Medically speaking…

Scholarship and Collegiality

26/10/2018

Education, Professional, Professor Philip Calder, Public engagement

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

19/10/201819/10/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Professional, Professor Jeremy Wyatt, Research

The advocates of big data sometimes claim that, given enough data, tedious epidemiological concerns about data that is not missing at random, other causes of bias or confounding will become irrelevant, so that randomised trials will become unnecessary.

12/10/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Education

The announcements last week of the award of the 2018 Nobel prizes in Physiology or Medicine to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation”; and in Chemistry, …

12/10/201812/10/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Careers, Education, Professional, Professor Tim Elliott, Public engagement, Research

So much has happened at the Centre for Cancer Immunology since my last blog, and in retrospect it all seemed to be leading up to Friday’s Vice Chancellors Awards ceremony held at St Mary Stadium…

21/09/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Education, Professor Karen Morrison, Undergraduate

I’m writing this the evening before a meeting with the General Medical Council and HEE Wessex, when we will be formally given feedback from our regulator on their five yearly Review of our University of Southampton BMBS Medicine programmes.

14/09/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Education, Professional, Professor Diana Eccles

Welcome everyone to the first eNews blog of the new term and my first as Dean. Reflecting on my first two weeks, it has been incredibly busy meeting people both here and at Highfield.

23/05/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Careers, Postgraduate, Public engagement, Research

The doors to the Centre for Cancer Immunology have been open for just over a month now, with everyone settling in to their new routines and ways of going about their day, and I can’t help feeling an immense sense

13/04/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Professional, Professor Tim Elliott, Research

We are nearing the end of the first week of the researchers’ migration into the CCI where we join our colleagues in the Clinical Trials Unit who have been in occupation for a few weeks already.

15/03/201815/03/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Professional, Professor Philip Calder, Public engagement

Nutrition and Hydration Week (12-18 March 2018) provides an opportunity to reflect on the state of the British diet and how well it meets the needs of the population.

08/03/201814/03/2018

Rebecca Whitehead

Careers, International, Professional, Professor Iain Cameron

International Women’s Day provides a fitting opportunity to acknowledge the extraordinary contribution that our female colleagues make to the Faculty of Medicine and the wider University.