Author: Laura Jones

Create your future with TEDxYouth@BrayfordPool

Laura Jones / / News

This November, the first publicly accessible TEDx event in Lincoln specifically delivered by young people for young people will take place at the University of Lincoln.

Aimed at young people aged 16 to 26 years old, TEDxYouth@BrayfordPool will feature 12 young speakers and performers, plus TED talk screenings, and discussion groups and workshops.

The event will take place in the Stephen Langton Building, on the University’s Brayford Pool campus, from 10am until 5pm on Saturday 4th November.

As the city celebrates the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forest, the companion document to Magna Carta, TEDxYouth@BrayfordPool focuses on looking forward with the theme of ‘Creating our Future’.

The event aims to push boundaries, stimulate discussion and catalyse change, and offers a platform for pioneers, free-thinkers and doers to share their ideas and knowledge with a global audience.

Speakers will include the 2017 National Poetry Day Ambassador, a Winston Churchill Fellow and the first ever recipient of the Diana Legacy Award, as well as local young pioneers.

Tickets cost just £3 and include full day access to the event and a lunch. They can be purchased from Lincoln Performing Arts Centre in person or over the phone on 01522 837600, or online at https://lpac.co.uk/event/tedxyouth-brayford-pool/.

Find out more at: www.tedxbrayfordpool.com/tedxyouth. You can also find TEDxBrayfordPool & TEDxYouth@BrayfordPool on Facebook and on Twitter @TEDxBrayfordPl.

Get involved in Frequency Festival 2017

Laura Jones / / News

Frequency Festival 2017, Lincoln’s iconic biennial digital culture festival, is nearly here and is looking for volunteers to get involved!  

This year the festival will explore the theme of disPLACEment, bringing ten days of extraordinary art installations and events to Lincoln, fusing virtual and augmented realities, digital culture, art and debate with the city’s medieval streets.

The Frequency team is looking for dynamic, positive and professional volunteers to help at Frequency events during the festival, which will take place from Friday 20th until Sunday 29th October.

There are various volunteer roles, including:

  • Street Team member – letting people know about Frequency 2017 and providing information to members of the public.
  • Exhibition host – overseeing exhibits/performances/Installations during festival.
  • Event volunteer – assisting with the delivery of events.

To get involved, or to find out more, email signup@frequency.org.uk.

Alternatively, students at the University of Lincoln can also sign up via the University’s Students’ Union website at https://lincolnsu.com/volunteering/opportunities/community/arts.

The Mum and Baby Sleep Study

Laura Jones / / Research

The Lincoln Sleep Lab is looking for new mums and their babies to take part in a unique study into the quality of their sleep.

Sleeping when you have a new baby can be tricky, often leading to families feeling tired and stressed in the first few months and yet, despite this, science knows little about sleep in young babies and their mothers.

The study requires mothers and their babies (of around three months old) to stay overnight in the Lincoln Sleep Lab at the University of Lincoln, where the duration and quality of their sleep can be monitored.

The ultimate goal of the study is to help improve sleep quality in new mothers and their young babies, leading to greater well-being for the whole family.

As well as contributing to worthwhile research, the mum will also receive £50 cash and a £5 gift voucher for Mummy and Little Me.

To find out more, contact Professor Alina Rodriguez at arodriguez@lincoln.ac.uk or Federica Menchinelli at fmenchinelli@lincoln.ac.uk.

You can also take a look at the Lincoln Child Development Facebook page at www.facebook.com/LincolnChildDevelopment/.

An evening of supernatural tales, talks and theatre

Laura Jones / / Events

Some of Lincoln’s most enduring ghost stories will be brought to life in an evening of story-telling, discussion and live theatrical performance set in a historic building famous in local folklore for its paranormal happenings.

The purportedly haunted White Hart Hotel in the city’s Bailgate will provide the setting for A Lincoln Ghost Story Evening – an event which will celebrate some of the historic city’s most popular ghostly tales and reflect on the public’s continuing fascination with the supernatural.

The event will takes place on Monday 27th November, between Halloween and Christmas, with audiences invited to explore the ghost story’s long association with the festive season. It is organised by the researchers specialising in Gothic literature from the University of Lincoln and will feature a guest talk by Dr Derek Johnston, a lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast and author of ‘Haunted Seasons: Television Ghost Stories for Christmas and Horror for Halloween’.

The guide of the original Lincoln Ghost Walk will share her experiences of recounting ghostly tales in the historic streets of Lincoln. Recent graduates from the BA (Hons) Drama course at the University of Lincoln will then treat the audience to a special theatrical performance, conjuring up the White Hart’s spectral history and offering tarot card readings, before the evening concludes in the traditional fashion with reading of a classic ghost story.

The event is organised by Dr Scott Brewster, from the University of Lincoln’s School of English and Journalism. A specialist in Gothic literature, Dr Brewster has recently co-edited The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story – the first volume to examine the ghost story tradition in a truly international context.

He said: “I’m fascinated by the enduring popularity of the ghost story in literature, film, television or amongst online communities. Ghost walks and ghost hunts show the continuing power of the supernatural tale in contemporary culture. This event casts light on ghost stories, some of them local, and why they still matter to us in the twenty-first century.”

A Lincoln Ghost Story Evening will take place at 7.30pm on Monday 27th November. Tickets cost £5 (including complimentary drink and mince pie) and can be booked through the University of Lincoln’s online store at http://lncn.eu/whghost.

Be Inspired! with Dr. Meredith Nash

Laura Jones / / Events

This October, Visiting Scholar Dr. Meredith Nash, will deliver a Be Inspired! Lecture ‘What is it like to be a woman in STEMM? Gender bias, sexual harassment, and the myth of meritocracy.’

Meredith Nash is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of Tasmania. She is at the University of Lincoln as a Visiting Scholar at the Eleanor Glanville Centre and the Health Advancement Research Team. Her research examines the depth and enduring character of gender-based inequalities.

Women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields worldwide, particularly in leadership positions. In this presentation, Dr Nash will discuss her findings from a mixed-methods sociological study drawing on the experiences of 25 women in STEMM fields who were all participants in a three-week transformational leadership program in Antarctica in 2016. She will explore the women’s experiences of science leadership, including challenges they face as women in male-dominated fields and what they think needs to change to help women in STEMM advance.​

The lecture will take place at 5pm on Monday 23rd October. It is free to attend but prior booking is essential. To book your place, please visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/be-inspired-lecture-dr-meredith-nash-tickets-38769342146?aff=es2

MP Karen Lee to hold staff and student surgery

Laura Jones / / News

On Friday 13th October, the University will welcome the MP for Lincoln Karen Lee to the Brayford Pool campus as part of her constituency surgery.

The visit is an opportunity for both staff and students to meet and engage with Karen Lee, and discuss with her the issues that matter to them.

She will be on campus from 1pm until 4pm, however, meetings are by appointment only. To book your slot, email helena.mair@parliament.uk or calling 01522 420067.

Early booking is advisable as places are limited.

University of Lincoln secures RCUK SEE-PER grant

Laura Jones / / News

The University of Lincoln is among just 12 institutions awarded funding to enhance and embed support for public engagement with research within UK higher education institutes.

The University has been awarded the funding by Research Councils UK (RCUK) through its new Strategic Support to Expedite Embedding Public Engagement with Research (SEE-PER) grants following a competitive bidding process.

The money will be used to fund the PEARL (Public Engagement for All with research at Lincoln) project which aims to bring the organisation, visibility and impact of Public Engagement with Research (PER) at the University of Lincoln up to a consistently excellent standard, building on its already strong track record in public engagement.

The project will be led by Professor Carenza Lewis,  from the School of History and Heritage, and Professor Timothy Hodgson, from the School of Psychology, from October 2017 to March 2018 with activity thereafter supported by the University.

Professor Carenza Lewis, Professor for the Public Understanding of Research, said: “I am delighted we have been successful in securing this grant as one of the things which attracted me to the University of Lincoln was its commitment to wider communities and the PEARL SEEPER grant will enable us to make the experience of engaging with university research even better for members of the public, staff and students.”

Lincoln named among the best for its careers service

Laura Jones / / News

The University of Lincoln has been named in a list of the best universities in the UK for career services.

The list has been compiled by StudentCrowd, which carries out student reviews into various aspects of university life, including courses, clubs and societies, student halls and much more.

This survey called on students from every university in the country to review their careers service and over 7,000 responded.

The Careers and Employability team at the University of Lincoln, which has recently been acknowledged by AGCAS and NUE Awards for its innovative approach to employer engagement, came an impressive 20th in the poll.

Read the full story at www.studentcrowd.com/article/20-best-universities-for-career-services-2017.