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Open Days and Taster Sessions...
Psychology Postgraduate Open evening
The Open Evening provides opportunities to discover more about the our postgraduate provision, speak to academics and learn more about professional training in Psychology.
Date: Monday 12th March
Time: 6-8pm (Registration from 5:30pm)
Location: Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, E1 7NT.
Booking info: You can book a place at the event online here
There will be staff present to speak to anyone interested in any of the following courses:
- Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology
- MSc Forensic Psychology
- MSc Health Psychology
- MSc Occupational Psychology
- MSc Addiction & Mental Health
- MSc Business Psychology
- MSc Child, Adolescent & Family Mental Health
- MSc Criminal Psychology
- MSc Consumer Psychology
- MSc Organisational Psychology
- MSc Psychology of Health
- Psychology Graduate Conversion Programmes
MSc Forensic Psychology Taster Session
People interested in Forensic Psychology are also invited to attend a talk 'Homicide-Suicide: Assessment, Risk and Consequences' before the event, given by a member of the course team for the MSc who is also a Chartered Forensic Psychologist.
Date: Monday 12th March
Time: 5.00-5.45pm
Location: School of Psychology, Calcutta House, Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT.
Booking info: to reserve a place for this taster session email psychology@londonmet.ac.uk
Science Taster Course
The Science taster course is designed to give students the opportunity to explore different areas of the discipline. Student will have the chance to attend science-related sessions in the areas of nutrition, biomedical sciences and molecular pharmaceutical sciences. Activities will be carried out under the supervision of London Metropolitan University staff who teach in the Faculty of Life Sciences, giving students the opportunity to view and use many of the facilities in our exciting new Science Centre.
Date: Monday 16th March
Time: 9:00-2:45pm
Location: Graduate Centre, 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB
For more info please see the information sheet here
Tell Us What You Think...
The National Student Survey (NSS) is your opportunity to give your opinions on what you liked about your time at London Met as well as things that you felt could have been improved.The survey is for all final year undergraduate students and allows you to give feedback on all aspects of your course and your university experience.
We pay very close attention to all feedback and use your opinions to improve our service to you.
And if thats not enough, how about a chance of winning £1000??? All students who fill out the survey will be entered into a prize draw with the possibility of winning £1000!
The survey takes less than five minutes and can be taken here
History made as Life Sciences Attempts to Break Records
Sports Science senior lecturer Christina Jacklin set herself the daunting task of creating a new world record.
A total of 122 FoLS students and staff attempted to set a record for the highest number of poeple simultaniously holding an abdominal plank for a minute.
Our thanks go to Christina for all of her hard work and everyone who helped out on the day.
Society for General Microbiology Prize for FoLS Student
Sviatlana Starchenka has won this year's Society for General Microbiology (SGM) Undergraduate Prize. This award is for the student who "performs best in microbiology" in their second year of study. Sviatlana gained the highest mark in Microbial Physiology in 2010-11. Dr Trushar Adatia presented her with her certificate earlier this week.
The previous winner, Rukya Ahmed, said that winning the award had made her realise her potential in the field of microbiology
Lecturer authors worrying report of child weakness
Daniel Cohen, Senior Lecturer in Sports Science is the lead author of a worrying report which shows a dramatic decline in children’s strength over the last 10 years.
Daniel worked with fellow Life Sciences lecturer Anne Delextrat and four researchers fromthe University of Essex to produce the report, published in the journal of child health, Acta Paediatrician.
The study found that in the last decade the number of sit-ups 10-year-old children can do has dropped by nearly 30 per cent, while children’s arm strength had fallen by about 25 percent.
FoLS Summer 2011 Newsletter is now out and can be downloaded here
Check out the Winter 2010/11 Newsletter here
Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Visit
The Faculty was delighted to welcome members of the teaching team from SUTCM to London in August. Colleagues were involved in staff development sessions, looking at teaching pedagogy in the Superlab, as well as considering future developments between the two institutions.
FoodMicro 2010 Conference, Copenhagen
In front of Amara’s poster at the Bella Centre, Copenhagen, left to right: Elyn, Amara, Jane, David, Irene
Jane Sutherland, Irene Ouoba, Amara Anyogu and Elyn Xu from the Microbiology Research Unit had a busy week at the International Conference on Food Microbiology and Hygiene (ICFMH) FoodMicro 2010 at the Bella Centre, Copenhagen. At a preliminary workshop on “Value-added processing of indigenous fermented food”, Irene gave a talk on interactions between African and European scientists and institutions, in which among other aspects, she highlighted the support provided by LondonMet for her developing research career. Irene also gave a presentation on safety of traditional African alkaline fermented foods at the main conference. Jane, Irene, Amara and Elyn each displayed posters of their research and Amara was one of seven finalists (from well over 100) considered for an award for the best student poster. They were also delighted to meet again David Adimpong, a former LondonMet MSc (Food Science) student, who graduated with distinction in 2007 and is now engaged in research for an industrially-sponsored PhD at the University of Copenhagen.
Hamid Ghoddusi, however, responded to the call of more southerly climes and went to Cape Town for the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, where he presented a poster entitled “Selective Enumeration of Bifidobacteria in Dairy Products; A Comparative Study”.
FoLs summer Newsletter is now out and can be downloaded here -
FoLS Newsletter Summer 2010.pdf
Opening Hours for Resources Room
From Monday 26/07/2010. The new resources room (cm161) opening hours will be from 11am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Course News -MSc Health Psychology
- London Met is planning to start their Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology from October. This is an exciting and important development of the Health Psychology programme.
- Staff on the course have recently been involved in a project looking at Childhood Obesity in New York and London. See www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/latest-news/january-2010/seasons-biggest-london---new-york-trend-childhood-obesity.cfm for more details
- Students on the MSc Health Psychology programme are currently taking doing placements at the Health and Well-Being Centre. This is a university initiative to give free health advice to staff and students about stop smoking and weight-loss. As part of this students will be delivering healthy eating advice to primary school children. All new students have the opportunity to take part!
- Research currently being carried out by the Health team includes a study on breast cancer awareness and body image in South Asian women funded by Breast Cancer Campaign. In addition we are carrying out a large survey on diabetes risk and healthy lifestyle among university students in collaboration with the dietetics team here at LondonMet.
- Dr Esther Murray is currently working with HHS colleagues and Islington PCT on an intervention for obese and overweight teenagers called NEW Start. This involves teenagers attending twice a week for exercise and nutrition and lifestyle change education classes over a period of 10 weeks
- Dr Anna Baker and Dr Esther Murray are developing and delivering training to frontline NHS Islington staff in order to help them develop the skills to raise behaviour change issues. This is part of NHS wide work on health promotion which seeks to improve the health of everyone in the UK by tackling behaviours such as smoking, alcohol abuse, physical activity, healthy eating, cancer screening, sexual and reproductive health and mental health and wellbeing.
- There is an open day on March 12th and April 21st for more information. Applicant interviews will be held on those days. Contact e.murray@londonmet.ac.uk for more details.
Student Resources
Many useful Student resources including a link to 'personal timetables' can be found by clicking on the Metranet link which can be found on most of the University website pages.
To view your timetable, you would choose 'Timetable' from the grey list of links on the right. Then choose 'View my timetable' from the grey list of links on the right.
