SSPEL Newsletter: Research and Scholarly Activities

This was a conference hosted by St Mary's University College,Twickenham and attended by ourselves (Aaron Beacom, Pauline Couper, Katherine Hamley, Julie Evans and myself) and colleagues from Glendywr University (formerly NEWI). The original idea was to organise a collaboration between three similar institutions to push on with research. The Principals/Vice Chancellors orginally met (well 2 of them anyway) at a Change Academy event and go some money from the Leadership Foundation to pursue the collaboration. The full title is the 'Three HEIs are better than One" project.

We met in the rather pleasant grounds of SMUC and had a series of discussions and some input from Prof West-Burnham on leadership. I was pleased to see that the 3 institutions were pretty much facing the same problems of dealing with the pressures towards developing research and gaining RDAP -- Glendwyr slightly ahead of us in the process and SMUC slightly behind. This was a largely preliminary discussion with some idea-swapping rather than a tight agenda, though.People attended from Education, various Sports related things and Creative Arts.

I have papers and notes for anyone who wants more details, and some contact emails. A fuller report will be available in the next issue of Research Matters.

Dave Harris

Congratulations to Phil Brown and Ryan Thomas who have both just been awarded the degree of MSc Sport Management from the University of Northumbria.
Phil won the Falcon prize!

Dave Harris