Warwick University Research Articles

Book Review: Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933–1951 by Gerd Gemünden, Hollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture by Rebecca Prime

Book Review| March 01 2014 Book Review: Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933–1951 by Gerd Gemünden, Hollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture by Rebecca Prime Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933–1951. : Columbia University Press, 2014. $90.00 cloth; $30.00 paper. 296 pages; By Gerd GemündenHollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture. : Rutgers University Press, 2014. $80.00 cloth; $27.95 paper. 280 pages. By Rebecca Prime J. E. Smyth J. E. Smyth J. E. Smyth is Reader in History at the University of Warwick (UK), and is the author, most recently, of Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Film Quarterly (2014) 67 (3): 91–93. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2014.67.3.91 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation J. E. Smyth; Book Review: Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933–1951 by Gerd Gemünden, Hollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture by Rebecca Prime. Film Quarterly 1 March 2014; 67 (3): 91–93. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2014.67.3.91 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFilm Quarterly Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2014 by the Regents of the University of California2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

A tribute to Michael S. Neuberger

A tribute to Michael S. Neuberger

Adsorption Dynamics in Adsorptive Heat Transformers: Review of New Trends

This review addresses recent advances in understanding and trends in studying dynamics in adsorptive heat transformers (AHTs), which are considered as an alternative to common compression and absorption machines. Experimental data have been obtained mainly by a new large temperature jump method (LTJM) specifically developed to imitate the conditions of isobaric stages of AHTs. Here we consider merely a simple but quite realistic configuration of an “adsorbent–heat exchanger” (Ad-HEx) with n-layers of loose adsorbent grains (n = 1–8). Water, methanol, and ammonia are used as adsorbates. Several recommendations following from this experimental study have been checked with prototypes of adsorptive chiller in ITAE-CNR (Italy) and the University of Warwick (UK). These tests clearly demonstrated that the dynamic performance of AHT can be significantly improved by a proper management of AHT cycle and Ad-HEx geometry. The most important findings and general regularities that have been revealed by systematic studying of the adsorption dynamics of water, methanol, and ammonia in AHT systems are summarized, illustrated, and discussed in this review.

Sébastien Perrier received the 2014 IUPAC- Samsung Young Polymer Scientist Award

In July 2014, the IUPAC Polymer Division announced that Sébastien Perrier from the University of Warwick, UK and Monash University, Australia, was the 2014 recipient of the IUPAC-Samsung Young Polymer Scientist Award.

Microbes in the Mouth: An Insider‘s View

Nick Jakubovics speaks to Hannah Branch, Commissioning Editor Nick Jakubovics attended the University of Cambridge (UK) where he obtained a BSc in Biochemistry, which was followed by the completion of a PhD in Microbiology at the University of Warwick (UK). In 1998, he became a postdoctoral researcher at Bristol Dental School (UK) in the laboratory of Howard Jenkinson. In 2004, Jakubovics obtained a NIH postdoctoral fellowship to work at the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research (MD, USA) in the laboratory of Paul Kolenbrander. Following this, in 2007, he became a Lecturer in Oral Microbiology at Newcastle Dental School (UK). His research is focused on understanding the role of the extracellular matrix in biofilms with an overarching aim of developing methods to control biofilms. Jakubovics is a member of the Society for General Microbiology and Executive Committee of the Society for Applied Microbiology.

Birth and beyond: Supporting parents in the antenatal period

Pregnancy is not only a critical period for babies' development, but also a time when parents are receptive to support. Despite this, opportunities to support disadvantaged parents during the transition to parenthood are often missed. The NSPCC has worked with Warwick University to develop a new perinatal education programme for vulnerable parents called Baby Steps. This evidence-based programme aims to strengthen protective factors such as family relationships, social support and emotional wellbeing during pregnancy. It uses a variety of interactive approaches to engage and support parents, and to help them recognise and respond to their babies' cues. The service is being piloted in eight areas of the UK, and early evaluation results are positive.

RESEARCHING THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION FOR WOMEN IN BRITAIN, 1947–1989

This report details the aims, methodology and selected findings of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded project ‘A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947–1989’, running between 2010 and 2013 at the University of Warwick and De Montfort University. Here, we consider the difficulties of conducting historical television research and the ways in which we have tried to use a method which is attentive to production research, textual analysis and audience work in a dialogic relationship. We discuss the work of Doreen Stephens, the BBC's first Editor, Women's Programmes, the ‘discovery’ of the daytime women's arts programme Wednesday Magazine and the ways in which the women who have participated in our study have described the significance of television for women in their lives. Finally, we discuss the ways in which the project has attempted to engage with constituencies outside the academy.

Michael Bailey and Des Freedman, eds., The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance

Michael Bailey and Des Freedman, eds., Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance. London: Pluto Press, 2011. This edited collection is essential reading for any one concerned about current state and future trajectory of university. Many if not all of its sixteen essays could (and should) be used as course readings advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses, especially courses sociology and related disciplines concerned with higher education, social movements, and neoliberalism. whole book is a treasure trove of insightful commentaries, challenging critiques, penetrating analyses, and inspirational calls to action. Except for last three essays, its focus is universities and higher education policy UK, but Canadian readers will find obvious parallels with effects of similar policies being pursued Canada. Central to overall narrative of this book are events that took place England final months of 2010 response to Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance Report, known commonly as Browne Review. Lord Browne of Madingly, formerly CEO of British Petroleum, was commissioned 2009 by Labour government to recommend ways to fund higher education into future. However, Browne's review was released under auspices of a new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government on October 12th, 2010. government began immediately to act on its recommendations with legislation that significantly increased tuition fees with long-term changes to mechanism for funding universities. On November 10th, less than a month later, students filled of London and other university cities, to an extent not seen England over forty years, to protest proposed legislation. By end of year, they had occupied spaces forty-six universities and other public buildings. While they initially targeted tuition and fee increases and related proposals for student financing, their actions soon escalated into a full-fledged in streets student movement that challenged entire political and economic program of Britain's new coalition government. Student marches and occupations were not only response to Browne Review. Although media commentary focused almost exclusively on tuition increases, Browne also recommended that government's annual block grant for teaching be almost entirely eliminated and replaced with direct financial aid to students. (1) This proposal was perceived by academics, commentators, and other concerned citizens as a death knell to public higher education. In Stefan Collini's words, rather than treating higher education as a public good, it treats it as a lightly regulated market which consumer demand, form of student choice, is sovereign determining what is offered by service providers (i.e., universities). (2) essays Assault on Universities respond to these events, providing nuanced and astute critiques not only of Browne Review, but more importantly of longer term shift higher education policy that Browne is designed to extend. This shift dates back to at least Margaret Thatcher's time office--even longer, according to one writer, who reminds us of E.P. Thompson's seminal essay, The Business University. (3) Thompson's powerful critique of practices unfolding at Warwick University 1970s stands as an early warning that university leaders were already tacking back from arms length relationship to the military-industrial complex that 1960s student movement struggled to establish. Since then, book's contributors argue, universities have been encouraged, indeed compelled, by government policies to ever more deeply subjugate their research and teaching activities to diverse needs of global capital. As subtitle reveals, (A Manifesto for Resistance) contributors have written this book to mobilize support for reversing policies that have been key to advancing university corporatization. …

The entrepreneurial university in the twenty-first century

Burton Clark's 1998 monograph, Creating Entrepreneurial Universities: Organizational Pathways of Transformation, has become seminal in the literature on entrepreneurialism in universities. In this paper I re-examine the validity of Clark's analysis through an interview study of one of his original entrepreneurial universities, namely Warwick University; at the same time, I seek to remedy some of the defects in Clark's original study. The study affirms that the entrepreneurial culture that Clark identified some 15 years ago still persists at Warwick University. I speculate on the reasons why this culture has persisted, discuss the suitability of the entrepreneurial university in the post-2012 era and stress the importance of distinguishing between commercialism and Clark's concept of entrepreneurialism.

86th AES Annual Conference Programme, Warwick University, 2012

86^th AES Annual Conference Programme, Warwick University, 2012

Madame de Pompadour's Protege: Henri Bertin and the Collapse of Bourbon Absolutism c. 1750-1792

Gwynne Lewis, Emeritus Professor of History at Warwick University, describes the collapse of French absolutism through the distinguished administrative career of Henri Bertin, reformer, sometime économiste, intendant, contrôleur-général des finances (1759–63) and ultimately secretary of state (1763–80). Lewis asserts that Bertin rose to such heights thanks to the patronage of Madame de Pompadour and stayed there because of his vital role in both overseeing and covering up Louis XV’s illicit sex life. Organised in mostly chronological fashion in six substantive chapters and a lengthy conclusion, Lewis takes his readers on a whirlwind tour of a number of important topics. Although Lewis claims that he will ‘record and evaluate Bertin’s significant contribution to the ideological, political and economic reforms that were introduced following the disasters of the Seven Years’ War’, he spends remarkably little time discussing either the content or nature of the reforms themselves or detailing Bertin’s role in them even in the three chapters ostensibly devoted to those subjects (Chapters 4–6). Instead, readers learn about the rise of the Bertin family of Périgueux to become robe nobles, the displacement of the oldest son and heir, the comte de Fratteaux and Henri’s assumption of the mantle of leadership and his simultaneous assimilation to the group surrounding Madame de Pompadour. Lewis goes out on a limb to assert that Pompadour, Bertin and Louis XV formed a ‘royal “triumvirate”’ in 1754 that lasted nearly until Pompadour’s death in 1764 that was based on overseeing and then covering up Louis XV’s extramarital affairs. Lewis frequently over-emphasises the impact of Louis XV’s sex life on the waning authority of Bourbon absolutism. For this reader, these assertions required much more evidence to be convincing. This part of the book also highlights the significance of the Seven Years War in weakening French absolutism as well as making tantalising but vague references to Louis XV’s secret diplomacy. Unfortunately the linkages among these factors are not clarified or explored sufficiently to understand the basis of Lewis’s arguments.

About the Authors

About the Authors

Patient Feedback Via a National Registry Could Improve Physicians’ CME

To the Editor: We welcome your review by Reinders1 highlighting the limited data supporting the effectiveness of patient feedback on improving physicians’ consultation skills. To address this, we seek to highlight the potential role of registry data from medical licensing authorities using patient feedback as a mandatory requirement for physician training and revalidation.2 This process has the potential to further research the reliability, validity, and delivery of patient feedback tools. We acknowledge the author’s recognition that feedback is an essential part of medical education as supported by the wider literature.3 We propose the research agenda should focus on not if, but how to implement patient feedback. In the United Kingdom, doctors’ performance data are collected in a national registry for the purposes of continued medical licensing and revalidation. This registry includes standardized patient feedback questionnaires in addition to other sources of physician performance such as workplace-based assessments and significant event analysis. Analysis of a large cohort of patient feedback data in this setting may identify previously unidentified predictors of future observed or actual performance. For example, problems communicating risk identified from patient feedback may correlate with a particular adverse clinical event. These data could then support early intervention by supervising physicians to address problems in a format that is likely to have improved face validity for trainees. This process can then form the basis for the iterative development and quality improvement of patient feedback mechanisms. To conclude, feedback is an essential component of improving continuing medical education, and patient perceptions should be no exception. We propose that further research should use national licensing registries with the ability to triangulate other measurements of physicians’ performance. Christian H. Hariman, MBChB, MRCP Clinical teaching fellow, University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire, Coventry, United Kingdom; [email protected] James Bateman, MBChB, MRCP, PGA MedEd Arthritis Research UK education research fellow, Warwick University, Warwick, United Kingdom. Jack Bond, BMBS, MRCP Clinical teaching fellow, University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire, Coventry, United Kingdom.

Robinson Reflections Part 1: The Robinsons (of Newby Hall?)

Three complementary articles, collected as ‘Robinson Reflections’, will be published in Brontë Studies. The work attempts to add to the body of knowledge relating to the Robinson family of Thorp Green Hall and the story of the relationship between Branwell Brontë and Lydia Robinson (née Gisborne).The Robinson family in general and the details of the story of Branwell’s alleged involvement with Lydia are of great interest, not least because the drama unfolded over the period when Charlotte, Emily and Anne were composing novels. Dr Tom Winnifrith of Warwick University has said that ‘[the Robinsons] were about the only large family, and certainly the only grand family, that the Brontës knew well’. As such, they were a primary source of inspiration for many of the characters, situations and attitudes which the Brontë sisters called upon in their work.This article provides evidence that the Thorp Green Robinsons were related to the Robinsons of Newby Hall (the family of the Earl of Ripon) and proposes the existence of an ancestral link between Elizabeth Metcalfe (the Reverend Edmund Robinson’s mother) and the Newby Robinsons. It also demonstrates the significance of the Reverend Thomas Gisborne’s presence in Durham by suggesting that the Reverend Patrick Brontë’s Durham connections contributed to both Anne Brontë’s arrival at Thorp Green and William Weightman’s appointment to Haworth. The links between Thorp Green and Newby have echoes in the life and times of Ned Robinson, Anne and Branwell Brontë’s pupil.

Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan - By Pepper Culpepper

Corporate Governance: An International ReviewVolume 20, Issue 2 p. 228-229 Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan – By Pepper Culpepper Michel Goyer, Michel Goyer Associate Professor of Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick (UK)Search for more papers by this author Michel Goyer, Michel Goyer Associate Professor of Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick (UK)Search for more papers by this author First published: 20 January 2012 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8683.2011.00864.xCitations: 1Read 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 No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume20, Issue2March 2012Pages 228-229 RelatedInformation

'You don't talk about love in government'

This roundtable discussion explores the politics of Sure Start from its earliest days, and the thinking behind it. Tessa Jowell was the Labour Minister responsible for setting it up and she talks to the psychotherapist and author of Love Matters and The Selfish Society, Sue Gerhardt, and Sarah Stewart Brown, Professor of Public Health at Warwick University. They discuss the central importance of early infancy in determining the life chances and psychological wellbeing of both children and adults.

Psycho classrooms: teaching as a work of art

Taking its title from Psycho Buildings (2008), an exhibition of architectural sculptures at the Haywood Gallery, London (UK), this paper explores the complex relationship between pedagogy and space. Specifically, it aims to re/conceptualise teaching and learning as ‘aesthetic encounters’, paying attention to the haptic, experiential and participatory aspects of spatialised pedagogic practice. Drawing on examples taken from pedagogic art, a field of practice hitherto neglected within critical pedagogy, it is argued that the design, construction and critique of teaching and learning spaces needs to engage with the aesthetic distribution of what can be seen, said, and experienced by teachers and learners. These ideas are explored through one example of a psycho classroom, The Reinvention Centre at Westwood at the University of Warwick (UK). It is suggested that as spaces of creative dissensus and ruin, psycho classrooms can work to disrupt and reconfigure the distribution of the sensible (Rancière 2004) and as such represent spaces of potentiality.

Proof of Concept Car Adsorption Air-Conditioning System Using a Compact Sorption Reactor

A prototype compact sorption generator using an activated-carbon/ammonia pair based on a plate heat exchanger concept has been designed and built at Warwick University. The novel generator has low thermal mass and good heat transfer. The heat exchanger uses nickel brazed shims and spacers to create adsorbent layers only 4 mm thick between pairs of liquid flow channels of very low thermal mass. The prototype sorption generator manufactured has been evaluated under the European Union (EU) car air-conditioning testing conditions. While driven with waste heat from the engine coolant water (at 90°C), a pair of the current prototype generators (loaded with about 1 kg carbon in each of two beds) has produced an average cooling power of 1.6 kW with 2-kW peaks.

Strange attractors. Topologic, geometric and algebraic aspects

This article is a review on research work of two authors on hyperbolic and Lorenz like strange attractors. In 1971 R. Plykin received a letter from two young scientists of Warwick University David Chillingworth and Anthony Manning with pointing out his errors in the article entitled “The topology of basic sets for Smale diffeomorphisms”. The main error in that manuscript was the statement about nonexistence of one dimensional hyperbolic attractor of the diffeomorphism of two-sphere. The first part of this report corrects previous errors and carries information about geometry and topology of hyperbolic strange attractors.

Who does workforce planning well?

This paper sets out to disseminate new knowledge about workforce planning, a crucial health sector issue. The Health Select Committee criticised NHS England's failure to develop and apply effective workforce planning. The Workforce Review Team (WRT) commissioned the Institute for Employment Research, Warwick University, to undertake a "rapid review" of global literature to identify good practice. A workforce planning overview, its theoretical principles, good practice exemplars are provided before discussing their application to healthcare. The literature review, undertaken September-November 2007, determined the current workforce planning evidence within and outside health service provision and any consensus on successful workforce planning. Much of the literature was descriptive and there was a lack of comparative or evaluative research-based evidence to inform U.K. healthcare workforce planning. Workforce planning practices were similar in other countries. There was no evidence to challenge current WRT approaches to NHS England workforce planning. There are a number of indications about how this might be extended and improved, given additional resources. The evidence-base for workforce planning would be strengthened by robust and authoritative studies. Systematic workforce planning is a key healthcare quality management element. This review highlights useful information that can be turned into knowledge by informed application to the NHS. Best practice in other sectors and other countries appears to warrant exploration.