The free magazine for The Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST UniLife 8th March 2004 Volume 1 Issue 2 Marketing Manchester Undergraduate Recruitment Campaign Launched 2 UniLife

NewsDigest

A summary of the key news in this issue Contents of UniLife:

3 Meeting the President 3 President and Vice-Chancellor-designate 4 News Professor Alan Gilbert has met with staff and outlined his vision for The University 6 Research of Manchester in a series of presentations. Professor Gilbert says that 8 Marketing Manchester the single institution should be `extraordinarily ambitious’ in its plans for the future. 10 People

11 Students

12 Profile UMIST’s famous old railway arches are to 7 be transformed into a £1m high-tech incubation unit for new businesses. 14 Project Unity – Transfer of Staff

18 What’s On

20 Seminars & Lectures A high-profile campaign to recruit 8 undergraduate students for entry to the new single university in 2005 has begun. 21 Vacancies, Noticeboard

22 Classified Ads

24 Just the Job Profile of Professor Rod Coombs Vice- 12 President for Innovation and Development at The University of Manchester

Front cover photo by Howard Barlow 14 Project Unity: The principles for the transfer of staff to the new University that were agreed and first publicised in the Transfer of Staff document which provide the framework to ensure that everyone has a sense of belonging to the new institution, that there is a smooth transition and that issues can be dealt with as they arise and careers can be supported and sustained. UniLife 3

Meeting The President

Staff from both the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST have been meeting the President and Vice- Chancellor-designate of The University of Manchester, Professor Alan Gilbert, over the past couple of weeks.

Since Professor Gilbert took up his post in mid-February, he has held four large-scale meetings with staff, at which he has outlined his vision for The University of Manchester. The meetings have also given staff the chance to ask Professor Gilbert questions about the coming together of the two universities. In his presentations, Professor Gilbert stressed that the single institution should be ‘extraordinarily ambitious’ in its plans for the future, and urged staff to ask themselves how the single university could be different to the two existing institutions. "This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to reinvent the university and people have a realistic opportunity to have an input into that,’ added Professor Gilbert at the meeting held for members of staff from the Faculty of Humanities. Professor Gilbert also said that he will be meeting with Heads of Schools and Departments over the coming months to ensure that views from staff were taken into account. If you missed the presentations, a webcast of one of them is available – just click on the weblink (see below). A special e-mail address has also been set up so that people can send in any questions which they may have about the creation of The University of Manchester - the e-mail address is project-unity- [email protected]

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News Prizing Your Views

As part of their work in developing the Library Service of the new merged university, the John Rylands University Library of Manchester (JRULM), Careers Manchester Business School Library and UMIST Library and Information Service are joining forces to seek the views of staff and students of the Goes Global two universities.

The activities of the joint VUM/UMIST Careers Service were recently broadcast around the world by CNN. The producer of their ‘Global Office’ programme used the web to research an item on psychometric testing and was directed to the Careers Service’s website, which is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Interested in the role of psychometric tests in graduate recruitment they sent in a UK-based crew to film and interview students who were doing practice tests, run by the Careers Service. Careers Service Director, Jane Ratchford, said: "We are keen to be seen as journalist-friendly and to use the media to promote our work. As news broadcasters go, they don’t come much bigger than CNN, and their approach once again proves to us the value of making such a significant investment in web provision in order to maximise exposure and accessibility.’ As well as being able to say how you The confidential survey takes only ten think the libraries are performing, you minutes to complete online. Details have www.graduatecareersonline.co.uk will be able to say what you believe the already been be emailed to all staff and students of the Victoria University of minimum and the desired service levels Manchester and UMIST before the survey are. The new Library’s management begins on 8 March. Information is also team will use the results of the survey available on the libraries’ web sites. as a way of understanding which As a thank you, each person who services are of most importance to you, responds will also have the chance to and to tailor services to meet your needs win a prize. and expectations.

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NWBA: a huge pool of opportunity for academics

Departments at both universities Based in the Careers Service, North West placements for its students, NWBA looking for "real life" case studies Business Access (NWBA) encourages teamed up with the North West small businesses across the North West Aerospace Alliance to promote the and live projects in the business to recruit placement students and placements. A total of 14 companies came world for students, can get help graduates. Currently working with over forward offering a variety of projects, 550 developing businesses from a variety securing enough placements for all their from North West Business Access. of sectors, all are seeking ways of using students and making valuable contacts student talent to grow their business. within their industry across the region. NWBA can help with your immediate One of the NWBA team’s key skills is the requirements due to placement supply ability to translate the business need into shortfalls, or if you run programmes that an academic project, and vice versa. have a project or work–based element To find out more contact the NWBA and are looking for host businesses. team, on 275 4041 or e-mail Following a request from the Manchester [email protected]. NWBA is a School of Engineering’s to find part-funded ERDF project.

www.businessaccess.ac.uk Looking Back Library Extension 1978

They say that you can judge a city’s Centre in the middle of the photograph. prosperity by the number of tower The Conference Centre was financed from cranes on its skyline. They are a regular a private benefaction. sight in Manchester today, but were much rarer when this photograph was The extra space created by the extension taken amidst the economic gloom of the was desperately needed by the Library to "Winter of Discontent" in 1978. house its collections, which were now acknowledged to be of national The building under construction is the £4 significance, following the merger million extension to the main John between the University Library and the Rylands Library here on the campus. The John Rylands Library in 1972. Her Majesty older Library buildings can be seen in the The Queen opened the extension background as can the recently building on its completion. completed Muriel Stott Conference 6 UniLife

Research Winning Words

UMIST researcher Marianne Johnson has won the prestigious FN Marshall PhD studentship in interdisciplinary health sciences with a submission based on her MPhil.

Marianne, who has just completed her technologies include pictographic MPhil under Professor Harold Somers in symbols, digitized or synthetic speech and the Language and Linguistics machine translation. She will be based at Department, faced stiff competition. the Centre of Computational Linguistics at There were more than 27 applications UMIST and at the School of Nursing at the emphasizing the diversity and strength of Victoria University of Manchester. health sciences research in Greater Professor Somers said:"Above all I am Manchester. delighted for Marianne, who beat off She plans to use ‘language technologies’ fierce competition with an excellent to improve communication in clinical submission based on her MPhil, and, I consultations for adult asthma patients have been told, a superb performance at with limited or no English. Language the interview."

One Stop Shop for MRI Scanning

Scientists and clinicians at both The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, As a result of this investment, the Faculty Nursing and Pharmacy at VUM has made has set up a Translational Imaging Unit universities who are interested considerable investment in its human (TIU) ‘one stop shop’ to manage the in using magnetic resonance MRI research programme leading to the facilities. The TIU website is now live and expansion of the facilities, highlighting its will provide researchers with all the imaging techniques for their commitment to imaging science and the necessary information required to exciting opportunities this presents to undertake and MR research project. Any research, can now take Manchester researchers. There is a new feedback and suggestions about the web advantage of a ‘one stop shop’ 1.5 Tesla scanner in the Wellcome Trust site or for information about MR imaging Clinical Research Facility (WTCRF), one day projects, please contact the TIU Research approach, following significant per week of scanning time on the 1.5 Tesla Manager, Dr Lloyd Gregory investment in scanning facilities. at Hope Hospital and a 3 Tesla human on([email protected]) scanner, which will be installed at Hope this summer.

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National Science Week

Next week is National Science Week and, to mark the event, the Faculty of Science and Engineering has organised a programme of activities for school and college students as part of the Faculty's widening participation programme.

Last year saw more than 450 attendees Young people can find out more about Science Week. The Ig Nobel awards are and so far this year, more than 700 are science at any of the twelve different presented annually for the world’s most booked in across the week, ranging in age sessions given by staff from UMIST and original research. Highlights will include VUM, including: `What makes buildings from 12/13yrs to 17/18 yr olds. why the brains of London taxi drivers are stand up?’, `How to make anything fly’ National Science Week is a wider and the intriguingly titled - `Blood, Guts more highly developed than those of initiative organised by the British and Lasers’. their fellow citizens and the percentage Association (BA) aimed at enthusing of students that dislike the taste of For further information about these more people for science/engineering and Brussels sprouts. events contact raise public awareness of science by [email protected] or 275 4926 giving scientists, mathematicians and Tickets are available on the door and are engineers the opportunity to *The Ig Nobels UK Tour 2004 hits priced at £5, £4 for BA members and demonstrate and explain their work. Manchester on 17 March during National concessions, £10 for a group of four.

www.the-ba.net/nsw Underneath the Arches

UMIST’s famous old railway arches are to Ltd (UVL) has a number of arrangements be transformed into a £1m high-tech with external research organizations for incubation unit for new businesses. technology transfer partnerships and collaborations which can also use the Three arches beneath the railway line incubator services. In addition, UVL will that has cut across the campus since actively seek other occupants to include the University was established, are to high technology start-up companies from be refurbished to accommodate spin- across the North West that would benefit out companies established by UMIST, from close proximity to the research the Victoria University of Manchester laboratories and knowledge base, and and Manchester Science Enterprise from the services offered by Manchester Centre (MSEC). Science Enterprise Centre, UVL, the Small The iconic structure will make an ideal Business Service and the Manchester facility for staff and students to develop Technology Fund (MTF). and progress ideas and innovation into This refurbishment, providing 460 sq m new companies, and its central position of incubation space and funded by the on campus will enable them to maintain North West Development Agency, will be their collaboration with other staff in completed in August 2004. multi-disciplinary research. For more information contact Incubation However, it’s not only university and Manager Tony Walker at MSEC Centre spin-out companies that [email protected]. will be incubated here – UMIST Ventures 8 UniLife

Marketing Manchester

Last week saw the launch of a high-profile campaign to recruit undergraduate students for the new single University. The campaign was unveiled at the very start of the national recruitment cycle for entry to universities in September 2005.

The campaign, which includes a new develop and implement an action plan Undergraduate Prospectus, undergraduate for enhanced undergraduate recruitment recruitment website activities for this admissions cycle". (www.manchester.ac.uk) and other promotional items, was launched at the UK In addition to the main prospectus and Higher Education Convention held at website, a host of other materials have G-MEX Manchester last Thursday and Friday also been produced to support the (4 and 5 March 2004) which was organised campaign. These include: new and bigger by are undergraduate recruitment staff. exhibition stands, a re-designed magazine for schools and colleges called "Campus All of the new undergraduate Life", advertisements in key UCAS recruitment materials feature the new publications, a web-based competition and Visual Identity and logo’ and a whole array of supporting merchandise communicate the key selling points of (pens, t-shirts and banners, etc). the new institution as outlined in the article on branding and reputation- Undergraduate recruitment staff in building in the last edition of UniLife. Faculties and Schools are also being offered support and guidance with their The undergraduate recruitment own recruitment activities through campaign has been masterminded by briefing sessions and a web-based staff from the Undergraduate resource featuring standard Recruitment and Admissions Offices at presentations, background documents UMIST and the Victoria University of and access to market intelligence. Manchester supported by staff from the joint Public Relations/ Communications Following the G-MEX event, the team at the two existing universities. recruitment campaign will continue with Staff engaged in undergraduate a major presence at the country’s biggest recruitment activity at UMIST and VUM Higher Education Convention which will are now co-located in the John Owens be held at the Business Design Centre in Building on the VUM campus and a London later this week and a further 150 single point of contact has been events scheduled to take place around established for all internal and external the country in the coming months. undergraduate recruitment enquires relating to 2005 entry (tel: 0161-275 2077 Here on the campus, four Open Days for email: [email protected]) applicants have been organised in April, June, September and October. A regular Julian Skyrme, Undergraduate series of Guided tours have also been Recruitment Officer at the Victoria scheduled for the first and third University of Manchester, said: "A Wednesday of every month beginning at potential drop in undergraduate the Visitors Centre at the Victoria recruitment was recognised early on as University of Manchester. one of the greatest risks associated with Project Unity. Through the Recruitment, For further information about Admissions and Promotion (RAP) Group undergraduate recruitment activities, of Project Unity, we therefore sought to please contact [email protected]

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Undergraduate Prospectus Copies of the prospectus are being sent students (pictured left) who will be The Undergraduate Prospectus for 2005 to more than 10,000 schools and colleges entering the single University together Entry was published on Monday 23 in the UK and overseas. They are also with their views on what it will mean for February 2004. It has been designed to available from a dedicated prospectus them. It has been created by the Web support undergraduate recruitment line in the joint recruitment office. Staff Content team in the joint Public activity for those wishing to begin their can receive a copy by contacting 0161 275 Relations/Communications office, studies at the new single University in 3011 or [email protected]. together with colleagues from both September 2005. universities who make up the Web Undergraduate Recruitment Website Technical team. The new prospectus displays the new The first website for the single university visual identity and features was launched on Thursday 26 February We would welcome feedback on the 'look comprehensive information on all the 2004. It has been designed to support and feel' of the site. It should be undergraduate programmes that will be undergraduate recruitment activity for emphasised that this is an interim offered by the single University organised those who intend to start their studies in website aimed at a very specific target by subject/discipline area. The September 2005. Although it is mainly for market; the content, structure and design introductory section of the prospectus prospective undergraduates, the website will be revisited in the context of the features information about the vision for also introduces the vision and aims of the website for the whole of the single the single University and its key selling single university to a wider audience. University, which will be launched in points. It also contains short articles on October and will be addressing several Manchester – The City and Student Life The site displays the new visual identity different audiences. by current students and recent graduates. and carries strong images of current 10 UniLife

People Down to Earth

Four members of staff in the VUM Centre for Molecular Environmental Department of Earth Sciences have been Science, the Department of Earth Sciences awarded honours and accolades recently: and the embryonic School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences. Professor of Sedimentology and Tectonics, Rob Gawthorpe, has been invited to Professor Ernie Rutter runs the become an American Association of Experimental Rock Deformation Laboratory Petroleum Geologists Distinguished and has been elected a Fellow of the Lecturer for 2004/05. The AAPG American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Distinguished Lecture Program was world’s largest Geoscience organisation in 'developed to offer outstanding speakers recognition of his research. The honour is From left: Rob Gawthorpe, Julian Mecklenburgh, on current research and applicable very prestigious and goes to fewer than Ernie Rutter and David Vaughan geology'. Lectures are hosted by AAPG 0.1% of AGU members each year. affiliated geological societies or university Dr Julian Mecklenburgh was both an departments across North America. undergraduate and postgraduate student Professor of Mineralogy David Vaughan, in the Department and, after a period in has been invited to be a Distinguished Germany, is now a Research Fellow there. Lecturer by the Mineralogical Society of He has been awarded the Ramsay Medal of America, involving three lecture tours (the the Tectonic Studies group (affiliated to the Nobel first of which has already been completed) Geological Society of London) for his work to universities in the US, Canada and into the flow behaviour of partially molten Europe. During the lectures he will be granite, which plays a key role in the Earth’s Man talking about his own work and that of his crust when mountain belts are formed. colleagues in the Williamson Research

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, Professor Anthony J Leggett, visited the Department of Physics at VUM last month to deliver a Schuster Colloquium on High Flyer quantum mechanics. Professor Leggett was visiting the UK from the United States where he is MacArthur Professor and Professor of Physics at the Drops In University of Illinois and made time in his busy schedule to fit in a trip to the campus. He won the Nobel Prize in 2003 `for pioneering contributions to the theory Record-breaking balloonist Per Lindstrand will hope to be full of hot air of superconductors and superfluids’. when he gives a speech at UMIST on April 26, as part of an international Professor Leggitt is pictured (second from conference on Technical Textiles. left) in the University's Schuster Building, alongside Professor Mike Moore, Head of Physics (far left) , Professor Henry Hall (second right) and Dr Andrei Golov (far right). Six years ago, high-flying Lindstrand They include the creation of a ‘Health attempted to circumnavigate the world Vest’, designed to monitor a patient’s with Richard Branson, flying from condition after they have left hospital. Morocco to Hawaii before bad weather Staff at the Centre will also unveil a forced them to land. But he’ll be on solid seam-free washable intelligent ground at UMIST where his talk will garment that is integrated with knitted focus mainly on the technology and the transducers and switches. textiles that have helped to make his The aim of the conference is to review experiences possible. new fibre structures and products and The conference, organised by the examine their potential in industrial William Lee Innovation Centre at UMIST, and technical applications in the will bring together experts from around global market. the world to look at groundbreaking The event will be held at The developments in technical textiles. Manchester Conference Centre, Weston Building, UMIST on April 26-27 2004. Full details can be found on the website:

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Students In the Swim

UMIST swimming sensation Sarah Heyes is entering the home straight in her bid to qualify for the Olympic Games this summer, after winning three more medals in a major national event.

With just a month to go before the Sarah won the race in 2mins 20.87secs, just Olympic trials, Sarah’s training schedule is over a second outside her best ever time in going well and she hopes to be in peak the event. That was achieved last May at form when the selectors make their final the national championships when Sarah decision on who can board the flight to became the 200m Individual Medley Athens with the GB squad. British Champion.

Last weekend Sarah dominated the The trials take place from April 7-11 in Sheffield and Sarah will be competing in medals once again, winning two Golds the 200m Individual Medley, 400m and one Silver at the long course Individual Medley and the 400m Freestyle. championships in Sheffield. Sarah, a member of the Wigan Wasps Biological Science student, Sarah, who is Swimming Club, narrowly missed out on a being supported with a UMIST scholarship, place in the England squad for the said: "I was pleased with my results, Commonwealth Games here in especially my time for the 200m, as it Manchester, so she’s determined to put wasn’t far away from my personal best." the record straight this time around.

Student Team Creative City Working Awards URBIS, 11 March 2004, 10am - 5pm The Careers Service is hosting a new event Following the continued success and variety of high standard entries for students and graduates wanting to find their ideal creative career. of previous years awards, this year’s Student Enterprise Team Working Through collaboration with CIDS, The Awards will be sponsored by Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Circle Club and other partners, the exhibition will feature more than 35 leading creative organisations including the BBC, award-winning PR agency Love The awards are an opportunity to enter. There are cash prizes of £500 first Creative, Cosgrove Hall Films and more. recognise and reward the importance of prize and £250 second prize. Many exhibitors will be showcasing their student team work within the curriculum There is also an extra curricular category talents including demonstrations of at the Victoria University of Manchester with the same cash prizes. prosthetic make up, DJ-ing, editing and and UMIST. more. Plus there will be a series of panel Entrants need to complete a reflective Students who have completed a group based Q and A sessions led by industry application form and return it by Tuesday project (involving 3 or more students) as professional.. 6 April 2004. Students can either part of their undergraduate or download an application, email It's free to attend. For more information postgraduate course, during the [email protected] or telephone visit the website below. academic year 2003-04 are eligible to 275 3254.

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Profile

The government cannot Coombs’ “ afford not to have a world-class research base in the north of England Conviction ” Some marriages are made in, and, as we now know, between universities. That is certainly the case for Rod Coombs and Karen Luker. If their paths hadn’t chanced to cross on a training course for new lecturers (he Management Sciences, UMIST, she Nursing, Victoria Univesity of Manchester) in 1980, they would not have met – and married.

Now, they are both Professors. And the of the world, demands more front-rank ‘Technology and the Market’, and marriage between the two institutions that research institutions outside London and ‘Economics and Technological Change’.That brought them together nicely rounds off the south-east. The government cannot is what he is about, nurturing "the best their own unity – and they are both afford not to have a world-class research possible relations with the best possible Manchester graduates. base in the north of England – and here in companies around the world." Manchester we have a better chance to So that all comes together rather neatly. But Long before Project Unity, he experienced become world-class together rather than it wasn’t for domestic togetherness that the success of cross-campus collaboration. "I Rod was an early advocate of Project Unity. separately.The global economy is have always believed in collegiality," he says. Indeed, he has exemplified and practised increasingly a network of ‘world’ cities – "It pays off and it’s enjoyable." Evidence of cross-campus collaboration in research and and the UK has only one at present, London. that was the establishment in the mid-90s teaching all his academic life. But on the It needs another – and Manchester is well- of the prestigious Centre for Research on subject of the merger, his conviction is placed to be in that league.With the Innovation and Competition (CRIC), informed by his pragmatic view of the real merger, we have created a better platform resulting from a joint bid with Stan world, stemming from his experience as a from which to launch ourselves." Metcalfe, Professor of Economics at the man who nurtures innovation, His conviction and enthusiasm are Victoria University of Manchester, which the technological change and commercial infectious. As a member of the original ESRC has funded to the tune of around £7 development. He is much in demand as a group set up to consider the future of the million to date. Furthermore, under the consultant on strategic aspects of R&D and national Joint Infrastructure Fund (JIF) two universities, he had no doubts about Technology Management by several scheme, they got another £5 million to build recommending the merger. And now he is international companies. a home for CRIC – the Harold Hankins keenly looking forward to being Vice- Building. "I took the national view," he says. "Britain’s President for Innovation and Economic capability for technological development Development, helping to take leading-edge There’s something unifying about that, too. and innovation, which is essential to our research into the commercial world. That building is now also home to PREST ability to compete in the advanced economy Significantly, his books include such titles as (Policy Research in Engineering, Science and UniLife 13

CV

Name : Professor Rod Coombs Position: Vice President for Innovation and Economic Development, The University of Manchester Education: University of Kent: Physics (1969 – 1972) The Victoria University of Manchester: MSc (Structure and Organisation of Science Technology), an offshoot of the trailblazing Mike Gibbons at the Victoria University of and Technology) 1975 Department of Liberal Studies in Science, led Manchester and Alan Pearson at by the legendary Professor Freddy Jevons, Manchester Business School. He won the The Victoria University of where both Rod and Stan did their Masters. backing to build up the Technology Manchester: PhD (Technology Management subject group, which has Another outward-looking success story is gone from strength to strength. and Long Waves of Economic The Technology Strategy Forum, a meeting Growth), 1982 place for senior R&D managers from top UK Changing academic tack and coming to companies, which they started in 1992, with Manchester in 1979 was the making of Rod, Career History the help of Sir Robin Nicholson. not least because it brought him and Karen together.They live happily in Wilmslow and Oxford University; Research Originally from Tipton in the West Midlands, have two daughters at Withington Girls’ Assistant, Department of Rod read Physics at Kent and went on to School, Charlotte, 18, and 15-year-old Harriet. become a Research Assistant at Oxford, (Just for good measure, they also have two Zoology, 1972 – 1974 working alongside biologists. It was then horses and two dogs). A fit 53-year-old, he is The Victoria University of that he became very interested in the role of not only Chairman of Wilmslow Running science in society. And that brought him to Club, but a keen runner himself (though he Manchester, Research Manchester – to do his Masters. Then, when admits that a couple of pints and a handful Associate, PREST, 1977-1979 PREST was set up and got its first research of peanuts afterwards might undo some of grant in 1977, Rod was signed up. "I visited the good work). He is also a rock guitarist, UMIST; School of tractor factories in all sorts of strange which must give him some street cred with places, from Germany to Japan," he recalls. his daughters. Management, Lecturer in "It was good fun." (He is very much a man Innovation 1979-1987 for "good fun", alongside the serious stuff). Forward-looking, outward-looking, well- The topic was innovation in agricultural connected and good-humoured, he is just Senior Lecturer; 1987 – 1993 machinery. Rod got his PhD, followed in 1979 the sort of man you would want to have at by his lectureship in the then Department the heart of a new enterprise like ours. Professor of Technology of Management Sciences at UMIST. Management, 1993 – UMIST was very early in to management teaching, led by the late Professor Sir Roland I have always Interests Smith, and Rod joined a thriving believed in "undergraduate factory". He was one of the Running, playing guitar young braves who helped to make it also a “ collegiality, it pays thriving research centre. "We started to get off and it’s enjoyable research grants and to publish in respected journals," he says. "Generally, it was a time of cuts, but somehow we managed to grow. ” He was something of a lone ranger as Lecturer in Innovation and Management, but he collaborated with colleagues like 14 UniLife

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Transfer of Staff

This article sets out the principles for the transfer of staff to the new merged University that were agreed and first publicised in the Transfer of Staff document. These principles provide the framework to ensure that everyone has a sense of belonging to the single institution, that there is a smooth transition and that issues can be dealt with as they arise and careers can be supported and sustained. The campus Trade Unions have been consulted about the Transfer of Staff process and, as far as possible, their views and comments have been incorporated into these principles.

This article also provides further practical new institution and improved terms and created to internal competition. Even guidance as to how the process will work conditions for staff. where staff have been assimilated into and how staff can, in partnership with the new structure, they will still be able The Transfer of Staff process will be their managers, engage in their own centrally controlled by a designated team, to apply for such new posts. transfer to the new merged University. so that the stages of recruitment for In drawing up staffing requirements and Principles of the Transfer Process every post can be tracked. This is to job descriptions for new units, A number of principles, originally set out ensure that the transfer process is management will have available in the document ‘Transfer of Staff to the handled effectively and consistently and resources in mind. New University’ (5 November 2003), is open, fair and transparent. Further, should be stressed as the transfer of staff both staff and Trade Union In accordance with employment proceeds. These include: representatives will have access to this legislation, where a new post is offered to team as necessary. There will be no compulsory an employee and that individual is redundancies at the time of the new Some staff will simply be transferred to technically redundant in their old post, a institution’s creation. It is accepted that, equivalent jobs within the new merged four-week trial period will apply. in practice, this commitment will be in university.Where this is the case, While every effort will be made to place for the first two years of operation. applications and/or interviews will not be identify appropriately skilled and necessary. Examples will be where the work All staff will have their current terms and qualified people for the vacancies unit is unaffected by the organisation conditions protected on transfer to the structure of the single institution. These created, individuals should be aware of new institution. This means that pay rates situations will be identified as soon as opportunities for which they believe will be protected according to possible and early assurances given to staff either they are suitably experienced or arrangements to be determined in due in the design process. which represent a clear career course and the overall package of development move. It will therefore be employment policies and other terms and Individual preferences will be taken into the responsibility of both the universities, conditions of employment will be at least account as much as possible whilst in consultations with individual staff, to as good as staff enjoy now. Any subsequent ensuring that the best person for each determine the post for which they are changes will be subject to normal collective job from within the two universities is bargaining arrangements. appointed. Where competition between best suited. staff is appropriate and necessary, the As part of the overall agreement to The Trade Unions and the universities process described below will apply. Project Unity, there is a commitment to acknowledge that not all parts of the the harmonisation of terms and The process will provide opportunities organisation will be subject to change conditions of employment with the twin for staff who wish to move into new from 1st October 2004. It will be an aims of simpler arrangements for the areas of work by opening all new* posts evolutionary process.

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With the exception of the most senior complete the design of the whole of the University of Manchester or UMIST. roles in the new institution, posts will only new merged university. There will be no change in terms and be advertised externally when all internal conditions of employment for anyone Following the completion of the resources have been exhausted. The aim is prior to 1st October 2004. There are detailed design it will be possible to to make the most of the considerable various differences between terms and begin to assimilate staff to posts within expertise and professionalism within the conditions across both institutions and the new structures. two universities. the harmonisation process for the new At all times those managing the process It will not be possible to put a grade or University will ensure that these will ensure consistent implementation salary range to posts, as we are actively differences are phased out in the new across the whole University. Appointment working on the development of a new merged institution. decisions will be documented. pay and grading structure. We recognise that people will want to have some idea To facilitate the transition process, a The universities are committed to dealing of the size of a job relative to that of their website within the Project Unity site with staff in a sensitive way, in the current post and regret that an absolute dedicated to ring fenced and new posts knowledge that there is, and will continue answer will not be available. However, it has been set up. This will allow staff to to be, anxiety as changes happen. is anticipated that the job description see precisely what is happening in all areas of the University. In addition, there Staff can be assured that the need to should give a reasonable idea on which to manage the change in a planned way base comparisons. will be a weekly email to staff with details of any additional posts added to and in a manner that conforms to Where additional information is the website. Staff who have responsibility employment legislation and good required prior to deciding whether or for people who do not have email or practice is paramount. not to make an application it will be Internet access will bring these lists to necessary to contact the person named Transferring Staff – A Practical Guide their attention. The work of the administrative structures as the line manager. group led to the production of a series of The ‘Transfer of Staff to the New As we move closer and closer to the reports that set out the operational University’ document describes three vesting date of the new merged principles that will define the administrative different types of posts: university staff may find they are structure of the new University. working closely with colleagues from (i)A new post is established for which it is The first step in completing the detailed the other University. In some cases not possible for a member of staff to be design of the new structures will be the certain offices have already co-located. identified who meets the person appointment of the senior posts that will Regardless of where staff are located specification. This will usually mean that lead the operational units. This process is they shall remain on their current no individual can claim that they currently ongoing and once people are in terms and conditions, as they will still undertake 51 percent or more of the role post at this level it will be possible to be employed by either the Victoria as part of their current job. 16 UniLife

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Transfer of Staff

(ii)A post is established which two or more people identify as the same or very similar to their current job. These posts will be ring fenced to give priority consideration to these individuals. (iii)A post is established which is a direct match with the post currently occupied by an individual, or a group of posts that directly match a group of individual’s current posts. In these cases individuals will be notified by their line manager and moved into the new post, details of such posts will not appear on the web site. The categorisation of posts will be agreed between the manager filling the post and the Personnel Office representative, using the three definitions above. *A new post is defined as one where no member of staff can claim that they undertake 51 per cent or more of the role as part of their current job. In drawing up this policy, it is accepted by all parties that what constitutes ‘51%’ is a matter for judgment and discussion having managers will discuss with their staff the 8 Where individuals see a new post regard to the job description and person situation within their specific area. advertised they may make an application specification. Ultimately the decision if, in their own assessment, they fulfil the will rest with the designated team 5 If posts are to be direct transfers, criteria related to knowledge, skills and referred to below. notification will be provided by line experience. What will happen next? managers to the relevant staff. 9 The Project Unity site will be used to 1 The appointment to posts leading the 6 If posts are ring fenced, line managers advertise all ring-fenced and new posts. operational units will commence shortly. will notify the appropriate staff. As ring Details of the site are set out below. This process will continue over several fenced posts will be subject to a Appeals weeks. competitive process, it will be necessary to supply either a CV and covering letter or Where individuals are dissatisfied with an 2 Once the appointments in 1. are made, an application form, depending on the assimilation decision, technically they have these managers will work with Directors, type and level of post. recourse through the Grievance Procedure. Deans and Heads of Faculty Managers and Trade Union representatives Administration to design, in detail, the 7 If individuals are unsuccessful in their have agreed that a speedy appeals process organisation structures of the University. application for a ring-fenced post support that minimises bureaucracy is more in identifying other options will be 3 Once the structures are designed the appropriate for this process. appointments process for the majority of provided by their line manager working Where staff have a strong and substantial staff, as set out above, will commence. with personnel staff belief that their assimilation decision is 4 As this process progresses, line incorrect, recourse can be sought by

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their role within the new University. Staff appointed to new University roles will continue to undertake their current duties until such time as it is deemed appropriate to commence working in their new role (if indeed this involves a change of duties). Certainly this transition may be a gradual process. As soon as is practicably possible, staff will be notified of their new terms and conditions under the new structures in the new University.

Website for ring fenced and new posts

To facilitate the transition process, a website within the Project Unity site dedicated to ring fenced and new posts has been set up. This will allow staff to see precisely what is happening in all areas of the University. www.projectunity.man.ac.uk/vacancies.

Moving forward, all ring fenced and new posts will be added to this site as they Appointment of Director become available. writing to the designated Personnel of Human Resources Manager providing full details of the Where staff feel that they should have Ray Lewis, currently Director of Human grounds for appeal within two weeks of been included in the ring fenced pool for a being advised of the assimilation decision. Resources at the University of Glasgow, particular role, they should speak with will join the new merged University as The grounds for appeal should be clearly their designated Personnel Manager or Director of Human Resources on 1st stated, and where possible, examples the person named as the line manager. May 2004. quoted to demonstrate the case. There are links in place from both Ray is an Economics and Industrial An appeals panel will be convened, Universities’ current job sites and the Relations graduate of the University of consisting of a Chair (drawn from a lay management of this site will be co- Wales, with a former career spent in member of one of the universities' ordinated by the Personnel Office. manufacturing, licensed retail and service Personnel Committees), one management sectors in line, general and personnel and one trade union representative. In addition, there will be a weekly email to management. Notably Ray worked in HR Appeals will normally be heard within two staff with details of any additional posts at operating company board level for weeks of their submission and the added to the website. Staff who have Northern Foods Group, BTR and Pringle of decision of the panel will be final. responsibility for people who do not have Scotland and had spells at Cardiff Notification of New Post email or Internet access will bring the lists University and Glasgow Caledonian to the attention of their colleagues. University, prior to joining the University Once staff have been assigned to their of Glasgow in 2000 as Director of HR. He new post, by whichever of the routes For the full Transfer of Staff document, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of above, they will receive a letter confirming please visit www.projectunity.man.ac.uk. Personnel and Development. The Whitworth 18 UniLife Art Gallery

DISPLAYS/COLLECTIONS Revivals to 14 March 2004 In this exhibition, textiles and wallpapers from the Gallery’s collection range from reverently reproduced copies of historical designs, to witty and inventive quotations from the past used to create something that is essentially modern. Space Probe to 14 March 2004 Incorporating ideas research from the What’s Whitworth’s wallpaper collection, this is part of a larger work, designed for the Piccadilly Metrolink, which investigates the nature of space and how it is inhabited, perceived and On represented. Walter Crane to 23 May 2004 In May 2002, The Whitworth Art Gallery and the John Rylands University Library jointly acquired a major archive of material from Walter Crane’s (1845-1915) studio. A selection Manchester Museum of the archive will be displayed alongside work already in the Whitworth’s collection, providing an insight into Crane’s prolific and EXHIBITIONS per child and £10 for groups of four. wide-ranging career. Transformation Sunday 14 March, 12.00 - 3pm The Dazzled Eye: Envisioning Britain 1750 - 17 Jan - 18 April Facial Features 2000 5 March to 18 April 2004 Through the work of five specially Create a wacky disguise to transform you This exhibition explores the enduring commissioned artists, and including objects using an array of facial features. 50p per child. significance for British artists of from the collections of The Manchester representing the landscape, both at home Sat 20 March, 1.30 - 4.00pm and abroad. The central theme of the show Museum and The British Museum, Making Sense of your Brain is the depiction of Britain’s changing rural Transformation looks at the characters we Discover more about what is going on inside scenery and the urban fabric since the mid- adopt and the roles we play, how we adopt your head. Celebrate ‘Brain Awareness Week’ eighteenth century. Taken together, the and how we see ourselves and how we are with hands on activities and experiments exhibition constitutes an evolving and seen by others, how we are changed by led by researchers from UMIST and the compelling vision of the nation. time, events and emotions. Victoria University of Manchester. FREE Rembrandt Rediscovered and Anne Desmet FAMILY EVENTS Sat 20 & Sun 21 March, 2.30pm to 19 May 2004 The Grand Tour This collection display focuses on The Magic Carpet printmaking and features a large group of Graeme Pye is back again to guide you on Fridays 11.00-12.00pm etchings and drypoints by Rembrandt, as this special tour around the Museum. Meet Literacy programme of storytelling and story well as wood engravings and collages by the at reception. FREE making for under 5’s and carers, based on contemporary printmaker Anne Desmet, the Museum’s collections. Book large groups ADULT EVENTS seen together with her personal selection in advance. £1 per child. from the Gallery’s print collection. Wed 17 March, 12.30pm Rembrandt Rediscovered is the culmination Sat 13 March, 1.30 - 4pm Expert Explorations of a project to conserve all the prints by the Feet, Flippers and Wings Join Curator of Zoology Henry McGhie, and Dutch artist in the Whitworth’s collection. Discover the transformations mammals discover the transformations that have TOURS AND EVENTS have undergone to evolve and adapt to their taken place behind the scenes of The changing environments. Create your own Manchester Museum. Meet at the Museum Every Saturday at 2pm there is either an cartoon creature with artist Paul Pickford. £3 Information Desk. FREE Exhibition Tour or an Eyeopener Tour. The Dazzled Eye - Curator’s tour. FREE Manchester Museum Oxford Road, 0161 275 2630, www.museum.man.ac.uk Tue 16 March, 1.15pm Opening hours, Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sun 11am - 4pm Double Take: Two Lectures on Landscape Art: Free admission, booking is essential for all programmes Greg Smith, writer Fri 19 March, 2pm Mariele Nevdecke, artist Fri 26 March, 2pm Gig Guide Manchester Academy 1, 2 & 3

Mon 8th March - £8.50 adv Sat 13th March - SOLD OUT Sat 20th March - £8 adv Whitworth Art Gallery Snow Patrol Reel Big Fish + Goldfinger Maroon 5 Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Road, 0161 275 7450 [email protected] Tue 9th March - £7.50 adv Mon 15th March - £7.50 adv Sun 21st March - £16.50 adv Soledad Brothers The Stands Love with Arthur Lee Opening hours Mon to Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 2pm - 5 pm FREE Admission Thu 11th March - £11.50 adv Wed 17th March - £8.50 adv Mon 22nd March - £8 adv The Gallery shop stocks a wide range of Powderfinger Wednesday 13 Raging Speedhorn greetings cards, postcards, art books, Thu 11th March - £11 adv Fri 19th March - £14.50 adv Mon 22nd March - £8 adv magazines and prints. Tel: 0161 275 7498 Pernice Brothers Zero 7 The NME Britpack Tour Fri 12th March - £12.50 adv Fri 19th March - £8.50 adv Tue 23rd March - £6 adv Hundred Reasons Stiff Little Fingers Hawksley Workman Sat 13th March - £8 adv Sat 20th March - £17.50 adv Mest Shane McGowan & The Popes

Students’ Union Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL Tickets from:Piccadilly Box Office, easy Internet Cafe, (c/c) 0871 2200260 Online @ www.manchesteracademy.net Royal Court (Liverpool) 0151 709 4321 (c/c) Students' Union 0161 275 2930 International Department Society of Music UniLife 19

TRIPS THE LINDSAYS EVENING CONCERTS 7.30pm The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Sat 13 March Friday 19 March Day visit to North Wales visiting Haydn Quartet in B flat Op55 No3 Betws-y-Coed and Portmeirion Village Bartók Quartet No6 Dvorák Quintet in E flat Op97 Sun 14 March With Louise Williams Viola Day visit to ‘Captain Cook Country’ and Whitby CHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS Saturday 13 March, 7.30 pm Sat 20 March The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Contact Theatre Day visit to Hadrian’s Wall University of Manchester Wind Orchestra Henri Oguike Dance Company Sat 20 March Philip Robinson, Gareth Parry Conductors Derek Bermel Ides March Thu 11 Mar 2004, 8pm, £9/£6 Day visit to Warwick Castle and Warwick HENRI OGUIKE DANCE COMPANY Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite This multi-award winning company is a critics EVENTS Nigel Hess The Winds of Power favourite whose work has been described as Every Tuesday 8pm until late John Barnes-Chance Incantation and Dance suggestive, intriguing and vigorous, The Melting Pot @ The Thirsty Scholar (next Martin Ellerby The Big Easy Suite combining powerful dancing and technical to Oxford Road Station). Nicholas Maw Summer Dances excellence. Fri 5 March, 7.30pm, £2 World Quiz Night, Saturday 20 March, 7.30pm Quarantine Grand Prize of £100, Tickets £2 Whitworth Hall, Oxford Road Sat 13 Mar 2004 - Sat 20 Mar 2004, 7.30pm, THEATRE AND MUSIC University of Manchester Chorus £8/£5 University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra WHITE TRASH For details about the availability of tickets James Burton Conductor "Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, for various theatre and music performances, Britten Sinfonia da Requiem son. You never walked in that man’s shoes." please visit our website. Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs Elvis Presley Poulenc Stabat Mater Award-winning director Richard Gregory is devising a show with 7 young white men from THE WALTER CARROLL LUNCHTIME International Society, 327 Oxford Road Manchester – exploring the world through (next to Krobar)0161 275 4959 CONCERTS AND RECITALS their eyes, right now. 1.10pm Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall www.internationalsociety.org.uk The Massive Theatre Company Thursday 11 March Monday - Friday 9:30am - 5pm Tue 16 Mar 2004 - Sat 20 Mar 2004, 8pm, MU Sundanese Gamelan £9/£6, Sat 20 Mar 4pm, £8/£5 Simon Steptoe Director THE SONS OF CHARLIE PAORA A concert of music for West Javanese Written by Lenny James Jodrell Bank gamelan degung In 2002 Britain’s Lenny James (Channel 4’s Thursday 18 March Buried) went to New Zealand to work with the young men of Massive Theatre Company to Psappha The facilities at Jodrell Bank are going create a heart wrenching story based on their Phil Goodwin Trombone through a period of redevelopment. The own lives. Visitors Centre currently has a café, an Tim Williams Percussion exhibition space and a 3D theatre open, and The concert will feature music from across Naked SubCulture visitors can still explore the various trails the globe and will include White Knight and Tue 23 Mar 2004 - Wed 24 Mar 2004, 8pm, and the natural habitats of the Arboretum's The Beaver by Martin Wesley-Smith. £7/£3.50 35 acres with its 2000 species of trees and HOUSE shrubs and National Collections. In January PSAPPHA Naked SubCulture, the Manchester based 2004 Jodrell Bank completed a 180 degree Friday 12 March 7.30pm professional homeless and ex-homeless observational pathway close to the base of David Routledge Violin people's theatre company, return to Contact the world famous Lovell radio telescope. Tim Williams Cimbalom/Percussion with their third production. 'House' continues Cimbalom is the Hungarian word for the company's explorations of life on the Jodrell Bank Science Centre & Arboretum dulcimer. With its roots in folk music and its (knife) edge of modern society. Macclesfield, Cheshire distinct timbre many composers have 01477 571339 www.jb.man.ac.uk employed it. This performance will include works by one of Hungary’s leading composers, György Kurtág, and British Contact Theatre composer Peter Maxwell Davies. Oxford Road. Tickets/Info 0161 274 0600 John Rylands www.contact-theatre.org.uk/ Department of Music Tickets/Info: 0161 274 0600 Library School of Music and Drama, For information on other events please visit our website www.contact-theatre.org Coupland Street The John Rylands Special Collections Library, A limited number of tickets are available from 0161 275 4982 www.art.man.ac.uk/MUSIC Deansgate, will be closed for a period of just £4 on the day from the Ticket Office approximately 2 years, until 2005, for between 11am - 4pm daily. essential refurbishment and the construction of a new visitor and interpretative centre. Access to all the special collections is available through the main University Library Chaplaincies on campus. A Special Collections Reading Room is open on Purple Four, Monday to Friday 10am - 5.15pm and Saturdays 10am - St Peter’s House Chaplaincy Avila House RC Chaplaincy UMIST Chaplaincy 1pm. Readers may find it helpful to contact us SUNDAY WORSHIP (next to the Holy Name Church) Mass every Sunday at 10am in advance on 0161 275 3764. Further 10.30am & 6.30pm (Evening Mass Times Chaplains on UMIST site information can be found on our website Worship Term-time only) Mon - Fri 1.05 pm Monday to Friday www.rylibweb.man.ac.uk/spcoll/ FOYER 10am-4pm (term-time only) Floor B, Room B 25 An area where students and Oxford Road Renold Building staff can relax and meet 0161 275 6999/273 1456 John Rylands Library,150 Deansgate, UMIST friends. A tea/coffee machine is Manchester, M3 3EH available. 0161 236 3311 0161 834 5343 Precinct Centre Ext 2522 www.rylibweb.man.ac.uk/spcoll/ 0161 275 2894 [email protected] 20 UniLife Seminars & Lectures

Tuesday 9 March Manchester Medical Society – Anaesthesia School of Biological Sciences/AstraZeneca: (joint meeting with the Liverpool Society of "Protein kinases, the major drug targets of the CHSTM: "Measuring the world: exploration, Anaesthetists). Speakers: Dr J Harrison (Aintree 21st century?" Prof Sir Philip Cohen (Dundee). empire and the Royal Geographical Society, Hospitals NHS Trust) and Dr P Nightingale 12pm, LT1 Stopford Bldg. 1850-1914". Max Jones (Manchester). 4pm, (South Manchester UHNHS Trust). 8.15pm, Room 3.29, Maths Tower. MANDEC (coffee from 7.45pm). Manchester Materials Science Centre: "Advances in coating technology". Prof John School of Planning and Landscape: "Evaluation Faculty of Medicine – Imaging Science and Nicholls (Cranfield). 2.15pm, Room D13, as a mechanism for capacity enhancement". Biomedical Engineering: "Imaging liver Manchester Materials Science Centre. All Sarah Batterbury (Glamorgan). 4pm, Hanson tumours, which modality is best?" Dr S H Lee welcome. Room, Architecture and Planning Bldg. All (Manchester). 5.15pm, LT3, Stopford Bldg. All welcome. welcome. Dept of Physics and Astronomy Schuster CCSR: "Modelling of ranked party preference Dept of Religions and Theology: "The wheels of Colloquium: "Racing cars, spiders and data: British Election Panel Study, 1997-2001". the chariot: religious language in English and nanotubes". Prof R J Young (UMIST). 2.30pm, Nick Shryane (Manchester). 4pm, Studio, 1st German romanticism". Prof David Jasper Bragg Lecture Theatre, Schuster Laboratory. All Floor, Old Dover St Bldg. (Glasgow). 4pm, Room A18, Arts Bldg. welcome. NPCRDC: "Accounting for change in self- Friday 12 March Centre for Philosophy: "Mortal subjects". Prof management: a sociological perspective". Prof Christina Howells (Oxford). 4pm, Room OG.16, Anne Rogers. 2pm, NPCRDC, 5th Floor, Dept of Physics and Astronomy Condensed Dover Street Bldg. Williamson Bldg. Matter Physics: Title to be announced. Mark Blamire (Cambridge). 4pm, Moseley Lecture Thursday 18 March Wednesday 10 March Theatre, Schuster Laboratory. Dept of Sociology (with the Centre for the Dept of Religions and Theology: "Attuning to Study of Sexuality and Culture): "Gender Monday 15 March the Dharma: a Chinese Buddhist revival?" consumption". Celia Lury in conversation with Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies: Francesca Tarocco (Manchester). 4pm, Room Lisa Adkins. 4pm, Room 4.9, Roscoe Bldg. "What really happened at Toledo in the 12th A18, Arts Bldg. Manchester Medical Society – Medicine – century?" Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute). Friday 19 March Symposium: "Screening in the medical 2pm, Room A201, Arts Bldg. All welcome. specialities" followed by Junior Doctors’ Clinical Tuesday 16 March Dept of Religions and Theology Media and Medal Presentations. Speakers: Dr J A Muir Gray Contextual Theology: "Bystanders or actors? CBE (UK Screening Committee); Prof J A CHSTM: "Personal equations: reconceptualizing Media and ethics in the globalized world". Franklyn (Birmingham); Dr A Neil (Oxford); Dr P fieldwork a century ago". Henrika Kuklick Zygmunt Bauman. 10am, Room A4, Faculty E Isaacs (Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust); (Pennsylvania). 4pm, Room 3.29, Maths Tower. Committee Room, Arts Bldg. and Miss S T O’Dwyer (Christies). 2pm, MANDEC (coffee from 1.30pm). Manchester Medical Society – Imaging - Dept of Physics and Astronomy Condensed Debate: "This house believes that the Matter Physics: "Nonlinear wave at the charged Manchester Medical Society – Paediatrics (joint traditional post-mortem is dying and will be surface of liquid hydrogen". German Kolmakov meeting with the Liverpool Paediatric Club and replaced by cross-sectional imaging". Speakers: (Lancaster). 4pm, Moseley Lecture Theatre, Regional SpR & SHO Training): "Calman reforms Dr R Bisset (Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust) Schuster Laboratory. in court". 2.15pm, Royal Manchester Children’s and Dr E W Benbow (Manchester Children’s Hospital. UHNHS Trust). 6pm, Postgraduate Health Monday 22 March Manchester Medical Society - Pathology: Sciences Centre, Manchester Royal Infirmary Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies: Amgen Trainees’ Prize Evening. 5.30pm, LT2, (tea from 5.30pm). "Translatability assessment in a controlled Stopford Bldg (tea from 5pm). Dept of Chemistry: "Long 2 electron – 4 centred language environment". Sharon O’Brien (Dublin Transport Seminar: "The NW Regional Transport 2.9 Å carbon-carbon bonds. What is a bond?" City). 2pm, Room A201, Arts Bldg. All welcome. Strategy". Roy Newton (North West Regional Prof Joel Miller (Utah). 3pm, Room G.51, Assembly). 5.30pm, Room G33, Architecture and Chemistry Bldg. Tuesday 23 March Planning Bldg. All welcome. School of Planning and Landscape: "Inclusive School of Planning and Landscape: "The School of Biological Sciences/AstraZeneca: "Rho urban design: public toilets". Clara Greed (West widening agenda of urban capacity". Susannah GTPases in cell adhesion and migration". Prof of England). 4pm, Hanson Room, Architecture Gunn (Newcastle). 4pm, Hanson Room, Keith Burridge (North Carolina). 12pm, LT1, and Planning Bldg. All welcome. Architecture and Planning Bldg. All welcome. Stopford Bldg. NPCRDC: "Innovation in community pharmacy CCSR: "Evaluating low intensity interventions: contracts: describing first wave Local Manchester Materials Science: "Commercialism persuading school children not to smoke". Pharmaceutical Services (LPS) pilots". Juliette of materials science research – the Andrew Pickles (Manchester). 4pm, 1st Floor opportunities and the challenges". Prof Sandra Kendall. 2pm, NPCRDC, 5th Floor,Williamson Bldg. Studio, Old Dover St Bldg. Downes (Smith & Nephew Group Research CCSR: "Local demographic rates from the 2001 Centre). 2.15pm, Room D13, Manchester NPCRDC: "Communicating risks - illusion or Materials Science Centre. All welcome. census". Ludi Simpson and Matt Bowen (Manchester). 4pm, Studio, 1st Floor, Old Dover truth?" Dr Adrian Edwards (Swansea). 2pm, Dept of Physics and Astronomy Manchester St Bldg. NPCRDC, 5th Floor, Williamson Bldg. Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics: "Liquid Latin American Cultural Studies: "Histories of crystalline behaviour of biopolymers". Dr Aline Wednesday 17 March Miller (UMIST). 4pm, Blackett Lecture Theatre, the Virgin: the secular knowledge of objects of Dept of Chemistry: "Ocean/atmosphere Schuster Laboratory. religious devotion". Trevor Stack (Aberdeen). interactions and their effect on tropospheric 5pm, Room 3.5, Roscoe Bldg. Centre for Philosophy: "Intuition, evidence and chemistry". Dr Lucy J Carpenter (York). 2.30pm, the objectivity in Kant’s Philosophy of Room G.54, Chemistry Bldg. CHSTM: "Strange reactions: Clemens von Mathematics". Prof Gordon Brittan (Montana). Pirquet and the meaning of allergy". Mark Dept of Chemistry: "Some nitrogen and sulfer 4pm, OG.16, Dover Street Bldg. Jackson (Exeter). 4pm, Room 3.29, Maths Tower. heterocycles: unexpected cycloadditions and Thursday 11 March unusual natural products". Dr George Weaver (Loughborough). 4pm, Room G.53, Chemistry Bldg. Dept of History: "A tale of second cities: SEMINARS AND LECTURES autonomy, culture and the law in Hamburg and School of Geography: "Quantifying reach scale Barcelona in the long 19th century". Dr Maiken morphological change in a braided river". Details of seminars can be emailed to Umbach (Manchester). 5pm, Room A113, Arts Barbara Rumsby. 4pm, Room 2.02, Mansfield [email protected] Bldg. Enquiries: 0161 2754 3084. Cooper Bldg. UniLife 21 Vacancies

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Latin American Cultural Studies The Sherman Lectures 2004 20% Discount on Spectacles By Prof Daniel Sperber Inaugural Annual Event (Talmud Dept, Bar Ilan University, Israel) in the Student Optometry Clinic Room G20, Mansfield Cooper Bldg. "The Modern Study of Halakhah" Save money and help UMIST students in their 15 March, 3pm "Multiculturalism in times of 5.15pm, Arts Building, professional development. war". Paul Gilroy (Yale). The Victoria University of Manchester If you have your eyes examined in the Student 16 March, 3pm "Chronometrics Argentino:The Monday 15 March Arts Lecture Theatre Clinic at the Department of Optometry and time of the rule of law?" Grant Farred (Duke). "The structure of Halakhah (Law): the concepts of de’orayta (rules of biblical status), Neuroscience, we will give you a 20% discount 16 March, 5pm "Conversations with/in Latin derabbanan (rules of rabbinic status) and on any spectacles that you order through the Amercian Cultural Studies". Grant Farred minhag (custom)". student dispensing clinic.We can also supply (Duke), Paul Gilroy and Peter Wade contact lenses at a low cost, eg monthly (Manchester). Tuesday 16 March Arts Lecture Theatre "The changing nature of minhag and the replacement soft contact lenses starting from tendency to increasing strictness". £55 for a six month supply of lenses and Are You a Golfer? Wednesday 17 March Lecture Theatre 12, Lower solutions. All clinics are closely supervised by If you are employed by, or retired from, Ground Floor "The strange concept of a fully qualified staff. Please support these UMIST or the Victoria University of minhag which "went away" clinics and help our students in their Manchester, you are welcome to join in the Thursday 18 March Arts Lecture Theatre professional development. Please call Manchester University Staff Golf Society's "The sociology of contemporary psak Optometry Reception on 0161 200 3860 to handicap Stableford competitions which are (religious legal ruling) and its deficiencies". book an appointment. held monthly from May to September. We Sunday 21 March, Community Sherman also run a knock out match play event. This Lecture, 4.15pm, Roscoe Building, Dept of Social Anthropology year we have weekday afternoon Meetings The Victoria University of Manchester Wednesday 24 March at Knutsford, Northenden, Davenport, "The modern study of the Halakhah: Yeshivah Stockport and Mellor, each followed by a and Academy" (in the context of the Limmud Public Lecture by Prof Nancy Scheper-Hughes meal in the early evening. Day). For those not attending the Limmud Day (Visiting Simon Professor). For more information and/or an invitation to there will be a registration fee of £5. Please "Beyond bio-ethics: global justice and the 'guest' at our events this Season please book in advance 0161 720 8721 traffic in human organs". contact Ken Leigh on 01925 762551 (anytime) For more information ring 0161 275 3614 or 4pm, Lecture Theatre B, Roscoe Bldg followed or at [email protected] email [email protected] by a wine reception. All welcome. 22 UniLife Classifieds

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St Peter’s House, Chaplaincy to Higher Education in Manchester Forty Days On A City Road: facing up to the journey

Travelling up and down busy Oxford Road, from the Forty Days On A City Road is a chance to reflect on vibrant Curry Mile to the theatres around St Peter’s the links between the story of Lent (for any who Square, is to journey along the busiest bus route and still remember it) and the gritty reality of through the largest university community in Europe. journeying into the heart of the city today. For some people this city road is a place for expanding horizons and new adventures, while for others it is a Weekdays at 12.30 and Sundays at 10.30am at St wilderness and a place of loneliness and terror. So Peter's House, a leading stakeholder or member of how do we encourage people to journey together to the academic community in Manchester will offer LENT 2004 create and explore meaningful community? And, if it their perspective on living and working on or around is still possible to say, in whose image is the city to be? the city road and the meanings they find there

Mar 9 Graham Kent, GMCT ‘On the ecumenical road’ Mar 11 Catherine Shelley, barrister and Postgrad theologian ‘The pace of change - 20 years from Faith in the City’ Mar 12 Ian Steedman, Dept Economics, MMU ‘Having more, wanting less: which road to well being?’ Mar 14 Sun Michael Lewis, Bishop of Middleton ‘None other than the way of life and peace’ Mar 15 Rogers Govinder, Diocese of Manchester ‘Road Race’ Race and the City today. Mar 16 Martyn Percy, Lincoln Theological Institute 'Shopping for a Church in a Age of Desire'. Mar 17 Mark Folland, Chaplain MRI ‘A health safari: fragmentation, boundary and reparation.’ Mar 18 John Atherton, Anglican Theologian ‘Transcending the city as capitalism’ Mar 19 Jasmine Devadason, Dalit Theologian ‘To suffer outside the gate’ Mar 21 Sun David Copley, Methodist Superintendent ‘The view from the other end of the road’ Mar 22 Jan Berry, Tutor, Luther King House ‘Making liturgy for the city Mar 25 Cherry Vann, Chaplain to the Deaf community, Oxford Rd ‘The Passion of the Deaf’ Mar 26 Jacob Devadason, International Chaplain, SPH ‘Jesus and the marginalised people of the Gospels’ Mar 28 Sun Graham Kent, Churches Together in Greater Manchester ‘In memory of her.’

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Just The Job Frank Hogan High Voltage Lab Manager, UMIST

Frank Hogan is a man in charge – to the tune of two million volts! He is the affable, cool-headed High Voltage Lab Manager at UMIST’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics (EE&E).

Frank runs a suite of four laboratories, which Frank’s duties include planning and his career, managed a high voltage lab at EA includes a 2MV Impulse Generator in the managing the testing programme, Technology (formerly the Electricity Council Main Test Hall – the biggest high voltage coordinating testing, supervising students Research Centre), in Chester, before coming to research lab at any UK university and the and ensuring they are going to work safely, UMIST in February 2000. second biggest laboratory in the country. before authorising high voltage experiments There’s also an 800,000V AC test set and a in laboratories that are well utilised. He In addition Frank is a Lieutenant 600,000V DC test set, all of which forms a presides over a comprehensive safety system Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve, major part of the National Grid Transco High that incorporates appropriate training of having joined 32 years ago he was a naval Voltage Research Centre. It is an excellent, personnel and safe working practice with diver for 18 years and currently works with state of the art facility for which the magnificent state-of-the-art test equipment Royal Navy Mine warfare Squadrons. He has University is justifiably proud. that rises 30ft into the roof space of the recently participated in mine clearances hangar-like main test hall, and is able to He puts his nerves of steel down to a love of operations in the Baltic Sea and in maritime amaze even without energising its truly the job and the challenge that it presents. "To warfare training in UK waters. work successfully in this environment is shocking capabilities. immensely rewarding, and to do that one has This allows final year undergraduate and He said: "I really enjoy my work, it is to work safely". Safety has to be at the very postgraduate students to undertake endlessly novel and fascinating. There has front of my mind in everything I do and fundamental research and investigate a never been a problem getting out of bed in everything everybody else does here.We are wide field of electrical and physical the morning! I never envisaged when I very,very safety conscious but also very phenomena, from investigating how started my apprenticeship that I would be positive.We have a comprehensive and tiered insulation performs inside a jet engine at managing something on the scale of this safety system in place that ensures safe 35,000ft, to preventing microshocks, the laboratory. There are only five or six of these working practices in all the laboratories of the static shocks experienced by workers who suite. The nature of our work, facilities in the country. There are maybe ten climb overhead power line towers. experimentation using potentially lethally or 20 people who work full time in this high voltages, is such that we can never, ever Frank, 53, completed a five year specialisation, which makes the job pretty be complacent in what we undertake. apprenticeship as an electrician at the start of special; I am one of a rare breed".

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