Glyndwr University Inaugural and Professorial Lecture Series 2011/12

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GlyndrUniversityInaugural and

ProfessorialLecture Series

2011/12

showcasing the nextgeneration o research


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Glyndr University Graduate School

Our Graduate School offers a supportive and engaging environment

for all of its postgraduate students. The University offers over 150

postgraduate courses across a spectrum of subject areas. Most of these

are offered both full-and part-time.

Courses

Our courses are designed with youremployability in mind, encourageentrepreneurship and are directly relevantto the issues and challenges aced by oursociety, industry and economy.

Courses oered include Masters o Arts,Science, Public Health and Research,an MBA and the research degrees oDoctor o Philosophy (PhD), Master oPhilosophy (MPhil), and ProessionalDoctorate.

Postgraduate course subjects rangerom art and design and businesscourses such as HRM (Human ResourceManagement), MBA (Masters o BusinessAdministration) or CIM (ProessionalCerticate in Marketing) to online coursessuch as our certicate in E-learning.

Research

The research being undertaken at GlyndrUniversity has been classed as o highinternational standard in the most recentResearch Assessment Excercise (RAE2008). This assessment recognisedin particular our research in ComputerScience and Inormatics and Metallurgy andMaterials as world leading.

We work closely with industry to solve realproblems and create innovations which givebusinesses new potential. Our expertise

is sought nationally and internationally byorganisations in the private and publicsector.

For more inormation about the Graduate School contact:

01978 293439

[email protected]

glyndwr.ac.uk


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Shakespeare, Owain Glyndr andthe future of the University

Professor Michael Scott

Vice-Chancellor and ChieExecutive, Glyndwr University

Thursday 13 October 2011

6.15pm for a 6.45pm start

Catrin Finch CentreGlyndwr University, Mold Road, Wrexham

Shakespeare in his plays shows a warmth towards

the Welsh people and no more so than to Owen

Glendower who is depicted in Henry IV Part One

as a warrior, bombastic to an extent and prone to

exaggeration and ancy, but who is also seen as a man

o integrity, warmth, hospitality and a love or his amily

and riends. The historical Glyndwr who died about

150 years beore Shakespeares birth was possibly

such a man. He was certainly more than a rebel and

warrior. He was a highly educated amily man, whowas loved and respected as a visionary leader.

In the midst o his rebellion he wrote to the King o

France in 1406 asking him to petition the Pope to

create universities in Wales. Six hundred years later

a university in his name has been established in

Wrexham or the people o north Wales, the country

as a whole and urther aeld. This is the era o a new

Wales, a country under devolution. It is a country that

is growing in condence and starting to conduct itsaairs in new ways. Glyndwr University is attempting

to lay a new visionary path or a university education

to be open to all. In this lecture Proessor Scott

brings together the contradictory natures o some o

Shakespeares characters, o Owain Glyndwr and o

a new university that dares to be bold and brave in its

attempts to serve the people o a new Wales.

To book email [email protected] or call 01978 293466 03


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From Specialised Engineering,

Science, Telecommunicationsand Computing to Joined-upCommunications:an exploration,including some of the big questions ofacademia

Professor Peter ExcellProessor o Communications

Thursday 10 November 2011

6.30pm for a 7pm start


Inaugural Lecture

Throughout more than 40 years in academia and industry

Proessor Excell has been witness to landmark changes intechnology and its relationship with society.

In this lecture he will give an overview o his extensive research,

which has ocussed on computation and applications o high-

requency electromagnetic elds, including investigating the

interaction o electromagnetic elds with the human body,

unintended interactions with other technological systems, the

design o antennas and the use o superconductivity.

Proessor Excell will also discuss lessons that have been learnedabout strategic choices or proessors and or universities in

general, specically examining the place o research and the

balance that has to be struck by every academic between breadth

and depth in their pursuit o the advancement o knowledge. He

will present some o the lessons learned, in particular reviewing

the examples o technological evolution that he has witnessed

and the implications that can be argued regarding the uture o

technology and the strategy or universities.

04 To book email [email protected] or call 01978 293466


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Social Inclusion and theImportance of Listening


Professor Odette Parry

Proessor in Social Welareand Community Justice

Thursday 26 January 2012



In order to understand and address the issues which

are important to those disadvantaged members

o society most at risk o marginalisation or social

exclusion, we rst need to listen to what they have

to say. While this might seem like common sense,

it is important to remember research ocussing on

people rom all walks o lie has tended traditionally to

exclude their voices, preerring to assert researcher-

led hypotheses about human behaviour which are

then subject to rigorous, scientic testing. This isbecause, in borrowing research methods rom the

natural science community, social researchers have

privileged orms o knowledge which deny legitimacy

to individuals subjective understandings o their

experiences. In other words, because what we think

and eel is not considered as objective knowledge, then

in research terms it has been treated as questionable.

Without reuting the advantages o scientic

research or the study o human behaviour, this lectureconcentrates on the subjective accounts o real people

about the issues which aect their lives: joys, ears and

their anticipations or the uture. To this end Proessor

Parry will draw on two qualitative studies unded by the

Welsh Government. Respectively, they ocus on the

voices o older people and the voices o children and

young people in Wales.


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Mental Health, Religion and

Culture:surveying the landscapeProfessor Christopher Alan Lewis

Proessor o Psychology

Thursday 26 April 2012



Psychologists have shown scant interest in the

eects o religion on mental health, and much o

the earlier work on this topic was done in Western,

predominantly Christian societies. In this lecture,

Proessor Lewis will look at what we can conclude

so ar about the eects o culture on the relations

between religion and mental health, and highlights

some areas o research interest.

These include important questions about the

eects o religious belies and practices, such

as scrupulous cleanliness or communication

with spirits, on the diagnosis and prevalence o

psychological disorders. The lecture will also ocus

on Proessor Lewis extensive work surveying the

landscape o mental health, religion and culture.


Inaugural Lecture


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Philosophy Goes to School:developingthe skills of critical thinking, reasoning andargument in education

Professor Patrick Costello

Proessor o Primary Education

Thursday 7 June 2012




The idea that children should engage in the systematic discussion o philosophical ideas is a

relatively new one. In this lecture, Proessor Costello will oer a rationale or such an endeavour

by exploring key issues concerning the teaching and learning o critical thinking, reasoning and

argument skills in schools. Following his inaugural proessorial lecture, delivered in 2005 and

entitled Liberating Childrens Minds: Education, Citizenship and Critical Thinking, Proessor

Costello will discuss the contemporary context or developing communities o inquiry in the UK,

and will consider uture prospects or teaching and research in this area.

Key themes discussed will include the nature o philosophical thinking; developing philosophical

thinking skills in the UK and USA; why teach philosophy in schools; promoting eective thinkingin young children; improving the quality o young childrens argument.


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academic proles

Professor Michael Scott

Proessor Michael Scott was educated at the University o Wales, Lampeterand Nottingham University and gained his PhD rom De Montort University. Heis a distinguished literary scholar having written numerous books and articlesand edited two major series, most notably the inuential Text and Performanceseries which helped develop Masters programmes in a new approach toShakespeare Studies in the UK, the USA, Australia and elsewhere. Among hisbooks are Renaissance Drama and a Modern Audience, Shakespeare andthe Modern Dramatistand John Marstons Plays: Theme, Structure andPerformance.

He has spent over thirty fve years in the higher education sector devoted tosocial inclusion and the opening up o universities to the community. He waspreviously Pro Vice-Chancellor o De Montort University, Leicester, which he

joined in 1989 rom Sunderland Polytechnic where he was Proessor o Englishand Head o the School o Humanities. For ourteen years he was VisitingProessor o English at Georgetown University, Washington DC which honouredhim with the Bicentennial Award or Distinguished Teaching and Scholarship in1989. He was a Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester, Oxord during 2010-2011.

Since his appointment to Wrexham in 2001, Proessor Scott has led the teamthat has created Glyndwr University. He has been Chairman o the UNESCOCymru Wales Committee, o the North Wales Film Commission and the North

Wales Events Commission and has served on the BBC Council or Wales. Hehas linked Glyndwr University with universities in China, India, Japan, Malaysia,Russia and across Europe. In Wales, Glyndwr University has expanded acrossthe north east working with Airbus in the development in Flintshire o a newteaching and research centre in advanced composite material technologies. InDenbighshire it has developed Optic Glyndwr in St Asaph which has become asignifcant European unded centre or research in ultra precision optical suracetechnologies relating particularly to the European Extremely Large Telescopeproject. Working with companies such as Sharp it is similarly engaged in solarenergy research and in holographics.

In 2011 under his leadership Glyndwr University opened a Glyndwr Universitycampus in London, taking into the University the London School o Managementand Science, and also acquired the Glyndwr University Racecourse Stadiumin Wrexham and the Colliers Park Sports Training Facility in Gresord or thebeneft o the Universitys students and the community which the Universityserves whilst ensuring also a home ground or Wrexham AFC.

Michael Scott was appointed Deputy Lieutenant o the County o Clwyd in2009. He is married with two daughters and a grandson, Sam, and lives inMarord, Wrexham.



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Professor Peter Excell

Peter Excell is Proessor o Communications and Dean o the Institute orArts, Sciences and Technology at Glyndwr University. He obtained his BSc inEngineering Science rom the University o Reading in 1970 and his PhD, orresearch in Electromagnetic Hazards, rom the University o Bradord in 1980.From 1971 to 2007 he was with the University o Bradord, rising to AssociateDean or Research in the School o Inormatics.

His classical academic interests cover wireless technologies, electromagnetics,engineering, computing and antennas. However, he has also engaged

with interdisciplinary initiatives, developing broader interests in mobilecommunications, their uture content and applications. He has published around400 papers and holds three patents.

He is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered IT Proessional, a Fellow o theBritish Computer Society, the Institution o Engineering and Technology and theHigher Education Academy, and a Senior Member o the Institute o Electronicand Electrical Engineers.

Professor Odette ParryOdette Parry is Proessor o Social Welare and Community Justice and directoro the Social Inclusion Research Unit at Glyndwr University. Odette, a graduateand postgraduate o the University o Wales, Cardi, worked as a researcher at

Cardi University, the University o the West Indies, and Edinburgh Universitybeore joining Glyndwr University in 2003.

As director o the Social Inclusion Research Unit, Odette has combined herresearch interests in health, education and social disadvantage in a wide rangeo externally unded local and national research projects, the fndings o whichare widely published. She also has an international reputation in the developmentand use o qualitative research methodologies.



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Professor Christopher Alan LewisProessor Christopher Alan Lewis is Dean o the Institute o Health, MedicalSciences and Society at Glyndwr University. He holds postgraduate degrees inboth Psychology (MPhil, DPhil) and Education (MEd, MSc) rom the Universityo Ulster, and Theology and Religious Studies (MA) rom Bangor University.

He is a Chartered Health Psychologist and Chartered Scientist with the BritishPsychological Society. He is a Fellow o the Psychological Society o Ireland, theHigher Education Academy, the College o Teachers, and the Royal Society orPublic Health. He is editor o the journals Mental Health, Religion and Cultureand the Welsh Journal of Psychology, and has served as the editor o theIrish Journal of Psychology. He has published 5 books and over 200 researcharticles and book chapters.

His research and teaching interests include psychology o peace, conict andviolence, positive psychology and the psychology o religion. Proessor Lewishas served on the General Assembly o the European Federation o ProessionalPsychologists Associations (EFPA) and the International Union o PsychologicalScience (IUPsyS).

Professor Patrick CostelloPatrick Costello is Proessor o Primary Education at Glyndwr University.Formerly a primary school teacher, Lecturer in Education at the University o Hull

and Reader in Education at Glyndwr University, he took up his current post inNovember 2002.

His publications include books on primary education, the theory and practiceo argument, personal, social and moral education, teaching thinking skills,and action research. Proessor Costello is a member o the editorial boardo Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis (USA) (contributing editor),Creative Teaching and Learning, the Welsh Journal of Education, EducationTransactions, and the Journal of Pedagogical Research and Scholarship(co-editor).

Proessor Costello has presented his research at many internationalconerences, including, most recently, those held at the University o Vienna,Utrecht University, and the University o Paris Descartes. He has supervisedover 20 action research projects on the teaching and learning o thinking skills,arising rom Teacher Research Scholarships awarded to teachers across Walesby the General Teaching Council or Wales.



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The Catrin Finch Centre is a 3m state-o-the-art conerence and perormance centre that opened its

doors in 2009. Equipped with ultra-modern, hi-tech audio-visual acilities, it has become a major hub or

perorming arts in north east Wales, playing host to small scale theatre productions, plays, music events,conerences and exhibitions. The centre is also used by Glyndwr Universitys perorming arts students or

rehearsals and productions.

All lectures in the series are open to all and ree to attend.

To book your place at any of these events please email [email protected] or call

01978 293466.

Each lecture will be ollowed by a reception, where guests will have the opportunity to meet the speaker

and discuss the topic in more detail.

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Glyndwr University is proud o its world-leading research and enterprising ocus, and the implications these

have or business, industry and society.

Our lecture series are ree and open to all, and play an important role in bringing leading research and

thinking to the wider community or discussion and debate.

I you have any ideas about topics that you would like to see explored through uture lectures, or want to

have your say on the lectures you have attended, we would love to hear rom you.

You can email us at [email protected] or you can get involved online via our campus blog:

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