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issue no 16 aPRiL 2011

Contents1 Enterprise Lecture

1 Editorial

3 University celebrates Fair trade

Fortnight

4 Business and Enterprise

5 Knowledge Exchange News from the

Faculties

12 Staff Publications

13 Community Engagement

17 The 2011 Prison Theatre Project

18 Research and The Community

19 What’s On

The Knowledge Exchange Newsletter is produced by the University’s Research and Knowledge Exchange Centre.

If you have questions or comments about any of the information included in our newsletter, please contact the Business Development Manager, Trish Kernan.Email: Trish.Kernan@winchester.ac.ukTel: 01962 827578 We look forward to hearing from you.

Latest Enterprise Lecture celebrates success of ‘have-a-go-at-history’ TVat times, the spring 2011 edition in the university’s enterprise Lecture series almost felt like a fan club gathering. The queue for the book signing was long and the speaker was asked to pose for photos with admirers. in her welcoming speech, senior Pro Vice Chancellor Professor Liz stuart, who had really done her research, highlighted the extent of his popularity by drawing attention to the fact that there is apparently an entire website dedicated to “the beauty of his nose.” as for alex Langlands himself, he was simply honoured, he told a full stripe auditorium, to be following in the footsteps of former enterprise Lecturers such as Philip Lymbery and Guy Watson, men he admires greatly and in whose lectures he took an avid interest.

What many of his fans are probably not aware of is that alex Langlands, one of the three co-presenters of the recent BBC 2 smash hits Victorian Farm and Edwardian Farm, is also an experienced landscape archaeologist and is currently working on his History PhD on travel and communication in early medieval Wessex at the university of Winchester. He stressed that he was “proud to represent the university, to which i am extremely grateful.”

in his enterprise Lecture on 17 March, titled Farming the past: tales from BBC 2’s Victorian and Edwardian Farms, he gave his audience a rare insight into what it was like to bring the recent history of farming to life for a television audience, and how it all came about. it started with the surprise success of Tales of the Green Valley, in which alex and his old friend Peter Ginn, clad in impractical but fetching 17th-century pantaloons, first tried their hand at the ‘have-a-go-at-history’ approach to TV making. “We introduced the concept of using the material past, the kit and equipment, and

Editorialin common with other universities in the uK, Winchester is actively preparing for the Research excellence Framework (ReF) in 2014. The guidelines for the new and crucial aspect of ‘impact’ have just been published and we will soon be identifying which of our research acitivities have had significant social and economic impact on the world beyond our campus.

This Ke newsletter is full of impact, the British Library prize for Professor Bill Lucas’s book rEvolution, how to thrive in crazy times being a fine case in point. at Winchester, our strengths lie in the arts, Humanities and social sciences, so it is no surprise that some of our key impact is in the creative world, such as the arts Council-funded Big ideas conference on live animation. as this newsletter once again shows, the university of Winchester excels at reaching out, bringing the fruits of our research to the wider world and welcoming the community into the university. We hope you will enjoy reading this issue of the Ke newsletter.

Professor Tony KingDirector, Research and Knowledge Exchange Centre Email:Tony.King@winchester.ac.uk, Tel: 01962 827291

alex Langlands

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actually ‘doing the past’“, he explained. “Viewers learned through our own learning experiences.” it caught on. Tales, after a shaky start, went on to peak at 2.7 million viewers and to win the prestigious Learning on screen award 2006, awarded by the British universities Film & Video Council.

The Victorian Farm was commissioned on the back of the success of Tales. “in Victorian Farm, we were on the cusp of a new era. as early as 1880, you could have a cartwheel shipped in all the way from Chicago more cheaply than you could have it made locally.” Victorian Farm overtook Tales in popularity, peaking at nearly 5.9 million viewers, including those who watched it on iPlayer. The book topped the sunday Times bestseller list. The BBC wanted

more and commissioned The Edwardian Farm. “We scratched our heads thinking there wasn’t enough to distinguish one era from another, but then we realised that more was changing during this period than we had initially thought. Rather than in farming, however, the changes took place in wider society. Developments such as the invention of the aeroplane.” They went all out: the series was twice the length of Victorian Farm and the intrepid trio farmed double the acreage as well as trying their hands at numerous ‘sidelines’, such as fishing, mining and market gardening. The Edwardian Farm was at least as successful as Victorian Farm and equally critically acclaimed.

Regarding the unexpected popularity of all three programmes, alex said: “We were accessing an entirely new audience for the BBC – they’ve

actually commissioned research to investigate why these programmes have proven so popular.” so what was the secret? He has his own theories: “i think there are various factors involved. There’s an element of escapism, tied in with the British tendency to romanticise the countryside.” at the same time, he thinks, there was something contemporary about it. “They resonated with modern-day concerns about where our food comes from, with localism, regionalism, grow-your-own, and larger-scale concerns such as climate change. These bigger concerns are always there, like a sort of background noise.”

The next enterprise Lecture is on 5 May and will feature alan Titchmarsh.www.winchester.ac.uk/enterpriselectures

no joke: on Friday 1 april, the Winchester Business school, part of the university of Winchester, was officially opened by none other than the Governor of the Bank of england, Mervyn King (left). also in this photo: Prof. neil Marriott, Dean of the Winchester Business school; Roger Witcomb, Chair of the Board of Governors; Vice Chancellor Prof. Joy Carter, and Chancellor Dame Mary Fagan. More on the Business school opening in the next issue.

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Fairtrade Fortnight (28 February to 13 March) returned to the university with an exciting list of on- and off-campus events. For this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight the university co-organised a number of events with the Winchester City Fairtrade network, including a Fairtrade awareness open Day with stalls and a Fairtrade fashion show with a focus on cotton, held at Winchester Guildhall on sunday 13 March.

Winchester student union sold Fairtrade products to raise awareness of all the Fairtrade products available in the su shop and together with the university’s Catering Department provided product tastings and special menus. “The event was very successful, drawing in people off the street as well as Winchester students”, commented student union President seb Miell.

Leading the line-up of Fairtrade Fortnight at the university was Toby Quantrill, Head of Public Policy at the Fairtrade Foundation, who presented a fascinating lecture titled Fairtrade and climate change: a common cause? on 8 March. He explained that the link between the two is the fact that the cultivation of many typical FT products such as tea, coffee and cocoa can be harmful to the environment and emphasised that the two cannot be tackled separately: “the climate revolution must be a fair revolution.”

Fairtrade was designed and works within the existing economic system, which is based on growth and expansion. However, the key concern now, Quantrill reminded the audience, is sustainability. “The system itself is no longer sustainable, so even if all trade were fair trade, it wouldn’t be good enough”, he argued forcefully. “The system itself has to change; it has to undergo a shift towards becoming more value-driven – values such as empathy and solidarity.”

The Fairtrade Foundation was established in 1992 and is the independent non-profit organisation that licenses use of the Fairtrade Mark on products in the uK in accordance with internationally agreed Fairtrade standards. The Foundation aims to create wider social change, in pursuit of Fairtrade principles, through supporting and leading advocacy in a number of key areas, including trade justice, sustainable consumption, climate change and public procurement. Before joining the Fairtrade Foundation in 2009, Toby Quantrill worked within the sustainable consumption team at WWF uK and chaired the Development and environment Group of non Governmental organisations (nGos).

“Fairtrade Fortnight was first pioneered in the uK by the Fairtrade Foundation and i’m very pleased to welcome Toby Quantrill to the university,” said senior Pro Vice Chancellor Professor elizabeth

stuart. “We hope this lecture, along with our other Fairtrade events, will send a clear message that the university fully supports global citizenship and values the importance of working together for lasting change. Winchester has been a Fairtrade university since 2007 and has demonstrated a strong commitment to increasing Fairtrade consumption on campus.”consumption on campus.”

University celebrates Fairtrade Fortnight

Toby Quantrill

university Catering Manager David Morton (left), Vice Chancellor Prof. Joy Carter (3rd from left) and Toby Quantrill (4th from left) with members of the Winchester City Fairtrade network

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Staff and student enterprise

The university’s student enterprise agenda has provided inspiration and support for many entrepreneurial students over the years, but recently the university’s senior Lecturer in enterprise, natalie norton, was surprised and delighted to receive a heartfelt letter of thanks from across the Channel. Pierre-emmanuel Goubeaux-Chaperon, a student at France’s Bordeaux Management school, came to Winchester as an exchange student in 2010. He attended the university’s enterprise module, taught by natalie norton and her colleague Loykie Lominé, as a direct result of which, he writes, he now owns a business with two other students in Bordeaux. The company, named architects of sound (www.sonobordeaux.com), specializes in providing music, lighting and photography services at events such as parties, galas and weddings. “We organized 10 different events during their first 5 months in business,

all with just a €€4000 investment”, writes the young entrepreneur. “We now have several events scheduled for the upcoming months, including a large university gala and weddings in Corsica throughout July. all this adventure is thanks to the enterprise module and i would like to thank my lecturers, natalie norton and Loykie Lominé.”

The most recent enterprise Conference was attended by 80 students from subjects as wide-ranging as Cultural arts Management, Performing arts, Media Production, Digital Media, Dance and archaeology. over 3 days the students learned about how to develop their business ideas. They heard from guest speakers and participated in MyFirstMillion™, an innovative e-learning product that integrates real-life cases into a game format to create a unique learning experience.

students were put in the mindset of an investor, with £100,000 to invest in teams of four. using a

scoring methodology, they evaluated real business pitches from Dragons’ Den, and then compared their own judgements to those of the Dragons and a computer prediction program, whilst competing to make the maximum return on their investment.The university is one of the first to use MyFirstMillion™, which has been designed using the university of Hertfordshire’s Fast strategies™ Program and has previously been used on the MBa at Judge Business school, Cambridge university.

With 83% of students taking the module either running a business or planning to in the future, this learning experience gave them a unique insight into how to evaluate the commercial viability of an idea, and how to develop their entrepreneurial skillset.

if you would like to know more about enterprise at Winchester, email enterprise@winchester.ac.uk.

Enterprise Boot Camp wins impact award for second year running

For the sixth year in a row, students from five different southern universities (Winchester, southampton, Portsmouth, southampton solent and Bournemouth) participated in the enterprise

Boot Camp, as reported in the previous issue of the Knowledge exchange newsletter. The ‘Dynamo’ Bootcamp, in association with iBM Global entrepreneur, was timed to coincide with Global entrepreneurship Week in november 2010.This intensive two-day enterprise competition challenged students to turn a common environmental problem into a lucrative business idea in less than 24 hours. For this latest edition of the Boot Camp, the ordnance survey worked with the organisers, The Working Knowledge Group and the university of Winchester, to set a challenge themed around using geographical information to improve the options for sustainable transport in Britain. The 90 students, divided into 15 mixed-institution teams, pitched their business idea to 30 business leaders, who volunteered their time to work with the students.

To our delight, the enterprise Boot Camp has been awarded the GeW outstanding impact Badge of Honour for the second year in a row. This award is

recognition of the event as an initiative that is likely to have a positive and sustained impact on those who attend them beyond the week itself.

a video of the 2010 Dynamo enterprise Boot camp can be found on the university’s YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/uniofWinchester)

The next Dynamo Challenge will be held on the 7th ofJune in partnership with iBM smarter Planet. Fifty students from the universities of Winchester, Portsmouth, southampton, southampton solent and Bournemouth will work through challenges set by iBM, have the opportunity to hear from inspirational speakers and network with iBM professionals. The winning team will receive tickets to Wimbledon 2011, including an exclusive backstage tour.

Business and Enterprise

one of the teams working hard on the final pitch of their business idea

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Faculty of Business, Law and Sports appoints two new ProfessorsSports Studies

The Department of sports studies at the university is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor eric anderson. Known for his research on sport, masculinities, sexualities and homophobia, he has written eight books and has published in many academic journals. His work shows an increasingly positive relationship between gay male athletes and sport, as well as a

growing movement of young heterosexual men’s masculinity becoming softer and more inclusive.

Professor anderson is a strong believer in Knowledge exchange: “i believe it is important to share the results of my research with the public. This helps challenge homophobia, sexism and heterosexism and helps improve standards of equality for everyone.” Professor anderson will help promote sport studies’ research environment and promote Winchester’s reputation in the international media.

www.ericandersonPhD.com

Wired Wessex ready for a busy few months

after an exciting winter in which attendees learned about cloud computing, goal setting and mind mapping, met with business mentors, enjoyed an ale and pie tasting evening and the ever-popular Jane Buswell shared her hints and tips for persuasive copywriting, Wired Wessex is organising many more interesting events in the coming months. May is an excellent month to look to the future with Peter Waggett, Programme Leader of emerging Technology at iBM, as he discusses ‘iT Jobs and Products of the Future’. also in May, life and career coach Gary Lane will help us in with ‘Planning for

Change: Getting what you want out of your business and career’. in June and July, there will be presentations on sales techniques and we’ll delve deeper into Linkedin with James Potter, the Linkedin Man. The season will end in July with ‘secrets of successful Green entrepreneurs’. if you have a green business and would like to participate, please contact sara Gangai at 01962 827029.

andi saunders from Craft Consult attended the Meet with a Mentor event in March; it was her first Wired Wessex event and she was inspired: “i was extremely surprised at how much i got from the evening; unlike other networking events that i have attended, i found Wired Wessex to be very welcoming and friendly and i have

already had contact with one other attendee. i will definitely be attending future Wired Wessex events.”

Wired Wessex is committed to providing free networking events which provide information, inspiration and interaction for small and medium-sized businesses, job seekers and students in Hampshire. all are welcome and you even receive a free welcome drink! so come along, but please register first at www.wiredwessex.co.uk.

Business, Law and SportLeading in Tough Times The Centre for Responsible Management at the university of Winchester’s Business school is currently hosting ‘Leading in Tough Times’, a series of monthly talks and workshops that explore new ways of supporting and encouraging leadership in challenging times. The idea behind the series is to bring together a range of leaders and managers, put them in a room with a stimulating speaker who introduces an idea or technique, and let people talk.

“We have all been affected by the financial downturn,” said Dr Karen Blakeley, a specialist in leadership and change at the Winchester Business school, who is leading the series. “We all probably have tougher targets, fewer resources and increased demands. We can of course carry

on by working harder to achieve ‘more for less’. eventually, however, this will lead to increased stress, decline in morale and a lack of work-life balance. The talks and workshops are an opportunity for local business people to access new ideas and refresh their practice. each session will introduce challenging, cutting-edge ideas that they can experiment with in a friendly, relaxing environment.”

The first talk, in January, was facilitated by Professor nigel nicholson from the London Business school, who discussed stress management in times of change and introduced a variety of techniques to help people handle pressure. over 40 people from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors attended this successful first session at the Business school. The second session, facilitated by Jon Freeman, Head of the Centre for Human emergence, focussed on handling complexity. Jon talked about how to respond to the growing complexity of the world in which we live and

the demands it places upon us, introducing the concept of ‘spiral Dynamics’.

Tables were arranged cafeteria-style and the speakers were briefed to structure discussions such that guests could get to know each other and share ideas. The environment was relaxed and informal and at the end of the sessions, conversations were continued over wine and refreshments.

The Centre for Responsible Management focusses on three key areas of activity: leadership and management development, practical and applied research and building a community of practice around responsible management. Many further activities are planned, including the hosting of a parallel series of talks in Basingstoke. Further information can be obtained from Karen.Blakeley@winchester.ac.uk; for further Leading in Tough Times events, see What’s on.

Research and knowledge exchange news from the faculties

Professor eric anderson

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Humanities and Social Sciences Modern History Research Centre launched

on 10 February, Professor Miles Taylor, Director of the institute of Historical Research, officially launched the Modern History Research Centre. This new research centre, which builds on expertise nurtured in the History Department over many years, was set up last year by Dr Tom Lawson, Faculty Head of Research and Reader in Modern History, to act as a platform for the dissemination of modern history research at the university.

Professor Taylor’s talk, British History in the new age of austerity, explored the complex interplay of

politics and history since 1979 and the way that contemporary developments impact upon the work of historians writing about all periods.

“The practice and the writing of political history are never very far away from the rhythms of change at Westminster,” explained Professor Taylor; his talk addressed the question “if the Thatcher years saw the demise of Marxism and class as a way of understanding party alignment and the new Labour era witnessed a fresh emphasis on the plasticity of politics, then what does the new age of austerity under the coalition government hold in store?” Professor Taylor’s thought-provoking paper highlighted some of the significant changes of the recent past and posed many questions for those working in historical studies today. it certainly engaged the varied audience of ca 150 people which included staff past and present, Governors, both undergraduate and postgraduate students and many members of the general

public. Professor Taylor was able to take questions from the floor at the end of his paper, and these revealed both an interest in how history has been written in the past and how current events might impact upon it in the future.

Professor Taylor has held chairs at the universities of southampton and York, having taught at King’s College, London and Christ’s College, university of Cambridge. He has served on the Research Review Panel of the arts and Humanities Research Council and on the editorial board of the Royal Historical society’s studies in History series, the History of Parliament and of the Journal of British studies. He is also a member of the Grants assessment Panel of the economic and social Research Council.

For forthcoming Modern History Research seminars, see What’s on. For more information on the Centre, visit www.winchester.ac.uk/history and click on Research.

LawProfessor emily Finch joined the Law school in February 2011 to lead the development of research activities within the school. emily is a criminal lawyer and criminologist who has published extensively in the areas of stalking, drug-assisted rape and identity fraud. Her current area of research focusses on the interplay between crime and technology, with particular emphasis on the criminogenic potential of the internet and its impact on concepts such as dishonesty and trust. she is

also very interested in research ethics and the ethical considerations raised by online research. away from work, emily is a season-ticket holder at Reading FC, an ardent Welsh rugby supporter and is working with her husband to restore a 1959 Routemaster bus.

For more information on Business, Law & sports, contact the Faculty Dean, Professor neil Marriott neil.Marriott@wichester.ac.uk, 01962 827379

Professor emily Finch

Archaeology Department to provide fieldwork training to European and Caribbean students

The Department of archaeology has recently been successful in securing two exciting international collaborations, one with partner institutions in continental europe and one as far afield as the island of Barbados.

in 2010, the Department of archaeology was awarded a prestigious erasmus intensive Programme grant of £19,000 by the european Commission. an intensive Programme is a short programme of study (two to six weeks) bringing

together students and staff from universities at at least three participating countries in order to encourage the internationalisation of the curriculum, enabling students and staff to work together and gain new perspectives on the topic being studied. The grant will provide travel and support for archaeology students and staff from the university of osnabrück in Germany and saxion next Hogeschool in the netherlands to come and experience the archaeology Department’s training excavation at st Mary Magdalen, Winchester. in future, staff and students from Winchester hope to visit Holland and Germany in return.

“This is an excellent opportunity for our students to work alongside those from Germany and Holland”, commented Dr nick Thorpe, Head of

archaeology. “By comparing different methods and approaches to archaeological fieldwork we can learn from each other in a practical setting.”

“This is a first and it’s a real feather in the cap for us, not least as we are the lead partner”, added alasdair spark, Director of internationalisation at the university. “i hope the success encourages other programmes to apply, once they see what an intensive Programme can offer and just how much funding is available if we make a good application.”

Pim alders, Course Director archaeology at saxion university of applied sciences, is looking forward to the collaboration: “students and staff of the archaeology Department at saxion are excited about the opportunities this Programme

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Faculty appoints lecturer in Criminology

The Faculty of Humanities and social sciences welcomes Dr alan Grattan, senior Lecturer in Criminology, who will be leading the Faculty’s new Criminology Programme. Criminology, a ‘growth area’, is rapidly becoming one of the most significant disciplines in the social sciences and the Faculty is delighted to be offering this exciting new programme.

Before entering higher education, Dr Grattan was a community and youth worker in Belfast in both a voluntary and professional capacity. His work in segregated and divided communities during the northern ireland conflict stimulated his research interests in the area of criminology,

especially in relation to young people, politicisation and violence, community conflict and segregation, peace and reconciliation. as such his research has taken him to divided societies and communities in countries in eastern europe and the Middle east, as well as northern ireland. Before moving to the university of Winchester he was a lecturer and researcher at the university of southampton and part of the social Justice and inclusion Research Group.

“Moving to the university of Winchester to design and develop the Criminology programme is a very exciting challenge”, said Dr Grattan. “it is a challenge that allows me to bring together my experience, knowledge and skills developed from my experiences within the voluntary, community and higher education sectors.”

Dr alan Grattan

students recording remains of the ‘leper hospital’ at Magdalen Hill, Winchester

gives to us. although our course focusses on Dutch archaeology, we always try to make students aware of other methods and traditions of doing (field) research, and participating in the st Mary Magdalen training excavation is a good opportunity for our students to experience this first-hand. We hope that this is a first step on a longer road of joint participation in european projects between the archaeology departments of the three participating universities.”

For more information on the erasmus intensive Programme, visit www.britishcouncil.org/erasmus-intensive-programmes.htm

in a similar development but with a rather more exotic external partner, Dr niall Finneran, Reader in early Medieval archaeology, recently formalised agreements with the university of the West indies in Cave Hill, Barbados to provide archaeology training for their department under the aegis of the joint university of Winchester/uWi/Barbados Museums/Barbados national Trust research project. The research and training project focuses on the development of speightstown in its landscape, once one of the most important trading towns in the eastern Caribbean. The collaboration will also involve Barbados Museums and Barbados

national Trust and thus involves a wide range of local ‘stakeholders’. Dr Finneran is looking forward to the new opportunities arising from the collaboration: “This year, students will be excavating an 18th-century fort and will be undertaking graveyard survey and buildings archaeology study. such a variety of tasks will provide a challenging and diverse training package for uWi and Winchester students alike.”

For more information on the archaeology Department’s research projects, visit www.winchester.ac.uk/archaeology and click on Research.

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Winchester Professor awarded MBE in 2011 New Year’s Honours

Joyce Goodman, Professor of History of education and Dean of the Faculty of education, Health and social Care, has received an MBe in the 2011 new Year’s Honours List for her outstanding services to higher education.

“i am proud to have been able to make a contribution to the development of the university of Winchester as it gained university title and research degree awarding powers.”, said a delighted Professor Goodman. “This award also recognises the work and dedication of my colleagues in the Faculty, the Centre for the History of Women’s education, and the university.”

Professor Goodman has worked in education all her life and is a distinguished academic in the field of the history of education, specialising in the

history of women’s education.

she started teaching music in schools in 1965, working both in Great Britain and the netherlands. after her Doctorate on Women’s Role in the Management of Working Class Girls’ education in the nineteenth Century she went on to become the President of the History of education society, the secretary of the international standing Conference for the History of education and a member of the australian & new Zealand and Canadian History of education societies. she has published a number of books on the history of education, most recently Women and Education: Major Themes in Education (2010) and Girls’ Secondary Education in the Western World (2010). in 2007, Professor Goodman played a key role in the move of the sybil Campbell Library to Winchester; this collection of material contains some 8000 items built up over 70 years by the British Federation of Women Graduates.

“Professor Goodman has been rightly honoured

for her hard work and dedication to the university and for her international reputation as a historian of women’s education,” said Professor elizabeth stuart, senior Pro Vice Chancellor at the university. “she has led her Faculty to great achievements in terms of oFsTeD and the Research assessment exercise. she is much valued as a mentor to younger staff.”

Education, Health and Social Care Outstanding Ofsted for teacher training

The university has been recognised by ofsted as a provider of outstanding initial Teacher Training in england. The ofsted inspectors stated that as a result of highly effective training, students display great enthusiasm for teaching, reflect incisively on their own practice and demonstrate extremely positive attitudes. The inspectors commended education in

equalities and diversity, noting that students showed impressive levels of confidence and understanding about how to be effective teachers in a diverse society. The report covers the five teacher education routes run by the university: Primary PGCe full-time and part-time, PGCe secondary Religious education and Ba Primary education (3-year and 4-year routes).

“This is a fantastic result for the university, as it confirms our position as one of the best providers of teacher education in the country,” commented Kriss Turner, Head of initial Teacher education at the university of Winchester.

“This report is a testament to the hard work and commitment of our staff, students and partnership schools.”

Professor Joyce Goodman, Dean of the Faculty of education, Health and social Care, added: “We’re delighted that ofsted has recognised the excellence of both primary and secondary initial teacher education at Winchester. This inspection report highlights just how well the university prepares teachers, of whom we are rightly proud.”

Investigating the values of secondary school pupils

Building on a previous research project, Values and the Secondary School Professional, which investigated the development of professional values, a new research project, led by Roz sunley and alan Hutchison, will look at the values held by young persons of secondary school age. The project will further develop the relationship established with one particular local secondary school by undertaking collaborative practitioner enquiry with teachers in this school. it is hoped to develop the research approach into a replicable research tool that goes beyond data collection to application in school communities. This will enable the building of new collaborative research relationships with other academic institutions to build the body of knowledge and understanding

in the field of personal values and education.

The study makes use of an approach to investigating values called an aspiration index (ai). This methodology, which is based on the work of Professor Tim Kasser, a Psychology Professor in illinois, usa, involves identifying a range of values and then constructing a questionnaire-style response framework in which each value is assessed through the use of the respondents’ answers to a number of statements relating to that value. The relative importance of each value is then calculated and these can be shown in relation to other values to indicate the relative centrality of a value in a given set of responses.

as this work proceeds, links with other universities who have already expressed an interest in collaboration will be explored, with a

view to taking the ai into schools in other areas of the country and building up a body of data on pupil values in different contexts.

For the schools, the impact is likely to depend upon the way the data from the study are used by school staff. at the very least it should give school managers and staff a starting point for curriculum discussion in relation to structuring experiences for pupils. For the wider research community, the impact is likely to be considerable in building a body of evidence about the relative importance of particular values held by different kinds of young people in contemporary British society.

For more information contact the Faculty Head of Research, Dr stephanie spencer - stephanie.spencer@winchester.ac.uk, 01962 827125

Professor Joyce Goodman MBe

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University lecturer and poet wins prestigious international poetry prize

Dr Julian stannard, a senior Lecturer in the Department of english, Creative Writing and american studies, has been awarded the Troubadour international Poetry Prize 2010 for his poem The Seabirds of Pimlico Hanker After Sapphires. The prize, awarded by the famous bohemian writers’ café The Troubadour in London, consists of £1000; there were no less than 3000 candidates.

“The poem considers an improbable encounter with an estranged wife in the heart of the London”, explained Dr stannard. The judges

appreciated the use of line and the assuredness of voice: “Hints of Wordsworth and Keats slipping into the 21st century in a completely modern way”. “it was great to be judged by such high-profile judges and come through”, said a delighted Dr stannard. “You write because you are a writer – being given a prize is such an endorsement.”

in March, Dr stannard read at the Gallery at Foyles in London, alongside the american poet Marilyn Hacker, for the spring launch of Poetry London. His new book The Poetic Achievements of Donald Davie and Charles Tomlinson was published last year; his next volume of poetry, The Parrots of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli, will be out in May.

Right: The first stanza of the winning poem

The Seabirds of Pimlico Hanker After Sapphires

i had a crazy idea we could have a good time

so you’re flying in from italy on alitalia

and i’m booking a room in edward Lear’s old

house

all sorted by my promiscuous credit card.

Then i take you to the Gay Hussar in Greek street

where you can say anything you like

and because we’re having a good time

i smile and offer you some schnitzel.

Later, after i’ve paid the bill without flinching

we take a taxi to a discreet point on the Thames

where a boat is waiting full of elegant people.

University making a song and dance at folk song conference

‘out of this World’ is the title of a day of discussions and workshops on 15 May, jointly sponsored by the university of Winchester and the english Folk song and Dance society and aimed at community choir leaders, teachers and anyone who leads singing groups.

World music (a term introduced into academic circles in the late 1970’s as a title for a course that might previously have been described as ethnomusicology) is often thought of as music from traditional sources in a variety of cultures. english traditional music, however, does not usually appear on the world music radar. There are undoubtedly many reasons for the scant

attention paid to english folk music: the accessibility of the music itself, the availability of suitable repertoire and the vexed issue of english identity, to name but a few.

“it occurred to me that it would be very interesting to get a group of community choir leaders together to explore these issues”, explained sarah Morgan, a research student in the Faculty of arts who specialises in english folk song. “out of this impulse, a conference has developed.”

Co-organiser elizabeth scott-Hall, a research student in the Faculty of education, Health and social Care who also gives singing lessons, added: “We hope that people will come and discover the diversity of english folk song and find out how it can enrich their

Arts Dr Yvon Bonenfant, senior Lecturer in Performing arts and former Director of the Research and Knowledge exchange Centre,has been funded by the arts Council

england to undertake a 10-venue national tour of the theatrical voice and video performance Beacons in autumn 2011; the grant consists of over £17,000. The piece, which brings together extended vocalisation via live and recorded voice, multi-channel sound environments and three-screen video projection, was a collaboration between Dr Bonenfant and video artist and Winchester alumnus David shearing, now at the university of Leeds. The piece was developed over a long period; initial research came as part of Bonenfant’s British academy-funded project ‘extending Vocal Bodies into audiovisual Media’. The multi-screen, hour-long theatrical performance was developed during a residency at the new experimental Media and Performing arts Centre, at Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, usa, with further support from Central school of speech and Drama’s Theatre noise Project. The university of Winchester has also supported various aspects

of the project, providing space, time and seed funding.

“in this time of cultural retrenchment, this recognition from the arts Council helps us make the case for the ways in which academic environments can support work that makes audiences think beyond received notions of what performance should be like”, explained Dr Bonenfant. “experimentalism in the arts is vitally important – it develops lateral thinking and requires artists and audiences to question their value systems. i am proud to be associated with a Department of Performing arts that makes space for the importance of experimentalism in its curricula and that has a research culture and research strategies that value daring and challenging practice in the arts.”

For more information, email Yvon.Bonenfant@winchester.ac.uk or visit www.yvonbonenfant.com

artist and academic Yvon Bonenfant performing Beacons. Photo by David shearing

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choir’s repertoire, and in the process, we will be discussing the challenges involved in teaching and arranging this material, the delights of regional music, issues of music and cultural identity and much more besides, as well as listening to some inspiring musical performances.”

Presenters will include Professor June Boyce-Tillman, Dr olu Taiwo, Carolyn Robson, sally Davies and David oliver, with songs from a capella

trio Craig Morgan Robson and from the Cecil sharp House Community Choir. it will take place on sunday May 15th 2011, 10.30 – 4.30 at Cecil sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Rd, London nW1 7aY.

For more details, contact: elizabeth scott-Hall (elizabeth.scott-Hall@winchester.ac.uk) or sarah Morgan (sarah.Morgan@winchester.ac.uk).

Winchester takes lead in European Culture Programme

The university of Winchester has recently been awarded almost €€200,000 from the european union’s Culture Programme. This grant is for a project titled ne©XT – new european Creative Talent that brings together a consortium of european institutions and organisations to support arts graduates in developing international careers. Led by Professor anthony Dean, representing the university of Winchester, the consortium partners include the european League of institutes of the arts (eLia), Bergen national academy of the arts (norway), estonian academy of Music and Theatre (Tallinn), Porto Politecnico school of Music and Performing arts (Portugal) and the international Theatre school Festival amsterdam (netherlands).

at the heart of this project is the successful neu/noW Festival – of which Professor Dean is artistic Director – which is both an on-line ‘virtual’ festival open to graduating arts students across europe and a ‘live’ festival where selected works from the online festival are shown to producers, curators and public audiences. The first live Festival took place in

Vilnius in 2009 as part of their european Capital of Culture programme that year; the second edition of the live Festival took place in the cultural city of nantes in France in 2010 and the third edition is due to take place this autumn in Tallinn (estonia) as part of their european Capital of Culture 2011.

The funding received from the eu’s Culture Programme will enable the consortium to achieve several key objectives, the chief objective being to create an open and supportive online and live environment to support an emergent generation of talented arts graduates, enabling them to show their work to both international and regional audiences, establish international professional partnerships and provide a fertile ground for transnational artistic mobility, international communities of practice and creative businesses. a further objective is to develop the online and live festival events as a vital component to the image of europe as an innovative and creative continent, where innovation and experimentation are fostered and where artistic freedom, intercultural dialogue and diversity of expression are passionately upheld. a third objective is to raise the visibility of the high quality of higher arts education across europe and beyond, demonstrating the active engagement between art schools on the one hand and creative business

creation and commitment to society on the other.

it is often difficult for emerging artists to bring their work to the attention of the wider professional communities within the creative industries, let alone to international audiences or markets. Historically, both art schools and universities have close and long-established links with theatre companies, galleries, cultural enterprises and commercial creative industries. innovative collaboration between higher arts education institutions and creative businesses and other economic, social and cultural domains has become essential in higher arts education. The european League of institutes of the arts (eLia) views the university of Winchester as a good example of such collaboration, which was why the university was selected as the lead partner in making the application to the eu.

in addition to the range of activities outlined above, the funding will also support the development of a sustainable future for the neW/noW Festival beyond 2011. Part of the project will be to seek to conjoin the neu/noW Festival with the international Theatre schools Festival, which has been running successfully in amsterdam for over 21 years, for 2012 and beyond.

For more information, visit www.neunow.eu

‘students performing at the first neu/noW Live Festival in Vilnius in 2009

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Arts Council funding for conference on large-scale live animation

in the autumn of 2010, Professor anthony Dean, Dean of the Faculty of arts, was awarded circa £50,000 by arts Council england to support a national conference event to share best practice on mounting large-scale outdoor events. The BiG iDeas conference, which took place in october 2010, was designed to bring together three related yet distinctive communities of professional arts practice: street arts, puppetry and carnival arts. Professor Dean worked in partnership with The Puppet Centre Trust, the uK Centre for Carnival arts, emergency exit arts and the independent street arts network. The conference attracted over 170 delegates drawn from across the uK and included an impressive array of key note speakers and workshop leaders, including François Delarozière from La Machine (who designed and built the sultan’s elephant, see photo) and Ruth Mackenzie oBe, the Director of the Cultural olympiad.

BiG iDeas was shaped on the basis that, with over a million people having witnessed the

sultan’s elephant lumber sedately through streets of London in 2006, the outdoor arts sector could afford to take courage from the fact

that large-scale outdoor work had now become firmly established in the public’s consciousness, and that they would want (or perhaps, expect!) to see more of it. Given the context within the uK of the increasing public appetite for large-scale outdoor arts and the growing ‘mainstream’ success of puppetry (through productions such as Warhorse and The Lion King), the time was right to bring together both artists and creative producers working in each of these flourishing art forms, to share knowledge, skills and experience – hopefully leading to the generation of more BiG iDeas in the future.

as part of the BiG iDeas initiative, it is planned to produce a publication associated with the event. The publication, Animating the Outdoors: A User’s Guide, will feature many of the contributions made on the day in addition to reports on discussion sessions and workshops. This new publication will form part of Professor anthony Dean’s user’s Guide series which includes five previous publications going back over the last 10 years and including topics such as Dramaturgy, Creative Producing, street arts, Puppetry and Performance Technologies. Animating the Outdoors: A User’s Guide is due to be published later in the spring.

Take a BOW: dance film wins prestigious award The dance film BOW, in which Winchester choreography and dance lecturer Cathy seago featured as one of three choreographers/dancers, was awarded the Jury Prize for Best Dance Film at the new York Dance on Camera Festival in February. supported by, among other organisations, the asia europe Foundation and the university of Winchester, this international artist exchange project was developed by Cathy seago in collaboration with artists and arts organisations in Bangkok and Chang Mai, Thailand in December

2009 - January 2010. Directed by Rannvá Káradóttir from the Faroe islands and composed by emmanuel Baily from Belgium, BOW was inspired by the idea of bowing, metaphorically, culturally and physically. The Jury statement read: “Like a Rorschach test transforming before your eyes, this film creates idiosyncratic forms by combining the moving body with simple cinematic techniques. BOW questions perception and invites viewers to create their own narrative.” BOW is currently being screened through touring festivals in France, China and across universities in the usa. it is also being shown in england and as part of the XtendV series through the Dancin’ oxford Festival.

‘award-winning dance film BoW

François Delarozière’s sultan’s elephant

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Academic:

Creative:

STAFF PUBLICATIONS

Jane Martin and Joyce Goodman, Women and Education: Major Themes in Education (Routledge 2010)

Joyce Goodman, Rebecca Rogers and James C. albisetti, Girls’ Secondary Education in the Western World (Palgrave Macmillan 2010)

neil Messer, Respecting Life: Theology and Bioethics (sCM 2011)

andreas andreopoulos, This is my beloved son: the Transfiguration of Christ (Paraclete Press 2010)

Jude Davies, Theodore Dreiser: Political Writings (university of illinois Press, 2010)

Madeleine Clark, Just like a woman (Pebbles Publishing 2010)

Tom Masters, Silence (university of Winchester Press Preface series 2010)

Tom Lawson, Debates on the Holocaust (Manchester university Press 2010)

Julian stannard, The Poetic Achievements of Donald Davie and Charles Tomlinson: Expanding Vision, Voice, and Rhythm in Late Twentieth-century English Poetry (edwin Mellen, 2010)

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Christian theatre strengthens links between University and CathedralThe university of Winchester joined forces with Winchester Cathedral to organise a dramatic performance of the Lent Passion. The Narrow Road by Paul Birch was performed by the award-wining Riding Lights Theatre Company in the Cathedral on Thursday 17 March. The production is the first major event organised by ali Williams, in her jointly funded position as university Chaplaincy assistant and Cathedral student Worker. ali took up her new role a few months ago but the shared post between the university Chaplaincy and Winchester Cathedral has now been running for three years.

“This is a brilliant opportunity for outreach amongst students, young people and youth groups within the diocese,” explained ali, who

graduated from the university of Winchester last year with a degree in Theology and Religious studies and Drama. “However, it is also an opportunity for lent courses, cell groups and confirmation group candidates to see a stunning and evocative retelling of the Passion during Lent in the wonderful performance setting of the Cathedral nave.”

“shared staffing between university chaplaincies and cathedrals is very rare in the higher education sector so to have forged a link in this way is very exciting,” said ann Keating, Director of student services at the university, herself an ordained Priest. “The role of Chaplaincy assistant and Cathedral assistant Worker is a very important partnership between the Cathedral and the university. as well as worship, the Cathedral offers our students plenty of opportunities for singing, performance, volunteering as well as a wealth of other incredible resources.”

www.ridinglights.org/thenarrowroad

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Meals and wheels: award-winning community partnership project

in December, staff and student volunteers took part in the ‘100 miles, 100 meals’ event, a community partnership event that aimed to provide 100 Christmas meals for elderly guests. The innovative scheme was devised by Richard Cheetham, senior Lecturer in sports Coaching, with Volunteering Coordinator nina Lazarski., who organised the volunteers and coordinated the meals event. Richard Cheetham won a social entrepreneurship award for this innovative community scheme: the Catalyst award was presented by unLtd, a charity that aims to support social entrepreneurs through the Higher education Funding Council for england (HeFCe).

Richards’s idea involved staff and students from the university taking part in a 100-mile circular tandem ride around Hampshire on 11 December. The tandems set off from the university with volunteers, including Vice Chancellor Professor Joy Carter, changing

riders every 10 miles. on 12 December, a special Christmas dinner was held in the university Centre for 100 elderly guests invited by age Concern, Winchester. The 100 meals were served by staff and student volunteers from the university and followed by a carol service led by the university Chaplain. all ten tables were decorated with a different theme, ranging from gingerbread men to royal weddings.

“i wanted to change the way people approach charity events,” explained Richard whose research interests include volunteering in sports. “The ‘100 for 100’ didn’t involve making a financial pledge but encouraged physical adventure matched with voluntary action. i wanted people to see the end result of their efforts and not just send a cheque in the post.” Richard, who helped to raise more than £5000 for MenCaP last year by running across the atacama Desert in Chile as part of the 4Deserts race series, said he was “overwhelmed” with the level of interest for this scheme. “i’m hoping we can continue the ‘100 for 100’ next year with a variety of physical challenges to help charities, involving people both at the university and in the city.”

Volunteering Co-ordinator nina Lazarski looks back on a successful event too: “all the staffand students who volunteered were tremendous in their support and enthusiasm. The tables looked fantastic and the time and creativity that went into the preparation of the decorations were much appreciated. The age Concern guests i spoke with were so moved by the event and talked of how well they had been looked after by everyone and had enjoyed a delicious meal.”

Volunteering

Prof. Joy Carter (in high-viz vest) & Richard Cheetham (2nd from right)

with fellow cyclists

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Twenty Winchester students carried out voluntary work in aid of two worthy causes during student Volunteering Week (21 – 25 Feb.). Volunteering Coordinator nina Lazarski and Placement Coordinator Charlie Mackay arranged for students to help out at Marwell Wildlife on the morning of 24 February, and at Winchester night Churches shelter in the afternoon.

The morning activity saw 16 students restoring Marwell’s Wildlife’s woodland habitat to create a nature reserve, by cutting down invasive species and preparing the ground for the planting of

native species, The work done by the students will help improve the biodiversity of the habitat, which in turn will attract a wide range of native wildlife to the area.

in the afternoon, four student volunteers, together with nina Lazarski and steve Brine, MP for Winchester and Chandlers Ford, helped to raise awareness of a new fundraising campaign, spare Change for real Change, supported by the Winchester Business improvement District (BiD) and shared by Winchester Churches night shelter Trinity Winchester and the salvation army. The

campaign aims to encourage people to donate money to support the homeless via a box giving scheme rather than to give directly to the homeless on the streets. The group spent the afternoon approaching business and banks in the city centre, asking them if they would support the scheme by hosting posters and boxes on their premises.

“all the students who volunteered were brilliant”, said a proud nina Lazarski. “Those who helped out at Marwell Wildlife were so enthusiastic about getting involved with this important conservation work and worked really hard to help restore this special habitat. Those who worked raising awareness for the night shelter campaign shared a genuine interest in and empathy for the work of the night shelter. They fully engaged with the activity and all expressed further interest in volunteering for the organisations. Their involvement was greatly appreciated.”

The university is always looking for volunteering opportunities for its staff and students; if you would like to suggest one, contact nina.Lazarski@winchester.ac.uk.

Students get stuck in for Student Volunteering Week

The Hampshire Diamond Jubilee Project 2012The university of Winchester is leading the Hampshire Diamond Jubilee Project 2012, a new appeal following on from the success of the Hampshire Millennium Project, led by our Chancellor, Dame Mary Fagan DCVo JP, HM Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire. The appeal is aiming to raise £20,000 during the academic year 2010/11 to renovate classrooms at soma Lower Basic school and improve facilities for girls at Tahir school, a secondary school in the Lower River Division of Gambia. it is planned that the new facilities will open in 2012, the year of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

The university representatives received a warm welcome in Gambia recently when members of the student union and the university’s Director of initial Teacher education travelled to the country to present £5000 to the soma school, on behalf of the Hampshire Diamond Jubilee Gambia Project 2012. The money,

raised through collections at graduation ceremonies and sales of Gambia wristbands, will go towards funding the building of a further block at the school, incorporating two new classrooms. “The old classroom block is in a shocking state,” said student union President seb Miell. “There are giant cracks in the walls and most of the roof is missing. i couldn’t believe that it was still standing – building work needs to start straightaway.”

The visitors were greeted at soma by a band made up of hundreds of school children, playing drums, cymbals and recorders donated by the university’s alumni association in 2010. During the weeklong trip, the group also visited local chiefs, radio stations, villages, market traders and the partly developed Women’s Hostel at Tahir. The visit was organised by Marion Christmas MBe JP, Project Fundraiser and Honorary Fellow of the university of Winchester.

Kriss Turner, Director of initial Teacher education at the university of Winchester worked with the soma school Leadership Team to identify priorities for teacher development.

The university is planning to send six students and two tutors to work in the school later this month. “Going to Gambia has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life,” said Krissy Ball, student union Vice President, who is already planning further fundraising events for 2011. “everyone was so friendly and we were overwhelmed by their hospitality.”

Fundraising

Kriss Turner in Gambia

student volunteers with steve Brine MP

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in March the university’s student services Department raised another £160 for the Gambia project in a cake sale.

also in March, a group of 17 staff and friends, together with 10 dogs, made the most of a beautiful spring sunday in late March to walk from Winchester to shawford along the itchen and back over Compton Down. The walk raised £138 for schools in Gambia. The dog raising the most donations was arthur the Jack Russell, owned by senior Pro Vice Chancellor Liz stuart.

so far, the Hampshire Diamond Jubilee Gambia Project has raised nearly £9000, with more coming in all the time; the aim is to raise £20,000 by 2012. Help us to reach that target by donating to the Project on www.VirginMoneyGiving.com

www.winchester.ac.uk/gambia

Visual Art @ WinchesterThe new 2011 programme of exhibitions for the university’s Link Gallery kicked off with a display of painted wood carvings by the artist Jeremy Turner. His exhibition, which opened late January, explored the themes of human desire, want, conflict and contentment within a society surrounded by advertising. The next exhibition, ‘an at-Home event’, opened in early March and saw the work of Portsmouth-based artist Gillian Hawkins on display. Through the media of paint and photography, she reflected on emotions found within domestic spaces and how the use of possessions can help us deal with disappointment and disenchantment.

The next exhibition at The Link Gallery opens in april and features a collection of photographs by Gail Ward. The exhibition ties in with the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and is part on an ongoing project by the artist to document the lives of children in Belarus and the work the sos charity does to help those affected by the disaster. in other news, March saw the opening of the second student and staff exhibition in the student Centre Gallery on King alfred campus. Following the success of the first exhibition, a selection of paintings, photographs and pencil drawings by Jessica Clogg, annie escott, sarah Kirby, Heather Mason, sue McLachlan, stephen Toogood and Hannah utting is on display throughout the summer.

in an update from the last Ke newsletter, two new art works are now on display. The Green Man, a large oil painting by Glyn Martin, was created in memory of Mike Woodcock, a popular footpath warden who led walks around Kings somborne. The piece references the image of the Green Man, traditionally a symbol of rebirth, and was offered on long-term loan to the university by the Parish of Kings somborne after villagers were unable to find an appropriate place to hang it in the village. The painting is now on display upstairs in the stripe on King alfred

campus. another work, This is the Word, has also been offered to the university. The seven-foot figure of Christ was constructed using papier maché made with pages of the Bible, and symbolizes the suffering of the world, Christ’s sacrifice, and the divine nature of his spirit. it was decided that the Chapel would be an ideal location for this piece and it is now on display there.

www.winchester.ac.uk/visualart

Movember 2010

For the third year in a row, staff from the university, the Winchester student union and

students took part in ‘Movember’, the annual all-male event in which proud moustaches adorn usually smooth upper lips to raise money for charity. This year, the Winchester gro-a-mo-team raised over £1100 for the Prostate Cancer Charity and the institute for Cancer Research’s every Man Campaign. student union representative Tom Manville, who has been involved in the Winchester Movember campaign for several years, commented: “it’s great being able to raise money on behalf of the charities but what makes the real difference for me is raising awareness of the issues. a few weeks of itchy faces is certainly worth making men aware of the long-term risks in simply not getting the right checkups at certain stages of life. When 1st of December comes around each year there’s always an emotional battle about whether to keep the glorious facial hair but i’ve always found that my better half has already made the decision for me! oh well, bring on next Movember!”

student union sporting moustaches for ‘Movember’

Dog walking in aid of Gambia (PaDWaG)

Green Man by Glyn Martin

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University working with Winchester Young Carers Project

There are around 175,000 young carers in the uK, whose educational progress may be disrupted. The university is therefore very pleased to be working with Winchester Young Carers Project (WYCP) to help inform young carers about educational opportunities. a number of our own undergraduates have experience of being young carers, and they are keen to encourage other young people to focus on their own aspirations for the future.

in november, two student ambassadors and a member of staff visited a group of 16-17 year old young carers at the WYCP base in Winnall to talk about higher education. This was followed up in December by a visit of the young carers to the university. in January a ‘Ready, steady, Cook’ challenge took place where undergraduates and young carers competed to produce the healthiest, tastiest meal on a budget of £5. The university is now represented on the Management Committee of WYCP and through longer-term partnership we aim to develop a planned programme of activities.

amy Griffiths, activities & support Co-ordinator at Winchester Young Carers Project (who graduated from the university in 2008 with a degree in social Care) commented: “it’s been really positive to work alongside the university. Building relationships with student ambassadors is a tangible way of making university life accessible. We hope that the links with the university will strengthen further, inspiring increased confidence and ambition in the young carers we support.”

Winchester Writers’ Conference

This year’s Winchester Writers’ Conference, Festival and Bookfair, the annual gathering of authors, aspiring authors and professionals from the publishing world, will be held from the 1st to 3rd of July. The event kicked off early this year with a Pitstop Writers’ Refuelling Weekend on 25 to 27 March at shawford Hall. This was a chance for writers to undergo a ‘writing MoT’. Four experienced professionals, all skilled publishing mechanics, were on hand to service the manuscripts of writers, whether they are on the starting grid or the last lap. The Pitstop event injected some new fuel into the process and helped overcome any loss of momentum – always a danger inherent in the solitary process of writing.

The Conference organisers have also launched the Writing Competitions for 2011. new this year is a composite booklet which contains all the rules, each competition outline and an application form. new administrator and events Manager Duncan Hanner is busy: “already, far more of these have been requested and distributed by email rather than post and of course, in these testing times, we are seeing just how far we can deliver the administration of the whole conference operation electronically. apart from the winners’ cash prizes given by a range of sponsors, entering these competitions allows for all writers to get a written adjudication of their work from professionals. so sharpen your quills, and get that story committed to paper!”

Writers are urged to participate by entering the 18 writing competitions even if they cannot attend. each entry is adjudicated by specialists and publishers who will write an adjudication to guide your revision, a valuable part of our teaching and learning ethos. The winning entries will be published in the conference anthology, The Best of 2011, a stepping stone to publication. More than 100 writers have reported major publishing successes as a direct result of their attendance at past conferences. The Best of 2010 is out now; to order your copy, contact Duncan.Hanner@winchester.ac.uk, 01962 826367. Conference Director Barbara Large is currently putting the

finishing touches to the programme for the main event in July. “aspiring and published writers are in for a double treat at the Plenary session of this 31st Winchester Writers’ Conference. not only do we welcome ‘Harry Potter Man’ Barry Cunningham oBe, discoverer, first editor and publisher of JK Rowling, but also intrepid sailor Geoff Holt MBe, who will describe his ‘Personal atlantic Challenge’, sailing his 60-foot, wheelchair-accessible catamaran, The impossible Dream, across the atlantic – a 2700-mile voyage that took 27 days to complete.”

at this conference, writers can choose their specific programme which will inform their level of writing, by choosing from 43 workshops, 60 lectures and 500 one-to-one appointments. Writers are encouraged to discuss the best techniques for writing for children, how to harness ideas for poems, and how to polish and pitch manuscripts to literary agents and commissioning editors who are searching for sparkling new talent.

To apply or for more information, visit our website, print and complete the application form and post to Barbara Large, university of Winchester, sparkford Road, Winchester, Hampshire s022 4nR.Tel 01962 827238 or 826367. Barbara.Large@winchester.ac.uk

www.writersconference.co.uk

Geoff Holt

Barry Cunningham

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This year’s prison theatre show is a production of Philip Glassborow’s play Soul Traders, a contemporary version of the Faust legend, with song and dance and multimedia. Philip is a local playwright, lyricist and composer who writes for theatre, radio and television.

specially commissioned to be performed by undergraduate students and prisoners, Soul Traders updates the ‘Dr Faustus’ story to the twenty-first century. Philip Glassborow’s play follows the story of Danny who is studying for ‘The Knowledge’ in order to become a London taxi driver. He is devoted to his girlfriend and her small child. However, one day there is a knock on his door and his life changes. in the course of the play the concept of a ‘soul’ is explored in terms of whether it is best to strive to achieve one’s goals through hard work and sometimes failure or whether it is possible to take shortcuts and achieve status and wealth through less legitimate means.

Soul Traders is a modern morality play which critiques our consumer-driven and materialistic society, exploring the potentially tragic consequences of the money-for-nothing, live-now-pay-later culture that

dominates many people’s lives. as in previous years, the choice of material for this show reflects a desire to create a project for prisoners and undergraduate students to work on which is both fun and thought provoking. The play has a serious message but this is explored through comedy, music and film.

The project is a collaboration between the playwright Philip Glassborow, the community documentary team LaunchPad Productions and the Musical Director Richard Daniels (ex-education Manager at HMP Winchester). This year’s production is directed by Bethan Clark, who also directed the last two shows, and co-directed by Thomas Timms, a third-year Drama student. Thomas has performed in two previous prison theatre shows. as always, the work of the participating prisoners will be supported by 15 undergraduate students working as actors and mentors.

artistic Director of the award-winning Playing for Time Theatre Company and the play’s producer annie McKean MBe is both excited and slightly daunted by the new play, which will be by far the most technically complex

show to have been staged in the prison. “The projects which are the most challenging but also the most rewarding are those which are devised or written specially for the prison production context. Meetings about this project began last July and every draft of the play has been subjected to detailed scrutiny and a dialogue about how to combine the mixed media elements with live theatre. a real challenge! However, with the support of our more than able senior Technician David Buss, i am sure all will be well.”

Funding for this production has come from the J. Paul Getty Jr Foundation, Higher education innovation Fund and HMP Winchester.

For more information about Playing for Time Theatre Company’s work, visit www.playingfortime.org.uk

Playing for Time Theatre Company stages the 2011 Prison Theatre Project

scene from Stand or Fall, the 2008 Playing for Time production

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Jeffrey John presents latest Foundation LectureThe latest in the university’s Foundation Lecture series was presented by the Very Reverend Jeffrey John on 3 March. in Making Sense of the Bible, Revd John addressed methods of biblical scholarship by examining the idea that many people have been put off the Bible by inadequate presentations of it in schools, churches, university Christian unions and elsewhere. He also stressed the importance of asking questions for real engagement with

scripture.

Jeffrey John is a former Dean of Divinity of Magdalen College, oxford and Canon Chancellor and Theologian of southwark Cathedral. He became Dean of st albans in 2004 and has worked to promote an inclusive Catholicism within the anglican tradition and to popularise good biblical scholarship. He is author of The Meaning of the Miracles as well as a number of other theological and catechetical books.

The Winchester Foundation Lecture series arises from the university’s anglican Foundation and seeks to explore the social character of human life. The focus of the lectures is broadly

the relationship between faith and society; past lectures have covered a broad range of topics and styles of presentation. Former speakers have included the Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes, Lord Plant of Highfield, and Baroness shirley Williams.

The university’s Centre for the study of Theology and Religion is currently organising a conference on the Bible, in collaboration with Winchester Cathedral and the Wessex synod of the united Reformed Church. The conference is timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the authorised Version. To find out more, visit

www.winchester.ac.uk/bibleconference.

Jeffrey John

British Library management Book of the Year Award for Centre for Real-World Learning DirectorProfessor Bill Lucas, Co-Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning, has won this year’s Management Book of the Year award for innovation and entrepreneurship, run by the Chartered Management institute (CMi). Professor Lucas’s book rEvolution: How to Thrive in Crazy Times was chosen from a shortlist of five books by high-profile business and management authors, out of a total of 145 entries.

rEvolution suggests some of the ways to succeed in today’s complex world. Professor Lucas argues that the rules of evolution are changing and that a new kind of ‘mind-ware’ is needed to thrive in modern times.

“This accolade from the CMi has brought welcome interest in rEvolution and the topic of adaptive intelligence”, said Professor Lucas, a trustee of Winchester’s english Project and a learning strategist working within business, health and education. “it can be hugely beneficial for a modern professional to take a step back from their day-to-day work to observe the wider view of how business is changing. i hope the competition will help communicate the value of management books to a wide audience.”

The Centre for Real-World Learning at the university of Winchester draws upon the new thinking being generated by the learning sciences to develop fresh approaches to learning and intelligence. it challenges traditional ways of thinking and helps to create new understanding about how people learn in real life.

www.winchester.ac.uk/realworldlearning

RESEARCH AND THE COMMUNITY

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Listed below are some of the many university events that are open to the public. Visit www.winchester.ac.uk and click on news & events for more events or visit the relevant websites for more information.

Enterprise Lecture SeriesThursday 5 May, 6.00 for 6.30pm: Angus Scott in conversation with Alan Titchmarsh. Venue: the stripe, King alfred Campus, sparkford Road, Winchester so22 4nR. To book seats, email enterprise.lectures@winchester.ac.uk or phone 01962 827578.www.winchester.ac.uk/enterpriselectures

Centre for Real-World LearningMonday 27 June, 9.30 – 12.30: a morning with Professors Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas, Directors of the Centre for Real-World Learning.

an opportunity for schools aiming to expand the capacity of young people to thrive in the real world to explore expansive education, and a chance to share ideas with like-minded colleagues. You will also have the opportunity to hear about CRL’s exciting new initiative the expansive education network and the university’s range of Master’s opportunities in education. in collaboration with Tony Rea and alan Hutchison from the university’s Faculty of education, Health and social Care.

shakespeare Room, West Downs Centre, West Downs Campus, Romsey Road university of Winchester, Winchester so22 5HT. The event

itself is free; there is a charge of £10 to cover refreshments. if you would like to attend, email andrew.Jones@winchester.ac.uk

Business and EnterpriseCentre for Responsible

Management: ‘Leading in Tough

Times’ lectures

‘Leading in tough times’ is a series of talks and workshops exploring new ways of supporting and encouraging leadership in these challenging times. The talks are hosted by the Centre for Responsible Management at the university’s Business school. Tickets cost £10. if you would like to attend please email conferences@winchester.ac.uk to reserve a place. alternatively, telephone 01962 827322. For more information on the Centre for Responsible Management, contact Karen Blakeley, senior Lecturer in Management and Leadership (Karen.Blakeley@winchester.ac.uk, 01962 826422).

18 May Courageous conversations for change, Gina Lawrie, YKW Consultants

22 June Emotionally Intelligent Change ManagementPeter Jones, YKW Consultants

Wired WessexIT Jobs and products of the future – What’s next?

Peter Waggett, Programme Leader of the emerging Technology Group at iBM will give his take on upcoming technology and jobs and businesses of the future. Thursday, May 12th, 6:00 – 8:00 pm Peter symonds science Lecture Theatre, owen’s Road, Winchester

Planning for Change – Getting what you want out of your business and career

Gary Lane, Life and Career Coach, will help you define what you want out of your business, career and life. Very timely for those facing change. Thursday, May 26th, 6:00 – 8:00 pm The Winchester Hotel, Worthy Lane, Winchester

Sales techniques and being an entrepreneur – how to land that sale, close the deal and learn to sell yourself! Thursday, June 30th, 6:00 – 8:00 pm The stripe Lecture Hall, university of Winchester

Delving deeper into LinkedIn withJames Potter, the LinkedIn Man Thursday, July 14th, 6:00 – 8:00 pm Discovery Centre Performance Hall, Jewry street, Winchester

Secrets of successful GREEN entrepreneurs a variety of successful entrepreneurs that have incorporated green practices into their businesses will share their experiences, tips and explain how being green has made them successful! We will also have stands available for green businesses to display their information. Contact sara at Wired Wessex if you’re interested in having a stand or being part of the panel: 01962 827029 or email info@wiredwessex.co.uk. Thursday, 21st July, 6:00 – 8:00 pm The stripe auditorium, university of university of Winchester Business school, Romsey Road, Winchester, so22 5HT

Community EngagementBook sale in aid of Hampshire

Diamond Jubilee Gambia Project

2012

saturday 21st May: second-hand book sale in aid of the Hampshire Diamond Jubilee Gambia Project 2012, the university and Hampshire schools’ fundraising appeal to improve educational facilities in Gambia. There will be a wide range of books on sale, including bestsellers and book group favourites. Please come along and support us by buying a book or two to help improve the educational experience for Gambian schoolchildren.

8.00 – 16.00, st Maurice’s Covert (next to Debenham’s), High street, Winchester. www.winchester.ac.uk/gambia

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Foundation MusicTuesday 10 May: ‘spring into summer!’ a veritable feast of music presented exclusively by members of Foundation Music. Come along and listen to their joyous talents.

West Downs Centre, Romsey Road, Winchester, 7.45pm. Tickets are £6 (£4 concessions) and are available on the door or in advance. Contact 01962 827466 or foundation.music@winchester.ac.uk. For more information on Foundation Music and further events, visit www.winchester.ac.uk/music

EnvironmentWinchester Action on Climate

Change

open Tuesday workshops: practical information that helps you reduce your carbon footprint. in partnership with Winchester Friends of the earth. united Church, Jewry street, Winchester, 7.45 – 9.15pm; refreshments from 7.30.

10 May: energy from the sun (water heating, photo-voltaic electricity, sun pipes for light, feed-in tariff)

12 July: other renewable energy e.g. wood stoves, air- and ground-source heat pumps, renewable heat incentive.

Can you juggle, do conjuring tricks, ride a trick cycle or otherwise entertain people?

if you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, then WinaCC needs you for their stall at the Winchester Hat Fair on sunday 3 July! stall helpers also needed at the Bicycle Week stall on saturday 18 June (in the morning on Winchester High street) and the east Meon sustainability Fair on sunday 8 May. Contact chris.holloway@winacc.org.uk, 01962 827083.

Visual ArtLink Gallery: Growing up in the

shadow of Chernobyl by Gail

Ward

19 april - 26 May, The Link Gallery, West Downs Centre, Romsey Road, Winchester so22 5HT

in 2006 Gail Ward travelled to Belarus and photographed children living in the sos Children’s Village as part of her documentation of the work of sos. This organisation was set up to help orphans, disadvantaged families and children affected by the Chernobyl disaster. in this exhibition old and new photographs of some of the children living in the village are used to show how their lives are developing. The hope is that this exhibition will create interest, discussion and remembrance of the disaster.

ResearchArts Research Seminar

‘Embodying Memory’

3 May, 6pm, Location TBC

a showcase event organised by the Research Centre for the arts as Well-being, consisting of a range of short performances and presentations around the question ‘How do you play with memory and imagination and express this in embodied fashion?’ For further details, please contact inga.Bryden@winchester.ac.uk.

Out of This World: English Folk in

the Community Choir Repertoire15 May, 10.30am – 4.30pm. Venue: Cecil sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London nW1 7aY

For more information, see elsewhere in this issue; to book a place, contact elizabeth.scott-Hall@winchester.ac.uk.

Wessex Centre for History and

Archaeology research seminars

5 May, 5.30pm: Christopher Warleigh-Lack: John Carr, Georgian Architect, and the Rise of the Architectural Profession. Hampshire Record office, sussex st, Winchester.

19 May, 5.30pm: Rachel sharland: The Royal Deer Parks of Hampshire 1066 - 1500. Medecroft Building Room 15, university of Winchester, King alfred Campus, sparkford Road, Winchester so22 4nR.

www.winchester.ac.uk/wcha

Modern History Research Centre

seminar seriesThursday 12th May: Mark Hobbs (university of Winchester): Hiding in the gaps: Holocaust deniers, Holocaust Historiography and the historical discipline.

6 pm, Room 15, Medecroft Building, Medecroft Campus, sparkford Road, Winchester so22 4nR.

image from Growing up in the shadow of Chernobyl by Gail Ward