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REVEALING KEELE'S HISTORY AT HERITAGE OPEN DAY
Around 300 members of the public visited the University
on Sunday, as part of Heritage Open Day, a national annual event
supported by English Heritage.
Visitors enjoyed tours of the 19th century Grade II
listed Keele Hall and had a rare opportunity to view the Raven Mason
collection of ironstone ceramics.
Keele's chapel, which is also Grade II listed, was open to visitors following the morning service.
Guided
tours of Keele's arboretum highlighted the many rare species of tree
found on site and included the three top lakes and woodland walks.
Alumni
officer John Easom said: "We are delighted that so many people took the
opportunity to discover more about Keele Hall and other features of
this unique estate and campus."
The above photograph of Keele Hall is taken from the Sneyd family album on Keele's Heritage webpages. |
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ECOLOGICAL STUDIES IN CANADA'S BOREAL FOREST
Sarah Taylor, Life Sciences, spent two months this
summer surveying forest plots in northern New Brunswick, Canada. The
study area is in the hilly region of the province, and is typified by
large expanses of balsam fir and spruce forest in various stages of
recovery from clearcutting.
The plots are located in areas of forest set aside
from harvesting, and form part of a permanent network across the
province established in 1987 by the Department of Natural Resources.
This network provides a remarkable resource to understand long term
forest dynamic processes.
Fieldwork included the inventory of
1933 seedlings and saplings, which in places form deep thickets of
regrowth in the open stands.
The study builds on Sarah's PhD
research carried out in the region, and will help to ascertain the fate
of coniferous stands that are undergoing decline as a result of past
spruce budworm outbreaks and wind storms.
The project was
carried out in collaboration with Dr David A. MacLean at the University
of New Brunswick, who funded the estimated $10,000 field work costs.
Sarah graduated from UNB in 2007 and was made honorary research
associate in 2008. Preliminary results will be presented at EPSAM fest
next week.
The photograph shows the vantage point at Belle Vue, off HWY 180, New Brunswick. |
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BUSY WEEK FOR PETER AT RGS ANNUAL MEETING
 Peter
Adey (Physical and Geographical Sciences) played a very active role in
the annual meeting of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute
of British Geographers, at Kensington Gore, London. Peter first took
part in an author meets critics roundtable to discuss his new book Aerial Life: spaces, mobilities, affects (Wiley-Blackwell
2010). The roundtable discussion included interdisciplinary
contributions from leading names in Cultural Geography, International
Relations and Critical Geopolitics, and will be published in a major
geography journal.
Peter then went on to chair and discuss three
co-organised sessions on the theme Geography and the Future. Sessions
were organised around: Futures to come; Event, Contingency, Governing;
and The Presence of the Future. During the sessions Peter was co-author
of the presented paper: 'Governing Emergencies'. The sessions are now
being collated as a special issue of the journal Environment and Planning A. |
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NEWBORN LIFE SUPPORT COURSE ACHIEVES 100 PER CENT PASS RATE
The School of Nursing and Midwifery staged its first
National Resuscitation Council UK course earlier this week. The
Newborn Life Support Course (NLS) equips healthcare professionals to
deal with neonatal resuscitation. The course was attended by Keele
students currently studying on the LBR Neonatal Graduate certificate,
midwives, neonatal doctors and nurses from University Hospital of North
Staffordshire, along with some of the Lecturing team.
The course
was run in partnership with clinical colleagues at UHNS and was
delivered by senior healthcare professionals from across the West
Midlands. The day was a great success; the faculty and candidates worked
extremely hard and a 100 per cent pass rate was achieved. |
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| RE-READING A LATE VICTORIAN WRITER
The late Victorian critic and historian John Addington Symonds was
the subject of a highly successful research symposium devoted to a
re-evaluation of his life and work, held at Keele on 11 September, and
organised by Dr Amber K. Regis and Professor David Amigoni (English, RI
Humanities).
Experts from Britain, Ireland, the United States and continental
Europe gathered to discuss new approaches to Symonds's writings, which
included art and literary histories of the Renaissance, poetry, memoirs,
and some of the boldest early writings on male homosexuality.
The day was financially supported by the British Association for
Victorian Studies, and the London Library (which holds the manuscript of
Symonds's memoirs, on which Dr Regis has completed extensive research). |
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| RECENT RESEARCH GRANT
Jacco van Loon (Astrophysics, EPSAM) has been awarded £3,200 by the
Royal Astronomical Society, in support of continued collaboration with
Iranian astronomers at Alzahra University and at the Institute of
Physics and Mathematics (IPM), both in Tehran.
The collaboration is based around studies of a nearby spiral galaxy,
Messier 33 (Triangulum), to learn more about galaxies similar to our own
(The Milky Way). The RAS money will be used to fund visits of Iranian
astronomers to Keele in 2011.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
September 1998
The University Chapel has been granted Grade II
listed status by English Heritage and acclaimed as an example of
post-war architecture. Built in Staffordshire blue brick and opened in
1965, it was one of the first multi-denominational chapels in the
country. |
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