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Welcome to in Focus Update… |
Past Issues << | Issue 185: Friday 26 February 2010 |
Academic Integrity Week starts Monday 1 March 2010. During the week we highlight all aspects of academic integrity at UEL and draw attention to the standards of academic practice that we expect of all members of our community. Prize winning academic integrity posters and banners designed by our students, a new flyer and messages on the plasma screens will promote our policy and the academic integrity quiz which is available via the student UEL Plus Academic Integrity site.
So what can you do to support Academic Integrity Week?
- Tell your students that it is Academic Integrity Week, especially Semester B starters
- Use our policy when discussing academic integrity
- Ask your students to take the Academic Integrity Quiz
- Draw your students attention to the Academic Integrity web pages – http://www.uel.ac.uk/lta/academic/index.htm
- Familiarise yourself with the Turnitin process
- Get involved and help make sure that Academic Integrity Week is a success!
Our third telethon is now in full swing, the second part of the 2009/2010 Telethon campaign launched on Monday 8 February and will run until Sunday 7 March. Our team of 40 strong callers have already spoken to over 700 of our Alumni in a 2 week period. With 22% of those spoken to deciding to make a gift to the University!
The students are busy updating our alumni on the University’s news and development plans, and also explaining how they can support the University’s Annual Fund and become a ‘Friend of UEL’. As we are sure you already know the Annual Fund currently supports four main areas:
- Student Hardship Grants, which aims to assist students who experience severe economic hardship during the course of their studies
- Small Start-up Research Grants, which aims to support young researchers at the start of the research careers
- A new Sports and Leisure Complex at our Docklands campus, that aims to provide our students, staff and local communities with much needed sporting facilities
- A new Library at our Stratford campus: our Stratford campus has grown considerably and the current library needs to expand to remain a rich repository of knowledge for our academic schools in Stratford
With the help of our alumni these projects can come to life. It is also important to remember that there has never been a better time to give as the Government has committed to match-fund donations made to Higher Education Institutions by £200m during 2008-2011. In our case it means that for every £2 we raise, we will get an additional £1 from the Government, a 50% match-fund! So any gift of any size will actually be worth 50% more to the University.
If you would like more information on the Annual Fund or the Telethon, please contact Charlie Tyce on c.tyce@uel.ac.uk or ext. 6443.
Pictured: UEL's telethon student callers
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AVA: Wednesday 3 March 2010, 12 -1pm, AVA Building (contact Sian Harris to confirm your place and for room details)
RDBS: Friday 5 March 2010, 12 - 1pm, East Building EBG.08 (contact Rehana Patel to confirm your place)
All Staff: Docklands: Wednesday 10 March 2010 1pm - 2pm, East Building G.06
Law: Thursday 22 April 2010, 12 - 1pm, Duncan House (contact Pat Berwick to confirm your place and for room details)
Dates for the remaining schools will be announced shortly. These sessions are open to both staff and students.
Crash Course in New Technologies Saturday 27 February 10am-11am or 11am - Noon, Thurrock Learning Shop, Grays
If you’re interested in knowing more about new tools
and technologies, the University of East London will be
running a free one hour taster session on a wide variety of
new technologies.
This session is aimed at anyone with an interest in
learning about new technologies and how they are used.
A basic understanding of computers and the internet is
desirable, but not essential.This session is restricted to 12 participants and places
will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
For further information or to book a place on this session
please contact: Debbie Brisco, Thurrock Learning Shop,
Tel: 01375 485490
Bike Users Group Meeting Thursday 4 March 1-2 pm, Room EB2.46, Docklands Campus
Wholesome soup and crusty rolls will be served - so to avoid waste please drop me a line if you wish to attend. Contact Greg Price G.Price@uel.ac.uk
Public Lecture: Giving Voice to the Voiceless Thursday 4 March 2010 5 - 7pm, West Building G.02, Docklands Campus
The Centre for Research on Migration and Belonging & the Exiled Journalists' Network presents a public lecture by Mike Jempson, Director of The Media Wise Trust. All welcome, admission free. Refreshments available. Contact events@uel.ac.uk to reserve your place. See www.uel.ac.uk/lectureseries for more information.
Green Week 8 - 12 March 2010
A programme of events will be announced soon but will feature roadshows, stalls, talks and much more! For more information contact Sara Kasssam s.kassam@uel.ac.uk
Public Lecture: “From Personal Property to Speaking Subjects: Youth, Gender, and the Right to Credit in an Attention Economy.” by Theresa Senft Tuesday 9 March 2010 5.30pm WBG.02, Docklands Campus
All welcome, admission free. Refreshments available. Contact events@uel.ac.uk to reserve your place. See www.uel.ac.uk/lectureseries for more information.
Staff Lunchtime Q+A with your new VC Wednesday 10 March 1 - 2pm, EBG.06, Docklands
Patrick McGhee will be holding lunchtime question and answer sessions on both the Docklands and Stratford Campuses. These are an opportunity for you to listen to his ideas for UEL and for him to find out what you think about UEL and our future. Lunch provided. To attend either event please RSVP to events@uel.ac.uk or ext 2042 / 2884. If you are unable to attend either session you can email your questions to events@uel.ac.uk by 5pm the day before the event and these questions will be put to Patrick.
First Lesbian Gay and Bisexual staff network meeting Monday 15 March 2010 1 - 3pm, EBG.11, Docklands Campus.
UEL has been a 'Stonewall Diversity Champion' since 2009 giving us an opprtunity to participate in a national benchmarking exercise, formally known as ' Stonewall's Workplace Equality Index'. Our ranking against 352 champion organisations will be revealed at the meeting by Brent Chamberlain our retained Stonewall consultant. The index although representative of all sectors is still very relevant to HEIs and it is interesting to note that Imperial College London is ranked 79th and Liverpool John Moores University is ranked 85th. Brent will also be available to give us advice on general best practice and possible options on how our LGB Network can best operate.
To book a place, please email Greg Price G.Price@uel.ac.uk, along with any items you wish to add to the following draft agenda.
Skills Module Leaders Fora Thursday 18 March 2010 12pm-4.30pm, UH3.12 Stratford Campus
The first in a new series
where Skills Module Leaders have an opportunity to network and discuss issues of importance to them. The first forum will be covering areas of relevance to Level One Skills Modules; our next two forums later in the year will focus on Employability and Research. We hope as many Skills Module Leaders as possible will attend. For further information including the programme please see Skills Module Leaders Forum 2010
Please email learn-teach@uel.ac.uk to register your place at the forum, including details of any special dietary requirements
UEL Alumni Network presents: Transforming the health and wellbeing of East Londoners: concepts and practices Wednesday 24 March, 6pm-9.30pm, Stratford Campus
Professor Neville Punchard will lead an assembled panel of experts in a discussion of the challenges and means by which public health may be improved. This will be followed by a question and answer session, and then a buffet reception at which you will be able to meet alumni, staff and students. For more information, or to register for the event, please contact the Development & Alumni Office at alumni@uel.ac.uk.
Annual UELSports Awards 30 April 2010 6pm - 1am, West Ham Utd Football Club
The first Annual Sports Awards to acknowledge and reward the efforts of our students and sports clubs each year. For more information please contact Katy Hollands, k.hollands@uel.ac.uk
Mayfest, Wednesday 5 May 2010
Our annual cultural and arts extravaganza, more information coming soon! To get involved please contact Becky Williams, events@uel.ac.uk or ext. 2884
Open Days 2010
Wednesday 21 April 2010, 4-7pm, Stratford Campus only – Postgraduate advice evening
Saturday 26 June 2010, 12-4pm, Stratford and Docklands
Wednesday 1 September 2010, 4-7pm, Stratford and Docklands
Saturday 16 October 2010, 12-4pm, Stratford and Docklands
For more information about Open Days, contact Vicky Rossiter on v.rossiter@uel.ac.uk
Key links:
Academic Board: www.uel.ac.uk/qa/committees/acaboard
UEL Chaplaincy: www.uel.ac.uk/chaplaincy
Board of Governors: www.uel.ac.uk/governors
Graduation:www.uel.ac.uk/graduation
Mayfest: www.uel.ac.uk/mayfest
Open Days: www.uel.ac.uk/openday
Public Lectures: www.uel.ac.uk/lectureseries
Stonewall Information Service, for advice on housing, parenting, school, work, partnerships, health, immigration and crime call 08000 50 20 20. For details, visit: www.stonewall.org/info
See Events Calendar for a full listing: www.uel.ac.uk/marketing/support/eventscalendar.htm
Since the start of this academic year, UELSports has moved rapidly to expand on the number and success of our sports clubs. At the start of this academic year UEL boasted a relatively low number of clubs (4 to be precise), this has now been dramatically increased to more than 20, with more being discussed.
The current range of sports clubs are:-
Football (mens and ladies)
Rugby Union(mens and ladies)
Hockey (ladies)
Basketball (mens and ladies)
Gaelic Football (mens and ladies)
Boxing
Dance
Volleyball
Cricket
Badminton
Athletics
Swimming
Olympic weightlifting
Judo
Taekwondo
Ju Jitsu
Students are at the centre of making our clubs a success and we need a continual flow of committed and dedicated students to move the clubs forward on an annual basis. The clubs can also accomodate input from staff, therefore if you are interested in getting involved with our student sports clubs, please make contact. You could perhaps give a clubs your professional input (ie, coaching, marketing, fundraising, etc) or just to be a mentor or advisor to our student committees.
Successes
Recently our Gaelic Football mens team won their respective national title in Birmingham, and our Cricket team won the regional indoor cricket tournament held at Essex County Cricket Club. Our 2 mens football teams are at the top of their respective leagues with our mens first team scoring over 20 goals and only conceding 3. A strong athletics team will go to the upcoming BUCS Indoor athletics event, with our 'World Class' athlete Jeffrey Lawal Balagun expected to bring back gold to UEL. Other clubs have equally been successful, and we expect to honour this achievement by our students at our upcoming UELSports awards being held at West Ham Utd FC on Friday April 30th. Tickets are now on sale.
Our boxing club goes from strength to strength. Having formed a link with the West Ham Amateur Boys Club, our club boasts over 20 active members (most who are complete novices), and have high ambitions to host a boxing show on campus. Plans are being discussed to have a sparring show at Docklands campus during the Mayfest event on May 5th.
Last year UEL finished 127th in the British University sports tournament (BUCS) out of 142 teams. This year we expect to dramatically improve on this result, and year on year make gradual progress to ensure we boast the highest ranking out of all the London HEI within 5 years.
If you feel you can add value to the development and the progress of our sports clubs, please contact Katy Hollands, UELSports Development Officer on k.hollands@uel.ac.uk. We will value your time and your ideas.
Natural Envrionment Research Council (NERC). Living with environmental change: changing water cycle. Deadline: 8 April 2010. Proposals are invited as part of the initial investment phase of a major new research programme on the Changing Water Cycle. This five-year, £10m programme directly relates to the delivery of NERC strategy (in particular the climate system, sustainable use of natural resources and natural hazards science themes) and UK Government's strategic goals with respect to adaptation to, and mitigation of, climate change. This programme is Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) accredited and will contribute to objectives on climate change, ecosystems and human well-being. http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/cwc/events/ao.asp
NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme. Clinical evaluation and trials. Deadline: 13 April 2010 (with a topic focus on palliative and supportive care). HTA Clinical Trials has expanded its remit to become the HTA Clinical Evaluation and Trials funding stream and grants are now available for evaluation studies falling within the remit of the HTA programme, as well as normal clinical trials. http://www.hta.ac.uk/funding/clinicaltrials/index.shtml
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Open research area in Europe for the Social Sciences. Deadline: 13 April 2010. The aim of this call is to fund joint research projects in the social sciences. A minimum of £100,000 and a maximum of £750,000 at 100 per cent full economic costs per project is available. http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/international/index.aspx
British Academy / Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities research visits. Deadline: 15 April and 15 September. The British Academy has an agreement with the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities to support research visits to Sweden by senior British scholars. The British Academy pays the scholar’s return fares and the Royal Swedish Academy provides a maintenance allowance and assistance with accommodation. Applicants must be UK residents conducting advanced research in the humanities and social sciences. Grants may be for either a single visit of one month in length or two separate visits of two weeks' duration each http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/intl/swedennfa.cfm
Missed an Update? All previously advertised funding opportunities are archived until their date of expiry at http://www.uel.ac.uk/gradschool/research/ResearchUpdate.htm or http://www.uel.ac.uk/gradschool/research/euroupdate.htm
The Springboard Women's Development Programme is specifically designed for and by women to help them develop ideas on aspects of their lives they wish to change, and to give them the skills to take control of their life as well as the boost in self-confidence to start to make things happen.
Here at UEL, we have successfully run this course a number of times with 90 women taking part over the past three years. In the words of one participant Springboard has "Made me take time to review achievements and set new goals and have the confidence to make these changes "
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate and thank all 90 participants who have completed the programme and wish them all the best in aspiring to future visions, ambitions and goals. I would also like to thank all of our UEL female guest speakers,for their presentations to help inspire and encourage our participants with what they have achieved and how they have done it.
Shobi Warwick, Learning and Development Manager
For Learning and Development Course dates see: www.uel.ac.uk/staff-development/handbook
UEL's Patrick Oronsaye is holding a solo exhibition of paintings titled "Internationalism and Ethnicity" at the Barking and Dagenham Learning Centre between 7 and 21 March 2010. Patrick Oronsaye’s exhibition of paintings, is a celebration of his creative achievements. They fizz with the energy of African life. He is from the EDO tribe of Nigeria, yet his imagination and creative inspiration has been matured here at UEL, firstly as a Masters student, and now in the final year of the Professional Doctorate in Fine Art programme, graduating in June.
The inspiration for this work has been the realisation of his creative potential, through research into the meeting of art cultures, the African art culture and the multicultural dynamic of contemporary art in London.
Research into related theories of post colonialism, identity, creolisation/hybridity and globalisation are synthesised and transformed in his creative practice; traditional elements of African culture fuse with the contemporary. See www.lbbd.gov.uk/gallery for more information
Please send comments or contributions for in Focus Update to: infocus@uel.ac.uk
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