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Past Issues << | Issue 33: Friday 11 December 2006
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Around 200 staff attended the Vice-Chancellor’s farewell on Wednesday in our Docklands Edge Restaurant. The event was hosted by Alan Ingle Secretary and Registrar who said: “Mike's enthusiasm and dedication have been an inspiration to us all. When he arrived in 2001, we were a divided community; we are now a united, successful organisation. "
Head of Graduate School, Alan White who also made a speech, said: “Mike is always first to stress the team nature of success, but teams need to be inspired, and, luckily, inspiration is one of the things that Mike does best."
Mike spoke about how he’d valued his time here: "It's very humbling to hear all these nice things and see all of you gathered here today. Things do change and move on, but one thing I'm certain of is that if the whole UEL community continues to pull together as we have been doing, the success of this university is assured. UEL has been my life for five years and it's been a fantastic experience to be part of what is happening here and to work among our very special student community."
As well as receiving a photo album of many key UEL moments from CMIO Director Sandra Hollis, Mike made two presentations of his own: one to Tina Reed and one to Sharon Miles for all their help and support.
Later Mike greeted external guests, colleagues and partners from schools, colleges and local organisations in The Hub. Our guests had been specially invited to attend Professor Lizbeth Goodman’s inaugural lecture Multimedia: Bridging the Digital Divide, an exploration of the haves and have-nots of new technology, which took place in the Business School lecture theatre.
Our first Disability Equality Scheme has now been completed and is available on the website. To read about our scheme please visit http://www.uel.ac.uk/equality/policy.htm
For the first time ever the libraries will be open between Christmas and New Year from 10am - 5pm on Wednesday 27, Thursday 28 and Friday 29 December. We have 24 hour opening right up to 5pm on Friday 22 December, and again from Tuesday 2 January.
This puts us in the lead of all UK universities with an increase in opening hours this year of 40%.
InforM25 is funded by the M25 Consortium of academic libraries and consists of four main services: finding a library, using libraries within the M25 Consortium, searching catalogues and using serials and periodicals.
Every year 35million users visit the libraries of the M25 Consortium. The new InforM25 online interface provides extremely useful research tools for our staff and students.
To access InforM25 visit www.inform25.ac.uk
We close at 5pm on Friday 22 December and reopen on Tuesday 2 January.
Happy Holidays!
New Year, New Start - The January Open Evening is open to all. We will be using two new venues - the Business School at Docklands and the Passmore Edwards Students' Union Building at Stratford, and for the first time we will offer dedicated areas for visitors considering postgraduate study, showcasing research and masters' programmes. All staff welcome to join us - see http://www.uel.ac.uk/openday/ for more details.
Thursday 11 Jan. Visiting Professors David Powell, John Newbiggin, Richard Sumray and Paul Brickell will discuss the cultural festival planned for 2012 and help launch the London East Research Institute's 2006 Report. For details, contact Emma Roberts x 7216 or visit http://www.uel.ac.uk/lectureseries/
Rising East: the East London heritage issue www.risingeast.org
Stratford Campus, Tues 23 January by Dr Geoff Webb, School of Health and Bioscience. For more information visit http://www.uel.ac.uk/lectureseries/
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.
The British Academy: 2007 Postdoctoral Fellowship competition
Deadline: 5pm on 28 February 2007
The Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme is designed to enable outstanding early career researchers to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in a university environment. Applicants are expected to be at an early stage of their career, either without postdoctoral experience (moving directly from the award of a doctorate) or who have held no more than one postdoctoral appointment (temporary lectureship, postdoctoral fellowship, research assistantship) to date.
Deadline: 4pm, 8 March 2007
The scheme provides salary and associated costs for periods of three or four months, to enable an individual researcher to complete a significant research project by the end of the award period.
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 - fromFriday 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.
Space Studios, 129 – 131 Mare Street, Hackney E8 3RH
A retrospective exhibition of work from the mid 70s to the present day combining activism, politics, education and research. Exhibition runs until 20 January, closed 21 December – 2 January. FREE admission.
Loraine Leeson is a Research Fellow with the School of Social Science, Media and Cultural Studies.
Simply click here for details of Staff Development courses scheduled for January -March 2007
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
Enterprising Business students have created an animated Water Goddess figure – think Lara Croft meets Charlie Dimmock – to help Thames Water spread the word about the importance water efficiency. Earlier this month, teams from our Business School presented a series of marketing plans for proposed water efficiency campaigns to be run in East London next year. The students’ presentations were judged by a panel from Thames Water and a representative of the London Sustainability Exchange, and the winning team was awarded a cheque for £500.
Lynn Launchbury, Water Efficiency Campaign Manager for Thames Water, announced the winners, saying: "It's been great to see that the students seem even more passionate about water efficiency than I am, and I’m very much looking forward to developing our partnership with you in the months and years to come.”
Over 30 students took part in the module, in which they were given an imaginary budget of £50,000 to produce a cost effective, environmentally friendly campaign. Their ideas included targeted campaigns aimed at hospitals, schools, leisure centres and university campuses.
The winning team was made up of Florian Yemeri (20), Sefa Yildrim, Saff Khan and Ismail Ahmed Ismail. Their marketing plan was based on a new youth-orientated image for Thames Water, updating Latis, the Greek Goddess of Water, as a Lara Croft-like figure.
Dr Nnamdi Madichie, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, said: “This project is one of a number of initiatives to increase the employability of our students and align with the Government's White Paper on Widening Participation. We look forward to developing our collaborative work with Thames Water and other industry partners.”New Horizons, the University of East London Review of 2006 was published this week. If you would like copies to send out to partners and key contacts, email p.wilson@uel.ac.uk
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