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The University of Essex in the Press
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)
Sunday 29 January
BBC Essex
Professor Rainer Schulze, Director of the Human Rights Centre
Re: Hate Crimes and the Holocaust
Saturday 28
January
Health Secretary ignites
a
debate
against Celebrity
Chef Oliver
Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley recently said that the celebrity
Chef, Jamie Oliver's efforts for making school children eat
healthier food are resulting in lesser children getting the meals.
This has ignited a debate between the supporters of Oliver and the
critics of the Chef, who claim that Oliver has done more harm and
that he is opting for so called evidence based approach.
Contradicting with the views of Lansley, a report from Institute for
Social and Economic Research, at Essex University has revealed that
the Greenwich schools are performing apparently better. It is
noticeable that Oliver is in charge of these Greenwich schools,
where after having the meals recommended by the chef, 11-year-old
students improved in science and English by 8% and 6%, respectively.
TopNews.net
Breakfast-inspired ice cream to hit the shelves
An ice cream maker has concocted a breakfast-inspired frozen
dessert. Jane Hadley’s brown bread and marmalade ice cream was
originally made to mark this month’s Farmhouse Breakfast Week
but it has proved so popular she hopes to stock it in local
shops. Jane has tested the flavour out on customers at local shops
and the Fusion restaurant at the University of
Essex.
BBC Essex
Halstead Gazette
Gazette
I'm fed up with university's attitude
to Quayside Cafe
Martin Newell writes in the East Anglian Daily Times about his
disappointment that the University is closing the Quayside Cafe.
East Anglian Daily Times
Cambridge First
Cambs 24
Welwyn and Hatfield Times
The 24 Comet
University of Essex Choir- Carmina Burana
Written in the mid-1930s Carmina Burana is one of the most popular
twentieth century pieces of choral music. The opening chorus
'O Fortuna' is
perhaps the most well-known of all the pieces in the work. It is
instantly recognisable as the theme used for many TV programmes,
adverts and film music. Conducted by Richard Cooke with soloists,
Essex Sinfonia and the choir of Colchester Royal Grammar School.
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Halstead Gazette
Friday 27 January
Higgins says mental health goal is recovery
Boundaries andantipathies between
professionals who treated people with mental health problems were
getting in the way of people’s recovery, President Michael D Higgins
has said. Mr Higgins said he “completely” agreed with the argument
put forward by another speaker, Professor
Renos Papadopoulos, Director of the Centre
for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees at the University of Essex. Professor
Papadopoulos said victims of trauma should be treated within a
framework that addressed all facets of the person and did “not focus
exclusively on the psychological or psychiatric dimensions of the
person”.
Irish Times
Awareness project
Students in Essex and Suffolk are being invited to take part in a
special competition as part of the University of Essex Holocaust
Memorial Week. The new Dora Love Prize will be awarded each year for
the best Holocaust awareness project by an individual pupil or a
group of pupils of a local primary or secondary school.
East Anglian Daily Times
Takeaway driver is robbed
A takeaway driver is recovering after he was robbed by a gang at the
University of Essex. A man was pinned down while trying to deliver
food in the Wivenhoe Park campus, yesterday at 2am. Five men, aged
19 or 20, from the London and Luton area have been arrested on
suspicion of robbery. “There is no suggestion they were students at
the University of Essex”. Gazette
Essex County Standard
I didn’t get tickets to the
Olympics… now I’m in it!
A dancer who missed out on tickets for the London Olympics opening
ceremony will be performing at it instead. Kerry Tokley, 20, who is
studying musical theatre at the University of Essex, took part in
two auditions at a London studio and has been chosen to join a dance
team. The ceremony will kick off the London Olympics on July 27.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Essex County Standar
Residents’ anger at late night litter and revelry
Residents of a Colchester Street are urging students using it late
at night to be more considerate. People living in Elmstead Road say
they constantly have to put up with noise from late night parties
and revellers travelling to and from the University’s Wivenhoe
campus.
Gazette
Essex County Standard
Three wins for University
The University of Essex Amateur Boxing Club enjoyed plenty of
success at the English University Boxing Championships. University
of Essex students Murad Kahn, Chalo Rebelo-Feliciano and Will Thomas
secured victories at the two-day event in Doncaster, which featured
boxers from more than 30 universities.
Essex County Standard
University of Essex academics questioned Britons’ honesty
Research by academics at the Colchester campus found we are less
honest than a decade ago and that integrity is linked to a person’s
sense of civic pride.
Gazette
Essex University submits plans for multi-level car park
The proposals also include a new access to the existing surface car
park off Boundary Road and a taxi drop-off and pick-up area. The
plans are to be decided by Colchester Council by April 24.
Gazette
Petition to save Quayside Café
A campaign to save a popular riverside café has been stepped up with
the launch of a petition. Essex University plans to close the
Quayside Café at the end of March, turning it into a temporary
common room and then student accommodation. Residents in Wivenhoe
and Greenstead want it to stay open.
Gazette
Essex County Standard
The voice of town and gown choir is changing every year
There can’t be many choirs in the country whose voice changes as
much as the University of Essex Choir. It’s certainly one of the
things that excites the choir’s musical director Richard Cooke, who
regularly travels from his Kent home for rehearsals and
performances. [Essex County Standard – feature on the University of
Essex Choir].
Essex County Standard
Thursday 26 January
Why is Salmond so afraid of the 'S-word'?
If Salmond wants Scotland to ‘separate’, he must first define his
terms. Professor
Anthony King, from the University of Essex
devised a question for an opinion poll
carried out by the Daily Telegraph
a few years ago. It asked the Scots if they’d like to live in “a
completely separate country outside the United Kingdom”.
Read the article
here.
Daily Telegraph
So you think you an honest person?
Britons are less honest than they were a decade ago, according to
research by academics at the University of Essex. A survey of more
than 2,000 people found they are more tolerant of extra-marital
affairs, smoking cannabis and underage age sex than in 2000.
Colchester Gazette
East Anglian Daily Times
Cheats, spivs and small-time crooks: Britain is getting
less honest, and it starts at the top
Researchers at the University of Essex, working at the Centre for
the Study of Integrity (a name in itself to make you smile wanly)
have discovered that the British are more inclined to cheat, and to
believe that cheating is justified, than they did in 2000, only 11
years ago. Read the article
here.
Daily Mail
How big a liar are you?
The University of Essex has conducted an
“integrity” study which reveals that British people are less honest
than they were a decade ago - and not just when it comes to the
smaller details in life. Having an extramarital affair,
drink-driving or failing to leave a contact number after damaging a
parked car are all considered to be more acceptable today than
they were in 2000.
The Express
Scottish Daily Express
They come here, they study, they go
home
UUK calls for new net migration count as overseas
'students are not migrants'. Professor Colin Riordan,
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex, highlighted "substantial
drops" in Indian applicants for 2012 entry at many UK universities
when he spoke at the Improving the International Student Experience
conference in London last week. Read the article
here.
THE
Napier's tips to Essex Uni students
Essex's big-hitting batsman Graham Napier visited the
University of Essex's Colchester campus to offer some advice to some
student cricketers.
Colchester Gazette
Legal Update: UN adopts complaints protocol
Children whose rights have been violated will soon be able to
complain to an international committee, writes Kirsten Anderson,
legal research and policy manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre.
Children and Young People Now
Wednesday 25 January
Professor Paul Whiteley also did the
following radio and television interviews about the new Integrity
study:
World Service with David Whitty
BBC1 Breakfast
TV
BBC Suffolk
BBC Norfolk
BBC Merseyside
Radio 4 Today programme
3CR Luton
BBC Newcastle
BBC Jersey
BBC Leeds
BBC Stoke
BBC Scotland
BBC Somerset
BBC Hereford and Worcester
BBC Wiltshire
BBC Derby
BBC Essex
BBC London
BBC Humberside
BBC 5 Live
Mention on Radio 2, Chris Evans show
BBC Radio 1 (soundbite)
BBC Look East -
report and interview with Political
Correspondent, Andrew Sinclair
Anglia TV evening news
– interview and report
Britain facing boom in dishonesty
The British people are becoming less honest and their trust in
government and business leaders has fallen to a new low amid fears
that the nation is heading for an "integrity crisis". Lying, having
an affair, driving while drunk, having underage sex and buying
stolen goods are all more acceptable than they were a decade ago.
But people are less tolerant of benefits fraud. The portrait of a
nation increasingly relaxed about "low-level dishonesty" emerges in
a major study carried out by the University of Essex, which will
today launch Britain's first Centre for the Study of Integrity; it
suggests that the "integrity problem" is likely to get worse because
young people are more tolerant of dishonest behaviour than the older
generation. The new centre will look at issues arising from recent
scandals such as phone hacking, MPs' expenses and the banking
crisis. Read the full article
here.
Daily Telegraph
Independent
BBC.co.uk
BBC Today
BBC Breakfast
News Guardian Series
plus over 250 other news outlets
Stephen Hester and Chris Huhne are symbols of a country in
moral freefall
For many years, those who complained of a decline in moral standards
in British society were greeted with derision, and informed that
they were old-fashioned and out of touch. Yet the evidence keeps on
piling up. In whatever area you care to mention – personal
responsibility, public behaviour, neighbourliness, truth-telling –
there is no question that in the space of little more than a single
generation, Britain has experienced a catastrophic collapse.
Overall, standards at
the highest levels of British life – infecting Downing Street,
Parliament, the media, the police and much else besides – have sunk
so low that yesterday’s report from Essex University, finding that
Britain has become a more dishonest and cynical country over the
past decade, came as no surprise.
Daily Telegraph
New service to help universities internationalise
The HE Global Integrated Advisory Service (HE Global), announced
today by Foreign Secretary William Hague, aims to bolster the
competitiveness of UK institutions in the increasingly crowded
global education market. It will collect in one place the advice and
services offered by the Foreign Office and the Department of
Business, Innovation and Skills and make them available to
universities. Professor Colin Riordan,
Vice-Chancellor
of the University of Essex and Chair of
the UK Higher Education International and Europe Unit, said this was
a “recognition that universities are a key element of soft power”
and that they have an important role to play in diplomacy and
promoting foreign trade. He added that “there has always been a lack
of coordination of the help universities can have if we want to
internationalise effectively”.
Times Higher Education
TMCNet
PR-USA
Town and gown choir's secret is its master and eclectic mix of
singers
There can't be many choirs in the country whose "voice" changes as
much as the University of Essex Choir. It's certainly one of the
things that excites the group's musical director Richard Cooke, who
regularly travels from his Kent home for rehearsals and
performances. In 1981 Richard was living and working in London and
saw an advert for a choir at Essex University. The choir had been
going just five years when he got the job, but ever since he's been
at the forefront of their continual development. Within a few
months, new members find themselves singing with a full orchestra at
venues like Charter Hall, Snape Maltings and St Albans Cathedral. As
well as the University of Essex Choir, Richard is music director of
the Royal Choral Society, in London, and the Canterbury Choral
Society. This association has allowed members of the choir further
opportunities to sing with those other groups, which they did last
year in St Albans Cathedral to mark Richard's 30th year with the
Essex Choir.
Gazette
Hopes for sport as university and factory make long-term plans
Big hitting Essex
cricketer Graham Napier offered the benefit of his wisdom to Essex
University students. The Colchester-born star joined Essex's academy
director John Child at Colchester to further the links between the
club and the campus. Alex Collins, vice-president of Essex
University Cricket Club, said: "The University has well-established
corporate connections with Essex County Cricket Club. We are keen to
develop grassroots links with the club. We want to encourage even
more people to take an interest in playing cricket in Essex and show
that we have a great club at the university."
Gazette
Tuesday 24 January
BBC Essex - Breakfast Show
Professor Todd Landman, IDCR
Re: Barack Obama's State of the Union
address
BBC Essex - Dave Monk Show
Professor Michael Sherer, Essex Business School
Re: Situation at Coryton Oil Refinery
Uni's recruitment drive...in our
primary schools
Rachel Earle talks about the University of Essex's outreach
programme starts early to try to get the message across that higher
education is something accessible to everyone, regardless of
background or financial situation.
Gazette
Big to get more kids degree educated
An initiative to encourage more young people from Tendring to go to
university has been launched. Tendring District Council and the
University of Essex staged a fun day to encourage youngsters to
strive for careers through university qualifications.
Gazette
Nature Therapy (Ecotherapy) Medical Benefits
Scientists have long known that sunlight can ease depression,
especially seasonal affective disorder (SAD). New research is
expanding those findings. A 2007 study from the University of Essex,
for example, found that a walk in the country reduces depression in
71% of participants. The researchers found that as little as five
minutes in a natural setting, whether walking in a park or gardening
in the backyard, improves mood, self-esteem, and motivation.
WAWS/WTEV-TV
Monday 23 January
Only a maximum wage can end the great pay robbery
Corporate wealth is being siphoned off by a kleptocratic class that
has neither earned nor generated it.
Read George Monbiot's article which mentions Professor Prem
Sikka's findings on the proportion of stock owned by
individuals falling, while the percentage
in foreign hands rises.
The Guardian
My plan's surreal take on Laurel and
Hardy
Laurel and Hardy are brought lovingly back to life in a new play by
the Future is Unwritten theatre company. This production is showing
at the Lakeside Theatre on Thursday 26 January.
Gazette
Sunday 22 January
Acting school to stage new talent
East 15 Acting School will showcase its
graduates at a festival next month. Budding actors, writers and
directors from the School will be putting
on shows at Chigwell School’s drama centre in the High Road during
the Debut festival.
East London and West Essex Guardian Series
President of the European Court of Human Rights
Sir
Nicolas Bratza was elected
President in 2011. He is a member of the
Advisory Council and former Vice-Chairman of the British Institute
of Human Rights, a member of the Council of Management of the
British Institute of International and Comparative Law and a member
of the Editorial Board of the European Human Rights Law Review. He
holds honorary doctorates from the University of Essex and the
University of Glasgow.
Council of Europe
5 reasons
why
high-tech
kids
need
low-tech
camps...bring
your
binoculars
and leave
the laptop
According to a recent study conducted by the University of Essex in
England, nature can help people recover from pre-existing stresses
or problems. The research indicates that nature also has an
immunizing effect that offers protection from future stresses and
helps people concentrate and think more clearly. Additionally,
according to a study by two Cornell University environmental
psychologists, being close to nature can help boost a child's
attention span.
Washington Parent
Friday 20 January
BBC Essex
Chris Nicholson from the Centre for Psychoanalytic
Studies discusses with BBC Essex presenter Dave Monk a case which
saw Essex County Council paying almost £1 million in damages to four
siblings it failed to protect from parental abuse.
'I thought, he will die unless we help
him'
Quick thinking University of Essex student, Sam Ellis, describes how
he battled to save a man who collapsed near the University.
Paramedics told passers-by that Sam and his friends had saved the
man's life.
Essex County Standard
Professor Frank Cioffi
Read the Daily Telegraph's obituary for Professor Frank
Cioffi. Professor Cioffi was
offered a chair at the University of Essex in 1974, founding a
highly successful philosophy department; he also held visiting
professorships at several universities overseas. After his
retirement from Essex in 1994 he returned to his house in Canterbury
and was made an honorary research professor at Kent University.
Daily Telegraph
Holocaust events at the University of
Essex
A series of events at the University of Essex will
mark Holocaust Memorial Week. The week will focus on the theme of
disability and euthanasia.
Essex County Standard
Migration and mobility
A University of Leicester Professor has led a research bid which has
won a prestigious international award amid stiff competition.
Professor Kevin Schürer is among a group of historians who have won
funding for their proposal to research 19th century migration in
Britain and North America. Professor Schürer, who is also an
honorary research professor at the University of Essex, is working
with Dr Matthew Woollard, head of the UK Data Archive at the
University of Essex along with researchers from the University of
Alberta, the Université de Montréal and the University of Guelph in
Canada and the University of Minnesota in the USA.
in Loughborough
Shifting sands for British CEOs
Read Professor Prem Sikka's article on Executive
remuneration.
Business Spectator
Thursday 19 January
Metropolitan Police succeed in G20 “kettling” appeal
University of Essex Human Rights graduate,
Wessen Jazrawi writes a blog about the G20 "kettling"
appeal. Wessen is a qualified solicitor and holds an LLM in
International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex. She is
currently working with the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre
UK Human Rights blog
Do We Really Look That Peculiar?
UK professor, Anthony King from the Department of
Government brings a foreigner's perspective to "peculiar"
U.S. institutions and finds us wanting. Michael
Johnson reviews Professor King's book The Founding
Fathers vs. The People: Paradoxes in American Democracy.
American Spectator
What Are Your Relationships Worth In Dollars?
There is substantial evidence in the psychology and sociology
literature that social relationships promote happiness for the
individual. Yet the size of their impacts remains largely unknown.
This paper explores the use of shadow pricing method to estimate the
monetary values of the satisfaction with life gained by an increase
in the frequency of interaction with friends, relatives, and
neighbours. Using the British Household Panel Survey, I find that an
increase in the level of social involvements is worth up to an extra
£85,000 a year in terms of life satisfaction. Actual changes in
income, on the other hand, buy very little happiness.
The Business Insider
Tony backs marathon fundraising
campaign
Dr Tony Rich, former Registrar and Secretary at the University of
Essex is supporting his friend Dr Jonathan Nicholls who is taking
part in the London Marathon to raise money for the University of
Bristol Cancer Research Fund. Dr Rich, who has been diagnosed with
incurable cancer, and Dr Nicholls worked together at the University
of Warwick in the 1980s and have been close friends ever since.
Gazette
Essex County Standard
Events planned to remember Holocaust
A series of events hosted by the University of Essex will
mark Holocaust Memorial Week. Co-ordinated by Professor Rainer
Schulze, the week will focus on the theme of disability and
euthanasia.
Gazette
Motion takes on Long John Silver
With tickets now on sale for this year's Essex Book
Festival, Go! looks ahead to some of the events taking place around
the county. Professor Jules Pretty from the University of Essex will
be talking about his book This Luminous Coast on 20 March.
This revealing examination of the people, nature and history of the
local coastline won the Nature and Places prize at the East Anglian
Book Awards 2011.
Go!
Single-sex schools and high-flying career girls
If you want your daughter to be a high-flying businesswoman or
banker, send her to a single-sex school. This is the startling
conclusion drawn from new research charting the complex relationship
between gender and risk-taking. Next month's edition of the Economic
Journal carries the results of an experiment by two economists at
the University of Essex. Alison Booth and Patrick Nolen devised a
series of questions for 260 male and female pupils that were
designed to measure their appetite for risk. The pupils, from eight
state single-sex and coeducational schools in Essex and Suffolk,
were asked to choose between a real-stakes lottery and a sure bet.
Daily News, Sri Lanka
Wednesday 18 January
BBC Essex - Dave Monk show
Dr
Enam Al-Wer interviewed regarding the development of accents and
dialects after press reports The Only Way is Essex star Mark Wright
is trying to lose his Essex accent.
Got 5 mins? Do this
The next time you're looking for a natural mood elevator, turn to
nature itself. Research done last year by Professor Jules Pretty at
the University of Essex, published in the journal Environmental
Science & Technology, confirms what anyone who's experienced a
sunny-day high already knows: Nature is almost foolproof at boosting
your mood and self-esteem. And, amazingly, it only takes five
minutes.
MSN
OmniGlobe founder named new CEO at VeriCorder Technology
VeriCorder Technology Inc. Has announced the appointment of Jason
Neale as the company's new CEO.
Neale holds a PhD in Electrical Systems Engineering from the
University of Essex.
Yahoo! Canada
Mediacaster
CNW Group
Broadcaster Magazine
Individual.com
AlphaTrade
Digital Journal
Laure Prouvost: The Wanderer (Betty Drunk)
Art Exchange at the University of Essex presents Laure Prouvost’s
The Wanderer (Betty Drunk), a newly commissioned film and
installation. Based on a script by artist Rory Macbeth, who without
knowledge of German translated Kafka’s The Metamorphosis into
English, Betty Drunk follows characters as they undergo a series of
increasingly bizarre experiences, navigating a path through
situations in which reality becomes increasingly uncertain. Laure
Prouvost is winner of the Max Mara Art Prize 2011.
Brentwood Weekly News
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Halstead Gazette
Tuesday 17 January
Film exclusive in the new Lakeside line-up
The new season at the Lakeside Theatre at Essex University starts
this weekend, and it's already proving to be a big draw. That's
because at the end of this month, the campus theatre will be the
only UK venue showing Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Ros's new film
Inni. The Lakeside Theatre’s season starts Saturday with the first
of a number of top-draw comedy nights featuring Tom Binn’s brilliant
comic creation, Sunderland psychic Ian Montfort. For more
information see
here.
Gazette
The day we saved a man's life after he collapsed on the path
A quick-thinking student has described how he battled to save a man
who collapsed in a Colchester street. Sam Ellis, 20, was on his way
back from shopping at Hythe Tesco when he spotted what he thought
was a dummy lying on the pavement. The Essex University marine
biology student walked past, but when he looked back, he realised it
was a person. Sam, another student and Elmstead Road resident Jane
Richards gave the man, 48, first aid. Paramedics told the three
passers-by they had, indeed, saved the man's life.
Gazette
Monday 16 January
Uni's events remember Holocaust
The University of Essex is once again marking Holocaust Memorial
Week with a series of special events but it will have added
poignancy this year after the sad death of long-time activist Dora
Love last October.
Gazette
Event to encourage kids to aim higher
Tendring youngsters are being urged to aim high, with
university as their goal, as a way of raising standards in local
schools. Tendring District Council has teamed up with the University
of Essex with the aim of persuading more young people to aim for
higher education.
Gazette
Sunday 15 January
Launching ultrafast broadband studies
The Department for Innovation,
Universities and Skills are providing £1m
for research and feasibility studies into a series of optoelectronic
feasibility studies that it says will lead to “pan-European ultra
fast broadband“ and should improve
consumers’ broadband connection speeds through fibre optic broadband
networks. Oclaro will also consider integrating arrayed-waveguide
gratings with tunable lasers produced at its Caswell fabrication
centre, which helps it qualify for UK funding. Partners will be
component producer, Gemfire and University of Essex.
Read the article
here.
Compute Scotland
National Glass Centre director
James Bustard tells of passion
James Bustard recalls
that as an 18-year-old in 1973 he had decided to study economics at
university before a dramatic change of heart. The summer before he
was due to start his degree course, he bought a £27 InterRail card
and travelled across Europe to see famous artworks in churches,
galleries and museums. Returning inspired, he instead went to
the University of Essex to study art
history. “It began my love affair with the visual arts that has
lasted 40 years,” says the Surrey-born director of the NGC.
Journal live.co.uk
David Yates
David Yates (born 1963) is a BAFTA- and Emmy Award-winning
English film and television director, best known for his work on the
most recent Harry Potter films. He attended the University of Essex,
followed by the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield,
where he excelled as a student.
Hollywood Previews
Saturday 14 January
Ezra to stand as MDC-T parliamentary candidate
Legendary former ZBC Radio and TV personality Ezra ‘Tshisa’ Sibanda
has thrown his hat in the political ring and intends to stand as an
MDC-T parliamentary candidate in his rural home of Vungu in the
Midlands Province. Exra has a BA degree in
Media Studies f and a Masters Degree in Psychoanalysis and Refugee
Studies from the University of Essex.
Nehanda Radio
Richard Olsen, 5th Confirmed Speaker for June 2012
International Traders Conference in Barcelona
Richard Olsen, avisiting professor at the
Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents at the
University of Essex will be a speaker at an
International Traders Conference in Barcelona.
e-forex.net
What Did You Expect? It Makes a Difference
Alinda Tugend writes in The New York Times about managing
expectations and talks about a recent paper co-authored by Dr
Lindstäedt from the Department of Government
on managing expectations that appeared in The Journal of
Theoretical Politics this month. Read
the article
here.
New York Times
Friday 13 January
Activist wants Fund to Aid
Protesters
A UK-based Nigerian
activist, Ms Alice Ukoko has suggested the establishment of a fund
for voluntary donations to assist protesters against the withdrawal
of fuel subsidy. University of Essex postgraduate
student, Habib Abubakar Gajam said removal of the
fuel subsidy was "a very unpopular
decision" by the government and urged all Nigerians to "join the
protests to register our anger and displeasure to the government".
AllAfrica.com
Student homes given go-ahead
More than 420 en-suite bedrooms in a mixture of flats and
townhouses can be built on the University of Essex Colchester
campus. Councillor Julie Young is worried about parking issues and a
working party will be set up between Colchester Council and the
University of Essex to look at ways of tackling parking problems and
other issues.
Essex County Standard
Scientists find link between gene and sensitivity to
emotional environment
Researchers at the University of Essex have shown that a genetic
variant could make some people more sensitive to their emotional
environment - and more susceptible to anxiety disorders - than
others. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, could have
implications for predicting how well individual patients will
respond to treatments for anxiety disorders. Read
the article
here.
The Wellcome Trust
Health Canal
Uni honours Holocaust survivor
The University of Essex are once again marking Holocaust
Memorial Week with a number of special events. One of these is a
special event remembering Holocaust survivor and Honorary Graduate
Dora Love which will take place at 7.30pm on 24 January.
Essex County Standard
Popular campus café set to shut
The Quayside Café, found on the Wivenhoe
Trail will be turned into a temporary common room before being
transformed into student bedrooms next year. The staff working in
the Café will be transferred to other restaurants and café on
the Colchester campus.
Essex County Standard
Curator's art show a record-breaker
An exhibition in Portugal curated by Professor Neil
Cox from the Department of Art History and Theory attracted
record-breaking visitors during its three-month run.
Essex County Standard
Pantomime challenge for comedy queen
Hazel
Stand-up comic Hazel Humphreys has turned her talents
to pantomime after offering to write the Wivenhoe Panto Group's
production this year. Hazel studied philosophy at the University of
Essex and worked at the University for a few years afterwards.
Gazette
Business Weekly New Year Honours – Business Space
Developers
Carisbrooke has a strong track record having already created
Haverhill Business Park which provides nearly 400,000 sq ft of
production, warehouse and office space to major firms.
The firm is also the force behind the 43-acre University of Essex
Knowledge Gateway – the new home for the social sciences, research
and development and for business space in Essex and anchored by the
University of Essex sponsored Institute for Democracy and Conflict
Resolution (IDCR).
Business Weekly
Thursday 12 January
Hythe café is to shut down in the
spring
The Quayside Café on the Wivenhoe Trail will be turned into
a temporary common room before being transformed into student
bedrooms next year. The Café, run by the University of Essex, is not
making a profit and the staff will be transferred to other outlets
on campus.
Gazette
Is it time to give Jamie a call as lunches become a real
hot potato?
Irish schools should do more to provide nutritious lunches and ban
unhealthy food from vending machines, according to a leading health
campaigner. In other words, it may be time
to call for Jamie Oliver as the quality of lunches eaten by Irish
schoolchildren becomes a hot potato. The charismatic TV chef
launched a campaign six years ago to improve the quality of British
school lunches, but in most Irish schools there are no hot dinners
provided at all. Research on the Jamie Oliver campaign in the
Greenwich area of London by the University of Essex seem to indicate
that it had a positive effect on academic performance.
Independent.ie
Davinder Kumar
Davinder Kumar is an award-winning development
journalist and Press Officer for the global child rights
organisation Plan International. He was short-listed for The
Guardian International Development Journalism Award in 2009.
Davinder is also a Chevening Human Rights Scholar. He was awarded
the scholarship by the British Foreign & Commonwealth office in
recognition of his journalistic achievements. He is a graduate of
Human Rights Centre, University of Essex where he completed his
Masters in Human Rights with specialisation in humanitarian
communications.
Huffington Post
Hearn fights bravely but loses title
bout
The University of Essex Boxing Club's Jack Hearn was narrowly beaten
in the under-57kg Essex and Metropolitan Novice final at Harlow.
Gazette
Wednesday 11 January
Blue-tinted specs that can banish the misery of migraines
One in seven people in the UK suffers from migraine with common
triggers including dehydration, stress and lack of sleep.
Colored lenses effectively damp down the effects of lights or
patterns that trigger visual migraine, explains Arnold Wilkins,
Professor of visual perception at
the University of Essex. `One theory is
that using color redistributes the excitement in the brain that
occurs in a response to something such as stripes,` he says.
Azertaj
Il Gazzetino
Il Messaggero
The psychological joys of spring
The positive psychological effects of good weather have been well
documented, so when the sun’s out, it’s best to take yourself
outside for at least 30 minutes and bask. But it’s not just the
light and warmth that are making us feel good, it’s the birdsong,
lush green shoots and that blossom. The University of Essex has
found that hospital patients with rural views had significantly
lower blood pressures than those without.
Psychologies
Café
Scientifique
Fantastic Voyage! Profeesor Naci Balkan of the School of Computer
Science and Electronic Engineering at the
University of Essex will give an introduction to
nanotechnology and will address the following questions: What is
good and bad about nanotechnology? Are there any useful applications
in electronics, medicine, communications and defence industries, and
consumer products? Can we avoid nanopollution?
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Fun day aims to boost youngsters' ambitions
An initiative to encourage young children in Tendring to aim for
professional careers is being launched later this month. The
Tendring Schools and University Fun Day will target 10 to
12-year-olds and try to inspire them to aim high. It is a joint
venture between Tendring District Council (TDC) and the University
of Essex and will be held at the Princes Theatre in Clacton on
January 21.
East Anglian Daily Times
New Variety of Coral Reef Discovered in
Seychelles
Scientists have just discovered a
new variety of coral reefs near Curieuse Island some 100km to the
North of the main Seychelles island of Mahe. Dr Dave Smith and Dr
Dave Suggett from the Biological Science department of the British
University of Essex made the discovery.
Net News Publisher
Leaving work for sickness could mean living in poverty
within a year
Leaving work because of sickness or health issues has a similar, if
not worse, impact on finances as becoming unemployed, and could mean
living in poverty within a year, according to research by the
Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University
of Essex.
Lifeinsurance.co.uk
Tuesday 10 January
Blue-tinted specs that can banish the misery of migraines
Coloured lenses effectively damp down the effects of lights or
patterns that trigger visual migraine, explains Arnold Wilkins,
Professor of visual perception at
the University of Essex. ‘One theory is
that using colour redistributes the excitement in the brain that
occurs in a response to something such as stripes,’ he says. ‘By
doing this, the hyperactivity in the brain is reduced when exposed
to these triggers.’ Read the article
here.
Daily Mail
This is Money
'Shared parenting' gets rejected
The Family Justice Review has denied the presumption
of shared parenting. Kirsten Anderson, Carolyn Hamilton and Jo-Anne
Prudhomme from the Coram Children's Legal Centre examine why.
Children and Young People Now
Delroy Constantine-Simms, one of the UK's few black
Occupational Psychologists
Delroy Constantine-Simms aspires to be the UK's top black
Occupational Psychologist. He has conducted academic research on
diversity and equality issues in Britain and the United States at
the University of Essex. He has worked as
a consultant with many large corporate firms from T-Mobile, Global
Graduates, Marks and Spencers, The Cabinet Office and The Foreign
Office. Barclays Bank.
BlackUKonline
Monday 9 January
Undergraduate wins £1000 award
Matthew Barber of Easton, Portland, was awarded a
£1,000 Dangoor Scholarship to
support his computer science studies at the University of Essex. “My
degree is going really, really well. “In my last assignment I got
100 per cent, which was great,” said Matthew. Matthew added: “Being
awarded this has furthered my drive to achieve my potential. With
regards to my studies the scholarship has reaffirmed my motivation
and alongside the high standard of lecturing the University of Essex
provides I can’t wait to see what the future holds.”
Dorset Echo
This is Dorset
What if Scotland chooses independence?
As David Cameron insists that a referendum on Scottish independence
should be held within 18 months, Channel 4 News looks at what
separation from England would mean. Rob
Johns, a senior politics lecturer at the
University of Essex, told Channel 4 News: "For some people
there are very strong emotionally-held views pro or anti the union.
But for a lot of people it is really what works and if an
independent Scotland would mean they were better off, then they
could well be inclined to support it. Read the
article
here.
Channel 4 News
Greenstead fears as uni homes plan is
approved
More than 400 student homes can be built on the University of
Essex's Colchester campus despite fears it could increase parking
problems in Greenstead. Director of Estate Management, Andrew
Nightingale said students living on campus were strongly discouraged
from using their cars and suggested residents parking permits could
be introduced on affected streets.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Essex County Standard
Cars are squeezing us off the
pavements
Residents living near the University of Essex have spoken of their
frustration at the number of students who leave their cars parked
outside their homes.
Gazette
Festival tickets
Tickets are
available for the big names appearing at this year's Essex Book
Festival. One of these is Jodi Picoult who is visiting the
University of Essex on 3 April.
Gazette
Back to Nature: Take your
workout outdoors
Combining nature and physical activity—a phenomenon called "green
exercise" by researchers at the University of Essex in
England—produces a positive effect on physical and emotional health.
Green exercise has been shown to significantly improve self-esteem
and mood, reduce blood pressure and burn calories.
healthywomen.org
Columbia Free Times
Sunday 8 January
Green Exercise And Mental Health
The news report has been based on research pooling the results of
ten University of Essex studies on how exercising outdoor in green
surroundings affects one's self-esteem and mood. Physical activity
has been proven to be not only beneficial for one's physical health,
but also mental health. Ideally, individuals should participate in
physical activity that they enjoy, which may include outdoor
exercise. Dr Jo Barton and Professor Jules
Pretty from the University of Essex conducted the research, which
has been published in the journal Environmental Science and
Technology.
TopNews United Kingdom
Single-sex schools are more likely to produce high-flying
career girls
Next month's edition of the Economic Journal carries the results of
an experiment by two economists at the University of Essex. Alison
Booth and Patrick Nolen devised a series of questions for 260 male
and female pupils that were designed to measure their appetite for
risk. Read the article
here.
The Guardian
Saturday 7 January
Start of a new festival chapter
The Essex Book Festival will blend big names with local-interest
events and the University of Essex is one of the partners in the
festival supporting with publicity, marketing and graphic design.
East Anglian Daily Times
Friday 6 January
Ten of the best...ways to boost your fitness outside
Studies carried out by the University of Essex show that engaging in
physical work in pleasant green rural or urban landscapes enhances
mood, improves self-esteem and reduces blood pressure.
The Ecologist
Banish those New Year blues
A University of Essex study found that ‘green’ exercise such as
walking or gardening enhances mental wellbeing more than indoor
exercise.
Saga Magazine
Rooms for students on Colchester campus approved
More than 400 student homes can be built
on Essex University’s Colchester campus, despite fears it could
exacerbate parking problems in nearby Greenstead. Colchester
Council’s planning committee agreed to allow the university to build
420 en-suite bedrooms in a mixture of flats and townhouses, but only
once further agreements had been made. The proposal is the first
detailed planning application for the forthcoming Knowledge Gateway,
which already has outline planning permission.
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Gazette
Essex County Standard
Universities in Essex buck national
trend
The University of Essex has seen applications rise by 11
per cent compared with 2010.
Essex County Standard
Book tickets now to hear authors
Tickets are now available for the big names appearing at this year's
Essex Book Festival. Highlights of the visit include Jodi Picoult
who will be speaking at the University of Essex on 3 April.
Essex County Standard
Lord President
Following notification of the current Lord President, Lord
Hamilton's, intention to retire in June 2012, the First Minister has
established a selection panel to make recommendations for a new Lord
President. One of the panel members is
Professor Andrew Coyle, Lay member of the Judicial Appointments
Board for Scotland. He is Emeritus
Professor of Prison Studies in the University of London and Visiting
Professor in the University of Essex. He was the founding Director
of the International Centre for Prison Studies (1997-2005) and a
former prison governor. Professor Coyle has a PhD from the
University of Edinburgh and is a Fellow of King's College London. He
is a member of the Foreign Secretary's Advisory Group on Torture
Prevention.
eGov
Heart, Lung Exercise Best for Cardiac Rehab
Exercise that focuses on building cardiorespiratory fitness, rather
than resistance or strength training, provides the best shot at
reducing mortality according to research carried
out by Dr Gavin Sandercock and colleagues.
Specifically, aerobic or mixed exercise programs were equally
effective and significantly more so than the few which prescribed
resistance exercise, according to the study published online in the
International Journal of Cardiology.
World Book and News
MedPageToday
Thursday 5 January
Scratch Your Robot Itch
Robotic, mechatronic and cybernetic intelligence projects under
development at universities all over the world are showcased in a
new online site called Expo21XX. Projects
featured on the site include the University of Essex’s robotic fish.
In all, more than 50 universities have profiled their various
robotic projects on the site.
Automation World
Christopher A. Pissarides
Professor Christopher Pissarides
specializes in the field of economics of unemployment, labor-market
theory and policy and structural change. He graduated
from the University of Essex, he has spent
bulk of his career in London School of Economics, where he has also
been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Harvard, Princeton,
Berkeley, and the World Bank.
Netease
Forster gains reward after putting his skills on the line
Mendip Shotokan Karate Club's Fred Forster took possession of his
1st Dan black belt after a gruelling three-day examination at
Crawley. Forster started training in 2007 and has since won medals
at the national championships while studying for his A-levels. He is
now at the University of Essex, who he represents at hockey as well
as keeping up his karate training. Read the
article
here.
Somerset Guardian
Female students do better at
university when classes are single sex
Findings from a pilot study at the University of Essex indicated
that women studying in an all-female group were more like to take
"high-risk options" as reported in The Independent on 27
December.
THE
High winds damage university sign
Strong winds have caused a University of
Essex sign in Southend to become damaged. Firefighters had to make
the area in Elmer Approach secure at about 11pm after gale-force
gusts hit south Essex again. Due to the severity of the winds, the
sign could not be put back up straight away as it was unsafe.
Echo
Southend Standard
History evening courses
Ten-week history evening courses are being run by the
Centre for Local and Regional History at the University of Essex.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Essex County Standard
Universities in Essex buck national
trend
The University of Essex has seen applications rise by 11
per cent compared with 2010.
Gazette
Wednesday 4 January
£27m library still on course to be
completed in 2013
Plans to build a new £27 million library complex in
Southend town centre are progressing on schedule. It will become one
of the main study centres for students at the University of Essex's
Southend campus and South Essex College.
Echo
Lab-grown blood used for the first time
Red blood cells generated in a lab have been successfully injected
into a human volunteer for the first time by
scientists at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris.
Earlier attempts to
create blood substitutes have been disappointing. Several products
have been rejected as a result of safety concerns or simply because
they didn't work well. "All aim to mimic, or in some cases enhance
the oxygen-carrying ability of the red blood cells normally given as
a blood transfusion," says Chris Cooper of the University of Essex
in Colchester, UK, who is developing a hemoglobin-based blood
substitute that will be genetically modified to reduce its toxicity;
hemoglobin is toxic in its unbound state. Read
the article
here.
Fox 31 Denver
and
5 other US news outlets
Oldswinford teen aims to topple Dudley's leader in
election showdown
Oldswinford teenager Joe Gaytten is going
head-to-head with Dudley's leader in a political showdown for local
election votes. Politicians across the borough are getting set for
council elections on Thursday May 3, with a third of Dudley's 72
seats up for grabs. The University of Essex
economics student will be 19-years-old on election day when
he will be up against Cllr Les Jones, the authority's Conservative
leader, in the Stourbridge East and Pedmore ward.
Stourbridge News
Eight International
Research Funders Announce the Winners of the 2011 Digging into Data
Challenge
Eight international research funders from four countries jointly
announced the winners of the second Digging into Data Challenge, a
competition to promote innovative humanities and social science
research using large-scale data analysis. One
winning project was 'Mining Microdata: Economic Opportunity
and Spatial Mobility in Britain, Canada and the United States,
1850-1911' and the University of Essex was one of
the participating institutions.
Corporate Media News
and 20 other news outlets around the world
Daniel and Kate lead
the race for titles
Cambridgeshire’s top squash players will have been making sure they
kept in trim over the festive period, with the County Championship
due to start on Saturday. University of Essex player Rob Dadds will
be hoping to add a senior title to his previous junior win.
Cambridgeshire Athletics News
Baking can be a piece
of cake thanks to new book
Cake fanatics Shelley Feldman and Kevin
Young hope to cash in on their hobbies and make some real dough
after launching their own recipe book. The business partners, who
met at university, have just published their 1066 Cake Stand
Compendium of Cakes. The easy-to-use, 79-page guide features recipes
for wheat, gluten-free and sucrose-free cakes. Shelley, 36, met
Kevin, 52, while studying philosophy at the
University of Essex . Kevin was studying for a Masters in
engineering but had already started making cakes for close friends.
Hastings and St Leonard's Observer
Tuesday 3 January
Ethical food: four new year's resolutions that you can
keep
Go Organic - According to a study carried
out by the University of Essex, organic farming in the UK provides
32 per cent more jobs per farm than equivalent non-organic farms.
Ecologist
Healthy New Year’s resolutions
The reports, carried
out by social research experts at the National Centre for Social
Research (NatCen) for the Department of Health, exposed health
trends and habits across the country. Six data collections were
analysed, including those held by the British
Household Panel Study, and they show that when people made
healthier decisions in one area, they made other positive changes
too.
COI News
Monday 2 January
TA soldiers get medal
for shift in Afghanistan
Corporal Aaron Palmer, who is in the second year of a sports science
degree at the University, is among Territorial Army soldiers
honoured for their work in Afghanistan. Read the full article
here.
thisistotalessex.co.uk
The stage is set for
ex-Footlights star Ben Allen
East 15 graduate Ben Allen has joined
leading theatre company Propeller. The company is run by Edward
Hall, who is also associate director of the National Theatre, and
the son of theatre director, Sir Peter Hall. The company specialises
in finding innovative ways of producing classical works and has
received critical acclaim, winning the 2011 Touring Production Award
at Theatre Awards UK. Read the full article
here.
ThisisWestonSuperMare - Online
Sunday 1 January
New Year Honours 2012
Colchester MP Bob Russell, former Publicity
Information Officer at the University, received a knighthood in the
Queen's New Year Honour List.
East Anglian Daily Times
Gazette
Top Ten Innovations 2011
Biological chemistry graduate and cofounder of
Bioovista and Cellzome joins judging panel for The Scientist's Top
Ten Innovations 2011.
The Scientist
Thinking About
Mortality Changes How We Act
The thought of shuffling off our mortal coil can make all of us a
little squeamish. But avoiding the idea of death entirely means
ignoring the role it can play in determining our actions. Laura E.
R. Blackie and Philip J. Cozzolino from the University of Essex have
been exploring the idea that we are all governed by two disparate
existential systems, each with its own distinct method of processing
the idea of death. Both existential minds have the power to
meaningfully change our attitudes and actions, but they work in very
different-almost opposite-ways.
Scientific American
December 2011
Saturday 31 December
Child fitness levels falling in UK
Child fitness levels in the UK are falling twice as fast as the
average rate for the rest of the world, even in children who are not
obese, new research has found. Worldwide, child fitness levels have
fallen by around 4 per cent in the past ten years - but they've
fallen about 8 per cent in the UK. Researchers from Essex University
assessed the fitness levels of over 300 ten year olds from
Chelmsford, in Essex, which ranks among the top 20 per cent most
affluent areas in the UK.
Family GP
Healthy New Year's Resolutions
Data from the British Household Panel Survey
based at ISER is used by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen)
for a research for the Department of Health. The research found
people who made New Year's resolutions to be more healthy often made
other positive changes in their lifestyle too.
Web Newswire
Friday 30 December
Artificial
intelligence takes on Ms.Pac-Man
Philipp Rohlfshagen, David Robles and Simon Lucas, from the School
of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, recently launched a
competition called Ms. Pac-Man vs. Ghost Team for those wanting to
rewrite the flow of the classic game.
CNET News.com
Thursday 29 December
David’s tough Desert run in aid of Havens
Super fit David Atkinson, a lecturer in healthcare ethics at the
Southend Campus, will face his biggest challenge to date when he
runs across the Sahara Desert to raise money for Havens Hospices.
Echo
Wednesday 28 December
Bags of blood, and not
a donor in sight: Lab-grown blood used for the first time
Professor Chris Cooper interviewed about the development of blood
substitutes after red blood cells generated in a lab have been
successfully injected into a human volunteer for the first time at
Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. Read the full article
here.
Premium Health News Service
Witham: Youth area art work unveiled
Youngsters brightened the youth area of a
children’s centre with brightly coloured pieces of artwork. About 20
children, aged between 11 and 16, worked for months to create the
pieces with help from Essex University volunteers. They unveiled
their work earlier this month at the Silver End Children’s Centre in
the hope of making the youth area more welcoming.
Gazette
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