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lehttp://www.le.ac.uk 2000 FEBRUARY BulINSIDE NATIONAL FACILITYtin FOR UK ASTRONOMY TO BE CREATED AT ANIMAL UNIVERSITY ADAPTATION: Biologist studies University wins £2.56 million potential effects THE University of Leicester has won £2.56 million of pesticides. to create a national astronomy facility for the Page 6. benefit of industry and academia. It will allow the UK to compete at the highest level in this global field – and reaffirms the University’s world-class standing in space and planetary science. FACING A CHALLENGE: Science Minister Lord Sainsbury and Education PROFILE-RAISING: Andrew King. The search is on Minister Baroness Blackstone announced details of awards worth £70m to more than 50 for University Continued on page 2. contestants. Page 11. SOAPS THAT WON’T WASH?

LOOKING GOOD: Postgraduate and Honorary graduate Chris Moon. Postgraduate event in February. Page 11.

LEICESTER LAUGHS LOUDEST: Right CATERING TO ETHNIC TASTES: A study by a Leicester academic has assessed media here, right now – consumption by ethnic minority audiences. Coronation Street is among the British Britain’s biggest soaps that features an Asian family. Story, page 8. comedy festival. Page 19.

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NATIONAL FACILITY FOR leading computer company, it received Volume 32 • Number 5 UK ASTRONOMY TO BE the support of the UK Particle Physics February 2000 CREATED AT UNIVERSITY and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC). UK Astronomers will bid to continued from page 1 Bulletin News ...... 1-11 use the machine on the basis of Business ...... 11-13 universities. The funding provides competitive proposals. universities with the latest scientific International...... 13-15 Professor King said: “This is very hardware, with which they can exciting news. The UK is a world leader Out & About...... 16-17,20-21 develop and support advanced in theoretical astronomy, but this Artstop...... 18-19 research projects. position has been under threat Feature ...... 22 Professor Ken Pounds, head of the because of a lack of world-class Student Pages ...... 23-24 Department of Physics and supercomputing facilities. UKAFF will Graduate Relations ...... 24-25 Astronomy, said: “The University remedy this and allow British welcomes the announcement by the Cuttings ...... 26-27 astronomers to compete at the highest Joint Research Equipment Initiative level. Books ...... 27-30 (JREI) of the award of a multi-million “The collaboration with the computer People ...... 30-31 pound supercomputer for industry will exploit and develop astrophysical calculations. Notices ...... 32-34 cutting-edge technology, and there will Crossword...... 35 “The supercomputer, called UKAFF (UK be an associated fellowship scheme to Photostop ...... Back Page Astrophysical Fluids Facility) will be encourage this. There is great interest located in Leicester, and allow Research Grants Supplement from industry, as many astrophysical astronomers to calculate events such calculations involve techniques which YOUR BULLETIN as the death throes of a star being are equally useful in industrial We wish to encourage members of the University to submit items for the Bulletin – swallowed by a black hole, and how applications. feel free to email stories or suggestions to planetary systems form.” [email protected]. “We are delighted to be chosen to The bid was made by a consortium of The Bulletin is edited in the Press and host this facility. This is a reflection of Publications Office. The Editor reserves the right 23 UK university groups led by the University’s strength in theoretical to amend or abbreviate copy without notice. Professor Andrew King of Leicester astrophysics in particular, and in Editor: Ather Mirza (3335) and Professor James Pringle of the astronomy and space in general.” [email protected] University of Cambridge. Backed by a Deputy Editor: Barbara Whiteman (2676) [email protected] WINTER CONCERTS Journalists: Jane Pearson and Judith Shaw A MILLENNIUM Music Extravaganza, a Peace Concert and Mozart and Design and layout: Paula Curtis, Graphics Motorway Music are just three concerts in the varied winter season of Studio Music at the University. Other attractions include the final three recitals Pictures: Central Photographic Unit in the renowned Lindsay Series of Beethoven quartets and Preludes, Airs Cartoons: Barbara Whiteman and Divisions – English Baroque music that includes not just Henry Printed by: Central Reprographic Unit. Purcell but his brother Daniel. Advertisements: Up to 30 words should be At the Richard Attenborough Centre, Nikki Yeoh (piano) and Matthew accompanied by cheques, payable to University of Leicester, at the following rates: Barley perform a New Jazz Suite for Cello and Piano by Yeoh, interspersed with two solo cello suites by Bach (BWV 1007 and 1009) House sales and lettings: £5.00 played authentically. The movements from the Jazz Suite run seamlessly Other sales and service: £2.00 into the Baroque suites without pause or applause. The concert brings Free adverts are carried if space permits. Please send adverts to Pat Bone together eclectic approaches to improvisation and composition from ([email protected]), Press and Publications both the Baroque era and the twentieth century. Office. Handel fans can enjoy a performance by the University Singers and Prices for display advertisements are available on request from Chris Walters, LUSU Marketing Proteus Chamber Orchestra of Dixit Dominus, while those with an eye to Officer (1150). the new century can come right up to date with Composers of the 21st The University of Leicester does not necessarily Century, music presented by the Helix Ensemble, featuring winners of adopt or endorse the products and services the young composers’ project along with music written at the turn of advertised in Bulletin. The Editor reserves the past centuries. right to refuse/amend any advert without notice. Email: [email protected] The evening concert season runs until Saturday 1 April. Music at the Newsline: 0116 252 3335 University of Leicester also includes free lunchtime concerts every Advertising: 0116 223 1168 Wednesday during term-time, as well as the informal Richard Address: University of Leicester, Attenborough Centre Soundbites on Tuesdays and Thursdays. University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH • Details of these and all other concerts are available from the This icon indicates that a fuller Department of Music 0116 252 2781 and the Richard Attenborough version of the story can be found Centre 0116 252 2455. www on the University’s web pages: 2 http://www.le.ac.uk/press/press/ Bulletin University of Leicester Bulletin News February 2000

‘SPERM TAP’ BREAKTHROUGH IN MALE FERTILITY SCIENTISTS from the University have – with only 13% of matings resulting how the gene for a protein called the made a breakthrough in male fertility in pregnancy compared to the usual P2X1 receptor is central in regulating research that could, eventually, lead to 100%. male fertility. the development of a male fertility Scientists believe the research, funded “Without the P2X1 receptor, pill. by the Medical Research Council and contractions of vas deferens are The scientists, Drs Richard Evans, Wellcome Trust, is a step forward markedly reduced and semen is Catrin Pritchard et al, have discovered because it does not interfere with almost sperm free.” a way of restricting the delivery of male sperm production – only its sperm from the testes thereby making transfer. Effectively, they have semen virtually sperm free. discovered a ‘sperm tap’. The potential is huge for fertility The sperm is produced as normal in treatments as the research also the testes, but the transfer of this suggests ways of increasing the flow sperm into the semen is restricted so of sperm – thereby increasing that it remains virtually sperm free. fecundity. Evans and Pritchard said: “Sperm are The breakthrough, announced in the made in the testes and transferred out science magazine Nature, came after of the body through a tube called the the researchers found that, by vas deferens – the tube that is cut in a targeting a gene in mice, there was a vasectomy. Contractions in the 90% drop in fertility rate. The mice smooth muscles that line this tube suffered no other side effect other help to send the sperm on their way. than a small rise in blood pressure. “We have found a way of targeting They continued to copulate as normal this muscle contractions by looking at NEW METHODS IN ANTI-CANCER DRUG DEVELOPMENT SCIENTISTS from across Europe and from America evidence that they prevent – or postpone the onset of – converged on the University for a Millennium meeting on cancer. Some of such “tumour-suppressive” agents have also one of the great scourges of mankind – cancer. beneficial activity against established cancers. Therefore we The experts – medical doctors and scientists – and try to find out how they interfere with the development of representatives of industry were members of the European budding cancer cells and explore their activities in patients. Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, “Interestingly, for many of these agents, one does not know Pharmacology and Molecular Mechanisms Group, a body really how they get into the circulation and to the target which was founded 21 years ago. tissue and for how long they hang about in the human They discussed the group’s contribution to progress in anti- organism. This we are addressing. cancer drug development in Europe and new directions and “At the moment we are focusing on the curry constituent methods in the search for novel anti-cancer drugs. curcumin, and test hypotheses as to how it may exert Professors Andy Gescher and Will Steward, both of the tumour-suppressive activity and how patients may cope University, organised the conference between 12-14 January. with it when they take it as a tablet (rather than a curry).” It was opened by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Robert Professor Gescher said that this approach – to explore novel Burgess. tumour suppressive agent in terms of their mechanisms of Professor Gescher said: “University of Leicester scientists are action and their clinical profile in pilot trials in humans – is among the groups which pioneer new approaches to anti- not done anywhere else in the UK, and only in very few cancer drug development. New methods are increasingly places in Europe. being used in finding new drugs, and these will be critically The academics rounded-off their successful conference – evaluated at the meeting. with a curry! “One such method is gene chip technology. It is now • Dr Ricky Sharma, Clinical Research Fellow in the University possible to place a large number of genes on a small piece Department of Oncology, has been awarded the Young of glass, which allows the diagnosis of changes in gene Investigator Award 2000 by the European Organization for expression in biological material.” Research and Treatment of Cancer. Dr Sharma is Professor Gescher added that the University, in partnership investigating the naturally occurring drug curcumin in the with the MRC and the Leicester Royal Infirmary, has a very chemoprevention and chemotherapy of colorectal cancer, in distinctive approach to developing anticancer drugs. preclinical model systems at the MRC Toxicology Unit and in a clinical trial at the Leicester Royal Infirmary. His prize is He said: “We are exploring agents, most of them diet- sponsorship to attend the 2001 EORTC meeting to be held derived, for which there is circumstantial or experimental in Verona, Italy. 3 Bulletin Bulletin News University of Leicester February 2000

SEX AND SEMANTICS: THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE NEWSPAPER columns across the country are likely to be “It was filled this month with terms of endearment ranging from associated with ‘snooglebum’ to ‘Bambam’. the desire to The words we use for each other speak volumes about eat chalk, the changing nature of social and sexual relations, brick-dust, according to a new study by the University. charcoal and coal – and was Dr Julie Coleman, of the Department of English, found considered to that although we may be more explicit about sex in the indicate the words we use – we are much more likely to use words urgent that disguise our emotions. necessity for In her study Love, Sex and Marriage, A Historical marriage.” Thesaurus, – which is an offshoot of the Historical Sex itself has Thesaurus Project at the University of Glasgow – Dr been described Coleman charts the use of words relating to this field in numerous from before the Norman Conquest to the modern day. ways: ‘filth’ She found: (1225), • We are now more likely to use words that are ‘melling’ childish or insulting to express love. For example, the (1375), ‘venus- names of characters from children books and TV work’ (1400) programmes are often used as terms of endearment. ‘flesh-fondling’ (1558), ‘poop- • The word for boyfriend was ‘bully-boy’ (1609) or noddy’ (1606), ‘shiner’ (1859) while a girlfriend was a ‘lady bird’ ‘what thy (1592) and the word ‘free-lance’ (1933) meant a grandam loved’ (1674), ‘deed of darkness’ (1893) woman who was unattached. ‘jiggery-pokery’ (1994). • The words we use do not distinguish between being Dr Coleman said: “The extensive vocabulary of the field married or single – reflecting the declining demonstrates that sex is a subject that causes social significance of marriage. anxiety, but also a subject we like to talk and write Said Dr Coleman: “From 1585 onwards, there was even a about. word that pointed to an illness that afflicted women “I found that historical periods tend to favour terms with who were unmarried. ‘Greensickness’ was the name different connotations. For instance, the twentieth which stems from the characteristically pale or greenish century tends not to favour terms emphasizing the link tinge it gave the complexion. between sex and procreation. The nineteenth century produces a limited selection of terms indicating that sex is pleasurable. Terms implying that sex represents a form of joining or commitment are characteristic of the Anglo- Saxon period”. Dr Coleman said that it might be easy to assume that our predecessors did not discuss sex – but it is more likely that intervening generations have determined that the discussions should not survive. She points to a few smutty riddles surviving from before the Norman Conquest which is all that remains to indicate Anglo-Saxons saw sex as at all pleasurable. The techniques used in the riddles are the same that today grace the saucy seaside postcards and the Carry On films! • The day for choosing a sweetheart – St Valentine’s Day – has existed since 1381, and was believed to be the day on which birds chose their mates for the rest of the year, although the term ‘Valentine Card’ was first recorded in 1959. WORDS’ WORTH: Dr Julie Coleman.

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UNIVERSITY TO DEVELOP THIRD MISSION SCENARIO AT CHALLENGER FOLLOWING the official opening of the National Space Science Centre’s Challenger Learning Centre by David Blunkett MP, £10,000 has been pledged to the centre by the UK’s space agency, BNSC. The Challenger Learning Centre, located temporarily in the grounds of Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College near the University campus, is the first such centre outside North America. Currently two different mission scenarios are offered by the Leicester Learning Centre, Voyage to Mars aimed at 11-14 year INVESTMENT IN THE FUTURE: Martin Shelley, of BNSC, hands over a olds and Rendezvous with a Comet aimed at 9-11 year cheque to Vice-Chancellor Professor Robert Burgess in the presence of Keith Beaumont, left, Chief Executive of the Space Centre, and olds. Each of these missions was rewritten by British Paul Roche, right. education experts from the materials first developed in America, to ensure that the missions conformed fully to Learning Centre, said: “We are absolutely delighted that the National Curriculum. Now, thanks to the £10,000 BNSC has offered to finance a third Challenger mission cash injection by BNSC, education experts at the and that the University of Leicester is going to develop University of Leicester will be able to develop a third the materials. In the two months that we’ve been mission scenario, operating both Mars and Comet have been really well Encounter Earth, received by schools from around the country. Now we aimed at 14-18 year will be able to offer missions for older age groups with a old students, on the completely different curriculum content to those that are Space Centre’s available in this country at the minute. We should be in a behalf. The position to start running Encounter Earth missions in the University has summer.” particular expertise Martin Shelley of BNSC commented: “BNSC is very in Earth Observation committed to the educational value of space, particularly studies, the subject in developing our understanding of our own planet. The of the Encounter Planet Earth mission is absolutely perfect to reinforce this Earth mission. message and make more of the University of Leicester’s Paul Roche, the Space Centre initiative.” National Space The Challenger Learning Centre is the first public Science Centre’s component of the National Space Science Centre – the education manager, East Midlands Millennium Landmark project – to open. who is responsible The main visitor attraction will open in the Spring of for the Challenger 2001.

POLLUTION STUDIES THE MRC’s Institute for Environment and Health, based at the University, has announced awards totalling £350,000 to fund new research on the health effects of air pollution and noise. In July last year, the Institute, on behalf of the Department of Health, invited requests for funding to support the existing research being undertaken on the effects on health of air pollution (outdoor and indoor) and noise. The supplementary-funded research reinforces the work already being conducted under these existing research programmes.

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‘PARCELS OF POISON’ FEAR OVER ‘SUPER RATS’ A UNIVERSITY biologist has warned of Leicestershire. When predators eat Some individuals have been affected the advent of a new generation of these resistant rats – they are but with the exception of the re- ‘super rats’, resistant to current baits, poisoned because they do not have introduction of the Red Kite, there is posing a threat to wildlife – as well as tolerance. no evidence of significant effects on to health. “In these circumstances, there may overall populations.” Professor of Environmental Biology be near permanent exposure of Professor Smith, quoted in a recent Robert Smith described resistant rats predators and scavengers to poison- article in the Observer, noted that as “parcels of poison with four legs carrying rats,” said Professor Smith, “Resistance also puts pressure on and a tail” roaming the countryside in quoted in Professional Pest farmers to use even more some parts of England. Controller magazine. Stoats, powerful rodenticides … out New chemicals were introduced in the foxes, kites, hawks, owls and of doors, illegally”. In radio 1970s in the war against rats. They weasels are just some of the and television interviews, he replaced previous poisons like animals that can be advised that the best way to warfarin after rats evolved tolerance affected. avoid the need to use to them in many parts of the country. Professor Smith poisons was to keep farms and gardens clear of food and Professor Smith is not involved in any said that, even if the rats were not resistant to the shelter for the rats. Rats pose a experiments on rats but studies the threat to humans because they potential environmental effects of baits, there could still be a risk of secondary poisoning to wildlife spread illnesses like Weil’s disease pesticides. His research student Helen and salmonella, they spoil crops and MacVicker measured levels of poison because the poisons lingered longer in the rats: stores of foods and they trigger in carcasses of rats following normal general contamination. rat control on farms in Leicestershire “First generation anticoagulants were and Berkshire. relatively safe materials, particularly • A study of barn owls found dead through starvation or road In Berkshire (an area of high in relation to birds, whereas second generation products are more accidents found that the resistance), rats would gorge percentage with anticoagulants themselves on bait and move around persistent and inherently more toxic to birds and mammals. in their liver had increased from with few or no ill effects. Berkshire 5% in 1983/4 to 38% in 1995/6. ‘super rats’ carried on average five “However, there have been no really times as much poison as those in major rodenticide incidents in the UK. NEW MILLENNIUM, NEW TECHNOLOGY: Learning Technology Web Week MAKE this year your year to change the way you teach and to make available to students the types of resources the way your students learn. But what can 'technology' do described above. for you and how can you get started? During the first week of the Easter vacation (27-31 March) The term 'Learning Technology' covers a wide range of members of the LTS will be holding a series of topics including video, CDs, virtual environments, imagery, presentations on the use of IT and Web-based audio, Web resources, email, chat/discussion forums. The technologies, including areas such as the use of email and most helpful way of making initial progress is to make email lists, how to locate Web resources, how to build and better use of the tools that you are already familiar with, manage Web resources using Microsoft Office 2000, and for example, using email to communicate with groups of how to produce a Web-based conferencing/discussion students or email lists that allow students to communicate facility. with each other and offer peer support. Also consider how Members of the team will be happy to arrange to talk with the 'distracters' of your course, such as the text on OHP you on a one-to-one basis after the presentations to slides, can be made available outside the lecture. Perhaps discuss your particular area of interest and your learning ask yourself how you can integrate self-assessment and teaching needs. mechanisms more effectively into your course. Please feel free to contact us at any time to discuss your The Computer Centre's Learning Technology Section (LTS) learning technology requirements - we work very closely has focused on the use of Web technologies in the support with other University support agencies to ensure a of the learning and teaching process. The Web offers a coherent approach to learning and teaching. For further very simple, user-friendly, interface, through which details visit the LTS Web Week Web site: students can access a whole range of resources, for www.le.ac.k/cc/lts/webweek/ example, lecture notes, images, reading lists, to support them in their particular field of study. The LTS is able to Dr Richard Mobbs support academic staff with easy and simple-to-use tools [email protected] 6 Bulletin University of Leicester Bulletin News February 2000

OUTER SPACE – INNER SPACE THE University has invested in a new facility that aims to bring the benefits of space research to the fields of medicine and biology. A new Bioimaging Unit has been created and the post of Bioimaging Research Fellow established in order that the University’s world-class achievements in astronomy and planetary science can deliver breakthroughs in health care. The University has one of the biggest space research groups in Europe and there is enormous potential to use the innovative technologies developed at Leicester for industrial and biological applications. Dr John Lees, who is the first person within the University to hold the Fellowship, said the work done in the Space Research Centre, along with others at the University, had resulted in a wide range of academic, INNOVATION: Dr John Lees and Professor George Fraser. medical and industrial links. Said Dr Lees: “The Bioimaging Unit will act as a focus for the transfer of technologies, developed for X-ray astronomy, to medical and life sciences. It will provide the life science departments at the University with a strong technical advantage in their research. “The Unit will carry on pioneering work that Professor George Fraser and I began in 1995 at this University. We used systems, developed as part of the Chandra X- ray satellite, for analysis of a wide range of biological samples – including cancer tumours.” Funding for the new Unit, which also includes a full- time technician, has come from the Senate Development Fund and collaboration with the Medical Research Council’s Toxicology Unit at the University, as well as Bayer Pharmaceuticals. Dr Lees added: “We are developing new instrumentation for biological applications and this has brought together experts from different departments in the University, including the Centre for Immunological Mechanisms in Disease and the Centre for Mechanisms of Human Toxicity. “Our collaborations have led to a search for more effective Alzheimer’s disease therapeutics as well as a project with Queen’s Medical Centre Nottingham into bladder cancer treatment. There is also commercial potential from development of our detector technologies.” Dr Lees added that collaboration between physicists and biologists is a growth area of great potential and was proving to be of international importance.

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• Ethnic characters seem to LEICESTER REPORT REVEALS TV be included to make a point LAGS BEHIND SOCIAL REALITY rather than to play an integral part in the drama A STUDY by a Leicester professor has found that minority •There is a lack of ethnic audiences think that TV still provides a stilted view representation of ethnic of them. minorities in current affairs Professor Annabelle Sreberny, of the Centre for Mass Said Professor Sreberny: “Our Communication Research, carried out the innovative study minority ethnic respondents into minority ethnic audiences and their media habits and are saying their lives are preferences on behalf of the Broadcasting Standards complex. A minority wants INSIGHT: Professor Annabelle Commission. She also examined the independent television itself represented on TV not Sreberny. sector and the problems that minority ethnic producers only because it wants to see face in getting commissions from the terrestrial television itself but also because it wants mainstream white Britain to channels understand the diversity of contemporary British society Her research, carried out in three locations with different and the varied lives they are living.” ethnic mixes, allowed for settled minority ethnic The report, Include Me In, published by the Broadcasting communities to be included as well as new immigrants Standards Commission, found viewers were critical of Asian more recently arrived in Britain. The work also reflects the characters in Coronation Street as one-dimensional, and for sentiments of ethnic youth and women, often excluded an episode where a new black character was immediately from such studies. shown to become involved in crime. Respondents said that: Other characters, like former Eastenders couple Gita and • Everyday life in Sanjay Kapoor, were distinctive only for their skin colour – Britain is far more they did not represent the concerns or issues facing Asian multi-cultural and families nor any evidence of their Indian cultural accepting of background. cultural difference Professor Sreberny said “There is a real dilemma for than are media broadcasting. Ethnic characters carry a ‘burden of depictions representation’, seeming to show the public face of that • TV is lagging community. Ethnic producers carry a ‘burden of behind social reality production’, always and only expected to makes in depicting the programmes of interest to their specific group. Television real-life of social need richer characterizations, visible minority actors and groups producers spread across the entire range of programming, • Negative and more opportunities for all smaller independent stereotyping of producers to make programmes for mainstream ethnic groups audiences.” continues The report praised the BBC 2 series Goodness Gracious Me • Ethnic minority as an example of a programme made by and starring characters are minority ethnic actors which now enjoys a large mixed portrayed as two- television audience. dimensional, • Coronation Street is screened on ITV on Mondays, ignoring how they Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays at 7.30pm fit into society GRADUATE UNEMPLOYMENT AT 10-YEAR LOW GRADUATE unemployment has to outstrip supply, despite the the Higher Education Careers Services reached a 10-year low – proving increasing numbers of people going Unit (CSU) and the Association of that a university or college into higher education. Graduate Careers Advisory Services education is more important than The proportion of computer science (AGCAS). ever in the job market, according to students finding work immediately The annual publication, produced in new research. after graduating has reached 83.6%, association with graduate Figures for last year show that and similar record levels have been recruitment experts KPMG, is the graduate unemployment has fallen reached in accountancy (83.3%) and definitive guide to the changing to 5.7%, down from 6.9% in 1997 business management (79.2%). graduate job market. It includes and the lowest during the 1990s. The good employment news for destinations of first-degree and Seven out of ten graduates now graduates is reported in What Do Higher National Diploma graduates, find work immediately after Graduates Do? 2000: Career Planning career opportunities in different completing their studies, and for Higher Education and Beyond, subjects, salary information and demand for graduates in certain key published by the Universities and comparisons, and is designed to help sectors of the economy has begun Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), students and careers advisers looking at higher education. 8 Bulletin University of Leicester Bulletin News February 2000

RURAL GENTRIFICATION – A GROWING BUSINESS IN SHRINKING COMMUNITIES MOST people still see gentrification involved in what could now as the domain of the middle realistically be described as ‘the classes or the urban rich living in gentrification business’”. upmarket city neighbourhoods. The research also highlights: However, new ESRC-funded research highlights the fact that • The emergence of firms who gentrification is big business in either specialise in undertaking rural areas as well as urban the gentrification of properties conurbations – and can lead to or provide goods; conflict within villages as a result. • The uses of gentrification as a Researcher Dr Martin Phillips, of means of wealth accumulation the Department of Geography, with people buying, living in, questioned residents in six rural doing up and selling a parishes in the counties of sequence of properties; Berkshire, Leicestershire and • The use of gentrification as a Norfolk to find out the extent of full or part time business where residential conversion, extension people buy up, gentrify and and refurbishment and their then sell on a series of reactions to it. properties, none of which they RURAL REPORT: Dr Martin Phillips. His research project explodes the live in; myth of the lone gentrifier, buying • The development of new villages and that rural areas would and doing up a property using properties with a gentrified lose their traditional distinctiveness. their own labour and resources. It look by large scale property The third group saw gentrification shows that many so-called development and construction as a positive force, which would gentrifiers are in fact employing a companies. bring increased economic range of increasingly specialist The research also looked at how investment into the countryside contractors. Some have even come local people reacted to along with a movement of people to view gentrification as a means gentrification. There were three with a concern for rural community of wealth accumulation or as a full clear types of response. The first life, and for the natural environment or part time business. group seemed unaware of the of the countryside. “Very little attention has so far processes of gentrification around “These contrasting perceptions of been paid to how existing them and still perceived their gentrification can be seen to have residential properties constructed neighbourhoods as largely led in several cases to disagreement for other uses such as agriculture, unchanged. and conflict within villages”, says Dr industry or retailing are being The second group was keenly Phillips. “Whilst these at times can physically transformed through aware of gentrification activities appear very localised and personal conversions, refurbishment and and saw them as very negative. we must accept that they will have extensions”, says Dr Phillips. “My Many thought the newly done up far wider social causes and research found that these physical properties would have the effect of resonances”, he adds. alterations can bring about displacing local people from significant social changes, even in villages where planning authorities have restricted the building of new homes. These changes can include KEEP BULLETIN ON TARGET the displacement of the pre- existing population by the University sections are requested to inform the Press and wealthier incomers”, he adds. Publications Office (0116 252 2415) of any change in the number of “The image of the lone gentrifier is Bulletin copies required. Please remember to include in the total the outdated”, says Dr Phillips. “It appropriate number of copies for clerical/technical staff. simply does not do justice to the range of people and organisations

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BULLETIN READERS’ SURVEY READERS of the Bulletin will have already noticed significant changes to the publication, following a University-wide survey carried out by the Press and Publications Office last year. More than 400 people responded to the survey, the vast majority giving the Bulletin the thumbs-up – and there were many helpful comments too about improving the newsletter. Almost a third of respondents said they did not receive their own copy of Bulletin and arrangements have since been made for more copies to be distributed via departmental secretaries to members of staff. More than 90% of those responding read the front page and just under that figure enjoyed the news pages inside. Other sections that featured well were: features (81%), people (76%), notices (61%), research grants (63%), out and about (60%), cuttings (56%) and international (55%). BULLETIN WINNERS: Graphic Designer Paula Curtis with winners of the 93% of those returning the survey rated the front Bulletin survey prize draw – Jo Richardson (Epidemiology and Public page news as Interesting or average and news on Health) and Alison Pullen (Management Centre). The third winner of the inside pages was rated as such by 85% of the survey. £10 book token was Margaret Black (CLMS) (not pictured). The other most interesting sections were people, out and about, research grants and international. who wished to contribute. There were also calls for more student news – something which has already been In answer to whether or not the Bulletin was too formal heeded. in style, the results were: Too formal (8.6%), too informal (3%) about right (85%), too wide ranging (1.6%), too There was a call for more scepticism and controversy narrow (10%) and about right (81%). rather than the highlighting of achievement only. The vast majority (85%) liked the existing arrangement A small number of people disliked the pictorial layout of for the Bulletin to be published 10 times a year and 94% the Bulletin suggesting a more even layout would be rated the Bulletin as good or average for its effectiveness more suitable – this too has been incorporated in the as a source of information. 96% did not read the web new design. version of the Bulletin and only 4% said they would Other features that staff would like to see included in the prefer a web-only version. 92% of the survey said they Bulletin are staff personalia e.g. hobbies, marriages and also liked the present A4-size Bulletin and did not want a births; services within the University for staff such as bigger or smaller format. training and courses; internal job vacancies; In terms of overall impression, the Bulletin was rated as Senate/Council reports; Letters Page. excellent or good by 88% of the survey, its design and layout was seen as excellent or good by 82%, ease or reading (80% excellent or good), content (76% excellent or good), print quality (86% excellent or good). In answer to whether or not their departments got sufficient coverage, 58% said yes and 31% said no. Not everyone chose to answer all questions. LET THE BULLETIN COVER YOUR BOOKS! Comments made by individuals shed light on people’s perception of Bulletin – and sometimes the University – The Bulletin welcomes news of recently-published books and pointed the way for improvements. written or edited by University staff. The book cover, together with any other relevant details, should be sent There were comments calling for increased to Barbara Whiteman, Press & Publications Office representation in the Bulletin of non-academic staff and (2676, ara@le). there were many offers of help from members of staff

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University Challenge series – Leicester “Every university or university college UNIVERSITY was the very first winner of the in the UK is eligible to enter, and each intellectual competition and, in 1998, a institution may enter as many teams CHALLENGE Christmas special 35th anniversary as they wish, although only one team THE University of Leicester has fared battle of the brains saw the same team from an institution may appear on the well in the past in the BBC’s compete again for the title. series.” Last year, Leicester reached the Details of entry requirements and quarter-finals of the competition. The procedures are available from the search has now begun for teams to President of the Students’ Union or compete in the series for the year contact the University Challenge 2000/2001. production office on 0161 832 7211 The BBC has written to presidents of ext 3157/3301. students’ unions as well as the Address: University Challenge, University to publicise the event. A Granada Television,Quay Street, University Challenge spokesperson Manchester M60 9EA said: “Taking part in University E-mail: University.Challenge Challenge is a unique experience; it is @granadamedia.com extremely enjoyable, a bit nerve- wracking, but most of all an • There will be a meeting on March achievement of which to be extremely 14 in the Union Lecture Room, proud. starting at 6.30pm for anyone interested in taking part in “Teams who progress through the University Challenge. More contest to take part in the final will information from Katie Shure, have appeared on screen five times by email: [email protected]. the time the trophy is awarded.

Business Bulletin

PUTTING QUALITY INTO QUALIFICATIONS!

THOUSANDS of people from who have embraced the around the world have turned principle of ‘Lifelong to this University to enhance Learning’. their career prospects with high Undergraduates looking to quality qualifications in areas as enhance their career diverse as management to prospects will join others, forensic psychology. Business united in their pursuit of Bulletin reports on the knowledge and excellence transformation in learning which can bring personal which is helping our graduates rewards as well as career climb to success! enhancement. On 14 February, those with a love Twelve years ago, less than of learning will be making a bee- 20% of students at the line for the University where a University were pursuing Postgraduate open event is being postgraduate degrees; now held. more than 50% of nearly They will join the growing ranks of 15,000 students are doing so. people from Leicestershire and The new Millennium has seen beyond who are now reading for individuals as well as business second or third degrees – people and industry investing in learning. 11 Bulletin Business Bulletin University of Leicester February 2000

PUTTING QUALITY INTO meet the challenging demands of vocational, which have been taken up QUALIFICATIONS! the world of work locally as well as around the world through means of distance learning, Continued from previous page • Governments, institutions and full-time and part-time study. The reasons for this are complex: individuals have realised that a knowledge-based economy is “We are among the top three providers • There have been rapid advances essential for growth and in the UK of taught postgraduate in science, technology and prosperity. education – with over 120 degree communications making it Vice-Chancellor Professor Robert courses available. We are also one of essential for people to increase the UK’s largest providers of their knowledge Burgess, said: “Postgraduate education and training has become the fastest postgraduate distance learning • The world is becoming a smaller growing aspect of higher education in programmes.” place where the need for good the UK as more students decide to • The Postgraduate Open Evening qualifications can provide a engage in taught courses and takes place on Monday 14 passport to success research. February from 4pm – 7pm in the • There is no such thing as a job “The University of Leicester is at the Garendon Room, Charles Wilson for life and people must be fore of this education revolution. We Building, University Road, prepared to adapt and change to have pioneered courses, many of them University of Leicester. For more information, ring 0116 252 2298. PROFILE OF SUCCESS GULF War hero Lieutenant John Peters has a face that is instantly recognisable around the world – but it is an image the world would prefer to forget. For John was shot down, tortured and held for seven weeks during the 1991 Desert War. Media across the world carried the picture of the Tornado pilot and his navigator who were kept in solitary confinement – without knowing whether they were to live or to die. Today, the picture of John Peters bears little resemblance to that picture of cruelty. He is now a successful graduate of the University’s Management Centre. He said: “The course at Leicester has given me all the advantages of distance learning – with three very enjoyable summer schools. I was surprised how practical the course was. It was a stimulating two years and I wouldn’t hesitate to GRADUATE: John Peters. recommend Leicester to anyone who wanted to progress by taking an MBA.”

possible for more resources to be made available to HONORARY’S HONOUR! increase the quality and quantity of further education. Chris is over the Moon! “I started studying several months after losing my lower HONORARY graduate of the University Chris Moon, a right arm and leg in a mine blast. The Scarman Centre and veteran landmines campaigner, told of his delight at University receiving an honorary degree from the University – and administration did paid tribute to the quality of postgraduate qualifications everything possible offered by the University. to fully integrate me He said: “I consider it a great honour and privilege to into University life receive an Honorary Master of Laws degree from the and disability was University of Leicester. I must share this recognition with never a problem. the academic staff at the Scarman Centre who did so “It is particularly much to encourage me when I studied here in 1995 and special for me to 1996. attend this “Studying and passing the Master’s Degree in Security graduation Management at the University changed the way in which I ceremony as I looked at the world. It gave me a much more questioning missed the security and analytical approach and academic confidence at a management crucial time in my life, which has enabled me to create graduation because many opportunities. it fell at a brief period when I was “The importance of education should never be between legs!” underestimated and I hope that in years to come it will be Chris Moon. 12 Bulletin University of Leicester Business Bulletin February 2000

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International Focus provides stories with an international dimension. Any stories or ideas should be sent to Jane International Focus Pearson, Press and Publications Office, ext 2440, fax 2485, e-mail: [email protected] A TASTE OF GOVERNMENT Leicester Law With French with encouragement from the Law Students And The European Faculty, we began making Parliament applications to local MEPs. Law with French students at the Of the eight Leicester students in University choose between three Strasbourg six managed to secure cities in France where they can stagiaire positions, either by way of spend their third year. Here, two written application and interview fourth-year Law with French over the summer period, or by students write about their applying in person once in experiences in Strasbourg, working Strasbourg. We managed to secure with the European Parliament. placements with Glenys Kinnock, MEP, and Eluned Morgan, MEP, both THE opportunity to work in the representing Welsh constituencies. European Parliament was one of the deciding factors for choosing to The placement meant that we study at Strasbourg University. worked with our MEPs when the Previous Leicester Law with French Parliament sits in Strasbourg, one students in Strasbourg had done week in four. An average day at similar placements, and had found Parliament depended on the WORKING TOGETHER: Law with French them very beneficial and interesting. individual MEP and their schedules. student, Victoria Gregory, with MEP Glenys Kinnock in Strasbourg. Upon their recommendation, and Since the majority of the work is 13 Bulletin International Focus University of Leicester February 2000

A TASTE OF GOVERNMENT political parties, committees, groups, Working at the Parliament was hard Continued from previous page visitors or special guests. work, but there were many perks and rewards to being in such an done in the Brussels office, it was Whilst all official documentation was already translated into English, important European institution, and essential to contact the Brussels it was not rare to see famous faces. office and be brought up to date informal letters and invitations required translating and a written We had the opportunity to attend with the events of the previous lunch engagements, publicity shoots month. reply in French was often necessary. The majority of telephone and drinks receptions, where we Each day began with the sorting of arrangements were also conducted were also able to meet people from the post, liaising with the Brussels in French and it was not unusual to non-political backgrounds, such as office and confirming meeting speak Italian-French or Spanish- pop stars and sports personalities – arrangements. The majority of the French. The ability to speak French, The Corrs and Bobby Charlton among day was occupied with meetings, though not essential, was certainly them. and as a stagiaire, we were expected appreciated, and our confidence and There is no doubt that our experience to sit in and take minutes. The ability to speak the language in a at the European Parliament was opportunity to shadow the MEPs in business and commercial invaluable. In addition to gaining an such a way enabled us to experience environment has been greatly insight into the workings of the a broad spectrum of their work, improved as a result of our European Parliament, we were able since meetings could be with experience. to witness momentous decisions in The majority of MEPs had stagiaires, the making, meet influential political and the stagiaire network often figures from around the world, and played an important part when broaden our understanding and trying to organise and raise knowledge of the European Union. awareness of individual MEP’s The opportunity to work in such a causes. For example, it was called cosmopolitan atmosphere was also upon in Glenys Kinnock’s campaign unique. The experience of being for Jubilee 2000, fighting to surrounded by so many cultures, eradicate third world debt. The nationalities and languages has had a campaign involved much media remarkable effect upon our attitudes attention and required a great deal towards Europe. The fact that eight of organisation and preparation. out of ten Leicester students have Whilst the Brussels office managed to secure placements again masterminded the operation, we this year, is encouraging for those were relied upon to orchestrate the studying Law with French at the poster campaign, arrange meetings University of Leicester, and we hope and organise support for, and that they gain as much from the awareness of the cause. This all experience as we have. entailed the work of several Victoria Gregory stagiaires, numerous languages, and and Shereen Driver SEAT OF POWER: The new Parliament hundreds of telephone calls, flyers Building in Strasbourg. and faxes. NEWS FROM THE SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES GRAHAM Morgan has recently achieved the Honorary Visiting Fellow, Peter Neaverson, received a distinction of being among the first-ever Accredited grant from the Pasold Foundation, enabling them to Conservators, elected by the Joint Accreditation visit parts of Belgium, northern France and western Committee of national and international Germany to pursue their research into the cultural conservation groups. context of textile mills and the housing of textile One project of note he has worked on is in dating to workers from the 17th century and earlier. the early 10th century material at the Chateau de They found particularly interesting the beluiks of Mayenne in central France, where the Oxford Gent, Belgium and similar court housing in Roubaix, Archaeological Unit has exposed what appears to be France, many examples of which have been restored. one of the largest surviving Carolingian structures in They write: “It seems that such housing survives best that area. in university towns where there is a demand for READER and Head of Division, Dr Marilyn Palmer, and student housing!”

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WOMEN ON THE NET The latest United Nations Human Development Report (1999) highlights the startling fact that to date a mere two per cent of people worldwide are connected to the Internet. Dr Gillian Youngs who lectures in the University’s Centre for Mass Communication Research (CMCR) has been involved in the UNESCO/Society for International Development Women on the Net project since 1997 and recently helped to lead Internet workshops in Zanzibar (Tanzania) and Nairobi (Kenya). She reports below on this project. WHOSE INTERNET? Workshop group in Nairobi with Gillian (centre). THIS question is fairly easy to answer at this point in time. One highpoint in the project was two workshops run The Internet is dominated by the rich industrialized recently in Zanzibar and Nairobi. These demonstrated the countries, by men and by the highly educated. kinds of principles the project has been pursuing. They Women on the Net has been one of many international were run, in association with locally-based NGOs, for projects investigating and addressing different aspects of women and women’s organisations . They were cross- inequality related to Internet access and use. The major generational and involved a number of young men and issues remain access to, and knowledge about, the women in facilitating the events. The participants covered communications technology (hardware and software) and a wide range of individuals and representatives of rural the communications infrastructure needed to get online. and advocacy groups. But questions of access when considered in an Some people taking part had not used computers or the international context go far beyond that, linking to issues Internet before, some used the Internet but only for very of English-language dominance, literacy, divisions between restricted purposes, and some were coming from urban and rural settings, etc. organizations who had launched their websites but were Women on the Net has brought together academics, now anxious to develop them further. In order to cater for activists and development practitioners to share ideas and everyone the workshops included a number of sessions concerns about difficulties confronting women in getting divided into groups based on clusters of needs and online. The project has been relatively small but it has been interests. international in its scope involving participants from major One of the most exciting things about the workshops was regions of the world. Many of these members have their collective and collaborative nature and this is themselves been representatives of web-based reflective of this project as a whole and one of the major organizations working on associated issues as well as other reasons I have been actively involved in it. There is a sense non-governmental bodies and individuals using the Net, or in which conceptually – and this is the key point – we are interested in developing its use, to contribute to existing all starting from a similar place when it comes to the areas of work with women and communities. Internet. It is in many ways an entirely new medium and we are only beginning to discover its potential as a social tool, learning how we can harness it to assist in the pursuit of cultural and political aims, and, importantly, to work to build new international connections and even communities. While the workshops introduced many of the network and operational characteristics of the Internet they also explored the different forms of interaction and information-sharing it makes possible, from websites to chatrooms, email to discussion groups and bulletin boards. The sessions also included exchanges about our hopes for, and concerns about, this new medium and the kinds of priorities that should be addressed in increasing access to it. Participants in both workshops decided to work together to set up their own group websites attached to the Women on the Net project.

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barriers. Collective and community access has to be a key consideration and priority. I am writing and publishing on a range of these issues now and contributed to the book which has come out of the project, Women@Internet (London: Zed) published in 1999 and edited by Wendy Harcourt. For more details on the project and CMCR’s associated research focus see http://www.waw.be/sid/won/won.htm and http://www.le.ac.uk/cmcr/gtg/ respectively. According to the UN Human Development Report (1999) by mid-1998 industrial countries, with less than 15 per cent of the world’s population, had 88 per cent of Internet users. North America alone, with less than five per cent of all people, had more than 50 per cent of Internet users, whereas A group session at the Zanzibar workshop with local organizer Fatma South Asia, with 20 per cent of the world’s Alloo from the NGO Resource Centre (left, standing) and next to her population, had less than one per cent of Paola Leoncini-Bartoli (standing) from the UNESCO Culture Sector them. who helped to lead the workshops.

One theme was a desire to see active and creative The ratio of women to men Internet users is approaches to the Net which make some contribution 38 per cent in the US, 17 per cent in Japan towards transforming existing social divides, for example, and South Africa, and just four per cent in between rural and urban contexts, and across literacy the Arab states.

Out & About

IMPRESSIONS OF AN INVESTITURE DR Angela Lennox, Director of the their chauffeur-driven Centre for Studies in Community Bentley for the trip to Health Care and a Senior Lecturer in the Palace. Making our Medical Education at the University, way through the gates received an MBE in this year’s of the Palace and into Queen’s Birthday Honours. the inner courtyard was “Receiving a letter from the Prime a rare privilege. Minister isn’t an everyday occurence, “The flawless so when an envelope arrived from the organisation, the PM marked urgent and confidential it grandeur, ceremonial was the cue for instant palpitations. attire, gleaming The citation for my MBE was for breastplates and SEEING DOUBLE: Dr Angela Lennox (left) with her sister, services to Medicine and the numerous hats are Avril Lennox-Hill, who received her MBE for services to Community, clearly reflecting the among my impression Olympic gymnastics over 20 years ago. work I had undertaken in developing of the ceremony. An Prince Philip House. orchestra played throughout the three know that I was still working in the St Matthew’s Estate as a General “It is one thing accepting an honour hours and calmed the nerves of all my fellow recipients – an amazingly Practitioner, and he was pleased to on paper – and quite another learn that all our medical students attending Buckingham Palace to diverse group with fascinating stories to tell. learn about society’s medical receive the medal! I had also received problems through visits to the an invitation from the Royal College “HRH Prince Charles presented the housing estate. Afterwards, we made of General Practitioners to stay in the medals. He was well briefed but our way through galleries of familiar College with my family for the night began by complimenting me on my pictures to a photo session.” before the investiture – and the use of curtsey. He was particularly keen to Dr Angela Lennox, MBE

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checking the systems at midnight the mobile phone Y2K ...AGAIN! network was jammed by the volume of calls. Then we A conversation overheard somewhere in the University found some of the Hodgkin ventilation system had crashed between a departmental secretary and porter: but that later turned out to be a power failure.” “HAPPY New Year, Fred, did you have a good break, which “Was there anything serious?” party did you get to on the night of the year? Were you “The big problem was the departments who had changed stuck in the queues for Tony’s Folly or did you find a real locks over the years and we didn’t have all the keys. I had party here in Leicester?” to call Dr Dibble out to open up the labs so that I could “Actually, Mary, I was hard at work checking the buildings check the fire alarm was working. He won’t do that again to see that all was well for you to come back to work on in a hurry!” Wednesday.” “I sympathise with you there. He’s always doing his own “I thought that was all a waste of time, my house was OK. thing, that’s why we have to have him on the call-out list. I had bought tinned food, bottled water and got the Wasn’t all the fuss rather a waste? The University must camping gas stove ready, but nothing happened ...and have spent millions on upgrading systems?” now the family are complaining about having to eat up “Well, Mary, the only computer system which I heard of the emergency rations.” crashing here was the old finance system – God bless it – “Oh, you did the right thing there Mary. Did you hear and the electronic signboard in the foyer of the Fielding about the 20,000 credit card machines which went on the Johnson Building Reception announcer. blink after Christmas? Then there was the problems with “How many people were in that day, was it a big job?” Auckland air traffic control computers, the failure of “We managed to get through all the buildings in the day dialysis machines in the US and Jamaica’s traffic lights, the with just two engineers, four lads from DSU and about 30 letters dated 1900 sent out by the registration council for porters and security staff. Even Kirsty, who looks after the nurses, and a member of the Italian Mafia was nearly telephones, came in to sort out a problem. Do you know released early. We had a few of our own little problems.” what gave us the greatest pleasure?” “No I hadn’t heard about those – did Florence Nightingale “No, go on, surprise me.” get sent a letter? What happened here then, Fred?” “Alan Iles waking up Simon Britton at 3.30 am to tell him “Nothing spectacular, Richard Green and his guys really everything was OK!” had it taped. We had some problems clearing the buildings on New Year’s Eve though. Despite the number of times “Oh, Fred!” we sent out reminders that the buildings were going to be Simon Britton cleared, they still came into work. When we started

COASTING ALONG LECTURE ON THE ORIGINS OF THE UNIVERSE JOANNE Wells and Kerry Woodford ‘GOD, the Big Bang, and Stephen Hawking’ is the theme for the University’s from the Postgraduate Dean’s office Annual Chaplaincy Lecture this year on Tuesday 15 February. To be given by are undertaking a 48-mile sponsored Dr David Wilkinson, a Fellow of the walk in aid of the Rainbows Royal Astronomical Society, the Children’s Charity on 7 and 8 April. lecture will explore the origins of the The walk, which follows part of the Universe and the relationship Cornish Coastal Path, starts in between science and Christian faith. Padstow and Day 1 ends in The subject of this lecture is Newquay. The second stage of the particularly relevant at a time when walk is from St Agnes to St Ives. All the University is developing its work money raised will be donated to with the new National Space Science Charity and Jo and Kerry are looking Centre. for sponsorship. Dr Wilkinson is the Associate • Please phone either Jo on 5868 Director of the Centre for Christian or Kerry on 5844 for Communication at Durham further details or to University and is in great demand as offer sponsorship. a speaker. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, begins at 5.15 pm in EXPLORING THEORIES: Dr David Wilkinson. Lecture Theatre 1 of the New Building. Continued on page 20.

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DOWNSIZING THE MILLENNIUM ALL WE NEED IS LOVE... In Leicester, Shakespeare’s ‘tragicall tale of Ju IT could only be the Reduced and her Romeo’ unf Shakespeare Company in their Haymarket’s Spring latest hysterical massacre! See Romeo and Juliet, the last 1,000 years flash before from 17 February to your eyes in just 100 minutes in Shobna Gulati is Lad The Complete Millenium Musical (abridged) at De Montfort Hall on 19 February. Apparently it nearly caused ‘mass incontinence’ in a recent American audience. You have been warned!

DRAMA AT THE Shobna Gulati AMEN CORNER (Anita in Dinnerladies). At The Amen Corner you’ll find a thriving congregation, vibrant streetlife, and the swinging sounds of Gospel Music. But all is not what ROBERT it seems in James Baldwin’s drama set in ‘50s Harlem. Find out at the Also showing a Nottingham Playhouse from 16 February to 4 March. personal select the last 54 yea of the exhibits NOSHTALGIA An absolute feast of golden oldies is in prospect this month. There’s All AVON’S American ‘60s Gold at Derngate on 20 February; and at De Montfort OF CONT Hall the Ted Heath Band (the final tour) on 27 February, and The Searchers, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and the The RSC Winte Swinging Blue Jeans (remember them?) in Solid Silver full swing at S ‘60s 2000 on 8 March. Evergreens Cleo Laine and the megastars Johnny Dankworth make a rare appearance at De Sher’s acclaim Montfort Hall on 23 February. (until 18 March) is at the Swan Theatre and Hawthorne’s controversial King Lear (until on the main stage. At the Swan with a str 24 February is Chekhov’s The Seagull, in version directed by Artistic Director Adri

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TWO’S COMPANY A LAUGH A MINUTE uliet At the Richard Attenborough Centre on Saturday 19 folds in the February at 7.30 pm: The biggest event of its production, kind in the country – Nikki Yeoh (piano) and Matthew Barley which runs more than 150 (cello) celebrate 300 years of musical o 11 March. performances in over tradition, with jazz interludes dy Capulet. 30 venues in the city running seamlessly into baroque and county – Leicester suites by Bach. Comedy Festival is here • To book, again from 11 February phone to 20 February. Lee 0116 252 Hurst and Mark Lamarr 2455. (at De Montfort Hall), Jo Brand, and Phil Jupiter (at Loughborough Town Hall) are among the stars. • For full details, phone the Comedy Festival Hotline on 0800 952 5511.

TSON’S CHOICE COME AND JOIN THE DANCE at the City Gallery until 26 February is ‘45-’99, a What better treat on Valentine’s night than a visit to tion by Bryan Robertson from British Art during De Montfort Hall on 14 February to see the ars. Patrick Caulfield’s Awning (1998), left, is one spectacular Rumbadelica, an Afro-Cuban dance group in a s. journey through Cuba’s folk history in a pulsating and infectious presentation. This is the only UK performance outside London. Or you might go to Northampton’s Derngate for the young Richard Alston Dance WINTER Company (29 February and 1 March) in its TENT imaginative er Season is in interpretation of classic Stratford with scores by Handel, Mozart . Antony and others. med Macbeth d Nigel 26 February) rong cast until n a new ian Noble.

ANIMAL MADNESS...... is the subject of the third Children’s Art Competition at the City Gallery, attracting a huge entry – from aardvarks flushing toilets to an octopus playing the drums. Winning artworks will be exhibited in the Upstairs Gallery from 8-21 February, and in the Shires Shopping Centre from 1-13 March.

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NEW MUSIC AT THE TURN OF THE YEAR ANTHONY Pither’s latest composition Twilight, is written for Bernard Gregor- Smith, the Lindsay’s cellist, and his wife, Yolande Wrigley, piano. The composition, which draws on some influences from Coleridge’s poem, Limbo, will premiere at the lunchtime concert in the Fraser Noble Hall on Wednesday 16 February. As a response to the closing days of 1999, the University’s Director of Music has composed a five-minute work in twenty sections, each lasting just fifteen seconds. He writes: “For twilight read limbo, the title of Coleridge’s poem – its ‘darker reflections’ mirroring Richard Holmes’s second volume of his magnificent biography of the poet. In turn, my music represents fragments of the thoughts that crowd into one’s mind at the point when yesterday has ended and today has not begun”. DARKER REFLECTIONS: Anthony Pither. FACT FILE ON THE STUDENT SICK BAY ‘self referral’/phone call to Sick Bay, but a doctor must be THE Student Sick Bay, based Wardens. aware of their admission. above the Freemen’s Common • The Sick Bay takes students from Staying in Sick Bay can often be Surgery on Welford Road, is both Leicester and De Montfort an alternative to having to known throughout the University Universities. return to the family home. as a valuable facility, providing a friendly atmosphere for students • A couple of nights is the average • A small examination room is set to stay in for rest and recovery. length of stay. Some students up within the Sick Bay during However, some facts provided by attend for daily care – for examination periods for Mandy Graham, Nurse Manager example, for post-operative students too unwell to take at the unit, may be less well- dressing of wounds. During their their exams on the main site. known: stay in Sick Bay, some students • The Sick Bay acts as first point continue to attend lectures. • Part of the Educational of contact for patients of both Development and Support • Common reasons for admission to Freemen’s Common Surgery Centre (EDSC) and part-funded the Sick Bay are stress, colds/flu, and De Montfort Surgery who by the students themselves asthma, headaches, chicken pox, telephone their doctor after 5 (who pay a small fee on glandular fever and feeling pm or at weekends. The unit registering), the Sick Bay works ‘generally unwell’. arranges GP home visits or for closely with many departments • Admission to Sick Bay usually the patient to come into Sick and individuals including occurs after consultation with a Bay or alternatively attend the Welfare, Counselling, The GP, but students can also be ‘out of hours’ emergency Chaplaincy, The Study Support accepted through the Welfare or surgery at ‘Health Call’ on Service, and Wardens and Sub Counselling departments, or via London Road. SAINTS’ DAY DR Graham Jones, an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Department of English Local History, will be at Vaughan College (part of the University’s Department of Adult Education) on 18 March. During a Saturday School he plans to introduce students to the cults of local saints in the East Midlands and the sites of their legends. Dr Jones has found a wealth of evidence of religious cults in England – including Leicestershire. This evidence includes not only the dedications of churches but also those of chapels, altars, images, feast and fair days, place- names, and landscape features. • For details and to book, phone 0116 251 7368.

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STUDENTS SHARE INSTITUTE PRIZE THE Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) awards an annual prize of £150 for the best second-year students of Business Economics at the University of Leicester. For the academic year 1998-99 the prize was shared by two students – Fang Cao (BA Business Economics) and Rupesh Shah (BSc Business Economics). The prizes were awarded at a lunch in the University in November. In addition to the two prizewinners, the Economics Department was delighted to welcome Linda Verdegem, CIMA Careers Officer for the East of England, and Dennis Jacklin, FCMA, President of the Leicester CIMA Branch, who presented the prizes. Members of the Department present were Professor Kevin Lee, Professor Clive PLEASING BUSINESS: Left to right, Dennis Jacklin, Professor Kevin Lee (Head of Economics Department), Linda Verdegem, Professor Clive Fraser, Rupesh Shah, Dr Fraser and Dr Alan Baker. Alan Baker and Fang Cao. Economics Correspondent

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allows us to try out and test WORDS OF WISDOM possibilities without immediate Professor Dame Gillian Beer books on Dickens and crime, consequences. And one of the received an honorary Doctor of Dickens and education, combine things I learnt from chairing the Letters from the University of empirical evidence with speculative Booker prize and reading a Leicester in last summer’s degree insight to evoke what it was like to hundred and twenty-odd novels congregations. In her oration, she be alive in London in the Victorian over one summer is that the paid tribute to the exemplary period. disturbances, the desires, and the influences of the University. alarms of a community manifest The business of scholarship is that themselves fully across fictions. IT is an honour indeed to receive a imaginative evocation of other LittD from a times, places, But fictions of course draw on and people in wider experience than those held University so The business of scholarship is distinguished for its such a way that within books. I have been led over that imaginative evocation of the last decade or so to spend tradition of other times, places, and people our much time thinking about writing nineteenth century in such a way that our understanding that is not traditionally held to be studies. The very understanding is increased. is increased – an first conference I understanding literature, in particular the writing ever went to, as a not only of the of scientists such as Charles young assistant lecturer of 24, was common concerns of being human, Darwin. What emerges is the at the University of Leicester. There I but of difference: how different are degree to which scientists draw on met a PhD student, later a lifelong the preoccupations and self- the resources of our common friend and now Professor of English understanding of diverse culture for their metaphors to think at Birbeck College, University of communities. Language can give London: Isobel Armstrong. with. Darwin is a kind Language can give us us entry to the of model for us all in inner experience of There, too, I first encountered entry to the inner universities; whatever past and far-off Professor Philip Collins whose work experience of past and he saw excited his lives in a way that has remained exemplary for all those far-off lives in a way that curiosity. He thought of us who work in what are now no other medium so no other medium so directly can that scepticism was a called interdisciplinary studies. His directly can. All of us short cut but made us here leave out possibilities present share the that went against the grain of English language with orthodoxy. When he had children its resourcefulness in he loved them and observed them accepting new closely: for example, keeping a vocabularies, its diary of his daughter’s first year of emergence in other development which is still referred parts of the world as to by psychologists now. He an indigenous tongue, worked with extraordinary capable of expressing concentration and stamina despite the experience illness. He also took time off to gathered there and walk, to read novels, to talk with malleable enough to his wife and his friends. Of course, answer to different he managed to avoid committees! needs. We are lucky to live in a language Above all, his ranging life reminds that, for reasons good us that learning doesn’t end when and ill, is written and you leave university. To all those of spoken creatively in you who today graduate from very diverse groups Leicester I give my best wishes for across the world. a future enriched by what you have discovered here. Certainly, the novel is thriving as a result. Fiction is a form of experimentation. It Professor Dame Gillian Beer. 22 Bulletin University of Leicester Student Pages February 2000

SCORING POINTS ON the 31 October fencer Kate Silverman, a member of the Students’ Union Fencing Club, was selected to join a group of Leicester and Rutland fencers for an international competition against Krefeld, Germany. The match has been a tradition for around 15 years, with three generations of fencers participating each year. Meeting on friendly terms means the fencing is not of Olympic standard and there is always an element of fun in the competition. In the first rounds the two teams were divided into four groups regardless of ability. The results were far from predictable! Just as the four finals were about to start, the Mayor and Mayoress of Leicester arrived. The best German fencers of each weapon and set faced English fencers with corresponding ability. Pressure increased throughout the day, with the English achieving a satisfactory 3-4 win. Leicester’s Mayor presented the awards at this little-known sporting event, which, year after year, proves to be a great day. MaxMcLoughlin

We also had our SMRTJ Soke (Head of Style) conduct an BEING PREPARED assistant instructors’ (AI) course and teach a series of Since the start of term, the University of Leicester Jiu Jitsu seminars over our two-day national event. The AI course Club has been as busy as ever. We have over 80 members was open to 5th kyu grades (about 6-12 months of with 30-40 regular jitsukas training every session. Our training) and above, with the aim of teaching instructors style of Jiu Jitsu – ‘Seishin Mizu Ryu Tatakai Jutsu’ – how to teach; with skills ranging from taking a warm-up (SMRTJ) – has maintained traditional battlefield and learning the history and philosophy behind SMRTJ to techniques. As such, it is applicable to the type of combat basic First Aid. situation in which one may involuntarily find themselves. Our Nationals were held on 20/21 November at Cannons It is therefore not classified as a ‘combat sport’ like Judo Health Club. A good turnout from all clubs practising or Taekwon-do. within our style set the scene for a tough but universally As a traditional style of self-defence, we devote several enjoyed two-day event. This comprised many hours of sessions each term to visiting instructors. This gives the tuition by several instructors including guest Sensei, Dave student different perspectives on the philosophy and Wilkins – 4th Dan Shotokan Karate. We also held a techniques of jiu jitsu. This term Sensei Catterick and number of competitions including randori (similar to that Sensei McCullough have both led excellent sessions. observed in the Olympic sport Judo) and ne waza (ground fighting). With the 7th-5th kyu and 5th and above kyu grading taking place before Christmas, it’s all go! Leicester Jiu Jitsu certainly looks debugged and will throw itself lock strike and strangle into the 21st century. Rob Clarkson Club Captain

THANK YOU FOR RECYCLING! Children, and SHARP (the local housing advice centre for Leicestershire and Northamptonshire) have all issued The Students’ Union Charities Appeal raised a staggering statements of gratitude for the support. BIBIC say that, so £8,000 for local and national charities during RAG week far, donations of toner cartridges have raised for them a this year. The RAG Office wishes to thank all those who total of £115.75. helped in the fund-raising through the donations of toner The fund-raising and recycling scheme will continue for the and ink jet cartridges, used stamps and foreign coins. rest of the year. These donations help to conserve the The three charities in receipt of these donations, BIBIC (the world’s resources and help charities raise the important British Institute for Brain Injured Children), Save the funds they need.

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STUDENT DISTINCTIONS Cramlington, Northumberland. He had previously won £300 (reported at Senate and Council) in the regional final and £150 in the local final. Catherine E Josling (BA Geography & Economic and Social The University of Leicester Wind Band gained a Bronze History – graduated 1999) has been awarded The British Award in the Community Class of the Midlands Regional Commission Prize for Undergraduate Achievement in Heat at the National Concert Band Festival in November Maritime History, a national prize awarded by the British 1999. Commission for Maritime History. Leicester teams have secured first place positions in the Nienke B Lubben (BSc Biological Sciences 3) has been British Universities Sports Association 1999-2000 merit nominated for the award of one of six undergraduate league rounds as follows: Microbiology Prizes offered by the Society for General Association Microbiology (SGM) in 1999. The SGM is the largest UK Football: Men’s Second XI Midlands Merit League 2 microbiology society, and Ms Lubben won the prize for Women’s Midlands Merit League 2 outstanding work in her second-year Microbiology course. Hockey: Men’s Second XI Midlands Merit League 2 Mark J Thompson (BEng (Mechanical) 3) has won a prize of £750 in the Shell Technology Enterprise Programme’s Tennis: Men’s Midlands League Most Enterprising Student competition for a project in the (Leicester also won five second place positions, in football, Best Project in Manufacturing Company category carried hockey and netball.) out whilst on placement with Dunlop Industrial Hose in

Graduate Relations

collapse at any time. There was no terrified they would be called up. But WELCOME TO mental healthcare at the end of the events didn’t overshadow the pride of SARAJEVO war, and there are tales that leave you graduation. It was very moving to in utter disbelief. Two of my students watch the students collect their BBC Jo Hayward (BA English, 1992) saw their fathers dragged away from certificates, which are highly rated in spent some time with the BBC home, never to be seen again. Many Bosnia, and should help them find World Service Training Unit, a lived in cellars beneath the city for work at a reputable station. charitable organisation providing months on end. For some students, it Now I’m back at work in Nottingham, I help and support to the was the first time they had worked development of journalism in try and appreciate all I have. It’s easy to closely with Serbs/Muslims/Croats since take so much for granted – from a Eastern Europe and around the the war. Generally, they got on. world. Now back at East Midlands good monthly wage to a well-stocked Today in Nottingham, she shares Three days before graduation, NATO supermarket. But most importantly, her experiences of six months in forces started bombing Belgrade and every time I see my Dad, I give him a Sarajevo at the height of the recent everything changed. For many, it really big hug and thank God that no conflict. bought back terrible memories of the one came in the night to tear him away early ‘90s. Our Serb students were from his family, never to be seen again. In January 1999 I set off with my husband David, to embark on a six- month stint training young journalists at the BBC school at Sarajevo in Bosnia. My task was to set up a nine- week TV training course. My nine students, a mix of Muslims, Serbs and Croats, were taken through the BBC guidelines of fairness, impartiality, taste and decency. Each day we ran a newsroom and would produce a twenty-minute programme, reflecting local, national and international events. The people of Sarajevo are like many of the buildings in the centre of the city – fine on the outside, but liable to ACHIEVEMENT: Graduation Day April 1999, Sarajevo. Jo Hayward is on the front row, far left. 24 Bulletin University of Leicester Graduate Relations February 2000

geotechnical engineering and In recent years I have represented the PREDICTING THE geological hazards. BGS on media, TV, newspaper, UNPREDICTABLE In 1996, a volcano in the British magazine interviews, and film- documentaries. Here I have gained Dr Laurance J Donnelly (BSc Applied dependent territory of Monserrat in the Caribbean began to erupt. I was non-scientific skills, such as effective Geology, 1989), Chartered Engineer presentation and the communication with International Mining seconded to the island, and played a key role in monitoring of the volcano. of scientific information to non- Consultants IMC, and Research specialists. Again I reflected on what I Fellow with the British Geological One of the highlights of my career was observing a series of pyroclastic flows, had been taught at Leicester, and even Survey, has seen more of the world referred to some of my notes, which in the past decade than most will enter the ocean, following an eruption. These images were subsequently had collected about ten years’ of dust experience in a lifetime. And it is all in the attic! thanks to the University of Leicester. transmitted He hopes his adventures will inspire around the Working as a geologist can others. world. be extremely demanding, I also carried both physically and mentally, THIS year marks my tenth year since but you will be rewarded by my graduation from the University of out other geological amazing experiences, and a Leicester. During this time, all of the mind full of fantastic adventures that I aspired to in my investigations on volcanoes memories, of places, people youth have become a reality. and cultures. My degree Leicester’s Applied Geology degree has and landslides in the from the University of prepared me for some of the most Leicester’s Department of amazing yet demanding experiences Colombia Andes, the Geology was my ticket to see that any geologist could wish to and to explore the world. undertake. Nevado del Ruiz volcano After leaving the University I started being the most work in exploration, first in the spectacular. ACTIVE: northern North Sea, then with a This volcano mining company. I then studied for a (above) Dr erupted in Laurance PhD on the reactivation of geological 1985, partially Donnelly on faults. My first overseas trip took me melting the the crater to the Ukraine, working on mining summit glacier wall of subsidence. This was followed by and generated Montserrat’s volcanological and geotechnical a mudflow volcano, and research on active volcanoes and in that killed (right) a earthquake zones al around the world. volcanic over 25,000 eruption. In 1995, I joined the British Geological people when Survey (BGS) and became involved in it buried the commissioned research and town of commercial contracts in mining, Armero.

THE 2000 CONVOCATION LECTURE in Epidemiology in 1981. He succeeded Sir Kenneth Calman as CMO in September 1998. THE CONVOCATION Lecture is an annual event open to the general public as well as members of the University. Professor Donaldson’s topic will be ‘Quality: The Health The Lectures, sponsored by Convocation, have been a Care Challenge of the 21st Century’. During the late 1980s tradition for over twenty-five years and are given by and 1990s an emphasis on quality became a predominant distinguished alumni or theme in service industries of many countries. At the start honorary graduates on topics of the new century many health care systems of the world of general interest. The 2000 are placing the quality of the services they provide to Lecture will be delivered by patients as a priority for the new century. This revolution Professor Liam Donaldson, is challenging traditional ways of working and looking at Chief Medical Officer at the the world within health services. Professor Donaldson will Department of Health. outline the goals and aspirations of the National Health Service as it implements the new concept of clinical He was appointed to a governance. lectureship in the Department of Community • The Lecture will take place at 8.00 pm on Wednesday Health at Leicester in 1977 1 March 2000 in Lecture Theatre 1 of the New and was subsequently Building. For further information, phone +44(0) 116 223 1363. Professor Liam Donaldson. promoted to Senior Lecturer

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I wholeheartedly WHAT THE embrace the findings of this PAPERS SAY research – what could be more Hundreds of cuttings pour into the conducive to University’s Press Office from morale-building around the world, chronicling the than a dose of activities of staff and students. Ricky Martin, or Herabans Kaur, Widening recourse to those Participation in HE Project Officer, immortal and Admissions and Student evocative words – Recruitment Office, reviews a “Always look on the selection of newspaper cuttings bright side of life”! ENSUITE FACILITIES: Gilbert Murray Hall. from recent weeks. Does this research pertaining to their ethnicity, rather take account of cultural than real, ‘integrated’, three- THERE are many topics close to my variations/tastes dimensional characters (Guardian, heart in the cuttings in music? The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The this month. For ‘Include Me In’, SOAPS STILL NOT Independent and other papers, example, the article, a report December 1999). However, one ‘Whistle While You RACIALLY VALID compiled by beacon of light does stand out from Work’ focuses on a Professor the rest, and, “Goodness gracious report conducted by researchers at Annabel Sreberny, of the Centre for me”, it makes me proud of my Asian the University which concludes that Mass Communication Research, heritage, living in my ‘Bharat’ Home, morale and concludes that multi-cultural with our pet cow – looking forward therefore Britain is not reflected accurately to those extended family get- productivity GENETIC within the media, and that togethers. I am hopeful that in the FINGERPRINTING: “negative broadcasters will workplace is stereotyping is FROM ANTARCTICA address the improved by still evident”. TO CHERNOBYL VARSITY CENTRE concerns and an injection More accommodate our of music, frequently than LINKS WITH needs. and more so in cases of identified not, Asian and CYPRIOT BODY (chosen) music (Facilities black actors Student Management Journal, January 2000). represent issues accommodation at the University’s Gilbert Murray Hall is being upgraded to include ensuite facilities (Construction Midlands, January 2000). I don’t know, students these days – don’t know they’re born! In my day we were lucky to have running water, which was invariably icy cold water! A tenuous link to the next article which refers to ‘Glaciers’ – the words ‘poetic’ and ‘licence’ spring to mind! Earthwatch, an international agency, is offering eight fellowships to first and second-year science students. For two weeks during Summer 2000, the selected students will act as field assistants on one of four projects, including Glaciers in Iceland. They will be involved in hands-on experience in researching ‘some of the most pressing environmental TOP VIEWING: A BBC report, carried out by the University of Leicester, applauds the peak- issues of our time.’ (Leicester time showing on a mainstream channel of programmes such as the comedy series Goodness Gracious Me. Mercury, 1 December 1999).

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Enter the super rats... According to then pass along the food chain! (The late father, Professor Bernard Willson, pesticide expert, Professor Robert Observer, 9 January 2000). was one-time Head of the Department Smith of the Department of Biology, ...And further on the subject of of German at Leicester. rat poisons which remain inside the adaptation, the Leicester Mercury And finally, if there are any ‘old rodents even after effectively (‘Geared up for a Hectic 2000’, 30 bangers’ out there, according to bleeding them to death, are creating December 1999) refers to new cars Sydney Holloway, Senior Lecturer in an environmentally unfriendly “which are capable of running far the Faculty of the Social Sciences, situation. Research has shown longer than the old models” and writing in The Pharmaceutical Journal increases in rodenticide-related likens them to Quentin Willson, the of 1 January 2000, a linament of root deaths in many populations of wild Top Gear presenter – “He just keeps of monkshood, mustard oil and flat animals, including barn owls and going and going”. I suppose it is seed oil, works wonders for creaking foxes. Moreover, rodents are preferable to being called an old old joints. ‘The Year 1000: Pharmacy at developing resistance to the current banger! The article also comments the Turn of the First Millennium’ poisons which puts pressure on upon Quentin’s “impeccable discusses the use of plants possessing farmers to use even stronger command of English”. Quentin spent medicinal properties, including opium. poisons, which the unaffected rats his early life in Leicestershire – his I have always been an advocate of traditional medicine.

Books

SEX EDUCATION IN The practical guidelines provide postgraduate courses in initial SECONDARY SCHOOLS strategies for introducing, teacher education (PGCE) and for Edited by Jennifer K Harrison developing and revisiting key Master’s courses. Earlier (School of Education) aspects of sex education. Some, published works include Open University Press, October such as abortion and AIDS Developing Health Education in 1999, £50 (hardback), £14.99 education, are highly sensitive for the Curriculum (1994) and Sex teachers and pupils, and demand a Education (1994). (paperback) particular awareness of Available from the Bookshop the issues themselves, of ISBN 0 335 20108 3 (hardback), what might and can be 0 335 20107 5 (paperback) taught in the school, and, crucially, a self • What are effective teaching and awareness and self learning styles for sex confidence to embark on education? a variety of teaching and • How can the health promoting learning strategies. school create a context for sex Throughout the text education? there is embedded a • How do we interpret the series of supporting legislation for sex education? activities, both for beginning and more This volume provides a experienced teachers, to consolidation of educational stimulate independent thinking on sex education in learning through schools, including a consideration of additional individual or the role of the Health Promoting group work. School. It draws together research • Jennifer Harrison has evidence to consider aspects such as developed materials equal opportunities, school policy and taught on health and practice, as well as identifying a and sex education moral and social framework for sex for the secondary education. continued on next page 27 Bulletin Books University of Leicester February 2000

Academic staff at the Educational Management Development Unit (EMDU) at Northampton, part of the University’s School of Education, are editors of the following recently-published books:

PRACTITIONER RESEARCH IN EDUCATION: Making a Difference Edited by David Middlewood, Dr Marianne Coleman and Jacky Lumby (EMDU) (Series Editor: Professor Tony Bush) Paul Chapman Publishing, September 1999, £15.99 (paperback) Available from the Bookshop 1 85396 392 5 This is the first detailed study of how teachers and lecturers in schools and colleges carry out on-site research and how this benefits both them and their employers. The authors based their research for this study on Leicester’s many UK and overseas students following the MBA in Educational Management. Paradigms are drawn out for effective research, with recommendations for effective practice which will enable teachers to support school improvement.

MANAGING EXTERNAL RELATIONS IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES Edited by Jacky Lumby (EMDU) and Nick Foskett (Southampton University) (Series Editor: Tony Bush) Paul Chapman Publishing, March 1999, £16.99 (paperback) Available from the Bookshop ISBN 1 85396 461 1 This book examines the changing world within which educational organisations operate, and presents relevant research and theory to enhance management practice. All fourteen chapters have been specially commissioned. EMDU contributors include Professor Tony Bush, David Middlewood, Marianne Coleman and Keith Foreman.

EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT: Redefining Theory, Policy and Practice Edited by Professors Tony Bush and Les Bell (EMDU), Professor Ray Bolam (University College, Cardiff), Professor Ron Glatter (Open University) and Peter Ribbins (Birmingham University) Paul Chapman Publishing, September 1999, £17.99 (paperback) Available from the Bookshop ISBN 0 7619 6555 6 In what is expected to be a seminal text in this field, Educational Management brings together important contributions from leading thinkers in the UK. It is the outcome of an important seminar series, funded by the ESRC, which attempted to summarise and re-examine the discipline of educational management at the turn of the century.

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POLITICAL ECONOMY, POWER and global political economy. AND THE BODY Carefully organised for Edited by Dr Gillian Youngs, Centre research and teaching, it provides an introductory for Mass Communion Research section of three chapters which Macmillan Press (International set out a number of detailed Political Economy Series, General theoretical arguments relevant Editor, Timothy M Shaw), to work found later in the November 1999, £17.99 book. (paperback) As well as the section’s Available from the Bookshop opening chapter, ‘Embodied ISBN 0 333 71924 7 Political Economy or an Escape This new collection of essays opens from Disembodied up a new area of study on the body Knowledge’, Dr Youngs has written a chapter in the collection, ‘Globalization, Technology and Consumption’. Other chapters cover such areas as the political economy of meat, meaning in the era of Disney, reproductive technologies, and transnational sex. Each of the chapters bring theory and practice together. • Dr Gillian Youngs’ involvement The volume, which represents the with a Women on the Net project maturity of feminist work in is featured on page 15. international political economy, has multidisciplinary appeal.

THE GREEK WORLD AFTER ALEXANDER 323 – 30 BC examined. The investigation is set in the context of Dr Graham Shipley (Ancient History Division, School of an up-to-date appraisal of the momentous military Archaeological Studies) and political changes that took place after Routledge (History of the Ancient World series, General Alexander’s reign. Editor Fergus Millar), 31 December 1999, £19.99 Dr Shipley considers the developments in literature, (paperback) religion, philosophy, and science, establishing Available from the Bookshop whether they departed radically from Classical Greek ISBN 0 415 04618 1 culture or developed continuously from it. In addition, he explores the divisions in Hellenistic In this comprehensive and ground-breaking study, culture separating an educated élite from the general Graham Shipley population which was more mobile than before but integrates the perhaps less involved in city politics. diverse aspects of politics, An indispensable introduction to the Hellenistic society and world, the book provides the reader with extensive culture to create translated source material and references for further a coherent and study. It will be invaluable to students, teachers and thorough survey researchers alike. of the Hellenistic • Graham Shipley is Reader in Ancient History at world. Leicester, and a Fellow of the Society of Social changes Antiquaries. He is the author of A History of in the cities of Samos 800-188 BC (1987) and the co-editor of the Greek several volumes of papers on Greek and Roman world and in history. A long-standing member of the British the kingdoms School at Athens, he was editor of the School’s that succeeded Annual for five years and is a co-author of the Alexander’s Laconia Survey. empire are

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DNA VIRUS REPLICATION Edited by Dr Alan J Cann (Department of Microbiology and Immunology) Oxford University Press (Frontiers in Molecular Biology series), February 2000, £29.95 (paperback) Available from the Bookshop ISBN 0 19 963712 1 DNA viruses have always been the most important model systems for eukaryotic DNA replication. Add to this the clinical significance of these human pathogens – 99% of the population is infected with at least one of the viruses discussed in this volume – and it is difficult to overstate the importance of this group. This book, twenty-sixth in the series Frontiers in Molecular Biology (series editors B D Hames and D M Glover), provides a comprehensive analysis of protein-protein interactions in DNA virus replication. It covers the replication of all the major DNA virus groups; hepatitis B virus, papillomavirus, herpes simplex virus, Epstein Barr virus, Kaposi’s sarcoma herpes virus (KSHV), human cytomegalovirus, and adenoviruses. The lessons learned are important not only for virologists but also for researchers studying DNA replication in other systems and protein; protein interaction more generally. People

WARWICK HONOURS FORMER UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER VICE-CHANCELLOR

ON Friday 14 January at the University of Warwick, Dr Ken Edwards, Vice- Chancellor of the University of Leicester from 1987 until his retirement in September 1999, received an honorary Doctorate of Science. Just before Dr Edwards retired he was able to welcome the success of the joint bid between the University of Warwick and the University of Leicester to establish the Leicester Warwick Medical School. He served as Chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals from 1993-95. Pictured with Dr Edwards is Michael Shattock (left), Registrar of the University of Warwick until his retirement in September 1999 and now a Visiting Professor at the University of London’s Institute of Education. He received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

STAFF DISTINCTIONS Professor G Walker (English) has been awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for the Staff distinctions are published in the Bulletin after research project Writing under Tyranny: Literature and they have been reported at Senate and Council. Politics under Richard III and Henry VIII. Professor G M Davies (Psychology) has been appointed Professor Liu Yi-xun (Visiting Professor, Pre-Clinical as President Elect of the European Association of Sciences) has been elected to the Fellowship of the Psychology and Law. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Emeritus Professor E Dunning (Sociology) has been Dr H S A Fox (English Local History) has been awarded a awarded the 1999 Annual Prize of the North American British Academy Research Readership for the years Society for the Sociology of Sport for his book entitled 2000-2002. Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Dr M Palmer (Archaeological Studies) has been appointed Civilisation. to the Ancient Monuments Advisory Committee of English Professor M L Nicholson (Surgery) has been appointed to Heritage, following the amalgamation of the Royal the Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board of the Medical Commission on Historical Monuments of England with Research Council for the period 1999 to 2003. English Heritage. She has also been appointed to the Archaeology Panel of the National Trust.

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RETIREMENT the retirement of Dr Keith Davis, the University’s Director A LONG AND VARIED UNIVERSITY CAREER of Research Administration. The reception was attended by many of the friends Keith has made since he joined A FAREWELL reception was held on 14 December to mark the University in 1962 as a Lecturer in Chemistry. Keith Julian, in his speech, reflected on the linkages between the various ‘eras’ in Keith’s progression from being a young academic to becoming a senior administrator, during which time there had been four Vice-Chancellors and five Registrars. In response, Keith Davis gave a witty and highly entertaining account of his life in the University, which included anecdotes about incidents, particularly during his time as a Warden in the Halls of Residence, which could only be described as bizarre. He spoke also about his many interests outside the University and of his intention to spend much more time skiing, assisted, of course, by the state-of-the-art skis which were his chosen farewell gift. It was gratifying to see so many of Keith’s NEW YEAR, NEW GEAR!: Keith Davis’s retirement was marked by a gift of skis friends and colleagues gathering to share the from his friends and colleagues. He is pictured here at the presentation in the memories, and to wish him well for the future. Charles Wilson Building with his wife, Pauline, and Keith Julian, Registrar and Secretary. Keith Julian

OBITUARIES PROFESSOR C J HORNE, A.M. promote eighteenth-century studies The University has learnt, with Colin Horne, Senior Lecturer in English in Australasia. The obituary in The regret, of the death of the at this University from 1948-57, died Australian records that his ‘lightly- following: on 19 November 1999, aged 87. carried erudition, urbane wit, love of music, warm humanity, sense of SIR LEON RADZINOWICZ, F.B.A. After graduating at Melbourne decorum and appropriateness of University and undertaking Sir Leon Radzinowicz has died, aged things’ was much appreciated. 93. He arrived in Britain in 1938 from postgraduate work at Balliol College, his native Poland to make a report on Oxford, he taught at Queen’s He had great happiness in his the English penal system, and stayed University, Belfast before joining the marriages to Margaret, who died in to play a vital part in establishing then tiny English Department at 1962, and to Cynthia, whom he criminology as an academic subject in Leicester’s University College. A fine married in 1968, who, with his four this country. He was the first English scholar and teacher, he contributed sons, survives him. professor in that discipline at substantially to its growing reputation Philip Collins Cambridge University, and the first under the leadership of Professor Emeritus Professor of English Arthur Humphreys, and served on the Director of Cambridge’s Institute of MRS A WILLSON Criminology, the library of which is College Council. Mrs Agnes Willson (née Gullon), the named after him. His History of In 1958 he returned to his native widow of Emeritus Professor H B English Criminal Law in five volumes is Australia, and held until his retirement Willson, died on 24 December 1999. a model of lucid scholarship. in 1977 the Chair of English at the Mrs Willson was employed from University of Adelaide. In 1979 he was He was elected President of the British October 1947 until September 1951 appointed a Member of the Order of Academy of Forensic Sciences in 1960- as a Lecturer in English at the Australia for his services to education 61. In 1964, the University of Leicester University College of Leicester. An and literature. conferred on him the honorary degree obituary will follow in a later edition of Doctor of Laws. He was knighted in Active in establishing the Adelaide of Bulletin. 1970, and elected a Fellow of the Festival of Arts, he also did much to British Academy in 1973. Last year he was appointed an honorary QC. DEATH NOTICES In retirement, Radzinowicz lived in Information about the death of a member of the University’s staff or a Philadelphia. His autobiographical student (past or present) should be given to Vivienne Paul, the Registrar’s Adventures in Criminology was Secretary, who will ensure that the details are disseminated throughout published last year. the University via CWIS. Her telephone number is 0116 252 2411. 31 Bulletin Notices University of Leicester February 2000

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A LOVE for learning is an enduring theme Name: Ann Crane running through University life. St Title: Technician, Chemistry Department Valentine’s Day on 14 February was an Floristry and fluorine may seem worlds appropriate choice for a Postgraduate apart – but it is all in a day’s work for Ann Open Evening on campus, aimed at those Crane who has worked at the University for interested in finding out about higher more than 33 years. education or professional qualifications But her first job was at a florists where she to enhance their future prospects. Details worked before taking up a post at the of this Open Evening appear on page 11. University. The language of love from before the And that creative spirit has remained with Norman Conquest to the present day is her throughout – Ann is certainly handy revealed in a newly-published study by Dr with her hands! She prepares the slides and Julie Coleman of the Department of posters used by staff, students and English. Love, Sex and Marriage, A postgraduates in the department and in her spare time dabbles in Historical Thesaurus finds that the words different creative pursuits including glass painting, silk painting, rubber we use for each other speak volumes stamping, decoupage and more. about the changing nature of social and On degree day the floristry experience comes in handy when the sexual relations. See page 4. Chemistry Department foyer is filled with flowers to greet graduating students and their parents. Expressions of love and pride were the Many people will have visited her annual craft stall in the DSCR. Said order of the day at the University’s Ann: Postgraduate Degree Congregation on 3 “I love my job – you never get two days the same. It has changed a February. Families and friends joined in great deal from when I started – I used pen and tracing paper then and the celebrations. Pictures next month. now the work involves computer technology and digital projection. • The year 2000 is a leap year. It is an “But it still requires an aptitude for art and the use of colours, a steady old saying that during leap year a hand -and unlimited patience for dealing with staff and students. But woman may propose, and, if not the people I work with are simply great and that is what has made it so accepted, may claim a silk gown! worthwhile.”

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