November 2010 - University of the West of England

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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