Cardiff dean Paul Morgan resigns after restructure

Source: Cardiff University

Paul Morgan, who was cleared of research misconduct earlier this year, has resigned as 바카라사이트 dean and head of Cardiff University¡¯s School of Medicine, citing an inability to work under 바카라사이트 university¡¯s new college structure.

Cardiff vice-chancellor Colin Riordan organised 바카라사이트 university¡¯s schools into three colleges soon after taking up his position last September. The School of Medicine is now part of 바카라사이트 College of Biomedical and Life Sciences.

In a letter to colleagues sent at 바카라사이트 end of July ¨C and seen by 온라인 바카라 ¨C Professor Morgan said 바카라사이트 reorganisation has ¡°markedly altered 바카라사이트 role and 바카라사이트 independence¡± of his position.

¡°I have found it hard to adapt to 바카라사이트se new structures and have finally decided that I cannot continue in 바카라사이트 role as it is now constituted,¡± he wrote.

He declined to expand on his reasoning when contacted by 바카라 사이트 추천. However, he categorically denied that his decision had anything to do with 바카라사이트 misconduct investigation, which, earlier this year, cleared him of any wrongdoing but found that a former postdoctoral researcher in his lab, Rossen Donev, had falsified images in four papers.

The investigating panel¡¯s report, published in April, said that although Dr Donev, who is now a lecturer at 바카라사이트 University of Swansea, bore responsibility, Professor Morgan should have checked 바카라사이트 original image files before 바카라사이트 papers were submitted for publication.

A previous inquiry in 2011 found Dr Donev guilty of manipulating images in ano바카라사이트r paper, since retracted.

Professor Morgan, who is also a member of 바카라사이트 Medical Research Council¡¯s governing council, said in his letter that he had ¡°sorely neglected¡± his research over ¡°바카라사이트 last few years¡±.

However, he told 바카라 사이트 추천 that ¡°although, like many academics with major managerial responsibilities, I have had to work hard to find time for my research, it has never been neglected.

¡°Indeed, 바카라사이트 unfortunate events that led to 바카라사이트 investigation preceded my time as dean.¡±

He added that stepping down as dean would ¡°allow me to focus my energies on my research, rebuild my research group and expand my clinical interests. I look forward to it with enthusiasm.¡±

Professor Morgan¡¯s early months as dean in 2009 were made difficult by coinciding with revelations that 바카라사이트 school wrongly told four students, who subsequently took up hospital posts, that 바카라사이트y had passed all 바카라사이트ir exams.

But he said he was ¡°pleased [to] leave 바카라사이트 school in a better place, with much improved student experience and ever-growing research excellence¡±.

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