University of Essex in the press...

Below are examples of recent University press and broadcast coverage. Please note that all websites are external and will take you out of the Communications website.

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An archive of recent coverage is available online. A full archive of media coverage is also held in the Communications Office.

The University of Essex in the Press

June 2011

30 June

There's no good reason for this inequality
The THE features a table of how Women's pay compares with Men's at UK universities. View the article and table here.
THE

Points aren't everything
Ray Lashley, Senior Planning Officer at the University writes a letter to the THE about why many students accepted into English universities have no Universities and Colleges Admissions service points.
THE

Open Air Theatre Regents Park The Beggars Opera
Students from the East 15 Acting School have taken part in a production of The Beggars Opera in Regents Park.
Classical Source
The Stage

Pollution sniffing robot fish could be the ocean's best hope
Rather than sending divers into the Pacific to check for contaminants leaking from Fukushima, it would be great if we had an undersea robot that could safely do such a job. The University of Essex has made a robot fish which is completely waterproof and swims through the water with amazingly accurate fish-like movements.
DVICE
Trend Hunter

29 June

First Site arts centre set to open
The First Site centre for the visual arts is set to open in Colchester, Essex, in September, with architectural design and interiors by Rafael Viñoly, branding by Marcia Mihotich, wayfinding by Aukett Brockliss Guy and print materials by A Practice for Everyday Life. The building will include purpose-built gallery spaces for major international exhibitions and will also feature a display space to showcase works from the University of Essex’s internationally important collection of Latin American art, as well as extensive learning spaces for children, students and community groups.
Design Week
Architectural Record

Dream 100

Professor Colin Riordan interviewed on the higher education white paper, announced on Tuesday

Ray Pahl, 1935-2011

Professor Pahl went on to join the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, where he worked on Unilever-funded research on the household and on urban issues with the Archbishop of Canterbury's Faith in the City project.

Times Higher Education Online

First site arts centre set to open

The First Site centre for the visual arts is set to open in Colchester, Essex, in September. The building will include purpose-built gallery spaces for major international exhibitions and will also feature a display space to showcase works from the University of Essex’s internationally important collection of Latin American art, as well as extensive learning spaces for children, students and community groups.

Design Week

Basel Regulators Said to Scrutinize Banks’ ‘Flawed’ Risk-Weighting Methods

Global banking regulators are moving their attention to disparities in the way firms measure the riskiness of their assets on concern lenders may be using their internal models to mitigate rules aimed at making them boost capital.“The basic problem with all this data is can you trust the banks to tell you the bad news?” said Prem Sikka, an accounting professor at the University of Essex.

Bloomberg News Online

BusinessWeek

New research reveals extent of family and sibling bullying

Findings from 'Understanding Society', a study of 40,000 UK households funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, reveals a significant link between parental behaviour and the prevalence of bullying in the home, regardless of the parents, wealth or how educated they are.

PhysOrg.com

Emma brings a spine-tingling shakespeare performance to the castle

There cannot be anything more spine-tingling for an actor than to recite the All the World's a Stage speech at the location it was written for. Emma Pallant came to be at Essex University in the late Nineties, where she studied for an MA in Shakespeare Studies.

Gazette

Young students' celebration time

The brightest youngsters in Tendring have graduated after taking the University challenge. Gifted and talented ten and 11-year-olds from primary schools across the district met at Essex University's Colchester campus for a day of learning, before donning gowns.
Gazette

28 June

BAFTA Honors John Lasseter and David Yates
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles® (BAFTA Los Angeles) will honor Academy Award® winning writer/director John Lasseter with the Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment, and BAFTA winning director David Yates with the John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing at the 2011 BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards on Wednesday, November 30 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Broadway World

Join Prof Young's hunt for reserve's hidden treasure
Professor Charles Young of the Department of Lost Historical Treasures is back! A new adventure has been planned for Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve. Neil D'Arcy-Jones from the Gazette who organises this treasure hunt says that Colchester and the surrounding area has a wealth of untapped history from Elizabeth I and William Gilberd to John Constable who lived in Dedham and who painted Wivenhoe Park, now home to the University of Essex. The University of Essex was home to one of his quests.
Gazette

Uni's Azeez finishes the season with a knockout
University of Essex ABC fighter Danny Azeez finished the season with a big win scoring a knockout at the Pedro boxing show in Hackney.
Gazette

The Young Athlete - Volume Xiii of the Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine
This essential new volume in the Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine series, published under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee, provides a thorough overview of the unique physiologic characteristics, responsiveness to training, and possible health hazards involved in the training, coaching, and medical care of young athletes. Professor Ralph Beneke from the Centre for Sports and Exercise Science has written a chapter on Testing for Aerobic Capacity together with a colleague from the University of Würzburg.
ARN online

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