Influential photojournalist Don McPhee featured in new exhibition
One of the great photojournalists of the last 30 years was the subject of a new exhibition at the University’s Alexandra Gallery on the Lancaster campus during April and May this year.
The work of Don McPhee (1945-2007), renowned as one of Britain’s finest press photographers was on show in a free exhibition entitled ‘The View from the North’. McPhee worked at the Guardian’s Manchester office for 35 years, famously documenting life in the North from political strife to everyday lives. His most iconic image was taken during the 1984 miner’s strike and depicts a striking miner wearing a plastic policeman’s helmet staring down a row of policemen guarding the Orgreave coking plant in Sheffield.
A talk by McPhee’s Guardian colleague David Ward took place in the Alexandra Building on 22 April. In this illustrated talk, David Ward remembered the 30 years he and McPhee worked together on big and sometimes ludicrous stories from the Guardian’s Manchester office. There was also a private view of the exhibition on the same evening.
McPhee’s iconic image of the 1984 miner’s strike
Heart of Blackpool award for nursing student
The University continues to attract award-winning students to its courses, the latest being nursing student Yvonne Monks, who recently won the Heart of Blackpool 2009 award.
Yvonne won the award in recognition of her innovative work as a health mentor based in a secondary school, immediately prior to beginning a BSc (Hons) Specialist Community Public Health Nursing degree at the University’s Lancaster campus. She was one of the first health mentors in NHS Blackpool, which was an innovative post within the Blackpool School of Nursing pilot scheme.
Amongst other initiatives, Yvonne was pivotal in developing a comprehensive school-based service, which included smoking cessation services for young people, development of a sexual health clinic and delivery of a range of PSHE (Personal Social Health & Economic) sessions and focused school assemblies. In addition, Yvonne worked closely with the school in which she was based to support their achievement of Healthy School status and the Department of Health ‘You’re Welcome’ quality criteria award.
Yvonne, who is 47 and lives in Thornton Cleveleys, said: “I was really pleased and surprised about winning the award, I feel that I am lucky as I love my job and never thought that what I enjoyed doing would lead to me gaining an award. I came to the University of Cumbria as I wanted to progress in school nursing. I’ve have had a good year here, full of new experiences; at times it has been very hard and demanding yet at the same time rewarding.”
Yvonne Monks with her award
Jo Blake, Principal Lecturer for Community & Public Health Nursing at the University said: “Congratulations to Yvonne on this award. She is an excellent student, enthusiastic and willing to share her experience with others. I’m pleased that our course has attracted and continues to attract such high quality people to study here.”
When she graduates, Yvonne hopes to continue to work within NHS Blackpool as a school nurse with her own caseload.
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