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The University of Essex in the Press
February 2012
Wednesday 29 February
Young face greater struggle to find work than older job
seekers
The number of young people in work has plummeted in the past eight
years compared to the number of older people finding employment,
official data shows. Between 1992 and 2004, 16- to 24-year-olds not
in full-time education had an employment rate similar to those aged
25 to 64, but since then that rate has declined, the Office for
National Statistics (ONS) said. Figures show that in the first
quarter of 2004, 75.3% of 16- to 24-year-olds were employed compared
to 75.5% of 25- to 64-year-olds. But by the final quarter of 2011
the percentage of younger people in work had fallen to just 66%,
while 74.9% of the older group were employed. The figures were
supported by a study of 40,000 households by the Institute for
Social and Economic Research (ISER), which found that youngsters
faced a "double penalty" in their attempts to find and keep work.
The Guardian
This story was also covered in over
150 other local news outlets around the UK
The $100bn Facebook question: Will capitalism survive
'value abundance'?
This term was recently relaunched in an article by University of
Essex academics Christopher Land and Steffen Böhm, entitled "They
are exploiting us! Why we all work for Facebook for free". In this
mini-essay, they make a very strong claim that "we can certainly
position the users of Facebook as labourers. If labour is understood
as 'value producing activity', then updating your status, liking a
website, or 'friending' someone, creates Facebook's basic
commodity." Read the article
here.
Aljazeera
Uni talk for the mature
The University of Essex is holding a conference about helping mature
students on April 12, from 10am to 4pm in the Ivor Crewe Lecture
Hall.
Colchester Gazette
Top writers descend on Essex
BBC Essex's Dave Monk
will broadcast live from the library as the festival is launched on
World Book Day. A number of events are being held
at the University of Essex.
thisistotalessex.co.uk
Tuesday 28 February
BBC 2 'The Fixer'
The University of Essex was featured on the show when a
family fancy dress firm had a stall at the University of Essex
selling their stock.
Philosopher challenged Freud's theories
The
Brisbane Times has printed an obituary for Professor
Frank Cioffi, an Oxford-trained philosopher who taught at the
University of Essex.
Brisbane Times
Talks about heritage
Southend's heritage will be explored at an event organised by the
University of Essex. It will feature talks on the borough's heyday
and the impact of the Second World War. March 17, Elmer Approach,
Southend, 2pm.
Southend Echo
University diversity bid 'failed'
Attempts to encourage children from poorer homes to go to university
have failed, a report has warned. The study, by the Institute of
Social and Economic Research (ISER) based at the
University of Essex, analysed the social backgrounds of
almost 34,000 adults aged between 22 to 34 and 37 to 49. The younger
group would have gone to university after higher education expanded
in 1992. The older group would have gone to university before 1992.
Press Association
Also feature in over 55 other local news outlets around the UK
Work starts on new archaeology base
Colchester Archaeological Trust is set to move to the former Army
Education Centre in Colchester and residents, University of Essex
students and Trust members all pitched in to make the building
habitable.
Colchester Gazette
Essex County Standard
Eastern Promise! Mayor celebrates her
homeland
Colchester's Malaysian-born Mayor will mark her culture and heritage
with a celebration evening at Colchester Town Hall on Friday.
The Malaysian Student Society and Malaysian Tourist Board are
hosting a festival at the University of Essex on Friday from
11am-4pm.
Colchester Gazette
Talk from top scholar
Renowned Sociology scholar, Professor Zygmunt Bauman
will be speaking at the University of Essex on Friday 16 March.
Colchester Gazette
Monday 27 February
Monologues will focus on women around
the world
Tales of oppression, abuse and politics will be explored in
a production by East 15 Acting School. In honour of International
Women's Day, they will perform a series of adaptations of work by
Italian theatre-makers Dario Fo and Franca Rame.
Echo
Sanae finds hope and horror on return to her homeland
Sanae Fujita says the cities of her
homeland are finally beginning to emerge
from the scarred landscape left behind by
the tsunami. Sanae, an associate and human rights lecturer at the
University of Essex, was visiting her family in Osaka when the
earthquake struck the coast of Japan.
Essex County Standard
Colchester Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Chelmsford Weekly News
BBC Essex - Ray Clark Breakfast Show
UK's First Hotel School
Interview with Stephen Mannock, General Manager, Wivenhoe House
Hotel
Listen to the interview on the
iplayer (forward to 37:03).
Ethical human rights could well be many children's and
freedom's last hope in New Zealand
Professor Paul Hunt, a New Zealander now at the
University of Essex (UK), was guest speaker at the AGM of the
Human Rights Foundation last Wednesday. He
said that while he personally would like to see children’s rights
included in New Zealand’s law that this is unlikely to occur in the
near future.
Philly IMC
Indy Bay
Sydney IndyMedia
Saturday 25 February
Newman graduate worked to steer Iraqis
away from terrorism
Read about Ami Angell, a graduate of Newman University, who has
spent most of her adult life in war zones and political hot spots
around the world. During her 44 months in Iraq, her focus was to
give inmates the education they need to break away from terrorism.
Ami has a master’s degree from the University of Essex and a Ph.D.
in public international law from American University of London.
The Wichita Eagle
'I don't want a society glued to
gameshows'
Steven Russell from the East Anglian Daily Times interviews
Professor Marina Warner. The Writer and Mythographer is also a
Professor in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre
Studies.
East Anglian Daily Times
Friday 24
February
Rise and rise of student entrepreneurs
Many students are starting up their own businesses to help fund
their education and establish a viable career path.
A number of entrepreneur societies have already earned
lucrative contracts. Students at the University
of Essex have been commissioned by Waitrose to help
ex-service personnel back into work. Read
the article
here.
The Guardian
Lindon Locks Business Development Manager, OCF
Lindon Locks, former pre-sales consultant at Allinea Software and
systems engineer at SGI, will join OCF plc. in a newly-formed sales
role. Lindon has worked in over 20 countries. He speaks four
languages (English, French, Spanish and
German). He has an honours degree in Electronic Engineering from the
University of Essex. He also holds various vendor qualifications
from Novell, IBM, VMware, BakBone and the Storage Networking
Industry Association (SNIA).
Storage Newsletter.com
Supercomputing
Feeling Too Much
Read more about a University of Essex study which
discloses a likely genetic basis for
individual variations in sensitivity.
Psychology Today
Jazz bears back on the drums
London-based jazz combo Polar Bear are making a welcome return to
the University of Essex this weekend. The group are part of a great
jazz tradition of drummer-led bands and their sound appeals as much
to jazz traditionalists as to people who don’t normally “do jazz”.
Polar Bear take to the Lakeside Theatre stage on Saturday 25
February at 8.30pm.
Essex County Standard
Way we respond to Syria will differ from
Libya crisis
As Syria slides towards civil war and the brutal crackdown against
civilians, many are asking why the world has failed to respond, when
it did in Libya. By Dr Natasha Ezrow, Department of Government,
discusses latest situation in Syria.
Read her comment piece.
Thursday 23 February
Grant Winners
Professor Andrea Galeotti from the Department of Economics has been
awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize of £70,000 to study Social and
Economic networks.
THE
Candidate's chances overrated
The prospects of a political candidate often is in the mind of a
supporter, regardless of whether they have a real chance to win an
election, a study indicates. Researchers at Northwestern University
in Evanston, Ill., and Britain's University of Essex analyzed poll
data from voters, and not surprisingly, backers of a specific
candidate expected their man or woman to win no matter how they
fared in polling.
UPI.com
Web Newswire
New Kerala.com
Net India 123
Smash Hits.com
Hedge fund social networks can lead to consensus trading,
warns research
Hedge fund managers tend to use small, cohesive networks made up of
competing fund managers to compare and test initial trading ideas
and to look for potential flaws in their planned investment
strategies, concludes the research conducted by the London School of
Economics (LSE), IESE Business School and the University of Essex.
Hedge Funds Review
Wednesday 22 February
All Blues bid to keep Shield ambitions alive
The University of Gloucestershire All
Blues rugby league team continue their quest for success at Old
Richians against UWIC today. The match is a last-16 clash in the
British Universities and Colleges Sports National Shield play-offs.
In the previous round UWIC disposed of Warwick University 33-6 at
home and the University of Gloucestershire came away from Colchester
with a 20-16 win at the University of
Essex.
thisisgloucestershire.co.uk
Azerbaijan University of Languages hosts event on
Karabakh problem
The Azerbaijan University of Languages has hosted a meeting with the
university`s students at the University of
Essex. The event focused on the importance of increasing the
international community`s awareness Baku, February 22 (AzerTAc). The
Azerbaijan University of Languages has hosted a meeting with the
university`s students at the Essex University of Great Britain. The
event focused on the importance of increasing the international
community`s awareness of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem.
Azertaj
Che puts his past in front of
him...and the audience as well
Che is now in his third year of a Peforming Arts degree at the
University of Essex and is putting on a one-man show at the Lakeside
Theatre on 29 February and 1 March called Nostalgia 2012.
Colchester Gazette
Jazz with Polar Bear
Making a welcome return to the University of Essex
this weekend are London-based avant-garde jazz combo Polar Bear.
Colchester Gazette
University open day
A postgraduate open day will take place at the
University of Essex on Wednesday 14 March.
Colchester Gazette
Tuesday 21 February
In our spouses we do trust
A study showed that more than 90 percent of participants would much
rather turn to a spouse than a friend if they needed help. Professor
Heather Laurie who led the research and who heads the Institute for
Social and Economic Research at Essex University, told the Daily
Mail: "Men who have a spouse or partner rely heavily on that person
for positive social support while women tend to look more widely to
other family members and friends. Laurie suggests that this shows
that the sexes tend to value their relationships with family and
friends quite differently.
IAfrica.com
Student accused of university halls
rape
A mature student will stand trial accused of raping a
woman at Southend's halls of residence. He was remanded in custody
until 11 May.
Echo
Clifftop B&B that's falling into
despair
Beach Road, Happisburgh is the setting for the Red Cape Theatre's
latest show, 1 Beach Road. Watch it at the Lakeside Theatre
on Friday 24 February.
Colchester Gazette
Marriott’s close call for a point of Order
The Sheffield Telegraph interviews Richard
Marriott who studied at the University of Essex and the Drama
Studio London. He is appearing in
Order, a dark and brooding two-hander, which is the first play
produced professionally by the Lantern
theatre in its 118-year history. Read the article
here.
Sheffield Telegraph
Spring start for Bouygues on £22m Essex student PPP
Planning permission has been granted for £22m student accommodation
project for the University of Essex, paving the way for Bouygues to
start on site in Spring 2012.
Construction news
Construction Enquirer
Volunteering an ear
The Student writes
about the Nightline service at the University of Edinburgh.
Nightline, based on the same principles as the Samaritans,
was founded in 1973 at the University of Essex.
The Student
Director reveals cutting edge in Edgewood College
education
For some years now, Edgewood College has been delivering cutting
edge education by providing support for students, who want admission
and placements into the UK universities and colleges through
Universities and Colleges Admission Services (UCAS). The college,
which is accredited by the British Council to conduct Cambridge
International Examinations (CIE), also collaborates with top
organisations and agents that work with and place students into a
wide range of universities such as University of Essex.
Daily Sun
Monday 20 February
Path drive cranked up
Momentum is finally building behind long-standing plans to build a
cycle path between Wivenhoe and the University of Essex. A cheaper
scheme is being considered which will run between The Flag pub in
Wivenhoe and the University.
East Anglian Daily Times
Herts 24
Norwich Evening News
Cambridge First
Cambs 24
The Comet 24
Fakenham and Wells Times
Welwyn and Hatfield Times
Sunday 19
February
Adelphi University Alumna to
direct Charlotte
Delbo’s 'Who
Will Carry the Word'?
Former East 15 MA student, Andrew Gail will
direct the play at the Black Box Theatre in New York.
American Banking News
PR.com
PR-USA.net
Web Newswire
Precision-Tinted Lenses Offer Real Migraine Relief
Precision tinted lenses have been used widely to reduce visual
perceptual distortions in poor readers, and are increasingly used
for migraine sufferers, but until now the science behind these
effects has been unclear. Jie Huang along with colleagues from
Michigan State University and the University of Michigan, US, and
the University of Essex, UK, homed in on specific visual stimuli
known to trigger migraines. These patterns, high contrast stripes or
'gratings,' can give the illusion of shape, color and movement.
These not only trigger migraines but also may cause seizures in
those with photosensitive epilepsy.
Fars News Agency
Friday 17 February
Open Day at
Edge Hotel School
Prospective
students are invited to the open day on Saturday, 25 February
East Anglian Daily Times
Thursday 16 February
The One Show
Professor Paul Whiteley
from the Centre for the Study of Integrity in the Department of
Government interviewed about declining levels of honesty.
See the interview on BBC iPlayer,
interview starts after around 10 minutes.
BBC One
Turn on, tune in, don't drop out
Work at Essex on improving the student experience for mature
students is highlighted in front page feature on the need to support
students in their first year.
Read full THE article.
THE
Nasty, harsh, overcrowded: Life in a Honduran prison
The authorities' response is likely to
have been hampered by short staffing and poor staff training, said
Prof. Andrew Coyle, of the International Centre for Prison Studies
at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom.
CNN
Mephisto: An interview with Milja Fenger
Milja Fenger interviewed about her production of Mephisto at Oxford
Playhouse.
A mature student reading Human Sciences at Harris Manchester
College, Fenger is an East 15 Acting School graduate, been accepted
onto the Royal Court’s Young Writers’ Program and her short film,
The Road Home, has just been shortlisted for Best Short Film at this
year’s Oscars.
Oxford Student
Author to give touch of magic to festival
Internationally acclaimed author and cultural commentator Professor
Marina Warner will be joining this year's Essex Book Festival.
East Anglian Daily Times
Mover: Kristin Blenkush
Essex alumni Kristin Blenkush is senior associate attorney in
Fredrikson & Byron's real estate group, Minneapolis.
St. Paul Pioneer Press - Online
The top ten companies involved in stem cell therapy
Geron (Nasdaq: GERN ) : Develops biopharmaceuticals for the
treatment of cancer and chronic degenerative diseases, including
spinal cord injury, heart failure, and diabetes. Market cap at
$265.57M. The company has licensing agreement with the University
Campus Suffolk to develop human embryonic stem cell-derived
chondrocytes for the treatment of cartilage damage and joint
disease.
Daily Finance
Wednesday 15 February
A triumph for family values: How we're more likely to turn to our
husbands or wives in times of need rather than our friends
In times of need, it seems, an overwhelming number of us will turn
to family rather than friends.
In research that speaks volumes for the value of our nearest and
dearest, nearly 19 people out of 20 said they rely on their husband,
wife or partner for help when they have a problem, far more than
would look to a friend.
Read full Daily Mail article.
Mail Online
Daily India
This is Money
eGov monitor
Cision
politics.co.uk
Cutting Edge News
Rebuilding lives hit by the tsunami
Sanae Fujita from the Human Rights Centre talks about her recent
visit to Japan and why it is important to remember the victims of
last year's earthquake and tsunami.
Gazette
Learn about hotel school at open day
The Edge Hotel School based at Wivenhoe House will be holding an
open day from 10am to 3pm on Saturday 25 February.
Gazette
Bad night for uni fighters
The University's boxing club had a night to forget at Lowestoft with
all three of their boxers falling to defeat.
Gazette
Jazz
law returns
Former musician in residence John Law will be playing at the
Lakeside Theatre on Friday.
Gazette
Events for everyone at the University of Essex
Round-up of gigs, plays, poetry and comedy at the Colchester Campus.
See full listings.
The Colchester Circle Extra
Marina Warner at the Essex Book Festival
Internationally acclaimed author and cultural commentator, Professor
Marina Warner, will be taking part in this year's Essex Book
Festival to talk about her new book, Stranger Magic: Charmed States
and the Arabian Nights.
Booktrade
Tuesday 14 February
Free the British economy from fat cat colonialism
Shareholder capitalism is dead and it’s time to usher in stakeholder
capitalism, say Prem Sikka from Essex Business School and Austin
Mitchell.
Read full article on Tribune website.
Tribune
Love, Explained: The Science of Romance
In spite of maxims about so many fish in the sea, for example,
recent research tells us that the heart prefers a smaller pond. In a
study in 2011 in the journal Biology Letters, University of
Edinburgh psychologist Alison P. Lenton and University of Essex
economist Marco Francesconi analyzed more than 3,700 dating
decisions across 84 speed-dating events. The authors found that when
the available prospects varied more in attributes such as age,
height, occupation and educational background, people made fewer
dating proposals.
Scientific American
Two students at a Maldon school have been accepted onto courses at
prestigious drama schools
David Ponting, at Plume School’s sixth form, has been accepted onto
a course at East 15 Acting School.
Maldon and Burnham Standard
Gazette
Women’s studies resident discusses Victorian era love
The West Virginia University Center for Women's Studies hosted a
lecture about love, individualism and sexuality in the Victorian era
with guest speaker Anna Clark, an Essex Masters graduate, for the
12th Women's Studies Residency in Honor of Judith Gold Stitzel event.
The Daily Athenaeum
Monday 13 February
East 15 students
get a taste of life ‘below stairs’
Students from East 15 Acting School are in training for the new
visitor experience at Ickworth House in Suffolk.
The Ickworth Lives project is part of the £2.4 million renovation of
the servants basement which opens to the public on March 3.
Bury Free Press
Sunday 12 February
Battle
lines being drawn by SNP members over key Alex Salmond policies
THE SNP is deeply divided over Alex Salmond’s defence policy, with
more than half of grassroots members disagreeing with the First
Minister’s plan to withdraw an independent Scotland from Nato. The
first ever comprehensive survey of the SNP’s membership has exposed
a series of potentially damaging splits on policies such as defence,
education and Salmond’s proposal that the Queen should remain head
of state after separation.
The research was led by James Mitchell, professor of politics at
Strathclyde University who was supported by Dr Lynn Bennie of
Aberdeen University and Dr Rob Johns of the University of Essex. The
work is to be published in the forthcoming book The Scottish
National Party: Transition To Power.
Read full article
The Scotsman
Saturday 11 February
How did shy middle
class Emma from Acton end up married to Syria's tyrant?
Amazing story of
Asma Al-Assad
University of Essex lecturer in authoritarian regimes Natasha Ezrow
says the Syrian First Lady’s apparent lack of compassion may be
borne out of fear.
“Having grown up in Britain, she is familiar with democracy and
human rights, so she has no excuse in terms of her standing by as
these atrocities are committed,” she says.
“Unfortunately, the al-Assad family has been in power for decades
and they are extremely brutal and ruthless.
“There’s little she can do – she may even fear for her own life.”
Read full article
The Mirror
The Daily Record
Fury over plan to
buy £675,000 house for Cardiff's new vice chancellor
A decision to spend £675,000 on buying the new vice chancellor of
Cardiff University has been criticised.
Last June, the university’s remuneration committee recommended the
purchase of a suitable property for the incoming vice-chancellor,
Professor Colin Riordan.
The decision was ratified by the university council the following
month. Prof Riordan, currently vice chancellor of Essex University,
is due to take up his post in Cardiff in September.
WalesOnline
Five unromantic
Valentine's moves before you propose
Recent research from the University of Essex shows that we are more
inclined to lie and there is no underestimating our capacity to take
away a few years – or even add some on – when we are trying to make
an impression.
Guardian
Friday 10 February
Local firms can get share of £27m
library project
Wates Construction, based in Leatherhead, Surrey, has been
awarded the contract to build the Forum, a library and education
centre for South Essex College and the University of Essex in the
town centre.
Echo
New Vice-Chancellor is a defence
expert
Professor Anthony Forster, the deputy vice-chancellor of Durham
University will take over from Professor Colin Riordan later this
year.
Essex County Standard
Uni slammed as polluter over
multi-storey vision
Plans to build a
multi-storey car park at the University of Essex have been
criticised on the grounds that it will add to pollution. A spokesman
said the new parking spaces will reduce the environmental damage
caused by cars being parked on verges and in overspill areas
and that the University are committed to promoting sustainable
transport options.
Essex County Standard
Bio-chemistry student Murad hits right
formula
University of Essex Amateur Boxing Club's Murad Khan
maintained his unbeaten record with victory at the English
University Championships in Doncaster.
Essex County Standard
Lowriders: raw and furious
Formerly known as Freud, the four-piece Colchester band is getting
ready for a special gig in the Lakeside Theatre tonight.
Essex County Standard
Monday are 'downtime'
at Firstsite exhibition
Colchester's Firstsite gallery will be closed on Mondays for repairs
and maintenance work but visitors will still be able to browse the
shop, see the exhibition in Firstsite's University space and use
other facilities such as the cafe.
Colchester Gazette
Pupils have problems figured out
Young Mathematicians from Essex and Suffolk descended
on Colchester's university campus for a day of challenges as part of
the Annual Winsten Day activities.
Colchester Gazette
Awards honour another year of
achievements
University of Essex student Scott Moorhouse was
honoured to be the 2011 Sport Colchester Male Sport Personality.
Other University of Essex Sports Teams also received awards.
Essex County Standard
Thursday 9 February
BBC Radio 5 Live
Dr Natasha Ezrow from the
Department of Government was interviewed about the situation
in Syria.
Essex looks north for leadership
The University of Essex has appointed a senior manager at Durham
University as its new Vice-Chancellor. Anthony Forster, currently
deputy vice-chancellor at Durham will take over the role from Colin
Riordan later this year.
Times Higher Education
Pollution concerns over new car park
at uni
Plans for a multi-story car park at the University of Essex's
Wivenhoe campus have been criticised on the grounds of pollution. A
spokesman said the new parking spaces will reduce the environmental
damage caused by cars being parked on verges and in overspill
areas and that the University are committed to promoting sustainable
transport options.
Colchester Gazette
Three DAA Board members formally appointed by Minister
Varadkar
The Minister for Transport, Tourism &
Sport, Leo Varadkar,
has formally appointed three members to the Board of Dublin Airport
Authority. One of the members is Colm
McCarthy. Since 2005 he has been a
lecturer in economics at University College Dublin. A graduate of
UCD and the University of Essex, Colm McCarthy has worked at the
Central Bank, the ESRI and with DKM Economic Consultants.
Air Transport News
Department of Transport
Wednesday 8 February
'Green' multi-storey car park plans for university
The University of Essex
has revealed plans to build a multi-storey car park at its Wivenhoe
campus. The four-storey car park will include a ‘green wall’ of
shrubbery down one side. It would be an extension to an existing
ground level car park between its sports centre and Boundary Road
and would provide an extra 359 spaces. The car park already has 420
spaces. The green wall will be kept watered via recycled, stored,
rainwater from the car park’s roof. A decision is expected to made
by Colchester Council on April 24.
Maldon and Burnham Standard
Braintree and Witham Times
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Essex County Standard
Colchester Gazette
Essex student Scott Moorhouse has been named Colchester's
Male Sports Personality of the Year
Scott, who is aiming to compete in the F42 javeline event at this
summer's Paralympics, was honoured at the 2011 Sport Colchester
Sports Personality Awards held at the Weston Homes Community
Stadium. Fellow student Emma Lucraft, who won a bronze medal for
Kata in the World Junior and Cadet World Championships in Malaysia
in 2011, received a commendation in the Female Sports Personality
Award category. Other award winners included: Coach of the Year -
Gordon Charlesworth from the University of Essex Amateur Boxing Club
Wilkinson Sword Award for clubs who have demonstrated the
development of sport for young people including increased
participation or improving performance levels was won by the
University of Essex Amateur Boxing Club. Bill Tucker Senior Award
for sports people who have continued to achieve whilst overcoming
adversity was won by Adrian Martin from the University of Essex
Amateur Boxing Club. Certificates of Commendation in the Team Award
category were given to the University of Essex's Squash Team.
Lacrosse Team and the Human Performance Unit Triathlon Relay Race
Team.
Colchester
Gazette
Rail commuters give new Essex operator frosty welcome
IT was a frosty start to Abellio’s reign over East Anglian trains.
The service provider, which took over from National Express East
Anglia, had promised cleaner trains, better customer service and a
smoother operation. But wintry conditions caused timetable chaos,
with delays and signal failures. A University of
Essex economics student on her way home to Nottingham, said:
“People will judge the new company on two things – price and whether
the train leaves on time.”
Maldon and Burnham Standard
Colchester Gazette
Essex County Standard
Junior Fellowship Scheme
The Royal Economic Society
has announced the candidates who have
accepted a Junior Fellowship for the academic year 2011/2012
and one of these is David Deller from the
University of Essex.
Royal Economic Society
Economic Journal Referee Prize
Emilia Del Bono from the University of
Essex is one of the recipients of the 2012
Economic Journal Referee Prize
Royal Economic Society
Wates wins £27m Southend library
Wates has won the contract to build a new £27m library in
Southend-on-Sea. Work will start this month and be completed by
August 2013 on The Forum building. Wates will now source up to 75%
of its supply chain from within a 50-mile radius of Southend. The
Forum scheme is a joint enterprise between Southend-on-Sea Borough
Council, the University of Essex and South Essex College of Further
& Higher Education. Read the article
here.
Construction Enquirer
The Construction Index
Echo
Southend Standard
Spice up my expectations
Saba Hamedy talks of her expectation that British
people are polite but cold and distant. When visiting friends
at the University of Essex
she got lost and was amazed when strangers shared a cab
with her to campus and then walked
her to her
friends’ dorm to help her find where
she needed to go.
The Daily Free Press
High-flying Lowriders set for Lakeside
gig
Formerly known as Freud, the four-piece Colchester band is getting
ready for a special gig in the Lakeside Theatre on Friday night.
Colchester Gazette
Firstsite gallery shuts on Monday
Colchester's Firstsite gallery will be closed on Mondays for repairs
and maintenance work but visitors will still be able to browse the
shop, see the exhibition in Firstsite's University space and use
other facilities such as the cafe.
Colchester Gazette
Tuesday 7 February
BBC Radio Essex
Professor Anthony King interviewed by Etholle George about the
impact of the Queen's 60 years on the throne.
Defence expert to be University's new
chief
Professor Anthony Forster will take over as Vice-Chancellor at the
University of Essex when Professor Colin Riordan leaves this year.
East Anglian Daily Times
Khan powers to a stylish Uni victory
Murad Khan from the University of Essex's Amateur Boxing Club
maintained his unbeaten record with a victory at the English
University Championships in Doncaster. The performances of Khan and
fellow students Chalo Rebelo-Feliciano and Will Thomas, bode well
for the British University Championships in Sheffield later this
month.
Colchester Gazette
'Save our sheltered housing'
Campaigners including a University of Essex student
and lecturer launched a new petition protesting against any moves to
close sheltered housing in Colchester.
Colchester Gazette
Not impressed: views on the train
Ijlal Boubout, a University of Essex Economics student
travels in from Stratford each day and gives her views on the new
Rail Operator Abellio.
Colchester Gazette
Are Derbyshire folk getting less trustworthy?
Are Derbyshire folk really becoming less trustworthy?
According to researchers at the University of Essex more and more of
us are taking a wrong turn and many of us are more willing to lie
and cheat than we were a decade ago.
Derbyshire Times
Petronella Wyatt: Do I look like a shoplifter?
Shocked by her own momentary lapse in a London department store,
Petronella Wyatt asks if growing dishonesty among the middle classes
is a hangover from the 'greed is good’ philosophy of the boom years.
Read her article and comments about the recent
University of Essex study into Integrity
here.
Telegraph
Monday 6 February
BBC Radio Suffolk
Professor Anthony King, Department of Government
Re: The 60th anniversary of the
Queen's accession to the throne. Professor
King from the Department of Government
discusses the impact of the Queen's reign on politics and the
constitution on the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne.
You can listen to the interview on
BBC Suffolk (Interview begins after 1:12:40).
Sunday 5 February
Essex Uni is bucking the national drop in applications
However, the University of Essex has bucked the national trend by
seeing more people apply to study there than last year. Data shows a
rise of 3.6 per cent this year and staff say this is part of a wider
trend. Joanne Tallentire, head of admissions at the university, said
application numbers had risen 46 per cent over the past four years.
Essex County Standard
Gazette
Saturday 4 February
Essex names new vice-chancellor
Anthony Forster, currently deputy vice-chancellor at Durham, will
take over the role from Colin Riordan later this year. Professor
Riordan is leaving Essex to become vice-chancellor of Cardiff
University. Professor Forster specialises in political science, and
is an expert on British defence policy and the duty of care owed by
the government to British servicemen and women. Following a first
degree in politics at the University of Hull and service in the
army, he studied for a master's and doctorate in European politics
at the University of Oxford.
Times Higher Education
GCHQ shortlisted in National Council for Work Experience
Awards 2012
The NCWE Work Experience Awards are designed to acknowledge and
reward employers whose internships have made a real impact to both
the student and the business. They are now in their ninth year and
it was a record year for entries – a 50% increase on 2011 with more
than 300 entries. One of the others shortlisted
was the University of Essex.
www.gchq.gov.uk
Festive walk 'key to a happier Christmas'
Reviving the traditional Christmas walk could be the key to a
happier Christmas, research finds. The study found that 80 per cent
of Britain’s happiest people have a strong connection with nature
and the outdoors. The National Trust commissioned the research as
part of its investigation into public access and enjoyment of the
outdoors. Their results build on findings from
the University of Essex University that showed that as little
as five minutes in green space can have a significant impact on
things like depression, stress and low self esteem.
Family Doctor
Friday 3 February
Laughing all the way to the bank
Read Professor Prem Sikka's comments about RBS bank boss
Stephen Hester's bonus.
Morning Star
Mind
over matter
Portsmouth University in collaboration with the
University of Essex now have a system that allows patients
with locked-in-syndrome (a very severe form of paralysis) to compose
music with their thoughts alone. The research team used a method
which combines electroencephalography (EEG) analysis with what the
team terms a music engine module. Read the blog
here.
The Engineer
Defence expert gets top post at
university
Professor Anthony Forster, the Deputy Vice Chancellor of
Durham University has been appointed as the new Vice Chancellor at
the University of Essex.
Gazette
Academic honoured
Dr Tony Rich is being awarded an honorary degree in
recognition of his work for the University of Essex. Dr Rich
will also have the teaching centre at the Wivenhoe campus named
after him in a ceremony on 22 February.
Essex County Standard
Talk on our decisions
Edd Codling, a senior lecturer at the University of Essex
will be talking about the collective decision-making of animals and
humans at the next Cafe Scientifique.
Gazette
Free legal help
Law students at the University of Essex are offering their
legal knowledge for free at weekly clinics. They offer legal advice
under the guidance of qualified solicitors.
Essex County Standard
Five held over campus attack
A takeaway driver who was pinned down while trying to
deliver food at the University of Essex is recovering.
Five men, who are not students, are being held on suspicion of
robbery.
Essex County Standard
Pick of the Week
Jazz Harpist and pop
songstress Lucinda Belle and her orchestra will be playing their
Parisian cafe and gypsy-influenced jazz at a concert at the Lakeside
Theatre on Sunday.
Essex County Standard
Petition to save the town and gown
cafe
A campaign to save the Quayside Cafe on the Wivenhoe
trail has been stepped up with the launch of a petition as residents
in Wivenhoe and Greenstead and students want it to stay open.
Essex County Standard
Buzzcocks star Sean on the bill
Irish stand-up comediain Sean Hughes is a late
addition to this weekend's bill at the Lakeside Theatre at the
University of Essex.
Gazette
We are getting more students because
we offer more
The University of Essex has bucked the national trend
by seeing more people apply to study there than last year. Joanne
Tallentire, head of admissions at the University said it was a sign
of a successful university - students, parents and teachers like
what they see at open days and our facilities.
Gazette
I'm in - Kerry will dance at Olympics
opening
Kerry Tokley, who is studying musical theatre at the
University of Essex has been chosen to join a dance team who will
perform at the London Olympics opening ceremony.
Essex County Standard
Weir jabs his way to victory
University of Essex Junior Leel Weir celebrated his return to action
after a year out by beating Billericay's Joe Adams.
Essex County Standard
Gazette
Thursday 2 February
BBC Radio
4 "The World Tonight"
Professor Prem Sikka, Essex Business School
Re: Tax avoidance and the Student
Loans Company.
Anglian News
Dr
Enam Al-Wer from the Department of Language and
Linguistics interviewed about a school in Basildon which is
introducing elocution lessons. Dr Al-Wer argues this approach might
be confusing and damaging to a child's confidence.
Free lecture on crowd behaviour
A Senior Lecturer
at the University of Essex is giving
a free talk about how animals and humans make group decisions. The
Cafe Scientifique event will see Dr Ed Codling, lecturer in
mathematical biology, discuss recent research on the general
principles of collective decision-making by herds and crowds. His
talk will be followed by an open discussion. The talk is being held
at the Love Bistro in the Minories Art Gallery, High Street,
Colchester. Doors open at 6.30pm on Wednesday February 8 and the
talk starts at 7pm.
Gazette
Soon, sensors to take pain out of hunting for parking
spots
A new "parking patch" that combines wireless sensors and mobile
applications is expected to solve the problem of finding vacant
parking spots often faced by drivers. It will steer drivers towards
vacant spots and also lead traffic wardens to parking offenders.
The solution, which is developed with
company co-founder John Bartington at the University of Essex in
Colchester, is to attach cheap and low-powered wireless sensors to
the road surface in each parking area. You can
read the article
here.
New Scientist
Sify.com
AndhraNews.com
AsiaIndia.com
Cricketer in university talk
Essex County Cricketer Graham Napier met with students at the
University of Essex. He was joined by the academy director at Essex
County Cricket Club, John Childs, to highlight the club's link with
the university.
Essex Chronicle
Students' V good job painting hall
Student volunteers from the University of Essex
Students' Union helped paint the Forest Road Meeting Hall on
Colchester's Greenstead Estate.
Gazette
Neil's highlights
Cutting edge theatre is what the Lakeside at the
University of Essex does best. One of their students is putting on a
conceptual production - Dianna's Last/My Last - which consists of a
live performance and a film adaptation of the same play.
Gazette
Wednesday 1 February
The hole at the heart of the Labour Party
Ed Miliband’s sortie against Stephen Hester and City bonuses is a
sign of life in Labour. But Labour’s position on the benefit cap
reveals a deep-seated weakness.
Read Professor Stuart Weir's article
here.
Open Democracy
Watch my play... then see the film version
University of Essex drama student, Troy Balmayer, has written
and directed a stage and film version of the same story as part of
his third-year independent project. The project aims to highlight
how stage plays are adapted for the screen. The audience will be
taken from the Lakeside Studio Theatre after seeing the live play to
the main theatre to see the film adaptation and will be asked to
give feedback.
Gazette
It’s vital that we save Quayside Cafe
Councillor Julie Young (Wivenhoe St. Andrew
Division) writes in response to Martin Newell’s column on Quayside
Cafe (The Joy of Essex, January 28). She agrees with his comments
and emphasises the importance of a cafe that, in her opinion, meets
the needs of a wide range of people and brings them together.
East Anglian Daily Times
Workman knocked out after falling off ladder
A contractor needed treatment from paramedics
after falling from a ladder while undertaking work in the loft space
at halls of residence on the Colchester Campus. The 25 year old man
was treated at the scene before being taken by ambulance to
Colchester General Hospital. His injuries are not believed to be
life threatening.
Gazette
East Anglian Daily Times
Cambridge First
From suds to success in the music business
Billed
as the perfect tonic to beat those winter blues, Lucinda Belle and
her orchestra will be playing their infectious brand of Parisian
cafe and gypsy-influenced jazz to an audience at the University of
Essex’s Lakeside Theatre, on Sunday February 5, 8.30pm. This may be
your last chance to see a very exciting musician before she goes
stratospheric.
Brentwood Weekly News
Online
Thurrock Gazette
Southend Standard Online
Harwich and Manningtree Standard Online
Gazette Online
Basildon and Wickford Recorder
January 2012
Tuesday 31 January
University is bucking the applications
trend
The number of students wanting to study at the University of Essex
has risen 45% in the past four years - despite the institution's
plan to charge the maximum £9,000-a-year tuition fees. In
2011, 18,827 people applied to study courses at Essex. That number
rose to 19,558 this year.
East Anglian Daily Times
Heart Essex
Cambridge First
Cambs 24
Fakenham and Wells Times
Welywyn and Hatfield Times
The Comet 24
Truth is, we may be getting less
honest
The University of Essex launched the Essex Cetnre for
the Study of Integrity. This research base will give us facts about
what is happening and whether or not it is cyclical, meaning that a
fall in standards may be a consequence of difficult times.
Evening Standard
Sports Conference
A free Sport Makers Conference is part of a nationwide
project to encourage the establishment of new office football teams,
cycling groups and other sporting organisations.
Gazette
Mercury Theatre
The Director of Essex Business School, Professor
Michael Sherer, has become a non-executive Director of the Mercury
Theatre in Colchester. Professor Sherer will bring a wealth of
financial and managerial experience to the role and also has a great
interest in theatre.
East Anglian Daily Times
Monday 30 January
Plans for new students’ housing in Southend revealed
The plan for the development consists of eight “pods”. Each will
have four bedrooms and shared bathroom, kitchen and dining area.
There will also be a communal atrium with a glass roof. An
application to demolish the HMV building, in Queen’s Road, has been
lodged with Southend Council. Currently, the Host Property Group
provides private accommodation for 90 students attending the
University of Essex campus in the Southend
area, in addition to the university’s own halls of residence, in
London Road. Read the article
here.
Echo
Southend Standard
Award-Winning Filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos
dies
Award-winning Greek filmmaker Theo
Angelopoulos was killed in a road accident after being hit by a
motorcycle while walking across a road close to a movie set near
Athens’ main port of Piraeus.
Considered by some
respected international film critics as one of the world’s greatest
directors, Angelopoulos was awarded an honorary doctorate by Essex
University in the UK in July 2001.
Greek
News
Hellenic American Leadership Council launched
in Chicago
A new national organization promoting Civic Leadership
was formally launched in Chicago on
23 January and
is embarking on a national effort to organize the nation’s Greek
Americans through grassroots outreach, citizen education, and
extensive leadership training in order to build a national network
of Greek American citizen advocates from coast to coast.
Its Executive Director is Endy D. Zemenides.
He holds a master’s degree in the theory and practice of human
rights from the University of Essex and a bachelor’s degree in
political science from DePaul University.
GreekNews
Analysis: Judging the European Court of Human Rights
For many the mention of the Court of Human Rights conjures up the
image of complex cases dealing with genocide, war atrocities and
tyrannical dictatorships, not the legal wranglings of aggrieved
celebrities, disgruntled drug dealers or convicted asylum seekers.
Read Professor Sir Nigel Rodley's comments
here.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Maths and Olympics
A free lecture on maths and the Olympics is being held at the
University of Essex. Professor John Barrow from the University of
Cambridge will explore how maths can help competitors improve their
performance.
Gazette
Essex County Standard
Holocaust competition
A competition has been launched in memory of Holocaust survivor and
honorary graduate, Dora Love. The prize will be given to the best
Holocaust awareness project by a pupil or group from a school or
college.
Gazette
Legal advice by students
Law students at the University of Essex are offering
their legal knowledge for free at weekly clinics on the Wivenhoe
campus every Wednesday.
Gazette
Study reveals country is bordering on an integrity
deficit
Last week a study by the University of
Essex University revealed that we are a nation bordering on an
integrity deficit. “It appears Britons are growing more and more
tolerant of low-level dishonesty,” says the report’s author
Professor Paul Whiteley. He claims that we are less likely to
disapprove of activities which would have been heavily frowned upon
in the past.
Express
Scottish Herald
Coral reefs could recover, but action is needed, say
experts
With as many as one billion people relying on coral reefs for their
food and their livelihoods, protecting this biologically diverse
ecosystem is ecologically, socially and economically important.
Read comments made by Dr David Smith from the Department of
Biological Sciences
here.
RTCC
‘The implication is
that things aren’t safe here anymore for free minds’
The subject of corruption consumes him and poetry captures his
heart. Smitha Verma catches up with Booker Prize winning author
and former University of Essex student,
Ben Okri on the sidelines of the Jaipur Literary Festival
.Read the article
here.
The Telegraph (India)
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