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The magazine for alumni and friends<br />
of <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong><br />
ISSUE <strong>63</strong>, JULY 2006<br />
‘RECIPE FOR LIFE’ HELPS OLDER<br />
PEOPLE TO EAT BETTER<br />
CHALLENGES FACING LOCAL GOVERNMENT TODAY<br />
AWARDS SCHEME IS ‘FULL OF EASTERN PROMISE’
CONTENTS<br />
01 <strong>News</strong><br />
02 - 03 Addressing the challenges facing local government<br />
04 - 05 Investors in Students award<br />
06 - 07 Understanding the link between psychology and health<br />
08 - 09 ‘Recipe for Life’ - addressing older people’s nutritional needs<br />
10 Student Scholarships – a helping hand on the road to success<br />
11 Research news<br />
12 Postcard from Pakistan<br />
13 <strong>QM</strong>GA <strong>News</strong>letter<br />
14 - 15 <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> students make their mark<br />
16 - 17 Classnotes / Reunions<br />
18 RE:LOCATE update<br />
02-03<br />
06-07<br />
Note from the Principal<br />
Welcome to the summer 2006<br />
edition of <strong>QM</strong> <strong>News</strong>, our magazine<br />
for the alumni and friends of<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>.<br />
This edition of <strong>QM</strong> <strong>News</strong> has a new<br />
layout which brings together the<br />
news and alumni sections of the<br />
magazine. Now you will find alumni<br />
news interspersed with news about<br />
our current work. We know that<br />
stories about our current students,<br />
research and expertise are as<br />
interesting and relevant to our<br />
graduates as alumni news. And we<br />
are keen to share with our graduates<br />
the expert knowledge that continues<br />
to be developed at <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>,<br />
through our ground-breaking<br />
research projects.<br />
At <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>, we focus on<br />
providing expertise which informs<br />
and contributes to knowledge, policy<br />
and practice in areas which touch<br />
people’s lives and experience. Find<br />
out how the study of health<br />
psychology uses the principles of<br />
psychology to understand the major<br />
health related challenges facing<br />
society today (page 6 and 7).<br />
Scholarships and awards schemes at<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> offer students the<br />
best possible start to their career.<br />
Find out more about these schemes<br />
on page 10.<br />
RE:LOCATE, <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>’s move<br />
to our new campus at Craighall, East<br />
Lothian, is well underway. Deputy<br />
First Minister and Minister for<br />
Enterprise & Lifelong Learning, Nicol<br />
Stephen MSP, marked the start of<br />
the development by planting the first<br />
tree on the site recently (page 18).<br />
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I hope you enjoy this issue.<br />
Professor Anthony Cohen FRSE<br />
Principal and Vice-Patron<br />
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NEWS - PAGE 01<br />
QUEEN MARGARET RESEARCH<br />
PROFESSOR RECEIVES<br />
SCIENTIFIC HONOUR<br />
Professor Bill Hardcastle, Director of<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>’s Speech Science<br />
Research Centre, has received a<br />
prestigious award for his work with<br />
technology to aid speech disorders.<br />
Each year, the Foundation for Science<br />
and Technology gives the Lord Lloyd of<br />
Kilgerran Award to an individual who has<br />
made a positive contribution to society.<br />
Previous recipients include Tim Berner-<br />
Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web<br />
and Ian Wilmut, leader of the team that<br />
created Dolly the sheep.<br />
Professor Hardcastle is responsible for<br />
internationally renowned work in the<br />
development of electropalatography<br />
(EPG), a technique which records<br />
contact of the tongue with the roof of<br />
the mouth during speech.<br />
“I’m delighted and honoured to receive<br />
this award in recognition of our work<br />
with EPG,” said Professor Hardcastle.<br />
“The award and associated lecture<br />
which I have been invited to give to the<br />
Royal Society will do much to raise the<br />
profile of our work among senior policy<br />
makers and other important<br />
stakeholders. I’m very much looking<br />
forward to this unique opportunity.”<br />
Professor Bill Hardcastle demonstrates EPG<br />
technology to a young patient.<br />
ENDOWMENT HELPS STUDENTS<br />
ADDRESS SPEECH DIFFICULTY OF<br />
UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN<br />
A former member of staff at <strong>Queen</strong><br />
<strong>Margaret</strong> has created a generous<br />
endowment which will allow students to<br />
study speech and language therapy for<br />
underprivileged children.<br />
Carol Spragge, a former member of the<br />
speech and languages department, has<br />
gifted a very generous endowment to<br />
support the work of the department.<br />
This will be used to pay for an ongoing<br />
optional lecture series for fourth year<br />
speech and language therapy students<br />
which concentrates on therapy for<br />
underprivileged children in areas of high<br />
social deprivation and social exclusion.<br />
Professor Fiona Gibbon, Head of<br />
Speech and Hearing Sciences at <strong>Queen</strong><br />
<strong>Margaret</strong>, said: “This is a very generous<br />
gift that will improve our students'<br />
knowledge about the most effective<br />
interventions for underprivileged children.”<br />
Carol Spragge and Professor Fiona Gibbon<br />
SCOTTISH BOOK CULTURE STUDY<br />
GETS FINANCIAL BOOST<br />
Professor David Finkelstein, Research<br />
Professor of Media and Print Culture at<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>, has been awarded a<br />
research leave grant of £27,000 from the<br />
Arts and Humanities Research Council<br />
(AHRC) to edit and complete writing on<br />
an authoritative guide to the past 120<br />
year history of Scotland’s book culture.<br />
The Edinburgh History of the Book in<br />
Scotland, 1880-2000 is the 4th volume<br />
in a series being published next year by<br />
Edinburgh <strong>University</strong> Press, co-edited by<br />
Professor Finkelstein and Professor<br />
Alistair McCleery of Napier <strong>University</strong>.<br />
Professor Finkelstein will begin final work<br />
on the project in September 2006, with<br />
the results published in December 2007.<br />
“This is a major coup for <strong>Queen</strong><br />
<strong>Margaret</strong>,” said Professor Finkelstein. “It<br />
is the first AHRC grant of its kind ever<br />
awarded to the institution. I am very<br />
excited by this opportunity to complete<br />
work on what is an important and untold<br />
story of twentieth-century Scottish<br />
culture and history.”<br />
When published, the volume will cover<br />
topics as diverse as Scottish readers<br />
and reading habits, the Gaelic book,<br />
publishing infrastructures, Scottish book<br />
design and illustration, Scottish literary<br />
publishing and new media.<br />
CARERS’ QUALIFICATION GETS<br />
BACKING FROM SCOTTISH SOCIAL<br />
SERVICES COUNCIL<br />
The Higher Education Certificate in Care<br />
run by <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> has been<br />
recognised by the Scottish Social<br />
Services Council as a means for carers<br />
and support workers throughout<br />
Scotland to become registered.<br />
Those involved in providing or delivering<br />
social care services require to be<br />
registered within the next few years and<br />
completion of the course is one way in<br />
which individuals working as carers, or<br />
employed in a caring capacity, can<br />
become eligible for registration.<br />
The course has been designed to meet<br />
the educational needs of carers and<br />
support workers employed in a variety of<br />
health and social care settings. It was<br />
developed as a result of demand from<br />
the health and social care professions<br />
for a formal programme of education for<br />
those who wished to be better informed<br />
about their caring role.<br />
Martina Balaam, joint course leader,<br />
said: “Scotland depends heavily on<br />
carers to provide for the vulnerable in<br />
society and qualifications like this will<br />
enhance the status and value of this<br />
significant workforce. Registration for<br />
this group will allow a demonstration of<br />
the close and important relationship<br />
between practice and theoretical<br />
knowledge which will improve the quality<br />
of care in line with the national care<br />
standards.”
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ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES<br />
FACING LOCAL GOVERNMENT<br />
Local government has been in the<br />
news a lot recently, particularly with<br />
regards to a major dispute about the<br />
level of taxation that’s appropriate to<br />
support local authorities. There has<br />
also been substantial coverage of<br />
disagreements between the Scottish<br />
Executive and local councils over<br />
how much support they’ve had from<br />
government, and how this impacts on<br />
the tax bills that all of us pay through<br />
council tax.<br />
“I believe there is a much deeper<br />
problem than just the level of taxation,”<br />
says Professor Richard Kerley, Dean of<br />
the Faculty of Business and Arts at<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>, and an expert on local<br />
government. “In terms of the cash<br />
amount, the dispute has really been<br />
about relatively small amounts of money.<br />
“Our experience here at <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong><br />
in working and researching in a variety of<br />
different public service settings suggests<br />
that we, as a society, are moving into a<br />
position where we are yearning for easy<br />
solutions and there just aren’t<br />
any available.”<br />
Professor Kerley argues that local<br />
government is facing what has been<br />
termed by American academics as<br />
‘wicked problems’ - that is, scenarios<br />
where the very act of tackling complex<br />
issues throws up other problems that<br />
are themselves complex to deal with.<br />
He explains: “In local government terms,<br />
we are trying to tackle socially desirable<br />
activities like the recycling of waste,<br />
which means that in my house, for<br />
example, I have four different ways of<br />
putting out different bits of my<br />
household refuse: I have a green bin and<br />
a brown bin and a blue box and a red<br />
box. What used to be a relatively simple<br />
task - put the bin bag out on a Thursday<br />
morning before 7 o’clock - is now<br />
something that has to have notices all<br />
over the kitchen wall and so on, and a<br />
constant ‘Help! What day is this? What<br />
should I be doing today and at<br />
what time?!’”<br />
So, he argues, in trying to tackle<br />
important issues like the environment,<br />
more complex challenges are created<br />
and increasing costs are built into public<br />
services. It is also clear that in making<br />
such changes there is the potential to<br />
disrupt and annoy some people, as<br />
highlighted by recent research carried<br />
out at <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> into residents’<br />
reactions to the introduction of ‘wheelie<br />
bins’ in the city.<br />
The new <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> Executive<br />
Masters Degree in Public Service<br />
Management is designed to enable<br />
students to engage with a range of<br />
contemporary issues and debates such<br />
as these. The course will also make<br />
students aware of the social tensions<br />
sometimes related to public service<br />
provision. A classic example is that,<br />
although citizens regularly state in<br />
surveys that they would like to see local<br />
government providing more and better<br />
services, few want to pay much more in<br />
tax, if anything.<br />
Professor Kerley gives an example. “It<br />
has been suggested that levels of<br />
taxation in the Scottish Borders could be<br />
reduced if the council shut a number of<br />
primary schools. A substantial number of<br />
primary schools in the Scottish Borders<br />
are operating under capacity so merging<br />
a couple of schools in a given area<br />
would be an obvious efficiency and<br />
would perhaps improve some aspects of<br />
children’s educational experience.<br />
However, since the primary school is<br />
often at the heart of the village - it is the<br />
place where after school events and<br />
public meetings take place - a slice of<br />
life would disappear from the community<br />
if it was closed down.<br />
“Part of what councils everywhere are<br />
trying to do is to find ways of coping<br />
with these types of paradox and the<br />
dilemmas that people present to them.”<br />
Starting in September 2006, the new<br />
Executive Masters Degree in Public<br />
Service Management is being introduced<br />
precisely because councils are having to<br />
face up to such tensions in service<br />
provision. It will equip people with a<br />
greater understanding of the dilemmas<br />
of public management and enable them<br />
to do their own research into these<br />
kinds of activities. Students will be able<br />
to gain a sense of how society is<br />
changing and how local government is<br />
dealing with this.<br />
The course explores the nature and<br />
context of public services and examines<br />
a range of management issues.<br />
Students will explore important themes
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in contemporary public management,<br />
such as consumerism, financial<br />
management, quality and performance<br />
management and the changing nature of<br />
the public policy agendas that drive<br />
public management.<br />
Research into certain local government<br />
issues is also being developed at <strong>Queen</strong><br />
<strong>Margaret</strong>. One area of research is the<br />
provision of services for older people<br />
and how the financial arrangements of<br />
local government affect this group. Most<br />
local authorities provide – where there is<br />
a charge – a concessionary arrangement<br />
for people over a certain age to<br />
purchase services, such as entry to<br />
public swimming pools, theatre tickets,<br />
or the cost of renting an allotment. The<br />
research will aim to itemise these types<br />
of arrangements - something which has<br />
never been done before.<br />
“If local authorities offer a discount on an<br />
allotment rental, that’s absolutely no use<br />
to the millions of older people who don’t<br />
rent an allotment,” suggests Professor<br />
Kerley. “Part of the question we have<br />
never really addressed is whether this<br />
whole raft of concessions might be<br />
swept away and a higher actual income<br />
paid to older people for them to spend<br />
as they choose. Understanding this is an<br />
important part of the debate about what<br />
arrangements society makes for older<br />
people. There are some very interesting<br />
developments to be made in this area.”<br />
“Part of what councils<br />
everywhere are trying to do<br />
is to find ways of coping<br />
with the dilemmas that<br />
people present to them.”<br />
Main picture: One of Edinburgh’s recycling plants<br />
Inset picture: Professor Richard Kerley
PAGE 04<br />
INVESTORS IN STUDENTS<br />
AWARD SCHEME GIVES LOUISE A TASTE<br />
OF MIDDLE EASTERN CULTURE<br />
Louise Gillam, a second year dietetics<br />
student, was one of the lucky<br />
recipients of an Investors in Students<br />
Award in 2005, which enabled her to<br />
embark on an educational trip to<br />
Jordan. Here is Louise’s account of<br />
her experience.<br />
Alongside my degree course in dietetics,<br />
I have been learning French and Arabic<br />
at evening classes, as I hope in the long<br />
term to work overseas in the field of<br />
nutrition with a non-governmental<br />
organisation or aid agency.<br />
Whilst the French was ticking over nicely,<br />
having studied this to ‘O’ Level standard<br />
at school, I was aware that, with a<br />
different alphabet, Arabic would be a<br />
bit trickier and I set about looking for<br />
an established course in an<br />
Arabic-speaking country where I<br />
could kick start the learning process.<br />
With the backing of my Head of<br />
Department, Dr Isobel Davidson, I<br />
applied successfully to the Investors in<br />
Students Committee for funding to cover<br />
the course fee for the summer semester<br />
of ‘Arabic for Speakers of Another<br />
Language (Level 1)’ at the <strong>University</strong> of<br />
Jordan, Amman. The project exceeded<br />
my expectations in many ways.<br />
The university, with in excess of 30,000<br />
students, has a beautiful campus, the<br />
teaching staff taking particular pride over<br />
the Language Centre, which, whilst<br />
established in 1979, was in a brand new<br />
building only opened this summer.<br />
The quality of the teaching was nothing<br />
short of excellent, as were the lesson<br />
structures and course materials,<br />
published by the teaching staff in<br />
the university.<br />
Lessons totalled four hours every day<br />
and were very fast-paced, requiring at<br />
least the same amount of hours in home<br />
study to keep up. Over the course of the<br />
eight weeks, we learned to communicate<br />
predominantly in classical Arabic, but<br />
with some colloquial phrases to be able<br />
to understand local differences. By the<br />
end of the course, our reading, writing<br />
and communication skills were classed<br />
as fluent at an intermediate level. We<br />
were able to read and write lengthy<br />
paragraphs and conjugate verbs in the<br />
past, present and future tense and had<br />
a vocabulary in excess of 1000 words<br />
in the end.<br />
The students came from all over the<br />
world. Our class included students from<br />
North Korea, Japan, Brazil, Ukraine,<br />
America, Denmark and Germany. Each<br />
student had their own interesting tale as<br />
to why they were learning Arabic. In<br />
addition to a French journalist there were<br />
several students who had one parent<br />
from an Arabic country who had been<br />
forced to leave many years ago for<br />
political reasons. Hearing the mix of<br />
students tell their stories during my time<br />
there was both fascinating and, at times,<br />
very sad.<br />
In addition to making many new friends<br />
from all over the world, I made local<br />
friends and visited their family homes<br />
which gave me quite an insight into the<br />
different culture we were living in. I learnt<br />
about the differences between the Arab<br />
Muslim culture and my own, in addition<br />
to eating local food, smoking the<br />
traditional flavoured tobacco in a giant<br />
pipe and gaining fantastic help with my<br />
homework and revision! I found the<br />
Jordanian people to be the most<br />
welcoming people I have ever had the<br />
pleasure to meet.<br />
Whilst in Amman I stayed in a women’s<br />
hostel for students, just outside the<br />
north gate of the university, which had a<br />
10pm curfew - a little different from<br />
student halls back home but deemed<br />
very liberal in comparison to the oncampus<br />
hostels which had a 7.30pm<br />
curfew! I could not quite decide if I was<br />
deemed to be in danger or deemed to<br />
be the danger!<br />
The Language Centre ran trips for<br />
students every weekend to various<br />
tourist spots which included overnight<br />
stays in Petra, a festival in Jerash,<br />
floating in the Dead Sea and staying<br />
overnight in Bedouin tents in the Wadi<br />
Rum desert. The trips were all great fun<br />
and a fantastic opportunity to see the<br />
teachers chilled outside of the classroom<br />
and to meet other students.<br />
As for highlights of the project, the list<br />
goes on and on - gaining 95 percent in<br />
my final exam, meeting so many<br />
interesting people and having so many<br />
fun times - but one highlight I did not
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expect was to receive my first job offer<br />
as a dietician in Karak, Jordan!<br />
I took the opportunity to return to a<br />
small town where I had undertaken<br />
some voluntary work the year before,<br />
assisting the midwives in a hospital run<br />
by Italian missionary nuns. Sr Dolores<br />
was delighted to hear about my course<br />
at <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> and my Arabic<br />
course and had me earmarked to return<br />
as the hospital’s first-ever dietician. She<br />
was not at all put off by the fact I had<br />
three years to go until qualifying and was<br />
determined it was meant to be! Watch<br />
this space…<br />
Since returning, I have spoken with the<br />
course organiser of Arabic evening<br />
classes at the <strong>University</strong> of Edinburgh<br />
and have enrolled at Year 3 level. I only<br />
hope I can keep up!<br />
Many thanks are due to the Investors in<br />
Students Committee for supporting me<br />
in this project. It is a summer I will<br />
never forget.<br />
“The quality of the<br />
teaching was nothing<br />
short of excellent, as were<br />
the lesson structures and<br />
course materials.”<br />
Main picture: Language Centre, <strong>University</strong> of Jordan<br />
Inset picture: Louise Gillam
PAGE 06<br />
UNDERSTANDING THE LINK BETWEEN<br />
PSYCHOLOGY AND HEALTH<br />
Academics at <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> are<br />
using the principles of psychology to<br />
understand the major health related<br />
challenges facing society today.<br />
Health psychology examines the factors<br />
which influence health behaviour by<br />
applying psychology to the<br />
understanding of health, illness<br />
and healthcare.<br />
The principles can be used to explain<br />
some of the unhealthy behaviours<br />
exhibited by today’s society, such as<br />
smoking, binge drinking, bad diets and<br />
lack of exercise, and why many people<br />
choose to ignore advice from health<br />
professionals. But as well as helping us<br />
understand why some people take risks<br />
with their own health, psychology can<br />
also be used to explain why people<br />
become ill, how individuals behave when<br />
diagnosed with an illness and how they<br />
adapt to and recover from it.<br />
Michele Hipwell is a lecturer in Health<br />
Psychology at <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>. “The<br />
way people think and behave affects<br />
their health but an individual’s health will<br />
also affect the way they think and<br />
behave,” explains Michele. “Health<br />
psychology examines how health and<br />
behaviour are linked. It examines why<br />
people adopt behaviours and continue<br />
to act in a way that they know will<br />
have a negative impact on their health,<br />
such as smoking. But it also focuses<br />
on improving the experiences and<br />
wellbeing of people with chronic<br />
illness, and examines the ways in<br />
which people cope with diabetes or<br />
cancer, for instance.”<br />
Health Psychology at <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> is<br />
run at undergraduate, postgraduate and<br />
doctorate level and all courses are<br />
accredited by the British Psychological<br />
Society. Training to be a Chartered<br />
Health Psychologists is a rigorous and<br />
extensive process, taking seven years in<br />
Scotland or six in England.<br />
Charteredship is gained through<br />
completion of a Masters degree,<br />
followed by the presentation of a<br />
portfolio illustrating a range of<br />
competencies gained through work<br />
experience or a PhD, supervised by a<br />
chartered health psychologist. Chartered<br />
status can also be gained through the<br />
taught doctoral route while working in<br />
areas related to health psychology.<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> has run the MSc for the<br />
past five years, in which time over 80<br />
students have successfully completed<br />
the programme, and is the first higher<br />
education institute in the country to run<br />
the taught doctoral programme, which<br />
started in 2005, with 12 students<br />
currently enrolled on the course. The<br />
BSc in Health Psychology continues to<br />
be the only one of its kind in Scotland.<br />
Health psychology touches on many<br />
areas connected to health. The<br />
principles can be applied to public<br />
health, health promotion and policy<br />
making, in addition to activity concerned<br />
with specific health-related matters,<br />
including cardiovascular disease, pain<br />
management, cancer management,<br />
HIV/AIDS and diabetes. And the<br />
principles can also be applied to the<br />
study of other behaviours which could<br />
have a negative impact on people’s<br />
wellbeing, such as bullying, domestic<br />
abuse, phobias, stress and body image.<br />
Current <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> Health<br />
Psychology student, Paul Millar, is a<br />
clinical hypnotherapist and uses the<br />
principles of health psychology every<br />
day in dealing with clients who have<br />
issues with weight, smoking, phobias,<br />
anxiety and depression.<br />
“Health Psychology at <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong><br />
has given me much more of an insight<br />
into the bases of these conditions,” says<br />
Paul. “It teaches models of health<br />
behaviour that people adopt to deal with<br />
problems and knowing how these<br />
models work has substantially improved<br />
the quality of my practice.<br />
“What’s more, health psychology sees<br />
the client as a whole human being<br />
whose body and mind are fully<br />
integrated in dealing with issues of<br />
health. This is a very modern approach<br />
to health issues that recognises that<br />
clients are active participants in their<br />
own healing. My clients much prefer to<br />
have their own hard work recognised; to<br />
be seen, not as passive victims, but as<br />
taking active measures on their own<br />
behalf. This lies at the core of health<br />
psychology and is a very appealing<br />
healing approach for my clients.”
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<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> has been involved in<br />
research which deals with the wide<br />
range of issues connected to health,<br />
wellbeing and the promotion of healthy<br />
lifestyles. These include the effects of<br />
sugar on eating behaviour and mood,<br />
developing risk assessments and<br />
evaluating stress management<br />
interventions, and examining the effect<br />
of meditation on stress levels and<br />
positive attitudes in Buddhists and<br />
people who practice meditation.<br />
Students have addressed core health<br />
priorities in their dissertations including<br />
sexual health, HIV/AIDS and strokes.<br />
“Our PhD students are currently involved<br />
in some interesting work,” says Michele.<br />
“One has just been involved in the<br />
development of a ‘heart manual’ for<br />
people with heart failure in conjunction<br />
with York <strong>University</strong>. This manual has<br />
been designed to help people with heart<br />
problems manage their illness more<br />
effectively by looking at their lifestyle and<br />
mental health and helping them develop<br />
and maintain a better lifestyle.<br />
“Another student has been working at<br />
Astley Ainslie Hospital in Edinburgh to<br />
help identify the training needs of the<br />
medical staff and other health<br />
professionals working in cardiac<br />
treatment and rehabilitation. And another<br />
is working with a mental health charity in<br />
the Borders which provides art courses<br />
for people with mental health problems.<br />
“All these students are using the<br />
principles associated with health<br />
psychology in very different ways but<br />
what all these research projects have in<br />
common is that they all focus on ways<br />
of improving people’s quality of life in<br />
relation to their health,” says Michele.<br />
To date, Health Psychology graduates<br />
have secured employment across a<br />
diverse range of health-related contexts<br />
including the NHS, occupational settings<br />
and other institutions in the higher<br />
education sector. It is envisaged that<br />
there will be more demand for health<br />
psychologists in healthcare settings in<br />
the future, as the wide range of skills<br />
and services applicable to health<br />
psychology continues to increase.
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‘RECIPE FOR LIFE’ - ADDRESSING THE<br />
NUTRITIONAL NEEDS OF OLDER PEOPLE<br />
A study into the food and nutrition<br />
needs of older people has highlighted<br />
the role which service providers and<br />
older people themselves can play in<br />
ensuring this age group eats well.<br />
Researchers at <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>’s Royal<br />
Bank of Scotland Centre for the Older<br />
Person’s Agenda (RBS COPA), along<br />
with the <strong>University</strong> of Stirling and Age<br />
Concern Scotland, examined the various<br />
barriers to eating well faced by older<br />
people who live alone and have difficulty<br />
leaving the house, and how this affects<br />
their physical and social wellbeing.<br />
Researchers obtained information from<br />
ten older people on their food and drink<br />
intake and examined the factors that<br />
support or hinder good nutrition. They<br />
also sought views on older people’s<br />
expectations of the people providing<br />
services relating to food and nutrition,<br />
and explored the problems facing<br />
organisations and front-line staff when<br />
providing these services.<br />
“As we get older, a number of things<br />
can lead to us not eating well,” explains<br />
Belinda Dewar, project manager of the<br />
research. “An illness or disability may<br />
make it difficult for us to get to the<br />
shops or to cook and enjoy food. Also,<br />
someone who lives alone may feel it is<br />
not worth cooking a meal for one.”<br />
Home care workers play an important<br />
role in encouraging older people to eat<br />
well by building trusting relationships,<br />
suggesting new recipes and providing<br />
opportunities for social eating. However,<br />
it is important that a system of assessment<br />
is in place to ensure careful matching of<br />
clients and workers to build a positive<br />
relationship and to identify older people<br />
whose situation requires monitoring or<br />
referral to a specialist dietician.<br />
“Very frail older people can experience<br />
sensory, physical and cognitive<br />
impairment, as well as long-term<br />
medical conditions which can impact on<br />
their ability to eat well,” explains Belinda.<br />
“The complexity of the needs of older<br />
people means that a complex<br />
assessment process and range of<br />
solutions is needed to identify and<br />
meet their needs.<br />
“Workers must have specific knowledge<br />
of the nutrition needs of frail older<br />
people and the skills to elicit the social<br />
and psychological meaning of food in<br />
their lives. Proper assessment will<br />
provide some structure to any<br />
investigation of nutrition-related<br />
problems and ensure the needs of the<br />
individual are met.”<br />
An initiative has been developed in<br />
conjunction with South Lanarkshire<br />
Council to develop a training resource<br />
pack for home care workers that will<br />
raise awareness of the specific<br />
nutritional needs of frail older people.<br />
There is a need for home care workers<br />
to gain more knowledge and skills in the<br />
area of food and nutrition, and<br />
establishing an induction programme<br />
and specialist courses would help them<br />
to identify risk factors and helpful<br />
interventions if necessary. A booklet<br />
containing good practice guidance for<br />
home care workers is being piloted in a<br />
separate initiative.<br />
Many older people have a bland and<br />
unexciting diet due to a lack of appetite<br />
or to changes in their tastes and<br />
digestion, which have led them to<br />
reduce the range of foods that they can<br />
eat. The effects of the ageing process<br />
on appetite are well known as is the<br />
need to provide nutritionally-balanced<br />
meals. However, while services may be<br />
well set up to provide for people’s basic<br />
needs for food and cooking, they are<br />
less well equipped to address some<br />
of the social and psychological<br />
components that contribute to older<br />
people’s ability to eat well and to<br />
quality of life, such as cooking or<br />
eating with others.<br />
The research found that there may be a<br />
role for older people to contribute to<br />
some food-related training or to teach<br />
younger home care workers about<br />
traditional meals.<br />
An intergenerational project in which<br />
older people share skills and knowledge<br />
about cooking and food with pupils at a<br />
local high school is currently underway.<br />
“A key finding from our research is that<br />
there is a need to ‘reconnect’ older<br />
people with food,” explains Caroline<br />
Donaldson, Research Assistant at RBS<br />
COPA, who is leading the initiative.
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“Some older people who live alone or<br />
have difficulty leaving home have little<br />
opportunity to take part in food related<br />
activities such as shopping, cooking,<br />
preparing meals and talking about food.<br />
This can impact on their interest in food<br />
which, in turn, impacts on appetite and<br />
motivation to eat.”<br />
A booklet containing recipes and<br />
cooking tips will be produced based on<br />
their findings which is hoped will prove<br />
useful to older people and home care<br />
workers as a way of involving older<br />
people with food through conversation<br />
around food and cooking.<br />
“Workers must have specific<br />
knowledge of the nutrition needs of<br />
older people and the skills to elicit<br />
the social and psychological meaning<br />
of food in their lives.”
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STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS - A HELPING<br />
HAND ON THE ROAD TO SUCCESS<br />
We often hear about how students<br />
south of the border have a much<br />
more difficult time than their northern<br />
cousins. Headlines in the education<br />
supplements about “fee refugees” at<br />
Scottish institutions are increasingly<br />
common and the articles, often<br />
written with some journalistic license,<br />
bring to mind images of herds of<br />
students stampeding towards<br />
Scotland in the rush for places!<br />
In fact, the reality of being a student in<br />
Scotland is slightly different. In most<br />
cases even Scottish students have to<br />
contribute to the cost of their education.<br />
They do not pay fees. However, once<br />
they have graduated and are earning a<br />
reasonable income, they do have to<br />
acknowledge the benefit of their<br />
higher education by paying the<br />
graduate endowment.<br />
Apex Hotels is one such employer.<br />
Norman Springford, Chairman of Apex,<br />
has long been a supporter of <strong>Queen</strong><br />
<strong>Margaret</strong> and believes that in<br />
contributing to the success of our<br />
students, Apex is contributing to the<br />
success of the hospitality industry in<br />
Scotland. Not only does Apex fund two<br />
scholarships (with a third coming on<br />
board this year) but students are also<br />
offered a paid work placement which<br />
enables them to learn practical skills in a<br />
real environment, whilst relieving some of<br />
the financial burden students now face.<br />
Quality Meat Scotland (<strong>QM</strong>S) also<br />
supports students at <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong><br />
through its scholarship programme.<br />
Louise Welsh, Senior Communications<br />
Manager at <strong>QM</strong>S says: “Support for<br />
students in a relevant discipline ensures<br />
that we are attracting the best quality of<br />
new recruits into the Scottish red meat<br />
industry. In addition, the work<br />
placements give students a real insight<br />
into the sharp end of the business.”<br />
Fortunately, <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> students<br />
don’t have to worry too much about<br />
finding a job when they graduate, so at<br />
least they will have the opportunity to<br />
pay off those student debts. With a high<br />
graduate employment rate (at 93<br />
percent) and one of the lowest student<br />
drop-out rates, <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> is<br />
producing exactly what employers are<br />
looking for in new graduates. Indeed,<br />
Apex in Edinburgh now employs<br />
more than half a dozen <strong>Queen</strong><br />
<strong>Margaret</strong> Graduates.<br />
From left to right: Shona McColl, Carolyn Borthwick, Jill Houston and Alana Bathgate<br />
As Sarah Latham, <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>’s<br />
student president, indicates, “By the end<br />
of a four year degree course, a £14,000<br />
student debt is not uncommon.”<br />
Many industries and employers realise<br />
that students are coming under<br />
increasing financial pressure and are<br />
happy to help out by providing<br />
scholarships and bursaries to ensure<br />
that the best students are not impeded<br />
in their studies by financial worries.<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> is lucky enough to have<br />
scholarship opportunities for its<br />
students, funded by employers, in<br />
disciplines relevant to their businesses.
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RESEARCH NEWS<br />
ALCOHOL ABUSE - DO YOU KNOW<br />
YOUR LIMITS?<br />
There has been considerable media<br />
coverage recently of the social and<br />
health-related costs of alcohol abuse in<br />
the UK. In light of this, two lecturers<br />
from <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> have carried out a<br />
study to challenge the appropriateness<br />
of alcohol health education messages<br />
in the UK.<br />
Dr Jan Gill and Fiona O’May carried out<br />
a survey of 2<strong>63</strong> shoppers in Edinburgh,<br />
to investigate the perceived value of<br />
daily sensible drinking guidelines.<br />
Several initiatives related to these<br />
guidelines are currently under<br />
consideration by the UK government,<br />
one being the labelling of alcoholic drink<br />
containers - a practice which<br />
manufacturers were encouraged to<br />
adopt by December 2005.<br />
“Scotmid (where the research was<br />
carried out) has been particularly<br />
proactive in developing a relatively<br />
comprehensive label on wine sourced<br />
from their supplier,” explains Jan. “Each<br />
bottle displays the actual unit content<br />
and the daily guidelines for both men<br />
and women. We wanted to monitor<br />
reaction to this labelling system among<br />
the supermarket’s customers.”<br />
Although most people surveyed could<br />
define what constitutes a unit of alcohol,<br />
less than a fifth of men and just a<br />
quarter of women used the information<br />
to monitor how much they drank. Very<br />
few were aware of the current<br />
guidelines, which outline sensible daily<br />
drinking levels.<br />
”Most participants said they were in<br />
favour of alcohol labelling but we found<br />
that price offers influenced buying more<br />
than label information did,” said Jan.<br />
”There seems to be considerable<br />
confusion about sensible drinking<br />
messages in the UK.”<br />
DEVELOPING BEST PRACTICE IN<br />
SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> has been awarded a<br />
grant from the City of Edinburgh Council<br />
to develop speech and language therapy<br />
‘best practice’ guides for use in schools.<br />
The CIRCLE project (Child Inclusion<br />
Research into Curriculum, Learning and<br />
Education) is being carried out in<br />
collaboration with NHS Lothian, with the<br />
aim of supporting 5-11 year olds in<br />
everyday school life and learning.<br />
The Additional Support for Learning<br />
(Scotland) Act 2004 created a new<br />
system to address the needs of children<br />
in Scotland who require additional<br />
support with their learning. Under the<br />
act, NHS Scotland is obliged to support<br />
education authorities by providing<br />
assessments and therapeutic<br />
interventions based on a child’s specific<br />
needs. The CIRCLE collaboration will<br />
support the Act specifically in terms of<br />
occupational therapy and speech and<br />
language therapy interventions<br />
within Edinburgh.<br />
Dr Kirsty Forsyth, Senior Lecturer in<br />
Occupational Therapy, who is leading the<br />
project said: “The first stage is to review<br />
research evidence related to children in<br />
need of occupational or speech and<br />
language therapy. We can then combine<br />
this with policy and expert opinion to<br />
identify best practice leading to the best<br />
possible outcomes for children.”<br />
The final stage of the project will be<br />
consultation with parents, teachers and<br />
children on the format and content of<br />
the documentation to ensure the<br />
document is useful and understandable.<br />
“These opinions, experiences and<br />
perceptions are valuable and important<br />
sources of information and will allow us<br />
to develop documentation which can be<br />
easily understood by all,” said<br />
Dr Forsyth.<br />
REVERSING THE ‘BRAIN DRAIN’ IN<br />
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES<br />
Paying a better salary to nurses, could<br />
resolve the ‘brain drain’ of health<br />
workers from low-income to highincome<br />
countries, according to research<br />
at <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>.<br />
Increasing migration of health staff to<br />
some high-income countries is causing a<br />
shortage in poorer countries. In high<br />
income countries, ageing populations are<br />
feeding the demand for health services.<br />
Also, feminisation of the health workforce<br />
and a rising preference for leisure time<br />
has reduced the supply of health<br />
services in some high-income countries.<br />
While these explanations partly explain<br />
the increase in migration, the research<br />
found that government policies in highincome<br />
countries have driven a growing<br />
demand for health staff and contributed<br />
to the ‘brain drain’ in low-income<br />
countries. They argue that policy<br />
measures are equally capable of<br />
reversing the trend.<br />
Professor Barbara McPake, Director of<br />
the Institute for International Health and<br />
Development at <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>, and Dr<br />
Bob Pond, of the World Health<br />
Organisation, analysed key trends in the<br />
production, remuneration and retention<br />
of health professionals in the UK, USA,<br />
France and Germany to gain an insight<br />
into how policy affects the global<br />
distribution of human resources. In<br />
2003-04, more than 40 percent of<br />
nurses who joined the British register<br />
were from overseas.<br />
“In the UK, increasing nursing pay would<br />
seem to make the largest contribution to<br />
resolving the labour market imbalance<br />
that is draining poor countries of their<br />
health staff,” explains Professor McPake.<br />
“Better salaries would entice more<br />
people in Britain to become nurses<br />
and those who have left the profession<br />
to return.”
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POSTCARD FROM PAKISTAN<br />
Janet Raymond, a graduate from<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>’s Institute for<br />
International Health and<br />
Development, has been working in<br />
Pakistan for Médecins Sans<br />
Frontières (MSF), an international<br />
humanitarian aid organisation,<br />
following the earthquake in October<br />
2005. Janet contacted us at the end<br />
of November to tell us her story.<br />
Q: Where are you based?<br />
A: Immediately after arriving in Azad<br />
Kashmir I was whisked away by<br />
helicopter to the small village of Saidpur,<br />
north of Muzafarrabad (the epicentre of<br />
the earthquake), with instructions to stay<br />
four days and I’ve been here ever since!<br />
Q: Can you set the scene for us?<br />
A: For the first 20 minutes of the<br />
helicopter journey I could see nothing<br />
but steep-sided mountains dropping<br />
down into river valleys, the snowcapped<br />
mountains of India on one side<br />
and the barren, stark mountains of<br />
Afghanistan on the other. Soon the<br />
scene changed and I started to see why<br />
I was there. The houses started<br />
disappearing into piles of rubble with<br />
white tents adjacent. As we got closer<br />
to the city, huge landslides were evident<br />
where massive parts of mountains had<br />
fallen, taking houses and even villages<br />
with it. Muzaffarabad looked like a bomb<br />
site. Wooden or mud houses were<br />
completely destroyed; hospitals, schools<br />
and universities gone. This was two<br />
weeks after the earthquake.<br />
Q: What type of injuries have you had<br />
to deal with?<br />
A: I’ve seen traumatic amputations,<br />
spinal injuries, huge scalp lacerations<br />
and fractures of every bone. In our<br />
mobile clinic, initially, we were<br />
performing amputations in a room of a<br />
partially destroyed house! The<br />
aftershocks were still quite strong and<br />
each time this happened we had to run<br />
out of the building, so we relocated the<br />
‘operating theatre’ to a tent.<br />
After the initial emergency phase it was<br />
decided that a team would stay and<br />
have a base in this village, and another<br />
would walk to the other villages with<br />
vaccines. The latter is mainly my role<br />
and I spend many hours walking the<br />
steep-sided mountains with a<br />
vaccination team and a small<br />
dressing kit.<br />
Q: How have you been affected by<br />
the scenes that you have witnessed?<br />
A: It brings the reality of the loss closer<br />
when you pass by a row of freshly-dug<br />
graves, sometimes up to 10 or 11 of the<br />
same family. The other day I passed by<br />
two women who were sitting at the end<br />
of the graves of their small babies. They<br />
looked completely bewildered.<br />
Q: How long will you stay in the area?<br />
A: Once we have finished the<br />
vaccination and finished evacuating the<br />
‘stragglers’ from the earthquake, we<br />
have to decide whether or not to stay for<br />
the winter. Our living facilities at present<br />
are not enough to support a cold winter<br />
so we would need to invest in wood<br />
stoves and better buildings. MSF is<br />
going to pilot new ‘flat packed’ iglootype<br />
constructions called ‘pods’ in some<br />
areas, so that may be an option. It will<br />
depend also on the number of<br />
consultations at the clinic which, at the<br />
moment, is around 70 per day. The<br />
problem for the whole area is that all the<br />
schools and health facilities have been<br />
destroyed, as well as health workers and<br />
teachers killed, so people have little<br />
access to any type of heathcare.<br />
Q: How are people able to rebuild<br />
their lives and communities?<br />
A: All the villages where I am working<br />
have received a donation from the Red<br />
Cross of plastic sheeting for shelter, five<br />
blankets per family and food for two<br />
months. MSF is now in the process of<br />
giving out hygiene kits, pots and pans,<br />
blankets, more tents and tool kits. The<br />
Pakistani Army has done a great job on<br />
the roads. The road to our location may<br />
be open in a couple of days which will<br />
make the situation a whole lot easier for<br />
everyone: so far, people are walking six<br />
hours to get their shopping.<br />
Q: How have the Pakistani people<br />
responded to you?<br />
A: I cannot describe the hospitality of<br />
the Pakistani people, especially in the<br />
remote areas. Everyone is so happy<br />
about our presence and make us feel<br />
truly welcome. Even when walking<br />
around the mountains, tea is offered at<br />
every home, sometimes on top of their<br />
tumbled down house! We are given<br />
food, with tables and chairs and best<br />
china, in the most remote and beautiful<br />
locations, with the most fantastic views!<br />
We are often invited to the chief of the<br />
village’s home for evening meal - better<br />
curry than any restaurant!<br />
Photos courtesy of Ton Koene/MSF
PAGE 13<br />
<strong>QM</strong>UCGA NEWSLETTER<br />
by Graduates’ Association President, Pat Denzler<br />
President’s Report<br />
I attended the Autumn Graduation and<br />
in February took part with other GA<br />
members in a film about college life,<br />
from Atholl Crescent to the new campus.<br />
Work has started at the new Craighall<br />
site and I enjoyed attending the tree<br />
planting ceremony in March, indicative of<br />
the site’s environmentally friendly future.<br />
On the day, the temperature was<br />
hovering around zero degrees and a<br />
reviving lunch at Musselburgh was<br />
much appreciated!<br />
McLauchlan, we visited Mackenzie’s in<br />
Colinton in March and Bon Appetit,<br />
Dundee, in April.<br />
Details of regular social events are sent<br />
by e-mail, with a monthly news update.<br />
To join the e-mailing list, please contact<br />
membership secretary Mary Cursiter.<br />
Networking at Howies in 2006<br />
<strong>QM</strong>UCGA DIARY<br />
DATES & CONTACTS<br />
Networking lunches<br />
Last Saturday of the month<br />
September 2006 to April 2007<br />
(not December)<br />
Contact:<br />
Mary Cursiter<br />
E: m.cursiter@btinternet.com<br />
To help on the Committee<br />
please contact:<br />
Pat Denzler, President<br />
10 Abercromby Place<br />
Edinburgh EH3 6LB<br />
T: 0131 558 1378<br />
E: denzler@fsbdial.co.uk<br />
Anne Scagell, Ilona Forsyth and<br />
Mary Graham on filming day<br />
The film team join the GA members for a break<br />
Social Programme<br />
A ‘Fragrance Evening’ in November with<br />
Alison MacColl of Complement Your<br />
Health took us through the history of<br />
perfume and advised us on how to<br />
select our own unique fragrance. In<br />
March we enjoyed a stunning tour of the<br />
Surgeons’ Hall and Museum led by<br />
Wilma Steedman. Networking lunches<br />
continued at Howies (Waterloo Place)<br />
and out of town. After a very successful<br />
October lunch at Parklands Hotel in<br />
Perth, organised by Dorothy<br />
Madras Lodge<br />
For current availability, and to book short<br />
or long breaks at the lodge, contact<br />
<strong>Margaret</strong> Wyatt, Bookings Secretary. A<br />
modest release to the terms of Miss<br />
White’s will means that, with your<br />
generous donations, we can continue<br />
up-grading.<br />
The Joy of Silk<br />
The ‘Joy of Life’ interpretation of the<br />
glass artwork, donated to <strong>Queen</strong><br />
<strong>Margaret</strong> by the G.A., is available as a<br />
hand painted silk scarf, direct from<br />
Heather Butlin Silks. The cost is £35<br />
(regular) and £45 (large). Email<br />
heather.butlin@btopenworld.com<br />
Thank you to <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> for<br />
mailing out this <strong>QM</strong> <strong>News</strong>. Please<br />
continue to send in your news items. I<br />
would also like to appeal for a volunteer<br />
for the Committee. We meet every two<br />
months - usually on a Monday evening -<br />
and enjoy planning forthcoming events.<br />
Phone or e-mail for more details.<br />
Best wishes for an enjoyable summer.<br />
<strong>QM</strong>UC Graduates' Association<br />
(<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> GA)<br />
All graduates, as well as present and<br />
former staff of <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>, are<br />
eligible for ‘life’ membership of 40 years.<br />
Cost:<br />
£25 in graduation year, £30 for others<br />
Contact:<br />
Membership Secretary<br />
Mary Cursiter<br />
14 William Street<br />
Edinburgh EH3 7NH<br />
T: 0131 226 3534<br />
E: m.cursiter@btinternet.com<br />
W: www.qmucga.org.uk<br />
Madras Lodge<br />
Contact:<br />
Bookings Secretary<br />
<strong>Margaret</strong> Wyatt<br />
11 Langton View, East Calder,<br />
Livingston, West Lothian EH52 0LE<br />
T: 01506 494 483<br />
E: margaret10@blueyonder.co.uk
PAGE 14<br />
QUEEN MARGARET STUDENTS<br />
MAKE THEIR MARK<br />
QUEEN MARGARET STUDENT WINS<br />
HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY AWARD<br />
MBA student, Michael Lennon, has<br />
won the prestigious Ambassador’s<br />
Award at the Springboard Awards for<br />
Excellence, held in London.<br />
The Ambassador’s Award, sponsored by<br />
People Tree, is given in recognition of<br />
outstanding achievement and innovation<br />
in the hospitality industry by a registered<br />
Springboard Ambassador, whose<br />
activities have proven success in<br />
changing the perceptions towards, and<br />
raising the profile of, a career in<br />
hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism.<br />
Michael won the award for developing<br />
the concept of an interactive board<br />
game called ‘Who wants to be a<br />
Hotelier?’. Michael’s idea was to give<br />
teachers and young people a taste of<br />
the excitement of working in the tourism<br />
and hospitality industries and to help<br />
them realise the diverse career<br />
opportunities available.<br />
The board game was developed by<br />
Michael in conjunction with Springboard<br />
and launched by the Scottish Tourism<br />
Minister, Patricia Ferguson, in May 2005.<br />
It has since been distributed to every<br />
high school in Edinburgh, Glasgow,<br />
Perth and Inverness, and to many other<br />
schools throughout Scotland. The Perth<br />
and Inverness Hoteliers’ Associations<br />
are currently using it as part of their<br />
schools programme.<br />
“Michael has shown creativity and<br />
tenacity in seeing a project through from<br />
start to finish,” said the judges. “His<br />
initiative has really engaged the<br />
target group.”<br />
The Springboard Awards for Excellence<br />
provide companies and individuals with<br />
the opportunity to showcase<br />
outstanding practice in addressing one<br />
of the industry’s most significant issues –<br />
attracting and retaining people. To win,<br />
each entry must have a clear strategy,<br />
address the specific need of the<br />
initiative, have clear aims and outcomes<br />
and show proof of innovation,<br />
achievement, evaluation and use<br />
of partnerships.<br />
Michael Lennon presented with the award from<br />
Anne Pierce, Chief Executive of Springboard.<br />
YOUNG THEATRE TALENT LIGHTS<br />
UP DRAMA FESTIVAL<br />
A Theatre Production student at<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> has picked up an<br />
award at the National Student Drama<br />
Festival.<br />
Matthew Thompson, who has just<br />
completed his fourth year at <strong>Queen</strong><br />
<strong>Margaret</strong>, was awarded first place in the<br />
Stage Electrical Awards for his<br />
contribution to lighting at the festival<br />
which was held in Bournemouth in April.<br />
As part of his award, which was<br />
sponsored by Martin Professional,<br />
Matthew will go on an all expenses paid<br />
trip to Martin Professional’s head office<br />
in Denmark to take a tour of Europe’s<br />
most advanced intelligent lighting<br />
manufacturing centre.<br />
George Tarbuck, subject leader in<br />
lighting and sound at <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>,<br />
said: "We are delighted for Matthew.<br />
During his time at <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> he<br />
has become a familiar face on the<br />
Edinburgh lighting scene having worked<br />
on numerous professional shows and<br />
events. This award is well-deserved<br />
recognition of Matthew’s emergence as<br />
a creative lighting practitioner and we<br />
wish him well for the future.”<br />
Martin leaves us to take up a position<br />
with Simon Kennedy Lighting, an<br />
Edinburgh-based company specialising in<br />
lighting for the corporate events industry.
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GRADUATE SHORTLISTED<br />
FOR FILM MAKING PRIZE<br />
Former Media Production student,<br />
Steven Braxton, who graduated in<br />
2005, was recently shortlisted for an<br />
award by Scottish Screen, the<br />
organisation which promotes<br />
Scotland as a production centre for<br />
world movie making.<br />
The film, entitled ‘Fast’, was shortlisted<br />
with two others in the Music Video<br />
category of the Scottish Students on<br />
Screen Awards 2006, held in Glasgow<br />
in March. Steven’s film was shown along<br />
with entries from students of Glasgow<br />
School of Art and the Royal Scottish<br />
Academy of Music and Drama<br />
(the winner).<br />
“The event was a fantastic platform for<br />
me to showcase what I learned at<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>,” said Steven. “‘Fast’<br />
was the first film where I took charge of<br />
every stage - directing, editing and<br />
producing - so I was really pleased to<br />
have been in the top three. It was a<br />
good learning curve for me.”<br />
BRYAN LOWE<br />
IN THE SPOTLIGHT<br />
Since graduating in 2005, former<br />
acting student, Bryan Lowe, has<br />
graced our television screens in some<br />
well known dramas and has also<br />
starred alongside some big names in<br />
the business.<br />
Bryan has had small parts on television’s<br />
‘Sea of Souls’, ‘Waking the Dead’ with<br />
Trevor Eve, ‘Rebus’ with Ken Stott and<br />
recently appeared in ‘See No Evil’, the<br />
story about the moors murders. He also<br />
used his Fife roots - while trying not to<br />
let Fifers become typecast - to play a<br />
Fife-born murderer with Brian Cox in<br />
McLevy, the Radio 4 historical detective<br />
series. However, Bryan’s latest role<br />
is taking him back to his first love -<br />
the stage.<br />
“I’ve been extremely lucky to have<br />
bagged a good few cracking jobs and<br />
have had the opportunity to work with<br />
some amazing people,” said Bryan.<br />
“However, it was the stage that initially<br />
got me into acting and it’s been great to<br />
get back to it.”<br />
with the irrepressible Una Maclean and<br />
Lynn Ferguson, who were quite simply<br />
legends and comedy geniuses.”<br />
Discussing his <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> days,<br />
Bryan said: “One of the biggest and<br />
best experiences of my college days<br />
was in 2004 when I was involved in the<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> co-production of a new<br />
work, ‘Beach’, with Boilerhouse, the<br />
award-winning Scottish touring theatre<br />
company.<br />
“I am quite a big lad and have always<br />
had a bit of a thing about doing physical<br />
theatre and that sort of movement work.<br />
Working with Boilerhouse really helped<br />
me get rid of that. I lost a lot of<br />
my inhibitions.”<br />
<strong>QM</strong> Graduate, Bryan Lowe<br />
<strong>QM</strong> Graduate, Steven Braxton<br />
Bryan played the younger boyfriend of<br />
Lynn Ferguson in Melody, a new play by<br />
Douglas Maxwell which was shown at<br />
the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.<br />
Melody also starred Una McLean, an<br />
honorary graduate of <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>.<br />
“I loved every single minute of being on<br />
the Traverse and Tron stages in Melody
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CLASSNOTES<br />
30s<br />
40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 00s<br />
1930's<br />
Rosamund Mary Berry (nee Gregory),<br />
Diploma I, Teacher Training 1936. In 1940 I<br />
sailed to Africa to teach at the Girl’s School &<br />
Teacher Training Centre of Church of Scotland<br />
Mission, Blantyre, Nyasaland – a reserve<br />
occupation – as men were away with the King’s<br />
Africa Rifles. I returned to the UK in 1945 on<br />
old Mauritania, then a troop ship. In 1952 I<br />
returned to Kenya to the Teacher Training<br />
Centre to do an upgrading course in Home<br />
Economics for teachers. I wrote a handbook,<br />
‘The Teaching of Home Craft’, for African<br />
teachers. I returned to Nyasaland to marry and<br />
worked for the Social Development Department<br />
running Homecraft classes for women. I also<br />
compiled a cookery book of local foods entitled<br />
‘Good Cooking’. I retired to Scotland and taught<br />
in a Special School for four years and wrote ‘My<br />
Cook Book’ for slow learners. When I became<br />
widowed I moved south. I remarried in 1989<br />
and moved to Poole, Dorset. Now widowed and<br />
still living in Poole. I am 91 and a half years old. I<br />
wrote the books because there were no other<br />
books of their kind.<br />
Norah Janet Callam (nee Green), Institutional<br />
Management, Tea and Cake Shop Management<br />
1938. All of my diplomas were destroyed during<br />
the London Blitz when I was running canteens<br />
for the Ministry of Supply at an armament<br />
factory. I also graduated in First Class<br />
Cookery/Cordon Bleu and we wore chef’s hats!<br />
I am now 87.<br />
1940's<br />
Ann Glenys John (nee Rees), Diploma I,<br />
Cookery, Needlework, Housewifery 1949. I am<br />
now living in Porthcawl, having retired after<br />
many teaching posts. I will always remember the<br />
very happy days spent in Atholl Crescent. I am<br />
in touch with three girls – Rachel Swimerton,<br />
Joan Cuad and <strong>Margaret</strong> Booth.<br />
1950's<br />
<strong>Margaret</strong> C. R. Booth (nee Shearer), Diploma<br />
III, Cookery, Laundry, Tailoring 1950. Celebrated<br />
our Golden Wedding with retired Howe o’ the<br />
Mearns farmer, John. We have four daughters:<br />
Katherine graduated from <strong>QM</strong> College in the<br />
1980s. Keep up with Audrey (Hinchcliffe) Perry<br />
in USA, Audrey (Newman) Cameron and Mary<br />
Hodgson, my room mates in Atholl Crescent.<br />
All T in T and hale and hearty. I would like to<br />
hear of former teachers of the 1946 – 1950 era.<br />
Any more reunions?<br />
Noreen Green (nee Prince), Diploma I, Atholl<br />
Crescent, 1951. I taught Domestic Science for<br />
two years then went into hospital teaching for<br />
mentally and physically handicapped children.<br />
Boarded in Guthrie Wright (Miss Strachan) and<br />
married Ron (my sweetheart since we were both<br />
three years old). Now celebrating 52 years of<br />
marriage. We have two sons and one daughter.<br />
I am part-time organist at our local church. We<br />
have six grandchildren. I keep in touch with five<br />
colleagues.<br />
1970's<br />
Dorothy Goldthorpe (nee Brown), Diploma in<br />
Home Economics 1979. Hi to all those who<br />
graduated in 1979 with Diploma in Home<br />
Economics. We will have to try a reunion for our<br />
thirty years!! I am a KS4 Manager in an all boys<br />
multicultural school. I have two boys myself,<br />
David, 15 and Taylor, 6. Regards to all from that<br />
year and many others from other years and<br />
courses that I knew.<br />
1980's<br />
Lorna Aitken (nee MacDonald), BA Home<br />
Economics 1987. Following my marriage to<br />
Chris Aitken in 1988 and my PGCE at Moray<br />
House, I have been teaching at Brighouse High<br />
School in West Yorkshire. I am now Work<br />
Related Learning Co-ordinator and have two<br />
children, Hollie, 11 and Mark, 8.<br />
Dawn Gauntlett (nee Kilpatrick), BA Nursing<br />
1988. Would love to say hello to the class of<br />
1984. Hope you are all well and enjoying life. I<br />
want to wish you all well and hope you are still<br />
enjoying nursing.<br />
1990's<br />
Andy Roehr, Diploma in Podiatry 1991. After<br />
spending too long in England working in both<br />
the public and private sectors, I have finally<br />
managed to get back to Scotland to continue<br />
with my career in ‘God’s Own Country’! I would<br />
love to hear from old friends and classmates.<br />
Denise Smedley (nee English), HND Hotel,<br />
Catering and Institutional Management 1991. I<br />
am no longer in Tourism, and am about to<br />
embark on an HNC course in Social Care at<br />
Elgin College (fingers crossed!)<br />
Genevieve O’Halloran, BSc Occupational<br />
Therapy 1994. I've recently bought a house in<br />
the country with my boyfriend of seven years.<br />
I'm working as a Community OT Manager in<br />
Roscommon and loving it. Lots of great<br />
memories of my time at <strong>QM</strong>C - hello to all.<br />
Wendy Parkinson (nee Armstrong), BA (Hons)<br />
Communication Studies 1994. Have a lovely<br />
little girl, Alice and due another one in<br />
December 2005. Hello to everyone who shared<br />
college life, which seems like a long time<br />
ago now.<br />
Alison Bruce (nee Fraser), BA (Hons) Nursing<br />
Studies 1994. I trained as an ophthalmic nurse<br />
in 1998 and now work part-time in Edinburgh<br />
juggling family life! I married Ian in 2000 and we<br />
have two young children, Emma, 2 and Jamie, 1.<br />
Rebecca Hunter, BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy<br />
1995. I've spent the last 3 years working as a<br />
physiotherapist in orthopaedics and<br />
rheumatology in central Manchester Primary<br />
Care Trust. I'm moving back to Edinburgh to set<br />
up a private practice in the Grange area. I'd love<br />
to from any of my fellow graduates!<br />
Jacqueline MacPhail (nee Smith), BA (Hons)<br />
Retail Business Studies 1996. After graduating,<br />
I moved to Glasgow and began working with<br />
Internacionale/Au Naturale on their graduate<br />
training programme. I stayed there for six years<br />
as a merchandiser. I finally decided to leave the<br />
heady work of retail behind and re-train as a<br />
psychiatric nurse - almost finished my BSc. I got<br />
married to George in Las Vegas last year, which<br />
was fantastic and moved back to sunny Ayr.<br />
Jo Wilson (nee Craig), BSc (Hons) Dietetics<br />
1997. I worked for two years in MRI Manchester<br />
and then moved to Dublin where I got a job in<br />
Nutricia Ireland. I am still working for Nutricia<br />
and got married a year ago to my husband<br />
Paul. I’m still great friends with Rachel Coode.<br />
Lisa Green (nee Noble), BSc (Hons) Dietetics<br />
1997. I work as a gastroenterology dietician in<br />
Halifax and really enjoy it. Living back in sunny<br />
Huddersfield with my lovely husband Richard.<br />
Still in touch with Sally Wilby, Anna McClean<br />
(nee Probert), Wendy Johnson and many of my<br />
seven flatmates from Balgreen.<br />
Keith Sutherland, BA Communication Studies<br />
1999. After finishing my degree at <strong>QM</strong> I travelled<br />
a little bit before hearing the call of the sea and<br />
signing up for the Merchant Navy. This included<br />
sitting an HND in Nautical Science and earning<br />
a Certificate of Competency to become Deck<br />
Officer. I passed my exams in early 2004 and<br />
since then have been working for a Norwegian<br />
company. I am now a Second Officer and have<br />
recently moved back to a flat in Edinburgh.<br />
Leanne Wells, BA (Hons) Hospitality and<br />
Tourism Management 1999. I worked for the<br />
local authority sports development team in<br />
Lincolnshire before moving west to North Wales.<br />
I work at NEWI and enjoy the challenge of<br />
working with the students and trying to make a<br />
difference to their future careers. I am happily<br />
married and looking forward to starting a family.<br />
2000's<br />
Alasdair Satchel, BA (Hons) Drama and<br />
Theatre Arts 2000. Studied Physical theatre at<br />
Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris 2000-2002. I was<br />
part of the five star show 'One Man Rant' at the<br />
Edinburgh Fringe in 2002 and 2003. I have<br />
worked for Benchfours Theatre Sans Frontieres<br />
in the UK and for Naxos Theatre in Chartres,<br />
France. I was also part of a new show 'Two<br />
Man Rumble' at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004
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Hussain Nasser (nee Naser), MSc<br />
Physiotherapy 2000. I worked for the Health<br />
Ministry (Bahrain) for seven years. After that I<br />
shifted to Bahrain Petroleum Company as a<br />
Senior Physiotherapist. I did a PG Dip in<br />
Business Administration at Bahrain <strong>University</strong><br />
(2003). Currently, I’m doing a DPT program in<br />
Augustine <strong>University</strong> and expect to graduate in<br />
December 2006. I was the Head of Scientific<br />
Committee of the Bahrain Physical Therapy<br />
Association (BPTA) for two years and am now<br />
the President of BPTA.<br />
Elaine Tewnion, BA (Hons) Marketing with<br />
Sociology 2000. Relocated to Northamptonshire<br />
to work for Weetabix after graduating. Currently<br />
still working for the company as Senior Brand<br />
Manager of Weets, Ready Brek and<br />
Seriously Oaty.<br />
Mark Healy, BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy 2000.<br />
Completed degree in 2000 and was selected for<br />
pilot training by Aer Lingus. After turbulent<br />
years post September 11th, returned to physio<br />
working in Dublin and for a while in New<br />
Zealand before returning to flying with City Jet.<br />
Based currently out of Paris.<br />
Nasly Hernandez, MSc Physiotherapy 2001. I<br />
am a member of the paediatric gastroenterology<br />
and nutrition research group. I am undertaking a<br />
research project on child malnutrition and motor<br />
development. As a member of the National<br />
Association of Physiotherapy I’m working on the<br />
design of a project on physiotherapy research in<br />
Latin America. I’ve also been invited to<br />
participate in the scientific committee of the XII<br />
Latin American Congress of Physiotherapy<br />
in 2006.<br />
Karen (Kay) Sey, MSc International Health<br />
2001. Now working with counsellors in The<br />
Gambia. Have just finished developing an<br />
AIDS/HIV Counselling Training Manual.<br />
Emily Platt, BA (Hons) Consumer Studies 2001.<br />
I worked in Nepal for two years as a<br />
Recruitment Officer for a charity. Now that I<br />
have returned I am about to start a new job in<br />
London, working in personnel. I will also be<br />
working in Singapore for part of the year.<br />
Shirley Morris, BSc (Hons) in Psychology,<br />
Sociology & Social Policy 2002. I am employed<br />
as a Befriender Co-ordinator by the Ark Trust in<br />
which I recruit volunteers to train and match to<br />
those who are claiming asylum, refugee and the<br />
right to remain.<br />
Lyndsey Reid, BSc Occupational Therapy<br />
2002. I have been working within the<br />
community and have been involved in new<br />
developments such as ‘mobile working’ which<br />
involved a pilot study using laptops so that<br />
forms/assessment documents could be faxed,<br />
e-mailed or stored from a remote location (e.g.<br />
the car, clients home). I work with a rapid<br />
response team so mobile working is very<br />
important as we are often out of the office<br />
working with cases that need urgent action.<br />
Helen Clarkson, BA Stage Management and<br />
Theatre Production 2002. After doing two years<br />
at Pitlochry Festival Theatre as Assistant Stage<br />
Manager I am now thrilled to have just started<br />
my dream job as ASM/Book Cover on Miss<br />
Saigon UK Tour Production.<br />
Vicky Alcaro, BSc (Hons) Psychology 2003.<br />
After leaving <strong>QM</strong> I worked for Edinburgh Secure<br />
Services working with serious and persistent<br />
young offenders on short and long term<br />
remand. My current post is with the Youth<br />
Justice Services conducting behavioural<br />
assessments on serious and persistent young<br />
offenders. Next year I aim to undertake an MSc<br />
in Forensic Psychology.<br />
Martina McDermott, BA (Hons) Tourism<br />
Management 2003. I have recently moved back<br />
to Fermanagh after working in Edinburgh since I<br />
graduated in 2003. I am fortunate to have<br />
accomplished work at Fermanagh Tourist Office.<br />
I achieved my HND in Travel and Tourism<br />
Management at Fermanagh College and<br />
continued at Degree Hons level at <strong>Queen</strong><br />
<strong>Margaret</strong>.<br />
Heather Jackson (nee Dacre), BSc Podiatry,<br />
2004. Enjoyed a year working as a Senior<br />
Podiatrist in Bristol for Scholl. However, about to<br />
embark on a Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing<br />
in Newcastle. Married Mark in December 2005.<br />
Very happy.<br />
Abhrajyoti Basak, BA Hospitality and Tourism<br />
Management 2004. At present I am working at<br />
Trident Hilton (Bhubaneswar). I love the cool<br />
summers of Kolkata. I hope in the future to<br />
complete an MBA at <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>. My motto<br />
is "Enjoy life at its fullest".<br />
Prashant Gupta, BA International Hospitality<br />
Management 2004. I have opened a new<br />
enterprise at Gangtok which is for tourists on<br />
the border of Indo-Tibet. Many thanks to <strong>Queen</strong><br />
<strong>Margaret</strong> where I have gained a firm knowledge<br />
in hospitality management. In a very short<br />
period of time I have started my own business<br />
in the hotel trade and am doing very well.<br />
John Spies, MBA Golf and Country Club<br />
Management 2004. Laura and I have two<br />
children, Madison and Aidan. I have completed<br />
the requirements for the designation of Certified<br />
Club Manager (CCM) via The Club Managers<br />
Association of America. Currently working on<br />
the Certified Hotel Administrator designation via<br />
the American Hotel and Lodging Association.<br />
REUNIONS<br />
CALLING ALL DOMESTIC SCIENCE<br />
GRADUATES FROM 1967-1970/71<br />
Would you like to meet your fellow<br />
students of long ago? We are planning a<br />
reunion in Edinburgh to take place in<br />
June 2007, forty years since we started<br />
our training in Atholl Crescent. We have<br />
lots of names but are finding it difficult to<br />
get addresses for you all. If you would<br />
like to come to our reunion please<br />
contact me or Joyce.<br />
Anne E Kean (Martin)<br />
Tel: 01738 629958<br />
Email: neilkean@btinternet.com<br />
Joyce Beveridge (Macfarlane)<br />
Tel: 0131 445 4934<br />
Email: bjbeveridge@btinternet.com<br />
REUNION FOR ATHOLL<br />
CRESCENT INTAKE OF 1966<br />
This is the 40th year of my starting at<br />
Atholl Crescent on a four-year teacher<br />
training course. I keep up with some of<br />
the gals, and Lynn Irvine and I thought it<br />
would be great to celebrate with a lunch<br />
reunion. We have set a date for<br />
Saturday, 16th September 2006 (venue<br />
TBA). Lynn is phoning around and<br />
asking everyone to try to contact<br />
someone else, but there are many who<br />
will not be on our list.<br />
We are looking for any students who<br />
came to Atholl Crescent in the academic<br />
year of September 1966, and were<br />
staying in halls.<br />
Alison Ross (nee Cameron) - attended<br />
Atholl Crescent 1966-1970<br />
Email: rosstourconsult@hotmail.com<br />
Mobile: 07791 144421<br />
REUNION FOR TEACHING<br />
CLASS OF 1960<br />
A reunion is being planned in April 2007<br />
for the class of 1957-1960 Diploma 1 in<br />
Teaching to celebrate fifty years since<br />
their arrival at <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>.<br />
Sandra Murdoch (nee Bateman)<br />
Tel: 0131 445 4111<br />
Email: sgmurdoch@blueyonder.co.uk<br />
Frances Sharps (nee Ward)<br />
Tel: 01925 730426<br />
Email: sharps@waitrose.com
RE:LOCATE UPDATE<br />
MINISTER VISITS SITE<br />
OF NEW CAMPUS<br />
Deputy First Minister and Minister<br />
for Enterprise & Lifelong Learning,<br />
Nicol Stephen MSP, marked the start<br />
of the development of sustainable<br />
parkland at our new campus in<br />
Craighall, East Lothian, recently, by<br />
planting the first tree on the site.<br />
Attended by <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> staff,<br />
MSPs and representatives from local<br />
schools, the ceremony marked the<br />
first step in transforming the 35 acres<br />
of low grade farmland into the perfect<br />
environment for all sorts of wildlife to<br />
thrive, through the creation of wetland,<br />
woodland, hedgerow and meadow<br />
habitats, and the provision of roosting<br />
boxes for indigenous wildlife.<br />
The design of the new building itself<br />
exceeds current environmental<br />
standards and sets a new benchmark<br />
in sustainable design. It will<br />
incorporate leading green technologies<br />
to ensure the campus' impact on the<br />
environment is minimised and has<br />
already become the first HE campus in<br />
the UK to be awarded an 'excellent'<br />
rating for building design by the<br />
Building Research Establishment's<br />
Environmental Assessment Method.<br />
Mr Stephen said: “<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> College should be<br />
congratulated not only for its<br />
ambitious plans to build this state-ofthe-art<br />
campus but for incorporating<br />
sustainability in every aspect. This will<br />
be a lifelong learning hub for its<br />
students and the local community.”<br />
Professor Anthony Cohen with Nicol Stephen, MSP<br />
LOCAL PUPILS AND<br />
RESIDENTS ENJOY A<br />
TASTE OF THE FUTURE<br />
Local residents and pupils at<br />
Musselburgh Grammar School<br />
attended a <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong><br />
roadshow in the lead up to our<br />
relocation in autumn 2007.<br />
“This roadshow offered a tremendous<br />
chance for pupils, parents and anyone<br />
who wants to continue their personal<br />
or professional development to find<br />
out from our existing students what<br />
university life is like,” said Vice<br />
Principal, Rosalyn Marshall.<br />
Mr Ronnie Summers, Headmaster of<br />
Musselburgh Grammar School, said:<br />
“In 2007, Musselburgh will boast a<br />
striking, distinctive and sustainable<br />
academic village that will be<br />
accessible and welcoming to everyone<br />
in the area. Our second and third year<br />
pupils will be among the first to enrol<br />
at the new campus and, just as<br />
<strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong> has worked to involve<br />
and support the local community, I am<br />
sure our young people and local<br />
residents will support and enjoy the<br />
many facilities and courses that <strong>Queen</strong><br />
<strong>Margaret</strong> will offer.”<br />
Local residents view a model of the new campus<br />
THE QUEEN MARGARET PROFESSORIAL LECTURES 2006<br />
Offering fresh angles on topics of<br />
relevance to a wide audience,<br />
our recent series of professorial<br />
lectures has been very well<br />
received.<br />
Jo Clifford, Professor of Theatre and<br />
Creative Writing, Richard Kerley, Dean<br />
of Business and Arts, and Barbara<br />
McPake, Director of the Institute for<br />
International Health and Development,<br />
gave public lectures on theatre, local<br />
government and health systems<br />
research.<br />
“These lectures are comparable to the<br />
‘Inaugural Lecture’ tradition of the<br />
ancient universities, in which<br />
professors introduce themselves and<br />
their specialist interests to their<br />
colleagues,” said Professor Anthony<br />
Cohen, Principal of <strong>Queen</strong> <strong>Margaret</strong>.<br />
“But more importantly, they express<br />
the defining characteristics of <strong>Queen</strong><br />
<strong>Margaret</strong>: to engage with people and<br />
society, and to use our expertise to<br />
inform and contribute to knowledge,<br />
policy and practice in areas which<br />
touch people’s lives and experience.”<br />
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