News in Brief, 4 March 2019

Published: 1 March 2019

A weekly update from across the University

QS Faculty and Subject Rankings 2019

There was great news for the College of Arts from the publication of the QS Faculty and Subject Rankings, with a rise of five places from 73 to 68 in the world. The University’s overall position was 69th, down from 65th.

https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings

 

SRC Student Teaching awards 2019 Shortlist

Glasgow University Students’ Representative Council have announced the shortlist of staff and students nominated in their Student Teaching Awards. The winners will be announced on the 21 March. 

Best Advisor of Studies

  • Arabella Infantino
  • Linda Knox
  • Louise McCallum
  • Joanne Ramsey
  • Michael Whittaker

Best College Teacher Arts

  • Michael Brady
  • Zanne Domoney-Lyttle
  • Andrew Radford
  • Steven Reid
  • Olivier Salazar-Ferrer

Best College Teacher MVLS

  • Emma Brown
  • Paul Andrew Eynon
  • Gwyn Gould
  • Sharon Sneddon
  • Ourania Varsou

Best College Teacher Science and Engineering

  • Declan Diver
  • Sira Gratz
  • Gethin Norman
  • Joelle Prunet
  • Bjoern Seitz

Best College Teacher Social Sciences

  • Katherine Allison
  • Paul Ferri
  • Benjamin Franks
  • Naomi Head
  • Andy Judge

Best Dissertation Supervisor

  • Duncan Clark
  • Steve Draper
  • Maria Gardani
  • Aurellio Hierro Rodriguez
  • Ian Shaw

Best Postgraduate who Tutors

  • Allan Hollinsworth
  • Moritz Mosenhauer
  • Pamela Rattigan
  • Jennifer Russi
  • Holly Scott

Best Research Supervisor

  • Kenny Brophy
  • Tim Dempster
  • Alessio Fracasso
  • Martin Hurst
  • Jeremy Singer

Best Student Representative

  • Antonia Ioannou
  • Anna Roach
  • Leonie Schorrlepp
  • Fadel Shoughari
  • Johanna Tiedemann

Best Support Staff

  • Ray Guffie
  • Daniel Keenan
  • Gayle Pringle-Barnes
  • Joyce Wason
  • Jenna Wright

Best Use of Technology in Learning

  • Sergiu Gherghina
  • Phillip Harrison
  • Mark McLay
  • Jayne Orr
  • Niamh Stack

Best Feedback

  • Benjamin Franks
  • Amanda Owen
  • Victoria Paterson
  • Andrew Radford
  • Kate Reid

Highly Innovative Teaching

  • Dale Barr
  • Naomi Head
  • Emma Laurie
  • Mark McLay
  • Steven Reid

Outstanding Contribution to Teaching

  • Katherine Allison
  • Emma Brown
  • Zanne Domoney-Lyttle
  • Vanessa Traill

If you have any questions about the STAs, please contact Emma Hardy, SRC VP Education, at e.hardy@src.gla.ac.uk

 

Mental Health Awareness Training for Staff

Applications are now open for the Students' Representative Council (SRC) Mind Your Mate trainers for UofG staff and students. For those who have an interest in learning basic mental health awareness and suicide prevention skills this could be a great opportunity. No previous training is necessary as it is provided.

More information and the application form can be found on the SRC’s website. Applications close at 5pm on Monday 11 March

https://forms.office.com/Pages/DesignPage.aspx#FormId=KVxybjp2UE-B8i4lTwEzyLaRXfgL1RFOlHsz1NYiMWZUMzExVTMxRUtSTkc0Mkk5RjhCMlc2RUJaTy4u&FlexPane=SendForm

Any questions should be directed to Fatemeh, SRC VP Student Support at vp-support@src.gla.ac.uk

 

Racial Profiling as Pejorative Discrimination: The Dudley Knowles Lecture in Political Philiosphy, Tuesday, 5 March.

Professor Natalie Stoljar of McKill University, Montral, Canada, will deliver The Dudley Knowles Lecture in Political Philosophy on the subject of "Racial Profiling as Pejorative Discrimination" on Tuesday, 5 March, at 6pm in the Kelvin Gallery. All staff, students, and members of the public are welcome. No advance booking is necessary. this lecture series is supported by The Stevenson Trust for Citizenship.  https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/listings/index.html/event/11277

 

Could future VLEs spell the end for screen time?

In the first edtech challenge of 2019, Jisc set entrants the task of envisaging the VLE of the future, which can operate without the constraint of a computer, phone or tablet screen, although recognising that some device may be required as an interface. 

The winning idea from a University of Glasgow team uses the “memory palace” technique to create an immersive environment that aids learning. The vision is for an interactive, collaborative space for independent learning without constraints of time or location.

The idea is that users immerse themselves in their study space, rather than simply use it as a place to sit. This method promotes physical activity, collaboration and seeks to make the student experience more enjoyable. The judges chose this idea as it best encapsulates the benefits of learning in an immersive environment, is informed by students ideas and addresses accessibility and inclusion requirements.

Receiving the £1,000 top prize were Dr Mary McVey, a lecturer at the University of Glasgow’s School of Life Sciences, and a team of eight students. She said that using these methods could offer students struggling with learning disabilities a new chance at learning: “It could provide them with a solution to aspects of academia that were holding them back, allow them to excel at their courses and get more involved with their class environment, while having fun in the meantime. We wanted to use our submission to increase awareness about learning disabilities, how common they are, and emphasise the problems that students at all levels of education struggle with, on an every day basis.”

 

Cycling events for March

Upcoming cycling events for the coming month:

  • 06/03/19, 12:00 - 16:00 GUEST Bike Hub at Hive, Gilmorehill Campus
  • 12/03/19, 12:00 - 15:00 Dr Bike at Gilmorehill Campus
  • 12/03/19, 12:00 - 16:00 GUEST Bike Hub at Hive, Gilmorehill Campus
  • 13/03/19, 13:00 - 15:00 GUEST Bike Hub at Mary Stuart Building, Garscube Campus
  • 19/03/19, 13:00 - 15:00 GUEST Bike Hub at Murano Student Village + Led Cycle Ride after
  • 26/03/19, 12:00 - 14:00 Dr Bike at Mary Stuart Building, Garscube Campus

https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/sustainability/travel/cyclingeventsattheuniversity/

 

Scottish Workplace Challenge

The University of Glasgow has joined a number of other institutions in the Scottish Workplace Challenge.  Staff can log in, join the UofG team and start earning rewards.

https://scotland.getmeactive.org.uk/

 

Banishing Gender Inequality to Room 101

Do gender stereotyped children’s toys rile you up? Are you sick of the limiting depiction of your gender identity in mainstream media? Does the patriarchal status quo get your goat?

Join our International Women’s Day celebration on Friday, 8 March, from 5pm as a panel of special guests campaign to get their gender equality "pet hates" banished to Room 101.

This event will be hosted by Professor Anne Anderson, Gender Equality Champion, Vice Principal and Head of the College of Social Sciences, and Professor Deirdre Heddon, James Arnott Chair in Drama and Director of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.

For more event information, and to secure your place, please follow our Bookitbee link below:

https://event.bookitbee.com/21558/international-womens-day-2019-gender-inequality-ro

Please note that this event will include audience participation via Q&A and voting.
To be able to vote, please register to use Eduroam on your smartphone or device:

https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/it/eduroam/


Talk by Italian Ambassador on "Italy and Brexit"

On Monday 11 March 2019, the University of Glasgow welcomes His Excellency Raffaele Trombetta, Ambassador of Italy to the United Kingdom to present a talk and Q&A session titled "Italy and Brexit". As part of his visit to Scotland, the Ambassador will outline Italy’s perspective on the Brexit process.

Ambassador Trombetta was born in Naples in 1960. He obtained a degree in Political Sciences from Federico II University in Naples and a Masters in European Studies from the London School of Economics, beginning his diplomatic career in 1985. He has served as Ambassador to the UK since 2018. He previously served as consul in the UK from 1990 to 1995. His career also includes postings in Bogotá, Brussels, Beijing and Brasilia; in the latter he was ambassador from 2013 to 2016. He was head of Paolo Gentiloni’s cabinet when Gentiloni was Minister of Foreign Affairs, and since January 2017, he has been the Italian government representative for the G7 and G20.

The talk and Q&A will take place in the Senate Room on Monday 11 March 2019. Doors open at 1730 and talk is scheduled from 1800 until 1900.

This is a free, public event but advance booking is required through the Eventbrite link provided below.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-by-his-excellency-raffaele-trombetta-italian-ambassador-to-the-uk-tickets-57004521057

 

Research Notebooks Software Demo Day, Monday 18 March

A theme which arose from our 'Support for Research Notebooks' (held in Glasgow and London in late 2018) was a desire from the research community to see examples of software which could be used as research notebook.

This event will provide researchers with the opportunity to see and hear about different electronic research notebook options currently used by researchers.
The event will be held on Monday 18 March from 10am to 3pm at the Hilton Grosvenor Hotel in Glasgow. Attendance is free, but registration is required and places are limited. Places can be booked at:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/research-notebook-software-demo-day-registration-56795911099 

 

Friends of Glasgow University (FGUL) talk - Thursday, 21 March

Dr Miles Oglethorpe, Head of Industrial Heritage at Historic Environment Scotland and President of the International Committee on the Conservation of Industrial Heritage (TICCIH), will present an illustrated talk"‘Scotland’s links with the emergence of Modern Japan – the case of Glasgow University graduate, Dr Kaichi Watanabe" to the Friends of Glasgow University Library in the TalkLab on Level 3 of the premises at 7 p.m. on Thursday, 21 March. All are very welcome to attend, and refreshments will be provided. 

 

Archaeological Practice and Heritage Protection in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Dr. Claudia Glatz and her international team and collaborators consisting of Aphrodite Sorotou (Inherit), Dr. Daniel Calderbank (Glasgow), Elise Jakoby Laugier (Dartmouth), Luise Loges (Glasgow) and Dr. Rozhen Mohammed (Sulaimani Polytechnic University) are returning from a successful series of training workshops in Suleymaniyah, Iraq. Over four days they trained 44 antiquities officials, archaeologists and students as part of the Cultural Protection Fund funded project “Archaeological Practice and Heritage Protection in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq”.

Workshop themes included
• Archaeological interpretation and the political dimensions of the past
• Archaeological and museum narrative building
• Monitoring of archaeological sites and damage documentation
• Looting and the illicit antiquities trade

For more information on this project: http://culturalheritageprotection.org

 

Vet School Collaboration with Meldrum Farm

Dr Lorenzo Viora from the School of Veterinary Medicine is working with William Hamilton & Sons to provide clinical and herd health expertise and conduct research on the health management of dairy cattle.

Dr Viora leads the Dairy Clinical Service at the School and has worked with Meldrum Farm (William Hamilton & Sons) since 2009. The collaboration has led to the farm winning "Scottish Dairy Farm of the Year" in 2014 and 2017 and being finalists in the competition for the past eight years.

The University has conducted several research projects on the farm, including investigating mastitis in dairy cows using milk biomarkers and testing the use of synchronisation protocols to improve fertility performance in the herd. The School has benefited greatly from involving the farm in teaching activities, giving undergraduate and postgraduate students invaluable experience of learning and understanding real industry challenges in a professional dairy farm environment.

Dr Viora said: "Good contact and close relationships with leading dairy farms in the UK agricultural industry are essential for the University to understand and anticipate changes in production methods in the sector. Working collaboratively enables us to provide high-quality teaching and training for undergraduate and postgraduate students, develop the industrial collaborations necessary to undertake basic and applied research, and promote the reputation of the School of Veterinary Medicine.”


First published: 1 March 2019