Author: Ian Richards

Here are some useful links, contacts and resources for students, so you’re not stuck for information while we work to fix the technical issues with Blackboard.

Timetables
Timetables are unaffected by the issues with Blackboard. You can find them from the Blackboard landing page or at: https://timetable.web01.lincoln.ac.uk/

Access your student email
Some staff will be sharing learning materials by email for students, so please check your university email regularly. Log in through the Gateway at: https://outlook.lincoln.ac.uk/

Reading lists
You can find reading lists by module on the library website at http://lists.library.lincoln.ac.uk. Just type in the module code or browse lists by keyword or academic name.  Contact the Library or Academic Subject Librarian for more advice if needed.

Assignment hand in
If you are submitting an assignment whilst Blackboard is unavailable, please email it to your School Office or tutor.

Extenuating circumstances
If you need to apply for extenuating circumstances you should talk to your personal tutor. You can find details and apply on the homepage of the University intranet, The Portal at this link or from the icon on the Portal homepage: https://ps.lincoln.ac.uk/

Enrolment
If you still need to enrol, you can do this at the Student Support Centre on campus or by emailing: studentrecords@lincoln.ac.uk to make arrangements.

A spectacular one-day expo of free activities for inquisitive minds will be held at the University of Lincoln next week when LiGHTS returns to the city.

LiGHTS (Lincoln: Get Hold of Tech and Science) 2017 takes place on Friday 29th September.

More than 50 free activities presented by researchers from all departments in the University of Lincoln are on offer during the day, giving members of the public and school parties a chance to learn more about the cutting-edge research undertaken at the University.

Highlights include:

Understanding Evolution
Interactive detective session with a primate psychologist about Darwin, monkeys and evolution

Meet MARC
Compete in a game of rock, paper, scissors against this robotic player.

Skeletons In The Cupboard
What can we learn from human bones? Find out by examining archaeological skeletons excavated from Lincoln.

Myths And Science Of Sleep
By the age of three, we’ve become experts at sleeping, having spent 10,000 hours asleep. So why do so many people struggle to get a good night’s sleep?

The Building Blocks Of Food
Learn how to use detergent and alcohol to extract DNA from everyday food, and take home a souvenir tube of that DNA!

Science In Song
A performance by the University of Lincoln students of music, ranging from Bartok to the Beastie Boys – all inspired by technology and science.

Hundreds of people attended last year’s LiGHTS, which was one of 250 linked events held in major cities across the continent as part of The European Researchers’ Night. First staged in 2005 by the European Commission, European Researchers’ Night aims to promote careers in science and research.

LiGHTS is led by Carenza Lewis, Professor for the Public Understanding of Research at the University of Lincoln.

Staff and students at all levels are welcome to attend LiGHTS events and activities. For more information visit the LiGHTS website

Students have rated the University of Lincoln in the top 20 in the UK for academic support, learning resources and learning community.

Results of the new-look National Student Survey were published today (9th August). The University of Lincoln scored higher than the sector average in every question category of the survey, which is completed by final year undergraduate students across the UK.

Several of the University of Lincoln’s courses were rated number one in the UK for their subject areas, including Biochemistry, Social Sciences and Sociology. Eight areas were ranked number 1 in one or more of the question areas and 16 were placed in the top 10% in one or more areas.

Read more at: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2017/08/1386.asp

The University of Lincoln has been awarded Gold – the highest standard possible – in a national independent assessment of teaching quality in higher education.

Lincoln was awarded the prestigious status today (Thursday 22nd June 2017) in the publication of outcomes of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).

Read more at: www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2017/06/1374.asp

NHS Lincolnshire West Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has launched a public consultation around the future of Lincoln’s NHS Walk-in Centre on Monks Road.

The consultation will run for eight weeks (from Monday 12 June until Sunday 6 August 2017).

Patients, including students from the University of Lincoln, are being encouraged to share their views on the proposals by the CCG.

To read the consultation document in full, visit: http://www.lincolnshirewestccg.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Lincoln-Walk-in-Centre-Consultation-Document.pdf

Fill in the consultation survey online at: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/wic-consultation

The University of Lincoln is contributing to a major new £485,000 project designed to ensure that students confronted by challenging circumstances during their time at university can get the most from their studies.

Each of the four universities involved will concentrate on different hurdles faced by different students in higher education with the goal of developing interventions which personal tutors can deploy to enable students to achieve the success they deserve.

Experts in pedagogical research from the Lincoln Higher Education Research Institute at the University of Lincoln will work with students and personal tutors to create a new online ‘academic development’ programme. This online resource will feature interactive materials designed to help tutors support their students in overcoming obstacles in their learning.

The overall project, entitled ‘Intervention for Success’, is being led by the University of Huddersfield, which will focus its research on the challenge of living at home and facing a long commute to and from university. The other institutional partners are Coventry University and Manchester Metropolitan University.

The work is being funded as part of a national £7.5 million programme of support to tackle barriers to student success, which will see 17 projects involving 64 higher education providers  receive funding from the Catalyst Fund administered by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to drive innovation in the higher education sector.

Dr Karin Crawford, Head of Lincoln Higher Education Research Institute at the University of Lincoln, is leading Lincoln’s contribution to the project.

To read more visit: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2017/03/1335.asp

The Riseholme Campus of the University of Lincoln has joined the UK’s national network of monitoring stations measuring intergalactic cosmic rays to provide farmers and agri-tech researchers with near real-time data on soil moisture levels.

Grasslands at the campus have been fitted with cutting-edge meteorological and soil monitoring instruments as part of the national Cosmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System (COSMOS-UK) project.

Led by the UK’s Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the COSMOS-UK project launched in 2013 and now includes 40 sites stretching from Glensaugh in Scotland to The Lizard in Cornwall, with further installations planned.

Riseholme is the first location in Lincolnshire to be added to the national network of monitoring stations. Once calibrated, the technology will help to inform research by scientists from the University’s Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology (LIAT), as well researchers at other universities and research institutions.

Read more at:  http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2017/01/1315.asp