John Moores Research Articles

Sex differences of 12 lead electrocardiographic findings of the rugby football league athlete

Cardiac electrical adaptations occur within athlete populations. Sex-related variations in the normal athlete electrocardiogram (ECG) have been observed, with males exhibiting increased QRS and PR intervals, while females have demonstrated increased QTc intervals in university-level athletes. Male athletes also maintain greater weekly training hours compared to female athletes, which is associated with increased ECG changes. The presence of these differences within Rugby Football League (RFL) athletes is unknown. This study aimed to investigate any sex-related variations in the 12-lead ECG in RFL athletes. Fifty nine RFL athletes (32 males [age = 25 ± 5 years] and 27 females [age = 24 ± 5 years]) were included in the study. One female was excluded with inferior T wave inversion and was referred for further investigation. The 12-lead ECG was collected as part of the athlete’s pre-season cardiac screening alongside completion of a health questionnaire, assessment of height and weight and brachial artery pressure. Continuous variables (i.e. heart rate, PR interval, QRS interval etc.), were analysed using an independent t-test or a Mann-Whitney U test as appropriate. For assessment of nominal data (i.e. incidence of early repolarisation and junctional rhythm etc.) a chi-squared test or Fishers exact test were used. A Spearman’s correlation coefficient was used to determine any association between training hours and ECG findings. Ethics approval was obtained from Liverpool John Moores University Ethics Committee. Height (183 ± 5 vs. 169 ± 5 cm, P <0.001), weight (95 ± 11 vs. 77 ± 11 kg, P <0.001) and weekly training hours (18 ± 5 vs. 12 ± 5 hrs, P = 0.001) were higher in male athletes. PR interval (156 ± 34 vs. 142 ± 19 ms, P = 0.002), QRS duration (98 ± 9 vs. 88 ± 7 ms, P <0.001) and incidence of early repolarisation (47% vs. 11%, P = 0.004) were greater in males. Heart rate (57 ± 9 vs. 63 ± 11 bpm P = 0.016) and QTc interval (391 ± 20 vs. 414 ± 17 ms, P <0.001) were greater in females. There was a significant negative correlation between weekly training hours and QTc interval (rs = −0.355, P = 0.009) only. In conclusion, there are significant sex-related ECG differences within RFL athletes that partially mirror previous research. These findings emphasise the importance of considering sex-related variations, during cardiac screening on RFL athletes and enhance our understanding of the normal RFL athlete ECG.

Let’s go east Hull therms! Professional Baseball in 1930s Yorkshire and its amateur legacy

ABSTRACT British baseball had two periods when it developed professional leagues, in 1890 and the 1930s. A key element of the emergence of a professional game was transnational linkages provided by business, individuals and religion. Social and industrial links between the United States and Britain facilitated professional baseball. In the 1930s the enthusiasm for baseball by the industrialist John Moores saw the game rapidly develop from an amateur base in Liverpool to professional leagues in Lancashire, London and Yorkshire. It has been argued that, faced with hostility from elements of the media and established sports, especially cricket, establishing baseball as a professional spectator sport was challenging. The hiatus caused by World War Two left a shallow-rooted sport particularly vulnerable and it failed to re-emerge as a professional game. But the professional leagues inspired an amateur game, most notably in the city of Hull, which developed a substantial amateur league, encompassing four divisions and a women’s section by 1939. In Hull amateur baseball survived the conflict, it re-emerged with a multi-divisional format that continued into the 1960s. However, as the generation enthused by professional baseball retired from active involvement, the game receded to minuscule levels of participation.

Heavy Metal on the Airwaves symposium, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, 2 February 20241

Heavy Metal on the Airwaves symposium, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, 2 February 20241

Journal of Medicinal Natural Products: A New Journal with a New Perspective

Editorial Journal of Medicinal Natural Products: A New Journal with a New Perspective Lutfun Nahar 1,2 1 Centre for Natural Products Discovery, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK; L.Nahar@ljmu.ac.uk or nahar@ueb.cas.cz 2 Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Palacký University and Institute of Experimental Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Šlechtitelů 27, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic Received: 7 April 2024; Accepted: 20 April 2024; Published: 14 May 2024

Teaching without PowerPoint slides in engineering: A pilot study

Using PowerPoints slides (PPT) to deliver lectures has become the norm and common practice in academia over the last decade. Despite the benefits of PPT in providing smooth presentations and helping to prompt the presenter, the use of slides in engineering teaching has its own drawbacks. By using slides in teaching, the information will be provided in a discontinued and very abstract format. However, as a matter of fact, students mainly depend on lecturing slides in their learning and only use the slides to prepare for their exams. Students rarely read beyond what is given in the slides or refer to the reading list for more in-depth knowledge. This creates a gap in knowledge, affects the overall student experience and, to a certain level, affects graduate employment. In this paper, we review a pilot experiment to test a new teaching theme in engineering with no PPT slides. This was implemented for a Level 4 module, Mechatronics 1, which is a newly developed module in the Mechanical/Marine Engineering programmes at Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK. The outcome of this practice is evaluated with the focus on student views, assessment results, and overall assessment of this style of teaching.

Investigation of effects of Circadian Rhythm in Sport: A bibliometric analysis.

This study conducted a bibliometric analysis of the literature on circadian rhythms and sports to identify research trends, knowledge gaps, and future directions. A total of 301 manuscripts, including 245 articles and 56 reviews, were extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database, and the bibliometric analysis was performed using VOSviewer 1.6.16. The analysis revealed a continuous increase in the volume of literature on circadian rhythms and sports over the past 38 years, with a focus on the effects of circadian rhythms on physical performance, sleep quality, and jet lag. The study identified 1107 authors who have contributed to this field, with the highest number of publications from Reilly T, Chtourou H, and Atkinson G. The publications were from 512 institutions in 59 countries/regions, with Liverpool John Moores University, University of Sfax, and Manouba University being the leading institutions. The USA, UK, and Australia had the largest number of publications. The top 3 journals were Chronobiology International, Biological Rhythm Research, and Sports Medicine. Despite the increase in research, there are still several underexplored areas, such as the effects of circadian rhythms on cognitive and emotional processes in sports, the role of individual differences in circadian rhythms on sports outcomes, and the potential applications of circadian interventions for sports performance optimization. Future research should address these gaps to advance our understanding of the complex relationship between circadian rhythms and sports.

Analyzing the bibliometric progress of sustainable monitoring and analysis of sports training loads.

In recent years, load monitoring and analysis have become increasingly important in athletic training. The aim of this study was to provide a background for businesses and institutes to prepare for the implementation of load training and analysis in sports training, utilizing visual analysis of CiteSpace (CS) software. A total of 169 original publications were obtained from Web of Science using a comprehensive list for analysis with the CS scientometrics program. The parameters included range (2012-2022), visualization (display of completely integrated networks), precise collection criteria (top 10%), node form (institution, author, area, reference cited; referenced author, key words, and journal), and trimming (pathfinder, slice network). Visual analysis of load monitoring and analysis for use in athletic training showed that 'questionnaire' was the most popular topic area in 2017 with 51 citations, while 'training programmes' emerged as a new area of study with 8 citations. In 2021 and 2022, the terms 'energy expenditure', 'responses', 'heart rate', and 'validity' gained popularity, increasing from a strength of 1.81 to 1.1. Liverpool John Moores University was the top institution, collaborating with 14 other organizations. The leading authors in this field were Close, Graeme L., and Gastin, Paul B. Most publications were found in the 'SPORTS MED' journal, with authors primarily based in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. The findings of the study highlight the potential frontiers of load training analysis in the research and management of sports, emphasizing the importance of preparing businesses and institutes for the implementation of load training, and analysis in athletic training.

Developing a feasible model for delivering quality hospital-based experiential learning for pharmacy undergraduate students funded by the healthcare education and training tariff

The Department of Health and Social Care (UK) provides funding to support clinical placements for healthcare students in England through their education and training tariff, which is administered by Health Education England (HEE). From September 2022, undergraduate pharmacy students became eligible for this funding to support their experiential learning. Development of quality, feasible experiential learning for pharmacy students within the context of the tariff proved challenging for both higher education institutions (HEIs) and hospital placement providers. Barriers to delivery were identified and addressed, such as no HEE published strategy for placement delivery, as well as the financial constraints of the tariff payments which made placements unattractive to providers. Pharmacy school inexperience of arranging longer placements and a substantial administrative burden added to the challenge. This report outlines the developmental process behind the experiential learning that is now delivered by Liverpool John Moores University and the local hospital providers.

‘Fashion, you’re incomprehensible!’ Teenage girls, Jackie magazine and fashion as a negotiated social statement in the early 1970s

The hugely popular girls’ magazine Jackie (1964–93) was a significant source of guidance for its readers on a range of matters, including fashion. This article analyses archive editions of Jackie held in the Femorabilia collection at Liverpool John Moores University to re-examine its fashion content during a period marked by a shift in emphasis from creativity to consumption. It also revisits Angela McRobbie’s highly influential research on Jackie, arguing that Jackie’s fashion coverage fulfils a broader social role than simply supporting the ‘ideology of femininity’ that McRobbie’s contemporaneous work identifies as central to the magazine. Examining issues from 1973 to 1974 illuminates a period which is more nuanced than is often suggested, and which is marked by both continuity and also substantial change. Jackie’s depiction of early 1970s girlhood shows the necessity of negotiating public space for teenage girls. Its fashion content represents the balance of moderation, experimentation and adaptability offered by the Jackie reader’s self-presentation. Findings demonstrate the heterogeneous meanings on offer in the magazine: while Jackie readers are urged to show restraint in engaging with fashion, they are also encouraged to explore the wider world, dressed and ready for it.

Use of Direct-Acting Oral Anticoagulants in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Chronic Liver Disease

HomeCirculationVol. 147, No. 10Use of Direct-Acting Oral Anticoagulants in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Chronic Liver Disease No AccessEditorialRequest AccessFull TextAboutView Full TextView PDFView EPUBSections ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationsTrack citationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InMendeleyReddit Jump toNo AccessEditorialRequest AccessFull TextUse of Direct-Acting Oral Anticoagulants in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Chronic Liver Disease Theresa J. Hydes, PhD, Gregory Y.H. Lip, MD and Deirdre A. Lane, PhD Theresa J. HydesTheresa J. Hydes Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK (T.J.H., G.Y.H.L., D.A.L.). Liverpool University Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, Aintree University Hospital, Lower Lane, UK (T.J.H.). Search for more papers by this author , Gregory Y.H. LipGregory Y.H. Lip https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7566-1626 Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK (T.J.H., G.Y.H.L., D.A.L.). Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, UK (G.Y.H.L., D.A.L.). Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Denmark (G.Y.H.L., D.A.L.). Search for more papers by this author and Deirdre A. LaneDeirdre A. Lane Correspondence to: Deirdre A. Lane, PhD, Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Liverpool, 6 West Derby Street, Liverpool, UK L7 8TX. Email E-mail Address: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5604-9378 Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK (T.J.H., G.Y.H.L., D.A.L.). Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, UK (G.Y.H.L., D.A.L.). Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Denmark (G.Y.H.L., D.A.L.). Search for more papers by this author Originally published6 Mar 2023https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.063195Circulation. 2023;147:795–797This article is a commentary on the followingComparative Effectiveness and Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants and Warfarin in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Chronic Liver Disease: A Nationwide Cohort StudyFootnotesThe opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the editors or of the American Heart Association.For Disclosures, see page 797.Circulation is available at www.ahajournals.org/journal/circCorrespondence to: Deirdre A. Lane, PhD, Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Liverpool, 6 West Derby Street, Liverpool, UK L7 8TX. Email [email protected]net

The Whole World Was Watching: Sport in the Cold War By RobertEdelman, ChristopherYoung. Cold War International History Project Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020, 352 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978‐1‐5036‐1018‐7

The Russian ReviewVolume 82, Issue 1 p. 170-171 BOOK REVIEW The Whole World Was Watching: Sport in the Cold War By Robert Edelman, Christopher Young. Cold War International History Project Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020, 352 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978-1-5036-1018-7 Susan Grant, Corresponding Author Susan Grant s.grant1@ljmu.ac.uk Liverpool John Moores University Email: s.grant1@ljmu.ac.ukSearch for more papers by this author Susan Grant, Corresponding Author Susan Grant s.grant1@ljmu.ac.uk Liverpool John Moores University Email: s.grant1@ljmu.ac.ukSearch for more papers by this author First published: 19 January 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12417Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume82, Issue1January 2023Pages 170-171 RelatedInformation

Cloud Gamification: Bibliometric Analysis and Research Advances

Research on gamification in the cloud has been increasing in recent years. The main objective of this work was to analyse the advances and progress reported in the scientific literature published internationally in cloud gamification from a bibliometric perspective. The scientific production in this field was identified using the Web of Science (WoS) database. The analysis was carried out with the support of the VOSviewer software, version 1.6.18, developed by van Eck and Waltman, for the graphical visualisation of bibliometric networks. The study period covered the time from the first publication on the subject in 2012 to 31 July 2022, with 108 documents detected. The most prolific author was Jacub Swacha from the University of Szczecin, Poland. Forty-seven countries published on Cloud Gamification, with Spain and Italy being the countries with the highest scientific production. The most productive organisations were Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Complutense University of Madrid, Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Szczecin. The journal with the highest output was Information. The groups in the producing countries, the authors, the organisations to which they belonged and the thematic areas of the studies were identified, as well as their evolution over time.

Vaccine manufacturing: the future is global

CEPI’s Matthew Downham discusses improving production efficiency with new platforms and tools, and how CEPI and its collaborators are working towards more geo-diversified vaccine manufacturing.Matthew Downham is the Director, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Networks for Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). After a PhD in biochemical engineering at Birmingham University, UK, and a post-doctoral research fellowship in biomolecular sciences at Liverpool John Moores University, he joined the biopharmaceutical industry in 1997 and worked in vaccine R&D for companies including Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics and AstraZeneca. He joined CEPI as the Sustainable Manufacturing Lead in 2021.Charlotte Barker, Editor, BioInsights, speaks to Matthew Downham, Director, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Networks, CEPI

How Do We Know Co-Created Solutions Work Effectively within the Real World of People Living with Dementia? Learning Methodological Lessons from a Co-Creation-to-Evaluation Case Study.

Living Labs (LL) are a novel and potentially robust way of addressing real-life health challenges, especially within the dementia field. Generally, LLs focus on co-creating through implementing the quadruple helix partnership as a user-centric approach to co-creating. In the context of this paper, the users were people with dementia and their informal carers. LL are not necessarily environments that evaluate these co-created innovations within the real world. Considering this disconnect between co-creation and real-world evaluation, this paper, as a critical commentary, will reflect on the methodological lessons learnt during the development of an LL model aimed at addressing this discrepancy. The LL at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) was commissioned to co-create and then evaluate a new Dementia Reablement Service. The case study findings revealed that the Dementia Reablement Service had a positive impact on the quality of life of people with dementia, suggesting that the service is a catalyst for positive change. In addition, the critical learning from this case study highlights the potential role of LLs in seamlessly co-creating and then evaluating the co-created solution within the real world. A benefit of this way of working is that it provides opportunities for LLs to secure access to traditional research funding.

15th Global Congress on Manufacturing and Management GCMM2021 In Association with ISPEM 2021

Title: New Advancement in Manufacturing, Materials and Production Engineering towards Industry 4.x Editors: Andre D.L. BATAKO, Anna BURDUK, M. Anthony Xavior Co-editors: Tahsin OPOZ, Xiucheng LIU, Prasad KDV Yarlagadda Editors: Andre D.L. BATAKO, General Engineering Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street Liverpool, L3 3AF, email: a.d.batako@ljmu.ac.uk; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4613-7067 Anna BURDUK, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland. Email: anna.burduk@pwr.edu.pl M. Anthony XAVIOR, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering VIT University, Vellore, India, email: manthonyxavior@vit.ac.inList of Organizing committee, GCMM BOARD, International Scientific committee are available in the pdf

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All conference organisers/editors are required to declare details about their peer review. Therefore, please provide the following information:• Type of peer review: Single-blind / Double-blind / Triple-blind / Open / Other Single-anonymous: authors’ identities are known to the reviewers, reviewers’ identities are hidden from authorsDouble-anonymous: author and reviewer identities are hidden to each otherTriple-blind: author and reviewer identities are hidden to each other, and from the Editor(s) Open: author and reviewer identities are known to each other However both author and reviewer do not know each other, nor have any acquaintance • Describe criteria used by Reviewers when accepting/declining papers. Was there the opportunity to resubmit articles after revisions? The papers presented in this volume were selected after meticulous review of three independent and international reviews and the reviewers had no acquaintance with the authors, and papers were sent to reviewers in different countries avoiding the country of papers’ origin. All papers were scores and the reviewers gave their levels of confidence. In some doubtful cases such as borderline or contradicting reviews, and, where the level of confidence of the reviewers were low, papers were resent to two additional reviewers making a total of five reviews. All articles were revised and resubmitted along with a plagiarism check report. After a final check by the organising committee of both the manuscript and the plagiarism report, authors were asked to format their papers and produce a camera-ready version. With this stringent review process over sixty percent of the submitted paper were reject, and this ensured the quality of the work presented here.Since GCMM covers a broad range of subjects area, the accepted papers were group in three sections, and one of the selections is presented here in this collection.The GCMM2021 organising committee scrutinised further all the papers and awarded four prizes for the best technical papers, the best presenter and the best poster. The winners received a prize in form of Amazon voucher.• Conference submission management system:Papers were handled using the Easychair conference platform, along with an online payment system that dealt with the registration fee.• Number of submissions received:320 papers were submitted• Number of submissions sent for review:250 papers were sent to reviewers• Number of submissions accepted:120 were accepted.• Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received × 100): (120/250)100 = 37.5% • Average number of reviews per paper: 2.5 • Total number of reviewers involved:297 carried out the reviewing process, however other reviewers outside the main list were involved in border line and conflicting reviews.• Any additional info on review process (i.e. plagiarism check system):Turnitin was used (https://www.turnitin.com) along with other similar software to check the uniqueness, similarities and plagiarism.• Contact person for queries:Dr Andre Batako,Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, L3 3AFEmail : a.d.batako@ljmu.ac.uk Tel. 0151 231 2020Please submit this form along with the rest of your files on the submission date written in your publishing agreement.The information you provide will be published as part of your proceedings.

LASER—An Introduction

I called cultural historian Piero Scaruffi recently to chat about the beginnings of the Leonardo LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) program, a program that began in 2008 at the downtown campus of San Francisco State University and, at the time of my writing this introduction, has close to fifty host sites throughout the globe. Piero’s and my memories of the program’s beginning somewhat differ, but we both recalled a nascent LASER event in the spring of 2007 at Swissnex [1] in North Beach, San Francisco, although it wasn’t called a LASER then. This proto-LASER was facilitated by Christian Simm, who was then CEO of Swissnex-SF and a member of the Leonardo Governing Board. As chair of the now-defunct Leonardo Scientists’ Working Group (SWG), I, along with Piero and Christian, invited the SWG “members”—really just a database of scientists with a committed and serious connection to the arts that I gathered by word of mouth and by perusing the publications by scientists in Leonardo journal—to attend our event with the aim of beginning to build a community for scientists who, as the email invite stated, “work/think/imagine/engage at the intersections of the arts and science.” Twenty people attended that event, including Nobel Prize physicist Saul Perlmutter and, here I am relying on Piero’s memory, Leonard Shlain, physician and author of Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light. The next year the Leonardo 40th anniversary symposium “Remix: From Science to Art and Back in the Digital Age” took place at the Berkeley Art Museum and included presentations by scholar Steve Wilson, visual artist Camille Utterback and composer/musician Chris Chafe, among other luminaries.These were the events that launched a thousand LASER ships, or more accurately led Piero to start the now-worldwide LASER program [2]. As its name implies, the program’s intention is to “bring artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations, performances and conversations with the wider public” [3]. This bringing-together has included bimonthly LASERs in a classroom at the University of San Francisco, my home institution, and Jill Scott’s LASERZurich, which often takes place in the more intimate space of Café Salotto. As you can imagine during this time of COVID, this bringing-together has shifted many of the LASERs from their in-person communities to Zoom and, in tandem, from a local to a global audience. As I sit in front of my computer in September 2021 I now have the option of zooming into Piero’s Stanford University (U.S.A.) LASER on 1 September, Aalto University’s (Finland) contribution to the Leonardo LASER Garden program taking place at this year’s Ars Electronica Festival on 9 September and the National Academy of Sciences’ (Washington, D.C.) 17 September DASER (aka DC-LASER) on Art, Empathy and Climate Change, among others.As evidenced by the article that follows, “Liverpool LASER Talks: A Community ‘Studio-Laboratory’?,” the LASER concept has now expanded beyond live or virtual gatherings to include the written: a special LASER section in Leonardo to create a global space for dialogue among local LASER hosts, audiences and the larger journal readership. To this end, Mark Roughley and Caroline Wilkinson, faculty at Liverpool John Moores University and the hosts of the Liverpool School of Art and Design LASER program, have auspiciously shared their vision of a LASER “that sought to increase the visibility of art-science interactions locally” while simultaneously exploiting technologies that extended their reach to the international LASER community. This article is the first to be published in this special section; it summarizes the first year of their LASER program, which occurred prior to COVID and therefore in person at various sites in Liverpool, allowed their chosen venues to “[become] learning spaces for interconnection—a core value of the studio-laboratory—where attendees could engage beyond traditional public lectures with complex scientific research, new technologies and challenge art-science concepts.” This vision, like the LASER programs themselves and this special section, encompasses the unique place where locality and interconnection blur and expand the art-science discourse.

Introduction to Andrea Levy's Selected Excerpts from The Adventures of Mrs Seacole

Introduction to Andrea Levy's Selected Excerpts from The Adventures of Mrs Seacole Michael Perfect (bio) In July 2012 Andrea Levy completed a screenplay based on Mary Seacole's 1857 autobiography, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands. In addition to using Seacole's own text, Levy also drew on Jane Robinson's 2005 biography of her as well as a number of other resources. At the time of writing, Levy's screenplay has been neither televised nor optioned, although this may yet change. Like Seacole herself, Levy's screenplay is full of warmth, energy, and wit; it offers a lively and insightful portrait of a woman who has been voted the "greatest black Briton" (Taylor) but who nevertheless remains unknown to many British people. Indeed, like other projects that Levy worked on in her final years, The Adventures of Mrs Seacole sought to increase public awareness of and interest in neglected aspects of British-Caribbean history. Two excerpts from The Adventures of Mrs Seacole are reproduced below. The first is from the beginning of the screenplay. These opening scenes cover Seacole's arrival at the British military hospital at Scutari, near Istanbul, in 1855. Having applied at the War Office in London to join the nursing contingent famously led by Florence Nightingale, and having been rejected, Seacole has made her own way to the military hospital. At Scutari she encounters Nightingale, who receives Seacole frostily. The second excerpt features scenes from much later in Levy's screenplay. They find Seacole back in London, in 1856. Despite her enormously heroic exploits in the Crimea, Seacole faces obscurity and destitution—until, that is, she encounters some of the veterans who she nursed on the battlefields. As is clear from these excerpts, Levy's screenplay takes issue with Seacole being a frequently overlooked figure and, [End Page 293] in particular, one overshadowed by Nightingale—not just in the mid-nineteenth century but in the contemporary moment, too. Bill Mayblin and I have selected and edited these excerpts for posthumous publication. For a more detailed discussion of these excerpts in particular, the screenplay as a whole, and Levy's late unpublished work more generally, see my article in this special issue. Michael Perfect Michael Perfect is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Liverpool John Moores University. His research interests are in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and culture. His first book, Contemporary Fictions of Multiculturalism, was published with Palgrave in 2014, and his work has also appeared in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, The Journal for Cultural Research, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and numerous edited collections. He has written for The Guardian's Higher Education Network and been interviewed on local and national radio. His second book, forthcoming with Manchester University Press, focuses on Andrea Levy. He was the first academic to carry out research on Levy's archive, and his ongoing work on the archive is supported by a BA/Leverhulme research grant. In addition to his work on Levy, he is currently developing a project that relates to screen adaptations of contemporary transnational novels. Works Cited Robinson, Jane. Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea. 2005. Constable and Robinson, 2006. Google Scholar Seacole, Mary. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands. 1857. Edited by Ziggi Alexander and Audrey Dewjee, Falling Wall, 1984. Google Scholar Taylor, Matthew. "Nurse Is Greatest Black Briton." The Guardian, 10 Feb. 2004, theguardian.com/uk/2004/feb/10/britishidentity.artsandhumanities#:~:text=A%20little%2Dknown%20nurse%20who,voted%20the%20greatest%20black%20Briton. Accessed 14 June 2020. Copyright © 2022 Johns Hopkins University Press and the University of Calgary

Edward John Scarisbrick (1976–2022)

On 27 September 2022, Edward John Scarisbrick, aged 46 years, of Burscough, Lancashire. Mr Scarisbrick was a former member of the Society. Tribute Edward started working in pharmacy at O’Brien’s Pharmacy, aged 16 years. He read pharmacy at Liverpool John Moores University, and completed his preregistration training in Bognor Regis, West Sussex. After this, he […]

Interview with Professor Om Gurung

Professor Om Gurung is a senior anthropologist, an influencing intellectual, and a prominent public leader in Nepal. He served Tribhuvan University as a professor of anthropology for 36 years and headed the Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology for 13 years. Professor Gurung did his M. A. in History from Tribhuvan University in 1975, M. A. in anthropology from the University of Poona in 1980, and Ph. D. in Anthropology from Cornell University of Ithaca, New York in 1996. He is one of the founding members of the Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology at Tribhuvan University of Nepal. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Liverpool John Moores University in the UK, Lille University in France, and the University of Sichuan in China. He is a visiting research fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway, and a guest lecturer at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Oxford University, UK, China Institute of New School University, New York, the University of Mons, Belgium, the University of Heidelberg, Germany and Chinese University in Hong Kong. Professor Gurung was heavily engaged in various social, professional, and political organizations. He has made substantial scholarly and social contributions to the understanding of social and political issues of Nepal. As a promising intellectual leader of ethnic rights and politics of social inclusion in Nepal, he raised socio-political awareness among indigenous peoples of Nepal and mobilized them to assert their ethnic identity and cultural rights. He has a deep commitment to the development of anthropology and Nepali people.