Department of Primary Care and Public Health
Week Commencing: 18th July 2011
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PLENARY MEETING
Tuesday 19th July 2011, 2.00 pm, Room 1F09A, New Lecture Theatre
Professor Colin Dayan: Collaborative Research Studies in Diabetes:
The talk will outline current areas of research activity in Diabetes and the Centre for Endocrine and
Diabetes Sciences and explore areas in which these might have synergy with expertise and
interests with colleagues in the Clinical Epidemiology / Primary Care.
Please note that this is the last departmental meeting for this academic year.
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We would like to welcome Laura Robertson to the Department. Laura has been appointed as a Trainee
Statistician in SEWTU and will be based on the 4th floor.
Staff Profile on Web Pages
If any members of staff would like to change or up-date the information on their profile web page
in the staff directory, including publication information, please contact Angela Watkins:
watkinsa6@cardiff.ac.uk
Job Opportunities
Advertised Externally
Research Associate, Grade 6 (Job Reference: 2011/0378) – Fixed term until 01/02/2012. The
post is based in the Wales School for Primary Care Research, within the Department of Primary
Care and Public Health, School of Medicine, Cardiff University. The role will involve the
development and support of research initiatives within the primary care field. The successful
person will support the theme leader in the field of common infections. Closing Date: 28th July
2011.
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Advertised on Redeployment
Tutor in Public Health (part time), Grade 5 (Job Reference: 2011/0413) – Fixed term until
06/06/2012. To work with members of the MPH team to manage and deliver the MPH course,
and contribute to further development of the course. Closing Date: 22nd July 2011.
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DATES FOR THE DIARY:
Tuesday 27th September 2011: Child Risk and Parental Resistance: Exploring
Motivational Interviewing in Child Welfare and Protection Work. Attendance is aimed at
practitioners, policy makers and researchers interested in helping improve their response to
families with complex problems. Further details are attached.
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
Further information
Promoting Active and Healthy 29th Sept
http://medicine.cf.ac.uk/en/event/un-olderAgeing Conference (13:00 – 17:00)
persons-day-2011/
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UK
Society
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http://uksbm.org.uk/asm2011/
Medicine 7th Annual Scientific December
Meeting
Further Info
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TRAINING
Training – New Chargeable Printing System. The University will be introducing a new
chargeable printing payment system (called PaperCut) at the beginning of August. The company
supplying the new system is running two introductory sessions for us.
The sessions are booked for Thursday 28th July, 10-12 and 2-4, both being held in the Science
Library IT training room, and are aimed at people who actually support and manage chargeable
printing.
Therefore if you support and manage chargeable printing within your School and wish to
attend one of these introductory sessions, please email Lucy Collins (CollinsL2@cardiff.ac.uk).
Please note that due to the sessions being "hands-on", places are limited.
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FOR ALL TRAINING SESSIONS WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OR EXTERNALLY PLEASE NOTE THAT
THE PRE COURSE TRAINING QUESTIONNAIRE NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED AND SIGNED OFF BY
YOUR LINE MANAGER. THIS IS ALSO APPROVED BY HR BEFORE TRAINING CAN TAKE PLACE.
ATTACHED IS A COPY OF THE PRE-COURSE QUESTIONNAIRE.
Pre course
questionnaire.docx
IT
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Microsoft Updates - July
What is being done? We are releasing Microsoft security updates for July.
When is it being done? Thursday 21st July
Who will be affected? All users of INSRV (imaged) workstations.
How will this affect users? Your PC will receive updates and you will be required to reboot.
Why is it being done? To apply the latest security updates.
INSRV desktop Image - Updates to image 850
What is being done? This is a standard update to our desktop image. This work will bring the image up
to date with the latest Networked Applications. There is also an iPrint update in the image.
When is it being done? Tuesday 19th July - 0900
Who will be affected? All users who install the INSRV desktop image.
How will this affect users? iPrint service not affected. The iprint update currently being force run will be
removed as this will now be included in the image.
Why is it being done? This work will update the image with the latest core applications.
Question Mark Perception - Upgrade to Version 5
What is being done? We are upgrading Question Mark Perception to version 5.
When is it being done? Monday 18th July
Who will be affected? Users of Question Mark Perception
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How will this affect users? You will not be able to log into the system - students will be unable to take
assessments at that time.
Why is it being done? To upgrade to the latest version.
CardiffMail at risk due to relocation of server
What is being done? We need to relocate one of the servers that host CardiffMail to our second site.
When is it being done? Wednesday 20th July - 0900-1700.
Who will be affected? All users of CardiffMail.cf.ac.uk and other Domino services such as Teamplace.
Access to mail via CardiffPortal will be unaffected.
How will this affect users? Users should see no interruption to service, at risk only.
Why is it being done? To maintain high availability of core systems.
Replace servers for Home and Shared.cf.ac.uk
What is being done? We need to replace the servers for Home.cf.ac.uk and Shared.cf.ac.uk
When is it being done? Today, Thursday 14th July - 14:30-14:45
Who will be affected? Existing users of the Home and Shared service.
How will this affect users? You should notice no change during this time, however the system should be
considered at risk.
Why is it being done? To improve performance
Cardiff Portal - Upgrade and Database Migration
What is being done? We are performing updates to Cardiff Portal and migrating the current Portal
database.
When is it being done? Wednesday 27 July - 14:30 - 17:00
Who will be affected? All users of Cardiff Portal
How will this affect users? Cardiff Portal will be unavailable at this time. We will display an outage page
during this time providing information on how to access core systems.
Why is it being done? To improve functionality and performance of Cardiff Portal
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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