Institute of Primary Care and Public Health
Week Commencing: 21st November 2011
Issue 60
STAFF NEWS
Congratulations to Cherry-Ann Waldron: Many congratulations to Cherry-Ann Waldron who passed her
PhD viva, with minor revisions, on Wednesday 16th November. Cherry-Ann's PhD thesis is entitled:
'Developing and evaluating a web-based risk calculator to predict cardiovascular disease' and she was
supervised by Glyn Elwyn and John Gallacher.
ADMINISTRATION
Undergrad Office move to Cochrane Building: Please note that the Division of Medical Education,
Undergraduate Office will be moving to the 5th Floor of the Cochrane Building. The move will take place on
Tuesday 15th November and as such the Undergraduate Office will not be available on that day.
From Wednesday 16th November 2011, the office will re-open on 5th Floor, Cochrane Building as the
Institute of Medical Education Undergraduate Office.
The following functions and people will now operate from the Cochrane Building 5th Floor, with new
telephone numbers:
Prof John Bligh
Mary Jordan/Jo
Plummer
Sarah Kincaid
Lydia Klimecki
Michelle Bolger
Daniel Hodgson
Valeria Symonds
Andrew Edwards
Martin Hughes
Gaynor Tullett
Lyndsay Parry-Griffiths
Dean of Medical Education
PA to Prof Bligh
029 2068 8123
029 2068 8123
Undergraduate Operations
Officer
Year 3 Coordinator
Year 4 Coordinator
Year 5 Coordinator
Placements Office
SSC Coordinator
Placements Team Leader
Assessments Team
Assessments Team
029 2068 8101
029 2068 8103
029 2068 8104
029 2068 8105
029 2068 8106
029 2068 8107
029 2068 8102
029 2068 8111
029 2068 8110
The following functions will remain on the Upper Ground Floor of the Main Hospital Building until further
notice: Undergraduate Admissions, C21 team, UPP administration. The Year 1 and 2 administration office
will remain in BIOSI. The Clinical Skills team will be moving on Thursday 17th November to the 3rd Floor of
the Cochrane Building.
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Sports and Social Club: Please see below a menu for Sports and Social Club for ordering buffets and
lunch. This supplier can be used as an alternative to Residences and Catering and Jags Catering. Tea and
coffee are charged at 75p per person per serving with a buffet and £1 per person per serving when
ordered without a buffet. Tea, coffee and muffins are £1.95 per person. If you would like further information
please e-mail the e-mail address on the menu. Please note there is a charge of 10% delivery fee.
Sport and Social
Menus.pdf
----------------------------------------------------------School of Medicine PhD Studentship Competition: The School of Medicine is call for applications from
MEDIC Research Institutes for a PhD studentship to start in January 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter.
The funding includes tuition fees at home/EU rates, student’s stipend at MRC rates together with £4,900
towards consumable costs.
Applications should be made on the form below and submitted electronically to Sarah Williams at the PGR
office WilliamsSE9@cardiff.ac.uk
Preference will be given to applicants who can provide matched funding, to interdisciplinary projects and
those with strong translational elements.
Students must be able to commence study on the 1st January 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Enquiries should be directed to PGRmedic@cf.ac.uk
THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 5PM WEDNESDAY 30TH NOVEMBER 2011
PGR Office
Rm 2TB2 2
School of Medicine
Heath Park
Cardiff
CF14 4XN
Tel: 029 2074 6716
Fax: 029 2074 4327
Web: http://medicine.cf.ac.uk/en/research/postgraduate-research-degrees/
2011 PhD
application.docx
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Holiday Inn Meetings for 2012: Holiday Inn Cardiff is offering a deal of £20.12 per person when booking
meetings with them for January – February 2012. This includes;
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Room Hire
Unlimited Tea and Coffee
Lunch
Flipchart and Screen
Mineral Water and Sweets
Natural Daylight and Air Conditioning
If you would like to enquire please contact 0871 942 9240. Please note that if you want to book room hire
with Holiday Inn you would need to complete a requisition form and send to PCPHadmin to book.
----------------------------------------------------------School Safety, Health and Environment Audit (18001) 2011: Many thanks to those of you that assisted
Karl Hanzel directly with the Audit. The Auditor has now left the site. In general terms he was very satisfied
with our systemic compliance. Karl will be in contact in due course with any findings and implementation
plans in due course.
----------------------------------------------------------NIHR Fellowships Round 5 – Now Launched: NIHRTCC is pleased to announce that Round 5 of the
Fellowships Programme has now launched.
http://www.nihrtcc.nhs.uk/nihrfellow/
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NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship (NIHR-DRF for PhD level research training)
NIHR Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (NIHR-PDF for post-doc level research training)
NIHR Career Development Fellowship (NIHR-CDF for individuals with significant post-doc
experience)
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NIHR Senior Research Fellowship (NIHR-SRF for leading individuals with an excellent record as
an independent researcher)
The NIHR Fellowships programme is managed by the NIHR Trainees Coordinating Centre (Personal
Awards Team). For all queries regarding these awards, please contact: nihrfellowshipenquiries@nihrtcc.org.uk
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CURRENT JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN THE INSTITUTE
Advertised Externally
Senior Research/Portfolio Fellow, Grade 6/7 (Job Reference: 2011/0549) Fixed term until 1st
December 2013.
To manage the development of the Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Registered Research Group.
Closing Date: 1st December 2011
DATES FOR THE DIARY:
The following events have already been advertised in the newsletter. Please refer to the relevant edition for
booking forms. Past editions of the newsletter can be found on the department webpages.
Event
Date
Measuring what matters:
the case for qualitative
research in drug trials
Change and Decay in all
around I see: Sustaining
curriculum reform
KTP Conference
22nd
November
Further information
Further Info
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Newsletter
Part of the Trials Methods Seminar Series. To
be held between 2-3 pm in room 1F09, Michael
Griffiths Lecture Theatre
23rd
Nov 23rd November:: Dr David Taylor: Change Issue 55
and decay in all around I see: Sustaining
2011
curriculum reform
th
7 Dec
Issue 57
Issue 57
2011
UK Society for Behavioural 13th – 14th http://uksbm.org.uk/asm2011/
Issue 41
Medicine
7th
Annual December
Scientific Meeting
DECIPHer Course
26th
Jan http://www.decipher.uk.net/en/content/cms/news- Issue 57
2012
and-events/phra-course/
SW Society for Academic
1/2 Mar
www.swsapc2012.co.uk
Issue 58
Primary Care
2012
Items for the Newsletter: If you would like to include a contribution to the newsletter, please email
pcphadmin@cardiff.ac.uk by Friday at 3.00 pm
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