Good morning everyone and welcome to the Institute of population health forum. We've got quite a packed agenda today on this webinar format allows us to interact online, so to remind you there are buttons at the bottom for a question and answer which you can put it anytime will also be putting a pull up at the end of the spoken part of this forum and it'll allow you to interact to express your views, but feel free to use the question and answer interactively to some of the questions will answer online. Some of them we can answer verbally. So a lot is happening. We are in a remarkable phase for population health. We have a surge. Of population health consciousness never in our lifetimes. Have so many people been aware of the importance of the organized efforts of society in tackling health from many perspectives. In how human biology behavior of individuals, behavior of groups, and Society. And Environment interact. Rarely has there been so much news coverage. Of the importance of the clarity of evidence and the alacrity and integrity. Of which we apply that evidence. To benefit locally, nationally and individually. At the same time, there are many. There are many promises of what can be done. There is many of you be involved in responding amount to the flurry of grand calls that are out there. Many of us are also embedded. For a lot of our work and thank you. To the volunteer army across Institute of population health that worked above and beyond the Call of Duty. In thinking outside the box. In working with intense goodwill embedded in our health systems. To provide the additional capacity. The resilience we have managed to deploy psychological resilience packages which are supporting the NHS and now care homes. And we're responding to need where meeting a civic duty in a way that I'm very proud of and another universities leadership are extremely grateful to all members of the Institute of population health who are very much in the spotlight at the moment. Provided agile training packages with, you got very positive student feedback. So we're doing more under pressure working differently. But people are very satisfied with what is being delivered, and that's it. That's a credit to you all. In health systems, we're embedding ourselves in new ways, 'cause those systems have to consume evidence very quickly and sometimes. Call for evidence where that is unclear. Our civic role as the University of Liverpool has been. One of great pride for many years and we continue with that just to remind everyone, even in these very pressured times that experts should be on tap. Not on top, but sometimes we need to step back. Not press that evidence too hard, but just to produce what is needed. For others to enact who are in the appropriate offices? So I would like to introduce it as a new face around the screen mode. Marta Garcia phenomena will introduce herself later. We welcome matters the incoming head of Health Data Science Department. So each of us here as a team serving you as leaders in the Institute of population health will now give you an update. And then give you an opportunity to respond. Charles, would you like to proceed with your update? Thank you and hello colleagues. Couple things I want to cover first about research and about ref just to just to update everybody that there's a lot of hard work going on at the moment across. Both of our ref. Submissions UA two in UA4. In fact, it occurred to me this morning that although we're one of only four institutes. In the faculty were responsible for two out of the four ref submissions. The FH&S are putting in, so I know that there's a lot of hard work going on. In both of those uases, we're currently at the moment trying to reach. To meet deadlines for the end of this month, which is effectively two weeks away for completed drafts of our environment sections. And I know there's a lot of hard work going into that so. While I have your attention, I would just like to make a request that if you do receive an email request from one of your ref leads. For information please, please do just take a minute to to respond with trying to pull together a lot of different kinds of information, particularly around collaborations, networks and partnerships which we're struggling a little bit to pull together, at least in UA 4. So if you do receive a request for that kind of information, please please please do get back to us and let us know so that we can collate it. Into the to the ref submissions. In terms of the timelines for F, you may or may not have heard that there has been a postponement until March, although for effectively for us that doesn't really change a great deal, as we're still we're looking to the same timelines effectively, we have slightly longer to gather the data that we need for the impact case studies. In terms of Outputs and environment sections, nothing much has changed as the census date remains the same, which is the 31st of July. So the end of this month. So elsewhere, the another important function in the Institute is our education committee. That Education Committee has been. Been in the process of being formulated. We've now worked out and agreed terms of reference which have been coordinated with faculty, so will be looking to launch the Education Committee, of which I will be the chair. Later, well over the next four weeks. By the middle of August. And it will be good to get that that group up and running there are going to be opportunities for colleagues to be involved in all aspects of the institute's operations. Then on the education side, we will be looking to appoint education leads in each round Department about which there will be more information coming to shortly. As you know, Kate Bennett has will be taking on has taken on already. They really important role for us of coordinating development and innovation across the Institute. And we will be looking to make other appointments. If you are interested in being involved, your Department level or the Institute level, please do get in touch. There are going to be lots of opportunities for you to do that, and it's going to be really important for us to be able to connect with each of the departments so that we can coordinate our activity in education across the Institute. I know Francine is going to say a bit more. Shortly about program development. Elsewhere we have been setting up or are in the process of setting up other really important parts of the Institute structure, so there are going to be opportunities as well around equality, diversity, and inclusivity, and also on PG are Peter Fisher has kindly agreed to remain in post as our Institute PG our lead. There will be an opportunity for colleagues to be involved on the PDR side as well. Will be appointing a deputy Institute director for PDR. And there will be some further information about that shortly. And departmental level as well. We will be looking to set up where they don't already exist. Structures for manageing PG are across the Institute. So Ian, I think I think that's kind of all I have in the way of brief update. Happy to answer any questions about anything on the research side about ref or education. If colleagues want to send in a question. Thanks, Charles Francine. So just a few things from me. As Charles mentioned, is we're working on some P GT developments within the Institute and we're actually. Got five P GT developments that the IPH is either leading or involved in. So, just to recap those we've got, the MSE, health, data science, and last week we held the design workshop for health data science, which went very well, and we're well on the way to develop to development stage with that. We're doing an MSE psychology conversion program that Kate Bennett is leading, which is also a faculty priority. Colleagues are involved in the MSE neuroscience within our Institute which is being developed. Cross faculty with lots of involvement from lots of different departments, and he's a really good faculty development and also links into some research that other research themes. And then in Health Sciences at moment, with developing the MSE pre redge mental health nursing on the MSE cancer care. So we've got some really exciting developments going on in I pH if anyone's got any ideas that they want to put forward for PGT then just let me know and I can work with you on that. I just want to mention start dates so as you know we've got some staggered start dates for semester one. Next year program leads were asked to when they wanted to develop start their programs so there are start dates in October, November and January depending on what program you work on. We are working on orientation, which involves this year. The launchpad to Liverpool which starts in August. And this is particularly forgot. I'll go hire an first year students who have not had previous education in Liverpool, so are coming fresh to Liverpool. We then have welcome week week commencing the 28th of September. This is an introduction to Liverpool and to the University. That's where we'll cover specifically issues around living in Liverpool, moving to Liverpool and the University, and then we have Foundation Week, which will be the 5th of October where we will cover study skills and working online, introduction to canvas etc. So part of those will also be. In both weeks, we'll have lots of activities around supporting physical and mental health with students. Um, all those activities will still be available if your launch date is in your start date is in November and in January, so those will still be available for whenever you decide to start. When you decided that you starting your programs. And just a final thing for me is, as you many. If you will know, we're working with colleagues across the faculty. On the submission of all module specs, module specifications for all programs that will be commencing in semester one. If you're making changes to your delivery or two assessments. I you're putting your all your delivery online or in hybrid or you're having online assessments, they all need to be reviewed by the faculty. We have to do this as part of the CMA, the competition and markets authority requirements. They want us to notify students who have already accepted places on programs or who are responding to currently advertised programs that there will be changes. So it is a requirement of the CMA and the government. Obviously that we have to make these approvals. It will be up to program leads to make sure that they are reviewing the paperwork coming in and giving us an overview of the changes to that program so that we can then communicate with potential students. OK, that's that's all for me. Thanks you, great thanks Francine, I'm conscious in this. In this current climate, some brilliant potential Masters candidates are currently considering that career path when they wouldn't have otherwise. So it is really important time. Fidgety Marta welcome. Thank you. Thank you again. Hello everyone. As you mentioned my name is Marta Havana. If you haven't met me yet and I'm looking forward at you all in person when the time allows, I'm going to take the role as interim head of Department for health data science from the 1st of August and there is a couple of things I will like to mention. So the first one I would like to welcome our new members in the Department. We are going to have a departmental meeting soon and there will be an email being circulated, so it's going to be a fantastic opportunity to say hello to each other. We're having a member from our Department, Liam Bradley, who is going to talk about his recent COVID-19, so it's going to be an exciting meeting. I'm really looking forward to that. I'd like to say that we are very excited to be part of the Institute. We ask Department. So before we will call the Department of Biostatistics now that we are the Department of Health Data Science and we have a number of strengths and our plan is to build upon those. So we have just to mention some of them nickel trans methodology. Some work on core outcome sets and we have a statistical genetics statistical modeling and we really want to build up on those. And there are other areas that we want to bring him in terms of artificial intelligence and Health Informatics and Health Economics. So it is a lot of things to do. But there is a very good basis and just to say that these are very exciting times and I'm looking forward to to see you. Thank you. Thank you matter, yes, remarkable times for Health Data Science and society, and I'll cover 19 responses at the moment. So very timely and and we welcome you. Denise. Well, thank you again. Hello everyone, I hope you're all keeping well. Recent months have been particularly busy in the school of Health Sciences, and we have several undergraduate and postgraduate programs, so ensuring that teaching, delivery, assessment and clinical aspects were effectively delivered in the covid COVID-19 world was very challenging. Especially as we are constrained by certain professional and regulatory body requirements. This being said, the school team have done a fantastic job and last Friday we had a virtual graduation ceremony for the existing class of 2020, many of whom contributed to the NHS workforce when they were still students, which was great and the ceremony was really moving. So despite the challenges of COVID-19, the recent NSS results were very positive for the school, with an overall satis satisfaction rate of 93%. I personally want to convey a huge thank you to all this school staff. They've worked tirelessly to produce this result, and it is fabulous and nonetheless we do accept that there's always room for improvement and we will scrutinize the NSS data and develop an action plan for the future. Applications for forthcoming health care programs for 2020-2021 have exceeded expectations and this seems to be one of the positive things from the COVID-19 situation. People do genuinely want to go into Healthcare. So as we look towards the next academic year, we are confident that will meet our target numbers. At the request of Health Education, England, we recently submitted a bid to the office for students to increase our intake for the coming year and we will find out later this week if this number increase has been agreed. An in line with the principles outlined by gathering Brown are teaching delivery will be hybrid in nature with only essential clinical and practical sessions delivered on the University campus with semester one. This has involved extensive risk assessment, organizing the availability of appropriate PP, and ensuring that the timetables for these programs can be adjusted and all of this to ensure that students and staff. Kept as safe as possible, and again, I'd like to thank John Vickery and Tom West for the support with this. It has been a mammoth task. Anne. A slight change in emphasis. Professor Joe Patterson has been pushing forwards with the schools research agenda, and again I'd like to thank colleagues from across the Institute of population health who have supported Joe in with this work. We recently accepted the schools first doctoral student, and I know that might not sound much to other areas, but for us it was a big step forward and hopefully the first of many to come. Likewise, we submitted two applications for NIH R ICA doctoral fellowships for Marc Warren. Emma Addie and we have plans to increase activity in this regard and to support staff as they move into more research active roles. Joe and our clinical partners from across the Cheshire and Merseyside region have organized a virtual research symposium for September the 16th, and we see this as a real opportunity to Estab. Lish meaningful research networks across the region and to celebrate the research successes that are already taking place across the Patch, and that's it from me. Thank you thanks Denise. And I know colleagues in the Cheshire Merseyside and they just leadership groups have expressed their gratitude as well for the remarkable way that's going to Health Sciences. Increased numbers and clearly kept a lot of quality. So thank you. Joe. Hi good afternoon everyone. Just going to give you a brief update on events from Department psychology since we're all lost together soon. It's a Health Sciences. It's been a very busy period in terms of teaching. Last week marked the end of the academic year and the end of a very busy period in terms of progress, panels on exam meetings, we receive some extremely positive comments from our external examiners who were very favorable on the design of the course on particular authentic assessments. They also noted the rigor of our assessment processes and systems. I think it's really important that we acknowledge the input from our professional services colleagues here, and I'd like to extend a vote of thanks to our fantastic team in the currently virtual student experience office. The week ended with the online celebration for graduating students across a number of programs including undergraduate degrees. We had some online Masters and some PhD students. Now we didn't quite manage your message from Prince Charles or Jordan Henderson. Those you want where they were in the university's graduation. But we did succeed in bringing together staff and students from across the globe. From memory there were students from Canada from Toronto we have Bahamas, we have Barbados or joined us. I think the memorable featured this celebration for me was the obviously report that's developed between our staff and students across the programs and also the mutual respect we have for each other. I'm really looking forward to hopefully being able to celebrate in a more traditional format next year with our students. Now, graduation would normally mark period of downtime for staff, but similar to Health Sciences. But having to move rapidly into preparations for the hybrid teaching model, we have established our educational principles and lectures will largely be asynchronous with some online synchronous components. We do require some arm on campus teaching. This is really focused on small groups in first and second year for practical classes in statistics and our small group research. Seminars and I'm working with universities to achieve these in a safe manner. I'm focused on teaching so far off, so that's not our only activity and research is continuing with the pace we've moved on from the slightly frantic phase at the start of lockdown when everyone was trying to adapt their existing studies and also to utilize funding to undertake kobid focus studies. Basically looking at how our behavior is altered in the pandemic and lock down. Our activity now a lot more forward facing, so any kovid funding work is looking towards sustainability and how we adapt to the new normal, but really encouraging me over the last couple of weeks we've had a number of applications that aren't focused on Co based and these are being across the research groups into a variety of funders including the European Commission, BBS, RC, the FBI and British Academy. Consistent with the story of resilience and recovery, we're also starting to make plans and progress towards reopening young Rathbone building. I'm not going to go into details about something that I'm going to talk about. But just to note that this is really oriented towards facilitating activities that cannot be continued whilst working from home. And in that respect we are also putting into place a working group to look at how we may be able to. Do some of our research again in Psychologial. It is face to face and I'll see that brings risk, so it needs a lot of consideration and that working group will meet for the first time this week. And amongst all of this teaching and research activity, the Department is continuing to evolve with the main message being integration in terms of Education. This is being achieved in terms of a better balance of T&T&S stuff across the Education Committee, and we're also making progress in terms of research, and that will tell you further step at the end of this week in our. Ah, missing from undertaking sized TNS stuff to our existing research as well as she groups, and that puts in a strong position to take a collective exercise review, Department structure and the start of the next academic year. And I just want to finish with a vote of thanks for all the stuff for your continued efforts. Hopefully we will get some down time, have a chance to be covering recuperate, and will come back stronger. Thank you again. Thanks, Joe, another faculty leadership team wanted me to convey their thanks for all the effort that's going into the hybrid model is not going to be much rest by this summer. Everyone appreciates that is grateful. Thank you. Bulk update from primary care, mental health. You're on mute. Right, sorry, I was trying. This will be brief because I haven't had a lot of briefing about what I should say so this is from what I'm aware of. So as far as I know clinical psychology are doing the virus this week on their declyn site dissertations so that they've been busy reorganizing their course and as many of you may know, their course has been expanded. And it just education England has. Increase the number of clinical psychology trainees and my understanding is that they now have a full cohort. Of trying to use to start. I think it's the end of August they begin. I think there's been some challenges finding teaching spaces. But I don't know how that's been resolved. As yet. I'm in terms of research. I'm aware that many of our colleagues in the Department have been undertaking a lot of work in the covid lift project. Which is a a large study on being undertaken in the Liverpool City region on covid on the virology study which is the Main. Biomedical Sciences study that was sponsored, but we have a number of Social Science studies that Sally may have talked about already. I don't know. That we've been leading across this Institute, and most of these have either completed their data collection or are starting their data collection there been some considerable challenges? Not least because the sample frame we chose to use was the survey that we used in the Clark, which is from large areas of relative deprivation across the city. And as one might have guessed, it wasn't straightforward to contact the people who responded to our previous research surveys, because many of the numbers that we were given and the addresses we were given were no longer valid cause people living in relatively high poverty don't seem to have access to stable mobile technology or stable it addresses because they tend to take page. You go contracts 'cause they can't afford long term once, so that's been interesting reminder. The digital solutions are not always going to work for people living at the margins of society and living in relative poverty and unstable circumstances, but they've been doing lots of very interesting research with Muslim community. When are starting out with households with employers. With community activists to look at the impact of Covid having overcome a number of hurdles, the household survey is now a gathering pace and I think is well over 100 responses now towards his target of 300. So all of that's very exciting and going quite well. There's been a big national study on people living with dementia which is now in its final of three phases of data collection. And there's international work that we've been supporting in Malawi, which is going to start soon and in. Cameroon, which has started. So that's gone very well as well. There's been some work that Lucy ***** has been doing as part of that, looking at the impact on providers of health care, and we're also doing work that looses within the arc looking at the impact of Covid on public involvement in research and looking at how members of the public are coping with the remote access to researchers and colleagues rather than meeting face to face. Whether that's. Just got some benefits or detractions and what we as organisations could do to try and improve their access to the relevant technology to help them take a full part as be fully involved in research activities and we've also done an application to UK RI for that. And we've been working with colleagues at JM you another University is putting in various big UK our applications mercilessly route around the me in the workforce in health social care, which is now one to iteration two and was sent in last week, so I've been quite busy to put it mildly in various different research activities. Across the Department as we try and form virtually. Thanks, Mark, extremely busy times and lots of goodwill across groups that are coming together in new ways. Also, persistent benefits beyond COVID-19 and the new normal will have psychological burdens. Sadly, grossly increasing inequality's. Other types of exclusion that put a psychological burden on so the expanded numbers indeed klinci. Very encouraging they will persist. Play sunny. Thanks, saying so this is an update from the Department of Public health policy and systems. I'm looking very happy as I've just come back from 8 days holiday and I highly recommend taking a break if you've not yet had one, please do make sure that you get your break scheduled because it is going to be another very busy few months. I think through the summer for all of us. The Department staff have been very active over the last couple of months on covid research as would be expected for our Department. We've had a number of grant successes on the UK RI Scheme and we have knew grants in development for Health Foundation and also for the DHCP RP schemes are going back in August and September. We've also been very practically involved with local responses to covid, so number of us sit on the Merseyside Resilience Forum committees. We have reconfigured those within the last six weeks as we move from the 1st wave response into the recovery planning. And we now have a multi agency information cell that is comprehensively mapped across all of the recovery groups within Merseyside and Cheshire. Make sure that public health and health inequality's are fully embedded in ground level upwards into all of the recovery is we've been working very closely with my Ashton, director of public health full Liverpool City Council map is an honorary professor within our Department. And we're delighted that he's so. Keen to to collaborate, he came and gave presentation account departmental forum, which we opened up to all of you couple of weeks ago and that was a really useful insight into some of the very practical challenges that Matt is coping with, particularly around flows of data from Public Health England. Bound to the local level and the quality of the data and the timeliness of it. We haven't stopped on other research agendas, so we have had an extension to our cleaner Africa program which is led by Dan Pope from all Department. And he's looking to put in a NIH our global Health Center calls soon. We've had people giving evidence to parliamentary inquiries, and I've disliked the highlight here. The excellent evidence that Sophie would can gave two weeks running to parliamentary inquiries. Bizu superb presentation that Sophie made was able to give around the impact on mental health of Universal Credit. Really insightful and timely information. On our education side, we have been very busy planning for the new academic year. Kate Fleming and Paula Byrne, who contributed to the good doctor supra theme. Two areas within our Department. I've been knocking out quite how many sessions small group sessions he will have to deliver next academic year, and I think the current running total is nearly 500 small group sessions. That is an indicator of the size of our contribution just from our Department, but also pulling in and and in collaboration with the other departments within our Institute. What else to tell you MPH? Our students are now into the dissertation writing up stage. We've given them an extension we push back with submission date to the beginning of September and academic star for collaborating and supporting those students through the rest of the summer. So it has been a very busy couple of months. It will be busy summer, but I think we need to make sure that we all take downtime. I'm now preaching what I've practiced recently. I hope that you will as well, but thank you very much to all of the staff in the Department and the Institute working together. Thanks, Sally. But it's wonderful now to have. So many invitations to give evidence of what we can learn to build better as we recover from COVID-19 across many aspects of public health. And we've got a Department with systems in the title. On the primary failings of responding to Covin 19, one of the main lessons has been a lack of crosstalk between. Public health and NHS in many respects and HS and local authorities. The lack of the system response which those of us who've trained in. In more integrated public health and care systems of the past, very attuned to. So there are many lessons in policy to learn, and it's great that we have that directed. To systems now. Wonderful work. I'm conscious that many of you sent in some questions around return to campus and concerns about how we protect staff students, how we keep on the front foot, making sure that our education we protect our educational programs and the role we have in Society of bringing our campus. Back online. Virtually. Physically, in an animal resilient way Tom, I think you're going to cover a number of these items. Two lights give your update. Yes, thanks Ian. So I'm myself and colleagues in the professional service team have been working closely with colleagues across the faculty and wider with their for CS to basically help us manage the response to facilitate a safe and timely return to campus, which I know is is what a lot of people are. Interested in at the moment, so we've been running the campus collection scheme for staff across I pH grout July and so far it seems to be working well. Thank you for everybody who's. Filled out the form and follow the process, and particularly to my colleagues in the professional service team have been coming in to facilitate those visits and making sure that there's somebody there and liaising with the the building managers to make sure that the buildings have been open. We are planning to extend this scheme over August if there's sufficient demand because we appreciate not everybody will have been able to come in and some of the activity, particularly around facilitating research studies that require printing or posting. Or picking up Mail. Need to continue so so we would do. Plan to continue that scheme across throughout August. Just a pleated to sort of. Think carefully when you're if you are putting a request in to make sure that you thought about how much time you will need. We've had a few incidents of sort of one person. Turns up a bit late. One person turns up on time and one person turns up early and then we have three people arriving at the same time, which is sort of what we're trying to avoid if possible, but we appreciate that it's not always easy to carparks all. Open to staff, the barriers are down now so they're not being accessed by any chest stuff except with one exception. And it does mean that they are. They tend to be a bit clearer. Stuff aren't being charged over the summer for using those car parks. But do remember to bring your swipe card if you're coming in. By car. It is worth flagging that whilst we're facilitating individual visits to buildings, none of our buildings are currently officially open yet, so none of them have the covid secure designation from FCS, so please only come into the buildings if you've. Already let us know that you're coming and you've got a prearranged visit. This is for sort of the health and safety of yourselves and also staff who are in and around the campus. In terms of the plans to reopen buildings, we're working really closely with Fr. Siesta look at occupancy rates based on floor pans. Sizes of offices were looking at signage and routes around the building and risk assessments for staff, students, and any participants who would be who would come in to help with research project with drawing up list of PP, that's going to be required, but for students. And staff and there is a specific sort of EPA and face coverings policy which the University of developed which this institutes have contributed to and that will be hopefully circulated this week. I assume Ian's been working closely on a project called campus shield to address the safe return of students and staff and are managing our ability to test, track and trace and monitor any. Symptoms or or outbreak. So I think in or give us an update on that shortly and I know that there are a couple of questions which relate specifically to that so. Thinking about our specific buildings in particular, thanks to Nicola Williams has been working really hard with FRCS looking at the book the floor plans to make sure that we can get these buildings open. The first building on the schedule to be to get the Hobart secure designation. As the Eleanor Rathbone building. So we're now in the sort of late stages of agreeing signage. For that building, and we're looking to a sort of mid to late August reopening. Again, it's worth reiterating that the reopening doesn't mean. Buildings are open for normal use. It means that buildings are being signed off and where colleagues have told us that they need to come in, will be able to facilitate that and those buildings will be will be sort of open during normal office hours and that's the same with any of the buildings have opened across the campus already, particularly places like. Where there's wet lab work going on. So like William Henry Duncan, building and others, it's not a complete normal return to work, and we're also looking at the Thompson, Yates, Johnson, Wheeling buildings, particularly thinking about how we facilitate the safe return of. Some of our allied health students who will be coming back in September, and there's some particularly tricky issues there were trying to resolve around how they bubble and how we facilitate groups that really do need to work closely together and danced on the great job of making sure we have all the PV necessary for that water house building. Obviously, there's no, there isn't a large teaching or lab based research within our institutes, but we are again working with FCS to try and get this code with secure. I'm sign off in September. We will give further updates on when this might be and we're conscious that within that there's obviously the Liverpool clinical trials center activity, which we're liaising with the director at the clinical director to make sure that we consider that activity. Other things note, Joe's already said that there's a specific lab working group that's that's being set up for restarting activity within beyond the Rathfon Building. Car parking. Covered bear is a staff survey which is currently still open, and that's a pulse survey asking all staff are there there sort of opinions on how things are being during lockdown and what could be improved. So we've encouraged everyone to fill that in. I think that's open until Wednesday this week. We've also put together a couple of questions questions from our leadership team, which we felt would be useful to try and get. Sort of. Testing the water to see what people's feelings are around returning to campus. So I think Garth is going to. As if by magic. Make that survey pier so there's just two questions here. Basically, just to assess how you feel things are being in terms of working from home and also about returning to campus 'cause we know not everybody will have the same feeling about about coming back on site and we want to. We want to just make sure that we're being mindful of the differences that that people, different circumstances and feelings people have as they look to returning on campus. So I think that's everything from the update and you want to. Is there anything else you can say about the campus shield activity? Thanks, Tom's people are filling in that poll about working in different circumstances which we get the results of life soon. Just want to outline what we're doing to make the campus as safe as possible for staff and students from the autumn. In addition to the return to campus planning that is going on. Will be engaged with old all departments through HR at the moment. And is focused on specific laboratories and settings. First, whether urgent return. Requirements we've developed a broader campus show. Campus is an acronym, so it COVID-19 active management. Plan by universities for SoC and that marks the approach that the University of Liverpool wants to take. As a campus, among others in the surrounding Society of Cheshire and Merseyside. So this is deeply embedded with wider public health planning. As a cadence of twice weekly meetings for the operational group for campus shield is this afternoon. That then reports into Cheshire and Merseyside weekly operational groups on a Tuesday. Our scenario is a different outbreaks that may take place in halls of residence, for example. Instead of being worked up between those who have specific expertise. In infection control, communicable Disease Control more broadly, Emma, coffee from public health in Liverpool, is involved in receiving some of those. Scenarios from our campus. We're talking to our sister universities and helping those scenarios to be pulled. Also helping to build testing capacity we heard from the Department of Health and social care this morning that plans people have worked extremely hard over the last few weeks likely to come through in raising. The reserve of antigen testing that would be available to deal with searches and that that would be under the control of our local health system. To make a much more targeted response that we can direct campus shield planning group the academic inputs that are relevant to work alongside under the Aegis of public health colleagues will be there, available as a volunteer force to support. Outbreaks, as they may occur and we're conscious that those outbreaks. Maybe on campus, in halls of residence or maybe clusters of student housing in the community. That this is very much a population wide. Planning issue. So that's the approach we've taken is a civic approach. It is not restricted to our campus and that's why it's an acronym capitalized and not just the word campus. OK. We have 30 minutes. Open to address some of the questions that have been. Posted and we also have our survey. In the polls here, Gareth will collect. The pole. Response and show that in a minute. But any of you have specific questions if you want to put those in. In the chats now. Meanwhile, those of you who've emailed in some questions. Tom, we had some about Sykpe. Would you like to chat? Yes, so there was one question relating specifically to. Sick pay that relates to people who've been affected, directly or indirectly by covid so. I've had an update from from HR on on this issue an HR have agreed to in conversation with unions. They've agreed that they will discount 14 days of any kovid related sickness absence. So anybody who has marked AB sickness absences related to Kovid this will essentially be sort of removed from peoples sickness balance if you like so. That that will be the case for anybody who obviously has been affected directly. Obviously I think the question pertains sort of to the potential longer term impacts of Covid because Whilst the news is is obsessed with with sort of mortality rates, we know that a lot of the data is showing that there are much. Quite serious long-term consequences for some people, so at the moment the University is saying that they they will look at any code related ongoing illnesses on a case by case basis, particularly to make sure that that staff who might be disproportionately affected by the effects of Covid are are considered kind of out with the universities normal sickness policy. I don't have more details on that at the moment, but. HR are inactive consultation discussion with the unions around this issue. And I'd just suggest that people continue to check the FA Q pages, but if you have more specific questions let me know. I can pass them on to HR and they will try and address them on there on the QS role staff if possible. Thanks Tom, I notice that some questions have been emailed in asking about inequality's and their responses to COVID-19 to shielding to dealing with ethnicity and material deprivation, Sally. Unconscious that there's been some wonderful efforts from. Calling soon in public health policy and systems feeding in both to campus shield. And and it's the wider civic responses. Hope you could outline how that how that works, what the reporting line is. Reassure people that this has got some cadence. Yes, I think the thing to stress here is that we have got very clear reporting lines both within the University to manage covid but also within Cheshire and Merseyside within the Liverpool City region so that we are working very closely with our colleagues in Liverpool City Council director of public health but also within Public Health England at a regional level. There is active monitoring of of infections through test track and trace. Windows are in is closely involved as a Cheshire and Merseyside level. In in those activities thinking people have individual concerns. Please come to either me or to Ian and we will. We will answer into the joint inquiries as best we can, but the key thing is that in teleprinters intelligence is vital and we need to make sure that everybody is as well informed as possible. Thanks, Sally. Nothing is asking do we know how many people from the Institute have been infected with COVID-19? Nothing the answer is we can. We can know in concert with our public health colleagues, but we only want to know where we take action. So there's a principle of actionable information in COVID-19. In concert with our public health colleagues, this this has been discussed that will be a testing facility as more people return to campus that we import a cabin where staff and students are able to go and receive more rapid testing than they would otherwise receive. From NHL sources with the Turner. Runtime of certain same day rather than up to 72 hours, which is happening at current public facilities. There will also be the opportunity for staff and students to share information about well being and symptoms. Vyron app and that app will be personal. Won't be visible to the University, will be for individual staff and student members to opt if they want to share that information. With. The general societal response with the public health services. In another my swag. The timetabling information about clusters bubbles. Groups where we might need to respond if there's particular outbreak and we need to know which people which people cluster regularly, that that is being's already been dealt with. And the campus planning and timetabling. Those information systems will be University side health information systems will very much respect the privacy of the individuals. And be connected to the usual health information and public health information systems. We have a poll result here, so how well are you working from home? 36% of people on this on this call saying very well, no impediments at all. 62% quite well. A few impediments are the. Most 2/3 I was working quite well. And justice. 2% saying there's the substantial difficulties so that. Even with this sample. And its potential biases. That is quite a strong signal that we're doing OK with current arrangements. I know there was a question that came in via email. About providing some initial teaching remotely using our virtual. Media before we have full provisions in place from campus testing etc. We'll get back to Francine wants to comment about that. In a little while. So the other responses, how do you feel about the idea of returning to campus? As many others are doing OK, but our feelings Mount overtime as we have to work work differently. This is really quite important. How do you feel about that? Return? Very confident. Somewhat confident, neutral, somewhat anxious, so fairly. Flout or platykurtic? Normal almost Gaussian distribution here. But the Central Peak is pretty flat, so clustered round our sub between some more confident and somewhat anxious. I think we need to dig into more detail on that. Who perhaps take more communication on the provisions that are being made to make the campus as safe as possible? Unseen, did you want to make any comment about? Virtual teaching. Well, just to say that we are expecting all teaching to be on line. Certainly for the first semester and then we'd start planning for second semester. At the moment it is being. Put forward his hybrid, because obviously some programs will need to bring small groups in at various times. Denise is already sort of mentioned. That and in psychology we may have some need to have some students who are coming in but essentially my insane isn't teaching will be online lecture certainly should be online. We're not aiming to bring large groups of students into sitting lecture theatres. They should be online, synchronous or asynchronous, and we. Needs to continue to work on making sure we're transferring all our materials to hybrid and online version. Ciee have actually done some really good resources around that Center for innovation in education. They've done some really good resource is around how you would do that, how you develop your materials for online and hybrid learning. Obviously we using canvas and that has much more functionality than blackboard. So all people, all their modulators, should be looking to how we, how you put your materials and use the facilities within. In that in canvas. Thanks for answering. And it's clear from these poll results that we have to respond to people's anxieties and where it's possible to deliver. Virtually that we are able to. Where? It's better to do face to face and the right protections are in place that we have that available as well. I think there's certainly it testable. Rerun of that poll after there's been further communications about the evolving plans for safe return to campus, some of which have external dependencies, so it's the wider. It's the wider regional public health response and how the University fits into that. Some of it's under our own control. But I think if the information is fully shared, we can also get some useful insights on how those fears may be allayed or not, and other feedback from across the Institute on how we can support the safe return to campus as a question come in about experiences gathering the same information from people who've been on campus throughout. COVID-19, yes. I think we will rerun this. That's very valuable. Thank you. We will do just just to say from some of the Institute have had stuff back in. They have started running similar survey so I'm aware that some of the we already have some of that data and from chatting to colleagues across the back of the largely it's been quite positive. Actually I think people's experience when they have come in has generally according to their sort of self reporting has been positive. So be interesting to see how people's experiences once they're in. Compared to people's anticipation of of coming in, but we can make some of that information available for sale. Thank you were at the hour. We will endeavor to answer the other questions that have come in very well and we will be addressing this. Again, at the next forum. Meanwhile, as Sally's reminder does the importance of taking some leave, I hope you do get some some down time. An time too. To reflect recuperate. Wherever that may be. And thank you for joining us today. Thank you.