When people don\u2019t know they\u2019ve supported your work, how do you say \u2018Thank you!\u2019? \r\nObviously, you can hold a celebration event. Publicise widely, invite people in. Sweeten the offer with nibbles?
On Wednesday the 3rd of April 2019, myself and 30 other students, from Sir William Borlase\u2019s Grammar School, attended the Oxford University Oncology Open Day at the Cancer Research Centre, Oxford.
How do we attract tomorrow\u2019s brightest research students?\r\nStep 1: Make sure they know we exist. We don\u2019t teach undergraduates; you can\u2019t study oncology at A\u2019 level. We need to give them a chance to explore how physics can cure cancer. How biology leads us to a better understanding of cancer, and how chemistry helps us design imaging agents that will guide therapy choices.
I was a Final Year medical student when David Weatherall was appointed Professor of Haematology in Liverpool University in 1973. He was an outstanding Lecturer, extremely popular with the students and helped to make Haematology an exciting and popular subject.
We are slowly trickling back into labs and offices as we are approaching the end of the summer, and what better way to welcome the start of term than by looking back on one of our summer outreach efforts?
We must reach out to the people who fund our work; some of these are adults across the UK who donate to Cancer Research UK or pay their taxes. Dr Mario Munoz Pinto (on the left in the photo below) reached out and found that one way to a parent\u2019s heart and mind may be through their children.
On Friday, 18th May the postdocs of the Department of Oncology met for their 6th Annual Away Day. The event was organised by the Oncology Postdoc Network Committee (OPN) and for the third year running, the event was held at the Oxford Martin School in the heart of Oxford on Broad Street.
Applying to Oxford is a daunting prospect. For many students in their last year of school, the idea of going to Oxford seems so far out of reach that it\u2019s not worth applying. For others, Oxford seems like a place where they couldn\u2019t fit in or make a success of their time here. A number of people have set out to challenge these perceptions. Amongst them The University itself and a teacher training scheme called \u2018Teach First\u2019.
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