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Best PhD Thesis Prize
UACES awards a prize annually for the PhD thesis that has made an original and promising contribution to research in the area of contemporary European Studies in the previous year.
Scroll down for competition rules, eligibility and how to enter the 2016 prize.
The winner of the UACES Best PhD Thesis Prize 2015 will be announced at UACES 45th Annual Conference in Bilbao 7-9 September 2015.
2014 Winner
Sonja Kittelsen (left) with Claudia Schrag Sternberg
Awarded to Sonja Kittelsen for her thesis The EU and the Securitization of Pandemic Influenza.
Whilst the securitization of pandemic influenza has been the subject of considerable debate, these debates have tended to focus on political processes in the United States and countries like China, with comparatively little attention paid to the EU. This is in spite of the fact that the EU plays an important role in this area. Kittelsen's thesis represents the first systematic study of the securitization of pandemic influenza in the European Union.
The jury praised Kittelsen's thesis for being 'meticulously researched' and for 'breaking new ground in terms of understanding human security and the role of the EU in this area.' As one jury member commented, 'it makes an important contribution to the study of the EU as an actor in health policy.'
|Thesis Title
|Sonja Kittelsen
|The EU and the Securitization of Pandemic Influenza
|Aberystwyth University
|Ania Zbyszewska
|Gendering the European Working-Time Regimes - The Universe of Political Discourse, Working-Time Regulation, and Gender Equality in the Wider European Union and in Poland
|University of Victoria
|Alison Johnston
|European Monetary Union and Institutional Change: The Perverse Effects of Supranational Macroeconomic Regimes on Wage Inflation
|London School of Economics & Political Science
|Heike Klüver
|Lobbying in the European Union: Interest Group Influence on Policy Formulation
|University of Mannheim
|Ronan McCrea
|Religion and the Public Order of the European Union
|London School of Economics & Political Science
|Frank Häge
|Decision-Making in the Council of the European Union: The Role of Committees
|Universiteit Leiden
|Mihalis Kritikos
|Institutions and Science in the Authorization of GMO Releases in the EU (1990-2007): The False Promise of Proceduralism
|London School of Economics & Political Science
|Thomas Larue
|Agents in Brussels: Delegations and Democracy in the European Union
|Umeå Universitet
|Sara Hobolt
|Europe in Question: The Role of Political Information in Referendums on European Integration
|University of Cambridge
|Maria Strömvik
|To Act as a Union: Explaining the development of the EU's collective foreign policy
|Lunds Universitet
|Dermot Hodson
|Economic Governance and the Dual Outcome in Euro Area Fiscal Policy 1999-2002
|London School of Economics & Political Science
Nominate for 2016 Best PhD Thesis Prize
The deadline for nominations is 31 January 2016.
To be eligible for the award, the PhD thesis must:
- have been written in English;
- have been examined in the previous calendar year (i.e. up to 31 December 2015);
- be authored by an Individual or Student member of UACES.
Nominations should be sent to the UACES office and must be made by the PhD supervisor in conjunction with the external examiner and must include:
- two printed copies of the thesis (i.e. we mean hard-copies, which should be bound, although we do not expect expensive binding);
- an electronic copy of the thesis (PDF sent to email@example.com);
- a copy of the completed nomination form.
The prize is 100 GBP and the winning scholar will be invited to attend our Annual Conference as our guest and to collect the prize.
Competition Rules
- The jury's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into;
- No responsibility is accepted for ineligible entries;
- UACES does not accept any responsibility for late or lost entries. Proof of sending is not proof of receipt;
- UACES reserves the right to cancel this competition at any stage, if deemed necessary in its opinion;
- It is not always possible to return submissions;
- Entrants will be deemed to have accepted these rules and to agree to be bound by them when entering this competition.


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Lucille and Harold Hargrave are watching a riveting television news story reporting what seems to be an ongoing resurrection of the dead. A knock on the elderly couple's door reveals a federal agent holding hands with a boy who calls Harold "Daddy." The child is their eight year old son Jacob who drowned 50 years prior. The Returned explores not only the Hargraves' reactions to the reappearance of their child, but also the complex societal and governmental responses to this unimaginable and unexplainable global phenomenon. Mott hit the author jackpot with this debut novel. In addition to climbing up The New York Times Best Sellers list, ABC developed the story into a television series entitled Resurrection, which is set to premiere in March.
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Amanda Knox is back in the news again with her retrial underway, and Cartwheel by Jennifer duBois couldn't have come at a better time. duBois maintains that her book isn't an actual account of Knox's experience, but the story was inspired by the case.
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After writing his bestselling book The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead, Brooks went on to write World War Z. The novel is a collection of first-person interviews of survivors of a zombie outbreak that spread worldwide. The interviewer explains that he was hired to compile the United Nation's Postwar Commission Report, but these personal stories were cut from the official report. He compiled and published them as a book to record the human experiences from that time. From the doctor who treated Patient Zero in China to a U. S. Army infantry soldier at the Battle of Yonkers, the survivor interviews bring both the events and the human element of the zombie war to life in a creative and haunting way. This novel is a must-read for zombie fiction fans. In honor of the movie's release, a new full-cast audio production is available on both CD and Playaway. This recording is voiced by a list of Hollywood actors and Sci Fi fan-favorites such as director Martin Scorsese, The Walking Dead creator Frank Darabont, Nathan Fillion, Simon Pegg, and Mark Hamill. If you still want more zombies, BCPL has many books and movies available.
HBO and BBC have partnered to bring Parade's End, based on Ford Madox Ford's classic modernist tetralogy, to the screen in a new five-part miniseries that will premiere in the US on February 26th on HBO. Ford's novels, published separately between 1924 and 1928, were first combined and reissued as Parade's End in 1950. The story follows Christopher Tietjens, the wealthy heir to the estate of Groby, who is serving in the British army during World War I. Christopher's personal life is complicated by a love triangle. He is torn between his socialite wife Sylvia, who Graham Greene called "surely the most possessed evil character in the modern novel," and his suffragette mistress Valentine. Rather than focusing on the upstairs/downstairs themes of Downton Abbey, Parade's End portrays a broader view of England and the English gentry around World War I. Parade's End is a challenging but worthwhile read. The New Yorker's Ian Crouch calls the novel "The Better Downton Abbey," citing the characters' sharper edges and the novel's drama that excels where he feels Downton Abbey has begun to fall flat.
The miniseries was adapted for the small screen by Sir Tom Stoppard. Director Susanna White says that Parade's End, which was commissioned before the Downton Abbey craze, is its own unique take on the time period. Get a sneak peak at this critically-acclaimed drama, featuring the BBC's Sherlock's Benedict Cumberbatch as Christopher, here.
Fans of the gripping BBC drama Luther will welcome the opportunity to meet an early incarnation of tormented Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) John Luther in Luther: The Calling. Readers meeting Luther for the first time will be quickly intrigued by this dedicated detective and head to the DVD shelves to grab copies of the first two seasons. Neil Cross, author of this prequel, is also the show's creator and sole writer. Fans of the show know that the television series begins with the end of a ghastly case. The novel opens at that case's inception which involves the savage murders of a young husband and his eight months pregnant wife, as well as the removal of the baby who may still be alive. This investigation and other horrific events lead Luther to an ethical cliff as the novel moves at a rapid pace toward a conclusion that coincides with the opening of episode one of the show.
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As readers travel through some of the seamier sides of London, there is plenty of action, including graphic violence not for the squeamish. John Luther's unique character will continue to develop as Cross is hard at work on a new Luther novel and filming of season three of the series starring the delectable and dashing Idris Elba is underway.
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"The growth of population is a major factor behind climate change today," reads the introduction to a recent Worldwatch report. But is the reverse also true? As birth rates fall population is starting to shrink in dozens of countries around the world. Can we expect reductions in greenhouse gas emissions or expansion of carbon-sucking forests and fields to follow?
Winnie says: "A look at Japan, one of the largest countries to begin contracting, suggests that the reality is much more complex. Projections suggest that Japan will lose the equivalent of a city larger than Boston each year for the next fifty years, amounting to nearly a third of overall population by 2060. It's not an outlier: the UN predicts a similar path for South Korea and China starting around 2025. In a recent study, however, University of Sheffield population expert Peter Matanle found that per capita energy use in depopulating Japanese regions is rising faster than in regions that are growing, canceling out many of the expected gains. One reason is that when depopulation happens without appropriate urban planning, people often have to drive farther or use more resources to maintain the same lifestyle. Greenhouse-gas-intensive infrastructure doesn't automatically contract alongside population."
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I had problems making this fit together, then realized if you cut on the inside line you will be missing a lot of space in the end. I recommend using the outside of the line for the cutting of the pieces. My angel is a bit shorter than the pattern, but looks good. It is amazing how many people see the angel and how many see nothing.
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HASTINGS, Minn. - A Rosemount man will serve 60 days in jail and 30 days of community service for his role in the hit-and-run death of a deaf woman back in 2009.
Eric James Hunter, age 44, was sentenced in the death of Joan LeVasseur of Apple Valley. LeVasseur was crossing the intersection of Cedar Avenue and 153rd Street in Apple Valley the night ofMarch 6, 2009 whenHunter struck her and drove away.She eventually died from her injuries.
Atip led investigators toHunter on March 11. While prosecutors considered charging him with criminal vehicular homicide, they eventually determined thatLevasseur wascrossing the street against a red light in the dark when she was hit.
In October of 2010 a Dakota County judge declared a retrial after a jury couldn't reach a verdict on lesser charges. At his retrial date Hunter plead guilty to one count of leaving the scene of an accident Involving death, which is a felony.
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British SEO tools company, Linkdex, has released data to Search Engine Watch that suggests, in their assessment, that JC Penney's link buying strategy was simply just good business sense.
Linkdex (not to be mistaken with Searchdex, the company accused of brokering the links), argues that from their analysis of competitor links JC Penney saw a gap in the market and aggressively chased the opportunity. Perhaps, the SEO should be commended for clearly understanding how Google's algorithm works, rather than villified for using 'dirty little secret' tactics that are proven to work and generate money? After all, it's not like anyone can get arrested for buying and selling links. Not yet, anyway.
Running an analysis via their recently launched suite of SEO Tools, Linkdex analyzed the quality of JC Penney's inbound links against other department stores such as Sears, Neiman Marcus and Macy's.
Below are some screenshots of the analysis they ran. In a nutshell, what they found is that whilst JC Penney wasn't the clear winner in terms of volume and quality of links, it was a close second to Sears in terms of it's overall link building strategy. As many SEOs will probably vouch for, Linkdex's analysis shows that link anchor text is more important than the overall volume of links.
Put another way, fewer but clearer signposts and search signals is more effective than lots of vague ones.
Link Quality
Google's mission is to organize the search index according to popularity, authority and influence, and one of the key factors it measures is the number and quality of links to a website. If we use the analogy that websites often represent people or groups, then lots of links from a variety of individuals and groups is likely to be a strong indicator of the popularity of content and the likelihood of that website being an authority on it's chosen topic.
Therefore the more unique domains that link to you is likely to send a strong signal to Google that your site is popular and authoritative, and thereby, influential. The analysis of Link Quality below shows that Macy's and Sears in general have from a larger set of domains which contribute a larger total number of links. So, in this analysis both Sears and Macy's come out the winner.
Type of Links
The Link type analysis below shows that Macy's and Sears also have links from a better class of site. The worst class of inbound link is from a Made for AdSense site (MFA), and the best tend to be authoritative sites with high traffic or blogs and forums that have a busy and engaged community.
Macy's Anchor Text Analysis
However, the shine of Macy's linking strategy starts to fade in it's anchor text analysis.
Whilst they have garnered a higher volume of better quality links, the search signals those links could provide are not as powerful as they could because the anchor text is not well targeted. A skim read of the results below shows that most of the inbound link anchor text focusses on it's own brand name, rather than on a generic product description or product brand name.
One might be quick to dismiss this analysis as "all relative", due to the fact that Macy's simply has more links and so we might expect it to have a higher concentration of brand focussed links than lesser known sites.
However, the analysis shows that even the site's own internal link structure could be put to better use. Anchor text such as "Privacy Policy", "Customer service", "My Account" and "Order Tracking" suggests that much of the anchor text is being internally generated as other websites are unlikely to link to a site using these terms.
Essentially Macy's are missing a trick with their internal site structure and footer links are diluting the relevancy of core pages on the site.
Data from the Neiman Marcus website was also provided by Linkdex but findings were much the same as Macy's, albeit even more heavily focussed on brand name, and so have been omitted from this article.
JC Penney Anchor Text Analysis
However, where JC Penney loses in number of links and quality of those links, it does a little better than it's competitors with anchor text according to the Linkdex analysis. Although JC Penney also showed a preponderance towards their own navigation showing up as the top anchor text, some keyword rich links do start to show up for words such as 'shoes'.
Sears Anchor Text Analysis
Of all the sites analyzed, Sears actually had the best balance of keyword rich anchor text. Clothing and appliances appear high on the list. The navigation links show up too but so do a variety of keyword rich terms, most likely from a good navigation design and landing page strategy coupled with good quality external links.
Even Sears have not got it perfect, but as you can see, the real trick is to design your website in such a way that keyword rich anchor text and natural language can be used to create the internal navigation of the site.
He Who Dares Wins?
Like other search engines Google heavily relies on anchor text as a means of calculating the content of a page and it's topical authority score, as even the overall authority of a link source is not necessarily indicative of it's relevance to what a page is about. It's also worth noting that anchor text analysis is not even Google's algorithm - Teoma was the first to look at it and Google adopted a similar filter within a few months - which suggests that it's not a problem of relevancy that just Google is having, but endemic to all search engines and search engine design in general.
My point is, there is no "dirty little secret". It is well known in the SEO community that link counts do not factor nearly as effectively without good quality anchor text. If they did, there would be no need for on-page SEO.
As many SEOs will tell you it's not always links from the most influential sites that make a difference in the most competitive top three positions. Sometimes a high volume of links from small unknown sites with the right anchor text help the competing site prevail. Often the time spent in soliciting one link from a 'authoritative' source is better spent on engaging with the riff raff of lesser known, even unknown, sites. Paying for links has been one shortcut to guarantee the best positioning and the right anchor text, right when you need it.
Paying for links may be a dubious practice with inherent risks, but with the prospect of the biggest online shopping season on the horizon, and a global recession biting on your heels, it's no surprise that a big brand was willing to take a risk. In this case, after the analysis was done, the only risk was being discovered because every other opportunity in the retail market was ripe for plucking.
It's beyond the scope of this discussion to question the ethics of paid links themselves (I do have some serious issues about paid link networks), but suffice to say that if the loophole exists, then it will be exploited.
Furthermore, before 2011 there was a strong chance of not getting discovered too as Google's search result quality was in the sewer. One could argue that JC Penney just got caught in the crossfire of a massive co-ordinated PR campaign against Google's search quality initiated by a strong group of vested interests.
Presumably every major online retailer is doing competitive analysis on each other's site design, link structure and inbound link strategy and even a simple analysis as the one above shows that there is plenty to be desired. With obvious weaknesses in Macy's own strategy it would make sense to go after those markets where they are ranking highly but with no particular strategy to maintain those positions. Often the best way to do that is try to get hundreds of links!
Regardless of JC Penney's official position on buying links, the SEO in charge, whose work was disclaimed by a JC Penney spokesperson, could, by contrast, be commended. They spotted an opportunity, weighed up the pros and cons (in light of common knowledge of Google's algorithm) and decided to take it. Google's results are a zero sum game - there is always a winner and a loser - and competing is the American way!
After all, JC Penney does not owe Google a living just because they send traffic to them. In fact, Google needs JC Penney in it's index as much as JC Penney needs the traffic. If users turned up and found they couldn't find JC Penney in the index something would seem amiss in Google's mission to index all the world's information. Those users would go elsewhere to find content from major brands. Eric Schmidt was mindful of the symbiosis between brands and Google on the web, and saw it as Google's mission to clean up the cesspool.
So, whilst Google may swagger about it's zero-tolerance of black hat practice, it does so, knowing it's own position is precarious. Which means that for many brands there will still be everything to play for.


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Hate crime, including rape, is pandemic in South Africa, despite police statistics showing that the numbers have dropped.
A staggering number of cases involve women being raped and brutally killed because of their sexual orientation, with perpetrators still walking the streets freely.
"Corrective rape" was a term first used in the early 2000s by human rights NGOs to describe the rape of lesbians.
Noxolo Nogwaza, 24, from Kwa-Thema on the East Rand was raped and gruesomely stoned to death at Easter time. Police confirmed she had been raped as they found used condoms with her body behind a local shopping centre.
Seven months on and nobody has been brought to book for Nogwaza's brutal murder. Tsakane police said that they were still investigating. "We are still trying to trace the perpetrators," said spokesperson Johannes Mabuza.
Another recent rape victim was Roz van der Vyver, 38, a Capetonian and former employee of the Baxter Theatre, who lost her fight for life after being gang-raped earlier this month, apparently after responding to a job advertised on the popular Gumtree website.
Sizakele Sigasa, 34, and her lover, Salome Masooa, 23, were raped and shot after leaving a party in Soweto in July 2007. Zoliswa Nkonyana, 19, died on the Cape Flats in February 2006 after an angry mob of about 20 young men beat her with golf clubs and stoned her. Openly lesbian Nontsikelelo Tyatyeka, 21, was reported missing by her family in Nyanga, Cape Town, last September. A year later, on September 11, police found her decomposing remains in a rubbish bin near her home. A 29-year-old male suspect was arrested and appeared in the Athlone Magistrates' Court on a charge of murder. According to the victim's mother, Nombasa Tyatyeka, 50, the suspect repeatedly inquired about her daughter's whereabouts.
"As a nation we should stand up and fight against hate crimes," said Mercy Machisa, manager of gender-based research at Gender Links, Jo'burg. Law enforcement should take lesbian cases seriously, said the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Equality Project.
"Police and investigators up to magistrate should take our plight seriously because it seems like they are not doing enough to catch these criminals.
"Our main aim is to ensure that gay rights are protected in South Africa and we aim to create awareness that gay people should be accepted," said Busi Kheswa, programme officer for the project.
"The issue needs urgent attention. Detectives and prosecutors need training on how to deal with hate crime. People without liberal attitudes tend to be the ones who resort to rape and murder to punish lesbians and gays," said Lisa Vetten, director for Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre in Braamfontein.
"Education about sexual orientation should also be disseminated around the country," she said.
Ekurhuleni Pride Organising Committee (EPOC) said it was still waiting for answers from Ekurhuleni safety and security after a march on August 19 demanding protection.
"The Gauteng premier was handed a memo that day, which is set to protect from victimisation and oppression, protect schools, taverns and all public places. The 30 days for a response has passed and nothing has been done," said EPOC committee member Bontle Khalo.
As many as 500000 rapes are committed annually, estimates the Medical Research Council in South Africa, with a quarter of all men admitting to a rape.
A 2010 study led by the government-funded research foundation showed that in Gauteng, more than 37% of men said they had raped a woman. Nearly 7% of the 487 men surveyed said they had participated in a gang rape.
In a recent survey by Community of Information, Empowerment and Transparency that sampled 4000 women, one in three reported being raped in the past year. In a sampling of 1500 schoolchildren in the Soweto township, a quarter of all the boys said "jackrolling", a term for gang rape, was fun. A staggering number of cases involve women being raped and brutally killed because of their sexual orientation, with perpetrators still walking the streets freely.
The annual SA Social Attitudes Survey shows that a staggering 80% of South Africans were still largely prejudicial of gay and lesbian relationships.


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Nurses 'warned children about Savile'
Nurses advised young patients to "pretend to be asleep" when Sir Jimmy Savile was visiting their hospital, it has been claimed.
Allegations of child abuse against the late radio DJ and TV presenter initially centred on his time at the BBC. However, new claims have been made concerning the two hospitals where he worked as a volunteer and visited regularly due to his involvement in charity fundraising.
A former patient at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire told the BBC News on Wednesday night there was an "air of resignation" among nursing staff ahead of a visit by Sir Jimmy, who had the free use of an on-site flat there.
Rebecca Owen told the programme: "There was some sort of ironic chatter between the nurses about who would be the lucky one to go off to his room.
"And then, as one of the nurses was leaving or passing by my bed, she leant over and said the best thing you can do is stay in bed until he's gone and pretend to be asleep."
A second former patient at Stoke Mandeville, calling herself Laura, phoned BBC Radio 5 Live and told the programme she had heard nurses say Sir Jimmy took girls to his "little room" inside the hospital after he carried out what were referred to as "ward rounds".
She said: "There was chatter and miserable faces about the fact that Jimmy Savile was due to do what they called his particular ward round that day, and they were talking to themselves about which one would be, as they put it, 'the chosen one' to go off with him to his little room."
Meanwhile, a former nurse told Sky News that she had seen Sir Jimmy molest a child at Leeds General Infirmary.
June Thornton, who was recovering from an operation at the hospital when she witnessed the alleged incident, said: "She had brain damage and Jimmy Savile came in and kissed her.
"I thought at the time that he was a relative. Then he started kissing her neck and running his hands up and down her arms and then started to molest her. Because I was laid flat on my back, there was nothing I could do about it."
A spokesman from Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust said: "We are shocked at the nature and extent of the very serious allegations made against Jimmy Savile which were revealed by the Metropolitan Police on Wednesday. We have made contact with the police and they will be meeting with us to discuss their investigation."
He added: "The trust does not have any record of complaints about Jimmy Savile's behaviour made during the time he was a volunteer and charity supporter at Leeds General Infirmary or at any of our other hospitals.
"As a result of the TV documentary and subsequent media publicity we have, however, been contacted by two individuals, one of whom wishes to remain anonymous, about incidents said to have occurred in the 1970s."
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs Stoke Mandeville Hospital, also said it was "shocked" over allegations that Sir Jimmy Savile abused children while volunteering there.
Sir Jimmy was a high profile fundraiser for the National Spinal Injuries Centre and also volunteered as a hospital porter.
Allegations that he abused patients surfaced after a documentary about his serial molestation of under age girls screened by ITV last week. Police have since said that they have gathered information suggesting abuse on a "national scale".
In a statement, the trust said: "Buckinghamshire Healthcare is shocked to hear of the allegations about Jimmy Savile.
"We are unaware of any record or reports of inappropriate behaviour of this nature during Jimmy's work with the trust.
"We can confirm that the police have contacted us this week as part of their assessment exercise and we are co-operating with them fully."
A trust spokesman said it has received no formal request for information, and had no record of either formal or informal complaints about Sir Jimmy's conduct.
A spokeswoman for the Nursing and Midwifery Council said any failure by nurses to report abuse by Mr Savile would need to be judged against the rules governing the profession when it occurred.
The NMC was established in 2002 when it took over from the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting. However, the UKCC itself was only created in 1983 and replaced nine separate nursing regulators.
The spokeswoman said: "Although we cannot comment on individual cases, if we receive a referral about the actions of a nurse before the NMC came into existence we would first look to see if they are currently registered with us.
"If they are currently registered with us the referral would proceed through our normal investigations process, but any judgement on their fitness to practise would be made in line with the rules and guidance laid out for nurses at the time the allegations took place."
She added: "If they are no longer a registered nurse we would be unable to take any action."
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Any nurse who makes such allegations (which may well be true) needs to ask herself (or himself) whether they complied with their then Code of Practice by drawing their concerns to the attention of appropriate persons.
If they did what was done about those concerns?
If nothing was done why were those concerns not taken further - anonymously if necessary - to more senior management or to the regulator of the time if there was one.
If they didnt raise those concerns - and it sounds as if they should have been raised collectively as well as individually - then they were in breach of their Code and their duty of care to the children in their care. And so were their managers if they didn't take the concerns seriously.
Raising such concerns cannot be the preserve of the odd brave soul but is the responsibility of every registered nurse (and doctor). It is no good complaining that too few people spoke out effectively at Mid Staffs Hospital if the same thing is happening elsewhere.
It is time this message was thoroughly embedded into the training and practice of every health professional not just those with the courage to raise concerns.
Well said Roger. I thought I was going to be a lone heretic on this, it looks like I was wrong.
I can only agree with Mr Kline.
Not only did these nurses have a duty of care but what about the moral obligation we have as human beings to our children.
And in response to Mrs Thorton, yes you may have been recovering from surgery but you still had a voice,you could have told someone!
I personally would find it very difficult to look myself in the mirror each day had I seen such a thing and not said a word to anybody!
The Francis report on Mid Staffordshire will rightly talk about the climate of fear and bullying that is so widespread in health and social care.
It will rightly want to hold senior management to account.
I know well, having represented several whistleblowers, and written extensively about it, the price that can be paid for speaking out, however professionally it is done.
But we all have a responsibility to stand up for those who cannot speak up for themselves. Professional bodies, trade unions and indeed employers should be working to give everyone the courage to do so, individually and collectively.
We still have a long way to go I'm afraid.Let's hope the Francis Report makes it just that bit easier to do so.
I am not surprised these nurses did not speak out given the corrupt culture of the NHS. I took part in a group grievance towards protecting patient care and our service. What a mistake the managers sought revenge leading us to do a group whistleblow which has resulted in me being victimised and having malicious and vexatious allegations levied against me resulting in the probability I will lose everything I have worked for over last 35 years. This all because I have had the courage to speak out. I would suggest no one speaks out until the culture undergoes radical change because there is no protection for whistleblowers despite peoples widely held beliefs that there is in reality you are shunned and left alone.
Roger Kline is correct, but so is the Anonymous above.
'Professional bodies, trade unions and indeed employers should be working to give everyone the courage to do so, individually and collectively.'
Yes - although accusing a celebrity, with a reputation for charity work, would probably be difficult even if the procedures and protections for 'normal whistleblowing' were in place.
It is, as many people point out, a 'culture thing' - you need 'good behaviour and an expectation of (suspected) bad behaviour being criticised' to be the culture - but you don't need immediate suspensions and lengthy NMC investigations, at the merest hint of something which might be bad behaviour. Getting the balance spot-on, is tricky.
I simply cannot agree with your suggestion anonymous 11-Oct 2.47pm,that "no one speaks out until the culture undergoes radical change". Unless people speak out the culture will never change.
You spoke out and the world should be grateful to people like you. You will not lose everything. You are morally and ethically intact and can rise above those who shun you.
I spoke out and lost my job and marriage but I don't know how I would live with myself if I had kept my mouth shut.
Management,HR and union conspired to get rid of me (done deal). I took out an ET claim but was paid a large sum of money to settle out of Tribunal (with gagging clause).
An Independent Investigation of NHS Lothian in May 2012 found what I tried to disclose from 1996 onwards " an undermining,intimidating,demeaning,threatening and hostile working environment for some staff". That was without hearing the worst abuses, as those employees had been bullied out of the workforce.
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10 years ago i thought that I had lost everything, but in fact I gained strength and skills that I could never have foreseen.
We must continue to ensure that the culture changes; otherwise no one is safe in the care of Health/Social Care.
Kathleen White, Edinburgh
Jimmy Saville walks into a public ward and in full view of someone [flat on her back] 'molests' a patient and everyone keeps quiet? sounds implausible even in a bullying culture. He was not a senior manager - he was a visitor - or voluntary porter, I would have thought management would have been more worried about it coming to light on their wards than they would have been about keeping quiet. You would expect there to have been an unwritten rule about his not being left alone if nothing else. Its far from clear about who the nurses at stoke mandeville were talking about when they said about who would be unlucky enough to go to his room - sounds more like one of the nurses and from all accounts he prefers people somewhat younger than a trained nurse. Having read a couple of books recently about people who were in stoke mandeville with spinal injuries it was obvious that Jimmy's visits were not looked forward to due to his annoying personality which would be enough for the nurses to suggest that patients pretended to be asleep. It has not surprised me to hear that Jimmy did abuse young vulnerable girls however I am not sure how helpful it is to read so much into every action he ever took - I feel it more likely that his 'charity persona' was the smokescreen he used to help keep him above suspicion when he was carrying out abuse in other situations. The nurse in this story was a patient at the time - surely she could have reported this incident without fear of reprisal - in fact how selfish for your first thought to be about yourself.
Kathleen Wright the gagging clause is illegal. I have chosen to be anonymous because my case is ongoing and to speak would breach confidentiality at this time. I have always spoken out and refused to lower the standard of care I give to my patients however my experience now is to keep quiet. I say this with a heavy heart and it goes against everything I know and believe in but I have to protect the naive who are just starting their careers in the NHS. Don't believe the rhetoric trusts spout do your job the best you can on one to ones with your patients but keep your head down. The culture will never change because the lowly nurse speaks out this has been proved over and over.
I was shocked by the recent revelations regarding jimmy savile. I grew up watching 'Jim'll fix it' believing he was a kind, caring person.
I hope the stigma of speaking up and out for abused children is decreasing and that children are now being listened to.
Sexual abusers and abusers in general sometimes gravitate to jobs where they have easy access to children and the vulnerable so they can abuse the power and trust invested in them.
Was there a code of conduct then - I am unsure it all seems so long ago it must have been very different if no-one spoke out. Hard to imagine today. I also grew up watching him on TV Clunk Clik, Jim,ll Fix It and the image I had of him has been shattered. He must have seemed beyond reproach.
This must have been the worst kept secret ever...
I find the allegations against the Late Sir Jimmy Savile to be very disturbing, not because of the general "how could he do it? outcry from the general public but because of two pieces of (now) rather chilling information I heard some 27 years ago.
At that time I was working outside of of NHS nursing as a Grade III residential social worker at an assessment and reception home for 14 young adults run by Kingston Council in Surrey. I lived in Twickenham, Middlesex actually (but not literally) on The Green.
It was a Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1985 and all the residents and staff were away on a planned group holiday at Butlins. I was one of the staff left behind as a "skeleton" crew to maintain the building and the ongoing tasks.
So was in the main office when a phone call came through from someone representing a charity which worked in conjunction with local authorities for good causes.
Please believe me, these are only summations from a 20 minute conversation that took place nearly 30 years ago. Legally this is only hearsay...
The caller identified himself as "Johnny Savile." On the phone he sounded exactly like "Jimmy Savile" so I immediately said "Did you just say Jimmy Savile?" "NO" he replied firmly "I am Johnny Savile, Jimmy Savile's older brother - nothing to do with him apart from the fact he's related to me."
I said "Oh but so... I didn't even realise.... He has an OLDER brother? Wow... so you both raise money for charity though..."
"Yeah" he said "but you don't dare compare me with him... he does it for his own personal reasons. I have raised more money than him, done more good with it and not sought the same publicity for doing it. He loves the fame and makes the most of it - I never even talk to the dirty little sh*t these days"
He was very angry about his younger brother to say the least. I eventually calmed him down, told him that donations to Social Services homes were not within the remit of specific local establishments and advised him to contact Kingston Council HQ on Monday morning.
After he had "vented" about what what was "yet another pleb" mistaking him for his brother we actually had quite a pleasant conversation about how he raised money for charities etc.
So that was the first "information" that I now recall from that Saturday in 1985.
The second was two days later. We used to drink at the pub across Twickenham Green call "The Prince Blucher" and we had an "adopted" 84-year old 'grandad' we used to sit and chat to about local history on most nights. George Kneller (a true Twickenham character) was his name if you must know - at the current rate he's be about 112 years old and hardly likely to sue me for disclosing his name.
That night I mentioned the phone conversation with "Jimmy Savile's previously unknown older brother Johnny Savile" and George went seriously quiet on me. He ignored my 'supposed' revelation that "Jimmy" had relatives other than "The Duchess" and went on to another tack which I had never heard before... "You know that Jimmy Savile is a dirty old bastard don't you? It's been known for years... Why do you think he sits those young girls (on JIM'L'FIX IT) right in front of him on bean bags? So's he can look up their skirts and work out which one he wants to "diddle" (George's words not mine) later! Known it for years, he's got history... a pervert.
The conversation abruptly halted and the thread was neatly moved on by a young barmaid who had a cleavage that could stop a charging buffalo at 20 yards.
It never came up in conversation again. I have never really thought of it much over the last 27 years until, obviously, now.
I see lots of press being given to Sir Jimmy Savile's nephew and his outrage at how his uncle's legacy is being abused - if Johnny Savile is still alive (he's be around 90 years old now) perhaps someone should ask him?
Did I ever feel the need to report this stuff to the police? Of course not. A phone call from an angry and jealous older brother... just sibling rivalry. The testimony from an 84-year old drinking partner after four pints of Guinness? Hardly the sort of evidence I could rush down to Twickenham Police Station and make a formal complain with!
So yes, it seems that this must have been the worst kept secret that everyone knew about.
I do not feel guilty - how the heck would I know? Even back in the mid-80's (in my personal world) Jimmy Savile was a weird BBC fossil.
Kathleen, Mike and "anonymous". In your own ways you are all right.
Raising concerns is dangerous. The P)ublic Interest Disclsoure Act provides for compensation but does not provide protection.
That doesnt make raising concerns impossible or the wrong thing to do. It does mean getting good advice on how to do so and recognising the risks.
But the culture will only change when brave souls challenge it and trade unions, professional bodie, employerss and politicians are gradually pushed into doing the job that needs doing.
What is the alternative?
Jimy Saville was indeed a strange character, anyone who watched the Louis Theroux film of him can see that, however, just because he was a bit odd doesn't make him a paedophile. After the high-profile downfalls of the man who played Len Faiclough in corrie, Johnathan King and Gary Glitter, people who had been abused by them said so when they were alive and they could be prosecuted. Now we are meant to believe that Sir Jimmy molested young women up and down the country for 40 years and there was not one mention of it until after his death makes me, cynically, believe that it wouldn't have happened when he was alive because of the laws of libel and slander. To say that a presenter of 'Top of the Pops' was hidden from prosecution by the establishment because he raised millions of pounds for charity is excerable, as mentioned before, it didn't save Gary Glitter and he was a world famous rock star, not a DJ.
If the former nurse did indeed see Jimmy molest a child whilst she was a patient ( surely they had separate adult and childrens wards in the 60's and 70's), then I am afraid she is as guilty and as culpable as anyone else in this sorry tale and she, unfortunately, has incriminated herself on television.
The anecdotes on this site are just that, anecdotes. ' A mate of mine down the pub, blah-de-blah', believe me, when myself and my friends have a bevvy we make up all kinds of crap about who we like, ( Wayne Rooney and the rest of the Man Utd team are favourites) would I regurgitate it later as if by chance any of this bull came 'true' and pass it off as if I had pre-cognition? Maybe, but I doubt it.
If true, then it is horrific, but show us the proof first before besmirching a dead mans previously good name, otherwise it's the equivalent of trolling.
Yes RedPaddys12 you are right, let us not judge the man guilty before there is sufficient evidence to prove one way or another whether the charges are true or false.
And yes, I do find it slightly distasteful that The Daily Mail seems to have used this story as a national campaign to beat nurses, the BBC and the NHS around the head with.
"The anecdotes on this site are just that, anecdotes. ' A mate of mine down the pub, blah-de-blah', believe me, when myself and my friends have a bevvy we make up all kinds of crap "
Once again RedPaddys12 you are right and I believe I mentioned in my original post that this was all hearsay and therefore not legally admissible in a UK court of law.
But I stick by the first of the first part of my message that concerned my conversation with "Johnny Savile" in 1985 and I would be prepared to swear an affidavit to that effect to the Metropolitan Police. It may only be a small part in the jigsaw but if his older brother (who nobody seems to remember now) testified against him - then perhaps it might be important?
I am just a Nurse - not a detective... so I am not really sure what bit's of evidence or hearsay they might like to be presented with... all I wanted to do was present what I had heard 27 years ago and perhaps that might begin a process where we all could start to understand the claims of "I heard about it - but I never reported it!" inevitable DM shock-horror stories.
Susan Markham
So you will swear an affadavit that a man on the phone who sounded like Jimmy Saville and had a similar name said...did it never, ever occur to you that this man might have been pissed off with having the mickey taken out of him by people for years that he sounded like, and had the same name as Sir Jimmy, but in fact had never met him and didn't actually know him. Really, its just innuendo, like the rest of this sad tale. If what you say is true, then all you have is a tale of two brothers who had fallen out with one another, its you putting 2 and 2 together to make 5. As for your friend who called him a dirty old man in the pub, well, Sir Jimmy seemed to have a lot of 20 something girlfriends when well into his 60's, perhaps thats what he was alluding to. I'm sure that most of us would think the same of Rod Stewart, or Bruce Forsythe or Bernie Ecclestone or Peter Stringfellow, but to make the leap from liking young women to young children is a bit of a leap, dontcha think?
If true, then yes, we can all burn effigies of him on bonfire night, but show me the proof!
I stand by all my former statements and the commitments I made to them. I WILL swear an affidavit about my conversation with John Savile
I divided my initial post into two parts. The phone conversation was the first part.
The second part was a "hearsay" conversation in a pub which I pointed out would NOT be admissible in court.
redpaddys12... I do not understand why you continue to merge/blur both the first and second parts into one issue unless it is to promote some secret personal agenda that you may have.
Forget my meeting with George Kneller and his comments... Rub them out!
I have given you a fairly detailed account of the 20 minute conversation as far as I can remember it... much like the young girls who have now come forward with their accounts of abuse.
Freddy Starr said he had never met with Jimmy Savile or appeared in a TV programme with him... he said he had never met Karin Ward... until C4 dug up the evidence.
Are you so easily dismissing my personal account (and my consequently my integrity as a nurse) of a conversation I had with "Johnny Savile' just like Freddy Starr dismissed his meeting with Karen Ward?
I reiterate that I had a 20 minute conversation with John Savile. I am not a fool. He was NOT Jimmy Savile... he referred to senior contacts at the Kingston Council by name and several charities which were not linked with Jimmy Savile.
Let us put it like this way... I don't need to prove myself to you or anybody else. If the Metropolitan Police need me to give evidence then I authorise the Nursing Times to release my personal details to any enquiring authority.
Susan Markham
Of course, you had the mans details who said he was John Saville. His birth certificate, which will prove that he had the same mother and father. Photographs of him and the young Jimmy dressed in wrestling gear. Just because someone tells you something, doesn't necessarily mean it is true, does it? I didn't say you didn't have the conversation, so therefore am not questioning your integrity as a nurse, am I, rather, questioning the integrity of the man who said to you ON THE PHONE that he was Jimmy Savilles brother.
I did not merge or blurr the 2 aspects of a a conversation you had on the phone and in the pub, but you seem to think I am, please re-read my post, they are separate. Infact, don't bother, you seem to just make things up of the top of your head, so please, continue on.
Finally, what is the secret personal agenda you allude to? Are you saying that I am somehow involved with these alleged abuses? You say that I was doubting YOUR personal integrity and then come out with this!
There are laws against LIBEL in this country and you have just comitted this, and I will ask the Nursing Times to release your details to the police so that they can arrest you, and to the NMC for bringing the profession into disrepute.
By the way, the number for Scotland Yard is Whitehall 1212.
Lastly, just because Freddie Starr can't remember 1 girl on a TV show 40 years ago doesn't make him a paedophile either, you complain about the Daily Mail and then spout rubbish like this. FOR SHAME.
Susan Markham
English law allows actions for libel to be brought in the High Court for any published statements alleged to defame a named or identifiable individual or individuals in a manner that causes them loss in their trade or profession, or causes a reasonable person to think worse of them. Allowable defenses are justification (the truth of the statement), fair comment (whether the statement was a view that a reasonable person could have held), and privilege (whether the statements were made in Parliament or in court, or whether they were fair reports of allegations in the public interest).
Please retract your despicable statement.
Good luck with your obvious anger control issues redpaddys12 - I certainly do not want to be drawn into them.
Take it or leave it I stand by what I stated in the first part of my initial post...
And there I bid thee a fond farewell!
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