SPACE July 2014

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Bath Spa University’s monthly magazine JULY 2014

GRADUATION 2014

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Spotlight on...

Emma Weskin, previous Students’ Union VicePresident Welfare

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Talking Point The Art Room collaboration

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My Student Experience...

Wu Renlan

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Alumni news

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50th and 60th reunions

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Graduation

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Update from the Vice-Chancellor

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In the news

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University News

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Alumni News

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Spotlight On... Emma Weskin, previous 25 Students’ Union Vice –President Welfare

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International Update

Review - Graduation 2014

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My Student Experience...

Wu Renlan, visiting from Shanghai

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SPACE magazine is published every month and is aimed at staff and students of Bath Spa University. SPACE welcomes contributions from all members of the Bath Spa community.

Want to get involved?

Contact Anya Clifton – a.clifton@bathspa.ac.uk

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Editor Anya Clifton

Features Writer Rob Breckon

Design and Layout Lorna Leigh Harrington

Contributors Abigail Herbert Wu Renlan

Front cover Graduation – Simon Rawles photography

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Professor Christina Slade, Vice-Chancellor

Update from the Vice-Chancellor I welcome you to this graduation special of SPACE. Graduation is the high point of the academic year for staff, and the culmination of one or more years of study for graduates. It is a moment of celebration for us all and I was delighted to celebrate along with my colleagues the hard work of Bath Spa University students.

This is a time of change in the sector, with altered funding arrangements and pressure for the government for universities to define their particular strengths and offerings. We at Bath Spa are well placed to respond to this as a leading educational institution in creativity, culture enterprise and education. Through innovative teaching and research, we provide a high quality student experience.

Based in a world heritage city and connected to a network of international partners, Bath Spa University will ensure that its graduates are socially engaged global citizens. This vision builds on our strengths, our location, our distinctive offerings, our research capabilities in the creative industries and our excellence in teaching and learning. It is underpinned by three key objectives. • We will further develop research efforts in our areas of strength, • We will expand those educational offerings which promote graduate employment and global citizenship, • We will build our profile with international networks and markets.

Our attention to our students has always been a matter of great pride. Staff and students have settled to the combination of cutting edge technology and beautiful spaces which foster new ways of working. When the new residences at the Garden hub of Newton Park campus open this September the campus will be transformed, with a thousand or so students living on campus, new studio and work spaces, the amphitheatre and walled gardens giving a unique flavour to the education we offer.

As our reputation improves our graduates become part of a virtuous circle. Our new alumni will take our name forward as they consider what opportunities lie ahead, be that seeking employment, turning freelance or setting-up your own business. They are joining a global community of Bath Spa graduates - an ever growing talented community of award-winning creative professionals, successful business leaders.

Many graduates continue to work with us over the months and years following graduation, either through mentoring current students, offering students placement or employment opportunities or by coming back and sharing their valuable insights and experiences on alumni panels. They are ambassadors for the University and can help suggest new ways in which we can work together to develop our global network of creative professionals.

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UNIVERSITY NEWS

Honorary Graduates Deborah Meaden

The University’s annual graduation ceremonies recently took place in Bath Abbey, with over 1,700 students graduating and five new names awarded honorary degrees.

Previous Bath Spa governors Stella Pirie OBE and Mary Toman; contemporary conceptual artist and painter Michael Craig-Martin CBE; American saxophonist, composer and arranger Alfred ‘Pee Wee’ Ellis; and entrepreneur and Dragons’ Den investor Deborah Meaden were all honoured by the University.

Stella Pirie OBE and Mary Toman were the University’s longest serving Governors and were awarded Honorary Fellowships in recognition of their outstanding service to the University .

Michael Craig-Martin CBE, who famously fostered the talent of the ‘Young British Artists’, was given an honorary doctorate for his services to art.

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Michael CraigMartin CBE

: Alfred ‘Pee Wee’ Ellis

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: Stella Pirie OBE

Alfred ‘Pee Wee’ Ellis, a leading figure in African-American music and funk music, received an honorary doctorate in recognition of his services to contemporary music.

Deborah Meaden, a successful Somerset-based entrepreneur and popular Dragon’s Den invetor, was given an honorary doctorate for outstanding services to the world of business.

Commenting on this year’s honorary graduates, Vice-Chancellor Professor Christina Slade said: “The achievements of our honorary graduates in their respective fields are a huge inspiration to our students today, who are studying courses with a strong emphasis on combining creativity, culture and enterprise. Each of the honorary graduates reflects the aspirations of many of our graduating students and we are delighted to welcome them to our fellowship.”

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BSU Top 10 safest campus Newton Park campus

Bath Spa University has been named in the top 10 of UK universities and higher education institutions with the lowest crime rates in their localities.

Compiled from official police data, TheCompleteUniversityGuide.co.uk ranking gives the clearest picture possible of the crime rates for the communities surrounding almost 140 universities and other higher education institutions in England and Wales.

Bath Spa has been ranked eighth in the UK and is joined by other South West universities, the University of Bath and Falmouth University, who are included in the top 20 safest campuses with the lowest crime rates in their localities.

Overall the South West is the third least crime prone region in England and Wales, after the South East and the North East, outside London.

The full list of universities and higher education institutions can be found here

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Evie Wyld wins Miles Franklin Book Award Creative Writing Alumna Evie Wyld was recently named winner of the Miles Franklin Award for her novel All the Birds, Singing.

The London-based Australian writer was previously named winner of Britain’s Encore Award, the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and was shortlisted for the prestigious Costa Book Award. The Miles Franklin Award, Australia’s most significant literary prize, is worth AUD$60,000 (approx. £33,000).

Evie is the author of one previous novel, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, which was shortlisted for the Impac Prize, the Orange Award for New Writers and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2011, she was named by the BBC as one of the twelve best new British novelists and in 2013, she was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.

She lives in Peckham, London, where she runs the Review Bookshop.

Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Creative Industries, Professor John Strachan said: “We are delighted to congratulate Evie on winning this prestigious prize. Her success is another example of the quality of writers that the University is producing.”

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Double success for Bath Spa at New Designers 2014 Taz Pollard and Grace Davies have won the New Designers One Year On Award and Design Council’s Future Pioneers Award respectively at this year’s New Designers exhibition in London.

Design Week editor Angus Montgomery with winner Grace Davies

MA Ceramics graduate Taz Pollard won the One Year On Award for her ceramic Cider Jar design entitled Taz. The talented ceramicist was presented with the Award which included a £500 cash prize from New Designers, £500 cash prize from The Design Trust, one year free Design Trust Business Club membership, a six week online coaching marketing programme and one year’s free membership to Design Nation.

The New Designers event is the UK’s largest graduate design show. It is divided into two week-long exhibitions (Part One and Part Two), with a single Year on Award winner per exhibition. Taz’s design won the Award at the Part One exhibition, coming out on top of the sixty brightest new names in the design world who have been in business just one year since graduating.

Commenting on receiving the Award, Taz said: “I am utterly shocked to have won! The experience has made a massive difference to my business and to understanding where my work fits in to the market place.”

Grace Davies has recently graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Graphic Design from Weston College in partnership with Bath Spa University. She won the Design Council’s Future Pioneers Award for Patch Bristol, an altruistic project linking allotment owners and food banks. It aims to encourage allotment holders in Bristol to donate fresh produce to food banks and uses a unique visual system to provide a unique logo for every allotment in Bristol - with 5,260 logos in total.

Grace was one of four young designers to be presented with the Award, out of around 1,400 students who exhibited at the second week of New Designers.

Grace said: “It’s amazing to have won this Award and to have a world-renowned organisation believe in the Patch Bristol project, and recognise its potential. My dad owns an allotment and we have so much produce left over – windowsills full of butternut squash and so on - that I thought linking with food banks was a good idea. It’s a huge achievement to know that something that started out at university can be beneficial to so many people and is backed by the Design Council.”

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Forest of Imagination comes alive in Bath The Forest of Imagination was a

multidisciplinary contemporary arts event that took place at the Bath School of Art and Design from Friday 11 to Monday 14 July.

Organised by a team of committed organisations, the free and public event offered a playful programme of artworks and creative interventions.

Championing contemporary arts and creativity in Bath, Forest of Imagination transformed the gardens at the University’s Sion Hill campus, into an imagined, fantastic landscape - a ‘gallery without walls’, involving artists, designers, musicians and performance.

Workshops were held with artists including Anna Gillespie, Michael Brennand-Wood, Edwina Bridgeman, Jessica Palmer, Mauricio Velasierra and the Natural Theatre Company.

Professor of Art and Design Gavin Turk’s

The House of Fairy Tales, with artist and performer Miranda La Mutanta, created an immersive narrative environment for children and families working with the University’s students. Local schools who had been engaged in forest related projects in the runup to the event, took part in workshops on Friday and Monday.

Penny Hay, Senior Lecturer at Bath Spa said: “Forest of Imagination showcased the extraordinary creativity, imagination and playfulness of local and international artists, landscape architects, designers and makers, alongside University staff and students who together created a magical and immersive forest of intrigue and ingenuity. The four day event attracted an intergenerational audience with hundreds of visitors each day - it was an inspiring collaboration and we are already talking about next steps.”

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Adam Bottomley - English Touring Opera appointment Congratulations to BA (Hons) Theatre Production graduate Adam Bottomley who has been appointed Technical Stage Manager for the English Touring Opera.

Commenting on Adam’s appointment, Theatre Production Subject Leader Mike Budmani said: “I don’t have the words to illustrate what a huge achievement this is. Someone wouldn’t normally get anywhere near this kind of role within five years of graduation and I’m delighted with Adam’s success so early in his career.”

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Joint graduation – Mother and son graduate together Congratulations to Sally Jones and her son Alex who both graduated from BSU this month.

Sally received an MA in Curatorial Practice while Alex received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art.

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Emma Weskin, previous Students’ Union VicePresident Welfare

It has now been a little over a month since tackling the stigma was the main reason for Emma Weskin finally said farewell to Bath Spa running the campaign in the first place so I University having spent the last five years of took a deep breath and just went for it. her life in the BSU community.

“I was delighted with the success of the After graduating with a first class honours campaign and especially the interest from degree in Art and Drama in 2012, Emma was both staff and students. Also, one thing I didn’t then elected as the Students’ Union Vice anticipate was being interviewed about the President Welfare, a post she held for the campaign for national BBC Breakfast! I was maximum two year term. so anxious about the interview but once I had done it I was really glad I did.”

Having recently started her first job since leaving BSU, Emma recalled what she is most Mental health is something that is close to proud of as her role as Vice President Welfare. Emma’s heart and since leaving Bath Spa, she has secured a job working as Project Manager She said: “I think the achievement I am most for the mental health charity, MIND. proud of is making our mental health campaign ‘Stamp Out Stigma’ actually happen. It was She said: “I am currently responsible for the quite a big thing for me to do in the beginning delivery of a new funded project called ‘Brolly because of the sensitivities and stigmatisation Talk’. This is a Somerset-wide project which that can be associated with mental health, but engages with people through activities and 16

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managed to ‘glide’ across the stage without any embarrassing trips!”

As many graduates now enter the world of work, Emma drew upon her recent experiences of securing a job and suggested the following advice.

Emma being interviewed for the BBC

provides an opportunity to challenge mental health discrimination and stigma through positive conversation. We are hoping this project will be fun and enjoyable as well as effectively tackle people’s misconceptions of mental health.

“I am really enjoying my role and see this as the first stepping stone in a career in mental health. My dream would be to temporarily return to education and complete a Masters in Art or Drama therapy and then hopefully onto a PhD. Working in my current role will provide me with some good experience which I can draw upon when I hopefully do return to learning.”

Just a few weeks ago the University celebrated its annual graduation ceremonies with over 1,700 students graduating and five new honorary degrees being awarded. Emma recalled her memories of her own graduation ceremony.

She said: “Despite it only being two years ago, it seems a lot longer. I attended this years’ and last year’s ceremonies to watch friends graduate and found it quite emotional despite having already graduated. For me it brought back such fond memories in which the culmination of three year’s hard work is celebrated at a very special occasion.

“It can be quite a daunting prospect,” she said.

“Definitely from my perspective, to have gone from being surrounded by my friends, supportive staff and colleagues, and leaving the amazing bubble that is Bath Spa University, I was slightly nervous to be leaving that environment.

“The advice I would give is to apply for all the jobs you are interested in even if you don’t seem to tick all of boxes in what the employers are looking for. The worst that can happen is they do not take your application any further. However, it only takes that one interview offer to provide you with the opportunity to show your respective employers who you are and what you can bring!”

Like the many students who have now graduated from the University, Emma is a member of the growing Bath Spa Alumni Association.

She said: “It is great to have seen the Alumni Association grow so much just in the last year. This year’s honorary graduates are now members of this international network so you never know, I could be working with Deborah Meaden in years to come! It was also great to see the Alumni Association recently host a 50 year reunion, it was so lovely to see people who had kept in contact for all of those years.

“One thing that sticks in my mind the most was the prospect of crossing the stage in heels.

Unlike many of my friends I don’t wear heels that much so when I decided to wear a pair for my graduation ceremony it was the most nerve wrecking element of the whole day. However, it only took a little nudge in the back from Kate Davies (Deputy Registrar (Academic)) and I SPACE JULY 2014

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talking point The Art Room collaboration ‘Challenging children learn and achieve through art.’

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emotional difficulties benefit from creating art might sound simple enough, but look a little deeper and the full complexities of ‘art as therapy’ are revealed.

Children who exhibit challenging behaviour can swiftly become isolated from the normal school environment. Young people who show this kind of behaviour are often at risk of mental health issues, youth offending and educational failure through low attainment, poor attendance or exclusion. Research has shown that by using art to unleash a child’s creativity, there can be a breakthrough with 18

behaviour and offer a safe environment to work through emotional issues. However, there is little or no provision for these children within mainstream schools.

Stepping into this gap is The Art Room, a charity for children aged between five and 16 which aims to raise their self-esteem, self-confidence and independence through art. Children are referred by their school for a range of reasons, which have caused them to become disengaged with mainstream schooling. Reasons for their referral include specific learning difficulties, bereavement, being the primary carer for their family or

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are children in care. Set up in 2002, the methodology of The Art Room has developed a distinctive and unique therapeutic intervention in primary and secondary schools, and there are now seven Art Rooms in Oxford and London, with two more planned.

It goes without saying that the work at The Art Room could not take place without the dedicated staff who work tirelessly to support these vulnerable children. Bath Spa University is proud to be involved in the training of the next generation of practitioners, through the Postgraduate Certificate Course in Art Room Practice, which started in January this year.

Juli Beattie, Founder Director of The Art Room said of the collaboration “It is wonderful to be working with Bath Spa University and to share our training programme with a wider audience. The Art Room follows the principle that learning and achieving through art is an important support mechanism to prevent these children from being disengaged at school.

We look forward to many more years of Bath

Spa University students enrolling on the Postgraduate Certificate Course in Art Room Practice.”

Designed specifically for students interested in a career in education, counselling, community or charity work, the students follow a ten week course which aims to enhance their understanding and awareness of how young people learn and achieve through art. Viki Bennett, Programme Leader, School of Education, comments “It has been a wonderful experience to exchange thinking with the Professional Masters’ Programme students and such passionate colleagues at The Art Room. We support their commitment to enabling children to have improved life opportunities and we look forward to developing this partnership further.”

For more information on The Art Room please visit http://www.theartroom.org.uk/

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MY STUDENT EXPERIENCE

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Wu Renlan, visiting from Shanghai Medical Instrumentation College on an English Language Skills Summer Course

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fter taking a ten hour flight, my friends and I landed in the UK. On the way to the University, we couldn’t help but admire the beautiful scenery in the UK. The blue sky, white clouds and verdant lawns put us in a good mood. The most exciting thing was that herds of cattle and sheep were eating grass in the grassland and resting, enjoying the sunshine.

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our rooms. The style of the apartment is quite different to those in China. It’s like an ancient castle. The dormitory is also equipped with a kitchen. That’s great! It means we can cook food by ourselves. This is a good opportunity to practice our independence.

We also enjoyed the class time. Hugh Osborne, the teacher, is a very humorous person and very easy to get along with. He always uses some interesting ways to help us learn a lot.

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Andrew, another teacher, teaches us language, vocabulary and some communication skills for our daily life to improve our spoken English ability.

We are surprised that the way of teaching here is quite different from the way in China.

There are a lot of lectures for us to participate in. The most interesting class is Business and Management. In the last class, Sarah Sibley, taught us international trade by playing games.

She organized a game in which every group uses the tools on their table to produce more figures to sell in order to get more money. It showed us how a company should use tools and materials reasonably.

In our free time we like to go shopping. The first weekend we went to the Bicester village, and we bought a lot of reasonably priced luxury items.

Along the way, we appreciated many beautiful country houses, and people in the UK are very warm, friendly and polite. The second weekend we went to Oxford. Although we didn’t enter the University campus, we could feel the strong academic atmosphere. We took a lot of photos beside the magnificent buildings.

Of course, Bath is the most familiar and favourite place for us. We have had a picnic in front of the Royal Crescent and walked around the city centre nearly every day.

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In the News Professor Slade article for CNN Vice-Chancellor Professor Christina Slade recently wrote an article for international news agency CNN discussing how the television station Al Jazeera has transformed television reporting both within the Middle East and of the region itself. The full article can be read at here

Professor Kate Pullinger and ‘Letter to an unknown soldier’ features on the BBC The national BBC has recently and extensively covered this National WWI commemoration project which being jointly led by Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media, Kate Pullinger.

‘Letter to an unknown soldier’ is a new kind of war memorial that invites the public to write a letter to a soldier. Not just any soldier, but the soldier who inspired the famous Charles Jagger war memorial on Platform One of Paddington Station in London.

More than 3,000 letters have been received so far and have been submitted from schools, groups and individuals, by writers including Stephen Fry, Andrew Motion, Sheila Hancock, Andy McNab, Lee Child, Lesley Pearce and Malorie Blackman, and by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Sajid Javid.

The project was created by Professor Pullinger and Novelist and Theatre Director, Neil Bartlett. It was commissioned by 14-18 NOW, as part of the official cultural programme for the First World War centenary commemorations.

Professor Pullinger and Neil Bartlett are working with a group of editors at Bath Spa to present a daily selection of featured letters. All letters will be searchable by name, theme and geographical origin.

Professor Pullinger said: “Neil and I set out to create something original and inspiring, a memorial that would give everyone a voice. It’s clearly struck a chord with people and the kind of themes and stories coming through are fascinating.”

One of the BBC’s news items on the project can be viewed at; http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolreport/28246365

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Shadow Minister for Schools Visits Bath Spa University Kevin Brennan MP, Shadow Minister (Education) recently visited Bath Spa to talk to lecturers, trainee teachers and newly qualified teachers, and to observe a range of education in action across different age phases.

Kevin said: “I was delighted to meet some trainee teachers during my visit to Bath Spa University.

The enthusiasm, commitment and professionalism they all demonstrated are exactly what we need to make a positive difference in our schools”.

His day included a visit to the University’s Day Nursery where a Forest School approach is adopted to encourage young children to learn from the outdoor environment. He also visited Wellsway School in Keynsham, where he met a group of local headteachers to discuss their needs in relation to initial teacher education and continual professional development.

Dean of the School of Education, Dr Kate Reynolds, commented: “We had a very interesting discussion around different models of teacher education, and the balance between schools and universities. Bath Spa University’s partnership with multi-academy trusts, teaching school alliances and schools such as Wellsway School demonstrates the value of an integrated approach to developing the next generation of professional teachers and educationalists.”

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Alumni news Over 160 years ago Bath School of Art opened its doors for the very first time. Since then over 50,000 students have studied at the school in its various incarnations and we consider them all to be our alumni. We are in touch with many of our previous students and staff, and we encourage them to keep us up-to-date with any exciting events in their lives, as well as to visit whenever they are in the area.

We have been very lucky this month as two groups of alumni have held events at the Newton Park campus, a 50th reunion celebrating the class of 1964 and a 60th reunion celebrating the class of 1954.

The first reunion was a group of 10 alumni, part of the class of 1954, who studied teaching together when Newton Park was still a teacher training college. They have remained close friends ever since and have held many reunions over the last 60 years. The group told us stories of the strict rules regarding curfew and visitors, as well as the long walk up the driveway to the college. However, they all agreed that their three years at the City of Bath Training College (as it was known then) was a highly enjoyable time and one they have never forgotten. The tree between Michael Tippet Centre and Twiverton building was planted and funded by them at a reunion in 2000, and they were very pleased to see that it was still there amongst all the building work.

Our second group of alumni, the class of 1964, also trained together as teachers at the Newton Park campus. They also thoroughly enjoyed their reunion and especially enjoyed the archive talk given by Dr Roberta Anderson, which included a number of photographs and documents from their time here. The group had also brought a lot of their own photographs with them, which we enjoyed looking at and discussing. The group kindly donated scanned copies of this memorabilia, which the archive team will use to contribute to the new digital archive, a project they are currently working on. They also revisited The Elms, which was one of the University’s halls of residence, and recreated a photograph from the 1960s.

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International Update Bath Spa Global Following its launch in 2013, Bath Spa Global is looking forward to welcoming its first intake

of students in September to the International First Year. This ground-breaking approach to international student education is being headed up by Dr Sarah McKenzie, who joined as Academic Director in June. She has also been joined by Liz Rees, the Bath Spa Global Student Services Manager.

Dr McKenzie comments : “We aim to provide support and high quality education to international students. The programme, which is 12 months long, is ‘front loaded’ with English for Academic Purposes, bolstering students’ writing, speaking and listening skills, as well as presentation and research skills, to offer the best possible start to their Bath Spa University experience. Liz and I are excited to meet the new students and are very grateful to all at BSU who have helped to make us feel a part of the life and culture here.”

Based at Newton Park in the Newton Building, the Bath Spa Global students will be starting their course with a term project on Bath itself. The September intake will include international students from 10 countries and this will grow year on year.

Pre-sessional Students The International Relations Team has welcomed students from China, Japan and Thailand onto the 12 week English Language pre-sessional course where students improve their skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking in preparation for their undergraduate or postgraduate degree in the new academic year in September 2014. In addition students from China, Colombia, Japan, Malaysia and Thailand will arrive for a six week pre-sessional course from 4 August.

In total around 60 students will have attended the presessional courses over the summer, which have been provided through the School of Society, Enterprise and Environment.

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Visiting Students We have had 35 students visiting from our partners at the Shanghai Medical Instrumentation College (SMIC) and the Shanghai SIPO Polytechnic, with another 20 students from the Shanghai Technical Institute of Electronics and Information (STIEI). Students from these three institutions have been enjoying English Language lessons centred on business and management to enable the students to experience higher education in the UK. We would like to thank staff across the University for their support in making sure that the students’ experience is the best that we can offer.

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International Staff Forum Over the last academic year the International Relations Team introduced a series of presentations informing staff about what the team does, how they support international students and how their activities contribute to the University’s vision. Sessions were well attended and topics such as ‘Supporting students both pre and post application’ were addressed. For the new academic year four further forums will be offered to staff, not only to help them support our growth in international students and understand the tailored approach needed but also for them to participate in valued discussion with colleagues throughout the university.

Visit from the South East Asia Regional Office.

The IRO welcomed staff from the newly opened Bath Spa University Regional Office (South East Asia) on 9 and 10 July.

The new office has three members of staff and is located in Nonthaburi, Thailand. The office will act on behalf of the University for all enquiries and applications from the South East Asia region. Anawat Yimkaew, the director of BSU Regional Office (South East Asia) and his staff were able to visit Corsham Court and Sion Hill as well as the Newton Park campus.

Notes on visit to China and Taiwan in June 2014 In June, Tim Middleton, Dr Charles Wiffen, Dan Allen and Jeremy White together with Jiemin Tomita visited Taiwan and China. During the trip, they met staff at our partner universities including the National Taiwan University of the Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts and Shih Chen University and Shanghai University. They also visited Lunghwa University, Shanghai Conservatory and East China Normal University with a view to potential partnerships.

During the trip, Dr Charles Wiffen also gave master classes to students at National Taiwan University of the Arts and at Shanghai University respectively. He also played two recitals which were well received and valued.

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Why just be great at it When you can master it?

At Bath Spa University we believe in thinking differently.

And with a postgraduate qualification, potential employers will see you differently. Not only will you enhance your career prospects, you will deepen your knowledge in a subject you are passionate about and widen your network of contacts and work experience opportunities.

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In addition, Bath Spa Alumni are eligible for a ÂŁ1,200 fee reduction to their postgraduate course fees. With places still available for October 2014 now is the perfect time to see how far you can go.

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his year we returned to Bath Abbey for three days of graduation ceremonies. Across the following pages are some photographs from all the ceremonies. Congratulations to everyone involved!

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Starters and Leavers In July we welcomed…

Russell Manning, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics, School of Humanities and Cultural Industries Nigel Westlake, Mechanical Services Technician, Estates Anya Clifton, Communications Manager, Marketing and Communications Kerry Bivand, Administrative Assistant, Student Services Emma Harrison, Administrative Assistant, Student Services

We also said farewell to…

Christopher Belcher, Senior Lecturer Secondary Science Education, School of Education Heather Thompson, Cleaner, Domestic and Portering Services Philip Lee, Evening Deli Assistant, Catering Sarah Whinyates, Lecturer in Pattern Cutting, Bath School of Art and Design Lauren Nesbitt, Partnerships, Placements and Projects Administrator, School of Humanities and Cultural Industries Duncan O’Brien, Technician, School of Music and Performing Arts Suzanne Wright, Administrative Assistant, Student Services Terri Power, Senior Lecturer: Drama, School of Music and Performing Arts

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