Dean Stockton is a British creative star. Since January 2008 Dean has been Senior Creative Director of Chellomedia Group. He leads group creative direction and responsibility for managing all corporate brand strategy, including most channel and online services. He delivers and impliments creative direction and creative marketing solutions across the group; provides creative inspiration, creative lead and creative expertise – promoting the importance of creative excellence throughout the organisation.
Here he talks about creativity and the importance of not being sloppy, not thinking and not taking time to look at things properly. He also talks about the huge changes in the creative industries over the years.
Paul Gambaccini presents his weekly America’s Greatest Hits show on BBC Radio 2 and contributes to various publications. From March 2008 he took over as chairman of the Radio 4 music quiz called Counterpoint. In August 2008 he returned to Classic FM, to present Paul Gambaccini’s Hall of Heroes’ series.
Be warned, this Coventry Conversation contains some very strong language and unfortunately we have had to edit out some of the music that Paul refers to.
Nicholas Jones was for many years BBC political correspondent. His books include Sultans of Spin, The Control Freaks, Soundbites and Spin Doctors and Trading Information. He has been involved in the world of politics for more than 30 years as a journalist, most prominently as the BBC’s political correspondent and in uniquely qualified to talk about how politicians can manipulate the media.
In this Coventry Conversation, Nicholas discusses why spin is central to all governments, both Tory and Labour.
Jock McQueenie has a background in visual arts, and has taken his creative background into cross-sector projects, fulfilling social, cultural and artistic outcomes in remote and artistically intriguing locations. He is currently working with the Queensland Writers Centre on a project in three regional centres, Rockhampton, Bundaberg and Mount Isa, working with environmental education centres, the mining industry and tourism agencies.
His work is about utilising professional creativity to reach corporate funding outcomes, without sacrificing the integrity of the creative art. Here he talks about his 'Community, Culture, Commerce' model relating arts practice and corporate social responsibility and how this applies in today's creative industries.
Professor Hazel Barrett has spent a number of years researching the aids pandemic in the sub-Saharan countries of Africa. Despite the numerous efforts over the years the AIDS virus continues to grow in the number of people contracting and dying from the infection.
In this talk Hazel discusses some of the many causes influencing the problem of AIDS and HIV in the countries of Africa, arguing that the issues can only partially be solved by medical advancements. She also discusses the socio-economic factors that are influencing the prominence of AIDS throughout this region.
Hazel also discusses the impact that the virus is continuing to have on the UK and the many myths that surround the virus.
Johannes Birringer is a German-born performance and media choreographer. He currently resides in Houston (Texas) and London, where he has been working in theatre, dance, performance art and multimedia collaborations. Johannes Birringer is artistic director of AlienNation Co., a Houston-based multimedia ensemble that has collaborated on various site-specific and cross-cultural performance and installation projects since 1993.
After directing international workshops on dance and technology in England, Germany, and the US., he was appointed head of the new dance and technology program at The Ohio State University (1999-2003). Since then, Johannes Birringer has worked as curator, conference organiser workshop director and consultant. He has published and edited several journals and his books include Theatre, Theory, Postmodernism (1991), Media and Performance: along the border (1998); Performance on the Edge: Transformations of Culture (2000 and 2005), and Performance, Technology, and Science (forthcoming, 2008).
In 2005 he co-edited Tanz im Kopf/Dance and Cognition, an anthology of new research in dance and science; he is now writing, with Angeles Romero, a critical manual on video and theatre, and a new book on interactive dreaming. He is currently director of the DAP-Lab and Acting Director of the newly created Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance at Brunel University, where he is a lecturer.
Peter is a senior lecturer and course leader for Creative Computing degrees at Coventry University. Peter co-ordinated the DfEE funded National Information Design Network from 1996 until 1999. He has recently completed an IPED Research scholarship investigating the usability of discussion forums in an academic context.
In this Coventry Conversation, Peter discusses a number of future developments that combine computing with creativity.
Julia Clark is a polling guru; she researches and calls election for Britain's most respected opinion pollster-MORI(Market and Research International). She is usually very right.
In this special Coventry Conversation she gazes into the tea leaves and the figures and firmly forecasts a Cameron Conservative government this time next year.
Unfortunately this presentation is not available to listen to, but we hope that the slides help. Coventry Conversations with media movers and shakers are on each and every thursday at Coventry University.Entry is free and open to all
This is the new magazine aimed at showcasing Coventry University’s positive contribution to the organistion and delivery of healthcare in the UK and globally.
Inside you’ll find articles and interviews that demonstrate our engagement with the health agenda including articles on the work of the Health Design Technology Institute, a look at some of the Health Intervention Research we've been doing as well as an interview with Professor Brian Toft, our new Professor of Patient Safety and a Risk Management Expert.
Coventry University has always believed in working closely with industrial partners such as local businesses, national companies and multi-national corporations, and we are proud to be seen as a 'business-facing' university.
The global recession makes the work we undertake with business more important than ever. To find out how we can help, download this PDF.
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