SAM ROSEVEARE
GOVERNANCE PROFILE
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JOB TITLE: President of Durham Students’ Union BACKGROUND: Archaeology & Anthropology BA WHAT ARE THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT YOU WANT TO DO WHILST DSU PRESIDENT? • Draw up a long-term strategy for the Union, so it maintains relevancy to a rapidly changing student body. The Union’s suffered from a lack of strategic, long-term direction, and needs to be better at looking forward. • Better engagement with postgraduate students. Again, the agenda of the Union (and the University) has been undergraduate-centric. Postgraduate students represent an important and integral part of our community, and we need to ensure they get just as much attention as the undergraduates.
• Finally, I’d like to see a long-term plan for Dunelm House – the space isn’t used effectively, and it can deliver so much more! WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE CHANGE IN THE UNIVERSITY? It’s got to be support for postgraduates. I think the University has made massive strides in enhancing residential postgraduate communities, but I think there’s so much more that can be done. WHAT DO YOU THINK IS DURHAM’S BEST KEPT SECRET? Leonard’s Coffee House, and more specifically, the black coffee, scrambled eggs and toasted muffins!
“a long-term strategy for the Union, so it maintains relevancy to a rapidly changing student body.”
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Christopher Lloyd (Modern Languages and Cultures) delivered his inaugural Professorial Lecture ‘Memory and metamorphosis in French Occupation Narratives’.
Alex Densmore (IHRR and Geography) has been appointed Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, one of the world’s leading earth science journals.
Deryk Beyleveld (Law) has been elected to a Fellowship of the Society of Biology.
Carlos Frenk (Physics) has been awarded the Hoyle medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics for his ground-breaking contributions to the cold dark matter model through cosmological simulations, and developing novel methods for calculating the physics of galaxy formation and analysis of galaxy surveys. Charlotte Roberts (Archaeology) has been elected President of the US Paleopathology Association and invited to become a member of the Natural History Museum Scientific Advisory Panel on Human Remains.
Gordon MacLeod (Geography) has been appointed Critical Surveys Editor of the leading international journal Regional Studies. Sarah Curtis (Geography and IHRR) has been appointed to the Scientific Council of the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), France. Shaun Pattinson (Law) has been awarded the 2010 Minty Medico-Legal Society Prize for the best medico-legal book Medical Law and Ethics.
Sally Brown (Medicine and Health) won the Jury Prize at the Torello Mountain Film Festival in Spain for her film (a visual interpretation of her recent research paper) ‘Lines of Flight’ and was a finalist in the Mountain Culture category at Banff Mountain Film Festival, and won Best Film: Mountain Culture, at Vancouver International Mountain Film. Sandra Hyslop (Collingwood) won gold in the British Canoe River Race Championships in both the K1 and Classic categories. Kiera Roberts (University College) won the individual sabre gold in the British University individual fencing championships.
Stuart Lane (Geography) has been awarded the Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal by the European Geosciences Union.
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