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Next editions Next editions and entries to the briefing 40th Anniversary Events Atrium official opening - send us your messages reminder Forty Years Later: The Past, Present and Future of the University of Bradford Saturday 14 October 2006 (reminder) General University notices Salary Reckoner University Running Club Free film screening - World Mental Health Week First Year Experience Questionnaire THES Awards 2006 October Sports Camp Macmillan Cancer Support - thank you Counselling Service Adam Curle - obituary Buddhist Meditation Sessions (reminder) Training and Development Opportunities for Staff Staff Training Opportunities Arts on Campus Theatre in the Mill - news and events Lectures, seminars and newsletters Royal Institute of Philosophy Seminar Victor Marshall Conference on 18 October 2006 at 1.00 - 3.30pm Job Vacancies at the University

Next editions and entries to the briefing

• Monday 16 October - afternoon
• Monday 23 October
• Monday 30 October

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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40th Anniversary events

Atrium official opening - send us your messages (reminder)

On the 18th October there will be a large screen in the Atrium broadcasting messages from all our friends - students, staff, alumni and other external stakeholders.

If you would like to send us a video message, a happy birthday text message or photos of the University from your mobile phone or by email to be included on the 18 October read the details on the 40th anniversary site:

http://www.brad.ac.uk/40/video.php

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Forty Years Later: The Past, Present and Future of the University of Bradford Saturday 14 October 2006 (reminder)

In this Saturday School, specially organised to celebrate the occasion, you will learn about education in Bradford and the history of the campus from the 19th Century, the development of the University as an institution, and also take a look into the future to see how the campus is likely to change physically and to assess the likely changes in the curriculum and academic life.

There are also some entertaining moments from the past in viewing how the University has promoted itself in film.

This event is free of charge - however, places need to be reserved in advance.

Further details and a booking form can be found at http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/conted/civic-community/40.html

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General University notices

Salary Reckoner

The agreement between employers and unions brokered during the last round of pay negotiations resulted in a phased settlement covering the period August 2006 to October 2008.

The agreement stipulated increases to all points on the University’s 52 point salary structure as follows:

August 2006: greater of 3% or £515

February 2007: 1%

August 2007: 3%

May 2008: greater of 3% or £420

October 2008: greater of 2.5% or RPI (as at September 2008)

In order to provide staff with a projection of how this settlement will effect their salary directly an automated ‘salary reckoner’ has been provided on the Personnel web page at http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/personnel/pay,grading&remuneration/pay&gradingstructure.html

For more information contact your Personnel Officer http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/personnel/who'swho/index.html or reception on ext 3091.

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University Running Club

The University running club is up and running again! (No pun intended!) Starting at the Sports Centre every Wednesday 12noon to around 1pm. Aimed at beginners and intermediates. We will be offering a complete beginners programme for those who are very unfit or haven't trained for some time. The first session will be on Wednesday 11th October 2006.

For more information please contact Jonathan on ext 5581/4871/4868.

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Free film screening - World Mental Health Week

As part of events organised for this week, the University will be hosting a showing of the Royal Television Society Award winning short film "Destroyed" which examines issues around Young people & Mental Health.

The film features the acting debut of ex Bradford Bulls and New Zealand Rugby League player Robbie Paul. The showing of the film will be followed by a discussion on the issues raised which will include contributions from Robbie himself and the director, Andy Upton.

The event will be held on Thursday 12th October at 6pm in the Horton Barn Lecture Theatre. The event is free and open to all.

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First Year Experience Questionnaire

The Learner Development Unit (LDU) is conducting research into the experience of new first year students at the University of Bradford. This research will involve a completing a questionnaire which will then be analysed and reported on during the academic year 2006-7.

The purposes of this research are to:

• Understand what issues might affect new first year students
• Understand how students adapt to studying at University
• Identify levels of engagement with the University
• Identify potential trends between previous study and engagement with University
• Inform the development of induction and tranisition strategies at the University

More information about the research can be found on the LDU website: http://www.brad.ac.uk/lss/learnerdevelopment/

If you are a 1st Year Tutor or teach on a 1st Year course, please could you ask your students to complete the questionnaire. It will only take a few minutes of their time and their opinions are very important! The questionnaire can be accessed via Blackboard or the LDU website.

For more details please contact Becka Currant, Senior Adviser LDU e-mail: learner-development@bradford.ac.uk or tel: 6821.

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THES Awards 2006

The University has been short-listed for a Times Higher Award in the “Most Imaginative use of Distance Learning”.

Dr Bill Ashraf (School of Life Sciences) has provided flexible learning opportunities by podcasting his lectures and using student friendly technology to support a 24/7 learning environment. Dr Ashraf is the first UK academic to provide his lectures via iTunes, which is the world’s most popular musical download store.

The other nominees are from the National Archives at Kew, Derby University, De Montfort University and Cardiff University. The winner will be announced at an awards dinner in London on 15 November.

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October Sports Camp

There are still places availailable on the sports Camp running from the 23rd to the 27th of October. The cost is just £45 for the week or £10 per day.

For more information or to book a place please call the Sports Centre on ext 4868/4871

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Macmillan Cancer Support - thank you

A great big T H A N K Y O U to everyone who popped their spare coppers into the collecting cans in the catering outlets around campus last Friday. An amazing £176.01 was collected.

Congratulations go to Angela and her team in the Chesham coffee bar who managed to persuade their customers to part with £49.49, and the Bradford University Unison Branch donated £50 in memory of Cathy Chapman.

Thank you again for making the day so successful.

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Counselling Service

In addition to counselling appointments, 'Drop in' is available daily in term time on two sites for a 20 minute session. No appointment necessary;

Counselling service, Communal Building 1.15 - 2.15pm

12.15 - 1.15pm on B floor at Westbrook Building (College). As this is at the college you will need a pass to gain entry, please contact the counselling service for the pass on 235750

Contact the Counselling Service on 235750, or text 07749 820070, email counselling@bradford.ac.uk for further details or to make an appointment.

www.bradford.ac.uk/counselling

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Adam Curle - obituary

We regret to announce that peace-maker and educationalist, Adam Curle, the first Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, died on 28 September 2006.

His full obituary can be found at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/peace/tmp/about/adam_curle.php and his archive, reflecting his academic work and his ideas, was received by Special Collections in 2004 and has now been catalogued. See: http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/special/curle.php

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Buddhist Meditation Sessions (reminder)

Why not relax on your lunch hour and go along to the Meditation Sessions held every Wednesday, starting on Wednesday 27 September 2006, in 0.13 Phoenix Building from 12.30 to 1.15pm.

Everyone is welcome

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Training and Development Opportunities for Staff

Staff Training Opportunities

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Arts on Campus

Theatre in the Mill - news and events

Monday 9th October | 6pm - 8pm
BANG! Free Writing Workshop

BANG! (British Asian New Generation) is a competition to search for Northern writers who can write in an engaging way about the British Asian
experience. The competition is open to all writers in the North of England and submissions will be welcomed from anyone, whatever their experience. The submitted work must be un-published and un-performed and we also ask that it is written in English.

For those who wish to participate, but would like some help to get started, free Writing Workshops are being offered following the launch of the competition. They will be held at various venues throughout the North between 6 October and 13 October 2006.

http://www.coliseum.org.uk/default.asp?id=199 (external link, will open in a new window)

Tuesday 10th October | 2pm - 4pm
Free John Siddique Poetry Workshop

Tuesday is World Mental Health Day. Theatre in the Mill has teamed up with the Mad Arts festival for a poetry reading and workshop with John Siddique. John will be leading a poetry workshop looking at the expression of emotional health through poetry. For more information visit:
http://www.evolving-minds.co.uk/indexbradford.html (external link, will open in a new window)

Saturday 14th October | 7.30pm £6.50/£4
"Hoof!" by Rejects Revenge & Spike Theatre

Hoof! is the most thrilling, truly live theatre in the UK. A bare stage transforms into a visual, verbal and musical feast as five physical performers and a musician catapult the audience into a totally improvised world. Hoof! is not improv games but an entire play improvised quite literally on the Hoof!

This is an astonishing theatre event: five of the country’s finest comic inventors and a musical virtuoso step out onto a bare stage armed with only an array of instruments and their collective imagination with which to create an entirely original piece of narrative theatre. No conferring, no hesitation and no audience prompts – each play is performed quite literally on the Hoof!

For more details or visit: http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/theatre/season/hoof.php

www.bradford.ac.uk/theatre | 01274 233200 | theatre@bradford.ac.uk

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Lectures, seminars and newsletters

Royal Institute of Philosophy Seminar

Wednesday 11 October, 4 - 6pm in E1 (E-floor, Richmond Building); Andrew Sayer, professor of sociology at the University of Lancaster, will speak about The Moral Significance of Class.

Synopsis: While inequalities based on gender, race, sexuality and disability are increasingly seen as unacceptable, as is evident in equal opportunities policies, inequalities of class are either denied or increasingly treated as natural rather than as a problematic product of the way society is currently organised. Contemporary culture is both obsessed with class and in denial of it; it is very much the subject of soap operas, comedy and 'reality TV' but is rarely identified by name. The common evasiveness, embarrassment and unease about class indicate glimmers of recognition of its basic injustice and the harm that it causes. I shall argue class inequalities cause: 1) not only unequal access to resources and opportunities for living well, but to unfairly unequal recognition, dignity, respect and esteem; 2) mistaken valuations of lifestyles, self and others, including unwarranted shame, guilt and pride; and 3) harm to individuals' characters.

http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/ihs/seminar/royal_institute/

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Victor Marshall Conference on 18 October 2006 at 1.00 - 3.30pm

Staff and students are invited to this year's annual conference entitled "Occupational Safety and Health in the 21st Century".

Details of the conference which will appeal to a general audience may be found at http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/safety/vmc.pdf (pdf file, will open in a new window).

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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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