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Welcome to our weekly in Focus update...... |
Past Issues << | Issue 41: Monday 26 February 2007
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Thanks to everyone for all your help and support with Friday's Royal opening of the Business School and Knowledge Dock Centre.
We received a call from the Royal car half an hour after they left saying thank you to everyone for such an enjoyable visit. We have also had lots of thank you letters and other positive feedback from our guests who were there on the day, not least Rolf Harris!
As you may have seen, we got great media coverage both on Friday (BBC news at 6 and 10, ITV London tonight) and over the weekend - p1 and p3 lead in Saturday's Telegraph, full page in the Express and lots more bits and pieces in the UK and around the world. Locally we got a nice page in the Recorder, and more importantly a double page centre spread in The Wharf - with no doubt lots more to come.
You can read all about it on www.uel.ac.uk
You can view some of the video coverage on http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/latest_news/stories/video.htm, also BBC London coverage on http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/02/16/uel_queen_feature.shtml
You can download pictures from http://matrix.uel.ac.uk/royalvisit/
If you got any good photos on the day and don't mind sharing them, please do email them either to Patrick Wilson p.wilson@uel.ac.uk or to Jatinder Gill on j.gill@uel.ac.uk. We're also planning to send out a send a special edition DVD in the next couple of weeks with the full story!
Our recently formed Campus Communications Group has been set up to help co-ordinate and develop effective and interesting visual displays of information and exhibitions of work as well as increase the display of art on our campuses.
Two interesting art works currently on display at our Docklands Campus include Sprout which is 8 metres high and was commissioned for temporary installation (2 years) in Spitalfields. Sprout by Gereon Krebber, won the prestigious German Phoenix Award 2005, and the Jerwood Sculpture prize 2004. Gereon is presently in Germany, showing in several cities, including Berlin, with the benefit of Award Kunststiftung NRW Project Funding. Gereon teaches one day per week on the BA Fine Art programme.
African Lion by BA Fine Art student Ned Maxwell is on show in our Business School foyer, next to the bronze cast of Chancellor Lord Rix. Made of recycled newspaper this remarkably life-like sculpture formed a centre-piece for the art exhibition in our recent Green Awareness Day (Thursday 22 Feb).
Springing into undergraduate and postgraduate study this March.
Docklands - Stratford.
See http://www.uel.ac.uk/openday/ for more details.
Wednesday 7 March 6pm onwards University House, Stratford Campus
As part of our Open Evening, Dr Ashok Jansari - School of Psychology, introduces a series of talks and interactive events
All welcome. Admission FREE.
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.
Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation: Small Grants Deadline: March 31st 2007 The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation invites applications for its small pump-priming grants to fund research projects in the arts, humanities, science, medicine and the environment, as well as projects involving mutual learning in aspects of modern society
British Academy/Maison des Sciences de l’homme awards Deadline: April 15th 2007 The British Academy has a special arrangement with the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris to support research visits and participation in symposia and workshops. This scheme is aimed at scholars who are interested either in initiating or participating in British-French collaborative projects themselves, or in nominating a visiting scholar to come to the UK. The project must involve scholars or activities connected to the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.
Modern Humanities Research Association: Publication Grants Deadline: April 30th 2007 These provide assistance towards the costs of publishing scholarly works in the field of the modern and medieval European literatures and languages which, by their nature, could not expect to be financially self-supporting. The works supported by the fund will normally be major volumes in multiple authorship or other projects which would not be considered suitable for the association's own Legenda series.
We have TWELVE tickets to give away to the Museum in Docklands which will entitle you to FREE entry until 13 December 2007!
The Museum in Docklands’ whose mission is to inspire a passion for London by; communicating London’s history, archaeology and contemporary cultures to a wider world also has lots of fun workshops for children and adults!
To win a ticket email your answer to this simple question, to infocus@uel.ac.uk:
Q: Which stop on the DLR is closest to the Museum in Docklands?
For more information visit: http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk/English/
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Don’t miss Careers & Jobs Live Sunday 25 March 11am - 5pm Monday 26 March 10am - 4pm
Careers & Jobs Live, Britain’s largest recruitment, careers, training and education fair is back at ExCeL London offering a wide range of exciting opportunities set to inspire job seekers of all ages and skills including those in full-time education, graduates, under-graduates and school and college leavers.
To pre-register FREE for the event and be entered to win a Plasma TV or £7000 Computer course (donated by Women in IT) simply visit www.careersandjobslive.co.uk.
We’ll have our own stand there so drop in and say Hello!
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Are you interested in taking part in the London Bikeathon in aid of leukaemia research?
Registration is £10 and for that you get a T-shirt, sponsor forms and on-route cycle maintenance.
There's a team discount of £5 for 10 or more and Jan Bernet has kindly volunteered to co-ordinate the registration for any colleagues wishing to take part – there are already four eager participants!
For more information Email: j.bernet@uel.ac You can also visit http://www.justgiving.com/design/5/event_details.asp?did=5
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
Working with AVA students, local people and business volunteers as part of Newham's New Deal for Communities (NDC) Principal Lecturer Jane Riches has helped to complete two vibrant and expressive murals. The concept for the murals - Art and History, relating to the local area - led to a wealth of imaginative visual concepts. Jane worked as history researcher as well as contributing to design and teaching on the project .
On London Road pathway a mural is drawn from a map of the Plaistow section of the Survey of London published by John Rocque in 1747, using old place names and spellings. The mural at Exning Road sub-station shows images of Canning Town's former industries including Silvertown Lubricating Oils, a passenger steam road coach, The Enterprise, windmills, sailing barges and the area's first local railway.
Our students working on the project include Lanre Badmus, Emmanuel Quartey Papafio, Temitope Akinwunmi, Haykel Ben Thameur, Margaret Wood and Adam Skidmore. Partners included London Borough of Newham, Arts and Business, Morgan Stanley, East London Business Alliance and Newham Community Recycling.
The group are currently working on their third mural which they hope to have finished in about 3 weeks.
For a round-up of events see www.uel.ac.uk/events.
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