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COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH |
Wednesday 20 February 2019 |
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Nursing programme recommended for approval
Early in February, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) were visiting our staff and placement partners here in Exeter, as a part of their accreditation visit for our new Nursing programme.
The result of this visit was the course’s recommendation for approval to the NMC with no conditions! This is a very rare case, and is a testament to the extraordinary work of the Nursing programme team, and many others across the College of Medicine and Health, and Professional Services team. Thank you everyone.
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£50 Million in donations!
The University of Exeter’s fundraising campaign, ‘Making the Exceptional Happen’ has exceeded £50 million of philanthropic donations, taking the total to nearly 84% of target with less than two years to go. This increase reflects record growth in donor numbers over the past five years. Last year nearly 3,300 alumni and supporters made a financial donation to Exeter’s ‘Making the Exceptional Happen’ Campaign, up from 1,775 five years ago. Read more here.
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Professor William Gaze and Professor Lora Fleming, who spoke on panels this month in the House of Commons
Lora was invited to speak in conference with the Environmental Audit Committee on the topic of planetary health.
William provided an overview of his own research progress against the challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) as the new AMR research strategy is announced to coincide with the governments new 5-year AMR strategy.
Read more here.
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Employee Engagement Survey
Two meetings were held last week to begin consultation concerning the interpretation of the College results of the Employee Engagement survey and next steps in terms of learning and actions. Around 40 staff attended each meeting, and we have received a number of additional comments on email. These provided really valuable initial feedback. A note of the meetings will be circulated later this week to all staff.
Next week, we will then also circulate a number of ‘themes’ to provide a focus for action, and will seek your input in determining the top three or four to move forwards on; staff views will determine what we work on. It was clear from the meeting and comments that people want to see concrete outcomes of this process, and focussing should help us ensure that.
As previously indicated, the proposal then is to form a small ‘task and finish’ group for each theme take forward and generate concrete proposals for action, and so you may like to consider which issues you feel you’d like to contribute to as a member of such a group. We have been really heartened by these initial meeting of the commitment to make improvements to our College life and community, and look forward to working with you all in whatever way we can to ensure this improvement becomes a reality.
If you have any thoughts to add to this process, please contact Rachel Burn or Rich Smith.
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January was a bumper month for news coverage on our research! The total potential reach was over 1.1 billion, while the total Advertising Value Equivalent was £10.6 million!
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Reach is the number of IP addresses clicking in a given source per month, however does not show you exactly how many people clicked on the article.
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AVE gives an estimate of how much the coverage could cost as advertising space.
The genetic condition haemochromatosis causes higher levels of disease than previously thought, yet is easily treatable. The BBC, The Independent, and the Daily Mail ran coverage on research led by Professor David Melzer, Dr Luke Pilling and Dr Janice Atkins earlier
this month. The issue was mentioned in Parliament and the National Screening Committee has now pledged to consider it.
Whether you’re an early bird or a night owl is partially determined by your genes, and being an early riser is linked to better well-being. Research led by Dr Michael Weedon and Dr Samuel Jones was covered in The Guardian, the Daily Mail, and Wired UK this month.
Ground-breaking research which has the potential to improve diagnosis of laryngeal cancer was covered by the BBC, by The Independent, and by the Daily Mail.
A new way of screening babies and adults for future risk of type 1 diabetes will be much more effective at identifying the condition than current methods. This research led by Dr Richard Oram was covered in Science Daily.
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St Luke's Knitting Group
Cloisters Crafting is a newly formed group meeting on a monthly basis for an informal hour or so of crafting over lunch at St Luke’s – whether it be knitting, crochet, hand-sewing, needle felting, beading, art etc. The group meets from 12:30-13:30 in the upstairs area of Cross Keys and everyone is welcome to come along.
If you are interested in joining (and with no requirement to attend every session!) or would like to know upcoming dates, please contact Sue Whiffin for more information.
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Guest Lecture: Smoking and Controlled Substance abuse
Logan Brown, a Marshall’s Scholar from the US, will be giving a talk on the subject of smoking and controlled substance abuse.
Logan is from Lawrence, Kansas and has been interning in a variety of legal settings since she was 12 years old. She has written a children’s book that promotes a positive anti-smoking message to American Indian Youth that is distributed by the U.S. Department of the Interior. She has also researched a variety of counterterrorism issues and plans on going into international law after completing her masters at King’s College.
The event will take place on March 27 at 14:00 in South Cloisters 3.06. Places can be booked here.
If any academic or student groups would like to meet with Logan before or after this event for a more in depth conversation, please also contact Sarah Downing.
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PSRAS 2019 – NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN!
Nominations are now open for the Professional Services Recognition Awards 2019. Who do you work with that deserves an award? These awards are a fantastic opportunity to recognise the outstanding contributions made by our professional services colleagues and will culminate in a glittering awards ceremony on Friday June 28.
All University colleagues and students can nominate and all professional services colleagues are eligible for nomination. These awards are just one of the ways in which we recognise colleagues and are supported in particular by the University’s Above and Beyond Scheme.
Nominations are open until Friday 29 March. Find out more here.
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Menopause support
As part of our developing programme of Wellbeing support for colleagues, the University has developed guidance for colleagues and managers on menopause.
We are also working with colleagues in Psychology to pilot a Mindfulness Based Menopause Symptom Reduction (MBMSR) programme over eight weeks later this term. Details of this were communicated to staff in this week’s Weekly Bulletin.
These sessions which will mainly run in working hours, from 14:30-17:00 on the following days:
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Friday 1 Feb
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Friday 8 Feb
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Friday 15 Feb
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Friday 1 March
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Friday 8 March
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Friday 15 March
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Friday 22 March
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Friday 29 March
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Fourth year Medicine student Katie Ho has published her research paper, Radiological progression of end colostomy trephine diameter and area, in the BJS Open Access. Read more here.
More than 200 students attended the entirely student-organised Undergraduate Student Conference earlier this month which offered the opportunity to present unique research interests. Read more here.
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Research in Japan
Two undergraduate students, Qalam Eusuf and Hannah Ng, returned recently from studying abroad in Japan. The two worked at RIKEN, Centre for Brain Science, in Tokyo, Japan. The two will share their experiences through our student channels over the next month.
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Student Awards
Chris Cooper, PhD, Improving Literature Searching In Systematic Reviews. The Application Of Tailored Literature Searching Compared To 'The Conventional Approach'
Nicola Jeffery, PhD, Beta Cell Differentiation Status In Type 2 Diabetes
Jonathan Evans, MD, Optimising The Investigation Of Interventional Treatments In Lateral Elbow Tendinopathy
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A support programme to help parents of disabled children stay healthy in mind and body has received a funding boost of nearly £40,000 from the Big Lottery Fund, the largest community funder in the UK, to help it expand. Read more here.
Ground breaking data which could help companies develop new ways of supporting people to live healthier and happier lives was officially launched at Heartlands today by Cornish based-research project Smartline. Read more here.
The discovery of new ways in which the body regulates blood clots could help prevent and treat conditions including heart diseases, stroke and vascular dementia. Read more here.
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Weds 27 Feb, 14:00
3.06, South Cloisters
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Exeter Clinical Trials Support Networking Event 17
Tues 26 March, 10:00-12:30
JS07, Smeall Building
RSVP
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Weds 27 Mar, 14:00
3.06, South Cloisters
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