SCS staff acknowledged in recent Monash University promotions

Congratulations to all School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health  staff who were successful in the recent Monash University academic promotions round!  This round, we add one Associate Professor and two Senior Lecturers to our group.

Associate Professor Kirsten Palmer is a clinician researcher. She is a maternal fetal medicine sub-specialist and heads the Maternal Fetal Medicine unit at Monash Medical Centre, Monash Health; an incredible team of people that provide care for some of the most complex pregnancies in Victoria. She is also a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Monash University where she heads the Maternal and Perinatal Medicine Translational Research group. Her clinical and research interests closely align with a strong focus on improving outcomes for women and babies impacted by pregnancy complications. She has a particular focus on disorders of placentation, which lead to pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction. She currently leads a world-first large, multicentre clinical trial exploring the use of melatonin for fetal neuroprotection in pregnancies complicated by fetal growth restriction.

Find out more about Associate Professor Kirsten Palmer

Senior Lecturer Aimee Dordevic is a Registered Nutritionist with both the Nutrition Society of Australia and the Association for Nutrition (UK). She works in the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics & Food, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University as a Nutrition Science Lecturer and Researcher.

Aimee began at Monash University in January 2013 as a Research Fellow investigating weight managment for adolescents after completion of her PhD at Deakin University where she studied human molecular nutrition in health and chronic disease.

Aimee's PhD titled the 'Investigation of the acute nutrigenomic response of adipose tissue' examined the effect of macronutrients on inflammatory and metabolic signalling in human serum and adipose tissue. The project involved treatment of cultured cells with different types of fatty acids as well as collection and subsequent molecular analysis of human tissue samples in the hours immediately following meals that varied in macronutrient composition.

Find out more about Dr Aimee Dordevic

Senior Lecturer Barbara R Cardoso is a nutritional biochemist with a Masters and a PhD from the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and international experience attained from research appointments in Brazil and Spain. She has developed breakthrough studies that combine her skills in nutrition, clinical trials, analytical chemistry, proteomics and molecular biology to unravel the biochemistry of selenium and its implications in age-associated cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. She also has an interest in investigating the intake of nuts as a dietary strategy to slow age-associated cognitive decline.  

Dr Barbara R Cardoso is the unit coordinator for NUT3008 - Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Nutrition; and co-coordinator for the unit NUT2104 - Nutritional Biochemistry in the Nutrition Science course. 

Find out more about Dr Barbara R Cardoso

Academic Promotion 2021: Reminder of actions required for MNHS staff

The 2021-2022 Academic Promotions application due date for SCS is Wednesday 17 November 2021. For all school application due dates see here.

As you prepare your application, you must take the following actions:

• Step 1: Request a meeting with Prof Ross Coppel or Prof Ian Smyth

If you have not already done so, please fill out this form to request a meeting as soon as possible to discuss your case for promotion. 

Due to capacity issues, late applicants may not be able to be accommodated.  

• Step 2: Request supporting documents from HR Academic Promotions team

The HR Academic Promotions team is now running Research Achievement Records and Research Performance Reports.  These documents are official parts of your application that you must obtain prior to submission.  The HR Academic Promotions team will only generate these documents once, so it imperative that you ensure all your data is up to date and correct before requesting the reports.   Please email hr.academic-promotion@monash.edu to request the documents.

Please use your myPerformance Dashboard to ensure your research data is correct.  The Research Activity Guide provides all the information you need to make any necessary updates and corrections.

• Step 3: Request Summative Peer Review of Teaching and Student Evaluation Report (Teaching & Research applicants only)

Ensure you have a Summative Peer Review of Teaching report from 2021. You can request a review and access your report via the Monash Learning and Teaching Peer Review website.

Student Evaluation Records need to be requested via the University Planning and Statistics Google Form before Friday 19 November.

If you have any questions, please email mnhs.academic.graduate.affairs@monash.edu.

SCS staff acknowledged in recent Monash University promotions

Congratulations to all School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health  staff who were successful in this year's Monash University academic promotions round!  This round, we add four Associate Professors and two Senior Lecturers to our group.

Academic promotion information session, 19 March

As we had recently announced in the Insider, we are holding information sessions for academic staff who wish to apply for academic promotion this year. Please note this does not include adjuncts. We strongly encourage you to attend a faculty information session if you are considering applying for promotion.

All session dates, times and venues are listed on the information sessions web page.

Kindly register your attendance to attend the faculty information session by 13 March (Alfred session) and 19 March (Clayton session).

For more information, visit the Academic Promotion web page or call Access HR on 9902 0400.

Academic Promotion Information Sessions and Outside Studies Programme (OSP)

Information sessions are scheduled for academic staff who wish to apply for academic promotion this year. We strongly encourage you to attend a faculty information session if you are considering applying for promotion. We invite female staff to attend the Academic Promotion Information Session for Women.

Additionally, applications are now open for the Outside Studies Programme (OSP) 2017 round. Please see below for further details.

ACADEMIC PROMOTION INFORMATION SESSIONS

View all session dates, times and venues on the information sessions web page. For information session at Clayton campus, please register your attendance here by 5:00 PM on 23 March 2017; for information session at the Alfred Hospital, please register your attendance here by 5:00 PM on 27 March 2017.  

If you have any questions, please visit the academic promotion website, visit ask.monash for FAQs or call Access HR on 9902 0400.

OUTSIDE STUDIES PROGRAMME (OSP) – ROUND OPEN

OSP 2017 Round Dates for applications: Monday 20 March 2017 to Monday 17 April 2017

OSP allows you time out of your busy schedule to enhance your development, extend the body of knowledge in your chosen field or improve your research performance.

We invite you to apply for OSP to take in Semester 1 or 2, 2018.

 A few things to remember when you submit your application:

·         We encourage you to discuss your OSP application with your performance supervisor before making a submission.

·         You can apply online for OSP via the University’s e-recruitment system (Rex). Please select the appropriate Faculty application form from the list provided.

·         You do not need to obtain formal sign off from your performance supervisor and Head of Unit/Department/School. We will forward your application for approval on your behalf.

·         Applicants are to attach their CV and ensure that their leave dates include two weeks of annual leave.

·         OSP applications require a focussed research plan with published feasible outputs. Part of your OSP plan may include conference attendance and presentations, however, for the purposes of OSP, papers are not considered published outputs. 

For more information about how to apply for OSP, faculty-specific information, guidelines and reporting requirements, please visit the OSP web page. Before you apply, please read the revised Procedure.

 Frequently asked questions:

 1.    When do applications close for the 2017 Outside Studies Programme (OSP) round? 

2.     How do I submit an application for the Outside Studies Programme (OSP)? 

3.     What is the University’s Outside Studies Programme (OSP)? 

4.     Do I need to apply for leave for the Outside Studies Programme (OSP)? 

5.     Do I have to complete a performance plan? 

If you have any questions, please visit ask.monash for FAQs or call Access HR on 03 9902 0400.

Fixed-term and continuing academic staff seeking Promotion to Levels C to E

Further to the announcement in the Monash Insider last week that the Academic Promotion Round is now open, as the Senior HR Business Partner, I would like to provide some further information for staff intending to apply this year.

If you have not already done so, please make the necessary arrangements with your performance supervisor, Head of Department and Head of School, ensuring that they have adequate time to complete their sections of the Case for Promotion form by the due date.

You are strongly encouraged to make an appointment to meet with the relevant Associate Deans to discuss your application.

Internal Faculty Deadlines

• By Friday 1^st July 2016 (at 5.00pm) your completed application and all required documents must be uploaded electronically online via the “apply now” icon on the Academic Promotion web page.
• Unless other arrangements have been made, it is recommended that you e-mail your completed application to your Head of School, Professor Eric Morand by Friday 10th of June 2016.  Your application should include all supporting documentation and your performance supervisor’s approval.

 NB:  You should not upload your application into the Academic Promotion system until the relevant sections have been approved by your Performance Supervisor and Head of Unit/School.

Further Information and enquiries:

·        For full details of the academic promotion process please visit the Academic Promotion website. 

·        For information on how to request research and education supplementary report(s), please visit the Academic Promotion Contact page.

·        For queries relating to promotion to Level C & D please contact the Academic Promotion Coordinator team at hr-academic.promotion@monash.edu or call 990 20400 (select option 2).

For information relating to promotion to Level E please contact Senior HR Advisor - Sam Dadash on Samana.Dadash@monash.edu  and also discuss your intentions with the Dean.

Selda Evci, Senior HR Business Partner

Faculty academic promotion information sessions 14 and 15 April

Further to the notice in the “Insider”, please find below details of the information sessions for academic staff wishing to apply for academic promotion in 2016.

This year, candidates involved in teaching will formulate their Education case using new learning and teaching criteria. This is the first stage of the phasing in of the new Education Performance Standards, which will occur in 2017.

Monash HR and the Office of the Vice-Provost (Learning & Teaching) have collaborated closely to implement the new learning and teaching criteria into the academic promotion process. The Office of the Vice-Provost (Learning and Teaching) will attend all academic promotion information sessions to advise candidates on how the new criteria will apply, and candidates involved in teaching are strongly encouraged to attend.

Further information about the Academic Promotion process can be obtained from the academic promotion website.

Any staff considering applying for promotion are strongly encouraged to attend a faculty information session. Click here for details including dates, times and venues of all sessions.

Kindly register your attendance as per the registration links below to attend the faculty information session:

·       Clayton campus. 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Thursday 14^th April 2016

·       Alfred Hospital. 9:30am – 11:00am, Friday 15^th April 2016.

Please contact Nevasha Wood, Faculty HR advisor if you have any questions (or phone 99030614)

CALL FOR NOMINATION: MNHS Academic Promotions SL Committee

TO ALL FACULTY ACADEMIC STAFF

  

This is a call for nominations from academic staff for vacancies on the Faculty Senior Lecturer Academic Promotions Committee. (Nominations close 12pm Thursday 12 March).

  

There is vacancy on the Senior Lecturer Academic Promotions Committee for two elected members with an appointment at Level C through to Level E. Membership is for a 3 year term commencing from July 2015.

The Committee is scheduled to meet on Friday 11 September, commencing at 9:00am (and at this stage is anticipated to run for the majority of the day).

For 2015 the Senior Lecturer Committee will be Chaired by Professor Wayne Hodgson.

Please note the following membership requirements.