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Use of cannabis and hallucinogens remained at historically high levels in 2023 among adults aged 19- 30 years and 35-50.

A new poll shows that 21% of people aged 50 years and up used cannabis in the last year, with 12% taking the substance at least once per month.

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The MA900 Multi-Application Cell Sorter is a versatile and automated system that can transform laboratory workflow, enabling seamless sorting of a range of

A new poll shows that 21% of people aged 50 years and up used cannabis in the last year, with 12% taking the substance at least once per month.

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The MA900 Multi-Application Cell Sorter is a versatile and automated system that can transform laboratory workflow, enabling seamless sorting of a range of

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The MA900 Multi-Application Cell Sorter is a versatile and automated system that can transform laboratory workflow, enabling seamless sorting of a range of

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Mark Stiles is Professor of Technology Supported Learning at Staffordshire University. In his role as Head of Learning Development and Innovation, he is charged with leading "eLearning" across the institution. Staffordshire have been using VLEs for some five years, including the COSE VLE which was developed at Staffordshire and is now available as a free binary/open source product. Mark has led numerous projects relating to the technical, strategic, and educational aspects of the use of VLEs/MLEs and is a regular speaker, and has published widely, in these areas. Mark is currently chair of the JISC MLE Programme Evaluation Team. Mark Stiles gave a plenary talk on Beyond Your VLE: Strategic Challenges.

Dr. Alejandro Armellini is a Learning Technologist in the Unit for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, at the University of Kent. He holds a Master in Education (Educational Technology and TESOL) from the University of Manchester and a PhD in Language Studies from Canterbury Christ Church University College. He has worked extensively in the fields of teacher development, open and distance education, educational technology and e-learning, as well as educational research methods, both in the UK and in Uruguay. He has also managed projects co-funded by the Inter-American Development Bank and ORT Uruguay University. He has taught at BA, Diploma and Master's levels in the UK and Latin America. His current activities include (a) Implementation of the university's e-learning strategy Responsibility for development and (b) delivery of the Learning Technology module within the PGCHE WebCT administration and staff development. Alejandro Armellini gave a plenary talk on E-learning: The Strategy Continuum.

Steve Musgrave is a PhD research student involved in Telematic research into Community Portals. He is a full time IT Manager at Blackpool and the Fylde College in Lancashire. Formerly a merchant navy Radio/Electronics Officer and design engineer with IMR/ITT. Beyond the professional qualifications he holds a B.Sc (Hons) in Electronics with Computing; an MSc in Information Technology and a post graduate Diploma in Management of Education. With a strong background in the Further Education sector as a Principal Lecturer and Head of Division of Communication Engineering, he transferred to a position in IT Management with Blackpool and The Fylde College to develop and implement a unified college-wide electronic network interlinking the campus sites, buildings and outreach centres. Implementation of a Virtual Learning Environment is currently on-going. Direct personal experience of managing multi-million pound IT projects has been gained through project management of Further Education Funding Council (FEFC) projects, notably the ICT centred 'Regional Open System for Education' project and SIGMA projects, giving network inter/intra connectivity between Colleges in a virtual private network. Recent experience of Community Portal planning, design and implementation has arisen through the partnership of Blackpool Borough Council, Blackpool and The Fylde College, and Telewest, in feasibility studies and planning of a 'Broadband Interactive Grid' public sector Community Network strategy for the Fylde Coast of Lancashire. Representation at national level includes membership of the JISC Information Environment Committee (JCIE) and NILTA Technical Committee. Steve gave a plenary talk on Community Portals - A False Dawn Over The Field of Dreams?.

Ricky Rankin is a Principal Analyst within Information Services at Queen's University Belfast. For three years he was manager of the Computer Mediated Communications group with responsibility for the email and www services of the University. He is currently involved in two projects: (1) Queen's Online Project which seeks to ensure that the key services and information used by University personnel are made accessible through an integrated Web environment. (2)Content Management System which involves the selection and implementation of CMS to enable information owners to author for the Web. Ricky gave a joint plenary talk with Gareth McAleese on Content Management - Buy or Build?.

Gareth McAleese is Web Development Manager within the Department of Public Affairs at the University of Ulster where he has been for the last six years. He is responsible for the technical management and development of the University of Ulster Web service. Gareth gave a joint plenary talk with Ricky Rankin on Content Management - Buy or Build?.

Sarah Agarwal is a consultant Project Manager, specialising in user-centred Web and application development. She has worked for the Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol since 2002. During that time, she's worked on a variety of internal and external development projects, using user-centred design techniques with particular effect in politically difficult and organisationally complex developments. Sarah has previously worked in the field of intranets, knowledge management, usability and information science for other not-for-profit organisations, such as the BBC and the Environment Agency. She has written articles and given seminars on Web-related subjects such as design, information architecture, usability, end-user surveying and change management issues. Sarah Agarwal gave a plenary talk on Focussing On Users: Gathering Users' Requirements.

David Supple is manager of the Corporate Web team at the University of Birmingham and manager of the University's Institutional Portal Project. His teams remit is the development of the site to facilitate the e-business and e-learning aims of the institution, and the delivery of a Web-enabled organisational vision. In real terms this means the re-corporatization of the University Web site, through a focussed Web strategy, common infrastructures and templates, centralised hardware, adequate support and a customer focussed internal sales process to help convince users to migrate back to the centre. The Web Team uses mostly Microsoft products (a challenge in itself), with occasional forays into MySQL and Unix just to keep us sane. Over the coming year, David's focus will be on developing a major portal environment for the University, something that has been in planning for almost 2 years now, and he is keen to engage with the HE community on this new type of development to help maximise the potential of this technology. David is also interested in Web strategy in general and the development of organisational structures and processes as they respond to a more electronic view of the world. David Supple gave a plenary talk on Web Strategies: Bridging a Continent.

John Burke of JISC InfoNET is the FE Liaison Manager with JISCinfoNet. He has worked within the Further Education Sector since 1985 with much of that time having been involved with Management Information Systems, in addition to having managed and developed the IT Network and infrastructure at Myerscough College for over three years. He was instrumental in training and promoting good practice in MIS in Lancashire in the early days of College MIS and regionally has chaired the NW CMIS Group since 1996. He became Associate Chair of the National CMIS Board in 1994, helping to build on the success of that body since its merger with NAITFE to form the National Information and Learning Technologies Association (NILTA). John has participated as a member of NILTA's CIS Operations Committee, acted as North West Representative to NILTA's Council and has contributed numerous articles to their publications. John was an early adopter of the Internet and Intranet as a tool for dissemination and has spoken on the subject at several conferences and seminars. He has also spoken on the subject of e-Learning and was involved in the JISC MIS/MLE Interoperability Study. He received the NILTA Award for outstanding contribution to the development of College Information Systems in 1999. John gave a plenary talk on JISCinfoNet: Helping Web Managers Support Our Users.

Dave Beckett is a senior technical researcher at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT), University of Bristol working on Semantic Web and web technology research, development and standardisation. He has been developing, researching and deploying Internet research discovery, search and metadata systems since 1993 and based at the ILRT since 2000. Dave presently works on the EU-funded IST project Semantic Web Advanced Development Europe (SWAD-Europe) on deploying and developing practical applications and approaches for this new technology. As part of this he does standardisation work on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and on the Resource Description Framework (RDF), the foundation work of the W3C Semantic Web Activity. Dave edits two of the RDF specifications in development. Dave Beckett gave the opening keynote plenary talk on day 2 on The Semantic Web.

Professor David Melville began his career as a lecturer in Physics at The University of Southampton and carried out research on magnetism and magnetic materials as well as bio and medical physics. He served on and was chairman of a number of research councils and Higher Education Funding Council Committees. David Melville went on to become Vice Rector of Lancashire Polytechnic and Vice-Chancellor Middlesex University. During this period he also served as Vice-Chairman of the Committee for Vice-Chancellors and Principals (now Universities UK) and Chairman of its Longer Term Strategy Group. In 1996 he became Chief Executive of the Further Education Funding Council. In this role he was responsible to Parliament for the allocation of funding of over #3 billion per annum to the further education sector. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent at Canterbury in September 2001. He was educated at Sheffield and Columbia Universities and has Honorary Degrees from Sheffield, Middlesex, Derby and Southampton Universities. He was made a CBE for services to education in 2001. Professor Melville gave the opening keynote plenary talk on The Web Of Higher And Further Education: How To Deal With The Spiders.

Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a JISC-funded post which provides advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education communities on Web issues. Brian is based at UKOLN. Brian has been chair of the organising committees for the Institutional Web Management Workshop series since he established the event in 1997. Brian's interests include Web standards, technical architectures for Web services and innovative Web developments. Brian is chair of the Programme Committee and a member of the Organising Committee.

The IWMW 2006 Web site was created. [2005-06-28]

The IWMW 2006 workshop will be held at the University of Bath on 14-16th June 2006. [2005-07-08]