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UWE opens new
Education Innovation Centre
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27 June 2011 - Issue 104

In this
month’s issue
2 Education Innovation
Centre launched
3 Universities and
businesses must work
together to shape
tomorrow's workforce
4-5 UWE welcomes
stadium initiative
7 UWE wins SHA funding
for public health
nursing training
8 Men and Cancer – find
out more at UWE
seminar
19 Project to design new
sensor for premature
babies
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Students trying out the new Education
Innovation Centre with Nick Wilson,
HP Managing Director UK and Ireland,
Vice-Chancellor Steve West and EIC
Director Liz Falconer.
Students can now learn in simulated work and
home settings thanks to a new state-of-theart
Education Innovation Centre (EIC) at the
heart of UWE’s expanding Frenchay Campus.
The EIC was launched on 1 June by Vice-
Chancellor, Professor Steve West and Hewlett
Packard Managing Director UK and Ireland,
Nick Wilson.
The EIC is a new 500 square metre facility in
the former HP Building 2, and is realistically
divided into zones such as a lounge with
mirror TV, student bedroom with x-box,
work stations, ideas or meeting area with
whiteboard, and tutorial area.
Among the e-learning experiences on offer
– which would be difficult or impossible
to set up in real life - are a flood disaster
management simulation project, accident
investigation scenarios using Second Life for
environmental health students, and a platform
to enable law students to set up law firms and
take on cases representing ‘clients’. Experience
of dealing with situations they will come
across in their working lives will be a real
boost to students’ employability.
The Director of the EIC, Professor Liz Falconer,
said, “The opening of this important new
resource puts the student experience at
the forefront of the flexible and innovative
learning opportunities that UWE can offer.
“We are offering three ‘presences’ – physical,
virtual and web – and people will be able to
work with us and interact through all three
of those in rich and dynamic ways. There is
tremendous enthusiasm amongst students and
staff to develop new and effective methods of
learning and teaching at UWE.”
The brand-new facility was developed with
support from international high tech company
Hewlett Packard and its strategic partners
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NEWS
UWE launches Education Innovation Centre
Students Dale Powell, Emily Jay and Tommy
Peace at work in the ‘student bedroom’ zone of
the new Education Innovation Centre
EIC staff from left to right: Olivia Billingham, Mark
Shand, Julian Green, Glenn Duckworth and Manuel
Frutos-Perez with Liz Falconer at the front.
Juniper Networks, Microsoft, Polycom and
Schneider Electric. HP’s support for the EIC
means this is the first time HP and a UK
university have come together to provide such
a facility.
The EIC’s physical space will enable staff and
students to experience and develop innovative
approaches to learning, wherever that
learning takes place, such as at the university,
at home or at work – hence the different
room layouts. The virtual presence of the EIC
is located in a similar space in the virtual world
Second Life, where participants can experience
and develop learning and teaching techniques,
such as simulations that are facilitated by
virtual worlds. The EIC on the web will focus
on how online technologies can be utilised to
facilitate and enhance learning and teaching,
particularly through collaboration and active
learning.
UWE has a large number of students who will
follow careers in professions such as law, social
work, planning, architecture and health. This
development enables students to experience
simulations of events and situations that are
difficult or impossible to organise, before they
put their skills into practice in the real world.
Simulations also enable events and cases to be
studied in detail, run forwards and backwards
in time and be experienced more than once.
UWE’s Simulations in Higher Education project
was short-listed for a 2010 Times Higher
Education award in the Outstanding ICT
Initiative of the Year category.
Last October, UWE and HP signed a fiveyear
collaboration which is one of the most
innovative partnerships between industry
and academia in the UK. The agreement has
already led to the creation of the four-year
UWE HP Enterprise Computing Degree.

Universities and businesses must work together to shape
tomorrow's workforce
Nick Wilson, (Managing
Director, Hewlett Packard
UK and Ireland).
Nick Wilson, who leads the
UK and Ireland operations of
Hewlett Packard, the world’s
largest technology company,
says that partnerships between
universities and businesses are
essential in delivering skilled
innovators who can quickly
make a contribution into the
UK workforce.
In this year’s Bolland Lecture on
1 June, Nick Wilson, focused on
the role businesses must play in
providing tomorrow’s workforce with an understanding of the
importance of innovation. He said, “We need to pioneer new
ways in which business and education can collaborate. These
partnerships can drive new ways of embracing the use of
technology amongst today’s students so that they can quickly
make a valuable contribution to the workplace. This is not
only an economic imperative, but also an opportunity for
Britain to take advantage of exciting and radical changes in
science and technology that will affect all industries.
“In a changing working world we need to foster creativity
and vision from a young age. Technology is fundamentally
Pride Bristol on 16 July
Following the success of UWE’s involvement in last year’s
Pride Bristol, the University is sponsoring this year’s event and
will be hosting a UWE stall in the Pride Community Tent on
Saturday 16 July. As part of a series of cultural events from 9
to 17 July, Pride Bristol will celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender (LGBT) community across the South West in
the spirit of promoting diversity. For further information see
www.pridebristol.org
UWE’s Equality and Diversity Champion, Professor Ron Ritchie
(Assistant Vice Chancellor, Partnerships, Diversity and Civic
Engagement) said, “UWE’s strong commitment to becoming
an inclusive University must not be compromised in these
challenging times. We believe that an inclusive University
benefits all students and staff and we are proud of our diverse
university community.”
“The University’s commitment to LGBT equality is, of course,
not just about supporting Pride Bristol once a year, important
as that is as a public demonstration of our commitment.
We seek to work with UWE’s LGBT community in a number
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a core part of this, but our challenge is to teach our
young people to define and produce it, rather than just
consume it. The partnership between HP and UWE reflects a
fantastic acknowledgement of this and through structured
engagements and an attitude of collaboration between our
two organisations. These sorts of relationships help us bring
skilled innovators who can quickly make a contribution into
the UK workforce and inspire them to greatness.”
UWE and HP have entered into an innovative five year
collaboration that will see the creation of a new four year
programme of study, internships for students and a state of
the art Education Innovation Centre at UWE. In addition the
collaboration will enable UWE to link to HP’s alliance partners,
such as Microsoft, Polycom, Schneider Electric and Juniper,
enabling further scope for collaboration and the possibility of
valuable student internships.
HP has also been appointed as the University's strategic ICT
partner to help develop a program of ICT transformation. This
will give UWE students across all subjects a head start in the
jobs market through their knowledge of the latest technology
developments and their experience in using it.
Nick Wilson has been made a Visiting Professor at UWE.
of ways, especially through
the active staff and student
networks. We have also been
working closely with Stonewall,
a national charity working
for LGBT equality, to which
we subscribe, and recently
held two workshops with
UWE’s Stonewall associate,
involving senior university
managers, students and
staff groups. At both
meetings we discussed the
roles we all have to play
to make UWE an inclusive
learning and teaching
environment and
workplace. As Equality and
Diversity Champion and LGBT Champion, I
am pleased to be leading this discussion related to our
LGBT action plan, with the ambition to make UWE a leading
University for LGBT equality.”
Stonewall LGB staff survey
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All LGB staff are invited to participate in a confidential survey managed by Stonewall to give feedback on working
at UWE. It will be completely anonymous and the feedback will help UWE to take the right actions to create a more
inclusive workplace. If you wish to participate in the survey, please go to http://www.stonewall.org.uk/wei2012/survey.You
will need to enter UWE’s institutional code 553 and the survey closes on 9 September 2011.
If you have any questions about LGBT equality initiatives at UWE, please contact the Equality and Diversity Unit on
equalityanddiversityunit@uwe.ac.uk 0117 32 81719.

NEWS
The University has welcomed the
proposal for a new football stadium
at the Frenchay Campus through a
groundbreaking agreement with Bristol
Rovers Football Club (BRFC) subject to
planning permission.
Proposals were presented at a press
conference hosted at Bristol Rovers
Football Club where Nick Higgs,
Chairman BRFC and Professor Steve
West, UWE Vice-Chancellor, explained
the exciting new plans to the local
media who turned up in force on
Thursday 9 June. The proposals were
widely covered and included a very
positive five page feature in the Bristol
Evening Post, interviews on local radio
and news items on BBC Points West and
ITV West.
UWE has agreed to lease an area of
land to BRFC that will create significant
benefits for students, staff and the
community.
The agreement represents a significant
investment of approximately £60 million
in first class facilities that bring added
value to the city and the region. BRFC
UWE welcomes stadium initiative
will be funding the build of the stadium.
The stadium will be known as the ‘UWE
Stadium’.
The agreement allows for a 20,000
seat stadium incorporating facilities for
match days, a retail unit, a club shop,
crèche, a sports bar/club, a banqueting
suite and space for UWE and the
community to hire. BRFC will also
construct a car park of over 1,000 spaces
for use by UWE staff and students, which
will replace car park 20 which only has
temporary planning permission. The car
park will also be available for supporters
on Match Days.
The stadium design will include a club
gym for student and community use,
an all weather jogging track, rooms
for student club activities and teaching
space.
UWE’s rugby and soccer varsity matches
will be able to use the stadium and
there will be the opportunity for
students to assist professional coaches.
Students will also be able to use the
Supporters Club Bar and adjacent
Banqueting Suite for functions and
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events, as well as being able to buy
discounted match tickets.
Students will be offered the chance to
take up casual employment vacancies for
match days, as well as part-time jobs in
catering and for bar staff. Internships
will be offered annually for students
into the operation of the Club.
In addition access will be provided to the
Media Suite for student courses. Those
on relevant degrees will be able to
monitor the construction of the stadium
as a project as part of their studies
and work with the club on marketing,
promotion and event management.
There are also opportunities for the
university to engage in social research
and engage with a diverse community of
football and rugby supporters.
The stadium will include a small
convenience store and BRFC will work
with UWE to support public transport
access to and from the site. BRFC will
work to support UWE charities and
alumni in fundraising campaigns. Staff
and the local community will be offered
match day discounted tickets.

Professor Steve West (r) and Nick Higgs, Chairman of Bristol Rovers Football
Club, at the press conference announcing the UWE Stadium plans
Professor Steve West, Vice-Chancellor,
says, “UWE welcomes this exciting
strategic agreement which will bring
tremendous benefits to the University,
students and the local community.
The agreement makes UWE the first
university campus with a 20,000 seat
stadium in the UK putting it on a par
with many international Universities,
and we believe this will have long term
value for everyone involved.
"The team at UWE and at BRFC have
worked hard to forge an agreement
that delivers real benefits to students
and the wider South Gloucestershire
community, as well as fulfilling the
Club’s aspirations and supporting the
University’s long term strategy. The
development would bring much needed
employment opportunities to our region
as the Stadium is constructed as well as
ongoing employment as the Stadium
operates. Importantly the scheme is
designed to deliver an identified need
within South Gloucestershire’s Spatial
Planning Strategy.”
BRFC Chairman Nick Higgs said, “I am
delighted to be able to announce our
plans for a purpose built stadium on
land at UWE’s Frenchay Campus.
“Negotiations on this project have
been going on for nearly two years, in
tandem with our plans to develop the
existing Memorial Stadium site. We
have looked at several sites in Bristol
and South Gloucestershire, but we felt
this land ticked all the boxes to allow
us to build the best possible stadium for
Bristol Rovers.
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“With the support of the
two local councils we feel
we can bring this exciting
project to fruition very
quickly.
“This is what we as a club
have been striving towards
for many years – to have
the finances in place to
construct a purpose built
stadium to help get the
club moving back in the
right direction.”
“This is a development of regional
significance to South Gloucestershire,
Bristol and the wider community. We
feel that we have developed a design
that is sympathetic to the area and
utilises the topography of the land to
good effect.
“With the support of the two local
councils we feel we can bring this
exciting project to fruition very quickly.
“This is what we as a club have been
striving towards for many years – to
have the finances in place to construct
a purpose built stadium to help get the
club moving back in the right direction.”
A consultation process will start in the
coming months.

NEWS
Aspiring solicitors ‘Catch the Wave’ into legal practice
with a new LPC simulation project
Students on UWE’s highly rated
postgraduate Legal Practice Course
have just completed a three-week pilot
simulation project acting as qualified
solicitors running their own cases with
the help of real-life solicitors who have
many years’ experience in practice.
The project, known as Catch the Wave,
is funded by a grant awarded by the
Technology Enhanced Learning Group
at UWE and is an example of the
new kind of learning enabled by the
new Education Innovation Centre. It
builds on simulation software called
‘simita’ which has been developed by
the E learning team and previously
used by the Law LLB. The software
enables small teams of students to
work together in ‘firms’ of solicitors
using an on-line virtual office to
correspond with their clients and the
other firms in the simulation. In the
LPC pilot, external professionals, who
are solicitors and partners in firms
or legal departments in Bristol, were
incorporated into the simulation
for the first time. This is an exciting
development that uses the simulations
to enhance relationships between
students and law firms for the future.
Students work under realistic time
pressures to see a case through from
start to finish, arranging the first
meeting with their clients, taking
instructions and then liaising with the
other side to reach a solution.
Internationally renowned Belgian feminist and philosopher
Professor Luce Irigaray was in Bristol in June attending an
international seminar symposium in her honour, organised by
the Centre for Legal Research and researchers at the University
of Bristol.
Professor Irigaray is one of the most influential philosophers
in the world. Her extensive body of work spans philosophy,
linguistics, psychoanalysis, sociology and cultural theory, and
has contributed to the development of feminist theoretical
and philosophical perspectives on difference, materiality,
rhetoric, ethics and the legacies of Western philosophy.
Since 2003, Professor Irigaray has held a seminar with an
international group of PhD students working on aspects of
her work, so this symposium with Professor Irigaray and her
doctoral students was an unrivalled chance to engage this
provocative and interesting scholar.
Programme leader Rachel Wood
says, “We have tried to design the
simulation so that it mimics the
work of a solicitor in practice as
closely as possible. Students have
to manage their own clients, decide
what action needs to be taken, meet
tight deadlines and juggle conflicting
priorities, all the time working
effectively as part of a team and
complying with professional standards.
This is a learning approach which is
used by at least one large city firm in
London and it has been exciting to see
what our students can do when we
throw them into the deep end.”
Student feedback has been
overwhelmingly positive. Nichola
Board says, “Taking part in this project
has given me valuable insight into the
work of a solicitor in practice. It has
enabled me to develop my commercial
awareness and case management
skills and it has provided me with
experience that I can draw on in job
applications and interviews.”
“I believe that my involvement in
Catch the Wave was instrumental in
enabling me to find a placement at
a London firm,” says student Tom
Hollins.
Sharon Latham, Partner at Clarke
Willmott LLP solicitors, played the
role of a partner in one of the virtual
firms. “I am very impressed by how
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Solicitor Tim Copplestone of Clarke Willmott
LLP with LPC students Holly Greenslade and
Nichola Board who worked together on the
simulation project.
realistic this project is. Students have
to record their time, manage their
clients, and deal effectively with a
range of different issues that arise
unexpectedly. I think it is a very
important development in professional
legal training. I believe that students
who take part will be better prepared
for practice and will therefore improve
their chances of obtaining a training
contract.”
Steve Dinning, Head of the Bristol
Institute of Legal Practice, says,
“We are very pleased to be able
to offer our LPC students at UWE
the opportunity of taking part in
simulations such as this which give
them valuable experience and enhance
their employability. We are not aware
of any other organisations in Bristol
running similar projects.”
UWE + University of Bristol co-host international Luce Irigaray
Seminar Symposium
The Centre for Legal Research’s Anna Grear, said, “UWE was
delighted to co-host the highly prestigious 2011 Irigaray
International Seminar, and to build new relationships with
scholars at the University of Bristol in the process. The
formation of this new and fertile partnership has already
produced plans for a collaborative publication on themes
related to Irigaray’s work, and the team also ran a series of
events related to the Seminar, under the title ‘Difference and
Dialogue’.
“These events included a series of discussions or ‘readings’
of Irigaray’s work and a round table, ‘Reverberating Irigaray’.
The round table theme focused on ‘Law, Justice and Ecology’,
engaging particularly with the most recent themes in Irigaray’s
work, and her emphasis upon the quest to build a new ‘world
culture’ on the foundations of her philosophical vision.”

Assessment
Feedback tackled
This year UWE has been tackling
Assessment Feedback in a variety of
ways, incorporating the Departmental
Assessment Feedback Champions
network, liaising with UWESU in
a raising awareness campaign and
culminating in a one day event on
12 May 2011, ‘Feedback in Practice’.
Key themes for the day were:
improving assessment feedback as
part of improving student experience,
assessment feedback as a partnership
with students and using technology
to enhance and improve assessment
feedback for students without increasing
the burden on staff.
Assessment Feedback is the area of
highest dissatisfaction in the National
Student Survey (NSS) both nationwide
and within UWE. It is an issue that is
often flagged up by student reps. Some
key areas of frustration for students
are late feedback without explanation,
illegibility of comments, feedback
which is too generic, feedback which
UWE wins SHA funding for public health nursing training
The University has secured a large
contract from the South West Strategic
Health Authority (SWSHA) to deliver
education and training in response
to the Government’s Health Visitor
Implementation Plan in the South West
Region. The Government policy aims to
increase the number of health visitors
nationally by 4,200 over the next five
years.
The contract brings substantial funding
to the Faculty of Health and Life
Sciences that will deliver the Specialist
Community Public Health Nursing
(SCPHN) programme to over 900 students
in the region. In addition to the six-fold
increase in the numbers of Health Visitors
trained at UWE, funding has also been
secured to educate additional numbers
of school nurses, sexual health nurses and
occupational health nurses over the next
five years until 2016. This will be across
the region and includes Devon, Cornwall,
Gloucestershire, West Somerset, North
Somerset, Bristol, South Gloucestershire,
Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East
Somerset. The extended programme
team will be led by Judy Orme, Reader
in Public Health and Debra Salmon,
Professor in Nursing Research.
Professor Helen Langton, Executive
Dean of the Faculty of Health and Life
Sciences, said, “I am delighted that we
does not indicate how to improve,
and inconsistency of marking and
feedback (Wilson G 2011). The emphasis
in research on Assessment Feedback
has tended to focus on improving
the quality of feedback to students,
but there is evidence to show that
students are not using feedback
effectively and indeed a proportion of
students at UWE, especially from level
3, fail to collect feedback at all. Tutors
grumble that students appear not to
engage with written feedback, despite
endless questions and anxiety prior to
submission.
What do students like? “Very clear,
concise feedback. Always says how
to improve your work and is always
available for face to face feedback.”
“Typed (legible) feedback. Very clear,
and even though I got 70 per cent, gave
specific improvements to improve the
next piece of coursework.”
Contributions from Graham Baker
and Jo Miller focused on improving
student use of feedback, while David
Allen, Linda Cinderey and Dr Nadine
Fry concentrated on using technology
have won this substantial bid. It gives us
an opportunity to continue to develop
our reputation for being innovative and
creative in programme developments to
meet strategic policy drivers.”
Judy Orme, is delighted with this
outcome, she said, “This is a huge
contract representing significant
income to the faculty. The successful
tender is the result of a great team
effort and demonstrates the strength
of multidisciplinary working within the
university. The University has a talented
teaching team who are excited at the
prospect of educating and developing
such a large number of professionals who
will be central to improving the health
and wellbeing of communities in the
South West Region.”
Professor Debra Salmon said, “This
programme provides the opportunity
for close collaboration between two
Departments: the Department of Nursing
and Midwifery and the Department of
Health and Social Sciences. Together with
current practitioners the programme will
work as a dynamic enterprise that brings
together academics, practitioners, service
users and researchers to promote public
health nursing and community health.”
This tender has led to an exciting and
innovative programme development. The
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for effective feedback. Dr Sarah
Robertson discussed findings from
her project which show that students
really value and want more one to one
feedback sessions. Gail Wilson from
UWESU contributed student comments
and views. Outcomes from this event
included positive comments on different
perspectives, ideas and sharing good
practice, especially in using technologies,
whilst providing some ideas and impetus
for future developments to improve
practice in Assessment Feedback at
UWE. Members from UWE federation
colleges commented on how much they
gained from engaging with key issues
in conjunction with UWE colleagues.
Jo Miller, UWE’s Assessment Feedback
Co-ordinator said “We will continue
to promote good practice and tackle
key issues around Assessment Feedback
to improve the student and staff
experience at UWE.”
Anyone interested in finding out more
about developments in Assessment
Feedback at UWE should contact
jo.miller@uwe.ac.uk or
carol.fox@uwe.ac.uk.
vision for the new public health nursing
practitioners of the future emphasises
the leadership role that these nurses will
play in influencing individual, family and
community health. The new programme
will include innovative new modules
focused on family therapy; work, health
and wellbeing; and sexual health. This
aligns with the changing landscape for
the delivery of public health nursing
services. For Health Visiting these include
the development of four new levels of
service focusing on community capacity
building, delivery of universal services
for all families, additional ‘universal
plus’ services for families at times of
increased need and ongoing support for
vulnerable families and a multi-agency
universal partnership plus service focused
on safeguarding and child protection
concerns.
Professor Steve West, UWE Vice-
Chancellor, says, “This is a fantastic result
for the University. Working in partnership
with the South West Strategic Health
Authority we welcome this responsibility
to offer great training opportunities to
students throughout the region. The
two departments involved have a wealth
of experience in public health nursing
training and it is great news that this
has been recognised in this important
contract.”

NEWS
Men and Cancer
– find out more at UWE seminar
Exhibition and Conference Centre, Frenchay Campus, UWE
Saturday 2 July 2011 09:30 to 16:30
Many people are unaware that men have poorer survival from
cancer, not only from those cancers that are specific to men,
such as prostate cancer but also from cancers which affect both
sexes, such as lung and bowel cancer. To highlight this important
health issue, the University of the West of England is hosting a
one day conference on ‘Men and Cancer’ at the Exhibition and
Conference Centre on Frenchay Campus on Saturday 2 July 2011.
The seminar is open to the general public and any people
working in healthcare professions. The seminar aims to raise
awareness of how cancer affects men and will provide an
excellent opportunity for people to find out more about local
initiatives. These initiatives include promotional efforts to
encourage men to ‘get tested’ if they display symptoms so that
an early diagnosis can be made. Also there will be a focus on
current local and international biomedical research and clinical
improvements.
The conference will include presentations by international
leaders in this field of research as well as many local experts who
are working at the forefront of cancer research and cancer care
in Bristol.
Professor Tony Rhodes, a researcher from UWE is co-organising
the conference, he said, “Men need to be more aware of the
early symptons of cancer as an early diagnosis can make a very
significant difference to recovery. Men are an unrecognised
and unequal group in terms of promotional efforts to raise
awareness of the symptoms of cancers that affect them and we
want to redress this balance. There are many cancer specialists
working in this city and we are aiming to put Bristol on the
map as a leading centre for treatment, care and research. This
event is the third conference that we have held at UWE to
bring together consultants, health practitioners, researchers
and patients to help inform, involve and consult on the latest
developments.”
Pat Turton, a specialist lecturer in cancer education from UWE
says, “We are especially delighted that we have Joe Norman,
Chairman of the User Involvement Group of Avon Somerset
and Wiltshire Cancer Services Network who will highlight
inequalities for men and cancer and the need for work to be
done both locally and nationally to improve outcomes for men
with cancer and the importance of involving users in this field.”
The conference will be opened with a welcoming speech
from UWE Vice -Chancellor, Professor Steve West who is also
Chairperson of the Bristol Urological Institute.
Professor West says, “We are very proud of the collaborative
work that is going on in the city of Bristol with critical
partnerships between researchers at UWE, the University
of Bristol, the Bristol Urological Institute and the hospital
consultants at the Bristol Centre for Haematology and Oncology.
We are also delighted that Professor Azad Hassan Bin Abdul
Razack has taken time out of his busy schedule at the University
of Malaya Medical Centre to join us at the seminar. The research
partnership that UWE has developed with the University of
Malaya looking into prostate cancer care is an important project
that will lead to new insights.”
Professor Jeff Holly from the University of Bristol will explain
scientific evidence for the role of nutrition in prostate cancer.
Professor Tony Rhodes will give a presentation on biomedical
research in prostate cancer in Bristol.
Katie Collins, Senior Research Fellow from UWE’s Social
Marketing Centre will look at how a Social Marketing approach
has been used locally to promote the early diagnosis of lung
cancer in men.
Professor David Gillatt, Consultant urological surgeon with the
Bristol Urological Institute will discuss clinical developments and
surgical treatments.
There will be an international perspective on prostate cancer in
Malaysia from Professor Azad Hassan Bin Abdul Razack, Head of
Surgery at the University of Malaya.
Dr Amit Bahl, Consultant Clinical Oncologist and Head of
Radiotherapy UHBristol will talk about recent advances in
radiotherapy in prostate cancer.
Finally Dr Jeremy Braybrook, Consultant Medical Oncologist
at UHBristol will present on current treatments and initiatives
in testicular cancer, and in particular to draw attention to the
local charity, ‘It’s in the bag’, which was set up to support men
with testicular cancer, and which was short-listed for the Pfizer
Excellence in Oncology Awards, 2010.
For more information and to book a place at the Men and Cancer seminar
please contact urszula2.strzemiecka@uwe.ac.uk 0117 32 81110
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Pat Turton and Professor Tony
Rhodes, Men and Cancer
conference organisers

Somerset businesses have the
energy to achieve
Professor Martin Bigg from UWE’s Faculty of Environment and
Technology was a keynote speaker at last month’s Somerset in
Business Conference, which had Somerset’s transition to a low
carbon economy as its theme.
As Director of the Environmental Technologies iNet, he
provided more than 200 delegates with an overview of the
UWE-led business support initiative.
Sharing a stage with several well-known business and
environmental figures, including the Interim-Chair of the Heart
of the South West LEP and senior representatives from EDF
Energy and the Department of Energy and Climate Change,
Professor Bigg highlighted the sector-specific focus of the iNet
programme.
“The Environmental Technologies iNet offers a unique package
of valuable support to innovative cleantech companies in
Somerset and the wider South West,” he said.
“Quite simply, we are here to assist. Whether you need help
with protecting your ideas and products, accessing funding,
breaking into overseas markets, building relationships
with academia or establishing research and
development projects, the iNet should be your first
port of call.”
Chris Williams, Managing Director of Clevedonbased
renewable energy company Goodridge
Environmental, gave a view of the iNet from the
perspective of a beneficiary company which has
engaged with Professor Bigg’s team over the past few
months.
Goodridge had attended an Environmental
Technologies iNet ‘investor readiness’ workshop
in Exeter, went on to take part in the Technology
Roadmapping Initiative at Brunel’s SS Great Britain
in Bristol, and signed up for iNet’s free IP support
package.
They are also a participant in the Innovation Credits
Scheme, a collaborative offering between the
Environmental Technologies iNet and its sister project
covering the Creative Industries, which matches the
design needs of cleantech businesses with the agencies best
placed to provide solutions, before part-funding the resulting
creative projects.”
Chris Williams said, “I would really recommend that companies
approach the iNet,” he said. “It can be so difficult for SMEs
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to find time to raise their heads above the parapet and seek
support, but in the case of the iNet it is well worth it.”
Also representing UWE at the annual conference was David
Lennard from the Research, Business and Innovation service
(RBI), co-facilitating a workshop showing the many ways
businesses can engage with the region’s higher education
institutions.
Professor Bigg has also recently presented at the first of
the Environmental Technologies iNet’s intellectual property
(IP) workshops, the first stage of an ongoing and bespoke
IP support package offered free of charge to innovative
environmental businesses in the South West.
“Recent government findings suggest that only 15 per cent of
small companies seek advice on safeguarding ideas,” Professor
Bigg said of the scheme. “This timely initiative will help to
address the issue in the South West’s environmental goods and
services sector by enabling participants to secure specialist,
bespoke support that could otherwise prove too costly.”
To find out more about the Environmental Technologies iNet,
visit www.inets-sw.co.uk/environmental or e-mail shaun.jordan@
inets-sw.co.uk tel 0117 32 86704
Fourth from right: Professor Martin Bigg, (Director, Environmental
Technologies iNet) with Somerset in Business conference speakers
On 16 March 2011 the UWE Philosophy Students Society organised a
workshop and champagne reception to celebrate the publication of a major
new work on the History of Philosophy, co-authored by three members of
the UWE Philosophy team, Jeremy Dunham, Iain Hamilton Grant and Sean
Watson. Idealism: The History of a Philosophy (Acumen 2011) is the first
book in many years to provide a comprehensive introduction to an area
of philosophical thought that while neglected throughout much of the
twentieth-century is currently enjoying a well deserved renaissance. The
event was attended by over 60 students, staff, and interested members of the
public. Pictured are Alison Assiter, Iain Grant and Andrew Jones.

NEWS
UWE presents prizes to award
winning performers
Students from UWE’s Centre for Performing Arts have been
awarded prizes for excellence and commitment to the
Performing Arts at a special award ceremony at the Royal
West of England Academy.
The students have been involved in a wide variety of activities
including the orchestra, brass consort, clarinet, woodwind
and saxophone groups, drama, vocal studies, big band, music
theatre and backstage crew. The students have taken part
in these activities while pursuing their studies in a range
of subjects including Audio and Music Technology, Drama,
Politics, Education and Creative Music Technology.
The prizewinners are: Joshua Cook - CPA Technical Prize;
Rebecca Walsh – Students’ Union Drama Prize; Adam Collier –
Cremona House String Prize; Katy Sweetman – The Luke Gale
Memorial Prize; James Deeny – Centre for Performing Arts
Prize; Nicholas Williams – Student Experience Prize; Andrew
Grigg – Vocal Prize; Jack Gray – Alumni and Development
Prize for Outstanding Contribution and Alex Hawker –
UWE Vice-Chancellor’s Prize. Each prizewinner received a
certificate and a cheque for £50.
Alex Hawker, recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize, and
a Creative Music Technology student, said, “I've had some
great experiences through the Centre for Performing Arts,
during my three years here. These include playing trumpet
and singing in the Big Band and Scholars Jazz group,
playing keyboard for the fantastic annual musical, singing
with Barbershop quartet 'Four in the Bar', and even the
opportunity and support to set up a new choir 'Sound of
Soul'. I feel I've really developed my musicianship through
participating with the CPA, and it has allowed me to carry on
playing regularly whilst completing my degree.”
An evening celebrating the performing arts wouldn’t be
complete without focusing on the achievements and talents
of the prizewinners as well as recapping the UWE Centre for
Performing Arts’ extensive programme of events that have
taken place over the past year, particularly its continued
commitment to community engagement and partnerships.
The event was attended by Vice-Chancellor, Professor Steven
West, distinguished guests from arts organisations and local
business and the families and friends of the prizewinners.
Musical entertainment was provided by the student-run
Sound of Soul Choir founded only this year by prizewinner
Alex Hawker, the Saxophone Ensemble, directed by Valerie
Hodges and the scholars’ jazz quartet Essenjay.
The guest speaker was Jonathan Bradley; formerly Dean of
UWE Students who gave an entertaining speech appropriately
entitled ‘Fiddlers, Crooners and Exhibitionists’.
Ian Holmes, Director of the Centre for Performing Arts, said,
“We are delighted to be able to celebrate the enormous
talents of our UWE students and also the diversity of activities
available to students, staff, alumni and community members.
We very much look forward to the 2011/12 academic year
with particular focus on our productions: Titanic the Musical,
Holst the Planets and David Fanshawe’s African Sanctus – all
of which will take place in March 2012."
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CPA prizewinners
Pictured is the victorious UWE Varsity Rowing squad celebrating
their 4-1 win over the University of Bristol Rowers at this year’s
annual varsity rowing regatta held on Saturday 14 May at the
sunny Bristol harbourside. Large crowds came to cheer on both
teams and enjoyed the entertainment from the Centre for
Performing Arts’ Big Band, Sound of Soul Choir, Showstoppers and
the Saxophone Ensemble.
UWE Boat Club President, Jonny Smith-Willis said, “I'm absolutely
thrilled with the boat clubs 4 -1 victory over Bristol Uni at Varsity.
All the hard training our members did over the winter months
paid dividends during that three minutes of racing. Every UWE
crew showed a lot of courage in the first half of each race and
relied on mental toughness to get to the finish line. They should
be very proud of their achievements.”
For full Varsity Results visit: http://www.uwesu.org/get_involved/
sports/sports_updates/varsity_series_2011

Staff and students to get
new UWE ID card
A new University ID card for staff, students and
visitors is due to be rolled out across the University
called UWE Card. This UWE Card will improve security
and access throughout the Frenchay, Bower Ashton,
St Matthias and Glenside campuses. The new cards
will improve access by operating a fully networked,
contactless / proximity system of entry.
A programme of work to replace existing door locks
across these sites will start at the end of June and this
work is scheduled for completion early September
2011. Staff will receive their new UWE Card at the
end of June which will be handed out via the payroll
groups. A signature will be required on receipt.
Distribution to students will follow afterwards.
The UWE Card will replace the current card and
will continue to provide the current functionality.
However, until all work has been completed there will
be a need to carry both old and new cards during this
transition period.
Further details will be available at
www.uwe.ac.uk/uwecards
Mr Michael
Tappern
Staff
UWE Card
Staff
08989723
Issued 11.05.11
Association of University
Administrators (AUA)
Join AUA now and benefit from:
• support for your career development
• networking opportunities
• information on current HE issues
• a world of new opportunities within the sector
• the opportunity to travel (through application
for travel awards)
The UWE Bristol Branch of the AUA contributes to
the professionalisation of the UWE Administrator
by promoting the work of the Association and by
working with the University to embed the Code
of Professional Standards in a more high profile
manner.
For an information pack on the benefits of being
a member of the AUA, please contact Pat Hughes,
Patricia.Hughes@uwe.ac.uk or Teresa Stephens,
Teresa2.Stephens@uwe.ac.uk, UWE Joint AUA
Branch Co-ordinators.
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The way students study can
make a big difference to their
learning
The student literacy hub, called mySkills, has been developed
by Elspeth Williams, UWE Learning and Teaching Fellow, who
co-ordinates the Student Literacy Interconnection Project (SLIP).
She says, “The mySkills academic literacy hub pulls together
sources of learning support available across the University. As
well as face-to-face support and online materials that can
be used in class or independently by students, it includes
skills4study, an interactive resource based on the study skills
series published by Palgrave. The hub is up and running now so
lecturers can explore it in time to build this resource into their
planning for next term.
“Students can use the resources on this site to develop the
literacy skills that will underpin their UWE studies and build the
confidence to help them succeed.”
skills4study is interactive and online 24/7. Students can practise
and develop their academic skills in key areas such as: academic
reading and note making, critical thinking, academic writing
and referencing and plagiarism.
Elspeth continues, “This service can be used to support the
Graduate Development Programme (GDP) and assessment
feedback to students. Information for staff planning to use
mySkills with their students includes introductory slides; advice
on resource content; mapping to the resources from learning
outcomes, course work/assignments, and areas where students
commonly need development, and input into GDP sessions.”
Deep links to skills4study and other resources can be
embedded into assessment feedback, pointing students
directly to resources they can use for development in specific
areas. Examples of commonly given feedback incorporating
such links are available under the Content Collection area
of Blackboard. (Go to Content Collection>Institution
Content>Library>Assessment Feedback).
The feedback statements can be copied, pasted (and edited)
into comments on students’ work. Topics developed so far
include essay structure; writing in paragraphs; answering
the question; providing appropriate evidence; referencing;
insufficient analysis.
Next steps for mySkills include the redevelopment of the section
‘Being a UWE Student’ to create an engaging resource that will
help students’ understanding of what academic study involves
at each level.
mySkills can be accessed via the dedicated tab in Blackboard
or by visiting www.uwe.ac.uk/myskills For further information,
contact Elspeth.Williams@uwe.ac.uk
Students can use the mySkills academic literacy hub to develop their
study skills

NEWS
Visit by students from Fujairah
Women’s College of Higher
Technology
The Department of Education recently hosted 11 students
training to teach English in primary schools and their tutors
from Fujairah Women’s College of Higher Technology in
the United Arab Emirates. The visit aimed to enrich the
students’ knowledge of primary and early years’ pedagogy
and to raise their awareness of cultural aspects of English
language and ways of life. The trip, planned by Dr Penelope
Harnett and Maggie Weber (both CAHE) was organised
under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin
Hamad Bin Mohammed Al Sharqi.
Fujairah and UWE students worked together in a number
of sessions, including food technology classes cooking a
traditional dish, making flat bread and food dips. There
were also sessions on citizenship education which enabled
students to explore different views of citizenship and
social roles and responsibilities. The students also joined
a seminar on comparative education and participated
in seminars focusing on intercultural understanding and
content language integrated learning. Two days were
spent observing and working in St Chad’s Primary School,
Patchway. Their tutor, Slim Khemakhem was grateful for
the school’s very warm welcome. He said, “The students
have been keen to answer the children’s questions about
their way of life and had the opportunity to teach some
lessons. The children have shown real enthusiasm in learning
to read and write in Arabic.”
At the end of the visit, Head of Department Professor
Lynn Raphael Reed, spoke of the mutual benefits which
had occurred from the visit. She observed, “Visits such
as these really enrich our students’ experiences and their
understanding of different cultures within the global
community.”
Rebecca Fong, Susan Hughes, Professor Lynn Raphael Reed, Dr
Penelope Harnett, Maggie Weber and Sally Bassett with colleagues and
students from Fujairah Women's College.
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Volunteering join forces for
annual beach clean
UWE joined forces with the Beach Ranger Service and
the Marine Conservation Society to clean Weston-super-
Mare beach for the fifth annual beach clean. The event
took place during this year’s national Volunteers Week
and was a summer celebration of student volunteers’
hard work over the last academic year, while at the same
time making a difference to the local community.
Around 30 students from UWE were joined by
members of the public. Jo Earl from UWE Volunteering
department said, “I think this is a great volunteering
opportunity for students who may have never tried
volunteering before and yet it has a massive impact. It's
all about celebrating and encouraging volunteering. The
beach clean gives us the opportunity to promote other
easy ways to get involved in volunteering and make a
difference.
“It is really more than aesthetic litter picking; the rubbish
left by people visiting the beach can have disastrous
consequences for marine life. We will clear the beach
from Royal Sands Car Park and along the edge of the
golf course. There is a lot of litter that gathers in the
dunes that is not cleared by the mechanical cleaning
of the main beach. The beach clean is really popular
with international students, who get the chance to visit
Weston, a historic seaside town, and make a difference
to the coastal heritage site at the same time! It also
gives a chance to get our students out and volunteering
further afield.”
The event is run in partnership with the Marine
Conservation Society, helping with their local litter
surveys as part of their national campaign. The Beach
Clean helps raise awareness amongst the public in the
hope that people will change habits and think before
they throw away rubbish.
Jo Earl continues, “The Big Beach Clean is just one
of many events held throughout the year under the
banner of UWE 'Community Action Days'. This year
UWE volunteers have been involved in helping various
organisations with tree planting, garden renovation,
serving a charity Christmas meal and painting a local
children’s centre.”
The Beach Clean volunteers

Mapping the South West's Cleantech Future
More than 60 representatives from business and academia in
the South West attended an Environmental Technologies iNet
event at the SS Great Britain in Bristol last month.
The Technology Roadmap Initiative was opened by Councillor
Barbara Janke, Leader of Bristol City Council and attracted
delegates from a wide range of environmental companies and
universities.
The event, which also marked the launch of the iNet in the
northern part of the region, sought to provide a forum
for delegates to define current and future technological
trends, before identifying potential solutions and knowledge
exchange and technology transfer opportunities.
“Roadmapping enables businesses, entrepreneurs and
academics to be part of an open innovation community,”
explained UWE’s Professor Martin Bigg, Director of the
Environmental Technologies iNet.
“By bringing together such a diverse set of expert individuals
and facilitating a structured brainstorming session, we are
providing participants with a chance to identify opportunities
for business growth, university collaboration and the
establishment of mutually beneficial relationships with likeminded
organisations.
“The ultimate aim is the construction of a plan that matches
the delegates' common needs with existing, emerging
or newly suggested technology solutions. The potential
outcomes are numerous, ranging from technology exchange
opportunities between participants to involvement in
European funded collaborative research projects.”
Discussions were primarily focused on the four key subsectors
supported by the iNet: renewable energy, sustainable
transport, waste management and sustainable construction.
An overview of current funding sources in relation to each
of these areas was given by the Environmental Sustainability,
Transport, Materials and Modern Built Environment
Knowledge Transfer Networks, setting the perspective in terms
of the finance available for taking forward emerging ideas
before discussions commenced.
Feedback from participating businesses was particularly
positive with Nick Flynn, Director of OxiAqua Ltd, saying,
“There was a great mix of people from support organisations,
larger businesses and small to medium-sized enterprises. The
section on funding was very helpful and we are leaving today
with three leads to follow up.”
Roller derby debut at Centre for Sport
The Centre for Sport recently played host to the first live roller derby in
Bristol - Ship Shape and Bristol Smash'em. Over 40 girls from the Bristol
Roller Derby league took part in an afternoon of exciting racing.
Roller derby is a fast-paced, full-contact team event made up of two teams
of five players. The aim is to pass the other team by knocking them out of
the way.
For more info visit: www.bristolrollerderby.com.
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Professor James Longhurst,
Assistant Vice-Chancellor,
Environment and Sustainability
and Associate Dean of the
Faculty of Environment and
Technology represented UWE
at the event, he said, “It has
been a really exciting day with
delegates thinking through
the future of environmental
technologies and how
the South West economy
can benefit from their
development.
UWE’s Professor Martin Bigg,
Director of the Environmental
Technologies iNet, in front of
Brunel’s SS Great Britain on
Bristol’s historic harbourside.
“I’m looking forward to seeing
what ends up coming out of
the discussions - how the ideas
that are being generated progress and how the participants
might work together going forwards.”
The event was facilitated for the Environmental Technologies
iNet by Business West and IATP Ltd, who were keen to
emphasise the roadmapping exercise was not just a one-off
event, but the start of an ongoing innovation initiative.
After the event delegates were given the option of a
guided tour of Brunel’s iconic ship, or a visit to the adjacent
home of the Bloodhound SSC 1000mph car, another project
encapsulating UWE’s commitment to supporting innovation in
the region.
The findings of the Technology Roadmap Initiative are
available via the Environmental Technologies iNet’s LinkedIn
group.
To find out more about the project contact Dr Enda Hayes,
Business Support Manager on 0117 32 86706, e-mail enda.
hayes@inets-sw.co.uk

Summer Fair Success!
NEWS
Over 1000 people attended the ‘Find a
job’ summer fair in May organised by the
UWE Careers Recruiter Partnership team in
conjunction with the Students Union. The
event was aimed at helping new graduates
kick start their job hunting, and present a
positive message about the buoyancy of the
graduate job market to counteract many of
the messages in the press.
The event also provided an opportunity for
other students to look for summer work or
placement opportunities.
The Recruiter Partnership team decided to
invite recruitment consultancies instead of
individual employers in order to focus the
event on finding students and graduates
vacancies in their area of interest. The
recruitment agencies that attended had
vacancies in a wide range of employment
sectors including law, admin, sales, IT
and finance, to engineering, technical
professionals and teaching. The feedback
from both the recruiters and students was
positive.
Caring for METIman
Christ College students experienced hands on nursing with a
difference when they attended the Nursing Skills Simulation
Suite at UWE’s Glenside campus.
The students, who are all taking their BTec in Health and
Social care, had the chance to try out a number of skills
at the high tech facility including handwashing, METIman
patient simulator pulse and blood pressure readings.
The suite also features realistic baby manikins, which the
students became quickly attached to as they practised caring
for them.
The facility is an invaluable one for people training in a
variety of health care roles from nursing to paramedics,
because it replicates the real hospital environment and
creates a sense of familiarity when they encounter the real
thing.
Aim Higher Co-ordinator at Christ College Mrs Julie Parr
said, “This visit has been arranged through a national Aim
Higher initiative, and we hope that our students will feel
encouraged by the experience to consider higher education
opportunities.”
The visit was co-ordinated and delivered by the Aimhigher
Healthcare Strand (Janet Lonsdale) HLS Child Nursing
lecturers (Zoe Veal, Bev Embling) and Student Ambassadors
(Hannah Downing, Mark OConnell)
Richard Smith, Business Development
Manager from Eyears said, “As a local,
specialist education and early years
recruitment agency, many UWE students
are already registered and doing supply
work with us, so we have experience of
the general high calibre UWE student.
However, as this was a generic graduate
‘Find A Job Fair’ we didn’t really know
what to expect from the day. To say we
were pleasantly surprised would be an
understatement. Both our Managing
Director, Martin Bove and myself were
thoroughly impressed by the graduates we
met. We felt the students were a credit to
themselves and to UWE. We have already
received applications from students who
attended the fair. We left feeling energised
by the experience and confident that our
graduate scheme will be a roaring success.
Without a doubt we will be attending UWE
job fairs in future. Well done all.”
The careers team will be offering a similar
event next year with plans to make it much
larger after this year’s success. If anyone
has any recommendations of recruitment
agencies we could invite please e-mail
careers@uwe.ac.uk.
Trying not to throw the baby out with the bathwater: Ruby Severn, Alex
McIntyre and Health and Social Care Teacher Mrs Sheila Hope
Student Ruby Severn looks after a
‘young’ METIman with Lecturer in
Child Nursing Zoe Veal and Student
Ambassador Hannah Downing
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‘Find a Job’ Summer Fair
Students Kelsie Davidson, Georgia Mills
and Sharnie Cook getting attached to
their little patients

Extensive UWE
presence at national
Nuclear Medicine
conference
Two members of the Post Graduate
Nuclear Medicine Programme team (Gary
Dawson and Rob Stewart, both HLS)
were recently invited to present two
keynote lectures and three proffered
papers at the British Nuclear Medicine
Society Annual Conference in Brighton.
The focus of the invited keynote
lecturesrelated to service redesign within
clinical Nuclear Medicine practice and
via interactive voting devices (Turning
Point Technology) aimed to capture
the opinions of the audience. Open
discussion highlighted the potential
opportunity to further develop formal
guidance related to the use of new
technologies within the current working
environment, which supports initial
research undertaken by UWE.
The proffered papers continued the
theme of workforce development
UWESU wins the Gold Standard –
NUS Green Impact awards
and considered areas relating to
mentorship, the emergence of hybrid
imaging practitioners and the use of
technology enhanced learning (TEL)
within a postgraduate Nuclear Medicine
environment. The TEL paper focused
on the implementation and associated
student feedback of a web based
processing platform that provides
students with real world experience of
current Nuclear Medicine practice. This
platform has been implemented within
the UWE Nuclear Medicine programme
in collaboration with HERMES Medical
Solutions, an international company who
provide specialist software support to the
Nuclear Medicine community.
“Evidence captured from this
national meeting will lead to further
research opportunities with associated
professional bodies and has undoubtedly
strengthened our relationship with
commercial partners. Attendance at this
national meeting has further developed
our standing within the Nuclear
Medicine community and will allow UWE
to continue as a leading educational
provider,” said Marc Griffiths (HLS,
Nuclear Medicine Programme Leader).
Students’ unions are leading the way when it comes to
sustainability, greener campuses and communities across
the UK, according to the latest findings of a national green
scheme. UWE Students’ Union is playing its part in this and has
just won a Gold Award in the NUS Green Impact awards, rising
steadily from bronze to silver over the last three years – a
fantastic achievement.
In order to get the award, in the last year the SU has taken
all sorts of action on the ground geared towards cutting its
carbon footprint and embedding sustainable practices such
as: recycling shoes, clothes swap events and talks with our
suppliers to reduce packaging. As one of the Green Impact
Student Unions, UWESU’s actions feed into a national body of
experience and campaigns co-ordinated through the NUS.
For those who don’t know, Green Impact Students’ Unions seek
to capture the positive green innovations in students’ unions
and promote them to the general public. This year the scheme
has found more inspirational initiatives than ever, including
a black-out day to save energy, the reallocation of end of
semester unwanted food to homeless people, and a campaign
against fly-tipping.
“This year a record 88 students’ unions took part in our
scheme, capturing an array of novel ideas, including energy
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Gary Dawson presenting one of the
keynote lectures at the Clinical Nuclear
Medicine Practitioner session.
Gary Dawson (first on left) and Rob
Stewart (third on left), with Matt
Hodgkinson (Applications Specialist)
and Steve Bloomer (far right) (Director
of Sales and Technical Services) at
the HERMES Medical Solutions Stand,
British Nuclear Medicine Society
Meeting.
audits of students’ homes, a rooftop vegetable garden with
bee hives, and a part-time carnivore scheme to reduce the
consumption of meat,” said Susan Nash, NUS’s Vice President
Society and Citizenship.
In support of the sustainability agenda at UWE, Steve West,
Vice-Chancellor, says, “Sustainability is embedded in how
we run the University and how we connect with the wider
community.” In furtherance of this, the University recently ran
an Education for Sustainable Development day, looking at
ways to integrate all aspects of sustainability and its teaching
across departments of the University and the Students’ Union,
exciting news for sustainability and for joined-up thinking
across the organisation, and for UWESU.
Colin Offler, Student Representative Council President, said,
“I’d like to take this opportunity to express my thanks to
everyone from the University who supported us and assisted us
in achieving this standard. It quite simply wouldn’t have been
possible had we not worked together on this. Special thanks to
Tessa Gordelier, Energy Manager and Vicki Harris, Sustainability
Engagement Co-ordinator from Facilities whose support has
been invaluable. As for 2011/12, we will aim to be even more
effective by working to get all UWESU staff and students to
think about sustainability issues as a matter of course in their
daily lives.”
More information: www.nus.org.uk/greenimpactunions
UWE and sustainability: http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/aboutus/
visionandmission/sustainability.aspx

NEWS
NEWS
Environmental expert from UWE collaborating with partners
in China
Dr Jona Razzaque (FBL) was invited by the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) to give a paper on ‘environmental
governance in Europe and Asia’ in Beijing. This lecture explored the participatory rights of communities in
managing resources such as water and biodiversity. This invitation is part of the ongoing collaboration with the
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of CAS. Dr Razzaque and Professor Tang of CAS
have already put together a project on ‘Ecological Conservation and Eradication of Poverty in the Middle and
Lower Reaches of the Tarim River’ that assesses the impacts of the degradation of ecosystem services on local
communities.
During the same visit to China, Dr Razzaque was invited to present papers to staff members of the Research
Institute of Environmental Law (RIEL) of Wuhan University. This is part of the fellowship that she receives since
2008 at the Law School of Wuhan University. She gave papers on ‘Sovereignty and environmental governance’
and ‘Participation and access to environmental justice in Asia’. This visit enabled RIEL to discuss progress of the
ongoing research on public interest litigation in China and explore further collaboration on supervision of their
postgraduate students.
Maltese Prime Minister, the Hon.
Lawrence Gonzi
UWE lecturer
shares the platform
with Maltese
Prime Minister,
the Honorable
Lawrence Gonzi
Dr Salima Paul, from the Centre for
Global Finance (BBS) was invited by the
Malta Association of Credit Management
(MACM) to present her research
findings on the late payment problem
to an audience of around 200 credit
managers from all over Europe. Dr
Paul’s presentation was related to recent
research funded by the Association of
Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
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Dr Razzaque visit to China
Dr Paul was amongst many distinguished
speakers invited to celebrate MACM’s
tenth anniversary. Dr Paul’s presentation,
entitled ‘Combating Late Payment in
Trade Credit’, gave an insight into the
realities of trade credit relationships,
offering the prospect of finding ways
to help organisations work better. She
explained the need for good trade credit
relationships, where both customers and
suppliers achieve mutual benefits, which
are deemed to be equitable, ethical and
sustainable and which will reduce the
late payment problem, one of the main
reasons for corporate failure, especially
amongst SMEs. The Prime Minster of
Malta congratulated Dr Paul for her very
informative presentation and thanked
her for sharing her research with the
practitioners and guest speakers.

Keeping you informed - Frenchay Campus Parking Arrangements
Summer 2011
General Parking and Visitor Parking
arrangements
Updates to car parking will be highlighted on snippets,
throughout the summer months and further information
will be provided on the car parking web pages.
Car Park 20 is now closed for the summer term and will
reopen for the start of the new academic year. During the
summer site occupation levels will be closely monitored
and this facility will be reopened to facilitate demand
for large events. To extend availability for general car
parking, car parks one, two and three will be open for
general access during this period. All staff will also be
able to access car parks four, five, nine, 10 and 17 with
their staff access card.
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summer between the hours of 9.30 and 17.30 Monday to
Friday and are available to purchase from the usual retail
outlets.
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are hosting please use the web based visitor booking
system.
Car Park Maintenance
During the summer months the Facilities Department will
be completing essential maintenance and development
works in a number of the car parks on campus. The first
phase of these works will be laying a new surface in car
parks two and three later this month. During this period
information relating to the car park arrangements will be
advertised on the electronic sign as you enter the site and
also on the Facilities car parking web pages.
Printing and Stationery Services
Did you know that we not only
provide printing for the University
but also do private work for staff and
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If you are involved in a club or an
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Leggings to improve running speed, seed saver + hand massager
feature at UWE’s design show
Final year degree projects featuring an array of innovative ideas including a hand massager for people with arthritis, leggings
designed to improve running speed and a nifty device for gardeners to save seeds were displayed at ‘Plan + Make’ earlier this
month.
‘Plan + Make’ showcased the work from five departments across the Faculty of Environment and Technology. (FET).
Kurt Gauss, Associate Head of Department, Engineering Design and Mathematics, said, “The combined work in the exhibition
showed a broad cross section of investigation and design solutions that address issues our society is facing today. The products
and services presented by our graduates demonstrate outstanding competencies in research, critical analysis, design synthesis,
brand development, service mapping, design engineering and human centred design.”
Professor Paul Olomolaiye, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of FET enthuses, “From architecture through to games
technology, mechanical engineering to product design, geography to music technology, this year ‘plan + make’ is the most
ambitious and exciting degree show we have ever had.”
Exhibits included work from final year students from the full range of courses in the Faculty of Environment and Technology.
Will Drake 4th Year Product Design
Technology
Hand massager for people
with arthritis
Will Drake and the
working model for his
hand massager
Will Drake has designed a hand
massage machine to help improve
the quality of life for people
who suffer from arthritis. He
conducted research at the Bath
Royal Hospital for Rheumatic
Diseases where he met with
health practitioners and patients
to help inform his design.
Will explains, “I discovered that
one of the most difficult times
in the day for people with acute arthritis is first thing
in the morning. At this time joints are particularly stiff
and many people say that this is the worst time of day
when they suffer the most pain in their joints.
“I have designed a hand massage device that utilizes
airbags and infra red heat to soothe aches and pains.
The unit mimics the Paraffin wax bath treatment used
in hospitals that inspired this idea, and adds a massage
element to the treatment, that also aids movement.”
Drawings for the hand massager by Will Drake
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Aaron Colfer 4th year Creative
Product Design
The Seed Pod
The Seed Pod designed
by Aaron Colfer
Aaron Colfer has designed The
Seed Pod, a fail safe way of
enabling seed bank organisations,
allotment owners and gardeners
to preserve and store endangered
seeds from the plants that they
grow. He discovered that there is
a market for a product that allows
all seed savers, from heritage seed
banks to allotment holders, to
safely preserve seeds.
Aaron explains, “In order that seeds will germinate it is
critical that once collected they are cleaned, dried and
stored carefully. Stuffing seeds into an envelope and
storing in a garden shed in often damp conditions will risk
a seed failing to germinate but many gardeners derive
enormous pleasure from saving and sharing seeds.
“Working with Robin Probert,
who heads up seed conservation
and technology at Kew Gardens’
Millennium Seed Bank, I have come
up with a way of improving a seed
collection kit that they had devised.
“My Seed Pod design is compact
enough to store in the fridge, it
The Seed Pod
designed by Aaron
Colfer
weighs next to nothing and can be offered to the market
at a low cost. I’ve had great feedback from the people I’ve
been talking to during the research stages and I hope to
take the Seed Pod into production when I graduate.
“The Seed Pod prototype is made from co polyester which
has great thermal properties. It features an indicator
sachet that turns orange when the seeds are dry enough
to store in the fridge, a built-in lens to make it easy to
view the seeds indicator and is designed to be stackable
making storage in limited domestic fridge spaces possible.
I consider this to be a breakthrough product that will
create its own market.”

Chris Hedges, Product Design
Technology and Creative Product
Design
Leggings to reduce injury and improve
running technique
When Product Design Technology student Chris Hedges
discovered that eight out of ten marathon runners
get injured every year, he decided to create a product
that would help to reduce injury and enhance running
technique.
'Refine' is a pair of specially designed leggings that uses
TPU (Thermoplastic Polyurethane) bands to help the
body maintain a better shape and posture for running.
Chris explains, "Refine is based on the principal of using
the body's own awareness to train the relevant muscles.
By placing the bands strategically we are encouraging
the body to prepare the right muscles needed in the
movements required in running. Refine follows the
natural posture of the body and is a gentle system that
will proprioceptively encourage the correct posture for
running and improve technique.”
“It is suitable for all levels - novice, regular and elite,
and the product includes an online training package
aimed at these different levels. I hope to take the
concept forward and plan to test the product further
with running groups. I really enjoy solving user-centred
design problems and my course has really helped me
get to grips with this type of design.”
Chris is already working for 'Innovate Product Design'
based in Salisbury.
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UWE in project to design new sensor for
premature babies
Sensor technology developed at UWE is being used to
design a brand new sensor aimed at detecting a devastating
condition affecting premature babies.
The disease, called necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), typically
strikes without warning. By the time it is diagnosed, babies
are often already extremely ill. Each year in the UK, around
3,000 babies develop the serious bowel problem. Up to 35
per cent of these babies die and survivors often develop
long-term health problems.
Researchers are now developing a new diagnostic test using
smell, which could allow babies with the disease to be
identified and treated sooner. They hope this will reduce the
likelihood of the disease progressing and therefore limit the
devastating consequences.
The project, funded by children’s charity Action Medical
Research, is led by the Birmingham Women’s Hospital.
Researchers at UWE, Bristol Royal Infirmary and University
Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust are developing the
sensor which works by detecting gases – or, more specifically,
volatile organic compounds – that are emitted by babies’
faeces early in the disease process.
The pioneering chemical sensor technology developed by
Professor Norman Ratcliffe, Dr Ben de Lacy Costello and
Dr Natasha Mcguire (all HLS) and Chris Probert from the
University of Bristol, is already being used to rapidly diagnose
Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), by analysing the gases from
stool samples.
Professor Norman Ratcliffe says, “We knew the technology
for detecting C. difficile had potential far beyond that – it
could be used for a range of other gastrointestinal diseases
as well as lung and urinary tract diseases too. Our ultimate
goal is to deliver a point-of-care device which can rapidly
improve patient care.”
Dr Alexandra Dedman, Senior Research Evaluation Manager,
for Action Medical Research, said, “Up to 8 per cent of
newborns in neonatal units develop this disorder. Doctors
and nurses must be constantly on the lookout for symptoms
of NEC, as premature babies in neonatal units can develop
the disease at any time, with little or no warning.
“No current test can reliably identify babies in the early
stages of the disease so we are really pleased to be funding
this important research project which could make such a
difference to babies’ lives.”
Babies who develop NEC can need emergency surgery to
remove damaged parts of their intestines. Up to half of
babies who survive the disease develop health problems.
Some fail to put on weight properly, they can develop serious
infections and liver damage, and nutritional problems can
mean they have to be fed through a tube that goes directly
into their bloodstream. Babies can also develop significant
hearing, vision and movement problems.
Developing a new sensor could allow the screening of
premature babies for NEC to become routine for the first
time ever. The design of the device should mean it is suitable
for regular use alongside babies’ cots in neonatal units. If the
results of this project are positive, then clinical trials would
follow.
The project has been funded for two and a half years with a
grant of £131,638 from Action Medical Research.
For more information see: The diarrhoea diagnostic device:
from bench to bedside http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/hls/as/research/
researchshowcase.aspx

NEWS
Stars, vintage cameras and a 1940s bank
robbery inspire UWE’s art students
Stargazing, a one-hundred year old camera and a bank
robber with a sleep disorder are among the inspirations
behind UWE’s 2011 Art, Design and Media Degree Show. The
Show took place from 10-16 June at Bower Ashton Campus
and Spike Island, an international contemporary art centre on
Bristol's Harbourside. This year’s MA Fine Art show was held
at the Bristol Diving School for the first time.
The Degree Show 2011 is the culmination of years of
inspiration and hard work. The spectacular range of inspiring
and original work featured is from fifteen undergraduate
and postgraduate courses including Animation, Drawing
and Applied Arts, Illustration, Graphic Design, Art and Visual
Culture, and Media Practice.
Eight students from the Graphic Design course have been
given awards for their graphic design and typography work
from the prestigious International Society of Typographic
Designers (ISTD).
One student, Chris Nott was awarded a commendation, the
highest accolade from the society. Three other students,
Joe Allison, Tom Eves and James Somerfield, received merit
awards and were admitted as members of the Society along
with fellow UWE students Heather Kendrick, Maxim McNair,
Alex Smye-Rumsby and Yan Yeh Yine who have all gained the
high level of expertise needed.
Scene from Unorganised Crime,
an animation by A Foot Apart
Productions
Animation students Charlie
Miller, Constantinos
Mavromichalis, Daisy Hynes,
Dane Winn and Sophie
Grimwood are a likeminded
group of animation
students who met at the
Bristol School of Animation,
UWE, and have formed A
Foot Apart Productions.
Their most recent film
is a short computer
generated animation
called Unorganised Crime,
about a 1940s bank robber
called Frankie with a sleep
disorder. They have high
hopes of continuing to
work collaboratively in the
future.
Illustration student Joe
Waldron’s beautiful image
of a constellation over the
rooftops was inspired by
the ideas of growth and
development, or ‘reaching
for the stars.’
He says, “I decided to
create an image of a lone
constellation searching for
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Joe Waldron’s illustration
reaches for the stars
a brighter star in order to better itself. But I also wanted to
give an aspect of wonder and curiosity to the piece which was
visualised through the key, which is meant to represent the
idea that we all have the capabilities inside ourselves to reach
our goals.”
Art and Visual Culture student Jess Bidmead explores ideas
around time, and its implications on space or use for control.
She uses video and installation to create sensual effects,
and altered perceptions for the viewer, aiming to engage a
critical awareness around her work with moving image and
to encourage thinking on universal concepts in relation to
current social or political situations.
Photographer Luke Archer has taken a series entitled Portraits
of Titled Elite, including one of the Marquess of Bath. He
was inspired by a 100 year-old camera inherited from his
grandfather. Luke traced its lineage back to Bassano, the
famous 19th century society portraitist. The work he has
produced as a result examines the notion of inheritance
through photographing descendants of the titled elite first
captured using this same equipment.
Drawing and Applied Arts student Luke Agnew has worked
on a series of eye-catching temporary buildings pasted with
decorative wallpaper. He says, “The patterning was created
to lure a line of sight entangling and enticing the viewer to
experience the journey of the piece. Interwoven Paste-up
House is an attempt at achieving visual immersion within the
print via instantly recognisable scale. It is also placing the
two-dimensional print upon 3D planes, in the hope that the
three dimensionality encourages the viewer to engage and
enter the patterning. Placing the print upon the abandoned
building also address the processes of urban rejuvenation and
the canvas that is urban and industrial abandonment.”
Natalie McGrorty’s recent body of work began with the
recording of shadows cast by objects in her possession. The
Drawing and Applied Arts student says, “I used intricate
mark-making techniques, resulting in a collection of curious
forms, which have since taken on a life of their own. Through
working in wood, cast iron, ceramic and plaster these
two-dimensional drawings have been released into three
dimensional objects, able to cast shadows of their own.”

Portrait of the Marquess
of Bath by Luke Archer
Media Practice student Lisa Gaudion produced a multimedia
installation in Bristol’s Redcliffe Caves as part of her final
project. Do Not Disturb was a collaboration by a group of final
year Media Practice students, exploring the boundary between
dreams and reality in a physical experience which includes
motion activated audio, projected images on the cave walls,
objects representing dreams lit up down long corridors, an
interactive projection, live acting and music, set design and
targeted lighting.
Lisa says, “We wanted to push the boundaries of our
capabilities and explore a narrative in an unconventional
way. Dreams are experiences which we commonly share with
others but don't fully understand. We felt that by using the
caves as a metaphor for something 'other' we would be able
to submerge our audience in another world which can change
and be altered - much like a dream does.”
For more information visit www.uwe.ac.uk/
admdegreeshow2011
Jess Bidmead uses video and installation to
create sensual effects
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Interwoven paste-up
house by Luke Agnew
Natalie McGrorty’s work
recording shadows

NEWS
EcoBot-II, a robot designed at BRL (Bristol Robotics Lab)
based at UWE, is to be one of the exhibits at the new
M-Shed, the new Bristol Museum. EcoBot-II used Microbial
Fuel Cells (MFCs) which powered the robot by digesting
dead flies or rotten fruit. Ecobot-II will be exhibited next
to a Pegasus engine. Dr Ioannis A Ieropoulos (BRL) was
interviewed by BBC Points West on Friday 3 June about
EcoBot-II. The interview was due to be shown in the week
beginning 13 June in the run up to the official opening of
the new museum on Friday 17 June.
UWE experts showcase ecorobots
and robot behaviour at
Bristol Festival of Ideas
Two robotics experts from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL)
took part in the Bristol Festival of Ideas, giving talks on their
latest robot research and its possible applications.
The events took place at the Arnolfini, as part of Bristol Genius,
a new theme in the festival. One featured Dr Ioannis Ieropoulos
(FET) and his work developing Ecobot, a robot that will be able
to generate its own energy using Microbial Fuel Cells.
Ioannis said, “To be truly autonomous, robots will need to
incorporate in their behavioural repertoire actions that involve
searching, collecting and digesting food. The robot will be
designed to remain inactive until sufficient energy has been
generated to complete its next task. Three robots, Ecobot I,
Ecobot II and Ecobot III, have been developed, which – to some
extent – exhibit this type of behaviour. These were the world’s
first example of artificially symbiotic systems.”
In the second talk, Professor Alan Winfield, Director of the
Science and Communication Unit (FET), described the first results
from a project called ‘The emergence of artificial culture in robot
societies’.
He said, “In this project we are attempting to build a working
model, using robots, of the way behaviours change – literally
evolve – as they spread through a group of social agents, in an
effort to answer the question, ‘How does culture emerge?’
“I’m deeply interested in mobile robots for two reasons: firstly,
they are complex and potentially useful machines that embody
just about every design challenge and discipline there is and,
secondly, robots allow us to address some deep questions about
life, culture and intelligence in a radical new way - that is, by
building working models. Thus, robotics is both engineering and
experimental philosophy.”
BRL is a collaborative research partnership between UWE and the
University of Bristol. For more information visit www.brl.ac.uk
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Fashion students inspired by carni
Complex elegant
textile designs from
Lavina Peswani
Memories of the sea, dazzling Indian paisley designs and a
deserted Japanese island inspired fashion and textile students
who showed their collections at Bristol Graduate Fashion Show
2011.
The event featured a catwalk show of contemporary women's
and men's wear. It included knitwear, print and textile design
and took place at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA)
on 3 and 4 June.
Adrian Grandon, Fashion Design programme leader at
UWE said, “This was an innovative and individual show.
The students’ inspirations varied from the traditional dress
of Poland, India and America, observations of ram’s sculls,
gorillas and tropical fish, to architecture of the twenties and
contemporary New York.
“A selection of their work represented UWE and Bristol at
the Graduate Fashion Week (GFW) in London culminating
in a catwalk show with top London models on 6 June. This
annual event to celebrate British fashion talent is a scouting
destination for top names in the fashion business.”
The UWE Bristol fashion team has high hopes for this year’s
cohort. Fashion and Textiles programme leaders Ali Taylor and
Tracy Fitzgerald said, “We have won the prestigious Graduate
Fashion Week Gold award on two separate occasions. The
current graduating students are a particularly strong year
with collections that are distinctive and individual, showing an
idiosyncratic personality which UWE Bristol is well known for.
We hope to win prizes again this year with big names such as
Mulberry, Karen Millen, Zandra Rhodes and George at Asda
sponsoring the competitions.
“Fashion Textile student Nicola Chisnall has already won
the Society of Colourists and Dyers regional award. In 2010,
students Amber Hards and Jessica Hart were chosen for the
Gala Show and as a result of GFW students were employed by
River Island, Karen Millen, Reiss, Toast, John Smedley, Lyle and
Scott and Celine.”

vorous plants, the female form and Japanese islands
Calm, minimalist
collection by Rei Tan
Work placements undertaken by some of this year’s
undergraduates include Anna Sui, Betsey Johnson and Marc
Jacobs in New York, Givenchy and Chloe in Paris, Alexander
McQueen, Jonathan Saunders, Aitor Thorpe, Richard Nicoll,
Matthew Williamson, Jenny Packham, Carolyn Massey, Felder &
Felder, Christopher Kane, Kyri, ASOS, i-D, Company Magazine,
Fashion 156 and Eskimo PR.
Students showing their work this year include:
Lavina Peswani, who is studying Fashion/Textile Design - she
specialises in print design for the fashion industry and her work
can be used as interior pieces. She works with vibrant colour
palettes, intricate drawings and paintings. She combines these
diverse elements to create innovative compositions with a
strong personal style.
She says, “My inspiration comes from philosophy. I express
the forms in my surroundings, especially nature, in a personal
way to convey a message. I am showing three collections and
one of these is called Hidden Nature. It combines elements of
my Indian heritage mixed with the elements of the sea. I am
very passionate about the sea as I grew up near the beach.
The texture used and the painting was inspired by this and is
then combined by the traditional Indian paisley and a heavy
bordered composition. The collection is complex, beautiful,
elegant and unique. The colours are inspired by photographic
research of an aquarium and a carnivorous plant in Kew
Garden.”
Alexandra Nicholson specialises in design and construction
for women’s wear, investigating innovative textiles including
print and fabric manipulation. She is inspired by artists and
photographers alike retaining the minimalist elements of work.
Her main interest lies in pattern cutting, creating feminine,
delicate tailoring with an edge of rawness.
She says, “My collection, Untitled Identity, considers the female
as the central focus. Exposing the body in regions in order to
provoke and offer an aspect of vulnerability, whilst concealing
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Innovative
designs using
luxury fabrics
by Alexandra
Nicholson
imperfections beneath layers of considered fabric. The female
form inspires the collection, stimulating innovative patterns,
which in turn exaggerate the fragility of women, accentuating
the strength and sensuality of the body.
“The imagery used is taken from and relates to female bodies,
engaging a mixture of techniques including photography,
embroidery, laser cutting and print. The outfits are
interchangeable, allowing a dynamic collection in relation to
the model and market.
The approach developed within the collection includes
projecting distorted images onto fabric via photographic
methods. This developed the surface design and fabric
manipulation, furthering conceptual ideas within textiles. The
colours and fabrics throughout are romantic, beautiful and
complimenting to the female. Sensuality and sexuality are
expressed through the luxury range of materials used.”
Rei Tan was inspired by the abandoned island Gunkanjima, also
known as Battleship Island, off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan.
She says, “Its concrete buildings sit in silence, wooden banisters
slowly rotting, concrete crumbling into fragments, grids of
glass windows gradually disappearing. Staircases, levels and
windows create grid like images and structure, repeating and
repeating.
“concrete.shadows is a calm, minimalistic collection with solid
neoprene, translucent organdie, stiff silk paper and textured
moleskin/ faux suede. It is almost neutral gender with a dark
monochrome colour palette. The layering of garments creates
space and void between the inner (body) and outer (garment)
layers. The laser cutting mimics the lines of shadows and paper
pop-ups. The silhouette is influenced by the straight and
asymmetrical structure of the buildings. I have an interest in
pattern cutting and have an experimental and trial and error
approach to working.”
The students’ work can be viewed online on
www.artsthread.com

Staff in the media
NEWS
Praminda Caleb-Solly (Computer Science and
Creative Technologies) was interviewed on
BBC Radio Bristol on 26 May about Mobiserv, a
collaborative project that aims to implement a
framework and technology platform to support
mobility for older persons. Praminda was
interviewed at the council House in Bristol before
a presentation to Bristol Older People’s forum.
Alexander Lenz (BRL) was interviewed by T3
Magazine on 13 May about future tech: Robots
entering the home see http://www.t3.com/
feature/future-tech-robots-entering-the-home
Jason Welsby (BRL) and ‘Shrewbot’ were
shown on BBC Click on 12 May http://www.bbc.
co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011l6b8/Cli
Professor Clara Greed (FET) was interviewed
by Ann Widdecombe on public toilets in
Plymouth for a new consumer programme she is
hosting for the BBC.
Publications
Professor Tony Killard (AS) has had a
paper published in Analytica chimica acta,
‘Chronocoulometric determination of urea I
human serum using an inkjet printed biosensor’.
The paper outlines the development of a sensor
designed to measure blood urea concentrations,
which is typically used to monitor people with
liver or kidney dysfunctions. This sensor uses
new conducting polymer nanoparticles and
enzyme layers which are each deposited using
industrial inkjet printing to make the sensors low
cost and mass-producible for use in point of care
diagnostic devices.
Rachel Bickley, Assistant Librarian at St
Matthias Campus, has recently published an
article in Reference Services Review, Volume 39,
Issue 2, pp 223-243 called ‘Student perceptions
of staff in the Information Commons: a survey at
the University of Sheffield’.
Gary Smart (HLS) has published an article in
the Journal of Paramedic Practice presenting
an experimental model of reflective practice
for student paramedics. It appears in Vol 3,
Issue 5, 4 Apr 2011, pp 255 – 257. He has
also published an article in Policing Today
entitled ‘Wild in the Streets: Excited Delirium
Syndrome’, the article discusses the aetiology
of the syndrome and provides advice upon its
recognition. It appeared in the March 2011
edition.
Jenny Hall, Senior
Midwifery lecturer
(NM) has had a series
of jointly written
books translated into
Polish and Brazilian
Portuguese. The four
books in the Midwifery
Essentials series were
published in November
2009 and have become
bestsellers for midwifery students in the UK.
“We are delighted that the books are helping
News in Brief
students” says Jenny. “We now hope they will
have an impact in improving care in countries
such as Brazil, where Caesarean section rates are
so high.”
Dr Andrew Mearman (FBL) and Robert
Garnett (Texas Christian University) co-edited
a special edition of the International Journal of
Pluralism and Economics Education, 2 (1) on
'Contending Perspectives 20 years on: what
have our students learned?', and wrote the first
paper in the issue.
Dr Glenn Parry (FBL) has a new book Service
Design and Delivery published by Springer. The
book introduces new service science concepts.
Case examples show how traditionally product
focused firms, including IBM, BAE Systems and
ICI, have developed a service focus, enhancing
customer satisfaction and company profitability.
Jackie Jones, Anna Grear, Rachel Fenton and
Kim Stevenson (Law) have published Gender,
Sexualities and Law (Abingdon: Routledge
Glasshouse, 2011). Drawing together an
international range of experts, this new book
interrogates a range of contemporary issues –
both topical and controversial – raised by the
gendered character of law, legal discourse and
legal institutions. The book offers an extensive
range of reflections from international scholars
in the field, as well as members of the Bristol
Law School at UWE.
Conn AT, Rossiter JM (BRL), have published
‘Radially expanding mechanism for dielectric
elastomers’ in the Proceedings of Electroactive
Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD XII), SPIE
Vol. 7642.
Craig R, Vaidyanathan R, James CJ, Meluish
C, (BRL) have published ‘Assessment of
Human Response to Robot Facial Expressions
through Visually Evoked Potentials’, in the IEEE
International Conference on Humanoid Robots,
pp 647-652, Nashville, TN, Dec 2010
Evins R, Pointer P, Vaidyanathan R, (BRL),
have published ‘Configuration of a Genetic
Algorithm for Multi-Objective Optimisation
of Solar Gain to Buildings’, in Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCo),
pp 1327-1328, Portland, Oregon, USA, July
2010
Marc Griffiths (HLS) has co-authored a paper
with a postgraduate Nuclear Medicine student
(Ana Vaz) entitled ‘Parathyroid Imaging and
Locaslization Using SPECT/CT: Initial Results’,
published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Technology.
A Kumar, J P Hart, D V McCalley (SLS),
‘Determination of catecholamines in urine using
hydrophilic interaction chromatography with
electrochemical detection’ has been published
in the Journal of Chromatography A 2011 1218
3854-3861.
D V McCalley (SLS) has published ‘Some
practical comparisons of the efficiency and
overloading behaviour of sub- 2micron porous
and sub- 3 micron shell particles in reversedphase
liquid chromatography’ in the Journal of
Chromatography A 2011 1218 2887-2897. His
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article ‘Performance of silica monoliths for basic
compounds. Silanol activity’ has been published
in Monolithic Silicas in Separation Science, ed K
K Unger, N Tanaka, E Machtejevas, Wiley VCH,
Weinheim, Germany, (2011).
Appointments
Dr Michal Nahman (HASS) was appointed
Senior Visiting Fellow at the BIOS centre, London
School of Economics (Sept 2010-Sept 2011).
Professor Alan Winfield (Bristol Robotics Lab
and Science Communication Unit), has been
appointed a Visiting Professor of the Electronics
Department, University of York, for five years
from June 2011. He has also been appointed
by the Swiss National Science Foundation, to
an international panel of reviewers for the
Swiss National Centres of Competence in
Research Robotics programme; this is a four year
appointment.
Conferences
Professor Martha Albertson Fineman returns
to UWE. Martha is a world-leading scholar
working primarily in the fields of political and
legal theory. She will be working with a team
based at Bristol Law School and other scholars
on the theme of ‘vulnerability’. She spoke
at the Bristol Festival of Ideas in June as part
of a series co-organised by Anna Grear on
‘Law and the Political’. Her talk was entitled
‘Balancing Budgets on the Backs of the Poor
and Vulnerable: America’s Return to Social
Darwinism’. For more information on her talk
visit http://www.watershed.co.uk/exhibits/2946/
Dr Helen Bovill (EDU) presented a paper
entitled Widening Participation: Issues of social
justice and equity for non-traditional learners in
a market saturated with credentials to the British
Sociological Association's Annual Conference at
the LSE London in April.
Dr Michal Nahman (HASS) co-organised a
conference in May at the BIOS centre (London
School of Economics) entitled, Reproduction and
Kinship: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, where she
presented a chapter from her forthcoming book,
Extractions: Securing Borders/Trafficking Ova
(Palgrave). She also presented a BIOS Roundtable
paper entitled, Repro-migrations: The Case of
Romanian-Israeli Transnational Egg Donation as
part of her fellowship at BIOS in March.
The WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy
Cities and Urban Policy held a Seminar on
planning education (PLAN-ED) in Bristol in
May. Laurence Carmichael and Dave Johnson
(both Planning and Architecture) hosted the
event. The seminar was funded through
the EU’s ATLANTIS programme (Actions for
Transatlantic links and Academic Networks for
Training and Integrated Studies). It followed
a previous seminar in Richmond, hosted by
Virginia Commonwealth University in February.
The focus of the seminar was on the importance
of planning to deliver healthy outcomes and

the capacity of planners to integrate health
into their practice. Hugh Barton, (Director of
WHO Collaborating Centre), Stephen Hewitt
(Specialist Professional Planner) and Professor
Vincent Goodstadt from the International
Committee of the RTPI (Royal Town and
Planning Institute) delivered a series of lectures.
The visiting professors were shown around the
South Bristol area, with visits including Southville
Community Centre and Withywood Centre for
the community. The third seminar focusing on
transport will be in Portland, Oregon on 25 – 28
October 2011 and the fourth will be in Hanover,
Germany in March 2012.
Anna Grear (Law) entered a competitive
process for the funding of an International
Symposium at the Onati Institute for the
Sociology of Law and was successful. The
symposium is entitled ‘Human Rights and the
Environment: In Search of a New Relationship’
and will take place at the Institute in Spain in
June 2012, drawing together some of the most
senior scholars working in the field and who
are connected with the Global Network for the
Study of Human Rights and the Environment
(GNHRE) project, the website for which is hosted
by UWE. The GNHRE website now has over
1000 sources on its research repository, attracts
growing attention and is also linked to the
highly successful Journal of Human Rights and
the Environment.
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Gary Dawson and Rob Stewart (HLS) recently
presented five conference papers related to
workforce development opportunities within
clinical nuclear medicine practice. These
interactive papers were presented at the 2011
British Nuclear Medicine Society meeting in
Brighton. Two of the papers were keynote
addresses, focusing on service redesign in
nuclear medicine, with an emphasis on new
technology, techniques and professional
competency based practice.
Chris Alford (PSY) and Priscilla Heard (PSY)
took part in the Cheltenham Science Festival
on 10 June. As part of a laughter workshop
with the very popular Joe Hoare, they used
physiological testing equipment to see how the
body responds to laughter.
Kate Flynn (HPP) set up a workshop on 6 June
for the University Peace and Conflict Research
Cluster. On 8 June a politics/IR research day on
peace-building and state-building had speakers
from the Universities of Bath, Exeter and
Lancaster, in addition to a presentation by Kate
Flynn drawing on preliminary findings of her EU/
EuropeAid funded project in Cyprus.
Dr David McCalley (HLS) gave an
invited lecture at the Club Lyonnais de
Chromatographie, Lyon, France entitled
‘Advantages of superficially porous columns in
high performance liquid chromatography’. This
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lecture detailed new approaches to obtaining
very fast analyses of markers of disease in
biological fluids, and other applications in the
quality control of pharmaceuticals. These new
techniques have the potential to reduce the time
necessary for an analysis to be reduced from
minutes to seconds. David also gave an invited
lecture at the 36th International Symposium on
high performance liquid phase separations and
related techniques in Budapest, Hungary entitled
‘Hydrophilic interaction chromatography: is
it a viable technique for the analysis of polar
and ionisable compounds?’ This presentation
detailed his investigations over the last five years
into a new technique of chemical analysis which
is becoming increasingly important in assessing
the success of novel synthetic methods in the
pharmaceutical industry. These methods include
‘fragment based drug discovery’ where new
drugs are put together from building blocks
consisting of small molecules, each possessing
some desirable property. The lecture also
highlighted research at UWE that has shown
how the new technique can be applied to
improve existing routine analytical methods in
hospital laboratories.
Professor Clara Greed (FET) was a speaker at
the International Women’s Day ‘Women of the
World’ conference at South Bank Royal Festival
Hall in March.
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UWE HR Award
NEWS
UWE’s HR department was the proud winner last month of a
prestigious award at the Universities Human Resources (UHR)
annual awards ceremony in Manchester. UHR is leading UK body
for human resources professionals working in HE.
In a year of record entries, UWE HR won the award for ‘HR
contribution to business efficiency’. Recognising the work carried
out by the whole department during 2010, the judging panel was
particularly impressed by the work undertaken to develop and
launch the wide ranging people + performance project.
John Rushforth (DVC, Resources) said, “This is an absolutely
fantastic award to win, and well deserved recognition of everyone
working so hard across the whole HR department to support
the University's change programmes, and to support all of
the members of staff affected by them. We are a Partnership
University and the partnership style of working is one that has
been embraced by the HR team.”
Caption – Pictured from left to right presenting the award are Jane
Embley, Director of Human Resources at Northumbria University
and UHR Vice Chair, Catherine Parker, HR Manager and Joy
Charlton, HR Manager.
Amnesty International
Human Resources Update
50 years ago this week Amnesty International was formed and in
July Jon Fieldhouse, Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy (HLS) is
walking the Thames to raise money for this charity. Jon’s Thames Stroll
2011 marks his own half-century and also aims to support Amnesty’s
campaigns for humanity and human rights around the world. You can
find out more about Amnesty’s work at www.amnesty.org.uk.
Jon’s walk begins at the source of the river in Gloucestershire and ends
180 miles later at the Thames Barrier. Jon has a JustGiving web page at
http://www.justgiving.com/Jon-Fieldhouse which is an easy and secure
way to make a donation.
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Important message for staff
Have you gained additional academic qualifications?
As you may be aware, the University is required to provide
information about its staff to HESA (the Higher Education
Statistical Agency) on an annual basis. The majority of the data
required by HESA is already held by Human Resources either in our
normal records or from survey questionnaires completed by staff in
previous years.
One element of the return is information about the highest
academic qualification held by staff and this of course might
change between return years. To ease administration we will
assume that this data is unchanged and it will be resubmitted in
September 2011. If, however, you have gained a higher level of
qualification in the last year please would you pass the details to
me as soon as possible in order that your record may be updated,
describing the level of qualification and the subject discipline –
please email Lesley2.Donnithorne@uwe.ac.uk
Data Protection Act Collection Notice
The information the University provides to HESA about its staff is
submitted in coded and anonymised format and held on a database
which is passed to central government departments and agencies
and devolved administrations which require it to enable them to
carry out their statutory functions under the Education Acts. It
is also used for statistical analysis by HESA and the above bodies
resulting in publication and release of data to other approved
non-statutory users. These may include academic researchers and
unions. You may wish to note that your name and contact details
will not be made available to HESA and precautions are taken to
minimise the risk that you will be able to be identified from the
data. If you have concerns about, or objections to, the use of data
for these purposes, please contact HESA at www.hesa.ac.uk or by
writing to HESA, 95 Promenade, Cheltenham, GL50 1HZ.

what'son
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Staff Association BOB Club
Tickets are still available for the performances
below. All tickets are for the evening
performances and in the (comfortable) Stalls
at the Bristol Hippodrome:-
We Will Rock You
Thursday 13 October 2011
£32.50
South Pacific
Thursday 24 November 2011
£31
Peter Pan (Panto)
Tuesday 13 December 2011
£20 (Pay by 01 September - £18!)
Sister Act
Thursday 12 January 2012
£27
Lord of the Dance
Tuesday 25 January 2012
£36.50
www.uwe.ac.uk
Staff Association
Non-Members are welcome to join us but
remember that Membership will bring with it a
further reduction on 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 24 September 2011 – Poole (Brownsea
Island optional)
Day trip to Poole with an optional trip across
to Brownsea Island (NT property) if you want –
please ask for cost and details. Costs: Members
£10, 3rd Age £11, Non-Members £12, Child £8
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Saturday 15 October – Salisbury (with Wilton
Shopping Village)
We shall visit Wilton Shopping Village on the
way there for a short stop before heading for
medieval Salisbury.
Costs: Members £10, 3rd Age £11, Non-
Members £12
Friday 9 - Sunday 11 December Xmas Market
Weekend to Ghent, Bruges and Ostend
Beautiful places to visit at any time of the
year, but with the festive feeling even better!
Cost:- £139 (Members), £145 (Non-members)
Bulletin Deadlines 2011
Month/Issue Copy deadline
July/105 1 July
Sept/106 1 September
Oct/107 1 October
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