RISE May-June 2009 - University of Salford

RISE! Research Innovation and Internationalisation News
NEW APPOINTMENTS
Professor Tony Dickson has been appointed Visiting
Professor to Salford Business School and the University.
Professor Dickson has fulfilled a number of roles in
higher education including: Head of Department of
Sociology, Chair of the Faculty of Life and Social
Sciences both at Glasgow Caledonian University; Dean
of Social Sciences, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Development),
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(Development) at Northumbria University. As Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(Development) his responsibilities included leading the University’s
significant international activities and expansion. He left Northumbria in
2006 to establish and become the President of Raffles University,
funded by the Raffles Education Corporation. Raffles University has over
50,000 students and has its headquarters in Singapore but it operates in
10 countries and 19 major cities in Asia Pacific. Since 2008 he has been
Managing Director of Global Higher Education Consulting.
Professor Dickson will contribute to the School’s and the University’s
internationalisation activities and will have an immediate input into
ensuring the School and University fully capitalise on the prestigious PMI2
(Prime Minister’s Initiative 2) project with leading Chinese Universities.
tony.dickson@globalhec.com
Professor Tony Warne has worked in mental health
care since 1975. He has over 20 years of experience in
nursing and service management, and has worked in a
variety of different specialist mental health service
environments and contexts. Tony left the NHS in 1995
to join Manchester Metropolitan University,
Department of Health Care Studies as a teacher and
nurse researcher. In 2006, he was appointed Professor in Mental Health
Care at University of Salford, and appointed Head of School (School of
Nursing) in 2007. In March 2009 he also became Associate Dean
(Research) and intends to continue with both roles as the Faculty of Health
and Social Care embraces the University’s new research strategy. The focus
of Tony’s research interest is on inter-personal, intra-personal and
extra-personal relationships, using a psychodynamic and managerialist
analytical discourse.
In the main his research has centred on exploring the impact of such
relationships on nursing practice, policy, organisation and particularly nurse
education and the preparation for practice. Much of his research has
involved mental health nursing, although he has conducted research into
other areas of nursing and health and social care.
Tony is a Clinical Associate for the Healthcare Commission and has been a
Magistrate for 14 years, with a special interest in the mentally
disordered offender. He has published extensively and is the Co-Editor and
author of the book Using Patient Experience in Nurse Education and
Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing.
t.warne@salford.ac.uk
Professor Sharon Ruston has been appointed Chair
in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture in
ESPaCH. She joins Salford from Keele University where
she was Programme Director of Media,
Communications and Culture for the past two years.
Since 2007 she has been Vice-President of the British
Association for Romantic Studies and this year
becomes one of the judges for the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association’s
annual essay prize. Her publications include Shelley and Vitality (2005),
Romanticism (2007) and Literature and Science (2008). She is particularly
interested in the interrelationships that exist between literature, science
and medicine in the early nineteenth-century, and is currently working on
the poetry of chemist Humphry Davy.
Professor Ruston is an external examiner for the ‘Literature and Medicine’
MA at King’s College, London and for the undergraduate degree at
Lancaster University. Plans for Salford include organising a conference,
‘Thomas de Quincey, Manchester and Medicine, 1785-1859’ to
commemorate 150 years since de Quincey’s death, to be held at Salford on
4th December 2009. s.ruston@salford.ac.uk
Professor Sue Kilcoyne is the Associate Dean for
Research in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and
Environment. She was appointed as Professor of
Materials in January 2006, became Director of the
Institute for Materials Research in October 2006 and
took up the post of ADR in January this year.
Sue’s academic work has always involved aspects of both biological and
physical sciences. She graduated from the University of Liverpool with a
BSc degree in Physics with Environmental Biology and continued at
Liverpool to study for a PhD, which was awarded for her work on
Mossbauer Spectroscopic studies of iron containing proteins.
Throughout her career Sue’s research has focussed upon the application of
physical techniques to a wide range of problems in for example, physics
(magnetism, superconductivity), the life sciences (biomaterials, proteins),
and in geology (Fe oxides in soils and clays). She works with
multidisciplinary groups of academics throughout UK and Europe -
physicists and biomaterials scientists at Leeds University, biophysicists at the
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire and physicists at the
Institute Laue Langevin in France, and is now extending this grouping
through the development of an archaeometry research programme with
archaeologists and local historians from the Blackden Trust in Cheshire.
s.h.kilcoyne@salford.ac.uk
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