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The University of Essex in the Press
January 2013
Thursday 31 January
BBC Essex
Professor Jules Pretty talks to Mark Punter about the 1953
Essex floods. You can listen to the interview at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p013bg4q (forward to 31:15).
Southend Today
The Focal Point Gallery will be
moved from Southend Library to the Forum,
the new library in Elmer Square and
partnership between Southend Council, the
University of Essex and South Essex College
which opens in September. However,
locals are criticising the cost of the move after Council budget
cuts.
Daily Gazette
The Tesco store at the Hythe in Colchester has changed their trolley
stock after customers complained that they never had the correct
change to pay for them. Tesco introduced the coin trolleys as a
measure to try and stop students from taking the trollies.
The Guardian
Toronto Telegraph
Professor Jules Pretty writes for The Guardian about the 1953
floods, how money is being diverted from coasts to rivers and how
this could be a mistake in the future.
Link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/31/east-anglia-new-risk-sea
BBC Radio Wales
Professor Jules Pretty talks about the 1953 floods.
Link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qcln2 (forward to 2:54)
Times Higher Education
University of Essex mathematicians are
working with Simul Systems to look into the best places
to put beehives to ensure pollination of trees.
Daily Gazette
The University of Essex hosted the first round of the All England
Boxing series last weekend which saw students from Universities
across the country taking part. The second round due to take place
this weekend at the University.
Daily Gazette
University of Essex student, Amogh Newgi speaks to the Daily Gazette
about his early cooking experiences on arrival at the University,
where he shops and what he cooks.
Daily Gazette
Nikolai Bode, a research fellow from the
Department of Mathematical Sciences speaks about the ZombieLab event
taking place this week at the London Science Museum and talks about some of the department's
research into collective behaviour and group decision making.
The Hindu
Professor Shahzad Uddin from Essex
Business School spoke at a global conference held
at Sri Venkateswara University about
Finance reforms and practice in emerging economies.
Build.co.uk
CNPlus.co.uk
Morgan Sindall
has won the £14.7 million contract to
construct a new building to house Essex
Business School. The three-storey building will
include a number of seminar rooms, a 200-seat lecture theatre,
learning and teaching areas and social spaces.
Wednesday 30 January
Times Higher Education
and also featured in over 50 local
news outlets around the UK
The University of Essex is one twelve
institutions to receive a Regius Professorship announced by the
Cabinet Office yesterday. The Queen has awarded the positions in
recognition of excellence in education and research to mark her
Diamond Jubilee last year. The University of Essex receives the only
Professorship in Political Science.
Link:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?c=1§ioncode=26&storycode=422523
BBC Essex
Dr Edd Codling from the Department of
Mathematical Sciences speaks about the ZombieLab event taking place
this week at the London Science Museum and talks about some of the department's
research into collective behaviour and group decision making.
BBC World Service
Nikolai Bode, a research fellow from the
Department of Mathematical Sciences speaks about the ZombieLab event
taking place this week at the London Science Museum and talks about some of the department's
research into collective behaviour and group decision making.
East Anglian Daily Times
Royston Crow Series
The official start of work to build one of the most sustainable
buildings in the region was marked with a 'cutting the turf'
ceremony at the University of Essex yesterday. The new building will
feature seminar rooms, a 200-seater lecture theatre and learning and
teaching areas.
East Anglian Daily Times
Professor Rainer Schulze from the University of Essex will be
joining Holocaust survivor Frank Bright at an event at Braintree
District Museum next week as part of Holocaust Memorial Day events.
Daily Gazette
Families can create their own maritime works of art at an event at
the Art Exchange Gallery at the University of Essex.
Azerbaijan State Telegraph
Agency
British ambassador to Azerbaijan Peter Bateman
visited the Azerbaijan University of Languages
and was told by the Rector, Professor
Samad Seyidov that 20 of their students were
studying at the University of Essex.
PR-US.net
University of Essex Financial Economics graduate,
Giovanni Beliossi, will be taking part in an
influential high-frequency trading conference in
London in March. Mr Beliossi is Managing
Partner at FGS Capital LLP, responsible for
portfolio management . He founded
the firm in 2002.
Tuesday 29 January
Southend Echo
Michael Woodford will tell his story about the Olympus
scandal at an Essex Book Festival event taking place at the
University of Essex Southend campus on 4 March.
BBC Essex
Thomas McGill speaks to University of Essex students Becky and Jake,
members of the student Cheese and Wine society about the minimum
price of alcohol going up and asks if students will be able to
afford to drink and how it might affect their drinking behaviour –
less going out and more staying at home and buying alcohol from
supermarkets?
Link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0138601/Ray_Clark_29_01_2013/
and forward to 1:39.03
Daily Gazette
ITV online
The first Dora Love Prize was awarded an annual awards ceremony held
at the Lakeside Theatre last week. The winners were Farlingaye High
School in Woodbridge. The event was part of Holocaust Memorial Week.
East Anglian Daily Times
London's Science Museum is staging a ZombieLab this week and
visitors will have to evade a Zombie horde. The science behind the
event has been developed by Dr Edd Codling from the Department of
Mathematical Sciences and will showcase some of the department's
research into collective behaviour and group decision making.
The Guardian
The Guardian has published an obituary for Stanley Cohen, who was a
Senior Lecturer and then Professor in the Department of Sociology
from 1972 - 1981.
Cloud Computing Journal
Java Developers online
'OpenFlow in Europe - Linking Infrastructure and Applications'
(OFELIA), is a test bed in which to
experiment with SDN applications and virtual multi-layer networks
over shared network infrastructure. One of the
application servers is at the University of Essex.
Monday 28 January
Daily Gazette
The University of Essex has been awarded with a
multi million pound contract deal to Morgan Sindall for the
Carbon–neutral development of a new building to house Essex Business
School.
Daily Gazette
Two University of Essex students are raising money
to fund volunteering abroad in KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa as part
of Volunteer Eco Schools Abroad. They will be teaching maths to
orphans aged eight and over and carrying out conservation work in a
crocodile centre and with big cats.
BBC Essex
University of Essex boxing coach Gordon Charlesworth was interviewed
for BBC Essex Sport on Saturday about the English University Boxing
Series held at the Colchester Campus this weekend and next.
The Guardian
Professor Prem Sikka from Essex Business School commenting on
Amazon’s record Christmas takings which look set to be as much as $9
billion.
Link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/27/amazon-cash-pile-record-christmas
The Guardian
Lucy Siegle talks about the University’s Annual Burrows Lecture this
year with Richard Mabey for the Essex Book Festival.
Link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/27/can-i-recycle-vhs-tapes.
The Spectrum
Tom Ervin talks about health tips to consider in 2013, including
research by the University of Essex that being spending just five
minutes a day outside can boost your mood and sense of well-being.
Link:
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20130126/OPINION/301260016/Guest-column-Some-health-tips-consider-13?nclick_check=1
East Anglian Daily Times
Royston Crow Series
Luxury hotel, Wivenhoe House, has been awarded four stars by the AA,
with the hotel’s fine dining restaurant, Signatures, also receiving
two AA rosettes.
Link:
http://www.eadt.co.uk/business/colchester_wivenhoe_house_secures_four_star_rating_after_aa_inspection_1_1811207
Friday 25 January
Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation
Dr Andrew Canessa from the University of Essex is undertaking a
joint project with the Gibraltar Garrison Library looking at
“Bordering on Britishness: An Oral History of Gibraltar in the 20th
Century” . The project will start in September
and up to 400 Gibraltarians will be
interviewed by researchers.
Link:
http://www.gbc.gi/news/news-details.php?id=1169
Financial Times
Charles Batchelor writes about the growth of jobs in the
travel and tourism sector and mentions the courses offered at the
Edge Hotel School in hotel and culinary management and speaks to
Alan Jenkin, principal of the Edge Hotel School.
Link:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3acaabda-5e41-11e2-a771-00144feab49a.html#axzz2Iz4woH53
The Guardian
The Forum
Southend-on-Sea is mentioned in a feature on challenging stereotypes
surrounding Essex which reports on the latest exhibition at The
Focal Point Gallery, which will be part of the new development.
Link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/23/essex-only-way-is-up?INTCMP=SRCH
The Times
The Times focus on Southend and mention
The Forum, a
partnership between Southend Council, the
University of Essex and South Essex College.
Daily Gazette
Construction Enquirer
Construction Index
Morgan Sindall have been awarded the contract for the new building
to house Essex Business School. Work is due to be completed by the
summer of 2014.
Essex County Standard
Jo Wheatley, winner of the Great British Bake Off 2011 will be
giving baking tips from her new book at
an event at Wivenhoe House as part of the
Essex Book Festival on 18 March.
Essex County Standard
Wivenhoe Town
Councillors feel that the New Office space
at the University of Essex Knowledge Gateway development might not
be commercially viable due to the current economic climate.
Essex County Standard
University of Essex mathematicians are looking into the best places
to put beehives to ensure pollination of trees.
Essex County Standard
Neil D'Arcy-Jones
interviews Professor Jules Pretty and
learns about his childhood, interests, travels and his new book due
out later this year - 'Swimming with Sharks'.
Daily Gazette
The University of Essex has seen a five percent
increase in applications this year.
Essex
County Standard
Tony Fisher, founder of
Colchester solicitors’ firm, Fisher Jones Greenwood
speaks to Vanessa moon about his Human Rights work
and his involvement with the Human Rights Centre at the University
of Essex.
Thursday 24 January
BBC Radio 4 -
PM
programme
Professor Prem Sikka from Essex Business School talks about a
newspaper publishing group and tax dodges.
Countyfile
Professor
Jules Pretty writes about the North Sea flood in February 1953 and
how it has altered the east coast forever.
East Anglian Daily Times
Heart Radio
The University of Essex has seen an increase of nearly 5%
in its applications. The University has seen significant rises in
applications in recent years.
Daily Gazette
The Art Exchange at the University of Essex is currently exhibiting
Alfred Wallis's Ships and Boats from the Jim Ede Collection. The
University received the Jim Ede collection in 1964 and the Wallis
pictures are rarely seen.
Times Higher Education
The University of Essex is featured in an article on
undergraduate numbers following government reforms.
Link:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=422457&c=1.
Times Higher Education
The THE has published an obituary for Stanley Cohen, who was a
Senior Lecturer and then Professor in the Department of Sociology
from 1972 - 1981.
Link:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=422449&c=2
The Independent
Gun crime offences have fallen by more than 40% in less
than 10 years. Read comments from Gavin Hales from the Department of
Sociology.
Link:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-winning-battle-against-inner-city-gun-crime-8463957.html
Essex Life
Wivenhoe House have launched their own specially-commissioned gin.
The gin is 40 per cent proof with juniper, orange zest, coriander,
elderflower and Earl Grey tea flavours.
Essex Life
One of the highlights of this year's Essex Book Festival are the
events being organised by the University of Essex. These include
Sandi Toksvig talking about her new book, Dr James Canton looking at
literary figures who have ventured into wilder parts of Essex and
Michael Woodford OBE telling his story about the accounting fraud
within Olympus.
Money News
Equities.com
Marketwatch
Globalnewswire
University of Essex Chemistry graduate David (Dai) Chaplin
has been appointed to its board of directors of
OXiGENE Inc. Dr Chaplin is well
known and respected around the world for
the work that he does in vascular
disrupting technologies.
Link:
http://money.ca/money/2013/01/24/oxigene-appoints-dai-chaplin-ph-d-to-its-board-of-directors/
About My Area
About My Area profiles the Essex Book Festival events taking place
this year, some of which are taking place at the University of
Essex.
Columbian.com
Dene Grigar from the Washington State University,
Vancouver writes about new industries that the
internet is creating such as cybersecurity and developments at WSU
and mentions the first virtual environment
which was created at the University of Essex.
Link:
http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/jan/23/data-never-sleeps-neither-does-wsuv-innovation/.
Wednesday 23 January
Maturetimes
Grimsby Evening Telegraph
The RSPB is working with the University of Essex to look into
children's connection with nature.
East Anglian Daily Times
Daily Gazette
2011 winner of the Great British Bake Off, Jo
Wheatley, will be talking about her new book A Passion For Baking,
at Wivenhoe House, University of Essex on March 18 for this year’s
Essex Book Festival. For more details, see:
www.essexbookfestival.org.uk.
Daily Gazette
Lucy Murray, Head of Outreach at the University of
Essex will be chairman of this year’s Colchester Youth Awards, which
seek to celebrate the achievements of young people living in
Colchester.
Tuesday 22 January
Daily Mail
Fiji Times
Evidence
suggests that both sexes, but particularly women, don't have the
same muscle power as our grandparents and that we're getting weaker.
Dr Gavin Sandercock a lecturer in Sports
Science at the
University of Essex University says that
this starts in childhood with children leading more sedentary,
indoor lifestyles.
Link:
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/health/article-2266092/Weaker-sex-Faddy-diets-fears-muscles-arent-feminine-left-modern-women-weaker-grannies.html.
Daily Gazette
The London Klezmer Quartet will
be playing the best in Jewish celebratory and soulful music at
the Lakeside Theatre at the University of Essex tonight.
East Anglian Daily Times
Tony Fisher, founder of
Colchester solicitors’ firm, Fisher Jones Greenwood
speaks to the East Anglian Daily Times about his Human Rights work
and his involvement with the Human Rights Centre at the University
of Essex.
East Anglian Daily Times
Dr Janice Pittis, Research
and Enterprise Director
at the University of Essex writes
a column for the BusinessEast section of the East Anglian Daily
Times and introduces readers to the range of business services that
the University of Essex offers to local businesses.
AllAfrica.com
Anne Outwater writes about Agroecology. According
to research carried out by Jules Pretty and colleagues from the
University of Essex, agro-ecology
can significantly improve yields.
Link:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201301210320.html
Monday 21 January
BBC Radio 4 - PM
programme
Professor Graham Underwood from the School
of Biological Science is interviewed out on the salt marshes
at Fingringhoe as part of a major research project.
You can listen to the interview here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pzqnp
(forward to 25:22).
BBC Essex
Professor Todd Landman, Director, IDCR
Re: Barack Obama's current popularity and his
inauguration.
Telegraph
A leading Cambridge don has warned about the falling standards of
essay writing among students. The piece mentions that the University
of Essex has a 20-page guide for its undergraduates on to how to
write properly.
Royston Crow Series – Online
East Anglian Daily Times
Daily Gazette
Head of Mathematical Sciences Dr Abdel Salhi is looking into using
maths to identify the best positions for
beehives to achieve effective pollination of trees.
New Media
Knowledge
Dana Pavel , from the University of Essex's School
of Computer Science, is investigating personal and social
communication services for health and lifestyle monitoring.
Sky News
Professor Chris Cooper interviewed following Lance Armstrong
admitting to taking drugs during interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Daily Gazette
Wivenhoe Town Councillors
claim new office space at the University of Essex may not be
commercially viable.
East Anglian Daily Times
Review of The Brasserie at Wivenhoe House.
East Anglian Daily Times
Feature on Steffen Bohm in his role as director of
the Essex Sustainability Institute.
Friday 18 January
BBC Radio Essex
Professor Graham Underwood
from the School of Biological Science is interviewed out on
the salt marshes at Fingringhoe as part of a major research project.
You can listen to the interview here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01306zb
and forward to
52.56.
Essex County Standard
Daily Gazette
Details about the up and coming events at the
Lakeside Theatre are shown, under the new management of Janine
Sumner (Theatre Manager) and Barbara Pierson (Artistic Director).
Daily Gazette
Essex County Standard
The University of Essex Holocaust Memorial Week
will take place from the 21 to the 26 January 2013.
Daily Gazette
The University of Essex’s choir of 120 singers will
sing Creation by Haydn in Bury St Edmunds Cathedral with the
London Handel Orchestra on 26 January at 7pm.
Essex County Standard
Scientists from the University of Essex are
spending two weeks on the salt marshes near Colchester looking for
natural systems and answers to climate change.
Thursday 17 January
East Anglian Daily Times
Researchers from the School of Computer Science and Electronic
Engineering will work with firms at a free business breakfast at
firstsite on cloud computing.
Daily Gazette
The University of Essex will be hosting a national student pole
dancing championship after students from Essex became overall
national champions in a inter-university competition. The University
of Essex club has 110 members. Any profits made from the event will
be given to charity.
Daily Gazette
Researchers from the University of Essex are carrying out studies at
Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve and hope to find some answers to our
changing climate.
Daily Mail
Derek Walcott, visiting Professor of Poetry at the University of
Essex and resident on St Lucia comments on a property development
which lays on a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Yorkshire Post
Derwent FM, a facilities management
company has launched a second new division, Derwent Students.
The company has been appointed to manage
1,400 beds at the University of Essex.
The Socialist
John Stittle from Essex Business School talks about railway freight
charges. He says "the
state is putting an awful lot in. If British Rail had the same funds
now we would have a gold-plated state railway."
Wednesday 16 January
ITV Anglia News
Scientists from across the UK are taking part in a special project
in Essex to find out more about the effects of climate change.
The group, involving academics from the Essex and led by the
University of St Andrews, are spending two weeks in Essex salt
marshes, investigating the increasing demands placed upon nature by
a growing population.
Watch the report at:
http://vimeo.com/57469706
The Emery Weal
Research from the University of Essex shows that individuals shown
bright colours before completing mental agility tests achieved
scores which were twenty five per cent higher than those who were
shown grey colours. They also achieved scores twenty per cent
higher on hand-eye coordination tests and nine percent higher on
physical strength tests.
Daily Gazette
Professor Jules Pretty from the University of Essex is due to talk
about making links between the environment and the next generation
at the Eco- Schools Conference at St Mary's School for Girls next
month.
Daily Gazette
Greenstead has been given an award for its tidiness and partnerships
such as the University of Essex Student’s Union have been praised
for getting students to clean-up the local area.
Tuesday 15 January
Anglia News
Professor Graham Underwood
from the School of Biological Science is interviewed out on
the salt marshes at Fingringhoe as part of a major research project.
You can view the clip here:
http://vimeo.com/57469706.
East Anglian Daily Times
Professor Anthony Forster, Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Essex has written his first blog. As part of his blog, he invites
politicians, businesses and representatives from the community to
voice their opinion on how the regional role of the University
should develop.
East Anglian Daily Times
Dr Keith Brooke, from the Web Editing and Digital Media
Team has been shortlisted for the Philip K Dick
award for his science fiction novel alt.human.
Daily Gazette
Mackmann's Marketing Agency which is based at the University of
Essex has been selected to build a new website and enhance the brand
for Pafra, based in Basildon.
East Anglian Daily Times
The East Anglian Daily Times talks to David Ralph and George Keiffer
from the Haven Gateway Partnership about the future of the
organisation and its projects in Suffolk and North Essex. The
University of Essex is one of the private sector partners in the
partnership.
Link:
http://www.eadt.co.uk/business/insight/haven_gateway_partnership_to_continue_as_broker_for_sub_region_1_1791576
Ocean News and Technology
The
University of Essex is one of the universities taking part in a
five-week expedition to Antarctica to
study the effect of ocean acidification.
This study is part of the UK Ocean Acidification research
program UKOA.
Link:
http://www.ocean-news.com/newsletter/2573-ocean-acidification-in-the-southern-ocean
Morning Star
Professor Stanley Cohen has died at
the age of 70 after a long illness. In
1972 he became Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex
and received an honorary doctorate from the University of
Essex in 2003.
PolitiFact Georgia
In an article about the increasing number of Americans in prison,
the The International Centre for Prison Studies, based at the
University of Essex is mentioned. The Centre
keeps very detailed information about
prison populations around the world and its
World Prison Population List is widely used.
Monday 14 January
GP online
Using
data from the British Household Panel Survey, it was discovered that
people with general psychological distress were 33% more likely to
develop type 2 diabetes within the next twenty
years.
American Psychologist
Read about research carried out by Professor Elaine Fox from the
Department of Psychology about research
which may explain why anxious
people often have trouble banishing
worrying thoughts.
Link:
http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov01/sw.aspx
Daily Gazette
A series of talks on historical Colchester figures will be taking
place at firstsite over the next few months. One of the talks,
taking place on 21 February, will be given by Professor John Gillies
from the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies and
James Raven from the Department of History.
Association of Business Schools
Professor Anthony Forster, Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Essex has written his first blog.
Link:
http://www.associationofbusinessschools.org/story/vice-chancellor%E2%80%99s-podcast-and-blog-encourage-debate-university%E2%80%99s-regional-role
Sunday 13 January
Arabia MSN News
Amr Abdulrahman, a political
analyst and PhD student at the University of
Essex comment on the Dostour Party.
Link:
http://arabia.msn.com/news/middle-east/1130588/dostour-party-pounces-into-the-politi/
Daily Mail
The Daily Mail speaks to University of Essex law graduate, Tina
Renton, who studied for a law degree and then brought her
tormentor to justice. She has now written a book
'Can’t Hide'.
Link:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261312/Tina-Renton-I-trained-lawyer--jailed-stepfather-raped-age-six.html
Saturday 12 January
The Fiji Times
Dr Visagaperuman Ramachandran,
an alumnus from the University of Essex will join the Fiji
National University. He will specialise
in opto-electronics and electronics engineering.
East Anglian Daily Times
A series of talks on historical Colchester figures immortalised
in stone on Colchester's Town Hall will be taking
place at firstsite over the next few months. The first talk will
take place on Thursday 24 January entitled 'The Building and the
Figures. One of the talks, looking at Thomas Audley and Samuel
Harsnett will be given by Professor John Gillies from the Department
of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies and James Raven from the
Department of History in February.
Friday 11 January
Women's Health
Hazel Pettifor, a PhD student from the University of Essex found that
in a survey of over 5,000 single people and couples, almost 70
percent of women who live alone will recycle their waste as opposed
to only 58 percent of single men. 80 percent of couples claimed to
recycle their waste. Findings suggest that women are better at
recycling than men.
The Telegraph
Public Sector Executive
BBC
A hotline has been set up for people who are interested in adopting
children and is being co-ordinated by three charities, one of the
which is the Coram Children's Legal Centre
which is based at the University of Essex.
BBC Essex
Professor John Gillies interviewed about new talk series on the
history of Colchester being launched at firstsite this month
involving Essex academics plus local historians, archaeologists and
architectural experts.
www.bbc.in/13nOgrW (forward
to 2h30).
BBC News
The Ministry of Justice is
planning to close seven jails in England and Wales and is
considering building a giant "super prison".
University of Essex Emeritus
Professor of Prison
Studies,
Andrew Coyle says he
has a feeling of déjà vu about this plan.
Link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20972550
Daily Gazette
A series of talks on historical Colchester figures will be taking
place at firstsite over the next few months. One of the talks,
taking place on 21 February, will be given by Professor John Gillies
from the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies and
James Raven from the Department of History.
Daily Gazette
The University of Essex are organising a week of events to mark
Holocaust Memorial Week. The events will focus on the arts.
Daily Gazette
Professor Mike Brewer from the University of Essex will be advising
Scottish politicians as part of a special taskforce to help form a
welfare system if the country becomes independent.
Essex County Standard
The University of Essex table tennis team have an eight point
advantage in the Colchester and District Table Tennis League
division three.
Essex County Standard
Since 2007, Professor Rainer Schulze has been instrumental in
organising the University's annual Holocaust Memorial Week and it's
one of the biggest events in the country. One of the highlights this
year will be the presentation of the first Dora Love Memorial Prize,
awarded in memory of Dora, a Stutthof concentration camp survivor
who died in 2011.
Essex County Standard
Wivenhoe House has been awarded a four-star rating by the AA and the
restaurant was awarded two rosettes.
CNN
and 25 other news outlets around the world
Researchers from the University of Essex
discovered that those who talk to people when their mobile phone is
near them reported feeling less trust and
less empathy during conversations, even if the phone isn't being
used.
This is money
A new exhibition of 150 vintage photographs
by Man Ray is on show at the Portrait Gallery in
London. A catalogue with an introductory essay by
Professor Marina Warner
from the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies
at the University of Essex has been produced to
accompany the exhibition.
Wednesday 9 January
BBC Radio 4 - Women's Hour
Dr Jackie Turton from the Department of
Sociology discusses maternal incest
and the effect this has on children. You can
listen to the interview here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p013jww5
East Anglian Daily Times
Steven Russell interviews the Essex Book Festival Director, Belinda
Farrell who talks about the support she receives from partners
including the University of Essex and about up and coming events,
including those taking place at the University of Essex.
Link:
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/features/essex_book_festival_2013_dr_who_the_towie_effect_and_more_1_1787277
Accounting Web
The winning team will be nominated by PQ readers and selected
by a judging panel comprising Professor Prem Sikka
from Essex Business School will be part of the judging panel for the
2013 PQ Accountancy Team of the Year Award.
Education Business – online
An Institute for Social and Economic Research study on free school
meal take-up was cited in an article about how to encourage more
families to register for the scheme.
Link:
http://www.educationbusinessuk.net/features/8/3207-more-than-just-nutrition
BBC Essex
Professor Paul Whiteley discusses the UK's relationship with Europe
on the 40th anniversary of joining the Common Market.
Link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p012b943/Dave_Monk_04_01_2013/
(Professor Whiteley interview starts after 12 minutes)
Colchester Gazette
The Gazette reports on the successes of the University’s table
tennis team
Colchester Gazette
The University is mentioned in the Gazette’s round-up of the year’s
news including mentions of Professor Anthony Forster’s appointment
as Vice-Chancellor and the opening of Wivenhoe House.
Tuesday 8 January
The Guardian
Professor Diane Elson, chair of the UK
Women's Budget Group comments on Government benefit cuts.
Link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/07/nick-clegg-protests-shirkers
Daily Gazette
University of Essex Registrar and Secretary, Bryn Morris was one of
the VIP guests at the Colchester Sixth Form College awards held at
Charter Hall last week.
Movers and shakers
The Mackman Group, a Colchester Marketing and research firm
with an office at the University of Essex have taken on two new
staff to work as client leads.
Monday 7 January
Enterprise Networking Planet
Software defined networking (SDN)
ADVA Optical are a leading
sponsor of OpenFlow and have
established a test bed at the University of Essex.
Link:
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/datacenter/datacenter-blog/carrier-class-sdn-what-it-means-for-the-enterprise.html
The South African.com
Professor Stanley Cohen has died at
the age of 70 after a long illness. In
1972 he became Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex
and received an honorary doctorate from the University of
Essex in 2003.
Link:
http://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/sa-born-moral-panic-sociologist-stanley-cohen-passes-away.htm
Sackville Tribune
Sir Nigel Rodley will be speaking at
Mount Allison on Wednesday as part
of the university’s annual President’s Speakers Series. The lecture
will be entitled 'Lighting the
Darkness: Reflections on Human Rights Advocacy'.
The Scotsman and more than 20 other media outlets
Professor Mike Brewer from the Institute for Social and Economic
Research (ISER) is part of an expert panel set up by the Scottish
government to look at the potential structure of the welfare system
in an independent Scotland.
Gazette
East Anglian Daily Times
Professor Elaine Fox will be discussing whether happiness is in
people's genes and how we can influence our outlook on life at this
week’s Café Scientifique.
Gazette
Highlights for Essex Book Festival in 2013.
Psychology Today
Research on friendship by the late Professor Ray Pahl is quoted in a
feature on relationships.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201212/the-mixed-bag-buddy-and-other-friendship-conundrums
Connect-World - Online
Political economy and international relations graduate Rodrigo de la
Parra discusses the Multi-stakeholder model in the management of
Internet critical resources. Rodrigo is Vice President of ICANN
(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) for Latin
America and the Caribbean.
http://www.connect-world.com/~cwiml/index.php/component/k2/item/18641-the-multi-stakeholder-model-in-the-management-of-internet-critical-resources
Cronaca Diretta
ISER research on recycling covered by Cronaca Diretta in Italy.
http://www.cronacadiretta.it/dettnews.php?idx=8&pg=14974
Sunday 6 January
Observer
www.guardian.co.uk
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Jules Pretty is
quoted in article reviewing problems for funding of postgraduate
courses due to Government policy changes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jan/05/studentsphds-reality-funding-gap
Friday 4 January
BBC Essex
Professor Paul Whiteley talks about UK’s relationship with Europe on
the 40th anniversary of the UK joining the European Common Market.
Link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p012b943/Dave_Monk_04_01_2013/
Essex County Standard
Work has started on a £21 million business school at the University
of Essex and is due to finish by the end of 2013. The £22 million
Meadows student accommodation which is the first part of the
development is due to be completed in August. Plans have also been
submitted for a Parkside Office village to be opened in January
2014.
Daily Gazette
Wivenhoe House has been awarded a four-star rating by the AA and the
restaurant was awarded two rosettes.
Essex County Standard
Highlights from this year's Essex Book Festival include Atul Kochar
cooking curries from his new book at Wivenhoe House and Sandi
Toksvig talking about her new book, Valentine Grey at the University
of Essex.
Daily Gazette
Professor Elaine Fox will talk about her book 'Rainy Brain, Sunny
Brain' at a Café Scientifique event next week.
Daily Gazette
Neil D'Arcy-Jones interviews Professor Rainer Schulze, the Director
of the Human Rights Centre.
Essex County Standard
The Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA), the Essex
Transitional Justice Network and the Department of Literature, Film,
and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex have collaborated to
stage a major new exhibition at firstsite. The exhibiton
features the work of leading Guatemale-based artist David Pérez
Karmadavis.
Essex County Standard
Hazel Pettifor, a PhD student from the University of Essex found that
in a survey of over 5,000 single people and couples, almost 70
percent of women who live alone will recycle their waste as opposed
to only 58 percent of single men. 80 percent of couples claimed to
recycle their waste. Findings suggest that women are better at
recycling than men.
Thursday 3 January
The Province
Dr Andrew Przybylski, a social scientist
from the University of Essex says
nature makes us nicer people because it helps to put us in greater
touch with our authentic selves.
Link:
http://blogs.theprovince.com/2013/01/03/why-nature-makes-us-naturally-happy/
University Business
The CUBO (College & University Business Officers)
annual awards will take place at Wivenhoe House in July.
Peter Church, Director
of Commercial Services at the University of Essex pioneered the
Awards.
Link:
http://www.universitybusiness.co.uk/?q=features%2fentry-now-open-uliving-cubo-awards-2013%2f5570
Daily Gazette
Work has started on a £21 million business school at the University
of Essex and is due to finish by the end of 2013. The £22 million
Meadows student accommodation which is the first part of the
development is due to be completed in August. Plans have also been
submitted for a Parkside Office village to be opened in January
2014.
PhysOrg
Dana Pavel from the School of Computer Science and
Electronic Engineering has developed a desktop-based MyRoR platform
for lifestyle management. The project – funded by the Engineering
and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Technology Strategy
Board – is looking at personal and social communication services for
health and lifestyle monitoring.
Link:
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-life-coach.html
Wednesday 2 January
Essex County Standard
Highlights from this year's Essex Book Festival include Atul Kochar
cooking curries from his new book at Wivenhoe House, Sandi Toksvig
talking about her new book, Valentine Grey at the University of
Essex in Colchester and Michael Woodford, former chief executive of
Olympus talking about the accounting fraud he uncovered at an event
at the University of Essex's Southend campus.
Natural News
Researchers from the Institute for Social and Economic Research
(ISER) at Essex and Oxford University have found a strong connection
between children born using IVF treatments and higher than normal
rates of asthma.
Thenational.ae
An article about falling church attendances mentions Professor David
Voas, Professor of Population Studies at the University of Essex,
who has been commissioned to research church growth and decline.
December
Saturday 29 December
Guardian.co.uk
and 15 other news outlets
Hazel Pettifor, PhD student from the University of Essex found that
in a survey of over 5,000 single people and couples, almost 70
percent of women who live alone will recycle their waste as opposed
to only 58 percent of single men. 80 percent of couples claimed to
recycle their waste. Findings suggest that women are better at
recycling than men.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/dec/29/single-men-rubbish-at-recycling
International Quaran News
‘Muslims are the most likely of all groups to be identified with the
concept of Britishness,’ a recent report by the Institute for Social
and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex has found.
Daily Mail Online and 14 other
news outlets
Professor Dawn Ades was awarded a CBE for services to higher
education and art history in the New Year’s Honours List.
Friday 28 December
Essex County Standard
Professor Jay Mitra from the Essex Business School
has been given two awards for best research
papers at the Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship
annual conference.
Essex County Standard
The Essex County Standard looks back on 2012 and mentions the visit
of the Duke of Kent when he officially opened Wivenhoe House.
The New Zealand Herald
Dr Richard Cornes, senior lecturer of law at the
University of Essex writes about the Maori Council's water rights
appeal which is to be heard by the Supreme Court at the end of
January.
Link:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10856397
Thursday 27 December
Echo
Executive Chef at Wivenhoe House, Paul Boorman is interviewed by the
Echo about his food memories, favourite foods and ideal dinner
guests.
Wednesday 26 December
Thomson Reuters – UK- Online
and 58 other news outlets
Professor Prem Sikka is mentioned for his research on tax avoidance.
Monday 24 December
Biomed Central
An 18-year follow up study from the British
Household Panel Survey, conducted by the Institute of Social and
Economic Research has revealed that higher levels of psychological
distress are associated with a higher risk of incident diabetes.
The Guardian Nigeria
Bunmi Awoniyi, an Essex alumni who achieved a Bachelor of Law in
1986, was recently appointed as a judge in the United States.
Sunday 23 December
Sunday Times Online
Dr Gavin Sandercock, Senior Lecturer in Sports Science at the
University of Essex, comments on the recent decrease in child
fitness.
East Anglian Daily Times
Professor Jay Mitra from the Essex Business School was awarded the
best paper award in the science and technology track for ‘Managing
R&D for Innovation and the Strategic Deployment of Knowledge Workers
in Technology-Driven Organizations: A Case Study from India’, and
the award in the entrepreneurship in minority groups track for the
paper titled ‘Egocentric Network Analysis of Personal Networks and
Growth Aspirations of Ethnic Minority Female Entrepreneurs: The Case
of Immigrant and British Born Pakistani Female Entrepreneurs’ at the
Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) annual
conference in Dublin.
Saturday 22 December
Big News Network
Toronto Telegraph
Medical Replies
Medical News Today
medilexicon
According to the Essex Autonomy Project at the University of Essex,
doctors making decisions concerning the best interests of
debilitated patients should also take into account the interests of
others involved.
Friday 21 December
planetearth.nerc.ac.uk
New research carried out by Dr David Suggett, senior lecturer in
marine biogeochemistry at the University of Essex, shows that non
calcifying relatives of corals can flourish under conditions of
ocean acidification.
guardian.co.uk
A report by the Royal Society about the devastating impact of
population growth was picked out as one of the highlights for
environmental news for 2012. Professor Jules Pretty, Pro Vice
Chancellor (Sustainability and Resources), was one of 22 leading
experts who prepared the report. He said: “In material terms it will
be necessary for most developed countries to abstain from certain
sorts of consumption, such as CO2. We cannot conceive of a world
that is going to be as unequal as it is now. We must bring the 1.3
billion people living on less than a $1.25 a day out of absolute
poverty. It's critical to slow population growth in those countries
which cannot keep up with services.”
Link:
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/dec/21/drought-icemelt-superstorm-environment-review-2012
Huffington Post
Prospect- Online
Understanding Society, the UK household longitudinal study run by
the Institute for Economic and Social Research at the University of
Essex is mentioned with reference to a decrease in the ‘white’
population of London.
BBC Essex
Professor Philip Hancock from Essex Business School was
interviewed about his research into the role of Santa.
Essex County Standard
Wivenhoe House have launched their own specially-commissioned gin.
The gin is 40 per cent proof with juniper, orange zest, coriander,
elderflower and Earl Grey tea flavours.
Essex County Standard
A web poll carried out by the National Policy monitor which is based
at the University of Essex has discovered that two-thirds of people
know nothing about Britain's Supreme Court.
Essex County Standard
Professor Philip Hancock from Essex Business School has carried out
research into the role of the Santa. He interviewed a number of
Father Christmases working in stores and shopping centres in London
and the South East.
Essex County Standard
The Parachute Regiment won the 24-hour row off between students from the University of Essex Rowing Club and soldiers from
the Parachute Regiment.
Essex County Standard
Pupils from Willow Brook Primary, St Andrew's Junior School and
Millfields Primary School visited the University of Essex to learn
more about Human Rights as part of the Arts and Human Rights in
Education project developed by Dr Aoife Daly from the Human Rights
Centre and School of Law and Dr Lisa Wade from the School of
Philosophy and Art History.
Essex County Standard
The Mackman Group, a Colchester Marketing and research firm
with an office at the University of Essex have taken on two new
staff to work as client leads.
Essex County Standard
Les Bell, a former systems programmer at the University of Essex is
publishing his first collection of poetry at the Wivenhoe Bookshop
this weekend.
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