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Production Line - Previous Instalation at the 2008 event - Guitar Player

The Production Line 2009

May 19th - 24th

River Island Sponsered Fashion Event

River Island Rocks event!

May 11th, Monday
Fashion, film, live music, artist sale and speed networking sponsered by River Island..

Binaural

Binaural concert

April 4th, Saturday, 7.30pm
Main Theatre, Media Factory

Winning student Ellen Osbourne

It’s in the bag

UCLan students take top spots in River Island competition

Student Lizzie McManus; Clare Wilson, Creative Director of Nook and Willow; student Helen Lynch, Second year tutor Fashion Promotion, Jacqui McAssey and student Sarah Whalley.

Live fashion project to attract A-list celebrities

Students link with renowned fashion company

Students and staff from Blackpool College

Language taster for Blackpool sixth formers

UCLan lecturer delivers Turkish master classes

Lynn Broster ( Fashion specialist at UCLan) Nicola Baxter, Danielle Smith, Rebecca Fowlis and Laura Gray (Harris Museum)

Unveiling the history of clothing design

UCLan students deliver study session for Preston College counterparts

Simon Kelner

Editor-in-Chief heads to UCLan

Alumnus to give guest lecture

Morning Dew performance

Ceth presents: Morning Dew

25th March - 9am-12pm
Foster Building Staff Lounge

Lake in a Desert

Alice

Performance - 1st April 2009

Field of fresh green grass with a blue sky background

Hoppla We're Alive!

Performances - 11th to 14th March 2009

Jon Snow

New date for TV anchorman lecture

Channel 4's Jon Snow to share his wealth of knowledge with staff and students

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Stop Press - Student Law Society Law Careers Event

March 4th, 1pm
Moot Court Room, Harris Building

UCLan

UCLan ranked as top modern university in the North West

The Times Good University Guide for 2008 has named the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) as the top modern University in the North West.

Music notes

Composition awarded first prize by the International Jury

Nicholas James Casswell is awarded first prize by the International Jury for his Composition Triplicity.

In the TV Production studio

University Media Factory open for business

The University’s ground-breaking £15 million Media Factory was officially opened on 24 January by broadcaster, writer and UCLan Honorary Fellow Fiona Armstrong.

Ancient court

Human Rights Degree First of its Kind Outside London

A unique and exciting new Single Honours degree in Human Rights  has been developed by the Departments of Law and Education and Social Science…

The filmmakers celebrating after completing their week long film summer school.

Filmmakers get hands on role

Preston teenagers use state-of-the-art facilities to create movies

Mayur Bhanji

UCLAN graduate heads straight to BBC Sport

University of Central Lancashire sports journalism graduate Mayur Bhanji has landed his dream job at BBC Sport reporting on the Olympics and working on Final Score.

Deaf Studies graduate Sam Lutalo-Kiingi.

From Uganda to Preston for graduate

Deaf studies student embraces cultural differences at UCLan and stays on to study for a PhD

Andrew Clare Interview

Graduate heads to Dubai for assistant editor job

A UCLan journalism graduate has booked a one-way ticket to Dubai after securing a job at a leading Middle-East publishing house.

people in a foyer

Best in Show 2008 Exhibition

Adelphi Building Foyer from September 22nd to October 10th 2008 

Glossy magazine supremo Sally O’Sullivan visits students

Sally O’Sullivan reveals the secrets to her success on a return visit to UCLan

Glossy magazine supremo Sally O’Sullivan visits students

The table tennis fashion creation.

Gold medal style

Fashion students design Olympic outfits

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Meld at the Society of Editors

November marks the annual Society of Editors conference.

Modern life

Leisure in a changing society since 1930

28th February 10am to 4pm

Open mind day

Open Your Mind to Postgraduate Opportunities

Thursday 12th November 2009 from 12 noon - 3.00pm

Design festival 09

Design Festival 09

25 February 9.30am to 4pm
The Northern School of Design is holding a Design Festival.
All Sixth Form and Art & Design Diploma students and staff are invited.

Janet Street Porter

Janet Street Porter to guest lecture

TV personality to share her thoughts on the media at UCLan

EDAU Robert Cahen Passage Image

Robert Cahen at the Harris Museum

February 12th, 2009 @ 2:30pm

Models posing at the launch

Creative and Performing Arts Open Days

4th, 11th February - Fashion Open Days 
4th, 11th, 18th February - Fine Art Open Days

MA Fine Art Interim Exhibition

MA Fine Art Interim Exhibition

February 3 - February 12 [Closed Weekends]
PR1 Gallery, Victoria Building, UCLan, Preston

Business Newspaper

Is the Business of Journalism affecting the Journalism of Business?

3rd February 5:15pm for networking reception with food and drink. Event begins at 6pm
Greenbank Lecture Theatre, Greenbank Building, Victoria Street

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Dewey Decimal - an illustration project exhibition

8 December to 30 January 2009
BA(Hons) Illustration exhibition on the Dewey Decimal Project showing in the library.

MA Graphic Design student Katrina Bell with her display.

It’s all in the design

MA Show 2009 is unveiled in UCLan’s PR1 Gallery

Red Carpet

Art Exhibition Opening night

20th January at 6.30 pm
1st Floor Gallery at UClans Victoria Building
FREE Admission!

Chris Blackhurst

Editor of the Evening Standard to visit UCLan

The editor of the Evening Standard, London's famous newspaper, is to visit UClan to talk about the media and the credit crisis. Chris Blackhurst will be at the Mitchell and Kenyon/ Foster Theatre at 5 pm on January 26th.

Coins in piles

The media and the credit crisis

January 26, 5.00pm
Mitchell and Kenyon Theatre (Foster building).
A lecture by Chris Blackhurst, City Editor of the Evening Standard

Large round empty conference room

Place in Print, Print in Place

Postgraduate conference Thursday 4 December 2008  9-30am - 5-30pm

Two Hands Reaching Each Other, One In Black and White

12th November - UCLan Lecture Series

Servants, mesmerists and Black American GI's - The Black British Presence in the North from 1736-2005 by Dr Alan Rice

Exhibition

MA Fine Art Exhibition

Come along to see our exciting exhibition between 11th September till 18th September

AHSS Party

Big AHSS Party

The faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences annual party that always ends fresher’s week on a high! 

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Call for Papers- Poetry and Belief Conference 24-25th April 2009

A Two-Day Conference- University of Central Lancashire, 24-25 April 2009
But superstition, like belief, must die, And what remains when disbelief has gone?
(Philip Larkin, ‘Church Going’)

 Will Kaufman performs ‘Woody Guthrie'

UCLan Lecture Series

'Woody Guthrie: hard times and hard travellin' by Dr Will Kaufman FRSA, FHEA, 2008 BMI - Woody Guthrie Research Fellow-Wednesday 29th October 2008