Campus News
Wonder festival — update and plans for the future
February 6th, 2018
Last year’s Wonder Festival was very successful. We had 7,280 visitors to campus on the day.
We surveyed 3.4% of the visitors to the event. Of those surveyed, 91% were from local postcodes (NG, DE, LW) and the number of families attending through partnerships with schools in less advantaged areas increased. 65% of parents surveyed said they want their child to attend university, and 77% of attendees said they would recommend Wonder as an event to others.
You can read more about Wonder 2017 in the attached presentation.
Following the last MayFest in 2015, preparations for Wonder in June 2017 began 18 months prior to the event, and so we will look to 2019 to hold our next festival so that we can secure the scale, quality and impact it deserves.
We received a lot of helpful and constructive feedback from those who worked with us to develop the event. Valid questions included whether Wonder should do more to go into those communities across Nottingham that the University doesn’t normally reach – or even have a presence in the city centre. There is also more the University can do to improve the event to make it more efficient, bring in more sponsorship and in-kind support from local partners and businesses – and enhance the experience for those attending on the day.
As part of its new Research Strategy, the University is in the process of refreshing the approach it takes to supporting, coordinating and promoting the public engagement activity taking place across the institution. With the new Nottingham Public Engagement Network now at over 300 members, the appointment of Faculty Public Engagement Leads and a University-wide Steering Group has been established. A Head of Public Engagement will also be appointed to support this activity. We hope that, through these groups and others such as the Outreach Network and the Practitioners of Outreach Operations Group, we can have an open conversation about what the University does next to build on Wonder for 2019…
There is a huge amount of public and community festival engagement taking place over the next year. For example, the University will be providing some support for the Festival of Science and Curiosity, which takes place across the city centre and some of Nottingham’s most deprived networks. Our Faculties, Schools and Academics will also be heavily involved in the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, the Being Human Festival, Pint of Science 2018, Malaysia Fest 2018 and the East Midlands Big Bang Festival. We will seek to pass on the learning and experience of Wonder 2017 to the organisers of these initiatives and many more.
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‘Keep it on Campus’ — Staff encouraged to consider campus-based venues
February 6th, 2018
Are you familiar with the meeting and conference venues located around our campuses?
Throughout our Nottingham campuses we have a wide selection of University-owned conference and events spaces, including:
- Over 500 meeting spaces, teaching rooms and lecture theatres (up to 550 capacity), as well as more than 4000 bedrooms
- East Midlands Conference Centre (EMCC): 21 event spaces and 2002 m² exhibition space
- Orchard Hotel: Four meeting rooms and an executive lounge, Brailsford suite, Bramleys Brasserie and 202 bedrooms
- Jubilee Conference Centre: Eight event spaces, Spokes restaurant and 95 bedrooms
All internal staff and team members who manage venue bookings are being encouraged to consider using campus-based venues as a way of helping to promote the University and reducing expenditure on external facilities.
The message stems from a recent procedural requirement — introduced by the Financial Stability Task Force — for staff to contact Nottingham Conferences, the University’s in-house conference department, to ascertain if an internal venue option can be offered at an equivalent or lower cost than an external venue.
Overall, the budget holder remains accountable for achieving good value from all University expenditure whilst retaining the discretion to make the decision to use either internal or external venues.
Find out more by calling Nottingham Conferences (extension #86100 or 0115 7486100) or email conferences@nottingham.ac.uk.
Tags: East Midlands Conference Centre, emcc, events, Jubilee Conference Centre, Keep it on campus, Nottingham Conferences, Orchard hotel
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Bids welcomed for Environment Initiative Fund
February 6th, 2018
Do you have a great idea for a sustainability-related project but need funding to make it happen? If so, the Environment Initiative Fund may be the solution!
Each year, the University’s Sustainability and Environment Committee awards around £100,000 to student or staff-led sustainability projects.
Projects funded in recent years include:
- A Health, Food and the Environment exploratory workshop engaging local stakeholders in developing learning resources to support undergraduate teaching on the topic of food, health and sustainability.
- The Wortley Hall Close passive house project, to retrofit a domestic house on University Park campus to meet passive house standards, benefitting tenants and also offering a demonstration site as part of the Department of Architecture and Built Environment’s Creative Energy Homes project.
- The #BeastsofUoN photo competition, which provided a focal point for those interested in the biodiversity of our outdoor spaces, highlighting the wellbeing benefits of our campuses and encouraging people to explore these spaces.
Applications to the Environment Initiative Fund are currently being welcomed for 2017/18. If you have an idea on how to make the University or local community a more sustainable place to work, live and study, you’re invited to apply.
The deadline for applications is Thursday 22 February.
For further details, visit the Environment Initiative Fund webpage.
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New stationery supplier
February 5th, 2018
The University of Nottingham introduced Office Depot as the new stationery supplier on Monday 5 February.
Office Depot has been appointed as the single preferred supplier for all stationery products. Its new hosted catalogue was scheduled go live on SciQuest at approximately 2pm the same day. Staff are able to place new stationery orders with Office Depot by accessing SciQuest via Agresso.
Visit the Procurement Workspace Homepage for further information and contact details.
Thank you to all of the staff who attended the recent stationery roadshows in preparation for this launch.
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Hallward Library reduced hours — latest update
February 5th, 2018
* ARTICLE UPDATED ON WEDNESDAY 7 FEBRUARY WITH THE LATEST OPENING HOURS *
Reduced opening hours will continue at Hallward Library due to a fire alarm fault. We apologise for the disruption and thank you for your patience while we work hard to address this. Work is expected to be complete by Friday 16 February, and the library will return to its usual opening hours then.
The following arrangements will be in place until the work is complete:
- George Green Library is open 24 hours a day
- Hallward Library is open weekdays from 8am to 9.45pm and weekends 9.30am to 4.45pm.
- Levels three and four of Hallward Library will remain closed, but library staff are happy to collect books on request
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Using copyrighted materials in teaching?
February 2nd, 2018
The University and the Copyright Licence Agency (CLA) is currently conducting a data collection exercise affecting all staff who photocopy or re-use published material, containing content under copyright, for teaching purposes.
Although not an audit, the exercise — running until 23 February 2018 — will provide the CLA with indications of copying or re-use, enabling appropriate payments to be made to the rights holders, rewarding authors, publishers and visual creators accordingly.
Copying from books, journals, magazines or any other published material which includes copyright content should be reported during the collection period: You may see posters describing how to report this, along with yellow data collection boxes, at selected photocopiers/printers across our campuses.
You can find out more on the Libraries website.
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Hallward Library – reduced opening hours
February 2nd, 2018
We are currently running reduced opening hours at the Hallward Library due to a fire alarm fault. Apologies for this – we are working hard to assess and fix the fault, and will put out updates once we know more.
Library access across the weekend
- Tonight (Friday) and across the weekend, George Green Library will be open 24 hours
- Hallward Library will be open until 9.45pm this evening (Friday), and will reopen 9.30am to 4.45pm on Saturday and Sunday
- Levels three and four of Hallward Library will remain closed, but library staff are happy to collect books for students on request
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Long Service Awards at University Park honour colleagues of 25+ years
February 2nd, 2018
The annual Long Service Awards held on our University Park campus celebrate the commitment and contribution of staff marking 25 and 40 years of working for the University, and those retiring under the Long Service criteria.
Dan Duthie, Medicine, and Rebecca Disney-Scott, Student Service Delivery, receive their awards from Vice-Chancellor Professor Shearer West.
The 2017 ceremony took place on Wednesday 29 November, and recognised the contributions the below members of staff have made to the University community.
Many congratulations are extended to all of the following colleagues:
40 years’ service
- Mr Neil Barnes, Chemistry
- Mr Ian Conway, Geography
- Mr Dan Duthie, Medicine
- Mrs Angela Johnston, IT Service Delivery (Global)
- Professor Ian Macdonald, Life Sciences
- Mr Ian Swindelhurst, IT Service Delivery (Global)
- Mr Michael Baker, Bio-Support Unit
- Mr Michael Coleman, Estate Office
- Professor Gregory Tucker, Biosciences
25 years’ service
- Professor Shaaron Ainsworth, Education
- Professor Anthony Avery, Medicine
- Professor John Barrett, Mathematical Sciences
- Dr A J Bennett, Life Sciences
- Dr Sue Cooper, Medicine
- Dr Cristina De Matteis, Pharmacy
- Professor Matthew Dickinson, Biosciences
- Ms Rebecca Disney-Scott, Student Service Delivery
- Mr Rod Dykeman, Engineering
- Dr Joel Feinstein, Mathematical Sciences
- Mrs Rachel French, Libraries & RLR
- Miss Patricia Gretton, Estate Office
- Miss Fiona Hayes, Student Service Delivery
- Dr John Horton, Libraries & RLR
- Mr Gary Jepson, Estate Office
- Professor Sarah Lewis, Medicine
- Dr Richard Masterman, Vice-Chancellor’s Office
- Professor Paul Mizen, Economics
- Professor Kevin Morgan, Life Sciences
- Mrs Susan Morgan, Nottingham University Business School
- Dr Stephen Ramsden, Biosciences
- Mrs Lesley Randall, Medicine
- Mrs Heleanor Redford, Financial Operations
- Professor Saffa Riffat, Engineering
- Miss Tanya Robinson, Human Resources
- Mr Rory Screaton, Engineering
- Dr Susanne Seymour, Geography
- Professor Ian Shaw, Sociology & Social Policy
- Mrs Julie Smith, External Relations
- Dr Ian Spendlove, Medicine
- Mr Raymond Sturman, Estate Office
- Dr Nick Thom, Engineering
- Mrs Julie Thomas, Vice-Chancellor’s Office
- Mrs Julie Wainwright, Student Service Development
- Mr Ian Ward, Life Sciences
- Professor Charles Watkins, Geography
- Mr Phillip Weller, Humanities
- Ms Susan Margaret Whittingham, Medicine
- Mrs Gillian Bancroft, Estate Office
- Professor David Brook, Life Sciences
- Mr Christopher Charity, Financial Operations
- Dr William Dunn, Life Sciences
- Professor Amanda Griffiths, Medicine
- Professor Josephine Guy, English
- Dr Phil Hill, Biosciences
- Dr Robert Linforth, Biosciences
- Professor Graham McCartney, Engineering
- Mrs Diane Mitchell, Life Sciences
- Ms Sue Parker, Sociology & Social Policy
- Professor Katherine Reid, Chemistry
- Dr Chung See, Engineering
- Dr Paul Smith, Cultures, Languages & Area Studies
- Mrs Denise Summerton, Libraries & RLR
- Dr Walid Tizani, Engineering
- Mr Stephen Vernon, IT Service Delivery (Global)
- Mrs Jill Wright, Halls Management Division (NH)
Retiring under Long Service criteria
- Mrs Roseann Mundell, Physics & Astronomy (26 years)
- Professor Sir David Greenaway, Vice-Chancellor’s Office (30 years)
- Dr Stephen Hibberd, Mathematical Sciences (37 years)
- Professor Nigel Gravells, Law (38 years)
- Professor Paul Shayler, Engineering (39 years)
- Dr Ian Duce, Life Sciences (40 years)
- Mr John Middleton, Physics & Astronomy (41 years)
- Dr Kamlash Kaur, Medicine
- Dr Jeffery Wright, Medicine (43 years)
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UNNC holds its first Long Service Awards ceremony
February 2nd, 2018
55 staff members have been honoured at the first ever Long Service Awards ceremony to be held at the University of Nottingham Ningbo campus.
The members of staff were recognised at the UNNC Long Service Awards Ceremony 2017, which took place on Friday 5 January.
Initiated by Human Resources, the Long Service Awards programme is a way to express gratitude to staff who have been working at the University for 10 years or more. A similar event to honour long-service staff members is held each year at the University of Nottingham UK.
Over a hundred guests attended the event at UNNC, with Provost Chris Rudd handing out certificates.
Many thanks and congratulations are sent to all colleagues who received awards!
The UNNC Long Service Award 2017 recipients are:
- Ada Qian, Research and Knowledge Exchange (12 years)
- Allan He, Residential College (11 years)
- Andrew Edwards, Nottingham University Business School China (11 years)
- Andrew White, School of International Communications (10 years)
- Andy Xia, Finance Office (11 years)
- Anna Tong, Residential College (10 years)
- Barbara Chen, Human Resources Office (11 years)
- Barry Jones, Centre for English Language Education (10 years)
- Brian Hilton, Nottingham University Business School China (10 years)
- Carol Chen, Faculty Office of Business (10 years)
- Cass Lai, Nottingham University Business School China (11 years)
- Changhui Hua, Senior Administration Members (12 years)
- Charlie Cai, Security and Safety Office (10 years)
- David Kiwuwa, School of International Studies (10 years)
- Echo Zheng, Centre for Research on Sino-Foreign Universities (10 years)
- Feng Zhu, Sport Department (11 years)
- Fenglian Liu, Library, Research and Learning Resources (12 years)
- Filippo Gilardi, School of International Communications (10 years)
- Freya Song, Global Engagement Office (13 years)
- Fujia Yang, Senior Administration Members (13 years)
- Gavin Chen, Provost Office (12 years)
- Harry Hua, IT Services (13 years)
- Hellen He, Estate Office (11 years)
- Jack Zhou, Centre for Inclusive Finance (12 years)
- Jacqueline Lin, Global Engagement Office (10 years)
- Jancy Yao, Centre for Research on Sino-Foreign Universities (11 years)
- Jane Li, Legal Compliance and Internal Audit Office (13 years)
- Jean Wu, Wellbeing Service (11 years)
- Jessica Hu, Admissions and Career Development Office (12 years)
- Joan Chen, Communications and Marketing Office (12 years)
- Joanne Zhong, CELE Professional Services Office (10 years)
- Joaquin Mugica, Language Centre (11 years)
- Joseph Askew, School of International Studies (10 years)
- Judy Tang, Nottingham University Business School China (13 years)
- Ke lv, Sport Department (11 years)
- Ken Chen, Provost Office (13 years)
- Ken Gong, Party Committee Office (11 years)
- Kevin Lin, Global Engagement Office (11 years)
- Lili Hernandez, School of International Communications (12 years)
- Lily Jiang, Centre for Research on Sino-Foreign Universities (10 years)
- Lily Ma, Shanghai Office (13 years)
- Linger li, Library, Research and Learning Resources (12 years)
- Maggie Yang, Academic Services Office (11 years)
- Mary Yu, Finance Office (11 years)
- May Xu, Centre for Research on Sino-Foreign Universities (10 years)
- May Yan, Library, Research and Learning Resources (12 years)
- Meiying Wu, Language Center (11 years)
- Muhammad Abdulrahman, Nottingham University Business School China (12 years)
- Nick Dong, Faculty of Science and Engineering (12 years)
- Nina Wu, Faculty Office of Humanities and Social Sciences (11 years)
- Orlando Shi, FOSE (Technicians and Research Fellows, IDIC, CSET) (10 years)
- Peter Lamb, Nottingham University Business School China (11 years)
- Poster Xiang, Human Resources Office (11 years)
- Rebecca Jin, Provost Office (11 years)
- Rena Yao, Library, Research and Learning Resources (11 years)
- Robert Smith, Centre for English Language Education (11 years)
- Robin Hong, Faculty Office of Science and Engineering (10 years)
- Rosaria Franco, School of International Studies (10 years)
- Ruibin Bai, School of Computer Science (10 years)
- Saileshsingh Gunessee, Nottingham University Business School China (10 years)
- Sam Shen, Senior Administration Members (13 years)
- Sharon Liu, Finance Office (10 years)
- Sharon Zeng, Party Committee Office (11 years)
- Sheldon Chen, Employment Services (12 years)
- Shihuan Lin, sports department (10 years)
- Shih-Wei Hsu, NUBS China (10 years)
- Shuai Liang, Sport Department (11 years)
- Star Yin, Residential College (10 years)
- Susan Xiang, CELE Professional Services Office (11 years)
- Tao Wu, Senior Administration Members (10 years)
- Tony Lin, Library, Research and Learning Resources (11 years)
- Trevor Bayley, Nottingham University Business School China (13 years)
- Victor Jiang, Global Recruitment Office (10 years)
- Vinna Wang, CELE Professional Services Office (11 years)
- Wei Huang, Nottingham University Business School China (10 years)
- Xin Mou, Centre for English Language Education (10 years)
- Yolanda Liu, Language Center (11 years)
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