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The University of Essex in the Press
May 2011
April 2011
30 April
Budget breakfast
The University of Essex is teaming up with Colchester 2020 to give
businesses the chance to delve into the detail of the 2011 Budget.
The free breakfast seminar will take place at the University on
Friday 6 May from 7.30am-9.30am.
East Anglian Daily Times
Ten best talks & festivals
Derek Walcott today
- The poet reads from his verse at this event marking the
start of a two-week residency at Essex University. Lakeside Theatre,
Colchester
The Independent
29 April
Ella quizzes university chief over
tuition fees
Prospective university student, Ella Passingham, has questioned
University of Essex Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jules Pretty
following the University's decision to increase its tuition fees. To
see the vodcast, go to
www.essex.ac.uk/funding
Essex County Standard
Homemade and here to stay
When Pasco Q Kevlin took over the running of the
Lakeside Theatre at the University of Essex, one of his aims was to
bring the town and gown communities closer together and that's
exactly what he is doing with the university's first Homegrown
Festival.
Essex County Standard
Professor's work gets premiere
The UK premiere of a new work by Nobel Laureate Derek
Walcott will be performed at the Lakeside Theatre at the University
of Essex.
Essex County Standard
Marathon effort to help charity
Keith Brooke, who teaches creative writing at the
University of Essex is running the Edinburgh Marathon on 22 May to
raise funds for the charity, Epilepsy Action.
Essex County Standard
Get pedalling for movie premiere
A giant bicycle-powered outdoor cinema will be set up
at the University of Essex for a free event. The Lakes, at the
Wivenhoe campus, will host the UK premiere of Home, an
internationally acclaimed film by French Environmentalist Yann
Arthus-Bertrand.
Essex County Standard
28 April
Some green exercise for the mind
New research has indicated that physical
activity in natural areas, known as 'green' exercise, could lead to
improvements in mental health. In the study, Jules Pretty and Jo
Barton, PhD, of the University of Essex, analyzed data on the
physical activities of 1,252 people of different ages, genders and
mental health status in the UK. The scientists showed that just five
minutes of exercise in a green nature setting could boost mood and
self-esteem.
ZeeNews
Would AV have curbed Margaret Thatcher's power?
Since 1983, researchers have been simulating how AV would
have changed the outcome of our General Elections by surveying
voters shortly after the poll. This means we have no estimates of
what might have happened in 1979. What BES research does show
however, is that under an AV system Mrs Thatcher’s landslide victory
in 1983 would have been only slightly less pronounced, with the
number of Conservative seats down six to 391.
Read the article
here.
Channel4 News Blog
Sicura Systems attended Global MSC Security conference
Ninety delegates attended the event at the Bristol Marriott Royal
Hotel, the highlight being a ‘Question Time' session for which
panellists included Bill Butler of the Security Industry
Association, Dr. Peter Fussey of the University of Essex and Paul
Mackie of CameraWatch. Dr. Fussey is a senior lecturer in
criminology at the University of Essex with research interests that
include analysis of the impact of surveillance technologies on
terrorism.
Source Security.com
Should child protection be exempt from outsourcing?
Outsourcing to private sector providers has
long been a feature of social care in England. But should child
protection be exempt from the profit motive? Read
comments made by the Children's Legal Service
here.
CommunityCare.co.uk
Chancellor George Osborne visits town
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne
paid a flying visit to Ipswich today. Mr
Osborne visited the high-tech laboratories in University Campus
Suffolk’s James Hehir building to see a new bio-tech industry that
he hopes will help lead Britain’s recovery.
Ipswich Evening Star
East Anglian Daily Times
Six children kept in detention centres last month,
despite vow to end practice
Six children were
detained in UK Border Agency detention centres for immigration
purposes in March, despite a coalition pledge to end the practice.
Kamena Dorling, manager of the Children’s Legal Centre’s
migrant children’s project, said: "It is a given that we want to see
the figure reduced to zero. But even when no children are held in
long-term facilities, we are still concerned about the use of
short-term facilities and this new centre. These figures do mark a
progression though, but more can be done."
Children and Young People Now
All change
A national referendum on May 5th and months of parliamentary
wrangling lie ahead. But if all the changes being proposed by the
coalition come to fruition, British democracy could look and feel
very different by the next general election, set by the coalition
for May 2015. A University of Essex
study based on polling after the last general election estimates
that if AV rules had applied last year, the Conservatives would have
gained 283 Commons seats (down 22 from their actual 305), Labour 248
(down 10) and the Liberal Democrats 89 (up 32).
Read the article
here.
The Economist
UN Agroecology Report
In what may be the
most systematic study of the potential of such techniques to date,
Professor Jules Pretty (University of
Essex) and his team compared the impacts of 286 recent sustainable
agriculture projects in 57 poor countries, covering 37 million
hectares. They found that such interventions increased productivity
on 12.6 million farms, with an average crop increase of 79%, an
average food production per household increase by 73% and an
increase in food production by 150%. Most recent large-scale studies
point to the same conclusions as well. Read the
article
here.
Supermarket Guru
Reverse Socialism
Prem Sikka on how the Coalition is transferring wealth from many to
a few. Read Professor Sikka's article
here.
Chartist
From Caribbean to Colchester
The sights and sounds of the Caribbean will fill the University of
Essex campus when it hosts the premiere of a new work by Derek
Walcott - Moon Child (Ti-Jean in Concert). As part of his
role as Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex, he is
running a series of masterclasses for students.
Times Higher Education
Students bid to beat university £9k
fees hike
The number of prospective undergraduates applying has
increased by 10 per cent this year up from 15,146 last year to
16,673.
Gazette
Echo
Significance of the root issues
Professor Jules Pretty
reviews The Global Forest: 40 Ways Trees Can Save Us by
Diana Beresford-Kroeger.
Times Higher Education
27 April
Do You Need a Nature Prescription?
The benefits of nature for both body and soul are finding their way
to the prescription pad as more health care providers are telling
their patients to take a hike -- literally. A 2007 study from the
University of Essex, for example, found that a walk in the country
reduces depression in 71% of participants. The researchers found
that as little as five minutes in a natural setting, whether walking
in a park or gardening in the backyard, improves mood, self-esteem,
and motivation.
WebMD
How retro queen Lily helped to inspire
my vintage fair at uni
Katie Kendall, a north Essex events organiser has returned to her
roots to organise the first Vintage Fair at the University of Essex.
It will take place from 10am to 4pm in the University of Essex
Students' Union.
Gazette
Good sports give blood
Members of the University of Essex Lacrosse Team have arranged for a
blood donor session to take place at Christchurch Hall, Ireton Road
today.
Gazette
Breastfed babies are 'brighter children'
Breastfeeding produces not only healthier babies but brighter
children, according to a study that could reignite calls for mothers
to abandon the bottle. Children who had been breastfed consistently
outperform their formula-fed peers at ages 5, 7, 11 and 14, in tests
of reading, writing and mathematics, researchers from the University
of Oxford and the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the
University of Essex found. One of the paper's co-authors, Maria
Iacovou, a social scientist at the Institute for Social and Economic
Research, said the health benefits of breast milk were widely known
and understood, but the benefits for cognitive development were less
clear.
New Zealand Herald
PhysOrg.com
26 April
Animator goes Gaga
A Southend animator has put together a short film
featuring King Kong with a gorilla
on the Kursaal, a monster using the Park Inn Palace as a piano and a
chicken playing Tetris with the University of Essex student
accommodation.
Yellow Advertiser
Ilford Today
Regional Events to
launch
Edge Hotel School
A number of regional events are to be held across the UK to launch
the Edge Hotel School, which will give people the training they will
need to take up hospitality jobs. The Edge Hotel School will exist
within a fully operational commercial hotel situated at Wivenhoe
House on the University of Essex's Colchester Campus, the BHA
stated. According to the Edge Hotel School, Wivenhoe House was
originally built by the Rebow family in the 18th century.
Caterer.com
Academic Mobility and the Global Work Force
The spread of study-abroad programs may be all well and good, but is
there any hard evidence that they do anything to promote
post-graduation mobility in the international labor market? Until
recently, according to economists Matthias Parey and Fabian
Waldinger, little was known about the effectiveness of many
countries’ expensive efforts to use student-mobility programs to
attract foreign workers with valuable skills. Now, however, the two
academics — who teach at the University of Essex and the University
of Warwick respectively — have shown that studying in a foreign
country is an important route to working abroad later.
Read the article
here.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Divorce makes men the richer sex
Divorce makes men - particularly fathers - significantly richer,
however, ex-wives are plunged into poverty, according to a new
research. When a dad separates from the
mother of his children, his available income increases by 25 percent
according to research carried out by Professor Stephen
Jenkins, a director of the Institute for Social and Economic
Research and chair of the Council of the International Association
for Research on Income and Wealth. In
stark contrast, women suffer severe financial penalties - regardless
of whether she has children. The survey, Marital Splits and
Income Changes over the Longer Term, which is the first to
track the changing wealth levels in Britain associated with a
marriage breakdown, revealed that the average woman's income falls
by more than a fifth and remains low for many years.
Read the article
here.
Mid Day online
Library plan unveiled
The £27million, four-storey project in Elmer Square will house the
library, a cafe, a lecture theatre, meeting rooms, music/art studios
and the Focal Point Art Gallery. The library will be built on site
of the old Farringdon car park. There will also be a public square
outside. The building is a collaboration between Southend Council,
Essex University and South Essex College, with the organisations
spending £12.5m, £10.4m and £4m respectively. A full planning
application will be submitted to Southend Council next month.
Construction is scheduled to start at the beginning of 2012 and
finish in late 2013.
Ilford
Today
How Carry fashioned a real degree of change
A Fairtrade fashion pioneer has revealed how her time at the
University of Essex inspired her to follow her dreams.
Carry Somers completed her MA in Native American Studies in 1990 in
Colchester.
Gazette
The lost art of essay writing
Professor Wayne Martin, Head of the Department of Philosophy, is
interviewed for a feature about the fact that many students arrive
at university without all the requisite study skills.
Guardian
From classroom to council
THREE former school friends are hoping to graduate from the
classroom to the council chamber.
Liberal Democrat candidates Sam Bailey, Mike Shaw and University of
Essex graduate Rory Gleeson, who studied together in the same year
group at Bishop’s Stortford High School, are standing for election
on to East Herts and Uttlesford district councils on May 5.
Herts and Essex Observer
25 April
Malaysians abroad
A Malaysian researcher in Sweden hopes to gain a better
understanding of the human-microbe connection.
Dr Velmurugesan Arulampalam left for Britain in 1985 and stayed with
one of his sisters who was a nurse in Colchester. He completed his
A-Levels at Colchester Institute in 1986 and then enrolled into
University of Essex, near Colchester, and graduated with a degree in
cell and molecular biology in 1989.
thestar.com
For happier kids, dine together
Dine together, spend time together, and have a happy marriage —
these are a few key ingredients to ensure your child’s happiness,
according to a new wide-scale survey, held in UK, earlier this
month.
Researchers stated that children in the survey reported higher
levels of happiness when they dined together with their families at
least three times a week.
“Contrary to the popular belief that children only want to spend
time playing videogames or watching TV, we found that they were most
happy when interacting with their parents or siblings,” said
researcher Dr Maris Iacovou of the University of Essex, UK.
Hindustan Times
New library, worse service says Longley
Graham Longley, Southend Council's Lib Dem leader, spoke of his
worries about the new library, in Elmer Square, which will be shared
between Southend Council, South Essex College and the University of
Essex. Council bosses insist this will not be the case and the new
library, on the site of the old Farringdon car park, will be 20 per
cent bigger than the existing one in Victoria Avenue.
Echo
Doorbell ringing
Hull North Labour MP Diana Johnson is against the proposed
Alternative Vote (AV) system.
Recent research by number-crunchers at Essex University suggested
that 43 seats across the country would have been won by a different
party at the 2010 general election under AV.
Among the 43 seats, switching from Labour to Lib Dem, was Hull
North.
Hull Daily Mail
22 April
BBC Essex - Dave Monk Show
Keith Brooke
Re: His Science Fictions novels
and his Creative Writing course at the University of Essex.
Shadow minister in visit to campus
The Labour Party's youngest shadow minister paid a visit to young
campaigners at Essex University.
Essex County Standard
Student elections to be repeated
Two student re-elections are to be held at the University of Essex
after their controversial collapse earlier this year.
Essex County Standard
21 April
Fete at the University
A traditional British fete with morris dancers and a Punch and Judy
show, is being held at the University next week.
Gazette
20 April
Happy mother means happy children,
study says
Research from the Institute for Social and Economic
Research has found that a happy mother makes a greater contribution
to her child's overall happiness than the father. read the full
story
here.
Gulf News-online
Voting reform: How reliable are AV
predictions?
Research from the British Election Study has shown how the Liberal
Democrats might have won an additional 32 seays in the 2012 General
Election under AV rules. Read the full story
here
Sky News
Shadow Minister's question and answer
session
The Labour Party's youngest shadow minister paid a visit to the
University's Colchester Campus for a question and answer session
with students.
Gazette
UEA students to pay top fees
The University of East Anglia, like the University of Essex, will be
charging tuition fees of £9,000 from 2012.
East Anglian Daily Times
19 April
Nobel Laureate comes to Essex
The University of Essex will host the UK premiere of a new work by
Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott on Saturday 30 April. Professor
Walcott is visiting Essex as part of his role as Professor of
Poetry.
East Anglian Daily Times
Gazette
New student elections
University of Essex students are to be asked to vote a
second time in elections to choose full-time Student Union
officials. The decision to hold fresh elections comes after
two sets of Student Union representatives were disqualified amid
allegations of nomination and voting irregularities.
Gazette
Breastfed children do better at school, study finds
Researchers have shown that breastfeeding causes children to do
better at school. The research conducted by Oxford University and
the Institute for Social and Economic Research, Essex University,
found that as little as four weeks of breastfeeding for a newborn
baby has a significant effect on brain development, which persists
until the child is at least 14 years old.
PhysOrg.com
Data on Plankton Research
discussed by Researchers at
University of Essex
Mark Breckels and colleagues from the
Department of Biological Sciences have had their study
published on 'the role of dissolved
infochemicals in mediating predator-prey interactions in the
heterotrophic dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina' in
the Journal of Plankton Research.
Science Letter
Life Science Weekly
Study Findings from University of Essex
broaden
understanding of Biochemistry
Dr Brandon Reeder and colleagues
from the Department of Biological Sciences have
had their study 'Lipid binding to
cytoglobin leads to a change in haem co-ordination: a role for
cytoglobin in lipid signalling of oxidative stress'
in The Biochemical Journal.
Science Letter
Life Science Weekly
King of the Kursaal
A cartoon King Kong climbing over the
iconic Kursaal dome and a monster using the Palace hotel as a piano
are helping promote this year’s Southend Film Festival.
Southend-based animator Aaron Foster created the striking images as
part of a short film, which also features a chicken playing
block-stacking computer game Tetris with the University of Essex’s
brightly-coloured student accommodation. You can
view the animation
here.
Southend Standard
18 April
Humanities on the Edge’s final lecture brings in renowned
political theorist Ernesto Laclau
The "Humanities on the Edge: The Political Turn" speaker series will
conclude for the semester this Thursday with a
lecture by University of Essex Emeritus Professor
of political theory, Ernesto Laclau. His
upcoming lecture is entitled "The Discursive Construction of Social
Antagonisms."
Daily Nebraskan
The Civil War: an Eerie Silence
Professor Robin Blackburn
from the Department of Sociology writes about the
150th anniversary of the Civil War. Read his article
here.
CounterPunch
The UK electoral reform referendum
Using projections based on data collected
by the British Election Study at the University
of Essex, the Financial Times has produced an interactive feature
which shows the differences between the two voting systems and how
the 2010 general election results may have looked different if AV
had been in place. View the interactive feature
here.
Financial Times
Get used to more coalitions. Just
don't blame it on AV...
Since 1983, researchers at the British Election
Study (BES) unit at the University of Essex have been simulating how
AV would have changed the outcome of British General Elections. They
carry out surveys of a representative sample of voters shortly after
the poll and ask them how they would have voted if they had ranked
the candidates in order of preference on their ballot paper.
Read the article
here.
Channel 4
BBC Radio 1
Vice-President
Education Alex Reily and a politics
student
Re: Impact
of tuition fees.
£27m library job delayed by demolition collapse
Plans to start construction of Southend’s £27m library have been
delayed for four months after an unplanned collapse during
demolition at the planned site. Work is now scheduled for completion
by September, rather than May.
The car park is being
demolished to make way for the new £27m library development – to be
funded and run by the council, the University of Essex and South
Essex College. The new library development
is scheduled to open in the autumn of 2013.
Construction Enquirer
Echo
Why our happiness begins all over again at 50
For those aged in their 30s and 40s feeling down in the dump, don’t
worry - happiness is just around the corner. Economists have found
that despite a mid-life dip, people start to feel more content with
their life after the age of 50. If the
Joneses have more than you do, you’ll be miserable. It seems envy
at being lower in the social pecking order tarnishes the
satisfaction of being well off. Psychologists looked at the
happiness levels of 10,000 people who took part in the British
Household Panel Survey last year and compared these with their
income. The results showed that although salary is important to a
certain extent, a person’s social standing or status matters more.
Daily Mail
They've argued over the cost of a referendum, whether
deploying adverts of sick babies is "scaremongering", and if the
days of the lazy MP are numbered.
Last year, academics at the University of Essex examined the result
of the 2010 general election if AV had been in use. The results were
telling. They reckon the Lib Dems would have won 32 more seats
nationally, and a coalition Government with Labour would have
secured a majority in the House of Commons. Read
the article
here.
SouthWestBusiness.co.uk
Plymouth Herald
ThisisDevon
Western Morning News
17 April
AV vote: whatever the result, it has the power of a
defining moment
The latest research into the effect the alternative vote would have
had on the 2010 general election, carried out by Professor David
Sanders at Essex University, suggests a mere 32 seats would have
finished up in different hands. But those seats would all, according
to Sanders, have gone to the Liberal Democrats and 22 would have
been taken from the Conservatives. The coalition might never have
happened. Labour and Gordon Brown might have found common ground
with Nick Clegg's party. Read the article
here.
The Guardian
Sky News
Interview with
Annalena McAfee
The Scotsman interviews University of Essex graduate, Annalenna
McAfee, who was a journalist and is now a successful novelist.
The Scotsman
Hellenic Business Council in Bulgaria
Stamatis Theodoropoulos has been elected chairperson
of the Hellenic Business Council in Bulgaria (HBCB) board of
directors. He has a bachelor's degree in marketing from the Athens
University of Economics and Business and a master's degree in
accounting and finance from the University of Essex.
Sofia Echo
16 April
Life through a lens
David Cleveland has written a new book celebrating the historical
delights of the East Anglian Film Archive which was initially housed
at the University of Essex.
East Anglian Daily Times
15 April
Dame Alice School wins national science competition
A team of six Year 9 girls from Dame Alice Harpur School, Bedford,
have won the Go4Set - Go for Science, Engineering and Technology -
competition. After a hectic ten weeks of research and report-writing
the girls gave their final presentation to judges at the University
of Essex and were announced winners.
Bedfordshire on Sunday
Munro debate: Assessment timescales must not be abandoned
The Munro Review's interim report proposes freeing some councils
from statutory timescales governing initial and core assessments.
But this may cause children more harm, says Kirsten Anderson.
Child protection assessments should be flexible and always
child-focused. The experience of the Children's Legal Centre shows
that these timelines are vital in ensuring local authorities
complete assessments in reasonable time.
Children and Young People Now
Expert meeting on enhancing the OSCE's early warning
capacity
Developing a
more systematic, comprehensive and cross-dimensional early warning
capacity to enhance the OSCE's capability to prevent and respond to
emerging crisis situations is the focus of an expert meeting in
Vienna. The
meeting will feature presentations by John Packer, the Director of
the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex and Johnny Engell-Hansen,
the Head of the Operations Division, EU Situation Centre, as well as
by representatives of the Conflict Prevention Centre, the High
Commissioner on National Minorities and OSCE delegations.
The Denver Post
and 25 other news outlets across the USA
Society Guardian
The newly launched Refugee Children's Rights Project set up by
lawyers at the Children's Legal Centre and Islington Law Centre, and
funded by The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. Its aim is to
use strategic litigation to ensure children's rights are upheld to
international standards.
The Guardian
Nobel-winning poet returns to
university
World-famous poet Derek Walcott is to spend another
two-week residency at the University of Essex holding master classes
for students. He will also take part in a public poetry reading and
celebration of his work at the Lakeside Theatre.
Essex County Standard
How the new voting system could have
changed election
The British Election Study, which is based at the
University of Essex, carried out an exercise during the last General
Election to assess how the country would have turned out had the
voting system been in place. Britain could have had a Lib/Lab
coalition had AV been the electoral system in 2010.
Essex County Standard
Residents welcome £27m Southend library plans for Elmer
Square
Bold plans for Southend’s new library have
been given the thumb-up by residents. Southend Council has been
speaking to residents about designs for the Elmer Square
development, which would be shared with South Essex College and the
University of Essex, and built on the site of Farringdon car park.
Read the article
here.
Echo
Southend Standard
Vote switch a winner for Lib Dems: Party would take five
extra Yorkshire seats under AV
Had the 2010 election been fought using
the Additional Vote the Lib Dems would have walked away with an
extra five in this region alone, according to academics who have
crunched the numbers and both major parties would have lost out.
Instead of Labour holding on to Hull North and Sheffield Central by
a thread, they would have been won by the Lib Dems, according to the
British Election Study (BES) carried out by the University of Essex.
Yorkshire Post
Tune in to Miss England
Miss England, Jessica Linley, is to make a rare
appearance on the University of Essex's radio station. Red Radio
presenter Jen Musk met Miss England in January and asked her to
appear on the internet station on Sunday.
Gazette
A day at the movies
Wivenhoe's Moving Image have a new season about to
begin at the University of Essex's Lakeside Theatre. The University
have also loaned them a sound system plus digital equipment so they
can show films at the their Philip Road Centre in Wivenhoe.
Gazette
In verse: How Dora survived the Nazis
University of Essex Honorary Graduate, Dora Love, as published her
first book After Stutthof Concentration Camp: What Hope?
The book of poems were written by Dora more than 40 years ago.
Essex County Standard
14 April
BBC Radio Essex
Professor Tim Hatton, Department of Economics
Re: Immigration and whether it can be good
for a country
You can listen to the interview
here
(forward to 1:06)
The scars of unemployment
Despite the difficult
economic situation, figures from Understanding Society, the
world largest household panel study, show that almost two-thirds of
the unemployed expect their financial situation to improve in the
next year.
Economic and Social Research Council
Leadership and Management Awards 2011
The University of Essex Estates Team has been shortlisted in the
Outstanding Estates Team category of the THE Leadership and
Management Awards 2011. View the shortlist
here.
THE
Fragile land with a haunted soul
Laurence Coupe reviews Professor Jules Pretty's new
book - This Luminous Coast. Read the review
here.
THE
Students union elects new leader
Liam Burns was elected national president of the National Union of
Students (NUS) after winning more than 60% of the vote in the final
round. Mark Bergfeld, a sociology graduate from
the University of Essex, and a spokesman for the Education
Activist Network, came third.
ThisisLondon.co.uk and covered by 20
other news outlets in the UK
Damning figures reveal recession's damage to Southend
businesses
The recession is killing businesses in
Southend according to figures released by top accountancy group UHY
Hacker Young this week. Essex Federation of Small Businesses
development manager, Keith Brown said during
the last 18 months Southend Borough Council has been working with
the University of Essex, Essex FSB, Business Link East and other
partners to provide support to businesses in the borough to help
them through that crucial first three years of being in business so
hopefully the figures for 2010 and 2011 will see improvements.
Essex Enquirer
Britain's full of Happiness
According to a new study of 14,000 couples,
30% of men complained that they were kept awake by their
partner's snoring, compared to just 20% of women. The findings by
the University of Essex contradicts
the official numbers of the British Snoring Association, which
estimates there are only half the number female snorers compared to
male.
Daily Mirror
13 April
Current biofuels policies are unethical, says report
UK and European policies on biofuels encourage unethical practices,
says a
report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics
today following an 18-month inquiry. Professor Christine Raines from
Department of Biological Sciences was part of the working group
which looked into the issue. Story covered by
BBC
among many other news outlets.
EurekAlert!
Digital Inclusion for Small Business – How Can We Do It?
Essex Computer Studies graduate Renato Flavio Fantoni, Director of
Public and Regulatory Affairs at Ericsson Telecomunicações in Brazil
discusses digital inclusion.
Connect-World - Online
Low carbon grant
University spin-out company UltraSoC Technologies has been awarded a
grant by the East of England Development Agency and the European
Development Fund to help develop technology to cut carbon emissions
from vehicles.East
Anglian Daily Times
12 April
Views sought on Southend's new £27m
library facility
Pictures of how the new £27million library
for Southend town centre will look have been released. The joint
venture involving Southend Council, the
University of Essex and South Essex College, called the Elmer
Square development, will be built on the site of Farringdon car
park. Residents and traders are being asked for their views on the
plans today and tomorrow, before a full planning application is
submitted to Southend Council for consideration next month.
Read the article
here.
Southend Standard
When mind over matter has a whole new meaning
If you thought controlling a computer using nothing more than the
power of the mind was still the preserve of sci-fi stories then
think again. Neil D’Arcy Jones reports on the work of Dr Palani
Ramaswamy and PhD student John Wilson.
Gazette
Poet Walcott’s 2 weeks at uni
A famous poet will spend a two week residency at Essex University
holding masterclasses for students. Nobel laureate and T S Eliot
prize winner Derek Walcott will also take part in a public event at
the Lakeside Theatre on Saturday 30 April.
Gazette
Speech on Democracy
A free public lecture on the benefits of democracy is being held at
the University of Essex’s Southend Campus on Wednesday. Professor
Todd Landman, director of the University’s Institute for Democracy
and Conflict Resolution, will deliver the speech.
Echo
Jobs on the menu
A new art gallery in Colchester will create 30 catering jobs in
order to run its bar and restaurant. Firstsite gallery has appointed
Hospitality Essex, part of the University of Essex Commercial
Services, to run its catering facilities.
East Anglian Daily Times
The Weapon of Choice
Vernon Bogdanor refers to simulation by Professor David Sanders in
the Department of Government on what would have happened in the
General Election 2010 if the Alternative Vote system had been in
place.
The Guardian
Comment is Free – Guardian website
The impact of doorstep campaigning
Professor Paul Whiteley interviewed about the influence of
face-to-face campaigning on local election results.
BBC Essex - Breakfast
Diversity in the food system
Pests and diseases thrive in monocultures. But even in small areas a
mixture of crops can produce a range of benefits -- and remarkable
synergies.
Featured article on homepage. Article adapted by Vanessa Arcara of
Slow Food USA from work by Professor Jules Pretty.
China
Dialogue
IBS launches Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ICSBE)
in India
Professor Jay Mitra, Director of the Centre of Entrepreneurship
Research at Essex Business School, helps launch International
Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship in India.
Planet Powai
Artificial Intelligence offers Opportunity to Improve Data
Processing
Professor Simon Lucas, editor in chief of IEEE “Transactions on
Computational Intelligence” and “AI in Games,” as well as a
researcher focusing on the application of Artificial Intelligence
techniques on games, presented the latest trends in generation
algorithms for game strategies at an international conference on
Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Science Daily
Scientific Computing
11 April
Daniel Catan, Mexican-born opera composer, dies in Austin
Daniel Catán, a leading Mexican-born composer known for his lyrical,
romantic operas, died this weekend in Austin.
Catán attended the University of Essex in England and later
Princeton University, where he studied composition with famed
American composer Milton Babbitt. After his studies, Catán returned
to Mexico City and served as music administrator at the Palacios de
Bellas Artes. Later he settled in Southern California and taught at
College of the Canyons, a community college in Santa Clarit.
austin360.com
£375k to cut car carbon
A company founded by University of Essex academics has been given
£375,000 by the East of England Development Agency and European
Regional Development Fund to produce computer systems to reduce
carbon emissions from car engines.
Gazette
Jamie Oliver's school dinners are giving pupils some food
for thought
Five years since the Naked Chef launched his healthy eating campaign
in schools across the country his lunches are continuing to produce
a marked improvement in tests. Researcher Michele Belot, of Oxford
University, said it proved the importance of good food in schools.
With help from Jonathan James, from the
University of Essex, the pair examined the test results for
11-year-old pupils in the 80 schools in Greenwich, where Oliver's
Channel 4 series launched its healthy dinners campaign.
Read the article
here.
The Scotsman
The Guardian
10 April
NUS poised to elect new leader
Students will this week elect a new leader to spearhead the next
stage of their bitter battle with the Government over tuition fees
and funding cuts. The new president of the National Union of
Students (NUS) will be elected at the union's annual conference in
Newcastle. Four candidates will contest the top job
and one the candidates is Mark Bergfeld, a
sociology graduate from the University of
Essex.
The Independent
The Telegraph
WharfValley Today
Scotland on Sunday
The Scotsman
Nick Clegg: from hero to hate figure
He was the runaway winner of the television debates a year ago. He
seized the limelight, pledging a new kind of politics, a new kind of
country. But even as the Lib Dem leader soared, he was sowing the
seeds of a spectacular decline in popularity. Toby Helm reports on a
rollercoaster year. Read Professor Anthony King's
comments
here.
The Observer
9 April
Why our schools aren’t happy with big exam shake-up
Headteachers have criticised the
Government for releasing statistics showing how many pupils attained
the English Baccalaureate. The University of Essex’s head of
admissions, Joanne Tallentire, said: “We are keeping this area of
Government policy under review. But, at this early stage, we have
not decided whether the baccalaureate will be taken into account in
relation to entrance requirements.” Read
the article
here.
The Gazette
8 April
How the health of tribal peoples
suffers when they are dispossessed of their lands
Read Dr Colin's Samson's thoughts on the Innu people when they
are involved in government settlement programmes.
Aid Netherlands
Mobile Research Awards Shortlist Announced
The Institute for Social and Economic Research is
one of the four finalists for the MRC Awards
which will be part of the third annual
Mobile Research Conference taking
place in London from 18-19 April. The
awards aim to recognise innovation in conducting market research
through mobile devices. Read the article
here.
Mobile Marketing
BBC News Channel
Professor Coin Riordan, Vice-Chancellor
Re: Tuition fees
That's funny, it's a fundraiser
A comedy night is taking place at the Lakeside Theatre later this
month. It has been organised by Steve Swain who, in November will be
trekking to Everest Base Camp for the Colchester Gateway Club.
Essex County Standard
7 April
Universities warned fees must give
value
Universities which opt to charge the highest prices but
fail to deliver value for money could face a cut in student places,
Vince Cable has warned. The University of Essex is one of a number
of institutions which has announced it will be charging the maximum
£9,000 tuition fees.
East Anglian Daily Times
Wanted: a leader for turbulent times
After a winter of fees protests, all eyes will be on the election of
the next president of the National Union of Students. One of the
candidates is University of Essex student Mark Bergfeld, a NUS
National Executive Member.
The Independent
Think that tune
A scientific breakthrough has allowed a paralysed woman to play
music merely by thinking about it. The trial, a joint project
between computer scientists at the University of Essex and the
University of Plymouth, involved using brainwaves to operate a
computerised music system. Using electroencephalography, the study
participant wore a cap with electrodes that picked up different
patterns in her brainwaves depending on what she was looking at on a
screen; in this case objects flickering at different frequencies.
This was adapted using control mechanisms to link the different
frequencies to different musical instruments, which the patient
operated with her eyes. After a few hours of the trial, she was able
to play a short orchestral piece.
THE
Recruit more home staff to foreign hubs, report urges
Universities with overseas operations risk reputational damage if
they rely on foreign staff and fail to recruit academics from the
home campus, according to a new report. Recruitment may come under
the spotlight as more universities establish overseas campuses or
partnerships. The University of Essex said
last year that it would consider developing courses at "global hubs,
which could potentially include the United Arab Emirates, South East
Asia and South America". Read the article
here.
THE
Only a third of Race for Life places
filled so far
Only a third of the places in a charity race have been
filled with just 12 weeks to go before the event. There are still
more than 4,000 places to fill at races in Colchester. The event has
not returned to the University of Essex this year because of
building works.
Gazette
Launch of Indian Council for Small Business and
Entrepreneurship
Professor Bhushan, Senior Advisor and Head
of IBS Mumbai launched the India affiliate of International
Council for Small Business (ICSB),at a meeting held on Tuesday,
March 29, 2011 at IBS, Mumbai. One of the
attendees was Professor Jay Mitra, Director, Centre of
Entrepreneurship Research, Essex Business School, University of
Essex who is also the International
Director of the ICSB.
IIFL
6 April
ITV Anglia News
Dr Rachel Hine, Centre for Environment and Society
Re: a new study carried out by the
University of Essex in conjunction with Discovery Quest has shown
the value of the natural environment and wilderness therapy in
helping sufferers of severe mental ill-health.
View the news item
here and
forward to 14:21.
For happier kids, dine together and hang out, new
research claims
Dine together, spend time together, and have a happy marriage -
those are a few key ingredients to ensuring your child's happiness,
a new wide-scale UK survey, announced April 2, suggests. "Contrary
to the popular belief that children only want to spend time playing
videogames or watching TV," said researcher Dr. Maria
Iacovou of the University of Essex, "we found that they were most
happy when interacting with their parents or siblings."
Read the article
here.
The Independent
Therapy by rural walks
A walk in the
countryside can help tackle mental health problems such as
depression, Essex University researchers have discovered.
Research by Essex scientists and Discovery Quest, part of the
Julian Housing Support service, in Norfolk, suggested six months of
healthy outdoor exercise boosted the self-esteem of 88 per cent of
participants.
Gazette
Bumper book of Whitehall blunders
In the
wake of the coalition’s comprehensive cock-up over health service
reform, the current crop of ministers may take comfort from knowing
that others have done just as badly. The Blunders of Our Government
is the title of a new book being compiled by Sir Ivor Crewe, Master
of University College, Oxford, and Professor Anthony King of Essex
university. Their aim is to look back at the botches of the past 30
years – poll tax, the Child Support Agency and tax credits are among
the more spectacular in a long list. They are interested not just in
the political fallout but in what Prof King calls “the system
malfunctions” that make for rotten government. That will bring
senior civil servants under the microscope.
FT.com
When It Comes To Children"s Happiness, Mum"s The Word
According To A UK Study
As part of
the study, which will follow 40,000 UK households over a number of
years, young people aged between 10 to 15 years have been asked how
satisfied they are with their lives. The findings indicate that a
mother's happiness in her partnership is more important to the child
than the father's. The findings are based on a sample of 6,441
women, 5,384 men and 1,268 young people. Overall, 60 per cent of
young people say they are 'completely satisfied' with their family
situation but in families where the child's mother is unhappy in her
partnership, only 55 per cent of young people say they are
'completely happy' with their family situation - compared with 73
per cent of young people whose mothers are 'perfectly happy' in
their relationships. The Understanding Society research examined the
relationships between married or cohabiting partners, and
relationships between parents and their children. Professor John
Ermisch, Dr Maria Iacovou, and Dr Alexandra Skew from the Institute
for Social and Economic Research found that the happiest children
are those living with two parents - either biological or step - with
no younger siblings, who do not quarrel with their parents
regularly, who eat at least three evening meals per week with their
family and whose mother is happy in her own relationship.
World Book and News
5 April
Family Time: Raising eco-friendly kids
Did You Know? According to the
Understanding Society survey in England, the happiness of children
is more dependent on their mother’s happiness than on their
father’s.
Milford Daily News
and 18 other online newspapers across the USA
'Student' seat could be key to
elections
Lib Dem Mark Cory, a former University of Essex student, is up
against Labour's student union officer Ashley Rudge and Conservative
student Mo Metcalf-Fisher in the Wivenhoe Cross seat on Colchester
Borough Council.
Gazette
Steven takes over the helm
The new headteacher at Philip Morant will be Steven
Clark. The 37 year old is a biological sciences graduate from the
University of Essex.
Gazette
4 April
'Locked-in' woman makes medical history
Marini McNeilly who was paralysed by
stroke was able to compose music by power
of thought which came in the form of
a computer system developed by scientists
at Essex and Plymouth universities. Read
the article
here.
The Independent
thisisplymouth
thisisdevon
Graduates undeterred by public sector cuts programme
A survey shows almost a third of graduates
have identified the public sector as their preferred place of work,
despite the swingeing programme of cuts.
Danielle Foster, 22, a speech and language therapy postgraduate
student at the University of Essex who eventually hopes to find work
in the NHS, agreed with that view: "There is a worry among all of us
on the course that we won't get jobs. But any anger is not so much
about that, but about the money not being there to help people.
There's no point having jobs if resources aren't there for people
who need them." Read the article
here.
The Guardian
UTV
Oil the focus of Minerva course and lecture series
Historian Robin Blackburn will kick off a spring public lecture
series devoted to the topic of oil. The Professor
of sociology at the University of Essex and Distinguished Visiting
Professor of Historical Studies at the New School in New York, will
discuss 'Sweet Power: Global Powers and
the Premium Commodity from Sugar to Oil.'
Union College
Happy mothers, happy children...
As part of the Understanding Society study, youngsters aged between
ten and 15 in 40,000 UK families were asked how they felt about
their home lives. It revealed that relationships with mothers and
fathers were the most important indicator of happiness, and that
those living with two parents – either biological or step – were
most content. Fewer than three in ten children who argued with their
parents more than once a week were completely happy at home. Dr
Maria Iacovou, of the Institute for Social and Economic Research,
said: ‘These findings show that family relationships and the
happiness of parents are key to the happiness of young people.’
Read the article
here.
Daily Mail
Politics.co.uk
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Breast cancer research
Scientists at the University of Essex have been handled £205,000 to
study the early signs of breast cancer. They will study the early -
but reversible - changes of genes in someone with the disease, in a
bid to fid a way of restoring cells to their normal status.
East Anglian Daily Times
Amnesty pix
competition
Students at the University of Essex with an interest
in human rights have launched a photography competition.
Gazette
Laughs for a good cause
A comedy night at the University of Essex will be
raising money as well as laughs on 16 April. It has been organised
by Steve Swain, who is trekking to Everest base camp to raise funds
for the Colchester Gateway Club.
Gazette
Alternative vote 'would deliver different results in
Oxford'
Oxford would have two Liberal Democrat MPs
if the last General Election had been held under the proposed new
alternative voting system, a study has shown. Analysis of the 2010
election result, carried out by academics at Essex University, shows
the Liberal Democrats would have been the big winners under an AV
system.
Oxford Mail
Kaplan Business School offers University of London
degrees
Kaplan, the provider
of higher education and professional training and part of The
Washington Post Company, will offers London campus-based programs
for students wishing to study for one of several University of
London degrees. Kaplan offers
business, accounting and finance degree programs at campuses in five
cities throughout the UK including central London. Kaplan also has a
partnership with the University of Essex to provide online degree
programs in Business Studies, Financial Services and Criminal
Justice.
PR Inside
20 Game-Changing Events That Shaped the Internet, Part 1
To honour this vital part of everyone's
personal and work lives, we compiled a list of 20 huge Internet
advancements and developments. Back in
1978: MUD, the groundbreaking multiplayer online computer game,
arrives. The game was released by
student Roy Trubshaw and Professor Richard Bartle at
the University of Essex.
Read the article
here.
PC World
Yahoo! News
MSN Canada
Bayou Buzz
Rocket News
TechWorld Australia
ARN Online
CIO Australia
Computerworld Australia
Australian PC World
1 April
BBC Radio 4 - The Today Programme
Professor Peter Lynn, ISER
Re: The alternative census
An alternative census has been created by Professor Lynn - find out
more about it and take part
here
Listen to Radio 4's
More or Less programme to find
out more about this alternative census designed by Professor Lynn
European residents back town’s city bid
Becoming a city would put Southend on the
international map, according to foreigners living in the town.
Council bosses and business leaders are bidding for the honorary
title, which will be handed out to mark the 60th anniversary
of the Queen’s coronation next year. Overseas students at the
University of Essex and immigrants, who have come to the town to
find work, said adding city to Southend’s name could boost its
profile abroad.
Echo
New Chair for IBC2007 conference
IBC has announced the appointment of Professor David Crawford as
Chairman of the IBC2007 Conference Committee. He has the
degrees of BA (Hons), MSc in Telecommunications and PhD in Image
Coding, and is a Professor at Essex University with interests in
mobile and broadband networks.
TVB Europe
University Campus Suffolk announces
planned fees for next year
University Campus Suffolk announced plans to raise tuition
fees to £8,000 for Bachelor degrees and £7,500 for Foundation
degrees yesterday. Professor Mike Saks said that the increase of
fees will allow them to deliver innovative initiatives to widen
participation, improve support and facilities for students, and
build employability into the degree courses on offer.
East Anglian Daily Times
The Independent
Lowestoft Journal
Beccles and Bungay Journal
Ipswich Evening Star
Lowestoft Journal
Great Mercury Mercury
Steep rise in university fees a gamble
Across the country universities are showing their hands in
the great fees rise gamble. For places like Oxford and Cambridge
charging the maximum is a no-brainer, but institutions like Leeds
Metropolitan, and closer to home, Essex, are also going to charge
the same. Now UCS in Ipswich has declared that it will be asking
students to pay between £7,500 and £8,000 depending on the degree,
to study.
East Anglian Daily Times Comment
Research Park under discussion
The University of Essex's new research park will be
the topic of discussion at a networking event organised by the Essex
Chambers of Commerce. It will be held in the iLab at the University
of Essex.
Essex County Standard
Scientists get grant to help cancer
fight
The University of Essex has been given a £205,000
grant to research the first signs of breast cancer. It has been
funded by Cancer Research UK to investigate the early reversible
changes detected in genes linked with breast cancer.
Essex County Standard
VAF windfall wards off job cuts
Colchester Council has revealed it has received £1.25
million from an insurance bond taken out as part of the deal with
former builder Banner Holdings. Colchester Council, Essex County
Council, the Arts Council and the University of Essex are
contributing towards the final bill.
Essex County Standard
Essex Countrywide Business Awards:
Meet the Sponsors
Essex Business School is one of the sponsors of the
Essex Countrywide Business awards. The University of Essex Business
School offers workforce training, business consultancy, knowledge
exchange partnerships, research project collaboration and targeted
business advice.
Essex County Standard
Aaron has no mercy for Ndaba
University of Essex ABC's Aaron Spencer and Danny Azeez both
registered wins when they travelled to Reading.
Essex County Standard
March 2011
31 March
Academic study demonstrates how AV benefits the Lib Dems
The research was undertaken immediately after the general election
by academics from the University of Essex and the University of
Texas at Dallas for the journal Parliamentary Affairs.
Read more about the research
here.
Conservative Home
ThisisLondon.co.uk
Pillow talk
Has the UK become a
nation of insomniacs? New research suggests that it has, with 26 per
cent of those who work in excess of 48 hours a week sleeping for
less than six hours a night. These are the findings of an
Understanding Society study tracking the lives of 100,000 people in
40,000 British households, published by the ESRC. Dr Mark Bryan,
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic
Research (ISER) based at the University of Essex, who conducted some
of the Understanding Society research on sleep, said one important
factor in whether people slept well was job satisfaction.
Read the article
here.
ESRC
Cancer grant
A £200,000 grant from Cancer Research UK will help University of
Essex scientists in the fight against breast cancer.
Essex Chronicle
People
Baron Currie of Marylebone, founding Chairman of Ofcom has been
appointed Chair of the University of Essex's Council.
THE
Graduate internship scheme axed but
Andreas gets job
Andreas Fantousi graduated
with a BSc in Business Management and joined the university's
graduate internship scheme. He impressed his bosses at Pacepaker so
much they created a new job for him. Government funding for the
scheme has now been withdrawn.
Gazette
An online course opens up a virtual world of
opportunities
Kaplan is an organisation that delivers online business degrees in
partnership with the University of Essex, as well as online
professional business courses. "Our core market is people in
mid-to-late thirties, who tend to be in full-time work," says their
website developer Daniel Todd. The number of part-time students
studying Kaplan's online business foundation degrees and BA top-up
courses is growing year on year, and they are consequently looking
to widen the number of online programmes they offer.
The Independent
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