School of Health and Social Sciences

BOB (Box of Broadcasts) is an incredibly useful resource that allows you to watch, record and archive TV and radio programmes from over fifty freeview television and radio channels.  BoB is available to all University staff, researchers and students. It is available on or off campus but is not available outside the United Kingdom. 
 
Searching and viewing: You can search for programmes which other users have recorded or see other peoples clips and playlists. Your search results will be displayed as a list of programmes. To view, click on the programme thumbnail and click on the on screen 'click to play' option.
 Recording: There are two ways to find a TV or radio programme to record - you can either perform a search for a keyword or programme title in the search box, or look through a 7 day programme guide to find the programme you want. Users are limited to 3 programmes requests per day.
 Creating playlists and clips: Playlists can be used to collect and manage a number of related programmes. They might be related by title (all belong to the same series), or by topic (Politics etc). Clips can be created from longer programmes for lectures or tutorials.
 MyBob: Is your user account area where you can access and manage your recordings.

How can you access this? You simply need a computer with a broadband connection and an ATHENS account, and you can find out about that here. You can find out more about BOB here. Clearly this is an academic resource but from looking at the most highly rated playlists that's not all people are using it for - unless an awful lot of them are doing research on The Wire, Blade and NHRA Drag Racing!

January sees the launch of the National Student Survey (NSS) 2010 at most universities and colleges across the UK. Entering its sixth year, the NSS is a census of students in the final year of a course leading to undergraduate credits or qualifications across the UK. It is your opportunity to give your opinions on what you liked about your time at your institution as well as things that you felt could have been improved.

Student feedback is used to compile year on year comparative data that is:

1. published on Unistats.com where prospective students and their advisors can use the results to help make informed choices of where and what to study
2. useful to your university, students’ union or college to facilitate best practice and enhance the student learning experience.

You and your answers remain anonymous at all times and your contact details are only used for the purpose of the survey.

For more information and to complete the survey please visit: www.thestudentsurvey.com.

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Project RESPECT:

PhD Research Stipend

£13,290 p.a. + tuition fees waiver (full time, 3 years) Closing date for applications: 24 March 2010

An exciting opportunity for postgraduate research has arisen within the Newport Social Ethics Research Group (SERG). The successful candidate will undertake a PhD and participate in the RESPECT Project, an international and interdisciplinary research programme funded through the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme. We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and motivated individual with a strong interest in contemporary academic debates about respect, tolerance, equality and diversity and their application to issues of pressing social and political concern.

The research will focus on the role of tolerance and equal respect in relation to policies for the distribution of public spaces in culturally diverse societies. As a postgraduate researcher you will be involved in extensive international liaison with partners in China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Russia, and Slovenia. This will include the attendance of workshops and conferences at collaborating institutions, and the possibility of single-authored and/or co-authored publications. The successful candidate will therefore have excellent communication and organisation skills, experience of undertaking research in a relevant discipline and, as a minimum, hold an undergraduate degree in any relevant discipline: philosophy (esp.

applied ethics, and political philosophy), law, sociology, politics, social policy, or related fields across the humanities and social sciences. The ability to combine theoretical and empirical research approaches would be ideally suited to the aims of the RESPECT Project.

To apply email a CV, a covering letter and the contact details of two referees to serg@newport.ac.uk

    * Shortlisted candidates will be asked for a sample of written work and invited for an on-campus interview.

    * Interviews will be held in mid-April.

    * Closing date for applications: Wednesday, 24th March 2010

    * Start date: 1 June 2010 (negotiable)

    * For informal enquiries please email enzo.rossi@newport.ac.uk or serg@newport.ac.uk

A video, created by Dr Hilary Matheson, dealing with the do's and dont's of poster presentations is now live on Youtube. Please click this link to view the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb68JG4v2Kk

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It is just over 5 years since the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit countries around the Indian Ocean. As a commemoration of this event, the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) at the University of Wales, Newport, has received funding from the Higher Education Academy to develop an international community of University students, both undergraduate and postgraduate from any discipline, who are studying or undertaking research into the Indian Ocean tsunami and, for example, its social, economic, cultural, and physical impacts.

If you are already studying or researching the event, or are planning to do a dissertation or project on it next year, please be among the first to join and contribute to the online community at http://tsunami2004.ning.com/, which was launched this week.

Newport has been partnered with Osmania University in India and students there are also being invited to join with a view to developing collaborative research links, holding video conference seminars, and arranging possible study visits. The CELT Project intends to publish a book of collected student research papers on the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2011.

If you are interested, please join the project at http://tsunami2004.ning.com/.