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Week
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Staff BriefingA joint initiative by MIS, Corporate Communications and Inprint & Design |
Edition
203 
Next editions and entries to the briefing
- Monday 7 March - Birthday Bonanza winners announced
- Monday 14 March
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
Business Concept Competition 2005 - Win up to £4500!
Please bring to the attention of your students and graduates:
If you have a business idea and are a University of Bradford student or graduate, you could win up to £4500. All you need to do is complete the on-line 1-page application form by 5pm Friday 4 March 2005.
Cash prizes include:
- 1 x £500 for Best Business Concept
- 5 x £100 Judges Awards
- 1 x £100 Lucky Draw
You can also be entered for the Yorkshire Universities Business Concept Competition worth £4000.
To be eligible for this, the nominee or nominees should want to start the business.
All entrants can also apply for a further £1000 Proof of Concept award towards starting their own business.
From ThinkBusiness@Bradford
http://www.brad.ac.uk/thinkbusiness/
ResearchResearch.com
Staff are reminded that they can access high-quality and up-to-the-minute information on science, technology, innovation and arts, humanities and social science research via the University's subscription to ResearchResearch.com online.
See: http://www.brad.ac.uk/news/research.html
MetroCard Scheme
Do you regularly travel to work on public transport? If so, the metrocard scheme allows you to obtain an annual travelcard through the University for either unlimited bus travel throughout West Yorkshire, or a number of railzones (with unlimited bus travel), and the total annual cost of the metrocard is recovered through equal deductions from your salary/wage over the year.
Staff joining the scheme in May pay a pro rata fee for the metrocard up to the 30th September and can then renew from the 1st October for a full 12 month period.
Applications to be received no later than Tuesday 15th March 2005.
For further information including zone prices, please see http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/estates/environ/metro.html or contact Personnel on ext: 5347 or pop in to D35, Richmond Building.
Web authoring courses in March
Web accessible tables - 3 March http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=601
CSS for formatting - 8 March http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=543
FTP and .htaccess - 15 March http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=607
CSS for layout - 17 March http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=546
Web workshops - 9, 16, 23 and 30 March http://staffdev.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staffdev/enduser_course.pl?event_id=574
Sustaining Historic Urban Environments - Conference
The School of Archaeological, Geographical & Environmental Sciences and the School of Lifelong Education & Development are jointly hosting a conference in March with PLACE (the People, Landscape & Cultural Environment Education & Research Centre).
The theme is 'Sustaining Historic Urban Environments' and the speakers include: George Sheeran (SLED), Marc Cole, James Symonds, Caroline Wilkinson, Alison Drake and Sue Hayton.
Their papers will explore the strategies to protect and enhance historic urban environments; the impact of urban regeneration schemes upon the historic environment; education and interpretation; public, involvement, social inclusion and access.
Further details and booking forms from the Short Course Unit - email: scu@bradford.ac.uk
Research Bulletin No. 17
Research Bulletin No. 17 is now published on the web by the Research Support Office.
Included in this issue:
- The Wellcome Trust - launch of eGrants, the new electronic grant application system
- Food Standards Industry - FSA News February 2005
- DEFRA - Peer Review
- Research Councils/AHRB - Draft Terms and Conditions for fEC Grants
- EPSRC/BBSRC Strategic Promotion of Ageing Research Capacity (SPARC)
- BBSRC Responsive Research Grants - four deadlines a year from June 2005
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation - new Call for Proposals -"Education and Poverty - Questioning Assumptions of Current UK Educational Policy"
- NORFACE ERA-NET Seminar Series Competition
- The Leverhulme Trust - 2005 Major Research Fellowships
Details of previous Newsletters can be found at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/rsil/Newsletter/newsletterfp.htm
SMS Text Messaging from SAINT
Did you know that you can send SMS text messages from SAINT to individuals or groups of students?
This facility was very useful last week for letting students know about lectures cancelled due to snow!
For full details of how to
do this, please see http://www.bradford.ac.uk/admin/SAINT/Training%20Docs/Sending%20an%20SMS%20text%20message%20from%20SAINT.pdf
(will open
in a new browser window)
Funding Opportunities - talk
Anne Harrop, the Research Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), is coming to speak about funding opportunities to a meeting of the Research Hub of the Programme for a Peaceful City (PPC) in Mezz 2, Graduate School, 2.00-4.00 pm, Thursday March 10.
The JRF has selected the Bradford District as a focus for its research support.
Staff in any discipline from throughout the University who have research interests relating to the Bradford District are warmly invited to attend.
Alan Carling, Co-ordinator, PPC Research Hub, A.H.Carling@Bradford.ac.uk
The Social Integration of International Students - seminar
The School of Management, in association with BEST, the HE Business Network, has organised a one day seminar, Wednesday 20th April, 10.00 - 4.15pm, concerning the social integration of international students to HE and the local community. The seminar is free, but places are limited. The venue will be the Graduate School in the Richmond Building.
The aim of the seminar is to consider and discuss how higher education providers can help support the social integration of international students both inside and outside of institutions. Although it has been organised by the Business School for colleagues from UKHE Business Schools, the topic will be of interest to colleagues from other disciplines, who are invited to attend.
A place can be booked through BEST, which is based at the Open University, email: best@open.ac.uk, and not via the Business School.
The title of the seminar is 'The Social Integration of International Students', which should be mentioned in the email to BEST.
Colin Neville
Effective Learning Service, School of Management
Email: c.neville@bradford.ac.uk
V-Day 2005 and SU Women's Week
The University of Bradford Students' Union presents a benefit production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues and a series of events as part of Women's Week.
MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist)
Become a specialist in Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint or Outlook!
This certification provides a globally recognised credential for individuals seeking to advance their careers and computer skills. These part-time (12 week) courses have been recently introduced in the Business Skills Workshop at Bradford College. Attend these courses at a time convenient to you!
The workshop is open 9 am - 8 pm Monday to Thursday, 4 pm on a Friday.
For further information regarding the course e-mail L.Machin@bilk.ac.uk or telephone 01274 433119.
Please check the following link for more information regarding MOS qualifications: www.certiport.com (external link, will open in a new browser window)
Regulars
People Development Courses
Assertiveness
and Dealing with Difficult People
- Friday 4 March 2005, 09.15 - 16.45 Target Audience: Any members of staff
Strategies and techniques for identifying behaviour types and communicating
effectively, particularly with those people we find difficult. Being assertive
means having the ability to say directly what it is you want, you need
or you feel, but not at the expense of others. .
Creative
Writing - Wednesdays 9 & 16 March 2005, 13.05 - 13.50 Target Audience:
Any members of staff
This course aims to release some 'writer's magic' in you and free up your
creative, imaginative potential. Will help improve the fluency and impact
of your writing; and help to overcome blocking, writing apprehension,
and other writing process problems.
Voice
Projection - Wednesday 16 March 2005, 14.00 - 17.00 Target Audience:
Any members of staff
Introduces (non-strenuous) exercises to help make your voice work for
you more effectively. The session covers the basic components of voice
production: posture; breathing; shaping and projecting sound.
Learning Support Seminars and Events from TQEG
Using CAA to Support Learning on 8 March at 1300-1400 in Room 1.7, JBP Library Building - Presented by Carol Higgison and Ken Panko of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Progress Files 2: Developing Good Practice on the 9 March at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58 JBP Library Building - Presented by Prof Peter Hartley of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Group.
Bradford University Academy - on 16 March at 1300-1400 in Room 01.58, JBP Library Building - Presented by Sally Raby of Marketing and Corporate Communications.
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.
Arts on Campus this week
Theatre in the Mill - www.bradford.ac.uk/theatre
Script Surgery
Saturday 5 March and Sunday 6 March | 10am-4pm
Meet at 9:45am at Theatre in the Mill | FreeAn opportunity for all writers in the area to bring along their scripts (finished or unfinished) and have it developed by professionals. One scene from each will be rehearsed and read by actors to help see what it looks like when it's stood up. Actor and directors have the opportunity to come and work on new work, honing their performance skills and developing voice and simple staging techniques.
A banquet for all.
Gallery II - www.bradford.ac.uk/gallery
Friday 4 March - Friday 15 April 2005
Weekdays 11am-5pm (except Thursdays until 6pm) | free"Each of my works seeks to identify and isolate a particular aspect of what it is to be human, and to intensify that perceived state through the process of painting, intertwining elements of personal history into a symbolic language of the body.
"Every work is a representational painting of an abstract emotion, visualised using one or more experienced situations drawn from memory, but sometimes using empirical sources to fulfil the emotional resonance of the subject."
Andrew Whamond This exhibition is presented with the aim of showing the development of, and the engagement with, the subject over a period of years,1984-2005.
Artist's talk
Wednesday 9 March 12.30pm Gallery II | Free All welcome
The Staff Briefing 200th
Birthday Bonanza 
The Staff Briefing is now 200 editions old, so we would like to review the system to make it even better for all colleagues around the University. All staff are invited to fill in our very short questionnaire and everyone that sends in a filled in questionnaire with their contact details will be entered into the draw. Answers will not be matched to members of staff, and contact details will be used solely to identify entrants for the prize draw.
Prizes
- 1st prize - silver iPod Mini (yes, really!)
- 2nd prize - £20 Virgin or Waterstone's vouchers
- 3rd prizes - 3 prizes of £10 Virgin or Waterstone's vouchers
A full list of winners will be announced on the Staff Briefing on Monday 7 March.
How
can you resist - take
me to the questionnaire (you will need to enter your University
email username and password)
The Eye Clinic, Listerhills
Science Park
We are open from Monday 31 January to staff, students and general public.
Our clinics are open Monday to Friday offering morning and afternoon appointments.
There are many benefits, including 25% discount off all our frames and lenses.
We also have available contact lens, diabetic, low vision and binocular vision clinics.
For more information or to book an appointment please contact reception telephone number 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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