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ISSUE NO 21 WINTER 2012

1 Editorial

1 The International University

2 The Internationalisation Team

2 A global curriculum

2 Winchester in the wider world

5 Community Engagement

7 Business and Enterprise

8 Graduation 2012

10 News from the Faculties

12 New books by Winchester staff

13 Visual Art

14 Carbon Corner

15 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.uk Tel: 01962 827578 We look forward to hearing from you.

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The International face of the University of Winchester

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Front cover photo: This year the University’s Hampshire Diamond Jubilee Gambia Project raised £20,000 to improve schools in Soma and Tahir in Gambia in Africa. The new classrooms were officially opened in February 2012. To find out more, visit www.winchester.ac.uk/aboutus and go to Community Engagement.

Editorial

As Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange at Winchester, I am often involved in

supporting international initiatives for our staff in their research projects around the world. We have involvement in Armenia, Georgia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Australia, Barbados and the USA, as well as several European countries. All of this work builds up to an impressive portfolio, and has definitely had an impact on the economy and society of the countries concerned, for instance in theatre for development, heritage conservation and education provision. We are rightly proud of our achievement, and can see the mission and values of the

university bringing benefits to many communities across the globe.

Professor Tony King

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

The International UniversityNo university is an island. In today’s world, higher education institutions are firmly part of a global community. Internationalisation is the name of the game, and with more and more international students and foreign academic staff bringing their rich cultural background and academic expertise to Winchester, our international face is worth shouting about.

This year, ca 10% of all new full-cost students at Winchester are overseas students, with the largest group coming from China and Japan. International research and staff/student exchange collaborations abound, and every year, many of our academics lock up their Winchester offices and head off to far-flung places to carry out research and forge links with the local institutions and communities. This issue of the Knowledge Exchange Newsletter highlights the international face of the University, emphasising the global outlook in our curriculum, introducing the Internationalisation Team and presenting some exciting case studies. The University’s Strategic Plan 2010 – 2015 states: “It is clear that the effective expression and integration of international

perspectives is now a core element of the work of a university, with real and significant benefits arising from international relationships in an increasingly interdependent world and from ensuring that all students become good and effective global citizens. (…) We see huge benefit in reinforcing an international dimension to the University’s teaching and research and in internationalising existing activities and processes in order to develop the culture and feel of the University.” According to the Internationalisation Strategy, the University aims to “increase its share of specific overseas markets in recruitment, research, staff and other areas”, as well as offer “flexible, integrated and discipline-focussed internationalised curricula, incorporating global perspectives”.

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From student exchange programmes to professional study tours and research in exotic countries, the examples below from across the institution illustrate our vibrant global outlook from both the staff and the student perspective.

Honor Houghton, Senior Lecturer in Education and Faculty Internationalisation Liaison Officer in the Faculty of Education, Health and Social Care, looks back on an exciting year. The tremendous support and encouragement for the area of internationalisation within the Faculty has undoubtedly contributed to the successful development of internationalisation. EU Erasmus funding

opportunities have enabled staff and students to visit partners in Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Norway and Spain, and there were cross-departmental study visits to Finland and China (for more on China visits, see below). Students also took part in an Erasmus Intensive Programme organised in Estonia and an International Student Conference organised by the University of Latvia in Riga. EHSC students have also seized on the opportunity to spend time in Gambia, India and Japan in addition to a wide range of self-directed experiences across many countries. In June, six academics and administrators from the Faculty of Education Health and Social Care together with an administrator from the Finance Office made a study visit to China, in collaboration with China Challenge, a UK-based organisation providing gap year, work placement and travel opportunities to China for students and professionals. The group visited Xi’an and Beijing, making

professionally enriching visits to local schools. “We were able to observe lessons and take part in team teaching, as well share a dinner with a local family, bargain with street vendors to get the best deals, and take part in the energetic karaoke culture that turned out to be a great team bonding moment!”, recalls Honor Houghton.

Our curriculum increasingly reflects an international outlook. Clear examples are the MA Managing Contemporary Global Issues / MSc Managing Contemporary Global Issues with Environment and Development. These innovative and career-oriented postgraduate programmes respond to key global issues, events and themes, with a focus on finding solutions. (See below for the story of an MA Managing Contemporary Global Issues student who volunteered in Africa.) Other

examples are the BA programmes Global History & Politics and Politics & Global Studies, the MA Global Radio Production, which examines the implications of digital radio in the global age, and the BA History and the Modern World, which explores a range of historical events and cultures from around the globe that have influenced the modern world, such as the Holocaust and Soviet Communism. Furthermore, the BA Street Arts has been developing overseas

partnerships; Street Arts student have been invited to conferences and workshops across Europe over the last two years. Links are being forged with organisations and networks in France, Slovenia and Turkey, while Programme Leader John Lee has been exploring new collaboration opportunities in Russia, the Baltic States and across Europe. In April 2013, an EU-funded Erasmus Intensive Programme is planned between Winchester, Turkish, French and Spanish universities.

Alasdair Spark is Director of Internationalisation, responsible for enabling Winchester students to study abroad, and for exchange programmes with the USA and the Erasmus scheme.

David Street is Head of International Recruitment, responsible for recruiting new full-cost overseas students.

Sunita Martin, based in Student Services, is responsible for the care and support of international students at Winchester.

John Wilson is Visiting and Exchange Student Officer.

In addition, there are Internationalisation Liaison Officers in the faculties.

The Internationalisation Team

Winchester in the wider world

A global curriculum

The EHSC China study tour group in Xi’an

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Greek national Marilena Zaroulia is Lecturer in Drama in the Department of Performing Arts.

Marilena completed a BA (Hons) in Theatre Studies at the National University of Athens, before moving to the UK in 2002. She completed her PhD in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2007, and has been at Winchester since 2008. Her research focusses on contemporary theatre/performance and cultural politics (particularly globalisation, national identity and border-crossing) in post-1989 Europe. Between 2009 and 2012, she was a member of an AHRC-funded network studying the links between the Eurovision Song Contest and the formation of New Europe. Building on this work, Marilena has recently started coordinating the timely project ‘Inside/Outside Europe: Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance’. This interdisciplinary project involves 11 academics based in the UK, Germany and Greece, who explore theatrical

and quotidian performances of the current financial, socio-political and cultural crises in Europe. Mapping shifting notions of what constitutes ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ Europe through a variety of examples, the project asks: can performance be an agent and mediator of citizenships, democracies and revolutions? “For me, ‘Inside/Outside Europe’ is an opportunity to understand and respond to the current tears in the social fabric in Greece but also realise the potential for a new Europe as it is currently shaped.” explained Dr Zaroulia. “Working in UK higher education has allowed me to build collaborations and be in constant dialogue with people in other institutions. This project is a product of this context and will contribute to the growing research environment at the University.”

English & Media Studies student Patrick McClellan has travelled both to China and Japan as part of his studies.

As part of my degree at The University of Winchester, I was offered the chance to spend a semester participate in an exchange programme at Nagoya University of Foreign Studies in Nagoya, Japan. It was an incredible, eye-opening experience that has helped shape my goals and ambitions for the future. When I returned to England in December 2011, I immediately missed all of the nuances and quirks of living in a new country that Japan provided, and was eager to set my sights abroad as soon as possible. I soon became aware of China Challenge and in the summer of 2012, (after a quick return visit to Nagoya!) I set off for Xi’an, knowing very little of the region besides the famous Terracotta Army World Heritage Site. Primarily, my time there was spent tutoring children in English. My time spent studying, working and travelling abroad has helped define my identity and helped me realise what my true passions are. It has helped me

in being independent in new and completely foreign settings and I have also since been driven to study the languages. I am hugely thankful for being given the opportunity to travel to both Japan and China through the University of Winchester.

Managing Contemporary Global Issues student Clare Nolan recently joined EdUKaid, a small charity that works with rural communities in Tanzania to improve the teaching and learning environment. I have recently joined EdUKaid, a small grassroots ‘hands on’ charity that works with rural communities in Tanzania to improve the teaching and learning environment through taking small sustainable steps, supporting local initiatives to increase accessibility to education. As a Managing Contemporary Global Issues MA student with over six months of volunteering experience surrounding primary education in Malawi, I thought I was pretty clued up on education in an African context, but since working for EdUKaid I have gained an inside perspective of the reality on the ground, making me re-evaluate my own perception of education in the developing world.In August I travelled to Tanzania to experience village life in Mikindani (where the EdUKaid office is based) and to monitor and reflect on EdUKaid’s School Improvement Project. It did seem rather convenient to be travelling to Tanzania when I should be researching topics for my dissertation project! For me, EdUKaid’s employment of a Tanzanian model including, a Tanzanian Project Manager; Project Coordinator; Montessori trained Pre-primary

Patrick McClellan With a 6 year old boy he tutored

Marilena Zaroulia

classroom in Tanzania

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teachers and Tanzanian Fundi (carpenter, masons and workmen), is the key to the success of the charity. I was able to see just how immersed EdUKaid’s work really was in and amongst the local communities! Visiting schools in need of support, I began to think of the unbelievable state some of the schools were in and wondered how and why it has got this bad? I could start to feel a dissertation project coming on…

If you want to learn more about EdUKaid and their projects, visit www.edukaid.com. Do get in touch, we want to know what you think!

Professor Bill Lucas, Co-Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning, has just returned from a highly productive trip to Australia and New Zealand.

Just over a year ago, CRL Co-Director Professor Guy Claxton and I created the Expansive Education Network (eedNET, www.expansiveeducation.net). The network now boasts nine universities and a host of pioneering educational organisations. Its central premise is that the point of schooling is to expand young people’s capabilities so that they can thrive in an uncertain time at the same time as succeeding in their examinations. Intelligence, CRL has shown, is expandable and learnable. At eedNET’s heart, too, is the idea that teachers perform best when they are constantly reflecting on and enquiring into their own practices. EedNET is an online professional learning community as well as a place where teachers can publish their action research.

Most recently eedNET has been picked up by Deakin University in Australia, and a sister organisation has been formed. On a recent speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand I was able to lead a day with educators in Melbourne. The Australian Council for Educational Research has teamed up with the Open University Press in the UK to commission Guy Claxton, our colleague Dr Ellen Spencer and myself to write a book on CRL’s expansive education ideas and how they are taking root globally. The book will be published in 2013.

Dr Chris Aldous, Reader in Modern International History in the History Department, was awarded funding by the Wellcome Trust for a research collaboration with a Japanese professor to produce a monograph on public health in occupied post-World War II Japan.

I met Professor Akihito Suzuki of Keio University, Tokyo, through an old friend from my time at the London School of Economics, Susumu Osada, who secured a job at Keio in 2003. I knew of Akihito’s work in British and Japanese medical history and Susumu arranged for us to meet when I was in Tokyo in 2006, during which we discussed my work on public health reform in Japan during the American occupation (1945-52). Akihito encouraged me to submit an article I was writing on enteric diseases to Nihon Ishigaku Zasshi (Journal of Japanese History of Medicine), of which he had just joined the editorial board. This was published in 2008. He also encouraged me to develop my ideas about public health reform in Japan after 1945 in a book-length study and readily agreed to be a co-author when I approached him about a funding application for a year’s study leave support from the Wellcome Trust. As the Principal Investigator, I wrote the bulk of the book but found Akihito an invaluable source of critical comment and advice when I visited Tokyo twice during the course of my leave. I’m certain that having a Japanese co-author (with a PhD from University College London) helped greatly in securing the Wellcome Trust funding and, more importantly, in producing a monograph rich in perspectives and insights. The book, published by Routledge in 2012, is titled Reforming public health in occupied Japan, 1945-52: alien prescriptions?

Norwegian Karl Alvestad came to Winchester in 2009. He hasn’t looked back since and is now working on his PhD in History.

I’m from a small place called Fauske northern Norway. I came to Winchester in September 2009 as a visiting undergraduate student for a year, but by the end of the academic year I had applied to finish my BA in History at Winchester. Since then have I completed a Master’s in Historical Studies here as well, and in September 2012 I started a postgraduate research degree in History. For me Winchester offers both a more urban and cosmopolitan life than what I am used to from back home, and also the University and the city are a safe, welcoming and friendly gateway into the international community. To begin with it was going abroad and the fact that Winchester is both historic and small that attracted me, but the University’s welcoming attitude towards international students, together with the level of expertise of the academics, helped me to decide that it was the right place to apply to continue my studies after my BA. Basically is Winchester a good place to live and study for an international student, as it is friendly and warm, and, last but not least, welcomes diversity of all kinds.

Professor Bill Lucas in Geelong, Australia

Norwegian research student Karl Alvestad is enjoying life in Winchester

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On Wednesday 29th August, staff from the University’s Catering team helped redecorate classrooms at Shepherd’s Down School, a Local Authority-maintained community special school for around 100 children aged 4 - 11 years in Compton, near Winchester. The team (including student employees) achieved a fantastic amount of decorating. Gill Sanger (Senior Front of House Supervisor) commented: “It served as a team building day and it was great that a few of the students joined us too. We hope to make this an annual day for the team”.

Community EngagementEmployer-Supported Volunteering

Catering team at their employer-supported volunteering day at Shepherd’s Down School Macmillan cake sale

Fundraising

Macmillan Cancer Support In a combined fundraising effort, the Student Recruitment and Catering teams and the Department of Interprofessional Studies in the Faculty of Education, Health and Social Care raised £360 for Macmillan Cancer Support in a series of cake sales.

Movember

Once again the University had a strong team of facial hair growers for Movember (the month formerly known as November), intrepid men who pledge to grow a moustache for 30 days to raise funds and awareness of men’s health. The moustache is the mark of a man, a symbol to spark conversation and help change the face of men’s health. To support the Winchester Movember team, go to: http://uk.movember.com/mospace/index/search/#q=University of Winchester

Age UK

In 2010, Senior Lecturer in Sport Studies Richard Cheetham organised a festive Christmas dinner at the University for 100 elderly people, many of whom live alone and rarely have social contact due to age, health and transport issues. Cheetham received UnLtd Social Catalyst Award funding for the event. He recalls: “It was a great success; we had a table decorating competition, a quiz and a carol service.” This year he is once again organising an Age UK dinner for 100 elderly people, encouraging University staff to adopt

a table, decorate it and serve the meals to the guests. As in 2010, Catering Manager David Morton and his staff will support this bi-annual community partnership event, which takes place on Sunday 16 December.

Playing for Time Prison Theatre Project

In 2013, the University’s Playing for Time Theatre Company will celebrate its tenth anniversary of productions in West Hill HMP Winchester. In honour of this, the company will stage Timberlake Wertenbaker’s play Our Country’s Good, set in Australia in 1789 in a convict colony and based on a true story. The Governor in Chief, Captain Arthur Philip, decided that the staging of a play, the first ever production of a play in Australia, could aid the rehabilitation of the convicts. Our Country’s

Good explores the arguments for and against prisoners taking part in arts activities. The chances of the play being successful did not look good, yet something happened as the rehearsals developed; the officers began to see the prisoners in a new light and the prisoners also began to see themselves differently. “This play resonates so effectively with the contemporary context of staging plays in prisons that it is the perfect vehicle for staff and participants in the prison to reflect on the

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effect that undertaking this kind of work has on everyone involved”, explained Director Annie McKean. “We first staged this play in 2005; given the ongoing debates about what kinds of activities should be delivered in prisons in order to stop reoffending, we feel it is timely to revisit and restage the play.” The production will be directed by Dr Marianne Sharp, Senior Lecturer in Drama Studies. For staging dates, see What’s On.

Collaboration with Winchester Theatre Royal for second series of pre-show discussions

These events, organised by Millie Taylor, Professor of Musical Theatre, aim to take academic lectures and discussions out of the confines of the University and into the Winchester community. On 26 Sept, Senior Lecturer in Drama Dr Richard Cuming opened the new season with Awkward Comedy and Several Government Inspectors. He identified several different productions of Gogol’s A Government Inspector, focussing on its ‘awkward’ comedy and evaluating the ways the productions affect text. This was followed on Oct. 10th by Professor Andy Melrose’s Adopt, Adapt and Act, a talk about adapting novels to plays, which requires the playwright to focus on particular aspects of the text and an awareness of audience and context. On 26

October, Dr Helen Grime from the Department of Performing Arts and Dr Gary Farnell and PhD student Michael Goron from the Department of English, Creative Writing and American Studies offered their thoughts on ‘The importance in serious times of being trivial’ (a quote from a review of the 1939 production) as a pre-show talk to The importance of being Earnest. Dr Farnell reflected on the wordplay and punning which revealed the homosexual undertones of the play; the audience was surprised to learn that ‘being earnest’ was nineteenth-century slang for being homosexual. Dr Grime focussed on the seminal 1939 production, set against the backdrop of the outbreak of the Second World War. The play’s enormous popularity was reflected in Burberry’s advertising campaign for trench coats in 1940, which directly referenced the play’s title.

Further information on these events can be found on www.winchester.ac.uk > Academic Departments > Performing Arts > News and Events.

University Professor leads royal musical celebrations at Winchester Cathedral

On 17 November, Revd Professor June Boyce-Tillman MBE, Professor of Applied Music, led a concert of royal music at Winchester Cathedral to mark the close of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Hampshire. In a Golden Coach, which was attended by the University’s Chancellor, Professor Dame Mary Fagan DCVO JP, Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, featured over 200 schoolchildren singing a new commission Jubilee Wisdom, written and composed by Professor Boyce-Tillman. Also performing were Southern Sinfonia, a number of choirs, musicians and local schools. “We were honoured to be asked to arrange this final concert for Hampshire’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations,” said Professor Boyce-Tillman, who joined forces with local community groups to organise this event.

Scene from Our Country’s Good performed in 2005

Professors Andrew Melrose & Millie Taylor

Like every year, the Winchester Writers’ Conference recently organised a poetry competition for young writers; the 2012 winners were treated to a tea party with WWC Director Barbara Large MBE (r). Also pictured are poet Keith Bennett (l) and Paul Simmons from Marwell Wildlife, who were among the sponsors for the event.

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Dynamo Enterprise Challenge

Earlier this year, Winchester was chosen The 2012 Dynamo Enterprise Challenge, the annual inter-university student enterprise competition in the South, was hosted at the University of Southampton Science Park in Chilworth on Wednesday 14 November 2012, during Global Entrepreneurship Week (12 - 18 November). Formerly known as the Hampshire Enterprise Boot Camp, this year’s Dynamo Challenge was sponsored by the University of Southampton Science Park and Fusion, a joint WSX Enterprise/EU funded programme, which supports the start and growth of enterprises that focus on their environmental and social impact. In mixed-university teams, entrepreneurial students from the Universities of Bournemouth, Chichester, Portsmouth, Southampton, Southampton Solent and Winchester faced the challenge of coming up with new markets for ‘MUCKBUSTER®’, an innovative small anaerobic digester which turns organic waste into biogas, which can be used directly or converted into electricity. SEaB, the company which manufactures the ‘MUCKBUSTER®’, is based at Southampton Science Park where the event took place. Both Nigel Dowler, Sales and Marketing

Manager at SEaB, and Peter Birkett, Chief Executive of Southampton Science Park, were impressed by the enthusiasm of the students and the creativity of their ideas. There were nine teams, each comprising six students. Ideas for markets for the MUCKBUSTER® ranged from theme parks, prisons and new property developments to cruise ships; however, it was the winning team’s suggestion to install the anaerobic digesters in supermarkets that most impressed the judges, using supermarket food and packaging waste, and with the strapline ‘Don’t let our waste be wasted‘.

“It is always inspiring to see students really putting themselves to the test”, said Winchester’s Senior Lecturer in Enterprise Natalie Norton, one of the

co-organisers of the event. “They develop skills and confidence in the process, and in the context of a real business challenge. Well done to all involved.” Winchester student James Nelmes has participated in three Dynamo challenges and now works as Enterprise Intern at the University. ”As a previous participant at Dynamo Challenges, I recognise how valuable this experience can be to students”, he says. “I am delighted to be helping other students develop themselves further. It is great to see them going the extra mile to boost their employability skills, something the Dynamo Challenges have definitely done for me!”

For more information on Enterprise at Winchester, email enterprise@winchester.ac.uk

Winchester awarded funding for pioneering enterprise initiative and research

Earlier this year, Winchester was chosen as a partner for a £2 million

Higher Education support initiative, funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and delivered by UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs. For twelve months, the University will be working with UnLtd to develop a support structure which places social entrepreneurship at the heart of the institution, as well as giving staff, students and recent graduates the chance to start up a social venture. They will have the opportunity to apply for ‘Try It’ awards of up to £500 for ideas which change society for the better (e.g. community sports activities, theatre and dance projects working with specific groups, education

workshops or environmental initiatives) or for ‘Do It’ awards of up to £5000 to develop an existing idea further.

www.winchester.ac.uk > University Awards > Enterprise Awards

Senior Lecturer in Enterprise Natalie Norton has also successfully applied for funding for two enterprise research projects. The first, funded by Enterprise Educators UK, is examining Effectuation-led Learning For Students (ELFS). The concept of effectuation has become increasingly popular within the field of entrepreneurship as an alternative approach towards how we understand the process of venture creation. This project, which will be delivered collaboratively with the University of Sheffield, aims to explore effectual and causal approaches towards teaching and underpinning entrepreneurship and enterprise in Higher Education. The project will include a literature

review which will inform the development of a mobile application to be used as a teaching tool. The aim of the app is to encourage students to approach the entrepreneurial process from a more effectual perspective, as opposed to the causal perspective associated with the more traditional business planning process.

Secondly, a Collaborative Teaching Development Grant was awarded by the Higher Education Authority for a project looking into the Evaluation and Development of Creativity Skills, a collaboration between the University of Winchester’s Enterprise Team and Centre for Real-World Learning and Southampton Solent University. This project aims to create a structure and framework for the development of creativity in Higher Education in the context of employability skills. Students will be encouraged to explore their creativity through a series of online web/phone-based activities. As well as generate data for profiling and research, this will help students to articulate their creativity skills for future employers. The online resources and workshop materials will be made available to other institutions.

Business and Enterprise

The winners of the 2012 Dynamo Enterprise Challenge: Juan Felipe Tunnell, Nina Richards, John Bower, Elle Stone, Jonathan Akass and Winchester student Liu Yang.

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Wired Wessex firing up for 2013Rounding off another year of bringing information and support to small business in Hampshire, Wired Wessex is going into the new year with a new Events Co-ordinator. Debbie Martin joined the University’s Knowledge Exchange team in October 2012 and has been spending her first few weeks encouraging more interaction between members via social media, including introducing a guest blog for members to showcase their expertise and to encourage ‘knowledge exchange’, in the truest sense.

Topics that have featured in recent Wired Wessex events have been the similarities between sport and business (e.g. setting goals and targets, having the right mindset, gathering a dedicated team around you) and recruitment tactics; also, in the first of a series of ‘getting to know you’ opportunities known as the ‘Fab Four’, the networking group put three of its members in the spotlight via the Wired Wessex website, Facebook and a blog, while tweeting about the fourth for a week. “This new initiative is to enable members to interface their businesses and network more

effectively and to greater advantage in the future”, explains Debbie Martin, who launched the Fab Four initiative.

In December, the cameras rolled at the Wired Wessex Christmas evening networking event on the 5th of December in the Link Gallery at the University’s Business School. Wayne Jefferson, whose works is currently on show in the gallery, talked about art in business, and Wired Wessex member Steve Feeney provided the video expertise to feature the film’s stars – the Wired Wessex membership.

The new year will bring the challenge to lead businesses out of recession and steadfastly on to continued growth and success. The programme of Wired Wessex events will include social media know-how, the basics for small business, blogging, SEO for dummies, meeting a variety of mentors, film-making and perhaps even the odd ‘Dragon’…

Join us now! Membership is free at www.wiredwessex.co.uk. We can also be found on Facebook (www.facebook.com/WiredWessex) and Twitter (@wiredwessex)

ANN ABRAHAMAnn Abraham was the UK Parliamentary Ombudsman and Health Service Ombudsman for England from November 2002 to January 2012; she served on the Committee on Standards in Public Life from 2000 to 2002. She has recently been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Health Education England. She was Legal Services Ombudsman for England and Wales

from 1997 to 2002 and Chief Executive of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureau from 1991 to 1997. Ann studied at Bedford College, University of London, graduating in German and Philosophy in 1974. She subsequently obtained a postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies and the Professional Qualification of the Chartered Institute of Housing. Throughout her career, Ann has been a strong advocate for social justice, and, in her role as Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, published several reports highlighting unfair treatment and poor service by government bodies and the NHS.

CARL BARÂTHampshire-born Carl Barât is a musician, actor and author, best known as the co-frontman of the band the Libertines and the lead guitarist and frontman of the band Dirty Pretty Things. He also has a successful solo career. In 1997, Carl and Pete Doherty formed the Libertines, going on to have high-profile success, including winning the NME Best British Band Award in 2005. He has sold 1.8 million albums,

has had four top ten hits and one UK Number 1 album. Carl has also made his name as a writer, actor and model; he has modelled alongside actress Juliette Lewis for a clothing brand, appeared in the British film Telstar in 2008, and in 2010 he appeared alongside Sadie Frost in the play Fool for Love. He also played the lead in his first opera, playing the role of Nero in Pop’pea in Paris to rave reviews in the French press. Carl is a strong supporter of several charities and causes and also of youth education, primarily through Instigate Debate, a cultural and political UK project seeking to encourage young people to interview elected politicians, celebrities and public figures on the main issues of the day. He is also an ambassador for the ‘Child Line Rocks’, which raises money to support the running of ChildLine. He has also supported campaigns such as Make Roads Safe and Rock against Racism.

New Wired Wessex Events Coordinator Debbie Martin

Graduation 2012From 6 to 9 November, Winchester Cathedral once again formed the historic and atmospheric backdrop for the University’s Graduation ceremonies. Like every year, the University was proud to have an outstanding line-up of individuals receiving honorary awards during the ceremonies.

Honorary Graduates of the University of Winchester 2012

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PETER CHARLESBritish-Irish equestrian Peter Charles is one of the world’s most successful show jumpers and trainers. He rode to victory at London 2012, helping to deliver GB’s first show jumping Olympic gold medal in 60 years with his team mates Nick Shelton, Ben Maher and Scott Brash. Peter is also a dual European champion, triple Hickstead Derby winner and has jumped in over 100 Nations Cup teams

and won over 50 major Grand Prix. He battled back from a serious fall in 2006 where he ruptured his spinal sheath, shattering three ribs and breaking a vertebra. Living in Bentworth in Hampshire, he also trains and sells horses to Olympic level as well as designing and building equestrian estates to individual specifications.

ROBYN HITCHCOCKEducated at Winchester College in the late 1960’s Robyn Hitchcock has written and recorded over 500 songs. He recently wrote a lament for the Arctic polar thaw, There goes the ice, recorded with KT Tunstall, with whom he was on a Cape Farewell environmental expedition to Greenland in 2008. Since founding the art-rock band The Soft Boys in 1976, Robyn has played with many

respected musicians. In 1996 Jonathan Demme directed an in-concert film of Robyn in New York and in 2003 cast him in his remake of The Manchurian candidate.

LADY SAINSBURY OF PRESTON CANDOVER CBE

Anya Linden was born in Manchester but moved the same year with her family to Leningrad for five years. In 1938, she moved to Berkeley, California for nine years, during which time Anya began her ballet training with Dorothy Pring and later with Theodore Kosloff. The family returned to England in 1947 and she joined the Sadlers Wells School, entering the Royal Ballet Company in

1951. Anya became a soloist in 1953 and was promoted to ballerina in 1958, dancing a range of classical roles. In 1963, Anya married John Sainsbury (now Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover KG). She retired from the stage in 1965 and served for many years on the Board of the Royal Ballet and the Rambert Dance Company, most recently serving on the Board of the Royal Opera House, retiring in 2007. In 1987 she established the Linbury Prize for Stage Design for talented, young emerging stage designers. Most recently she staged a performance at the Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House, titled An Intimate Evening with Anna Pavlova. She received a CBE in January 2003..

ROGER WITCOMB Roger served on the Board of Governors at Winchester from 2004 and was Chair from 2006 until 2011. In 2011, the Secretary of State for Business appointed Roger as the Chair of the Competition Commission. He has been a member of the Competition Commission Board since 2009 and had served as Deputy Chair before taking up his role as Chair. Roger was non-executive director for

several companies including Infaco (which develops infrastructure projects in poor countries), Andrews Estate Agents and Anglian Water. He was Finance Director of National Power from 1996 to 2000, having previously been at BP and Cambridge University, where he taught economics.

Honorary Fellows of the University of Winchester 2012

JOHN WOODCOCKJohn Woodcock is best known as a cricket writer and journalist. He was born in Longparish, Hampshire where he still lives. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford University. He was cricket correspondent of The Times from 1953 to 1988 and editor of Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack for six years from 1980 until 1986. Winner of the British Press Awards Sportswriter of the Year

1987, he wrote the Times One Hundred Greatest Cricketers in 1998. He was awarded an OBE in 1996.

GRAHAM IXER Graham Ixer is the Head of Social Work Education at the General Social Care Council (GSCC). From 1977 to 1981 he attended North East London Polytechnic, and has subsequently gained qualifications from the Lincoln Institute of Psychotherapy, West Sussex Institute of Higher Education and the University of East London. He is a qualified social worker and teacher. His

career began in social work practice, and lecturing, before he moved into policy. In 1997, he took up a post as UK Project Manager for the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work. He then moved to the General Social Care Council, working as Head of Policy and then Head of Education responsible for regulating 83 universities. In his role as Head of Policy for the GSCC, he was responsible for a number of successful initiatives including the first ever national service user involvement strategy and developing the first ever UK codes of practice for social work. Graham has made a huge contribution to the Social Work programme at the University of Winchester, where he is currently advising on curriculum development towards a re-validation of the Social Work degree. He has worked with both students and staff within the department and is supporting Winchester’s development of a practice education community.

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News from the FacultiesArtsFunding for voice play project for childrenDr Yvon Bonenfant from the Department of Performing Arts has been awarded £5620 by the Arts Council England, to supplement funding from the Wellcome Trust for Uluzuzulalia, a voice play project for children aged 6 to 10 (http://www.uluzuzulalia.com). Voice artist and researcher Dr Bonenfant is Programme Leader for the MA in Devised Performance in the Department of Performing Arts.

Groundbreaking new online journal for the creative artsThe University is launching a new online experimental journal dedicated to performance as research, Experiments and Intensities. This is the first publication in the new Winchester University Press series Experiments and Intensities. Series Editor Dr Yvon Bonenfant explains: “This journal is a new hybrid series of innovative artist-style publications, bringing together elements of the curated exhibition/performance series, the academic journal, the Francophone tradition of the cahier and the artist’s book to engage with performance as research in the languages of art.” For more information, visit www.winchester.ac.uk/winchesteruniversitypress or www.experimentsandintensities.com

Education, Health and Social careUniversity hosts first Early Childhood Action Conference

On 27 October, the University hosted the launch conference for Early Childhood Action (ECA). The conference Unhurried pathways – towards a new paradigm for early childhood featured a wide range of influential speakers focussed on the fashionable culture that forces children to grow up too soon.

The keynote address, The young mind of the 21st century: realising its true potential, was given by acclaimed Professor of Physiology Baroness Susan Greenfield. Winchester research psychologist and child care expert Dr Penelope Leach, best known as the author of Your baby and child, was joined in conversation by Emeritus Professor of Child Psychology and Psychobiology Colwyn Trevarthen FRSE. Other keynote speakers included Sue Palmer, co-chair of the Scottish Government Early Years Task Force’s Committee on Culture and Change and author of Toxic childhood (2006).

“This conference offers different ways of thinking about and facilitating young children’s development and learning,” explained Dr Richard House, Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies and a core member of Early Childhood Action. “A key aspect of ECA’s approach is to support early-years practitioners in becoming autonomous professionals who are sensitive and attuned to the unique needs of each child. It also aims to highlight the social, cultural and political contexts of practitioners’

work and to put children’s well-being before political ideology or the latest policy-making fashions.”

Conference Convener Dr Richard House, Senior Lecturer in Education, was delighted with the event: “There was a discernible, day-long ‘conference buzz’, indicating just how engaged the delegates were in the themes covered by the speakers. Winchester will hopefully be able to host further conferences in this broad field, as interest in viable alternatives to current early-years policy approaches continues to grow in the sector.”

Business, Law and SportCentre for Information Rights launched

On 6 September, the Department of Law launched the Centre for Information Rights. For both the public and private sector, information is often an organisation’s most valuable asset; protection, release, sharing and exploitation of that information can bring significant opportunities and challenges. The launch of the University’s Centre for Information Rights

Baroness Susan Greenfield at the ECA Conference

ECA Conference Chair Wendy Scott; Professor Joyce Goodman; Senior Lecturer in Education Dr Richard House; Vice-Chancellor Professor Joy Carter and

Baroness Susan Greenfield

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brought together information rights experts and practitioners to explore a range of current information rights issues. The

event was chaired by Jos Creese, CIO of Hampshire Council; the keynote address was delivered by Victoria Cetinkaya, Senior Policy

Officer at the Information Commissioner’s Office, who discussed the future of information rights. This includes such issues as developments in EU data protection law, anonymisation, the Cloud and Bring Your Own Device. “The ICO is the authoritative arbiter of information rights”, explained Victoria Cetinkaya. “We therefore welcome this organisation’s work to raise awareness and understanding of this important subject matter, which increasingly impacts on all of our lives.” The CIT was set up by solicitor and Senior Lecturer in Law Marion Oswald and the launch event was kindly sponsored by Blake Lapthorn Solicitors.

www.winchester.ac.uk/CIR

Simon Stokes, Marion Oswald, Jos Creese and Victoria Cetinkaya at the launch of the Centre for Information Rights

Business School appoints Professor of Responsible Management The Centre for Responsible Management at the Winchester Business School is delighted to announce the appointment a Professor of Responsible Management, in an initiative sponsored by the Bulldog Trust. Professor Alan Murray formally joins Winchester

Business School from Leeds University on 1 December 2012. In 2006 Dr Murray was part of the United Nations Taskforce which developed the Principles of Responsible Management Education; he founded the British Academy of Management Special Interest Group in CSR in 2007, and organised a number of conferences to support the growing number of researchers and teachers in the CSR and sustainability field. In 2008, he published Corporate responsibility: a critical introduction,

with Michael Blowfield, which quickly established itself as the leading textbook in the area. He is presently in partnership with the Yorkshire-based NGO CO2Sense, to develop a programme designed to meet the challenges presented by sustainable development and climate change. For more information on responsible management at Winchester, visit www.winchester.ac.uk/CRM

Humanities and Social SciencesLEAP: an international film about faith

On 8th September the UK première took place of the documentary film LEAP. The film tells the story of a devotee and his Guru and the choices they make on their journey of surrender to God. The film follows the spiritual paths of Keshava Madhava Das, who began life as Kenneth Kairenius, a tram driver from Helsinki (photo left), and his Guru Radhanath Swami, who started off as Richard Slavin, a Jewish boy in Chicago. Slavin travelled to India to become the initiated disciple of the founder of the Hare Krishna movement, and now has thousands of disciples himself.

The film project was initiated by two University-based BASR members, who acted as consultants to the film. Assistant Director and scriptwriter Dr Graham Dwyer is a Visiting Research Fellow; Dr Anna King is Reader in Theology and Religious Studies, and attached to the Winchester Centre of Religions for Reconciliation and Peace. The University provided the initial funding for the project.

LEAP was first shown as part of the recent British Association for the Study of Religion Annual Conference 2012, hosted by the Department of TRS, and was very well received at the première. The Very Revd James Atwell, Dean of Winchester, commented: “I enjoyed the film tremendously and felt it was a real insight into one person’s pilgrimage in two worlds and of how the relationship with a Guru works.” Eileen Barker, Professor Emeritus of

Sociology of Religion at the London School of Economics, said: “LEAP provides a rare insight into a unique relationship – that between a devotee and his guru. We are given a glimpse of something that is beyond our grasp yet obviously very real.”

LEAP is available on DVD, for streaming and download via the LEAP website (http://leapthefilm.com)

LEAP Director Jouko Aaltonen with Graham Dwyer

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New books by Winchester staff

Ulrike Ziemer (2011) Ethnic Belonging, Gender and Cultural Practices: Youth Identities in Contemporary Russia. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag.

How are youth cultural identities rooted in gender, ethnicity, and place? What resources do young people from ethnic minorities use in creating their cultural identities? Drawing upon interdisciplinary research, Ulrike Ziemer’s case study

demonstrates the different ways in which young people from ethnic minorities respond to the social, political, and cultural transformations of post-Soviet Russia and provides a detailed analysis of how local vs. global relations are experienced outside the West. Relying on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Ziemer explores the complex processes of identity formation and cultural experiences among young Armenians in Krasnodar krai and young Adyghs in the Republic of Adyghea. Both ethnic groups, Armenians and Adyghs, have a minority status in Russia, yet Adyghs are indigenous to the region while Armenians constitute a diaspora people. Ulrike Ziemer is the first to examine specifically Armenian and Adygh youth identities in the context of everyday life experiences in post-Soviet Russia.

Ulrike Ziemer and Sean Roberts (eds) (2012) East European Diasporas, Migration and Cosmopolitanism. London: Routledge.Following the demise of the USSR in 1991, and the ensuing collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, widespread population movements took place across Central and Eastern Europe. Whole nations disappeared and (re)-emerged and diasporic transnational ties and belonging have experienced a revival. This book explores some of the many different facets of diasporic life and migration across Central and Eastern Europe by specifically employing the concept of cosmopolitanism. It examines aspects of migrants’ everyday lives and identities, considers some of the difficulties faced by migrant minorities in being accepted and integrated in the host societies, but also examines questions of citizenship and diasporic politics.

Steven Allen and Laura Hubner (Eds) 2012 Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts. Bristol: Intellect.

Eric Anderson (2012) Sport, masculinities and sexualities. Abingdon: Routledge.

Jan Georgeson and Jane Payler (Eds) International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Care (January 2013). Open University PressThis book, co-edited by Dr Jane Payler, Senior Lecturer in Education, in collaboration with Jan Georgeson of Plymouth University, provides a critical review of how early-years education and care is organised in 17

countries, in addition to Great Britain. The book examines key influential approaches to early years as well as some less well known systems to meet the needs of early-years students on a range of foundation, Bachelor and Master’s degrees. Whilst many approaches are widely admired, it is important for reflective practitioners to understand the motivation that gave rise to influential approaches in their original contexts. Additionally, the provenance and principles of less widely known approaches from Japan, South Africa, India, Estonia and China, to name but a few, encourage students to consider the influences on their own countries’ provision.

Dr Payler recently organised a symposium with colleagues from Denmark and Australia in conjunction with Jan Georgeson to disseminate and discuss their research into interprofessional practice in early years care and education. “Interprofessional practice in early years provision has been the focus of policy implementation over recent years in a number of countries”, she explains. “However, the ways in which this is played out as a context-specific social practice for early-years practitioners and young children are under-researched. In this symposium we examined participation in interprofessional practice in three countries, Australia, Denmark and England, at different stages of policy implementation, highlighting training and organisational needs.

Stewart Cotterill (2012) Team psychology in sports: Theory and practice. Hove, East Sussex: Routledge.

Chris Grover 2012 Hyde: From Dissolution to Victorian Suburb. Victorian Heritage Press

Stephen Parker and Tom Lawson (Eds) 2012 God and war. The Church of England and armed conflict in the twentieth century. Farnham: Ashgate.

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Visual ArtDramatic colourful landscapes filled the walls of The Link Gallery in an exhibition titled Near Horizons, featuring work by local artist Wayne Jefferson. The 35 bold expressive oil-on-canvas paintings depict the feeling and energy of the local countryside. “I am drawn by the ever changing character of the sky and the dramatic luminous colour and form that exists in this part of the south” explains Wayne. “The paintings aim to reflect an individual reaction to this unique landscape on both a physical and an emotional level. They move away from traditional painterly translations of the landscape and into a personal response that is an interpretation of place which seeks to express the sensation and personality of the locale”. Near Horizons ran until Tuesday 11 December.

Earlier this autumn The Link Gallery featured the work of Jackie Knee, with Scaffolding and drawing: an exploration, an investigation of fascinating patterns and repetition in wooden scaffold structures Jackie saw while in India. The return of the popular group of Hampshire-based visual artists 2D3D to The Link Gallery was once again a great success over the summer. Their latest exhibition, titled Insight, featured over 20 of the region’s best painters, sculptors, printmakers, multi-media and textile artists. It also celebrated Hampshire Open Studios with a different artist in attendance from 18 to 27 August.

Next year is set to be another busy one at the gallery. We have received several interesting exhibition proposals but are still inviting proposals from individuals or

groups of artists. If you are interested, please visit www.winchester.ac.uk/linkgallery and go to Exhibiting at The Link Gallery for more information. Visit the website or email visualart@winchester.ac.uk for more information, or follow us on Twitter @Link_Gallery.

Students and staff of the University have also been contributing work for the fifth exhibition at The Student Centre Gallery. The exhibition features a number of 2D pieces in a wide variety of media, from acrylic on canvas paintings inspired by a woollen tapestry rug brought back from the Galapagos Islands to photography exploring the structure, form and texture of nature.

Vijayawada Fish House (Jackie Knee: Scaffolding and drawing: an exploration)

Wayne Jefferson (Near Horizons)

Marjorie Thomsen. House and garden (Insight)

Cathy Wharton Galapagos

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WinACC and University collaborate on Renewable Energy Conference

On 17 July, in partnership with the University and supported by Winchester City Council, Winchester Actions on Climate Change hosted a conference that presented the findings of a report on renewable energy in Winchester District. The conference was opened by WinACC Chair Ernie Shelton, who explained the findings of the report, which demonstrated the range of renewable energy options that were available in the District, including onshore wind, large-scale solar PV, landfill gas and anaerobic digestions, and that these together could deliver a reduction of 100 kilotonnes. There were presentations on business-led and community-led options and

debate and discussion about the way forward locally. Darren Cuming, Development Manager for EDF Renewable Energy projects, gave the developer-led perspective. He gave an overview of the development process an energy company goes through when implementing a renewable energy scheme and placed this process in the context of EDF’s plans for a wind farm at Bullington Cross. David Green, CEO and Founder of the Eco-Island Partnership CIC, gave a short talk on community-led schemes for renewable energy from his experiences on the Isle of Wight. WinACC Director Chris Holloway commented: “we were really pleased to see this event so well attended and to be able to share the opportunities Winchester District has for creating renewable energy and the ability to cut our carbon footprint.”

University news

Having won the Winchester Eco Business of the Year at the 2012 Winchester Business Excellence Awards earlier in the year (see KEN issue 20), in July the University also scooped up the South Coast Eco Business of the Year Award.

The South Coast Business Awards are organised by the Southern Daily Echo, in partnership with Business Solent and Destination Southampton and in association with law firm Trethowans.

The University received the award for its outstanding commitment to sustainability, reducing its energy consumption and carbon emissions, its sustainable food offering, for integrating sustainability into the curriculum, exemplary waste management and excellent staff and student engagement. The University was also one of three finalists for the Hampshire Eco Business of the Year Award.

Carbon Corner

David Green, CEO and Founder of the EcoIsland Project on IoW

Darren Cumming, Development Manager for EDF Renewable Energy projects

Left to right: Olympian Sharron Davies, Energy and Environment Manager Mat Jane, Programme Leader of the MSc Sustainable Development Dr Natalia Yakovleva, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Tommy Geddes, Catering Manager David

Morton and Charles Burt from Olive Consultancy.

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What’s OnListed below is a small selection of the many events the University welcomes you to over the next few months. For more information, visit www.winchester.ac.uk/newsandevents and go to Public Events Calendar.

Research seminars

Blogs, tweets and sagas: the subversion of authoritative discourse in medieval Iceland by Dr Phil Cardew, Pro Vice-Chancellor, London South Bank University;

The creation of an enduring image: last stands of the Vikings by Professor Tom Shippey, Department of English, St Louis University.

24 Jan. 2013, 18.00, Room 6, Medecroft Building, King Alfred Campus, Sparkford Road, Winchester SO22 4NR.

Two talks in the new Winchester Seminars on Comparative Medieval Cultures seminar series. For more information, contact Katherine.Weikert@winchester.ac.uk. Free entry.

Re-establishing the significance of Creator and Creation for Old Testament Theology by the Very Rev’d James Atwell, Dean of Winchester.

23 Jan. 2013, 16.00, Room 15, Medecroft Building, King Alfred Campus, Sparkford Road, Winchester SO22 4NR. Free entry.

Part of the Centre for the Study of Theology and Religion seminar series. For further information, contact Angus.Paddison@winchester.ac.uk. Free entry.

Business and EnterpriseCollaborating to Grow the organic textiles market, with William Lana, founder and CEO of Greenfibres.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 18.00, Winchester Business School, West Downs Campus, Romsey Road, Winchester SO22 5HT.

Part of the Hoare Centre for Responsible Management series ‘Collaborate!’ 2012-13. Entry £10, with the price including a small buffet and drinks. Free for students. To reserve your place, email conferences@winchester.ac.uk or phone 01962 827322.

Community EngagementOur Country’s Good by Playing for Time Theatre Company

Wednesday 30 April 2013, 18.00

Wednesday 1 May 2013, 14.15 and 18.00

Thursday 2 May 2013, 18.00

All performances take place at HMP Winchester, Romsey Road, Winchester. For more information and to book tickets, contact

Annie.McKean@winchester.ac.uk.

Wired Wessex: Promoting business with videoThursday 31 January 2013, 18.00

Winchester Business School, West Downs Campus, Romsey Road, Winchester SO22 5HT.

Video offers one of the most cost-effective ways of delivering your message, training or showcasing your business and its services.

Steve Feeney will take you through the uses and the practicalities of using film to promote your business in a compelling and credible way.

Cost £5 on the door, please register to attend at www.wiredwessex.co.uk

Space for Peace27 January 2013, 19.00, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester.

Choirs from across the country gather to sing chants and songs from many different traditions at this interfaith event for peace. Listen, share, join in or just reflect. Free entry.

Winchester Action on Climate Change

Open meeting

Saturday 5 January 2013, 10.30 - 12.00, with refreshments at 10.00. St Lawrence Parish Room, Colebrook Street, Winchester SO23 9LH.

Like all WinACC’s Saturday morning free open meetings, this will be informal, participatory and friendly - an ideal way to meet like-minded people. The main theme for this open meeting will be: priorities for action on climate change in 2013.

For more information, visit www.winacc.org.uk

Enterprise Lectures On 13 February 2013, we welcome Mark Diacono, who will be delivering a free public lecture at the University in the Enterprise Lecture Series. Former Head Gardener for Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Winchester alumnus Mark Diacono now runs his own organic smallholding and shop, Otter Farm in Devon. Further details will be posted on www.winchester.ac.uk/enterpriselectures.

Interfaith Lectures 20 March 2013, 18.00 for 18.30. Dr Gregory Barker at The Stripe, King Alfred Campus. Jesus Beyond Christianity: Unexpected Images of Jesus from the World’s Religions (In partnership with Winchester Cathedral)

Psychology Research Fellow Dr Clifford Stevenson recently carried out research into the Magh Mela, a

large religious gathering in India

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Mark Diacono

In the next issue…

Research Week 2013The spring 2013 Knowledge Exchange Newsletter will focus on Research Week 2013, a celebration of research at Winchester in all its rich variety, which will take place from 27 April to 3 May.