UEL appoints new Islamic finance director

UEL has appointed Dr Gaffar Khalid as the new Director of its Islamic Finance Centre. Dr Khalid has extensive experience in the area of Islamic banking and finance, as well as Islamic microfinance...

UEL launches project to give women entrepreneurs £1.5m boost – An exciting £1.5million ERDF-funded project, which will help women entrepreneurs in London to globalise their business, was officially launched by UEL last week...

Places still available at Children’s Garden – Did you know that UEL is the only university worldwide that offers staff and students a Steiner-Waldorf early years education in its workplace nursery? We still have places available for the current academic year for children aged 3–7...

Students celebrate Going Global – In a ceremony held last week, students were awarded for taking part in the Going Global from Home bursaries scheme, which funded participants from across the University to study abroad...

LSS releases latest PhD yearbook – The School of Law and Social Sciences has recently released their PhD yearbook, which is produced on a yearly basis and comprises work entirely from the School’s PhD students. View the yearbook here...

Take our survey about food – UEL will soon have a new food growing project, Student Eats, based at Docklands Campus. To help us measure the effect of the project, we are asking all staff and students to take a survey...

Staff and student travel survey – UEL is looking to identify the travel patterns of staff and students based at Docklands Campus to help to inform the continuing development of a travel plan for the University...

Call: British Academy Wolfson Research Professorships – Thanks to the generosity of the Wolfson Foundation, the British Academy is able to offer four new research professorships to be taken up in the autumn of 2013...

AHRC draft strategy 2013–2018 – With the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s current Strategic Plan (2007–2012) expiring at the end of the year, the AHRC is in the process of drafting its vision for the arts and humanities...

Call: New Economic Models in the Digital Economy – Up to £3.5 million is available to support projects consisting of research and people-based activities...

Student ambassadors needed – Corporate Marketing are currently recruiting student ambassadors to work at such key events as open days. These are paid roles, so please encourage your students to apply...

UEL Graduate Internship Placement Scheme – UEL has launched a new scheme to give our recent graduates invaluable work experience through paid internships with a variety of companies from different sectors...

Skillzone now recruiting Skills Advocates – Skillzone are recruiting final-year and postgraduate students for paid skills advocate posts within the team...

Campus Sport kicks off – UELSports kicked off their second Campus Sport event recently with a six-a-side football competition...

Local youngsters to shoot hoops on hallowed court – Basketball fans aged between eight and eighteen can train where the NBA stars of the US Olympic team trained this summer, at UEL's SportsDock...

UEL’s sports clubs round-up – Find out how our sports clubs fared last week, as well as upcoming fixtures...

Survival of the fittest! – Team UEL want to enter a group of staff and students in the Men’s Health Survival of the Fittest event on Saturday 17 November...