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Duties Allocations for 2009/10
The first draft of duties allocations for 09/10 is now
available at:
http://intranet.cs.man.ac.uk/ACSO/staffLoads/overview.php?year=2009
This is a draft in that: (i) not all staff affected by changes have been
consulted; and (ii) some known issues have yet to be resolved. Please feel
invited to pass on any comments to Ruth Maddocks (ruth.maddocks@cs.man.ac.uk) by
30th April, who will then ensure that these are discussed at the next meeting
of the Duties Allocation Committee. If you are unhappy with some aspect of
your allocation, please discuss this with your manager, who may also be
minded to send a message to Ruth about your position. If you have been in
discussions about your duties and are surprised by the current state of play,
please email a query to Ruth, as your allocation could be one of the unresolved
issues. If you want to discuss the details of a role, please consult the
relevant Head of Function.
Changes in Management Structures
The Duties Allocations for 2009/10 include a number of
changes of substance in the management of the school. In essence, we are
moving towards a position in which different individuals have responsibility
for operational and strategic issues (in a setting in which neither of these
aspects are considered to be more important than the other). In the
current duties allocation round there are structural changes in:
- Research:
Howard Barringer will take over the Research Coordinator role from John
Gurd, in a team that includes John Keane (with responsibility for External
Funding Initiatives) and Carole Goble (with responsibility for
Manchester Informatics Liaison). In essence, changes in funding
arrangements towards large strategic initiatives means that the school
must be able to focus attention on such opportunities as they arise. In
this setting, we anticipate ongoing interactions with Manchester
Informatics (MI), which has responsibility for oiling the wheels of
cross-disciplinary informatics activities within the university, but
also expect that there will be further opportunities either fully within
the school or outside the remit of MI for which a timely response may be
important. Thus we have a larger research coordination team, reflecting
changes in the environment and a perceived shortage of bandwidth for
following up initiatives.
- Teaching:
Ian Watson will take on a new role as Director of Teaching. This is seen
as a management role, addressing medium or long term issues that have
sometimes been difficult to address within the operational teaching
structures. In this context, Pete Jinks will have a role working on the
details, and the overall staffing levels required in this area will be
reviewed in a year.
Computer History
In the context of the duties allocation process, we are
looking for someone who would be interested in taking on the curation of the
school’s collection of documents and artefacts on the history of computing in
Manchester.
If you might be interested in this, please let me know.
Research Group Expenditure Against Budget
The following table produced by John Halliwell indicates
where groups stand w.r.t. expenditure against the budgets for slush accounts
announced in the newsletter of 1st December (negative numbers
represent available resource, and positive numbers represent expenditure). In
essence, expenditure within most groups (and thus overall) is currently well
within budget, which in turn means that groups are encouraged to make
relevant purchases before the end of July, to fit within the current
financial year. We anticipate that there will also be a budget of £150,000
for allocation to groups during the financial year 2009/2010, but the final
school and faculty budgets have yet to be agreed. If you have any questions, for
example about over-spending your budget or on other cash flows relating to
your group, please contact John (jkh@cs.manchester.ac.uk).
Group
|
Budget
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Aug - Oct
|
Nov - Jan
|
Feb - Apr
|
May - Jul
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Total Inv.
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Planned
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Balance
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Ex Planned)
|
|
(Inc Planned)
|
APT
|
-32,606.84
|
4,074.40
|
6,779.81
|
8,084.52
|
0.00
|
18,938.73
|
616.31
|
-13,051.80
|
BHIG
|
-12,187.84
|
10.48
|
1,931.29
|
46.77
|
0.00
|
1,988.54
|
2,556.88
|
-7,642.42
|
EISS
|
-8,320.51
|
2,735.40
|
413.99
|
2,090.54
|
0.00
|
5,239.93
|
278.42
|
-2,802.16
|
FM
|
-12,040.04
|
3,000.22
|
1,314.61
|
3,593.72
|
0.00
|
7,908.55
|
908.39
|
-3,223.10
|
IMG
|
-36,155.63
|
1,767.08
|
9,447.61
|
6,590.19
|
0.00
|
17,804.88
|
651.91
|
-17,698.84
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MLO
(AI)
|
-12,127.07
|
1,925.70
|
1,132.84
|
1,773.34
|
0.00
|
4,831.88
|
488.53
|
-6,806.66
|
SS
|
-10,277.70
|
508.35
|
4,128.78
|
7,477.12
|
0.00
|
12,114.25
|
14.89
|
1,851.44
|
TM
|
-12,605.35
|
371.09
|
283.32
|
0.00
|
0.00
|
654.41
|
702.51
|
-11,248.43
|
VC
|
-5,574.73
|
1,804.22
|
435.71
|
849.02
|
0.00
|
3,088.95
|
385.37
|
-2,100.41
|
Other
|
-8,104.29
|
0.00
|
0.00
|
0.00
|
0.00
|
0.00
|
0.00
|
-8,104.29
|
|
-150,000.00
|
16,196.94
|
25,867.96
|
30,505.22
|
0.00
|
72,570.12
|
6,603.21
|
-70,826.67
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Events
RCS seminar 22
Apr 09
Presentation about the latest Intel and AMD update
14:00, Room 4.204
University Place
For further information please contact Laura Hill
Microelectronics and Nanostructures Group seminar 23 Apr 09
Growth of Nitride, Dilute Nitride and Dilute Magnetic
Semiconductors by
Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) and Plasma-assisted MBE
Prof Tom Foxon, University
of Nottingham
14:00, Room H11, Renold Building
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