STAFF SUCCESSES


‘Disgusting Dave’ makes the short-list


Associate lecturer Jim Eldridge has been short-listed for the prestigious Sheffield Children’s Book Awards 2011.


associate lecturer with the film and TV production department at the university.


His humorous novel Disgusting Dave and the Flesh-eating Maggots forms part of a series of children’s books featuring ‘Disgusting Dave – the filthiest boy in the world?’


Jim, who originally comes from north London, left school at 16 and did a variety of jobs before training as a teacher. He began writing while teaching in disadvantaged areas of Luton in the 1970s. He now lives with his wife in Cumbria and is an


Jim’s successful writing career includes over 250 TV scripts broadcast in the UK and internationally (including writing for Disney and Hollywood and American TV), 250 Radio 4 scripts broadcast, and 70+ books published (which have sold about 3 million copies).


He is currently very busy with new commissions right up to 2014, and says: “I am delighted to have been short- listed for this very prestigious writers’ award. As an associate lecturer—a role that I adore—it also helps give additional kudos and credibility, as


far as students are concerned, to the advice and experiences that I pass on to them in my role as a working writer.”


Over 250 newly published books were considered for the Sheffield Children’s Book Award project this year and 212 school groups will be involved in voting for the winners.


Previous winners of the award include J K Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson, Malorie Blackman, Michael Morpurgo, Jeremy Strong and Robert Westall.


Fine art professor exhibits in Athens


An iconic installation by Professor of Fine Art, Robert Williams, and his American collaborator Mark Dion, was shown this autumn in an international contemporary art festival in Athens.


More than 100 artists, art groups, curators and theorists took part in the exhibition entitled Monodrome: 3rd Athens Biennale 2011, which ran until 11 December.


Theatrum Mundi: Armarium is a cabinet of curiosities containing collections of objects and documents that explore the cosmologies of two famous alchemists, Robert Fludd (Williams) and Ramon Lull (Dion) the characters of whom were


adopted by the artists. The piece was made in 2001 at the Caldewgate site, with the help of sculpture technician John Mitchell.


Originally commissioned by Professor Lord Colin Renfrew, then Master of Jesus College, Cambridge and Director of the MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, the cabinet has been shown all over the world, including the prestigious Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in 2010.


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