School of CS newsletter

We are pleased to announce that the School will this year offer a subsidy of £10 per staff member towards a team Christmas meal, for staff across the School of Computer Science. See the guidance below for how to arrange this for your team event.

If you have any queries, please contact lynn.howarth@manchester.ac.uk

· The Christmas meal needs to be a planned team event across a particular area (such as PS staff, or Research group) so that ACSO are not processing several bookings for small groups

· Only one sum of £10 is allocated per member of University staff. Those staff working across our School and other University areas will not be eligible to claim both the £10 from the School and another amount from another University area, if attending multiple functions

· The £10 subsidy is available to staff from the School of Computer Science only. Students, agency/contract staff, or external individuals will be required to pay the full cost to attend any planned event

· ACSO should be contacted to process the financial transactions once you have made your provisional booking with the restaurant. ACSO will either process a deposit payment (where this equates to £10 per head) or pay an equivalent amount of £10 per head directly to the restaurant in advance of the booking

· ACSO will require a full list of confirmed attendees with all booking requests

· When making a booking request with ACSO, please allow sufficient processing time (whether this is to be paid by purchase order if the restaurant is set up on the University system, or by using a University purchasing card to pay the restaurant direct)

· This subsidy only applies to those staff who attend the planned team event. There is no entitlement for equivalent payment, or provision of funding for alternative events for any staff who are unable (or choose not to) attend the approved function

The Research Lifecycle is a five-year programme of investments to support the University in meeting its goal of being one of the top 25 research universities in the world, through a series of strategic investments in IT and associated change. These investments cover technology, professional development, processes, administration, funding, strategy and more.

All are invited to come along to the next event open house event, to find out about the past three months' progress with the Programme. The event is taking place from 1pm-2pm on Tuesday 30 October 2018, in Room 3.40 Simon Building.

• See more about this event
• Read more about the Research Lifecycle Programme (RLP)

Calling all Staff to the Staff Wellbeing fair next week.

We hope you can attend the Staff Wellbeing Fair. It takes place at the Whitworth Hall next Tuesday, 30^th October, 12-2pm.

You may have seen many of the stories on StaffNet: http://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/news/display/?id=20803

Highlights will include:

Registered attendees go into prize draw to win one of two Super Break vouchers (£250)

32 wellbeing exhibitors

3 choirs performing (CEAS, Wellbeing and Library Choirs)

Lots of freebies (and gourmet chocolate and cakes to buy)

Beautiful gifts to buy on the day

Opportunity to donate new unwrapped toys for 0-14 year olds to Wood Street Mission

Opportunity to donate new pyjama sets (size 10-16), toiletry sets for teens and selection boxes to Emmeline’s Pantry Foodbank (who many of the MCRStrollers have personally supported in the past year)

Hi all,

The Mentors, are happy to invite all PGRs to join us for drinks and pizzas in the Common Room, this Friday, (26^th October 2018) starting at 16:30. There are going to be alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, and Halal, vegetarian, and non-vegetarian pizzas.

We are excited to meet you all there

Thanks,
The Mentors

A new £8 million capital investment in research equipment has been announced by EPSRC, which is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and forms part of EPSRC’s World Class Labs investment.

The series of capital awards will go to 36 institutions across the UK, including the University of Manchester, to support Early Career Researchers undertaking new research and enhance their career development prospects.

Institutions have shown a range of creative approaches to investing these funds, from specific equipment for multiple users, to internal competitions for funding for equipment, to targeted investment in support of specific groups or individuals based on an internal selection process. Further details of UoM's activities will be announced in due course.