Public Events Programme Autumn 2016 – Summer 2017
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WELCOME Now, more than ever, it is important to understand, and improve, the world in which we live. We believe that, through this programme, and its diverse range of events, we are continuing with the University’s proudly held values and our unwavering commitment to the pursuit of truth and freedom of enquiry. In these pages, you will find the opportunity to attend talks, exhibitions or even learn a language. Our events come from different departments across the University and will be held in Chester, Warrington and at University Centre Shrewsbury. Highlights from this year’s programme include the opportunity to hear honorary graduate and BBC presenter Louise Minchin talk about her career, discussions on Shakespeare and Religion, and welcoming Yorkshire poet Ian McMillan for the Cheshire Prize for Literature Awards Evening. As ever, our lecturers will be taking part in the popular Chester Literature Festival, organised by Storyhouse in Chester Town Hall. Among the contributors is Visiting Writing Fellow, Dr Francesca Haig, whose sequel to the post-apocalyptic novel, The Fire Sermon, The Map of Bones, was published this year. She will be running a workshop on Writing Dystopian Fiction.
Our Chester Research Unit for the Psychology of Health (CRUPH) is hosting a number of fascinating public lectures - with our hectic lives make sure you find the time to book a place on ‘The stressed ape: Why human beings are so prone to stress, and what to do about it.’ As always, there will be an inspiring range of Professorial Inaugural Lectures by newly appointed Professors from Faculties across the University. The Faculty of Health and Social Care’s Museum will be open monthly and there will be several talks hosted by the Faculty’s Historical Society. We very much look forward to welcoming you to the University of Chester and hope there is something of interest to you. Although this programme is correct at the time of printing, details may change unavoidably and additional events may be added, so please visit www.chester.ac.uk/at-chester/events for the latest information, or contact Corporate Communications, 01244 511344 or events@chester.ac.uk Admission to events is either: • Free with no pre-booking necessary • Free with pre-booking • Or with tickets to be purchased in advance.
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OCTOBER 2016 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5 • 1PM-4PM
FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING The Museum, based at the University’s Riverside Campus on Castle Drive, contains a permanent collection of curiosities from the world of medicine, nursing, midwifery and social work. In addition, the First World War: Returning Home exhibition is commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the conflict and provides an insight into what a soldier invalided back from the Front would have found on his return to Cheshire. Using local examples wherever possible, the exhibition covers aspects such as medical advances, the psychological effects of war, volunteering and volunteer nurses, a doctor’s country practice, home life, food and recipes, rural life and social welfare. Visitors with an interest in health and social care or local history are always welcome to visit the Museum and find out more from the Museum volunteers, many of whom have a healthcare background. Full details and updates are available on the website address below. Group bookings for six or more people can be made at other times by prior arrangement by contacting Roger Whiteley, (details below). Please note that there is no car parking and visitors should use city centre car parks or public transport. Please go to the main reception at the University of Chester’s Riverside Campus opposite the River Dee. HOST: Faculty of Health and Social Care Historical Society VENUE: Riverside Campus, visitors should go to the main Riverside Campus Reception opposite the River Dee, Castle Drive, Chester, CH1 1SL ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Roger Whiteley, r.whiteley@chester.ac.uk, ring 01244 511619 or visit www.chester.ac.uk/hsc/historical-society
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OCTOBER 2016 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5 • 4PM-5.30PM
IRISH DAYS, MAURITIAN NIGHTS; THE EXPERIENCES OF NURSES FROM OVERSEAS IN BRITISH MENTAL HOSPITALS, 1940S TO 1990S Dr Niall McCrae, King’s College London A neglected aspect of the history of mental health care in Britain is the cultural diversity of staff and its impact on patients and institutional life. After the Second World War, a widening net was cast to recruit to an unattractive career. The Irish became a major constituent of the workforce, but hospitals remained understaffed. In the 1950s the NHS tapped our imperial legacy, drawing thousands of young people from the West Indies, Africa, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Mauritius. Various difficulties were faced by foreign recruits: unrealistic expectations, limited contact with the host culture, prejudice, language problems and job insecurity. Yet overall they found a friendly environment and they developed a strong identification with their hospital. Supported by anecdotal accounts, Niall McCrae considers the experiences of nurses from abroad from their arrival to hospital closure. HOST: Faculty of Health and Social Care Historical Society VENUE: Riverside Campus, visitors should go to the main Riverside Campus Reception opposite the River Dee, Castle Drive, Chester, CH1 1SL ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Roger Whiteley, r.whiteley@chester.ac.uk, ring 01244 511619 or visit www.chester.ac.uk/hsc/historical-society
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 • 10AM-4PM
UNIVERSITY OPEN DAY: PARKGATE ROAD CAMPUS, KINGSWAY CAMPUS, THORNTON SCIENCE PARK, RIVERSIDE CAMPUS (EDUCATION AND CHILDREN’S SERVICES ONLY), QUEEN’S PARK CAMPUS Come along to our Open Day to find out for yourself what it would really be like to live and study here. Open Days are the ideal way to see if the University of Chester is right for you. HOST: Visit Us team VENUE: Parkgate Road Campus, Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 4BJ Kingsway Campus, Kingsway, Chester, CH2 2LB Thornton Science Park, Pool Lane, Chester, CH2 4NU Riverside Campus, Castle Drive, Chester, CH1 1SL Queen’s Park Campus, Queen’s Park Road, Chester, CH4 7AD ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: 01244 512800, visitus@chester.ac.uk or book online at www.chester.ac.uk/openday
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OCTOBER 2016 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9 • 11.30AM
CHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL EVENT WORKSHOP: WRITING DYSTOPIAN FICTION Francesca Haig Ever wanted to write dystopian fiction? Interested in what makes The Handmaid’s Tale so chillingly prescient, The Hunger Games so gripping, or The Road so devastating? This workshop will discuss why authors and readers keep returning to dystopian stories, and will push you to consider how you can make your own dystopian fiction striking and new. What is it that makes an effective dystopia, and how can you use these ideas to make your own writing more effective? Come prepared to write, as this interactive workshop will have you interrogating your ideas, and trying out new ones. Francesca will also be happy to answer any questions about writing and publishing.
and anthologies in both Australia and England, and her first collection of poetry, Bodies of Water, was published in 2006. In 2010 she was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship. She lives in London with her husband and son. HOST: Chester Literature Festival VENUE: Chester Town Hall, Northgate Street, Chester, CH1 2HJ ADMISSION: £12.50 CONTACT: www.storyhouse.com
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12 • 5PM
UNI AT THE FESTIVAL EVENT HILARY MANTEL AND THE ROAD TO WOLF HALL Mike Poulton with Dr Eileen Pollard from the Department of English
Francesca Haig is a novelist, poet, and academic, and is the author of The Fire Sermon series, published in more than 20 languages. Her first novel, The Fire Sermon, was published in 2015, followed by The Map of Bones, in 2016. The final book in the trilogy will be published in 2017.
If you enjoyed the recent BBC adaptation of Wolf Hall, but have struggled reading the Hilary Mantel novel it is based upon, then this talk is for you! In conversation with Mike Poulton, who adapted Mantel’s Booker prize-winning novels for RSC stage production, Eileen Pollard will discuss key dramatic moments in both the BBC and RSC adaptations by considering the relationship between these scenes and the original text and the very different challenges of the two mediums for the leading actors, Ben Miles and Mark Rylance, respectively. For those who are fans of Mantel’s work, this will prove an event not to be missed.
Francesca grew up in Tasmania, gained her PhD from the University of Melbourne, and was a senior lecturer at the University of Chester (she is now a Visiting Writing Fellow). Her poetry has been published in literary journals
HOST: Chester Literature Festival VENUE: Chester Town Hall, Northgate Street, Chester, CH1 2HJ ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: www.storyhouse.com
About Francesca Haig
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OCTOBER 2016 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 • 6.30PM Professorial Inaugural Lecture
“I’M THROUGH WITH PLAYING BY THE RULES OF SOMEONE ELSE’S GAME”: A REJECTION OF MAINSTREAM IDEAS ABOUT PSYCHOLOGICAL SUFFERING AND A (RE) DISCOVERY OF CONTEXTUAL BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE Professor Nick Hulbert-Williams, Department of Psychology Psychological suffering is ubiquitous and has been the focus of academic thinking for centuries: initially by the ancient philosophers, and more latterly by psychological scientists. Professor Hulbert-Williams believes that psychology has a lot to offer in understanding and managing the distressing consequences of adverse life events. But to do this effectively, it is imperative that psychology progresses from long-held assumptions about the nature of suffering and from the typical way in which we conceptualise psychological distress and mental health. Early in his career, he was frustrated by the realisation that his work could not achieve real-world impact. In abandoning mainstream ideas in psychology and establishing his work in a contextual behavioural science framework, Professor Hulbert-Williams has instead developed a programme of research exploring the role of psychological flexibility, and the place of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training (ACT), in supportive care for those affected by cancer. This lecture explores why he has committed to a path so deviant from mainstream psychology: a path that his research shows can offer much more to the discipline of behavioural medicine and which can more adequately address human suffering. HOST: Corporate Communications VENUE: Beswick Lecture Theatre, Parkgate Road Campus, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: Free but by ticket only CONTACT: events@chester.ac.uk or ring 01244 511344
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15 • 10AM-4PM
UNIVERSITY OPEN DAY: PARKGATE ROAD CAMPUS, KINGSWAY CAMPUS, THORNTON SCIENCE PARK, RIVERSIDE CAMPUS (HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ONLY), QUEEN’S PARK CAMPUS Come along to our Open Day to find out for yourself what it would really be like to live and study here. Open Days are the ideal way to see if the University of Chester is right for you. HOST: Visit Us team VENUE: Parkgate Road Campus, Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 4BJ Kingsway Campus, Kingsway, Chester, CH2 2LB Thornton Science Park, Pool Lane, Chester, CH2 4NU Riverside Campus, Castle Drive, Chester, CH1 1SL Queen’s Park Campus, Queen’s Park Road, Chester, CH4 7AD ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: 01244 512800, visitus@chester.ac.uk or book online at www.chester.ac.uk/openday 7
OCTOBER 2016 Photo courtesy of Neill Binns.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18 • 5.30PM
UNI AT THE FESTIVAL EVENT NEW ENGAGEMENTS IN FRENCH LITERATURE AND POLITICS Eduard Louis and Geoffrey de Lagasnerie
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17 • 5.30PM
UNI AT THE FESTIVAL EVENT THE EXTRAORDINARY SIGNIFICANCE OF JANUARY 1871 Dr Simon Grennan January 1871. A stage adaptation of Anthony Trollope’s novel Ralph the Heir has garnered comments of indecency in the press. It is quickly followed on stage by Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old, the first operetta of Gilbert & Sullivan. Cartoonist and actress Marie Duval publishes a comic strip in Judy, or the London Serio-Comic Journal. Dr Simon Grennan, of the University of Chester’s Centre for Narrative Drawing, unfolds a fascinating series of connections that reveal the new entertainment industry of the late Victorian age. HOST: Chester Literature Festival VENUE: Chester Town Hall, Northgate Street, Chester, CH1 2HJ ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: www.storyhouse.com
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Arranged by the Department of Modern Languages, this is a unique chance to listen (in English!) to two of the most interesting figures of intellectual life in France. Edouard Louis’ highly acclaimed novels En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (Engl: The End of Eddy, 2017) and Histoire de la Violence have been translated into numerous languages while Geoffrey de Lagasnerie’s works are dedicated to sociological questions. In 2015, both authors signed a manifesto for the re-foundation of the French Left. HOST: Chester Literature Festival VENUE: Chester Town Hall, Northgate Street, Chester, CH1 2HJ ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: www.storyhouse.com
OCTOBER 2016 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18 • 6.30PM (TITLE OF LECTURE TO BE CONFIRMED) Dave Thompson MBE DL, Warrington Disability Partnership Dave Thompson was born and raised in Warrington. A keen sportsman, he took part in many sporting events until he was injured in a game of American football in 1989, and sustained a life changing spinal cord injury. Dave is founder and chair of Warrington Disability Information Service and the chair of the Warrington Committee for Disabled People. He was the founder and a trustee of Shopmobility and the founder and ViceChair of Warrington Disability Sports Forum before all four organisations joined to form Warrington Disability Partnership. He is the founder and current Event Coordinator of the North West Disability Awareness Day, Europe’s largest and longest running voluntary-led independent living exhibition, and was a founder and past Chair of the Cheshire Disabilities Federation and the founder of the North West Positive Action Awards. Dave has travelled widely across the UK and Europe promoting the development and sustainability of partnerships involving disabled people and carers. He is the Assistant Director of Inclusion and Partnerships at the 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Trust and leads its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Unit, covering patient and public involvement, equality and diversity, and social inclusion. In June 2001 Dave received an MBE for services to disabled people and the NHS; in 2004 he received the Paul Harris Fellowship, an International award from the Rotary Foundation. In 2006 he was commissioned a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Cheshire and the same year the North West Disability Awareness Days received a Queen’s Award for Voluntary Services. Dave
is a trustee of the Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace and Trustee and Chair of the Griffiths Court Foundation. Warrington Disability Partnership (WDP) celebrated its 20th anniversary last summer. Dave was also awarded an honorary degree by the University in 2011. It has organised and coordinated 450,000 volunteer hours, taken and addressed 560,000 telephone calls. 400,000 people have attended Disability Awareness Day events. Over £1 million has been raised by WDP, then distributed and used through other disability charities. Warrington Disability Partnership currently employs 50 paid and nearly 200 volunteer staff delivering a wide range of independent living services including an Independent Living Centre, Direct Payments and Employment Support. HOST: Faculty of Health and Social Care VENUE: Lance Dobson Hall, Martin Building, Warrington Campus, WA2 0DB ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Shelley Hanvey s.hanvey@chester.ac.uk, 01925 534223 9
OCTOBER 2016 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21 • 5.30PM
An ecumenical partnership of University and Cathedral
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 • 7.30PM
SHAKESPEARE AND RELIGION Raymond Salter – Visiting Lecturer from the Department of English The lecture will focus upon Shakespeare’s habit of thinking, on his philosophical and religious outlook, and whether that outlook can be understood in terms of definite religious categories, to which he can be thought to adhere. So, for example, does Shakespeare unambiguously endorse certain Christian virtues such as forgiveness and charity? At the end of The Tempest, Prospero chooses the better virtue of forgiveness, and says to his brother ‘For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother/Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive/Thy rankest fault’. What can we make of Gloucester’s desperate cry, in King Lear, ‘As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods./They kill us for their sport’? Which voice, if either, claims authority? HOST: Chester Theological Society VENUE: Beswick Lecture Theatre, Parkgate Road Campus ADMISSION: £3.00 (students £1.00). Admission at the door CONTACT: The Rev Dr Robert Evans: r.evans@chester.ac.uk or Rachel Barlow: rp.amari@btinternet.com 10
UNI AT THE FESTIVAL EVENT STAGING SHAKESPEARE Dr Graham Atkin from the Department of English A consideration of early modern staging of Shakespeare’s plays and how it was that Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies created theatre. Graham’s talk will look at three distinct areas: the fabric of the theatres, the body on the stage, and the sensory stage (sounds, smells, touch and taste, and spectacle). Student actors from the University will assist in illustrating some of the material. HOST: Chester Literature Festival VENUE: Chester Town Hall, Northgate Street, Chester, CH1 2HJ ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: www.storyhouse.com
OCTOBER 2016
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 • 10AM-3PM (SHREWSBURY) • 10.30AM-3PM (WARRINGTON)
UNIVERSITY OPEN DAY: UNIVERSITY CENTRE SHREWSBURY, WARRINGTON CAMPUS Come along to our Open Day to find out for yourself what it would really be like to live and study here. Open Days are the ideal way to see if the University of Chester or University Centre Shrewsbury is right for you. HOST: Visit Us team VENUE: University Centre Shrewsbury, Guildhall, Shrewsbury, SY3 8HQ Warrington Campus, Crab Lane, Warrington, Cheshire, WA2 0DB ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: 01244 512800, visitus@chester.ac.uk or book online at http://www.chester.ac.uk/openday, www.ucshrewsbury.ac.uk/open-day
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OCTOBER 2016 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27 • 5PM Institute of Gender Studies Research Seminar Series
‘MORE A HOME THAN A REFUGE’: BATTERY HOUSE, WINCHESTER Jo Turner, Department of Social and Political Science, University of Chester ‘Battery House’ was a refuge established in 1862 by Walter Crofton, one-time Director of the Irish Convict System, for women released on licence from sentences of penal servitude. While atypical in its attitude, Battery House was characteristic of much Victorian philanthropy: spearheaded in the public sphere by a man, the success of the institution was in fact due to the quiet and private participation of women. HOST: Institute of Gender Studies VENUE: Beswick Building, Room 013, Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Emma Rees e.rees@chester.ac.uk
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26 12.45PM (PARKGATE ROAD CAMPUS) 1.30PM (WARRINGTON CAMPUS)
CAMPUS TOURS If you are unable to visit us on an Open Day, our campus tours will give you an opportunity to see the general student facilities on either the Parkgate Road or Warrington Campus, as well as our satellite sites in Chester. HOST: Visit Us team BOOKING: www.chester.ac.uk/visit or by contacting 01244 512800
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NOVEMBER 2016 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 • 1PM-4PM
FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 4 for details.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 • 4PM-5.30PM
THE CRAIGLOCKHART WAR HOSPITAL; THE MEN, THE WOMEN AND THE HYDRA Dr Alison O’Donnell, University of Dundee From 1916 until 1919, Craiglockhart Hydropathic in Edinburgh was used as a War Hospital, following the large increase in shell shocked officers after the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The hospital records show that 1,801 officers were admitted to the hospital during its operation, although 65 of these officers were German prisoners of war who had gunshot wounds, so 1,736 officer patients were termed ‘shell shocked’. It was here in August 1917 that the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon first met and this began a productive period for both of them in terms of their poetic voices. The work of the doctors, including Dr WHR Rivers and Dr AJ Brock, was notable and groundbreaking of its time. Less is known of the nursing staff and, influentially, the Matron for most of this time, Margaret McBean. Also notable at this time was the production of the Hydra, a magazine published by the soldiers of the hospital (from April 28, 1917 to July 1918, 20 issues). This presentation, which is work in progress, will consider the men who were patients at Craiglockhart, the nurses who cared for them and, parallel to this, the Hydra which gives a snapshot of this time and the people who were part of this hospital. HOST: Faculty of Health and Social Care Historical Society and The Royal College of Nursing's Cheshire West and Chester Branch VENUE: Riverside Campus, visitors should go to the main Riverside Campus Reception opposite the River Dee, Castle Drive, Chester, CH1 1SL ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Roger Whiteley, r.whiteley@chester.ac.uk, ring 01244 511619 or visit www.chester.ac.uk/hsc/historical-society
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NOVEMBER 2016 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10 • 6.30PM Professorial Inaugural Lecture
FROM THE LAB TO LANGTREE AND BEYOND: TRANSLATING SPORTS SCIENCE TO REAL-WORLD PRACTICE Professor Craig Twist, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences Sport scientists are meant to contribute to the body of knowledge that influences the practice and performance of athletes and coaches. However, reality dictates that several challenges and external factors must be overcome to ensure sport science research actually influences the practices and behaviours of those at the sporting coalface. Sport scientists must think carefully about the relevance of their work to the end-user and, more importantly, how findings should be interpreted and then communicated to best inform practice. Based on Craig’s work in Rugby League, this talk will explore the interface between applied research and sport. Craig will examine how sport science can influence athlete preparation and the challenges of integrating ‘good’ science with real-world practice. Craig will also consider whether sport scientists are guilty of ‘oversciencing’ and how this can impact on the efficacy and uptake of sport science by coaches and athletes. Craig joined the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences in 2004. His primary research interests address athlete responses to training and competition in rugby. Craig has over 60 peer-reviewed research papers, reviews and book chapters, and he is co-editor of the Routledge textbook The Science of Rugby and section editor for the International Rugby Science Network. Craig is also a BASES (The 14
British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences) Accredited Sports and Exercise Scientist and has worked with the Rugby Football League, St Helens RFC, Warrington Wolves RLFC and the England Touch Association in various research and applied roles. HOST: Corporate Communications VENUE: Beswick Lecture Theatre, Parkgate Road Campus, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: Free but by ticket only CONTACT: events@chester.ac.uk or ring 01244 511344
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 • 6.30PM
POLICE AND CRIME PLAN David Keane, Police and Crime Commissioner for Cheshire David Keane was elected as Police and Crime Commissioner on May 5, 2016. David lives in Warrington and is married with a young daughter. He studied Criminal Justice before qualifying with a Law Degree and has board level experience in the public, private and voluntary sectors. He has 17 years’ experience as a Councillor and covers the Wards of Penketh and Cuerdley in the Warrington area. HOST: Faculty of Social Sciences VENUE: Lance Dobson Hall, Martin Building, Warrington Campus, WA2 0DB ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Shelley Hanvey s.hanvey@chester.ac.uk, 01925 534223
NOVEMBER 2016 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17 • 9AM-4.30PM
MILITARY VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES WELLBEING SYMPOSIUM ‘Supporting the Armed Forces Community’, presented by the Westminster Centre for Research and Innovation in Veterans’ Wellbeing. Speakers include Chris Matheson MP, Dr Mike Brownsell, Mr Andy Bacon, Ms Hillary Meredith, Professor Alan Finnegan, Dr Bev Sapre, Dr Matthew Kiernan, Brigadier Professor Robin Simpson, and Dr Peter Carter. This event will be of interest to anyone involved in Health and Social care issues, Health and Wellbeing, Mental Health, Veterans and their families and anyone with involvement or investment in Veterans and their experiences. Lunch and refreshments will be included and there will be opportunities for networking. HOST: Faculty of Health and Social Care VENUE: Riverside Innovation Centre, Riverside Campus, Chester, CH1 1SL ADMISSION: £35 CONTACT: Sophie Minshull s.minshull@chester.ac.uk BOOKING: http://shopfront.chester.ac.uk
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16 12.45PM (PARKGATE ROAD CAMPUS) 1.30PM (WARRINGTON CAMPUS)
CAMPUS TOURS If you are unable to visit us on an Open Day, our campus tours will give you an opportunity to see the general student facilities on either the Parkgate Road or Warrington Campus, as well as our satellite sites in Chester.
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Military Veterans and their Families Wellbeing Symposium at The Riverside Innovation Centre, University of Chester, Riverside Campus, Chester, CH1 1SL Book your place – 17th November 2016 Westminster Centre for Research and Innovation in Veterans’ Wellbeing ‘Supporting the Armed Forces Community’ To book a place please visit
http://tinyurl.com/zb62onf
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NOVEMBER 2016
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19 • TIMES TO BE CONFIRMED
2016 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ART AND DESIGN (IJADE) CONFERENCE The 2016 iJADE (International Journal of Art and Design Education) conference will take a fresh look at a fundamental theme of art and design education: drawing. The conference is open to anyone who has an interest in art and design education, including teachers, artists, researchers and other practitioners. Keynotes speakers include Anthony Hall, John Barraclough and Eileen Adams. The conference will also feature presentations from academics, researchers and practitioners from around the world, on their current research in art and design education. Issues around drawing, and the use of drawing will be discussed and hopefully these discussions will help art educators and students to consider their practices within this important sphere. HOST: Host: Faculty of Education and Children’s Services VENUE: Riverside Innovation Centre, Riverside Campus, Chester, CH1 1SL ADMISSION: £225 (£200 NSEAD members, £100 student and unwaged) CONTACT: ijade@chester.ac.uk BOOKING: http://shopfront.chester.ac.uk
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NOVEMBER 2016 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22 • 7PM
HIGH SHERIFF’S CHESHIRE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AWARDS EVENING Ian McMillan Ian McMillan will be guest speaker at the High Sheriff’s Cheshire Prize for Literature awards evening and will read extracts from his poems as well as take questions from the audience. The announcement of this year’s winner of the Prize for poetry will follow and Ian will read the winning entry to the audience. Ian McMillan is a writer and broadcaster who presents The Verb on BBC Radio 3 every Friday night; he’s written poems, plays, a verse autobiography Talking Myself Home and a voyage round Yorkshire in Neither Nowt Nor Summat. He watches Darfield and Yorkshire
Cricket Clubs and the only time he played cricket, at Low Valley Juniors in 1963, Mrs Hudson told him to take his balaclava off or she’d make him wear his mother’s Rainmate. Ian is poet-in-residence for The Academy of Urbanism, Barnsley FC and now Barnsley Poet Laureate. As well as presenting The Verb every week, he’s a regular on BBC Breakfast, Coast, Countryfile, Pointless Celebrities, Pick of the Week, Last Word and BBC Proms Plus. He’s been a castaway on Desert Island Discs. Previously, he was resident poet for English National Opera, UK Trade & Investment, Yorkshire TV’s Investigative Poet and Humberside Police’s Beat Poet. Cats make him sneeze. Ian’s latest collection To Fold The Evening Star - New and Selected Poems (Carcanet) was published on April 28. HOST: Corporate Communications VENUE: Riverside Campus, Room 139, Castle Drive, Chester, CH1 1SL ADMISSION: £3, to book visit http://shopfront.chester.ac.uk CONTACT: cheshireprize@chester.ac.uk or ring 01244 511344
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23 • 1PM
NOT JUST JEWELLERY: PERSONAL ADORNMENT WITH PURPOSE Dr Meggen Gondek This lecture will look at how items of personal adornment such as brooches and pins expressed a variety of messages about the wearer during the early medieval period (c. AD 500-1000). Using a range of examples largely from Northern and Western Britain and Ireland, we will explore how meaning might be found in form, material and style. We will also consider how the life story of an object from its creation to curation might help us think about how a piece of jewellery can be much more than personal decoration. HOST: Department of History and Archaeology VENUE: Grosvenor Museum Lecture Theatre, 27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD ADMISSION: £3 pay at the door CONTACT: history@chester.ac.uk 17
NOVEMBER 2016 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24 • 5PM Institute of Gender Studies Research Seminar Series
SCHOOL TOILETS, ‘DEVELOPMENT’ AND QUEER DISABLED BODIES Jenny Slater, Department of Education, Sheffield Hallam University Discourses of ‘health’ and ‘development’ dominate literature around school toilets. This literature works from a normative position, implicitly perpetuating dominant, oppressive ideals, situating ‘normal’ childhood as ‘able’, heteronormative, conforming to gender binaries, and inferior to ‘adulthood’. Jenny uses data from a collaboration between researchers and queer, trans and disabled people’s organisations to show that the built environment of the (school) toilet supports such discourses, teaching normal/abnormal ways of being human. HOST: Institute of Gender Studies ADMISSION: Free VENUE: Beswick Building, Room 013, Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester CONTACT: Emma Rees e.rees@chester.ac.uk
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26 • 1.30PM-3.30PM
IAN MCEWAN’S ATONEMENT AND THE 2007 FILM ADAPTATION A reading group event at University Centre Shrewsbury The event will be led by Professor Deborah Wynne, Department of English. All are invited to discuss Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement and its film adaptation. We are a friendly reading group and welcome anyone who has read the novel. Please bring your copy with you. VENUE: University Centre Shrewsbury, Guildhall, Shrewsbury, SY3 8HQ ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: To book a place email: communications@ucshrewsbury.ac.uk
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NOVEMBER 2016 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 • 1PM Grosvenor Museum Lunchtime Lecture Series
A CONSUMER REVOLUTION?: HOUSEHOLDS AS URBAN ‘THEATRES’ IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES Dr Katherine Wilson Post-Black Death Europe (1348 onwards) was marked by a spectacular growth in the manufacture and circulation of objects. As a result, historians have argued that there was a ‘consumer revolution’ 1300-1500. This lecture will examine the household, career and objects of one of these consumers in detail (Jean Aubert of Dijon during the 15th Century) to shed light on the key changes between people and their possessions from 1300-1500. HOST: Department of History and Archaeology VENUE: Grosvenor Museum Lecture Theatre, 27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD ADMISSION: £3 pay at the door CONTACT: history@chester.ac.uk
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 • 6.30PM
NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES - A PREVENTABLE CATASTROPHE Professor Paul Lincoln OBE Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death, ill health, disability and health inequalities. They are known to be the by-product of market and state failures. Most
preventable NCDs are interlinked as they share common causes and disease processes. They therefore share the same preventive solutions. NCDs are relatively new health challenges and the most effective preventive solutions are now well understood. However this requires new mechanisms and approaches at international, national and local levels, to protect and promote the public’s health. This lecture will outline the optimal ways forward and suggest ways to resolve the challenges. Paul Lincoln has worked in public health at local, national and international levels in the public and third sector for over 34 years. He is currently Chief Executive of the UK Health Forum which focuses on the primary prevention of linked avoidable Non Communicable Diseases. He is a member of numerous Government and scientific expert public health advisory groups including the Board of Public Health England’s and Chairs one of the standing NICE Public Health Advisory Committees. He was a Director at the Health Education Authority and has worked in public health in the NHS and been an educational adviser, teacher and researcher. He was awarded an OBE in the 2008 New Year Honours List for services to healthcare and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, Honorary Member of the Royal College of Physicians, the Association of Directors of Public Health and a Professorial Fellow to the Royal Society for Public Health. The annual Haygarth Lecture was established in 2005 by public health teams across the region. It celebrates the legacy of 18th-century physician Dr John Haygarth, who pioneered disease control measures at Chester institutions in the late 1700s. HOST: Faculty of Health and Social Care, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Life Sciences and Cheshire West and Chester Council. VENUE: Binks Building, Parkgate Road Campus, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: Free but booking essential CONTACT: m.hazelton@chester.ac.uk 19
DECEMBER 2016 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 • 1PM-4PM
FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 4 for details.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 12.45PM (PARKGATE ROAD CAMPUS) • 1.30PM (WARRINGTON CAMPUS)
CAMPUS TOURS If you are unable to visit us on an Open Day, our campus tours will give you an opportunity to see the general student facilities on either the Parkgate Road or Warrington Campus, as well as our satellite sites in Chester. HOST: Visit Us team BOOKING: www.chester.ac.uk/visit or by contacting 01244 512800
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DECEMBER 2016 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 • 1PM Grosvenor Museum Lunchtime Lecture Series
SAINTLY BODIES, SACRED BONES: THE CULT OF RELICS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE Dr Jennifer Hillman In the 16th Century, the Catholic Church defended the cult of relics which had been criticised by Protestant reformers and, in some cases, vehemently attacked by iconoclasts. In the ensuing period, the veneration of saintly relics flourished and became a significant aspect of Baroque devotional culture. Fragments of sacred bones, blood, hair and clothing were often enclosed in elaborate and ornate reliquaries, and used in personal devotions. In this talk, Dr Jennifer Hillman explores the powers of saintly bodies and sacred bones in early modern Europe, considering how relics were verified, used and displayed. HOST: Department of History and Archaeology VENUE: Grosvenor Museum Lecture Theatre, 27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD ADMISSION: £3 pay at the door CONTACT: history@chester.ac.uk
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8 • 6.30PM Professorial Inaugural Lecture
BITS, BYTES AND BLOOD Professor Nigel John The last decade has seen a huge growth in the exploitation of virtual and augmented reality technologies to build training simulators and other tools for medical professionals. This talk will provide an overview of some of the projects that Professor John has been working on at the University of Chester and elsewhere, including simulators for interventional radiology, neurosurgery, driving powered wheelchairs, and anatomy education. The projects have made extensive use of haptics interfaces (both force and tactile feedback), and he will also describe this technology including one novel tactile interface that uses focussed airbourne ultrasound. The talk will engage the audience in a discussion of the current and future technology challenges for computer based medical simulations. HOST: Corporate Communications VENUE: Beswick Lecture Theatre, Parkgate Road Campus, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: Free but by ticket only CONTACT: events@chester.ac.uk or ring 01244 511344
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DECEMBER 2016 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15 • 6PM Chester Research Unit for the Psychology of Health (CRUPH) Public Lecture
BUT HOW DO YOU FEEL? EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL MOTIVATORS AND BENEFITS OF WEIGHT LOSS Dr Nicola Lasikiewicz When individuals embark on a weight loss plan, understandably, the goal is to lose weight. Weight loss has significant physiological benefits, such as reduced risk of diabetes, lowered blood pressure and blood lipid levels. Consequently, the perceived success of a weight loss intervention is often hinged almost entirely on the amount of weight lost rather than any other improvements in for example, psychological wellbeing. This is also reflected in the majority of studies exploring weight loss interventions. However, weight loss can also be accompanied by a range of psychological benefits. Of these benefits, increases in selfesteem, reduction in depressive symptoms, body image and vitality (within healthrelated quality of life) are consistently noted. Interestingly, improvements in self-esteem and depressive symptoms are not always tied to actual weight lost, particularly when behavioural interventions are followed. Despite this, few studies prioritise the psychological changes resulting from a weight loss intervention. This is surprising since understanding the changes a person goes through psychologically may be key to understanding and motivating successful weight loss following implementation of a weight loss intervention, specifically one that
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is behavioural in nature. Essentially, if people feel better about themselves and lose weight following an intervention, then this may promote future weight loss success or weight loss maintenance. Unfortunately, existing studies are limited in design and limit the strength of these findings. Future research, therefore, needs to consider and include psychological measures as outcomes alongside physiological measures. HOST: Chester Research Unit for the Psychology of Health VENUE: Best Building, Room CBB115, Parkgate Road Campus, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: cruph@chester.ac.uk BOOKING: Will be available via Eventbrite see www.chester.ac.uk/events for the link
JANUARY 2017 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11 • 1PM-4PM
FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 4 for details.
DATE TO BE CONFIRMED • 10AM-4.30PM
ART THERAPY FOUNDATION WEEK The foundation course is intended for people who may consider art therapy as a career, and want to train as an art therapist. Basic theoretical concepts of art therapy will be introduced and illustrated by case studies throughout the course. The course also has an experiential element, as art therapy workshops are also included. HOST: Faculty of Health and Social Care VENUE: Riverside Campus ADMISSION: £395 CONTACT: Rachel Paddock r.paddock@chester.ac.uk 01244 512283 BOOKING: www.chester.ac.uk/postgraduate/art-therapy
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JANUARY 2017 THURSDAY, JANUARY 19 • 6.30PM Professorial Inaugural Lecture
MID-EAST BY NORTH-WEST: LOCATING ISLAMIC STUDIES IN THE ACADEMIC STUDY OF RELIGIONS Professor Oliver Scharbrodt, Department of Theology and Religious Studies Studying Islam in Western academia always had a political dimension. The origins of Islamic Studies in the Orientalist tradition of the 19th Century connected academic research with European imperialism. Based on notions of cultural alterity and superiority, Orientalist scholarship contributed to a discursive essentialisation of Islam. The post-Orientalist reconfiguration of Islamic Studies after Edward Said’s critique has not
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necessarily led to a thorough methodological reorientation of the field. Islamic Studies has either been compartmentalised in Middle Eastern Studies, which does not recognise the global dimension of Islam, or, social scientific methods have been adopted which contain the potential pitfall of lacking either historical depth or philological erudition. The securitisation of Islam post-9/11 has further skewed research agendas by channelling public funding into research on radicalisation and integration. This lecture intends to investigate what a Religious Studies approach to Islam might entail by investigating how Islamic Studies can benefit from current methodological and theoretical debates in the Study of Religions. HOST: Corporate Communications VENUE: Beswick Lecture Theatre, Parkgate Road Campus, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: Free but by ticket only CONTACT: events@chester.ac.uk or ring 01244 511344
JANUARY 2017 TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 • 6.30PM Dr Louise Minchin, University of Chester Honorary Graduate and BBC Breakfast Presenter
(TITLE OF LECTURE TO BE CONFIRMED)
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Louise presents Breakfast on BBC One, the UK’s most watched breakfast programme. She is also a guest presenter on BBC Radio 5 Live and a reporter on The One Show on BBC One.
Before joining Breakfast full time in April 2012, Louise was one of the BBC News channel’s main presenters and also regularly presented the BBC One O’Clock News. Away from news, Louise has presented five series of Missing Live, her own daytime series commended in Parliament for its work reuniting families. She has also presented five series of Real Rescues on BBC One. She is an ambassador for the BBC’s Share Take Care campaign to improve internet safety. In 2009 Louise was one of 12 celebrities who took part in the BBC’s Around the World in 80 Days. She travelled from Mongolia to Los Angeles with BBC Breakfast co-presenter Bill Turnbull to raise money for Children in Need.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26 • 5PM Institute of Gender Studies Research Seminar Series
REPRESENTATIONS OF RELIGION ON THE BRITISH FEMINIST WEBZINE ‘THE F WORD’ Kristin Aune, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University Religion is a more visible focus in 21st-century European local, national, and global politics. How do feminist organisations and groups approach it? This talk will explore this through analysis of representations of religion on a prominent British feminist webzine in the UK, ‘The F Word’. The analysis identifies four dominant approaches to religion, and two underlying themes, and sets these in their wider social context. HOST: Institute of Gender Studies ADMISSION: Free VENUE: Beswick Building, Room 013, Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester CONTACT: Emma Rees e.rees@chester.ac.uk
Other charities Louise supports include the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, Sense and AfriKids. HOST: Department of Media VENUE: Lance Dobson Hall, Martin Building, Warrington Campus, WA2 0DB ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Shelley Hanvey s.hanvey@chester.ac.uk, 01925 534223
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FEBRUARY 2017 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 • 1PM-4PM
FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 4 for details.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 • 4PM-5.30PM
NURSING MEN FOLLOWING FACIAL INJURY AND SURGERY DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR REKINDLING THE DESIRE TO LIVE? Dr Claire Chatterton, Open University in the North West Although much has been written about the pioneering work that was done during World War One in the field of plastic surgery (most famously by Dr Harold D Gillies, and his team), less is known about the nurses who worked alongside him, who he himself acknowledged, “have borne the brunt of the work.” (Gillies, 1920). This talk aims to increase understanding of the ways in which nurses working in this new speciality attempted to ameliorate their patients’ psychological wounds as well as their physical ones. HOST: Faculty of Health and Social Care Historical Society and The Royal College of Nursing's History of Nursing Society VENUE: Riverside Campus, visitors should go to the main Riverside Campus Reception opposite the River Dee, Castle Drive, Chester, CH1 1SL ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Roger Whiteley, r.whiteley@chester.ac.uk, ring 01244 511619 or visit www.chester.ac.uk/hsc/historical-society 26
FEBRUARY 2017 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 • 6PM Chester Research Unit for the Psychology of Health (CRUPH) Public Lecture
BEING HUMAN: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF ILLNESS AND LOSS IN MODERN HEALTHCARE Dr Brooke Swash As they say, two things in this life are certain: death and taxes. Why is it then that we find it so difficult to talk about death and illness? We live in a society where modern medicine has transformed how we live and how we age, yet death and illness remain an inescapable reality. A third of us will experience cancer at some point in our lives. Yet, despite its prevalence, the ‘c word’ inspires fear in a way that few other things can. Both doctors and patients can find it difficult to talk pragmatically about what to do if the worst should happen, yet this can create barriers to open communication around what people want their care to look like. Living with cancer can create considerable challenges and unmet needs for both patients and families, affecting psychological, emotional and social wellbeing. This lecture explores the impact of incurable disease on both patients and their families, and how research is informing the evolution of healthcare services to meet the needs of modern society. HOST: Chester Research Unit for the Psychology of Health VENUE: Best Building, CBB115, Parkgate Road Campus, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: cruph@chester.ac.uk BOOKING: Will be available via Eventbrite see www.chester.ac.uk/events for the link
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FEBRUARY 2017 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 • 7.30PM
‘IN RETURN FOR A BOTTLE AND A HANGOVER WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM’: REFLECTIONS ON THE LANGUAGE OF SALVATION IN TWELVE STEP RECOVERY An ecumenical partnership of University and Cathedral
Dr Wendy Dossett, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies This lecture examines the language of religion and spirituality in the narratives of people recovering from Substance Use Disorders (SUDs/drug and alcohol addictions). It proposes ways in which religious studies and theology (not just ‘religion’) can contribute to addressing some of the challenges faced by people seeking recovery. The process is profoundly challenging and susceptible to relapse. Those who do establish sustained recovery from SUDs often describe the journey in dramatic, spirituality-inflected, terms. The talk draws on extensive qualitative research to explore the contours of addiction recovery within the well-known, yet also mysterious, setting of Alcoholics Anonymous, and evaluates the influence of the Oxford Group (which claimed to emulate 1st century Christianity) on AA’s Twelve Step Programme. HOST: Chester Theological Society VENUE: Hollybank House, 51 Liverpool Road, Chester, CH2 1AB ADMISSION: £3.00 (students £1.00). Admission at the door CONTACT: The Rev Dr Robert Evans: r.evans@chester.ac.uk or Rachel Barlow: rp.amari@btinternet.com
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 • 5PM Institute of Gender Studies Research Seminar Series
MASCULINITY AND POP CULTURE IN 1980S FRANCE AND BRITAIN Timo Obergoeker, Department of Modern Languages, University of Chester The AIDS crisis led to a renegotiation of queer and straight identities all over the Western world. By analysing pop songs and videos from the 1980s we can explore how this new medium codes new forms of masculinity, both in progressive and conservative ways. The focus is on France in the 1980s, but a few examples from the Anglophone world will elucidate the specificities of the Thatcher/Reagan years. HOST: Institute of Gender Studies ADMISSION: Free VENUE: Beswick Building, Room 013, Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester CONTACT: Emma Rees e.rees@chester.ac.uk 28
FEBRUARY 2017 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27 - FRIDAY, MARCH 10
DIVERSITY FESTIVAL
Diversity 2017
The University of Chester has been hosting an Festival annual celebration of Diversity and Equality since 2006. The Festival has grown and evolved into an event which is recognised as an example of best practice within the sector. Since its inception, the Festival has been nominated and shortlisted for two national awards and is now an established event in the University’s calendar. Dates and times of events in this year’s Festival are to be confirmed. Further details available from: www.chester.ac.uk/about/diversity-and-equality/diversity-festival
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 • 6.30PM (TITLE OF LECTURE TO BE CONFIRMED) Councillor Faisal Rashid, Mayor of Warrington Councillor Faisal Rashid is the 133rd Mayor and first citizen of Warrington. As Mayor he is planning to continue to honour tradition, attending and promoting local engagements. He is also planning, however, to add new aspects to the role which he hopes will benefit the people of Warrington. One of these will be the new ‘Mayor’s Achievement Awards’ to recognise those who have made considerable contribution to the society and community of Warrington. To support businesses and charities Cllr Rashid plans to launch ‘Circle – The Future for Warrington’, a business networking initiative with money raised going to charity. Councillor Rashid’s drive for cohesion in Warrington’s business and charity worlds extends to its communities with a desire to see more close-knit, supportive environments across the borough. A family man, married to Aleeza, the Mayoress, and a graduate with a Master's in Business Administration, he came to Warrington for the first time in 1998 from Manchester after falling in love with the town and its green open spaces.
Councillor Rashid bought a house in Warrington while continuing to commute to work in Manchester. Despite working full time and caring for his family, he also started to get involved in the local community. In 2006, he started working as a relationship manager at NatWest in Warrington and became ever more actively involved in Warrington’s community and many initiatives. He also recognises the need for supporting local businesses, which make an immense contribution towards the economy, creating jobs and wealth, benefiting the whole town. With his passion and continuous striving to make a difference, it seemed a natural progression for him to become a councillor, which he did in 2011. He has for many years been involved in working for the communities in Chapelford and Old Hall (Whittle Hall ward). Councillor Rashid has a goal to see Warrington flourish, to be somewhere people consider a great place to live, work, run a business, raise a family and have a good life. HOST: Warrington School of Management VENUE: Lance Dobson Hall, Martin Building, Warrington Campus, WA2 0DB ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Shelley Hanvey s.hanvey@chester.ac.uk, 01925 534223
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MARCH 2017 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 • 1PM-4PM
FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 4 for details.
THURSDAY, MARCH 9 • 6.30PM Professorial Inaugural Lecture
WHO BROKE FEMINISM? THE OBLIGATION OF PRIVILEGE Professor Emma Rees, Institute of Gender Studies Is feminism broken? And how might we mend it? The term itself has an image problem at a time when the idea is needed more than ever. Why do people denounce the word while swearing by the very same phrases that so often follow the claim: ‘I’m not a feminist, but…’? This inaugural lecture shatters some of the myths about feminism and answers the crucial question: ‘Why “feminism” and not “equality”?’ Professor Rees explores how women are systematically exploited and abused, from Kensington to Kigali, because they are women. She discusses ideas of ‘choice feminism’, and
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‘feminism lite’, and considers the feminist continuum, demonstrating how the ‘personal’ is, in fact, decidedly ‘political’. This is a lecture about the virtues of feminist anger; of acknowledging economic and cultural privilege; and of thinking globally, acting locally, and agitating politically. HOST: Corporate Communications VENUE: Beswick Lecture Theatre, Parkgate Road Campus, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: Free but places must be booked CONTACT: events@chester.ac.uk or ring 01244 511344
MARCH 2017 TUESDAY, MARCH 28 • 6.30PM
A COMMUNITY BUSINESS – ADDING ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND WELLBEING VALUE TO THE TOWN Roger Draper, Steven Broomhead, Tony Smith and Neil Kelly, Warrington Wolves Roger Draper is Chief Executive of Warrington Wolves. He is one of the new breed of sports leaders who are applying direct experience of competing as an athlete and first rate business skills and experience to achieve radical improvement in the way sport is run. Over the past 20 years he has been involved in all aspects of the transformation of British sport, putting in place practical and widely acclaimed strategies, modernising organisations, engineering the joining-up of all aspects of sport and securing new commercial backing. He is now leading a more informed approach to sports business management ensuring that Warrington Wolves is one of the leading Rugby League clubs in the world. He has wide experience in the business of sport, this has included four years as Chief Executive at Sport England, leading a major review and reorganisation of the £500 million spent on sport in the UK, involvement in the London 2012 bid and he was Accounting Officer for the completion of the Wembley National Stadium project. He then spent seven years as CEO of the Lawn Tennis Association, where he completed a ground breaking £25 million commercial partner deal with Aegon and grew the turnover of the business by 45% to £65 million. He left the LTA in September 2013, two months after Andy Murray ended Britain’s 77 year wait for a male champion. He became Chief Executive of Warrington Wolves in March 2015.
Steven Broomhead is the Chief Executive at Warrington Borough Council. He was also the Council Chief Executive from 1997 to 2003. Professor Steven Broomhead held the Chair of Steven Broomhead Entrepreneurial Education at Liverpool Hope University. In May 2011 he gave his inaugural professorial lecture “Making Britain enterprising, entrepreneurial, forward wealth creating again – restoring faith to the centre stage”. In 2007 the University of Chester named their new library the ‘Broomhead Library’. From 2003 to 2011 he was Chief Executive of the North West Development Agency. Steven is the Non-Executive Chairman of Warrington Wolves Rugby Super League Football Club since 2009. The Wolves won the Challenge Cup in 2009 and 2010 and were Super League Winners in 2011 and finalists in 2012. He is also a trustee of the National Football Museum. He is also Non-Executive Chairman of Recycling Lives a charity based in Lancashire. Prior to working in local government Steven was Principal of two colleges (Durham and Warrington). Neil Kelly is Director of the Warrington Wolves Foundation. Tony Smith is Head of Coaching and Rugby at the Club. HOST: Department of Sport and Community Engagement VENUE: Lance Dobson Hall, Martin Building, Warrington Campus, WA2 0DB ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Shelley Hanvey s.hanvey@chester.ac.uk, 01925 534223
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APRIL 2017 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 • 1PM-4PM
FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 4 for details.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 • 4PM-5.30PM
“THE NORTHERN POWERHOUSE”: COTTON TOWN NURSES WHO SHAPED THE PROFESSION Dame Betty Kershaw. Professor Emeritus, University of Sheffield. Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (and Former President) Ethel Bedford Fenwick (née Manson) was a probationer at Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1878. In 1907, Margaret Sparshott was appointed Matron. Although not overlapping, the two met on the stage that shaped the nursing profession. Fenwick’s outspoken views often set her in opposition to the College of Nursing, while Sparshott was a committed supporter who became President in 1930. In this talk, former Royal College of Nursing President Dame Betty Kershaw will talk about their lives, along with those who came later, including Lucy Duff Grant, Jean McFarlane and Maude Storey. HOST: Faculty of Health and Social Care Historical Society VENUE: Riverside Campus, visitors should go to the main Riverside Campus Reception opposite the River Dee, Castle Drive, Chester, CH1 1SL ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Roger Whiteley, r.whiteley@chester.ac.uk, ring 01244 511619 or visit www.chester.ac.uk/hsc/historical-society
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APRIL 2017 THURSDAY, APRIL 6 • 6PM Chester Research Unit for the Psychology of Health (CRUPH) Public Lecture
“THEY MOSTLY COME AT NIGHT. MOSTLY.” SLEEP DISTURBANCES’ IMPACT ON SUICIDAL BEHAVIOURS Dr Kevin D Hochard As a nation reporting frequent tiredness and sleeplessness, we are all too aware of the importance of a good night’s sleep. And never more so than when things go bump in our night. Evidence is mounting that disturbed sleep impacts not only on our physical health, but also our mental wellbeing. Alarmingly, insomnia, nightmares, and general night time wakefulness have been shown to be robust risk factors for increased suicide and self-harm. I will use this lecture to discuss an overview of theory and research evidence which underpin this phenomenon, and to make recommendations for practice regarding how to best mitigate the negative link between disturbed sleep and suicidal behaviours in at risk populations. HOST: Chester Research Unit for the Psychology of Health VENUE: Best Building, CBB115, Parkgate Road Campus, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: cruph@chester.ac.uk BOOKING: Will be available via Eventbrite see www.chester.ac.uk/events for the link
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19 SATURDAY, APRIL 22
TALKING BODIES CONFERENCE A biennial international, interdisciplinary conference on identity, sexuality and representation. HOST: Institute of Gender Studies VENUE: Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester ADMISSION AND BOOKING INFORMATION: talkingbodies@chester.ac.uk
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MAY 2017 WEDNESDAY, MAY 3 • 1PM-4PM
FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 4 for details.
THURSDAY, MAY 11 • 5PM An ecumenical partnership of University and Cathedral
TUESDAY, MAY 9 • 7.30PM
THE ESSENES IN THE ANCIENT LITERARY SOURCES Professor Joan Taylor, King’s College London The Essenes, hailed as the authors of many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, are known from many literary attestations of the 1st Century. But are these texts read correctly? If we read them again with fresh eyes, what are the most interesting features of this mysterious group? May they appear under different names? This talk will delve into the sources on the Essenes and assess what we can know of a party that played a major role in Judaism of the time of Jesus, and – it will be suggested – indeed interacted with him. HOST: Chester Theological Society VENUE: Hollybank House, 51 Liverpool Road, Chester, CH2 1AB ADMISSION: £3.00 (students £1.00). Admission at the door CONTACT: The Rev Dr Robert Evans: r.evans@chester.ac.uk or Rachel Barlow: rp.amari@btinternet.com 34
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‘NO SEX PLEASE, WE’RE NAKED’: LOCATING SANCTUARIES FOR THE DESEXUALISED NUDE Rebecca Collins, Department of Geography and International Development, University of Chester Contemporary Western media culture is increasingly saturated with barely clad, overtly sexualised and ‘idealised’ bodies. What spaces remain for the experience - and celebration of explicitly desexualised naked bodies? Who populates them, and what is the nature of the space that is constructed? This talk seeks to explore the politics and potentialities involved in (re)claiming ‘naked spaces’. HOST: Institute of Gender Studies ADMISSION: Free VENUE: Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester CONTACT: Emma Rees e.rees@chester.ac.uk
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Structural Funds programme, and the Cheshire Science Corridor Enterprise Zone, which was announced by the Chancellor in the November 2015 Autumn Statement.
GROWING THE CHESHIRE AND WARRINGTON ECONOMY (ALMOST) A YEAR AFTER THE REFERENDUM Philip Cox, Chief Executive, Cheshire and Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Philip joined Cheshire and Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership in July 2014. His role is to lead the LEP towards its objective of making Cheshire and Warrington a £50 billion economy by 2040 – more than twice its current size. This role includes overseeing the delivery of the LEP’s programme of £150m of infrastructure and other capital projects, its £¼ billion European
Prior to joining Cheshire and Warrington, Philip was a Civil Servant, most recently as the Director for Local Economies at DCLG. His background is as an Economist and his Civil Service career has included serving as the Principal Private Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and working on issues such as the sale of the Millennium Dome to create the O2 Arena, renegotiation of the contract to build the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (now HS1), the establishment of Enterprise Zones and overall responsibility for the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in England. HOST: Warrington School of Management VENUE: Lance Dobson Hall, Martin Building, Warrington Campus, WA2 0DB ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Shelley Hanvey s.hanvey@chester.ac.uk, 01925 534223
WEDNESDAY, MAY 17 • 1PM
FROM BATTLEFIELD TO BURKINI: A JOURNEY INTO FRANCO-AFRICAN HISTORY Claire Griffiths, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of Chester The lecture takes as its starting point key political debates that have put France in the global spotlight. It invites the audience to take a journey back through four centuries of French history in Africa to explore some of the roots of cultural and political debates that today define France's role in the world. HOST: Department of Modern Languages VENUE: Rowley’s House, Shrewsbury, SY1 1QU ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Claire Griffiths, c.griffiths@chester.ac.uk 35
JUNE 2017 SATURDAY, JUNE 3 • 10AM-4PM
UNIVERSITY OPEN DAY: PARKGATE ROAD CAMPUS, KINGSWAY CAMPUS, THORNTON SCIENCE PARK, RIVERSIDE CAMPUS, QUEEN’S PARK CAMPUS Come along to our Open Day to find out for yourself what it would really be like to live and study here. Open Days are the ideal way to see if the University of Chester is right for you. HOST: Visit Us team VENUE: See page 5 for details ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: 01244 512800, visitus@chester.ac.uk or book online at www.chester.ac.uk/openday
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7 • 1PM-4PM
FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 4 for details.
THURSDAY, JUNE 8 • 5PM
INSTITUTE OF GENDER STUDIES RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES Professor Jan Gidman, Faculty of Health and Social Care MRes students enrolled on the MRes in Gender Studies 2016-17 showcase their dissertation plans in a series of short talks. HOST: Institute of Gender Studies VENUE: Beswick Building, Room 013, Parkgate Road Campus, University of Chester ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: Emma Rees e.rees@chester.ac.uk
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JUNE 2017 THURSDAY, JUNE 8 • 6PM Chester Research Unit for the Psychology of Health (CRUPH) Public Lecture
THE STRESSED APE: WHY HUMAN BEINGS ARE SO PRONE TO STRESS, AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT Dr Lee Hulbert-Williams As a knowledge worker in the 21st Century, Dr Hulbert-Williams' day probably looks quite a lot like yours. Though his job is complex and varied, any peer from 20 years ago would be astonished at just how much of it he accomplishes while sitting in front of a computer, or staring into his iPhone. Though he has clear targets and responsibilities, he also has a good deal of autonomy in *how* he gets things done. There are competing priorities, multitudinous ‘stakeholders’, and a never-ending stream of new information he feels he is supposed to keep up with. Perhaps you recognise at least some of this picture? The basic stress response evolved many millions of years ago. The way humans get stressed is therefore similar, in many respects, to the ways cats, mice, and fleas get stressed. Since the evolution of the basic stress response, however, humans have evolved
complex new ways of learning. These uniquely human abilities allow us to do mathematics and understand Shakespeare, but they also make it more likely that we will experience chronic stress. We human beings are inclined to get raised blood pressure and even perhaps stomach ulcers, just thinking about how we might pay the gas bill. Cats tend not to do this. Nor do the chimpanzees – our closest nonhuman relatives. In this lecture, we will discuss the initial development of a new framework for understanding the human experience of stress, based on Contextual Behavioural Science. First, we will examine those features of the stress response that are common across the apes (including humans), then we will see how this response might be altered and coopted through learning processes unique to human beings. Finally, we will ask what we can do to reduce stress. We will examine a range of techniques, both simple and more involved, which have been shown to reduce stress levels in human beings. HOST: Chester Research Unit for the Psychology of Health VENUE: Best Building, Room CBB115, Parkgate Road Campus, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: Free CONTACT: cruph@chester.ac.uk BOOKING: Will be available via Eventbrite see www.chester.ac.uk/events for the link
THURSDAY, JUNE 8 • 6.30PM Professorial Inaugural Lecture Professor Jan Gidman, Faculty of Health and Social Care Title and details to be confirmed nearer the time. HOST: Corporate Communications VENUE: Beswick Lecture Theatre, Parkgate Road Campus, CH1 4BJ ADMISSION: Free but by ticket only CONTACT: events@chester.ac.uk or ring 01244 511344
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JULY 2017 WEDNESDAY, JULY 5 • 1PM-4PM
FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM OPENING See entry on page 4 for details.
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ADDITIONAL EVENTS THE PROFESSOR GLYN TURTON LECTURE
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COMMERCIAL MUSIC PRODUCTION SHOWCASE The annual Commercial Music Production showcase event, Aspiration Live, is organised by University of Chester Commercial Music Production students within the Department of Media at the Warrington Campus. It is a chance for the students to showcase music acts they have been fully developing and recording over the course of the year, to the public and guests from the music industry. Typically, the line-up is a strong and eclectic blend of University of Chester talent, including alumni and current students, as well as talent from the local area. This event usually takes place in April or May and further details will be available here nearer the time. http://www.chester.ac.uk/media/news
This series of high-profile public lectures honours Professor Glyn Turton, the respected scholar and former Head of English, Dean of Arts and Humanities, and Senior Pro ViceChancellor at the University. The inaugural lecture, in April 2010, delivered by Professor Glyn Turton, was on ‘“Yorkssshhhire”: Some Reflections on Common Speech and Literary Language in the Verse of One County’. Other speakers include: Professor Michael Green (Northumbria University) on ‘For the Sake of Silence: History, Fiction, and the Spaces In Between’; Dr Juliet John (University of Liverpool) on ‘Dickens Worlds: Culture, Commerce and the Heritage Industry’; Professor Will Kaufman (University of Central Lancashire) on ‘Woody Guthrie: Hard Times and Hard Travelin’: A Live Musical Documentary’; Professor Martin Stannard (University of Leicester) on ‘Meeting Muriel Spark’; Dr Andrew Tate (Lancaster University) on ‘Margaret Atwood’s Apocalypse: A Contemporary Novelist at the End of the World’ and Professor Simon Armitage on ‘Putting Poetry in its Place.’ Information about the next lecture, in spring 2017, will be forthcoming at: www.chester.ac.uk/departments/english
LEARN A LANGUAGE! The Department of Modern Languages is running part time language evening courses in Arabic, French, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Welsh. Courses commence September, February and May (subject to minimum numbers). For more information please telephone 01244 511168, email lsp@chester.ac.uk or see www.chester.ac.uk/languages/parttimelanguagecourses
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Public Events Programme Autumn 2016 - Summer 2017 www.chester.ac.uk/events For accessibility information or to obtain this publication in an alternative format – large print, on audio tape or in translation, please contact: Corporate Communications Tel: 01244 511344 Email: events@chester.ac.uk