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The University of Essex in the Press

December

Saturday 29 December

Guardian.co.uk
and 15 other news outlets

Hazel Pettifor, PhD student from the University of Essex found that in a survey of over 5,000 single people and couples, almost 70 percent of women who live alone will recycle their waste as opposed to only 58 percent of single men. 80 percent of couples claimed to recycle their waste. Findings suggest that women are better at recycling than men.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/dec/29/single-men-rubbish-at-recycling

International Quaran News
‘Muslims are the most likely of all groups to be identified with the concept of Britishness,’ a recent report by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the Univerisity of Essex has found. 

Daily Mail Online and 14 other news outlets
Professor Dawn Ades was awarded a CBE for services to higher education and art history in the New Year’s Honours List.

Friday 28 December

The New Zealand Herald
Dr Richard Cornes, senior lecturer of law at the University of Essex writes about the Maori Council's water rights appeal which is to be heard by the Supreme Court at the end of January.
Link: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10856397

Wednesday 26 December

Thomson Reuters – UK- Online
and 58 other news outlets

Professor Prem Sikka is mentioned for his research on tax avoidance.

Monday 24 December

Biomed Central
An 18-year follow up study from the British Household Panel Survey, conducted by the Institute of Social and Economic Research has revealed that higher levels of psychological distress are associated with a higher risk of incident diabetes.

The Guardian Nigeria
Bunmi Awoniyi, an Essex alumni who achieved a Bachelor of Law in 1986, was recently appointed as a judge in the United States.

Sunday 23 December

Sunday Times Online
Dr Gavin Sandercock, Senior Lecturer in Sports Science at the University of Essex, comments on the recent decrease in child fitness.

East Anglian Daily Times
Professor Jay Mitra from the Essex Business School was awarded the best paper award in the science and technology track for ‘Managing R&D for Innovation and the Strategic Deployment of Knowledge Workers in Technology-Driven Organizations: A Case Study from India’, and the award in the entrepreneurship in minority groups track for the paper titled ‘Egocentric Network Analysis of Personal Networks and Growth Aspirations of Ethnic Minority Female Entrepreneurs: The Case of Immigrant and British Born Pakistani Female Entrepreneurs’ at the  Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) annual conference in Dublin.

Saturday 22 December

Big News Network
Toronto Telegraph
Medical Replies
Medical News Today
medilexicon
According to the Essex Autonomy Project at the University of Essex, doctors making decisions concerning the best interests of debilitated patients should also take into account the interests of others involved.

Friday 21 December

planetearth.nerc.ac.uk
New research carried out by Dr David Suggett, senior lecturer in marine biogeochemistry at the University of Essex, shows that non calcifying relatives of corals can flourish under conditions of ocean acidification.

guardian.co.uk
A report by the Royal Society about the devastating impact of population growth was picked out as one of the highlights for environmental news for 2012.  Professor Jules Pretty, Pro Vice Chancellor (Sustainability and Resources), was one of 22 leading experts who prepared the report. He said: “In material terms it will be necessary for most developed countries to abstain from certain sorts of consumption, such as CO2. We cannot conceive of a world that is going to be as unequal as it is now. We must bring the 1.3 billion people living on less than a $1.25 a day out of absolute poverty. It's critical to slow population growth in those countries which cannot keep up with services.”
Link: www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/dec/21/drought-icemelt-superstorm-environment-review-2012

Huffington Post
Prospect- Online

Understanding Society, the UK household longitudinal study run by the Institute for Economic and Social Research at the University of Essex is mentioned with reference to a decrease in the ‘white’ population of London.

BBC Essex
Professor Philip Hancock from Essex Business School was interviewed about his research into the role of Santa.

Essex County Standard
Wivenhoe House have launched their own specially-commissioned gin. The gin is 40 per cent proof with juniper, orange zest, coriander, elderflower and Earl Grey tea flavours.

Essex County Standard
A web poll carried out by the National Policy monitor which is based at the University of Essex has discovered that two-thirds of people know nothing about Britain's Supreme Court.

Essex County Standard
Professor Philip Hancock from Essex Business School has carried out research into the role of the Santa. He interviewed a number of Father Christmases working in stores and shopping centres in London and the South East.

Essex County Standard
The Parachute Regiment won the 24-hour row off between students from the University of Essex Rowing Club and soldiers from the Parachute Regiment.

Essex County Standard
Pupils from Willow Brook Primary, St Andrew's Junior School and Millfields Primary School visited the University of Essex to learn more about Human Rights as part of the Arts and Human Rights in Education project developed by Dr Aoife Daly from the Human Rights Centre and School of Law and Dr Lisa Wade from the School of Philosophy and Art History.

Essex County Standard
The Mackman Group, a Colchester Marketing and research firm with an office at the University of Essex have taken on two new staff to work as client leads.

Essex County Standard
Les Bell, a former systems programmer at the University of Essex is publishing his first collection of poetry at the Wivenhoe Bookshop this weekend.

Thursday 20 December

Herald Scotland
Professor Prem Sikka from Essex Business School comments on research carried about by the
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland which said it found no evidence that the compulsory rotation of audit firms improves the quality of the checks they complete on company accounts.
Link: http://www.heraldscotland.com/business/markets-economy/accountancy-group-under-fire-for-research-on-audits.19718998

BBC World Service News
Suzanne Nolan from Art History at Essex talks about the Ancient Mayans and why their culture offers far more to appreciate than predictions of apocalypse.

Essex Chronicle
Radio and TV presenter Sandy Toksvig, Chef Atul Kochhar and nature writer Richard Mabey are three of the authors and experts who will be taking part in Essex Book Festival events at the University of Essex next year.

Times Higher Education
Peter Lugtig from the Institute for Social and Economic Research has been awarded a grant of £129,016 for research looking at survey data quality in panel surveys: trade-offs between non-response and measurement errors.

Daily Gazette
A web poll carried out by the National Policy monitor which is based at the University of Essex has discovered that two-thirds of people know nothing about Britain's Supreme Court.

Daily Gazette
The
former Secretary of The University Of Essex Classical Music Society, Oliver Mitchell will be playing the cello at a concert in Leigh on 5 January.

Business News Daily
Science Daily
Chattahbox
Tom Foulsham from the Department of Psychology was part of a team who conducted research into identifying leaders. The research revealed that groups may be able to predict leaders based on their prestige and dominance and also make the decision very quickly.
Link:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121219084219.htm

Wednesday 19 December

Daily Gazette
Wivenhoe House Executive Chef Paul Boorman is pictured making cupcakes with a youngsters from the University of Essex Day Nursery.

UBC Public Affairs
Innovations Report

EurekAlert!

Tom Foulsham from the Department of Psychology is a co-author in a piece of research using eye tracking to look at factors that predict leadership in individuals.
Link: www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2012/12/19/for-power-and-status-dominance-and-skill-trump-likability/

Webwire
Web Newswire
The University of Essex is mentioned with reference to future prospects for ADVA Optical Networking and the University’s involvement in the development of 'Openflow'.
Link: www.webnewswire.com/node/1258206

Christian Science Monitor Online
Alaska Dispatch

Professor Landman of the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution at the University of Essex comments on the availability of guns in the US.
Link: www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-Issues/2012/1218/Global-sympathy-for-Newtown-antipathy-for-US-gun-laws-video

Frost Illustrated
Individual.com
Amnesty International warns Shell Oil could be facing an increase in litigation following a University of Essex study.
Link: www.individual.com/storyrss.php?story=168261550&hash=b3b02cdc9f2269513689a51b8f2b1fbb

Tuesday 18 December

The Guardian
Sarah Boseley interviews University of Essex Honorary Graduate, Graça Machel.
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/dec/17/graca-machel-nelson-mandela-africa

East Anglian Daily Times
The LB Group, a Chartered Accountant, Tax and Business Advisor firm based in Colchester have sponsored the University of Essex's football team kit. The University's five teams make up one of the biggest amateur football clubs in the East of England.

Daily Telegraph
Daily Gazette

Anglia News
New Business Online
Professor Philip Hancock from Essex Business School has carried out research into the role of the Santa. He interviewed a number of Father Christmases working in stores and shopping centres in London and the South East.

Monday 17 December

BBC Radio 4
Professor Marina Warner from the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies discovers the real life stories behind Grimm's fairytales in her new series on BBC Radio 4 starting today at 1.45pm.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012kpwq

Daily Gazette
Wivenhoe House have launched their own specially-commissioned gin. The gin is 40 per cent proof with juniper, orange zest, coriander, elderflower and Earl Grey tea flavours.

Saturday 15 December

BBC Essex
Professor Steffen Böhm discusses the potential environmental threat of ‘fracking’ -  the process of drilling down into the ground and using explosions to shatter and crack hard shale rocks to release the gas inside. Professor Böhm argues our energy supply needs to be secured in a more responsible way using tested and sustainable technology. The interview starts at 1:44:00
.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p011d2kf

East Anglian Daily Times
Paul Boorman from Wivenhoe House offers the readers some winter warmer recipes - Cranberry bread pudding and spiced apple juice.

East Anglian Daily Times
Steven Russell writes about University of Essex MA student Liz Fisher-Frank who was a Children's Rights lawyer and is now an author after starting an MA in Creative Writing at the University.
Link: http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/features/how_redundancy_had_a_silver_lining_for_legal_eagle_liz_1_1747954

East Anglian Daily Times
Each week Sir Bob Russell MP writes a column detailing his week's activities. Last week he visited the University to give a talk about Palestine and Israel as part of the Human Rights Week.

East Anglian Daily Times
Steven Russell writes about the county of Essex and how perceptions of the county have changed over the years. He mentions Pete May's book The Joy of Essex which mentions Wivenhoe, the town near to the University of Essex being nicknamed Sociology-on-Sea because of the number of academics living there.

East Anglian Daily Times
The East Anglia Daily Times features the work of Dr Emma Bond, a senior lecturer in childhood and youth studies at University Campus Suffolk who has carried out intensive research into pro-anorexia websites.
 

The Island
A recent University of Essex
English Language and Literature graduate writes about her internship at Godfrey Cooray Associates in Negombo.
Link: http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=68399

South Wales Argus
Cambodian Times
University of Essex student Aaron Jones who is studying for a business degree in Southend has formed a company called Fikay which makes bags and wallets from recycled cement bags and then sends a large proportion of its profits back to a charity in the Far East.
Link: http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/gwentnews/10110103.Ex_Bassaleg_pupil___s_business_funds_Cambodia_school/

forest.fi
Dr
Jo Barton and Professor Jules Pretty published a study which showed that just five minutes of exercise in a green environment boosted mental health.

Friday 14 December

Essex County Standard
Investors should rigorously challenge oil companies regarding their environmental standards and impact on communities in oil-rich regions such as the Niger Delta, legal experts at the University of Essex have urged. A new academic report, Corporate Liability in a New Setting: Shell and the Changing Legal Landscape for the Multinational Oil Industry in the Niger Delta, focuses on legal actions taken against Shell but its conclusions could have repercussions for other multinational enterprises.

Daily Gazette
Pupils from Willow Brook Primary, St Andrew's Junior School and Millfields Primary School visited the University of Essex to learn more about Human Rights as part of the Arts and Human Rights in Education project developed by Dr Aoife Daly from the Human Rights Centre and School of Law and Dr Lisa Wade from the School of Philosophy and Art History.

Daily Gazette
The Parachute Regiment won the 24-hour row off between students from the University of Essex Rowing Club and soldiers from the Parachute Regiment.

Essex County Standard
Youngsters from the University of Essex Day Nursery visited the construction site for The Meadows and had a guided tour. The Meadows is due to open next Autumn.

Essex County Standard
Nikki Richardson, President of Sport Colchester writes to the Essex County Standard on behalf of the Daily Gazette, the University of Essex and Colchester Institute who are looking for Olympic and Paralympic games makers for a special category recognising them in next year's Sports Personality of the Year awards.

Natural News
Children in the west are becoming less and less fit according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Essex. They found that the average 10-year-old in 1998 could outrun 95 percent of 10-year-olds in 2008. This result could not be explained by rising obesity rates, as the children in the two groups were of roughly equivalent weights.

Optometry Times
Using a study conducted by researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Essex, researchers have found an increased incidence of asthma among children born to parents who used assisted reproductive technologies (ART).

Daily Gazette
Southend Standard
Echo

Southend Council want to install a six metre by three metre screen in the new £31million library development, joint-funded by the Council, South Essex College and the University of Essex to broadcast attractions such as the Wimbledon finals, Commonwealth Games and other major sporting events. Local residents are concerned by the plans.

Farms.com
Essex County Standard
and featured on 13 other news websites across the USA

The University of
Essex is involved in a major research project awarded to the University of Illinois, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The aim of this $25m, five-year project is to explore new ways to improve plant photosynthesis.
Link: http://www.farms.com/news/university-of-illinois-to-improve-crop-yield-through-photosynthesis-in-a-new-global-effort-57876.aspx

Thursday 13 December

Anglia News
Professor Eric Smith from the Department of Economics discusses the latest unemployment figures and in particular the implications for the long term unemployed.

Essex Chronicle - Go!
The Chronicle profiles Paul Boorman from Wivenhoe House.
Link: http://www.thisistotalessex.co.uk/passion-food/story-17574348-detail/story.html

East Anglian Daily Times
Daily Gazette
Youngsters from the University of Essex Day Nursery visited the construction site for The Meadows and had a guided tour. The Meadows is due to open next Autumn.

Times Higher Education
Dr Rowena Gray from the Department of Economics reviews 'The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire' by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin.
Link: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=422092&c=1

FTAdviser
Using data from the University of Essex's Understanding Society study in 2011 and other data, the
Institute of Public Policy Research's report, 'No Place to Call Home', found that despite 88 per cent of young people wanting to own a home within the next 10 years, 51 per cent believed they would not be able to buy. 

Daily Gazette
Professor David Sanders and Professor Vicky Randall from the Department of Government have been given awards by the Political Studies Association.

Daily Gazette
The Gazette interviews Abdul Razouk, a Syrian student studying for a PhD in Management. He talks about his family who are now in Turkey and his plans to visit a refugee camp in the Easter holidays to teach english and appeals for others to join him.

Daily Gazette
Students and staff at the University of Essex organised a week of events to mark Human Rights Day. This week, the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution published a Human Rights Atlas online. The Atlas will give a view of the rights and lives of human beings over 30 years in 220 different countries around the world.

Daily Gazette
Students at the University of Essex were able to try different paralympic sports during the Disability Awareness Week which took place at the University.

Daily Gazette
Students from the University of Essex Rowing Club and soldiers from the Parachute Regiment took part in a 24-hour row off in Lion Walk and finished at 6pm yesterday. The winners are due to be announced.

Daily Gazette
Professor Ted Benton's book 'Grasshoppers and Crickets' has been named one of the best of the year in Robert Macfarlane's Guardian review of books of the year.

Wednesday 12 December

BBC Essex
Sarah Jane Walsh was interviewed on the Dave Monk show about her part in the BBC One programme 'Miniature Britain'.
 

Daily Gazette Online
Essex County Standard

Professor Eric Smith, Deputy Head of Economics, responds to the latest Census figures and predicts that rapid growth of the population in Colchester could put a strain on public services.
Link: www.essexcountystandard.co.uk/news/10101631.Census_figures_show_population_increase_of_18_000/?ref=nt

Colourful Radio – Interview with Professor Sheldon Leader
Professor Sheldon Leader, Director of the Essex Business and Human Rights Project, was interviewed about a report published on Shell and its legal liabilities in relation to its operations in the Niger Delta. Listen again online at: http://www.colourfulradio.com/presenter/breakfast/ (Select 2012-12-10-0800 podcast. Interview begins around the 41 minute mark).

Qatar Peninsula
Toronto Telegraph
Professor Prem Sikka from Essex Business School is quoted in article on Britain ending tax scams.

Daily Gazette
The University of Essex hockey team won 9- 0 against Brentwood.

Tuesday 11 December

East Anglian Daily Times
Marine Biology PhD student Sarah-Jane Walsh is appears in a BBC documentary ‘Miniature Britain’. She will be looking at the miniature organisms living on our coastlines.

BBC One – Miniature Britain
Marine Biology PhD student Sarah-Jane Walsh is appears in the BBC documentary ‘Miniature Britain’. She will be looking at the miniature organisms living on our coastlines.
 

Daily Gazette
Nanowerk
East Anglian Daily Times
PhysOrg.com
The News Gazette, Illinois

The University of
Essex is involved in a major research project awarded to the University of Illinois, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The aim of this $25m, five-year project is to explore new ways to improve plant photosynthesis.
Link: http://www.news-gazette.com/news/agriculture/2012-12-10/gates-foundation-gives-ui-25-million-photosynthesis-research.html

Link: http://www.eadt.co.uk/business/farming-news/university_of_essex_involved_in_major_bill_gates_foundation_project_to_benefit_farmers_1_1736235

Daily Gazette
Dr David Reinstein from the Department of Economics will be speaking about his research into altruism at a Café Scientifique event on Wednesday.

The Jamestown Foundation
University of Essex graduate,
Alex Vatanka who is now a Fellow at the Middle East Institute is a Moderator at the Sixth Annual Terrorism Conference: Implications of the Arab Spring for Insurgencies, the Jihadist Movement and al-Qaeda taking place in Washington.

Monday 10 December

The Guardian
Polly Toynbee writes about tax avoidance and talks about the work of Professor Prem Sikka.
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/10/end-tax-scams-by-hitting-big-four

Daily Gazette
Students at the University of Essex were able to try different paralympic sports during the Disability Awareness Week which took place at the University.
Link: http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/10099157.Students_try_disabled_sports_during_awareness_week/

Eurek Alert!
Essex is involved in a major research project awarded to the University of Illinois, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The aim of this $25m, five-year project is to explore new ways to improve plant photosynthesis − the process that enables plants to harvest energy from the sun and convert it to products for food and fuel. The £1.8m sub-contract awarded to Essex will involve improving photosynthetic carbon fixation – the process where plants convert carbon into sugar using sunlight − to overcome some of the fundamental limitations of photosynthesis.
Link: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-12/ifgb-uoi120712.php 

Daily Gazette
Amnesty International

All Africa.com
Investors should rigorously challenge oil companies regarding their environmental standards and impact on communities in oil-rich regions such as the Niger Delta, legal experts at the University of Essex have urged. Failure to do so could leave them exposed to serious financial risk. A new academic report, Corporate Liability in a New Setting: Shell and the Changing Legal Landscape for the Multinational Oil Industry in the Niger Delta, focuses on legal actions taken against Shell but its conclusions could have repercussions for other multinational enterprises.
Link:
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=20496

Sunday 9 December

BBC Radio Four - Broadcasting House
Professor Prem Sikka sets out a manifesto for reform of the tax system to ensure big corporations do not avoid paying tax in the UK and greater transparency.  
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01p6rys/Broadcasting_House_09_12_2012/

Tripoli Post
Zawya
Professor Marina Warner from the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies will be organising a
British Comparative Literature Association Conference on migrations  which will focus on women writers and their response to the Libyan Spring.

Adelaide Now
Read more about a report that Professor Sheri Markose has written for the International Monetary Fund about
derivatives and systemically important financial intermediaries.
Link: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/striking-it-rich-again-with-gold/story-e6frea6u-1226533223476 

Saturday 8 December

BBC Essex
Professor Prem Sikka, Essex Business School
News item Starbucks tax protests 8 December 2012

East Anglian Daily Times
University of Essex Rowing Club members will be taking part in a 24-hour rowing challenge with soldiers from Colchester Garrison. The teams will have two rowing machines at the Lion Walk shopping centre from 6pm Tuesday to 6pm on Wednesday.

The Guardian
Professor Prem Sikka from Essex Business School writes about the 'p
redatory practices of major accountancy firms'.
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/08/predatory-practices-accountancy-firms

This story has been featured worldwide in over 20 countries worldwide.

Friday 7 December

BBC
Read Professor Paul Whiteley's comments about by-elections.
Link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20638773

The Guardian
Read Professor Prem Sikka's article about
Sweetheart deals' with tax authorities.
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/dec/07/starbucks-tax-offer-angers-critics

BBC Radio 4 "Today" programme
Professor Prem Sikka spoke about the Starbucks and tax.
You can listen to it on the iplayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p3nqh - forward to 2:10:35, Professor Prem Sikka speaker at 2:14.

Daily Gazette
University of Essex Rowing Club members will be taking part in a 24-hour rowing challenge with soldiers from Colchester Garrison. The teams will have two rowing machines at the Lion Walk shopping centre from 6pm Tuesday to 6pm on Wednesday.

Daily Gazette
Sarah-Jane Walsh, a PhD Marine Biology student will be appearing on BBC1's Miniature Britain. She will be looking at miniature organisms inhabiting Britain's coastlines.

Daily Gazette
Dr John Woods from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering is one of the academics giving a talk at the University of Essex Junior Christmas Lectures. The sessions form part of the Children's University programme.

East Anglian Daily Times
Daily Gazette
Essex County Standard

Dr David Reinstein from the Department of Economics will be speaking about his research into altruism at a Café Scientifique event on Wednesday.

Essex County Standard
University of Essex's Aaron Spenner won his boxing match which took place at the Cameo Hotel in Ipswich. Fellow student Toyin Alfobi also won his match.

Essex County Standard
At 6pm on Saturday, artist Ansuman Biswas will enter the Art Exchange with nothing and depend on gallery visitors to bring him what he needs.

Essex County Standard
Wendy Brading interviews two Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre who work all over Colchester carrying out a range of duties including being part of the Chaplaincy Team at Colchester General Hospital and the University of Essex.

Weekend Review
Maya Jaggi speaks to
playwright and novelist, Nuruddin Farah who left Somalia in 1974 to do a masters degree in theatre at the University of Essex.
Link: http://gulfnews.com/about-gulf-news/al-nisr-portfolio/weekend-review/keeping-somalia-alive-1.1114994

Essex County Standard
Shazia Mirza, the award-winning Asian comedian will be visiting the Lakeside Theatre at the University of Essex tomorrow.

Essex County Standard
The University of Essex are holding a series of events to mark Human Rights Week.

Essex County Standard
Daily Gazette
Police have now closed the file on the student assault which took place earlier in the term after no witnesses came forward.

Essex County Standard
Daily Gazette

A
man who was arrested in suspicion of voyeurism has been re-bailed until March while investigations continue. University of Essex student allegedly found a hidden camera at their privately rented home.

Thursday 6 December

Times Higher Education
Professor David Mead from the School of Law writes to the THE about quotas of undergraduates from private schools.
Link: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=422058&c=1

Times Higher Education
Andrea Salvatori has been awarded a grant of £161,854 for research into job polarisation and job quality.

Newham Recorder
Royston Crow

A group of friends from Newham have got together to start
the brand 'Chucky Chuckz', putting characters on t-shirts, jumpers, phone cases.  The animal characters are college students and undercover superheroes and were developed by University of Essex graduate Jay Oscar December while studying Network Technology at the University.
Link: http://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/newham-life/organisations/newham_graduates_defy_statistics_to_start_own_clothing_line_1_1734080

Caterer and Hotelkeeper
Caterer and Hotelkeeper speak to
Danny Pecorelli, the managing director of Exclusive Hotels. Danny is also keen to develop talent within the industry and in August 2012, the group invested £50,000 in a suite at the new Edge Hotel School at the University of Essex.
Link:
 http://www.caterersearch.com/Articles/06/12/2012/346488/Caterer-and-Hotelkeeper-100-Danny-Pecorelli-Exclusive.htm

Wales online
Using data from the
British Household Panel Survey, Dr James White, from the School of Medicine at Cardiff’s University Hospital of Wales, has been researching influences on children and their health.
Link: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/health-check-wales/health-features/2012/12/03/healthy-example-begins-at-home-with-mum-and-dad-91466-32340085/

Daily Gazette
ESCALA, together with the Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS) and Essex Transitional Justice Network (ETJN) at the University of Essex, will be organising an exhibition of videos and photographs by David Pérez Karmadavis at firstsite.

American Woodworker Magazine
Researchers at the University of Essex have found out that as well as exercising outside, the colour green has helped cyclists exercising. The cyclists felt less tired and had fewer mood disturbances when they watched the green filtered version of a video during their ride. 

Wednesday 5 December

BBC Essex - Dave Monk Show
Professor Prem Sikka, Essex Business School talking about tax and the Chancellor’s statement

British Medical Journal
Read an article in the BMJ about Doctors making decisions on behalf of patients with relation to the
Essex Autonomy Project, an interdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange initiative at the University of Essex.
Link: http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e8007

Peterborough Telegraph
Peterborough Handball Club were beaten 36-5 in their latest match with the University of Essex.

The Pioneer Online

Students applying for an MBA at Essex Business School are eligible for a scholarship worth £5,000.

AllAfrica.com
Law graduate Bunmi Awoniyi has been appointed to the Sacramento County Superior Court in California.

 

Gazette

Feature on artist Ansuman Biswas who will be taking up residence at Art Exchange on Saturday and rely on the kindness of strangers to keep him alive as part of his latest project Present.

 

Gazette
Bury Mercury
East Anglian Daily Times

Victory for University of Essex boxer Toyin Afolabi against John Wheatley from Harwich Amateur Boxing Club.

Tuesday 4 December

Southend Echo
University of Essex student Aaron Jones who is studying for a business degree in Southend has formed a company called Fikay which makes bags and wallets from recycled cement bags and then sends a large proportion of its profits back to a charity in the Far East.

East Anglian Daily Times
Royston Crow Series
Two Edge Hotel School students have been awarded a £3,000 scholarship from the Savoy Educational Trust. Gemma Storey and Fatmata Bangura are both undertaking a Foundation degree in Hotel Management while working at Wivenhoe House.
Link: http://www.eadt.co.uk/business/movers_and_shakers_edge_hotel_school_students_win_savoy_education_trust_scholarships_1_1729465

Daily Gazette
The University of Essex are holding a series of events to mark Human Rights Week.

East Anglian Daily Times
Clacton and Frinton Gazette
Daily Gazette

An event to raise young people's aspirations and help them find out more about universities was held at the Princes Theatre Clacton on Saturday. The event was a partnership between the University of Essex and Tendring District Council.

Daily Gazette
Aaron Spenner won his boxing match which took place at the Cameo Hotel in Ipswich.
 

East Anglian Daily Times
Welwyn and Hatfield Times
Professor Paul Whiteley from the Department of Government at the University of Essex is one of the new entries in the 2013 edition of Who's Who which is out today.

Monday 3 December

Non-league newspaper
University of Essex business management student, Tom Cutts played in his first
League Division One North game for AFC Sudbury on Saturday.
Link: http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/index.php?&newsmode=FULL&nid=89798

East Anglian Daily Times
Royston Crow Series
Daily Gazette
Essex Business School is working with Quality Solicitors FJG on a year long project, funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the East of England Development Agency through the Low Carbon KEEP project to help the firm's mission to help people who are being affected by changes to the legal aid system.

Daily Gazette
Louise Howeson from the Gazette interviews Essex graduate and House of Lords Life Peer Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen otherwise known as Lady Anne Gibson.

Daily Gazette
Wendy Brading interviews two Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre who work all over Colchester carrying out a range of duties including being part of the Chaplaincy Team at Colchester General Hospital and the University of Essex.

East Anglian Daily Times
Derek Kelly, the founder of Kelly Turkeys is featured in the East Anglian Daily Times and talks about his son Paul receiving an honorary degree from the University of Essex at a ceremony at Writtle College.

East Anglian Daily Times
The fifth University of Essex and Writtle College Interdisciplinary Conference took place recently. It looked at how food production and how it is consumed, transported and marketed today.

Daily Gazette
The man, arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm with intent after an incident at the University of Essex has been rebailed until 22 December.

Yahoo! Finance Canada and featured on over 50 websites around the world
Read Professor Prem Sikka's comments about EBay's double tax bases.
Link: http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/insight-ebays-double-tax-prompts-calls-investigation-152143017--sector.html

Yorkshire Post
Kate Humble writes about how as a child, she was at her happiest outside and how this has shaped her love of the outdoors today. She also writes about the new study that the
RSPB have launched together with the University of Essex to find out about how connected to nature young people are today.
Link: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/country-view/farming/brave-the-cold-now-and-help-wildlife-prepare-for-winter-1-5186024 

November

Friday 30 November

The Daily Telegraph
Christopher Howse reviews 'Ban This Filth! Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive'. The book contains snippets taken from the 300 box files held at the University of Essex.
Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9711283/Ban-This-Filth-Letters-from-the-Mary-Whitehouse-Archive-review.html

Daily Gazette
The University of Essex and Tendring District Council are working together on a project to look at how
support can be given to “vulnerable adults” living in Clacton’s bedsitland.
Link: http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/local/clacton/10081928.Vulnerable_adults_in_Clacton_s_bedsitland_need_more_support/

Huffington Post
The Huffington Post looks at unusual student societies around the world. Contenders include the Custard Wrestling Society at Cardiff, the Kettle Society at Nottingham and the Mario Kart society at the University of Essex.

Yourdover.co.uk and 5 other local websites
Yourdover talks to well-known actress
Janine Duvitski who is a former student at East 15 Acting School.
Link: http://www.yourdover.co.uk/leisure/benidorm_star_given_chance_to_show_her_wicked_ways_1_1716825

Daily Gazette
Students and Staff at the University of Essex are commemorating the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with talks, film showings and exhibitions during Human Rights Week.

Essex County Standard
The University of Essex Students' Union were one of the winners in the 'Excellence in Marketing' category of the Colchester Business Awards and the University of Essex were one of the winners in the Environmental Awareness category.

Essex County Standard
Sport Colchester together with the Gazette, the University of Essex and Colchester Institute are looking for Olympic and Paralympic games makers for a special category recognising them in next year's Sports Personality of the Year awards.

Essex County Standard
Managers can take part in a three-day management and leadership course at the University of Essex starting on 13 December.

Chelmsford Today and featured in 15 other local news outlets around the county
It was revealed at
the Visit Essex Conference held at the Wivenhoe House on 14 November that 41 million visitors to Essex spent £3billion in 2011.

Imperial Valley News and 10 other news outlets around the world
University of Essex law graduate,
Bunmi O Awoniyi  has been appointed as a Judge in the Sacramento County Superior Court.
Link: http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php/news/california-news/2454-governor-brown-appoints-two-to-sacramento-county-superior-court.html

Scoop Auckland
The A
sian Human Rights Commission in Sri Lanka have released a statement prepared by international expert and Essex Human Rights graduate Sergei Golubok regarding standing orders relating to the impeachment being flawed in law.
Link: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1211/S00516/sri-lanka-the-standing-orders-relating-to-impeachment.htm

Women's Health
A study carried out by the University of Essex study has found that exercising outside leads to improved self-esteem and mood.

Thursday 29 November

Black Enterprise
Netta Weinstein from the University of Essex and a team of researchers from the University of Rochester and the University of California in Santa Barbara have have published research in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. looking at the role parenting and sexual orientation play in homophobic attitudes, hostility toward homosexuals and the endorsement of anti-gay policies. 
Link: http://www.blackenterprise.com/news/homophobia-and-homosexuality-linked-in-new-study/

Daily Gazette
Jazz trumpeter Digby Fairweather is supporting a campaign for Southend Central Library to be preserved and used as an art gallery, exhibition space and concert venue. A new library is currently being built on the site of the former Farringdon car park is being jointly funded by the University of Essex, Southend Council and  South Essex College and will house an art gallery, lecture theatres, research facilities and an enormous huge television screen for public screenings of theatre and art shows.

Runners World – Online
Dr Dominic Micklewright, from the Sport, Performance and Fatigue Research Unit at the University of Essex, talks about strategies for athletes pushing through the pain


Guardian.co.uk
Todd Landman, Director of the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution at the University of Essex supports the Libraries Without Borders call for action that supplying 'nourishment for the mind' should be an essential part of the emergency relief effort when disasters occur.

 

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