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TOP STORIES
£10M donation for Mireille Gillings Neuroimaging Centre
We are delighted to announce the launch of the new Mireille Gillings Neuroimaging Centre at the University of Exeter Medical School. The new Centre is funded by a £10 million donation from the Dennis and Mireille Gillings Foundation - the single largest donation received by the University. It will facilitate dementia research with global impact. Read more here.
Exeter to train more of Tomorrow's doctors
The government has granted permission for the University of Exeter Medical School to train an additional 88 Medicine students each year, in a major boost to the South West.
The additional numbers will mean more trainee doctors working in the region and will bolster opportunities for Westcountry students to train in Medicine close to home. It will also mean an economic boost for Exeter and Truro, where the Medical School has campuses. We are now consulting staff on staff and resource needed for the expansion. Read more here.
Academy of Nursing Launch
We are pleased to announce that we will be launching the University of Exeter's new Academy of Nursing on Thursday 31 May at the Research Innovation Learning & Development Building at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
The Academy is a joint project between four NHS Trusts in Devon and the University of Exeter, and will be the first step in an ambitious plan to both educate more nurses in Devon and support existing nurses throughout the region. For more information and to book, click here. Follow the launch on Twitter using #ExeterNurse.
Medical School graduation event
We are delighted to confirm that the Medical School graduation ceremony will be held on Tuesday 17th July at 3pm. Our first cohort of Medicine students will be graduating, alongside undergraduate and postgraduate students from our Medical Sciences and Medical Imaging programmes.
We'll be working with students on an event to be held at St Luke's for graduands and their parents and supporters on the morning of graduation day, before the formal ceremony is held in the afternoon. There will be a further update once details are confirmed.
Peninsula Prime Site wins excellence award for second year running
The Peninsula Prime Site has been awarded a Certificate of Achievement for the second year running by IQVIA. The Peninsula Prime Site comprises organisations that carry out clinical trials in the South West via the University of Exeter. The award is only given to top-performing sites in IQVIA's Prime and Partner Programme that have demonstrated excellence in clinical research, performance and quality.
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STAFF NEWS
Congratulations
Congratulations to:
Drs Ben Wheeler and Conny Guell, who have been appointed as the new co-directors of the MSc in Environment and Human Health programme.
Our newly promoted Associate Professors - David Mabin, Alex Harding and David Leeder.
Lynne Quinn on her new appointment as Operations Manager for the Exeter Clinical Trials Unit. Lynne joins us from Frontier Science (Scotland) Limited, a clinical trials charity where she served as Data Protection Officer.
Josephine Studham on her new appointment as Clinical Research Facility Manager at the University's Research, Innovation, Learning and Development (RILD) building.
Dr Mark Russell for winning the non-clinical prize at the Academy of Medical Sciences' Poster Presentation Event. Dr Liz Shephard was also a finalist at the event, being shortlisted for the clinical prize.
Dr Sarah Flanagan, who has been awarded the G.B. Morgagni Silver Young Investigator Award, which celebrates exceptional research in the field of metabolic diseases. Dr Flanagan received a 5000 euro cash prize, and an invitation to the ceremony in Venice in October. Read more here.
Postgraduate research successes:
Congratulations to:
PhD student Afi Leslie of the Islet Biology team, who has been invited to attend the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in June. Afi was one of just 600 students worldwide to be invited to attend the event, which will have 43 Nobel Laureates in attendance. Read more here.
PhD student Isabel Castanho of the Complex Disease Epigenetics Group, who was awarded the lead student position at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference, which will take place in Chicago this July. Read more here.
Welcomes
Welcome to the following staff joining us or moving to new roles:
Adam Smith - Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Joanna Pyczek - Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Andriy Kharechko - Postdoctoral Research Associate Modeller
Professor Gordon Taylor - Professor (E&R)
Dr Jacqualyn Eales - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - ECEHH
Dr Sahran Higgins - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - ECEHH
Dr Madeleine Gustavsson - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - ECEHH
Dr Matthew Young - Clinical Skills Tutor
Dr Mohsen Rezaei Hemami - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - PenTAG
Ms Amy Backhouse - Graduate Research Assistant - Exeter Clinical Trials Unit
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STAFF OPPORTUNITIES
Geneva/Exeter Collaborative Research Seed Grant
The Geneva/Exeter Collaborative Grants programme is designed to provide “seed-corn” support for interactions between researchers at both institutions to build the basis for new research and teaching initiatives and proposals for external funding (to help sustain and expand collaborative activity).
Up to £7,400 per project is available for collaboration in any discipline on a project of up to 12 months (from date of award), with total funding available of approx. £22,000 provided by match funding from the two institutions. Deadline for applications is Monday 14th May. More information is available here. If you have any questions please contact Rachel Jones, Global Partnerships Business Partner.
International collaborations
Mobility funding may be available for next year for a small number of institutions where there are a number of existing or target links either across the Medical School or the wider University. To be able to help identify which institutions these should be, it would be useful to know where either your existing collaborators are or if there are any institutions you would like to be working with in the future (research and/or education). We would particularly be interested to hear if you have existing links with the University of British Colombia (UBC) or if you might be looking to develop them.
Please let Rachel Jones, Global Partnerships Business Partner, know if there are any institutions you are interested in, or if you have any international partnerships questions.
UK-Gulf Institutional Links Grants
The UK-Gulf Institutional Links programme is part of the UK Government’s strategic commitment to strengthening partnerships with the Gulf countries in our interests and theirs to help tackle the challenges we share. It is designed to establish links beyond the level of the individual researcher and innovation practitioner, opening up opportunities for sustainable, solution-oriented collaborations between research groups.
Grants range from £50,000 to £125,000 for up to two years.
Applications can be submitted for collaborations between the UK and Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE. The deadline is Thursday 28th June. More information can be found here.
Reimagine Education Awards open
The international Reimagine Education Awards have now opened. These “Oscars” of Education are extremely prestigious and we have been lucky enough to be shortlisted for several awards in the last 2 years, and won an award for Green Consultants in 2017. We would encourage you to review the 17 award categories. You will have until Tuesday 31st July 2018 at 23:59 GMT to submit an application, and we would encourage everyone to discuss nominations with Professor Jean McEwan and we can consider our nominations at Education Executive in May ahead of the deadline.
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EQUALITY & DIVERSITY
PVC's Career Development & Leadership Development Fund
Thank you to everyone who applied to the PVC’s Career Development & Leadership Development Fund. We’re delighted to announce that the fund will be supporting 15 colleagues through bespoke career coaching, and seven on a writing retreat, which will allow them to focus either on research writing or preparing applications for Senior or Principal Fellowship of the HEA. Thank you also to the line managers who supported these colleagues’ applications.
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STAFF INFORMATION
Beastie
Staff and supporters have raised more than £900 in memory of Beastie the cat, who sadly passed away in March. Read more on the fundraising page.
Event toolkit
An Events Planning toolkit is available for all University of Exeter staff and students to use. It includes checklists, templates and other resources to help event organisers.
In addition, the Health and Safety Event Management Standard explains the actions that are required by any person defined as an organiser of events on University managed premises (including campus grounds).
Your data protection responsibilities
The law around how we use personal data is changing, and all colleagues need to know their responsibilities before the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on Friday 25th May. We can all be compliant by making simple changes, such as ensuring we lock our offices, and lock our desktop computers when we're away from our desks. The data you handle is also more secure when it's saved on the secure University drives (the N: or U: drive) and when we password protect key documents, when using shared spaces. Find out more here.
Risks of using external hard discs
USB attached external hard discs have a finite lifespan and if over 3-4 years old become prone to physical deterioration, which can lead to data loss. We recommend that you save data on the secure University drives, as above, but otherwise we suggest that you undertake the following preventions:
- Buy a second device to back up valuable data and store in a separate secure place, in good environmental conditions. Ensure that this secondary device is used regularly enough to prevent mechanical seizure and that the data is still accessible.
- Copy valuable data to the UEMS backup drive – this can be arranged by Desktop Support Team – so raise a SID request and Desktop Support Team will be in touch to discuss your needs.
- A project within Exeter IT has started that will lead to other options to store data. More details will follow when solutions become known.
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EDUCATION NEWS
Genomic Medicine extension for Exeter
The University of Exeter Medical School has received additional funding from Health Education England to extend its MSc Genomic Medicine programme, as part of the 100,000 Genomes Project.
The programme is designed to support healthcare staff in staying ahead of developments in genomic technologies and information. Read more here.
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RESEARCH NEWS
Exeter Diabetes website
We were delighted to launch the new Exeter Diabetes website in March, which will act as a portal for our world-leading diabetes research. It has been designed to bring together related research and make it easier to find academics and their activity. Follow the latest research news on Twitter using #ExeterDiabetes.
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STUDENT NEWS
Medicine students publish national Pathology research
Medicine students, Navin Mukundu Nagesh and Bogdan Chiva Giurca have collaborated with a national expert to produce a paper which aims to raise awareness of the value of Pathology as a science. Read more here.
Win for Exeter Powerlifting Society
Congratulations to the Exeter Powerlifting Society, who came 2nd at British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) and have been invited to the World Championship for University Powerlifting in the Czech Republic. Five Medicine students are part of the team!
Exeter Medicine student plays in BUCS Rugby Finals
Congratulations to our Medicine Student, Sarah Baggs, who was part of the Exeter University Women's Rugby Club squad that won the BUCS women's student rugby finals at Twickenham.
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Campus developments over the next decade
A new website dedicated to the Capital Strategy has been launched. It will detail key projects being progressed by the University, including the X-Keys refurbishment at St Luke's. The programme supports our strategic aim of being a global 100 research university.
As construction work begins on the major estate development projects, you can keep up to date with construction updates, temporary diversions and alternative routes via the website or by signing up to the weekly Campus works newsletter. Read about featured projects here.
Cross Keys redevelopment
Following Council approval, Cross Keys will be refurbished over the summer period. The £1.7 million project will include reconfiguring and upgrading the existing ground floor level, as well as creating a first-floor extension, increasing capacity from 150 to around 250. More information can be found on the Capital Strategy website.
Medical School infrastructure update
Following on from staff feedback, a set of hooks have been installed in the link area between Education and IBCS Offices in Medical School Building. These are to be used to hang wet weather clothes to assist with them drying out away from shared offices. Please feel free to use this as required.
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EVENTS
Education Conference 2018
Fri 4 May, 09:15 - 16:00
Penryn Campus
An Ethical Dilemma – Perceptions of Ethics on Donor Dissections: Michelle Lazarus
Tue 8 May, 13:00 - 14:00
WK Norman, St Luke's Campus
APN event: Cornwall Campuses Teaching Forum
Tue 8 May, 12:00 - 13:30
PL Seminar 02, Penryn Campus
Small group teaching throughout the iGEM competition: Dr Chloe Singleton
Wed 9 May, 12:30 - 13:30
Northcote House Council Chamber, Streatham Campus
Culture, Creativity and Wellbeing Keynote: Dr Evan Adams
Wed 9 May, 18:00 - 20:00
Lecture Theatre 1, Queen's Building, Streatham Campus
APN event: Enhancing group work through coaching students in shared leadership and to run self-managing schemes: Dr Alex Janes
Fri 18 May, 12:30 - 13:30
Northcote House Council Chamber, Streatham Campus
Methodology Guidance – Where are the methods? - Prof Tony Ades
Wed 30 May, 12:00 – 13.30
3.06, South Cloisters, St Luke’s Campus, with VC to Knowledge Spa, Truro (F083)
Academy of Nursing Launch
Thu 31 May, 08:30 – 10:30 or 16:30 – 18:30
RILD Building, Barrack Road, Exeter, EX2 5DW
APN event: Responding to informal student feedback: creating a constructive dialogue: Dr Lisa Alberici
Thu 31 May, 12:30 – 13:30
Northcote House Council Chamber, Streatham Campus
Creative Communications Seminar Series: Graphic Medicine
Thu 14 June, Seminar 12:00 – 13:30 and Workshop 14:00 – 16:00
South Cloisters 2.13, St Luke's Campus, with video link to Portland Square C403 and Knowledge Spa F10, Truro
International Clinical Education Seminar on Social Media and Gamification in Medical Education: Dr Marco Antonio de Carvalho Filho
Wed 4 July, 12:30 - 14:00
South Cloisters 3.06, St Luke’s Campus, with video link to Knowledge Spa F10, Truro
APN event: Title TBC (Inter-disciplinary module pilot): Dr Greta Bosch
Fri 6 July, 13:30 – 14:30
Northcote House Council Chamber, Streatham Campus
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