsland@bradford.ac.uk or h.berry@bradford.ac.uk
National Pay Increase
We are pleased to report that all seven of the HE trade unions have now accepted the employers’ offer of a 3% increase in pay rates for 2005-06 with flat rate increases as follows:
- £500 where salaries are lower than £11,500
- £450 where salaries are between £11,500 and £12,500
- £400 where salaries are between £12,500 and £13,200
The pay increase will be with effect from 1 August 2005 and will be paid to staff as follows:
- Weekly paid staff 20/10/05 (back pay to follow)
- 4 Weekly paid staff 3/11/05 (to include back pay)
- Monthly paid staff 28/10/05 (to include back pay)
The new single pay spine is available on the Personnel website in pdf form at:
http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/personnel/pay,grading&remuneration/SalaryScales/1Aug2005/PaySpineAug05.pdf
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Any queries should be directed to your department's usual Personnel contact or Personnel Reception on ext 5347.
Two new appointments in Corporate and Central Services
During the summer, two new senior appointments were made in CCS. We are pleased to welcome Sally Dyson as the University's Senior Planning Officer, and Chris Toft as the Head of the Academic Standards and Support Unit.
Sally Dyson has been at the University for four years. After joining as the European Funding Officer in Business Services and Regional Development, she moved to the Planning Office in 2003 as Assistant Registrar. With a background in strategic projects, and economic development Sally was previously employed at Kirklees Council European Unit, where she was a programme coordinator for the Kirklees Objective 2 programme. This involved performance management of the programme of funding allocated to the area, and the development and appraisal of projects to support capital and revenue investment. During 2003 Sally was seconded for a time to the Government Office for Yorkshire & the Humber where she was a member of the Y & H Objective 2 Programme Effectiveness Team, and she has also worked at two Training & Enterprise Councils as a contract manager and programme co-ordinator, and had a previous career with the Employment Service, including secondments in the Horton Grange Area of Bradford to the Task Force.
Chris Toft has worked in the University for eleven years. She worked as a Departmental Administrator in the School of Social and International Studies for nine years, and during that time she also took on part time responsibility as a Project Officer for the Collaboration Project between the University and Bradford College. For the past two years she was the SAINT Support and Development Manager. Chris has also completed an MBA at the School of Management.
Both Chris and Sally are looking forward to the challenges that their new roles will undoubtedly bring.
Chris Toft, ext: 3122, c.p.toft@bradford.ac.uk
Sally Dyson, ext: 3108, s.a.dyson1@bradford.ac.uk
24 Hour Show at Theatre in the Mill
We must be insane, the 24 Hour Show is back again by popular demand!
Wanted: performers, technicians, set-builders, costume-makers, musicians and all singing and dancing helpers for the charity event of the year.
Come along to Theatre in the Mill no later than 7pm on Friday 28th October and find out what the top-secret title of this theatrical extravaganza will be. You don’t need any previous experience and you’ll be involved straight away! Twenty-four frantic hours later we perform . . .?
To take part, call Ruth Price on 01274 233185 or simply turn up on Friday 28th October.
Free to take part (although a collection bucket will be passed round, suggested donation of £1)
All tickets for the show on the Saturday are £4 - they'll sell out fast so book now!
http://www.brad.ac.uk/theatre/24.php
More info (apart from the title of the show!) from Emma Banks on e.banks1@bradford.ac.uk
New exhibition in Gallery II
Elements of a Scottish Landscape
by Brian Hindmarch
Friday 21 October - Friday 2 December 2005
Weekdays 11am - 5pm (Thursdays until 6pm), Free
Having successfully published a definitive photographic record of a Hebridean island in his 2003 book, 'Colonsay - Elements of an Island', Brian Hindmarch returns in this exhibition to examine other aspects of landscape in the Borders. He explores this area with reference to the writing of John Buchan, to the mystical sense of the Highlands and of both the Inner and Outer Hebrides.
http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/gallery/hindmarch.php
Concert at Gallery II cancelled
Stanislav Zenevich - Russian Accordion Virtuoso
Wednesday 26 October | 12.15pm
Please note that this concert has had to be cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
However there will be musical accompaniment to the Brian Hindmarch's talk on 17 November. More news nearer the time.
Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture
The Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture on Wednesday October 26 (starting at 4pm, in Mezz 2, Graduate School, Richmond) will be given by David Bain, from the University of Glasgow.
The topic ‘The Location of Pain’ falls within the Philosophy of Mind.
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/ihs/seminar/royal_institute/
Free padlocks!
Padlocks (25mm and 30 mm), with two keys each - no longer required due to locker replacement. In excess of 150, can split into smaller batches.
Also, plain metal key rings (no tags) - approx. 60 in total.
Contact: Jenny Uwings (Optometry), ext 3795 or email j.uwings@bradford.ac.uk
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships - staff development for academics
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (formerly TCS) based on partnerships between academic groups and companies who need access to academics' skills and knowledge provides you with a rewarding way of developing and exploiting your expertise by sharing it with industry. All Knowledge Transfer Partnerships present you with an intellectual challenge through the exploitation of advanced research and the integration of more mature technologies.
The workshop offers academic staff the opportunity to discuss Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in more detail; presentations will be given from the Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP's) Consultant and an Academic who has already had experience in KTP's.
16 November, 12.00 - 2.00pm
To book: http://www.brad.ac.uk/dev-prog/knowledge/index.php?course=KTPS
Centre for European Studies
European Research Seminars
Dr Dimitris Papadimitriou (Department of Politics, University of Manchester)
'Manipulating rules, contesting solutions: Europeanisation and the politics of re-structuring Olympic Airways'
Chair: Professor Miguel Martínez Lucio (School of Management)
28 October 2005 at 1400, in Mezz 2, Graduate School, Richmond Building, all welcome
Dr Papadimitriou began his career at Bradford, where he received his PhD and lectured in European Studies. Now a Lecturer in Politics at Manchester, he is the author of 'Negotiating the New Europe: the EU and Eastern Europe' and has published extensively on Europeanisation and EU public policy.
For further information, please contact Gabi Borz at G.Borz@Bradford.ac.uk or ext 5573.
Regulars
People Development Events
Places are available at the following training events for members of Staff:
Introduction to Management at the University (2 days) - Monday 31 October & Tuesday 1 November 2005, 09.15 - 16.45
Target audience: For newly-appointed managers at the University of Bradford, or anyone who has been a manager at the University for between 0 and 2 years.
Aims: To help identify the skills required to become more effective as a manager, and to provide information from key service areas within the University.For more information and booking: http://www.brad.ac.uk/dev-prog/development/index.php?course=MIND
Basic Meditation Techniques - Tuesdays 1 and 8 November 2005, 12.30 - 13.30
Target audience: Any members of staff
Aims: Lunchtime sessions for learning techniques to calm the mind and return you refreshed and alert for the afternoon's challenges.For more information and booking: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/dev-prog/development/index.php?course=MEDI
New Staff Induction - Monday 7 November 2005, 11.45 - 15.00
Target audience: Staff who are new to the University of Bradford
The New Staff Induction is intended as an introduction to the Central Services or "The Administration" of the University. There will be brief introductory talks about several of the services provided centrally, such as Health and Safety, Security, Equal Opportunities, Communications and Marketing and there will be a brief overview of the structure of the University itself.For more information and booking: http://www.brad.ac.uk/dev-prog/development/index.php?course=NSIN
Assertiveness & Dealing with Difficult People - Thursday 10 November, 09.15 - 16.45
Target audience: Any members of staff
Aims: To provide strategies and techniques for identifying behaviour types and communicating effectively. This course is suitable for those wishing to explore techniques for improving interpersonal communication, and develop confidence for dealing with difficult people and situations.For more information and booking: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/dev-prog/development/index.php?course=ASDP
Facilitation Skills - Introduction Tuesday 15 November 2005, 09.15 - 16.45
Target audience: Any members of staff
Aims: To provide participants with confidence in using facilitation skills, thus adding value to their contribution to their team and department. These skills can be used for: leading groups; running meetings and helping people learn.For more information and booking: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/dev-prog/development/index.php?course=FACS
Learning in Groups Weekend (Residential) - Friday 18 November,16.00 - Sunday 20 November,16.00
Target audience: Any staff, particularly lecturers/teachers
Aims: The aim of this 3-day course is for staff to learn more about how to organise student learning in groups. It is also an opportunity to spend a weekend in wonderful company, away from Bradford, in the Yorkshire Dales. Staff will be 'participant observers' in a sequence of developmental group exercises that can be adapted for use on courses on campus. (NB there is no charge for this course).For more information and booking: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/dev-prog/development/index.php?course=LIGW
Details of all the People Development training events for 2005-6 may
be found at:
http://www.brad.ac.uk/dev-prog/index.php?section=development
Learning Support Seminars and Events from TQEG
Online Collaboration in Blackboard (bb3) on 31 October 2005 at 1300 - 1500 in the Interactive Learning Centre, SoHS
Presented by Carol Higgison, Ken Panko and Jak RadiceMultimedia - The Production Process on 1 November 2005. Event Cancelled.
The Role of CART Members on 2 November 2005 at 1300 - 1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Amanda Hughes of the Academic Standards and Support Unit
Making e-Learning Accessible: Can we? Will we? Do we have to? on 7 November 2005 at 1300-1500 in Horton Building - Presented by Carol Higgison of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group
Interactive Handouts with MS Word on 8 November 2005 at 1600 - 1800 in the Interactive Learning Centre, SoHS - Presented by Carol Higgison, Ken Panko and Jak Radice
Reviewing Annual Monitoring Reports on 9 November 2005 at 1300 - 1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Julie Hodgson of the Academic Standards and Support Unit.
Interactive PowerPoint on 15 November 2005 at 1600 - 1800 in the Interactive Learning Centre, SoHS - Presented by Carol Higgison, Ken Panko and Jak Radice.
Progress Files: New University Practice on 16 November 2005 at 1300 - 1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Prof Peter Hartley of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group
Combined Studies - What's Involved and How You Can Contribute on 18 November 2005 at 1300 - 1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Richard Woodcock of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group
Engaging Students through Excel on 22 November 2005 at 1600 - 1800 in the Interactive Learning Centre, SoHS - Presented by Carol Higgison, Ken Panko and Jak Radice
Details of the above events and online booking can be found in at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/dev-prog. All the Teaching Quality and Enhancement Group's Seminars are listed on the "Learning and Teaching" link.
Please contact Christine Rayment or Beverley Lyons on 5138 or email tqe-sec@bradford.ac.uk if you have further enquiries.
Research Support Unit Bulletin
The latest edition of the Research Support Unit Bulletin no. 33 dated 19th October is now on the web at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/rsil/Newsletter/newsletterfp.htm
Included in this issue:
- Miss Moni Choudhury - new Research Officer in Research Support Unit
- Winning Grant Funding Seminar - last two places available
- Appointments to the Research Councils 2006
- BBSRC Referee Database Project - Electronic Capture of Expertise Information
- UK India Collaboration in Biotechnology
- BBSRC Bioinformatics and e-Science Cross Committee Priority Area
- BioProcessing Research Industry Club (BBSRC/EPSRC/Industry initiative)
- EPSRC General Engineering Programme
- Engineering Platform Grants
- Bilateral Research Workshops
- Network Grants
Reminder
Staff attendance at the Installation and December Award Ceremonies
Information for staff who wish to attend the Installation of Imran Khan as Chancellor at 10.15 on Wednesday 7 December, or any of the other award ceremonies scheduled for Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 December, is now available on the Student Registry web site. If you wish to participate in the academic procession or apply for a guest ticket please complete the Staff Reply Form available on line at: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/admin/student-registry/Degreeceremonies2005/staff.htm
It should be noted that guest tickets for the Installation may be limited
taking into account the overall demand including that from external
guests.
Please note the closing date for applications is Friday 11 November 2005.
Job Vacancies at the University
Current vacancies at the University 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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