Cardiff University and Velindre NHS Trust – Memorandum of Understanding
The Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University, Professor Colin Riordan and the Chair of Velindre NHS Trust, Rosemary Kennedy have signed an agreement that sets out the basis for closer collaboration between the two organisations. The Agreement will bring together some of Wales’s leading experts in a renewed bid to tackle cancer.
In the UK, one in three people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime and one in four people will die of cancer. Overcoming such an enormous challenge requires a collaborative, multi-faceted approach and this agreement signifies another positive step towards achieving this goal.
Signing the new Agreement, Professor Riordan said: “Cardiff University and Velindre NHS Trust are already working to translate world-leading cancer research and innovation into clinical practice.
“This Agreement represents a further commitment to the continuing challenge to find new and effective treatments for cancer. There are great advantages to aligning our work in a more formal and coordinated way. World-leading scientists working alongside frontline clinicians have the potential to deliver the maximum benefit for cancer patients.”
Cardiff’s top 30 spot in ‘Table of Tables’
Cardiff University has re-entered the top 30 in the Times Higher Education’s ‘Table of Tables’. Cardiff secured 26th place in the seventh annual table, which bring together data from the three main domestic league tables – The Complete University Guide, The Guardian, and The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide. Cardiff rose 12 places to 23rd spot in the Complete University Guide 2015, climbed three places in the 2015 Guardian rankings, and moved up six places to 27 in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2015. Vice Chancellor, Professor Colin Riordan, said: “We are proud of our progress in the three main domestic rankings, but also delighted that we continue to improve internationally, having returned to the top 125 in this year’s QS World Rankings. Re-entering the top 30 in the Times Higher Education’s ‘Table of Tables’ is testament to the hard work of staff and students, and reaffirms our upward trajectory as a high-performing university.’
The full 2015 Times Higher Education ‘Table of Tables’ can be found here
Cardiff in UK’s Top 20 Universities, says US rankings
Cardiff is ranked in the UK’s Top 20 Universities, according to a US league table. The US News & World Report Global Universities Rankings show Cardiff is 19th in the UK, 188th in the world, and 72nd in Europe. The table also ranks Cardiff in the world’s top 100 across five subject areas: psychiatry/ psychology (64); neuroscience (65); space science (87); social sciences and public health (88) and immunology (95).
Vice-Chancellor Professor Colin Riordan said: “We have made real progress this year, moving up in the three main domestic rankings and improving internationally, having returned to the top 125 in this year’s QS World Rankings. The US News & World Report Rankings reaffirm our place as a world-leading university.”
Ebola
In the unlikely event that anyone should ask what the Universities stance is with regards Ebola, below a link to all relevant information:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/osheu/
Research success in the School of Dentistry
There have been a number of people competing in conference prize competitions and we are happy to report the following successes:
- Wayne Ayre (Post Doctoral researcher)– Winner of the Mineralized Tissue Travel Award for an oral presentation at the Pan European Region meeting of the International Association of Dental Research (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
- Kirsty Sands (2nd Year PhD student)– Winner of the Unilever poster prize at the Pan European Region meeting of the International Association of Dental Research (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
- Emma Board Davies (2nd Year PhD student) – Highly Commended as part of the Senior Colgate prize at the Pan European Region meeting of the International Association of Dental Research (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
- Rachel Moses (2nd Year PhD student)– Winner of a Poster prize at the European Tissue Repair Society meeting (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Emma Board Davies (2nd Year PhD student) – Winner of the Oral presentation prize as part of the Cardiff Institute of Tissue Engineering and Repair (CITER) Annual Scientific Meeting (Llanelli, Wales)
- Abeer Al-Mouallad (3rd Year PhD student) – Highly Commended for her poster presented as part of the Cardiff Institute of Tissue Engineering and Repair (CITER) Annual Scientific Meeting (Llanelli, Wales)
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Zairah Roked won the first prize for the DF2/SHO/career development post category at the 2014 BAOS (British Association of Oral Surgery) conference in Edinburgh for her work on the use of the M-SASQ (Modified Single Alcohol Screening Question) to identify alcohol misuse in dental patients.
This is testament to all their (and their supervisor’s) hard work and is particularly pleasing as some of these are supported through our commitment to fund a number of School PhD studentships.
Wayne Ayre (Post Doctoral researcher)– Winner of the Mineralized Tissue Travel Award, Pan European Region meeting of the International Association of Dental Research (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
Interim Director of Clinical Trials
Congratulations to Professor Kerry Hood who has been appointed as the Interim Director of Clinical Trials for the College. She will take up the post from November 2014 until September 2015. We wish Kerry every success in the post.
Research Excellence Framework 2014
The long awaited results of the REF will soon be with us. In advance of the announcement below a reminder of the key dates just before Christmas:
| When | What will happen |
| 16th Dec | Embargoed release of institutional results |
| 17th Dec | Embargoed release of all results |
| 18th Dec | Results published on Cardiff University website |