Staff News

This week the spotlight is on Jack Wratten, Citrus Saturday Manager, UCL Advances.

What is your role and what does it involve?

Proposals are invited for the IOE/UCL Strategic Partnership Teaching Innovation Fund. 

The Fund is intended to fund the development of new programmes using both IOE and UCL expertise or pump prime collaborative projects which will significantly improve the student experience.   

Researchers at the Wellcome Centre for Neuroimaging and the Anna Freud Centre are looking to understand how motivation differs in people suffering with depression.We are currently recruiting people suffering from depression.

UCL Museums and Public Engagement are seeking to improve our services to staff from all academic disciplines. Therefore we are inviting you to take part in a staff focus group which will explore:

UCL would like to invite you to a special celebration on Wednesday 19 June to say farewell to Professor Malcolm Grant, UCL President and Provost.

This week the spotlight is on Yvonne Rydin, Professor of Planning, Environment and Public Policy, UCL Bartlett School of Planning.

UCL is a member of the TfL Cycle Safety Ambassadors Scheme, promoting cycle safety around London. Through the scheme, UCL offers free cycling support to all students and staff. From cycle training to cycle maintenance checks and fun cycling events. The next event is outside the Print Room Café on Tuesday 14 May and Friday 17 May between 11.30am and 3.30pm, offering:

If you are a UCL Researcher or a UCL Principal Investigator, we are reminding you that you have been e-mailed about participating in these surveys, which close on 31 May 2013.

All UCL's Master's programmes are listed on FindAMasters. Open Days, scholarships and videos can be added for free under this arrangement. Please send an email to john.burnett@ucl.ac.uk to add further details to your profile. 

A new framework has been established to service UCL’s print requirements, consisting of eight suppliers.

Staff are invited to a special celebration on Wednesday 19 June to say farewell to Professor Malcolm Grant, UCL President and Provost.

This week the spotlight is on Jo Garwood, Digital Communications Officer, UCL Arts & Humanities, UCL Social & Historical Sciences and UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies (SSEES).

This year, UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE) Green Group retained the Gold Award. The Green Impact Gold Award is presented to the team which has achieved the greatest number of actions against the programme workbook.

The Abacus Programme will introduce new system functionality, improve business processes and procedures, restructure the entire chart of accounts, replace the existing suite of reports, upgrade to a new version of the software, and change the technical architecture.

The UCL Eastman Dental Institute under the supervision of Professor Nikos Donos, is recruiting volunteers for a research study that will evaluate the effect of a locally delivered antibiotic around diseased dental implant(s).

The Strategic Partnership Board has approved the establishment of a staff exchange fund of grants up to £500.  This fund is intended to cover incidental expenses (such as room hire, refreshments, facilitators etc.) for staff exchange events.  These events could be staff development workshops, symposia,  or other events which bring together IOE and UCL staff. Each event must provide at  least one of:

UCL and the London Borough of Newham (LBN) have today announced that while UCL remains committed to Stratford as the location for its new university quarter it has not been possible to reach an agreement about the Carpenters Estate.

A transition of the live@UCL email/calendar service to Office 365 will take place during a weekend switch-over period, starting on Friday 12 July 2013 after 5pm. 

Do you ever wonder why we eat what we eat?

We do, here at UCL’s Health Behaviour Research Centre, and we’d like to invite you to take part in a study exploring adults’ thoughts and feelings towards snacking.

The Fund is intended to broker significant research collaboration between IOE and UCL in the areas identified as part of the Strategic Partnership discussions. It is intended to facilitate collaboration as a basis for major growth in externally funded research activity and the preparation of significant proposals for research innovation.

This week the spotlight is on John Dickie, Professor of Italian Studies, UCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities.

The NUS are looking to fund two-year student-led sustainability projects that work in collaboration with their host institutions, to the value of £50,00-£150,000 annually.

UCLU is currently looking for a UCL staff member to join the Trustee Board.

UCLU is the representative body of UCL students and we work to improve their student experience. Through clubs and societies, volunteering, skills development initiatives and representation we engage thousands of students every year in extra curricular activities that make a positive contribution to life at UCL and in the local community.

We would like to scan the arms and legs of some healthy volunteers to have as controls for this research. Males aged 12-17 years are required 

This week the spotlight is on Manpreet Dhesi, Marketing Officer, UCL Careers Service.