Marcus Parry, Head of the Academic Unit of Medical Education, shares what’s been happening in his week.
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Marcus Parry’s week
Human Development and Health update
The academic unit of Human Development and Health has more than 180 ‘core’ and project specific staff, in conjunction with many affiliated hospital staff and many, many students, all broadly researching human development with a focus on its impact over
Read more100,000 genomes
This month, the Wessex Genome Medicine Centre, based at University Hospital Southampton, will have been open for a year. It has seen nearly 450 people stepping forward to have their genomes analysed.
Read moreWhy NSS matters
It’ almost time again for the National Student Survey (NSS) to run, the annual collection of opinions from final year students enrolled at the University, commissioned by HEFCE and co-ordinated via Ipsos MORI1.
Read moreA great career in Medicine
‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’… 1 Autumn has arrived, the leaves are turning and there’s a hint of frost in the morning air. And with this the welcome sight of thousands of new students on campus…
Read moreREF, REF and more REF…
Normally the summer is a quieter time, perfect for finishing those papers that have been long in gestation, or writing that grant application that you have been telling yourself you must do.
Read moreReproducibility and Research Integrity
In amongst all the pressures on us as academics to publish and win grants, it can sometimes be easy to lose sight of why we undertake research – to increase knowledge and hopefully improve diagnosis and treatment of patients in
Read moreA week in the life of the Associate Dean Research
As a Faculty Leadership Team, this week we decided that to keep our colleagues informed about what is going on within the Faculty and wider University, the Associate Deans should take turns to write blog posts…
Read moreWork life balance – is a job share the answer?
Colleagues Katrina Jones and Gemma Cheeseman discuss whether job sharing offers any benefits.
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We’re in the midst of rapid change. The acronym coined by the American military, ‘VUCA’ (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous), describes a climate that applies across many sectors, including higher education and health.
Read moreFirst student intake welcomed in 1971
2016 marks the 40th anniversary of our first graduates in medicine.
Read moreCancer Sciences at the Hospital Open Day
‘Prevention is better than cure’ might have been my tweet last weekend if I had got as far as tweeting (I am a slow starter) but I was at least able to enjoy the many tweets circulating during the Hospital
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