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The University of Essex in the Press
December 2011
Saturday 31 December
Child fitness levels falling in UK
Child fitness levels in the UK are falling twice as fast as the
average rate for the rest of the world, even in children who are not
obese, new research has found. Worldwide, child fitness levels have
fallen by around 4 per cent in the past ten years - but they've
fallen about 8 per cent in the UK. Researchers from Essex University
assessed the fitness levels of over 300 ten year olds from
Chelmsford, in Essex, which ranks among the top 20 per cent most
affluent areas in the UK.
Family GP
Healthy New Year's Resolutions
Data from the British Household Panel Survey
based at ISER is used by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen)
for a research for the Department of Health. The research found
people who made New Year's resolutions to be more healthy often made
other positive changes in their lifestyle too.
Web Newswire
Friday 30 December
Artificial
intelligence takes on Ms.Pac-Man
Philipp Rohlfshagen, David Robles and Simon Lucas, from the School
of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, recently launched a
competition called Ms. Pac-Man vs. Ghost Team for those wanting to
rewrite the flow of the classic game.
CNET News.com
Thursday 29 December
David’s tough Desert run in aid of Havens
Super fit David Atkinson, a lecturer in healthcare ethics at the
Southend Campus, will face his biggest challenge to date when he
runs across the Sahara Desert to raise money for Havens Hospices.
Echo
Wednesday 28 December
Bags of blood, and not
a donor in sight: Lab-grown blood used for the first time
Professor Chris Cooper interviewed about the development of blood
substitutes after red blood cells generated in a lab have been
successfully injected into a human volunteer for the first time at
Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. Read the full article
here.
Premium Health News Service
Witham: Youth area art work unveiled
Youngsters brightened the youth area of a
children’s centre with brightly coloured pieces of artwork. About 20
children, aged between 11 and 16, worked for months to create the
pieces with help from Essex University volunteers. They unveiled
their work earlier this month at the Silver End Children’s Centre in
the hope of making the youth area more welcoming.
Gazette
Tuesday 27 December
'Girls perform better in single-sex classes'
Girls do better at university if they are taught
in single-sex classes, according to new research. Students at Essex
University were randomly split into three groups, male only, female
only and mixed. At the end of the year, the marks of the girls-only
class were eight per cent higher than either of the other groups.
The split, though, had no effect on the boys' only or mixed classes.
The findings could have policy implications for the way students are
taught in future – both at university and in schools, according to
academics. It may lead to demands for more single-sex teaching.
The Independent and more than 50 media outlets
around the world.
Obituary: Richard Douthwaite
Richard Douthwaite, who has died aged 69, was a
British-born economist whose apparently prescient outlook was best
summed up by the doom-laden title of his influential first book The
Growth Illusion: How Economic Growth Enriched the Few, Impoverished
the Many and Endangered the Planet. Richard Douthwaite was born in
Sheffield on August 6 1942. He studied Engineering at Leeds
University then worked as a journalist before studying Economics at
the University of Essex and at the University of the West Indies in
Kingston, Jamaica.
Daily Telegraph
Sunday 25 December
Festival Revamped for 2012
The Essex Book Festival
has been revamped with a new look for 2012 but is still offering a
brilliantly varied mix of authors and events in March. After 12
successful years as part of Essex County Council Library Services,
the festival is now a registered charity overseen by a board of
trustees, all of whom share a love of Essex and books. Supported by
the Arts Council, England, Essex County Council and the University
of Essex, the festival has new branding and a fresh feel as it
offers the people of the county the chance to see top writers on
home turf.
thisistotalessex.co.uk
Pioneering research could make the internet 100 times faster
David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, today
announced a £7.2 million investment that could revolutionise the
internet. The six-year project will bring together world-leading
scientists from the University of Southampton and the University of
Essex with industry partners, including BBC Research and
Development, to pioneer new technologies that could make broadband
internet 100 times faster.
Glasgow Online
Saturday 24 December
Edge CEO Jan Hodges recaps her first summer
in the role
CEO of The Edge Hotel School, the UK's first hotel school based
entirely in a fully operational hotel, based at the University talks
about her first summer in her new role. Read the full article
here.
Further Education News
Carroll School Researchers Find Credit
Card Bill Notes Curb Repayment Amounts
Credit card users are
likely to pay less toward their debt if their monthly bills display
information about the minimum amount required.
Increasing the minimum required payment
typically from 2 percent to 5 percent of the loan balance was found
to have a positive effect on repayment for most consumers. However,
that alone wasn’t found to be enough to overcome the negative
effects of posting the minimum required payment, according to the
researchers from Boston College and the University of Warwick,
University of Essex and University College London.
Innovations Report
Friday 23 December
Book festival, here we come: a new approach to our feast of
literature
It’s the return of the Essex Book Festival but perhaps not as you
know it. That’s because things are a little different for next
year’s 12th festival. As always, acclaimed international,
national and local novelists, poets and writers will all be taking
part during March. To find out more click
here.
Gazette
All change on the buses
A revised timetable will operate on some First Colchester buses from
January 8. The 64 Sunday service, between Greenstead and Shrub End,
will be revised and increase to four buses each hour. Other services
have also been changed.
Gazette
Judge: ‘What you did is every girl’s nightmare’
A former care home worker has been jailed for a sex assault on a
young woman. Lawrence Button was told by a judge it had been a
terrifying experience for the woman, as she made her way to Essex
University late one night.
Essex County Standard
Thursday 22 December
Colchester 2020 is wound up early
A trailblazing group set up to make Colchester a better place for
future generations has folded.
Colchester 2020 was
launched in 2001, bringing together the great and the good of the
town. Its long-term aims were to improve prosperity, opportunities
and health of the town.
The group currently has
about £80,000, mostly donated by public bodies including the
University of Essex.
Gazette
The EU man cometh
Prem Sikka Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex looks
at the state of the audit market and explains why he believes big
changes may be needed.
PQ Magazine – Online
Post-1992s bear the brunt of 'drop' in student applications
Undergraduate applications are down by more than a fifth at a
considerable proportion of post-1992 universities, a survey by Times
Higher Education suggests.
However, the Universities
of Sussex and Essex, both said their percentage falls on 2010 has
narrowed dramatically in just a few days from almost 10 per cent to
just 3 per cent.
Joanne Tallentire, head of
admissions at Essex, said the institution was also finding it more
useful to review admissions data over a long period - at the time of
the survey, its figures were up around 40 per cent on three years
ago.
THE
Wednesday 21 December
HMRC has a cosy relationship with the tax avoidance industry
Professor Prem Sikka of the Essex Business School gave his views
regarding MPs criticisms with the HMRC’s link to accounting firms
that help companies avoid tax. Read the full article
here.
Comment is free
BritainNews.net
Albuquerque Express
TurkemenistanNews.net
RussiaNews.net
BruineiNews.net
University helping cyclist’s Race Across America
Essex cyclist Chris Armishaw talks with BBC Essex’s Dave Monk about
his training for the Race Across America and how Dave Parry of the
University's Human Performance Unit has helped him in his training
regime. Listen to the show
here.
BBC Essex
Tuesday 20 December
ai posts on CNET
Philipp Rohlfshagen, David Robles, and
Simon Lucas, all of the University of Essex, recently launched a
competition called Ms. Pac-Man vs. Ghost Team for those wanting to
rewrite the flow of the classic chomper. The contest, held last week
in New Orleans at the Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2011, was
an open call for savvy Java programmers to create artificial
intelligence routines that either control where Ms. Pac-Man or the
four ghosts should go during gameplay. Read the
article
here.
CNET
Monday 19 December
Quotes of the year: From Steve Jobs' impact to why
architects are the Britneys of IT
"If too much gamification goes on, people will realise that
worthless extrinsic rewards are worthless" - Professor
Richard Bartle, Senior
Lecturer and Visiting
Professor of Computer
Game Design at
the University of Essex, debunking gamification.
silicon.com
Lifting your
mood outdoors
Humans are hardwired
to seek out nature, says Jo Barton, a lecturer and researcher in
sport-and-exercise science who studies the health benefits of
"green" exercise at the University of Essex in England. "We were
hunter-gatherers and farmers for 10,000 years, but we've been
industrialized for only a few generations," she says.
Body and Soul
Blake Harrison
Blake is best known for the role of Neil in the BAFTA award winning
Channel 4 sitcom The Inbetweeners, which follows the trials
and tribulations of a group of friends at a London high school. To
date, there have been three seasons. Blake trained at East 15 Acting
School in London and has since accumulated a number of television
and comedy credits.
Independent Film Channel
Care home worker jailed for sex attack
on woman
A former care home worker has been jailed for a sex assault on a
young woman as she made her way to the University of Essex one
night. He was jailed for two years and put on the sex offenders'
register for ten years.
Gazette
East Anglian Daily Times
thisistotalessex.co.uk
University is 'a safe place to be'
A University of Essex spokesman said "assaults of this
nature are extremely rare on campus. The university is generally a
safe place to live and study, but we do advise students of the
importance of being vigilant".
Gazette
Crime figures are up, but top cop says
don't panic
Serious crime rates have
soared in Colchester with university students being targeted. Det
Chief Insp Caulfield said "We find when students return to
University, we get a spike. At the university we had laptops
stolen".
Gazette
600-bedroom uni plan put on hold
Discussions have plans to build more than 600 student
bedrooms at the University of Essex have been put off, amid
confusion over parking spaces. Colchester Council's planning
committee voted to defer judgement on the plans.
Gazette
Managed Video Conferencing - Essex University
International university deploys managed video conferencing to
attract more international students and further broaden the teaching
options for its students. It facilitated face-to-face interactions
with international guest speakers in traditional lectures. Also it's
impacting staff development and enhancing collaboration. The
University turned to high definition video conferencing and
Telepresence to deliver a 'new way of learning'. The Dimension Data
solution not only enhanced the teaching toolkit at Essex but has
given the University a strong competitive advantage.
Jitter.com
Swarm storm to title glory
Sudbury Swarm under-18 boys – the indoor
section of Sudbury Hockey Club – were crowned Suffolk’s Indoor
Hockey club champions, after a convincing win over local rivals
Ipswich & East Suffolk. This fantastic performance qualifies the
team for the next round of the competition, the East of England
regional finals at the University of Essex next Sunday.
Suffolk Free Press
Saturday 17 December
Harnessing the potential of
Wii-habilitation
The East Anglian Daily Times profiles the research undertaken by Dr
Murray Griffin and Dr Matthew Taylor from the Department of
Biological Sciences looking into whether the Wii Fit improves the
balance and quality of life of elderly people who are regular
fallers.
East Anglian Daily Times
Friday 16 December
Turning He-Man action figure Ram Man into gold
Jamie Moakes is on a mission to make the 1980s action figure Ram-Man
into a new commodity by buying up as many as possible. But by
cornering the market can he make the plastic doll worth its weight
in gold? Eric Smith, Professor of Economics at the University of
Essex is sceptical. He said: "In principle it is possible, but it
depends on a lot of things going right, and they more often than not
never go right."
BBC News
LondonWired
BBC Radio 4 - More or Less
Jamie Moakes and Professor Smith appear on More or Less on BBC Radio
4. Listen again via the
BBC Radio 4 website or download
the programme podcast.
New Technology, Social Media and Human Rights
Yesterday I attended a fascinating talk in London that was organised
by the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution, a part of
the University of Essex. I have been on the look out for free
lectures to attend and “New Technology and Human Rights” leapt out
at me so I signed up straight away. I anticipated a discussion
mostly about Twitter and Facebook, but it really went much deeper
than that. Overall an excellent seminar. Read the
rest of the blog
here.
Webologist
Gateway turn is now open
A junction to improve access to the University of Essex has opened
on Clingoe Hill. Traffic lights have been switched on at the
Knowledge Gateway research park to allow cars to cross the A133. A
crossing has also been installed after a five-year safety campaign.
Essex County Standard
Research on the next frontiers of leveraging IT for
Business Excellence
A four-day conference organized by Institute of Management
Technology, Ghaziabad drew a range of IT, marketing and strategy
experts to discuss the use of information technology for competitive
advantage. One of the experts was Professor
Jay Mitra, director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Research at
Essex Business School, University of Essex.
Pressbox
CRMXchange
Masons give £5k to disease study
A study of Parkinson's disease being carried out at
the University of Essex has received a £5,000 boost. Freemasons'
Grand Charity has given the cash to Parkinsons UK, which is funding
the project.
Essex County Standard
Sex case concludes
A man found guilty of sexually assaulting a former
University of Essex student is due to be sentenced today.
East Anglian Daily Times
BBC Essex
Thisisessex.co.uk
Veares emerges victorious in a
bruising encounter
University of Essex boxer Jason Veares topped the bill
at the Harwich Annual Winter show, held at the Park Pavillion.
Essex County Standard
Double delight for Essex University
boxers at Hayes show
University of Essex boxers celebrated a double success
at a show in Hayes. Cruiserweight fighter Danny Azeez and Zac
Keating both won their bouts.
Essex County Standard
Thursday 15 December
The not so scary Wicked Fairy
The slapstick, the audience participation, the magic –actress
and East 15 graduate, Colleen Daly loved
all these things about panto when she was a child and now she gets
to be a part of the magic as she takes on the role of the wicked
fairy Carabosse in Sleeping Beauty at The Radlett Centre this
season.
Hillingdon and Uxbridge Times
Painting a picture of hope
Primary-school pupils have been learning about human rights issues
through art as part of a unique education initiative led by
University of Essex academics from the Human Rights Centre, School
of Law and School of Art History and Philosophy with support from
the university's outreach team.
THE
Freemasons give £5,000 to university's
disease study
A study into Parkinson's disease being carried out at the University
of Essex has received a £5,000 boost after the Freemason's Grand
Charity gave a donation to Parkinson's UK which is funding the
project.
Gazette
University third
in green league
The University of Essex has come third in the green
league table in The Times. According to Times Higher Education,
Essex is among the most energy efficient universities in the UK.
Chronicle
Tom Troscianko
Read an obituary for Tom Troscianko, who died on 16 November.
Tom held a Chair at the University of Essex briefly in 2000.
THE
How has the science, engineering and
technology in cinema classic 'Blade Runner' progressed over the 30
years since the film's first release?
The Author mentions the robotic fish which were
developed at the University of Essex. Read his article
here.
Tech Noir
Engineering and Technology
School admission codes revised
Kirsten Anderson, legal research and policy manager at Coram
Children's Legal Centre, looks at whether proposed new regulations
promote better access to education for vulnerable children.
Children and Young People Now
Researchers
claim to debunk women/pensions savings myth
At the Strategic Society Centre today. Researchers from
ISER at the University of Essex have conducted some significant
research into participation in occupational pension schemes.
The findings, said researchers, debunked the myth that males
dominate in the prevalence of pension savings take-up over their
female counterparts.
Engagedinvestor.co.uk
FTAdvisor
Jason Pidcock
Citywire profiles University of Essex graduate Jason Pidcock.
He has over 13 years of investment experience in the Asia
Pacific sector.
Citywire
Childlessness helps marriages last
The recent “Understanding Society” study in the UK shows that young
married couples without children have the most satisfying
relationships. The survey tracked 40,000 households over two
decades.
Daily Lobo
Wednesday 14 December
Double success for University boxers
Essex
University’s boxers celebrated a double success at a show in Hayes.
Cruiserweight fighter Danny Azeez dominated his opponent Mitchell
Preedy, to secure a fine win. Essex University’s Zac Keating
continued Azeez’s good form when he snatched a hard-fought win over
Hayes’ Mohammed Omal.
Gazette
University is energy efficient
Essex University has been ranked third in a green league table.
According to data gathered on private and public sector
organisations and businesses across the UK, the university is one of
the most energy efficient.
East Anglian Daily Times
Tuesday 13 December
Jon Stratton: Professor of Cultural Studies at Curtin University
Summary
The Conversation
profiles Jon Stratton, Professor of Cultural Studies at Curtin
University. He gained his PhD in Sociology from the University of
Essex and has worked in Australia since 1980.
The Conversation
Monday 12 December
A hardening of hearts: British social attitudes in the recession
Stuart Weir, founder of Democratic Audit at the Human Rights Centre,
University of Essex, and co-founder of Charter 88 writes about
current hard times for the people of Britain. Read his article
here.
Our Kingdom
Uni students get £1,000 scholarships
Four students from north Essex have received a prestigious
scholarship to support their studies. Carla Pepper and Patrick Vile,
from Colchester, Samantha Takle, from Brightlingsea, and Rebecca
Gowler, from Maldon, won Eliahou Dangoor scholarships worth £1,000.
Carla, Patrick and Samantha began courses in the School of Computer
Science and Electronic Engineering this year, while Rebecca is
studying in the Mathematical Sciences department at the University
of Essex. The scholarships were established by philanthropist Dr
Naim Dangoor to support the best students across the country to help
them realise their potential, and are only open to students at
Russell Group or 1994 Group universities.
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Halstead Gazette
Clacton, Frinton and Walton Gazette
Gazette
Silk scarves, no bitumen: that’s Bohemia’s problem
Dr Adrian May from the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre
Studies has written a book,
Ballads of Bohemian Essex.
Read the article
here.
East Anglian Daily Times
Pensions: assessing the cost of auto-enrolment delay
Last
week, the Strategic Society Centre published a major piece of
quantitative research they undertook with the Institute for Social
and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex. The
research – entitled Who saves for retirement? – was supported by
Prudential. Read more about the research
here.
Public Finance
UK
Data Archive helps BBC map deaths on our roads
Director of the UK Data Archive Dr Matthew Woollard discusses how
the effective use of data can help inform and improve society after
the BBC published an online map showing every road death between
1999 and 2011 using data from the Economic and Social Data Service
based at the UK Data Archive.
Listen to the interview on the Dave Monk Show
(interview is just after 1:43:00).
BBC Essex
Art winners at the uni
Children from three schools saw their art on display at Essex
University. Year 6 pupils from Willow Brook Primary and St Andrew's
Junior schools in Colchester and Millfields Primary in Wivenhoe have
been taking part in the Arts and Human Rights in Education project.
Gazette
Scholarships for university
Science and technology students from Colchester and Tendring have
received scholarships to support their studies at the University of
Essex. The Eliahou Dangoor Scholarships are worth £1,000 and were
awarded to 33 students who joined the university this year.
East Anglian Daily Times
University's green credentials
Essex University is one of the greenest in the country, according to
a new league table.
East Anglian Daily Times
Gazette
Association of Business Schools
The EU man cometh
Professor Prem Sikka from Essex Business School looks at the state
of the audit market and explains why big changes might be needed.
Read Professor Sikka’s full article.
PQ Magazine
Essay: When studies of infant feeding become ‘breast is best’
advocacy
Ellie Lee and Charlotte Faircloth from the Centre for Parenting
Culture Studies at the University of Kent discuss research on
breastfeeding undertaken at the Institute for Social and Economic
Research.
Read full article.
Spiked
Saturday 10 December
Cuba's agricultural revolution an example to the world
Professor Jules Pretty comments on the 'self-sustaining' system of
agriculture adopted in Cuba in feature reviewing the country’s
approach.
Read full article.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Pin-Stripe mafia
New report from Prem Sikka and Austin Mitchell MP: The latest report
from the Association for Accountancy & Business Affairs claims that
all over the world tax revenues are under relentless attack from a
highly organised tax avoidance industry dominated by four
accountancy firms.
Read full article/
PQ Magazine
Friday 9 December
Human Performance Unit helps cyclist prepare for USA
challenge
Cyclist Chris Armshaw is getting ready to take on the Road Across
America race with the help of the Human Performance Unit.
Look East
A Week Full of Hope for the World’s Refugees – Melanie Teff,
Refugees International
LLM International Human Rights Law graduate Melanie Teff discusses
the international debates and agreements marking the sixtieth
anniversary of the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
and the fiftieth anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction
of Statelessness.
Read Melanie’s article in full.
Global Herald
'The Internet itself will turn into one large exchange' - Richard
Olsen
Richard Olsen, co-founder of market maker and information source for
currency OANDA and visiting professor at the University of Essex,
discusses the global economic system and the mismatch between
technology and the operational procedures of the financial system.
Read full article.
FXstreet.com
Green light at new junction
A new junction opened on Clingoe Hill yesterday to improve
to the access to the University of Essex. A crossing for cyclists
and pedestrians has also been installed.
Essex County Standard
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Gazette
Dances of the Tudor court ready for
jubilee
Neil D'Arcy-Jones watches the Colchester Historical Dance group
rehearse which was formed after Jackie Marshall-Ward was asked to
teach a historical dance class by someone at the University of
Essex. The group now have 20-30 dances in their repertoire.
Gazette
We should make more use of public data
Dr Matthew Woollard, Director of the UK Data Archive
writes an opinion piece in People and Science. You can read his
article
here (download as a pdf).
People and Science
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination On
View At The Frist
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, an exhibition of
photographs, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations by
contemporary artists who invent humanlike, animal or hybrid
creatures to symbolize life’s mysteries, desires and fears, opens
on 24 February. The catalogue will feature an
essay by Professor Marina Warner from the Department of Literature,
Film, and Theatre Studies.
BroadwayWorld.com
Wilting greens
For almost three decades, the British
Social Attitudes Survey has measured growing acceptance of things
like homosexuality and single motherhood. On December 7th it picked
up a more worrying kind of nonchalance. Ardour for environmentalism
is cooling. Read Professor Peter Lynn's comments
here.
The Economist
Thursday 8 December
Students angry at 'joke' rent meeting
Managers at the University of Essex faced questions from 80 students
over changes to student accommodation. Students were demanding
answers regarding changes to their internet systems, cleaning
services and increases in rent.
Gazette
Essex County Standard
Plans for centre likely to be approved
New housing plans for university students in Colchester have been
recommended for approval, despite concerns over parking.
Gazette
Kids take walk on wild side
Youngsters at the University of Essex nursery have had
a close encounter with some wild animals. Animal handling workshop,
Zoolab, visited the nursery on the Colchester campus.
East Anglian Daily Times
Greener (but, sadly, not richer)
Universities have been better than average at
preparing to reduce their carbon emissions, according to a league
table released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change. But
their efforts will not earn them money, as originally planned. Jules
Pretty, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Sustainability and Resources at the
University of Essex, said the results were a "mixed bag", with
"quite alot of universities in equal-last position". Read the
article
here.
THE
Female of the species
Researchers from the Institute for Social and
Economic Research at the University of Essex say it is no
longer true that participation in pensions is significantly higher
among men compared to women.
Engagedinvestor.co.uk
Wednesday 7 December
School pupils' artwork on show at uni
Year six pupils from Willow Brook Primary and St Andrew’s
Junior schools in Colchester, and Millfields Primary School in
Wivenhoe have been taking part in the Arts and Human Rights in
Education project and have had their artwork
displayed at the University of Essex.
Gazette
Nick Clegg's plan for shareholders to tackle fat-cat pay
won't work
Professor Prem
Sikka from Essex Business School discusses why the Government’s
efforts to encourage shareholders to crack down on runaway executive
remuneration is flawed.
Read Professor Sikka’s article on The
Guardian website
The Guardian
Liberal Democrat Voice
Revealing the new who’s who in Who’s Who 2012
Acclaimed novelist Professor Alison Booth from the Department of
Economics is included in this year’s Who’s Who.
East Anglian Daily Times
Hospice goes green
Professor Jules Pretty opens the new solar panels facility at St
Helena’s Hospice in Colchester.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Halstead Gazette
Braintree and Witham Times
Tuesday 6 December
Nick Clegg's plan for shareholders to tackle fat-cat pay
won't work
Today's shareholders are often foreign, functioning more like
traders than owners – why would social justice bother them?
Read Professor Prem Sikka's comments
here.
The Guardian
Working women key to rise in living standards
The entry of women into the workforce in large numbers has been a
key factor in raising the living standards of low to middle income
households over the past 40 years, according to research published
on Tuesday. Mike Brewer, research fellow at the IFS and professor of
economics at the University of Essex, who co-wrote the report, said:
“In the late 1960s, low-income working households were more reliant
on the main earner than better off households: these households had
a low income partly because they had only one earner. But by the
2000s, before the recession, low-income, working-age households were
slightly less reliant on the main earner than better-off
households.”
Financial Times
London debate on Bahrain's future
A frank and forward-looking debate on the future of Bahrain will be
held in London next week. Political leaders, activists, academics
and investors in Bahrain along with a member of the Bahrain
Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) will meet at the Chatham
House, for a conference titled 'Bahrain after Bassiouni'. The event
will be held on Tuesday, December 13. Member of the BICI, Professor
of Law, University of Essex and Commissioner Sir Nigel Rodley KBE
will be one of those attending the conference.
Daily Tribune
Monday 5 December
Harmony with Nature
Being connected to natural surroundings is vital to good mental and
even physical health. Researchers at the University of Essex
compared a walk in a country park with a walk in a shopping centre
in a study of 20 people. They found 71% reported decreased levels of
depression after a country walk compared with 45% after a shopping
centre walk. Participants also felt much less tense and reported
greatly increased self esteem after a green walk in nature.
Android Apps
BDP chosen to design new Essex Business School
Consultancy BDP has been chosen to design the new Essex Business
School at the University of Essex's Colchester Campus. The
timber-framed three-storey building will be zero-carbon, with
photovoltaic roof panels to produce solar energy.
www.regen.net
Saturday 3 December
Age shall not weary rock's own beloved
jester troupe
Last weekend Martin Newell went to the Lakeside Theatre to watch the
three founder members of the Bonzo Dog Band in their show called
Three Bonzos and a Piano.
East Anglian Daily Times
Friday 2
December
Second World War is backdrop for
Shakespeare play
East 15's latest guest director know a thing or two about
the work of the Bard and is leading the acting school's production
of Much Ado About Nothing.
Echo
New research park road to open
A new access road to Colchester's state-of-the-art research park
will open next week. The road will take traffic from the A133
Clingoe Hill to the University of Essex's Knowledge Gateway. It is
hoped the new junction will also improve student safety, as it
included a pedestrian and cyclist crossing.
Gazette
Essex County Standard
Why China is in our hands
Essex County Council first started its relationship with the Jiangsu
province of China 23 years ago and as a result of a recent visit to
China, 22 senior judges from the province visited the University of
Essex to take part on a two-week course and a further delegation of
senior managers from Wuxi city government visited last month. It is
hoped more courses will be arranged in the future.
Essex County Standard
Essex honoured
Essex has been honoured by the
Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow in his official coat of
arms. Tow of the scimitars from the Essex coat of arms are displayed
prominently in the new coat of arms as Mr Bercow was a student at
the University of Essex.
Essex County Standard
Protesting University students occupy lecture theatre
Around 30 protesting students have occupied a lecture theatre at the
University of Essex. They said they were protesting in solidarity
with the public sector strikes, including their lecturers, as well
as against changes to accommodation services at the university and
privatisation of universities.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Maldon and Burnham Standard
Halstead Gazette
Braintree and Witham Times
Essex County Standard
Walkout shuts schools and disrupts services
Lectures at the University of Essex were cancelled as
members of the University College Union took part in the walkout.
Essex County Standard
Business school to build £21m centre
The University of Essex's Business School has revealed an
ambition to become one of the best in Europe via plans for a
£21million centre. The new building next to the new Knowledge
Gateway will include a 200-seat lecture theatre and state of the art
computer facilities. The building is due for completion by early
2014.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree
Standard
Halstead Gazette
Braintree and Witham Times
Who backed the strike?
Students at the University of Essex occupied a lecture theatre in
support of striking workers. About 30 students said they were
protesting in solidarity with public sector strikers, including
their lecturers, for free education, and against changes to
accommodation services and privatisation of universities.
Essex County Standard
Student's DNA found on tights
A man has been jailed for five years for sexually assaulting
a University of Essex student. The new student was out with
friends during fresher's week when she was assaulted.
Essex County Standard
DNA leads to sex attacker
A man has been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman at
the University of Essex, almost two years after the attack.
Essex County Standard
Blaze in student kitchen
Firefighters were called to the University of Essex after a
blaze broke out in the kitchen of a student block. Students were
kept away while the crews tackled the blaze before using a
high-pressure ventilation fan to clear the smoke away.
Essex County Standard
Gazette
Cambs 24
Halstead Gazette
Life and death in MUD
Multi-User Dungeons have shaped the modern online gaming experience
in ways many remain unaware of. In the late 1970s, Roy Trubshaw was
a computer science student at the University of Essex and together
with Richard Bartle they created an extensive, virtual, and totally
open world with no real goals other than that of exploration. Called
Multi-User Dungeon – MUD for short – the exercise was named for the
Dungeon variant of Zork, an even earlier single player text-based
forerunner that both had enjoyed playing extensively.
Gameplanet
Next Generation
Thursday 1
December
The Best books of 2011
Ten scholars, critics, writers, and artists
choose the year's outstanding titles. Professor Dawn Ades from the
Department of Art History and Theory chose the 1945
children’s book Bilderbuch by Hannah Höch,
recently published for the first time in English as
Picture Book
(Green Box).
Art Forum
All is calm - natural seasonal
stressbusters
If the prospect of Christmas makes you feel blue, exercise outdoors
to reduce stress. "Whether you go on a gentle walk in the park or
career down a mountain on a bike - it all helps to boost mood and
self-esteem," says Rachel Hine of the Centre for Environment and
Society at the University of Essex. "We found changes to mood after
15 to 20 minutes of exercise and, for some, the benefits lasted for
days."
allaboutyou.com
Graduation day for School for Social Entrepreneur-East
students
The first students have graduated from the School for Social
Entrepreneurs–East (SSE-East) at a graduation ceremony held at
University Campus Suffolk and the Eastern Enterprise Hub in Ipswich.
A second group of students has now begun the course, with the two
cohorts between them already responsible for social enterprises with
a combined turnover of £21.5millilon and employing around 730
people.
Royston Crow
BDP graduates with honours from
university challenge
BDP, the international practice of über urbanists, has won design
bids for two major projects in academia in the East of England. BDP
has been selected to design the new Department of Chemical
Engineering and Biotechnology research and teaching building for the
University of Cambridge and BDP’s interdisciplinary team has also
been chosen to design the £14 million Essex Business School at the
University of Essex’s Colchester Campus. The new building will be
zero-carbon as part of the school’s ethos to lead the development of
sustainable business strategies.
Business Weekly
Education award for University
The University of Essex has been given an
award for helping under-represented youngsters get into higher
education. The Realising Opportunities programme, run with 11 other
universities, has won Widening Participation Initiative of the Year
at the Higher Education awards.
Gazette
Alexandra out to claim the Miss Essex crown
Alexandra Gill, a biological sciences student from the
University of Essex is competing to become Miss Essex 2012.
Gazette
Innovation From the Ocean: Aquatic
Biomimicry
Beautiful data-gathering robotic fish were spawned in the lab of
University of Essex professor Dr Huosheng Hu. The fish are designed
to swim around and measure pollution levels in bodies of water,
helping scientist monitor and protect the “real” fish.
Txchnologist.com
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