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27 February 2005 - Issue 47 

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A vision 

of success 

UWE graduate 

shatters glasses 

industry with visionary 

entrepreneurialism 

k e e p i n g y o u i n f o r m e d

In this 

month’s issue 

5 BBS student drives 

for success 

7 Earth from the Air 

inspires winning 

poem 

7 New Services for 

Students centre 

8 ‘Detroit: ruin of a 

City’ - a film by 

Michael Chanan 

10 UWE artists create 

opportuntities for 

pupils 

17 Personnel Update 

21 UWE Sport news 

23-24 What's on 

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Front cover: 

UWE Alumni James Murray Wells who 

started a successful company called 

Glasses Direct. 

NEWS 

UWE graduate shatters 

glasses industry with 

visionary entrepreneurialism 

A UWE graduate has had a shattering impact on the glasses manufacturing industry by offering 

standard reading glasses for as little as £15 undercutting all the market leaders. 

Selling reading spectacles was not the career that English graduate and entrepreneur James 

Murray Wells had envisaged but events took a surprising turn when he discovered the 

astronomical cost of a pair of glasses. “I needed a pair of reading glasses while I was studying for 

my finals and I was astounded when I was presented with a bill for £150,” said James. 

James was certain that the cost to manufacture glasses could not possibly be as expensive as the 

£150 price tag suggested so he began to do some research. “Even though I was supposed to be 

revising, I became obsessed with the idea that I might be able to undercut the market leaders. It 

transpired that high street opticians are making as much as a 2000% profit margin. It was very 

difficult to get hold of the information about costs from the glazing laboratories as most were 

not prepared to discuss this with me but by digging I eventually found out that the actual cost of 

making a pair of glasses is between £3 and £7.” 

Spurred on by this James further discovered that once a customer’s eyes had been tested and an 

accurate prescription obtained there was no further need to visit a high street optician. 

And so Glasses Direct was born on 1 July 2004 from a room in his parents’ home. He employed 

two leaflet distributors to hand out flyers in central Bristol and began by taking one or two orders 

each day. James undercut all the high street glasses sellers with some pairs selling for as little as 

£15. Word spread and within two months the company had received 9,000 calls. Six months on the 

company has found premises in Malmesbury in Wiltshire and employs eleven people. The website 

has received half a million hits and 

the call centre has had 30,000 calls. 

James said, “If someone had told me 

one year ago that I would be 

running a company selling reading 

glasses I would not have believed 

them. I have no formal business 

training – I just saw a gap in the 

market and an opportunity to 

provide an essential service at a 

good price. I had been planning to 

take a postgraduate diploma in Law 

but the surprise success of this 

business has meant that plans have 

altered drastically.” 

Glasses Direct continues to expand 

each day and James next plans to 

introduce a range of contact lenses 

and designer frames. See: 

www.glassesdirect.co.uk for more 

information. 

Entrepreneur James Murray Wells 

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Research shows speed cameras are 

good for our health 

Speed cameras reduce road traffic 

collisions and related deaths and injuries. 

This conclusion comes from the world’s 

first systematic review on speed camera 

effectiveness, conducted by researchers at 

Bristol UWE and the University of Bristol 

and published in the British Medical 

Journal. 

The review identified 14 studies from 

around the world, all of which found that 

when speed cameras are introduced into 

an area, collisions, deaths and injuries are 

reduced. Collisions were reduced between 

5% to 69%, injuries by 12% to 65%, and 

deaths by 17% to 71% in the immediate 

vicinity of camera sites. The reductions 

over a wider area were of a similar order 

of magnitude. 

The review has however flagged up the 

limitations of the existing evidence and 

suggested ways to improve the quality of 

the evidence around speed camera 

effectiveness. 

If possible, speed cameras should be 

evaluated using a Randomised Controlled 

Trial approach. This would control for 

other factors that can affect the number 

of road traffic collisions in an area. 

Comparable sites or areas could be 

randomly selected to receive cameras or 

not. After a given time, changes in 

collisions, deaths and injuries in areas with 

and without cameras could then be 

compared. An alternative would be to 

carry out any introduction of speed 

cameras in a phased manner, over a few 

years with careful collection of data, 

hence producing a natural comparison 

group. 

“This review shows that speed cameras are 

an effective road safety device,” said Paul 

Pilkington, Lecturer in Public Health (HSC). 

“When speed cameras are introduced into 

an area, we see collisions, deaths and 

injuries fall.” 

“However, the quality of research 

evidence is not very high” cautions Sanjay 

Kinra, the report’s co-author from the 

University of Bristol. “We have suggested 

ways in which the evidence could be made 

clearer by careful data collection. It is 

imperative that the authorities 

introducing new speed cameras carefully 

consider our suggestions. Otherwise, these 

opportunities will be lost and we may 

never be completely certain. 

“However we do recognise the difficulties 

in evaluating a road safety intervention 

such as speed cameras”. 

Effectiveness of speed cameras in 

preventing road traffic collisions 

and related casualties: a systematic 

review by Paul Pilkington and 

Sanjay Kinra. 

The paper is published on the 

British Medical Journal website, at 

www.bmj.com in the ‘Online First’ 

section on 14 January 2005. A print 

version of the article appeared in 

the journal on 12 February 2005. 

This research received phenomenal 

media interest – lead story in the 

British Medical Journal (12 February 

2005), nationwide newspaper 

coverage, blanket local and much 

regional radio, TV Bulletins on 

Points West and ITV West news and 

an appearance by Paul Pilkington 

on a Road Safety Special on 

‘Tonight with Trevor MacDonald’ on 

Monday 14 February. 

Vice-Chancellor: Succession Planning 

As you know, Alfred Morris announced to the Board of Governors last July his intention to retire not later than the end of the 

calendar year 2005. 

The Board established a search committee, comprising five lay governors and two staff governors, which appointed search 

consultants, and canvassed views widely across the University. The committee hoped to be able to make a recommendation to 

the Board as to who should succeed Alfred no later than its March meeting. 

As a result of the ensuing search, a number of candidates were interviewed, and three were asked to make presentations in late 

January to an invited audience of senior staff. Following that round of presentations and interviews, however, the search 

committee has concluded that it is not yet in a position to make a recommendation to the Board. 

It is the intention of the committee to continue its work over the next few months, with the aim of making an announcement 

by the time of the Board’s July meeting. 

The University is in good shape: we have an enviable record in teaching and research, sound finances, and ambitious 

development plans. The committee is confident of appointing in due course an outstanding new Vice-Chancellor, to lead us 

through the challenging times which lie ahead. 

Ray Burton, Chairman of Governors 

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NEWS 

Pictured from left to right are Nicola Eaton, Antonia Beringer and Gareth 

Jones at the award ceremony for the Queen’s Nursing Institute Maureen 

Acland Research and Development Award. A full story appeared in the 

January Bulletin. 

Student 

radio station 

enters Radio 

Aid charity 

appeal 

UWE’s student radio station, The 

Hub 1449am, joined forces with 

250 UK commercial broadcasters as 

they came together to become the 

biggest ever Radio station, ‘UK 

Radio Aid’, for one day on Monday 

17 January. 

UK Radio Aid campaigned to 

persuade listeners to donate one 

hour’s worth of salary to UK Radio 

Aid for the children of the tsunami 

disaster. All participating radio 

stations donated one hour’s 

running costs to the fund. The Hub 

1449am was the only student radio 

station to take part. 

Station Director Patch Jobson, said, 

“As the only student radio station 

to take part on the day the 

response was outstanding, 

particularly from UWE staff and 

the Directorate. In total we raised 

£1,200 and nationally the Radio 

Aid Appeal raised £3.1 million. It 

was especially good to get such 

support from people at UWE as 

the university has given the radio 

station such a generous kick start. 

The event was very exciting to be 

involved in and we are delighted 

that we have been able to 

contribute something to help the 

tsunami disaster.” 

Radio Aid kicked off at 6.00 on 

Monday 17 January. Most UK 

commercial radio stations took the 

feed directly from Capital FM in 

London. The Hub 1449am 

broadcast across their AM/MW 

service and high quality internet 

feed at www.thehub1449.com. 

Poster exhibition and 

auction launches LOT 

An exciting new art space called LOT was launched in the heart of Broadmead 

with a poster exhibition and auction on Friday 4 February 2005. Artists from UWE 

and Media Arts in Bath have formed LOT to promote the work of emerging and 

established artists in an alternative and brilliantly located setting. LOT will develop 

a series of exhibitions, events and commissions during 2005. 

LOT is located in a prime site in the old Poundstretcher building on the corner of 

Penn Street and Broadweir. The building which has been provided by Bristol City 

Council and Hartnell Taylor Cook Estate Agents, is approximately 2,500 sq ft over 

three floors with the potential for two floors of exhibition space and studio space 

on a third floor. 

The LOT group includes Eamon O’Kane, Kieran Brown, James Ireland and Rob 

Anderson who all work or have graduated from UWE and Sally Shaw who is 

Director of Media Arts in Bath. 

For more information http://www.lot6.co.uk/lot.htm 

One of the exhibits at the LOT auction 

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BBS student ‘drives’ for success 

Ed Stallard, a second year BBS student is one of the UK’s most up 

and coming young rally drivers. Last year he won the PIAA Junior 

Award in the Mitsubishi Evolution Challenge, a highly competitive 

rally series, and this year he will compete again as the youngest 

registered driver in the Challenge. 

Building on his success last season Ed has now invested in a new 

car and is intent not only on holding on to his title for under 25 

year old drivers but also aims to feature strongly in the overall 

positions this year. 

Ed says, “The Evolution Challenge is one of the most competitive 

series in the UK. With cars being developed year-on-year I decided 

to upgrade to a new car - so for this year’s Challenge I will be 

driving the Evolution VIII – the car which was driven to victory last 

year by overall series winner Rory Galligan. With this new car, my 

new co-driver and a great team supporting me I have high hopes 

for this year’s Challenge and I can’t wait to get started!” 

helps me keep my feet on the ground and I’m really enjoying it at 

the moment. Most of the rallying takes place at weekends so I just 

have to work a bit harder at the beginning of the week to make 

sure I get all my work done. I’d like to become a professional rally 

driver once I’ve finished my degree but even if I’m not successful 

behind the wheel I’ll always want to be involved in rallying in 

some way – it’s a big passion of mine!” 

Having fully tested the new car early this year Ed, who comes 

from Cheltenham, recently entered the Wyedean Rally which took 

place in the Forest of Dean on 12 February. At the end of February 

(25 and 26) his Mitsubishi Evolution Challenge campaign gets 

underway with the Bournemouth based Rallye Sunseeker. (Full 

details of the Challenge can be found at: http://www.evochallenge.com) 

For more about Ed see: www.edstallard.com 

Ed’s new co-driver is Richard Edwards from Wolverhampton, who 

navigated the Peugeot Challenge winning driver, Stuart Jones, to 

victory in 2004. 

The inspiration for Ed’s love of motorsport came to him from a 

very young age – both his father and uncle had a passion for 

speed and raced powerboats. Ed’s first 

venture into motorsport was at 

the age of 14 when he spent 

two successful seasons racing a 

Mini in Autograss 

Championships. Since then he 

has focused firmly on rally 

driving moving steadily towards 

his ultimate goal of competing in 

the World Rally Championships. 

So how does Ed combine the 

passion he feels for rallying with 

studying for a BA in Business 

Studies? “Doing Business Studies 

(above) Ed Stallard competing in the Mitsubishi Evolution 

Challenge 2004 

(left) BBS student Ed Stallard who combines a passion for 

rallying with working for a degree in Business Studies 

BBC 1’s ‘Inside Out’ programme featured a film 

presented by broadcaster and UWE governor, Sherrie 

Eugene, on Monday 31 January that asked if Bristol 

should build a memorial to the victims of the slave 

trade. Children from local schools created two 

monuments that have been superimposed on Bristol 

street scenes to show how they could look. The children 

attended a day long event at the L- shed where they 

took part in a workshop to consider Bristol’s Slave Trade 

history and to create the monuments. Madge Dresser, 

Principal Lecturer in the School of History (HLSS), helped 

to organise the day. 

The two monuments created by Bristol school children for 

the BBC’s ‘Inside Out’ programme 

Visiting Professor Grace Dorey (HSC) recently gave her 

inaugural professorial lecture entitled ‘Under Every Good 

Man … A Cultural History of the Male Pelvic Floor’, and 

explored our understanding of the male pelvic floor and 

how this understanding has evolved over more than two 

thousand years. Grace is currently working part-time as a 

Consultant Physiotherapist at The Somerset Nuffield 

Hospital, Taunton and an Extended Scope Practitioner at 

North Devon District Hospital, Barnstaple. Professor Robin 

Means, Professor Grace Dorey and Professor Wendy Purcell 

are pictured at the lecture. 

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£55k extra 

funding for 

successful 

QuickMark 

scheme 

NEWS 

The QuickMark scheme, developed 

by Bristol UWE and providing rapid 

initial marketing analyses for 

businesses, has just been awarded a 

further £55,000 to extend the service 

until the end of 2005. The first year 

of operation of the scheme has 

resulted in 20 completed QuickMark 

analyses. 

Satisfied clients include the specialist 

travel company, Brilliant Weekends, 

who were extremely impressed with 

the approach. Managing Director 

Richard Dennys said: “The report 

gave us confidence to move into a 

new market area, and the 

knowledge to know how to address 

issues associated with it before we 

even start. In a pioneering sector 

there’s no track to follow and it was 

very reassuring to have time and 

resources to help develop the next 

steps. It is an extremely beneficial 

service for any small business.” 

QuickMark provides initial market 

analysis for small businesses that 

have identified an innovative new 

product, process or service. The 

service is led by UWE in 

collaboration with University of 

Bath. MBA or Master’s degree 

students carry out research to an 

agreed agenda and produce a 

business report to help the company 

undertake its next step by 

identifying the broad market 

potential of its idea and any critical 

issues that could affect success. 

For further information on the 

project, contact Rebecca.Difford@ 

uwe.ac.uk tel 0117 32 83860. 

Emergency response 

ideas in shortlist for UWE 

Business competition 

Innovative ideas to improve disaster training and emergency response facilities in 

the South West and abroad are among plans shortlisted for the latest round of 

Bristol UWE’s 2004/5 business plan competition. There is also an emphasis on 

personal safety with plans for devices to detect spiked drinks or the presence of 

inflammable gases in domestic settings. 

Other ideas range from a reverse hearing aid (worn by the snorer’s partner) to turn 

down the volume of the snores, and low-cost bio-fuel made from used cooking oil, 

to the popular robot wars challenge game played remotely over the internet. 

In all, ten plans for businesses of the future have been shortlisted out of a total of 

28 initial entries. For the first time, a new social enterprise award is on offer, 

sponsored by Bristol-based ethical bank Triodos, Bristol City Council, Business West 

and UWE. There are three prizes in all, worth a total of £25,000 - as well as the 

social enterprise award, there is an open prize and a prize specifically for students. 

All staff and students from UWE are eligible to enter, either individually or in 

teams, for the annual business plan competition which is now in its fourth year. 

The competition’s sponsors are: UWE, Baker Tilly, Osborne Clark, The Royal Bank of 

Scotland, Bristol City Council (Social Economy Bristol), Business West and Triodos 

Bank. All shortlisted entrants receive mentoring and financial and business advice 

to enable them to turn their brainwaves into marketable business plans – and are 

now eligible to go forward to the final of the competition which will take place 

in May. 

From left to right: Andrew Braithwaite of sponsors Osborne Clarke; Linda Skinner 

(CRIGS); Ian Glendinning (BBS); Nick Markovits (CRIGS) and Aurelie Blard-Quintard 

(BSAMD) 

Politics department receives 

global recognition 

In a recent survey covering the Top 400 Political Science Departments on the 

basis of their research in quality journals, Bristol UWE has been placed 153rd. 

The survey, ‘A Global Ranking of Political Science Departments’ was published 

by Simon Hix of the LSE in the latest Political Studies Review. In an earlier 

survey of European departments by Simon Hix UWE was placed 56th. The 

latest survey puts the University ahead of many of its rivals including York, 

Lancaster, Bath and Reading. 

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Earth from the Air inspires winning poem 

Photo credit Yann Arthus-Bertrand/Impact Photos 

UWE launches new Services for 

Students centre 

The University launched a new centre for students on 23 February. 

The Career Development Unit and the Community Volunteer 

Programme have moved to a prime site on the Frenchay Campus. 

The new centre is now located at the heart of the Campus next to 

the Bolland Library and Core 24 café bar in a huge space above 

the main University Reception which was opened in June last year. 

Ray Burton, Chairman of UWE’s Board of Governors opened the 

centre and presented certificates at a special awards ceremony for 

students who have dedicated significant time to voluntary work. 

The global financial corporation, JP Morgan was the first 

employer to take space in the new centre. Representatives from JP 

Morgan’s recruitment team came to the launch to hold a 

recruitment skills workshop and promote employment 

opportunities to students. 

Neil Harrison, Head of Information, Projects and Research (CSA) 

said, “Community volunteering has been an integral part of 

student life for many years and it is great to see it getting greater 

exposure at UWE. The co-siting with the Career Development Unit 

is a useful synergy. Voluntary experience makes an important 

contribution to students’ employability and personal 

development, whether or not it is job-focused.” 

John Clarke, Head of the Career Development Unit is delighted 

with the move of this key service area. He said, “In the past 

students have had to come and find us as we were located on the 

third floor of the Students’ Union building. Now that the service is 

7 

The wonderful images from the open-air Earth from the Air 

exhibition in Millennium Square have inspired over 450 

people in the South West to let their imaginations take flight 

in a poetry competition. 

There were three categories based on age, and the winner of 

the 18+ category was Ed Philips, a member of the Art+Power 

disability arts organisation. His winning entry was a response 

to an image of the Grand Prismic Spring, Yellowstone 

National Park, Wyoming. 

Amber Mane woven with silk 

Creases of bay flesh 

Desperate, anxious 

The gods are furious 

Horse gallops from the storm 

Coat shines with sweat and rain 

Urgent hooves strike the earth 

Lightning stripes the muzzle 

Working with Art+Power is Claire Williamson, a poet and 

UWE graduate (MA Literary Studies). Claire said: “Since 

completing my degree and MA in Literary Studies at UWE, I 

have continued to write creatively and work with community 

organisations such as Art+Power. As a group we visited the 

Earth from the Air exhibition. We found it incredibly inspiring 

and decided to enter the poetry competition. I was delighted 

that Ed Philips from Art+Power was the adult winner. The 

exhibition is a wonderful idea – let there be more!” 

The Earth from the Air poetry competition was supported by 

the University of the West of England and the South West of 

England Regional Development Agency 

located in the hub of the University it has the visibility needed 

and more students will drop in for help and advice. There is still a 

sizeable exhibition area which can be used for a range events 

including business and voluntary organisations to promote work 

and volunteering opportunities.” 

Staff in the new Services for Students centre, pictured from left to 

right; Ellie Roads; Sue Hughes; Matt Jelfs; John Clarke; David Gee; 

Jenny Wade and Maggie Westgarth

FBE awarded 

contract to 

deliver new 

course in 

Spatial Planning 

NEWS 

The Faculty of the Built 

Environment has been awarded a 

contract to devise and deliver a 

new course in Spatial Planning. As 

part of the culture change 

initiative, the Office of the Deputy 

Prime Minister (ODPM) wants all 

new and existing planners to 

change their way of thinking about 

planning, moving way from an 

entirely land-use based system to 

create a more inclusive and 

integrative activity to deliver the 

policies contained in the new 

planning policy statement, 

‘Delivering Sustainable 

Development’. 

The most exciting part of the 

contract is that UWE will be helping 

to define new concepts in planning 

for implementation by practitioners 

who need to ‘re-adjust their 

thinking and ways of working’ 

(ODPM, 2005). Furthermore, the 

new inter-disciplinary approach will 

involve staff from Faculties other 

than Built Environment, many of 

whom have already shown an 

interest in the project. 

The aim is to deliver a flexible, 

web-based, distance learning course 

in a format which allows for 

continuous professional 

development through to a Master’s 

qualification or even professional 

doctorate via the accumulation of 

credit. The ODPM was impressed 

with the team effort, which 

brought together suggestions for 

academic content alongside a track 

record of providing web-based 

learning packages. 

The project leader is Janet Askew, 

and if you would like to contribute 

to cross-Faculty discussions on this 

subject, please contact her at 

Janet.Askew@uwe.ac.uk. 

‘Detroit: Ruin of a city’ 

Professor Michael Chanan (HLSS) and George Steinmetz (University of Michigan) 

have produced a unique documentary about Detroit and its ruination, which is 

being previewed in Bristol on 6 March and premiered at the University of Michigan 

two weeks later. 

The film is a collaboration between Professor Chanan, who is a seasoned filmmaker, 

sociologist George Steinmetz, with music by the composer Michael Nyman, 

who is well known for his many film scores. All three of them will attend a special 

preview of the film at the Watershed in Bristol on 6 March, presented by Bristol 

Docs. 

Known as the Motor City, home of Henry Ford and the giants of the US 

automobile industry, of ‘the brown bomber’ Joe Louis, of Motown and Eminem, 

Detroit is nowadays in seemingly terminal decline, and the most segregated major 

city in the USA, where an annual ritual takes place known as ‘Devil’s Night’, in 

which people go out on the eve of Halloween and set fire to houses, buildings and 

cars. 

With the participation of Detroit artist Tyree Guyton, French sociologist Loic 

Wacquant, Detroit born writer Dan Georgakas, and a variety of local residents, the 

film traces the rise and fall of the social system known by sociologists as ‘Fordism’, 

the way the city was shaped by the automobile, and its decline following the 

deindustrialisation which began in the 1950s. 

Much of the story is told through a rich variety of archive footage – of the Ford 

plants, mass protests of the Depression years, Diego Rivera painting his famous 

mural ‘Detroit Industry’, the struggle for trade union rights, the riots of 1967 – 

through which the film charts the battle over the image of the city and its industry 

that began when the Ford Motor Company started making its own films back in 

1914. 

Speaking about the film, Professor Chanan says, “We’ve called it a documentary 

road movie because if you go to Detroit, you can only get around by car, which is 

true of many US cities but in Detroit it becomes symbolic because this is Motor City, 

so it seemed right that we should film in and from the cars we travelled round in.” 

For details of the Watershed screening and how to get tickets go to 

www.watershed.co.uk or go to http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/BristolDocs/ 

For full details of 

• Michael Chanan’s other film work see www.mchanan.dial.pipex.com 

• for George Steinmetz see http://www.lsa.umich.edu/soc/directories/ 

show-person.asp?PeopleID=40 

• for Michael Nyman, see www.michaelnyman.com 

(above) Michigan Theater 

interior in Detroit 

(left) Detroit 

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Do we want to know 

what DNA can tell us 

about ourselves? 

This question is at the heart of an interactive drama entitled, 

‘Meet the Mighty Gene Machine’ that will be developed by UWE 

scientists in partnership with Techniquest, Cardiff and the Wales 

Gene Park. ‘Meet the Mighty Gene Machine’ aims to engage 

post 16 years olds in a debate about the ethical and social issues 

raised by advances in medical genetics. 

Dr Karen Bultitude of the Graphic Science Unit (FAS) is leading 

the project which has received a grant of around £29,000 from 

the Wellcome Trust’s ‘engaging science’ programme. She said, 

“ ‘Meet the Mighty Gene Machine’ will be set in the not too 

distant future. A scientist goes on a chat show to promote 

his/her latest invention – the mighty gene machine. 

“The scientist demonstrates with the DNA of the vain, largerthan-life, 

shiny-jacket-wearing show host. The host is very 

pleased at first but becomes increasingly disturbed when he 

finds out more and more negative information about himself. He 

is not happy with the personal information given about him on 

air. He calls for a commercial break. The two characters then 

have a private argument about the moral questions raised about 

the uses and moral/ethical questions regarding knowing - and 

sharing - your genetic profile. To solve their disagreement they 

turn to the audience.” 

The audience join in the debate as they are asked to consider a 

variety of questions including - Should you know your genetic 

profile? Should parents have limits placed on them in regard to 

embryo screening? Who should have access to your genetic 

profile - The Government? Shampoo manufacturers? Insurance 

companies? Family? 

The play is followed by a discussion session to get the audience 

to think about what their genetic profiles could be used for and 

who should be able to see them. The interactive drama will be 

performed at centres in Aberystwyth, Cardiff and Wrexham 

during March 2005. 

UWE Planning graduate 

circumnavigates globe 

by bicycle 

UWE Architecture and Planning graduate Matt Bridgestock 

has recently returned from a trip where he 

circumnavigated the world by bike. His route took in 

Eastern Europe, Central Asia and North, Central and South 

America. During the trip he took photographs of the many 

styles of architecture he encountered. The photographs 

are currently on show at an exhibition called ‘World on 

Wheels’ at the Architecture Centre in Narrow Quay. The 

exhibition runs until Tuesday 13 March. Matt will be 

visiting UWE to give a talk about the trip on 18 April 2005. 

For more details view www.worldonwheels.info. A fuller 

report will appear in the next edition of the Bulletin. 

Matt’s bike takes a rest somewhere in Central Asia 

BSAMD students exhibit work at Rovers ground 

Six UWE fine art students 

found an unusual venue for 

a recent exhibition. They 

displayed artwork at the 

Centenary Stand Memorial 

Stadium. Victoria Moore, 

one of the students taking 

part, said, “We wanted to 

show our art in what is, 

traditionally, not an artistic 

place and to try to break 

down the boundaries that 

exist between art and 

sport.” 

Pictured left to right: 

Rose Pearson, Laura 

Crouchley, Donna Lobb, 

Debbie Myatt, Gemma 

Haynes and Victoria Moore 

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Careers help 

for FAS 

graduates 

The Career Development Unit 

teamed up with the Faculty of 

Applied Science to deliver a 

continuing professional 

development day to graduates 

from FAS. 

Careers advisers Linda Moysey and 

Adele Merrison delivered a range 

of careers related sessions 

including ‘Writing effective CVs’, 

‘Making your applications stand 

out’, ‘Interview skills’ and ‘Job 

hunting strategies’. 

Professor Jim Longhurst (FAS) 

opened the day by welcoming the 

graduates back to UWE, and 

academic staff from the Faculty 

were available after lunch to 

answer questions on postgraduate 

courses. 

Twenty three graduates, who 

completed their studies in 2004, 

attended the training day and 

were enthusiastic about the help 

they received with comments such 

as: “Very helpful and impressed by 

UWE. Aftercare of students by 

career representatives 

exceptional”; “The workshop met 

my needs and most importantly 

has given me motivation and 

direction to where to go from 

here”; “Very good - would 

recommend others to attend”. 

One psychology graduate who 

attended has since reported that 

she has gained a place on a 

graduate management 

programme as a result of the day. 

She had this to say: “Just saying a 

big thank you for your help, the 

day was really useful. There were 

nine people on this round table 

assessment day, so I am very 

pleased, and a lot of it was due to 

good preparation after Friday’s 

hints about good answers to 

various interview questions.” 

NEWS 

UWE artists create art 

opportunities for Bristol pupils 

Staff from the BSAMD are working with young people in the city to develop their 

art, design and media skills through a project called TO-DO, which offers them 

the chance to work with experienced artists, designers and media practitioners. 

TO-DO is an extensive initiative that has been developed in partnership with 

Hengrove Community Arts College, and which includes a series of exhibitions, 

workshops and collaborative projects and activities, hosted at Hengrove School’s 

‘Art Gym’, UWE’s Bower Ashton Campus and by partner organisations across the 

city, including Knowle West Media Centre (funded through Creative Partnerships), 

At-Bristol, and the newly established extended schools service. 

In April and May BSAMD will host the TO-DO Saturday project, a series of free 

Saturday workshops for young people, city-wide, to participate in an art, design 

and media project which aims to develop skills, confidence and ability in the 

production of creative work, as well as encouraging participation. Over four 

Saturdays in April and May 2005 (16, 23, 30 April and 7 May 2005), those taking 

part will be offered the opportunity to work with UWE lecturers who are 

practising artists, designers and media practitioners to develop their own creative 

work through a series of structured projects. The project aims to encourage young 

people’s aspirations for learning, participation and personal development. 

The TO-DO project will also be offering teachers in the city the opportunity to 

work with UWE’s art, media and design staff in developing an art, design and 

photography project that can be delivered back in the classroom. Developed in 

collaboration with Hengrove Community Arts College, this unique staff 

development and pupil participation project ‘OPEN HERE’ will culminate in an 

exhibition of pupils’ work at Hengrove Community Arts College’s purpose built 

‘Art Gym’ in May. 

Sam Thomson (BSAMD) has been responsible for developing the TO-DO project, in 

partnership with Rebecca Fitzgerald from Hengrove Community Arts College. 

For more information contact: Sam.Thomson@uwe.ac.uk, ext 84716 or Rebecca 

Fitzgerald on 0117 377 2800 ext 268, rfitzger@hengrove.bristol.sch.uk 

Visitors at the preview night of SHOWDOWN (6 December 2004), the first exhibition in 

the TO-DO project series at the Art Gym, Hengrove Community Arts College 

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Lecturer helps international medical charity 

Andrew Mathieson (Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Public 

Health, FAS) recently attended a special presentation at the House 

of Lords for Iraqi consultant gynaecologists, as part of his work 

with the Swinfen Charitable Trust (SCT), a medical charity set up 

by Lord and Lady Swinfen (Roger and Pat Swinfen). 

Andrew spent eight months in Iraq as a major in the Territorial 

Army (June 2003 – Jan 2004) (Bulletin Issue 38 February 2004) and 

during that time he made many contacts within the medical and 

civil community and has worked with SCT since February 2004. 

SCT brings the expert medical advice of consultants around the 

world to help those in need in the developing world by 

establishing telemedicine links between remote hospitals and 

international medical consultants (who give their advice free of 

charge). 

It uses a unique automatic e-mail messaging service developed for 

SCT by The Centre for Online Health, University of Queensland, 

Australia. 

The remote hospitals and clinics are supplied with high resolution 

digital cameras, and tripods, and they teach medical staff how to 

use the equipment. To date SCT operates in 18 countries including 

East Timor, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Iraq, Cambodia, Nepal and 

Papua New Guinea offering specialist advice in a range of fields. 

Speaking about the charity Andrews says, “Every pound raised by 

SCT goes on developing and expanding the work of the charity. 

Each camera set costs from £500 - £3,000 (depending on the 

equipment needs and location of the hospital). If you are 

interested in helping with the work of SCT or would like to make 

a donation please contact me or SCT directly, every pound helps.” 

Lord and Lady Swinfen gave a presentation in the Moses Room at 

the House of Lords on 8 February to 15 Iraqi consultant 

gynaecologists. Andrew was present to meet colleagues he 

worked with in Iraq and to discuss future projects and possible 

funding opportunities. At the end of the evening three SCT digital 

cameras were donated to Baghdad, Tikrete and Urbil. 

For information about the charity see: 

http://www.uq.edu.au/swinfen/ 

For recent news story on SCT see: 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4025741.stm 

Lady Swinfen (centre) Lord Swinfen (back left) and Andrew Mathieson 

(back right) are pictured at the House of Lords presentation with the 

Iraqi Doctors who received digital cameras and tripods to enable them 

to access the Swinfen Telemedicine Network. 

Free service to UWE staff 

Are you looking for 

assistance at home? 

For example, tutors for 

children, gardening, 

general DIY, cleaning, baby 

sitting etc. 

In the last year UWESU Job 

Shop advertised 5,500 

opportunities for UWE 

students. 

We are always looking for 

more part-time 

opportunities. 

The Job Shop service is a free service for UWE staff 

wishing to advertise part-time jobs. 

For more information contact Alan Bennett on extension 

82674 or e-mail Alan.Bennett@uwe.ac.uk. 

QAA review of HSC 

A major review of health care programmes in the 

Faculty of Health and Social Care (HSC) will be carried 

out by a team of external reviewers this Autumn. All 

health related modules and courses delivered in the 

Faculty are involved and the review team will assess the 

quality of the learning experience provided by HSC and 

the organisations responsible for quality of placements. 

The review team will consist of a mixture of academics 

and practitioners and reflect the range of health 

professions trained in the Faculty. 

The review team assessment will be based on a wide 

range of documentation and the team will also assess 

the Faculty’s facilities and practice settings. 

Once the review is completed the Faculty will receive 

the overall judgments in relation to Academic and 

practitioners standards and Quality of learning 

resources. 

A detailed report will follow on individual professional 

programmes. Any weaknesses identified which require 

addressing, will form the basis of an Action Plan. The 

implementation of this Action Plan will be the subject 

of ongoing monitoring. 

For more information about the QAA Major Review visit 

the Faculty website www.uwe.ac.uk/hsc/qaa. 

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‘Timely’ 

Visual Culture 

symposium 

hosted by 

BSAMD 

NEWS 

The first of a new series of three 

symposia organised by the 

Department of Visual Culture 

(BSAMD) was held at the Watershed 

in January. Predicaments in Visual 

Culture: Visible and Invisible Culture 

was intended to re-invigorate the 

current debates within the field of 

Visual Culture. 

The call for papers suggested that it 

was time for some fundamental rethinking 

of the nature of Visual 

Culture and its relation, not to 

other disciplines (a subject 

extensively covered already), but to 

vision, the visible and visuality. 

Delegates clearly agreed with this 

and said that this was a very timely 

symposium. The symposium 

attracted delegates from 

universities and art schools 

throughout Britain, including Dr 

Mark Palmer (BSAMD). 

Sue Golding (who is also known as 

Johnny de Philo and Johnny 

Danger), Professor of Philosophy in 

the Visual Arts and Communications 

Technologies at the University of 

Greenwich, set the tone in her 

keynote address by presenting it in 

total darkness with a torch. 

The intention of the series is to 

draw out a volume of essays from 

each of the symposia, to be edited 

by Visual Culture staff. Given the 

quality of the first symposia these 

books promise to be an exciting 

new departure within the field of 

Visual Culture. 

A second symposium – Theorising 

Creativity – took place on 19 

February, and this will be followed 

by Mediated Pleasures in 

(Post)Feminist Contexts on 19 

March. Everyone is welcome. 

Further details from 

Gary.Peters@uwe.ac.uk 

Spanish for primary teachers 

Most primary teachers need little or no convincing of the desirability of 

introducing a language to children from an early age, but feel that they lack the 

linguistic competence to do so. Irene Wilkie has been addressing this problem with 

a group of primary teachers in Wiltshire by giving them an intensive course in 

Spanish. 12 teachers, including three headteachers, have given up three hours a 

week since September to attend language sessions. The Education department of 

the Spanish Embassy has helped with delivery and provision of classroom support 

materials. Links have been established with primary teachers in the Asturias region 

of northern Spain and there is talk of exchange visits. 

The teachers all work in schools which feed into the same secondary school, where 

Spanish is taught as a first foreign language, so hopefully this will give the 

children a real headstart and will have encouraged positive attitudes to language 

learning from an early age when they are particularly receptive. 

Primary Spanish teachers of the future 

Speech and language 

therapy expert joins UWE 

Sue Roulstone, Clinical Research Director of the Speech and Language Therapy 

Research Unit (SLTRU), Frenchay Hospital has been appointed Professor of Speech 

and Language Therapy in the Faculty of Health and Social Care. Sue is expecting to 

promote therapy research and to develop the profile of speech and language 

therapy within the University. She is delighted by the appointment and excited at 

the prospect of increasing collaborative research between the SLTRU and UWE. 

Sue is currently Chair of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. 

The research programme of SLTRU aims 

to increase understanding of the nature 

of speech, language and communication 

disorders, to establish effective ways to 

manage and treat those disorders and 

to increase understanding of their 

impact on people and society. Its current 

research projects are framed within the 

three overlapping and interlocking 

themes of development and critical 

examination of the therapy process; the 

innovative exploitation of technology to 

deliver speech and language therapy 

and service planning and evaluation 

Professor Sue Roulstone 

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New unit focuses on 

religion and spirituality 

A new Unit for the Study of Religion and Spirituality (USRS) has 

been established in the Faculty of Humanities, Languages and 

Social Sciences. 

In recent years the scholarly concern with religion and spirituality 

has enjoined a new lease of life across various disciplines. 

Religious fundamentalism of different traditions has increasingly 

made itself known through various channels ranging from global 

terrorist acts to moral campaigns in Western democracies. New 

forms of religion have also emerged including New Religious 

movements, the New Age, and a popular interest in paganism, 

magic and esotericism. 

The USRS will seek to develop theoretical grounding for the 

understanding of religious change in contemporary society and 

research through ethnographic and archival surveys. 

Those wishing to become a formal member or for more 

information please contact Stephen Hunt, School of Sociology 

e-mail: Stephen3.Hunt@uwe.ac.uk. 

ESRC launches new 

website for Social 

Sciences 

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is to 

launch a new online initiative for social sciences 

research. 

Called ESRC Society Today, the new website will offer 

academics, students and researchers unrivalled, free 

access to high quality social and economic research 

available, planned and in progress. 

As well as bringing together all ESRC-funded research, 

the website will provide a gateway to other key online 

resources from the UK such as Social Science 

Information Gateway (SOSIG), the Social Science 

Research Network (SSRN), the UK Data Archive and the 

Office of National Statistics (ONS). 

It will include early findings, full texts and original data 

sets and allow users to establish online discussion 

forums, track down researchers in their key subject 

fields or find details on ESRC funding and training 

opportunities. There will also be the facility to register 

for regular news bulletins and e-mail alerts on areas of 

interest, stay abreast of the latest research efficiently 

and effectively and access information on ESRC funding 

opportunities. 

The ESRC is the UK’s largest funding agency for research 

and postgraduate training on social and economic 

issues. 

ESRC Society Today - www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk - is 

scheduled to go live for a test period in March 2005 

before being publicly launched in April 2005, replacing 

the current www.esrc.ac.uk and www.regard.co.uk sites. 

You can register for further information by e-mailing: 

societytoday@esrc.ac.uk 

MA in New Media 

An innovative MA taught by leading academics within the 

emerging field of new media studies will examine the 

relationships between new technologies, cultural change, 

identity and media institutions. 

From Internet communities to everyday videogame play, 

from developments in digital broadcasting and filmmaking 

to theories of cyberculture, New Media is studied 

within the context of the School of Cultural Studies’ 

expertise in the study of media and culture in general, 

and our pioneering work in the study of media, culture 

and technology in particular. 

The study of cultural contexts and histories, theoretical 

frameworks and methods of research, will provide 

students with the intellectual tools with which to engage 

in a wide-ranging analysis of the roles that new media 

technologies and their practices play in the culture of 

everyday life. 

The MA New Media is subject to validation. For more 

details please contact Helen Kennedy, e-mail 

Helen.Kennedy@uwe.ac.uk for an application form please 

contact Admissions and International Recruitment 

Admissions@uwe.ac.uk. 

Aimhigher South West 

promotes health care 

professions 

The Aimhigher SW programme which works to widen 

participation in Higher Education has launched a health care 

strand. UWE is leading the developments with Regional 

Healthcare Co-ordination based in HLSS. 

A wide range of activities will take place showcasing specific 

Health Care Professions which actively need to recruit staff. The 

projects aim to raise aspirations and motivate young people and 

adults (19-30) from under-represented groups to enter 

professional healthcare training in HE. 

The Faculty of Health and Social Care is leading initiatives with 

local health care providers on Radiotherapy, Diagnostic Imaging 

and Biomedical Science. 

A conference is planned on 21 June for professionals and 

practitioners to share and develop practice. Workshops are 

planned on a range of Aimhigher 

activities and developments. 

To book a place contact 

Eleanor.Farley@uwe.ac.uk 

We are actively 

collecting information 

for the health care 

pages on the Aimhigher 

website, so if you’ve got 

something you need, 

expertise to provide or a 

resource to share log on to 

(www.uwe.ac.uk/widen) to find out more. 

For more information on the health care strand contact 

Shelley.Rider@uwe.ac.uk 

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Annual lecture 

NEWS 

The Centre for European Studies is 

hosting its 2005 Annual Lecture on 

Thursday 3 March at 19:00pm in 

Lecture Theatre 2B020. We are 

delighted to welcome as this year’s 

speaker Mr Iain Gray, Managing 

Director and General Manager of 

Airbus UK, who will be presenting the 

lecture entitled ‘Leading Across 

Boundaries: Airbus and the Challenge 

of European Co-operation’. The event 

is being co-hosted with BBS as part of 

its postgraduate Leadership seminar. 

Tea and coffee will be served at 

6.30pm, and the lecture will be 

followed by a buffet. All welcome! 

UWE hosts South 

West Regional 

Languages Centre 

CILT, the National Centre for Languages has set 

up nine regional languages centres, funded by 

the DfES, to support the implementation of the 

National Languages Strategy. These centres are 

based in the nine government regions, and 

Irene Wilkie of HLSS is the regional manager for 

Comenius South West (the regional arm of 

CILT). The role involves establishing networks of 

key stakeholders in the region from schools, FE, 

HE, and the business world, identifying needs 

and facilitating the support to implement the 

national strategy. The key areas to be tackled 

initially are primary language provision, and 

encouraging students to continue the study of 

language at KS4 and post 16. 

‘Playful Subjects: a Symposium 

on Technology, Agency and 

Computer Games’ 

The Play Research Group in the School of Cultural Studies are hosting ‘Playful 

Subjects: a Symposium on Technology, Agency and Computer Games’ on Saturday 

14 May at Spike Island (133 Cumberland Road, BS1 GUX). 

Invited speakers include: Barry Atkins (Liverpool John Moores University), Diane 

Carr and Caroline Pelletier (both Institute of Education and London Knowledge 

Lab), Jon Dovey (Department of Film and Drama, Bristol University), Seth Giddings 

and Helen Kennedy (both UWE), Graeme Kirkpatrick (University of Manchester) and 

Tanya Krzywinska (Brunel University). The artists John Paul Bichard and Maggie 

Parker will present and discuss their work. 

The symposium will address the question: Who or what is at play in computer 

games? 

Computer game play is at once an intense media experience of interaction with 

flows of images, sound and action, and a cybernetic feedback loop between 

software, hardware, bodies and brains. The common experiences of compulsion 

and immersion that characterise computer game play have yet to be adequately 

theorized. 

This symposium will address computer games, computer game play, and computer 

game players as analytically inseparable and focus on the questions this raises for 

the study of computer games. 

This event will coincide with Sideways Looks 2005, the exhibition and screening of 

BA Cultural and Media Studies new media production work at Spike Island. 

Please see http://www.playfulsubjects.org for more details and for registration, or 

e-mail Helen.Kennedy@uwe.ac.uk or Seth.Giddings@uwe.ac.uk 

Ben O’Connor (GVA Grimley) Chris Grazier (Hartnell Taylor Cook), 

Caroline Collier (Director of the Arnolfini), Stuart Clamp (BSAMD) and 

Paul Gough (Dean, BSAMD) are pictured outside Bush House after 

signing a lease agreement between the University and Arnolfini to use 

the fourth floor of Bush House. Bush House is a well known landmark 

building overlooking the floating harbour in Bristol. Hartnell Taylor 

Cook advised the Arnolfini and GVA Grimley represented UWE on all 

matters related to acquisition, surveying and planning. 

The first major event in the region was the 

launch of Languages Work, a joint initiative 

between the National Centre for Languages 

and the Regional Languages Network (the 

organisation concerned with languages for 

business). 37 language teachers and careers 

advisers from schools and FE colleges across the 

regions attended the event which was held at 

UWE in November. 

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Sprouts - the movie 

BSAMD, Sign Hear and Elmfield 

School for Deaf Children have 

collaborated to produce a unique 

animated film for Electric December, 

an online advent calendar launched 

in December. A group of children 

from the school worked with Tom 

Reynolds, a first year Media Practice 

student, (and also an ex-Media 

Foundation student in the same 

faculty), to produce a short animated film mixed with live action for the 

website, which features 23 other creative digital art productions from all 

over the South West. Tom worked alongside Mac Dunlop, a local multi 

media artist and founder of Sign Hear, who specialise in promoting the use 

of sign language on the internet. 

Together they produced a humorous but thought provoking animated film, 

which sees the young people being transformed into mobile phones and 

other appliances, with surreal results, after a meteor in the shape of a 

Brussels sprout crashes into the earth. Mobile phones were used because of 

how popular they have become in the deaf community due to the text 

messaging facility, and that is how they communicate with each other in the 

film. This has been Tom’s first time working with young people in this way. 

He said, “This has been a great experience and the young people from 

Elmfield caught on really fast and had great ideas. I’m sure they’ve taught 

me more than I’ve taught them.” 

UWE hosts Regional 

Karate Grading 

On 30 January UWE’s Shotokan Karate Club 

attended their first karate grading. The 

grading was held for the first time at the St 

Matthias Campus. It was attended by karate 

clubs from Bristol, Clevedon, Frome, Portishead 

and UWE Karate club. The instructor and 

examiner was Sensei Mervyn O’Donnell 6th 

Dan, senior instructor of the Shotokan of 

England Karate Union (SEKU). 

Melrose Browne-Morgan and Cedric Koukjian, 

from UWE Karate club, entered the grading 

and performed well. Both achieved their ninth 

Kyu, Orange belt. Congratulations to them! 

Everyone enjoyed the physically and mentally 

demanding training that emphasised 

combinations of techniques, pair work, and 

kata (set forms). All who attended are looking 

forward to the next regional grading in April. 

The short film is called Sprouts, and is behind day 23 of the Electric 

December advent calendar, which is now in its 6th year. Already the film has 

been praised by many who have seen it as an accomplished piece of work, 

and has been selected for a compilation CD-ROM of Electric December’s 

highlights over the years, to be used in schools to inspire approaches to 

digital media and as an example of best practice. 

The website can be accessed at: http://www.electricdecember.org 

Article by Shawn Sobers, Senior Lecture BSAMD and Co-ordinator of the Sprouts 

project. 

Pictured are John Shyne (UWE club instructor) left 

and Cedric Koukjian 

Call for papers 

‘Women in the Labour Market in France and the UK’ 

A one-day cross-national Conference - Friday 20 May 2005 

Organisers: Mairi Maclean and Catherine Fletcher (HLSS) 

Women In French (WIF) 

Centre for European Studies (CES), European Business Research Unit (EBRU), 

Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences (HLSS), UWE 

Papers on the following issues would be particularly welcome: 

■ Women’s identity as managers: from exclusion to 

inclusion? 

■ Women and leadership, the gendering of leadership 

roles? 

■ Women in the boardroom: women directors in France 

and the UK 

■ Gendered career paths 

■ The gendered dimensions of labour market policy 

■ Historical perspectives on women in the labour market 

■ Work-life balance 

■ Disclosure/concealment, strategies for survival 

■ Hidden impact on the labour market of unpaid, domestic 

work 

■ Women in the labour market in a particular context, eg 

politics, the health service, academia etc. 

Please send your abstract of approximately 100 words by 15 March to: Professor Mairi Maclean or Dr Catherine Fletcher, HLSS, 

Frenchay Campus. E-mail: Mairi.Maclean@uwe.ac.uk and Cath_Fletcher@blueyonder.co.uk 

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‘Don’t Walk By’ 

House Services is co-ordinating 

Health & Safety activities 

associated with the Frenchay 

Student Village, in particular 

encouraging communication 

between staff, students, project 

managers and the contractors. 

The University and Carillion, the 

main contractor, are running a 

campaign called ‘Don’t Walk By’ 

that aims to create a culture of 

awareness and responsibility by 

encouraging people to report 

hazards and near-misses. 

The campaign and reporting 

procedures specifically relate to 

the construction activity 

associated with the new student 

New Student Village - 

update 

A new website hosted by 

House Services, will carry 

regular updates of the New 

Student Village www.uwe.ac. 

uk/accommodation/student 

Village/. The site covers Health 

and Safety information, 

details about the construction 

process and the latest 

developments as well as a 

month by month photo diary 

of building progress on the 

new Sports Hall. 

village and do not replace existing Faculty and service 

procedures for reporting near misses and accidents. 

The type of hazards we are encouraging people to be aware of 

and report under ‘Don’t Walk By’ include construction vehicles 

on site, isolated building activity outside of the main site, slips 

and trips due to spillages on roads, vehicle and pedestrian 

interface. 

You can report any concerns using the on-line report form at 

http://www.uwe.ac.uk/accommodation/studentVillage/ 

reporting.shtml, via Frenchay Main Reception 1D11 or 

telephone 0117 32 82225. For less urgent items reporting 

slips are available at local receptions. 

School of English & Drama 

University of the West of England 

Guest Lecture Series 2005 

Atlantic Republic: 

The American Tradition in English Literature 

Dr Paul Giles 

Linacre College, Oxford University 

5.30pm, Tuesday 15 March 2005 

Chapel Lecture Theatre 

Books and Bullets: 

Print and Gun Culture in Early Modern 

England 

Dr Ian Gadd 

Bath Spa University College 

5.30pm, Thursday 5 May 2005 

Chapel Lecture Theatre 

Refreshments will be served 

Easter Courses 

and Short Courses 

Mime, Movement and Story Telling 

Life Drawing with Movement 

Kids Animation Workshops 

Pottery for Beginners 

Drawing Workshops for Young 

People 

Scriptwriting 

Pattern Cutting and Machine Knitting 

Photography 

Media Production 

Art and Animation Workshops for 

Young People 

20% Discount available for UWE Staff, 

Students and alumni members 

For further information and a 

full list of our courses call 0117 328 4810 

or go to www.uwe.ac.uk/amd

Personnel Update 

Personal data 

UWE have a duty under the Data Protection Act (1998) to 

check the information that we hold about our employees is 

accurate. 

Personnel Services are currently in the process of 

contacting all current staff to check that the personal data 

we have on record is correct. This work is scheduled to take 

place between January and September and you may 

already have been contacted about this. Information will 

be checked on an annual basis. 

If the information we currently hold for you is incorrect 

please amend the form and return it as soon as possible to 

Maria Badman in Personnel Services. If you have any 

questions please contact Maria on extension 83687 or on e- 

mail: Maria.Badman@uwe.ac.uk. 

Training opportunities now available 

IT Training and Staff Development run a large number of 

courses. Some of the courses coming up that may be of 

interest to you include: 

Conduct, Ill Health and Performance Procedures Workshop – 

18 March 

The workshop is intended to give managers the 

opportunity to consider the broad principles of effective 

performance management and how these procedures may 

be implemented within this context. This course is targeted 

toward those staff who have already attended the related 

briefing session. It is the last time this course is scheduled 

to run in the near future. 

Time Management – 

8 April 

This course is targeted towards all staff who would like to 

improve how they manage their time. 

Academic Appraisal – 

10/11 May 

This course aims to develop understanding of the skills and 

approach required to effectively manage the appraisal 

process. 

More information on all of the courses offered can be 

found on our website: http://info.uwe.ac.uk/personnel/ 

trainingDevelopment/ 

If you wish to book a place on any of these courses please 

contact Teresa Stephens on extension 81200 or e-mail 

Teresa2.Stephens@uwe.ac.uk. 

Pay Equality Project 

Further progress has been made on the project. Five role 

analysts have been appointed who have undergone 

training in the HERA job evaluation scheme that UWE has 

chosen. The role analysts have started a data gathering 

exercise with those staff chosen to take part in the pilot. 

You should already know if you are involved and have 

received a separate briefing paper about this. You will be 

invited to attend a preparation session prior to your 

interview, if you have not done so already. 

The PEP website can be found at: 

http://imp.uwe.ac.uk/imp_public/displayentry.asp? 

URN=1584&pid=2&return=false or by clicking on the link 

on the left hand side of the Personnel Services website 

homepage: http://info.uwe.ac.uk/personnel/. More 

information about HERA, the chosen job evaluation 

scheme and the Pay Equality Project in general can be 

found here. The site is constantly being updated so please 

check regularly for updates. 

A second newsletter will be published to give all staff 

further information about the PEP. In the meantime, if you 

have any questions about the PEP please e-mail us: 

pep@uwe.ac.uk 

IT Training Needs Survey 2005 

The university is currently planning a wide-ranging review 

of IT Training provision. The review will include an 

evaluation of the applications currently delivered, a 

discussion about which applications that might be 

introduced in the future, methods used to deliver 

applications, post-training support and improvements to 

marketing the services. 

A questionnaire will be sent to staff to complete covering 

all aspects of training services. Data resulting from the 

questionnaire will be analysed and will form the basis of 

the second part of our training needs analysis. Meetings 

will be held with an appropriate group of people from 

each Faculty /Service to discuss IT Training needs to discuss 

future developments. Faculty and Services will be visited to 

discuss the needs identified from internal discussions. 

Finally the information gathered in meetings and 

questionnaire evaluation data will be used to undertake an 

internal IT Training Needs Analysis exercise. The outcome 

of this exercise will form a more user-focused IT Training 

provision which we hope to launch by the end of 2005. 

Chris Griffiths, IT Training Manager,, Personnel Services 

ESRC Seminar Series 

The previously advertised ESRC Seminar was due to be held on 11 March in has due to unforeseen circumstances been moved to 

29 April. 

‘Lifelong Learning and Gender’ 29 April 2005, Room 3S511, Frenchay Campus 

For further details contact Faye Arlett, e-mail Faye.Arlett@uwe.ac.uk 

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The Centre for Performing Arts 

Saturday 5 March 2005 

19.00 

Edington Priory, Edington, 

Wiltshire 

UWE Chamber Choir and 

Orchestra 

Conducted by Martin Freke 

Handel 

Messiah 

Soloists: 

Rachel Bevan 

Pamela Rudge 

Damian Trafford 

Lynton Black 

Soprano 

Alto 

Tenor 

Bass 

Tickets 

£10 (unreserved seating) and ‘Quid-a-Kid’ 

(under 18 with a paying adult) 

From Centre for Performing Arts, Room 2D53, 

Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, 

Bristol BS16 1QY 

Telephone 0117 32 82067 

E-mail 

cpa@uwe.ac.uk 

www.uwe.ac.uk/cpa

News in Brief 

Heavy Pockets, a short animated film by Sarah 

Cox, has been nominated for this year’s BAFTA 

awards. Sarah, who is a filmmaker and lecturer 

in Animation, was assisted by her husband, John 

Parry (BSAMD) who helped with the animation, 

dubbing and sound track of the film which was 

made with funding from S4C. Further details of 

the nominations and Sarah’s work can be found 

at: http://www.bafta.org/film/announce.htm and 

http://www.worldofarthurcox.com/work-cur.html 

Janet Stoyel (BSAMD) has been commended 

for a patented product called Sonicloth by the 

jury for the Fourth Milka Bliznakov Prize of the 

International Archive of Women in Architecture. 

Lynn Denning (Senior Lecturer HSC) has been 

successful in her bid for money as part of the 

Skills for Health Escalator Project, as part of her 

work with the prison health care team in Avon, 

Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. Lynn will use the 

money to work with the substance misuse team 

within HMP Bristol and with Bristol Specialist 

Drug Service to pilot two nurses to undertake 

rotation work, on a sessional basis, through 

these two organisations. 

Dr Derek Braddon and Jonathan Bradley 

(HLSS) have recently attended meetings with 

ministers and officials of the Serbian government 

in Belgrade to discuss reforms in the Serbian 

economy. Following the paper they gave in 

Chicago last autumn they intend now to publish 

papers on Serbia based on their continuing 

research. Both Derek and Jonathan teach from 

time to time as Visiting Professors at ECPD, part 

of the United Nations University, in the former 

Yugoslavia. 

The Israeli government has recently announced 

new driving regulations. This decision was 

assisted by a research funded by the Israeli 

National Road Safety Authority (NRSA), and led 

by Dr Erel Avineri (FBE) who has recently 

joined the Centre for Transport and Society. The 

research, evaluating the effectiveness of the new 

regulations, was completed and submitted to 

the Israeli Ministry of Transport just before Erel 

Avineri joined UWE. 

Conferences 

Dimitrios Konstadakopulos of the Centre for 

European Studies (HLSS) was invited by the Bath 

Royal Literary and Scientific Institution to report 

on his recent fieldwork in Canada. Dimitrios 

gave a presentation entitled Regional 

Government and Environmental Policy: Atlantic 

Canada and the South West of England. 

Members of UWE’s Ethnological Research Unit 

(ERU) participated in the inaugural meeting of 

an international network for research on global 

heritages on 17 December 2004 at the University 

of Ulster’s Jordanstown campus. The meeting, 

fully funded by the Northern Ireland Centre for 

European Co-operation, was organised by 

Professor Ullrich Kockel (HLSS), who was joined 

by Iain Biggs (BSAMD) and Sarah Blowen (HLSS). 

Other participants included delegates from the 

Universities of Kaunas in Lithuania, Krakow, and 

Sassari in Sardinia, as well as the University of 

Ulster’s Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, and 

representatives of the sponsors. Discussions were 

conducted in English and Italian. In the morning, 

participants reviewed the field and assessed 

key issues. After lunch, the focus was on 

identifying an initial framework for research and 

development. The sponsors were very impressed 

with the proceedings and offered to explore 

future funding, suggesting the first weekend in 

April for a follow-up event. A summary of the 

meeting is available from the organiser 

(Ullrich.Kockel@uwe.ac.uk). 

Julie Woodley (HSC) has recently returned 

from Sydney, Australia where she attended the 

seventh World Congress of Bioethics where she 

presented a paper on the Ethics of Face 

Transplantation that she co-authored with Dr 

Richard Huxtable, from the University of Bristol’s 

Centre for Ethics in Medicine. 

On 6 February, Paul Dowdall (HLSS) gave a 

paper at the Royal Military College of Science, 

Cranfield University. The paper entitled ‘The 

Future for Defence Industrial Supply Systems’ 

was largely based on an extrapolation primary 

research UWE’s Defence Economics Research 

Unit has undertaken for the UK Department of 

Trade and Industry. 

HLSS hosted a conference on Teaching 

Languages in a Vocational Context on 19 

January. The conference, organised by Irene 

Wilkie, the Regional Manager for Comenius 

South West, was attended by 32 teachers from 

Bristol and across the South West, including 

Wiltshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, and Somerset. 

The key note speaker, Gill Beckett, talked 

primarily about vocational alternatives to the 

traditional GCSE in languages. 

Matthew Partington, (BSAMD, V&A 

Museum Research Fellow in the Applied 

Arts) delivered a paper at ‘Futureground’, the 

Design Research Society’s international 

conference at Monash University in Melbourne, 

Australia on 19 November 2004. Based on his 

research into 1950s interior design his paper was 

titled, ‘The London Coffee Bar ‘Problem’ – an 

Eclectic Design Challenge to the Universalism of 

Modernism?’ The conference papers will be 

published in book form just before Easter 2005. 

Staff in the media 

Dr Karen Bultitude (FAS) was interviewed on 

BBC Radio Bristol’s Jenny Lacey show on Friday 

14 January about the Institute of Physics packs 

she has helped to develop to promote physics 

during Einstein Year. 

Professor Martin Plant (HSC) was interviewed 

on World at One on Thursday 13 January about 

drinking habits and the proposals for all day pub 

opening. 

Professor Moira Plant (HSC) was interviewed 

on ‘Woman’s Hour’ BBC Radio on Thursday 13 

January about rising alcohol problems and 

gender. Moira was also interviewed about the 

same topic on BBC Radio 1’s ‘Newsbeat’ 

programme. 

Gill Sandford (BSAMD) was interviewed on 10 

January by Star FM about the Enterprise and 

Innovation short course. 

Keith Hicks (M&C) was interviewed with Colin 

Rooney from Carillion by BBC Radio Bristol on 19 

January about the building work commencing 

on Frenchay Campus for the New Student 

Village. 

Lisa O’Brien (BBS) was interviewed in January 

by BBC Radio Wiltshire and BBC Radio Swindon 

about Christmas trading results for WH Smith. 

Lisa was also interviewed by BBC Radio Bristol. 

Dylan Evans (CEMS) was interviewed on 19 

January by BBC Radio Four’s Today programme 

about the Canadian writer Margaret Attwood 

making virtual book signing tours. 

Jonathan Bradley (HLSS) was interviewed on 

BBC Radio Bristol news programme on 9 

February about the sale of the Bristol & West 

building in Bristol city centre. 

Publications 

Philip Woods and Glenys Woods (EDU) have 

had two companion papers published in 

successive editions of the Journal of Education 

Policy: ‘Modernizing leadership through private 

participation: a marriage of inconvenience with 

public ethos?’, vol 19, no 6, November 2004; 

and ‘At the hard edge of change: views from 

secondary head teachers on a public-private 

partnership’, vol 20, no 1, January 2005. These 

report research on private participation in public 

education and the consequences for 

understanding leadership. 

Peter Gold’s (HLSS) latest book, entitled 

Gibraltar: British or Spanish? has recently been 

published by Routledge, ISBN number 

0475347955, priced £70. 

Pam Moule and John Albarran (HSC) have 

recently edited a key textbook in the field, 

Practical Resuscitation: Recognition and 

Response, due for publication in February 2005. 

The book to be produced by Blackwell Publishers 

includes contributions from a number of Faculty 

staff and local Trust experts. 

Gillian Mowforth (HSC), Judy Harrison (HSC) 

and Marianne Morris (FAS) have had the 

following published ‘An investigation into adult 

nursing students’ experience of the relevance 

and application of behavioural sciences (biology, 

psychology and sociology) across two different 

curricula’ in the journal Nurse Education Today 

(2005) 25, 41-48. This article reports the findings 

and discusses the relevance of the sciences to 

students and their patient care and how the 

sciences underpin their view of health and 

illness. 

Ben O’Donohoe’s (HLSS) book Sartre’s Theatre: 

Acts for Life (Peter Lang AG, Bern, 2005, 301 

pages), has recently been published. 

Appointments 

N E W S I N B R I E F 

The Chancellor of the University, Dame 

Elizabeth Butler-Sloss has been promoted to 

the rank of Dame Grand Cross of the British 

Empire in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List. 

This is the highest rank of the Order and 

recognizes Dame Elizabeth’s outstanding 

achievements as President of the Family Division 

of the High Court. 

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Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 

March 2005, 19.30 

L Shed, Industrial Museum, 

Prince’s Wharf, Bristol 

Adapted by Liz Lochhead 

from the book by Bram Stoker 

Directed by Geni Hall-Kenny 

An amateur production by arrangement with 

THE ROD HALL AGENCY LIMITED 

Tickets £8 (£6 concessions) 

£5 all tickets on first night 

special offer – one ticket for Dracula 

and UWE’s Kiss Me, Kate (9-12 March) 

only £15 (£10 concessions) 




Telephone 0117 32 82067 

E-mail cpa@uwe.ac.uk 

www.uwe.ac.uk/cpa

UWEsport news 

Basketball 

Saturday 30 October saw the first of several Midnight 

Basketball events planned by UWE students Sam Mackrill, and 

Rick Hampton in the new City Academy, Bristol. UWE were 

joined at this event by Filton College Basketball Academy, 

Bristol Bombers and WEBBA to help co-ordinate the event. 

The idea of the event was to encourage youngsters from the 

area to come in off their street corners and experience the 

fun and friendships that can be had being involved in a team 

sport such as basketball and hopefully encouraging them to 

consider taking up the sport and possibly joining the Junior 

Community Club now based at City Academy. 

Over 40 youngsters from the Central Bristol region attended. 

The Bristol Bombers in fancy dress, stayed on after their 

national league fixture to join in the games. A dozen UWE 

basketball players came along to help their team-mates by 

officiating, D J-ing, coaching and some joined in the playing. 

For further details of the event and photos of some of the 

action visit the midnight basketball section of 

www.bristolbasketball.com. 

Bristol Bombers Senior Men’s team also held a very successful 

Christmas Camp at the City Academy. The camp was led by 

Steve Brocklehurst, UWE Head Coach and Danny James, 

Director of Filton College Basketball Academy. In addition to 

the camp, and with the support of Bristol City’s newly 

appointed Basketball Development officer, Dave Norrington, 

a Level 2 Coach Award Course was run and attended by 

several of the young players at the camp. 

BUSA Competition 

By the time you read this we will know if more UWE sports 

teams than ever before, have reached the knockout phase. At 

the time of writing eight teams have already qualified, two 

more than last year. To find out more about all of UWE teams 

and their BUSA league performances go to 

http://www.busa.org.uk/fl/teams forinst.asp 

Advanced Athletes Group 

Rachael Claridge, who graduated from UWE in the summer of 

2000, recently competed for Great Britain in the World 

Endurance Championships in Dubai on her Arabian horse 

Blue Chip Silver Mistrahl. The competition consists of horses 

and riders covering 160km of desert and is probably the 

toughest of all equine events. Rachael had to raise £5,000 in 

order to pay for her costs to compete in the event and was 

helped by a grant from Sports Aid South West. 

Rachael is currently working as a Personnel Officer at the 

Defence Procurement Agency, Abbey Wood. For further 

details of Endurance Riding and Rachael’s own website visit: 

http://www.endurancegb.co.uk/ and 

http://www.desertchallenge.co.uk/ 

Peter Reed, Oxford Blue and GB World Cup rower from 

Nailsworth was 31st out of 83 in the men’s time-trial, easily 

beating his top-40 target in only his second-ever sculling race. 

The 23-year-old former Deer Park pupil only took up rowing 

three years ago as a student at Bristol UWE, rocketing into 

the international reckoning this year and rowing with the 

likes of Olympic superstar Matthew Pinsent. 

And the six foot six inch powerhouse, who beat Athens 

Olympic gold medallist Ed Coode to make the GB trials 

rowing final last spring, admits that the highly technical 

single is not his forte. 

“Top 40 is a pretty good finish for me,” said Reed. “Next time 

we’ll be back in the pairs, where I’ll feel more comfortable 

and can do some real damage.” 

(Gloucester Citizen 22 December 2004) 

Peter should be rowing in the UWE Alumni Crew in the 

Annual Varsity Boat Race in the Bristol Harbourside in May 

2005. 

New UWE sports facility 

For the unfolding story of the new, long awaited sports 

facility, go to our website: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/sport/ and 

follow the link to the microsite at 

http://www.uwe.ac.uk/sport/newbuild/index.html 

++Stop Press++ 

Toby Honey, a member of the Advanced Athletes Group, has 

just improved his World Men’s Badminton ranking to 56th, 

following his reaching the quarter finals of the German Open 

Championships. Toby has just returned from playing in 

Exhibition games in Canada. 

Theatre Club Special Offers 

Angela Thorne, Brigit Forsyth and Sylvester McCoy star in Arsenic and Old Lace 

“one of the most hilarious and enduring thrillers ever written …” 

Wednesday 2 March at 7.30pm - Theatre Royal, Bath Tickets: £20 (Royal Circle) 

Welsh National Opera Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci 

Wednesday 13 April at 7.15pm - Bristol Hippodrome Tickets: £21 (Grand Circle) 

These party bookings are made by the Centre for Performing Arts in order to achieve 

considerable discount on ticket prices. They are open to all students and staff of the University 

and all members of the CPA. You may purchase any number of tickets (subject to availability) 

for any number of the listed performances. (Please add £1 booking fee to your total payment if 

you are not a CPA member.) Tickets from Vicki Jones, CPA, Room 2D53, Frenchay Campus. 

Cheques payable to UWE Bristol or tel 0117 32 82067 with card details. E-mail cpa@uwe.ac.uk 

to check availability. BOOK EARLY - we have a limited number of tickets only for each event, 

and they go very quickly! 

Staff Association Coach Club 

12 March 

Portsmouth 

(Dockyard visit as optional extra) 

£10 members, £11 non-members 

25-28 March 

Easter in Flanders 

£170 (single supplement £18) 

16 April 

Clovelly 

£14 members and non-members 

If you are interested in any of the above trips 

please contact the office, Room 2B16, Frenchay 

Campus or ext 83001 (and leave message on 

voicemail), or e-mail Coachclub@uwe.ac.uk. 

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Wednesday 9 – Saturday 12 

March 2005 

Evenings 19.30 

Saturday Matinée 14.30 

L Shed, Industrial Museum, 

Prince’s Wharf, Bristol 

Kiss Me, 

Kate 

By Cole Porter 

from the book by 

Bella and Samuel Spewak 

Producer 

Director 

Musical Director 

Choreographer 

Ruth Snary 

Alex Turasiewicz 

Ian Henderson 

Jacquie Bell 

Amateur production by arrangement with 

MusicScope and Stage Musicals Ltd of New York 

Tickets £10 (£7 concessions) 

£5 all tickets on first night 

special offer – one ticket for UWE’s 

Dracula (2-5 March) and Kiss Me, Kate 

only £15 (£10 concessions) 




Telephone 0117 32 82067 


www.uwe.ac.uk/cpa

Full information What’son...www.uwe.ac.uk 

BP Portraits 

27 February - 26 March 2005 (Mon-Sat 

10.00-17.30, Sun 14.00-17.00) 

Venue: Royal West of England Academy, 

Queen’s Road, Clifton, Bristol 

Admission free with UWE staff/student card 

Contact Dee Smart tel 0117 973 5129 

E-mail info@rwa.org.uk 

Visit http://www.rwa.org.uk 

General Grinding Principles Course 

1-3 March 2005 

Institute of Grinding Technology 

Venue: RAMP Analysis Centre, Frenchay 

Campus 

Admission £600 members; 

£800 non-members 

Contact Thomas Pearce tel 0117 32 83957 

E-mail Thomas.Pearce@uwe.ac.uk 

Multiple ways of knowing - art/images 

in action research with organisations 

1 March 2005 (10.00-16.30) 

Venue: Conference Room, Building 650, 

Bristol Business Park 

Admission £40 including lunch and 

refreshments 

Contact Hannah Weisberg 

tel 0117 32 81117 

E-mail Hannah.Weisberg@uwe.ac.uk 

Screening methods of analysis based 

on immunosensor technology for the 

detection of bacteria and toxins in 

food 


Venue: Room 1N5, Frenchay Campus 

Contact Rebecca Williams 

E-mail Rebecca6.Williams@uwe.ac.uk 

Visit http://www.uwe.ac.uk/fas/research 

On the wild side: identifications and 

dis-identifications in the research field 


Venue: Room 3B068, Frenchay Campus 

Contact Julia Long tel 0117 32 81311 

E-mail Julia.Long@uwe.ac.uk 

Visit http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss 

Mrs Robinson, a theatre director, and 

the continued rise of the commercial 

theatre producer 


Venue: Library Teaching Classroom, 

St Matthias Campus 

Contact Sarah Richards tel 0117 32 82416 

E-mail Sarah4.Richards@uwe.ac.uk 


Centre for Performing Arts - Dracula 

2-5 March 2005 (19.30) 

Venue: L-Shed, Industrial Museum, 

Princes Wharf, Bristol 

Admission Tickets £8 (£6 concessions); 

first night £5 all tickets; special offer for 

musical (9-12 March) and drama only £15 

(£10 concessions) for both events 

Contact CPA tel 0117 32 82067 


Visit http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cpa 

Arsenic and Old Lace 

2 March 2005 (19.30) 

Venue: Theatre Royal, Bath 

Admission Tickets £20 



Visit: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cpa 

‘The dialectics of community 

engagement - academics, knowledge 

generation and civil society’ 


Contact Hannah Weisber tel 0117 32 81117 

E-mail Hannah.Weisberg@uwe.ac.uk 

Big Issue Seminar - Money Talks 


Venue: The Octagon, Frenchay Campus 

Admission Free 

Contact Helen Russ tel 0117 32 82334 

E-mail chaplaincy@uwe.ac.uk 

Visit http://www.uwe.ac.uk.chaplaincy 

‘Leviathan Rising’?: The emergence 

and consolidation of ‘Big Business’ 

before 1945 


Venue: Room 9, Main Building, 


Contact Dr Kent Fedorowich 

E-mail Kent.Fedorowich@uwe.ac.uk 


Centre for Legal Research 

Annual Lecture 


Lord Justice Thomas 

Venue: Glendinning Lecture Theatre 

(Room 2D67), Frenchay Campus 

Contact Faculty Office tel 0117 32 81370 

E-mail law@uwe.ac.uk 

Judge, Jury or Tribunal - specialist or 

generalist, or what? 

Centre for European Studies 

Annual Lecture 


Iain Gray (Managing Director and General 

Manager, Airbus UK) 

Venue: Frenchay Campus, UWE 




The City Madam 


Bristol Old Vic Theatre School 

Venue: Bristol Old Vic Studio 

Admission £10/£7 concessions 

Contact Box Office tel 0117 987 7877 

Visit http://www.bristol-old-vic.co.uk 

Centre for Performing Arts - 

Handel’s Messiah 


Venue: Edington Priory, Wiltshire 

Admission Tickets £10 or ‘Quid-a-Kid’ 




Detroit: Ruin of a City 

6 March 2005 

Venue: Cinema 3, Watershed Media Centre, 

1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol 

Contact Michael Chanan 

E-mail michaelchanan@dial.pipex.com 

Visit 

http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/BristolDocs/ 

Slow cortical potential correlates of 

autobiographical memory retrieval 


Venue: Room 3D06, Frenchay Campus 

Contact Dr Christopher Bridle 

Telephone 0117 32 82193 

E-mail Christopher.Bridle@uwe.ac.uk 

Future of Data Storage 


Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) 



Contact Sarah Stewart tel 0117 32 83317 

E-mail Sarah.Stewart@uwe.ac.uk 

Centre for Performing Arts - 

UWE Big Band 


Venue: Cotham School Performing Arts 

Dance Studio, Cotham Lawn Road, Bristol 

Admission Free with retiring collection 




How can expressive writing help us 

learn and offer us new insights when 

writing PhDs and research reports? 


Venue: Conference Room, Building 650, 

Bristol Business Park, Frenchay Campus 

Admission £120 including lunch and 

refreshments 

Contact Hannah Weisberg tel 0117 32 

81117 E-mail Hannah.Weisberg@uwe.ac.uk 

Epigenetic Regulation of WT1 

Expression 






Lexical richness and teacher-ratings 

of essays 


Venue: Room 4E13a, Frenchay Campus 




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Centre for Performing Arts Musical 

2005 - Kiss Me, Kate 


Venue: L Shed, Industrial Museum, 

Princes Wharf, Bristol 

Admission Tickets £10 (£7 concessions); 

£5 all tickets first night or Saturday 

matinee; special offer for ‘Dracula’ 

(2-5 March) and musical only £15 

(£10 concessions) for both events 




‘What mean these stones?’ The South 

West’s Megaliths and the Nineteenth 

Century Imagination 




Contact Steve Poole tel 0117 32 84437 

E-mail Steve.Poole@uwe.ac.ukVisit 

http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss 

Globe Café 


Venue: The Octagon, Frenchay Campus 


Contact Helen Russ tel 0117 32 82334 

E-mail chaplaincy@uwe.ac.uk 

Visit http://www.uwe.ac.uk.chaplaincy 

Avoiding heterosexism in teaching 

and learning in psychology 



Contact Dr Christopher Bridle 

tel 0117 32 82193 

E-mail Christopher.Bridle@uwe.ac.uk 

Advanced Grinding Principles Course 

15-17 March 2005 

Institute of Grinding Technology 

Venue: RAMP Laboratory, Frenchay 

Campus 

Admission £675 for members; £900 for 

non-members 

Contact Thomas Pearce tel 0117 32 83957 

E-mail Thomas.Pearce@uwe.ac.uk 

Atlantic Republic: The American 

Tradition in English Literature 


Venue: Chapel Lecture Theatre, 


Contact Dr Scott Fraser tel 0117 32 84374 

E-mail Scott.Fraser@uwe.ac.uk 

Science Awareness Day 


Venue: Faculty of Applied Sciences, 

Frenchay Campus 

Admission Invitation only 

Contact Andrew Carter 

E-mail Andrew.Carter@uwe.ac.uk 

Visit http://www.the-ba.net/theba/Events/ 

NationalScienceWeek/NationalScienceWeek 

2005 

Slave Masters and the Language of 

Self: Issues of Authenticity and 

Identity in the Eighteenth Century 

Atlantic Slave Trade 


Venue: Library Teaching Classroom, 





Counselling Programmes 

Open Evening 


Venue: Faculty of Applied Sciences, 

Frenchay Campus 

Contact Andrew Carter tel 0117 32 82304 

E-mail Andrew.Carter@uwe.ac.uk 

Visit http://www.uwe.ac.uk/fas 

Football Varsity 


(Gates open 17.00; kick-off 17.30) 

UWE Students’ Union 

Venue: Bristol City Football Club, 

Ashton Gate 

Admission Tickets £5.00 

Contact UWESU tel 0117 32 82577 

E-mail student.activities@uwe.ac.uk 

Visit http://www.uwesu.net 

The Vendeens and the Volunteers of 

the West: Heroes of the Catholic Right 




Contact Dr Kent Fedorowich 

E-mail Kent.Fedorowich@uwe.ac.uk 


Changing Roles, Changing Boundaries: 

Historical Perspectives on Health and 

Welfare 


Venue: Glenside Campus 

Admission Conference £10 including lunch 

and refreshments 

Contact Caroline Lapthorn 

tel 0117 32 88441 

E-mail Caroline.Lapthorn@uwe.ac.uk 

Visit http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hsc 

Undergraduate Open Day 


Venue: All Campuses 

Contact Admissions and International 

Recruitment tel 0117 32 83333 

E-mail Open@uwe.ac.uk 

Visit http://www.uwe.ac.uk/aboutUWE/ 

openday 

Technology for the Future - Renishaw 


West of England Aerospace Forum (WEAF) 



Contact Sarah Stewart tel 0117 32 83317 

E-mail Sarah.Stewart@uwe.ac.uk 

Visit http://www.weaf.co.uk 

The Life Sciences, Bio-Security and 

Dual-Use Research 






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