Kent Bulletin - University of Kent

Kent Bulletin 

University of Kent at Canterbury • Number 37 Autumn 2001 

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Kent Bulletin 37 Autumn 2001 

Contents 

Cover: painting 

by Nick Botting R83 

Page 8 Interview with the Vice-Chancellor, 

Professor David Melville 

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Features 

Page 10 The art of cricket 

8 Interview with the Vice-Chancellor, 

Professor David Melville 

Jane Hardy 

10 The art of cricket 

Nick Botting 

12 Art at UKC 

14 The challenge of globalisation 

Chris Patten 

19 Alumni lives: Greenfibres 

Rhonda Smith 

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Page 14 The challenge of globalisation 

News and Views 

4 University News 

7 The Development Programme 

17 Special feature: Durrell Institute 

of Conservation and Ecology 

18 Letters from America 

20 Who’s What Where 

23 Inside Story: Pamela Cross

Research success 

UKC has won more than 

£10m over the past year in 

grants and contracts for new 

research and 

consultancy 

work. 

According to 

Deputy 

Vice-Chancellor 

Professor 

Robert Freedman, ‘This 

is an increase of 26% on the 

previous year. UKC gained 

£8,929,215 in contracts and 

grants for new academic 

research, plus £1,608,242 in 

contracts for development 

work, consultancy and related 

work.’ 

Among the outstanding 

research successes are, in 

Social Sciences, a Department 

of Health grant of £310,065 

awarded to Dr Ann Netten 

and Dr Andrew Bebbington 

(Personal Social Services 

Research Unit) for their project 

assessing a new information 

gateway on social care, 

health, housing and social 

security benefits for older and 

disabled people. 

In Physical Sciences, 

Professor Bob Newport was 

awarded the largest single 

grant in the University for his 

EPSRC-sponsored project on 

sol-gel materials. This award 

will enable his research team 

to expand their work on why 

these important materials have 

the properties they do, thereby 

helping to find ways to even 

better materials for the future. 

And in Humanities, Professor 

David Welch (History), 

Margaret Coutts (Head of 

Information Services) and Dr 

Nick Hiley (Director of the 

Cartoon Centre) jointly gained 

£257,760 from the Arts and 

Humanities Research Board 

for the digitisation of the 

Modern Cuttings Collection in 

the Cartoon Centre. This will 

enable them to continue 

building the Cartoon-Hub 

archive, the largest computer 

database of archived political 

cartoons in the world. 

University 

N E W S 

Opportunity 

Medway 

The University of Kent at 

Medway (UKM) welcomed its 

first intake of students in 

September onto undergraduate 

courses in subjects ranging 

from law to sport, health and 

fitness. This initiative has 

brought new educational and 

economic opportunities to 

Medway. To help as wide a 

range of people as possible to 

benefit, UKM has launched an 

innovative new bursary 

scheme. 

Opportunity Medway links 

local students who need extra 

financial support with companies 

and public sector institutions 

keen to support them. 

The first bursaries have 

already made a real difference. 

One recipient wrote, ‘I’m the 

first in my family to go to 

university and my parents are 

very proud of me, but finances 

are stretched.’ The Medway 

economy also benefits from the 

boost to the local skills base, 

and organisations supporting 

the scheme benefit from 

having bright, enthusiastic 

graduates in the workforce. 

Opportunity Medway recipients 

talk about putting their 

degrees to good use in teaching 

and other jobs, with one 

noting ‘this financial support 

from the community increases 

my desire to stay on and work 

in the area’. 

The scheme operates via a 

special UKM fund, managed 

by a steering group including 

representatives from Medway 

organisations, who decide 

which students receive bursaries. 

Chief Executive of 

Medway Council Judith 

Armitt said, ‘Opportunity 

Medway is an innovative 

scheme which may make the 

difference between somebody 

being able to study for a 

degree or not. Longer term, it 

University of Kent alumni diary 2001-02 

2001 

23 November Open Lecture: Carenza Lewis ‘ Popularising the past: 

archaeology and television’ 

30 November Congregations 

30 November Open Lecture: Sir Crispin Tickell ‘ Impacts from 

space: past, present and future’ 

7 December Open Inaugural Lecture: Professor Steve Liu 

Decision making: optimisation under uncertainty’ 

14 December Last day of the Michaelmas Term 

2002 

7 January Start of the Lent Term 

18 January The Chancellor’s Lecture: Baroness Greenfield 

25 January Open Lecture: Professor Joy Hendry ‘Rethinking the 

copy in Japanese culture’ 

6 March Ian Gregor Memorial Lecture: Professor John Kelly 

7 March Annual Alumni Careers Fair 

tbaSpring Alumni Media Event in London 

Unless otherwise indicated, all the events above take place at the University. 

Some of the Lectures are followed by a High Table dinner, and alumni are 

welcome. For more information, please contact us (see p3). 

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will help the Medway economy 

by increasing the skills of our 

workforce. The Council is 

delighted to be supporting the 

scheme.’ 

Businesses and public 

sector organisations wanting to 

join the scheme should contact 

Sue Shepherd, Director of 

Communications & Development, 

at the address on page 3. 

New department 

links business and 

scholarship at UKC 

Brilliant inventions such as 

cats’ eyes in the road or the 

Dyson vacuum cleaner have 

two components: a great, 

innovative idea, often tested by 

research, and commercial 

CHRIS LUTON WITH VAILA MARSHALL, 

CHAIRMAN OF THE EXTERNAL ADVISORY 

GROUP AT PFIZER, AT THE LAUNCH OF URIE 

back-up or exploitation. Now 

the University is gaining a unit 

which will help it exploit 

academic innovation and 

provide academic back-up and 

research for regional businesses. 

With the launch of the Unit 

for Regional Innovation and 

Enterprise (URIE) in June, 

UKC can now provide 

research and consultancy skills 

locally and develop to the full 

the forward-looking research 

in which it excels. 

URIE aims to be a onestop 

shop connecting UKC, 

with its research turnover of 

£15m a year, and industry. 

Among the services URIE can 

offer businesses in the region 

are consultancy / access to 

expertise; continuing professional 

development (CPD) / 

training; access to facilities and 

equipment; technology devel- 

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New buildings 

on campus 

Work has started on the construction 

of the new building for 

the School of Social Policy, 

Sociology and Social Research. 

The majority of the funding for 

this new building came from the 

Higher Education Funding 

Council (HEFCE) through the 

University’s Research Capital 

allocation. An expansion of the 

Drama Barn is also underway, 

opment, transfer and licensing; 

student placements; collaborative 

research; teaching company 

and other programmes. 

UKC’s clients to date include: 

BAE SYSTEMS, the BBC, 

the Chartered Institute of 

Bankers, with whom it has 

developed an e-commerce 

master’s degree among other 

projects; Kent Police; NHS 

Trusts and Pfizer. 

The Unit is opening at an 

ideal time. ‘One of the biggest 

changes in university thinking 

over the last decade or so has 

been the move towards the 

development of relationships 

between business and the 

university. Our main aim at 

URIE in the next five years is 

to identify regional needs, 

facilitate contact between the 

University and industry and 

nurture good practice at UKC 

in providing support for the 

regional economy,’ says 

Research Services Development 

Manager Chris Luton. 

College Masters 

here to stay 

The University Council and 

Senate both voted to maintain 

the combined role of the 

College Masters (student 

welfare and discipline on the 

one hand, and social and 

external relations on the other) 

and to retain the title of Master. 

There were some changes 

agreed, however, including the 

appointment of ‘sub-wardens’ 

for Park Wood, an appointment 

process (instead of elections) 

for Masters with staff and 

filling in the space between it 

and the Grimond building. 

The Sports Centre, too, is to 

be expanded and will include a 

state-of-the-art gym, a new 

student representation on the 

selection panel and a 

formalised reporting, training 

and appraisal structure. 

The Bermudan 

law angle 

Thanks to an agreement 

between the University of 

Kent and Bermuda College, 

Part I of Kent’s law 

programme is now being 

taught by the College, and the 

first group of students are set 

to graduate this summer. Up 

to nine are expected to receive 

their Certificate. They then 

have the opportunity to attend 

UKC - or other British universities 

- to complete the second 

part of the programme. 

The link between Kent and 

Bermuda College began six 

years ago when both institutions 

recognised a market for 

Bermuda-based law studies. 

Head of Law Paddy Ireland 

was on the island at the time 

and discussed possibilities with 

College staff. ‘I was attending 

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VIRTUAL IMAGE OF THE NEW SOCIAL SCIENCES 

BUILDING GOING UP ALONG GILES LANE 

climbing wall, better changing 

facilities, and a healthy eating 

bistro. The Sports Centre 

project should start in early 

2002. 

the Bermuda College Fair and 

became aware that Bermuda 

has many graduates from the 

Kent Law School. We offer 

part one of our programme in 

other locations and after 

meeting Bermuda College 

executives, agreed to offer the 

programme in Bermuda.’ 

The Bermudan course 

mirrors the programme delivered 

at Kent. Students on the 

island receive legal instruction 

via audio and Internet lectures 

from the Kent Law School, 

and at regular seminars in 

Bermuda led by local lawyers. 

Bermuda College Acting 

President Dr Larita Alford 

commented, ‘This is an excellent 

programme that offers the 

prestige of the University of 

Kent Law School while utilising 

the expertise of local 

professionals and allowing our 

Bermuda students to attain 

valuable courses at home 

before having to incur the cost 

of going overseas’. Paddy 

Ireland also praised the 

FIRST BERMUDA COLLEGE KLS PART 1 STUDENTS WITH, 2ND RIGHT, KLSÕS DR STEPHEN PETHICK 

People 

Dr Gerd Bohner, formerly 

Senior Lecturer in Psychology, is 

now Professor of Social Psychology. 

Geoffrey Clarke of the 

Institute of Maths and Statistics 

was awarded the prestigious 

Chambers medal of the Royal 

Statistical Society. Joanne 

Conaghan, 

formerly 

Reader in Law, 

has been 

promoted to 

Professor of 

Law. Professor 

Malcolm Forsythe, Professorial 

Fellow in Public Health Medicine 

in the Centre for Health 

Services Studies, has been 

appointed Chairman of the new 

Primary Health Care Trust for 

South West Kent. Currently 

Senior Lecturer at the University 

of Melbourne, Dr Roger Just 

will take up an appointment in 

January as Professor of Social 

Anthropology. The Vice- 

Chancellor, Professor David 

Melville, was awarded a CBE, 

and from Southampton University 

in July, an honorary degree. 

Peter Muchlinski, previously 

Professor of Law at Queen Mary 

College, University of London, is 

now Professor of Law and 

International Business at Kent. 

Dr John Shackell was recently 

appointed Professor of Mathematics 

and Computation. 

Professor James Woodcock, 

formerly Professor of Software 

Engineering at the University of 

Oxford, is now Professor of 

Software Engineering at Kent. 

Five retiring members of the 

University have been made 

Emeritus Professors, including 

former Vice-Chancellor Professor 

Robin Sibson, Professor 

David Birmingham (Modern 

History), Professor Michael 

Irwin (English), Professor 

John Butler 

(Health Services 

Studies, 

left) and 

Professor 

Alan Armstrong 

(Economic 

& Social History). 

Dr Keith Wren 

(School of 

European 

Culture and 

Language) is the 

new Master of 

Eliot College, 

succeeding Director of Music 

Susan Wanless.

Bermudan lawyers helping to 

deliver the course and added 

that two of the local seminar 

leaders, Jerome Dill and Dr 

Ian Kawaley, are likely to 

become honorary members of 

the Kent Law School. 

Helping hands 

In June, the new Mayor of 

Canterbury, UKC’s Fred 

Whitemore, attended a special 

ceremony to acknowledge the 

contribution made to the local 

THE LORD MAYOR, CLLR FRED WHITEMORE, 

ALSO LECTURER IN POLITICS AT THE 

UNIVERSITY, WITH STUDENT VOLUNTEER 

MELANIE AYLES. 

Photograph by Robert Berry 

community by the University’s 

student volunteers. 

This year, which is the 

UN’s International Year of the 

Volunteer, over 400 students 

have volunteered through 

UKC’s Student Development 

Unit to work with local 

schools, the elderly, the homeless, 

the sick and those with 

disabilities. 

The mayor presented 

certificates of achievement to 

just some of those who give up 

their time to help others, 

including Melanie Ayles, a 

second-year Social Policy 

student. Twice a week she 

works at St Nicholas School in 

Canterbury, which caters for 

young people aged between 17 

and 20 who have learning 

difficulties. At present she is 

helping them improve their IT 

skills. ‘They are really good 

kids. I just wish I could do 

more. I’ve always liked volunteering; 

it gives me a different 

take on life as well as a great 

deal of enjoyment - and it 

gives me a break from constant 

Professor Colin Radford - 

1935-2001 

Colin Radford was one of the 

founding members of the 

University, coming here to 

teach Philosophy in 1965. Ill 

health dogged him throughout 

his life, eventually forcing 

his retirement in 1992. He 

suffered from chronic asthma 

and then a chronic heart 

condition. The lifelong sense 

of struggle and mortality 

which these induced must 

have had a lot to do with his 

astonishingly assertive 

appetites and passions - for 

love, music, food, sport, and 

especially for the activity of 

philosophy. Whether you 

were a student, a colleague or 

a friend, to talk with Colin 

was to be excited. He was an 

old-fashioned academic - 

Obituaries 

revision and essays.’ She says 

she would recommend anyone 

to do some kind of volunteering. 

‘To be wanted is a great 

feeling - I’m on at my friends 

all the time to give it a go.’ 

dedicating himself to philosophy 

and to educating philosophers 

because he loved it. 

Steve Reilly - 1955-2001 

The University was saddened 

to hear of the recent death of 

Steve Reilly. Steve, who was 

only 46 when he died, was an 

expert in American Politics, 

and had taught at the University 

of Kent’s Department of 

Politics and International 

Relations since October 1983. 

During the Lewsinsky- 

Clinton affair, he gave tens of 

radio interviews from the 

University’s studio to radio 

stations throughout the UK. 

Professor AJR Groom 

said, ‘We all in Politics regret 

the early death of a man of 

many manifest intellectual 

qualities.’ 

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The 

Development Programme 

After every Bulletin mailing, we 

are delighted with the positive 

response in the form of gifts to 

the Annual Fund. Since the 

spring mailing, about 50 of 

you have made new donations. 

THANK YOU, and please 

keep them coming! Through 

your help, and that of earlier 

donors plus royalty income 

from the Affinity Credit Card, 

we were able again to award 

the Alumni Postgraduate 

Scholarship this autumn. 

Keep on learning 

Rhonda Smith (R68) helped 

select this year’ s Alumni Postgraduate 

Scholar. 

During Adult Learners Week, 

agencies, further education 

establishments and government 

departments try to 

encourage more ‘adults’ to 

continue learning and upgrade 

our skills. The new Older & 

Bolder project exhorts older 

individuals also to ‘keep on 

learning’. It may help keep 

dementia at bay. 

So when, in June, I went to 

UKC to help select the next 

Alumni Scholar, I did so in the 

spirit of ‘continuing education’. 

Receiving the papers on 

the short-listed candidates 

called for research. Working as 

I do with health organisations, 

I thought I knew what the 

immune system was – b ut in 

relation to computers and data 

mining? It turned out it’s a 

metaphor and made sense, 

just about. What is its practical 

application, I asked myself, 

so attuned to the real world. 

Having 

read history 

and politics 

at UKC, I 

felt more 

attuned to 

the two 

projects submitted 

by THE 2001 ALUMNI 

KIRSTEN HAACK R98, 

students from SCHOLAR 

International 

Relations. But that feeling 

soon evaporated as I tried to 

make sense of the economic 

integration issues put forward 

and underlying mechanisms at 

work in the UN. The fourth 

project concerned the mobile 

phone and privacy - a subject 

close to my heart. 

Cheered by advice that we 

should award the scholarship 

as much for the student’s 

ability to communicate about 

their work as for the project 

itself, I relied on my instincts. 

And luckily, those instincts 

agreed with the views of the 

academics and others on the 

panel, whose crisp questioning 

had brought out the best in all 

candidates. Via entirely different 

routes, we selected the 

same candidate. Kirsten 

Haack (R98) is undertaking a 

PhD on the definition of 

democracy in the context of 

international law. 

So I made my own personal 

contribution to Adult 

Learners Week this year, and I 

might just submit an entry to 

the Older & Bolder competition 

for next year! 

BAE SYSTEMS 

enables students 

at UKM 

Thanks to the generosity of 

BAE SYSTEMS, eight new 

students started the foundation 

degree in electronic and 

computer systems at the 

University of Kent’s new 

campus in Medway this September. 

They join more than 

500 other new students at 

UKM, studying such subjects 

as sport, health and fitness, 

social work, business studies 

and law. The new campus was 

established through a partnership 

between Mid-Kent College 

and UKC. 

London Marathon 

Would you like to help put 

together a UKC team for the 

London Marathon to raise 

funds for today’s students? If 

so, please get in touch 

(J.K.Burn@ukc.ac.uk). 

In memoriam 

Alumni have contacted me 

about making gifts in memory 

of the late Steve Reilly, 

Lecturer in Politics and International 

Relations at the 

University, and in memory of 

Robert Parsonage R84. If 

you are interested in joining 

Lucy Amis R88 in making a 

gift in memory of Steve, please 

contact her at 

lucy.amis@iblf.org. In memory 

of Robert, please contact 

Graham Ferguson R84 on 

graham.ferguson@americanexpress.com.bh 

or 

J.K.Burn@ukc.ac.uk. 

Making Music! 

The University Chamber 

Choir toured in 

Guernsey in June, 

having raised much of 

their funding for the 

tour through arranging 

concerts and busking 

beforehand. They 

were helped with 

grants from the University 

Benefactors’ 

Fund, the Colyer- 

Fergusson Music 

Fund and the Students’ 

Union. Pictured 

in the grounds 

of the Blanchlande 

Girls’ College, 

Guernsey. 

Furley Page Solicitors in Canterbury 

are generously supporting 

the Lunchtime Concert 

Series at the University. 

PICTURED: BACKBEAT PERCUSSION QUARTET 

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Futures 

Man 

Jane Hardy 

Education 

Kent’s new Vice-Chancellor, Professor David Melville, is something of an education 

futures man. Wherever he has moved in further and higher education, public attention 

has followed. He’s so good at predicting, you wonder whether there’s a crystal ball 

somewhere in his briefcase. 

Photograph by Peter Searle 

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Melville’s career, notable for its diversity 

and ranging from work heading up the 

FEFC (the Further Education Funding 

Council for England) to overseeing 

Middlesex Polytechnic’s transition 

to new university status, does, as he 

says, have a theme. ‘It’s all about 

access. From the beginning, when 

I was a research physicist at the 

University of Southampton - and 

I was there 17 years - I was concerned 

about access. I was involved 

in a programme for young offenders 

and the homeless.’ When he left 

Southampton for Lancashire Polytechnic, 

colleagues questioned the 

move - ‘they thought it was the end 

of my career’ - but Melville sensed 

(with prescience) polytechnics were 

about to have ‘their time in the sun’. Ten 

years, in fact. Similarly, when he moved 

from being Vice-Chancellor at Middlesex 

to becoming head of FEFC, he sensed 

further education and lifelong learning 

were about to move up the political agenda. 

‘There was likely to be a change of government 

and I judged FE was going to have 

its moment.’ He was right. 

‘So there is a thread.’ And the latest 

strand in that thread is partnerships. 

Melville’s prediction - and in fact vision - 

for Kent is to do with educational partnerships. 

And inevitably, to use the 21st 

century phrase for access to education, 

widening participation. ‘In a sense, widening 

participation is easy for new universities 

to do. They do a tremendous job, but 

it’s their bread and butter and the real 

challenge is to do it in established institutions 

like Kent.’ One of the reasons 

Melville was keen to come to Kent was to 

take on this tougher challenge. ‘There is 

an assumption that the students you get 

through wider participation aren’t so 

good. I don’t believe that is entirely true 

and my whole career has been about 

providing opportunity.’ 

David Melville thinks Kent is ideally 

placed to pioneer a new kind of institution, 

a ‘multiversity’. He likes pointing out 

that Paris is almost closer than London - if 

you travel via Eurostar from Ashford - and 

is keen to capitalise on our geographical 

good fortune. He lists the institutions in 

the area with which he would like ‘meaningful 

collaboration’, including Canterbury 

Christ Church University College, KIAD, 

five FE colleges, also the University of 

Greenwich in Medway and ultimately the 

French universities with which Kent 

already has strong links. The question of 

HE competition is not a major issue since 

they offer different things. ‘We’re complementary 

in what we offer, there’s hardly 

any overlap.’ 

Melville goes on to ask the big question, 

Why collaborate? ‘The purpose is to 

give opportunities to everybody.’ In 

RHONDA SMITH R68, KIRSTEN HAACK R98, THIS YEARÕS 

ALUMNI POSTGRADUATE SCHOLAR, AND THE VICE- 

CHANCELLOR AT THE 2001 LONDON ALUMNI RECEPTION. 

response to a question about the feasibility 

of Government wider participation targets 

(50% of under-30-year-olds involved in 

HE), he says it’s a task that requires a 

strategic, joint approach. ‘And harder work 

- some parts of the country have 90% 

participation, others 5%.’ 

This would create a seismic shift of 

emphasis in higher education thinking. ‘I 

find it impossible to take the old imperialistic 

view of a university.’ Professor Melville 

points out that there are things FE colleges 

do better than universities, and vice versa. 

One thing further education colleges do 

My whole career 

has been 

about providing 

opportunity 

well is attract a wide social mix. ‘The basis 

of successful partnerships is each institution 

doing what it is good at and each 

valuing the contributions of the others.’ 

Interestingly, he also sees great potential 

in Kent’s state of economic development. 

‘Looking at the areas round London, 

Cambridge, Oxford, Reading, Guildford, 

Brighton, there the economy’s overheating. 

This is certainly not the case in Kent.’ 

Professor Melville has been talking to key 

organisations in the region such as SEEDA 

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(the South East England Development 

Agency) about regional development and 

Kent’s role. ‘Post-war universities saw 

themselves first as ivory towers and only 

national institutions, but that’s changing, 

and the University is committed to working 

with partners in the region.’ As well as 

work at the University of Kent at Medway, 

which Melville supports enthusiastically, 

there are plans to develop in Ashford. 

‘There’s huge building development now. 

The town is aiming to become the new 

Reading, and we want to be part of that.’ 

Future plans under discussion 

include a joint FE/HE campus. 

Another key priority for Professor 

Melville will be finance - ‘Kent 

needs more money’. He has radical 

views on student fees, saying that 

he could envisage a situation in 

which the payment of student fees 

was means-tested, ‘with some 

families who can afford it paying 

more and a significant percentage 

paying a lot less.’ 

He would also like to see more 

scholarship schemes. ‘Students 

have to be attracted, and it’s more 

difficult in a buoyant economy. We need to 

ensure that finance is never a barrier to 

higher education.’ 

Where does he see Kent now? ‘Middle 

league, middle class, plus some excellent 

research, good teaching, good campus.’ 

David Melville sees mid-league as a good 

place to develop from. He is also keen on 

encouraging internal debate about the sort 

of university Kent should become. Does 

he perceive a conflict between research 

status and moves towards wider participation? 

‘No. You can’t do what I’m talking 

about without a research profile. You have 

to do both - with UKM, for example, you 

can’t short-change the people of Medway. 

The benefit to them and the area is having 

an institution with international status.’ 

He talks enthusiastically about long-term 

European plans. ‘I’m a total Europhile and 

will be glad when the dreadful period of 

knocking Europe is over. Kent is superbly 

placed to take advantage of our inevitable 

greater involvement in Europe.’ 

Melville studied physics at the University 

of Sheffield in the sixties, then studied 

space physics in the USA and over the past 

few years has been a visiting professor in 

physics at Warwick University. He is 

interested in theatre, the opera and music, 

but his weekend passion is sailing. ‘It blows 

the cobwebs away and puts the whole 

world in perspective,’ he said with a smile. 


Jane Hardy is media officer at the University 

of Kent.

The Arts and Libraries 

Committee at the Marylebone 

Cricket Club launched a marvellous 

initiative last year. Inspired by 

Prince Charles’s policy of taking an 

artist with him on official trips, they 

felt that the same idea would add 

another dimension to England’s 

Test tours. 

The art of 

The hope was that an artist would respond to 

the environment and excitement of the cricket 

and produce an individual body of work that 

would then be exhibited at Lord’s. Given that 

these matches are so heavily recorded by stateof-the-art 

media, the post of tour artist could 

be seen as an indulgence, but to my mind, the 

exercise worked beautifully: primarily through 

bringing the idea of looking at cricket as 

inspiration for artwork to people’s attention. 

It was clear that I was not needed to record 

the occasion, but it was rewarding that people 

who saw me working felt that I was capturing 

something in a lasting, and (nowadays) 

curiously novel way. 

I went with the English team to the first 

Test in Lahore, followed by a three-day match, 

and then to the second Test in Faisalabad. 

Thankfully I had made no pretence of being a 

cricket fan, so my lack of knowledge was no 

surprise to the tour party. (Day one I was 

introduced to a stylish looking man and I 

cheerily asked him if he liked cricket; day two 

at the stadium and there was his name in vast 

letters across an entire enclosure named after 

him). As the tour continued I fell for the game 

- discovering in it everything I as a painter find 

exciting. There is tension, energy, movement, 

wonderful light and space, as well as drama, 

and these are all valuable painters’ devices. 

In addition there was endless subject matter 

with all the people: I particularly enjoyed being 

high on the stadium roof, looking down on the 

crowd but also across at the city. 

I was fortunate enough to paint portraits 

of the players (Caddick, Vaughan and 

Flintoff) by their hotel pool, and especially of 

Ian Botham. He, by all accounts, hasn’t sat 

still for long enough in the last twenty years to 

be painted. The MCC wanted his portrait and 

it was done in the improbable studio that was 

the roof of the stadium in Lahore, painted 

over several days during his breaks from 

commentary - not ideal perhaps, but as apt 

as one could hope for! 

Photograph by Graham Morris 

Nick Botting R83 studied Visual and Performed 

Arts at UKC and is a full-time painter. His 

Website, designed by fellow Kent graduate Tim 

Azzopardi (K83, Computer Science), is 

www.nickbotting.co.uk. 

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cricket Nick 

Botting 

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University 

Art at the 

Art is not taught at Kent, but it has always featured in University 

life, and staff in the colleges and in several departments, including 

the History & Theory of Art and Anthropology, have worked in various 

ways to enhance visual art on campus. Gallery spaces have been 

created and, especially in Keynes, a number of exhibitions - most 

recently of photographs by Michael Dye - have been enjoyed by the 

University community. The Centre for Cartoons and Caricature, 

with its collection of more than 80,000 cartoons and its display space 

in the Library, is a very special part of the art at Kent. This year, 

through a new collaboration with the Canterbury campus of Kent 

Institute of Art and Design (KIAD), the University is embarking on 

a project to further enhance the visual art across campus. 

The Art of Collaboration 

Public art works best when creative ideas 

meet interesting spaces, as in Rachel 

Whiteread’s plinth work in Trafalgar 

Square. This winter an exciting collaboration 

between KIAD and the University, to 

brighten the large UKC campus, is being 

launched with an 

exhibition of work by 

KIAD graduate 

Angela Rumble. 

According to Laurence 

Wood, Head 

of Fine Art at KIAD, 

the project has been 

set up to ‘enhance 

visual culture’ at 

UKC and encourage 

interaction between staff and students at the 

two institutions. ‘The University has terrific 

sites for sculpture and art, and we have 

artists with ideas to develop them.’ 

The HEArtworks project is being taken 

forward by UKC’s Secretary & Registrar, 

Nick McHard, who first proposed the 

initiative in discussions with KIAD Director 

Vaughan Grylls. Long-term projects under 

discussion include: new sculptures on 

campus and the development of a sculpture 

trail; a programme of art events such as 

talks and meet-the-artist sessions to accompany 

exhibitions; collaboration between 

Kent’s drama students and students at 

KIAD to create ‘performance art’; a course 

in curating for UKC students; art installations 

and works-in-progress. 

Angela Rumble recently gained her MA 

in Fine Art from 

KIAD 

and was Artist in 

Residence there in 

2000-1. The work 

shown examines the 

boundaries between 

painting and photography. 

HEArtworks 

will be 

launched in the 

Keynes Foyer in January and will feature 

her latest pieces, which were made in 

response to the grubbing of a large proportion 

of the orchards around her home. The 

work comprises paintings which have the 

qualities of photographs and pinhole 

camera images which behave like paintings. 

Much of her earlier work bridges the 

worlds of art and science. Ms Rumble is a 

dentist as well as an artist and the paintings 

examine the objectification of the individual 

when they become a patient. These 

will be shown elsewhere on campus. 

Photography at the Panopticon 

Since 1994, staff and students from History 

& Theory of Art have been curating photographic 

exhibitions in Rutherford’s Panopticon 

Gallery. Six or seven shows take place 

each year and budding curators get the 

chance to bring some fascinating collections 

of work to a wider audience. Recent 

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exhibitions include Anna Kari’s controversial 

docuphotos of asylum seekers and 

Yasser Alwan’s depiction of life in poorest 

Cairo. The current exhibition includes 

abstract work by student Guy Edwards, who 

has created surprising effects using polaroid 

gel directly on the camera lens (pictured).

The Centre 

for the 

Study of 

Cartoons 

and 

Caricature 

This cartoon is 

by Dave Brown, 

from The Independent 

of 14 January 

2000. It appeared 

in a week when 

Jack Straw, then 

Home Secretary, had freed the former 

Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and 

attacked ‘woolly-minded’ liberals for 

opposing his reform of jury trial. The 

cartoon is part of the collection of 80,000 

pieces of original cartoon artwork at 

UKC’s unique Centre for the Study of 

Cartoons and Caricature, ranging from 

small pencil cartoons by Mel Calman, to 

There are several interesting pieces of 

sculpture on campus, set off by the natural 

beauty of the university site. These include 

Stephen Cox’s megalithic ‘Hymn’, sculptlarge 

ink caricatures by Ralph Steadman. 

The Centre holds regular exhibitions of 

material from its collection, and also 

publishes books and catalogues. Its online 

database of cartoons at 

http://library.ukc.ac.uk/cartoons/ is the 

largest in the world, and currently contains 

more than 52,000 social and political 

cartoons from British newspapers 

and magazines covering the last two 

hundred years. 

The Independent cartoon is one of those 

currently being catalogued by the Centre, 

under a grant of £258,000 from the Arts 

and Humanities Research Board (AHRB). 

Over the next three years this project, 

headed by Professor David Welch, will more 

than double the number of cartoons on the 

Centre’s database, making it an even more 

valuable tool for academics and researchers. 

Sculpture at Kent 

sculptor Alberto Giacometti; and Ian 

Hamilton Finlay’s ‘Sea/Land Sundial’ 

(also known as the ‘Canterbury Sundial’). 

‘Huella Humana’ was funded by the 

Royal Society and British 

Association Millennium Awards Scheme. 

Artist Asuncion Bassas, then an MA 

student in art at Christ Church University 

College, working with Dr Louise Naylor of 

Biosciences at Kent, created this life-size 

bronze sculpture, in which life (represented 

by the female nude) is encapsulated 

within a DNA double helix. The sculpture 

stands outside the Biosciences Building. 

ed from two massive blocks of Indian 

granite (pictured), and commissioned for 

the University’s Silver Jubilee in 1990; F E 

Williams’ ‘Father Courage’, inspired both 

by Bertolt Brecht’s denunciation of war, 

Mother Courage, and the work of Italian 

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Rutherford Faces 

On permanent show in Rutherford’s 

dining hall is ‘Framing Identities’ by 

alumna Sri Kartini Leet (K92) – a selection 

of impressive black and white portraits 

of the different people who work in 

Rutherford - cleaners, cooks, administrative 

staff and academics. Leet photographed 

each individual in his or her place 

of work and somehow got them all 

to gaze steadily at the camera - an eerie 

exposé of the spir its that walk the college 

corridors.

DEMONSTRATORS IN THE STREETS 

OF SEATTLE PROTEST THE WORLD 

TRADE ORGANISATION SUMMIT 

ON THE 2 DECEMBER 1999. 

BELOW: SIR CRISPIN TICKELL, 

CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY, 

AND THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 

CHRISTOPHER PATTEN CH 


Photomontage PA Photos-EPA 

The Challenge of 

W 

The Right Honourable Christopher Patten 

CH delivered the Chancellor’s Lecture at the 

University in February. This article was 

adapted from his lecture. 

The worldwide movement against 

globalisation would be better employed trying 

to ensure that the globalisation that happens 

maximises human happiness 

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Watching the television pictures of the 

riots in Seattle, during the World Trade 

organisation meeting just over a year ago, I 

was much struck by the paradox of a 

placard being furiously waved by a demonstrator. 

It read: ‘The worldwide movement 

against globalisation’. This contains 

a most powerful truth: there is such a 

movement, deploying all the advances of 

information technology, to campaign 

against the ideas and technologies and 

organisations in part energised by that 

technology, which are most likely to make 

the world both a more comfortable place 

for the poor, and a more secure place for 

all of us. This worldwide movement 

against globalisation, with all its swarms of 

usually well-meaning non-governmental 

organisations, and sometimes well-mean-

Globalisation 

ing special interest groups and lobbies, 

would be better employed not trying 

Canute-like to turn back the tides, but 

trying to ensure that the globalisation that 

happens maximises human happiness. 

Globalisation is not new. In his first 

great work, The economic consequences of the 

peace, John Maynard Keynes described 

what he referred to as the ‘internationalisation 

of social and economic life in the years 

before the First World War’. ‘The inhabitant 

of London,’ he wrote, ‘could order by 

telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, 

the various products of the whole earth, in 

such quantity as he might see fit, and 

reasonably expect their early delivery on 

his doorstep.’ The later years of the nineteenth 

century and the early years of the 

last one saw an extraordinary expansion of 

trade and movement of people and money. 

We argue about a single European currency; 

there was in those days a common global 

currency: gold. Sixty percent of the securities 

traded in London were foreign; in 1914 

close to 40 percent of Britain’s national 

capital was invested overseas. No country 

comes anywhere near that figure today. In 

the fifty years before 1914, 36 million 

people emigrated from Europe, two thirds 

of them to the USA. It would have been 

difficult to persuade any of them that Bill 

Gates and Alan Greenspan had invented 

globalisation. 

After WW I the liberal, political and 

intellectual consensus that sustained globalisation 

fell to pieces in populism, fanaticism 

and dog-eat-dog protectionism. 

Between the wars trade stagnated or even 

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declined. We spent the second half of the 

last century recovering from the ravages of 

the first half. So here we go again: globalisation 

mark II. Not new, but different. 

There is the same belief in free trade, in 

open markets, in private ownership, property 

rights, capitalism. But technology today 

speeds up their consequences. Ideas, goods, 

people, money travel faster and cheaper 

and in greater quantities than ever before. 

America on line, Microsoft, Vodaphone, 

Nokia, MacDonalds, Gap, Nike, 

‘mega-bucks.com’! Is there anywhere in the 

world that you can avoid CNN? Where 

they won’t have heard of Mr. and Mrs. 

David Beckham? Whether you love it or 

hate it, you cannot stop it. The question is 

how can you work to ensure that it benefits 

the greatest number of people?

The most reliable figures suggest that 

the poor are on the whole getting less poor. 

It’s also argued that the 1980s and ’90s 

were the first decades since the industrial 

revolution in which global inequities 

declined rather than increased, because of 

the growth in living standards in China and 

India as the predominantly peasant populations 

in those countries started to take 

advantage of growing world markets. 

The recent excellent government white 

paper on globalisation argues that trade 

openness is necessary for poverty reduction. 

It notes the huge scope for expansion 

of trade by poor countries. The 

total exported for South Asia’s 1.3 

billion people is about the same as for 

Thailand’s 60 million. The total export 

for sub-Saharan Africa’s 600 million was 

scarcely more than for Malaysia’s 20 

million. The countries of East Asia are 

the best example of the beneficial impact 

of freer trade on the living standards of 

the poor. The miracle so far as those 

countries were concerned, was to combine 

growing exports to the increasingly 

open markets of Europe and the United 

States, with political stability and basic 

investment in education and health. The 

proportion of people living in poverty in 

East Asia fell from 40 percent 40 years ago 

to 15 percent today. 

The World Trade Organisation certainly 

needs to reform, to become more open. 

But it should be the best instrument in the 

hands of poor countries. On the whole, free 

trade and technology are making people 

better off, but not everyone, and not in 

every country. There are growing social 

inequities within countries, a growing gap 

between rich and poor, and some poor 

countries are being left farther and farther 

behind. The rich-poor gap in rich countries 

raises questions about the quality of social 

investment, which, sadly, seems to move 

fewer and fewer voters. 

The poor in poor countries too often 

confront the problems of globalisation, not 

the opportunities. They confront the economic 

insecurity, the crime, the drugs. 

They confront the health problems. Last 

year 33 million people were reportedly 

living with HIV / Aids. In Zambia a couple 

of years ago, they lost to Aids two thirds of 

the teachers they had just trained. In several 

African countries life expectancy has fallen 

by 20 years. So in this world in which the 

200 richest people doubled their net worth 

to $1trillion in the last 4 years, 1.2 billion 

people, or almost a quarter of the world 

population, live in extreme poverty on less 

than $1 a day. What do we learn about 

ourselves from these comparisons? 

According to UN figures it would cost 

$6 billion to provide each year a basic 

education for those who receive none at 

all. It would cost $9 billion for access to 

water and sanitation for those who don’t 

have it. It would cost $13 billion for basic 

health and nutrition. In Europe we spend 

$11 billion each year on ice cream, $50 

billion on cigarettes, $105 billion on 

alcohol. Last year in Europe and the 

United States we spent $17 billion on pet 

food - even more than the $12 billion that 

we spend on perfume. A big majority of 

WTO PROTESTORS IN 

SEATTLE READ HEADLINES 

AFTER THEIR NIGHTLONG 

VIGIL 

the 45 countries at the bottom of the UN’s 

Human Development Programmes are 

African. The average African home consumes 

20 percent less than it did a quarter 

century ago. As Kofi Annan has argued, 

poverty on this scale is an affront to our 

common humanity. It also often leads to 

insecurity and violence. A fraction of the 

money likely to be invested in Star Wars 

technology, allegedly to cope with the 

consequences of global instability, could 

better prevent it if it were invested in 

The world would be 

more stable if the poor 

were less poor 

economic and social development. 

Several things are needed to ensure 

that the benefits of globalisation are globally 

experienced. First, the rich countries 

must change their policy on development 

aid. During the 1990s aid fell, probably by 

about one fifth, though in one or two 

countries, including Britain, that trend has 

now happily been reversed. But we do 

need to do much more. There is the moral 

case, but there is also expedience: the 

world would be more stable if the poor 

were less poor. 

We shouldn’t underestimate what has 

been achieved. Since the 1960s life 

expectancy in developing countries has 

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risen from 46 to 64, infant mortality rates 

have halved; there’s been an increase of 

more than 80 percent in the proportion of 

children enrolled in primary school and a 

doubling of access to safer drinking water 

and basic sanitation. The fact that we 

haven’t achieved more isn’t because we’ve 

been trying to help poor people, but 

because too often we have helped poor 

governments following poor policies. We 

should focus, as Britain is trying to do, on 

poverty reduction, on education, on health 

and on basic good government. One of the 

benefits of globalisation is that good 

results can be achieved far more quickly 

than in the past. 

The research priorities of rich countries 

differ from those of poor countries; 

‘Agri’ business might spend a fortune 

on slow-ripening tomatoes, but not on 

drought-resistant crops. Drug companies 

might spend prodigiously on cosmetic 

drugs, or on rich-country worries 

like heart disease, but what about 

malaria, which kills 2.5 million each 

year? We should train more people to 

use the Internet in developing countries, 

to share information. The cocoa and 

coffee farmers of the Ivory Coast used to 

sell their crops to middlemen in the cities 

at a fraction of their real value because 

isolation precluded their knowing the 

actual values. Now they club together, find 

out the price on the commodity market 

and drive a better bargain. 

None of the problems I have mentioned 

for poor countries is going to be 

easier to solve in the years ahead. Increasingly 

the effect of the dark side of globalisation 

on security and foreign policy needs 

to be addressed: transnational crime, 

illegal immigration, the arms trade, the 

other death industries like drugs, transmittable 

diseases. We’re all looking more 

seriously at conflict prevention, aware of 

the fact that more than half of the poorest 

countries in the world are either in the 

midst of armed conflict or only recently 

emerged from it. In the long term, development 

is the best way of preventing war, 

of securing peace and stability for rich as 

well as poor. 

On balance the story of the last fifty 

years has been one of progress for humanity, 

of life getting better and easier for most 

people. Of course we face environmental 

and demographic challenges. But I believe 

that given the right leadership and policy 

mix, we should be able to help improve 

the quality of our lives in the future. The 

challenge for political leaders, the challenge 

for all of us, is to ensure that that 

happens.

Durrell Institute of 

Conservation and Ecology 

DICE was established in 1989, 

and named in recognition of 

the late Gerald Durrell’s lifelong 

commitment to conservation. 

Its early activities 

reflected its origins in widening 

participation in offering a 

Diploma in Ecology and a 

Diploma in Raptor Biology. It 

has also established a research 

and consultancy programme. 

Photograph by Karen Baxter 

MMany DICE diplomates have continued 

their careers in UK conservation or progressed 

to higher degrees. The first MSc 

in Conservation Biology was offered in 

1991, and the Masters programme, a 

world leader, has produced some 270 

graduates from 57 different countries. 

DICE remains Britain’s only research and 

postgraduate training centre dedicated to 

conserving biodiversity and the ecological 

processes that support ecosystems and 

people. Its mission is to integrate international 

conservation and development 

sustainably by combining natural and 

social sciences in designing measures to 

help conserve biological diversity. 

This summer, DICE broke more new 

ground by launching a new collaboration 

with the RARE Center for Tropical Conservation. 

A small, specialist, American 

wildlife charity, RARE has established 

with DICE a UKC-validated Diploma 

Programme in Conservation Education. 

And it’s probably the most expensive 

course in the world, funded by RARE 

Center and its overseas donors, including 

the Packard and Loro Parque and Chase 

Wildlife Foundations and the US Fish and 

Wildlife Service (USFWS). Students from 

remote tropical areas, such as the small 

West Pacific island group, Palau, are 

brought to UKC for training. Once they 

have completed ten weeks at UKC, they 

spend a year spreading the conservation 

and sustainable development message 

among their local communities. For the 

conclusion of their training they return to 

UKC for a reportback, review, and ‘topup’ 

of their training. 

As Paul Butler, RARE Center’s Vice- 

President and, with UKC’s Ian Bride, 

main co-trainer for the course, says, ‘The 

funds we provide not only cover tuition 

and the students’ travel costs, but provide 

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ABOVE: THE ISLAND OF 

ST LUCIA. 

LEFT: DICE CONSERVA- 

TION EDUCATION 

STUDENTS WITH IAN 

BRIDE (LEFT) AND PAUL 

BUTLER. 

them with the financial resources they 

need to turn lessons into action, coursework 

into conservation and help them 

resolve real-world problems when they 

return home.’ Mr Butler added, ‘We’re 

enabling these people to go back to their 

communities and spread the word about 

the value of conservation.’ RARE Center 

specialises in creative solutions to ecological 

crises. Past campaigns have resulted in 

the establishment of reserves and the 

enactment of legislation. In St Lucia, local 

workers even managed to get an image of 

the St Lucian parrot - pulled from the 

brink of extinction by RARE and the 

forestry commission - onto their passport. 

Kent was selected from a shortlist of 

five top UK universities, following a 

review of all possible UK institutions. And 

as Paul reiterates, the approach is not 

about ‘North telling South what to do, but 

South working with South to take pride in 

caring for their own resources.’ The value 

of co-operation was shown by an Indonesian 

training film that showed the conservation 

educators using puppets in schools, 

making up school songs and devising 

ecologically oriented sermons for use in 

mosques. As one of the initial group of five 

students said of his work in the Namaqualand 

Desert, South Africa, ‘It takes a lot to 

protect what’s beautiful.’ He’ll be working 

hard, persuading local people not to overgraze 

and tourists not to pick wild flowers, 

to keep it that way.

Letters from America 

Many of our alumni live in the USA, including a 

significant number in and near New York. In the 

wake of the terrible events of 11 September, we 

sent a message to those alumni we could email. 

Some of their replies follow. 

Tuesday September 11 

At 8:30 am this morning I was driving to work on the New Jersey 

Turnpike as usual. I frequently glanced to the right, gazing across 

the river to look at the huge expanse of NYC. Never in my wildest 

imagination could I possibly think that the most dominant feature 

of the NY skyline would be gone in two hours. My office building 

in NJ is only ten miles from the city. There are clear views of 

downtown Manhattan from many vantagepoints. At around 9am, 

we heard the news that a plane had crashed into the World Trade 

Center. Everyone rushed to the large corner office to see. It was 

unbelievable to find one of the towers in a cloud of smoke and fire. 

It did not look real, like we were all in a movie. 

Then we heard that another plane had crashed. This time we 

saw both towers surrounded by a black cloud of smoke. What 

happened next was horrific, witnessing the collapse of WTC 2, 

where I had worked back in the mid-80s on a very high floor. 

Seeing one tower alone in the horizon was hard to take. When both 

were gone everyone went into a silent daze. 

On the way home, I found myself on the Turnpike again, this 

time glancing left and seeing nothing more than that persistent 

cloud that is still with us as I write this. Seeing NY like this is hard 

to bear, as I will always be a New Yorker at heart, regardless of 

where I live. 

We are grateful that the people we contacted who were at or 

near ground zero are safe. Our hearts go out to all the families who 

suffered the loss of loved ones during this darkest day of the city 

and the country. 

- Charlie Cohn (K76) in New Jersey 

In case you were wondering, or indeed some of you have e-mailed, 

we are all fine. We were all safely in Brooklyn as the day’s tragic 

events took place. I was taking our daughter Clare to school when 

the thing started. Piero and I, news junkies that we are, then saw 

the second plane hit the second tower live on TV. Apart from the 

shock and the acrid smoke hanging over Brooklyn today, all is fine 

for us. Piero headed into work and at 10 pm is still there. Clare 

stayed in school and doesn’t know it yet but has the day off tomorrow. 

Jack and I postponed a regular trip to the botanical gardens 

(way too dusty outside to venture out unnecessarily). The city and 

New Yorkers in general are so vibrant and resilient; somehow they 

will bounce back soon. 

- Sarah Kendall and Piero Bohoslawec (Both K79) in 

New York City 

Wednesday September 19 

Our family is all safe although members of our various communities 

were not so lucky. We all know people who are missing or who 

have close friends and relatives who are missing. Our daughter, 

Rebecca, is a pupil at Stuyvesant High School, which is just a few 

short blocks north of the World Trade Center. She was very close 

and she and all the school were evacuated safely. They will be 

returning to school later this week in Brooklyn as Stuyvesant is 

being used for relief purposes at present. 

- Ian Benjamin (K74) and Deborah Benjamin 

Karpatkin (E75 )in New York City 

Thank God, Mel (Kemp, K94) and Stu (Christmas, R94) are 

fine. Stuart was at work, about a 15-minute drive from the Pentagon. 

Stu and his colleagues were locked in the building for pretty 

much the whole day and evening, because a kind of martial law 

had been declared in the area until it was secured and the authorities 

knew what was happening. There were tanks and soldiers in 

the streets outside his offices. Nobody he knew directly was killed 

or injured, but obviously the effects of what happened have hit 

them all very hard. I was trying all afternoon after we got told to 

go home from work to contact him, and was petrified when it was 

said that another plane was in the air headed for Washington. But 

by the time I got home, he had emailed me to say that everything 

was OK, and by then the last plane had tragically crashed. From 

Stu’s emails it seem that the mood is now very much one of 

determination, not to be cowed. 

Our NY office is in Wall Street, and obviously a lot of people 

we do business with were in or around the area. There were no 

casualties among our staff, but some of our traders would have 

known staff at Morgan Stanley and Cantor Fitzgerald, and they 

saw terrible things. That kind of closeness really brings the horror 

of it all home to you in a very personal way. Many people in the 

City here have been deeply affected by it; we have very close ties 

with the community over there. 

- Colin Watts (R94) in the City of London 

Tuesday, September 25 

As a British Counsellor here, professional duties have been almost 

all consuming. 

Fortunately, although we live in a Washington DC suburb, we 

have not been directly affected by the terrible carnage. However, 

much of my business in the Embassy here takes me to the Pentagon. 

Today I had my first business meeting back in the Pentagon, 

and it was a curious combination of ‘business as usual’, combined 

with a very tense and security-conscious atmosphere. I did have to 

pass the area where the debris from the building is being placed - I 

could not look for long. However, my feelings and experiences are 

nothing as compared with those directly affected. 

As for the future, who can tell? Clearly, there is the real 

potential for these terrorists to perpetrate more horrendous acts of 

violence, both here and elsewhere. The world has changed fundamentally. 

Life here, and I guess back in the UK, is a curious 

combination of pretence of (nearly) normal business as usual, 

combined with a constant degree of fear and concern. It is very 

difficult to put this out of one’s mind at any time. 

Our very best wishes to all at UKC, and, of course, our heartfelt 

sympathy for those from UKC who were more directly affected. 

- Dr Chris Pell (D68) in Washington DC 

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Alumni lives: 

the communications 

consultant meets 

Greenfibres Rhonda Smith 

‘Can y ou help?’ asked a contact at a busy mainstream public relations 

agency. ‘It is a small compan y with a big idea.’ I was intrigued by the project 

– a husband and wife team, dedica ted to selling natural organic garments, 

goods and fabrics into the growing market for ethical consumer goods. 

THE LANAS WITH THEIR CHILDREN IN THE 

GREENFIBRES SHOP 

To be honest, it seemed a bit 

outside my area – these da ys I 

specialise in strategic communications 

and media promotion 

for health-related organisations. 

My 20 plus years of 

consultancy has been varied, 

mostly interesting and 

extremely rewarding. I have 

worked with publishers, with 

airlines, with food companies, 

and with charities on healthy 

aging, social care and housing 

choice. I have, single-handedly, 

contributed to the burgeoning 

number of Awareness Weeks 

and Focus Days and, on the 

way, accumulated an eccentric 

but effective set of contacts in 

media and publishing. 

‘OK. I’ll give it a go’, I 

said, drawn as much to the 

prospect of working with a 

client in Devon as to their 

idea. The more I read about 

this organisation I now knew 

as Greenfibres, however, the 

more I admired them. I also 

realised that their products – 

made from 100% organically 

produced cotton, linen and 

wool – had a strong health 

story to tell. 

A run-of-the-mill cotton T- 

shirt bought on the High Street 

contains around 100 grams of 

synthetic chemicals, used to 

give better ‘feel’ and to retain 

colour. These chemicals 

include formaldehyde and 

other substances similarly 

implicated in the dramatic rise 

in allergic conditions such as 

asthma and eczema. Cutting 

down on these chemicals is not 

OUTSIDE THEIR GREENFIBRES SHOP IN 

TOTNES, DEVON 

WILLIAM AND GABY LANA EXAMINE 

THE FINISH ON THEIR 100% LINEN 

TOWELS. CURRENTLY 25% OF THEIR 

GARMENTS ARE MADE IN ENGLAND 

only good for us and our 

families, but also for the planet. 

Currently, 26% of all insecticides 

and 11% of all pesticides 

used worldwide are in producing 

conventional cotton. 

I wrote an initial response 

and plan; Greenfibres liked it 

and one fine day I set off for 

Totnes. I arrived in the High 

Street and, leaving craft and 

candle, toy and ethnic shops 

behind, found myself in front 

of ‘Greenfibres – eco goods 

and garments’ and a shop 

window with gorgeous clothes 

in natural fibres. 

Greeted by two of the staff, 

I was shown into the house, 

which backs onto the shop. 

Upstairs, I met William and 

Gaby Lana, the owners. 

It quickly became obvious 

that William and Gaby are 

passionately dedicated to their 

business. They source the best 

raw materials and garments 

from all over the world, checking 

for evidence of organic 

status and ethical trading, and 

they are committed to increasing 

these clothes in the UK. 

‘We have a production facility 

in Plymouth where we make 

25% of all the clothes and 

bedding we sell,’ explained 

William, ‘but before too long 

we want that to be 100%.’ 

William is from New York 

and Gaby from Germany and 

so I was intrigued by their 

interest in building a British 

business. ‘There is a purely 

commercial reason behind 

this,’ said William. ‘The 

organic and ethical consumer 

market is already well developed 

on mainland Europe, but 

here in Britain it is in its 

infancy. We want to be in on 

the ground floor. Through 

our studies at the University of 

Kent…’ 

‘Where?’ I spluttered. ‘The 

University of Kent at Canterbury,’ 

they chorused. ‘But 

that’s where I studied!’ I 

exclaimed in astonishment. 

‘We both studied International 

Relations there, leaving in 

1992. Our time at Kent 

developed our international 

outlook, which has helped in 

setting up our business.’ 

I got the job. My first 

suggestion was an article for 

the Kent Bulletin; other work 

includes direct mail, media 

samplings and briefings, an 

information service for customers 

– and, of cour se, 

participation in an Awareness 

Week. Luckily for the world at 

large, an Organic Week exists 

already so we will be joining 

that bandwagon, rather than 

creating one. Although, I 

don’t know, EcoGarments Day 

has quite a ring to it. 

Rhonda Smith (R68) studied 

history and politics & government 

at Kent. rhondasmith@ 

communications.ndo.co.uk 

Greenfibres can be found at 

99 High Street, Totnes. 

Telephone: 01803 868001 

mail@Greenfibres.com 

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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 either use the carrier 

sheet that accompanied this Bulletin or the 

Alumni questionnaire on the Web. If you 

would like email addresses for people in 

3W below, please email alumnioffice@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 

[PIC] Tricia Brinton E65, John Clarke 

(E67), John Platt (R65) and Carol 

Lamb (R77) at the London Alumni 

Reception at Somerset House in 

September. 

Harvey, Trevor (ES) Enjoying retirement. 

Studying geology at the OU, seeing 

lots of art in London and walking the 

South Downs Way, one stage at a time. 

East Sussex. 

1966 

Baillie, Andrew (RS) Barrister. 

Recorder 88 and QC 2001. Married 76, 

widowed 88. 3 children; 21,20 and 17. 

Elder daughter Emma graduated from 

UKC in 2000; now doing solicitor’s 

exams. London. 

Palmer, Valerie (KH) Still dividing my 

time between Tunbridge Wells and 

Lambeth Palace where Richard E67 is still 

Librarian and Archivist. Our eldest 

daughter Kate is now a legal secretary, 

second daughter Eleanor is studying for a 

midwifery degree at Oxford Brookes and 


Who’ s What 

Where 

from UKC? 

last daughter Lizzie is currently coping 

with the new AS levels. We have a 

mountainous pile of prospectuses, as she 

seems to be considering everything. 

Richard and I are endeavouring to visit all 

the capitals of Europe, or as many as we 

can visit, courtesy of GO, Buzz, Easyjet 

etc. We’re leaving the long haul flights for 

those far off days of retirement! Would love 

to hear from any 66/67 alumni who may 

remember me. I’ve only just discovered 

3W and am amazed to find how many 

people are already on it! Kent. 

Ross, Charles (RH) I am in the middle of 

fighting the local elections as Chairman of 

the local Christian Democrats (lucky to 

welcome two Members of the Bundestag 

at our last function). Gradually getting 

used to seeing my face on posters at every 

street corner - and the comments from my 

kids! Took a course in hang-gliding and 

managed to get the thing to fly at the 7th 

attempt - my 17yr old daughter (nicknamed 

‘power mouse’) was perceptibly 

fitter than 52-year-old dad. About to relax 

and start counting grebes etc as official 

bird protector of the area (no flying 

required!). Attended Sally Carr’s (Jordan) 

R66 Silver Wedding in Scotland last 

autumn. Also there were Meg Post 

(Wilder) R66, Sue Broderick (Beales) 

R66, Mike Smears K66 and Gerald (alias 

Mike) Cain R66. Flings were flung, white 

sergeants were dashed and we were all 

reeling by the end of the party! Germany. 

1967 

Clark, Allan (KN) Came to Canada in 

70 to tour around, ended up getting a PhD 

and staying for good. Started teaching 

chemistry and science as a mid-life career 

change, after bouncing around industrial 

jobs, feeling a need to affect more people 

rather than just make money for a few. My 

son helps me keep up with the teenagers I 

teach and my wife helps keep me on the 

straight and wide enough. Have been 

living just outside Toronto for 15 years. 

Canada. 

Harrison, Shirley (EH) I am about to 

retire early from my lecturing job following 

a cancer diagnosis last year. Plan to travel 

and do voluntary work in future. South 

Yorkshire. 

Stephenson, Richard (KT) Though 

nowadays I work outside the electronics 

industry, my musician friends have 

discovered that I am one of the few people 

left who can get old 60s guitar amplifiers 

working (you remember - the ones with big 

glowing glass valves in). Regards to all who 

remember me from UKC. Middlesex. 

1968 

Thomas, Pauline (EH) Continuing to 

work part-time as an ESOL Lecturer at 

Gloscat (FE). Working mainly with 

asylum seekers living in the city. Both sons 

are student engineers. I am singing in the 

Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester this 

year. Gloucester. 

Whitehead, Christopher (RS) Still 

married to Helen (Thomas) R69 and 

living in Bristol, where we have been for 

over 20 years. Helen teaches reception at a 

very local Primary School and I manage 

the local Bristol City Council Social 

Services Adult Resources Team, charged 

with maintaining people in their own 

homes for as long as possible, at our age a 

bit of self interest here! Sadly none of our 

older 3 children have studied at UKC. 

Only one chance left. We both look back to 

Kent as a really happy and important time 

in our lives and were glad to see the 

campus looking so good when we returned 

for a quick visit recently. We would be 

happy to receive email contact from any 

friends who might remember us. 

1969 

Burian, Alastair (RS) Growing older, 

calmer and steadily more obscure among 

the mists of Avalon. Advise a number of 

SMEs in between disappearing off to the 

remote corners of the Globe that I ought 

to have seen while I was young. Became 

gracefully 50 with my wife Rita behind a 

mountain of satay in the Hawkers’ Market 

at Clarke’s Quay in Singapore. Somerset. 

Verdon, Simon (RS) Founder of an 

Internet e-commerce company that allows 

me to indulge my passion for travel. 

Living in Arizona but spending much of 

my time travelling, mostly to Australia 

where I lived for some 15 years. Contact 

me at: simv@pobox.com. USA. 

1970 

Baillee, Richard (ET) was named a 

Fellow of the American Statistical 

Association in August. Professor of 

Economics and Finance at Michigan State 

University. USA. 

Nyman, Peter (RH) Oldest son might be 

starting at UKC in September (fingers 

crossed as at 1 Aug). Surrey. 

1971 

Wimhurst, David (ES) I have been 

working at the UN for the past 5 years, 

following 15 years in Canadian journalism 

and media. My assignments so far include 

Spokesman for the UN Verification 

Mission and UN Observer Mission in 

1967 Rutherford alumni 

from 67-70 celebrating 

‘30 years out’ last 

summer included Pam 

(Llewellyn) and Tony 

Martin, Ros (Arlow) 

Downing, Rosemary 

(Morris) Abernethy, 

Terry Phillips, Carol 

(Williams) Ramsumair, 

Tam (Prentice) and Steve 

Hearnden, Derek 

Lazenby, Maggie 

(Thomson) and Serge 

Dalmazzo-Auckland, Paul 

Taylor, Hazel (Thompson) 

Humphreys, 

Margaret (Eke) and John 

Carrick-Smith and Jenny 

(Cooke) Mitton. 

Angola (96-97), Associate Spokesman for 

the Secretary General (98), Spokesman 

and Chief of Public Information, UN 

Mission in East Timor (99), Acting 

Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary 

General (2000), Spokesman for the UN 

Mission in Sierra Leone (2000) and 

Political Affairs Officer in the Office of the 

Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping 

Operations (2000 until present). USA. 

1972 

Chatterjee, Debjani (KH) I visited Kent 

in Dec 2000 for the first time in years - 

doing a poetry reading - but didn’t make it 

to Canterbury or UKC. I hope the 

opportunity comes again. Two books 

published last year, The Redbeck Anthology 

of British South Asian Poetry and a 

collection for children, Animal Antics My 

most recent is a bilingual oral history 

book, Who Cares? Reminiscences of Yemeni 

Carers in Sheffield. Completed a 

writing/storytelling residency at Sheffield’s 

Millennium Gallery this spring. Sheffield. 

Harper, Gavin (RS) Enjoying living in 

Western Australia. My time is divided 

between rushing around Asia for my oil 

company employer and rushing around 

Perth for my family. 

Lambert, Gill (RH) Still doing occasional 

tv and radio work. Teaching children 

with profound and multiple difficulties. 

This year I will celebrate both becoming 

50 and my silver wedding anniversary. 

Manchester. 

Schuck, Thomas (KH) Raising horses 

and practising law in Cincinnati. National 

Secretary of the Federal Bar Association 

which represents interests of judges and 

lawyers in federal (national) legal system in 

USA. 

1973 

Mellor, Peter (DS) Retired this year from 

appointment as Head of Legal & Committee 

Services with Kings Lynn Borough 

Council. Promptly enrolled with OU to 

study science (s103). Looking forward to 

the next 25 years! Norfolk. 

Morris, Clive (KT) I have an IT 

consultancy business specialising in the 

legal profession. Jan (Clarke) K73 works 

with children with learning difficulties. We 

are experiencing our first batch of GCSEs 

- 2nd lot next year - with driving lessons 

due in September! West Sussex. 

O’Loughlin, Bridget (KS) Finally a 

homeowner where we all, husband and 4 

children, have room to move. Busy job, 

lots of friends - but there is always time 

and a place for visitors to Strasbourg! 

France. 

1974 

Stephenson, Roger (ES) Divorced and 

now remarried and living in a converted 

barn in the wilds of West Yorkshire. 

Triumph t.90 motorbike is still running 

though now qualifies as an historic vehicle. 

Still working with CPS and having gained 

HCA last year I now make fleeting 

appearances in the Crown Court. 

Appeared in front of a fellow Kent 

graduate Nigel Cadbury E75 while he was 

working as a Stipendary Magistrate here. 

Would be pleased to hear from anyone 

who remembers me, fondly or otherwise. 

Telephone me on 01484 687634 or email 

me. West Yorkshire. 

1975 

Kekic, Razia (RS)After stagnating for 

some years, my career has taken off. I 

obtained a doctorate from LSE last year; I 

have been promoted to a team leader at 

the Refugee Legal Centre where I have 

worked for 9 years and I have been 

appointed a part-time immigration and 

asylum appeals adjudicator. 

razia@clara.net. Middlesex. 

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Martin, Peter (KH) Recently returned 

from San Francisco internship with major 

global portal (online partners) following a 

6-month return to college to learn all 

about media streaming and internet 

broadcasting. Setting up a company called 

Webtelcast. London. 

Pitt, Anna (DH) I have spent more years 

than I care to remember in the Home 

Office and am now settling back into a 

senior management post in Leeds, after a 

3yr secondment to the FCO in Islamabad. 

Life also features 2 lovely children, a very 

good husband and my lifelong ambition, 

learning to play the piano! West Yorkshire. 

1976 

Abdulrazak Gurnah KH (PhD) ‘s latest 

novel, By the sea, is included in the 2001 

Booker Prize long list. 

Hutchens, Kevin (KH) I was a candidate 

for the Labour Party at the 2001 General 

Election. Although I increased Labour’s 

vote by approximately 20% I did not get 

elected on this occasion. But I feel it is 

good news a Labour Government was 

returned again. United Kingdom (Scotland) 

Aberdeen. 

1977 

Angus, James (RT) Professor at Salford. 

Divorced from Kate (Middleton D74). 

Still like music and now play the drums. 

Last few years have been doing research 

associated with the audio/music/film 

industry, which has been fun. I got to visit 

George Lucas’s ranch and have been 

working on something called ‘Super Audio 

CD’. I would love to hear from people who 

knew me at UKC. York. 

Seneviratne, Lalith (KN) MA (University 

of Calgary). Worked for Motorola in 

Singapore and then Sri Lanka for 12 years. 

Now an independent consultant. In my 

spare time I am involved in the conservation 

of Asian Elephants: I developed a 

simple detection and deterrence system for 

protection against crop raiding for which I 

received the 99 Motorola CEO Award. In 

June I was awarded a grant from the US 

Fish & Wildlife Service to continue the 

development and do research on elephant 

infrasound communication. I am interested 

in exchanging information with alumni 

involved in conservation. Alumni would be 

welcome to visit our research facility. Sri 

Lanka Colombo. 

1978 

Mount, Eileen (NU) Enjoying teaching 

History, Drama and English at Rainham 

Mark Grammar School and designing 

theatrical sets for Theatrecraft at Herne 

Bay. We were awarded Best Kent Play and 

Best Stage Presentation with the help of 

the lighting designer from Survivor for 

building an island on stage at Whitstable 

Playhouse. Kent. 

1979 

Jack, Iain (KN) Since leaving UKC I 

have been a retailer of mountaineering 

equipment, an ambulance-man and now a 

nurse. Big change from a chemist. Since 

moving here I have married, climbed 

about 100 Munros and acquired another 

degree - in Nursing with Health Studies. 

Edinburgh. 

Owen, Di (KH) Running my own 

marketing business in deepest Hampshire. 

Given up hockey - far too bruising but still 

trying to keep fit and healthy as the grey 

hairs gather. Still in contact with Heather 

Robinson R79, Hilary Boyd R79, Maggie 

Goodwin K80, Chris Ward-Brown D79, 

Sarah Sheehan K79 and Elaine Popplewell 

from the Sports Centre. Would love to 

hear from Andi Gall K79 and Charlie 

Hague K78. Hampshire. 

Starkings, Sue (EM) I have been 

appointed Vice President of the International 

Association of Statistical Education. 

Kent. 

1980 

Fields, Fiona (ES) Having enjoyed 

bringing up my son to school age I am 

looking forward to re-entering the world of 

employment and adult inter-action in 

2002. Jersey. 

Gurney, Catherine (RT) Still with Cable 

& Wireless (14 years now - better the devil 

you know!). James R80 and I moved house 

18 months ago and we are now discovering 

the joys of gardening (including fruit and 

vegetables). I know it sounds very 

suburban but it’s good fun. Still mad on 

skiing and rugby union (season ticket 

holder at London Wasps). In regular touch 

with Eddie Pitman R80 and Adam Kirtley 

R80. Hertfordshire. 

Hayward, Ian (KS) NGO Development 

Consultant (based in the UK) working 

with community-based mental health 

organisations in Central and Eastern 

Europe and Central Asia. (Kent.) 

1981 

Iorio, Flavio (RH) Married with one 

daughter, which has naturally restricted 

my time and commitment to the Lancia 

Montecarlo Consortium. Work hectic due 

to merger. I hope to visit UKC and 

Canterbury again soon. Kent. 

Smith, Paul (RS) State school teaching; 

setting up computer system; Steiner school 

teaching. Married, moved to Canterbury, 

divorced, moved again, son now 4. What’s 

happened to all you crazy lot from 

Rutherford. Email c/o 

sarah.cameron1@btinternet.com. 

Nottinghamshire. 

Steadman, Brian (DN) PhD Theoretical 

Canterbury bids for European Capital 

of Culture 2008, and two alumni are at 

the heart of the bid: Carol Lamb R77 

and William Pettit E79. Carol heads up 

the Policy and Communications Unit and 

William is Civic and International Officer 

for Canterbury ‘This isn’t about just 

providing a fantastic programme of events 

in 2008, or just visiting theatres and 

galleries - it’s about creating a future 

where the city, together with the region, 

asserts itself as a European centre of 

excellence.’ UKC, Christ Church, Kent 

County Council and the six district 

authorities in East Kent have joined forces 

to make the bid a success. Carol and 

William are keen to see UKC alumni 

involved in the bid wherever possible: ‘As 

people with Canterbury connections, 

alumni can help by supporting the bid and 

talking about it - to friends, family, work 

colleagues.’ To find out more or register 

your support, visit www.canterburyculture.com 

or ring 01227 787725. 

Physics (May 2000). Still dabbling in 

research and also doing some tutoring and 

vegetable growing. Hertfordshire. 

1982 

Benady, Ilana (RS) I left Oxfam 2 years 

ago to take a voluntary post with ICD in 

the Dominican Republic. I continue to 

work freelance with the NGO sector in 

Santo Domingo. Married;1 son. USA. 

Griffiths, Joanna (KH) On secondment 

in Brussels, helping to reform the 

European Commission for my sins. Have 

discovered UKC graduates out here and 

hope to organise an informal gathering 

soon. Just spent 3 weeks in Australia, 

which was great. Belgium. 

Middleton, Christopher (EH) Currently 

deputy editor of the UK’s biggest IT 

magazine, Computing. Also writing music 

for film and video projects. 

lunar@zoom.co.uk. Sussex. 

Rodbert, Mark (ET) It turns out I’m 

actually a non-smoking, practically 

teetotal, bit overweight marathon runner 

which surprised everyone including me. 

Being a Director of IT at Credit Suisse 

First Boston and commuting from 

Hampshire seems to take up most of my 

time and helps build the air miles. Any 

spare time is spent with the family and the 

cars - not necessarily in that order. 

Married; 2 daughters. It would be great to 

hear from anyone who remembers me 

from UKC. Email me. Hampshire. 

1983 

Ahmed, Kabir (DH) I joined UBA in ‘96 

as a Principal Manager in the Personnel 

Division. In July 2000 I became Group 

Head, Public Sector North-West and am 

Head of the Corporate Affairs Division in 

our Head Office in Lagos. Nigeria. 

Jerves-Ramirez, Rafael (ES) Financial 

adviser in a retail business and finishing 

an Economics Postgraduate (distance) 

degree at the Technological University in 

Quito. Ecuador. 

Wright, Douglas (DT) Project 

Director for a global telecoms company. 

Motorcycle racing career cut short last 

year by a third major crash, which 

resulted in too many fractures to list! 

Looking for another dangerous sport! West 

Sussex. 

1984 

Khireddine, Naima (RH) Still teaching 

Linguistics at the University of Batna. I 

visited Leuven University in Belgium in 99 

and I am coming to UKC this year. It 

would be lovely to have contact with my 

friends and acquaintances from Kent. Two 

children. Algeria. 

Provenzano, Grace (RS) I am a 

television news reporter in San Francisco. 

USA. 

Robinson, Sally (RH) I am working on 

the world’s only flying eye hospital. 

Equipped with a state-of-the-art operating 

theatre, we travel the world training 

medical staff in ophthalmology. We visit 

10 countries a year. I am responsible for 

strategy and all operations. There are 25 

crew from 13 countries. Middlesex. 

1986 

Bebbington, Deborah (EN) I am a 

Senior Regulatory Advisor at Bayer. 

Married; 2 children. Husband David E86 

is a Chemistry Group Leader with Vertex 

Pharmaceuticals. 

deborah.bebbington.db@bayer.co.uk. 

Berkshire. 

May, Peter (RS) Now retired from Kent 

Fire Brigade. Set up my own business, 

British Fire Advisory Services Ltd. I will 

also have more time to devote to the 

magistracy, as a JP and as Deputy 

Chairman of the Kent Magistrates’ 

Courts’ Committee. Kent. 

West, Rusty (DH) Well, after avoiding the 

work of law for a good 3 years, I am now 

an attorney. Started working in civil rights 

law with the City of New York this spring. 

I love it. Still hoping to get back to 

England more frequently. USA. 

Zare-Bidaki, Mohammad Zare (RS) 

Managing Director, Mckiss Company 

based in Tehran. Married; 1 daughter. Iran. 

1987 

Barnes, Geoffrey (ES) Currently trying 

to get the country healthy, or at least 

Merseyside anyway, by taking on the might 

of multinational polluters and trying to get 

everyone to slow down on the road and 

take it easy. All in the name of specialist 

public health. Lancashire. 

Davey, Bryan (RS) Finally left the Local 

Government Commission for a new role at 

London Transport Users Committee 

dealing with public transport complaints (a 

growth industry!), and moved to Luton 

with my girlfriend. Bedfordshire. 

David Mitchell DH is shortlisted for the 

Booker Prize 2001 with his second novel 

number9dream. 

Turner, Jay (DT) I am now the proud 

father of 2 boys and a third baby is due in 

November. In September I will be running 

115 miles across the Qatar Desert in just 2 

days. t will be a world first when completed! 

Wiltshire. 

1988 

Farmer, Darren (DT) Working as a 

Flight Paramedic with the Helicopter 

Emergency Medical Service in London. 

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Kent Messenger 

This gives me a great exposure to and 

experience of trauma, not to mention the 

best views of the capital possible. London. 

Hallatt, Alexandra (EN) Still having fun 

as a cartoonist. You can see some of my 

work at www.moontoon.co.uk. East 

Sussex. 

Otto, Wayne (RT) Probably the most 

successful karate competitor in the UK, 

Wayne was awarded an OBE this year. 

1989 

Chatterjee, Deborah (EH) Working as a 

freelance TV producer. Getting married 

in October. I cannot believe it is nearly 8 

years since I graduated. Hello to everyone 

I knew at UKC. London. 

Michel, Sam (ET) Married Claire 

(Nosworthy) D91, and am running an 

email publishing and consultancy business; 

Claire is working at the BBC. As disorganised 

and chaotic as ever! London. 

Murphy, Tony (ES) Moved office back to 

Stoke, and now Deputy Mayor. Staffordshire. 

Owen, Guinny (DT) After trying for 

ages, finally got a job with Games 

Workshop! Working in the Studio as part 

of the editorial staff, putting books 

together and proof-reading everything (so I 

had better make sure that this is spelled 

correctly!). Nottinghamshire. 

1990 

Blessing, James (RN) Working for Zen 

as Technical Support Manager. Still doing 

the occasional bit of DJ-ing (see 

www.despres.co.uk/broken for details). 

Bought new house. james@zen.co.uk. 

Lancashire. 

1990 

David Fulton (RS), a star opening 

batsman for Kent County Cricket, was 

this year named Professional Cricketing 

Association Player of the Year. 

Ford, Eleanor (DH) Currently at Salford 

University studying physiotherapy, and 

aiming to become a Formula One physio 

(not as fanciful as half the stuff we did at 

University). Manchester. 

Mbapila, Dim (DS) Working for the 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Special 

Adviser to the Minister. Still maintaining 

my interests in the private sector. Just 

came back from DAVOS 2001 in Switzerland. 

Keep in touch, ‘Sods’ where are you? 

dimmbapila@yahoo.com. Tanzania. 

1991 

Bates, Gabriela (EN) After finishing my 

PhD in Material Physics I worked for the 

national grid as an overhead lines engineer 

and have completed a Graduate Training 

Course to become a Physics teacher in 

Hythe. I start as Head of Physics in 

September. Married Guy 

Bates E90 in May 2000 

and we live in Ashford. 

Guy works as an Operations 

Manager for a railway 

freight company. Kent. 

1993 

Nagafela, Nelson (RN) 

Recently become District 

Wildlife Co-ordinator 

(Central District) on 

promotion. A District in 

Botswana is an equivalent 

of a County in the UK. 

The work is rather 

challenging and exciting. 

Botswana. 

1994 

Sahyoun, Zeina (DN) 

Worked for 2 years with 

Unilever in Beirut as Safety 

& Quality Assurance (QA) 

Manager, travelling 

extensively. Now work in 

Amman in a private 

medical laboratories 

consultancy company as a 

QA Manager. Jordan 

Theodoropoulos, 

Constantinos (KS) I have 

been working in the advertising area since 

graduation. Currently an Account 

Director at DDB Advertising Agency 

handling the VW account. Greece. 

1995 

Rahman, Saira (ES) Project Coordinator 

in an NGO called Odhikar. It 

investigates and writes and disseminates 

reports on human rights abuses by law 

enforcing agencies in Bangladesh. I have 

also published a book on the socio-legal 

status of women in Bangladesh, the subject 

of my thesis at Kent. Bangladesh. 

Sanchez, Juan-Luis (KN) I am working 

at Industrial Light and Magic on ‘Star 

Wars: Episode II’, the fulfillment of a 

childhood dream. Amazingly it is living up 

to all of my hopes! USA. 

1996 

Hulbert, Gareth (KS) Now an aspiring 

producer for London theatre. Any 

sponsors or other interested people please 

contact me: thegentity@hotmail.com. 

Essex. 

Steele, Jonathan (RH) Spending the 

next few months working on a voluntary 

conservation project on the Caribbean 

coast and rainforest of Costa Rica. 

(Somerset). 

Courtney, Andrew KS married 

Jennie Stoker EH94 in August, an 

event that the Fencing Club and the 

exiles had been awaiting for over 5 years! 

Jennie is teaching primary school; 

Andrew is working in accounts at a 

women's college. Oxford. 


1989 Susan Wanless, 

Director of Music, Sir 

Crispin Tickell, 

Chancellor, Judith 

Beazley E89 and Jacqui 

Charlesworth E89 at the 

recent London Alumni 

Reception. 

1997 

Humphreys, Asa (KS) MA (Durham) 

which I’ve just finished and am still of the 

opinion that UKC is better! I have a place 

as an intern in the House of Commons 

next year so Helen’s bet about being PM 

by 30 is nearing completion! Nice to see 

Keynes looking pretty at last. Kent. 

1998 

Carufel, Erin (DH) I am currently 

working - which is good for any actress.I 

have done three features in the past four 

months and was in the season premiere of 

ER. I will continue to work hard, and you 

will see me on the big screen for many 

years to come. USA. 

Deaths 

We are very sad to have to report the 

deaths of several alumni. Caroline 

Elizabeth Adams K67 died of cancer 

on 5 June (Her obituary appeared in 

The Guardian on Saturday 23; let us 

know if you would like a copy.) Dr 

Richard James Kelsey K75 died on 3 

June 99, from accidental death related to 

his asthma. Richard’s mother donated 

his chemistry books to the Library. 

Margaret Wright (Spillane, K77) 

informed us of the death, on 25 July this 

year, from cancer of Barbara Anne 

London (Rickaby, K77). Barbara Rae 

(Nunn, K79) died in August 1999 from 

cancer. (See Bulletin 26 pp 10-11). Eve 

(R86, Boyce) and Graham R84 

Ferguson notified us that Robert 

Parsonage R84 had died in February of 

a brain tumour. Nicholas Sorrell R84 

died in February from Pneumonia. 

Victor Arthur Smale E85 died in 

January from cancer. Dirminder 

Anthony Singh Benning K91 died in 

January from a brain tumour. Maisey 

Jessie Bray K96 died in May from 

cancer. 

Contact us at the address on page 2 for more 

information; we may be able to put you in 

touch with family or friends of the deceased. 

Only Connect Autumn 2001 

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: 

Ian McWhirter (E66) would like to 

find Anthony Bolton (E69). Josephine 

Freeborough (de Clive-Lowe, K68) wltf 

Jennifer Gait (69). Makoto Honjo 

(K71) wltf Martyn Booth (K69), John 

Green (K69) and Duncan Cross (K68). 

Azy Salour (R71) wltf Alan Foley 

(D81). Lydia Schaefer (Schmidt, R71) 

wltf Mary Greville (R71). Peter Taylor 

(D71) wltf Maureen Morgan (Freeman, 

R67). Mohammad Alem (E72) wltf 

Irene Dipple (R73), Stephen Smith 

(R73) and Manijeh Nazery (R71). 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). 

Thomas Wingate (R78) wltf Joanna 

Paterson (Hooper, K80). Thomas 

Wingate (R78) wltf Donald Paterson 

(K80). Sarah Sheehan (K79) wltf 

Anne-Marie Porisse-Girard (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 

Staple (D81) wltf David Brammer 

(K81), Sally-Jane Ewin (E81), Anthony 

Gilling (K82) and Stephen Bowden 

(E82). Man-Chung Tsang (R83) wltf 

Joseph Woo (R83). Kate Horn (Eccles, 

E84) wltf Susan Osborne (E84). James 

Hunt (K85) wltf Karen Morgan (R85) 

and Matthew Ferraro (R85). Richard 

Morbey (R86) wltf Paul Reece (D86) 

and Steven Kidd (D86). Lisa Neden 

(Bush, E86) wltf Charles Denham 

(E86). Antonio Olivo Farias (R86) wltf 

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Haitham Salam (K86). Silvester Phua 

(R86) wltf Simon Knowles (R86). Helen 

Turner (King, D88) wltf Jane Batley 

(Tovell, D88). Khang Chew (K90) wltf 

Andrew Brittain (K88). 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) and Kwai So (K92). Jose Casal 

Giménez (E93) wltf Juan Armendariz 

(D93). Angela Day (R93) wltf Gina 

Barton (Rumming, E93). Kevin 

Breidenbach (R95) wltf Claire Casey 

(K95).Cindy Chan (D95) wltf Cedric 

Van Den Bergh (K91). 

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Inside 

story 

The series where 

UKC people 

describe what is really 

going on. 

Pamela Cross, 

Director of the 

International Office, 

describes 

a ‘typical’ w eek…. 

ABOVE: WITH ALUMNI AND STUDENT 

HELPERS IN HONG KONG 2000. 

RIGHT: NEW STUDENTS ÔSENDOFFÕ 

WITH ALUMNI AND CURRENT STUDENTS 

IN SINGAPORE. TIMOTHY TAN E92 IS 

FAR RIGHT. 

They are here! 

TThe culmination of the 

International Office year is 

Orientation, the week before 

the start of the academic year. 

All of a sudden the campus 

explodes with students, and 

names on paper, worried 

emails and frantic telephone 

calls turn into real people. 

Monday 17 September 

My fantastic International 

Office team – Mar y, Hazel, 

Gemma and Aaron are up at 

Heathrow and Gatwick for the 

third day (from very early 

morning) to meet incoming 

international students from all 

around the world. Requests – 

and changed details – ha ve 

been pouring in on our new 

web form, by mail and by 

telephone. Arranging taxis and 

buses is a major logistical 

challenge, this year made even 

more difficult by the shocking 

events in America. Flights 

from North America have 

started again but bookings 

have all changed. We have 

been tracking our outgoing 

American Studies students and 

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have heard that almost all have 

arrived at their US universities. 

A constant stream of 

students visits the International 

Office to collect tickets for 

orientation events – some with 

parents in tow. A mother and 

daughter arrive at the office. 

Mary had promised them a 

small fridge (left by a previous 

student) to store the girl’s 

insulin, only Mary is still at 

Gatwick Airport …. 

So many students, especially 

postgraduates, seeking 

accommodation, but the 

Accommodation Office cannot 

release more campus rooms 

until they have heard from all 

those with rooms reserved. 

Tuesday 

Today is the start of formal 

orientation and 9 am sees the 

International Office team in 

the Gulbenkian Theatre for 

the International welcome and 

‘support’ talks. I stress in my 

welcome how much we value 

the great diversity of UKC’s 

student population; and how 

we need, especially in these 

troubled times, to understand 

each other. Leaving the Gulbenkian 

I catch up with three 

Indian students I interviewed 

in March in Mumbai. At 

lunchtime I dash over to the 

induction for new staff and 

meet four from mainland 

China. In the afternoon more 

American students arrive. 

Early evening and time to 

go to the Overseas reception 

and dinner. I sit between a girl 

from America and 

one from Pakistan. 

Across the table is 

a student from 

Bolivia. The VC’s 

speech stresses our 

diversity. Three 

students from 

Bahrain find my 

table to thank me 

for helping to 

expedite their 

applications. 

Another group from five different 

countries thank me for my 

welcome. 

Wednesday 

I take a telephone call from the 

United Arab Emirates - the 

father of a girl due to arrive on 

a foundation engineering 

course. I try and calm his fears 

about the aftermath of the 

tragic events in the US; I quite 

understand the family’s worry. 

We agree that they monitor 

events, and he hopes to bring 

her in a couple of weeks. I ask 

the Accommodation Office to 

hold her room. 

At last we hear all our 

students arrived safely in the 

USA. And at 5 pm, I attend the 

hastily convened ‘Attack on 

America’ seminar organised by 

History. Such a large audience 

that we have to move to a bigger 

lecture theatre. 

Thursday 

The stream of international 

students continues, and I try to 

work on the last details of my 

next trip to Japan, Singapore 

and Hong Kong. I finally 

complete the Web RSVP for 

the October 20 wedding of 

Singapore alumni Timothy Tan 

(E92)and Yi-Peng Ong(E92). 

Timothy is one of our most 

actively supportive alumni and 

we have become firm friends. 

Friday 

A tearful Russian student 

arrives first thing – she has 

failed her first-year re-sits and 

is frantic. I try to piece together 

all the details. Normally I do 

not get involved in academic 

issues, but I am hopeful that 

there may be some leeway here. 

And at 6 pm I am delighted to 

learn that, following an interview, 

a new department is 

offering her a second chance. 

Relief – b ut I know she will be 

back next week because her 

accommodation may already 

have been re-allocated …. b ut 

that’s another week!

TEACHING 

● European MA in Migration, Mental Health and Social Care 

(part-time) 

● MA in the Management of Community Care (part-time) 

● MSc in Analysis and Intervention in Learning Disabilities 

(full/part-time) 

● Diploma in Applied Psychology of Learning Disability 

(Challenging Behaviour) (part-time) 

● Certificate in Community Care Practice (part-time, 

delivered at Chatham) 

RESEARCH 

Research into social inequalities in community care, 

community care policy and practice, challenging behaviour 

(in learning disabilities). 

● PhD Programme 

Covering Learning Disabilities; Mental Health; Community 

Care; Applied Psychology and Clinical Psychology. 

CONSULTANCY 

The Tizard Centre provides consultancy to organisations in 

the statutory and independent sectors throughout the 

United Kingdom and abroad. 

Please visit our website 

www.ukc.ac.uk/tizard for further information 

or telephone 01227 827373 for a brochure. 

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