Library & Information Skills: Summer term

These sessions are open to staff and students at the University. Feedback from the last two terms has been really good, with participants enjoying the hands on activities and the opportunity to ask questions and get one-to-one advice.

Please find full details of each session from the links below, and register to secure your place.

Getting started using the Library
This interactive workshop is aimed at new and returning students who need to learn how to use the Library for study and research.
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Time: 9:00am – 10:00am
Location: Library Training Room 2, Taught Session – For Staff & Students
Register! – 12 seats left

Effective searching for information: planning your search strategy
This interactive workshop is aimed at students and researchers who wish to learn how to search for information effectively, perhaps for a dissertation or literature review.
Date: Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Library Training Room 2, Taught Session – For Staff & Students
Register! – 12 seats left

Tips for writing a Data Management Plan
This is a short session open to all research staff (including postgraduate researchers) who are interested in finding out about data management plans (DMPs) and creating a data plan for their grant applications.
Date: Monday, May 8, 2017
Time: 10:00am – 11:00am
Location: Library B107, Taught Session – For Staff & Postgraduate Research students only
Register! – 4 seats left

Copyright for teaching staff
This session is aimed at members of staff and postgraduates who develop and deliver teaching materials.
Date: Monday, May 8, 2017
Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: Library B107, Taught Session – For Staff & Students
Register! – 12 seats left

Finding unpublished information or grey literature
This interactive workshop is aimed at researchers, particularly in the social sciences and health, who are interested in going beyond published academic literature for their literature review.
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Library Training Room 2, Taught Session – For Staff & Students
Register! – 12 seats left

Scholarly publishing in Arts and Humanities
This interactive workshop is aimed at postgraduates, researchers and academic staff in Arts & Humanities who are planning to publish journal articles or academic books.
Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Library Training Room 2, Taught Session – For Staff & Postgraduate Research students only
Register! – 6 seats left

Everything you need to know about depositing your thesis
This session will guide you through the process of depositing a print and electronic copy of your thesis, and will cover how to deal with copyright and restrictions.
Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Time: 10:00am – 11:00am
Location: Library B107, Taught Session – For Staff & Postgraduate Research students only
Register! – 12 seats left

Understanding Academic Impact with Bibliometrics: Journals, Articles and Authors
This interactive workshop is aimed at research students and staff who wish to learn about the most common bibliometrics and the tools used to measure research impact and influence.
Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Library Training Room 2, Taught Session – For Staff & Postgraduate Research students only
Register! – 12 seats left

If you have any questions about the programme please contact academicliaison@lancaster.ac.uk or contact the workshop presenter.

Jonathan gratus & Tanya Williamson

 

Outreach filming taking place in the Physics Building

Please be aware that filming for an IoP workshop is taking place in the Physics Building on Tuesday 2nd May between 0930 – 1330hrs. Please keep noise to a minimum if you’re nearby whilst filming is taking place.

Many thanks

Grainne Wilkinson (sent on behalf of Phil Furneaux)

 

Facilities works

Facilities inform us that Water Hygiene and Shower head cleaning in Physics Building will take place week commencing Monday 1st May from 9am daily.

Shonah Ion

 

Safety induction

Safety Induction will take place on Thursday 4th May 2017 at 2:30pm in meeting room A26.

Shonah Ion

 

Dean’s Visit – Friday 12 May

The Dean’s Group will visit Physics on Friday 12th May. The focus of this year’s visits will be on UG recruitment and teaching.

As usual there will be two meetings and both will be held in C36:

Part 1: Whole department (0930 – 1030hrs)

• Brief introduction from the Dean (5 minutes)
• Brief presentation from the department on undergraduate recruitment and teaching, to cover:
  • (for those departments that have completed the UG portfolio review) What are the most important findings of the UG portfolio review and how does the department plan to respond?
  • What are the 2 or 3 areas where the department feel they are doing very well?  Are there things that the department thinks can usefully be shared with other FST departments?
  • What are the big challenges for the department in terms of UG recruitment and/or teaching, and how do you plan to respond to these?

(Please make sure that the department’s approach to assessment and feedback, retention, the NSS and employability is covered as part of this presentation; other areas to consider could include degree outcomes).

• Presentation from the Associate Dean for UG Teaching providing an update on University/Faculty activity relating to UG, outcomes of recent reviews and highlighting the importance of consumer and markets authority (CMA) law as related to degree programmes.

Part 2: PEC members (1030 – 1130hrs)
This session will be discussion based and will focus on:

• the department’s financial performance and position relative to the Tribal benchmarking data;
• one KPI related to UG activity: recruitment (UK and international).

Grainne Wilkinson

 

Congratulations to Licia Ray

It’s a pleasure to announce that Licia gave birth to a little girl, Phoebe, on Sunday morning (16 April).  Both are now back at home and doing well. Congratulations to both Licia and Matt!

Jim Wild

 

IOP Carers’ Fund

There are still some grants available for IOP members who wish to attend a physics related conference or event and would find it helpful to have some financial assistance towards the additional caring costs that may result from attending such an event. The application process is straightforward and decisions are usually communicated in under seven days.

Any IOP member can apply for up to £250 to help with the costs of additional caring for children or other dependents that may be required if you were to be attending a physics related conference or event.

Full details can be found on this page.

Isobel Hook

 

Physics refurbishment update

Please see below details of scheduled works on the Physics refurbishment project for week commencing Monday 3rd April.

Physics scheduled works:

• Re-roofing works and cladding – low noise, no vibration
• Roof phase 1-2 link bridge
• 2nd fix joinery works – medium noise, minimum vibration
• Plastering – minimum noise, no vibration
• Decoration – minimum noise, no vibration
• Plant room cladding – medium noise, minimum vibration
• Plaster-boarding to existing phase 2a corridor ceiling – medium noise, minimum vibration
• Suspended ceiling installation – medium noise, minimum vibration
• Floor covering – minimum noise, no vibration
• B48 & 48A teaching walls – medium noise, medium vibration
• Fixed lab benching – medium noise, minimum vibration
• Central staircase plastering including scaffolding – minimum noise, no vibration
• Central staircase decoration – minimum noise, no vibration
• Lift lobby 1st fix ceiling – medium noise, minimum vibration
• Phase 2a corridor glazing – medium noise, minimum vibration
• Existing toilet block and rain screen cladding – medium noise, minimum vibration
• Isolab external works – medium noise, medium vibration

Should you have any queries regarding the project please contact the Senior Project Manager, Helen Wood, via the Facilities Helpdesk on facilities.helpdesk@lancaster.ac.uk or 01524 593333.

Marketing and Communications

 

Alarm Testing

Accessible Toilets Alarms, associated alarms and fire refuge point alarms testing in Physics Building will take place week commencing Monday 1st May 2017 from 9am daily.

Every 2nd week there is a quick test to ensure all Emergency Alarms  are operational.

Shonah Ion

 

Safety Audit

The Department will shortly be undergoing a safety audit from the University safety office. So I suggest this may be a good time to have your own mini audit in your work areas. How do you manage the hazards associated with your work? Take a few minutes to review your risk assessments, do they cover your activities? Are you doing new stuff, in a new place? If things do go wrong, do you have a plan to deal with it? How is safety information available to those that need it?

Interviews with a representative cross section of the Department will take place in late April.

Shonah Ion

 

STFC Events

STFC is planning a series of events on Oct 31st as part of an international dark matter day. The events will target both traditional outreach audiences and government to raise the profile of dark matter research in the UK and beyond. I’m looking to organise some activities related to non-WIMP dark matter searches but I know that various members of the department are also involved with dark matter research from a variety of different perspectives. If anyone else is already planning an event for dark matter day or would be interested in being involved with one then please get in touch so that we can coordinate.

Ian Bailey

 

Request for 2L Pop Bottles

As part of the University’s Community Day (http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/events/community-day/) the Space and Planetary Physics group will be running several displays and an interactive workshop.

For this, I’d kindly like to request that you save any empty 2-litre pop bottles (e.g. Coke/Pepsi/lemonade) you might have and donate them to the SPP group. They will be used to build “pop-bottle magnetometers” (http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/detectors/). We need to around 60 bottles by Saturday 6th May.

Please feel free to donate your empty pop bottles to any member of the SPP group, or you can drop them off at my office (B505b – Physics).

Many thanks for your help!

Nathan Case