Public Events Programme

PUBLIC EVENTS PROGRAMME Autumn 2014 – Summer 2015 www.chester.ac.uk/events 2 WELCOME In the 2014/15 academic year, the We are also delighted to host this year’s University of Chester marks its 175th Cheshire Prize for Literature awards anniversary as an institution; the first place evening with guest speaker Brian in the UK which was originally purpose- Cosgrove, famous for the production of built to train teachers and among the children’s programmes including Bill and longest-established providers of higher Ben, Count Duckula and also animations education. You are warmly invited to join for Doctor Who. Chester also plays host the University in celebrating its pioneering to the annual Cathedrals Group Choirs’ heritage and embracing its current Festival at Chester Cathedral in February activities, whether attending a public 2015, bringing together university lecture, enjoying exhibitions, listening choirs from across the country to sing to the Manchester Camerata chronicle Handel’s Zadok the Priest, in addition the University’s history or learning more to their own individual contributions. about the fascinating health and social We very much look forward to welcoming care exhibits in our Riverside Museum. you to the University of Chester in this Subjects under discussion include: Dunham special year! Although this programme Massey’s role as Stamford Military is correct at time of printing, details may Hospital during the First World War; the change unavoidably, so please visit history of the University, as told through http://www.chester.ac.uk/at-chester/ the Grosvenor Museum lunchtime lecture events for the latest information, or contact series; ‘Sex and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll’, Corporate Communications, 01244 511344 ‘Dressing/Undressing the Victorians’; ‘The or [email protected]. March of Wales’ archaeology conference; Admission to events is either: ‘Textile Stories’ and the Psychology of Health public lecture ‘Superhuman • Free with no pre-booking necessary productivity without superpowers’! • Free with pre-booking Once again, the University works in • Or with tickets to be purchased partnership with Chester Performs to in advance. host events from the Essar Chester Literature Festival: the historical novelist Suzannah Dunn discusses her new book, The May Bride; Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire will be screened; and ‘University Yarns’ seeks the sharing of memories about our cultural and social history.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 1PM-4PM FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE (FHSC) RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING The volunteers from the FHSC Historical Society have gathered a selection of curiosities from the world of medicine, nursing, midwifery and social work. The everyday and unusual objects from these fields of study and practice forms a permanent collection based at the Riverside Campus which is open to the public on one afternoon a month and at other times by arrangement only. Visitors with an interest in health and social care or local history are welcome to come along and find out more from the volunteers, many of whom have a healthcare background. Please note that we have modest accommodation, with limited space in the Museum (maximum of 30 people) and please use public car parks.

HOST: Faculty of Health and Social Care Historical Society VENUE: Riverside Campus, University of Chester. Visitors should go to the main Riverside Campus Reception opposite the River Dee, Castle Drive, Chester, CH1 1SL ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Roger Whiteley, [email protected], ring 01244 511619 or visit: www.chester.ac.uk/hsc/historical-society

5 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 • 4PM-5.30PM SANCTUARY FROM THE TRENCHES – DUNHAM MASSEY IS THE STAMFORD MILITARY HOSPITAL Katie Taylor, House and Collections Manager at Dunham Massey Hall The Faculty of Health and Social Care transformed into a military hospital during Historical Society is commemorating the First World War and Lane Jane Grey, 100 years since the outbreak of the First the daughter of the house, worked there World War with a series of talks on the as a Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) effects of the conflict, together with a new nurse. For this year and next, Dunham Museum exhibition to be opened later Massey is marking the centenary of the in 2014. As part of this commemoration, First World War by telling the story of the Katie Taylor, who appeared on the BBC Stamford Hospital, the auxiliary hospital in North West’s programme on Dunham which 282 soldiers were treated between Massey, will talk about how the house April 1917 and January 1919. The ward, has been transformed into the Stamford soldiers’ recreation room and operating Military Hospital and some of the rich theatre have all been recreated and replace stories she and colleagues have found the grand interiors. There are fascinating in the archives. Dunham Massey was exhibitions and hand on activities. Actors in formerly the home of the Grey family, the costume tell some of the stories of those Earls of Stamford, and is now managed who nursed, and were nursed, there using by the National Trust. Dunham was material from the extensive archives.

HOST: Faculty of Health and Social Care Historical Society VENUE: Riverside Campus, University of Chester. Visitors should report to the main Riverside Campus Reception opposite the River Dee, Castle Drive, Chester, CH1 1SL ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Roger Whiteley, [email protected], ring 01244 511619 or visit: www.chester.ac.uk/hsc/historical-society

6 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 • 10AM-3PM (11AM-3PM WARRINGTON) UNIVERSITY OPEN DAY Come along to our Open Day to find out for yourself what it would really be like to live and study here. Open Days are the ideal way to see if Chester is right for you, as a student.

HOST: Visit us team, University of Chester. VENUE: Parkgate Road Campus; Kingsway Buildings; Riverside Campus - Education and Children’s Services; Thornton Science Park; Warrington Campus ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: 01244 512800, [email protected] or book online at www.chester.ac.uk/openday. For details of 2014 dates: www.chester.ac.uk/openday

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 • 12PM CHESTER PRIDE Chester Pride will include a main stage and lifestyle area along with a marketplace, family area and learning zone. The event will begin with a lively walking parade through the city streets at 12pm.The University of Chester is sponsoring the Learning Area. The event aims to celebrate the local Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community, involving LGBT people and everyone who supports their rights.

VENUE: Grosvenor Park, Chester ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: http://chesterpride.co.uk/event

7 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7 • 5PM LAUNCH OF THE CHESTER RESEARCH UNIT FOR THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HEALTH (CRUPH) The Chester Research Unit for the Psychology of Health (CRUPH) conducts cutting edge psychological research and consultancy to help improve professional practice in the fields of health and well-being. The unit works with healthcare providers, third-sector organisations and internationally renowned experts to ensure that our work addresses issues of both local and global importance. CRUPH will be launching officially with an evening event and mini conference. Attendees can hear more about our current and planned research projects, and will have the opportunity to speak to some of our key staff members about the services and research expertise that we can offer to external organisations.

HOST: Chester Research Unit for the Psychology of Health VENUE: Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester, CH1 4BJ, room to be confirmed. ADMISSION: Free, but attendance must be registered CONTACT: Amy Martin, [email protected], 01244 513487

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 • 10AM-3PM UNIVERSITY OPEN DAY Come along to our Open Day to find out for yourself what it would really be like to live and study here. Open Days are the ideal way to see if Chester is right for you, as a student.

HOST: Visit us team, University of Chester. VENUE: Parkgate Road Campus; Kingsway Buildings; Riverside Campus – Health and Social Care; Thornton Science Park ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: 01244 512800, [email protected] or book online at www.chester.ac.uk/openday. For details of 2014 dates: www.chester.ac.uk/openday

8 MONDAY, OCTOBER 13 • 5PM TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 • 5.30PM Essar Chester Literature Festival Essar Chester Literature Festival THE BATTLEFIELD STORYTELLING IN EXPERIENCED: COMPLEX SITUATIONS GERMAN JEWS AND Professor Allan Owens, Co-Director, Centre for Research into Education, THE GREAT WAR Creativity and Arts Through Practice Dr Tim Grady, Senior Lecturer in Allan turns stories into drama pre-texts: History and Deputy Head of History and excuses to interact and fall into conversation Archaeology in order to share understandings in and about The centenary of the First World War complex situations. This demonstration has helped alternative histories and other opens up the pre-text form as practised in combatants to come out of the shadows. situations ranging from the Israeli occupation Of particular importance has been of Palestine, to post-2011 Tsunami Japan. the recent rediscovery of the 100,000 This is part of the University at the Festival Jews that served in the German army. strand in which lecturers from the University However, if German Jews fought at the of Chester share their specialist knowledge. front, what was their role and what was HOST: Essar Chester Literature Festival their contribution to the ‘great seminal VENUE: Chester Town Hall, CH1 2HJ catastrophe’ of the twentieth century? ADMISSION: Free by ticket only This is part of the University at the CONTACT: Festival strand in which lecturers from the www.chesterliteraturefestival.co.uk or University of Chester share their specialist [email protected] or ring knowledge. 0124 4 409113 HOST: Essar Chester Literature Festival VENUE: Chester Town Hall, CH1 2HJ ADMISSION: Free by ticket only CONTACT: www.chesterliteraturefestival.co.uk or [email protected] or ring 0124 4 409113

9 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15 • 1PM-2PM ‘On Chester On: College, University and City Over 175 Years’ – Grosvenor Museum Lunchtime Lecture Series CHESTER COLLEGE: THE FORMATIVE YEARS, 1839-1914 Professor Graeme White In this talk, Professor Graeme White will explore Chester College’s early history. At the time of its founding, it was a pioneering institution - the first purpose-built teacher- On Chester On training college in England and the first A History of Chester College and the University of Chester founded specifically to serve a diocese. Graeme J. White Indeed, in in its early years Chester College offered a distinctive educational experience with an emphasis on ‘workshop skills’. After nearly collapsing in 1869, it revived following the 1870 Education Act and by the First World War was thriving as a college preparing young men to teach in elementary schools.

VENUE: Grosvenor Museum Lecture Theatre, 27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD ADMISSION: £3 (pay on the door) or £6 for the Series in advance. Cheques to be made payable to ‘University of Chester’ and sent to Lunchtime Lectures, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Chester, Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 4BJ CONTACT: [email protected]

10 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 • 6.30PM Professorial Lecture MIND, BODIES AND SOCIAL MEANING: HOW PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH CAN GIVE US NEW PERSPECTIVES ON WELL-BEING Professor Ros Bramwell, Head of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science We often see our ‘mind’ as something improving health and well-being which can, that inhabits our body but is separate from in turn, be systematically evaluated. In this it. Psychology provides a framework for talk, Professor Bramwell will take examples understanding ‘mind’, body and the wider from the research which she and her team social environment as connecting systems. have undertaken in different areas of health More than this, the real excitement of and well-being to look at the ways in which psychology is that we can undertake health and well-being are tied up with social research which provides us with novel processes and our own understanding of findings and develops new perspectives. ourselves and our bodies. She will tackle The findings of psychological research often issues of how we study and measure challenge our preconceptions. They can thoughts and feelings and how we inform also inform evidence-based approaches to and evaluate practice.

HOST: Corporate Communications VENUE: Beswick Lecture Theatre, Room CBE017, Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: Free but by ticket only CONTACT: [email protected] or ring 01244 511344

11 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 • 7.30PM CHESTER THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY CONCEIVING JESUS: RE-EXAMINING JESUS’ CONCEPTION IN CANON, CHRISTOLOGY AND CREED Professor Andrew Lincoln, University of Gloucestershire For many Christians the belief that Jesus was conceived without a human father appears to be demanded by Scripture and creed but causes difficulty in the light of knowledge of ancient parallels about the conception of great figures and of modern biology. The lecture will survey some of the range of issues involved in attempting to negotiate confessional belief and critical enquiry on this topic. Does the New Testament contain other perspectives on Jesus’ conception? Why did the virginal conception tradition become dominant and why has it become problematic? What are the implications for the orthodox view of the relation between Jesus’ humanity and divinity and for saying the creed if one holds that in all probability Jesus did have a biological human father? Andrew Lincoln is Professor of New Testament at the University of Gloucestershire. Among his publications are Ephesians (Word Biblical Commentary, 1990); Colossians (New Interpreter’s Bible Vol. XI, 2000); Truth on Trial: the Lawsuit Motif in the Fourth Gospel (Hendrickson, 2000); The Gospel according to St. John (Black NT Commentaries, Continuum, 2005) and Hebrews: a Guide (T. & T. Clark International, 2006). Most recently he has co-edited The Bible and Spirituality: Exploratory Essays in Reading Scripture Spiritually (Cascade, Wipf & Stock, 2013) and written Born of a Virgin? Reconceiving Jesus in the Bible, Tradition and Theology (SPCK/Eerdmans, 2013).

VENUE: Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Hollybank Building, University of Chester, Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION AT THE DOOR: £3 (Students: £1) Wine and refreshments provided CONTACT: Carly McEvoy, [email protected]

12 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21 • 5.30PM TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21 • 7.30PM Essar Chester Literature Festival Essar Chester Literature Festival ‘MAY THE FORCE BE POETRY OF THE WITH YOU’: USING GREAT WAR: ‘THE POPULAR CULTURE IN MONSTROUS ANGER ADDICTION RECOVERY OF THE GUNS’ Dr Wendy Dossett, Senior Lecturer in Come to the University for this free event Theology and Religious Studies and a glass of wine (please do book tickets – you will need to exchange these for The power of hearing and telling stories for refreshments). Members of staff from the people seeking recovery from addictions Faculty of Humanities will be reading their in Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous favourite poetry of the Great War. There is quite literally transformational. Drawing will be some familiar poems, but also some on qualitative research among people less-often heard, or read, gems in this who practise the 12 steps, this talk hour-long event. explores how some of the popular literary, cultural and spiritual sources that have HOST: Chester Performs and Department inspired them are used in the building of English of sustainable, abstinent recovery from VENUE: To be confirmed seemingly hopeless addiction. ADMISSION: Free but by ticket only CONTACT: This is part of the University at the www.chesterliteraturefestival.co.uk or Festival strand in which lecturers from the [email protected] or ring University of Chester share their specialist 0124 4 409113 knowledge.

HOST: Essar Chester Literature Festival VENUE: Chester Town Hall, CH1 2HJ ADMISSION: Free by ticket only CONTACT: www.chesterliteraturefestival.co.uk or [email protected] or ring 0124 4 409113

13 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 • 5.30PM 1PM-2PM Essar Chester Literature Festival ‘On Chester On: College, University and City Over 175 Years’ – Grosvenor OUR GRAHAM GREENE Museum Lunchtime Lecture Series IN HAVANA CHESTER Dr Christopher Hull, Senior Lecturer in COLLEGE: THE Modern Languages The novelist Graham Greene’s deportation TRANSFORMATIVE from Puerto Rico to Cuba by US YEARS, 1914-1974 immigration authorities in 1954 led him to write his intelligence services satire Our Professor Graeme White Man in Havana. This talk explains how the This talk focuses on the history of Chester British author’s iconic 1958 novel presaged College from the First World War through the most dangerous episode in the Cold until the 1970s. Professor Graeme White, War four years later – the Cuban Missile who has recently completed a new Crisis. history of the institution, will explore the This is part of the University at the institution’s relationship with the city Festival strand in which lecturers from the during this 60 year period. As a relatively University of Chester share their specialist small institution at this time, its most knowledge. obvious impact on Chester residents was through the annual Rag Day, inaugurated HOST: Essar Chester Literature Festival in the 1920s. But after the Second World VENUE: Chester Town Hall, CH1 2HJ War there were some major changes, ADMISSION: Free by ticket only including the replacement of dormitories CONTACT: by residential hostels in the 1950s and the www.chesterliteraturefestival.co.uk or admission of the first women students in [email protected] or ring the 1960s. 0124 4 409113

VENUE: Grosvenor Museum Lecture Theatre, 27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD ADMISSION: £3 (pay on the door) or £6 for the series in advance. Cheques to be made payable to ‘University of Chester’ and sent to Lunchtime Lectures, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Chester, Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 4BJ CONTACT: email [email protected]

14 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 • 5.30PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 • 1.30PM THE FESTIVAL AT THE UNIVERSITY Essar Chester Literature Festival Essar Chester Literature Festival ‘I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP’: CATS, HOW TO RESEARCH CROOKS AND MYTHS YOUR NOVEL: ABOUT THE LAW WORKSHOP Alex Preston Chantal Davies, Senior Lecturer in Law Alex Preston runs a Guardian Masterclass From the sublime to the ridiculous, from on how to research historical fiction and Question Time to Coronation Street, we will share his tips and knowledge on that are constantly exposed to urban myths subject. If you want to learn how to use about legal processes. Chantal will explore period detail (be it from 10 years ago or some of the more obscure mythology, 500 years ago) with elegance and subtlety encouraging the audience to question and how to avoid online research pitfalls, common assumptions about the law. then this is for you. She will challenge those misconceptions that the media and government at times Born in 1979, Alex is an award-winning promote actively, particularly in relation to author and journalist who appears regularly human rights legislation in the UK. on BBC television and radio. He writes for GQ, Harper’s Bazaar and Town & Country This is part of the University at the Magazine as well as for the Observer’s Festival strand in which lecturers from the New Review. Alongside his Guardian University of Chester share their specialist masterclasses, he teaches Creative Writing knowledge. at the University of Kent. HOST: Essar Chester Literature Festival VENUE: Beswick Lecture Theatre (Room VENUE: Chester Town Hall, CH1 2HJ CBE017), Parkgate Road Campus, ADMISSION: Free by ticket only University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ CONTACT: ADMISSION: £10 www.chesterliteraturefestival.co.uk or CONTACT: [email protected] or ring www.chesterliteraturefestival.co.uk or 0124 4 409113 [email protected] or ring 0124 4 409113

15 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 • 2PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 • 4PM THE FESTIVAL AT THE UNIVERSITY THE FESTIVAL AT THE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY YARNS SUZANNAH DUNN – Every year, the Festival invites members THE MAY BRIDE of the public to drop in and share their Delve back into the world of Tudor England photos, stories and memories about a local as author Suzannah Dunn reveals the place. In previous years, there have been secrets of her new book The May Bride. Handbridge Yarns, Hoole Yarns and Blacon Yarns. This year, with the University of Jane Seymour is a shy, dutiful 15-year-old Chester celebrating its 175th anniversary when her eldest brother, Edward, brings a Uni Yarns will mark the occasion. Come his bride home to Wolf Hall – but what will along to hear about the University’s history happen when Edward turns on his wife and to share your own memories, stories and Jane is sent away? The consequences and pictures of its evolution from small may change Jane forever. In a world college in 1839 to the renowned institution where power is held entirely by men, The it is today. May Bride explores how women can still hold true to themselves. Bursting onto VENUE: Beswick Building, Parkgate Road the scene in 1990 with Darker Days Than Campus, University of Chester, Chester, Usual, Suzannah Dunn has since penned a CH1 4BJ further five contemporary novels and four ADMISSION: Free bestselling historical novels – one of which, CONTACT: The Confession of Katherine Howard, was www.chesterliteraturefestival.co.uk or a Richard and Judy Book Club pick in 2011 [email protected] or ring when she appeared in Chester. She has also 0124 4 409113 written a collection of short stories.

VENUE: Beswick Lecture Theatre (Room CBE017), Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: £12.50 CONTACT: www.chesterliteraturefestival.co.uk or [email protected] or ring 0124 4 409113

16 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 • 7PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 • 7.30PM THE FESTIVAL AT THE UNIVERSITY THE FESTIVAL AT THE UNIVERSITY JOHN LAHR, MOLLY NAYLOR AND TENNESSEE WILLIAMS IAIN ROSS – IDST WITH FILM SCREENING Fresh from an acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer come Molly OF A STREETCAR Naylor and Iain Ross. NAMED DESIRE Last year, Molly saw an old school friend We are delighted to welcome John in a sauna. Rather than talk to her, she Lahr, the foremost expert on Tennessee chose to hide – in a small, sweltering hot Williams, to Chester to talk about the shed. It was then that she realised she playwright who revolutionised American may have a slightly odd relationship with theatre. This is an event of two halves as her teenage self. It was this experience Lahr’s fascinating insights will be followed that led to the creation of her new show, If by a screening of Williams’ much-loved Destroyed Still True. film A Streetcar Named Desire starring Part autobiography, part fiction, IDST is a Marlon Brando. tale of youth, friendship and growing up – John Lahr was for 21 years the drama with loud guitars. Molly collaborates with critic for The New Yorker and has written musician Iain Ross in this fresh, fun and many acclaimed biographies including exciting piece that will have you laughing, that of his father, Bert Lahr (the Cowardly crying and maybe even cringing. Lion in The Wizard of Oz) and of Joe Orton VENUE: Small Hall, Parkgate Road Campus, (Prick Up Your Ears, which was made into University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ the film of the same name). His biography ADMISSION: £12.50 of Tennessee Williams was described CONTACT: by Helen Mirren as “a masterpiece about www.chesterliteraturefestival.co.uk or a genius.” [email protected] or ring VENUE: Beswick Lecture Theatre 0124 4 409113 (Room CBE017), Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: £15 CONTACT: www.chesterliteraturefestival.co.uk or [email protected] or ring 0124 4 409113

17 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 • 7.30PM SECURING BRITAIN’S ENERGY NEEDS: IS FRACKING THE ANSWER? The Regional Geography Society (IBG) invite you to an open debate with Professor Erik Bichard, University of Salford, Professor Joe Howe, University of Chester, and Gordon Richardson, ARUP, on fracking and the wider energy debate from UK and global perspectives in association with the Department of Geography and Development Studies at the University of Chester.

VENUE: Room CBB115, Best Building, Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: RGS-IBG members free, non-members £5 on the door. Advanced booking is essential. CONTACT: Dr Diane Spivey on 07708 427332 or email: [email protected]

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 • 1PM-2PM ‘On Chester On: College, University and City Over 175 Years’ – Grosvenor Museum Lunchtime Lecture Series ‘FROM TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER, 1974-2014’ Professor Graeme White During this talk, Professor Graeme White will consider why Chester College survived during the 1970s, while many similar colleges closed or merged at this time. One of the reasons, as he will explain, was that Chester College diversified beyond teacher training. In more recent times, the institution has grown considerably in size, maturity and economic impact. Since the turn of the millennium it has become a University and has spread to new campuses at Warrington and Thornton as well as in Chester itself. However, the original college campus on Parkgate Road continues and its diverse buildings are an excellent illustration of changing educational priorities over the past 175 years.

VENUE: Grosvenor Museum Lecture Theatre, 27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD ADMISSION: £3 (pay on the door) or £6 for the Series in advance. Cheques to be made payable to ‘University of Chester’ and sent to Lunchtime Lectures, Department of History and Archaeology, Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ CONTACT: email [email protected]

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3 • 10AM-5.30PM FGM – WHEN ‘TRADITION’ BECOMES VIOLATION A One-Day Symposium This event is supported by: FGM – when ‘Tradition’ Chester’s Talking Bodies project and FRED becomes Violation (Forum for Research into Equality and A one-day symposium hosted at the University of Chester Monday 3rd November 2014 Diversity) 10.00am – 5.30pm The Old Vicarage (English Department), University of Chester, Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 4BJ

Opening remarks from: Speakers include: Emma Rees, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Chester, and author of The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History. • Caroline Chappell, Senior Lecturer in Keynote presentations from: Dorcas Akeju, OBE, Retired Midwife – Campaigner against FGM; Chair, Liverpool FGM and Women’s Advisory Group - Law, University of Chester “SILENT TRADITION: A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS”; Dexter Dias, QC (subject to his availability). • Jak Lynch, Senior Commissioning Papers from: Caroline Chappell, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Manager, Sexual Health, Birmingham Chester; Jak Lynch, Senior Commissioning Manager, Sexual Health, Birmingham City Council; City Council Sharon Morley, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Chester;

Afrah Qassim, Community Development Worker, Women, • Dr Sharon Morley, Senior Lecturer in Children and Young People Lead at Inclusion Matters, Liverpool.

There will also be a screening and discussion of a short FGM Criminology, University of Chester awareness film made by Leyla Hussein and Bridget Christie. Organisers: • Afrah Qassim, Community Development Emma Rees ([email protected]) and Caroline Chappell ([email protected]). Worker, Women, Children and Young Supported by: Chester’s Talking Bodies Project and FRED Forum for People Lead at Inclusion Matters, Research into Equality and Diversity. Cost: To include refreshments and a vegetarian lunch: £30.00 per Liverpool delegate (£15.00 for concessions; students will be allowed to attend free on production of proof of current student status; • Dr Emma Rees, Senior Lecturer in the event qualifies for 5 hours CPD).

English, University of Chester Book a place here: http://storefront.chester.ac.uk/index.php?main_ page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=342 With keynotes from: Or Google ‘Chester FGM’ • Dorcas Akeju, OBE, Retired Midwife – Campaigner against FGM; Chair, Liverpool FGM and Women’s Advisory Group • And, dependent on availability, Dexter Dias, QC. There will also be a screening and discussion of the recent short Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) awareness film made by Leyla Hussein and Bridget Christie.

VENUE: Department of English, Old Vicarage, Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: £30 (waged), £15 (unwaged). Vegetarian refreshments will be available throughout the day. CONTACT: Dr Emma Rees, [email protected] or Caroline Chappell, [email protected]

19 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 • 9.30AM-4.30PM LOCAL AND REGIONAL JOURNALISM AFTER LEVESON This conference will explore the impact the Leveson Inquiry had on local and regional journalism. A range of thought-provoking presentations by academics, journalists and editors will discuss the present state and the future of journalism. Keynote speakers include: Professor Chris Frost, National Chair of the Association for Journalism Education and Chair of the Ethics Council of the National Union of Journalists; Alison Hastings, BBC Trustee for England and chair of the Editorial Standards Committee; and Dr James Morrison, a former national newspaper journalist and the author of a core National Council for the Training of Journalists textbook for trainee journalists.

HOST: The Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association Policy Network and the Department of Media at the University of Chester VENUE: Lecture Theatre (Room CKW132), Faculty of Arts and Media, Kingsway Buildings, University of Chester, Newton, Chester, CH2 2LB ADMISSION: £20 (includes lunch and refreshments). Registration at http://www.chester.ac.uk/node/25311 CONTACT: Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, [email protected]

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 • 1PM-4PM FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 5 for details.

20 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 • 4PM NURSING MEN WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR Dr Claire Chatterton, Staff Tutor, Faculty of Health and Social Care, The Open University in the North West Psychological casualties first became apparent during the First World War in September 1914 during the retreat from Mons and the numbers of those affected rapidly grew. According to Stone (1985, 251) “with some notable exceptions, medical officers at the Front did not know what had hit them.” By the end of the war, over 80,000 men had received treatment for mental health problems. Popularly known as ‘shellshock’, a variety of symptoms afflicted mentally traumatised men and the possible causes, diagnoses and treatment for their distress was to remain contentious. This lecture will explore these issues and discuss both the medical and nursing care that these men received. Famous medical men such as Myers, Rivers and Yealland are frequently discussed in accounts of the treatment of mental disorders such as shellshock, but much less is known about the nurses who assisted them and were expected to provide an environment which would promote and aid recovery.

HOST: Faculty of Health and Social Care VENUE: Riverside Campus, University of Chester, Castle Drive, Chester, CH1 1SL ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Roger Whiteley [email protected] , 01244 511619

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 • 7.30PM FOOD AND DIABETES The Chester branch of Diabetes UK welcomes anyone with an interest to attend its meetings. Refreshments are provided.

VENUE: Room CRV205, Riverside Campus, University of Chester, Castle Drive, Chester, CH1 1SL ADMISSION: Free (visitors are asked to contribute £1 towards a raffle) CONTACT: [email protected]

21 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 • 6.30PM Inaugural Professorial Lecture DISCURSIVE FRACTURES: MAN AGAINST HIMSELF AND OTHERS (RE-VISITED) Professor Andy Lovell, Mental Health and Learning Disability, Faculty of Health and Social Care This lecture draws on a combination of research, clinical experience and theory to explore the construction of professional discourses in relation to self-injury and interpersonal violence. It sets out to identify and examine inherent contradictions and tensions, which are contextualized further by associated issues arising from the spheres of learning disability and gender.

HOST: Corporate Communications VENUE: Beswick Lecture Theatre (Room CBE017), Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: Free but by ticket only CONTACT: [email protected] or ring 01244 511344

22 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13 • 6.30PM Annual Haygarth Lecture INEQUALITY: THE ENEMY BETWEEN US Richard Wilkinson Richard studied economic history at London School of Economics (LSE) before training in epidemiology. His research drew attention to widening health inequalities, and led him to ask the UK Secretary of State for Social Services to set up an “urgent government inquiry”. The result was the Black Report (1980) which stimulated research on health inequalities internationally. Since then Richard has played a formative role in international research on the social determinants of health and on the societal effects of income inequality. His books and papers have drawn attention to the tendency for societies with bigger income differences between rich and poor to have a higher prevalence of a wide range of health and social problems. Richard is now Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School, Honorary Professor at University College London and Visiting Professor at the University of York. He wrote The Spirit Level with Kate Pickett, a best seller now available in 23 languages, which won the 2011 Political Studies Association Publication of the Year Award and the 2010 Bristol Festival of Ideas Prize. He co-founded The Equality Trust (with support from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust). In 2013 Richard received Solidar’s Silver Rose Award and was named as Community Access Unlimited’s ‘Humanitarian of the Year’. The annual Haygarth Lecture was established in 2005 by public health teams across the region. It celebrates the legacy of 18th-century physician Dr John Haygarth, who pioneered disease control measures. Described as ‘Clinical Investigator – Apostle of Sanitation’, he helped stem a smallpox epidemic threatening the city’s population in the late 1700s whilst practising Medicine at Chester Royal Infirmary. The lectures are a joint collaboration between the University of Chester, and Cheshire West and Chester’s Public Health Department.

VENUE: Binks Building, Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: Free but by ticket only CONTACT: Moira Hazelton, [email protected]

23 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 This accessible, entertaining lecture series will 5.30PM-7PM appeal to you if you are interested in thinking critically about the world around you and your HAVE YOU THOUGHT relationship with it. It will also be of interest to those who are considering a future programme ABOUT…? of study in the Social Sciences. Department of Social and Political Science Public Lecture Series EVENT 1: HAVE YOU Have you thought about what a world THOUGHT ABOUT…? without borders would look like? Have … A WORLD WITHOUT PRISONS? you thought about why we consider some people’s behaviour, dress sense or home … A WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS? décor to be in bad taste? Have you thought … A WORLD WITHOUT CARBON MARKETS? about what it means to be happy and why we all aspire to happiness? In the first of the Department of Social and Political Science’s engaging, bite-sized The Department of Social and Political introductions to hot topics in the Social Science at the University of Chester Sciences, you will be invited to imagine ‘A prides itself on thinking critically about World Without’. Dr Jo Turner (Criminology the society in which we live and asking and International Relations), Dr Joe Rigby difficult – and often unusual – questions (Sociology) and Dr Rosa Fernandez (Economics) of ourselves and of our students. In 2014- will each outline and problematise the cases 15, to commemorate the University of for and against a world without, respectively, Chester’s 175th year, we invite you to join prisons, borders and carbon markets. These the conversation in a series of themed exciting talks will outline theoretical debates, public lectures addressing the hottest but will also draw upon topical controversies topics in the Social Sciences. Delivered in the public consciousness and the speakers’ in bite-sized, exciting, 15-minute slots by experiences of working with and researching experienced lecturers and researchers in prisoners, refugees and sustainable economies Sociology, Criminology, Politics, Economics, around the world. Join us for an evening of International Relations, Counselling and thinking differently. Psychological Trauma, the Have You Thought About…? talks will introduce you to the HOST: Department of Social and latest debates in often overlooked areas Political Science of society, and challenge you to change VENUE: Room CBB115 Best Building, the way you think about the world, from University of Chester, Parkgate Road Campus, everyday occurrences to the big, global Chester, CH1 4BJ issues. Lectures will be aimed at a non- ADMISSION: Free specialist audience and will be followed by CONTACT: Dr Katherine Harrison, open audience comment and Q&A sessions. [email protected]

24 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 • 7.30PM TRADING WITH THE DRAGON The Regional Geography Society with IBG invite you to a Lecture with Gill Miller, University of Chester, on the ‘how, who, what and where’ of Chinese investment in Africa and the nuances of investment versus exploitation. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 VENUE: Room CBB115, Best Building, 9AM-4PM Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ MIDWIFERY ADMISSION: RGS-IBG members free, non-members £5 on the door. Advanced TASTER DAY booking is essential. The Department of Midwifery and CONTACT: Dr Diane Spivey on 07708 Reproductive Health at the University 07708 427332 or email: of Chester is pleased to offer Midwifery [email protected] Taster Days for individuals who are considering midwifery as a career choice. These will be held at the Riverside Campus and will give you the opportunity to meet some of the midwifery lecturers and experience a mini lecture followed by a practical skills session. You will also be able to meet current student midwives at the University of Chester and talk to them about their experiences and discover some handy hints about the application process.

HOST: Faculty of Health and Social Care VENUE: Riverside Campus, University of Chester, Castle Drive, Chester CH1 1SL ADMISSION: £45.00 CONTACT: Jo Bates, Senior Lecturer, [email protected] or Shirley Bowers, Administrator, [email protected] or Book online: http://shopfront.chester.ac.uk

25 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 • 7PM HIGH SHERIFF’S CHESHIRE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AWARDS EVENING Brian Cosgrove Brian Cosgrove, as guest, will provide a unique insight into his long career as well as taking questions from the audience. The announcement of this year’s winner of the Prize for Children’s Literature will follow and Brian will read the winning entry to the audience. Awarded an honarary degree this autumn by the University, Brian Cosgrove was co- founder of British animation studio Cosgrove Hall Films which became famous for the production of many children’s programmes including Noddy, Bill and Ben, Jamie and the Magic Torch, Count Duckula and Dangermouse. It has also made films of Roald Dahl’s The BFG and Kenneth Graeme’s The Wind in the Willows, the latter of which gained a Bafta and an Emmy Award. Other projects include animations for Doctor Who and two Channel 4 series based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. Brian is still involved with creating children’s programmes as Executive Producer at Cosgrove Hall Fitzpatrick Entertainment.

HOST: Corporate Communications VENUE: Molloy Auditorium, Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: £3. To book visit: http://shopfront.chester.ac.uk CONTACT: [email protected] or ring 01244 511344

26 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 1.30PM FOR REHEARSAL, 7PM FOR PERFORMANCE ‘COME AND SING; HANDEL’S MESSIAH’ As part of the celebrations for the University of Chester’s 175th anniversary we are holding a special concert and we would be delighted if you would like to celebrate with us. There are opportunities to take part as a choir member; fully supported by an orchestra, organist and soloists or you can come and enjoy the performance as an audience member. The ticket price for choir members includes refreshments throughout the day and food will be available to purchase or you may prefer to bring your own. Audience members will receive a drink at the interval with their ticket price.

HOST: In association with the Deo Gratias choir and the University of Chester Alumni Association VENUE: All Saints’ Church, Hoole, Chester, CH2 3HZ ADMISSION: £15 per choir member, (£12 early bird rate until October 24) £8 audience ticket CONTACT: Book online at http://shopfront.chester.ac.uk , for queries contact Clare Wride, [email protected] 0124 4 511005

27 DECEMBER 2014

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3 • 1PM-4PM FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 5 for details.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3 • 3PM-4.30PM

‘A powerful and compelling account of professional VEILED WARRIORS: ALLIED NURSES nursing during the First World War. Immensely readable, Veiled Warriors presents an eloquent appraisal of nursing’s vital contribution to the care of wounded service personnel OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR and its role in wider medical efforts. Christine Hallett has used some incredibly strong individual stories to illustrate her case and poses a masterful challenge to many of the myths This talk is part of the Faculty of Health and Social Care Historical Society that exist about nursing during the conflict.’ Dr Peter Carter OBE, commemoration of 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War Chief Executive & General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing Self-sacrificing heroines, romantic foils to the male combatants, and doctors’ handmaidens – the mythology that grew up around series exploring the effects of the conflict, together with a new Museum First World War Nurses distorted their real position as trained professionals performing significant work in their own right. exhibition to be opened later in 2014. In this event, Professor Christine Christine Hallett examines the reality behind the myths, using evidence from archives throughout the world. She offers a compelling account of nurses’ wartime experiences and a clear appraisal of their work and its Hallett will speak about her book, Veiled Warriors, in which she traces the contribution to the allied cause on both the Western and the Eastern Fronts. As working women in a sometimes hostile, chauvinistic world, allied nurses fought hard to gain recognition for their profession and political story of professional and volunteer nurses during the First World War. rights that gave women a more powerful voice in the post-war world.

Although allied nurses were admired in their own time for their altruism £20.00 | Hardback | 28th August 2014 and courage, they came to be seen as self-sacrificing heroines, romantic foils to the male combatant, and doctors’ handmaidens, rather than being appreciated as trained professionals performing significant work in their own right. Christine challenges these myths to reveal a different story of allied nursing in the First World War—one which is both more complex and more absorbing. Drawing upon evidence from archives across the world, Veiled Warriors focusses on nurses’ wartime experiences and discusses nurses’ work and its contribution to the allied cause between 1914 and 1918, on both the Western and the Eastern Fronts. Christine Hallett is Professor of Nursing History at the University of Manchester and Chair of the UK Association for the History of Nursing. She was founding Chair of the European Association for the History of Nursing and holds Fellowships of both the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society for the Arts. Professor Hallett trained as a nurse and health visitor in the 1980s and practised as a community nurse before becoming a lecturer at the University of Manchester in 1993.

HOST: Faculty of Health and Social Care Historical Society VENUE: Riverside Campus. Visitors should report to the main Riverside Campus Reception opposite the River Dee, Castle Drive, Chester, CH1 1SL ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Roger Whiteley, [email protected], ring 01244 511619 or visit: www.chester.ac.uk/hsc/historical-society

28 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10 • 6.30PM Inaugural Professorial Lecture INTERNATIONALISATION AND THEORY BUILDING Professor Alexis McLean, Dean of the International Office Theory building is a crucial part of the struggle for academic credibility as well as being one of the building blocks for knowledge development. Today, however, the domain of internationalisation still remains complex and most academics would accept that internationalisation is a multi- layered and dynamic environment. Consequently, this lecture explores the application of a number of theoretical perspectives in an international context, to understand better the process of internationalisation and international business development for the University sector.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17 • 5.30PM BEATING THE HOLIDAY BULGE WITH MINDFUL EATING Dr Lee Hulbert-Williams, Lecturer in Psychology, Chester Research Unit for the Psychology of Health We all over-indulge, and we do so at certain times of year especially! In this lecture, Dr Lee Hulbert-Williams will explain how we can get the maximum enjoyment out of our food. When we eat tasty foods, and especially those we often think of as unhealthy, we often don’t get the full enjoyment they offer because we also feel guilty about eating them. Mindful eating helps us to learn to get the most enjoyment out of smaller portions, thus preventing the guilt and leaving our enjoyment untarnished.

HOST: Chester Research Unit for the Psychology of Public Health VENUE: Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester, Chester CH1 4BJ. Room to be confirmed. ADMISSION: Free but attendance must be registered CONTACT: Amy Martin [email protected] 01244 513487. To register your interest in advance, please email Amy to be added to our email notifications list.

29 JANUARY 2015

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7 • 1PM-4PM FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 5 for details.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22 • 6.30PM Inaugural Professorial Lecture OPERATIONS, STRATEGY AND RISK: A PROCESS JOURNEY Professor Lawrence Bellamy, Associate Dean, University of Chester Business School Processes make the world function; they provide structure and order, deliver goods and services and when they break down society somehow fails. This inaugural lecture takes a look at a timeline of selected management process development within organisations and examines how our understanding of these building blocks of business continues to develop.

HOST: Corporate Communications VENUE: Lance Dobson Hall, Warrington Campus, University of Chester, Warrington, WA2 0DB ADMISSION: Free but by ticket only CONTACT: [email protected] or ring 01244 511344

30 FEBRUARY 2015

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4 • 1PM-4PM FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 5 for details.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 • 2PM WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE LAITY? Professor Elaine Graham – Canon Theologian at Chester Cathedral Annual Cathedral Lecture In the first of her annual lectures as Canon Theologian, Professor Graham will address the role of lay people in the Church. Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, which emphasised the secular calling of the laity as the embodiment of the Church in the world, are we any closer to really affirming the priesthood of all believers, or does the Church remain largely ‘clericalised’ in its understanding of ministry? This lecture will survey some of the main thinking over recent years across the denominations regarding the relationship between ordained and lay ministry, and consider what the future prospects may be for the laity in Church and society. Elaine Graham, appointed the Samuel Ferguson Professor of Social and Pastoral Theology at the University of Manchester, joined the University of Chester in 2009 where she is the Grosvenor Research Professor of Practical Theology. Her publications include: Theological Reflection: Methods (SCM 2005), with Heather Walton and Frances Ward; Words made Flesh: Writings in Pastoral and Practical Theology (SCM 2009) and Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Public Theology in a Post-Secular Age (SCM 2013). She is a former president of the International Academy of Practical Theology, a member of the BBC Standing Conference on Religion and Belief, an occasional broadcaster and a contributor to the Church Times.

VENUE: Chester Cathedral, Abbey Square, Chester, CH1 2HU ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Carly McEvoy [email protected]

31 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 • 5.30-7PM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 • 6.30PM EVENT 2: HAVE YOU Inaugural Professorial Lecture THOUGHT ABOUT…? RESEARCH WITH … BAD TASTE? IMPACT … EXCREMENT? Professor Nick Avis, Executive Dean of Science and Engineering ... PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING? The results of the Higher Education In the second of the Department of Social Research Excellence Framework (REF) and Political Science’s engaging, bite- 2014 exercise will be released at the end sized introductions to hot topics in the of December 2014. New in this round of Social Sciences, you will be invited to the REF was the requirement to submit dwell upon the mundane, the marginal “Impact Case Studies” highlighting the and the distasteful. Dr Katherine Harrison broader contribution of research, beit (Sociology), Dr Cassie Ogden (Sociology) commercial, policy or social. and Dr Karen Corteen (Criminology) will present insights into attitudes and practices Professor Avis will highlight some of his within everyday culture that are usually research interests (ranging from Electrical considered to be beneath contempt, in order Impedance Tomography to Medical to explore the power dynamics and social Simulators) and how some of these have harms that can be generated in these most been progressed to commercial activities. overlooked of places. Focusing on bad taste, He will discuss the challenges associated excrement and the much-derided activity of with academic staff adopting a more professional wrestling, the talks will turn a entrepreneurial approach to their research critical lens upon aspects of our society and and will focus on the activities associated culture that are usually hidden behind a veil with MedaPhor Limited of polite disdain. Join us for an evening of (www.medaphor.com) as a case study. thinking differently.

See details on page 24 for more HOST: Corporate Communications information about the lecture series. VENUE: Beswick Lecture Theatre (Room CBE017), Parkgate Road Campus, HOST: Department of Social and University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ Political Science ADMISSION: Free but by ticket only VENUE: Room CBB115, Best Building, CONTACT: [email protected] or ring University of Chester, Parkgate Road Campus, 01244 511344 University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Dr Katherine Harrison, [email protected]

32 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 • 7.30PM 1.30PM-4.30PM CATHEDRALS GROUP READING TESTAMENT CHOIRS’ FESTIVAL OF YOUTH The University of Chester is proud to This reading group meeting is open to host the next annual Cathedrals Group anyone interested in Vera Brittain’s moving conference, culminating in the Choirs autobiography, Testament of Youth. Festival to be held in Chester Cathedral. Focusing on her experiences as a Voluntary The Festival brings together approximately Aid Detachment nurse during the First 12 different choirs from Cathedrals Group World War, this is a moving and compelling institutions, resulting in a massed choir account of a young woman’s experience of of around 300 voices, conducted by Vicki loss, work and independence one hundred Bulgin, Director of Music at the University years ago. of Chester. The evening performance will VENUE: To be confirmed feature selected pieces from individual ADMISSION: Free choirs, with all voices coming together to CONTACT: Professor Deborah Wynne, perform Handel’s rousing Zadok the Priest Department of English and Haydn’s Mass in B for choir, soloists [email protected] and orchestra.

VENUE: Chester Cathedral, Abbey Square, Chester, CH1 2HU ADMISSION: Tickets are £10 and £7.50 for concessions. See website nearer the time for booking details. CONTACT: Anna Mackenzie [email protected]

33 MARCH 2015

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 • 1PM-4PM FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 5 for details.

MONDAY, MARCH 9 • 6.30PM Annual Haygarth Lecture WORKFORCE HEALTH INVESTMENT – WORTHWHILE? Dame Carol Black Dame Carol Black is Principal of Newnham College Cambridge, Adviser on Work and Health at the Department of Health, England, Chair of the Nuffield Trust, and Chair of the Governance Board, Centre for Workforce Intelligence. As Expert Adviser to the Department of Health, Dame Black plays a major ambassadorial role, building and promoting the public and policy position on the positive relationship between work and health. She is Chair of the Health at Work network, part of the UK Government’s Public Health Responsibility Deal, established to engage commercial, public and third sector organisations in improving public health. The annual Haygarth Lecture was established in 2005 by public health teams across the region. It celebrates the legacy of 18th-century physician Dr John Haygarth, who pioneered disease control measures. Described as ‘Clinical Investigator – Apostle of Sanitation’, he helped stem a smallpox epidemic threatening the city’s population in the late 1700s whilst practising Medicine at Chester Royal Infirmary. The lectures are a joint collaboration between the University of Chester, and Cheshire West and Chester’s Public Health Department.

VENUE: Binks Building, Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: Free but by ticket only CONTACT: Moira Hazelton, [email protected]

34 TUESDAY, MARCH 17 • 6.30PM Inaugural Professorial Lecture SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK ‘N’ ROLL Professor Andrew Lawrence, Associate Dean of Biological Sciences “This is a story about sex, supply and demand, global trade, corruption and government regulation and one of the ugliest creatures in Florida.” (Craig Pitmann, 2014) Despite over 20 years of international legislation to reduce the global loss of biodiversity, species extinction rates remain as high as ever. In this inaugural lecture, Professor Andrew Lawrence, from the Department of Biological Sciences, will use case studies to illustrate the intractable problems facing modern conservation professionals. This will include some of the key drivers behind the current failure of governments around the world to conserve their natural resources and the consequent implications for society. He will also show how novel biological approaches and collaboration with some unlikely bed-mates may ultimately underpin the potential solutions to these problems.

35 SATURDAY, MARCH 28 • 9AM DRESSING/UNDRESSING THE VICTORIANS: READING CLOTHES IN VICTORIAN AND NEO-VICTORIAN CONTEXTS This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore how contemporary understandings of the Victorians are shaped by representations of clothing and costume. It will interrogate the cultural afterlives of the Victorian body, both clothed and unclothed. Among the questions the conference hopes to address are: How does contemporary culture, whether literature, art, film, or television, employ costume to shape ideas of Victorian people? What traces of Victorian design have emerged in the clothing cultures of the 20th and 21st centuries, and what meanings are generated by these? Does neo-Victorian fiction rewrite the Victorian body and its clothing in radical ways? How does costume function in theatrical contexts in presenting the Victorians on stage/screen or in performance?

VENUE: Westminster Building, Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: £35 (waged), £20 (students/concessions) CONTACT: Professor Deborah Wynne, Department of English, [email protected]

36 APRIL 2015

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 • 1PM-4PM FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 5 for details.

FRIDAY, APRIL 10 • 7.30PM Contest and Collaboration: Chester Conference on the March of Wales Dedicated to the Memory of Dr John Doran BOUNDARIES BEFORE THE MARCH, BOUNDARIES ON THE MARCH: MONUMENTS, MOVEMENT AND MEMORY Professor Howard Williams, Department of History and Archaeology This will explore dimensions of the archaeology and history of the area that was to become the border between England and Wales between the fifth and eleventh centuries AD. The focus will be on the theme of monuments, memory and movement; considering how borders were created, sustained and transformed through monumental practices and memorial engagements in which controlling and defining the movement of people, animals and things were a key concern.

HOST: Department of History and Archaeology VENUE: Riverside Innovation Centre, University of Chester, Castle Drive, Chester, CH1 1SL ADMISSION: Free (Booking required, see website nearer the time for more details) CONTACT: Rachel Swallow [email protected] or Dr Sara Elin Roberts [email protected]

WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 • 9AM-4PM MIDWIFERY TASTER DAY See details on page 25 for more details.

37 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 THURSDAY, APRIL 23 • 6.30PM 5.30PM-7PM Inaugural Professorial Lecture EVENT 3: HAVE YOU EDUCATION MATTERS THOUGHT ABOUT…? – ON LEARNING, … HAPPINESS? TEACHING AND THE … MADNESS? STUDENT EXPERIENCE … SPIRITUALITY? IN HEALTHCARE The third and final of the Department of Social and Political Science’s engaging, EDUCATION bite-sized introductions to hot topics in the Professor Annette McIntosh-Scott, Social Sciences will focus on the social Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health roles of intangible emotions, states of and Social Care mind and beliefs. Dr Alessandro Pratesi This talk will explore various elements (Sociology), Dr Paul Taylor (Criminology) of healthcare education, including the and Dr Peter Gubi (Counselling) will challenges of balancing educational and consider the concepts of happiness, professional requirements while ensuring madness and spirituality in order to ask an optimum student experience. Studies questions about these categories and on student support and sleep promotion how they are managed and experienced in will be used to highlight key areas and everyday social life. Join us for an evening imperatives in the learning environment and of thinking differently! in curriculum development and delivery. See details on page 24 for more HOST: Corporate Communications information about the lecture series. VENUE: Beswick Lecture Theatre (Room HOST: Department of Social and CBE017), Parkgate Road Campus, Political Science University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ VENUE: Room CBB115, Best Building, ADMISSION: Free but by ticket only University of Chester, Parkgate Road CONTACT: [email protected] or ring Campus, Chester, CH1 4BJ 01244 511344 ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Dr Katherine Harrison, [email protected]

38 SATURDAY, APRIL 25 • 9.30AM-4.30PM TEXTILE STORIES/QUILT STORIES This study day, part of the Textile Stories Project, focuses on the interesting ways in which quilts can tell stories, whether those of individual lives, historical events, or communities. The day’s programme will include a talk by Sue Prichard ( Victoria and Albert Museum, organiser of the exhibition, Quilts, 1700-2010: Hidden Histories, Untold Stories), and the makers of anniversary quilt, pictured below, designed to celebrate the University’s 175th anniversary, will display the quilt and talk about the various ‘stories’ it tells. Christine Garwood, an artist who uses the medium of quilting, will also offer a talk. Anyone interested in textiles, stories and quilting will find something of interest in this event.

VENUE: Riverside Innovation Centre, University of Chester, Castle Drive, Chester, CH1 1SL ADMISSION: £12 CONTACT: Professor Deborah Wynne, Department of English, [email protected]

39 MAY 2015

FRIDAY, MAY 1 • 7.30PM POPE FRANCIS AND THE FUTURE OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL THINKING Paul Vallely CMG FRSA Inaugural Lecture as Visiting Professor Pope Francis has issued some powerful condemnations of the operations of the contemporary global economy. He has called for “a poor Church, for the poor.” But do his criticisms merely reiterate the critique of “savage capitalism” developed by Catholic Social Teaching throughout the 20th century? Or is he developing that teaching in new ways? Paul Vallely CMG FRSA is a writer, broadcaster and consultant on international development and business ethics. He is Visiting Professor in Public Ethics and Media at the University of Chester and Senior Research Fellow at the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester. He was co-author of the report of Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa (2004-5). He writes regularly in The Independent on Sunday, Guardian and New York Times, is a director of The Tablet and a columnist for the Church Times. His publications include The New Politics: Catholic Social Teaching for the 21st century, (SCM 1999) and Catholic Social Teaching and the Big Society (CBCEW 2011). Pope Francis – Untying the Knots (Bloomsbury 2013).

VENUE: Binks Building, Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: At the door: £3.00 (Students: £1.00) Wine and Refreshments CONTACT: Carly McEvoy [email protected]

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 • 1PM-4PM FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 5 for details.

40 WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 • 6.30PM Inaugural Professorial Lecture FRIENDS AND ENEMIES: PEER RELATIONSHIPS AND WELL-BEING IN CHILDHOOD AND BEYOND Professor Michael Boulton, Department of Psychology Much of modern psychology is founded on the notion that people have a fundamental need to belong to caring relationships. In his inaugural lecture, Professor Mike Boulton will present his research on the links between children’s peer relationships and their well-being. In support of the need to belong principle, he will show that while friendly and co-operative relationships can facilitate mental health, relationships based on bullying and the abuse of power can lead to distress. These effects often emerge quickly but may persist well beyond childhood. In short, children’s relationships matter. Professor Boulton will argue that more needs to be done to facilitate positive relationships among young people and he will describe his work on a novel form of cross-age mentoring that offers promise of that goal.

41 MAY 2015 (DATE TO BE CONFIRMED) 175 ON CHESTER ON: MANCHESTER CAMERATA IN COLLABORATION WITH THE FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND CHILDREN’S SERVICES This mini operatic intergenerational project involving eight school groups, members of the community, teaching students and members of staff from the Faculty of Education and Children’s Services will celebrate the history of the University of Chester and key milestones in its story to date through the creation of a brand new opera for performance at Chester Cathedral.

HOST: Faculty of Education and Children’s Services VENUE: Chester Cathedral, Abbey Square, Chester, CH1 2HU ADMISSION: To be confirmed CONTACT: Anna Mackenzie ([email protected])

42 JUNE 2015

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3 • 1PM-4PM FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 5 for details.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 • 5.30PM BEATING STRESS AND INEFFICIENCY – SUPERHUMAN PRODUCTIVITY WITHOUT SUPERPOWERS Chester Research Unit for the Psychology of Health Dr Nick Hulbert-Williams, Reader in Psychology It is often all too easy for our work to become limited because we just feel too stressed; not only does this lead to less productivity, but also reduced creativity, and workplace well- being. Dr Nick Hulbert-Williams is a Coaching Psychologist specialising in contextual behavioural coaching. In this lecture, he will discuss some of the recent psychological research findings about how we can manage stress and inefficient working patterns better to enable more enjoyment, productivity and creativity in the workplace.

HOST: Chester Research Unit for the Psychology of Health VENUE: Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester, Chester, CH1 4BJ (Room to be confirmed) ADMISSION: Free but attendance must be registered CONTACT: Amy Martin [email protected] 01244 513487 To register your interest in advance, please email Amy to be added to our email notifications list.

43 JULY 2015

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 • 1PM-4PM FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 5 for details.

FRIDAY, JULY 3 • 9AM-4PM MIDWIFERY TASTER DAY See details on page 25 for more details.

44 SCHOOL OF LAW COMMERCIAL EVENTS MUSIC PRODUCTION During 2013/2014 the School of Law SHOWCASE – has launched a Forum for Research into Equality and Diversity (‘FRED’). This Forum DEPARTMENT OF focuses on and specialises in research and PERFORMING ARTS knowledge transfer activities in the area This year this annual event is likely to of diversity and equality in the workplace, be held in Warrington in either April or higher education and beyond. May 2015. From October 2014, the Forum will be The event, organised by University of running a human resources targeted Chester Commercial Music Production session on Investigating Harassment students, will showcase the very best within the Workplace. This will be of local unsigned music talent across a followed by a conference on Female wide range of genres. This will be a great Genital Mutilation (FGM), see page 19 for evening to enjoy the latest new music from details. In 2015, the Forum will be running young, home-grown talent. a day long symposium on legal history and diversity and later in 2015 a day long For more details check conference on the Equality Act 2010 will www.chester.ac.uk/events be held in collaboration with the University of Liverpool. For a full list of events for 2015/16 and further information on this year’s event please see: www.chester.ac.uk/FRED

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