Public Lectures Autumn/Winter 2014

Welcome to Edge Hill University, just shortlisted by Times HigherEducation for University of the Year.

Along with welcoming our new students, Autumn 2014 also seesthe start of an exciting collection of public lectures and seminarsfrom across our Faculties.

In addition to inaugural lectures in a series from our new professors,October brings a screening of the 1972 classic Under Milk Woodand a Q&A with its director Andrew Sinclair, author of the recentlypublished Down Under Milk Wood: Of Burton and Taylor, O’Tooleand Others, Dylan and Me.

Professor Peter Scott will explore the drives and dynamics ofHigher Education, speculating on the future shape of UK highereducation in 2025. By contrast, Mark Flinn explores the past ofthis institution, presenting archive material about Edge Hill lifeduring the First World War.

The 2014-2015 Applied Health and Social Care series beginswith Life is a Minestrone, a lecture by Dr Fred Pender who is anexperienced educator, dietician and food writer from theUniversity of Edinburgh. The series will continue with a lecturefrom the Children’s Commissioner Dr Maggie Atkinson inNovember.

Finally, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscienceat University College London and recipient of The Turin YoungMind and Brain Prize 2013 and The Royal Society Rosalind FranklinAward 2013, will present the annual Chancellor’s Lecture The TeenageBrain in November, introduced by Professor Tanya Byron.

We hope you can join us.

WELCOME

Higher Education 2025: Familiar landscape or another country?Professor Peter ScottWednesday 1st October 2014

Under Milk Wood: Film and Q&A with DirectorAndrew SinclairWednesday 8th October 2014

What does Psychology have to offer Education?Professor Dave PutwainThursday 23rd October 2014

Life is a MinestroneDr Fred Pender Thursday 30th October 2014

The Teenage BrainProfessor Sarah-Jayne BlakemoreFriday 7th November 2014

Temporary Darkness – Edge Hill during WWIMark FlinnMonday 10th November 2014

My Life in Modelling and Other ThingsProfessor James O’Kane Thursday 20th November 2014

The Children & Families Act 2014: Children’s rights and thecomplexities of childhood in the 21st CenturyDr Maggie AtkinsonThursday 27th November 2014

What is Creative about the Creative Industries?Professor Phil DrakeTuesday 2nd December 2014

Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice Lecture Series23rd September - 16th December 2014

Coming up – Spring/Summer 2015

AT A GLANCE

01.10.14WEDNESDAYFaculty of Healthand Social Care

Arrival and Registration:5.30pmLecture followed by Q&A:6.00pmRefreshments and networking:7.15pm

Book your place at:ehu.ac.uk/bookevents

The development of higher education in the UK, and elsewhere,has been characterised by a dynamic between change andcontinuity. At the most profound level, forms of higher educationare shaped by changes in social structures, the economy,occupational patterns and cultural norms – which have producedmass systems. On the surface, political decisions are the politicaldrivers – hence the shift from institutional grants to student feesand the rise of audit, evaluation and assessment regimes. Inbetween, at an intermediate level, institutions resist, absorb andembrace change in a complex game of things must change sothat things can stay the same. As a result, predicting the speedand direction of future developments in UK higher education is ahazardous business. A decade on will it appear reassuringlyfamiliar or disturbingly different? If there is radical change, atwhat level will it be most apparent – in its deep structure, at anintermediate level or on the political surface?

Peter Scott is Professor of Higher Education Studies at theInstitute of Education. He was previously Vice-Chancellor ofKingston University and has also been Pro Vice-Chancellor forexternal affairs at the University of Leeds, as well as Professorof Education and Director of the Centre for Policy Studies inEducation. Before going to Leeds in 1992, he was for 16 yearseditor of the Times Higher Education Supplement and he stillwrites on educational issues for the Guardian.

Higher Education 2025: Familiar landscape or another country?

PROFESSOR PETER SCOTT

08.10.14WEDNESDAY

Creative Edge

Arrival and Registration:6.30pm

Lovely Ugly: 6.45pm

Film followed by Q&A:7.00pm

No need to book

As part of the celebrations of Dylan Thomas’ centenary, Edge Hillpresents a free screening of the 1972 film adaptation, introducedby its director, Andrew Sinclair. A performance of 10-minutedance piece Lovely Ugly, by Edge Hill dance companies 3rdEdge and Edge FWD, will precede the screening.

This 1972 adaptation of Dylan Thomas’ classic radio playfeatures some of the leading film actors of the day, includingRichard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O’Toole. AndrewSinclair will introduce the screening, and reveal some of thesecrets of this acclaimed film.

"The film, beautifully photographed and spoken, casts thebrooding spell of Thomas’ verse in its reconstruction of theseaside village and the daily round of its inhabitants." – International Herald Tribune

"Richard Burton said it was a film about religion, sex and death,and it is, but it is also wildly fun” – Andrew Sinclair

Dr Sinclair’s book Down Under Milk Wood: Of Burton and Taylor,O’Toole and Others, Dylan and Me, an illustrated memoir ofSinclair’s relationship with the works of Dylan Thomas and withthe film industry, was published earlier this year.

Under Milk Wood: Film screening and Q&A with Director Andrew Sinclair

DR ANDREW SINCLAIR

23.10.14THURSDAYFaculty of Education

Arrival and Registration:5.30pmLecture followed by Q&A:6.00pmRefreshments and networking:7.15pm

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Dave Putwain is a Professor of Education in the University’s Facultyof Education. His inaugural lecture, What does psychology haveto offer education? marks the start of an impressive series by ournew professors. Inaugural lectures mark the appointment of newprofessors and allow the University to showcase its academictalent to a wide audience.

In his lecture, Dave will draw on his considerable knowledge andexperience of educational psychology. The central theme willfocus on the extensive body of expertise in psychology which isvastly under-used in education, at least in the UK.

Dave will illustrate some of the ways that psychology could beused to benefit education, and draw on some of the research hehas conducted through his career so far to illustrate this point.

After graduating in 1994, Dave taught Psychology and Sociologyin various schools and colleges in the North West. On completinghis PhD he took up a position at Edge Hill University in 2006 inthe Department of Social and Psychological Sciences, and asReader in Psychology he managed the undergraduate programmein Educational Psychology.

He joined the Faculty of Education in 2013, where his researchexamines the way in which psychological factors (such as motivation,enjoyment of learning and perceptions of the classroomenvironment) influence, and in turn are influenced by, learningand achievement in all stages of education, from primaryschooling right through to college and university education.

What does Psychology have to offer education?

PROFESSOR DAVE PUTWAIN

30.10.14THURSDAYFaculty of Healthand Social Care

Arrival and Registration:5.30pm

Lecture followed by Q&A:6.00pm

Refreshments and networking:7.15pm

Book your place at:edgehill.ac.uk/health/

about/events or contactnixonk@edgehill.ac.uk

Life is a Minestrone: making sense of the soup that representsour diet, in the context of obesity following weight loss surgeryand the establishment of normal diet.

Dr Pender is an experienced educator and dietician, who hasworked tirelessly in pursuit of the optimal patient experience. Anadvocate of food as therapy, he is an ambassador of the rolefood and ingredients play in the maintenance of normal diet andlifestyle. The development of innovative ways to support patientsand individuals in making better and more informed food choiceshe puts down as his recipe for success. He is an author of coretexts and significant publications. He is now a food writer; hisacademic life brings a flavour of a more creative side.

Dr Pender is the lead specialist dietician for Weight loss SurgeryScotland, and manages the largest client group of obese andsuper-obese patients in Scotland. He is the recipient of a numberof prestigious teaching and clinical awards and is currentlyresearching the food experience of the weight loss patient beforeand after surgery.

Life is a Minestrone

DR FRED PENDER

07.11.14FRIDAYFaculty of Health and Social Care

Arrival and Registration:5.30pmLecture:6.30pmRefreshments and networking:7.45pm

Book your place at:ehu.ac.uk/bookevents

The Chancellor’s Lecture:The Teenage Brain

PROFESSOR SARAH-JAYNE BLAKEMORE

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore delivers The Chancellor's Lecture at Edge Hill University onFriday 7th November 2014 with her talk, The Teenage Brain.

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professorof Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. She studies the social brain,the network of brain regions involved in understanding others, and how it develops inadolescence. She also has an interest in the links between neuroscience andeducation.

Is there a reason why teenagers take more risks, and are more influenced by theirpeers, than adults? Is the adolescent brain different to that of an adult? ProfessorBlakemore and others in her field are finding that it really is.

The latest research shows that several areas of the brain, including the prefrontalcortex, develop gradually during adolescence. The prefrontal cortex is the part of thebrain that handles high level cognitive skills such as self-awareness and forwardplanning. It also deals with behavioural choices and the consequences of making thesedecisions, and influences risk taking and peer pressure. Using insights from theneuroscience of adolescence could help us engage teenagers more effectively ineducation, as well as in everyday life.

Sarah-Jayne is currently Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Four Year PhDProgramme in Neuroscience at UCL and is also editor in chief of the journalDevelopment Cognitive Neuroscience.

She has won a number of awards for her research, most recently The Turin Young Mindand Brain Prize 2013 and The Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award 2013. She wasone of 40 'Young Scientists' invited to the annual meeting of the New Champions,World Economic Forum, China 2012 and was elected a World Economic Forum YoungGlobal Leader in 2014. Sarah-Jayne is actively involved in Public Engagement withScience; she has worked with the Select Committee for Education, acted as scientificconsultant on the BBC series The Human Mind and gave a TED talk at TEDGlobal,Edinburgh in 2012, which has had more than 1.3 million views. TED is a global non-profit organisation that shares ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. Shewas named in the Sunday Times 100 Makers of the 21st Century list 2014 and one of30 under 45 in The Times Young Female Power List 2014.

The annual Chancellor’s Lecture is one of the major events in the University’s calendar.Professor Tanya Byron, Chancellor of the University, a chartered clinical psychologist,journalist, author and broadcaster will introduce the lecture and chair the Q&A session.

Previous speakers at the Chancellor’s Lecture have included the Reverend JesseJackson, social campaigner Camila Batmanghelidjh CBE and journalist Giles Fraser.

10.11.14MONDAYHale Hall

Arrival and Registration:5.30pmLecture followed by Q&A:6.00pm

No need to book

Mark Flinn’s research in the Edge Hill archive has revealed manyfascinating insights into life at the institution during the 1914-18 war.

A new illustrated booklet, Temporary Darkness, collects some ofthis material, including a first-person account by Edna Walker, astudent who started at Edge Hill in 1915. Mark will talk about hisdiscoveries, and current students will read from Miss Walker’spoignant and uplifting words. Copies of the booklet will beavailable free of charge at the event.

“I arrived in Liverpool on a September afternoon in 1915 with sixother students from Bradford. The war had been going on forover a year, but at this stage it had not seriously touched us. Wewere full of youthful joy and looking forward to a new freedom…”

Learning Services Remembers The University Learning Services department, in collaborationwith Lancashire County Council, will be exhibiting artefacts fromthe period at Ormskirk Public Library from 27th October-28thNovember 2014 during Library Opening Hours.

Temporary Darkness: Edge Hill in World War One

MARK FLINN

20.11.14THURSDAYBusiness School

Arrival and Registration:5.30pmLecture:6.30pm

Refreshments and networking:7.45pm

Book your place at:ehu.ac.uk/bookevents

This lecture will give an introduction to Professor James O’Kane’svaried career in both the defence industry and academia. Jamesis the Director of the University’s Business School and Professorof Operations Management.

In his inaugural lecture, James will describe case studies ofresearch projects, highlighting different approaches anddemonstrating the impact of research results. Examples of reallife projects involving simulation of business processes/systemsand human performance modelling, and the use of Simulation andArtificial Intelligence to create Intelligent environments will beshown. Recent research studies focusing on trends and tensionsin Global Automotive Supply Chains will be discussed along withthe use of traditional manufacturing business improvementtechniques in non-manufacturing settings.

James has worked for 27 years in Higher Education. Prior toacademia, James spent five years in the Defence Industry doingclassified work on mathematical modelling of HF radar systemsand subsystems. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of theOperational Research Society.

James’ research interests include Business Modelling, AutomotiveSupply Change Management and Business Improvement. He iscurrently on the National Council of the Association for UniversityResearch and Industry Links (AURIL) and he has 20 years’experience of leading Knowledge Transfer projects with a widerange of organisations.

My Life in Modelling and other things

PROFESSOR JAMES O’KANE

27.11.14THURSDAYFaculty of Healthand Social Care

Arrival and Registration:5.30pmLecture followed by Q&A:6.00pmRefreshments and networking:7.15pm

Book your place at:edgehill.ac.uk/health/about/events or contactnixonk@edgehill.ac.uk

The Children & Families Act 2014 has reformed the Office of theChildren’s Commissioner and brought change to the systems ofadoption, fostering, special needs education, shared parenting andparental leave. Dr Atkinson will reflect on these changes and speakabout children’s rights and the complexities of childhood in the21st Century.

Maggie Atkinson has been Children’s Commissioner for Englandsince March 2010. She has spent a 30 year career working withand in the interests of children and young people. She began hercareer teaching English and taught in a range of schools from innercities to shire counties for 11 years, and was Director of Children’sServices in Gateshead.

Maggie has been President of the Association of Directors ofChildren’s Services, Chair of the multi-agency Centre for Excellencein Outcomes and Chair of the Children and Young People’s WorkforceNational Partnership.

The Children's Commissioner for England promotes and protectschildren's rights in England. She does this by listening to whatchildren and young people say about what matters to them andmaking sure adults in charge take their views and interests intoaccount. The law says that, in her work, the Children's Commissionershould have particular regard to children living away from home orreceiving social care.

You can find out more at: www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk

Children’s Commissioner

DR MAGGIE ATKINSON

02.12.14TUESDAYCreative Edge

Arrival and Registration:5.30pm

Lecture followed by Q&A: 6.30pm

Refreshments and networking:7.45pm

Book your place at:ehu.ac.uk/bookevents

Creativity is one of the most ubiquitous yet least understood wordsin the English language. In our recent post-industrial era, itseems as if almost anything and anyone can be consideredcreative, meaning we don’t only speak of creative people, but alsoof creative cities, creative industries and even, the creative economy.

Professor Philip Drake’s inaugural lecture seeks to explorereasons for the pervasive use of such terms. Starting with anexamination of a variety of definitions of creativity, it will outlinehow they became an increasingly important part of the UK’s NewLabour policy landscape from 1997, used as a way of rebrandinga post-industrialised Britain (so-called Cool Britannia) andpromoting economic development.

In doing so the lecture will seek to assess the many claims madearound the creative industries in the UK. Do creative industriespromote individual creativity? Do they enable artistic work toflourish? Or do they create knowledge workers with low autonomywhose employment is often peripatetic and low-paid? And, finally,how is culture connected to creativity?

Philip is Head of the Department of Media and Professor in Film,Media and Communications. He joined Edge Hill University in2013 and was previously Director of Research and Reader in theSchool of Media and Performing Arts at Middlesex University,and before this he held posts at the Universities of Stirling, Westof Scotland and Glasgow. He has published widely across arange of areas including on film and television industries, medialaw and history, and screen performance and celebrity.

What is creative about the creative industries?

PROFESSOR PHIL DRAKE

Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice

Lecture Series Tuesday 23rd September 2014, 6.00pmThe Regeneration of East Manchester since 2010: Decline or Survival?Professor Brendan Evans and Dr Georgina Blakeley

Current and likely future trends in urban regeneration and whether a sports-driven regeneration strategy can be effective.

Wednesday 1st October 2014, 6.00pmHigher Education 2025: Familiar landscape or another country?Professor Peter Scott

See page 3 for synopsis and how to book.

Wednesday 8th October 2014, 6.00pmRelational expertise – the key to successful inter-professional workingProfessor Anne Edwards

The three features of successful collaboration across professional boundaries:relational expertise, relational agency and common knowledge, and theirimplications.

Tuesday 11th November, 6.00pmElectocracy with Accountabilities? England and Wales’ novel public governancemodel of Police and Crime Commissioners. Professor John Raine

How is the new governance model working? Insights on what has beendifferent about police governance and what the future prospects might be.

Tuesday 2nd December, 6.00pmUnderstanding Forced MarriageDr Khatidja Chantler

Four key challenges in the forced marriage debate and the narrativeswhich demonstrate the interplay between culture, religion, poverty, gender,sexuality and the state.

Tuesday 16th December 2014, 6.00pmCrossing boundaries and disrupting binaries: teacher professional learningin and out of the workplaceProfessor Olwen McNamara

Exploring teacher education relocation into the school workplace and thediffering viewpoints of how teachers are trained, including past andcontemporary struggles.

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Thursday 15th January 2015Professor Vicky KarkouInaugural Lecture Series

Thursday 22nd January 2015Professor Clare AustinInaugural Lecture Series

Thursday 29th January 2015Annie Coppell, NICE North WestHealth and Social Care series

Tuesday 3rd February 2015Professor Geoff BeattieInaugural Lecture Series

Thursday 26th February 2015Robert Elliott, Strathclyde UniversityHealth and Social Care series

Thursday 5th March 2015Professor Arvinder (Vini) LanderInaugural Lecture Series

Thursday 12th March 2015 Professor Paul Potrac Inaugural Lecture Series

Thursday 19th March 2015Professor Adrian MidgleyInaugural Lecture Series

Thursday 26th March 2015Richard Whittington, University of LiverpoolHealth and Social Care series

Thursday 30th April 2015Dr Ravi Jayaram, Consultant Paediatrician Autism Health and Social Care series

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