Dear All,

The email below was sent earlier today by acting HoD of the Department of Psychology, Tim Andrews. We will adopt the recommendation not to conduct research at YNiC because of the face-to-face contact with volunteer participants. All scans booked tomorrow and onwards will not be performed. We have been in touch with all teams that have bookings today. I know this is frustrating, but there is no choice in this matter given the government advice concerning non-essential contact, as Tim rightly outlined in his message.

Scans booked will receive reimbursement of time as per policy. If you are affected please complete the scan reimbursement form available of the ynic website and return it to support@ynic.york.ac.uk.

We will be back in touch when we have any updates about when scanning can resume. In the meantime, remote access has been extended to all users to allow work to be done at home.

Best wishes

Tony

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From: Tim Andrews <timothy.andrews@york.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 12:57
Subject: Update
To: All Staff and PhD Students <all-psyc-group@york.ac.uk>

Hello everyone,

I am sure that you are all concerned about recent events. I don't have any additional recommendations except to heed the advice that we are getting from government and university. There has been a lot of hard work going on in the university to update students and staff about how to deal with the current issues, but also to plan for the future.

I would just like to update you on work going on in the department. We have been working hard to make sure that key staff have remote access, so we can continue with current assessments. There is a lot of ongoing work to plan for online teaching and assessment next term. Additional provision has also been provided by servers in YNiC, so staff can work remotely. I would like to thank all the people who have been working hard on this.

I have consulted with colleagues in the department about face-to-face testing of participants. Given that the advice is to avoid all unnecessary social contact, we recommend stopping face-to-face testing for the foreseeable future. We are looking into how we can help with data collection by moving to online testing.

We are likely to be encouraged to work at home where possible in the near future. Please take the time to make sure that you have all you need for this. We may need to think imaginatively about how we can make best use of our time given the circumstances.

Finally, please take care of yourself and each other. Also, take the time to look out for vulnerable people in the community. It is going to be a very worrying time for them. However, let's hope that things will get better soon.

Best wishes,

Tim

Tim Andrews

Department of Psychology

University of York

York, YO10 5DD

Tel: 44-1904-324356

Fax: 44-1904-323181

http://www.york.ac.uk/psychology/staff/faculty/ta505/

Antony Morland, PhD.

Director, York Neuroimaging Centre

Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.