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22 April 2013
Professor of Musical Theatre presents Inaugural lecture
As part of Research and Engagement Week 2013, Millie Taylor, Professor of Musical Theatre, will present her inaugural lecture on Monday 29 April.
Find out more about Prof. Taylor's inaugural lecture and how to book seats.
15 April 2013
Research and Engagement Week 2013: a celebration of research at Winchester
From Friday 26 April to Friday 3 May, the University invites you to a weeklong celebration of research in all its rich diversity, with a series of talks, workshops, performances and seminars on topics ranging from archaeology to data protection and from software design to musical theatre.
Find out more about Research and Engagement Week 2013 or download the full programme.
5 Feb. 2013
Arts Council funding for innovative dance-puppetry project
Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts Janet Lee and Associate Lecturer Nigel
Luck have been awarded £4478 by the Arts Council for Drifters, an
engaging dance-puppetry work in progress.
The makers of Drifters, theatre company Strange Arrangements (Lee
and Luck), have been selected from 35 puppetry/animation companies to feature in
The Little Angel Theatre’s FIRSTS festival in London in March. Last month,
Drifters featured at the Theatre Royal Winchester. Find out more about Drifters and its makers
31 Jan. 2013
University celebrates first Psychology PhD completion
Slovenian research student Barbara Maleckar has become the first to complete
a PhD in Psychology at Winchester. Barbara passed her viva with no
corrections.
Find out more about the first Psychology PhD
9 January 2013
A linguistic look at the construction of European identity
On
Wednesday 23 January, the University's interdisciplinary Centre for Research
into Language (CRiL) will present a fascinating free seminar about the
construction of European identity in discourses of members of a transnational
NGO.
Find out more about CRiL and the forthcoming seminar
Find out more about the University's international outlook
27 Nov. 2012
Winchester Business School appoints Professor of Responsible Management
In
an initiative sponsored by the Bulldog Trust, the University is delighted to
welcome Dr Alan Murray, who will join the Winchester Business School in December
as Professor of Responsible Management. Find out more about Dr Alan Murray's appointment
24 Oct. 2012
Arts Council England funding for voice play project
Dr
Yvon Bonenfant from the Department of Performing Arts has been awarded £5620 by
the Arts Council England for Uluzuzulalia, a voice play project for children
aged 6 to 10. Dr Bonenenfant had previously been awarded funding by the Wellcome
Trust for this exciting project.
Find out more about the
Uluzuzulalia project
Find out more about Dr Bonenfant
17 Oct. 2012
Winchester historian to present 2012 King Alfred Lecture
On Friday 26 October, Dr Ryan Lavelle, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History,
will present the The Hyde900 King Alfred Lecture, titled Alfred the Great
and the Viking Wars.
The
Hyde900 King Alfred Lectures celebrate King Alfred, buried in Winchester's Hyde
area and credited as the principal architect of English language, laws and
society. In this year's lecture, Dr Lavelle, author of the award-wininning book
Alfred's Wars, will bring to life the story of the King's achievement
in uniting the territories that would form the basis of modern England.
The lecture will take place in St Bartholomew's Church in Hyde; doors open 18:45, lecture
starts 19:30. Tickets £7, Hyde900 members £5, students free. Pay on the door or
book online.
Find out more about Dr Lavelle
Find out more about
Hyde900
15 October 2012
Winchester psychologist helps local school set world record as part of UK's
first Biology Week
On 19 October Dr Wendy Kneller, a specialist in eyewitness memory from the
Department of Psychology, will be helping local school children in their attempt
to create the world's largest memory game. The event is part of the UK-wide
Biology Week, which takes place from 13 to 19 October.
Find out more about the world' largest memory game attempt and Dr
Kneller's role in it.
24 Sept 2012
Collaborative research into ethics teaching in Business Schools
The Winchester Business School is engaged in HEA-funded collaborative
research on ethics in UK Business Schools
Find out more about ethics in Business Schools research
12 Sept 2012
Business School Professor appointed Associate Editor of top research
journal
Professor
Neil Marriott, Dean of the Faculty of Business, Law and Sport and
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Business Development), has been invited to become an
Associate Editor of the British Accounting Review, one of the oldest
and most respected research journals in the field. Find out more about Professor Marriott's Associate
Editorship
10 Sept 2012
University hosts high-profile gender studies research events
on 12 September, the University's cross-faculty Centre for Gender
Studies hosts its first conference, focussing on Gender and Visual
Representation.
Find out more about the Gender and Visual Representation
conference
On 10 October, the Centre for Gender Studies and the Centre for Research into
Language jointly present a research seminar by Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe of
Loughborough University, titled Talk in theory, talk in practice: applying
findings and creating impact from conversation analytic studies of gender and
interaction.
Find out more about the Talk in theory, talk in practice
seminar
14 Aug 2012
University academics team up with Theatre Royal Winchester for second season
of Pre-Show Discussions
Following last year's successful series, the University of Winchester and the
Theatre Royal have teamed up to offer another series of pre-show discussions to
enhance and enrich the experience of theatre-goers.
Find out more about the 2012 Pre-Show Discussions at the Theatre
Royal
24 July 2012
Winchester historian wins Medieval Military History Book of the Year
Award
Dr
Ryan Lavelle, Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval History, has received the 2012
Medieval Military History Book of the Year Award for his book Alfred's
wars, sources and interpretations of Anglo-Saxon warfare in the Viking
Age. Find out more about Dr Lavelle's Medieval Military History Book of
the Year Award
11 June 2012
University Research Week celebrates research by Winchester academics
The University of Winchester will be holding its very first ‘Research Week’
this month (11-19 June) with an exciting line-up of exhibitions, lectures and
events taking place on campus and across the region.
Find out more about Research Week 2012
Winchester academic publishes groundbreaking study on child soldiers
Lecturer
in Politics and Global Studies Christine Ryan has published a groundbreaking new
study about the use and participation of child soldiers in the Sudan Civil War.
Through testimonies from former child soldiers as well as interviews with NGO
personnel she reveals and unravels the enormous complexities of the conflict and
the role of child soldiers in it.
"The goal of my research has been to provide the former child soldiers of
Southern Sudan with a voice to articulate their experiences to the international
community, which the existing literature has denied them", explained Dr Ryan, a
specialist in war and security studies and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Ryan, C. 2012: Children of war: child soldiers as victims and
participants in the Sudan Civil War. I.B. Tauris International Library of
African Studies.
Find out more about Dr Christine Ryan
Recent News
28 May 2012
'Jane Austen's Bookshop' reveals the books that may have inspired Jane
Austen
Dr
Norbert Schürer, Visiting Leverhulme Fellow in the Faculty of Arts (photo), has
carried out research into the reading material that may have served as
inspiration to Britain's favourite novelist. His findings will be presented at
Chawton House, her former home, this summer. Find out more about 'Jane Austen's Bookshop'
21 May 2012
Foundation Lecture on Good and Bad Religion
In
this lecture on 24 May Dr Peter Vardy, one of the leading moral educators in the
UK, seeks to provide criteria to separate good and bad manifestations of
religion. Find out more about the Foundaton Lecture by Dr Peter
Vardy
26 April 2012
Ordnance Survey funding for Psychology Department
The Psychology Department has been awarded over £22,500 by the OS for a
fascinating 12-month research project into vernacular placenames.
Find out more about the OS-funded Vernacular Placenames
project
12 April 2012
Research Fellowship for Arts Professor
Jude Davies, Professor of American Literature and Culture in
the Faculty of Arts (photo), has been awarded a Research Fellowship by the Arts
and Humanities Research Council for his work on the American novelist and social
critic Theodore Dreiser. Find out more about Prof. Davies' AHRC Fellowship
Free public lecture The new psychology of citizenship
On 10 May, Dr Clifford Stevenson, Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellow in the
Psychology Department, will deliver a research seminar on this emerging theme in
psychology.
Find out more about The New Psychology of
Citizenship
29 March 2012
British Academy funding for History and Archaeology academics
No less than three academics in the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences have been awarded research funding in the latest application round
for British Academy Small Grants. Together, the researchers scooped up ca
$20,000.
Editorship of new online journal for Director of Winchester Business
School
Professor Neil Marriott, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Business
Development, Director of the Winchester Business School and Dean of the Faculty
of Business, Law and Sport, has taken on the Editorship of the new online
International Journal of Management Education.
Find out more about Professor Marriott
Find out more about the International Journal of Management
Education
28 February 2012
University hosts conference on African and Caribbean Christianity in
Britain
Voices from the Diaspora: Black Christians in the UK is a two-day
conference on 16/17 March, hosted by the Institute for Theological Partnerships
at the University in collaboration with South London Christian College.
Find out more about the Voices from the Diaspora
conference
Find out more about the Institute for Theological Partnerships
9 January 2012
Researching Popular Performances: Faculty of Arts collaboration with
Winchester Theatre Royal
Researching Popular Performances is a series of free public talks and
discussions led by researchers in the Department of Performing Arts. The events
are held at the Theatre Royal Winchester alongside the theatre’s spring
programme.
For more information and the full list of events, visit the Performing Arts News and Events page.
4 January 2012
Funding awarded to Psychology Department for high-impact seminar series
Dr Clifford Stevenson, Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellow in Psychology, has
been awarded £3000 by the British Psychology Society for a seminar series on
the Social Psychology of Citizenship.
Find out more about the BPS funding