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Boris Johnson, Mayor of LondonNovember 2010

London’s musical landscape is virtually unparalleled. We have more venues and performances taking place than New York or Paris, with many of them free.

We are host to the largest celebration of classical composers in the world in the annual Proms, the most democratic of all music

festivals. Songs and compositions can have a transforming impact on young people and as Confucius once said, “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without”.

As well as being home to a vast number of orchestras, in this edition of insight you will read how London is also home to world-class music conservatoires. These hothouses of talent are teaching tomorrow’s classical stars who are drawn to the city from around the world.

But as the Mayor of London I am not only concerned with our city’s great cultural heritage, I am also responsible for reducing the city’s greenhouse gas emissions and want to ensure that London is a world leader in tackling climate change. We are blessed that in London we already have some of the leading climate change thinkers undertaking research that we can call upon.

London is home to not one but two Grantham Institutes for Climate Change with teams of academics working on groundbreaking research that will change the way we think about our planet. Inside you will read more about their research and the courses you can enrol on to do your bit and help stem the tide of climate change.

I hope you enjoy reading this edition of insight. Remember, you can go to www.studylondon.ac.uk for more news and information on studying in one of the most amazing cities in the world.

nEWs02 Read about the latest courses, research and

student successes from London’s universities

businEss & finanCE10 THE RisE Of THE GLObaL ManaGER Boost

your CV with an international perspective11 Brazilian scholarship • A social media star • World cup placement • Graduate scheme success

CREaTivE aRTs12 CLassiCaL MusiC sPOTLiGHT Enjoy

hundreds of concerts and learn from the city’s world-class orchestras

13 Shoe design • BBC radio bursary award • IKEA design placement • Screenwriting success

sCiEnCE & TECHnOLOGY14 CLiMaTE CHanGE REsEaRCH How the

city’s researchers are fighting the race against time15 Future science leaders • Life-saving thermal

clothes • Chemistry award • Drug research

HEaLTH & PubLiC POLiCY16 insPiRinG fuTuRE sCHOOL LEaDERs

London’s next generation of leaders are changing the way we teach and learn

17 Professional of the year • DNA research breakthrough • Microbiology professor • Helping rebuild Haiti

REGuLaR fEaTuREs18 CaLEnDaR Of EvEnTs Discover London’s

diverse festivals and celebrations20 LOnDOn’s HiDDEn GEMs The v&a Museum of Childhood Explore childcare and child development, from childbirth in the 17th century to teenage rebellion in the 1960s

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iN thE NEWS the LAteSt NeWS FROM LONDON’S UNIVeRSItIeS

THE build-up towards the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games continues with the launch of the London Ambassador’s programme. The Mayor of London is recruiting 8,000 Ambassadors to welcome visitors from all over the world and be the ‘face of London’.

Students studying, or planning to study, in London are encouraged to apply by 31 December 2010 at www.londonambassadors.org.uk

World ranking

SEVEN of London’s universities have been ranked in the world’s top 200 in the 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, more than any other city in the world. The ranking recognises the quality of the teaching, research and internationalism of the world’s universities.

The seven top ranked London universities are: • Imperial College London • University College London • King’s College London • London School of Economics and Political Science• Royal Holloway, University of London • Queen Mary, University of London• Birkbeck, University of London.

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University of West London

AN undergraduate student at the School of Oriental and African Studies has won first prize at the Chinese Bridge competition, a prestigious contest in China for non-native speakers. Stewart Johnson beat more than 6,000 competitors from 59 countries to win the final, which was shown live on Chinese

Chinese cultural scholar

state television and watched by an estimated 200 million people.

To win the competition, Stewart had to deliver a speech in Chinese and answer questions about Chinese culture. His prize is a full three-year scholarship to study in China as well as being named a ‘cultural ambassador’.

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A LAW graduate from City University London has won a coveted human rights scholarship in Pakistan. Charlotte Bailye, who recently completed the Bar Vocational Course at City’s Law School, will now begin a Human Rights Lawyers Association (HRLA) internship.

Charlotte will work for the

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, spending a month in Lahore to work with Justice Majida Razvi, the country’s first female high court judge.The talented law graduate beat more than 100 other candidates with her report on forced marriage and honour killings in Pakistan, soon to be published by the HRLA.

THAMES Valley University (TVU) has announced a name change to the University of West London. The new name is not the university’s first. It was originally founded in 1860 as the Lady Byron School. The new brand, logo and name will be introduced later this year. The change coincides with the appointment of a new Chancellor and a celebration of the university’s 150 years of providing education in West London to students and local companies.

Safer scanning A SCIENTIFIC breakthrough by academics from Middlesex University will make it possible to scan a newborn baby’s lungs without exposing the child to radiation. They have discovered a new scanning technique that passes a small electrical current into the body which is likely to lead to the development of cheaper alternatives to MRI and CT scanners. These highly portable scanners will also reduce the need to transport premature babies to specialist scanning facilities.

Indian law internship

Stewart (left) collects his award

New home

RAVENSBOURNE’S new £70 million home next to the O2 music venue is purpose built and includes a fully functioning TV studio for students.


LONDON Business School has expanded its partnership with Vodafone and is doubling the number of scholarships it awards to its students from two to four. This increase forms part of a deepening relationship between Vodafone and London Business School, with Vodafone recently joining the School’s corporate partnership programme. The world’s leading mobile telecommunications company is also seeking to recruit more London Business School students while also working with several of the School’s academic staff to collaborate on research.

Vittorio Colao, Vodafone’s CEO, recently spoke at the School’s Global Leadership Summit outlining the company’s emerging market strategy and how it intends to focus on the Indian market.

Psychology research prize A PROFESSOR from King’s College London has received the American Psychological Association (APA) 2010 Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology. The APA recognised Professor David Clark’s research into panic disorders and the treatment of social phobias. With 150,000 members, the APA is the largest association of psychologists in the world. Professor Clark joined King’s in 2000 and is also the director of the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma.

PETER Bramley, a Course Co-ordinator at Rose Bruford College, has won the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award for his production of Ovid’s Metamorphoses at this year’s Edinburgh Festival. Peter will now receive funding

to stage his show in New York in January 2011. The show has received critical acclaim and was created with a cast of actors comprising mostly of recent graduates from Rose Bruford’s BA Acting Musicianship and BA Acting programmes.

Edinburgh Festival Award

Source: King’s College London

Vodafone partnership

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Professor David Clark


UNIVERSITY of East London fashion student Bunmi Olaye was recently invited to meet Nelson Mandela at his home after she was awarded the Best Emerging International Designer award at

Keyboard successes TWO Royal College of Music pianists have recently won major prizes. Alexey Chernov won First Prize and €3,000 in the Italian International Piano Competition “AMA Calabria”, and also in Italy, Konstantin Lapshin won First Prize in the Mendelssohn Cup.

Bunmi (left) meeting Nelson Mandela Source: Bunmi O

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Meeting Nelson Mandela

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CHRISTOPHER Harkin, an Industrial Design and Technology student at Brunel University, has created a lightweight, self-assembly cot that is covered with a net to protect children from malaria-carrying mosquitos in the developing world. The net is made using a mesh that is four times stronger than traditional mosquito netting.

The design student was inspired to create his life-saving design when he learnt that malaria is responsible for the deaths of 3,000 children every day, the majority of them aged under five. The cot can be flat-packed and Chris is now working with a charity to transport his products to Cambodia.

Preventing malaria

A NEW MA in Film Curating is being launched thanks to a unique collaboration between the London Consortium and the London Film School. Students can study the role of film curating in an age when digital distribution technologies are transforming the sector.

Each student also gets the opportunity to curate a film screening or film-related event at the end of each year, using the resources and expertise of the London Film School and the institutions of the London Consortium.

The London Consortium is a unique collaboration between: • Architectural Association•Birkbeck, University of London•Institute of Contemporary Arts•Science Museum•Tate. Together they teach postgraduate qualifications in the humanities and cultural studies, including a Master’s of Research (MRes). The MRes combines coursework, research and can act as a pathway into the Consortium’s PhD programme.

Africa Fashion Week. The talented student, whose designs have attracted the attention of America’s First Lady, Michelle Obama, has since showcased her work to the world at London Fashion Week.

New film course

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Christopher with his design

Did you know?

300new films(Source: BFI)

The BFI London Film Festival screened over


STELLA McCartney, a University of the Arts alumni, will lead the design team creating Team GB’s tracksuits for the London 2012 Olympic Games. The celebrated British designer will work on a wide range of clothes, from competitive

Dance and music scholarship TRINITY Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance has established the Loveday Scholarship, the Conservatoire’s first scholarship available to both dance and music students.

There will be five ‘Loveday Scholars’ every ten years, four for musicians and one for a dancer. All postgraduate students in need of financial support and who are exceptionally talented in music or contemporary dance will be eligible to apply. The funds to create the

Source: trinity Laban

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Prison break DR Sharon Shalev, a research fellow at the London School of Economics, has been awarded the prestigious British Society of Criminology’s Book Prize for her book Supermax: controlling risk through solitary confinement.

The prize is awarded annually to a publication that makes a valuable contribution to the development of criminology. Supermax is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the supermax prison system in the USA, which was established to protect society from its most violent and dangerous criminals.

scholarship are available thanks to the generous donation of enthusiastic arts supporters Mark and Liza Loveday.

Olympic clothes for Team GB performance wear to regular clothing for fans. Stella trained as an apprentice with Christian Lacroix on Savile Row as a teenager and graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design with a BA in Fashion in 1995.

Mark and Liza Loveday (centre)

Only in London

(Source: London School of economics)

LSE professor Christopher Pissarides was recently awarded the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, which takes the number of Nobel prize winners from LSE to 16


A TEAM of 10 students from the Royal College of Art was recently invited to design a clothes collection for UK high street retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S). The MA Fashion & Textiles students worked closely with the M&S fashion team and the finished designs featured both in-store and online during London Fashion Week.

The best student designer from the team will be given the opportunity to produce a larger collection for 2011.

New Spider-Man ACTING graduate Andrew Garfield from the Central School of Speech and Drama (CSSD) has been selected to replace Tobey Maguire as the new Spider-Man for the fourth film due to be released in 2012.

Three years after finishing his degree at Central, Andrew was voted one of Variety magazine’s ‘top 10 to watch’. Later this year he will appear alongside Keira Knightley in the forthcoming British sci-fi thriller, Never Let Me Go and he is also starring in The Social Network based on the founding of Facebook.

Andrew joins an illustrious list of successful alumni from the school, which includes James Bond actor Judi Dench, playwright Harold Pinter and English Patient actor Kristin Scott Thomas. CSSD, a specialist conservatoire within the University of London, has one of the broadest range of drama, theatre and performance courses in Europe.

Students working on their designs

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Fashion Week work

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THE European Business School at Regent’s College London has launched a new MA Luxury Brand Management. The course focuses on the marketing and management of luxury brands and also offers modules studying intellectual property law and

Luxury brand management consumer behaviour. Students have the option to complete an internship within a luxury brand company and gain industry-specific work experience. Alternatively students can undertake a dissertation on a research area within luxury branding.


ROEHAMPTON University rowing student and sport scholar Jamie Kirkwood and his team won gold at this year’s Under-23 World Championships in Belarus. Jamie started rowing at the age of 14 and is now studying Sport and Exercise Science at Roehampton.

In addition to his studies Jamie will continue training as London gets ready to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.

Premier League placement

PHYSICAL and Sport Education undergraduates from St Mary’s University College, Twickenham have been selected to help coordinate Chelsea Football Club’s ‘Search for an Asian Soccer Star 2010’. The 25 students will use the skills and knowledge that they have learnt in their degree programme to work as coaches and help identify promising footballers.

Chelsea Football Club will work with the Asian Media Group and Kick

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New university college BPP has been named the UK’s first new private sector university college for more than 30 years. The new university college already has degree awarding powers and over 35,000students study its law, business and accountancy qualifications.

Undergraduates at the Chelsea Academy

It Out to search for players in the UK from Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi backgrounds aged 8 to 13 years old.

The young players will be judged during a series of matches and tests specifically designed to examine their speed, skill and ability. Successful candidates will then be selected for a week’s training with the Chelsea Academy squad and could even be signed by Chelsea as professional footballers.

Rowing gold


FOUR up-and-coming designers from the London College of Fashion’s MA Fashion Design and Technology course have been chosen to showcase their work on a new Harrods website. The new

Flower power JAMES Clarke, a Landscape Architecture graduate from the University of Greenwich, has won a Gold Award at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.

James’s winning design was a show garden for the Tourism Authority of Thailand. As part of his research, James visited Thailand to study different plants and capture the local character. His design also won him the Tudor Rose Award for the Best Show Garden, the highest accolade awarded by the RHS.

Clothes designed by London College of Fashion student Hasan Hejazi

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Harrods talent showcase

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Modern biologyBIOLOGISTS of the future will be better equipped to tackle big problems including climate change and species extinction thanks to Imperial College London’s new MSc in Quantitative Biology. The course will provide the next generation of scientists with the necessary tools in mathematics, statistics and video imaging to help them tackle modern problems in biology.

The one-year course is offered full-time over 50 weeks. In addition to taught modules, students will also undertake a research project.

International programmes THE University of London has been delivering distance learning degrees through its External System since 1858. Over 150 years later, the programme has changed its name and will now be called International Programmes. The University of London International Programmes will continue to offer internationally recognised Diplomas, Bachelor’s and Master’s courses to 50,000 students in 180 countries.

multimedia platform will provide a high profile stage for students to launch their fashion careers. A selection of their clothes will also be sold to the public at the Harrods Designer Studio.


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The rise of the global manager

Boost your CV with an international perspective.

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Brendan Jongman

The popularity of management courses, especially those offering a global perspective, has helped propel London

Business School (LBS) to the top of the FT’s Global MBA Rankings.

Brendan Jongman, a student from The Netherlands on LBS’s Master’s in Management, chose the School because of its global reputation. “In terms of business, London is the capital of the world right now and London Business School is the best school in the world in the rankings,” he says.

Even so LBS has exceeded his expectations, giving him the chance to network with people from the industry and attend lectures given by world leading academics. “The teaching is fantastic,” he says, “The big advantage here is that the teachers are real business people.”

London’s unique multicultural population is also replicated within the city’s business schools. At Cass Business School, part of City

Did you know?

(Source: HESA 2008/9)

There are

63,000students studying business and management courses in London

University, there are students from 90 countries studying business and finance courses. While at Imperial Business School, 70 percent of the MBA class are from outside the UK.

Gaining an international outlook is one of the key reasons why students choose to study in the city. A London qualification gives your CV that all important global perspective, which will put you ahead of the competition for a successful career with a blue chip multinational company.

Course highlightsLOnDOn MeTROPOLiTAn uniVeRsiTY Entrepreneurship and Management, BA

LOnDOn sOuTH bAnKuniVeRsiTY Management with Business Information Technology, BA

KinG’s COLLeGe LOnDOnInternational Management, MSc

LOnDOn business sCHOOLMaster’s in Management

Queen MARY, uniVeRsiTY OF LOnDOnManagement and Organisational Innovation, MA

ROeHAMPTOn uniVeRsiTY International Management with Finance, MSc

uniVeRsiTY OF LOnDOn inTeRnATiOnAL PROGRAMMes International Management, MSc

Find more courses at www.studylondon.ac.uk

A quarter of London businesses are foreign-owned. With over 20,000 overseas-owned companies, London attracts more inward investment than any other European country.

Only in London

(Source: Think London)

business & FinAnCe


Brazilian scholarship

LONDON Business School has created the Wili and Ilse Scholarship to help support students from Brazil studying an MBA at the School. Thanks to an anonymous donation, the funding will increase the number of scholarships on offer at the School. In the last year, the School has awarded more than £1 million in student support.

LONDON Metropolitan University alumnus Amanda Rose has been listed by leading business magazine Management Today as one of the top ‘35 women under 35’ in business.

Amanda came from Canada to study the University’s MA Communications Management. The course has given Amanda the skills to coordinate high profile

A social media star events such as London Fashion Week, the Brit Awards and Twestival, an event that used social media to raise $1.2m for charity. It has been quite a year for Amanda who has created her own strategic consultancy ‘Connect the Dots’ while also being named as one of the year’s ‘Most Intriguing People’ by US television news channel CNN.

TWO students at Royal Holloway, University of London are celebrating after winning places on Vodafone’s competitive graduate scheme. The students beat almost 3,000 applicants to work for the one of the world’s largest mobile phone companies.

Management student Lauren

Graduate scheme success

McKinlay together with Maths and Management student Pooja Suri will begin work in September with a starting salary of £25,000. Their placement will give them experience of a wide range of areas including retail, marketing, research and development, human resources and finance.

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Pooja Suri

World cup placement

LONDON South Bank University (LSBU) student Oksana Kiose recently completed a placement at the world renowned advertising agency Ogilvy where she worked on internet giant Yahoo’s football world cup advertising campaign.

The Marketing Communications student won the placement thanks to a competition at her university. During her placement, Oksana worked on a promotional campaign featuring the global football icon David Beckham while also learning from the experienced Ogilvy team as they finalised marketing briefs, presentations and the latest advertisement releases.

Over the years, LSBU has created a strong partnership with the advertising agency, which currently employs more than 10 LSBU graduates.

Did you know?

(Source: HESA 2008-9)

There are

685Brazilian students studying in London


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Classical music spotlight

G race Yeo, a South Korean Master’s student at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, is a big fan

of London’s lively classical music scene. “You can enjoy classicalmusic any night of the week,” She says. Grace’s favourite venue is the Royal Albert Hall which is famous for hosting the BBC Proms each year, a 115 year old classical music festival that stages 100 concerts in just

Enjoy hundreds of concerts and learn from the city’s world-class orchestras.

Course highlightsbRuneL uniVeRsiTY Musical Composition, BMus

KinGsTOn uniVeRsiTY Music Technology, BMus

ROYAL ACADeMY OF MusiCMusic (Performance or Composition), BMus

TRiniTY LAbAnMusical Theatre (Performance), BA

GuiLDHALL sCHOOL OF MusiC AnD DRAMAMusic Composition, MMus

ROse bRuFORD COLLeGeMusic in Performance, MA

ROYAL ACADeMY OF MusiCMusic, DMA


Grace Yeo

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nine weeks. Grace also enjoys performing in

London. She has played solo piano concerts at prestigious venues such as St Martin in the Fields Church and she has even played a concerto at the Royal Albert Hall.

The talented student started playing piano aged four and it was while studying a BMus degree at Seoul University that Grace decided to study in London.

At Guildhall, she was awarded the Barbara Stringer Scholarship and she is now planning to stay in the UK to audition for a professional orchestra.

(Source: BBC)

Did you know?

The Proms were founded in

1895to encourage more people to listen to classical music

Until then, she is enjoying London life. “I’m really lucky that most of my friends are British so it’s great for improving my English skills,” she says. And there’s as much listening as there is talking in a city that is home to the London Symphony Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. You can spend a year in London and never hear the same classical symphony twice.

25 Brook Street, Mayfair has been home to both George Frederick Handel and Jimi Hendrix, though separated by more than 200 years.

Only in London


CREATIVE ARTS

Shoe design LONDON College of Fashion (LCF) has teamed up with UK high street retailer New Look to create a new footwear collection. Students on the MA Fashion Footwear course will gain valuable work experience as they design a collection of shoes, boots and sandals that will be sold in New Look stores.

Students will compete to have their designs chosen by a panel of industry and retail experts. Winning students will then play an integral role in the production process before their shoes go on sale. The project could be the beginning of an illustrious career as the students aim to follow in the footsteps of shoe designers and former LCF graduates Jimmy Choo and LK Bennett.

GRAPHIC design students at Kingston University London have won an IKEA work placement after winning the Student of the Year award at this year’s D&AD awards. Jessica Reynolds and Serena Wise won the highest honour with their eye-catching design, which answered a brief set by furniture retail giant IKEA. They redesigned the IKEA catalogue as a colour wheel

IKEA design placement (pictured) to display all products organised according to colour, enabling customers to choose and match items of furniture more easily.

Judges praised the elegant design, highlighting its easy to use and fun approach. The two students will now develop the idea further on a work placement at IKEA’s advertising agency, ‘Mother’.

A ROYAL Holloway, University of London student has won the David Lean Award in recognition of his screenwriting talents. Judges, including screenwriters, agents and a former Film4 executive, awarded Jonathan Nicol £5,000 to help him develop his work and begin his film career. The MA Screenwriting student will use the money to develop ‘Best of Luck’, his current screenplay. He will attend next year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival and continue to run creative writingworkshops for young people.

Screenwriting success

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BBC radiobursary awardTHIRD year acting student Iain Batchelor, from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), and Henry Devas, from Rose Bruford College, have been awarded joint first place in the BBC Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award.

The pair beat 80 students from 20 different schools to win the top prize, which is a five month work placement with the BBC’s prestigious Radio Drama Company.

The bursary has been run by the BBC’s Radio and Drama department since 1953. To date, the scheme has helped launch the careers of 120 outstanding graduates.

Royal Holloway’s campus (Source: BBC)

Did you know?

The BBC first started to broadcast in

1922


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Climate change research

A neire Khan has more reason than many of her contemporaries to have an interest in climate change.

The Imperial College London PhD student has seen first-hand the disastrous impact of a changing climate in her native Bangladesh.

“For Bangladesh, climate change is not just a concept that may happen in the future,” she says. “Sea-level rise is a critical factor making Bangladesh especially vulnerable to climate change.”

As part of her PhD, Aneire is studying the effects of rising sea-levels on the water supply in Bangladesh’s remote coastal regions. She hopes to be able to help some of the 20 million people threatened by the increasing salt levels found in drinking water near Bangladesh’s coast.

While Aneire works on her research during the day, in the evenings she sings in a fusion band that mixes

How the city’s researchers are fighting the race against time.

Course highlightsbiRbeCK, uniVeRsiTY OF LOnDOnClimate Change Management, MSc

iMPeRiAL COLLeGe LOnDOnEnvironmental Engineering and Sustainable Development, MSc

LOnDOn sCHOOL OF eCOnOMiCsEnvironmental Policy and Regulation, MSc

MiDDLeseX uniVeRsiTYEnvironmental Pollution Control, MSc

uniVeRsiTY COLLeGe LOnDOnEnvironment, Science and Society, MSc

uniVeRsiTY OF eAsT LOnDOnRenewable Energy and the Built Environment, MSc


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There are over 250 environmental-related courses available at London’s universities. You can search for them at www.studylondon.ac.uk

Only in London

Did you know?

The Mayor of London has pledged a

60%cut in carbon output by 2025

Bengali music with Latin and Afro beats. “London is rich in culture and because I am a singer, that particular aspect really attracted me,” Aneire explains.

Groundbreaking climate change research is taking place in London. The city is home to two Grantham Research Institutes, at Imperial and the London School of Economics. They specialise on improving our understanding of the science behind climate change and developing new technologies to combat its worst effects. Researchers like Aneire know it is a race against time.

(Source: Mayor of London)

The Thames Barrier, protecting London from rising sea levels


sCienCe & TeCHnOLOGY

Chemistry award

PROFESSOR Paul Workman from the Institute of Cancer Research has received a prestigious award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) for his work in discovering exciting new anti-cancer drugs.

Professor Workman was given the RSC George & Christine Sosnovsky Award in Cancer Therapy for his research that seeks to design drugs with the ability to block the molecules that are essential for cancer cells to grow and spread. As a result, a number of new drugs have entered clinical trials, including one that has already received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration.

The RSC is the professional body for chemical scientists and is the largest organisation in Europe dedicated to advancing the science.

AN INDUSTRIAL Design and Technology student at Brunel University has designed a life-saving thermal vest to protect its wearer from hypothermia. Snowboarding enthusiast Tom Le Mesurier designed the ‘HyProtection’ vest to include heat strips that are triggered by underarm sensors, which are then activated if the core body temperature drops too low.

Life-saving thermal clothes The vest has been designed

particularly for someone who is unable to move due to injury, or if they are stranded somewhere and are at risk to hypothermia. Warmed by the vest, wearers will have more time to be found before chronic hypothermia begins. Tom recently showcased his pioneering design to industry buyers at the Made in Brunel product design exhibition.

RESEARCHERS from Imperial College London have been awarded more than £8 million in fellowships from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The fellowships will provide support to early stage researchers and help established researchers develop their

Future science leaders

Drug research TWO students from the School of Pharmacy have won the prestigious Physiological Society’s Undergraduate Prize. Zahra Ali and Sagar Arvind Pal won with their research into drugs that work with blood vessels and blood pressure to evaluate how drugs affect symptoms such as dizziness, fainting and heart failure.

In addition to a cash prize, the students also received free membership to the Physiological Society, which was founded in 1876 and has counted 21 Nobel Laureates as its members. The Society works to contribute to the understanding of biomedical sciences and the detection, prevention and treatment of disease and disability.

The School of Pharmacy is a college of the University of London and isthe only free-standing specialist school in the UK dedicated entirely to teaching and research in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences.

The School is over 150 years old and currently teaches around 1,600 students.

Tom Le Mesurier with his HyProtection vest

potential to become international leaders in their field. Imperial will use the funding to work on a variety of important projects such as designing the next generation of eco-friendly cars, making internet servers more secure, generating nuclear power systems and fighting diseases.

Source: Brunel University


HEALTH & PUBLIC POLICY NEWS AND COURSES

Inspiring future school leaders

The new incoming director of the Institute of Education, Chris Husbands, recently summed up the role of

teacher training, saying, “I am passionately dedicated to the quality of children’s experiences in schools, and how we support teachers in getting the best out of children.”

There is a vast range of courses in London that aim to support teachers through training and continuous professional development. MA Education student Nancy Narabal

London’s next generation of leaders are changing the way we teach and learn.

Chris Husbands, incoming director of the Institute of Education

Source: Institute of Education

Course highlightsUNIVERSITY OF GREENWICHEducation and Child Development, BA

GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDONEducation (Culture, Language and Identity), MA

INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIONDevelopment Education, MA

KING’S COLLEGE LONDONEducation Management, MA

MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITYEducation: Leadership, Management and Change, MA

ST MARY’S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, TWICKENHAMEducation (Leading Innovation and Change), MSc


The V&A Museum of Childhood receives

Did you know?

40,000(Source: Museum of Childhood)

visitors each year

came from the Philippines to study at Middlesex University. She is studying Leadership, Management and Change, a course that will improve her pedagogic research skills and give her the tools to manage organisational change.

Nancy has found her time studying in London inspirational. “Accessibility to information needed by students is always possible as there are enormous libraries in every borough,” she says.

London’s multicultural student population has also helped her understand different cultures, a skill she will take back to the Philippines. “The opportunities to meet students from other parts of the world help us adapt to the excellent learning styles

London has over 385 public libraries, meeting the needs of nursery school children through to learned professors.

Only in London

and reasoning skills of students from different backgrounds,” she explains.

With nearly 2,000 schools in London there are lots of opportunities for trainee teachers to undertake work experience and transfer what they learn in the lecture hall into the classroom.


HEALTH & PUBLIC POLICY

Professional of the year

CITY University London graduate Dr Zahra Jessa has been named ‘Professional of the Year’ at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2010. Dr Jessa was recognised for her research into detecting visual problems in elderly people. The award recognises professionals who have become leading practitioners in their chosen field and who are an inspiration to other women. Dr Jessa is currently working in London as an optometrist at Moorfields - one of the world’s leading eye hospitals.

DR Jo Morris and Amin Alamshah from King’s College London have been awarded Breast Cancer Campaign’s ‘Research Team of the Year’ prize for their ground-breaking studies.

The team has discovered proteins that identify where DNA damage has occurred in the body. The proteins also have the ability to attach

DNA research breakthrough themselves within the body to fix genetic faults. Failure to repair this damage can lead to cell death and trigger diseases such as cancer.

It is hoped the discovery will help scientists develop drugs that work with common cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy to kill cancerous cells while reproducing healthy new cells.

A TEAM of architects, engineers and students from University College London are using their expertise to build a primary school and community centre in Haiti. The rebuilding of this vital infrastructure for local communities follows the violent earthquake in January which killed nearly a quarter of a million people and left a million more homeless.

The team will work with Thinking Development, a non-governmental organisation leading the redevelopment project in the country’s capital city, Port-au-Prince.

Helping rebuild Haiti

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Microbiology professor

PROFESSOR John Oxford from Queen Mary, University of London has received an influential award in recognition of his vital work communicating public health messages about influenza.

The virology professor was given the Communications Award by the Society for Applied Microbiology in recognition of the important role he had in helping the public understand the risks of the recent swine flu pandemic. Professor Oxford (pictured) has spent years studying the influenza virus and has published 250 scientific papers on the subject.

Amin Alamshah and Dr Jo Morris

The new facilities will be earthquake-resistant and eco-friendly. The team will work with the local community to enable people in Haiti to lead their own recovery.

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At work in Haiti

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EVENTS

jaNuaryNew Year’s Day Parade

International Mime Festival

London Art Fair

FEBruaryChinese New Year Celebrations

London Fashion Week

Six Nations Rugby at Twickenham

marchSt Patrick’s Day Parade

Affordable Art Fair

aprilLondon Marathon

London Book Fair

The Camden Crawl

Vaisakhi Celebrations

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

mayAfrica Day Celebrations

FA Cup Final

Chelsea Flower Show

Student Final Year Shows across London

juNETrooping the Colour

City of London Festival

London Literature Festival

Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships

The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition

London Festival of Architecture

Taste of London

Camden Green Fair

A selection of London’s festivals and celebrationscalENdar oF EVENTS

NoVEmBErLondon Jazz FestivalJazz enthusiasts and newcomers come together for an inspiring ten days of jazz, packed with everything from be-bop to beat-box. Take your pick of 192 concerts at 41 venues and listen to some of the world’s best jazz music.

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NoVEmBErLord Mayor’s Show

Join the Lord Mayor’s procession, winding through 800 years of London history, when the newly elected Lord Mayor makes his way to the Royal Courts of Justice to pledge allegiance to the Crown. Enjoy the Show with 6,000 performers, 200 vehicles, 70 floats and 24 marching bands.


EVENTS

july

Wireless Music Festival

BBC Proms Classical Music Festival

Pride London

auguST

Trafalgar Square Festival

Carnaval del Pueblo

Notting Hill Carnival

London Triathlon

London Mela

SEpTEmBEr

Regent Street Festival

Open House

London Design Festival

Thames Festival

London Fashion Week

The Great River Race

Brick Lane Festival

ocToBEr

London Film Festival

Eid Celebrations

Frieze Art Fair

Bloomsbury Festival

Diwali Celebrations

London Games Festival

NoVEmBEr

Lord Mayor’s Show

London Jazz Festival

State Opening of Parliament

dEcEmBEr

Carols in Trafalgar Square

New Year’s Eve Fireworks

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Go online to read more about events taking place in London www.studylondon.ac.uk

jaNuary 2010International Mime Festival Challenge your expectations of mime with London’s guide to the best in contemporary, international visual theatre. Quietly enjoy performances at some of London’s most prestigious venues.

dEcEmBErNew Year’s Eve FireworksCountdown to the New Year with 350,000 revellers and enjoy a spectacular fireworks display against the backdrop of the London Eye and Houses of Parliament. Big Ben’s famous chimes start the celebrations at midnight making this free event a night to remember.

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dEcEmBErChristmas Carols in Trafalgar SquareListen to school and charity choirs as they help raise money for good causes each December. Carols are sung beneath the 20 metre tall Christmas tree donated by Norway every year since 1947 as a token of Norwegian and British friendship.

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child’S play

loNdoN’S hiddEN gEmS

In eAch edItIon we expLore London’s unIque treAsures, specIALIst coLLectIons And resources. In thIs edItIon we focus on the V&A MuseuM of chILdhood.

After the success of London’s 1851 Great Exhibition, much of the land south of Hyde Park was bought

with the income and today is home to the national treasures of the Natural History Museum, Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum.

Across town in Bethnal Green, a very different type of museum can also trace its roots back to 1851, the V&A Museum of Childhood. Within its vaulted steel roof the Museum contains the national childhood collection and is home to the world’s finest collection of children’s toys, dolls’ houses, games and costumes. Its doll collection numbers 8,000 and contains rare examples dating back to the 17th century, including the Old Pretender Doll that is believed to have belonged to King James II.

The Museum is more than just a toy shop. It explores the themes of childhood past and present through a dynamic programme of exhibitions. Visitors can explore the social history of childcare and child development through the ages, ranging from childbirth in the 17th century to

teenage rebellion in the 1960s. The education programme at the

Museum is full of popular teaching sessions, making it a perfect resource for teachers completing their early years teacher training.

An extensive refurbishment has recently increased the Museum’s capacity, providing more room for interactive areas and educational facilities. It is no wonder that 400,000 children visit each year to marvel at the toys of yesteryear.

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The Old Pretender Doll, c.1680

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Tamesha Watkins LAW STUDENT FROM BARBADOS

“When I came to the

decision to study in

London for a second

degree, I wanted to be

able to complete it in the

shortest time possible

but also ensure that it

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Kun Chen STATISTICS STUDENT FROM CHINA

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