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In pictures: a covid-secure campus
For those of you returning to campus to teach and support students from next week, we wanted to show you what the campus looks like. We hope that this will help you visualise the safety measures we have in place.
Categorised under: Research, Local community, Staff, Students, Learning and teaching and Health and wellbeing
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What is it like to teach on campus?
Dr Bryony Black and Dr Antony Williams from the School of Education have already been teaching on campus. They tell us what it has been like for them and share feedback from their students.
Categorised under: Staff, Students, Learning and teaching and Health and wellbeing
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Ask our academic experts
We know that many of you are interested to know more about the rationale behind some of the University's decisions and actions, so Andrew and Thushan have offered to answer some of your questions and we will be sharing their responses in next week’s staff update.
Categorised under: Announcements, Research and Staff
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Keeping our campus safe
We caught up with the Security Services team to find out their work on campus and how they're helping to keep our community safe during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Categorised under: Local community, Staff and Staff update
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Supporting you to achieve a healthy, well-balanced lifestyle
Sport Sheffield's mission is to be the heartbeat of a healthy and active University community, and at a time when we all need to take care of ourselves and our wellbeing, they want to give you every opportunity to do just that.
Categorised under: Announcements, Staff and Health and wellbeing
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Take on a virtual running challenge
Join in the University's virtual team running a 10K, Half Marathon or any other distance between now and Christmas to help fundraise for Parkinson's disease research.
Categorised under: Announcements, Research, Staff and Health and wellbeing
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Share your thoughts about returning to the workplace
Our Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gill Valentine, invites you to complete the last in our current series of short surveys, to help us understand how you feel about returning to the workplace.
Categorised under: Announcements, Staff, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Health and wellbeing
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Bi Visibility Day 2020
This international day of bisexuality awareness is an opportunity to celebrate diverse bi identities, raise the voices of bi people and recognise the work still needed to eradicate biphobia.
Categorised under: Staff and Equality & Diversity
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Technology updates to facilitate better remote working
To facilitate better remote working for teams, we will replace Google Hangouts with Google Chat in the Gmail interface this week, find out more about what this and other upcoming changes mean for you.
Categorised under: Announcements, Digital and Staff
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National PostDoc Appreciation Week 2020
Join us in recognising and thanking our postdoctoral researchers.
Categorised under: Research, Announcements, Digital, Staff and Events
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Gain insights on your teaching through the Student Observation of Teaching scheme
The Student Observation of Teaching (SOOT) scheme is a unique opportunity to gain feedback from students beyond your own discipline and collaborate in the shared project of enhancing teaching at the University.
Categorised under: Staff, Learning and teaching and Students
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An update on Kaltura services
The Digital Learning Team provide an update on Kaltura services including unforeseen interruptions to the service.
Categorised under: Announcements, Digital, Learning and teaching and Staff update
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Governance announcements
Tony Pedder's term as University Council Chair has been extended for a further year and our Chancellor Dame Anne Rafferty retires from the judiciary.
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Best online writing course 2020
The University’s FutureLearn course, How to Succeed at Writing Applications has been recommended as one of the best general online courses to take in 2020 for writing by the New York Post.
Categorised under: Announcements, Digital, Staff, Students and Learning and teaching
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Volunteers to help with UK Covid testing capability
The Government is looking for qualified individuals who can help scale up the UK's Covid-19 testing capability as we head into winter.
Categorised under: Announcements, Research, Staff and Health and wellbeing