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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 The Bulletin is published by the Marketing and Communications Office who reserve the right to select items for inclusion and to edit copy. For further information contact Jane Kelly or Mary Price on ext 82208, e-mail Jane.Kelly@uwe. ac.uk and Mary.Price@uwe.ac.uk. The next issue will be circulated at the end of July. Please do keep sending contributions in. The Bulletin regrets that it cannot be held responsible for any claims that arise out of advertisements carried. Editor: Jane Kelly Editor: Mary Price Contributor: Lesley Drake, Kate Mooney Production: Jayne Andrews, Kate Mooney Designed by Graphic Design Printing and Distribution by Printing and Stationery Fron cover: Photo - Martin Chainey 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 2 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 3 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 out+ proud www.uwe.ac.uk/equalityanddiversity out+proud A5 flyer.indd 1 2/7/10 10:44:11 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.
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