Staff updates

On this week’s episode of the Women Finding Success podcast, listen to Associate Professor Remi Ayoko discuss her research in online work, physical work environments and managing conflict in teams, and her career journey from Nigeria to Australia.

Find out how UQ Healthy Living makes health and fitness for over 50s safe, smart and simple. Join UQ Healthy Living Open Day on Sunday 23 May, 10am – 12pm and tour this incredible facility. Explore the new Member’s Studio, try the latest in fitness gamification, discover what the BodPod can do for you, and so much more. Open to the public. For enquiries, contact UQ Healthy Living.

The 2021 Inaugural UQ Scholarships Week (Monday 10 – Friday 14 May) is an opportunity to generate greater awareness of the scholarships available to students, celebrate the achievements of scholarship recipients and recognise the important contributions of donors and partner institutions.

At work, we are subject to the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), which sets out 11 principles that govern how we collect, store, access, use, and disclose personal information. These are embedded in the UQ Information Management Policy. However, our data at home isn’t subject to the same safeguards, so doing a privacy check-up is a great way to maintain security. What do you look out for?

UQ President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry AO and Technical University of Munich President Professor Thomas F. Hofmann signed the wide-reaching Memorandum of Understanding during a virtual ceremony taken place on 19 April 2021.

UQ's User Interface Design and Development (ADS UI) team in ITS Application Development and Support have launched the 'Design System', an online guide to how user interfaces should look, feel, behave and be coded at UQ. For more information, contact the ITS ADS UI team at webservices@uq.edu.au.

Join the School of Music for the UQ Vice-Chancellor’s Concert, welcoming Maestro Dane Lam in his debut performance as Conductor and Director of the UQ Symphony Orchestra (UQSO), performing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony 'Ode to Joy' on Sunday 23 May at QPAC. Tickets now on sale.

On this week’s episode of the Women Finding Success podcast, Dr Sally Shrapnel discusses how she transitioned from 20 years as a medical practitioner, to the world of academia, quantum physics and machine learning.

2021 NIBR Global Scholars Program seeking proposals oriented to drug target validation and drug discovery, and in Novartis’ key therapeutic areas of focus. Email novartis@uniquest.com.au for 2021 Scientific Needs List.

Following the recent UniFi upgrade, a back-end system error will occur if a Requisition is created and the Requisition currency doesn't match the Supplier currency. When an order is created with this issue, the entire sourcing process will error for all UQ Requisitions. It's therefore very important the correct currency is selected at the outset and to ensure the Supplier has been set up with the relevant currency.

Every UQ staff member deals with data. Data is core to what we do, and we all have a part to play in UQ’s data landscape. Learn about your data responsibilities and why they are important.

On this week’s episode of the Women Finding Success podcast, UQ's Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, Professor Janeen Baxter, discusses how social disadvantages affect people’s life course, gender inequalities in career progression, as well as her own career journey and achievements.

Analysis has commenced to migrate course profile management from ECPS to Jac, the curriculum management system. Course profiles provide students, staff and the public with key information about specific course offerings. Complete a short survey to help identify high-level concerns of the current system to feed into detailed analysis.

The launch of the inaugural Churchill Policy Room at Parliament House, Canberra, saw Churchill Fellows, Ministers, and UQ HASS researchers come together to discuss some of the most complex policy issues facing Australia.

Tune into Episode 2 of the Women Finding Success podcast with this week’s guest Dr Marnee Shay and learn about how she’s working to close the gap in Indigenous education. Listen in weekly to be inspired to excel in your career and challenge expectations.

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) and the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) are pleased to launch the UQ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research and Innovation Strategy. The strategy sets a framework for UQ to excel as a national and international leader in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research and innovation and to support career progression for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers.

Having one of your online accounts compromised by cyber criminals can lead to your personal information being stolen, or breaches of UQ data. Follow these three simple steps to help protect yourself and your online accounts.

After a review of the Furniture category at UQ throughout 2020, The Property and Facilities Division, in conjunction with Enterprise Procurement, is pleased to announce our new UQ-preferred suppliers for furniture.

Want to satisfy your curiosity about other languages, travel in the future or communicate with your family and friends from around the world? This March, IML are offering interactive online language classes that will help you reach your 2021 goals.

To improve safety and security at St Lucia campus, P&F is upgrading road, bike, pedestrian and car park line markings. Due to safety concerns with a short stretch of the dedicated bike lane on Sir Fred Schonnel Drive, new line markings will redirect cyclists towards Macquarie Street.

UQ SafeZone allows you to make an emergency call to Security and instantly give them your location. You can also make first-aid calls for medical attention and calls for general help, such as finding the location of buildings if you are lost or have been locked out of your room.

Criminals are adept at exploiting people via the Internet, so it’s important to know what to look out for. ITS have compiled some tips to help with Internet safety for you and your family.

UQ’s Gender Steering Committee has published a guide to pay negotiation at UQ, which provides tangible opportunities for staff to negotiate positive career progression and remuneration, and action items for managers to foster an environment that puts the focus on employee growth and performance.

Academic promotion recognises our staff's significant contribution to their discipline, our students, the University and the broader community. UQ offers its congratulations to the academics who have been promoted from 2021.

UQ’s Gender Steering Committee has published a guide to pay equity at UQ, which has resources for staff and managers about the gender pay gap, its causes and the benefits we will receive if we work towards achieving gender pay equity in our work areas, and academia as a whole.

UQ Print is UQ’s new, dedicated supplier of all print, merchandise and apparel delivering to all campuses and sites. Throughout early 2021, UQ Print looks forward to visiting each department to understand your unique requirements. You will also meet a dedicated client services person. For enquiries, contact Tiffany Johnson.

UQ Finance is pleased to announce a new simple and more efficient way to approve the payment of invoices associated with UniFi Amount Only Requisitions.

The recently endorsed Enterprise IT Strategy (2021-2023) is now available. Visit the Enterprise IT Strategy website to read the strategy and access several supporting papers on topics such as automation, digital enablement, data and integration and application rationalisation.

UQ is publicly launching the Merle Pledge – an initiative to improve women’s representation in public and professional forums. The pledge is named after legendary activist Adjunct Associate Professor Merle Thornton AM, who was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from UQ on Saturday. Read about Merle’s remarkable life, her famous protest at the Regatta Hotel in 1965, and take the Merle Pledge today to request gender equity as a condition of participation or attendance at a conference, panel or event.

Jac provides an integrated digital tool set enabling staff to collaborate in the creation, management and evolution of a comprehensive curriculum. The new system is designed to reduce manual steps and duplication of content, leaving more time for staff to focus on delivering world-class learning experiences for students.

Modern scams can be highly sophisticated, making it difficult to know what is real and what is fake. Take a moment to think before clicking or responding to unexpected requests and ask yourself: Is this legitimate?

UQ’s virtual private network (VPN) service has been upgraded to use UQ Authenticate and MFA for enhanced security.

The UQ Digital Asset Manager (UQ DAM) is here and houses all brand-compliant digital assets including images, video, audio, brand templates, UQ logos, guidelines, illustrations and stock photos. If you haven’t had a look, or are unsure about the download process, view the training videos.

Following a comprehensive review, Finance has created a simplified framework of policies and procedures, to help UQ conduct sound financial management and meet its statutory obligations. Find out what guides us to support the University’s mission!

The Enterprise Data Governance Program has released a Data Handling Procedure which outlines data handling requirements for data, information and records in digital/electronic format at UQ. This procedure enables clear direction and a more effective approach to securing and safeguarding valuable University digital information assets.

You can now easily and securely recover your UQ password online if you forget it. To enable the online password recovery feature, you will need to provide some personal contact details and answers to security questions in the my.UQ dashboard under ‘My profile’.

To operate and deliver services to the community, UQ collects and manages information. Although our IT systems help to protect this information, the UQ community plays a key role in ensuring sensitive information is kept safe. Learn what your responsibilities are in terms of data privacy and ethics.

FBS is pleased to advise a simplified guide outlining what’s required when planning and procuring consulting or professional services has been added to the Procurement procedures and forms webpage. Go to Engaging contractors for consulting and professional services guide for further information.
Additional simplified documents will be added as they become available.

The UQ community plays an essential part in protecting the integrity of Zoom meetings. All staff are reminded that while you can share the links in Blackboard for teaching purposes, you must not share Zoom meeting links in public forums, such as social media.

Have you noticed something suspicious? Think you may have fallen victim to a cyber scam? To appropriately manage and reduce the impact of cyber security incidents, it’s important that you report them to IT Support as quickly as possible. Find out what you should report.

Technology is an important enabler for us to continue to support the University whilst working remotely. Here are some tips to improve your Zoom and VPN experience while ensuring that these services remain stable for all staff and students to use.

Cyber security researchers around the world have witnessed a surge in COVID-19 themed cybercrime. Take care to ensure that any messages (phone, email or text) regarding COVID-19 are genuine before replying, downloading, clicking links or providing information.
Find out how to stay protected.