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NEWSEnvironment Students GainHands-On Experience withInternationalConsultancyFirmBullyingsucks!Thursday 18th November saw the returnof the “Bullying sucks!” campaign. Thecampaign was run by the StudentExperience team in Student services.The campaign was a fantastic success! Close to1000 badges and 600 lollipops were given outto both students and staff throughout the day,with badges being available at various pick uppoints around the University. There was a lot ofinterest in the campaign, as many students andstaff expressed their own experiences of bullying.Please continue to wear your badges allyear round to show your support. Bullyingcan happen to anyone at any time, andwe need to show bullies that they are nottolerated at the University of Worcester!SLR Consulting, one of the UK’sfastest growing environmentalconsultancies, moved theirregional office to Worcesterearlier this year, where the UKecology team is headed up byTechnical Director Mike Webb.Mike graduated from theUniversity of Worcester in 1991with a BSc (Hons) in BiologicalScience. “I always kept in touchwith my old ecology lecturer,Peter Alma, and following theCompany’s move to Worcester I sought opportunities to make stronger links with theUniversity science department,” he said.In the summer Mike invited several ecology students to assist SLR’s ecology team withongoing project work, which included bat surveys and dormouse surveys.Mike said: “The students, who gained valuable insight into the role of a professionalecologist, were paid the industry rate for their time and received relevant training.”Professor John Newbury, Head of the Institute of Science and the Environment, added:“The collaboration with SLR provides an excellent opportunity for students to gain real lifeexperience in monitoring the environment and putting into practice the skills that they areacquiring through our environmental courses. It will contribute to the high employabilityscores that University of Worcester students already obtain in national surveys.”Library Reviewto reviewWorcester Libraryand HistoryCentreILS staff members Dr Judith Keene and Roger Fairman have received confirmation thattheir article “Building an integrated work force through shared values: the WorcesterLibrary and History Centre” has been accepted by the peer reviewed journal ‘LibraryReview’, and will appear in Volume 60(3) in April 2011.University Community Development WorkersRobyn Andrews and Siobhan PerryThe article describes the need to integrate staff from the services who will be workingtogether in the WLHC. Staff workshops aimed at producing agreed core values wereused as a way of starting the process of integration and engaging all staff with the visionof the new library. The decision to focus on core values and to actively involve staff intheir development is explained with reference to other work on vision and values. Theformat of the workshops is described, and an overview given of the qualitative andquantitative feedback from staff at the workshops, which was used to assess the successof the approach and inform future work, which is briefly outlined. Roger and Judith areplanning to follow this article up with a longitudinal study to assess the impact andeffectiveness of the integration programme.6 / DECEMBER 2010 / newsandviews@worc.ac.uk
NEWSInfluencing palliativecare in SloveniaBrian Nyatanga delivers lecture series on the philosophy and practice of palliative care.Palliative care provision in Slovenia is in its embryonicstages, and is being developed based largely on the UKmodel. Slovenia is a small country with just over 2 millionpeople, and a member state of the European community.Brian Nyatanga, senior lecturer in the Institute of Health andSociety visited Maribor University in Slovenia in Sept 2010to deliver a series of lectures to students, fellow lecturersand clinicians on the philosophy and practice of palliativecare. Lectures were followed with discussions which helped toshare ideas and explain how services can be best developedto benefit dying patients. Further discussions took placeduring visits to hospitals, the health centre, hospice andnursing homes, where staff were keen to engage and learn.It was clear that, although the idea of palliative care isnow filtering through into Slovenia, there is no dedicatedtraining in palliative care. There are no accredited courseswhich leave the three hospice staff to go round clinicalareas holding seminars/workshops, but attendance atthese is poor, as it is not given the priority it deserves.This means dyingpatients may stillnot be receivingadequate pain andsymptom control andthe psychosocial carenecessary to helpthem adjust to theirterminal illness andimpending death.Brian Nyatanga delivering lectureAs a result ofthis visit, newopportunities for staff from Maribor to visit the UK palliativecare services were identified, and further visits by ourUniversity lecturers to Slovenia would be beneficial in shapingpalliative care developments. It is possible, with fundingpermitting, that some students from Slovenia could besupported to visit the University of Worcester and surroundingclinical areas to learn about aspects of palliative care.The University Community Development Workers(UCDWs) held a Pumpkin Carving Competitionand Ghost Walk on Thursday 28 th October.Pumpkins were given out to Students and theywere asked to bring them to the SU Social Space at6pm for judging. The winner Louisa Roberts statedthat she spent 2 ½ hours on her pumpkin design;an image of Freddy Krueger. It was fantastic tosee all of the different pumpkin designs broughtin by the students. All winners received points fortheir halls as part of the Community Spirit Games2010-2011 and a signed certificate of achievement.This event was followed by a Ghost Walk aroundthe Woodbury Building. Current Loco andSpotlight members teamed up with the UCDWsto put on a spook-tacular Halloween event,which went down a storm with many students.59 th Lovatt Lecturein Geography takes placeProfessor Russell King, who is Director of the Sussex Centre for MigrationResearch at the University of Sussex, delivered this year’s Lovatt Lecture inGeography on November 11th.This guest lecture is namedin honour of George Lovatt,the first Geographer to beappointed at Worcester.Professor King’s talk, entitledGeography and MigrationStudies: Retrospect andProspect, was the 59th inthe series. He presented Professor Russell King delivers 59th Lovatt Lecturean insightful overview ofthe evolution of migrationstudies and the role of Geographers in this. Drawing on his extensiveresearch experience in southern Europe, he discussed issues of mobility,transnationalism, diaspora and the meaning of home. Given the continuedimportance of migration and questions of belonging and identity, ProfessorKing suggested this is an exciting time for the study of this intrinsicallygeographical process.newsandviews@worc.ac.uk /DECEMBER 2010 / 7
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