Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
>> PROFESSOR SEAN STREET:I suppose the biggest enterprise we have been involved with over the last 10 years, is a tri-partied project to digitise early commercial radio. The problem was, for academic scholars and students there was little material from those early days that was available. And really, I think its brought back a whole lost era of material. The material is for us is something we can exploit in terms of teaching it has to be that, and not just a place where people leave material, however interesting that may be. It has to have an academic significance, its only really by looking at that material and going back and analysing it that we get a true perspective of where we are now, but probably more importantly, where we are going in the future.
>> PROFESSOR JIAN ZHANG: The University is now engaging into a new era, and I think I am very excited because the university now feels that the university is very important so the whole environment is all pro-research and I think thats important. So what we are trying to do is try to improve this aspect, for example, make tools so that the animator can develop realistic animation more easily.
>> ZHIDONG XIAO: Currently we have a research project with the NHS, which is to investigate how to physically simulate the organic organs, to help the surgeon to practice how to do real surgery.
>> DR RICHARD BERGER: The BBC Trust has commissioned a review of BBC Persian television, its a service that provides news and current affairs and cultural programmes for Iran, and the BBC Trust want to know how well the service is doing. Its only been going for a couple of years, so what they are doing is they have commissioned this large review and as part of that review is to do a content analysis of news and current affairs to make sure that that output is congruent with BBC guidelines and impartiality, particularly at a time of political turmoil in North Africa, we are looking at how the Egyptian protests are being reported by the BBC Persian service for an Iranian audience, all that kind of stuff of really rich material which will feed back into teaching, into lectures, into seminars, into the kind of material we are getting out students to look at and analyse and critique, so to have that dynamic between the research that we are doing right now and the teaching we are doing right now is really exciting.