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Next editions Next editions and entries to the briefing General University notices Updates from Finance EcoFair, Ecoversity Update and Fair Trade Fiesta Community Engagement Events Adult Learners' Week 2007 - amendment to criteria for awards The Norcroft Centre Second Annual Rosa Parks Symposium: The Race Equality Debate Reminders Research Showcase Event - Wednesday 29 November 2006 - reminder Do you regularly travel to work on public transport? Metrocard Scheme - reminder Children's Christmas Party 2006 - final reminder Training and Development Opportunities for Staff Staff Training Opportunities Arts on Campus Fell Clarinet Quartet - this week in the Atrium Auditions for Fiddler on the Roof 40th Anniversary Concert: The Armed Man Works on Campus Horton D 2nd floor staircase, nearest to Great Horton Road From the BBC Eggheads is coming to Leeds on Saturday 2nd December Lectures, seminars and newsletters Bradford Dementia Group Seminar Series Bradford Engineering Quality Improvement Centre's Seminar Series School of Management seminar Job Vacancies at the University

Next editions and entries to the briefing

• Wednesday 6 December
• Tuesday 19 December (last one before Christmas)

Please keep entries concise with, if necessary, a link to further details on the web. Please check entries for accuracy and timeliness before sending. Deadline for entries is (generally) 12 noon each Friday.

Email: briefing@bradford.ac.uk

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General University notices

Updates from Finance

Payments to individuals for work done

We have reviewed the way we make payments to individuals for work done. A payment will no longer be paid through the creditor section of Finance without evidence of self employed status. Payments without this evidence will be processed through the salaries and wages section.

This is to ensure that tax and national insurance is treated correctly.

Full guidance and how to proceed is available on request from T.J.Spencer@bradford.ac.uk extension 3128 or A.R.Sowerbutts@bradford.ac.uk extension 5049.

Payments to creditors before Christmas

The final processing date for payments to suppliers before Christmas will be Tuesday the 19th of December, please ensure all invoices are with the creditor team by this date, thank you.

Charities Aid Foundation donations/gift aid

To enable the Finance Office to allocate receipts from the Charities Aid Foundation, can anyone making a gift aid to the University prize accounts through the Foundation please keep Maxine Daglan-Smith informed on extension 5047. We have recently received a number of receipts and have been unable to allocate the funds to an account.

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EcoFair, Ecoversity Update and Fair Trade Fiesta

Monday 11th December, 1pm till 4pm, Norcroft Conference Centre

The event aims to update you on the University Ecoversity Project and highlight its activities and achievements over the last year.

There will be stalls and displays bringing together internal Ecoversity projects and external Ecoversity partners, and presentations over the course of the event covering:

• Welcome and introduction
• Ecoversity Update
• University’s Fair Trade Certificate Presentation (award of University Status Fairtrade Certificate)

All staff and students are invited to the event and more details will be on next week's briefing.

Comments and queries to Katherine Wyatt, Community Associate, at: K.J.Wyatt@Bradford.ac.uk

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Community Engagement Events

Over 60 different communities, 1 University, 3 core themes - what draws them together? Community Engagement!

Find out more at these events:

Monday 11 December, 1 - 4pm, Norcroft Centre:
Community Engagement, Sustainability and the Ecoversity
As part of the Ecoversity Update, see displays and stalls and hear how we’re developing links with the local community to compliment the University’s plans for a sustainable campus. Further information to follow.

Tuesday 12 December, 4.00 - 5.30pm, Board Room, Richmond Building:
Wellbeing and Community Engagement - what’s it all about?
How can Wellbeing connect local communities with your work - adding interest and relevance, enriching the student experience and benefiting everyone? Find out more about how you’re (probably!) already doing this and how we can help you to develop it.

Wednesday 13 December, 4.00 - 5.30pm, Sanderson Room, Richmond Building:
Cohesion and Community Engagement - what does it mean?
Cohesion can be a controversial and confusing term which means different things to different people - so what does it mean in this HEI context? If you’re interested in issues of equality, diversity and how people get on with each other, then book your place.

To reserve a place on the 12 and 13 December events, please contact the Short Course Unit on ext 3217/3213 or email: scu@bradford.ac.uk

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Adult Learners' Week 2007 - amendment to criteria for awards

Following last week's entry calling for nominations to the Adult Learners' Awards we have an update to the criteria.

Nominees don't have to be current students but they do have to have been a student here at the University between January 2005 and now, e.g. they may have graduated in July 2005/December 2005/July 2006.

Full details are at: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/news/alw-2007.htm

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The Norcroft Centre

The Norcroft Centre can now be booked as a University resource for events primarily of a prestigious nature, eg research showcases and conferences, public lectures, and international, national, regional and City meetings. Essentially, the Centre is available for non-standard University events and all booking enquiries will currently be considered according to this criterion by a senior University panel. The space will be free of charge for internally-led events, however there will be charges at cost for services such as portering, AV support, etc.

The Short Course Unit has the task of co-ordinating bookings at the venue. An on-line booking enquiry form for internally-led events can be found at www.brad.ac.uk/sled/norcroft.html A short description of the venue is also available here. The booking form should be returned by e-mail attachment to scu@bradford.ac.uk

Please be aware that the booking may not be confirmed immediately as the details will be put forward for consideration and acceptance.

NB for a short period of time the Norcroft Centre may be used to accommodate certain events displaced by the refurbishment of the D Floor meeting room accommodation including the JSB lecture theatre - again the nature of the events will be considered. This may mean there is limited availability in the Norcroft Centre during May, June and July (according to current plans), so please consider holding your event out of this time-frame if at all possible.

The launch of the Centre is expected to take place in April next year as there are further internal works to be completed. Please note that these works may also impact on bookings acceptance.

If you have any queries please direct them to scu@bradford.ac.uk

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The Sexual Orientation Group is looking for a new name

We are a group of people who want to raise awareness of sexual orientation in the University. We welcome gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and all people who are interested in or affected by issues of sexual orientation. We meet regularly for coffee at the Jazzman café at 11.00am on the first Monday of the month, and more formally on January 25th at 1.00pm with lunch provided. The joint Chairs sit on the Equality and Diversity Committee and can raise any problems or issues.

We would like a more interesting name than S.O.G.! Suggestions so far include ‘Triangle’ (a reference to the system of coloured triangles used during the holocaust) or simply ‘The Staff and Student Sexual Orientation Group’. Please suggest another name, or let us know which you prefer!

The group can be contacted through Ian Burkitt (i.burkitt@bradford.ac.uk) or Clare Beckett (C.Beckett@bradford.ac.uk) joint chairs.

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Second Annual Rosa Parks Symposium: The Race Equality Debate

Friday 1 December 2006, 12 noon to 4.30 pm, Norcroft Centre

Free of charge but places to be booked in advance - see attached or visit www.brad.ac.uk/sled/rosaparks/

Limited number of places now available for University of Bradford students - please pass this on to any students you think may be interested.

Further info: scu@bradford.ac.uk or (01274) 233216/233217.

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Reminders

Research Showcase Event - Wednesday 29 November 2006 - reminder

All staff and research students are invited to a research showcase, to be held on Wednesday 29 November here at the university.

Research is the oxygen of Universities. Bradford has established international research groups, some world-class facilities, and exciting emerging research areas. Come to see a fuller picture of what is happening in your University!

Full details are at: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/news/research-showcase.htm

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Do you regularly travel to work on public transport? Metrocard Scheme - reminder

If so, the metrocard scheme allows you to obtain an annual travelcard through the University for either unlimited bus travel throughout West Yorkshire, or a number of railzones (with unlimited bus travel), and the total annual cost of the metrocard is recovered through equal deductions from your salary/wage over the year.

Staff joining the scheme in February pay a pro rata fee for the metrocard up to the 30th September and can then renew from the 1st October for a full 12 month period.

Applications to be received no later than Friday 15th December 2006.

For further information including zone prices, please see http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/estates/environ/metro.html or contact Personnel on ext: 5347 or pop in to D35, Richmond Building.

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Children’s Christmas Party 2006 - final reminder!

The annual Christmas Party for children and grandchildren of staff and students of the University will be held in the Communal Building 14.30 - 17.30 on Saturday 2nd December, cost £3.00 per child. For further details click on the website address below and print off the single page combined information sheet and application form. For the web-wary and web-weary paper copies are available from all School/Departmental/Area secretaries.

The Organising Committee would also be very grateful if you could bring this event to the attention of any student parents of whom you are aware. An item will also be included in this month's Campus News which goes to all students. Ask students to collect a form from their School/Dept/Area Secretary.

We hope to see you all at the party, in the meantime a Happy Christmas to all our readers.

From

Santa’s Pixies

http://www.bradford.ac.uk/briefing/christmas.htm

In the event of any problems please contact one of the following:

Denise Hastings, 3877, d.a.hastings@bradford.ac.uk
Jess Boot, 3845, email j.c.boot@bradford.ac.uk
Ian Scowen, 3764, email i.scowen@bradford.ac.uk
Michele Mozley, 4174, email m.e.mozley@bradford.ac.uk

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Training and Development Opportunities for Staff

Staff Training Opportunities

Arts on Campus

Fell Clarinet Quartet - this week in the Atrium

Wednesday 29 November, 1.00pm Richmond Atrium | FREE

Recent graduates of the Royal Northern College of Music, the youthful Fell Clarinet Quartet bring us energetic Klezmer music from Eastern Europe and the Middle East featuring arrangements by the talented Lenny Sayers.

http://www.brad.ac.uk/university/music/lunch/clarinet.php

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Auditions for Fiddler on the Roof

Bradford University Society of Operattas and Musicals (BUSOM) are holding auditions for their main show 'Fiddler on the Roof' on Tuesday 28th November, 7.15pm, Tasmin Little Music Centre. 'Fiddler' is to be performed in March at The Priestley in Little Germany.

The auditions will be acting, dancing and singing. For the singing part of the audition you will be asked to sing part of one of the following songs:
Female: Matchmaker, Male: Miracle of miracles, Either: Sunrise Sunset.

There is an opportunity to run through each piece at the end of the BUSOM rehearsal on Tuesday 21st (around 9pm, in the Music Centre).

If you wish to audition please contact Louise Brown on L.D.Brown@Bradford.ac.uk for an audition form. Louise can also be contacted with any queries you may have.

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40th Anniversary Concert: The Armed Man
Saturday 2 December | 7.30pm

A Mass for Peace by Karl Jenkins featuring the University Choir, Orchestra and Small World Band

Bradford Cathedral | £6/£3 (TLMC members £2)

Box Office: 01274 233191

A powerful and compelling account of the descent and terrible consequences of war. Commissioned for the millennium by the Royal Armouries in collaboration with the Department of Peace Studies and dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo crisis, this work is a contemporary example of a mass based on the 15th-century French song ‘L’Homme Armé’ (The Armed Man).

The complete work sets sacred and secular texts including Tennyson, Kipling, The Koran and the Hindu Mahàbharàta within the framework of the Christian mass.

For any more details please contact: box office 01274 233191 or email: music@bradford.ac.uk

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Works on Campus

Horton D 2nd floor staircase, nearest to Great Horton Road

Work will commence 29th November 2006. To erect a scaffold to enable the re-glazing of broken windows in the staircase. When the scaffold has been erected normal use of the stairs can take place. Work should be completed within a week.

Should you have any queries regarding these works please contact Mr Ray Long (Foreman Plumber) on ext. 5072.

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From the BBC

Eggheads is coming to Leeds on Saturday 2nd December

The BBC's popular entertainment quiz show 'Eggheads' is returning for it's 7th series and they are currently looking for fun teams to take on their team of resident quiz giants the 'Eggheads'. They are looking to get a team of students, tutors, lecturers or general knowledge goliaths involved with the University to take part.

They're searching for teams of 6 with great personality to take part in the forthcoming series and will be meeting teams over the next few weeks.

Anyone interested in taking part simply needs to apply online at www.12yard.com/eggheads (external link, will open in a new window). Alternatively, you can contact the team on 020 7659 2748 or via email: nazia.butt@12yard.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Lectures, seminars and newsletters

Bradford Dementia Group Seminar Series

On 7 December, 2pm - 3.30pm, Professor Cathy Greenblat will be giving a seminar on 'Photography and the Destigmatization of Dementia' at the School of Health Studies. All are welcome.

Further details at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/health/dementia/seminar/

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Bradford Engineering Quality Improvement Centre's Seminar Series

Continuing the Bradford Engineering Quality Improvement Centre's Seminar Series, Jim McDonald, Director of European Commodity Business Planning and Commonality, Ford Motor Company, will give a talk on "An automotive perspective on efficient product creation processes across multiple brands", commencing 5.30pm on Monday 4th December in The John Stanley Bell Lecture Theatre.

The automotive market environment, its product creation challenges and strategic solutions will be considered in what promises to be an informative discussion.

Flyer and details at: http://www.eng.brad.ac.uk/eqi/news/

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School of Management seminar

You are invited to a seminar taking place at the School of Management entitled “Issues in Integrated Marketing Communications”

To be given by Professor Kalyan Raman from Loughborough University on Wednesday 6 December at 2.00 pm Fairbank Room, Heaton Mount.

Professor Raman will also talk on the subject of getting published in top journals.

Please let me know if you wish to attend.

Kathy Cousens, Research Programme Administrator, K.A.Cousens@Bradford.ac.uk

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Job Vacancies at the University

Current vacancies at the University can be found at the Personnel website:

http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/personnel/jobvacancies/

The weekly bulletin can also be found as a pdf from the same page.

All queries should be directed to Personnel: ext: 5347, email: personnel@bradford.ac.uk

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