Faculty of Science news
News, notices and events
Faculty's Committees intranet page
Please visit the Faculty's Committees intranet page to see bulletins of the most recent and previous Faculty Leadership Group (comprising: Dean's Executive Committee, Faculty Board, Work, Health & Safety Committee, and Indigenous Strategy & Services and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee) meetings.
Expressions of Interest – Faculty of Science Wellbeing Champion
The University's Health and Wellbeing Program takes a wholistic approach to health and wellbeing, addressing the full continuum of wellness from mitigating illness, to preventing harm, through to promoting thriving.
We are looking for a Wellbeing Champion to represent the Faculty administration staff to help bring wellbeing awareness and participation in health and wellness initiatives to life at a local level.
New staff obligations for reporting data breaches
Changes to privacy legislation will soon be imposing stricter breach reporting obligations on the University, making it important that you know what to do if you suspect a data breach has occurred.
If you suspect that personal or health information held by the University has been incorrectly shared or accessed, you must report it to the Privacy team as soon as you become aware of it. Read more
Events
Yabun Festival 2025
Yabun Festival is the largest one-day gathering and recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures in Australia, held annually on 26 January.
Staff Welcome Breakfast 2025
Join the Vice-Chancellor and University Executive for a light, healthy breakfast on University Place, with coffee carts and drinks provided. Exercise classes, including Body Balance and Yoga, will be hosted in the Great Hall (registration required). Sustainability is a focus—bring your own cup, or use edible or gluten-free options.
Westmead Staff Welcome Breakfast
Join the Vice-Chancellor and University Executive for the Westmead Staff Welcome Breakfast, a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with colleagues after the holiday break. We invite you to the Innovation Centre on Level 5 to enjoy a healthy breakfast, tea, and coffee. The event will also feature an optional tour of the Clinical Simulation space.
Updates and services
Update on OPark transition
You may have received an email from CellOPark titled ‘Important Notice: Cancellation of transition Notice’. The University’s parking provider, CellOPark Australia Pty Ltd trading as Smarter City Solutions, has advised that this email was sent from the CellOPark Australia email domain without authorisation and should be ignored and deleted. The unauthorised email was sent from the CellOPark domain, no external data breach has occurred. The transition to OPark is still going ahead as planned on 25 December 2024. Read the full update from the Acting Vice-President (Operations).
Your safety on campus during the seasonal break
Some functions will continue to operate to ensure business-critical tasks are completed. If you are coming to campus, make sure you’re across what you need to do to ensure the safety of yourself and others who are working during the break.
Recruitment for the next Academic Director of the Charles Perkins Centre
The University is seeking to appoint the next Academic Director of the Charles Perkins Centre (CPC), a world-renowned multidisciplinary research initiative dedicated to addressing some of the most pressing health challenges of our time. Applications close Thursday 9 January 2025.
Are your academic qualifications captured in Workday?
It’s a quick and easy process for academic staff to check whether your education information in Workday is current and accurate. If a qualification is missing or incorrect, please update these details as a priority.
System logins
- Academic Planning & Development (AP&D)
- Atlassian Automation & Innovation Hub
- CMS - AEM
- Campus Assist Online
- Canvas
- Citrix
- Concur
- Copilot
- Disability Academic Plan Portal
- Dimensions
- Docusign
- Email Office 365
- EmmaHQ
- eNotebooks
- Event calendar
- Exams portal
- External Engagement CRM
- File Sender (large file transfer)
- Finance EPM
- Finance Salary Planning EPM
- IRMA
- Lecture recording
- LinkedIn Learning
- Marq (formerly Lucidpress)
- Macquarie Dictionary
- myHRonline
- MyLab
- My Library account
- myResearch Ethics
- Office 365 Portal
- Online Teaching Allocations (OTA)
- Password management (Okta)
- Payments to the University
- PeopleSoft financials
- Policy Register
- Power BI
- Publish Partner
- Qualtrics
- Records Online
- REDCap
- Research Data Management Planning
- Research Education Candidature System (RECS)
- Research Professional
- Research Profiles Management (RPM)
- Research Supervisor Connect
- Riskware
- Room bookings (resource booker)
- SEAMS
- SensusAccess document conversion
- Service Portal
- ServiceNow Client
- SPIRE
- Special consideration and arrangements
- Student Survey System
- Sydney Curriculum
- Sydney Insights (formerly Insights Hub)
- Sydney Student
- Timesheets
- Timetabling
- UniBuy
- Viva Engage (Yammer)
- Workday
- Workday Learning (formerly CareerPath)
- Workday learning (formerly CareerPath) for academic affiliates
- Zoom
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