Now that we are moving to Cambridge we’ll be vacating our rental home. if you know anyone interested in renting a four bedroomed house in Burnside (with under floor heating and double glazing) please get in touch with me.
We’re also advertising various large items for sale on TradeMe as we can’t get them in our shipping container. These include a Honda Stream, fridge / freezer, washing machine, heaters …
Again, if there’s any interest please let me know. Many thanks
Peter Lund
Arindam Basu a Senior Lecturer in Health Sciences has organized a seminar on Open Access which will be of interest to some. There’s an international panel of speakers including Virginia Barbour from Open Access Australia and Peter Binfield from PeerJ as well as myself and Anton Angelo.
The seminar will be held on Thursday 4th June 11am-1pm
Venue: Wheki 101
There’s a wiki to support the event
Please check with your Manager if you’d like to attend.
Peter Lund
Two meetings – Law and Science – attended by Theresa and Alison M.are noted in this month’s report.
Highlights include news on enrolments – UC domestic enrolments are 1.3% lower than this time last year, and lower than forecast in the 10 year plan. However international enrolments are up.
Peter Lund
Notes from the round of faculty meetings attended by Kathryn Andrews, Theresa Buller, Dave Lane and Alison McIntyre can be found here
Here’s a couple of snippets:
The completion date for refurbishment of the old Commerce building (the new home for the College of Education) is set for the 8th Feb 2017.
Law Faculty agreed to adopt the NZ Law Style Guide in full.
Peter Lund
Over the summer the Research Support Portfolio Group (Dave Lane, Kerry Gilmour, Anton Angelo, Cuiying Mu, Janette Nicolle and myself) set about creating learning materials on research data management. We aim to offer workshops on research data management for postgraduates and research staff later this year. If you are interested in learning more about research data management we invite you to attend a dress rehearsal. We hope you will learn something about this new and growing area and of course your feedback on the workshop will be much appreciated.
The workshop will be delivered by Peter Lund, Anton Angelo and Chris Thomson (CEISMIC) and will take place on Thursday 16th April at 10:30-12:00
Venue Puaka-James Hight Room 210
If interested please book
Please check with you manager before attending.
Many thanks
Peter Lund
This month saw the first meetings of the year for Arts, Commerce and Law faculties. You’ll find the combined report with summaries by Jo Condon, Cuiying Mu and Theresa Buller here:
Peter Lund
Maxine Bryant kindly delivered a workshop on Research & Innovation for Library staff as part of our staff development programme earlier this month.
Couldn’t get to the session and want to know more?
Learning outcomes were to:
Understand the activities/teams within R&I
Gain a basic knowledge of how the research funding process works
Understand the overlap between R&I and the Library (research outputs, PBRF, etc)
Know where to go to find more information
You’ll find the slides from the session at:
K:\LIBR-Library\~Presentations\RI-for-Library_2015-02-13.pptx
Peter Lund
The Research Support portfolio Group (which consists of Peter L, Anton, Cuiying, Janette, Kerry and Dave L) have created an ORCID tab on the Scholarly Publications subject guide which explains:
• what ORCID identifiers are
• why they benefit researchers
• how researchers can obtain an ORCID ID
We hope you will find this useful as background information. Creating an ORCID identifier is really easy so it’s unlikely you’ll get many requests from researchers on ORCID via ASKLive, email or at information desks. Still now you’ll know what they are.
We anticipate that ORCID identifiers will be used in Profiler, Peoplesoft and the UC Research Repository and that they will be made available to all UC researchers later in 2015. In the meantime researchers can easily and freely obtain one from the ORCID website.
Peter Lund
Education faculty discussed Engineering students coming to Dovedale in 2015, Law approved a new course – LAWS 326 Treaty Settlement Negotiations, whilst Commerce discussed internationalization. Read about these issues and more in the November Faculty meetings summary
Peter Lund
Further to Romy’s post on Wednesday – Totara room is now bookable via the web room booking system.
Peter Lund