News from SSAHRI
Artist to Portray Cancer in a New Way
Tuesday 26 July
An artist at the University of Hertfordshire is developing a large scale artwork to portray cancer to educate people about the disease.
Professor Hodgson to receive award
Thursday 16 June
Professor Geoffrey Hodgson will receive the "2012 Veblen-Commons Award" for his contributions to institutional economics next January in Chicago.
Historian Claims Class and Protest History Need to be Revisited
Tuesday 26 April
A historian at the University of Hertfordshire claims that historians need to take a fresh look at protest history, particularly now given that protests and demonstrations are in the news again.
Academics Appointed to Research Excellence Framework Panels
Tuesday 1 March
Two researchers from the University of Hertfordshire have been appointed to sit on expert panels for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014.
Leading Europe for Excellence in Researcher Development
Thursday 16 December
The University of Hertfordshire is recognised by the European Commission this week for providing excellent career development opportunities for research staff so that they can carry out world-leading research.
Philosophers Engage with Emotions, Feelings and Psychiatric Illness
Friday 27 August
Two Hertfordshire philosophers, Professors Shaun Gallagher and Daniel Hutto, will be main speakers at the concluding conference of Emotions and Feelings in Psychiatric Illness project, funded by a Research Network grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
UH Researcher Features on Three Counties Radio
Monday 12 July
UH Research professor Dan Hutto features on Three Counties Radio.
Businesses could learn lessons from evolution
Tuesday 29 June
Research carried out by a University of Hertfordshire Professor of Business Studies to be published next month claims that solutions for many of today's business challenges can be found in evolutionary processes.
'Theory of Mind' skills in the classroom
Thursday 17 June
A University of Hertfordshire philosopher will suggest a way for teachers to become better “managers of minds”, when he speaks at an education conference next week.
First study into spinning
Thursday 27 May
A University of Hertfordshire historian has received a European Union grant to conduct the first ever study into spinning before the Industrial Revolution. It starts next week.
Story Research: The Future State of the Art
Wednesday 12 May
Engaging researchers from another discipline, Professor Daniel Hutto, Professor of Philosophical Psychology will deliver one of three keynote addresses to the New Developments in Narratology conference.
Academic claims that election colours have faded
Thursday 29 April
As the election looms, a historian at the University of Hertfordshire has revealed that political colours have lost much of their impact.
First UK Vampire Conference
Tuesday 6 April
A conference which will serve food out of coffins aims to put British vampire fiction back on the map. The event: Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture will be held from 16-17 April 2010 at the University of Hertfordshire in a mission to encourage students of all ages to study literature.
PHD Scholarships In English Literature
Monday 29 March
Bursary of £1000pa, plus fees
Start date: September 2010, for three years full-time study, or part-time equivalent.
The Department of English Literature, University of Hertfordshire invites applications for two fee-waiver scholarships for full-time or part-time PhD research in any area of Literary Studies.Academic to question society's online ethics
Thursday 18 March
A University of Hertfordshire academic will claim that people are experiencing a fourth revolution as they make sense of their place in an information-filled world, in a lecture at the University next week.
Historian to question Britain's 'credible commitment'
Thursday 18 March
A lecturer in History at the University of Hertfordshire will question Britain’s commitment to sound public finance when she speaks at a conference at the University of Cambridge next week (20-23 March 2010).
British Artist to make new artworks in Antarctica
Tuesday 9 February
University of Hertfordshire international visual artist, Marty St James is to make new artworks in Antarctica this month.
Old Bailey website set to trial revolutionary web searches
Friday 4 December
A team of academics from across the globe has received funding from an international grant competition to test and develop new tools for electronic research, using the innovative and popular Old Bailey Proceedings Online website (www.oldbaileyonline.org).
Embodied Virtues and Expertise: UK-Australian Research Collaboration
Monday 30 November
The Embodied Virtues and Expertise project – which centrally involves philosophers at Hertfordshire – was awarded funding (AUD $293k) for 4-years (2009-2013) under the Australian Research Councils Discovery Projects Scheme.
Study finds that children can learn a second language in preschool
Thursday 10 September
Interim results from an international research project which looks at bilingual education reveal that children can learn a second language as early as preschool.
Academics to survey Hertfordshire's belief in ghosts
Thursday 10 September
An academic at the University of Hertfordshire has launched a survey across Hertfordshire to test contemporary belief in ghosts in post-war England.
Interdisciplinary Special Issue Focuses on Professor Hutto's Research
Monday 7 September
A triple issue of the Journal Consciousness Studies, Vol. 16, no. 6-8, June/August 2009 has been devoted to examining Professor Huttos new narrative practice hypothesis about folk psychology.
University of Hertfordshire awarded UNESCO Chair
Thursday 3 September
The University of Hertfordshire has been awarded a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Chair, which is the fourteenth to be established in the UK.
New training opportunities for Herts architects
Thursday 27 August
Architects in Hertfordshire will now have increased opportunities to access Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training, due to an exciting new collaboration between the University of Hertfordshire and The Royal Institute of British Architects East (RIBA East).
Hertfordshire children to be measured for national sizing survey
Tuesday 4 August
The University of Hertfordshire has launched the next phase of a major new research project to measure children for the National Childrenswear Survey.
History professor involved in British Historical Statistics Project
Friday 22 May
Professor Nigel Goose has been commissioned as one of the three general editors involved in the British Historical Statistics Project, a major initiative sponsored by the Economic History Society and Cambridge University Press to produce a new, definitive multi-volume edition (hard copy and online) of UK historical statistics to update and extend that produced by Brian Mitchell in 1962, and last published in 1988.
Philosophy Professor meets his Holiness the Dalai Lama
Friday 8 May
Professor Shaun Gallagher, of the Philosophy group in the School of Humanities, participated in an invitation-only conference with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and eight other scientists in Dharamsala, India at the Dalai Lamas residence, in April.
Philosophy Professor receives APA Barwise Prize
Sunday 29 March
Professor Luciano Floridi has been selected by the American Philosophical Association to receive the Barwise Prize “for significant and sustained contributions to areas relevant to philosophy and computing in recognition of his research on the philosophy of information”.
University Discovery Days Begin Next Week
Thursday 19 March
A series of ‘Discovery Day’ events targeted at students who might not be inclined to consider a university education will begin next week at the University of Hertfordshire.
Christopher Beazley MEP Praises Hertfordshire's European Exchanges
Tuesday 3 March
Speaking on Monday 2 March at the opening of the University of Hertfordshire’s Europe Week 2009, Christopher Beazley MEP stressed the importance of international collaborations for universities and presented Hertfordshire as an excellent model.
Designs for the future of Hatfield
Tuesday 17 February
Tomorrow (Wednesday 18 February), students from the University of Hertfordshire will unveil designs for the future of Hatfield town centre’s subways to the public.
Research Assessment Exercise ratings announced
Thursday 22 January
The University of Hertfordshire is delighted with its performance in the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008 announced in December 2008 which indicated that over 85% of the University’s submitted research was judged of international standard in terms of originality, significance and rigour.
Art and Design Collaboration for Global Access
Thursday 10 July
The University of Hertfordshire has joined forces with the Interactive Design Institute (IDI) to provide global access to online interactive education in Art and Design.
Researchers investigate how we are using broadband in our lives
Thursday 15 May
Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire Business School are investigating how people from all walks of life are using broadband in their lives. However, they are particularly interested in looking at how so-called ‘silver surfers’ (over 50s) and children are adopting this technology.
Crimes and Punishments of Historical London Unlocked
Monday 28 April
A joint release from the Universities of Sheffield, Hertfordshire and The Open University.
Details of crimes, carried out by the likes of Irish terrorists, train robbers, suffragettes and the infamous Dr Crippen, can be viewed for the first time on the internet from today (28 April 2008), thanks to a significant expansion of the innovative Old Bailey Proceedings Online website (www.oldbaileyonline.org).