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Broadcast Digest

November

30 November

BBC Essex
Ashley Rudge, Vice President Welfare and Community - Students' Union
Re: Student protests

26 November

BBC Essex
Professor Colin Riordan, Vice-Chancellor
Re: Recent student protests and proposed changes to student fees

25 November

BBC Essex
Mo Metcalf-Fisher, Politics student
Commenting on student protests and proposed changes to funding

24 November

BBC look East News
News item on planned student protests at the University

22 November

BBC Essex
Professor Sheri Markose, Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents
Re: Situation in Ireland and Euro crisis

17 November

BBC Radio 4 - Frontiers
Professor Ian Colbeck, Department of Biological Sciences
Re: Nanoparticles

BBC Essex
Professor Nick Buck, ISER
Re: Understanding Society survey, what it is and early findings

12 November 

BBC Essex
Professor Simon Lucas, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Re: New computer game which has gone on sale Call of the wild - Black Ops and the future of the computer games industry. Listen to the interview here and forward to 00:48

10 November

BBC Essex
News item on Essex staff and students attending a demonstration in London to protest against the Government's cuts to higher education funding.

BBC Essex
Dr Murray Griffin, Biological Sciences
Re: Research using the wii fit to improve balance in elderly people

4 November

BBC Essex
Andrew Connolly, Director of Finance
Re: Possible increase to University tuition fees

3 November

BBC Look East
Dr Valerie Gladwell interviewed about her research to look at if a walk in nature can help combat work stress. Watch the interview here and forward to 16:43.

Take a break in nature to combat stress
Dr Valerie Gladwell interviewed on Ray Clarke Breakfast Show on BBC Essex about her research to look at if a walk in nature can help combat work stress.
BBC Essex

BBC Look East
Coverage of the UCS Graduation and views from students about the proposed changes to tuition fees. View the clip here. View the clip at 00:59.

2 November

BBC Essex - Ray Clarke Breakfast Show
Dr Tom Scotto, Department of Government
Sofa guest on the breakfast show

1 November

BBC Essex - Dave Monk Show
Professor Todd Landman, Director, Director of the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution
Re: Yemen and the security situation

October

31 October

BBC Essex - Ian Wyatt Show
Interview with member of the Catholic Society which was formed in 2009/10

28 October

BBC Essex - Dave Monk Show
Laurence Orton from the UK Data Archive speaks about meeting the Queen when she last visited the Colchester Campus.

26 October

BBC Essex - Drivetime
Dr Tony Rich discusses the ambitious plans to transform Wivenhoe House into the first working hotel in the country to be run and staffed by students. Listen Again on BBC iPlayer

22 October

BBC Essex
Professor Prem Sikka, Essex Business School
Sofa guest on the Ray Clarke Breakfast Show

BBC Essex
Professor Sheri Markose, Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA)
Re: Dartford Crossing and alternative methods of congestion control

BBC Essex
Professor Carolyn Hamilton, Director - Children's Legal Centre
Re: OFSTED report of Essex County Council's Children's services

Video clips on-line

BBC
Flagship University Building open
Teaching has begun in the new flagship building for the recently created university in Suffolk. University Campus Suffolk (UCS), in Ipswich, was established by the University of East Anglia and the University of Essex last year. View the clip here.

The University of Essex in the Press

December 2010

1 December

Police face students' test
Many University of Essex students stayed away from the protests which took place in Colchester yesterday. Mo Metcalf-Fisher, president of the youth wing of the Conservative Party said that most students at the Wivenhoe Park campus were concentrating on finishing their studies.

Nathan Bolton, Campaign Officer at the University of Essex Students' Union gave a speech urging students to continue the protest outside the town hall. He said "it costs £1.5 billion a year to maintain the nuclear weapon system Trident and £1billion a year to give this year's intake of students a free education".
Gazette

Students brave the cold for latest education protest
Students braved bitter conditions in Colchester to launch further protests over education funding cuts. Dan Swain, a postgraduate student at the University of Essex said "these cuts are going to completely transform the education system".
East Anglian Daily Times

November 2010

30 November

Colchester Business Award Winners
The University of Essex was a winner in the Active Travel and Wellbeing category at the Colchester Business Awards for its innovative approach towards sustainable travel planning and promotion of staff wellbeing strategies.
Gazette

'Students in class at time of protest'
Schools in Colchester say pupils should be in class, not taking part in a student protest today. More than 950 people on one Facebook group were signed up to attend and more than 90 people signed up to travel from the University of Essex campus to the town centre today.
Gazette

So is an only child really happier?
A new study claims that an only child is happier. According to the University of Essex study of 2,500 British youngsters, the fewer siblings a child has, the happier they are, mainly because they're not being bullied by brothers and sisters.
Daily Mirror
Cayman Observer

Researchers at University of Essex publish new data on colon cancer
Professor John Norton from the Essex Biomedical Sciences Institute and colleagues from the ICENI Centre at the Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust have studied several tumour types which have shown that expression profiling of cellular protein extracted from surgical tissue specimens by direct mass spectrometry analysis can accurately discriminate tumour from normal tissue and in some cases can sub-classify disease.
Cancer Weekly
Health and Medicine Week

A different kind of entrepreneurship
The Suffolk School for Social Entrepreneurship launches in the New Year. Its aim is to support and nurture the county's new and established social entrepreneurs in developing social enterprises, community and voluntary oprganisations or setting up community projects in Suffolk. The school is being backed by Suffolk County Council, the East of England Development Agency and University Campus Suffolk where it will be based.
East Anglian Daily Times

29 November

Training: Monitoring your recovery
Dr Gavin Sandercock, lecturer in clinical cardiology at the University of Essex – and an Ironman competitor himself – comments on testing regimes. Read the article here.
BikeRadar.com

UK Labour moves to regain public trust
Britain's Labour party leader Ed Miliband is to unveil new policy lines, including seeking public opinion in the future leadership contests to improve his party's face. Meanwhile, experts said Miliband may have chosen the wrong path to a hoped-for victory in the future elections as figures from the 2010 British Election Study by the University of Essex showed 35% of Labour's traditional supporters, the working class, did not turn out at the ballot boxes back in May. "Ed Miliband is focusing attention on the 'squeezed middle-class', but if Labour had appealed more to working-class voters, it could have won," said Paul Whiteley, Professor of Politics at the University of Essex.
PressTV

Charity on campus
Students will be raising money for people with HIV and Aids at a collection at the University of Essex on Wednesday to mark World Aids Day.
Gazette

New health and medicine study findings
Professor Paul Hunt and colleagues from the Department of Law have published their study entitled 'Are drug companies living up to their human rights responsibilities? The perspective of the former United Nations Special Rapporteur 2002-2008' in the journal PLos Medicine.
Health and Medicine Week

Special University for Children
A special university for children is being launched in Colchester to give youngsters the chance to improve their skills and confidence. It will be launched on 19 January in the Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall at the University of Essex.
Gazette

28 November

Ed Miliband wants to give public a say in future Labour leadership contests
Ed Miliband is to throw open key Labour decisions to the public – including those on policy and the choice of future leaders – in an attempt to revive the party's links with the community. But data released last night suggested Miliband may be going for the wrong group. Figures from the 2010 British Election Study, which is carried out by the University of Essex, showed that 35% of the working class did not vote. "Ed Miliband is focusing attention on the 'squeezed middle-class', but if Labour had appealed more to working-class voters, it could have won," said Paul Whiteley, Professor of Politics at Essex. Read the article here.
The Guardian

Why city life is good for you
A benefit of living in the inner city is you are twice as likely to be physically active, according to a 2009 report by San Diego State University. The study found access to a pavement was the single biggest factor influencing physical activity, with a surface to walk, rollerblade or cycle on having the biggest impact on our fitness levels. While walking opportunities may be readily available in urban environments, just five minutes of exercise in a green space, such as a park, has a greater effect on your mental health, a University of Essex study found. The greatest effect was seen when the green area contained water such as a lake or ocean.
Sunday Telegraph (Australia)
Sunday Herald Sun (Australia)
Sunday Mail (Australia)

27 November

The family way
Dieter Wolke, a Professor of Developmental Psychology and Individual Differences at the University of Warwick offers his opinion on having/not having siblings and says "like most things in life, there's no clear-cut benefit or disadvantage from having or not having siblings. A recent study by the University of Essex and Warwick found that 54% of siblings are involved in weekly bullying - from being hit to called nasty names."
Kidderminster Shuffle
Stourbridge News
Halesowen News

East 15 Acting School Present: White Snake
East 15 Graduating BA World Performance students present 'White Snake'. The classic Chinese myth of an immortal serpent-made-woman who falls in love with a young scholar on a rainy afternoon. Their sweeping romance includes epic battles between immortals and celestial gods in the style of Beijing Opera.
Brentwood Weekly News

MidlandHR wins five-year iTrent contract with the University of Essex
The University of Essex has signed a five-year iTrent software contract with MidlandHR, the largest independent HR, payroll, talent management and workforce planning solutions provider in the UK. Having previously used a number of disparate, paper-driven systems, iTrent will provide the University with a single solution for managing all the HR and payroll needs of its 3,000 permanent and temporary employees. Read the article here.
IT Director
IT-Analysis
Personnel Today
PR Inside

26 November

Last Requests for professor and renaissance man
As Professor of Mathematics, Colchester Borough Councillor and inventor of circular Sudoku, you would think Professor Peter Higgins has enough strings to his bow. Next week he's adding playwright to the list when his debut play takes to the stage at the Lakeside Theatre. His play Last Requests is being performed as part of a double bill of plays which includes one written by Catherine Pugh who did a masters degree in Theatre Studies at the University.
Essex County Standard
Gazette

Overnight sit-in
University of Essex students staged an overnight 'occupation' of a lecture room as part of ongoing protests.
Gazette

Staff take part in peaceful demo at university
About 100 students and lecturers at the University of Essex took part in a "noisy but peaceful" protest against the rise in tuition fees and education cuts. A group of students occupied the lecture theatre building overnight before moving their protest into the lecture theatre foyer yesterday morning.
Gazette

Analysis: Measuring well-being is one thing, increasing it is another
David Cameron has announced a £2 million plan to measure the UK's happiness. So what does this mean for Scotland? The British Household Panel Survey, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, has asked a question about subjective well-being throughout the UK since 1991. Read the article here.
The Scotsman
21st Century Business Herald
JRJ.com
NetEase
Hexun.com
Sohu.com

25 November

Students plan another day of protests
Tens of thousands of students across the country are expected to take part in a third day of action on Tuesday. Following the 600-strong demonstration in Colchester on Wednesday, college students are expected to join students from the University of Essex for another day of action focused on the town centre. Nathan Bolton, campaigns officer at the University of Essex's Students' Union, said: “These protests are not going to go away anytime soon. We want to make these education cuts David Cameron’s Poll Tax. “We want to put pressure on the government until they change their minds about this because we believe what they are proposing is wrong.”
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Clacton, Frinton and Walton Gazette
Essex County Standard
Halstead Gazette

Lecturers joined students' walkout
A handful of lecturers joined students at the University of Essex in a walkout and protest. Students, University staff and lecturers were involved in the march around campus with a further 50 to 60 students holding a protest inside a lecture hall.
Gazette

Any answers?
Researchers at the University of Essex have compiled a list of the top 100 questions for the future of global agriculture. A multidisciplinary team of 55 experts from the world's major agricultural organisations, scientific societies and academic institutions was asked to identify the most important issues for global agriculture and food.
THE

Mob kept away from Lib Dems but turns on police
Thousands of students took part in demonstrations, sit-ins and walk-outs on campuses and in city centres across Britain yesterday. Students across the country carried out multiple occupations of university buildings including Oxford University's Bodleian Library, Royal Holloway, Warwick, Birmingham and Essex.
The Independent

Dominican University
University of Essex Politics graduate, Barnor Hesse, who is now an associate professor at Northwestern University in a lecture will be giving a lecture titled 'Re-Writing Freedom: Thomas Jefferson, David Walker and the Racial 'Double-Entendre' of the Two Liberties' at the Dominican University.
Elmwood Park Leaves
Pioneer Local
Oak Leaves

24 November

Pass the parcel
One of the aims of the Public Private Partnerships model is to transfer risk to the private sector but apparently it is not as simple as that. Iqbal Khadaroo is a senior lecturer in accounting at Essex Business School, University of Essex and one of the authors of the study.  Read the article here.
CA

Essex Students Protest Over Cuts
Essex students angry at rises in uni fees have staged a sit-down protest blocking off Colchester High Street. Dozens of police officers were called in to control the demo involving hundreds of teenagers on North Hill. Students around the country have been marching in protest at the Government plans. At the University of Essex students have also held a demo.
Heart Radio

Students set to stay overnight in lecture theatre
Students from the University of Essex are planning an overnight occupation of a lecture theatre. Between 50 to 60 students have spent the afternoon in a room of the lecture theatre as part of a day of action in schools, colleges and universities across the country. The protests are in opposition to education cuts and tuition fee rises which could see Essex Student's paying up to £8,000 a year in fees.
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Halstead Gazette
Gazette

Students fear riot may harm job prospects
Students at the University have launched a petition condemning the violence which erupted at the student demonstration in London on 10 November against an increase in tuition fees.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard

Occupations: Fight, fight, fight
Universities across the country were occupied by students protesting against rises in fees. Among the country-wide protests, seventy people occupied Warwick University Arts Centre in Coventry, and others occupied for a time at Birmingham University. More than 200 sat-in at Cardiff University and 100 at the University of Essex.
Socialist Worker

23 November

I felt protest was good fun...until I saw riot
David Giles, a third year politics and law student at the University of Essex explains why he went on the recent march in London and how the violence that erupted tainted the aims of the legitimate protesters.
Gazette

Sixth formers protest against education cuts
Students are planning a day of action against tuition fee hikes. College students from Colchester are thought to be organising the event. The action day will also see University of Essex students stage walkouts, rallies and protests.
Gazette

Law firm takes on trainees
East Anglian law firm Prettys has taken on seven trainees, two of which are University of Essex graduates. Amanda Brown and Melissa Symes are both taking seats in the shipping, insurance and projects department.
East Anglian Daily Times

Movers and Shakers
Chartered accountancy firm LB Group has expanded its Ipswich office with the recruitment of new graduate trainee. Ryan Banks recently graduated from the University of Essex with a first class degree in accounting and finance.
East Anglian Daily Times

The kids are all right? Not according to the lesbian lobby
Dr Róisín Ryan-Flood, author of Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship and an academic at the University of Essex comments on the recent Hollywood release But the Kids are alright. Read her comments here.
The Independent

Sex suspect is re-bailed
A man arrested following an alleged attack at the University of Essex has been re-bailed until 1 December.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Clacton, Frinton and Walton Gazette

C’mon Canada — do the locomotion
Do you ever get depressed?  Angry? Tired? Confused?  Then throw your hat in the air and your meds out the window because scientists at Essex University in the UK have identified a simple physiological cure that they claim dramatically reduces anger, confusion, fatigue and depression in humans.  That’s the good news.  The better news is, it’s universally accessible, easy to master, non-addictive, safe when taken as directed and cheap as borscht. They call it walking.  Read the article here.
Parksville Qualicum News

21c art wrangler extraordinaire: Hotel job keeps William Morrow hopping
21c Museum Hotel has defied definition since it opened in 2006. It's a hotel. It's a gallery. It's a restaurant. It's open 24 hours a day. And it has received accolades for its art and its hospitality. Director of the Hotel, William Morrow enrolled on a graduate programme in museum studies at the University of East Anglia and through that programme, he got to work at museums and handle pieces by Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon. While working with fellow students to curate an exhibit of heroes and villains, he began to explore the collection of Latin American art at the University of Essex and found after finding a 6-foot-by-6-foot painting by Raúl Martínez, one of the most famous pop artists from Cuba, he was hooked on museums.
Courier-Journal

22 November

Pupils to walk out of class for day of protests
Students from schools and colleges in Colchester will be joining University of Essex students for a day of action against tuition fee increases. Hundreds of youngsters from Colchester Sixth Form College, the Colchester Institute and the Colchester Royal Grammar School are expected to walk out of classes to take part in a protest in the town centre on Wednesday before going to Colchester MP Bob Russell’s office, in Wimpole Road, to demand a meeting.
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Halstead Gazette
Gazette

21 November

'It's tragic for the kids in this country. This was about sport for all children'
Read Dr Gavin Sandercock's commentary on the reduction of funding for school sports.
The Observer

A UAE University pioneer
University of Essex Linguistics graduate, Maryam Al Marashdah is currently Dean of Students at the United Arab Emirates University. Read an article about her here.
Zawya
Gulf News

20 November

Activism not Extremism!
Shoomi Chowdhury, an Essex Law and Human Rights graduate is currently studying for her MA in Human Rights and Cultural Diversity. She is a Board Member of Ipswich and Suffolk Muslim Council and sits on the Independent Advisory Group for policing in Suffolk. She has written an article in the Muslim Post which you can read her article here.
Muslim Post

The Plume Lecture
Dr Alison Rowlands, a Senior Lecturer in European History and Director of the Centre for Local and Regional History at the University of Essex will be giving the Plume Lecture this year, entitled 'Witchcraft and Witchcraft Beliefs in England During the Lifetime of Thomas Plume, 1630-1704'.
Brentwood Weekly News

Deanna finds the plot in Basildon
The experience of growing up on the rural plotlands on the outskirts of Basildon is vividly brought back to life in a new book A Portrait of the Plotlands: The Enduring Spirit. This is the second book on the subject for University of Essex Administrator Deanna Walker’s and is packed with reminiscences of life in the once-thriving community.
Brentwood Weekly News
Echo
Southend Standard
Basildon and Wickford Recorder

19 November

Brazil's President-Elect Brings Gender to Government
In a move seen as a sign that gender will be important in her government, Brazil's president-elect Dilma Rousseff is preparing a Cabinet that is one-third women. Essex Government graduate Teresa Sacchet, of the public policy research centre at the University of São Paulo said 'it would have great symbolic importance because, among other things, it will encourage more women to participate in politics'.
Inter Press Service


How Turkey Misuses the Terrorism Card
Read an article written by 2002 Alumnus of the Year, Aisling Reidy.
Huffington Post

18 November

Child detention
The government's commitment to end child detention in immigration centres will not be fulfilled until March at the earliest, the Home Office has revealed. "This announcement is bitterly disappointing," said Kamena Dorling, manager of the Migrant Children's Project at the Children's Legal Centre. "The government initially promised to end this kind of detention within weeks - it now looks like it will still be taking place nearly one year into their leadership."
Community Care

Screen memory
A partnership between Adventure Pictures, director Sally Potter’s production and distribution company, the University of Essex and the University of Surrey is using web technology to bring the online Sally Potter Archive to life.
THE
 
Human rights
William Hague has asked Professor Sir Nigel Rodley at the University of Essex to join the Advisory group on Human Rights.
Essex Chronicle
 
ADP to create art gallery for Southend
ADP has won a contract to build a £26.9 million art gallery and library in Southend in Essex.
The building is due to open in 2013 and will also feature teaching facilities for Essex University and South Essex College.
Nigel Holdcroft, leader of Southend Borough Council, said the collaboration between the local authority, college and university had allowed them to provide extra facilities more economically than if they had gone it alone. It will also help regenerate the seaside town’s run down Elmer Square.
Building Design – Online

Director explores faith in Deathly Hallows
Director David Yates, who studied politics at the University of Essex and at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C, interviewed about his new film.
Scripps News.com

University of Essex
The majority of online distance learning at the University of Essex is delivered in partnership with Kaplan Open Learning, a for-profit provider based in the US. Kaplan offers foundation degrees in business, marketing, financial services and criminal justice, as well as a "top-up" option that gives students the chance to obtain honours degrees in these areas. Essex acts as the awarding body. It also approves the tutors and sits on the exam board. However, Kaplan creates and delivers the courses, following a set of service agreements.
THE
Responsesource.com
My News Desk

Eight giant Easter Island statues arrive in London for international exhibition and conference
A new exhibition on the cultural impact of Easter Island and its mysterious stone heads is being staged in London before an international tour which will visit museums in Norway and the distant Pacific island.
The exhibition has been curated by Dr Ian Conrich, Fellow at the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex.
PR Web
Benzinga.com
Creative Boom
My News Desk
Yahoo! News
EMedia Wire

Only the lonely? Not in my case
Flic Everett and Jimmy Young give their personal view on the new research which states a child’s happiness declines in direct relation to how many siblings are living in the household. The report for the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex found that a worrying 31 per cent of children had been regularly hit, kicked or pushed by a sibling while almost a third had been verbally abused. More than half claimed they had been bullied by siblings while stress also increased for the parents.
Scottish Daily Express
Express

17 November

Professor's prestigious invitation
Professor Sir Nigel Rodley has been chosen to advise the government on human rights. He will sit on a new Advisory Group on Human Rights.
East Anglian Daily Times

Rockin' and rollin' in our back yard: Early Floyd show tells of big things to come
Former Essex student Mike Battersby remembers a gig by Pink Floyd in the Hexagon in 1967.
The Gazette

Rockin' and rollin' in our back year: No expense spared for Ramones
Sible Hedingham based plumber, Ferg Ranson, remembers coming to the University in 1980 for a gig by the Ramones.
The Gazette

16 November

School sport will be hard hit by funding cuts
The move to slash £162m annual school sports funding will harm children's health and bring new job losses, and breaks pledges made to the Olympics Committee. "This decision is a mistake," says Dr Gavin Sandercock, an expert in children and physical activity at the University of Essex University. Read the article here.
The Guardian

Essex Uni graduate is criticised over call for violence
University of Essex graduate, Mark Bergfeld has been criticised by an MP over his views on last week's student protest.
Gazette

Three Essex students charged after London 'riot'
Three students from the University of Essex are facing criminal charges after being arrested inside the Conservative Headquarters in London. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: “A total of 50 people have been arrested in connection with yesterday's disorder in central London. “All were taken to various police stations around London. All have now been bailed to return pending further enquiries to dates in mid February 2011.”
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Clacton, Frinton and Walton Gazette

Director's work goes online for students
A chance to see award-winning director, Sally Potter's scribbled notes, sketches, costume designs and script drafts is taking place at the University of Essex on a new online archive.
Gazette

Is your ISP throttling you? Just switch—if you live in the EU
The "competition will sort it all approach" infuriates people like Chris Marsden from the Department of Law at the University of Essex, who has written about net neutrality for years and was a panelist at a recent Net Neutrality summit. Read the article here.
Ars Technica

Futures College model to be copied nationwide
Neil Bates, chief executive of the organisation which runs Futures Community College, has been asked to help revive vocational education for younger pupils nationwide. Lord Baker – a former Tory Education Secretary in the Thatcher government, paid tribute to Mr Bates’s determination in pursuing the project and said he hoped Futures would succeed in its aims of gaining academy status and working with the University of Essex. Read the article here.
Echo

15 November

Option sought to diagnose cancer
Dr Zubair Cheema who works at Colchester General Hospital and the University of Essex is leading an ambitious project to find a new way of diagnosing prostate cancer.
East Anglian Daily Times

Why no siblings spells happiness
Only children are happier than those with brothers or sisters, according to research which shows that sibling rivalry can have a serious effect. Half the children surveyed by the Institute for Social and Economic Research said they had been bullied by a sibling, and one in three said they had been regularly hit, kicked or pushed. The figures, which come from one of the widest-ranging studies on family life conducted in Britain, Understanding Society, tracked the lives of 100,000 people in 40,000 homes. Read the article here.
Daily Telegraph
Mail Online
News.com.au
Observer
New Zealand Herald
Motherswhowork.co.uk
Sunday Express
The Guardian
Sunday Times
Irish Independent
Modern Mom
San Francisco Chronicle
The Week online
The Herald
Sydney Telegraph
Courier Mail
Herald Sun
Baby Centre
Yahoo! News
Top News Arab Emirates
ITWire
Daily Express
Nigeria Daily Independent
Brunei Times
Radio 4
Irish Times
Parent Dish

14 November

Cutback in MPs will make Commons even more feeble
Proposals to reduce the size of the Commons will make MPs' lives more difficult and the government less accountable. Read Professor Anthony King's article here.
The Guardian
Poten and Partners
UTV

12 November

How green is your detergent?
Fragranced household products, even those labelled as 'green', can emit large numbers of hazardous chemicals that aren't listed on their labels, US researchers have confirmed. There is also no regulation over the use of terms such as 'green', 'organic', 'non-toxic' or 'natural'. These claims appeared on 19 of the 25 tested products' packaging or advertising, but the team found that they emitted toxic compounds as much as 'non-green' products did. 'No one really knows the definitions of these words,' says Ian Colbeck, an air quality specialist from the University of Essex, UK. 'I think it would help if the manufacturers agreed, in some way, to use these terms based on certain conditions.' Read the article here.
Chemistry World

No beating Havering sport
It was a good week for senior sports teams in Havering. Among the victories, the women's hockey team won 6-1 against the University of Essex.
Romford Recorder

10-Green exercises good for health
A new study in the American Chemical Society journal has discovered that 'green exercise' will help our own personal well-being. Five minutes of getting outside, walking around the park, taking the dog for a quick jaunt, a few yoga moves on the beach will all add benefit to our mental health. Researches Jules Pretty and Jo Barton have dubbed 'green exercise' as physical activity in the presence of nature. Their own scientific evidence, along with past research, shows that activity in this form decreases risks of mental illness and improves the sense of well-being.
PakTribune

The Future of Food
By 2050, the world population is expected to reach nine billion. The question of how to feed those many mouths is high on the mind of agriculture and food experts. To help address this global conundrum, a team of 55 agricultural and food experts from the world’s major agricultural organizations, professional scientific societies and academic institutions was appointed to identify the top 100 questions for global agriculture and food. Lead author, Professor Jules Pretty, of the University of Essex, said: “The challenges facing world agriculture are unprecedented and are likely to magnify with pressures on resources and increasing consumption. What is unique here is that experts from many countries, institutions and disciplines have agreed on the top 100 questions that need answering if agriculture is to succeed this century. These questions now form the potential for driving research systems, private sector investments, NGO priorities, and UN projects and programmes."
Food Product Design

3 Essex students arrested in riots
Three students from the University of Essex are thought to be facing criminal charges after the student protests in London on Wednesday.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Halstead Gazette
Brentwood Weekly News
Southend Standard
Basildon and Wickford Recorder

Students were egged on by hardcore anarchists
Essex graduate and member of the NUS Executive Council, Max Bergfield, praised student protesters saying "nobody should be punished or charged for what's happened. We need to stand with them". Among those arrested were believed to be at least five students from Goldsmiths and three from the University of Essex.
The Times
The Independent
Belfast Telegraph
London Evening Standard
ThisisLondon

Doc hopes to make cancer easier to find
Dr Zubair Cheema who works at Colchester General Hospital and the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Essex has launched a two-year project to find new ways of diagnosing prostate cancer. Dr Cheema will be looking for new bio-markers - protein measured in blood whose concentration reflects the presence or spread of the disease.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Essex County Standard

Students make a stand for future of education
A convoy of six coaches took about 300 students and lecturers from the University of Essex to the demonstration against proposed university funding cuts and an increase in tuition fees.
Essex County Standard

Science under the microscope
Scientists at the University of Essex have launched an autumn series of Cafe Scientifique at The Minories Cafe in Colchester. The Cafe aims to raise awareness of scientific research and give the public the chance to discuss topical issues with scientists.
Essex County Standard

Pick of the Week
One of the most magical children's puppet shows you are ever likely to see if back at the Lakeside Theatre on Sunday. The brilliant Theatre of Widdershins will be performing Arabian Nights.
Essex County Standard
Gazette

Important dates
University of Essex students are putting together their own fundraising calendar. Members of the University of Essex's Theatre Arts Society are putting together a sports and societies-themed calendar to raise cash for Breast Cancer and Testicular Cancer awareness.
Essex County Standard

Martin claims junior squash title
Frinton's Charlotte Martin was among the winners when this year’s activetendring October junior squash festival took place at the University of Essex. The finals were the culmination of a three-day series of tournaments held at Harwich Sports Centre, Lexden Squash Club and the university, as part of Tendring Council’s activetendring half-term programme.
Clacton, Frinton and Walton Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard

11 November

Grant winners
Elizabeth Palmer from the Department of Law has been awarded nearly £15,000 to research 'access to justice in an age of austerity: time for proportionate responses?' and Professor Peter Patrick from the Department of Language and Linguistics Seminar has been awarded nearly £18,000 to look at 'Language analysis of asylum applicants: foundations, guidelines and best practice'.
THE

Creative process revealed
Students, academics and film lovers will be given a chance to analyse the work of Oscar-nominated UK director Sally Potter in a new way thanks to a six-month knowledge transfer project. The partnership between Potter's production and distribution company Adventure Pictures, the University of Essex and the University of Surrey, will bring to life the director's notes, costume designs and scripts via interactive online techniques for teaching and learning.
THE

Violence as students protest over funding
An estimated 30,000 to 50,000 students and lecturers including six coachloads from the University of Essex attended the demo in London to protest against rising tuition fees and funding cuts.
Gazette

Updated: Student rioters will be punished says PM
Prime Minister David Cameron has called for "the full force of the law" to be used against people who assaulted police or damaged property during the student demonstrations at Conservative Party headquarters. Students and lecturers from Essex were among up to 50,000 who took part in the protests. Most of the demonstrators were peaceful, but the day ended in violence in which a number of police officers were injured. Colchester Lib Dem MP Bob Russell, reiterated his opposition to student fees but condemned the troublemakers.
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Echo

Met Police launch inquiry into student protest
The Met Police is launching an inquiry into how it prepared for Wednesday's student march over university tuition fees, which ended in violent clashes. University of Essex student Leila Khaled, 22, was among those held in the police cordon. She said demonstrators, who were not there to cause trouble, were left "freezing" and "desperate" as they waited to be let out.
London Wired
The Times
BBC
Times of Malta

Council counts cost of traveller legal row
Council chiefs face a bill of tens of thousands of pounds after losing a court clash with travellers which could have been settled for just £600. The High Court has ruled in favour of two travellers, who used to live at the illegal Hovefields camp in Wickford, in a complaint over Basildon Council releasing their personal data. Carolyn Hamilton, director of the Children’s Legal Centre which took the case against the council to court, said: “We are delighted. “We have been working with our clients on this since spring 2009 and it is absolutely right that they should be awarded the compensation due to them.”
Brentwood Weekly News
Southend Standard

Meet on accounting this month
The Department of Commerce, University of Kerala, in association with the Kerala branch of the Indian Accounting Association, is hosting the 33rd All India Accounting Conference and international seminar on Accounting Education and Research on 13 and 14 November. Dr. Hardy Thomas from the Essex Business School will deliver one of the  keynote addresses.
Hindu

Battle of the bulge is rarely well done
Jamie Oliver's nutritional movement is set to go to Queensland, Australia. For the next four years, with the help of Queensland taxpayers, the Ministry of Food hopes to convert the fast-food addicted and turn them away from their ways. Oxford University and University of Essex researchers said the campaign's positive effects were comparable to those seen after the introduction of the national literacy hour in the 1990s but they were evident more quickly.
Courier Mail

10 November

Prescribing the outdoors
Scientists at the University of Essex are embarking on a new project to build on their existing research into the benefits of enjoying the great outdoors. Their research has already uncovered how just a small dose of nature can affect people’s mental well-being but now, thanks to a £90,000 grant from the British Heart Foundation, a team will investigate the link between taking a break in natural green spaces and combating work stress. Read the article here.
Walk

Kafka's Amerika on stage
A new theatre production of Kafka's Amerika has been performed by East 15 Acting School students in Southend.
Echo

Town's airport bus service to be axed
A bus service from Clacton to Stansted which picks up at the University's Colchester Campus, is to be axed.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard

Uni staff and students join funding demo
Staff and students from the University will be in London today to take part in a demonstration against the Government's cuts to education funding.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Halstead Gazette
Rocket News
Echo
Southend Standard
Clacton, Frinton and Walton Gazette
Basildon and Wickford Recorder

New hotel to be run and staffed by students
Wivenhoe House Hotel and Edge Hotel School is to open in Essex in spring 2010; the first working hotel to be run and staffed by students.
The Appointment Online

9 November

Northamptonshire intern lands dream role thanks to Carr-Michael
A Northamptonshire postgraduate is living the American dream after reaping the benefits of an internship with a Warwickshire company. Charlotte Corbett has landed a 12-month placement with the Compass Group, based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 21-year-old, who has just completed a BA English Language degree at the University of Essex, was offered the placement following a successful internship with business improvement specialists Carr-Michael, based in Warwickshire and operating throughout the UK. Carr-Michael took Charlotte on a 200-hour placement in her final year and she believes the experience gained during her time with the company has helped her to land her new role in the USA.
Pressbox
PR Log

Festival is a big success
This year's activetendring October junior squash festival took place at the University of Essex. The finals were the culmination of a three-day series of tournaments held at Harwich Sports Centre, Lexden Squash Club and the university as part of Tendring Council's activetendring half-term programme.
Gazette

Choose Suffolk boss to take up 'hub' role
Celia Hodson, Chief Executive of the Choose Suffolk development partnership is to take up a nine-month secondment as project director a the new Eastern Entreprise Hub, based within the James Hehir Building at University Campus Suffolk. The project is being led by University Campus Suffolk and Suffolk County Council, working with a range of local and regional partners.
East Anglian Daily Times

8 November

Govt delays child detention promise
The promise to end the detention of children in immigration centres has been officially delayed. Kamena Dorling, manager of the Migrant Children's Project at the Children's Legal Centre said: "This announcement is bitterly disappointing. The coalition government initially promised to end this kind of detention within weeks - it now looks like it will still be taking place almost one year into their leadership.
Politics.co.uk
Children and Young People Now

Shadow foreign office minister to visit Colchester
Stephen Twigg, who famously defeated the then-Defence secretary Michael Portillo in the 1997 General Election, will be in the town on Tuesday, December 7. The Labour MP will mark Human Rights Week by meeting academics and students at the University of Essex  before launching the Colchester Labour Party's new Young Labour Network at the Town Hall.
Gazette
Essex County Standard

Dragons, aliens and a princess working on the railways
Two former University of Essex employees, Ken Rickwood and David Cleveland have spent 12 months exploring the River Stour and have published a new book entitled Stour Odyssey.
East Anglian Daily Times

Investigators at University of Essex publish new data on HIV/AIDS
Researchers in the Department of Economics at the University of Essex have published a study in the Journal of International Development entitled 'Exploring The Links Between Hiv/aids, Social Capital And Development'.
Aids Weekly

E.U. set to examine who pays for Internet
The global debate over how access to the Internet should be determined and paid for has attracted free speech advocates, telephone network operators and big online businesses like Google and Facebook. This week, arguments over so-called network neutrality move to Brussels, where the European Commission and Parliament are holding a daylong meeting that is expected to draw speakers from industry, government and academia. In the absence of new rules from Brussels, individual European countries will define their own versions of "reasonable" network traffic management, in most cases leaving great discretion to network operators, said Chris Marsden, a senior lecturer on Internet law at the University of Essex in Britain.
International Herald Tribune
New York Times
and 10 other news outlets across the USA

Ti Jean and His Brothers opens Theatre @ York' s new season
Theatre @ York’s season opener is Ti Jean and His Brothers, a magical, musical parable by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. Derek is currently Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the University of Alberta, Edmonton and Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex in Colchester, England.
The Atkinson Beat

Travellers seek advice on a move to Laindon
Travellers faced with eviction from Dale Farm have made the first move towards relocating to Pound Lane in Laindon. They have sent preliminary plans to Basildon Council asking for advice before putting in a full planning application. The travellers are also continuing the battle to stay at their camp in Crays Hill with the help of students from the Human Rights law Clinic at the University of Essex.
Southend Standard
Echo
Brentwood Weekly News

6 November

Rainbow generation present a new image of strength, success and self-confidence
Until 2001, it was not even a category on the census form. Now "mixed race" is the fastest-growing ethnic minority in the UK and predicted to be its biggest by 2020. One in ten children lives in a mixed-race family and mixed-race relationships are so prevalent that some ethnic groups could soon disappear, with Black Caribbean top of the danger list. Lucinda Platt, reader in sociology at the University of Essex, said: "This trend is set to continue, and that will result in an increasing number of people with diverse identities of which Caribbean heritage forms a part. It also means that those who define themselves as singularly Caribbean are likely to decline over time."
The Times

University of Leicester provides perspectives on architectural history
The University of Leicester’s Department of History of Art and Film has organised a series of public lectures, to be given by scholars specialising in the field of architectural history. The first lecture will be delivered by Professor Jules Lubbock of the University of Essex delivering a lecture entitled ‘War and Peace in the Room of the Nine in Siena’.
Civic and Public Building Specifier

Conversation, Film, Art to focus on Death Penalty
"No Human Way to Kill: Critical Conversations on the Death Penalty" is the focus of a student-produced event that will bring death penalty experts to Arizona State University's West campus. Laura Adviento, a student in the master of arts in social justice and human rights (MASJHR) degree program said that they are working with the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom and with universities across the United States and North America.
US Federal News
Web Newswire

Parents Circle Family Forum Awarded Gandhi Peace Prize 2010
In 2010 the Gandhi Foundation Peace Prize was awarded to the Parents Circle Families Foundation at a ceremony in the House of Lords in Westminster, London. In 2009 the Peace Prize was awarded to the Children's Legal Centre, and had been accepted on their behalf by their Director, Professor Carolyn Hamilton. This year Professor Hamilton gave a short speech before presenting the Peace Prize to Robi Damelin, as representative of the Parents Circle Families Forum.
Suite 101.com

5 November

Rocking club night on the Up
Ipswich’s Uprock club night celebrates its sixth birthday with a not-to-be missed gig. One of its music-obsessed founders is Steve Haugh, Marketing Director at the University of Essex Students’ Union. He said “since day one we set out to put a lot of care and attention into everything we do, from hand-drawing all our posters to spending days in record shops or online searching out good new music.”
East Anglian Daily Times

Is dose of nature the cure?
Researchers at the University of Essex have been given a £90,000 grant from the British Heart Foundation to build on work which shows how a small "dose of nature" can affect people's wellbeing.
Essex County Standard

Apprentice tips for students
Budding entrepreneurs picked up tips from former Apprentice contestant Helene Speight when she visited the University of Essex to talk to business students about her experience.
Essex County Standard

Students hear Talk Talk boss
Neil McArthur, Chairman of telecommunications firm Talk Talk revisited the University of Essex to encourage students to follow in his footsteps. Mr McArthur graduated from the University of Essex 30 years ago.
Essex County Standard

Two injured in separate incidents at university
A security guard and a student were taken to hospital following two incidents at the University of Essex.
Essex County Standard

Lib Dems would have survived under alternative vote system
Liberal Democrat high-flier Julia Goldsworthy would still be a Westcountry MP if the first-past-the-post voting system had been scrapped at the last election, leading political analysts have claimed. The University of Essex calculated that ousted fellow Lib Dem Richard Younger-Ross, who was MP for Teignbridge, would also have returned to the House of Commons benches under the Alternative Vote (AV), which could be the electoral system in the future. The British Election Study, compiled by academics David Sanders and Paul Whiteley, underlines why the Liberal Democrats are leading the calls for first-past-the-post to go.
ThisisDevon
Plymouth Herald
Western Morning News
Express and Echo

Inspirational writer among those honoured
Inspirational screenwriter David Croft and Food writer and restaurateur Ruth Watson received honorary degrees from University Campus Suffolk on Thursday along with fellow students.
East Anglian Daily Times

Thousands of women 'leave the hospitality industry each year'
Some 310,000 female workers leave the hospitality, leisure and travel and tourism industries each year, a report has revealed. Martin-Christian Kent, People 1st's director of policy and research, said that talented women are leaving these industries as they are unable to achieve their career ambitions. "If we are able to develop and retain more women in the industry, it would help ensure that we have the number of skilled managers we need for the future," he added. Last month, the East Anglian Daily Times reported that University of Essex students were to receive on-the-job hospitality training at a new hotel being built in Colchester.
Caterer.com

4 November

Kimmy Eldridge, 1947-2010
Read an obituary for Kimmy Eldridge in the Times Higher. Kimmy joined the University of Essex in 1994 to set up the Nursing and Health Studies Unit, which would later become the Health and Social Services Institute and eventually the School of Health and Human Sciences.
THE

PR Agency claims top regional prize
The University of Essex won a silver award in the 2010 East Anglia PRide Awards for best publication. Introducing Essex was produced by the Communications Office. Read the article here.
East Anglian Daily Times
EDP 24

Work in progress
The Birmingham Post interviews Mike Leigh who originally trained as an actor at RADA but switched to directing at East 15 Acting School, where he met his ex-wife and frequent early collaborator Alison Steadman.
Birmingham Post

Bankruptcies rise fastest among middle-aged women - jumps 37% over last year
Bankruptcies among middle-aged women (35-54) rose faster than any other demographic group, shooting up 37% in just one year, reveals research conducted by Wilkins Kennedy, the Top 18 accountancy firm. A study from the Institute for Social and Economic Research found that 5 years after divorce, separating husbands have an income that is 25% higher on average than their income prior to the marital split, whereas the income of separating wives is on average 9% lower.
Wilkins Kennedy
Insolvency Today
Business Credit News
Debt Management Today

Degrees by the thousand
University Campus Suffolk are holding their two-day graduation event and yesterday Jimmy Docherty of Jimmy's Farm and Radio Host Mark Murphy were awarded honorary degrees at the ceremony along with 500 students from UCS Ipswich, UCS Otley and UCS Suffolk New College.
East Anglian Daily Times

Race for Life cash delight
Runners who took park in the three Colchester Race for Life events have raised almost £250,000. Organisers are reminding woman though that it's not too late to pay in their sponsorship money.
Gazette
Essex County Standard

3 November

Plan to turn record store into housing for students
The former HMV store in Southend could be transformed into student accommodation to take advantage of the growth of the university. A property investment company wants to build 36 student rooms and two shops in Queens Road which is close to the new University Square building which has just been opened.
Echo

Award-Winning Film Director’s Online Archive Brought to Life by Partnership with University of Essex
A partnership between award-winning film director Sally Potter's production and distribution company Adventure Pictures, the University of Essex and the University of Surrey is using cutting-edge web technology to bring to life the online Sally Potter Archive (SP-ARK).
The six-month project is part of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) part-funded by the Technology Strategy Board and will showcase the use of interactive online techniques for teaching and learning.
PhD student Heidi Wilkins is working on the project at Essex under the supervision of Dr Sanja Bahun from the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies.
EMedia Wire
Benzinga.com
RedOrbit

Cops called to campus twice in one night
A security guard and a student were taken to hospital following two incidents at Essex University within the space of an hour. Police were called to the Wivenhoe Park campus in the early hours following reports of a fight. A security guard was taken to Colchester General Hospital for treatment after he broke his ankle while dealing with an incident, at South Towers at about 2.10am on Sunday.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Halstead Gazette

Apprentice gives advice
Budding entrepreneurs picked up some tips from a former contestant on The Apprentice.
Helene Speight, 35, who reached the final of the BBC TV show two years ago, visited Essex University to talk to business students.
Gazette

Can a stroll in the park really help stress?
The benefits of a relaxing walk in the park during a hard day's work are to be quantified by Essex University.
Researchers at the Colchester-based university have been given £90,000 by the British Heart Foundation to build on work that shows how a small "dose of nature" can affect people's mental well-being.
Although it is widely accepted that the taking a break at work is important, little scientific evidence has been gathered to back up the claim.
Gazette
BBC

2 November

Hands up! Who stole part from the uni's clock?
The clock on the University of Essex's colourful accommodation block in Southend has three faces which show the hours, minutes and seconds but the hour hand is missing and local cab drivers have been missing it.
Echo

I want to inspire students to follow me
Neil McArthur, Chairman of the telecommunications giant TalkTalk revisited the University of Essex to encourage its current students to follow in his footsteps. Neil is an Essex graduate, leaving Essex in 1979 with a degree in telecommunications.
Gazette

Take A Break - It's Good For You
Scientists at the University of Essex are embarking on a new project to build on their existing research into the benefits of enjoying the great outdoors. Research at Essex has already uncovered how just a small 'dose of nature' can affect people's mental well-being. Now, thanks to a £90,000 grant from the British Heart Foundation, a team will investigate the link between taking a break in natural green spaces and combating work stress. Read the article here.
Medical News Today
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Clacton, Frinton and Walton Gazette
Scientific Computing

Stage fright is the inspiration behind unique exhibition
Stagefright is the notion that is explored in an imaginative and original exhibition now showing at the University of Essex. German artist Yvonne Buchheim approached students, teachers and staff all over the University of Essex campus and asking them to sing a song of their choice on the spot and in front of a video camera  and their reactions before, during and after are on display on three television screens at the Art Exchange.
Gazette

Work like an athlete
Businesses can learn how to get workers to function like athletes at a breakfast meeting taking place at the University of Essex. University of Essex experts will describe how skills in managing top athletes can transfer to the workplace.
Gazette

New hotel to be run and staffed by students
Wivenhoe House Hotel and Edge Hotel School is to open in Essex in spring 2012; the first working hotel to be run and staffed by students. At a cost of £10 million, the school will offer practical and vocational learning for students yet also function as a commercially sustainable four star hotel. It will be run as a partnership between the principal funder, educational charity the Edge Foundation, and the University of Essex. Speaking to Caterersearch Sir Garry Hawkes, president of the Edge Foundation, said: “To be able to operate a fully functioning hotel with real members of the public staying, as well as providing both quality practical and vocational learning for the next generation of hospitality students is a great move forward for the industry.”
The Appointment

Recent findings in environment and pollution
Abdul Nasir and colleagues from the Department of Biological Sciences have published their study on 'Assessment of Bacterial and Fungal Aerosol in Different Residential Settings' in the journal Water Air and Soil Pollution.
Science Letter
Life Science Weekly

Children do better in school if their mother stays home for the first year
Youngsters are less likely to succeed at school if their mothers return to work within a year of their birth, according to a major study. The findings follow years of studies into how mothers’ return to work impacts on children. One, at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at Essex University, found children tended to be slower developers, with poorer verbal skills, if their mothers return to work shortly after giving birth.  
Daily Mail

New voting system 'would have given Lib Dems fourmore seats'
The Liberal Democrats would have won four more seats in Yorkshire if the voting system had been changed before the General Election, according to a study produced by political experts. The study by Professors David Sanders and Paul Whiteley – based on information provided in a survey of 14,000 voters – comes as the coalition Government pushes ahead with plans for a referendum next May on introducing the AV system, something the Lib Dems have been pushing for to make the voting system fairer. Read the article here.
Yorkshire Post

New assistant solicitor for Ellisons
Essex Law graduate, Paul Forsyth has joined Ellisons Solicitors in Colchester as an assistant Solicitor in the corporate commercial team after training, qualifying and working for two years at a London firm of solicitors.
East Anglian Daily Times

1 November

Guess which airline cuts costs by hiring freelance pilots?
For hundreds of Ryanair pilots, that means no sick pay, paid holiday or redundancy rights. That's because they're classed as self-employed, working for their own one-man companies. What Ryanair avoids through this arrangement is paying employers national insurance at 12.8%. The lost tax revenues to the exchequer of bogus self-employment in construction alone has been estimated at between £300m (the Treasury's own figure) and £1.5bn (an independent estimate by Prof Mark Harvey of the University of Essex) a year.
Daily Mirror

Tuition Fees: would the Coalition hang on in the East of England?
It wasn't a huge surprise that the East of England would debate tuition fees. Under the careful eyes of session Chair, Susan Gaszczak and her trusty aide (that would be me), the debate was carefully balanced, but with Norman Lamb speaking against, as well as, somewhat unexpectedly, Andrew Phillips (the Chancellor of the University of Essex), it was always likely to be close run. And so it turned out.
Global Post

Havering Mayesbrook keep up strong start
The senior Men’s team from Havering Mayesbrook Athletics Club continued their great start to the season with another Essex League win at Colchester on Saturday. in the Senior Women's race, University of Essex student Jade Edwards was a good 28th.
Basildon Today and 9 other local papers

7 steps to spring-clean your workout
Research from the University of Essex in England found exercising in a green space can lift your mood and self-esteem. The study found around three-quarters of people who exercised in a park or in the countryside felt less depressed, angry and tense. ‘Green exercise is any activity you do outdoors in a green space ,’ researcher Dr Jo Barton says. ‘It doesn’t matter what the physical activity is, it’s being in a green space that’s important.’
Yahoo! 7 Lifestyle
PakTribune

Studies from University of Essex update current data on nutrition
Researchers from the University of Essex have produced a report looking at the 'Associations between habitual school-day breakfast consumption, body mass index, physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness in English schoolchildren.' Health and Medicine Week

Research yields new findings on sports medicine
Researchers from the University of Essex have published a report in the British Journal of Sports Medicine which investigated how experience and feedback influence pacing and performance during time trial cycling.
Health and Medicine Week

October 2010

30 October

Why have Britons lost touch with the natural world?
We are a nation disengaging ourselves from one of our greatest assets – the great outdoors. Time to reconnect. And what a time it is to be doing this. For even as we spend less and less time out of doors, scientific understanding of its value to us grows more and more. Recent research from University of Essex shows that as little as five minutes of "green" exercise can have a significant impact on self-esteem. In a nation where one in four adults will experience clinical mental illness at some point in their lifetimes, at an annual cost in excess of £100bn, our withdrawal from nature makes no sense. Read the article here.
The Guardian

PTA declared Most Progressive Telecom Regulator in South Asia
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has been declared Most Progressive Telecom Regulator in South Asia for the year, while Chairman PTA Dr Mohammed Yaseen has been recognised as Best Telecom Regulatory Leader of the Year. He earned his PhD from University of Essex, United Kingdom with a specialisation in Telecommunication Systems. After his PhD, he worked for the University of Essex as a Senior Research Officer, on projects funded by HP and European Consortium.
Business Recorder
Pakistan Observer
Daily Times

29 October

Approved: first hotel to be run by students
Colchester Councillors have approved an application for building works of the grade 11 listed Wivenhoe House Hotel. Due to open in Spring 2012, it will be the first working hotel in the UK to be run and staffed by students, supervised and mentored by industry professionals.
Essex County Standard
Planning Resource

Revealed: the big plan to unclog Colchester
Colcestrians will start to see huge changes to their town centre from as early as next spring. In addition to combating congestion, the next phase of the plan will update the town on a number of projects including the new University of Essex Knowledge Gateway which includes a new research park, hotel and leisure facilities and student accommodation blocks, as well as a new junction linking the site to Clingoe Hill.
Essex County Standard
Gazette

East goes East
Former students from a Loughton acting school have been performing Shakespeare in Shanghai. The 15 Degrees East Theatre Company was invited to stage Romeo and Juliet at the UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010, throughout the second half of October. The hour-long promenade production, features agile physical performances, spectacular fight sequences and a 400-year visual journey from Elizabethan-style costumes to street fashions of London today.
Enfield Independent
This is Local London

Check out life at University
The University of Essex is opening its doors tomorrow to prospective students. They will be able to look around the campus, meet staff and students, hear talks and view student accommodation.
Essex County Standard

The Party's (largely) Over
In America, Europe and elsewhere, the era of tight affiliation to political parties is over. The decline of partisanship could signal a less tribal, more educated electorate. But research on 36 countries by Professor Paul Whiteley of the University of Essex shows a strong correlation between political partisanship and good public administration.
Indian Express
MSN
Yahoo! India
Financial Express (India)

Little Pete author's home offer
The enchanting Wivenhoe home of writer Leila Berg is up for sale. Named Alice's Cottage, the home lies in Brook Street and is believe to date from the 17th century. Ms Berg, aged 93 was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Essex in 1999.
Essex County Standard

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