Consider joining our Green Impact team “The Sustainable Scrub Society”. Green Impact is a competition where teams work to complete sustainability actions around the workplace and at home. It doesn’t matter if you’re staff or a student, or in a lab, office or clinic, all are welcome to join and can contribute. If you’re interested in joining please email Dr Nicola Rivers – Nicola.rivers@monash.edu
Stage 1: Applicants intending to apply for a NHMRC scholarship must meet the internal deadlines set by both NHMRC and Monash University. Minimum data must be entered in NHMRC’s granting system Sapphire by 8 May 2024. Note: Failure to meet this deadline will result in the application not proceeding.
Stage 2: Applications must be submitted by the Monash closing date of 29 May 2024. The earlier closing date allows us time to check your application to ensure it is complete.
See application details, eligibility, and more information about the NHMRC scholarships here. Applicants are required to read all relevant reference material available via GrantConnect prior to lodging an application.
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Each speaker will share their personal thoughts on navigating the challenging career path of a clinician-scientist, including strategies to deal with the challenges in transitioning from a clinician-student to an independent clinician-scientist.
Flu vaccinations are now available at various locations in Monash Health and Monash University campuses.
In case anyone would like to access the flu vaccinations at the Monash University campuses here is the booking link
Locations and times for this year's flu vaccinations at Monash Health:
Please join me in welcoming Wendy Wei, our new Budgeting and Reporting Accountant.
Wendy has extensive background in financial management with over 15 years of experience across the private sector and higher education. Prior to joining the Sub-Faculty of Clinical and Molecular Science, Wendy worked in the Financial Operations team at Monash University in central finance supporting staff and students with reimbursements, managing credit cards and all other payment services.
Wendy's primary responsibility is to provide support to the school across all aspects of our finance function to include payments, expense approvals, invoicing, fund transfers, reimbursements and management accounting services (budgeting and forecasting). Wendy is a full time staff member.
Please kindly note that moving forward, Finance Manager Mus Ahmed and Wendy will be contactable via the newly established role account - scs-finance@monash.edu. This shared email will ensure business continuity and retain valuable IP moving forward.
In the meantime, if you see Wendy around the grounds, please say hello.
Posted on behalf of Professor Peter Ebeling AO, Head, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health
I am delighted to announce that after an extensive search, Ms. Amanda McFarlane has been appointed as SCS School Manager, effective 26 February 2024.Amanda brings with her more than 25 years of expertise across the higher education, public and private sectors.
Amanda is committed to achieving optimal levels of service delivery through system and process enhancements that strengthen governance and promote alignment between strategic and operational initiatives.
She has management and leadership experience in the higher education sector, with 11 years at Monash University and nearly two years at RMIT University where she was the Manager, Planning and Operations within the School of Management, College of Business & Law and was the key point of contact for all operational, financial and pedagogical-related administrative queries for 200 academic staff and led a team of 5 professional staff.
Prior to Amanda's role at RMIT University, at Monash University she gained extensive experience in HR as a Business Partner, worked in eSolutions as an Innovation Project Manager, with the final role as Operations Manager within the Monash Business School. During her time at Monash, she spearheaded a substantial change to the service delivery model within Monash Business School in response to a significant faculty restructuring. Her solution involved re-evaluating the service delivery model, which resulted in an extensive uplift in skills across the team, supporting the academic departments.
Between Amanda's two higher education roles, she worked in the Strategic Transformation and Delivery Command at Victoria Police as a Continuous Improvement Lead. There she initiated and delivered an Investment Logic Map at the program level as part of a holistic transformation project plan for the Command. Her most significant achievement in this role was the development and delivery of a five-year transformation strategy paper for the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police.
I am certain Amanda will be in touch and get to know everyone as she settles into her new role as SCS School Manager.
Please make her feel welcome here at SCS!
Supervisor Connect is our primary tool for Honours and Higher Degree by Research (HDR) recruitment.
All projects in Supervisor Connect have now been unpublished so we don’t advertise outdated projects.
Please update the projects by Friday 29 March 2024.
The first step is to update your Pure profile (using the links below for reference).
The second step is to update your projects in Supervisor Connect by Friday 29 March 2024. For instructions on how to update, publish and/or create projects please refer to the Supervisor Connect Handbook.
For further information, please contact Vithya Premkumar on vithya.premkumar@monash.edu.
We are close to undertaking training sessions for our new Master of Clinical Embryology (MCE) students (all 42 of them!) assessing semen parameters in human sperm. In order to provide a good training experience, we are seeking a number of sperm donors for set dates (between 13-26 March).
If you are able to help us by donating, or recruiting donations from partners/friends/family, it would be greatly appreciated. As part of this, you will receive a free basic semen analysis assessment (if you would like one), and also a $20 Coles voucher for each donation .
Please complete the Semen Sample Donation for Andrology pracs form and choose the date(s) you can donate. You can donate once, twice or even 3 times but best to leave a 3 day gap between samples. Please make your selection at the bottom of the form (most days we need 5 samples!).
For any questions that are not clear in the form, please email Sally Catt, MCE course Coordinator (sally.catt@monash.edu).
Once the form is submitted, Sally will be in touch with you early march to coordinate.
In his capacity as Minister for Medical Research, Deputy Premier, the Honourable Ben Carroll visited our labs and met with several leading scientists and clinician-scientists. Hosted by Professor Eric Morand, Dean Sub-Faculty of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Minister Carroll learned of our translational research and its subsequent clinical impact. He referred to us as a ‘mini-Stanford’ – which we are. We look forward to future visits where we can showcase more of our work.
Did you know that Monash has hosted over 2 Million meetings via Zoom last year? that's a lot of minutes, it also means there are many recordings.
To meet the university’s increased Zoom storage needs as usage of the platform grows, Monash will implement a 12-month retention limit for Staff Zoom recordings starting on Feb 5th, 2024. Consequently, Zoom recordings older than 12 months will be permanently removed.
What do you need to do?
Please transfer recordings older than 12 months to a suitable storage location before 5th February 2024.
Additionally, please be aware that in the future, all Zoom recordings older than 12 months will be subject to automatic deletion. We also urge you to delete any recordings from your profile that are no longer required. If you need to keep recordings, please refer to this guide for alternative digital storage options.
To review and take action on your Zoom recording, please log in to your Zoom account, and go to the Recordings page.
If you need extra help, please refer to the instructions on how to manage your Zoom recordings
If you require any further information or assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us via the IT Service Request Portal
Sadly, this week saw the departure of SCS School Manager, Dr Christine De Nardo, who next month moves to the Olivia Newton John Wellness & Research Centre as Chief Operating Officer.
In a very eventful 15 months in the role here Christine has worked with endless energy and positivity to improve all things SCS. Christine has excellent leadership skills, brilliant strategic skills and can run in heels. We will miss Christine enormously and know she will blitz at Olivia Newton John.
