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Staff in the media
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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
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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