Assistant Professor | Course Director MSc Nursing (Post-Reg.) | External Examiner | NHS REC Chair. Education • Research • Ethics.
Coventry, England
Joined January 2017
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So pleased to be nominated for this award. It's from the students I've taught, so especially important. Makes all the hard work worthwhile - I'm still making a difference!
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Sepsis: how nurses can spot the signs in adults and children
Learn more about sepsis, including what tools to use to identify and manage the condition.
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A decline in district and community nursing roles has led to a rise in people at the end of life having to turn to A&E departments for help, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has warned.
#DistrictNursing #RCN #MarieCurie
nursinginpractice.com/commun…
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Would you know where to find your nearest defibrillator?
During Resus Annie on Tour we asked members of the public this very question!
Familiarise yourself with the location of your nearest public access defibrillator today by visiting defibfinder.uk
🚨 In an emergency always call 999, the call handler will direct you to your closest available defib.
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"Scream" is the only official duet ever recorded by Michael and Janet Jackson. Released as the lead single from Michael's 1995 album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, it debuted at #5 on the US Billboard Hot 100, the highest debut in the chart's history at the time, helped by Billboard's recently updated chart methodology, which allowed major new releases to enter with strong first-week sales and airplay.
Directed by Mark Romanek, the futuristic music video reportedly cost around $7 million, making it the most expensive music video ever made at the time. Filmed on an elaborate spaceship set, it won the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Music Video.
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"Universities traditionally known for their high tariffs recruited around 50% more UK students this autumn than at the start of the decade, with many lowering their A-level grade requirements."
In our latest opinion piece, Professor Ian Dunn, Provost of Coventry University Group, argues that the focus should now move from the grades students arrive with to the support that helps them succeed:
The financial crisis in Higher Education is forcing many universities to make decisions that were not part of their thinking a few years ago – and the ramifications have yet to be fully realised.
The sector is adapting to a present and future with far fewer of the international students whose tuition fees have been helping balance the books at many institutions.
Courses, departments and even campuses have been closing with increasing frequency around the country, impacting students, colleagues and the economic health of their communities.
But perhaps the most significant impact is that there are no longer high-tariff universities – only high-tariff courses. Universities once known for demanding the highest A-Level grades have been reducing their entry requirements on many courses – in some cases substantially – in a bid to recruit more domestic students to protect their income and help to offset shortfalls in international student revenue.
These universities are no more immune to the financial storm than the rest of the sector, unless they are among the few with large endowments.
As more of their courses appear in Clearing, accepting grades well below those they asked for only a few years ago, it is worth asking what this change means for the students they now admit.
Visit pulse.ly/pitfqvvqqy to keep learning from Professor Ian Dunn about:
◾ What's best for students
◾ Why tailoring support and learning environments for students from all walks of life is so important
◾ The wider picture, including driving economic growth and productivity in every single region
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DR LEAH KARDOS LOW COVER FEATURE FOR ELECTRONIC SOUND
“Ah, what you gonna say?”
Our good friend, Dr Leah Kardos, is a big fan of Low and she knows her eggs. So, who better for this feature?
Here’s a bit regarding it from Leah herself...
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Low is 50 years old but it still sounds like the future, and I wanted to take this chance to listen to it again with fresh ears: what the music does, where it came from, and what it set in motion. I'll be writing about the traces of German influences (Cluster, Harmonia, Kraftwerk, Neu!, Tangerine Dream) alongside the soul and funk elements brought by the D.A.M. Trio of Dennis Davis, Carlos Alomar, and George Murray, with Tony Visconti behind the glass. It's also worth remembering the vast and long-reaching influence this record has had, particularly what it inspired in post-punk and British synth-pop. The piece will be the cover feature for Electronic Sound’s January issue, and includes new interviews with some of the people who made it.
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Thanks Leah, really looking forward to this one. Here's a bit from ELECTRONIC SOUND...
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PRE-ORDER OPEN NOW!! We’re doing a special pre-order for the January 2027 issue of Electronic Sound, which has DAVID BOWIE on the cover as we mark the 50th anniversary of ‘Low’ with an awesome feature about the first of his Berlin Trilogy albums. The piece has been written by author and musicologist Leah Kardos, who co-founded the Visconti Studio in London with long-time Bowie producer Tony Visconti.
Alongside the magazine, we have an exclusive double CD of tracks that evoke the mood of the glorious electronic instrumentals on ‘Low’, the likes of ‘Warszawa’ and ‘Subterraneans’. Bringing together new commissions, existing originals and startling covers, the contributors to this compilation include JOHN FOXX, MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO, CLUSTER, CONRAD SCHNITZLER, THE UTOPIA STRONG, DYLAN HOWE, GLOBO, ULRICH SCHNAUSS & MARK PETERS, J WILLGOOSE ESQ, PYROLATOR, METAMATICS and more.
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Go here to pre-order your Bowie magazine + double CD bundle: electronicsound.co.uk/news/b…
#BowieKardos #BowieElectronicSound #BowieLow50
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The famous British musical-comedy drag duo Hinge and Bracket, consisting of Dr Evadne Hinge (left, played by George Logan) and Dame Hilda Bracket (right, played by Patrick Fyffe)....
(George Logan and Patrick Fyffe were two male performers and classically trained musicians who rose to fame in the 1970s portraying a pair of eccentric, intellectual elderly female spinsters.)
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In the 1980s, two elderly British ladies became unlikely television stars. They wore pearls, adored classical music, and could destroy someone with a perfectly polite remark.
Millions of viewers adored them. Neither woman actually existed.
Dame Hilda Bracket and Dr Evadne Hinge were the creations of Patrick Fyffe and George Logan, two male performers who met in London’s cabaret scene in the early 1970s.
But their characters were unlike the flamboyant drag queens audiences might have expected.
Hilda and Evadne were elderly, respectable, musically accomplished women living together in the fictional English village of Stackton Tressel.
They had their own home, Utopia Ltd, along with imaginary careers, old romances, acquaintances, rivalries, and decades of shared memories.
Hilda was theatrical, grand, and wonderfully convinced of her own importance. Evadne was quieter, more practical, and frequently unimpressed by her companion’s extravagance.
Their conversations were filled with affectionate insults, elaborate misunderstandings, and the kind of perfectly polite remarks that could leave someone utterly demolished.
What made the act remarkable was the seriousness with which the performers treated their imaginary lives.
Hilda and Evadne were never simply jokes about elderly women. They were independent, opinionated characters with accomplishments, frustrations, and a friendship that felt entirely believable.
Their world evoked an older England of afternoon tea, village committees, drawing-room recitals, and impeccable manners.
And audiences loved it.
The characters began in London’s gay cabaret scene, but their popularity carried them into mainstream British entertainment.
They became radio favorites before starring in the BBC television series Dear Ladies in 1983.
For thirty years, Fyffe and Logan carefully maintained the illusion, frequently appearing in public as Hilda and Evadne rather than themselves.
Then, in 2002, Patrick Fyffe died of cancer at just 60.
George Logan could not imagine continuing their partnership without him.
The act effectively ended, and Evadne Hinge disappeared from public life.
What began as two men inventing elderly ladies for a cabaret performance had become something much more enduring.
They had created two women with such distinctive personalities that audiences remembered their friendship as though it had been real.
George Logan died in 2023, aged 78, more than twenty years after losing his performing partner.
#archaeohistories
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'A New Germany', the first episode of The World at War, was broadcast on this day in 1973. Produced by Jeremy Issacs and narrated by Laurence Olivier, the series (which continues to be regularly re-run worldwide) was three years in the making.
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The music for the Pearl and Dean cinema adverts is called Asteroid. It was written in 1968 by Pete Moore.
I now want a choc ice and a bag of Revels...
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The Prisoner - A, B and C by Anthony Skene (13th October 1967). The new No 2 (Colin Gordon) attempts to break No 6 by delving into his subconscious.
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“Here hold up where’s Victor…”
THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY (1980)
The iconic final scene.
#BobHoskins #PierceBrosnan
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Yes, it really blinked!
Watch until the end to get a look inside one of our favourite spaces in the Alison Gingell building, where students train in environments that mirror real-life clinical scenarios.
Head over to pulse.ly/0rlfa7zjwx to explore more.
@covcampus
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TMWFTE 50TH ANNIVERSARY 4K RE-RELEASE AND IN UK CINEMAS
“It will tumble from the sky...”
The Man Who Fell To Earth will return to UK cinemas next month, shortly before the release of a 5-disc 50th anniversary collector’s edition on 16th November.
Pre-order here: bit.ly/3TF2kkO
Keep reading for the full press release and stay tuned for a contest to win promotional items, such as T shirts, mugs, and posters.
#BowieTMWFTE #TMWFTE50
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STUDIOCANAL CLASSICS
DAVID BOWIE IS THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH 50TH ANNIVERSARY 4K RE-RELEASE
DIRECTED BY NICOLAS ROEG
CAST INCLUDES: CANDY CLARK, RIP TORN, BUCK HENRY AND BERNIE CASEY
IN UK CINEMAS ON NOV 13
5-DISC ANNIVERSARY COLLECTOR’S EDITION FROM NOV 16
PREORDER: bit.ly/3TF2kkO
To mark the 50th anniversary of the UK release of director Nicolas Roeg’s (Don’t Look Now) seminal science fiction odyssey, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, STUDIOCANAL is thrilled to announce a 4K rerelease of the cult classic.
The film, which was fully restored in 2015, will be released in cinemas nationwide on November 13.
A special 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition will follow on November 16. Released via the new STUDIOCANAL CLASSICS label, the 5-disc collection features the film on 4K UHD and Blu-ray, brand-new artwork by Aleksander Walijewski, a 2CD soundtrack, a 100-page booklet featuring a brand-new interview with Candy Clark, four posters and four art cards (designed by Nick Neocleous). The Collector’s Edition also includes the exclusive premiere of a 40 min documentary: Bowie & Roeg: Aliens in America. Featuring new interviews with those that knew him best at that time, we celebrate Bowie’s most iconic leading role and take a look at how the cosmic forces aligned to make a truly unique masterpiece. Archive featuring Bowie illuminates his relationship with director Nic Roeg and what playing Thomas Newton meant to him. Also features Candy Clark, Geoff MacCormack, Ava Cherry, Graeme Clifford, archive interviews with Nic Roeg and many more, and rarely seen behind-the-scenes images.
Featuring a startling and era defining lead performance from David Bowie (The Prestige, Labyrinth) in his debut feature role and based on the cult novel by Walter Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth endures as, not only a bitingly caustic indictment of the modern world but, also, a poignant commentary on the loneliness of the outsider.
“Power, space, time and a visitor.”
Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth from a distant planet on a mission to take water back to his home planet in the midst of a catastrophic drought. Using the advanced technology of his home planet to patent many inventions on Earth, Newton acquires incredible wealth as the head of a technology-based conglomerate (aided by leading patent attorney Oliver Farnsworth (Buck Henry, The Graduate) that he intends to use to finance the construction of a space vehicle to ship water back to his planet.
Newton embarks on a relationship with hotel maid Mary-Lou (Candy Clark, American Graffiti) and makes progress with the construction of his vehicle but soon finds his true identify at risk via his roguish colleague and confidant Dr. Nathan Bryce (Rip Torn, Men in Black) who threatens not only his relationship with Mary-Lou, but his freedom and chances of ever returning home.
EXTRAS
Brand-new 40-minute documentary – THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH AT 50 - BOWIE AND ROEG: ALIENS IN AMERICA
Additional Extras:
Interview with May Routh
Interview with David James
Interview with Sam Taylor-Johnson
Interview with Michael Deeley
John Phillips Soundtrack
Interview with Candy Clark
Interview with Paul Mayersberg
Interview with Tony Richmond
Interview with Nic Roeg
Watching the Alien featurette
David Bowie - French TV 1977
Cert: 18 cert BBFC & IFCO / Run Time 139 mins aprox
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An AI expert at Coventry University is urging businesses to avoid common mistakes when adopting AI so they can make the most of the technology.
Professor Elena Gaura, Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research and AI Lead, Coventry University Group, says many firms are missing opportunities to gain a competitive advantage by falling into common pitfalls.
Prof Gaura believes business leaders need to think carefully about where the technology can add value within their organisation before reaching for an AI tool, and warns against taking a piecemeal approach to adoption.
Prof Gaura said: “AI is here to stay, so businesses need to make sure they are ready to benefit.
“Companies often measure AI adoption by the number of tools they have bought or the proportion of staff using them. Those figures show reach but they say little about whether AI is improving the business.
“A better starting point is to identify a problem that matters to the company, understand the process around it and decide what improvement would be valuable. The technology will continue to develop – the advantage lies in being ready to use it well. "
Visit pulse.ly/fu5pvmor4p to hear more from Professor Elena Gaura.
@CovUniResearch
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It’s 1981, and you play this game for the first time… and your mind melts. Early-80s arcade games were so far ahead of home computer gaming that it’s hard to put the gap into perspective today.
Tempest stood out because it felt like nothing else on the floor: a super-fast, almost hypnotic tube shooter built on color vector hardware and a physical spinner. Pretty much everything about it was unique.
Atari designer Dave Theurer (who also created Missile Command) started from an idea for a first-person Space Invaders, which ultimately became Tempest.
It generated roughly US$150 million in its first year from cabinet sales and coin take, making it a massive commercial hit for Atari.