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IN THISISSUE:

New UniversityTeaching FellowshipAward launchedFull story on page 6 >>

Could the Alumni officeincrease your researchincome by 30%?Full story on page 19 >>

Anglia Ruskin receivesTravel Plan ExcellenceAwardFull story on page 22 >>

March 2010

Volume 7 No 3

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art and enterprise meet for a uniqueworkshop series

SUNDAY

8 March• MA Children’s BookIllustration graduationexhibiition,10.00am–5.00pm, RuskinGallery, Cambridge

• Alfie, 7.30pm, MumfordTheatre, Cambridge



• The Rape of Lucrece,7.30pm, Mumford Theatre,Cambridge

11 March

12 March• CFC event, 10.00am, ArtsPicturehouse, Cambridge

• Lunchtime Concert, 1.10pm,Mumford Theatre, Cambridge

13 March

14 March

15 March

16 March• Reach for the Skies,10.00am–5.00pm, RuskinGallery, Cambridge

• Flights of Fancy,10.00am–5.00pm, RuskinGallery Balcony, Cambridge

17 March• CFC event, 1.00pm, ArtsPicturehouse, Cambridge

• Reach for the Skies, as above• Flights of Fancy, as above• Romeo and Juliet, 7.30pm,Mumford Theatre, Cambridge

• Anglia Ruskin Orchestra andChorus, 8.00pm, West RoadConcert Hall, Cambridge


• Reach for the Skies, as above• Flights of Fancy, as above• Macbeth, 7.30pm, MumfordTheatre, Cambridge

19 March• Reach for the Skies, as above• Flights of Fancy, as above• Lunchtime Concert, 1.10pm,Mumford Theatre, Cambridge

• Romeo and Juliet, 7.30pm,Mumford Theatre, Cambridge

20 March• Macbeth, 7.30pm, MumfordTheatre, Cambridge

21 March• Anglia Singers, 7.00pm, OurLady Queen of Peace,Braintree







• The Tempest, 7.30pm,Mumford Theatre, Cambridge


• Reach for the Skies, as above• Flights of Fancy, as above• The Tempest, 7.30pm,Mumford Theatre, Cambridge

26 March• Lunchtime Concert, 1.10pm,Mumford Theatre, Cambridge

• The Tempest, 7.30pm,Mumford Theatre, Cambridge

27 March• The Tempest, 7.30pm,Mumford Theatre, Cambridge

28 March

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1 March• Fairtrade Fortnight• A Taste of Honey, 7.30pm,Mumford Theatre, Cambridge

2 March• Fairtrade Fortnight

3 March• Fairtrade Fortnight• MA Children’s BookIllustration graduationexhibiition,10.00am–5.00pm, RuskinGallery, Cambridge

• CFC event, 6.00pm, ArtsPicturehouse, Cambridge

4 March• Fairtrade Fortnight• MA Children’s Book Illustrationgraduation exhibiition,10.00am–5.00pm, RuskinGallery, Cambridge

• An Evening of History andPolitics with Roy Hattersley,7.00pm, Mumford Theatre,Cambridge

5 March• Fairtrade Fortnight• MA Children’s Book Illustrationgraduation exhibiition,10.00am–5.00pm, RuskinGallery, Cambridge

• Lunchtime Concert, 1.10pm,Mumford Theatre, Cambridge

• SHINE, 7.30pm, MumfordTheatre, Cambridge

6 March• Fairtrade Fortnight• SHINE, 2.30pm and7.30pm, Mumford Theatre,Cambridge

7 March• Fairtrade Fortnight• Mapping Maternity,11.00am–5.00pm, CoventGarden Drama Studio,Cambridge

29 March• An evening with TonyStockwell, 7.30pm,Mumford Theatre, Cambridge

30 March

31 March

1 April

2 April

3 April

4 April

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

2 Bulletin March 2010 Volume 7 no 3

New short storycompetition – anopportunity for allour studentsSee page 7 >>

N E W SAIBS, CSA and Ruskin Gallery offer unique workshops and exhibition 4PMI is part of two successful HIEC bids 5New University Teaching Fellowship Award scheme 6Anglia Ruskin Fiction Prize 2010 7International early childhood conference at Rivermead 8Uni4U day to offer an insight into university life 9The Cambridge Time Traveller takes to the airwaves 10MA students form CAMPUS – the Cambridge Publishing Society 11Our SU launches the UK’s first Apple-accredited RTC 11Our SU to seek staff’s views via 2010 survey 12Learning and Teaching project – submit your proposals 13Helping to bring about equality in the Swedish Fire Service 14Routes East hold languages options day 15EBAC at the Mill Road Winter Fair 16PhD student’s research results in blue plaque for Victorian woman poet 17Law lecturers develop new learning and teaching tools 18ILU launches on the Cambridge campus 18

T H E A R T SWhat’s on at the Mumford 25Cambridgeshire Film Consortium events 26Exhibitions, music and drama events 27

F E A T U R E SAlumni news 19Farewell tribute 19Estates & Facilities news 20–21UK and international partner institutions’ news 21Green issues 22–23Research, Development & Commercial Services news 23Employer engagement news 24Joiners, leavers and movers 28

Enterprise andentrepreneurship– workshop seriesSee page 4 for full story >>

IN THIS ISSUE...

HS@W and AIBSwork withHarrods to deliverwork-based BAprogrammeSee page 24 >>

March 2010 Volume 7 no 3 Bulletin 3

Anglia Ruskin is aFairtrade University

Look for this Mark onFairtrade productswww.fairtrade.org.uk

Cover image:

Chris Dobrowolski’s Skyscape Escape –aeroplane (HM 14), which is superimposedonto a sky backdrop.

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As part of the actions beingcoordinated by the AshcroftInternational Business Schoolto embed enterprise andentrepreneurship acrossAnglia Ruskin University, aseries of workshops will betaking place in the RuskinGallery. A collaborative eventbetween the AshcroftInternational Business School,Cambridge School of Art andthe Ruskin Gallery, ‘Reach forthe Skies’ is a uniqueworkshop that exploresenterprise, innovation andcreativity through theinspirational journeys of ChrisDobrowolski.

Chris Dobrowolski is a drivenman. An artist andentrepreneur, his work hasfocused on a series ofjourneys in vehicles ‘knockedup in his garden shed’.

From homemade boats andcars to sledges and planes,Chris’ incredible journeyshave taken him to far-flungparts of the world – fromColchester to Japan, fromHull to Antarctica.

• What drives him to takeincredible risks in the nameof art?

• Why is he considered soenterprising?

• How do art and enterpriseconnect?

• Why do business leadersfrom all over the worldcome and listen to Chris’incredible story?

Chris’ most famous work, anaeroplane from his exhibitionentitled Skyscape Escape, willbe brought into the RuskinGallery to form thecentrepiece of the workshops.This represents a uniqueopportunity for all of AngliaRuskin’s staff and students tosee Chris’ plane, to listen tohis story and to be inspired tothink about their own contextfor enterprise and innovation.

Workshops will be runningduring March on the followingdates and times:

Wednesday 17 – 2.00–4.00pmWednesday 17 – 5.00–7.00pmWednesday 24 – 2.00–4.00pmWednesday 24 – 5.00–7.00pmThursday 25 – 2.00–4.00pm

Spaces for the workshops arestrictly limited and must bebooked in advance. If youwould like to reserve a placeor would like moreinformation on the workshops,please [email protected].

Reach for the Skieswhere art and enterprise meet in a series of incredible journeys

LEADING NEWS


� Skyscape Escape – aeroplane (HM 14), built from tea chests, newspaper and an old car engine.

An exhibition and workshop on creativity, innovation, risk and enterprise at the Ruskin Gallery 16–25 March 2010


Phil Harding, musicproducer, guest lectureon 3 March...Full details on page 7

Trevor Jones and NickMcWilliam of our Animal andEnvironmental ResearchGroup have just launched anexciting new conservationinitiative. They have beenrepresenting Anglia Ruskinand working in collaborationwith the Udzungwa EcologicalMonitoring Centre (UEMC) todevelop the Udzungwa GIS(Geographical InformationSystem) database. The GISdatabase is a map-based tooldesigned to aid research andconservation work and aimscontinually to record andshare research findings in theUdzungwa area in aparticipatory way. It includesinformation from satelliteimages and from many fieldsurveys undertaken by Trevorand the UEMC team. In the

spirit of open scientific andconservation management, itis available to all users.

Much of the dataconservationists require isoften difficult to find, orsimply not accessible to theconservation community, andthis new resource tackles thisproblem by offering an open-access database thatencourages participants bothto use the content and tocontribute data, informationand knowledge.

The database is maintained inthe main office of the UEMC.The Udzungwa Mountains areworld renowned for theirextraordinary biodiversity.Since 2002, Trevor has beeninvolved in discoveries there

of new species of monkey,giant elephant-shrew, and achameleon. The GIS databasecontributes to one of the keygoals of both the UEMC andthe Anglia Ruskin researchersworking in Udzungwa – the

In January, we weresuccessful in being a partnerin two successful bids to bedesignated one of the NHS’sHealth Innovation andEducation Clusters (HIEC).Through our PostgraduateMedical Institute, we will beworking in partnership withUniversity College London(UCL) and Queen MaryUniversity of London (QMUL)in an Essex–North Londonpartnership, and withUniversity of Cambridge in anEast of England HIEC, andthese groups will cometogether to research andpioneer new treatments forcommon diseases, provide afocus for illness preventionand support better choice andcare across the HealthService.

The partnership with UCL andQMUL accounts forapproximately 10% of theNHS budget in England, andthe population servedincludes some of the mostvulnerable and diversecommunities in the country.Key areas identified for theHIEC’s immediate attentionare the prevention of majorillnesses, such as stroke andheart disease, new treatmentsfor chronic lung disease, andbetter choice and care inmaternity services across theregion. Breaking new groundin its approach, researchersand clinicians from allprofessions will be drawntogether within the HIECspecifically to improve thequality of patient care. Thismodel will be led by patientneed, and transformed by theability to collaborate across

primary care trusts, localgovernment and researchorganisations.

In the East of England, theCambridge University HealthPartnership HIEC will focusinitially upon improving themanagement of long-termconditions, including diabetesand obesity, stroke,respiratory conditions, mentalhealth and cancer, togetherwith improving care at theend of life.

Our Vice Chancellor, ProfessorMike Thorne, said, ‘Both ofthe Health Innovation andEducation Clusters we areinvolved in are based aroundacademic science centres.This puts us at the heart ofmedical innovation and theexploitation of innovation toimprove healthcare. In each

case, our key role includesleading on issues central todeveloping a healthier nation.As the only university involvedin two successful HIEC bids,this is an early proof of thestrength of the PostgraduateMedical Institute concept anda clear indication of itspotential for the future.’

Professor Michael Salmon,Interim Director of thePostgraduate MedicalInstitute, added, ‘At a time ofausterity, the public sectorneeds to be sensitive to wasteand avoid unnecessaryduplication of activities andeffort. We believe, through co-operation and innovation, wecan make a real difference.’

Andrea HilliardCorporate Marketing

PMI is part of two successful bidsfor parnership in NHS Health Innovaton and Education Clusters

facilitation of ecologicalmonitoring and researchactivities in and around theUdzungwa MountainsNational Park. Funded by theAnglia Ruskin UniversityResearch Enhancement Fund,this project was largely madepossible by activities with theUdzungwa Elephant Projectlast February, and also athree-day GIS workshop inUdzungwa in September2009, run by Nick.

For more information, pleasevisit www.anglia.ac.uk/aerg.

Teila SmithMarketing Administrator,Faculty of Science &Technology

Anglia Ruskin staff launch new conservation initiative in Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania

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At Anglia Ruskin, we support the development of learning andteaching expertise in various ways and, to date, have distributed asignificant amount of funding to support learning and teachingdevelopment projects. However, until now, we have had noprocess by which we could recognise and reward outstandingcontributions to learning and teaching within our University, aswell as within the higher education community.

Our new University Teaching Fellowship Award scheme fills this gap.The UTFA is based on the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme(NTFS), which provides annually for up to 50 individual awards of£10,000 each within the higher education sector. Anglia Ruskinencourages applications for the NTFS and may nominate up to threeindividuals. Applications for the UTFA will use the same format asthe NTFS, and it is expected that we shall be able to selectcandidates for further support towards nomination for a NationalTeaching Fellowship Award from applicants to our UTFA scheme.

Applicants are required to demonstrate excellence in three areas:

1 Individual excellence – evidence of promoting and enhancingthe student learning experience.

2 Raising the profile of excellence – evidence of supportingcolleagues and influencing support for student learning in (and,if appropriate, beyond) our institution, through demonstratingimpact and engagement beyond their immediate academic orprofessional role.

3 Developing excellence – commitment to their ongoingprofessional development with regard to teaching and learning(and/or learning support).

Colleagues who are judged to have provided sufficient evidence ofoutstanding contributions to learning and teaching within AngliaRuskin and the higher education community to achieve an UTFAwill receive:

• An Anglia Ruskin University Teaching Fellowship Certificate andbe entitled to use the designation ‘University Teaching Fellow’.

• A specially designed Learning and Teaching Fellow lapel pin.• A small project grant (up to £5000) to be used in the supportof a specified project in an area of learning or teaching.

University Teaching Fellows will be expected to contribute activelyto the development and enhancement of our learning and teaching.

EligibilityBoth the NTFS and the UTFA are open to all those involved inteaching and in supporting the student learning experience inhigher education. This includes teaching staff and those whosupport the student learning experience. Both full-time and part-time staff, including staff from partner institutions and part-timehourly paid staff, are eligible for nomination. Colleagues maynominate themselves or others for an award. However, anomination must be supported by the faculty dean prior tosubmission to a University review panel, chaired by the DeputyVice Chancellor (Academic).

Up to six awards will be made each year.

CalendarUTFA – the call for applications for the 2010 UTFA scheme isnow open:• Mar – in the first instance, interested applicants should registeron the INSPIRE website: www.anglia.ac.uk/inspire.

• Apr–May – INSPIRE will facilitate workshops and other eventsin April and May to support interested applicants in formingtheir applications.

• Jun – fully complete applications must be received by 5.00pmon Friday 4 June.

• Jul – successful applicants for the UTFA scheme will beannounced and awarded at the Learning and TeachingConference on 14 July.

National Teaching Fellowship Scheme• Oct – selection of nominees for NTFS from pool of UniversityTeaching Fellows.

• Nov–Feb 2011 – support provided to NTFS nominees incompiling their NTFS nomination.

• Feb 2011– NTFS submissions.

Forms and further informationPlease visit the INSPIRE website, www.anglia.ac.uk/inspire, forapplication forms and further information. (Further informationabout the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme can be obtainedfrom www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/supportingindividuals/ntfs.)

Dr Jaki LillyINSPIRE

New award to recognise excellence inLearning and Teaching PracticeINSPIRE is delighted to announce our new Anglia Ruskin UniversityTeaching Fellowship Award

NEWS


Timetabling – projectprogress and nextsteps...Full details on page 12

Anglia Ruskin University isdelighted to launch a newshort story competition, opento all our University’s students,so please make your studentsaware of this opportunity.

This year’s judge is novelistand short story writer AliSmith, whose work has beenshortlisted for the OrangePrize (twice), The Booker Prizeand The Man Booker Prize.She has won three Scottish

Arts Council Book Awards (in1995, 2001 and 2002), theEncore Award, and theWhitbread Novel Award. Herrecent collection of stories,The First Person and OtherStories, was published in2008.

Guidelines for entry• Open to all current,registered Anglia Ruskinstudents

• Up to 2000 words,including title

• First prize £250, secondprize £150, third prize £50

• Entries due Tuesday 16March, by 4.00pm

Entry formatStudents must:• Either, submit their story tothe English, Communication,Film & Media administrativeoffice, Helmore 245,Cambridge campus. Storieswill be accepted from10.00am Tuesday 9 Marchuntil 4.00pm Tuesday 16March.

• Or, send their stories bypost. Address these toFiction Contest, c/o Magda

Generalczyk, EFCMAdministrative Office,Helmore 245, Anglia RuskinUniversity, East Road,Cambridge, CB1 1PT.Entries must be receivedbetween 9 and 16 March.

• Include a detachable coversheet with their name,Anglia Ruskin SID, contactdetails, title of story andword count. Also includetheir SID and story title onthe first page of the storyitself. Do not include theirname anywhere on the storyitself.

• All entries should be 1.5-line or double-line spaced,and include page numbers.

Eligibility• All entries must be thestudent’s original work, notpreviously published,appearing online orbroadcast. Entries may berevised versions of storiespreviously submitted as partof an academic course.

• Students working on theadministration of the prizeare not eligible for entry.

• One entry per student.


Anglia Ruskin Fiction Prize 2010Copyright• Worldwide copyrightremains with the author.Anglia Ruskin will have theunrestricted right to publishthe winning and shortlistedentries, in full or in part, forpublicity and any resultinganthology.

Judging• The judge’s decisions arefinal.

• The contest will not be ableto offer feedback orotherwise discuss entries.

• Anglia Ruskin staff will beunable to read drafts ormake comments on anyprospective entries.

• Winners will be announcedby May.

• Questions on theseguidelines may be sent [email protected].

Any entries received late, ornot adhering to these rules,will, unfortunately, bedisqualified.

This competition is supportedby the University Arts Council.

Wednesday 3 March5.30pm–7.00pm, DavidBuilding Cambridge

Phil Harding – musicproducer and engineer

Phil is well known forengineering You Spin MeRound by Dead or Alive,followed by numeroushits for Stock Aitken Waterman including work by KylieMinouge, Rick Astley and the Pet Shop Boys. As a producer,his greatest chart success was achieving a five weeks, and aChristmas, number 1 for East17 with Stay Another Day. Philwill be discussing his career, experience in the industry and willbe happy to take whatever questions others may find helpful.

Wednesday 17 March, 5.30pm–7.00pm, David BuildingCambridge

Gordon Reid – CEDAR Audio

CEDAR is a leading supplier in the audio forensic field forpolice, security, anti-terrorism, air-accident investigation andmilitary applications. Gordon Reid will demonstrate some ofCEDAR’s products to give an insight into the world of forensicaudio.

Both sessions are open to staff and students, and we hope youare able to join us for these enjoyable and informativeseminars.

To book your place email [email protected].

Department of Computing and Technology – guest lectures and research seminar series: March 2010

I am pleased to announce thisthree-day conference organisedby the Early ChildhoodResearch Group at the Facultyof Education and funded bythe British Academy.

The conference is organised inthe light of many national andinternational policies,curricula frameworks andguidelines that have placedearly childhood into the widerglobal context by outliningaspirational outcomes andbenefits for children. However,

such policies and frameworkshave also ignited debatesregarding the potentialtensions and conflicts thatexist in their underpinningphilosophies and pedagogies.There are concerns that ifsuch tensions and conflictsare not acknowledged,understood, critiqued andnegotiated, these policies maylead to disadvantaging,marginalising and evenpathologising certainchildhoods. The aim of thisconference is to address these

challenges through aninternational debate.

Keynote speakers include:

• Mr Barry Sheerman, MP forHuddersfield, Chair of theChildren, Schools andFamilies Select Committee,UK

• Ms Yoshi Kaga, ECCE FocalPoint – Inclusion andQuality Enhancement,UNESCO, Paris

• Professor Elin Ødegaard,Bergen University College,Norway

• Dr Shu-Ying Liu, NationalHsin-Chu University ofEducation Taiwan

• Professor Lilian Katz,University of Illinois Co-director of the ERICClearinghouse on Early

Education and Parenting(CEEP), USA

Conference speakers anddelegates come from the UK,many European countries andas far afield as thePhilippines, Japan, China,South Korea, India, SouthAfrica, Nigeria, Canada andthe USA. There are more than40 research, policy andpractice-related papers.

Further information and theconference programme areavailable atwww.anglia.ac.uk/earlychildhood 2010conf.

Professor TheodoraPapatheodorouChair, Conference Committee,Faculty of Educaton

International Early Childhood conferenceEarly Childhood Curriculum, Policy and Pedagogy in the 21stCentury: an international debate – 25–27 March, Rivermead campus

NEWS


The Early Childhood ResearchGroup, Faculty of Education,was pleased to invite and hostProfessor Lilian Katz, whogave a lecture, entitledIntellectual Emergencies, on25 January 2010.

Professor Katz is an eminentand highly respected earlychildhood educator and authorof more than 100publications, includingarticles, chapters and booksabout early childhoodeducation, teacher education,child development, andparenting. She is the editor ofthe first online peer-reviewedearly childhood journal, EarlyChildhood Research &Practice. She is ProfessorEmerita of Elementary and

Early Childhood Education atthe University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign and is Co-director of the ERICClearinghouse on Elementary& Early Childhood Education.In the past, she served as thepresident of the NationalAssociation for the Educationof Young Children in the USA.

A group of nearly 70 students,lecturers, teachers from localschools and advisors fromEssex Early Education andchildcare services listened toProfessor Katz’ inspiringpresentation about herlifetime’s experiences as aneducator and a mother.

Pauline Loader, SeniorLecturer Early Childhood,

commented, ‘IntellectualEmergencies is the intriguingtitle of Professor Lilian Katz’new publication, which sheintroduced to us at themeeting. The maxims that shedescribed as being “made up”in response to her son’squestions encompassed awealth of wisdom about howyoung children learn; forexample, “Teach the learnerhow to tell you where he/sheis”, and also about howimportant relationships are tothis process. She referred tothe need for “intellectualcontent” in these relationshipsas adults and childrenproblem-solve about the worldaround them. I found whatshe said was pertinent to mywork as a lecturer as well as

to the teaching of children ofany age. A student spoke tome afterwards about how shecould have listened to Lilianall day! I agree, and amlooking forward to readingmore about these “intellectualemergencies”.’

As mentioned above, ProfessorKatz will be one of ourkeynote speakers at the EarlyChildhood Curriculum, Policyand Pedagogy in the 21stCentury: an internationaldebate conference, due to takeplace at our Rivermeadcampus from 25–27 March.

Professor TheodoraPapatheodorouDirector of Research, Facultyof Education

Intellectual Emergencies lecture at Anglia Ruskin

Graduation dates for2010...Full details on page 14

Saturday 24 April sees thereturn of the External LiaisonTeam’s Uni4U – A Taste of YourLocal University Day. Funded byAimhigher, and building on thesuccess of previous events, thisyear’s day is going to be ourbiggest yet. Aimed at 13–15-year-olds and their families, theday will show visitors the widerange of potential subjects andcourses available to students ofhigher education (HE) andAnglia Ruskin University itself.

Aimhigher is about makingeveryone aware of the benefitsHE can bring, whatever theirbackground. With the hugerange of courses available, it’snever too early to get schooland college students to startthinking about the future, or

finding out what HE could dofor them.

To achieve this, the ExternalLiaison Team has written to theheads of Years 9 and 10 at over170 schools in Essex,encouraging them to promotethis event, and (as of 8February) we have already had300 people saying that theywould like to attend.

Taking place on our Chelmsfordcampus, the event will openwith a welcome address fromour Vice Chancellor before thevisitors are let loose around thevarious hands-on workshopsavailable. In addition to thegreat support we have receivedfrom all of the faculties, thisyear Space4Schools and theJiangsu Centre are alsoparticipating. Space4Schools(www.space4schools.co.uk) willbe providing a lecture on rocketpropulsion and a rocket-makingworkshop, as well as having theSkybolt rocket onsite, whilst theJiangsu Centre will be offering aChinese calligraphy workshop.

Our students have, so far,offered to run workshops ontheatre make-up, law andtaking graduation photographs.

The Students’ Union will beteaching the visitors to dancelike Michael Jackson (Thrillerdance) and the Sirenscheerleading squad will also beparticipating.

The Helen Rollason ResearchLaboratory, (FHSC) will also beopen to talk about thepioneering work they arecarrying out.

Additionally, five Year-11students from St John PayneSchool, Chelmsford, will beshowcasing the success of theirFormula 1 in Schools national-championship winning cardesign. It’s the secondsuccessive year that the schoolhas won this, and they will berepresenting the UK at theworld championships inSingapore later in the year. Visitwww.f1inschools.com for moreinformation.

If any staff and their familieswould like to attend this eventas visitors, please [email protected] a booking form.

Ian EricsonSenior Widening ParticipationOfficer, External Liaison Team

In the News

Send your news stories toAndrea Hilliard (ext 4727,[email protected]).To view our latest newsreleases visitwww.anglia.ac.uk. You canalso follow our latest news onTwitter, visitwww.twitter.com/angliaruskin

3 February, The TimesAIBS is venturing to thesunnier climes of Trinidad andTobago as it launches its newInstitute of InternationalManagement Practice.

1 February, BBC RadioCambridgeshireProfessor Mike Thorne, ViceChancellor, discusses theGovernment’s funding cuts.

2 February, Anglia Tonight(ITV 1)Anglia Ruskin’s newUniversity Centre in Harlowgets planning go-ahead.

I February, BBC Radio EssexOne hundred new students tostart at University CentreHarlow, in September 2010,in advance of buildingcompletion.

21 January, Heart (Essex) FMProfessor Mike Salmon,Interim Director of thePostgraduate MedicalInstitute, discusses how wehave been uniquely successfulin being a partner in twosuccessful bids to bedesignated one of the NHS’sHealth Innovation andEducation Clusters (HIEC).


Uni4U – the burger is back!

On Saturday 23 January, withfunding from Aimhigher, theExternal Liaison Team, alongwith several StudentAmbassadors, ran a leadershipday for 23 Year-11 studentsfrom Comberton VillageCollege, Cambridge.

The school students whoparticipated in this event wereall part of a student leadershipprogramme run at the school,and attended the event forextra credit towards their goldaward.

With the help of threeleadership and managementundergraduates, we ranseveral ‘taster’ sessions, whichwere part theory, partpractical. As well as learningabout different leadershipstyles, the students were giventhe opportunity to find outabout their differentpersonality types by doing theMyers Briggs Type Indicator(find out more about this atwww.myersbriggs.org). Oncethe students knew their types,we then deduced which

character from The Simpsonsthey were.

The event worked extremelywell, in part because of theexcellent input from ourcurrent undergraduates, andwe look forward to workingwith Comberton Village Collegeagain in the future, and addingthis event to the suite ofactivities that we already offerschools and colleges.

Natalie WoodExternal Liaison Team

Year-11 leadership day

An Anglia Ruskin historian istaking to the airwaves in anexciting new venture in localradio. Dr Seán Lang, SeniorLecturer in History (ALSS),has teamed up withCambridge local historian FonzChamberlain to co-present TheCambridge Time Traveller, amonthly history magazineshow on the independent localradio station, 209radio.

Fonz has been running theshow as a one-man operationsince he founded it two yearsago. Seán, whose voice isalready familiar to locallisteners from his regularweekly slot on BBCCambridgeshire’s FridayBreakfast Show, has broughtsome new ideas and items tothe Time Traveller show.Listeners are invited tonominate moments in historythey would like to go back in

time and witness, and therewill be interviews with peoplefrom the very wide range ofoccupations that involvehands-on engagement withhistory and the past.

Involvement with the showisn’t limited to staff. Historystudents Elliot Hodgson andTim Knight-Hughes haveconducted interviews withlocal people for the show andthere are plenty of otheropportunities for students toget involved.

The show has spawned aflourishing website where localpeople can record theirmemories of Cambridgeshirein the past, or can post theresults of their reading andresearch into local history.

The Cambridge Time Travelleris one of the most exciting

Anglia Ruskin’stime traveller

NEWS


� Dr Seán Lang, broadcasting from The Cambridge Time Traveller studio.

In 2007, Dr Seán Lang, SeniorLecturer in History (ALSS),chaired a team that reported forthe Conservative front bench onthe state of history teaching inschools. Now Seán has goneback to the subject and issued anew report, entitled simply‘Better History’, which is foranyone to read. Back in 2007,the major problem was thathistory was in danger ofbecoming marginalised inschools, but there were alsoserious concerns about thequality of much of the subject’sassessment, and especially theway students were examined inthe analysis of source material.With concerns about socialcohesion in the country,politicians were also concernedthat children should gain a goodoverview of British history, even

though it can be surprisinglydifficult to define ‘good’,‘overview’ and ‘British’! Sincethen, a major report from theHistorical Association, in 2009,showed the subject in evenmore of a crisis, and threatenedwith extinction in large numbersof schools, as it is forced off thetimetable to make way forpurely skills-based vocationalcourses.

In January 2010, Seán held aninvitation seminar to revisit the2007 report with somemembers of the original team,along with teachers from boththe state and the independentsectors, from an examinationboard, from Euroclio, theEuropean History Teachers’Association, from BBC Historymagazine, and an observer from

the Qualifications andCurriculum DevelopmentAuthority (QCDA), to considerthe current situation and tocome up with proposals forchange.

The biggest single proposal isthat history should be taught ina single, continuous andcoherent course from 11–16,like French or Maths, ratherthan in two separate courses,one in Years 7–9 and a separateone for GCSE. A single coursewould protect the integrity of thesubject and make it harder forheads to squeeze it off thetimetable; it would also makeroom for a fuller coverage bothof British history and ofelements of European, Americanand world history as well.

The seminar also proposedmaking the acquisition andextension of historicalknowledge a central featureboth of the teaching and of theassessment. For years theimportance of knowledge, oftenmistakenly thought of as‘content’ or ‘information’, hasbeen downgraded in favour ofdeveloping skills.

A report from the seminar hasbeen circulated to politiciansand the press, as well as tohistory groups and societies. Itwill be followed up with anarticle in History Todaymagazine, a book and a largerconference to be held in thesummer. In the meantime,copies of the report can beobtained from Seán [email protected].

Better history in schools

ventures in the field of localhistory, so it’s good to reportthat Anglia Ruskin’s historyteam is there at its heart.

To listen to the show and viewthe website, visitwww.cambridgetimetraveller.com.

University CentrePeterborough openlecture series 2010...Full details on page 21

In February, Anglia RuskinStudents’ Union became anApple-accredited RegionalTraining Centre (RTC), the firstRTC ever to be linked with astudents’ union. Now theStudents’ Union ActivitiesCentres in Cambridge (picturedright) and Chelmsford have afront-facing state-of-the-artApple suite for its members touse.

This is the latest developmentthat has seen Anglia RuskinStudents’ Union reduce its barspace dramatically. InCambridge, the bar has beenreplaced by a gym and a MacRTC. This reflects the changingpriorities of university studentsacross the country today. Oncethe RTC is fully running, everystudent will have the chance todevelop new skills that aretransferrable to a variety ofindustries whilst enhancing theirCVs to increase employmentprospects after graduation.

Apple’s Regional Training Centreprogramme builds on theexperience and achievements ofmany teachers already usingApple technology in theclassroom. The programmeoffers schools the opportunity toattend a course relevant to theircurriculum, interests and needs.RTCs focus their training on thecurriculum-enhancingopportunities of using iLife, themultimedia software that comeswith every new Mac, andfeatures Apple’s award-winningiMovie, iPhoto, iDVD,GarageBand and iWebapplications. Teachers are alsointroduced to more advancedsoftware applications, including

Final Cut Express and LogicExpress to help give olderstudents a head start inpreparing for careers in thecreative industries.

‘The concept behind thetraditional RTC is to educatechildren, and also primary andsecondary school teachers, inusing Mac products to enhancelearning and teaching within thecurriculum. As well as offeringthis facility to all our members,what makes this RTC unique isthat we can now offer potentialteachers studying within theFaculty of Education at AngliaRuskin the chance to be trainedusing these tools before they’veeven entered the professionalworld – really giving them anupper hand in the market.

‘The education sector demandsnew teaching techniques thatexcite pupils, and this certainlyticks several boxes! We hopethis will be the start of afantastic and beneficialcollaboration for many years tocome!’

Matthew EastStudents’ Union President


� MA in Publishing students Andriani Loizidou and Beth Jones, with(centre) Dr Samatha Rayner.

First SU-affiliatedRTC in the UKlaunched by Anglia RuskinStudents’ Union and Apple

The Cambridge publishingcommunity is changing. Thenew MA in Publishing atAnglia Ruskin University, runby Dr Samantha Rayner, israpidly establishing itself as ahotbed of exploration into theindustry, and its students arealready pushing themselves tobecome a key part of theprofessional network with theestablishment of an industrysociety.

Cambridge University Press,which has been closelyinvolved with the constructionof the MA, has now generouslyenabled students to foundCAMPUS, the CambridgePublishing Society. Events inthe pipeline vary fromaudiences with prominentguest speakers to quizzes andinternational nights. Anyonecan become a member of thesociety, paying a nominalannual fee of £15.00 to join,

or £10.00 for concessions.Corporate tariffs are alsoavailable.

The launch will take place on3 March, 6.30–9.30pm, inThe Pitt Building, Cambridge,where industry professionalsand students will enjoy areception with wine andnibbles and a formal debate onthe changing role of the editor.Everyone can come along andbecome a member at the doorfor a 20% discount on the firstyear’s subscription.

Beth Jones and AndrianiLoizidou are very excited to beworking with a strong team offellow innovators to set up thisnovel venture for theCambridge community. Bethwill be pleased to be contactedfor information about eventsand membership [email protected].

Publishing studentsform a major newindustry society

First of all, thank you to allwho filled in the SU’s survey ofstaff in spring 2009. You mightwonder why we are surveyingAnglia Ruskin staff’s opinion ofus when we are here torepresent students, however,we work closely with manymembers of University staff,and how we conduct ourselvesis important to students and tous too. For the last two years,we have been undergoing achange process called theStudents’ Union EvaluationInitiative (SUEI), which isencouraging us to drill down tothe real needs of our members.We have made ourmembership our number-onepriority and have mademassive changes to ourorganisation: we hope you’venoticed this over the past year.

This process will be constantlyevolving, and we arecontinually reviewing how wecan work for our members inthe most effective way.

The results show that 195members of staff completedthe 2009 survey. We had arelatively equal split betweenrespondents from theChelmsford and Cambridgecampuses, however, inPeterborough and Fulbourn weonly had six respondents. Thesplit between faculties wasfairly equal, varying from 26 to12, although, sadly, no resultswere received from the Facultyof Education.

The survey demonstrated thatwhile some staff had noticedan improvement in the SU,

there are still elements inwhich we are misunderstoodor, indeed, ineffective and, onoccasion, unprofessional. Threeareas that became apparentare:• that we don’t answer emailspromptly

• we don’t do enough for part-time students

• many staff (and students)appear to perceive us as justa bar.

To resolve the issue of emails,we have made it a servicestandard to reply to staff emailwithin three days, and also toput forward markers on ouranglia.ac.uk accounts, as wedon’t actually use these.Following your commentsabout part-time students, weare conducting a thoroughreview of our services and howthey are used by part-timestudents, and we will beprioritising them over the nexttwo years to ensure that wecommunicate effectively withthem, to understand betterwhat they want from us andwhat services we offer them(which, of course, is all ofthem!). It was also apparentthat some staff still perceivethe Students’ Union as ‘just abar’ when we are so muchmore. As a result of this we areproviding more University-widepublicity about our servicesand how we are changingthrough SUEI, and we are

taking part in Anglia Ruskinstaff inductions. We have madehuge changes to our coreservices (for example, see thearticle about the RTC on page11), as we found that the barand entertainments were notreally meeting the needs of ourdiverse membership. For yearswe have had students wantinga better advice service inChelmsford and a bigger gymin Cambridge. Because of ourrestructure, we can now offerthese services that we simplyhave not been able to offerpreviously.

Again, I would like to thank thestaff involved for completingthe survey. The majority of thecomments were very positive,and demonstrate that the hardwork all the SU staff and theofficers put in on behalf ofmembers is recognised.

We will be conducting thesurvey again in March and wehope more staff will respond.Please feel free to give anhonest view of the Students’Union – we genuinely want toimprove for members, andbelieve University staff and ourrelationship with them isessential in delivering theseservices.

Matthew EastSU President, Anglia RuskinStudents’ Union 2009–10

The SU’s 2009 staff survey – a summaryNEWS


� Matt East, SU President, campaigning to find out students’ prioritycampaign for the year ahead.

• Pilot of Syllabus+ software completed in ALSS and FHSCPeterborough and Fulbourn – many thanks to all whoparticipated.

• The pilot has been evaluated and positive feedback received.• Lessons have been learnt and changes to processes anddocumentation is under way.

• Agreed a single set of Timetabling deadlines and processes for2010–11 to apply to all faculties teaching on the Cambridge,Chelmsford, Fulbourn and Peterborough Hospital campuses.

• Timetable to be produced for the whole 2010–11 academic year.• A single set of timetabling principles agreed for everyone.

Next steps• Piloting online/web room booking, enabling staff to bookmeeting rooms, etc.

• Specialist space booking, such as media/video rooms,laboratories, etc.

• Aim to publish timetable for whole academic year by 31 July

For further information on the project, please visitwww.anglia.ac.uk/tsmproject.

Transforming timetables – progress since January

Students Switch Offenergy-savingcampaign...Full story on page 23

Our University has a longhistory of supporting colleaguesin pedagogic research anddevelopment projects. For theacademic year 2010–11,INSPIRE will be allocating amaximum of 14 awards of upto £3500 each to supportcolleagues in learning andteaching development andresearch projects.

Individuals and teams mayapply for a Learning andTeaching Project SupportAward, which should focus onthe enhancement of learning,teaching and assessment (LTA)practice within Anglia Ruskin. Inparticular, proposals for fundingshould address issues oflearning, teaching andassessment that are ofparticular value to the supportof faculty LTA strategies. Thecriteria to be used to judgeapplications, including the styleof presentation, are listed below.

Applicants who are successfulin securing an award will berequired to disseminate theirwork through INSPIRE events,

conferences and publications.Additionally, you may also useyour project to evidence thecriteria for our Action Researchinto Professional Practice(ARPP) course(www.inspire.anglia.ac.uk/courses-actionresearch/). Onsuccessful completion of theproject and the submission of aportfolio, candidates will beentitled to a certificate from theStaff Education DevelopmentAssociation (SEDA).

Applications will be scrutinisedby an independent panel, andsuccessful applicants will beannounced at the Learning andTeaching Conference on 14 July.

CriteriaProjects must demonstrate clearlinks to the faculty’s learning,teaching and assessmentstrategy, and must besupported by the deputy deanwith responsibility for learning,teaching and assessment.

The proposal should notexceed four sides of A4 in 11point Arial, 1.5 line spacing.

The proposal must explicitlyaddress the following areas,which form the evaluationcriteria for the awards:

• aims, outcomes, backgroundand project topic

• potential to enhance ourstudents’ experiences of HE

• the links with the facultylearning, teaching andassessment strategy

• process, viability andevaluation: what you aregoing to do; methodologyand (where appropriate)evaluation technique;relevant ethical dimensions

• project dissemination –including potential to transferoutcomes to other areas ofour University

• resources and costs – explicitdetails of how the award willbe spent, includinganticipated timings.

EthicsPlease be aware that someprojects may include ethicaldimensions for which you willneed to gain approval throughyour faculty ethics committee.


Learning and Teaching project fundSubmission of proposalsYour submitted proposal mustbe signed by the deputy deanwith responsibility for LTA.Further, if successful, you willbe asked to sign youragreement with the awardconditions, and your dean offaculty will need to agree toadminister the agreed financialexpenditure. See the INSPIREwebsite for further informationand forms –www.anglia.ac.uk/inspire.

Proposals should be submittedelectronically [email protected], by5.00pm on Friday 4 June.

If you wish to discuss apotential project with amember of the INSPIRE team,please [email protected].

This year, INSPIRE is running aparallel scheme. See ourannouncement of the newUniversity Teaching FellowshipAward on page 6.

Look out for the latest editionof Networks, our journal thatcarries reports and papers onpedagogic developments inAnglia Ruskin, which wasdistributed recently. Thisedition contains selected peer-reviewed papers on thethemes of the INSPIRE 10thAnnual Learning and TeachingConference, 17 September2009. Papers include a studyof teaching and learningmathematics in Ghana,pedagogical strategies tomotivate and guide studentswith Asperger syndrome,blended learning, work-basedlearning and the relationship

between ethnicity and degreeattainment.

This issue also contains thefinal reports from the 2009Learning and TeachingFellowship projects, includingsubjects such as the use ofteaching and learningtechnologies, experientialworkshops in social workeducation and engaging post-qualifying students withdifferent prior-academicexperiences in successfullearning, amongst others.

We have introduced a peer-review section in this editionof Networks. Our intention is

to use peer review to improvescholarship and encourageauthors who may wish todevelop their writing forsubmission in externaljournals. We would liketo take this opportunityto thank all thereviewers of papersin this edition andencourage readers tocontact us if they wouldlike to submit papers for peerreview, and/or to beconsidered as reviewers forfuture editions.

The online edition is availableon the INSPIRE website,www.anglia.ac.uk/inspire.

If youwould

like tocontribute

to or reviewfuture Networks, pleasecontact Michelle Bernard(ext 2411, [email protected]), Editor,Networks, INSPIRE.

New issue: INSPIRE Networks journal

Public Service BA (hons) andFdA Lecturers, Dr Dave Baigentand Sarah O’Connor have beeninvited by the Swedishgovernment to attend theirforthcoming ‘Fire2010’conference, in May, to presentto the general assembly on the

subject of ‘fitting in’ and ‘whyfirefighters’ culture resistswomen’.

The invitation results from on-going consultancy work withthe Swedish Fire Service,which began in April 2009

when Dave and Sarah visitedthe country to provide anoverview on the UK Fire andRescue Service’s experience ofemploying women as front-linefirefighters. They were greatlysurprised to find Sweden,seemingly a leading force for

equality in Europe, was so farbehind in this area, with veryfew women firefighters. Evenmore surprising was that theStockholm Fire Service, thelargest in Sweden, did notemploy a single woman as afirefighter. Working closely withfirefighters, Dave and Sarahinvestigated issues ofmasculinity and challengedgender stereotypes.

The results of their work therecontributed to the Swedishgovernment’s ‘Programme ofaction for increased equalityand diversity in municipalsafety work: for the period2009–14’, and a successfulbid by Luleå University for thefour-year project they havecalled ‘Gender and rescueservice’.

Dave and Sarah are lookingforward to the conference inMay and seeing how theirinput contributes to increasedequality in the Swedish FireService.

For more information about theconference on ‘fitting in’ in thePublic Service, please contactDave Baigent [email protected].

Public Service lecturersplay major role in shaping Swedish Fire Service

Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences

NEWS


Women of all ages, from schoolstudents to women who want achange of career, were invitedto attend WICed (Women intoConstruction Education), held atthe Bunyan Centre, Bedford, onFriday 5 February.

This yearly event aims to redressthe inequalities women workingin the construction andengineering industries perceiveor experience by showing themthe wide variety of opportunitiesavailable via further- and higher-education routes intoconstruction, and allows them toexperience bricklaying,carpentry, welding and a host ofother construction skills.

The day provided informationabout the varied careersavailable in the construction andengineering fields, and visitorswere able to take part in manypractical activities and talk to

industry professionals. PaulineStart, Senior Lecturer in theDepartment of the BuiltEnvironment, represented AngliaRuskin and was on hand to offerwomen practical advice about acareer in construction and aboutthe higher education coursesavailable to help them start theircareers.

This year’s event hosted over 40exhibitors with over 350 womenvisiting throughout the day.

Teila SmithMarketing Administrator,Faculty of Science &Technology

WICed – encouraging women into construction careers

� Pauline Start talking to femalestudents at the WICed event.

The graduation dates for2010, will be as follows:

Chelmsford ceremonies willbe held on 5, 6 and 7October, at the Rivermeadcampus, andCambridge ceremonies will beheld on 20 and 21 October,in the Cambridge CornExchange.

More details will follow, soplease refer to the graduationwebsite –www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/graduation.html.

Graduation dates 2010

Find out what’s on atthe Mumford Theatrethis month...Full details on page 25

On Thursday 17 December,we were visited on ourCambridge campus by nearly50 Year-9 pupils (somepictured above) and theirteachers from ThomasClarkson Community College,in March, for an ‘OptionsDay’. As they were about tomake their GCSE choices,their teachers wanted them tovisit a university campus and

learn about the importance oflanguages for their futures.

The day began with languageand culture taster workshopsin Portuguese, Russian andHebrew. The teachers (andthe pupils themselves) werevery impressed to see howsuccessfully former languageknowledge could be appliedin learning new and

unfamiliar languages, andhow much could be learnt ina relatively short session. Thepupils then had a taste of lifeon campus with lunch in theStreet restaurant, followed bya lecture entitled ‘Why StudyLanguages?’. The day endedwith a taste of yet anotherculture, a Caribbean dancesession, which was in starkcontrast to their subsequentrun to catch their coachthrough the heavy snow.

In discussions during the day,the teachers lamented thefact that as the school is inspecial measures, the pupilsare not usually given theopportunity for visits such asthese, and noted how muchdifference they felt the dayhad made.

Sarah SchechterProject Manager, RoutesEast, ALSS


Languages ‘Options Day’ Juliet Davies joinsthe CounsellingService

Juliet Davies is the newestmember of the CounsellingService at Chelmsford, and isproviding maternity cover forSusie Renshaw untilNovember.

Prior to training as acounsellor, Juliet worked as aproducer in TV for fifteenyears and also worked as avolunteer counsellor at thecharity Childline. Enjoying hercounselling work, she decidedto change her career andwent back to university togain an MSc in counselling.

She has worked as a studentcounsellor at MiddlesexUniversity and as apsychotherapist in an NHShospital. Currently, Julietworks two days a week hereat Anglia Ruskin and also asa psychotherapist at HollowayPrison.

Juliet describes AngliaRuskin’s approach towards itsstudents as being verythoughtful and nurturing, andshe is enjoying working withinthe Counselling Service,which is part of StudentServices.

Juliet can be contacted [email protected] oron ext 4283.

On 15 December, Routes Eastran its first Language and SportDay jointly with our AimHigherOffice, Youth Sport Trust andour Health and WellbeingDepartment. A fun day washad by one and all on theChelmsford campus as 80Year-8 pupils (some pictured inthe image behind this article)from seven local schools inEssex tackled capoeira inPortuguese, wing chun (martialarts) in Chinese, handball inSpanish and sitting volleyball(a Paralympic sport) inGerman. It began with a fun,cartoon warm-up in Japaneseto get everyone in the mood.

On hand all day were two ofour Student Language

Ambassadors, Stina and Pilar,to help with the sports and touse every opportunity toconvince the pupils of theimportance of languages andthe opportunities they offer.The day gave the pupilsvaluable insights into theimportance of languages, thesports they tried and thelanguage and culturesassociated with them, as wellas life on a universitycampus. This included lunchin the Sawyers restaurant,kindly donated by the AngliaRuskin AimHigher/WideningParticipation Office, who also‘lent’ us AimHigherDevelopment Officer RhysBearder, himself an ex-Student Language

Ambassador from RoutesNorth-East, who ran theSpanish handball with greatprofessionalism (linguisticallyand sports-wise!).

The day was deemed a hugesuccess, not only by theparticipants themselves, butalso the teachers, one ofwhom wrote straight after theevent to thank us and reportthe impact that the day hadhad on her teaching, with theideas generated by what shehad observed and the impactit had had on her pupils.

Sarah SchechterProject Manager, RoutesEast, ALSS

Routes East Language and Sport Day

EBAC at the Mill Road Winter Fair– who will buy our hot mince pies?

Ashcroft International Business School

NEWS


� EBAC members (l–r) Irina, Marc, Gery, Yuli, Victor and Paul Saw of Ashcroft International Business School.

Things happening around thewinter months can be magicaland inspiring. This was ouroutlook when we decided togo for a new challenge andcontribute to the uniquemulticultural atmospherebrought about every year inDecember by the Mill RoadWinter Fair. The EuropeanBusiness AssociationCambridge’s (EBAC for short)participation was not only toraise awareness about ourwork in Anglia Ruskin but alsoto enrich our EBAC members’commercial experience andbring us closer as friends – togo beyond where the textbookor classroom experience can

go. The committee approachedthe event with anxiety as itwas our first time launchingthis ‘business for a day’. Whatif we made a loss? Who willbe blamed?

After our budget was approvedand the roles distributed, themost exciting part began. Wearrived early in the morningand managed strategically toreserve a spot right next to theplace where the officialopening ceremony happened.‘The wonderful spot right nextto the stage was a primelocation, and I feel it was amajor factor in helping us sellthe drinks and mince pies,’

said our Treasurer, Marc Lake.EBAC’s stall was nicelydecorated with posters, logosand some prizes for a raffle.The entire day was very busyas thousands of people flockedto the fair for an ‘extraordinaryday’. We considered ourselvesvery privileged to be part ofthe 700-strong members ofthe community, includingtraders, who helped with theorganisation of theextravaganza.

Irina Ebert, Executive Secretary,said, ‘We got the opportunity topractise our communicationskills, influencing andnegotiating with strangers to

spend, as well as raisingawareness of Anglia Ruskinand EBAC with the businesscommunity.’ Victor Cotura, ourIT Officer, considered the fair tobe, ‘A challenge in overcomingour shyness and fear inreaching out, and enhancingour customer-awareness andconfidence-building skills byreaching out.’

Many visitors gladly stoppedby for a chat and a hot drink.We managed to sell everythingwe prepared, and achieved asurprising 200% return on ourinvestment. At the end, we allagreed that our participationwas a truly wonderful andinvaluable student experience.‘It gave us all a chance torealise how importantplanning, budgeting and hardwork are. In enabling us to linktheory to practice across allour learning disciplines, wewere able to make the eventan actual success,’ said YuliManolova, EBAC’s Chair. ‘Ihope we will have the chanceto take part in other similarinitiatives, and encourage ourmembers to participate aswell,’ said Gery Marinova,EBAC’s Vice-Chair. So look outfor our next fund-raising eventfor the Haiti earthquakedisaster appeal.

If you’d like any furtherinformation, please contactEBAC’s Chair, Yuli, [email protected] Paul, [email protected].

There is still time to make anomination for this year’sround of the Vice Chancellor’sAnnual Award Scheme.

The Awards seek publicly torecognise and rewardoutstanding contributions madeto the life of Anglia RuskinUniversity, and have been

designed for implementation inthe broadest of ways in orderto include all who work here.

The Awards are open to allAnglia Ruskin staff who areemployed on a full-time orpart-time basis and can bemade to individuals, or toteams.

Nominations must besubmitted by 5.00pm on1 April 2010.

For further information andnomination forms, please seeour website,www.inspire.anglia.ac.uk, orcontact Dr Jaki Lilly,[email protected],ext 2783.

Don’t miss your chance to make a nomination in this year’s VC’s Awards!

Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences

New sensory garden atRivermead – a peacefuloasis...Full story on page 28

Steve Ridley, a PhD studentin English Literature in ALSS,joined with Birmingham citydignitaries last December tounveil a blue plaque tocommemorate the life ofConstance Naden, adistinguished late-nineteenth-century poet and philosopherfrom Birmingham.

Steve is currently working ona PhD about religious,scientific and philosophicalperspectives in the prose andpoetry of Naden, and in thecourse of his research he metsome of Naden’s descendantsin London who possess anarchive of material, including

a travel diary and personalletters. In addition, Steve hasdiscovered the site of Naden’sgrave in Birmingham, andthen made the wonderfuldiscovery that the housewhere Naden grew up hadsurvived. Followingdiscussions with the


� David Clarke (Chairman of the Birmingham Civic Society), Vivienne Wilkes (Lady Mayoress of Birmingham),Michael Wilkes (Lord Mayor of Birmingham) and PhD student Steve Ridley.

PhD student’s expertise recognised

Birmingham Civic Society itwas agreed that a blue plaqueshould be installed on thehouse, and Steve was askedto be the keynote speaker atthe ceremony. Around 40people, including academicsfrom the University ofBirmingham, attended theunveiling, followed by areception afterwards whereSteve displayed excerpts fromthe travel diary and showedguests the Naden familyphotographs and personalletters.

Steve remarked, ‘I wasdelighted to be asked to bethe speaker at the event, andto take the opportunity torepresent Anglia Ruskin inunveiling a tribute to one ofBirmingham’s most talentedVictorian women. Althoughmany people may not haveheard of Constance Naden,she was very highly regardedin the latter part of thenineteenth century and, butfor her tragic death at the ageof 31, would have becomeone of Birmingham’s mostfamous daughters.’

For more information onSteve’s research, pleasecontact him [email protected].

Chelmsford EngineeringSociety and Anglia RuskinUniversity’s External LiaisonTeam are hosting a series ofafternoon lectures for studentsfrom our local schools.

On 17 March (as part ofNational Science Week), wewill be finding out more about‘Science, Technology andEngineering in Music’ withinputs from our own AudioTechnology experts John Wardand Doug Nunn, a

Chelmsford-based rock bandand other experts in the field.

The evening will touch onmany subjects, including:

• how engineering principlesunderpin instrument design

• the issues aroundtransduction betweenacoustics and electronics

• analogue to digitalconsiderations

• from the gramophone to theiPod

• how digital techniquesaffect recording, style,music presentations

• the way technology haschanged the access tomusic and distribution

• what does the future looklike?

As well as an insightfullecture, the young people willalso have the chance to testout some music-tech gear,thanks to the interactive,hands-on, displays. They’ll

also have the chance to talkwith recent science,technology, engineering andmaths subject graduates, whoare now working forcompanies related to theChelmsford EngineeringSociety, and find out moreabout the opportunitiespresented by a career inengineering.

For further information, [email protected].

Science Week comes to Chelmsford (accompanied by the sound of music)

NEWS

Law lecturers Penny English,Tom Serby and Andrew Gilbertof Anglia Law School,attended the recent HEA UKCentre for Legal Education-sponsored Learning in LawAnnual Conference, atWarwick University.

Tom and Penny both currentlyhold Anglia Ruskin Learningand Teaching Fellowships, andgave poster presentationsoutlining the fellowshipprojects they are engaged in.

Tom presented on the LawSchool’s innovative LegalPractice Course ’TransactionalLearning Project’, a radicalnew approach to teachingprobate law, which has movedaway from the traditionallecture style of teaching to’students learning by doing’. Inthe project studentsparticipate in an online

transaction, during which theyreceive instructions, engage inresearch and give legal adviceby working in small teams ofvirtual law firms.

Penny is developing a series ofreusable learning objects thatwill help students to masterreferencing with OSCOLA (theOxford Standard for Citation OfLegal Authorities). Studentsoften have difficulty getting togrips with the technicalrequirements of this system ofreferencing that is used in law.The first pilots were availablefor conference delegates toview alongside the poster.When complete, this will forma lasting resource for students.

For more information pleasecontact Tom [email protected] orPenny [email protected].

Friday 11 December 2009saw the launch of theInternational Law Unit (ILU)on the Cambridge campus,which was combined with thealumni law networkingevening. A mixture of alumni,current and past staff andAnglia Ruskin studentsprovided a great cocktail oflaw related professionals.

Once Dr Tom Mortimer,Director of the ILU, hadwelcomed everyone andthanked them for attending,the ILU was launched. Guestspeakers included WolfgangSpeckhahn talking on RealEstate Investment Trusts inEurope; Robert Wardle (formerDirector of the Serious FraudOffice) on Internationaldimensions in serious fraud.Robert has very kindly agreedto act as Patron and be aMember of the ILU SteeringCommittee. Baljit Ubhey, aChief Prosecutor with ThamesValley Crown ProsecutionService and also a Member ofthe Steering Committee of theILU, then spoke about her

career to date and why shewas delighted to be invited tobe part of the ILU. Finally,Graham Humby, the ILUBusiness DevelopmentDirector, concluded the Eventwith a presentation onExpanding businessopportunities in the LawSchool. All presentations willbe available shortly on thealumni website to be viewedas podcasts.

After the presentations, theLaw School provided a hotbuffet along with wine andsome seasonal mince pies. Allthose who attended reallyenjoyed the evening, whichwas a great opportunity bothfor our students to networkwith local law firms and forour alumni to be reunited withold classmates and lecturers.

Our next Law Networkingevent will be held inChelmsford on 9 July 2010.Full details will be on thealumni website –www.anglia.ac.uk/alumni –nearer the time.

Learning andTeaching in Law


� Tom Serby, Penny English and Andrew Gilbert.

International LawUnit launchat alumni networking event

� Graham Humby, ILU Business Development Director, Dr Tom Mortimer,Director of ILU, Robert Wardle, former Director of the Serious FraudOffice and Member of the ILU Steering Committee, Baljit Ubhey, ChiefProsecutor with Thames Valley Crown Prosecution Service and Memberof the ILU Steering Committee, Professor Derrik Ferney, PVC and DeanALSS and John O’Leary, ILU Research Coordinator.

Illuminate, Anglia Ruskin’s 11th Annual Learning and TeachingConference, will be on 14 July in Chelmsford. The theme thisyear is ‘Recognising Excellence in Teaching’.

Put this date in your diary. More details next month and on theINSPIRE website, www.anglia.ac.uk/inspire, as they becomeavailable.

Anglia Ruskin Learning and Teaching Conference

ALUMNI NEWSCould we increase yourresearch income by 30%?


We are delighted to welcomeClaire Shearer (pictured right)to the Alumni andDevelopment team as our firstdedicated fundraiser. Clairewill be concentrating onphilanthropic and charitablegiving, with a particular focuson involving our alumni infundraising and looking atdifferent income streams,such as trusts, grants andmajor donors. Below, Clairetells us about the Governmentmatched-funding schemeavailable to all researchers,faculties and departments.

Sue JacobsHead of Alumni Relations

In 2008, the Governmentannounced a matched-fundingscheme, which all universitiescould participate in to gain

extra funding. Via our AngliaMatchFund, Anglia Ruskinaims to raise over £8 millionbefore July 2011 under thescheme, at which point wewill be able to claim an extra£1 for every £3 we haveraised. This means, as auniversity, we could all benefitfrom an extra £2.7 million infunding. A lot of this moneywill come from the generousgift Lord Ashcroft, KCMG,donated to build the newBusiness School inCambridge, but we will still beworking to raise more funds tomeet our ambitious target.Most funding from charitabletrusts, grants and individualsis eligible (as long as it wasreceived after August 2008and before July 2011), so Iam urging all faculties anddepartments to look at where

their funding comes from andsee whether they would like toclaim some extra money!

Francine Hughes was recentlygranted £90,000 from theEsmée Fairbairn Foundationfor her work to keep track offenland re-wilding projects(Bulletin January 2010) andwill now receive an extra£30,000 on top of that tocontinue her work. Throughworking with ResearchDevelopment & CommercialServices, we have alsoidentified projects – receivingat least another £80,000 –that will benefit from thescheme, so we know thatthere are numerous projectsalready going on within ourfaculties that could have theirbudgets increased significantlyfor no extra work.

FAREWELL TRIBUTEColleagues will be saddened tohear of the recent and untimelydeath of Alan Hopkins who waswidely known at the Chelmsfordcampus in both Science &Technology and Education.

He worked for the University for38 years, from 1970 until2008 when he retired from apermanent position butcontinued to work as a part-time hourly paid member ofstaff until he finally retired on31 August 2009. Alan was aphysics graduate from theUniversity of Wales and hestarted his teaching carrier as alecturer in Applied Physics at

the, then, Mid Essex TechnicalCollege.

Alan was one of our most ablecolleagues and could turn histeaching hand to almost anysubject. His teachingexperiences ranged fromeducation courses, electronicsand maths, as well as his workwith Jo Bowman and theComputing Department onanimation. He successfullyliaised with industry andschools on a number of projectsover the years.

He will not only be mostremembered for his adaptability

to teach effectively over adiverse range of topics spanninga number of departments butalso as a sensitive and verywarm-natured colleague, caringfor all people. He was very fondof his grandchildren, who gavehim lots of joy. Alan would talkabout them with much pleasurewhen we had the chance tochat. He always had time todiscuss both technical andsocial issues with colleagues.

Alan was very well organisedand very supportive to othercolleagues. The organisation ofhis office at the old Centralcampus is a lesson to us all –

he was always surrounded bylabelled boxes and could put hishand to anything required in aninstant. When he was going toteach he would always becarrying the appropriate box ofstudy guides and visual aids.His son told me he now has tosort out a similar range of boxesat home.

We are all the better for workingwith him; he made a significantdifference to a whole range ofpeople and will be sadly missed.

Rob WalkerFaculty of Science &Technology

Alan Hopkins

If you would like moreinformation on how you couldbenefit from the matched-funding scheme, or would liketo chat through any fundingyou have received or areapplying for, please do contactme on ext 4722 or [email protected].

Claire ShearerDevelopment Officer

ESTATES & FACILITIES


Estates & Facilities Services are, as you know, busy with theCambridge campus redevelopment, which continues at a pacedespite the inclement weather at the start of the New Year.While this is a time-consuming, major project for the team, wealso have several other big projects under way now, togetherwith a wide variety of smaller projects or ‘minor works’.

Here is a brief outline of what’s happening.

Major projects• Postgraduate Medical Institute (PMI), Rivermead – work isscheduled to start in earnest by mid-March. Unfortunately,this also means that car parking spaces will be reduced byapproximately 20%. If you would like to consider alternativetravel options to the campus, please see our Travel Plan onhttp://web.anglia.ac.uk/estates/environment for helpfulinformation

• ICENI Centre, Colchester – the contractor has been appointedand work is due to commence in March (though there maybe some demolition works prior to the start).

• University Centre Harlow – awaiting written confirmation ofplanning consent, hopefully imminent, with an early start thisyear

• Peterborough Regional College (PRC) – following thecompletion of this striking new building (pictured above), weare developing a new car park and landscaping project

• Chelmer Valley Junction (CVJ), Chelmsford – work has begunon this important road junction, and you may have noticedthat the trees have been relocated around the campus. Theseworks will have a big impact on the campus with the re-alignment of the spine road in order to allow park-and-ridebuses access through the campus.

Minor works – Cambridge campus• Vision & Eye Research Unit (VERU), Bryant building –handed over to Audiology client

• Coslett 215 – 90-seat lecture theatre, completed January• Mumford – enclosure for vending machines in the undercroft,adjacent to the bike racks, completed January

• 33 Collier Road – refurbishment completed January• Sinclair – various areas treated for woodworm; refurbishment

of staff offices: both completed January• Renewal of external lighting – being carried out with no lossof night-time lighting: continues until end March

• Eastings – renewal of windows, where required: prices beingsought, date to be decided.

Minor works – Chelmsford campus• Upgrade of student accommodation in Student Village – on-going until July

• Rivermead Meadow (formerly known as the GraduationFacility) landscaping work – due for completion by endFebruary, subject to weather conditions

• General dilapidation works – remedial works ongoing untilJuly.

Long-term maintenance: scheduled for summer 2010• Peter Taylor House, Cambridge – refurbishment of kitchens• Collier Road, Cambridge – roofing works, windows, paintingand landscaping to nos 11, 13, 17.

Don’t forget, if you want more information about ourdevelopment projects visit our microsite,www.anglia.ac.uk/newspaces. If you have any queries, pleasecontact our hotline on ext 4666 or [email protected].

Details about ‘what’s happening this week’ on campus(Cambridge and Chelmsford), and how it may affect you, canbe found on the New Spaces link from the Estates & FacilitiesServices My.Anglia pages, http://web.anglia.ac.uk/estates/,along with information about all our services. If you have anyproblems, please contact our Helpdesk on ext 6464, where ourexpert team will be very happy to assist you.

And finally, some really happy news – we have two newmembers of our Minor Works team. Lloyd Williams’ wife Jopresented him with beautiful twin baby boys, Ethan and Jake,on 4 January. Mum and babies are doing well – but we’re notso sure about dad! Congratulations Lloyd and Jo!

Carole DuncanBusiness Support Manager, Estates and Facilities Services

What the E&F team are involved in

� The University Centre Peterborough building at night. � The ground floor atrium of the new UCP building.

As well as appearing on over 5000 product lines, theVegetarian Society’s seedling symbol trademark is alsodisplayed on restaurant, hotel and café menus, and on displaysin mobile catering units and university and college eateries, allover the UK. All are members of the Society’s highly influentialFood & Drink Guild scheme.

This instantly recognisable symbolensures that when vegetarians areeating out they can dine with completeconfidence, safe in the knowledge thatrecipes and working practices fullycomply with the Vegetarian Society’s strict criteria concerningvegetarian suitability. Those who own enterprises wherevegetarian food is cooked and sold have experienced first-handthe very many advantages the symbol offers. It is widelyrecognised as the best possible way of displaying anestablishment’s vegetarian credentials.

Millions of people have come to rely upon the symbol’s uniquepositioning. No other symbol can give consumers suchreassurance and inspire such trust. And, as well as on productlines available in the UK and abroad, it is even used by theNational Health Service as part of their new hospital foodinitiative.

Vegetarian Society approval continues to go from strength tostrength. It is far more popular and widespread than ever,which can only be good news for vegetarians and foodmanufacturers alike.

The Vegetarian Society criteria to be an approved caterer arethat vegetarian food must:

1 be free from animal flesh (meat, fowl, fish or shellfish), meator bone stock, animal or carcass fats, gelatine, aspic or anyother ingredients resulting from slaughter, from animal flesh(meat, fowl, fish or shellfish), meat or bone stock

2 contain only free-range eggs, where eggs are used3 be free from genetically modified organisms (GMOs)4 be cruelty free – no animal testing5 have no cross contamination during the production process.

The Rivermead Restaurant staff in the Ashcroft Building,Chelmsford, are working towards approval at the moment.

Terry HopeCatering, Hospitality & Events Manager

Professor Roger Jeynes – Anglia Ruskin UniversityIs This the Beginning of the End for Financial MarketsWednesday 3 March – 7.00pmThis lecture will cover topics such as ‘How to understand andrealise the real value of your business’, which will includesimilar themes around value, capital raising, venture capital orpublic markets.

Nigel Cooper – Anglia Ruskin University ChaplainWhat has Nature ever done for us? Valuing ‘ecosystemservices’Wednesday 10 March – 7.00pm‘Ecosystem services’ is a new way of conceiving what naturedoes for humanity. This lecture will outline some of the lessobvious services, before debating the merits of calculating amonetary value of these services to use in cost-benefitanalyses. Can the ground of our being be adequately valued bybeing reduced to a price in economics?

Wendy Durham – Hinchingbrooke NHS TrustMy Journey in Education: Student to EducationWednesday 17 March – 7.00pmThis lecture tracks Wendy’s career, from being a trainee todate. Her journey started as a very shy nurse who would ‘hide’in the sluice when managers arrived on the ward, throughdevelopment stages that resulted in a practice educator whonow helps others develop their own knowledge and skills. Withfour children, working full-time and study pressures, thejourney has not always been easy, but support made her goalsachievable. Up for more challenges now, the question is ‘Whatnext’? Flower arranging or belly dancing?

Marie Gordon – Anglia Ruskin UniversityVirtual Life – A Personal View of Living, Working and Teachingin Second LifeWednesday 24 March – 7.00pmFurther details will be available at a later date.

All the open lectures are held in the University CentrePeterborough Lecture Theatre (UCP 102). On arrival, thereception team will direct visitors where to go.

To book into one of the above lectures, please emailSamantha King at [email protected] or phone0845 196 5750.


UK and international partner

INSTITUTIONSCatering Servicesnewslunchtime vegetarian dishes inHelmore dining room nowVegetarian Society Approved

University CentrePeterboroughOpen Lecture Series 2010

We recently received theTravel Plan Excellence Awardat the Cambridgeshire Travelfor Work Partnership annualTravel Plan Awards. All theorganisations that received anaward are at various stages ofworking towards completingeffective workplace travelplans. These plans includemeasures such as setting upflexible working arrangementsand promoting car sharing.

The awards range from the‘Certificate of Commitment’,where an organisation’s seniormanagement has committedto developing a travel plan, tothe ‘Travel Plan ExcellenceAward’, which rewardsemployers with successfultravel plans embedded in theculture of the organisation.

We carried out our staff travelsurvey in October 2009 tomonitor the effect of our travelplan, and found that drivingaccounted for 12% of staffjourneys. This is a significantreduction on the 2002 survey,where driving amounted to26%. In 2002, only 3% ofour staff cycled to work, andthis has now increased to26%. The main change weimplemented was removing allcar parking at our Cambridgecampus in 2002. As ourcampus is centrally located,we are fortunate to have goodpublic transport links.

A number of initiatives havebeen introduced, such asflexible working, interest-freetravel-to-work loans, a car-sharing scheme, discountswith train companies and freecycle training for students.

There is support from seniormanagement for all aspects ofenvironmental management,including the travel plan. TheEnvironment Policy wasupdated in December 2008and was approved by theBoard of Governers, and weachieved ISO 14001accreditation in 2009. One ofour major environmentalimpacts is travel, andobjectives have beenintroduced to reduce theseimpacts.

As part of the currentredevelopment work on theCambridge campus, cycleracks have been relocatedaround campus. Maps havebeen produced to show thenew locations, and regularupdates are made to staff viahttp://web.anglia.ac.uk/estates/newspaces/index.php. Extra

cycle parking will be providedunder the planneddevelopments, which is goodnews for our cyclists!

A new initiative is beinglaunched on 1 March as wehave joined Cyclescheme,which allows staff to purchasea bike under this salarysacrifice scheme. Savings ofbetween 30–50% of the costof a new bike can be achieved– see www.anglia.ac.uk/travelfor more information.

We would like to thankeveryone who completed thetravel survey, as this is a reallyimportant monitoring tool togauge our impacts whentravelling to our campuses.

Carla ShawUtilities & EnvironmentalOfficer, Estates & Facilities

www.anglia.ac.uk/travel

GREEN ISSUES

Anglia Ruskin receives Travel PlanExcellence Award


� Carla Shaw receiving our Award from Shaun Spiers, Chief Executive of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE).

A new online trainingprogramme, Anglia BusinessClass, has been designed foranyone who is thinking aboutstarting a business in 2010,guiding them through theimportant stages involved,from planning and starting thebusiness, to running andgrowing it. Anglia BusinessClass is flexible, fitting aroundchildcare, work and studycommitments, and ourSurvive & Thrive programmeis funding 100 places,making it free to people whowant help to get their newbusiness off to the bestpossible start.

The programme offers supportwith the (often-neglected)business side of running abusiness – so you can testyour business idea to see if itworks before you risk your joband overdraft.

It’s generally agreed that overhalf of all new businessescease trading within threeyears, and fewer than three

out of ten survive for fiveyears. One hundred and fiftysmall businesses participatedin the pilot, and businessfailure in this group reducedby half.

Anglia Business Class isaccredited with a Certificatein Small BusinessManagement from AshcroftInternational Business School,setting it apart from othersupport available for newbusinesses. An online mentoris on hand and it’s backed byexperts from Barclays, BirdLuckin Limited LiabilityPartnership (LLP), BirkettsLLP, Chater Allan LLP, IntegroLanguages and WollastonsLLP.

More information is availablefrom www.anglia.ac.uk/surviveandthrive – click on ‘For start-ups’ – or [email protected] 100 funded places areonly available until September2010.


Research, Development & Commercial

SERVICESStudents living in our halls of residence have made a greatstart in the Student Switch Off energy-saving campaign. In thefirst term, energy usage in halls reduced by over 5% comparedwith the average over the last few years.

Together, our students have reduced carbon emissions by 17tonnes, which is equivalent to leaving a 15 Watt energy-savinglight bulb on for 230 years! It just goes to show that smallactions can make a real difference in the fight against climatechange.

The savings have been brought about largely as a result of theactions of the Eco-Power Rangers – not people dressed inspandex but students in halls who have pledged to use theirenergy carefully. There are over 200 Eco-Power Rangers inhalls who have been switching off lights and appliances whennot in use, putting lids on pans when cooking and notoverfilling their kettles.

Several students have been uploading photos of themselvesdoing the energy saving actions on the Anglia RuskinUniversity Eco-Power Rangers’ Facebook group, and have beenrewarded for their efforts with Ben and Jerry’s ice cream.

Currently leading the way in the competition (see the graph,below) is Swinhoe, followed closely by Peter Taylor, Anastasiaand the Student Village, but the campaign continues until theend of the academic year so there’s plenty of time for things tochange – and there are loads more prizes to be won. The hallthat saves the most energy per resident by the end of theacademic year will win a big party for the whole hall.

Neil Jennings, who is running the campaign, said, ‘I’ve beenreally impressed by the enthusiasm that Anglia Ruskinstudents have shown in getting involved. It provides aheartening example of the responsible attitude the nextgeneration of young adults has towards our environment.’

The Student Switch Off is a not-for-profit campaignencouraging personal action to reduce carbon emissions.

For more information, you can contact Neil Jennings [email protected] or on 07734 965465.

Students’ Switch Off is a success

Online help offeredto people who want to start anew business venture

Employer

ENGAGEMENT


Harrods is the capital’s premierluxury retail outlet, world famousfor its motto omnia omnibusobique – ‘All things for allpeople, everywhere’ – and forgiving their customers exemplaryservice for over 155 years. Withover 1 million square feet of

retailing floor area across 330departments, Harrods pridesitself on providing a shoppingexperience unlike any other. Witha worldwide reputation forquality and excellence – andsome 3500 staff – Harrods hasdeveloped an in-house training

academy for their top salesassociates.

Together, Higher Skills@Workand Ashcroft InternationalBusiness School (AIBS) arepartnering with Harrods’ learningand development team to buildan accelerated, work-basedprogramme of study for theirvalued sales professionals,incorporating the Harrods SalesAcademy. The delivery of theprogramme must accommodatethe store’s business cycles andpeak trading times – two Harrodssales (January and July) and theChristmas and summer touristseasons – and, of course, thetraining must result in more salesbeing achieved!

Jan Skene, Skills DevelopmentConsultant, describes how thedevelopment of this new degreepathway is a demonstration oftwo expert institutions – oneacademic, one commercial –working productively together todevise a high-calibre, work-basedprogramme that doesn’tcompromise on standards. ‘OurUniversity’s partnership withHarrods has been forged in thedepths of the worst recession indecades, so Higher Skills@Work is especially proud to beworking with a world-classemployer at the leading edge ofthe retail sector recovery.’

As the academic lead on thisproject, Jon Salkeld, Director ofCorporate Education in AIBSChelmsford, says, ‘This initiativewith Harrods reflects our ethos ofpractice-based businesseducation. Harrods has chosento work with Anglia Ruskinbecause we adopt a flexibleapproach to meet the academicand commercial needs of theirorganisation, finding innovativeways to incorporate their existingculture of excellence andcustomer service, and at thesame time building a robustwork-based degree that deliverstangible results.’

The first cohort of Harrods salesassociates will start study thisspring, with a blend of face-to-face teaching on-site at the storein Knightsbridge, action learningsets, supported by sector experts,and work-based projects. Theprojects are co-designed withsenior Harrods retail managers toensure that selling time on theshop floor is optimised, and thatboth theory and practice togethercontribute to improvedperformance. Successfulparticipants will graduate withBA (Hons) Sales.

Alison KingCommunications Manager,Learning and DevelopmentServices

AIBS and Harrods join forcesin latest Higher Skills@Work initiative

� At the Harrods staff induction meeting (l–r): Richard Madeley, Learning andDevelopment Consultant, Harrods; Jon Salkeld, Director of Corporate and UKPartnerships AIBS; Carly Chapman, Learning and Development Consultant,Harrods; Jan Skene, Skills Development Consultant, Higher Skills@Work;and, Arkin Salih, Learning and Development Manager, Harrods.

On 29 January, the first cohort oflearners arrived on ourChelmsford campus for the startof teaching on the Urban Designand Place Shaping GraduateDiploma programme. The new,one-year course has beendeveloped with key employers aspart of a Higher Skills@Workinitiative, to help people working

in public, private and third-sectororganisations improve their abilityto understand, design and delivergreat places.

As sponsors of many of the initialcohort, Neil Darwin, RegionalCities East Director, said,‘Regional Cities East representssix local authorities in the East of

England and collectively we aremajor employers of builtenvironment professionals. Wehave been working with AngliaRuskin to develop a courseresponding to a need for urbandesign skills, something we hadjointly identified. We have beenimpressed with the flexibility ofthe programme developed by

Anglia Ruskin University, whichallows students to develop theirskills through the projects theyare currently working on.’

Alison KingCommunications Manager,Learning and DevelopmentServices

Teaching starts on the new Urban Design and Place Shaping course

For full information, pick up a programme at the theatre.To book, phone the box office on 0845 196 2320 or call ext 2320


Clare ‘You’re all lathered in sweat,Alfie’; and Siddie, and Clara, andAnnie – but who’s counting?Certainly not Alfie. Three in oneevening if necessary. Andnecessary is the right word!

Alfie combines great comedy andgenuine pathos, as well as live’60s music, as it tells the story ofa cockney Don Juan who

swaggers and philosophises hisway from conquest to conquest,carefully rejecting anyone oranything that might touch him toodeeply.

‘Alfie remains the randiest and mostshameless Casanova south of the river.’The Sunday Times

Suitable for ages 11+.

Made famous by movies starringMichael Caine and, morerecently, Jude Law, Alfie is thebrilliant, original stage play abouta young man with anoverwhelming desire for theladies. You might say that ‘birds’are irresistible to him, sort ofsecond nature. There’s Ruby ‘Alust box in beautiful condition’;

Alfie • Tickets: £10.00 (£8.00 concessions) • Monday 8 March, 7.30pm

Vietnam riots circa 1965, a youngpolice officer and a beautifulprotestor fall in love in Romeoand Juliet.

Macbeth, Thursday 18 andSaturday 20 March, 7.30pm1928. The St Valentine’s DayMassacre has shocked Chicago.An ambitious mobster and his

devious wife seek to take the cityin Macbeth.

Together, these two stories explorejust how far we will go for love,lust and power.

Contains scenes of violence andmoderately strong language which maynot be suitable for younger children.

The Young Actors’ Companybrings you two of Shakespeare’sgreatest tragedies – relocated totwo of the most iconic decades ofthe 20th century.

Romeo and Juliet, Wednesday17 and Friday 19 March,7.30pmAmidst the turmoil of London’s

The Young Actors’ Company• Tickets: £9.00 (£7.00 concessions) • Wednesday 17–Saturday 20 March

push the boundaries of hiscommunication. In that time hehas had umpteen televisionprogrammes, taught at some ofthe most respected schools formediumistic development as wellas setting up his own trainingschool for developing mediums.

‘It’s one thing for a medium to tell youthat they’ve got “someone who’s passedover” coming through, and that “they loveand miss you”. It’s something else entirelywhen they provide you with clinicallyaccurate information about specific times,places and events that they simplycouldn’t have gathered by scientificallyaccepted means.’ Mike Hallowell,journalist

At its best, mediumship has thepotential to change someone’s lifeand to instil in them a sense ofpeace, comfort and purpose.Psychic medium, Tony Stockwellis not a new kid on the block,and during his 20 years workingas a medium he has constantlystriven to improve his game and

An Evening of Clairvoyance with TV Psychic Tony Stockwell • Tickets: £17.00 • Monday 29 March, 7.30pm

What’s on at the Mumford?THE ARTS

Shakespeare goes beyond theobvious, following theramifications of the crimewherever they take him, shining alight on a band of humanbehaviour encompassing thebestial and the beautiful.

Simple and stark: a single actor, abare stage – rapist and victimspringing to searing life.

‘Sensational.’ Sir Trevor Nunn

May not be suitable for youngerchildren.

Gerard Logan in WilliamShakespeare’s The Rape ofLucrece: the piece is a brilliant,brutal narrative poem giving anaccount of the terrible crime ofrape and its dreadfulconsequences for victim andperpetrator. As ever, though,

The Rape of Lucrece • Tickets: £10.00 (£8.00 concessions) • Wednesday 10 March, 7.30pm

The Tempest • Wednesday 24–Saturday 27 March, 7.30pm • Tickets: £10.00 (£8.00 concessions, £6.00 society members)

As Prospero’s magic draws thestricken ship to his enchanted isle,Shakespeare’s own mystical wordscast us all into a world of tricksand plots, deceptions andillusions. With lashings of ginger

beer and scraped knees aplenty,brothers will vie for noble titles,young sweethearts will discovertrue love and just for a moment thecynical world will be rolled back bythe Bard’s enduring power.

Anglia’s student theatre societypresents The Tempest on its400th anniversary. You arewarmly invited to journey with

us, leave your troubles behind forone night, to rediscover that ‘…weare such stuff as dreams aremade of’.

Cambridgeshire Film Consortium events

Full details of all Cambridgeshire Film Consortium events can befound at: www.cambridgeshirefilmconsortium.org

bookings: Arts Picturehouse 0871 704 2050or www.picturehouses.co.uk

Schools and colleges events

Speakers: Professor Rowland Wymer (AngliaRuskin University) on the adaptation to filmof Philip K Dick’s source novel ‘Do AndroidsDream of Electric Sheep?’; A CambridgeUniversity scientist on ‘Science, Fact orFiction in Blade Runner?’

Blade Runner (15)Director: Ridley Scott. Starring:Harrison Ford, Daryl Hannah.117 minutes. USA 1982.

Inspired by Fritz Lang’sMetropolis, Ridley Scott’s BladeRunner is now a film classic ofthe sci-fi genre. In a cyberpunkvision of the future, man hasdeveloped the technology tocreate replicants, human clonesused to serve in the coloniesoutside Earth. Deckard is a Blade

Runner, a cop searching out sixescaped replicants.

Suitable for GCSE/A/ASFilm/Media/English/Sciencestudents.

Cost: students £3.50,accompanying teachers free.

THE ARTS


Battsek, producer of the Oscar-winning One Day in September.Pete Postlethwaite stars as a manliving alone in the environmentalwasteland of 2055, looking back atfootage from 2008 and asking: whydidn’t we save ourselves when wehad the chance?

Contains bleeped strong language andreality footage of death and injury.

Join us for a post-screeningdiscussion with producer LizzieGillet, Tony Juniper, former directorof Friends of the Earth, and acandidate from the Green Party.

Director: Franny Armstrong,Starring: Pete Postlethwaite.92 minutes. UK 2009.

Arguable the most importantdocumentary of 2009, The Age ofStupid is the climate-changeblockbuster from Franny Armstrong,director of McLibel, and John

Other events

above when a suitcase filled withcash falls out of the sky. Againstthe advice of his brother, Anthony,Damien is anxious to share thewealth with those less fortunate.But when the loot turns out to bestolen, his noble intentions areput to the test, with heart-warming and hilarious results.

Suitable for Literacy, KS2, upperprimary, KS3 secondary.

Cost: students £3.50,accompanying teachers free.

Millions (12a)Director: Danny Boyle. Starring:Alex Etel, Lewis McGibbon,James Nesbitt, Daisy Donovan,Christopher Fulford. 98 minutes.UK 2004.

Seven-year-old Damien believeshe’s received a divine gift from

Speakers: Dr Sarah Barrow (Anglia RuskinUniveristy); Mark Hansard (SaffronWalden County High School); Philip Lloyd(Hinchinbrooke School).

Vertigo (PG)Director: Alfred Hitchcock.Starring: James Stewart, KimNovak, Barbara Bel Geddes, TomHelmore, Ellen Corby.132 minutes. USA 1958.

Novak) who has suicidaltendencies, and the infamousdream-like plot unfolds.

Suitable for GCSE/A/AS LevelFilm/Media Studies students.

Cost: £3.50, accompanyingteachers free.

Hitchcock’s Vertigo weaves anintricate web of obsession anddeceit, as San Francisco policedetective Fergusson (JamesStewart) develops a fear ofheights after a colleague falls tohis death during a chase.Fergusson is subsequently hiredas a private detective to follow afriend’s wife, Madeline (Kim

Blade Runner: science fiction on film – Friday 12 March, 10.00 am–1.00pm

The Age of Stupid (12a) – Wednesday 3 March, 6.00pm

Millions with writer Frank Cottrell Boyce – Thursday 25 March 10.30am–1.00pm

Day in the Life of a Coal Miner to1940s animation, National CoalBoard recruitment advertisementsand rare screenings of 1980sdocumentaries from the Miners’Strike. The programme alsoincludes Calvacanti’s 1935 CoalFace (words by WH Auden, music

by Benjamin Britten), and 1960sballads by Ewan MacColl in TheSongs of the Coalfields.

Cost: £4.60 adults/students,£3.60 children/schools/OAP, plusfree tea/coffee with each ticket.

King Coal – a century of coalmining on film

This programme offers aremarkable insight into anindustry which came to define20th-century Britain, fromprecious early films such as A

Lunchtime archive films, BFI mediatheque – Wednesday 17 March, 1.00–2.30pm

Vertigo studies day – Thursday 18 March, 9.00am–1.00pm

Exhibitions, music and drama events

Full details of all exhibitions at the Ruskin Gallery can befound at: www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskingallery


This month’s Ruskin Gallery exhibitions

Drama performance – Mapping Maternity at the Covent Garden Drama Studio

This month’s music events

The final exhibition of our graduating MA Children’s Book Illustrationstudents following their London Show at The Illustration Cupboard(www.illustrationcupboard.com). Cambridge School of Art’s MA inChildren’s Book Illustration is the first of its kind in the UK. Since itsinception in 2000, a striking number of our graduates have gone on to

Conductors: Paul Jackson and Alan Rochford

Arvo Pärt – Fratres for cello and string orchestraLuciano Berio – Folk SongsIgor Stravinsky – Suites No 1 and 2 for chamber orchestraJohn Rutter – Requiem

Anglia Ruskin Orchestra and Chorus join forces under the batons ofprincipal conductors Paul Jackson and Alan Rochford in a programmeincluding Fratres, for cello and string orchestra, by the Estoniancomposer, Arvo Pärt, Luciano Berio’s wonderfully evocative Folk Songs,for mezzo soprano and chamber orchestra, and Stravinsky’s delightfulorchestration of his own piano duets, Suites No 1 and 2, for chamberorchestra. The programme concludes with John Rutter’s beautifulRequiem, for soprano, chorus and small orchestra.

Tickets available from the Mumford Theatre Box Office (01223352932) and on the door: £10.00 (£7.00 concessions;£5.00 students).

The Anglia Singers once again are to give a major programme of choralmusic in Braintree, on Sunday 21 March at 7.00pm, at Our LadyQueen of Peace, The Avenue, Braintree. The annual Passiontideprogramme has become part of the local musical calendar and theSingers usually feature a major work as well as shorter piecesappropriate to the theme. This year, they will be giving what is probablythe first East Anglian performance of Howard Goodall’s new workEternal Light, premiered at Sadlers Wells in November 2008.Conducted by Professor Chris Green, the concert also features works byHandel, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.

Tickets are now on sale from members of the Anglia Singers and theirticket line (01245 350988), together with Braintree Tourist InformationOffice, and cost £6.00 (under 16s are free).

sign multi-book deals, win major awards and recognition and to bepublished worldwide.

MA Children's Book Illustration graduation exhibition

Wednesday 3 March–Wednesday 10 MarchPrivate View: Thursday 4 March

Sunday 7 March, 11.00am–5.00pm, Covent Garden, Cambridge

Flights of Fancy – Porto drawing trip

Ruskin Gallery Balcony – Tuesday 16 March–Thursday 25 March

BA Illustration (hons) second-year students exhibit their drawings andsketches from the Porto trip, September 2009.

Three women – equipped with cakes, tea, microphones, prams, toys,nappies, talcum powder, birth plans, Nina Simone’s My Babe JustCares For Me and endless lists of things to do, things to avoid, recipesto follow and questions to ask – embark on a six-hour long journey ofmapping. You are invited to follow their travels, observe their struggles,and listen to their confessions on this laborious day.

A six-hour durational performance, devised and performed by KerstinBueschges, Jan Farrar and Sandra Flores. The audience is free to comeand go as they please.

Mapping Maternity in March is part of International Women’s Day,presented in affiliation with Cambridge University.

Free admission.

For more information, please contact [email protected].

Anglia Ruskin Orchestra and Chorus Anglia Singers perform in Braintree

Wednesday 17 March, 8.00pm, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

JOINERS LEAVERSThis monthly listing is to help keep readers up to date with who’s joined and who’s left recently. The entries are organisedalphabetically by faculty or support unit, followed by the joiner’s or leaver’s name, job title and, if relevant, department or unit.Movers are listed alphabetically by name.

• Arts, Law & Social Sciences:Miguel Mera, Principal Lecturer, Music and Performing Artst

• Ashcroft International Business School:David Dyer, Senior Lecturer, Cambridge-based;Natalie Kite, Senior Lecturer, Chelmsford-based;Sven Metscher, Project Assistant, Cambridge-based

• Estates & Facilities:Joanne Elliott, Finance Administrator

• HR Services:Kevin Fitzpatrick, Recruitment Manager

• Health & Social Care:Venetia Richards, Programme Administrator, Faculty & DepartmentAdministration;Christine Roostan, Principal Lecturer, Child & Family Health

• International Office:Anna Bernadska, International Recruitment Office

• Science & Technology:Ilhan Raman, Senior Lecturer, Psychology

• Student Services:Josephine Camus, Learning Support Assistant;Ruth Croker, Learning Support Assistant;Ruth Gravelle, Student Adviser;Kelly Osborne, Early Years Practitioner, Nursery

• Jennifer Brown:from Corporate Marketing to Financial Services as Administrator

MOVERS


Pictured right is our new sensorygarden on the Rivermeadcampus. It faces the Faculty ofScience & Technology Building,and is adjacent to the TelecomsBuilding.

Ever since the sad and untimelydeath of Anne Plummer, in 2008,who worked in that faculty, Ihave been concerned not only tofind a way of remembering heron campus, but also to establishan area where others of our staffand student family who die maybe remembered, so that friendsand colleagues might come topay their respects, and be ableto do so in a pleasant, reflectiveenvironment.

I’m happy to say that, thanks toall the work of Sandy Lynam,Yvonne Parker, and DavidReynolds and his team, theresult is exactly that – apleasant, reflective and peacefuloasis in the middle of a busycampus, which, thanks to themany bulbs that have beenplanted, should be a riot ofcolour later in the year. And, asthe garden matures, more andmore plants of different coloursand scents will becomeestablished.

The bench is inscribed to Anne’smemory, and was purchased byEstates & Facilities, and as theyears go by it is intended to be a

memorial bench for others whowish to be remembered in thisway.

The garden is for all to use, andI hope many will take theopportunity to go and sit there,

or walk through the garden andenjoy all that it has to offer.

Ivor MoodyChaplain, Chelmsford campus

• Ashcroft International Business School:Hermann Rapp, Senior Lecturer, Chelmsford-based

• Corporate Marketing:Rachel Moss, Community Development Administrator;Katy Stansfield, Admissions Administrator

• HR Services:Ismay Joslin-Hutchins, Recruitment Manager

• Health & Social Care:Clare Grave, Helpdesk Administrator, Faculty & Department Administration

• International Office:Claire Shearer, Development Officer

• Learning Development Services:Laurence Pulsford, Technician, Digital Copy Services

• Research, Development & Commercial Services:Tom Read, Assistant Business Devlopment Manager

• Science & Technology:Peter Hau, Senior Lecturer, Life Sciences;Dimitris Kiourtsoglou, Technician, Life Sciences;Joanna Smith, Project Officer, Life Sciences

• Student Services:Julie Walkling, Director of Student Services

A new facility for staff and students on the Chelmsford campus

• Marion Reynolds:from Learning Development Services to Financial Services asAdministrator

march 2010, bulletin vol 7 no 3

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