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20.01 The Role and Relevance of Psychology in Today's World

Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes p5

At a Glance

20.01 He Named Me Malala Screening & Speakers p6

20.01 Suffragette Screening & Speakers p6

03.02 Ann Arbor Film Festival Screening p7

03.02 Cultural Policies, Regional Development and Inequalities

Professor Kate Oakley p8

04.02 Blue Funnel and Red (part of the Chinese New Year festivities) Screening p9

04.02 The Art of the Demographic Dividend Professor Desmond O'Neill p10

04.02to29.02

Street View: Exhibition of PhotographsClients of theCathedral ArcherProject

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04.02to08.03

Close to Home: Between the Tides Karen Shepherdson p12

09.02 Workshop: Thinking outside of the box – ideas, multi-disciplinarily and collaboration in health research

Professor Sally Spencer p13

09.02 Inequality: The Enemy Between Us Professor Kate Pickett p14

10.02 Pitch Black: The Story of Black British footballers Emy Onuora & Peter Hooton p15

11.02 Childhood Studies, Childhood Sociology and SocialJustice

Professor Tom Cockburn p16

11.02 In Conversation with Jonathan Coe Jonathan Coe p17

16.02 Disruptive change: a social good or a waste of people’s lives?

Professor Carolyn Kagan p18

22.02 Universities and Communities: Together, Tethered, or Torn

ProfessorTom Bryer p19

23.02 Taking it to the Streets Dr Andrea Capstick& Morag Rose p20

24.02 Talk about Close to Home: Between the Tidesexhibition Karen Shepherdson See

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25.02 Alzheimer's and Other Dementias: Progress and Challenges in Research Dr Simon Ridley p21

25.02 In Conversation with Terence Davies Terence Davies p22

01.03 Economic Inequality: A messy social problem Dr Nat O'Connor p23

02.03 New British Cinema: A Resurgence of Independent Cinema?

Professor Jason Wood p24

09.03 The Human Touch Breathe Out Theatre p25

10.03 Strategic leadership for the management ofemergency services: case for a new research agenda

Professor Paresh Wankhade p26

14.03to01.04

Portraits of British Muslims Zahir Rafiq p27

14.03 If integration is the answer, what was the question? What next for health and social care partnerships?

Talks • Exhibitions • Films • PerformancesJanuary to April 2016

Professor Jon Glasby p28

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Edge Hill University launches itsfirst Festival of Ideas in 2016 with adiverse range of events exploringculture, health and society. Themain theme is Imagining Better –envisioning ways for communities,arts and healthcare to develop andflourish, even in times of austerityand inequality.

Imagining Better will be a festival ofcreative thinking for challengingtimes, making space for crucialconversations and new ideas for thearts, healthcare and public policy.

An exciting collection of talks,exhibitions, films and performanceswill explore issues such as children’srights and citizenship, arts andsocial justice, innovative strategiesfor current healthcare issues, racismin sport, cultural identities andmuch more.

The Edge Hill Festival of Ideas hasbeen inspired, in part, by the work ofthe internationally respectedcultural theorist Stuart Hall andbuilds on the University’s tribute tohim on the occasion of his death in2014. A key part of Hall’s work andhis contribution to ideas and theacademy was his invitation to thinkin a multi- or inter-disciplinary way,and to encourage critical thinkingand questioning.

Imagining Better has beenprogrammed by Edge HillUniversity’s three researchinstitutes:

The Institute for PublicPolicy and ProfessionalPractice (I4P)

– Cross-disciplinary research andknowledge exchange

The Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE)

– Connecting the University to thecreative industries

The Postgraduate MedicalInstitute (PGMI)

– Driving improvements in healthand social care

and includes the University’s SpringProgramme of Professorial lecturesand a strand of arts activity.

A Festival of Ideas

Few, if any, disciplines other thanpsychology span the period frombefore conception to after death,embracing all the interactions thathumans have with their environmentbetween those two milestones.

Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes willdiscuss the many facets of thisfascinating discipline, both pure andapplied. Tracing the beginnings ofthe subject to the beginning of lastcentury, the many specialist areaswhich have developed since then willbe explored, and numerousexamples illustrated showing therelevance of psychology to today's world.

Professor Hacker Hughes, 81stPresident (2014-5) of the BritishPsychological Society, is aConsultant Clinical Psychologist,Psychotherapist and ClinicalNeuropsychologist. He has workedin the field of psychotraumatologyfor 20 years.

Professor Hacker Hughes haspublished widely with nearly 100peer-reviewed papers, books, bookchapters and conference papers andhe has lectured on his specialist fieldof psychological trauma around theworld. He is known for trying tomake his subject area accessible toall and easily understood withfrequent appearances in the mediaas well as features in a plethora ofnational radio programmes andnewspapers.

The Role and Relevance of Psychology in Today's World

Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes, President of the British Psychological Society

Wednesday 20th January6.00pm

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He Named Me MalalaA shocking truestory with a positive message

Creative Edge3.00pm

The film is an intimate portrait of NobelPrize laureate Malala Yousafzai who wastargeted by the Taliban and severelywounded by a gunshot when returninghome on her school bus in Pakistan'sSwat Valley. The attack sparked an outcryfrom supporters around the world.

Speakers include Oscar-winning filmproducer Mia Bays, Birds Eye View; DrVicky Duckworth, Faculty of Education,Edge Hill University; Dr Elke Weissmann,Department of Media, Edge Hill University.

SuffragetteA powerful dramaabout the womenwho were willingto lose everything

The Arts Centre7.00pm

An intense drama that tracks the story of the early feminist movement asworking women fought for the right tovote. Turning to violence as the onlyroute to change they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality. With Meryl Streep, CareyMulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Romola Garai.

Speakers include Oscar-winning filmproducer Mia Bays, Birds Eye View;Professor Roger Shannon, ICE, EdgeHill University; Gayle Heath, CEO, The Pankhurst Trust, Manchester.

The Time is Now

The Time Is Now is a season of film exploring and celebrating the role women play in affecting change.

Wednesday 20th January3.00pm & 7.00pm

Creative Edge & The Arts Centre, Edge Hill University

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The Ann Arbor Film Festival is a pioneerof the traveling film festival concept,having launched an annual tourprogramme in 1964. The AAFF selectsfilms from the past years festival toscreen in art house theatres, museums,universities, cinematheques and mediaart centres. All filmmakers participatingon the tour are paid to screen their work,providing direct support to theseindependent artists. We are proud to behosting the tour for the fourth yearrunning, the only UK host.

The Ann Arbor Film Festival is thelongest-running independent andexperimental film festival in NorthAmerica, established in 1963. The six-day festival presents 40 programmeswith more than 200 films from over 20countries of all lengths and genres,including experimental, animation,documentary, narrative, hybrid andperformance based works.

A selection of films from the AAFF Tourare available on limited-edition DVDcollections, which can be purchasedfrom: www.aafilmfest.org.

Cert: 15Running time: 80mins

53rd Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival

Wednesday 3rd February7.30pm

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Professor Kate Oakley will be inconversation about Cultural Policies,Regional Development andInequalities drawing on herextensive research into the recentculture of New Labour, whilst alsoposing questions about what mightbe the culture of the NorthernPowerhouse.

Kate Oakley is Professor of CulturalPolicy at the University of Leeds.Her research interests include thepolitics of cultural policy, work inthe cultural industries and regionaldevelopment. Her recent booksinclude the 2014 Cultural Policy, co-written with David Bell; and in2015 Culture Economy and Politics - The Case of New Labour withDavid Hesmondhalgh, David Lee,and Melissa Nisbett, which providesa major contribution to ourunderstanding of the policy, politics,culture and the arts, via a case studyof the UK New Labour government'scultural policies (1997-2010).

Kate will be joined in conversationby Eddie Berg, Creative Consultant,previously Director of BFISouthbank in London; Founder/former CEO FACT, Liverpool.

Cultural Policies, Regional Developmentand Inequalities

Professor Kate Oakley, University of Leeds

Wednesday 3rd February6.30pm

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Enjoy a taste of Chinese culture atthe Chinese Street Market at TheHub from 11.30am-3.00pm.

At 3.00pm, Red and Blue Funnel,two short films exploring theexperiences of Chinese communitiesin the UK, will be shown as part ofthe Confucius Institute Chinese NewYear celebrations.

Red (1995) Dir. Rosa FongIn the late 1970s, Xiao-Mei leavesrural China for an arrangedmarriage in London. Struggling tomake sense of her new situation in astrange country, she embarks on aspiritual journey as she discoversfamily, both old and new.

Blue Funnel (1998) Dir. Paul Mayeda BergesBlue Funnel, a contemporary dramaset in the Chinese community inLiverpool, follows Daniel as he triesto send his father's ashes back to hisancestral village.Daniel's father left Hong Kong aged14 and spent his life as a seamancoming in and out of the Liverpooldocks where he married an English

girl. The ashes need to return 'home'for his spirit to rest... but Danielrealises he's not sure where 'home' is.

At 5.00pm prepare to be amazed byJin Long’s performers. Theprogramme will include the LionDance, Chinese Kungfu, acrobats,hoola hoop, feet juggling withdrums, hat juggling and magic. BianLian, or Face Changing, as it'sknown in the western world, and thehighlight of Sichuan Opera in China,will leave the audience feeling totally stunned.

An Extravaganza Celebration of Chinese New Year 2016

Thursday 4th FebruaryFrom 11.30am

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Thursday 4th February6.00pm

Tate Liverpool

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This event presented in TateLiverpool as part of our corporatepartnership. The audience will haveprivate access to Matisse in Focusexhibition including a rareopportunity to see The Snailoutside of London.

Professor Desmond O'Neill's workon Neurosciences and Ageingfocuses on stroke, in particularrecovery following stroke, as well asprediction of fitness to drivefollowing stroke and dementia.

When students troop into myintroductory lecture on geriatricmedicine, they are generallysurprised that the first slide is HenriMatisse's The Snail (1953): radical,vibrant, and witty, it does not quiteconform to their preconceptions ofmedicine with older people. Thesecond slide, of the 83-year-oldMatisse in a wheelchair, providesthe context: his later life not onlyprovides surprising developmentsin his art, but it occurs in the face ofsignificant disability. Indeed,Matisse's response to illness illustratesnot just his resourcefulness, but alsothe role of adversity in sparkingpersonal growth.

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An exhibition of photographs andtexts by clients of the CathedralArcher Project in Sheffield, a holisticservice designed to help homelesspeople improve their lives. Createdthrough a collaboration by The OpenCollege of the Arts (OCA) and theCathedral Archer Project, theexhibition offers often unfamiliarperspectives on Sheffield’s people,buildings, streets and open spaces.The clients of the Cathedral ArcherProject worked with professionalphotographer Mark Harvey andcurator Andrew Conroy to developtheir own personal vision and takephotographs which tell the storiesthey want to tell.

Street ViewExhibition of Photographs by clients of the Cathedral Archer Project

Thursday 4th February toMonday 29th February

9.00am – 6.00pm weekdays

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Business School foyer,Edge Hill University

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Along the UK's Isle of Thanet coastis the extraordinary Walpole Baytidal pool. This pool, some four acresin size, provides a free space forpeople to gather, to swim, to forageand fish.

The exhibition will feature imagesfrom a long-term photographicproject which includes documentingcoastal communities of Thanet andin particular the sea bathers ofWalpole Bay.

Visual catalyst for my workresides in my environment. I liveand work on the Isle of Thanet. Myhome is built on the cliffs - I am acoastliner - and the sea and theshoreline are a vital part of mydaily experience. Critical to mypractice is working close to homeand being part of Thanet's diverseand complex coastal community.

Karen Shepherdson is Reader inPhotography at Canterbury ChristChurch University, where she directsthe South East Archive of SeasidePhotography and co-directs theCentre for Research onCommunities and Cultures. Karen will give a talk about theexhibition at 6pm on 24th Februaryin Creative Edge.

Close to Home: Between the Tides

Karen ShepherdsonTalk: Wednesday 24th February, 6.00pm

Thursday 4th February to Tuesday 8th March



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Professor Sally Spencer is Directorof Clinical Research at the PGMI.Sally took up the current post atEdge Hill University in Autumn2015 with the aim of developing,supporting and enabling researchactivity within the Faculty of Healthand Social Care, and across thewider University, throughcollaboration with external publicand private sector organisationsrelevant to healthcare.

The aim of the workshop is tofacilitate cross-fertilisation of ideasby bringing together researchersfrom diverse academic backgroundsto identify opportunities forcollaboration on projects of mutualinterest and benefit. The session willintroduce the concept of broadinterdisciplinarity from theperspective of health research. Themain workshop will involve smallgroup discussions around the topicof knowledge exchange, supportedby session facilitators.

The workshop will include attendeesfrom a number of externalorganisations involved in thedevelopment and delivery ofhealthcare. Academic staffinterested in engaging incollaborative research are welcometo attend, irrespective of directrelevance to health.

Workshop: Thinking outside of the box – ideas, multi-disciplinarity andcollaboration in health research Professor Sally Spencer,Edge Hill University

Tuesday 9th February12.00pm

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Comparing factors relating to health,education, crime and community, itis clear that societies which tend todo well on one of those measurestend to do well on all of them, andthe ones which do badly, do badly onall of them. Why?

The key is the amount of inequalityin each society. The picture isconsistent whether we compare richcountries or the 50 states of theUSA. The more unequal a society is,the more ill health and socialproblems it has.

The data show that even smalldifferences in the amount ofinequality matter. Materialinequality serves as a determinant ofthe scale and importance of socialstratification. It increases statusinsecurity and competition and theprevalence of all the problemsassociated with relative deprivation.Particularly important are effectsmediated by social status, friendshipand early childhood experience.However, although the amount ofinequality has its greatest effect onrates of problems among the poor,its influence extends to almost allincome groups: too much inequalityreduces levels of well-being amongthe vast majority of the population.

Kate trained in biologicalanthropology at Cambridge,nutritional sciences at Cornell andepidemiology at UC-Berkeley. She iscurrently Professor of Epidemiologyin the Department of HealthSciences, University of York

I4P Third Annual Lecture: Inequality: The Enemy Between Us

Professor Kate Pickett,University of York



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Edge Hill University’s Institute forPublic Policy and ProfessionalPractice (I4P) welcomes EmyOnuora to discuss his new book,Pitch Black: The Story of BlackBritish footballers with PeterHooton, writer and vocalist ofLiverpool-based group The Farm.

When Paul Canoville took to thepitch for Chelsea in 1982, he wasprepared for abuse. When themonkey chanting and the bananathrowing started, he wasn'tsurprised. He wasn't prepared,however, for the abuse to be comingfrom his own side.

Canoville was the only member ofthe team whose name was booedinstead of cheered, the only playerwhose kit wasn't sponsored. Hereceived razor blades in the post. Hetook to waiting two or three hours toleave the ground after a match,fearing for his safety. So minimalwas the presence of black players inthe game, the few who managed tobreak through were subjected to themost graphic abuse from all sides.

Today, 30 per cent of Englishprofessionalfootballers areblack, andamongst theirnumber are someof the biggestheroes of thebeautiful game.

But just how far have we come?

With unprecedented access tocurrent and former players, EmyOnuora charts the revolutionarychanges that have taken place bothon and off the pitch, and argues thatthe battleground has shifted fromthe stands to the board room.

In this fascinating new book, Onuoracritically scrutinises the attitudes ofFIFA, the FA and the media over thelast half-century, and asks what isbeing done to combat the subtlerforms of racism that undeniablypersist even today. Featuringstartling revelations from all levelsof the footballing fraternity, PitchBlack takes a frank and controversiallook at the history of the world'smost popular sport – and its future.

Pitch Black: The Story of Black British footballers

Emy Onuora, author Pitch Black: The Story of Black British footballersPeter Hooton, writer and vocalist of Liverpool-based group The Farm.

Wednesday 10th February6.00pm

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Childhood Studies provides a multi-disciplinary and comprehensiveapproach to studying children. Thisholistic study of children has a longhistory and underlies a great deal ofthe work at Edge Hill University.Recently, influenced by the sociologyof childhood, the child has shiftedfrom being an object of research tobeing subjects in their own right.This has happened at the same timeas the growth of children’s rightsand the inception of the UnitedNations Convention on the Rights ofthe Child in 1989.

Professor Tom Cockburn willcritically reflect on the contributionthat childhood studies has made tosocial justice. He will discuss thechallenges to an inter-disciplinarychildhood studies in the twenty-firstcentury, if it is to be critical of thesocial inequalities and injusticesexperienced by children in the worldtoday. He will do so by reflecting onchildren’s citizenship, children’srights and social justice both in theUK and abroad.

Professor Cockburn joined Edge Hillin February 2014 as Head of SocialSciences in the Faculty of Arts andScience. He has previously workedat Manchester MetropolitanUniversity and the University ofBradford. He has spent over 20years researching children, youthand childhood and is well publishedin both national and internationaljournals, his book RethinkingChildren’s Citizenship was publishedin 2013.

Childhood Studies, Childhood Sociologyand Social Justice

Professor Tom Cockburn,Edge Hill University



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Multi award winning novelist,Jonathan Coe discusses his latestbook Number 11, which waspublished on the 11th day of the 11thmonth, 2015 and was also Coe’seleventh novel.

A brutal family dynasty showsits staying power in this state-of-the-nation satire that takes inreality TV, wealth inequality, thedeath of David Kelly and giantspiders... Angry, bleak, preoccupiedwith establishing occult powerconnections to the extent that itwould easily earn its place on ashelf of “paranoid fiction”, Number11 is undoubtedly a political novel.It is also an interrogation of thepurposes and efficacy of humour inexposing society’s ills, and a spoofon horror B-movies...The Guardian

Number 11 is Coe’s sequel, of sorts,to his 1994 What a Carve Up!, hisextraordinary piece of social satirewhich uses the story of a powerful,wealthy and ruthless family, theWinshaws, to expose the excessesand evils of all aspects of ThatcheriteBritain.

What Coe satirically captures is thegaping chasm between the twodistinct worlds of the haves and thehave-nots in an era of austerity,exposing the mantra of “we’re all init together” in the absurd culture ofthe super-rich.

Jonathan Coe will be in conversationwith Professor Roger Shannon,Director of the ICE research institute.

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Photo: Valeria Cardi

Professor Carolyn Kagan will reflect onsome of the themes running throughher work as a community socialpsychologist since the mid-1970s,from both an academic groundingsand in partnership and collaborationwith those most affected by the widersocial forces and policy changes.

Professor Kagan will draw on workwhich has included people with learningdifficulties and their families; peopleliving poverty; the nature of workand its fit with family and community;arts and human flourishing; peopleliving amongst urban regeneration;community organising and peopleon the brink of forced labour.

As well as her role as VisitingProfessor of Edge Hill University,Professor Carolyn Kagan is aregistered Counselling Psychologistand qualified social worker. Sheworked at Manchester MetropolitanUniversity from 1976 to 2014 mostrecently as Professor of CommunitySocial Psychology and Director ofthe Research Institute for Healthand Social Change. She now holdsan Emerita position there. Her workand publications have ranged fromthe contextual nature ofinterpersonal skills, to organisationand community development. Shehas an international reputation forchampioning university-communitycollaborative working, participativeresearch and innovative curriculumdevelopment, and developed thefirst Masters programme inCommunity Psychology in the UK.

Disruptive change:A Social Good or a Waste of People’s Lives?

Professor Carolyn Kagan,Edge Hill University



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Professor Bryer will introduce theidea of the integrated universityfrom his book Higher Educationbeyond Job Creation: Universities,Citizenship, and Community.Universities have multiple, oftencompeting obligations to create jobsand build skills for existing jobs,disseminate knowledge fromoriginal research, and cultivateactive citizens. Advocates of eachdifferent role sometimes feed thecompetition and facilitate conflict bydisparaging the value of the otherroles. If properly integrated, theoutcome can be strongercommunities around ouruniversities, with citizens preparedto pursue the good life forthemselves and others around them.

Critical to this role integration is astrong and strategically alignedrelationship with the community, asa whole, and with individualstakeholders within the community.Professor Bryer will outline threepoints on a continuum of university-community relations, and present anargument to cultivate relationshipsthat are tethered in some areas ofoperation but merely together inmany other areas.

Examples will be drawn from theUnited States, such as from Bryer'sown Centre for Public and Non-profit Management and from the"Delaware Model" at the Universityof Delaware. Examples will also bedrawn from the United Kingdom,with reflection on recent reports andrecommendations about UKresearch councils and teachingexcellence in UK universities.Additional examples will be drawnfrom other European institutionsthat will allow for expandedreflection on civics, diversity, andeconomics within the span ofuniversity concern.

Universities and Communities: Together, Tethered, or Torn

Professor Tom Bryer,School of Public Administration, University of Central Florida

Monday 22nd February1.00pm


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This symposium explores theconcept of psychogeography, thepractice of attentive walking used bya diverse range of writers, activists,artists and performers, in thecontext of the Imagining Betterexhibitions strand. Framed with anintroduction to the concepts fromRoy Bayfield, sessions will include:

Confessions of an Anarcho-FlâneuseMorag RoseThe LRM (Loiterers ResistanceMovement) is an openinterdisciplinary collective interestedin exploring and sharing our love forManchester. This talk will share fieldnotes from our experiments inanarchaflanuerie and introduce arange of tactics that we use totransform the streets into aplayground as we search for new waysto look at, feel and remap Manchester.

The View from Room 21: storying care home life with dementiaas ‘a wounded city revisited’Andrea Capstick

Room 21 is on the second floor of aLondon, UK care home. Over theyears it has been occupied in turn byPeter, Shirley and Frances, all ofwhom had a diagnosis of dementia.Central to the narrative biography ofeach of the three residents is aEuropean city where he or she liveddecades earlier. For Peter, it iswartime Amsterdam; for Shirley,post-war Berlin, and for Frances, themost recent occupant,Czechoslovakia during the PragueSpring of 1968. Andrea’s researchexplores the intersections betweenthese historically ‘wounded cities’and the experience of living in apresent-day care home.

Taking it to the Streets: EmpoweringInteractions with the Urban Environment

Morag Rose, University of SheffieldDr Andrea Capstick, Bradford University

Tuesday 23rd February6.00pm

Business School, Edge Hill University

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Dementia is a truly global healthissue, affecting 44million peopleworldwide. There are 850,000people living with dementia in theUK today. By 2025 the number isexpected to rise to over one millionand by 2050 it is projected to exceed2 million. (Alzheimer's Research UK)

The term dementia describes a set ofsymptoms including memory loss,mood changes, and problems withcommunication and reasoning. Thispublic lecture with guest speaker DrSimon Ridley includes a presentationaround key challenges and progressin dementia research from both ascientific and research perspective,including areas such asepidemiology and risk reduction,dementia pathologies, new drugtargets, trials and treatments, andbiomarkers.

Viewed by some as having feweropportunities in academia, thisdiscussion will explore howdementia research capacity andinitiatives, alongside the fundinglandscape (UK and global) can be supported.

Simon joined Alzheimer's ResearchUK in January 2009. As Director ofResearch he is responsible for thedelivery of funding programmes andpartnerships. Simon follows newdevelopments in dementia researchand is a regular media spokespersonon research matters. Simon hasextensive experience as a researcherand has also worked in industry.Prior to taking up post atAlzheimer’s Research UK, Simon aResearch Fellow at University ofCambridge, where he also completedhis PhD.

Alzheimer's and Other Dementias:Progress and Challenges in Research

Dr Simon Ridley,Director of Research, Alzheimer's Research UK


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Liverpool born Terence Davies,lauded as 'Britain's greatest livingfilm maker', has made anoutstanding contribution to Britishcinema and culture. As well as beinga Fellow of the British Film Institute,Terence was made an HonoraryDoctor of Literature at Edge HillUniversity in 2015.

Terence Davies will be inconversation with Professor RogerShannon – Director of ICE, EdgeHill University - discussing his filmmaking career, whilst focussing onhis two most recent films, SunsetSong and A Quiet Passion, whichrepresent long cherished passions.

His adaptation of Sunset Song, theclassic Scottish novel by LewisGrassic Gibbon, was released at theend of 2015 to great acclaim, whilst2016 will welcome Terence Davies’sA Quiet Passion, the life of therenowned American poet, EmilyDickinson. Both films have beenproduced by Roy Boulter and SolPapadopoulos of Liverpool’sHurricane Films.

Terence’s most celebrated featurefilms, Distant Voices, Still Livesfrom 1988 and The Long Day Closesfrom 1992 are autobiographicalfilms that draw on his familyexperiences of Liverpool in the1940's and 1950's and which are richevocations of working class culturein the post war decades.

In Conversation withTerence Davies




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Nat is a Lecturer of Public Policy andPublic Management in UlsterUniversity. His primary researchinterests are economic inequality,housing and homelessness,democratic accountability andevidence-based policy making. From2009 to early 2015, Nat worked withthe progressive think-tank TASC(www.tasc.ie) in the roles of PolicyAnalyst, Director and ResearchDirector. At TASC, Nat wrote arange of policy analysis andeconomic analysis, presented toparliamentary committees and gaveregular briefings to policymakersand the media. Prior to that, Nat ledthe research team in Dublin’sHomeless Agency. He has alsolectured in several Irish universitieson an occasional basis, and he is acommittee member of the IrishSocial Policy Association and amember of the Board sub-group onPolicy of The Wheel (therepresentative body of thecommunity and voluntary sector inthe Republic of Ireland).

Economic Inequality: A Messy Social Problem

Dr Nat O’Connor,Ulster University

Tuesday 1st March6.00pm


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Jason Wood is the Artistic Directorfor Film at HOME, Manchester'snew centre for internationalcontemporary arts, theatre and film,and also Visiting Professor at theManchester School of Art.

Jason will introduce and discuss hisrecently published book, NewBritish Cinema - From Submarineto 12 Years A Slave published byFaber in November 2015 and cowritten with Ian Haydn Smith. Thebook argues that there is aresurgence of British film makingcurrently under way, bolstered bythe arrival of a new wave ofindependent cinema. Wood'sindustry roles in distribution, sales,Festivals and exhibition atPicturehouse and Curzon Cinemasgive his insights a fresh authenticityand a rounded perspective.

New British Cinema singles out2009 as a pivotal year, when anunusual number of importantBritish films debuted in cinemas andat Festivals. A single mostheartening argument in the book isthe prevalence of female directorswithin this new wave of UKindependent cinema.

New British Cinema: A Resurgence of Independent Cinema?

Professor Jason WoodArtistic Director for Film at HOME

Wednesday 2nd March6.30pm



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Edge Hill University will be hostingthis production in partnership withBreathe Out Theatre, and issupported by the Arts CouncilEngland.

The Human Touch delivers acollection of stories exploring theUK care system through the eyes ofthe cared for, and the carers. Threeunique stories will take you on ajourney, focusing on differentperspectives of care and exploringthe idea ‘who cares for who?’. TheHuman Touch offers humour,sensitivity, and inspiration for allthose involved in, or interested invarious aspects of health and social care.

Breathe Out Theatre is Manchester-based non-profit company set up bywriter/producer Rob Johnson,(winner of The Kings Cross Awardfor New Writing). The companyworks to produce new writing,bespoke plays, and high qualityproductions in collaboration withactors, directors, designers andtechnicians.

The Human Touch

Breathe Out Theatre

Wednesday 9th March5.00pm

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The emergency services (ambulance,police and fire & rescue) impact oneverybody at some time in their life.The need to manage risk to life,health and property (including thepublic awareness of risk andresponsiveness) makes it imperativeto have a comprehensive understandingabout these organisations. It is vitalto analyse the contexts in whichthese services operate and the keyorganisational and managementchallenges they face.

Professor Paresh Wankhade’sinaugural lecture will draw on thecurrent state of managementresearch on emergency serviceshighlighting a ‘theory-practice’divide which has resulted in a ‘silo’approach to the development ofacademic and professional expertise.The lecture will also address thefragmentary nature of theemergency community whilehighlighting the challenges faced byindividual services to argue the casefor a new research agenda.

Professor Wankhade joined EdgeHill University in September 2014 asProfessor of Leadership andManagement in the Business School.His research and publicationscurrently focus on analyses ofstrategic leadership, organisationalculture and organisational changewith a special focus on ‘blue light’emergency services management.He regularly chairs specialist panelspromoting strategic leadership inemergency services at internationalmanagement conferences and is theEditor-in-Chief of the InternationalJournal of Emergency Services.

Strategic leadership for the management of emergency services: case for a newresearch agendaProfessor Paresh Wankhade,Edge Hill University

Thursday 10th March6.00pm

Business School,Edge Hill University

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Zahir Rafiq is an artist from SouthYorkshire. He specialises incontemporary Islamic art where hefuses traditional Islam motifs withwestern artistic styles. With thisapproach he sought to express notonly a new way of looking at Islamicart, but also his own identity assomeone being brought up as aMuslim in Britain.

He has worked with organisationssuch as South Yorkshire Police toproduce artwork for a postercampaign and also participated in anational exhibition for IslamicAwareness Week, on the theme of“Your Muslim Neighbour”. Hebelieves art can be used to increasetolerance and understandingbetween people from differentcultural backgrounds. This wasevident when he worked inpartnership with the RotherhamTourist Initiative to hold the firstexhibition of Islamic art within aChristian Church at All Saints inRotherham shortly after the eventsof 9/11

Zahir is currently working withSheffield University exploring thetheme of British Muslim identitytrough portraiture as part of theImagine Better Futures Project. Hewill paint subjects that depict thepresent day British Muslimcommunity as well, challengingmisconceptions and exploringgenerational differences.

Portraits of British Muslims

Zahir Rafiq

Monday 14th March to Friday 1st April


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Integrated care is a key policypriority, and has been crucial torecent developments such as NHSEngland’s Five Year Forward View,the Better Care Fund and debatesaround the regional devolution ofhealth spending. However, greaterintegration has been a longstandingpriority, and we have discussedmany of these issues before. Againstthis background, this lecture reviewsthe recent policy context (includingboth opportunities and challenges)and explores the underlyingevidence base around ‘what works inpartnership working’.

Jon is Head of the School of SocialPolicy at the University ofBirmingham and Professor of Healthand Social Care. A qualified socialworker by background, he isinvolved in regular research,teaching, consultancy and policyadvice around health and social carepartnerships, community care andpersonalisation. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of IntegratedCare and a Non-Executive Directorof Birmingham Children’s Hospital.He has provided policy advice to theDepartment of Health, the CabinetOffice and Downing Street on thefuture of health and social services,and from 2003 to 2009 was theSecretary of State’s representativeon the Board of the Social CareInstitute for Excellence (SCIE). Heis currently a Senior Fellow of theUK School for Social Care Researchand a Fellow of the Royal Society ofArts and of the Academy of SocialSciences.

If integration is the answer, what was thequestion? What next for health and social care partnerships.Professor Jon Glasby,University of Birmingham

Thursday 14th April6.00pm


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Edge Hill University is based on astunning campus environment inLancashire, close to Liverpool and Manchester.

The University has been providinghigher education for 130 years,based on an ethos of opportunitythrough excellence. In 2014-15 EdgeHill was awarded the Times HigherEducation University of the Yeartitle, the most prestigious accoladein the Higher Education sector. Itwas also named by the samepublication as the Best UniversityWorkplace in its 2015 survey of staffat UK universities. The recentResearch Excellence Framework(REF) results show the high qualityand impactful nature of our researchwith World Leading InternationallyExcellent or InternationallyRecognised work across all areas.The University is rated top in theNorth West for Overall StudentSatisfaction across all 23 questionsin the 2014 National Student Survey,and the top diversified university inthe UK for Social Mobility, based onEdge Hill’s success in developing abroad range of students to achievegraduate jobs (Social MobilityGraduate Index 2014).The last decade has seen investmentof £250m on its campus whichincludes Creative Edge, a £17mmedia, music and computing facilityand a £30m sports complex and itremains the safest campus in theregion according to the CompleteUniversity Guide.

The University is an academiccommunity comprising more than10,000 full time undergraduate andpostgraduate students, a further6,000 on part time and professionaldevelopment programmes andnearly 4,000 staff. Edge Hill alsoboasts strong levels of graduateemployment, with 95.3% of full-timedegree students finding work orfurther study within six months ofgraduating, which places theUniversity in the top eight publicuniversities in England (HESA 2014).

Edge Hill University has been achampion of Widening Participationsince its establishment in 1885 asthe country’s first women’s non-denominational teacher trainingcollege. Since this time, the theme ofopportunity for all has remained akey component of the institution’svision and is embedded throughoutits activities. The university’sconsistent efforts to widen accesshave led to being recognised as aTop Two University in the UK forSocial Mobility based on its successin developing a broad range ofstudents to achieve graduate jobs.

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