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Past Issues << | Issue 31: Monday 4 December 2006 |
Come and say Farewell to our Vice-Chancellor Professor Michael Thorne Wednesday 13 December 4pm – 5pm the Edge Restaurant Docklands Campus
As you will no doubt be aware, our Vice-Chancellor Professor Michael Thorne will be leaving us at the end of December for pastures new at Anglia Ruskin University.
We wish him every success in his new position, and would like to invite all colleagues to join him at a farewell tea on Wednesday, 13 December at The Edge restaurant at our Docklands campus, starting at 4pm.
Seasonal cheer includes tea, mince pies and mulled wine.
The event will be followed at 6pm by our final Public Lecture of 2006, which will be given by Professor Lizbeth Goodman, Director our SMARTlab Digital Media Institute.
Olympic and Paralympic gold medallists joined UK and Chinese government officials, university sports students, break-dancing champions, singing stars and local residents at our Docklands campus for the launch of the UK's first ‘Gymsforall’ free outdoor gym, just next to the Business School, at 12 noon last Tuesday.
Gymsforall is an innovative concept, providing local communities with free, hard-wearing, weatherproof and environmentally friendly gymnasia, breaking down barriers to physical activity and improving health.
This is the first Gymsforall facility to be established in the UK, and is a partnership between the London Borough of Newham, Host Borough to the London 2012Games, and the University of East London (UEL), which is a partner in the borough.
For more information visit http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/latest_news/stories/gymforall.htm
The School of Law’s Mooting Society’s inaugural demonstration moot (mock trial) took place last week at Duncan House.
Three senior Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) lawyers came to judge the moot: Patricia Richardson, Tony Barnard and Mark Taverner.
Marks are given as four of our students battle out aspects of the law and the issues of the case. Lead appellant and his junior counsel, Kayode Smith and Anisha Vaja, also President and Treasurer of the Law Society respectively, had fifteen and ten minutes apiece to make their argument as did Lead Respondent and his Junior Counsel, Justin Pierce and Agnes Lee.
The case hinged on a doctor’s appeal against his conviction for murder when he’d removed one premature baby from a life-support machine and given it to another, who he believed more likely to survive. Marks are awarded and while Kayode and Anisha won the case and the appeal was upheld, Justin and Agnes won the moot. They will each receive individual feedback from the three CPS lawyers shortly.
Sonia Crawford Senior Lecturer was Usher to the court and George Laurencin, Employability Manager and Clerk to the Mooting Society said: “The Moot shows how active Law students are and how community organisations support us.”
First year LLB student Neil Paton said: “Most of us want to be solicitors and lawyers so the moot gives us good experience. Maria Kinsella a Combined Honours student majoring in Law agreed: “I think it’s a vital part of any Law degree.”
School of Arts and Digital Industries in China
In November Head of School for Architecture and the Visual Arts Clifford Nichols and member of our International Office visited Tsinghua, which is a prestigious Chinese university.
The Tsinghua visit was in response to an invitation to attend their 50th anniversary celebrations and to participate in an international arts forum with 12 other institutes from around the world.
Cliff gave a presentation and a lecture to Tsinghua students and was interviewed by www.sohu.com - a popular Chinese educational website.
The delegation also visited the Liaoning Institute of Technology (in Summer 2006 we signed a Memorandum of Understanding) and this visit was a continuation of an effort initiated by our Vice-Chancellor.
Cliff has been offered professorship at both universities: Tsinghua and Liaoning Institute of Technology.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed last week between ourselves and Riphah International University in Pakistan. The MOU, for the School of Health and BioSciences, covers the delivery of Bioscience programmes in Pakistan.
This is the first MOU we have signed we a university in Pakistan and so it is a milestone for us.
The gentlemen in the pictures are Mr Hassan Khan - Pro Chancellor and Prof Umar Ali Khan -Professor of Physiology
Details of Riphah International University is available on their website: http://www.riphah.edu.pk/
Free furniture from Longbridge Road
As part of our "Green Exit" from Longbridge Road we are pleased to offer to staff and students the opportunity to obtain some of the redundant furniture.
Our open days are on the 4 and 5 December between 9.30am and 3.30pm at the Longbridge Road campus where you will be able to have a look at what is on offer. We will have desks, chairs, filing cabinets and shelving.
The procedure will be as follows:
You will only be allowed on campus for viewing or collection if you have a valid UEL I/D card
You must report to Security for directions
You can select two items only, free of charge
Items will be allocated on a strictly first come, first served basis
You will have to make your own arrangements for pick up and delivery
It would be best if you could take the selected items straight away after viewing
Collection times will be between 8.00am and 8.00pm every day including the weekend
All items must be collected by 12 December
Anything uncollected after 12 December will be disposed of using our normal channels
For more information contact Richard Pennington Senior Buyer 020 8223 2753 Email: r.j.pennington@uel.ac.uk
Feedback please!
We received a unique compliment to last week’s In Focus when someone said he liked it so much he stayed longer in the toilet than he really needed to, so as to make sure he’d read it as thoroughly as it deserved.
Now, you may have noticed a slight change to the layout to In Focus update this week (the opening contents list has been condensed) to make it even more straightforward to read!
Please let me know if it works for you and if there is anything further we can do to improve on it!
Replies to infocus@uel.ac.uk
For the latest on our activities visit the news releases section of our website www.uel.ac.uk/news
Children’s Garden Christmas Sale and Exhibition Tues 5 December, the Atrium Docklands Campus 10am – 5pm
Visit our nursery exhibition displaying our nursery rooms and environment! You can stock up on a wide range of stocking fillers at the same time. We have a number of large items for sale as well smaller toys such bats, balls, an abacus, plastic toy animals, puzzles, jig saws……. Lots are new and nearly new. Sample our home-made biscuits and meet our staff.
LERI News...
LERI Regeneration Studies Reading group, Monday December 4 in Room WB.2.01 5 - 7pm Syd Jeffers will introduce a discussion of RECOMBINANT URBANISM by David Graham Shane published by Wiley in 2005
The LERI Annual Event will take place on Thursday 11 Jan. Four of LERI's Visiting Professors David Powell John Newbiggin, Richard Sumray and Paul Brickell will discuss the cultural festival of the Olympics and the LERI 2006 Annual Report will be launched.
For further information please contact Emma Roberts Research Centre Administrator Ext. 6026 or 7216, Rising East: the East London heritage issue www.risingeast.org
1pm Docklands Campus Room EB.2.44. Tuesday 5 December
A GDL lecture by Ferdinand Gothard - Head-teacher of Mawella Secondary School, Tanzania.
For more information visit http://www.uel.ac.uk/lectureseries/challenges.htm
7pm Docklands Campus, Business School Lecture Theatre Weds 13 December
Inaugural lecture by Professor Lizbeth Goodman, followed by exhibition, performance and display in SMARTlab Multimedia Institute.
For more information visit www.uel.ac.uk/lectureseries Return to top
Win £10,000 to launch your business
You’ll have noticed banners going up on our Stratford and Docklands campuses for the Knowledge Dock ‘Enterprise Factor’ (or E-Factor) Business Plan competition. E-Factor is a marvellous opportunity for start-up businesses to win a very handy £10,000 to transform their ‘on paper’ idea to a fully functional business. Please let your students and potential applicants know.
For more information visit www.knowledgedock.com/efactor
New Research Funding Opportunities
To conduct your own search of current funding opportunities, or to set up email alerts specific to your interests, visit www.researchresearch.com. If you intend to submit an application for funding please contact Becky Whitham in the Graduate School.
EPSRC: IDEAS Factory 2007 Call for IDEAS Topics
Deadline: 12 midday, 8 January 2007
The IDEAS Factory is an EPSRC innovation designed to combine new ways of generating research teams with new approaches to peer review. EPSRC would like to consider topics that could provide the basis of the 2007 series of IDEAS Factory sandpits.
British Academy 2007-08 round of UK-Africa Academic Partnerships
Deadline: 5 February 2007
Two awards of up to £10,000 a year for up to three years are available to support the development of ongoing links between UK and African research centres or institutions, within the humanities and social sciences. The link would be built around a specific research theme of mutual interest. This could be carried forward through visits in both directions; workshops; seminars and lecture programmes; collaborative research; and joint publications.
EPSRC: Challenging Engineering
Deadline: 4pm, 1 March 2007
Third call for proposals for funding to support future engineering research leaders from an early stage of their careers.
See Events Calendar for a full listing: www.uel.ac.uk/marketing/support/eventscalendar.htm
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Brush up your IT skills and get an internationally recognised qualification online. Contact Greg Price, Organisational Development Manager on ext 4361 or email g.price@uel.ac.uk
For Learning and Development Course dates see: www.uel.ac.uk/staff-development/handbook
Our Institute for Performing Arts Development presents Out of Site, Surviving Oedipus and Urban Myths.a mixture of film and performance form the BA Performing Arts/BA Theatre Studies - from Friday 15 December 7.30pm Stratford Circus Theatre Square Stratford London E15 1BX
Out of Site - Six short digital films represent moments of performances from the heart of London's retail centre to its forgotten resting places
Surviving Oedipus - Incest and murder abound in a quest for city renewal
Urban Myths - is London a public city? What happens when the Olympic bid gets deconstructed or when a young woman gets more than she bargained for?
All staff and students welcome. Tickets available on the door. Entrance FREE.
Get the Buzz!
Our School of Education building at Stratford Campus now has its very own friendly, cosy and bijou café called The Buzz.
Opening hours term-time only are 8.30am – 3.30pm Mon – Thurs and 8.15am – 3pm on Friday. There is a full hot meals service from 12pm – 2.15pm and toasties, paninis, sandwiches and pastries available throughout the day. Hot and cold drinks are available.
So, please visit!
Ask the experts
Monday 11 December, 6.30 pm - 8.30pm, Stratford Town Hall.
Your opportunity to put questions directly to the bodies building and hosting the London 2012 Games. Places are FREE. For further information and details of how to register go to www.newham.com/2012Games/EventsAndConferences/Events/Ask+the+experts+-+Monday+11+December.htm
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