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Welcome to our weekly in Focus update...... |
Past Issues << | Issue 70: Monday 17 September 2007
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Combined Honours got off to a great start this morning as they inducted over 500 students in the Business School Lecture Theatre (Secretary and Registrar Alan Ingle is pictured left addressing the Combined Honours full house.)
For detailed induction timetables for both postrgaduate and undergraduate programmes, as well as entertainment and other information we've arranged for First Week, visit our First Week website.
To access the timetables for each degree programme select either 'undergraduate' or 'postgraduate' and then use the alphabet index to select the programme you're looking for.
The website also contains a wide range of useful information such as, our enrolment process, frequently asked questions and all of the contact details for helpdesks and reception points.
| Key dates for First Week are: | |
17 Sept |
First Week begins |
18 -21 Sept |
Freshers’ Fayre (Docklands) |
19 Sept |
Keep Your Campus Beautiful Day |
21 Sept |
First Week Ends |
24 Sept – 5 Oct |
Late Arrivals permitted |
For our First Week website visit: www.uel.ac.uk/firstweek
Lecturer in Music, Dr Helen Reddington has created headlines with her debut book, entitled 'The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era'. It has already been the subject of numerous press articles, including a double-page feature in The Guardian.
The book explores the radical, pioneering work of the women involved in the punk movement, such as Poly Styrene, the Slits and the Raincoats, largely forgotten just 30 years on.
It is a subject Dr Reddington is well qualified to write about because she was one of them! As Helen McCookeryBook, she was bassist and lead singer with Brighton-based punk band The Chefs during the late 1970s and early 1980s. She later formed Helen And The Horns and had a varied career that spanned recording chants by fans of Millwall Football Club and writing musicals, alongside her work as a writer and academic.
Helen, who joined our Institute of Performing Arts Development last year, also runs songwriting workshops at our Docklands campus - all aspiring lyricists welcome!
The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era is published by Ashgate, £55. Read Helen's interview in The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2143652,00.html
We have a busy events, conferences and public lectures calendar over the coming weeks. Some highlights include:
Our Centre on Human Rights in Conflict presents a panel discussion on the subject of the Extraterritorial application of human rights obligations on Tuesday 2 October at Duncan House.
Professor Andrew Silke's inaugural lecture 21st Century shocks: the psychology of terror, takes place on Tuesday 9 October. Andrew's lecture explores the way in which psychology is increasingly recognised as key to developing an effective understanding of terrorists and terrorism. Andrew aims to provide a review of some of the psychological approaches to studying terrorism and the key findings which have emerged.
On Friday 12 October Professor Mica Nava launches her book Visceral Cosmopolitanism: gender, culture and the normalisation of difference at the Rich Mix Cultural Foundation in Bethnal Green.
For full listings check:
Events webpages: http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/events/index.htm
Public Lectures webpages: http://www.uel.ac.uk/lectureseries/
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
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!
For a round-up of what's on in London visit: http://kids.visitlondon.com/whatson/august_events.html
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Newham Cyclists will be leading a ride to the Freewheel event on closed roads in Central London on 23 September.
The Hovis London Freewheel event is open to all Londoners and will give tens of thousands of riders a unique opportunity to cycle past the capital's most iconic central London sights at their leisure on roads free of non-cycle traffic. A 14 km route will pass the London Eye, Victoria Embankment, Westminster and St Paul's Cathedral and the Mall. The central London traffic-free route (open 11am - 4pm) does not have an official start and finish - there are several entry points and riders can circulate as many times as they like.
The event will include the Freewheel Festival (open 11am-5pm) in St James's Park open to all participants and their family and friends. Highlights of the festival will include: a Hovis picnic, BMX, mountain and trial bike stunts, cycling acrobatics, and a cycling circus along with children's activities and information on cycling in London.
The ride will meet underneath the Olympic Countdown Clock at Stratford Station at 10am on Sunday 23 September 2007 and will go to the event via the LCC `hub' at Victoria Park.
A ride back from the event will take place at 4pm.
For more information contact: Bernard McDonnell 07947 236 965
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
Simply click here for the dates for Staff Development courses August - October 2007
http://www.uel.ac.uk/staff-development/documents/ForthcomingStaffDevelopmentCourses-Sept-Nov2007.doc
To find out more about the wide range of E-Learning applications available to us in our everyday,visit:
UEL Plus info: http://www.uel.ac.uk/uelplus/index.htm
SDEL staff development: http://www.uel.ac.uk/sdel/staff_development/index.htm
E-Learning Resources: http://www.uel.ac.uk/sdel/e_learning/resources.htm
The International Centre for the Study of the Mixed Economy of Childcare, led by Professor Helen Penn and Eva Lloyd of our School of Education, was formally opened by Stephen Timms (pictured left), MP for East Ham and Minister of State at the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform at our international conference, entitled The Mixed Economy of Childcare: Risks and Opportunities (Monday 10 September).
Nursery education and childcare in the UK is now a multimillion pound business, and over the last decade, there has been a large shift towards corporate management and private ownership. Policymakers, childcare business leaders, public and voluntary sector childcare managers and academics from around the world gathered at our Docklands campus to discuss the implications of these developments for parents, children, childcare providers and the economy.
For details, visit www.uel.ac.uk/icmec For the full news release visit: http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/press_releases/releases/icmec.htm
Combined Honours student Krystal Orphanides (pictured left), who graduated this summer with first-class honours in Printed Textiles and Surface Decoration with Marketing for Design, has been named one of the UK’s most promising designers and invited to exhibit her work at the prestigious New Designers SELECTION exhibition in the OXO Tower gallery, from 20-23 September, 11am – 6pm daily..
Earlier this summer, Krystal exhibited her work among thousands of other graduates at the New Designers show at Islington’s Business Design Centre. She was selected as one of the top fifty designers by an award panel featuring judges from major companies including Nike, Dyson and the Audi Design Foundation.
For the full release see: http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/press_releases/releases/selection.htm
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