Welcome to the Department of Life Sciences!

Before You Start

• Your line manager will contact you to agree a time when you should arrive on your first day and will let you know where you should report to. Just in case you don’t hear from them – your first point of contact is Geetika Masters at South Kensington Campus or Emma Proctor at Silwood Park campus.
• You may want to take a look around on our website, have a read of our Newsletters or find out about our latest Departmental Seminar Programme to find out more about all the wonderful people you’ll be working with!

On Your First Day

1. You’ll be greeted by your line manager (or a nominee) and will be introduced to your immediate workplace and colleagues
2. You and your inductor must complete the Day One Safety Induction (includes tour of the buildings) before you can be issued the College Access Card
3. College Access Card – you will need to take with you the signed day one safety induction checklist together with a copy of your contract, and a form of ID, to get the access card from the Security Office. You’ll also have to pose for a photo. It should be quick and easy. Avoid start of term
4. IT – your manager will receive an email once your log in details have been set up – from there, it’s just straight forward to set up your email account
5. You will meet a member of the HR team (you’ll receive information about your meeting with HR with your employment contract). This meeting is important as HR will make sure you have completed all relevant documentation to start your employment (and enrolled to payroll) and answer any immediate HR related questions you may have
6. We’ll arrange for you to have a meeting with Professor Anne Dell, the Head of Department, Prof Stephen Curry, the Chair of the Equal Opportunities Committee and your Academic Mentor and Stefan Hoyle, Head of Health & Safety (Faculty of Natural Sciences). You’ll be advised in advance.

Your first week

• Complete the College’s induction checklist with your line manager.
• Familiarise yourself with useful Policies and Procedures

Key Contacts

Name	Title	Telephone	Email	Office Location
Professor Anne Dell	Head of Department of Life Sciences	020759 45214	dols.hod@imperial.ac.uk	204, 2nd Floor, Sir Ernst Chain Building
Mrs Geetika Masters	Executive Assistant to Head of Department	020759 47621	g.masters@imperial.ac.uk	211, 2nd Floor, Sir Ernst Chain Building
Professor Erhard Hohenester	Deputy Head of Department	020759 47701	e.hohenester@imperial.ac.uk	406, 4th Floor, Sir Ernst Chain Building
Professor Tim Barraclough	Deputy Head of Department (Silwood Park)	020759 42247	t.barraclough@imperial.ac.uk	N2.4, Silwood Park
Professor Pietro Spanu	Chair of the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Committee	020759 45384	p.spanu@imperial.ac.uk	610, 6th Floor, Sir Alexander Fleming Building
Mr James Andrewes	Education Office Manager	020759 45234	j.andrewes@imperial.ac.uk	202, 2nd Floor, Sir Ernst Chain Building
Mr Stefan Hoyle	Head of Health & Safety (Faculty of Natural Sciences)	07872850018	s.hoyle@imperial.ac.uk	(desk 518), 5th Floor, Sir Alexander Fleming Building
Mr Richard Bowman	Departmental Manager (Research)	020 759 47336	r.bowman@imperial.ac.uk	5th Floor, Sir Alexander Fleming Building
Dr Huw Williams	Director of Undergraduate Studies (Biology)	020 759 45383	h.d.williams@imperial.ac.uk	507, 5th Floor, Sir Ernst Chain Building
Dr Kleoniki Gounaris	Director of Postgraduate Studies	020 759 45209	k.gounaris@imperial.ac.uk	205, 2nd Floor, Sir Ernst Chain Building
Ms Pat Evans	Departmental Operations Manager	020 759 45396	pat.evans@imperial.ac.uk	502, 5th Floor, Sir Alexander Fleming Building

 Other Useful Information

• Staff Benefits
• Academics - Useful Research Support Information

Training the Department expects you to undertake:

• Imperial Insights – College’s induction programme
• Recruitment and Selection
• Unconscious Bias
• Promoting Equality and Diversity
• Harassment – Confronting Inappropriate Behaviour (applicable for staff with no line management responsibilities) or The Management Perspective (all line managers)
• Personal Review and Development Plan (PRDP) Briefing Session (all staff with line management responsibilities)
• Introduction to Management at Imperial

Recommended training: Imperial Leadership and Management Development Programme (ILMDP) 

F-Accounts

All academics have a unique account code known as a Lecturers or F account. The account provides an audit trail for departmental expenditure incurred by individual academics and are managed using ‘credits’ transferred from central budgets.

Start-up allowances are credited to this account, once start up allowance has been spent the department credits an annual allowance, dependent on the size of the academics research group, which is typically used for expenditure that cannot be charged to grants. Examples include telephone bills, stationery and general non- project related consumables.

Contacting the Head of Department

The Head of Department, Professor Anne Dell has an open door policy which means that you can contact her to discuss any matters that concern you or you need clarification on. You can either email her directly or make an appointment via Geetika Masters.