Newsetter - 17th January

17th January 2017

A message from the communications Officers

Hi all! Hope you are settling back in to uni life and yesterday was less BLUE Monday and more GREEN AND GOLD!

Find below some exceptional procrastination for upcoming exams :p

Don't forget, for all the details, please open the full version of the newsletter using the links!!

Alternatively, visit www.sgsu.org.uk and check out any of the newsletters there under the red 'Get Involved' tab and following the tabs.

If you have any ideas or would like to contribute, please let us know at

sucommunications@sgul.ac.uk!

ASK deborah! send in your questions now!!

For those of you who don't know Deborah Bowman, she is one of our most highly esteemed Medical Law and Ethics Lecturers here at George's.

Following from her previous role as Dean for Students she has kindly agreed to run an agony aunt style column for our newsletter.

Therefore... we would like to hear your 'agony aunt questions'! For confidentiality reasons we obviously

would not be publishing names in the response in the newsletter. Please send your questions to sucommunications@sgul.ac.uk.

The first article can be found at https://www.sgsu.org.uk/advice/wellbeing/askd1/ .

On This Week

Monday

16th January

Tuesday

17th January

Dance Soc

Olu Alatise from Studio 68

18.00-20.00 @ HGR

Bugs Lunch

12pm @ Outside the library

Movie night

6:30pm @ Halls

Wednesday

18th January

Spotlight on science lecture

5:30pm

H2.6 & H2.7

Thursday

19th January

George's Trust

Talk on Dementia

4pm @ JPLT

Ethics Quiz Night

7:30pm @ SU Bar

Friday

20th January

Open Mic Night

8:00pm @ SU Bar

Notices from your Exec

this weeks video is from YOUR COMMUNICATIONS OFFICERS!! (Yay us!)

Take a look back at the previous V-Blogs on our YouTube Channel - St George's Students' Union.

Message from VP Finance

Dear All,

I wish you all a very happy new year and trust you got some R & R over the holiday season.

I have organised a minibus test to be held on 25th February 9am-2pm. If you would like any of your members to apply for this testplease email me no later than 5pm on Friday 11th February. This is the last test of the year and so it will be funded by the SU, unless your driver does not turn up on the day in which case your society will be expected to cover the £30 for the test slot.

Please let me know what year of study the proposed driver is in, the society(ies) they would drive for, their course, their age, confirm they have no points on their licence and have been driving for at least two years, and any additional information that may be pertinent - events the society is holding, how frequently, how far away, how close to train stations, how many other members have cars etc. Unfortunately there are only 10 spaces available so you may not be successful this time around.

end of exams/chinese new year boat party

Events happening At George's

This week at Dance Soc is AFRICAN WEEK!!!

We have Olu Alatise from Studio 68 coming on Tuesday (YES TODAY!). The pop up class will be from 6-8pm in HGR.

Take a look at her work here: https://youtu.be/oQdAf4HCLl8

Members : £3
Non-Members : £5
Annual Pass Holders : FREE

WEDNESDAY CLASSES:
Joan Embola teaching Afrofusion from 1-2pm in AHR
Ola Shogbeni teaching Afrofusion from 2-3pm in HGR

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!!

Trust run talks

OPpORTUNITIEs

Finals revision Course - osceaid

Win prizes for sharing your views

This week sees the launch of the National Student Survey and the Student Experience Survey. The National Student Survey is aimed at all final year students in the UK and administered externally by Ipsos Mori. The Student Experience Survey is for all other students and is our internal survey.

You should have received an email by now asking you to complete one or the other. The survey is a way of ensuring you have a student voice. All students who participate are able to claim a St George’s branded notebook as well as 10 points for the St George’s Award. You also have the opportunity to win one of several prizes.

The results from the survey are taken very seriously, and participating is an important contribution to the St George’s community. Your responses help us to identify areas in need of improvement, as well as helping us to celebrate the excellent work that is already taking place. Please share your honest views on your time at St George’s so far.

If you haven’t received an email with the relevant link email Paul Leech at experience@sgul.ac.uk.

BRITISH ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION: Medical Student Prize - Essay Competition 2017.

Medical students are invited to submit an essay on “How can Trauma and Orthopaedic surgeon’s interest the next generation of medical students in a Trauma and Orthopaedic career?” (max. 1,000 words). Winning essay receives: £100 prize money, BOA-recognised prizewith certificate, national oral/poster presentation at BOA annual congress and a BOA committee position for 1 year. For details of how to enter visit www.boa.ac.uk.

National Undergraduate Surgical Conference

Barts and The London Surgical Society is delighted to invite you to our 6th National Undergraduate Surgical Conference at Robin Brook Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital on 25th Febuary, 2017.

Why attend?

After huge success of our 5th National Surgical Conference, we proudly present our 6th National Surgical Conference this February being held at Robin Brook Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital. This year’s conference promises to be bigger and better. We will have lectures from world-renowned surgeons, exciting workshops, opportunities for you to present your work and much more!

If you have any queries please email: conference@blsurgical.co.uk

Best Wishes

BL Surgical Conference Committee

Laptops for Homeless initiative

Fancy getting involved or finding out more about the initiative to help the homeless or isolated to get involved in work or the community? Read more here:

http://studentblog.stratford.ac.uk/empowering-homeless-people-with-free-laptops/

http://www.lsbf.org.uk/blog/news/enterpreneurs-startups/scheme-help-homeless-access-jobs/98945

Paid internships for students with disability

Do you have a disability or a long term health condition? Are you currently considering what career you’ll go into after you’ve finished university and looking for some paid summer work experience? If you’ve answered yes to these questions you should consider applying to Change100.

Applications are open right now and will close on 25 January 2017. Find out more HERE and apply at www.change100.co.uk.

Outside Events

The National Undergraduate neuroanatomy competition

fy1 ready

Raising Martha

Raising Martha by David Spicer will be opening the Park Theatres new 2017 season, marking the show’s world premiere in PARK200.Starring the finest comedy ensemble live on stage, Joel Fry (ITV’s Plebs, HBO’s Game of Thrones, Sky’s You, Me and the Apocolypse), Tom Bennett (Netflix’s Mascots, E4’s Phone Shop), Jasper Britton (Richard II, RSC, The Libertine; Theatre Royal Haymarket), Julian Bleach(Doctor Who & best known for creating the role of MC in Shockheaded Peter) Jeff Rawle (Channel 4’s Drop The Dead Donkey, Hollyoaks, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) and Gwyneth Keyworth (E4’s Misfits, BBC’s The Great Outdoors)

Raising Martha follows the fortunes of a family frog farm in rural England and the efforts of the local constabulary to establish the exact whereabouts of the family’s long dead mother.

If you would more information please visit the website: https://www.parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/raising-martha