EHU Annual Review 2014 - 2015

“Edge Hill is a great success story...”

Times Higher Education University of the Year 2014 — 2015

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“Edge Hill is a great success story... an institution that improves and impresses year after year. Its achievements in student satisfaction and graduate employment were noted by our judges as was the part it plays in transforming lives in the local region.”

John Gill — Editor of Times Higher Education University of the Year announcement

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Contents

“Edge Hill is a great success story...”

– An introduction from our Vice-Chancellor Good Sports Live & Learn Surreal Life Sound as a Pound Winning Ways of GTAs Royal Recognition Honorary Graduates

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“...achievements in student satisfaction and graduate employment...”

– A Degree of Employability Happy Campus Their Chance to Shine Academic Texts Lights, Camera, Athens!

Step Back in Time...

Animation Graduate Brings Clangers Back to Life Educating the Educators High Flying Career Scholarship Awards

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“...the part it plays in transforming lives...”

– Research with Impact Body & Mind Taking the Myth out of Maths Rebuilding Lives Transforming the Patient Experience Seen to be Green What is Britishness?

Thinking about Drinking Stories Must Be Heard

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“...an institution that improves and impresses year after year.”

– University Income University Expenditure Key Performance Indicators Total Income and surplus for Re-investment Financial worth of the University Applications for Fulltime Undergraduate Programmes Principal Officers of the University Donors Publication credits

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Introduction

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“Edge Hill is a great success story... an institution that improves and impresses year after year. Its achievements in student satisfaction and graduate employment were noted by our judges as was the part it plays in transforming lives in the local region.”

John Gill — Editor of Times Higher Education University of the Year announcement

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The Edge Hill ‘success story’ continued through 2014/15. With more and better-qualified applicants, Edge Hill’s popularity has continued an upward trend. The University’s own staff voted Edge Hill to be the Best University Workplace in the Times Higher Education annual survey.

The award-winning campus has been developed further, with the opening of a stateof-the art Sports Centre (page 14) and more accommodation (page 18). Extended links into the region with some high profile partnerships including Tate Liverpool (page 20), and the Sound City festival (page 24). The University’s deep links into its disciplines are also apparent in the impressive array of honorary degree recipients presented at our graduation ceremonies (page 32).

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An Introduction from our Vice-Chancellor The award of Times Higher University of the Year has had a positive effect on everyone who studies and works at Edge Hill, and strengthened our already flourishing reputation in the Higher Education sector.

There has also been a surge of interest and excitement around Edge Hill, with record numbers of visitors at open days and greater interest from external organisations. Businesses in the North West are increasingly realising the potential resource that’s on their doorstep; we are working with the Local Enterprise Partnerships and forming collaborations that are having a real impact on our student experience and employability, which in turn is having a knock-on effect on our national and international profile.

The status of University of the Year has also had an impact on our performance in the major league tables. The Times and the Sunday Times placed us top in the North West for Teaching Excellence and in the top four in the region overall. We currently have our highest placing nationally, up 59 places in less than ten years, putting us in the top ten of all post-1992 universities.

Applications rose again this year, as they do every year, and the numbers making Edge Hill their first choice were the highest-ever. As a result average

points on entry were also at record levels, though the University remains committed to assessing applicants’ potential, not simply their prior achievements.

What underpins our success? We believe that it is down to the fact that we work hard to consistently deliver on our promises to improve as a place to learn, live and work.

We have built more student accommodation this year; the newly completed Palatine Court brings the total number of beds spaces on campus to 2,091, over fifteen hundred new en suite units having been added in the past six years. We are also continuing to broaden our portfolio of degrees with new programmes in computer software engineering, biotechnology and policing.

Finally, in a year of accolades for Edge Hill, we were delighted to be voted Best University Workplace 2015 in the Times Higher survey of all UK universities. Our relaxed, supportive workplace is enabling us to recruit and retain high quality staff, including many from prestigious universities both in the UK and abroad.

We will now build on our year in the spotlight and ensure Edge Hill University continues to grow and improve.

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Good Sports Students, staff and the local community are set to benefit from Edge Hill’s £30 million investment in sports facilities.

Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson and philanthropist Barrie Wells opened a new stateof-the-art indoor and outdoor sports complex which houses a 25-metre swimming pool, a sauna and steam room, an 80-station fitness suite incorporating the latest in-screen entertainment technology, an aerobic studio, an eight-court double sports hall with extensive changing facilities, and a café to relax in before or after a workout.

New outdoor tennis courts, due to be installed in 2016, will complete the ambitious project, which promises current and future students some of the best sports facilities in Higher Education.

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Live & Learn

More and more students can now live and study on campus with the opening of Edge Hill’s latest suite of high-spec Halls of Residence.

The new accommodation blocks, which complete phase ten of the University’s residential building programme, have been named Palatine Court, with the individual halls called Carrington, Glazebrook, Pankhurst and Roscoe after notable Lancashire figures.

The new accommodation, which opened in September 2015, includes en suite bedrooms complete with a bed, wardrobe, desk, chair, flat screen computer/Freeview TV. Each room is situated close to a large shared kitchen and living area which also boasts an LCD Freeview TV. The new bedrooms bring the number of students who can be accommodated on campus to 2,091.

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Surreal Life A partnership with Tate Liverpool has helped bring the distinctive, but rarely seen, work of an internationally celebrated surrealist painter to a new generation of art lovers.

Edge Hill University contributed to an exhibition at Tate Liverpool, which showcased the dazzling creations of Leonora Carrington, the first UK solo exhibition of work by the Lancashire-born artist for more than 20 years. As well as sponsoring the exhibition, Edge Hill also supported the Tate’s curators through the research of Professor Roger Shannon, whose work uncovered several artworks that had never been on public display before.

A member of the surrealist movement, Carrington (1917-2011), became a national treasure in Mexico, thousands of miles from her origins in Chorley. She worked alongside key members of the movement, including Salvador Dali and Max Ernst, creating paintings, sculptures, poems, plays, textiles and costumes based on the extraordinary worlds of her imagination.

The University also hosted a number of eclectic events to complement the exhibition and further explore the artistic possibilities presented by Carrington’s work. Poets and authors came together for The Speaking Trumpet, an evening of surrealist and fantastical new writing, inspired by the surrealist icon. Readers included fiction writer Professor Ailsa Cox, Claire Dean, poets James Byrne and Tom Jenks.

Edge Hill welcomed journalist Joanna Moorhead, Leonora Carrington’s cousin and co-writer of her biography, Surreal Friends, to campus for an ‘In Conversation’ evening to discuss Carrington’s intriguing history and artistic practice.

The University also hosted Imaginarium, an exploration through dance of the metamorphic work of Leonora Carrington. Developed partly through a residency at Crookhey Hall, Carrington’s childhood home, the work captures the physicality, colour and energy found within her sketches and paintings.

Performed by Edge Hill performing arts lecturers James Hewison and Michelle Man, with original music by Alfonso García de la Torre Rey, Imaginarium wowed audiences at both Tate Liverpool and Edge Hill’s campus.

Francesco Manacorda, Artistic Director at Tate Liverpool, said: “We were thrilled to work so closely with Edge Hill University on this exhibition. Roger’s input and insight was invaluable and our collaboration with the University as a sponsor of the exhibition is a fantastic example of the power of partnerships.”

Later in the year, to tie in with Tate Liverpool’s exhibition Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots, the University hosted an evening of conversation about the influential and provocative artist, with expert Catherine Marcangeli and curator Stephanie Straine.

Leonora Carrington, The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg) c.1947, Tempera on wood, 1170 x 680 mm Photo: Pim Schalkwijk, © Estate of Leonora Carrington / ARS, NY and DACS, London 2015.

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Yellow Islands, Jackson Pollock, 1952. Oil paint on canvas. © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation ARS, NY and DACS, London 2015.

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Sound as a Pound

Students with an eye on a career in the music industry are getting a unique opportunity to work, perform and network at one of the UK’s biggest urban arts festivals.

Edge Hill University’s successful three-year partnership with Liverpool Sound City continues to go from strength to strength. This year, the partnership was expanded further with the University named as Industry Connection Partner, creating new ways for students and staff to engage with the creative industries.

As main sponsor of Sound City’s Conference Marketplace, Edge Hill played a high profile role in connecting students with potential employers by hosting student roundtables, How Sessions and Panels with industry experts.

More than 60 students took part in real-life work-based activities at the festival and conference, giving them valuable insights into life in the music industry.

Students took over the festival’s Kraken Stage to showcase some of the up-and-coming bands on Edge Hill’s not-for-profit record label, The Label Recordings, alongside some of the city’s best local talent. The Label, which involves students in all aspects of music production from A&R, design and video production to journalism, marketing and

management, has a strong connection with Sound City. In 2014, The Label hosted its own stage at the festival, featuring one of its first signings Hooton Tennis Club, who were later scouted by Heavenly Recordings.

Film and TV students from the Department of Media were kept busy throughout the festival as they captured footage across the site, documenting the festival’s live acts. Edge Hill’s award-winning dance group EdgeFWD also performed at Sound City for the third year running, entertaining festival-goers with the premiere of their hardhitting new show, REVOLT. This year was the most successful Sound City to date, with more than 22,000 visitors and over 3,600 delegates registered for the conference.

“As University of the Year we are celebrating and exploring our deep connections with the sectors where our students forge their careers. Working with Sound City offers all sorts of exciting ways for our students to volunteer, perform and organise an event as part of the festival, and gain unique experiences which will really set them apart in the competitive graduate job market.”

Roy Bayfield Director of Corporate Communications, Edge Hill University

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Winning Ways of GTAs Hollie Jones and Emily Williams both gained a PhD in Sport, with their research concerning cycling time trials. Hollie’s thesis concerned the effects of deception on pacing strategy, perceptual responses and performance during cycling time trials, while Emily looked at the influence of competitor presence on pacing regulation and performance.

During their three years at Edge Hill, Hollie and Emily also completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education, and through this, gained a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. Both women have now taken up post-doctoral positions.

Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) were introduced as part of the University’s long-term research capacity building programme. Edge Hill currently has more than 40 GTAs, with another 24 due to start in 2016.

Three other PhDs were also awarded to non-GTA students. Paul Ellison achieved a PhD in Sport, for his research on eye-hand coordination, Carol Kelly gained a PhD in Health for her thesis on patients’ and healthcare professionals’ perceptions of oxygen therapy, while acclaimed writer Carys Bray collected the PhD associated with her novel, A Song for Issy Bradley.

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Royal Recognition

The Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University, Dr John Cater, and two students have received Royal honours this year and travelled to Buckingham Palace to celebrate their achievements.

John Cater, the longest-serving head of a UK Higher Education institution, was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to Higher Education and teacher training.

Dr Cater has published extensively on race, housing, economic development and public policy, and co-authored major research studies for the Social Science Research Council, the Commission for Racial Equality and their successor bodies.

He is currently chair of the joint Universities UK and Guild HE Teacher Education Advisory Group.

Edge Hill student Mark Peers was named in the 2015 New Year Honours List in recognition of his services to charity. The second year student was awarded a BEM (Medal of the Order of the British Empire) to acknowledge his charitable services through the Alder Hey Children’s Charity in Liverpool. To date, Mark has raised more than £50,000 to help other children experiencing similar issues.

Valerie Allen, a fourth year Business and Management student also received an MBE in recognition for services to the community and businesses in Warrington and Halton.

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This year Edge Hill has awarded honorary doctorates to six people who lead the way in acting, film-making, music, politics, science and law areas which resonate with the University’s teaching and research.

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Dame Janet Suzman Honorary Doctor of Arts

Jane Horrocks Honorary Doctor of Arts

Dame Janet Suzman, one of the most respected classical stage actresses of her time, has received an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Edge Hill University.

Lancashire stage, film and TV actor and singer Jane Horrocks was made an Honorary Doctor of Arts at Edge Hill University.

Janet made her professional stage debut with Billy Liar in 1962, then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. She made her official London debut in a production of A Comedy of Errors (1963) and has built up an impressive classical resumé portraying most of Shakespeare’s illustrious heroines.

Jane is a highly accomplished stage, film and TV actor and singer. Born in Rawtenstall in 1964, her strong Lancashire accent remains an essential part of her identity. After taking a drama course at Oldham Technical College, Jane was accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and, on graduation, joined the Royal Shakespeare Company.

In the early 1970s Janet branched out into films and, following an auspicious turn in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg she won the coveted role of Czarina Alexandra in the florid historical piece Nicholas and Ale, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, BAFTA and the Golden Globe.

In the 1980s Janet was inspired to direct and coach and later returned to South Africa to provide multiethnic castings in versions of Shakespearean plays.

She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours, is an Honorary Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, and was awarded the Pragnell Award for lifetime services to Shakespeare in 2012.

Winning critical acclaim for her role as Nicola in Mike Leigh’s film Life is Sweet (1991), Jane came to national prominence in the stage show The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (1998), a musical play written specially for her by Jim Cartwright to showcase her prodigious talent for vocal impersonation. Successfully transferring to film in 1998, her portrayals of legends such as Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holiday and Shirley Bassey led to Best Actress nominations from BAFTA, BIFA and the Golden Globes in 1999.

On television, Jane is perhaps best known for her role as the ditsy secretary Bubble in Absolutely Fabulous.

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Terence Davies Honorary Doctor of Literature

Michael Pinfold Honorary Doctor of the University

A Liverpool-born director described as one of Britain’s greatest living film-makers was made an Honorary Doctor of Literature this year.

Retired lawyer and ex-Edge Hill Chair of Governors Michael Pinfold has been made an Honorary Doctor of the University.

Terence Davies is a Fellow of the British Film Institute and his films have been nominated for awards at all the major international film festivals.

Terence’s first three films Children, Madonna and Child and Death and Transfiguration comprise The Terence Davies Trilogy, which put him on the cinematic map as one of the most original British film-makers of the late 20th century.

Wirral-born Michael Pinfold enjoyed a stellar career as a lawyer – admitted as a solicitor in 1970 and going on to specialise in company law, Michael became the first Company Secretary of the Universities’ Superannuation Scheme, as well as advising companies as diverse as Pilkington’s, Johnsons the Cleaners and the Blue Funnel Line. His work for pension funds underpinned investments in many of the shopping centres, retail and industrial parks we use today.

In the Trilogy and the two films that followed, Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The Long Day Closes (1992), Davies cinematically recreates his childhood and youth in the Liverpool of the 1940s and 50s.

The House of Mirth (2000) marked Davies’ furthest departure from his childhood obsessions.

The film Of Time and The City, from 2007/08 and produced by Liverpool’s Hurricane Films, reflected Davies’s growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s and 1960s, using newsreel and documentary footage supplemented by his own commentary voiceover and contemporaneous and classical music soundtracks.

Michael joined Edge Hill’s governing body in 2003. Appointed Deputy Chair in 2005, he advised on and strongly supported the managed entrepreneurialism that has characterised the University’s success over the past decade. In 2008 he was appointed Chair of the Board of Governors, and under Michael’s Chairmanship the University was shortlisted as Times Higher University of the Year three times, finally being awarded the title after a fourth shortlisting in November 2014, when Michael’s maximum 12 years of service had just come to an end.

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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Honorary Doctor of Science

Peter Hooton Honorary Doctor of Philosophy

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore has been made an Honorary Doctor of Science at Edge Hill University.

Peter Hooton, founder of Liverpool band The Farm has been made an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy at Edge Hill University.

The renowned neuroscientist has studied the teenage brain for over 12 years and is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. She is Leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, whose research focuses on social cognition and decisionmaking in human adolescence.

Peter was born in Liverpool and has lived in the city all his life. He helped set up several Welfare Advice Centres and made a significant contribution to the anti-drug ‘Alternatives Provision’ in the 1980s. In the aftermath of the tragic disaster at the Heysel Stadium, Peter made contact with Juventus supporters’ clubs and organised a friendship exchange with Liverpool fans.

Last year, Professor Blakemore delivered Edge Hill University’s annual Chancellor’s Lecture. She is actively involved in Public Engagement with Science, frequently gives public lectures and talks at schools, has worked with the Select Committee for Education, and acted as scientific consultant on the BBC series The Human Mind in 2003. She was named in the Sunday Times 100 makers of the 21st Century list 2014.

Later in the 1980s Peter co-founded The Farm, who set up their own independent record label in 1990 and went on to create several top 40 hits and a number one album, Spartacus.

In 2011 he was instrumental in setting up the Justice Tonight band, to highlight the Hillsborough Justice Campaign. The following year, Peter was the driving force in The Justice Collective charity single, a version of The Hollies’ He Ain’t Heavy which achieved the coveted Christmas Number One slot, raising awareness and funds for the campaign.

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“Edge Hill is a great success story... an institution that improves and impresses year after year. Its achievements in student satisfaction and graduate employment were noted by our judges as was the part it plays in transforming lives in the local region.”

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Highly-satisfied students and strong graduate employment are key indicators that the University is achieving its aims. Continued strong ratings in the National Student Survey combined with a 95 per cent graduate employment rate (page 38) indicate our progress.

Projects that enhance the student experience whilst providing valuable skills are a strong focus, with graduate showcase at the Everyman (page 42) and launch of a publishing house (page 44) being just two examples.

Features in this section show the range of careers some of our new graduates are enjoying, from creative industries to the challenging frontline of healthcare (pages 48-53.) Our Excellence Scholarships reward students for notable achievement above and beyond the requirements of their course, and a selection of our highachievers is showcased on pages 54-55.

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A Degree of Employability

Edge Hill University is consistently named one of the top public universities in the country for graduate employment, and this year 95 per cent of students secured jobs within six months of graduating.

The annual survey by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) identifies the destination of leavers six months after graduation. It calculates the rankings using the statistics from graduates who completed all degrees across the institution including undergraduate, postgraduate, full-time and part-time qualifications.

HESA contacted all students who completed their degree courses during the 2013/2014 academic year to discover if they are in employment or have gone on to further study.

“As an institution we are committed to producing employable graduates. The latest HESA results reinforce the success of our focus on student employability, our work to involve employers in the design of our degrees, and our commitment to ensuring that our programmes carry professional accreditation so that graduates can directly enter their career of choice.”

Dr John Cater, Vice-Chancellor, Edge Hill University

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Happy Campus Students at Edge Hill University are once again among the happiest and safest in the country, according to leading national surveys aimed at helping prospective students decide where to study.

The University also ranked highly in the region, with Biology, Business Studies, Computing, Geography, Environmental Science, Marketing with Public Relations and Physical Geography voted top in the North West in at least one category.

Satisfied students have rated the University highly in the National Student Survey, which polls 300,000 final-year students from across the UK on a range of measures from academic support and learning resources to overall satisfaction.

These results echo Edge Hill’s earlier success in an survey by Whatuni.com, which questioned 20,000 students about their experience of accommodation, city life, courses and lecturers, job prospects and support services. Edge Hill was ranked as the top university in the region, and was also placed in the top quartile of institutions across the UK – ahead of Oxford and Cambridge Universities – in the annual rankings published in The Telegraph.

Edge Hill sustained last year’s record performance.

Many subject areas performed exceptionally well including: — Biology top in the UK for academic support and top two in the UK for teaching.

— Business top in the UK for assessment and feedback.

— Geography, Physical Geography and Environmental Science top in the UK (based on the average response across all questions).

The University ended the academic year with another accolade that highlights its commitment to providing an outstanding student experience.

For the fourth year running, Edge Hill was rated the safest university in the North West in the independent Complete University Guide. With the lowest crime rates of any of the region’s universities, Edge Hill also remains in the top ten of safest universities in the UK.

— Public Relations top in the UK for teaching.

— Law and Criminology second in the UK for overall satisfaction.

— Geology second in the UK for satisfaction across all questions and teaching.

Steve Igoe, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University, said: “We’re delighted to be ranked so highly by our students in these three important surveys. We work hard to put our students at the heart of everything we do and these results are testament to the commitment and hard work of our staff, students and everyone involved with Edge Hill.”

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Their Chance to Shine

Edge Hill students took over Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre to showcase the University’s wealth of creative talent to potential employers.

Exclaim!, a biennial exhibition of student work from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, gives guests the chance to view the most exciting work students have produced during their time on Creative Writing, Music, Dance, Film and Television, Animation, Drama, Advertising and Computing degree programmes.

This year’s show featured a performance from third year Dance students created by renowned choreographer Gary Clarke, aerial performances and a solo piece from recent dance alumnus Malachi Simmons who now works professionally in the dance industry.

The packed programme also included readings of work from creative writing students, drama performances, student produced films, animation, music and singing, plus an exhibition of visual work and costume.

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Academic Texts Building on the national success of the Short Story Prize, Edge Hill University is strengthening its literary links with the launch of its own literary press, in collaboration with Glasgow-based independent publisher Freight Books.

As well as publishing four books, the new EHU Press imprint (EHUP), which has secured funding for an initial four years, will offer six internships giving students a unique opportunity to work alongside the Freight Books team and gain valuable experience of the publishing industry.

The first book from EHUP, due for release in Summer 2016, will be an anthology of short stories featuring previously shortlisted authors from the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Colm Toibin, Kevin Barry, AL Kennedy, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman and this year’s winner are among the acclaimed writers already confirmed as contributors.

EHU Press draws on the expertise and research of Edge Hill academics and Co-Directors of EHUP, Dr Rodge Glass and James Byrne. Rodge Glass, BA in Creative Writing Programme Leader, is a novelist, short story writer, biographer and editor, while James Byrne is a poet, editor and translator who lectures in Creative Writing at the University.

The initiative enhances the University’s already established literary profile, which includes the nationally recognised Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story. Now in its ninth year, the Edge Hill Prize is the only UK award that

recognises excellence in a published collection of short stories. The 2015 prize was awarded to Kirsty Gunn for Infidelities (Faber & Faber), a collection of stories about love, marriage and beyond, which was praised by judges for its haunting imagery and the beauty of its style.

This year, the judging panel included The Guardian’s Chris Power, 2014 Readers’ Choice winner, Rachel Trezise, and Edge Hill’s Professor Ailsa Cox. At the ceremony in London, Madeleine D’Arcy was presented with the 2015 Reader’s Choice award for her debut collection, Waiting for the Bullet (Doire Press). Shannon Eden’s The Glass Passenger won the Jo Powell Award, which commemorates and celebrates the life of crime writer Jo Powell, whose first novel, The Drop Room, was written as part of her doctoral study at Edge Hill.

The final award, which acknowledges rising stars on Edge Hill’s MA Creative Writing course, went to Trevor Fevin for his story, Reckitt’s Blue.

Prize co-ordinator, Professor Ailsa Cox, Reader in Creative Writing and English at Edge Hill University, said: “This year’s shortlist shows the huge range and diversity of short story writing today, and how many risks writers are taking with the form, with stories based on, among other things, twitter fiction, autobiographical memories, oral history and role-playing games.”

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Lights, Camera, Athens!

Budding directors have had their student films screened as part of a major international film festival.

Now in its second year, Edge Hill University’s partnership with the Athens International Digital Film Festival (AIDFF), one of the biggest digital film festivals in Europe, gives students a rare opportunity to gain international recognition for their work.

Edge Hill also screened the award winning films from AIDFF 2014 on campus, enabling students to engage with new and exciting work from around the world.

Student films shown at the 2014 AIDFF were Alive by David Tilbury, Epistemic by Sean Stoaks and Lewis Hancock, Clean Up

by Jonathan Redmond, Murphy’s Law by Daniel Blundel, Daniel Hall, George Short and Jonathan Treherne, Conwy by Robyn Pratt and Greener Grasses by Nicola Maxwell.

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Step Back in Time...

Two business graduates from Edge Hill University have created a travel company with a difference, taking people back in time to the battlefields of the two World Wars.

Gareth Abbott and Nick Walmsley have launched Esprit Tour Services, which offers bespoke tours to the historic sites of Europe, allowing people to walk in their ancestors’ footsteps, and educating visitors of all ages about the horrors of war.

To ensure the experience is open to all, they have also set up a Community Interest Company to allow schoolchildren whose families are experiencing financial hardship to take part, and also taken visually impaired children and blind veterans on bespoke tours of the historic sites.

“Our degrees gave us the skills, as well as the practicalities, like legal requirements, marketing and how to present ourselves, involved with registering a company,” said Nick.

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Animation graduate brings Clangers back to life

An Animation graduate from Edge Hill University is helping to bring Clangers back to our screens as Art Director for the CBeebies remake of the classic children’s TV show.

Jamie Stockley graduated in 2009 with a degree in Stop-Motion Animation before becoming a freelance animator. It was while working for Altrincham-based Factory Animations, that he became involved in bringing the much-loved pink, knitted creatures back to life for a new generation of children.

“To work on a project so loved by the British public is an honour,” said Jamie. “Clangers was a benchmark for British children’s animation, a true icon of the age that resonates to this day.

I feel immensely proud to be part of this project.

We are using all modern techniques possible but still staying true to the original. We’re approaching the project as series three in a classic series rather than a reboot.”

In his role as Art Director for the Clangers production, Jamie is responsible for the art side of the project including creating sets, props and characters.

“On an average day I’ll read through scripts and highlight props needed for the upcoming episodes,” explained Jamie. “Once I have the props lists I’ll speak to the Director and find out what the prop needs to do before I start designing it.”

While studying at Edge Hill in 2009, Jamie received the Paul Cannon Media Award for best film, awarded to the media student whose final show reel demonstrates flair and charisma.

He added: “Studying animation at Edge Hill, helped me combine my passion and the qualifications I gained at college with art and computers. Working with the lecturers, I gained industry techniques and knowledge of how the world of animation works. Making short films for assignments helped me develop the skills I needed to work in the animation industry.”

Jamie shared his experiences of working on Clangers with former students at a recent Media Alumni Networking event, designed to give Edge Hill graduates with an interest in the media industry the chance to meet like-minded people, share ideas and make links to boost their careers.

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Educating the Educators Edge Hill University is supporting the professional development and future employability of the health service workforce with a new qualification for medical practitioners.

The Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI), the University’s centre for health and social care research, based in the Faculty of Health and Social Care, has secured £1 million in funding from Health Education North West to deliver the new Postgraduate Certificate award for Medical Educators.

Professor Clare Austin Associate Dean for Research & Innovation & Chair of the PGMI Management Group

Accredited by the Academy of Medical Educators (AoME), the programme will be delivered by academics within the PGMI, who will work in association with external clinical experts.

The first cohort of students arrived on campus in 2015.

Established in 2013, Edge Hill University’s PGMI brings together Edge Hill academics and external healthcare professionals to work in partnership on practice-based research and innovative professional development projects.

The PGMI hosts a range of educational programmes providing professional, postgraduate training to doctors, dentists and a wide range of healthcare professionals. A number of these are delivered in partnership with NHS trusts and organisations and many are accredited by professional bodies.

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High Flying Career An Edge Hill student has started a life-saving career treating some of the most vulnerable and sick patients in the country.

Laura Owen, who graduated with first class honours in Operating Department Practice (ODP), landed her first job with the transplant and retrieval team for organ donation at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital; one of seven abdominal organ retrieval teams in the UK. On call around the clock, Laura’s new role involves flying all over the country, including Northern Ireland, to perform organ retrieval for organ donation, often making life-changing surgery possible.

“I always wanted to work on the frontline of healthcare, learning and acquiring new skills every day while providing the best level of care to the general public,” said Laura.

Laura’s course was 60 per cent placement and 40 per cent university study, meaning Laura was working full time shifts while making the time to study.

“Being out on placement really opened my eyes, I became even more aware of the struggles, illnesses and ill health people go through,” she said.

“Ultimately, this course has shaped my future and matured me as a person. Edge Hill gave me the encouragement to follow my dream and here I am living it!”

Laura Owen BSc Operating Department Practice

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Awards 2014 — 2015

Excellence Scholarships These scholarships celebrate students who demonstrate determination, commitment and achievement in Sport, Creative Arts, ICT and Enterprise, Performing Arts, and Volunteering and Citizenship.

Millie Forrest

Each year, Edge Hill University honours some of its most talented, deserving and inspirational students with prestigious scholarships.

Whether they are successful sportspeople, dedicated volunteers or have overcome adversity to achieve, the University is proud to reward their hard work and help them reach their goals.

Paralympic hopeful Millie Forrest was awarded a Sport Scholarship in recognition of her success in championing disabled athletics.

Millie, who has cerebral palsy, represented Team GB at the World Junior Games in 2014, where she won gold in the shot put and silver in the discus.

She is now part of the British Athletics Parallel Success Academy Squad, which nurtures the next generation of sporting champions.

Millie also volunteers at her local community gym, where she encourages able-bodied and disabled young people to get into sport.

Adam Hampton

Royal Marine turned poet, Adam Hampton swapped his beret for a Biro to win an Excellence in Creative Arts Scholarship for his thoughtprovoking poetry.

Adam, a veteran of two operational campaigns in Afghanistan, started writing poems as a way of dealing with his experiences as a soldier.

After he was injured by a landmine, he decided to study Creative Writing and now plans to submit a collection of poems to be published.

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Chancellor’s Scholarship Three students have earned Edge Hill’s most prestigious award, the Chancellor’s Scholarship, which is presented annually to students who raise the profile of the University and contribute to equal opportunities and diversity.

Luke Pomfret

Shannen Dabson

Cricket-mad Luke was rewarded for his dedication to making the sport accessible to as many people as possible and helping young players reach their full potential.

Educational Psychology student Shannen was recognised for her commitment to helping others and raising awareness of ‘hidden disabilities’ locally and nationally.

As well as setting up and coaching East Lancashire Cricket Club’s first ever girls’ team, Luke has been team manager and head coach for several mixed teams and currently coaches the Blackburn with Darwen District Under 11 team.

Diagnosed with ME when she was eight, Shannen has been involved with Tymes Trust, an organisation that supports young ME sufferers, for many years, becoming the Trust’s Young Advocate aged 11. She has given talks at numerous events, presented to medical professionals at the Royal Society of Medicine and regularly represents young people at the House of Lords.

Luke has also worked with children with autism, adapting his coaching techniques to address the children’s individual needs and allowing them to participate competitively.

Katie Munday

Katie, a Nutrition and Health student, has travelled all over the world as a swimming teacher for able-bodied and disabled children, and is an advocate of using swimming to teach other skills. While working in China she developed a curriculum for using swimming to teach English in schools, kindergartens and swimming centres across Beijing.

Alongside her swim teaching, Katie also does swim photography, teaches lifeguard skills to children and delivers an outreach programme in primary schools, talking to children about the importance of sport and physical activity.

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Section Three Transforming lives

“Edge Hill is a great success story... an institution that improves and impresses year after year. Its achievements in student satisfaction and graduate employment were noted by our judges as was the part it plays in transforming lives in the local region.”

John Gill — Editor of Times Higher Education University of the Year announcement

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Edge Hill University transforms lives through teaching, research, the impact our alumni have in their diverse careers and numerous partnerships.

Our developing research profile has led to the highest percentage increase in funding in the sector (page 58.) Working with Everton FC to enhance health and wellbeing in local communities, (page 60), improving maths teaching in schools (page 62) and addressing mental health issues in the Indian subcontinent (page 64) are just three examples of projects having significant transformational impact.

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Research with Impact Edge Hill University has a growing reputation for research that makes a difference to people’s lives – and this has been recognised by outstanding results in the national Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 and a significant rise in funding for future groundbreaking studies.

Sport and Media, 45 per cent of work submitted was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. 44 per cent of submitted research from Psychology and English was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent while Edge Hill’s Law School had 50 per cent of research rated as internationally excellent or world-leading.

The University performed strongly in the REF, the Government’s assessment of research quality across UK Higher Education institutions, with all subject areas featuring ‘internationally excellent’ or ‘world-leading’ research.

Edge Hill’s commitment to research that has an impact on society was recognised in a new category introduced into the REF in 2014. Education, Law and Sport research at the University was considered particularly strong in terms of impact, with Law ranked in the top 30 and Sport in the top 25 UK institutions in overall impact tables.

Education and Sport both demonstrated impact that was considered world leading.

As a result of this success, Edge Hill received the highest percentage increase in research funding in the sector. The funding allocation from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has increased by 355.3 per cent since the last assessment exercise in 2008, giving the University more opportunities to support the work of both new and established researchers.

History was the star performer in the REF with 100 per cent of History submissions being rated as either world-leading, internationally excellent or internationally recognised. Health was also a top achiever with 55 per cent of submitted Health research identified as internationally excellent or world-leading.

Psychology, English, Law & Criminology, Sport and Media also performed well. In both

The results reflect Edge Hill’s increasing research profile since it was granted Research Degree Awarding Powers in 2008. The University recorded a 225 per cent increase in the volume of academic staff submitting research since 2008’s Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and was listed as the biggest improver in the Times’ league table, moving up an impressive 33 places.

The University has also established three research institutes: the Institute for Public Policy & Professional Practice (I4P); the Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI); and the Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE) which will play a vital role in Edge Hill’s future impact strategy.

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Body & Mind

Edge Hill University has taken a leading role in a number of projects designed to promote and improve physical and mental health in its local communities.

The University’s partnership with Everton in the Community, the official charity of Everton FC, aims to impact positively on health in local communities and nationally through research-led projects, student academic placements and volunteering.

One of these collaborations is Active Blues, which promotes men’s health by encouraging inactive men in North Liverpool to become physically active through sport. The ground-breaking project is supported by more than £428,000 funding by Sport England as part of its Get Healthy, Get Active programme. Edge Hill is also helping to improve health and wellbeing closer to home with a unique research project focusing on Everton Football Club’s own workforce.

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The study, which is the first of its kind to be conducted by a professional football club, asked staff to complete a survey on a range of topics including their sleep patterns, exercise regimes and diet. The findings will be used to develop an improved wellbeing programme tailored to the needs of employees and aims to enhance health at work and quality of life.

Understanding, managing and promoting mental health is a key priority for the partnership.

The Tackling the Blues project, led by Edge Hill and Everton in the Community and delivered in Sefton and Southport, currently engages 300 young people with mental illness in weekly sports-based activities and educational sessions to help manage their illness and promote mental health awareness.

Such has been the demand for the project, plans are now being made to extend the early intervention programme throughout Merseyside and Lancashire.

Professor of Sport and Physical Activity, Andy Smith, said: “Our longstanding partnership with the Everton in the Community project enables us to undertake original research on the mental health and wellbeing of the individuals and communities with whom we work, and impact positively on their lives.�

The partnership has culminated in the development of an innovative Masters programme. The MSc in Sport, Physical Activity and Mental Health, introduced in 2015, provides the opportunity to undertake cutting-edge, impact-focused and policy-relevant teaching and research related to health and wellbeing in sport, physical activity and related sectors.

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Taking the Myth out of Maths Supporting the schools workforce and helping children to reach their full potential is at the heart of several projects pioneered by Edge Hill academics.

Every Child Counts, Edge Hill University’s scheme to improve literacy and numeracy in schools, has now helped more than 100,000 children across the UK and beyond.

Developed by academics from the University with support from the Department for Education, Every Child Counts (ECC) is a range of interventions designed to help children who struggle with reading, writing and mathematics to catch up with their peers. To date, it has been used in more than 5,000 schools, with impressive results.

Numbers Count, the first ECC intervention, exceeded all targets by bringing almost three-quarters of its pupils up to the expected standard in Maths through one to one support by specially trained primary school teachers.

Across all ECC interventions, children typically make around 14 months of progress in four months.

As well as devising the materials, the team also trains and supports teachers and teaching assistants to deliver them, and provides ongoing professional development to raise teaching standards in schools and sustain high achievement for all children.

The latest addition to the Every Child Counts roster is Every Child Writes, which focuses on writing skills to enhance pupils’ access to, and engagement with, the wider curriculum, as well as their confidence across all subject areas.

The initiative is being piloted in more than 50 primary schools in Oxfordshire over the next two years to improve literacy skills among children in Years 3 and 4 (seven to nine year olds). It follows the success of the Oxfordshire County Council Reading Campaign, delivered by Edge Hill in partnership with the National Literacy Trust.

Edge Hill is also supporting teachers to improve their maths subject knowledge and increase numeracy skills in the classroom. With only around 5 per cent of primary school teachers having an academic background in maths or science, schools often find appointing maths specialists problematic.

To address this challenge, Edge Hill introduced a PG Cert in Specialist Primary Mathematics Practice, to improve teachers’ own understanding and help them gain the skills and confidence they need to take a leadership role in their schools.

To date, more than 800 teachers have completed the programme.

The PG Cert is part of Edge Hill’s wider maths specialist programme designed to improve maths teaching at all levels, from Teaching Assistants and Learning Mentors to Maths Subject Leaders.

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Rebuilding Lives

Edge Hill is delivering a vital mental health initiative to try and reduce the number of suicides and attempted suicides in Mysore, India.

The project is training nurses to provide mental health interventions to people who have attempted suicide or are at a vulnerable stage in their life.

India currently has the highest suicide rate in the world, with Mysore one of the worst affected regions. With 2000-2500 people in the region being referred to just two doctors each year after suicide attempts, the project will have a significant impact on public health.

The Edge Hill team will have trained 100 staff at two hospitals to complete mental health assessments and develop treatment plans for those who have attempted to take their own lives.

A further 40 staff will then be trained to become trainers themselves and cascade their knowledge throughout the hospitals.

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Transforming the Patient Experience

A new tool to help cancer patients get the most from their appointments with consultants is helping to modernise healthcare and improve the patient experience both in the UK and abroad.

Developed by a team from Edge Hill University, in consultation with patients, regional care networks and other academics, the Patient Concerns Inventory (PCI) is a computerised system that allows patients with head and neck cancer to log their concerns on a touch screen tablet before their consultation. As well as ensuring important questions don’t get forgotten, the PCI highlights new or worsening symptoms, facilitates referrals and allows doctors to offer additional support.

Since its introduction at Aintree Hospital in August 2007, more than 3,000 patients in the UK have used the PCI and, through international collaborations, it has also been implemented in hospitals in America, Canada, Brazil, Finland and Malaysia.

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Seen to be Green?

“There is a significant proportion of ‘green fakers’ out there, who explicitly and consciously espouse green attitudes, but whose implicit and unconscious attitude appears to be at odds with their publicly expressed attitude.”

— Professor Geoff Beattie

Many people claim to be concerned about environmental issues such as climate change, but how deep does this run? Do their reported attitudes match their unconscious thoughts?

Two Edge Hill academics studying the dissociation between implicit and explicit attitudes to the environment have presented their research at a significant international climate change conference at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters.

Psychology Professor Geoff Beattie and Graduate Teaching Assistant Laura McGuire presented their work at the four-day conference, which addressed key issues concerning climate change in the broader context of global change.

Professor Beattie said: “Although people say that they have very positive attitudes towards the environment, measures of implicit attitudes, which are largely unconscious, are not nearly so positive but are better predictors of actual behaviour in many situations. People seem to be ‘dissociated’ when it comes to the environment and understanding this state could be crucial to changing their behaviour.”

The conference was organised under the umbrella of the International Council for Science, Future Earth, UNESCO and major French research institutions, with the support of the French Government.

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What is Britishness?

Since the destruction of the Twin Towers in New York in 2001 and, more recently, the terrorist attacks in Paris, stories about Muslim extremism – and what to do about it – are increasingly visible in the media.

The idea of ‘fundamental British values’, as outlined in the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy in 2011, is now integrated in the Teacher’s Standards, making educators effectively the custodians of our national values.

Research at Edge Hill is looking at perceptions of Britishness and how the term ‘fundamental British values’ is understood (or not) by people working in schools.

The research aims to identify better ways to prepare new teachers and provide training for experienced teachers to teach in an increasingly ethnically and culturally diverse school system.

The work will also support teachers in developing a more inclusive way of looking at fundamental British values and the multiple ways of being British in the 21st century.

To complement this research, and better support the development of its own student teachers, the Faculty of Education held a staff development day to help teacher educators understand the concept of fundamental British values and some of the contradictions inherent within teaching this idea.

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Thinking about Drinking Innovative research at Edge Hill University has found that smartphones could be the key to a better understanding of alcohol consumption in society.

The paper, for Alcohol Research UK, suggests that asking people to recall how much alcohol they have consumed in the previous day or week leads to reporting inaccuracies – and calls for more sophisticated ways of measuring alcohol consumption than those currently used.

Dr.Rebecca Monk Senior Lecturer in Psychology

In the Edge Hill study, participants used a smartphone app to record their alcohol consumption in real time. They were later asked to recall how much they thought they had drunk during the preceding day or week. The real-time results were consistently higher than the selfreported amounts.

The research, in online journal PLOS One, suggests that people tend to have more difficulty recalling how much alcohol they consume in pubs and bars, compared with drinking at home. Younger people also seem to have particular difficulty in remembering their consumption of beer and cider accurately, compared with other alcoholic drinks.

Dr Rebecca Monk said: “Overall, our findings suggest that underreporting is not solely a consequence of memory impairments associated with alcohol consumption, but also associated with the setting and types of drink consumed.

This research will help to develop a more accurate picture of how people drink on different occasions.”

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Stories must be Heard Male survivors of sexual abuse in sport will have their voices heard for the first time thanks to life-changing research by Edge Hill University academic, Dr Mike Hartill.

Future generations of young sports people could also be protected from sexual abuse following research by Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport, Dr Mike Hartill, which focused on the experiences of men who were abused within a sport or PE context as children.

Despite several high profile cases of sexual abuse in sport in recent years, published research surrounding this topic has been relatively unexplored. Mike’s research, with the support of Survivors Manchester, will break new ground by allowing survivor’s voices to be heard at the highest level in Government.

The research will be published in a forthcoming book by Routledge, Sexual Abuse in Youth Sport, and used to create sport-based resources with the aim of influencing policymakers and the wider sporting community in their future development of sport and school sport.

Building on this research, Dr Hartill has developed a €600,000 European project, VOICE, aimed at combatting sexual violence in European sport through the voices of those affected. Edge Hill is one of eight partner universities taking part in the two and a half year project, which is led by the German Sport University in Cologne.

Dr.Mike Hartill Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport

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Section Four Impresses year after year

“Edge Hill is a great success story... an institution that improves and impresses year after year. Its achievements in student satisfaction and graduate employment were noted by our judges as was the part it plays in transforming lives in the local region.”

John Gill — Editor of Times Higher Education University of the Year announcement

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In addition to our externally-awarded accolades, the University measures its performance using a variety of tools and key performance indicators.

The measures listed on the next pages consider past financial performance, covering surplus generation, finance and liquidity, growth and capital employed. All have performed well given the challenges faced, with our strongest ever surplus reported.

Cash balances have increased by £7.9m and long term loans have reduced by £2m during the year in spite of an investment in our estate of £18.8m including our new Sports Centre Complex, improvements to parking facilities and an additional 144 rooms.

Clearly a leading, and perhaps the most important, measure of performance is our ability to generate capacity to grow and deliver against it. In this regard the University has maintained buoyant recruitment into the next cycle. With no cap on student numbers and an increasingly competitive undergraduate market, this achievement should not be underestimated, particularly when judged against a continuing reduction in the number of 18 to 21 years olds wishing to enter higher education.

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University Income

• Student Tutition Fees

£86.2m

• NHS Funding

£13.6m

• Residences and Catering

£8.8m

• Other Sources

£7.9m

2014 — 15 data rounded to the nearest million

• Government Funding Grants

£7.5m

Total

£124m

£124m

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University Expenditure

• Academic department

£50.4m

• Academic services

£17.4m

• Central admin and services

£7.8m

• Staff and student facilities

£7.7m

2014 — 15 data rounded to the nearest million

• Premises

£9.3m

• Residence and Catering

£5.6m

• Other

£1.7m

• Research grants and contracts

£463k

Total

£100m

£100m

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Key Performance Indicators

Year Ended 31 July

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

Total Income (£0,000)

123,960

115,376

108,541

99,163

102,405

Surplus for re-investment (£0,000)

24,175

17,899

17,693

13,036

13,875

Cash generated by activites (£0,000)

30,165

22,760

25,990

16,131

21,627

Cash for investment (£0,000)

29,029

21,127

32,359

39,611

40,410

Financial worth (£0,000)

181,258

164,658

108,347

85,160

80,589

FT UG Applications (1)

19,133

18,931

19,296

18,867

17,628

Total number of FT students

10,857

10,672

10,649

10,110

9,488

excellent employer (3)

94%

92%

91%

89%

90%

Employee turnover (4)

5.6%

6.9%

8.8%

10.4%

7.9%

Level of University staff absence

3.2%

3.4%

3.4%

3.0%

3.5%

Percentage of staff who rate the University (2) as good or

Notes: (1) Based on UCAS statistics (2) Based on HESA Student Record (3) From the University’s independently scrutinised Staff Survey (4) Based on the establishment employees who left for any reason

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Total Income & Surplus for Re-investment (£0,000) 2011

2012

2013

Total Income (£0,000) Surplus for Re-investment (£0,000)

2014

2015

£123,960

£115,376 £108,541 £102,405 £99,163

£24,175 £17,693 £13,875

£13,036

£17,899

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Financial worth of the University

2015

£181,258,000

2014

£164,658,000

2013

£108,347,000

2012

£85,160,000

2011

£80,589,000

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Applications for Fulltime Undergraduate Programmes 18,931

19,133

2015

19,269

2014

18,867

2013

2011

17,628

2012

Based on UCAS statistics.

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Principal Officers of the University

Chancellor Professor Tanya Byron Pro Chancellor Bernard Laverty Vice-Chancellor Dr John Cater CBE Deputy Vice-Chancellor Steve Igoe Pro Vice-Chancellors Lynda Brady Student Experience and University Secretary Mark Allanson External Relations Seth Crofts Dean of Faculty of Health and Social Care Dr Lynnette Turner Dean of Faculty of Education Professor George Talbot Research Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Clerk to the Board of Governors Lesley Munro

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Donors

Patricia Abbott Christine Bennett Ann Bowden Eileen Brown Ruth Caine Margaret Carr John Cater Helen Church Margaret Ducker Margaret Evans Peter Ford Roger Graham Heather Harrop David Hazell Jane Heyes John Hill

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Kathleen Holmes Des Hope Betty Leitch Olive McComb Anne Moule Esther Owen Anne Pagenham Noreen Prentice Sylvia Rhodes Isabel Robinson Sylvia Rothwell Lillian Sharpe Margaret Toft Eunice Trill V. Christine Tyers

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Publication Credits

Editor Lucy Rees Copywriter Sophie Wilcockson Contributors Hayley Rothwell Daniel Pearse Creative Direction/Print Management Andy Butler Design Smiling Wolf www.smilingwolf.co.uk Photography Stuart Rayner, Phil Tragen, Tim Bekir of THET, Simon Rhodes of Smiling Wolf, Image on page 49 and 73 © Getty Images/iStockphoto, Image on page 31 © Yui Mok/PA Wire