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RISE! Research Innovation and Internationalisation News FOLLOWING IN DANTE’s FOOTSTEPS INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH WEEK On the 26th January, BuHu (The Research Institute for the Built & Human Environment), SoBE (The School of Built Environment SoBE), and SCRI (the EPSRC funded Salford Centre for Research & Innovation) joined forces to launch the International Research Week at the Lowry in Salford Quays. This unique event brought together academic partners from leading Universities (Reading, Loughborough, TU, Delft and Middle East Technical University), along with other key players from the industry, to enhance and promote current research within the built environment community. The full week event comprised of: > The industry day – Sustainable Delivery of Housing (26th January 2009) > International Research Symposium (27-28th January 2009) > 9th International Postgraduate Research Conference (29-30th January 2009) The conference included over 250 registered candidates, over 120 accepted papers, rich presentations, panel discussions, and interactive workshops. The University of Salford was honoured by the presence of the Salford Mayor and the Lord Mayor of Manchester at the IPGRC dinner. The event was brought to a close with a prize award ceremony for best papers, sponsored by BuHu, SCRI, CIOB, Construct IT and Emerald Publishers. One of the highlights of the ceremony, was the ‘BuHu BRANDON AWARD’ to honour the contribution of Professor Peter Brandon to the Built Environment. The IRW09 also acknowledged the generous contribution of £2000 from the CIOB to sponsor this event, and congratulated them for the 175 year anniversary of great achievements. If you would like further information on the event please contact Vian at: v.ahmed@salford.ac.uk University of Salford academic, Gillian Ania, has been invited to speak at an International Conference at the University of Cambridge in October 2009, on representations and conceptions of the apocalypse in medieval and contemporary Italy. Her paper will discuss fin-de-millennium writers who are following in the steps of Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Manzoni and Leopardi, writers who all used apocalyptic motifs to comment on, and condemn their society. Gillian was also involved recently in the inaugural meeting of Mosaici, at the University of Edinburgh. Mosaici is a new electronic Journal of Italian poetry, hosted by the University of St Andrews, and Gillian, who published her first collection of poems (Moments of Being) in 2005, will have joint responsibility for directing the Creative writing section of the journal. Gillian has been offered the role of Visiting Professor (spring of 2010) at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, to teach a module on Creative writing, and to organize, with colleagues, a series of public interviews with Italian writers. This will form part of her research on European Writers and Writing. For more information on Gillian’s work please contact her at: g.ania@salford.ac.uk DEHEMS: Domestic Energy Consumerism & Behaviour Change The University of Salford is a major partner in the EU FP7 funded project, Digital Environmental Home Energy Management System (DEHEMS). The aim of the project is to develop cutting edge technology for monitoring and assessing domestic energy usage, so that ultimately individuals are encouraged to change their behaviour towards conserving energy. Households across Europe will participate in this project, including the city councils of Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol. The homes, known as the Living Labs, will be installed with the DEHEMS system that will monitor appliance-level energy usage, detect energy usage patterns, and display real-time energy usage (and wastage) information. As energy is a source for increasing CO 2 emission, it is hoped that the DEHEMS project will provide the means and opportunity for individuals to take active responsibility in conserving energy. Dr David Kreps from the Salford Business School leads the project team at Salford, which includes Dr Vasughi Sundramoorthy, Professor Grahame Cooper, Dr Haifa Takruri-Rizk and Professor Nigel Linge from the School of Computing. For more information on this project please contact David at: d.g.kreps@salford.ac.uk or visit the project website at: http://www.dehems.eu 12
RISE! Research Innovation and Internationalisation News SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH BIDDING The latest round of the Research Bidding Support Fund has provided awards to support the preparation of a wide range of bids in areas as diverse as X-ray optics, Holocaust museums, parasites and jazz cultures. This scheme has been developed to support the University’s strategic objective of achieving an annual research grants and contracts income of £30 million by 2015. The fund is run twice per year and is designed to help offset the costs of preliminary activities associated with putting together large-scale research bids, especially collaborative proposals involving industrial or academic partners. The fund provides awards up to a maximum of £3,000 and can be used to support a range of activities, including travel, teaching time buy-out and preliminary research studies. For further information see www.rgc.salford.ac.uk/page/ internal_funding or contact Matt Boswell in the Research & Graduate College on 0161 295 4301 or at: m.j.boswell@salford.ac.uk WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION The Research Centre for Construction Innovation (CCI) as part of the School of the Built Environment (SOBE) will be successfully entering their third year of supporting and training women to enter, stay and progress in the construction industry. Dr Lisa Worrall and Katy Harris have further acquired the additional responsibility of broadening this activity base from the North to include the Midlands. This expanded third phase will be launched from April. During Phases I and II, Katy and Lisa received media attention and coverage in both North West and North East regional newspapers and were interviewed by Heather Stott of BBC Radio Manchester. Due to the hundreds of women in construction benefiting from the training, support and workshops on offer and complimenting on the passion, vision and support offered by its project managers, both Lisa and Katy have received invites to talk about their activities and services on both BBC radio and Channel M TV. Word of this project is spreading further afield, with recent queries for information and interviews about the Women in Construction project that is funded by Construction Skills coming from BBC Radio in London. If you would like to know more about this project contact either Lisa or Katy at: L.J.Worrall@salford.ac.uk or Katy.Harris@ccinw.com or visit the website at: www.wicnet.org.uk SHAKESPEARE INTERPRETED Salford University academic Sameh Hanna’s article ‘Othello in the Egyptian vernacular: negotiating the ‘doxic’ in drama translation and identity formation’ was published in the special issue of The Translator in April 2009 on Translation and Nation in the Middle East. The article, which is part of Sameh’s current interest in elaborating sociology of drama translation inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of cultural production, investigates the workings of identity politics in twentieth century Egypt and how drama translators can play a significant role in promoting/silencing different versions of national identity. This is the latest in a series of articles in which Sameh is attempting to map out the ‘field’ of drama translation in Egypt, its genesis, development, the agents with stakes in drama translation and the different forms of capital they struggle over. The fact that Shakespeare has been widely politicised in Arabic to enact different political and socio-cultural goals has motivated Sameh’s sociological approach to the Arabic translations of Shakespeare in Arabic. If you would like to know more about Sameh’s work please contact him at: s.hanna@salford.ac.uk 13
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