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To: [email protected] I studied Drama & Computing at Kent, a degree that has attracted much attention over the years. I first joined this list over 5 years ago when I worked for Adobe Systems in the US. I left Adobe to work as Director of IT for a print company in Dublin. It was fun for a while, lots to do and every day was different. But the pressure was never ending and I wasn’t happy. So in November 1999, I resigned, and on 1 January struck out on my own. I wanted to get back to ‘basics’, whatever they are. I decided to work at home and spend more time on my lighting sculptures (http://www.sculptlight.com) and dancing Salsa. My commute is now 10 seconds down to my computer in the sun-filled sitting room. I earn cash from contract programming, and when not program- ming I am either working on lighting sculptures or teach- ing Salsa dancing. I danced From Daniel Gibbin R97 Jive at Re: Seeds for Africa UKC and My years at UKC were always action then packed. From Students’ Union activities learned and demos to walking in the Brecon From the British Council ballroom Beacons, life was never dull and I will in Saudi Arabia in the US. always remember it. However possibly the Our three offices in Jeddah, Riyadh When I most fulfilling contribution I made was and Damman are building databases of came over through the work of ‘Seeds for Africa’, the Saudi alumni of UK universities, and to Dublin, fantastic UKC charity started by Ruther- we have established an association of Salsa was ford porters Albert Bullock and Ron alumni with various benefits, including the craze. Taylor in 1998. Many of you already know discounts on travel with British Airways. So if you about the charity. While studying for my Members are regularly invited to special are in the Dublin area, please feel free to degree, I spent a large amount of time events, such as dinner with the drop me a line. fundraising. From the infamous bean Ambassador or other visiting speakers, From: [email protected] slide to being Father Christmas at the ball; education fairs and receptions with Ivan Markovic R87 from writing begging letters - not just to visiting dignitaries. Through a range of http://www.sculptlight.com my bank - to answering enquiries about activities, we are trying to build upon the charity’s fundraising activities, which the experience that Saudi alumni have included skydiving, white-water rafting, had of the UK so that more students are even bungee jumping. encouraged to study in the UK. Please contact the British Council, West Saudi To subscribe to: The charity’s aim is very basic - to Arabia, 4th Floor, the Middle East [email protected], send a mes- provide vegetable seeds to needy families Centre, Falasteen Street, PO Box 3424, sage to [email protected] and in Africa, allowing real sustainable devel- Jeddah 21471 Saudi Arabia or in the body of the message say sub- opment. It receives no government fund- [email protected], scribe [email protected] ing and has no paid staff - yet it has made such an impact, both on those of us who if you would like to get involved. The Majordomo software will take your have been involved with helping, and on ‘from’ address and subscribe you many farmers in Africa. accordingly. Kent-grads is an open list, Seeds for Africa is currently supporting 23 From Tara Emery R94 for UKC alumni to discuss relevant projects in 12 African countries. The charity (SU President 97-98) subjects - favourite (or worst!) particularly wishes to support small-scale I am running the New York Marathon memories of Kent, to track down old backyard gardening, community gardens and in November to raise money for the friends, or to announce job possibilities, school or orphanage projects. A £10 donation Trinity Hospice, where I work, and I get-togethers or other appropriate will purchase 50kg of good-quality vegetable was wondering if you could please tell matters. We use it from time to time seeds. The Patron is Alan Titchmarsh MBE. alumni in the autumn Bulletin. If people to seek your views and advice. To get involved, write Seeds for Africa, would like to sponsor me, please contact Please subscribe! University of Kent, PO Box 581, Canterbury me at: [email protected] CT2 7SW. www.seedsforafrica.org

2 Kent Bulletin 35 Autumn 2000 Contents

Cover: Tableau showing The wife of Bath’s Tale at The Canterbury Tales Visitor Attraction

Cartoons, pages 16-17, from UKC’s Centre for the Study Page 10 Entente cordiale? of Cartoon and Caricature. Page 16; Mel Calman, Sunday Times 12.4.81; page 17, both by Bill McArthur in The Glasgow Herald, 27.1.99; and page 17 above, ‘Hullo, Ground control... I think we’ve a bug in the computer.’ 19.8.97.

Design: The Wells Partnership Tel: 01622 831661 Page 16 Software failure! Page 23 Inside story Printer: Broglia Press Tel: 01202 632631

Special thanks to Chris Features News and Views Lancaster and Lesley Farr in the University Print Unit, and to the University 8 Chaucer in Canterbury 2 Alumni letters Photographic Unit Peter Brown 4 University News Editor: Killara Burn Kent Bulletin 10 Entente cordiale? Communications and Michel Rocard 7 The Development Programme Development Office University of Kent Canterbury CT2 7NZ 14 Poet in place: 12 Partnerships around the world Tel: 01227 823263 Fred D’Aguiar Fax: 01227 764464 15 Transferring skills: the student Email: [email protected] 16 Software failure! Living with a development unit wobbly technology Kent Bulletin is published Les Hatton 18 Letter from Düsseldorf in spring and autumn every year for alumni and friends of the University of Kent at 19 Alumni life: the press officer 20 Who’s What Where Canterbury. It is sent to all Louise Richards alumni world-wide who keep us up to date with their 23 Inside story: Jenny Keaveney current whereabouts.

3 UKC reaches out to By this time next year, local businesses the University will have A grant of more than half a University passed a number of land- million pounds has been marks. The first round of awarded to the University to external subject reviews, or help develop its work with teaching assessments, will be businesses in the local region. complete, and the higher The grant from the Higher NEWSeducation sector will be Education Reach-out to adjusting to a new Teaching Business and the Community Quality Assessment system. Fund (HEROBAC), means We shall be keenly awaiting Kent is now able to build on the outcome of our submis- its already impressive track NEW DIRECTOR OF THE COMMUNICATIONS sion to the next Research record and make it even easier AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE. SUE SHEPHERD, Assessment Exercise - which for local business to gain WITH VICE-CHANCELLOR PROFESSOR ROBIN the VC believes we can look access to UKC’s high-quality SIBSON AT THE LONDON ALUMNI RECEPTION. forward to with justified research, consultancy and confidence. education services. 1994 it was for a seven-year Recent outstanding term of office, with the possi- achievements for UKC will bility of a further three-year also have had an impact on Vice-Chancellor extension’, he said. ‘I have the shape of the University to step down now informed the Pro-Chan- by then - in particular our in August 2001 cellor that I have decided not success in winning consider- The Vice-Chancellor, Profes- to seek any extension, and I able student numbers for sor Robin Sibson, has shall accordingly complete my ‘widening participation’; the announced his decision to period of appointment at the important regional partner- retire from his post next year. end of August 2001.’ Professor ships we are entering into; ‘When I took up the post in Sibson will then be 57. and the Prime Minister’s

High Flyers TO CELEBRATE THEIR GRADUATION IN JULY, STEPHEN SUCH (EA:97), CHRIS HINES (DA:97) AND RESPECTIVELY, JOINED THEM FOR SOME FORMATION SKY DIVING. THEY JUMPED FROM THE AIRCRAFT ROBIN DAY (RA:97), ALL THEN MEMBERS OF UKC’S PARACHUTE CLUB AND GRADUATES IN AT 10,000 FT. STEPHEN SAID ‘IT WAS A FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE. IT WAS A PERFECT DAY AND YOU COMPUTER SCIENCE, DECIDED TO PARACHUTE JUMP ONTO THE UNIVERSITY PLAYING FIELDS. EMILY COULD SEE ALL THE WAY TO FRANCE.’ THE KENT PARACHUTE CLUB IS THE FOURTH-RATED HORWICH (KH:99) AND CHRIS PILLINGS (EA:97), WHO WILL GRADUATE IN 2003 AND 2002 UNIVERSITY SQUAD IN THE COUNTRY. Photograph by Simon Hughes. by All other photos p.4&6:RobertPhotograph Berry Honorary graduates honorary degrees will be On 24 November, the Univer- awarded at this ceremony, to sity will be holding its autumn the historian and well-pub- degree ceremony in Canter- lished retired General Medical bury Cathedral. This ceremo- Practitioner, Dr Cyril Hart, ny is for postgraduate students and to the Italian actor and plus students from our affiliat- playwright, and Nobel laure- ed colleges, including the ate, Dario Fo (pictured left). London School of Contempo- rary Dance and Mid- and South Kent Colleges. Two announcement of medical New look for the student places at Kent. UKC Web site People But not everything on the The start of a new University Professor Phillip Davies Management Science and horizon is so encouraging. term means new subjects, new (E65) succeeds Professor Computational Mathematics. Recent indications from the students, new faces. This John Slater as Dr Glynis Murphy has been government suggest that the term, the new faces include Pro-Vice- promoted to Professor of decline in funding for teach- the University of Kent Web Chancellor, and Clinical Psychology of Learn- ing, which all universities have site. Having commissioned Professor Slater ing Disability; Dr Murray had to endure in recent years, Brighton-based company is now Emeritus Smith, to Professor of Film is unlikely to level off, after all. KeyMedia to come up with a Professor of Studies and Dr Simon Further funding pressures may bright new look, UKC Web Computing. Dr Thompson, to Professor of well trigger the introduction of Editor Miles Banbery (D90) Francis Lough is the new Logic and Computation. some new form of fee struc- and the Web team have Dean of Humanities; Jill Professor Robin Gill has ture in the sector. worked hard over the summer Davis heads the School of been appointed to the Ethics Professor Sibson conclud- to translate the concepts into Drama, Film & Visual Arts. Committee of the Royal Col- ed: ‘It is appropriate that the workable web pages. It has Sue Shepherd has joined the lege of Obstetricians and challenges arising from this been a major undertaking, University as the Gynaecologists, and re- situation should be addressed involving the updating and new Director of appointed to the Medical by a new Vice-Chancellor at redesign of the core UKC Web Communica- Ethics Committee of the the start of a substantial period site. Alongside the contempo- tions and Devel- British Medical Association. of office - I shall be handing rary design, there are shifts in opment, Professors David Turner over to my successor an insti- content. There is a new succeeding (Computing), Alan Common tution well-placed to respond Research services section, Joanna Motion, (Maths), and John Todd, to those challenges.’ continued on page 6 now Executive Director of Andrew Williams and CASE Europe. Dr Stephen W Anthony Beezer (all Chem- Liu has been promoted from istry) have been made Emeri- Senior Lecturer to Professor of tus Professors. Campus update Obituaries Tom Blagg joined the Universi- During Ian Dallas's short ty's then School illness, countless colleages asked of Continuing after him and offered to help. Education in This was just a small measure of 1978. From the the widespread respect across the outset he gave University community that Ian himself to the commanded. He joined the needs of extra- Computing Laboratory in 1971, mural students and contributed becoming Head of User Services selflessly to classics and classical in the early 1990s, and later studies. His main research Head of Laboratory Adminis- interest was in the techniques of tration, embracing video confer- Roman monumental sculpture, in encing, Audio Visual Services ELIOT COLLEGE DINING HALL WAS RE-OPENED AS A FULL-SERVICE DINING HALL AT THE which he had an international and the Regional Support BEGINNING OF MICHAELMAS TERM, AND KEYNES DINING HALL CLOSED. THE UNIVERSITY reputation. Tom will be remem- Centre. Ian was kind and DESPERATELY NEEDS ADDITIONAL TEACHING SPACE, AND ELIOT, WITH ITS TALL CEILING, WOULD bered not only for his impeccable considerate and highly valued by BE FAR TOO COSTLY TO CONVERT. THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM AREA IN KEYNES, LOOKING scholarship, but also as a warm colleagues here and elsewhere. OUT ON THE POND, WILL BE UPGRADED, PROVIDING AN ATTRACTIVE CATERING AND SOCIAL AREA and humane personality. We shall all miss him. FOR STUDENTS, STAFF AND VISITORS. 5 created with help from the friendly and coherent website. Research Office, and a new Much remains to be done, University of Kent at Canterbury Arts, leisure and public events including on the alumni pages, section. This launch represents and your comments on the Alumni Diary 2000 - 2001 the first phase of an ongoing new look are invited. process to create a user- [email protected]. 10 November Open Lecture: Professor Hermione Lee ‘Women writers and biography 10-24 November IO visits India London Alumni 17 November Open Lecture: Dr Alice C L Lam, Canterbury Reception Business School ‘Skills formation in the knowledge-based economy

RICHARD DE FRIEND (R67) AND SHIULIE 24 November Congregations Ceremony for postgraduates - GHOSH (D86) (RIGHT) AND ALISTAIR Canterbury Cathedral GRAY (E72), HILARY STEEL (E92) AND 24 November Open Lecture: Gavin Esler (R71) ‘What British FLAVIO IORIO (R81) AT THE ANNUAL means’ LONDON ALUMNI RECEPTION, THIS YEAR 24 November - 1 December IO visits Turkey HELD AT THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 1 December Open Lecture: Robin Hanbury-Tenison, International AND ATTENDED BY OVER 200, INCLUDING explorer ‘The Sahara: prehistoric rock art and the Tuareg’ ALUMNI FROM GERMANY, CANADA AND 8 December Open Lecture: Dr Mark Connelly, Reuter’s Lecturer in AUSTRALIA. Media History at UKC ‘Good Christian Men Rejoice: the English and Christmas 1780-1914’ 20-23 January 2001 IO visits Hong Kong and Thailand February IO visits Norway, Kenya, Dubai, Bahrain, Brunei and China 1 March Annual Careers Fair 1 March Alumni in the media event 7 March Ian Gregor Memorial Lecture 29 March Alumni event in Edinburgh Unless otherwise indicated, all the above events take place at the Universi- ty. Each of the Open Lectures is followed by a High Table and alumni are welcome; if you would like more information, please contact us (see p3)

6 The Development Programme

The Ian Gregor Scholarship In memory of Professor Ian Gregor, who died in Novem- ber 1995, his family, friends, former students and col- leagues launched a fund to support a lecture and an English MA student annually. The 1999-2000 Gregor schol- ar was an American. Jennifer Burch undertook the MA on Modern Literature and Cul- ture, including the Creative Writing module. Jennifer, a graduate of the Ivy League Amherst College, in Massachusetts, relished her year at Kent, ‘I consider SUMATRAN TIGER information which can then be receiving the Gregor Scholar- ‘CAUGHT’ IN A PHOTO- used to develop strategies for ship a grand piece of luck, TRAP. MATTHEW the tiger patrol units. strange chance. American (CENTRE) AND COL- Having completed his first graduate programs in litera- LEAGUE ON THE EDGE OF degree in biology and zoology ture have subsumed MA level A DEFORESTED AREA. at the University of Liverpool, study into the PhD, for the Matt (24) was recommended most part no longer offering Alumni Postgradu- tigers in existence; 20 years to apply to DICE. ‘It was sage terminal MAs or funding. ate Scholar 2000 ago there were 1,000. Around advice. Doing my MSc here, I Grants at the international Matthew Linkie, postgraduate 76 of them live in this 90,000 developed my research interest level and within England are at UKC’s Durrell Institute of square kilometre park - the in tropical deforestation and scarce. Kent’s generous offer, Conservation and Ecology second largest national pro- tiger conservation.’ More combined with the merits of (DICE), has more reason than tected area in Asia.’ The details about Matt’s research the English department, led most to be interested in the problem is that the tiger’s can be found at his Website: me to choose the University Red List of plant and animal natural habitat is shrinking, a www.Sumatran-tiger.co.uk over a number of other species threatened with extinc- result of the continuous The Alumni Postgraduate esteemed institutions. tion that was published last process of deforestation which Scholarship is funded by gifts ‘The most important thing month. He not only spent is in itself a result of economic from alumni and the award is the scholarship has meant to several months working on it, pressures. ‘You have to get the made only to UKC alumni. me is time. I have been able to but his research into one of the balance right between human Among the criteria for selec- spend a year immersed in listed creatures, the Sumatran and animal needs.’ Matt’s tion are academic excellence modern literature with a tiger, has won him the Univer- challenge is to find a cost- and an ability to act as ambas- degree of freedom I would not sity’s Alumni Scholarship. effective way of helping those sador both for the University have had anywhere else. The Matt has become increas- involved in the conservation of and for the scholar’s subject. incorporation of creative ingly involved with this beauti- the tiger in its natural habitat. Past scholars have included writing into the MA is unique. ful threatened big cat over the One of the ways he’s helping to two psychologists, an histori- Professor Michael Irwin last couple of years. He helped achieve this is by mapping and an, an English scholar and a advised me on the creative set up the Tiger Protection predicting land use change physicist. If you would like to writing module, and I cannot Unit in Sumatra’s massive within and around the national help fund this annual scholar- find the words to express what Kerinci Serblat national park. park. This helps identify where ship, please use the box on a great privilege that was for ‘There are 500 Sumatran deforestation is likely to occur, your response form. me. Other academics in the School of English were fantas- tic too, in the areas of research Learning Resources Centre and criticism, and exceptional Education Support Services were awarded nearly delighted with this great boost to ESS’, said Jan in character and spirit. £5,000 by the Development Trust this year for a Sellers, of the Centre. We ran a small-scale ‘If only I could slip into new project to help develop mathematics resources numeracy skills project last year and the need for the skin of next year’s Gregor and study support sessions in the Learning greater resourcing in this area was quickly apparent scholar....’ Resources Centre. This exciting initiative is a in the steady flow of student inquiries. We look The Ian Gregor Memorial valuable way of helping students with numeracy - forward to being able to assist many more students Lecture this year takes place one of the key skills graduates need. ‘We are this year’. on Wednesday 7 March. 7 Chaucer

ABOVE: Shakespeare stole plots from THE WIFE OF BATH’S TALE him. Spenser idolised him. LEFT: Dryden translated him and A SLEEPING PILGRIM IN THE TABARD INN dubbed him the ‘father of

BELOW: English poetry’. The Victorians THE PARDONER’S TALE edited him. T. S. Eliot began ALL THE TABLEAUS SHOWN The Waste Land with ‘April is HERE CAN BE VIEWED AT the cruellest month’, a line that THE CANTERBURY TALES VISITOR ATTRACTION IN recalls the opening of the ST. MARGARET’S STREET, Canterbury Tales while revers- CANTERBURY ing its joyful note. The history of English literature is saturat- ed with the influence of Chaucer. A modern collection of allusions, by Derek Brewer, runs to two thick volumes.

8 LEFT:

THE KNIGHT’S TALE in Canterbury Peter Brown

But Chaucer is not just a relic of literary Professor Derek Pearsall of Harvard and Canterbury. Again, in 1375 Edmund history. His writing continues to win new York Universities, spoke on ‘Chaucer’s Staplegate, son of a prominent local mer- readers, who report their surprise at how Two-Way Pilgrimage: Canterbury and chant with property interests in the city, ‘modern’ he seems. What do they mean? Beyond’. became Chaucer’s ward. As his guardian Some of Chaucer’s creations, with their But just what was Chaucer’s associa- Chaucer had to oversee Edmund’s inheri- Birreverent and scandalous sense of tion with Canterbury? Anyone glancing tance and the discharge of his duties may humour, could hold their own with any through the commercial section of the well have brought him to Canterbury. TV comic: the outrageous Wife of Bath city’s telephone directory could be One thing we can be sure of is that out-sauces Dame Edna. Then there is a forgiven for thinking that Canterbury was Chaucer put Canterbury on the literary variety as natural and changeable as his home town. Listed are the Chaucer map, but here too frustration abounds. English weather: moods that shift from Book Shop, Chaucer Club, Chaucer The Canterbury pilgrims never arrive in exuberance to solemnity, serious stories College, Chaucer Garage Equipment, the city: the last place named is ‘Bobbe-up- that end in farce, characters that mix every Chaucer Hair, Chaucer Homecare, and doun’, perhaps Harbledown. Never- quirk of vice and virtue, love stories that Chaucer Hospital, Chaucer Hotel, theless, Canterbury figures prominently in explore tender intimacy alongside the Chaucer Housing Association, Chaucer the imaginations of the pilgrims as the embattled antagonism of men and women. Insurance, Chaucer Lodge Guest House, place where they hope to obtain rest, food, The millennium year is a special one Chaucer Motor Factors, Chaucer Stores, the satisfaction of a destination reached, for all Chaucer fans, since it marks the Chaucer Taxis, Chaucer Technology and above all the spiritual and physical sixth-hundredth anniversary of his death. School and, especially for those who warm benefits of visiting the shrine of St Thomas In July, Chaucer scholars from around the to Chaucer, Chaucer Thermal Insulation in Canterbury cathedral. Ever since their world met in London for a three-day Contractors. legendary journey, ‘Canterbury’ and landmark conference that debated ‘the Chaucer himself might have enjoyed ‘Chaucer’ have been inseparable. place of Chaucer’ in medieval and modern the irony of his name’s association with culture. Closer to home, the month of Canterbury, for there is no hard and fast Peter Brown is a Senior Lecturer in English Chaucer’s death was marked by an Open evidence that he ever set foot inside the city Literature at the University of Kent and Lecture at the University in October (an walls. But there is a high degree of proba- Director of the Canterbury Centre for event that was also part of the ‘Passing bility that he did. He travelled abroad on Medieval & Tudor Studies. His Companion Tales’ programme of exhibitions and talks the king’s business on a number of occa- to Chaucer (Blackwell) will appear later about Chaucer). The leading international sions, embarking at Dover, and it is likely this year. This article was adapted from one authority on Chaucer’s biography, that his journeys brought him through that appeared in the Kent Messenger. 9 Entente cordiale? The problems attending the false images of the relationship between Former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard delivered Timisoara in Roma- political responsibility and nia, for example - the media are universal. a revealing Reuters Lecture on relations between politics are taken at face News management began and the fourth estate at the University earlier this year. value, are powerful with the Egyptian and sometimes TPharaohs, who created the deceptive. post of scribe to control Media practices what was said about those in power, a maintain stability and accountability in can be harmful to the democratic process. situation that continued until the freedom this situation? Journalistic fabrication, a real phenome- of the press was established in the 19th Technical developments naturally non, demonstrates a growing disrespect for affect the news agenda, for example, the the truth. And the media controls any speed of communications. When signifi- legal right to reply; always has the last Journalistic cant events such as a coup d’état or the word. The trend of ignoring human rights, murder of a world leader are known the right to privacy and the assumption of fabrication, a real worldwide within ten minutes, and micro- innocence is greatly worrying. Examples of phenomenon, phones thrust at politicians a minute later this trend include the treatment of people with the question ‘What’s your comment?’, charged with (but not convicted of) a demonstrates there is a risk that politicians will answer crime and the plaguing by the media of immediately without knowing the context, the late Princess of Wales. The people who a growing disrespect without having further information - or are victims of this treatment cannot avoid for the truth others’ reactions - at their disposal. What being affected by it. Unusual levels of risks is broadcast or printed is presented as taken, absurd excesses in the search for public opinion whereas in fact, it’s a privacy, quick and sometimes foolish century. What has changed since then is collective not the phenomenon itself, but its scale knee-jerk and nature. reaction, often The statistics are interesting: before irrational, the second world war, radio reached a uninformed, mere 10% of the population, the print even danger- media no more than 20%. Now papers ously so. Yet it and TV both reach 90% of adults, and has the power radio around 98%. The power of the to influence media has effected a sea change in the voters. And development of public attitudes. As the broadcast raw material of politics, public opinion has pictures are become a mere reflection of the messages worse - where- put out by the system, the producers of as words on a which insist unconvincingly that they page can be follow what, in fact, they are creating. checked, re- This shift has serious implications. With- read, analysed, out noticing it, we are abandoning repre- TV images sentative democracy and marching communicated towards opinion-led democracy. Politicians by the media - and journalists are frequently in conflict, with politicians complaining that the The trend of ignoring human rights, the right media’s influence on political affairs is to privacy and the assumption of innocence illegitimate, rarely pertinent and sometimes devastating. How do you is greatly worrying 10 As the media gives the public what it thinks it wants, with an emphasis on emotional topics, governments are forced to address those issues, and the media system creates the political agenda

of Allied army casualties. I spoke to the two TV editors later but completely failed in inspiring them with the slightest sense of responsibility for the many people’s lives they had risked. In the First World War, their exposure would have led to a court- martial, but now no sanction is available. I have no hard evidence for this, but I sense British journalists might have had more respect for the national interest. And what about violence and sex on TV? Our young children are accustomed to violence and sex much earlier than any other generation. It is the price for free- dom of the press. I would like our social scientists to research and determine whether there is a relationship between decisions made in anger, and, because of government action, even in war, has led to violence on TV and violence at school. the need for protection, a complete sepa- very dangerous situations. Remember the Does such an early exposure to TV sex ration between the person affected and astonishing result of the Kuwaiti war, result in early - and potentially harmful - people living ordinary lives all create a when the allied armies (mainly Western sexual activity? Debate must go on on climate antagonistic to the serenity needed with some Arab) had almost no casualties. these subjects. for good decision making in government Obviously, their technical and air superior- As the media gives the public what it and public life. ity played a part, but contrary to the thinks it wants, with an emphasis on topics Another damaging media trend is their accepted view, that does not explain the with an emotional content, and govern- ‘interest’ in heated debates about dull whole affair. General Schwartzkopf tried ments are forced to address the issues facts. Jacques Chirac, commenting on his and succeeded at an audacious manoeuvre picked up by the media, the media system economic record a year and a half after copied from Napoleon at Austerlitz. creates the political agenda. And of all he’d left office, claiming that I had ‘emp- Instead of attacking from the front, which the six systems of power that rule society - tied the coffers of State’. I immediately would have been dangerous even with a the executive, legislative, judiciary, finan- had dozens of interview requests from the weak Iraqi force, he decided on a charge of cial, scientific and media - only the media press. I said I would only comment on light armed vehicles far to the West, to cut is a system without proper checks and condition that the journalists looked up off the Iraqis and enable the battle corps balances. the real figures of the state deficit and to move via a desert position to an unex- In the face of this, how can democra- published them. Not one single newspa- pected attack on the enemy from the rear. cies protect their core values? In France per took me up on this! Allied to this is But this manoeuvre was dependent on there are two main problems concerning the trend for greater simplification. secrecy and a news blackout. I was one of the media. One is the future of the TV Instead of reporting on a government’s seven civilians in France who knew about networks, with the privatisation of TF-1 evaluation of a new way of ensuring food the manoeuvre in advance. Yet three days weakening the public network. In Britain a safety, the media will say the government before the land attack, while watching the strong public sector institution, the BBC, has decided to take a particular course of TV news one evening, I saw a positive influences the whole broadcasting system. action. Eventually, governments move report on the French troops’ good morale. The second problem is the fact that efforts from well-planned studies and preparation Unfortunately, the neighbouring Arab towards media regulation have had very to quick intuitive decisions. In France village was shown, and in it, an identifiable little impact on the defects of the current over the last decade, there have been a mosque. If the Iraqis had been able to system and the challenge it presents to our number of poorly thought-out govern- analyse this image, which thankfully they democratic society. ment decisions for this reason. weren’t, they would have had enough time We must persist in seeking a media It can be even more serious. The to change their position and the war might system and practice capable of strengthen- questioning of the need for secrecy about have gone very differently, with thousands ing democracy instead of destabilising it. 11 across the The University collaborates with a wide range of organisations in every area of its activities - in research, in teaching, and in its pro- vision and procurement of services. UKC validates degrees for at least twelve different institutions, including the Kent Institute of Art and Design and the London School of Contemporary Dance. Kent academics collaborate with colleagues in continental Europe and all over the world in countless research projects in nearly every subject area. These two pages offer a tiny selection; they reflect the growing trends of regionalization and globalization, our European strengths and the development of widening participation.

University of Kent concentrated in the Medway area. at Medway Under the new agreement, higher In partnership with Mid-Kent College, education places formerly allocated to UKC is working to expand the educational Mid-Kent College(MKC) will be funded opportunities and skills base in the South- through the University. A new Medway east. The University was awarded addi- Higher Education campus has been estab- tional funding worth more than £33m lished for UKC, to be known as the Uni- over two years by the Higher Education versity of Kent at Medway. HNCs and Funding Council for England (HEFCE) HNDs will continue to be run by Mid- in order to provide around 1,000 extra Kent, which will remain an autonomous student places in subjects including busi- Further Education College, now linked to ness studies, the performing arts, informa- the University as an Associate college, to tion technology, travel & tourism and ensure the strong links between the two law - and many of these places will be institutions continue.

Yes to medics Community Medicine in the The joint bid between the context of Kent-based NHS University of Kent and Guy’s, trusts and primary care King’s and St Thomas’s groups. Medical School (GKT) for The project aims to attract extra places for medical nontraditional students into students was successful. Fifty medicine, and GKT and GKT medical students will UKC will work with South come to UKC in their fifth London schools to improve year of study - the final access to a medical career clinical year. They will then experience for students from socially disadvantaged clinical practice in Medicine, Surgery and groups. Partnerships

Forecasting the future Professor Peter Clarkson and Dr Elizabeth Mansfield of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics have started a three- year project with fellow academics from the Universities of Bath and Cambridge, and scientists from the Forecasting Research Division of the Meteorological Office. Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the project's aim is to improve the Met's supercomputer programs, in particular those used for model- ling weather fronts. Improvements will come by studying the underlying mathematical structures implicit in the equations used to predict weather phenomena, including hurricanes, storms and cold fronts. world Nihon University sixth successful year, is Links between Nihon University (NU) open to students across and UKC date back to March 1994, when all the NU colleges. In Professor Tamuro of the Department of 1996, a Visiting NU English at NU’s College of Arts and traineeship in English Sciences asked his colleague Stephen literature was established at UKC; in 1999 fessor Shimakata, Dean of Nihon Univer- Harding, a UKC alumnus (E75) to the traineeship was extended to other sity College of Arts and Sciences (above), explore with UKC the establishment of a subjects. This year, a Memorandum of formalising these programmes and a summer language programme for his Agreement was signed by the Vice-Chan- Junior Year Abroad programme for NU students. That programme, now in its cellor, Professor Robin Sibson, and Pro- students at UKC.

Electronic Engineering KLS in the Caribbean and the Media In January Kent was visited by senior A creative new course at Kent launched this members of Bermuda College. They came September attracted hundreds of appli- to cement an agreement with Kent Law cants. Multimedia Technology and Design School which means that Bermudan is a multidisciplinary programme of study students who complete the KLS certificate bringing together the new technologies, in Law can go directly to Part II of Kent's including internet and Web-based technolo- LLB. KLS is one of the country's leading gies, digital video and audio, digital televi- innovators in the use of electronic technol- sion and mobile communications, with ogy in teaching, and the Bermudan design skills in the new media - 3D model- students will be able to use the Web to ling, animation techniques, Web site design download lecture recordings and hand- and authoring multimedia CDROMs. outs, and subscribe to the same e-mail list This BSc Honours programme is and Web boards as students in Kent. an innovative collaboration between the University’s Electronic Engineering Laboratory and Computing Laboratory and Kent Institute of Art and Design.

Theatrical links Regional IT support The Gulbenkian Theatre is building a A UK-led consortium of further and blossoming partnership with the Marlowe higher education institutions across the Theatre in Canterbury. During the year Southeast has won £766,500, over three they issued their first joint publicity leaflet years, to establish a Further Education promoting dance and drama events, and Regional Support Centre for the Region. hosted a Theatres' Open Day, which took The Joint Information Services Commit- visitors from one to the other and gave tee (JISC) will aim to provide IT support Mother Chip them free entertainment. for institutions across the region; the Head Drama at Kent was awarded top marks for of the Centre will be based at UKC’s its teaching a year ago. Mother Chip is a Bridge Wardens’ College in the Medway. sci-fi radio soap launched last spring. It is Anything but rubbish the project of students on the Radio drama Chris Rootes, of the Sociology Depart- course, a kooky situation comedy, starring ment, has been collaborating with col- Partnerships with Purpose an inter-galactic catering company and a leagues in the Universidad Complutense A government-funded joint venture saucy mix of food adventures. It is de Madrid on a project looking at waste between colleges, universities and other co-produced with the Sound Department management in Britain and Spain. The education providers in the region, Partner- of the London College of Printing, who project, which was funded by the EC, ships with Purpose aims to make higher provide the sci-fi effects and some of the investigated the processes of issue forma- education in Medway, East Kent and post-production. Exchange across the two tion in relation to waste management, the Thames Gateway towns more accessible. sites is through the Internet, with scripts roles played by environmental movements, Like the MKC partnership, the initiative is and sound being updated daily. All the governmental agencies and private associa- part of the Government’s move to widen students involved, from UKC and tions, and the effects on both ordinary participation and is concerned with the College, get a boost to their career people and professionals of the making the education set-up in the region prospects through the production contentious issues surrounding waste more user-friendly, in particular for company, Sound Kitchen, which markets management. nontraditional students. their products through the Internet. 1113 Fred D’Aguiar peers closely at the photos on the wall: Ted Hughes, glowering, craggy and monumental; Wendy Cope, impassive and a little distant; Andrew Motion with that famil- iar, patrician smile. ‘I don’t suppose he wears all those ban- gles now’, he laughs, ‘but he’s doing a wonderful job, isn’t he?’

We are at the Poetry Society in Covent Garden; D’Aguiar has just returned from Edinburgh, where he did the first reading from his new book, Bloodlines (Chatto & Windus). Such events are a delightful distraction from his routine in Miami, where he has lived and taught for several Wyears. ‘Miami is a place you take with a pinch of salt, the place where Versace was murdered and the place where there are the most breast implants’. D’Aguiar was born in Britain, lived in Guyana until he was 12 and then spent 20 years in south-east London and Kent, Poet in place

before taking his first creative writing job in mixed heritage and in a space opened by for me,’ he declares with a faraway look. the US. Miami has brought him financial the amalgamation of two different tradi- ‘It’s a great space where you suspend the and domestic stability. He has been with his tions. ‘Just to show,’ he adds with a smile, world outside and look at the poem as an second wife, Debbie, for seven years and ‘how fortunate I am and that skinheads are utterance, the lyric as a contemplative they have a two-year-old son, Christopher. no big deal.’ space...it’s messianic’. I am reminded that ‘Domesticity has been blissful,’ he smiles It is the first indication that Fred his first collection was dedicated to his with the zeal of the convert, ‘knowing D’Aguiar speaks and writes from bitter grandmothers, one of whom bore the name where the spoon will be in the cupboard experience. He speaks eloquently of Edna Messiah. He laughs - ‘It’s quite a and finding it. There is nothing more growing up in London and becoming name, isn’t it?’ - but is soon back in the liberating and creative than that stability’. aware of blackness as a negative thing. world of poetic utterance. ‘Were it a pool,’ His output since moving to America ‘I didn’t want to become political’, he he announces dreamily‚ ‘you could dive has been impressive: three novels, one confesses. ‘I wanted to have a good time - into it and come out the other side altered.’ book-length narrative poem and now his it was the seventies. But in the middle of new verse-novel. Bloodlines tells the story the Carnival you had serious riots. My Fred D’Aguiar studied English and African of a young female slave, Faith, who falls in historical imagination was made through & Caribbean love with the white son of a plantation those experiences, which is why I argue for Studies at the owner, Christy, and runs away with him in an aesthetics that is political, or a muse University of search of freedom. It draws on the intri- that’s a card-carrying humanitarian.’ Kent 1983-86. cate rhyme scheme of Byron’s ‘Don Juan’ Much of what he discovered he This is an edited and the narrative devices of Pushkin’s explored in his collection, British Subjects, version of Eugene Onegin, and its time-frame ranges but he feels there is scope for plenty more. an article that from the American Civil War to the present. His mother still lives in South London, as Christina D’Aguiar has talked of the way that do his brother, a bus driver, and his sons Patterson, each of his books starts off as an image. from his first marriage. If the right job Director of the ‘For Christy and Faith,’ he explains, ‘it came up, he’d be back like a bullet. Poetry Society, was the idea of bloodlines. Obviously, it’s D’Aguiar adores his work at the Uni- wrote for The selfish in that I’m interested in my own versity of Miami. ‘The seminar is an altar Independent 14 Transferring In this series profiling special Macintyre Hudson, and the skills covered range features at UKC, Sally Bowden skills: from time management and Sean Ireton of the Student to risk assessment. The Development Unit (SDU) sessions themselves the Student offer a chance to describe how the SDU helps practise skills as they today’s students. One of the are learned, and are University’s major providers of, Development open to all UKC students. Russell Goom (D98 Computing and English) attended among other things, essential all the sessions last year: ‘I realised a wider ‘transferable life skills’, Unit commercial awareness would give me an the Unit was established advantage over other graduates when applying for jobs.’ He also in 1996 with seed-corn appreciated the chance to gain funding from the Careers contacts. Advisory Service, whose The SDU encourages students to record and articulate their skills. work it complements, and Knowing how to sell your abilities the Annual Fund. to an employer is a skill in itself. Dave Carr (D89 Chemistry and Environmental Science) volun- With the abolishment of grants and teered in College and Students’ the introduction of tuition fees, Union activities. He admits he was students today, more than those of filling in the gaps in his CV, but any other generation, must focus on recognises that he gained in other income and employability. Most ways also: ‘The most important work during term-time as well as skill was working with such a range holidays, and with around 200,000 of people. It meant developing my Wstudents graduating annually in the UK, communication skills - something my graduate jobs can be hard to find. course didn’t do!’ Now Manager of UKC’s Student Development Unit was Sheffield Volunteer Bureau, Dave would set up to help. It incorporates the Job- have welcomed more help in gaining Shop, Student Community Action, High experience. ‘Student Community Action Flyers and other training and volunteering wasn’t around at the time.’ programmes. Last year JobShop advertised Elizabeth Harper (D97) used the over 1000 part-time vacancies. Hundreds JobShop to get several jobs, including care of students took advantage of the training assistant for a severely disabled man, and offered in such skills as leadership and ended up with a job in JobShop itself! She communication, and nearly 400 volun- said of her care work, ‘I learned to break teered in the local community. down barriers to communication and am Richard de Friend (R67 Law), now far more patient with people and calmer in Director of the College of Law in the face of things that go wrong.’ She London, commented that in the recognises that part-time work offers more 1960s the Students’ Union didn’t than money: ‘No matter how mundane a offer this kind of help. ‘The SU task, you are always developing important (though it supported societies and a skills.’ range of activities) was strongly The SDU is growing. Students can oriented towards political activities.’ now register with the JobShop online and He admits that while a student, he see all vacancies on the Website. It has hadn’t considered the skills he launched UKC Conservation might need, adding that ‘given the Volunteers, offering skills and experi- culture and labour market of the ence in conservation work around time, the need for such help was not as Canterbury and on campus. Student great as it clearly is for students of today’. Tutoring will offer over 100 High Flyers is a programme unique to placements in local schools and an UKC. Professional training staff from extensive training programme is local and national companies and organi- planned. sations pass on their expertise to students The SDU would be happy to hear in the Unit as if they were staff in those from UKC alumni or parents interested companies. Participants include HMV, the in getting involved! Contact:

National Deaf Children’s Society and Baxter Karen by Photographs [email protected] Software failure! Living with a Most of the attempts that I have had at a career over the years have been afflicted by software failure in some way or other. I did my PhD on tornadoes and waterspouts. I later tried to reproduce my results, but - different place, different computer - and some of the results were completely different! Some I tracked down to problems with the new machine, some were algorithmic subtleties. I worried for ages that I would be discovered and defrocked until I realised this was fairly normal. In some ways the reason for the differences was more interesting than the original results and less well understood. Les Hatton

I then went to work for the Meteorological Software enables us to do fantastic Office. I had only been there for a few things we could not do otherwise, but one months when I found a terrible error in tiny mistake can have huge repercussions. the current forecasting model. Every other We can tolerate mistakes in some areas time step, the software mistakenly threw (your PC for example), but not in others, away all of the non-linear weather-generat- where massive costs or human safety may Iing terms! I thought, this is it - fame and be at stake. On 15 January 1990 AT&T fortune! The forecasting staff visibly paled contracted arguably the first $billion bug in when I showed them the problem. It was history. They misplaced just one line out of the only time in eight years that the opera- 3 million lines of program and thereby tional forecast for the day was not carried crashed the entire long-distance telephone out, while I corrected the bug and we ingredients together and bake it slowly in a network in the USA for nine hours. reran the forecast. There was almost no not-too-hot oven. Now most people who The first example of a major software difference! I was young, and I suggested know how to bake cakes could, from a list problem in commercial aircraft was in rather too publicly that, as we were always of the ingredients, produce a perfectly 1994. Airbus A340 G-VAEL was trying to short of computer time, why not take the functioning cake. In fact they are just land at Heathrow after flying from Japan, equations out completely, because they carrying out a set of instructions very and in so doing, did some unexpected obviously had no effect and the model similar to a computer program. But if you things. First, there was a bug in the soft- would run quicker. Sadly my suggestion don’t know what you’re doing, you might was not appreciated and it was suggested mix them in the wrong order. And what that I should seek an alternative career on earth does ‘not-too-hot’ mean? The elsewhere. With the benefit of experience, devil is in the details, and this is so with a I now suspect that the reason was a bigger vengeance in computer programs. bug that I didn’t find. How big are real programs? As an As a result of this slight setback, I example, SCT is a toolset for testing the became a seismologist for some 15 years. reliability of embedded control systems. Here too I found software failures, in this The day before I gave this talk, its recipe case potentially leading to drilling a $20 contained 1,428,967 characters on 64,412 million well in the wrong place. At this lines, which corresponds roughly to a 500- point I gave up, realising I was destined to page book. It took me about three years to study software failure. write. The programs that fly aircraft and We are now the first generation in run telephone networks are about 50 times history to live with a technology that we bigger than that. completely depend on, but do not fully understand. Software is in everything: So, what is software? In many ways, it is like a recipe. You have containers of TV, videos, DVD and MIDI different sizes, ingredients (different kinds systems, answering machines, of number) and instructions for mixing the mobile phones, cameras, washing ONE SINGLE MISTAKE CAUSES FAILURES ON AN UNBELIEVABLE ingredients in the containers. For example, machines, microwaves, central heating SCALE. AND THE INCIDENCE IS GETTING LARGER. THIS IS to make a Sachertorte, you would put a controllers, burglar and fire alarms, cars, ARIANE 5. $4B UP IN FLAMES, AND PIECES OF IT ALL OVER wonderfully cholesterol-rich series of trains, planes, nuclear reactor control systems... NEW GUINEA. 16 wobbly technology

ware that calculated the remaining fuel ignored’. This appeared on the flight level, so the pilot’s instrument panel management system of a McDonnell- suddenly gave a low fuel warning. Then Douglas MD11 aircraft. The pilot also both pilots’ screens went blank, and a noted that ‘The aeroplane [computer reassuring ‘Please wait...’ message system] manuals were written as though appeared. Just imagine having 281 passen- by creatures from another planet’. This gers behind you, you appear to be running kind of thing is probably responsible for out of fuel, and you get the message ‘Please the reported fact that the two most com- wait...’. Shortly after that, the plane turned failures. One common source of failure in mon pilot statements recorded on aircraft right when instructed to turn left, and it computer systems is a mismatch in storage voice recorders are: ‘What’s it doing now?’ acquired a nine-degree descent (almost a space. As a result of one of these, the Bank and ‘There it goes again.’ dive in a commercial aircraft) instead of the of New York some years ago had to borrow normal three degrees. The good news is $24 billion from the US Federal Reserve The illiteracy problem permeates every- that the pilots landed this plane safely. The because a software failure due to an over- thing to do with computers - including job bad news is that to my knowledge, only flow of a 16-bit counter (the rest were 32- adverts: one of these defects has been found and bit counters) stopped the processing of corrected. The others have not and the incoming credits. In other words, money ‘Please wait...’ message, for example, has could go out, but none could come in - not ‘App dev, Java, C/C++, occurred on other aircraft of this type. a very stable position for a bank. At $5m a As another example, the ultimate high- day interest charge on the loan, imagine WebObjects, tech warship USS Yorktown (known as the the pressure on the programmers to fix it. Oracle-PL/SQL, Perl, ‘Smartship’) was left dead in the water off One of my favourite stories took place Candidates with the coast of Virginia for an hour on a in 1985: an entire Montgomery Ward weekend in September 1997 because of a warehouse disappeared for three years. datamining skills will software failure. The boat can apparently Someone made a mistake in the input also be considered. not even steer without its computers. program, and it lost the record corre- Ultimately, they had to reboot the ship. sponding to this warehouse. The staff did Perhaps there should be an international not like to say anything, because they maritime flag signal for ‘Please wait...’. thought they had lost their jobs. But the JOB ADVERT MAY 2000 How many of you have ABS brakes? paycheques continued to arrive, so they sat We are stuck with software, without They have lots of software too, and in 1999, in Redding, California for three years and question. It is a huge benefit and we nothing ever came or left. In the end, simply cannot do many many things someone apparently met someone else without it. However the more we depend from another warehouse at a party and on it without understanding it properly, they said, ‘Oh are you still around?’ the more out of control it will get, the and the mystery was finally solved. greater the risk and the more expensive the I believe the ability to read and problems. We have already reached the write English is closely connected to position where a single mistake can threat- the ability to write good systems. en the financial security of a giant compa- There are many examples of literacy ny. In conventional engineering, engineers problems in software programming, go to extraordinary lengths to keep their General Motors (GM) unfortunately and computer manuals particularly are designs simple to maximise the benefit introduced a software defect into them. infamous for gobbledy-gook. This however whilst minimising the risk. We need to The effect was to extend truck stopping is not the only problem. Some time ago, adapt that policy also in computer engi- distances by 15-20 metres. GM looked at my local pub was unable to dispense beer. neering and I look forward to helping possible mechanical and corrosion prob- The message on the screen on the cash computer science students of the future lems, at first not contemplating a software registers was ‘System overstressed’. Trans- understand the nature and scale of these problem. While they did, there were 11,000 lated into English, it eventually transpired risks so that we can all fully enjoy the complaints, 2,111 crashes and 293 injuries. that the printer had run out of paper. The benefits. I also look forward to learning a They finally identified the cause as a bug in message ‘No paper’ might have been lot more about them myself. the software! GM then had to recall 3.5m somewhat more appropriate one would vehicles. Think of the cost - even without think. This kind of thing is surprisingly Les Hatton is Professor of Software Reliability the litigation costs for the accidents. common. at the University. This article was adapted Financial systems also have alarming How about this one - ‘Button push from his inaugural lecture. 17 Letter from Düsseldorf

I left Kent as the Germans that ‘handy’ doesn’t recession started to mean mobile phone in English meets with looks of disbelief. bite in 1990. I decided German technology may be to work abroad, where ‘up to date’ but perhaps not living and working in a German names. German Telekom caused a stir when it new country with a introduced its new tariffs with new language would names like ‘City’ and ‘Moon- prove a challenge. shine’. Some people decided to pay their bills in pounds With no knowledge of or dollars! the German language Learning the I moved from being an and an interest in English teacher to working as language... a ‘Locally Employed’ (LE) central-European member of staff for the For- politics, the time of eign and Commonwealth the fall of the Berlin Office. The FCO abroad is divided between LE-staff and wall was an ideal time UK-based (travelling) staff. In to live in Germany. each category there are those I am now coming up who want to get on with things and therefore learn the lan- to my tenth year here, guage and those who seem to so things look pretty Manager’. On want to learn little. I am sad to permanent. the way we had a ‘Busi- say that this latter description ness snack’ and were is often true of the younger

given ‘Meeting generation, while the older While I have been learning mints’(?) at the end staff work hard and are easy to German, the rest of the coun- of the journey. En work with. try, already pretty bilingual, route you could After more than five years has been speaking more read the popular at the FCO I moved to English. Some years ago Die national magazine Elizabeth Arden as a business Zeit published a joke article in Fit for Fun containing analyst. The company, in Deutsch, using all the import- articles about ‘well- Düsseldorf, is a nice environ- Wed Anglicisms they could find. ness’ and ‘beauty ment where people try to An English speaker would only trends’. make life easier for each other. recognise the difference in the The trend has The language used is often occasional use of ‘der’ and where the been accelerated by the half-English/half-German, ‘das’. Today you could compartments were use of English in areas of but as the company head office probably extend the article to divided into ‘Silence’,‘Office’ computing, the internet and is in the USA, that is to be half a newspaper. and ‘Club’. The ‘Service marketing. A wonderful exam- expected. On a trip to Hamburg Team’ looked after passengers ple of how far this can go is the recently I travelled on the and were ‘Managed’ or ‘ge- ‘handy’ - German for mobile Christiaan Hofman R86 studied ‘Metropolitan Express Service’ Managed’ by the ‘Operations phone. Trying to explain to Politics at Kent. He is British! 18 W major part of theirlives.major part That who stillwanted musictobea studying somethingelse,but students who, likeme,were for Music at Kentisfantastic your lifenow? feature inotherways in Does your Kentexperience the Elite?’ on‘IsOperafor dissertation Council. Iwrotemy final andtheArts Media andSport forCulture, Department fundingbodies,the various We aboutallthe learned Systems andTheirFunding. third year, we studiedTheatre useful formewas that inthe ism, andActing.Especially speare, EarlyDrama,Natural- In DramaIstudiedShake- Drama. than insinglehonours less actingandmoretheory there’sIn thecombineddegree nicemix. was avery degree combined DramaandHistory work.my Andthe current have allhelpedin like History required instudyingasubject research, analysisandwriting The was medieval history! Yes -even though‘my’ period work? current isusefulinyour history So your having studied muchenjoyedI very at Kent. andasubject half ofmy degree touch withhistory, whichwas the Museumkeepsmein On theotherhand,beingat administration asacareer. arts and arts on theperforming University, focused Iwas very press office!WhenIwas at in amuseum-oreven ina No, Ihadn’t plannedtowork goals’? Museum inyour ‘career Was War theImperial about herwork. Louiseworks War inthePressofficeat theImperial the PressOfficer UKC has a particularly goodemployment recordforitsgraduates. UKC hasaparticularly For spoketoLouiseRichards(E96) ‘Alumnilife’,KillaraBurn Museum in London. She studied Drama and History at Kent. Museum inLondon.ShestudiedDramaandHistory Alumni life: ately afterKent? What didyou do immedi- and publicisingexhibitions! work. We arealways organising of mythat’s part animportant events. Andat theMuseum, helping organiseandpublicise now -somuchofmy rolewas usefulforwhat Ido was very Secretary. Andthat experience Music Societyandbecameits Iwas activemusic, inthe teacher. aswell voice asagreat friend was wonderful - she was areal lessons withKate Lewis. Kate fundedmy voice bursary activity orother. Andthe was spentinsomemusical say freemoment that every Icouldalmost opera chorus. andthe Choir, theChorus Kent IsangintheChamber alsohelped!Whileat bursary being awarded themusic reasons IchoseKent-and was oneoftheimportant Being soinvolved with 19 Museum’s in advert answered War the Imperial not toolong.InFebruary, I oftemping. Fortunately period applications but nojob,Ihada too,That was experience, great. What a timetowork there! move intothenewbuilding. November -justbeforetheir Covent Garden.That was with theRoyal OperaHouse, the two-week work placement I camebackjustintimefor And then? my return. placement withthemuntil allowed metodelay my work the Royal OperaHouse much todo!Andfortunately opportunity. Therewas so new season.Itwas awonderful before theopeningoftheir onemonth I hadarrived know anyone -but fantastic. -Ididn’t was completelyscary 99, IflewouttoToronto. It weeks inJuly aftergraduation But then,afterlotsof Company, andtwo Canadian Opera phone callfromthe them, Ireceived a I hadheardfrom ment. Butbefore offered meaplace- in Covent Garden Royal OperaHouse and theUSA.The travelling, inCanada was alsointerestedin both hereand,asI companies Icould- arts the performing toallof internship year, Iwroteforan myso during final administration, arts go intoperforming I knewwanted to The Stage

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I am still busy climbing, but the last Kent Bulletin was published. The getting a bit slow and creaky. I climbed complete listing of 3Ws for the year is on Who’s What Huascaran in Peru last year, surviving low the Web (the URL is opposite). To send us temperatures, steep ice, avalanche a 3W entry, please either use the carrier conditions and roast guinea pig. March sheet that accompanied this Bulletin or the 2000, London. Alumni questionnaire on the Web. Where 1975 BYFORD, Anthony (RT) Having spent KEY: D: Darwin, E: Eliot, K: Keynes, much of my time at UKC in the Gul- R: Rutherford; T or M: Information benkian, I went on to work in Industrial Technology (including Maths), N: Nat- Theatre (the audio-visual industry). I am ural Sciences, A: Science, Technology from UKC? now a manager in the UK Desktop and Medical Studies, H: Humanities, S: Services Group at Reuters and keep my Social Sciences, U: Foundation year or hand in by lighting productions for the Short-term studies. The location at the Hackney Players. Married and living in end of your entry is from your mailing Winchmore Hill. August 2000. address - if it’s in parentheses, we think you’re not actually living there but use it WILTON, Nick (EH) Bumped into fellow for UKC mail. Year: We place you under UKC graduate Laura Dalton D92 in your year of entry to Kent, not exit and if 1976 Croyde in Devon, when I backed into her you were here for more than one course Max Bulsara (DM) works for car. Oops, sorry Laura. May 2000, Surrey. of study, we try to put you in your the Department of Public first entry year - please let us know if Health at the University of CUTLER, John (DS) Still in finance as a corrections are needed! Western Australia. He is Compliance Officer for Swiss bankers. pictured with Manar Abdel Still looking to make my fortune! I keep in Rahman (DT:87)of the School contact with a few old UKC friends. May 1965 of Mathematical Science, 2000, Hampshire. PHILLIPS, Colin (EH) Became US University of Khartoum, Sudan; citizen in 90. United Methodist clergy - Amy Berrington (DT:95) 1977 pastor of church in Maryland. Clinical of the Cancer Epidemiology HORNBY, Simon (RS) My second Director of Abuser Intervention Program Unit, University of Oxford; daughter born a few days shy of the at Family & Children’s Services, a and Wendi Qian (KA:93), Millennium which turned out to be good domestic violence/sexual abuse agency. Medical Research Council for tax reasons. Now settled in southern Doctoral degree in 87. Owner of the first Clinical Trials Unit, Cambridge. Florida for good; the weather’s great apart student home movies shot at UKC in They were together at the from a few blowy things called hurricanes 65/66. Married; 1 son. May 2000, USA. School on Modern Statistical in the summer. Starting my own business Methods in Medical Research consulting company with focus on Latin 1966 in Trieste, Italy. America. Still follow Chelsea from afar. In CONSTANTINIDES, Glafkos (RS) MSc touch with very few friends from UKC - Development Planning (LSE); MA Town where are you all? June 2000, USA. and Regional Planning (Sheffield). Then I worked as a planner in Cyprus in the NORTHWOOD, Judith (DH) Huge life Department of Town Planning and since change over the last year - must be the 40 1992 I have been working as a planning something syndrome! Reacquaintance with consultant. Married; 3 children. I would KIRBY-HARRIS , Abigail (RS) Back in Blanc in August. Lectured in several UKC after the Careers Fair 2000! May be extremely happy to hear from UKC the UK running the Danish Chamber of Chinese cities in September. Early 2000, Kent. Alumni. Address: 9, St. Paul Street, Commerce at the Embassy in Sloane retirement is to be recommended. July Nicosia 1105, Cyprus. Tel. 357 2 779768. Street. Great to be working again! Bob 2000, Oxford. 1978 E-Mail: [email protected]. Sept R70 is finishing his contract in Namibia - KELLETT, Steven (DT) Have worked for 2000. great holidays! July 2000, London. KILROY, David (DT) Working as an IT ICL since 82, still in software support and technical architect at M & S, but still now based in Kuala Lumpur. Married FARMER, Mike (KS) Happily gardening PELL, Christopher (DT) For the past year dream of reviving my mathematics. since 97. Sliding rapidly towards 40 and and motor biking with Sally (E67 née I have been working as Counsellor in the Married with 3 young children. Still an wondering where the years went. For Wiltshire) in suburban Surrey, having British Embassy in Washington. The job is avid Beatles and Tolkien fan. July 2000, anyone who remembers me: yes, my provided next generation replacements fairly tough, but the US cultural and social Surrey. weight still goes up and down like the tide. (Lucy and Katy). May 2000. experience is terrific. My sons are back in Yes, I still play guitar loudly and ineptly. the UK, with Simon employed in 1970 March 2000, Malaysia. 1968 horticulture and Jonathan reading JONES, Davey (EH) I am now working at ARNELL, Susan (RH) Visited my old economics at Bristol. Liz continues her the Audit Commission as head of local MATTHEWS, Georgina (DH) Married friend Charles Ross R66 in Frankfurt last nursery school activities in Washington. I government performance indicators. May Mark Pumfrey (D77) who is now Director year and also spoke to Sally Carr (R66 née have fond memories of a great university 2000, London. of Institutional Client Division at Merrill Jordan). Just auditioned for a local and send my very best wishes to all Kent Lynch in London. Two daughters. May production of ‘Pinafore’ which takes me friends. May 2000, USA. 1971 2000, London. back to UKC days. I would love to hear MARCHANT, Jeremy R (RT) Career as from friends. Now divorced and living in 1969 composer and arranger proceeds. My SIMPSON, Alan (RH) Now in my 8th New Jersey. May 2000, USA. EASTHAM, Albert (KS) Climbed Mont arrangement of Philip Glass’s song cycle, year at the Department for Culture, Media ‘Songs From Liquid Days’, for chorus and and Sport and currently advising Ministers orchestra will premiere in October this on architectural policy. Passed 40 with no year in London and has been recorded for problems (now I’m waiting for life to CD release later in the year. Day job, begin!). May 2000, London. senior consultant with Admiral plc, continues. Contact me at: 1979 [email protected]. May 2000, ABDULRAHEEM, Shuaibu (RH) Vice- London. Chancellor of the University of Ilorin. May 2000, Nigeria. RAYNER, Steve (KH) Just completed my first year as Professor of Environment & FINE-THOMPSON, Christophe (ES) Public Affairs at Columbia University, Managed a radio station in Nice a few New York. June 2000, USA. years after leaving UKC and still on the Riviera doing communication and 1972 marketing. Drop me a line at: cft@cftcon- HAMPTON, Peter (ET) In February of cepts.com. June 2000, France. this year I changed career from secondary school teaching to Communications KENDALL, Sarah (ES) Still with Engineer at DERA in Malvern. Sept Eurotunnel as the company finally heads 2000, Worcester. towards profitability after a roller-coaster ride. Enjoying access to mainland Europe MEREDITH, Simon (KS) Twenty years and life in rural Kent with Piero and 2 in charge of the most successful health mostly wonderful children, Clare and Jack. club in the USA. May 2000, USA. Went back to UKC with Hilary Moll E79 and Julie George E85 to celebrate the 20th STOLLMEYER, Donald (RS) Now in anniversary of our meeting and are possession of 3 children, 2 boats, 1 wife. planning Canterbury, New Zealand for the Owner/Manager of a large marina in 40th. May 2000, Kent. Trinidad. Spare time spent sailing the 1967 Caribbean. Still in love with life! May 1980 Elizabeth Buchan (K) has just published her 6th novel, Secrets of the Heart (Penguin), 2000, Trinidad. HEENAN, Andrew (KS) Now full time on which, according to Pamela Norris in The Independent, ‘recalls EM Forster’s Howard's the Internet at Nursingtimes.net, with End, first published in 1910, but similarly concerned to bridge the gap between spiritual UNDERWOOD, Peter (KS) Having Emap Digital, a company with online and material values.’ worked for the London Ambulance Service ambitions! Still living in Holloway, still for 6 years I am soon to become finance advising Robert Hayward K80 on making 20 An updated, multi-indexed 3W is now up at www.ukc.ac.uk/alumni. Please use the Alumni questionnaire you will find there to send us your next 3W message or update your contact details.

am currently the Home Affairs Correspon- settling (for the moment) with the German dent for ITN. Feel free to get in touch via Development Agency (GTZ) doing email: [email protected]. May 2000, poverty impact monitoring. I would love to London. hear from those who remember me. Contact me at: [email protected]. June 2000, VECCHIO, Raffaelo (EH) After graduat- Sri Lanka. ing I started my own import-export company and now travel all over the world. MIDGLEY, John (KN) I’ve been running Married with three-year-old son. Being at my own company since 95 and now work UKC was a unique and exciting experi- largely from home doing various things in ence which broadened my mind and optics, IT and mathematics. Married perspective on life. I would love to hear Lesley (K85 née Powell) with 3 UKC from anyone who remembers me; email degrees, 2 children and a house in me at: [email protected] April 2000, Italy. Sandwich. Contact me on 01304 614787 or email: [email protected]. May 1987 2000, Kent. JAFFERJEE, Azra (DS) Headed home after a Masters Degree at Cambridge, then 1988 spent a chequered but fulfilling 8+ years COCHRANE, Louise (RS) Currently working in journalism, economic policy working from Jakarta as Programme Judith Kirkland (KH) met up with Julie Perks (KH née Haynes), Christine Croker (KH research, investment banking and finally Coordinator for VSO, supporting née Durkin), Angela Smith (KH nee Robinson) and Louise Ramsden (KH née Harkin) recently in Bath.

1988 millions. May 2000, London. to Europe’s largest multimedia talent Pamela Cross agency has been a revelation. In addition (Director of WALKER, Janet (DH) Still watching pink to developing my literary client list I have UKC’s Interna- dolphins and doing Japanese speeches on had fun adding dot com companies to my tional Office) met marine environments. UKC radio days have client base. The future is here and it is up with Kent caught up with me and I’m working part- electronic but in the beginning was the alumni on a recent time at a local station (but the technology word! I am always on the look out for new trip to Brunei. has changed a bit). May 2000, Japan. projects - fiction and non-fiction and Pictured from left: please do get in touch via Siti Salimah Abu 1981 [email protected] or visit my homepage Salim (E85), FELLINGHAM, Paul (KH) Still living in w.pfd.co.uk/agents/simon_trewin to see Susilawatiniah Hiji Brighton, but had a spell in Vienna (so the how much hair I have lost since those Ibrahim (E88), German did come in useful). Became an Darwin days! Married; 1 son. August Pamela Cross, accountant just like the careers bod said I 2000, London. Cecilia Kong should, but don’t let that put you off (R88) and Sainah getting in touch at paul.fellingham@aven- 1985 Haji Saim D90. tis.com. Married; 2 girls. August 2000. KNOWLES, Louise (RH) Made it; a rich theologian at last! Ostensibly no longer a 1982 rebel, I now work as Head of RE at The ALLEN, Clive (ET) Currently working for Abbey School in Kent. Email me at: Nortel Networks on all the stuff that [email protected]. May 2000, makes the internet tick. July 2000, Kent. Solihull. PLESNIAK, Steve (RH) Currently 1983 producing TV commericals for RSA films SANSON, Nicola (RH) My son Oliver in London. Have spent most of this was born in 98 and now another baby is summer shooting the Jamie Oliver 1996 due in November. What with running a Sainsbury’s ads. Still in contact with Ben Julian R Kirk (RH) has set up language school and renovating an old Norrington R85 (who was my best man 3 Big Art Co, affordable and house in the Nantes vineyard, life is hectic. years ago) and a number of others. accessible modern art that can June 2000, France. Contact me at: [email protected]. be purchased on the Web: Sept 2000, London. www.bigart.co.uk London 1984 HOBBS, Rachel (KH) Left Moscow in 99 SHIBA, Kazumi (DH) Since returning to after 3 years and headed for Melbourne. I Japan after my M.Ed (Uni of Wales) had a pouch fitted on arrival and Alexan- working for a high school as an English der Lloyd was born here in Jan 2000. teacher. Married; 3 children. Desperately March 2000, Australia. brushing up my English! June 2000, Japan.

TREWIN, Simon (DH) Professionally this 1986 has been the best year of my life - moving GHOSH, Shiulie (DS) Hello everyone - I

Valerie Bloom's (R82) new book is a full selection of her warm and evocative poetry for children entitled Let Me Touch the Sky: Selected Poems for Children (Macmillan). Valerie's first book of poems was published in 1983, while she was at UKC, and since then she has conducted workshops, performances, as well as educational residencies, throughout the country. The University awarded her an honorary MA in 1995. Autumn Gilt The late September sunshine Lime green on the linden leaves Burns bronze on the slated roof-tops Yellow on the farmer's last sheaves. It flares flame-like on the fire hydrant, Is ebony on the blackbird's wing, Blue beryl on the face of the ocean, Glints gold on the bride's wedding ring. A sparkling rainbow on the stained-glass window, It's a silver sheen on the kitchen sink, The late September sunshine Is a chamelion, I think.

Valerie Bloom (by courtesy of Macmillan Children's Books)

21 volunteers and seeking new placements across Indonesia. May 2000, Indonesia. Deaths HURLEY, Paul (KH) Quick snapshot Hor Seer Foon (KS), now We are very sad to have to report that since I left in 92: MA in film, then worked working for Deloitte & we have been notified of the deaths of in interactive television, left that to be a Touche Management several alumni since the Spring 2000 film buyer and jumped into the .com world Solutions Sdn Bhd and Hor Bulletin. Annie Elizabeth Lockwood earlier this year. Feel free to contact me at Seer Heong (DA:95) now (E67 née Farmery) died in March. Tim [email protected]. July 2000, London. working for Meditel Emms (E69) died 30 December last Electronics SDN Bhd (an year. Robert Paul Williams (D71) SCALLAN, Samantha (RT) I am still associated company of died in January. We were notified in based at King Alfred’s College, wrapping Siemens) brought their September that Steven Foster (K78) up the research project I have been younger sister (right) to visit had died. Hussein Fahri D82 died running with GP registrars for the last the Kent stand at the British earlier this year. We were notifed in April year. Marcus Collins R88 and I got Education Exhibition in that Sharon Laura Cook (E81)had engaged at Easter, and we are busily Malaysia. died several years ago. Mostokin Ali planning the event and the future. We are (E95) died in August this year. in regular contact with Helen Hall R88, Jason Barnaby D86, Alison Bellamy K93 Contact us if you would like more informa- and Martin Goodchild K88. May 2000, tion. We may be able to put you in touch Hampshire. with family or friends of the deceased. to the USA to start working at Badlands their automotive parts subsidiary Visteon, TAYLOR, Ian N (EN) I am an enzymolo- National Park in South Dakota. I feel who are now independent from Ford. As gist making chemicals for the pharmaceu- absolutely thrilled. I will let you know Account Associate based in Paris, I am in [email protected]. August 2000, tical industry. Married with new baby son. about it when I come back to France. Best charge of developing the offer of Visteon’s Hampshire. Hope life is treating you as well as me. regards to all my friends from UKC. Email electronic systems to the French Car Contact me at: [email protected]. me at: [email protected]. May 2000, Makers. May 2000, France. 1995 May 2000, Cambridgeshire. France. BAINBRIDGE, Emma (RH) Still at Kent WEST, Michael (DT) Evening all, doing a PhD in the postcolonial field. I 1989 KHUNJI, Rasha (KS) I work in the obviously as I never did any work at uni, would love to hear from those who were ARONOFF, David (DN) I am training in Technology Department in Investcorp I have carried on the trend by becoming a undergraduates with me. Contact me at: infectious disease medicine at Vanderbilt House, Bahrain. If anyone is visiting or games designer. Basically get paid loads [email protected]. May 2000, University. Married; 2 children. Any UKC would like to know more about the Middle for coming up with silly game ideas and Kent. visitors welcome. April 2000, USA. East please email me. Would love to hear getting other people to make them. If from old friends from Park Wood. Keep in only I had gone to those Computer DILLIWAY, Craig (ES) Hi everybody! For MBEKENI, Liyazongoma (KS) Currently touch: friends are forever. Email me at: Graphics lectures instead of being in the more details about me please visit Director of Research & Policy Planning [email protected]. May 2000, Bahrain. Uni bowling team. August 2000, www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~cjd. May and Economic Affairs. Married for 19 Hertfordshire. 2000, Essex. years. My daughter is doing a Bachelor of 1992 Commerce: Information Systems. May BITHAL, Tarun (ES) I expect most 1993 2000, South Africa. people remember me as Taz! Working as a ELLISON, Sara (KN) PhD Astrophysics Senior Consultant for an American firm (Cambridge) and now a postdoc 1990 and living in London. I have travelled astronomer at the European Southern HAGGER, John-Lloyd (DT) I love extensively both for work and pleasure, Observatory based in Chile. Managing to teaching but have resigned so I can run my which is fun but exhausting. I have lost fit in skiing, climbing and salsa around the own computing teaching resources contact with many of my UKC friends; stargazing! August 2000, Chile. company - the lure of longer holidays. Still please contact me on: in Bristol - it’s a great city. May 2000. [email protected]. May 2000, HOSSEIN, Caroline (ES) Since March I London. have been the Senior Program Officer for KNOX, Scott (RH) After graduating I the ‘African Woman Food Farmer’ at an spent a year working for the National BRENNAN, Jane (RT) I finished my international organization called the Union of Students (NUS) before moving CompSci degree in Germany in 95 and Hunger Project in New York City. June to Endsleigh Insurance in London. Not a moved to Australia to marry my boyfriend 2000, USA. great career move but it got me to London. Luke. Worked as a programmer before After 3 years I moved to a great job with starting a PhD in Artificial Intelligence at LORKIN, Julian (RH) MA Radio Major Players in Covent Garden where I the University of New South Wales. (Goldsmiths College). I now produce a am now Director of Education for the Happily married and still doing my PhD. UK-wide radio programme on a major Institute of Sales Promotion. The next How are Jools, Clarice, Martina, Ashleigh network. Email me at: lorkers@broad- step? You know me - take over the world and Paul from Rutherford? Enjoying cast.net. May 2000, London. outside the marketing industry! June 2000. yourself in Strasbourg, Olivier? May 2000, Australia. 1994 1991 BARNETT, Tracy (RH) Working in ASKEW-RENAUT, Estelle (DS) After 2 LANCEY, Kate (EH) Working in London French and English Publishing in London. months’ travelling in Venezuela, I relocated and living in Berkshire with my partner. Email me at: [email protected]. from London to Brussels and am now Seeing the latest Bulletin made me miss May 2000, London. working in a Washington DC-based law UKC - especially reading about Grace 1996 firm, specialising in European Law. I have Clifton E92 whom I knew. Contact me at: WELCH, Nicola (KS) After getting a MA Sharlyza Alis Sharkawi LLB (ES), met up with a number of UKC alumni out [email protected]. May 2000, in Russian & Russian Politics and Law, I completed her CLP in Malaysia last year here, namely Indiana De Seze D91, Tessa London. am in a completely unrelated career as a and is currently working in the Attorney Hellbusch K91 and Samantha Murray Marketing Controller and Webtress for a General’s Chambers, Kuala Lumpur; D91. June 2000, Belgium. LE NAOUR, Patrick (RT) Head-hunted sales company in the semiconductor Zairuddy Zainal (KS) is now with BDO from Lucas, where I worked for 3 years, by industry. It would be great to hear from Binder, Public Accountants, also in Kuala CHEVRIER, Sidonie (DH) Shortly to fly the Ford Motor Company, to work for anyone who was at UKC. Contact me at: Lumpur, Malaysia.

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22 Inside Summer in the story Careers Advisory Service

There was a time my surprise, when the summer everything falls vacation was into place and the relatively peaceful. booklet is dis- The campus was patched to the Tdeserted and we publishers by the were left with few deadline. more pressing Meanwhile, activities than the other careers updating the advisers have been Careers Informa- busy revamping The series where tion Files. our Website. It UKC people Things have now has a com- changed - the pletely new layout, describe what’s really University, the with information going on. students and the for students at our Jenny Keaveney, graduate job associate colleges market - and the as well as those in Careers Adviser and Careers Advisory Service must postgraduates, continue to use London and even Brussels. Information Officer, not just keep up with these the careers service. Part of the site is, for the first describes... changes but anticipate and We also see a number of time, devoted to UKC gradu- prepare for them. Summer is ‘mutual aid’ graduates from ates, including encouraging not the same. other universities. And then alumni established in their The graduates of 2000 there are enquiries and visits careers to help students emerged into a buoyant job from UCAS candidates, through the Careers Network market. Fewer than 3% were employers, parents of gradu- and Careers Fair (1 March unemployed - the second ates and the occasional lan- 2001). lowest figure ever recorded. All guage student or conference One task that used to take kinds of employers are seeking delegate (augmented this year up the vacation is the gather- graduate recruits, and only the by lost souls trying to find ing of information about new most popular and competitive their way through the building graduates’ destinations that is employers (such as the site and into Keynes). So the used as the basis of our (and Civil Service Fast Careers Information Room the DfEE’s) graduate employ- Stream, the investment during vacation is sometimes ment statistics. New regula- banks and the big adver- hard to tell apart from the tions for collecting this data tising agencies) can still same room in term-time. mean that we are not allowed demand that students On top of this, I foolishly even to ask graduates what adhere to the old ‘milk said yes to writing a careers they are doing before Septem- round’ schedule. In information booklet for ber. This is all in the interests other areas, students AGCAS - the Association of of statistical reliability, validity know they can afford to Graduate Careers Advisory and consistency, but we must wait. Services - on Advertising, PR avoid losing touch with gradu- This has nothing to and Direct Marketing. These ates in the interim. do with student apathy - booklets are core careers The summer vacation does today’s students are material, used in careers not quite link Lent and working harder than ever. Not services throughout the coun- Michaelmas terms seamlessly just to get a ‘good degree’, but try. They may be the first thing with no let-up, but it is vastly working to help fund them- a student reads on that career busier than it used to be. And, selves through University area, so need to be accurate in addition to all the above and (which also helps to develop and include all the essential the countless other routine the personal skills employers information. Before starting to tasks, we still must find the require). Many can be seen write I need to talk to profes- odd moment to update (at around campus during the sionals in all these fields, least some of) the files. summer sporting UKC Hospi- which entails several visits to Visit our website at: tality T- shirts, and many of London as well as many phone (http://www.ukc.ac.uk/careers/) KILLARA (RIGHT) AT WORK WITH ALUMNI. these, plus local students and calls and emails. Somewhat to 23 SEE SEPERATE FILE