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NEWSUniversity of Worcester ResearchCollections invite you to attendThe Catalogue of Dreams:KAYS’ MAIL ORDER CATALOGUES & THEDEVELOPMENT OF C20TH ASPIRATIONAL LIVINGDATE: Tuesday 15 November 2011 TIME: 9.30am-4.30pmVENUE: Charles Hastings building, CityCampus, University of WorcesterAttendance is FREE. Lunch will be provided.Howard at the helmNew face at the McClelland CentreEstablished in 1890, Kay & CoLtd of Worcester became one ofthe largest mail-order companiesof the 20th Century, sellingeverything from clothes tocarpets, cheerful homewares tolive chickens.Offering interest-free cash credit,Kay & Co Ltd made both fashionableand functional living available toconsumers outside the metropolis.This day-long conference exploreshow the imagery and text of the Kayscatalogues, 1920-2000, offer a prismthrough which to view the developingtropes of aspirational living and bodyimage presented to consumers duringthe 20th Century.Now deposited in the Universityof Worcester Research Collections,over 1500 images from thecatalogues have been digitisedas part of a JISC-funded project:www.worldofkays.orgSPEAKERS INCLUDE:Clare Weston, Curator of Domestic& Cultural Life, Black Country LivingMuseum‘Stepping out of the Page: UsingKay’s Catalogues to re-createa 3-D historical setting’From the University of Worcester:Dr Maggie Andrews,Associate Head, Instituteof Humanities & CreativeArts ‘Shopping for Identity:Fantasies of Domesticity inpost-war Kay’s Catalogues’Kate Flynn, Graduate ResearchStudent, International Forum forResearch in Children’s Literature‘Playing Paper People: Cataloguesand the Imagination in JacquelineWilson’s Waiting for the Sky to Fall(1983) and Eileen Fairweather’sFrench Letters (1987)’Dr Barbara Mitra, Senior Lecturer inMedia & Cultural Studies, andDr Mehreen Mirza, Senior Lecturer inSociology‘Gendered images, genderedideology. An exploration of gender inthe images of Kays Cataloguefrom 1920-1990’Howard Skerryfull time manager has been appointed atA the University of Worcester’s McClellandCentre for Health and Wellbeing.Howard Skerry was previously Head of BusinessDevelopment at the University and has beenasked to take on the new role of manager of theCentre in order to provide a commercial focus.Situated in the newly restored formerWorcester Royal Infirmary building, theMcClelland Centre offers a host of personalhealth and wellbeing services to students,staff and members of the public.It also provides an environment where studentsstudying for professional qualifications canget the hands-on practice and experiencethat they need to develop their skills.There are a number of student-run clinicsprovided by Sports Therapy, Nutritional Therapyand Counselling students, as well as cardiacrehab classes running for patients who havesuffered heart attacks, and an Alzheimer’sSociety session offering support to families.Funded by JISC e-content programme 2011Jenni Waugh, World of Kays ProjectManager, Research Collections‘Linking catalogues and communities:putting the World of Kays online’Further details and booking forms areavailable from www.worldofkays.org/website/conferencePlease note that availability is limited.If you do book a place and are thenunable to attend, please let us know.Delegates who book a place and thendo not attend shall be charged £50.© all images belong toKays Heritage GroupHoward said: “I have two main challenges.The first is to enable the McClelland Centre torealise its full potential, by providing a uniquecombination of services to students, staff, externalorganisations, as well as the general public.“The second is a more personal challenge;to develop my own personal fitness.”The McClelland Centre offers Health MOTs tohelp people find out their areas of strength andwhich areas they need to work on, in order tomaintain and build their health and wellbeing.To find out more about services at theMcClelland Centre visit the websitewww.worcester.ac.uk, email wellbeing@worc.ac.uk or call 01905 54200110 / NOVEMBER 2011 / newsandviews@worc.ac.uk
NEWSSTEM support for schoolsto continue after Universitysecures new contractSchools across Herefordshire and Worcestershirewill benefit from another four years of Science,Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) support.OpenEventsThe final two Open Events of 2011are taking place in November.They take place on:The University of Worcester has held the STEMNET contractfor the past three years, providing free help and encouragementfor schools, including access to STEM Ambassadors.During that time it has helped six teams to reach the finals of thenational STEM Challenge competition, including Blessed EdwardOldcorne Catholic College in Worcester, which recently won Challenge 6.The University’s STEMNET contract has been renewedfor another four years, further cementing the University’scommitment to helping schools succeed in this area.The STEM subjects are at the centre of the University’s currentprogramme development with many innovative opportunities nowavailable for people looking to train as teachers in STEM-basedsubjects, to improve the depth of their subject knowledge as currentteachers or to promote the STEM subjects and careers in STEM withchildren and young people in schools as STEM Ambassadors.Vacancies are currently available for flexible Physics, Maths andDesign & Technology PGCEs, starting in January. In addition, anew subject knowledge enhancement pilot programme forserving teachers and returning teachers looking to teach Physics,Chemistry or Maths is currently actively recruiting. There are nofees payable for these subject knowledge enhancement courses.STEMNET works primarily with schools and colleges, helpingyoung people and their teachers access a range of STEMEnhancement & Enrichment (E&E) opportunities includingSTEM Clubs and links with STEM Ambassadors.“The emphasis of STEMNET’s work is on helping schools communicateto young people the importance of the STEM subjects for theirfuture lives, whether that is in a STEM related career, or just assavvy consumers of services and commodities,” said Linda Scott,STEM Support Manager at the University of Worcester.“As the STEMNET Support Centre for Herefordshire and Worcestershirewe provide teachers with free assistance in identifying whatSTEM activities can most benefit them and their students.”“We are always looking for more people to join the STEM Ambassadorprogramme,” Linda added. “The minimum requirement is one contact witha school in a year, which fits well into companies’ corporate responsibilityportfolios or can be linked to existing community commitmentssuch as offering work experience placements to local schools.”Wednesday 16 Nov, 1-5pmSunday 20 Nov, 10am-3pmFor further details call the Events Team on01905 542276Thank you for supporting Open Events.SummonFrom 1 November,Library users areable to search acrossapproximately 97%of library resourcesin one search, using…SummonUsing the latestharvesting andsearch technology,Summon provides a single search for 97% of the library’sresources, delivering a Google-style experience which ranksthe results in order of relevance and availability. Summon is anextremely powerful tool which will bring all of our resources directto your desktop, from books and journal articles, to podcasts,conference proceedings, newspaper articles and much more.Try it here:http://summon.worc.ac.uk/Or for further information:http://www.worcester.ac.uk/ils/summon.htmOr emailaskalibrarian@worc.ac.uknewsandviews@worc.ac.uk / NOVEMBER 2011 / 11
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