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Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Magazine for Loughborough University Issue 73 | Autumn 2012 thexx staffxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx magazine for loughborough university issue 73 | autumn 2012 inside this issue... A summer to remember Campus developments Reaching Out Reflecting on Olympic activity, Focus on enhancing the student Close up on student p8-13 experience, p14 outreach activity, p16 02 news news 03 in this issue Don’t waste it, New brand for Sustainability ideas imago Services issue 73 | autumn 2012 WARPit recognised at BEST Awards ugh university the staff magazine for loughboro The sustainability team has been working on an imago Services have had a branding makeover, with a new name A number of staff and departments picked up awards at the annual BEST (Building innovative initiative to increase the University’s being launched for the department that manages the student Environmental Sustainability Together) Awards. efficiency and reduce its environmental impact. accommodation and catering on campus. Chris Spencer from the Students’ Union won the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Sustainability, WARPit is a new system that will allow Campus Living, the original name of the Student Accommodation for her commitment to driving sustainability in the Union building. departments to share goods they no longer website has been adopted and will cover all of imago’s services Security’s Patsy Woolley was awarded the BEST Staff Contribution Award for need for others to use. across campus. The move follows feedback that suggests staff and students were sometimes unsure whether imago was part implementation of a calling card initiative, which involves leaving door notices of the University or an external supplier. Under the new brand encouraging staff to turn lights or equipment off. Debbie Grant and her team will continue to focus on providing Dr Dick Heath from the Department of Materials was named BEST Inspiration Lecturer. staff and students with a cost effective, customer focused and Reaching Out inside this issue... Close up on student Campus developments outreach activity, p16 A summer to remember Focus on enhancing the student Reflecting on Olympic activity, experience, p14 The BEST New Initiative was awarded to the RAG Charity Shop. The initiative, first p8-13 efficient service. put forward by Alison Lovett from Campus Living, sees items left by students being A summer to remember! 8 The Campus Living team have also recently moved to come sold in a charity shop at the Students’ Union. under the banner of the Facilities Management Department, Round up of the University’s The Green Impact Awards were also given on the night. The Gold Award went to exciting Olympic activity headed by Andrew Burgess. Hazlerigg team, the Green Proclaimers, whilst the Gold Labs Award was presented imago@Loughborough Ltd, the commercial services brand that Supporting Olympic 12 to the Wolfson School. manages conferencing and event activity on campus, will remain achievement For more information about the awards and sustainability at Loughborough, the same. Loughborough’s Olympic visit the sustainability website: www.lboro.ac.uk/sustainability. research Developing the campus 14 to enhance the student Reinventing the Toilet experience The service is designed to cut the spending Learn a new language costs on new equipment by departments Staff Survey Eight languages are on offer as part of the extra- with Bill Gates Reaching out 16 across campus, tackle the inefficient use of curricular languages programme run by the Department The University has won a prestigious prize of $60,000 in an international Focus on the work of the resources and at the same time reduce the The 2012 staff survey was launched in of Politics, History and International Relations. competition organised by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. A year SOAR office amount of material sent to landfill. the spring to give staff the opportunity to Languages on offer include Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), ago Universities around the world were challenged to develop a reinvented toilet that is clean, safe, durable and affordable for the poor without the Sport and Health Members of staff will be able to search the put forward their thoughts, feelings and suggestions French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. database for suitable items they might need need for connection to electricity or a sewer. It should be a viable solution round-up 18 about all aspects of working at the University. Levels run from beginners, with the most popular (for example ring binders and desks), as well in wealthy nations as well as in the developing world where 2.5 billion HR report that the survey has been well received, with a courses continuing up to advanced conversation. as load information about equipment they people lack access to safe and affordable sanitation. response rate of 64%. Editor want to discard. Courses commence from October. For full details of Led by Professor M. Sohail from the School of Civil and Building Alison Barlow The results are currently being analysed by Capita People the programmes, fees, dates and to get advice, Engineering, the Loughborough team’s prototype toilet aims to convert Public Relations Office Any member of staff can sign up to WARPit. visit www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/eu/studying/ human waste into carbonised material to provide heat, minerals for soil T: 01509 223491 To register, visit www.warp-it.co.uk/lboro. Items Development the external consultancy appointed to E: [email protected] can only be claimed for internal, and not manage the Survey on the University’s behalf and will be languages/extra-curricular.html conditioning, and water for flushing and hand-washing. Design/Print personal, use. available at a later date. Loughborough was awarded second prize of the three prototype Design and Print Services technologies. California Institute of Technology and the University of www.lboro.ac.uk/designandprint Toronto respectively received first and third prizes. Printed on Essential Silk, produced Top University for using sustainably sourced materials Get in the game and elemental chlorine free pulp THE Best Student Experience The School of Business and Economics is Photography Loughborough remains England’s top university for best Design and Print Services offering a new MBA in International Sports Andrew Weekes Management: the essential qualification for student experience for the sixth year running, the Times any member of the sports industry. It includes Higher Education’s (THE) annual poll revealed. special modules on media management and The league table, published in the THE magazine, sports technology and innovation, as well as uncovers the views of thousands of undergraduate the fundamentals of business management. students on the factors that matter most to them, from Applications are being accepted for the quality of teaching to student facilities. the new MBA as well as the Business Loughborough topped six of the poll’s categories – School’s part-time MBA, with a good social life; good environment on campus; high- flexible delivery and elective modules quality facilities; good students’ union; good industry that allow you to focus on your area of expertise. For more information, connections; and good sports facilities. Overall it came visit: www.lboro.ac.uk/mba second in the survey, with Scotland’s University of Loughborough is proud to be a Fairtrade University Dundee taking first place by the narrowest of margins. Look for products with the FAIRTRADE Mark. www.fairtrade.org.uk for more information on these news stories and more visit www.lboro.ac.uk/staff/news T51761/DPS/SEPT12 04 news news 05 Farewell to Shirley Get Kitted Out with Lord Coe back at Loughborough and welcome to Bob the Kit-Catalogue as Pro Chancellor After seven years at Loughborough, After months of Lord Sebastian Coe, Chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Professor Shirley Pearce stepped meticulous development, Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and one of Britain’s greatest athletes, the University’s open down as Vice Chancellor in July. has recently become a Pro Chancellor of the University. source equipment database system, known as She made an exceptional contribution Kit-Catalogue, is now live and ready for the new As Pro Chancellor, Lord Coe will be a member of University Council along with to the development and success of academic term. other leading figures from local and national organisations and businesses, as well Loughborough, guiding the University The initiative has been led by Professor Rachel as elected University staff and representatives from the Students’ Union. through a period of great success and Thomson from the Materials Research School An alumnus of Loughborough, Lord Coe graduated with a BSc in Economics and achievement. in association with the Centre for Engineering and Social History in 1979. He was made an Honorary Doctor of Technology (Hon During her time, the University Design Education and IT Services. DTech) by the University in 1985. strengthened its research and Kit-Catalogue works as an online system, allowing innovation performance to secure staff and students to effectively catalogue their He met George Gandy at Loughborough, who worked with Coe to develop its position as an international kit and hire or borrow particular items for research revolutionary conditioning exercises to improve his running. Coe won four Olympic leader, particularly in the areas of or teaching use. It aims to reduce the costly medals and set a total of eight outdoor and three indoor world records. manufacturing and sport, exercise duplication and double purchasing of equipment and health sciences. and promote the efficient and sustainable reuse of existing assets. Her commitment to excellence saw the University topping the The University’s catalogue contains over 1780 University Medals awarded Director of Sport league for the UK’s best student experience for six years running. Under her items from 15 departments, which include leaves University leadership the University developed significant new partnerships with notable laboratory equipment, workshop machines, ICT and to exceptional trio specialist tools.
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