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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. 19
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