The Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Chief Executive, Stephen Tetlow MBE, was granted an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from Plymouth University on 23 September in recognition of his exceptional career achievements and work to inspire the next generation of engineers.
Stephen Tetlow MBE, said: “This is a great honour and I feel particularly happy to be recognised by a University...
A research report released today (30 September 2015) by Brake, the road safety charity, has called for the removal of unnecessary barriers faced by local councils in implementing 20mph speed limits to deliver safer walking and cycling.
The report finds that moving to 20mph limits across built up areas would deliver significant safety benefits, especially for pedestrians and cyclists,...
A diverse and exciting show that reflects the rich variety of postgraduate masters level work, undertaken within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Showcasing an array of ideas, methods and approaches, this exhibition invites you to explore and enjoy bookworks, creative writing readings, film and video, paintings, photographs, sculpture and 3D design, all by exhibiting students. Come and immerse yourself in their creative world.
Graduate work is exhibited from architecture; contemporary art practice; creative writing; digital arts and technology; photography; publishing;...
The Band of HM Royal Marines Plymouth is based at the Royal Navy Initial Training Establishment, HMS Raleigh, in Torpoint, Cornwall. Performing at Plymouth University gives the band a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate its versatility in the concert band idiom with some outstanding soloists, big band jazz ensemble, and contemporary symphonic wind band compositions, as well as giving an insight into a career in military music.
Saturday 28 November 2015 | 19:30 Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University Free admission:...
A performative gesture inspired by iconic queer artist, filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman. Temporal orientations arise and fall away as one artist traces the origins of Jarman’s brilliant queerness. Performed by force/collision’s Founding Director John Moletress with a text by OBIE Lifetime Achievement Award-winning playwright Caridad Svich, Jarman explores spatial relationships between live performance and media.
Wednesday 25 November 2015 | 19:30 The House, Plymouth University Tickets: £12 / £9 concessions. Ticket discounts available via Artory app.
Simon Barton, Professor of History, University of Exeter
Simon Barton works primarily on the political, social and cultural history of the Iberian Peninsula during the medieval period. He has published extensively on the aristocracy, chronicles and chroniclers, and Christian-Muslim relations, especially with regard to the peninsula crusading movement and the activities of Christian mercenaries in Muslim Iberia and North Africa. The topic of this evening’s lecture is based on his recent book, Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines: Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval...
Dr Santanu Das, Reader in the Department of English, King’s College London
India joined WW1 as part of the British empire, contributing nearly one and half million men, including 900,000 combatants and 600,000 non-combatants, who served in places as far-flung as France, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, East Africa, Egypt and the Far East.
Drawing from archives in Europe and India – letters, diaries, original sound-recordings from German POW camps, photographs, paintings, and literary representations by both British and Indian writers – this lecture will investigate the Indian war...
A leading foster care provider is looking for foster homes in Plymouth for young unaccompanied sanctuary seekers from war-ravaged countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Under the Children Act 1989, it is the legal responsibility of local authorities to care for under 18s who arrive in the country from abroad seeking sanctuary. However, with local authorities reportedly...
Running time: 85 minutes Certificate: UK Language: English
Director: Anthony Asquith, Geoffrey Barkas Cast: Fay Compton, Carl Harbord, Dennis Hoey. Introduction by Dr Simon Topping, Plymouth University
Tell England is set before the outbreak of WW1 and shows the friendship between two men before they enlist. Both directors had close memories of Gallipoli, as did Fay Compton's brother, Compton Mackenzie. Asquith's father H. H. Asquith had been Prime Minister at the time of the Gallipoli Landings, a fact which drew press attention to the film, while Geoffrey Barkas...
A Plymouth man has been found guilty of a number of historic child abuse charges at Plymouth Crown Court on Friday (25th September).
Hinton Sheryn was found guilty of 18 counts of indecent assault and gross indecency with children dating back to the 1970s and 80s; one of Sheryn’s victims was as young as six at the time of the abuse.
