Public Lectures Autumn/Winter 2014
WELCOME Welcome to Edge Hill University, just shortlisted by Times Higher Education for University of the Year. Along with welcoming our new students, Autumn 2014 also sees the start of an exciting collection of public lectures and seminars from across our Faculties. In addition to inaugural lectures in a series from our new professors, October brings a screening of the 1972 classic Under Milk Wood and a Q&A with its director Andrew Sinclair, author of the recently published Down Under Milk Wood: Of Burton and Taylor, O’Toole and Others, Dylan and Me. Professor Peter Scott will explore the drives and dynamics of Higher Education, speculating on the future shape of UK higher education in 2025. By contrast, Mark Flinn explores the past of this institution, presenting archive material about Edge Hill life during the First World War. The 2014-2015 Applied Health and Social Care series begins with Life is a Minestrone, a lecture by Dr Fred Pender who is an experienced educator, dietician and food writer from the University of Edinburgh. The series will continue with a lecture from the Children’s Commissioner Dr Maggie Atkinson in November. Finally, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London and recipient of The Turin Young Mind and Brain Prize 2013 and The Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award 2013, will present the annual Chancellor’s Lecture The Teenage Brain in November, introduced by Professor Tanya Byron. We hope you can join us.
AT A GLANCE Higher Education 2025: Familiar landscape or another country? Professor Peter Scott Wednesday 1st October 2014
Under Milk Wood: Film and Q&A with Director Andrew Sinclair Wednesday 8th October 2014
What does Psychology have to offer Education? Professor Dave Putwain Thursday 23rd October 2014
Life is a Minestrone Dr Fred Pender Thursday 30th October 2014
The Teenage Brain Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Friday 7th November 2014
Temporary Darkness – Edge Hill during WWI Mark Flinn Monday 10th November 2014
My Life in Modelling and Other Things Professor James O’Kane Thursday 20th November 2014
The Children & Families Act 2014: Children’s rights and the complexities of childhood in the 21st Century Dr Maggie Atkinson Thursday 27th November 2014
What is Creative about the Creative Industries? Professor Phil Drake Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice Lecture Series 23rd September - 16th December 2014
Coming up – Spring/Summer 2015
PROFESSOR PETER SCOTT
01.10.14 WEDNESDAY Faculty of Health and Social Care Arrival and Registration: 5.30pm Lecture followed by Q&A: 6.00pm Refreshments and networking: 7.15pm
Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/bookevents
Higher Education 2025: Familiar landscape or another country? The development of higher education in the UK, and elsewhere, has been characterised by a dynamic between change and continuity. At the most profound level, forms of higher education are shaped by changes in social structures, the economy, occupational patterns and cultural norms – which have produced mass systems. On the surface, political decisions are the political drivers – hence the shift from institutional grants to student fees and the rise of audit, evaluation and assessment regimes. In between, at an intermediate level, institutions resist, absorb and embrace change in a complex game of things must change so that things can stay the same. As a result, predicting the speed and direction of future developments in UK higher education is a hazardous business. A decade on will it appear reassuringly familiar or disturbingly different? If there is radical change, at what level will it be most apparent – in its deep structure, at an intermediate level or on the political surface? Peter Scott is Professor of Higher Education Studies at the Institute of Education. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University and has also been Pro Vice-Chancellor for external affairs at the University of Leeds, as well as Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Education. Before going to Leeds in 1992, he was for 16 years editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement and he still writes on educational issues for the Guardian.
DR ANDREW SINCLAIR Under Milk Wood: Film screening and Q&A with Director Andrew Sinclair As part of the celebrations of Dylan Thomas’ centenary, Edge Hill presents a free screening of the 1972 film adaptation, introduced by its director, Andrew Sinclair. A performance of 10-minute dance piece Lovely Ugly, by Edge Hill dance companies 3rd Edge and Edge FWD, will precede the screening. This 1972 adaptation of Dylan Thomas’ classic radio play features some of the leading film actors of the day, including Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O’Toole. Andrew Sinclair will introduce the screening, and reveal some of the secrets of this acclaimed film. "The film, beautifully photographed and spoken, casts the brooding spell of Thomas’ verse in its reconstruction of the seaside village and the daily round of its inhabitants." – International Herald Tribune "Richard Burton said it was a film about religion, sex and death, and it is, but it is also wildly fun” – Andrew Sinclair Dr Sinclair’s book Down Under Milk Wood: Of Burton and Taylor, O’Toole and Others, Dylan and Me, an illustrated memoir of Sinclair’s relationship with the works of Dylan Thomas and with the film industry, was published earlier this year.
08.10.14 WEDNESDAY Creative Edge Arrival and Registration: 6.30pm Lovely Ugly: 6.45pm Film followed by Q&A: 7.00pm
No need to book
PROFESSOR DAVE PUTWAIN
23.10.14 THURSDAY Faculty of Education Arrival and Registration: 5.30pm Lecture followed by Q&A: 6.00pm Refreshments and networking: 7.15pm
Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/bookevents
What does Psychology have to offer education? Dave Putwain is a Professor of Education in the University’s Faculty of Education. His inaugural lecture, What does psychology have to offer education? marks the start of an impressive series by our new professors. Inaugural lectures mark the appointment of new professors and allow the University to showcase its academic talent to a wide audience. In his lecture, Dave will draw on his considerable knowledge and experience of educational psychology. The central theme will focus on the extensive body of expertise in psychology which is vastly under-used in education, at least in the UK. Dave will illustrate some of the ways that psychology could be used to benefit education, and draw on some of the research he has conducted through his career so far to illustrate this point. After graduating in 1994, Dave taught Psychology and Sociology in various schools and colleges in the North West. On completing his PhD he took up a position at Edge Hill University in 2006 in the Department of Social and Psychological Sciences, and as Reader in Psychology he managed the undergraduate programme in Educational Psychology. He joined the Faculty of Education in 2013, where his research examines the way in which psychological factors (such as motivation, enjoyment of learning and perceptions of the classroom environment) influence, and in turn are influenced by, learning and achievement in all stages of education, from primary schooling right through to college and university education.
DR FRED PENDER Life is a Minestrone
30.10.14 THURSDAY
Life is a Minestrone: making sense of the soup that represents our diet, in the context of obesity following weight loss surgery and the establishment of normal diet.
Faculty of Health and Social Care
Dr Pender is an experienced educator and dietician, who has worked tirelessly in pursuit of the optimal patient experience. An advocate of food as therapy, he is an ambassador of the role food and ingredients play in the maintenance of normal diet and lifestyle. The development of innovative ways to support patients and individuals in making better and more informed food choices he puts down as his recipe for success. He is an author of core texts and significant publications. He is now a food writer; his academic life brings a flavour of a more creative side.
Arrival and Registration: 5.30pm Lecture followed by Q&A: 6.00pm Refreshments and networking: 7.15pm
Dr Pender is the lead specialist dietician for Weight loss Surgery Scotland, and manages the largest client group of obese and super-obese patients in Scotland. He is the recipient of a number of prestigious teaching and clinical awards and is currently researching the food experience of the weight loss patient before and after surgery.
Book your place at: edgehill.ac.uk/health/ about/events or contact nixonk@edgehill.ac.uk
07.11.14 FRIDAY Faculty of Health and Social Care Arrival and Registration: 5.30pm Lecture: 6.30pm Refreshments and networking: 7.45pm
Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/bookevents
PROFESSOR SARAH-JAYNE BLAKEMORE The Chancellor’s Lecture: The Teenage Brain Sarah-Jayne Blakemore delivers The Chancellor's Lecture at Edge Hill University on Friday 7th November 2014 with her talk, The Teenage Brain. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. She studies the social brain, the network of brain regions involved in understanding others, and how it develops in adolescence. She also has an interest in the links between neuroscience and education. Is there a reason why teenagers take more risks, and are more influenced by their peers, than adults? Is the adolescent brain different to that of an adult? Professor Blakemore and others in her field are finding that it really is. The latest research shows that several areas of the brain, including the prefrontal cortex, develop gradually during adolescence. The prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain that handles high level cognitive skills such as self-awareness and forward planning. It also deals with behavioural choices and the consequences of making these decisions, and influences risk taking and peer pressure. Using insights from the neuroscience of adolescence could help us engage teenagers more effectively in education, as well as in everyday life. Sarah-Jayne is currently Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Four Year PhD Programme in Neuroscience at UCL and is also editor in chief of the journal Development Cognitive Neuroscience. She has won a number of awards for her research, most recently The Turin Young Mind and Brain Prize 2013 and The Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award 2013. She was one of 40 'Young Scientists' invited to the annual meeting of the New Champions, World Economic Forum, China 2012 and was elected a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2014. Sarah-Jayne is actively involved in Public Engagement with Science; she has worked with the Select Committee for Education, acted as scientific consultant on the BBC series The Human Mind and gave a TED talk at TEDGlobal, Edinburgh in 2012, which has had more than 1.3 million views. TED is a global nonprofit organisation that shares ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. She was named in the Sunday Times 100 Makers of the 21st Century list 2014 and one of 30 under 45 in The Times Young Female Power List 2014. The annual Chancellor’s Lecture is one of the major events in the University’s calendar. Professor Tanya Byron, Chancellor of the University, a chartered clinical psychologist, journalist, author and broadcaster will introduce the lecture and chair the Q&A session. Previous speakers at the Chancellor’s Lecture have included the Reverend Jesse Jackson, social campaigner Camila Batmanghelidjh CBE and journalist Giles Fraser.
MARK FLINN
10.11.14 MONDAY
Temporary Darkness: Edge Hill in World War One
Hale Hall
Mark Flinn’s research in the Edge Hill archive has revealed many fascinating insights into life at the institution during the 1914-18 war.
Arrival and Registration: 5.30pm Lecture followed by Q&A: 6.00pm
A new illustrated booklet, Temporary Darkness, collects some of this material, including a first-person account by Edna Walker, a student who started at Edge Hill in 1915. Mark will talk about his discoveries, and current students will read from Miss Walker’s poignant and uplifting words. Copies of the booklet will be available free of charge at the event. “I arrived in Liverpool on a September afternoon in 1915 with six other students from Bradford. The war had been going on for over a year, but at this stage it had not seriously touched us. We were full of youthful joy and looking forward to a new freedom…”
No need to book Learning Services Remembers The University Learning Services department, in collaboration with Lancashire County Council, will be exhibiting artefacts from the period at Ormskirk Public Library from 27th October-28th November 2014 during Library Opening Hours.
PROFESSOR JAMES O’KANE My Life in Modelling and other things
20.11.14 THURSDAY
This lecture will give an introduction to Professor James O’Kane’s varied career in both the defence industry and academia. James is the Director of the University’s Business School and Professor of Operations Management. In his inaugural lecture, James will describe case studies of research projects, highlighting different approaches and demonstrating the impact of research results. Examples of real life projects involving simulation of business processes/systems and human performance modelling, and the use of Simulation and Artificial Intelligence to create Intelligent environments will be shown. Recent research studies focusing on trends and tensions in Global Automotive Supply Chains will be discussed along with the use of traditional manufacturing business improvement techniques in non-manufacturing settings. James has worked for 27 years in Higher Education. Prior to academia, James spent five years in the Defence Industry doing classified work on mathematical modelling of HF radar systems and subsystems. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Operational Research Society. James’ research interests include Business Modelling, Automotive Supply Change Management and Business Improvement. He is currently on the National Council of the Association for University Research and Industry Links (AURIL) and he has 20 years’ experience of leading Knowledge Transfer projects with a wide range of organisations.
Business School Arrival and Registration: 5.30pm Lecture: 6.30pm Refreshments and networking: 7.45pm
Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/bookevents
DR MAGGIE ATKINSON
27.11.14
Children’s Commissioner
THURSDAY Faculty of Health and Social Care Arrival and Registration: 5.30pm Lecture followed by Q&A: 6.00pm Refreshments and networking: 7.15pm
Book your place at: edgehill.ac.uk/health/ about/events or contact nixonk@edgehill.ac.uk
The Children & Families Act 2014 has reformed the Office of the Children’s Commissioner and brought change to the systems of adoption, fostering, special needs education, shared parenting and parental leave. Dr Atkinson will reflect on these changes and speak about children’s rights and the complexities of childhood in the 21st Century. Maggie Atkinson has been Children’s Commissioner for England since March 2010. She has spent a 30 year career working with and in the interests of children and young people. She began her career teaching English and taught in a range of schools from inner cities to shire counties for 11 years, and was Director of Children’s Services in Gateshead. Maggie has been President of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services, Chair of the multi-agency Centre for Excellence in Outcomes and Chair of the Children and Young People’s Workforce National Partnership. The Children's Commissioner for England promotes and protects children's rights in England. She does this by listening to what children and young people say about what matters to them and making sure adults in charge take their views and interests into account. The law says that, in her work, the Children's Commissioner should have particular regard to children living away from home or receiving social care. You can find out more at: www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk
PROFESSOR PHIL DRAKE What is creative about the creative industries?
02.12.14 TUESDAY
Creativity is one of the most ubiquitous yet least understood words in the English language. In our recent post-industrial era, it seems as if almost anything and anyone can be considered creative, meaning we don’t only speak of creative people, but also of creative cities, creative industries and even, the creative economy. Professor Philip Drake’s inaugural lecture seeks to explore reasons for the pervasive use of such terms. Starting with an examination of a variety of definitions of creativity, it will outline how they became an increasingly important part of the UK’s New Labour policy landscape from 1997, used as a way of rebranding a post-industrialised Britain (so-called Cool Britannia) and promoting economic development. In doing so the lecture will seek to assess the many claims made around the creative industries in the UK. Do creative industries promote individual creativity? Do they enable artistic work to flourish? Or do they create knowledge workers with low autonomy whose employment is often peripatetic and low-paid? And, finally, how is culture connected to creativity? Philip is Head of the Department of Media and Professor in Film, Media and Communications. He joined Edge Hill University in 2013 and was previously Director of Research and Reader in the School of Media and Performing Arts at Middlesex University, and before this he held posts at the Universities of Stirling, West of Scotland and Glasgow. He has published widely across a range of areas including on film and television industries, media law and history, and screen performance and celebrity.
Creative Edge Arrival and Registration: 5.30pm Lecture followed by Q&A: 6.30pm Refreshments and networking: 7.45pm
Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/bookevents
Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice Lecture Series Tuesday 23rd September 2014, 6.00pm The Regeneration of East Manchester since 2010: Decline or Survival? Professor Brendan Evans and Dr Georgina Blakeley Current and likely future trends in urban regeneration and whether a sports-driven regeneration strategy can be effective.
Wednesday 1st October 2014, 6.00pm Higher Education 2025: Familiar landscape or another country? Professor Peter Scott See page 3 for synopsis and how to book.
Wednesday 8th October 2014, 6.00pm Relational expertise – the key to successful inter-professional working Professor Anne Edwards The three features of successful collaboration across professional boundaries: relational expertise, relational agency and common knowledge, and their implications.
Tuesday 11th November, 6.00pm Electocracy with Accountabilities? England and Wales’ novel public governance model of Police and Crime Commissioners. Professor John Raine How is the new governance model working? Insights on what has been different about police governance and what the future prospects might be.
Tuesday 2nd December, 6.00pm Understanding Forced Marriage Dr Khatidja Chantler Four key challenges in the forced marriage debate and the narratives which demonstrate the interplay between culture, religion, poverty, gender, sexuality and the state.
Tuesday 16th December 2014, 6.00pm Crossing boundaries and disrupting binaries: teacher professional learning in and out of the workplace Professor Olwen McNamara Exploring teacher education relocation into the school workplace and the differing viewpoints of how teachers are trained, including past and contemporary struggles. Book your place at: store.edgehill.ac.uk
UPCOMING EVENTS 2015 Thursday 15th January 2015 Professor Vicky Karkou Inaugural Lecture Series
Thursday 22nd January 2015 Professor Clare Austin Inaugural Lecture Series
Thursday 29th January 2015 Annie Coppell, NICE North West Health and Social Care series
Tuesday 3rd February 2015 Professor Geoff Beattie Inaugural Lecture Series
Thursday 26th February 2015 Robert Elliott, Strathclyde University Health and Social Care series
Thursday 5th March 2015 Professor Arvinder (Vini) Lander Inaugural Lecture Series
Thursday 12th March 2015 Professor Paul Potrac Inaugural Lecture Series
Thursday 19th March 2015 Professor Adrian Midgley Inaugural Lecture Series
Thursday 26th March 2015 Richard Whittington, University of Liverpool Health and Social Care series
Thursday 30th April 2015 Dr Ravi Jayaram, Consultant Paediatrician Autism Health and Social Care series
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