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Broadcast Digest
February 2010
22 February
BBC Essex
Dr Joanna Barton, Department of
Biological Sciences
Re: Her research evaluating the
TurnAround Project led by the Wilderness Foundation and their work
sending troubled teenagers on treks in the wilderness
19 February
ITV Anglia
News item on Human Rights Students
going to Buckingham Palace today to be awarded the Queen's Anniversary
Prize for the
University’s pioneering role in advancing the legal and broader
practice of international human rights
12 February
BBC Essex
Dr David Reinstein, Department of
Economics
Re:
His research into why and when people give to charity
9 February
BBC News
Professor Paul Whiteley, Department of Government
Re:
Electoral reform
4 February
CNN Connected
Nightline support services - Rachel
Fletcher and Nightline Volunteers interviewed.
2 February
BBC Essex
Professor Elaine Fox, Department of
Psychology
Re:
Breakthrough in understanding stress
28 January
BBC Essex
Feature on TheRealBritain and Clifftown
Studios
27 January
BBC Essex
Feature on TheRealBritain and Clifftown
Studios
24 January
BBC Essex
Dr Rainer Schulze, Department of
History
Reviewing the Sunday papers and talking
about Holocaust Memorial Week events at the University of Essex
23 January
BBC Essex
Dr Maria Christina Fumagilli,
Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies
Re: Her experience of being in
the Dominican Republic when the recent Earthquake hit Haiti
13 January
BBC One Show
Professor Sheri Markose, Department of Economics
Conducting a trading experiment and
being interviewed about
what went wrong in the recent financial crisis. View on the BBC iplayer
here and forward to around 15 minutes into the show.
BBC Essex
Dream 100
Professor Chris
Cooper, Department of Biological Sciences
Re: Artificial blood
Turnout in general elections
Professor Paul Whiteley, of the Department of
Government, was interviewed about the turnout at
general elections.
Radio 4 Westminster Hour
12 January
What caused the big freeze?
Professor Ian Colbeck, of the Department of
Biological Sciences, was interviewed about the recent cold weather
and how it relates to climate change and global warming.
Heart radio
7 January
BBC Essex
Professor Jules Pretty, Centre for
Environment and Society
Talking about his new book - The
Earth Only Endures
5 January
Radio 4 - Today Programme
Professor Jules Pretty, Centre for Environment and Society
Re:
UK’s new Food Strategy
Video clips on-line
BBC Persian
Professor John Packer, Director, Human Rights Centre
Contribution for Human Rights Day.
View the clip
here - forward to 12:12 minutes.
Parliament Live
University of Essex report on care
farming was
discussed as part of an adjournment debate on Care farming and
disadvantaged groups by Mr Mark Todd in Parliament on 24th November.
Discussion starts at 7hrs 11 and finishes at about 7hrs 45.
BBC
Flagship University Building open
Teaching has begun in the new flagship
building for the recently created university in Suffolk. University
Campus Suffolk (UCS), in Ipswich, was established by the University
of East Anglia and the University of Essex last year. View the clip
here.
The University of Essex in the Press
26 February
Human rights effort honoured by Queen
The University of Essex has been
awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further
Education for its work in advancing human rights across the globe.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Colin Riordan and Director of the Human
Rights Centre, Professor John Packer were presented with the award
by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.
Essex County Standard
Story cooks ready to feed Essex's hungry bookworms
Bookworms are in for another
month-long treat in March as the 11th Essex Book Festival starts.
Some of the University's leading Researchers will be at Colchester
Library to offer insights into their areas of research and in
conjunction with the Margery Allingham Society, two writers will be
talking at Lakeside Theatre about why Cheapjack has been
republished.
Essex
County Standard
Mum beaten in front of boyfriend
in car park
A Mother was attacked and
threatened in a university car park in the early hours of Sunday
night.
Essex County Standard
Chris comes in from cold for
exhibition at university
Colchester-based artist Chris
Dobrowolski has brought Antarctica to Colchester and he will finally
see the culmination of his commission by the British Antarctic
Survey at the University. He was one of three UK artists chosen to
take part in the British Antarctic Survey's annual expedition to the
icy continent in 2008.
Gazette
Get set for
book festival
The Essex Book Festival is
only days away and some of the highlighted events include a talk on
Cheapjack by Phil Allingham and University of Essex
Vice-Chancellor Professor Colin Riordan will be joining Germaine
Greer and Sarfaz Manzoor to talk about how identity, migration and
diversity enrich culture in Essex and the UK.
Go!
Rolling
revolution
Live on the west side of the main
street in Llanymynech and you will not be troubled by the costs of
medical prescriptions; to the east, you will have to put your hand
in your pocket. The pretty village west of Shrewsbury, with Offa's
Dyke at one end and a disused pub at the other, straddles the
Welsh-English border. In Wales NHS prescriptions are free, in
England not.
Read Professor Anthony King's comments on
the constitutional reform.
Financial Times
We need wholesale reform of the banks
Professor Prem Sikka and others have
a
letter published to call on the government to instigate a
package of regulations and reforms that would amount to a new
banking settlement, in order to bring financial services more in
line with the social and economic needs of the people.
The Guardian
Candidates eye young voters
The open minds of many of the 4
million Britons voting for the first time in an election due by June
make them prime targets in what is shaping up to be the closest poll
in almost two decades.
Previous trends show young people, who can vote at 18, tend to
favour Labour, but negative feeling toward Prime Minister Gordon
Brown and his government over Britain's economic woes mean this
year's first-time voters will likely be more divided.
Read comments made by Professor Paul Whiteley from the
Department of Government.
The Gazette (Montreal)
Reuters
Another defeat for University as push
up falters
Colchester and District Table
Tennis League division four leaders University of Essex suffered
their second successive defeat to a Lawford Club as their promotion
push continues to falter.
Essex County Standard
Map exhibit
The iconic map of the London
Underground will come under scrutiny this month at a University of
Essex map design exhibition. Dr Maxwell Roberts from the Department
of Psychology will present a collection of his own maps. Underground
Maps Unravelled will be at the Campus Gallery at South Essex College
until 8 March.
Essex Chronicle
25 February
Unbeaten weekend for East London hockey
East London's ladies' first team
visited the University of Essex in search of revenge having suffered
their only loss of the season in the reverse fixture. The match was
closely fought throughout, but two goals from Eilis Quinnlan
cancelled out previous strikes from the university team. East London
then won the game when Sophie Hollington's 60th-minute screamer
thundered into the back board of the opposition's goal.
Barking and Dagenham Recorder
Newham Recorder
Probe after attack
at university
A woman was assaulted and a man robbed on the Essex University
campus at Wivenhoe, police said yesterday.
The 26-year-old woman was in a car park off Boundary Road at around
1.30am on Sunday when two men approached her, pushed her to the
ground and kicked out at her, making lewd comments. Her friend, a
22-year-old man, was then threatened and forced to hand over his
mobile phone.
East Anglian Daily Times
Police
hunt thieves who beat up woman
Thugs pushed a woman to the ground and kicked her - then stole her
friend's mobile phone.
The 26-year-old victim, from Colchester, was in an Essex University
car park, off Boundary Road, in Wivenhoe, in the early hours of
Sunday, when she was approached by two men. They shoved her to the
ground, kicked her and made lewd comments.
Gazette
Halstead Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Southend student digs
could be let out in the summer
The
new university accommodation in Southend could be let out over the
summer when most students go home.
The ten-storey Hollybrook development for the University of Essex is
being built in London Road, Southend.
When it is finished, the bold-looking £36million building will house
561 students. It is expected to be completed in October.
Read the full story
here.
Southend Standard
My Eureka Moment: It's
there - or is it?
Read about Harry Collins, an Essex Masters graduate whose
research in the 1970s led him to realise that when scientists were
trying to detect gravitational waves, there was no way of
verifying that the detector itself was actually working...
Times Higher Education
24 February
André Jaeggi Joins The Founders Club
Essex graduate André Jaeggi, former
managing director of $4bn fund of funds manager Adveq has made a
personal cash investment leading the angel investment round of The
Founders Club and joined as group chairman. Read the article
here.
PE Hub
Fewer than half of children now get
enough physical activity to produce health benefits
According to
statistics, one in 25 deaths (1.9 million) results from inactivity
at a cost of £8.3 billion per year. A team of experts from the
University of Essex has come up with a ten point plan to put
children back in touch with nature, tackle the growing problem of
obesity and save society millions of pounds. In a new report called
Nature, Childhood, Health and Life Pathways, Professor Jules Pretty
and colleagues from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Environment and
Society (iCES) and Centre for Sports and Exercise Science identify
ten priorities for action to improve the well-being of both children
and adults and call on the Government to build “green exercise” into
all aspects of public policy at a national level. Read the article
here.
Newborn to Teen
23 February
It's a chance to give something back
Students at the University of Essex's Colchester Campus have the
chance to get involved in a range of volunteering projects. Students
commit between one and tow hours a week during term time and work on
regular and one-off projects.
Gazette
Comics' death hits new club
The University of Essex's Three Shots Comedy Club has been cancelled
due to the sudden death of one of the performers, Jason Wood.
Gazette
Halstead Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Paracetamol protects against kidney failure
after muscle injury
The commonly-used painkiller Paracetamol can protect against kidney
failure after severe muscle injury, according to research at the
University of Essex. Now, an international team of scientists,
involving researchers at Essex, University College London and the
USA, has discovered that Paracetamol reduces the damage caused to
kidneys following severe muscle injury. The team at Essex is led by
Professor Mike Wilson and Dr Brandon Reeder from the Department of
Biological Sciences. Read the article here.
Business Weekly
22 February
Get set for book festival
The Essex Book Festival is only a few days away, as the county
prepares for another literary extravaganza featuring events, authors
and workshops of all shapes and sizes. Francis Wheen will be joined
by Julia Jones at Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex in
Colchester at 7pm on Tuesday, March 23, to talk about why they have
republished the hilarious book Cheapjack by Phil Allingham.
Germaine Greer is joined by Sarfaz Manzoor and Professor Colin
Riordan on Wednesday, March 17, in a discussion about how identity,
migration and diversity enrich culture in Essex and the UK. Read the
article
here.
Essex Chronicle
Nature in psychotherapy
Ecotherapy, a new
branch of psychotherapy, explores nature-based ways to cope with
depression and anxiety. Psychotherapist Linda Buzzell said "Keep in
mind the fact that the University of Essex in the UK just did a
really important study, and they found that connecting with nature,
a simple walk in nature, was as powerful as antidepressant
medication in cases of mild to moderate depression. That may not
sound really earth shattering, but it really is for the field of
psychotherapy, because so much medication is now being used now for
mild and moderate depression. And what if we could get the results
that we want without any of the side effects or the expense of the
medication, simply by helping people reconnect with nature in their
areas."
Public Radio International
Have Academies lived up to hype?
The growth of school academies has been a hallmark of the New Labour
years and there are now five academies in Essex with another planned
academy at Sir Charles Lucas School in Colchester which will be
sponsored by the Colchester Institute, the University of Essex and
the Primary Care Trust - NHS North East Essex.
Gazette
Studies in the area of anxiety disorders reported from
University of Essex
Professor Elaine Fox and fellow researchers from the Department of
Psychology at the University of Essex have published their research
looking at
how Preconscious processing
biases predict emotional reactivity to stress
in the Biological
Psychiatry Journal.
Health and Medicine Week
Mental Health Weekly Digest
20 February
Scrap middle-class bursaries,
universities told
Universities have been told to scrap bursaries to middle class
students to support only the poorest undergraduates. The
University of Essex defended its bursary scheme. It said it
recently raised the threshold for bursaries from £38,000 to £60,000
to try to support students who get little help from the state. "We
were becoming aware of a pocket of students that does not get very
much help at all and we specifically raised it to the higher level
to make sure that these students were not missing out," said a
spokesman. "We were also worried about the uptake of bursaries and
thought this could be addressed by increasing the proportion of
those that are eligible." Read the article
here.
The Telegraph
What is the time? Don’t ask a student
A new clock has been unveiled in Southend town centre, but it has
left many people asking – what on earth is the time? The new clock
which has been built into the building’s facade, consists of three
separate faces to tell the hour, minute and second but has been
labelled as confusing by local residents. Read the article
here.
Southend Standard
Good vibrations aid mind-controlled steering
Identifying telltale brain patterns promises to usher in a new era
in which all manner of objects can be controlled by thought.
Controlling electric wheelchairs using the power of the mind is
emerging as a realistic option for some people with
neurodegenerative conditions such as Lou Gehrig's disease. Several
groups have already developed such thought-controlled wheelchairs,
including Francisco Sepulveda's team at the University of Essex.
Read the article
here.
New Scientist
19 February
Eastern growth sectors boosted by £1.2m internship funding
Businesses in the East
of England could benefit from £1.2million of funding for internships
with the help of a scheme announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown
last week. The national programme will focus on the future growth
sectors, such as low carbon, biosciences and ICT - areas in which
the East of England is particularly strong. The programme will
benefit businesses by bringing in fresh talent to help boost their
productivity and graduates will gain valuable experience and
training through a structured support programme which will help them
into employment. The University of Essex is one of the universities
which will be offering internships. Read the article
here.
The Cambridge Times
Colchester dumps wheelie bins plan
Wheelie bins will not be coming to Colchester, after residents
overwhelmingly said they did not want them. Most people attending
public events at Colchester Town Hall and the University of Essex
were vehemently against the introduction of the large bins,
particularly on the town’s estates. In total, 344 comments were made
by residents about wheelie bins, with 315 against and 29 for.
Halstead Gazette
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Boy from Brazil
University of Essex Artist-in-Residence, Adriano Adewale will be
performing in the University's Lakeside Theatre on Saturday night
together with fellow Brazilian composer Marcelo Andrade and
guitarist Jonathan Preiss.
Essex County Standard
University halls blaze
Firefighters put out a small blaze at one of the halls of residence
at the University of Essex after a student tried to get rid of
personal documents by burning them in a bin.
Essex County Standard
Authors head to county for Essex Book Festival
Bookworms are in for a month-long treat in March at the 11th Essex
Book Festival. One of the highlights is What's Around the Corner?
- a chance to experience the wealth
of knowledge offered by some of the University of Essex's leading
researchers.
Gazette
Chitty is among the winners in North Essex Championships
The North Essex Area Championships were recently held at the
University of Essex and NESA Academy students Ben Aitken and Chitty
emerged victorious in the boys’ under-15 and under-17 events.
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Intune to design
cloud computing network
Intune Networks, the Irish maker of telecoms equipment for high
bandwidth transmission, has won a major EU-funded research contract
to design a telecoms network for cloud computing.Intune is part of a
consortium that includes telecoms operators Telefónica in Spain and
PrimeTel in Cyprus. The consortium also includes Italian software
company Nextworks, and the University of Essex and University
Autonoma Madrid. It will design and demonstrate a network that will
allow the next generation of technology and communications services
to be rolled out.
Irish Times
Light Reading
IRISHDEV
Silicon Republic
Business and Leadership.com
Individual.com
18 February
Honouring the very best work
In 1993, the Royal
Anniversary Trust set up a biennial award scheme to honour
outstanding achievements in UK colleges and universities. The first
Queen's Anniversary Prizes were awarded in 1994 and this year marks
the eighth round of honours. Prizewinners must demonstrate that they
have achieved world-class work, with this year's successful
institutions showing progress in diverse fields: science and
mathematics, medicine, health and welfare, education and training,
engineering and technology, international development, humanities,
social sciences and law. The University of Essex has been awarded a
prize for advancing the legal and broader practice of international
human rights.
The Times
UK college makes an international impact in human rights
Human rights have
grown in profile on both international and domestic agendas over the
past 20 years, attracting increasing interest from academics. But
within the UK one university has stood out by offering an unrivalled
breadth of approach to the subject. The Human Rights Centre at the
University of Essex, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary,
is regarded as the first institution of its kind in Britain. The
unique strength of the Essex approach, which has now attracted a
Queen's Anniversary Prize, is that its 50 academics come from a wide
range of disciplines. These include linguistics, psychoanalysis and
business, giving it an unrivalled depth of expertise.
The Times online
Letters: Unethical Trac
Professor Paul Whiteley, Government, criticises the Trac Development
Group. Read the full letter
here.
THE
Taking hits
Professor Prem Sikka, Essex Business School, comments
on the on-going allegations of corruption at BAE Systems. read the
full article
here.
Accountancy Age
IT Week
Personal Computer World
Theatre refurbished
Essex-based Phelan Construction has completed work on
refurbishing the Lakeside Theatre.
East Anglian Daily Times
17 February
Good vibrations aid mind-controlled
steering
Controlling electric wheelchairs using the power of the
mind is emerging as a realistic option for some people with
neurodegenerative conditions. Several groups have already developed
such thought-controlled wheelchairs, including the University of
Essex. Read the full article
here.
New Scientist
Reining in the corporate monster
Professor Prem Sikka, Essex Business School, comments on
why big businesses must be forced to temper their obsession with
profit and align corporate practice with social justice and
democracy. Read the full article
here.
The Guardian online
Gauguin's Nevermore wins accolade of
most romantic artwork in Art Fund Poll
Professor Marina Warner, Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, is
one of a number of public figures who have chosen artworks for the
exhibition Nevermore, on display at The Courtauld Gallery.
Artdaily.org
Beat master is hosting Brazilian
festival at uni
Brazilian percussionist Adriano Adewale will be at the
Lakeside Theatre as part of the University's Brazilian festival.
Gazette
16 February
Add a bright spark to your business
The University is one of a number of regional university's
and businesses that will be offering graduate internships.
Read the full article
here.
Business Weekly
Human Rights..for some
Francesca Klug comments on Binyam Mohamed's landmark case
against the foreign office last week and cites research carried out
for the University. Read the full article
here.
Guardian
Representatives of the University of
Essex visit the Azerbaijan University of Languages
University representatives met wit the rector of Azerbaijan
University of Languages to discuss future collaboration. Read the
full article here.
Apa
The best tool for helping damaged
young people - nature
The Wilderness Foundation is leading a project that takes small
groups of disruptive and emotionally damaged young people to the
wildest and most remote parts of Britain. The University's
Department of Biological Sciences is involved in a
research project evaluating the
benefits of the youngsters spending time in the natural environment.
Read the full article
here.
Guardian
The Hindu
Drama group
performs Brecht
The work of one of Germany's
most influential playwrights will be performed at the Lakeside
Theatre - in its original language.
Gazette
Town backs its 2012 Olympic hopefuls
A scheme has been launched to provide funding for athletes
in Colchester who have the potential to compete at the 2012
Olympics. A panel, including the University, will decide who is
eligible for the awards.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
13 February
Research into the 'science' of giving
Dr David Reinstein, a University of Essex Economist is trying to work
out exactly what makes people put their hands in their pockets and
give to charity and he is now looking to local groups for help in his
research on the subject.
East Anglian Daily Times
Public art: can we keep everyone happy?
Does your heart leap when you pass a statue in the town centre, or do
you believe putting it up was a waste of money? Can we make public
art more meaningful for a greater number of people? Issues like these
will be considered by University of Essex Art Historian Matthew Poole
who will be giving the University of Essex Burrows Lecture on 9
March. Read the article
here.
East Anglian Daily Times
Foster care brought back the good times
For two brothers who have been through the care system prove there
can be good times ahead, as well as a prosperous future. Zimbabwe
born Wilf and Ewart Msiska came to England in 2000, aged ten and
seven respectively. Wilf is now in his final year at the University
of Essex’s Southend campus studying sports studies. He has applied to
take a PGCE, so he can teach PE, while Ewart is also undertaking
sports studies at South Essex College, in the town. Both play
football for Southend Manor and also have part-time jobs.
Echo
Southend Standard
An Audience with Gavin and Stacey Actress, Alison Steadman
Read an interview with former East 15 student and Honorary
Graduate, Alison Steadman.
Lancashire Life
12 February
Advances in Artificial Intelligence Make Games Smarter
As computers and video game consoles advance, players expect the
games running on these systems to become ever smarter. Gamers today
want their computerized villains to “think” and act like humans,
whether it’s a race car driver who swerves into you at just the right
point on the course or an alien who can learn your shooting strategy
to take you down.
Read Professor Simon Lucas' thoughts on future developments in
games.
The Institute
O little town...of Mersea!
Mersea Island is hoping to forge a holy alliance – a twinning link
with the Middle East town of Bethlehem. Unlikely as it might seem,
islanders have formed a new group to promote educational and cultural
links between the West Bank town and the windswept Essex island. He
said the town council was also considering helping students from
Bethlehem stay in Colchester, with the help of Mersea Outdoors and
the University of Essex.
Gazette
Kim Longinotto: 'Film-making saved my life
Read about Essex English and European Literature graduate Kim
Longinotto's life and film career.
The Guardian
Uni return for Nick
Nick Broomfield will be at the Lakeside Theatre on Monday for a
screening of his acclaimed first feature film, Ghosts and will also
be giving a talk about the piece. Nick was awarded an honorary
degree from the University of Essex in 2006, after graduating in
1971.
Essex County Standard
Minister to visit town
Transport Minister Chris Mole will visit Colchester on Monday and
will visit the University of Essex and take part in a question and
answer session with students.
Essex County Standard
11 February
Back our Sunday Express Campaign: Fit for the Future
Blamed for soaring child obesity levels and the return of rickets,
the computer games industry has never been under greater scrutiny.
British youngsters are the most unhealthy in Europe and spend on
average 730 hours a year slouched in front of a TV screen rather than
taking part in physical activity. Britain’s dismal record on
children’s health and physical exercise was laid bare in a report
last month that showed how child fitness levels are falling twice as
fast as anywhere in the world. Researchers from the University
of Essex found that while levels globally were decreasing by around
four per cent a year, in the UK they have plummeted by eight per
cent. Read the article
here.
The Express
Find good health in your garden
When the world wearies
and society ceases to satisfy," said Minnie Aumonier, "there is
always the garden." Gardening is not just a stimulating hobby - it is
increasingly considered to be an activity with massive health
benefits. A range of recent research has found that gardening has
significant benefits in the treatment of mental-health problems. In
research commissioned from the University of Essex, 94% of people who
took part in green exercise activities said it had benefited their
mental health. One said: "I am more relaxed, have better focus of
mind, greater co-ordination and greater self-esteem."
Daily Mail
Film-maker in return to uni
One of the country's most highly regarded film-makers, Nick
Broomfield, will be returning to the University next week.
Gazette
Games firms must save children they've
made into health time bombs
Computer games are often blamed for high levels of obesity in
children. Research by Dr Gavin Sandercock, from the University of
Essex, found that globally children's fitness levels are decreasing
by four per cent per year. Read the full article
here.
Daily Express
Appointments
Professor Prem Sikka, professor of accounting at Essex
Business School, is the sole academic named on the Financial Power
List 2010.
Times Higher
Paracetamol kidney trial
Paracetamol can protect
against kidney failure after severe muscle injury according to
pioneering research at the University of Essex.
Essex Chronicle
Olympic Star launches athlete scheme
Registrar Dr Tony Rich and the SU's Dominic King have
helped to launch a new initiative aimed at supporting local
athletes.
East Anglian Daily Times
10 February
Uni lecturer loves to play mind games
like TV's Derren Brown
The Department of Government's Dr Todd Landman, is an
acknowledged expert on human rights as well as successful
metaphysical magician. He will be at the Headgate Theatre,
Colchester on Friday at 8pm.
Gazette
Soundbites
Musicians Fooled by Chance will have their own show on the
University's radio show next week.
Gazette
9 February
Modern Day robofish school humans on
how to detect water pollution
Scientists from the University of Essex have developed
schools of robotic fish that look exactly like real fish and are
equipped with tracking systems and sensors that can detect polluted
waters. Read the full article
here.
Earthtimes.org
Don't move into halls move into QV
Weston Homes’ riverside development QV in Colchester has
recorded more than ten sales in the last five months resulting from
parents buying for their children studying at the nearby University
of Essex.
Easier property
Suffolk's Royal Appointment today
Undergraduates from University Campus Suffolk will be meeting the
Countess of Wessex when she tours DanceEast's Jerwood DanceHouse on
Ipswich Waterfront as part of her whistle-stop tour of Suffolk.
East Anglian Daily Times
Ipswich Evening Star
UCS bosses pleased as applicants rise
In the last year, UCAS admissions to University Campus Suffolk have
increased by 46%, double the national rise for applicants to UK
universities and colleges of 23%.
East Anglian Daily Times
Ipswich Evening Star
8 February
Universities face crisis as cuts crash in on academia
Vice-chancellors said attempts at making economies have been
frustrated by the Treasury. Dr Tony Rich, registrar of the University
of Essex, said that sharing such services as pay rolls between
institutions "would result in us having to pay 17.5% in VAT." Read
the article
here.
The Guardian
intoPIX New Ultra High Definition 4K Streaming System
intoPIX, the leader in JPEG 2000 solutions, announced today that the
University of Essex and the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking
Center have selected the new JPEG 2000 4K Streaming system called
SYX-JP4K and developed by intoPIX. At the end of last year, during
the official opening of the Essex Ultra High Definition facility, the
new intoPIX 4K Streaming system was demonstrated. Read the article
here.
Electronic Specifier
The play’s the thing
An investigation of children’s fitness levels, published recently in
the medical journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, makes worrying
reading for parents. Sport experts from the University of Essex in
Britain staged fitness tests on 300 10-year-old boys and girls in
1998 and another 300 in 2008. The second group came up markedly less
fit, with the researchers concluding that an average 10yearold child
in 1998 could have beaten 95 per cent of today’s youngsters in
running contests. Read the article
here.
The National, Washington DC
Hate crime group aims to build up multi-faith harmony
Colchester and Tendring crime and disorder partnerships have received
funding under the Government's Prevent programme which aims to
develop community and faith relations. They have set up a multi-faith
group to allow different religions and cultures to meet and are
working with the University to help students from abroad feel
integrated into the community.
Gazette
Reports outline neurology research from University of Essex
Dr Paulmann and
colleagues from the Department of Psychology have published a study
in Neuroreport on Facial expression decoding as a function of
emotional meaning status: ERP evidence.
Pain & Central Nervous System Week
Research results from University of Essex update understanding
of autonomic nervous system
Dr Gladwell and
colleagues from the Centre for Sports and Exercise Science have
published a study in Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging on
Cardiac vagal activity following three intensities of exercise in
humans.
Cardiovascular Week
Life Science Weekly
The era of smart devices
Essex graduate, Dr. Mohammed Yaseen, Chairman of the Pakistan
Telecommunication Authority (PTA) writes about Smart Devices. Read
the article
here.
Connect World
7 February
The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Stole Their Children's Future
by David Willetts
The Pinch sets out to show how the baby boomers –
those, like Willetts, who were born between 1945 and 1965 – have
"stolen their children's future" through their cultural, demographic
and political dominance. Willetts manages to synthesise these
social trends
into a coherent and engaging narrative, successfully mixing
vignettes from South Park and The Simpsons with
statistics from the British Household Panel Survey. Most important,
when it comes to social and economic research, Willetts really does
know his stuff. Read the review
here.
The Guardian
Cheap credit has pulled the UK's poorest families into a spiral
of debt
A survey by the Institute of Public Policy Research following the
fortunes of 58 low-income families shows how those hit hardest by the
recession have been those least able to pay their way. Richard
Berthoud, a Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic
Research, said the report highlighted the day-to-day problems for
those on low incomes. "The volume of mortgage debt and consumer
credit has been increasing steadily for at least 20 years, and
reaching lower and lower down the income scale. The report is
published at a time when unprecedented numbers of people's incomes
are being affected by the recession," he added. But Berthoud argued
that debt had been a big problem in previous recessions as well and
called on the government to tackle the problems with long-term
policies. Read the article
here.
The Guardian
Chair is wheely clever
UK scientists have developed a 'robo' wheelchair that can be steered
and controlled by thought.
Sunday Express
6 February
Who ‘wins’ in a divorce, mom or dad?
Child custody and balance of parenting power post-divorce have been
in the news around the world lately. Everywhere it is messy, and
everywhere parents seem certain that the other gender is getting the
better deal. In Great Britain, the Institute for Social and Economic
Research released a study last month called “Marital Splits and
Income Changes Over the Longer Term.” The first of its kind in the
country, it showed what similar studies in the U.S. have concluded
over the years — that men improve their standard of living after a
divorce while women sacrifice theirs. Read the article
here.
Tehran Times
Cuts both ways
Studies of gender pay and employment differentials typically focus on
survey-based data. Yet equilibrium outcomes reflect both productive
traits and labour market discrimination.
Read the article by Professor Alison Booth, Professor of
Economics at the University of Essex and the Australian National
University and Professor Andrew Leigh, Professor in the economics
program of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian
National University.
Business Spectator
5 February
Book review Monkeys With Typewriters
Read a review
of Monkeys with Typewriters, written by Essex Graduate Jemima
Gibbons and reviewed by Essex graduate, David Chshman.
Socially Minded
PQ magazine awards 2010 shortlist
The independent judging panel is now shifting through the shortlist
for the PQ magazine awards for 2010. Judges Professor Prem Sikka, AAT
brand director Andrew Williamson and PQ magazine editor Graham Hambly
will now be locked into a darkened room to determine the final
winners.
PQ Magazine
Paracetamol Protection
An international team of researchers including Professor Mike Wilson
from the University of Essex have discovered that Paracetamol can
protect against kidney failure after severe muscle injury. Further
clinical trials will be required.
Gazette
News-Medical.net
Braintree and Witham Times
Science Centric
Medical News Today
BioFind
MedicalLexicon
Film and talk by widow
The story of a woman's fight for justice after her husband was
murdered in Chile is to be told at the University of Essex. The
award-winning film, Missing, will be screened at the University on 3
March with Mrs Horman speaking about her experiences on 4 March.
Gazette
Halstead Gazette
He'll read your mind
For students in the Department of Government at the University of
Essex, he's Dr Todd Landman, best-known as an acknowledge human
right's expert but for theatre-goers he is Todd Landman, mind-reading
magician extraordinaire and he presents an Evening of Enchantment at
the Headgate Theatre on 12 February.
Essex County Standard
Musical journey
Nathan Riki Thomson, an Australian Double Bassist will be leading a
group of multi-instrumentalists in performing songs from this debut
album Under Ubi's Tree at the Lakeside Theatre on Saturday
night.
Essex County Standard
Club highlights
Tickets have sold out for Wednesday's gig by Faithless at the
University of Essex on Wednesday night.
Gazette
4 February
Food needs on the agenda at Norwich event
Research by Professor Jules Pretty, Biological Sciences, will be
quoted at an event in Norwich looking at food security. Read the
full article
here.
EDP24
Waveney and District Advertiser
UK exhibition gives guidance to students
Essex was one of a number of universities represented
at a higher education fair in Borneo. Read the full article
here.
Borneo Bulletin
Brunei News
3 February
East 15 Acting School is positively buzzing with untapped
talent
Students at East 15 Acting School are preparing to star in a
production of Cardiff East at the School's Corbett Theatre. Read the
full article
here.
East London and West Essex Guardian Series
Bias towards negativity predicts vulnerability to stress
People who naturally notice negative information over positive
information are more susceptible to stress, research has revealed.
The findings increase our understanding of what makes people
vulnerable to stress and could lead to new forms of therapy.
Researchers from the University of Essex
found that they could predict the body's reaction to stress up to
eight months after they measured a person's bias towards positive or
negative images.
The results suggest that biases towards
noticing negative things - especially when they operate
subconsciously - might predispose people to anxiety disorders.
PhysOrg.com
Professor joins 'power list'
Essex Business School Professor of Accounting Prem Sikka has made it
onto the Financial Power List 2010, compiled by a business magazine.
He joins the likes of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer and Shadow Chancellor, the chairmen of Sainsbury's and BT
and the chairmen and CEOs of many of the big accounting and
insurance firms.
The list, compiled by the prestigious
business magazine Accountancy Age, identifies the 50 individuals in
the accountancy and financial services worlds who possess the most
influence.
East Anglian Daily Times
Colchester politicians to be quizzed on recession
Local politicians will debate the impact of the recession at Essex
University on Thursday.
The university’s Politics Society will ask
politicians to discuss “The impact on quality of life in a
recession”.
The debate, which will take place in the Ivor
Crewe Lecture Theatre from 6pm, will consist of speeches followed by
a question and answer session.
Gazette
Uni breakthrough on beating stress
Scientists have designed a test to identify if a person is likely to
suffer ill-health through stress. Psychologists at Essex University
tested volunteers by asking them to spot small, moving markers on a
computer screen as photographs were rapidly flashed up. Professor
Elaine Fox, who led the study, said her method could be used to
identify people likely to suffer ill-health through stress.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Halstead Gazette
Entertainment
An international world jazz ensemble will be
performing at the Lakeside Theatre at Essex University this
Saturday. Nathan Riki Thomson, an Australian double bassist, leads a
group of instrumentalists in performing songs from his debut album
Under Ubi’s Tree.
Gazette
University host to moving story
The story of a woman’s extraordinary ongoing fight
for justice after her husband died in the Chilean military coup of
1973 comes to Essex University next month. Joyce Horman will be
giving a talk about the events surrounding her 30-year struggle to
find answers to what happened to her husband Charles and why.
East Anglian Daily Times
Schemes back ‘young Suffolk’
As National Apprenticeship Week gets underway the second cohort of
IDEA apprentices will be joining businesses throughout Suffolk to
complete their ICT apprenticeship. IDEA is a joint venture between
BT, University College London, the University of East Anglia, the
University of Essex, UCS and Suffolk New College, which is
developing a unique skills escalator for the ICT and associated
employment sectors in Suffolk.
East Anglian Daily Times
Bid to bring Olympic flame to town
The Olympic torch could be coming to Colchester ahead of the London
Olympics. The Colchester Olympic Partnership consists of
representatives from Colchester Council, Essex University,
Colchester Garrison, Essex Police, Colchester United Community
Sports Trust and NHS North East Essex. A ten-page document, produced
by the partnership, highlights sports facilities at Leisure World,
Essex University, the Garrison and elsewhere which could be used.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Gas set up Bergholt quarter showdown
Gas Recreation set up an Essex Premier Cup quarter
final clash with West Bergholt as they won a dramatic game 7-5
against Sungate. West Bergholt continued their run in the premier
division as they beat Earls Colne 3-2, while University of Essex
stayed ahead of the chasing pack as they beat Hedinghams United 4-3.
Gazette
2 February
Our Towering Ambition
A couple who met at the University of Essex Climbing Wall have turned
their passion for heights into a successful business. They now scale
some of the country's most famous landmarks working on projects such
as changing lights, fixing electrics and high level photography.
Gazette
Hal heads comedy club night
Hal Cruttenden will be back headlining as the Three Shots Comedy Club
returns to the Lakeside Theatre at the University of Essex this week.
The critically-acclaimed stand-up comedian and writer has been a
regular on the UK stand-up circuit since he was nominated for a
Perrier-Newcomer Award in 2002.
Gazette
Race for Life: Huge backing
More than 400 women signed up for the Cancer Research Race for Life
events in Colchester in just one week. There are now almost 500
entered for the first Castle Park race, 86 in the afternoon and more
than 100 at the University.
Gazette
Studies from University of Bath in the area of forecasting
science
Using the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), Researchers at the
University of Bath published a study in the Journal of Forecasting
(Are Household Subjective Forecasts of Personal Finances Accurate and
Useful? A Directional Analysis of the British Household Panel Survey
Journal of Forecasting).
Science Letter
1 February
Acting School sets out to impress
A historical extravaganza featuring hundreds of young actors marked
the official opening of the University of Essex's new £5 million
acting school and theatre. Award-winning film and TV actress Juliet
Stevenson was one of the guests at the impressive opening ceremony
for the Clifftown Studios over the weekend.
Echo
Uni boffins invent new thought wheelchairs
Scientists in Colchester have designed a robo-wheelchair which
responds to brainwaves. Disabled people can make it move, just by
thinking "go forwards" or "turn right". Professor David Crawford said
in time, the device, developed by Professor Huosheng Hu, could be put
on the market.
Gazette
Echo
Fittest kids ride a bicycle to
school
Children riding a bicycle to school are more active and fitter than
those who rely on other modes of transport, says a new research. The
findings are based on a study of 6,000 children, aged 10 to 16, from
the eastern region of England. The children’s cardio-respiratory
fitness and travel habits were assessed during 2007 and 2008. Gavin
Sandercock and Christine Voss, Biological Scientists from the
University of Essex, who led the research, said such active
transportation can be a gateway for lifelong fitness in children.
TechRadar
and appears in 30 other international newspapers
$2k worth of prizes up for grabs at tomorrow’s Study at UK
exhibition
Students are invited to
celebrate James Hon Marketing and Management’s 18th anniversary at a
Study in the UK Exhibition and in commemorating this event, James Hon
will be giving away prizes worth up to $2,000 for visitors.
Some of the institutions attending James Hon Study in UK Exhibition
are University of Exeter (Ranked nine), University of Birmingham,
University of East Anglia, University of Surrey, Keele University,
University of Essex, University of Hull, University of Plymouth, UWE
Bristol, University of Glamorgan and Thames Valley University.
Brunei News
Brunei Times
The Rose of Sharon, Ontario
Professor Jules Lubbock from the Department of Art History and Theory
writes about The Temple. Read his article
here.
Wall Street Journal
29 January
Curtain rises on £5m Southend theatre for the East 15 acting
school
After two years of building work and £5million investment, the
curtain has finally risen on East 15’s new professional theatre. The
doors to the Clifftown Studios, in Nelson Street, Southend, will open
tonight and the public will be invited to step inside the acting
school’s dynamic new building. However, the opening won’t be marked
by a traditional ribbon cutting ceremony. Instead, and arguably more
appropriately, a huge weekend of theatre performances, featuring more
than 250 actors, led by ten directors, ten artistic designers and the
entire technical department, will take place to celebrate the launch.
Read the story
here.
Echo
Getting a Handel on choir's success
Israel in Egypt is being performed by the University of Essex Choir
at Chelmsford Cathedral tomorrow and it is expected to be another
sell-out performance for the popular choir which draws its members
from staff and students at the University and the surrounding area.
Essex County Standard
Calling Faithless Fans
The University of Essex will be playing host to one of the biggest
dance groups in the country - Faithless. They will be playing in Sub
Zero on 10 February.
Essex County Standard
Community film theatre is backed by director Leigh
University of Essex Honorary Graduate and acclaimed Film Director,
Mike Leigh has agreed to become Patron of the Reel Appeal, which aims
to establish a community cinema in Wivenhoe.
Gazette
While most people know that exercise is good for them, most
still do not do enough
Will the legacy of the
2012 London Olympic Games be eight athletes watched by 30 million
couch potatoes? The build-up to the event sees UK sports scientists
and technologists providing world-leading backroom support to the
British team, yet while our Olympians' bodies are being honed to
perfection, statistics show the general population are roundly fat
and unfit. Professor Jules Pretty and colleagues at the
University of Essex have argued the particular value of using the
natural environmental. They suggest that the same amount of exercise
outdoors is of more benefit than in a gym.
The Independent
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