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Past Issues << | Issue 57: Monday 18 June 2007
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Hundreds of visitors travelled from as far afield as Malaga, Rome, Berlin, and even St Lucia, Brazil and Nigeria for our biggest ever Open Day at our Docklands and Stratford campuses on Saturday.
In total, over 1,200 people attended the event, including West Ham MP Lyn Brown, who joined Newham’s Deputy Civic Ambassador Cllr Akbar Chaudhury and local councillors to talk to UEL staff and visitors and celebrate the launch of UEL Extra, a brand-new, flexible approach to part-time education.
Lyn Brown MP said: “It's fantastic to see so many people here today, especially because they all come from such diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. UEL is a marvellous reflection of our borough's diversity and I'm especially impressed by how many UEL graduates go on directly into employment and achieve career success."
Prospective students enjoyed guided tours of the campuses, talked to staff and students about the hundreds of degree programmes and combinations on offer, and picked up advice and guidance on all aspects of university life. Our recently expanded part-time provision now offers a wide range of degrees with flexible study options designed to suit individual needs.
A packed Open Day programme included welcome presentations, subject specific talks, campus and residential tours, live performances and DJs, and even a barbecue and free strawberries and cream at Stratford.
Professor Martin Everett, Vice-Chancellor of the University of East London, said: “This is the first Open Day I’ve attended since arriving in April and I'm extremely pleased to see so many visitors braving the summer showers to find out more about the wide range of exciting opportunities on offer."
“It's been a fantastic day and we've already had a lot of positive feedback from people impressed by our excellent facilities, growing reputation for teaching and research, our uniquely diverse and multicultural learning community and most of all by our friendly staff and students!”
Our new facilities on display at the Open Day included the Business School, Knowledge Dock Centre and Student Village at Docklands and the Centre for Clinical Education in Podiatry, Physiotherapy and Sports Science at Stratford.
We are planning a series of Open days and evenings throughout August, September and October. For further information, visit www.uel.ac.uk.
Keep UEL Beautiful is the theme our Charter Mark project team is developing as part of an anti-littering campaign for both our campuses. The phrase, which first appeared as part of a much longer feedback statement in a questionnaire from our Student Satisfaction Survey 2006, was readily adopted by the team and is a much voiced sentiment from very many of our staff and students.
Chris Norman our Docklands Campus manager is leading on the campaign and is already in discussion with Shanks, our waste management provider, to work in partnership with us.
Chris explained: "At present an impressive 85% of all our waste is sorted and recycled by Shanks. Regrettably, we are spending a considerable amount of money on employing outside contractors to pick up litter. I'd like to move towards a system where firstly we have a strong internal culture of placing litter in the bin, which not only improves the look of our fabulous campuses but also saves money. Secondly I'd like to move towards a system of recycling at source which over time will save us valuable resources as well."
We are also making great strides with our sustainability and we are also hoping to stage a Green Awareness Day during First Week in which staff and student ambassadors will make a point of picking up litter and encouraging others to do the same. In fact Secretary and Registrar, Alan Ingle will be one of those on the raised dockside lawn approaching litter-bugs to ask 'why they did that'. Alan will log their replies.
So keep a look out for Keep UEL Beautiful banners appearing on waste bins and notice-boards as well as information on recycling. If you'd like to know more about our Keep UEL Beautiful campaign or have any ideas to share please contact Chris Norman on Email: c.norman@uel.ac.uk
David Woodhouse has provided a series of links so that we can access information and news from our Academic Board, Governing Body and Corporate Management Team.
Please see the following links:
Academic Board: http://www.uel.ac.uk/qa/committees/acaboard.htm
Board of Governors: http://www.uel.ac.uk/governors/board.htm
Good news from the CMT: http://www.uel.ac.uk/vcg/news/index.htm
Wednesday 20 June 2007
Private View: 6pm - 9pm
21 - 28 June Open to public: Mon – Fri 10:00 – 6:00 Sat & Sun 10:00 – 4:00
Several solo shows running concurrently make up this exhibition. The Professional Doctorate in Fine Art is a practice based Research Degree programme that is unique to our School of Architecture and Visual Arts.
With its greater emphasis on practice it is more appropriate for many artists than a PhD.
The highly professional standard of work on display reflects the strength of the research culture within Fine Art and the commitment of our students. This academic year seven students will complete their doctorates.
This year’s graduates include students from Taiwan, South Korea, and Greece, as well as the UK.
Wednesday 20 June 2007 Private View: 6pm– 9pm
21 June - 7 July 2007
Open to public:
Mon – Fri 10am– 6pm Sat and Sun 10am– 4pm
The Architecture Year End Show takes place during London’s Architecture Week. This annual event showcases the combined works of each unit within the BsC, Diploma and Masters Programmes. This show also provides an opportunity to see work by our foundation Year 0 students.
AVA is pleased to receive sponsorship from Levitt Bernstein for the production of the show and showcase publication. Levitt Bernstein is proud to support Architecture at UEL
Location: Docklands Campus
Date: Tuesday 26 June
Time: 10am – 2pm
The Industrial Trust are teaming up with us to host an exciting London-first event – a major information and careers fair aimed at inspiring hundreds of the city’s school pupils to help build a sustainable future.
Over four hundred pupils have already signed up to take part in a wide range of activities, view interactive working models, and learn about recycling, renewable energy and innovative construction techniques from a wide range of industry experts.
Exhibiting organisations include world leaders in recycling and several winners of Business in the Community’s ‘big tick’ environmental accolades. Exhibitors will explain how their organisations are working to make our city more sustainable, as well as offering ideas about how pupils can personally contribute.
Our lecturers and students will also introduce the pupils to relevant degrees and lead tours of innovative workshops at our Docklands Campus.
Tuesday 26 June 5pm Business School Lecture Theatre, Docklands
A public lecture to mark the launch of the Matrix East Research Lab at UEL
Professor Laura Mulvey is a world-renowned film studies scholar and film-maker. Her research interests include female cinematic representation, technology and history in film and television, the aesthetics of stillness in the moving image, avant-garde and fiction, melodrama and world cinema. Her ground-breaking essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, written in 1973, has firmly established a new area of study, straddling women studies and film studies, and has been the start of a long debate, still affecting the discipline.
Matrix East Research Lab is a unique, cutting-edge Digital Media Arts centre which has been set up at UEL with funding from the Science Research Innovation Fund (SRIF), and generous support from Sony Broadcast, Professional and Research Lab and the London Development Agency.
Directed by Professor Haim Bresheeth, Matrix East offers advanced facilities and research support to staff, research students and digital media artists. The Lab is unique in offering the ability of producing and editing up to 36 video tracks, and presenting them as an installation in perfect synchrony on a variety of monitors and projectors. The Lab will offer the ability to present a multitude of voices, sounds, and images of multicultural London, and will be connected internationally to similar labs, such as the MARCEL project and MIT Media Arts lab, and will be able to cooperate and exchange work with partners in the UK and worldwide. A programme of Artist in Residence is now in preparation.
Admission is free. For further information, please contact Miriam on 020 8223 2884 or m.watt@uel.ac.uk.
For further information about Matrix East, visit www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/research/matrix-east.htm
Organised by Continuum - our research centre for widening participation, this prestigious international conference is the premier networking event for everyone with an interest in: access, widening participation, lifelong learning and student success. We expect to attract around 250 delegates from both the UK and overseas. We would also like to take the opportunity to encourage our colleagues to attend this event as a platform for their work and a great networking opportunity.
Visit http://www.f-a-c-e.org.uk/conference2007.htm today to find out more.
This year's International Students Awards Ceremony will take place on Friday 6 July, at 2.30pm in the Business School Lecture Theatre, followed by an afternoon tea and a reception hosted by our Alumni Network and International Office.
If anybody would like to volunteer their help on the day, perhaps as a marshal or for registration duties please contact Nicola Quilter. Also if there are any academic staff that would like to attend and need a gown ordered, please contact Nicola with the relevant details.
We are expecting approximately 400 people on the day including guests. If anybody needs any further information please contact Nicola on Tel: 020 82232062, Email: n.quilter@uel.ac.uk
Thursday, 12 July
6.30 - 8.00 pm Reception from 6.00 pm
Docklands Campus, West Building WB.G.02
Admission: FREE
Speaker: Michael Edwards, Professor of Planning, The Bartlett School, University College London
Discussant: Massimo De Angelis, from our Business School.
Professor Michael Edwards is an economist and planner working on property markets and their relationship with urban planning and development systems at UCL's Bartlett School of Planning. He has recently been active in critical debates on the London Plan and is joint chair of the King's Cross Railway Lands Group which has been active for 20 years in mediating conflicting pressures on the edge of central London.
The FOURTH ANNUAL DOCKLANDS LECTURE sets the context in which major development in the Thames Estuary is widely seen as a solution to many of the capital's region's problems.
Professor Edwards critically examines the interpretations of housing crisis offered by many current analysts and politicians including Gordon Brown.
Contrasting scenarios for the Thames Gateway are presented, and lessons are drawn from the history of urban development in the UK and internationally. The lecture draws on a chapter Professor Edwards has contributed to the forthcoming book, London's Turning: the Prospect of Thames Gateway, edited by Phil Cohen and Mike Rustin, London, Ashgate 2007.
Please RSVP to Email: leri@uel.ac.uk For more information visit: www.uel.ac.uk/londoneast
Friday 14 September Docklands
A one-day conference to mark the retirement of Professor Mary Boyle and to celebrate 30 years of clinical psychology training by our School of Psychology.
De-medicalising misery examines the effects of our current understandings of distress, and explores ways to rethink them. The conference brings together psychiatrists, service users and clinical psychologists.
For more information contact Professor Mark Rapley Email: m.rapley@uel.ac.uk or Tel: 07951 908 409.
Costs: Waged £120, BPS Members £90, Students £25, Unwaged/Service User FREE. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
To conduct a search of current funding opportunities , including all the major competitions , 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 Tim Brooks (Acting Research Funding Officer) in the Graduate School. Tim is retaining his other responsibilities within the Graduate School so the more notice you can give, the better!
Fusion dreams fashion event
Saturday 23 June.
Fashion stalls and exhibition 10.30am - 2.30pm Free entrance
Fashion show and auction 6.30pm - 8pm £5 entrance
Newham Town Hall, Barking Road,East Ham, London E6 2RP
Tickets available from Stephanie Nunn - 020 8430 2106
The Civic Ambassador of Newham Cllr Omana Gangadharan presents a charity event of fashion fusion. Lucy Jones our Head of Fashion is working on the event and we will have a stall there so drop in and say Hello.
We also have ten pairs of FREE tickets to give away on a first come, first served basis - so email your interest to: karen9@uel.ac.uk
For further information, contact Tel: 020 7823 5523 or visit: http://www.newham.gov.uk/News/2007/June/CivicAmbassadorFashionShow.htm
Wednesday 4 July 6pm duration: approximately 1 hour.
ExCel London Royal Victoria Dock E16 1X
www.excel-london.co.uk Admission: FREE
The New London Orchestra presents Newham welcomes the world - the journey begins by Ronald Corp and Hope Massiah - a choral and orchestral performance by over 400 members of the Newham Community!
For further information, contact Tel: 020 7823 5523 or visit:http://www.nlo.co.uk/
The winner of last week's competition to win 2 complimentary tickets to see East London Chorus performing works by Schubert and Mozart at St James Piccadilly on 7 July is Margaret Heath.
East London Chorus will also be giving a world premiere of a work by contemporary composer Brian Chapple at this concert, too.
To win Margaret successfully answered the following question:
Q:
Where does East London Chorus rehearse?
A: West Building Lecture Theatre, Docklands Campus.
For further information about East London Chorus visit www.eastlondonchorus.org.uk.
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
http://www.uel.ac.uk/staff-development/documents/ForthcomingStaffDevelopmentCourses-May-July2007.doc
Leading international experts from a range of disciplines, regions and backgrounds gathered at our Docklands Campus in May to examine how to develop tools to implement Islamic law, land and property rights in achieving UN development goals in various countries around the world.
The Expert Group Meeting on the cross-fertilisation of universal and Islamic land approaches was organised by ourLaw School in collaboration with UN-HABITAT, as a Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) initiative.
Presenters included Clarissa Augustinus and Mohamed El Sioufi of UN-HABITAT; Sheikh Nizam Yaqubi, an eminent Islamic scholar and representatives from the World Bank, UNIFEM, Habitat International Coalition, the Huairou Commission and delegates from India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Palestine, Bahrain, Indonesia, Ghana, Iran, Egypt and Nigeria, as well as the universities of Oxford, Kent, Warwick and Harvard.
The meeting convenors were Dr Hilary Lim and Siraj Sait of our Law School, who recently published an influential report for UN-HABITAT on issues of Islam, development and human rights, with particular emphasis on land, property and housing rights. The research was recognised by the Cairo Initiative on Islamic tools in 2005 endorsed by the Al Azhar and Arab States as a baseline study for future work in this area.
Dr. Hilary Lim said: “This is the first time that such a group of key thinkers, scholars, practitioners and policy makers have come together to explore steps to transform beneficial Islamic land rights principles into practical implementation tools.
Siraj Sait said: "This meeting outcome document not only affirms the Cairo principles but also indicates the guiding principles to move forward".
Professor Susan Price, Pro Vice-Chancellor of UEL, said: "Land tenure and property rights are issues of global importance, and UEL with its unique location, multi-cultural profile and vision is a natural partner for the Global Land Tool Network.
UN-HABITAT is the agency mandated by the UN to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities, with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) with its secretariat at UN-HABITAT develops pro-poor, innovative, affordable, scaleable and gendered land tools. www.gltn.net
For a related story see http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/press_releases/releases/islamiclaw.htm
For a round-up of events see www.uel.ac.uk/events.
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