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1. Leavers Donations / Ditchley Fund 2. Sexual Consent Workshop Facilitator training - call for volunteers 3. Blankets/Sofas in the MCR External Notices 1. Test your memory with a short online game, and help Student Minds in the process! 2. Learning Study 3. OUSU International Students Survey 4. "A bit tense or worried?" Study -- Internal Notices 1. Leavers Donations / Ditchley Fund A short notice on behalf of our esteemed Treasurer, Josh: As was discussed in the MCR meeting last week, the Ditchley fund is a fund which we can access as the MCR to purchase physical items for the use of MCR members. In the past we have used this money to fund our MCR library, buy a croquet kit with the JCR, and buy a Christmas tree. This fund is formed by donations from graduates and we will be continuing with the same process as previous years whereby a £5 donation is automatically added to battels for all leavers this summer. There is also the option to opt-out of this donation so if you would like to do this then please contact the Development Office ([email protected]) to let them know. In a more general sense, we are trying to increase the transparency of MCR spending as well as publicise accessible funds (such as the Ditchley fund and vacation fund) so keep an eye out for more information coming soon. 2. Sexual Consent Workshop Facilitator training - call for volunteers You will all remember the Sexual Consent Workshops that were organised during Freshers Week back in Michaelmas. We’ll be running them again for the new students arriving in October 2016, and we’d love some help running them! You will be fully trained to run these sessions, and the training will take place some time in 9th week or -1st week of Michaelmas. Dates are still unknown at the moment I’m afraid. The training is provided by OUSU. If you’re interested in running one or more of these workshops in Freshers Week then please e-mail me and I’ll keep you up to date with everything that you’ll need to know. 3. Blankets/Sofas in the MCR It seems that a few of our lovely cosy blankets have gone missing from our MCR. If you’ve inadvertently taken one for a picnic that hasn’t quite made its way back to the room yet, then please do return it ASAP. These blankets aren’t cheap. Comfort costs, people. Also, one of the sofas has suffered an ink stain on one of the seat cushions. The scouts took the cover to be laundered but it wouldn’t budge, so have pulled the classic trick of just turning the cover over. Please refrain from staining it again. External Notices 1. Test your memory with a short online game, and help Student Minds in the process! Researchers at the Department of Experimental Psychology are conducting a study investigating the memory capacity of Oxford students. Previous participants have had lots of fun hunting for treasure in our online game, and it will allow you to compare your working memory to other Oxford students. For every completed session (around 20 minutes) we will donate £1 to Student Minds, the UK’s leading student mental health charity. Visit eelkespaak.nl/wmgame/ to play! Email [email protected] if you have any questions. 2. Learning Study We are looking for healthy volunteers to improve our understanding of how people learn which are the best choices to make in day-to-day living. The study will take about 1 hour of your time and will take place in the Department of Psychiatry at the Warneford Hospital. During the study you would be asked to complete some simple learning tasks. If you are interested and would like more information please contact Dr Erdem Pulcu on [email protected]. You will be reimbursed for your time 3. OUSU International Students Survey The International Students' Campaign at the Student Union is keen to find out your experiences as an international student at the University, to see where we should focus our campaigning over the next year. Please take 5 minutes to complete our short survey at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ousuinternationalsurvey. The survey is open to all students who are not normally resident in the UK, or who are not British citizens. 4. "A bit tense or worried?" Study We are looking for healthy volunteers aged 18-50 years to take part in a study investigating how a single dose of the medication losartan affects learning and information processing, using computer tasks and EEG. Losartan is currently used to treat high blood pressure. However, we think that it may also enhance the effectiveness of psychological therapies such as Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy. The study involves two appointments of about 3 hours in total. You will be reimbursed for your time. Please contact us for more information: Phone: 01865 26508 Email: [email protected] Study website: http://www.oxited.co.uk/our-healthy-volunteers-research.html
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I hope everybody had a spectacular time at this afternoon’s Garden Party. A huge, huge thank you to our Social Team and volunteers for organising and running the day, and a special mention to members of the OU Jazz Band for entertaining us with their delightful sounds. Only a few notices from me this evening. Have a pleasant remainder of your sunny Sunday and a great 7th week! Cheers, Kev -- Internal Notices 1. MCR General Meeting - Wednesday 8:15pm in the MCR 2. MCR Photograph - Saturday 8th Week (June 18th) 12pm 3. New MCR Website! External Notices 1. Register to Vote -- Internal Notices 1. MCR General Meeting - Wednesday 8:15pm in the MCR Come along to the MCR after second hall on Wednesday for our second MCR General Meeting of Trinity Term. If you’d like to submit a motion for consideration, e-mail it to Adam Steel ([email protected]) by 8pm tomorrow, Monday 6th June. 2. MCR Photograph - Saturday 8th Week (June 18th) 12pm Our MCR Photograph will take place at 12pm on Saturday of 8th Week (June 18th) - the day after the Leaver’s Dinner. Gillman & Soame will be coming to take it and will stick around for about an hour to take group photographs too. For inspiration in terms of dress code and ideas for the ‘silly’ photo (be creative!) just take a gander at the photos already up in the MCR from previous years. 3. New MCR Website! Take a look at lincolnmcr.weebly.com for our brand new Lincoln MCR website, all put together by our own Adam Steel. The hope is that this website eventually replaces a lot of the e-mails that get sent out (like this one!) so the MCR Committee doesn’t clog up your inbox any more than necessary. Over the next couple of weeks the Committee will still carry on sending e-mails as normal while we iron out any bugs in the website, and ideally completely switch over in Michaelmas 2016. If you find something wrong/incomplete/broken on the website, or you think of anything that you’d like to see on there that isn’t already, whizz off an e-mail to Adam ([email protected]). External Notices 1. Register to Vote You must be registered to vote before Tuesday 7 June 2016 in order to vote in the EU referendum on Thursday 23 June 2016. It is the responsibility of each student to register themselves, which can be done online at the gov.uk website. |
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