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."

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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

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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. and Recreation Officer, on 275 5985, [email protected] If you prefer you can go in your own time, an accompanying leaflet is The campus walk leaflet can be available to guide you around the downloaded from the web address below.

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Artists Take Up Residence at Museum

Four artists from the North West with university links have been selected to take part in an exciting new research project centred around The Manchester Museum.

Kevin Malone The project, entitled ‘Alchemy’, will give between science and art; links with higher education and between the artists involved the chance to use demonstrating the beauty and universities and wider society. I look their specific talents to explore the inspiration inherent in science. forward to working with Kevin Malone, collections and archives at the Museum, Tony Hall, Louise Brookes and Pavel The other artists are Louise Brookes, a which is home to more than six million Büchler as they work their own brand of part-time lecturer on the Visual Art BA at objects from around the globe. alchemy for our visitors at The The University of Salford and Pavel Manchester Museum." The aim of the ‘Alchemy’ project is to Büchler a Research Professor at MIRIAD, ‘rejuvenate the Museum with a fresh (Manchester Institute for Research & ‘Alchemy’ is being managed by Project Co- spirit of discovery, revealing the humour, Innovation in Art & Design at Manchester ordinators Rebecca Duclos and Bryony creativity and personalities within The Metropolitan University). Bond and New Media Co-ordinator David Manchester Museum.’ Ross. All three are working alongside the In addition to the work by these four Museum’s Exhibition and Design artists, two major installations are being This is the first sustained research Manager Jeff Horsley. programme by artists at the Museum developed by North American artists and during the project, visitors will be Mark Dion and Spring Hurlbut. ‘Alchemy’ is funded by Arts Council able to see and hear dynamic England North West, and the two Commenting on the project, Tristram contemporary art emerging around international residencies have Besterman, Director of The Manchester the building. financial support from the Arts and Museum, said: "As a part of the Victoria Humanities Research Board and the University of Manchester, the Manchester The four artists involved in ‘Alchemy’ are: Arts Council of Ontario. Museum is well placed to forge strong Kevin Malone – a Senior Lecturer in the School of Music and Drama at the Victoria University of Manchester, whose compositions have been performed throughout the world. Kevin has expressed an interest in re- classifying the specimens on show at the Museum, by the sound-potential inherent in their structures or cavities as well as the patterns on their surfaces. Kevin’s interest in sound will make for an intriguing avenue of research at the Museum, an institution whose main form of engagement is visual. Antony Hall graduated from the Manchester Metropolitan University with an MA in Art as Environment in 2002. Last year he won an Arts Council research and development grant for a self-directed research project at UMIST’s Fluid Dynamics laboratory. Fully immersed in lab life, Antony works alongside scientists to create a dialogue

www.alchemy.man.ac.uk Antony Hall UniLife 7

Jodrell Creates Its Own Space

Jodrell Bank is to take part in 'Spaced Out' - an innovative project to create the world's largest scale model of the Solar System, organised by the North West Development Agency (NWDA).

Models of the planets will be built in youth. It also marks the start of National nineteen locations across the UK at Science Week in the North West. scaled distances from Jodrell Bank The launch event was hosted by Jodrell Science Centre, to accurately reflect Bank Observatory's Ian Morison who the planets' locations within the introduced Dr Nigel Marshall, the director Solar System. of the project, who outlined the plans for Jodrell Bank will be the ‘centre’ of the the model and for an associated website. solar system, and will be host to the Attendees of the launch event had the sun. The planets, Halley's Comet and opportunity to view a mock-up model of some asteroids, nineteen objects in one of the planetary sites. total, will be situated at various Ian commented: "We are delighted and locations across the UK including excited to be part of this project, and primary and secondary schools and proud to be at the centre of the Solar visitor attractions. System model. It is hoped that as several The educational project will be carried of the planets will be hosted across out over the next 12 months and aims to schools in the country, it will give children create stimulation and excitement in the the opportunity to discover astronomy world of astronomy amongst the UK's and science in general.

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Pupils from Lancaster Girls Grammer School at the ‘Spaced Out’ Launch Looking Back

UMIST Electrical Engineering Lab 1920

UMIST was an emerging higher in Physics for pioneering work in education force to be reckoned with transmuting atomic nuclei. Sir John was when this picture was taken of Electrical knighted in 1948 and also served as Engineering Laboratory No 1 in 1920, Chancellor of UMIST. when the University was known as the Today it is one of the largest departments Manchester Municipal College of of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Technology. The lab may look somewhat the country, boasting well-equipped old fashioned now, but back then it was laboratories. The Department offers state-of-the-art and a sign of impressive some of the best teaching and research things to come. facilities to be found in any university One of the Electrical Engineering with strong links to industry, including Department’s graduates Sir John well-known electronics companies such Cockcroft was to win the 1951 Nobel Prize as MITEL, Siemens, Phillips, FUJITSU, Pilkington and Brother. 8 UniLife

Research Smoking Linked to Blindness

Smokers are up to four times as likely to become blind in later life from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of adult blindness, than non-smokers. But many remain largely unaware of this risk, according to research from the Victoria University of Manchester and Bolton Hospital NHS Trust published recently in the British Medical Journal.

AMD results in severe irreversible loss of health and Richard Edwards, senior “Smokers are three to four times as central vision. One in five cases may be lecturer in public health in the Evidence likely to develop AMD. This is yet another attributable to smoking. This represents for Population Health Unit, School of large public health problem caused by around 54,000 people over 69 years of Epidemiology and Health Sciences. smoking. It is another reason for whom nearly 18,000 are blind. smokers to think about quitting,” said A sustained public health campaign in Richard Edwards, who says that the Evidence also shows that quitting smoking the UK is warranted to raise awareness of evidence should be used in smoking slows the development of AMD, whereas the link between smoking and blindness, education material. continued smoking can affect the long term say the authors. This should include response to treatments such as laser therapy. offering smoking cessation support to “The fact that smokers realise they are at The research team included Judith people attending eye clinics and more higher risk of going blind due to smoking Thornton, honorary research fellow, novel, varied, and specific pack warnings could be a powerful stimulus for those Georgios Lyratzopoulos, lecturer in public of the impact of smoking on eyesight. attempting to stop.“

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/328/7439/537 Health on the Farm

Researchers at the Victoria University of Manchester are conducting a study of farmers to identify any factors which may have adversely affected their health.

the latest part of a study called SHAW concern about the extent of ill-health (Study of Health in Agricultural Work), amongst farmers and whether certain which has been designed to look at the farming activities might affect health in long-term health effects of farm work. the long term. We feel the best way of Participants are being asked to co-operate looking at this is to try and contact those by filling in a short confidential people who have been identified as questionnaire which asks about their farmers in the 1970s.” working history and their current and past This study has been supported by the The Centre for Occupational and health. From this the researchers may be National Farmers’ Union and the Farmers’ able to identify certain factors that have Environmental Health is sending out Union of Wales. It is funded by the adversely affected their health. questionnaires to approximately 20,000 Department of Health and the men and women throughout the UK who Lead Investigator Dr Andrew Povey, Department for Environment, Food and were farmers in the early 1970s. This is commented: "There has been widespread Rural Affairs.

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Employers – Cash in on Equality

Promoting diversity in the workplace isn’t just a "nice" thing to do. From Britain to Russia, from nursing to building, it makes economic sense. That is why Professor Lyn Davidson and Dr Sandra Fielden, of the Manchester School of Management, have founded the Centre for Diversity and Work Psychology.

Professor Davidson explained: "Customers the NHS, the North West Development Career Development and Mentoring out there are diverse and you should Agency (NWDA) and Department of Trade for Mental Health Nurses, funded by represent them, if you want to be and Industry (DTI), and boasts 24 the NHS, involves six Trusts. Project successful. Plus, with a very diverse worldwide academic associates. Officer Helen Woolnough is looking at workforce, you utilise all the talents of PhD data showing the career and your individuals to the full. Current research projects include Female personal development of nurses and Access to Small and Medium Business "Evaluations in the US have shown that matching them to mentors, then (SME) Finance, which looks at the barriers organisations lose out if they don’t do investigating the effect both on the stopping would-be female entrepreneurs this. They have even found that nurses and their mentors. organisations that adopt a policy of setting up their own businesses. Research Assistant Carrie Hunt is carrying diversity in the workplace see an increase In Female Black Minority Ethnic out a literature review on the in profits and productivity." Entrepreneurs in the North West, Dr effectiveness of coaching. Other PhD and The Centre’s re search has a lot to offer Azura Omar investigates financial MSc students are studying a range of employers, covering a wide range of barriers faced by women from ethnic subjects such as stress, gender and age in subjects and areas. It has worked with minorities in particular. the Russian workforce.

www.umist.ac.uk/departments/management ExPERT Advice

The Department of Chemical Engineering Applicants are expected to hold an at UMIST is inviting applications from excellent first degree in one of: Chemical candidates for 15 PhD positions beginning Engineering (including bioengineering); in September 2004 funded by the Biological Sciences; Chemistry; Physics; European Commission. Mathematics; Materials Science; any related subject. The scheme, known as ExPERT, aims to train pre-doctoral researchers to PhD level Applications must be submitted to who will subsequently pursue research [email protected] by 30 careers within Europe. Upon completion April 2004, interviews for candidates of their training packages, these Marie short-listed in the first round will be held Curie Fellows will be capable of in June 2004. producing innovative and original For more information log on to the research and be able to communicate website below: scientific ideas effectively in both an academic and industrial setting.

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Research

UMIST is sharing in one of the largest awards ever announced Basic by the UK Research Councils’ Basic Technology Initiative. Technology Project

A multi-million pound award is being energy accelerators probing the the whole of UK science. We will develop a made to a consortium of seven fundamental structure of matter, to seeing sensor that can see not only in the visible universities, working alongside the the internal details of individual cells and part of the spectrum but in the x-ray, Medical Research Council Laboratory of safer and more sensitive medical ultraviolet and infrared regions as well. Molecular Biology (Cambridge), Imperial instruments. Using these new imaging "The ever-reducing costs of modern Cancer Research (Royal Marsden Hospital) sensors, it is estimated that their use in electronics and the increasing power of and the national Rutherford-Appleton regular x-ray screening for breast cancers these sensors means that in a few years it Laboratory (CCLRC). The four-year £4.2 will save 2,000 lives per year across Europe. will be possible to walk into your GP’s million programme will be led by Professor Professor Allinson said: "Active Pixel Sensors surgery and have a full analysis of your DNA Nigel Allinson (Electrical and Electronic are revolutionising the world of commercial profile and exactly what proteins and other Engineering, UMIST). cameras. If you buy a high quality digital molecules are, say, present in your blood." The programme will exploit the continuing camera, it will most likely have at its heart UMIST will lead the project, working advances in microelectronic active pixel an active pixel sensor. The consortium, alongside academics from Liverpool, York, sensors to provide new imaging which contains the leading research groups Leicester, Glasgow, Surrey and University capabilities across a wide range of science – in the UK, takes on the responsibility of College, London. from scientific space missions and high- developing and exploiting these sensors for

www.rcuk.ac.uk/basictech/. University Goes To The Movies

Researchers in the Department of Computer Science at the Victoria University of Manchester have been helping to produce Hollywood blockbusters, with the aid of new imaging software originally designed to construct environments of scenes of crimes.

Dr Simon Gibson (RA), who wrote the constructed, novel viewpoints can be Cold Mountain,to replace backgrounds software, Jon Cook (RA), Toby Howard and generated, and measurements taken from and seamlessly composite them into Professor Roger Hubbold have worked on the virtual objects. the film. the project. The scene can also be manipulated by Roger Hubbold, Professor of Virtual The three-year EPSRC - funded research moving objects to new locations and Environments, commented:“The software project, looked at how to construct virtual even by adding new objects. Although was used for some sequences in the film environments of scenes of crime and was developed for exploration of scenes of Cold Mountain. Sales of licenses by The undertaken in collaboration with Greater crime, the software has many other Pixel Farm are just starting to take off, and Manchester Police. It has resulted in the applications, in the film and broadcast the University gets royalties on those. development of ICARUS, a software suite industries, and for architectural planning. The team is currently working on another that allows researchers to capture an Currently the University owns the project called ARIS, which captures the image, say a room, and build a 3D intellectual property rights, but the lighting in a room using a camera. When computer model of it. software is licensed to The Pixel Farm, combined with the reconstruction of Using camera tracking, video images of the who have re-branded it (and added to it) geometry, this opens up a broad range of scene can be used to work out the three- as PFTrack˙, and other products. other applications, such as allowing users dimensional locations of objects visible in of the software to explore how a room PFTrack˙, has been used in the post the scene, and then to capture their looks with different lighting and furniture. production of the Oscar winning film geometry. Once a model has been

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Project Unity Final General Assembly Election Results

Elections within the existing institutions for the relevant categories of membership of the new merged university's General Assembly have now been completed.

The responsibilities of the General Assembly will be: •To present the University and its achievements to the wider community and to receive views from the community •To receive from the Board [of Governors], and to discuss, comment and express an opinion on an annual report on the working of the University and the audited annual financial statements of the University •To appoint the Pro-Chancellor of the University on the recommendation of the Nominations Committee Dr Peter J Eccles (2006) Dr Margaret T Barrow (2008) •To scrutinise and express an opinion on Dr Judith A McGovern (2007) proposals from the Board for the Ms Sarah J Beer (2006) amendment of the Charter and the Dr Gale R Owen-Crocker (2006) Dr Jeffrey S Brider (2008) Statutes Professor Richard A D Pattrick (2007) Mr Stewart Grace (2006) Dr Robert S Quayle (2007) •To discuss and declare an opinion on Dr Paul C Harness (2007) any matter whatsoever relating to the Professor Colin P Sibley (2006) Dr Adel G Nasser (2007) University, on reference from the Board Professor David G Thompson (2006) or otherwise, and to transmit such Other staff (10 places) opinion to the Board, whose duty it Professor Ann M Thomson (2007) shall be to consider the same Dr Alan J Williams (2007) Mr William T Allan (2007) •To be a constituency in the election of Dr George M Wilmers (2006) Mr Norman W Bradburn (2006) the Chancellor In Category 12 Mr Anthony Crowther (2008) [Members of staff holding paid, The following are declared elected effect Ms Debra J Dickson (2006) from 1 October 2004 to 31 August in the superannuable appointments in the Mrs Rosalind C Dutton (2007) year indicated: University, elected by the staff] (20 places) Mrs Eileen J Gallagher (2007) In Category 11 -Academic and research staff (4 places) Mrs Jean Johnson (2008) [Members of the Senate, nominated and Professor Alistair S Burns (2007) elected by the Senate] (20 places) Mr David M Jones (2008) Dr Malcolm D Gray (2008) Professor Patrick D Bailey (2007) Professor Linda A Macaulay (2007) Mr Gavin Park (2007) Dr Michael C Birse (2006) Dr Angelia R Wilson (2006) Mrs Lynda Rowlinson (2006) Professor Raymond F Bishop (2006) Note: lot has determined the duration of -Academic-related (excluding research) initial appointment. Dr Wiebke G Brockhaus-Grand (2007) staff (6 places)

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Profile

I just happened to be Munn’s “ in the right place at the time Momentum ” Being known as "a good listener" is an invaluable attribute, but teaching other people how to be good listeners is even more so. Yet that is what Bob Munn does, practising what he preaches. To an extent, he owes the development of that natural aptitude to his wife, Tricia, because training people to lend an alert and sympathetic ear to other people’s problems is part of her work with the Christian charity Acorn.

That special skill is clearly valuable at Dean of UMIST, charged with seeing that enthusiasm for Chemistry everywhere, work – and Bob has had a lot of practice through. He’s the sort of man you can from comprehensives to public schools. over the years. He is now in his third stint trust with a major project of that kind – Then in the early 80s, a time of cutbacks as Head of the Department of Chemistry calm, reassuring, well-organised, and early retirements, he was not only at UMIST; he was Vice-Principal for unassuming, persuasive and, of course, a awarded a promotional Chair in 1984, but Finance during the Millennium good listener. made Head of Department, still in his Campaign, which raised around £10 "I just happened to be in the right place thirties. Again, the job was to rebuild, million; he was the first Dean of UMIST at at the time," he would say. But, of course, reorganise and modernise the a time of delicate restructuring; and he it is more than that. Obviously, timing department, putting in new systems, has sat on just about every committee plays its part. Very soon after he arrived in such as devolved budgets. "It doesn’t there is "except parking and catering – 1971 as a Lecturer at UMIST, he was seem very sophisticated now, but it was the really important ones". elected to the University Senate, which radical then," he says. "I listened to so He has packed an awful lot in, academically gave him an early insight into and taste many competing pleas for money, that I (more than 230 scientific publications on for how things were run. And he does decided to give each fund-holder optical and electrical properties of always seem to have been manning the responsibility for their own budget." molecular materials) and administratively, barricades at critical times. So, with all that experience, the best part often through difficult times. In the mid-70s, for instance, Chemistry of a decade effectively as a Pro-Vice- Ironically, for a man who is now at the recruitment plummeted. "We had to be Chancellor, he is extraordinarily well- centre of Project Unity, he had a key role much more proactive," he says. "We went equipped for his role as Vice-President for in establishing UMIST’s independence in out to give talks in schools – and we Teaching and Learning. He has a long the mid-90s, when the new Charter brought sixth-formers in for residential record of looking to academic standards enabled the Institute to manage its own courses." Naturally, he did his bit, at all levels, from chairing UMIST’s affairs. In 1994, he was made the first travelling the country, communicating his Educational Standards Committee to work UniLife 13

CV

Name : Professor Bob Munn Position: Vice-President for Teaching and Learning, The University of Manchester Education: Bristol University: BSc Chemistry (1962-65) PhD Theoretical Chemistry (1965-68) The Victoria University of Manchester D Sc (1982) Career History National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa; Division of Pure Chemistry: Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1968-70 Edinburgh University, Department of Natural Philosophy: ICI Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1970-71 as an auditor for the Quality Assurance Encouraged by Dr Hugh Barron, his Agency. And ever since Project Unity was mentor, his path turned to theoretical UMIST:Lecturer in Chemistry, operational, he has been involved, helping chemistry. He got his PhD in 1968 – and 1971-80 to set the academic framework and a Research Fellowship at Canada’s structures and serving on the Interim National Research Centre took him and Reader in Chemistry, 1980-84 Academic Advisory Committee. Tricia to Ottawa for two happy years. Indeed, they nearly stayed there – he Professor of Chemical Physics, It may all sound a bit bureaucratic, but Bob was offered a job at Carleton is a flesh-and-blood champion of the University, but he applied for a job at 1984 to date cause – and he is very much looking UMIST, spending a few months in forward to helping to build the new Edinburgh in between. merged University. And amidst all this activity, as Professor of Chemical Physics, It’s funny how things turn out. Happily, he manages to sustain a steady stream of he and Tricia came – and settled in Bramhall. They have two now-adult publications. children, Nicholas and Philippa. They are Born and bred in Somerset, he went to stalwarts of the Parish Church, where Bob grammar school in Taunton, where he won exhibits other skills, as a chorister (tenor) all the prizes, then read Chemistry at Bristol, and electric guitarist at services. He also where he was joint top of the year– and sings in the UMIST choir and St Ann’s met and married Tricia, then a Law student. Hospice Choir, which takes him into the He also had the distinction of appearing on splendour of the Bridgewater Hall. University Challenge. So, his first visit to So, clearly, there are times when he hopes Manchester was courtesy of Granada TV: other people will do the listening. "We won one round, but only one." 14 UniLife

People No Ordinary Fellows

Three professors from the Victoria University of Manchester are among only a handful of academics outside Scotland to have been awarded ‘Ordinary Fellowships’ of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) this year.

Professors Murray Pittock and Richard Hogg Professors Murray Pittock and Richard The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Hogg from the Department of English Scotland’s National Academy of Science and American Studies who are both from & Letters. It provides a forum for Scotland, were among only six academics informed debate on issues of national out of 50 from outside Scotland to be and international importance and made `Ordinary Fellows’. provides independent, expert advice to Murray Pittock is Professor of Scottish key decision making bodies, including and Romantic Literature & Head of the Government and Parliament. Department of English and American Fellowships are awarded to academics of Studies, at the Victoria University of national and international standing, Manchester. Richard Hogg is Smith based on the quality of innovative Professor of English Language. contributions to their field, or Professor Tom Mullins, from the Centre for professional standing and achievement in Non-Linear dynamics in the Department of public service. Crucially, Ordinary Fellows Physics, was also honoured. must have a connection with Scotland.

http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/RSE/ Equality Chair

UMIST’s Equality and Diversity Unit has new merged university needs to set elected a Chair, Dr Sabir Giga, a research examples for others to follow. We should fellow at Manchester School of therefore be proactive in promoting new Management (MSM), who will represent legislation to cover equal opportunity on the unit at committee level in a bid to the grounds of sexual orientation, age influence management and develop the and religious belief." equality agenda at senior level. Dr Giga’s latest research with Dr Helge He says:"One of the things I would like Hoel for the British Occupational Health to do is improve transparency in terms Research Foundation includes of Human Resources policy – people identifying interventions to deal with need to be assured that the systems in bullying and harassment in place are open and fair. organisations, including NHS Trusts, Police Forces and the Civil Service. The "Apart from existing legislation which pair have addressed the All Party states that we should be monitoring our Committee on Dignity at Work and meet equality and diversity policies, and regularly at the House of Lords with ensuring representation for women, their Advisory Board in relation to their ethnic minorities and the disabled, the current research.

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Students News Making Music

UMIST’s Music Scholarship programme will continue in the new merged university after October 2004. The news has come as a major boost to the organisers of the scholarship scheme, designed to encourage musical scientists to continue playing their instruments to a high standard.

The scheme is the brainchild of Prof Tom One of this year’s Music Scholars is a scholarship and now Tim can see some Millar, the Head of UMIST’s Astrophysics through to the final of the BBC’s Young light at the end of the tunnel. He said: Group. He said: "The awards are now in Musician of the Year competition. Tenor "The healing is ongoing, I don’t know how their fourth year and it’s proved to be a very horn player Chris Pannell successfully it’s affected me yet but the doctors are rewarding experience for the students." qualified through the brass quarterfinals very optimistic. at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music "The scholarship is a brilliant scheme – I Students selected to benefit from a and Dance in Glasgow. The final will be studied at Chetham’s School of Music for UMIST Music Scholarship receive an screened on BBC2 on May 1. seven years and wanted to do a degree as hour’s specialist tuition every fortnight at 19-year-old Chris, a first year Civil and insurance in case I couldn’t fulfill my the Royal Northern College of Music, as Structural Engineering student from musical ambitions, and that’s proved now well as help and support from UMIST’s Haverhill, says he is keen to fulfil his to have been a good decision." Music Fellow Hazel Buckley. musical ambitions: "I would like to continue You’ll get the chance to see all of the and play with one of the top orchestras in UMIST Scholars in action at the next Professor Millar said: "We are delighted the country.The UMIST scholarship has concert of the UMIST Symphony Orchestra, that to hear that the scholarships will been very useful especially in my on Wednesday 5th May at 7.30pm. The continue in the new merged university." preparations for the BBC competition." orchestra is also looking for new members, UMIST Vice-Chancellor, Professor John But for another of the UMIST Music especially brass and strings – if you are Garside said: "We’ve been very impressed Scholars, this year has been much more interested, or want to know more about with the talent that has come through traumatic. In fact, 20-year-old bassoon forthcoming events, please email this scheme and allowed the students to player Tim Ward,a first year neuroscience [email protected] students is lucky to be alive after being pursue their musical interests. And, yes, The full list of 2004 UMIST Music Scholars involved in a serious road accident. we will continue in the new university, is: Kelly Shen, Tim Ward, Richard Osbourne, where there will be a much broader range He hasn’t been able to play the bassoon Louise Hulme, Jer Shiow Ng, Chris Pannell, of opportunities for musicians, of course." since, but UMIST were keen to award him Sam Murray and Tom Race (pictured). 16 UniLife

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Doris Duncan, Botany (1920)

When Doris Duncan came to Manchester as a Botany undergraduate in 1917, the world was at war, George V was on the throne and Rutherford was carrying out his research at Manchester which led to the splitting of the atom. Next month, Doris is 105 but still recalls many fond memories of her time at Manchester.

Doris came from Kent, and although One of Miss Duncan’s contemporaries London might have been the obvious was Kathleen M Drew (later Baker) one choice for study, she was discouraged of the few women in the early days to from going there because her teacher get a First (in 1922). Her work on the thought it would be "too limiting". edible seaweed "nori", a staple food, enabled the Japanese to develop She says:" Botany is a subject where artificial seeding techniques resulting in there is an exactness and I liked that a ten-fold increase in its production. because I like to know my stuff and it had become a rather fashionable subject. For Doris, adjusting to academic life was a I had an excellent teacher who challenge:"It was quite intensive for me, encouraged me to come to university." the first term I thought I would not survive And so with the support and because the workload was very heavy. I encouragement of her family and wasn’t used to all the exercises I had to do. teachers, she arrived at Ashburne Hall. By Half way through second term I managed this time, Botany was thriving at to revise and get used to things." Manchester, Professor Frederick Weiss Life outside lectures focused on Halls and was Professor of Botany, a post he held she became Senior Student at Ashburne. for 38 years. Each room had its own fire and she Weiss was key in expanding the recalls that her father would bring her Department’s facilities and for setting up sticks for the fire when he visited. Other the Botanical Experimental Grounds in students’ families would send different Fallowfield (see back page). things such as fruit and they would share their goods between them. Doris is also one of few people who can say they had a lecture from Ernest Although there was a food shortage and Rutherford himself: "He was a tip top rationing had been introduced in Britain, scientist and a very nice man, we were Doris says that little of this affected the very lucky to have him, but as for the students. "It didn’t seem to touch us lecture, well I wouldn’t like to say what it much if one may say so. In Halls you were "Looking back, it appears that Botany was Graduation Day 1920 was on!" she says. a bit separate. We were well fed and the a nice, socially acceptable subject for a food was quite good – even in wartime!" young lady to study at University. There is As a female undergraduate, Doris was the impression that quite a high not in a minority, she says:"It was a very proportion of the young ladies went into good time for women and things were school teaching." changing. I was lucky to be alive at that time and women and were being given a Like many of her peers, Doris spent a year certain amount of leisure." in Manchester doing her teacher training before returning to Kent and spent 20 W A Charlton and E G Cutter’s years in the profession, eventually publication, `135 years of Botany at becoming Deputy Headmistress at a Manchester’ reflects her experiences: school in Chertsey. "About two thirds of the (Botany) students were female, and, in the earlier Doris never married and today lives with years (up to about 1930), the excess of family in Devon and will soon celebrate females over males was more marked. 50 years of retirement. The Whitworth 18 UniLife Art Gallery

DISPLAYS/COLLECTIONS Walter Crane to 23 May 2004 In May 2002, The Whitworth Art Gallery and the John Rylands University Library jointly acquired a major archive of material from Walter Crane’s (1845-1915) studio. A selection of the archive will be displayed alongside work already in the Whitworth’s collection, providing an insight into Crane’s prolific and wide-ranging career. What’s The Dazzled Eye: Envisioning Britain 1750 - 2000 5 March to 18 April 2004 This exhibition explores the enduring significance for British artists of representing the landscape, both at home On and abroad. The central theme of the show is the depiction of Britain’s changing rural scenery and the urban fabric since the mid- eighteenth century. Taken together, the exhibition constitutes an evolving and Manchester Museum compelling vision of the nation. Rembrandt Rediscovered and Anne Desmet To 19 May 2004 EXHIBITIONS Sat 3 April, 1.30 - 4.00pm This collection display focuses on Telling Tales Transformation printmaking and features a large group of Find out how many of the creatures in our 17 Jan - 18 April etchings and drypoints by Rembrandt, as Vivarium have adapted to deal with Through the work of five specially well as wood engravings and collages by the everyday life. Followed by an art and craft contemporary printmaker Anne Desmet, commissioned artists, and including objects workshop. seen together with her personal selection from the collections of The Manchester Sat 10 April, 12.00 - 3pm from the Gallery’s print collection. Museum and The British Museum, Rembrandt Rediscovered is the culmination Transformation looks at the characters we Eggs-travaganza A special egg painting session for Easter. 50p of a project to conserve all the prints by the adopt and the roles we play, how we adopt Dutch artist in the Whitworth’s collection. and how we see ourselves and how are seen per child. by others, how we are changed by time, Thurs 15 April, 7.00pm - 9am William Morris: Ministering to the Swinish Luxury of the Rich 10 April to December 2004 events and emotions. Museum Sleepover, Animal Adaptations An exhibition by David Mabb. Mabb recycles Our sleepover explores how animals have FAMILY EVENTS familiar images from the Gallery’s holdings evolved and adapted. Find out about animal The Magic Carpet of William Morris material to produce a new camouflage and make a spectacular mask to installation. Fridays 11.00-12.00pm transform yourself. Please call 275 2630 for Literacy programme of storytelling and story details. TOURS AND EVENTS making for under 5’s and carers, based on Sat 17 April, 1.30 -3.30pm FREE Every Saturday at 2pm there is either an the Museum’s collections. Book large groups Mummies and Medicine Exhibition Tour or an Eyeopener Tour. in advance. £1 per child. Find out more about the Ancient Egyptians Double Take: Two Lectures on Landscape Art: Sat 27 March, 11.00 - 2 pm (with break 12-1pm) and the process of mummification in this A Building Transformed unique workshop. Greg Smith, Writer Fri 19 March, 2pm A guided tour around The Manchester Sun 25 April, 12.00 - 3pm Mariele Nevdecke, Artist Fri 26 March, 2pm Museum of the past and present. Mask-erade The Dazzled Eye - Half Term Drop-in Sun 28 March, 12.00 - 3pm Create your own paper costume mask based Activities, Tues 6 & Wed 7 April, 2-4pm Mythical Masks on the Museum collections. 50p per child. Ancient Greek mask-making session. 50p per child. The Dazzled Eye - Curator’s tour. Tue 30 March, 1.15pm FREE Manchester Museum Oxford Road, 0161 275 2630, www.museum.man.ac.uk The Walter Crane Archive - Curator’s tour. Opening hours, Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sun 11am - 4pm Tue 20 April, 1.15pm FREE Free admission, booking is essential for all programmes CONCERTS Lashmore Ensemble. A recital featuring wind quintets by Poulenc, Lingeti, Francaix, Gig Guide Manchester Academy 1, 2 & 3 Damase and Faure. Sun 28 March, 3pm FREE

Mon 22 March - £8 Sun 28 March - £8.50 Tue 13 April - SOLD OUT Whitworth Art Gallery Raging Speedhorn Good Riddance The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Road, Mon 22 March - £8 Mon 29 March - £12.50 Thur 15 April - £7 0161 275 7450 [email protected] The NME Britpack Tour Obie Trice Million Dead Opening hours Mon to Sat 10am - 5pm, Tue 23 March - £6 Wed 31 March - £13 Fri 16 April - £12 Sun 2pm - 5 pm FREE Admission Hawksley Workman String Cheese Incident The Men They Couldn't Hang The Gallery shop stocks a wide range of Sat 24 March - £8 Fri 2 April - £6 Fri 16 April - £10 greetings cards, postcards, art books, Space South The Get Up Kids magazines and prints. Tel: 0161 275 7498 Fri 26 March - £10 Sat 3 April - £7 Sat 17 April - £12 Roni Size The Beatsteaks Nick Harper Fri 26 March - £9 Sun 4 April - £9 Mon 19 April - £7 The Webb Brothers Scissor Sisters The Shins & The Stills Sat 27 March - £12 Sun 4 April - £8 Wed 21 April - £12 The Seeds The Bees The Willard Grant Conspiracy Sat 27 March - £16 Wed 7 April - £7 John Squire Madrugada

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TRIPS Friday 26 - Sunday 28 March Sat 27 March Day visit to Alton Towers HARPSICHORDFEST Sat 27 - Sun 28 March Weekend trip to Lake The Cosomo Rodewald Concert Hall District visiting Keswick and Ambleside Festival of Extravagant Music for Multiple Sat 3 April Day visit to the Isle of Anglesey, Harpsichords. Harpsichordists: Gary Cooper, North Wales Jane Chapman, David Francis, Pamela Nash Sun 4 April Day visit to the Yorkshire Dales visiting the Ingleton Waterfalls Walk and the Three days of concerts and workshops the Contact Theatre White Scar Caves likes of which Manchester has never seen! Naked SubCulture Sat 10 April Day visit to the Peak District Tickets available from the Box Office 10am - HOUSE visiting Hardwick Hall and Buxton 3pm (0161 275 8950). Festival ticket available Tue 23 Mar 2004 - Wed 24 Mar 2004, 8pm, EVENTS £20/£9 conc. for all five concerts (workshops £7/£3.50 Every Tuesday 8pm until late free of charge, for full details visit Manchester University Drama Department The Melting Pot @ The Thirsty Scholar (next ANARCHIE IN BAYERN to Oxford Road Station). www.opusmalone.com/indexhpschd. Supported by Arts Council England, Awards for Wed 24 Mar 2004 - Sat 27 Mar 2004, £6/£4 THEATRE AND MUSIC Performed by members of the German Society All, Hinrichsen Foundation, Holst Foundation, For details about the availability of tickets and completely in the German language. Women in Music and Ida Carroll Trust. for various theatre and music performances, Theatre Of Colour please visit our website. CHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL DANCIN' IN SEPIA DREAMS CONCERTS By Tina Tamsho-Thomas International Society, 327 Oxford Road Fri 26 Mar 2004 , £3 Thursday 25 March, 7.30 pm (next to Krobar)0161 275 4959 Kali Theatre in association with Tara Arts The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall www.internationalsociety.org.uk CALCUTTA KOSHER Monday - Friday 9:30am - 5pm University of Manchester Brass Ensemble By Shelley Silas Andrew Gourlay Conductor Sat 27 Mar 2004, £9/£6 Programme to include Chantal Arts and Theatre in association with Vivaldi Double Trumpet Concerto Soho Theatre Company Jodrell Bank Altenburg Concerto for Seven Trumpets PUGILIST SPECIALIST By Adriano Shaplin and Timpani The facilities at Jodrell Bank are going Mon 29 Mar 2004 - Sat 3 Apr 2004, £9/£6 through a period of redevelopment. The Friday 23 April, 7.30pm CANDOCO DANCE COMPANY Visitors Centre currently has a café, an The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Thu 1 Apr 2004 - Fri 2 Apr 2004, £9/£6 exhibition space and a 3D theatre open, and visitors can still explore the various trails Johnston String Quartet CandoCo, the world’s famous integrated and the natural habitats of the Arboretum's Britten Quartet No3 dance company of disabled and non-disabled 35 acres with its 2000 species of trees and performers, has joined forces once again Schubert Quartet in A minor (Rosamunde) shrubs and National Collections. In January with the best choreographers to create a 2004 Jodrell Bank completed a 180 degree Hadyn Quartet Op20 tbc world class double bill, Microphobia and The observational pathway close to the base of Human Suite. the world famous Lovell radio telescope. THE WALTER CARROLL LUNCHTIME CONCERTS AND EVENTS RECITALS Contact Theatre Weds 14 April, 2pm 1.10pm Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Children’s Guided Walk of the Arboretum. Oxford Road. Tickets/Info 0161 274 0600 This walk will give children a chance to Thursday 25 March www.contact-theatre.org.uk/ explore and find out about trees and their Robin Ireland Viola Tickets/Info: 0161 274 0600 natural habitats. It is essential to pre book David Fanning Piano for this walk, we would also suggest that For information on other events please visit parents accompany their child Prokofiev Extracts from Romeo our website www.contact-theatre.org and Juliet A limited number of tickets are available from Jodrell Bank Science Centre & Arboretum Shostakovich Sontana for Viola and Piano just £4 on the day from the Ticket Office Macclesfield, Cheshire between 11am - 4pm daily. Thursday 22 April 01477 571339 www.jb.man.ac.uk The Lindsays Mozart Quartet in C K.465 (‘Dissonance’) John Rylands Debussy Quartet in G minor Op10 Department of Music Library School of Music and Drama, Coupland Street The John Rylands Special Collections Library, Deansgate, will be closed for a period of 0161 275 4982 www.art.man.ac.uk/MUSIC approximately 2 years, until 2005, for essential refurbishment and the construction of a new visitor and interpretative centre. Access to all the special collections is available through the main University Library Chaplaincies on campus. A Special Collections Reading Room is open on Purple Four, Monday to Friday 10am - 5.15pm and Saturdays 10am - St Peter’s House Chaplaincy Avila House RC Chaplaincy UMIST Chaplaincy: 1pm. Readers may find it helpful to contact us SUNDAY WORSHIP (next to the Holy Name Church) Chaplain’s Office in advance on 0161 275 3764. Further 10.30am & 6.30pm (Evening Mass Times Chaplains on UMIST site information can be found on our website Worship Term-time only) Mon - Fri 1.05 pm Monday to Friday www.rylibweb.man.ac.uk/spcoll/ FOYER 10am-4pm. An area (term-time only) Floor B, Room B 25 where students and staff can Oxford Road Renold Building UMIST relax and meet friends. A 0161 275 6999/273 1456 John Rylands Library,150 Deansgate, 0161 236 3311 Ext 2522 tea/coffee machine is available. Manchester, M3 3EH Precinct Centre UMIST Chaplaincy Mosque: Main Building 0161 834 5343 0161 275 2894 Mass every Sunday at 10am Prayer Room: www.rylibweb.man.ac.uk/spcoll/ [email protected] Renold Building B26 20 UniLife Seminars & Lectures

Monday 22 March Thursday 25 March Tuesday 20 April Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies: Dept of German Research: "'Wie wir uns heute Latin American Cultural Studies: Title to be "Translatability assessment in a controlled gewöhnen, Sprache zu gebrauchen, so wird sie announced. Vivian Schelling (East London). 5pm, language environment". Sharon O’Brien (Dublin morgen aussehen!' Zum Bruch mit der präskriptiven Room 3.5, Roscoe Bldg. City). 2pm, Room A201, Arts Bldg. All welcome. Tradition in volkslinguistischen Stillehren in der School of Planning and Landscape: "Auditing Institute of Innovation: "Intellectual property jungen DDR’. Claudia Law (Manchester). 4.15pm, and environmental impact assessment". rights as strategic assets: European patent Room S1.4, Arts Bldg. All welcome. Graham Wood (Oxford Brookes). 4pm, Hanson opposition in the telecommunications Manchester Medical Society Public Health Room, Architecture and Planning Bldg. industry". Mario Calderini (Politecnico de Forum: "Infrastructure requirements for Tornio). 4pm, Room 10.05, Harold Hankins Bldg Manchester Medical Society (Imaging) (refreshments from 3.45pm). coupling genomic strategies to large Symposium: "Adult Cystic Fibrosis - challenges populations based disease studies". Prof W E R for the radiologist". Speakers: Prof K Webb, Dr M Tuesday 23 March Ollier (Manchester). 6pm, LT4, Stopford Bldg Greaves, Dr R Ashleigh, Dr S Sukumar and Dr C School of Planning and Landscape: "The (tea from 5.30pm). Haworth. 6pm, Postgraduate Health Sciences widening agenda of urban capacity". Susannah Dept of History: "Building Utopia at the Centre, MRI. Gunn (Newcastle). 4pm, Hanson Room, Uruguayan seaside? Francisco Piria and his Architecture and Planning Bldg. All welcome. CHSTM: "The influential general practitioner". earthly paradise". Prof John Walton (Central Rhodri Hayward (Wellcome UCL). 4pm, Room CCSR: "Evaluating low intensity interventions: Lancashire). 5pm, Room A113, Arts Bldg. 3.29, 3rd Floor, Maths Tower. persuading school children not to smoke". Faculty of Medicine - Imaging Science and Andrew Pickles (Manchester). 4pm, 1st Floor Biomedical Engineering: "Some aspects of Wednesday 21 April Studio, Old Dover St Bldg. immunological lung disease". Dr C S Keeling- Centre for Philosophy "Deontic Reasons and the NPCRDC: "Communicating risks - illusion or Roberts (Manchester). 5.15pm, LT3, Stopford Euthyphro Objection to Scanlon’s truth?" Dr Adrian Edwards (Swansea). 2pm, Bldg. All welcome. Contractualism". Philip Stratton-Lake (Reading). NPCRDC, 5th Floor, Williamson Bldg. Human Communication and Deafness Group: 4pm. O.G.16 Dover Street Bldg. Latin American Cultural Studies: "Histories of "Speech-to-text services for access to the Virgin: the secular knowledge of objects of Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research: classrooms for deaf and hard of hearing children religious devotion". Trevor Stack (Aberdeen). Title to be announced. Prof Dennis Anderson 5pm, Room 3.5, Roscoe Bldg. (ASL and BSL interpretation available). Prof Mike (Imperial College). 4pm, Room C16, The Pariser Stinson (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA). Bldg, UMIST. CHSTM: "Strange reactions: Clemens von Room A2.16, Humanities Bldg. All welcome. Pirquet and the meaning of allergy". Mark Jodrell Bank Colloquia: "Copernican Jackson (Exeter). 4pm, Room 3.29, Maths Tower. Dept of Religions and Theology: "Jews and heliocentricity: the wrong answers to the Judaism in early Shiite religious literature". Dr School of Art History and Archaeology: "Drawing wrong question (a thoroughly heretical view of on the past: medical art in archaeology". Caroline Meir Bar-Asher (Centre for Jewish Studies). 4pm. Copernicus’s model)". Piers Bursill-Hall Needham (Manchester) 5.15pm, Room 1.70, Room A18, Arts Bldg. (Cambridge). 4pm, Lecture Room, Jodrell Bank Architecture and Planning Bldg. Friday 26 March (refreshments from 3.45pm). The Cultural Theory Institute in conjunction Manchester Medical Society (Pathology) Dept of Physics and Astronomy Condensed with the Goethe Institute and the Raymond Symposium: "Politics and Pathology". Speakers: Matter Physics: Title to be announced. Prof Igor Williams Memorial Trust: "Overrating culture at Prof J Underwood, Dr W Kenyon, Prof P Quirke, Dr Shvets (Trinity College Dublin). 4pm, Moseley the expense of politics: a German problem?" M R Haeney. 2pm, Chancellors Conference Centre. 5pm, Arts Lecture Theatre, Arts Bldg. By ticket Lecture Theatre, Schuster Laboratory. only - contact [email protected] School of Art History and Archaeology: "Fez Tuesday 30 March beyond the postcard". Simon Renrick (UCLA). School of Art History and Archaeology: "Drawing Manchester Medical Society Surgery: "The 5.15pm, Room 1.70, Architecture and Planning Bldg. on the past. Medical art in archaeology". Caroline Needham (Manchester). 5.15pm, Room 1.70, anatomy of Doctor Tulp". Dr S P J Reid FRCS. Transport Seminar: Title to be announced. Architecture and Planning Bldg. 8pm, Chancellors Conference Centre (coffee 5.30pm, Lecture Room G33, Architecture and from 7.30pm). Planning Bldg. Wednesday 24 March NPCRDC: "Just like herding cats - controlled Dept of Geography: "Performance matters: Dept of Physics and Astronomy Manchester trials in uncontrolled settings: issues in the theatre, business and the staging of creative Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics: "Non- evaluation of a new chronic disease self- alliances at work". Clair Pearson. Room 2.02, exponential rotation dynamics of dipoles in management programme in England". Mansfield Cooper Bldg. amorphous media". Dr David Binks (UMIST). 4pm, Speakers: Anne Kennedy, Vicky Lee, Pete Bower Blackett Lecture Theatre, Schuster Laboratory. Manchester Materials Science Centre: "Direct and David Reeves (Manchester). 2pm, NPCRDC, strip casting of metals - control of Dept of Chemistry: "Multinuclear luminescent 5th Floor Williamson Bldg. complexes: from mixed f-f arrays to d-f hybrids". microstructure and texture". Dr Michael Ferry Dr Simon Pope (Manchester). 2pm, Room G.53, Wednesday 31 March (New South Wales, Australia). 2.15pm, Room D13, Manchester Materials Science Centre. Chemistry Bldg. SERA-Labour Environment Campaign Programme Dept of Chemistry: "Triple helices in DNA "Biotechnology: nightmare or new industrial Dept of Chemistry: "Adventures in natural sequence recognition". Prof Tom Brown dawn? Is investment in these technologies wise?". product synthesis". Prof Richard Taylor (York). (Southampton). 4pm, Room B104, Faraday 7.30pm, Manchester Town Hall. 4pm, Room B104, Faraday Tower, UMIST. Tower, UMIST. Dept of French: "The Marquis de Sade: Thursday 1 April Thursday 22 April ‘philosophe’ or antinomian?" Bob Gillan Faculty of Medicine - Imaging Science & Manchester Medical Society (Public Health (Manchester). 4.14pm, Room 2.03, Mansfield Biomedical Engineering: "Paget’s Disease of Forum) Chadwick Lecture: "Tackling health Cooper Bldg. bone - CT and MR imaging". Dr RW Whitehouse, inequalities in primary care and in ethnic Dept of Electrical Engineering and Electronics Consultant Radiologist. 5.15pm Lecture Theatre minority groups". Lord Michael Chan of Oxton. Control Systems Centre: "Immersion and 3, Stopford Bldg. 6pm, MANDEC. invariance: a new tool for stabilization and School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting: Dept of History: "The conundrum again: the adaptive control of nonlinear systems". Dr "The missing germ:The aetiology of syphilis, 1870- population of England and the fetal mortality Alessandro Astolfi (Imperial College). 2pm, 1905". Michael Worboys (Manchester). 4pm, problem". Prof Bob Woods (Liverpool). 5pm, A113, Room D39, Main Bldg, UMIST. Enquiries contact Arts Bldg. [email protected] Rooms 28-29, Coupland 3 Bldg. Jodrell Bank Colloquia: "Cooling flows: Monday 19 April Friday 23 April implications for galaxy formation". James Social Anthropology "Interconnected and Dept of Religions and Theology: "Just how Binney (Oxford). 4pm, Lecture Room, Jodrell interinfected: DOTS and the stabilisation of the popular can religion be?: An examination of the Bank (refreshments at 3.45pm). tuberculosis control programme in Nepal". Dr Ian ‘Film as Religion’ proposal". Clive Marsh. 10am, Harper (Edinburgh). 4pm. Room 5.1 Roscoe Bldg. Room A4, Faculty Committee Room, Arts Bldg. UniLife 21 Noticeboard

Monday 26 April Dept of Social Anthropology Are You a Golfer? Dept of Social Anthropology: "Anthropology of Wednesday 24 March If you are employed by, or retired from, UMIST networks: from myth to new technologies". Dr Public Lecture by Prof Nancy Scheper-Hughes or the Victoria University of Manchester, you are Barbara Glowczewski (Centre National de la (Visiting Simon Professor). most welcome to join in the Manchester Recherche Scientifique). 4pm, Room 5.1, Roscoe Bldg. "Beyond bio-ethics: global justice and the University Staff Golf Society's handicap traffic in human organs". Stableford competitions which are held Manchester Medical Society (Odontology) 4pm, Lecture Theatre B, Roscoe Bldg followed by monthly from May to September. We also run a Guest Lecture: "Implant failure - prevention and a wine reception. All welcome. knock out match play event. This year we have treatment". Prof R Palmer. 6pm, Chancellors weekday afternoon Meetings at Knutsford, Conference Centre. Northenden, Davenport, Stockport and Mellor, Tuesday 27 April e-Learning Week each followed by a meal in the early evening. 29 March - 2 April 2004 For more information and/or an invitation to Manchester Medical Society (Surgery) What is it? 'guest' at our events this season please contact AstraZeneca Surgical Registrar's Prize Evening. One week in which the aim is to raise Ken Leigh on 01925 762551 (anytime) or at 6.30pm, Chancellors Conference Centre. participants' awareness in the application of [email protected] CHSTM: "Butter and mercury: towards a history e-learning at UMIST and Manchester and of tacit knowledge in early modern Europe". develop practical skills in e-learning. 4pm, Room 3.29, Maths Tower. Who is it for? The University of Manchester Department of Drama presents School of Art History and Archaeology: The sessions are primarily aimed at academics and educational designers at both Universities. Oh What A Lovely War! "Interlacings: Burne-Jones and William Morris". Dr 23 - 25 March 7.30pm/2.30pm Saturday But people involved in support roles are also Caroline Arscott (Courtauld Institute of Art). John Thaw Studio Theatre, School of Music and welcome. 5.15pm, Room 1.70, Architecture and Planning Bldg. Drama, Coupland Street. What is the programme format? School of Planning and Landscape: "Modelling For further information please contact Chris The week is made-up of 10 sessions of 3 hours voter preferences". Ed Fieldhouse Grimshaw 0161 275-3358 (office hours 10.30 – 4 each. For more information visit our website: (Manchester). 4pm, Hanson Room, every day except Wednesday) or Saira Shaikh on www.umist.ac.uk/e-learning Architecture and Planning Bldg. 0161 275-4982. Wednesday 28 April 20% Discount on Spectacles in Dept of Chemistry: "Nano-rheology of soft Café Scientifique the Student Optometry Clinic Cafe Scientifique....a place where, for the price materials". Dr Paul Bartlett (Bristol). 2.30pm, Save money and help UMIST students in their of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, ANYONE Room G.54, Chemistry Bldg. professional development. can come to explore the latest ideas in science Faculty of Arts: "Peer assessment/feedback". If you have your eyes examined in the Student and technology. CafeMuse, Oxford Road Thea Cameron and Bill Hutchings. 1pm, Faculty Clinic at the Department of Optometry and (Manchester Museum). Free entry – booking Committee Room, Arts Bldg (refreshments Neuroscience, we will give you a 20% discount essential. To book a place email provided). Enquiries 0161 275 3429. on any spectacles that you order through the [email protected] or use the booking Manchester Materials Science Centre: student dispensing clinic. We can also supply form at http://www.business.man.ac.uk/cafe- "Materials challenges for future reactors". Dr contact lenses at a low cost. All clinics closely scientific/Cafe-web.htm Walter Weaver (BNFL). 2.15pm, Room D13, supervised by fully qualified staff. Please call Manchester Materials Science Centre. Optometry Reception on 0161 200 3860 to book an appointment. Jodrell Bank Colloquia: "Broad iron lines VACANCIES revealing strong gravity of black holes". Andy Please find below details of vacancies within Fabian (Cambridge). 4pm, Lecture Room, Jodrell Manchester University School of existing structures at both The Victoria Bank (refreshments from 3.45pm). Law Legal Advice Centre University of Manchester and UMIST. For all Manchester Medical Society (Psychiatry) The Legal Advice Centre is currently taking other vacancies please refer to both Symposium: "Post traumatic stress disorder". appointments. The Centre operates during term- universities’ internal websites: Speakers: Prof N Tarrier and Dr G Turnbull. 2pm, time and provides free, legal advice to both www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies and Undergraduate Centre, Phase 2, Hope Hospital. students, staff and members of the public. Clients www2.umist.ac.uk/university/jobs/ Dept of History: "Merchants and marvels". Dr are advised by law students supervised by local UMIST Pamela Smith (CHSTM). 5pm, Room A113, Arts Bldg. lawyers and professionally qualified teaching staff. Precinct Centre, Oxford Road. Opening times: DEPARTMENT OF BIOMOLECULAR Manchester Medical Society (Anaesthesia) out Mon - Fri 10am - 2pm SCIENCES of town meeting. Speakers: Dr A P Vickers, Dr L J Tel: 0161 275 7977. Fax: 0161 275 7976. Email: Williams, Dr A F Smith. 7.30pm, Ashton SUPPORT SERVICE TECHNICIAN [email protected] Memorial, Williamson Park. A Support Service Technician is required to School of Geography: "La geographie du assist with the testing of electrical equipment, spectacle: the Paris International Expositions, The Centre for the Cultural History of War in routine care and maintenance of centrifuges 1889-1931". Mike Heffernan. 4pm, Room 2.02, conjunction with European Review of and other equipment in the Department. GCSE Mansfield Cooper Bldg. History/Revue européenne d’histoire science (or equivalent) is required as is the War, Culture and Humanity from ability to undertake minor repairs to equipment Thursday 29 April Ancient to Modern Times and change gas cylinders. Experience in Human Communication and Deafness Group: 15-17 April 2004 electrical testing of equipment is desirable. "Use of research and critical appraisal in speech An interdisciplinary conference to be held at Salary will be within the Technician Grade C and language therapy services: the results of an The Victoria University of Manchester, Hulme scale up to £15,131 per annum. evaluation study". Hazel Roddam (Blackpool, Hall, Oxford Place, Manchester, M14 5RR For an application form and further details Fylde and Wyre Primary Healthcare Trust). 4pm, Keynote speakers: Jay Winter (Yale), Jacques please write to: The Personnel Office, UMIST, P Room A2.16, Humanities Bldg. Semelin (CADIS/HESS), Hans van Wees (UCL), Liz O Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD (website: Stanley (Newcastle), Guy Halsall (York). www.umist.ac.uk/university/jobs), enclosing a For further information, details of tickets and SEMINARS AND LECTURES self-addressed envelope. The closing date is 31 accommodation please email Rebecca Gill March 2004. Please quote reference: [email protected]. Details of seminars can be emailed to BMS/NA/33. 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Just The Job Thurston Heaton The Botanical Experimental Grounds

For most of us gardening is either a chore or something we don’t have There’s always enough spare time for, but for “something to do, its Thurston Heaton it is his job and one not totally seasonal he loves. But as Manager of the work by any means Botanical Experimental Grounds in because of the Fallowfield, it’s not just about variety of plants we mowing lawns and trimming hedges, have here for the grounds serve an important ” scientific purpose. The Grounds on this site were established Thurston’s job involves the daily Trust." This has enabled them to turn an in 1922/3 by the Botany department, in maintenance and upkeep of the grounds, old laboratory into a classroom. what was part of the Firs estate, sourcing seeds and materials from specialist bequeathed to the University by suppliers, but he is keen to point out that it’s Since the first visit in 2001, hundreds of Manchester engineer Sir Joseph Whitworth. a team effort with invaluable assistance children from several dozen schools ranging You could be forgiven for not knowing of its from horticultural technician David Newton, from nursery schools to sixth form colleges existence, bordered by the Owens Park who has worked at the grounds since 1976 have come to the Grounds. "They get to see student village, Chancellors Conference and trainee Thomas Ironmonger who joined plants which they would not normally see Centre, Richmond Park and the Armitage the staff in April 2003. including, coffee, banana, sugar cane, Sports Centre; it’s not visible from the road. tobacco, and papyrus and are made aware of Thurston arrived at the grounds in 1990 the importance of plants to the world Its purpose then, as now, was to grow plants having worked as a horticultural technician around them" says Thurston. for teaching and research at the VUM in the at several colleges within his native West fields of plant sciences, biochemistry, and Midlands but relocated to Manchester to The many beautiful and unusual plants and medicine. Today it is part of the School of take up the post. flowers have also become popular subjects Biological Sciences and continues to grow for art students and, since a highly plants at the request of academics at the "There’s always something to do, its not totally seasonal work by any means because successful widening participation project University and occasionally UMIST and MMU. run last year called "The Big Draw", more Undergraduate and postgraduate students of the variety of plants we have here, it’s a 365 and more budding artists from local schools make use of the grounds and the expertise of day job keeping the grounds up to scratch". are coming in. the staff for teaching projects and research. One of his major contributions has been "I thoroughly enjoy everything about my job "We grow whatever academics require for to establish the Schools Outreach Project research or teaching purposes. One of the – a programme of school visits and but the school visits are the most rewarding, longest ongoing experiments concerns Thurston has been successful in especially the thank you letters they write, starch biosynthesis in wheat". attracting grants from trusts to help with these make it all worthwhile" the activity. "We have had tremendous The 1.5 acres are home to a collection of support from a number of sources Despite his evident enthusiasm for his job, plants gathered over the last 80 years from including the John Spedan Lewis (even working outside in winter), Thurston around the world, probably the most Foundation, The Royal Botanical Society of leaves it all behind once he finishes for the impressive are the 80-year-old cacti Manchester & the Northern Counties, and day.“I haven’t got a garden at home, just a standing some six metres tall. The Manchester Guardian Charitable small yard,”he says.

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