Putting a figure on well-being
All staff will be given the opportunity to have their say in a ‘workplace well-being’ survey launched this week. The survey has the full support of campus trade unions and will be carried out by independent researchers. Results will be analysed and returned for faculties and staff groups. Where problems have been identified, follow-up visits and focus group discussions will be planned. The survey team will make recommendations for solving problems and the survey results will be published in March.

The survey is by email. For hard copies, contact Margaret Bradley on 31988. Alternatively visit the HR website (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/hr/) for more information.

Choir has CD, will travel
The University liturgical choir’s first CD, Songs of Praise; Music from the West Riding is now available from the school of music and senior common room, price £10. It also features parish church choirs from Halifax and Brighouse. Proceeds will support the Choir’s performances at the prestigious international choral festival ‘Universitas Contat’ in Poland and a concert visit to Prague next year. Contact Stephen Muir on 38229, s.p.k.muir @leeds.ac.uk

The choir will also be performing at the University carol service in the Parkinson Court at 4pm on December 5.

Say it with flowers
Fine art graduate Sarah Thornton has opened her first solo show, The Flowerbomber, in Leeds. Sarah has put a ‘visual bomb’ under the notion of traditional flower pictures and the exhibition of 20 works shows nature clashing head-on with the intensely artificial in these original, stimulating explosions of colour. Sarah was a member of the ‘Leeds 13’ who shot to prominence by fooling the world into believing they had blown University money on a sangria-fuelled Spanish holiday. The exhibition is open from 5pm to 2am, Monday to Saturday and Sunday 5pm to 12.30 until January at the Reform, 12–14 Merrion Street, 0113 244 4080.

Apply now for fellowships
Experienced staff, rising stars and learning support staff can enter this year’s University’s teaching fellowship scheme. Six fellowships are available and previous winners have gone on to win national teaching fellowships in the last three years.

Applications should be made to faculties, and forwarded to Chris Butcher by Friday 4 February 2005 for institutional consideration and/or nominations for the NTFS. More information is available at www.leeds.ac. uk/sddu/leeds/fellowship

Early cash for Christmas
Salaries for staff paid at the end of the month will be credited to their bank accounts on Thursday 23 December. Travel expense claims need to be submitted before December 10.

Charges up for gas guzzlers
The size of your car and its fuel efficiency may decide how much you pay for parking on campus from next September.

The transport review policy group is looking at using a graduated annual parking permit, reflecting the government system for calculating excise duty.

For more information contact transport co-ordinator Melissa Burnham m.j.burnham@leeds.ac.uk, 35793.