OBE FOR ALISON
BLENKINSOPP
 Professor Alison Blenkinsopp, Professor of
the Practice of Pharmacy in the School of Pharmacy, has
been awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours for services
to Healthcare.
Professor Blenkinsopp joined the
Department of Medicines Management at Keele in 1995. Her
specialist areas are partnership in medicines use,
extended roles of pharmacists and medicines policy. Her
current research includes evaluation of changes in
community pharmacy, studies of pharmacist prescribing
and the extent to which pharmacists' consultations with
patients are concordant.
She is a member of the British National
Formulary Committee and Vice-Chair of the Department of
Health Taskforce on Medicines Partnership. Professor
Blenkinsopp leads on Education issues within the School
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PARKINSON'S DISEASE
STUDY
 Dr Rosemary Fricker-Gates and Dr Monte Gates,
Research Institute for Science and Technology in
Medicine, have been awarded £195,373 by the Parkinson's
Disease Society UK for a three year project titled
"Generating midbrain dopamine neurons from stem cells
using novel contact-dependent signalling proteins".
The project, co-ordinated by the two
PIs in the Keele Group for Brain Repair, seeks to
identify new proteins that signal immature cells to
become specific nerve cells that can manufacture the
chemical dopamine. These are the nerve cells lost in
Parkinson's disease.
The ultimate goal of the project is to
use the novel proteins that they find to influence the
maturation of stem cells into dopamine nerve cells, as a
potential cell therapy for Parkinson's disease. A
postdoc supported by the grant is Dr Rowan Orme.
They have also received a donation from
the Worcester and District Parkinson's Disease Society
branch for £3,700, to purchase three items of lab
equipment to support this research.
The image shows a network of nerve
cells in culture (green), some of which are making the
chemical dopamine (red). |
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OVERTURNING THE
MYTHS OF THATCHERISM
A new book by Dr Carole Thornley,
School of Management, and Dr Dan Coffey, University of
Leeds, offers a controversial new take on Margaret
Thatcher's 11-year reign as Prime Minister, overturning
myths about the emergence of Thatcherism - and the basis
for its enduring legacy.
Globalisation and Varieties of
Capitalism: New Labour, Economic Policy and the Abject
State argues that Thatcherism was not a planned
political philosophy but rather an opportunistic
movement arising from a series of coincidences between
industrial unrest and deindustrialisation in Britain in
the 1970s.
In a full page review in the
Independent on Sunday, Business Editor, Margareta
Pagano, said: "Their account has big implications for
today's policy-makers...It's a controversial but
fascinating book. There's lots to disagree with and,
hopefully, it will cause frissons across the political
spectrum, but even so, it should be a must-read for all
our politicians." |
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SENIOR COMMON ROOM
CHRISTMAS DINNER
 Members of the Senior Common Room
(the University's staff club) enjoyed a very successful
Christmas Dinner in the week before Christmas.
Amongst those attending were the
immediate past, present and future Presidents of the
Common Room (pictured left to right); Professor Peter
Lawrence (Management School), President-elect; Ann
Fisher, Deputy Pro-Chancellor and current President, and
James Elder, Emeritus Professor of Surgery and
past-President. |
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CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR
VILLAGERS
 VE @ Keele, students and local Police Community
Support Officers spread the festive spirit when they organised
a Christmas party for the residents of Keele village.
About 22 villagers attended the party at the
Village Hall, enjoying a buffet and a glass of mulled wine,
provided by the Sneyd Arms.
Reverend Ansell from St John's Church read
out a lovely Christmas tale, while members of Keele
Philharmonic Choir sang a number of well known carols and
children from St John's School Choir gave a delightful festive
concert.
VE @ Keele extend thanks to everyone involved
in making the event such a success, including students who
gave up their time to help organise and run the event and,
most notably, Keele Key Fund for providing the funding which
enabled the event to go ahead. |
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TOTAL RECOGNITION FOR CFM STAFF
'Total Recognition', a new initiative to recognise a
member of staff or team worthy of praise, has been
launched by CFM.
The scheme was devised by a group of CFM staff to
recognise individuals, and teams, who excel in the
workplace.
Students, members of staff and visitors can nominate
an individual or team for an award. Voting forms are
available across campus or from Adam Brearley in the
Darwin Building.
The judging will take place in August and all
finalists will be invited to an awards ceremony at CFM's
Annual Celebration of
Learning. |
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NEW ACADEMIC
APPOINTMENTS
The following academic appointments commenced in post
this week:
School of
Pharmacy
Dr Simon Lincoln White, Lecturer in Pharmacy
Practice, who was previously a Lecturer in Public Health
at the University of Sheffield
Dr Gary Moss, Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutics, who
was previously Head of Pharmaceutics (Principal
Lecturer) at the University of Hertfordshire.
RESEARCH
GRANTS
Dr Ian Atherton, Research Institute for the
Humanities, pictured below, has been awarded £4,950
by the Jack Leighton Trust for a three year project
titled "The Parliamentarian War Effort in the North
Midlands, 1642-6".
Dr Ceri Morgan, Research Institute for the
Humanities, has been awarded £1,338 by the British
Academy for a project titled "Josee Yvon, in and beyond
Montreal".
FROM THE
ARCHIVES
January 1997
A former Keele Vice-Chancellor, Professor David
Harrison, received a knighthood in the New Year Honours
List for services to education and nuclear safety. Sir
David was Vice-Chancellor at Keele from 1979 to
1984.
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