What The Papers Say November 2009
General university news
(Individual campus news follows below)
According to South East Business Greenwich has invested in a fleet of electric vehicles for use at all three campuses.
Malaysian based Sun Daily reported that Greenwich is twinned with SEGI University College in Kuala Lumpur.
According to Facilities Management Excellence support services company Resource have been awarded a contract for cleaning, janitorial and portering services. Greenwich is a customer of Resource.
According to Health & Safety at Work CLM provide safety compliance packages for Greenwich and other universities.
Peninsula, Greenwich Mercury and Rugby Times reported on the Thomas Mulquin Memorial rugby match held in Blackheath.
Greenwich is a member of the Million+ think tank according to Times Higher Education.
Hastings & St Leonards Observer reported that Atlantic Convoy veteran Morris Newcombe had originally trained as an air cadet at Woolwich Polytechnic.
Laura Witz, Quaker Chaplain at Greenwich, has produced a damning report for the Children’s Society about the exploitation of vulnerable migrant children in the UK according to The Friend.
According to the Greenwich Society newsletter the university has appointed Heneghan Peng as the architects for the new school of Architecture & Construction and library.
Greenwich
Business
Researchers in the Work & Employee Relations Unit (WERU) are undertaking a five years project to assess the social and economic impact of the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games according to Professional Manager.
Ying Xie addressed the Logistics Research Network Conference about possible savings that could be made in NHS pharmacy costs according to Logistics & Transport Focus.
Zimbabwean Prince Mayo, an Accountancy & Finance student, has had great success as a rugby player in this country according to AllAfrica.com and the Zimbabwean Financial Gazette.
Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Health & Safety at Work discussed the work of the Fire Safety Engineering Group in an article about how computerised safety simulations can help avoid real disaster.
Shipping World & Shipbuilder, Digital Ship and Lloyds’ List (Ship Manager) reported that the Fire Safety Engineering Group is part of an EU project to evaluate the effectiveness of ship evacuation models. They will be developing fire and flooding scenarios.
Humanities & Social Sciences
Margaret Mountford, former star of the BBC1’s Apprentice and Baroness Scotland, the Attorney General, attended Raising Aspirations for law students according to the Bexley Times.
A new book looking at the industrial history of the Medway valley has been launched according to Kent on Sunday. The project was led by Dr Andrew Hann at Greenwich.
Greenwich student, Claire Pooley, appealed for help with her dissertation on the Home Guard in the News Shopper.
An article by Jenny Williams in the Baptist Times which profiled the work of Thomas Acton, Professor of Romani Studies was the UK winner of the European Commission’s Diversity Against Discrimination award.
Richard Wild, Criminology lecturer, discussed gave a rare insight into the likely mind of the serial sex attacker known as the Night Stalker in the Bromley Times.
General campus news
According to a Hong Kong Standard article the new Distillery housing development in Deptford, ‘London's principal universities, including the University of Greenwich, are also two stops away on the DLR’.
Poet Blake Morrison is giving the Greenwich Society annual lecture at the campus according to the South London Press and Greenwich Mercury.
Nottingham Evening Post profiled architect Ben Bowley who began his working career at Dannatt Johnson working on the conversion of the Old Royal Naval College for use by the University of Greenwich.
According to Docklands the campus hosted a Women in Business Forum.
Greenwich Mercury reported that the University of Greenwich bookshop is hosting a book signing about a local First World War hero who fought in Iraq during that conflict.
The campus is hosting a public debate on the Credit Crunch according to the News Shopper.
Chemistry & Industry reported that the ‘Old Royal Naval College campus’ hosted a performance by the University of Greenwich Big Band with the title ‘Mixing up chemistry, jazz and big band music.’
Avery Hill
Architecture & Construction
According to Kent on Sunday and News Shopper website Vipin Dhunnoo, who has graduated in architecture was rewarded for his mentoring at Bexley Business Academy, Eltham Hill and Blackfen Schools with a national Aim Higher award.
Environmental Health Practitioner mentioned Jill Stewart’s private sector housing evidence database in an article about the Chartered Institute of Health’s Principal Policy Officer, Andrew Griffiths. Jill was also one of those interviewed for a Vox-Pop about the future of Environmental Health. She argued properly resourced initial training and qualified staff retention is vital.
Greenwich is contributing towards an advisory group for a new research initiative looking at how suburbs can be adapted to reduce climate change impacts according to Planning.
Charles Brooking argued for the preservation of steel windows in Glass & Glazing Products.
Education & Training
Five students from the school were the first recipients of the Kathleen Jones Scholarship according to the News Shopper.
According to the Belfast Evening Telegraph among those who graduated from Belfast Metropolitan were Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector students, a course validated by Greenwich.
Patrick Ainley co-authored an article in University College which argued that members of the University and College Union (UCU) can regain the pedagogical initiative by rethinking what education actually means.
Health & Social Care
Ros Delany had an article published in Practice Nurse titled Sexual health in primary care.
Psychology student Maddie Razoare was one of those featured in a Streetstyle in Leek feature in the Stoke-on-Trent Sentinel.
Social Work graduate Elaine Osborne is now a self employed community development worker who also does special reports for the Paul O’Grady television show according to the South London Press.
Harry Chummun was the co-author of a paper titled Current guidance on the management of acute coronary syndrome in the British Journal of Nursing.
Medway
School of Engineering
According to US Based Powder Bulk Solids website the Wolfson Centre is running courses short courses throughout 2010.
School of Science
Sports Science graduate Jamie Sawyer has worked for the last six years as the Strength & Conditioning Coach for new World Boxing champion David Haye according to the Ipswich Evening Star and East Anglian Times.
Andrew Haggart appeared on BBC South East Today talking about Climate Change as part of an item looking back at the 2003 heat wave when the UK’s highest ever temperature was recorded in Kent.
Kent News.co.uk and Kent on Sunday reported that Dr Andrew Haggart, senior lecturer in geography & environmental science said that leaked e-mails which supposedly discredit the case for global warming was a "blatant attempt" to undermine the credibility of scientists and sow confusion among the public in the run-up to the Copenhagen summit.
According to the Channel 4 website Patricia Harvey believe that "plant-based technologies have to be embraced" in order to mitigate climate change.
Natural Resources Institute
Researchers at Greenwich and Rothamsted Research have explained how insects know which direction they are travelling at altitudes of several hundred metres in the dark according to the Insciences website, Herts Advertiser and the Herts Observer.
NRI and others are helping the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) reduce waste levels for Fresh vegetables and salads according to Horticulture Week.
According to Food & Drink International NRI offer postgraduate qualifications in Food Safety & Quality Management and Food Safety & Quality Management (Postharvest Technology).
Herne Bay Times and Whitstable Times reported that Greenwich scientists have helped prolong the shelf life of fudge. Food safety expert Linda Nicolaides and graduate Julie Creen assisted Jim Garrahy’s Fudge Kitchen.
Medway School of Pharmacy
MPharm student Samantha Hayman won third prize in an essay writing contest run by the Pharmacy Law and Ethics Association according to KM Extra (Maidstone, Malling & Weald).
The school is hosting an open day this month according to the Medway Messenger.
Graduate Antony Samson has been named the Tesco’s pre-registration trainee of the year according to Your Medway, Your Swale, Medway News and Medway Messenger.
General campus news
Partnership Kent Business reported that Greenwich have teamed up with local organisations in Kent and Medway to boost local businesses through the Business Innovation Group.
Your Medway reported on the Opportunities 09 event at the campus.
According to Kent Director Greenwich has invested in electric vehicles for use at the Medway campus.
A film about the hidden lives of the ropemakers at Chatham Dockyard will be a ‘Pembroke lecture’ this month according to the Medway News, Dover Mercury, East Kent Mercury, Herne Bay Gazette, and Kentish Gazette.
Stuart Ashenden was among the judges at Young Dragons Business Enterprise Project event held at Chatham Dockside Retail Outlet according to Your Medway.
The Drill Hall Library was cited as a successful conversion of listed building for university use in Education supplement in the Guardian.
Students from UMSA took part in a climate change protest at a Shell garage according to the Medway Messenger and Medway News.
Greenwich is among those in the HEFCE funded Business First scheme according to Hythe Herald, Romney Marsh Herald and Folkestone Herald.
Further information
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