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Explore new worlds in the libraries this exam time. Fantastic things can happen in silence.
Georges Méliès was a French illusionist and silent filmmaker praised for his sense of fun and ability to astound. A collection of some of his most famous films have been donated to The Internet Archive for free downloading and reuse.
By popular demand this exam time we have created silent and whisper only areas in our libraries so in celebration of silence and whispering during exams we’ll be showing a selection of silent films in The Murray and St Peter’s Libraries - pop into our libraries to view or click the links below to watch them straight away. Good luck with all of your revision and we wish you fantastical success in your exams!
Le Voyage Dans La Lune (1902) - 12 mins
Le Voyage Dans la Lune (Trip to the Moon, in English) is perhaps Georges Méliès‘ most famous film, and is considered to be the first science fiction film in cinematic history. The 12 minute film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule.
The Man with the Rubber Head (1902) - 2 mins 40 secs
The Man With The Rubber Head, or L’Homme à la tête de Caoutchouc, is a French silent film from 1902 directed by Georges Méliès. A scientist places a living copy of his own head on a table and makes it swell like a balloon
Le Dirigeable Fantastique (1905) - 2 mins 43 secs
“The Inventor Crazybrains and his Wonderful Airship” (Le Dirigeable Fantastique ou le Cauchemar d'un Inventeur) A Jules Verne-like flying airship soars the skies with floating mermaids before out of control fireworks put an end to the crazy inventor’s dreams.
L'Homme Orchestre (1900) - 1 min 21 sec
Seven identically-dressed Georges Méliès playing musical instruments and interacting with one another in remarkably convincing synchronisation.
Le Monstre (1903) - 2 mins 7secs The film tells the story of a chaotic attempt to bring an Egyptian Princess back to life.
Cendrillon (1899) - 5 mins 41 secs Possibly the earliest film version of Cinderella, Cendrillion (1899) was landmark for Georges Méliès; it founded the techniques and tricks he would later master and become famous for, earning him the title of The Cinemagician.
Le Papillon Fantastique (1909) - 1 min 47secs On exiting a strange cone a young girl deploys her butterfly wings.
Le Mélomane (1902) - 2 mins 43secs A marching band appears, and the band-leader prepares to give them the music for the song he wants them to play. He has prepared a large staff above their heads, and he now creates notes by making duplicates of his own head.
La Sirène (1902) - 3 mins 58 secs A man in a silk top hat stands in front of an empty aquarium. Mermaids and magic ensue.
Le Royaume Des Fes (1903) - 16 mins 35 secs At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry, when a witch suddenly appears..
Some fabulous open access films from Georges Méliès recently donated to The Internet Archive
Professor Ahmed Elmarakbi Professorial Lecture
Professor Ahmed Elmarakbi Professorial Lecture 2015/16 - "Innovative Graphene-based Polymer Composites for Next Generation Automotive structures." Tuesday 19th April 2016, 6pm Murray Library Lecture Theatre, City Campus, University of Sunderland, SR1 3SD, UK
The global automotive industry is currently facing great challenges; increasing CO2 emissions, lack of strong decarbonisation targets, fuel consumption, and safety. Over recent decades, cars have become larger and heavier due mainly to safety and comfort requirements. To reduce the environmental impact of future vehicles, there is a need for the development and manufacture of more energy-efficient vehicles, whilst maintaining safety. Attempts have been made to strengthen lightweight vehicle structures to enhance crashworthiness, however, safety issues remain the main obstacle to producing lighter and greener cars. In his lecture, Prof Elmarakbi will introduce his work on the development of novel graphene-based composite materials. He will discuss the potential applications of this research within the automotive industry in relation to the optimisation of advanced ultra light composite materials, efficient fabrication and manufacturing processes, life cycle analysis, environmental impact and enhanced vehicle safety. Prof Ahmed Elmarakbi obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Toronto, Canada in 2004 and is currently Professor of Automotive Composites in the Department of Computing, Engineering and Technology (DCET), University of Sunderland. He has extensive experience of managing national and international projects, including multi-disciplinary collaborative projects within Europe, USA, Canada, China, Japan and Brazil in low-carbon technology, energy efficiency, zero emission transportation, smart vehicle structure, advanced composite materials, including graphene, and the design of automotive industry and the design of automotive components for the transport sector. He has an extensive track record of collaboration with the automotive industry and academic institutions and has worked closely with a number of highly respected researchers and engineers in world-leading laboratories and organisations. Prof Elmarakbi's work is recognised internationally as evident from his 80+ plenary lectures, invited talks and presentations, 130+ peer-reviewed research papers and his recently published book ("A.Elmarakbi (2013) Advanced Composite Materials for Automotive Applications: Structural Integrity and Crashworthiness", Wiley, UK). He has received many prestigious awards and grants, including funding from FP7 and Horizon 2020 (EU), EPSRC (UK), JSPS (Japan) and NSERC and OGS (Canada). Prof Elmarakbi is also a visiting Prof at Hunan University (China) and laureate in the "1000 talents-111program" of China. He is also a member of the EU Graphene Flagship. He has chaired and governed a number of international conferences; has served as an Expert Reviewer for FP7, Horizon 2020 and ESPRC; is founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Automotive Composites and Editor-in-Chief of Vehicle Engineering. He is also founder and chairman of the international conference on Automotive Composites.
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Inaugural research conference at INtel Institute of Higher Education now on SURE
I’ve just uploaded a range of presentations and papers from this research conference that took place in Nairobi last November.
Here’s some background information taken from the Digital Innovation Research Beacon Newsletter:
‘In November 2015, Professor Helen Edwards, newly appointed Emeritus Professor for the Department of Computing, Engineering and Technology is being funded by the Digital Innovation Beacon to travel to Nairobi, Kenya to Chair an inaugural research conference at INtel Institute of Higher Education, one of the University of Sunderland’s most esteemed and longstanding collaborative TNE partners.
The conference entitled, “Creating Futures Through Research: Meeting Challenges, Embracing Opportunities and Delivering Impact”, will be used to formally mark and showcase the opening of INtel’s new postgraduate teaching and learning facilities. Going forward this new capital investment will enable INtel to begin the process of transforming key aspects of its academic staff base to enable it to achieve its goal of becoming a research active provider of high quality higher education in Nairobi, in line with the Kenyan 2030 vision for the university education sector needed to support a rapidly expanding knowledge-based economy.
One of the key goals of this inaugural collaborative research conference will be to inspire academic staff at INtel to engage in research activity to help develop and embed a research culture. In particular, to provide INtel staff interested in undertaking Ph.D research with the University of Sunderland, with an introduction to the research process and the steps involved in engaging in and completing a Ph.D or a Professional Doctorate.’
This is a great example of how SURE can promote research that might otherwise be quite difficult to find. Thanks to Dr Susan Jones for passing this material on to me.
"What Makes A Publication REF-able?"
THE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES RESEARCH SEMINAR
Monday 11th April 5.30pm
Martin Barker (Aberystwyth University)
Room 233, The David Puttnam Media Centre For further information contact Prof Clarissa Smith T: 0191 515 2708 E: [email protected]
The REF is scary – and not least because no one quite knows if they can trust the various claims made by its official spokespeople, documents, etc. – or if they mean what they say. The REF is also scary for the members of the Panels who conduct the actual business. Martin Barker served as a Panel Member for Media, Communication, Film & Cultural Studies in 2007. In this presentation, he will discuss the actual work of a Panel member, and how the Panel arrived at decisions on the value of individual works of research. Rules of confidentiality still apply, so the examples chosen for discussion will of course not be the actual ones considered.
SURE can help with making your research REF-able. If you’d like to find out more, please get in touch:
Please come to the next lecture in the Professorial Lecture Series. Professor Gail Sanders will speak on ‘Myths, Legends and the Tale of the Tokoloshe: Learning and Leadership in Entrenched Communities’.
Monday 7th March 2016
Murray Library Lecture Theatre
University of Sunderland
SURE vlog #2: What does ‘Authors’ Final Peer-reviewed Manuscript’ mean, exactly? A quick look at what you need to add to SURE to meet HEFCE’s requirements for the next REF.
Grand Gestures: A Somatic Ethnography.
I’d like to highlight a couple of new additions to SURE by Dr Trish Winter, Senior Lecturer, and Subject Leader for Media Studies within Combined Subjects Programme.
Dr Winter has added a 'Plain English' report on the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project 'A Somatic Ethnography of Grand Gestures Elders Dance Group'. It is written for the communities of practice around elders dance and participatory arts more generally.
The report forms part of larger project that, ‘wants to advance the way that we think about the value of arts and cultural activities; their value to society and their value to the individuals who take part in them’.
This is a great example of important research being undertaken at the University of Sunderland that SURE can help publicise, record, and make available to everyone. This kind of work is often difficult to find, and can quite easily disappear from the web as URLs change, and sites go down.
Please have a look at this fantastic example of the kind of work going on at Sunderland.
To mark Open Access Week 2015, here’s the first in a series of videos about SURE/ Open Access.
For more information, contact me on [email protected]
Upcoming Events | A global event now in its 8th year, promoting Open Access as the new default in scholarship and research.
Here’s a list of events being held to mark Open Access Week 2015
The Wikipedia Library OA Week Editathon
During International Open Access Week on October 19-25, 2015, there is a global, virtual editathon to improve Open Access-related content on Wikipedia. Specifically, we hope to improve already existing Open Access-related pages, to create new content where it needs to be added, and to translate Open Access-related pages into languages where they don't yet exist. The theme for this year’s Open Access Week is “Open for Collaboration,” and Wikipedia is the perfect example to highlight.
Most importantly, we need volunteers to help with the edit-a-thon if it’s going to be a success! If you’re interested in getting involved—from simply participating to helping lead the event—please add your name as a participant below and keep reading to learn exactly how you can get involved.
Remember, Please be sure to record any edits, additions, and translations on the progress page, so we can count your work!
The Open Access Week editathon is co-organized by the Wikipedia Library and SPARC.
Here’s the first in the Research Fridays series of sessions for doctoral researchers - looks like it’s going to be very useful!
Thanks to Daniel Payne at LSE for compiling this list. The document is publicly editable so please feel free to add relevant information: List of pub...
Better late than never! Book chapters on repositories.
Open Access and the Research Excellence Framework Workshop: a Report
Open Access and the Research Excellence Framework Workshop
University of Southampton,
10th September 2015
This workshop was organised by the End-to-End Pathfinder Project team, and was hosted by University of Southampton, and was very well attended. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss the implementation of the recently revised open access policy for the next Research Excellence Framework exercise, and to find out more about the development of some of the technical solutions.
The day began with a brief update on the Pathfinder projects by Sarah Fahmy, followed by an overview of the End-to-End project by Valerie McCutcheon of Glasgow University. The End-to-End project is looking at how to improve metadata management, and it was great to have Valerie demonstrate Glasgow’s repository workflows. I was particularly interested in the additional tabs they’ve installed: specifically, ‘Funding’, ‘OA’, and ‘RCUK’. I can see how these might really streamline the process of information acquisition, and could seriously assist in answering the inevitable, ‘do I qualify for the REF?’ questions we’re going to be fielding very soon. There was also time during this session for the attendees to deploy inevitable post-it notes; in this instance, a chance for us to note the issues we saw in implementing OA requirements, as well as how we might solve these problems (that column was a lot less full!). The End-to-End team will collate this information, and I’ll update this post with the results when I get them.
Perhaps the most enlightening session of the day came from Ben Johnson of HEFCE. His ‘Key points in implementing the Research Excellence Framework Open Access Requirements’, was both timely and reassuring. The most important message for repository managers to take from Ben’s presentation was that, ‘We are not going to change our policy again before the next REF’.
He presented a number of extremely quotable remarks that I’ll be stealing for advocacy purposes, my favourite being: ‘How open [research] is, [is now] linked with how good it is’, and he also reiterated the point that HEIs may receive ‘bonus points’ for making outputs beyond the scope of requirements open access. The tone of his presentation was certainly based around the concept of moving beyond compliance with requirements toward the benefits to research – something I applaud.
He recommended that we ‘keep the message simple’ regarding advocacy, particularly with regard to depositing the correct version of accepted manuscripts; he suggested the following: ‘look at your sent box, and give me the postprint’(!).
Cameron Neylon then spoke about working with publishers to meet the requirements of the next REF. Having previously worked with PLOS, and currently Professor of Research Communications at Curtin University, Australia, Prof Neylon began his presentation by declaring, ‘most publishers are keen to help’. He went on to say that some of the barriers to open access are due to the dominance of third-party submissions used by publishers, and that often publishers don’t own the metadata demanded by repository managers. It’s always good to hear the opinions of all parties (and it’s easy to demonise parties that ostensibly hinder what we want!), and we were reminded that there is a huge range of publishers with a wide variety of aims and expertise. Prof Neylon stressed that publishers want global solutions to the issues surrounding Open Access, since there are larger markets than the UK out their – something we need to remember I think.
Azhar Hussain’s session, ‘Publisher policies, Funder policies and the REF – SHERPA Services’, presented an overview of what we can expect from the upcoming SHERPA REF service. He began by suggesting the formerly private relationship between author and publisher has changed to a very public one, and that the new service – due for beta launch in November 2015 – will help authors comply with the various open access policies. The service is aimed at authors but will prove useful for repository managers, and the interface looks very promising with a tool that allows feedback from every page.
Azhar really stressed the importance of the content of author contracts, and said that ‘Contract Law trumps Copyright Law’ – again, this is something I might fall back on when selling the repository here at Sunderland.
In the final session of the morning, Steve Byford (JISC) spoke about the JISC Publications Router. This service, ‘automates the delivery of research publications from multiple data suppliers (such as publishers and subject repositories) to multiple repositories (such as institutional repositories)’. This tool certainly has the potential to help reduce effort on the part of repository staff. Steve also reiterated the message of the previous speaker: that acceptance has become a public rather than private event, and he raised questions about what ‘acceptance’ actually means.
The afternoon session began with a demonstration of the EPrints REF Plugin. This was a parallel session that ran alongside a discussion of other considerations in implementing REF OA requirements. EPrints has collaborated with HEFCE to create a ‘REF support package’ that is not so much a rewrite of the REF2014 Plugin, but rather a set of additional tools designed to help with implementing the requirements of the next REF.
By inputting a series of additional metadata, this tool will give repository managers confirmation of a given output’s eligibility for the next REF. The system is as self-explanatory as existing EPrints systems, and will take into account HEFCE exceptions, so should be extremely helpful both in terms of workflow, and advocacy. I very much liked the ‘Not OA Compliant’ warning that displays when certain criteria are not met – very explicit!
A number of additional plugins will be required before installing this, and it’s not yet at the Beta stage, but I was certainly interested in its possibilities, and, given the input from HEFCE, I think it’s going to be pretty much essential going forward.
The day concluded with a brief overview the CORE (COnnecting REpositories) OA aggregation tool by Nancy Pontica. Nancy demonstrated the CORE Dashboard and reported that CORE now harvests ‘99% of new institutional repositories’.
This workshop was extremely successful – one of the most useful events I’ve attended under the open access umbrella. It was a bit of a confidence boost to see both the variety of tools available (or soon to be available) to help with implementation and advocacy of OA requirements for REF2020, and the very sensible attitude to compliance HEFCE is taking. Very enjoyable!
SURE 4000!
Yitka Graham, Department of Pharmacy, Health and Wellbeing
This summer marked something of a milestone for SURE when the 4000th entry was deposited on behalf of Yitka Graham from the Department of Pharmacy, Health and Wellbeing.
The article (co-authored with members of the Bariatric Unit at Sunderland Royal Hospital) is titled, ‘Revisional Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy: a Systematic Review of Comparative Outcomes with Respective Primary Procedures’, and was published in volume 25, issue 7 of Obesity Surgery. To commemorate this event, we were able to present Yitka with a small gift, and I was able to talk to her about her research and the healthy culture of scholarly research at University of Sunderland; she kindly allowed me to blog about it, and has provided a brief summary of her work.
Yitka Graham is a Lecturer in Public Health in the Department of Pharmacy, Health and Wellbeing. She also holds an embedded post in the Department of General Surgery at City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, where she is developing research into bariatric surgery. Bariatric surgery is becoming an established intervention for the treatment of adult obesity and related diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes. Research shows that bariatric surgery is a safe and cost-effective intervention, which offers sustained weight loss. The bariatric surgical unit at Sunderland is the largest centre in the UK, performing over 600 procedures a year.
Yitka’s PhD is exploring patient experiences of adjusting to life after bariatric surgery and she is concurrently working on research into contraception and bariatric surgery, and a three year study into patient-reported quality of life pre- and post operatively. Her research has been presented at the 6th Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society and the 20th World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders. Together with the bariatric surgical unit, their collaborative research has been published in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Healthcare and Obesity Surgery.
I’d like to thank Yitka for agreeing to share this insight into her work, and wish her well with all her future research.
Hayley Jenkins’ ‘Gwyneth’
I’m really excited to say that ‘Gwyneth’, a composition by Hayley Jenkins from the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media at University of Sunderland is now available from SURE.
As the abstract states:
"Gwyneth" tells the story of an eleven year old girl who was sent to Australia for safety at the outbreak of the Second World War. The piece takes direct influence from a diary entry which was written by a young girl which recounts the day she is taken to Liverpool by her mother to get the boat to Australia uncheperoned along with other children of similar ages. The carefully handwritten pages capture a unique insight into a life-changing journey through the eyes of a young child.
Performers are required to select extracts from the diary to help narrate the story which can be read by all or just one of the performers. The narrations add to the episodic and programmatic quality of the work, bringing the story to life in a nostalgic and sensitive way. The piece has been written specifically for the Albany Trio (violin, cello and piano) and premiered at the Late Music Concert on 6th June 2015.
Listen to the live performance by The Albany Trio here.
This is a great example of how SURE can promote research from staff at University of Sunderland in all its forms.
For more information on Hayley Jenkins and also The Albany Trio, have a look at these links:
http://www.hayleyjenkinscomposer.com/
http://albanypianotrio.com/
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