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Past Issues << | Issue 76: Tuesday 30 October 2007
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This week, children at our Children's Garden were busily harvesting the wheat they planted in the Spring. After hand-grinding the wheat, the children will bake a harvest loaf!
Katie Sharrock (pictured left), who joined us in September is the Centre's new Pedagogic Manager, and guides the curriculum-based activities and learning within the Steiner ethos of Children's Garden. Annette James is the Centre's Administrative Manager.
Katie said of her new role: "I'm particularly looking forward to being part of this highly respected nursery setting and helping Steiner education become established in Newham."
Children's Garden now has a parent and child drop-in group for staff, stu de nts and the community, every Wednesday from 10am - 12pm for children aged 0-3. Places are still available in the nursery for staff and students, for children aged 3 - 6. Nursery grants are available to all and special childcare grants may be available to students
Children's Garden is having an Open Day in November ( Saturday 17 November, 10am -12pm); so please visit or tell friends and colleagues about it .
For detailed information about childcare at Children's Garden contact: Katie Sharrock on 020 8223 7833 or email: k.sharrock@uel.ac.uk
Those of you wathching BBC1's The Politics Show this Sunday (12pm - 1pm) will have seen Lord Coe - Chairman of the London 2012 organising committee, who led the UK's successful bid for the London 2012 Olympics, giving a live-interview broadcast from the Hub of our Business School and Library Building.
In his athletics career as a middle distance runner Seb Coe won the 1500m gold medal at theOlympic Games in 1980 and 1984 , and set eight, outdoor and three, indoor world records.
The 10-minute Politics Show piece included footage of our Docklands Campus and an exciting virtual tour of the new stadia in advance of more conclusive drawings of their designs to be released in the next few weeks.
The Centre on Human Rights in Conflict is pleased to announce that Dr Carmen Draghici will be joining us for 12 months from January 2008 as a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow.
Dr. Draghici will be researching “The search for a fair balance between the imperative of national security and the protection of human rights in the recent case law of the European Courts concerning the ‘blacklists’ of alleged terrorists.”
Link available at: http://www.uel.ac.uk/chrc/#Lever
Public Lecture as part of Black History Month
Black History Month continues and the fourth and final lecture in our Public Lecture Series commemmorates it.
Keeping the peace? Gangs, culture and identity (31 October 5pm West Building Lecture Theatre). The programme of Black History Month Public Lecture Series events ends with a panel debate as part of Keeping the peace? Gangs, culture and identity and includes poetry readings.
Join us for a frank and open debate on the issues which affect everyone today, black or white, young or old. Share your ideas and opinions on this important subject.
Debate Panel:
shortMAN Poet, Producer, and Youth Mentor
Morgan Dalphinis Poet and Faculty Manager, Newham College
Justin Moore MBE Magistrate, former Race Equality Officer and Director of a local youth centre
Lionel McCalman Lecturer, UEL School of Education
Belinda Creary Youth Advisor and Mentor
Programme
5pm: Welcome and introduction to performances and debate by Andrew MacDonald, Director of Library and Learning Services and Lifelong Learning
5:10pm: Introduction and Poetry performance by Michelle Marie, author of Black Honey and acclaimed performance poet. Michelle Marie treats us to her humorous, engaging and moving readings.
5:25pm: Performance by Rudi LickwoodRudi is one of the most sought after comedians on the UK comedy circuit. He is a Jongleurs award winner (Best performer 2000/2001) and in 2004 Rudi received the prestigious honour of the BECA comedy award for outstanding contribution to comedy.
5:40pm: Performance by Morgan Dalphinis, Morgan has published many articles and 2 books on Caribbean and African languages and on Educational issues. He is currently working as Senior Faculty Manager: Quality, Newham College.
5:50pm: Poetry Performance by shortMAN shortMAN is also one of the most sought after poets on the UK poetry circuit. shortMAN has performed across the UK, The Gambia [West Africa], Berlin, Sarajevo, Macedonia, Stockholm, Milan, Toronto and completed a 7 day tour of Manhattan and Harlem.
6:10pm -7pm: DebateKeeping the peace? Gangs, culture and identity.
7pm: Drinks reception
Our society appears to be more complicated than ever for young people.Seemingly small issues like the street you live on or the clothes you wear can be crucial to your safety when you leave your front door each day.Some find the only way to protect themselves is to join a gang, widely perceived to be a group of shared fears and misguided loyalties.
Pictured: Michelle Marie performing at our BHM 2007 launch earlier in October.
All Welcome. FREE.
For full listings for our Black History Month events visit: http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/events/bhm07.htm
For details and registration for Public Lectures contact Franc Gooding 020 8223 2884 or email: f.gooding@uel.ac.uk
Narrative Research and the Challenge of Accumulating Knowledge (Weds 14 Nov 5pm refreshments, lecture 5:30- 7:00 pm; King's College) by Professor Ruthellen Josselson. This is the third, annual, Public Lecture co-organised by our Centre for Narrative Research and King's College's Centre for Language, Discourse, and Communication.
Our Centre for Narrative Research, also, has an exciting programme of forthcoming research seminars. For more details visit:
http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/events/graduate.htm
For more information and for details of the Prof Ruthellen Josselson public lecture, please contact Dr Molly Andrews on Email: m.andrews@uel.ac.uk
Separations of soul: the solitary self in history (Thursday 15 Nov Light refreshments at 5.30 pm. The lecture is followed by a wine reception 6 - 7.30 pm West Building Lecture Theatre, Docklands Campus) Inaugural Lecture by Professor Barbara Taylor. Introduction by Professor Sally Alexander of Goldsmiths College.
In this lecture, Barbara Taylor follows Mary Wollstonecraft on her Scandinavian journey, using her experiences and reflections on solitude as a route into an investigation of the complex relationships between self, psyche and history. Barbara Taylor is an intellectual and cultural historian, author of Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the 19th Century (Virago 1983), which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, and Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge UP, 2003). She is an editor of History Workshop Journal, and co-director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre (UEL). Between 1998 and 2001 Barbara directed a Leverhulme-funded international research project on gender and Enlightenment (Women, Gender and Enlightenment, co-eds Knott and Taylor, Palgrave 2005). Barbara has held many research awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Barbara is currently writing a history of solitude in Enlightenment Britain.
How the white working class became ‘chav’: formations of class and race in Essex further education colleges ( Weds 21 Nov 6pm Lecture Theatre 300LT, Stratford Campus) by Dr John Preston, School of Education. The term ‘chav’ recently entered the Oxford English Dictionary. Like its American equivalent, ‘white trash’, ‘chav’ is generally used as a term of abuse, identifying its subject with bad taste, low education and anti-social behavioural patterns. Little consideration has as yet been given to how real people are affected by the use of this derogatory stereotype.
Through an in depth study of white, working class students studying vocational subjects in Essex, Dr John Preston, Senior Lecturer in Citizenship and Education, has uncovered lecturer discourses and college practices that parody students as vulgar, over-consuming and over-sexualised stereotypes. Dr Preston's most recent book, ‘Whiteness and class in education’ (Springer, 2007), investigates the idea that the white working class is being ‘re-racialised’ – differentiated from the white middle and ruling classes. In his UEL public lecture, Dr Preston will examine this development and explain how its implications affect the practices of everyone employed in education.
If you would like to register for one of the Public Lectures, please contact Franc Gooding 020 8223 2884 or email: f.gooding@uel.ac.uk
For full listings check:
Events webpages: http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/events/index.htm
Public Lectures webpages: http://www.uel.ac.uk/lectureseries/
Wise Up 2007 health and safety events take place at our Docklands Campus, in the Atrium, 30 October (10am-4pm) and at our Stratford Campus, in the Education building, 1 November (10am -4pm).
Activities over the two days include:
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hula hoop classes - learn how to hula hoop - how long can you keep your hula hoop moving?
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Yoga - come and try, whatever level from beginner to advanced
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First aid - learn how to resuscitate…
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Aromatherapy, reflexology, herbal medicine, hypnotherapy…. And a hazard alley.
To contribute, contact: Del Basi Tel: 020 8223 2966 Email: d.s.basi@uel.ac.uk or Kate Beaven-Marks Tel: 020 8223 2585 Email:k.beaven-marks@uel.ac.uk.
Pictured: Lisa Nelson of our Herbal Clinic at last year's Wise Up event.
Weds 31 Oct, 2.30pm -4.30pm, Docklands Campus - West Building WB. 2.02
4.30pm High Tea - an opportunity to meet informally and discuss issues further.
Following last semester's successful seminar on Pluralism and Security, our Chaplaincy is
co-hosting another event (in partnership with The Contextual Theology Centre http://www.theology-centre.org/index.htm and TELCO - The East London Communities Organisation http://www.telcocitizens.org.uk/) - looking at how universities engage with local faith and community groups to work for social change:
Speakers:
Professor Susan Price (pictured speaking at the Pluralism and Security seminar earlier in the year) -
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Professor Jane Wills - The City Centre, Queen Mary University of London
Alice Brickley - The East London Communities Organisation (TELCO)
Jonathan Cox - Director of the Independent Asylum Commission
For more information, please contact James Ramsay Email: J.A.Ramsay@uel.ac.uk
Wednesday 7 November, Docklands campus.
This one-day conference explores how we can use the one-off opportunity of the London 2012 Games to create both quick wins and sustainable gains in public health, regeneration, sustainable place-making, individual and community well-being and quality of life.
London faces huge public health challenges. To tackle these, NHS organisations are increasingly working with local government, social landlords, universities and colleges, community and voluntary agencies. The Wanless reform agenda is also strongly pushing health services in the direction of change.
This conference is a chance to create new coalitions for change and explore more effective ways of working together. Join participants including Richard Budgett (Chief Medical Officer, London 2012), Sarah Ebanja (London Development Agency), Nic Marks (New Economics Foundation), government, NHS, voluntary sector staff, policy and development professionals, practitioners and researchers.
For more information and to book your place online visit: http://www.uel.ac.uk/health2012/
Thursday 8 November, Docklands Campus.
Come along to a special one-day conference, Positive Psychology, Well-being and Business, featuring a keynote speech from world-renowned psychologist Professor Martin Seligman, founder of positive psychology.
For more details and to register, visit www.uel.ac.uk/positiveconference or contact Sue Meade on 020 8223 4428.
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!
DISCOUNTS AND COMPETITION TO THE COLLINS STEWART LONDON BOAT SHOW AS IT CELEBRATES ITS 54TH YEAR 11 – 20 JANUARY 2008
We have five pairs of tickets up for grabs for the Collins Stewart London Boat Show.
London’s largest annual event, the Collins Stewart London Boat Show, will take place at ExCeL - the heart of London’s entertainment district - from 11-20 January 2008. Now in its 54th year the Show promises to offer something for all – from seasoned enthusiasts to boat novices simply interested to discover what all the excitement is about.
The Collins Stewart London Boat Show will welcome some 140,000 people, encouraging visitors to take to the waters sailing, boating and to partake in activities both on and under the water.
To enter the competition click here http://www.londonboatshow.com/features/competitions/competition1/
Competition closes on 18 November 2008.
If you are not lucky winner of one of the five pairs of tickets, then why not purchase your tickets in advance and receive £4 off your ticket when booking in advance by calling 0870 060 0246 or booking online at www.londonboatshow.com and Quote ‘UELStaff’
Terms & Conditions: This offer excludes Press & Preview day (11th Jan). Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. Available weekdays only between 14 – 18 January 2008. For full terms and conditions visit www.londonboatshow.com.
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:
http://www.uel.ac.uk/staff-development/documents/ForthcomingStaffDevelopmentCoursesOct-NOv07.doc
To register for a range of FREE business support workshops from Business Planning to Protecting Your Ideas and E-Business Planning this Autumn get in touch with Sujata Vaishnav Tel: 020 8 223 7286/3301, Email: s.vaishnav@uel.ac.uk
TODAY 30 October, 2pm - 4pm Duncan House
This seminar explores the benefits of a development scheme to increase representation of Black and Minority Ethnic staff at senior levels. Chaired by Secretary and Registrar Alan Ingle, speakers at the seminar are Joe Greenland - Director of the Mentor and Equalities Unit, Sonia Harding - Project Manager UEL Black and Minority Ethnic Staff Development Scheme, Chartered Psychologist - Professor Derek Mowbray and Marcia McKnight - Director of Communications Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust.
For more information contact Sonia Harding Project Manager, Mentor and Equalities Unit, Tel: 020 8223 6379 Email: s.harding@uel.ac.uk or websites www.nmc-online.com and www.uel.ac.uk/nmc/
Inclusive New Media Design, which is run from our Rix Centre for Innovation and Learning Disability is an exciting new research project which aims to encourage web designers, developers and editors to build websites accessible to people with cognitive disabilities.
Inclusive New Media Design is running a series of free training workshops for web professionals, to provide them with the skills and knowledge to ensure that their sites meet the legal requirement of addressing the needs of all disabled users, including the cognitively disabled web user community.
The workshops will show how to build accessible websites, showcase inspiring new design and offer a space to discuss creative solutions to making websites that are usable by people with cognitive disabilities. They will also offer participants a unique opportunity to test their websites with cognitively disabled users and listen to what this user group has to say about what works for them.
Workshops will take place early in 2008 at our Docklands campus. The deadline for recruitment is 31 October 2007.
Find out more and register your interest at www.inclusivenewmedia.org, or forward this link to someone you know who might want to participate.
To find out more about the wide range of E-Learning applications available to us in our everyday work, 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 Black Business Observatory (BBO), based at our Business School, recently held the first in a series of student workshops.
BBO, which is managed by Professor Sonny Nwankwo and Dr Nnamdi Madichie is funded by the London Development Agency (LDA).
BBO looks at how we can achieve more productive engagement between Black Business Support providers and black businesses. This is to help secure the growth and sustainability of black businesses in London – as well as ultimately enhance their contribution to London's economy.
BBO is taking a long-term view and will provide valuable research that will offer new perspectives on black entrepreneurialism in London.
A series of stakeholder initiatives has already been put in place, which include: linking six other London Universities to the network; developing a directory of black businesses in London; building a database of black businesses and black business support providers. The Black Business Observatory initiative is available to our undergraduate, postgraduate and alumni students.
Pictured: Osa Jesuorobo - MD Create Ltd
For more information contact: Dr Nnamdi O. Madichie, Programme Leader BA Business Studies Email: n.o.madichie@uel.ac.uk
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