http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/news/index.phpNews, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster Universityhttp://www.lancaster.ac.uk/users/lancaster/web/disclaim.htmen-gba.sharman@lancaster.ac.uka.sharman@lancaster.ac.uk120http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/images/template/fassblue.gifhttp://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/news/index.php Andrew McMillan (graduate in English and Creative Writing, BA) reports that 'Since graduating in 2010, I have been working as a freelance poet and writer, doing various commissions and residencies. I've been poet-in-residence for Basingstoke, poet-in-residence for the LGBT community of Bournemouth, done some guest lecturing for Sheffield Uni and collaborated with photographers, artists, composers and even soil erosion experts. My commission for the 2012 Yorkshire Cultural Olympiad was featured on Radio 4's Today Programme and my second pamphlet was published in October 2011 (http://www.redsquirrelpress.com/index.php?moon) I'm still working on Cake magazine, that Martha Sprackland and I set up during our undergraduate days. Do send us some poems or flash fiction!' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1552/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1552/ Fri, 25 May 2012 15:50:43 +0100 ​Lancaster University and the Dukes Theatre are celebrating the release of Tim Burton's new film Dark Shadows with a season of specially selected films. The collection of films - called Strange is Relative: Tim Burton in Context - brings together Burton classics such as Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands with a body of older work which arguably influenced his films. It has been curated by the Dukes in conjunction with Dr Catherine Spooner from Lancaster University's English and Creative Writing Department. Dr Spooner specialises in Gothic in literature and film, and will be providing short introductions to most of the films which include: The Bride of Frankenstein, directed by James Whale 1935; Dracula, directed by Terence Fisher 1958 and The Masque of Red Death directed by Roger Corman in 1964.Tim Burton's films will include Beetlejuice; Edward Scissorhands and his latest gothic comedy Dark Shadows. Dr Spooner, who is writing a new book on the contemporary Gothic, said: "Tim Burton's latest film shows that, contrary to popular expectation, twenty-first century Gothic is not all doom and gloom. It can also be romantic, funny and even comforting. Tim Burton's unique take on Gothic has had a massive influence on contemporary popular culture, from children's toys to fashion and advertising. This film festival is a celebration of Tim Burton's work and the films which have shaped them." The films will run from Wednesday 13 June to Thursday 26 July. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1553/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1553/ Fri, 25 May 2012 16:59:25 +0100 Many congratulations to Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts on winning the Foyles' 'Best Book of Ideas 2012' prize for Edgelands. Please follow the link below for more details of this prize. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1550/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1550/ Thu, 24 May 2012 10:58:59 +0100 Stones of Venice Research Grants available The Ruskin Library and Research Centre is pleased to announce small research grants available to students and early career researchers, to support a visit to Lancaster University. The visit will be specifically to use the Whitehouse Collection of material relating to John Ruskin (1819-1900) and his circle, housed in the Ruskin Library at Lancaster University. Applications will be judged on an individual basis and should include details about your Ruskin or related research. Further details about the collection and the Ruskin Library can be found on: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/ruskinlib/Pages/welcome.html The Grants have been donated through the Ruskin Foundation from donations by Sovereign Films in connection with their forthcoming film 'Effie' about Ruskin's marriage. In the first instance please contact the Research Centre Administrator on: l.kenwright@lancaster.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)1524 510818 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1551/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1551/ Thu, 24 May 2012 12:20:50 +0100 Congratulations to Natasha Tyson, an undergraduate in English and Creative writing , who will be working this summer as a publishing assistant at Cambridge University Press, following placements at Manchester University Press and at the Lancashire Magazine. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1549/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1549/ Thu, 24 May 2012 10:53:32 +0100 The Law School is delighted to announce that Steven Wheatley, Professor of International Law, joins the School on June 1, 2012. Steven joins the School from the University of Leeds. He has published widely on the issues of human rights, democracy and the rights of minorities. He is the author of Democracy, Minorities and International Law (CUP, 2005) and The Democratic Legitimacy of International Law (Hart, 2010). Steven will further strengthen the Law School's expertise and research capacity within international law and international human rights law. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1545/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1545/ Tue, 22 May 2012 15:06:38 +0100 Dr Eleanor Rycroft was on BBC Radio Lancashire this morning, discussing a play about the 1634 Lancaster witch trial, with which she is involved. There will be a staged reading of the play at Lancaster Castle in August, as part of the 'Capturing Witches' conference, co-hosted by the Department of English and Creative Wtiting.To listen to Eleanor's interview, it can be found at 1.51 on the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1546/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1546/ Tue, 22 May 2012 14:15:25 +0100 Mark Ward, a current MA student in Creative Writing, celebrates the launch of his poetry pamphlet Coleridge Street. On Wednesday 6th June at 7.30pm at the Dale Lodge Hotel, Grasmere, Mark will be reading from his work alongside the poet Neil Rollinson who is also launching a new pamphlet: Talking Dead. There will be live music and an opportunity to buy both pamphlets. Entry is free and all are welcome. More information about Mark's work can be found at his website. Please see below for the link. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1548/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1548/ Tue, 22 May 2012 16:15:43 +0100 Professor Paul Farley (English & Creative Writing) has been elected to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Society was formed in 1820 by King George IV to 'reward literary merit and excite literary talent', and its Fellows include most of the very best novelists, short-story writers, poets, playwrights, biographers, historians, travel writers, literary critics and scriptwriters at work today. The RSL is active on many fronts, hosting masterclasses, public lectures and talks, working in partnership with the European Cultural Commission, and also campaigning on important matters such as the teaching of English in schools, the preservation of public libraries, and authors' rights; it does this - often in conjunction with other organisations - by lobbying government bodies, organising debates, and drawing attention to these issues in the press. Newly elected FRSLs are introduced at the Society's summer party, where they are invited to sign the Fellowship roll book using either Byron's pen or Dickens' quill. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1543/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1543/ Mon, 21 May 2012 15:28:14 +0100 Jonathan Culpeper and Elena Semino give invited talks at a Colloquium on 'Pragma-stylistics' at the University of Sussex in Brighton (21st May 2012). Jonathan's talk is entitled: "Schema theory and activity types: A holistic approach to analysing the dialogue of plays and their effects". Elena's talk is entitled: "Autism in fiction: a linguistic approach". http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1542/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1542/ Wed, 16 May 2012 23:36:56 +0100 We are very pleased to announce that Sarah Mercer (University of Graz), who graduated from the Thesis and Coursework PhD programme in 2008, has just been awarded her Habilitation. The title of her written submission was 'Emerging complexity in language learning psychology' and her presentation was on 'Paradigmatic and methodological developments in SLA: The story of WTC'. Our warmest congratulations to her! http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1547/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1547/ Tue, 22 May 2012 15:07:28 +0100 The Department of English and Creative Writing is pleased to welcome our new Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Livi Michael. Livi was born near Manchester and has written four novels: Under a Thin Moon (1992), Their Angel Reach (1994), All the Dark Air (1997) and Inheritance (2000), which have won the Faber Prize and Arthur Welton Award. They have been nominated for various others, including the Mind, John Steinbeck and John Llewellyn Rhys Awards. She has also written several books for children, including the four Frank books, about an adventurous hamster and his relationship with his human. Livi will be joining the Department from October 2012 and will be working with students from across the University to help them develop their writing skills. Please see Livi's website using the link below for further details about her work. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1541/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1541/ Tue, 15 May 2012 10:55:11 +0100 Ruth has been invited to teach a PhD masterclass May 14-16, at the School of Journalism in Stockholm - on CDA and media studies. Moreover, on May 16, there is a big public event where Ruth will talk about radical rigtwing rhetoric across Europe. See http://www.fashion.su.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=16996 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1538/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1538/ Sun, 13 May 2012 17:49:42 +0100 The Educational Research Department is offering one fees-only bursary for an overseas student wishing to undertake full-time PhD study. The award will be made in the form of a fee waiver and recipients will need to meet their general living expenses themselves. The PhD award will be made for three years, subject to satisfactory progress.All applicants must hold an offer of a place to study and should be due to commence their studies between October 2012 and January 2013. Applicants wishing to be considered for this award should complete the PGR studentship application form and submit it to the Educational Research Department by 11th June 2012. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1539/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1539/ Mon, 14 May 2012 15:57:18 +0100 Felipe Otondo is among the winners of the 2012 Radio France International Quartz composition competition. As part of the award compositions by Felipe Otondo will be played on several European radio stations during 2012. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1530/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1530/ Tue, 08 May 2012 10:34:36 +0100 Bruce Bennett (Film Studies/LICA) is introducing a screening of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 epic, '2001: A Space Odyssey' at the Dukes cinema on May 9th at 8pm. The cinema is showing a recently remastered digital copy of the film and, since the Kubrick family usually refuses permission for the film to be screened in cinemas, this is a very rare chance to see the film in its full expansive glory onn the big screen. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1519/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1519/ Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:00:51 +0100 The English Language and Applied Linguistics division of the Dept of English at Birmingham University is pleased to announce that the 2012 Sinclair Lecture will take place at 5pm on Wednesday 9 May, and will be given by Professor Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University). The title of her lecture is: "Integrating Sociolinguistics and (Critical) Discourse Studies: Challenges and Perspectives". Lecture Room 1, Arts Building, Birmingham University http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1535/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1535/ Thu, 10 May 2012 14:06:48 +0100 One of the Department's hird-year Creative Writing PhD students, Colin Sargent, interviewed the novelist John Irving for the Portland Monthly magazine about his new novel, In One Person.He says:If you had a pulse in 1999, you were bombarded by "Good night you princes of Maine, you kings of New England." The catch phrase comes from the movie The Cider House Rules, based on John Irving's 1985 bestseller. It starred Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, and Sir Michael Caine. And who doesn't smile upon hearing "Garp bit Bonkie" from Irving's 1978 bestseller The World According to Garp? What quip from Irving's new book will be the meme that will define 2012?Read the interview by following the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1536/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1536/ Wed, 09 May 2012 14:33:17 +0100 One of the Department's third-year Creative Writing PhD students, Colin Sargent, interviewed the novelist John Irving for the Portland Monthly magazine about his new novel, In One Person.He says:If you had a pulse in 1999, you were bombarded by "Good night you princes of Maine, you kings of New England." The catch phrase comes from the movie The Cider House Rules, based on John Irving's 1985 bestseller. It starred Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, and Sir Michael Caine. And who doesn't smile upon hearing "Garp bit Bonkie" from Irving's 1978 bestseller The World According to Garp? What quip from Irving's new book will be the meme that will define 2012?Read the interview by following the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1537/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1537/ Wed, 09 May 2012 14:33:59 +0100 The Department is currently undertaking a viability study on two new proposed taught Doctoral Programmes. The proposed programmes are : PhD in Social Justice and Wellbeing in/through Education PhD in Higher Education Research and Development Your views would be appreciated and an online survey is available here. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1531/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1531/ Tue, 08 May 2012 12:16:21 +0100 Katha is an India publishing house that uses literature to promote social change in Delhi's slum communities.The organisation runs a number of schools and women's empowerment groups in and around Delhi. (http://www.katha.org/site/) A few of us visited as part of the Involve International Opportunities Programme and saw firsthand the amazing work being done.We have set up a society to work with Katha to benefit the schools and groups in Delhi but also to bring some of Katha's values to the local community in Lancaster.We have a number of different projects running including: *A mentoring programme where students at Lancaster can mentor students at the Katha run schools through an online portal. The aim to to make the students at Katha more globally contacted and improve their English *Women's empowerment: currently working to make advice leaflets for the women's groups in the slum communities to inform them of their rights: such as access to ration cards, which we found many women weren't getting. *We are raising money for Katha to send some of their students over to Lancaster and to organise a summer school. This will be the first time the children have ever been out of the country and will be an absolutely amazing opportunity for them. *The local schools project is our most recent project. We are working in partnership with Involve to create reading circles in local schools using Katha books to increase the pupils cultural awareness. The children will be writing their own stories that will then be published and we will have a book launch/cultural celebration at the end of the term. All news and information can be found by searching 'Lancaster University Katha Project' on Facebook, Following us on Twitter @KathaSocLancs or by following our brand new blog:http://lancasterkathasociety.wordpress.com/ Emily Robertson & Lucy Miller, interviewing the founding director of Katha: https://vimeo.com/41546211 Please contact e.robertson1@lancaster.ac.uk with any questions. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1533/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1533/ Tue, 08 May 2012 14:22:39 +0100 The Department has been successful in bidding for Faculty Postgraduate Bursaries. The Department now has awards to offer in the following categories: 1 x MA 1 Year (overseas) 2 x MA 1 Year (H/EU) 1 x MA 1+ 3 years (H/EU) 1 x PhD 3 years (Overseas) 1 x PhD 3 years (H/EU) As a result of this additional allocation we are extending the application deadline to 28th May 2012. Please note that applications will only be considered in conjunction with a successful offer. To apply please use the attached form for MA and Research. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1534/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1534/ Tue, 08 May 2012 15:14:28 +0100 Mind, body and spirit: it's the de-reformation of religion"Church attendance my be declining, but real individual religion has undergone a huge revival in the past 30 years . . . . "Guardian, Monday 7th May 2012http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/may/07/mind-body-spirit-dereformation-religion?CMP=twt_gu http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1529/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1529/ Tue, 08 May 2012 10:12:47 +0100 Professor David Sugarman contributed to the Report on Gender Quotas on Management Boards commissioned by the European Parliament's Committee on Gender Equality and published by the European Parliament in March 2012. The Report reviews the evidence on the effectiveness of legally imposed as compared with voluntary regimes in narrowing the gender gap on corporate management boards. It finds that mandatory legal instruments to enforce quotas are the most effective and fastest means of increasing the proportion of women on corporate boards. The Report is posted on the European Parliament web-site: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/fr/studies.html#studies http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1526/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1526/ Sun, 06 May 2012 10:06:35 +0100 Professor David Sugarman is member of a consortium of academics, judges and practitioners awarded the contract to prepare a Handbook on Case-Law covering the fields of Asylum, Immigration and Border Control in the European Contextby the European Court of Human Rights and EU Agency for Fundamental Rights. The contract, which was awarded as a consequence of competitive tender, is to produce a practical learning tool for judges, prosecutors, lawyers, law-enforcement officials, and others involved in giving legal advice, such as national human rights institutions and legal advice centres, to whom it will be distributed. The Handbook of around 100 pages and to be published in 2012 will analyse key principles as developed by the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights, as well as relevant national case law, in the fields of asylum, immigration and border control. It will eventually be available in almost all EU languages as well as Croatian. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1527/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1527/ Sun, 06 May 2012 10:08:13 +0100 Using data gathered from thousands of Lancaster-FASS graduates, a new report from CFE - a research and consultancy company specialising in employment and skills - concludes that although financial rewards remain important for arts, humanities and social science graduates, their motivations for study and the associated rewards are much more multifaceted. This report shows that FASS students sought to study subjects they were interested in and enjoyed exploring academically rather than would necessarily secure specific forms of employment. Indeed furthering personal development goals and developing focussed skills around their chosen career paths are key elements that FASS graduates identify as benefits from their time at University. They find that employers need and value the skills that are developed during FASS degrees and recognise that studying arts, humanities and social sciences offers the potential for the development of a broad range of knowledge, capabilities and behaviours which are crucial to the workplace. This means that FASS alumni are able to open doors in a difficult labour market and secure fulfilling jobs while also contributing to the well-being of themselves and society more widely. Therefore it is as important to ensure that these benefits are clearly weighted in any assessment of the outcomes of studying arts, humanities and social science subjects as these aspects are fore-grounded by students, FASS alumni and employers. In light of business requirements for graduates with increasingly global attributes, the value and wider impact of arts, humanities and social science on individuals' holistic development must be more clearly identified and recorded. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1524/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1524/ Fri, 04 May 2012 11:08:27 +0100 Charles Clarke was on the Today Programme on Wednesday 2nd May at 8.50am talking about the final Westminster Faith Debate last night: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01gvqnd#synopsis http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1525/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1525/ Fri, 04 May 2012 12:03:12 +0100 Lancaster University's Arts and Humanities achieved a ranking of 44th in the world by the THE World University Rankings 11-12. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1522/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1522/ Thu, 03 May 2012 14:22:01 +0100 Professor Paul Farley (English & Creative Writing) has been shortlisted for a national book award. The 2012 Foyles Best Book of Ideas highlights those books published last year which are deemed to have presented new, important and challenging ideas, which are rigorously argued, and are engaging and accessible. Edgelands: Journeys into England's True Wilderness (co-authored with Michael Symmons Roberts) is one of six titles shortlisted this year; other books include works by Steven Pinker, Simon Baron-Cohen and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman. The overall winner of the prize is announced at a ceremony in Bristol in May.Please follow the link below for more information. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1521/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1521/ Thu, 03 May 2012 11:07:06 +0100 We are delighted to see that the department is ranked third of all Linguistics Departments in the UK in the 2013 Complete University Guide, the departments that are currently 'ahead of us' are Cambridge and Oxford. We are particularly pleased because this particular table gives special weight to student satisfaction and to student employment when they graduate and we are now ranked first for graduate employability. Those two factors matter a great deal to prospective students and to us as teachers. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1520/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1520/ Tue, 01 May 2012 09:12:06 +0100 Professor David Sugarman has been awarded Visiting Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, 2012-13 academic year. The Fellowship was awarded as a result of competitive tender. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1528/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1528/ Sun, 06 May 2012 10:02:32 +0100 Paul has written and presented a feature for BBC Radio 4, which was broadcast last Sunday 29 April. A Foreigner Everywhere, told the story of the poet Elizabeth Bishop's time living in and writing about Brazil, her adopted country for fifteen eventful years, and featured contributions from poets such as Anne Stevenson and Jo Shapcott, as well as scholars and friends of Bishop. Paul also spoke at two events last week: at a World Book Night event in Liverpool on 23 April, and as guest speaker at the Anne Pierson Awards evening at the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal on 25 April; this annual award, established in 2004, is dedicated to encouraging young people's interest and abilities in creative writing and to celebrating their achievements. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1532/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1532/ Tue, 08 May 2012 14:20:42 +0100 Students from the Department of European Languages and Cultures took part in the Sauerkraut Cup in Leeds on Saturday 28 April. The Sauerkraut Cup is an annual football tournament involving German departments from up and down the country. The motto of this year's tournament was "Euro Cup 1972" and Romania was our country. Despite the cold and the rain our two teams enjoyed the experience a lot, because it brought together students from all years of study. It was also a great opportunity to meet German students from other British universities. Well, our students did not bring the Sauerkraut Cup to Lancaster this year - but maybe next year? http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1540/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1540/ Tue, 15 May 2012 10:14:07 +0100 Ruth is invited to give a plenary lecture at the gender and equality conference in Vienna on April 26, 2012. See below for details. Genderstereotype in der Wirtschaftskommunikation - http://wu.ac.at/structure/lobby/equaltreatment http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1516/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1516/ Thu, 10 May 2012 13:59:32 +0100 A collaboration with Sussex University wins new Department for Education award to examine cases of adoption which are contested by birth parents (Dr. Karen Broadhurst and Mr Barry Luckock). The project will start in April 2011 and will make a report avaible to the DfE in September 2012 which will inform the national review of adoption. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1517/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1517/ Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:34:06 +0100 The History Department is pleased to congratulate Professor Naomi Tadmor on her election to the Executive Committee of the Social History Society. Professor Tadmor has been elected to serve for the period April 2012 - March 2015. The appointment is particularly apt in that the Society was founded by Harold Perkin and is still operated from Lancaster. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1515/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1515/ Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:15:49 +0100 The Medical Law Review (Editor in Chief: Suzanne Ost, Associate Editor: Sara Fovargue) has a new Facebook page. Visithttp://www.facebook.com/MedicalLawReviewto find out more about the journal and contribute to the discussion. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1514/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1514/ Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:03:25 +0100 The Academy of Social Sciences has conferred the award of Academician on Professor Tony McEnery, Dean of FASS. In 2005 he was seconded to the Arts and Humanities Research Council where he acted as its first director of research until 2008. At the AHRC, amongst other innovations, he pioneered the introduction of research council doctoral training centres in the form of 'block grant partnership' awards. He has held and worked on many grants in his career, including those awarded by the AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC, EU and the Leverhulme Trust. He has worked with a wide range of industrial partners including Blackberry, British Telecom, IBM and Nokia. The award will be conferred at the next AGM of the Academy of Social Sciences on 5 July. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1511/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1511/ Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:16:46 +0100 Allyson Fiddler will give a talk to the Austrian Studies Association in Long Beach, California. Her paper, entitled 'Sounding out Austria', will analyse some of the many examples of protest music against the rise of the far right in Austrian politics. Examples taken from as genres ranging from pop, punk, electronic and choral music will be examined for the manner in which they voice their resistance to the alarming turn to the right in Austria around the turn of the century. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1512/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1512/ Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:39:40 +0100 Out of 34 nominees in the university, 7 members of staff from the department have been nominated in this year's Lancaster Teaching Award nominations. They include Jonathan Culpeper, Willem Hollmann, Uta Papen, Mick Short, Kevin Watson, and Tony McEnery who was not only nominated but also 'highly commended' by the panel. The Lancaster Teaching Award recognises excellent teaching by giving students the chance to nominate a teacher who has had an exceptional impact on learning by going above and beyond what you would normally expect. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1513/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1513/ Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:12:49 +0100 Ruth is invited as plenary speaker at the interdisciplinary conference on Migration in Salzburg: see below Perspectives from Social Sciences and Theology, Interdisciplinary Conference - 12 - 14 April 201, Salzburg, Edmundsburg____________________________ 12. 4. 2012 EMMIGRATING: LEAVING ONE'S COUNTRY 14.00 Arrival, Coffee 14.30 - 16.30 Opening Judith GruberSigrid Rettenbacher Centre for Intercultural Theology and Studies of Religions Salzburg University, Austria, Introduction to the Concept of the Conference Migration as a Sign of the TimesProf. Dr. Hans-Joachim SanderDepartment of Systematic Theology Salzburg, Austria, Introduction to the Theme of the Conference A Report from the Borders Dr. David Reisenze in External Relations Officer, Frontex Warsaw, Poland, Hagen Kopp„kein mensch ist illegal"Hanau, Germany 16.30 - 17.00 Break 17.00 - 19.30 Migration: Causes and Problematics, Bridget Anderson, PhD Centre for Migration, Policy & Society Oxford University, UKMigration: A Theological Approach, Prof. Dr. Michael Nausner Department of Systematic Theology School of Theology Reutlingen, GermanyPanel Discussion 20.00 Wine reception ____________________________ 13. 4. 2012 MIGRATING: TRAVELLING THE INTERSTICES 9.00 Insight: Personal Experience of Migration, Bishop Dr. John Okoro Old Catholic Church of Austria 9.15 - 10.00 Questioning the Nation State. Issues of Memory and Desire, Dr. Anne-Marie FortierDepartment of SociologyLancaster University, UK 10.00 - 10.30 Coffee Break 10.30 - 11.15 Anamnesia of Migration, Prof. Dr. Fernando SegoviaDivinity School - New Testament and Early ChristianityVanderbilt University, USA 11.15 - 12.30 Discussion 12.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break 14.30 - 16.30 Parallel Paper Sessions 16.30 - 17.00 Coffee Break 17.00 - 18.30 Theology of Migration.A Genealogy and Methodology, Daniel Groody, PhDCenter for Latino Spirituality & Culture University of Notre Dame, USA Response: Dr. Jorge Castillo Guerra Centre for World Christianity and Interreligious Studies Radboud University Nijmegen, NL____________________________ 14. 4. 2012 IMMIGRATING: ARRIVAL? 9.00 Insight: Personal Experience of Migration, Joana Adesuwa Reiterer Exit, Vienna, Austria 9.15 - 10.00 The Discursive Construction of the Strange, DDDr. Ruth Wodak Department of Linguistics & English Language Lancaster University, UK 10.00 - 10.30 Coffee Break 10.30 - 11.15 Christology. Subverting Exclusion, PD Dr. Hildegund Keul Bonn, Germany 11.15 - 12.30 Discussion 12.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break 14.30 - 16.00 Parallel Group Discussions 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break 16.30 - 18.00 The Conference in Retrospect: Migration as a Sign of the Times, Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Sander Ass. Prof. Dr. Regina Polak Department of Pastoral Theology Vienna University, Austria http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1510/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1510/ Thu, 10 May 2012 14:09:18 +0100 Our forthoming Volume of the Ruskin Review and Bulletin has now gone to print and will be available shortly. It's not too late to subscribe, please go to http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/ruskin/research/publications.htmfor further details. As a taster, you can view the Contents page here: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/ruskin/documents/Contents8.1.pdf http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1507/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1507/ Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:46:27 +0100 The Creative Exchange Launch and call for Arts and Humanities Researchers You may be aware that we have an AHRC Knowledge Exchange Hub "The Creative Exchange". In our grant we have funding for A&H academics to join the project. This is not limited to A&H academics at Lancaster or our partner institutions Newcastle and RCA, but to A&H academics nationwide. We are open to any discipline, our theme is the Digital Public Space, and how it will be used in relation to Language, Culture, History, Media, Ethics, Law indeed any discipline in the Arts and humanities Therefore I wanted to make you aware of our first call to A&H academics to join us at a workshop to start to develop the clusters and collaboration. The workshop will be on 15 May followed by a Conference on 16 May. The call for Academics is on our website: http://thecreativeexchange.org What is The Creative Exchange The Creative Exchange is a Knowledge Exchange (KE) Hubs for the Creative Economy established in January 2012 by the AHRC. Its focus will be on expanding the creative economy through innovation and knowledge exchange in the digital public space by bringing together pioneering companies with the best academic thinkers. The Creative Exchange unites interdisciplinary design innovation labs at Lancaster University, Royal College of Art and Newcastle University. It responds to profound changes in practice in the creative and media based industries stimulated by the opening of the digital public space. What is the Digital Public Space? For Arts and Humanities researchers new technology generally is reshaping how we experience culture and the digital public space is simply one of the most overt manifestations of that trend. The digital public space enables anyone, anywhere, anytime on any device to access, explore and create with all the digitized cultural content created by museums, galleries, libraries, broadcasters and the media, and other public sector bodies, newly made available through the web. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1508/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1508/ Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:43:49 +0100 Yvonne Prefontaine, PhD student on the Thesis and Coursework PhD program, has won the The Language Learning Dissertation Grant awarded by the internationally renowned Journal of Language Learning. The grant is a recognition of Yvonnes' research on fluency in French as a second language and provides financial support to finish her project. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1505/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1505/ Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:46:51 +0100 Olga Gomez-Cash joined other Lancaster academics in a visit to Jersey and Guernsey and gave master classes to sixth-formers on the topic of The Eurocrisis in the context of 'Ideas of Europe'. Organised by Lancaster UK Student Recruitment & Outreach office, the masterclasses are part of a larger partnership project between Lancaster University and the Channel Islands and Isle of Man. For more details: http://news.lancs.ac.uk/Web/News/Pages/Lancaster-Masterclasses-in-the-Channel-Islands-.aspx http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1509/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1509/ Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:37:19 +0100 What role for Religious Organisations in an era of Shrinking Welfare?Religious bodies were once crucial welfare providers in Britain. Many Western governmentsare keen to bring them on board again. But times have changed. Can 'faithful people' still deliver, and what do they currently have to offer? > The debate was chaired by Charles Clarke and Linda Woodhead. Podcast 1: Professor Linda Woodhead [Lancaster University, Director of the Religion and Society Programme] introduced the debate. Preceded by a welcome by Charles Clarke. 11.51Podcast 2: Dr Sarah Johnsen [Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh] presented findings from the project "The Difference that 'Faith' Makes", a study of services offered to homeless people. 8.40Podcast 3: Dr Adam Dinham [Goldsmiths, University of London] examined the approaches of Labour and Coalition governments to faith-based welfare provision. 11.14Podcast 4: The Most Revd Peter Smith [Roman Catholic Archbishop of Southwark, Chairman of the Department of Christian Responsibility and Citizenship of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales], responding, underlined the significance of faith-based welfare provision, and the challenge posed by reductions in government support. 11.49Podcast 5: The Rt Hon David Blunkett [Labour MP for Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough, Cabinet member 1997-2005], responding, spoke of a "new accommodation" which recognises the valuable and distinctive contribution of faiths to welfare. 10.54Podcast 6: Questions and comments from the audience, and responses by the panel. 46.48Access the podcasts and further details here. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1503/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1503/ Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:21:10 +0100 Alexander Harris, who graduated from Lancaster University Law School in July 2011, has had his essay from the module on Gender and the Law shortlisted for the Feminist & Women's Studies Association's student essay competition award. His essay will be published in the well-renowned Journal of International Women Studies. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1504/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1504/ Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:46:24 +0100 Following the UK Governments announcement on Friday 23 March that they intended to introduce a minimum price-per-unit for all alcohol sold in the UK, there were claims in the press that minimum pricing would be contrary to EU law.Angus MacCulloch analysed this claim and posted, on the EUtopialaw.com blog, his view that the such a challenge was unlikely to be successful. That post was subsequently picked up by the Guardian law section and re-posted there.You can see the full posts at:Minimum Alcohol Pricing and EU Law Would introducing a minimum price for alcohol of 40p per unit breach EU law? http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1506/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1506/ Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:55:47 +0100 Prof Paul Farley appeared on BBC Radio 4's 'Start the Week' on Monday 26th March to discuss his new collection of poetry, Dark Film. Listen to the broadcast by following the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1502/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1502/ Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:41:49 +0100 Imogen Tyler (Sociology) is part of a successful team bid to the ESRC for funding for a series of workshops on 'Exploring Everyday Practice and Resistance in Immigration Detention'. The workshops are being run by scholars from the universities of Oxford, York, Birmingham, Lancaster and Exeter, who span the disciplines of politics, sociology, geography and criminology, across five events during 2012-2014.The seminar series is coordinated by Dr Nick Gill of Exeter University's Geography Department (Principle Investigator) and will involve international speakers from Canada, America, Finland and Australia. These events aim to provide a means of networking between academics and practitioners, and those who have experienced detention, in order to exchange expertise and knowledge around the operation and implications of immigration detention in a national and international context. They also aim to raise public awareness of immigration detention and provide a foundation for a strong future research bid to the ESRC in this important and under-researched area. The Lancaster workshop, on the theme ofactivism in and around detention, will be held in 2014 and will be the final workshop in the series. It will bring together former migrant detainees, anti-detention activists, artists and scholars. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1500/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1500/ Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:45:25 +0000 From September 2012, the undergraduate students (MCS or Sociology Majors) who have taken the part 1 in Gender and Women's Studies, will be able to continue with Gender and Women's Studies in their second and third years in the Department.At the end of GWS 101 you identify that you would like to follow the GWS pathway as either a Sociology or Media majors (you need to tell this to the part 1 Director of CGWS Vicky Singleton and to Karen Gammon in the office).Design of the PathwayAs Sociology majors, the GWS cohort would be required to take the Sociology core courses:SOC200 Understanding Social Thought (Compulsory)SOC201 Research Skills and Techniques (half unit) (Compulsory)SOC202 Sociologial Research MethodsSOC 360 Doing Sociological ResearchHowever, you will be put into a distinct dissertation group in 360- this group would be led by a member of CGWS affiliated staff.In addition you will take:SOC208 Gender, Sexuality and SocietySOC314 Feminism and Social ChangeAs Media and Cultural Studies majors, the GWS cohort would be required to take the MCS core courses:MCS.200 Media and Cultural StudiesMCS.201/202 Media and Cultural Studies Research MethodsAnd MCS 360 (here you will join the SOC360 GWS cohort - forming a joint GWS dissertation group.In addition they would also take:SOC208 Gender, Sexuality and SocietySOC314 Feminism and Social ChangeWe will be compiling a handbook explaining the pathway, and will also tell you about in on CGWS 101, but if you have any questions please ask Vicky Singleton or Celia Roberts. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1501/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1501/ Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:59:09 +0000 Dr James Taylor (History) has co-authored a book on the origins of corporate governance in the UK. Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850, published by University of Chicago Press in January 2012, represents the most extensive survey of the early corporate economy yet undertaken. The outcome of a major ESRC-funded project, the book was a collaboration with Professor Robin Pearson (University of Hull) and Dr Mark Freeman (University of Glasgow). "The findings will be of great interest not only to business historians interested in corporate governance in the Industrial Revolution, but to anyone interested in wider issues of power and representation in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. This book is a major contribution to the debate over what kind of democracy is needed within a capitalist economy." - Professor Martin Daunton, University of Cambridge. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1499/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1499/ Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:41:17 +0000 On 15th March, Elena Semino will visit the Forum for Advanced Studies in Arts, Languages and Theology (SALT) at the University of Uppsala in Sweden.She will give a lecture on 'Metaphor, creativity and reconceptualization in communication about illness' and run a workshop on 'Language, mind and autism in Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1494/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1494/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:17:32 +0000 Thanks to a recent generous donation by an alumnus from PPR, the department can now offer a limited number of £3000 undergraduate academic scholarships. In 2012 we have four scholarships to offer. Because Lancaster University already offers academic scholarships to students who make Lancaster their first choice, and who achieve A*AA (or equivalent) or above, the PPR scholarships will be awarded to those students whose grades do not render them eligible for the Lancaster University academic scholarship, but who, in the view of the PPR scholarship panel, show exceptional academic promise. The scholarships for 2012 will be allocated by subject area as follows: ONE scholarship for the following schemes of study: · L200 Politics · L250 Politics and International Relations · LL92 Peace Studies and International Relations · L201 Politics (Study Abroad) ONE scholarship for the following schemes of study: · VL52 Philosophy and Politics · V500 Philosophy TWO scholarships for the following schemes of study · V627 Religious Studies · VV65 Philosophy and Religious Studies · VV56 Ethics, Philosophy, Religion · LV26 Politics and Religious Studies Eligibility In order to be eligible for consideration for the PPR scholarship the candidate: · must have made one of the degree schemes within PPR noted above his/ her firm UCAS choice; · must not be an immediate relative of the academic or administrative staff of the Department. The PPR scholarship does not affect eligibility for means-tested Lancaster University bursaries, or other national means-tested bursaries and grants (for example, a student in receipt of the PPR scholarship, from a lower-income family, might receive the PPR scholarship AND a means tested Lancaster bursary, and additional national support via bursary schemes and grants). Application and Selection There is no application form for applying for the PPR scholarship. All applicants to PPR who fulfil the requirements mentioned above will be automatically reviewed by the PPR scholarship panel. A final decision will be made in September and successful candidates will be informed. Please note: the intention of the scholarship is to give financial help throughout the undergraduate programme. Therefore, the scholarship will be divided into three annual payments, of £1000 each, over the period of the recipient's 3 year undergraduate degree programme. Continued receipt of the PPR scholarship is conditional upon satisfactory academic progression and upon the recipient remaining registered for one of the eligible degree programmes within PPR listed above. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1497/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1497/ Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:52:45 +0000 The nominations for the Lancaster staff awards 2012 have been announced. Congratulations to Dr Judit Kormos who has been nominated for the Pilkington Award for Excellence in teaching and to Professor Mick Short who has been nominated for the Outstanding Contribution Award. The winners of the staff awards will be announced shortly. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1498/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1498/ Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:36:50 +0100 The third debate in the Westminster faith debates series was on the topic: "What have we learned about radicalisation?" The debate was chaired and introduced by PPR Professors Charles Clarke and Linda Woodhead, with a panel including Mark Sedgwick, Matthew Francis, Marat Shterin, Mehdi Hasan, and Ed Husain. You can view the video and download podcasts here. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1495/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1495/ Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:02:06 +0000 Dr Imogen Tyler, ESRC research findings: Today we published our report, 'Networks of Asylum Support in the UK and USA: A Handbook of Ideas, Strategies and Best Practice for Asylum Support Groups in a Challenging Social and Economic Climate' which represents the findings of an eighteen month research project that examines the challenges faced by asylum support groups in the United States and the United Kingdom, and different ways of responding to those challenges. The research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK. The research has been carried out by four people: Drs Nick Gill, Deirdre Conlon, Ceri Oeppen and Imogen Tyler.For more information and to access the report see: http://asylum-network.com/latest_news/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1492/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1492/ Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:50:43 +0000 Paula is excited to announce the publication of her PhD-based book 'Becoming Intimately Mobile' by Warsaw Studies in Culture and Society Vol.2, (2012) Peter Lang Synopsis As more and more people become mobile to visit friends, family, and business colleagues using social networking websites, technologies in use today like Couchsurfing.com or online hitchhiking websites (OHWs) are allowing people to create new, planned encounters also between strangers. This book adds to the small body of work currently existing in the social sciences which describes ways in which the internet aids such face-to-face intimacy. Based on extensive research including 5 years of ethnography of couch surfers and OHW users and insights from over 3500 open-ended survey responses, this book explores the way meetings are initiated, relationships are strengthened or avoided, and the way hospitality and homemaking are negotiated. By explaining the process of becoming intimately mobile, this work creates an in-depth account of the relationships being created today as well as the problems that arise when defining friendship and closeness in a mobile world. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1493/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1493/ Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:15:19 +0000 Paul Baker gave a talk at the University of Brighton on the construction of Muslim women who wear veils in the British press. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1496/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1496/ Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:31:40 +0000 An awardwinning entrepreneur says that postgraduate study at Lancaster University will enhance her business which has a turnover of £250,000.Sarah Goodall runs The Athena Programme, which delivers training and consultancy to organisations nationwide aimed at safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. Her plans to study for a PhD will see her return to Lancaster University, where she studied social work at the Department of Applied Social Science from 1994 to 1997. She said she was looking forward to returning to study after her career first as a social worker and company managing director."I can't wait - I'm passionate about the subject and fuelled with excitement. My time at Lancaster was brilliant and I know how supportive the staff are. Lancaster has given me the best grounding that I could have and set me up for a very good career. I absolutely love studying and I can't wait to challenge my brain." Sarah will continue to run The Athena Programme while doing the full-time PhD, which will research how new technologies can be incorporated into the current children protection system."This PhD is very complementary to my business and will fundamentally affect practice so it's an important part of my business strategy. My new research aims to find out any benefits so we can share these with the organisations that Athena works with."The Athena Programme was set up in 2007 and now has five employees and five training associates. Over 4,000 people have since been trained on safeguarding, which translates into around 40,000 children who have potentially benefited. Sarah's success earned her the Business Start-up of the Year award at the North West Women in Business Awards and national recognition at the annual Extraordinary Women of the Year Awards 2011.She has been awarded funding for her PhD from the Economic and Social Research Council's North West Doctoral Training Centre, which is the largest centre in England for social science postgraduate training. Sarah's PhD will connect with a programme of research led by Professor Corinne May-Chahal, with Professor Awais Rashid from InfoLab21 focused on software engineering research for child protection and community safety. Professor May-Chahal said: "We are excited by the potential to broaden our research programme both by developing Sarah's commitment to creativity and arts in safeguarding and also knowledge exchange with a range of employers across the country." http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1491/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1491/ Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:48:10 +0000 Drs Hilary Hinds and Michael Greaney will be speaking at a one-day symposium, 'To Sleep...' on 5th March 2012 at Uppsala University, Sweden. Both members of the Department are currently working on different aspects of literature/culture and sleep, with Dr Greaney giving a paper entitled 'Dickens and the Comedy of Sleep' and Dr Hinds, who is researching twin beds for a Wellcome Trust-fuinded research project, will be giving a paper called 'Together and Apart: Twin Beds and Nineteenth-Century Sleep Hygiene'.Please follow the link below for more information. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1489/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1489/ Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:06:33 +0000 Ruth was invited to give a departmental lecture at Georgetown University, in the Linguistics Department, with the topic: 'Analysing Political Discourse: Politics as Usual on the European Stage' For more information: see http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=478&EventID=88807 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1490/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1490/ Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:59:39 +0000 There was a major interview with Charles Clarke in The Sunday Telegraph mentioning the Westminster faith debates and his role at Lancaster: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/9105663/Charles-Clarke-Thanks-to-religion-Ive-found-life-after-politics.html http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1487/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1487/ Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:10:52 +0000 The second debate in the Westminster faith debates series was on the topic: "What's the place of faith in schools?". The debate was chaired by PPR Professors Charles Clarke and Linda Woodhead, with a panel including Professor Robert Jackson, Professor James Conroy, Professor Richard Dawkins and the Rt Revd John Pritchard.You can view the video here. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1488/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1488/ Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:51:37 +0000 Following the Faculty's recent call for 'Knowledge Exchange' projects, the Department has won three awards: Simon Bainbridge has won funding to develop his 'Wordsworth Walks' with local businesses and organisations over the next 18 months. Paul Farley had won funding to develop 'The Poetry Archive Live', a series of events at Lancaster that will bring together writers featured in the prestigious Poetry Archive http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do along with students, researchers, academics and local schoolteachers. John Schad has won funding to set up an open writing day on the council estate which provides the setting for his forthcoming documentary-novel, The Late Walter Benjamin; the writing day will culminate in an literary event called 'A Literary Estate' to take place at the Watford Palace Theatre on June 2nd. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1486/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1486/ Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:14:38 +0000 Congratulations on the award of PhD go to Dr Vicky Duckworth. Vicky has been supervised by Professor Mary Hamilton as a traditional route research student. The title of her thesis - 'Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment Among Adult Basic Skills Learners.' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1481/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1481/ Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:55:51 +0000 Congratulations on the award of PhD to Dr Abdulla Alshaiba. Dr Alshaiba has been supervised by Professor Malcolm Tight and a member of the Doctoral Programme in Educational Research. The title of the thesis - 'Preparing National Graduates for Employment during Higher Education Programs in the United Arab Emirates: Role of Graduate Skills and Implications on the Policy of Emiratisation'. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1482/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1482/ Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:58:07 +0000 Congratulations on the award of PhD to Dr Sophie Hill. Sophie is a member of the Doctoral Programme in Educational Research and has been supervised by Dr Paul Ashwin. The title of the thesis - 'Troublesome or Threshold? The experience of difficult concepts in prosthetics'. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1483/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1483/ Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:01:01 +0000 Congratulations on the recent award of PhD to Dr Rumona Dickson. Rumona is a member of the Doctoral Programme in Educational Research and has been supervised by Professor Murray Saunders and Professor Paul Trowler. The title of the thesis - 'Meta-evaluation and developmental evaluation: A case study of SEARCH Program evaluations.' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1484/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1484/ Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:03:08 +0000 Paul Baker gave a talk on Polari at the Lancashire Archives, Preston, as part of the LGBT history month. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1480/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1480/ Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:52:12 +0000 Ruth is invited as one of six speakers at a sociolinguistics workshop in Georgetown, Department for Aravic and Islamic Studies. For details, see http://arabic.georgetown.edu/252227.html http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1478/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1478/ Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:24:45 +0000 Lancaster Sociology is delighted to welcome Adam Fish who is joining the Department as a Lecturer in Society and Media in August. Adam is a media anthropologist from Los Angeles who has been researching the way viewer created content might be used to make media more democratic. He is looking forward to offering new courses at Lancaster and wants to teach research methods building students' 'digital literacy' (From Tim Dant, Head of Department). http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1479/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1479/ Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:42:40 +0000 A study by Dr Don Passey (Educational Research) looking at the uses of digital resources in primacy schools has been launched in the House of Commons. The reception and presentation were attended by MPs, policymakers and headteachers as well as educational suppliers and publishers. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1485/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1485/ Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:09:57 +0000 We are delighted to announce a new Five Year Collaborative Agreement between The Wordsworth Trust and Lancaster University starting in 2012. This agreement formalises a long-standing, fruitful relationship between the Trust and The Wordsworth Centre involving PhD placements, AHRC funded projects, field trips and other activities. The Collaborative Agreement establishes three major activities each year: · An "immersive experience" at the Trust for students in the Department of English providing a unique opportunity to stay in the Lakes, be introduced to the rich archive at the Jerwood Centre and experience all aspects of museum, archival and manuscript work. · An annual competitive internship. One of the prestigious internships at the Trust will be awarded to a Lancaster graduate each year. · An annual art exhibition held at the Peter Scott Gallery on the Lancaster Campus but drawing upon the superb art collection held at the Trust. We look forward to building ever-stronger research and outreach links with the Trust in the years to come. Simon Bainbridge and Sally Bushell Co-Directors of The Wordsworth Centre http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1473/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1473/ Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:03:31 +0000 Congratulations on the outstanding achievement of Dr Cristina Sin, awarded forthwith at her recent viva. Cristina, a traditional route research student, has been supervised by Professor Murray Saunders. The subject of her thesis is: 'Loose Policy and Local Adaptation: A comparative study of Master degree in the context of the Bologna Process' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1469/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1469/ Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:13:58 +0000 Congratulations on the outstanding achievement of Dr Jonathan Tummons, awarded forthwith at his recent viva. Jonathan, a part-time traditional route research student, has been supervised by Professor Mary Hamilton. The title of his thesis is - 'The Assessment of Trainee Teachers: An ethnography'. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1470/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1470/ Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:17:35 +0000 Congratulations to Dr Elizabeth Jackson on the award of PhD. Liz, a member of the Doctoral Programme in Educational Research, was supervised by Dr Paul Ashwin and the subject of her thesis is: - 'Student Primary Teachers' Perception of Mathematics.' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1471/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1471/ Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:22:02 +0000 Congratulations on the award of PhD go to Dr Carolyn King. Carolyn was a member of the Doctoral Programme in Educational Research and supervised by Professor Murray Saunders. The title of her thesis - 'Policy and Practice in Religious Education within Faith and Community Schools.' http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1472/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1472/ Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:27:53 +0000 Dr Tony Sharpe gave a lecture at Durham University, at the invitation of the Institute of Advanced Study, on Tuesday 21 February. The lecture was entitled 'W.H. Auden: The Loveliness that Is the Case', and was given as part of a series mounted by the Institute under the theme of 'The Persistence of Beauty'. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1475/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1475/ Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:34:52 +0000 Dr Tony Sharpe gave a lecture at Durham University, at the invitation of the Institute of Advanced Study, on Tuesday 21 February. The lecture was entitled 'W.H. Auden: The Loveliness that Is the Case', and was given as part of a series mounted by the Institute under the theme of 'The Persistence of Beauty'. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1476/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1476/ Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:39:10 +0000 Dr Tony Sharpe gave a lecture at Durham University, at the invitation of the Institute of Advanced Study, on Tuesday 21 February. The lecture was entitled 'W.H. Auden: The Loveliness that Is the Case', and was given as part of a series mounted by the Institute under the theme of 'The Persistence of Beauty'. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1477/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1477/ Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:39:58 +0000 At the 2012 BAFTA awards ceremony a posthumous award was given to Bridget O'Connor, who graduated from Lancaster with a BA in English and Creative Writing in 1982. Bridget co-wrote the screenplay of the film 'Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy', but died in 2010 before it was filmed. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1468/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1468/ Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:01:17 +0000 The Department of History is pleased to report that they have gone up in the rankings from 21st to 18th in the 2012 Complete University Guide. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1465/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1465/ Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:29:56 +0000 A special issue of the journal Language and Education on Literacies and Sites of Learning guest edited by Karin Tusting, is now published. The issue features work by Literacy Research Centre scholars David Barton, Julia Gillen, Mary Hamilton, Uta Papen and Karin Tusting. The table of contents is here. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1466/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1466/ Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:47:20 +0000 Prof Linda Woodhead has a piece in The Guardian (Feb 15th) discussing Richard Dawkins' suggestion that the UK population is not really "religious". Read it here. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1463/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1463/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:12:59 +0000 Ruth is invited to participate as speaker and discussant at the workshop 'Speaking Europe abroad: Institutional Cooperation and the Making of EU's Discourse. See details of the program below: " Making of EU's Discourse"Speaking Europe Abroad: Institutional Cooperation and the Brussels - 14/15 February 2012 ULB/GR:EEN 14 February 2012 10.00 - Opening session - Welcoming remarks 10.30 - Chair: Jean-Frédéric Morin "Setting the Limits: Discourse and EU Foreign Policy, by Thomas Diez" Discussant: Caterina Carta - ULB 11.15 - Coffee Break 11.45 - "Constructing European Foreign Policy: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges, by Knud Erik Jřrgensen " Discussant: Ruth Wodak - Lancaster University 12.30 - "A stabilising factor and model in the world" - the EU's public representation in the realm of foreign policy, by Amelie Kutter" Discussant: Claudia Morsut - Institute of Stavanger - Norway 13.15 - Lunch 14.30 "Discourses of State Identity and Post-Lisbon national foreign policy: the Case of Denmark, by Henrik Larsen" Discussant: Senem Haydin-Duzgit, Istanbul Bilgi University 15.15 - "A Post-Structuralist Approach to EU Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Governance as a 'Discursive Battleground, by Beste Isleyen" Discussant: Amelie Kutter - Lancaster University- Chair: Mario Teló 15.45 - Coffee Break 16.15 - Chair: Jan Orbie - Gent University "Model, Player or Instrument for Global Governance: Disentangling EU's Policy Options and Discursive Traps in World Affairs, by Anna Herranz" Discussant: Christian Olsson - ULB 16.45 - "Three ways of speaking Europe to the world: markets, peace, cosmopolitan duty and the institutionalisation of EU foreign policy discourses, by Ben Rosamond" Discussant: Ferdi De Ville - Gent University 20.00 - Dinner at La Quinquaillerie 15 February 9.00 - Coffee 9.30 - Chair: Amandine Bled-Orsini - ULB "An authentic European role?"Glocalisation and the revival of nationalism in the European Union - a discourse-historical approach , by Ruth Wodak" Discussant: Anna Herranz - IBEI 10.15 - "Is "constructive ambiguity" of European defence really constructive? A comparison of France and Ireland's discourse on Common Security and Defence Policy, by Antoine Rayoux" Discussant: Birgit Poopuu - Tartu University 11.00 - Coffee Break 11.30 - Chair: Caterina Carta - ULB "Speaking to the Markets or to the People? A Discursive Institutionalist Analysis of EU Leaders' Discourse during the EU's Sovereign Debt Crisis, by Vivien Schmidt" Discussant: Eleni Xiarchogiannopoulou - ULB 12.15 - Jean-Frédéric Morin/Caterina Carta - Discussing Editorial Projects 13.00 - Lunch 14.30 - Cultural Visit to the Maison Horta http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1461/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1461/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:02:13 +0000 Dr Basil Germond has been interviewed by the Italian newspaper Affaritaliani.it to discuss the Chinese and Russian veto of the UN Security Council resolution condemning Syria and the implications for security in a multipolar world. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1467/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1467/ Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:50:03 +0000 Britain is more religiously diverse than ever before.What does this mean for how we live together?These were themes of one of the recent Religion and Society debates: 'Religious Identity in Superdiverse Societies', involving PPR Professors Charles Clarke, Kim Knott and Linda Woodhead. Podcasts and videos can be viewed or listened to here. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1462/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1462/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:00:29 +0000 Professor Murray Saunders (Educational Research) was appointed Vice President of the IOCE (International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation) at the January 2012 IOCE Board meeting in Accra, Ghana. The IOCE is the international association representing national and regional Voluntary Organizations of Professional Evaluators in the Americas, Africa, Australasia, East Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Middle East. The appointment is, in particular to help manage an innovative partnership with UNICEF, in conjunction with the Government of Finland, to enhance the capacities of civil society to engage in a strategic and meaningful manner in national evaluation processes, and to influence country-led evaluation systems. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1460/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1460/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:07:02 +0000 Graham Mort has been awarded £1,600 from the Faculty Research Fund to develop a new dimension of his work in Uganda with the Femrite Womens Writers Association - a project to enhance editing skills for writers and publishers that will lead to a new anthology of work and an eBook publication. The award will be topped up by £200 of Departmental funding (a pre-requisite) and has been proposed as en enhancement of the REF Impact Study based on Graham's work in Africa over the past ten years. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1459/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1459/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:55:59 +0000 In the recently published 2012 edition of the 'Complete University Guide' Sociology went up the rankings from 13th in the 2011 league table to 7th for 2012 and Media Studies went up from 15th to 13th. The Department are delighted to see this improvement on the rankings that are made up from scores on student satisfaction, research assessment, entry standards and graduate prospects. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1451/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1451/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:55:18 +0000 Prof.G.Loanadha Reddy, Dean of the School of Education at Dravidian University, Kuppam, India visited Lancaster this week to meet with members of the Centre for Disability Research. Prof Reddy is on a longer visit to the UK and is based at Coventry University. He is visiting to learn more about disability studies in the UK as part of his own plans to start a Centre for Disability Studies in Dravidian University. This will be an interdisciplinary centre that will aim to educate and train people to implement India's policies of inclusion. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1453/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1453/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:14:14 +0000 Before Christmas, David was accepted onto the Get Your Name in Print journalism programme, run by LUSU Media and Communications, in partnership with Andrew Turner of GDR Public Relations. He wrote my first article on the series of events planned for Lancaster in 2012 related to the 400th anniversary of the Lancashire Witch Trials, including the Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images conference at the university. This was published in the Lancashire Evening Post on Thursday 2 February 2012. Over the rest of the academic year, David will be looking to write and publish more articles for the local print media. If anyone knows of interesting, controversial and/or important items of news relating to Lancashire, you're welcome to contact David at d.s.mcwilliam@lancaster.ac.uk. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1474/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1474/ Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:08:13 +0000 A former Lancaster PhD student has won the 2011 Costa Book of the Year Award for his novel, Pure. Andrew Miller, who was a research student in the Department of English & Creative Writing (awarded 1995), was presented with his prize at a ceremony in London last week; Geordie Grieg, chair of the judges, described Pure as 'a rich and brilliant historical novel of death and superstition. It is a morality tale which engrosses with its vivid evocation of pre-revolutionary France.' Andrew's book prevailed in a strong year that saw category winners such as Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. His first novel, Ingenious Pain, won the Impac Dublin prize and the James Tait Black award. In 2001, his novel Oxygen was shortlisted for the Booker and Whitbread (forerunner of the Costa) novel prize. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1450/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1450/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:18:33 +0000 We are very much looking forward to welcoming J. Hillis Miller to the Department in May 2012. During his time with us, he will be participating in a variety of open lectures, research seminars and a conference dedicated to his life and work. The trailer for a film about J. Hillis Miller by Dragan Kujundzic, The First Sail, can be viewed on Youtube (please see the link below).The film portrays the life and work of the great American literary critic and philosopher, J. Hillis Miller, through interviews and archival footage. The filming took place in the President's House at the University of Florida, where J.Hillis Miller spent some of his childhood as the son of the first post World War II President of the University of Florida, J.Hillis Miller Sr. J. Hillis Miller reminisces about his childhood and the great contribution of his family to the university, as well about his own career at Yale University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of California. The filming then continued on Deer Isle, Maine, where J.Hillis Miller has summer and winter residences and where he is also an avid sailor. From more than thirty hours of interview footage, a selection was made to illustrate not only a life of a great critic, but also the history of American University for the last sixty years, as well as to hear J.Hillis Miller's reflections on some of the urgent topics of our time: climate change, the role of higher education in the US, financial crises etc. This film includes exclusive footage of Jacques Derrida talking about J.Hillis Miller at a conference dedicated to him. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1458/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1458/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:51:34 +0000 Congratulations to Andrew Keir, who completed the MA in Creative Writing by Distance Learning in September 2011, and whose novella, Bloody Flies, is going to be published next month. Bloody Flies is a sequence of glimpses into expat life in the opening decade of the twenty-first century and the shifting morals that occur when Middle-East meets West. After the death of Leo's father, Leo and Diana Hunter move their family to materialistic Abu Dhabi in pursuit of the best future that money can buy. But despite their commitment to this neat world their hopes soon begin to crumble under the shadow of corruption, slavery and greed. Moving Messages, an episode from Bloody Flies, was runner up in the 2010 Kitab/M Magazine short fiction competition. Bloody Flies will be available in paperback and on Kindle. Please see the link below for more information. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1449/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1449/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:51:48 +0000 Prof Linda Woodhead has a piece in this weeks Tablet on the role of religion in public life.http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/162261 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1447/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1447/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:32:07 +0000 Visiting Professor Charles Clarke gave an interview on LBC on Friday 27th January, on religion and its position in everyday life.You can hear the interview here. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1448/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1448/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:36:17 +0000 On Wednesday 4th April 2012, the Oxford Playhouse Drama Studio will host a staged reading of John Schad's novelistic work, Someone Called Derrida: An Oxford Mystery.For full details of the show, please follow the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1446/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1446/ Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:36:07 +0000 I'm here all week, ba-dum-tish! (Is this thing still on?) http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1443/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1443/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:48:28 +0000 The proceedings of a symposium held last November at Lancaster University are available to download from -http://www.lancs.ac.uk/cedr/publications/Anderson_Sapey_and_Spandler_eds_2012.pdfThis includes a reprint of Anne Plumb's 1994 discussion paper, Distress or Disability? which was originally published by the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People and is now out of print. A great opportunity to read and pass on this classic text along with many other excellent papers. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1442/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1442/ Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:34:15 +0000 The Centre for Gender and Women's Studies willbe collaborating with the international research network MaMSIE(Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics) in 2012. We will be runninga series of large workshop style research events in 2012/13 which will be announced on our events page. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1441/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1441/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:18:42 +0000 Paul Baker gave an invited talk on his research on the representation of Islam in the British press at Aston University. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1464/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1464/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:30:25 +0000 The Festival (part of a series of events associated with the Tom Milne Popular Fiction Archive Exhibition) runs from Friday 20th January to Friday 27th January and is open to all members of Lancaster University. . It will show a mixture of classic film noir and post-1960sneo-noir every evening in the Elizabeth Livingstone Lecture Theatre. FILM SHOWINGS 20th JANUARY to 27th JANUARY FRIDAY 20th JAN: Maltese Falcon 6.00 - 7.40; Farewell My Lovely 8.00 - 9.35 MONDAY 23rd JAN: Double Indemnity 6.00 - 7.50; Body Heat 8.30 - 10.30 TUESDAY 24th JAN: Cape Fear 6.00 - 7.45; Point Blank 8.15 - 10.00 WEDNESDAY 25th JAN: Shoot the Piano Player 6.00 - 7.20; Strangers on a Train 8.00 - 9.50 THURSDAY 26th JAN: Jackie Brown 9.00 - 12.00 FRIDAY 27th JAN: The Big Heat 6.00 - 7.30; The Grifters 8.00 - 9.50 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1440/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1440/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:45:50 +0000 Dr Julia Gillen, lecturer in Digital Literacies, writes about Waterstone's lost apostrophe in the Daily Mirror."End of an error: Why it's OK to follow Waterstone's and ditch the apostrophe" http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1437/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1437/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:31:00 +0000 Ruth is invited to give the keynote at the occasion of the opening of the new faculty building of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Paris-Lodron University Salzburg (Unipark Nonntal), 13 January 2012, on Critic and Crisis: Dimension of interdisciplinary Social and Cultural Sciences.For further details please see the program. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1438/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1438/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:37:21 +0000 The late Tom Milne was a highly regarded film critic who joined the British Film Institute as an associate editor. His collection was recently donated to the University Library by Nigel Algar, Senior Curator (Fiction) of the BFI. The exhibition showcases novels from the Tom Milne Archive, focusing on the influence of American crime fiction on film noir and neo-noir. The exhibition runs from 17th January - 9th March 2012, in Lancaster University Library.Nigel Algar will be talking about his personal reflections of Tom Milne as a critic and collector on Wednesday 18th January at 2pm in Training Rooms 3, Human Resources Building. Please contact Louise Tripp at l.tripp@lancaster.ac.uk if you would like to attend. The Milme Archive has been funded by a generous donation from the Lancaster University Friends Programme. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1439/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1439/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:41:44 +0000 'Who wants to be locked into a room with 30 people dressed just like them, to be startled by a bell every 35 minutes, to queue for lunch for 40 minutes and be made to stand outside in the cold twice a day?' Jenn Ashworth most definitely did not…Jenn's essay, 'Why I refused to go to school' will feature in the Guardian Weekend Magazine on Saturday 14th January, and can be read online following the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1444/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1444/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:15:33 +0000 Bruce Bennett (Film Studies/LICA) is delivering a presentation on sitcoms and comic treatments of the war on terror, entitled 'Gary's war on terror: Television comedy and soldiers' stories' on Saturday 14th Jan.Conference title: Acting Up: Gender and Television ComedyVenue: Northumbria University http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1436/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1436/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:11:09 +0000 Professor Linda Woodhead, Professor Charles Clarke and Dr Rebecca Cato (PPR) are running a series of high profile public debates in Westminster on the theme of religion and public life, involving a wide range of speakers including: David Blunkett, Richard Dawkins, Kim Knott, Trevor Phillips, Lisa Appignanesi and many others. Topics include: Religious Identity in "Superdiverse" Societies (8th Feb); What's the Place of Faith in Schools (22 February) and What Limits to Religious Freedom (18 April). For further details see link. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1433/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1433/ Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:56:40 +0000 Professor Paul Farley was the presenter of BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature broadcast on New Year's Day. The programme, 'Dee', followed Paul as he travelled the path of the River Dee from its source in the Welsh mountains, along the border with England and finally out to sea, meeting with farmers, historians, lifeguards, novelists, singers and mystics along the way. Paul also featured in the Guardian's Country Diary column on 7 January, written by Jim Perrin, who appeared in the programme. 'Dee' also featured in Pick of the Week on BBC Radio 4 on 8 January, and was previewed in the Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and other national newspapers. You can read the Country Diary column by following the link below. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1445/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1445/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:22:36 +0000 Prof. Linda Woodhead, Prof. Charles Clarke and Dr Rebecca Catto from PPR are running a series of high profile public debates in Westminster this spring on the theme of religion and public life, involving a wide range of speakers including: David Blunkett, Richard Dawkins, Kim Knott, Trevor Phillips, Lisa Appignanesi and many others. Topics include: Religious Identity in "Superdiverse" Societies (8th Feb); What's the Place of Faith in Schools (22nd Feb) and What Limits to Religious Freedom (18th April). For further details see: http://www.religionandsociety.org.uk/faith_debates http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1432/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1432/ Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:02:25 +0000 PPR at Lancaster recently hosted a public "Question Time: Debating Poltics and Religion" event,with an exciting panel of guests from the world of politics, religion, media and academia. For those who didn't manage to attend, the event has been recorded and the video is available here http://www.lancs.ac.uk/iss/services/digital/test/questiontimetest.htm . http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1421/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1421/ Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:59:45 +0000 The loss of her job became the chance of a lifetime for former banking employee Elaine Stokes. She used her redundancy money to fund a Masters degree in Historical Research at Lancaster University, where she was awarded a distinction. Elaine first graduated with a BA in Medieval Studies in 1977 but after nearly three decades working all over the UK in the banking industry, she was made redundant. "I have always loved history and being made redundant meant I had the money to do an MA. I worked part-time in the Lancaster Environment Centre at the University whilst improving my skills as an historian". Her MA in Historical Research examined the north/south divide not in terms of house prices, but in terms of the linguistic impact of Viking settlements."I wanted to be able to read medieval documents in the original and I looked at the names of fields, which showed a very strong Scandinavian influence, especially in the Lune Valley and the Fylde. "Doing the MA has been very fulfilling and I am now equipped to progress further with my historical studies." http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1429/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1429/ Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:56:34 +0000 A former teacher has achieved the highest academic degree almost fifty years after being told she was not good enough for university. Jane Platt, 63, who lives near Carlisle in Cumbria, was told by her teachers that she was not suitable for a university education. She has since achieved a PhD in History from Lancaster University and is working on her first book."When I got to Lancaster University, I was like a child in a sweetshop because it was so exciting. When you finally get something that you've wanted all your life, you can't stop studying. I'm finally the "me" that I always wanted to be. I thought I was useless but I feel thrilled that I've come so far." Jane said nothing in her background had prepared her for higher education. "I came from a poor background of housemaids and estate tenants - it was a different world back then. I wanted desperately to go to university and I was top of the form in English and History but bottom in Maths so I wasn't allowed to go. I was pushed off to teacher training college instead but it wasn't fulfilling." Jane qualified as a teacher in 1969 and taught for 30 years before taking a part-time degree with the Open University, where she achieved First Class honours. "Both of my daughters went to university and one is now a professor in the US so I thought, maybe I could do this too. But I had to earn money so I taught part-time and did my degree that way and it was amazing." She then did an MA in Historical Research at Lancaster University in 2007, gaining a Distinction, and two prizes - in Local History and the prize for the best dissertation of the year. This was followed by a PhD which was highly commended by the external examiners. She is currently working on turning her PhD thesis into a book on parish magazines in 19th century England.Jane's former PhD supervisor Dr Thomas Dixon said it had been a pleasure to oversee her postgraduate research. He said: "As a mature student, Jane brought a breadth of experience and knowledge to her work which added an extra dimension to her studies. She has excelled at both Masters and PhD level, producing original and fascinating work on the place of the parish magazine in Victorian life. Jane has three attributes that are essential for any excellent historian: curiosity, determination, and an elegant literary style." http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1430/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1430/ Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:04:07 +0000 Dr Don Passey has recently completed a study looking at uses of digital resources in primary schools. The report focused on ways that digital resources enhance teaching and learning as well as supporting management and cost effectiveness. The report was highlighted in the BBC News article Digital textbooks open a new chapter, and was featured in articles in the Borneo News, Education Executive, Teaching Time, Merlin John On-Line and bee-it. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1424/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1424/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:07:34 +0000 Young people can have high levels of familiarity with and spend a great deal of time practising skills with digital technologies. As model is currently being developed in two schools, where young people will support managers and teachers in selection and implementation of digital technologies. Dr Don Passey has been commissioned to evaluate the processes and outcomes of this 'digital leaders' pilot. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1425/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1425/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:08:52 +0000 The Nominet Trust commissioned Professor Christine Milligan in the School of Health and Medicine and Dr Don Passey to write a state-of-the-art report on internet use by older people. Professor Mary Hamilton acted as a consultant on the project. The report has been well received by the Nominet Trust; they aim to use it to guide future developments of new activities in this field. The project report is now accessible online: Milligan, C. and Passey, D. (2011). Ageing and the use of the Internet - current engagement and future needs: State-of-the-art report. Published by the Nominet Trust and accessible at: http://nominettrust.org.uk/sites/default/files/NT%20SoA%20-%20Ageing%20and%20the%20use%20of%20the%20internet.pdf. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1426/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1426/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:10:11 +0000 Passey, D. and Higgins, S. (2011). Learning platforms and learning outcomes - insights from research. Learning, Media and Technology, 36(4), 329-333 Passey, D. (2011). Implementing learning platforms into schools: an architecture for wider involvement in learning. Learning, Media and Technology, 36(4), 367-397 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1427/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1427/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:11:02 +0000 This recent one-day event, exploring aspects of data management in schools, was welcomed and well received by teachers, postgraduate students and staff attending. Morning seminars were presented by: Paddy Guest and Mark Bedwell from Different Class Ltd., who discussed approaches to the development of their new data management system and uses in a growing number of primary and secondary schools; and Pat O'Brien, an international education consultant, who discussed uses of Cognitive Abilities Tests in schools with newly developed ways to analyse reports to support more focused teaching and learning. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1428/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1428/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:14:20 +0000 The Trans-Scriptions team of the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research (Lindsey Moore, Kate Horsley, Lee Horsley and Graham Mort) have been awarded £5,364 by the University Friends Fund to launch a series of events entitled Writing for Liberty, which will feature writers who have used their work in defence of democratic rights and freedom. This new series will also lead to an innovative publishing concept via the CTWR website in the form of a multi-media journal, enabled by FASS Capital Expenditure and Research Development funds (in excess of £20k) already awarded to the Centre. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1422/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1422/ Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:23:01 +0000 In December 2004 HRH Princess Alexandra retired as Chancellor of Lancaster University after holding the office for 40 years. To mark her long service, the University's Senate agreed that a Chancellor's medal should be presented annually to the most meritorious students of Lancaster University. The Department is delighted to announce that the University awarded one of these medals to Jacob Silkstone at the winter degree ceremony which took place on 14th December 2011, in recognition of his outstanding performance in the campus-based MA in Creative Writing. Congratulations, Jacob. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1423/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1423/ Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:31:41 +0000 Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) at Lancaster University is delighted to invite applications for one AHRC-funded PhD bursary and one AHRC-funded Research Preparation Masters bursary in the field of Drama, Performing Arts, and Dance. LICA welcomes Theatre and Performance applicants for PhD study, MA by Research (Theatre and Performance) and MA Contemporary Arts (Practice). For more information please visit, http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/lica/ Only UK/EU students can apply for AHRC-funded bursaries. The rates for 2011-12 were £13,590 (Doctoral) and £9,490 (Masters); we do not yet know what the rates will be for 2012-13. Terms and Conditions can be found here, http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/GuidetoStudentFunding.pdf. For further details please go to http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/gradschool/funding/ If you have any questions or for further information please contact Jennifer Bull, LICA Postgraduate Coordinator, lica@lancaster.ac.uk. For enquiries that are academic-related please contact Professor Elaine Aston, e.aston@lancaster.ac.uk PhD Students AHRC Bursary - 3 years (subject to AHRC Spending Review update) covering fees and maintenance. You cannot be considered for a studentship unless you also have been offered a place, so you mustsubmit an online application form. To do this follow directions at http://www.postgraduate.lancs.ac.uk/Pages/default.aspx.You will need to complete a Research Proposal form (http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/lica/docs/PhD_proposal.doc) and upload this with your application. Practice as Research Students will also need to provide a succinct professional biography, and submit no more than one DVD (15 mins. max.), OR links to YouTube clips (good quality), of excerpts from their professional practice. Your online application must be submitted no later than Wednesday 29th February 2012. PhD Interviews (for invited applicants only) will be held at LICA on Wednesday 7th March 2012. To be considered for the AHRC bursary, or any other faculty studentship in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASS) at Lancaster University, download the application form, http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/gradschool/funding/docs/FASS_PGR_Studentship_Application-Form_2012-13.doc. The funding application form (as distinct from the online application) has a slightly longer deadlinebutmust be submitted to Jennifer Bull, LICA PG Coordinator, LICA Building, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW no later than 12noon Monday 26th March 2012. Research Preparation Masters Students AHRC Bursary - 1 year covering fees and maintenance. You cannot be considered for a studentship unless you also have been offered a place, so you mustsubmit an online application form. To do this follow directions at http://www.postgraduate.lancs.ac.uk/Pages/default.aspx.The Research Preparation Masters course that can be considered for this funding is MA by Research (Theatre and Performance). You will need to complete a Research Proposal form (http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/lica/docs/MA_by_Research_proposal.doc) and upload this with your application. Practice as Research Students will also need to provide a succinct professional biography, and submit no more than one DVD (15 mins. max.), OR links to YouTube clips (good quality), of excerpts from their professional practice. Your online application must be submitted no later than Monday 19th March 2012. To be considered for the AHRC bursary, or any other faculty studentship in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASS) at Lancaster University, download the application form, http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/gradschool/funding/docs/FASS_PGT_Studentship_Application-Form_2012-13.doc. The funding application form must be submitted to Jennifer Bull, LICA PG Coordinator, LICA Building, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW no later than 12noon Monday 26th March 2012. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1420/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1420/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:50:02 +0000 The Austrian Government has presented one of its highest awards to Distinguished Professor Ruth Wodak at a ceremony in Vienna. The Minister of Science and Education Professor Karl Heinz Töchterle presented her with the "Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria" (Großes Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich), on behalf of the President of Austria, Dr Heinz Fischer. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1435/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1435/ Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:07:16 +0000 The History Department is delighted to learn that Naomi Tadmor's book The Social Universe of the English Bible: Scripture, Society, and Culture in Early Modern England is one of six books shortlisted for the prestigious Longman/History Today Book of the Year award. For more details and the full shortlist see: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1418/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1418/ Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:09:12 +0000 Dr Bruce Bennett (LICA) will be introducing the film masterpiece, The Red Shoes(Michael Powell, 1948) at the Dukes cinema in Lancaster on Sunday 11th December at 7.30. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1415/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1415/ Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:30:32 +0000 Athanasia (Nana) Rodaki has successfully defended her PhD on "A cultural international political economy of Rome: an entrepreneurial city in a multi-scalar context". She needs to make some minor correction in the next few weeks. She was co-supervised by Ngai-Ling Sum (PPR) and Bob Jessop (Sociology). http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1419/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1419/ Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:36:26 +0000 Ruth Wodak will be giving a public lecture at the University of Luxembourg, 7th December, as part of the lecture series 'The Future of Educational Studies'. The lecture series will deal with current approaches in discourse analysis, including in particular multimodal and ethnographically grounded discourse analysis. Ideally, contributions will also apply these approaches to educational (or other institutional) and/or multilingual contexts. The title of Ruth's lecture will be "Multilingualism in EU Institutions? Between Policy Making and Implementation". http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1416/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1416/ Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:33:42 +0000 This exciting new MA scheme offers postgraduate students a valuable qualification in Digital Language and Literacies. The course builds on Lancaster University's distinctive expertise in the area, offering an internationally known perspective on New Literacies. It is taught in the Department of Linguistics and English Language including Lancaster University's renowned Literacy Research Centre. Academic staff include Professor David Barton, Dr. Julia Gillen, Dr. Uta Papen, Dr. Diane Potts and Dr. Karin Tusting. Internationally known experts in other areas of the Department contribute teaching to the MA scheme overall. The course makes use of innovative tools and online environments to examine digital language and literacies. Students will engage in a variety of activities, including lectures, seminars, group and individual activities, benefiting from face-to-face as well as online interactions. Skills developed will include communication, collaboration and problem-solving, as well as the more established academic practices of researching new issues and critical reflection on theory and method. Students on our MA courses come from a diverse range of backgrounds; they join a lively and enthusiastic group working in a stimulating environment. For further details see http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/study/masters/digital-language-literacies.htm http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1414/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1414/ Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:47:56 +0000 Amaranta Herrero Cabrejas from the Autonomous University of Barcelona will return to study at CSEC next year ( March - July 2012), having received a scholarship from the 'mobility program' of the Ministry of Science in Spain. Her thesis title is 'The Anatomy of a socio-environmental conflict: the case of the opencast coal mining in the Laciana Valley (Leon- Spain)'. Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne are very happy to help supervise Amaranta on this fascinating and important research about open-cast mining, and the way such mining is being technologised and characterised as a 'green option' in Spain and Europe. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1351/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1351/ Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:58:08 +0100 Dr Rebecca Braun (Department of European Languages and Cultures) has been awarded the 2010 Max Kade Prize for the best essay published in the leading US journal German Quarterly throughout 2010. The American Association of Teachers of German will formally award the prize of $1500 at a ceremony on 19 November 2011 in Denver, Colorado. The essay, '1967-2007: The Gruppe 47 as a cultural Heimat', looks in detail at how the high-profile post-war German authorial grouping, Gruppe 47 (Group 47), has been presented in the media since its official demise in 1967, and considers why the group still has a high level of symbolic capital decades after its active participation in the German literary field. Focusing on previously unresearched TV documentary material from the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s, it posits that the group's enduring importance in the German cultural landscape can be traced to the way it has been narratively and visually reconstructed within the mythologizing, emotive, and widely resonant terms of the Heimat discourse. Drawing on various philosophical and conceptual approaches to Heimat, a particularly German term that evokes both a physical homeland and a spiritual sense of belonging, it conceives of the Gruppe 47 as a "cultural Heimat" for the economically and culturally dominant white, middle class German literary field. In so doing, it shows how a specifically literary culture can be repackaged in the age of mass media to carry important debates about national identity and symbolize the search for an elusive collective cultural heritage. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1341/
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1341/ Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:26:15 +0100 Charles Clarke gave his inaugural lecture as Visiting Professor in Politics and Faith, on Wednesday 23rd March at the Storey Institute Lancaster.For those were unable to attend, or to hear it again, the lecture - 'Politics and Faith: Why they are Increasingly Intertwined' is available as a podcast.The text of the lecture is avalable here. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1228/ http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1228/ Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:00:06 +0100 The Department of History was delighted to host an inter-disciplinary symposium in November 2010 called "Liberty and its Histories". It was inspired by the work of Prof. Quentin Skinner, and Prof. Skinner attended as the guest speaker and commentator. There wereseven papers, and the programme is reproduced below. Prof. Skinner consented to his lecture being video-ed. You can see it at this url:http://www.lancs.ac.uk/iss/digital/Flash/historysymp The symposium was co-organised by Dr Stephen Pumfrey (Lancaster University) and Dr Neil Foxlee (Univeristy of Central Lancaster). Any enquiries should be emailed to me, Stephen Pumfrey at: s.pumfrey AT lancaster.ac.uk. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/stories/1291/
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