18 Jan 2021
IN THE FRAME: After developing an early interest, Elaine Vizor returned to photography in 2008
For the last two years photographer Elaine Vizor from Spring Gardens has been helping catalogue public statues as part of a nationwide project. During lockdown her voluntary photography work with Art UK has been curtailed but this has not stopped her exploring new and old photographic techniques
How did you get started as a photographer?
I’ve always had an interest in photography since my first Kodak Brownie film camera as a young teen. I got my first SLR 35mm film camera at college later when not many people had them and studied black and white photography as an extra subject at teacher training college.
A PHARMACIST, says an “army” of pharmacies are ready to help in the roll-out of the coronavirus vaccine. Pharmacist Umesh Patel, who is also a mentor to Pharmacy students at the University of Sunderland, is backing calls for community pharmacists to play a bigger part in delivering the Oxford-AstraZenica jab. Mr Patel said: Community pharmacies are an integral part of NHS and can help deliver the AstraZenica Covid vaccines at very short notice. We are an army of 11,000 pharmacies and we can mobilise quite a few across the country within 24 hours’ notice to provide a Covid vaccination service. Customers do not need appointment to visit their local pharmacy.”
by Stephen Chapman
Dynamo, an organisation driving digital growth in the North East of England has appointed Rob Gwyther to its board.
Gwyther is the new Operations Director of Saggezza and with Dynamo he’ll work with the organisation to attract more companies and talent to the region.
“My background in consulting, working with a broad range of clients, means I can bring a different perspective to the board and I am really excited to be able to represent such an innovative, agile business that I know can be a real driving force in the growth of the North East tech sector,” he explained.
Transition to Teach partners with employers to help staff at risk of redundancy Date published: 11 January 2021
Transition to Teach is a Department for Education funded service delivered by Cognition Education, supporting those at risk of redundancy into teaching, and right through to the end of their first year as newly qualified teachers
With redundancies rising, Manchester-based Transition to Teach has been working with employers throughout England that have staff at risk of redundancy, including npower.
ONS data shows that redundancies reached a record high of 370,000 in the three months to October 2020, not taking into account planned redundancies, whilst the CIPD Labour Market Outlook reports 30% of firms planned redundancies up to December 2020.
Sunderland academics back calls to give police officers the Covid-19 vaccine
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Kim McGuinness has called for police officers to be moved up the vaccine queue alongside healthcare workers
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Police officers should be vaccinated against Covid-19 as soon as possible, Sunderland academics have said.