The University Research Ethics Committee is organising a workshop on research ethics to discuss issues of common concern. This workshop is targeted to all those involved in research ethics, especially members and secretaries of faculty research ethics committees and lecturers of research methods. All other interested university members, including postgraduate students, are welcome to attend.

Besides addressing some common recurrent concerns and Data Protection issues, the workshop will discuss the question of action research: what conditions render valid research carried out involving the researcher’s ordinary activity, for instance in one’s own classroom or hospital ward?

The workshop will be held on Friday 4 December 2009 between 1200hrs and 1400hrs, at Old Humanities Room 116 (next door to HSBC), Msida Campus, with the following agenda:

1200hrs	Welcome
1210hrs	The question of action research Dr Deborah Chetcuti, Head Department of Mathematics, Science & Technical Education Faculty of Education
1245hrs	Some recurrent issues: Informed consent Access to data and to research subjects Research that is already completed Use of check list
1320hrs	Data Protection issues in research Mr David Cauchi, executive compliance Data Protection Commissioner’s Office

       
We believe this is a good occasion to share good practices and discuss common concerns, and we encourage you to do your best to attend.

Please inform Ms Victoria Perici by Monday 30 November 2009 if you intend to attend.

The University Chaplaincy is organising the following events during the coming weeks:

27 November	Penitential Service	from 1100hrs to 1230hrs
28 November	Late Saturday Mass	at 2100hrs
30 November	Week of Guided Prayer
7 December	Sale of Poinsettias
8 December	DVD Night - The Christmas Shoes	at 2000 hrs
9 December	Ecumenical Service with the Archbishop’s participation	at 1230hrs in Atriju Vassalli
13 December	December Fund-raising Lunch in aid of Angels Children's Home in Ethiopia
15 - 23 December	Christmas Novena	at 1230hrs
16 December	Christmas Concert by the Junior College Orchestra and Singers	at 1300hrs
17 December	Q&A Evening – New Families and the Church Speaker: Nikol Baldacchino	at 1930hrs
18 December	Chaplaincy Christmas Party	at 1300hrs
19 December	Advent Adventure	at 1400hrs
24 December	Christmas Eve Mass	at 2300hrs

Click here for further details.

Christmas on Campus is being organised by the University of Malta in collaboration with the University Chaplaincy and KSU and with the full support of DegreePlus and various student organisations.

Click here for details.

Christmas Concert
of Carols & Excerpts from Messiah by Handel
presented by
Collegium Musicum Choir
and
The University Vocal Ensemble

Soloists
Connie Frances Zerafa - Soprano
Graziella Debattista - Mezzo Soprano
Charles Vincenti and Frans Mangion - Tenors

accompanied by
Organist Romina Morrow
and the University String Ensemble
presented by the
Music Studies Programme
Mediterranean Institute,
University of Malta

By courtesy of
The Metropolitan Cathedral Chapter
and
St John's Co-Cathedral Foundation

Director: Dion Buhagiar

Tuesday 22 December 2009
1930hrs
St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta

Entrance is free.

The Department of Statistics & Operations Research wishes to invite you to a seminar entitled:
The Stochastics of the Spread of Diseases
by Prof. Kopp

Date:  Thursday, 17 December 2009
Time:  1500hrs
Venue: Computer Lab 606, Maths and Physics Building, Msida Campus

All University members of staff and students are cordially invited to attend.

For more details click here.

The Department of International Relations
in collaboration with
The US Embassy in Malta
presents
a live web cast from Copenhagen

Enhancing US-China Cooperation on Clean Energy and Climate Change
 
Date:   Thursday 17 December at 1000hrs
Venue: Room 202 Centre for Communication Technology (CCT), Msida Campus

Speakers will provide an overview of the United States and China's cooperation on science and technology, and the two countries' recent efforts to expand bilateral work on clean energy. They will provide an update on their new Clean Energy Research Center (CERC), focusing on building energy efficiency, clean coal including CCS, and clean vehicles.

The session is interactive and students will be able to ask questions to the speakers.

As part of the programme Christmas on Campus, the University of Malta Wind Ensemble will present a concert of Christmas-related music at the quadrangle of the University on Wednesday 16 December 2009 at noon. The programme prepared by this newly established Ensemble will include a variety of pieces ranging from Christmas carols to jazz, classical and semi-classical pieces. This Ensemble which runs under the auspices of DegreePlus features 12 of the most outstanding brass, woodwind, and percussion players at the University. DegreePlus  is an initiative of the University of Malta sponsored by Bank of Valletta which provides University students with the opportunity to enrich their academic studies with extra skills and experiences that can add value to their knowledge base.  Other activities organised by DegreePlus range from voluntary work to sports and are intended to provide the opportunity for one to undertake a more holistic approach to formal education.

This concert on 16 December 2009 will mark the launching of one of the main projects of DegreePlus for this academic year, which project is being worked out in collaboration with academic staff members of the Music Studies Division of the Mediterranean Institute.

The University of Malta Wind Ensemble provides a high quality ensemble experience to wind players drawn from the whole University. It aims at producing exciting and dynamic concert programmes and events. Through its weekly rehearsals under the direction of its musical director Dr Philip Ciantar, a lecturer in music at the University of Malta, students attain skills in the various aspects of ensemble playing. Such rehearsals benefit greatly from sectional coaching conducted by Mr Godfrey Mifsud (woodwind) and Mr Joseph Chircop (brass), both tutors in the DegreePlus music stream. Focus is placed on exploring new literature as well as performing masterworks of the wind ensemble repertoire. Future initiatives by the Ensemble include the performance of students’ compositions, as well as opportunities to students to perform solo pieces. In addition, the Ensemble will continue working to extend its repertoire to works from all eras, styles and places including Maltese art and popular pieces.

The programme that the Ensemble will be presenting in its forthcoming concert should appeal to a wide range of music enthusiasts. Everybody is invited to support this new initiative and to share, through music, the joyful spirit of Christmas. 

DESA has a little something special for this festive season... a play reading and more!

Anthony Nielsen's "The Night Before Christmas"

on Wednesday 16 December at 1800hrs
in Atriju Vassalli

Directed by Erin Stewart Tanti
Narrated by Claire Bonello

Cast :
Daniel Croucher
Lizzie Eldridge
Barrie Stott
Philip Leone-Ganado

Christmas refreshments will be served - Christmas logs, nutmeg based drinks ... everything to get you into the festive spirit!

Event attendance is against a minimum donation of 2 euros.

The Malta University Press is launching the following books:

Mark Camilleri (Ed.), A Bibliography of The David Elyan Collection of Anglo-Irish Literary Works and Manuscripts at the University of Malta Library
(with an introduction by Prof Peter Vassallo)
Guze Cutayar, Sthajjiltni Malti ta’ Gewwa: Memorji ta’ Tunez
(with an introduction by Prof Oliver Friggieri)
Oliver Friggieri, Storia della  Letteratura Maltese  [1979] (facsimile edition)
(with an introduction by the late Prof Franco Lanza)
Raymond Mangion (Ed.), Minutes of the Council of Government of Malta
29 December 1835 to 13 August 1849
(with an introduction by Prof. Henry Frendo)

A presentation on each of the books, chaired by Professor Henry Frendo, will take place at the Aula Magna, Old University Building, St Paul Street, Valletta, on Monday 14 December, 2009 at 1830hrs. On the day of the launch these books will be on sale at a discount.

The general public is cordially invited to attend.

For further information:
Tel: +356 2340 3305

 

23 May 2013
http://www.um.edu.mt/newsoncampus/events/2009