November 2010 - University of the West of England

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27 November 2010 - Issue 99 

£7.5 million won by UWE

In this 

month’s issue 

NEWS 

2 Chancellor awarded 

honorary degree 

4 £7.5million won by 

UWE to create growth 

in South West 

7 UWE graduate named 

Radiotherapy Student 

of the Year 

8 UWE in Bristol-Kenya 

partnership 

11 Meet the Employers 

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UWE iNets team pictured from left 

to right – Terry Winnington, David 

Brennand, David Lennard, Enda Hayes, 

Richard Luxton, Paul Gough and 

Janice Kiely. 

At the Bristol Law School Awards 

Ceremony at Bristol Cathedral on 

Friday 26 November, the University 

awarded the honorary degree 

of Doctor of the University to the 

Chancellor, The Rt Hon the Baroness 

Butler-Sloss GBE PC in recognition 

of her significant contribution to the 

University and society through her 

national and international work. 

Lady Butler-Sloss will stand down as 

Chancellor of the University this year. 

Professor Steve West, Vice-Chancellor, said, 

“Lady Butler-Sloss has been an outstanding 

Chancellor, seeing the University develop 

over the past 17 years. Her guidance, 

support and clarity of thought have provided 

direction and leadership to three Vice- 

Chancellors over that time. As Chancellor 

she has represented and promoted UWE 

nationally and internationally. She is a 

fantastic ambassador and I have personally 

valued her support and guidance. As a 

University we have been incredibly fortunate 

to have had her as our Chancellor. 

“Lady Butler-Sloss, as the ceremonial 

figurehead of UWE, has been our shining 

beacon. Although she has signalled her 

desire to retire during this academic year 

she will continue to support and represent 

us having graciously accepted our invitation 

to become our Chancellor Emeritus. I am 

sure the entire University will be delighted 

by this and would want to wish her a long, 

happy and healthy retirement. Thank you 

for everything you have done but most 

importantly thank you for being you - a 

fantastic Chancellor and a truly remarkable 

lady. ” 

William Evans, former Solicitor to the 

University and Assistant to the Vice- 

Chancellor, gave this heartfelt oration 

at the Degree ceremony. 

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, 

Vice-Chancellor, that a higher education 

institution in possession of university status 

must be in want of a Chancellor. So in 1992 

this University put an ad in the personal 

columns: 

“New university, solvent, ambitious, regular 

income, WLTM interesting person (m/f) with 

view to chancellorship. Unlimited patience 

and GSOH an advantage. 

“It would be an exaggeration to say that 

the eyes of the world were upon us, or 

that the nation held its breath for the 

announcement. Reputable newspapers and 

journals did not sift through our dustbins or 

hack into our telephone system, nor was any 

interest shown by Hello! or The Times Higher 

Educational Supplement. 

“But within the University there was 

debate, and even thought. Postmodernists 

contended that the issue was not who 

should be Chancellor, but what message 

would the appointment send to the outside 

world. Should we appoint a local politician 

No: that would alienate half of Bristol. 

A national politician No: that would 

alienate everybody. A captain of industry, 

the chairman of a bank or an oil company, 

perhaps No, and with hindsight, just as 

well. A celebrity Perhaps, but what if the 

celeb were to get bad publicity that might 

damage the reputation of the University 

And someone who ticked all the boxes on 

the government’s clipboard might have little 

else to be said for them. 

“When the appointment of Dame Elizabeth 

Butler-Sloss, as she then was, was announced, 

the choice was acclaimed as inspired. She 

personified much of what this University is 

about. For a start she was a woman, at a 

time when most university chancellors were 

men and most senior posts in universities 

were occupied by men, yet more than half 

of our students were women. Secondly, she 

had overcome prejudice to rise to the top of 

a male-dominated profession. She was a law 

student at a time when one of her lecturers 

could refer to her as one of ‘the monstrous 

regiment of women’, and be congratulated 

on his wit and knowledge of John Knox, and 

still keep his job. 

“Thirdly, she had excelled in her profession, 

qualifying as a barrister, then progressing to 

registrar of the Family Division, then judge 

of the High Court, then judge of the Court of 

Appeal, then President of the Family Division 

of the High Court. Here was someone with 

whom our students could identify, could 

even perhaps see as a role model. And as 

she was a lawyer, and one who commanded 

universal academic and professional respect, 

this University’s Faculty of Law, as it then 

was, was cheering her all the way. 

“If we thought in 1993 that we had made 

the right choice, events have proved that 

correct. Baroness Butler-Sloss has been a 

superb Chancellor, and it is primarily for 

what she has done for this University as 

Chancellor that we honour her today. She 

has acted as our Chancellor to the utmost 

whilst at the same time respecting the 

constitutional position of the Chancellor 

under the articles of government of the 

University: unlike everybody else in the 

University, she has not tried to tell the Vice- 

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The Chancellor, The Rt Hon the Baroness Butler-Sloss GBE PC 

awarded honorary degree 

The Chancellor pictured with Professor Paul 

Gough (left) and Professor Steve West at the 

opening of the new studio at Bower Ashton 

Campus in February 2008 

Chancellor or the Chairman of the board 

of Governors how to run the show. She 

has shown intense interest and concern 

for the University and our students, 

far beyond the call of duty. She has 

visited us, she has found out about us 

and what we do, and she has talked to 

students, parents, staff and governors. 

That has enabled her, rather like an 

affectionate but wise and independentminded 

aunt, to advise the University on 

a number of parenting issues. Outside 

the University she has represented us 

among the higher reaches of what 

for want of a kinder word we call the 

establishment. She has undertaken 

the ceremonial role with patience and 

dignity, including scores of degree 

ceremonies like this, tolerating with 

superhuman patience and politeness 

that most recycled of all commodities, 

the Vice-Chancellor’s speech. She 

has undertaken innumerable visits 

abroad to help extend the University’s 

hand to potential and past overseas 

students, and to facilitate academic 

and professional contacts that would 

otherwise have been beyond the 

University’s reach. And all this she has 

done with a generosity and a humanity 

that has endeared her to us all. And 

with a lightness of touch: Her Majesty’s 

Judges, especially of the higher sort, 

are caricatured as stiff, stern, formal, 

forbidding, with a sense of humour 

detectable only by advanced science 

beneath permafrost penetrable 

only by advanced technology. This 

Chancellor, however, has always had a 

twinkle in her eye, and a lively sense 

of the amusing and the ridiculous. Our 

Chancellor is fun. 

“It is for her unstinting service, 

generously given, that the University 

wishes to honour our Chancellor 

today. If it were my decision alone, 

I would also want the University to 

pay public tribute to the enormous 

contribution Lady Butler-Sloss has made 

to the application and development 

of the family law of England and 

Wales, especially as regards the care 

of children and their safeguarding; 

as regards the contact that children 

should have with their divorced and not 

always co-operative parents, not least 

in an international context where the 

practical difficulties are enormous; and 

in the development of the law about 

those life and death issues on which 

public opinion, let alone parliament, 

is still feeling its way. In that wider 

context Lady Butler-Sloss’s enormous 

achievement has been recognised by no 

less than 16 other universities conferring 

upon her their honorary degrees. But 

it is for her unstinting efforts on behalf 

of this University, all of us, that we wish 

to thank and honour her today, and it 

is for that reason, Vice-Chancellor, that 

we ask you to bestow on Lady Butler- 

Sloss the award, not of Doctor of Laws, 

but of Doctor of the University; and 

to make her the first person to receive 

that award, which is for those who have 

made a significant contribution to the 

University through their national and 

international work. And as she intends 

soon to stand down as Chancellor of the 

University, we ask also that you invite 

her, when that time comes, to have 

bestowed on her the title of Chancellor 

Emeritus. 

“Vice-Chancellor, in recognition of her 

outstanding service to this University 

as Chancellor, and of her outstanding 

contribution to the University and 

society through her national and 

international work, I present to you 

the Right Honourable Baroness Butler- 

Sloss, Dame Grand Cross of the most 

Excellent Order of the British Empire, 

one of Her Majesty’s Privy Counsellors, 

and Chancellor of this University from 

1993, for the award of Doctor of the 

University, honoris causa.” 

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NEWS 

UWE iNets team pictured from left to right - Terry Winington, Janice Kiely, Enda Hayes and Richard Luxton 

£7.5 million won by UWE to create growth in SW 

The University will lead three out of five iNets granted to 

the South West region. An inward investment of £13 million 

including European Regional Development Funds (ERDF) will 

create opportunities for businesses and researchers in the 

South West to develop networks to support job creation and 

product development. The iNets will run for three years from 

2010 – 2013. 

iNets are innovation networks that bring together academic 

researchers with regional industry, businesses and public 

sector organisations to spark innovation and create spin outs, 

start ups, knowledge transfer partnerships and collaborative 

projects that share a common aim to bring about economic 

growth in the South West region. iNets are part of a wider 

government support for business called Solutions for Business. 

UWE will lead the iNets in Biomedicine (led by Professor 

Richard Luxton), Microelectronics (led by Dr Janice Kiely) 

and the Environment (led by Professor Jim Longhurst). There 

are also iNets in Advanced Engineering and Aerospace that 

will be lead by the West of England Aerospace Forum, and 

the Creative Industries sector that will be led by South West 

Screen. UWE is also involved in the Advanced Engineering and 

Aerospace iNet. 

Nigel Howells, Head of Competitiveness for the European 

programme said, “ERDF is supporting the roll-out of the 

innovative iNet programme to encourage and help develop 

businesses across the region. The aim of the project is to 

promote knowledge transfer and business start-up between 

the University and businesses, making the South West prosper 

from a combination of ideas and skills.” 

Professor Richard Luxton from UWE’s Institute of BioSensing 

Technology who developed and is leading the Bio-medical 

iNet, said, “UWE is delighted to have been selected as 

custodian of this exciting opportunity to develop a range 

of networks. It is important to stress that the £7.5 million 

managed by UWE will be distributed to support iNets – the 

University will lead the development of the networks and 

funding will enable the networks to realise a range of 

ambitions. The iNets will help small businesses and universities 

to develop products and services by linking together industry 

experts, universities, business incubation centres and 

knowledge transfer partnerships. The funding will enable 

a more joined up approach as groups and partners come 

together. 

“In the South West we have a wealth of industrial 

organisations and specialist service providers, a diverse range 

of public sector research establishments and six Higher 

Education Institutes with a Biomedical focus, 31 National 

Health Service Trusts and 32 Primary Health Care Trusts. That 

is a lot of people and organisations who can be brought 

together to develop areas of mutual interest to further 

projects and create jobs in the region. The output resulting 

from the innovation networks will also, we believe, help to 

establish projects that have national and international impact. 

“The key ambitions relating to the Biomedical iNet are to 

accelerate the rate at which innovation is identified for 

commercialisation, to translate innovation from research to 

the commercial sector and to internationalise commercialised 

innovation.” 

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The Microelectronics iNet developed by Dr Janice Kiely aims to strengthen the 

region’s performance with respect to innovation, both nationally and internationally, 

by supporting over 400 companies across the South West in Microelectronics, 

Photonics and Digital Communications subsectors; the associated system integrators 

and the upstream and downstream supply chain. Key themes for activities will include 

medical technology, low power, intelligent transport systems and ‘smart energy’. 

David Brennand (left) and David Lennard 

South West iNet 

geographical area 

The South West region that the 

iNets will cover includes Devon, 

Dorset, Somerset, the West of 

England, Gloucestershire and 

Wiltshire. 

Solutions for Business 

Solutions for Business (SfB) is a 

suite of targeted, publicly-funded 

products and services offering 

solutions to real business 

needs and tackling market 

failure. It includes: starting 

up, understanding finance, 

developing people, environment 

and efficiency, exploiting ideas, 

international sales and marketing 

and growing your business. 

By targeting public money at 

real business needs, it helps 

businesses create sustainable 

success. 

The European Regional 

Development Fund (ERDF) 

The European Regional 

Development Fund South 

West Competitiveness and 

Employment Programme 

2007-2013 is a programme of 

investment from the European 

Union set to increase the 

prosperity of the region through 

supporting enterprise and 

individuals to develop ideas 

and plans which contribute 

to increased productivity and 

competitiveness. The total 

amount of investment across 

the seven year programme is 

£108,751,309. 

The iNet coordinating team will work with existing networks and organisations to 

assist UWE and other HEIs in the region to maximise their economic contribution from 

research/ development activities. It is a significant opportunity for UWE academics 

to collaborate with regional companies in particular to pump prime research and 

development projects. Outputs will include new research/development collaborations, 

new patents, new jobs and new spin out companies. The Microelectronics iNet will be 

the key integrator across the complete iNet project as microelectronics is a common 

element across all the iNet sectors. 

In the South West, the Low Carbon Environmental Goods and Services sector is worth 

£8bn per year and employs approximately 75,000 people. The South West region was 

designated the first Low Carbon Economic Area and accounts for 68 per cent of the 

UK sector. 

The Environmental Technologies iNet aims to assist environmental goods and 

services businesses to innovate their products and services faster, improve their 

competitiveness and market awareness, and engage with a range of routes to 

market. The project will target high growth potential environmental technology 

and services SMEs and provide them each with a customised programme of business 

assistance focussing on the areas of renewable energy, waste management, 

sustainable transport and sustainable construction. The iNet will create a focal point 

for the sector, directly supporting businesses, facilitating the linkages between 

ideas, technology, expertise and commercialisation, and improving international 

connectivity. 

The Environmental iNet is led by Professor Jim Longhurst. David Brennand and 

David Lennard in UWE’s Research, Business and Innovation team, who secured the 

Environemntal iNet in partnership with consortium members, have also developed 

and implemented an important cross iNet support structure to ensure the smooth 

delivery of all iNets managed by UWE. 

Professor Paul Gough, Deputy Vice-Chancellor stresses that it is a fantastic coup for 

UWE to be granted leadership for three of the five regional iNets, “The opportunity 

to lead not just one but three strands of this mammoth project was hard fought and 

we believe that we won because UWE has demonstrated a firm and well established 

commitment to innovation and partnership working. It is at the heart of all that we 

do and many of the partners who will be drawn into the iNets have well established 

links with UWE that are fruitful and long standing. But it is important to stress that 

we will be reaching out to establish new relationships – the whole purpose of the 

iNets is to present opportunities that connect organisations with a common ambition 

to create regional growth through product and service development.” 

Professor Steve West, UWE Vice Chancellor concludes, “This bid is one of the 

biggest that UWE has won and puts the University firmly on the regional map as an 

organisation recognised as being good at galvanising energy through partnership 

working. We will strive to ensure that the trust placed in us by ERDF will be rewarded 

by a blossoming of ideas, products, services and businesses that serve the region well 

and inspire growth through synergy and innovation.” 

A special event to mark the launch of the iNets will be held at UWE in 2011. 

The Biomedical iNet consortium includes UWE’s Institute of BioSensing Technology; 

NHSISW BUI / NBT Health Protection Agency at Porton Down; DiagnOx; University of 

Exeter; Campden BRI; HTMKTN; CIKTN; GWEBW 

The Microelectronic iNet consortium comprises UWE’s Institute of Bio-Sensing 

Technology, the University of Bristol, STMicroelectronics, National Microelectronics 

Institute and the Electronic, Sensors and Photonics KTN. 

The Environmental iNet consortium includes UWE, University of Bristol, University of 

Exeter, Bristol City Council and Regen SW. 

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NEWS 

New Assistant VC for teaching, 

learning and the student experience 

at UWE 

Professor Julie McLeod 

fessor Julie McLeod has 

been appointed the new 

Assistant Vice-Chancellor, for 

teaching, learning and the 

student experience. 

Professor McLeod said, 

“I am really delighted 

at taking up this post; 

these are new and 

challenging times for 

higher education and 

I think UWE is wellplaced 

to thrive in the 

post-Browne climate. 

I bring to the post a 

strong commitment to put 

the student voice and experience at the 

heart of our vision and practice.” 

Raised in a services family – her father was a pilot in the RAF – Julie’s 

education was undertaken on a three yearly move across the globe 

from Kuwait to USA. She completed her secondary education in 

Germany and following her degree at UCL she started a career as 

a Medical Laboratory Scientific Officer within the Royal College of 

Surgeons. It was here that her research interest blossomed and she 

gained further qualifications, through day release, towards taking up 

a PhD post investigating the immune-pharmacology of cardiovascular 

disease in London. 

Her postdoctoral research, at Bath University, examining multiple 

sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis provided a springboard to being 

appointed an SL in Immunology within UWE, Bristol in 1998. In this 

post she encompassed both academic programme development and 

the strengthening of her independent research through international 

funding – focusing on in vitro models of immune ageing and 

sensitisation. The latter research underpins the EU strategy for 

replacement of in vivo animal testing. 

She was promoted to Reader, Head of School and then Associate 

Dean Academic where she has had a keen interest in ensuring that 

the student experience evidence-base, through student surveys 

and student representation, is central to academic monitoring and 

evaluation. 

Amongst her most successful projects as Associate Dean she counts 

realigning work-based learning as a key University practice with a 

new University policy and regulatory changes to best recognise the 

academic challenge and learning undertaken within work placement 

scenarios which supports the employability of UWE graduates. She has 

also supported the development of new programmes in Health Care 

Science thus ensuring a programme portfolio which recognises the 

partnership of UWE with NHS stakeholders. 

Professor Paul Gough (DVC Academic) says, “I am really pleased at 

Julie's appointment; we had a strong field in this essential aspect 

of UWE’s work. Julie will bring to the team of AVCs - Professors 

Ron Ritchie and Martin Boddy - a similar depth of expertise and 

commitment which will be of real benefit to all our students, 

stakeholders and partnerships.” 

People walking on Lara Favaretto's Without earth 

under foot, on the Marine Lake Causeway at the 

launch of the Wonders of Weston on Friday 29 

October. 

Lara Favaretto, Without earth under foot, 2010. 

Commissioned as part of Wonders of Weston in 

Weston-super-Mare. Photo: Max McClure 

Memorable 

public artworks launched 

in Weston-super-Mare 

Wonders of Weston, a permanent programme 

of remarkable and memorable public artworks, 

was launched in Weston-super-Mare at the end 

of October. It is part of the national Sea Change 

initiative which seeks to support the revitalisation 

of English seaside towns. 

Avoiding the kiss-me-quick cliché of the British 

seaside, commissioned artists Ruth Claxton, Tim 

Etchells, Lara Favaretto, Tania Kovats in association 

with landscape architects Grant Associates, 

raumlaborberlin and Wrights & Sites were drawn 

to overlooked aspects of Weston-super-Mare – 

from a derelict 1930s model boating pond to 

the childhood hangouts of John Cleese. Whilst 

a number of the works take advantage of the 

expansive beach and the views out across Weston 

Bay, building upon the state of contemplation 

induced by big skies and wide open spaces, others 

encourage the visitor to turn back towards the 

town to consider its peculiarities, hidden wonders 

and infectious humour. The new artworks include 

sculptures that transform viewing points out to 

sea, a kaleidoscopic mobile pavilion and a nighttime 

luminescent phenomenon at the Marine 

Causeway. For further information visit the project 

website www.wondersofweston.org 

‘Situations’, a public art commissioning and 

research programme based at UWE conceived 

and produced Wonders of Weston in association 

with Field Art Projects, an art consultancy that 

operates in the public realm. Wonders of Weston 

is managed by North Somerset Council and funded 

by the Commission for Architecture and the Built 

Environment on behalf of the Department of 

Culture, Media and Sport. For more information 

about Situations see: www.situations.org.uk 

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Dawn Bowers 

UWE graduate named Radiotherapy Student of the Year 

A UWE graduate has won the 

Radiotherapy Student of the Year 

award. The award was presented by the 

Society and College of Radiographers to 

Dawn Bowers at a special ceremony at 

the House of Commons on 11 November 

2010. This proved a busy day for Dawn 

as she graduated on the same day with 

a first class honours degree. She had 

a job lined up as early as last May and 

is now working at the John Radcliffe 

Hospital in Oxford. 

Dawn is delighted to win, she said, 

“I’m thrilled to win this prize – it’s been 

quite a challenge to combine training 

whilst caring for my three teenage 

children but the family have been great 

and absolutely backed my decision to 

retrain. The course has been fantastic. I 

can’t praise the lecturers at UWE highly 

enough – support whilst on placement 

was superb. 

“I trained late, I am now 44, as I decided 

to leave school before taking A-levels 

but after attending a careers convention 

years ago the seed of an idea was 

sown. I’d always thought that working 

as a Therapeutic Radiographer would 

be rewarding but the opportunity 

to retrain didn’t present itself until 

recently. The training at UWE is very 

thorough – I had the chance to go on 

three work placements. On the job 

training is very important in this line of 

work and feedback from my placements 

has helped me to develop practitioner 

skills enormously.” 

Dawn was unanimously nominated by 

the Therapeutic Radiography teaching 

team at UWE who noted her willingness 

to go the extra mile even though she 

had a busy family life away from the 

University. As a student ambassador 

she helped to promote therapeutic 

radiography as a profession and was 

interviewed by local radio on one 

occasion. 

Jan Chianese, Therapeutic Radiography 

lecturer, said, “Clinically, Dawn has 

gained experience of working in three 

departments in the Southwest which 

has been no mean feat when trying to 

juggle family and other commitments.” 

This has been rewarded with excellent 

feedback from clinical educators and an 

exemplary portfolio of clinical evidence. 

One clinical practice educator described 

her thus -“Dawn was a fantastic 

student who engaged in all aspects of 

therapeutic radiography treatment. She 

was an excellent member of the team 

and was always willing to help out and 

stay late when required. She will be an 

excellent radiographer of the future. 

“As part of her final pre-qualifying 

placement she also imparted a huge 

amount of support and enthusiasm for 

the profession to the level one students 

undergoing their first clinical placement. 

These students went out of their way 

to make academic staff aware of their 

extremely positive experience, which 

we believe reflects Dawn’s drive and 

enthusiasm throughout her training. 

Dawn has accepted a band 5 position 

in Oxford and she will truly be an asset 

not only to the department but to the 

profession as a whole. 

“The radiography team at UWE 

wholeheartedly recommended Dawn 

for Student Radiographer of the Year 

in recognition for her hard work, 

dedication and commitment to the 

profession and promotion of therapeutic 

radiography. She has been an inspiration 

to her peers, clinical colleagues and the 

academic team and we feel sure that 

she will make a big difference in the 

field of cancer care and radiotherapy. 

We are all delighted that she has gained 

this recognition - the award has gone to 

someone who really deserves it.” 

Professor Steve West, Vice-Chancellor, 

said, “We are thrilled for Dawn – 

obviously this is a prize that is well 

deserved. I also feel that this reflects 

positively on the quality of teaching by 

staff in the Radiotherapy team. This is 

the second time that UWE has produced 

a Radiotherapist of the Year. Well done 

to everyone.” 

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NEWS 

Pictured from left to right, Professor Wilsn Lang'at (Secretary of Sports), 

James Waweru (Permanent Secretary Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sport) 

, Steve West, Dr Paul Otuoma , Dr Kip Keino, Bob Reeves, Gordon Oluoch 

(Commissioner of Sports) and Alex Isaac. 

UWE in Bristol-Kenya partnership 

UWE will be accommodating the 

Kenyan Olympic Team during the 2012 

Olympic Games in London, as well as 

providing training facilities for the team. 

A delegation from Kenya including 

members of the current Kenyan Olympic 

team, the Kenyan Ministries of Sport 

and Education and the Kenyan Olympic 

committee visited UWE on 1 November 

to finalise the plan for the team. 

An agreement has been signed by Dr 

Kip (Kipchoge) Keino, the Chairman of 

the Kenyan National Olympic Committee 

(NOCK), and the Lord Mayor of Bristol, 

confirming a Partnership between 

the Republic of Kenya and the City of 

Bristol. 

Partnership activities have been agreed 

including educational, sporting and 

cultural collaboration, leading up to the 

2012 Olympic Games in London, when 

the Kenyan team will use Bristol as a 

Pre-Games Training Camp. 

Leading up to the London 2012 games, 

and as a legacy after the games, there 

will be a range of activities linking 

Bristol and Kenya. The aims of the 

partnership include: 

• Engaging with Bristol schools in 

partnership with institutions in 

Kenya, as well as looking for similar 

arrangements in Further and Higher 

Education. 

• Twinning of Bristol and Kenyan 

schools 

• Supporting sports development 

activities in various sports 

• Assisting Kenyan teams in their 

efforts to qualify for the Olympic 

Games 

• Supporting sporting and educational 

exchanges; developing links in 

Further and Higher Education. 

• Establishing a cultural programme 

• Exploring commercial and business 

opportunities 

Kim Chang, Sports Business Fellow (RBI) 

said, “UWE is delighted to announce 

that the Kenyan Olympic Team will be 

using Frenchay Campus as their central 

base while training within Bristol. 

We will be working closely with the 

Bristol-Kenya Partnership to ensure we 

build business, community, sporting 

and cultural legacies to benefit both 

nations.” 

UWE will accommodate the Kenyan 

Olympic Team as well as provide other 

sporting activities for the team. Filton 

College will be the main sporting facility 

used, particularly for athletics, and other 

facilities that may be used will be at the 

University of Bristol. 

Vice-Chancellor Steve West said, “It is a 

great honour to welcome the Kenyan 

Olympic Team and this reflects the 

world-class accommodation and sports 

facilities we have here at UWE.” 

The key partners in the Bristol Kenya 

Partnership are Bristol City Council, 

University of Bristol, Filton College, UWE, 

National Olympic Committee of Kenya, 

Kenyan Ministry of Sport and Youth 

Affairs, Kenyan Ministry of Education, 

British Council, British High Commission 

and Bristol-Kenya Association. 

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Four in 

the bar 

UWE student named Intern 

of the Year by Microsoft 

UWE’s Four in the 

Bar make TV debut 

A talented student barbershop 

group Four in the Bar featured on 

BBC 1’s Inside Out West programme 

earlier this month. 

The group provided the light 

entertainment on one of Inside Out 

West’s 10 minute stories that will 

look into how easy it is to set up as 

a hairdresser. 

Quartet founder Alex Nodes 

explains, “The Inside Out West 

programme researcher found us 

on YouTube whilst trawling for a 

local barbershop quartet. We were 

subsequently booked and spent a 

day filming in Clifton and Bristol 

City Centre. It was a great day out 

and has given us the opportunity 

for wider exposure and we hope 

more bookings.” 

Four in the Bar is made up of Alex 

Nodes (lead vocal), Jake Wheeler 

(tenor), Alex Hawker (baritone) and 

Will Sands (bass) who all study at 

UWE and who met through various 

activities organised through the 

University’s Centre for Performing 

Arts, including the UWE Big Band. 

The music that Four in the Bar 

performs is mainly inspired by the 

gramophone favourites of olden 

days but also includes arrangements 

of jazz and popular songs. 

Alex Nodes continues, “We spent 

many hours trying to decide on a 

name and finally came up with one 

that represented our interest in 

music and the pub. We have had 

bookings to sing at formal dinners, 

bars and pubs and also made charity 

appearances. We recently took 

part in the National Barbershop 

Competition and Britain’s Got Talent 

but we really only did this for fun 

so when we were discovered by the 

BBC researcher it was a fantastic 

surprise. 

“For the programme we recorded 

several old hits of yesteryear 

including Goodnight Sweetheart, 

Coney Island Baby and a humorous 

rewording of Lollipop.” 

For more information go to 

www.fourinthebar.com 

Rebecca Williams, a BA(Hons) Business Studies 

student, has been chosen by Microsoft as 

Intern of the Year for her contribution to the 

company during her placement year. 

Rebecca was shortlisted from 68 placement 

students at the company and chosen from 

a final list of 14 by the team at Microsoft. 

She worked as a Customer and Partner Sales 

Representative at Microsoft’s Thames Valley 

Park, Reading office. 

Microsoft has an awards ceremony for 

interns every year, to recognise the great 

work that they do and to celebrate 

their successes. These awards are a great 

opportunity to acknowledge the innovation 

and contribution that this talent brings 

to Microsoft every year. Emma Knights, 

Head of Talent Acquisition for Microsoft 

goes on to say, “These talented individuals 

bring a unique perspective and make an 

exceptional contribution to our business; 

it’s really exciting to see. Rebecca is a great 

example of this and we look forward to 

hearing about her future successes.” 

Microsoft has a 48 week internship, summer internship (technical), a graduate 

programme and a MBA programme. These programmes are carefully designed to 

provide real world experience, with high levels of responsibility, and to help the 

company attract and retain the best talent. 

Rebecca was initially put forward for the award by her manager Alan Coe, Partner 

Account Manager. He said, “Rebecca has been a true asset to the Partner Team. She 

has been instrumental in driving the success of several programmes in the UK which 

would not have been possible without Rebecca’s drive and determination to make 

them a success.” 

Speaking about her placement experience Rebecca said, “During my Internship I 

had the pleasure of working alongside a wonderful group of people and within an 

amazing organization. Winning this award just helped top off what was already 

a brilliant year. When my name was announced I was surprised, speechless, proud 

and of course delighted to be recognised for all my hard work. Hopefully the 

experiences and skills I've developed this year along with my award will help me 

secure that perfect Grad role in the near future.” 

Dorothy James, (Business and Law Placement Centre Manager), said, “We are 

delighted with Rebecca’s success at Microsoft. She made a real impact on the 

organisation including high level lead generation, event management and 

contributed to the organisation of the company’s intern Christmas and summer 

parties. Rebecca embraced the opportunity to use the theory she had studied and 

apply it in a practical environment at Microsoft. She also enhanced key graduate 

level working competencies including communication, time management and 

organisational ability. 

“Rebecca’s success highlights the high level of impact that students undertaking 

placement years have and how their contribution adds real value to the future 

direction of organisations. With the graduate marketplace becoming increasingly 

competitive and students having to offer more and more to employers to be 

successful, undertaking a placement year continues to be an excellent way to 

demonstrate the key skills organisations seek.” 

Rebecca received her award at the Faculty of Business and Law’s fourth annual 

Celebrating Placement Success event, held at UWE’s Frenchay Campus where several 

other students also received prizes based on their achievements from placement. 

Over 100 returning placement students attended the event which also welcomed 

representatives from industry including Airbus, Intel and Fujitsu-Siemens. During 

the evening the Placements Centre recognised the achievement of Bristol Business 

School students. 

Rebecca Williams 

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NEWS 

Stills from the films 

UWE filmmakers celebrate Doc/Fest success 

Two Media Practice graduates had 

their short films shortlisted for the 

Sheffield Student Doc Award at 

Europe's biggest documentary film 

festival, the Sheffield International 

Documentary Festival (3 – 7 

November). 

Documentary directors Juris Kudeiko 

and Andrew Whitehouse who 

completed their studies this summer 

produced the films as part of their 

final year coursework. They join 

a growing list of Media Practice 

graduates who have found success in 

this competition in recent years. 

Alistair Oldham, Senior Lecturer in 

Media Practice at UWE, who teaches 

the documentary strand, said, “It's 

great news that students from the 

Media Practice course at UWE have 

had their films selected for the 

Sheffield International Documentary 

Festival. I'm obviously really pleased 

for the students concerned. That 

makes six UWE documentaries in three 

years for selection at Sheffield, which 

certainly puts us in the top league of 

student documentary film making in 

this country. I think besides us only 

the National Film School could claim 

to have that kind of success rate. ” 

Juris Kudeiko used his home country 

of Latvia as the inspiration for his 

film, Don’t Give Up Your Guns. This 

dark documentary is an examination 

of the difficulties faced by Latvian 

immigrants in Severn Beach, Bristol 

through the example of a patriotic 

young man. 

Juris explains, “The film is my response 

to what is going on back in Latvia, 

what young people such as Armand, 

my friend and the main character in 

the film are forced to do and how 

much it takes to live in a totally new 

environment away from home. Also 

I have always been shocked with the 

way that some British individuals see 

Eastern European migrant workers 

here in England, so throughout the 

film I wanted to reflect that these 

people aren't coming here to steal the 

jobs but to survive. 

“I’m honoured to be nominated and 

take part in such a great festival. But 

the main idea for me is to get the 

message across and for the film to be 

seen by people. I’m really pleased that 

the film will be broadcast on national 

Latvian television and am also 

applying to other film festivals.” 

Andrew Whitehouse and Adalean 

Coade directed Shooting Blind. 

Describing the film, Andrew said, 

“It’s an inspiring documentary about 

blind football and the individuals who 

represent the national team. 2010 was 

a big year for England, as they were 

hosting the Blind Football World Cup 

for the first time. The film follows 

the team through their training, 

revealing the dynamics of the game 

and the individuals who make up the 

current squad, and ends with their 

last friendly before the tournament - 

England vs Germany. 

“Adalean (Co-Director and Producer) 

and I wanted to highlight and 

discover how people with disabilities 

can achieve through their passion 

and determination. When we got 

in contact with The Royal National 

College for the Blind, they told us 

about the England team and about 

the idea of blind football. We knew 

then that this was an important and 

poignant story to tell, as disability 

sports are not highlighted often in the 

mainstream media, especially in 2010 

with the football world cup in South 

Africa coinciding with the Blind World 

Cup in Hereford. 

“We’re very proud of our 

achievements and wish to keep 

showing people how amazing these 

players are as genuine role models 

and ambassadors to sport. Addy 

and I put a lot into this project to 

develop our abilities, as well as those 

who worked alongside us to make it 

happen, and this nomination gives 

all of us reassurance going into the 

industry about what the degree has 

taught us.” 

Shooting Blind has already been 

shown at the Jersey Film Festival this 

year, and will be part of the digital 

catalogue at the Encounters film 

festival in Bristol later this month. 

www.shooting-blind.co.uk 

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Meet the Employers 

Meet the Employers Fair 2010 

UWE Careers annual Meet the Employers Fair held this year in the Exhibition and Conference Centre 

at UWE saw almost 4,000 students through its doors on Thursday 14 October 2010. 138 exhibitors took 

part in the fair which is nearly a 40 per cent increase from the 2009 event, making it one of the largest 

graduate fairs in the UK. 

Support from businesses for the event 

demonstrates that the graduate 

job market is more buoyant than 

some people realise and also more 

varied. The fair had widespread 

representation ranging from the 

larger traditional corporate graduate 

recruiters, to smaller local businesses, 

particularly related to the media 

industry in Bristol, self employment, 

and not for profit sector. UWE Careers 

tried to create a more balanced 

view of the market this year with 

the addition of new ‘zones’ focusing 

on small businesses and creative 

industries. There was also the return 

of the Volunteering zone, and industry 

specialists such as KPMG and Avon and 

Somerset Probation Service running 

presentations and workshops. A large 

number of UWE services were also 

represented including placement 

teams, the Ideas Factory and 

postgraduate study. 

The fair is just one of many initiatives 

supported by the University to help 

its students make the most of their 

graduate potential. All students 

were encouraged to attend, not just 

final years, as they are keen to make 

students aware as early as possible 

during their time at UWE of the 

value of work experience gained 

through placements, internships, and 

volunteering. 

There was a good representation 

of students from a wide range of 

Faculties and all undergraduate levels, 

postgraduate students and graduates, 

with opportunities for all attendees to 

network, find out about opportunities, 

gain information, broaden career 

horizons and get answers to questions. 

The feedback from employers was very 

positive about UWE students and they 

were particularly impressed with the 

range of students they saw. Many said 

the students were very enthusiastic 

and listened to what the company 

had to say, and that students had a 

good attitude. Employers stressed that 

they were looking for a broad range 

of students from different degree 

disciplines. 

“I thought that the Careers Fair was 

incredibly well run. As a company it 

was of real value to us in terms of 

future employees and we look forward 

to more.” – Felicity White, The 

Co-operative Legal Services. 

“We had a great experience at the 

fair.” – Sarah Stribling, Rightmove. 

co.uk 

UWE Careers are in the process of 

gathering further feedback from the 

students and employers that attended 

the event in order to keep building on 

the success of this year’s fair. 

Fair organisers Sarah Bambridge (red 

sash) and Maggie Westgarth, Head of 

Careers (far left, red sash) with the 

event sponsors. 

“We had a 

great experience 

at the fair.” 

Sarah Stribling, 

Rightmove.co.uk 

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NEWS 

Second Life helps students 

prepare for Spanish placements 

Students at UWE can now use the Second Life platform 

to prepare them for placements in Spain, thanks to an 

innovative project by Mari-Carmen Gil and Susana Romans- 

Roca (both ELC). The project supports second-year students by 

facilitating the transition to their year abroad. By engaging in 

this immersive learning experience, students have found they 

not only improve their language skills, they also expand their 

real-life based skills, and increase their cultural awareness and 

general knowledge about the community where they will live 

and study for a year. 

Mari-Carmen said, “The materials we have developed will 

help students predict the effects of possible culture shock 

that they may feel on living abroad for an extended period 

of time. They can ‘visit’ virtual towns in Spain similar to those 

they are going to live in, such as Gijon in northern Spain, via 

Second Life cityscapes. Students can visit virtual art galleries in 

Gijon, see the main monuments and explore the city centre. 

They can ride in a hot air balloon, visit the Roman baths, 

listen to music or go swimming.” 

Susana continued, “Every year students go to a wide range 

of different places. 2D resources don’t give students the 

experience of a field-trip – this is a ‘real’ virtual experience. 

The interface is in Spanish and they can use chatboxes which 

helps their writing skills as well. Students have reported that 

being able to communicate by writing is less inhibiting than 

speech. 

“They also get to hear different Spanish accents. One student 

in particular had exposure to different Latin American accents 

and could distinguish the differences.” 

The Spanish Second Life activities are carried out in UWE’s 

Multimedia Lab and students are guided and supported by 

their tutors. The original funding for the project came from 

the Centre for Excellence in Multimedia Language Learning 

at the University of Ulster and Mari-Carmen and Susana have 

just won a further award under UWE’s Early Careers Research 

grants scheme to assess the potential of 3D virtual worlds for 

distance learning. 

Mari-Carmen’s and Susana’s Second Life avatars Maika Giordano, 

and Paradox Batista 

Gulgun Kayim gives a reading of material related to her Stories 

from the DMZ, helped by Iain Biggs, Talya Chalef and Laurie 

Beth Clark. 

Mapping spectral traces 

Dr Iain Biggs and Dr Victoria Walters (both A&D) 

attended an international, interdisciplinary event at 

Virginia Tech, USA, on behalf of UWE’s PLaCE Research 

Centre. Mapping Spectral Traces is a symposium and 

exhibition series that considers how difficult pasts can be 

researched, documented, represented, and animated in 

responsible and ethical ways. 

Iain gave the keynote paper, Deep Mapping and Spectral 

Traces – A Partial View. Together with two other members 

of the LAND2 network, Iain also exhibited both a series 

of his artist’s book works and a new piece of time-based 

work, entitled Uplands (dreams, memories, spectral traces 

– towards a case history). Victoria presented a paper on 

Josephs Beuys’ work in relation to spectral traces in the 

workshop session Mapping Spectral Traces as a Practice 

of Care. In addition to attending workshops and field 

visits both Iain and Victoria contributed to student 

appreciation of the symposium’s topics by teaching into 

classes, and to the interface with civic planning through 

contributing to a debate with local planners concerning 

the introduction of an ‘art district’ to Roanoke. 

Iain commented, “This was an important and valuable 

international gathering for PLaCE to be involved in, 

strengthening existing links and building new ones which 

we hope to develop in the new year.” 

Both PLaCE and LAND2 ( http://www.land2.uwe.ac.uk/ 

- a national network of artist/academics part funded by 

PLaCE) sponsored and were involved in this event. 

A full colour catalogue, which includes short essays by 

symposium organiser Professor Karen E Till and Iain Biggs, 

was produced in conjunction with the exhibitions. A 

copy of the catalogue can be found in the Bower Ashton 

Library. For more information on the PLaCE Research 

Centre visit www.placeresearch.co.uk/ 

For more information on the Mapping Spectral Traces 

symposium and exhibitions visit http://www.research.spia. 

vt.edu/events/spectral-traces/ 

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Students find out how planning can prevent crime 

Students find out how to prevent crime through design 

One hundred final-year architecture and 

planning students took part in a daylong 

workshop, jointly run by UWE and 

the police, on the role that a locality or 

environment can play in reducing crime. 

The workshop was organised by Mike 

Devereux, Senior Lecturer, (PA) and 

Adam Sheppard, Senior Lecturer (PA), 

together with Nick Hughes, Crime 

Prevention Design Adviser with Avon 

and Somerset Constabulary, helped by 

six police officers. It was part of the 

Planning and Managing Development 

module taken by all Master of Planning 

and the BA(Hons) Architecture and 

Planning students. 

Mike said, “Traditionally the police 

have concentrated on the offender 

and victim but this has now widened 

to an understanding of the role that 

the locality and environment play in 

preventing crime. The message of the 

day was that it is important to get 

design right at the planning stage of a 

proposal, rather than having to retrofit a 

scheme at great expense once a problem 

has become embedded in a community.” 

The day included presentations from 

the police on designing housing 

layouts to avoid making it easy for 

those with criminal intentions, good 

practice in school design, and what 

to consider when designing large 

scale infrastructure and town centre 

developments such as Cabot's Circus to 

mitigate the possibilities of terrorism. 

There were also in-depth workshops 

in which groups of students led by 

police officers worked on different 

case studies to identify and design-out 

problem situations. These concentrated 

on concepts such as providing natural 

surveillance, safe access, secure car 

parking, permeability and defensible 

space. Permeability means how easy 

or hard it is to walk or drive through 

an area – for example, too much 

permeability in a housing estate makes 

it easier for criminals to penetrate and 

get away. Defensible space is space 

that is naturally observed by people 

going about their daily business. If a 

reception area in a school is designed 

to overlook the main access way into 

the school or the playground, this helps 

prevent people being able to do things 

unobserved and is off-putting to the 

criminal. 

Mike added, “The workshop took place 

in UWE’s new Planning, Architecture and 

Design studios (R block) which is proving 

an excellent facility for bringing in and 

working with outside professionals. 

“It gave students an excellent example 

of how they will be working in practice 

once they graduate. The experience will 

be very valuable to employers and as an 

addition to a student's CV. It was a very 

good example of how different agencies 

and professions come together to create 

better places for everyone. Students 

will also follow this up in project work 

for the rest of the year as they design 

a scheme for a town-centre site in the 

middle of Salisbury, taking these lessons 

on board. 

“Organising this themed day was part of 

our continuing drive to reflect practice 

in our professionally accredited planning 

and architecture courses. It is one of a 

series of day long sessions students will 

be undertaking throughout the year. We 

will now be repeating the experience 

– probably holding the next one in 

February 2011- and building up our 

relationship with the Police and working 

on new initiatives to make safer places.” 

For more information contact 

Mike.Devereux@uwe.ac.uk 

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Moth trapping during BioBlitz 

NEWS 

Staff and students hold 

BioBlitz on UWE campus 

A day-long BioBlitz was held for the first time 

on UWE’s Frenchay campus on 20 October. The 

event was organised by third year Conservation 

Biology student Matt Harcourt along with Dave 

Molesworth (HLS), Mark Webster (Estates), 

Darren Reynolds (HLS) and Fiona Matthews 

(RBI). A core team of student volunteers also 

took part - Alex Blackman, Chris Wing, Charlie 

Harris, Jason Wotherspoon and Carole Burnett. 

BioBlitz aims to find out how many species 

can be identified and recorded within a given 

timescale. With the help of student volunteers, 

outside naturalists and UWE academics, 196 

species were recorded between 10:00 and 

20:30. 

Fiona said, “We also took some of the samples 

over to the nursery for the kids to look at. My 

son Ben was very interested, especially in the 

snails.” 

Matt said, “Over the last couple of years I’ve 

volunteered at a few BioBlitz events and in the 

process greatly increased my wildlife knowledge 

and met some very engaging naturalists. Earlier 

this year the opportunity arose to host a BioBlitz 

at UWE which I thought would be a great way 

to inspire fellow students and for them to 

gain hands on experience from experts and by 

developing id skills and survey techniques. 

“By the nature of the event it’s aimed at science 

related courses although encouragingly students 

from other Faculties attended. It was also good 

socially as participants got a chance to meet 

other students, often on the same course but in 

a different year, who since I’ve noticed chatting 

in corridors. 

“Since the BioBlitz we’ve had many positive 

comments from students, staff and naturalists 

and many keen to have a similar event next 

year, although with an emphasis on warmer 

weather!” 

2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity 

and initiatives like BioBlitz are an excellent way 

of inspiring the next generation of recorders 

and naturalists. All the species found during the 

course of a BioBlitz are identified by experts 

and recorded on local and national monitoring 

schemes. 

Students Matt Harcourt, Tom Carey, Jon White and worm expert 

Fred Miller looking for worms in the field by the Farmhouse 

Young naturalist from the UWE nursery looking at a great pond 

snail and a ramshorn snail 

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What links mountain bike armour, super heroes and Trufflehogs 

Advanced manufacturing techniques 

to pioneer a mountain biking armour 

product, a photographic super hero 

who can be summoned by clients to 

save their valuable jumbled historical 

family photos, and a children’s 

picturebook publishing company called 

Trufflehog were among ideas from 

regional entrepreneurs shortlisted for a 

prestigious business prize. 

Eight universities and colleges based 

in the South West competed for 

prizes worth £15,000 at the second 

Universities South West Enterprise 

Awards (USWEA) Winners of Winners 

business plan competition held on 16 

November. 

The institutions taking part in the 

competition are the Universities 

of Bath, Bath Spa, Bristol, Exeter, 

Gloucestershire, Plymouth, the Royal 

Agricultural College and UWE. 

Organiser Iwona Tempowski (RBI) 

said, “The range of business ideas 

was hugely varied and included social 

enterprises with social and international 

dimensions that neatly helped us to 

celebrate Global Entrepreneurship 

Week (15-21 November). 

“The prize fund was split between two 

categories – students and staff /alumni. 

Successful finalists with high growth 

potential who continue to be based in 

the South West will also be offered free 

mentoring support from GWE Business 

West.” 

Robin Bower, Business Relations 

Manager for Universities South West, 

said, “This competition demonstrates 

how far the South West Universities 

have come in encouraging and 

supporting their staff and students 

to be more entrepreneurial. The 

Knowledge Escalator programme has 

helped to embed enterprise in the very 

fabric of the partner Universities and 

provides vital early stage funding and 

advice for prospective entrepreneurs to 

get started.” 

UWE’s entry for the student award was 

Paul Blakemore, with his photographic 

archiving service, Photoboy, that 

digitally remasters historic family 

photographs. 

The competition, which is part of 

the Knowledge Escalator South 

West programme and managed by 

Universities South West, has been 

supported by over £2.3 million of 

European Regional Development 

Funding investment through the South 

West RDA and aims to encourage 

collaboration and enterprise between 

universities and business in the region. 

Winners are announced on the 

Universities SW Enterprise 2010 

Awards website - www.uwe.ac.uk/ 

enterpriseawardssw 

UWE Graduate Phenomenology workshop 

15 October, St Matthias Campus 

The workshop provided 

a forum for MA and PhD 

students to present their 

research, an opportunity to 

improve their presentation 

skills, and receive feedback 

on their work in a supportive 

environment. Approximately 

40 people attended, 

including UWE students and 

staff, students from other 

universities, representatives 

from University of Bristol 

Philosophy Society, and 

members of the public. 

The event was sponsored 

by the Royal Institute of 

Philosophy, with the support 

of the Department of History, 

Philosophy and Politics at 

UWE. 

The keynote speaker was 

Dr Darian Meacham from 

the Catholic University 

Leuven, Belgium. His paper 

What Goes Without Saying: 

Husserl’s problem of ‘Style’, 

explored how the largely 

ignored ideas of style and 

institution are in fact central 

to Husserl’s conception of 

personhood, and was warmly 

received. 

The first session was kicked 

off by Arlette Frederik, a PhD 

student from the University 

of Durham, with her paper 

Existential Feelings and the 

Phenomenology of Laughter. 

It was an attempt to explore 

a more cheery emotion 

than usually analysed by 

phenomenology and drew 

on the ideas of Ratcliffe and 

Heidegger. The next paper 

was presented by Bartek 

Chomanski (University of 

Sheffield), entitled The 

Influence of First-Person 

Access to Experiences on the 

Unity of Consciousness. It 

aimed to develop an account 

of how first-person access 

to experiences transforms 

the structure of phenomenal 

consciousness, and sparked 

lively debate. 

In the next session Charlotte 

Alderwick (UWE) spoke on 

Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology 

as Philosophy of Nature. 

She pursued the idea that 

Merleau-Ponty’s neutral 

monism, in his concept of the 

‘flesh’, should be equated 

to nature. Zach Evans’ 

(UWE) paper The Unscalable 

Precipice: Merleau-Ponty 

and Situational Freedom, 

in which he criticised both 

Merleau-Ponty’s and Sartre’s 

accounts of freedom, led to 

an interesting debate. 

After lunch Yannig Luthra, a 

PhD student from UCLA, gave 

his paper on Non-Rational 

Capacities in Skilful Human 

Action which explored the 

recent debate between 

McDowell and Dreyfus on 

the role of reason in skilful 

human action and argued 

that skilful action always has 

a rational element. Finally, 

Emma Geen (UWE) explored 

how phenomenological ideas 

can be applied to disability in 

her paper Troubled Dasein - A 

Phenomenological Account 

of Disability. She argued 

that contemporary models 

within disability studies 

lack a phenomenological 

dimension and proposed a 

phenomenological approach 

to disability. 

This event, organised by 

Emma Geen and Havi Carel 

(Philosophy) will now become 

an annual event, showcasing 

the work of UWE Philosophy 

graduates and MA students, 

attracting applicants for the 

MA European Philosophy and 

welcoming the new cohort of 

MA students. 

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NEWS 

Ghanaian urban public transport 

professionals visit UWE 

Fourteen professionals engaged in delivering and managing urban public transport 

in Ghana visited the Centre for Transport and Society, Department of Planning and 

Architecture on 29 September 2010. 

Dr Matt Read at the Rural Policy Conference 

2010 Rural Policy 

Conference 

Rural policy makers, stakeholders and 

researchers from across England, Wales 

and Scotland gathered in Cheltenham 

in October for the 2010 Rural Policy 

Conference to debate the likely 

consequences of challenges including 

climate change, demographic trends, 

future use of land, and threats to 

global resources. Organised by Dr Matt 

Read (CCRI) the event was structured 

into four themed discussions focusing 

on the diversity of influences and 

factors that are currently challenging 

rural areas. These were Communities in 

Transition, Food Security, Technology 

and Science, and Uses of Land. 

To download the presentations visit the 

conference web page at http://www. 

ccri.ac.uk/Events/policyconference2010/ 

PolicyConference2010.htm 

BLOODHOUND SCC (pictured on the 

Strand) hit the streets of London during 

October. The full-size replica of the 

car was on display to the public for 

two weeks at Coutts & Co to celebrate 

cutting edge research, development 

and the best of British engineering. 

The visitors were taking part in a two-week training programme in the UK run 

by the consultants Integrated Transport Planning. A major investment in public 

transport is underway in Ghana worth £60 million, co-financed by the World 

Bank, the Global Environmental Facility Trust Fund, the Agence Française de 

Développement and the Government of Ghana. The course was intended to 

increase the skills capacity of the Ghanaian transport planning sector. In addition 

to a programme of lectures and workshops, the participants made a number of site 

visits, including to public transport operators in Birmingham and Nottingham. The 

last of these visits, and the only one to an academic institution, was to spend a day 

debating transport and society issues at UWE. 

Presentations were provided on topics, including Cities which have Bucked the 

Trend for Car Dependence (Dr Steve Melia), Whether Sustainable Urban Form 

results in Sustainable Travel Behaviour (Dr Yusak Susilo), Experiences in monitoring 

the Cycling City and Towns programme (Dr Kiron Chatterjee), Bus Rapid Transit in 

Ahmedabad (Mr Rutul Joshi) and the Civitas Renaissance project trialling sustainable 

mobility measures in Bath (Professor Graham Parkhurst). Head of Department Janet 

Askew and FET Associate Dean (International and External Partnerships) Dr John 

Lanham joined the event for lunch, providing an official welcome. 

CTS lecturers involved with the MSc Transport Planning programme were delighted 

to discover a former Master’s student, Mr Solomon Osei, was amongst the group. 

Mr Osei, who completed his MSc in 2006, had not discovered he would have 

the chance to visit UWE until the day before the visit, and was clearly pleasantly 

surprised to be back. He was impressed by the new extension to R Block and 

particularly asked to be remembered to FET Postgraduate Student Adviser Carol 

Meghji. 

All the visitors engaged enthusiastically with the event, which emerged as a 

model of knowledge exchange. The visitors asked insightful questions about the 

presentations, whilst informing the UWE team about the situation in Ghana, and 

the relevance they found in our academic research for the urban context back 

home. 

The event closed with a traditional Ghanaian ‘thank you’ and a group photograph 

on the steps – we are very grateful for the passing student who kindly volunteered 

his services as photographer, only to find ten cameras thrust into his hands! 

Group photo on steps to new R Block extension 

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Meet the leaders of 

industry at UWE 

Sir Mike Rake 

BT Group plc and easyJet plc Chairman, Sir Mike 

Rake; CBI President, Helen Alexander and Lord 

Burns, Chairman of Abbey National plc are just 

some of the 25 influential business leaders who 

have spoken at UWE’s 'Meet the Leaders of 

Industry' Distinguished Executive Address Series. 

Organised and hosted by Bristol Business School, 

the Distinguished Executive Address Series invites 

leaders from key UK businesses and organisations 

to talk to students, staff and the wider business 

community about the challenges, issues and 

decisions being made at the highest level of 

strategic leadership. There is also a Q&A session 

and an opportunity for networking. 

Now in its third year, this event runs from 

October to June on Frenchay Campus and 

continues to attract a sell-out audience. This 

year’s speakers have included Will King, CEO, 

King of Shaves who spoke on The Power of 

Social Media, Ian Cheshire, CEO, Kingfisher plc 

who gave a talk on Leadership through Teams 

and Lady Susan Rice, Managing Director, Lloyds 

TSB Scotland, who shared her thoughts on 

Reconnecting Banking and Values - the most 

important relationship in banking. 

Series organiser, Professor Nicholas O'Regan says, 

“We are delighted by the calibre of this year's 

speakers. The series is an excellent opportunity 

for members of the business community in 

Bristol, as well as our own students, alumni and 

staff to hear directly from important figures in 

industry with a wealth of strategic experience 

and leadership skills at the highest level.” 

All talks start at 18.00 and conclude at 20.30. 

Future speakers include: 

Martin McCourt, CEO, Dyson Ltd, 

Monday 29 November 2010 - Against the Odds 

Robert Walker, Group Chief Executive, 

Travis Perkins plc, Wednesday 9 March 2011 

Sir David Nicholson, Chief Executive, 

NHS in England, Thursday 24 March 2011 

Sam Laidlaw, Chief Executive, 

Centrica plc, Tuesday 24 May 2011 

The Distinguished Executive Address Series is 

free to attend and open to UWE students, staff, 

alumni and members of the business community. 

To register visit: www.uwe.ac.uk/dea 

Photo superhero brings historic 

family archives up to date 

UWE student Paul Blakemore is in line for a Universities South West 

enterprise award for his photographic archiving service that digitally 

remasters family historical photographs. He represented UWE at the 

USW enterprise award final held on 16 November in Plymouth. 

Paul’s business is called Photoboy and he lives the part, wearing period 

clothing as his character takes on the mantle of the photographer’s 

assistant. He launched the business with his character set in the 

Victorian era when posed family photographs taken in studios were 

the latest thing. 

He says, “Photoboy is a photographic super hero who can be 

summoned by clients to save their valuable jumbled historical family 

photos. With his mobile digital scanning equipment and postal service 

he will help clients organise their family pictures into a digital format 

that can be shared with their extended family for evermore. 

“I am studying photographic history as part of my MA by Project 

course at UWE. I have been able to incorporate the Photoboy 

business, which inspires and enables family groups to discover and 

record their photographic heritage, with my studies.” 

Paul has been developing his ideas in both a commercial and social 

context, while teaching and giving demonstrations and workshops 

within institutions based on ideas of memory. He was recently invited 

by St Paul’s Community Centre to set up his stand at the Central 

Library, Bristol, during Open Doors day. 

Paul’s idea has already proved a success, as he was runner-up in the 

creative category of UWE’s theBizIdea competition last May. He has 

benefited from the support of his MA project tutors Rachael Miles and 

Alex Franklin, from Ricardo Demarchi and Kim Jones (both RBI) to help 

develop his creative focus and business plan, from Tim Lloyd-Yeates at 

Alive Activities, Dagmar Smeed at SS Great Britain and Dave Jarman 

for his guidance during the Spark competition in September. 

Mentor Kim Jones said, “Paul has taken a great idea that emerged 

from his studies and previous work experience to create a challenging 

and exciting creative business. The social and historical value of 

photographic images is now a prominent and recognised art form. 

Photoboy is a great way of sharing and disseminating images amongst 

family, friends and the wider audiences interested in social history.” 

Eight Universities and Colleges based in the South West competed for 

prizes worth £15,000 at the second Universities South West Enterprise 

Awards Winners of Winners business plan competition. To find out the 

results visit http://www.universitiessouthwest.ac.uk/ 

The institutions taking part in the competition are the Universities 

of Bath, Bath Spa, Bristol, 

Exeter, Gloucestershire, 

Plymouth, the Royal 

Agricultural College and the 

University of the West of 

England (UWE). 

The competition, which 

is part of the Knowledge 

Escalator South West (KESW) 

programme and managed 

by Universities South West, 

has been supported by over 

£2.3 million of European 

Regional Development 

Funding investment 

through the South West 

RDA and aims to encourage 

collaboration and enterprise 

between universities and 

business in the region. 

Paul Blakemore in character 

as Photoboy 

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NEWS 

UWE’s Elite 

Athletes triumph 

Jessica Davies 

Luke Dunbar 

Elite Cyclist Athlete, Luke Dunbar took home the 

silver medal for the second consecutive year at the 

recent British University Hill Climb Championships in 

Derbyshire. 

In a tense race to the finish line, Luke was knocked 

from gold place by a mere two second margin, 

finishing second out of 134 cyclists, ahead of 

Henry King from Leeds University, in an impressive 

performance. 

The annual one mile race took place at Curbar Gap 

in the Peak District providing a spectacular backdrop 

for the spectators, but a 1:7 climb for the riders. 

Luke, a Criminology and Politics student said, “Like 

any competitive athlete I was disappointed to 

miss out on the win by a small margin at the time. 

However on reflection, I am proud I have managed 

to repay UWE for their support with a silver medal 

two years running.” 

Sports performance manager Richard Bennett added, 

“This is a great achievement for Luke – he improved 

his time from last year by three seconds, so we can’t 

ask for more than that.” 

Luke Dunbar 

Jessica Davies 

The University has made waves in high performance sport 

with 19 year old student, Jessica Davies recently returning 

from the Commonwealth fencing championships in 

Australia with a bronze medal. 

Welsh-born Jessica was competing in the Women’s Sabre 

Individual for Wales and combined with Marc Burkhalter 

in Men’s Individual Epée team to give Wales a fifth place 

finish in the overall medal table. 

The second year Criminology student said, “It was an 

amazing experience and I don't think I could have 

achieved the result without the support from my fellow 

team mates”. Jessica commented that she competed 

in the championships four years ago when it was held 

in Belfast, but only achieved a last 32 result. Thanks 

to support from UWE’s high performance team her 

performances have improved rapidly during her first two 

years at UWE. 

Sports performance manager Richard Bennett added, 

“When Jess arrived at UWE she was a very quiet and shy 

athlete with limited experience of training, but thanks 

to the expertise of Steve Lock and his conditioning team, 

along with the rest of our support staff we have really 

built on Jess’ natural ability and pushed her performances 

forward.” 

Next up for Jessica are the Madrid U20 international; 

Welsh Open and Poland U20 International. 

Jessica will aim to better her Commonwealth bronze 

performance when she represents UWE at the British 

Universities Fencing Championship taking place at the 

University of Gloucestershire at the end of November. The 

event brings together the very best young fencers from 

across the UK and Jessica will be joined by fellow UWE 

fencers Nathaniel Lewis and Warren Shillingford 

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Induction and Initial Screening required at a price of £15, Terms and conditions apply. 

Visit the Centre for Sport now to book your initial consultation 

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Telephone 0117 32 86 200 

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Website www.uwe.ac.uk/sport 

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NEWS 

Sort It stand at the Sustainability Fair, Frenchay Campus 

Bioblitz: reviewing the biodiversity on campus 

Sustainability week at UWE 

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to and attended events throughout Sustainability Week. The various 

events running throughout the week were well attended, from the Sustainability Fair and R block tours to a day 

of Bioblitzing the campus. Local and seasonal food was served at catering outlets and various events were run 

on Bower Ashton Campus from film screenings to clothes swaps. St.Matthias and Glenside held Sustainability 

Quizzes in their SU bars and a Ulink user survey was conducted at the main bus stop. 

There was information up on main screens, the web and e-mails, as well as displays in the Library, Blackwells, 

the Enterprise zone and the Student Union shop, posters in the cafeterias and around campuses. We had 

5,500 hits on the SU events listing, 460 on the website and 360 on the environment page, and verbal feedback 

that people have been aware that the week is going on. 

Battle of the Buildings 

During Sustainability Week UWE 

Facilities held a ‘battle of the buildings’ 

in a campaign to raise awareness about 

energy costs and to encourage staff to 

be proactive and conserve energy. 

The building with the biggest reduction 

was Felixstowe Court saving 14.8 per 

cent, the following were the top five: 

2. Emerson’s Green (Printing and 

Stationary) - 6.9 per cent 

3. Building 435 (Wallscourt House) - 6.3 

per cent 

4. D Block Frenchay - 5.6 per cent 

5. J Block Frenchay - 4.3 per cent 

If these buildings saved the same 

amount of energy every week for a year, 

this would be enough energy to make 

1,480,000 cups of tea and would save a 

total 36,972kg of CO2! 

Two big issues to come out of the week 

for ongoing action are: 

1. Identifying people who are usually 

last in the office and encouraging 

them to switch off equipment and 

lights when they leave. 

2. Switching off computer screens 

throughout the day when you take a 

break from PC work. 

Waste Sort 

Last year UWE recycled 42 per cent of its 

waste, yet in the bin sort it was found 

that 35 per cent of waste in bins could 

have been recycled at UWE. Plastic 

bottles and paper made up 29 per cent 

of the weight of the bin; these are items 

that are easily recycled at UWE. Paper 

can be recycled for free, but when it 

goes in the general waste we have to 

pay for it to go to landfill. The cost of 

not recycling this paper, if this data was 

replicated across UWE is around £1,000 a 

month, which we are literally throwing 

away. 

We are looking to learn from this year’s 

sustainability week so any feedback you 

have please just drop us an e-mail or call. 

Thanks very much again for your support. 

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Focus on: 

Sustainability Success for BBS 

The BBS Sustainability Group has 

worked hard over the past two years 

to reduce wasteful use of resources in 

an effort to help UWE become one of 

the greenest Universities. BBS has made 

many significant changes some of which 

have been listed below: 

More water coolers are fed from the 

mains rather than depending on the 

distribution of cumbersome big blue 

bottles. BBS has increased the number 

of recycling bins around the Business 

School.BBS recycles as much as possible 

of its old furniture within UWE. All new 

upholstery is from recycled material. 

The lights in BBS teaching rooms 

operate automatically when the room is 

occupied. 

As a sign of their success, Felixstowe 

Court won the Battle of the Buildings 

during Sustainability week (October 

18 to 22) by achieving a reduction in 

energy consumption of some 15 per 

cent compared with the previous week. 

This was the largest reduction of any 

of the buildings monitored across UWE. 

http://www.uwe.ac.uk/estates/energy/ 

botb.shtml 

Another important development has 

been the promotion of sustainability 

within the BBS curriculum. An 

increasing number of modules deal with 

sustainable development as a central 

issue in business. Within these modules 

tutors are encouraged to use Turning 

Point technology to obtain immediate 

statistics about student attitudes and 

actions towards sustainability issues. 

To cut down on foreign and domestic 

travel the faculty has developed 

video conferencing resources. A new 

Tandberg Video Conferencing Unit is 

now available and is being used for 

meetings, interviews and real time 

seminars to students in Malaysia. 

The group will shortly be expanding to 

include colleagues from Law and this 

is a good opportunity for everybody 

interested to make suggestions and 

get involved. To get involved and 

help BBS continue to lead the way in 

sustainability in UWE please contact any 

of the group members. Elena Blanco, 

Charles Booth, Noel Burchell, Svetlana 

Cicmil, Emma Coyle, Christian Dadomo, 

Matt David, Andrew Mearman, 

Anthony Plumridge, Benjamin Pontin, 

Jona Razzaque. Further information (for 

FBL staff) is on the SharePoint site. 

UWE in line for Times Higher 

Education awards 

Two UWE projects, a community 

Olympics legacy project and a learning 

simulations initiative, have been 

shortlisted for prestigious Times Higher 

Education awards. 

The RELAYS (Regional Educational 

Legacy for Art and Youth Sport) project, 

which aims to inspire and upskill young 

people ahead of the London 2010 

Olympic Games, was shortlisted for the 

Outstanding Contribution to the Local 

Community Award in the Times Higher 

Education Supplement Awards 2010. 

RELAYS business fellow 

Kim Chang 

UWE is working in collaboration with 10 

other universities and cultural partners, 

led by Universities South West, to help 

run and support a variety of festivals, 

events and activities designed to inspire 

and engage young people across the 

south west of England leading up to the 2012 Games and beyond. 

Past RELAYS successes in which UWE has been instrumental include: 

• Five London 2012 business and HE engagement events in the West of 

England attended by 450 delegates from the private, public and third 

sectors 

• Local businesses helped to investigate ways in which they can benefit 

from opportunities presented by 2012 

• Business Fellows based at the University of Exeter and UWE 

supporting businesses in making the most of these opportunities and 

PhD students exploring ways in which sport and culture can have a 

positive impact on local communities 

Kim Chang, Sports Business Fellow at UWE, said, “Being shortlisted for the 

THE Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community Award is fantastic 

recognition for the project. It further highlights the importance of the 

need to work together across every sector within communities, to ensure 

that we take full advantage of London 2012 for the south west region.” 

Seb Coe, Chair, London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games 

and Paralympic Games said, “RELAYS is encouraging young people to 

fulfil their potential. I am proud that, with the help of such partners, we 

are delivering on our vision to use the power of the Olympic Games and 

Paralympic Games to boost participation in the arts and youth sport across 

the South West.” 

The second shortlisted project, Simulations in Higher Education (SHE), is 

led by Liz Falconer and Manuel Frutos-Perez and has been nominated for a 

Times Higher Award for Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year. SHE provides 

students with learning opportunities in areas such as law or environmental 

health, where they can put theory into practice in work areas that could 

be difficult, dangerous or unethical to experience in classroom or on 

placement. For more information on this project see the article on page 4 

of the September Bulletin. 

The winners of the Times Higher Education Awards 2010 were announced 

at a ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, on Thursday 25 

November. 

For more information on RELAYS visit 

www.universitiessouthwest.ac.uk/RELAYS 

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NEWS 

Covidien sponsors 

Student of the Year 

awards 

Covidien Pharmaceuticals sponsored 

two awards for students enrolled on the 

MSc Nuclear Medicine programme at 

the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. 

Marie Claire Attard, who works at 

Radboud University Nijmegen Medical 

Centre, The Netherlands, was awarded 

the Best Academic Student title for 

2009-10, for her overall performance on 

the MSc Nuclear Medicine programme. 

Christopher O’Callaghan, who works at 

the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, 

was awarded the Best Engaging Student 

title for 2009-10. 

Attending the event and representing 

Covidien Pharmaceuticals, Vicki Parkin 

(Nuclear Account Manager, South 

West) presented Marie Claire with 

her certificate. Vicki also commented, 

“Having educational links with an 

academic institution such as the 

University of the West of England is 

an important relationship for Covidien 

and the nuclear medicine community." 

Both students were awarded a small 

sponsorship grant for educational 

resources during the programme. 

Also present was Marc Griffiths, 

Programme Leader for the Nuclear 

Medicine programme at UWE, Bristol 

who added, “Both students were 

outstanding in terms of the academic 

achievement, and their passion for 

nuclear medicine is clear. It is also 

fantastic that Covidien Pharmaceuticals 

recognises the educational achievements 

of nuclear medicine practitioners.” 

Pictured below, Vicki Parkin, Covidien 

Pharmaceuticals and Marie Claire Attard, 

postgraduate student on the MSc 

Nuclear Medicine programme 

CCRI evaluates Local Food Programme 

The Countryside and Community Research Institute (CCRI) has been 

commissioned to evaluate the Local Food Programme, which aims to 

distribute grants to a variety of food related projects in order to make locally 

grown food more accessible and affordable. The Local Food Programme 

was launched in 2007 by a consortium of organisations and is managed 

on their behalf by the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts which commissioned 

the evaluation. Types of projects involved include food co-ops, allotments, 

education and learning, farmers’ markets, community food growing, box 

schemes, composting, food distribution and city farms. 

The evaluation, in conjunction with f3 (local food consultants), began in 

December 2009 and continues until March 2014. It is being led by Dr James 

Kirwan, and supported by Professor Brian Ilbery and Dr Damian Maye (all 

CCRI), and Joy Carey from f3. 

The Countryside and Community Research Institute (CCRI) is a partnership 

between UWE, Hartpury College, the University of Gloucestershire and the 

Royal Agricultural College. 

Frenchay tots enjoy their 

Summer Fun Day thanks 

to a grant from the Better 

Together Fund 

The Better Together Fund 

Current and former staff and 

students are warmly invited to the 

launch of UWE’s new charitable 

initiative The Better Together Fund. 

Funded entirely by donations, The 

Better Together Fund supports 

community projects, student hardship 

bursaries, and enhances the student 

experience by enriching educational 

and extra-curricular activities around 

the University. 

The money raised will be distributed 

annually, and applications for 

community grants of up to £3,000 

are open to staff, students and 

alumni. 

Set up in 2009, the Fund has already 

supported 12 exciting local and 

international charitable initiatives, 

ranging from numeracy programmes 

and community art projects, to 

cultural celebrations and school 

sports initiatives. 

The launch will celebrate the projects 

the Fund has supported so far and 

provide an opportunity to find out 

how you can apply for a grant. 

The event will take place in The 

Street Cafe, S Block, Frenchay 

Campus on Thursday 9 December 

between 16:00 and 18:00. Drinks 

and nibbles, as well as some festive 

entertainment will be provided. 

To RSVP, please e-mail development@ 

uwe.ac.uk or call Laura Blake on 

0117 32 86578. 

To find out more about the Better 

Together Fund, visit www.uwe.ac.uk/ 

supporters 

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From left: Tony Bracey, Peter Bond, Mark Berryman, Jehan Mistry, Robert Carson, 

Richard Broker and Paul Olomalaiye 

Tony Papadopoullos Charitable 

Trust awards UWE student bursaries 

The University has received a £15,000 donation from the Tony Papadopoullos 

Charitable Trust to provide bursaries to undergraduate students studying 

Computing. 

The donation was made in memory of Tony Papadopoullos, founder of financial 

systems specialists Apak. 

Apak was founded in 1979, when Tony started the business working from his 

home, in Bristol. By using his computing expertise, entrepreneurial and commercial 

acumen, Tony built Apak into an established provider of specialist IT solutions and 

market leading supplier of financial systems software. In 2007 Apak was acquired by 

the Sword Group and supports a worldwide customer base in 37 countries under the 

new name of Sword-Apak. 

The Tony Papadopoullos Charitable Trust supports UWE computing students who 

showed a high level of innovation, ambition and practicality during their first year 

of study and for whom a grant would make an enormous difference. 

Tony Bracey (formally Apak, now a Trustee of the Tony Papadopoullos Charitable 

Trust) said, “Apak, the company founded by Tony Papadopollous, had many 

connections with UWE, having employed many high-quality graduates and hosted 

student placements. We are therefore delighted to be able to award these bursaries 

to talented UWE students to celebrate his memory and look forward to seeing the 

recipients’ progress during their time at University.” 

The recipients of the bursaries, second year students, Richard Broker and Peter 

Bond, will each receive a £6,000 bursary towards their Year two and three tuition 

fees. They were selected by staff in the Department of Computer Science and 

Creative Technology based on their marks for Year one and an application essay 

detailing their use of innovation and practicality in their studies. 

On receiving the award, Computing student, Peter Bond said, “I’m extremely 

grateful to the Trust for the bursary; it’s a fantastic way to remember someone who 

has been so successful in the industry and a wonderful support of my education. I 

would never have expected such generosity, and I would like to say a huge thank 

you to the charitable trust.” 

Richard Broker who studies Computer Science Integration, added, “It’s a fantastic 

opportunity to have received the bursary and I’m extremely grateful to the trust 

for awarding it to me. The bursary will relieve the financial worries that come with 

studying at university, and will allow me to fully concentrate on my studies. I’m still 

a little bit in shock; it’s an amazing opportunity and I’m looking forward to making 

the most of it.” 

Richard and Peter received their bursaries at a recent presentation evening; fellow 

bursary applicants were also awarded a prize of a £100 book token. Presenting 

the bursaries, Dean of the Faculty of the Environment and Technology, Paul 

Olomolaiye, said, “For the charity to have invested in these students is a wonderful 

way to remember someone who was both academic and enterprising and who so 

well exemplified knowledge and practice. I am very grateful to the trustees for 

supporting the education of the next generation, and I hope that our own students 

will learn from this and consider supporting others in the same way in the future.” 

Illustration graduate and 

winner of the 2010 Lloyds 

TSB Commercial Finance’s 

Art of Nurture prize, Gaby 

Selby (pictured) has been 

chosen to promote this 

year’s competition. As part 

of his prize, Gaby recently 

completed a paid work 

experience placement at 

national not-for-profits arts 

agency Arts & Business and 

advertising agency Tangible. 

Since winning the competition 

and graduating this summer, 

Gaby has embarked on 

a career as a freelance 

illustrator, increasingly 

working to corporate design 

briefs for clients including 

Bristol’s Happy City project 

and Bristol City Council. Gaby, 

said, “I feel lucky to have 

won the competition which 

has allowed me, through the 

work experience, to develop 

my skills as an illustrator. 

Working to a corporate brief 

and creating an image which 

conveys the right message 

is a skill and entering Art of 

Nurture definitely helped me 

to practise this.” 

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NEWS 

The End of Lawyers 

Pictured addressing the Turkish Board of Education Conference are 

(l to r) Dr Ayten Kiris (Gazi University); Purificación Sánchez 

(Murcia University), Dr Charlie Butler (UWE), Jane Carter (UWE) 

UWE team attend Turkish 

conference on teaching 

children’s literature 

As part of a two-year Comenius-funded project into 

Learning and Teaching Children’s Literature in Europe, four 

academics from UWE took part in a meeting near Ankara, 

from 19-21 October. 

Charlie Butler (English), Jane Carter, Penelope Harnett 

and Elizabeth Newman (Education) were also invited by 

the Turkish Government, which is currently reviewing 

the teaching of literature in schools, to participate in a 

conference on the subject being held concurrently with 

the project meeting. The UWE staff were able to make a 

substantial contribution to this conference. Charlie Butler 

as project director gave an introduction to the project and 

Jane Carter a summary of the state of literature teaching 

in England today, both presentations being delivered 

through simultaneous translation. Charlie then chaired an 

international panel including Jane Carter and other project 

members to discuss issues in teaching children's literature. 

Later in the week, at the Turkish Government's request, 

Jane and Charlie ran two further workshops on teaching 

children's literature. These were enthusiastically received 

and much interest was shown. Altogether this was a very 

successful week, both for the project itself and for UWE’s 

links with the Turkish Government and with Gazi University, 

which is responsible for 60 per cent of teacher training in 

Turkey. 

The European Law Students Association at UWE 

recently hosted a ‘Question Time’ event. 

Organiser Rachel Ansell said, “The theme, The End 

of Lawyers, was chosen because it is very relevant 

to the current position of those wishing to enter 

the legal profession but also because many 

students who would be affected by the Legal 

Services Act 2007 are not aware of its existence. 

The Act has begun to introduce key changes 

to the legal profession and will affect the way 

business are structured in the future, and may 

make pupilages and training contracts more scarce 

for those entering the profession. The night was a 

success and everyone left feeling more informed 

about what the Legal Services Act is and any 

implications it might have for them." 

The panel consisted of: Chair; Karen Moore 

(Senior Lecturer); Ian Kelcey – Law Society, Council 

Representative, Bristol (also a founding partner of 

Kelcey & Hall Solicitors); Steve Brooker, Manager, 

Consumer Panel, Legal Services Board; Jonathan 

Gulliford, Director, Co-operative Legal Services; 

Adam Sampson, Chief Ombudsman and Chief 

Executive of the Office for Legal Complaints; and 

Jos Moule, Corporate Lawyer, Partner in Veale 

Wasbrough Vizards. 

£1m government grant 

for new build project at 

Hartpury 

Hartpury College is one of 21 colleges nationally 

to receive a £1 million grant from the government 

for a new build project at Home Farm. 

The building will be a 1,500 m² classroom, office 

and learning resource centre block for agriculture 

and game students based at the College’s Home 

Farm. The total cost of the project is likely to 

be £3 million and will replace all the temporary 

classrooms, bringing the educational resources at 

Home Farm in line with the rest of the campus. 

Malcolm Wharton, Principal, said: “I am naturally 

relieved that we have been able to secure some 

government funding to assist us: it makes up in 

a small way for the disappointment of the major 

capital investment proposed under the previous 

government being pulled at the last minute.” 

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UWE leads the 

way in curriculum 

development in 

legal education in 

Vietnam 

UWE is playing a key role in 

international partnership in 

the training of legal academics 

in Vietnam. Dr Umut Turksen 

and Dr Rick Ball visited Hanoi 

Law University in Vietnam last 

month. The visit was funded by 

the ongoing MUTRAP III project 

initiated by the European Union. 

The main aim of the project is to 

empower Vietnamese academia 

to deliver courses in areas related 

to international economic law 

and international trade law. 

During their visit Dr Turksen and 

Dr Ball delivered a week long 

training course on pedagogical 

aspects of legal education as well 

as on substantive areas of World 

Trade Organisation (WTO) law 

and Intellectual Property (IP) law. 

During the first day of the course 

nearly 40 academics engaged in 

discussing fundamental issues and 

ideological foundations of IP law 

and WTO law. 

The remaining part of the course 

involved more practical issues 

such as copyright law, patent 

law, dispute settlement at the 

WTO and emanating implications 

for transitional economies 

such as Vietnam. Futhermore, 

innovative and engaging teaching 

methodologies were explored 

and discussed with Vietnamese 

colleagues. It is envisaged that 

this course would help improve 

research and teaching quality of 

legal education institutions in 

Vietnam and satisfy the urgent 

demand in qualified human 

resources for the Vietnamese 

international economic 

integration. 

Students at the first workshop 

BBS uses arts-based methods 

for learning and teaching 

A new two-year Learning and Teaching 

Project in BBS led by Dr Margaret 

Page (Senior Lecturer in Organisation 

Studies) aims to develop arts based 

methods for supporting student-led 

learning and inquiry, and for promoting 

diversity as a resource for learning. 

The research team is made up of tutors, 

graduates and undergraduate students 

in the Department of Business and 

Management. 

The research project developed from 

work by students and tutors on a 

module called Managing Change in 

BBS. Students researched change in 

organisations through visual media 

including photography, storyboards 

and film. The project is now seeking 

to develop these methods of 'visual 

inquiry' to explore critical thinking 

around ‘change’ in organisations. 

During Welcome Week the first of three 

action research workshops for tutors 

and students explored the meaning of 

‘success’ for staff and students, using 

visual inquiry. 

The first round of workshops involved 

30 new BSc(Hons) Management 

students. To prepare for the workshop, 

students were asked to form inquiry 

groups and take photographs of 

images that they felt represented 

‘success’. They then uploaded their 

images onto the project website (http:// 

bbsartproject.ning.com/). 

During the workshops, students, tutors 

and project members showcased their 

images and shared ideas of how these 

images represented success for them. A 

huge variety of different images were 

shown (from expensive clothes and cars 

to students taking part in charity work), 

which created discussion and debate 

about what it means to be successful. 

The value base of ‘success’ emerged as 

a strong theme embracing individual, 

social, academic and business success. 

Alongside the research workshop, Sarah 

Mackie, Undergraduate Programmes 

Co-ordinator, invited 150 new Business 

and Law students to explore the theme 

of success through collage and posters. 

These have also been uploaded onto 

the project website. 

The project website is developing fast 

as a resource for learning and teaching 

using visual inquiry and other arts 

based methods. The second of three 

planned workshops will take place on 

6 April 2011 involving Business and 

Law tutors and students from second 

and third year groups, to continue 

to explore the theme of ‘success’. 

Other arts based methods besides 

photography will be introduced in 

these workshops. 

If you are interested in having an input 

to the project, sign up and become 

a member on the website http:// 

bbsartproject.ning.com/. Members 

can upload their own images of 

‘success’ along with a commentary. 

Alternatively contact Margaret Page 

(Margaret.Page@uwe.ac.uk) or Project 

Administrator, Jane Titley (Jane2.Titley@ 

uwe.ac.uk). 

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NEWS 

PhD 

Conference 

in Monetary 

and Financial 

Economics 

20 September 2010 

The Centre for Global Finance 

at the Faculty of Business 

and Law hosted a national 

conference for PhD students 

on 20 September on the 

theme of Monetary and 

Financial Economics, sponsored 

by the Royal Economic 

Society. PhD students from 

universities across the UK 

presented their work and 

received valuable feedback 

from Centre discussants 

and other attendees. The 

conference attracted an 

insightful plenary presentation 

from the distinguished Oxford 

economist, Professor Sir 

David Hendry on the topic of 

Empirical Model Discovery. 

The proceedings also included 

practitioner talks from Louise 

Fleming, Head of South 

West Region at Barclays, on 

the topic of Managing a 

Career in Finance, and Steve 

Taylor, Senior Consultant, 

the Chartered Institute for 

Securities and Investment 

on Integrity and Ethics in 

Financial Services. 

The Centre for Global 

Finance is well placed to 

support doctoral events as 

its reputation for excellent 

research in the area of 

global finance grows. The 

Centre has now grown to 

39 members, 10 of whom 

are research students. Its 

expertise spans corporate 

finance and financial markets, 

international monetary 

systems and financial 

institutions, international 

corporate financial reporting, 

and governance and 

accountability in financial 

services. 

Organise a 

goody box 

collection in 

your office 

From 22 November 

to 8 December 

Will you help by having 

a collection box in 

your department office 

this year UWE staff 

are always fantastic 

at supporting this 

collection for the Julian 

Trust homeless shelter. 

We are collecting 

food, toiletries and 

other items (there is a 

list of acceptable and 

non acceptable items). 

There is a central 

collection point on 

every UWE campus. 

Contact us for more 

info. 

Call to action! Caring at Christmas 

Supporting the Julian Trust homeless shelter 

Volunteer for 

Caring at Christmas 

Goody boxes collected last Christmas 

Can you volunteer a bit of your time for 

a homeless shelter over the Christmas 

period More than 10 chefs and in excess 

of 400 volunteers contribute their time 

over the week. 

Sian Lamphrey, Caring at Christmas 

co-ordinator, said, “Volunteers help prepar 

the kitchens and offer friendship to the people who come to the 

shelter by talking to them and playing games.” 

Volunteers prepare lunch 

Jim Bealey who works as a technician in BIT at UWE and volunteers for Caring 

at Christmas said, “I was a bit hesitant at first but I enjoy it so much. It’s a great 

feeling to be giving something back and there is a wonderful family of people 

involved and the guests are all really good and appreciate what we do.” 

Contact us www.uwe.ac.uk/volunteer/festive or cvp@uwe.ac.uk 

Telephone 0117 32 82190 

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News in Brief 

Staff in the media 

Professor Roy Light (Law) helped script and 

appeared on BBC 1, the One Show, on Oct 7 

2010 in a discussion piece on the introduction 

of the breathalyser in England and Wales in 

October 1967. 

Kim Chang (RBI) was interviewed by BBC 

Radio Gloucestershire on 28 September about 

the RELAYS conference in Cheltenham outlining 

opportunities for businesses in the run-up to 

the London 2012 Olympics, and also by Star 

Jack FM on 21 October about the RELAYS 

nomination for a Times Higher Award. 

Moira Plant (Alcohol and Health Research 

Unit) appeared as an expert on the BBC 3 

programme Pissed and Pregnant shown on 13 

October on the Living TV Channel. 

Steve West was interviewed live on Wednesday 

20 October about the Comprehensive Spending 

Review for BBC 2’s Daily Politics programme. 

ITV West News also filmed Steve West, John 

Rushforth, Ron Ritchie, Dianne Rees (HSC) 

and SU Presidents, Colin Offler and Nadia 

Harding at the Farmhouse. Ron Ritchie 

was also interviewed on BBC Radio Bristol on 

Thursday 21 October. 

Kris Kinsey (DPSY) was interviewed on 

Wednesday 20 October on Star Jack FM about 

new research into Alzheimer's disease. 

Student Kirsty Smith was interviewed on 

Wednesday 20 October on Star Jack FM about 

the degree trees project. 

Rowan Brandreth (UWE Snowboarder and 

EliteUWE athlete) was interviewed by ITV 

West on Friday 22 October about selection to 

the GB Team for the winter season. 

Richard Bennett (Centre for Sport) and 

students Marco Mama and Mike Wilcox were 

interviewed on BBC Points West on Monday 25 

October about UWE’s partnership with Bristol 

Rugby Academy. 

Jennie Parker (DPsy) was interviewed on 

BBC Radio Bristol’s Drive Time on Monday 25 

October about whether our dreams are giving 

us messages. 

Chris Alford (DPsy) was interviewed on 

BBC Radio Bristol’s Drive Time on Tuesday 

26 October talking about how music can be 

used to help people relax and get to sleep. He 

also mentioned other techniques (eg yoga, 

meditation, relaxation exercises) used in sleep 

courses for troubled sleepers. 

Kate Beeching (ELC) was interviewed on BBC 

Radio Somerset’s Breakfast Show on Thursday 

28 October about how English language is 

changing. 

Carmen Arnaiz (ELC) was interviewed on 

BBC Radio Bristol’s Breakfast Show on Friday 

29 October about the rise in students learning 

Mandarin to boost their employment propects, 

the University Language Programme and 

her experience of learning Mandarin on this 

programme. 

Dr Ioannis Ieropoulos and Professor Chris 

Melhuish (BRL) were featured on Wallace 

and Gromit World of Inventions on BBC 1 TV 

on 3 November. Chris was also interviewed by 

numerous radio stations regarding his interview 

on Inside Out West on 8 November, relating to 

assisted living for the elderly. 

Dr Dean McSweeney (HPP) was interviewed 

by BBC Radio Somerset on 2 November on the 

importance of the American mid-term elections. 

Publications 

Professor Roy Light (Law) has this month 

had a chapter on Alcohol Licensing, Crime 

and Disorder, published in the Transnational 

Criminology Manual, Wolf Publishing, Nijmegen. 

Yusak Susilo (PA-Centre for Transport 

and Society) has co- authored a report for 

NHS Health Scotland with Jillian Anable, 

Geertje Schuitema, Paulus Aditjandra, Mark 

Beecroft and John Nelson, all of the University 

of Aberdeen. The report, entitled Walking 

and cycling and socio-economic status in 

Scotland: analysis of statistical data and rapid 

review of literature, can be accessed at www. 

healthscotland.com/documents/4655.aspx 

Brian Ilbery, P Courtney, James Kirwan and 

Damian Maye (all CCRI) published a paper 

in the British Food Journal, vol 112 issue 9 pp 

962-975, entitled Marketing concentration and 

geographical dispersion: a survey of organic 

farms in England and Wales. 

Ieropoulos, I, Winfield, J, Greenman, J and 

Melhuish, C (BRL). Small Scale Microbial Fuel 

Cells and Different Ways of Reporting Output. 

(Abstract) 423 included in the programme of the 

4th Biological Fuel Cells Symposium (B4) of the 

217th Electrochemical Society Meeting, 25-30 

April 2010, Vancouver, Canada. 

Raabe, D, Dogramadzi, S, Atkins, RM 

and Obi, N (BRL), Automated reduction of 

complete joint fractures, European Orthopaedics 

Research Society - 18th European Conference on 

Orthopaedics, June 30-July 2, 2010, Davos/CH 

Lock RJ, Vaidyanathan R, Burgess SC, (BRL), 

Development of a Biologically Inspired Multi- 

Modal Wing Model for Aerial-Aquatic Robotic 

Vehicles, IEEE International Conference on 

Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp 140- 

147, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 2010 

Dr Stephen Hunt (Department of Health 

and Allied Social Sciences, HASS) has 

recently published a five volume edited 

compilation, Library of Essays on Sexuality and 

Religion (Ashgate). Sexuality and spirituality 

are undoubtedly two essential dimensions of 

wellbeing. Equally, they are currently of vital 

interest to several academic fields that connect 

with human sexuality and a variety of faith 

communities. Featuring 105 re-printed articles, 

the work engages with numerous disciplines 

including Sociology, Anthropology, Historical and 

Religious Studies, Theology and Psychology as 

well as more specialised field including Islamic 

Studies and Chinaology. The five volumes 

cover the areas of Christianity; Judaism and 

Islam; Eastern Religions; ‘Indigenous’ Religions; 

and the New Religions and Spiritualities. Each 

volume commences with a lengthy introduction 

by Dr Hunt. Speaking about the compilation 

Dr Hunt says, “Searching through literally 

thousands of articles in order to select the most 

appropriate in terms quality and the breadth 

of topics covered was no easy enterprise. I am 

very grateful to all those authors from a range 

of scholarly disciplines 

who granted permission 

for their work to be 

re-published.” More 

details of the five 

volumes can be 

found at http://www. 

ashgate.com/defaulta 

spxpage=638&series 

titleID=5 

Dr Stephen 

Hunt (HASS) 

has recently had 

published his article The 

rhetoric of rights in the UK Christian Churches 

regarding non-heterosexual citizenship 

in the international journal 

Politics and Religion. The 

article appears in a special 

edition on the subject 

of British politics and 

religion guest-edited by 

Dr Hunt. Other papers 

contributed by British 

and North American 

academics include such 

themes as religion in 

local politics, blasphemy 

laws, subversive 

political action, religious 

pluralism, and issues 

related to Islam. 

Dr Umut Turksen 

(Bristol Law School) 

recently published 

Protection Seekers, 

States and the New 

Security Agenda: A 

Comparative Analysis 

of the Impact of Antiterrorism 

Legislation 

on the Law Relating 

to Asylum Seekers in 

the United Kingdom, 

the United States of 

America and Australia, (Altin Nokta Publishing, 

2010). The book is available from the following 

website: http://www.nokta2000.com/product. 

phpid_product=2356 or directly from the 

author. All proceeds from this book go to 

helping disadvantaged university students. 

On Thursday 16 September the Centre for the 

History of Medicine 

in Ireland based at 

University College 

Dublin launched the 

book Folk Healing and 

Health Care Practices 

in Britain and Ireland: 

stethoscopes, 

wands and crystals 

(Berghahn Books, 

2010), co-edited 

by Dr Stuart 

McClean (HASS) 

(pictured) and 

Dr Ronnie Moore 

(UCD). The book was launched at the 

National University of Ireland and was preceded 

by a talk at Trinity College Dublin by Professor 

David Hufford, Emeritus Professor of Medical 

Humanities and Penn State College of Medicine 

in the United States, entitled The Rationality of 

Folk Healing in the Enchanted Present. 

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NEWS 

Dr Ben Ramdani (BBS) senior lecturer in 

Strategy and Operations Management has 

recently published a paper titled: Enterprise 

2.0: The Case of British Telecom for the Journal 

of Strategic Management Education (JSME), 

Volume 6, Issue 2. It was co-authored with Dr 

Tazeeb Rajwani, lecturer in Strategy at Cranfield 

School of Management. 

Appointments 

Professor Roy Light (Law) has been appointed 

to the Grant Approval Panel of the Alcohol 

Education Research Council. 

Jane Harrington, Executive Dean (FBL) has 

been appointed to the Association of Business 

Schools Executive. 

Professor Brian Ilbery (CCRI) has been 

appointed as a member of the Biotechnology 

and Biological Sciences Research Council's 

Bioscience for Society Strategy Panel, which 

provides strategic input on societal issues 

surrounding the outcomes of research 

conducted by the BBSRC. 

Conferences 

Moira Plant (Alcohol and Health Research 

Unit) attended a parliamentary reception 

for Breaking the Cycle commission on 13 

October held at the House of Commons. Moira 

organised the 69th Alcohol Problems Research 

Symposium on 3-4 November in Kendal, was 

the co-organiser and scientific adviser to the first 

Alcohol Epidemiology and Policy conference held 

on 15-18 November in Kampala, Uganda and 

on 25 November chaired the Medical Council on 

Alcohol Annual General Meeting. 

Professor Roy Light (Law) chaired and 

presented a paper at the Central Law Training 

Annual Licensing Conference in London on 22 

September 2010; a paper, The First Five Years 

of the Licensing Act 2003, at the Institute of 

Licensing Annual Conference in Manchester 

on 8 November 2010; a paper on Rebalancing 

Licensing at the annual conference of the 

Association of Police Lawyers in Exeter on 25 

November; and papers at the Local Government 

Training Partnership licensing seminars in 

Fareham on 10 Nov and Bristol on 17 November. 

Dr Owain Jones (CCRI) convened a session 

at the Royal Geographical 2010 Annual 

International Conference together with Kim 

Ward from Exeter University, and presented two 

papers at the conference. The first was on Poets, 

Arts and the Severn Estuary, and the second was 

on Absence and Landscape. 

Damian Maye and James Kirwan (CCRI) 

convened four sessions, on behalf of the 

Rural Geography Research Group, at the RGS- 

IBG Annual Conference in London on the 2 

September 2010. The sessions addressed the 

issue of food security in different geographical 

contexts and its potential implications for 

agri-food studies. 

Dr Andrew Spicer (Art and Design) gave 

an invited paper at the Institute of Historical 

Research’s Conference - Going to War: Film, 

History and the Second World War, 22-23 

October 2010. Andrew’s paper was entitled, 

Secret histories and the dirty war: the 1970s 

Second World War film. 

Dr Lorna Collins (BBS) gave a presentation 

on The Mother’s role in Family Business at 

Familiarity 2010, the premier conference for 

family business advisers and family businesses 

last week at the Watershed in Bristol. The 

presentation highlighted the major gaps in 

research in this area and encouraged the 

audience to suggest ways in which the research 

community could support and inform their 

work. Over 100 advisers and family business 

members attended. 

Dr Erel Avineri (CTS, FET) delivered the 

keynote address at the 1st Workshop on Traffic 

Behavior, Modeling and Optimization, 13th 

International IEEE Conference on Intelligent 

Transportation Systems that took place on 19 

Association of University Administrators 

Golden Jubilee Year 2011 

South West 

Regional Conference 

Tuesday 25 January 2011 

Exhibition and Conference Centre, 

University of the West of England, Bristol 

Plenary session leaders include: 

Rob Behrens, 

Chief Executive, Office of the Independent Adjudicator 

Anthony McClaran, Chief Executive, QAA 

Many working sessions, a panel discussion, the award 

of the UWE Administrator of the Year. 

Guest lecture by Alison Johns, Head of Learning, 

Governance and Management, HEFCE and the new 

President of the AUA 

The event is open to non-members of the AUA. 

Further details will be available from 

Pat Hughes (AR) and Teresa Stephens (HR) 

September on Madeira Island, Portugal. The 

talk, titled Choice Architecture and the design of 

Advanced Travel Information Systems’ focused 

on recent insights emerging from behavioural 

economics and in particular their application 

in the design of the next generation of Travel 

Information Systems. 

Lyndon Smith (MVL) gave a presentation 

at the Biomedical Imaging Workshop on 18 

October, organised by the Institute for Bio- 

Sensing Technology at UWE and The Bristol 

Vision Institute (of which the Machine Vision 

Lab is a member). Lyndon’s’ presentation was 

entitled Low-cost 3D Imaging Technologies for 

Healthcare. Lyndon also took in an open panel 

discussion. His presentation was the only one 

from UWE - all others were from leading figures 

at University 

of Bristol, Oxford, Edinburgh and various 

health trusts. 

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Human Resources Update 

Christmas closure 2010 and pay date for December 

The closure arrangements for Christmas 2010 will be as follows: 

Monday 20 December – normal working day 

Tuesday 21 December – normal working day 

Wednesday 22 December – normal working day and pay day 

Thursday 23 December – normal working day 

Friday 24 December - ½ day closure day 

Monday 27 December – Christmas Day bank holiday 

Tuesday 28 December – Boxing Day bank holiday 

Wednesday 29 December – extra statutory day 

Thursday 30 December – extra statutory day 

Friday 31 December – closure day 

Monday 3 January – New Year’s Day bank holiday 

Further details and examples for calculating leave entitlements for part time staff can be found by 

clicking on the link to Christmas holiday entitlements under the alphabetical list on the HR web pages, 

www.uwe.ac.uk/hr. 

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Book your event at 

UWE Exhibition and 

Conference Centre 

Centre for Performing Arts 

www.uwe.ac.uk/cpa 

Extensive 4000 sq metre exhibition space 

and executive meeting room hire available 

• Excellent transport links 

• 4 presentation suites 

• 10 meeting rooms 

• Parking for 450 cars 

• Dedicated car park entrance 

• Dedicated event management team 

“I would like to say many thanks for the 

professional approach displayed by all your 

team yesterday at the Ambitions Event. Every 

request was responded to without question 

throughout the day. This resulted in a very 

successful venture and smiles all round.” 

Festival di maestri italiani 

The UWE Symphony Orchestra, Singers and Soloists 

present an evening of music by four Italian Masters. 

Saturday 4 December 2010 - 19:30 

Bristol Cathedral, College Green 

Rossini – The Barber of Seville Overture 

Albinoni/Giazotto – Adagio in G minor for 

Organ and Strings 

Respighi – Pines of Rome 

Puccini – Messa di Gloria 

Tenor: Christopher Hann 

Bass - baritone: George Watson 

Tickets £5-10 (£4-£6 concessions) 

Accompanied children 12 and under - 

£1 (excludes £10 seats) 

Box Office: 

Telephone +44 (0)117 922 3686 

Website www.colstonhall.org 

Centre for Performing Arts: 

Telephone 0117 32 82067 

Beverly Green, Head of Partnerships, 

School and College Partnerships Service 

What the Exhibition and Conference Centre 

can be used for. 

• Day Meeting 

• Conferences 

• Banqueting and Functions 

• Exhibitions 

• Sporting Events 

• Award Ceremonies 

• Training Programmes 

“A big thank you to the team for everything 

you did today to make the bettertogether 

awards such a success – 

same time next year” 

Sue Fox, Head of Corporate Relations and Events 

Website www.uwe.ac.uk/ecc 

E-mail ConferenceOffice@uwe.ac.uk 

Telephone 0117 32 83568 

Need legal help but 

cannot afford it 

Trainee solicitors and 

barristers of Bristol Law 

School in collaboration 

with practising barristers 

and mediators offer 

free legal advice, 

representation and 

mediation services to UWE 

employees and the wider 

Bristol Community. 

Call the Community Legal 

Advice and Representation 

Service (CLARS) on 

0117 32 82681 

(24 hour voicemail) 

or e-mail us at 

enquiries@clars.org.uk 

We cannot guarantee to 

help but we guarantee we 

will listen. 

landlord and tenant - family - insolvency - employment - consumer 

- personal injury - housing 

www.uwe.ac.uk/probono 

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Printing and 

Stationery 

Services 

Did you know that we not only provide printing for 

the University but also do private work for staff and 

work for external organisations 

If you are involved in a club or an organisation and 

you need some printing, please contact us for a quote. 

Telephone Internal 84670 External 0117 32 84670 

E-mail printing@uwe.ac.uk 

Our services include: 

• Lottery/raffle tickets 

• Event tickets 

• Event programmes 

• Posters 

• Newsletters 

• Calendars 

• Booklets with a variety of bindings 

(coil, comb, tape, ring, wire) 

• Bulk printing and burning of CDs and DVDs 

• Postcards 

• Printed envelopes 

• Promotional goods 

Tired of stuffing envelopes 

We are able to offer a sophisticated mail-merge 

and mailing service to both University and external 

customers. Contact Roland Cowley on ext 84672 for 

more information or e-mail Roland.Cowley@uwe.ac.uk 

Hot news 

We are now able to accept jobs via our electronic 

submission service. At present it is only available to 

staff through the intranet. We are developing an 

external portal for staff over the internet. For more 

information, please contact Carolyn Hancocks on 

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Website 

Our website contains lots of information about our 

services. Why not take a look today 

Printing and Stationery Services will be close on the 

24 December and will re open again for business on 

Monday 4 January 2011. 

www.uwe.ac.uk/printing/ 

UWE Christmas 

Carol Service 2010 

To us a child is born... 

Thursday 16 December 20:00 

Bristol Cathedral, College Green BS1 5TJ 

UWE Singers, Chamber Choir, Orchestra 

and The Living Centre 

The Living Centre 

www.uwe.ac.uk 

FREE tickets can be booked via UWE Online Store. All are welcome 

Only £3 for refreshments 

Thursday 9 December 

All UWE Bristol Campuses 

11:00 Frenchay Campus (The Octagon) 

12:00 Bower Ashton Campus (Student Bar balcony) 

14:00 Glenside Campus (Outside Reception) 

15:00 St Matthias Campus (Sunken garden) 

All are welcome 

The Living Centre 

www.uwe.ac.uk 

UWE Christmas 

Carols on Campus 2010 

UWE Centre for Performing Arts and The Living Centre 

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what'son 

Bulletin deadlines 

2010/2011 

• for full details of all UWE events 

• to submit an event to the diary 

• to sign up to receive What’s on monthly 

go to www.uwe.ac.uk/events 

Month/Issue 

Jan/100 

Feb/101 

March/102 

Copy deadline 

4 January 

1 February 

1 March 

Staff ads 

French holiday home in Vendee Town of Aizenay, West France – 

15 minutes from the coast and golf courses. Sleeps 10, fully equipped 

from £300 per week, further details and dvd contact 01454 850698. 

Holiday home for let, France, Dordogne Region very near town 

of Eymet, 20 mins from Bergerac. Farmhouse, set in two acres (with 

orchard), four double bedrooms, swimming pool (12 x 5), patio and 

outside BBQ area, very picturesque – visit www.my-eymetexperience. 

com or e-mail Kath_Feltham@hotmail.com 

Flooring innovations: Domestic and commercial floor laying. 

Tiles, vinyl and laminate, all types of work undertaken. Please 

contact Colin Doran on 0117 937 2589 or 07989 558 545 or e-mail 

flooringinnovations@yahoo.co.uk. 

MC Electrics South-West Ltd. Local electrician (Bristol, Bath and 

surrounding areas). Reliable and experienced in all aspects of domestic, 

commercial and industrial work, qualified to 17th edition regs. For a 

free quotation call: 07813 895 505 or e-mail mncaseley@hotmail.com 

Staff Association 

Staff Association BOB 

(Box Office Bargains) Club 

All tickets are for the evening performances 

and in the (comfortable) stalls at the Bristol 

Hippodrome:- 

Dick Whittington 

Thursday 16 December 2010 

tickets £23 

Calendar Girls 

Tuesday 01 February 2011 

tickets £23 

Joseph 

Tuesday 22 February 2011 

tickets £20.50 

Chess 

Tuesday 01 March 2011 

tickets £23 

Buddy 

Tuesday 15 March 2011 

tickets £21 

Non-members are welcome to join us but 

remember that membership will bring 

with it a further reduction in ticket costs 

advertised. 

If you are interested in joining us at the theatre 

and wish to be put on the mailing list for regular 

updates and advance notice of any tickets 

available please contact ‘BOB’ via 

e-mail:- Bobclub@uwe.ac.uk 

Staff Association Coach Club – forthcoming 

trips: All staff, family and friends are welcome 

to book for trips. You don’t have to be a SA 

member and you are all welcome to join us! 

Saturday 11 December 2010 – Birmingham 

Costs: £10 Members, £11 Non-members 

Visit the Frankfurt Christmas Market in 

Birmingham which has over 180 stalls, as well as 

the opportunity to shop in the Bullring! 

Saturday 22 January 2011 – Oxford 

Special offer: Members £9, 

Non-members £10 

There is always plenty to see and do in this 

city other than January shopping! As well 

as museums, cathedral, covered market, its 

buildings and streets have been used for film 

sets such as the Harry Potters, The Saint, 

Tomorrow Never Dies, to name just a few, as 

well as numerous TV series. 

Saturday 26 February 2011 

– Disney Adventure on Ice 

Costs: £28 member, £29 non-member, 

£20 child 

As tickets for this show were the same 

cost for both adults and children we have 

subsidised the children’s tickets by £8 for 

you. This is a matinée performance in the 

Birmingham LG Arena. 

(Tickets for the Bristol Hippodrome Ice Show 

are from £19.25 – £32.25!) 

If you are interested in any of the above 

please contact us through the following 

channels only:- Coachclub@uwe.ac.uk, 

Telephone 0117 32 83001 

www.uwe.ac.uk 

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