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2009 Professorial Lecture Series: summer programme

What is the future of the news media? How will media publishers revolutionise their delivery platforms in this digital age, and which of them will be around in ten years' time?

Emily Bell, the Director of Digital Content for Guardian News and Media, will offer her very influential take on an exciting, if turbulent, media future through the first in a series of Professorial Lectures at University College Falmouth that will combine distinguished names from the creative industries and in-house academic experts.

As one of the stars of a more web-focused generation of senior media figures, Emily Bell is the guiding light behind http://www.guardian.co.uk/, which has won multiple awards, including the prestigious Webby for Best Newspaper on the web in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Emily's talk - entitled Back to the News Future: Journalism 10 years from now - will take place on Tuesday 5 May at the Tremough Campus in Penryn.

Emily is one of the first industry experts to be appointed as a Visiting Professor to UCF, along with award-winning artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, Michael Grandage; founding partner of design studio, Barber Osgerby, Edward Barber; interactive media pioneer and MD of Illumina Digital, Andrew Chitty; composer and multimedia artist, Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner); and eponymous fashion designer and British Fashion Awards Designer of the Year, Luella Bartley.

UCF has also recently conferred professorships on members of its academic community - Alan Male for Illustration, Jason Whittaker for Journalism, David Williams for Theatre and Emilyn Claid for Choreography - and their inaugural Professorial Lectures will also form part of this prestigious series.

Edward Barber will be next in line with a lecture entitled Process - crafts meet technology on Thursday 21 May.

Edward and his partner, Jay Osgerby, were recently named Royal Designers for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts. Since forming their company in 1996, Barber and Osgerby have collaborated on designing products and furniture as BarberOsgerby and architectural projects for clients such as Stella McCartney as Universal Design Studio.

Edward will discuss the design process across a broad range of projects covering mass production and traditional craft-based production that utilises advances in digital technology.

Next in the series will be How to make art from life (with the help of a few ghosts) by Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner on Thursday 2 June.

Scanner will present a history of work that has slipped between the borders of performance, installation, music and art, from scanning mobile phone networks, composing a new National Anthem for Europe and collaborating with fashion designers, choreographers, hospitals and the homeless - as well as how to do all this without tea, coffee, alcohol, meat or smoking!

"Our aim is to produce an engaging and challenging public programme that stimulates the intellectual curiosity of our staff, students and alumni; our research collaborators; our industry partners; our local communities and other supporters," explains University College Falmouth's Deputy Rector, Professor Geoff Smith. "We are delighted to be welcoming such luminaries to share their insights, provoke debate and redefine creative excellence in the process."

The Autumn Term programme will include talks by Luella Bartley and Andrew Chitty as well as inaugural lectures from a number of UCF's resident professors.

All lectures are free and open to the public, and will take place at 6.30pm in the Chapel Lecture Theatre at the Tremough Campus in Penryn. As space is limited, however, all tickets must be reserved in advance by contacting the Poly in Church Street on 01326 212300.

For further information about University College Falmouth's Professorial Lecture Series, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/visitingprofessors

University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.

This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012 that will be unique to the South West.

The College is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union, the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.

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For further information about University College Falmouth, please contact Jilly Easterby MCIPR, Head of Public Affairs, Telephone: 01326 213792; or email: jilly.easterby@falmouth.ac.uk

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