As the nights draw in, the bad weather persists and Brexit looms, I feel the need to seek out the positive side of life. I spoke to new staff coming to work at the University a few weeks ago and
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We are the culture of the University of Southampton. That means that you are the culture of the University of Southampton. Culture is not delivered by the Vice-Chancellor or the Dean (yes, they have a role to play in creating
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100 years ago at 11 am on the 11th November 1919 the first Service of Remembrance (Poppy Day) post World War One was carried out with due reverence at The Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, remembering the many thousands of UK
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Last week was Open Access Week. I think this passed with little, perhaps no, attention from within the Faculty which is a shame, since, as my blog Plan S and You of April 2019 highlighted, everyone in the Faculty is
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As the newly appointed Head of School of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, it has been a challenging few months. The role is a double-edged sword as inevitably it leaves less time for research, which I remain passionate about, but on
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In September, several of us in the Faculty were sent a ‘Call for Evidence’ document by Health Education England (HEE) in which advice was sought from key stakeholders and partners to establish ‘what the NHS, patients and the public require
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I am writing this blog in Washington DC where I was invited to speak at the 50th Meeting of the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society. I was speaking in a workshop on the Heritable Hazards of Smoking. This session focussed
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While I was on-call last weekend, there was a pause in activity as the patient got ready for her procedure. As I stood in front of the time-lapse embryoscope (an embryo incubator with videoing capabilities) in the IVF laboratory, I
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Welcome to staff and students as we start the new academic year in the Faculty of Medicine. Optimism is associated with exceptional longevity according to researchers at The Rockerfeller University, New York. So we should all try and look on
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Last November, I received an invitation to represent the European Society of Medical Oncology, speaking at the Japanese Society of Medical Oncology in Kyoto in July 2019. My first thought was “what a great opportunity”, my second was “I think
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“A brilliant team who collaborate to deliver innovative discovery cancer science and patient benefit.” This is the refreshed sense of purpose that the Cancer Sciences Unit is bringing to life right now. This is the “Why”. The order of words
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Ten months into being Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and I have lost count of the number of times that people have asked me: “How is it going?” A new role or job is a journey, so I find
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