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Magnificent Eight

Eight of the University’s researchers have been included in the publication Highly Cited Researchers 2014. They are:

• Professor Alan Crozier, formerly Professor of Plant Biochemistry, and currently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Medicine;
• Professor Michael Lean, Chair of Human Nutrition;
• Dr Bill Mullen,  a Research Fellow for the Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences;
• Professor Ian Ford, Professor of Biostatistics in the Institute of Health and Wellbeing;
• Professor John McMurray, Professor of Cardiology in the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences;
• Professor Naveed Sattar, Professor of Metabolic Medicine in the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences;
• Professor Jeff Webb, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in  the School of Mathematics and Statistics;
• Professor Graeme Milligan, Gardiner Chair of Biochemistry in the Institute of Molecular Cell and Systems Biology.

Inclusion is based on the number of reports officially designated by Essential Science Indicators℠ as Highly Cited Papers, ranking them among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication and earning them the mark of exceptional impact.

Parking Hike

The cost of a University parking permit for the Gilmorehill campus is to increase by 5% this year with another 5% increase in 2015/16. The decision was taken following an Estates and Buildings annual review.  Last year the increase was 10%.

Estates and Buildings is currently reviewing parking arrangements in light of extensive infrastructure work due to start later this year linked to the Combined Heat and Power (CHP) district heating system, which urgently needs upgraded. It is expected that some existing parking spaces will have to be withdrawn while contractors are on site this year and next. You can find more on the project here:

www.gla.ac.uk/staff/news/podcasts/

At the moment there are 1,300 parking permit holders. The permits cost £200 per year.  There are 750 parking spaces available on the Gilmorehill Campus in total; about 400 of them in the immediate area of the Main Building. It is expected that more than 50 of the existing parking spaces will be lost to accommodate the CHP works. It is hoped that by the end of 2014, the number of permit holders and the parking spaces available will come back into balance. Staff handing back parking permits, who have paid in full at the start of the year, will be paid back the balance of the remaining part of the year. (Most staff opt for monthly deductions.)

As a result of the pressure on parking, and the CHP project, the parking permit scheme is currently closed to new members. 

Lady Florence Davies

Lady Florence Davies, the University of Glasgow academic who specialised in applied linguistics, has died, aged 79.

Lady Davies's varied career included working in schools and university departments of education and English, and running courses for the British Council. She was Honorary Senior Research Fellow (English Language) in the School of Critical Studies.

After her retiral from her post as senior research fellow at the University of Glasgow, 14 years ago, she and her husband, former University of Glasgow prinicpal Professor Sir Graeme Davies, were based at their country home in Coulter, South Lanarkshire.

Churchill Fellowship for Arlene

Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson, a graduate of the School of Education, University of Glasgow was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to discover ways to improve the teaching of critical literacy in UK schools. She travelled to New Zealand and Australia for seven weeks in early 2014 to observe teachers, interview school leaders, meet policymakers and collaborate with researchers.

EMMA Award for Glasgow Professor

The European Media Management Association (EMMA) awarded Professor Gillian Doyle, Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, their prize for outstanding individual contribution to scholarship at the association’s annual conference in Tallinn, Estonia in June 2014.

Twitter

Some Twitter users might have noticed a new tweeter on the block, writes Emma Gilmartin, Social Media Officer. The Communications Office has recently launched a new UofG twitter account called @GlasgowUniNews to add to our twitter family @GlasgowUni and our events account @GlasgowUniEvent.

The new account is primarily geared towards journalists and will allow the media to pick up our news stories quickly. Content will include our press releases, as well as things happening on campus that might not warrant a release. It will also allow us to alert the media when we have experts available for comment on topical issues. And we will also post links to stories that features UofG in the media, both at a domestic and international level. The will help us maintain our media contacts as well as foster new partners - particularly overseas. In turn this will also allow us to promote our work and successes on a recruitment and brand level too.

If you'd like to use this channel then please contact the media team via media@glasgow.ac.uk

 

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First published: 19 June 2014