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Last day today to complete the new strategy survey
April 29th, 2019
There is still time to contribute to the consultation for the new University strategy. Thanks to all those who have already done so through the Town Hall meetings which have taken place, local team meetings, consultation stands and the online questionnaire.
If you weren’t able to attend one of the Town Hall meetings, you can view a video of the Vice-Chancellor’s and Deputy Vice-Chancellors’s presentation here.
We continue to welcome your input and feedback to develop the future for the University, so please complete the new strategy questionnaire by Tuesday 30 April 2019. You have the option of completing all of it or only those sections that are most relevant to you. Your views will be used to inform a final draft strategy for further consideration across our community.
If you have any questions please email scu@nottingham.ac.uk.
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Professor Brigitte Scammell confirmed as the new Dean of the School of Medicine
April 29th, 2019
Professor Brigitte Scammell has been appointed the new Dean of the School of Medicine, succeeding Professor Tony Avery, to take up a four-year term from August.
She will become the third Dean of the School of Medicine, and the first woman to hold the role, at a pivotal time with the growth of the Nottingham Medical School and the new collaboration with the University of Lincoln to offer first class medical education in Lincolnshire.
Brigitte is currently Head of the Division of Rheumatology, Orthopaedics and Dermatology in the School of Medicine. A consultant orthopaedic surgeon in adult foot and ankle surgery at the City Hospital, Nottingham, she was the first woman to be appointed Professor of Orthopaedics in the UK.
She is a founding member of the Pain Centre and of the Centre for Sport, Exercise and Osteoarthritis. Her clinical interests have a particular emphasis on the reconstruction of severe deformity and treatment of infection in patients with diabetic foot disorders. Her main research interests are in bone healing and osteoarthritis.
Commenting on her appointment, Brigitte said:
“I am honoured and thrilled to accept the role as the Dean of the School of Medicine. I look forward to working with staff, students and partners in leading the School through the next stages of its development, and furthering its renowned medical research and teaching programmes.
“I intend to build on the impressive legacy of our current Dean, Professor Tony Avery, ensuring that the School of Medicine delivers modern technology-enabled learning, research which addresses the greatest needs of patients, and cutting-edge clinical practice for the people of our region.”
Professor John Atherton, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, said:
“I am delighted with Brigitte’s appointment to this important leadership role in the Faculty. Her pioneering achievements over her career made her the ideal candidate to lead the School of Medicine and deliver outstanding teaching and research that will have a real impact on health and wellbeing in the region.
“Brigitte has demonstrated the highest standards throughout her career whether that has been within her clinical practice or an academic setting. She has experience in leading and supporting colleagues and students throughout their medical training and professional development, and brings a strong vision and commitment to medical education and research.”
Brigitte will formally take up the role on 1 August 2019.
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Digital Research Roadshows
April 25th, 2019
Researchers are invited to attend a series of events aimed at helping with the development and enhancement of research through Digital Research services.
The University’s Research Strategy has enabled access to new digital capabilities for researchers, and these roadshows are designed to help attendees make the most of these services. Researchers at all stages of their careers are welcome.
Topics will include:
- Remote, real-time collaboration with partners
- Advice and guidance for effective research data management
- Secure, compliant storage for research data
- Scalable, expandable compute facilities
- Specialist expertise in data analysis
- Discoverable and long-term archive storage
Each full day roadshow will include:
- Presentations and demonstrations from academic colleagues who are benefiting from Digital Research Services
- Expert discussion panels on advanced data analysis techniques, research data management, and digital collaboration
- Specialist advice on opportunities for strengthening research grant proposals through effective utilisation and costing of Digital Research Services
- A preview of developing and planned Digital Research Services including the machine learning and data management technologies
For more information, and to register your place, please see the below links.
- Wednesday 8 May, Science, Maths and Health Sciences Focus, B07 The Barn, Sutton Bonington – book your place
- Tuesday 21 May, Social Sciences and Arts focus, Clive Granger, University Park – book your place
- Wednesday 5 June, Engineering focus, Advanced Manufacturing Building, Jubilee Campus – book your place
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Nottingham Women Expert Network — webinar
April 25th, 2019
A webinar will take place on Tuesday 30 April 2019, providing information on how to work with the media.
The webinar is open to all and will be screened live.
Organised by the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University, it will focus on:
- how opportunities are created
- how to overcome concerns/fears
- what support is offered by your institution
- what’s in it for you
The expert panel will include:
- Dr Daria Kuss, Psychology, Nottingham Trent University
- Dr Sara Goodacre, Life Sciences, University of Nottingham
- Dr Gaby Neher, Art History, University of Nottingham
- Kirsty Green, Press and Political Affairs, Nottingham Trent University
- Liz Cass, Press Office, University of Nottingham
This event will take place 12.45-1.30pm, Tuesday 30 April.
You can sign up to watch the live event via this form: please check that the link works before the session.
A recording will be shared after the webinar for those who cannot attend.
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Fancy learning Mandarin?
April 25th, 2019
Interested in learning Mandarin? The Nottingham Confucius Institute is offering a range of courses for UoN staff and students.
Mandarin is becoming an increasingly useful language around the world. It can open new vistas for you: whether you are engaged in business, education, travelling or just making friends.
The Nottingham Confucius Institute offers evening and weekend classes as well as private lessons, all taught by experienced language teachers from Chinese universities.
The next set of classes will commence Monday 6 May.
Find out more at the Nottingham Confucius Institute website.
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Support your local community — volunteer at Wheee!
April 24th, 2019
Wheee! is Lakeside’s international children’s theatre and dance festival. The event includes a free family weekend (Saturday 1 June – Sunday 2 June 2019), and we’re looking for volunteers to help out during this time.
We are looking for people to join our customer-facing team in roles including:
- Stewarding
- Supporting artists in make and do workshops
- Letting the public know when/where events are happening
- Giving information
- Being an ambassador for Lakeside and promoting the weekend
Volunteers should:
- Be over 16
- Want experience of working on a major festival
- Want to give back to the local community
- Want to enjoy a fun, family weekend
Volunteers are needed on Saturday 1 June 2019 and Sunday 2 June 2019, for either one or both days. Shift times are 10am-5.30pm (breaks included and lunch provided).
To apply or for more information, contact Louise Kay by email (louise.kay@nottingham.ac.uk) or call 0115 84 67185.
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Plan S: a significant change to publishing coming your way
April 24th, 2019
A new open access initiative is being rolled out across Europe and beyond called Plan S. The new initiative comes into effect on Wednesday 1 January 2020 and states that:
“By 2020 scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants provided by participating national and European research councils and funding bodies, must be published in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms.”
The initiative is supported by cOAlition S — an international consortium of research funders — and has been endorsed by funding organisations including UKRI, Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Although the plan talks about scientific publications, the funders are clear that this will include all research, not just in the sciences.
Plan S is a bid to accelerate transition towards full and immediate open access to research publications and comprises a framework of 10 principles. These include:
- Authors to retain copyright of their publications and must publish under an open licence
- ‘Hybrid’ journals (which publish articles accessed both through subscription and open access) will not be considered compliant publication venues for funded research
- Open access fees will be standardised
- Plan S will eventually apply to monographs and books but there will be a slower transition towards this
- Funding agencies will monitor compliance and sanction non-compliance
cOAlition S has further released implementation guidance on Plan S, which is currently being reviewed following feedback. We expect the results of this review to be published in the spring.
The Wellcome Trust have already realigned their open access policy to incorporate Plan S requirements and other funders, including UKRI, are similarly adapting their open access policies to align with Plan S.
If you have any queries over how this may affect your publishing, please contact the Research Support Team at openaccess@nottingham.ac.uk. For more information please also see our Plan S webpage, which we will be updating as further information is released.
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Sport Injury Clinic Easter vouchers
April 18th, 2019
The Department of Sport are offering discounted vouchers for Physiotherapy and Massage treatments this Easter.
These can be purchased from the David Ross Sports Village reception, or the Sports Injury Clinic.
Find out more about the Sport Injury Clinic on the website.
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First female University of Nottingham scientist elected Fellow of Royal Society
April 17th, 2019
Professor Liz Sockett of the School of Life Sciences has become the first female University of Nottingham scientist to be elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
Professor Sockett is one of 50 eminent scientists from across the world to be elected to the prestigious society this year.
Liz has made her name in the global fight against antibiotic resistance through her work on the predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. These bacteria act like living antibiotics as they naturally invade and destroy pathogenic superbugs like Klebsiella, E. coli, and Salmonella, which cause increasingly hard-to-treat infections.
Reacting to her new fellowship, Professor Sockett said: “I’m very honoured to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. It is recognition of what a fascinating living creature the predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is, and what amazing details can be discovered by working with diverse colleagues who bring insights, dedication and kindness to work daily.”
Professor Dame Jessica Corner, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange at the University of Nottingham said: “I am absolutely delighted that Liz Sockett has been awarded this most prestigious scientific honour. It is richly deserved. Liz is one of the University of Nottingham’s leading women scientists, her work into predatory bacteria, showing their anti-pathogen activities and alliances with host’s immune system in killing bacterial infection, is amongst the most exciting in science today and has massive potential for developing new antibacterial systems for human health. It is wonderful that she has been recognised by the Royal Society for her work.”
Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, said: “Over the course of the Royal Society’s vast history, it is our Fellowship that has remained a constant thread and the substance from which our purpose has been realised; to use science for the benefit of humanity. This year’s newly elected Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society embody this, being drawn from diverse fields of enquiry—epidemiology, geometry, climatology—at once disparate, but also aligned in their pursuit and contributions of knowledge about the world in which we live, and it is with great honour that I welcome them as Fellows of the Royal Society.”
Professor Sockett will be formally admitted as a Fellow to the Royal Society at the Admissions Day ceremony in July, when she will sign the Charter Book and the Obligation of the Fellows of the Royal Society.
To find out more about Liz’s research, listen to BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific.
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