Costume
Showcase
Costume created by student Emily
Varnom for Costume Showcase 2013.
This outfit was inspired by ‘The Dolly
Sisters’, one of the most famous
Vaudeville acts of the 1920s.
Principal’s Introduction
I am delighted to welcome you to another edition of QMYOU and also
to thank those of you who attended the recent QMU reunion – Connect
2013. QMU staff and students had a wonderful time meeting university
graduates and finding out what they have been doing in the years since
leaving QMU. We were also delighted that people took time out of their
busy schedules to travel from all over the UK and internationally to meet
up on what was one of the sunniest days of the year so far. It would have
been the first time that most of our Connect participants had experienced
the new campus and it was wonderful that the day allowed everyone to,
not only enjoy activities inside, but to drink champagne on our decking
and relax in the grounds. Feedback from participants has been extremely
positive and we do hope that you thoroughly enjoyed the QMU activities,
reconnecting with friends and making new links with other graduates
and university staff. We hope that this will now encourage you to stay
connected with the university, to keep us updated with your developments
via our Alumni office, and maybe also to share your years of experience
by mentoring a current QMU student.
Aside from Connect 2013, many QMU events have taken place over the
last few months. We hosted a prestigious communications conference for
UK and international PR and communications academics, as well as an
international hospitality research conference. Our health science staff and
students have run a health science festival for East Lothian school children
( page 6) and our Costume Design and Construction students have wowed
audiences with their creative and inspiring catwalk showcase (page 12).
You can read more about the continuing success of our Hospitality and
Tourism Academy on page 15. Our progressive Academy model is now
being widely recognised as a way to improve skills development in young
people. We have therefore secured substantial funding which has allowed
us to establish new Academies in different specialist areas for secondary
school pupils in Edinburgh, Lothian and the Borders.
We continue to be responsive to
the needs of society and to provide a
course portfolio which is both modern
and attractive. Our two new fully funded
masters programmes – an MSc in
Gastronomy and an MA in Culture and
Creative Enterprise – may be of interest
to you or someone you know. See page
5 for more details.
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QMYOU will also keep you up-to-date
with some of our relevant research projects,
as well as our growing commercial work
which focuses on supporting SME
development. Remember, if you think
our experts might be able to assist your
company in its business development,
then please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
We’d love to hear from you.
Professor Petra Wend, PhD, FRSA
Principal & Vice-Chancellor
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh