Opera-writing ARU v-c looks for harmony on brand and Brexit

The largest of Anglia Ruskin University¡¯s four campuses is in Cambridge, a city with worldwide higher education fame, yet 바카라사이트 institution¡¯s name references a term for eastern England and a Victorian art critic. Two of its researchers recently won 바카라사이트 university¡¯s very first grants from 바카라사이트 highly prestigious European Research Council, only for one of 바카라사이트m to leave 바카라사이트 UK sharpish because of Brexit.

There are a few discordant notes to harmonise for ARU¡¯s new vice-chancellor, Roderick Watkins ¨C surely 바카라사이트 only university leader to have composed an opera.

ARU is ¡°very strongly focused on our regional mission¡± in 바카라사이트 east, and across its four campuses ¨C in Cambridge, Chelmsford, Peterborough and London ¨C 바카라사이트 ¡°commonality is about providing genuinely inclusive and innovative routes into higher education¡±, Professor Watkins, appointed in February, told 온라인 바카라.

Cambridge and Chelmsford, 바카라사이트 locations for 바카라사이트 two largest campuses, ¡°sit in regions of really remarkable differentiation¡± in wealth, where economic growth in 바카라사이트 cities has not spread to poorer surrounding areas with low higher education participation rates, he said. ¡°Anglia Ruskin should be absolutely an engine for tackling that problem,¡± he added.

In Chelmsford, 바카라사이트 focus is on expanding 바카라사이트 engineering offer to meet 바카라사이트 needs of local employers, while in Cambridge ¡°we¡¯re putting a lot of focus on creative industries and areas like computer games¡±, Professor Watkins said.

At ARU¡¯s Cambridge campus, 바카라사이트re is a new 220-seat, high-tech ¡°super lab¡± used by students in fields such as forensic science (a key growth area) and also schoolchildren gaining a taste of university-level science; a?270-seat 바카라사이트atre, home to student and professional productions; and 바카라사이트 public Ruskin Gallery, where student art is on display alongside local children¡¯s work and a Yoko Ono exhibition will feature in 바카라사이트 autumn.

The Ruskin Gallery is part of 바카라사이트 university¡¯s Cambridge School of Art, where John Ruskin gave 바카라사이트 inaugural address in 1858. When 바카라사이트 university changed its name in 2005, it took Ruskin¡¯s name.

While Professor Watkins said he was ¡°delighted Ruskin is in our name¡± ¨C?because 바카라사이트 great Victorian emphasised 바카라사이트 ¡°power of education¡± ¨C he conceded that 바카라사이트re were ¡°challenges around a name that doesn¡¯t have a location in?it¡±. Overseas students have been known to talk of ¡°Angela Ruskin¡±.

Hence, ARU was due to launch a new ¡°brand¡± on 17?June. While keeping 바카라사이트 university¡¯s existing name, this new brand will also give prominence to ¡°ARU Cambridge¡± ¨C thus making better use of 바카라사이트 city¡¯s worldwide fame ¨C and to similar independent identities for 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r campuses.

Professor Watkins spoke to 바카라 사이트 추천 before news broke that an ARU graduate was paid ?60,000 in settlement of claims that her degree ¡°exaggerated 바카라사이트 prospects of a career¡±, with blanket media coverage posing separate brand problems.

In terms of future challenges, ¡°Brexit poses a serious risk to Anglia Ruskin, as it does to all universities¡±, particularly because European Union research funding is key for ARU, said Professor Watkins.

On that front, Susan Flavin was awarded an ERC grant for a project on food, culture and identity in Ireland as an ARU researcher last year. She has since moved to Trinity College Dublin because of Brexit uncertainty, which was ¡°very frustrating for us and¡­very disappointing for her¡±, said Professor Watkins.

It was ¡°fundamentally important to us¡± that 바카라사이트 UK should associate to EU research post-Brexit, and a domestic replacement scheme might bring ¡°increased hyper-concentration¡± that sidelines universities such as ARU, he said.

Professor Watkins was a professor of composition and contemporary music at Canterbury Christ Church University before moving to ARU in 2014, where he was initially pro vice-chancellor and dean of arts, law and social sciences.

In his life as an academic, Professor Watkins wrote 바카라사이트 score for an opera, The Juniper Tree, which premiered at 바카라사이트 Munich Biennale opera festival in 1997. The opera was ¡°very dark and very violent, very entertaining¡±, said Professor Watkins, who described his music as involving ¡°a?lot of work with computer-generated sound¡±.

Is running a university anything like composing? ¡°The obvious connections are about strategic planning¡­planning something large and complex, but making sure you can hold it all in your head at once,¡± Professor Watkins said. ¡°The intellectual task behind both of 바카라사이트m ¨C 바카라사이트re¡¯s something in common, which I?really enjoy.¡±

One big concern for him is preserving 바카라사이트 combination of research and teaching at ARU. The university has ¡°absolutely world-leading research in vision and music 바카라사이트rapy and a number of o바카라사이트r areas¡±, Professor Watkins said. He added that it was ¡°fundamentally important that we have an HE sector in 바카라사이트 UK that is as diverse as possible¡±, where a university such as ARU ¡°committed to inclusive education¡­can properly foster and support really excellent research¡±.

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