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Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – May 2017

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – May 2017

Posted on 31 May 2017 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague The security services have been warning for some time that we could expect an atrocity at some point, but the awful news from Manchester this month still came […]

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – April 2017

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – April 2017

Posted on 28 April 2017 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague I was delighted to receive the news this month that we have been awarded a £13m grant to create a Dementia Research Centre, one of six in the […]

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – March 2017

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – March 2017

Posted on 31 March 2017 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague Now that the Prime Minister has invoked Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty the clock is ticking, and it won't be long before serious negotiations are underway. As […]

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – February 2017

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – February 2017

Posted on 28 February 2017 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague This month I spent two days in Switzerland as part of a delegation whose aim was to learn from the experience our Swiss colleagues and counterparts had when […]

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – January 2017

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – January 2017

Posted on 31 January 2017 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague As I write the news is dominated by the United States travel ban, the immediate political aims of which are clear enough (fulfilling a campaign pledge) though it […]

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – December 2016

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – December 2016

Posted on 21 December 2016 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague Every time I look at a newspaper at the moment I seem to alight on article explaining, with limited originality, what a bad, traumatic, catastrophic or just plain […]

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – November 2016

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – November 2016

Posted on 30 November 2016 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague This month we received the sad news that my predecessor Sir Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson has passed away at the age of 90. Sir Aubrey was a pivotal figure in […]

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – October 2016

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – October 2016

Posted on 28 October 2016 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague It has now been almost four months since the tumultuous events that led to the installation of a new Prime Minister in Downing Street. As soon as it […]

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – September 2016

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – September 2016

Posted on 30 September 2016 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague We begin the new academic year in a very different world. The turbulence that followed the Brexit vote has largely settled for the moment, although the value of […]

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – July 2016

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – July 2016

Posted on 25 July 2016 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague One of the most noteworthy pieces of news in a month of extraordinary events was the appointment of the new Foreign Secretary. I refer of course to the […]