Winchester Writers' Conference welcomes Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes
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issue no 23 SUMMER 2013
Photo: Southern Daily Echo
Professor Tony King, Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange; Professor Joy Carter, Vice-Chancellor; Lady and Lord Fellowes, Plenary Speakers; Barbara Large MBE,
outgoing Founder-Director of the Winchester Writers’ Conference.
Winchester Writers’
In June, keen wordsmiths from around the
world gathered at the University to attend
the 33rd Winchester Writers’ Conference,
Festival and Bookfair. This year’s literary
line-up was headed up by the creator of
Conference welcomes Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes. Together
with his wife Lady Emma, Julian Alexander
Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of
West Stafford DL, to give him his full name
Downton Abbey creator and title, delivered the Plenary Address on
Saturday morning.
Also present at this annual celebration of
creative writing was author and journalist
Julian Fellowes Jessica Fellowes, Lord Fellowes’ niece,
who delivered the After Dinner Talk Behind
the Scenes at Downton Abbey, following
the Gala Dinner on Saturday.
Editorial Writers’ Conference “an absolute must”
One of the main aims of the Winchester
Writers’ Conference is to provide a platform
it up for 10 years – I never missed a day. Tenacity
is the key factor.” “A lesson to us all!”, said one
In the last couple of months, the University has and springboard for aspiring writers, by inviting inspired delegate. Other delegates were inspired
held two invigorating Inaugural Lectures. In a host of literary agents, commissioning editors by the conference as a whole, reporting ”significant
May, Professor Millie Taylor spoke on ‘Humanity, and industry specialists, as well as established progress” thanks to the 1-2-1 appointments and
Community and Excess’, with excellent live musical authors to provide targeted one-to-one feedback the “highly informative lectures”. “An absolute
accompaniment to her theme on the emotional on specific pieces of creative writing, and by must”, declared another. “I know of no other event
impact of musical theatre. In June, Professor organising writing competitions. where publishers, agents, industry experts and
Neil Messer explored the weighty topic ‘Where successful writers make themselves available with
In hs Plenary Address, Julian Fellowes spoke
Science, Theology and Ethics Collide’, giving us such generosity.”
about the hard work of realising his dreams. “I
much insight into current thinking on Christianity never let 24 hours go by without doing something “We could not have enjoyed it more”, Lady
and ethics in biology and other sciences. to advance my cause”, he told the assembled Emma Fellowes declared afterwards. “We were so
The series of Inaugural Lectures is set to continue authors. “Whether it was a phone call, a meeting, humbled by the amazing welcome we received
next year. In February 2014, Professor Tom writing something, learning something... And I kept from Winchester.”
Lawson will speak on aspects of genocide in
the 20th century. In April, Alan Murray, Hoare
Professor of Responsible Management, will Voices from the front line
address a topic linked to his professorial title, and
finally, Professor Chris Mounsey will lecture on his The conference was also extremely honoured to
area of English Studies. welcome Special Guest Lieutenant Ian Thornton.
On his return from Afghanistan in 2012, Ian,
As you can read elsewhere in this KE Newsletter, a serving infantry officer, published his book
we are bidding farewell to Barbara Large MBE, a Helmand, the diaries of frontline soldiers. The book
truly inspirational member of the RKE team, who is an amalgamation of the diaries of a number of
created and has organised no less than 33 annual soldiers, including those by Ian and his brother
Writers’ Conferences, firstly at Southampton, and John, a Royal Marine who was killed in action in
more recently here at Winchester. We wish her a Afghanistan in 2008, age 22.
very enjoyable and fruitful retirement.
The diaries are a raw, funny, sad fly-on-the-wall
account of daily life in Helmand, from moustache-
Professor Tony King growing competitions to life-changing injuries.
Director, Research and Both Ian and Conference Director Barbara Large
Knowledge Exchange are patrons of Words for the Wounded, a charity
Centre that raises money for the rehabilitation of wounded
service personnel through writing competitions and
Tony.King@winchester.ac.uk
donations (www.wordsforthewounded.co.uk). Lieutenant Ian Thornton
01962 827291
A fond farewell… and a warm welcome
With no less than 15 Master’s classes, 14
workshops, 71 speakers, 700 one-to-ones
with literary agents and editors and nearly 280
Contents delegates, 2013 was a bumper year for the
Writers’ Conference. It is also the year when we
bid farewell to the Conference’s Founder-Director
Winchester Writers’
Barbara Large MBE, who, in the words of Lady
Conference 2013.................... Cover & page 15
Emma Fellowes, has created “something extremely
Editorial.................................. page 1 special”. Begun in 1980 with 40 aspiring writers,
News from the Faculties............ page 3 the conference has grown into one of the largest
Community Engagement........... page 7 events of its kind in the country. “I’ve nurtured it for
so many years”, reflects Barbara. “I’ve seen over
Enterprise and Employability...... page 11 100 people become published as a direct result
New Books............................. page 11 of the advice and support they got at the Writers’
Carbon Corner........................ page 13 Conference.” Under Barbara’s inspired leadership
and thanks to her excellent industry connections,
Visual Art................................ page 13 the conference has welcomed some great names
What’s On.............................. page 14 over the years, such as Sir Terry Pratchett (twice), Barbara Large MBE
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Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, gardener and
author Alan Titchmarsh MBE, galactic hitchhiker
Douglas Adams, Morse creator Colin Dexter and
children’s author Jacqueline Wilson (the latter two
now Writers’ Conference patrons), to name but a
few.
Barbara passes the quill on to children’s author
Judith Heneghan, the University’s programme
Leader for the MA Writing for Children. Judith has
been teaching Creative Writing at the University of
Winchester since 2006. She previously worked
as a commissioning editor of adult non-fiction
and editor of children’s non-fiction. Books include
The King of Kites (Evans, 2009); Stonecipher
(Andersen Press, 2005); the Nature’s Miracles
series (Wayland, 2010); The My Perfect Pet series
(Wayland, 2012) and This Is My Home Now,
focussing on the experiences of asylum seekers
and refugees in the Southampton area. Her most
recent series is Dragon School (Wayland, 2013).
Judith Heneghan
Love Your Hamster in the My Perfect Pet series is
shortlisted for the 2013 School Library Association
so much talent out there but new authors need we take the Conference forward to 2014.”
Information Book Award.
support and networking opportunities in order
See page 15 for more images from this year’s
“The Conference is a vital hub for emerging to thrive. I am honoured to be taking over from
Writers’ Conference.
writers and a platform for creative writing at the Barbara and look forward to meeting and working
University”, says Judith, who has written over 40 with delegates, speakers, sponsors, volunteers and www.writersconference.co.uk
fiction and non-fiction books for children. “There’s of course our patrons over the next few months as
News from the Faculties
New cross-faculty Crime and Justice Research Centre
In October the University will formally launch Economics. Prof. Zander, one of the most eminent
the new Crime and Justice Research Centre. QCs in the UK, will speak about the issues of
The creation of this interdisciplinary research miscarriages of justice, the Royal Commission
centre comes on the back of the success of the and the future. “We are very privileged to have
Criminology undergraduate programme and its secured Professor Zander’s participation”, said
participation in the Innocence Network UK (INUK). Dr Alan Grattan, Senior Lecturer in Criminology in
The Centre will be the focus for those academics the University’s new Department of Applied Social
across the University who are actively involved Studies and Centre convener. “It is quite a coup
in all manner of research into crime-related for the Centre, the Faculty and the University as a
areas. Research student Natacha Harding, whose whole.”
research looks at restorative justice and reparation,
The launch will be open to students, staff and the
is closely involved in the Centre, as is the new
general public, specifically members of the legal
student-led Criminology Society. Throughout the
profession, police, prison and probation services
academic year, the Crime and Justice Research
as well as those working in the community and
Centre will be hosting a series of talks and
voluntary sector.
presentations with University academics as well as
guest speakers. For more information on the Crime and Justice
Research Centre, contact Dr Alan Grattan
The keynote lecture for the launch on 10 October
Alan.Grattan@winchester.ac.uk, 01962 826352.
will be delivered by Professor Michael Zander QC Alan Grattan
from the Faculty of Law at the London School of
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ARTS
Teachers Academy into the Festival programme. Further information about the NEU/NOW Festival
University strengthens its The ELIA Teachers Academy draws together arts can be found on www.neunow.eu
educators from across Europe to share practices
leading role in European and discuss new developments. NE©XT2 means
Higher Education in the Arts
Winchester will continue to take a leading role in Write4Children
the shaping of Higher Education arts provision
across Europe. The latest edition of Write4Children, published in
Earlier this year an arts initiative supported and led conjunction with Winchester University Press, is now
by the University of Winchester. Over the last few Professor Anthony Dean, Dean of Faculty of Arts, is available online. This special edition, edited by Beth
years, NE©XT: New European Creative Talent has one of the two Artistic Directors of the NEU/NOW Cox and Alexandra Strickland of Inclusive Minds,
enabled emerging graduate artists to place their Festival and is also a member of the Steering focusses on Diversity, Inclusion and Equality. To read
work in an international context, alongside the Group of the Teachers Academy. “I am fortunate this exciting online journal, go to
work of their European peers. This has included to be able to play a key role in shaping both the www.write4children.org and click on Vol. IV Issue II.
presenting the successful NEU/NOW Live Festival Festival and the Teachers Academy, and the way in
in Tallinn, Estonia in 2011 and in Porto, Portugal in which they interrelate with each other,” commented
2012. The additional funding will allow NE©XT2 Professor Dean. “I am delighted that we have been
to facilitate NEU/NOW Festivals for the next two
years. In addition, NE©XT2 will integrate the
European League of Institutes of Arts (ELIA)
able to secure a further tranche of EU funding
through the Culture Programme to carry on and
develop both events as integrated activities.”
Write4Children
Education, Health and Social Care
network that aims to support struggling GPs with conference and the Royal College of General
Funding for medical educational needs and non-performance related Practice (RCGP) conference. Also successful was
professional issues. The evaluation considers a bid to undertake a literature review to identify
research projects the impact of mentoring on the remediation of and interpret the evidence about qualified doctors
the mentoring service users and the continuing with dyslexia, and the work around adaptive
Two EHSC research projects were recently
professional development needs of the mentors. methods used by them. This project recently
awarded funding, both in the medical field.
The research is to inform presentations this year started with the Professional Support Unit at the
Funded by the Wessex Deanery, the Wessex
at the Association of Medical Education (AMEE) Wessex Deanery.
Insight evaluation focusses on a mentoring
Humanities and Social Sciences
history, memory and culture, and how this is being
Winchester co-hosts informed and problematised by other genocides,
past and present.
Holocaust Studies One of the keynote lectures will be given at
conference Winchester by filmmaker Rex Bloomstein, who will
show and discuss a number of excerpts from the
As we approach the 70th anniversary of the films he has made on the Holocaust. This lecture,
liberation of the concentration camps in 2014 titled Confronting the Holocaust, is open to the
and 2015, the era of the living witnesses to the The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin general public; for more information, see What’s
events of the Holocaust is drawing to a close. This On. The involvement of Rex Bloomstein and other
historical research and its popular dissemination,
conference, titled The future of Holocaust studies, people external to Higher Education is a distinctive
and 70 years of cultural production, Holocaust
explores current and future trends in Holocaust feature of this event. Tom Lawson, Professor of
education and musealisation. It explores the
studies, assessing the discipline after 70 years of Holocaust Studies, stresses the importance of the
current relationship between the Holocaust in
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conference. “Not only does it allow us to reflect DNA comparison techniques. The skeletons were
on the burgeoning field of Holocaust Studies but excavated from the hospital of St Mary Magdalen
it also allows us to look the future. The conference in Winchester, fondly known as the ‘leper hospital’,
is the result of important partnerships with people which the Department of Archaeology has been
and organisations outside of Higher Education, investigating since 2007. Analysis by Dr Roffey,
especially the Holocaust Educational Trust, a medieval specialist, and human bone expert
which will allow us to think about the interactions Dr Tucker indicates skeletal evidence for leprosy
between Holocaust scholars and those who are in over 85% of the burials found at St Mary
responsible for a wider Holocaust education in Magdalen, the largest percentage recorded in
museums and of course in schools. Dialogue Dr Valerie Bonnardel with the Colour Group’s ‘badge of Britain.
between these groups does not happen as often office’, the rainbow teapot
“Our work at St Mary Magdalen has focussed on
as it should and we look forward to an opportunity
quality. And with a third of the presenting authors
to learn from one another.”
being students, IVCS 2013 perpetuated the
This major international conference is organised tradition of a unique inter-generational knowledge
in conjunction with Holocaust Studies: A exchange forum.”
Journal of Culture and History, the Universities
Cyborgist and Colourologist Neil Harbisson
of Southampton,
delivered the keynote lecture, titled Life with
Winchester,
extra senses, in association with the University‘s
Edinburgh, Chester
Enterprise Lecture Series. Neil Harbisson is a
and London (the
contemporary artist, composer and cyborg activist
Institute of Education’s
best known for his ability to hear colours and
Centre for Holocaust
to perceive colours outside the range of human
Education), the
vision. Neil was born with achromatopsia, a
Holocaust Educational
condition that only allows him to see the world
Trust and the Higher Skeleton of medieval leper
in black and white. At the age of 20, he had an
Education Academy.
electronic eye (‘eyeborg’) installed in his head that
the buildings, burials and artefacts with the aim
allows him to ‘listen’ to colours. Neil talked about
of studying the history and development of the
Winchester hosts 2013 his personal relationship with cybernetics and how
technology changed his perception of life.
former medieval leprosy hospital,” explained Dr
Roffey. “Now our work is feeding into the scientific
International Colour Vision origins of leprosy and as a result we are finding
Society Conference out a lot more about the disease. I believe St
Mary Magdalen is home to one of Britain’s earliest
In July the University was proud to host the 22nd known hospitals, founded in the mid to late 11th
Symposium of the International Colour Vision century, and that it was a pioneering hospital
Society (ICVS). The ICVS is an international group of created as a response to the sudden spread of
physiologists, psychologists, physicists, geneticists, leprosy in England. This idea is further supported
optometrists, ophthalmologists and visual scientists by the genome research that has revealed that the
who have a research interest in the many aspects disease spread during the time of the Crusades.
of colour vision and colour vision deficiencies. I think it might also be linked to the increased
The symposium provides a unique international popularity of pilgrimage, especially to the Holy
forum where colour vision researchers from Land, during this period.”
industry, academia and clinical and occupational Neil Harbisson The article can be read in full at www.sciencemag.
environments gather to share ideas, interact and org/content/early/2013/06/12/science.1238286.
debate the latest advances in the field of colour
vision.
Winchester archaeologists abstract. To find out more about the Magdalen Hill
Archaeological Research Project (MHARP), visit
Winchester’s ICVS representative is Dr Valérie help unravel the origin of the webpage: www.winchester.ac.uk/MHARP.
Bonnardel, Reader in Experimental Psychology,
who is also the current Chair of the Colour Group leprosy To find out more about Archaeology at Winchester,
go to www.winchester.ac.uk/archaeology.
GB (www.colour.org.uk) and one of the conference
Winchester archaeologists Dr Simon Roffey and
organisers. “ICVS 2013 at Winchester attracted
Dr Katie Tucker have contributed to a new piece
over 150 of the most renowned colour scientists
of research which provides insight into the genetic
from more than 30 countries”, she commented.
origins of leprosy. The research, published by
“The scientific programme was of an exceptional
Science magazine, is a genome-wide comparison
of medieval and modern Mycobacterium leprae,
the bacterium that causes leprosy. Roffey and
Tucker co-authored the research and supplied
the British medieval skeletons that underwent the
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Department of Theology
and Religious Studies
explores the moral maze of
Science and Theology
On 5 June, Professor of Theology Neil Messer
delivered his inaugural lecture, examining the
intersections between science, theology and
ethics in contemporary society. His lecture Where
science, theology and ethics collide: the case of
the human brain explored some of the questions
raised for Christian faith and ethics by recent
developments in neuroscience. “New scientific
Professor Neil Messer delivers his Inaugural Lecture
discoveries and technologies offer the prospect
of changing our world, and perhaps even our evaluate new scientific insights and technologies, at Cambridge and King’s College London. His
own nature, in quite profound ways,” explained arguing that the Christian tradition has intellectual, publications include Flourishing: health, disease
Professor Messer, Head of the Department of moral and spiritual resources that are needed in this and bioethics in theological perspective (2013);
Theology and Religious Studies. “As a society we search for wisdom. Respecting life: theology and bioethics (2011);
are in need of ways to talk about how to use these Selfish genes and Christian ethics (2007). He is a
technologies wisely.” Professor Messer asked Neil Messer completed his PhD in molecular
minister of the United Reformed Church.
where modern societies might find the wisdom to biology at Cambridge before studying theology
Business, Law and Sport
relationships and make an impact. This is a much ‘Local banking’ key theme
University sport scientist more intense environment and there is a greater
sense of urgency, but I have worked with the at Conference on Banking
supports Royal Navy Rugby British Armed Forces before, in a mountaineering
expedition, so I am used to providing support and the Economy
Union team to high-performance athletes who are also
servicemen and -women.” Jo’s earlier work with The University of Winchester was a co-sponsor
The Royal Navy Rugby Union (RNRU) squad has for the University of Southampton’s Centre for
the British Armed Forces involved supporting a
been receiving support from a Winchester sport Banking, Finance and Sustainable Development
world record-breaking attempt in 2008 to help the
psychologist to help improve their performance. 2nd European Conference on Banking and the
first team to successfully traverse Mount Makalu in
The team returned from overseas postings in Economy (ECOBATE 2013), which took place
the Himalayas. Recent work has involved providing
February and Jo Batey, Senior Lecturer in Sport in early March in the Guildhall in Winchester.
sports psychology support for young Olympic
and Exercise Psychology, has been working with Delegates included Charles Goodhart CBE, FBA,
hopefuls for Team GB Archery.
them ever since. In March, the entire squad visited Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance,
the University for additional support in the form of London School of Economics and Founder
physiological testing. The team completed a series member of the Monetary Policy Committee Bank
of sessions in the laboratory with Helen Ryan, of England and Michael Kumhof, Deputy-Director,
Lecturer in Sport Physiology, and James Wright, Modelling Division, International Monetary Fund,
Physiology Laboratory Technician. The team who presented plenary sessions, and Business
attended a psychology workshop at the University Secretary Vince Cable.
before training on the pitch.
After a welcome from Cllr Frank Pearson, the
“The squad is quite unusual in that the players then Mayor of Winchester, Prof. Neil Marriott, the
only train together for a three month period,” said University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor and former
Jo, who is an accredited member of the British Director of the Winchester Business School,
Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences chaired a panel discussion in front of a public
(BASES) and a member of the University’s Sport audience on the role of local banks in regional
Science Consultancy Unit (SSCU). “Having such economic development. The special themes of
a restricted season means working with them is the conference were ‘local banking’, on which
a real challenge. Usually there is down time within RNRU Head Coach Owen Salmon and Winchester
Sports Psychologist Jo Batey
Dr Vince Cable spoke, and ‘sustainable money’.
the season and you have more time to develop
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to consider local solutions to local economic warming effects of industrial activity, this seems
problems. The banks’ failure to lend is harming an illogical way to structure manufacturing,”
industry and commerce, especially small and said Alan Murray, Professor of Responsible
medium-sized firms, and these are the bedrock Management at the University’s Hoare Centre of
of the economic recovery. There is much we can Responsible Management. “The Circular Economy
learn from the German model which has fared is a significant step forward in offering practical
more favourably than other economies blighted by alternatives to companies who wish to be more
the financial crisis.” sustainable.” Professor Murray has an international
reputation in the field of Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR). He was recently appointed
L to R: Professor Richard Werner (University of University joins new as Chair of the UK and Ireland Chapter of the UN
Southampton); The Right Hon. Dr. Vince Cable, MP, Principles of Responsible Management Education
(Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills;
President, Board of Trade); Professor Don Nutbeam
International think tank to (PRME) and in 2006 was part of the United
(Vice-Chancellor, University of Southampton) Professor Nations Taskforce that developed these principles.
Neil Marriott (Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of
Winchester) and Dr. Hans-Peter Schackmann-Fallis,
develop sustainable ‘circular The new ‘Business as Un-usual’ Research Chair
was launched in Paris this April with a paper on
(Board Member, German Savings Bank Association).
economy’ the Circular Economy presented by Professor
Attendees learned why there are recurring banking Murray, co-authored by Professor Kathryn Haynes
Winchester Business School recently joined a
crises, why small and medium-sized enterprises of Newcastle University and Dr Keith Skene of The
European responsible management initiative set up
find it hard to obtain bank loans in the UK, and Biosphere Research Institute.
to rethink existing business models and create new
how other countries, such as Germany, manage To find out more about the University’s Centre of
economic approaches for the future. ‘Business
to deliver a steady supply of funding to small firms Responsible Management, visit
as Un-usual’ brings together a multidisciplinary
and thus generate stable growth and prosperity www.winchester.ac.uk/CRM.
team of universities, major international companies
in local communities. There were opportunities
and leading NGO’s, including the Ellen MacArthur
for academics and the general public to ask
Foundation. The initiative advocates a break
questions and engage with leading thinkers and
from the ‘business as usual’ approach in which
policy-makers. The conference endorsed the
companies create a product, make it with all
establishment of a local savings bank in Hampshire
the associated issues of pollution and waste,
to support the local economy and respond to the
and expect it to be discarded to landfill or
needs of residents and entrepreneurs.
incineration. The University of Winchester is one
Professor Marriott commented: “It is the second of four institutions involved in the initiative, the
time that the University of Winchester has others being the University of Southern Denmark,
sponsored this conference alongside the Bank Bentley University in the USA and the University of
of England, Hampshire County Council and Bradford.
Winchester City Council and industry sponsors.
“In a world of depleting resources, volatile energy
The UK banking sector has failed to respond
prices and climate change due to the global Professor Alan Murray
positively to the financial crisis and there is a need
Community Engagement 27 April-3 May 2013
all the fascinating and important work carried out conference with parallel strands, this featured an
University celebrates by our staff. equally wide-ranging set of topics, from female
stress and coping to sustainable development
Research and Engagement The week kicked off on the Friday with the Faculty
of Arts Postgraduate Symposium, where Arts
in mining in Argentina, and from a history of the
English Language in 100 places to religious
The week from 26 April to 3 May 2013 research students presented their research topics,
peacebuilding in Nepal. A Holocaust Discussion
was Research and Engagement Week at the such as the power of music in film and social
Forum took place, aiming to provide an open
University of Winchester. Building on the success memory in the context of biographical narrative.
forum to discuss future cross-faculty collaboration
of last year’s Research Week, this year the On Saturday, research students from across the
in Holocaust and Genocide studies. As several
range of events taking place in this week-long University assembled to present their research,
scholars across the institution are working on these
celebration of research was expanded to include varying from disabled children and their mothers in
areas, this session explored common areas of
a representation of the University’s community India to the art of (punk) rock.
interest.
engagement activity. On Monday, it was the turn of our academic
The Stripe Auditorium was the venue of the
The Research and Knowledge Exchange Centre staff, who presented their research at the annual
inaugural lecture by Millie Taylor, the University’s
hosted a varied programme of events to showcase Research Symposium. Set up like a mini-
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Professor of Musical Theatre. Professor Taylor’s the vulnerable. For more information, visit part in arts activities.
lecture, titled Humanity, Community and Excess: www.winchester.ac.uk/cir Playing for Time Director
“Feel the Flow” in Musical Theatre performance, Annie McKean was
Tuesday evening saw the first of four performances
was enlivened by live piano music and a choir. delighted that the play
during Research and Engagement Week of Our
The lecture focussed on the excessive voices, was revisited: “This play
Country’s Good, the 2013 play by the University’s
bodies and spectacles of live musical theatre, and resonates so effectively
award-winning prison theatre project Playing for
its capacity to move and excite, to transform and with the contemporary
Time, at HMP West Hill in Winchester. In this the
energise, creating an experience that is inherently context of staging plays
tenth year of productions in HMP West Hill, Playing
communal and profoundly human. in prisons that it is the perfect vehicle for staff and
for Time staged Timberlake Wertenbaker’s seminal
prisoners to reflect on the effect of undertaking this
On Tuesday, the Centre for Information Rights play, first staged in 2005. Based on a true story,
kind of work on everyone involved.”
presented the seminar Data Sharing and the Our Country’s Good is set in a convict colony in
Vulnerable. This seminar, aimed at workers as Australia in 1789. Arthur Philip, the first Governor Thursday was largely dedicated to history and
diverse as lawyers, social workers, health care of New South Wales, decided that staging a play archaeology. The Wessex Centre for History
professionals, teachers, policy makers and could aid the rehabilitation of the convicts. Some and Archaeology (www.winchester.ac.uk/
government representatives as well as academics, officers however believed that only hard labour and WCHA) hosted a seminar and the Archaeology
addressed the vexed issue of data sharing and punishment could bring about reform. Directed Department’s Centre for Applied Archaeology
protection. An experienced panel of speakers by Senior Lecturer in Drama Studies Dr Marianne and Heritage Management (www.winchester.
explored a range of issues surrounding privacy, Sharp, Our Country’s Good explored this story and ac.uk.CAAHM) held a day conference aimed at
data and data sharing, focussing on children and the arguments for and against prisoners taking showcasing the department’s global research
profile, with talks on projects in Britain and across
Europe as well as in Africa, the Caribbean and
the Caucasus.
Topics ranged from historic building conservation
in the tropics to a medieval settlement in
Oxfordshire. The Department’s main training
excavation, the high-profile ‘leper hospital’ on
Magdalen Hill outside Winchester, also featured,
and an exciting project was introduced to create
a ‘pop-up museum’ at the site of the Roman
temple on Hayling Island, as part of the Festival
of Archaeology 2013. For full details, see What’s
On.
For her inaugural lecture, Professor Millie Taylor played the piano and was accompanied by three singers
CAAHM
Centre for Applied Archaeology and Heritage Management
Vice-Chancellor appointed as Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire
The Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire and Chancellor Professor Joy Carter has been the Vice-Chancellor
of the University, Dame Mary Fagan DCVO JP, at the University of Winchester for the last seven
has appointed Professor Joy Carter as a Deputy years. During that time she has been actively
Lieutenant of Hampshire. Professor Carter involved in a number of local initiatives which
was appointed in recognition of her significant include leading the Hampshire Diamond Jubilee
contribution to local, county and national life. Gambia Project and acting as Patron of Winchester
As a Deputy Lieutenant, she will support Dame Action on Climate Change (WinACC).
Mary in her role as The Queen’s representative in
Professor Carter’s wealth of national roles includes
Hampshire.
her work as Chair of the University Vocational
Professor Carter will become one of 55 Deputy Awards Council (UVAC), Chair of the Cathedrals
Lieutenants across Hampshire. The role of a Group of Universities, Vice Chair of GuildHE and a
Deputy Lieutenant is to support and promote the Board Member and Director of Universities UK.
Lieutenancy in Hampshire and to represent the
“I feel very honoured to be invited to join the
Lord-Lieutenant in performing a range of public
Lieutenancy,” said Professor Carter. “I admire the
duties when required. Deputy Lieutenants do not
work done by the Lord-Lieutenant and will be
receive remuneration for undertaking duties on
delighted to carry out any duties assigned to me.” The Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire, Dame Mary Fagan
behalf of the Lord-Lieutenant and their service to DCVO JP and Professor Joy Carter Deputy Lieutenant
the county is entirely voluntary. of Hampshire.
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Foundation Lectures explore to land in a hundred contrasting places and alight
on a hundred wonderful topics that bring alive the Centre for Real-World
contemporary theological extraordinary story of the English language.
Learning focusses on
It was the fifth in the English Project’s Great
issues English Language Makers Lecture Series. Previous vocational education
subjects have included William Shakespeare,
Since the last issue of the KE Newsletter Samuel Johnson, the King James Bible and Vocational education and training has been the
there have been not one but two events in Charles Dickens. English Language Makers are focus for the Centre for Real-World Learning (CRL)
the University’s popular Foundation Lecture people who leave our language changed forever over recent months. Following the publication of
Series, both of which took place in early March. when they have done with it. In this lecture, the CRL report commissioned by City & Guilds
The series, which arises from the University’s a hundred places and the people who have ‘How to teach vocational education’ in December,
Christian Foundation, seeks to explore the inhabited them were chosen to tell the story the team have been out and about delivering
spiritual character of human life. of English, from Winchester to Waitangi, from workshops to principals, learning managers and
Bruges to Boston, from Beverly Hills to Beijing. lecturers across the spectrum of FE colleges. The
In the first of the two Foundation Lectures the
The associated book, A History of the English report itself has been very well received, and was
University welcomed visiting Canadian scholar
Language in 100 Places, by Bill Lucas and cited during discussion in the House of Lords.
Dr Dinesh Singh, whose lecture was titled Belief
Christopher Mulvey, with an introduction by David The workshops have been held in conjunction
in Science and Belief in God: One Scientist’s
Crystal, is now available. with clients including The 157 Group, SSAT and
Response to the ‘New Atheism’ Challenge
City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development.
from a Bahá’í Faith Perspective. Dr Singh is a Bill Lucas is Professor of Learning and Director Project Leader Professor Bill Lucas, Co-Director
research scientist in theoretical physics from the of the Centre for Real-World Learning and of the Centre for Real-World Learning, explains:
University of Regina and Adjunct Professor from Christopher Mulvey is Emeritus Professor of “The project is energised by the high levels of
the University of Saskatchewan and a member English and American Studies at the University dedication and creativity we encounter from our
of the Bahá’í faith since 1994. of Winchester; both are trustees of the English colleagues in the Further Education sector. We
The Revd Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James’s Project. have been privileged to facilitate a variety of events
Piccadilly, presented a lecture with the catchy www.englishproject.org that are building a coherent picture of vocational
title I used to be Snow White... but I drifted. education and training, and how that impacts on
The talk, of which the title was borrowed the real world and challenges of the 21st century.”
from Mae West, explored ‘women and men
www.winchester.ac.uk/realworldlearning
in contemporary society and church’. Lucy
Winkett was the first woman to be appointed
to the staff at St Paul’s Cathedral where from
2003 she was Canon Precentor with particular
responsibility for music and liturgy. She is the University theatre company
author of the best-selling Our sound is our
wound (Continuum 2010) and a regular on presents day-long festival at Winchester Journalism
Radio 4’s Thought for the Day. In November
2012, the Church of England was heavily Winchester Theatre Royal students produce new
criticised for not passing the legislation
necessary to consecrate women bishops, 20
In early March, the University’s Depthcharge documentary Cloudland
Theatre presented Staging Change! Performing
years after the vote was passed to allow women Arts and New Writing. This dynamic day-long The documentary Cloudland was produced by BA
to become priests. Revd Winkett asked: is the festival at the Theatre Royal in Winchester Journalism students and aims to present a portrait
Christian contribution to this debate essentially culminated in performances of two moving of the south coast and the countryside around
a retro voice, wishing that things were as plays, Welcome Home and Raspberry. The event Winchester. Featuring interviews with among others
they used to be, or is there a theologically also included four exciting new plays written David Bond from Hampshire Archives, Winchester
defendable future that can be imagined, which and performed by students, titled Flatpacked, archaeologist Dr Niall Finneran and poems by
claims that things do not have to remain as they Barefoot, Checkout and The Elephant in the Percy Bysshe Shelley, it is a reworking of two
are? Room. These plays, along with Raspberry, were earlier documentaries, Coastlines (2011) and
directed by Glenn Fosbraey, Lecturer in Creative Land (2012), with substantial new material drawn
Writing at Winchester (see also elsewhere in from across the web in the form of pre-cleared
The story of English in 100 this issue). The event also featured discussions creative commons material. Chris Horrie, Professor
with the BAFTA award-winning dramatist Tony of Journalism in the School of Media and Film,
places Marchant. is proud: “A remarkable graduation piece which
I think shows the University in a very good light.”
In July, Professors Bill Lucas and Christopher Depthcharge Theatre is a combined theatre The documentary can be viewed on www.youtube.
Mulvey from the English Project delivered a and writing group within the Faculty of Arts at com/watch?v=55qZnHeWktg&feature=youtu.be
fascinating lecture titled A History of the English Winchester, providing a forum and context to
Language in 100 Places. develop challenging and high-quality playwriting, Earlier award-winning and nominated
both from students and leading British documentaries by Journalism students include
The talk was a joyous ride through time and space Karet and Memory. For more information, visit
that criss-crossed the British Isles and the world playwrights.
www.ma-journalism.co.uk.
9
The Research Centre (Senior Research and Teaching Fellow and
Convenor of the Research Centre).
that the student fellows have described from those
roles, were beyond theirs too. The area of student
for Student Engaged Prof Gibbs spoke about the many interpretations
engagement is gaining more investment in 2013-
14 and I am very excited to see the impacts of the
of Student Engagement, from engagement within
Educational Development their own studies to a position as fully empowered,
scheme institutionally. In addition, the sharing of
practice nationally in this area of enhancement will
(SEED) junior members of a community. Yaz El Hakim
commented: “This is a great step for the University
allow the university to engage more pro-actively
with the sector around good practice.”
Last month the Research Centre for Student in growing a national profile within the area of
Engaged Educational Development (SEED) was Student Engagement. The changes that some For more information contact:
launched. Professor Graham Gibbs (Professor of our students have achieved whilst working as Yaz El Hakim: Yaz.El-Hakim@winchester.ac.uk or
of Higher Education) launched the centre which Student Fellows with programme teams this year, Tansy Jessop: Tansy.Jessop@winchester.ac.uk
was conceptualised with Yaz El Hakim (Director have been beyond our wildest dreams. What is
of Learning and Teaching) and Dr Tansy Jessop more satisfying is that some of the experiences
Fundraising
Events Management
student wave magic wand
for children’s hospital ward
In April, a group of 2nd-year Events Management
students raised over £1000 for The Magic Wand
Appeal to improve the facilities on the children’s
ward at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital. The
team organised a black tie gala at the Holiday Inn
Winchester. The event, which featured a 3-course
dinner, entertainment and a live auction, was
attended by over 60 people including the Mayor
and Mayoress of Winchester. Events Managment students with (left) the former Mayor of Winchester Cllr Frank Pearson and Natalia
Yakovleva from the Winchester Business School (second from left)
The Great University of The winner was Julie Hampton, who was crowned
The Great University of Winchester Bake-Off
Winchester Bake-Off for Master Chef and awarded a prize by Lainston
House. The hard task of judging the entries fell to
Comic Relief Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Liz Stuart and
from Lainston House Andy Mackenzie, Executive
In March keen University bakers sweated over hot Head Chef, and Pastry Chef Tyrone Hull.
ovens in our very own Bake-Off, In the process
they raised over £200 for Comic Relief. There
were three stages to the competition, with the
lucky contestants who baked the tastiest treats
moving through the stages accordingly. In the first
stage, the contestants had to make a batch of 12
cupcakes.
Any ‘leftovers’ were sold to help raise more money
for Comic Relief. Following this they had to make
a savoury tart and the third stage was to make a
celebration cake. This had to be baked at home,
and the contestants who reached this final stage
From Lainston House, Pastry Chef Tyrone Hull and
were given one hour to decorate their cake in the Executive Head Chef, Andy Mackenzie judging the Julie Hampton, winner of The Great University of
University dining hall in front of the judges. entries Winchester Bake-Off
10Enterprise and Employability New books
visit http://creativegraduate.com.
Wired Wessex Angus Paddison and Neil Messer
Inspiration and networking for small and (eds) 2013, The Bible: Culture,
medium-sized business Winchester students in PopShop Community and Society (London: T
& T Clark)
Wired Wessex has covered an interesting variety of Enterprise competition 2013
topics in its events over the past few months. April
saw timely tax advice for SMEs from Darrell Warren of In June, some of Winchester University’s most
Edward Boden 2013 Punching above
HMRC. In May, Jane Buswell’s talk on Twitter attracted enterprising students entered a unique sales
their weight. The British Veterinary
over 40 people keen to learn how to promote their competition at Spitalfields Market in London.
Association 1882-2010 (Winchester
businesses by tweeting. Also in May, a joint Wired ‘Unlocked’ is the University of Winchester’s entry in
University Press)
Wessex and Student Enterprise workshop explaining the PopShop Enterprise competition 2013.
the Business Model Canvas was held, presented by
The Winchester team, consisting of Rebecca
Alison McFadyen on behalf of Fusion, an EU project
Andrews, James Barrows, Sai-Han Hannah Cheung
aimed at supporting sustainable business start-ups. Stewart Cotterill & Jamie Barker
and Kate Vernon, sold a range of jewellery, purses
The Business Model Canvas is a way of visualising 2013 The psychology of cricket
and handbags made by companies that support
your business on one page using nine building blocks (Bennion Kearny Ltd
causes working to stop human trafficking.
which look at ‘what’ your business will do, how you
are going to do it and what the result will be. The The aim was to raise awareness of the thousands
method from the bestselling management book of women trafficked into the UK each year. As
Business Model Generation is applied in leading well as selling at the market, the team also ran a Helen Grime, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
organisations and start-ups worldwide. In June, the digital marketing campaign via www.facebook. 2013 Twentieth-Century Actress
event ‘What on earth is SEO?’, presented by local com/unlockedenterprises. At a reception hosted by (Pickering & Chatto)
expert Jon Athill, also attracted a large audience, sponsors Ernst & Young on 26 June, the Winchester
eager to find out how to improve their websites’ team came 10th out of 18. “A great result” said
ranking in search engine results. In July a speed the University’s Business Development Manager
networking event held in partnership with Southern Trish Kernan. “It was rather late in the process
Entrepreneurs and the Winchester BID was fully when we decided to participate and most of the Paul Jackson 2013 The Last Guru:
booked. Wired Wessex also took part in the visit from other Universities had been planning their stalls for Robert Cohan’s Life in Dance (Dance
the Start Up Britain Bus, a national initiative aimed at months, so we are very proud of our team!” Books)
encouraging start-ups, which was parked outside the
“I decided to take part to enhance my leadership
Guildhall for a day. Talks being planned for the autumn
skills and for experience in business because I haven’t
include one on Pinterest by Jane Buswell, LinkedIn
done anything like this before,” said Rebecca, a first- Chris Mounsey (ed.) 2013
Revisited, and Going Green.
year Primary Education student. “As the team leader, Developments in the Histories of
Sign up to Wired Wessex to be kept informed: I have become better at delegating work, organising Sexualities (Bucknell University Press)
www.wiredwessex.co.uk meetings and listening to people’s opinions.”
Chris Coates, the University’s Enterprise Events
Coordinator and Administrator, said: “This competition Natalya Chernyshova 2013 Soviet
allows students to use theory from their courses in Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev
a practical business situation and expand their core Era (BASEES/Routledge Series on
skills by doing so. It’s something they can put on their
The Creative Graduate CV that will really set them apart from their peers.”
Russian and East European Studies)
Natalie Norton, the University’s Senior Lecturer Uni Popshop challenges students to run their own
in Enterprise, has been working on a student business for a day at London’s world famous Bill Lucas and Christopher Mulvey
employability project titled The Creative Graduate. Spitalfields market. They are given a stall, a 2013 A History of the English
The aim of this innovative project is to enable mentor and a start-up loan, the rest is up to them. Language in 100 Places (Robert
individuals to explore what it means to ‘be creative’, The PopShop Enterprise competition 2013 was Hale)
understand their own creative habits through an organised in conjunction with a number of different
online tool and explore how to communicate these organisations, including Amnesty International,
to potential employers. A number of employers from H.O.P.E Sheffield and Global SeeSaw. Anthony King and Graham Soffe
across the region have been engaged in the project, 2013, A Sacred Island. Iron Age,
to enable an understanding of creativity in the http://unipopshop.com Roman and Saxon Temples and
workplace and the skills gaps they may encounter Ritual on Hayling Island (Hayling
with graduates. To find out more, Island Excavation Project)
HAND CRAFTED ITEMS FROM TRAFFICKED INDIVIDUALS
11Social enterprise award winners
Last year, the University was one of those selected referees become unavailable, and the creation of
to take part in an initiative supported by both the the ‘Splendid Fred Theatre Company’ a theatre
Higher Education Funding Council for England company with a focus on showcasing the writing
(HEFCE) and UnLtd, the foundation for social talents of Winchester students.
entrepreneurs.
Indeed, the success of the latter has already led to
With funding available of up to £500 for ‘Try It’ great recognition for the business’ founder, Glenn
awards and up to £5000 for ‘Do It’ awards and Fosbraey, with one recent theatre-goer saying:
open to staff, students and recent graduates, the “Tonight I witnessed just about the best theatre
aim of this initiative is to encourage the start- I have ever seen. Splendid Fred’s GOD Helmet
up of businesses that focus on the creation of at the Brighton Fringe, written by our very own
social value within the local community. The first students and directed and produced by the equally
application round culminated in two ‘Try It’ and four ‘splendid’ Glenn Fosbraey, was Fringe Theatre at
‘Do It’ awards, totalling in excess of £10,000. its very best – and as someone who grew up in
Edinburgh I have seen a lot. It was a treat to be
After a second highly competitive round of
there.”
applications, the University’s Enterprise Team was
again delighted to award funding for a further nine The success of the awards has seen the University
start-up business ideas. Successful applications successfully distribute a total of £20,000 funding
for this round of awards include a programme across 15 enterprises in total throughout the year.
that aims to fight bullying in schools through the With this success in mind we look forward to
medium of performing arts, the creation of a sports seeing even greater entrepreneurial success in the
referee resourcing pool that seeks to eliminate the very near future.
cancellation of competitive sports matches when
Winchester Performing Arts graduate’s career launched
thanks to theatre project
A Winchester graduate is off to a flying start support, design and publicity. Previous plays
in theatre with a paid internship thanks to a include The Tempest in 2010 and Comedy of
partnership between the Department of Performing Errors in 2012 – both of which received financial
Arts and professional theatre company Platform 4. backing from Arts Council England.
Craig Chalmers, who completed a Drama degree
“This project has developed over the past
at the University in 2012, has been working on a
four years, and benefits from a much longer
performance of Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet,
relationship between Platform 4 and the
staged in June by the New Tempest Club (NTC).
Department of Performing Arts,” said Dr Helen
Funding for Craig’s internship with Platform 4
Grime. “It is an invaluable experience for the
comes from the National Skills Council’s Creative
students and graduates who participate in the
Employment Programme and is one of the
work as they collaborate with, and learn from,
first awards of its kind to be made to an arts
professionals in the creative arts.” “I’ve been
organisation.
given a fantastic opportunity by Platform 4 and
It is part of a £70,000 grant the theatre company the Creative Employment Programme, and it’s
has received for its 2013 touring programme and a real pleasure to work alongside professionals”
its work with the University. The University and said Craig. “The next few months are going to
Platform 4 set up the NTC Bridge Project in 2010 be incredibly exciting.” Craig supported Platform
to give students and graduates experience of the 4’s show Memory Points, which appeared at the
creative industries by bridging the gap between Winchester Theatre Royal from 28 June to 6 July,
academic life and the world of work. The project and will move on to creating his own event in the
grew out of an idea suggested by Platform 4’s autumn. Craig is blogging about his internship at
Simon Plumridge and realised in collaboration with http://platform4.org/news/category/intern-diary.
Dr Helen Grime, Senior Lecturer in the Department
For more information on Platform 4 projects,
of Performing Arts. Participants are encouraged
including Hamlet, go to: www.platform4.org or New Tempest Club members Tom Preston, Charlie
to contribute to all aspects of the project’s Handy and Megan Blowey rehearsing a scene from
contact Dr Helen Grime
productions including performance, technical Hamlet.
Helen.Grime@winchester.ac.uk
12CARBON CORNER
won eight awards, including a Gold award, at the
University continues to chalk Soil Association’s Food for Life Awards. Winchester
is the first UK university to receive a Gold Food
up green awards for Life Catering Mark award. Furthermore, the
University was named Winchester Eco Business
The University of Winchester has risen 14 places
of the Year in the Winchester Business Excellence
and received a 1st class award in the People
Awards 2012.
& Planet Green League 2013. Winchester is
now ranked 39th out of 143 UK universities. “As one of the UK’s smallest universities we
Published by The Guardian, the People & Planet always drive the business to exceed our
Green League assesses the environmental and customers’ expectations and respond to changes
ethical performance of universities, scoring them in the market place,” commented Mat Jane, the
on their actions and attitudes towards green University’s Energy and Environment Manager. “Our
living. Winchester scored particularly highly in the best achievements have been in food sustainability
environmental categories for staff and student and provenance. We are keen to promote best
engagement, environmental policy and sustainable practice and raise awareness of sustainable
food. The University also scooped up the catering in the higher education sector.”
Winchester City Council Carbon Smart Business of Winchester Students’ Union, one of greenest in
L to R: Piotr Laba, Chef; Coleen Neville, Assistant
the Year award at this year’s Winchester Business Catering Manager; and Thomas Goold-Davies, Events
the country, has won the Resurgence & Ecologist and Marketing Coordinator
Excellence Awards in March. Communications Challenge award. Student unions
Winchester has previously won awards in had to submit a one-minute film that conveys an year’s film, which earned them over 1500 votes,
recognition of its sustainable catering activities, environmental message through spoken word; the focusses on the 3 R’s (reduce, reuse and recycle)
including the Compassion in World Farming winner was chosen by public vote. The SU retain and how simple it is to introduce them into your
(CIWF) Good Egg, Good Chicken and Good Dairy their award this year with an environmental rap daily life. All videos can be found on www.youtube.
awards, and has three Sustainable Restaurant video, following last year’s winning video charting com/playlist?list=PLIT2fJHwgoHtGZCvv8T63tuaN
Association stars. Earlier this year the University the adventures of Green Man and Enviro Boy. This vWydTX75
VISUAL ART
The Link Gallery has witnessed a number of to allow flow. Then a more controlled blending
great exhibitions this season, following on from or placing of various mixed media is added to
an incredible start to the year. Work by Mark create more layers of information. “Painting can
Michael, recently named one of seven of the very have great intensity as an object,” remarks Ron,
best young artists in the world, filled the walls of a Winchester School of Art graduate, “It can
The Link until 3rd June in The Society of Fickle register a character that can shout or whisper.
Fingers: an exhibition that aimed to comment on The art in this exhibition explores the application
the influence of mobile technology, internet and of various paints and materials combined with
instant messaging. Mark says: “It’s important for duration, weight and flow to bring to life paintings’
me not to censor my thoughts; I love the reactions uninhibited properties.”.
and happenings that I see everywhere from books,
2D3D, a group of Hampshire-based visual artists,
movies, television, the bludgeoning of advertising
will return to the University in August with a change
and excessive fear from the media.”
of venue, transforming The Stripe into a gallery
Abstract paintings by local expressionistic artist space. With many more great exhibitions to
Ron Peploe were on show at The Link, in an follow later in the year and a number of exciting
exhibition titled Direction and Circumstance. The exhibitions booked for 2014, the gallery’s success
work explores the combination, chance and is set to continue.
control of various materials and how they interact,
By Alix Rothnie, Art Intern
binding, repelling or refracting from each other and
the surface itself. Ron utilises household paints, Please visit our website www.winchester.ac.uk/
varnishes and stains, moving and tilting the canvas linkgallery for more information and follow us on
Ron Peploe’s Direction and Circumstance
Twitter @Link_Gallery for regular updates.
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