Imagining Better season brochure

At a Glance 20.01

The Role and Relevance of Psychology in Today's World

Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes

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20.01

He Named Me Malala

Screening & Speakers

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20.01

Suffragette

Screening & Speakers

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03.02

Ann Arbor Film Festival

Screening

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03.02

Cultural Policies, Regional Development and Inequalities

Professor Kate Oakley

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04.02

Blue Funnel and Red (part of the Chinese New Year festivities)

Screening

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04.02

The Art of the Demographic Dividend

Professor Desmond O'Neill

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Street View: Exhibition of Photographs

Clients of the Cathedral Archer Project

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Close to Home: Between the Tides

Karen Shepherdson

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04.02 to 29.02 04.02 to 08.03 09.02

Workshop: Thinking outside of the box – ideas, Professor multi-disciplinarily and collaboration in health research Sally Spencer

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09.02

Inequality: The Enemy Between Us

Professor Kate Pickett

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10.02

Pitch Black: The Story of Black British footballers

Emy Onuora & Peter Hooton

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11.02

Childhood Studies, Childhood Sociology and Social Justice

Professor Tom Cockburn

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Talks • Exhibitions • Films • Performances January to April 2016

11.02

In Conversation with Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe

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16.02

Disruptive change: a social good or a waste of people’s lives?

Professor Carolyn Kagan

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22.02

Universities and Communities: Together, Tethered, or Torn

Professor Tom Bryer

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23.02

Taking it to the Streets

Dr Andrea Capstick & Morag Rose

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24.02

Talk about Close to Home: Between the Tides exhibition

Karen Shepherdson

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25.02

Alzheimer's and Other Dementias: Progress and Challenges in Research

Dr Simon Ridley

p21

25.02

In Conversation with Terence Davies

Terence Davies

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01.03

Economic Inequality: A messy social problem

Dr Nat O'Connor

p23

02.03

New British Cinema: A Resurgence of Independent Cinema?

Professor Jason Wood

p24

09.03

The Human Touch

Breathe Out Theatre

p25

10.03

Strategic leadership for the management of emergency services: case for a new research agenda

Professor Paresh Wankhade

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14.03 to 01.04

Portraits of British Muslims

Zahir Rafiq

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14.03

If integration is the answer, what was the question?

What next for health and social care partnerships?

Professor Jon Glasby

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A Festival of Ideas

Edge Hill University launches its first Festival of Ideas in 2016 with a diverse range of events exploring culture, health and society. The main theme is Imagining Better – envisioning ways for communities, arts and healthcare to develop and flourish, even in times of austerity and inequality.

Imagining Better will be a festival of creative thinking for challenging times, making space for crucial conversations and new ideas for the arts, healthcare and public policy.

An exciting collection of talks, exhibitions, films and performances will explore issues such as children’s rights and citizenship, arts and social justice, innovative strategies for current healthcare issues, racism in sport, cultural identities and much more.

The Edge Hill Festival of Ideas has been inspired, in part, by the work of the internationally respected cultural theorist Stuart Hall and builds on the University’s tribute to him on the occasion of his death in 2014. A key part of Hall’s work and his contribution to ideas and the academy was his invitation to think in a multi- or inter-disciplinary way, and to encourage critical thinking and questioning.

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Imagining Better has been programmed by Edge Hill University’s three research institutes:

The Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice (I4P)

– Cross-disciplinary research and knowledge exchange The Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE)

– Connecting the University to the creative industries The Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI)

– Driving improvements in health and social care

and includes the University’s Spring Programme of Professorial lectures and a strand of arts activity.

Psychology and Social Sciences Building

Wednesday 20th January 6.00pm

The Role and Relevance of Psychology in Today's World Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes, President of the British Psychological Society Few, if any, disciplines other than psychology span the period from before conception to after death, embracing all the interactions that humans have with their environment between those two milestones.

Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes will discuss the many facets of this fascinating discipline, both pure and applied. Tracing the beginnings of the subject to the beginning of last century, the many specialist areas which have developed since then will be explored, and numerous examples illustrated showing the relevance of psychology to today's world.

Professor Hacker Hughes, 81st President (2014-5) of the British Psychological Society, is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Clinical Neuropsychologist. He has worked in the field of psychotraumatology for 20 years.

Professor Hacker Hughes has published widely with nearly 100 peer-reviewed papers, books, book chapters and conference papers and he has lectured on his specialist field of psychological trauma around the world. He is known for trying to make his subject area accessible to all and easily understood with frequent appearances in the media as well as features in a plethora of national radio programmes and newspapers.

Book your place at: Presented by the Department of Psychology

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Wednesday 20th January 3.00pm & 7.00pm

Creative Edge & The Arts Centre, Edge Hill University

The Time is Now The Time Is Now is a season of film exploring and celebrating the role women play in affecting change.

He Named Me Malala A shocking true story with a positive message

Suffragette A powerful drama about the women who were willing to lose everything

Creative Edge 3.00pm

The film is an intimate portrait of Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai who was targeted by the Taliban and severely wounded by a gunshot when returning home on her school bus in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The attack sparked an outcry from supporters around the world.

Speakers include Oscar-winning film producer Mia Bays, Birds Eye View; Dr Vicky Duckworth, Faculty of Education, Edge Hill University; Dr Elke Weissmann, Department of Media, Edge Hill University.

The Arts Centre 7.00pm An intense drama that tracks the story of the early feminist movement as working women fought for the right to vote. Turning to violence as the only route to change they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality. With Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Romola Garai.

Speakers include Oscar-winning film producer Mia Bays, Birds Eye View; Professor Roger Shannon, ICE, Edge Hill University; Gayle Heath, CEO, The Pankhurst Trust, Manchester.

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The Arts Centre, Edge Hill University

Wednesday 3rd February 7.30pm

53rd Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival The Ann Arbor Film Festival is a pioneer of the traveling film festival concept, having launched an annual tour programme in 1964. The AAFF selects films from the past years festival to screen in art house theatres, museums, universities, cinematheques and media art centres. All filmmakers participating on the tour are paid to screen their work, providing direct support to these independent artists. We are proud to be hosting the tour for the fourth year running, the only UK host.

The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America, established in 1963. The sixday festival presents 40 programmes with more than 200 films from over 20 countries of all lengths and genres, including experimental, animation, documentary, narrative, hybrid and performance based works.

Cert: 15 Running time: 80mins

A selection of films from the AAFF Tour are available on limited-edition DVD collections, which can be purchased from: www.aafilmfest.org.

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Wednesday 3rd February 6.30pm

Creative Edge, Edge Hill University

Cultural Policies, Regional Development and Inequalities Professor Kate Oakley, University of Leeds

Professor Kate Oakley will be in conversation about Cultural Policies, Regional Development and Inequalities drawing on her extensive research into the recent culture of New Labour, whilst also posing questions about what might be the culture of the Northern Powerhouse.

Kate Oakley is Professor of Cultural Policy at the University of Leeds.

Her research interests include the politics of cultural policy, work in the cultural industries and regional development. Her recent books include the 2014 Cultural Policy, co-written with David Bell; and in 2015 Culture Economy and Politics - The Case of New Labour with David Hesmondhalgh, David Lee, and Melissa Nisbett, which provides a major contribution to our understanding of the policy, politics, culture and the arts, via a case study of the UK New Labour government's cultural policies (1997-2010).

Kate will be joined in conversation

by Eddie Berg, Creative Consultant, previously Director of BFI Southbank in London; Founder/ former CEO FACT, Liverpool.

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Presented by the Institute for Creative Enterprise

The Arts Centre & The Hub Edge Hill University

Thursday 4th February From 11.30am

An Extravaganza Celebration of Chinese New Year 2016 Enjoy a taste of Chinese culture at the Chinese Street Market at The Hub from 11.30am-3.00pm.

At 3.00pm, Red and Blue Funnel, two short films exploring the experiences of Chinese communities in the UK, will be shown as part of the Confucius Institute Chinese New Year celebrations.

Red (1995) Dir. Rosa Fong In the late 1970s, Xiao-Mei leaves rural China for an arranged marriage in London. Struggling to make sense of her new situation in a strange country, she embarks on a spiritual journey as she discovers family, both old and new.

Blue Funnel (1998) Dir. Paul Mayeda Berges Blue Funnel, a contemporary drama set in the Chinese community in Liverpool, follows Daniel as he tries to send his father's ashes back to his ancestral village.

Daniel's father left Hong Kong aged 14 and spent his life as a seaman coming in and out of the Liverpool docks where he married an English

girl. The ashes need to return 'home' for his spirit to rest... but Daniel realises he's not sure where 'home' is.

At 5.00pm prepare to be amazed by Jin Long’s performers. The programme will include the Lion Dance, Chinese Kungfu, acrobats, hoola hoop, feet juggling with drums, hat juggling and magic. Bian Lian, or Face Changing, as it's known in the western world, and the highlight of Sichuan Opera in China, will leave the audience feeling totally stunned.

Book your place at: Presented by the Confucius Institute

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Thursday 4th February 6.00pm

Tate Liverpool

The Art of the Demographic Dividend

Š Succession H. Matisse/ DACS 2015

Professor Desmond O'Neill,

This event presented in Tate Liverpool as part of our corporate partnership. The audience will have private access to Matisse in Focus exhibition including a rare opportunity to see The Snail outside of London.

When students troop into my introductory lecture on geriatric medicine, they are generally surprised that the first slide is Henri Matisse's The Snail (1953): radical, vibrant, and witty, it does not quite conform to their preconceptions of medicine with older people. The second slide, of the 83-year-old Matisse in a wheelchair, provides the context: his later life not only provides surprising developments in his art, but it occurs in the face of significant disability. Indeed, Matisse's response to illness illustrates not just his resourcefulness, but also the role of adversity in sparking personal growth.

Des O’Neill

Professor Desmond O'Neill's work on Neurosciences and Ageing focuses on stroke, in particular recovery following stroke, as well as prediction of fitness to drive following stroke and dementia.

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Presented by the Postgraduate Medical Institute

Business School foyer, Edge Hill University

Thursday 4th February to Monday 29th February 9.00am – 6.00pm weekdays

Street View Exhibition of Photographs by clients of the Cathedral Archer Project

Presented by Edge Hill Arts

© Street View definitive collection

An exhibition of photographs and texts by clients of the Cathedral Archer Project in Sheffield, a holistic service designed to help homeless people improve their lives. Created through a collaboration by The Open College of the Arts (OCA) and the Cathedral Archer Project, the exhibition offers often unfamiliar perspectives on Sheffield’s people, buildings, streets and open spaces.

The clients of the Cathedral Archer Project worked with professional photographer Mark Harvey and curator Andrew Conroy to develop their own personal vision and take photographs which tell the stories they want to tell.

Booking not required

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Thursday 4th February to Tuesday 8th March

Creative Edge, Edge Hill University

9.00am – 6.00pm weekdays

Close to Home: Between the Tides Karen Shepherdson Talk: Wednesday 24th February, 6.00pm Visual catalyst for my work resides in my environment. I live and work on the Isle of Thanet. My home is built on the cliffs - I am a coastliner - and the sea and the shoreline are a vital part of my daily experience. Critical to my practice is working close to home and being part of Thanet's diverse and complex coastal community.

Along the UK's Isle of Thanet coast is the extraordinary Walpole Bay tidal pool. This pool, some four acres in size, provides a free space for people to gather, to swim, to forage and fish.

The exhibition will feature images from a long-term photographic project which includes documenting coastal communities of Thanet and in particular the sea bathers of Walpole Bay.

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Booking not required

Karen Shepherdson is Reader in Photography at Canterbury Christ Church University, where she directs the South East Archive of Seaside Photography and co-directs the Centre for Research on Communities and Cultures.

Karen will give a talk about the exhibition at 6pm on 24th February in Creative Edge.

Presented by the Institute for Creative Enterprise

Faculty of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University

Tuesday 9th February 12.00pm

Workshop: Thinking outside of the box – ideas, multi-disciplinarity and collaboration in health research Professor Sally Spencer, Edge Hill University

Professor Sally Spencer is Director of Clinical Research at the PGMI. Sally took up the current post at Edge Hill University in Autumn 2015 with the aim of developing, supporting and enabling research activity within the Faculty of Health and Social Care, and across the wider University, through collaboration with external public and private sector organisations relevant to healthcare.

The aim of the workshop is to facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas by bringing together researchers from diverse academic backgrounds to identify opportunities for collaboration on projects of mutual interest and benefit. The session will introduce the concept of broad interdisciplinarity from the perspective of health research. The main workshop will involve small group discussions around the topic of knowledge exchange, supported by session facilitators.

The workshop will include attendees from a number of external organisations involved in the development and delivery of healthcare. Academic staff interested in engaging in collaborative research are welcome to attend, irrespective of direct relevance to health.

Email to book your place: Presented by the Post Graduate Medical Institute

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Tuesday 9th February 6.00pm

Faculty of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University

I4P Third Annual Lecture: Inequality: The Enemy Between Us Professor Kate Pickett, University of York

Comparing factors relating to health, education, crime and community, it is clear that societies which tend to do well on one of those measures tend to do well on all of them, and the ones which do badly, do badly on all of them. Why?

The key is the amount of inequality in each society. The picture is consistent whether we compare rich countries or the 50 states of the USA. The more unequal a society is, the more ill health and social problems it has.

The data show that even small differences in the amount of inequality matter. Material inequality serves as a determinant of the scale and importance of social stratification. It increases status insecurity and competition and the prevalence of all the problems associated with relative deprivation.

Particularly important are effects mediated by social status, friendship and early childhood experience.

However, although the amount of inequality has its greatest effect on rates of problems among the poor, its influence extends to almost all income groups: too much inequality reduces levels of well-being among the vast majority of the population.

Kate trained in biological anthropology at Cambridge, nutritional sciences at Cornell and epidemiology at UC-Berkeley. She is currently Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences, University of York

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Presented by the Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice

Faculty of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University

Wednesday 10th February 6.00pm

Pitch Black: The Story of Black British footballers Emy Onuora, author Pitch Black: The Story of Black British footballers Peter Hooton, writer and vocalist of Liverpool-based group The Farm.

Edge Hill University’s Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice (I4P) welcomes Emy Onuora to discuss his new book, Pitch Black: The Story of Black British footballers with Peter Hooton, writer and vocalist of Liverpool-based group The Farm.

When Paul Canoville took to the pitch for Chelsea in 1982, he was prepared for abuse. When the monkey chanting and the banana throwing started, he wasn't surprised. He wasn't prepared, however, for the abuse to be coming from his own side.

Canoville was the only member of the team whose name was booed instead of cheered, the only player whose kit wasn't sponsored. He received razor blades in the post. He took to waiting two or three hours to leave the ground after a match, fearing for his safety. So minimal was the presence of black players in the game, the few who managed to break through were subjected to the most graphic abuse from all sides.

Today, 30 per cent of English professional footballers are black, and amongst their number are some of the biggest heroes of the beautiful game.

But just how far have we come?

With unprecedented access to current and former players, Emy Onuora charts the revolutionary changes that have taken place both on and off the pitch, and argues that the battleground has shifted from the stands to the board room.

In this fascinating new book, Onuora critically scrutinises the attitudes of FIFA, the FA and the media over the last half-century, and asks what is being done to combat the subtler forms of racism that undeniably persist even today. Featuring startling revelations from all levels of the footballing fraternity, Pitch Black takes a frank and controversial look at the history of the world's most popular sport – and its future.

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Thursday 11th February 6.00pm

Faculty of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University

Childhood Studies, Childhood Sociology and Social Justice Professor Tom Cockburn, Edge Hill University

Childhood Studies provides a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach to studying children. This holistic study of children has a long history and underlies a great deal of the work at Edge Hill University.

Recently, influenced by the sociology of childhood, the child has shifted from being an object of research to being subjects in their own right.

This has happened at the same time as the growth of children’s rights and the inception of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.

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Professor Tom Cockburn will critically reflect on the contribution that childhood studies has made to social justice. He will discuss the challenges to an inter-disciplinary childhood studies in the twenty-first century, if it is to be critical of the social inequalities and injustices experienced by children in the world today. He will do so by reflecting on children’s citizenship, children’s rights and social justice both in the UK and abroad.

Professor Cockburn joined Edge Hill in February 2014 as Head of Social Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Science. He has previously worked at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Bradford. He has spent over 20 years researching children, youth and childhood and is well published in both national and international journals, his book Rethinking Children’s Citizenship was published in 2013.

Inaugural lecture series 2015/16 - celebrating the appointment of new professors and allowing the University to showcase its academic talent to a wide audience.

Creative Edge, Edge Hill University

Thursday 11th February 6.30pm

In Conversation with Jonathan Coe

A brutal family dynasty shows its staying power in this state-ofthe-nation satire that takes in reality TV, wealth inequality, the death of David Kelly and giant spiders... Angry, bleak, preoccupied with establishing occult power connections to the extent that it would easily earn its place on a shelf of “paranoid fiction”, Number 11 is undoubtedly a political novel.

It is also an interrogation of the purposes and efficacy of humour in exposing society’s ills, and a spoof on horror B-movies...

The Guardian

Number 11 is Coe’s sequel, of sorts, to his 1994 What a Carve Up!, his extraordinary piece of social satire which uses the story of a powerful, wealthy and ruthless family, the Winshaws, to expose the excesses and evils of all aspects of Thatcherite Britain.

Photo: Valeria Cardi

Multi award winning novelist, Jonathan Coe discusses his latest book Number 11, which was published on the 11th day of the 11th month, 2015 and was also Coe’s eleventh novel.

What Coe satirically captures is the gaping chasm between the two distinct worlds of the haves and the have-nots in an era of austerity, exposing the mantra of “we’re all in it together” in the absurd culture of the super-rich.

Jonathan Coe will be in conversation with Professor Roger Shannon, Director of the ICE research institute.

Book your place at: Presented by the Institute for Creative Enterprise

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Tuesday 16th February 4.00pm

Faculty of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University

Disruptive change: A Social Good or a Waste of People’s Lives?

Professor Carolyn Kagan, Edge Hill University

Professor Carolyn Kagan will reflect on some of the themes running through her work as a community social psychologist since the mid-1970s, from both an academic groundings and in partnership and collaboration with those most affected by the wider social forces and policy changes.

Professor Kagan will draw on work which has included people with learning difficulties and their families; people living poverty; the nature of work and its fit with family and community; arts and human flourishing; people living amongst urban regeneration; community organising and people on the brink of forced labour.

As well as her role as Visiting Professor of Edge Hill University, Professor Carolyn Kagan is a registered Counselling Psychologist and qualified social worker. She worked at Manchester Metropolitan University from 1976 to 2014 most recently as Professor of Community Social Psychology and Director of the Research Institute for Health and Social Change. She now holds an Emerita position there. Her work and publications have ranged from the contextual nature of interpersonal skills, to organisation and community development. She has an international reputation for championing university-community collaborative working, participative research and innovative curriculum development, and developed the first Masters programme in Community Psychology in the UK.

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Presented by the Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice

Monday 22nd February 1.00pm

The HUB, Edge Hill University

Universities and Communities: Together, Tethered, or Torn Professor Tom Bryer, School of Public Administration, University of Central Florida Professor Bryer will introduce the idea of the integrated university from his book Higher Education beyond Job Creation: Universities, Citizenship, and Community.

Universities have multiple, often competing obligations to create jobs and build skills for existing jobs, disseminate knowledge from original research, and cultivate active citizens. Advocates of each different role sometimes feed the competition and facilitate conflict by disparaging the value of the other roles. If properly integrated, the outcome can be stronger communities around our universities, with citizens prepared to pursue the good life for themselves and others around them.

Critical to this role integration is a strong and strategically aligned relationship with the community, as a whole, and with individual stakeholders within the community.

Professor Bryer will outline three points on a continuum of universitycommunity relations, and present an argument to cultivate relationships that are tethered in some areas of operation but merely together in many other areas.

Examples will be drawn from the United States, such as from Bryer's own Centre for Public and Nonprofit Management and from the "Delaware Model" at the University of Delaware. Examples will also be drawn from the United Kingdom, with reflection on recent reports and recommendations about UK research councils and teaching excellence in UK universities.

Additional examples will be drawn from other European institutions that will allow for expanded reflection on civics, diversity, and economics within the span of university concern.

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Tuesday 23rd February 6.00pm

Business School, Edge Hill University

Taking it to the Streets: Empowering Interactions with the Urban Environment Morag Rose, University of Sheffield Dr Andrea Capstick, Bradford University The View from Room 21: storying care home life with dementia as ‘a wounded city revisited’ Andrea Capstick

This symposium explores the concept of psychogeography, the practice of attentive walking used by a diverse range of writers, activists, artists and performers, in the context of the Imagining Better exhibitions strand. Framed with an introduction to the concepts from Roy Bayfield, sessions will include:

Confessions of an Anarcho-Flâneuse Morag Rose The LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement) is an open interdisciplinary collective interested in exploring and sharing our love for Manchester. This talk will share field notes from our experiments in anarchaflanuerie and introduce a range of tactics that we use to transform the streets into a playground as we search for new ways to look at, feel and remap Manchester.

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Booking not required

Room 21 is on the second floor of a London, UK care home. Over the years it has been occupied in turn by Peter, Shirley and Frances, all of whom had a diagnosis of dementia.

Central to the narrative biography of each of the three residents is a European city where he or she lived decades earlier. For Peter, it is wartime Amsterdam; for Shirley, post-war Berlin, and for Frances, the most recent occupant, Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring of 1968. Andrea’s research explores the intersections between these historically ‘wounded cities’ and the experience of living in a present-day care home.

Presented by Edge Hill Arts

Faculty of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University

Thursday 25th February 6.00pm

Alzheimer's and Other Dementias: Progress and Challenges in Research Dr Simon Ridley, Director of Research, Alzheimer's Research UK Dementia is a truly global health issue, affecting 44million people worldwide. There are 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK today. By 2025 the number is expected to rise to over one million and by 2050 it is projected to exceed 2 million. (Alzheimer's Research UK)

The term dementia describes a set of symptoms including memory loss, mood changes, and problems with communication and reasoning. This public lecture with guest speaker Dr Simon Ridley includes a presentation around key challenges and progress in dementia research from both a scientific and research perspective, including areas such as epidemiology and risk reduction, dementia pathologies, new drug targets, trials and treatments, and biomarkers.

Viewed by some as having fewer opportunities in academia, this discussion will explore how dementia research capacity and initiatives, alongside the funding landscape (UK and global) can be supported.

Simon joined Alzheimer's Research UK in January 2009. As Director of Research he is responsible for the delivery of funding programmes and partnerships. Simon follows new developments in dementia research and is a regular media spokesperson on research matters. Simon has extensive experience as a researcher and has also worked in industry.

Prior to taking up post at Alzheimer’s Research UK, Simon a Research Fellow at University of Cambridge, where he also completed his PhD.

Book your place at: Presented by the Postgraduate Medical Institute

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Thursday 25th February 6.30pm

Creative Edge, Edge Hill University

In Conversation with Terence Davies His adaptation of Sunset Song, the classic Scottish novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was released at the end of 2015 to great acclaim, whilst 2016 will welcome Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion, the life of the renowned American poet, Emily Dickinson. Both films have been produced by Roy Boulter and Sol Papadopoulos of Liverpool’s Hurricane Films.

Liverpool born Terence Davies, lauded as 'Britain's greatest living film maker', has made an outstanding contribution to British cinema and culture. As well as being a Fellow of the British Film Institute, Terence was made an Honorary Doctor of Literature at Edge Hill University in 2015.

Terence’s most celebrated feature films, Distant Voices, Still Lives from 1988 and The Long Day Closes from 1992 are autobiographical films that draw on his family experiences of Liverpool in the 1940's and 1950's and which are rich evocations of working class culture in the post war decades.

Terence Davies will be in conversation with Professor Roger Shannon – Director of ICE, Edge Hill University - discussing his film making career, whilst focussing on his two most recent films, Sunset Song and A Quiet Passion, which represent long cherished passions.

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Presented by the Institute for Creative Enterprise

The Business School, Edge Hill University

Tuesday 1st March 6.00pm

Economic Inequality: A Messy Social Problem Dr Nat O’Connor, Ulster University Nat is a Lecturer of Public Policy and Public Management in Ulster University. His primary research interests are economic inequality, housing and homelessness, democratic accountability and evidence-based policy making. From 2009 to early 2015, Nat worked with the progressive think-tank TASC (www.tasc.ie) in the roles of Policy Analyst, Director and Research Director. At TASC, Nat wrote a range of policy analysis and economic analysis, presented to parliamentary committees and gave regular briefings to policymakers and the media. Prior to that, Nat led the research team in Dublin’s Homeless Agency. He has also lectured in several Irish universities on an occasional basis, and he is a committee member of the Irish Social Policy Association and a member of the Board sub-group on Policy of The Wheel (the representative body of the community and voluntary sector in the Republic of Ireland).

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Wednesday 2nd March 6.30pm

Creative Edge, Edge Hill University

New British Cinema: A Resurgence of Independent Cinema?

Professor Jason Wood Artistic Director for Film at HOME

Jason Wood is the Artistic Director for Film at HOME, Manchester's new centre for international contemporary arts, theatre and film, and also Visiting Professor at the Manchester School of Art.

Jason will introduce and discuss his recently published book, New British Cinema - From Submarine to 12 Years A Slave published by Faber in November 2015 and co written with Ian Haydn Smith. The book argues that there is a resurgence of British film making currently under way, bolstered by the arrival of a new wave of independent cinema. Wood's industry roles in distribution, sales, Festivals and exhibition at Picturehouse and Curzon Cinemas give his insights a fresh authenticity and a rounded perspective.

New British Cinema singles out 2009 as a pivotal year, when an unusual number of important British films debuted in cinemas and at Festivals. A single most heartening argument in the book is the prevalence of female directors within this new wave of UK independent cinema.

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Faculty of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University

Wednesday 9th March 5.00pm

The Human Touch Breathe Out Theatre Edge Hill University will be hosting this production in partnership with Breathe Out Theatre, and is supported by the Arts Council England.

The Human Touch delivers a collection of stories exploring the UK care system through the eyes of the cared for, and the carers. Three unique stories will take you on a journey, focusing on different perspectives of care and exploring the idea ‘who cares for who?’. The Human Touch offers humour, sensitivity, and inspiration for all those involved in, or interested in various aspects of health and social care.

Breathe Out Theatre is Manchesterbased non-profit company set up by writer/producer Rob Johnson, (winner of The Kings Cross Award for New Writing). The company works to produce new writing, bespoke plays, and high quality productions in collaboration with actors, directors, designers and technicians.

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Thursday 10th March 6.00pm

Business School, Edge Hill University

Strategic leadership for the management of emergency services: case for a new research agenda Professor Paresh Wankhade, Edge Hill University

The emergency services (ambulance, police and fire & rescue) impact on everybody at some time in their life.

The need to manage risk to life, health and property (including the public awareness of risk and responsiveness) makes it imperative to have a comprehensive understanding about these organisations. It is vital to analyse the contexts in which these services operate and the key organisational and management challenges they face.

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Professor Paresh Wankhade’s inaugural lecture will draw on the current state of management research on emergency services highlighting a ‘theory-practice’ divide which has resulted in a ‘silo’ approach to the development of academic and professional expertise.

The lecture will also address the fragmentary nature of the emergency community while highlighting the challenges faced by individual services to argue the case for a new research agenda.

Professor Wankhade joined Edge Hill University in September 2014 as Professor of Leadership and Management in the Business School.

His research and publications currently focus on analyses of strategic leadership, organisational culture and organisational change with a special focus on ‘blue light’ emergency services management.

He regularly chairs specialist panels promoting strategic leadership in emergency services at international management conferences and is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Emergency Services.

Inaugural lecture series 2015/16 - celebrating the appointment of new professors and allowing the University to showcase its academic talent to a wide audience.

Creative Edge, Edge Hill University

Portraits of British Muslims

Monday 14th March to Friday 1st April 9.00am – 6.00pm weekdays

Zahir Rafiq

He has worked with organisations such as South Yorkshire Police to produce artwork for a poster campaign and also participated in a national exhibition for Islamic Awareness Week, on the theme of “Your Muslim Neighbour”. He believes art can be used to increase tolerance and understanding between people from different cultural backgrounds. This was evident when he worked in partnership with the Rotherham Tourist Initiative to hold the first exhibition of Islamic art within a Christian Church at All Saints in Rotherham shortly after the events of 9/11

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Photo: I am Omar 2014 Oil on canvas

Zahir Rafiq is an artist from South Yorkshire. He specialises in contemporary Islamic art where he fuses traditional Islam motifs with western artistic styles. With this approach he sought to express not only a new way of looking at Islamic art, but also his own identity as someone being brought up as a Muslim in Britain.

Zahir is currently working with Sheffield University exploring the theme of British Muslim identity trough portraiture as part of the Imagine Better Futures Project. He will paint subjects that depict the present day British Muslim community as well, challenging misconceptions and exploring generational differences.

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Thursday 14th April 6.00pm

Faculty of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University

If integration is the answer, what was the question? What next for health and social care partnerships.

Professor Jon Glasby, University of Birmingham

Integrated care is a key policy priority, and has been crucial to recent developments such as NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, the Better Care Fund and debates around the regional devolution of health spending. However, greater integration has been a longstanding priority, and we have discussed many of these issues before. Against this background, this lecture reviews the recent policy context (including both opportunities and challenges) and explores the underlying evidence base around ‘what works in partnership working’.

Jon is Head of the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham and Professor of Health and Social Care. A qualified social worker by background, he is involved in regular research, teaching, consultancy and policy advice around health and social care partnerships, community care and personalisation. He is Editor-inChief of the Journal of Integrated Care and a Non-Executive Director of Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

He has provided policy advice to the Department of Health, the Cabinet Office and Downing Street on the future of health and social services, and from 2003 to 2009 was the Secretary of State’s representative on the Board of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). He is currently a Senior Fellow of the UK School for Social Care Research and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Academy of Social Sciences.

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Edge Hill University is based on a stunning campus environment in Lancashire, close to Liverpool and Manchester.

The University has been providing higher education for 130 years, based on an ethos of opportunity through excellence. In 2014-15 Edge Hill was awarded the Times Higher Education University of the Year title, the most prestigious accolade in the Higher Education sector. It was also named by the same publication as the Best University Workplace in its 2015 survey of staff at UK universities. The recent Research Excellence Framework (REF) results show the high quality and impactful nature of our research with World Leading Internationally Excellent or Internationally Recognised work across all areas.

The University is rated top in the North West for Overall Student Satisfaction across all 23 questions in the 2014 National Student Survey, and the top diversified university in the UK for Social Mobility, based on Edge Hill’s success in developing a broad range of students to achieve graduate jobs (Social Mobility Graduate Index 2014).

The last decade has seen investment of £250m on its campus which includes Creative Edge, a £17m media, music and computing facility and a £30m sports complex and it remains the safest campus in the region according to the Complete University Guide.

The University is an academic community comprising more than 10,000 full time undergraduate and postgraduate students, a further 6,000 on part time and professional development programmes and nearly 4,000 staff. Edge Hill also boasts strong levels of graduate employment, with 95.3% of full-time degree students finding work or further study within six months of graduating, which places the University in the top eight public universities in England (HESA 2014).

Edge Hill University has been a champion of Widening Participation since its establishment in 1885 as the country’s first women’s nondenominational teacher training college. Since this time, the theme of opportunity for all has remained a key component of the institution’s vision and is embedded throughout its activities. The university’s consistent efforts to widen access have led to being recognised as a Top Two University in the UK for Social Mobility based on its success in developing a broad range of students to achieve graduate jobs.

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