University Updates
26 October 2007
News
Teaching fellow recognised for 'outstanding contribution to pharmacy education'
Sandy Wood (Pharmacy & Pharmacology) has received a prestigious new Pharma award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to pharmacy education.
Honorary degree for researcher who improved customer-supplier relations
David Ford, who has developed a worldwide system for improving the way companies interact with customers and suppliers, has been awarded an honorary Doctorate degree from Uppsala University in Sweden.
Bath psychologist plays role in campaign to highlight effects of chronic pain in women
Bath psychologist Ed Keogh is taking part in an international campaign to raise awareness of the impact of chronic pain on women.
School of Management to host unique finance research centre
The School of Management has fought off stiff competition to secure the role of academic host for the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants’ (CIMA) innovative new research centre - the CIMA Centre of Excellence.
MSc graduate wins award for benchmark ‘leaders in sustainability’ programme
Christel Scholten, MSc in Responsibility & Business Practice graduate and one of the Sustainable Development Managers for ABN AMRO Real, Brazil, received a prize on behalf of the organisation at this year’s European Academy of Business in Society conference for an innovative in-company training programme.
Architecture student has work selected for Royal Academy
Architecture student Jessica Taylor had her work exhibited at the Royal Academy. More than 150,000 people saw the Royal Academy's exhibition in London over the summer.
Award for website design won by Computer Science student
Computer Science undergraduate Lee Stone has won an award for website design. Lee, who is taking a BSc Computer Science with Mathematics, was part of a team that won a Thinkquest international award. The award scheme was set up by the Oracle Education Foundation to inspire students to 'think, connect, create, and share'. Lee's team won the under-19 UK category for their site, H20, which gives a deeper understanding of what water is and how important it is to our everyday life and our own bodies.
University thanks donors at first Charter Day
A special celebration to thank the people who have given a total of £330,000 or pledged legacies to the University this year was held on campus recently.
Events planned as part of the Week of the Italian Language in the World
A programme of events is to being held in the University as part of the Week of the Italian Language in the World.
Jam-busting staff win prizes for greener journeys in June
Eleven University staff have won ‘jam-busting’ prizes for finding more environmentally-friendly ways of getting to work in June.
University offers free business courses for Enterprise Week
Local business people can sample courses designed to develop their skills, in a series of free workshops at the University of Bath in Swindon to celebrate national Enterprise Week (12-18 November).
Information
University to close on 21 December -Christmas Eve is a holiday
In addition to this year's previously announced closure days, the University will be closed on Monday 24 December. The last day of operations prior to the Christmas break will, therefore, be Friday 21 December, and the University will resume normal working on Wednesday 2 January 2008.
Have you had chance to complete the Staff Survey 2007 yet?
Members of staff will have received an email with a link to the Bath survey and a personal password. If for any reason you no longer have the email containing your survey password, please email staffsurveys@capita.co.uk or call Capita's helpline number 0800 587 3115 supplying your BUCS username. The University is giving staff the opportunity to say how they feel about working here; please try to find time to complete the questionnaire. Thank you to the 600+ people who have already done so.
Revised Student Disciplinary Procedures
The Effectiveness Review of Senate has concluded that the University’s disciplinary procedures were largely effective; however, there were a number of areas which needed to be looked at so Revised procedures have been published.
Publications - please return unwanted copies
The Press Office receives regular requests for copies of the 40th anniversary publication 'University of Bath: a history' and the 'Research' magazine. To ensure we have them available, please return any unused copies to the Press Office, where they will be available on request. Please address returns to Claire Hornshaw, Wessex House 8.1.
Message for owners of mailing lists
Over the summer Computing Services launched a new system for managing mailing
lists. The new lists system and the two older lists systems have been running
in parallel since August to allow time for people to move their lists; however
the old lists systems are due to be switched off at the end of the October. Please move your lists to the new system if you have not already done so.
7 November - Ban bullying at work day
The main aim of the campaign is to raise awareness of the issue of workplace bullying in the UK, and to encourage both individuals and organisations to have the strength to stand up and speak out against bullying.
Westwood Nursery collecting Tesco vouchers
The University nursery is taking part in the Tesco Sport for Schools & Clubs
2007 scheme, which will run between September and November 2007. It hopes
to collect as many vouchers as possible to receive free sport
equipment
for the nursery and would like to thank everyone in advance who will be helping
collect vouchers.
Fitness Suite Offer
Team Bath is offering a reduced membership fee for the fitness suite of
£199 per year, which works out at less than £4 per week. For more information
email Miles Peyton on m.j.peyton@bath.ac.uk or call ext 3597.
Jobs
Vacant posts: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs
Training & development opportunities
- IT training courses - autumn term
- Excelerated performance international: work smarter, not harder - 30 October
- Running tutorials & seminars - 5 November
- Annual learning & teaching enhancement seminar 2007 - 7 November
- Preventing aches & pains in the office - 8 November
- Leading research teams - 13 November
Longer courses:
- First line management: for supervisors/managers
- Team leading (ILM level 2): for manual, craft, technical, & clerical staff who have responsibility for others
In the media
- Anil Markandya (Economics & International Development) talked on BBC Radio Bristol about his experience of sharing the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Geoff Hammond (Mechanical Engineering/ICE) discussed the necessity of lowering our carbon footprint on Bath FM.
Lectures & seminars
The hidden power of advertising
Local people can get an insider’s guide to the way that advertising works, in a free public lecture at the University of Bath on Wednesday 31 October (5.15 to 6.15pm). Robert Heath (Management) will use recent psychology findings to explain how advertising can affect us even if we ignore it, and will illustrate his theory with examples from his 30-year career in the advertising industry.
Facing the science media
A panel discussion about issues facing science communicators is being hosted by the Science Studies Centre on Friday 2 November at 11.15am. The panel includes Nancy Mendoza, a graduate of the Bath MSc in Science Communication - London Science Media Centre, Toby Murcott - science writer and past president of the Association of British Science Writers, and Andrew McLaughlin - University of Bath Press Office. Anyone who is involved in communicating science to the public, especially through the media, is welcome to attend. (3East 4.17)
Geoff Smith takes part in Bath Filmfest
Geoff Smith will be present to answer questions at the screening of Beautiful Young Minds, together with the film's director, Morgan Matthews, and Richard Klein, commissioning editor of BBC documentaries. The documentary film is the story of the brightest mathematical brains of a generation who take part in the annual international maths Olympiad. The film is to be shown as part of Bath Filmfest at the BRLSI on 3 November at 7:30pm (Q&A at 9pm).
What's on next week
Monday 29
13:00 PM Stadium Testing and free cake
13:15 PM BICS seminar
17:15 PM Film screening: L'ultimo bacio by Gabriele Muccino
19:30 PM Himalayan visions of happiness
Tuesday 30
12:15 PM Under Devizes
12:15 PM Eucharist/Holy Communion
12:45 PM Oxfam Lunch
13:15 PM CNM seminar
13:15 PM Women's Studies Seminar
16:30 PM The green electricity market - past, present & future
20:00 PM Storytelling evening
Wednesday 31
14:15 PM Film screening: La sconosciuta
17:15 PM GULP lecture: The hidden power of advertising
17:30 PM Research into near-death experiences: debates, controversies & difficulties
November:
Thursday 1
13:00 PM Silent Zone
13:00 PM Tales from Tamale
13:15 PM Trieste, incontro tra mare e terra: etnie a confronto
19:30 PM Catch a falling star
Friday 2
11:15 AM Communicating science - Practitioner perspectives
13:15 PM Italian workshop - Dove finisce il mare?
17:00 PM Vegetarian Society: free meal
19:30 PM re:sounds
19:30 PM Small heavenly bodies of the solar system kind
Saturday 3
14:00 PM A transatlantic friendship - Elisabeth Gaskell & Charles Elliot Norton
18:00 PM The Bright Orange Family Fireworks
Sunday 4
19:30 PM Orchestra & BUBBA Big Band
Exhibitions
Judith
Tucker - Resort | ICIA Art Space 1, Claverton Rooms foyer, until
16 November
Judith Tucker's haunting drawings of the Baltic seaside resort of
Ahlbeck are inspired by photographs her grandmother brought with her
when she fled Nazi Germany to England in 1938. The charcoal drawings are infused with a sense of loss and shimmer with regret and yearning. Through melancholic coastal settings, the exhibition evokes memories of a vanished past.
Margareta Kern - Clothes for Death | ICIA Art Space 2, until 4 January
This interdisciplinary artist presents powerful and intimate photographs as a personal response to a tradition in Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina of women preparing clothes for their own burial.
Arts
University of Bath and Photosoc Photography Competition
Open to University staff & students
Submissions to ICIA by Fri 9 Nov, 2007
re:sounds
Fri 2 Nov, 7.30pm | Studio 1, ICIA Arts Complex | £5 University staff
The first in a series of experimental music and sonic art nights features an extraordinary line up of maverick music-makers, featuring Matthew Olden, Thomas Gardner and Andy Keep. Unique soundworlds are created through sampling, improvisation and live performance.
Orchestra & BUBBA Big Band
Sun 4 Nov, 7.30pm | Hayesfield School, Bath | £5 University staff
Enjoy a selection of swinging jazz numbers from the 40-strong BUBBA Big Band, followed by the University Orchestra’s performance of one of the most popular musical scores of all time – Bernstein’s classic West Side Story.
Sport
New Hi-Five Netball League launchedTeam Bath Tribe is launching a new Hi-Five Netball League in November based at the Sports Training Village. Forty two places are available for Year 6 pupils to attend training sessions and matches from 4pm-6pm on Friday evenings.
International futsal comes to Bath
International futsal is on its way to Bath with The FA showcasing a small-sided format of the game at the University on Monday and Tuesday (29 & 30 October) next week. Futsal is an indoor 5-a-side game which is played with a small but heavier than normal football to encourage quick passing and movement and England will be warming up for February’s FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign with two games against Andorra.
Hat-trick man Townley picks up football award
Team Bath FC’s Matt Townley (a Bath graduate) has been presented with his Player of the Round trophy after hitting a hat-trick within six minutes in the FA Cup, which is sponsored by E.ON.
Late Pearson save secures point in hockey game
Team Bath Buccaneers came away with a point in their first game on the newly upgraded, sand-dressed hockey pitch at the Sports Training Village.