Channel 07/2011

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TAKING A

STAND ON

SUSTAINABILITY

Editor Sarah McGregor Senior communications officer Assistant editor Alison Crowe Communications officer Channel magazine is published every two months by Marketing and Communications.

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Front page image Quentin North, Information Services, in the new energy efficient data centre. Photo by Andrew Weekes.

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Contents News 04 Comment Professor Stuart Laing

04–07 Round up News from across the university

Lead features 10–11 Visit from energy and climate minister

12–13 Cutting carbon emissions

14–15 Your role in sustainability

18–19 Celebrating student and staff success

22–23 On campus Eco house at Grand Parade

20–21 Opinion The new doctoral college

24 Events

Features 14–15

08–09 Team in focus The carbon management team

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16–17 Special feature School opens in Malagiri

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UNIVERSITY ROUND-UP

Comment Professor Stuart Laing, Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Universities have many purposes, but above all they are concerned with building futures – future knowledge, future jobs, future societies. It is then hardly surprising that in the early part of the twenty-first century the challenge of sustainable development is rapidly moving up the agenda for universities all around the world.

I am very pleased that here at Brighton we have already made signficant advances in many areas of sustainable development including cutting energy consumption and emissions and introducing sustainable procurement practices. We have also opened up opportunities for staff and students to explore ways they can actively contribute to a more sustainable future during their time here, such as volunteering in the community, and through grass roots work via the Environmental Action Network.

However, we all have much more to do. A sustainable future requires a significant shift in current practices, and the University of Brighton will be starting at home with its ambitious target of reducing our carbon emissions by 50 per cent over the next five years.

We have intentionally set a more ambitious target than that set by the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE) of a 43 per cent reduction by 2020 across the higher education sector. We have set up a carbon management team made up of members from across the university to focus on reducing our carbon emissions. There is a real strength in such a cross institutional team and by working together we will all be able to contribute to making a real difference.

The achievement of genuine sustainable development in any organisation happens most effectively when there is well-informed and willing large-scale participation. The university’s ambitions for becoming more sustainable cannot be realised without increased awareness and efforts by all staff and students, and my job as Deputy Vice-Chancellor is to ensure that all parts of the university, with their many different areas of focus, are involved. I would encourage you all as an integral part of your work here, to be committed to making a difference in this critically important area.

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UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON Football and universities learning together The charitable arm of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club, Albion in the Community, and the universities of Brighton and Sussex have joined forces to celebrate the opening of the club’s Amex stadium at Falmer.

A series of seminars for professionals and volunteers will be held at the stadium, exploring critical issues for communities: education, regeneration and health promotion.

The three-way collaboration, called New Arenas: football and the community, will showcase the contribution the football club and its new stadium, together with the universities, can make to community regeneration and individual wellbeing.

Brighton and Sussex universities will also work with the Albion to maximise student volunteering and make sure football in the community becomes a wider part of university life.

There has been massive investment in Falmer by both universities and the football club, and the changes are set to continue with the building of the Brighton Aldridge Community Academy, and the planned historical research centre for the city and East Sussex, The Keep. Martin Perry, Brighton and Hove Albion’s chief executive, said: “It is wonderful to be working together in such an innovative way.”

Professor Julian Crampton, ViceChancellor of the University of Brighton, said: “This is a welcome new and innovative dimension to the our community university partnership programme.”

For further information, email David Wolff, d.wolff@brighton.ac.uk.

FACULTY OF ARTS Passion and prizes This year’s Burt Brill & Cardens, Faculty of Arts Graduate Show showcased stunning and prize-winning student work at the Grand Parade galleries in Brighton. At the annual fashion and textiles show, TV presenter and fashion expert Caryn Franklin, from BBC One’s The Clothes Show, said the work on view showed students had “passion, integrity and authenticity.”

The Best Business Plan Award went to Harriet Toogood, Textiles with Business graduate, who organised weaving and walking weekends to complement and support the Harris tweed industry and to teach weaving.

The People’s Choice Prize was won by 3D Materials Practice student Katie Netley (pictured right) with her native Indian totem poles and stacking inspired ceramics. Burt Brill & Cardens has sponsored the graduate show for the last 16 years.

FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SCIENCE A tale of two Peters The university hosted A tale of two Peters as part of the Brighton Festival Fringe – and the event is available for all to see. Peter James, acclaimed Brighton-based novelist and film producer, was joined on stage at the Sallis Benney Theatre in Grand Parade by another Peter, Professor Peter Squires, the university’s professor of criminology and public policy.

More than 200 guests attended, including two members of the judiciary, the deputy mayor of the city of Brighton & Hove and the Sussex Police Chief Constable. A recording can be viewed on our website, www.brighton.ac.uk/ eventsonline.

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FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Assessing the value of nature Professor Andrew Church has led a team of researchers contributing to a UK national ecosystem assessment (NEA), focusing on the cultural benefits of nature and the collective values people have in relation to their environment.

According to the report, the nation’s parks, lakes, forests and wildlife are worth billions of pounds to the economy and the health benefits of merely living close to a green space alone are worth up to £300 per person per year. The report emphasises the value of the natural world aside from what it produces.

Andrew, who is professor of human geography at the School of Environment and Technology, led a team which included medical doctors, natural scientists, economists, geographers and environmental philosophers. He said: “This type of multidisciplinary research is challenging but very rewarding when it comes off and the launch of the NEA was a satisfying moment after two years of work.”

Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman highlighted work done by Andrew and colleague Professor Neil Ravenscroft (professor of land economy) and said: “The natural world is vital to our existence, providing us with essentials such as food, water and clean air – but also cultural and health benefits not always fully appreciated because we get them for free. The UK NEA provides vital understanding of the true value of nature and how to sustain the benefits it gives us. It is the first such study undertaken by a national government and follows on from the UN’s global millennium ecosystem assessment published in 2005.”

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FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING The hitchhiking mite This mite, one tenth of a millimetre across, was an unexpected find when scientists at the university were testing their new state-of-the-art electron microscopes in the new £23m Huxley building in Moulsecoomb, Brighton.

The mite, identified by the Natural History Museum as a motile hypopus, was found as it was taking a ride on a leg of a millipede to search for richer feeding grounds. The new cryo scanning electron microscope, the most advanced in the south-east, produces images sharper and faster than others by freeze drying samples in-situ, enabling the study of samples that would otherwise be impossible to examine.

Dr Jonathan Salvage, research fellow in the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, explained how the Quorum Technologies’ system works: “The millipede was collected from a colleague’s garden and was snap frozen in liquid nitrogen at 196°C and then freeze dried.

“Many samples possess a moisture content which means they cannot immediately be placed in the high vacuum chamber of the SEM as they would boil and de-gas, destroying the sample. By snap-freezing the moisture, it is contained and controlled. The frozen water can then be removed carefuly by changing it from solid to gas form without it entering a liquid phase.

Thus preserving the sample’s delicate architecture.”

Dr Salvage, academic lead for the school’s Image and Analysis Unit, said the £500,000 system was the first operational instrument of this kind installed in the world. He said the SEM will “ensure students and staff across all University of Brighton faculties have access to the most up-to-date teaching and research equipment.”

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Above: Mite hitches a ride on millipede’s leg.

Over 500 children and 36 teachers will be visiting the university and experiencing SEM in July. Dr Salvage said: “As part of the university’s social and economic engagement policy, the facilities can be used for educational visits through the STEM-Sussex network.

“We also work with commercial research organisations. The food industry, for instance, can benefit when they are testing product improvements.

The advantage of the new system is the quicker turn-around time for samples – we can now examine twice as many in a day.”

Discovery of the mite has featured in The Argus, on BBC South East News and in Microscopy Analysis magazine.

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FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Sharing your heritage The university is inviting members of the public to take photographs of sculptures and monuments in the city as part of a unique project to record Brighton & Hove’s heritage.

The pictures will contribute to a library of computer 3D models which will allow viewers anywhere in the world to inspect objects from every angle.

The project, part of an EC-funded research programme called 3D-COFORM (www.3d-coform.eu) which aims to make 3D technology an affordable and practical option for the cultural heritage sector, is the first of its kind in the world. The invitation to the public has come from the university’s Cultural Informatics Research Group.

Research fellow, Dr Karina Rodriguez, said: “We want to engage the public and we are asking anyone with a digital camera to take part.

“Our website, www.shareyourheritage. org, provides a list of sculptures and monuments in the city and we are asking people to photograph them using an easy technique to achieve an all-round 3D record of the work.

“This involves walking in a circle around the object, framing it and taking a photograph of the object for each step made. Contributors can upload the photographs onto our website and we will acknowledge their contribution in the resulting library.”

Project manager Hilary Williams said: “If the project proves successful then it will be rolled out across Sussex and potentially the rest of the UK.” See www.shareyourheritage.org.

FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND SPORT The royal wedding tweets The social networking site Twitter enabled more than a million people to learn where the Duchess of Cambridge was staying for the royal wedding just hours after the location was named That is the finding from research which involved monitoring tweets about the Goring Hotel where Kate Middleton and her family were guests. Ioannis Pantelidis, senior lecturer in hospitality and culinary arts, found that in the first five hours after the Goring Hotel was revealed in the media, tweets about the venue were generated by 58 users.

Each user, he said, had a number of followers from as few as 18 to one media celebrity who had 300,000. He said: “Nine hours after the news broke more tweeters joined in, bringing the potential audience to over a million.”

He said none of the tweets were generated by the Goring management or staff yet it proved a great source of free advertising for the hotel: “The conclusion is that the tweetosphere has a mind of its own and will react with or without you.”

FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND SPORT Growth for the Gambia An academic from the university is acting as an advisor to the Gambian government with the aim of strengthening the country’s tourism industry, attracting investment and ultimately alleviating poverty.

Dr Marina Novelli, principal lecturer in tourism development and management at the Centre for Tourism Policy Studies (CENTOPS) has been selected for the role of lead expert consultant. Using her extensive research and teaching experience in the Gambia, Dr Novelli is working with Professor Peter Burns, director of CENTOPS, to reposition the Gambia Hotel School (GHS), which will become The Gambia Hospitality and Tourism Institute (GHTI).

Dr Novelli said: “The GHTI will provide demand-driven skills for a cross-section of the tourism industry and will respond to one of the most pressing needs of the tourism industry in the Gambia: the shortage of skilled tourism and hospitality staff and professionals. The GTHI is envisaged to become a centre of excellence for tourism and hospitality training in west Africa.”

FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND SPORT Who plays what, where and why?

Professor Alan Tomlinson, professor of leisure studies at Chelsea School, has launched his fully illustrated The World Atlas of Sport.

The atlas profiles sports’ multifaceted activities including the world’s major competitive sports, their political uses and abuses and the profits that flow from their commercial development.

From American football to sumo wrestling, Alan Tomlinson paints sports’ big picture and the commercial sponsorship that underpins it, the million dollar gains to be made from it and the successes and failures of its celebrity superstars. He maps international sporting events and issues, and charts the economic structures within which sports operate.

Topics covered include the Olympics, Paralympics, gay games, drug abuse, sports for development, media coverage, sponsorship, merchandising, spectators, gambling and tourism.

The atlas profiles well-known sports with a global reach, such as boxing, golf and soccer as well as those with a strong cultural base, such as handball, hockey and ice skating. It traces each sport’s development, analyses its commercial momentum and identifies its most successful exponents. The price of the book is £14.99 and the publisher is Macmillan books.

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TEAM IN FOCUS

THE CARBON MANAGEMENT TEAM The university has pledged to cut its carbon footprint by 50 per cent in five years. To make this ambitious target a reality, a carbon management team has been set up with representatives from academic, support staff and students from across the university.

Headed up by Abigail Dombey, the energy manager, the team includes colleagues from Estate and Facilities Management, Residential and Catering Services, Information Services, Finance and Procurement, Economic and Social Engagement, the Sustainable Development Coordination Unit, Marketing and Communications and the Students’ Union. Abigail is delighted with the formation of the carbon management team: “In the past, carbon management was pretty much the sole responsibility of the energy manager.

However, with our new target to achieve a 50 per cent cut in carbon emissions in five years, we need to get everyone engaged across the university, and our cross departmental carbon management team is the first step in doing that.”

that are not. Investment in the replacement of inefficient equipment will be planned within available funding sources.

Quentin North, assistant director of Information Services, is leading on the construction of a new state-of-the-art, low carbon data centre at Watts. He commented: “This is an opportunity for Information Services to contribute directly to the university target for carbon savings through the new data centre and the consolidation of central and departmental computer systems within it. This will result in us using less power, reducing both costs to the university and our carbon emissions. Information Services are proud to be at the forefront of carbon savings and to be part of this initiative.”

Zoë Osmond, business development manager, works with companies in the environmental field helping them to develop their products, services, technologies, systems and people.

“It’s great to see the university leading the way in terms of the seriously ambitious carbon reduction target. The fact that we are now purposefully walking the talk lends a great deal of credibility to our environmental partnering role. We are helping other organisations to become more sustainable or to develop innovative green products and services, confident in the knowledge that we are also fully committed to this cause.”

David Hicks, catering operations manager, added “the Catering Service has a significant part to play in the university’s ambitious carbon reduction targets. A planned maintenance review of heavy equipment such as cooking ranges, dishwashers, ovens, fridges and freezers will establish those items that are considered to be energy efficient and those

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“In addition to reviewing back of house operations, the service has completed an energy survey of all 50 food and beverage vending machines, resulting in the planned replacement of at least 75 per cent of the current stock. The installation of new energy efficient machines will complete within the next six months. Together with reviewing and replacing equipment the Catering Service is also committed to an ongoing review of working practices in consultation with each site catering team. By doing so we expect to make further significant contributions to the overall carbon reduction target.”

Karl Cox, senior lecturer and learning environments coordinator at the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, is responsible for ensuring that the school’s IT labs, infrastructure, networks and desktops meet the needs of staff and students.

“Working with IT support for the school we are trying to create an energy and environmentally aware culture. We plan to push the green agenda in the computing division; to encourage staff and students to take their own energy efficiency steps, to be proactive. It is the responsibility of every citizen; it is a debt we owe the planet.”

Tony Rodriguez, assistant director of Estate and Facilities Management, commented: “For my team, who have responsibility for the maintenance of the university estate, the carbon management plan presents an opportunity to make some significant improvements to the performance of our estate.

“Projects identified in the plan include a range of thermal insulation works to roofs and walls, draught proofing, equipment controls and major lighting upgrades. We will also have a new full-time position to manage the university’s building management system which is a sophisticated control system for our building’s mechanical services including heating, ventilation and hot water. This is an invaluable tool in controlling energy use and carbon emissions and we aim to squeeze every possible benefit from it. We hope that the projects will not only save carbon but in many cases improve occupancy comfort for building users too.”

In line with the carbon management plan, a sustainable procurement strategy has been developed in consultation with colleagues across the university. The strategy forms part of the implementation of the carbon management plan, and will ensure that goods and services bought by the university are both ethically and

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sustainably sourced as well as being best value for money. It aims to minimise the university’s impact on the environment and ensure that suppliers are selected on the basis that they do not undermine the developing world and that they support employee rights and contribute to the local economy.

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Abigail will be looking for carbon champions from across the university to help support the work of the carbon management team and deliver carbon savings on the ground. She says “It’s not often you get a chance to be involved in a ground breaking initiative like this. If you would like to find out more about this vital role, then contact me on a.n.dombey@brighton. ac.uk.”

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Procurement services manager, Julian Wood said: “As a university in these changing times we cannot afford to be complacent and carry on as before.

Moving to a focus on sustainable procurement will ensure the supply chain makes more efficient use of resources and will encourage innovative solutions.

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1. Marie Harder, professor of sustainable waste management 2. Alison Crowe, communications officer 3. Sue McHugh, director of Finance 4. Karl Cox, senior lecturer, School of Computing Engineering and Mathematics 5. Elona Hoover, research officer, Sustainable Development Coordination Unit 6. Ed Bending, Vice President (Wellbeing), Students’ Union 7. Sabina Wagner, residences services manager 8. Tony Rodriguez, Assistant Director of Estates 9. Professor Stuart Laing, Deputy Vice-Chancellor 10. Quentin North, assistant director of IS: IT Services 11. Abigail Dombey, energy manager 12. Tim Bretherick, interim assistant director (facilities)

13. Zoë Osmond, business development manager (environment) 14. Sarah McGregor, senior corporate communications officer 15. Andrew Miller, professor of building sustainability 16. Julian Wood, procurement services manager 17. Mike Clark, director of Estate and Facilities Management 18. David Hicks, catering operations manager Other members of the team are: Paul Hill, assistant IS director: Customer Services Neil Humphreys, deputy director, Estates and Facilities Management Tony Richardson, deputy head of Finance

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green ay Energy and climate change minister Greg Barker visited the university on the eve of the coalition government unveiling details of its Green Deal to make properties more energy efficient.

He described the deal as the “most ambitious programme of its kind ever attempted”, adding “I’m here for a reality check, reminding me what it will mean on the ground. The Green Deal, when it is launched next year, will unlock billions of pounds of new investment. It will be the biggest national home improvement programme since the war and will create a massive opportunity for British business.”

The government says the Green Deal will provide the framework to enable private firms to offer consumers energy efficiency improvements to their homes, community spaces and businesses at no upfront cost, and recoup payments through a charge in instalments on the energy bill.

Mr Barker was visiting the university’s new £23m Huxley building in Moulsecoomb, Brighton, where he joined a round-table discussion with entrepreneurs, business leaders and organisations which are working with the university on ways to cut carbon emissions and to improve sustainability.

During the discussions he said: “We are looking for a paradigm shift in how we approach sustainable energy use. Success depends on the people in this room implementing measures at a local level. We know that local projects have the most effective chance of getting community buy-in. The university will be well placed to help lead the way in this sector.”

Colin Monk, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Business and Marketing) welcomed the minister and city MPs Caroline Lucas, Simon Kirby, and Mike Weatherley.

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Zoë Osmond, the university’s business development manager for environmental sectors said: “The university has a strong applied research base in environmental disciplines and has been providing expertise and knowledge to businesses and organisations for many years. Our aim is to act as the innovation hub or knowledge centre for our partners.

“Easy access to the university’s knowledge and skills will help organisations achieve green growth and to thrive in a low carbon economy.”

She said the university had launched a carbon management plan with the goal of reducing its carbon footprint by 50 per cent over five years including reducing energy consumption, making buildings more energy efficient and increasing the amount of recycling.

She explained how Professor Mike Mcevoy from the School of Architecture and Design was helping lead a multimillion-pound European project to retrofit council homes in Kent in collaboration with housing associations in the UK and partners in France.

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Zoë highlighted other case studies where the university was working with business on eco projects: • Knowledge Transfer Partnership to introduce a retrofit capability to the Guinness Partnership involving Dr Jon Gates, senior lecturer in the School of Environment and Technology • Plastipack’s third Knowledge Transfer Partnership involving the international marketing of its water and energy conservation products • An innovation voucher scheme-funded consultancy project to address legal issues for Brighton Energy Co-op • An innovation voucher scheme-funded consultancy project to address produce innovation in solar systems for South Downs Solar.

• An innovation voucher scheme-funded consultancy project to provide solutions to site investigations for GeoEnvironmental • A Knowledge Transfer Partnership providing support for Brighton and Hove 10:10 emissions reduction campaign • Dr Kaiming She, senior lecturer in the School of Environment and Technology, who has invented and patented a novel waveenergy converter.

Zoë said of the university’s partners: “We are excited about working together and we are ready for the challenges ahead. The University of Brighton is open for business.”

Earlier, the minister visited the Hove home of Oliver Heath, the eco designer and TV presenter, to inspect the major energy efficiencies he has incorporated. Mr Heath works with the university’s Profitnet organisation which enables small and mediumsize enterprises to learn from each other and to gain access to university expertise.

James Grugeon, chief executive of Environment Protection UK, said he was encouraged by the Green Deal but warned: “There are challenges ahead. Many homes in the south-east are not fit for purpose and account for a quarter of all carbon emissions; how can the community be galvanised into action and will the Green Deal provide incentives to bring people together?”

David Porter, of Low Carbon Era which provides retrofit services, questioned the time gap before Green Deal comes in next year and asked how businesses could generate income in the interim. The minister said the government was taking its time to ensure they were getting it right.

Above: Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP and the energy and climate change minister Greg Barker. Main image left: Greg Barker outside the Huxley Building.

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Cutting carbon

The university is looking to be a cutting edge carbon management university. With our target of reducing emissions by 50 per cent in five years, we have adopted some of the most ambitious aims of any higher education institution in England. Currently we produce over 12,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year, equivalent to over 9,570 return flights to New York.

The university’s carbon management plan sets out how we will achieve the carbon reduction targets. It was developed with the Carbon Trust, as part of the higher education carbon management programme in consultation with students, academic and support staff.

The Carbon Trust commented that: “We’ve really enjoyed working with the University of Brighton and feel that you have delivered an excellent plan and more importantly built a solid governance structure and an engaged cross functional team to support implementation. Your motivation and commitment, technical expertise, project management discipline and attention to detail made a real difference and enabled the delivery of one of the best and most ambitious plans on the programme.”

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Sue Mchugh, director of Finance, chaired the carbon management programme board which oversaw the development of the carbon management plan. She noted: “The board was responsible for setting our aspirational target of a 50 per cent reduction in carbon emissions over five years. As well as helping us achieve good value for money from our estate, the plan is an important contribution to the delivery of our values and the corporate plan commitments to social responsibility.”

Elona Hoover, from the Sustainable Development Coordination Unit added, “The carbon management plan provides something tangible for staff and students to relate to enabling them to get more involved. The development of the carbon management plan was not just a box-ticking exercise, but a

real effort to involve departments across the university. It has been fantastic to see a real commitment for this to continue and improve.”

Ed Bending, Vice President (Wellbeing) of the Students’ Union commented “The Students’ Union believes that the carbon management board has set a challenging and aspirational target, setting the university apart from other institutions. We are very happy to be so heavily involved and are looking forward to the implementation stage, offering our students both an environmentally friendly environment and in many cases, aspects to their learning through involvement in the schemes.”

Carbon reduction projects are already being undertaken with many more in the pipeline.

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systems across the various campuses where duplication along with less efficient computers, increases our carbon output. Through the new facility and the policy set in the carbon management programme, IS will encourage other departments to relocate their systems to the new data centre to enable further savings.”

IS will also be reducing the number of computer systems in the university, replacing older, less energy efficient systems, with new low energy computers that meet modern standards of energy consumption.

Student switch off Residential Services have been working with the Students’ Union and Abigail Dombey, the university’s energy manager to introduce energy saving initiatives for students living in halls of residence and private sector accommodation.

Abigail Dombey, Energy Manager, with new energy efficient boilers.

IT modernisation With the existing Watts data centre running out of space, power and cooling, the university has started work on a new state-of-the-art energy-efficient centre designed to meet the university’s data storage requirements.

During the procurement stage, the energy and maintenance costs over a ten-year period were taken into account, rather than just the initial purchase price, thus helping to assess the energy consumption of the project.

Once the new data centre is completed, Information Services (IS) hope to consolidate central and department computer systems.

As Quentin North, assistant director of IS commented: “This will be more efficient than the present system of distributing computer

The university has almost 2,000 rooms in halls of residence across Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings, and 200 directly managed in the private sector. Future initiatives to encourage students to reduce energy consumption will target both halls and the private sector. The first major initiative, the Student Switch Off Campaign, focuses on energy saving. The Student Switch Off Campaign encourages students to cut their energy usage and reduce their carbon footprint. It uses prize incentives and focuses on peer-to-peer communication, creating a sense of competition that goes beyond just being environmentally friendly.

Updates about energy consumption are provided regularly to encourage competition to reduce their energy usage. The campaign has been successful in raising awareness among students and reducing running costs in halls, with overall usage reduced by an average 3 per cent across all student residences. Students at Paddock Fields, Falmer, who achieved the greatest reduction in energy usage received VIP passes at this summer’s student garden party.

New student accommodation The accommodation is under construction at Varley Halls, Coldean Lane, in Brighton and will increase the number of bed spaces for students and offer new social facilities on the site.

As well as building new energy efficient accommodation with a centralised heating system, the design includes a low carbon combined heat and power (CHP) plant, which generates electricity at the same time that it produces heating and hot water further saving on the university’s carbon emissions.

Green energy The university now buys electricity from renewable sources for all its main sites across Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings and is also planning onsite electricity generation to further reduce our carbon footprint. The installation of solar panels on the roof of Cockcroft will deliver an immediate benefit reducing our carbon emissions by nearly 30 tonnes a year.

Other carbon saving projects include upgrading lighting, improving recycling, switching to biofuels for a number of university vehicles, and engaging staff and students in carbon reduction.

Mike Clark, director of Estate and Facilities Management summed up our efforts to reduce the university’s carbon footprint said: “This is a great example as to how students and staff from across the university can unite towards a common purpose. We all have our part to play and the more of us who do so, the sooner we will achieve our target.”

Abigail Dombey is encouraging people to contact her: “If you have more ideas for saving carbon, or can suggest areas for further investigation, then we very much look forward to hearing from you.”

Email: a.n.dombey@brighton.ac.uk.

Sabina Wagner, residence services manager, said: “Student Switch Off is a great and fun initiative raising awareness and achieving actual energy consumption.”

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Your role in

SUSTAINABILITY We all have a role to play in sustainability and there are many ways in which we can all make a contribution.

One way is to join Environmental Action Network, the university’s open grassroots forum. This is a place where any staff and student can raise campus-specific or university-wide issues about sustainability, suggest changes and take positive action.

One of many suggestions in the past year was for the university to have an ethical investment policy which has now been put in place. This policy requires the university to give active consideration to investing in companies and investment funds which demonstrate policies and practices which accord with the university’s values. An example is from April 2010 when the Board of Governors agreed to include the Co-operative Bank on the approved list of banks for investment of funds in line with this requirement.

Staff and student engagement does not stop at making suggestions and feeding into higher level decision-making. The first ever university Green Week took place in March 2011, and shows just how grassroots action can really make a positive change. Run by the Students’ Union and the university, students and staff were supported to run their own events as well as benefit from university-sponsored activities such as free bicycle maintenance.

Students from the Grand Parade Environmental Action Network and the Sustainable Design MA organised the first ever Designers’ Accord Town Hall to take place in the UK, which brought together students from different schools and campuses as well as researchers, teachers and practitioners from across the country. Staff from the Falmer Environmental Action Network also started a litter picking initiative during Green Week, in an effort to stimulate respect and care for the campus environment and as a first step towards a

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campaign to reduce littering on campus.

Nigel Sherriff, who has been spearheading the initiative said: “there is still much more to be done, but we are having a positive impact, which is great!”

There are also an increasing number of teachers and learners who are encouraging students to explore sustainability issues. For instance, Harvey Ells and Tania Wiseman, lecturers in service management and occupational therapy, have developed an allotment in Eastbourne to integrate into their curriculum, involving community members in the process. In research, the Faculty of Arts Sustainability Network showcases the wealth of research being carried out just in arts and humanities.

In recognition of the progress made we have climbed ten places to twenty-first place in the latest People & Planet’s annual Green League. People & Planet, a student network campaigning to protect the environment, awarded Brighton a first class honour, one of only 31 among the country’s 142 universities and other higher education institutions.

Professor Stuart Laing, the university’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor, said: “This reflects the hard work staff and students are putting into making our institution more sustainable. We are pleased with our improved league position but recognise there is much more to do and much more we can do. Protecting and renewing our shared natural and built environment is the greatest challenge facing our planet and all universities have an important part to play in meeting this challenge. Our aim at Brighton is to be a truly sustainable university in everything that we do.”

Louise Hazan, People & Planet’s climate change campaigns and communications manager, said: “We congratulate the University of Brighton on an excellent score in this year’s Green League ranking. In particular, Brighton should be proud of how well it is engaging staff and students in shaping their transition towards low-carbon, sustainable operations.

The fact that the university scored 12 out of 13 for student and staff engagement shows clearly they are responding to increasing student demand for greener universities.”

Professor Marie Harder, sustainable development facilitator, said: “Every year the Green League requirements get tougher, but our continuous efforts mean we keep going up; we were at fiftieth place in 2007.

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“Every department of the university is involved and improving: catering, personnel, finance, the faculties, student services – all are essential – and our success is greatly due to the fact that our senior management, led by Professor Laing, facilitate cross-university actions.

“This is the first year Green League has assessed sustainable development in the curriculum, which we have always been quietly good at. Estates and Facilities Management has made some wonderful progress this year with several new staff leading on a number of activities. Their efforts are not fully recorded yet and will contribute to even higher marks next year.”

Sustainable procurement has been an important part of Catering Services’ agenda for a number of years. They have had fairtrade status since 2007 and use free range eggs in their preparations.

Drawing on constant feedback and input from staff and students, the department has recently taken this one step further by publishing a sustainable food policy, which spells out existing activities and provides insight into future developments.

David Hicks, catering operations manager, explains that: “Developing supply partnerships with local business, ensuring products and ingredients meet with high standards of animal welfare and undertaking ambitious aims to reduce our impact on the local and wider environment play an important part in the development of food and beverage services at the university, and will continue to do so.”

Actions you can take to become more sustainable At work • If your printer can print on both sides of the paper, make sure the default setting is duplex.

• Reuse paper before recycling and have a tray for scrap paper in the office.

• Buy recycled paper for the office.

• Use eco-friendly cleaning products in your staff kitchen.

• Use your own mug when getting hot drinks from the canteen.

• Make sure taps are turned off and report dripping taps to the Estates and Facilities Management online helpdesk.

Going to and from work • Walk, cycle or take the bus where possible.

At the end of the day • Switch off your computer and monitor.

• Switch off desk lights and fans.

Last person to leave each day • Switch off shared office equipment, printers and photocopiers, at the socket – a photocopier on standby overnight wastes enough energy to make 30 cups of tea.

• Shut all windows and office doors.

Left: David Hicks, catering operations manager.

Righ: Gareth Brown at the bike maintenance clinic.

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The school in Nepal opens Children in the remote Nepalese hamlet of Malagiri are enjoying their very first school, thanks to money raised by staff and students from the university’s School of Education. Channel reports on the school’s official opening.

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Forty-seven children aged between three and eight attended school for the first time, thanks to the hard work and generosity of university students, staff and supporters. Kevin Fossey, senior lecturer in the School of Education and the driving force behind the project, attended the opening ceremony along with Lorraine Harrison, head of the School of Education.

Kevin and Lorraine returned to the school a few days later to spend some time with the children and teachers. Kevin said: “Due to the fantastic support we have received, education is now reaching young children who have not had an opportunity to go to school before.

“The villagers gave us a great reception during the opening ceremony – they are thrilled with the school and they send their greetings to all the supporters. In fact, the villagers decided the admissions policy and appointed the cook, teaching assistant and caretaker. The food the children eat at lunchtime is, wherever possible, sourced locally. I cannot thank everyone enough for all the amazing support and hard work in making this school happen. In October, Lorraine and I plan to hold an open meeting to show slides and explore ways forward.”

With considerable assistance from the university and the government matched funding scheme, the school for Malagiri charity raised £42,000 last year and, at the last count, more than £50,000 has now been collected for the project through students and staff fund-raising events as well as the support of family and friends. The university decided to send digital cards last Christmas and donated money earmarked for printing cards and postage to the cause.

Kevin, who founded the charity within the School of Education, said: “A Malagiri committee is in the process of being set up, in the School of Education. This committee will consider ways forward with the project, practical assistance, funding and liaison. Future possibilities include building more classrooms and perhaps a handicraft room so that villagers can make items for sale on a fair trade basis.

“The main focus must be stability, to explore ways of supporting the staff in this remote village, so that they are able to generate funds to pay salaries and address priorities raised by the staff and Nepali Board.”

The £50,000 was raised through a string of events – administrative assistant Anne Solley ran the Brighton Marathon and raised £450, students have undertaken sponsored walks and runs, quiz nights, cakes sales, concerts, a book sale raised £202, a memorial collection for colleague Janet Clemence raised £24,000, and there was a donation from St Andrews Church (Moulsecoomb) carol concert.

Kevin said: “Blanaid McCauley from the university chaplaincy, like many others, has been incredibly supportive and I want to thank everyone who has helped bring so much joy to such a remote hamlet.

“To see the reaction on the faces of the children and their families has made it all more than worthwhile. The children in Malagiri were desperate to go to school and thanks to everyone’s kindness, they now can.”

For more information or to offer support, go to www.brighton.ac.uk/education/aboutus/ malagiri.

Main image (left): First day at the school in Malagiri, Nepal.

Above: Landscape of where the school is situated.

Lorraine Harrison, head of the School of Education, and Kevin Fossey, senior lecturer also at the school, address guests at the official opening.

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Celebration of awards The achievements of teaching staff, student representatives, support staff and a member of the board of governors have been recognised with accolades bestowed at a local and national level. These awards are great evidence of how well we are performing and the difference we can make to the student experience.

In May the 2011 Excellence Awards were held at the Moulsecoomb campus, organised by the Students’ Union. Students were invited to nominate staff and student course reps whose input had made a real difference to their experience at the university. More than 450 nominations were received and it was from these that the award and highly commended winners were selected.

Nomination comments made by students on just a few of the winners include: Clay Garner: Support Staff Awards “He is always there and knows absolutely anything about everything and if not he will make sure to find out for you. I don’t know what the school would do without him. It really makes a big difference in the life of a confused student.”

Chris Warren-Adamson: Postgraduate Support Award “Chris has been a total inspiration and has provided me with the support to achieve my goals. His advice and guidance has been invaluable to me and has enabled me to approach the dissertation process with a sense of calm. His teaching is fantastic and he has always taken the time to ensure I am on track.”

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Dr Deshinder Singh Gill: E-Learning Teaching Award “Deshi helps students in every way that he can, spending every bit of free time helping teach and prepare all of us for the future.

Deshi records all of his lectures, he uses a video camera to record his annotations and diagrams, a bluetooth headset to record everything he says, plus screen recorder software to record everything he does on the computer; all this so that students that are absent can still learn just as much as being in the lecture.”

Dr Jonathan Chapman: Inspirational Teaching Award “From the first lecture, to the one last week – the one inspirational driving factor, the one source of thought provoking information source, the one person who is constantly helping us believe that we can catalyse change, the one friend who can in a fraction of a minute provide clarity from a mist of thoughts, the one teacher who is leading us to self belief, confidence, knowledge seeking and sharing, and above all creativity – is Jonathan Chapman.”

Professor Lou Taylor: Teaching Excellence Award “I honestly cannot put into words what she means to my future – in terms of career aspirations, mindful academic occupation and genuine determination to continue the pursuit of human understanding that this unique field of study exposes so remarkably. Whilst her work is recognised internationally, it’s right here at Pavilion Parade she makes the most difference – inspiring future historians.”

Nigel Cook: Outstanding Contribution to Student Life “Nigel has been a support and inspiration to all he has taught. His door is always open and he always has his students in mind and their best interests at heart. He consistently delivers exciting, informative and highly beneficial lectures which aim to improve not only our practice but our professional minds also.”

Peter Lang: Course Rep of the Year “Embodies everything a course team could want from a student rep. He works closely with both the student and staff bodies, generates positivity, is honest in his feedback yet sensitive, understanding of the constraints we work within and 100 per cent supportive of peers and staff alike.”

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AWARD WINNERS STAFF Teaching Excellence Award for the tutor who ‘has helped me to achieve more than I ever thought possible’ Professor Lou Taylor, Sarah Alexander and Stefano Santilli.

Support Staff Awards to support staff who ‘really helped my learning’, Individual Award Gael Mailhol and Clay Garner.

Group Award Mark Hawdon, Simon Sandys, and John Williams.

Postgraduate Support Award to the most supportive postgraduate supervisor/tutor Dr Prabal Chatterjee, Chris WarrenAdamson and Dr Lucy Redhead.

E-Learning Teaching Award to the tutor who makes the most innovative use of electronic media in their teaching Professor Darrell Evans and Dr Deshinder Singh Gill.

Inspirational Teaching Award to the tutor who has ‘inspired me and set my imagination and interest on fire’ Dr Jonathan Chapman, Dr Thor Magnusson, Richard Jacobs, Tim Rose, Peps McCrea, Dr Jayne Raisborough and Vincent Kane.

The Vice President Academic’s Award for Student-Focused Excellence Stan Stanier Outstanding Contribution to the Student Experience Award Nigel Cook Outstanding Contribution to Student Life Award Joel Samuels Course Rep of the Year Peter Lang and Emma Bridge.

Large image: PE students at the awards. Small image: Volunteer and institutional awards were collected in a ceremony at the British Academy by Colin Monk, Steve Maycock, Sam Davies and Andrew Scanlan.

AWARD WINNERS STUDENTS Course Rep Awards Isabel Monteiro, Amelia Elstow, Jade Coysh, Alexandra Botting, Hannah Crouch, Kristian Domanski, Peter Lang, Adedamola Aderiye, Ryan Gascoine, Sophie Grant, Isaac Jordan, Maria Kennedy, Viet Linh Nguyen, Emma Bridge, Kyranjeet Sanghera, Elizabeth Mooney and Adrian Ventura.

Stan Stanier, who received the Vice President Academic’s Award for Student-Focused Excellence said: “Getting an award from the Students’ Union is, for me, one of the highest honours possible as it comes from the people we’re here to serve. It’s what higher education is all about – the knowledge that in some small way we’re contributing to society through providing the best possible education and support for our students.”

The Development and Alumni Office has recently received national recognition for its fundraising achievements, winning an award for ‘improved and sustained progress’ from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The university is one of only three institutions to receive an award in the UK, surpassing both the universities of Bath and Kent to be selected as the overall winner.

Director of Alumni and Development, Sam Davies said: “Our success is testimony to the hard work and dedication of the team in the Development and Alumni Office, but also very much thanks to the willingness of colleagues across the institution at all levels to actively participate in fundraising and alumni engagement activities – both increasingly important areas for the university going forwards as the HE funding environment changes.”

This was a double celebration as Steve Maycock, member of the Board of Governors and a former student, was chosen for the Matched Funding Volunteer Award for his exemplary volunteer leadership in fundraising and alumni engagement. Commenting on Steve’s success, the judges said: “He has made a gift and got really involved in the fundraising process – that’s exemplary volunteer leadership.”

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OPINION

Creating a dynamic research environment

The University of Brighton Doctoral College will soon provide a new focal point for all those involved in developing the university’s postgraduate research culture. The Doctoral College is specially designed to enable debate, information sharing and the championing of quality assurance to meet the highest standards of world-leading and internationally relevant research at doctoral level.

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Working in close collaboration with all the university’s academic departments, the Doctoral College’s facilities will support postgraduate research projects. It will contribute to the ongoing development of a dynamic, collaborative environment and will support postgraduate researchers – particularly those registered for research degrees including PhDs, MPhils, and professional doctorates.

The aim is to reinforce a common culture and researcher development environment for research students and supervisors from all fields from business to the arts, applied social science, the health professions, life and biological sciences, computing, education, engineering and mathematics to generate a culture of cross-disciplinary knowledge-sharing and interaction. Through our international student body, research based at the University of Brighton will continue to contribute positively to societies and economies across the globe.

Here Professor David Arnold, dean of graduate students, shares this vision for the Doctoral College: Why does the university believe it is important to establish the Doctoral College?

“The creation of new knowledge through world-leading research is essential to the University of Brighton’s commitment to social and economic good and to the university’s academic life.

“The Doctoral College is a new, joined-up approach to supporting the university’s researchers. The evolution that it will deliver will support a robust postgraduate research student population; this is good news for the university, securing jobs and opportunities for researchers and support staff alike. This is a very positive development reflecting the university’s commitment to become one of the leading research universities of the future.”

The Doctoral College will provide dedicated meeting and work spaces on Grand Parade, Moulsecoomb, Falmer and Eastbourne campuses under the academic leadership of five directors of postgraduate studies The researcher development environment will not only support on-site supervision of research students but career mentoring, progression monitoring and advice about research publication, targeting the successful and timely completion of research degrees.

The organisational responsibility for supporting existing research students and their supervisory teams will transfer to the Doctoral College from the start of the academic year 2011/12 and the first intake of new students will be in October.

Students of the Brighton and Sussex Medical School and MRes students will be honorary members of the Doctoral College. While their administration and management arrangements will be unchanged, they will benefit from the enriched research environment and the ability to access training and facilities provided by the college.

What benefits will the Doctoral College bring?

“A rich and dynamic research environment is an essential part of the university’s intellectual infrastructure. It enhances our reputation as well as influencing approaches to learning and teaching, including the content of the courses students are studying at all levels. Researchinformed teaching gives distinctiveness to the learning experience of all our students, enabling them to access new knowledge.

“Postgraduate research students are an important element of research culture and contribute to the research outputs and environment assessed by the Research Excellence Framework. A strong research learning environment also supports the career growth of staff and as the university’s research profile matures, will attract greater numbers of postgraduate research students to the university.”

What positive change should the university’s research community expect with the arrival of the Doctoral College?

“I believe the Doctoral College will provide improved and more consistent services for both staff and students across the university – a more dynamic research environment with better researcher development support, leading to high and timely completion rates.

“In practical terms, this means work space and facilities provided on four campuses of the university, a focused approach to training through the Researcher Development Framework, and administrative and management support.”

And what is your role, as Dean of Graduate Students?

“It is my responsibility to provide leadership, both executive and academic; to empower those at faculty and campus level; and to challenge existing preconceptions and assumptions to enable us to deliver the highest standard of postgraduate research student experience.”

When does the work of the Doctoral College officially begin?

“The University of Brighton Doctoral College will be formally constituted from 1 August 2011. From the beginning of September, staff will be in post at the four campus locations.

All postgraduate research students and their supervisors will have access to the support and services of the Doctoral College from the start of the new academic year. A detailed plan for transitional arrangements is being refined as staffing is finalised. New students at the university this year will automatically be part of the Doctoral College.”

The university was described by the Times Higher Education as a ‘rising research star’ after the latest Research Assessment Exercise.

For more information about the University of Brighton Doctoral College, please get in touch with Professor David Arnold (dean of graduate students), Martyn Annis (head of Registry) and Ingrid Pugh (assistant registrar, Research).

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ON CAMPUS

WORK IS UNDERWAY...

ECO HOUSE REBORN IN GRAND PARADE The University of Brighton and local housing service provider The Mears Group have joined forces to build what will become one of the country’s most ecofriendly and sustainable houses.

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Duncan Baker-Brown said: “We’re talking to large local builders who are kindly offering to donate what used to be called waste but is now called resource. And we really want to hear from individuals or organisations who can help financially. We will be rebuilding the project with the help of university students, Mears’ apprentices, local school children and anybody who wants to be involved. That is why the build will take longer this time, to allow for collaboration with local communities.

The House that Kevin Built will be made largely from organic material including straw, wood and waste products. It is based on a home which designer and TV presenter Kevin McCloud and Lewes architect and senior lucturer Duncan Baker-Brown, constructed in six days for the Grand Designs Live programme in 2008.

The project aims to show how low-carbon homes can be built cheaply and quickly.

Individuals and companies including The Mears Group are donating skills, labour, materials and money for the project.

The Mears Group have pledged to cover the costs of all works below ground such as drainage, foundations and connections to mains electricity and sewers. They are also providing the site agent and their apprentices.

Paul Kellaway, Mears’s project manager, said: “We think this is a fantastic opportunity for our apprentices to get involved in such a worthwhile building project.”

Mears managing director, Gary Lester, said: “Mears is supporting this project to show its commitment to a greener Brighton and to provide opportunities for young people to learn about sustainable buildings and techniques for the future.”

Dr Catherine Harper, head of the School of Architecture and Design, said: “A lot of people are being incredibly generous and it shows they believe in a project and the vision. To get involved at this early stage, as The Mears Group has, is fantastic.”

The house, located on the university’s Grand Parade campus, will have a number of groundbreaking eco-features. Mr Baker-Brown is keen that a wide cross section of the community gets involved, to learn more about green house-building.

Materials will include scrap from the nearby building site for Amex’s new HQ. Walls will be made from panels filled with straw to keep the house warm in winter and cool in summer.

Heavy walls downstairs will act as a heat store, while lightweight materials upstairs provide insulation. Innovative techniques will involve partly pre-fabricating the house off-site, using waste such as paper, straw, tins, glass and earth.

The house will be regularly evaluated and new research will provide improved techniques and materials for the house over its predicted five to ten-year lifespan. The original house was thought to be the first building in the UK to achieve an A+ energy performance certificate.

The sun will heat hot water by shining onto pipes behind glass roof tiles. Other solar tiles will generate electricity. Building will take around three months.

Kevin McCloud said: “I’m very pleased that the University of Brighton is committed to exploring new low-carbon methods of building.

It’s exciting to think that the campus could have its own practical demonstration building and I’m delighted to be connected to the university through this innovative piece of construction.”

“Architecture students have already been involved with projects, influencing the development from the original design. Once complete, the house will evolve, allowing students and others to design elements of the interior, such as the staircase, kitchen and so on.”

Professor Stuart Laing, the Deputy ViceChancellor, said: “The house will be a working exhibit for people to view but it will also be a place for children, youth clubs and adults to meet, talk and learn about environmental issues, healthy living, reducing the use of carbon and tackling climate change. It will be for university and community use as an experimental venue for research, student workshops, conferences, exhibitions and events that would draw the city and the university together around a shared concern for a more sustainable city.

“This is an exciting project that we hope will become an example for sustainable construction around the UK and one that will produce far-reaching benefits for the university and the community as a whole.”

For more information: www.arts.brighton.ac.uk/thtkb.

Far left: Architect Duncan Baker-Brown with a model of the house. Top left (left to right): Paul Kellaway, Microgeneration Project Manager, Mears Group, Duncan Baker-Brown and Dr Catherine Harper. Top right: Work begins at Grand Parade.

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Events Lectures and events available to watch online – www.brighton.ac.uk/eventsonline.

ONLINE INAUGURAL LECTURE Professor Bob Brecher Knowledge and belief: the immorality of capitalism Filmed on Thursday 19 May 2011 Checkland Building University of Brighton Falmer, Brighton BN1 9PH

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Welfare and wellbeing in an age of responsibility Inaugural lecture

David Taylor Professor of Social Theory and Social Policy Thursday 28 April 2011 at 6.30pm Westlain House Falmer Brighton BN1 9PH All are welcome – if you would like to attend please email events@brighton.ac.uk or online at www.brighton.ac.uk/events.

Kazmir Severinovic Malevich, a detail of The Knife Grinder (Principle of Glittering), Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Collection Société Anonyme.

ONLINE INAUGURAL LECTURE Professor David Taylor Welfare and wellbeing in an age of responsibility Filmed on Thursday 28 April 2011 Westlain House University of Brighton Falmer, Brighton BN1 9PH

ONLINE BRIGHTON FESTIVAL FRINGE EVENT A tale of two Peters Filmed on Thursday 12 May 2011 The Sallis Benney Theatre Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY

Knowledge and belief:

the immorality of capitalism Bob Brecher Professor of Moral Philosophy Thursday 19 May 2011 at 6.30pm Asa Briggs Hall, Checkland Building, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PH All are welcome – if you would like to attend please email events@brighton.ac.uk or book online at www.brighton.ac.uk/events.

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George Grosz , Die Besitzkröten (Toads of Property), National Gallery of Scotland, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Dean Gallery, © DACS 2011

Inaugural lecture

Best selling crime author Peter James and Professor Peter Squires discuss crime, criminals and justice.

The Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 OJY Thursday 12 May 2011 at 7–8.30pm Tickets are £5 and are available online from www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk or by phoning the Brighton Festival Fringe box office on 01273 917272