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Broadcast Digest
April 2009
Tuesday 28
BBC Radio 4 Great Lives
Professor Andrew Samuels
Re:
Call Gustav Jung - Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in
which his guests chose someone who has inspired their lives. Ruby Wax
discusses the life and work of Carl Gustav Jung, who has been called
'the father of analytical psychology'. Along with author and Jungian
analyst Professor Andrew Samuels, Ruby discusses Jung's theories of
personality and psychological types, and reveals how his work has
affected her own life.
Listen to the
programme.
BBC Essex
Steve Pudney, ISER
Re:
Being popular with your peers at school could mean you earn more
as an adult. That’s according to new research by a team at ISER .
Friday 14
BBC Essex
Richard Howitt MEP
Re:
Model of the United Nations Human
Rights Council, debating the impact of the war on terror in human
rights at the University of Essex today
Thursday 13
BBC Essex
Dr Janice Pittis, REO
Re:
the University's successful bid for money from the Economic Challenge
Investment Fund to help support local people and businesses hit by the
recession
Tuesday 14
Heart
Dr Janice Pittis, Research and
Enterprise Office
Re: University wins funds to help those
hit by the recession Friday 3
Essex FM
Dr Maria Iacovou, Institute for Social
and Economic Research
Re:
new funding for research on
breastfeeding Thursday 2
BBC Essex
Professor Paul Whiteley, Department of
Government
Re: The G20 Summit and the
relevant protests
Video clips on-line
Parliament Live
University of Essex report on care
farming was
discussed as part of an adjournment debate on Care farming and
disadvantaged groups by Mr Mark Todd in Parliament on 24th November.
Discussion starts at 7hrs 11 and finishes at about 7hrs 45.
BBC
Flagship University Building open
Teaching has begun in the new flagship
building for the recently created university in Suffolk. University
Campus Suffolk (UCS), in Ipswich, was established by the University
of East Anglia and the University of Essex last year. View the clip
here.
ITV Local
Professor Jules Pretty, Biological
Sciences, comments on
how visiting to a farm can benefit a
person’s wellbeing.
View the clip
here ITV Local
Professor Michael Sherer, Department of
Accounting, Finance and Management, comments on rising fuel
prices as
part of
Anglia TV's Feeling the Pinch series.
View the clip
here ITV Local
Ask the Expert - AI
Professor Huosheng Hu from the Department of Computing and Electronic
Systems explains how robots can help people.
View the clip
here ITV Local
Ask the Expert - AI
Dr Simon Lucas from the Department of
Computing and Electronic Systems explains why and how he is making
computer programmes play games
View the clip
here ITV Anglia News
Pasco Q Kevlin, Manager, Lakeside
Theatre
Talking about the Lakeside Theatre and future productions
View the clip
here The University of Essex in the Press
May 2009
Friday 1
Wheelchair operates by power of thought
Spanish university scientists have
developed a wheelchair controlled by the power of thought. The
wheelchair is not the first to be controlled by brain waves, but is
the first to incorporate mind-control in a system of real-time
navigation, route planning and collision avoidance, computer science
lecturer Palaniappan Ramaswamy of Britain's University of Essex, told
New Scientist magazine.
RedOrbit
Robot fish to play their part
Robot fish
developed by British scientists are to be released into the sea off
northern Spain to detect pollution. Rory Doyle of the BMT
Grouop, which developed the robot fish together with researchers at
Essex University, said there were good reasons for making a
fish-shaped robot; 'building on hundreds of millions of years' worth
of evolution which is incredibly energy-efficient'.
Gulf Industry Magazine
Well done! Marathon runners pound the streets of London to raise
thousands for charity
Former Essex University student Amanda
Godber crossed the line in 4hrs 50mins, raising about £1,800 for a
Mersea Island-based charity.
Essex County Standard
April 2009
Thursday 30
Students revolt over car-clamp
'frenzy' at uni
A private company took charge of
parking at the campus last September - and the demonstrators say the
number of fines dished out has since dramatically increased. The
clampers are accused of pouncing on vehicles just minutes after
tickets expire. Students claim they are also being unfairly penalised
for tiny infringements of the rules.
The Gazette
Books given to uni
library
A lecture will mark the opening of a
new collection at the University of Essex library. A body of work by
the lat scholar David Holt has been donated to the uni's Albert
Sloman Library by his widow Edith.
The Gazette
Crunch time learning in
£1m boost
Three universities and colleges in
Essex have been given nearly £1million between them to help people
through the economic downturn, of which the University of Essex will
be receiving £296,150.
The Gazette
Law school to give
taster
A summer law school is being held at
the University of Essex. Crowned Education has announced it will put
on the four-day course in collaboration with the university's School
of Law, thanks to student Stephanie Edughele who is a final-year law
student.
The Gazette
Wednesday 29
Crunch time learning in
£1million boost
THREE universities and colleges in
Essex have been given nearly 1million between them to help people
through the economic downturn. Writtle College is getting 167,250;
Anglia Ruskin University 468,656, and the University of Essex
296,150. The cash, from the Department for Innovation, Universities
and Skills, matches funding already raised by the institutions.
Essex Chronicle
Olympic athlete launches health
initiative
An
initiative to coach youngsters in nutrition and exercise has been
launched in Burnham.Olympic athlete Steve Cram MBE attended the
official roll out of Upstart at St Peter's High School and talked to
youngsters first-hand about his own experience in training to become
a world champion.The year-long scheme, the first of its kind funded
by NHS Mid Essex and coordinated by Healthy Living Solutions, will
initially involve 150 youngsters from six schools across mid Essex.
The programme's performance will be scrutinised by a report conducted
by Essex University.
Essex Chronicle
Cameron backs academy plan for town on visit to Colchester
DAVID
Cameron gave his backing to plans to create an academy in Colchester
during a question and answer session in the town. he Conservative
leader made Colchester the 28th stop on his Cameron Direct tour.His
meet-and-greet along the High Street was cancelled because it was
raining and he was driven to the door of Colchesters Moot Hall in a
Toyota Prius hybrid car in-keeping with his green message
instead....James Devenny, 21, an Essex University law student, said:
He made a good impression and spoke well.
Daily Gazette
Halstead Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Tuesday 28
Britain's Wealthy Protest Proposed Tax-Bracket
Prime Minister
Gordon Brown's creation of a 50 percent tax bracket for the nation's
highest earners has led to a backlash from green rooms to boardrooms
across Britain. There has been popular support for the measure, and
Lloyd Webber urged the public 'not to confuse overpaid bankers with
the rest of Britain's entrepreneurs,' the poll results suggest that
most Britons don't draw such a fine distinction. 'A majority of
people have come to resent the growing inequality and the very high
rewards earned by people who don't always appear to have earned
them,' said Anthony King, a professor of government at the University
of Essex.
The Washington Post
New admissions system
facing uni students
Joanne Tallentire, head of admissions
of the University of Essex is interviewed concerning the new
admissions system, the adjustment period which will give students,
who achieve better grades than expected, a chance to approach other
universities to secure a place on a course.
The Gazette
UCS
secures funding to help boost firms
Funding secured in collaboration with
University of Essex, Suffolk Learning and Enterprise Access Points (LEAPs)
the Essex Development and Regeneration Agency and Colchester Borough
Council, is a result of a successful bid to the economic Challenge
investment Fund (ECIF) set up in response to the current economic
climate.
East Anglian Daily Times
Monday 27
Socially Active
Socially Active is an exhibition
that consists entirely of interactive artworks, which aim to
explore and question the effect that modern technologies have had
on contemporary sociality. With the emergence of new social
technologies people are able to connect and communicate with each
other in faster and more efficient ways than ever before. Socially
Active is inspired by the debate that surrounds the use of these
technologies, for example the growing popularity of social
networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. The
exhibition will present works by internationally renowned artists;
Aram Bartholl, Cao Fei, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Paul Notzold and
Thomson and Craighead. University of Essex gallery April 24-May 30.
Brentwood Weekly News
Sunday 26Premier League Whiner
When a freshly single Wag opens up
to a 3am Girl from the Mirror in a members-only West End nightclub,
the confessions will flow even more freely than the chardonnay as was
demonstrated last week when Elen Rives, the former girlfriend of Frank
Lampard, overshared in Bungalow 8 in the wee small hours about
benching the Chelsea midfielder....According to Jennifer Bullen of the
University of Essex, who interviewed seven other halves of football
players as part of her doctorate, Wags were lonely and had to be
highly resourceful to cope. While the player walks into an instant
network and job, the wife is left finding a home, schools and possibly
a new job, she says.
Times online
Saturday 25
The forgotten history of an ancient town
I've lately been absorbed in a new
book called Mediaeval Colchester's Lost Landmarks.... John
Ashdown-Hill sets out his stall in the first few paragraphs of his
introduction. His point, which is a very fair one, is that there's
a whole 500 years' worth of Colchester's history which we hardly
ever hear about
Review by Martin Newell of John Ashdown-Hill's book published by
Breedon Books.
East Anglian Daily Times
Honorary Degree for Dragon's Den Star
Original Dragon's Den entrepreneur
Doug Richard is to join a select group of respected figures who are
to be awarded honorary degrees from the University of Essex at
graduation ceremonies in July. The University's former
Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Ivor Crewe; actress Juliet
Stevenson; a Holocaust survivor who educates younger generations
about the Second World War, Dora Love; internationally renowned
human rights lawyer Nuala Mole; telecommunications expert Neil
McArthur; and distinguished mathematical scientist, Professor John
Francis Toland will rub shoulders with more than 2,000 Essex
students collecting their undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.
Freshbusinessthinking.com
University set to reveal job cuts
Staff at the only university in Suffolk
are to hear about job cuts next week. University Campus Suffolk staff
were told a few weeks ago that positions were at risk because of
restructuring. Negotiations have been taking place between management
and the unions and Richard Lister, from the university, said there has
been some progress.
BBC news Online
Super college for 20,000 students
A HUGE college serving 20,000
students will soon become reality in south Essex. Thurrock and
Basildon College is set to merge with South East Essex College in
Southend from January 2010, in a move designed to transform education
in the area. Joining the two colleges under the name South Essex
College of Further and Higher Education will offer more choice for
people who want to stay in education, project leaders say.
Echo
Friday 24
Cash to help in recession
Essex University has been awarded
£328,000 - to provide support to people and businesses hit by the
recession. The university will run a programme of acitivities to
support the recently unemployed and those returning to work, new
graduates, and small businesses.
Essex County Standard
Funky house act to start off club nights
Things have, naturally been a bit
quiet at Essex University during the Easter holidays. But that's all
set to change this weekend as the club nights are back with a bang.
The Gazette
Thursday 23
The view from Highgrove
It's 25 years since Prince Charles
condemned modern architecture as 'a carbuncle'. Now, with his recent
broadside against Richard Rogers, he has waded into a fresh
controversy.
Read more about his views on architecture and his view on the Sir
Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall.
Media Guardian
Boxted Animal charity will benefit from marathon challenge
Excitement is building for first-time
marathon runner Sam Harden from Boxted. The 22-year-old Essex
University History student is running in aid of the Danaher Animal
Home for Essex and hopes to raise around £2,000.
Essex County Standard
Back to their roots
Indigenous communities are attempting
to connect with their cultural history by eating traditional foods,
using native languages and moving back to their local environment,
according to sociologists at the University of Essex.
THE
Tough at the top
Researchers at the University of Essex
have concluded that the perception of footballers' wives as tanning
enthusiasts with a love for mock Tudor mansions is an unfair
stereotype that belies a life of hardship.
Essex Chronicle
Actresses and death camp survivor are among those to get honorary
degrees
What do a holocaust survivor, an
ex-dragon and a film star have in common? Well, they are all about to
receive honorary degrees from Essex University. Dora Love, Doug
Richard and Juliet Stevenson will receive honorary degress from the
University of Essex in July along with Professor Sir Ivor Crewe,
Nuala Mole, Neil McArthur and Professor John Francis Toland.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Halstead Gazette
Essex County Standard
Plan for 20 centres attacked as model campus faces cuts
Questions have been raised about
government proposals for 20 new higher education centres in the wake
of restructuring plans at University Campus Suffolk set up jointly
between the universities of Essex and East Anglia.
THE
My book looking into our town's forgotten history
Essex Graduate Dr John Ashdown-Hill
has written a new book on 15th century life called
Mediaeval Colchester's Lost Landmarks.
Gazette
Essex County Standard
Wednesday 22
Uni students stage human rights debate
More than 50 students from across
Europe took part in a special human rights debate at Essex
University, creating a model of the United Nations Human Rights
Council.
Gazette
Halstead Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Tuesday 21
Healthcare firm quits medical centre
A medical centre in Southend has been
plunged into uncertainty because of the recession. Chilvers
McCrea Healthcare has terminated its contract to run the Pier Medical
Centre, which has surgeries in Northumberland Avenue, and at the
Elmer Approach, Essex University site. Read the whole story
here.
Echo
Gazette
Honorary degree to be awarded to ex-Dragon
Former Dragon's Den panellist Doug
Richard will pick up an honorary degree from the University of Essex
in July.
Cambridge Evening News
New edition launched at University of Essex
The first critical edition with full
English translation of Thomas Hobbes' Historia Ecclesiastica
was launched at the Colchester campus of the University of Essex
recently.
Essex Life
Investing in Southend
The town has an impressive
higher education provision, with an entrepreneurial bent. The
University of Essex opened the Southend campus in 2007 and sponsors
the Business Hub, a specialist resource for local companies looking
for commercial advice. Other facilities include the Business
Incubation Centre for start-ups and the renowned i-Lab which uses
software and team activities to help companies strategise.
Essex Life
United allowed to keep captive audience for cup ties
Manchester United can force
season-ticket holders to buy tickets for cup games regardless of
whether they want them or not, the Office of Fair Trading ruled
yesterday. The Manchester United Supporters' trust had sought a legal
opinion from a Law Professor at the University of Essex about the
policy, claiming that it was a further blow to fans who have faced
large increases in ticket prices since the American tycoon Malcolm
Glazer took charge of the club in 2005. Read the whole story
here.
The Independent
Monday 20
Rural communities can be helped by county council report
The ERC, which was established to help
the council support its rural areas, has highlighted the 12 elements
in its interim report to the council's economic development and
environment policy, and scrutiny committee. Professor Jules Pretty,
of the University of Essex and ERC chairman, said: "Gathering this
evidence has been a fascinating process and the commission has sought
to look to the future in the context of the substantial
environmental, economic and social changes likely to affect the
people, institutions and environments of the county in the coming
decades."
Haverhill Echo
Students take on UN roles
Students from across the world
assembled at Essex University to take part in a simulated session of
the United Nations Human Rights Council.
East Anglian Daily Times
Don't interfere, experts tell Charles after he criticises new
development
Leading architects complain that
prince abuses position to 'skew' planning decisions. His views on
modern architecture are well know and last year he labelled a highly
praised new university lecture hall at the University of Essex "a
dustbin". Read the full story
here.
The Guardian
Inmates escape to make lots of loot!
Essex graduate Tamsin Goodwin-Connolly
took part in a charity jailbreak in Colchester and with her mother,
covered the greatest distance in the allotted time, making it all the
way to Oslo.
Gazette
Essex County Standard
Research reports on visual cognition from University of Essex
provide new insights
Debi Roberson and colleagues in the
Department of Psychology revisited the question raised by Brown and
Lenneberg (1954) concerning the degree to which colours that are
easier to name are also easier to communicate and to remember. Much
subsequent research has suggested that such effects depend on context
and task demands.
NewsRX.com
Saturday 18
North Essex: Twitchers to raise cash for Headway
A group of north Essex birdwatchers
have found another purpose for their hobby: fundraising for the
county’s brain injuries charity. Glyn Evans, his partner Debbie
Taylor and their friends will be setting out before dawn on Sunday
April 19, and cover, on foot, an area stretching from Essex
University to Brightlingsea. Read the full story
here.
Gazette
Friday 17
Brummie Ged hits the big city stage
East 15 graduate, Ged Simmons arrives
at the Birmingham Hippodrome with West Side Story next week. Read the
full story
here.
Birmingham Mail
Lakeside line-up will fill you full of the joys of spring
The new season at the Lakeside Theatre
promises to give everyone a spring in their step. A programme of
theatre, music, Latin American art and film will be shown at the
Essex University campus from 21 April.
Evening Gazette
Thursday 16
Adrian Lowcock
The name of Adrian Lowcock will be
familiar to anyone who takes more than a passing interest in the
trade investment press. The senior investment adviser at
Bestinvest has been a notable commentator on all things
investment related in the last six months and says the firm took a
conscious decision to alter the way its media and marketing operation
was structured, with Lowcock becoming the main media spokesman. Read
more about the Essex Biological Sciences graduate
here.
MoneyMarketing
Rights role for Euro students
More than 50 Students from across
Europe are to take part in a model of the United Nations Human Rights
Council, debating the impact of the war on terror in human rights at
the University of Essex tomorrow.
Gazette
Where power lies
The unexpected exits of two
vice-chancellors have raised questions about governors and their
authority, and about whether new forms of governance are appropriate
for universities. Tim Melville-Ross, a HEFCE board member recalls his
experience as Chairman of Council at the University of Essex. Read
the whole article
here.
THE
Pity our poor isolated Wags
The acronym Wag hasn't been with us
for very long, so it's unclear when being the wife and/or girlfriend
of a footballer became a distinct aspirational category, but
according to new research presented today to the British Sociological
Association, girls who dream of a fairytale life as a Wag have been
seriously misled. Jennifer Bullen of the University of Essex says
that, contrary to the standard media representation of footballers'
wives, being a Wag can be both isolating and emotionally difficult.
Read the whole article
here.
The
Guardian
Times Online
Sunday Times (South Africa)
Wednesday 15
One handed maestro
Catherine Turner, an Essex Graduate
from Colchester who has overcome her disability by gaining a string
of qualifications, is now realising a childhood dream by learning to
play the piano thanks to a musician in America. Read the whole
article
here.
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Halstead Gazette
Essex County Standard
Getting a job promotion is bad for mental health and stops you
visiting the doctor
New research by economics and
psychology researchers at the University of Warwick has found that
promotion on average produces 10 per cent more mental strain and
gives up to 20 per cent less time to visit the doctors. The
researchers drew upon the British Household Panel Survey data set,
collected annually between 1991 and 2005.
Medical News Today
Tuesday 14
An award-winning system is heading for the market
A business support system developed in
partnership by an Ipswich-based firm and the University of Essex has
scooped a prestigious innovation award. The ground-breaking
intelligent data analysis and decision support system took the Lord
Stafford Achievement in Innovation award for the East of England.
East Anglian Daily Times
University spin-out company secures £400,000 in funding
A company spun-out from the
universities of Essex and Kent has raised £400,000 of equity
investment from the South East Seed Fund. UltraSoc Technologies will
use the funding to develop and market Ultra Debug, a highly flexible
support platform designed to help to create more advanced and
reliable products in markets such as automotive and consumer devices.
East Anglian Daily Times
Children could gain better employment protection
Children could be afforded better
legal protection following a call for a shake-up in outdated child
employment laws, according to John Collins and Partners solicitors.
The Swansea firm said the sacking of a paperboy in Kent has resulted
in a legal challenge to children’s employment laws, and the result of
his appeal could have a resounding effect on those who employ
under-16s. The Children’s Legal Centre plans to back the boy in
challenging the decision at the Employment Appeal Tribunal and seek
new laws to protect working children from exploitation. The result of
this appeal could have a resounding effect on the legal rights of
children working throughout England and Wales. Read the whole story
here.
WalesOnline
The Western Mail
Euro election a credibility test for party leaders
Only about 30
per cent of Scots are likely to vote, but how they do has
significance far beyond that level. Professor Paul Whiteley from the
the Department of Government says that interestingly, the low
turn-out of European elections may help Labour in Scotland, largely
because the core supporters make up a much larger proportion of
voters. His recent research revealed that in Scotland this still runs
at 32 per cent of voters for Labour and 25 per cent for the SNP. A
recent opinion poll also suggested Labour would get three seats.
The
Scotsman
Colchester
pubgoers offered chlamydia tests when they pop to loo
Revellers spending a penny in Colchesters nightspots are being
offered free tests for sexually transmitted infections. Teens and
young adults have also been sent tests to their homes, with the offer
of a free cinema voucher if they try it, while students starting at
Essex University are now receiving them.
Evening Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Monday 13
And If You Don't Have One, What Have You Got To Hide?
Like the breadcrumbs in Hansel and
Gretel, mobile phones leave a trail wherever they go. The location
breadcrumbs from these, along with other communication traffic data,
are kept as part of a mass surveillance operation affecting everyone.
They are collected by the networks, retained for a year, and handed
over to the police and other bodies on request. Professor Steve
Peers, of the University of Essex and Statewatch, points out that
although the system is incredibly sweeping, it doesn't stigmatise
anyone because every phone call is going to be subject to this.
Sky Newswire
The Register
Promotion good for the pocket but bad for the health
British
researchers have discovered that a job promotion might be good for
the pocket but could be bad for the health. According to researchers
at the University of Warwick, promotion on average produces 10% more
mental strain and gives up to 20% less time to visit the doctor. The
researchers used data from the British Household Panel Survey
gathered annually between 1991 and 2005, which gave information on
approximately 1000 individual promotions and they found no evidence
of improved physical health after promotion - nor that self-assessed
feelings of health declined. Read the whole article
here.
News Medical.net
Daily Telegraph
United Press International
WebWire
Coventry Telegraph
The Scotsman
EMax Health
Psych Central
Indian Express
The Statesman
The Asian Age
NetIndia 123
Yahoo! India
Medical News Today
Red Orbit
Africa Leader
Cambodian Times
New
Kerala.com
Plan Sponsor.com
Malaysia Sun
The
Hindu
The Times of India
TopNews.in
Apples for Health
ENotAlone.com
CNN-IBN
Our Father Makes Chicago
Premiere
What could be better on a
chilly Monday night than sitting in an Irish bar downing a few pints?
How about sitting at a wake in an Irish Bar downing a few pints?
Seanachaí Theatre Company takes its tradition of Irish storytelling
back to its roots - with this evocative tale, performed in the back
of a pub written by University of Essex American Studies Graduate,
M.G. Stephens. Read more about the play
here.
Broadway
World
'I can't stop obsessing about my
very first boyfriend'
A reader writes in
about meeting her first serious boyfriend after 20 years and wonders
what to do. The reply quotes Dr Malcolm Brynin at the University of
Essex who carried out research that suggests impassioned youthful
love affairs can set too high a benchmark for subsequent romances.
‘It becomes inevitable that future, more adult partnerships will seem
boring and a disappointment,’ he says.
Daily Mail
Tajik women's committee and UK children's legal centre sign
cooperation accord
The Committee for Women and Family
Affairs under the Tajik government and the British Children's Legal
Centre have signed a memorandum of understanding and cooperation
worth 500,000 euros. The memorandum had been signed to slow down the
growth of violence, human trafficking, improve women's and children's
rights in the country.
BBC General News Service
Saturday 11
Rise of the female bankrupt as 60 a day go out of business
The number of women declared
bankrupt has risen nearly fourfold in just six years. They now make
up almost four out of ten cases, with women under the age of 35 most
likely to suffer financial collapse Figures from the Insolvency
Service showed that 23,173 women were declared bankrupt last year, up
from just 6,641 in 2002. But the bankruptcy figures suggest women are
suffering for reasons beyond cuts in jobs and pay. Studies have
repeatedly shown that divorce leaves women worse off than men, mainly
because women usually take the children. A study by the respected
Institute for Social and Economic Research this year said that male
incomes rise by 25 per cent in the months and years after divorce,
while those of women fall by 20 per cent.
Daily Mail - Manchester
Psychotherapists in turmoil over plans to start regulation
Britain's psychotherapists have heaped
anguish on themselves with a damaging feud that has split their
ranks. The dispute has erupted over Government proposals for the
regulation of the country's 50,000 therapists to protect their
clients from abuse and exploitation. Against this view, the Alliance
for Counselling and Psychotherapy has attacked the Government's
proposals as "singularly inappropriate" and claims they will
"perpetrate net damage to the field". More than 2,000 therapists have
signed a petition opposing the plans. Supporters of the Alliance
include Professors Andrew Samuels of the University of Essex, Brian
Thorne of the University of East Anglia and Haya Oakley, former
honorary secretary of the UK Council for Psychotherapy.
The Independent
Friday 10
Key appointments and promotions in Latin American business and
technology
Flavio Dario
Espinal, who recently completed his tenure as ambassador of the
Dominican Republic to the United States, has joined the Dominican
office of U.S. law firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. He obtained his
Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Virginia, where he was a
Fulbright scholar; his M.A. in 1985 from University of Essex, United
Kingdom, and his law degree, summa cum laude, in 1980 from the
Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. Read the whole
article
here.
Latin Business Chronicle
Thursday 9
Universities and colleges in the East of England to offer real
help now for communities in tough times
More than 70 universities and colleges
across the country will be offering real help to individuals and
businesses during the downturn, after winning a share of around £27m
in government funding, it was announced today by the Higher Education
Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and the Department for
Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). In the East of England,
eight universities and colleges have submitted successful bids,
totalling £2.96m in government match funding for a wide variety of
projects. The University of Essex will receive £296,150. Read the
whole article
here.
Cambridge Network
Oswestry & Border Counties Advertizer
Burnley Express
Newmarket Journal
Denbighshire Free Press
Skegness Standard
On the matter of mothers' milk
The possibility that breast-feeding
can prevent post-natal depression is being explored by researchers at
the University of Essex. The £240,000 project is billed as the most
comprehensive survey of its kind ever undertaken.
THE
Appointments
The Academy of Social Sciences has
conferred the award of academician on 49 people and one of whom is
Vicky Randall, Professor of Government at the University of Essex.
THE
Obama weaves his magic spell
America's president has inspired a new
generation to study politics at university. The University of Essex
is one university who has introduced new courses - a BA in
International Development and a new MA in International Relations and
the Media. Read the whole article
here.
The Independent
Something for all tastes at theatre
The new season at the Lakeside Theatre
promises to give everyone a spring in their step. A programme of
theatre, music, Latin American art and film will be shown at the
Essex University campus from 21 April.
Evening Gazette
Theatre group and children's festival benefit from county grants
Children with a passion for performing
arts are set to benefit from a major cash injection for their hobby.
Dynamite Drama, a flourishing theatre group for young people, has
received £5,000 from the Chairman’s Fund, a grant set up by Essex
County Council’s Essex Community Foundation. The show, Robin
Hood – the True Story, is based around the idea Robin Hood was really
a girl and is being staged at the Lakeside Theatre at the University
of Essex, from today until Saturday.
Halstead Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Where is Britain’s happiest place?
The Universities of Manchester and Sheffield have conducted a study
based on data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), and
drawn up a map of Britain’s happiest places.All those looking to find
for the merriest place on our own fair isles, head to Wales! Blessed
with some of the UK’s most striking scenery, Powys has been named
Britain’s jolliest place. The BHPS questioned a representative sample
from 5,000 households about their sense of general wellbeing. Read
the whole article
here.
County Life
E-mail Wire
Wednesday 8
Funding for study into benefits of breastfeeding
An Oxford economist, from the Centre
for Time Use Research is part of a team that has won funding for a
wide-ranging study into the effects of breastfeeding Dr Almudena
Sevilla-Sanz from Oxford University is collaborating with a research
team at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the
University of Essex.
BlueprintTuesday 7
BusinessEast
Alex Harris and Adam Hill, students
from the University of Essex have scooped awards at the southern heat
of the Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) Present
Around the World competition.
East Anglian Daily Times
Business-university link axed after funding ends
A cash-strapped university support
service for businesses in the East of England is set to end in July
because of lack of funds. i10 was established in 2001 helps firms to
tap into talents, cutting edge technologies and research services
available in universities and colleges. The University of Essex is
one of the 12 institutions in the i10 network.
East Anglian Daily Times
EDP 24
Masks and myths
Sophie Levoi, Arts Education Officer
at the University of Essex and her assistant Anna Balcombe worked
with pupils at Alresford Primary School to create masks and mythical
creatures which will feature in the Mythical Monsters exhibition at
the University Gallery.
Evening Gazette
How can MPs like Harry Cohen justify huge expense accounts?
Read Professor Paul Whiteley's comments on the current outcry
regarding MP's expenses.
Evening Gazette
Halstead Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Desert is alive with choices for children
International Schools Group (formerly Saudi Arabian International
Schools) is the oldest and best-established co-educational expatriate
school organization in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Nearly 100
percent of ISG high school graduates apply to and have been accepted
at prestigious universities around the world. The list of
universities is impressive. They include Stanford, MIT,
Carnegie-Mellon, Boston, Notre Dame, Georgetown, McGill, Cornell, the
London School of Economics, the University of Essex, Queens
University, the American University in Beirut and the American
University in Sharjah. Read the whole article
here.
Arab News
Scientists at University of Essex target demographics
Professor John Ermisch from the
Institute for Social and Economic Research has published a study 'The
Rising Share of Nonmarital Births: Is it only Compositional Effects?'
in the journal Demography.
Science Letter
Charles balks at modernist plans for former Chelsea Barracks site
Prince Charles has waded into a
planning battle over a £1bn housing scheme in London by demanding
that modernist designs by Lord Rogers are scrapped. Prince adds voice
to opponents of the £1bn west London housing scheme dubbed the 'Gucci
ghetto'. Last year he angered architects by describing a new Essex
university building by award-winning firm Patel Taylor Architect as
looking "like a dustbin". It was par for the course. In 1987 he said
architects did more damage than Hitler to London's skyline. Read the
whole story
here.
The Guardian
Monday 6
Legal charity to appeal child worker's tribunal decision
The Children's Legal Centre has called
on the government to reform children's employment law after a
15-year-old paperboy lost a tribunal case because he was not
technically employed. Professor Carolyn Hamilton, Director of
the Centre says "there
is huge opportunity for exploitation. Children have no sick pay, no
minimum pay and no paid holiday. All of these issues could do with
clarification". Read her
other comments
here.
Times
Online
Personnel Today.com
Funding for study into benefits of breast feeding
An Oxford researcher is part of a team
that has won funding for a wide-ranging study into the effects of
breastfeeding. The £240,000 project, the most comprehensive study of
its kind in the UK, will examine the effects of breastfeeding not
just on children, but also on mothers and employers. Dr Almudena
Sevilla-Sanz from Oxford University is collaborating with a research
team at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Essex
University. Read the whole article
here.
Blueprint
Investigators at University of Essex publish new data on
Escherichia coli
Dr Maria Mason from the Department of
Biological Sciences has had a study published in Nature Chemical
Biology.
News RX.com
Science Letter
Biotech Week
Obesity, Fitness and Wellness Week
Drug Week
Sunday 5
Professor Brian Barry
Professor Brian Barry, died on March
10 aged 73, and was one of the leading political and social
philosophers of his generation and a man with a great zest for
academic brawls. He was appointed as Professor at Essex University in
1969 and served as dean of Social Studies in 1971-72. Read his
obituary in the Daily Telegraph
here.
Daily Telegraph
Saturday 4
The trouble with tax tricks
Companies' tax avoidance schemes
inflate profits and distort the market – those responsible must be
made to come clean. Read Professor Prem Sikka's article
here.
The
Guardian
Multiplex Analysis of Cancer
Biomarkers
Dr
Metodi Metodiev from Biolgical Sciences has had a report published on
an approach for multiplex analysis of cancer biomarkers based on the
measurement of diagnostic peptides in the journal
Proteomics Clinical Applications.
Obesity, Fitness and Wellness
Week
Friday 3
Ex-Home Secretary on how to make a difference
Former Home Secretary David Blunkett
spoke to teenagers about how they can make a difference to society.
Mr Blunkett, a leading figure in the debate about citizenship, was
speaking at a conference about the subject at the University of
Essex.
Essex County Standard
University leaps into new role
University Campus Suffolk has taken
over from the Learning and Skills Council as lead partners on the
Learning Enterprise and Access Points (LEAP) project.
East Anglian Daily TimesUltraSoC secures seed funding round
UltraSoC Technologies have raised
£400,000 of equity investment from the South East Seed Fun, managed by
Finance South East and the Iceni Seedcorn Fund. Founded in 2005 as a
spin-out from the Universities of Kent and Essex, UltraSoC
Technologies is based on research carried out by Professor Klaus
McDonald-Maier and Dr Andrew Hopkins and their team.
Investment Now
Investing £250m in building for the future
Providing modern, sustainable
state-of-the-art facilities and an enhanced student experience is at
the heart of the University of Essex's plan for investing £250m in new
buildings and campus improvements.
Investment NowFlagship centre to kick-start research
development
A flagship International Centre for
Democracy, Peace and Human Rights is planned to kick-start the
development of the University of Essex Knowledge Gateway.
Investment Now
Thursday 2
Appointments
The Equality Challenge Unit has
appointed two new members to its board. They are Colin Riordan,
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex , and Christina McAnea,
national secretary for education and children's services at public
service trade union Unison.
THE
Lecture makes head start
A public lecture by leading Harvard
University neuro-scientist Alvaro Pascual-Leone marked the opening of
a new Centre for Brain Science at the University of Essex.
THEHEFCE chief promises to support institutional autonomy
But he says sector must develop
knowledge and skills beyond academe. The incoming chief executive of
the Higher Education Funding Council for England has promised to
respect universities' autonomy - but he emphasised their
accountability to the taxpayer. HEFCE has established a quality
assurance sub-committee, headed by Colin Riordan, Vice-Chancellor of
the University of Essex.
THE online
The Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics
By Todd Landman, reader in government,
University of Essex and Neil Robinson, lecturer in comparative
politics, University of Limerick. This handbook is for researchers in
political science, political sociology, political economy,
international relations and area studies.
THE
Breastfeeding research most
comprehensive study of its kind
A team of researchers at the Institute
for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex
have been awarded funding to carry out the most comprehensive study of
its kind on breastfeeding.
mummums.com
Science Blog
Radicalism takes Uni back to its roots
A new generation of left-wing,
politically-astute students are helping to reinstate the University's
'red' roots.
Gazette
Avoiding the questions
David Rose, Visiting research professor of
sociology, Institute for Social and Economic Research, at the
University of Essex, wrote an article concerning the subject matter
of sociology shifting away from issues of class, power and
inequality' towards concerns like 'the sociology of hope and
forgiveness'. Read more
here.
Times Higher
Education Supplement
Innovation and business celebrated at the first East of England Lord
Stafford Awards
IP4 Limited and the University of Essex have
won an award in the achievement in innovation category a piece of
leading-edge computer intelligent software which can analyse data
and support decision making.
24dash.com
Higher Education Minister visits the University
of Essex
Higher Education Minister David Lammy has
visited the University of Essex to discuss its success in attracting
pupils from state schools.
East Anglian Daily
Times
Wednesday 1
New study will look at effects
of breastfeeding on children, mothers and employers
A team of researchers at the University of Essex has been awarded
funding to carry out the most comprehensive study of its kind on
breastfeeding. The £240,000 project, funded by the Economic and
Social Research Council (ESRC), will examine the effects of
breastfeeding not just on children, but also on mothers and
employers. Read more
here.
News-medical.netRobot fish for underwater pollution
A school of pollution-detecting
robotic fish are set to be released off the northern Spanish port of
Gijon in a trial next year. They are equipped with chemical sensors
to sniff out potentially hazardous pollutants, such as leaks from
vessels or underwater pipelines and will transmit information back
to shore using ultrasound. The team from the University of Essex,
hopes the robots will eventually be able to be used in rivers, lakes
and seas around the world. Read more
here.
Thomson Reuters Official opening of new campus in town centre
LEARNING has taken on a whole new
meaning in Thurrock with the arrival of a new campus. The Thurrock
Learning Campus, in High Street, Grays, had its official opening last
week after taking in students in January. The project has a wide
range of partners involved, including Thurrock and Basildon College
as well as the education and delivery partners who are part of phase
one, including Palmers College, Barking College, the National
Construction College, Anglia Ruskin University, the University of
East London and the University of Essex. Read more
here.
Gazette
Paternity leave and the political father-figure
The proposals for the eight months'
paternity leave show that Britain is trying to revise its attitudes
to fathers. The days of commander-in-chief father are over. As a
psychotherapist and a political consultant, I am interested in what
these proposals tell us about changes in political culture. Our
images of "the leader" is still modelled on that of a traditional
patriarch, regardless of gender. We have recently seen a plethora of
problems caused by "heroic" leaders. Appreciating that we live in a
world of a different kind of father could lead to a different kind of
politics - less adversarial, less macho, less literal about
"security", and more empathetic, compassionate, aesthetically
sensitive, imaginative and playful. More, in fact, like the aims of
many British fathers today.
By Professor Andrew Samuels, Centre of
Psychoanalytic Studies for the University of Essex.
The Daily Telegraph
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