Spring 2015 - University of Cumbria

CONNECT
Spring 2015
Cumbrian students
quiz top BBC executive
University professor begins
secondment to UN
Students win inaugural Prince of
Wales Forest Leadership Awards
University wins NEON Award for
widening access to higher education
STAFF
CONTENTS/SPRING 2015 ISSUE
04 05 05 06 07 07 University professor begins secondment to UN
Sue’s invitation to Westminster reception
Margaret addresses student welfare seminar
Lecturer’s book examines debt culture
Staff profile/Frances McDarby
Congratulations
STUDENTS
08 09
10 11 12 14 16 17 OBE award
Students win inaugural Prince of Wales Forest Leadership Awards
Amie’s Ethiopian challenge
Student introduces successful children’s sport camps to Lancaster
Linda Rader Overman achieves her PhD from ‘merry ole England’
A poignant visit to Ypres for trainee primary teachers
Ingenious students establish midwifery society
Laxcha finds success in Kathmandu
UNIVERSITY
18 19 20 22 24 25 26 27 28 University cuts emissions to win sustainability award
Final business masterclass
University and Chamber win second entrepreneur award
University invests £1.2m in high-spec lab and new STEM courses
Cumbrian students quiz top BBC executive
Chancellor delivers annual chaplaincy lecture
University wins NEON Award for widening access to
higher education
Twinning arrangement with Burundi
Student law conference held at Fusehill Street campus
research
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32 Research round-up
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FOREWORD
By now many of you will have had an opportunity to attend
one of the spring term staff forums, at which we discussed
some of the university growth and budget challenges that will
face us over the coming months. Issues including the removal
of the cap on student numbers; School Direct and the effect
on our fees; increased pay awards and rising pension and NI
costs, all have a bearing on how we plan for a stable future.
However, with a general election on the horizon, planning
becomes even more problematical as the HE environment
is yet more unpredictable than usual. And with the Labour
party currently proposing a drop in tuition fees from £9000
to £6000, what sounds like good news for the students may
leave universities short of £3000 per student per year.
If the Labour party succeeds in forming a government,
HEIs will therefore be facing many unknowns: will the
extra portion be fully covered from the Exchequer, and for
what period? Any cuts to funds paid to universities would
inevitably lead to long term damage to the economy, a
declining quality of student education, and crucially a
detrimental effect on widening access to higher education.
More optimistically, if the treasury component is agreed and at
the same time inflation-linked, this would prove a distinct bonus
for our planning. The £9K fees have been fixed for three years
now, against a background of steadily rising costs, and seem
currently to be an immovable object, with no indication of any
increase in the near future. To address the resulting static core
income, the Russell group universities have long argued for
fees to be increased to more than £9000, so a drop by a new
government to £6000 would clearly not meet their aspirations.
In spite of the unknowns, planning must continue—it cannot
simply be put on hold until Friday 8 May—but the smart
move now is to ensure we build in sufficient flexibility to
deal with the election results, whatever they may bring.
Our current exploration of structures and processes will also
help to deliver tractability with which we can tackle whatever
comes our way, and integral to those preparations are the
ideas and suggestions that come from our loyal and committed
staff. We started informally with the ‘post-it note exercise’
that took place at the autumn staff forums, and now we have
launched a new staff suggestion scheme, which will in future
offer a simple repository for any suggestions for improvement,
ensuring they are examined for potential by the right people.
I am always mindful that it is through working together
that we have brought the university so far since its
inception, and I am therefore confident that with a similar,
combined and determined approach we will ensure our
institution has a sustainable and prosperous future.
I wish you the best of success for the
remainder of the academic year.
Professor Peter Strike
Vice Chancellor
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Our
Staff
get
involved
Tell us about your
achievements ...
University professor
begins secondment
to UN
The university’s Professor of Sustainability Leadership,
Dr Jem Bendell, headed to Geneva in early February to
start a three-month secondment to the United Nations.
This UN-led initiative brings together over 50 stock
exchanges, including NASDAQ and the London Stock
Exchange, to learn how to enable more responsible
investment in publically listed companies.
Author of the recent book Healing Capitalism, Jem
explains “The UN has an important role to play in
convening organisations to reshape the global economy
for more fair and sustainable outcomes. I’m pleased I
can provide some research input for such efforts.”
Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), explains
that the initiative aims to address how, “At present, financial
markets are not hard-wired to drive capital towards
sustainable business and achievement of the sustainable
development goals. This can and should change.”
The coordinator of the Sustainable Stock Exchanges
initiative, Dr Anthony Miller is co-chair of the IFLAS
Advisory Board, and IFLAS promotes sustainable finance
through its free online course on Money and Society,
and its new MBA in Finance and Sustainability.
Jem is director of the university’s Institute for Leadership and
Sustainability (IFLAS), based at the Ambleside campus.
Above: Professor Jem Bendell
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SUE’S INVITATION TO WESTMINSTER RECEPTION
Senior Lecturer Sue Temple attended an evening reception at the House of Lords at the
beginning of February.
The reception was to launch the Historical
Association’s Quality Mark, which is an award to
recognise excellence in the teaching of history in
primary and secondary schools. The event was hosted
by Lord Peter Hennessey in conjunction with the
Historical Association. Also in attendance were Lord
Howe, Al Murray, Lady Antonia Fraser, Baroness
Williams, Lord Trimble and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Sue is an assessor for this award and presented
the first ‘Gold’ to Knowsley Junior School in
Oldham at the end of last term. She is also on
the Historical Association Primary Committee
and the editorial team for their Primary History
Journal which is published three times a year.
Above: Sue Temple at the House of Lords
MARGARET ADDRESSES STUDENT
WELFARE SEMINAR
Head of Library and Student Services Margaret Weaver was invited to address the ‘Westminster
Higher Education Forum Keynote Seminar: Tackling student welfare issues and improving student
retention’ in London on 5 March
Delegates at the seminar discussed ways that universities can tackle student
non-continuation rates, focusing particularly on tackling welfare issues. The
seminar followed the release of the HEFCE and OFFA joint National Strategy for
Access and Student Success which called for universities to increase their focus
on retention.
Margaret’s address was entitled: ‘Effective student support service: best
practice for improving retention and tackling common causes for student dropouts’, in which Margaret gave her views about the problems faced by students
today, and how successful student support services tackle these issues. Overall,
sessions looked at:
• Common student housing problems including: quality, cost and solving
disputes;
• The financial pressures that students face such as suitability of current
student maintenance grants and loans, students’ financial literacy and
achieving a study-work balance; and
• Student well being issues – including mental health, drug and alcohol
abuse and crime
Above: Margaret Weaver
The keynote speaker was Les Ebdon CBE DL, former vice chancellor of the
University of Befordshire and currently director of the Office for Fair Access.
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Lecturer’s book
examines debt culture
Based at the Fusehill Street campus, Dr Mark Horsley
joined the university in January 2015 as a lecturer in
criminology, after transferring from the University of the
West of England in Bristol.
Mark grew up near Carlisle but left for the
north-east in 2003 to study for an undergraduate
degree in criminology, later completing a taught
postgraduate degree in 2007 and, most recently,
a PhD in sociology. His academic interests
focus on criminological and sociological theory
as they apply to real world problems. He has
previously conducted research on consumer debt
cultures and associated forms of criminality.
In March, his book The Dark Side of Prosperity:
Late Capitalism’s Culture of Indebtedness will
be published. A rich and original qualitative
study of the close relationship between financial
capitalism, consumer aspirations, social exclusion
and the proliferation of personal indebtedness,
The Dark Side of Prosperity examines questions
of social identity, subjectivity and consumer
motivation in close connection with the sociocultural ideals of an ‘enjoyment society’.
Critically engaging with the work of Giddens, Beck
and Bauman, this volume draws on the thought of
contemporary philosophers including Žižek, Badiou
and Rancière to consider the possibility that
the expansion of outstanding consumer credit,
despite its many consequences, may be integral
to the construction of social identity in a radically
indeterminate and increasingly divided society.
In a pre-publication review, Professor Simon
Winlow of Teeside University says: “In The
Dark Side of Prosperity, Mark Horsley offers a
detailed theoretical and empirical analysis of the
debt industry and the lives of those who suffer
under the burden of consumer debt. The book
is written in a lively, imaginative and accessible
style and yet still manages to remain theoretically
rigorous. This is an outstanding contribution,
and it is destined to become the standard text
against which all other sociological accounts
of the debt industry will be measured.”
“A rich and original qualitative
study of the close relationship
between financial capitalism,
consumer aspirations, social
exclusion and the proliferation
of personal indebtedness.”
For further information about
Mark’s book, click here
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STAFF PROFILE/FRANCES MCDARBY
Describe your job.
My job is to promote the university by
placing positive news stories about the
organisation and its achievements in the
media. I also protect its reputation by
minimising the impact of negative
news stories. What’s great it is that
I get to work with a wide variety of
people right across the university as
my job has the capability to cross
departmental and faculty divides.
Frances with husband Luke and son Jude
Your job title, how did you end
up at the University of Cumbria
and when did you start?
My job title is communications officer
and my family and I relocated to
Cumbria from London in 2012 while
I was on maternity leave. I worked
for my old employer - The National
Archives - remotely for a year before
getting a job in the communications
team here in October 2014.
What brightens your
day at work?
My team, of course! But other
than that I love nothing more than
to use my lunch break to go to
the gym to counteract the seven
hours of sitting I do each day!
What do you like to do
in your spare time?
I have a two and a half year old boy—I
don’t have any spare time! When
I can squeeze it in (early mornings
and lunch times) I like going to the
gym to lift weights and I’m doing
Gelt Gladiator in May so I’ve started
training in earnest for that.
Name your ideal dinner
party guest and why
Grayson Perry. I love the complexity
of his art work and think he’d
be very entertaining!
Name your favourite
book and why
I loved reading His Dark
Materials trilogy by Philip
Pullman – the story gripped
me immediately and
transported me off into
this alternative reality.
Name your favourite film and why
This is a hard question as it can depend
what mood I’m in and I tend to prefer
TV box sets nowadays, but if I was to
choose one I’d say Some Like It Hot
just because it’s light-hearted and
leaves you with a rosy after-glow.
And finally, your favourite or dream
holiday destination and why!
My favourite holiday destination is
somewhere sunny, remote and completely
unlike Cumbria in winter - either the
South of France or the Maldives.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Dr Jae-Llane Khoo
Energus based CACHET research fellow Dr Jae-Llane Khoo
became Mrs Ditchburn on 13 December when she married
Paul at St. John’s Church in Waberthwaite, Millom. Paul and
Jae-Llane held their reception at the Pennington, Ravenglass
and went to Penang, Malaysia after the wedding.
Elliot Joseph
Beverley Owen, a health admissions administrator in External Relations, based at the Lancaster campus, became a grandmother
for the third time when her eldest daughter Nicola gave birth to a beautiful baby boy on 17 February 2015, a month early! In
spite of his early arrival, Elliot weighed a healthy 6lbs 8oz and, along with his mum, is doing very well.
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Our
Students
get
involved
Tell us about
your students’
achievements ...
OBE award
PhD student Julie Staun declared herself “honoured, and absolutely delighted to receive such a
level of recognition from my homeland” when she learned that she’d been awarded an OBE in
the Queen’s New Year Honours List. “It is also a humbling experience” she added.
Born in Norwich, she first
qualified as a registered
nurse in the UK and
later in Denmark. Before
entering the field of
occupational health, Julie
worked as a specialist
nurse anæthetist in the
Danish Health Service,
studied literature at the
University of Copenhagen
and worked as a translator
and language teacher.
She was initially employed as an occupational health
advisor at the Occupational Health Centre, Northern
Zealand, Denmark, providing services for 700
companies and organisations. From 1987 until retiring
in 2009 Julie held a number of posts including that of
manager of the in-house occupational health services
of a Danish international company specialising in the
research, development and manufacture of chemical
catalysts.
Over a period of 15 years she has been both
vice president and president of the Federation of
Occupational Health Nurses within the European Union
(FOHNEU), and sits on a number of occupational
health sector committees. Julie is an independent work
environment consultant in Denmark and currently a
part-time PhD student at the university. The subject
area of her research is the health behaviour of industrial
workers.
As well as her OBE, she holds four national awards in
Denmark in recognition of contributions to occupational
health. Julie comments: “I hope that this award will
bring much needed attention to the importance of
occupational health care thereby promoting the health,
safety and wellbeing of the global workforce, and
particularly within the Member States of the European
Union, which has been the primary focus of my work.”
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Left to right: David
Johnes, Keira
Todd and Head of
Department SNROS,
Dr Elspeth Lees
Students win Inaugural Prince of
Wales Forest Leadership Awards
Two of our National School of Forestry students have been selected as the
first recipients of The Prince of Wales Forest Leadership Award.
Both in the final year of BSc (Hons) Forest and Woodland
Management, Keira Tedd and David Johnes beat off stiff
competition from UK applicants to pick up the national awards,
while students from the University of Toronto, and the University
of Alberta, were selected as the two Canadian winners.
Endorsed by HRH The Prince of Wales, and delivered in
partnership by the Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF), the
Canadian Institute of Forestry (CIF-IFC), and the Duchy of
Cornwall, the award recognises young forestry professionals in
Canada and the United Kingdom who possess a dedication to
sustainable forestry and the skills and aptitude to become our
future forest leaders.
Keira and David, along with their Canadian counterparts, will
participate in an international exchange experience during the
summer of 2015, taking up work placements in their alternative
countries. They will be placed in roles at some of the top forestry
and natural resources management employers in Canada and the
UK, in addition to receiving a £6000 bursary.
ICF’s Deputy Director Russell Horsey, praised the award winners,
saying; “ICF congratulates all recipients of The Prince of Wales
Forest Leadership Award. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
for our future leaders in the fields of forestry and urban forestry
to broaden their knowledge and make great contacts among
their UK and Canadian counterparts. We look forward to
welcoming the Canadian winners to the UK, and hope that it is
an invaluable learning experience in both countries.”
Geraint Richards, the Duchy of Cornwall’s head forester,
commented; “I am delighted by the considerable interest that
there has been in this new award, as highlighted by the calibre
of the young people applying. The award will further forge our
relationship with the Canadian Institute of Forestry. I wish Keira
and David every success and I look forward to hearing about
their wonderful experiences.”
Head of Department Dr Elspeth Lees said, “As head of school I
am enormously proud of Keira and David’s achievement—they
will be among the first cohort to graduate from the National
School of Forestry following our move from Penrith to the
Ambleside campus in the heart of the Lake District National Park
—there is nothing more rewarding than seeing students excel in
their chosen field of study.”
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Amie’S
Ethiopian
challenge
Primary education student Amie
Hughes is passionate about
becoming a teacher, but it is her
passion for running that led to her
taking off for Ethiopia in November
last year.
Right (above): Amie
(middle) with fellow
runners
and current GMR champion, Kenenisa Bekele at
the Yaya Village complex.
Right: The Great
Ethiopian Run
“The race itself wasn’t organised like those over
here, with placings and times. It was simply a freefor-all run with over 40,000 participants wearing
the same t-shirt. Three team mates and I ran it in
quite an interesting way: it was so busy we couldn’t
run it properly, and we were also unfamiliar with
the surroundings, so we stuck together and
held hands for the whole 10k, just enjoying the
atmosphere. It was the biggest road race in Africa
and the biggest street party I have seen!
Alongside her studies, Amie works part-time in a
bar/restaurant, but she still finds time to train with
her local running club, the Stockport Harriers, and
it was through the club that Amie achieved the
opportunity to take part in the Great Ethiopian
Run, a 10k event which is the biggest of its kind
in Africa.
Amie explains:
“I won this chance by completing the Manchester
10k alongside other athletes from my running club.
Having produced the best club performance at
the Bupa Great Manchester Run in May, Stockport
Harriers joined five other clubs who had won their
own regional ‘Great Run’ events in a draw for
the trip of a lifetime. On 19 November the seven
quickest men and women who completed the race
set off to East Africa, via London and Rome, to
train with long-distance legend, Haile Gebrselassie,
“Not only did this trip allow me to experience a
different way of training—it was really hard to
run 8000ft above sea level at such high altitude
—it opened my eyes to the African culture and
their way of life. It was unbelievable to see the
difference in how they live and especially the way
the schools and education system work out there.
This experience really made me appreciate the
richness of life and has inspired me to go back to
such a place at some point in the future and work
with schools directly.”
Amie is currently in the third year of her four-year
degree and has one summer left before qualifying
and taking up her first teaching post. Obviously
not one for sitting around, she plans to spend it in
America working at a children’s summer camp for
up to 11 weeks.
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Student introduces successful
children’s sport camps to
Lancaster
An enterprising student who opened a series of children’s sports camps in
Carlisle has expanded his successful concept to Lancaster.
Edd Snoxell, 22, received funding from the
university and UnLtd to launch his own social
enterprise of children’s sports camps called ‘MultiSports.co.uk’ in 2013.
Edd Snoxell
The sport camps are for children aged five to 13
to inspire them to get them into physical activity
outside school, and, up until now, have been
hosted in various locations around Carlisle.
Now, Edd, who is studying for his PGCE in
Secondary Physical Education through the School
Direct programme, launched his children’s sports
camp in Lancaster at the university’s sports
complex at the Bowerham Road campus.
Edd said, “I’m so excited to be bringing MultiSports to Lancaster. We want to build on our
success in Carlisle and bring Lancaster children a
unique sporting experience. The equipment and
facilities are really great and we’ll be able to offer
an amazing range of sports and opportunities.”
As well as providing traditional sports, the camps
offer children the opportunity to try new sports.
The ‘ExploreSport’ scheme allows children to
explore a sport they may not have access to
outside school. In the past, activities such as table
tennis, trampolining and boxercise have been
offered, often at the suggestion of the children
themselves.
Two camps will run, one at Easter and
another in May. They will be run during
school hours and all children need to
bring with them is a packed lunch and
water. As with the Carlisle camps, Edd
has enlisted the help of other expert
coaches who are also studying at the
university.
Edd continues, “Children can explore regular
sports, such as tennis, gymnastics and cricket but
if a child is interested in trying something different
we can tailor sessions to their needs. First and
foremost it’s all about having fun!”
Julia Briggs, sports complex manager at Lancaster
said, “I am delighted that we’ll be able to offer
these holiday sports camps in Lancaster too.
Edd and his team brim with enthusiasm and
always deliver entertaining sessions in a safe and
professional manner”.
Table tennis will be the ‘ExploreSport’ at the first
Lancaster camp and Edd has brought in a specialist
coach to provide expert tuition.
THE CAMPS
COST £30 FOR TWO
DAYS AND CAN BE
BOOKED ONLINE AT:
www.multi-sports.
co.uk/book.html
Originally from Peterborough, Edd has over eight
years’ experience working with children and has
a number of sporting qualifications ranging from
gymnastics to Boccia.**
** Boccia is a
Paralympic sport
for athletes with
disabilities. It is a
target ball sport
belonging to the same
family as petanque
and bowls.
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Linda Rader Overman achieves her
PhD from ‘merry ole England’
“In 2008 I heard about a programme in the UK, in Lancaster, that offered a PhD in
Creative Writing. “England”, I thought, “how wonderful.”
“The point was I thought, Wow . . . all I have to do is write
a novel for a PhD? Well why not give it a go. After all USC’s
(California State University) Creative Writing programme was
way beyond our budget with two children in private elementary
school at the time. So I discussed applying to the University
of Cumbria at Lancaster with a colleague who was already in
the programme and after a long chat over coffee with her,
I thought—apply and see what happens. I liked the idea of
travelling to the UK to attend the required three years minimum
of summer school. I would be paired with a lead supervisor
and two other instructors who would guide me along the UK
approach to a postgraduate academic journey.
“Surprise, surprise, I was accepted. Now what?! Well, I found
out that first year I attended summer school. July in England is
rainy one minute, warm another, cool another, damp another, and
hot another, depending. Layers I was told, dress in layers. One
minute my jacket was on, another it was off, my umbrella (called
a brolly for short) was open, and then it was closed—the weather
was schizophrenic. So was my state of mind as I sat in class with
students who were all postgraduates, but not necessarily studying
in my discipline. At my first set of classes, all six hours’ worth with
a lunch break in between and tea time breaks, I discovered I was
the only creative writing major among a preponderance of forestry
and outdoors, health and social care, science and engineering, and
other non-related to humanities majors.
“One of the biggest shocks for me was how we were truly
indeed separated by a common language. In American we call
a PhD written artifact a dissertation. In the UK a undergraduate
degree student generates a dissertation. This sounds basic,
but when I shopped at Marks & Spencer looking for the
bananas, I was repeatedly asked, “Sorry?” Then I realized no
one understood me so I had to adjust my pronunciation to
“Where are the ‘baahnaahnaahs’. After some minor linguistic
adjustments, I had no problem being understood.
“This was, of course, minor to the hours of supervision I received
from the very giving supervisors I was assigned to meet with
one-on-one for a total of eight hours over the two gruelling
summer school weeks. Not to mention the hours of writing late
into the night, and drinking tea and wine in our flats with my
newfound UK flat-mates, and wearing earplugs to void the noise
from high strung teens from Italy boosting their English and hard
partying skills. After summer school, I was to follow up online
with my supervisors over the rest of the year providing drafts of
my thesis for their perusal until the subsequent summer school.
I found that I had to create a rather long critical/theoretical
section tantamount to dispositioning my novel in the canon
of literature along with the novel itself. I had to work for this
degree! Here I thought I was signing on to travel and write at
my leisure (pronounced le-zher, not lee-zher).
“After six years of feeling like I was Sisyphus rolling an odd shaped
large academic boulder up Mount Everest, I finally reached my
goal. I landed on the top of that educational precipice and
proudly planted my rhetorical flag announcing my research and
my novel. Winded, exhausted, in shock and relieved, I screamed
to myself, “I did it mom and dad and I hope you can hear me up
in heaven.” Of course I assumed they were listening and smiling
back at me. My husband and children couldn’t help but hear my
cry of victory.
When my name was called to walk across the stage at Lancaster
University, the awarding institution, in December 2014 wearing
my PhD regalia, as I shook Sir Chris Bonnington’s hand, the
chancellor and British mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest
four times, I wondered “how did I get here at 63 years of age?”
No matter. I just did and it is NEVER too late.
Linda Rader Overman holds a PhD in Creative Writing along
with an MFA in Creative Writing from California State
University, Chico and an MA in Creative Writing from California
State University, Northridge (CSUN). Her background as a
production manager at KNBC-TV prepared her well for the long
and positively gruelling hours of scholarly and pedagogical
application as a lecturer in the English department at CSUN.
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“After summer
school, I was to follow
up online with my
supervisors over the rest
of the year providing drafts
of my thesis for their perusal
until the subsequent
summer school.”
DR Linda Rader Overman
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A poignant visit to
Ypres for trainee
primary teachers
Whilst teachers usually use half term to have a welldeserved rest, 23 trainee primary teachers, along
with their history lecturer, Sue Temple, and Education
Officer Julie Wooding from the Cumbria Museum
of Military Life were joined by trainees from Leeds
Trinity University and Pioneers Partnership ITT from
the Rochdale area in an emotional and poignant
journey to visit the World War I battlefields in Belgium.
This partnership of
three Initial Teacher
Education institutions
for a residential
had never been
attempted before
and the organisers,
lecturers Sue and Bev
Forrest (from Leeds
Trinity University),
were keen to see
how it would work.
Cameron Simmonds
at the grave of a
Border Regiemnt
solider
On the first evening the whole party attended
the Last Post ceremony at Menin Gate in Ypres.
They were astonished by how many people were
there given that this takes place at 8 o’clock every
evening throughout the year. The local fire brigade
play the music for this service. West Cumbrian
student Kieron Sharkey, was “filled with pride and
very emotional – but for all the right reasons” to
be chosen to lay a wreath of poppies on behalf
of the Fusehill Street students. “It was literally a
dream come true for me” he said. Kieron is very
interested in World War I and he was one of the
students who inspired Sue to organise this visit.
Julie Wooding had researched the 26 named
Border Regiment soldiers who were buried in
the Tyne Cot cemetery which was part of the
visit itinerary. The students were inspired by
Julie’s enthusiasm and passion to search out
many of these graves during their visit there.
One group of six students discovered a small
pottery where they created a small curled
figure from clay to represent a human in pain.
The organisation, ‘Coming World Remember
Me’, has the main goals of remembering,
helping, reflecting and connecting.
The organisation’s aim is to make 600,000 of
these figures to represent each of the victims
of the First World War. As a certificate of
participation they received a dog tag which
will be linked to one on their creations and will
hold both their name and the name of a victim.
Money raised also goes to help children who
are currently trapped in war situations. The
organisation intends to place these pieces of
artwork along the frontline of no man’s land
around Ypres in Spring 2018 between two
larger sculptures created by a Belgian artist,
with the aim of reminding us of the uselessness
of war: yesterday, today and tomorrow.
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Student Sarah Glass commented “We felt
honoured to be part of this creation and had
a great time in the workshop moulding the
clay and making each figure unique. It will
be interesting to see the final product.”
On the final morning, the tour guide, Stephen
Jolly (from Gesta Tours), arranged for the group
to visit Bedford House Cemetery where trainee
teacher Tony Farrell’s great, great grandfather is
buried. After a search which ended up involving
students from all three institutions the grave
stone was eventually found, not far from the
grave of ‘Private Peaceful’ the young soldier
who inspired Michael Morpurgo’s novel.
The trip has definitely been a huge success from
everyone’s perspective—comments from the
students included “just incredible… a once in
a lifetime opportunity…I’m so glad I had the
opportunity to do this - it has really enhanced
not only my professional development as a
teacher but also my personal development ...
I absolutely loved every minute and I was lost
for words with how overwhelming it was. This
momentous experience will be taken into the
classroom…an experience I’ll never forget…
thought-provoking… a whirlwind of emotions”.
Sue explained, “this was one of the best
residentials I have been involved with—a
real rollercoaster of emotions. We have all
taken so much from this trip that we will
remember for a very long time. The staff are
already planning two similar joint visits next
year to the Somme and Auschwitz”...
The group was also inspired to hold a followup fundraising evening. They put on a quiz
night in the Calva bar on the campus on 9
March and raised funds for the War Graves
Commission, the organisation with responsibility
for the upkeep of the graveyards they visited as
well as many others throughout the world.
Above: the trainee
teachers at the Memin
Gate Memorial to the
Missing
Below: the group
at the Calva bar
fundraising event
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Midwifery practice
Ingenious students establish
midwifery society
A group of students have established the Cumbria Midwifery Society,
organised by students for students.
The society was the brainchild of two second-year
BSc (Hons) Midwifery students, Emma Martlew
and Sarah-Jane Craig with help from the Students’
Union. The society was formed to enhance training
and education opportunities for students as well as
affiliated midwives working in local hospital trusts.
Students are asked to donate £5 per annum and in
return the society will set up events, conferences
and study days with external speakers at a reduced
price and a location convenient to students.
The society was launched in January with a
fundraising event at Fusehill Street which featured
a ‘guess the weight of the baby’ competition. The
prizes for the competition included a six-month
subscription to Practising Midwife Journal.
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Laxcha finds
success in
Kathmandu
It’s a very long way from Carlisle
to Kathmandu, but distance is
no object for recent graduate,
Laxcha Bantawa.
Above: Laxcha on her
Everest trek.
Right: Film poster
(with winner’s laurel).
In November, she collected her degree in film and
television production at Carlisle Cathedral after three
years of study at the Brampton Road campus.
And in December, she was in Nepal to collect the
‘Best Documentary’ award for her film Pawan at the
Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival.
Laxcha’s father was a Ghurkha and the family
travelled around the world on a number of postings
before finally settling in Leeds. Her heritage was a
strong influence on Laxcha’s choice of subject for her
film, which she created as the final project for her
degree and explores a young Nepalese boy's candid
impressions of the UK.
“Pawan is a culture shift story told through a 12-year
old boy's perspective”, she explains. “It is a subject
I really relate to because 16 years ago, I was Pawan,
moving home from the East to the West.
“I couldn't speak English properly; the only thing
I could say was ‘my name is Laxcha’. I remember
being petrified of British children on my first day in
school, but then they became my best friends.”
She is thrilled with her success at the film festival
in Kathmandu and says: “The audience whistled,
laughed and applauded throughout the film.
Afterwards many people came to me and told me
they were so touched by the story; a gentleman who
helps Ghurkha families with visa applications told
me he has seen this story over and over again in real
life, so he really empathised with it.”
The judges at the film
festival said: “This
international category
contained some
wonderful films, some
made on a limited
budget, some made
with a huge budget and
expensive technology.
“One of the things that contributes to a great film is
tension and Pawan contained that in huge amounts.
What this film also did was use technology in a
simple and effective way. In many ways it was a
classic adventure film, but what it didn’t have was
sunrises and sunsets, big views or dramatic scenery.
Instead it relied on the adventure, the characters and
the tension of genuine exploration.”
Mike Mitchell, programme leader for film and
television production, says: “Laxcha's film managed
to encapsulate what all good films do: it was
personal to her and still managed to explore the
universal, allowing us all to empathise with the
journey Pawan took. It is very pleasing to see
graduation films make their mark internationally,
Laxcha should be very proud.”
The best documentary award included a cash prize
of 50,000 rupees (around £320), the majority of
which Laxcha chose to donate to the Nepalese
charity ‘Maiti Nepal’ which is dedicated to helping
victims of sex-trafficking. Whilst in Nepal, Laxcha
has also been able to complete another of her
ambitions, an Everest trek to ‘celebrate her first
quarter-century on this planet’!
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University cuts emissions to win
sustainability award
The university has won an Energy Saving Trust ‘Fleet Heroes’ Award for sustainable
management of its fleet of business-use vehicles.
The university was nominated in the ‘Grey Fleet’ category
and was highly commended for cutting its business mileage
by 32%, resulting in a 16% reduction in carbon emissions.
The university implemented a number of innovative green
initiatives to achieve these impressive results, which included:
• Implementing a travel hierarchy to reduce unnecessary
travel, supported by a car club and rental vehicles.
• Issuing over 200 personal travel plans to help staff
make more environmentally sound travel choices.
• Incentivising car sharing and offering reduced
parking rates for ultra-low emission vehicles.
• Providing students with Stagecoach passes to discourage
car use and developing a partnership with Virgin Trains
for free first-class upgrades for university staff.
The awards ceremony was held at the Institute of Directors
in London in November and the award was presented by
Quentin Willson, ex presenter of Top Gear. Quentin Willson
said, “I was delighted to present the University of Cumbria
with their award. The judges saw the university as the clear
winner in this category, having implemented a range of
innovative ideas to help reduce their business mileage and
impact on the environment. Having been
a runner-up two years ago, it was great to
fully recognise what they’ve achieved.”
The Fleet Heroes Awards are organised
by the Energy Saving Trust and identify
organisations that proactively reduce fuel
bills and cut carbon emissions through
innovative transport policies, improved
fleet efficiency, or the provision of cost and
fuel saving products or services to fleets.
Ian Rodham, the university’s travel planner, attended the
ceremony and accepted the award on behalf of the university.
He said, “It’s just fantastic that the University of Cumbria has
been recognised in this way and held up as leading the way by
the judges.”
The university beat off stiff competition from Sussex Community
Trust and Portsmouth City Council to win the award.
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FINAL BUSINESS
MASTERCLASS
The university held its final business
skills masterclass in January, with
Chris Ward author of best-selling
self-help book Out of Office.
Chris Ward is renowned for being one of the most
powerful part-time working men in the UK who
works where he likes to increase productivity. In
his masterclass he shared new ways of working,
maximising performance, attaining work/life
balance, and thinking outside of the box.
This was the final masterclass in the university’s
hugely popular series that recently saw Apprentice
stars Dr Margaret Mountford and Tim Campbell
share their business insights with an audience of
students, graduates and local business people.
Before the event, Chris Ward said, “I’m looking
forward to hosting a really productive session;
showing people how they can progress
successfully in their careers while also creating
enough time to do more of what they love!”
Senior Project Officer Louise Gardham
commented, “It has been a pleasure to bring
such high profile and successful business men
and women to Cumbria to speak to our local
businesses and share their tips and knowledge.
“The events have been extremely well
attended and the feedback has been fantastic.
Chris’ insights as to how to achieve success
in your business career while also ensuring
you accomplish your bucket-list ambitions
was a terrific way to round off the series”.
The masterclasses, alongside other services
such as business placement scheme and project
management training, have been offered as part
of the university’s contribution to the Cumbria
Business Growth Hub project—an initiative partfunded by Europe, involving partner institutions
across the region and led by the Chamber of
Commerce in support of local businesses.
Above: Chris Ward
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University and Chamber wins
second entrepreneur award
The university and Cumbria Chamber of Commerce have won a ‘high impact’
award for their contribution to Global Entrepreneurship Week 2014, for the
second year in a row.
The university hosted a series of free events
in its Business Interaction Centre and Carlisle
campuses during Global Entrepreneurship
Week which ran from 17 - 23 November.
University students, school pupils, local businesses
and those new to self-employment were invited
to attend free workshops and advice sessions
given by industry experts on diverse topics such
as marketing, raising finance for businesses in arts
and creative industries, branding, HM Revenue and
Customs basics, social media and bookkeeping.
The university’s student enterprise co-ordinator
Sylvia Grainger said: “It’s great to take part in
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2014 and be
recognised once again for making a significant
contribution. Working with the Cumbria Chamber
of Commerce made this week a success as both
organisations were focused on putting on the
best events we could for students, graduates,
budding entrepreneurs and local businesses. It
also showcased the vital work being done at the
Carlisle Business Interaction Centre to support
businesses and grow the local economy”.
The events were organised by the university in
partnership with Cumbria Chamber of Commerce,
and were delivered by experts from the university’s
Business School, the Chamber and a number of
organisations including Arts Council England,
Bluefin Insurance, Dodd & Co Accountants,
HM Revenue and Customs, Pulse Creative
Marketing and the Intellectual Property Office.
Lesley Robinson, responsible for start-up activity
at Cumbria Chamber of Commerce, said: “We
were really pleased to be able to work with the
University of Cumbria offering support to new
businesses and those with a passion for enterprise.
“The events were well attended
by the local business community,
students and graduates and it
is great to see the interaction
between all the delegates. So
much work goes into making these
events happen and there is a great
sense of teamwork across the
university and with local businesses
to make it such a success”.
“Our full programme of activity during Enterprise
Week showed the real value of partnership
working and those who attended the event
gained valuable information giving their
business the best possible chance of success.
“As a Chamber we’ll be building on the support
we offer to those looking to start a business and
in the early stages of trading, anyone interested
in finding out more should give me a call.”
The Global Entrepreneurship Week activities
culminated in a business master class
presented by BBC Apprentice stars Dr Margaret
Mountford and Tim Campbell to nearly 150
local businesses, pre-start businesses, students
and graduates. The event was aimed at the
next generation of Cumbrian business leaders
and was delivered as part of the Cumbria
Business Growth Hub programme.
Above: Left to right,
Tim Campbell, Louise
Gardham and Dr
Margaret Mountford.
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Enterprise and Business Relations Manager
Dr Michele Lawty-Jones said: “The events
were well attended by the local business
community, students and graduates and it is
great to see the interaction between all the
delegates. So much work goes into making
these events happen and there is a great sense
of teamwork across the university and with
local businesses to make it such a success”.
Global Entrepreneurship Week is a campaign
hosted by Youth Business International, a
charitable network of initiatives helping young
entrepreneurs in 40 countries around the world.
The university and Cumbria Chamber of
Commerce first won a ‘high impact’ award
for Global Entrepreneurship Week in 2013.
Each year the university seeks to grow and
develop a range of events to encourage
entrepreneurship and enterprise in the local area.
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University invests £1.2m in highspec lab and new STEM courses
The university is investing £1.2m to develop a new teaching programme of
science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects and a highspec laboratory in Carlisle.
Professor Peter Strike
The investment is the result of two successful bids
to England’s education funding authority, HEFCE,
and to the Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership
(LEP), as well as matched investment from
the university.
The successful bids were for £256,000 and
£748,000 respectively, with the university making
up the remaining £256,000.
The investment will be a phased development, the
first phase of which will provide new high-quality
teaching laboratory space at the university’s
Fusehill Street campus, Carlisle, fitted out with the
technology and equipment to support teaching of
the new STEM subject courses.
The new laboratory space will, initially, provide 40
bench spaces for multi-purpose teaching across a
range of STEM subjects.
The plan is for the labs to be finished in time for
next academic year starting this September.
The first three new STEM courses to be offered
this year are BSc (Hons) Biology, BSc (Hons)
Zoology and BSc (Hons) Marine and Fresh Water
Conservation. All of these courses are now open
to applicants and are recruiting well.
For 2016 onwards, the university will develop
new courses in chemistry, biomedical science and
other related areas of STEM.
The investment forms part of the university’s
wider ambition to develop its presence in the
county and to work closely with partners in
further education colleges to ensure that the
STEM progression routes and higher education
courses available in Cumbria provide the trained
graduates that local employers need.
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Vice Chancellor Professor Peter Strike said:
“This investment signifies the university’s
commitment to providing high-quality education
to Cumbria. The new laboratory, along with the
development of a new STEM curriculum and
partnerships with further education providers and
major local employers, will result in a joined-up
approach that will provide excellent educational
prospects for our students and more job
opportunities in the local area.
“Our aim is to increase the number, the
attractiveness and the accessibility of STEM
careers for our university students. By promoting
closer co-operation with our local further
education colleges, we intend to create a ladder
of opportunity for training in STEM subjects in
Cumbria and beyond”.
Participation in higher education in Cumbria
is traditionally low, and in the STEM subjects
particularly so. The west coast of Cumbria has one
of the lowest higher education participation rates
in the UK and in some areas participation is falling
rather than rising.
Currently, there is no university provision within
Cumbria in mainstream STEM subjects such as
biology and chemistry.
The intention is that the skills and knowledge
acquired from studying applied bioscience and
analytical chemistry degrees, together with
professional body accreditation where applicable,
will enhance student employability prospects and
create a wider pool of skilled graduates to supply
the regional economy.
The laboratory forms part of an integrated
approach for working in collaboration with further
education partners to develop more progression
routes into STEM subjects.
The successful bids
were for £256,000
and £748,000
respectively, with the
university making
up the remaining
£256,000.
As well as this, the university will develop courses
which aim to meet the needs of local industrial
employers who will require STEM graduate and
postgraduate skills.
In particular, there will be an increased need
for biosciences graduates in Cumbria with the
development of the new GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
£350m biopharmaceutical facility in Ulverston
and an increase in demand from Sellafield for
scientists. Pat McIver, Site Biopharm Lead, GSK
Ulverston, said: “The new factory will require
STEM jobs at all levels, including apprentices,
graduates and postgraduates.
“The university’s investment will respond to our
needs, improve progression into higher education
in key disciplines of biology and chemistry and will
help us to recruit from the local area.
“This is a great opportunity for Cumbria to secure
valuable resource for its young people. It will
not only benefit GSK, but also other science and
technology companies based in Cumbria, thereby
making a contribution to economic growth and
our local communities”.
In addition the university will create innovative
programmes to feed the pool of qualified teachers
of STEM subjects. There are acute shortages
nationally of teachers in some areas of the STEM
curriculum such as chemistry and physics and the
university will seek to develop new provision to
help to address this need. The new lab will form
part of this new provision.
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Ben Cooper
Cumbrian students QUIZ
top BBC executive
A top BBC radio executive visited the university at the end of
January for a question and answer session with students.
Ben Cooper is controller of BBC Radio 1 and Radio
1Xtra and during his tenure has introduced bold
scheduling changes such as rejuvenating Radio 1’s
audience and renewing its focus towards 15-29
year olds.
At the event, he was in conversation with British
media executive, John Myers, and shared his vision for
the future of Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra. Ben and John
also offered useful advice on getting a job at the BBC.
The session took place at the Brampton Road campus,
and was aimed at students, graduates, members
of the Radio Academy and local media industry
professionals.
Karen Jones, from the Development and Alumni
Relations Office said, “We were delighted to have
such a high profile person to speak to our students
and graduates.
“It provided a rare opportunity to meet the most
important man in UK Radio today and get insider
knowledge from one of the world’s most recognised
and revered institutions.”
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Dr John Sentamu
CHancellor delivers annual
chaplaincy lecture
March 11 saw the university’s Chancellor Dr John Sentamu deliver the annual chaplaincy lecture
to a packed audience in Carlisle
The Archbishop spoke on the title: ‘On Rock or Sand? – Firm
Foundations for Britain’s Future’, a theme which is the subject of
the book he has just edited and published under the same title.
For fuller details click here.
The event proved very popular with more than 150 people
attending. University Chaplain Matthew Firth, who organises the
annual lectures, said: “It was fantastic to have Dr Sentamu with
us to deliver this year’s Chaplaincy Annual Lecture, both in his
role as Archbishop of York, but also as our university chancellor.
“It was fantastic to have Dr Sentamu with
us to deliver this year’s Chaplaincy Annual
Lecture, both in his role as Archbishop of
York, but also as our university chancellor.”
“As ever, he engaged the audience in a way only he can, and
people went away with many valuable insights and things to
ponder in relation to Britain’s moral and ethical future, especially
as we approach the general election.”
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Left to right: Hannah
Pears, Tamsin Rogers
and Mel Bakey
University wins
NEON Award for
widening access
to higher
education
The university has won a National Education Opportunities Network (NEON)
Award for its work to encourage care leavers to study with us.
This was a collaborative project between the
widening participation access and retention teams.
Hannah Pears and Mel Bakey led on the project
from their respective areas, which also saw the
university gain the Buttle Quality Mark last year.
In 2010 there
was only one
care leaver
studying at
the University
of Cumbria
and there
are now 56.
This is a great testament to the impact of this
work, which is part of the university’s spend
and commitments set out within its Access
Agreement with the Office for Fair Access.
The awards ceremony was held on Wednesday
25 February at Westminster Palace in London and
was hosted and presented by the Rt Hon Liam
Byrne, MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Shadow
Minister for Universities, Science and Skills.
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Chaplain Matthew
Firth with Twinning
Certificate
For more
information visit:
www.toilettwinning.org
Twinning arrangement with burundi
When new toilet facilities were installed at the chapel on the Fusehill Street campus, Chaplain
Matthew Firth was determined to ensure the benefits had a far-reaching effect.
Through a toilet-twinning scheme, the
Carlisle convenience is supporting a latrine
in Bujumbura, Burundi. The scheme, run by
www.toilettwinning.org, enables you
to ‘help those in desperate poverty to have
access to a proper latrine, clean water and
the information they need to be healthy’.
Matthew comments: “It’s great to be able to
have new toilet facilities in the chapel which
will make the space much more usable and
welcoming to both the university community
and outside groups—but it’s also a reminder
of our responsibility to do something about the
fact that 2.5 billion people around the world
don’t have access to proper sanitary facilities.”
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Student law
conference held
at Fusehill Street
campus
The university’s first national student
law conference was held on Tuesday
13 January at our Fusehill Street campus
in Carlisle, aimed at encouraging the
study of law as well as providing a
range of informative workshops for
existing and prospective students.
The conference was organised by the university’s
Student Law Society and principal law lecturer Ann
Thanaraj. Around 50 delegates attended, made
up of our own students on the LLB Law and BA
(Hons) Criminology and Law courses and students
from local sixth form schools and colleges.
Speakers included an international criminal lawyer
and former Crown Prosecutor as well as academics
from the Universities of Cumbria, Newcastle and
Huddersfield and representatives from Carlisle
solicitors Cartmell Shepherd and Bell Park Kerridge.
During a working lunch, all the delegates were
involved in a number of workshops led by experts
from the legal profession in preparing for interviews
with solicitors, building confidence in public
speaking and writing successful applications for
work experience, entering law school and law jobs.
The day also included a number of debates covering
topics such as ‘How do you sleep at night defending
the guilty’ and ‘What is ethical about Law?’
The keynote speaker was Nicholas Davidson,
commercial law QC from London who delivered
a presentation on the challenges of appearing in
court, including some controversial moments, and
how to think quickly on your feet. He explained:
“Law and justice are both national and
local, and are vital to the public just as much in
beautiful and sometimes lightly populated areas
as in the big cities. It is tremendous that this
university promotes in this region the study and
understanding of law, encouraging people both
to consider a career in the law and to realise the
importance of the work to a healthy society.
Ann Thanaraj, principal law lecturer, said: “We
decided to organise the conference mainly to
share the experience of studying law with younger
people in the region who have an ambition to get
involved in legal practice.
Above: The organisers
of the conference (left
to right) Natalie Tatton,
Sophie Allinson and
Julie-Ann Miller from
the Student Law Society
with Ann Thanaraj,
Principal Lecturer in Law.
Right: (left to right)
Nicholas Davidson QC,
Ann Thanaraj and Scott
Garson from Cartmell
Shepherd Solicitors.
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“However, our own students have also benefited
greatly from taking part in the debates and hearing
from such experienced and knowledgeable speakers.
They appreciated the opportunity to learn how
solicitors and barristers in legal practice and experts
in the field of legal ethics deal with challenging and
controversial cases in court.”
Scott Garson of Cartmell Shepherd Solicitors in
Carlisle was involved in the debates and workshops
and commented: “It was a real honour to have been
invited to take part in the conference; we have some
highly talented future lawyers in our area who are
really benefiting from an exceptional programme
delivered by the University of Cumbria.”
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research
ROUND-UP
A selection of
some of our staff
research outputs
from the past
few months
Faculty of Education, Arts and Business –
publications and activity
Simone Spagnolo has been commissioned
to translate a book entitled Vocalises with
Movements by opera singer and teacher
Alessandra Totoli from Italian to English.
Penny Bradshaw’s new critical edition of Ann
Radcliffe’s Observations during a Tour to the Lakes
[1795] (Bookcase, 2015) is due out at the end of
February and will be launched at Words by the
Water Literature festival in March where Penny
is doing a talk on Radcliffe’s tour. Penny will also
be talking about her new book at a Wordsworth
Trust event later in March.
Stephen Longstaffe, ‘Employability and the
English Literature Degree’ in English Studies: The
State of the Discipline, Past, Present, and Future,
eds. Niall Gildea, Helena Goodwyn, Megan
Kitching and Helen Tyson (London: Palgrave Pivot,
2014), pp. 83-98.
Faculty of Health and Science – publications
Conservation, National School of Forestry,
Environmental Engineering
Convery, I, Corsane G, Davis P Eds (2015)
Displaced Heritage. Responses to Disaster,
Trauma, and Loss Boydell & Brewer. Contributions
from Ian Convery, Mark Wilson (Fine Art) & Billy
Sinclair http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/
viewItem.asp?idProduct=14642
Stevenson-Holt, C. D., & Sinclair, W. (2015).
Assessing the geographic origin of the invasive
grey squirrel using DNA sequencing: Implications
for management strategies. Global Ecology and
Conservation, 3, 20-27.
Sport & Active Ageing
Relph, N. & Herrington. L. (2015). Interexaminer, intra-examiner and test-retest reliability
of clinical knee joint position sense measurements
using an image capture technique. The Journal of
Sport Rehabilitation (in-press).
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Relph, N. & Herrington, L. (2015) Criterionrelated validity of knee joint position sense
measurement using image capture and isokinetic
dynamometry. The Journal of Sport Rehabilitation.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jsr.2013-0119.
Dewhurst S, Peacock L, Bampouras TM.
(2015). Postural stability of older female Scottish
country dancers in comparison with physically
active controls. Journal of Aging and Physical
Activity. 23(1):128-132.
Devine, C. (2015) Sex, sport and justice:
reframing the ‘who’ of citizenship and the
‘what’ of justice in European and UK sport
policy, Sport, Education and Society, DOI:
10.1080/13573322.2015.1004166
Allied Health (Radiography, Occupational
Therapy, Medical Imaging, Physiotherapy)
Youngson A, Wilby H, Cole F, Cox DL,
(2015) Occupational Therapy in Diabetes
Care: The use of Metaphor British Journal of
Occupational Therapy 78; 1: 24-32 http://dx.doi.
org/10.1177/0308022614561240
Medical Imaging & Radiation Protection
Helbren, E., Fanshawe, T. R., Phillips, P.,
Mallett, S., Boone, D., Gale, A., ... & Halligan,
S. (2015). The effect of computer-aided detection
markers on visual search and reader performance
during concurrent reading of CT colonography.
European radiology, 1-9.
Social Work, Nursing, Midwifery, Advanced
Practice, Community Practice
Ruddick, F. (2015). Customer care in the NHS.
Nursing Standard, 29(20), 37-42.
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