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Public Events Autumn 2016

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Public Events Autumn 2016

Welcome

Welcome to Edge Hill University’s 2016-2017 Autumn/Winter public events series as we celebrate new professors, cutting-edge research and explore our current cultural climate. All of our events are open to members of the public and are completely free of charge.

We begin the events season by taking a glance at the UK arts scene with a film screening and In Conversation event about Francis Bacon, which coincides with the current Tate Liverpool exhibition, Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms. In November we welcome Arts Council England’s Chief Executive, Darren Henley to discuss the post-Brexit arts landscape with the Director of Edge Hill's Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE), Professor Roger Shannon. We also welcome the curator of Tate Liverpool, Darren Pih, who will be joining us to discuss the Yves Klein exhibition as it draws to a close in December.

In October, body language expert and Professor of Psychology Geoff Beattie, will launch his latest book Rethinking Body Language: How Hand Movements Reveal Hidden Thoughts, with an interactive demonstration and lecture on the topic followed by a book signing.

2016 is a significant year for literature at Edge Hill, with the Short Story Prize having celebrated its 10th anniversary and the University establishing its own literary press. The Edge Hill University Press will launch its debut anthology Head Land at The Arts Centre in November and, in December, the founder of the Prize, Professor Ailsa Cox, will deliver her Inaugural Lecture as the world’s first professor of short fiction.

The Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice (I4P) will examine current policy challenges and offer futuristic perspectives through a series of conferences and lectures. In September, Dr Zana Vathi, Reader in Social Sciences at Edge Hill University, will commence this series with a symposium which will focus on driving social and environmental development in Toxteth, Liverpool.

Keep up to date with all of our events at Facebook.com/ehuevents.

We hope you can join us.

Public Lectures Autumn 2016

At a glance Film Screening – Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon In Conversation about Francis Bacon with Kasia Redzisz Wednesday 14th September

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Living on the Edge: Life in High Salinity Environments Dr AndrĂŠ Antunes Tuesday 11th October

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Migration, Locality and Physical Environment in Toxteth, Liverpool Dr Zana Vathi Thursday 15th September

Book Launch - Rethinking Body Language: How Hand Movements Reveal Hidden Thoughts Professor Geoff Beattie Wednesday 12th October

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The Role and Relevance of Interdisciplinary Research in Community Activism in a Post-Brexit United Kingdom Dr Ornette D Clennon - Manchester Metropolitan University Wednesday 12th October

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You Are What You Consume: Consumption, Materialism and Self in the 21st Century Professor Helen Woodruffe-Burton Tuesday 18th October

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Learning and Surviving: An Outsider Looking in at the Working Lives of Doctors Professor Jeremy Brown 13.10 Thursday 13th October

The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens In Conversation with Tony Garnett Wednesday 19th October

Prenatal Programming: You Are What Your Mum Eats Dr Jayne Charnock Tuesday 25th October

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Public Lectures Autumn 2016

Blending, Braiding and Balancing: Combining Informal and Formal Methods of Working with Communities Dr Alison Gilchrist Thursday 27th October

Deconstructing Gender: Being Human, A Festival of the Humanities Rosa Fong Friday 18th November

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Book Launch – Head Land: 10 Years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize Adam Mark and Carys Bray Tuesday 22nd November

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What is the Game, Who are the Players and How Do We Win? The Journey from Research to Changes in Healthcare Practice Professor Sally Spencer Thursday 24th November

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What Invertebrates Can Do For Us Dr Anne Oxbrough Tuesday 22nd November

Participation and Representation in Post-Brexit Britain: The Case for Community Universities Professor Jenny Pearce - University of Bradford Thursday 24th November

The Arts Dividend Darren Henley, Chief Executive of Arts Council England Wednesday 30th November

World’s First Professor of Short Fiction: Professor Cox and Mrs Power Professor Ailsa Cox Thursday 1st December

In Conversation About Yves Klein Darren Pih Wednesday 7th December

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Film Screening – Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon In Conversation about Francis Bacon with Kasia Redzisz ©Tate, London 2016.

Public Events Autumn 2016

14.09.16

Wednesday Creative Edge 5.30pm Registration and refreshments 6.00pm Film screening (Run time 91mins) 7.30pm In Conversation 8.30pm Refreshments and networking Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/ice/events

In Conversation about Francis Bacon complements the current Tate Liverpool exhibition, Francis Bacon – Invisible Rooms, the largest Francis Bacon show ever held in Northern England.

Following the screening of Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, Kasia Redzisz, the curator of the exhibition, will be in conversation with Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE) Director, Professor Roger Shannon. Professor Shannon was also Head of Production at the British Film Institute (BFI) when the biographical film about Francis Bacon was produced.

Kasia Redzisz is Senior Curator at Tate Liverpool, where she has organised exhibitions of works by Franci Bacon, Maria Lassing and Edward Krasiński. Between 2010 and 2014 she was Assistant Curator at Tate Modern in London. Kasia has written books on contemporary art, as well as contributing to exhibition catalogues and magazines such as Pavilionesque and Frieze.

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, directed

by John Maybury, won the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

A biopic of Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi), the film looks at the artist's unlikely and tumultuous relationship with erstwhile thief George Dyer (Daniel Craig), who became Bacon's lover after a botched break-in. After the unique beginning to their love affair, the well-connected and volatile artist assimilates Dyer into his circle of eccentric and often cold friends, including the caustic Muriel Belcher (Tilda Swinton), as Dyer's struggle with addiction strains their bond. Cameos from famous Young British Artists (YBAs) and music composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Public Events Autumn 2016

Migration, Locality and Physical Environment in Toxteth, Liverpool Dr Zana Vathi

Migration, Locality and Physical Environment in Toxteth, Liverpool aims to bring together stakeholders to examine Liverpool and Toxteth in terms of migration, social cohesion and the physical environment. The policy conference forms part of the British Academy funded project Bringing the Aesthetics in: Migrants’ Relationship with Urban Space in Toxteth (2015-16), which looks at the ways in which urban dwellers, both locals and migrants, experience belongingness to urban space, and the effects of aesthetics on this dynamic.

The conference follows the project’s exhibition Visualising Belongingness to the Urban Space: Locals and Migrants in Toxteth, Liverpool, which formed part of Refugee Week and Festival 31 in Liverpool.

Convenor, Dr Zana Vathis is a Reader in Social Sciences at Edge Hill University specialising in migration studies. Zana has worked on projects concerning the integration of migrants and their descendants, migration and development, new immigration into Britain and migration in the Western Balkans. Her doctoral research was awarded the 2012 International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion Maria Ioannis Baganha Prize as the best PhD project in Migration Studies in Europe.

Zana’s research has been funded by the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission and the British Academy and has served as an international expert in the field of migration. Emerging new avenues of her research focus on complexity and the links between the spatial and the psycho-social in the context of migration.

15.09.16 Thursday Business School 10.00am Registration and refreshments 10.45am Keynote speech 11.30am Project report 12.15pm Lunch break and exhibition visit 1.30pm Roundtable sessions 4.45pm Summary and conclusions Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/i4p/events

Public Events Autumn 2016

11.10.16 Tuesday

Business School 5.00pm Registration and refreshments 5.30pm Lecture followed by Q&A Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/events

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Living on the Edge: Life in High Salinity Environments Dr André Antunes

Nature never ceases to amaze in both its astonishing resourcefulness and enormous flexibility. The long-standing assumption of life as being picky and frail has been clearly disproven. The advent of modern microbiology in the last few decades, only possible with the new tools provided by molecular biology, gave us a whole new perspective of Earth’s biosphere. Microorganisms were shown to be by far the dominant forms of life in our planet and discovered to populate and thrive in virtually every corner of our planet, including several inhospitable ones, previously thought sterile due to the harshness of their conditions.

Organisms populate, and prosper under extreme environmental conditions, ranging from subfreezing polar deserts, to the sulphurous, boiling waters of a hot spring, to concentrated brines and abyssal environments, commonly known as extremophiles (literally meaning extreme loving). The discovery of new extreme environments and their study expand our knowledge on the evolution, diversity, and resilience of Life.

Furthermore, they also provide precious analogues for Life on Mars, and beyond.

Living on the Edge: Life in High Salinity Environments will present an overview of the latest findings, current challenges, and future perspectives when studying the biology of unusual extreme environments, with a focus on research on high salinity locations and the deep-sea anoxic brines of the Red Sea. These are considered to be some of the harshest environments known on our planet and make them a privileged location for novel discoveries in the field of microbiology and biotechnology.

Public Events Autumn 2016

Book Launch - Rethinking Body Language: How Hand Movements Reveal Hidden Thoughts Professor Geoff Beattie

Professor Geoff Beattie will launch his newest book, Rethinking Body Language at Edge Hill University’s Arts Centre in October 2016. Challenging all of our old assumptions about the subject, his book builds on cutting-edge research to offer a new theoretical perspective which will transform the way we look at other people.

In contrast to the traditional view that body language is primarily concerned with the expression of emotions and the negotiation of social relationships, Professor Beattie argues instead that gestures reflect aspects of our thinking but in a different way to verbal language. Critically, the spontaneous hand movements that we make when we talk often communicate a good deal more than we intend.

Geoff is Professor of Psychology at Edge Hill University and a prize-winning author in the field of applied social psychology.

He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and was awarded the Spearman Medal by the BPS for ‘published psychological research of outstanding merit’ for his work on nonverbal communication. In 2016, he also became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He is the author of 20 books that have been translated into Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish and German. He was recently Routledge Psychology Author of the Month.

Well known for bringing analyses of behaviour, and particularly nonverbal communication, to a more general audience, Professor Beattie appeared as the on-screen psychologist on 11 series of Big Brother in the U.K. His talent for explaining how psychology can be used by people in their everyday lives has seen him present a number of television series including BBC1 shows Life’s Too Short and Family SOS.

12.10.16

Wednesday The Arts Centre 6.30pm Registration and refreshments 7.00pm Lecture followed by Q&A 8.00pm Book signing and refreshments Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/artscentre

Public Events Autumn 2016

12.10.16

Wednesday Business School 5.30pm Registration and refreshments 6.00pm Lecture followed by Q&A 7.00pm Refreshments and networking Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/i4p/events

The Role and Relevance of Interdisciplinary Research in Community Activism in a Post-Brexit United Kingdom Dr Ornette D Clennon

The fight for social justice within our most deprived communities has historically always been fraught, but even more so within the context of Austerity. With the societal fault lines that have been exposed by the recent Brexit vote, Dr Ornette D Clennon’s lecture will discuss the increasing importance of scholar activism in not only researching but also facilitating the dynamic process of building sustainable communities towards social justice.

Using his research as case studies, Dr Clennon will outline the growing need for the role of the “Flipped Academic” where researchers combine academic research, creative participatory activities and social enterprise into interdisciplinary research.

Dr Ornette D Clennon is a Visiting Research Fellow, a Critical Race scholar and a composer in The Research Centre for Social Change: Community Wellbeing at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). He leads the Centre’s Critical Race and Ethnicity Research cluster and is guest resident composer for MMU’s Northern Chamber Orchestra. Dr Clennon is also Visiting Professor at the Federal University of the Amazonas, writes for Media Diversified and Open Democracy and is a Public Engagement Ambassador for the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE). He is a community activist at local, national and international levels including Making Education a Priority (MEaP), Black British Academics and the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education.

Public Events Autumn 2016

Learning and Surviving: An Outsider Looking in at the Working Lives of Doctors Professor Jeremy Brown

Medicine is a career which requires doctors to continually reflect, learn and develop throughout their working life.

Professor Jeremy Brown’s inaugural lecture will look back on the 17 years he has spent working with hospital doctors and General Practitioners (GPs) and will address some of the ongoing challenges faced by doctors at each stage of their professional career, from newly qualified to hospital consultant or GP.

The lecture will consider the multiple roles of doctors as clinicians, learners, educators and leaders. In doing so, Professor Brown will reflect on the current state of medical education research as an academic discipline and consider where our research priorities should lie in relation to postgraduate training and patient care.

Jeremy Brown became Professor of Clinical Education at Edge Hill University in August 2015. He has published over 40 academic articles, including an editorial in the British Medical Journal regarding the durability of medical career choices. He is a core member of the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) research group, leading the organisation at their annual Researching Medical Education conference in London. In 2015 he was awarded the Excellent Medical Education Prize from the General Medical Council and ASME.

13.10.16 Thursday Faculty of Health and Social Care 5.30pm Registration and refreshments 6.00pm Lecture followed by Q&A 7.15pm Refreshments and networking Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/bookevents

Inaugural Lecture Series

Public Events Autumn 2016

You Are What You Consume: Consumption, Materialism and Self in the 21st Century Professor Helen Woodruffe-Burton

18.10.16 Tuesday

Business School 5.30pm Registration and refreshments 6.00pm Lecture followed by Q&A 7.15pm Refreshments and networking Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/bookevents

Inaugural Lecture Series

Rationally, we know that material possessions alone do not bring happiness, yet the evidence shows that consumers persist in spending their way to imagined satisfaction.

Professor Woodruffe-Burton’s inaugural lecture will explore the realities of 21st Century consumer society from a consumer and marketing perspective.

She will explore the view that dissatisfaction rather than satisfaction, is the hallmark of the ever-changing consumer landscape: individuals see objects and acquisition as the means to fulfilment and self-completion, and the market ensures that these desires are aroused faster than the time it takes to satisfy them.

Consumer desire is therefore a paradox; once in possession of the objects from which consumers seek gratification, it is never very long before the familiar feelings of discontent return with new purchasing aspirations.

Helen Woodruffe-Burton joined Edge Hill University as Professor of Marketing in September 2015 and was appointed Director of the Business School in March 2016. A Chartered Marketer, internationally recognised researcher and author, Helen has published widely on consumption and consumer behaviour, methodology, gender and intersectionality. Helen sits on the Executive Committee of the Academy of Marketing, is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Marketors and is a regular keynote speaker at business and academic events.

Public Events Autumn 2016

The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens In Conversation with Tony Garnett

Tony Garnett, producer, actor, director and writer, will be reading from his recently published memoir The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens.

Described by former BBC Director General, Mark Thompson, as “simply the best television drama creator and producer there has ever been”, Tony Garnett's career has seen him write classic productions including Cathy Come Home, BBC Wednesday Plays, Kes, Days of Hope, Beautiful Thing and This Life amongst a host of other drama productions.

His book delves into his memories of growing up in working class Birmingham during the 1940s and 50s as he battled BBC and film executives to make films that were thought to be too controversial; films about police corruption, psychiatrists’ cruelty, advocating abortion law reform, the homeless, and the waste of young people in poor schools.

Following the reading, Tony will be In Conversation with Edge Hill’s Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE) Director and film producer Professor Roger Shannon.

The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens, In Conversation with Tony Garnett has been organised in collaboration with Constable Publishers.

19.10.16

Wednesday Creative Edge 5.30pm Registration and refreshments 6.00pm Book reading and In Conversation 7.30pm Book signing Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/ice/events

Public Events Autumn 2016

Prenatal Programming: You Are What Your Mum Eats Dr Jayne Charnock

25.10.16 Tuesday

Biosciences Building and Business School 5.00pm Registration and refreshments BioSciences Foyer 5.30pm Lecture followed by Q&A Business School Book your place at: biology@edgehill.ac.uk

Impaired development of the placenta is strongly associated with a number of pregnancy complications and poor neonatal health, as well as having important implications for the lifelong wellbeing of the baby.

Dr Jayne Charnock’s lecture will discuss how maternal diet, amongst other factors, is known to directly impact on the health of babies and even their childhood behaviour. The lecture will discuss how eating too much liquorice whilst pregnant could cause ADHD in infants, why a mum’s low protein diet is linked to heart disease in adulthood, and all of the more useful things you can do with placenta in a laboratory after delivery, opposed to eating it. She will discuss her plans to research how external factors, such as nutrition during the very earliest stages of pregnancy, impact on the developing placenta, and therefore the baby, with important implications for IVF procedures.

Dr Charnock is a Lecturer in Biology at Edge Hill University, with a special interest in pregnancy and its related diseases.

Her research has previously focused on the development and role of the placenta, and the treatment of Fetal Growth Restriction (FGR).

Blending, Braiding and Balancing: Combining Informal and Formal Methods of Working with Communities Dr Alison Gilchrist

Dr Alison Gilchrist will present findings from recent research exploring the interplay between formal and informal modes of working with communities. Her talk will identify functional advantages and disadvantages for these approaches, arguing that informality is currently underappreciated and misunderstood by government and large-scale institutions.

Community development suggests that shrewd judgments, specific skills and organisational knowledge are needed to ensure optimal participation and progress. The conclusions will set out implications for policy and practice that have relevance for anyone working in and with communities, including funders, local authority officers, politicians, as well as public and voluntary sector policy makers.

Dr Alison Gilchrist worked for many years as a community development worker in inner-city neighbourhoods in Bristol and has been active in various local and national community work organisations. For eleven years, Alison taught community and youth work at the University of the West of England whilst gaining her PhD. Dr Gilchrist has worked as an independent consultant, offering skills and expertise in community support, action research, group facilitation, organisation development and policy advice. Her research is included in her book The Well-connected Community: A Networking Approach to Community Development.

Public Events Autumn 2016

27.10.16 Thursday Business School 5.30pm Registration and refreshments 6.00pm Event start 7.00pm Refreshments and networking Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/i4p/events

Public Events Autumn 2016

Deconstructing Gender: Being Human, A Festival of the Humanities Rosa Fong

18.11.16 Friday

The Arts Centre 1.30pm Registration 2.00pm Film screening 3.00pm Workshops and discussions Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/ice/events

Presented by Edge Hill’s Department of Media with the support of the Institute for Creative Enterprise as part of the 2016 Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities, Rose Fong will explore gender fluidity through an afternoon of workshops and discussions.

The event will also screen Rosa’s recent documentary film Deconstructing Zoe, an intimate portrait of a transgender actor’s exploration of gender, race and sexuality. The film carries the important message that gender is not fixed or binary but for some is a spectrum, and that we can be gender queer and sexually fluid at any one time. The afternoon of sessions aim to offer insights into how senses of gender, race and identity are socially constructed and have multiple expressions.

Rosa Fong is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Edge Hill University. Her research interests including transcultural identities, narrative structures, memory, and displacement and identity. Rosa is an award winning writer/director with more than 15 years’ experience working in the film and television industry. She has directed programmes for BBC and Channel 4, and worked in Hong Kong directing music videos for MTV and Partizan. Rosa has also been recognised with awards from the British Film Institute and Arts Council of England.

Public Events Autumn 2016

Book Launch - Head Land: 10 Years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize Adam Mark and Carys Bray

Head Land is the debut publication by the newly formed Edge Hill University Press. The anthology celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the only award that recognises excellence in a published collection of short stories by authors from the UK and Ireland.

Edge Hill has long been home to devotees of the short story, and this fantastic selection of authors who have been awarded the Prize as well as the student-judged Reader’s Prize and a number of shortlisted authors, together represent the very best of writers at work in the short story form in these islands in the 21st Century.

Adam Marek is the author of two short story collections: Instruction Manual for Swallowing and The Stone Thrower.

He won the 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story Fellowship, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. His stories have appeared on BBC Radio 4, and in many magazines and anthologies, including Prospect and The Sunday Times Magazine, and The Penguin Book of the British Short Story.

Carys Bray’s debut short story collection Sweet Home won the Scott prize. Her first novel A Song for Issy Bradley was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the Desmond Elliott Prize. It won the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and the Utah Book Award. Her second novel The Museum of You was recently published. Carys has an MA and PhD in Creative Writing from Edge Hill University. She lives in Southport with her husband and children and is currently working on her third novel.

22.11.16 Tuesday The Arts Centre 6.45pm Registration 7.00pm In Conversation 8.00pm Book signing Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/artscentre

Public Events Autumn 2016

What Invertebrates Can Do For Us Dr Anne Oxbrough

22.11.16 Tuesday

Business School 5.00pm Registration and refreshments 5.30pm Lecture followed by Q&A Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/events

Invertebrates are the most diverse group of animals on the planet, representing over 95% of all known animal species. They are found on all biomes across the globe from the arctic to the tropics and display a diverse array of ecological adaptations, life history strategies and morphologies. Invertebrates are vital to the healthy functioning of ecosystems, supporting processes such as nutrient cycling and pollination, as well as holding strategic positions in food webs as both predators and prey.

From a human perspective they provide a range of ecosystem services important for agriculture, forestry and fisheries, as well as being fascinating organisms to study in their own right.

Dr Anne Oxbrough’s talk will explore the diversity of invertebrates with a focus on their role in providing ecosystem services to sustain human populations now and in to the future, and how these roles might be affected by changes in climate and the environment.

Dr Oxbrough is an Ecological Scientist and Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill University. She previously spent 12 years as a researcher examining terrestrial invertebrate diversity in Ireland, Canada and Ecuador. Her PhD investigated the potential of plantation forests to support diverse grounddwelling spider fauna. Since then she has continued to work in plantations but has also examined spiders, beetles and moths in agricultural habitats, as well as natural woodlands in temperate and boreal zones. Dr Oxbrough is currently organiser of the Forest Insects and their Allies special interest group and Deputy Coordinator of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations division on forest biodiversity and resilience.

What is the Game, Who Are the Players and How Do We Win? The Journey from Research to Changes in Healthcare Practice Professor Sally Spencer

Professor Sally Spencer is Director of Clinical Research for the Postgraduate Medical Institute at Edge Hill University. Sally joined the Edge Hill in 2015 with the aim of driving the growth of research activity within the Faculty of Health and Social Care through collaboration with public and private sector organisations relevant to healthcare.

Sally’s key research areas have largely involved the measurement of outcomes in clinical trials and the development and uptake of evidence-informed practice.

As an Editor for two Cochrane collaboration groups (Dementia and Airways), she is directly involved in the generation of high quality evidence for healthcare, and is a grant holder on two clinical trials funded by the National Institute for Health Research. During recent years, her career has focused on the collaborative nature of health research and the need for multiprofessional partnerships based on the identification of common goals. Professor Spencer is a member of the board for the Innovation Agency and sits on the Liverpool City Region Health and Life Sciences Board.

Public Events Autumn 2016

24.11.16 Thursday Faculty of Health and Social Care 5.30pm Registration and refreshments 6.00pm Event start 7.15pm Refreshments and networking Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/bookevents

Inaugural Lecture Series

Public Events Autumn 2016

Participation and Representation in Post-Brexit Britain: The Case for Community Universities Professor Jenny Pearce

24.11.16 Thursday Business School 5.30pm Registration and refreshments 6.00pm Event start 7.00pm Refreshments and networking Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/i4p/events

Professor Jenny Pearce will explore whether we are living in a period of ‘profound crisis’ in her inaugural Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice (I4P) lecture. 2016 has been a year of change and upheaval; from the cumulative impact of the banking crisis and 2008 recession, to growing pay inequalities, concerns about job security, rising levels of poverty and the Brexit vote.

Her lecture will ask whether new forms of knowledge exchange might provide the basis for reconnecting people with the idea and practice of politics.

Professor Jenny Pearce is a political scientist who works as an anthropologist. She is Professor of Latin American Politics in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. She was founder and Director of the International Centre for Participation Studies (ICPS) in Peace Studies from 2004 to 2014, where she explored the relevance of learning from Latin America to the contexts of the deindustrialised North of England and codeveloped participative research methodologies in Bradford.

She has published widely on violence, participation and social change in Latin America, and is researching elites and violence in Mexico and Colombia. Professor Pearce is currently writing a book on politics and violence.

Public Events Autumn 2016

The Arts Dividend Darren Henley, Chief Executive of Arts Council England

Darren Henley, Chief Executive of Arts Council England will visit Edge Hill in November to discuss his recently published book The Arts Dividend during an In Conversation event with Professor Roger Shannon, Director of the University’s Institute for Creative Enterprise. Taking an in-depth look at the key benefits that art and culture bring to our lives, the discussion will focus on the nation's creativity, advancing education, benefits in health and wellbeing, innovation and technology; and enhancing England's reputation for cultural excellence on the global stage.

Darren will also touch on topical issues such as the Northern Cultural Powerhouse, the post-Brexit arts landscape and 'Edgenomics.'

Darren Henley has been Chief Executive of Arts Council England since April 2015. He previously spent twenty-five years working in radio, leading Classic FM for fifteen years, and was appointed an OBE in 2013 for services to music. Active in the public cultural realm, his two independent government reviews into music education (2011) and cultural education (2012) resulted in the creation of England’s first National Plan for Music Education, new networks of Music Education Hubs and Heritage Schools, the Museums and Schools programme, the BFI Film Academy and the National Youth Dance Company. He is the author or co-author of twenty-nine books.

Arts Council England is a national organisation which between 2015 and 2018 will invest £1.1 billion of public money from government and an estimated £700 million from the National Lottery to help create art and culture experiences for everyone, everywhere.

30.11.16

Wednesday Creative Edge 6.00pm Registration and refreshments 6.30pm In Conversation 7.30pm Refreshments and networking Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/ice/events

Public Events Autumn 2016

World’s First Professor of Short Fiction: Professor Cox and Mrs Power Professor Ailsa Cox

01.12.16 Thursday The Arts Centre 5.30pm Registration and refreshments 6.00pm Event start 7.15pm Refreshments and networking Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/bookevents

Writing about the landscape of her childhood, Canadian short story writer and Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro has said, “The ordinary place is sufficient, everything here is touchable and mysterious.” In a playful exploration of identity, creative practice and the reality of fiction, Professor Cox's Inaugural Lecture reflects on the transformation of life into art. What is the curious interplay between storytelling, memory, truth and lies? How does a short story capture fragments of time, and what is lost in the telling?

Ailsa Cox is the world’s first Professor of Short Fiction and founder the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories have been included in magazines and anthologies including London Magazine, The Warwick Review and The Best British Short Stories 2014; and collected as The Real Louise and Other Stories (Headland Press). Writing Short Stories: A Guide for New Writers, is currently in its second edition from Routledge.

Ailsa is also the principal editor of the journal Short Fiction in Theory & Practice.

She speaks at many international conferences in Europe, the US and Canada and is the Deputy Chair of the European Network for Short Fiction Research.

Inaugural Lecture Series

Public Events Autumn 2016

Edge Hill University’s Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE) host an In Conversation event about Tate Liverpool's Yves Klein exhibition featuring Tate curator Darren Pih.

© Yves Klein, ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2016.

In Conversation about Yves Klein Darren Pih

Yves Klein is considered a major figure in post-war European art.

He was the leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau Réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany.

Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art and is seen as an inspiration to, and forerunner of Minimal and Pop art.

Darren Pih is the Curator at TATE Liverpool and has published numerous essays for exhibition catalogues. He recently curated the Transmitting Andy Warhol and Gretchen Bender exhibitions which ran concurrently and traced how artists from different generations have responded to the possibilities of mass media.

07.12.16

Wednesday Creative Edge 6.00pm Registration and refreshments 6.30pm In Conversation 7.30pm Refreshments and networking Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/ice/events

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