Lincoln College MCR 7th Week Notices
Internal Notices 1. SCR Wine Sale 2. Want a locker? 3. Nominate a book for the MCR library 4. Gowns in the MCR 5. Hall survey - thank you! 6. Missing coat External Notices 1. Oxford Student Consultancy Survey 2. Research volunteers needed 3. OE Ventures: Start a company over Hilary term! 4. Depression in students survey 5. Oxford Student Publications job advert 6. More research volunteers needed 7. Even more research volunteers needed 8. Oxmas Cards for Jacari 9. Graduate Student Representatives on University Divisional Boards required 10. Even even more research volunteers needed –––––––––––––––––––– Internal Notices 1. SCR Wine Sale I have some very exciting notices for you all - the Christmas Wine Sale is here! Each year, the Senior Common Room Wine Steward (yes, that is an actual thing - possibly the best job in Lincoln) picks out a few bottles from the SCR Wine Cellar that the MCR members are allowed to purchase. MCR members are invited to purchase a maximum of two bottles of wine from the SCR cellar at SCR prices, to be paid for on next term’s battels. This year we’ve been particularly lucky, and we are allowed choice of:
If you are interested, please fill in this form: https://goo.gl/forms/2QoxLyfqgr7oNZAc2 Please note that availability is first come, first served. So if you wish to order any of these bottles of wine, you’d better move fast! The form will be closed at 8pm on Wednesday 8th Week (30 November). Those MCR members who are successful in purchasing some wine will be contacted with details of how to collect it. More than likely, you will be able to pick it up from Deep Hall during 8th/9th Week, but this is to be confirmed. 2. Want a locker? The Clerk of Works in College has very kindly changed the locks on five of the lockers near Deep Hall, so we can use them again! If you want one, get in touch. 3. Nominate a book for the MCR Library Keep filling in the form to nominate your favourite books/magazines for addition to the MCR Library, and the MCR Committee will work on it over the Christmas vacation to make it happen. The form is here https://goo.gl/forms/4FnO6gQD2JyfsUv82 4. Gowns in the MCR As a result of clearing out the lockers (see item 2), we now have a few spare gowns for communal use! This is, of course, in addition to the ones that Tony and Simon usually have available if you’ve forgotten your gown and you’re going to second Hall. They’ll be hanging up on the hooks in the back of the MCR. Please don’t steal them :-) 5. Hall survey - thank you! On the subject of Hall, thank you to everyone who filled in the Hall survey! We had over 300 responses between the MCR and JCR, which is absolutely fantastic, and College are now looking very carefully at the results. 6. Missing Coat A green parka coat, brand Superdry, size L, went missing after second Hall last week (14 November). If you have it by mistake, or you see it somewhere, please contact [email protected]. Thankyou! –––––––––––––––––––– External Notices 1. Oxford Student Consultancy Survey Do you want to change the way you publish your papers? The Oxford Student Consultancy is helping an Oxford based start-up change the way that your future papers will be published. Do you want to shape the course of that start-up? Please fill in the survey below (this will take you less than 5 minutes) and make things easier for yourself for your next paper! https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/8FMS7KQ 2. Research volunteers needed We are looking for volunteers for a study looking non-invasively at the levels of various chemicals in the brain. We will use a technique called Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. By doing this we hope to understand more about how the brain responds in diseases in which the immune system attacks the brain. The study would involve one visit to theJohnRadcliffe,inwhichyouwouldhaveaonehourMRIscanandabloodtest. We are able to recompense expenses and time. We need volunteers between 18 and 80 years of age, in good health and without a history of epilepsy or any other disease affecting the brain or spinal cord. If you have a metallic implant, cardiac pacemaker, are pregnant or suffer from claustrophobia you should not volunteer. If you are interested or would like to know more we would be happy to discuss the study further with you – please contact us: Dr C Stagg Centre for Functional Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB) Oxford University John Radcliffe Hospital Headington Tel 01865 222 736 Email [email protected] 3. OE Ventures: Start a company over Hilary term! Ever thought about starting your own company? OE Ventures will give you the skills, connections, and mentorship to make this a reality. OE Ventures is a practical, hands-on approach to entrepreneurship, where students team up to build a startup from scratch, supported by workshops and mentors from Entrepreneurs First, Techstars, 500 Startups, Deliveroo, and more. Taking place over Hilary term, and covering everything from validating a business idea to raising money, OE Ventures teaches you how launch a business, by doing it in real life. The most ambitious teams will launch a new business by the end of Hilary, with the chance to pitch to seed investors. Alongside this, we will be running a series of dinners, socials, and networking events. Applications are rolling, so the sooner you apply the better! Application link: https://goo.gl/forms/Cq0OQP4YSEldIsS72 Facebook Event 4. Depression in students survey I am conducting a study on the cross validation of the University Student Depression Inventory (USDI) with students in the UK. This study is done in collaboration with two colleagues from my department (Agata Vitale and Jennifer Kinloch) and with the input of Nigar Khawaja (University of Queensland), who developed the USDI with students in Australia. This study is important because, despite the high rates of depression among students in the UK, there isn’t currently a specific instrument to measure it in this population. We need a large sample to validate this scale. Students do not need to suffer with depression in order to participate. This study has been approved by the ethics committee of Bath Spa University. Students who agree to participate will be directed to an online information sheet, the consent form, a bio form (to gather their demographic details), the USDI, the DASS-21 (this scale assesses depression and anxiety for validation purposes), and the debriefing form. The whole process will take approximately 10-15 minutes. Thanks in advance for your collaboration and please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries. The questionnaire can be accessed here: https://bathspa.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/usdi Kind Regards, Gerry Markopoulos [email protected] 5. Oxford Student Publications job advert Interested in business or publishing? Want a terrific addition to your CV? Want to be able to say you made over £10,000 in advertising sales and be in regular contact with top graduate recruiters? Then join Oxford Student Publications Ltd (OSPL)! We’re the (entirely student run) publishing company that publishes Cherwell, The ISIS, Bang! and others. This is a really good chance to get hands on experience in a unique and challenging way, with roles that are much more rewarding than typical student societies and offering real business experience that is hard to come by elsewhere. No prior experience needed. For more details on applying to join the business team, or for any queries, please [email protected] 6. More research volunteers needed I am looking to recruit people to participate in my research project for the remainder of this term (and a week or so after term if you’ll be here in the vac). It is a very cool study looking at the effects of transcranial electrical stimulation on maths cognition, which is a lot safer and more painless than it sounds. It takes about 1.5-2 hours at the experimental psychology building on South Parks Road. You would be repaid not only with my immense gratitude but also actual money from the EP department (£10 an hour). If you’re interested please get in touch by emailing [email protected] and I’ll send you more information! Many thanks in advance xxx 7. Even more research volunteers needed Research: Native English Speakers Wanted, Earn £5 Is English your first language? Do you want to earn £5 for 30 minutes' fairly easy work? If so, I need participants for my fun eye-tracking reading study. Please email [email protected] for further details. Participants should have English as a first language, without any reading difficulties or visual impairments (glasses/lenses are fine). Thank you! 8. Oxmas Cards for Jacari Send your friends some food and love this November by ordering a personalised Oxmas Card, complete with candy canes, Christmas glitter, and chocolate. You get to leave a short message in the card, and we'll handle the packing and delivery of the Oxmas Card to your friend! Card Options: 1) Oxmas Card with candy cane - £2 2) Oxmas Card with candy cane and chocolates - £2.50 Order form: Find our order form at http://tinyurl.com/OxmasCards or visit our Facebook page for more details All proceeds go to Jacari, a local student charity providing free tuition for young children who do not speak English as their first language. Find out more at jacari.org 9. Graduate Student Representatives on University Divisional Boards required Are you a grad & interested in working in a University environment? Want to gain valuable experience & make change for your fellow students? We’re recruiting postgraduate students to represent their peers on the University’s Divisional Boards. If you’re in Humanities, Medical Sciences, or Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences, then we need you! (Thanks Social Sciences, but we’ve got it covered.) This is a great thing to do if you’re interested in academia or University administration – you’ll get experience of working in University committees at a high level, which is incredibly valuable for future career progression. You’ll get the chance to represent student interests, direct policy and other decisions within your division, and gain an insight into the inner workings of this weird and wonderful University. Your workload shouldn’t exceed 20 hours per term. The deadline is the 25th November. You can apply here:https://goo.gl/forms/fBvAyoYomFDDwNOC3 Following this there will be an interview process, and the successful candidates will be ratified by OUSU Council in 0th week HT. You can find a copy of the role description (with a list of the qualities that we’re looking for) here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hQZwRb3HILk47TbWc84vJ7D8zkrmRRuumvKzYc5bFpM/edit?usp=sharing If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Marina Lambrakis, OUSU VP (Graduates) at [email protected]. 10. Even even more research volunteers needed Who are we? We are the Oxford Centre for Emotions and Affective Neuroscience (OCEAN lab) led by Prof. Elaine Fox. We are situated at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. Find us at: http://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/ocean What do we do? We explore the link between eating behaviour and cognitive abilities in a healthy adult population. We want to understand how impulsivity is linked to our response to food-related information and eating behaviour. We will also investigate if a simple computer-based training task can influence the ability to inhibit actions in response to events. What do you have to do? You will be asked to fill in some questionnaire and perform some computer-based tasks. You need to come twice to the Department of Experimental Psychology (for 1.5 hours each). Further, you will have to do some practicing on your computer at home (approx. 10 mins) every day for 6 days between the two appointments. What do you get? You would be paid £10 per assessment session at the lab and you can also win money on one of the tasks (around £5). Additionally, you will receive a total of £10 for the practice sessions at home. If this study sounds interesting to you, please do not hesitate to contact us for more information: [email protected] You can take time to think about it and ask questions before you decide whether or not to take part in our study! Your enquiry will be kept confidential and you will not be obliged to take part in our study!
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