What an opportune time to be the Associate Dean International (Education). If ever there was a time for imagination and innovation, this is it. Thinking outside the box is one thing, getting out of the box during a global pandemic
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Internationalisation at home by Dr Ruihua Hou, Associate Dean International
Why conferences will never be the same (they will be better!!) by Professor Philip Calder
Conferences are invaluable experiences for updating knowledge; for hearing from (and maybe even meeting) important figures in the field; for sharing new science with peers, getting feedback and gaining experience of presentation; and for networking and widening the circle of
Read moreâCatching the wave of opportunityâ by Professor Salim Khakoo
One of the highlights in the Faculty last week was hearing the Chief Medical Officer, Christopher Whitty informing us how best to lobby politicians. Politicians, he said were intelligent, financially driven, time-poor, had transient roles in government and were only
Read moreâResearch after Brexitâ by Professor Tim Elliott
As luck would have it, my turn to blog falls in the week the UK withdrew from the European Union. Like most scientists I think this was a bad idea, given what the European project has enabled in terms of
Read more“Itâs all about the impact” by Professor John Holloway
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
Read more“Enterprise is for everyone” by Professor Ying Cheong
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
Read more“So, hows it going?” by Professor Diana Eccles
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: âHow is it going?â A new role or job is a journey, so I find
Read moreOf colleagues and friends – by Professor John Holloway
Last week I was in Norway attending the annual meeting of the RHINESSA study. It is always a pleasure to visit the lovely city of Bergen and catch up with colleagues who have now become friends. This week I am
Read moreBuilding stronger links abroad despite Brexit
As Brexit becomes even more unclear, we cancer immunologists have been looking outward with a view to building stronger links with centres of excellence worldwide. I had the privilege of taking a representative delegation of cancer immunologists from across the faculty to
Read moreCelebrating International Women’s Day
International Womenâs Day provides a fitting opportunity to acknowledge the extraordinary contribution that our female colleagues make to the Faculty of Medicine and the wider University.
Read moreOpen Access is for life and not just for compliance
It seems a long time since I sat in New Jersey watching dawn silhouette the skyscrapers of Manhattan as I wrote my last Faculty blog. Today I am sat in the (slightly) less inspiring location of Building 85 having come
Read moreAn interesting meeting on election day
On election-day, exactly a week ago at the time of writing, I found myself in a hotel room in Geneva, where I was chairing a meeting sponsored by the World Health Organisation and the European Society for the Clinical &
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