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Royal seal of approval for student gardener Angela Student beats off the competition to win national award
She was nominated for the prize by the horticulture department at Newton Rigg. Angela has just successfully completed her BTEC Certificate in Horticulture and hopes to study for the Diploma next year. Having answered an initial questionnaire in the competition she had to travel to the Guildhall in London for a panel interview.
“It was fairly nerve-wracking and lasted for about three-quarters of an hour,” she explained. “I was asked lots of questions, how my interest in organic gardening started and to explain sustainability and organic practices.”
University horticulture experts Shelagh Todd and Tom Attwood helped Angela to prepare for the interview.
A Workington student has scooped a prestigious national gardening prize. Angela Jones, has been awarded the Prince of Wales’s Trophy. She beat off hundreds of hopefuls from across the UK in the annual competition run by the Worshipful Company of Gardeners. The patron of the competition—which recognises outstanding ability and knowledge in organic cultivation—is HRH Prince Charles, an enthusiastic supporter of organic methods.
“I couldn’t believe I had won when I heard the result,” said Angela, a sales adviser for Build Center in Workington.
“They are wonderful lecturers—supportive, knowledgeable and so helpful with all the students,” said Angela. Angela travelled to London in July to receive her trophy and a cheque for £500. It was presented at The Installation Court Dinner of The Worshipful Company of Gardeners at Merchant Taylors’ Hall in the capital.
Shelagh Todd said of her student: “Angela is the first-ever student from Newton Rigg to win this trophy so we are naturally thrilled. “It is testament to her love of organic gardening and non-stop enthusiasm for the subject. She is a great ambassador for the Newton Rigg campus.”
Inaugural professorial lecture—from novice to expert
An academic’s journey through higher education
The inaugural professorial lecture was delivered by Professor Gill Marshall on the Lancaster campus this July. Gill is Chair in Medical Imaging Education/ Senior Fellow and National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy at the university.
The lecture was entitled “From novice to expert: my radiological journey through higher education”, and covered Gill’s career from arrival in 1992 with no experience of teaching in higher education, through to and beyond her having a Professorial Chair conferred in 2007—hence from novice to expert.
The lecture detailed her research around medical screening and into the drugs used to visualise body systems in radiology and also explained her pedagogical research in the field of medical imaging. This research has allowed Gill to contribute to evidence-
based medicine in her field and to explore how that knowledge should be conveyed and assessed to help students learn most successfully. The lecture was pitched at a non-subject-specialist level with frequent illustration and humour.
Gill Marshall was recently one of only three nominees worldwide to be honoured with a Gold Medal by the Society and College of Radiographers. She has authored countless peer- reviewed articles, book chapters and presentations on medical imaging and its pedagogy. Gill has achieved an international reputation in the field, playing a significant role in making radiography an academically credible profession within elite educational circles such as the Higher Education Academy. Gill is based on the university’s Lancaster campus and also lives in Lancaster.
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