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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. 28
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. 29
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