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ABOUT US
Uniview Worldwide Ltd is a mail order company specialising in high quality multimedia resources, supplying educational establishments and healthcare professionals in the UK and abroad. We have distribution agreements with a wide range of suppliers within the UK, North America and Australia.
Uniview Worldwide was founded in 1993 by an experienced teacher and examiner who realised that there was a real need for good value, quality educational films. The company is known to and used by the majority of psychology teachers within the UK and has since built on its reputation as the leading UK distributor of psychology multimedia resources by expanding into other sectors, notably Biology and Sociology, Health & Child Studies and Citizenship & PSHE.
MEET THE TEAM!
Gill Campbell
Three years as a psychology student, two years media experience at the BBC, several years teaching maths and a working knowledge of computers perfectly fulfilled the criteria in the ad for a post at Uniview back in 1996. A transitional phase on Gill's CV whilst the children are tiny - or so she thought! Once in, there was no escape - taking customer orders, acquiring new titles, packing parcels, negotiating contracts, cake-making, marketing, blowing up computers and kettles - varied is an understatement! Home-life is just as hectic for Gill, running around after a pre-teen, a teenager and a husband!
Barbara Davison
Barbara trained as a PE teacher with music as a subsidiary and worked for a few years in secondary schools, latterly as the Head of a PE Department. She still does some supply teaching and invigilation at a local secondary school. Barbara is happily married with three children, two of whom are at university, but have no major plans for flying the nest permanently just yet! In her leisure time Barbara can be found participating in a variety of sports, including playing tennis for a local tennis team, singing with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic choir, amongst other choirs, and playing the violin.
Barbara has worked at Uniview for nine very enjoyable years, having had a wide variety of roles in that time. Her current role is to review and acquire new titles for Uniview's website and catalogues and order new stock.
Cara Flanagan
Cara Flanagan is the content developer and presenter of our latest production 'Train your Brain' and we look forward to working with her on future productions. She is a freelance academic author and speaker. After studying Psychology at Bristol University she taught in secondary schools for nearly 20 years and subsequently took up a career as an examiner. For the last 20 years she has worked as an examiner for GCSE and A level Psychology, involved at all levels of the exam process. In this time she has also written or contributed to over 30 books and guides on Psychology and edited the Routledge Modular Series. Cara regularly speaks at student conferences and leads INSET courses.
Liz Fussey
Liz is known as the "web mistress" and enewsletter editor. She started her working life in public relations, becoming responsible for corporate PR and employee communications for a multinational leisure company. With a view to working closer to home, she then went into education, eventually becoming Head of Modern Languages, before running off to Hawaii to get married and then starting a family.
Now, two children later, Liz feels she is combining her two career strands at Uniview with the online marketing of educational resources. However, Liz is still wondering how she came to be responsible for e-marketing, when you take into account that five years ago she didn't know how to email or use the internet! She is terrified at the prospect of becoming a real computer nerd and dreams of jacking it all in when the children have grown up and exploring far-flung parts of the world, including going back to her place of birth - Singapore, with her husband.
Sue Gollins
Her job title is managing director, but increasingly she finds her role is jack-of-all-trades. Working in a small company means that every day is different, which is fortunately Sue's idea of an ideal job. When Sue started working at Uniview 10 years ago she was scriptwriting, later moving into acquisitions. From there it was onwards to productions, catalogue design and IT problem-solving.
In a previous life Sue taught child development courses and worked as a senior nursery manager across the UK, before giving birth and realising the difference between theory and reality!
Sue is married with two children, a mad dog and four guinea pigs, so life at home is varied too. One day she hopes to retire to a bookshop somewhere by the sea and watch boats bobbing about in the harbour.
Pete Gosling
Pete is responsible for creating animations such as Billy Budget Buster and the Laugh and Learn icon (you'll spot these images and many more on the website). Pete says "Looking after Uniview's animated content is a great job! Over the last few years I have, among other things, made Standard Deviation into a cartoon character and a brain do star jumps! I am always looking forward to the next challenge." www.goslinganimation.com
Lorraine Henderson
Apart from being the fastest tea-maker in the north west Lorraine works in our sales dept answering phone calls and sending out orders. She has been married for 26 years to Billy and has 4 children, 3 of whom are married with children of their own. Lorraine has 9 grandchildren ranging in age from 15 months up to 18 years. Her youngest child still lives at home and has no intentions of getting married or having children - so it is amazing that Lorraine has time to come to work at all! Now you know why she is so efficient at getting orders out and answering queries!
Julia Russell
Julia, who has been teaching psychology for more than 20 years (and still enjoys it), has been associated with Uniview for a number of years, helping to develop several curriculum resources and more recently becoming a consultant and editor of the website Psychology column.
Julia is currently Head of Department at The Queen's School, Chester and has been an examiner for many years, having also been a former Principal Examiner. She is an enthusiastic member of the Association for the Teaching of Psychology for whom she has been a committee member and a journal editor. In her student years, Julia studied Biology, Psychology and Education at the University of Keele and completed a PhD in animal behaviour at University College, London. She is also a prolific and successful author, having written and co-written 16 textbooks and contributed to student resources such as Psychology Review. For relaxation, Julia enjoys painting and photography and is a keen devotee of side-saddle riding.
Helen Staveley-Taylor
Yes, the founder of Uniview Worldwide is still alive! Helen set up Uniview 14 years ago to provide good value, quality educational films and, although no longer working for the company on a daily basis, she does occasionally enjoy being let out of the storage cupboard where she now lives to use her brain. Indeed, her Cognitive Development continues apace, although her Memory, Attention, Perception and Learning are not what they were when she produced the early Psychology Live programmes. Sadly, although she can still remember her 5th birthday party she has forgotten her many happy years teaching psychology and examining psychology A Level. Once a year she is easily persuaded out of said cupboard for an outing to the ATP conference. She gets mildly confused by modern technology but would like us to say that she still has all her own teeth! Her next production will probably be titled 'Being Insane in Sane Places'.
Alan Stott
Alan is the "money man", having had a career in banking before joining Uniview 10 years ago. Every purchase, particularly each tea bag, must initially be sent in triplicate for approval then, if the England cricket or rugby team win, he will normally sanction the request.
Outside Uniview, Alan is a keen Liverpool FC supporter and life-long follower of Lancashire County Cricket Club. Other interests include golf, swimming, history, gardening, reading, quizzes and watching rugby union.
Sam Davison
Sam is 22 and has just completed a Graphic Design and Illustration BA(hons). She has worked for Uniview for several years on a part-time basis, generally helping out with the artistic side of things and has recently taken over the job of designing our catalogues.
Sarah Maddox
Sarah is the newest member of the Uniview team, joining in 2006 after finishing her Marketing degree at Newcastle University. Since then she decided working life was far too stressful and went on a 6 month sabbatical backpacking through Indochina, Australia and New Zealand. For her sins (of which there must be many) she has now returned to Uniview as Marketing Executive.
Uniview Worldwide Ltd is a registered company in England and Wales. Company number 3091063.
The registered office address is 103 Banks Road, West Kirby, Wirral CH48 0RB
VAT Reg No 678 5158 83
Current catalogues are:
Psychology ( also includes Research Methods & Statistics, Animal Behaviour, Sociology and Philosophy)
Biology & Sports Studies
Citizenship & PSHE (also including Religious Studies, Work-Related Education, Sex & Relationships, Drug Education, Social, Emotional & Behavioural Studies)
Health & Child Studies (including Health Education, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Drug Education, Mental Health, Ante/Postnatal Health, Parenting Skills, Child Health & Development, Sex Education, )
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Acquiring New Titles
We are always on the lookout for new titles and would be interested to hear from you if you have produced a relevant resource. Please contact us if you would like to discuss including your title in our catalogue. We currently have over 70 suppliers, many of whom have been placing their resources with us for over ten years.
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