University Updates
7 May 2010
Research
Every picture tells a story…of research at Bath!
The Images of Research exhibition, which gives researchers the chance to highlight their work in photographs, will be held at The Octogon, Milsom Place, Bath on Friday 14 May and Saturday 15 May.
Researchers investigate fishy sense of smell
Research led by the University is using the latest technology to find out how hammerhead sharks are able to sniff out their prey. Jonathan Cox (Chemistry) has been working with researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Natural History Museum in London, testing a scale model of a hammerhead shark in a flow tank to see how the water flows around the nasal cavity of its strange flattened head.
News
Mech-Eng student named Engineering Undergraduate of the Year
Hamish Woodrow, a second year Mechanical Engineering student, has been named Engineering Undergraduate of the Year. The award was launched to find Britain’s most promising engineer and attracted entries from over 450 talented undergraduates.
Public invited to view rare art collection by Craigie Aitchison
People in Bath are being invited to a rare viewing of some of the most exclusive works of the late artist Craigie Aitchison. The exhibition will be held at the Vice-Chancellor's residence in Lansdown Crescent and will be open to the public from 18-20 June.
Opportunity to visit the BaleHaus@Bath
There is an opportunity to visit the BaleHaus@Bath and discuss the project with the researchers involved during lunchtime on Wednesday 12 May. An acoustic test will be undertaken on the BaleHaus@Bath on Friday 14 May to assess its acoustic performance. For more information on the test, please visit the Architecture & Civil Engineering webpage.
DfLL runs new workshop on overcoming workplace stress
All sorts of things can make you stressed, the Division for Lifelong Learning is running a new workshop ‘Stress Management Techniques for the Workplace’ which is designed to help with all types of stress.
Drug discovery work highlighted at international cancer conference
Drug discovery work from the Pharmacy & Pharmacology Department has been singled out for esteem at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Washington DC that was held from 17-21 April.
Campus Wellbeing Fair
Staff and students are invited to attend this year’s campus Wellbeing Fair. The Safety, Health & Environment Unit will have a range of free leaflets on general health and safety issues, with mouse mats and coasters to give away.
Staff news
Nick Gould appointed to national expert group on depression
Nick Gould (Social & Policy Sciences) has been appointed to a national expert group on the treatment of depression. The group has been established by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to undertake a project commissioned by the Department of Health to identify markers of quality in services for people experiencing depression.
Brian Kelly wins John M Slatin Award at W4A 2010
Brian Kelly, from UKOLN, was the lead author of a paper on "Developing Countries; Developing Experiences: Approaches to Accessibility for the Real World". The paper was the winner of the John M Slatin Award for the best communications paper at the W4A 2010 conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina on 26 and 27 April.
Information
Proof of Concept for Commercialisation Funding: call for bids opens
Announced at the Bath Ventures Technology Commercialisation Campaign launch event on the 28th of April, a call for funding proposals under the current commercialisation campaign has now opened.
Staff discounts: A language passport for your holiday abroad!
Learn a foreign language and take advantage of the reduced rates offered to staff. The Foreign Languages Centre has started enrolling for an exciting Summer term programme.
Please keep records of television and radio recordings in May
During May staff members who record television and radio programmes for teaching purposes (whether on campus or off) must keep records of any recordings they make, and send the details to the Audio Visual Unit as part of an annual survey conducted by the Educational Recording Agency (ERA).
Volunteers wanted: Earn £10 for one hour of your time
Researcher David Moore from the School for Health is currently investigating relationships between attention and pain experience. He is offering £10 to all staff and students who volunteer to participate in an experiment which takes no more than two hours and involves computerised reaction time tasks, and a mildly painful heat sensation.
Swap Shop wiki
Does your department need to get rid of something that might be useful to another department? Why not use Purchasing’s Swap Shop wiki to swap it.
Jobs
Vacant posts: http://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/
Training & development
- e-learning Staff Development Opportunities in April 2010
- Training opportunities for researchers
- Leading Teams: Building, Motivating, Developing - 10 May
- Chairing Recruitment Panels - 11 May
- Managers' Forum - 12 May
- Research and Industry - 14 May - 29 Oct
- Presenting Numerical Data - 19 May
- Performance Management: Part 2: Skills and Techniques - 9 Jun
- Retirement - Planning for the Future - 15 Jun
- Introduction to Project Management (Manchester) - 17 Jun
- Open Programme of Events | PDF to print
- Staff: Improve your IT skills, new timetable available
- e-Learning staff development programme
In the media
- Jeff Gavin (Psychology) was interviewed by 4FM (Ireland) and BBC World Service about his research into online dating.
- BBC Radio Bristol interviewed Steve Wharton (European Studies & Modern Languages) about voter intentions and what goes through people's minds when they're in the voting booth.
- Liz Lyon's (UKOLN) article entitled "Open Science in the data decade" was published in the latest issue of "Central Government" magazine.
Lectures & seminars
The science of speed: meet the Bloodhound supersonic car
The supersonic endeavour to design a car that can smash the world land speed record and reach 1,000 miles per hour is the subject of the next Bath Science Café, organised by the University of Bath (Monday 10 May).
Seminar on the Internationalisation of Higher Education
All are welcome to a free seminar on the Internationalisation of Higher Education on Thursday 10 June. The day starts at 10am with coffee and will finish at 4pm.
Public lectures
The programme of free lectures open for staff, students and the general public is available online.
Podcasts
Catch up on public lectures you may have missed.
What's on
Monday 10
School for Health online open week 10-14 May 2010
13:15 PM Complexity Seminar
19:30 PM Bathing in the Roman empire
Tuesday 11
12:15 PM Mid week Eucharist/H C Service
12:30 PM Academic Assembly
13:15 PM CNM Seminar - Mathematics & mathematics education
Wednesday 12
10:00 AM Wellbeing Fair 12:00 Noon Visit BaleHaus@Bath
13:00 PM Neuroscience Network at the University of Bath (NNUB) event
16:30 PM CSAT seminar - Dr Wim Wardekker (formerly Free University of Amsterdam) - 'Diale
19:00 PM Bath Japanese Festival 2010
Thursday 13
18:30 PM Marianne North: artist & traveller extraordinaire
Friday 14
11:00 AM Images of Research photograph exhibition
12:00 Noon Research Postgraduate Careers Drop-in Day
14:15 PM The EU as a post-colonial power
19:30 PM The magic of starlight
Saturday 15
10:00 AM Alumni Reunion
Arts
Exhibitions:
Margareta Kern Guest | ICIA Art Space 1 | Thursday 6 May - Friday 18 June . Open Monday -Saturday 10am-5pm
Artist Margareta Kern took up her Artist residency in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences from 4 March. The residency is organised by ICIA and is presented as part of its 2010 programme of events, that explores ‘the place of work’. Whilst in residence, Kern uses Art Space 1 as a site of production for her new installation, Guest, which will develop and change over the course of exhibition. Kern will engage staff and students of the University community to explore, compare and contrast her own artistic methods of enquiry with those used in the sociology of work.
Deborah Robinson - Fish - Eye – I | ICIA Art Space 2 | Thursday 22 April - Friday 11 June. Open Monday - Saturday 10am-5pm.
Artist-in-residence Deborah Robinson enters the hidden world of the aquatic lab in the University’s Department of Biology & Biochemistry. Catching glimpses of researchers going about their daily work, Robinson captures the strange poetic beauty of this see-through world – from fish, water and tank, to the lens of the camera itself.
Sport
Buccs hockey team just miss out on promotion
Despite a tremendous effort, TeamBath Buccaneers men’s firsts missed out on promotion to England Hockey League Premier Division on goal difference.
University win Combination Cup
The University's rugby team won the Bath Combination Clubs Cup for the first time, beating Trowbridge RFC 45-10 in the final at the Rec.
Cheer on TeamBath at Superleague final
TeamBath's netball team now go in search of a historic fourth Co-operative Superleague title at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham on Saturday 15 May, where they will take face the winners of today's (7 May) second round of play-offs between Surrey Storm and Hertfordshire Mavericks.