News Round Up
A summary of the latest news and intelligence from around the Faculty:
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The Faculty announces the launch of Working Papers in the Health Sciences . This new open access peer-reviewed e journal will showcase the work of emerging health care scholars and is designed to help undergraduate and post graduate health care professionals publish early stage academic work of a high standard.
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Health Sciences is going for an Athena SWAN Silver Award this month. Athena SWAN is the Charter for women in science recognising commitment to advancing women's careers in STEMM academia. Find out more about the challenge here or to join the focus groups and get involved email Athena-swan-hs@soton.ac.uk .
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The new Health and Pharma website to support the new USIT (University Sector Industry Team) has recently launched featuring a Health Sciences research page .
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Congratulations go to Chris McLean who successfully defended his doctoral thesis ‘Thinking about patients and talking about persons in critical care nursing' and to Hayden Kirk who had a successful viva and made an excellent defence of his DClin research.
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There's been further media reporting on Anne Bruton's senior research fellowship award from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) on the CPD (Chartered Society of Physiotherapy) website .
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