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ALUMNI NEWSELENI BIDEEleni Bide (MA 2005) is Assistant Librarian at theGoldsmiths’ Company Library. She is Treasurer ofthe Design History Society and sits on the editorialboard of the Society of Jewellery Historians’ JHTmagazine. Previous roles have included curatorialwork for the V&A and the Goldsmiths’ Companyand teaching at London Metropolitan University.This summer she fulfilled a lifelong ambition with a(very) brief appearance on Radio 4.SHENGFAN CHOUShengfan Chou has commenced work on aPhD at Warwick University this autumn.CARLY ECKCarly Eck is working as a specialist clothing archivistat the Marks and Spencers archive.LYANNE HOLCOMBESince completing the MA course in the Historyof Design, in 2005 Lyanne Holcombe has taughtundergraduate students at the University ofBrighton, Kingston University, Central St MartinsCollege of Art and Design and London MetropolitanUniversity. She is studying for a PhD with theModern Interiors Research Centre at KingstonUniversity entitled ‘Art, Luxury and Taste: thedesign and decoration of the palace hotel inLondon, 1890–1939’. She has been involved inthe forthcoming book entitled ‘Hotel Lobbies:Anonymous Domesticity and Public Discretion’edited by Anne Massey and Tom Avermaete(Forthcoming Routledge 2011).SPIKE SWEETINGSpike Sweeting has commenced work on a PhDstudent at Warwick University writing on18thCentury London, the Thames, river transportsand networks.NEIL TAYLORNeil Taylor’s post-MA life began with the coursesymposium, where he was lucky enough to beapproached by a magazine editor and a TVproducer who were both interested in hisdissertation research on the place of luxury inWorld War Two. Since then he has been workingwith the TV production company on a documentaryand has also published an article in the magazine(Selvedge). There is interest from a number ofpublishers in a book based on his research. Neilteaches in the Humanities department at ImperialCollege London and offers academic writingsupport to current V&A/RCA students.The V&A/RCA Course is grateful for thesupport of student research providedby the following:Basil Taylor Memorial PrizeClive Wainwright Memorial PrizeFriends of the V&A StudentshipAnthony Gardner FundGillian Naylor Essay Prizein Memory of Tom NaylorMontjoie FundOliver Ford Trust StudentshipSylvia Lennie England Fund26/27