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Professor Steve Thornton, Dean
Staff meeting, June 25 2013
Open Days
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92% were likely to apply after attending. Compared to just 67% before
attending.
Comments:
• “The students were very optimistic about the university and the course was
very appealing. The students were incredibly helpful and informative in their
views.”
• “I wasn't sure about the PBL course type before and thought a systems
based course would be the one for me, but I've now realised how key PBL
is in developing skills like self directed study/teamwork you'll use as a
doctor”
Welcome new starters
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Dr Shenqiu Zhang, Associate Research Fellow
Dr Therese Murphy, Associate Research Fellow
Dr Lydia Staniaszek, Associate Research Fellow
Dr Janet Holley, Associate Lecturer (E&S)
Abi Scott, Research Co-ordinator
Andy Douglas, Marketing Manager
Shanker Venkatasubramanian, Research Co-ordinator
Dr Charles McGilligan, Associate Research Fellow
Dr Alessandro Ble, Research Fellow
Dr Wiebke Schmidt, Associate Research Fellow
Heather Ohly, Associate Research Fellow.
Welcome new starters
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Dr Victoria Olobia, Lead for Problem Based Learning (Clinical)
Zachary Gribble, Educational Technologist
Marian Parkinson, Pharmacogenetics Research Administrator
Deborah Galley, Laboratory Manager
Ellie Kingsland, MIR Research Administrator
Dr Katie Lunnon, Lecturer
Dr Shenqiu Zhang, Associate Research Fellow
Emma Purdon, new role as Widening Participation Officer
Research successes
• Dr Jackie Whatmore: £210K from FORCE for ‘Responses of the
endothelium to tumour secreted pro-metatastic signals’.
• Dr David Llewellyn: £250K from Mary Kinross Charitable Trust for
‘Vascular aspects of cognitive impairment and dementia’.
• Prof Katrina Wyatt: £160K from Kent County Council (for NHS
Medway) for ‘Implementing C2 Connecting Communities 7 step
model in two communities in Kent’.
Research successes
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Prof David Melzer and Dr Lorna Harries: £130k from Velux Foundation
for ‘Genetic Biomarkers of human ageing: relationship to outcomes’.
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Prof Andy Randall: £170k from Royal Society Industrial Fellowship
Project for ‘In vivo, cell-level imaging of network dynamics and
pathology in murine models for neurodegenerative disease’.
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Professor Andy Randall: £120K from Eli Lilly to support two CASE type
studentships.
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Dr William Gaze: CASE studentships from BBSRC (with AstraZeneca
worth £100k) and from NERC (with Aquatic Water Services, worth
£60K).
Athena SWAN
Committed to 88 action points across 9 areas:
• Gathering and assessing data
• Supporting undergraduate and postgraduate students
• Providing support around key career transition points
• Ensuring fairness, transparency and competence around staff appointments
• Supporting staff career development opportunities
• Ensuring a fair and open departmental organisation and culture
• Maternity/Adoption/Paternity/Carer and Flexible working opportunities
• Ensuring gender balance in outreach activities
• Good communication channels, opportunities to share / adopt best practice.
Chris Lindsay
College Manager
Finance and planning
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PRG process completed
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Baseline targets agreed for 2013/14 through to 2017/18
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College committed to moving towards a positive contribution
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This will be driven by income generation and more efficient working
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New UG and PGT programmes
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Expanding BSc (Hons) Medical Sciences
Medical Imaging
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Agreed project management structure
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Project Board chaired jointly by the UEMS and CEMPS Deans
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Project Implementation Group – College Managers, Project Manager
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Staff and students in Medical Imaging informed
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UEMS staff informed via News in Brief
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Working on a vision and governance structure for MI within UEMS
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Working with University to identify suitable St Luke’s space and capital
St Luke’s developments
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£10.5m committed to St Luke’s development
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Focus on College House and South Cloisters
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High quality refurbishment – for the medium to long term
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Work on College House will begin end of June 2013 until September 2013
– This is the first phase of refurbishment of all 3 blocks of College House
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Work on South Cloisters will begin October 2013 until October 2014
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Also defining additional teaching space and facilities, plus MI
University Professional Services Review
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University has launched a major review of its Professional Services
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Focus on interface between Colleges and central PS teams
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Initial consultation event held on 10 June 2013
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Now seeking feedback from Colleges and central services
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College Manager meeting with admin Staff in Exeter and Truro in July
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ACMs and Business Partners consulting with their teams
The Professional Services Review is about working with
academic colleagues and students to enable Exeter to thrive &
succeed
What does this mean for us as Professional Services?
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Having a shared vision and a plan to deliver it
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Partnering effectively to deliver the colleges’ and Student Guild’s
ambitions – helping the University rise further in the league tables
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Doing the things that matter – stop/start/do more of what we do
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Providing services in the right way in the right place
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Investing in ourselves so that we have the right tools and skills
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Having common values that we all believe in and enact
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Being flexible and agile - able to continually evolve to meet the next
challenge
Professional Services Review
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The PS review is about creating a Professional services team that can
work effectively with academic colleagues to meet our future challenges.
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We are in a planning phase – nothing will happen until we are clear about
what we need to do.
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This change is about our future and we will all be asked to play a part
Professional Services Review
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What questions do you have?
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What opportunities for change do you see?
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What excites or worries you about the review?
Professor Stuart Carney
Vice-Dean Education
Professor Angela Shore
Vice-Dean Research