A Blackburn University group leader collaborated on a global award winning photography project. University Centre’s Academic Group Leader in Community, Abdul Hafiz, collaborated with Craig Easton on his award winning series Bank Top. For the project, Craig was named Sony World Photography Awards’ Photographer of the Year for 2021, which marked its 14th anniversary this year. Craig Easton s photography captured the culture and misrepresentation of the Bank Top area of Blackburn which features the residents and the shopkeepers from different backgrounds and cultures. Bank Top was also used by Craig in Blackburn’s Kick Down the Barriers exhibition at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery – an exhibition where local artists and writers worked in and with the communities of Blackburn to redefine the labels of ‘segregation’ and ‘division’.
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Horticulture and veterinary medicine examined for higher level education Dr Konstantinos Xyntaris, Senior Horticultural Technologist at Greenmount assessing how high value winter strawberries might be produced with supplementary lighting in NI. DAERA have announced exciting new plans for higher education in horticulture and apossibly for veterinary medicine. They have commissioned an analysis of option is to deliver a more secure long term supply of vets for Northern Ireland including looking at providing third level veterinary education. Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots commented: “I have been concerned for some time that Northern Ireland may not attract sufficient veterinary surgeons to meet the needs of the local agri-food industry in the future, and I have been keen that my Department continues to explore options for a more secure supply of vets for Northern Ireland on a longer term basis.
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