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DIVISION OF BIOSCIENCESFACULTY OF LIFE SCIENCES

Division of BiosciencesPhD & Postdoc

Induction and Networking Event

Monday 16th November 10:30 – noon , Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1a minutes silence will be observed at 11am

Reception Noon -14:00 The Hub


Director of Biosciences Prof Frances Brodsky

Introduction to Division


UCL Academic Structure

11 Faculties:

SLMS: School of Life & Medical Sciences - Life Sciences, Brain Sciences, Medical Sciences, Population Health Sciences BEAMS: Built Environment, Engineering Sciences, Mathematical & Physical Sciences

SLASH: Arts & Humanities, Laws, Social & Historical Sciences & the School of Slavonic & East European Studies.


Faculty of Life SciencesDean: Prof Geraint Rees

Division of Biosciences– Director: Prof Frances Brodsky

Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology– Director: Prof Mark Marsh

UCL School of Pharmacy– Director: Prof Duncan Craig

Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit– Director: Prof Peter Dayan (moving to SW Centre)


Division of BiosciencesResearch Departments and Institutes

– Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment (GEE)

Head: Prof Andrew Pomiankowski, Acting Head: Prof Max Telford

EO: Fiona WilliamsonIncludes the following units/Institutes:

• UCL Genetics Institute (UGI)

Head: tbc UGI Manager: Shush DattaEO: Elvira Mambetisaeva

• Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research (CBER)Head: Prof Georgina Mace EO: Chris Langridge

• Institute of Healthy Aging (IHA)

Head: Prof Linda Partridge EO: Michael Wright


Division of BiosciencesResearch Departments and Institutes

– Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology (NPP)• Head: Prof Trevor Smart• EO: Tina Bashford

– Department of Structural & Molecular Biology (SMB)• Head: Prof Gabriel Waksman (part of ISMB with Birkbeck)• EO: Vanessa Scott

– Department of Cell & Developmental Biology (CDB)Head: Prof Stephen Hunt

EO: Ed Whitfield


We:• Provide a key link between staff, students and Head of

Research Departments (HoRD’s)/Divisional Director/Institute & Centre Directors.

• Communicate important information.

• Provide detailed knowledge of your Research Department and UCL.

• Will advise you on who to contact in case of problems.

Executive OfficersHow we can help you

Executive OfficersWhere are we located

• Director’s Office• Research Departments• Institutes and Centres



• GEE: Fiona Williamson: [email protected] Location: Darwin Building, Room 111Tel: 020 7679 2246 (internal ext 32246)

• UGI: Elvira Mambetisaeva: [email protected]: Darwin Building, Room 210Tel: 020 3108 4006 (internal ext 54006)

• CBER:Chris Langridge: [email protected] Location: CBER, 2nd Floor, Medawar Building, Tel: 0203 108 1609 (ext 51609)

• IHA:Michael Wright: [email protected] Location: Darwin Building, Room 322Tel: 020 7679 4380 (ext 34380)

Executive OfficersContact details

mailto:[email protected]





CDB: Ed Whitfield: [email protected]

Location: Rockefeller Building, Room 519

Tel: 020 3108 2213 (internal ext 52213)

NPP: Tina Bashford: [email protected]

Location: Medical Sciences Building, Room G50

Tel: 020 76792013 (internal ext 32103)

SMB: Vanessa Scott: [email protected]

Location: Darwin Building, Room 111

Tel: 020 7679 2308 (internal ext 32308)

Executive OfficersContact details





UCL GENETICS INSTITUTE (UGI)

Main focus of UGI is the application of statistical and computational methods to clinical and human population genetics research

• Research• Seminars and Conferences• Short courses:

a. Introduction to Genetic Epidemiology in the GWAS era b. High throughput sequencing in disease studies

• Training: a. supervision of PhD studentsb. the MSc Genetics of Human Diseasec. the MSc Pharmacogenetics and Stratified Medicine


Division of BiosciencesProfessional Services

Head of Divisional Professional Services: Ms. Liz Caine, Divisional Manager

[email protected]

Ext. 65466

Staffing team Manager: Rachel Tribe [email protected] Ext. 65469

Finance team Manager: Mohini English [email protected] Ext. 59483

Teaching team Manager: Tracy Hicks [email protected] Ext. 33240

Manager: Nidhi Rathod (Dec 15) [email protected] Ext. 33877

Operations team Manager: Richard Marguerie [email protected] Ext. 65451

PhD team Supervisor: Nadine Mogford [email protected] Ext. 65458

IT Team Manager: Mat Robertson - Burt [email protected] Ext. 31399

Contact details of all other members of professions services staff can be found on the following website:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/contact-us











Divisional Staffing TeamRachel Tribe (ext. 65469)Divisional Staffing Team Manager

Jeremy Guyer (ext. 65467)Deputy Staffing Team Manager

Scott Boyne (ext. 65477)Divisional Staffing Administrator

Agata Blaszczyk (ext. 09298)Divisional Staffing Administrator

The Divisional Staffing Team are your first point of contact for all staffing enquiries.

We are based in room 1M01 Medical Sciences Building 1st floor mezzanine. Alternatively, contact us via email:

[email protected]

RECRUITMENT &

ADVERTISING

STAFF IN

DUCTIONS

STAFF APPOINTMENTS

VISA APPLICATIONS &

RENEWALSPROBATION & APPRAISALS

STAFFING TRAINING

PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

SICKNESS ABSENCE

REPORTINGANNUAL LEAVE

MATERNITY LEAVE

PAY QUERIES




Postgraduate Teaching Assistants (PGTA) & Demonstrators

Staff Registration Session

Friday 20 November 2015 2pm - 5pm

Staffing Office 1M01 Medical Sciences Building

Required documents:• Completed casual fees/bank details form• Completed Form P46• Passport or national ID card (plus valid visa if applicable)

Other requirements: • Arena training • Pension auto enrolment


Divisional Teaching and Learning Team

• We are located in the Medawar Building • We are open from 9-4pm Mon-Friday

Post Graduate Teaching Assistants (PgTA’s):• Main contact is Christine Williams ([email protected])• New PhD students will find details of PGTA opportunities

and the administrators to contact in the Handbook• Prospective PGTAs will be required to submit a CV for

consideration by Module organisers/practical leads



Divisional Finance TeamFinance Mohini English Team Manager General finance 59483

[email protected]

Tom Rendell Snr Finance Officer GEE [email protected]

Stavroula Liailou Snr Finance Officer SMB/ Teaching [email protected]

Jonathan Telford Snr Finance Officer CDB [email protected]

Rebecca Khan Snr Finance Officer NPP [email protected]

Roger Allman Snr Finance Officer Facilities [email protected]

Robert Williams Finance Officer Expenses [email protected]

Stores Ian Blaney Stores Manager Receipting/ stores [email protected]

Michael Hanley Deputy Stores Manager Receipting/ stores [email protected]

Procurement Chris Pieri Finance Assistant CDB/GEE/SMB [email protected]@[email protected]

ApputhuraiChandranivasan

Finance Assistant NPP/ Facilities/ Teaching/ Dissecting room

[email protected]















Richard MarguerieOperations Team [email protected] x65451

Health & SafetyOccupational Health Services



UCL – Estates and Facilities Division


UCL – Safety Services


riskNet


Management of Health & Safety at UCL

College

Policies and new regulations

Codes of Practices

Guidance and advisory role

Auditing

Training

Mandatory Safety Induction

Division of Biosciences

H&S Management• Advice and consultation

• Inspection and monitoring

• Risk assessments

• Divisional Safety Committee

Reporting

Operations and procedures• H&S induction and access

• Fire inductions

• First aid

• Specialists (laser, R*, GM)

• Emergency plan and call out


Your responsibilities

• Duty of care for yourself and others

• Help during inspections

• Help during assessments

Lone working

Pregnant workers

• Self assessment of work/activity

• Report any problems

Emergency services and out of hours – extension 222

Building maintenance – extension 30000

Report incidents on riskNet

Operations Team – room G02 Anatomy Building


Division of BiosciencesOperations and Health & Safety Team

Space and Projects Management– Decant– Space clearance– Client meetings/design– Programme of works– Progress meetings– Snagging

Maintenance and support– Fabric and services (plumbing, electrical work,

carpentry…)– Core services– Advisory role on equipment purchasing– Waste disposal– Specialist maintenance

Health and Safety– Inductions– Fire Safety– Access keys/cards– OHS– Incident investigation– Specialist advisor (radiation, GM, lasers, CD licence…)

• Richard Marguerie – Manager (x65451)

• Tamsin Piper – Deputy (x65453) Anatomy Building

• Tony Langford (x65454) Huxley, Medawar and 4th floor LMCB Buildings

• James Michaels (x37374) Darwin Building

• Linda Inuabasi (x65450) Medical Sciences Building

• Brian Campbell (x65452) Rockefeller Building

• Elizabeth Sutton-Klein Laboratory Assistant

• Nicky Virdee Laboratory assistant


Occupational Health Services

• Advice on return to work programmes & adaptations in the workplace: [email protected] extension 32802 (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/occ_health/index.php)

• Monitoring the impact of work on employee health

• Ergonomic advice for musculoskeletal conditions

• Business travel assessments

• OHS team includes Nurse Advisers and OH Physician

• OHS is supported by other professionals (e.g. physiotherapy, EAP)

• Provide Health Surveillance for Staff exposed to LAA and/or other sensitising agents (COSHH 2002)


http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/occ_health/index.php


Work exposure to blood and body fluids

• UCL staff working with human blood or body fluids should:

Complete risk assessment with their manager

Contact OHS to arrange an appointment/consultation to check Immunisations status

• Safe control measures should be in place to reduce the risk accidental exposure

• OHS provides vaccination against Hep B virus and confirm the immunity response following vaccination for all staff who is at risk of exposure due to the nature of their work.


IT Support

Biosciences IT (Local)• Local IT Support

• Windows, Mac & Linux support

• Divisional Hardware Support

• Advice and Guidance

ISD (Central)• Accounts & Passwords

• Central Services (e.g. Eduroam, Email, Computer Workrooms, etc.)

• Remote Access

• Software Downloads

• Laptop Loans


Biosciences IT Support (Local)

G01 Anatomy Building

10am to 4pm

Email: [email protected]

ISD (Central)

DMS Watson Library

9.30am to 5.30pm

Email: [email protected]

IT Support


Postdoctoral Resources and Support

Academic Lead: Professor Patricia Salinas email: [email protected], Tel 020 7679 2445 (ext. 32445)

Lead postdoctoral contact: Dr Faye McLeod, email: [email protected], Tel 020 3549 5883

Postdoctoral resources and support:• Self-organisation and seminars encouraged

• Divisional postdoctoral webpage highlighting resources and opportunities

• UCL’s wide range of policies (including those on flexible working and parental leave) and training opportunities can be found on the HR website (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/index.php)



http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/index.php


Postdoctoral Resources and Support

• Teaching development opportunities. To register your interest in undertaking teaching please go to https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/. Then:

• log on with your UCL user and password

• on the right hand side of the page under post-doctoral training and activities, click on the link to take you to the relevant page.

• On the site you will find a description of activities you can undertake towards achieving a Faculty of Life Sciences certificate that will acknowledge your contributions.

• A link to CALT is provided so you can learn about their courses and working towards an accreditation through Arena.

https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/

https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/


Postdoctoral Resources and SupportDivisional Mentoring Programme

• To support the development of academic staff

• All postdocs required to choose two academic mentors (one to be your supervisor)

• To be established within 6 months of starting

• Mentoring facilitators in each Research Group:– CDB Prof Sandip Patel, email [email protected]– GEE Dr Helen Chatterjee, email [email protected]– NPP Prof Josef Kittler, email [email protected]– SMB Dr Kostas Thalassinos, email [email protected]

Welcome to the Centre for Advancing Learning and Teaching (CALT):

UCL Arena, the Connected Curriculum and ChangeMakers

Dr Alex [email protected]

CENTRE FOR ADVANCING LEARNING AND TEACHING (CALT)


CALT: • Advancing research-based education

at UCL

• Providing opportunities for all staff who teach, support students’ learning and/or are leaders of education to develop their academic and professional practices

• Influencing the HE sector nationally and internationally in relation to the development of research-based higher education, academic practice and academic leadership.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/

teaching-learning@UCL Arena#UCLTeach

@UCLConnectedC


You and CALT

Inspiring students through research-based education


A sector-leading initiative which offers an innovative framework for developing programmes of study which are truly research-based, and which enable students to become part of a vibrant learning and research community.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/teaching-learning/connected-curriculum




Supports students and staff in running or getting involved in projects to innovate, enhance or improve the learning experience at UCL

Projects involve teams of students and staff partnering up to investigate an educational issue and make improvements or to pilot a change and evaluate it.


http://www.ucl.ac.uk/changemakers/

Contact Abbie King if you have any questions or want to discuss your idea: [email protected]


http://www.ucl.ac.uk/changemakers/


UCL Arena: A space for dialogue about education

Welcomes you if you teach, supervise research and/or support students’ learning at UCL, no matter what your job title

Provides you with a wide menu of events and also opportunities to gain qualifications

Associate Fellowship

Fellowship

Senior Fellowship

Principal Fellowship


A menu of events and opportunities for:

• Academic staff and Teaching Fellows of all grades• Postgraduate Teaching Assistants (Arena One)• Research staff and technical specialists who ‘teach’

(advise/mentor) others (Arena Open)• Skills advisers (Arena Open)• Leaders of education (Arena Open)


UCL Arena Onefor

Postgraduate Teaching Assistants (PGTAs)

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/teaching-learning/arena/one

Advancing Research-based Education





Teaching Associate Programme


Applying for Fellowship

Professional recognition of your teaching practice at Descriptor 1 or 2 of the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and support learning in Higher Education (UKPSF)

Nationally recognised teaching award

Post-nominal letters – AFHEA / FHEA


How else can I develop my teaching?

With CALT: • Arena Essentials (e.g. Personal Tutoring, 18 November)• Arena Exchange (e.g. UCL Disability Services, 23 and 25

November)• Focus on assessment and feedback (e.g. Mythbusting

Event, 25 November)• UCL Teaching and Learning Conference – 19 April

Independently: • Gateway Moodle:

https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=26963 • Peer mentoring and dialogue


https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=26963

How do I find out more?

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/teaching-learning

[email protected]

@UCLArena@ucl-teaching

@UCLConnectedC





Ruth DavisBusiness Support Manager

Naomi PoyserStudent Enterprise Ambassador

AGENDA

• What is UCL Advances?• Training Opportunities• Knowledge Transfer/Exchange Opportunities• Starting/Running a business

UCL ADVANCES – WHAT IS IT?

• Centre for entrepreneurship and business interaction• Founded in 2007• Engages with students, staff, small businesses and

entrepreneurs

UCL does more to help you learn about, start or grow businesses than any other UK University.

LBS ELECTIVES

• Available for all Postgraduate UCL students• Apply online• Pre-requisites for many courses

– Finance and Value Creation• £1300 per elective, but funding available

– Departmental– Enterprise/Graduate School (limited places) –

application needed– Self funding

www.ucl.ac.uk/advances/training/lbselectives

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/advances/training/lbselectives

SHORT COURSES (CPD)

www.ucl.ac.uk/advances/training/short-courses

Dynamic Leadership Programme

Sales Strategy

Leadership &

Management

Pitching Skills

Managing Supply Chains

Building Business Abroad

Digital & Social Media

Intro to Business

Law

Recruiting & Managing

your First Employee

DIY User Research

Entrepreneurial Marketing

Entrepreneurial Finance

Technology Strategy

Financing Entrepreneurs

Negotiation

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/advances/training/short-courses

BUILDING BUSINESS SKILLS FOR RESEARCHERS

LEADERSHIP– Eight 2-hour lunchtime sessions on leading within Academia– Building transferable skills– Hear from Research Guest speakers including the Provost

CONSULTANCY– 1-week workshop on how to engage with businesses on

consultancy projects– Tuition from UCLC– Opportunity to work in a business

COMMUNICATING SCIENCE TO BUSINESS

How to Engage with BusinessDevelop research collaborations and initial connections withbusinesses

Presenting to BusinessPractice presenting projects with commercial viability to businesses

How to Become a More Confident and Effective NetworkerIdentifying and maximising networking opportunities with potentialbusinesses, partners and investors

www.ucl.ac.uk/advances/researchers/training/science-business

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/advances/researchers/training/science-business

IAA ENTERPRISE SECONDMENT AWARDSSecondments enable UCL academics, research staff and PhD students to work closely with a company to allow the application of research in an industrial context, in order to generate impact from the original EPSRC research. Key features are:• Up to £50K in funding• Covers direct costs (not o/h)• Company benefits expected, through Knowledge Transfer• Match funding from company encouraged • Available for SMEs, Large companies, Government Agencies (Policy

Secondments)

www.ucl.ac.uk/enterprise/funding/enterprise-secondments

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFERTapping into UCL’s Research Strength

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE ASSOCIATEThis 3–9 month paid programme is designed to allow a PhD student in their final year the opportunity to work with a company that will really benefit from exposure to their specialist knowledge and research.

www.ucl.ac.uk/advances/support/kea

PhD ENTERPRISE SCHOLARSHIPEnterprise Scholarships provide PhD students with the opportunity to explore the commercial potential and develop impact from their research. Students are given a 3 month extension and stipend to write an additional chapter on the commercial applications of their project.

www.ucl.ac.uk/advances/support/enterprise-scholarships

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFERTapping into UCL’s Research Strength

UCL Advances business advisors provide students (undergraduate and postgraduate) and recent alumni with business support to start, develop and progress their businesses.

Impartial, confidential advice

that reflects the students’ personal aspirations and goals. Whether the business is in the planning stage or has been operating for a number of years, the business advisors can help.

Guide you through other opportunities for funding, office space, and networking.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/advances/students/business-advice

ONE-TO-ONE BUSINESS ADIVCE

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/advances/students/business-advice

“The realisation of research”

•Licensing technologies•Brokering agreements•Contract negotiations

Business, legal & Commercial

Expertise

•Strategy•Business plan development•Incubation support

Creating spin-outs

•Proof of concept funds•Follow-on funding schemes•Build and foster investor relationshipsFunding•Recruitment of management teams

Project Management

UCL Business PLC

Contact Business Manager

Complete Invention

Disclosure Form

Discuss with BM

regarding funding

Prepare applicatio

n

License technology or create Spin-out

I have an idea, what do I do?

www.uclb.com

UCL Business PLC

http://www.uclb.com/

Thank [email protected]


Prof Patricia SalinasPostdoc Academic leadTel: (44) 020 7679 2445

[email protected]



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