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From: Jade Rance, 2nd year media student:

I got involved in this project via Jon Hickman, early 2009. Kathleen had approached the department in search for a graphic designer to help layout her book and Jon recommended me.
I have been working on the project continuously since then.

The concept is that it is a scrapbook, with literary information and "tit bits" about authors from around the 19th Century and their relationships and circles of friends.
I have a lot more information of exactly how the book works, but on a basic level I have constructed a way so that it is divided into years, and countries for easy reference. (clearer to see on my templates and drafts)

I have been the sole designer and it has been a very rewarding process to say the least. It is currently at various publishing houses, we are just waiting to hear back.
Kathleen, the author, has taken my designs to focus groups around the world and this has encouraged some very positive feedback. There seems to be quite a demand for this kind of book, as both an academic tool and as an interesting gift for people who are interested in reading around that subject area.

I haven't been involved in the blog, thats Kathleen's baby. However, the whole aesthetic of the book is mine.


School of Media Careers Event

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Please find attached details for the School of Media Careers Event, due to take place at The Drum next Wednesday, March 10th.

It is aimed at all the third years and post graduate students and should be a useful event

Best wishes

 

Caroline

 

 

Caroline Officer

Senior Lecturer Television & New Media

Skillset Employment Engagement Manager

Birmingham City University

Perry Barr

Birmingham B42 2SU

Tel: 0121 331 6346

Mobile: 07973 756256

Email: caroline.officer@bcu.ac.uk

http://www.mediacourses.com

http://www.bcu.ac.uk

 

Upcoming EventsHere's a list of ...


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From: David Harte <dave.harte@bcu.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:37:07 +0000
To: Paul Bradshaw <paul.bradshaw@bcu.ac.uk>
Subject: Upcoming EventsHere's a list of ...

Upcoming Events

Here's a list of upcoming events that I think you might be interested:

Thursday 4th March 1pm room B225, Baker building.
Visit from UnLtd regarding a funding opportunity for Social Entrepreneurship Projects. More details on the funding here: http://culturegroup.co.uk/Hefce_Website/. This is a real chance to get apply to a fund focused on ideas from students.

Wednesday 10th March, 11.30am, The Drum, Newtown.
Media Careers Event. Primarily aimed at undergraduates but this would be of interest to postgraduates. Keynote talk is from the BBC. More details from Caroline Officer (caroline.officer@bcu.ac.uk). Location <
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Friday 12th March, 10am, room tbc, Baker Building.
Maverick Television would like to talk to postgraduate students about the possibility of working with you on social media projects related to their new mulit-million pund Digital Health project. Please email me (dave.harte@bcu.ac.uk) if you would like to be involved.

Dave

Conferencing

Colleagues may be interested to hear about two conferences that I'll be speaking at in partnership with Jez Collins.

The first conference is 'Mapping, Memory and the City'. This takes place this week at Liverpool University (http://www.liv.ac.uk/lsa/cityinfilm/mappingmemory/index.html).

The second is 'Cybercultures: exploring Critical Issues' which takes place in Salzberg in two weeks time (http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/cybercultures/conference-programme-abstracts-and-papers/).

At both events we are speaking on some of the issues presented by the Birmingham Popular Music Archive project which was supported by our AHRC-funded Knowledge Transfer project.

Further to our REF session last week, colleagues will no doubt be interested in the abstracts and draft papers that we submitted, both available at each conference site.

Dr. Paul Long
Reader in Media and Cultural History
Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research
Birmingham School of Media
Birmingham City University
Perry Barr
B42 2SU
tel: 0121-331-5468

Birmingham Centre for Media & Cultural Research

http://interactivecultures.org/

Japanese visitor

I have someone coming all the way from Japan to chat with me on Weds afternoon. I think she’s some sort of media consultant. That’s it!

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Paul Bradshaw

Award Leader, MA Online Journalism

Senior Lecturer in Online Journalism

School of Media

B322 Baker Building

Birmingham City University

Perry Barr

Birmingham

B42 2SU

+44 121 331 5367

http://mediacourses.com

http://onlinejournalismblog.com

Saudi Visitors

Out of the blue I will be having seven or eight visitors from Saudi Arabia in the School on Wednesday. They are in Birmingham meeting various groups and have asked to meet me to talk about working with the media as a result of the PVE workshops we ran for the City Council.

Bob Calver

Senior Lecturer in Broadcast Journalism

Birmingham School of Media

Birmingham City University

Perry Barr

Birmingham B42 2SU

0121 331 6866

07710 195711

www.mediacourses.com

meetings etc. w/c 22nd Feb

This week:
Monday: Couple of guest speakers coming to talk to MA Media Suite students about project management (from the new Library of Birmingham project and from a local design business).
Also meeting Digital Birmingham to be briefed on the City's 'Recovery Task Force' group and the potential to develop some digital projects on its behalf.

Tuesday: Presenting to the Building Schools for the Future programme as part of my role in chairing the Digital Media Birmingham Science City Group.

Thursday: Also as part of my Science City role I'm attending an event about the new high speed rail line from London to Birmingham. This is largely for networking purposes.

Dave