Staff News

No smoking day is an annual health awareness day in the United Kingdom, intended to help smokers who want to quit. The national campaign makes a big impact, helping millions of smokers each year to take a step forward towards quitting, and thousands to give up for good.

UCL have commissioned NUS to conduct a survey of UCL staff and students to find out what you think of some of the environmental initiatives that have taken place over the last year across the institution.

Thank you to all those staff who took part in the 2011 survey, helping to make the return rate this year the highest ever, with £40,590 donated to the Student Hardship Fund from the contribution from each returned questionnaire.

This week the spotlight is on Ele Cooper, Teaching and Learning Portal editor, Centre for Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CALT). 

Staff are encouraged to participate in a consultation process on proposals to amend the University’s recruitment and selection policy. The proposed amendments are intended to reaffirm the principles that underpin recruitment and selection at UCL and to facilitate waiving of the requirement to advertise certain posts in exceptional and defined circumstances.

Participants are required to complete online questionnaires about collecting.

We are particularly interested in recruiting individuals over the age of 35 who self-identify as being a "collector" - that is, a person who has acquired objects of a particular type or theme, as well as people over the age of 18 who know or are related to (child, parent, sibling, or spouse) to adults who maintain a collection or collections.

The consultation information has been updated with questions submitted by respondents and answered here.

Post‐doctoral researchers who have recently been working overseas may be eligible to apply for a fellowship at UCL, funded by the European Union’s Marie Curie Fellowships scheme. Eligible researchers can be of any nationality, age or research field as long as they have not spent more than 12 months in the UK over the past three years by August 2012.

This week the spotlight is on Ray Harding, Chief Operating Officer, UCL Qatar. 

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