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  • Learning Leadership from the Not-for-Profit Sector - When PwC met Barnardo’s

    1 May 2012

    Learning Leadership from the Not-for-Profit Sector - When PricewaterhouseCoopers met Barnardo’s   Christine Adshead leads the team whose job is to support the buying and selling of businesses throughout the North West.  It’s a male-dominated w...

  • Within the Sound of Silence

    18 Apr 2012

    Within the Sound of Silence - The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967) “Ben, what are you doing?” his father asks from the side of the pool, the first line of dialogue for nearly five minutes, to which Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) leans up from his...

  • Winchester Alumnus Secures Large Digital Media Contract

    21 Feb 2012

    Duncan Shears of OakShed Media, winner of the university's 2010 Business Start Up Scheme, has recently secured a 12-month, £25,000 contract. He will be working for an agency on the Isle of Wight producing rich online media specifically in the touris...

  • Tender Noir

    9 Feb 2012

    Tender Noir - Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)   In his justly maligned yet influential 'Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1962', Andrew Sarris praised American cinema for the fact that "a director is forced to express his person...

  • Postgraduate study discount for alumni

    18 Jan 2012

    We offer our alumni £375* off tuition fees if you enrol on a Masters or Research Degree at the University of Winchester.   If you need help choosing a course, or need any advice on fees, accommodation or just wish to chat with a lecturer then w...

  • An Unsettling World

    12 Jan 2012

                                      An Unsettling World - Caché/Hidden (Michael Haneke, 2005)   This may not be the most uplifting image, the most iconic or important image in popular culture, but it is impossible to forget for th...

  • Mobile Devices in the Classroom: Yes or No?

    9 Dec 2011

    JISC-RSC has just finished providing a webinar upon the question of whether we should be encouraging the use of mobile devices in the classroom. American Studies at the University of Winchester have been doing this, to positive feedback, and this wa...

  • Join Us!

    1 Dec 2011

      Join Us! – Troll 2 (Claudio Fragasso, 1990)   The above still from Troll 2 is for me an indelible image representing the true magic of cinema. Cinema magic should not be special effects, or well written scenes, or great performances. The tr...

  • I got the Bullets

    7 Nov 2011

    ‘I got the Bullets’ - Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)   James Dean, the first American teenager and enduring movie icon.  What makes this particular image of the star so iconic?   The image, from Rebel Without a Cause, was release...

  • Top iPad/iPod apps for Education

    31 Oct 2011

    Big changes are ongoing within the educational sector, change that is in many ways being driven by technology. We may call for the technology to be subservient to the pedagogy, but the tools are allowing us to engage with unforeseen possibilities....

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