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February 23, 2017
Tags: Brazil, Carst Buissink, ebook, Engineering, ESTeSL, Hanze UAS, medical physics, OPTIMAX 2016, physics and radiography, Professor Peter Hogg, Robert Hogg-Thompson, South Africa, Summer School, university of salford
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Last year I published a manuscript: “Prevalence and assessment of traumatic brain injury in prison inmates: A systematic PRISMA review” in the journal Brain Injury as part of my VC Scholarship award. This month, I was absolutely delighted when the journal Brain Injury awarded my paper the 2016 first place winner of the Henry Stonnington Award for review articles (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02699050500322695).
My review of the prevalence and assessment of brain injury in offender populations highlighted a number of key issues within the area. Some of the studies identified in this review touch on the issue of traumatic brain injury (TBI) being largely unrecognised and that, within the criminal justice system, it is a ‘hidden disability’. The studies identified in my review clearly supported the need for screening for TBI within the criminal justice system (at any stage such as: during parole, court diversion or while the individual is in a correctional programme). Currently, TBI receives no medical attention in a large number of cases and, therefore, access to medical records to determine history of TBI is, largely, of no ‘diagnostic’ use. In order to address this issue in the assessment of TBI, the Ohio State University developed The Ohio State University
(OSU) Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Identification Method (OSU-TBI-ID) (See: http://ohiovalley.org/tbi-id-method/). One study highlights the clinical utility of the OSU-TBI-ID in identifying TBI in inmates and advocates that it can be easily incorporated and combined with existing screening instruments. read more
Tags: 2016 First Place Winner, Brain Injury, criminal justice system, Dr Clare Allely, Henry Stonnington Award, hidden disability, Ohio State University, OSU-TBI-ID, PRISMA, TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury, VC Scholarship Award
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Salford doctoral candidate Manoli Moriaty is a composer and performer researching collaborative interdisciplinary arts. Last year he was supported by Arts Council Englad in working with Swedish dancer and choreographer Teresia Björk on Vi-We-Nous, a stage work based on the life of Swedish artists and activist Siri Derkert, which was performed in Beijing and Stockholm. He writes about his experience of working abroad.
_Teresia invited me to create and perform the score and sound design for her work Vi-We-Nous, the second piece of the trilogy Teresia had written based on the life of seminal Swedish artist and activist Siri Derkert. The performance schedule involved programming at the second edition of the Beijing New Dance Festival at the end of August, and further four at Stockholm’s Dansmuseet (Dance Museum) in mid-October. read more
Tags: Beijing, Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Dansema Dance Theatre, Dansmuseet, Manoli Moriaty, Siri Derkert, Stockholm, Teresia Björk, Theatre of the Chaoyang Cultural Centre, Vi-We-Nous
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A new accreditation scheme launched by the University of Salford has been developed by the Design Against Crime Solution Centre with the Head of Security at Salford that will make it easier for prospective students and their parents to identify safe universities in the UK.
All higher education institutions across the UK are now being encouraged to join ProtectED – an accreditation scheme assessing the work done by universities to ensure their students’ safety, security and wellbeing. read more
Tags: Ben Lewis, Dave Humphries, Design Against Crime Solution Centre, Harassment and Sexual Assault, HEI, Helen Clews, Helen Marshall, International Students, Mark Sutton, ProtectED, Safety and Security, Student Night Out, university of salford, Wellbeing and Mental Health
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Young Salford scientists have been selected to present their research at the House of Commons.
Sun Mingxu, 32, and Alix Chadwell, 28, will unveil projects to help stroke patients and amputees respectively at the Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics STEM for Britain event on March 13, 2017.
The event is organized by the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, together with the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics and the Society of Biology. read more
Tags: Alix Chadwell, Computer Science and Engineering, Engineering, MHRA, myoelectric, Professor David Howard, Professor Kay Hack, Professor Laurence Kenney, protheses, Rehabilitation Technologies and Biomedical Engineering, Sun Mingxu, university of salford
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Prof Alaric Searle, who was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of History, Nankai University, Tianjin, PRC, in June of last year, has already started to cooperate with staff from Nankai. Within the framework of his recent Visiting Fellowship to Pembroke College, Oxford, and the Changing Character of War (CCW) Programme in particular, undertaken during his sabbatical in Semester 1 of AY 2016/17, Alaric was able to arrange a guest lecture in Oxford by Dr Wang Wei of Nankai.
Dr Wang, Lecturer in International History in the Faculty of History at Nankai, delivered a talk on 23 January as part of the CCW lecture series entitled, ‘British Planning for the Postwar World Order: The Role of the Foreign Research and Press Service, 1939-43’ at Pembroke College. Alaric commented: ‘It was one of the great blessings of the Visiting Fellowship on the CCW Programme in Oxford that I was able to make the suggestion that Dr Wang deliver a lecture at Pembroke. I am most grateful to the Director of CCW, Dr Rob Johnson, for agreeing so readily to the suggestion. It is one example of the type of cooperation which I am hoping to pursue with the Faculty of History at Nankai in the future.’ read more
Tags: 1939-43, and the Changing Character of War (CCW), British Planning for the Postwar World Order: The Role of the Foreign Research and Press Service, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Dr Wang, International History in the Faculty of History, Nankai, Nankai University, Oxford, Professor Alaric Searle, University of Oxford, university of salford, Visiting Fellowship to Pembroke College, Working-Class Movement Library
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Photo of a flooded Irwell by Dr Luke Blazejewski
Researchers from UPRISE are collaborating with colleagues from the School of Environment and Life Sciences, Research and Innovation and SHUSU (Sustainable Housing & Urban Studies Unit) on a HEIF-funded project to explore local and regional approaches to ecology and flooding. This project will involve engaging with organisations, agencies and communities in the Salford and wider Manchester region to understand how ecological principles can be applied to the issues surrounding floods, and the wider functioning of a city. This diverse partnership draws from a pool of expertise, and demonstrates precisely the interdisciplinary approach required to look at 21st century urban issues – keeping in spirit with the ICZ strategy of the University of Salford. read more
Tags: climate change, Dr Luke Blazejewski, Dr Nick Davies, ELS, flooding, HEIF, ICZ, interdisciplinary, Irwell, Professor Hisham Elkadi, project, R&E, research, SHUSU, SoBE, university of salford, UPRISE, urban
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