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Welcome to in Focus Update… |
Past Issues << | Issue 285: 21 March 2012 |
This Saturday 24 March SportsDock will be opening its doors to staff, students, local residents, friends and families for a free day of taster sessions, sports club demonstrations, tours, inductions and healthy living advice, with special guest appearances from Olympic and Paralympic stars Teresa Edwards and Ade Adepitan MBE. On top of that there'll be a bouncy castle and face painting for the kids! Come along to SportsDock on Docklands Campus this Saturday between 10am and 5pm. Contact the Events team for further details.
UEL is committed to the promotion of the positive mental health and wellbeing of its student community, and as such a revised UEL Student Mental Health and Wellbeing Policy is now in full operation. The policy provides information on the variety of support available to all students with any emotional or mental health difficulties and on current procedures available to staff on supporting and managing these situations where students are presented with such difficulties. View the policy on the Student Services website. For further information contact the Health and Wellbeing team.
The International Student Barometer is an external survey of all international students – all years, courses and levels. The survey shows how satisfied international students are in all areas of their experience at UEL, and benchmarks us against our competitors.
UEL International is hosting a presentation by i-graduate to deliver the findings of the most recent survey (Autumn 2011):
Wednesday 21 March, 2 – 3.30pm, in EB.G.08, Docklands Campus
All staff are invited to attend, although spaces are limited. Email isb@uel.ac.uk to reserve your place, if you have not done so already. Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Library and Learning Services are starting to use QR codes to publicise their services. More and more students have smart phones and LLS want to make sure library services are being used – even on the go. By scanning the QR code on the left with your smart phone’s QR reader app you will automatically be taken to the Library’s Ask a Librarian tool. So why not copy and paste this QR code into your module handbooks? By embedding this in your printed handbooks your students can ask the librarians questions on the go. Contact Simone Ngozi Okolo for more information.
Classes run by UEL’s Language Centre have got off to a flying start. The first 80 students in Spanish, French, Chinese Mandarin and Japanese were each awarded a certificate by Language Centre Director Markus Davis last month. The courses have been a huge success and an increased number of places are planned for next semester. These free language classes are taught one evening a week throughout the semester. For more information see the Language Centre website.
The Centre of Excellence for Women’s Entrepreneurship travelled to Liverpool recently for the Global Entrepreneurship Congress – the largest gathering of start-up champions from around the world. In Britain for the first time, the Congress allowed CEWE to meet and network with some of the most successful and innovative entrepreneurs. Highlights included spending the day with the Women’s Organisation and discussing research on female entrepreneurship, as well as sitting in the audience for the Women’s Business Mastermind which featured a CEWE member on the panel! If you have any questions get in touch with CEWE.
As part of the drive to inspire young people to think about studying sport and health in higher education, the Education and Community Partnerships team and members from the School of Health, Sport and Bioscience were invited to the official launch of In the Zone where the keynote speaker and ambassador of the project, five times Olympic Gold medallist in rowing Sir Steven Redgrave, commented on his time rowing in the Royal Docks near UEL. Read the full article here.
On Saturday 21 July the Olympic Flame will be passing UEL...twice! At approximately 10.20am it will travel up Woolwich Manor Way right past SportsDock, and will then continue onto Romford Road and pass Stratford Campus at 1.52pm. The Torch Relay is a chance to see the Olympic Flame up-close before the event of the summer. View the full route on the London 2012 website.
For the latest on our activities visit the news releases section of our website www.uel.ac.uk/news
SportsDock launch
Saturday 24 March, 10am – 6pm, SportsDock, Docklands Campus
• All students, staff, friends and families are invited to the official opening of UEL's brand new sports centre, SportsDock.
• Come along for sports club demonstrations, taster sessions, tours, inductions and healthy living advice, as well as face painting, a bouncy castle, and more!
• Paralympic/Olympic winners Ade Adepitan MBE and Teresa Edwards will also be attending.
• For more information contact the Events team.
• To find out more about the sports centre visit the SportsDock website.
E- Factor final
Monday 26 March, 6 – 9pm, East Wintergarden, 43 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, E14 5AB
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This year’s competition has seen over 130 students with almost 100 business ideas battle to be one of the five finalists to pitch their ideas in the final.
• Vote for your favourite and influence the final result.
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Click here for further details and to register.
Working Mums Live
Tuesday 27 March, 9am – 4pm, Business Design Centre, Islington
• The Centre of Excellence for Women’s Entrepreneurship is sponsoring the free ‘Business Planning’ seminar where Wilma Garvin (Researcher and Royal Docks Business School Lecturer), Cathy Underwood (Director of Yoga4Mums) and Ana Paula Nacif (current UEL student and experienced coach and trainer) will share their own experiences of setting up a business.
• Register here and please advise CEWE if you plan to attend.
Entrepreneurship Day
Wednesday 18 April, 9.45am for 10am start, SD.1.12 (SportsDock), Docklands Campus
• Experience how Dutch students run their own live student companies as part of their business studies programmes.
• Similar to X factor, you can give support to the overseas live student company members, whose companies will be judged by a panel of experts.
• Click here for more information.
Wake up! It’s time to get that job!
Monday 19 March – Wednesday 23 May, UEL and Canary Wharf
• The Employability and Enterprise Team is running a 10-week programme of events to get final-year students into the world of work.
• View the full schedule and register here.
Training for SQSC members
Wednesday 28 March, 2 – 4.30pm, Stratford Campus
Learning outcomes from the session:
• Understand the business of SQSCs and the role of SQSC members
• Understand how to effectively scrutinise programme (re)approval documentation and the key reference points against which to evaluate proposals
• Understand how to identify relevant lines of enquiry and contribute to determining appropriate outcomes.
Please email ESDS to book your place or contact Joanne Wood for further information.
Mature students workshop
Wednesday 21 March, 2 – 4pm, in EB.G.09, Docklands Campus
• million+ and the NUS are staging a workshop for staff, mature students and SU officers, reps and staff to discuss the experiences of mature students. Staff are invited to come and share perspectives.
• Refreshments provided.
• To attend email Jayne Franklin with your name, email address, role and access requirements if applicable.
• Read more about the research project here.
IRCD seminar
Thursday 22 March, 11am, AE.3.18, Stratford Campus
• Dr Jyrki Tuomainen will present The effects of expectations and selective attention on audio-visual speech integration.
• For further details email Elena Kushnerenko
Life in the higher sausage factory
Thursday 22 March, 5 – 6pm, ED.2.02, Stratford Campus
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Glen Rikowski, Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at University of Northampton, will be presenting this next research seminar.
• Please RSVP to Veronica Burton.
Improving health in Newham – Research Seminar Series
Tuesday 27 March, 4.15 – 5.30pm, Classroom 3, Education Centre, NUHT
• Paul Sugarhood will be presenting ‘ATHENE – Assistive Technologies for Healthy Living in Elders: Needs Assessment by Ethnography’.
• Click here for full details.
• Please RSVP to Research Secretary Sadna Ullah or call 020 7055 5628.
Sustainable Futures
Tuesday 27 March, 6 – 7pm, Main Lecture Theatre, Docklands Campus
• Guest lecture with architect Ken Shuttleworth, who has worked on such high-profile projects as St Mary Axe (the Gherkin), Millenium Bridge and London City Hall.
• See the ACE website for more information and to register.
RDBS Masterclass: An audience with John Burton
Thursday 29 March, 1pm, MLT, Royal Docks Business School
• A masterclass with the director of Westfield's Stratford City Project.
Lunchtime discussion forum: Minding the gap about BAME student attainment: some preliminary findings of BAME students' experience of HE
Thursday 26 April, 12 noon – 2pm, RB.G.13, Stratford Campus
• Facilitated by Dr Pippa Dell, School of Psychology
• The session will explore the ways in which BAME students construct their expectations about, and experiences of, higher education, and will use this to clarify some of the reasons for the lower attainment of good degrees.
• Booking not necessary. Buffet lunch (first-come, first-served).
• View the Lunchtime Learning and Teaching Series schedule.
Disaster education: race, intersectionality and social justice
Wednesday 2 May, 5pm for 5.30pm start, ED.2.04, Stratford Campus
• You are invited to attend the Inaugural Lecture of Professor John Preston.
• Followed by a short drinks reception.
• RSVP to Veronica Burton by Thursday 19 April.
The Centre of Research on Migration, Refugee and Belonging: Imaging Migrants
Wednesdays, 5.30 – 7.30pm, EB.1.37, Docklands Campus
• A series of free seminars for staff and students.
• See the full schedule.
Forthcoming workshops for researchers include:
• Thursday 22 March: Academic Writing for Publication
• Thursday 22 March: Using the “Researcher Professional” Funding Information Service
• Tuesday 27 March: Presenting Your Research
• Tuesday 27 March: Public Engagement
• Monday 16 April: Preparing For Your Viva
For workshop synopses, plus times and venues, see the RDP webpage. To book a place email Researcher Development Manager Dr Caroline Dunmore.
See Events Calendar for a full listing: www.uel.ac.uk/marketing/support/eventscalendar.htm
Festival of Sport
Have you checked out the Festival of Sport at SportsDock yet? We're now into the second week of the festival, with plenty more sporting activities still on offer to staff and students, entirely for free.
See the full timetable.
Welcome to the Green Thing, a regular section full of information on environmental projects, tips and ideas for staff at UEL. Visit our website uel.ac.uk/greenthing, follow us on twitter at twitter.com/uel_greenthing or get in touch at greenthing@uel.ac.uk
We’d love to hear from you!
Environment Team, Facilities
Do you know where your office battery bin is kept? Are you aware of your department’s environmental policy? These are the questions our newly trained student Green Impact auditors may ask you when they audit participating Green Impact teams on 26 and 27 March. Green Impact is a fun competition to find the greenest UEL department. Using an online workbook, teams have been ticking off criteria to win bronze, silver and gold awards by adopting green practices around energy efficiency, recycling, travel, purchasing and biodiversity. So if you see students wandering around, clipboard in hand, don’t worry, they are just our awesome auditors coming to assess your progress.
Spring has sprung and Wordsworth’s infamous poem captures the beautiful scene at the grounds of University House at Stratford, where the daffodils have begun to bloom. The daffodils were planted as part of UEL’s Biodiversity Action Plan. Daffodils are a native species to the UK and there are over 25,000 varieties of daffodils and they come in yellow, white, orange and even a peach/pink shade. So if you are based at Stratford Campus, or just happen to be visiting, go and take a look. Send your daffodil and ‘UEL in bloom’ photos to the Environment team.
UEL’s Environment team will be at the SportsDock launch day this Saturday 24 March to talk about the new green features of SportsDock.
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