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The University of Essex in the Press
March 2012
Saturday 31 March
Facing the facts: Maths adds up to a well-paid career
Research published in
the Economic Journal this year by Essex University economists looked
at the relationship between gender and risk-taking.
The research showed that girls in single sex schools were
significantly more likely to take risks than girls in co-ed schools.
Leicester Mercury
From London chic to a rattling good Suffolk pub
Read about University of Essex graduate, Rebekkah Scalco
who pursued a high-flying hospitality
career in London before deciding to return to her roots with chef
husband, Rino. They decided to take on the Brewers Arms at
Rattlesden, offering an all-day service and making full use of the
rich array of produce on their doorstep.
East Anglian Daily Times
Friday 30 March
Office Gardens: Organic Fun for Your Employees
A University of Essex study found that even five minutes a day of
outdoor activity can substantially boost mood and self-esteem. Thus,
maybe that half hour you or your employees spend tending the sprouts
in the sunshine will become an investment in positivity that fuels
healthy office interaction. Office gardeners also say that working
alongside both superiors and inferiors has an equalizing effect on
the corporate pecking order. “It takes the politics out of the job,”
said Sheila Golden, a senior manager at PepsiCo, to the New York
Times. “Everybody is on the same level in the garden.”
Mother Earth News
Funding Update: NIH Grants awarded
Dr Metodi Metodiev from the Department of
Biological Sciences has been awarded $44,370 towards his project
entitled ' Identification of new
markers and drug
target candidates
for triple negative
Breast Cancer'.
Genome Web Daily News
How to forecast a financial crisis
A scientific understanding of the global economy requires better
access to and analysis of data.
Read comments made by Edward Tsang, Director
of the Centre for Computational
Finance and Economic
Agents at the University of Essex.
Financial Times
Uni's student numbers are set to go down
The Government's Higher Education Funding Council for England
predicts 34 universities including Essex, will see a substantial
drop in student numbers in September.
The University said student numbers had risen hugely over
recent years due to the Government's review of higher education it
had planned for a small drop.
Colchester
Gazette
Town to host Olympic Team
Venezuela looks set to base its Olympic athletes in
Colchester.
A delegation came to
Colchester to check the final details and tour facilities, including
the University's sports centre, earlier this week.
Coverage includes interviews with Director of Sport David Williams
and Gordon Charlesworth, coach of the University of Essex Amateur
Boxing Club.
Essex County Standard
My book's made me think, what if that was me...?
Author Jodi Picoult discusses the moral dilemma at the heart of Lone
Wolf ahead of her appearance at the Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall as part
of the Essex Book Festival.
Essex County Standard
King closing in on Games
Dominic King admitted feeling buoyant about his Olympic chances
after clocking a London qualifying time in Slovakia.
Essex County Standard
Ace Adrian is champion
Adrian Martin made history after being crowned the University of
Essex Amateur Boxing Club’s first-ever British Universities
champion.
Essex County Standard
Thursday 29 March
New AVP-academic
Simon Fraser University's board of
governors has approved the appointment of SFU economics
Professor Gordon Myers as associate
vice-president, academic (AVPA) for a five-year term commencing
1 September
2012. He has been an academic visitor at the University of
Essex and Bonn University and has published research articles in the
leading economics journals and field journals in public finance and
urban economics.
SFU News online
Poet to direct play
Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott will be directing his place
Pantomime at the University of Essex's Lakeside Theatre between
3 and 5 May.
Colchester Gazette
Students' big clear-up
Students are planning a huge spring clean in the
communities around the University of Essex. Volunteers from a number
of Student Union societies will clear litter in a number of areas on
25 April.
Colchester Gazette
Developments in Essex could get £11.8m government money
Backing for two schemes in Colchester and one in Chelmsford and
Harlow are among 12 approved by the South East Local Enterprise
Partnership (SELEP). It will now put them forward for consideration
to receive money from the government's Growing Places Fund. One of
the projects, the Parkside Office Village at the University of
Essex, could get £2.4m to build 16 two-storey business units.
BBC News
Ecotherapy vs. Retail Therapy -- Which is Better?
Tempted to splurge to beat the blues or deal with stress? A study by
the University of Essex in the UK says you're better off taking a
walk in nature.
Huffington Post
Siblings
You know that
stereotype of a snotty, spoiled only child? The kid who never learns
how to share or socialize and acts way too grown up because they
never get any playtime with other children? The Observer ran a
report from the Understanding Society study in Britain that found
only children to be happier children. And the more siblings they
had, the less happy they were.
The Gloss.com
Physically It: Choose health rather than easy vending
An article on naturalnews.com by Mike Adams titled “Jamie Oliver
proves it:
Healthy food raises
children’s test
scores” , states that healthy foods not
only raised test scores, but also lowered the percent of absences
due to sickness. The study conducted by the Institute for Social and
Economic Research at the University of
Essex focused their research on 11-year-old students and a healthy
lunch system.
Dixie Sun
Labour unveils five pledges to help squeezed middle
Initiatives by
successive governments to provide better access to higher education
for young people from less-privileged backgrounds have failed
according to Understanding Society, the world’s largest longitudinal
study. Findings show just a five per cent increase in degrees among
children of routine and manual workers.
politics.co.uk
Wednesday 28 March
Olympic team coming to
town
Venezuelan athletes have chosen Colchester as their base for the
Olympic games. About 60 athletes will stay in the town and use
sports facilities, including at the University of Essex.
Victor Vargas, technical director of the Venezuelan Olympic
Committee, said: "The gym is terrific and the atmosphere at the
university is entirely appropriate for our athletes."
David Williams, head of the sports centre, said: "This is a
fantastic culmination of several years of hard work."It is hoped the
agreement will be confirmed by the end of the week.
Colchester
Gazette
Celebrate in style at uni venue
The University of Essex's Southend campus is hiring out the
Union, in Elmer Approach, for wedding receptions, school proms,
birthday parties or corporate events.
Echo
Top chef joins Wivenhoe
House
Wivenhoe House, the luxury country house hotel in Colchester opening
in summer 2012, has appointed award-winning Paul Boorman as its
Executive Chef.
Paul Boorman, a Master Chef of Great Britain and former Essex Chef
of the Year, has gained a reputation as one of the most innovative
and forward-thinking executive head chefs in the region.
Eat Out Magazine
Craft Guild of Chefs
finchannel.com
caterersearch.com
David Cameron urges
Scottish Tories to be more aggressive in their politics
An opinion poll by the British Election Study (BES) has found that
most British voters still oppose independence for Scotland.
The study found that while 35% of Scots favoured independence, a
result in line with several other polls, only 25% of voters in
England and Wales agreed, a figure lower than some other studies.
When
voters were asked to choose between full independence and a more
powerful devolved parliament, those supporting independence fell to
27% in Scotland and 20% in England.
Paul Whiteley, one of the principal figures in the BES, said he
believed Salmond would lose the independence referendum.
Read full Guardian article.
The Guardian
The Herald
Daily Record
Tuesday 27 March
Uni rescues couple's wedding reception
The University of Essex's Southend campus has stepped in to help a
young couple whose wedding plans were thrown into jeopardy after
their reception venue closed. The University of Essex has offered
them use of the Students' Union bar in Elmer Approach for free on 30
June.
Echo
Uni lecturer is brain behind Olympic
plan
Dr Valerie Gladwell, a senior lecturer in physiology is the
sports scientist behind a £5 million Olympics-inspired Wellcome
Trust project which will see every school in the
country receive a free experiment kit to learn how their bodies work
during exercise, movement and rest.
Colchester Gazette
Soldier student strives to study
against odds
Lance Bombadier Michael Aberdeen has had his
University of Essex Online course customised to help him while he is
away serving in Afghanistan as he will have limited access to the
internet. Michael started studying the course 19 months ago
and aims to go on to complete a BA (hons) degree in business and
management.
Colchester Gazette
Uni delight as Adrian becomes first
champ
Adrian Martin made history after being crowned Essex University
ABC's first-ever champion. The 19-year old secured a 24-3 victory
after producing a marvellous display of boxing.
Colchester Gazette
Drought-tolerant pea varieties to be studied
ABSTRESS, a five-year, €3m (£2.5m) European project, is being led by
the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA), which says it will
"revolutionise the way in which plant varieties are produced". For
the project, which has been announced as much of the UK is gripped
by drought, the interaction of drought stress and fusarium infection
in peas will be tested. Under laboratory conditions, hundreds of
these plants will be subjected to drought and/or infection with the
soil fungus, fusarium.
Project partners in the UK include the University of Essex,
Colchester and the University of Aberystwyth, Wales.
Farmers Weekly
Monday 26 March
Garrison youth turns university lecturer
Read about University of Essex PhD student,
29-year old Dr André Haughton, an
economist and lecturer at the University of the West Indies.
The Gleaner
Artists take inspiration from the female weavers of
South
America
The Andean weaving tradition has been
passed down from mother to daughter for thousands of years
and now this ancient South American artform has been explored
in an exhibition at the Firstsite gallery in Colchester. Unravelling
Threads features a collection of artists who have been inspired by
issues of textile production by the indigenous women in the Andean
region. All the work on show at Firstsite was leant to the gallery
from the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA) at the
University of Essex.
Echo
Monique Wilson to star in 'King and I'
Theatre actress Monique Wilson confirmed
on Monday that she will be playing Anna Leonowens in the upcoming
local production of “The King and I” later this year
in the Philippines. She is taking some
time off from her job at the East 15 Acting School, where she
manages the MA/MFA Acting course for
international
students.
ABSCBS News.com
Hundreds go the distance for charity
Thousands of people across Suffolk and Essex took to the streets,
parks and athletic tracks to raise money for Sport Relief. After a
record-breaking £50million was raised during Friday night’s
broadcast, attention turned to the hundreds of Sport Relief Mile
races taking place yesterday. In Essex, there was a race around the
University of Essex’s Colchester Campus.
East Anglian Daily Times
Developments in Essex could get £11.8m government money
Close to £12m could be given to four development projects in Essex.
Backing for two schemes in Colchester and one in Chelmsford and
Harlow are among 12 approved by the South East Local Enterprise
Partnership (SELEP). It will now put them forward for consideration
to receive money from the government's Growing Places Fund. One of
the projects, the Parkside Office Village at the University of
Essex, could get £2.4m to build 16 two-storey business units. Read
the article
here.
BBC News
When it comes to feeding, just what is really best for your baby?
Mother Elizabeth opted against routine breastfeeding...now Essex
University research suggests it’s far better for your child. Read
the article
here.
Gazette
Park and ride funds are given go-ahead
A government investment in Colchester totalling £7.4million has been
approved. The South East Local Enterprise Partnership has agreed to
loan £5million to help fund Colchester’s first park and ride and
£4.2million to build offices at Essex University. The university
funding will allow it to build the first eight units of the planned
Parkside office village, which will be occupied by law firms,
non-government organisations and related companies.
Gazette
Woman who wove stories into works of art
The Andean weaving tradition has been passed down from mother to
daughter for thousands of years. Now this ancient, South American,
art form has been explored in an exhibition at the Firstsite gallery
in Colchester. All the work on show at Firstsite was lent to the
gallery, from the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (Escala)
at the University of Essex.
Gazette
Law firm and university to stage ‘Essex Sporting
Challenge’
Essex-based law firm
Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP getting into the Olympic spirit by
teaming up with the University of Essex to host the inaugural Essex
Sporting Challenge.
The challenge is
being held at the university’s Wivenhoe Park campus on the afternoon
of July 6 and is open to everyone, whether as an individual or a
business entering a group of participants. With mini-games such as
frisbee-discus and a table tennis relay filling the afternoon, it
will be an opportunity for organisations to network and enjoy the
activities simultaneously.
Cambridge First
Herts 24
Gazette
EADT
Town to host Latin American visitors
Delegates from the Venezuelan Ministry of Sport are due in
Colchester next week to visit potential training camps for their
Olympic athletes. Colchester has four venues accredited by the
London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games as
official Pre Games Training Camps. These include Colchester
Garrison, the University of Essex, Leisure World Colchester and SD
Martial Arts Centre.
Gazette
Norwich Evening News
Friday 23 March
David Cameron urges Scottish Tories to be more aggressive
in their politics
An opinion poll by the
University of Essex's British
Election Study has found that most British voters still oppose
independence for Scotland. Paul Whiteley, one of the principal
figures in the BES, said he believed Salmond would lose the
independence referendum. "If there was a referendum in Scotland
tomorrow, it would reject independence and that's probably going to
continue until 2014 because I don't think that the SNP can change
that," he said. Read the article
here.
The Guardian
The Daily Record
Herald Scotland
Town
to host Latin American visitors
Delegates from the Venezuelan Ministry of Sport are due in
Colchester next week to visit potential training camps for their
Olympic athletes. Members of the Venezuelan Olympic Committee and
Ministry for Sport will visit facilities at Colchester Garrison,
Leisure World, the University of Essex, SD Martial Arts Centre and
the Colchester School of Gymnastics to see if Colchester has what it
takes to host the country's athletes ahead of the London Olympics.
Essex County Standard
Colchester Gazette
Cambridge First
Herts 24
Cambs 24
Norwich Evening News
East Anglian Daily Times
Green art plea against ecocide
A children's environmental art competition has
been launched by the University of Essex. As part of a one-day
conference on 'ecocide' - crimes against nature - on 31 March,
children have been asked to submit environmentally themed art to be
shown at the conference.
Essex County Standard
Park-and-ride on the way thanks to
£5million loan
The South East Local Enterprise Partnership is
expected to hand £2.4 million to the University of Essex to help get
the Knowledge Gateway project off the ground. The university funding
will allow it to build the first eight office units of the planned
Parkside office village. The village will be part of the Knowledge
Gateway project, the centrepiece of which will be the planned
International Centre for Democracy, Peace and Human Rights.
Essex County Standard
Gazette
Did the Budget strike the right
balance?
University of Essex student Daniel Devine, 19, said
raising the tax bracket may relieve students who work part-time.
Essex County Standard
Spring Cleaning, Mental And Physical
A study by Allison Booth, a Professor of
Economics at the University of Essex and the Australian National
University, has found that girls are more willing to take
chances when surrounded by other girls than they are if they're in
mixed-sex groups. In the experiment, a group of girls could choose
whether or not to place a bet on each flip of a coin. If they won,
they got 11pounds. If they lost, they got 2 pounds. Or they could do
nothing and get 5 pounds. Statistically, the best option is to place
the bet.
Huff Post Women
Crikey Media
Thursday 22 March
BBC Essex
Professor Richard Bartle from School of Computer Science and
Electronic Engineering discusses the support offered to the computer
gaming industry by this week’s budget. You can
listen to the interview
here. The interview starts after 2hrs08.30secs.
Students raise 12k for charity
Business-savvy students at the University
of Essex have raised a record breaking amount of money for The
Prince’s Trust.
The team of enterprising youngsters won the Student Million Makers
Challenge by raising £12,000 – the highest amount ever achieved – to
help the region’s most disadvantaged young people.
Read the article
here.
Comet 24
East Anglian Daily Times
Laurence Twelvetrees
Laurence joined Euromoney in 2011, after completing an MPhil degree
in economics at Cambridge University. He covers foreign exchange
markets, technology and industry news for EuromoneyFXNews.com.
Laurence also holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the
University of Essex and completed a year abroad at Mannheim Business
School in Germany.
EuroMoney
Children’s advice
Cherie Booth QC launched the free online children’s legal advice
services provided by the Coram Children’s Legal Centre last week, as
the charity announced its telephone advice line had received a
record 10,000 calls over the last year.
Law Society Gazette
Colchester's efforts for Sport Relief
Hundreds of runners are due to take part
in a charity run in Colchester this weekend. More than 500
fundraisers are entered in the first Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile
at the University of Essex’s Wivenhoe campus on Sunday.
Essex County Standard
Gazette
Promotion is the icing on the cake for hero Rik
The Seasiders booked their place in NE14Hockey East Men’s League
division two south after Saturday’s thrilling 4-3 victory against
Southend. As the University of Essex lost,
Clacton are now assured of second spot in division three south-east,
behind champions Chelmsford. The timing could hardly be better, with
the club preparing to celebrate their 75th anniversary on April 21.
Clacton, Frinton and Walton Gazette
King's Speech cast member Andrew Malkin dies
Andrew Malkin, an ensemble member in the cast of The King's Speech
who was also understudying the role of Lionel Logue, has died of a
heart attack aged 49, just days before he was due to make his West
End debut. Malkin came late to acting, spending 23 years working in
IT before retraining at East 15 Acting School. He graduated from the
school's MA in Acting course in 2008.
Whatsonstage
Children develop better vocabulary if cared
for by
middle-class grandparents
Young children looked after by middle-class grandparents develop
better vocabulary than those in nurseries, a study has revealed.
They are significantly ahead by the age of three due to the amount
of one-on-one time they spend with a loving adult.
The findings were published in a review of childcare studies by
researchers from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Bryson Purdon
Social Research, Essex University's Institute for Social and
Economic Research and the National Centre for Social Research.
gulfnews.com
Runners line up for
Colchester Sport Relief Mile
Hundreds of runners are set to take part in
Sport Relief Mile in Colchester More than 500 fundraisers will be
taking part in the first ever Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile hosted
by the University of Essex at its Colchester Campus on Sunday.
The Colchester Sport Relief Mile is being
organised through a partnership between the university and Students’
Union.
Gazette
Russian presidential elections: How easy is
it to commit electoral fraud?
Earlier this month, Russians went to the polls to elect a new
president. Vladimir Putin – the current prime minister – won the
vote by a mile, but has since faced fierce protests and several
allegations of vote fixing in an election many say was ‘clearly
skewed’. Dr Sarah Birch, reader in politics at Essex University,
gives her views.
Metro.co.uk
Essex Uni academics say
cycling is good for us
Research by
academics at Essex University has shown that cycling for fun is good
for children’s health.
Led by sports scientist Dr Gavin Sandercock
the study looked at the cycling habits of more than 5,500 children.
Published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise journal,
the research suggests promoting fun cycling activities could be the
best way of increasing physical activity amongst youngsters.
Dr Sandercock said: “Recreational cycling
could potentially serve as a way for children to gain cycling
confidence and improve their abilities and naturally ‘graduate’ to
become habitual active commuters when it is possible for them to do
so.”
Gazette
Could you run a marathon
without training?
London Marathon
entrants have a month of training left for what's seen as one of the
greatest feats of human endurance. Yet Irish twins Jedward claim
they completed the Los Angeles marathon without any training. So is
it possible to run one on a whim?
According to Dr Valerie Gladwell, a senior lecturer in sports and
exercise science at the University of Essex, a person's basic level
of fitness plays a big part in their potential. See article
here
BBC News Online
Students raise £12k for
charity
Business-savvy students at the University of Essex have
raised a record-breaking amount of money for The Prince's Trust. The
team of enterprising youngsters won the Student Million Makers
Challenge by raising £12,000 - the highest amount ever achieved - to
help the region's most disadvantaged young people.
East Anglian Daily Times
Wednesday 21 March
Award for uni’s scheme
Essex University has been shortlisted for a national award for the
work placements it offers its students. An initiative run by the
university, called frontrunners, allows students to take up work
experience around the campus and gives them skills to compete for
jobs. The university hopes it be in line to win the Best Public
Sector title at the National Council for Work Experience awards. For
more information see
here.
Gazette
Tuesday 20 March
Keating makes it three wins on the
bounce
University of Essex southpaw Zac Keating made it three wins out of
three this season with victory over Cheshunt Amateur Boxing Club's
Tommy Harrison.
Colchester Gazette
Budget hopes and fears
Dan Devine is studying politics at the University of Essex is
interviewed about his hopes, fears and expectations for the Budget.
Colchester Gazette
Baby feed plans and IQ link uncertain
“Babies fed on demand do better at school,” reported The Guardian.
The newspaper said that those who “are fed when they are hungry
achieve higher test scores” but that the experience takes its toll
on their mothers. The
study was carried out by researchers from the University of Essex
and the University of Oxford and was funded by the UK’s Economic and
Social Research Council.
The Fraserburgh Herald
This story was featured in over 500 news outlets around the UK
Monday 19 March
Playing Nintendo just got medical backing (the perfect
excuse?)
Researchers at the
University of Essex have found that playing Nintendo Wii Fit can
help improve the mobility of elderly people prone to falling.
The research, published in the Journal of American Geriatrics
Society, found that Wii improved flexibility and mobility in
recurrent fallers and kept them entertained.
Herts and Essex Observer
Harlow Star Series
East 15 Acting School BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre
Graduate Showcase 2012
Opening with a musical number in an acting showcase might be unusual
but the graduates of the East 15 BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre
course are evidently out to prove a point. Without exception this is
an extremely talented year in all disciplines providing the audience
of agents and casting directors with a particularly fulfilling
afternoon’s entertainment.
The Stage
Unravelling Threads
Valeria Paz Moscoso former Head of the Museum Section and Curator of
Exhibitions at the National Museum of Art in La Paz has curated
Unravelling Threads the new exhibition at the University Space at
firstsite.
La Razon
University nominated for award
The University of Essex has been nominated for a national
award for its Frontrunners programme. Through the scheme, students
are given the chance to take up paid placements around the campuses.
Colchester Gazette
Herts and Essex Observer
Harlow Star Series
Seasiders secure promotion after dramatic victory
Clacton Hockey Club made their supporters sweat before securing
promotion thanks to a dramatic victory against Southend, in NE14
Hockey East Men’s League division three south-east on Saturday. And
their comeback made it a promotion-winning celebration as Essex
University - the only side who could catch them - lost to champions
Chelmsford.
Clacton, Frinton and Walton Gazette
Green art contest
A children's environmental art competition has been
launched by the University of Essex part of a one-day conference on
'ecocide' - crimes again nature and has asked children to submit
environmentally-themed art of be shown at the event.
Colchester Gazette
Neil's highlights
Professor Kevin Dutton explores what psychology can
teach us about the art of persuasion at the Lakeside Theatre. The
talk is part of the Essex Book Festival.
Colchester Gazette
Author in town
Award-winning author Jodi Picoult will be talking
about her new novel 'The Lone Wolf' at the University of Essex on 3
April as part of the Essex Book Festival.
East Anglian Daily Times
Big changes needed to bridge the
earnings gap
The Essex Business School, part of the University of Essex shone a
spotlight on the continuing gender pay gap with their own graduate
students. They surveyed former female and male students to find out
the difference in salaries between the sexes with similar
qualifications and experience and found that the female graduated
followed the national trend and earnt less than their male
counterparts.
Colchester Gazette
Echo
Soldier takes his books on tour of Afghanistan
Lance Bombardier Michael Aberdeen leaves for Afghanistan tomorrow
with the prospect of taking on the Taleban and having to keep up
with his studies. And if that wasn’t enough he will have to juggle
with the knowledge his second child will be born while he is away.
The 24-year-old of 12th Regiment Royal Artillery, based on Thorney
Island, Emsworth, has been studying through the University of Essex
for a BA in business to enhance his career prospects within the army
and when he leaves. Read the article
here.
The Portsmouth News
Sunday 18 March
Five minutes to fitness
Dr Dominic Micklewright from the School of Biological Sciences
discusses high intensity training.
Sunday Times – Style magazine
Is feeding on demand better for your baby's IQ?
Babies who are fed on demand are more likely to have a
higher IQ and perform better at school, according to new research.
The study suggests that eight-year-olds who were demand-fed as
infants had IQs that were four or five points higher than those who
were fed to a schedule. Researchers from Essex and Oxford
Universities looked at three types of mothers and babies - babies
who were fed to a schedule, for example every four hours, when they
were four weeks old, those whose mother tried but did not manage to
feed to a schedule, and those who were fed on demand.
Mail on Sunday
This story was featured in over 330 news outlets around
the world
Channel 4 News
Dr Maria Iacovou from the Institute for Social and Economic Research
is about the feeding on demand research. You can view the clip
here.
Dr Maria Iacovou was also featured on BBC
World Service.
Outside is back in
Going outside and into the natural environment could be
exactly what most of us need. Recent studies from around the world
present a convincing argument that nature is a health tonic ripe for
the picking. The British mental health organisation Mind, in its
Ecotherapy report, recommended that ''green exercise'' be considered
as a clinically valid treatment for people experiencing mental
distress. And scientists at the University of Essex found that just
five minutes of green exercise a day resulted in improvements in
mood and self-esteem.
Cooma Monaro Express
This story was also
featured in over 121 news outlets around Australia
Son soldiers on after losing dad to cancer
University of Essex graduate Platoon
commander Lieutenant Will Hoy, 27, heads out to the warzone with 1
Royal Anglian Regiment, known as the Vikings, for a six-month
operational tour next month.
Mercury
Friday 16 March
Labour to 'conquer' youth unemployment
Unemployment reached a 17-year high after another 128,000 joined the
jobless ranks, meaning the total number of unemployed is now 2.64
million. New research from Understanding Society, a study of more
than 40,000 UK households, has examined what is driving this uneven
employment pattern and finds that young people suffer from a
'double-penalty' in their attempts to find and keep a job.
politics.co.uk
Essex University ace Azeex is a worthy
winner
University of Essex cruiser weight Dan Azeex saw off old adversary
Dan Dalton after producing his most polished performance to date.
Essex County Standard
Does breastfeeding improve a baby's life chances?
Researchers at the
Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University
of Essex have been investigating just this, drawing on data from
Unicef’s Baby Friendly Initiative Programme (BFI) among other
studies. Overall, their research points to
breastfeeding having positive effects independent of social class
and home environment. The researchers argue that breastfeeding may
well be an important way to help reduce inequality.
Family GP
A mother of a problem? - mums returning to work
But what's best for the kids? That's the ultimate question
- and the research on that is quite mixed.
A study conducted at the University of
Essex found that children were slower learners when their mums
returned to work before the kids reached the age of three.
BusinessDay.com
Canberra Times
Brisbane Times
The Age
Rader earns doctoral degree
Elizabeth Rader of Stuart earned a doctorate in art history
from Essex University in Great Britain. She also earned a master's
degree from the University of Glasgow in conjunction with Christie's
Auction House London. She has been hired
by the Michael Goedhuis Galery of London, which also has offices in
Beijing and New York.
TC Palm
Thursday 15 March
BBC Essex - Steve Scruton Afternoon
Show
Professor Jules Pretty talks about his book 'The Luminous
Coast' and his talk as part of the Essex Book Festival next week.
You can listen to the interview on the iplayer – click this
link and forward to 39:48.
Leverhulme Trust grants
Research project grant worth £124,184 awarded to Tim Rakow in
Department of Psychology.
THE
Researchers
present findings to Parliament
Dr Mark Breckels and PhD student Nicola Lewis gave a presentation to
MPs in the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee and a panel of
judges. Dr Breckels and Ms Lewis have been studying the role of a
climate-regulating gas plays on ocean food chains.
Colchester
Gazette
Asharq Al-Awsat Interview: Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar
Zebari
Interview with Iraqi Foreign Minister and Essex alumni Hoshyar
Zebari.
Read full
interview.
Asharq-e.com
Plea to MP over action on Iran
THE UK followed the US into war with Iraq on the basis of false
claims about Weapons of Mass Destruction. Now, 16 concerned
constituents have written to Stroud MP Neil Carmichael expressing
concerns over a potential military strike on Iran. ‘We should not
follow such a path again’ they say. The letter was composed by
Stroud resident Judith Large, a policymaker and lecturer, who is
currently a visiting fellow at the University of Essex’s Institute
for Democracy and Conflict Resolution.
Stroud News and Journal
Expert calls for legal protection of Children’s Rights
The Rights of Children should not only be protected but also
included in New Zealand's law, an expert has said. Professor Paul
Hunt, a New Zealander, now at the University of Essex, made this
comment, while speaking at the Human Rights Foundation Annual
General Meeting held in Auckland.
www.indiannewslink.co.nz
Wednesday 14 March
BBC Essex: Steve Scrutton
Masters graduates from the Department of History Samantha Carter and
Ian Yearsley talk about this weekend’s Showcasing Southend event.
Listen to the interview on iPlayer
(interview starts at 1:36:40)
Patients get Wii fit
Dr Murray Griffin being interviewed
about his research into how the Wii Fit can help elderly people who
are recurrent fallers. See more
here
ITV Anglia News
BBC Essex
Free policy see eye
tests go up
The number of people having eye tests
in Scotland has increased since free tests were introduced, a study
has found.
The study was led by Dr Alexandros Zangelidis, who used data from
the British Household Panel and business records from a multi-branch
private ophthalmic optician company operating in north-east
Scotland.
Motherwell Times Series and various other Scottish media
outlets
A healthy teenager is a happy teenager
Teenagers who turn their backs on a healthy
lifestyle and turn to drink, cigarettes and junk food are
significantly unhappier than their healthier peers. New research
also shows that 12-13 is a catalyst age when young people turn away
from the healthy habits of their younger years and start to get
involved in risky behaviours.
The research used information from
Understanding Society, a long-term study of 40,000 UK households
funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Providence Journal Online
Hosepipe bans and
climate change
Professor Ian Colbeck interviewed by
Ian Puckey on BBC Essex Drive about the implications of climate
change in light of the planned hosepipe ban in the area.
BBC Essex
Student scoops prize
King’s College London student
Stephanie Effiom has won a place on Clifford Chance’s summer
vacation scheme and £1,000 for the Build Africa charity following
her victory in the magic circle firm’s ‘Intelligent Aid’
competition.
Part of Clifford Chance’s 2011/12 graduate recruitment activities,
Intelligent Aid asked undergraduates to write a 500-word essay
answering the questions: Trade or aid - what offers a brighter
solution for Africa? And as Africa’s economies develop, what role
can lawyers perform in helping more people in Africa benefit from
economic transformation?
The other student finalists included Iulia Nicolescu of the
University of Essex.
Lawyer 2B
Chilean artist at firstsite
Cecilia Vicuna will perform at firstsite on Sunday 18 March.
Gazette
Felt pen art has
grown up
Feature about Laurence Owen exhibition at Art Exchange.
Gazette
Greek austerity measures
European Union officials don't believe
Greece austerity measures adopted so far will be sufficient -- and
they're demanding additional cuts equivalent to 5.5 percent of the
country's gross domestic product in 2013 and 2014, according to a
report obtained by Reuters.
Greece will hold parliamentary elections in April amid acutely slim
job prospects for younger, career-minded professionals, who are
increasingly looking abroad for work.
"My initial plan was to spend some years abroad and return back to
Greece," Leonidas Karakatsanis, 39, who received his Ph.D. in
political science last year from the University of Essex in England
and has a research fellowship at Panteion University in Athens, told
Bloomberg News. "Now it seems like it's impossible to return to
Greece. I'm starting to imagine myself living abroad for the next 15
to 20 years."
International Business Times - Hong Kong
Tuesday 13 March
Wii console helps elderly avoid falls
Researchers at the University of Essex have found that Nintendo Wii
games consoles have been successful in helping elderly patients
prone to falls.
Colchester Gazette
Essex County Standard
Hosepipe ban and water bill warning
Households face soaring water bills if the region's drought
conditions continue. East Anglian climate expert, Professor Ian
Colbeck said even persistent rainfall over the coming months would
not reverse the hosepipe ban announced yesterday - the first for 20
years.
East Anglian Daily Times
Bury Mercury
Monday 12 March
IDRC discusses United Nations Security Council
Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security
The contribution made by the
International Development Research Centre in support of Canada's
efforts to implement the resolution on women, peace, and security
will be highlighted before the Standing Senate Human Rights
Committee. The committee, which has launched a study into Canada's
contribution to UN Resolution 1325 and other Security Council
resolutions pertaining to women, peace, and security issues, hears
from Colleen Duggan, senior program specialist at IDRC.
Ms Duggan holds a master's in law
(international human rights and humanitarian law) from the
University of Essex.
Financial Content
Sys CON India
KTTC
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University
Women take
more
risks
when
men
are
not
present
New research shows
that women are more likely to take risks when they are surrounded by
other women. The results, published in the February 2012 issue of
the Economic Journal, could help to reduce gender inequality in the
workforce.
In an experiment at the University of Essex, Professor Alison Booth
and Dr Patrick Nolen, tested whether or not girls in single-sex
groups or from single-sex schools had different attitudes towards
risk than girls in co-educational groups or those from
co-educational schools.
www.res.org.uk
Unhealthy children more likely to be unhappy, study finds
Children and young people who choose unhealthy activities have
dramatically lower happiness levels than those with healthier
lifestyles, according to the Economic and Social Research Council.
The Understanding Society study of 40,000 households in the UK found
that regardless of gender, age, family income and parent's
education, unhealthy lifestyles including alcohol consumption and
smoking impacted upon happiness. A survey of 5,000 young people aged
10 to 15 revealed that those who consumed alcohol were four to six
times more likely to be unhappy than those who had not. Those who
did not smoke were five times more likely to be happy. More hours of
sport a week also increased likelihood of happiness.
Children and Young People Now
Lecturer on radio show
Dr Aaron Balick from the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies took part
in the special three-hour show dedicated to discussing and answering
questions about all aspects of sexuality.
Colchester Gazette
University attracts far more girls
than boys
University Campus Suffolk is still attracting twice as
many girls as boys onto its courses according to new figures. On
this year's roll there are 3,621 female students and 1,659 male
students.
East Anglian Daily Times
Coalition steps in to prop up housing market
The downturn in the housing market in the last three years has left
the UK a nation of frustrated, unfulfilled house-movers, according
to the latest data from Understanding Society, a study of 40,000 UK
households funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Politics.co.uk
Why go organic?
Can organic agriculture feed us? In a
report submitted by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food,
Olivier De Schutter said, "Jules Pretty et. al. compared to the
impact of 286 recent sustainable agriculture projects in 57 poor
countries covering 37 million hectares (3% of the cultivated area in
developing countries). They found that such interventions increased
productivity on 12.6 million farms, with an average crop increase of
79%, while improving the supply of critical environmental services."
Business World
Sunday 11 March
Greece’s College students
fighting
stray
dogs as
austerity
deepens
despair
In the universities of Athens, the city where Plato taught and
Cicero studied, campuses are covered in anarchist graffiti, stray
dogs run through buildings and students take lessons in Swedish with
the aim of emigrating. As universities in Greece reduce salaries and
slow hiring, young academics are rethinking their careers there,
said Leonidas Karakatsanis, 39, who received his PhD in political
science last year from the University of Essex and has a research
fellowship at Panteion University in Athens. Read
the article
here.
Bloomberg
Business Week
Can we celebrate Women's Day by putting them behind bars?
International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS), an academic partner
of the University of Essex, reported in the second edition of its
World Female Imprisonment List that there are more than 625,000
women and girls in prisons worldwide as either pre-trial detainees
or convicts. The report, prepared by researcher Roy Walmsley, was
conducted in 212 prison systems in independent countries and
dependent territories.
Merinews.com
Saturday 10 March
Doctor joins debate
University of Essex expert, Dr Aaron Balick from the Centre for
Psychoanalytic Studies is to join a Radio 1 debate about sexuality
on Sunday.
East Anglian Daily Times
A cleaner conscience: the politics of domestic labour
Domestic work is a grubby business. There is a huge, unseen
workforce who do our mopping, cleaning and childcare. The British
Household Panel Survey looked at 5,000 families over 15 years and
found that single men do four hours of housework a week, while
single women do seven hours. But married and cohabiting women do 12
hours a week, and men suddenly do 40 minutes.
Read the article
here.
The Guardian
Want to make your adult child happy? Maybe its time to
end your marriage
A young person learns his/her parents are divorcing and their
fantasy of a happy family is shattered. Falling into despair they
under-perform in school, victims of selfish parents who put their
own needs above that of their children.
Researchers at the
University of Warwick found that students
whose parents have divorced are not less happy than other students
and, in fact, students whose parents divorced in the last three
years are happier than other students. The researchers repeated this
exercise using the very large, nationally representative British
Household Panel Survey (with data collected annually from 1991 to
2008) and found that happiness appears to
increase in the year in which parents divorced and then return to
its original level in the following two years.
big think
Friday 9 March
Top British wordsmith in action
Simon Armitage, one of the country's top poets is performing at the
Lakeside Theatre at the University of Essex this weekend.
Essex County Standard
Talk gives insight into US elections
Top political commentator, Dr DeFrancesco Soto, a regular on US talk
shows and news channels will speak at the University of Essex on 14
March.
Essex County Standard
722 student rooms to rise at the Hythe
Plans for a massive student campus, intended to be the "catalyst"
for the regeneration of Colchester's neglected Hythe, have been
unveiled by Town Planners LPP, representing developers Woadguard and
Newdex.
Essex County Standard
Women earn less than men
Women are still not getting a fair deal when it comes to earnings
according to research carried out into salaries by the Essex
Business School. The results showed female graduates earned less
than their male peers.
Essex County Standard
Sport Relief race at uni
Runners will go the extra mile for charity at the University of
Essex on 25 March.
Essex County Standard
Oil companies on mock trail for
'ecocide'
Renowned Human Rights Lawyer, Michael Mansfield QC will join other
top lawyers at the University of Essex's Institute for Democracy and
Conflict Resolution on 31 March.
Essex County Standard
University to host Budget breakfast
Academics at the University of Essex are hosting a breakfast to
discuss the Government's budget. Professor Eric Smith, Head of
Economics, will introduce the free event, designed to clarify the
implications of the Chancellor's plans.
Essex County Standard
Neil's highlights
Two of the area's top young performance poets, Luke Wright and Ross
Sutherland are appearing at the Lakeside Theatre at the University
of Essex as part of Essex Book Festival.
Colchester Gazette
Charity group conference
A conference is being staged at the University of Essex tomorrow by
the Rotaract Club of Colchester. The event will feature
presentations including a talk about study exchange programmes.
Colchester Gazette
Suspects are released
Five men arrested on suspicion of robbing a takeaway delivery driver
at the University of Essex have been released without charge due to
insufficient evidence.
Essex County Standard
Collective thinking tank
Dr Edd Codling, a senior lecturer in mathematical biology at the
University of Essex will discuss recent research on collective
decision-making at the Minories Art Gallery.
Essex County Standard
Thursday 8 March
Sir Bob Russell and John Bercow,
Speaker of the House of Commons
University mentioned yesterday in House of Commons address to the
Queen on the occasion of the Sixtieth
Anniversary of Her Accession to the Throne.
Uni hosts charity run
Runners of all ages and abilities will take to the University of
Essex campus later this month for the Sport Relief Mile. People can
take part in a one, three or six-mile event.
Colchester Gazette
Essex County Standard
Discussing Government
Academics at the University of Essex are hosting a
breakfast to discuss the Government's budget later this month.
Professor Eric Smith, Head of the Department of Economics will
introduce the free event on 13 March.
Colchester Gazette
Essex County Standard
A lot of help from its 'friends'
Two business school academics are leading an investigation into
whether Facebook users should be paid for the role they play in the
success of the social-networking site. Christopher Land and Steffen
Boehm of the University of Essex Business School consider that
updating one's status, "liking" a website or becoming someone's
"friend" creates Facebook's basic product. They argue that activity
on Facebook also creates marketing data about users, which the
company can then leverage for market research purposes. Professor
Boehm said the company's profits were "only possible because of the
time and labour, we, as users, invest in Facebook. So, why don't we
get paid for it?"
Times Higher Education
Male graduates still earn more
Male graduates at the University of Essex are following the national
trend and earning more than their female counterparts.
Essex Chronicle
Survey paints
a
portrait
of
the UK
A complex and fascinating portrait of a society suffering the
effects of the deepest recession since the early 1990s and in which
young people appear to have been hardest hit is revealed by new
findings from the UK’s largest longitudinal household survey
Understanding Society. The research published also shows that
efforts to get more students from poorer backgrounds to go to
university have not been successful and that more needs to be done
to get teenagers to live a healthier life in order to assure their
future happiness.
The Information Daily
Survey reveals half of children of migrants families feel
'white British'
More than half the children of immigrant families now count
themselves as both white and British, a survey revealed yesterday.
The findings show that more than one in six of those people who call
themselves white British were in fact born abroad, or their parents
or grandparents came from somewhere else in the world. Even among
children of mixed-race parents, more than a third say they are
‘white British’ when asked how they identify themselves. The study,
produced from the new state-funded Understanding Society database
that tracks the lives of 40,000 people, is powerful evidence that
high numbers among the millions of migrants who have come to Britain
in the past 60 years no longer see themselves as outsiders.
Daily Mail
This is Money
4,530 women behind bars in Turkey on women’s day
As women around the globe celebrate International Women's Day, a
total of 4,530 women in Turkey remain behind bars, according to a
report released today by the International Centre for Prison Studies
(ICPS). ICPS, an academic partner of the University of Essex,
reported in the second edition of its World Female Imprisonment List
that there are more than 625,000 women and girls in prisons
worldwide as either pre-trial detainees or convicts. The report,
prepared by researcher Roy Walmsley, was conducted in 212 prison
systems in independent countries and dependent territories.
Today's Zaman
Wednesday 7 March
Work finally starts on £27m Southend library project
Chiefs from Southend Council, the University of Essex and South
Essex College gathered at the site, in Elmer Approach, yesterday to
mark the start of an 18-month construction programme. The library,
dubbed the Forum, will replace the existing Central Library when it
opens in August next year. Read the article
here.
Echo
Southend Standard
Precast concrete construction goes modular
A good example of such modular construction can be seen in the
structural precast rooms system designed and supplied by Bell &
Webster for student accommodation at the University of Essex,
Southend. This proved an ideal choice for contractor Hollybrook. The
project involved 561 student bedrooms, requiring 2,251
factory-engineered concrete units. With 1,296 wall units and a
height of ten storeys, the building was constructed to create a
strong, robust structure that could be installed and fixed far
faster than most alternative systems buildings of this scale.
Builder and Engineer
Do we need smart signs on Strood?
Scientists at the
University of Essex believe artificial intelligence could
solve the problem of cars getting stranded on Mersea Island’s Strood.
Motorists repeatedly ignore high tides and get stranded. Experts at
the university’s Colchester campus believe they could design a
programme to predict when the water covering the road is too high
for motorists to safely cross.
Gazette
Santam appoints Alan Browne to lead personal lines
marketing division
Santam, South Africa’s leading short-term insurer, has appointed
Alan Browne as head of its personal lines marketing department.
An actuary by profession, Browne has a BsC in Information
Management and Accountancy from the University of Essex, as well as
a Postgraduate Diploma in Actuarial Science from City University in
London.
The Marketing Site
BBC Essex – Dave Monk Show
Dr Cecilia Cassinger interviewed by Dave Monk about
research into the pay gap between female and male graduates from
Essex Business School and seminar organised today in conjunction
with the Precarious Workers Brigade to tie in with International
Women’s Day.
Derwin Howell appointed to Republic Bank Board of Directors
Telecommunications Systems MSc graduate Derwin Howell has been
appointed to the Board of Directors at Republic Bank in Trinidad.
Full story online.
Trinidad Express
Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday
Graduate creates barbecue academy
An Essex graduate has created the first dedicated barbecue academy
at a garden centre in Ireland. Managing Director, Alan
Mercer, heads the family owned Belfast garden centre at Hillmount. A
recent £500,000 extension has created 10 new jobs and transformed
the business, securing a staff of 50 at the store.
Full story online.
News Letter
Tuesday 6 March
BBC Essex – Etholle George Show
Luke Wright interviewed by Etholle George about his upcoming
appearance at the Lakeside Theatre as part of Essex Book Festival.
BBC Essex - Dave Monk Show
Dr Valerie Gladwell from the Centre for Sports and Exercise
Science is interviewed about the 'Science Legacy'.
BBC Essex
Professor Roger Hawkins discusses the new Chinese
Translation, Interpreting and Subtitling MA courses on the breakfast
show.
BBC Essex
Author of 'The Little Book of
Prison A Beginners Guide', Frankie Owens
speaks to the Dave Monk show following his visit to the University
to speak to criminology students.
Award-winning poet at Lakeside Theatre
One of the country's top poets, Simon Armitage is performing at the
Lakeside Theatre at the University of Essex this weekend.
Colchester Gazette
Olympic legacy will make kids
scientists
Dr Valerie Gladwell, a senior lecturer in Physiology
at the University of Essex has been advising the Wellcome Trust on a
nationwide initiative to create an Olympic legacy. It will see every
school in the country receiving a free experiment kit to allow
students to learn how their bodies work during exercise, movement
and rest.
Colchester Gazette
A nation of frustrated home-movers
The downturn in the housing market in the last three years has left
the UK a nation of frustrated, unfulfilled house-movers, according
to the latest data from Understanding Society, a study of 40,000 UK
households funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. It
found that between 2009 and 2010 only 10 to 14 per cent of people
who wished to move actually achieved their desire and overall only
6.4 per cent of people moved home during that period. The study
also found that living in an urban setting or in a less deprived
areas increased the likelihood of fulfilling your moving desires,
while living in rural or more deprived areas reduced the likelihood.
Alpha Galileo
Eurek Alert!
Science Codex
Cision Wire
Today’s Kids, Tomorrow’s Commuters
There’s
still hope for parents who strive to raise little commuters and
ensure the survival of future bike communities. According to a new
study published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise,
schoolchildren can get nearly the same health benefits of commuter
cycling—and even develop the confidence to cycle to school or work
later in life—by spinning around the neighborhood just for fun.
The study, conducted by researchers at the University of
Essex, shows for the first time what many of us already guessed—kids
who bike recreationally tend to be more cardiovascularly fit.
Researchers gave 5,578 English schoolchildren a 20-meter shuttle-run
test. After adjusting for outside activity and disregarding
participants who already commuted by bike, children who cycled for
fun regularly were found to be more fit than those who only cycled
occasionally, who were in turn more fit than those who didn’t cycle
at all.
Bicycling
The $100 bn Facebook question: will capitalism survive
'value abundance'?
This term was recently relaunched in an article by University of
Essex academics Christopher Land and Steffen Böhm, entitled,
”They are exploiting us! Why we all work for Facebook for
free”. In this mini-essay, they make a very strong claim that “we
can certainly position the users of Facebook as labourers. If labour
is understood as ‘value producing activity’, then updating your
status, liking a website, or ‘friending’ someone, creates Facebook’s
basic commodity.”
Open Democracy.net
'I don't want a society glued to
gameshows'
Steven Russell interviews
Professor Marina Warner. The Writer and Mythographer is also a
Professor in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre
Studies.
Cambridge First
Herts 24
Cambrs 24
Fakenham and Wells Times
The Comet 24
Norwich Evening News
Five released from bail
Five men arrested on suspicion of robbing a takeaway
delivery driver at the University of Essex have been released
without charge due to insufficient evidence.
Colchester Gazette
Monday 5 March
Derwin Howell appointed to Republic Bank Board of
Directors
Republic Bank has appointed Derwin Howell to its Board of Directors.
He has a Master of Science degree
in Telecommunications Systems from the University of Essex. He is a
graduate of the Advanced Management Programme at the Harvard
Business School.
Trinidad Express Newspapers
Student homes plan is regeneration
'catalyst'
Town planners LPP, representing developers Woadguard and
Newdex have unveiled plans for 772-room student accommodation, bar,
gym and shops in the Hythe. Long-derelict land could be occupied by
the massive development reaching nine-storeys high in places.
Colchester Gazette
Teens keeping late nights might be into risky behaviour
Thirty-six percent of teens, especially 15-year-old boys and girls,
don't tell parents where they were at night, even though they might
be into in risky behaviour such as smoking or drinking, a study
reveals. The finding is based on a long-term study of 40,000 British
households, which asked more than 2,000 teenagers aged 10 to 15
years how frequently they stayed out past 9.00 p.m., without telling
their parents. Researcher Maria Iacovou, from the Institute for
Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, who analysed the
data, said: "Staying out late does not cause young people to smoke
and drink, but regularly staying out late without telling their
parents where they are is symptomatic of a young person with
underlying problems."
This story is featured in over 350
news outlets worldwide
Animal collective
Dr Edd Codling from the University of Essex
will discuss recent research on the general principles of collective
decision-making at the next Café Scientifique taking place on
Wednesday 14 March.
East Anglian Daily Times
Colchester Gazette
University date for US election expert
A top US politics expert is to give a talk at the
University of Essex in Colchester about the forthcoming presidential
election.
East Anglian Daily Times
Neil's Highlights
Highly regarded writer Marina Warner talks about her
new book as part of the Essex Book Festival at the firstsite art
gallery in Colchester.
Colchester Gazette
Former Ribblesdale High School pupils head for stage and
screen
Chris O’Reilly has been offered a place at the prestigious East 15
Acting School at the University of Essex, which has produced a
wealth of talent for British stage and screen, including actor and
Ribble Valley resident John McArdle. Meg Rennie will be joining
Chris at East 15.
The Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
Sunday 4 March
Teens junking healthy lifestyle kiss happiness away
Teenagers junking a healthy lifestyle for drinks, cigarettes and
fast food become morose versions of their healthier, happier cousins
and also get involved in risky behaviour.
The research, based on a long-term study of 40,000 British
households, looked at the responses of 5,000 people aged between 10
and 15 years, about their health-related behaviours and levels of
happiness.Researchers from the Institute for Social and Economic
Research, University of Essex, believe the data showed a linkage
between smoking, drinking alcohol and taking no exercise with
substantially lower happiness scores among teenagers, according to
an Essex statement.
This story is featured in over 350
news outlets worldwide
Saturday 3 March
Seminar on pay gap
Essex Business School at the University of Essex is to shine the
spotlight on the gender pay gap following a survey which showed the
school's male graduates to be earning more than female counterparts
with similar experience.
East Anglian Daily Times
Colchester Gazette
Friday 2 March
‘Lifting The Soul Upwards With Cretan Poets Kazantzakis
And Prevelakis’ Lecture To Be Presented in Astoria
A lecture will be given in Astoria in
March titled ‘Lifting The Soul Upwards With Cretan Poets Kazantzakis
And Prevelakis’. The main speaker of the event will be Dr Chrysa
Damianaki, Professor of Art History, (Facoltà di Scienze della
Formazione dell’Università di Lecce) in Italy. Dr Damianaki studied
philosophy at the University of Athens and then she attended
University of Essex and University of London, where she studied
history and theory of art.
Greek Reporter
Essex Business School public seminar to highlight gender
pay issues
The Essex Business School, part of the
University of Essex, is to shine the spotlight on the continuing
gender pay gap following a survey which showed male graduates to be
earning more than their female counterparts with similar
qualifications and experience. To tie in with International Women’s
Day on March 8, Essex Business School in conjunction with the
Precarious Workers Brigade is organising a seminar on Graduate
Employment and the Gender Pay Gap at the university’s Colchester
campus on Wednesday 7 March.
Cambs 24
Royston Crow
Welwyn and Hatfield Times
Norwich Evening News
Essex Book Festival explores
what
psychology
teaches
us
about
persuasion
Best-selling author and psychologist, Dr Kevin Dutton, will be
taking part in this year's Essex Book Festival to talk about his
popular science book, Flipnosis - The Art of Split Second
Persuasion. Kevin will be at the Lakeside Theatre, Colchester
Campus, University of Essex, on Monday 19 March at 7.00pm.
Booktrade - Book 2 Book
AI brain power to stem tide problem?
Scientists at the University of Essex believe artificial
intelligence could solve the problem of cars getting stranded on
Mersea Island's Strood. The experts believe they could design a
programme to predict when the water covering the road is too high
for motorists to safely cross.
Essex County Standard
Festival events likely to 'inspire'
Literary lovers across Essex are gearing up for a busy
few weeks as the county's annual Book Festival gets under way. This
year, the event is supported by the Arts Council, the University of
Essex and the County Council.
East Anglian Daily Times
Family Fun
Events this weekend include 'Voyage of the
NutJellyNana' taking place at the Lakeside Theatre at 2pm on Sunday
afternoon and 'Trees shall be our books' taking place at the
University of Essex tomorrow, run as part of the Essex Book
Festival.
Colchester Gazette
Prof weaves magic with Arabian Nights
Neil D'Arcy-Jones interviews University of Essex
Professor Marina Warner about her latest book 'Stranger Magic:
Charmed States and the Arabian Nights' and her forthcoming talk at
Firstsite as part of the Essex Book Festival.
Colchester Gazette
Mayor's
Malaysian party
Colchester's Malaysian-born Mayor will mark her culture and heritage
with a celebration evening at Colchester Town Hall on Friday.
The Malaysian Student Society and Malaysian Tourist Board are
hosting a festival at the University of Essex on Friday from
11am-4pm.
Essex County
Standard
Insight into US elections
Top political commentator, Dr DeFrancesco Soto will speak at the
University of Essex on Wednesday 14 March. Her talk will focus on
campaigns and elections, race and ethnic politics and immigration.
Colchester Gazette
Talking magic
Professor Marina Warner from the Department of
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex
will give a talk at the Firstsite Gallery on Tuesday as part of the
Essex Book Festival.
Essex County Standard
CG Jung Society of Vancouver presents: Anima and
Animus--Bridge to the Soul
University of Essex graduate, Dr.
Evers-Fahey will be giving a lecture on 23 March.
She is a Zurich trained Jungian analyst with over 20 years
experience in individual psychotherapy and Jungian analytical
practice and received her PhD in 2004 from
the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK.
Vancouver Observer
Electoral fraudsters have become more cunning, but dirty
politics is a bigger worry
Technology and the presence of outside
observers is complicating the election-rigging business, requiring
dodgy politicians to work harder and more cleverly. Most
manipulators make only sparing use of blatant election-day frauds,
says Sarah Birch of the University of Essex. She compared observer
reports of 136 elections held between 1995 and 2006 and found that a
more frequent tactic is to alter election laws, often as a means of
deterring opposition candidates or gerrymandering unlosable
constituencies.
The Economist
Head of closing Brentwood school not giving up on
technical college plan
The headteacher of a closing Brentwood secondary is still hoping to
set up a new school on the site – despite the plan being rejected by
the government. Stephen Capper, of Sawyers Hall College in Sawyers
Hall Lane, has submitted another bid for a university technical
college (UTC). UTCs combine academic and practical study for
14 to 19-year-olds and are linked to university and business
sponsors. The bid is backed by the University of Essex and several
firms, including International Financial Data Services and Bank of
New York Mellon. Havering College of Further and Higher Education
and the Prospects Learning Foundation are also supporters.
Romford Recorder
London 24
Thursday 1 March
Making the Chinese connection
The University of Essex is also responding to changes in the local
economy and markets by launching four new courses from this year
aimed at meeting the growing demand for professional Chinese
translators and interpreters. The new courses are highly practical
and give students the hands-on experience they will need for the
workplace.
Colchester Gazette
Do we need smart signs on Strood?
Scientists at the University of Essex believe
artificial intelligence could solve the problem of cars getting
stranded on Mersea Island's Strood. Experts believe they could
design a programme to predict when the water covering the road is
too high for motorists to safely cross and are drawing up an
application for funding from the Environment Agency.
Colchester Gazette
The week in higher education
The expansion of higher education over the past 15 years has largely
benefited middle-class children, a study published by the Institute
for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex
suggests. The data was collected by the Economic and Social Research
Council's Understanding Society longitudinal survey.
THE
University open day invitation
Are you looking to improve your CV, change your career
or simply study a subject you enjoy? If the answer is yes, the
University of Essex postgraduate open day on Wednesday 14 March
could help.
Colchester Gazette
2012 Cardozo Law School Symposium
Professor Pete Fussey from the Department of
Sociology is speaking about 'Surveillance and Privacy at the
London 2012 Olympics' at the Cardozo
Law School in New York.
Sports Agent Blog
The Business Insider
Degree courses on offer at UCS
UCS in Bury St Edmunds are urging people wanting to start courses
this September to lodge their applications. UCS in Bury is based at
West Suffolk College and runs a range of courses for both BAs and
BScs as well as foundation degrees. All UCS courses are awarded
jointly through the University of East Anglia and the University of
Essex.
Bury Mercury
February 2012
Wednesday 29 February
Young face greater struggle to find work than older job
seekers
The number of young people in work has plummeted in the past eight
years compared to the number of older people finding employment,
official data shows. Between 1992 and 2004, 16- to 24-year-olds not
in full-time education had an employment rate similar to those aged
25 to 64, but since then that rate has declined, the Office for
National Statistics (ONS) said. Figures show that in the first
quarter of 2004, 75.3% of 16- to 24-year-olds were employed compared
to 75.5% of 25- to 64-year-olds. But by the final quarter of 2011
the percentage of younger people in work had fallen to just 66%,
while 74.9% of the older group were employed. The figures were
supported by a study of 40,000 households by the Institute for
Social and Economic Research (ISER), which found that youngsters
faced a "double penalty" in their attempts to find and keep work.
The Guardian
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The $100bn Facebook question: Will capitalism survive
'value abundance'?
This term was recently relaunched in an article by University of
Essex academics Christopher Land and Steffen Böhm, entitled "They
are exploiting us! Why we all work for Facebook for free". In this
mini-essay, they make a very strong claim that "we can certainly
position the users of Facebook as labourers. If labour is understood
as 'value producing activity', then updating your status, liking a
website, or 'friending' someone, creates Facebook's basic
commodity." Read the article
here.
Aljazeera
Uni talk for the mature
The University of Essex is holding a conference about helping mature
students on April 12, from 10am to 4pm in the Ivor Crewe Lecture
Hall.
Colchester Gazette
Top writers descend on Essex
BBC Essex's Dave Monk
will broadcast live from the library as the festival is launched on
World Book Day. A number of events are being held
at the University of Essex.
thisistotalessex.co.uk
Tuesday 28 February
BBC 2 'The Fixer'
The University of Essex was featured on the show when a
family fancy dress firm had a stall at the University of Essex
selling their stock.
Philosopher challenged Freud's theories
The
Brisbane Times has printed an obituary for Professor
Frank Cioffi, an Oxford-trained philosopher who taught at the
University of Essex.
Brisbane Times
Talks about heritage
Southend's heritage will be explored at an event organised by the
University of Essex. It will feature talks on the borough's heyday
and the impact of the Second World War. March 17, Elmer Approach,
Southend, 2pm.
Southend Echo
University diversity bid 'failed'
Attempts to encourage children from poorer homes to go to university
have failed, a report has warned. The study, by the Institute of
Social and Economic Research (ISER) based at the
University of Essex, analysed the social backgrounds of
almost 34,000 adults aged between 22 to 34 and 37 to 49. The younger
group would have gone to university after higher education expanded
in 1992. The older group would have gone to university before 1992.
Press Association
Also feature in over 55 other local news outlets around the UK
Work starts on new archaeology base
Colchester Archaeological Trust is set to move to the former Army
Education Centre in Colchester and residents, University of Essex
students and Trust members all pitched in to make the building
habitable.
Colchester Gazette
Essex County Standard
Eastern Promise! Mayor celebrates her
homeland
Colchester's Malaysian-born Mayor will mark her culture and heritage
with a celebration evening at Colchester Town Hall on Friday.
The Malaysian Student Society and Malaysian Tourist Board are
hosting a festival at the University of Essex on Friday from
11am-4pm.
Colchester Gazette
Talk from top scholar
Renowned Sociology scholar, Professor Zygmunt Bauman
will be speaking at the University of Essex on Friday 16 March.
Colchester Gazette
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