3rd in the Guardian!
Lancaster Physics is No 3 in the UK, after Oxford and St. Andrews!
Kostas Dimopoulos
Increased use of own campus offices
Now we are in September, we have had some experience of the increased use for office spaces in Physics. As indicated by our survey, thus far, there has been no issue of crowding or over-occupation, though I note that not all groups have been making much use of their office spaces. To be clear, those with single occupancy offices can use them. The use of multi-occupancy office spaces needs management for now, but equally you should be able to use them with a little planning. (The list of area managers who will oversee this has been circulated previously in the bulletin and is appended below, and there are calendars available for those managers to use.) As the building gets busier, we will issue guidance over the use of other shared spaces such as the atrium; we continue to ask people to minimise their time in kitchens and C36, so others can also make use fo them.
While I would still encourage you to blend working from home with working on site, you will gain some confidence about the measures on campus in advance of the start of term and in person teaching if you spend some time in the building. This will also help improve interaction in groups. The campus itself remains very quiet.
There was new guidance on the use of campus on Monday, which you will have seen.
https://portal.lancaster.ac.uk/portal/news/article/updated-covid-19-safety-guidance-on-campus
You will see it continues to encourage mask wearing and distancing where possible, but there is also a recognition that there will be circumstances where this is not possible. We are moving closer to the normal safety regime, where all activity is controlled through risk assessment and resultant mitigations, rather than blanket rules imposed from above. Please take this to heart, and remember you not only have a responsibility to yourself but also to those around you.
Best
Roger
The rooms and their managers are listed below.
| Room Number | Room Manager |
| A14 (within A15) | Sam Jones (PG Student) |
| A15 | Sam Jarvis |
| B06a | Andy Blake |
| B06b | Andy Wharton (PG student) |
| B06c | Rostislav Mikhaylovskiy |
| B504 | Jim Wild |
| C01 | Aneta Stefanovska |
| C07 | Adam Craig |
| C08 | Alessandro Romito |
| C14 | Colin Lambert |
| C45 | Brooke Simmons |
| C52 | Robert Young |
| C62 | Jonathon Gratus |
Roger Jones
Celebration of the life of David Newton
There will be a celebration of the life of David Newton at 3 PM in Hornby Church on Saturday 18 Sept. All welcome.
The event can be viewed on-line in the e mail from Siobahn below.
Hello lovely people who through reasons of life,health, geography etc are not likely to be able to join us in person to remember and celebrate with us in person.
18th September 2021 at 3pm in St Margarets Church, Hornby.
The event will include a series of pieces of music being performed live as well as reflections on his life from friends and family.
We thought that you might like to know that you can watch the event in real time on line; here:
It will then be possible to watch it at your leisure at any other time.
We will be having a retiring collection to contribute to the maintenance and upkeep of his beloved church clock. If you would like to make a small donation in his memory please bank transfer your donation to this account:
sort code 09-01-53
account number 01663289
account name Hornby St Margaret with Claughton St Chad
It seems so very strange that it will be nearly 2 years after his hospital admittance that we finally get to celebrate his life. Thank you all for being part of it.
Terry Sloan
Exploring the First Light And Reionisation Epoch
Online Event
Monday 20 September 2021
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Astrophysics webinar
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Wilkins (University of Sussex)
Izzy Garland
Performance Development Review
Just a reminder that it’s PDR (Performance Development Review) time. In case you have not seen it, HR put out a communication about PDRs for 20/21 which includes links to guidance, training and demos of the electronic form.
Please note that I only have access to my own PDR form so if you need technical assistance with yours, please contact HR Systems.
If your line manager/ PDR reviewer needs to be changed on Core HR so that they can access your form, HR systems can do that for you too.
FAO Non-academic staff on probation (and their line managers)
Staff that are on probation should have an initial PDR in place and complete the accompanying Probation Review form. These can be found in the bottom section of this webpage.
Grainne Wilkinson