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Kent Bulletin
University of Kent at Canterbury • Number 39 Autumn 2002
The Magnificent Seven

A year on
THE VICE-CHANCELLOR WITH JACQUES MEYER, FORMER
PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITE DE REIMS, AT THE JULY
2002 CONGREGATIONS
HM THE QUEEN VISITS THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT AT MEDWAY LAUNCH
One year on and the multiversity concept spelt out by David
Melville shortly after he arrived at Kent is gaining widespread
recognition. ‘This multiversity idea seems to have caught on,’ he
says. ‘People are using it nationally and associating it with Kent.’
If that means a university being a multiplicity of things, forging
links with all sectors of the community in and beyond traditional
boundaries, and engaging with commerce to increase revenue,
then that is the Melville University of Kent.
He set himself three main goals, involving
the University much more in its
region, developing the Medway campus,
and increasing income sources. He
believes he has made a good start in all
three areas, but there’s a lot more to do.
‘In all our initiatives, we’ve engaged with
the business community in a much
bigger way than we had in the past. In
the last year, we’ve raised the profile of
UKC, with a number of new developments,
but the big one is Medway. That
has caught the imagination nationally
with ministers and I get invitations from
all over the country to speak about it.’
UKC has forged pioneering relationships
with the University of Greenwich and
Mid-Kent College to create the University
of Kent at Medway. A joint School of
Pharmacy on the Medway Chatham
Maritime campus will be one of its early
major achievements. The first students
will enter in 2003, and the first undergraduate
medical students in 2004. That
will be ‘very much part of improving
medical health in Kent,’ he says.
The Medway partnership was honoured
by a visit by the Queen in her
Golden Jubilee year. Professor Melville
says both events were the highlights of
his busy first year. Also he has fostered
close links with Canterbury Christ
Church University College and Kent
Institute of Art and Design. Medical
education is moving ahead through links
with Guys Hospital, Kings, St Thomas’s
and Canterbury Christ Church. And
UKC is also looking to mainland Europe
as it makes progress with plans for a
Transmanche University with Lille and
Littoral. Developments such as the
planned Innovation Centre on the
Canterbury campus aim to generate
income. In these cash-strapped times for
higher education, the University is always
seeking new ways of boosting revenue.
It has forged close links with business,
with benefits if local education standards
rise. It recently unveiled plans for a 200-
bed four-star hotel and 1,000-delegate
conference centre close to Keynes College,
a proposal the Vice-Chancellor says
has the backing of the city council. A
telephone fundraising campaign to
alumni, parents of current students and
members of Council has just raised over
£100,000 in pledged donations to help
support student-centred projects.
Professor Melville finds it hard to
recall a lowlight, but when pushed pointed
to the lousy transport infrastructure
that makes a journey to London ‘much
more difficult than I ever imagined.’ He
does not mention it, but a possible
lowlight was UKC’s 68th position in a
league table that assesses teaching quality.
Professor Melville dismissed the table
as ‘dubious and misleading’, saying that
in all other polls, the University is around
40th. That’s still not quite good enough,
but a lot better than 68th.
That rogue poll, being abandoned
from this year, has not hit recruitment,
which this year brought the highest
number of students ever.
Professor Melville, 58, left the Further
Education Funding Council to take
the Canterbury job. Previously he was
Vice-Chancellor of Middlesex University.
So far so good. Professor Melville says
Canterbury and the University have
‘surpassed our expectations in many
ways. We’ve found it a very friendly place
to work. I’ve found the enthusiasm for
the kind of ideas and proposals I’ve
brought to be very encouraging.’
This article was adapted from an interview
by Trevor Sturgess that first appeared in
Medway Today
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Kent Bulletin 39 Autumn 2002
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Page 12 The ways we work
Features
2 A year on: Vice-Chancellor Professor
David Melville CBE
8 The Magnificent Seven
Jane Hardy
12 The ways we work
14 Belfast’s new man from the Met:
Hugh Orde
16 Alumni profile:
novelist Sarah Waters
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Page 16 Alumni profile:
novelist Sarah Waters
News and Views
4 University News
7 The Development Programme
18 An excellent teacher: Nick Jackson
19 Inside Story: Kirsten Haack
20 Who’s What Where

Helping to
finger fraud
Working with partners across
Europe, Professor Mike
Fairhurst and Dr Farzin
Deravi, from the Electronics
Department, are currently
developing a new
smart card, which
includes a small
fingerprint
sensor. The
credit card user
will need to
match the fingerprint
before the card
can be used, so stealing the
card or even the PIN
number will not be
enough - you need
to have the right
finger to activate it.
Over 200 volunteers
have been giving
fingerprint samples to help
with the evaluation of this
technology. They enrol on
the system and, after an
interval of around a month,
return to give further samples
that can be checked
against the model captured
during enrolment. Results
University
N E W S
will be used to determine the
effectiveness of fingerprint
matching algorithms
and, especially, to
find out how easy
and robust the
system is likely to
be in practice.
The Finger Card is
just the latest in a long line of
research projects funded by
major organisations such as
the Department for Trade
and Industry and the Engineering
and Physical Sciences
Research Council
(EPSRC). Funded under the
European Commission’s
Information Society Technologies
Programme (IST),
it involves companies such as
Infineon Technologies and
Deutsche Bank. Kent’s
contribution is in the crucial
area of evaluation of component
technologies and the
overall system applications.
The Kent smart card was
recently featured on Tomorrow’s
World.
University research
tackles infectious
diseases
The University of Kent has
received over a third of a
million pounds to further its
research into infectious
diseases. The grants, from the
Wellcome Trust, were awarded
to the University’s Infectious
Diseases Group in the
Department of Biosciences.
Infections caused by the
bacterium Escherichia coli
and the fungal pathogen
Candida albicans represent
an immediate and continuous
threat to human health,
both in terms of life-threatening
systemic infection and
community-acquired infection.
Media attention normally
focuses on infections
caused by the life-threatening
E.coli pathogen O157:H7,
but other strains of E.coli
cause less serious yet persistent
and difficult-to-treat,
bladder infections
in as many as one in sixteen
women. Fungal infections
are a serious and frequent
complication for hospitalised
patients. Among the human
fungal pathogens, yeasts of
the genus Candida are of
particular importance and C.
albicans plays a predominant
role in modern medicine.
The newly established
Infectious Diseases Group
has strong links with local
health authorities, such as
the Public Health Laboratory
at the William Harvey Hospital
in Ashford. Senior Lec-
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Students volunteer
to help
Student volunteers from the
University of Kent took part
in a special ceremony where
they received certificates from
the Lord Mayor of Canterbury
to acknowledge the
contribution they have made
to the local community and
the University.
Hugh Dickson (Computing
and Business Administration)
has been working with
Age Concern, helping elderly
people to understand more
about computers and the
Internet. ‘I wanted to be part
of the team that helps make
the day thoroughly enjoyable
for older people. As well as
encouraging friendships, Age
Concern offers a range of
services centred around a
freshly cooked meal, enter-

turers Dr Fritz Mühlschlegel
and Dr Ian Blomfield have
international reputations for
their research in this field.
Both believe their work will
lead to the improved diagnosis
and treatment of infections.
Dr Mühlschlegel is
also a Consultant in Medical
Microbiology at William
Harvey Hospital.
Troubleshooting in
Moldova
The University’s lecturers in
conflict studies (Politics &
International Relations)
don’t simply expound theory,
but also try to resolve
conflict. Recently, Kent
Professor A J R Groom was
part of a delegation to
Moldova to help calm a tenyear
dispute.
The dispute began in the
early 1990s and quickly
escalated to fighting, with
hundreds killed. Kent has
been involved for some
considerable time, holding a
series of seminars - some of
them at the Canterbury
campus - to try to bring
tainment and services to
help with living independently.’
Hugh also helped out
on a more general basis. And
this isn’t just a one-off.
Hugh plans a career in
computing, possibly with
web design, and intends to
continue volunteering for a
long time to come.
Students who received
the Kent Student Certificate
for Volunteering completed
60 hours of volunteering.
They each kept a volunteering
diary, in which they
made a note of the skills they
gained along the way.
According to Dosh Archer,
Student Volunteering Coordinator,
‘Many life and
work skills such as time
management, team work and
communication skills are
gained through volunteering.’
together the Moldovan
government and the trans-
Dniestran regime. Professor
Groom: ‘the two sides aren’t
talking to one another and
there is a complex range of
issues behind the dispute.
The country belonged to the
former Soviet Union, and
there are linguistic and
cultural disputes.
It isn’t a straightforward
ethnic conflict. There are
Rumanian, Russian and
Ukrainian speakers on both
sides. ‘It’s not primarily
about religion and language,
it is a cultural dispute
between a Soviet way of life
and attempts to achieve a
Western one. And it is also
about power and what goes
with it.’ And the solution,
not unlike the solution to any
conflict, even one in the
kitchen over who does the
washing up, is ‘ “Jaw, jaw,
not war, war.” Getting people
round a table does help.’
Professor Groom is
hopeful that this decade-long
people
conflict in a distant part of
Europe may achieve resolution.
‘Now they are meeting
and talking about a range of
issues, which is good.’
The Department of
Politics and International
Relations at Kent is top-rated
for research and teaching,
with strong European links
and Centres in London and
Brussels.
Professor Cornelius Katona has been appointed the next Dean of KIMHS. Professor Katona is
currently Professor of Psychiatry of the Elderly at The Royal Free and University College Medical
School, Deputy Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences and
Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in the N Essex Mental Health NHS
Trust. Currently he is also Dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
David Nightingale (Classical and Archaeological Studies) is the new
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, succeeding Professor Robert Freedman,
Rachel
Keith Mander who has moved to the University of Warwick as Head of Biological Sciences.
Professor Keith Mander (Computing) is a new Pro-Vice-Chancellor. Dr John
Forrester-Jones
Derrick, Reader in Computing, has been appointed Professor of Formal Methods. Dr
Lyn Quine has been promoted to Professor of Health Psychology. Dr Sean Sayers,
formerly Reader in Philosophy, is Professor of Philosophy. Dr Bill Watson, previously
Keith Dimond
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, has been promoted to Professor of Social Anthropology
and Multicultural Studies. Dr Rachel Forrester-Jones, Lecturer in Community Care
in the Tizard Centre, succeeds Stuart Hutchinson as Master of Rutherford. Dr Keith
Dimond, Lecturer in Electronics, succeeds Linda Keen (K67) as Master of Keynes
and Dr Anthony Ward, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, and formerly Head of the
Anthony Ward
School of European Culture and Languages, succeeds Bob Eager (D70) as Master of
Darwin. Christine Bolt (American History), Hugh Cunningham (Social History), Bleddyn
Davies (Social Policy), Jan Pahl (Social Policy), Colin Seymour-Ure (Government), and
Mohammed Sobhy (Electronic Engineering) have retired and had conferred on them the title and
status of Emeritus Professor.
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Top rating from leading
research council
The University of Kent
achieved the highest possible
level of recognition by the
leading research council for
the social sciences (ESRC),
for the quality of its training
for postgraduate students.
ESRC recognition is the
quality standard required for
a UK University to apply for
funds to support postgraduate
research students. The
School of Social Policy,
Sociology and Social
Research (SSPSSR) at UKC
achieved this accolade for the
quality of its research training.
Professor Jan Pahl, who
was responsible for the
application for ESRC recognition
on behalf of SSPSSR,
said ‘All those involved in the
Research Training Programme
are proud of the
course we provide and are
pleased that its quality has
been recognised. We already
have research students from
all over the world doing this
programme: recognition will
help the University to attract
more good students and will
enable us to get financial
support for them in their
studies. ESRC recognition is
like a seal of excellence’.
University of Kent
welcomes report on
graduate salaries
The University of Kent
welcomed the findings of a
survey that shows that young
people in the South and
South-East seeking lifelong
financial security should look
to higher education. The
figures reveal that the
region’s twenty-somethings
in possession of a degree or
equivalent qualification earn
32.3% more than their peers
with no formal degree or
equivalent qualifications.
This substantial earnings
differential increases with age
and by the time graduates
are aged 31-40, they can
expect to earn 55.4% more
than their non-graduate
£
peers, and a staggering
70.5% more by the time they
are in their forties and fifties.
According to John Greer,
Director of the University’s
Careers Advisory Service,
these figures are borne out
by the employment success
of Kent graduates. ‘Only
3.1% of our graduates
remained unemployed after
six months according to our
most recent figures.’
Reducing pressure on
hospitals and GPs
A Kent-based NHS consultant
geriatrician has completed
an in-depth study that
could help reduce the pressure
on hospitals and GPs. Dr
Iain Carpenter, an expert in
the field of caring for elderly
people and Reader at the
University, has been leading a
research team analysing the
structure and performance of
intermediate health care and
its potential for development.
Dr Carpenter said:
‘Intermediate care has massive
potential. We already
operate community assessment
and rehabilitation
teams, rapid response teams,
recuperative care and day
hospitals. Putting the right
assessment systems and
analytical tools in place will
provide the evidence of
benefits from existing
services and inform future
policy.
In January 2000 Dr
Carpenter was commissioned
by East Kent Health Authority
and Social Services to
analyse whether current
intermediate care services are
meeting their objectives. In a
report entitled ‘The ICON
Report’, he concluded that in
the current climate the NHS
have difficulty monitoring
the effectiveness of their
spending decisions. Through
leading-edge research, the
report details recommendations
that could revolutionise
the ways in which people
think about intermediate
health care.
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The
Development Programme
a chance to put something back
With every mailing of the Bulletin, we offer you an easy way (on the carrier sheet) to make a gift to the Annual Fund, and,
among the stacks of carriers that come back to us, with your address confirmations, new work details, 3W notes, or offers of
help for the Careers Fair, are always some donations. Most donors tick the box Areas of greatest need. A tick in this box
means the Development Trust can allocate your gifts to just that - areas of greatest need. Thank you very much!
Pfizer to fund Head
of new Medway School
of Pharmacy
Plans for a new Medway
School of Pharmacy continue
apace with the announcement
that leading pharmaceutical
company,
Pfizer, is to
fund the post of
Head of School for a five-year
period in an agreement worth
£500,000. The School has
been jointly established by the
Universities of Kent and
Greenwich, and will be located
on and around the University
of Greenwich at Medway
campus at Chatham Maritime,
which is to become a
shared campus.
In a joint statement,
Greenwich Vice-Chancellor,
Professor Rick Trainor, and
Kent Vice-Chancellor, Professor
David Melville, welcomed
the announcement: ‘This is
excellent news. It’s an agreement
that builds on the already
strong links both Universities
have with Pfizer, and is a boost
for those involved with the
launch of the new School as
well as for the pharmacy
profession as a whole.’ The
two Universities, in partnership
with Mid-Kent College,
were recently awarded a £4m
grant from the Higher Education
Funding Council for
England to kick-start this
unique joint development. It’s
part of a £20 million package
of investment with strong
support and financial contributions
from Medway
Council and the Southeast
England Development
Agency (SEEDA). Student
numbers are expected to rise
to 6,000 by 2010.
Photograph/Jose Casal-Giménez
MASQUERADE BY DAVID HEATHCOTE, ONE OF A SELECTION OF HIS WORKS ON DISPLAY IN THE
KEYNES UPSTAIRS GALLERY, ALSO A PFIZER-SUPPORTED PROJECT AT THE UNIVERSITY
Annual Fund
Phonathon exceeds
£100,000 in pledges!
POLITICS STUDENT JO FRANK TALKS TO
A POLITICS GRADUATE.
The University has just
completed phase I of a
telephone fundraising campaign.
A selection of alumni,
parents of current students
and members of Council
were telephoned. Our student
callers were so enthusiastic
about Kent in their initial
interviews that our consultants,
MacGregor Jones, were
especially keen to work with
us. Phase I was making the
calls, responding to requests
for information and receiving
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the pledges. Phase II is
thanking the donors and
making sure the pledges are
fulfilled. But the daily influx
of donation forms and the
notes attached to some of
them ‘I wish I’d done this
ages ago!’ or ‘Gareth[one of
our student callers], I greatly
enjoyed speaking with you -
keep up the good work!’ bode
well. We hope to make the
phonathon an annual event.
Telephone fundraising, with
emphasis as much on communicating
with alumni and
friends, is a very important
source of unrestricted gifts
for student-centred projects.
Gifts can be earmarked
specifically to student hardship
or bursaries for new
students, but the majority of
the donations made are to
‘areas of greatest need’.
This gives the Trustees
flexibility to address, for
example, the needs of a new
student with a disability, or
help a group of students with
an idea for a particular project
for which there is otherwise
no funding available.
Photograph/Robert Berry
Student bursary boosts
telecommunications
work
A Kent student has been
awarded a bursary by The
Worshipful Company of
Glass Sellers, one of the
ancient Livery Companies of
the City of London. Charalampos
Grigoropoulos, an
MSc student in UKC’s
Electronics Department, has
been awarded £1,000 to help
further his work using fibre
optics to develop the fourth
generation of mobile phones.
The Worshipful Company
of Glass Sellers of London
was established in the 17th
century to control the sale of
table glass and mirrors in the
City and its immediate
environs. Today, it also
actively promotes the development
of glass technology,
including fibre optics, which
play an important role in
the telecommunications
industry. According to the
Master of the Company, Eur
Ing Kenneth Bacon FIEE,
CEEng (centre), former
Managing Director of a
leading telecommunications
company, this contribution
is perhaps best illustrated
by the fact that a glass fibre
the width of a human hair
can carry 1 million A4 emails
per second.

The Magnificent
Seven
Jane Hardy
The University of Kent now
has seven women professors.
Nine if you count Jan Pahl and
Christine Bolt, both just made
Professors Emeritus. This is
just under 10% of the number
of male professors at Kent.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the
history of women achieving
prominence in higher education
is short. In fact, the history
of women allowed into
higher education at all is also
brief, compared with the
male experience. Professor
Caroline Spurgeon (1869-
1942) became the first woman
professor in Britain when she
took the Chair in English Literature
at Bedford College,
University of London, in 1913.
She was also head of department,
the first President of
the International Federation
of University Women and
an expert on Chaucer and
Shakespearean imagery who
still merits several references
on the Web.
PICTURED ABOVE, STANDING, LEFT TO RIGHT: CHRISTINE BOLT, GLYNIS MURPHY, MARY EVANS, JANET SAYERS, JULIA TWIGG.
SEATED LEFT TO RIGHT: LYN INNES AND JOANNE CONAGHAN.
Women have too much respect
for the Academy; there should be
far more irreverence!
Photographs: Robert Berry
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I asked Kent’s ‘magnificent nine’ a series
of questions for the Bulletin about what
being a professor means to them and
whether gender is significant in their
teaching and research. Themes emerged,
with near-consensus that women have to
work harder than men to gain recognition.
Also, that women’s lack of selfconfidence,
even at this level, can be a
factor in preventing able women climbing
the higher education career ladder.
As Mary Evans put it, ‘women have too
much respect for the Academy; there
should be far more irreverence!’ Overall,
there remains a way to go before equality
is reached, in spite of enlightened initiatives
such as the Athena Project, which
promotes the advancement of women in
science, engineering and technology in
higher education. Kent is fortunate in
that new Vice-Chancellor Professor
David Melville is committed to increasing
the proportion of women at the top
of the academic ladder. ‘I am totally
committed to equal opportunities in
higher education. Kent does not have
enough women in senior positions, and I
am determined to reward talent among
female academics at Kent.’ Yet as of now,
women professors remain a relatively rare
breed. As Joanne Conaghan said, ‘There
are still people who, when you’re a
woman and say you’re a Professor, think
they’ve misheard.’
What does being
a Professor mean
to you?
Christine Bolt,
Professor Emeritus
of American History:
It’s a source of
personal satisfaction
to me and
mine. It gives one a
sense of achievement,
especially
since in Britain
progression to a
Chair is by no means automatic. It’s also
an encouragement to continue with
research - in a sense a Chair is, of course,
a reward for past efforts, but at the same
time it’s a goad to produce more in the
future. I was made professor in 1984.
Joanne Conaghan, Professor of Law
(2001): I suppose it means being listened
to more, it means you have a voice.
There are expectations and responsibilities
too, but I feel I had those anyway -
LEFT TO RIGHT: LYN INNES AND JOANNE CONAGHAN.
for example, I have been involved with
the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
in law at Kent since 1994.
Mary Evans, Professor of Women’s
Studies (1994): It means recognition for
my work and the area in which I work.
Lyn Innes, Professor of Post-Colonial
Literatures (1992): It means a great deal
more responsibility and work. The
University rightly feels women should be
on electoral boards and committees, and
since there are so few of us, that means
doing more than most male professors
have to. Within the wider world, it
involves me in writing more references,
reviewing departments and research, and
external examining.
Glynis Murphy, Professor of Clinical
Psychology (2000): A very large workload!
But I do like the title, to be honest.
It is recognition of your contribution to
the academic life of the department and
of the field.
Jan Pahl, Professor (now Emeritus) of
Social Policy (1996): I am still surprised
and pleased to find myself a Professor –
it was not what I expected when I started
my career. But it does open doors and
makes life more interesting.
Lyn Quine,
Professor of
Health Psychology
(2002): It is
very recent, so
I’m still finding
the air a bit thin
up here!
Janet Sayers,
Professor of
Psychoanalytic
Psychology
(1992): It was
very nice when it
happened. A fellow Professor, a bloke,
suggested I put in for it on the strength
of my book Mothering Psychoanalysis. It
was an affirmation really. I celebrated
with women colleagues. After that, I
remember having to work on my inaugural
lecture entitled Psychoanalysis: the
Impossible Profession. It was difficult to
pitch it right for the audience. As I am a
practising psychoanalyst, my patients
came along. Just afterwards, I walked
into a glass door by accident. It was a
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LEFT TO RIGHT: JANET SAYERS, MARY EVANS AND JULIA TWIGG.
clear case of what Freud describes as
being ‘ruined by success’
Julia Twigg, Professor of Social Policy
and Sociology (2001): I was pleased,
particularly as it was a very long drawnout
affair in my case because it coincided
with the last Vice-Chancellor leaving.
Some of my referees started asking what
was going on. Then the new Vice-Chancellor
arrived and I had an interview with
five or six of the faculty, all Kent people.
Being interviewed by people you know is
tough - you feel a bit restricted and can’t
say the boastful things you could say to
strangers!
What was your career path?
Conaghan: I took two law degrees at
Oxford, the second a BCL (rather like an
LLM), then taught for a year at Exeter. I
arrived at Kent in the mid-80s and have
remained here since, apart from two
years in the late 80s at the University of
California, San Diego. That started as
an exchange, but then I gained a visiting
Professorship. I had two years on an
American salary with no family responsibilities
(I wasn’t married then). Bliss!
Evans: I had been appointed lecturer at
Kent in 1971, then became senior lecturer,
but never reader. It was probably
unusual to make professor without being
reader first. It was my publications that
led to it. I adore writing.
Innes: I was an undergrad at Sydney
University, specialising early in medieval
literature, and unexpectedly got a first. I
learnt more from Robert Hughes, Clive
James and Les Murray, who were there
publishing poetry and involved in drama
at the time, than I did from my classes.
Then I went to the US for postgraduate
work. It was the 60s, and, after working
with Mexican American farmworkers,

The Magnificent
Seven
LEFT TO RIGHT: GLYNIS MURPHY, CHRISTINE BOLT, AND MARY EVANS.
Where UKC
becomes
really male
is in who the
decisionmakers
are
my academic interest changed. Cornell
gave me a fellowship to study African
literature at PhD level. When I finished
and was applying for jobs, Chinua
Achebe, a Nigerian writer I had written
about, was Visiting Writer at the University
of Massachusetts. I got a job there in
1973, and first came to Kent on an
exchange. I met and married Martin
Scofield and was lucky that a job came
up at Kent. The African and Caribbean
Studies degree was just starting. My
former students include the poets Fred
d’Aguiar, Valerie Bloom, Maggie Harris
and the late Amryl Johnson.
Murphy: I trained as a clinical psychologist
and started at the Institute of
Psychiatry in 1974. I worked on and off
there and at the Institute of Child
Health, attached to Great Ormond Street
Hospital, until I came to Kent in 1993.
In theory, women can move job as easily
as men, but in practice they can’t.
Sometimes, when a couple are working
in the same place, the fact that a woman
has not moved around is raised as an
objection to promotion, which is mad.
When I had small children, I was fortunate
in being able to work flexibly, as
clinical psychologists are
thin on the ground, so I
could become gradually
more full-time when I
wanted to. I didn’t go
completely full-time until
I came here. This does
affect your promotion
prospects, since your
publication rate over the
years is looked at. I did
suggest they double my
publication list on the
grounds I had been working part-time
for 20 years, but they wouldn’t!
Quine: I taught English and Drama in a
comprehensive school for ten years.
Then, when my two sons were four and
two, I was widowed and decided to
change career direction. I came to Kent
to get a degree, and stayed to do a PhD.
My first research post, in 1981, was on a
project of Jan Pahl’s, and we worked as
co-investigators on a number of research
studies, combining our interests in social
policy and psychology. I then began
obtaining my own grants and running my
own projects. In 1992, I negotiated a
rolling contract as Director of Research
for South East Kent Community NHS
Trust, and in 1996, I was made Reader. I
am the only one of my siblings who
escaped becoming a Head Teacher.
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LYN QUINE
Pahl: I came up the contract research
ladder, though I always negotiated my
own grants and ran my own projects.
After many years of being mainly a
mother, I started at UKC in 1976, first
as a part-time and then a full-time
researcher. I was researcher for Medway
Health Authority for six years and then
Director of Research at the National
Institute for Social Work, where I had the
pay and status of a professor, but not the
title. I came back to UKC in 1995. This
was the first job I had with no end date
on the contract.
Sayers: I started out at London’s Tavistock
Clinic, moved to Canterbury’s then
local mental hospital - St Augustine’s -
and later, as an educational psychologist,
to Canterbury Child Guidance Clinic
where, on account of very un-child- and
un-mother-friendly maternity leave
provision at the time, I had to quit when
my first son was born.
We then went to America, where my
husband Sean (Professor of Philosophy
at Kent) was on exchange in Boulder
Colorado. While there, I heard about
this job, and Kent paid for me to come
over for an interview. Somehow
I feel, along with other
feminists, that the personal is
not just political but academic,
to adapt the well-known
tag.
Twigg: I studied history at
Durham, then did a conversion
course at LSE to
become a sociologist. I did
my PhD on vegetarianism
because I was interested in
this particular set of ideas - how it
connects with politics, religious ideas,
ideas about nature, the body and wholeness.
I was offered a book contract, but
ran out of money and there were no
academic jobs around. So I went into
the Health Service via a national management
training course, which I hated.
After one and a half years I left and
joined PSSRU at Kent. With spells in
between at Hull and York, I’ve been at
Kent since.
Is gender important in your teaching
and research?
Bolt: Yes, I’m an historian of race,
protest movements and women, and the
concept of gender has influenced both
my teaching and my research for a long
time. It has been central to my last two
books - The Women’s Movements in the

United States and Britain from the 1790s
to the 1920s, and Feminist Ferment: ‘The
Woman Question’ in the USA and England,
1870-1940. And it is an essential
part of the book I’m currently writing
on race, class and internationalism in
the American and British women’s
movements.
Conaghan: Yes, it’s really
the unifying feature that
defines my work. My work
is quite disparate - I do
labour law, tort, legal theory
- but the gender aspect is
the overall theme. I am also
managing editor of the
journal, Feminist Legal
Studies, based at the law
school, and have a
strong commitment to
it as a resource for
feminist lawyers
internationally.
Evans: It’s very important.
Innes: Yes, in that some of my publications
are concerned with gender and
the way women are represented in
nationalist literature.
Murphy: Yes. The Tizard Centre is
known for its teaching on gender and its
work on gender and mental health.
Gender has a major impact on my
research work on sexual abuse against
people with severe learning difficulties,
because of course most of the perpetrators
are men. It’s Department of Health
funded, and we are looking at symptoms
of sexual abuse in people with severe
learning difficulties who can’t talk and
therefore can’t say what’s happened to
them. We interview the parents, looking
at symptoms, and this information will
be welded into courses for care workers,
so they know what to look out for. And I
am also doing research into treatment for
perpetrators of abuse, looking at the
effectiveness of cognitive behavioural
treatment for male sex offenders with
learning difficulties.
Pahl: My best known research has been
on domestic violence and on the control
and allocation of money within families,
and on the teaching side I developed a
course on ‘Work, Employment and Family
Life’, so gender has been important in
all of that. However, now I am working on
the Research Governance Framework and
on ethics in research and so far gender has
not been a big issue there.
JAN PAHL
Quine: Gender is often important in
health psychology. For example, there
are large variations in health by gender,
and in the performance of healthenhancing
and health-compromising
behaviours. Experience of psycho-social
stressors also varies by gender. In a
recent study of workplace bullying
among junior doctors, published in the
BMJ, I found that women
doctors were more likely
than men to be bullied,
and reported experiencing
seven of 21 bullying
behaviours (such as public
humiliation, destructive
innuendo and sarcasm
and undervaluing of
effort) more frequently
than men. The literature
suggests that, in this
context, such treatment is often justified
by the perpetrators in terms of its ‘educational’
value - it is said to be an attempt
to reinforce learning. It’s odd, then,
that, along with black doctors, women
are thought to require this form of ‘education’
more than white doctors.
Sayers: Yes, I teach gender socialisation,
for a start. And teaching psychoanalysis,
you see the personal is academic as well
as political.
Twigg: I am not a gender specialist, but
gender is one of the important areas for
any social scientist. And it does impinge
on some of my research, for example into
the meaning of the body and social rules
governing people’s physical contact in
situations such as careworkers looking
after the elderly.
Do women have to perform better
than men to achieve recognition?
Bolt: There’s no simple answer to this.
And it’s worth noting it isn’t just the case
in academia, but in many leading professions.
Sometimes, not always, is the truth
of it. There are a lot of complicating
factors, such as the feeling that since
most professors are men, ‘what is customary
must be right’. Also, ‘women
aren’t one of us’ attitudes may exist.
Maybe women applicants for promotion
have to learn to be less modest about
their achievements, and more combative.
Of course, not enough women are coming
into the profession or coming in with
research degrees and/or publications, so
the pool of potential professors is too
small. And promotions panels and
external assessors until recently were
largely or entirely male.
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Conaghan: In general, yes. It’s probably
true as an empirical fact and I’d be
interested in the statistics. In terms of my
individual case, I feel I’ve done my bit,
worked hard and don’t feel as if I have
been overlooked. I think the promotion
system in the UK has had its critics, but
currently it serves women better than it
did. Although overall, only nine per cent
of professors are women, in law it’s 16%.
Where UKC becomes really male is in
who the decision-makers are. Clearly
something is wrong there.
Pahl: Probably – though it’s hard to
prove.
Quine: I think that women are less
confident than men about applying for
promotion and therefore apply later.
Sayers: It’s contradictory. When I was
first at Kent, I was the only psychologist
and got to sit on interview panels. This
was pre- Sex Discrimination Act, and
clearly there was discrimination. Women
might then still have been asked in an
interview how they could ‘square their
domestic responsibilities with academic
work’. And women candidates were
regarded as having less drive than the
men, just because they were women!
Twigg: Yes, women have to perform
better. They can’t perform badly or at
a mediocre level and be recognised.
Not that women outperform all men,
but there are men who gain advancement
without performing well. It requires
an extra push for women to be made
Professor.
PROFESSOR DAVID MELVILLE, VICE-CHANCELLOR, WITH JOANNE
CONAGHAN AND PROFESSOR CHRIS HALE, DEAN OF SOCIAL SCIENCES,
AT JOANNE'S INAUGURAL LECTURE IN MARCH.
Jane Hardy, a free-lance journalist, was
until recently media officer at the University.

We Wo rk
The Ways
Is life a perpetual and impossible compromise between your job and
the rest of your life? Do you dread domestic emergencies in case
your manager thinks you distracted or inefficient? Will your career
be over if you work fewer hours? Are you right in thinking that
longer hours mean promotion or a pay rise – and what if you are?
In March 2000 Tony Blair launched the
Work-Life Balance campaign to persuade
employers of the economic and performance
benefits of staff being in a position
to satisfy the requirements of these
occasionally conflicting spheres. And
employers are now recognising that most
staff are looking for ways in which they
can successfully balance the competing
demands of home and work life. Far
from indicating a lack of commitment,
staff who lead happy and fulfilled lives
outside their place of work can be shown
to have high productivity levels and a
greater sense of loyalty to their employer.
In 1998 the University conducted a
stress audit, which highlighted some of
the difficulties being experienced by staff
in a demanding and pressurised environment.
Since that date, a number of
policies and procedures have been developed,
with the aim of standardising and
making more accessible a more flexible
approach to working.
Academics at Kent, in subjects as
diverse as economics, sociology, organisational
behaviour and psychology, have,
from their different perspectives, been
studying the work-life balance, the
decision to retire early, and other issues
that influence the ways people make
decisions about work.
Work-life campaign and workers’ attitudes to long hours
Two years after the Government
launched its Work-Life Campaign,
Britain’s men are maintaining their
reputation for working the longest hours
in Europe. The average working week for
men is 45 hours, with nearly one in four
employees working unpaid overtime.
But why do they do it? According to
researchers at Kent it may not be down
to straightforward management or financial
pressure. Instead, many see their
long hours as an investment that will
bring them a long-term payback either in
terms of career progression or salary
level, a view which may well undermine
attempts to promote an improved worklife
balance.
Work by Professor Francis Green and
Dr David Campbell, from the University’s
Economics Department, has revealed
that those who work longer hours are not
only more likely to be promoted but are
more likely to earn higher pay in the
future. Working ‘unpaid’ hours is an
especially good investment for the future.
According to Professor Green, ‘Individuals
working longer hours tend to signal a
higher level of commitment to their
employer, which improves their chances
of securing promotion or a better job.
Also, people choose to work longer hours
to enhance their work skills, thereby
improving their earning capacity.’
However, there is a point at which
the law of diminishing returns sets in.
There is no evidence of any long-term
incentive for men to work beyond about
60 hours. ‘We can only deduce that
working, say, 70 hours a week rather
than 60 is driven by compulsion, by very
low wages or by a remarkable lack of
aversion to work,’ commented Professor
Green.
The study also showed that for
women working part-time there is a longterm
economic incentive to switch to
working full-time. On average, one extra
hour per week between 1991 and 1995
was rewarded in 1996 by pay that was
1.5% higher than that of others with the
same characteristics and working the
same 1996 hours.
Francis Green and David Campbell
argue that until governments take on
board the fact that working longer hours
is often worth it in the long-term, legislation
such as the European Directive on
Working Time will continue to have little
or no impact in certain areas. For
women, the long-term cost of working
shorter hours has implications for the
continuing gender-pay gap.
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The dynamics behind retirement decisions
As major companies like British Airways,
Lloyds TSB and Sainsbury’s are deciding
to overhaul their pension schemes,
researchers at Kent have begun to study
the dynamics behind retirement decisions.
Dr Sarah Vickerstaff, from the School
of Social Policy, Sociology and Social
Research (SSPSSR), has been analysing
the impact that current employers’ policies
have on people’s retirement decisions
and how, combined with greater life
expectancy, these are fuelling the problem
of the nation’s worsening dependency
ratio.
Dr Vickerstaff points out: ‘Rather
than being a cause for celebration, the
increasing life expectancy of the population
is often seen by governments and
companies as a problem, as people are
likely to draw their pensions for longer’.
In September 2001 Dr Vickerstaff was
commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree
Foundation to study the process of retirement
across the UK and publish a report
that will help inform future government
and employer policies. The research for
the report is taking place with the help of
three major Kent employers - Pfizer,
Kent County Council and P & O Stena
Line.
Dr Vickerstaff said: ‘The growing
Claims that the Internet, 3G mobiles
and laptops will soon revolutionise the
way we work are challenged by Professor
Richard Scase in his book Living in the
Corporate Zoo (Capstone Publishers).
Scase, who is Head
of Research at the
University ‘s Canterbury
Business
School, argues that
although new technologies
have the
potential to allow us to
work anywhere, anyhow
and at anytime, it is a
culture that is highly
unlikely to occur in
Britain in the near future.
While challenging the
utopia charted by the IT
gurus, he says there are
several human barriers to overcome
before the gains of the Internet can be
fully exploited. For a start, our bosses
don’t trust us. They like to see us clocking
in and working under their close
tendency to early retirement, particularly
by men in their 50s, has been recognised
as an important social trend in Western
Europe and America. What appears
rational and beneficial from the point of
view of the individual or the organisation
may be irrational and costly in terms of
the collective well being and health of the
whole economy. From a national perspective,
early withdrawal from the
labour market is seen as a risk and a cost,
raising public and private pension
costs and threatening additional welfare
expenditure over the longer term’.
The research process involves interviewing
employees, ex-employees and
personnel managers with the aim of
understanding the dynamics of the
retirement decision, particularly the role
of employers. It will contribute towards
building a richer theory of retirement.
Dr Vickerstaff’s team has identified that
the decision to retire involves the interaction
of three main sources of influence:
employers and their policies and practices,
both formal and implicit; the state
and its policies affecting retirement; and
the preferences of employees and their
families. Up-coming legislation on age
discrimination in 2006 promises to bring
all of these issues into sharp relief.
Revolutionary thinking about the way we work
scrutiny. Until this low trust culture
changes, flexible home working is going
to be a marginal activity. This is despite
the fact that
employees could
do much of their
work from home,
reducing corporate
overheads
and making their
businesses more
competitive.
Professor Scase
is Europe’s
leading business
strategist
and forecaster
and was
voted European
Business Speaker
of the Year in 2002. He is author of the
highly influential Britain 2010: The
Changing Business Landscape, which has
not only received wide media attention
across the globe but has also contributed
to UK government planning and strategy.
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Women, children and work
The government pledge to create an
extra 600,000 childcare places by 2004
has put the debate surrounding working
mothers back on the agenda. Academics
at Kent are looking at the effect a second
child has on a woman’s decision to work.
This project, funded by the Economic
and Social Research Council (ESRC),
will build on earlier research by the same
team, which examined women’s decisions
about childcare and work once they
have had their first child.
The new study, led by Drs Diane
Houston and Gillian Marks, in the
Department of Psychology, follows the
400 women who took part in the original
survey and will also follow a further
group of mothers and fathers to examine
the impact of the fathers’ attitudes and
behaviour on women’s decisions surrounding
work. According to Dr Houston,
‘Early indications are that a
significant number of women planning to
have a second child intend to cut their
hours of work or stop work altogether.
They have found it hard enough combining
work and the care of one child and
cannot imagine being able to do it with
two. The increased cost of childcare
means that many feel they cannot afford
to return to work.’
The team’s previous study revealed
first-time mothers feel very strongly that
maternal or family care is the best for
very young children. Nursery care was
not seen as beneficial before children
developed social awareness and a desire
to play with others, and the women
feared leaving their children with nannies
or childminders because they would not
know exactly what happened to their
children once they were alone with such
carers. ‘The general view was that once
children could talk they would benefit
from the company of other children,’ said
Dr Houston, ‘and they would then be
able to relate their feelings and experiences
about their childcare.’

Belfast’s new man
Hugh Orde OBE was awarded
a BA in Public Administration
and Management in 1987 from
Kent. He was appointed this
September as the new Chief
Constable in Belfast. Twentysix
years with the Met, his
career has included highprofile
activities such as the
inquiry into the killing of the
black teenager Stephen
Lawrence and the hunt for the
Brixton bomber.
His CV indicates that the Met tended to
use him to tackle particularly knotty
problems. His London experience has
created a policeman who is clearly not
afraid to point out shortcomings in his
new service. In the Met, he says, the
system was to have ‘highly competent,
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highly professional teams of investigators
who respond quickly to a murder.’ This
meant bringing not only police support,
but also scientific and psychological
expertise to a murder scene, if needed.
This might seem a fairly obvious routing
to follow, but not in Belfast. ‘We don’t
have that system here, and we need to
think very carefully about it,’ he says. ‘If
you look at our clear-up rate, it’s very
low compared to national figures.’
Like other parts of the UK, Northern
Ireland has a shortage of experienced
detectives: many have left as the force has
been downsized and remodelled for a
post-Troubles society. ‘This place has
had the guts ripped out of it in terms of
qualified investigators,’ he says regretfully.
‘I am desperately short of detectives.’
So, with many other officers suffering
from injuries suffered in riots, and a high
level of absenteeism, is the force in crisis?
‘The next bit’s going to be difficult,
because you’re looking at achieving major
structural change when morale is low. Yes,
there is a crisis to some extent I guess.’

from the Met
That part of the Orde CV that interests
most people in Northern Ireland is
not his London experience but what he
has been doing for the past two years.
During that time he has been in day-today
control of the Met’s investigation
into the murder in 1989 of the Belfast
solicitor Pat Finucane. The report is in
draft form, though it will not be complete
until Met
detectives interview a
former army intelligence
colonel who
helped handle loyalist
agents in Belfast.
‘The report will
cause another stir’,
he acknowledges.
‘It’s historic, of
course. I am confident
Sir John Stevens (the Met’s Commissioner),
will not pull any punches,
and I am confident he will say what he
has found.
‘The Finucane case is, to a large
extent, about intelligence handling.’ He
The Met tended to
use him to tackle
particularly
knotty problems
says. ‘Who knew what when? Could they
have done it better? Was it resourced
right? If it wasn’t collusion, what was it?
Is it gross incompetence or is it collusion?
That is the key question.’ In addition
to the main report, ‘substantial
pieces of work’ will go to the Directory of
Public Prosecutions for decisions on
whether cases should be taken against
any of the personnel
involved.
What impact is all
this likely to have?
‘My experience from
the Stephen
Lawrence case is that
anything that criticises
the service you
care about has an
impact. It’s bound
to. The question is what you do about it.
Do you go defensive? Or do you engage
with it? Do you learn from it and move
forward from it? That’s my plan.’
The withholding of information by
Special Branch is a major issue. ‘Senior
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officers complained they were not told
about things that were known within the
organisation,’ he says. ‘There may have
been, on occasion, some good reasons.
But when it gets to the stage of murder,
the reasons have got to be bloody good -
overwhelmingly good - not to tell any
investigating officer that they’ve got some
intelligence.
‘Source protection is a big issue.
I understand that. But the aim must be
to disrupt, arrest, convict, put out of
harm’s way those committing the crimes,
rather than to build an intelligence
picture just for the sake of knowing what
it looked like.’ He is eager to move the
emphasis away from pure intelligence
collection to making practical use of the
information by making arrests. ‘The last
three Catholics shot were simply shot
because they happened to be Catholic or
suspected of being Catholic by a gang of
murderers. That’s what they are: a gang
of serial killers.
‘We need to target the people who we
think are doing the killings. If we can’t
take them out for the killings, we’ll take
them out for something else. There are a
number of major players who have no
visible means of support, who seem to go
on some very nice holidays and who
seem to have a terrifying grip on some of
their communities.
‘To my knowledge -
I know some of them since I’ve been
looking at them in the Finucane case -
some have never been arrested for anything
significant, which is interesting.
Part of the way of dismantling the structure
of terror within communities is to
start removing those who are the most
frightening people. If I can’t get them for
murder, and I can get them for trafficking
or for importation or whatever, then I
think that’s worth doing.’
This article was adapted from an interview
by David McKittrick in the Independent
in September.

Alumni life: novelist
Sarah Waters E84, studied
English and American
Literature at Kent 1984-87.
Her latest book, Fingersmith,
was shortlisted by the Booker
judges and her earlier book,
Tipping the Velvet,
published in 1998, has just
been adapted by Andrew
Davies (Pride and Prejudice,
Bridget Jones) for television.
SSarah Waters used to be an academic,
and is highly perceptive about her own
work and that of other writers. She is
entirely without pretension, and more
surprised by her success than elated.‘I
didn’t expect to be shortlisted and I don’t
expect to win, which is great because it
just means I can enjoy it,’ she says.
Tipping the Velvet is a raunchy evocation
of the late Victorian demi-monde.
There are lashings of lesbian sex. ‘I
thought they’re never going to do the
dildoes,’ says Waters, ‘but there was a lot
of dildo work in the rushes and they’ve
had the go-ahead to keep it all in.
Andrew Davies, who adapted it, was
insistent that the dildoes stayed.’ Waters’
second book, Affinity, was another
pseudo-Victorian blockbuster - a ghost
story as well as a tale of lesbian selfdiscovery.
Together, the three books
appear to form a coherent trilogy,
exploring similar
themes of repression,
female sexuality and
the corruption of
innocence, but they
were never planned
that way.
‘The books have
grown out of each
other,’ says Waters.
‘Tipping the Velvet
(a euphemism for
cunnilingus) was my attempt to write a
Victorian-style novel telling a very lesbian
story in a way that was half-authentic
but half-anachronistic too. Affinity is
the most genuinely historical book and
an attempt to capture the authentic
Victorian lesbian voice. Fingersmith is a
pastiche of the whole sensation genre, a
gothic melodrama like Wilkie Collins
(there are clear parallels with
The Woman in White) and Mary Elizabeth
Braddon - fantastic novels that
spiral out of control and are often quite
transgressive, if only in the way they
Miss Wade in
Little Dorrit
is queer in all
sorts of ways
destabilise the reader.’
‘Victorian writing doesn’t have any
explicitly lesbian sex,’ Waters says, ‘but it
does have a lot about gender and sexuality.
Miss Wade in Little Dorrit is queer in
all sorts of ways, and there is a thing
between a woman and her maid in
Hardy. There are strange erotic situations
and power dynamics, with innocence
and corruption counterpointed.
People say “you’re like Dickens”, but I’m
not. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer
because she’s writing about society now,
just as Dickens was writing about his
society. To write these faux Victorian
novels is quite different.’
Having established her odd niche -
gothic lesbian Victorian crime fiction -
and won commercial and critical success,
Waters now plans to bid it goodbye. This
is the sort of brave decision you can take
when you have just got some telly money,
and your only overheads
are a tower
block flat and two
cats. Her next novel
will be a book about
lesbians in postwar
London. ‘I want to
write about older
more established
lesbians’, she says.
‘Fingersmith and
Affinity got a lot of
mileage out of people experiencing lesbian
desire for the first time, and it being a bit
repressed and frisson-y. But with this book
I want to write about older dykes who’ve
had relationships with women and are just
getting on with things. It will be a very
lesbian book and how that will go down
with people who like the twists and turns
and the crime aspect of a book like Fingersmith,
I don’t know.’
After her BA at Kent, Waters went to
Lancaster for an MA and St Mary’s
London for a PhD in the idea of history
in lesbian and gay writing. She also had a
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Sarah Waters
Photographs © Martin Godwin
stint as a lecturer at the Open University.
She anticipates the new book as far
slimmer than the Victorian blockbusters
- in conscious imitation of the astringent
paper-rationed novels of the late 1940s.
‘I’ve been reading a lot of fiction
from that period and there’s something
very grown-up about it compared with
all the Victorian melodrama,’ she says.
‘So I’m hoping it’s going to make for a
more grown-up sort of novel about
relationships. I think, Oh no, no one’s
going to want to read this - a book about
lesbians falling in love and falling out of
love and betraying each other - but
anyway, that’s what it’s going to be.’
She is aware that she has to satisfy
both her loyal lesbian audience and a
new broader fan base, but in reality the
only way to do that is to forget about it.
‘I don’t want to second-guess what either
audience wants. All I can do is write
about whatever grabs me.’
Waters is now firmly committed to
the writer’s life. She left the Open
University two years ago and has no
intention of returning to academic life. ‘I
knew I’d always be a second-rate academic,
and I thought, Well, I’d rather be a
second-rate novelist or even a third-rate
one.’ She enjoys her new-found freedom,
but frets about the changed priorities - ‘I
used to write to earn money to fund
more writing. Now I worry that I’m
writing to fund the bits in between.’
She also frets about the growing
‘burden of expectation.’ ‘Earlier this year
I was very anxious,’ she says. ‘When I got
on the Orange prize shortlist, I was
working on this new book and it didn’t
seem to be happening at all. I was worried
that I would follow Fingersmith up
with something that would reveal me as a
fraud.’ The Life of Pi won the Booker, but
Fingersmith was a close favourite
Adapted from an article by Stephen Moss in
the Guardian.
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An excellent
teacher:
Nick Jackson
How did you win?
As the University of Kent’s
nominee, I made the shortlist
because I have been promoting
Kent’s Law programmes
through Information Technology
by providing greater
course access for our Medway
and part-time students
(mainly via MP3 sound files
on the Web) and by helping
establish an innovative
programme with Bermuda
College. Part I lectures,
course structure, syllabus
and marking are delivered by
UKC staff via the Web, while
seminars are led by teachers
and practitioners in Bermuda.
The students then come
to UKC for Part II. We are
hoping to do something
similar in Mauritius.
The ILT prizewinners
were selected on the basis of
a future project that the
award (£50,000) is to fund.
Tell me about your
project.
It is about access to land -
creating a national and
international Web resource,
including teaching materials,
on the subject. Right to
Roam legislation, for example,
is now being introduced,
and eventually the public will
have an actual right to walk
on mountain and heath land.
The most important thing
about this legislation is its
symbolic dimension – that
we are redrawing the boundary
between the rights of
landowners and the rights of
the public.
As part of the site, I hope
to make the thoughts of
lawyers and other land law
experts available on the Web
– as interviews on audio files
– and encourage discussion
Nick Jackson is Lecturer in Law at Kent.
A specialist in the theoretical basis of land and
property law, he won the 2002 Institute of
Learning and Teaching (ILT) in Higher Education
prize for excellence in teaching. Katie Joice spoke
with him recently about the prize.
NICK (CENTRE) AT THE AWARDS CEREMONY WHERE THE RT HON MARGARET HODGE,
MINISTER FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND HIGHER EDUCATION, AND PROFESSOR SIR MARTIN
HARRIS PRESENTED HIS AWARD.
and interrogation of the
experts via bulletin boards.
Locally, I hope to promote
the old Crab & Winkle
Railway line (now a wooded
foot and cycle path linking
Whitstable and UKC). The
Crab & Winkle Website
would provide information
on the old railway line, local
woodland management and
plant identification, while
acting as a forum for local
groups, including the County
Council Rights of Way
Information Group. The
Website should provide a
useful link between the
University and the local
community.
And finally, I plan to host
18
a conference on land rights
at UKC and offer some
student essay prizes.
Has the prize changed
your life?
Not yet…though I think this
is the calm before the storm!
Going to the award ceremony
was great fun and did
make me realise how seriously
the ILT takes the prize. So
I am doing the usual planning
and work for this year,
but I’m very aware of all
these new projects looming.
Is e-learning the
future of teaching?
Whatever E-learning is, it is
not a substitute for personal
contact between student and
teacher. University teaching
is under threat from the
usual suspects – particularly
the government’s demand
that we take on more students
with less resourcing. At
its worst, ‘e-learning’ is a
cheap (and alienating) alternative
to traditional teaching.
I am engaged in this project
to open up access to our
traditional teaching and to
make the contact between
student and teacher richer,
not poorer.
Who influenced you?
My father was a primary
school teacher in
Lincolnshire. He inspired me
with his enthusiasm for
teaching and the way in
which he engaged with his
pupils as people. My colleagues
have also influenced
me, especially Alan Thomson,
John Wightman and
Anne Bottomley. And Abdul
Paliwala, Director of the UK
Centre for Legal Education
and Professor at Warwick,
has been a real inspiration.
He is passionate about
embracing new technologies
while maintaining academic
standards.
What makes a good
teacher?
Engaging with students as
human beings, rather than
taking on a forced or artificial
role. And constantly
reflecting on what you are
saying.
Katie Joice was Publications
Assistant at the University
when she interviewed Nick
Jackson. She’s now on a
postgraduate Art History
Course in London.

Inside
story
The series where
UKC people
describe what is
really going on.
Kirsten Haack is
the winner of the
2001-2002 Alumni
Postgraduate
Scholarship, and
is working towards
a PhD in Politics
and International
Relations at Kent,
specifically on the
meaning of democracy
in the context
of the UN today.
We asked her
to define her
‘typical’ week as
a postgraduate
student at Kent…
The endless search
MMonday
The week starts unspectacularly:
lots of reading, a quiet
lunch with friends and more
reading. In the evening in the
Library, I search online for
books and articles for my
research. A footnote tells me
of an article that promises to
deal with exactly what I need
to know. Luckily, the library
holds the journal. A quick
dash to the shelf and all but
the issue I want. I look on reshelving
shelves, trolleys, near
the photocopiers and at the
lending desk. Nothing! Frustrated,
I go home.
Tuesday
The hunt continues. I find
that the library in my hometown
in Germany has the
issue. Maybe I can use the
19
Journal-Article-Sent-On-
Demand system? I try this,
but by 10 am, give up and go
back to reading. Murphy’s
law dictates that the exact
thing you want wouldn’t be
available even in a copyright
library. In the evening I destress
and go ballroom
dancing in Darwin. This
seriously compensates for the
loneliness of research.
Wednesday
Today is the day of the
Wednesday Research Seminar,
where each week a
research student presents a
chapter of his or her work.
Although my interests have
little to do with the representation
of war in film and I
know little about Romania
and the EU, I leave the
seminar with new ideas, and
join staff and students for
lunch. Next is the Staff/
Student Liaison Committee. I
listen to undergraduates
panicking over essays, exams
and the great unknown of
academia and think, ‘thank
God, I am past this!’ Before
going home I go back to the
article hunt. I get the tokens
to order the article online
from Germany and do so.
Thursday
Another day of reading and
writing. I email my supervisor,
who is based at the
Brussels Centre. The journal
article arrives in my e-mailbox,
but I can’t decode it!
Frustrated, I talk to the
librarian and hope the missing
issue will be replaced soon.
Friday
My favourite day!
Not because it’s
the end of the
week,but because
it means Roast
Turkey day in
Eliot. Ever since a
friend pointed this
delicacy out to me
I have Christmas
every week. Today,
after several days
of reading, I need
to search again for
literature. I come
across EBSCO
Host, an online
journal service.
Taking a chance,
I type in the
missing article,
and - surprise! -
EBSCO has the
complete text
online, free. What
a wonderful world
the Internet is! I
print it off and
head home
happily. Tomorrow
I will have time to
read this and a few
other articles
before enjoying a
film at Cinema 3.

These constitute a small selection of the
entries received for 3W since March,
when the last Kent Bulletin was published.
The complete listing of 3Ws for
the year is on the Web (the URL is
opposite). To send us a 3W entry, please
use the Alumni questionnaire on the
Web. If you would like email addresses
for people in 3W below, please email
alumni-office@ukc.ac.uk. We may be
able to help put you in touch.
KEY: D: Darwin, E: Eliot, K: Keynes,
R: Rutherford; T or M: Information
Technology (including Maths), N:
Natural Sciences, A: Science, Technology
and Medical Studies, H: Humanities,
S: Social Sciences, U: Foundation
year or Short-term studies. The location
at the end of your entry is from
your mailing address - if it’s in parentheses,
we think you’re not actually living
there but use it for UKC mail.
Year: We place you under your year of
entry to Kent, not exit and if you were
here for more than one course of study,
we try to put you in your first entry
year - please let us know if corrections
are needed!
1965
LEE, Gill (EH) Still teaching in
Johannesburg with two daughters
working in the UK. South Africa.
(23/08/2002)
In March this year, John Poole (EN)
visited Kent to address staff and
students about his work at CERN,
the European Organisation for
Nuclear Research, and the world’s
largest particle physics centre.
Pictured: Professors James Brown
and Jack Powles, with John Poole
(EN) and Robin Pitman (RN)
POURGOURIDES, Andreas (RN)
Still in Britain, working in education and
looking forward to early retirement -
possibly Cyprus. Married; 3 sons.
apourgourides@zoom.co.uk. Middlesex.
(06/06/2002)
1966
FARRINGTON, Dennis (KN)
Secretary-General at the new South East
European University in Tetovo,
Republic of Macedonia. I have been
working on education legislation and
reform in Kosovo, the Russian Federation
and Chechnya. Always looking for
guest speakers in our subject areas.
d.farrington@see-university.edu.mk.
Macedonia. (01/07/2002)
WEAVING, Rachel (EH) Recently
took early retirement from the World
Bank and now studying garden design in
Oxford. Married; 2 children. rachelweaving@aol.com.
USA. (25/05/2002)
1967
ARCHER, Gilly (EH) Still teaching
drama in Nottingham. Never going to be
rich or important, but perfectly content.
Lots of my drama students head towards
Kent. 2 sons. Nottinghamshire.
(15/03/2002)
BUTLER, John (RH) Now teaching
ICT in London. Relying on NHS for
Who’s What
Where
from UKC?
continued well-being so am not planning
for retirement. Surrey. (30/08/2002)
1968
GROOM, Kate (DS) Resident in USA
since 1976 with 4 years in Brazil,
working as a commercial lawyer in New
York. 3 children, one studying law at
UKC. kgroom@kelleydrye.com. USA.
(29/04/2002)
JACKSON, Charles (DS) Has been
living in Paris since 1984. charlesjackson@eu.saralee.com.
Paris. (28/06/2002)
1969
LEMMON, Maureen (ES) Husband
Martin E69 died in 1998. Returned to
UK in 2000. Now living in Norwich and
working at UEA. Norfolk. (03/04/2002)
SLATER, John (DN) After completing
an MSc, I am back computer programming
for a software house near Milton
Keynes. I am in touch with 6 graduates
from 69 and planning a reunion in
Canterbury to celebrate 30 years on!
Northamptonshire. (20/02/2002)
1970
REES, Maria (EH) Teaching English
at the University of Venice and I have
just managed to buy a house! Getting
nostalgic at 52 and would love to hear
20
Geoff Rees (KH)(front centre, over
ball) with the Keynes College football
side in 1972. Identified are Paul
Winter (KS, back row left) and John
Crossley (KS, red shorts), Martin
Cheeseman (KS) and Tony Hayward
(1970:KS, second from right and far
right). Front row: Will Smith (KS,
second from left), Geoff Rees, Dave
Cygan (KS) and Dave Rooke (1971:
KS). Please get in touch if you can
identify the other players and/or are
in contact with any of the players!
Swansea. (4/12/2001)
from anyone who remembers me. Italy.
(31/07/2002)
SHAFI-BAIG, Javed Ali (DS) Now
back in London after an absence of
some years. Married; 2 sons.
Charlotte Green EH75
won the Radio Times
Favourite Female Radio
voice Poll in January.
zazor@ziltd60.freeserve.co.uk. London.
(13/02/2002)
1971
ROGERSON, Garry (DN) Has lived
in the USA for 15 years. Married to Ann
(Arundel) K74; 2 boys. Would love to
hear from old friends.
1gatcrogerson@attbi.com. USA.
(18/02/2002)
WEIR, Bill (ES) Software engineer
living in Ilkley. Married to Mary
(Roberts) E71; 2 children. Interested in
woodwork and genealogy (my own, that
is). Mary teaches English at an FE
college in Leeds. billwe@tarantella.com.
West Yorkshire. (30/04/2002)
1972
HAROON, Yacoob (RN; PhD Guys
Hospital Medical School: 81). Fellowship
at Harvard Medical School and into
the Pharma industry in 88. In Regulatory
Affairs at Purdue Pharma and living
in New York City. Married; no children.
Does anyone know the whereabouts of
Susan Hall E72? USA. (08/08/2002)
HEVESI, Michael (KS) I am trying to
find a home, a fifth of a mile long, for
213 Shadow Casting Sculptures. Can I
get this project off the drawing board
this year? Would like to get in contact
with David Gittins E72. Hampshire.
(25/07/2002)
1973
STEELE, Carolyn (EH) I have been
living in America since 77. Married and
painting tropical wildlife. Would love to
hear from anyone I knew at UKC.
www.carolynsteele.com. USA.
(30/04/2002)
1974
FERNANDES, Glenn (RH) I was to
graduate in 77 in the first European
Studies class but went to Georgetown
and graduated in 78.
glennfern@aol.com. USA.
(22/03/2002)
1975
OSBORN, Andy (KH) Recently joined
SIG Consulting to set up the SAP
Practice. Moved to Wantage with
Jacqueline Banton D90. Next door to
Kieran Hearty D76 and in touch with
Dave Miles D76. 3 children. Planning to
share time between Jamaica and
Cornwall (where I have warm memories
of the late Karen Mossop (Hendy R74)).
andyosborn@enterprise.net. Oxfordshire.
(12/08/2002)
SMITH, Timothy (DH) Married
Amanda (Butt) D75; 3 children. Work
and school fees are killing us off, but I
still look and behave like an undergraduate.
Anyone from the Classics
department or who roomed at Mrs
Saville-Peck’s, do get in touch. Leicester.
(28/04/2002)
1976
BURFIELD, Ginny (RH) Landed in
Ipswich after Leicester, Bristol, Israel
and Spain. Married; 2 children.
Currently working as an advisory
teacher for EAL children. Where are
Graham Wood R76 and Mary-Ann
Davies R76? Suffolk. (22/05/2002)
GORDON, Jane (EH) Living in
Madeira and working at an international
school in Funchal. I recently met up
with Martin K75 and Viv (Fagg) Fulda
R76. I am the happiest I have been since
UKC! Would love to hear from anyone
who remembers me or was part of UKC
Radio 76/79. Portugal. (12/05/2002)
1977
MALIK, Aftab (RT) Professor of
Computer Science and Information
Technology plus Chairman of the

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Department of Computer Science and
Information Technology at the University
of Engineering & Technology in
Lahore. Does anyone know the
whereabouts of Surinder Paul Dosanjh
D77? Pakistan. (24/06/2002)
1978
PRATT, Judith (RH) In thirteenth year
of teaching journalism to university
students in California - and loving this
state! I get back to Canada every year.
USA. (01/03/2002)
VAN DER MEER, Tim (RT) Working
in Risk Management within Asset
Management. Divorced; 3 children.
Life goes on, it seems. Netherlands.
(09/05/2002)
1979
CHEESE, Steve (EN) Jane E78
(Broad) and I now have 4 children; 20,
18, 16 and 1. Please be in contact if you
remember either of us from 20 years
ago! Our 18-year old is planning to go to
UKC. Kent. (29/07/2002)
HARLOW, Amanda (KH) Once of
Incant and UKC Radio, now living in
beautiful Hokkaido. I teach English and
do a lot of eating of crab, sushi and
corn. amanda@akamail.com. Japan.
(31/07/2002)
1980
BORGARS, Rachel (EH) Married
Martin D80 in 86. Spent 13 years at the
Home Office. I trained for the
Paul Ross RH75 has
been hosting Inside Out
on BBC1: celebrating
the diversity of the
South East, mainly
East Sussex and Kent
Methodist ministry and was ordained in
2000. Martin is working in IT. Still
enjoy music making as does our son,
aged 5. Avon. (18/07/2002)
John J Hern Jr (KS) was in May
elected Chief
Executive
Officer of
Clark Hill
PLC Attorneys
at Law in
Detroit,
Michigan.
USA.
TSUI,
Thomas (KT)
Working for the
computer services centre of the Chinese
University of Hong Kong since 85 as
Head of the User Services section. Hong
Kong. (30/05/2002)
1981
CONAGHAN, Michael RH was
celebrating this summer, having had his
poem ‘Temple Bells’ selected for the relaunch
issue of Britain’s most important
(and oldest) literary magazine, the
London Magazine. His lyrical poem, on
the sound of rigging in the wind near his
home in Whitstable, featured alongside
work by Paul Muldoon, Poet Laureate
Andrew Motion and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
‘To say I was pleased would be
an understatement, I was bloody
thrilled. Having sent in my work to the
previous editor, Alan Ross, who sadly
The Oysterband performing at Mt Ephraim Hernhill this summer. Alan Prosser
(RN) on guitars, mandolin and vocal; Ian Telfer (1971: RH) on fiddle and concertina.
died about a year ago, I hadn’t heard
anything and put it down to experience.
Then I got the call from new editor
Sebastian Barker and learnt I was to be
in the first re-launch issue.’ Whitstable.
(8/2002)
MOHINDRA, Anil (KT) Anyone who
remembers me:
anilmohindra@southampton.gov.uk.
Hampshire. (03/04/2002)
SMITH, Harriet (EH) Now teaching
part-time and raising two children in
beautiful Berkshire. (09/05/2002)
1982
CUNNINGHAM, John (EH) After
many years in Ireland and a PhD, I have
returned to the UK to head the theology
department at a teacher training college.
Married; 2 girls. Lincoln. (01/05/2002)
GEORGIOU, Steve (RT) Still living in
London and working in women’s
clothes! Married Mandy (Hillier-Horn)
D82; 2 sons: sd_georgiou@hotmail.com.
Hertfordshire. (30/04/2002)
1983
AHMED, Kabir (DH) currently
working at the newly created national
Agencies and Commissions Group. I
still have good memories of my studies
at Kent. kasabsu@hotmail.com. Nigeria.
(14/06/2002)
MURPHY, Philip (DS) I am now the
Rector of Benalla in the Diocese of
Wangaratta in Australia. (04/06/2002)
1984
SIDEK, Razak (KS) I work for a
development bank based in Kota
Kinabalu. razssdb@po.jaring.my.
Malaysia.
(17/07/2002)
TAPLIN, Mark (DT)
Working in Telecoms sales.
Married; 3 children and still
living in my hometown of
High Wycombe.
mark_taplin@yahoo.co.uk.
Buckinghamshire.
(24/04/2002)
1985
THOMIS, Iwan (EH) After
ten years in London
advertising, I am now
happily settled in San
Francisco with wife and
daughter, enjoying a parental
version of the California lifestyle.
iwan_ca@pacbell.net. USA.
(14/06/2002)
1986
DOHERTY, Teresa (RH) Heading a
project cataloging the early Wellcome
company records. Anyone interested in
the history of medicine feel free to
contact me. London. (08/03/2002)
TWELL, Steve (DS) After UKC I
spent a year travelling Australia before
joining Lloyds Bank on their management
training scheme. I then joined
Perpetual Fund Management in Henleyon-Thames.
stephen_twell@hen.invesco.com.
Oxfordshire. (31/07/2002)
1987
LEONE, Bruno (EN) Enjoying my
third year in the Netherlands after two
years in Italy. Married Maria (Evangelista)
K90; 3 children. Anyone from
UKC living near The Hague? Tel: +31
70-4445039. (27/02/2002)
PERRONE, Angelo (KH) I am now
teaching English at a school of higher
education. Living in Taranto (Apulia).
Married. as.perrone@libero.it. Italy.
(17/07/2002)
1988
ADAMS-HOWELL, Phil (RH)
Trained as a nurse after graduating then
postgrad training in medical cardiology
and intensive care plus a teaching
qualification. Now specialising in cardiothoracic/cardiac
intensive care and
studying for an MSc in Physiology at the
University of London. It would be good
to hear from anyone who remembers
me. London. (07/06/2002)
LAUMET, Jane (RH) After working in
the South of France, I am now living
and working in London. Married; 1
daughter. Would love to hear from
anyone who wants to get in touch.
jane.karczewski@morganstanley.com.
London. (30/08/2002)
1989
AZMI SHAHRIN, Azmi (KS) Life is
funny, sometimes up, sometimes down.
It has been ten years now and I have
sore knees from praying hard, and grey
hair for my troubles. I was happy when I
was at UKC.
azmishahrin@hotmail.com. Malaysia.
(01/05/2002)
FOSTER, Coralie (KS) I finally
married Duncan Foster E89 in 99 after
living together since our second year at
UKC. I am an accountant in a management
consultancy and Duncan is
working in pensions programming. We
would love to hear from anyone who
knew us. Hampshire. (30/05/2002)
1990
MORGAN, Paul (RT) Working as
Assistant Head at the London Oratory
School. Living with partner in Chelsea.
London. (12/08/2002)
Naima Khireddine (HR) ‘on a
windy day; I felt sand cracking
under my teeth.’ Algeria
ASKEW-RENAUT, Estelle (DS) I am
back in the UK and back at University!
Really enjoying studying human rights
law at Essex and teaching on the LPC.
(15/03/2002)
1991
CORDELL, Nikki (RS) I have been
working in investment since graduating
but am just about to spend some time in
Turkey - a complete life change! It
would be great to hear from friends.
nikkicordell@hotmail.com. Kent.
(17/02/2002)
GOETHEL, Silke (RS) After five years
as a journalist and editor for a German
24-hour news channel, I went to
London and completed an MA in
International Conflict Analysis. I plan to
apply to the press and communications
departments of humanitarian organisations.
silkegoethel@hotmail.com.
London. (08/05/2002)
MARIMUTHU, Shalini (DH)
Contact me at: shal99@excite.com.
Malaysia. (03/04/2002)
1992
BATOT, Stephanie (RS) went to Paris
to work for Medecins du Monde, then
21

an MSc Management (Bournemouth).
I have been living in Amsterdam for the
past 3 years. Anyone else working here?
stephaniebatot@hotmail.com. The
Netherlands. (13/03/2002)
CONOLLY, Marilyn (KS) Do contact
me on: marilynconolly@hotmail.com.
Cayman Islands. (15/07/2002)
OTHMAN, Zoel (ES) Currently
working with Malaysia Airlines. Married
Nora (Azany) E92; 2 sons. Would love
to hear from Nelman So K92, Efstratios
Kapsimalis R92, Hiroko Okuda E91,
Mark Briadwood E92, Mohamad
Alayyan R92 and Bejul Shah D92.
Malaysia. (08/05/2002)
1993
MAYANJA, Uthman (ES) After 5 hard
years in London I have finally packed
my bags and am heading for the sun in
Uganda, where it all started.
(31/07/2002)
SMITH, Peeta (RN) Look at my
website www.peetas.care4free.net to find
out how I actually built a career in
nature conservation.
peetas@hotmail.com. Northumberland.
(16/04/2002)
YUUKI, Tsumugi (RN) Studying
medicine at Dokkyo University. Tochigi
321-0207. Japan. (05/06/2002)
1994
COMPTON, Mark (RH) Client
Training Manager for Thomson
Intermedia. My spare time is spent on
the stage and I recently made my West
End debut at the Theatre Royal Drury
Lane in a new production called `Life on
Earth’. Currently Assistant Director on
a production of Jonathan Harvey’s
`Beautiful Thing’. London. (24/04/2002)
EMERY, Tara (RS) Did voluntary and
fundraising work in London and took up
running at a serious level, completing
the New York and London Marathons.
Timothy Tan EN
married Ong Yi
Peng DS in
Singapore last
October. Pictured,
back row: Mr and
Mrs Ong, Mr and
Mrs Tan, Timothy,
Yi Peng, Zahiri
Hassan (E94),
Krishanan
Nadarajan (E94)
and Lavina
Peswani E99.
Front row: Teo Wei
Kiat (D94), Mui
Pek Shaan K94, Yvonne Han (wife of
Zahiri), NG Su Gnee (R93) and
Now to be Fundraising and Management
Adviser for VSO in Orissa, East
India. I shall return to London in 2003,
broke with nowhere to live and unemployed
- but happy to see all those UKC
friends that have been so supportive.
London. (30/05/2002)
MWANGI, Jeannette (RS) Admitted
to the bar in Kenya in 98. In 2000 I was
appointed a State Counsel in the
Department of Treaties & Agreements
in the Attorney General’s Chambers.
My education at Kent, especially in
international law, has been very useful.
I am now studying for a Masters of Law
in Human Rights and Intellectual
Property Law at the Lund University in
Sweden. (22/04/2002)
1995
AL-ATRASH, Dr Ahmed (RS) is a
specialist in International Conflict
Management (with regional interest in
Africa and the Arab World). Libya.
(08/08/2002)
KIRBY, Anna (RH): PGCE
(Christchurch). I am now working as a
Pamela Cross, Director of the
International Office at the University.
Chris Welland (ET) and Claire
Wildridge (KS) were married
in August. Here pictured with
‘the Becket Court Posse of
1993 and friends.’
Religious Education teacher. Taking an
MA in History through the OU. Still in
touch with a few friends from UKC.
Kent. (11/02/2002)
PAPAGIANNELLIS, Prokopios (RA)
MSc Communications & Signal
Processing (Newcastle) then military
service in Greece. Now doing an MSc in
IS at Surrey. prokopaki@hotmail.com.
(20/02/2002)
1996
AL-BAHARNA, Ahmed (RA)
Currently leading a team for implementing
the first Satellite Network at Saudi
Aramco. All remote oil rigs and seismic
crews will be connected to HQ via
VSAT technology. Bahrain Manama.
(29/07/2002)
FOSTER, Tony (DN) is at the NASA
Space Shuttle Programme as mission
operations director for the Hitchhiker
payload, working closely with Mission
Control Houston.
tony.foster@omitron.com. USA
(08/05/2002)
WONG, Ricky (ES) Happily working
for HSBC Republic Bank (Suisse) SA in
Hong Kong. yellowricky@hotmail.com.
(05/07/2002)
1997
HUTCHINSON, Christopher (DS) I
am currently an outdoor education
instructor on the Isle of Wight.
Although the pay is appalling, I do get to
paddle in the sea, and am planning a
career in primary education.
(30/04/2002)
NORTH, Louise (DH) I am producing
for a commercials/pop promos editing
company in Soho and living in North
London with Chris Smith E96. It’s all
good! London.
(16/05/2002)
1998
DILL, Shakira (ES) Currently
completing my pupillage year at the
Department of Public Prosecutions in
Bermuda. shakira@ibl.bm. Bermuda.
(08/03/2002)
SANDERS, Elliott (KS) is a trainee
Financial Planning Consultant for
Standard Life’s Direct Customer
Division. Kent. (25/03/2002)
SENTONGO, Sam (KA) Working for
a national telecoms operator in Kampala.
Married. sentons@mtn.co.ug.
Uganda. (30/08/2002)
1999
IMARA, Dionne (KS) would love to
hear from MSc Forensic Psychology
graduates.West Midlands. (07/06/2002)
Deaths
We are very sad to have to report the
deaths of 17 alumni and one of our
honorary graduates. Dame Judith A
Kilpatrick (née Foxley) D70,
teacher and headmistress, died in
September. Her obituary appeared in
the Guardian on 28 September.
Lorraine Anne Hewitt (née
Morton) K72 died on 13 June this
year. A short obituary appeared in the
Guardian on 13 July. We learned from
her father of the death of Kathleen
Alison Humphreys R73. Sarah
Snaydon (née Webb) R76 informed
us that her husband Geoffrey
Snaydon died on 12 October. Her
husband told us that Pamela
Cheesman R76 had died recently.
Janet Cox (née Kay) E76 told us that
Dr J Paul Kermode E77 died on 9
March. We were informed by the
parents of Nicholas Furlonger R79
that he had died. Canon Leonard G
Tyzack D80 died recently. Timothy
Martin Evans E85 died on 18
February. Peter Record D86, we
were told by Susan Collins D86, was
one of the victims of the bomb in Bali
on 12 October. Marie Doyle E93
told us of the death of her sister
Kathleen Anne (Cathy) Doyle K94
in September. We were told recently
that Shital Patel E93 had died.
Colin Oxlee K95 died recently. John
Raymond Weston D99 died in
March. Honorary graduate and
Nobel Prize-winning scientist, The Rt
Hon Prof Lord Porter of Luddenham
DSc, died recently.
Contact us at the address on page 3 for
more information; we may be able to put
friends in touch with family or friends of
the deceased.
Only Connect Autumn 200
Lost touch with an old
friend? The UKC alumni
database may be able to
help. If we have a current
address for them, we
would be happy to
forward a message from you. If we, too,
have lost touch, ‘Only Connect’ (which is
printed in the Kent Bulletin twice a year
and on the Web) may get a response.
Penny Cherns (E66) would like to find
(wltf) Malachy O Higgins (E66) and
Ahmed Banaga (E66); Linda Jane
(E67) wltf Valerie Palmer (D67) and
Patricia Simpson-Sowerby (Rashbrook,
E67); Jo Freeborough (de Clive-Lowe,
K68) wltf Jennifer Gait (K69); Makoto
Honjo (K71) wltf Martyn Booth (K69)
and Duncan Cross (K68); Azy Salour
(R71) wltf Alan Foley (D81); Lydia
Schaefer (R71) wltf Mary Greville
(R71); Peter Taylor (D71) wltf Maureen
Morgan (Freeman, R67); Dr Mehdi
Alem Alem (E72) wltf Irene Dipple
(R73), Stephen Smith (R73) and
Manijeh Nazery (R71); Peter Bone
(K72) wltf Anne Waterland (K72);
Caroline Groves (D72) wltf Ruth
Farwell (R72) and Caroline Betterton
(D72); Yacoob Haroon (R72) wltf
Susan Hall (E72); Michael Hevesi
(K72) wltf David Gittins (E72); Nina
Newton-Moumtzelis (K73) wltf Angela
Davies (K73); Carolyn Steele (E73) wltf
Michael Carter (E71); Jack Romano
(K75) wltf Lesley Ball (K74); Janet Cox
(Kay E76) wltf Andrew Rooke (K74);
Aftab Malik (R77) wltf Surinder
Dosanjh (Gill, D77); Lee Hua (Serena)
Yee (K77) wltf Jennifer Puah (K77);
Thomas Wingate (R78) wltf Joanna
Paterson (Hooper,K80) and Donald
Paterson (K80); Di Owen (K79) wltf
Andrea Gall (K79) and Charlotte
Hague (K78); Sarah Sheehan (K79)
wltf Anne-Marie Porisse-Girard (E79);
Amanda Thomas (Jones, E79) wltf
Susan Hendrie (E79); Jan Comrie
(Herbert, E80 ) wltf John Chisholm
(K81), Stephen Whiston (R81) and
Jurgen Hobbs (R80); Neale Whyatt
(K80) wltf Mohammad Zadeh Morshed
Beik (D80); Keith Arbour (D81) wltf
Jeni Price (R81); Clive Stape (D81) wltf
David Brammer (K81), Sally-Jane
Ewin (E81), Anthony Gilling (K82) and
Stephen Bowden (E82); Paul Beaumont
(E82) wltf Seraphina Wong (E82);
Man-Chung Tsang (R83) wltf Joseph
Woo (R83); Kate Horn (Eccles, E84 )
wltf Susan Osborne (E84); Alison
Dalby (K85) wltf Adrian Nelson (K82);
James Hunt (K85) wltf Karen Morgan
(R85) and Matthew Ferraro (R85);
Bernard Hemingway (R86) wltf Helen
Charles (R89); Richard Morbey (R86)
If your name is listed above and you have been lucky enough to re-connect, please let us know. Thank you.
wltf Paul Reece (D86); Lisa Neden
(Bush, E86) wltf Charles Denham
(E86); Antonio Olivo Farias (R86) wltf
Haitham Salam (K86); Silvester Phua
(R86) wltf Simon Knowles (R86);
Helen Turner (King, D88) wltf Jane
Batley (Tovell, D88); Gregory
Weinkauf (R88) wltf Melanie Shearer
(R88); Khang Chew (K90) wltf Andrew
Brittain (K88); Russ Hayton (R91) wltf
Julie Baden-Powell-Jones (D92);
Cornelis Tanis (R91) wltf Hanan
Hamdan (R91); Christopher Davis
(E92) wltf Roy Cogo (E93) and Charles
Abomeli (E92); Zoel Othman (E92)
wltf Panagiotis Leventis (R92); Zoel
Othman (E92) wltf Nelman So (K92);
Jolyon Ridley (E92) wltf Anna Carnini
(K92); Angela Day (R93) wltf Gina
Barton (Rumming, E93); Kevin
Breidenbach (R95) wltf Claire Casey
(K95).
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