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Weekly Newsletter |
17 November 2008 |
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News from Head of SchoolSchool Planning ProcessHaving evolved incrementally over a number of years, it is anticipated that the school plan will be substantially rewritten over the next few months, with a view to revisiting and making more concrete the goals and activities of different functions within the school. The hope is that the review process will directly engage the people who in practice will have responsibility for implementing the plan, and that all staff will have the opportunity to influence both the contents of the plan and the setting of priorities. The following process is being followed:
I don’t propose to impose consultation mechanisms on individual functions, but interested staff who would like to contribute to specific aspects of the process who do not find themselves within relevant loops may choose to interact with the token holders named above. Reviews of FunctionIn parallel with the planning process, which is largely strategic, a series of more operational reviews of function are underway. The principal objective of these half-day reviews is to encourage staff with managerial or administrative responsibilities to take a step back from day-to-day activities with a view to identifying opportunities for improving the way things are done. These reviews of function may inform the planning process, but are principally expected to generate shorter-term actions. REMINDER - EPSRC Follow on Fund Competition 2008/09"Follow-on-funds" provide financial support for projects with a clear commercial concept to accelerate their progress towards commercialisation. Funding is available for up to 12 months for typically over £100k based on research from ongoing or completed EPSRC supported projects. Proposals need to be submitted via the University’s technology transfer company (UMIP). The University has been successful in 8 out of 11 proposals submitted during the past three years which has generated nearly £1 million of research income. Grantholders interested in applying for this funding should complete should complete this form and send it to Ian Proctor before Friday December 5th 2008 (4pm). More information. Graduation ceremony 17 Dec 08The CS graduation ceremony is being held on Wednesday 17th December at 10am. If you have supervised an MSc dissertation for the 07/08 cohort or a PhD student who has been awarded their degree since July 08, you are very welcome to attend the ceremony as part of the platform party. Please can you let Susie Hildreth know by Friday 21st November if you wish to be involved and if so, whether you would like me to order a gown for you. There will be a post-graduation reception in School for the Graduands from 11am-12:30pm in the common room. Children in NeedOnce again the School has excelled itself with fundraising for Children in Need – the grand total was £1060! Very many thanks to all those who contributed both to the organisation of the event, as well as to the fundraising itself.
Events this Week topNAG Toolbox for MATLAB Seminar 19 Nov 08Craig Lucas (the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)) 1400-1600, Alan Turing G108 Missing Bricks and Dead Pixels 20 Nov 08Keith Merkham, MBDA Systems The aim of this talk is to give an overview of the image processing work at MBDA and show how image processing links with other system elements. 1300-1400 GMT Room 1.10, Kilburn Building Regular Seminar SeriesSee links in contents bar for information on seminar series organised by the School of CS, E-Science North West and National Centre for Text Mining.
New Funding and Award OpportunitiesNone this week
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