A few months ago we were making preparations for the Donors’ Thanksgiving Ceremony, which we hold every few years. This is an event in which our students and staff get together with families and friends of those who have made
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How would you like to give something back to our local community? What if the Faculty of Medicine helped make it happen? Starting in the next academic year (October 2019) the Faculty of Medicine is organising a pilot volunteering scheme
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Last week, Faculty of Medicine staff received an email highlighting local changes to the policy on scientific publishing that are driven by the move to fully compliant open access. Amongst other things, this email mentioned Plan S and provided a
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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
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This week started with me giving a lecture on our MSc Genomics course.
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The Faculty of Medicine senior leadership team met last week for our second away day of the academic year.
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Medics Revue is one of the events marking the Christmas season calendar and for any of you who were part of similar shows in your student days, you will find that the entertainment that is on offer is a tradition
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We are nearing the end of another busy term, trying to ensure all urgent and important tasks are progressed, along with most of the important and less urgent ones, while aiming to keep a check on the mountain of those
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Early December, and National Osteoporosis Society Annual Osteoporosis Conference, saw a busy few days for UK bone clinicians and researchers, not least those of us involved in organising, and contribution to, the meeting.
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The outcomes in professional sport are decided by the finest of margins.
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It is always welcome to see the wider success of individuals within the Faculty or across the wider University. Nowhere is this more evident than in our clinical trainees.
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines “academic (noun)” as “a teacher or scholar in a university or college” and defines “university” as a “high-level educational institution in which students study for degrees and academic research is done”. Google Dictionary defines “academic
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