Contents A Day in the Life of the NHS
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House of Fraser
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Research Ethics
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Afternoon Tea with Prince Charles 2
The Vision
Newsletter for Faculty of Business & Science and Faculty of Arts
Spring 2017
A Day in the Life of the NHS Three students from Hull School of Art and Design have created a documentary film for the NHS. Kashilembo Wabu, Chelsea Sparke and Danielle Hayes volunteered to film for the NHS after an approach to the college asking for students to help. The documentary, A Day in The Life of the NHS, follows the story of a character called Terry, showing how health services help him throughout his life. Chelsea Sparke, who is in her second year studying
for a BA (Hons) Journalism & Digital Media, said the purpose of the film is to show secondary school pupils the wide variety of roles there are within the NHS. Miss Sparke said: “The aim of the film is to make people aware and potentially intrigue them to think of a career path in the health sector. It was a good opportunity to give something back to the NHS after everything they’ve done for me over the years.”
The students filmed the documentary whilst pupils watched professionals act out real life scenarios at Hull Royal Infirmary. Kashilembo Wabu, who is in his third year BA (Hons) Filmmaking & Creative Media Production, said: “I decided to do it mainly because it was something that would boost my experience as a film student, as well as helping to pass the message on to young people and help the community.”
Lines of Thought
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Posters in Parliament
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After the Apocalypse
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The Big Blue
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Student Success
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Fountain17: A Coincidence of Anniversaries
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A Visit to Florence
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Clothes Show Live 2016
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Gareth Sleightholme
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Sarah’s Recovered Dog
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Welcome Higher education takes you on a journey, enabling you to make a difference in the world. This newsletter showcases just a few of our students’ journeys. From a collaboration between BA (Hons) Journalism & Digital Media and BA (Hons) FilmMaking & Creative Media Production students with the NHS, to afternoon tea with Prince Charles, we also have BA (Hons) Fine Art students displaying posters in Parliament and BA (Hons) Textiles students visiting the cultural delights of Florence. Our lead article is written by Chelsea Sparke, a second year Journalism student.
Julia Davidson Group Director for Higher Education
House of Fraser The House of Fraser Hull management team have offered BA (Hons) Fashion students the opportunity to work in tandem with them as part of the City of Culture 2017 festivities, allocating them a window for the year. This offer followed a successful collaboration displaying eveningwear as part of the 100 year celebrations of the solo flight by Amy Johnson to Australia in June 2016. BA (Hons) Fashion students were tasked with researching, designing and constructing garments inspired by different eras of the 20th Century. The challenge was set by members of the House of Fraser display team, Samantha and Becky - Hull School of Art & Design Fashion degree graduates. January 2017 began with 1920’s-inspired tailored jackets by second year students, and was followed in February 2017 by feathered cocktail hats and felt cloches prompted by the 1930’s. Watch the window for the rest of Hull City of Culture 2017 fashion extravaganza.
Research Ethics
The Faculty of Business and Science have piloted a research ethics board using dissertation proposals from 3rd year BA (Hons) Criminology and BA (Hons) Applied Social Science students. The event was an attempt to develop strategies that help staff and students follow a common approach in the application of research ethics within their degree programme. A sample of student work, which had been assessed in advance, was presented to the board who then assessed the ethical suitability of the sample piece in order to allow generalisation for the whole student cohort. The board was not required to assess or comment on any practical or technical aspects of the work reviewed. In addition, any work that a tutor felt was potentially ethically problematic was also reviewed; thus the board can be viewed as a support mechanism for staff. The sample work progressed through the board with no complications, indicating that the format was appropriate and fit-for-purpose. The potentially problematic piece of work was also discussed by the board members and a resolution arrived at. This required the student to review an aspect of their own personal safety during their interviewing process. The board recognised that as not all degree courses require a dissertation proposal to be assessed, an alternative was required. To this end a Research Ethics Application Document is being developed which will allow students to have their dissertations’ ethical status assessed prior to starting research. This document will be further developed in consultation with participating members of staff to facilitate the coverage of all research-based dissertations. The advantage of such a system is that it will provide protection for staff, students and participants who are involved in any research activity. It is hoped that this system can be adapted and modified in the future to cover all research-based activities in student programs of study.
Afternoon Tea with Prince Charles BA (Hons) Fashions students have been commissioned to design and construct banners which will be hung from the pulpit and the copes worn by the clergy when Holy Trinity Church becomes a Minster in May 2017.
A diverse collection of ideas by first year students for the banners and third year students for the copes were presented to Jane Owen, Operations Manager of Holy Trinity. The programme leader, Lynn Benson, and year one student, Mia Wright, were also invited to afternoon tea at Holy Trinity to meet Prince Charles when he visited Hull in February 2017. The conclusion of the afternoon tea was to meet Prince Charles. He asked Mia whilst he shook her hand: “Did you enjoy the cakes?” She replied: “Very much.” Lynn and Mia were invited to sign the Holy Trinity visitor’s book to record the royal visit.
Lines of Thought In January 2017, BA (Hons) Textile students attended creative drawing workshops inspired by the Lines of Thought Exhibition showing at the University of Hull. The Exhibition was part of Hull City of Culture 2017. Lines of Thought is a prestigious exhibition of 70 drawings from the British Museum Prints and Drawings Collection. On show are works by some of the world’s greatest artists including Degas, Michelangelo, Matisse, Rembrandt and Picasso. The students were from all levels and worked alongside students from different disciplines. Artist Heidi Wigmore led the workshop inspiring the students to draw through investigation and to engage in different ways of seeing. Looking around the exhibition the students asked thought-provoking questions, generating a discussion about what drawing is, what is it used for and its place as a tool for creative examination. Notions of traditional approaches to drawing were challenged through the innovative use of tracing and carbon paper. The students were required to work at speed and concentrate on detail rather than the whole. These factors prompted a fluid decision-making in composition which led to abstract outcomes. The students were challenged to produce a large wall-based collage whilst working as a team. They looked for ways to connect their own work with fractured pieces of the exhibition drawings to create a coherent whole. This was a great opportunity for the students to engage with the drawings on display and respond to them creatively.
Posters in Parliament
Two degree students, Lauren Saunders, a final year BA (Hons) Fine Art student, and Chris Jordan who graduated from the BA (Hons) Music Performance degree in 2016, have been chosen to represent Hull College at the prestigious Posters in Parliament event to be held in March and organised by the British Conference for Undergraduate Research (BCUR). Hull College Group is one of only two Further Education Colleges represented and our students will be competing against students from twenty-four other HE Institutions. Posters in Parliament is a great opportunity to share their research with students from other universities across Great Britain and will be attended by MPs both locally and nationally. Along with the opportunity to present their work in the Houses of Parliament, the top three posters, as selected by a judging panel, will receive a monetary award to be put towards furthering the research or researcher’s career. This success follows closely on the heels of the news that Josh Cudworth, who graduated from his degree in BA (Hons) Criminology in 2016, has been successfully chosen to present his research at the BCUR annual conference which will be held in April at Bournemouth University. Josh will be presenting a workshop in front of a large audience of undergraduate researchers and tutors discussing his final year research into ‘psychological and personal characteristics of elderly victims of financial fraud’. These successes exemplify the excellent work undertaken by students and their tutors as well as the higher profile and support given to research and scholarship by the college’s participation in the AoC Scholarship Project.
After the Apocalypse
During October 2016, BA (Hons) Architecture students produced a post-apocalyptic vehicle to complement a national touring exhibition, Aftermath Dislocation Principle, created by Jimmy Cauty in a shipping container daubed in graffiti. Aftermath Dislocation Principle is described as a “monumental post-riot landscape in miniature”. The dystopian model village is set somewhere in Bedfordshire where only the police and media teams remain in an otherwise deserted land. Set in 1:87 scale, the miniature scenes can be viewed through eye-holes carved into the side of the container, so spectators can take in one scene at a time. Luke Jackson, a first year student from Hull School of Architecture, was part of the group. He said: “It was quite opportunistic really because we already had a car, so we just set about thinking what we could do with it. It needed to be something that could run in a post-apocalyptic world, which means no fuel and no water. We’re not sure what to do with the car after the exhibition. We were thinking of just scrapping it, but we might auction it off considering what it has been part of.” The ADP will be visiting 38 cities across the country, with Cauty hoping to generate “a continual feedback loop of stories and meanings as greater numbers of people are exposed to this project”.
The Big Blue BA (Hons) Dance students have been commissioned by Northern Ballet to work in partnership with their education team and CBeebies on a performance project for Hull City of Culture 2017. The students will devise workshops aimed at year one and year two primary school children and promote the Northern Ballet performance of The Big Blue at KC Stadium in July. The Big Blue is an American children’s story about a wizard who makes a magic potion that turns everything blue. The people soon get fed up with a blue world so the wizard turns it red, then green and finally all the colours of the rainbow.
Jason Pook:
BA (Hons) Games Design BA (Hons) Games Design 2016 graduate, Jason Pook, is now working at Rockstar Games. He said:“The course not only allowed me to train in my specialised area, it also helped mould me into an all-round professional. I am now an asset to my job in the games industry. Instantly I felt like I belonged due to the knowledge that I have learnt about games design and the industry over the three years on the course.”
Fountain17:
A Coincidence of Anniversaries One hundred years ago a urinal was presented to an exhibition in New York by Marcel Duchamp, a ground-breaking French artist who invented the ‘Readymade’. It was signed and dated ‘R. Mutt 1917’ and then renamed Fountain. The beginnings of the brand Armitage Shanks can be traced back two hundred years to 1817 when Thomas Bond from Armitage in Staffordshire began sanitary pottery manufacture. Armitage Shanks are now owned by Ideal Standard of Hull. This was a chain of events that have separated the everyday object from its cultural alter ego. 2017 sees Hull, once voted the worst place to live, as UK City of Culture. Fountain17 is a collaborative project that brings together art (Duchamp), industry (Armitage Shanks) and place (Hull). Hull School of Art and Design and Ideal Standard are working with artists, poets and musicians to celebrate this coincidence of dates. Hull School of Art & Design have invited artists to respond to Duchamp’s Fountain through their own creative practice. The intention was to create opportunities for emerging artists from Hull to benefit from being part of the larger project. Exhibitions and performances will take place in KAG, Eleven and Humber Street Gallery between April 1 and May 14 2017. Alongside this, an education and community exhibition will be taking place at The Brodrick Gallery from March 24 to April 28 2017.
A Visit to Florence In January 2017 a group of staff and students from a range of disciplines at Hull School of Art & Design set off on a visit to Florence, which was arranged to coincide with the textile fair, Pitti Filati. This trade show focuses on yarn and attracts international buyers and designers from the biggest names in fashion. There was a wealth of creative inspiration for the staff and students attending as well as an insight into the business and industry of the textile market. The latest trends were on show demonstrating the many ways that fashion, art, sport and design can fuse together. The aim of the visit was to see the trends forecasted for Spring-Summer 2018. The dynamic displays will certainly stimulate the creative development of student work. Everyone on the trip was overwhelmed by the beauty of Florence. Luckily the weather was kind with bright blue skies and warm temperatures; it was an early taste of spring. There was something relevant and of interest to every discipline including architecture, design and fashion. The museums, palaces and churches gave access to some of the greatest artistic treasures in the world. Visiting the sights including the Uffizi Gallery, the Accademia Museum and the oldest bridge in Florence, Ponte Vecchio was awe-inspiring and broadened everyone’s knowledge.
Clothes Show Live 2016 Fashion students from across Great Britain were invited to submit entries for the Young Designer of the Year, part of the Clothes Show Live Exhibition 2016. The design theme was Century Queens inspired by Queen Elizabeth ll. Students were able to select any historical queen as a starting point for their research to design an evening dress. BA (Hons) Fashion student, Cloie Hockney, researched Yaa Asantewaa, queen mother of Ejisyu of the Ashanti empire, to create a vibrant hand-printed dress in yellows, reds and green. This won her a place as one of the ten young successful designers and the go-ahead to display her work on the catwalk to thousands of visitors at the exhibition. Cloie said: “It was amazing to see my design being modelled on the catwalk and being cheered on by the audience.”
Gareth Sleightholme Programme Leader BA (Hons) Games Design A prestigious early career in historical illustration for museums and set design for theme parks all over the world set the creative bar pretty high for Gareth Sleightholme. And, as one of the key driving forces behind several Hull School of Art & Design research projects, Gareth believes it is vital to continue to raise the bar, without losing sight of basic creative skills. On the BA (Hons) Games Design – a focal point of Gareth’s teaching at HSAD – his production design input reflects the type of work he developed in his career in physical theme park scenarios. In other words, students build 3D environments digitally. Working on a project called The Streets, students were asked to research a local thoroughfare, and then as a group, develop a believable “evolved” environment. As the project grows year by year, so does a digital “city” and alumni are invited to donate buildings to help create a sense of connection to creatives beyond the course itself. Right now, at Hull Maritime Museum, Gareth’s students have created a captivating audio-visual installation of a Bowhead whale, that immense dark mammal that can live for two centuries and was so important to Hull’s Victorian whalers.
Sarah’s Recovered Dog This is Sarah’s dog, Sam, who has recently recovered from serious illness. Sarah has been our wonderful maternity-leave Office Manager and we are very sad to lose her.