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Marketing marvels

Staff involved in marketing the University have consolidated their existing experience and knowledge with a professional qualification.

Victoria Bartholomew, Caroline Dimbleby and Samantha Haylock all successfully completed the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Professional Diploma. The course involved four weekends of study at Anglia Ruskin University, then independent revision before undertaking four three-hour exams.

Samantha Haylock, Victoria Bartholomew and Caroline Dimbleby with their CIM certificates

 

Celebrating women artists

The Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies is hosting a series of events celebrating the work of twentieth century writer Virginia Woolf.

The Afterlives of Virginia Woolf: (Re)reading Virginia Woolf will include talks, roundtable discussions, screenings and rehearsed readings in celebration of women artists.

Funded by a Knowledge Transfer Innovation fund grant, the programme starts on 22 April. It includes an exhibition on Woolf in the library, a workshop reading of Woolf’s Orlando, a talk on modernist women and the visual arts by writer Professor Maggie Humm, and screenings of films by acclaimed British director Sally Potter, who will also be visiting the University to give a talk on 13 May.

The second event focuses on the re-reading and re-writing of Virginia Woolf in theatre and performance art and will be held on 29 May.

The Afterlives of Virginia Woolf is being organised by Dr Sanja Bahun and Professor Marina Warner. All the events will be open to the public. For further information contact Dr Bahun, e-mail: sbahun@essex.ac.uk.

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Hundreds register to donate bone marrow

Over 250 staff and students at the University have registered as life saving bone marrow donors through leukaemia charity the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust (ACLT).

ACLT was established to encourage ethnic minorities to sign up to the Anthony Nolan Trust and National Blood Service registers. This is because, remarkably, individuals from black or ethnic minority backgrounds have only a 1 in 100,000 chance of finding a bone marrow match, compared to around 1 in 5 if they are white British.

ACLT’s cause was highlighted by 24-year old Essex student Katrina Baylis, who was diagnosed with aplastic anaemia at 15. Six years later her illness returned with a second condition, myeloid dysplasia. Katrina and her family were told this would eventually turn into leukaemia, meaning her only cure and chance of a survival was a bone marrow transplant.

Katrina Baylis at the Colchester Campus

With so many from the University taking part in a bone marrow registration drive at Hackney Empire, a second event was held at the University’s Colchester Campus last month.

For more information about the ACLT and leukaemia, please telephone: 0208 240 4480 or visit: www.aclt.org.

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Also in the printed April edition of Wyvern:

• Praise for Prem
• Marathon feat
• Marathon walk to fight breast cancer