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Spring 2012<br />
A <strong>life</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>design</strong><br />
Thomas Heatherwick talks to us<br />
about his new Routemaster – and<br />
the Olympic opening ceremony<br />
Forgotten Spaces<br />
winners announced<br />
Celebrating<br />
inspirational teachers<br />
Showcasing<br />
Yorkshire food<br />
Meet our latest<br />
honorary doctors
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Editorial Board<br />
Review<br />
Editor’s note<br />
Welcome to the first edition of Review –<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s brand new<br />
magazine. It replaces Newview with a new<br />
<strong>design</strong> and <strong>for</strong>mat to better reflect the high<br />
quality work going on across the <strong>University</strong>.<br />
Review is one of the first publications to embody the <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
new brand identity, which has been created following<br />
consultation with our staff and stakeholders, and clearly<br />
articulates the ambition we have as a modern, <strong>for</strong>ward<br />
thinking institution.<br />
Changes to fees and funding policy present us with a challenging<br />
environment, and a university’s reputation has a huge amount<br />
of influence over the decision a student makes about which<br />
university to go to, as well as its research and consultancy<br />
income and international standing. We want to be able to stand<br />
out from the crowd in a busy HE marketplace, and to do this<br />
we need a strong identity through which to communicate clear<br />
messages about our strengths, ambitions and successful work.<br />
There<strong>for</strong>e, the time is right to take a long term strategic decision<br />
to refresh our brand identity, and create a new vision <strong>for</strong> what we<br />
want to achieve as a <strong>University</strong>.<br />
We hope you enjoy the new magazine, which will come out<br />
three times a year, in winter, spring and autumn, in line with<br />
<strong>University</strong> terms. Please take a moment to send us your<br />
feedback; we are really keen to hear your thoughts on the new<br />
magazine. Send comments to review@shu.ac.uk.<br />
Corporate Communications<br />
Claire Casey, executive editor<br />
0114 225 4187<br />
c.casey@shu.ac.uk<br />
Ally Mogg, editor<br />
0114 225 2811<br />
a.mogg@shu.ac.uk<br />
Design<br />
Alex Storer<br />
a.storer@shu.ac.uk<br />
Contributors<br />
Corporate Communications<br />
Joe Field<br />
j.field@shu.ac.uk<br />
Tessa Humphrys<br />
t.humphrys@shu.ac.uk<br />
Laurie Harvey<br />
l.harvey@shu.ac.uk<br />
Students’ Union<br />
Sophie Sturch<br />
s.l.sturch@shu.ac.uk<br />
Human Resources<br />
Nadine Watson<br />
n.m.watson@shu.ac.uk<br />
Facilities Directorate<br />
Kat Wood<br />
kat.wood@shu.ac.uk<br />
Student and Learning Services<br />
Hazel Scott<br />
h.scott@shu.ac.uk<br />
Faculty of Health and Wellbeing<br />
and <strong>Sheffield</strong> Business School<br />
Helen Shepherd<br />
h.shepherd@shu.ac.uk<br />
Faculty of Development and Society<br />
Harriet Ellis<br />
h.ellis@shu.ac.uk<br />
Faculty of Arts, Computing,<br />
Engineering and Sciences<br />
Yvette Appleton<br />
y.appleton@shu.ac.uk<br />
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Forgotten Spaces <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
winners announced<br />
A <strong>life</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>design</strong><br />
Thomas Heatherwick<br />
News<br />
in brief<br />
Meet our latest<br />
honorary doctors<br />
Celebrating<br />
inspirational teaching<br />
Forgotten authors<br />
remembered<br />
Students’ app<br />
wins national competition<br />
Russian<br />
partnerships<br />
The Olympic planner<br />
inspired by <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> man<br />
making waves in 2012<br />
Inspirational speakers<br />
visit <strong>University</strong><br />
Enterprise Challenge<br />
winners with a bright future<br />
Showcasing Yorkshire<br />
through packaging <strong>design</strong><br />
Caffeine<br />
and carbs<br />
The most beautiful<br />
book in China<br />
What’s in<br />
your stuff?<br />
Revamped building<br />
takes care of business<br />
Older generation,<br />
modern innovation<br />
Leadership<br />
of tomorrow<br />
Eat <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
awards winners<br />
Brazil judo squad<br />
choose <strong>Sheffield</strong> base
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Illuminating idea wins<br />
Forgotten Spaces competition<br />
By Tess Humphrys<br />
A<br />
scheme that uses innovative<br />
smartphone technology to magically<br />
light up a dark footpath in <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
was the big winner in the Forgotten<br />
Spaces 2011: <strong>Sheffield</strong> architectural ideas<br />
competition, taking the first prize of £5,000.<br />
Guiding Lights, <strong>design</strong>ed by Chris Paterson,<br />
a <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> architecture graduate,<br />
brings to <strong>life</strong> Frog Walk, between Stalker<br />
Lees Road (off Ecclesall Road) and Sharrow<br />
Vale Road, with animated ‘avatars’ and an<br />
LED screen.<br />
The screen interacts with travellers at<br />
night, using motion sensors to track their<br />
movements and generate bright colourful<br />
silhouettes, which escort them. And a<br />
smartphone app can be used to choose<br />
and customise avatars, which signal when<br />
other people are approaching to reassure<br />
lone travellers. The idea <strong>for</strong> the avatars<br />
was inspired by Philip Pullman’s His Dark<br />
Materials trilogy.<br />
The idea impressed competition judges<br />
<strong>for</strong> its ‘brilliant’ solution to making people<br />
feel safer at night. They also praised Chris’<br />
colourful and clear <strong>design</strong>s.<br />
“I’m absolutely stunned to be honest,” said<br />
Chris, 30, who lives in Firth Park in <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
but is originally from Holland. “There was<br />
a lot of stiff competition so when they read<br />
my name out I was amazed.”<br />
His idea also captured the imagination of<br />
the public, winning a separate ‘people’s<br />
choice’ vote.<br />
Chris chose the site after several friends<br />
expressed their trepidation at using the<br />
pathway. He said: “I’m really pleased the<br />
general public has responded so positively<br />
to my <strong>design</strong>. I’ve had loads of fantastic<br />
feedback from people who have also felt<br />
unsafe using the alleyway at night and it<br />
would be amazing if some changes could<br />
occur in the area as a result of my <strong>design</strong>’s<br />
success in this competition.”<br />
A second prize of £3,000 was awarded to<br />
Oliver Peach, also a <strong>University</strong> architecture<br />
graduate, <strong>for</strong> his Wicker Spice <strong>design</strong><br />
to develop an essential oil distillery in<br />
abandoned buildings in the Wicker area.<br />
The idea celebrated the local community’s<br />
cultural mix and brings a new identity to<br />
the area.<br />
Third prize, and £1,000, went to Doma<br />
Architects <strong>for</strong> their Food <strong>for</strong> Thought idea,<br />
which re<strong>design</strong>ed a dilapidated barn into a<br />
self-sufficient community centre, complete<br />
with allotments and public café. The<br />
building, in Millhouses Park in <strong>Sheffield</strong>,<br />
was nominated as a ‘<strong>for</strong>gotten space’ <strong>for</strong><br />
the competition by the city’s South West<br />
Community Assembly.<br />
The winners, selected from a shortlist of 19,<br />
were announced at an event organised by<br />
the <strong>Sheffield</strong> Chamber of Commerce at the<br />
Crucible Theatre.<br />
Forgotten Spaces winners<br />
“There was a lot of stiff<br />
competition so when they<br />
read my name out,<br />
I was amazed.”<br />
Chris Paterson<br />
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School pupils’ imaginations<br />
fired by Forgotten Spaces<br />
It wasn’t just professional architects<br />
and <strong>design</strong>ers that had the chance to<br />
reimagine the city’s <strong>for</strong>gotten spaces,<br />
school children also got involved.<br />
Local secondary school children<br />
entered a separate competition to<br />
propose and <strong>design</strong> ideas to revitalise<br />
overlooked spaces in their own local<br />
communities. And the winning<br />
entries were every bit as imaginative<br />
and well presented as the main<br />
competition.<br />
A group from Hillsborough College<br />
scooped the top prize of £1,000 in<br />
resources <strong>for</strong> the school, <strong>for</strong> their<br />
<strong>design</strong> <strong>for</strong> a walled community<br />
allotment in Firth Park. The judges<br />
praised the <strong>design</strong>’s “beautiful”<br />
presentation and simple, well<br />
thought-out idea.<br />
One of the judges was Chris Paterson,<br />
winner of Forgotten Spaces 2011:<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong>, who said: “I’d love to see<br />
something like this built.”<br />
Hillsborough College student Joe<br />
Bartley, who came up with the<br />
concept <strong>for</strong> the <strong>design</strong>, said: “It’s great<br />
to win because the whole team put<br />
in such a lot of ef<strong>for</strong>t. We all worked<br />
on the different parts of the <strong>design</strong>.<br />
I’m hoping to do interior <strong>design</strong> in the<br />
future and this project will look really<br />
good in my portfolio.”<br />
Second prize of £750 in resources<br />
went to a group from Thomas<br />
Rotherham College <strong>for</strong> their<br />
“ambitious” idea <strong>for</strong> a disused pub<br />
building next to their<br />
College grounds.<br />
Feature Forgotten Spaces winners<br />
Sam Letch<strong>for</strong>d, a year 13 student<br />
at the College, said: “We didn’t have<br />
much time to work on our project,<br />
which we did in our free time, so it’s<br />
great to have won a prize. I’m going to<br />
study architecture at university and<br />
this has been really good experience.”<br />
And, showing that Forgotten Spaces<br />
has captured imaginations all over<br />
Yorkshire, third prize went to two<br />
students from the Grimsby Institute.<br />
The pair won £500 in resources <strong>for</strong> an<br />
idea <strong>for</strong> a community theatre in the<br />
grounds of their college, which judges<br />
called “architectural and considered”.<br />
All schools who registered <strong>for</strong> the<br />
competition were given the chance<br />
to take part in a workshop led by<br />
<strong>University</strong> architecture academics<br />
and students. The workshop enabled<br />
them to discuss their ideas <strong>for</strong> the<br />
competition and receive quality<br />
advice on how to express and develop<br />
their <strong>design</strong> proposals.<br />
Head judge Norman Wienand, head<br />
of the department of architecture<br />
and planning, said: “This competition<br />
has really captured the imagination<br />
of the children involved and I am<br />
sure we are looking at the work of the<br />
architects and planners of the future.<br />
“It’s great to be able to work with<br />
young people on ideas <strong>for</strong> their own<br />
communities and show them the<br />
processes involved in regenerating<br />
our cities. We hope to be able to run a<br />
similar competition again in<br />
the future.”<br />
“It’s great to win because the whole<br />
team put in such a lot of ef<strong>for</strong>t. We<br />
all worked on the different parts of<br />
the <strong>design</strong>. I’m hoping to do interior<br />
<strong>design</strong> in the future and this project<br />
will look really good in my portfolio.”<br />
Joe Bartley
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Thomas Heatherwick<br />
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“I<br />
do think everyone has<br />
their own mix of skills and<br />
aptitudes and <strong>for</strong>ms of<br />
creativity and intelligence, mixed in<br />
different combinations,” says Thomas<br />
Heatherwick, in a typically modest<br />
response from a <strong>design</strong>er who is<br />
regularly called a creative “genius” by<br />
those in the know.<br />
“I suppose it’s just trying to find<br />
a place to be which meets your<br />
particular mix. I feel talk of creativity<br />
is often overrated, it’s what you’re<br />
going to do with it that’s the thing,”<br />
he says.<br />
The sell-out event was the<br />
culmination of a successful<br />
partnership between the RIBA<br />
and the <strong>University</strong>, which saw<br />
the successful Forgotten Spaces<br />
2011: <strong>Sheffield</strong> architectural ideas<br />
competition take place in the city.<br />
Thomas, who received an honorary<br />
doctorate from <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> in<br />
2003 <strong>for</strong> services to architecture,<br />
describes himself as a ‘maker’ above<br />
anything else. He has become known<br />
<strong>for</strong> his large-scale public projects,<br />
such as the Rolling Bride in London<br />
and the magical waterfall-like<br />
Bleigiessen sculpture, made from 15<br />
tonnes of glass.<br />
Last year Thomas <strong>design</strong>ed and<br />
directed the ‘seed head’ British<br />
pavilion at the Shanghai World<br />
Expo. The Seed Cathedral was<br />
constructed from 60,000 20 metre<br />
long transparent optical strands, each<br />
of which had a seed embedded within<br />
its tip. It received 50,000 visitors a day<br />
throughout the five month-long event<br />
catapulting Thomas, and his work,<br />
to international acclaim within the<br />
<strong>design</strong> and architecture world.<br />
Feature Thomas Heatherwick<br />
A <strong>life</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>design</strong><br />
In November, world-renowned <strong>design</strong>er Thomas<br />
Heatherwick gave an insight into his illustrious career<br />
at a sell-out event, co-hosted by the Royal Institute of<br />
British Architects (RIBA) and the <strong>University</strong>. We went<br />
to meet him in his London studio.<br />
But it’s not praise and success that<br />
drive him, rather his innate curiosity<br />
about how things work, and how to<br />
make them better.<br />
“I’ve always been someone who’s<br />
interested in the ideas behind things,<br />
how things work and why they<br />
work the way they work,” he says<br />
surrounded by the projects and partprojects<br />
that litter his light, modern<br />
London studio.<br />
“But I’m only interested if something<br />
can become reality.”<br />
His studio, which he established in<br />
1994, is multi-disciplinary and exists<br />
to ‘make extraordinary projects<br />
happen’. It reflects Thomas’ own<br />
approach of practically-applied<br />
creativity, and he identifies with<br />
the set up of the <strong>University</strong>’s own<br />
multi-disciplinary faculty of Arts,<br />
Computing, Engineering and<br />
Sciences.<br />
Indeed Thomas concedes he works<br />
with people with a whole range<br />
of skills to achieve his ambitious<br />
projects.<br />
“It’s <strong>for</strong> a very good reason that I’m<br />
surrounded by lots of people, because<br />
it’s like we create a group brain,”<br />
he says.<br />
“It’s through dialogue that we<br />
are squeezing things into being.<br />
Something always grows from people<br />
being involved rather than it just<br />
being me.”<br />
This need to work with others to<br />
achieve the best possible results is<br />
what, in Thomas’ opinion, university<br />
students can find most difficult,<br />
and he feels that education can<br />
sometimes limit people’s ability, and<br />
desire, to work collaboratively.<br />
“The hard thing <strong>for</strong> students is that<br />
they’re all by themselves,” he says. “I<br />
found that it was possible to do things<br />
by yourself, but it came alive when I<br />
was working with other people.”<br />
And he admits: “The scale of the<br />
projects that I’m interested in you<br />
can’t make happen by yourself<br />
anyway.”<br />
The coming year will see Thomas<br />
achieve more mainstream fame, with<br />
two high-profile projects about to<br />
be realised.<br />
In November, the first of his<br />
re<strong>design</strong>ed London buses rolled off<br />
the production line and the fleet is<br />
due <strong>for</strong> wide-spread launch in 2012.<br />
It’s the first time in 50 years<br />
that Transport <strong>for</strong> London have<br />
commissioned <strong>design</strong>ers to look<br />
at how the famous Routemaster<br />
double deckers can be improved, and<br />
Thomas and his team have relished<br />
the challenge.<br />
“Some of the worst environments<br />
we are in are bus moments,” he says.<br />
“There are not many places where<br />
you’re willing to sit with a fluorescent<br />
tube above your head. Keep<br />
fluorescent lights in a piggery!<br />
“We felt there’s a sort of dignity that<br />
has evaporated from buses, which<br />
isn’t quite the same with other <strong>for</strong>ms<br />
of transport.”<br />
“I’m only interested<br />
if something<br />
can become reality.”<br />
Thomas Heatherwick
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The new fleet will have plush interiors, low level LED<br />
lighting and will use 40 per cent less energy than the<br />
current diesel models. They’ll also mark a return to the<br />
famous jump off, jump on system much loved by city<br />
residents.<br />
Thomas concedes that it will be a strange moment the<br />
first time he travels on one of his own buses.<br />
“That will be an exciting moment,” he says. “The only<br />
thing is I’m a cyclist most of the time so I’ve got to make<br />
sure if I get hit by a bus it’s not one of ours!”<br />
His second high-profile project is the “top-secret” Olympic<br />
Cauldron, which will hold the flame during the Games. It<br />
will be unveiled during the £80 million opening ceremony,<br />
which will be directed by film-maker Danny Boyle, who<br />
personally asked Thomas and his studio to be involved.<br />
Thomas Heatherwick<br />
“I suppose it’s<br />
just trying to<br />
find a place to<br />
be which meets<br />
your particular<br />
mix. I feel talk of<br />
creativity is often<br />
overrated, it’s what<br />
you’re going to do<br />
with it that’s<br />
the thing.”<br />
Thomas<br />
Heatherwick<br />
Thomas Heatherwick’s Bleigiessen<br />
sculpture at the Wellcome Trust in<br />
London.<br />
Thomas says: “We were very thrilled to be invited by<br />
Danny Boyle to work with him.<br />
“The Olympic Cauldron is the most top secret project we’ve<br />
ever worked on. Even if you scoured the studio you’ll find<br />
that every drawing has been shredded and the models<br />
we’ve been making are all locked away.”<br />
So, <strong>for</strong> the time-being this most high-profile of projects<br />
is under strict lock and key. But come the Olympic<br />
opening ceremony in July both it and Thomas’ impressive<br />
reputation will be a secret no more.<br />
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A warm welcome to<br />
our new governors<br />
Two new governors have taken up<br />
their posts at the <strong>University</strong>.<br />
Adeeba Malik is deputy chief<br />
executive of QED-UK, a leading<br />
national development agency in<br />
ethnic minority economic and social<br />
integration through education,<br />
employment and training. Adeeba<br />
has been involved with a range of<br />
government departments holding<br />
ministerial and non-ministerial roles.<br />
Jake Kitchiner is president of<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> <strong>University</strong> Union<br />
of Students <strong>for</strong> the year 2011/12.<br />
Be<strong>for</strong>e Jake began this role he studied<br />
business economics at the <strong>University</strong>,<br />
and was a part of the previous<br />
Union officers’ team as welfare and<br />
community officer.<br />
Marcus Wareing’s<br />
advice to current and<br />
<strong>for</strong>mer students<br />
Staff, students and alumni of<br />
the <strong>University</strong> were given the<br />
opportunity to hear from one of<br />
the most well-respected chefs in<br />
the hospitality industry, Marcus<br />
Wareing, as he spoke at the<br />
<strong>University</strong>’s annual hospitality<br />
alumni network meeting in London.<br />
The Michelin star chef gave a<br />
fascinating insight into <strong>life</strong> in<br />
the kitchen, as he discussed his<br />
progression within the sector and the<br />
development of his restaurants.<br />
Marcus had some useful advice<br />
about employability <strong>for</strong> alumni. He<br />
said: “Be very vocal about what you<br />
want to get from your career. It’s<br />
about you as individuals. Use your<br />
experiences and store what you’ve<br />
learnt so you become a better, more<br />
rounded person.”<br />
News News in brief<br />
News in brief<br />
International<br />
journalism success<br />
An associate lecturer has scooped an<br />
international award <strong>for</strong> her work in<br />
raising awareness of the issues facing<br />
people in developing countries.<br />
Angela Robson, an international<br />
writer, reporter and journalist,<br />
who lectures in journalism and<br />
is studying <strong>for</strong> her masters here,<br />
was awarded the 2011 Guardian<br />
International Development<br />
Journalism Prize <strong>for</strong> her feature<br />
‘Haiti: A Search <strong>for</strong> Sanctuary’ about<br />
rape and the impact it has on women<br />
and children.<br />
The journalism awards, which<br />
recognise the work of professional<br />
and amateur writers in the field of the<br />
developing world, were set up in 2008<br />
and were this year judged by a host<br />
of well-known journalists including<br />
Jon Snow and Natasha Kaplinsky.<br />
They are awarded to journalists <strong>for</strong><br />
outstanding reporting on human<br />
rights, democracy and<br />
development issues.<br />
Fairy Jobmother casts<br />
a spell<br />
The star of Channel 4’s acclaimed<br />
show The Fairy Jobmother came<br />
to <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> recently to give<br />
business students a knowledge boost<br />
in how to get a work placement.<br />
Hayley Taylor, who has built a<br />
reputation <strong>for</strong> her tough-talking<br />
approach, delivered a seminar to<br />
students from <strong>Sheffield</strong> Business<br />
School.<br />
Former student<br />
nominated <strong>for</strong><br />
Turner Prize<br />
George Shaw, who studied fine art<br />
at the <strong>University</strong> between 1986<br />
and 1989, was among four artists<br />
shortlisted <strong>for</strong> the 2011 Turner Prize,<br />
one of the art world’s most highprofile<br />
awards which is awarded each<br />
year to a British artist under fifty.<br />
Although he was pipped to the<br />
final prize by Martin Boyce, judges<br />
praised Shaw’s work and many critics<br />
were disappointed Shaw didn’t win.<br />
Writing in the Guardian, art critic<br />
Jonathan Jones said: “This year I<br />
fell in love with the art of George<br />
Shaw… I have nothing against Martin<br />
Boyce, I simply think Shaw is more<br />
important.”<br />
Eco-experts<br />
Building experts at <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong><br />
have played a key role in the<br />
development of 22 energy efficient<br />
houses in Barnsley.<br />
The development, a collaboration<br />
between South Yorkshire Housing<br />
Association and Barnsley Council<br />
is part of the Green Corridor<br />
programme.<br />
Researchers from the <strong>University</strong>,<br />
led by Dr Fin O’ Flaherty, will be<br />
determining thermal properties of<br />
the buildings along with evaluating<br />
residents’ awareness of the<br />
sustainability features on their new<br />
homes.<br />
They will also determine if the<br />
services and equipment have been<br />
correctly installed, and will attempt<br />
to capture the perceptions and<br />
experiences of the new homes.<br />
Student wins<br />
Innovation and<br />
Research award<br />
Student Nathan Millington has won<br />
the 2011 Undergraduate Dissertation<br />
Award <strong>for</strong> his thesis on improving<br />
inpatient facilities in the NHS, in a<br />
competition run by the Chartered<br />
Institute of Building (CIOB).<br />
His dissertation, ‘An estates approach<br />
to improving the privacy and dignity<br />
standard of inpatient facilities within<br />
a typical NHS Foundation Trust’,<br />
was praised by judges who said: “We<br />
would like to see this research taken<br />
<strong>for</strong>ward to the next stage and would<br />
welcome this piece of work as a CIOB<br />
scholarship.”<br />
Architectural success<br />
Two recent graduates have had<br />
their work commended by the<br />
Chartered Institute of Architectural<br />
Technologists (CIAT).<br />
Emma Walshaw and Conor Lawless,<br />
who both studied architectural<br />
technology and graduated in 2011,<br />
won awards in the CIAT’s student<br />
awards <strong>for</strong> Technical Excellence in<br />
Architectural Technology.<br />
The awards recognise the<br />
achievement of technical excellence<br />
in a study project.<br />
Student publishes<br />
first novel<br />
Second year education and disability<br />
student Eve Knightly has had her<br />
first novel ‘Talent School. 1032’<br />
published.<br />
A science fiction story about<br />
segregation set 100 years in the<br />
future, the novel follows the story of<br />
teenage Tanya, who lives in a society<br />
where talent rules.<br />
Eve wrote ‘Talent School. 1032’ be<strong>for</strong>e<br />
she came to <strong>University</strong> and says: “I<br />
definitely want to keep writing… it<br />
would be amazing if I could write <strong>for</strong><br />
a living.”<br />
Supporting the Star<br />
Awards <strong>for</strong> Care<br />
Leavers<br />
In autumn we sponsored 2 awards at<br />
the <strong>Sheffield</strong> Star Awards <strong>for</strong> looked<br />
after children.<br />
In its 3rd year, the Star Awards<br />
Ceremony is a prestigious ‘Oscar<br />
style’ ceremony created and<br />
developed by a group of <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
Care Leavers to recognise and<br />
celebrate the achievement of<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong>’s looked after children,<br />
young people and care leavers.<br />
The <strong>University</strong> is committed to<br />
reducing barriers <strong>for</strong> looked after<br />
young people who wish to continue<br />
in higher education and to raising<br />
the aspirations of young looked after<br />
people in the region.<br />
Furniture family put<br />
name to<br />
flagship building<br />
The <strong>University</strong>’s award-winning<br />
building on Furnival Street was<br />
named the Cantor Building at an<br />
official ceremony be<strong>for</strong>e Christmas,<br />
which was held to mark a generous<br />
donation from the H & L Cantor Trust.<br />
Vice-Chancellor Professor Philip<br />
Jones spoke at the ceremony, and<br />
gave thanks to the Cantor family <strong>for</strong><br />
their donation. He said: “I am really<br />
pleased to be here to celebrate the<br />
connection between <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong><br />
and the Cantor Trust through the<br />
naming of this building, and would<br />
like to thank the Trust <strong>for</strong> their<br />
donation.”<br />
<strong>University</strong> unveils<br />
new Department<br />
of International<br />
Development<br />
As part of the <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
international development strategy,<br />
a new Department of International<br />
Development was created in 2011<br />
to bring together the <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
International Office, International<br />
Marketing team and elements of its<br />
Partnership Support Office.<br />
New director James Richardson<br />
said: “This is an exciting time <strong>for</strong> me<br />
to join <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
and the creation of the Department<br />
of International Development will<br />
enable the <strong>University</strong> to respond<br />
strongly to the changing landscape of<br />
international education”.<br />
Celebrating<br />
international scholars<br />
The <strong>University</strong> celebrated<br />
the achievements of its 2011<br />
International Scholars at a special<br />
event in December.<br />
The annual International Scholarship<br />
Ceremony saw international and<br />
EU students receive awards and<br />
scholarships <strong>for</strong> a number of external<br />
and <strong>University</strong> awards. The scholars<br />
come from 25 different countries,<br />
study in all four of our faculties, and<br />
will act as ambassadors <strong>for</strong><br />
the <strong>University</strong>.
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Feature 2011 honorary doctorates<br />
War Horse, opera, the World Cup<br />
and a certain meerkat all lead to<br />
success <strong>for</strong> our honorary doctors<br />
Eleven inspirational figures from across the country<br />
were awarded honorary doctorates by the <strong>University</strong><br />
this year <strong>for</strong> services to education, sport, business,<br />
and much more.<br />
By Ally Mogg<br />
Mo Laycock<br />
Local education<br />
champion Mo Laycock<br />
OBE was honoured <strong>for</strong><br />
her inspirational work in<br />
trans<strong>for</strong>ming challenging<br />
schools in the city.<br />
“Today I’ve seen some fantastic<br />
young people going into teaching<br />
and some fantastic teaching and<br />
learning going on here. My advice<br />
to the graduates here today is ‘go<br />
<strong>for</strong> it’. To work with young people,<br />
to be positive about their future,<br />
to help them aspire, whatever the<br />
school, whatever the situation, to be<br />
a positive role model to them - it’s the<br />
best job in the world.”<br />
Lesley Garrett<br />
Lesley Garrett CBE, the UK’s<br />
most popular opera star,<br />
took to the stage to collect an<br />
honorary degree <strong>for</strong> services<br />
to opera and the community.<br />
“Believe in your passion, and embrace<br />
opportunities that you are given…It’s a<br />
great honour to receive this honorary<br />
doctorate from this extraordinary<br />
institution. The city of <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
means so much to me, and my family<br />
has been connected with it <strong>for</strong> so<br />
many years. To be here with these<br />
wonderful people makes it even<br />
more special.”<br />
Howard Webb<br />
It was a long way from Soccer<br />
City to <strong>Sheffield</strong> City Hall <strong>for</strong><br />
World Cup referee Howard<br />
Webb as he collected an<br />
honorary doctorate <strong>for</strong> his<br />
services to sport.<br />
“<strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> played a significant<br />
part in my preparation <strong>for</strong> [the World<br />
Cup in] 2010… Sport and education<br />
stand hand in hand in developing<br />
the good citizens and champions of<br />
tomorrow. Success is not just about<br />
the track, or the pool, but about<br />
business, industry and commerce<br />
as well.”<br />
Michael<br />
Morpurgo<br />
War Horse author Michael<br />
Morpurgo expressed his<br />
delight at being back in<br />
a city with which he has<br />
many connections as he<br />
received an honorary degree<br />
<strong>for</strong> his services to children’s<br />
literature.<br />
“We only get to where we get with<br />
the help of special people. Parents,<br />
grandparents, lecturers, teachers and<br />
friends all make a difference and do<br />
turn lives around.”<br />
Kal Atwal<br />
Kal Atwal is the driving <strong>for</strong>ce<br />
behind comparethemarket.<br />
com and received an<br />
honorary degree <strong>for</strong> her<br />
outstanding contribution<br />
to business 17 years<br />
after completing her<br />
undergraduate studies at<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong>.<br />
“It means a lot to receive this honour<br />
having graduated from the <strong>University</strong><br />
17 years ago. Having spent time with<br />
students here I am pleased <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
<strong>Hallam</strong> is continuing to attract such<br />
high calibre students... It is difficult<br />
out there at the moment finding work<br />
after graduating but stick with it. I<br />
can’t remember how many rejections<br />
I had when I started my career, but<br />
you need to persevere and keep<br />
your confidence.”<br />
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Mick Elliott<br />
Michael Elliott is Chief<br />
Executive of the Royal<br />
Scottish National Orchestra<br />
and <strong>for</strong>mer Director of<br />
Culture at the Department<br />
<strong>for</strong> Culture, Media and Sport.<br />
He was awarded an honorary<br />
degree <strong>for</strong> his contribution to<br />
the arts, culture and public<br />
service.<br />
“I’d like to thank the <strong>University</strong><br />
from the bottom of my heart. The<br />
institution has changed a lot since I<br />
was here, but it’s still an enterprising<br />
centre of excellence, a provider of<br />
first class facilities to its students and<br />
graduates, and it’s a business-facing,<br />
<strong>for</strong>ward-looking institution.”<br />
Feature 2011 honorary doctorates<br />
Celia Hoyles<br />
Professor Celia Hoyles OBE<br />
is a leading mathematics<br />
educator and <strong>for</strong>mer<br />
Government adviser. She<br />
was honoured <strong>for</strong> her role<br />
as a champion of maths<br />
education in the UK.<br />
“There are huge opportunities<br />
in engineering, science and<br />
mathematics - opportunities that<br />
certainly weren’t available when<br />
I graduated. With that sort of<br />
background, from this university,<br />
graduates should really go places.<br />
Certainly, the country needs them<br />
- we need more science, technology,<br />
engineering and maths graduates<br />
and they should have a very good<br />
place in the future.”<br />
Ian Sarson<br />
Ian Sarson, group managing<br />
director of Compass Group<br />
UK and Ireland was awarded<br />
an honorary doctorate <strong>for</strong><br />
his services to business, and<br />
took time to offer advice<br />
to graduates during the<br />
ceremony.<br />
“I’m so honoured to receive this<br />
doctorate. The calibre of graduates<br />
we have worked with has been<br />
exemplary and I hope to be a part of<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>for</strong> many years<br />
to come.”<br />
Julietta<br />
Patnick<br />
Professor Julietta Patnick’s<br />
career has been dedicated to<br />
developing and leading the<br />
nation’s approach to the early<br />
detection of cancer through<br />
screening. Her advice to<br />
graduates was not to plan<br />
their careers too carefully.<br />
“It’s just over 30 years since I walked<br />
across this very stage to have my<br />
degree conferred. I’d never have<br />
imagined then that I’d be standing<br />
here like this. And if <strong>life</strong> had gone<br />
according to the plan I had 30 years<br />
ago... I know I wouldn’t be standing<br />
here now. I am very honoured and<br />
humbled to have this recognition<br />
from this institution.”<br />
Frank Eul<br />
Frank Eul was chair of<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong>’s board of<br />
governors until 2010, and<br />
said he was “absolutely<br />
thrilled” to be honoured <strong>for</strong><br />
his services to the city.<br />
“You have graduated from a<br />
<strong>University</strong> with an enormous<br />
reputation and your knowledge is<br />
valuable… When I arrived the city<br />
was prosperous but dirty. Then it<br />
went through a tremendous trough<br />
- recession and depression. It took<br />
a long time to come out of that but<br />
it now has areas like Millennium<br />
Square and the Peace Gardens which<br />
are civic <strong>design</strong>s that would grace<br />
any European city.”<br />
Alex Pettifer<br />
The man behind some of<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong>’s most famous<br />
regeneration projects was<br />
honoured <strong>for</strong> his outstanding<br />
contribution to higher<br />
education and to the city of<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong>.<br />
“In all my years of sitting on the<br />
plat<strong>for</strong>m I never thought that I’d be<br />
someone who walked across the stage<br />
to collect a degree. Thanks to the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>for</strong> nominating me. It’s great<br />
to be honoured by the people that you<br />
have worked with.”
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Learning and teaching<br />
Inspiring the<br />
next generation<br />
The <strong>University</strong>’s first ever Inspirational Teaching<br />
Awards took place in December with a special<br />
celebration event to mark their success.<br />
Thousands of students<br />
responded to a call last<br />
summer to nominate the staff<br />
they felt had the most positive impact<br />
on their learning and experience at<br />
the <strong>University</strong>.<br />
More than 2,600 nominations <strong>for</strong><br />
1,000 members of staff were received.<br />
A shortlist of 32 was chosen to receive<br />
the inaugural awards, made up of<br />
22 tutors, seven research project<br />
supervisors and one non-teaching<br />
staff member.<br />
Opening the awards, Vice-Chancellor<br />
Professor Philip Jones said: “I am very<br />
proud to be involved in celebrating<br />
with the winners this evening. All<br />
of them have been identified <strong>for</strong><br />
their personal qualities and their<br />
passion and commitment in their<br />
work, whether that is in a teaching,<br />
supervising or advising capacity.<br />
“We do well to remember the<br />
expertise, enthusiasm and devotion<br />
shown by our staff towards the<br />
students who are at the heart of the<br />
<strong>University</strong>.<br />
“The people gathered here this<br />
evening epitomise what our<br />
university is all about. Each of them<br />
has inspired, motivated and engaged<br />
students and they should be as proud<br />
of themselves as we are of them.”<br />
Here is the full list of those who<br />
received awards:<br />
Awards <strong>for</strong> Inspirational<br />
Teaching<br />
Tony Cowell • Philo Holland • John<br />
Walton • Mark Edwards • Allen<br />
Goodwin • Edwyn Anderton • Luke<br />
Beardon • Anne Michael • Julia Myers<br />
• Conor O’Callaghan • Michaela Brown<br />
• Claire Craig • David Eddy<br />
• Sue Franklin • Val Keating • Hilary<br />
Pengelly • Claire Young • Mel Bull<br />
• John McAuley • Daryl May • Chiara<br />
Orefice • Phil Wibberley<br />
• Tony Bennett<br />
The Outstanding Award <strong>for</strong><br />
Student Support<br />
Claire Rayner • Matt Howe<br />
Inspirational Research/<br />
Project Supervisor Awards<br />
Rachel Abbott • Lisa Hopkins<br />
• Ros Garrick • Martin Beer<br />
• Elizabeth Uruchurtu<br />
• Gareth Morgan • Anthony Rosie<br />
“We do well to remember<br />
the expertise, enthusiasm<br />
and devotion shown by<br />
our staff towards the<br />
students who are at the<br />
heart of the <strong>University</strong>.”<br />
Professor Philip Jones,<br />
Vice-Chancellor<br />
Inspirational Teaching Awards<br />
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New collection reveals<br />
nation’s literary tastes<br />
100 years ago<br />
A<br />
collection of books which<br />
graced bookshelves in the<br />
first half of 20th century<br />
Britain now has pride of place at the<br />
<strong>University</strong>, decades after they fell off<br />
the cultural radar.<br />
The Readership and Literacy<br />
Cultures 1900-1950 Special Collection<br />
celebrates authors and books which<br />
have long since gone out of print and<br />
are no longer regarded as popular or<br />
influential.<br />
The names of Warwick Deeping,<br />
Patrick Hamilton and Florence<br />
Barclay may be <strong>for</strong>gotten today<br />
but they were all revered in the<br />
years between the First and Second<br />
World Wars. And now academics are<br />
hoping to amass more books <strong>for</strong> the<br />
collection so they can find out what<br />
shaped the tastes and preferences of<br />
readers in the early 20th century.<br />
Professor Chris Hopkins, head of the<br />
Humanities Research Centre, said<br />
that novelists such as Deeping were<br />
treated harshly at the time despite<br />
selling hundreds of thousands of<br />
copies of books such as Sorrell and<br />
Son, and Two Black Sheep.<br />
He said: “Snobbery in the literary<br />
world is nothing new. George Orwell<br />
was a fierce critic of Deeping and his<br />
style of writing - but his works were<br />
mass produced and mass consumed<br />
by British audiences.<br />
“The world has changed and our<br />
tastes have moved on - so this<br />
collection provides a fascinating<br />
snapshot of our society and<br />
relationships, when most people’s<br />
cultural <strong>life</strong> was shaped by the books<br />
they read.”<br />
Dr Mary Grover, who has donated<br />
books to the collection and is working<br />
with a <strong>Sheffield</strong> reading group to<br />
explore the archive, said many of the<br />
books risk being pulped by libraries,<br />
and launched an appeal <strong>for</strong> people to<br />
donate them to the collection.<br />
She said: “This kind of popular fiction<br />
was never acquired by university<br />
libraries and is not necessarily kept<br />
in stock by public libraries once the<br />
authors have gone out of fashion.<br />
“But this reading material was<br />
an important part of daily <strong>life</strong><br />
<strong>for</strong> many people – it entertained,<br />
sustained, educated and gave varying<br />
perspectives on the social, historical<br />
and cultural issues of the day.<br />
This collection of popular fiction is<br />
only the second special collection<br />
established by <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong>. The<br />
first was <strong>for</strong>med from the library of<br />
the <strong>Sheffield</strong> School of Art after it was<br />
damaged in the blitz in 1940, and has<br />
had more material added since.<br />
This collection has been put together<br />
with the help of librarian Ann<br />
Betterton, and members of the public<br />
are welcome to visit the space on the<br />
second floor of the Adsetts library to<br />
read the books.<br />
Dr Grover is looking <strong>for</strong> readers aged<br />
70 and over to join the Reading<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> project, which looks at<br />
the reading habits of <strong>Sheffield</strong>ers<br />
between 1945 and 1965. Part of the<br />
project involves going through the<br />
new archive to map the tastes of<br />
readers in the early part of the 20th<br />
century. To find out more, call<br />
0114 2630691.<br />
“The world has<br />
changed and<br />
our tastes have<br />
moved on - so this<br />
collection provides<br />
a fascinating<br />
snapshot of<br />
our society and<br />
relationships, when<br />
most people’s<br />
cultural <strong>life</strong> was<br />
shaped by the<br />
books they read.”<br />
Chris Hopkins<br />
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Learning and teaching Students’ app success<br />
App inventors<br />
navigate to<br />
Downing Street<br />
A<br />
group of innovative <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
students have impressed<br />
the Prime Minister with<br />
their revolutionary mobile phone<br />
app which uses official Government<br />
statistics to improve personal safety.<br />
The talented team of computing<br />
students from <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> and<br />
the <strong>University</strong> of <strong>Sheffield</strong> visited<br />
10 Downing Street after scooping<br />
a national prize <strong>for</strong> their creative<br />
invention. Their Safe Trip mobile<br />
phone application uses Government<br />
crime statistics, GPS location and<br />
Google maps to plot the safest route<br />
through a town or city.<br />
The app was created as part of<br />
the Silicon Valley Comes to the<br />
UK (SVC2UK) competition, a not<strong>for</strong>-profit<br />
initiative whose aim is<br />
to improve the environment <strong>for</strong><br />
entrepreneurship. The <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
leg of the competition took place<br />
at <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> in October and<br />
gave student entrepreneurs the<br />
opportunity to work with <strong>design</strong>ers,<br />
developers and marketers to <strong>design</strong><br />
and build a unique app <strong>for</strong> the<br />
commercial market in just two days.<br />
The event was supported by the<br />
Creative and Digital Industries (CDI)<br />
team from <strong>Sheffield</strong> City Region<br />
Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP),<br />
working with <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> and<br />
the <strong>University</strong> of <strong>Sheffield</strong>.<br />
In November, technical geniuses<br />
Steve Briscoe from <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong><br />
and <strong>University</strong> of <strong>Sheffield</strong> students<br />
Luke Stringer, Sam Oakley and Mark<br />
Dessain joined seven other teams at<br />
one of the most famous addresses in<br />
the world to receive their prestigious<br />
award from Prime Minister David<br />
Cameron.<br />
Team leader Steve said: “I was so<br />
shocked that we won the award and<br />
were given the once in a <strong>life</strong>time<br />
opportunity to visit 10 Downing<br />
Street and actually meet the Prime<br />
Minister. David Cameron certainly<br />
helped to inspire us to achieve<br />
careers in the IT industry.”<br />
The group was also given the<br />
opportunity to pitch their idea to<br />
potential investors at the Silicon<br />
Valley comes to Tech City event in<br />
London and one team member has<br />
the chance to travel to the Silicon<br />
Valley and the South by South West<br />
Festival (SXSW) in the United States<br />
next year.<br />
Chris Bates, senior lecturer in<br />
computing at <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong>,<br />
said: “Everything we do at <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
<strong>Hallam</strong> is focused on building real<br />
world skills - from the teaching to the<br />
placements.<br />
“The SVC2UK competition gave our<br />
students the chance to apply their<br />
innovative thinking and learning to<br />
a leading-edge, real world product.<br />
The winning team have produced<br />
an application that, although a<br />
prototype, is a saleable product with<br />
a real use.”<br />
“Everything we do at <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
<strong>Hallam</strong> is focused on building<br />
real world skills - from the<br />
teaching to the placements.”<br />
Chris Bates, senior lecturer,<br />
computing<br />
Russian<br />
partnerships<br />
beginning to<br />
blossom<br />
As Russia prepares itself <strong>for</strong> a decade of hosting<br />
major international sports events, including the<br />
Winter Olympics and the World Cup, universities<br />
there have been looking to the UK and <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong><br />
in particular <strong>for</strong> guidance on how they can get involved in<br />
the action.<br />
Following the fantastic opportunities <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong><br />
has provided <strong>for</strong> students to be involved in running major<br />
sports events in the UK, a delegation of senior officials<br />
from some of Russia’s top universities visited <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
<strong>Hallam</strong> in November to hear more about the opportunities<br />
<strong>for</strong> students.<br />
They learned about the unique partnership that has<br />
been developed with the London Organising Committee<br />
of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), in which<br />
students are able to volunteer to be part of the Press<br />
Operations team Service at London 2012, if they study<br />
media modules that the <strong>University</strong> and LOCOG have<br />
created.<br />
Officials were also able to discuss the potential <strong>for</strong><br />
internship programmes <strong>for</strong> British students in Russia and<br />
vice versa, and other partnership opportunities.<br />
Ekaterina Vinnikova, Executive Director, RMA, Moscow<br />
State <strong>University</strong> of Management, said: “For us it’s very<br />
important to be invited to such a trip because we are<br />
developing a sport management department... In terms<br />
of Olympics preparations it is important <strong>for</strong> us to see how<br />
UK universities work with volunteer students, because we<br />
are now in the same situation preparing <strong>for</strong> Sochi and are<br />
<strong>design</strong>ing special courses.”<br />
At the end of November, a team from <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
<strong>Hallam</strong> made its way over to Russia to attend a major<br />
international <strong>for</strong>um in St Petersburg to look at solutions<br />
to key challenges faced by the hospitality and tourism<br />
industry in the build up to international sports events.<br />
Head of Sport, Guy Masterman signed a Memorandum of<br />
Understanding agreement with the Russian International<br />
Olympic <strong>University</strong> during the trip, which <strong>for</strong>ms the basis<br />
of an official partnership.<br />
He said: “There are lots of exciting opportunities <strong>for</strong> future<br />
partnership working which will be beneficial <strong>for</strong> us, our<br />
students and our colleagues in Russia. We have lots of<br />
experience of providing opportunities <strong>for</strong> students to get<br />
involved in the business side of major sporting events and<br />
we are keen to share our knowledge and expertise with<br />
colleagues from Russia, to help them play their part in the<br />
exciting decade of sport that Russia is about to host.”
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The Olympic planner taking<br />
inspiration from <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
The woman behind many of the London 2012 Olympic venues, as<br />
well as <strong>Sheffield</strong>’s regeneration, came to the <strong>University</strong> to share<br />
her experiences at an ‘in conversation’ event.<br />
Alison Nimmo, CBE, a key<br />
figure in making the Olympics<br />
happen, made a welcome<br />
return to <strong>Sheffield</strong> at the end of<br />
2011 to speak about her role in the<br />
planning, <strong>design</strong> and development<br />
of many of the key Olympic and<br />
Paralympic venues, including the<br />
award-winning velodrome.<br />
She also spoke about the challenge<br />
of redeveloping a huge postindustrial<br />
area of east London into a<br />
sustainable new piece of city fit <strong>for</strong><br />
the 21st Century.<br />
“The first big challenge was to<br />
remediate the polluted soil, clean up<br />
six kilometres of rivers and create<br />
a brand-new 100 hectare park,<br />
reintroducing ecology and creating<br />
a whole new infrastructure <strong>for</strong> the<br />
Games and legacy,” she said.<br />
Having played a significant part in<br />
the regeneration of Manchester in the<br />
late 1990s and <strong>Sheffield</strong> from 2000,<br />
Alison talked fondly of her time in<br />
the city as head of <strong>Sheffield</strong> One - the<br />
Urban Regeneration Company tasked<br />
with redeveloping the city centre.<br />
The vision <strong>for</strong> this was, in her words,<br />
to “breathe new <strong>life</strong> into the city’s<br />
fantastic civic spaces and buildings.”<br />
On returning to the city, Alison said:<br />
“I feel very proud to have played a<br />
role…<strong>Sheffield</strong>’s a very special city.<br />
When I come back and visit now<br />
it feels like a very different place<br />
compared to the city I came to in<br />
2000. But cities are very organic<br />
things, they change and develop over<br />
time, and the job of regenerating is<br />
never finished.”<br />
Alison has just finished her tenure as<br />
director of <strong>design</strong> and regeneration<br />
<strong>for</strong> the Olympic Delivery Authority<br />
(ODA), to begin a new role as the Chief<br />
Executive of The Crown Estate.<br />
The event was held as part of<br />
Forgotten Spaces 2011: <strong>Sheffield</strong>.<br />
Planning <strong>for</strong> the Olympics<br />
“When I come back<br />
and visit now it feels<br />
like a very different<br />
place compared to<br />
the city I came to<br />
in 2000. But cities<br />
are very organic<br />
things, they change<br />
and develop over<br />
time, and the job<br />
of regenerating is<br />
never finished.”<br />
Alison Nimmo<br />
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Aregular <strong>for</strong> his local team,<br />
City of <strong>Sheffield</strong> Water Polo<br />
Club, Brian has refereed a<br />
variety of competitions abroad this<br />
year, ranging from European Club<br />
Champions Cup matches to the World<br />
Student Games in Shenzhen, China.<br />
The <strong>for</strong>mer Scotland and GB Water<br />
Polo goalkeeper qualified as a<br />
referee <strong>for</strong> the sport in 1997, gaining<br />
the certificate needed to officiate<br />
international games in 1999. Since<br />
then, he’s refereed numerous<br />
international matches, including at<br />
the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008<br />
and the 2006 Commonwealth Games<br />
in Australia.<br />
This year, although there will be<br />
many British officials in attendance,<br />
Brian is the only British water polo<br />
referee appointed to London 2012,<br />
and he will officiate at a number of<br />
games in the run-up to the Olympics,<br />
including the test event<br />
in May.<br />
“I would like to think that I have been<br />
chosen as I have per<strong>for</strong>med well in<br />
the matches I have refereed over<br />
the last few years,” Brian explains.<br />
“In every international match the<br />
referee’s per<strong>for</strong>mance and decisions<br />
People Planning <strong>for</strong> the Olympics<br />
The <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> man<br />
making waves at London 2012<br />
Although he spends many of his days co-ordinating<br />
funding <strong>for</strong> research in the <strong>University</strong>’s Enterprise<br />
Centre, Brian Littlejohn is as much at home in the<br />
water as he is in the office. For there’s one thing that<br />
Brian is just as passionate about as knowledge transfer<br />
partnerships – the sport of water polo.<br />
are assessed by a member of the<br />
governing body and you receive<br />
feedback at the end of each match.”<br />
The Fédération Internationale<br />
de Natation (FINA) is the world<br />
governing body <strong>for</strong> aquatic sports.<br />
FINA choose the referees from<br />
their list of qualified officials, with<br />
one referee from each country<br />
represented at the water polo<br />
competition as well as a number of<br />
‘neutral referees’.<br />
“I was appointed to Beijing 2008 as<br />
a neutral because the British team<br />
had not qualified,” he said. “But this<br />
time, with the British team already<br />
securing their place as hosts, I have<br />
been selected as the British referee.<br />
“There are currently over 250 referees<br />
on the FINA list - Britain has five<br />
referees on that list. Only the referees<br />
on that list are qualified to referee<br />
world standard events like world<br />
championships and Olympics - and<br />
I’ve been on that list representing<br />
Great Britain since 2001.”<br />
He said: “The test event is where the<br />
governing bodies get to see the new<br />
water polo facilities in action during<br />
a competition. It will comprise of<br />
teams from Great Britain, the United<br />
States, Australia and Hungary –<br />
some of the best teams in the world.<br />
“There will also be a number of<br />
other European championships<br />
and continental qualification<br />
tournaments still to play - so there’s<br />
a good chance that I’ll be travelling a<br />
lot in the next year.”<br />
And what are the chances of a medal<br />
<strong>for</strong> GB Water Polo in London? In<br />
Brian’s opinion, they have their work<br />
cut out <strong>for</strong> them - but it won’t lessen<br />
the magic of being a part the biggest<br />
sporting event in the world.<br />
“It will be difficult <strong>for</strong> the British<br />
teams to get a medal, but with the<br />
improvements that both the men’s<br />
and the women’s teams have made<br />
over the past two years they should<br />
be very competitive, and who<br />
knows, may be able to pull off some<br />
surprising results.”<br />
“The added thrill<br />
that comes from<br />
these games being<br />
in London and<br />
being able to<br />
represent your<br />
country once<br />
again on<br />
home soil is a<br />
tremendous boost.”<br />
Brian Littlejohn
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Visiting speakers<br />
bring insight<br />
and interest<br />
We hosted several celebrity speakers as part of ‘Off the<br />
Shelf’festival of reading and writing, plus we welcomed<br />
a pioneering TV chef who passed on some valuable<br />
advice to students.<br />
Literary festival<br />
brings wide range of<br />
talent to <strong>University</strong><br />
The <strong>University</strong> has hosted a series of<br />
events as part of this year’s Off the<br />
Shelf festival of reading and writing.<br />
Off the Shelf saw around 200 events<br />
taking place across the city in a<br />
variety of venues, and included<br />
readings, debates, workshops, poetry,<br />
storytelling, and much more.<br />
The 2011 festival had a great line<br />
up and at the <strong>University</strong> we played<br />
host to talks with journalist Polly<br />
Toynbee, marketing guru Sir John<br />
Hegarty, and writer and broadcaster<br />
Will Self.<br />
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian<br />
columnist and influential political<br />
commentator gave a talk and took<br />
questions from a sell-out crowd at the<br />
<strong>University</strong>’s Pennine Theatre.<br />
She said that despite revelations of<br />
phone hacking, journalism was still a<br />
distinguished profession.<br />
She launched an attack on bankers<br />
and described the Government’s<br />
spending cuts as a “tombstone” <strong>for</strong><br />
the public sector.<br />
Polly has won numerous awards <strong>for</strong><br />
journalism, scooping the coveted<br />
columnist of the year award at the<br />
British Press Awards in 2007.<br />
Sir John Hegarty, the advertising<br />
guru behind major campaigns <strong>for</strong><br />
Levi’s, Volkswagen and British<br />
Airways was another of our guests<br />
during the Off the Shelf festival. In<br />
a talk about his career he said that<br />
Universities should put their students<br />
and digital media at the <strong>for</strong>efront of<br />
their marketing plans.<br />
He said: “It’s the people you produce<br />
that act as a draw <strong>for</strong> future students.<br />
What you can do with digital media<br />
and do it very cost-effectively means<br />
that it is a brilliant time in the world<br />
to be in advertising.<br />
“There are a number of media at<br />
your disposal that can be used <strong>for</strong><br />
very little money to reach out to<br />
potential students across the world in<br />
a cost-effective way. What it needs of<br />
course is imagination.”<br />
Will Self, the acerbic writer and<br />
<strong>for</strong>mer star of BBC TV’s Shooting<br />
Stars was another of our guests<br />
during the festival. He wowed the<br />
audience with tales from his long<br />
career as an award-winning writer,<br />
author and broadcaster.<br />
He also unveiled his latest book,<br />
Walking to Hollywood, a collection of<br />
non-fiction travel stories, written in<br />
his trademark extravagant style. The<br />
book was recently named as one The<br />
Independent newspaper’s paperbacks<br />
of the year.<br />
TV chef serves up<br />
advice<br />
Top TV chef Brian Turner visited<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>for</strong> an ‘in conversation’<br />
event and took time to meet<br />
hospitality students and answer their<br />
questions.<br />
And he said chefs of the future should<br />
be wary of their own ambition and<br />
not over look basic cooking skills.<br />
He said: “I wouldn’t want anyone to<br />
be looking to earn a Michelin star by<br />
the time they’re 20. It’s really about<br />
understanding that now’s the time to<br />
build really solid foundations.<br />
“They may have to build on them<br />
quicker than when we were young,<br />
because the world has changed, but<br />
don’t go too fast. You really have<br />
to understand the fundamentals,<br />
understand the business, know you<br />
can cope with it all and then polish it,<br />
rather than go straight to the top.”<br />
At the ‘in conversation’ event Brian<br />
talked about his long career, which<br />
has spanned more than 50 years,<br />
from his childhood spent helping in<br />
his father’s transport café to opening<br />
his own restaurant in Knightsbridge,<br />
London.<br />
He also talked about the television<br />
career that has made him famous<br />
nation-wide. He was awarded a<br />
CBE <strong>for</strong> his services to catering in<br />
2001 and was awarded an honorary<br />
doctorate from the <strong>University</strong><br />
in 2008.<br />
Clockwise from top left: Polly Toynbee,<br />
Sir John Hegarty, Will Self, Brian Turner<br />
Inspirational speakers<br />
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As a business enterprise<br />
management graduate, you’d<br />
be <strong>for</strong>given <strong>for</strong> thinking<br />
that Christopher Gowans had a<br />
better chance than most in the 2011<br />
Enterprise Challenge.<br />
The competition, which rewards<br />
graduates’ entrepreneurial skills<br />
and business sense, has recently<br />
got underway <strong>for</strong> the 12th year, and<br />
previous winners have gone onto real<br />
business success.<br />
Christopher was presented with a<br />
£5,000 prize at the Enterprise awards<br />
dinner, which he will use to develop<br />
his Let’s Go Mexicana food trailer<br />
business, meaning he can introduce<br />
more festival crowds to his spicy<br />
salsas and tasty tortillas.<br />
Christopher, originally from Stokeon-Trent,<br />
said judges were impressed<br />
with his business plan after he<br />
identified a gap in the market <strong>for</strong> a<br />
trailer selling Mexican food.<br />
And he joked: “I haven’t been to<br />
Mexico as yet but it’s definitely on my<br />
to-do list!”<br />
Previous winners of the Enterprise<br />
Challenge include Nathan Bestwick,<br />
who is on the verge of releasing his<br />
salt and pepper shakers on to the<br />
open market. A runner up in the 2010<br />
competition, Lucy Nuttall, is also<br />
using the <strong>University</strong>’s partnership<br />
with Gripple to develop her Frontline<br />
Forensics business.<br />
Christopher’s Let’s Go Mexicana is<br />
a towed Mexican food trailer, which<br />
trades predominantly at music<br />
festivals and other outdoor events.<br />
It fuses the vast growth of Mexican<br />
food and outdoor events to create an<br />
exciting market opportunity.<br />
Feature Enterprise Challenge<br />
Enterprising entrepreneurs<br />
with a bright future<br />
Many businesses benefit from start-up support at our<br />
Enterprise Centre, and as the 2012 Enterprise Challenge<br />
competition gets underway, we look at the winners<br />
from 2011.<br />
By Laurie Harvey<br />
He has created a vibrant working<br />
environment in tune with the festival<br />
atmosphere as part of its culture, but<br />
also prides himself on a reputation<br />
<strong>for</strong> high quality and a strong brand<br />
image.<br />
Organisers of this year’s Enterprise<br />
Challenge say the competition<br />
is more important than ever in<br />
promoting students’ entrepreneurial<br />
skills so they can succeed in a<br />
competitive business environment.<br />
Last year’s finalists all used the<br />
<strong>University</strong>’s Enterprise Centre to<br />
guide them through the process of<br />
setting up in business.<br />
Sheila Quairney, business and<br />
enterprise manager, said: “Our annual<br />
Enterprise Challenge competition<br />
is a great way of stimulating and<br />
supporting potential student and<br />
graduate businesses and has been<br />
the catalyst <strong>for</strong> many successful<br />
business start-ups.”<br />
The other finalists of the 2011<br />
competition were<br />
Belmont Baby – Jocelyn Hunter<br />
A husband and wife partnership<br />
have developed a range of innovative<br />
products that make <strong>life</strong> easier <strong>for</strong><br />
parents and babies. The first two<br />
products are a fruit holder <strong>for</strong> babyled<br />
weaning and an easy-to-use pram<br />
suit.<br />
HB Dynamics – Helen Palfreyman<br />
and Bernadette McAndrew<br />
HB Dynamics is developing an<br />
innovative software solution,<br />
Skelebob, that will enable<br />
businesses to manage effectively<br />
work days lost to problems associated<br />
with computer use, such as back,<br />
neck and wrist pain, whilst also<br />
improving their overall productivity.<br />
Playfonics Recording Booth –<br />
Ian McGinty<br />
Playfonics is a software development<br />
company that provides intuitive<br />
and professional musical products.<br />
Their first product is Recording<br />
Booth, an internet cloud-based music<br />
production service that enables<br />
people without a musical or technical<br />
background to make professionalstandard<br />
music ready <strong>for</strong> publishing<br />
online.<br />
Rapid Sports – Andrew Thomas<br />
and Scott Bradley<br />
The company will primarily<br />
manufacture and market high<br />
quality sporting products <strong>for</strong><br />
canoeing such as kayaks, canoes and<br />
paddles.<br />
“Enterprise<br />
Challenge is a great<br />
way of stimulating<br />
and supporting<br />
potential student<br />
and graduate<br />
businesses and has<br />
been the catalyst<br />
<strong>for</strong> many successful<br />
business start ups.”<br />
Sheila Quairney<br />
Idea 57
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Design Futures is <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
<strong>Hallam</strong>’s in-house product<br />
and packaging <strong>design</strong><br />
consultancy, and its staff have<br />
spent much of 2011 helping small<br />
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Doncaster, <strong>Sheffield</strong>, Dewsbury,<br />
Brad<strong>for</strong>d and Halifax to develop<br />
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Creative director John Kirkby said:<br />
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story but I’ll admit, it’s often left me<br />
feeling hungry and thirsty.”<br />
Toppings Pies, based in Doncaster,<br />
were one of the first companies to<br />
approach John’s team this summer.<br />
The company supply pies to<br />
supermarket delicatessen counters<br />
and wanted to package them <strong>for</strong> the<br />
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And the packages - with a distinctive<br />
new logo and purple packaging - are<br />
now selling like hot pies.<br />
Director Matthew Topping said:<br />
“Design Futures helped us to realise<br />
the potential of our boxed product<br />
range and also helped us to re<strong>design</strong><br />
our logo and bring Toppings Pie into<br />
the 21st century. They gave us just<br />
what we needed.”<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong>-based Fancie Cakes<br />
approached the consultancy to solve<br />
a dilemma – how to transport an<br />
individual cupcake while shopping at<br />
Meadowhall.<br />
The Design Futures team conceived<br />
a carry-case where the cake remains<br />
on show, which has won a Starpak<br />
award <strong>for</strong> its innovative <strong>design</strong>.<br />
Amanda Perry from Fancie Cakes<br />
said: “Design Futures used its creative<br />
genius, experience in packaging<br />
usability and extensive contacts to<br />
create a solution which fitted both<br />
the brief and budget. It was an utter<br />
delight to work with the team and<br />
meetings with them have definitely<br />
been among the most fun I have<br />
experienced. Their ongoing support<br />
and interest in Fancie has just added<br />
to the overall experience and I would<br />
definitely use them in the future.”<br />
Other companies that Design Futures<br />
has worked with recently include:<br />
Little Valley Brewery (Hebden<br />
Bridge) – rebranded company<br />
identity including re<strong>design</strong>ing labels<br />
and pump-clips <strong>for</strong> a range of organic<br />
real ales.<br />
Curry Cuisine (Dewsbury) –<br />
<strong>design</strong>ed labels <strong>for</strong> spice-infused<br />
dessert sauces, set to be sold in Asda.<br />
Lottie Shaws (Elland) – <strong>design</strong>ed<br />
new packaging <strong>for</strong> their parkin and<br />
biscuit ranges. The products have<br />
now been nominated <strong>for</strong> a Deliciously<br />
Yorkshire award.<br />
Exquisite Handmade Cakes (Leeds)<br />
– rebranded company and packaging<br />
<strong>design</strong> stickers <strong>for</strong> a range of cake<br />
products.<br />
Dalesman Foods (Brad<strong>for</strong>d) – new<br />
logo, branding and packaging <strong>for</strong><br />
stuffing and sauce mixes - six new<br />
products in a new Gordon Rhodes<br />
range were launched in September<br />
2011 at the Speciality and Fine Food<br />
Fair in London, and retailers and<br />
distributors began taking orders.<br />
“Creating a brand that would<br />
stand out in the market place<br />
and represent our products<br />
was key but we also needed a<br />
practical packaging solution<br />
that suits our production<br />
capabilities and budget.”<br />
James Rhodes, partner at the<br />
Dalesman Group
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Research and business<br />
Caffeine study<br />
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Research and business Caffeine study<br />
Faster, better<br />
sharper, stronger<br />
Caffeine combined with carbohydrate in a drink could<br />
be used to help athletes’ skill and per<strong>for</strong>mance better<br />
on the field, according to new research by <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
<strong>Hallam</strong> sport nutrition expert Mayur Ranchordas.<br />
Mayur, a senior lecturer and<br />
per<strong>for</strong>mance nutritionist at<br />
the <strong>University</strong>, carried out<br />
studies on footballers using caffeine<br />
and carbohydrates combined in a<br />
drink. Along with improvements<br />
in endurance caused by ingesting<br />
carbohydrate, the athletes’ skill level<br />
improved after taking caffeine and<br />
carbohydrate together.<br />
Mayur said: “There is already<br />
plenty of research that shows that<br />
caffeine and carbohydrate improve<br />
endurance, but this study shows that<br />
there is also a positive effect on skill<br />
and per<strong>for</strong>mance.<br />
“We carried out three different<br />
soccer-specific match simulations<br />
of 90 minutes each – two 45 minute<br />
sessions – that tested agility,<br />
dribbling, heading and kicking<br />
accuracy.<br />
The test was <strong>design</strong>ed to mimic a<br />
football game where the participants<br />
had to carry out multiple repeated<br />
sprints, dribble the ball around cones<br />
and shoot accurately.<br />
“We found that the combination of<br />
carbohydrate and caffeine allowed<br />
players to sustain higher work<br />
intensity <strong>for</strong> the sprints, as well as<br />
improving shooting accuracy and<br />
dribbling during simulated soccer<br />
activity.<br />
“These findings suggest that, <strong>for</strong><br />
athletes competing in team sports<br />
where endurance and skill are<br />
important factors, ingesting a<br />
carbohydrate and caffeine drink,<br />
as opposed to just a carbohydrate<br />
drink, may significantly enhance<br />
per<strong>for</strong>mance. Our findings suggest<br />
that soccer players should choose<br />
a carbohydrate caffeine drink over<br />
a carbohydrate drink to consume<br />
be<strong>for</strong>e kick off and at half-time.”<br />
Mayur presented his research at<br />
the International Sports Science &<br />
Sports Medicine Conference 2011.<br />
The research received international<br />
attention following Mayur’s work<br />
with <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong>’s press office<br />
gaining significant media coverage in<br />
Australia, China and the US, as well<br />
as in the UK national media.<br />
“We found that the<br />
combination of<br />
carbohydrate and<br />
caffeine allowed<br />
players to sustain<br />
higher work<br />
intensity <strong>for</strong><br />
the sprints”<br />
Mayur Ranchordas
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Collaborative <strong>design</strong> book<br />
‘most beautiful in China’<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong>’s Art and<br />
Design Research Centre have<br />
worked with the China Central<br />
Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) on<br />
a collaborative book to showcase<br />
innovative and creative <strong>design</strong> at<br />
both institutions.<br />
The book, ‘Designing Impact!<br />
Approaches to Applied Research’,<br />
has now been named ‘Most Beautiful<br />
Book in China’ by China’s General<br />
Administration of Press and<br />
Publications.<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong>’s Deputy Vice-<br />
Chancellor, Cliff Allan, said: “We’re<br />
delighted that the Designing Impact<br />
book has been recognised in<br />
this way.”<br />
The book showcases examples of<br />
<strong>design</strong>, such as the Cutting Edge<br />
sculpture, a major piece of public<br />
art in the centre of <strong>Sheffield</strong>. It<br />
also includes advances in medical<br />
prostheses, the <strong>design</strong>s <strong>for</strong> medals<br />
<strong>for</strong> the 2008 Olympic Games in<br />
Beijing and new variations of Chinese<br />
traditional costumes.<br />
The book will now be entered into<br />
the 2012 World’s Most Beautiful<br />
Book competition at the Leipzig book<br />
exhibition in Germany.<br />
The dual-language book<br />
brings together the best<br />
<strong>design</strong> and research<br />
projects undertaken by<br />
students, academics,<br />
artists and <strong>design</strong>ers at<br />
China Central Academy<br />
of Fine Arts and <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
<strong>Hallam</strong>’s Art and Design<br />
Research Centre.<br />
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Pt<br />
Platinum<br />
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Au<br />
Gold<br />
Design collaboration<br />
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Ag<br />
Silver<br />
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Pd<br />
Palladium<br />
What’s in<br />
your stuff?<br />
A<br />
project looking at the rare and valuable materials<br />
inside our everyday gadgets has given people<br />
the chance to find out the real facts about their<br />
precious and valuable contents.<br />
The ‘What’s In My Stuff?’ field lab was set up in the<br />
atrium of the main City Campus building, and invited<br />
participants to disassemble mobile phones <strong>for</strong> themselves<br />
to reveal the key elements that make them work.<br />
With the help of the <strong>University</strong>’s scientists students<br />
were able to discover that mobile phones contain over<br />
40 chemical elements and hundreds of components,<br />
including many rare and precious metals only found<br />
in certain parts of the world, all needed to make these<br />
everyday objects function.<br />
“Many people knew that plastics and various metals are<br />
in our phones, such as copper, aluminium and nickel, but<br />
few people realised that there is platinum, silver, gold and<br />
even palladium in there too,” explained Dr Hywel Jones,<br />
from the Materials and Engineering Research Institute.<br />
“These devices contain hundreds of components and<br />
many valuable and rare materials, so this project is about<br />
helping people to realise and understand this.”<br />
Following the field lab, metalwork and jewellery lecturer<br />
Maria Hanson will create a collection of contemporary<br />
jewellery objects from the elements of the deconstructed<br />
mobile phones, to be exhibited at the <strong>University</strong> in 2012.<br />
‘What’s in my Stuff?’ is a collaboration between MERI<br />
and the Art and Design Research Centre (ADRC). Further<br />
in<strong>for</strong>mation can be found at www.whatsinmystuff.org<br />
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Facilities management<br />
academics at <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong><br />
are more used to advising<br />
outside organisations about how to<br />
re-imagine their workspaces - but<br />
they have played an integral part in<br />
the revamp of their own business<br />
engagement centre.<br />
The TSK Business Engagement<br />
Centre, which opened <strong>for</strong> staff<br />
at <strong>Sheffield</strong> Business School in<br />
December, is the result of a revamp of<br />
existing office space spearheaded by<br />
the Centre <strong>for</strong> Facilities Management<br />
Development (CFMD).<br />
Working with Manchester-based<br />
work place specialists TSK, the team<br />
drew from its own research about<br />
how companies can make better<br />
use of space. This has lead to a more<br />
motivated and engaged work<strong>for</strong>ce<br />
and the creation of the centre.<br />
Professor If Price, one of the<br />
academics behind the new-look<br />
centre, said: “We are absolutely<br />
certain that we have delivered a<br />
smaller space that can accommodate<br />
a wider range of business needs. It<br />
sets the benchmark <strong>for</strong> the <strong>University</strong><br />
and its competitors to follow.”<br />
The cramped warren of offices and<br />
corridors has been replaced by open<br />
office space, break-out areas, a new<br />
business suite and an ideas lab.<br />
Research and business Facilities management<br />
Revamped building<br />
takes care of business<br />
The re<strong>design</strong> has led to meeting<br />
space capacity in <strong>Sheffield</strong> Business<br />
School being doubled, while space<br />
devoted to desks has been reduced by<br />
25 per cent.<br />
Professor Price continued: “The newlook<br />
space has created a new kind of<br />
environment <strong>for</strong> employees by doing<br />
something very different with space.<br />
Rather than a traditional approach,<br />
this project has taken the business of<br />
work as its main guiding principle.<br />
“It creates a new identity <strong>for</strong> <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
Business School without the need<br />
<strong>for</strong> a new building. And it is a case of<br />
practising what we preach in terms of<br />
applying our own external research<br />
to an internal <strong>University</strong> space.<br />
“By acknowledging the need <strong>for</strong><br />
flexibility, the space is now more<br />
energy efficient and more productive,<br />
and can be used as an example of<br />
best practise in higher education<br />
facilities management.”<br />
Robin Moore from TSK said its<br />
workplace <strong>design</strong> consultants looked<br />
at how employees communicate and<br />
deliver their tasks, and then provided<br />
an environment that empowered the<br />
team to achieve their goals efficiently.<br />
He said: “The new settings support<br />
different styles of working and<br />
are responsive to a range of needs<br />
created by the modern business<br />
environment. The TSK Business<br />
Engagement Centre not only provides<br />
a home <strong>for</strong> the executive and<br />
administration, it is also the point of<br />
contact <strong>for</strong> commercial organisations<br />
who are seeking to adopt new<br />
techniques and protocols as well as<br />
the skills required to manage their<br />
workplaces as effective business<br />
tools.<br />
“The aim of our collaboration is to<br />
provide an opportunity to explore,<br />
discover, innovate and deliver<br />
competitive advantage. It brings<br />
together academic innovation and<br />
practical delivery <strong>for</strong> the first time.”<br />
Adrian Hopgood, Pro-Vice Chancellor<br />
of <strong>Sheffield</strong> Business School said:<br />
“This is an exciting new space in<br />
which staff, students and our clients<br />
can interact and work together in<br />
a physical representation of the<br />
‘business school without walls’. The<br />
centre is part of an ongoing journey<br />
to provide high-quality space that<br />
facilitates personal engagement<br />
across <strong>Sheffield</strong> Business School.”<br />
“This is an exciting<br />
new space in which<br />
staff, students and our<br />
clients can interact<br />
and work together in a<br />
physical representation<br />
of the ‘business school<br />
without walls’.”<br />
Adrian Hopgood
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Design <strong>for</strong> older people<br />
Older generation,<br />
modern innovation<br />
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Research and business Design <strong>for</strong> older people<br />
People from <strong>Sheffield</strong> have been talking about their<br />
experiences of ageing as part of a global research<br />
project, that explores the role <strong>design</strong> plays in promoting<br />
quality of <strong>life</strong> <strong>for</strong> older people.<br />
Hundreds of <strong>Sheffield</strong>’s<br />
older people attended<br />
engaging<strong>design</strong>, an<br />
exhibition at <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> held in November.<br />
The research, funded by the British<br />
Council under the Prime Minister’s<br />
CONNECT programme, has brought<br />
together groups of older people in<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> and Taiwan, to draw on their<br />
experiences and to actively involve<br />
them in <strong>design</strong>ing future services<br />
and products to promote well-being<br />
in older age.<br />
The three-year project is<br />
underpinned by <strong>design</strong>ers from<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong>’s Lab 4 Living<br />
who are <strong>design</strong>ing new products,<br />
environments, services and systems<br />
to reflect the way elderly people feel<br />
their care can be improved.<br />
Paul Chamberlain, head of the<br />
Art and Design Research Centre<br />
at <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong>, said: “Despite<br />
Britain’s rapidly increasing older<br />
population, we have found that older<br />
people often feel shut off from having<br />
a say on what can be done to make a<br />
difference to their lives.<br />
“It is important not only to have<br />
this global discussion but to begin<br />
a complementary <strong>design</strong> process to<br />
make the mechanisms of care more<br />
intuitive and less dictatorial so we<br />
can properly reflect the status of our<br />
older population.<br />
“Participants have described the<br />
opportunities and concerns that<br />
ageing presents and have shared their<br />
ideas in terms of the potential role<br />
that <strong>design</strong> might play in creating a<br />
better future <strong>for</strong> all generations.<br />
“We have held a series of exhibitions<br />
and workshops in locations from<br />
the Taipei Underground to the<br />
Building Centre in London and found<br />
differences and similarities in the<br />
way older people are treated in the<br />
two countries.<br />
“It is clear that more needs to be done<br />
to empower older people to better<br />
manage their own needs in their own<br />
environments.<br />
“Our work is based on the premise<br />
that older people offer a valued asset<br />
to families, communities and society<br />
and we have actively sought ways to<br />
tap into the strengths.”<br />
Exhibits included items <strong>design</strong>ed to<br />
provoke discussion about ageing. The<br />
show also featured videos of older<br />
people from Taiwan and <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
sharing their experiences of ageing as<br />
well as objects and <strong>design</strong> concepts<br />
developed through the research.<br />
“Participants<br />
have described<br />
the opportunities<br />
and concerns that<br />
ageing presents and<br />
have shared their<br />
ideas in terms of<br />
the potential role<br />
that <strong>design</strong> might<br />
play in creating a<br />
better future <strong>for</strong> all<br />
generations.”<br />
Paul Chamberlain
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A<br />
professor who has spent<br />
more than 27 years giving<br />
graduates a successful start<br />
to their career, and an associate who<br />
has spearheaded an eco-friendly<br />
collaboration between <strong>University</strong><br />
and business, have had their skills<br />
acknowledged by the Right Hon<br />
Vince Cable MP.<br />
The Secretary of State <strong>for</strong> Business,<br />
Innovation and Skills was the guest<br />
of honour as Professor Graham<br />
Cockerham and associate Simon<br />
Pykett lifted gongs at a London<br />
awards ceremony dedicated to<br />
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships<br />
between Universities and businesses.<br />
The annual Knowledge Transfer<br />
Partnership (KTP) Awards honour<br />
and celebrate the country’s best<br />
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships<br />
and the ‘Business Leaders of<br />
Tomorrow’. The awards recognise the<br />
outstanding partnerships fostered<br />
through the KTP programme, which<br />
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Leadership<br />
of tomorrow<br />
The <strong>University</strong> prides itself on great links<br />
with local and regional businesses, so it<br />
was great to see this recognised in the 2011<br />
Knowledge Transfer Partnership awards.<br />
By Laurie Harvey<br />
supports partnerships between<br />
businesses, academic institutions<br />
and graduate associates.<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong>’s Knowledge<br />
Transfer Partnership (KTP) Associate<br />
Simon Pykett lifted the Business<br />
Leader of Tomorrow award at the<br />
Innovate11 awards, and Professor<br />
Cockerham received a special<br />
prize <strong>for</strong> a career at the <strong>University</strong><br />
spanning back to 1970.<br />
Simon’s accolade was <strong>for</strong> his work<br />
with Penny Hydraulics, based in<br />
North Derbyshire, in which he led<br />
a project to help the company clear<br />
storage ponds in Sellafield of nuclear<br />
waste.<br />
His work has now led to a full-time<br />
position in their team which he will<br />
start in March 2012.<br />
Simon, 25, was appointed as a project<br />
manager in Penny Hydraulics’ newlyestablished<br />
nuclear team through<br />
its KTP association with <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
<strong>Hallam</strong>, in which recent <strong>University</strong><br />
graduates get the opportunity to<br />
work <strong>for</strong> one to three years with local<br />
businesses to develop solutions and<br />
manage issues with the support of<br />
the <strong>University</strong>.<br />
Over the past 16 months, Simon has<br />
led projects to provide tailor-made<br />
lifting applications within the nuclear<br />
industry <strong>for</strong> the likes of Sellafield<br />
Ltd, Magnox Ltd and Research Sites<br />
Restoration Ltd (RSRL).<br />
Simon has managed all aspects of<br />
the projects, including feasibility<br />
studies, <strong>design</strong>, risk assessment,<br />
manufacture, inspection, testing<br />
and quality documentation, as well<br />
as securing new business <strong>for</strong> the<br />
company and helping to expand its<br />
nuclear operations.<br />
Simon said: “I feel very privileged<br />
to be awarded this prize. We’ve<br />
certainly achieved a lot over the past<br />
16 months, and I’m excited to see how<br />
the nuclear side of Penny Hydraulics<br />
is developing, with the help of<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong>.<br />
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“Holding a position of such<br />
responsibility so early on in my<br />
career is very rewarding and I have<br />
learnt so much in a short period of<br />
time. KTP is a fantastic scheme in<br />
which recent graduates are given<br />
a chance to introduce significant<br />
change within a business, and I<br />
would certainly recommend the<br />
position of KTP Associate to anyone.”<br />
Professor Alan Smith, head of<br />
business development at <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
<strong>Hallam</strong> said: “<strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> has<br />
a terrific track record <strong>for</strong> excellence<br />
in providing Knowledge Transfer<br />
Partnerships. Simon has done<br />
outstanding work during his time<br />
with Penny Hydraulics and we are<br />
very pleased and proud that he has<br />
been given this prestigious award.”<br />
Meanwhile, Professor Cockerham,<br />
who first joined <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> in 1970 and took up<br />
his current role in 1984, received<br />
the Knowledge Transfer Award <strong>for</strong><br />
Academic Excellence 2011.<br />
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The award comes after a career in the<br />
<strong>University</strong>’s engineering and <strong>design</strong><br />
department where he has helped<br />
Science and Engineering graduates to<br />
develop and implement work-based<br />
projects with companies across the<br />
country.<br />
Graham’s expertise is in the<br />
application of computer aided<br />
engineering <strong>design</strong> and the<br />
development and application of<br />
industrial <strong>design</strong> methodologies.<br />
One of the Knowledge Transfer<br />
Partnerships (KTPs) that he has<br />
recently worked with, involving<br />
Joseph Rhodes Ltd of Wakefield, was<br />
also a winner at the Innovate awards,<br />
winning Best KTP Partnership <strong>for</strong> the<br />
East region.<br />
Graham has been directly involved<br />
in developing and working on more<br />
than 120 programmes during a<br />
27-year period, of which more than<br />
70% were graded outstanding or<br />
excellent, working with companies<br />
such as; Davy McKee, Gripple, Penny<br />
Hydraulics, ACS Stainless Steels,<br />
Ancon, Rotary Engineering, Aurora<br />
Forgings and many others.<br />
Graham said: “As a teacher of<br />
engineering it was vital that I and<br />
my colleagues were able to maintain<br />
professional capability with<br />
examples of good practice which also<br />
enlivened classes; it was a bonus that<br />
this could be achieved within the<br />
context of bringing about strategic<br />
change within regional and national<br />
industrial organisations.”<br />
On Graham’s achievement, Professor<br />
Smith said: “Graham has established<br />
excellent links with regional<br />
companies and, as a result, been<br />
influential in kick-starting the careers<br />
of generations of <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong><br />
graduates.<br />
“His award <strong>for</strong> academic excellence<br />
is richly deserved after a 40-year<br />
career where he has remained at<br />
the <strong>for</strong>efront of knowledge transfer<br />
across the region.”<br />
“As a teacher of<br />
engineering it was<br />
vital that I and my<br />
colleagues were<br />
able to maintain<br />
professional<br />
capability with<br />
examples of good<br />
practice which also<br />
enlivened classes.”<br />
Graham Cockerham
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By Joe Field<br />
A<br />
record 15,000 people voted<br />
this year <strong>for</strong> their favourite<br />
restaurants, cafés and pubs,<br />
in the fourth annual Eat <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
Restaurant Awards, organised by<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> Business School at <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
<strong>Hallam</strong>.<br />
The public voted <strong>for</strong> more than<br />
300 restaurants, pubs and cafés in<br />
the <strong>Sheffield</strong> region using the Eat<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> website, social media polls<br />
and voting cards in catering outlets.<br />
The winners were announced at a<br />
glittering awards ceremony at the St<br />
Paul’s Mercure hotel, attended by the<br />
cream of the city’s catering industry.<br />
The Devonshire Arms, a modern<br />
pub located in Middle Handley, took<br />
the highly-prized ‘Eat <strong>Sheffield</strong> 2011<br />
Restaurant of the Year’ title. Jill Swift,<br />
owner of the Devonshire Arms, said:<br />
“It’s been very hard work <strong>for</strong> us but<br />
I’m absolutely elated to win - we’re all<br />
very excited.<br />
“Eat <strong>Sheffield</strong> is down to the public<br />
vote and I’m a <strong>Sheffield</strong> girl, born in<br />
Stannington. It’s so great to think that<br />
this was voted <strong>for</strong> by people that I’ve<br />
lived with all my <strong>life</strong>. I’m very proud, I<br />
can’t believe it.<br />
“We’ll carry on doing what we’ve<br />
been doing because it works. We<br />
produce good food, good quality, local<br />
ingredients - there’s no different plan,<br />
but we will aim to get better<br />
and better.”<br />
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Eat <strong>Sheffield</strong> awards<br />
Awards reveal the best<br />
places to dine in <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> residents voted in their thousands <strong>for</strong> their<br />
favourite foodie places in the Eat <strong>Sheffield</strong> awards.<br />
Eat <strong>Sheffield</strong> promotes and<br />
encourages a thriving and locally<br />
distinctive food offering, raising the<br />
profile of the restaurant sector and<br />
promoting <strong>Sheffield</strong>’s reputation as<br />
a progressive and exciting culinary<br />
destination.<br />
Speaking at the awards, Professor<br />
Adrian Hopgood, Pro Vice-Chancellor<br />
Dean of the <strong>Sheffield</strong> Business School,<br />
said: “The whole food industry is such<br />
a major industry, the commercial<br />
<strong>life</strong> of <strong>Sheffield</strong> depends on it. The<br />
Eat <strong>Sheffield</strong> initiative is growing<br />
year on year and it’s developing huge<br />
momentum. You can see that this is<br />
massive <strong>for</strong> the city and particularly<br />
<strong>for</strong> the people who have won.”<br />
The Devonshire Arms also took the<br />
award <strong>for</strong> ‘Favourite Gastro Pub’,<br />
which was the most voted <strong>for</strong> of all<br />
the categories, while the ‘Favourite<br />
Traditional Pub’ category went to The<br />
York in Broomhill. Ed Andrews of Our<br />
Cow Molly was given the ‘<strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
Food Hero’ award, which recognises<br />
champions of local produce, while<br />
the Wig and Pen was crowned<br />
‘Newcomer 2011’.<br />
Eat <strong>Sheffield</strong> manager Niki Baker<br />
said: “It’s a joy to celebrate the<br />
fantastic food culture in <strong>Sheffield</strong>,<br />
and without the hard work of the<br />
restaurateurs and the support of the<br />
public these awards wouldn’t happen,<br />
so thank you to everyone who voted<br />
or took part.”<br />
According to Niki, discussions around<br />
the 2012 awards are already<br />
taking place.<br />
“The Eat <strong>Sheffield</strong> Food awards are<br />
definitely going to happen in 2012,”<br />
she said, “with a few exciting changes<br />
planned. We’d love to look at bringing<br />
the award ceremony to <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
<strong>Hallam</strong> to showcase the hospitality<br />
expertise we have here.<br />
“As the Eat <strong>Sheffield</strong> project evolves<br />
we will continue to develop the award<br />
categories, to be inclusive of the<br />
food sectors that we champion and<br />
support enabling us to embrace more<br />
food businesses within the region.<br />
“Furthermore with the <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
Business School delivery of the 2011<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> Food Festival in partnership<br />
with City Centre Management &<br />
Major Events, we’re considering<br />
combining <strong>for</strong>ces to make the festival<br />
and the awards bigger and better.”<br />
Here is the full list of the Eat <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
Restaurant Awards 2011 winners:<br />
• Favourite Café, sponsored by<br />
Cafeology: Fusion Organic<br />
• Favourite British, sponsored by<br />
Bibendum: Silversmiths<br />
• Favourite European, sponsored by<br />
Le Gruyere: La Mama<br />
• Favourite Italian, sponsored by ABP<br />
Meats: Nonna’s<br />
• Favourite Indian, sponsored by<br />
Speedibake: Aagrah<br />
• Favourite Asian Oriental, sponsored<br />
by Glorious!: Hui Wei<br />
• Favourite Gastro Pub, sponsored<br />
by the Centre <strong>for</strong> Food Innovation<br />
at <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> <strong>University</strong>:<br />
Devonshire Arms<br />
• Favourite Traditional Pub,<br />
sponsored by Brownill Vickers:<br />
The York<br />
• Favourite Family Outing, sponsored<br />
by Mercury Taxis: Endcliffe Park<br />
Café<br />
• Favourite Food Outlet, sponsored by<br />
the <strong>Sheffield</strong> Telegraph:<br />
Street Food Chef<br />
• <strong>Sheffield</strong> Food Hero, sponsored by<br />
Magic AM: Ed Andrews of Our Cow<br />
Molly<br />
• Newcomer 2011, sponsored by<br />
Ultrasharp: Wig and Pen<br />
• Green and Sustainable award,<br />
sponsored by <strong>Sheffield</strong> Is My Planet:<br />
Silversmiths<br />
• Eat <strong>Sheffield</strong> 2011 Restaurant of the<br />
Year, sponsored by Brownill Vickers:<br />
Devonshire Arms<br />
31<br />
Review<br />
Feature Brazil judo squad<br />
Brazil judo squad<br />
pins down training base<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> will be home <strong>for</strong> the Brazil<br />
judo squad in the run-up to the Olympics, and<br />
they came along to get familiar with the city<br />
be<strong>for</strong>e a World Cup event in Liverpool back<br />
in September.<br />
By Joe Field<br />
Shef field <strong>Hallam</strong>’s Collegiate Campus had<br />
a distinctly Latin flavour in September,<br />
as <strong>Sheffield</strong> City Council, the <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
sport department and Sport <strong>Hallam</strong> teamed up<br />
to host the Brazilian judo squad <strong>for</strong> their first<br />
pre-Olympic Games training camp in the city.<br />
The Brazilian team, who currently have several<br />
members ranked in the world top ten, have<br />
selected <strong>Sheffield</strong> as their UK training base<br />
ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games. They<br />
will return to the <strong>University</strong> in July <strong>for</strong> a twoweek<br />
training camp.<br />
The squad spent the week training at Collegiate<br />
Campus, where they benefited from the<br />
<strong>University</strong>’s iBoxer video capture system, which<br />
allows coaches and athletes to analyse and<br />
improve per<strong>for</strong>mance, define fight strategy and<br />
gain a better understanding of their<br />
opponents’ tactics.<br />
The squad also worked with Sport <strong>Hallam</strong><br />
and British Judo on open sessions <strong>for</strong> British<br />
athletes and <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> students. They<br />
then headed to the GB World Cup in Liverpool,<br />
where Daniel Hernandes won a gold medal and<br />
David Moura won a bronze in the<br />
heavyweight category.<br />
Guy Masterman, head of sport at <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
<strong>Hallam</strong>, said: “It is a tremendous honour to<br />
have the Brazil judo team with us <strong>for</strong> their<br />
preparations through to the 2012 Olympics.<br />
“It is a testament to the facilities and sport<br />
support systems we now have in place at<br />
the <strong>University</strong> and our sport campus at EIS<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong>. It is especially pertinent <strong>for</strong> us as we<br />
<strong>for</strong>ge links with Brazil in its progress towards<br />
hosting its own Olympics in 2016 and the FIFA<br />
World Cup in 2014.<br />
“Brazil is an exciting and welcome addition<br />
to those nations hosting major international<br />
sports events and I am sure they will gain from<br />
their experience in <strong>Sheffield</strong>, London and<br />
the UK.”<br />
Ney Wilson, per<strong>for</strong>mance director of the<br />
Brazilian judo squad, was grateful <strong>for</strong> the warm<br />
welcome and felt it was a good sign <strong>for</strong> their<br />
Olympic training at <strong>Sheffield</strong> <strong>Hallam</strong> next<br />
year. He said: “Our visit to <strong>Sheffield</strong> was very<br />
important <strong>for</strong> more detailed preparations <strong>for</strong><br />
London next year.<br />
“We felt very welcome from all areas - the<br />
Council, <strong>University</strong> and the hotel were all very<br />
helpful, helping us find solutions to potential<br />
future problems.<br />
“This visit has been very positive, and I’d like<br />
to say thank you <strong>for</strong> the way we have been<br />
treated, in a very caring way, searching <strong>for</strong><br />
solutions to our needs together.”<br />
The team was brought to <strong>Sheffield</strong> by a<br />
partnership of organisations in the city, led by<br />
<strong>Sheffield</strong> City Council. The relationship with<br />
the team began through superstar footballer<br />
Pelé, who visited the city in 2007 and was given<br />
a letter to take back to the Brazilian Olympic<br />
Committee.<br />
Councillor Helen Mirfin-Boukouris, <strong>Sheffield</strong><br />
City Council’s Cabinet Member <strong>for</strong> Business,<br />
Jobs and Growth, said: “Hosting training camps<br />
like this is great <strong>for</strong> <strong>Sheffield</strong>, and I am delighted<br />
to welcome the Brazilian judo team to the city. I<br />
would like to say a huge thank you to everyone<br />
involved in making this happen, and also to the<br />
team themselves <strong>for</strong> choosing <strong>Sheffield</strong>.
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