Please refer to our Hudson Careers page for more details or email HR@hudson.org.au if you would like more information.
Before you head off for the shutdown period, please remember to turn off any powerpoints in your office that connect non-essential equipment (such as desktop computers), Christmas lights, etc.
Staff and students who are required to be on-site during the closure, are reminded to enter the hospital via the main staff entrances and undertake a thermal scan and also submit the Monash Health daily attestation. To follow OHS procedures, staff and students must submit the SCS After-Hours Work Form, which is available from the SCS intranet.
For emergencies at Monash Health sites (MMC buildings, Monash Children's Hospital, Casey Hospital, and Dandenong Hospital) please ring x2222 from a landline or dial 9594 7860 from a mobile.
When in the MIMR Building (#261) or MHRP Building (#262) ring (0)000 for emergencies.
When at Notting Hill or at the University campus, please ring x333 from a landline, or 990 53333 from a mobile.
For more OHS information please go to the OHS & Wellbeing page of the SCS intranet.
Merry Christmas!
Applicants must hold a position in Monash Health as either junior medical consultants or allied health practitioners.
The Position Description and Application form can be found on SCS intranet
Candidates are required to send their completed application form and CV to the SCS Research Manager, Adrienne Calder (adrienne.calder@monash.edu) by 5:00 pm on Monday 24th January 2022.
University Shutdown (12 days)
First day of work 2022:
Dry ice will be able to be sourced at any time.
Shut-down period: From 5.00pm Thursday 23 December to 8.00am Thursday 6 January.
A number of near-miss pedestrian incidents have been reported in the Northern Entry patient transport & loading zone parking area
New signage and safety barriers have been installed across the area to define pedestrian pathways
What do I need to do?
When walking in and around our parking areas and loading zones
How do I get more information?
Further information may be obtained from David Moyle, Site Liaison Officer
Telephone: 959 44727 | Email: MMCSiteManagement@monashhealth.org
Who is authorising this Site Alert?
Marg Harley – Acting General Manager | Acute Medicine MMC
The Master of Clinical Simulation is suitable for a broad range of health professionals and others who are, or will be, engaged in simulation-based education. This includes the teaching, assessment, evaluation, curriculum design, scenario design, debriefing, mentoring and supervision of health professionals in clinical and other contexts. Find out more about the course and how to apply.
The Master of Health Professions Education qualifies individuals to apply principles and theories that inform educational practice in a range of clinical and other relevant contexts, to undertake professional and highly skilled work and as educators in the health professions. Find out more about the course and how to apply.
If you have any other suggestions or items you think would be good to discuss then please let simone.gibson@monash.edu know. The workshop will run 13 December 1.30-4.30pm. It would be great to see everyone all in person and book a room on campus or at MMC but here is a survey to discover your preferences. Please RSVP by 6 December 2021 so we can organise catering, etc.
Development scholarships of up to $5,000 per person available for women in the Higher Education Sector
To help encourage more women to step into leadership roles across the Higher Education Sector, WLA is offering scholarships for three leadership development courses. The scholarship funding must be allocated by the end of November. Expressions of Interest are being sourced until the end of November (unless allocated prior) via this link
This opportunity is open to all staff and we encourage you to make this information available via your usual channels. Your support will enable women leaders across the sector to benefit from these opportunities.
The programs are designed for women with limited leadership experience through to executive leaders and scholarships are available across three key levels.
Expressions of interest for fee support can be registered online. Nominate yourself or a colleague here
Date: Tuesday 21 December 2021
Time: 12noon - 3pm
Venue: Sandringham Yacht Club
Details and registration: HERE
The Hudson Institute is offering a new Monash accredited Professional Development Activity taking place in the Hudson building at MMC. This practically focussed unit will provide a new opportunity for PhD Students to develop their grant writing skills.
The unit is broken into two parts:
This activity aims to provide students with hands-on experience in grant writing. The first Foundational and Advanced courses will commence in November for a restricted number of applicants and will expand in 2022.
Students may either:
Current timetable for 2021:
Availability is limited therefore please register ASAP via myDevelopment.
As you prepare your application, you must take the following actions:
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.
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.
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.
In addition to defining uncertainty tolerance and its role in wellbeing and career success, this session will highlight evidenced-based:
A/Prof Michelle Lazarus serves as the Director of the Monash Centre for Human Anatomy Education (CHAE) within the Biomedical Discovery Institute. Additionally, she is the Curriculum Integration Network lead within the Monash Centre Scholarship in Health Education (MCSHE) as well as a Monash Education Academy Fellow, anatomy education discipline lead within the medical curriculum, and a core member of the General Surgical Science Examination Board for Royal Australian College of Surgeons. Her recent work explores the role of uncertainty within healthcare science education, challenging A/Prof’s Lazarus’s own tolerance of uncertainty (an academic irony).
Eugene posed a myriad of visual and sound questions over 5 rounds covering music, geography, literature, pop culture, movies, tv shows, art, etc etc, like these ones below – have a go yourself!
After an intense, but fun one-and-a-half hours, We’re going nutty* took out FIRST PLACE at 85 points beating GILZ-Pilz Cure your Illz and The Barkers who tied for second at 82 points. The Savage Cabbages managed to stomp in at 4th place, hedging over The Cognitive Deficits; Jin’s Jedis; Nurse Ratched’s Henchmen; The Dream Team; Dr Brian Astrid-Eddi; The Happy Demons; Quizly Tiny Brains; Katto and Gwennie’s Gurus. (REFER TO SCOREBOARD)
*Note: For the purpose of bragging rights, the winning team We’re Going Nutty are from the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics & Food: Tracy McCaffrey (Captain), Evelyn Volders, Maxine Bonham and Andrea Bryce.
Thank you to everyone who joined in and made everything fun! Let’s look forward to our next SCS social function (virtual) – if you have any suggestions, please email jinleng.graham@monash.edu.
All Monash University Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences staff with Authorised Worker permits received an e-mail from Monash HR on 12 October 2021, and we draw your attention to the urgent and important requirement for you to show evidence of your vaccination status by 15 October (Friday) so that you can continue to work onsite at a Monash University Site or healthcare facility.
Your permit will be invalid from 15 October 2021 until you provide evidence of your vaccination status through Monash’s Vaccinate Monash form.
As outlined by the Chief Human Resources Officer, Monash Authorised Workers must provide evidence of their vaccination status through Monash’s Vaccinate Monash form before 15 October. You will no longer be authorised to attend work with your permit if you do not comply with these requirements and confirm your COVID-19 vaccination status.
MNHS Authorised Workers working in healthcare facilities
Additionally, the Victorian Chief Health Officer has released a direction on mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers outlining clear requirements for COVID-19 vaccination for all staff that enter a Victorian Health Service site from 15 October.
If you do not meet these requirements you will not be able to attend a healthcare facility from 15 October 2021. To access healthcare sites, you will need to follow the instructions of your healthcare site regarding providing evidence of your vaccination status for their systems, as well as submitting your proof of vaccination to the University.
Monash staff without an Authorised Worker Permit
All other staff are working from home until 5 November, or when the state reaches 80% double vaccination, and will receive further information about providing evidence of their vaccination status in line with Victoria’s Roadmap and with the University’s Roadmap to Reactivation.
Information for Hudson staff who receive this message:
The conference will be held during Bangladesh Standard Time (5 hrs behind AEDT).
There will be 40 speakers, including Professor Caroline Gargett (Ritchie Centre/Monash University), Professor Luk Rombauts (Monash Health/Monash University) and Dr Sonia Grover (RCH). See organising committee and faculty details here.
This FREE virtual conference requires all delegates to register their details here.
Please see full program including event times.
Experience in a previous research support or co-ordinator role is required. Research experience in an Intensive Care Unit is desirable. The precise hours are negotiable, with an estimation of approximately 24 – 30 hours per week required. Initially, Professor Shehabi is seeking the position for the next 12 months.
For further enquiries, please contact Prof Yahya Shehabi (0419 296 986).
Nominations for the Australian Museum Eureka Science Prizes 2021 are now open and close on Friday 28 May at 7pm (AEST).
These $10,000 prizes are highly prestigious and recognise excellence across science and innovation disciplines. Further information is available here.
Researchers who identify as exceptional candidates working in research programs that align with the categories listed below are encouraged to contact their Head of School & School Research Manager to discuss their suitability to apply. Applicants may submit themselves (self-nominate). A Pure record is not required.
The Categories:
The scheme has 15 categories across research & innovation, leadership, and science engagement.
Individual or Team Research:
· Applied
Environmental Research (focus on bushfires, pests,
weeds and climate change)
· Excellence
in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research
· Innovative
Use of Technology
· Outstanding
Science in Safeguarding Australia (defence and security)
· Scientific
Research (curiosity-driven research)
Individual or Team Science Engagement:
· Innovation in Citizen Science
· Long-Form Science Journalism
Individual Awards:
· Outstanding Early Career Researcher (either
<35 years old OR <5 years post PhD +career disruptions)
· Emerging Leader in Science (recognising
leadership activities, either <35 years old OR <5 years
post PhD +career disruptions)
· Leadership in Innovation and
Science
· Outstanding Mentor of Young
Researchers
· Promoting Understanding of Science
Requirements:
Candidates will need to address the application requirements specific to each Prize (age eligibility has been noted above, but additional eligibility criteria apply). Please note: many of the categories require the applicant to provide 2-3 assessor reports responding to the judging criteria using a provided template. Assessors must be familiar with the activity, but cannot be either personally or directly involved in it. Identifying the availability of suitable Assessors should be a priority. Most applications require between 6 and 12 pages of prepared text, including the independent referee assessments.
Proposal Support:
Unfortunately proposal support from
the MRO Research Development team will not be available this round. Applicants are encouraged to draw upon their
network of supervisors, mentors and peers to prepare an application that speaks
to a general scientific audience.
Pfizer's Centers
for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) is
a unique joint drug discovery model focused on collaborating with leading
academic medical centers to translate and transform concepts into breakthroughs
that change patients' lives.
The CTI 2021 Call for Proposals (CFP) is
focused on identifying novel therapeutic targets with application
across Pfizer's core therapeutic areas: oncology, inflammation &
immunology, internal medicine and rare diseases.
Submission Process
· Develop
a 2-3 page non-confidential document outlining the scientific background and
research synopsis.
· Submit
your pre-proposal to Monash Innovation (innovation@monash.edu)
by 18 June 2021. The Pfizer
submission deadline is 28 June 2021.
Further information
For further information about submitting a
pre-proposal, please contact Chacko Joseph, Associate Commercialisation Manager, Monash
Innovation (chacko.joseph@monash.edu).
The Ian Potter Foundation- Fair - Community Wellbeing Program EOI is now open
FUNDER
The Ian Potter
Foundation
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
Ian Potter
Foundation – Fair - Community Wellbeing
BRIEF DETAILS
The Community Wellbeing program area seeks to identify and support those
organisations which have well thought out projects that seek to help vulnerable
members of the community to overcome the challenging circumstances in which
they find themselves. The Foundation favours programs that are preventative in
nature and seek to address the root causes of disadvantage.
To improve circumstances for vulnerable members of the community, this
program area supports organisations that seek to establish pathways for
vulnerable individuals such as:
IMPORTANT
· Applicants must first speak with
the Ian Potter Foundation’s Program Manager Alberto Furlan on 03 9650
3188 before submitting an Expression of Interest (EOI) to be
considered eligible to apply. After the initial conversation, the Program
Manager will invite suitable candidates to apply for the EOI.
· The Foundation only considers grant
applications in excess of $100,000 in this program area and these are
usually considered as multi-year grants.
· Proposals that are collaborative
and/or share knowledge with the broader sector are encouraged.
· The Ian Potter Foundation rarely
awards the full amount of any project. Please ensure that you have
identified other potential funders prior to applying.
UNIVERSITY LIMITS AND EOI PROCESS
A maximum of TWO
applications may be submitted by an organisation in a given grant round for
this program. The MRO will therefore run an internal EOI process if the
number exceeds the allowed limit for the EOI submission to the
Foundation. The internal EOI panel will select the applications for
submission to the Foundation.
Applicants must complete the attached
MRO EOI form and email the completed form with CV of
the PCI only (maximum two pages) to mro-applications@monash.edu by 10 am Monday, 22
March 2021. Only those applicants who have been advised by
the Foundation that they are eligible to apply and invited to submit an EOI
should complete the MRO EOI form.
Please note that
ONLY the applications selected for submission through the internal EOI process
will need a corresponding Pure record.
KEY DATES
|
ACTION |
DATE |
|
EOIs due to MRO |
10 am Monday, 22 March 2021 |
|
EOI result announced |
Friday, 26 March 2021 |
|
Pure record to be sent for Pre-Approval |
Monday, 29 March 2021 |
|
EOI application due to funder |
Thursday 1 April
2021 |
LINKS TO FURTHER INFORMATION
Further information about this program including sample EOI form and
guidelines can be found at the https://www.ianpotter.org.au/what-we-support/community-wellbeing/.
Please contact the Ian Potter Foundation Program Manager regarding the area of
objectives and read the funding guidelines carefully to ensure that you meet
the eligibility criteria and program area objectives before you
apply.
Please contact us at mro-applications@monash.edu if
you have any queries about this funding opportunity.
