Submissions are now invited for the Honorary Graduates' Award for Inclusive Practice 2015-16!

This award recognises and promotes the provision of inclusive practice across the University that removes barriers to access for students protected by the Equality Act. It is open to both teaching staff and those based in central services.

Submissions can be made either for pilot stage inclusive approaches to teaching or service provision which could be fully realised through the award of the practice development funding, or for examples of fully-formed practice. The Award takes the form of a £1,000 practice development fund.

Submissions should be sent to Lorraine Anderson by Friday 29 April 2016. Find out more and access the submission form.

We're delighted to announce that the University has retained the European Commission HR Excellence in Research Award, following a rigorous four-year assessment.

The HR Excellence in Research Award acknowledges institutions' alignment with the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for their Recruitment. More information about the award can be found online.

A support, advocacy, information and policy development forum for researchers and lecturers with dyslexia in Higher Education is being launched at the University of the Arts London on Friday 18 March, from 10.30am to 5pm.

This will be the first ever opportunity for dyslexic academics to work together in identifying the challenges they face, ways of overcoming barriers and to re-address the deficit model of dyslexia. Members come from every region of the UK and all academic ranks are represented from Dean and Professor to Visiting Lecturer, and are drawn from 30 academic disciplines across the Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences and the Humanities.

If you wish to attend, please email Anne Morris a.morris@londonmet.ac.uk before Wednesday 9 March.

These are just a few of the news stories across campus - keep up to date with all of the University news on the website www.dundee.ac.uk/news.

TV presenter - and former Rector – Lorraine Kelly has become the 100,000th volunteer to join The Scottish Health Research Register (SHARE), led by Professor Colin Palmer (School of Medicine). 

By making it easier for people to get involved (it takes around one minute to sign up to the register), SHARE helps researchers to find suitable volunteers from Scotland to carry out ground-breaking medical research, and also use blood left over from routine testing to help improve treatments for diseases such as Cancer, Diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Asthma.

Volunteers have been signing up to SHARE as a result of invitations through hospital appointments and doctor’s surgeries, and via social media. Sign up at www.registerforshare.org.

Read the full story. 

Daniel Herron, the first joint PhD student between the University of Dundee and University of Technology Sydney, is investigating how digital possessions are dealt with by people after they experience a break up, separation or divorce. 

During their relationship, a couple is likely to create, accumulate and share many digital possessions such as videos, photos, chat histories, and shared accounts like Netflix. These digital possessions can cue precious memories, but if the relationship ends these possessions don't just disappear, they need to be dealt with in some way. Daniel has been researching the matter under the supervision of Dr Wendy Moncur (School of Art & Design).

Read the full story on the UTS website.

Professor Graeme Martin, Head of Management and Marketing (School of Social Sciences), has published a new book exploring changes in the field of management that have taken place since the global financial crisis of 2007-8 and other events that have shaped the current world economic environment.

‘Managing People and Organizations in Changing Contexts’ is an updated edition of the original book written in 2006, which addresses the contemporary problems faced by managers in dealing with people, organisations and change in a theoretically-informed and practical way.

Find out more.

These are just a few of the events across campus - keep up to date with all of them on the website www.dundee.ac.uk/events and stay tuned to the weekly What's On email.

It’s Fairtrade Fortnight – and amongst the activities and offers available on campus, the Top of the Tower Cafe (Campus Catering) is offering:

• Fairtrade breakfasts for £3 – choose from muesli, tea or coffee, apple or orange juice and toast with butter and jam (until Friday 11 March).
• Half price Fairtrade goods at the Top of the Tower (until Friday 11 March).
• Free Fairtrade lunch (chickpea curry and rice, with rice pudding for dessert) in the Tower Foyer on Wednesday 9 March from 12-2pm (or until it’s all gone).

Enjoy!

VisConn, a social enterprise set up by four current University students aiming to promote student artists' work, is bringing the latest artwork of their student artists to campus. The artwork will be displayed in the Dalhousie Foyer for the first two weeks of March. More information.

Thursday 3 March is Mental Health Day and DUSA | The Union is getting involved - break out of your routine by stopping by The Union and Campus Green, where there will be events and freebies aimed at helping you unwind! 

Don't forget that the Health Service, Student Funding, Counselling Service, Disability Services and Occupational Health now make up The Support Hub - they can be found in their new location, the Old Technical Institute (OTI), located behind the Tower Building.

Look out for DUSA's 'welfare map' which will be launched on campus on Mental Health Day.

The Clinical Skills Centre (School of Medicine, Ninewells Campus) is recruiting women between the ages of 20 and 65 to support teaching sessions for senior undergraduate medical students. As a Clinical Teaching Associate, volunteers will be required to take part in gynaecological examinations and will be trained in providing guidance and feedback to students. If you would like to help please email patientbank@dundee.ac.uk.

Uchechi Origa, a Masters student in Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Technology (School of Medicine, Ninewells Campus), is recruiting participants for research work, which aims to provide data that can help to discover if there is any form of complication while using hands-free crutches instead of walking crutches. 

If you are over 18, healthy with no walking difficulties, weigh 125kg or less, are between 147 and 198cm in height and would like to help, please email u.origa@dundee.ac.uk or phone 01382 383520.

Volunteers will be asked to attend a 90 minute session at the Institute of Motion Analysis & Research (IMAR) located at the TORT Centre at Ninewells Hospital.