Alumni Magazine Summer 2009 - University of Central Lancashire

Issue 7 SUMMER 2009
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Magazine of the UCLan Alumni Association
Graduate sets up England’s
first community-owned farm
Lord Coe backs
UCLan Olympic bid
UCLan helps Chris Moyles
with Kilimanjaro challenge

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Welcome from the Alumni Team
Another academic year is nearly over and we look forward to
welcoming some 7,000 new graduates to the Alumni
Association. Membership is free and lasts a lifetime – we wish
them every success and look forward to keeping in touch.
Needless to say, the job market has become ever more
challenging. However, futures, our drop in advice centre has
proved highly successful in supporting our students
preparing for the world of work. This service is also available
to you as alumni.
Whether you are seeking employment, changing career or
thinking of setting up your own business, advice and guidance
is available in person, by telephone or by email. Some of you
may consider taking advantage of the 20% discount offered
on most postgraduate course fees. If so, we look forward to
seeing you again at a second award ceremony!
One of many highlights since the last issue has been our
outstanding results from the rigorous, national Research
Assessment Exercise. Rated as having produced “research of
international excellence” in all 17 subject areas submitted for
review, no fewer than 11 were assessed as “containing world
– leading research”. This is a major step change in the
breadth and depth of our increasing research capacity which
is a key area in our future strategy.
Plans for a new of a state of the art indoor sports facility
including a large sports hall, squash courts and activity
In this issue...
Lord Coe backs UCLan Olympic bid 3
Nuclear skills boost for West Cumbria 4
Physiotherapy graduates attend Masterclass 4
First class Sports Therapist goes from strength
to strength 5
The ‘future’ is in your hands 6
UCLan students need you 6
Where are you now? 7
Dental students get their teeth into patient care 8
UCLan success in Times Higher Education
Student Experience Survey 8
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studios, have recently been announced. Scheduled to open in
2010 it will be available not only for alumni, students and staff,
but for the Oceanic 2012 Olympic squad who have already
chosen our outdoor facilities for their pre-Games training.
Still on the sports-front, a recent arrival from the international
golf world is Gary Wolstenholme, former Ryder Cup player, one
of few to have beaten Tiger Woods, and now a member of our
academic staff as a consultant to the International Institute for
Golf Education.
And, finally, as we go to press, the launch of the Worldwise
Learning Centre opens its doors to those with an interest in
international culture and languages. With facilities for digital
conferencing, interpreting and private study, the Centre will
also host cultural workshops, film screenings and lectures will
provide an innovative and stimulating opportunity for students,
staff and the local community alike.
We hope you enjoy this issue of your magazine!
Best Wishes from the Alumni Team
Carolyn Toon
Alumni Relations and Corporate Events Manager
Graduate sets up England’s first community-owned farm 9
UCLan helps Chris Moyles with Kilimanjaro challenge 10
Internal Communication:
making an impact on the environment 10
Charity begins….at work! 11
Unique courses for Burnley 11
Get ahead with UCLan postgraduate courses 12
Every little helps…. 13
Notice Board 14
Editor-in-Chief visits UCLan 14
Memorabilia 16
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Lord Coe backs UCLan Olympic bid
UCLan Sports Arena given gold medal
Olympic legend Seb Coe’s backing for
UCLan’s bid to attract elite Olympic
squads to its top-rated sporting
facilities as a pre-games training base
has met with success. We are
delighted that we will now be hosting
a number of Oceanic countries’
athletes including Fiji, Papua New
Guinea, Guam and the Solomon
Islands before they head off to
London 2012.
And as part of a visit to see how
Lancashire is engaging with London
2012, Lord Coe, Chair of the London
Organising Committee for the
Olympic and Paralympic Games, called
in at the University’s multi-million
Preston Sports Arena (PSA). During a
whistle stop tour, the former Olympic
gold medalist saw outstanding
facilities used on a daily basis by a
range of sporting enthusiasts
including students, elite athletes and
those within the local community.
Dr Adrian Ibbetson, UCLan’s Director
for Sport, led the tour of the facilities
which included a visit to the
University’s new Olympic standard
‘Strength and Conditioning’ lab, built
to aid performance and improve the
strength of athletes across a wide
range of individual and team sports.
Dr Ibbetson explained: “Lord Coe was
genuinely impressed with our
cutting-edge facilities and the way
we are assisting elite athletes,
students and those from schools
throughout the region to meet their
sporting aspirations.”
The site boasts the UK's only premier
league standard football pitches in the
public domain and also features a
floodlit eight-lane athletics arena.
Other facilities include seven grass
pitches, two floodlit all-weather
pitches, four floodlit netball or tennis
courts, a cricket square and pavilion,
seven floodlit multi-use areas, a
covered training area and a 1.5 km
cycle circuit.
Each week over 500 students train
and play matches at PSA and the
facilities have helped the University to
make a dramatic rise up the British
Universities Sports Association (BUSA)
league rankings. The sporting
performances of UCLan students have
placed the institution in the top three
of all North West universities having
risen 34 places in the last two years.
Accompanying Lord Coe on his visit
was cyclist Chris Newton, a key
member of the Team GB Pursuit
Squad and bronze medallist at Beijing
2008. Lancashire based Chris races for
one of Britain’s leading road cycling
teams, the Preston based
RaphaCondorRecycling.co.uk which is
sponsored by UCLan. Chris was able
to meet staff and test new facilities
within UCLan’s Centre for Applied
Sport and Exercise Sciences (CASES).
In the latest National Student Survey
students studying on UCLan’s Sports
Science degrees gave the University a
100 percent satisfaction rating. Out of
60 universities in the UK which offer
Sports Science as a degree, UCLan is
ranked at number one for this factor.
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Nuclear skills boost for West Cumbria
A landmark investment of £5 million
pounds in the comprehensive
redevelopment and extension of its
Westlakes Campus in Cumbria is
reaching completion.
The development will ensure that it
will be a fit-for-purpose, modern
campus and bring state-of-the-art
teaching facilities to the local area,
particularly supporting the local skills
agenda and the nuclear industry.
Facilities will include a new wet
laboratory, advanced teaching areas,
a lecture theatre with 3D capability,
and will be equipped with high
performance computing facilities.
The redevelopment comes as a result
of a £2.5m investment from UCLan,
with a £2m contribution from
Westlakes Renaissance and £500,000
from the West Cumbrian
Development Fund.
The newly refurbished premises will
be 30 percent larger than before and
will accommodate a range of
students. The redevelopment will
bring the Westlakes Campus in line
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with the high standards of existing
UCLan buildings and make it
complementary to the Dalton
Cumbria Facility of Manchester
University (soon to be on the
Westlakes Science Park), enabling
students from both campuses to share
equipment and facilities.
Areas of research will include
environmental sciences, sustainable
development, epidemiology and
genetics. Also covered will be
materials science, proliferation, socioeconomic
and governance issues,
three-dimensional visualisation
technology and renewables.
“The investment we are making at the
Westlakes Campus underpins our
strategies for dealing with the energy
sector and will enable us to deliver
advanced nuclear skills locally,” said Dr
Graham Baldwin, Pro Vice-Chancellor,
Skills and Employer Engagement.
“Work started on the refurbishment
late last year and we look forward to
unveiling the new facilities in
September 2009."
Physiotherapy graduates
attend Masterclass
Graduate Physiotherapists
attended a Cardiorespiratory
Masterclass funded by the UCLan
Alumni Association in March 2009.
The event was held at Blackpool
Victoria Hospital and was led by
Dr Rebecca Scholes.
Rebecca qualified as a
Physiotherapist in 1997 and
completed her PhD in 2005. This
focused on prediction of
pulmonary complications in
patients following upper
abdominal surgery. Rebecca is
currently Deputy Head of
Physiotherapy at Monash
University, Melbourne.
Sessions included:
• Physiotherapy in the abdominal
surgical patient
• Evidence based practice in the
abdominal surgery population
• Risk prediction in the surgical
population
• Musculoskeletal management of
the respiratory patient
• Clinical reasoning and patient
prioritisation
• Education and assessment of
physiotherapy students in the
clinical environment
• Cardiorespiratory Education –
the Monash Model
The event was highly interactive
and encouraged participants to
evaluate their own practice in light
of research findings in the field of
Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy.

First class Sports Therapist goes from strength to strength
Professional sports therapist Laura Patterson is flying high thanks
to a first class honours degree from UCLan.
Lytham lass Laura was one of the first
students through the BSc (Hons)
Sports Therapy course, graduating in
2007, and has now set up her own
business on the Fylde Coast.
Laura said: “I set up Active Start UK
Ltd as soon as I graduated and it’s
been steadily growing over the past
12 months, building up through
word of mouth.”
She continued: “Hard work and
determination is an underestimate
for what was required for me to
achieve a first class honours -
especially when I had to hold down a
job and undergo major surgery and
health problems at the same time!
But it was all definitely worth it.
“The Sports Therapy course is the
perfect course if you’re interested in
anatomy, physiology and sport. You
need to be really passionate about it
if you want a successful degree and
when you graduate the learning
never stops.”
The undergraduate course is
underpinned by the study of
physiology, psychology, pathology,
exercise rehabilitation and manual
therapies. There is an emphasis on
the use of manual therapy, massage
and sports specific exercise as
therapeutic components of a
rehabilitation programme.
As well as gaining a first class
honours degree, Laura also picked up
a Cresta award from her tutors for
her hard work.
Principal lecturer for Sports Therapy,
Andy Cunningham, said: “Laura has
been an outstanding student who
came to us through a non-standard
alumni
entry route. She demonstrated
throughout what can be achieved
through hard work, application and a
desire to succeed.”
Laura will be continuing her studies
in September 2009 when she
undertakes the MSc Psychology of
Sport and Exercise at UCLan.
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The ‘future’ is in your hands
With the media reporting the
constant downturn of the economy,
it seems that every week another
business goes into administration -
is this really a good time to change
your career, undertake further study
or even start a business?
Some critics would say yes - this is the
best time to do those things!
Change your Career?
In the current climate changing your
career may not seem like a viable
option. However, use this time to
re-evaluate and perhaps look at
changing the sector you are working
in or even push for that promotion
you’ve always wanted. Businesses are
recruiting and they are looking for
skilled experienced staff.
With this in mind, there are a number
of things you can do to increase your
chances of success. Update your CV;
focus on your skills, experiences and
achievements. Write a good
application form; ensure you relate
your experiences to their requirements
and undertake some work experience
to prove to your (potential) new
employer that you are serious about
working in their sector.
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Postgraduate Study
Whether you undertake full-time or
part-time further study it shows
employers a number of things,
including your ability to learn and
intent to update your knowledge.
Some careers require a postgraduate
qualification so it’s worth taking some
time to research the career area that
interests you and find out whether a
postgraduate course would be essential
or provide a distinct advantage.
Business Start-up
With businesses going bust on what
seems a daily basis, is it really a good
time to start a business? Some would
say yes, especially if you have a well
researched product or service and a
robust business plan. It is argued that
businesses that push forward with
their marketing and sales during a
recession are the businesses that
ultimately thrive.
What next?
Did you know that as a UCLan
graduate you can get help and
support in all these areas. The futures
team, based on campus, helps all
students and graduates with
employability, skills-development,
UCLAN STUDENTS NEED YOU
The M and M Peer Mentoring
Programme is the University’s
centralised mentoring service for
students. The programme has recently
diversified to incorporate industry
mentoring, known as ‘M and M
futures Mentoring.’
We need the help of our alumni
members to register to become ‘M
and M future mentors’ to support our
final year students who have chosen
to be mentored by someone within
the career that they wish to
eventually follow. Students can gain
an insight into the ‘real world of
work’ by mentoring, gaining
knowledge and picking up
employability tips from the mentor.
You can choose if you want to support
our students on a 1:1, group or ementoring
basis and you will get a
University Mentoring Completion
Certificate when you have finished the
short mentorship programme.
If you want to register to become a
future Mentor and help our students
to achieve and excel, please visit our
career planning and even business
start-up support.
Why not join our Careers Network?
We would love to hear about your
career and work experiences since you
graduated from UCLan and many of
our current students would really
benefit from hearing about your
career journey.
For more information on how you can
utilise the services and support
available please contact the team on
01772 895858 or futures@uclan.ac.uk
or www.uclan.ac.uk/futures .
web-site www.uclan.ac.uk/mandm or
alternatively you can contact the
Mentoring Manager, Deborah Wynn
on 01772 895012 or
dwynn@uclan.ac.uk .
PEER MENTORING

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Where are you now?
Name: Jo Fox-Tutchener
Course of Study:
BA(Hons) Fashion Promotion
Year of Graduation: 1998
Job Title & Employer:
Managing Director, Beauty Seen PR
What made you choose to study
your course?
I actually started on a public relations
course which I found a little hard going.
It was not at all creative and I missed
using that side of my brain. My flat-mate
was doing fashion promotion which
looked like my dream course – I used to
sit with her in the evenings giving her
ideas and longing to be on the same
course. Creative, inspiring and current,
it managed to perfectly fuse theory and
creative, touching on every side of the
fashion industry. I went to see the course
leader to see if I could swap and never
looked back. As soon as I started on the
course I knew this was the path that was
right for me – I loved every minute!
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What did you do after graduation?
I spent a year on placement at various PR
companies in London, at one point
working seven days a week. I worked in a
shop at weekends to pay for me to be
able to do unpaid work experience to
help build contacts and get as much
experience as possible. Following this,
I had two job offers and decided to go to
a PR agency specialising in fashion, events
and music. I stayed there for six years,
setting up a beauty division, before being
approached by Estee Lauder to head up
their in-house PR department. I spent
three years as Communications Manager
for Estee Lauder and Tom Ford Beauty
before deciding to set up my own PR
agency, Beauty Seen PR, which opened in
October 2007.
What are your lasting memories of
your time at UCLan?
I absolutely loved my time at UCLan, both
socially and academically. I found the
course extremely inspiring and the
placement year essential when it came to
getting to know the industry inside out
and building contacts.
What is your greatest achievement
since graduation?
Opening my own agency. It has been
extremely hard work but I now represent
fourteen clients including Sainsbury’s
Health and Beauty, Ruby and Millie,
Cowshed, Eve Lom and Annick Goutal.
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We also create spa areas backstage at
leading events such as the BRIT Awards,
MTV Europe Music Awards and the
MOBO Awards.
What advice would you give to
graduates wanting to do something
similar, or what message would you
like to give to those thinking of
taking up study?
Without sounding like your parents…you
get out of it what you put in. I worked
hard but also played hard going out five
nights a week (I used to claim I was
developing my networking skills!) and
loving every second. But all day, every
day, I was in the studio working,
researching, feeding my brain and
coming up with campaign ideas.
Has your degree, or your experiences
at UCLan had any particular impact
on your current employment or your
life in general?
When I joined UCLan I didn’t really know
what I wanted to do.
I had enrolled on a PR course because my
Dad said I would be good at it and I
didn’t really know what it was about
apart from ‘being good with people’.
UCLan introduced me to a new world,
it took me on a wonderful journey that
enabled me to focus my passion and
talent turning it into a career that I love
and introducing me to a world I didn’t
even know existed.
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Dental students get their teeth into patient care
The thirty-two second-year students
are based in one of four brand new
Dental Education Centres (DECs)
situated in Carlisle, Accrington,
Morecambe and Blackpool, as they
embark on the second year of the
four-year programme.
Since the students started in
September 2007 they have had to
develop their skills on simulators as
well as learning the theory of dental
practice. The first year was based at
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The first cohort of dental students on UCLan’s BDS Graduate Entry
Dentistry Programme has started its second year of intensive
training and is now working with real patients in the community.
the new £5.25m dental school at
UCLan in Preston, which was the first
purpose-built dental school in the UK
for over a century. They have also had
to pass 13 exams since January to
ensure they are ready to treat patients.
Their clinical training at the DECs will
be supplemented by further lectures,
some via video links with the School
of Dentistry in Preston.
Head of the School of Dentistry,
Lawrence Mair, commented: “The
second year students are settling in
well at the DECs following a twoweek
induction programme at the
individual sites.
“The students have now started
seeing patients who are currently on
the NHS allocation list, under the close
UCLan success in Times Higher Education
Student Experience Survey
supervision of their tutors at the DECs.
They will be carrying out simple
routine treatments and emergency
care, including scale and polishes,
fillings and simple tooth extractions.
“Research has shown that most
dentists stay in the area in which they
trained and so we hope to be able to
provide more qualified dentists for the
north-west and help allay the current
shortage.”
The Accrington DEC and Morecambe
DEC were both officially opened in the
autumn, with Carlisle opening in early
2009 and finally Blackpool DEC will be
completed next September
To find out more about Dentistry at
UCLan visit www.uclan.ac.uk/dentistry
or call 01772 895900.
A climb of 14 places up the latest Times Higher Student Experience Survey table was recent cause for
celebration. From a position of 37th last year, UCLan is now ranked 23rd, placing it second in the
Northwest, with Liverpool University appearing at 25th and Manchester University at 59th.
For the second year running, UCLan’s Library was highly rated giving it a joint overall ranking of 11th.
And with work due to start this summer on Phase 2 of the refurbishment it is hoped to make the top 10
in next year’s survey.
UCLan was also third of the three highest ranking new universities,
all of which made it into the top 25 overall.

Graduate sets up England’s
first community-owned farm
UCLan graduate, twenty-six year old
Charlotte Hollins, has helped to save
her organic family farm by setting
up an imaginative new scheme.
After leaving university with an
Environmental Management and Maths
degree, Charlotte returned home to
save money before planning to go
travelling. However, a set of events and
an eviction notice led her and younger
brother Ben to start a battle to raise
£800,000 to save their farm.
Charlotte and her family had been at
Fordhall Farm for generations as
tenant farmers but their landlord was
determined to sell the land for
development and the Hollins family
were in his way. Charlotte’s father was
in his late eighties and their mother
was struggling to manage the farm so
the siblings decided to have one last
attempt at saving their family heritage.
Charlotte and Ben set up a campaign
and a year later managed to secure a
tenancy in their own names. This led
to them being offered the option to
purchase the farm but they had to
raise £800,000 in only six months.
As young people and tenant farmers,
they knew a mortgage would be out
of the question so they set up an
Industrial and Provident Society for
Community Benefit Account which
enabled them to sell non-profit
making £50 shares in the farm, raising
all of the money and turning Fordhall
into England’s first ever communityowned
farm.
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The Fordhall Community Land
Initiative (FCLI) is a pioneering project
which continues to attract press
interest from around the world.
The FCLI has over eight thousand
members world-wide and hundreds
of volunteers, all of whom Charlotte
manages and co-ordinates. Project
Director, Charlotte, now works for the
community trust that owns the farm
and Ben is the tenant farmer.
The brother and sister team has great
plans for the future development of
Fordhall including the renovation of
old buildings to open a local food tea
room and generating more income to
expand the educational work they do
in the community. They have even
written a book called ‘The Fight for
Fordhall Farm’ which has sold over ten
thousand copies and has been
nominated for several awards.
Charlotte said: “We are extremely
grateful for all the support we have
received from the local and wider
community over the years. We would
not be here without them. Special
mention goes to my university friends
who were some of our first volunteers
on the farm - even some of my
former lecturers are shareholders in
the initiative.”
If you would like more information
about Fordhall Organic Farm please
see www.fordhallfarm.com or
e-mail info@fordhallfarm.com .
Pictured top left: UCLan graduate Charlotte
with her brother Ben. Below from left: UCLan
graduates: Charlotte Hollins, Rachel Gregson,
Helen Nichol and Denise Browne, Marie
Greatorex lend a hand at Fordhall Farm.
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UCLan helps Chris Moyles
with Kilimanjaro challenge
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In preparation for their Red Nose Climb
up Mount Kilimanjaro in March, Chris
Moyles and his Radio One team scaled the
highest mountain in Wales with help from
the Outdoors staff at UCLan.
Braving winter winds and snowy crags,
the 3,000ft ascent took seven and a half
hours to complete.
UCLan’s Nigel Garratt, Division Leader for
the Outdoors, said: “Climbing Snowdon is
always a real test and I think Chris and the
team found it a tougher test than they
expected. However, they were all very
determined and stuck at it. It was certainly
good preparation for their Kilimanjaro
challenge which involved a climb of
19,000ft.”
UCLan, which has formally opened its
new outdoor centre in nearby Llangollen,
North Wales, supplied clothing and
rucksacks for the expedition as well as
guiding, instructing and leading the Radio
One team safely to the summit.
The official climb, in aid of Comic Relief,
has raised over three million pounds to
date in sponsorship and UCLan is thrilled
to have had an involvement in Chris’
training and preparation.
Internal Communication: making an impact on the environment
Rachel Fielding, Principal
Communications Officer for the
Environment Agency, came back to
UCLan four years after she graduated
to talk to students.
The Environment Agency is a complex
organisation with a challenging role: to
look after the environment and make it
a better place. And with more than
10,000 staff involved in diverse specialist
roles from fisheries to flood protection,
the Agency's internal communications
presents a huge challenge.
Rachel gave a guest lecture to MA
Strategic Communication students,
who study internal communication as
part of their course, to give them an
insight into the scale and complexity of
internal communication at the
Environment Agency.
Rachel said: “We see internal
communication as an important
corporate communication function.
Providing high quality communication
tools is a significant aspect of our work
and internal communication is a lot
more than channel management. It is
vital for engaging staff at all levels to
help the Agency achieve its aim of
making the environment a better
place.”
Rachel graduated from UCLan's BA
Hons Public Relations course in 2005
and her communication career began
in local authority public relations. She
moved to museum and art
communication in Birmingham, and
then joined the Environment Agency's
Corporate Communications Team.
Rachel credits her UCLan course with
providing a good foundation for her
communication career: “The degree
course at UCLan provided me with a
good balance of theoretical and
practical modules. I took a placement
year as a Public Relations Assistant at
Pendle Borough Council after my
second year and acted as an Account
Manager with the student consultancy,
UK Progress, in the third year.”
MA Strategic Communication
programme director, Dr Mary Welch
said: “It is great to see Rachel's career
going from strength to strength. Our
students really appreciated Rachel's
valuable insight into the challenge of
communicating inside complex
organisations.”
Photo: Rachel Fielding (3rd from right) and MA
Strategic Communication students

Charity begins….at work!
UCLan graduate, Amalia Brightley-
Hodges, has achieved more in her
short career than most people achieve
in several years of employment.
Amalia, who graduated in 2008, has
been key in developing and launching
the charity, My Ten Days.
The aim of My Ten Days is to
encourage owner/managers of small
and medium size businesses to give
one employee ten days of paid leave
in order to do something truly
amazing for charity. The initiative
allows individuals the opportunity to
fundraise and volunteer without
having to worry about losing holiday
entitlement or pay, making them free
to make a real contribution.
The charity has been set up to mark the
20th Anniversary of London based
design and communications agency,
Still Waters Run Deep, where Amalia
has worked as a PA/Studio
Administrator and PR, since graduation.
UNIQUE COURSES FOR BURNLEY
UCLan has unveiled a range of exciting
new courses for its new Burnley
campus not only to meet the needs of
employers and the community in
Fashion and Brand Promotion
graduate, Amalia, undertook several
placements whilst at university to
ensure she had the skills, experience
and contacts to go straight into
employment on leaving UCLan. She
worked at Still Waters Run Deep over
several summers as well as placements
at Miss Sixty, FHM, Good Housekeeping
and Vivienne Westwood.
These fantastic opportunities made
Amalia realise the importance of
‘getting a foot in the door’ at a
company and due to this, Still Waters
Run Deep will soon be launching the
SWRD! Academy, which will give a
graphic design graduate a 6 or 9
month apprenticeship rather than the
standard 6 week placement which
they have been offering for 15 years.
Amalia said: “Whether good or bad
experiences, I would never have
known what it was I really wanted to
do without doing these placements.
Pennine Lancashire, but also to
establish its reputation for developing
programmes that are amongst the
most innovative in the UK.
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What’s more, the contacts I made have
proved invaluable and when I
graduated I was offered three jobs –
how many graduates can say that
these days?”
Please see www.mytendays.org for
more information and contact details
for the charity (to be launched in May
2009). The web-site will provide a
central hub for charities to post their
schemes and voluntary opportunities.
Many of the courses being put forward
for the campus are the first in the
country. Proposed titles include: BA
(Hons) Asian Fashion, BA (Hons)
Community Journalism, BA/BSc (Hons)
Computer Games Enterprise and BA
(Hons) Design Enterprise.
Martin Brown, Director of the Burnley
Campus, said: “We’re really looking to
capture the imagination of the region’s
public and provide courses that tune in
with local needs. For instance, double
the national average of Pennine
Lancashire’s working population is
employed in manufacturing and so we
will be offering the BSc (Hons)
Engineering Business Enterprise and
MSc Manufacturing Leadership.”
The new Burnley campus will open in
September 2009. For information about
courses please contact 01282 711222.
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Get ahead with UCLan postgraduate courses
There are many postgraduate study opportunities available to you as a UCLan
graduate. Here are a few ideas to whet your appetite.
Lancashire Business School’s (LBS)
part-time Master of Business
Administration (MBA) is designed for
those working in a wide variety of
managerial, technical and professional
roles. This demanding 3 year,
part-time management programme
will help you develop into an effective
manager or professional working in a
business management context.
“The MBA will challenge you during
an intensive 3 year period to develop
your ability to operate effectively in a
demanding management
environment. It will also give you an
edge in the increasingly competitive
management job market and will help
enhance your career prospects.”
Within the course you will apply the
latest thinking on business
management to the analysis of key
problems experienced by businesses,
and develop a thorough
understanding of strategic
management, marketing, accounting,
finance, human resource management,
management environment and change
management.
There will be an LBS part-time advice
evening on Tuesday 16th June
between 5pm and 7pm if you would
like to come along and speak to
someone in person about the course.
For more information please contact
Anne-Marie Flynn on 01772 895043 or
lbsmarketing@uclan.ac.uk.
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A new course which has recently been
approved to start in September 2009 is
the Certificate in Digital Forensic
Investigation. The course will be
studied part-time by distance learning.
In addition to this, we have several
new courses in the Faculty of Health
and Social Care including:
◗ MA/PG Dip Professional Counselling
◗ MSc Nursing
◗ PG Dip Specialist Community Public
Health Nurse – Health Visiting or
School Nursing
◗ MSc Midwifery & Women’s Health
◗ MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert Sexual Health
Studies
◗ PG Dip Social Work Practice
◗ MSc/PG Dip Endodontology
Finally, our Lancashire Law School offers
a wide range of postgraduate and parttime
courses and is a registered CPD
provider. Courses include:
◗ LLB
(undergraduate full-time and part-time)
◗ CPE Graduate Diploma in Law
(available campus based or by distance
learning)
◗ Legal Practice Course
◗ Employment Law
◗ International Law and Business
◗ Medical Law
◗ European and Commercial Law
◗ LLM Advanced Legal Practice.
The School also offers a range of CPD
and Certificates including: Collective
Labour Law, Equality at Work,
International Trade Law, Conservation
Law and many more.
There is also the e-learn Graduate
Diploma in Law which is an innovative
conversion course for non-law
graduates who wish to go onto
professional training as a solicitor or
barrister. For further details and a full
course listing please contact the Law
School Office 01772 893062 or 01772
893063
For more information about any of the
courses mentioned or postgraduate
opportunities which are available to
you, please contact Course Enquiries
on 01772 892400
cenquiries@uclan.ac.uk
www.uclan.ac.uk

Every little helps….
At the start of this academic year the
Magic Taxi search engine was installed
onto the University's computer
network enabling student and staff
web searches via Magic Taxi to raise
money for the Harris Bursary Fund.
We're pleased to report that over a
four month period the partnership
with Magic Taxi has generated an extra
£4,132 for the fund. To find out more
about Magic Taxi and to set up the
University's Magic Taxi toolbar on your
computer go to www.magictaxi.com
/helpuclan - by doing this small thing
you can help us raise much needed
funds without spending a penny.
Pictured: L-R Kevin Hookham (Head of Fundraising),
Len Lewis (Executive Director of Operations) and
Tania Callagher (Fundraising Events)
ALUMNI TELETHON – March/April 2009
alumni
Thank you to everyone who has continued to support us in our fundraising efforts to increase the
Harris Bursary Fund. The fund continues to enable us to help students who are financially
disadvantaged by allowing us to buy books, computers and even food vouchers from your donations.
The University of Central Lancashire
Foundation is a charity exempt from
registration under the second
Schedule to the Charities Act 1993.
We’ve recently completed our second telethon campaign which came to an end in
April 2009 and you may have been one of the people who we contacted.
The telephone callers are all UCLan students and one of them, Pratima, wanted to
share her thoughts about working on the campaign with you.
Dear Alumni,
Let me start with a puzzle. I am what you were once upon a time, not so long ago.
Guess who I am? Well, the answer is...a student of the University of Central Lancashire!
Now that we share something in common, let me tell you something about what I study
and what I do within the University. I am a Masters student studying Forensic DNA
Profiling. I must say that it’s quite an intense course, which is why working as a student
caller for the University’s Fundraising Team is great fun and a very welcome break.
My job is to get in touch with the University’s alumni, largely to maintain contact but also
let the bond that we all have with our university thrive. They say that our university days
are the best of our lives. The friends, those late nights, the lecturers and the exam pressure
are all experiences we’ve learned from and I am sure will cherish forever.
I’m glad that my job is to try and make every student’s experience as memorable as mine
and yours. I play my small part in raising both the profile and money for the Harris Bursary
Fund, which I think is an excellent initiative taken by the University to support students who
are financially less fortunate than I am.
The Harris Bursary Fund aims at providing help where it is absolutely necessary, so that
students can get a degree that helps them towards a brighter future. I would appeal to
everyone to join us in making our university a place where economic barriers do not
become a hindrance in getting a decent education because education is hugely important
to the future culture and citizenship of a country.
There is also a government initiative which almost doubles every pound donated to the
Fund at no further cost to the donor. However, there is a time limit on this scheme so let’s
make the most of the opportunity to help our university support a small but sizeable
portion of students who are in need.
Best wishes to you all,
Pratima - Student Caller 08/09
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alumni
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Notice
Board
Thinking of starting
a business?
Graduates from UCLan can benefit
from a wide range of support from
the Northern Lights business support
team which is part of ‘futures’ (see
the full article on page 6). We are
keen to hear from anyone who has
recently set up in business or is
thinking of doing so, and would like
support. Please contact
northernlights@uclan.ac.uk or
01772 895950.
In memoriam
Paul Dickenson (MA International
Business 1993-94) sadly lost his
battle with cancer on 17th
February 2009. We’d like to pass
our sympathies and best wishes to
his wife Anne as well as his family
If you would like to post a
notice in the next edition of
your magazine please contact
alumniassociation@uclan.ac.uk
or 01772 892344.
– please keep in touch!
Don’t forget that the Alumni
Association official Facebook page
is live and we want you to become
a fan so that you can keep in touch
with all that’s going on at UCLan.
All you need is a Facebook account
of your own.
To see our page please type the
following link into your internet
browser
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pr
eston-United-Kingdom/UCLan-
Alumni-Association/12208682495
or search the groups using ‘UCLan
Alumni Association.’
For more information contact us on
01772 892344 or
alumniassociation@uclan.ac.uk
Editor-in-Chief visits UCLan
Postgraduate Tuition
Fee Discount Scheme
Don’t forget that as a UCLan
graduate you are entitled to a
20% discount on most
postgraduate courses.
The Postgraduate Bursary is
available to alumni who progress
onto a UCLan postgraduate course,
full or part-time. However, the
bursary is only available to students
who are entirely self-funding and is
not available to those who are
sponsored or in receipt of any
other bursary.
If you are interested in any of
our postgraduate opportunities
or would like advice on what to
do next, please contact 01772
892400 for more information.
We will also be holding a
Postgraduate Advice Afternoon
on Thursday 12th November
2009, 12 noon to 3pm,
if your study plans are a little
further in the future.
Simon Kelner, UCLan alumnus and Editor-in-Chief of national newspaper, The
Independent, visited UCLan recently to take part in the Harris Journalism Lecture
Series with a talk entitled ‘Independent Minded’.
Journalism graduate, Simon, was made an Honorary Fellow of UCLan in 1999 for
his services to journalism and in recognition of his success in the industry. He has
continued to keep in touch with the University, offering advice and guidance to
current journalism students.
Also, as part of the lecture series, world-renowned television journalist, Jon Snow
gave a talk on the world of breaking news. Jon is Channel 4’s main news anchor.

Great deals for alumni on short
^ ^
breaks at Ty’n Dwr Hall in Wales
Do you fancy escaping the rat race and taking a few days away from it all?
If so, we’re offering great accommodation deals for graduates at our newly
refurbished Ty’n Dwr Hall in Llangollen, Wales.
Ty’n Dwr Outdoor Centre is situated in 7 acres of ancient woodland in the
beautiful vale of Llangollen in North Wales. The en-suite accommodation is
based in the Ty’n Dwr Hall, a Victorian house of ‘Tudorbethan’ style dated
c. 1866-70, which also has a dining area, bar, terrace and a TV lounge.
There is also a Victorian Coach House and a Yurt Camp which can be used for
schools, colleges and community residential visits.
Alumni rates for weekday and weekend en-suite accommodation are currently
£22.50 per person including continental breakfast. You can upgrade to a full
Welsh breakfast for an extra £5 per person.
For more information and to book, please contact the Reservation Team on
01978 860659 or e-mail uclanoutdoor@uclan.ac.uk .
Please see the alumni web-site www.uclan.ac.uk/alumni for our full range of
benefits which include discounts from BUPA, National Car Hire and the RAC.
Paul Mukerji
- 1994 graduate
alumni
In 1994 I graduated with a 2:1 in
French and History from UCLan. I
have very fond memories of my time
in Preston and the people I met
during both periods of study –
and socialising!
After doing some additional
language courses I got a job in the
tourism industry and have visited
over 60 countries through my work,
principally in Europe, the Americas,
Africa and Asia. In the intervening
years I also completed an MA in
Peace Studies from the University of
Bradford which led me to becoming
a human rights observer first in
Columbia and more recently in
Israel/Palestine.
Since my return, I have been giving
talks about my experiences to
schools, amnesty groups, rotary
clubs and churches. If there is
anyone who remembers me
(you might not recognise me from
the photo as I had more hair in my
uni days) who belongs to an
organisation which may be
interested in hosting such a talk
then please get in touch. Equally, if
you just want to catch up it would
be great to hear from you.
Paul Mukerji –
paulmukerji@hotmail.com
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See you next time…
Don’t forget to keep us updated and make sure you send us any exciting news
we may be able to feature in the next magazine. Have a great summer!
Alumni Relations & Corporate Events
University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE
e-mail: alumniassociation@uclan.ac.uk
Tel: 01772 892344 Fax: 01772 894959 www.uclan.ac.uk/alumni
Memorabilia Order Form
Please choose your items of memorabilia from the list below and return the completed form, together with your cheque, to the University.
All items are subject to availability and you will be notified as soon as possible if your order is not available. Regrettably we are unable to
send items overseas. Please make your cheque, including postage and packing of £5, payable to the University of Central Lancashire and
send to: Foster Reception, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE. For queries please contact 01772 201201.
Merchandise Items Price per item Size (please circle) Colour, if applicable (please circle) Quantity
Certificate Tube £8.89 - -
Graduation Teddy £9.87 - -
Hooded Top £19.74 XS, S, M, L, XL Black, Grey, Red
Polo Shirt £11.85 S, M, L, XL White, Navy, Red/Black
Scarf £21.72 - -
Tie £11.85 - -
Cufflinks £14.81 - -
Parker Pen Set £11.85 - -
Total of cash amount enclosed (including £5.00 for UK delivery) £ ………………..
Please enter the Name, address & telephone number of the person to whom the memorabilia should be sent to:
Name ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Address ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………….. Tel No …………………………………
The full selection of UCLan memorabilia can be viewed at www.uclan.ac.uk/memorabilia
All profits from the sale of memorabilia go to the Harris Bursary Fund, raising money for disadvantaged students.
“Thanks to the Harris Bursary I was able
to buy my ‘Course Bibles’” Kirsty
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