The year in numbers 50 years in the making 1st in Scotland in the UK for high quality 82,000 3rd in the UK sports facilities alumni in more than Happy 50th birthday Stirling! for graduate employability Almost 97% of our graduates are in 150 countries employment or further study within Welcome to this special edition of Stirling Minds, in this, our six months of graduating golden jubilee year. The University of Stirling received its Royal Times Higher Education Charter on 27 December 1967, after the students had completed HESA 2016 Student Experience Survey 2016 their first semester. 1st The activities to mark this important milestone began in January 2017 in Scotland with a Burns Supper and an Innovation & Excellence lecture on cyber for teachers, QS EXCELLENCE AWARD for security. By December, thousands of staff, students and alumni will lecturers and have attended over 100 events to mark the University’s achievements feedback and impact, which have celebrated our people, research, community TEACHING engagement and international outlook. QS World University Rankings 2016/17 International Student Barometer 2016 On 13 November, 50 years exactly since the announcement of the Royal Charter, the Earl of Wessex opened the new international student facility, 1 in 10 the University of Stirling INTO Building, and launched ‘Fifty’ – a new history Stirling students of the University told through 50 objects. The first 50 years have established studied abroad a remarkable inheritance, but it is clear that the University is ready to pursue and realise truly global ambitions as it moves into its next 50 years. Over 120 89% nationalities Kerry Bryson STUDENT QS EXCELLENCE AWARD for represented Director for Advancement SATISFACTION INTERNATIONALISATION National Student Survey 2016 QS World University Rankings 2016/17 on campus Annual Review 2016 1 stir.ac.uk Contents Campus news Campus news with Aviva in a new scholarship programme, which aims to promote British education in Asia. The programme will assist outstanding students in six Asian countries to further Contents their studies at partner universities in the UK and is open to Aviva customers in Campus news 5 Asia and their children for Awards 6 the duration of all applicable Health and research 8 20 undergraduate and graduate courses. Stirling looks forward Meet the academic 12 to welcoming its first cohort International focus 13 of Aviva scholars next year. Honorary Graduates 14 For more information, go to: Stirling Management School 16 ➲http://bit.ly/2hTPnPg Arts & Humanities 18 Retailers and 50th anniversary 20 34 manufacturers should 50 years of memories 20 promote healthy choices Celebrating 50 years of world-class minds 22 Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gerry McCormac with the Shops should be World-class minds 24 Earl of Wessex. transformed to drive customers A year to remember 26 towards buying healthy A year of events 28 New INTO Building Tippett, commented: food and drink, according Paul Lewis on leaving a legacy 32 opens its doors “We are proud to have been in to a recommendation in a The story of Stirling 33 The Earl of Wessex formally partnership with the University Food Standards Scotland- opened the new £6.5 million of Stirling since 2014, with more commissioned study, Natural Sciences 34 University of Stirling INTO than 1,000 international INTO co-authored by the University’s Sporting success 36 Building in November. students having already enjoyed Leigh Sparks, Professor of Court update 39 Students at the INTO the experience of studying on Retail Studies and Steve Burt, Class notes 40 Building undertake preparation such a beautiful campus. Professor of Retail Marketing. courses for progression to This new, bespoke Professor Sparks said: Fundraising update 46 38 degrees at Stirling, as well building will further enhance “The environment confronting as other universities. our partnership and the consumers is not a neutral The building boasts a student experience.” one. Promotions and product Produced by the Directorate for Advancement state-of-the-art lecture theatre, For more information go to: information shape choices Design: Sterling 10 teaching rooms, a café and ➲http://bit.ly/2yHwxRJ and behaviours: the time Photography: David Baxter, Julie Howden, Elaine Livingstone, Hannah-Louise Photography, Jim Mailer, University of capacity for up to 420 students, to consider altering the Stirling archives, Paul Stuart, Craig Watson, iStock, Shutterstock and NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens. as well as an ‘A’ rating for Aviva Scholarship to assist architecture of in-store This publication can be made available in different formats. Contact the Directorate for Advancement for further energy efficiency. students from Asia choice may now be upon us.” information at: [email protected] Centre Director for INTO Stirling is one of 11 leading For more information go to: University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA is recognised as a Scottish Charity with number SC011159. University of Stirling, Sandy universities in the UK to partner ➲http://bit.ly/2A74JdE 4 Stirling Minds Stirling Minds 5 Awards Awards Stirling celebrates double Stirling poet recognised by Alumnus of the win at Nursing Times Royal Geographical Society Year Award Awards 2017 Professor Kathleen Jamie, Chair in Celebrating Creative Writing at the University, received the Royal Geographical Society’s ‘Ness Award’ in June, for ‘outstanding creative writing at Stirling’s success the confluence of travel, nature and culture’. She joins a prestigious list of recipients, which includes Judging by Stirling’s sizeable Championships, and was also Brig voted best website Sir David Attenborough. haul of accolades in 2016/17, named the Singapore Institute We are also delighted to we’re going to need a bigger of Management’s ‘Sportswoman announce that Brig has won For they are jolly trophy cabinet! Here are a few of the Year’. the ‘Best website of the year’ good Fellows! of the highlights… award at this year’s Scottish Congratulations to Alison Bowes, Innovative Scottish rural Student Journalism Awards! Dean of the Faculty of Social Computer scientist Carron network wins European Congratulations to Student Nurse Sciences, and Professor of Social celebrated among leading Broadband award Awards hat trick for Sophie Cameron of our Highland Policy, and to Kirstein Rummery, women in science Dr Marwan Fayed, a lecturer talented student Campus, who won ‘Student Professor of Social Policy, Co- in Computer Science at Stirling, television-makers Nurse of the Year’ in the Adult Director of the Centre for Gender was part of the HUBS team At the Royal Television category and to Mental Health and Feminist Studies and a that won the European Society Scotland’s Teaching Fellow Ivor Smith, who Senior Fellow of the Centre on The Alumnus of the Broadband award for bringing annual Student Television won ‘Educator of the Year’. Constitutional Change. Both have Year Award is an annual transformational connectivity awards, Yana Ivantcheva, been conferred with the ‘Award University honour to to the Scottish Highlands Josh Bird, Derek Sigurdsson, Kieran’s a real star! of Fellow’ by the Academy of recognise and celebrate the and Islands. Tommaso Aglietti and Phil Social Sciences. achievements of alumni, McVeigh scooped best who have made a major Herald Higher Education factual crown for Under the Stirling moves up THE contribution to the Award success Skin. Derek Sigurdsson and and Guardian rankings community, arts, science Phil McVeigh were also Stirling has been named in a or business. Established recognised for their editing global list of top universities under this year as part of the on the film, while David Kotai the age of 50 by Times Higher University’s 50th won for his work with sound Education (THE), climbing eight celebrations, the award University of Stirling computer on Beloved Sinners. places to break into this year’s top will be presented to the scientist Professor Carron 50 at number 46 in the world and winning candidate at an Shankland was awarded a Data students’ number two in the UK. event in 2018. Suffrage Science award at fly-tipping solution The University has also moved If you would like to Bletchley Park (of World War Two bags national award up the Guardian University Guide nominate a Stirling alumnus fame), as part of an initiative to Master’s students Cynthia Morel, rankings for 2018 – rising to 54th for this award, please celebrate the achievements of Peter Henriksen and Robert in the UK, and 8th in Scotland. provide a testimony in 500 women in maths and computing. The University and the Students’ Hamlet have won the inaugural Improving on last year’s overall UK words or less, stating the Union have picked up the Data Lab MSc Challenge University of Stirling student ranking by four places – and up reasons for your nomination Award joy for Joy Partnership award at the Herald Competition. They worked with Kieran Skelton has been named one place in Scotland, Stirling’s and send to: Congratulations to Singapore Higher Education Awards, for Zero Waste Scotland to analyse ‘Marketing Student of the Year’ Criminology course performed ➲[email protected] Sports School alumna Joy Yap their collaborative work to data from three local authorities at The Marketing Society’s STAR particularly well, while Media More information will Jing Ying, who won a gold develop the ‘Preventing and to develop a prototype that will awards 2017. That’s two years in and Film Studies, Social Policy, be available in the next and two silver medals at the Tackling Sexual Violence and detect, predict and prevent fly a row that a Stirling student has Sociology and Education were e-newsletter. 2016 Asian Intercity Bowling Misconduct Strategy’. tipping across Scotland. claimed the title! also highly-rated. 6 Stirling Minds Stirling Minds 7 Health and research data collected from over 200 Did you know…? households provides a detailed Did you know…? Today, 8.5% of people picture that can inform health 5m people in Japan live with worldwide (617m) are aged and social policy for years to dementia – expected to rise 65 and over – and this figure come – with the ultimate aim of to 7m by 2025.