School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing

• Online University Staff Handbook

Equality, diversity and work-life balance

• Equality & Diversity (Dignity at work & study, disability, LGBT staff, mental health, faith & belief)
• Respect Advisers Network
• Understanding Unconscious Bias eCourse (60-75 minutes)
• Work Life Balance, including Leave Policies (parental leave policies, care for dependants) and the Maternity Leave Toolkit
• Parent Buddy Network and the University's Parents and Carers Forum (Yammer)
• Email Overload Campaign (2015-2020)
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Health & wellbeing 

• For undergraduate student wellbeing guidance, including a 'Wellbeing A-Z' click here
• Occupational Health Unit - where information for Medical, Dental and Nursing students can be found
• PAM Assist - an external and independent service, based in Glasgow, offered to all staff of the University of Glasgow
• Mental Health First Aid (PDF)
• First Responders
• Report & Support - useful information and contacts 

Personal and professional development

• Performance Development Review (PDR)
• Promotion, Regrading and Reward
• Promotion Toolkit
• Employee and Organisational Development which run a range of courses, such as communications, researcher development, PDR
• Early Career Development Programme
• Job Family Role Profiles
• Instructions for setting up remote desktop - for staff who may be working from home

Networking & mentoring

• Social Media Toolkit
• Glasgow Crucible
• The Network

• MVLS offers several funding opportunities that can be accessed by staff to assist with support and career progression, including:

• Network and Event Fund
• Academic Returners Support Fund
• Carer's Conference Fund

For more information regarding these opportunities, click here, or browse the MVLS Academic Returners and Research Support - Policy and Framework, which was recently agreed by the College Management Group. For those wishing to apply, please use the MVLS Academic Returners and Research Support - Application Form

• Access information about the Colleges of MVLS and Sciences and Engineering Athena SWAN Mentoring Pilot Scheme here [pdf]

• For further information, please see the MVLS HR webpages

• For enquiries please contact the College HR team here

A dedicated staff moodle page with opportunities, events and a record of minutes 

Support Groups

• A postgraduate student support group - contact Ms Wesam Alyahya (w.alyahya.1@research.gla.ac.uk) or student rep for the School Ms Susana Palma (s.palma-duran.1@research.gla.ac.uk )
• A part-time and maternity/adoption leave staff meeting group - contact Dr Catherine Hankey (Catherine.Hankey@gla.ac.uk)
• To join the School of Medicine's Carers Group online forum (Yammer), request here

Working Groups

• An Athena SWAN Wellbeing group
• An Athena SWAN Mentoring working group - contact Dr Emilie Combet (Emilie.CombetAspray@gla.ac.uk)
• An Athena SWAN Carers Group - contact Dr Lindsey Pope (Lindsey.Pope@glasgow.ac.uk) 

Townhall Meetings 

Townhall meetings are now recorded on Echo360 - this means that staff who could not attend can listen to and watch meetings retrospectively. Please follow links below for recordings:

Wednesday 8th May (2-4pm)

• Prof Matthew Walters (Head of SoMD&N) - Welcome
• Mr Craig Chapman-Smith (Director of Programme Delivery) & Ms Karen Christoforou (Change & Engagement Lead) - on the University's World Changing Glasgow vision
• Mrs Sandra Small (SUERC Research Technician) - on the University's Respect Network
• Dr Neill Croll (Acting Head of Widening Participation) - on Widening Participation activities across SoMD&N

• Equate Scotland - for women in science engineering, technology and the built environment 
• Million Women Mentors - US
• WISE Campaign Resources - A campaign to promote women in STEM
• Young Academy of Scotland - Academic Women Now: experiences of mid-career academic women in Scotland
• Academy of Medical Sciences: The #MedSciLife campaign, promoting different working practices for those working in medical research in the UK