Council, Committees & Congregation
Changes to Regulations
- Remit of Investment Committee's new Ethical Investment Representations Review Subcommittee (a recast of the Socially Responsible Investment Review Committee), to take effect from 1st week of Trinity term 2021
- Changes to the composition of the Education Committee to include the chairs of the its main panels and subcommittees
- Amendments to Audit and Scrutiny Committee Regulations to include the Director of Assurance, reduce the period of office of all members to three years and update the committee's remit to reflect best practice guidance
Congregation
- Voting on Changes to Congregation Regulations 2 of 2002: the conduct of business in Congregation (to allow for Congregation meetings to take place online during COVID-19-related restrictions)
- Voting on Suspension to Congregation Regulations 2 of 2002: Religious Services and Sermons (to suspend the requirement to hold University sermons in St Mary's, Oriel, Hertford and Lincoln, due to COVID-19-related restrictions)
Register of Congregation
New members of register (D Kielak, CL Mezger Kveder, A Nair, CIO Nichols, AH Purkiss, CG Sloan, KN Timm, C Véliz, TJ Viney, J Yang, B Zonta)
Degree by Resolution
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University Notices
Implementation of Multi-factor Authentication on all SSO accounts
- staff and students will be asked to verify their SSO account using a second factor, such as a text message
- will be rolled out in batches, alphabetically by surname, from January 2021
- early enablement can be requested if users are concerned about deployment date and workload clashes
People-related notices
College obituaries
- Christ Church (including Jack Ellis Paton, former Governing Body member)
- St Hilda's (including Elizabeth Mouncey Wood, Schoolmistress Fellow 1988)
- St Hugh's
- Trinity
Lectures and Events
Musical Events
- Sheldonian Theatre (Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra: tribute to the work of Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine team): 6.30pm, 18 Dec
Lectures
- Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture 2020 (Professor Alan Guth, 'Infinite phase space and the two-headed arrow of time'): 5pm, 18 Dec
Exams & Boards
DPhil viva voce exams
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Prizes, Grants and Funding
Peterhouse, Cambridge: Graduate Studentships 2021
Hanseatic and Theodor Heuss Scholarships for study in Germany
Job vacancies
University of Oxford vacancies
- Department of Statistics; Postdoctoral Researcher; £41,526–£49,553; 8 January
- Public Affairs Directorate; 6-month COVID Strategic Media Relations Manager; £48,114–£55,750; noon, 6 January
- Public Affairs Directorate; 6-month COVID Communications Officer; £32,817–£40,322; noon, 7 January
- Public Affairs Directorate; 6-month Social Media Officer; £29,176–£34,804; noon, 7 January
- Public Affairs Directorate; 6-month COVID Internal Communications Manager; £32,817–£40,322; noon, 6 January
College vacancies
- North Oxford Shared College Services; IT Officer; c£25,941–£30,942; 15 January
- Pembroke; IT Officer (Systems Developer); 4 January
- Queen’s; permanent full-time College Accountant; £55,750–£64,605; 5 January
- Worcester; Permanent Senior Tutor; £64,605; 9am, 19 February
Cambridge & other vacancies
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