Department of Primary Care and Public Health
Week Commencing: 25th July 2011
Issue 43
PARALLAL MEETING
Tuesday 26th July 2011, 2.00 pm, Room 1F09A, GF001, Ground Floor, Neuadd
Qualitative Methods Group:
The next meeting of the IRG Qualitative Methods Group will be held on Tues July 26th at 2pm in
the ground floor meeting room of Neuadd Meirionnydd. At the meeting Leila Rooshenas will be
presenting her PhD work on Day Care Providers’ and Parents’ beliefs around day care exclusion for
common infections.
Everyone welcome. Please forward to others you know who have an interest in qualitative methods
and/or common infections.
DEPARTMENT NEWS / NEW MEMBERS OF STAFF
Julia Hodgson has been appointed as Postgraduate Course Administrative Officer. Julia will deal with the
administration for the MPH course.
Welsh Speaking Staff: The School would like to identify all Welsh-speaking staff so that messages
pertinent to them may be forwarded from the School Welsh-speaking contact. If you are a Welsh speaker
could you please confirm this by replying to pcphadmin@cardiff.ac.uk by 29th July so that you can be
included on the School distribution list.
Car Parking Applications: Completed car park applications are now authorised at departmental level.
Could all completed applications be sent to Michelle / Jade on the 5th floor. They will arrange for them to be
authorised and sent onto to the car parking administrator.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE INFORMATION:
MRC Strategic Skills Fellowships: Information on MRC fellowship schemes is attached.
information can be found at http://www.mrc.ac.uk/fundingopporutnities/fellowships/index.htm.
Further
Opportunities for education leadership (4 posts)
As part of the medical school’s commitment to world-class medical education, the School is looking to
recruit four outstanding educators to contribute to the leadership of the MBBCh programme – ensuring that
the course is of the highest standards; compliant with GMC requirements and offering a quality student
experience.
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These crucial roles are an excellent opportunity to enhance your career within medical education and your
leadership skills. You will be at the forefront during what is an exciting period of change and will oversee,
and be instrumental in, the development, implementation and management of the new undergraduate
medical curriculum.
We are seeking expressions of interest for the following posts:
Post 1: Deputy Programme Director
Post 2: Year Director (Year 3)
Post 3: Deputy Year Directors (Years 3 & 5)
These posts are suitable for teachers with experience in medical education or teaching within the higher
education sector. Applicants may be either clinicians or non-clinicians who satisfy the job specifications
attached to this notice.
Interested individuals may contact either Professor John Bligh (blighj@cardiff.ac.uk) or Miss Helen
Sweetland, vice dean medical education (sweetland@cardiff.ac.uk) for a discussion about the posts.
The posts are available immediately. Applications by CV, an accompanying letter to include a statement of
not more than 300 words on ‘Your approach to Medical Education and what you would bring to the role’
should be made to:
Dave Lewis
Division of Medical Education
Cardiff School of Medicine
Or email: lewisdc1@cardiff.ac.uk
Closing date for applications is Friday 19th August 2011 at 5pm and interviews will be held on Friday
2nd September 2011.
Institute Manager Vacancies x 4
We currently have 4 Research Institute Manager vacancies to support the new Research Institutes within
the School of Medicine. We are therefore looking for expressions of interest from staff within the School of
Medicine.
The 4 vacancies will be based in;
1.The
2.The
3.The
4.The
institute of Molecular and Experimental Medicine
Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation
institute of Primary care and Public Health
institute of Cancer and Genetics
Although you may state a preference, candidates will be allocated to institutes by the interview panel.
However it is expected that Institute Managers will rotate on a 3 year basis. The closing date for the 4
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vacancies is Friday 19th August 2011 and it is expected that the interviews will be held within the 2nd week
of September.
Please note that ONLY School of Medicine staff are eligible to apply
If you wish to apply for the post, then please provide a covering statement along with an up to date CV
and send it directly back to pughj@cardiff.ac.uk or Ms Joanne Pugh, HR Office, 2nd Floor, Heath Park,
Cardiff, CF14 4XN.
The Vacancy Information which is attached includes a full job description and a person specification, which
details the skills, qualifications and experience which are required for this job. The Person Specification is
split into 2 sections: essential and desirable. You should ensure that you meet all of the essential criteria
for the job and that how you meet these criteria is communicated fully in your covering statement. The
desirable section contains a list of skills, qualifications and experience which it would be beneficial for the
jobholder to have. All short-listing decisions will be based initially on essential criteria, with desirable
criteria being used to further select or deselect candidates as appropriate. We will interview those
candidates who are the closest match to the identified criteria. The posts are advertised at Grade 6 and
Grade 7. We may make appointments at either Grade depending on the applicant’s fit against the essential
criteria as assessed from the application form and at interview. Candidates appointed at Grade 6 will be
allocated a Mentor from the Senior Management Team in the School who will provide advice, guidance and
support through a structured development plan designed to enable the appointee to apply for a re-grading
to Grade 7 (within the University’s published process). If you have any queries regarding the vacancies
then please do not hesitate to contact Joanne Pugh.
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.
Involving Young People Research Officer post: The Involving Young People Research Officer post is a
unique opportunity to play a lead role in the development, implementation, support and evaluation of young
people’s involvement in research to improve the health and well being of young people. Working within
DECIPHer, a UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health Research and engaging with a wide portfolio of
projects supported by PHIRN, the Public Health Improvement Research Network, the post will involve (i) the
strategic and operational facilitation of young people’s involvement in research on the development and
evaluation of interventions to improve health and health related 3ehavior; (ii) research and evaluation of
the best ways of involving young people in a wide variety of research, in different contexts and using
different research designs. The post will be ideally suited to candidates with experience and knowledge,
ideally in a health context, of both young people’s involvement in services or research, as well as in
research or service evaluation.
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The post is advertised on the Cardiff University website and the closing date is 9 August 2011:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs/socsi/involving-young-people-research-officer-3978.html
-------------------------------------DATES FOR THE DIARY:
The next Cardiff sciSCREEN - which will include a screening of the film. Poetry - will be this Friday July
29th from 5.45pm, and is sponsored by Cesagen. Speaking at the post-film discussion will be.
Professor Julie Williams (MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University) will
talk about what the scientific community is doing to try to prevent the development of Alzheimer's disease
in future generations.
Dr Andrew Edgar (Centre for Applied Ethics, Cardiff University) will explore the role that art has in allowing
us to acknowledge and engage with the potential meaninglessness and tragedy of life, and to articulate our
sense of loss when meaning and and beauty are absent.
Dr John Anderson (School of Biosciences, Cardiff University) will discuss the way in which people with
Alzheimer’s can learn to do new things despite memory problems, and how this contrasts with the current
government strategy for caring and treating individuals with dementia.
Clare Potter (Poet) will discuss the way in which poetry makes us remember, but also lets us experience as
if for the first time. In addition, Dr Martin O’Neill (Cesagen, Cardiff University) will distribute a short article
on the subject of dignity and the care of older people.
Tickets for the film can be purchased from Chapter. The post-film discussion is free to attend. For further
information please see the Cardiff sciSCREEN blog (www.cardiffsciscreen.blogspot.com) and/or the attached
flyer
-----------------------------------------------------------------------Keeping Your Research Up to Date: A workshop is being held on Thursday 25th August 10.30 –
12.00 in the small IT lab, Sir Herbert Duthie Library, B2. The session is being run by library staff for
academic and NHS staff to enable staff to keep up to date with current research published in your field.
The workshop will be a practical hands on session to help develop the skills needed to keep up to date with
current research. The session will include:
How to set up alerts on a number of databases so that you get emailed the details of any new research
articles meeting a defined search criteria.
An introduction to setting up RSS feeds. These can be used to keep you informed of new content from
websites, such as BBC news headlines or the contents pages of your favourite journal.
To book a place please contact Rowland Somers (somers@cardiff.ac.uk).
limited.
Places at the workshop are
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College of Health Care Izola, soon Faculty of Health Sciences,
University of Primorska, invites international academics and practitioners of public health and related
sciences to participate:
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE 21st CENTURY, 15 – 16 SEPTEMBER
2011.
The aim of the Conference is to highlight the state of the system of public health in Slovenia, European
Union and in the rest of the World in the 21st century:
current state of the concept of public health and the vision of its development in the future;
key determinants of public health in the 21st century;
organisational and educational system of public health in the 21st century.
The target population of the Conference are national and international academics and practitioners of public
health: physicians, administrators, nurses, educators, researchers, epidemiologists, and related health
specialists.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
International academics and practitioners of public health and related sciences are invited to submit their
abstracts for oral presentation by 15 August 2011. The date for the submission of the full paper is 15
September 2011. Authors submit the abstract and the full paper by the e-mail: conference@vszi.upr.si.
For more information: http://www.vszi.upr.si/ and on:
http://www.vszi.upr.si/index.php?catid=192&lang=slo.
---------------------------------------------------------------The next Medical Education Seminar is on Thursday 29 September 2011. Dr Jen Cleland Addressing
the issue of Underperformance Addressing issues underlying undergraduate medical students'
performance. 1-2pm, Small Dental Lecture Theatre, UHW site, Cardiff.
For further details please see the link below:http://medicine.cf.ac.uk/en/event/dr-jen-cleland-addressing-the-issue-of-underperformance/
Booking is essential by replying to this email. For further information on this and other forthcoming
events please see the website:- http/medicine.cf.ac.uk/en/event/medical-education-seminar-series/
Please note that we are unable to provide refreshments before the seminar at the University Hospital of
Wales site on this occasion.
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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
Child Risk and Parental Resistance:
Exploring Motivational Interviewing
in Child Welfare and Protection
Work
Promoting Active and Healthy
Ageing Conference (13:00 – 17:00)
UK
Society
for
Behavioural
Medicine 7th Annual Scientific
Meeting
27th Sept
Flyer in Newsletter Issue 42
29th Sept
http://medicine.cf.ac.uk/en/event/un-olderpersons-day-2011/
http://uksbm.org.uk/asm2011/
13th – 14th
December
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