DOCSLIB.ORG

Unilife Issue3

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Unilife Issue3 The free magazine for The Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST UniLife 22nd March 2004 Volume 1 Issue 3 World First As New Scanner Arrives 2 UniLife NewsDigest A summary of the key news in this issue of UniLife: Contents 3 New scanner for University The University has taken delivery of a new scanner at Hope Hospital, Salford, 4 News the first of its kind in the world to be 3 installed, which will be used to by 8 Research researchers working across a range of illnesses and conditions. 11 Project Unity 12 Profile Both universities have held a number of 14 People workshops with local schools as part of the annual international Brain Awareness 15 Students 4 Week which aims to advance public awareness about the benefits of brain 17 Graduate News research. 18 What’s On 20 Seminars & Lectures The Manchester Mueseum has launched an artist-in-residence project called 21 Noticeboard/Vacancies `Alchemy’ which will see four North West 6 artists with university links use the 22 Classified Ads museum’s collections to create dynamic, contemporary art around the building. 24 Just the Job University researchers have revealed a link between smoking and blindness. Evidence shows that quitting smoking 8 slows the development of the most Front cover photo by CP Media common cause of adult blindness. Their findings were published in the British Medical Journal. Botany graduate Doris Duncan is 105 this month and recalls some of her memories of her time at the Victoria 17 University of Manchester where she studied from 1917-20, including a lecture form Ernest Rutherford. UniLife 3 News World first as scanner arrives A state-of-the-art scanner which will provide world-class imaging facilities for researchers and clinicians was delivered to Hope Hospital, last week The Magnetic Resonance (MR) scanner, "My main interests in using the scanner are the first of it’s kind in the world to be to study areas of the brain which undertake installed, has been purchased by the certain tasks and also imaging recovery from Victoria University of Manchester (VUM) brain damage following a stroke." and will allow it to maintain and enhance Professor Williams and his colleagues are its international profile by expanding the also investigating people with anti-social frontiers of high field magnetic personality disorder and how they resonance imaging. process information differently. A crucial component of the scanner is a The new 3T scanner will become magnet which measures 1.57m by 1.88m integrated into the existing fleet of MR and weighs in at around 5.5 tonnes. It is research scanners at the University capable of achieving higher quality joining a dedicated research 1.5 Tesla images and quicker scanning times. Philips Intera scanner based at the The University has made a multi-million Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility pound investment in human MRI on the University campus and a 1.5 Tesla, facilities culminating in this, the arrival of Philips MR scanner (used for research two the 3T (Tesla) Intera-Achieva magnetic afternoons a week) also based on the resonance (MR) scanner from Philips Hope Hospital site. Medical Systems, which will be based on The human MRI research programme is the Hope Hospital site and will be in overseen by the University's Faculty of operation in the summer. Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Building upon its continuing success, high Pharmacy (MDNP) through the newly- profile in MR imaging and strong created Translational Imaging Unit (TIU) partnership with Philips Medical Systems, as reported in the last issue of UniLife. It the University was "cherry picked" to provides a ‘one stop shop’ for those become a development site for this new carrying out research in imaging. This generation of MR scanners. The reputation new facility will be available to of Hope Hospital, a teaching hospital of researchers at VUM, UMIST and in the the University, as a centre of excellence for associated teaching hospitals. neurological, musculoskeletal, and Professor Colin Sibley, Associate Dean of oncology provides an excellent location in Research in the Faculty of MDNP and which to site the scanner. Chair of the TIU, said:"The new scanner Professor of Imaging Science, Steve will be invaluable for research leading to Williams, has been heavily involved in the new advances in diagnosing and treating Professor Steve Williams at the delivery selection and purchase of the scanner stroke, mental illness, cancer and a range of the scanner to Hope Hospital which has come from Holland will allow of other diseases. It will ensure that the research across a number of fields to take University remains at the forefront of a major step forward. such research worldwide." www.tiu.man.ac.uk 4 UniLife News Brain Awareness Week Both universities took part in the annual ‘Brain Awareness Week’ last week - an international event - with a series of school workshops. Dr Ellen Poliakoff, a Lecturer in Psychology used a dramatic re-telling of the Little Red at the Victoria University of Manchester, Riding Hood story and hands-on commented: "We don’t normally think demonstrations to give 8-11 year olds a ‘Brain Awareness Week’ is organised by about how useful it is to have a brain! It better understanding of the senses and the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives to was a great chance for us, the how they work. advance public awareness about the researchers, to leave our laboratories and The workshops, sponsored by Astra Zeneca, benefits of brain research, both computers and to pass on our are part of the Neuroscience Science Universities ran several workshops enthusiasm for the subject." culminating in ‘Brain Discovery Day’, at Communication programme within the the Manchester Museum’s Discovery During the week, six postgraduates from School of Biological Sciences led by Centre on 20 March. Here children got the VUM’s Division of Neuroscience Professor Nancy Rothwell, and co- involved in activities with 15 researchers showed 90 schoolchildren just how clever ordinated by University science from VUM and UMIST to discover more our brains are in sensing our environment communicators, Dr Erinma Ochu and Dr about the brain, how it works and current but also how our senses can sometimes Michelle Lockwood, who trained the research here in Manchester. be tricked.‘You know it makes sense!’ postgraduates. http://www2.umist.ac.uk/optometry/neuroscience/Brain_Awareness.htm Corporates Target Manchester Organised by the joint Careers Service,, expanding activities with both pre-Higher "Target Manchester," was aimed at Education students, as well as with alumni. companies who most actively engage Jane Ratchford, Director of the Careers with, and who have a special Service, said "The feedback from relationship with both universities. corporate clients was excellent. Target Morning workshops provided an Manchester has provided a first class opportunity to inform delegates about platform on which we can build future Vice-Chancellor (VUM) Rolls Royce, Citigroup, BP,Accenture, Project Unity; to network with academic partnerships between the new merged Professor Sir Martin Morgan Stanley, and Eversheds were staff and discuss future collaboration. university and major companies." Harris (second left) among more than 60 blue-chip companies The topic of graduate recruitment, For further information contact Tammy and Jane Ratchford, who recently came to Manchester for an dominated afternoon discussions and Goldfeld at [email protected] Careers Service inaugural conference designed to promote while most were very happy with the or [email protected]. (centre), with guests partnerships between business and the current relationship with the Careers new merged University. Service, several guests suggested www.graduatecareersonline.com UniLife 5 Funding Announced Next year’s funding allocations for English universities have been announced with VUM and UMIST attracting a combined total of £146.8 million for teaching and research. HEFCE will distribute £5,993 million in UMIST 2004-05, an increase of 9.3 per cent Teaching £20,111,925 compared with 2003-04 . Funding for Research £15,050,424 teaching has increased by 5.6 per cent plus an additional £134,054 (just over 3 per cent in real terms), Research money is allocated on the basis allowing provision for an additional of the Research Assessment Exercise 20,000 full-time equivalent student results and the number of staff engaged places for 2004-05, including 5,000 in research. Funding is weighted with foundation degree places. Funding for laboratory and clinical subjects receiving research has increased by 3.9 per cent more than social sciences and (in cash terms). In addition, there has humanities. Universities also receive been a 60 per cent increase in funding funds for supervising research students. for capital, including support for research capital, to £584 million. Teaching money comprises core funding and money for widening participation The breakdown is: activity. Core funding reflects the number The Victoria University of Manchester of students,WP funding reflects the Teaching £65,952,484 educational attainment by ward for others, Research £45,558,330 entry qualifications are also recognised. www.hefce.ac.uk Campus Walks Staff at UMIST are being invited to get to know the Oxford Road campus by taking one of the Campus Walks. The walks were originally set up by the Directorate of Sports as part of a health and fitness initiative for staff at the Victoria University of Manchester. Organised walks are held on the first campus and tell you about the Tuesday of every month starting at buildings. For further information, or if 12.15pm in the main quad. The walk takes you would like to volunteer as a ‘guide’, about 16 minutes at a brisk pace and contact Gail Heathcote-Milner, Sports takes in the main points of the campus.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Schuster Annexe
    8.0 Design 8.1 Understanding The Campus Masterplan Our visit to the Schuster Annex Building’s proposed We anticipate that the predominant direction of travel site highlighted a number of interesting aspects. The for students will be from the new Stopford Spine, Schuster Annexe site is located on the edge of the which will create an internal pedestrian link through Oxford Road Campus, on the boundary between City the heart of the campus. Due to this we feel that and University. The site is located on the junction of access to the new Annexe could either be through the Upper Brook Street, a busy dual carriage way, and Schuster building or via a new public entrance on the Brunswick Street, which is proposed to be turned corner of Upper Brook and Brunswick Street. into a pedestrian and cycle only link. We believe it is important that your building has a strong presence on both of these key routes. In addition we think that the view down to the Williamson building should also be celebrated. To the City Schuster Annexe Centre The University of The masterplan looks to maintain UPPER BROOK STREET and enhance the Manchester existing mature GRAPHENE tree network The University approved its new Estates Strategy in October 2012, BUILDING ALAN which will create a single campus and will involve the construction Exterior of Schuster Building viewed from Exterior identity of solid brick element of lift Site location on corner of Upper Brook of new teaching and research buildings, student facilities and major Upper Brook Street core and vertically stacked WCs Street and Brunswick Street TURING improvements to its existing building stock and public realm.
    [Show full text]
  • Thomas Pennant's Tours of Wales and Scotland University of Glasgow, 1
    Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Wales and Scotland University of Glasgow, 1-2 February 2013 The first of Two multi-disciplinary workshops hosted by the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies and the University of Glasgow. Sponsored by the British Academy and supported by the Learned Society of Wales Friday 1st February Registration with tea and coffee: 3.00–4.00pm, Room 202, 4 University Gardens 4.00-4.45pm: Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow), ‘Robert Riddell’s Annotated and Graingerized Copy of Pennant’s Scottish Tours’, Henry Heaney Room, Special Collections, Glasgow University Library 5.00pm: Plenary Lecture R. Paul Evans (Denbigh High School), ‘Thomas Pennant's Tours of Scotland: "A round jump from ornithology to antiquity" Drinks and Dinner Saturday, 2nd February 9.30-11.00am. Domhmnall Uilleam Stiubhart (University of Edinburgh), ‘Highland Sources for Pennant, and ‘indigenous’ travel literature in the 18th century’ Thomas Clancy (University of Glasgow), ‘Pennant, Saint’s Cults, and Scottish Place Names’ 11.00-11.30. Tea & Coffee 11.30am-1.00pm. Mary-Ann Constantine (University of Wales), ‘Pennant’s Heart of Darkness’ Helen McCormack (University of Glasgow), ‘Pennant, Hunter, Stubbs and the Pursuit of Nature’ 1.00-2.00pm Sandwich lunch 2.00-3.30pm Mike Basset (National Museum of Wales), Pennant and geology (title TBC) Alison Ksiazkekiewicz (University of Cambridge), ‘Sir Joseph Banks, Thomas Pennant and the Isle of Staffa as 'natural' architecture’ 3.30-4pm Tea & Coffee 4.00-4.40pm. Tom Furniss (University of Strathclyde), ‘Geological Observation in Pennant’s ‘Tours of Scotland’ 4.40-5.30pm.
    [Show full text]
  • The Construction of the Scottish Military Identity
    RUINOUS PRIDE: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SCOTTISH MILITARY IDENTITY, 1745-1918 Calum Lister Matheson, B.A. Thesis Prepared for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS August 2011 APPROVED: Geoffrey Wawro, Major Professor Guy Chet, Committee Member Michael Leggiere, Committee Member Richard McCaslin, Chair of the Department of History James D. Meernik, Acting Dean of the Toulouse Graduate School Matheson, Calum Lister. Ruinous pride: The construction of the Scottish military identity, 1745-1918. Master of Arts (History), August 2011, 120 pp., bibliography, 138 titles. Following the failed Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-46 many Highlanders fought for the British Army in the Seven Years War and American Revolutionary War. Although these soldiers were primarily motivated by economic considerations, their experiences were romanticized after Waterloo and helped to create a new, unified Scottish martial identity. This militaristic narrative, reinforced throughout the nineteenth century, explains why Scots fought and died in disproportionately large numbers during the First World War. Copyright 2011 by Calum Lister Matheson ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page CHAPTER I: THE HIGHLAND WARRIOR MYTH ........................................................... 1 CHAPTER II: EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: THE BUTCHER‘S BILL ................................ 10 CHAPTER III: NINETEENTH CENTURY: THE THIN RED STREAK ............................ 44 CHAPTER IV: FIRST WORLD WAR: CULLODEN ON THE SOMME .......................... 68 CHAPTER V: THE GREAT WAR AND SCOTTISH MEMORY ................................... 102 BIBLIOGRAPHY ......................................................................................................... 112 iii CHAPTER I THE HIGHLAND WARRIOR MYTH Looking back over nearly a century, it is tempting to see the First World War as Britain‘s Armageddon. The tranquil peace of the Edwardian age was shattered as armies all over Europe marched into years of hellish destruction.
    [Show full text]
  • 21St Century Global Anchor Institutions: Universities, Cities and the International Talent Economy”
    Universitas 21 Annual Network Meeting and Presidential Symposium 2017 University of Nottingham “21st Century Global Anchor Institutions: universities, cities and the international talent economy” Symposium Overview Higher education has, for centuries, been at the vanguard of globalism – with academics and students swapping ideas and spreading innovation long before the current system of economic globalisation emerged. From the ‘wandering scholars’ of ancient India, via the development of the first formal European University in Bologna in the 11th Century, to the explosion of modern global higher education – universities are, by their very nature, institutions that enrich the human capital of nations. Today, “Human Capital” is a theory at the height of its prominence in the thoughts and actions of global economists, businesses and policymakers. There is broad international consensus that long-term economic prosperity lies in a race-to-the-top, and that nations should pursue policies that drive greater education, encourage innovation and retain talent. In most OECD countries economic growth is now driven to a higher degree by intangible assets than by traditional capital such as machinery or equipment. Knowledge, data, patents and human capital are the new sources of growth. And innovation in these intellectual assets will spur growth to take off again. The quantity and quality of intellectual innovation will not only determine when and how countries will find the way out of the recession, but also the post- recession new global economic order. Universities across the Universitas 21 Group and beyond have a long and established track- record of driving economic growth and socio-cultural prosperity in their host cities and regions.
    [Show full text]
  • £11.4M Awarded for EPS Graduate Training 2 Unilife
    The free magazine for The University of Manchester UniLife 21st February 2005 Volume 2 Issue 9 £11.4m awarded for EPS graduate training 2 UniLife NewsDigest A summary of the key news in this issue of UniLife: Contents The University has been awarded £11.4m 3 £11.4 million Awarded for EPS for postgraduate training under the Graduate Training EPSRC’s Collaborative Training Account (CTA). The award will fund science and 4 News 3 engineering programmes including Doctorates, Knowledge Transfer 8 Research Partnerships, RA Industrial Secondments and CASE awards. 10 Students 11 Staff Survey The £50m Michael Smith Building, to be part of one of the largest biomedical 15 People complexes in Europe, officially opens on 5 8 March. It will be home to 800 staff 16 In The Community drawn largely from the Faculty of Life Sciences. 18 What’s On 20 Seminars/Noticeboard The Field Archaeology Centre and Manchester City Council’s ‘Dig 22 Classified Ads Manchester’ project has received £500,000 from the Heritage Lottery 24 Just the Job 6 Fund to expand its work, which involves schools, businesses and community groups in local digs. Scientists from across the University took part in a ‘Speed Collaborating’ exercise on 9 Valentine’s Day, to find the research Front cover: Professor John Perkins and partner of their dreams. Professor Andrew Ball. Photo by Craig Strong The University recently held an exclusive event for its ‘Family of Companies’, organised by the Business, Careers & 16 Community Division (BCCD). Nearly 70 delegates came along to enjoy an evening of networking opportunities, presentations and lively business discussions.
    [Show full text]
  • Conference Outline
    ROBERT BURNS 1759 TO 2009 15 – 17 January 2009 Centre for Robert Burns Studies Director, Dr Gerard Carruthers Associate Director, Dr Kirsteen McCue www.glasgow.ac.uk/robertburnsstudies ROBERT BURNS 1759 TO 2009 CONFERENCE OUTLINE THURSDAY 15 JANUARY 08.30 – 09.30 Registration Hunter Hall West (It will be possible to register throughout the day.) 09.45 –10.00 Official Conference Launch: Kelvin Gallery Sir Muir Russell KCB FRSE, Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Glasgow introduces Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning Opening Plenary: 10.00 – 11.00 Dr Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University, Canada, Transatlantic Burns, Kelvin Gallery Chair: Gerry Carruthers, Centre for Robert Burns Studies, Department of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow 11.00 – 11.30 Tea and coffee break, refreshments in Hunter Hall West 11.30 – 12.30 Panels 1 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch 14.00 – 15.00 Panels 2 15.00 – 15.30 Tea and coffee break, refreshments in Hunter Hall West Plenary Two: 15.30 – 16.30 Prof Jon Mee, University of Warwick, England Kelvin Gallery Why the English had to invent Robert Burns Chair: Nigel Leask, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow 16.30 – 17.00 break Plenary Three: 17.00 – 18.00 Prof G Ross Roy, University of Columbia, South Carolina Kelvin Gallery Chair: RDS Jack, University of Edinburgh Fifty Years of Robert Burns and Burns Collecting, G Ross Roy in interview with Patrick Scott Oxford University Press Edition of the 18.00 - 19.00 COLLECTED WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS Kelvin
    [Show full text]
  • Unilife6 24Pp.Qxd
    The free magazine for The Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST UniLife 24th May 2004 Volume 1 Issue 6 2 UniLife NewsDigest A summary of the key news in this issue of UniLife: Contents 3 Founders’ Day The Bee Gees were among the recipients 4 News of Honorary Degrees from the Victoria 3 University of Manchester on Founders’ 7 Research Day 12 May. 10 Profile 12 Project Unity 14 People This year’s alumni weekend promises to be a varied programme of events for VUM graduates including city and campus 17 Students 6 tours and a host of talks from the University’s academics. 18 What’s On 20 Seminars & Lectures 21 Looking Back/Noticeboard The School of Biological Sciences (VUM) and the Department of Biomolecular 22 Classified Ads Sciences (UMIST) have joined forces to 7 recognise the first class research being 24 Just the Job carried out at the universities by postdoctoral and postgraduate scientists. Professor Daniel Everett from the School of Linguistics (VUM) is visiting 8 the Brazilian Amazon this summer to Front cover photo by Howard Barlow study endangered native languages in remote villages. Project Unity update on different aspects of Human Resources including pay and 12 structure, appointments, communications, team briefing and pensions. UniLife 3 Photo by Howard Barlow Photo by Howard Founders’ Day International recording stars, Robin and Barry Gibb, were the recipients of an Honorary Degree from the Victoria University of Manchester on Wednesday 12 May 2004. The brothers also accepted their Doctorate of Music on behalf of their late brother Maurice, who died in January 2003.
    [Show full text]
  • Robert Burns and the Scottish Economy 1
    Robert Burns and the Scottish Economy 1 ROBERT BURNS AND THE SCOTTISH ECONOMY Final Report October 2019 Professor Murray Pittock, University of Glasgow Centre for Robert Burns Studies With contributions and an appendix on Regional Inclusive Growth from Dr Joel Ambroisine, Research Assistant Twitter: @BurnsEconomy 1 Robert Burns and the Scottish Economy 2 CONTENTS 1.0 Executive Summary 3 2.0 Final Report Background 8 3.0 Methodology 14 4.0 Tourism 16 5.0 Festivals 35 6.0 Burns the Brand 39 7.0 Food, Drink and Retail 41 8.0 The Burns Movement and the Burns Supper 49 9.0 University Research 58 10.0 Existence Value: Cultural Capital and Psychic Income 59 11.0 Brexit 66 12.0 Recommendations 68 13.0 List of Persons and Organizations Consulted 79 14.0 Appendix 1: Input-Output Tourism Modelling 83 15.0 Appendix 2: Regional Inclusive Growth 88 16.0 Appendix 3: Valuing Burns the Brand 103 2 Robert Burns and the Scottish Economy 3 1.0 Executive Summary 1.1. This Report Was funded by the Economic Development Directorate of the Scottish Government, following a debate in the Scottish Parliament on a motion put down by Joan McAlpine, S5M-09328, on the Economic Potential of Robert Burns on 17 January 2018. 1.2. It succeeds previous studies of the value of Burns to the Scottish economy carried out by Lesley Campbell for the BBC (2003) and by the Moffat Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University (2005) to evaluate the use of Burns as the cultural keystone to Homecoming 2009.
    [Show full text]
  • CAROL Mcguirk Ph.D. Columbia University 1977 English and Comparative Literature
    Curriculum Vitae: CAROL McGUIRK Ph.D. Columbia University 1977 English and Comparative Literature (M.A. 1971) George W. Ellis Fellowship, Faculty Fellows Program B.A. Bennington College 1970 double major: Visual Arts (Painting); Literature Teaching: 1990— Professor of English, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 1985—90: Associate Professor; tenured in 1987. Spring 1990 Visiting Professor, London Study Centre, Florida State University Fall 1989 British Academy Visiting Professor, University of Strathclyde, UK 1978-85 Assistant Professor, English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 1976-78 Assistant Professor, English, Williams College, Williamstown, MA Fall 1975 Instructor, Languages and Literature, Bennington College, Bennington, VT 1972-1974 Preceptor and Teaching Assistant, Columbia College, NY Research and teaching interests: contemporary British and U.S. fiction, including science fiction and fiction by women; Scottish studies including ballads and folk-song; literary theory; animal studies; 17th, 18th, and 19th century British poetry; John Milton. Books: Reading Robert Burns: Texts, Contexts, Transformations. 2014. London: Routledge, 2016. “A fresh and important critical reassessment .... Professor McGuirk’s brilliant introduction reviews Burns in relation to ... Scottish and English literary canons, Burns and class, Burns and postcolonialism, Burns and language, and Burns and gender.... [S]hould be required reading ... for advanced classes on Burns [and] ... courses in Scottish or British Romanticism or labouring class poetry.” Patrick G. Scott, Studies in Scottish Literature 42.1 (May 2016). Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Wesleyan UP, 2010. A collaborative project by the editors of Science Fiction Studies. Starred book, Publishers Weekly. “One gets the sense that if all other SF were somehow destroyed in an apocalypse, the field could be reconstituted from the seed vault of texts herein.” Paul DiFilippo, “The Speculator” column, Barnes & Noble Review.
    [Show full text]
  • UNDERGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 2021 MEET OPEN DAYS Friday, 19 June 2020 Saturday, 20 June US Saturday, 3 October Saturday, 10 October
    UNDERGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 2021 MEET OPEN DAYS Friday, 19 June 2020 Saturday, 20 June US Saturday, 3 October Saturday, 10 October Friday, 18 June 2021 Saturday, 19 June Saturday, 2 October Saturday, 16 October www.manchester.ac.uk uom.link/ugp-open-days /TheUniversityOfManchester @officialuom Other ways to find out more @OfficialUoM Our guided visits include a presentation on the University, a question-and-answer OfficialUoM session with current students, and a campus tour. Available most Wednesdays, 1.30pm – 3.30pm. Take an independent look around Admissions details campus. Our Gift Shop in University Place can provide maps and information. For specific course enquiries It’s open Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm. contact the admissions office for the subject area. Visit the web page listed on subject pages at Take an accommodation tour of some the back of this prospectus for halls of residence, including at least more information. one student bedroom. Available most Wednesdays from November to March, 10.30am – 12pm. t: +44 (0)161 532 8625 If you need this uom.link/ugp-visit-us information in an International visits alternative format, If you don’t live in the UK, email please call our [email protected] to arrange a private visit, or find out when Study Enquiries Team. you can meet us in your country at: tel +44 (0)161 532 8625 uom.link/ugp-international CONTENTS WELCOME TO MANCHESTER 4 Manchester in a minute – a Manchester snapshot 6 Innovators and pioneers – brilliant minds from our history 8 Broaden your horizons with Stellify
    [Show full text]
  • SETTING a STOOT HERT TAE a STEY BRAE: FIFTY YEARS of the STUDY of SCOTTISH LITERATURE, 1962-2012 Murray Pittock University of Glasgow
    Studies in Scottish Literature Volume 38 | Issue 1 Article 6 2012 SETTING A STOOT HERT TAE A STEY BRAE: FIFTY YEARS OF THE STUDY OF SCOTTISH LITERATURE, 1962-2012 Murray Pittock University of Glasgow Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Pittock, Murray (2012) "SETTING A STOOT HERT TAE A STEY BRAE: FIFTY YEARS OF THE STUDY OF SCOTTISH LITERATURE, 1962-2012," Studies in Scottish Literature: Vol. 38: Iss. 1, 6–12. Available at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol38/iss1/6 This Symposium is brought to you by the Scottish Literature Collections at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Studies in Scottish Literature by an authorized editor of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SETTING A STOOT HERT TAE A STEY BRAE: FIFTY YEARS OF THE STUDY OF SCOTTISH LITERATURE, 1962-2012 Murray Pittock Until 1945 or so, Scottish Literature—or rather, a fragmentary selection of its periods and authors—flourished to an extent under the rubric of junior partnership in the Union or local identity in Empire, or as part of a greater English Literature, as in the English Men of Letters series. Scott was taught in England’s grammar schools and universities; Burns had only recently begun the catastrophic decline he was to suffer at the hands of Romanticism’s new paradigm and the postwar distrust of the volkisch and autochthonous; even Ramsay was regarded as a significant figure in William Courthope’s History of English Poetry and elsewhere.
    [Show full text]
  • Translating Burns
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Enlighten WHO WROTE THE SCOTS MUSICAL MUSEUM? CHALLENGING EDITORIAL PRACTICE IN THE PRESENCE OF AUTHORIAL ABSENCE Murray Pittock The Scots Musical Museum is arguably the underpinning canonical text of Scottish song, the place where the country’s leading poet meets its great musical tradition in a “mouseion,” a temple of the Muses, which is also a Museum, a collection of antiquarian fragments. This six volume collection of the songs of Scotland was produced by James Johnson and Robert Burns, with the help of Stephen Clarke and many others, in the years 1787-1803. Although it was apparently a collection which was to serve as a “museum” for Scottish song, it was in fact in many respects less Scottish and less antiquarian than it appeared. The Museum took advantage both of the extensive market in song across the British Isles in the eighteenth century, and also of the new market in pianofortes which was being opened up in Edinburgh and elsewhere in the 1780s by John Broadwood (1732-1812) and others: pianos began to appear in Edinburgh music shops only three years before the first volume of the Museum appeared. Collections were ‘pianoized’. As David McGuinness points out, the bass line of Neil Gow’s “Lament for James Moray of Abercairney” had turned from a lamenting drone to a piano accompaniment between the 1784 and 1801 editions. Many of the traditions of Scottish song that the Museum seemed to be preserving were themselves novelties: what had been “new” reels in Neil Stewart’s 1761 Collection and its successor collections, were “old” less than a generation later.
    [Show full text]