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Emma Freud OBE on organising Red Nose Day The Bedford Society and Comic Relief Drama King Jonathan Powell at the BBC

New treatments for epilepsy

Suffragette city: The centenary of Emily Wilding Davison

The Iraq sanctions myth

The Bedford Society The society for Bedford College, one of the founding colleges of Royal Holloway and Bedford New College

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The Bedford Society is a community for all Bedford staff, alumni and friends. It exists to celebrate the astonishing, pioneering and rich history of those associated with the College. Bedford was ahead of its time, its staff were revolutionary and its students trailblazing. The Bedford Society is run by a committee chaired by Professor Caroline Barron, Professor Emeritus of History, and the Vice-Chair is Bedford Archivist Dr Claire Gobbi Daunton. The Society is committed to organising two annual events in London and will communicate regularly through this publication and a monthly email newsletter featuring Royal Holloway and Bedford stories, news and events. If you have any questions about the society or wish to register to receive the emails, then we would love to hear from you: telephone 01784 414478 or email [email protected]

Celebrating the rich heritage of Bedford College and ensuring its past achievements benefit future generations Contents

In Focus 4 Our three sopranos 4–5 Three Sopranos

News 6 6 From the Principal 7 Letters to the Editor 8–9 College news 10–11 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 12–13 Faculty of Management and Economics 14–15 Faculty of Science

Features 16 16–17 Emma Freud on 25 years of Red Nose Day 18–19 Drama King: Jonathan Powell at the BBC 20-21 The Iraq sanctions myth by Mike Spagat 22–23 A room of one’s own by Jane Hamlett 24–25 From amoeba to preclinical models: Developing new treatments for epilepsy 26-27 Timeline of the Colleges 28–29 Into Africa... 30 Margaret Thatcher: The Falklands legacy and beyond by Klaus Dodds 31 Cyber Security: Our next generation of experts

Alumni 26 32 The Bedford Society 33 Alumni generations: Two weddings and a chapel 34 Emily Wilding Davison: A centenary celebration 35 Physicist and sportswoman: The legacy of Margaret Young 36–42 Class notes 43–45 In memoriam 46–47 New books by alumni 48–49 The Alumni Fund: How your donations enrich the student experience

Dates for Your Diary 50 50 Alumni and College events

Editor: Steve Pickles [email protected]

Cover image: Sudhir Pithwa © Condé Nast Publications Ltd

The paper contains material sourced from responsibly managed forests. The manufacturing mill has both ISO 14001and EMAS accreditation and is also accredited to produce paper to FSC standards. Higher magazine is published by Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX. 4 Higher magazine The three sopranos Following the success of their Silver Jubilee Celebration Concert in 2010, we were excited to welcome back our three distinguished soprano soloists and alumnae, Susan Bullock, Sarah Fox and Dame Felicity Lott, for a Three Sopranos Valentine Concert in the Windsor Building. And what a night it was! For this concert, they performed a programme of popular Valentine- themed favourites and were accompanied by the Choir of Royal Holloway, under the leadership of Rupert Gough, and the renowned pianist Malcolm Martineau. The packed hall also delighted in several love-themed readings by Dame Felicity’s husband, the actor Gabriel Wolf. Susan, Sarah and Dame Felicity are Honorary Fellows of the College and have all sung at the leading opera houses of the world. Dame Felicity is renowned for performing French and German song, Susan Bullock is in great demand as one of the world’s leading Wagnerian sopranos and Sarah Fox is performing in Carmen at the Royal Opera this year. This was an evening that will live on in the popular memory of the College for many years to come.

Royal Holloway 5 News From the Principal

Photograph by Natasha Patel

Emily Bolden and Amy Burrows, 3rd year students in Maths and Music respectively with the Principal, Professor Paul Layzell at the Passport Award Ceremony.

These are exciting times as we map our future in a strategic plan for the of our founding colleges and build on the support of former students in development of the College over the next seven years. At the heart of seeking to bring benefit to future generations. The inaugural reunion and the plan is a continued commitment to attracting the very best staff and lecture at Senate House, University of London attracted an overwhelming students here, delivering high quality research that underpins all our courses response (see page 37). and equips our students not only with the skills and knowledge to move We are also continuing to mark some considerable successes enjoyed into employment, but also with the critical skills to continue to develop their in our academic departments and many of these are highlighted in knowledge and understanding beyond their university years. this magazine. With the dramatic changes to student funding and a significant relaxation In the Sciences, we are immensely proud that the Information Security on the number of students each university can admit, our focus is particularly Group was named one of the first Academic Centres of Excellence in drawn to attracting more of the brightest students to Royal Holloway. Cyber-Security Research, recognising 25 years of pioneering research and Through careful research, we have gained a good insight into what makes innovative programmes. Also, the Group has been awarded £3.8 million to students choose us and an important priority is to be better known for improve the national capacity to resist cyber-attack and protect electronic the unique and special things that we do well, and for the advantages and borders (see page 31). attractions of our campus and location. In Music, we were honoured by the award of the only Regius Chair Whilst recruiting students is vital to our continued success, a positive in Music bestowed by HM The Queen for the sustained, high quality of campus experience is also a high priority. We are continuing to invest in music teaching, research and performance within the College. After an facilities that befit a world class university, and in the months ahead we international competition to appoint somebody to this prestigious Chair, it will finalise a new campus Masterplan to guide future development and was a delight to award it to the outgoing Head of Department, Professor enhance the quality of our campus environment for students, staff and Julian Johnson. visitors. Already this year, we have completed the construction of a new As a member of our extended family you will know how proud we are drama studio for the Drama and Theatre Department. The theatre seats that our students go on to achieve success in all walks of life, all over the an audience of 175 people on two levels, with a third level for technical world. Over the last two years we have established the Royal Holloway operation, a welcoming foyer and separate rehearsal and teaching spaces. ‘Passport’, an award that prepares students for the challenges ahead by A key priority for students is the expansion of current library provision highlighting the wide range of work that students engage with outside the and after careful consideration, we have decided to build a new flagship formal curriculum doing the things that they enjoy, and putting a value on library and student services centre, significantly expanding provision. This these that makes them stand out to employers. I was delighted to attend will be developed without disrupting the current library during construction, the award ceremony in June, where we celebrated how much has been and on completion in 2016, the current Bedford Library will be converted to achieved to date with 1900 students involved in 25 streams of activity. The additional academic space to relieve pressure on the overall academic estate, ‘Passport’ is set to grow even larger next year thanks to the enthusiasm whilst we will retain a reading room in the Founder’s Library. of students and many partners who are working together to help build In considering our future plans, we have sought to ensure links back brighter futures. If you would like to be involved by supporting student to our roots and it was with great pleasure that in April we launched activities, offering work experience or in other ways, please contact the the Bedford Society, to promote the values, ethos and success of one Careers Service ([email protected]).

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Associate of Royal Holloway & Bedford New College Bedford rugby players return to Regent’s Park Dear Sir In the last issue of Higher we included a “Where are they now” There are many prominent people in public life who are alumni. We read feature on the Bedford College Rugby Team of 1966-67. It prompted about them in Higher. However, how many members of the public are aware much interest amongst former Bedford College rugby players and of this? How can they tell from the qualifications? emails flashed back and forth as we were able to put them in touch If I list my degrees post-nominally, they will read BSc, PhD (Lond), signifying with each other. In March this year eleven of them reconvened at that I hold University of London degrees. However, there is no indication that the site of Bedford College in Regent’s Park for their own private these degrees were obtained through study at Royal Holloway. Colleagues reunion. The original photograph shows that very first Bedford team of mine who studied at Imperial College (when it was still part of London on the lawn in front of the Tuke Building in 1967. Our reunion picture University) also added ARCS (Associate of the Royal College of Science) and shows several of that team in exactly the same location 46 years later. DIC (Diploma of Imperial College) after their name, which make it clear that they gained their University of London degrees at that college. My idea, which would serve to further raise the College’s profile, would be for each graduate of Royal Holloway and Bedford (past and present) to be made an ARHBNC (Associate of Royal Holloway & Bedford New College). Maybe (following the Imperial College model) a Royal Holloway diploma could also be awarded for post-graduate research work. Dr Stephen Clackson (BSc Physics, 1984 Royal Holloway College, PhD Physics, 1989 RHBNC) Sanday, Orkney

Bletchley Park and the Battle of Britain Dear Sir I was interested to read the article about Bletchley Park by Margaret Lenton in a recent copy of Higher as I was an RAF bomber pilot during the Second World War and found myself working for Bletchley, although at that time I had never even heard of it. Although Bletchley Park is now known for its code-breaking, it was from the outset of the war primarily concerned with enemy radar. In 1940 this was used with great effect to obtain early indications that a German bomber force was assembling over France preparatory to attacking England during the Battle of Britain. This enabled Fighter Command to put RAF fighters in the air at the last moment and ready to pounce from a superior height as soon as the Luftwaffe formations crossed the Channel. The alternative, if radar had not existed would have been to maintain costly standing fighter patrols all the time which would have been expensive in both fuel and availability of pilots. Back row (left to right): “Greg” Gregory-Jones, Stuart Day, Keith Williams Dennis Roberts (Former College Council member, the first Treasurer of Front Row (left to right): Mike Worthing, Pete Gardner, Peter (Josh) Jones, Jeff Darkins, Denis the merged College) Mongon, Rob Sheard, Jeff Austin, Peter Cowley Bradford-on-Avon

Bedford Society launch Here are some of the many emails we had in response to the Bedford Society launch in May (see page 32). Just to say thank you for a very pleasant and Thank you for the excellent Bedford celebration Thank you for the lovely evening yesterday. interesting afternoon/evening on Tuesday at the and all the hard work you put in to make it such a I was thrilled to see a number of the people launch of the Bedford Society. I will be reporting success. I’m very glad I made the effort to come. I had studied with and a number of lecturers back to those of my friends who would have liked I would certainly appreciate an annual event of who taught me. It was a splendid reception after to come but couldn’t. this kind and the idea of a ‘club’ room is good. the lecture. Frances King (BA History, 1967 Bedford College) Hilary Latham (BA Botany, 1966 Bedford College) Andrea Thomas (BA History, 1973 Bedford College)

Royal Holloway 7 News College News

The Queen’s seal of approval

Our Department of Music has become the first in department. The work of all my colleagues, past and the country to be awarded a prestigious Regius present, has contributed in such valuable ways to Professorship by HM The Queen, and has appointed the study of music and it is wonderful to have the Professor Julian Johnson to the coveted position. The department recognised in this way. It reaffirms the College was among a select group of elite universities importance of music, and the study of music, to the to be recognised for their exceptionally high quality of educational and cultural life of the UK.” research and teaching. A Regius Professorship is a rare The Queen and her advisory panel judged privilege and only two were created in the 20th century. applications on universities’ excellence in the proposed The Queen, who gave the honour to 12 university disciplines and the recognition their departments’ work departments in January to mark her Diamond Jubilee, has gained. Our Department of Music is one of the UK’s took advice from Ministers, who were advised by a largest, and allows students to expand their knowledge panel of eminent academics. Royal Holloway was the from a variety of practical, historical, global and only institution to receive a Regius Professorship in Arts contemporary standpoints, as well as develop their skills and Humanities. in performance, music history and theory, composition, Professor Julian Johnson, Head of the Department world music and music technology. We have recently of Music, said: “I am honoured to accept the award been ranked 7th of 65 university Music departments Professor Julian Johnson of the Regius Professorship on behalf of the whole in the UK for student satisfaction and first in research!

Royal Holloway teams up with the BBC Our writers named as the next big thing Three writers from the Department of English have been named in Granta magazine’s 20 Best In February we took part in the BBC’s Your Young British Novelists. Senior Lecturer Ben Markovits, along with alumnae Tahmima Anam Paintings week of events to celebrate the Public and Jenni Fagan, were named among the country’s brightest talents under 40-years-old, in Catalogue Foundation’s (PCF) digitisation of the an announcement at the British Council in April. With the literary magazine only publishing its nation’s pictures. The idea behind the project is influential list once every decade, it inevitably brings chosen authors into the spotlight. Indeed, to show the entire UK national collection of oil Granta’s list has previously featured many writers who have gone on to become household paintings online, the stories behind the paintings, names, such as Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Martin Amis. and where to see them in person. The College had its oil paintings photographed for the Professor Anne Varty, Head of the Department of English said: “The Creative Writing project back in 2006 and now, after 10 years, MA at Royal Holloway is a major centre for new talent on a world stage. This extraordinary the PCF has now photographed all pictures in success of our writers is an inspiring confirmation of prestige, and we are delighted to toast public collections across the UK. As part of the their achievements.” celebrations, the College hosted a free Open Ben has published six novels, including a trilogy on the life of Lord Byron. Tahmima and Day on Sunday 10 February. The new College Jenni are both graduates of Royal Holloway’s MA in Creative Writing. Tahmima won the Curator, Laura MacCulloch, said: “Thanks to the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book with her debut novel A Golden Age. Jenni’s PCF, all of our oil paintings can be seen online debut novel, The Panoptican, was selected as one of Waterstone’s Eleven in 2012 – the most on the BBC - Your Paintings website, but it was promising fiction debuts of the year. great to offer our visitors the chance to see the real thing.”

Tahmima Anam

8 Higher magazine Athlete Recognition Scheme (STARS), saw alumnae sportswomen Sophie Christiansen OBE and Jessica Eddie speak about their magical experiences of competing at London 2012. Since its launch in 1996, STARS has supported many Olympians and more than 90 world-class athletes. The 25 awardees this year included Thomas Smallbone, a Geography student and professional rugby player with London Irish, and fencer Acland Bryant, who is studying Mathematics and is a hopeful for the 2016 Olympics. The support offered by STARS aims to reflect the amount of time, effort, enthusiasm and dedication its awardees put into their training and performance. Sir Steve said: “The Olympics and Paralympics were just absolutely amazing. The question is where we go from here and can we beat that? Why not! Sir Steve Redgrave’s in recognition of his outstanding sporting It’s a great honour for me to be standing here achievements. He won an incredible five Gold with the STARS ambassadors of this university, Honorary Degree Medals for rowing, in five successive Olympic seeing the scholarships they’ve been getting and Games from 1984 to 2000, and was awarded hearing of their dreams and where they want to During a special ceremony in November, a Knighthood in 2001. The ceremony, which be in a few years’ time. It reminds me of when Olympic gold medallist Sir Steve Redgrave was also recognised our elite student athletes by I started in sport and had a dream of being awarded an Honorary Degree by the College, making them members of the Student Talented Olympic champion.”

New winter graduation ceremonies In December, 1,200 postgraduate students postgraduate students, to ensure that future graduated at the College’s new winter graduation generations continue to take their studies to ceremonies. Taking place in the Windsor Building, the highest possible level. Principal Professor they recognised the particular achievements of Paul Layzell said: “Our postgraduate students postgraduate students, whilst also providing a benefit from learning alongside world-leading welcome alternative to the usual wait until the researchers, and work hand in hand with industry summer! Trumpeters from the Royal Artillery and partners across the UK and beyond. These Company sounded fanfares to commence the students have taken their studies to the highest six ceremonies, which were followed by festive level, which will accelerate their career in industry, receptions. Royal Holloway also announced the arts or the public sector, or may mark the investment of over £4 million in support of beginning of their own academic careers.” Celebrating 10 years of community volunteering Community Action, the College’s student volunteering scheme, celebrates 10 years of service to the local community, clocking up an amazing 50,000 hours of student activity since 2002. Around 2,000 registered volunteers and over 170 Community Partner organisations regularly join forces to enhance life in the local community. Phil Simcock, Community Action Volunteer Manager, said: “This could not have been achieved without the dedication and commitment shown by our student volunteers who have worked tirelessly and with great enthusiasm to make a real difference. Here’s to the next decade!” Highlights over the past 10 years include students winning Higher Education Volunteering Awards in 2004, 2007 and 2008 for projects with young refugees and asylum seekers. The national Student Volunteering Week was also celebrated by hosting a Community Partners Lunch, during which 18 prestigious Volunteering England Gold Awards were presented to students who demonstrated leadership, dedication, and achievement through their volunteering.

Royal Holloway 9 Faculty News Arts and Social Sciences

Our festival of the arts: Play!

After a hugely successful pilot year in 2012, the animation workshops for all ages, as well as live eclectic Play! festival recently took place again broadcasting and a late club night by student at the Firestation Centre for Arts and Culture in radio station, Insanity. Windsor. The free event showcased work from We were delighted that, for the first time, our creative arts departments, and with generous the School of Modern Languages joined the support from the Alumni Fund, it proved to be line-up, with an excerpt from their annual energetic, exhilarating and full of raw talent. German play, Bandscheibenvorfall. The event Highlights included two fully-produced offered students a valuable opportunity to gain plays by Student Workshop; the Balkan and experience of working in a professional venue, Tango Ensembles; a screening of Media Arts and under professional festival constraints. lecturer Sue Clayton’s policy-impacting film Indeed, after volunteering as an Assistant Stage Hamedullah: The Road Home; and exciting Manager last year, recent Drama graduate Lizzie new writing by our Creative Writing students. Cooper returned to stage manage the event in There was also drawing, live documentary and a professional capacity this year.

Acclaim for The Road: A Story of Life and Death

Media Arts lecturer and critically-acclaimed it “a quietly remarkable little film that speaks filmmaker Marc Isaacs has enjoyed great success eloquently about Britain and its constant with his documentary The Road: A story of life evolution.” About the ideas which underpin his and death, which premièred at the London Film films, Marc says: “If you look back on my work Festival in October 2012, and was shown on you’ll see the same theme coming up again and BBC4 in March. The film paints a rich portrait again. Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t get away of multicultural life in the UK by looking at the from it, because that’s who I am. I’m not the kind lives of immigrants living along the A5, stretching of filmmaker who gets excited by a subject; I’m from London to the Welsh coast, and always an interested in people and the human condition. I important lifeline for new émigrés. Today, it is suspect that whatever kind of film I made, even a microcosm of the wider world, and the film though the form or expression might be quite meets people from across the globe whose lives different, the substance would be the same.” now orbit around the road. Over the last 15 years, Marc has made The documentary was applauded by both numerous creative and award-winning audiences and critics, with The Times calling documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4.

News Bites

Hellenic Institute celebrates 20 years Bloomsbury Poet Series National Social Work conference to be 2013 sees the 20th anniversary of our Hellenic This spring, staff from the Department of English held at Royal Holloway Institute, which established the ground-breaking staged a series of three ‘new audiences’ events In July we will host the 15th UK Joint Social MA in Hellenic Studies, at that time the only in partnership with Poet in the City, an innovative Work Education Conference. The sector’s largest programme in a British university devoted to the venture philanthropy charity committed to conference sees around 400 academics and diachronic and interdisciplinary study of Hellenism. attracting new audiences to poetry. Sir Andrew practitioners over three days, and incoming Head Largely due to the leadership of the Centre’s Motion and Professor Robert Hampson were of the Department of Social Work, Professor visionary director, Julian Chrysostomides, from joined by newer voices on the poetry scene, Tony Evans, and his team are heavily involved in 1998-2008, the Centre continues to flourish, Liz Berry and Adam O’Riordan; Professor Jo the planning. The conference aims to focus on securing external funding and expanding its Shapcott hosted an evening showcasing some the positive forces within the Social Work sector teaching, research and other activities. It covers of our most exciting graduates from the wealth at a challenging time, highlighting and celebrating aspects of Greek language, history and culture of talent produced by the MA programmes; collective strength and creative approaches to from the Homeric, Classical and Hellenistic age, and Professor Anne Varty and Dr Ruth Livesey pushing back at negative factors surrounding through Late Antiquity to the Byzantine period brought to life the history of female poets from the profession. and Post-Byzantine and Modern Hellenism. Bedford College and Bloomsbury.

10 Higher magazine Dean of Arts & Social Sciences Professor The new Centre for Public History, Heritage Katie Normington and Engagement with the Past

As directed by Dr Anna Whitelock, our new Centre One major focus over the next two years, for Public History, Heritage and Engagement with led by Professor Nigel Saul, is the development the Past will be promoting a range of public of local, national and international links with history activities, including original research a range of partners and publics for the 800th projects with local and international partners, anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta at and collaboration and consultancies between Runnymede, and its legacy. museums, archives, historic houses, heritage For more information, see rhul.ac.uk/cph sites and the media. Drawing on a range of @RHULPublicHist scholars, researchers and practitioners, it provides a forum for national debate and discussion and a source of comment on key issues relating to public history, heritage, commemoration, and oral history and memory. A number of staff from the Department of History, who will contribute to the Centre, are already engaged in a wide variety of public history related activities – from writing, At the time of writing, I am in the midst presenting and contributing to radio and of a number of interviews for new television programmes, to appearing at festivals, academic staff to join several of the speaking in schools and producing podcasts. Faculty’s departments from September. They are also committed to community initiatives I’m delighted to say that the standard aimed at widening participation in public history, of applications is extremely high, many advising government and policy makers and applying from Russell Group institutions. It consulting on exhibitions and other projects is a reminder of the high level of distinction with archives, museums and other heritage sites. that we hold, and of the excellence of our Professor Justin Champion explains: “The traffic academic departments and their staff. This between the past and present is two way: all excellence has been demonstrated recently history is contemporary history – it’s written by a number of large grant successes: by men and women, now, to communicate Professor John Ellis (Media Arts) has secured ideas and understanding – to make honest a European Research Council grant worth judgements about events, people, and societies over a million pounds to investigate the that have some purchase on the conduct of life technological developments of television, while Professor Helen Nicholson (Drama) for modern audiences.” and Professor John Hill (Media Arts) have won large grants each worth several hundred thousand pounds from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The former investigates amateur performance, while the latter looks at the history of TV. These achievements have been matched by that in our Creative Writing Launch of the Katharine Worth Building Students win for France at model United team where senior lecturer, Ben Markovits, This year the complex of buildings occupied Nations conference has recently been named by Granta by our Department of Drama & Theatre will be Student diplomats from our Politics and Magazine as one of the top 20 young renamed the Katharine Worth Building, in honour International Relations Society picked up a novelists in the UK; two graduates of the of the founder of the department, 35 years ago. prestigious award for the second year in a row MA Creative Writing programme were Katharine Worth was the first female Professor when they represented France in the 2013 also amongst those credited. Given these of Drama in Britain. She was a distinguished National Model UN Conference in New York. successes it is perhaps hardly surprising expert in modern theatre and an iconic figure in The Outstanding Delegation award placed that so many others wish to join us! the history of the discipline, as well as a leading the 23-strong team in the top 10 of over 200 authority on Samuel Beckett. The complex universities that took part. The conference offers www.rhul.ac.uk/arts comprises the former Sutherland House and our students from all over the world the chance to brand new studio theatre. discuss real issues at the forefront of current @RHULArts international relations.

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Royal Holloway 11 Faculty News Management and Economics

the College, as well as external researchers and practitioners, also looking forward to Rio 2016. Director of CRIS, Professor Laura J. Spence said: “We are truly honoured to have this exciting opportunity. We look forward to engaging in The legacy of sustainable London 2012 research activities with partners, ensuring that we make the most of this valuable archive of CS Our Centre for Research into Sustainability Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Commission London’s work and contributing to the important (CRIS) is already looking to make an impact on was the first of its kind for an Olympic Games legacy of London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic the Rio Olympic Games in 2016. In March, it and the website contains all its reports, social Games.” An official launch of Royal Holloway’s took over the website of the Commission for networking, newsletters and recommendations tenure hosting the Commission for Sustainable Sustainable London 2012 (www.cslondon. for future games. CRIS members are hoping London 2012 website is expected in Autumn org), an independent body which monitored to have the opportunity to work with a wide 2013. For further information contact Laura. and assured the sustainability of the London range of interdisciplinary researchers from within [email protected].

Using technology to tackle youth inclusion

For a first academic study of its kind, Professor The study has the backing of the Youth Justice Ravinder Barn, from the Department of Board, the national body that oversees youth justice Criminology & Sociology, has been awarded in England and Wales. The National Association £160,000 to develop a mobile application to for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders, the support youth workers and young people in the Metropolitan Police, and police forces from the field of youth justice. The funding comes from Thames Valley and West Mercia have also lent the Nominet Trust and is made in conjunction their support to the project. The mobile app will with Middlesex University School of Science and be designed, developed and implemented in Technology. participating youth offending teams in London, Through a process of co-design with youth Oxfordshire, and Worcestershire. offending teams, Professor Barn and the research In commenting on the timeliness of the study, team will devise a mobile application to promote Professor Barn stated: “Given that the current use positive engagement between young people of technology is focused on surveillance and data and their youth workers. The app will include management, we are seeking to do something interactive features to help focus on specific and unique here which can help reduce youth crime, personalised intervention plans and achieve key improve the lives of young people and their families goals and objectives. and create safer communities.”

News Bites

High ranking for School of Management UK university marketing spend up 23% New appointments The School of Management is currently ranked Professor Chris Hackley, from the School of Three new appointments in the Department 9th in the definitive list of 200 business schools Management, has found that universities are of Economics will strengthen the department’s preferred by international employers for the spending more on advertising. He commented that research and teaching profile. Manolis Galenianos purpose of hiring MBA graduates. The QS Global whilst advertising is important for international (Penn State University), Ahu Gemici (New York 200 Business Schools Report identifies the most markets (to ensure accurate brand portrayal), key University) and Ronni Pavan (University of popular business schools in each region of the decision makers remain the same for prospective Rochester) will all bring considerable international world and aims to serve employers seeking MBAs UK students, such as location, parental guidance, expertise in the fields of macroeconomics, labour at a regional level. With its global outreach, QS course choice and UCAS points. However, economics and applied econometrics. obtains survey responses from employers from advertising budgets are likely to continue to rise different continents and a variety of industries, due to the circular logic of the market. allowing it to produce reports by specialisation.

12 Higher magazine Dean of Management and Economics Professor Bob O’Keefe College hosts Royal Economic Society conference

In April, the Department of Economics hosted She found that departments with improving the Royal Economic Society’s prestigious annual league table results experienced a rise in conference for the second time. The conference applications of nearly 5%. was attended by more than 600 delegates from institutions across the globe, and there was an extensive programme of plenary sessions, key note addresses and specialist lectures. In a session sponsored by the Bank of England, delegates debated the interconnection between financial stability and the detrimental effects of a safer financial sector on economic growth. The theme of economic growth was continued in a session chaired by the LSE Growth Commission, Investing for Prosperity, in which participants looked at how the growth performance of the UK could be improved in a sustainable way. Like many universities across the world, the The Department was particularly pleased to College is starting to engage with MOOCs see its research papers receiving coverage in (Massive Open Online Courses). These are the national press. These included, Compulsory online courses that are open to students Education and Teenage Motherhood, by PhD from anywhere in the world; they are student Tanya Wilson, who found that the massive because enrolments can number change in the school leaving age led to a 7% in the tens of thousands. The University of decline in young women entering motherhood London has signed up with a MOOC called before the age of 20. Arnaud Chevalier’s paper, Coursera, originally founded by Stanford Crime after a Fertility Shock, with Olivier Marie University. Royal Holloway is providing two (University of Maastricht), demonstrated that courses starting this June. the sudden collapse of the Communist regime Many interesting things are emerging led to uncertainty about starting families and a from experiments with MOOCs. Some 40% decline in the birth rate, which continued universities, including Harvard, have to fall until 1994. In alumna Xiaoxuan Jia’s study, asked alumni to tutor students. So, for Subject Specific League Tables and Students’ example, 2,000 students pursuing a course Application Decisions, there was a distinct in Economics could have access to 100 or so correlation between departments moving up alumni who did the course when they were league tables and stronger application rates. full-time students. It is also being claimed that peer review of work, where students evaluate each other, can be as effective as staff marking and review. So we might have an entirely new model of education here. A social network Management PhD student conference Award-winning entrepreneurs model where top universities collaborate Students benefited from peer-to-peer review at Our entrepreneurial spirit continues to thrive to provide content, students support and this year’s Management PhD student conference, and grow. The student-led Royal Holloway evaluate each other, while alumni and as more than 100 students and academic staff Entrepreneurs recently won the Enterprise Event of others help out. With the costs of education participated in a series of plenary sessions, seminar the Year Award from the National Association of spiralling across the world, the finances workshops and a poster session. Suman Saha’s College and University Entrepreneurs. The award of education suggests that a new model poster, Exploring the relevance and application of recognises a single event that raises awareness will emerge – it’s perhaps just a question deliberative democracy in indigenous Bangladeshi of entrepreneurship beyond society members. of when. firms, and Steffen Kromer’s poster, Introduction It was given for the Night Market, where more to Emotional intelligence – Korean Nunchi as a than 300 visitors bought unique products from management style, jointly won the Outstanding student businesses, whilst enjoying a wide range of Poster Award, as voted by all conference attendees. entertainment provided by other student societies.

Royal Holloway 13 Faculty News Science

Science Festival fires on all cylinders

Have you ever wondered whether soap bubbles activities, including an opera about bees, a are always round? Whether hippos ever lived in big bang chemistry show, a War of the Worlds London? Or whether objects can levitate? School debate and a School University Challenge children, students and the local community learnt final. The Department of Psychology took the the answers to these questions, and more, when opportunity to involve festival-goers in their they attended the College’s Science Festival just research, including investigating whether before Easter. This week-long festival has evolved people could tell the difference between a from the long-running annual Science Open fake laugh and a real one. Founder’s Building Day, already a key fixture in the Surrey events was home to an eclectic array of performances, calendar. Undeterred by snowfall, around 2,000 art installations and workshops at the Science visitors attended the ‘Super Science Saturday’ Alternative Village Fete. Elsewhere on campus, finale. visitors were entertained by performances from The Departments of the Science Faculty, the Science Museum’s resident comedy duo together with several Arts Departments, threw Punk Science. open their doors for a varied programme of

Measuring body awareness

Researchers from the Department of Psychology recently asked healthy female student volunteers aged 19–26, to count their own heartbeats, simply by ‘listening’ to their bodies. Their accuracy in this heartbeat perception test was compared with their perception of their bodies as objects, measured by scores on the Self-Objectification Questionnaire. The results demonstrated that the more accurate the women were in detecting their heartbeats, the less they tended to think of their bodies as objects. These findings have important implications for understanding body image dissatisfaction and clinical disorders linked to self-objectification, such as anorexia. Dr Manos Tsakiris from the Department of Psychology said: “People have the remarkable ability to perceive themselves from the perspective of an outside observer. However, there is a danger that some women can develop an excessive tendency to regard their bodies as ‘objects’, while neglecting to value them from within, for their physical competence and health. Women who ‘self-objectify’ in this way are vulnerable to eating disorders, and a range of other clinical conditions, such as depression and sexual dysfunction.” Fellow researcher Vivien Ainley said: “We believe that our measure of body awareness, which assesses how well women are able to listen to their internal signals, will prove a valuable addition to research into self-objectification and women’s resulting mental health.”

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Royal Holloway student talks science with MPs Playwriting tool for Drama and Theatre Researchers show Physics is not just for men A PhD student in the School of Biological students On International Women’s Day, our physicists Sciences presented her work to politicians as part A Computer Science student is collaborating helped launch a video to promote women in of the SET for Britain competition, which aims to with Drama and Theatre students to produce a Physics. The Department of Physics has been foster greater dialogue between scientists and playwriting tool that will allow writers to focus awarded Juno Champion status by the Institute policy-makers. Anna Freij presented her work into more on the creative process and less on formatting of Physics (IOP) for their efforts in encouraging new drugs and treatments for bipolar disorder. their text. With support from the Alumni Fund, more women to take up and stay working in the She uses amoeba in her experiments and was this PhD student project is taking inspiration from subject. Only six departments in the UK currently keen to make politicians (and scientists) aware LaTeX – a text-formatting tool widely adopted by hold this title. Research shows of such non-animal models for pharmacology scientists. The programme will be very different that the percentage of women and development. Anna’s work is funded by from currently available tools and is set to be holding academic roles in The Doctor Hadwen Trust and is supervised by released under an open-source license. Physics drops the further they Professor Robin Williams (see page 24). progress through their careers. Scan to see the video.

14 Higher magazine Dean of Science

Professor New funding for pioneering research into Paul Hogg Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

It’s been a busy and exciting time recently for the Science Faculty. The annual Science A new collaboration with a pharmaceutical carries out research into pioneering treatments Open Day was expanded into a full blown company to develop drugs for the rare condition for DMD, including ‘exon skipping’. This process Science Festival running for a week. This Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) has allowed encourages cellular machinery to ‘skip over’ part provided us with a wonderful opportunity our scientists to hand back initial research funds of the mutated dystrophin gene in sufferers and to present different aspects of science to audiences of different age groups and to the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, to be used could correct around 83% of the genetic errors backgrounds - all with the aim of increasing for other research. Professor George Dickson from causing DMD. the general appreciation of science and the School of Biological Sciences said: “The new Families affected by the condition were invited generating interest in what we hope will revenue generated shows that our work is having onto campus to visit laboratories, to see the be the next generation of scientists. The a real impact. Our research is directly leading work being carried out, and to talk to scientists contribution from the arts in helping to to new treatments and hopefully drugs to treat about new drug developments. Karen Robinson’s explain science in many of the activities this condition which can be crippling for those five-year-old son, Thomas, has DMD. She said: was a notable innovation which we hope affected by it.” “Visiting the lab gives us the opportunity not to see continue. Affecting just 1 in 3,000 young boys, DMD is only to meet the people who are carrying out One of the key events in the Festival was a life-shortening genetic disorder, which causes the research we support, but also to explain the annual Women in Science Lecture, given muscles to weaken and waste over time, leading to family, friends and all those who support us this year by the distinguished Cambridge to increasingly severe disability. Professor Dickson exactly where their donations go.” academic, Professor Ashley Moffatt, and entitled The Maternal Immune System and the Success of Pregnancy. This neatly leads me on to the impressive achievements made by the Faculty in highlighting the importance of women in science and in supporting women who choose a career The emergence of ‘Twitter Tribes’ Festival of Neuroscience in this field. Not only have we appointed Looking at the language someone uses can identify Staff and students from the Department of two new women professors, Veronica della which community they are likely to belong to, Psychology rubbed shoulders with Ruby Wax Dora in Geography and Brita Nucinkis in according to research in the School of Biological and Marcus du Sautoy in April at the British Mathematics, but we are also proud that Sciences. Just as people have varying regional Neuroscience Association’s Festival of Neuroscience. Earth Sciences have just been awarded a accents, different communities use different words Several members of staff presented symposia based Bronze and Psychology a Silver Athena and also mis-spell words in different ways. The on their research. Our Lab of Action and Body SWAN award for supporting women research team produced a map of the different ran interactive exhibits for the public, including following academic careers in STEM communities by looking at messages sent on demonstrations of the ‘rubber hand illusion’ – a subjects. I hope that we can continue to Twitter. To group these users into communities, distortion of our sense of self. Visitors explored build on these successes in the future. they turned to cutting-edge algorithms that looked the relationships between the city and their for individuals that tend to send messages to other brains, found out how urban living drives impulsive www.rhul.ac.uk/science members of the same community. behaviour, and the impact our 24/7 culture has on our sleep patterns. @RHULScience

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Royal Holloway 15 25 years of the red nose Emma Freud on Red Nose Day

16 Higher magazine 25 years of the red nose Alumna Emma Freud OBE has been Director of Red Nose Day since 2000. She co-founded Emma Freud on Red Nose Day Comic Relief in 1985 with her partner Richard Curtis CBE and fellow alumnus Lenny Henry CBE. In the run-up to this year’s Red Nose Day, we asked Emma about Comic Relief’s projects and about her favourite Red Nose Day moments.

mma Freud (BA Drama & Theatre Studies, 1984) is one of those Who benefited the most from the last RND and what are your priority fabulous Freuds: her younger brother is PR guru Matthew Freud, projects for this year? her late father was the Liberal MP, Sir Clement Freud, the painter A third of the money goes to projects in the UK... they all deal with the root Lucian Freud was her uncle and her great-grandfather was causes of extreme poverty - so we spend a lot of money on drug addiction Sigmund Freud. An incredibly savvy media figure, she has worked on all of projects, homeless people, victims of domestic abuse, teenage prostitutes, ERichard Curtis’ films, such as Four Weddings and A Funeral, Bridget Jones’ people with Alzheimer’s, young carers - and the elderly, a quarter of whom Diary, Notting Hill and Love Actually. She produced the Live 8 concerts are still living below the poverty line. In Africa the work is more varied - street and helped to run the Make Poverty History campaign. She has been a kids, slum dwellers, people living with AIDS and no access to HRV’s, children broadcaster for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, presenting the likes at risk of malaria, mothers with no health care when they give birth, people of the BAFTA Awards and The Turner Prize. She is also with mental illness who have been marginalised. Since 2000, the the public face of the National Theatre, but these number of people in Africa dying from malaria has dropped days describes herself on Twitter as a “mum, by a third. The number of women dying in childbirth has script editor, producer, director of Red Nose fallen by a third - which means that every year, 150,000 Day, occasional broadcaster, bit tired.” Emma more women live to be mothers. The wells we’ve dug and Richard have four children. mean millions more now have safe drinking water. So, Emma, how hectic is it being And 52 million more children are in school than in Director of Red Nose Day? 2000. You’ve helped Africans build some of those Actually, I’ve never known it so busy. schools and you’ve equipped them with books and At the moment I’m answering about teachers. The projects are ALL remarkable - we’re 250 emails per day. It’s pretty manic good at raising money - but actually, we’re best here, but obviously that’s a great thing. at spending it in amazing ways which give long It’s as if Red Nose Day now has its own term help to people leading ridiculously hard lives. momentum - people are volunteering to What has been your favourite RND moment? do remarkable things without us needing Persuading six celebrities to go into the Big Brother to beg them in the way we used to. Our house for a week, which became the first ever celebrity job now is to make sure that every avenue is reality show (sorry). And asking the six mobile phone as effective as it can possibly be - and to make companies to cancel all their charges on the £5 text so that connections between different events so that they Comic Relief gets the full £5. Took six months - but they did it - I capitalise on each other. Also to make sure that the TV LOVE them for that and it has raised us literally millions. show is the best it’s ever been - I think this year it will be. We learn Lastly, what gives you pride and what saddens you? from our mistakes every year. The British public make me proud - the worse our economic situation, the Has RND got easier to do over the years and how big is the team now? more we give to charity. That’s an incredible statistic. And cynics sadden me. Well, it’s the 25th birthday of Red Nose Day. I’m obviously not old enough I just don’t get it - I really don’t. It’s one thing not to want to help people to have been there from the start (I literally look 21), but I have somehow having incredibly tough lives, I understand that - but it’s another to write or been involved for 23 of those years, so I have a bit of perspective on it. speak aggressively against organisations that are trying to make some sort When I started there were about 40 of us, but now there are about 200 of difference. What’s that all about? But overall, it’s been an astonishing people all year round putting together Red Nose Day and Sport Relief. And journey and I have so many highs and lows. But my greatest memory is of then an extra 50 or so in the three months leading up to the events. It’s got standing in a slum in Addis Ababa with a lady who had moved out of her easier in some ways - less need for the hard sell, more open doors. But I cardboard home into a corrugated iron shed, thanks to the money someone feel very strongly that we have to beat our totals every time - and last time gave on Red Nose Day, believing they could make a difference. She hugged we raised an insane £108 million - SO much more than we’d expected. So us and said, “I think I am now the happiest person in the world”. this year, the pressure is intense.

Royal Holloway 17 Drama

KingProfessor Jonathan Powell, Head of the Media Arts Department, once worked his way up to become Controller of BBC1. He talks to Higher magazine about his multi-award-winning career at the BBC, how the television industry has changed, and how students can succeed.

hen Jonathan Powell graduated in 1968 there was a clear path Jonathan moved to the BBC in 1978, when he was asked to take over into television production: you joined either the BBC or ITV, the Thomas Hardy adaption, The Mayor of Casterbridge. The first producer as they were the only two companies. “If you didn’t make it had died and the production was further complicated by location shooting through the door with them”, he says jokingly, “you had to in Dorset, which was unusual for the time. “We had to use the BBC’s outside go into the theatre or retrain as a lawyer. Today programmes are made by broadcast sports unit, and their cameras made the grass look too bright, like hundredsW of independent producers, so there are many more opportunities a football pitch!” for getting into television. It is a very unstructured and casual industry, but He then inherited the BBC2 classic drama slot and the productions which once you are in it is relatively easy to move around and if you have the vision followed included The Barchester Chronicles, Pride and Prejudice with scripts and the energy, then it’s all for the taking.” by Fay Weldon and Crime and Punishment starring John Hurt. In many ways Jonathan studied English Literature at the University of East Anglia, this was his dream job. He expanded the usual diet of nineteenth century under the watchful eye of the novelist Malcolm Bradbury. He was one of classics to include adaptations of contemporary novels, such as Iris Murdoch’s six trainees taken on by Granada Television for their graduate programme. The Bell. “Ratings weren’t discussed with us”, he says, “And as long as we “I left university wanting to be a film director, but I failed to grasp just how delivered a quality product, there were no problems from management. difficult the technical side of film-making is, and quaked at the thought of This was before the days of even cheap video cassettes, so senior executives dealing with stars. It was during my traineeship at Granada that I discovered couldn’t ask to see a cut of a programme before it went out.” the thing I enjoyed most: developing an idea and working with writers.” Jonathan is best known for producing high-quality, all-filmed drama He was first given the opportunity to produce on a short series of serials, such as John Le Carre’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and its sequel experimental dramas and comments, “Everything was done in the studio Smiley’s People. He favoured this form of short-run serial over longer-running then and it was like a factory, you were given a studio slot and told to get videotaped drama series. When he became Head of Drama in 1985, the on with it. It was easier to do because it cost little and producers weren’t BBC produced some of its best examples of this type, notably The Singing expected to do as much on budgeting as now.” Detective by Dennis Potter and Edge of Darkness by Troy Kennedy Martin, Having proved himself, he was given Crown Court, a successful series of both regarded as seminal productions. fictional court cases that aired three days a week, 52 weeks a year. “It was a monster, but fun,” he says. “I did three years of it. We rehearsed in London on a Monday, then shot the show in Manchester, with everything in the can by Thursday. The producer provides the template for others to work from: If you have the vision and the energy, you have the idea, generate scripts and hire everybody.” then it’s all for the taking.

18 Higher magazine As ratings-chasing became more important to the BBC’s Productions strategy, he found there was an appetite for a more populist As Producer continuing drama series. “There Crown Court (1972-75) was a sense,” he says, “that you A Christmas Carol (1977) had to put on popular drama on weekend evenings and win the Wuthering Heights (1978) mid-evening slots, otherwise the The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978) schedules would just become full Crime and Punishment (1979) of variety shows. We developed Casualty for Saturdays. For Testament of Youth (1979) Sunday nights we put on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979) Howard’s Way, which caused Smiley’s People (1982) the Head of BBC2 to comment “you’ve come up with something distressingly popular!” I had As Executive Producer the idea for Eastenders whilst Edge of Darkness (1985) watching Hitchcock’s film Rear Window: a drama which looked EastEnders (1985-87) down and surveyed the lives The Singing Detective (1986) of the inhabitants of a square. Casualty (1986-87) The BBC had not done a soap before, and senior management Inspector Morse (1992-2000) thought that such a show set in Peak Practice (1992-2002) London might alienate most of the country. We commissioned a survey which found that people mostly wanted a soap set in Manchester (à la Coronation Street), but wouldn’t mind one set in London. What they didn’t want was one set in Birmingham!” Jonathan took over from Michael Grade as Controller of BBC1 in 1987. “My first three years were fun,” he says, “but then ITV started pulling all its resources together and it became very competitive. You can’t last too long in such a pressurised role.” In 1992 he moved to Carlton Television as Director of Drama and Co-Productions, and there looked after series such as Inspector Morse, Peak Practice and Soldier Soldier. “Everything changed when the Government made changes to television company franchises, allowing them to compete with each other. Companies began taking each other over and soon only Granada and Carlton were left. Then we were taken over by Granada.” Of the recent changes at the BBC, he says, “I feel sad about the demise of Television Centre, but I’m not surprised. With changes in technology and the ability to shoot in high definition in vast studios for the most popular shows, the old studios proved to be too small. With the majority of shows being made by outside companies, Television Centre had become underused as a production centre.” In 2006, an old colleague from his BBC days asked Jonathan to lecture her students at Royal Holloway on the MA Producing Film & Television course. He enjoyed it so much, he stayed. “I was glad of the change after more than 30 years in various executive TV jobs and I find the Egham campus a rejuvenating place to work. I tell students to use their time at university wisely. They need to differentiate themselves from other graduates by taking on extra-curricular activities. Employers are looking for bright people who have demonstrated that they can get things done. Oh, and never be late for anything.”

Royal Holloway 19 The Iraq sanctions myth By Professor Mike Spagat, Department of Economics

Sanctions allegedly killed hundreds of thousands of children in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and provided a rationale for invasion, a line still heard today. But, according to Professor Mike Spagat, those deaths almost certainly never happened.

ust over ten years ago the United Kingdom followed the United States Sadly, the retraction came too late – the genie was already out of the into the bloody Iraq war. George W. Bush and Tony Blair justified bottle. In May 1996, barely days after the publication of Zaidi’s original letter, the invasion mainly with the claim that Iraq possessed, or was in the Madeleine Albright, the US Ambassador to the UN, had the following rather process of building, weapons of mass destruction. Most people now shocking and fateful exchange on American national television: seem to be aware that this premise was false. JYet a crucial myth surrounding the Iraq war still commands widespread Lesley Stahl (of CBS News): belief - that economic sanctions aimed at Saddam Hussein and his regime “We have heard that half a million killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children in the 1990s and early 2000s. children have died. I mean, that’s The supposed lethality of economic sanctions was used as an argument for more children than died in invading Iraq: Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?” Albright: “….we think the price is worth it.” Saddam Hussein is 65; containing him These remarks became a notorious example of extreme American for another 10 years condemns at least callousness toward the Muslim world. A few months later, in August 1996, Osama Bin Laden cited the deaths another 360,000 Iraqis to death. Of of 600,000 Iraqi children in a fatwa declaring war against the US: these, 240,000 will be children under 5. “More than 600,000 Iraqi children have died due to lack of food and medicine and as a result of the unjustifiable aggression (sanction) imposed Walter Russell Mead, Editor of The American Interest magazine (March, 2003) on Iraq and its nation. The children of Iraq are our children. You, the USA, together with the Saudi regime are responsible for the shedding of the And, as we shall see, the sanctions myth is still used to justify the war. blood of these innocent children.” The claim that sanctions killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children Over the years Bin Laden hammered the US repeatedly on the theme originated in a 1995 letter to the Lancet which, in turn, was based on a of sanctions killing Iraqi children, citing “the greatest mass slaughter of Baghdad survey done by Sarah Zaidi and colleagues. After other researchers children mankind has ever known” as one of his three main justification identified anomalies in the survey data Zaidi, to her great credit, reinvestigated for the 9/11 attack. the work from the ground up. Having sub-contracted the original interviews In fact, several years prior to 9/11 a new UNICEF survey of child mortality to the Iraqi government, she travelled to Baghdad and reinterviewed many of in Iraq appeared in the Lancet. Apparently learning nothing from Sarah the original households. Zaidi failed to confirm quite a few of the reported Zaidi’s experience, UNICEF did not place itself in a position to guarantee deaths in these follow-up interviews so she retracted her results. the integrity of the field work underpinning its survey, again delegating For the rest of your life whenever you see a survey ask yourself a simple this responsibility to Iraqi government workers. This survey, like Zaidi’s question. Who guarantees the integrity of the field work for this survey? It original one, found hundreds of thousands of child deaths. Once again made a world of difference in the present case when Sarah Zaidi shifted this the storyline that sanctions were killing massive numbers of Iraqi children responsibility from some Iraqi government workers to herself. had scientific respectability.

20 Higher magazine Here is some help. First, as the figure shows, during the three years Iraq - Only One of Four Surveys Shows a Spike in the 1990's before the invasion of Iraq the child mortality rate was between 40 and 60 per 1,000 live births according to the three surveys that came after the

120 flawed UNICEF one. In fact, UNICEF did not even give figures for 2000,

Iraq Child and Maternal Mortality Survey 2001 and 2002 although they did place the child mortality rates around

100 130 for the late 1990s. Second, the child mortality rates in the Democratic Republic of Congo

80 were around 160 per 1,000 live births, substantially higher than 130. Clare Short, Tony Blair’s development minister, fed him this particular false Iraq Family Health Survey comparison. Apparently she meant to convince him that if Iraq were doing 60 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey - Round 3 worse than Congo (which was generally considered to be doing very badly indeed) then invading the country could push it into a total disaster. Tony Blair 40 seems to have concluded, to the contrary, that the occupying powers could Child Mortality Rates (deaths per 1,000 live births) Iraq Living Conditions Survey hardly fail to improve upon the dire health crisis that Short had described to

20 him. Blair has retained this false information on the pre-war situation and 1974 1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 Year now uses it to justify the war. Third, Blair gets his sums wrong, although this mistake actually weakens his case. If, indeed, the child mortality rate had plummeted due to the UNICEF’s Iraq Child and Maternal Mortality Survey found a big spike in child mortality rates in Iraq dur- ing the 1990s. These supposed elevated rates were used to back claims that economic sanctions aimed invasion by as much as he thinks it has then the invasion would have saved at Saddam Hussein’s regime killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children. However, the next three hundreds of thousands of children’s lives, much more than the 50,000 he major surveys that covered child mortality in Iraq all failed to find this supposed spike. claims in his testimony. Yet over the next decade this UNICEF survey also fell by the wayside as It is easy to get lost in this hall of mirrors so let me be clear. Iraqis did three subsequent surveys found no evidence to support UNICEF’s claimed suffer a lot under the sanctions regime but the child mortality rate was not spike in child mortality rates in 1990s Iraq. highly elevated throughout the 1990s and just before the invasion of Iraq. Nonetheless, Tony Blair cited the discredited UNICEF figures to retrospectively Nor did the child mortality rate plummet after this invasion. Nevertheless, justify the invasion of Iraq in front of the UK’s Iraq Inquiry in 2010: many people continue to be taken in by the sanctions myth. Surveys are a ubiquitous part of modern life and a crucial research tool. “In 2000 and 2001 and 2002 they Yet quality varies considerably from survey to survey and results are often [Iraq] had a child mortality rate of 130 wrong. When we see a survey, all of us will now pause for a moment to per 1,000 children under the age of reflect on the integrity of the field work. five, worse than the Congo…That figure today is not 130, it is 40. That equates to about 50,000 young people, children [alive today who would not If more people had done this in be if Saddam Hussein had remained in power], that’s the result that getting rid recent years it might have made it of Saddam makes.” (January, 2011) more difficult to justify, excuse or cite As an exercise before you read on try spotting the three (or more) errors in bogus reasons for some of the terrible Blair’s testimony. If you spot one then you have outperformed the Committee of Inquiry although Royal Holloway students taking my Economics of Warfare violence that has plagued our world in course should be able to spot more. the twenty first century.

Royal Holloway 21 A room of one’s own By Dr Jane Hamlett, Department of History

From an iconic image of Bob Marley to a Trainspotting poster, the modern student has often decorated their bedroom in a way that makes a statement about their identity. But students have in fact been using wall space to express their personality as far back as the nineteenth century. The College’s Archive holds a rare and unique collection of 56 photographs of the rooms, taken between 1896 and 1898, which provide an interesting insight into the lives of students. A leopard skin rug, the skin of ▲ A Victorian tea party a dead crocodile and even the ...and our recreation of the scene, with students occupying themselves non-verbally! ▼ skeleton of a medieval nun are just some of the exotic and unusual items that students in the Victorian era used to distinguish themselves from their peers.

22 Higher magazine A room of one’s own By Dr Jane Hamlett, Department of History

Surprisingly, female students don’t seem to have felt that they had to portray themselves as feminine. One student, a Miss Owen, even went so far as to display an elaborate crocodile skin in her room, a sure fire way of marking herself out from fellow students. It is interesting that this student felt comfortable putting an object like this up in her room. In the Victorian period, tokens of the hunt were strongly identified with masculinity. In middle-class homes, they were often used to decorate rooms viewed as male terrains, such as libraries and billiard rooms. It is also interesting to note the importance of fashion and the ‘latest’ trends. The popularity of the aesthetic movement can often be seen in the photographs, with fans and parasols pinned to the walls and Japanese screens in the rooms. Seen as foreign and exotic at the time, students used these decorations to transform their rooms into alluring and exciting places. Women who went to university at this time were often heavily criticised - many male academics and the general public viewed female higher Crocodile skins were one of the more surprising findings education with suspicion. Unreasonable as it seems today, there were fears ust like students today, young men and women in the nineteenth that students would compromise their abilities as mothers and homemakers century took great pleasure in decorating their new spaces when by spending too much time with their books. In these circumstances, the arriving at university. The walls of student rooms have, for more early authorities of women’s colleges were very anxious to present them than 100 years, been used to show self-awareness, an attachment as feminine spaces that conformed to contemporary ideas and etiquette. to family and school, but also a new sense of identity. These spaces offered Students were encouraged to form little families, and to meet each day for a womenJ in particular a kind of freedom and an escape from the demands ‘Five o’ clock tea’, much as they would in a middle-class home of the period. of domesticity and family. Clearly, Miss Owen didn’t feel as if she had to conform to this feminine The Archive collection includes numerous images of staff and student image when she decorated her room. rooms from the late Victorian period, which were probably taken by Miss Having ‘a room of one’s own’ was particularly significant for many Frost, a Mathematics lecturer at the College with a fondness for photography. female students, as contemporary expectations about women’s role in the What makes this set of images particularly exciting and unusual is that they home, and their family and social commitments often made it difficult for include photographs of student studies, probably all taken around the same them to invest time in academic work. Being able to shut the door on these time. This means that we can see how a single cohort of students chose demands would have been a novel experience for some. But it is obvious to decorate their rooms and how these early female scholars - all living in from these carefully decorated spaces, with their prized ornaments, prints sets of rooms in Founder’s Building - tried to make their rooms different and personal photographs, that they were also a source of great pleasure. from each other. As early student and later staff member Marion Pick put it in her memoirs: While today’s students are only given one room, these early students “To a first year on arrival, two private rooms were unspeakable bliss; I simply had studies and bedrooms, usually on opposite sides of the corridor. But sat and looked and loved it all.” no images survive of the Victorian bedrooms, perhaps because at the time these spaces were often seen as too private to photograph. The photographs we do have are very revealing. Although all the students had very similar Unreasonable as it seems today, there were furniture, provided by the College and supplied en masse by Maples, the rooms look very different. At the time these were taken, it was unusual and fears that students would compromise their even shocking for women to be at university at all. So the photos offer us abilities as mothers and homemakers by a glimpse of what these new female students made of university life when spending too much time with their books. they experienced it for the first time.

Royal Holloway 23 From Amoeba to Pre-clinical Models: Developing new treatments for epilepsy

Professor Robin Williams in his laboratory

pilepsy affects over 50 million people worldwide and yet amazingly, how the drug works has remained unclear. Using a novel approximately a third of those diagnosed with epilepsy do not research approach funded by the National Centre for Replacement, have their seizures adequately controlled by present treatments. Refinement and Reduction (NC3Rs), and in collaboration with Professor A major goal for improved world health is therefore the Matthew Walker from University College London, they have identified development of new treatments that will control seizures in these drug- how Epilim works in a simple non-animal model, the social amoeba Eresistant patients. Researchers in the School of Biological Sciences have Dictyostelium. This breakthrough enabled them to identify new chemicals recently made a great step forward in this process by identifying a new that have potent anti-epileptic effects. They then tested these fatty acids in family of potent seizure control drugs. established (animal) epilepsy models and confirmed that the new chemicals Professor Robin Williams and his team have spent the last 12 years show improved potency compared to Epilim. In addition, not only did some investigating how one commonly used epilepsy treatment acts to stop of the fatty acids outperform the drug in controlling seizures, they were seizures. This drug, variously braded in the UK as Epilim, Convulex or also predicted to cause fewer side-effects. Development of these fatty Depakote, is the most highly prescribed seizure treatment worldwide, acids could therefore help control seizures in both children and adults.

24 Higher magazine From Amoeba to Pre-clinical Models: Developing new treatments for epilepsy

Dictyostelium is a simple biomedical model system, where cells can be grown in a dish as single Dictyostelium cells also undergo an unusual process of development in the formation of fruiting bodies, amoeboid cells. Here we see cells containing a fluorescently labelled protein to more clearly see the cell where starving cells will move to a common point, and undergo a series of changes where cells adopt walls and filapodia extending from cells. specialised roles – either as spore cells (in the round spore head) or as stalk cells (holding the spore head aloft).

The ketogenic diet Ethical research Excitingly, the range of potent chemicals identified included one fatty acid The success of this project highlights the benefits of innovative animal that is usually prescribed in a special diet used to treat children with severe, replacement research. Professor Williams states: “Animals are often used in drug-resistant epilepsy, called the MCT ketogenic diet. Moreover, children the search for new epilepsy treatments. Our work provides a new approach, treated with the diet have elevated levels of the fatty acids in their blood helping us to reduce our reliance on animals in research and provide major when on the diet. This suggests that the diet works by elevating the level improvements in human health.” In a traditional approach to epilepsy of the fatty acid in the blood, which then blocks seizures in drug-resistant research, neurons derived from rodent brains provide a means of testing patients. Professor Williams said: “This is an important breakthrough. The how an anti-epileptic drug blocks seizures. Thus scientists normally use large family of medium chain fatty acids that we have identified provide an numbers of animals to identify new improved epilepsy treatments. Using a exciting new field of research with the potential of identifying, stronger, simple amoeba to screen large numbers of chemicals for improved activity, and safer epilepsy treatments.” The discovery could lead to the ultimate and then confirming the potency of the new compounds in a small number replacement of the ketogenic diet. This high fat, low carbohydrate diet of animals provides an ethical and effective means of developing better drugs. was thought to work through producing small chemicals in the body The fatty acids identified in this work are the subject of a patent called ketones (hence keto-genic). Although often effective, the diet has application, and we are in active discussions with industry partners for attracted criticism, as side-effects can be significant and potentially lead commercialisation. The time required for clinical development and approval of to constipation, hypoglycaemia, retarded growth and bone fractures. The new drug is around 9 years, with an estimated cost of US$850 million and a diet has not been widely applied in the treatment of adults, since adults success rate of 8.2%. The exciting new discoveries in this work are expected to are often unwilling to maintain the strict dietary conditions. The study also reduce the time and cost of this drug development process and rapidly provide identified a range of novel chemicals that provide a very exciting option these new drugs to patients to improve the health of people with epilepsy. for the development of new treatments for epilepsy. By pinpointing the fatty acids in the MCT ketogenic diet and related potent chemicals that are effective in controlling epilepsy, Professor Williams hopes that a pill can be developed for children and adults that could provide similar epilepsy control, Using a simple amoeba...provides an ethical and without the need for the dietary restrictions. effective means of developing better drugs.

Professor Robin Williams, an expatriate Australian, started using Dictyostelium as a model system in 1998 at University College London, identifying how treatments for bipolar disorder work using this model. These studies were able to provide the first really strong evidence for a common effect of how bipolar disorder drugs work in stopping mood swings. He was subsequently awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Career Development Award to start his own research group at University College London, to explore the molecular mechanisms of valproic acid and to develop improved treatments. It was here that he started his long-standing collaboration with Professor Matthew Walker to explore epilepsy at a molecular level. Although funding for his epilepsy research has now ended, he hopes to continue research in understanding seizures and developing better treatments for people with epilepsy. His research also continues to address areas of bipolar disorder, Alzheimer’s disease and toxicology research in Dictyostelium and animal models.

Royal Holloway 25 Timeline of the Colleges Royal Holloway and Bedford Colleges combine over 150 years of historic discoveries, notable alumni and academic innovation. Here are some of the milestones along the way.

1849 Bedford College is founded by Elisabeth Jesser Reid as the UK’s first higher education college for women

Early students include the novelist George Eliot, famed for Middlemarch, and the first woman doctor Dr Elizabeth Blackwell, who trained nurses in the American Civil War

1886 1887 Royal Holloway College is The first 28 students begin opened by HM Queen Victoria their studies, including our first international student, from China

1894 Students include the suffragette martyr Emily Wilding Davison, who died at the Epsom Derby in 1860 1913, the pioneering woman surgeon, Dr Louisa Sarah Parker Remond, the Martindale CBE, and her sister, Hilda Martindale slavery abolitionist and early CBE, who argued for equal pay and rights for women African American female as a pioneering senior civil servant physician, is a student

1910 Countess Frances Lloyd- George CBE, the wife and Private Secretary to Prime 1900 Minister David Lloyd-George, Both Bedford and Royal Holloway Colleges are graduates in Classics admitted as Schools of the University of London 1905 The novelist Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett DBE and Professor Helen Cam CBE, who will become 1912 the first female professor at Harvard, are students Margaret Benson becomes Professor of Botany at Royal Holloway College, the first female professor in the country 1942 Eunice Timberlake, Geography lecturer at Bedford College, 1914 develops new techniques Richmal Crompton, the 1922 in air navigation to aid air author of the Just William Students include Dame Kathleen Lonsdale DBE rescue after attacks on books, is a student as FRS, one of the first two women elected to the Royal Atlantic convoys is Ethel Watts, the first Society and Sylvia Scaffardi, co-founder of the woman to qualify as a Council for Civil Liberties, now known as Liberty chartered accountant

1939 1944 Bedford College Sir William Hunter McCrea FRS becomes Head of is evacuated to Mathematics at Royal Holloway. His discovery that Cambridge during the the sun is composed mainly of hydrogen leads to Second World War the development of the Big Bang Theory

26 Higher magazine 2003 Community 2013 1998 Action is founded Our Music Department to enable is awarded a prestigious The Information students to Regius Professorship by Security Group volunteer in the HM The Queen to mark wins the Queen’s community 2003 her Diamond Jubilee. Until Anniversary Prize Sir Andrew Motion, the now, only two had been for Higher and Poet Laureate, is appointed created in the last century Further Education Professor of Creative Writing and the singer and rapper Example graduates in 2012 1996 Media Arts We are the Olympic The Brit Award- Village for Rowing. winning singer KT Our particle physicists Tunstall graduates contribute to the in Music and Drama discovery of the Higgs Boson particle

1995 Professor Euan Nisbet begins monitoring the 2011 rising levels of atmospheric 2010 The winner of five methane, a highly potent but Comedian and actor Lenny Paralympic Gold Medals, neglected greenhouse gas Henry CBE gains an MA in Sophie Christiansen OBE Screenwriting. Renowned graduates in Mathematics alumnae sopranos Dame Felicity Lott, Susan Bullock and Sarah Fox perform at College to mark 1989 our Silver Jubilee The South East Asia Research Group starts work on intrepid mapping of this remote rainforest- covered region 1980 1977 Postgraduates include Janice Baroness Catherine 1985 Hadlow, the future Controller Ashton, who will become Royal Holloway and Bedford New College of BBC2 the EU’s first ever foreign opens following the merger of the two colleges. minister, graduates in HM Queen Elizabeth II inaugurates the new Social Science College the following year

1969 Professor Samuel Tolansky receives samples of moon dust from NASA, brought back by Apollo XI, for his diamond research at 1960 Royal Holloway Professor David Bellamy OBE, the renowned broadcaster and 1982 environmental activist, 1954 Students include Emma Freud OBE, graduates with a PhD in Jean Rook, the legendary now Director of Red Nose Day and Botany Daily Express columnist, Dr Simon Thurley CBE, the CEO of known as the “First Lady English Heritage and Jayne-Anne of Fleet Street” graduates Gadhia, CEO of Virgin Money in English 1966 Students include Baroness Diana Warwick, now Chair of the Human Tissue Authority and Baroness Jean McFarlane, one of nursing’s great pioneers and England’s first Professor of Nursing 1957 The future Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, Baroness Janet 1965 Fookes DBE, graduates in History Both colleges become fully co-educational

Royal Holloway 27 Into Africa…

Royal Holloway students will swap the comforts of Founder’s for life as volunteer teachers in township schools in South Africa this summer.

In February, we launched a competition to find a group of bright students Mathematics), Sarah Mills (3rd year Mathematics) and Charlotte Hicks for a potentially life-changing opportunity: teaching Mathematics to students (3rd year Economics & Mathematics). These five all demonstrated the key in South Africa. Education is a tool which can help free the developing attributes of a volunteer teacher: the experience and skills necessary and, world from poverty, and bringing improved mathematics skills to some more importantly, the ability to inspire and motivate learners and local of the poorest and most under-privileged young people in the world can teachers in order to raise their aspirations and achieve more than they be both an awe-inspiring opportunity and an emotional challenge for the thought possible. students embracing it. The programme the five will be embarking on this summer is the Competition for jobs among graduates has become fiercer in recent years brainchild of former 3i Group Communications Director and Warwick and it is our belief that students with demonstrable passion, determination University alumnus Patrick Dunne. His was a sublimely simple idea: and broad life experiences are more likely to succeed in a competitive world. Mathematics and English skills are great liberators from poverty. The idea These were just some of the qualities we looked for when launching the was crystallised in 2006, when the University of Warwick sent twelve competition to find volunteer students to brave this task. student volunteers to South Africa to teach in some of its poorest townships, Timescales were tight and competition stiff, but the rigorous selection suburban and rural schools and bring improved core skills in Mathematics process led to seven students being interviewed by the selection team. and English to both learners and teachers. The idea became “Warwick in Five have made the cut: Puminder Nota (3rd year Mathematics), Henry Africa” (WIA), an inspirational programme to transform Mathematics and Young (2nd year Mathematics & Psychology), Jyoti Kachhwaha (2nd year English teaching in Africa.

28 Higher magazine Into Africa…

Charlotte Hicks, Economics and Mathematics student “I applied to be part of Warwick in Africa as Thank you for the extra lessons and it is seems like such an exciting project. After all the trouble. You may have not receiving thorough training, our aim is to improve changed the world yet, but you the quality of education offered to students by working alongside schools in South African changed my world and I thank you all. townships. I am in no doubt that my time in Refilwe Jeyie, learner at Namedi School, Soweto, Johannesburg will be challenging at times but I now at Stellenbosch University can’t wait to have a go at teaching!”

Henry Young, Mathematics and Psychology student The programme relies entirely on philanthropic support, but what has made “I wanted to get involved with this program it such a success is the simplicity of the model. To ensure that only the best because it looks like a lot of fun and something teachers are selected, with maximum commitment and diversity of the I’ve always wanted to do! At the moment, I’m teaching team, no one pays for their place. Sustainability is supported by the considering becoming a teacher. This would be requirement for all volunteer teachers to fundraise for the following year’s activity, subsidising the philanthropic support required. great experience and could be the deciding factor The volunteers teach learners and provide a range of formal and informal as to whether I pursue this after graduating. training and coaching for teachers in some of the poorest townships and Also, I took a year out before coming to Royal rural schools. In just seven years, over 120,000 young Africans and 800 Holloway and planned to do a program like this but it never teachers in 25 locations in South Africa, Ghana and Tanzania have benefited happened. When this opportunity came around, I knew I couldn’t from transformed Mathematics and English teaching through WIA. Impact pass it up for a second time! After speaking to the Warwick on attendance and performance has been maintained for the seventh students who had gone to South Africa in previous years, and year running improving test results by 30%–40% and encouraging better attendance of up to 50%. An increasing number of learners secure places hearing all their stories about what a difference they’ve made, I at top African universities and it is reported that 90% of learners find knew I had made the right choice.” Mathematics and English easier after sessions with WIA teachers.

I hope you might have received the news about our matric performance. We are the talk of the town. The school overall got 73.6% pass rate, a huge improvement. We are now number one in all high schools in Alex. Mtyihane, Head of Mathematics, Realogile High School, Alexandra Township, north of Johannesburg

The College is proud to be in partnership with the University of Warwick in this exciting venture and to offer Royal Holloway students a chance to make a difference, learn new skills, enhance their employability and make life-changing friendships. We hope that the programme will also give them the confidence to aspire to be the best they can be and show others from Royal Holloway and beyond what can be achieved with motivation, commitment and a belief in themselves.

To find out more about WIA or to get involved, please contact Lauren Parker [email protected]

Royal Holloway 29 Margaret Thatcher: The Falklands legacy and beyond By Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics

invasion in April 1982. While recently released private papers suggest that her resolve was not quite as assured as the moniker ‘Iron Lady’ might suggest, she nonetheless was pivotal in ensuring (along with US support) that a sovereignty deal was not done with Argentina. In the aftermath of the conflict, Thatcher was instrumental in agreeing that hundreds of millions of pounds be spent in constructing an air base, increasing funding for British Antarctic Survey and ensuring that a military presence was preserved in the Falklands and South Georgia. Such investment proved vital for the future development of the Falkland Islands. She also helped to establish a political orthodoxy. Henceforth, there was to be no more talk of sovereignty deals and compromises. Messieurs Major, Blair, Brown and Cameron have all championed the right of Falkland Islanders to self-determine their future. The ‘wishes’ of the community not ‘interests’ were to be protected. Domestically, in legacy terms, it has often been argued that the 1983 he recent death of Baroness Thatcher, or Mrs Thatcher (or simply general election result owed much to the Falklands triumph and perhaps Maggie) as she was known for much of her three premierships gave her the confidence to tackle other ‘adversaries’, most notably the miners (1979-1990), will be much debated. As the UK’s first female Prime in the midst of the second term. A point she made to me at a reception Minister, she remains a deeply divisive figure. As is often the case, once some years ago. as former Prime Minister Tony Blair has also discovered, one’s reputation But there is also a foreign policy legacy here to be considered. In August Tcan change over time and space. One can be despised in some places and 1990, Thatcher met with President George Bush senior and encouraged him contexts, and lionised and revered in others. to take a firm stand against Iraqi aggression towards Kuwait. Since then I If there is one place where Margaret Thatcher will continue to be held would argue that the Falklands experience was used by successive British in high regard it is the Falkland Islands. If you ever make the long journey Prime Ministers as an experiential resource to draw upon when British forces south via Ascension Island (or possibly via Chile), you will sooner or later were engaging adversaries in the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa and South come across Thatcher Drive, which is just off Ross Road in Stanley, and If you East Europe. Without saying it in so many words, her refrain to have put arrive in the Islands on 10th January you will be informed that your arrival the ‘Great back into Great Britain’ has arguably helped a whole generation has coincided with Margaret Thatcher Day. of political leaders to engage militarily in a way that an earlier generation Such recognition is understandable. Islanders were quick to recognise might have worried about a repeat of the ‘Suez’ crisis when the US exposed her personal role in sending the task force in the aftermath of the Argentine the shortcomings of UK extra-territorial influence.

30 Higher magazine Cyber security: Our next generation of experts

Supported by government funding of £3.8 million, our world-leading Cyber and Information Security Group is launching a new Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security and aims to train future leaders in the field.

he College has a long-standing interest in cyber security. We were The CDTs are just one of a number of recent initiatives supported by one of the first universities to set up a dedicated academic group the Government as part of the UK Cyber Security Strategy. One of the to conduct research and teaching in the field, and now our Cyber fundamental goals of the Strategy is “to have the cross-cutting knowledge, and Information Security Group is one of the largest and most skills and capability it needs to underpin all our cyber security objectives.” established security groups in the world. The MSc in Information Security James Quinault, Director of the Government’s Office of Cyber Security, said: Thas just celebrated its 21st year and now has 2,500 graduates from over “I am very pleased that Royal Holloway’s strengths in this area have been 100 countries. deservedly recognised; we look forward to working with them to build the The £3.8 million grant for our new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) number of UK graduates working at the cutting edge in this field.” in Cyber Security was announced in April by David Willetts, the Minister CDTs ensure that the student is placed at the heart of the doctoral training for Universities and Science. It is to be one of two new centres of training, process. They provide students with a stimulating environment and broader with the other located at the University of Oxford. The grant will fund training than is often found in more traditional models of a PhD. When ten PhD scholarships in three annual intakes between 2013-15. Students combined with excellent research, this enhances graduates’ employability will attend one year of cyber security courses ahead of their three-year no matter what their final destination. Professor Keith Martin, Director research programme, including a variety of industrial placements. Around 30 of the Information Security Group, said: “Royal Holloway has operated a organisations have already provided their backing, including IBM, McAfee, graduate school in cyber security for many years and, although we feel that Thales, Vodafone, UK Payments, TfL and Logica. this is an area where we have an excellent track record, a CDT represents a significantly different approach to research training and we are really looking forward to engaging with it.” For more information about the CDT in Cyber Security, please visit: www.rhul.ac.uk/isg/cybersecuritycdt/

What is cyber security? Cyber security is concerned with all aspects of security as they relate to cyber space, which is itself a term used to encompass all forms of (networked) digital activity. Cyber security includes the technical mechanisms such as cryptography and access control that are used to directly protect data, through to the operational and management mechanisms that are used to govern and maintain systems operating in cyber space.

The Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, announced the £3.8 million grant to the College in April. He predicted that cyber security will be a major boom area for the economy in the coming years.

Royal Holloway 31 The Principal and Lady Heseltine Some of the 500 guests Emerita Professor Caroline Barron, Chair of the Bedford Society Pioneers of Higher Education: The launch of the Bedford Society

Graduates and former staff of Bedford College, 500 On each chair in the Beveridge Hall we placed a feedback form to capture Bedfordians in all, descended on Senate House’s what people would want from a Bedford society. A tremendous amount Beveridge and Macmillan Halls on 23 April for of these forms have been returned to us and we can clearly see that the a reunion and lecture which marked the official appetite is for London events, typically lectures and reunions. launch of the Bedford Society. Many people have enquired about the cost of being in the Society and The day commenced in the Macmillan Hall we want to be clear that there is no fee for being a member, it is simply a where the College Archivist and Curator presented network of people with a common interest in Bedford College. There are a pictorial display. They spoke at length about the two proposals which the Development Department has spoken with many Bedford Collection and the historical importance Bedfordians about and they are: of Bedford College, which was founded by Elizabeth Jesser Reid in 1849 as the UK’s first higher education college for women. • Bedford Scholarships: Post-graduate scholarships across all disciplines, In his welcome speech, the Principal highlighted the many things named where the students are Bedford Scholars and benefit not just financially, after Bedfordians at College today, commenting, “This is a society to celebrate but are also offered Bedfordians as mentors to help them in their transition the rich heritage of Bedford College and to ensure that the College’s past to a successful career. achievements benefit future generations. We look forward to many more • Bedford Society House: A club room at 11 Bedford Square accessible to events and are sure this is the beginning of something very special.” all Bedfordians and college staff as a London meeting place. A venue to An excellent lecture was delivered by Dr Lawrence Goldman entitled, use in the evenings and at weekends for special events. A hot desk in Pioneers of Higher Education for Women in the Oxford Dictionary of National town with full IT support and a place to meet a friend for a coffee. Biography: Bedford College in Context, while Chair of The Bedford Society, Emerita Professor Caroline Barron spoke about how the Society will benefit Bedford Square is also a teaching space used by the Social Work, English, Bedfordians today, as well as the scholars of tomorrow. Media Arts and Drama Departments, but it desperately needs to be All guests left with a copy of Bedford College – Memories of 150 years refurbished. If Bedfordians are keen, we will create a campaign to contribute edited by J Mordaunt Crook, a book tracing the many milestones of Bedford to the cost of the refurbishment and in recognising such contributions, we College and the more recent story of its amalgamation with Royal Holloway would recommend renaming the building ‘Bedford Society House’ as a first in the mid-eighties to form a major constituent of the University of London step to putting Bedford back on the map. under the name Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. Please contact Sally Burton-Graham, [email protected], for more details.

32 Higher magazine Alumni generations: Two weddings and a chapel

When alumni couple Craig and Sue Whitehead were married in the College Chapel in 1983, they could scarcely have imagined that they would be returning as the parents of the bride nearly thirty years later.

n November, Craig and Sue Whitehead made the trip from their home in the United States to attend their daughter’s wedding in the Craig and Sue in 1983 College Chapel, an event which found two generations of alumni couples celebrating. Craig and Sue’s own marriage took place in the College IChapel in July 1983, little more than a year after their graduation. Their daughter, Selina, has now continued the family tradition by attending Royal Holloway and by marrying a fellow alumnus. Selina graduated in Psychology in 2008, while her husband, Nick Warlow, read Modern History & Politics and graduated in 2006. Their marriage took place in the College Chapel on 10 November 2012. Selina said, “My parents met at the Royal Holloway College Rugby Club disco towards the end of their first year and became engaged three months later. My father read Chemistry and my mother read Classics. They were married on 2nd July 1983 and have now been happily married for 30 years. They moved to New England three years ago, where my father is a Vice-President at the pharmaceutical company Pfizer in Boston. My mother is a teacher and I am the middle one of their three children. “Nick and I met at Royal Holloway in 2006, at the end of my first year and the end of Nick’s third year. We first met whilst playing lacrosse for Royal Holloway and then we worked together behind the bar at College. We became engaged in January 2012 and were married in November. We now live in Southfields, London and Nick is a senior account manager at Experian, whilst I am a trainee clinical psychologist. “I think my parents found our wedding a very emotional experience, as it brought back fond memories of their wedding day, but also of all of our graduation days. It was also very lovely to have my tutor Professor Johannes Zanker attend the ceremony and be part of our special day.” Nick and Selina in 2012

Royal Holloway 33 The centenary of Emily Wilding Davison, Suffragette

The College marked the centenary with a performance of the play, Emily Wilding Davison’s fatal fall beneath the King’s horse at Emily Wilding Davison: the one who threw herself under a horse, the 1913 Derby is one of the most iconic acts of protest of the in the Picture Gallery, while the English, History, Drama and Politics Departments came together to hold a rosette workshop followed twentieth century. The centenary of her death in the name of by a seminar featuring plays, poems stories and thoughts on Emily. Clare Balding’s recent Channel 4 documentary about Emily Wilding women’s rights fell in June this year. Davison was partly filmed at Royal Holloway.

mily Wilding Davison is one of the College’s best known alumnae. that a martyrdom, possibly her own, was essential to end the torture of She was born in 1872 and was educated at home and then at the suffragettes. Kensington High School for Girls before gaining a place at Royal On the 4 June 1913, Emily attended the Epsom Derby with another Holloway College. Emily joined the College in January 1892 and suffragette Mary Richardson. They took WSPU flags with the intention received a £30 a year bursary to help with the cost of her education. She of protesting. It is not known if Emily intended to commit suicide that Estudied for the Oxford Second Examination for Women in French, German day, but as the King’s horse approached she threw herself in its path. and English Literature which she passed in June 1892 with a distinction in She was knocked unconscious and died four days later from the resulting English. She went on to study for the Oxford Final Studies Course in English, head injuries. The whole event was captured on film by an early newsreel but her time at the College was cut short when, after her father’s death, cameraman and the results shocked the nation. the family couldn’t afford the fees. Her £30 bursary paid for one term but without her father’s income it was impossible to cover the remainder. During her time at College, we know that students were encouraged to engage with political debates and women’s rights were a hotly debated topic. One of Emily Davison’s contemporaries was Louisa Martindale, whose mother (of the same name) was a women’s rights campaigner and who herself went on to become a suffragist. Emily didn’t join the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) until 1906, but the seeds of her political views may well have been sown during her time at Royal Holloway. Emily was clearly a very determined woman and instead of giving up her education after leaving Royal Holloway, she worked as a governess to save the money to finish her course. She attended St Hugh’s College Oxford for one term in 1895 and passed the Final Studies Course with a distinction. It wasn’t possible for a woman to be awarded a degree from Oxford at this time but in 1908 she achieved a BA in Modern Foreign Languages from London University, entering as an external candidate. In 1909 Emily gave up her teaching work to become a full-time suffragette and her actions became progressively more militant. She was arrested and imprisoned several times for various offences including setting fire to post boxes and throwing rocks at David Lloyd George’s carriage. Whilst in prison she continued her protests, once throwing herself down a flight of stairs and going on hunger strike, after which she was force fed. She became increasingly reckless about the risks to her life and decided The 1913 Epsom Derby. Emily Wilding Davison can be seen on the ground on the far left of the picture.

34 Higher magazine Physicist and sportswoman: The legacy of Margaret Young

The College was recently bequeathed £830,000 in a legacy from Physics alumna Margaret Young, the largest legacy it has received. Whilst Margaret’s degree enabled her to pursue a successful career in science, her passion was sport and her legacy will be used to support sports provision at the College. This is her story.

Her textbook, Radiological Physics (1957) was reviewed in many publications world-wide, and is still in use today. This was despite the London publisher telling her he was taking a risk printing a book on physics by a woman, and recommended she use initials rather than her full name. She went on to publish scientific papers and for three years was on the Editorial Board of the journal Physics in Medicine and Biology. Margaret was committed to various professional organisations. She was a founding member of the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine (CCPM), and was Secretary Treasurer of the Division of Medical and Biological Physics of the Canadian Association of Physicists. She was a member of the Institute of Physics and Physical Society, the Society of Nuclear Medicine, and an associate member of the Royal Society of Medicine. In 2008, she was elected Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine – only the third woman to be elected, and the only living female. In 2009, she was awarded the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP) Gold Medal – the highest award for outstanding contribution to Medical Physics. Margaret was an energetic country lover who enjoyed sports, walking, gardening and horse riding. She is said to have possessed intelligence of a superior order. She will be best remembered for her determined and rigorous Margaret Young demonstrating a problem in Physics work ethic and her warm, considerate personality that made her incredibly popular with colleagues and students alike. Margaret Young (née Carr) It seems only fitting that the generous gift she bequeathed to the College will support students with the same genuine spirit of enquiry, and enable 21 December 1922 – 5 May 2012 them to thrive as she did.

During her years studying Physics at Royal Holloway College, Margaret Young flourished as a first-rate student. She was awarded a Driver Scholarship and a Driver Prize for Physics, as well as the Harrison Prize for the best general student of the College examined. She graduated in 1943, and became a demonstrator in Physics at the Royal Free Hospital for Women. At the age of 20, she was invited to become the youngest founding member of the Hospital Physics Association in the UK. She graduated from University of London in 1949 with an MSc in History and Philosophy of Science. That same year, she began work as a physicist at the MRC Radiobiological Research Unit at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell. In 1951, she married Dr Lawrence Young and after moving between Ottawa and London, they settled in Vancouver in 1955. Margaret was appointed as a physicist with the British Columbia Cancer Control Agency in 1956, and remained there until 1985. She became a pioneer in Clinical Radiation Oncology Physics, and taught extensively to nurses, radiographers and physics students – which she is said to have carried out with clarity and precision. Her best known contribution to Medical Physics was the work done on Radium tables. Margaret on her horse Bento in 1967

Royal Holloway 35 Class Notes

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1939 1943 1960 Elizabeth Power (née Lawson) Gillian Harris Jacqueline Baity-Burt (née Richardson) French & German, Royal Holloway College – Elizabeth History, Royal Holloway College – Gillian entered the History, Royal Holloway College – Jacqueline has two often spends her time with her daughters in the wartime Secret Service after graduating and once historical novels available as eBooks: Red Deer: Life country. She occupies her time with regular walks, nearly bumped into Winston Churchill. Her career after Among the Mandans and Fiona. She also has a script reading about music, travel, attending local concerts that was in teaching. She became Headmistress of a in development with LooseGripp Films in Ireland. and following the history of the friends she met while large comprehensive school and retired in the south attending Royal Holloway and living in Hungary before 25 years ago. Eileen Whalley (née Withers) the outbreak of World War 2. Psychology, Bedford College – Eileen would be 1948 delighted to hear from old friends. 1942 Betty Ashton (née Hewitson) 1962 Mabel Topliff (née Taylor) English, Bedford College – Betty very much enjoyed last Mathematics, Bedford College – Mabel lives in Canada year’s Bedford College reunion. Ann Hulme (née Granger) and is a great grandmother. She is still able to spend Modern Languages, Royal Holloway College – Ann’s time in the old family home in London, as her daughter 1956 latest book is the Victorian mystery, A Particular Eye now lives there. Sitting under the oak tree in the for Villainy, published by Headline under the name garden which is the same age as herself and now the Dr Helena Boynton (née Sadler) ‘Ann Granger’. same height as the three storey house, she is happy Geology, Bedford College – Helena continues to work on that the house has remained in the family, as per her the Charnian fossil research and conservation programme. 1963 father’s wishes. She remembers the changes in attitude They now have 25 members and are supported by towards women over the years. Feeling her maternal Sir David Attenborough. The group continues to discover Penelope McCabe (née Bennison) grandmother’s attitudes were stuck in the previous 500 million year-old fossils every week. Zoology, Bedford College – Penelope is enjoying her century: she felt that women should not drive a car retirement. She has five grandsons and still breeds and should not go to University. When Mabel retired Siamese kittens. in 1977 as Director of the Scarborough Branch of the 1958 Children’s Aid Society, she still had a secretary outside Maureen Klassen (née Harvey) her door who took her dictation by shorthand. In her 1964 English, Royal Holloway College – Maureen has been last year of work a computer was installed in the office, living in Canada for nearly 50 years and is active in Vicki Benoit (née Richardson) taking up an entire room and only one person knew the Mennonites (a Christian peace church) in mission, how to use it! She finds that now it is her turn to be the Zoology with Botany, Royal Holloway College – Vicki education and ministry. She lived in Moscow from grandmother stuck in the last century. initially worked for many years as Assistant to the Deputy 1990-95 and is still involved in writing about that Secretary General of the International Telecommunications part of the world. Her husband and herself have five Union in Geneva, a specialised agency of the United children and 20 grandchildren. Nations. She now owns an estate agency with her husband in France and two of their three sons work with Professor David Dr Annette Lawson OBE (née Le Vay them. She looks forward to receiving news from people Lawrence) she met during her one year at the College. Bellamy OBE Sociology, Bedford College (PhD 1963) – Although retired, Annette runs two NGOs and remains deeply Dr Cas Mason (née Pearce) engaged in seeking the achievement of gender equality Chemistry, Bedford College (PhD 1967) – Cas has and women’s access to their human rights. written Mason, A New Mexico Hero, the story of a dog’s life as told by a dog, which is available as Irene Senior an eBook. She continues to work with scholarship Sociology, Bedford College – Irene is busy as a trustee committees and recently visited Ireland. of Cottingley Cornerstone Centre, which combines her rebuilt Parish church with a community centre 1966 which caters for all ages and disabilities. Living in a multicultural area, she is fascinated to see the church Dr Jennifer Chapman used as a dining facility on a Saturday, whilst the Physiology & Zoology, Bedford College – Jennifer often Eucharist is celebrated there the following day. wonders what happened to her friends in the Swiss Cottage hall of residence. 1959 Mary Lalé (née Parker) David (PhD Botany, 1960 Bedford College Iris Litchfield Classical Greek, Bedford College – Mary fills her & Honorary Fellow) celebrated his 80th Mathematics, Royal Holloway College – Iris produced retirement by volunteering in Oxford’s museums: the birthday in January. The famous botanist and two CDs of her music in 2012 and is doing really well Pitt Rivers, the Museum of the History of Science, the conservationist is President and co-founder of in the USA. Her music is also played on Delta Airlines Ashmolean Classical Cast Gallery and the University the Conservation Foundation, based at the Royal (visit www/irislitchfield.com to play the music for free). Museum. She has just qualified as a Bodleian Library Geographical Society in Kensington Gore. She would love to hear from anyone she knew. guide and wishes that museum studies had been available as a degree subject in her day.

36 Higher magazine Felicity Luckman (née Westall) History, Bedford College – Felicity remarried in 2011 and Simon Nye has moved with her husband to a larger house.

1967 Irene Watson (née Birkbeck) Botany, Royal Holloway College – Irene retired in 2009 as Research Technician in the Biology Department at York University. She then cared for her husband until his death from prostate cancer in September 2011. Irene continues to enjoy her allotment and garden and volunteers at the Arboretum at Castle Howard. She is also helping to restore Ray Wood, which is famous for its rare rhododendron and azalea collection.

1968 Professor Mike Perrin Simon (BA French & German, 1980 Bedford College) wrote the hit BBC1 sitcom, In with the Flynns, broadcast Zoology, Royal Holloway College – Mike took a PhD last year. This was the second series about the Manchester family, the Flynns. Simon is currently writing a at Exeter and then lectured at Makerere University in play for the National Theatre. Kampala, Uganda, before being squeezed out by Idi Amin, whom he met more than once. He escaped to the 1971 Whiteshell Nuclear Research Station in Manitoba to Nice Guy, and a book of children’s stories, The Mice of St continue his doctoral research on microtine (lemming) Goran, which is sold in aid of the St Goran Bell Fund. She Paul Carter cycles. Hankering to get back to Africa, Mike took a post is currently writing a historical novel, Heorot, which is set Chemistry, Royal Holloway College – Paul married at Rhodes University in South Africa until 1981, when he at the end of the Roman occupation of Britain. Annette, his partner of 30 years, in the spring of 2012. became Professor and Head of Zoology at the University They felt they knew each other well enough to take this of Natal. He set up a research group, initially working 1970 huge step. Three Royal Holloway friends and a London on the ecology and conservation biology of African bus were in attendance. mammals, and later African parrots. His book, Parrots of Heather Allen (née Jones) Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarne Islands: Biology, English, Bedford College – Heather joined Shell-Mex Adrian Hall Ecology and Conservation, has recently been published. and BP after graduating and later ran a small publishing As a Professor Emeritus and University Fellow he keeps English Language & Literature, Royal Holloway College company. She trained as a barrister and then ran a free active in publishing and editing. – Adrian retired in 2012 as Secretary and Director representation unit through the CAB for a few years. She of Administration at the LSE. He is now active in the has been freelance since 1984, a commercial mediator for National Trust and other organisations, and is based in Paul Trudgett nearly 20 years and Head of the CEDR Mediator Faculty, Battle, East Sussex with his wife Sarah. General Science, Royal Holloway College – Paul finds which takes her around the world training lawyers, it difficult to travel, but would like to make contact with judges and other professionals in mediation – in 2012 Angela Janousek-Middleton (née past colleagues. He played tennis, rugby, table tennis, this included Lebanon, Egypt and Georgia. She is married Patrikova) cricket and squash for the College – nearly too much with two sons and two grandchildren and is celebrating during his first year. Chemistry, Bedford College – Angela worked for Coty her 40th wedding anniversary with a trip to Antarctica. Beauty in the UK as Director of Industrial Chemistry and Contact her at [email protected]. then moved to Monaco with the company as Director of 1969 Compatibility for Europe. She decided to retire in 2009, Maya Davis (née Herszenhorn) but after moving temporarily to the US, she resumed John Hinze Classics, Bedford College – Maya took part in working for a while. Dutch, Bedford College – Having achieved state Mastermind 2011 and, to her surprise, made it to the pensioner status in July 2012, John has gradually Final, which was broadcast in May 2012. Her specialist Roger Parsons divested himself of his paid work and voluntary activities. subjects were Gerard Hoffnung, British owls and alchemy. He now has time to paint, carve and potter a bit, while Zoology, Royal Holloway College – Roger recently retired after a varied career that took in ecology, tending the garden and lobbying for Amnesty and Green Margaret Du Boulay (née Darby) causes, of course. science education, tropical agriculture development and History, Bedford College – Margaret notes that The Friars fundraising. He worked overseas in Oceania and in East by Professor Hugh Lawrence is to be republished. Hugh and West Africa. He is now President of the Lincolnshire Dr Charles Howie was Head of History at Royal Holloway and Bedford New Naturalists’ Union and is a beekeeper. Zoology, Royal Holloway College (PhD 2011) – Charles College for six years after the merger. is currently working at An Giang University (AGU) in Andrea Stodell (née Cox) Vietnam, helping to develop a new undergraduate degree Enid Hendry in crop science. Ten years ago he helped AGU develop Chemistry & Zoology Combined Science, Bedford English, Bedford College – Enid recently retired from Vietnam’s first undergraduate course in Integrated Rural College – For Andrea, being a Games Maker volunteer the NSPCC, where she was Director of Training and Development. He believes passionately in the importance for the Olympics was a once in a lifetime opportunity Consultancy and Head of Strategy and Development for of ‘getting agriculture right now’ if Vietnam is to meet its not to be missed. Her daughter also helped with the looked-after children. She has written articles, training food requirements in the future. Paralympics whilst Andrea babysat her grandson. resources and books on child protection and training. Enid is currently co-editing a book on keeping children in Dr Rosalind Winter care safe from harm. She is also Associate Editor of the 1972 English Language & Literature, Bedford College – international journal Child Abuse Review. David Rigby Rosalind took her MA in Early English (1971) and PhD Mathematics, Bedford College – David works with on Beowulf (1974) at QMC, and taught Old and Middle Professor Barbara Mulloy English at University College, Cork. She spent five years Swindon Coaching Team and uses Resilience and Biochemistry, Bedford College – Recently retired, Barbara with the British Council, followed by ten years at the Positive Psychology to help people become more is now a Visiting Professor of Analytical Biochemistry at RSC in Stratford before moving to Cornwall where she successful. He lives in Bristol, but previously worked in King’s College London, and also a Visiting Researcher in worked in primary care administration. She has published the Middle East. the Glycosciences Laboratory at Imperial College. two comic novels, Read, Steady, Dig! and Gnome or Mr

Royal Holloway 37 David Molayem 1984 Sarah Tyacke CB Physiology, Bedford College – David has been living in Valerie Peake (née Kampmeier) Los Angeles since 1977. Music, Royal Holloway College – After nine years in the USA and two more degrees, Valerie is now 1976 back living in the Hertfordshire countryside with her American husband and transatlantic cat. She absolutely Christina Crow (née Haddon) loves her work as a life coach for musicians and would Psychology, Bedford College – Christina underwent a be interested to hear from anyone who remembers her. career change when her post as Regional Accountant for Wales at Mencap became redundant. She qualified as an ITM Alexander Technique teacher and is now 1986 working from home teaching the Alexander Technique. Russell Dean Geology, RHBNC – Russell spent 15 years managing 1977 and performing with a touring carnival band. In 2005 he studied for a PCGE in Geography and is now Julia Pascal (née Paschale) a secondary school teacher at Walney School in Sarah (BA History 1968, Bedford College English, Bedford College – Julia recently premiered Barrow‑in-Furness, Cumbria. He would like to hear from & Honorary Fellow) was a member of the her play, Nineveh, at the Riverside Studios in London. old friends. Hillsborough Independent Panel which oversaw It was inspired by the director Ailin Conant’s research the publication of the papers surrounding the into former soldiers from Israel, Kashmir, Lebanon and Pattie Kettle (née Juras) 1989 Hillsborough tragedy. She was formerly Rwanda. Julia also teaches Creative Writing at New York University’s London Study Abroad Program. English & Drama, RHBNC – Pattie is very involved with Keeper of Public Records. Cleanweb, Cleantech and digital marketing. Her twin sons, William and Dominic, are getting ready for UII 1978 soccer try-outs and middle school. She would love to hear from anyone who started at College in 1986. 1973 Carol Maloney (née Sloman) Music, Royal Holloway College – Carol is taking an Helen Milne (née Messent) Bill Dyson MSc in Addiction Psychology and Counselling at French, Royal Holloway College – Bill is Acting Director London South Bank University after 34 years in the French, RHBNC – Helen is teaching part-time in a of Languages at Leicester, a language teaching theatre. She hopes to continue composing and playing small prep school and as a private tutor. Her youngest programme for the general public. He is also Tutor in music alongside her studies. Her children are all son has included Royal Holloway on his UCAS French at the University of Leicester. involved with music and her husband is long-suffering. application (after being shown around the campus by Helen, who marvelled at how much had changed in 30 years). She would love to hear from any other French Dr Tim Scott Andrew Nichol 1986 graduates. Mathematics, Royal Holloway College (PhD 1976) – Biochemistry, Royal Holloway College – Andrew retired Timothy is Deputy Head of the new Department of after 30 years in pharmaceutical sales and is now Liz Sergeant (née Walton) Physics and Mathematics at the University of Hull. involved with yacht chandlers in Emsworth. French & Italian, RHBNC – Liz first worked as a lectrice in Nice University, then joined M&S as a personnel Dr Sue Turner Dr Richard Pagett management trainee and moved to Accenture to work Botany, Bedford College – Sue retired from Queen’s PhD Zoology, Royal Holloway College – Visit Richard at in their European office. She subsequently gained University Belfast in 2011 and is now settled in Kent. www.richardpagett.com an MA in Human Resource Management. Following the birth of her son in 1999, Elizabeth began to focus on art and following seven years of part-time study 1974 Peter Wrench she graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Central St Latin, Royal Holloway College – Peter has escaped Martins. She now works as a freelance artist. Visit her Marie Erwood MBE (née Burman) from the civil service after 30 years in the Home Office at www.lizsergeant.co.uk History, Bedford College – Marie is still teaching and is now busy doing lots of different things. His in Harlow, Essex and very busy trying to salvage children’s book, The Night Of The Round Stable, and something from the state education system before it Van Morrison critique, Saint Dominic’s Flashback, can Madeleine Simpson-Seward (née disintegrates before her very eyes. be found on Amazon. Simpson) Italian with French, RHBNC – Madeleine has been living in Tokyo for ten years with her husband Robert, a 1975 1979 Japanese-American from Okinawa. She initially worked Andrew Clark Richard Trist in banking in Tokyo and New York and then in the wine industry in Japan and the UK. She is now focusing Botany, Bedford College – Andrew emigrated to Chemistry, Royal Holloway College – Richard has on their two daughters: Christina, who is applying to Australia in 1987 and has been working in the travel spent the majority of his working life in the oil and universities in America, and Valentina, who is thirteen. and tourism industry since 1980, including stints in retail industries in the UK and Middle East. He is now France and Singapore. He has been very involved with trying to expand the horizons of teenagers as a science Asia for the past 20 years and thinks that Australia teacher in Greater Manchester. He lives near Bolton 1987 needs to become more engaged with the neighbours on with his wife and two children and enjoys a variety of its doorstep. sports, as well as walking in the West Pennine Moors. Lt Commander Alastair Castle Geography, RHBNC – Alastair lives in Cornwall The Reverend Susan Edwards (née with Yvonne and their daughter, India. He flys the Fotheringham) 1981 Merlin Mk1 Maritime Patrol Helicopter and has seen Mathematics with Computer Science, Royal Holloway Norma Foster operations in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Last year he helped provide airborne security for the College – Susan has been Team Rector of the German with French, Bedford College – Norma is Olympic sailing events in Weymouth Bay. He is now Leverhulme Team in Bolton since February 2012 and is looking to make contact with fellow students from her returning to teaching at the Merlin Training Squadron pastorally responsible for two of their four parishes. year for a reunion in 2013. and says the skill set acquired whilst reading for his Geography degree still comes in handy.

38 Higher magazine Bruce Loch Rachel Bowen 1994 Geology, RHBNC – Bruce has lost contact information English & Drama, RHBNC – Rachel works re-lighting Kristy Allin for his friends and would love to be in touch again with mid-large scale tours and as Technical Stage Manager old College friends. or Production Manager on small-mid scale productions. Drama & Theatre Studies, RHBNC – Kristy has been She is still in contact with many friends from RHBNC happily settled in Australia for ten years and enjoys and is always happy to hear from old friends. working with students who are preparing for careers Roderic Morgan in the entertainment industry. She is three years into MA Later Medieval Studies, RHBNC – Roderic a four-year counsellor training course and is looking volunteers in the M&S archives at Leeds University Keith Farnish forward to a change of direction in the future. She and was interested to discover that M&S lent their Geography & Mathematics, RHBNC – Keith’s second recently celebrated the marriage of her sister and suppliers money during times of hardship in the 1970s book, Underminers: A Practical Guide for Radical enjoyed a family reunion in Europe. and 1980s. Change, is available under a Creative Commons license to reflect his gradual abandonment of using cash Elena Babatsouli wherever possible. Using a huge range of practical and 1988 life-changing examples, the book is controversial to say English, RHBNC – Elena is now finishing her PhD in Greek-English phonology and child bilingualism. Sheila Bransden the least, and like its predecessor is available online for free. Keith spends much of his time working with Modern History Economic History and Politics, RHBNC his community in Scotland as secretary of the village – Sheila lives near Mont Saint Michel in France, 1995 cricket club, promoter of the music club St Boswells where she researches and writes about her local area. Live! and as the local IT repairman. Simon Hagger She has written two historical novels based on local history and is working on a paper for the Economic Geography, RHBNC – Simon has been married to Louise History Review. William Ford-Smith for 11 years and they have two daughters, Bethany and Zoology, RHBNC – William has relocated to Canada Aimee. He has built a business over the last six years and is near Toronto, Ontario. which now has an annual turnover of £42 million and 1989 employs 80 staff. Sally Hall Stephanie Paparizos (née North) Rachel Hughes English, RHBNC – Sally is a freelance journalist and Modern History Economic History and Politics, RHBNC editor of a national parenting website. She sings – Stephanie was a National Technical Official at both French & Italian, RHBNC – Rachel is married to Randal soprano with the well known Crouch End Festival the Olympics and Paralympics in 2012. She was a and lives near Chester. She is learning to juggle work Chorus and has recorded with Ray Davies and Noel track and field official and was able to meet all of the and motherhood following the arrival of their two Gallagher, in addition to many classical concerts. She athletes competing, including Usain Bolt, Mo Farah, daughters, Maris and Matilda. runs a monthly acoustic music club and lives in north Jessica Ennis, Oscar Pistorious and David Weir. London with her partner and two children. 1996 John Tibaldi Peter Bramley Samantha New-Fielding (née Hird) Biochemistry, RHBNC – John has been promoted to French & German, RHBNC – Samantha emigrated to Inspector and his son is now one year old. Drama & Theatre Studies, RHBNC – Peter has been New Zealand in May 2012 with her husband and four Senior Lecturer and Head of Movement at Rose Bruford children. She runs her own business and loves all the College of Theater and Performance since 2006. He is new opportunities they’ve found on the other side of 1993 also an Artistic Director of Pants on Fire, the award- the world. winning international theater company. He lives with Emma Land (née Knight) his partner and Wheaten Terrier between London and English, RHBNC – Emma is embarking on a degree in south-west France, where, in addition to running a Lynda Tanner (née Bird) Childhood and Youth Studies, as well as setting up a beautifully renovated country farm house resort each Music, RHBNC (MMus 1990) – Lynda married Mike local support network for the National Association for summer, they are in the process of converting an Tanner in August 2012 and is enjoying married life. Gifted Children. 18th‑century barn into an arts space.

1990 Ralph Diment Jonathan Allen Geography, RHBNC – Ralph’s young child is currently taking up any spare-time between work and sleep.

Andrew Olliver-Jones (Whitehead) Botany, RHBNC – Andrew entered into civil partnership with his long term partner, Robert, in November.

Fiona Sawdon (née Fosh) Biology, RHBNC – Having taken a break from her teaching career, Fiona is currently enjoying being a mum to her children, Alice and Ben.

1992 Wassila Baccar (née Belhaj Hamduda) MA Modern English Language & Stylistics, RHBNC – Wassila teaches English in Tunisia and other countries. She is pleased the College always wants to hear Jonathan (BA Drama & Music, 1990) recently won a BAFTA award for his sound work on the film version of Les from alumni. Miserables, which involved recording the entire musical live during filming. The Abbey Road Studios Sound Engineer is shown third from the left with his Les Miserables colleagues.

Royal Holloway 39 Andrea Saunders Will Brooks (née Gardner) Martin Marshall Classical Studies, RHBNC – Andrea is researching RE English, RHBNC – Will married Jo Grewcock in History: Medieval & Modern, RHBNC – Martin recently at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University. She is Derbyshire on 20th December 2012 and they celebrated published The Virgin and the Conqueror, a history of enjoying life with her partner and their four children. their honeymoon in Disneyland at Christmas. medieval and Tudor England.

1997 Chase Day (née Walsh) Dr Martin Webber MSc Environment & Development, RHBNC – Chase MSc Social Work, RHBNC – The Webber family moved Dr Max Fincher married Keith in December. She is still involved in horse from London in September 2012 to enable Martin to English, RHBNC (MA 1998) – Max has published his welfare and military re-enactment, especially cavalry. take up a post at the Department of Social Policy and first novel, The Pretty Gentleman, which is available via Social Work at the University of York. his website www.maxfincher.com/creativewriting. Giles Goodall European Studies, RHBNC – Giles has been selected as 2000 Ed Harry the Liberal Democrat European Parliamentary candidate English, RHBNC – Ed commentated on every session of for South East England at the elections in May 2014. Olivier Chavaren athletics at the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics He works at the European Commission and currently MBA International Management, RHBNC – Olivier for BBC Radio and is planning a series of programmes heads the media team at the Commission’s Justice is a Parisian tour guide and is offering alumni a 10% on the stars of the Paralympics. He has made a Department. discount when touring with him. Visit his website: documentary about an African cyclist who might win www.ILOUVREPARIS.com. the Tour de France. Craig Gregory Applied Physics & Electronics, RHBNC – Craig is Thomas Jack Paul Van Reenen married with two children, James, aged three, and Geology & Biology, RHBNC – Thomas has been Geography & History, RHBNC – Paul and his fiancée Lucas, born in December. managing a wine tasting and retail business in the Lola are expecting their first child. mountain resort of Queenstown, New Zealand for over Emily Smith (née Shorthouse) three years. In June 2012 he married Ivonne Leon, a Colombian national. Thomas plans to either continue Dr Paul Vega English, RHBNC – Emily and her husband, James, are his wine development with a WSET Diploma or return Economics & Management Studies, RHBNC – Paul delighted to announce the birth of Josiah Daniel, a to a career in teaching following his PGCE in 2009. moved to Zurich last year and now works as Head of brother for Zachary. Strategy for a multi-national company. He is enjoying Laura Loasby the peace and quiet of Switzerland after living in Tokyo James Walsh and Manila and would love to hear from old friends (his Biology, RHBNC – Laura qualified as a osteopath with History, RHBNC (MA 2000) – James was elected to email is [email protected]). the British School of Osteopathy in 2011. She has been Slough Council in 1998 and increased his majority in working in Croydon, but is currently expecting her first 2012. He was appointed to their cabinet in 2011 with child with Joe Bourne (Physics, 1998). Laura Walker (née O’Meara) responsibility for health and social services. Currently, Geochemistry, RHBNC – Laura now works in IT he is overseeing the transition of public health to the consultancy. She married David in 2012 and has two local authority and managing the impact of financial 2001 teenage stepsons, Daniel and Matthew. She is enjoying cuts on services for the most vulnerable. A former the new challenges. journalist, he was senior campaign organizer for Karen Sqd Ldr Graham Crow Buck MP in Westminster North in 2010, helping her Geology, RHBNC – Graham moved to Woburn Sands to hold on to the seat. Contact him at jameswalsh@ and has been promoted to Squadron Leader. He is 1998 hotmail.com. engaged to marry Helen Blenkharn this summer. Joe Bourne Physics, RHBNC – See Laura Loasby, 2000. 1999 Dr Gabriel Eweje PhD Management Studies, RHBNC – Gabriel would Carla Bettis (née Marks) like Dr Robert Ho (PhD, 2001) to contact him via email: History: Medieval & Modern, RHBNC – Carla is working [email protected]. Katie Gardiner OBE as a business analyst for Network Rail. She was married in 2009 and in 2011 had twin boys, Thomas Elizabeth Hassall (née Whitehouse) and Benjamin. She is currently living in Milton Keynes Mathematics, RHBNC – Elizabeth has two young and enjoying the balance of work and motherhood. children and has been appointed the Rector of seven rural churches in North Yorkshire. Austin Brown Zoology, RHBNC – See Katherine Brown, 1999. Marian Henbest French with German, RHBNC – Marian lives in Paris Dr Katherine Brown (née Foster) and is a journalist for Agence France Presse. Zoology, RHBNC – Katherine and Austin (Zoology, 1999) have a baby girl – their daughter Florence was born Dr Diego Navarra in July 2012. Kate also successfully completed her Management Studies with Economics, RHBNC – Diego doctorate on the phylogenetics and ecology of African is founder of www.studionavarra.co.uk, an advisory freshwater fish, with Florence arriving just three weeks firm dedicated to urban development and climate after the viva. change issues.

Katie (BSc Biology & Geography, 1999) recently Joanna Edwards (née Mullooly) received the OBE “for services to the security Lynn Robinson English & Classical Studies, RHBNC – Joanna is of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics”. Psychology, RHBNC – Lynn gained a PG Dip (Merit) in married with two children and is currently on maternity Katie was Policy Lead for the Accreditation Healthcare Management from the University of Surrey leave with the youngest. Project within the Office for Security and in 2011. Counter Terrorism in the Home Office.

40 Higher magazine Rebecca Sims 2004 English, RHBNC – Rebecca has become an Australian Martin Bethell Isabel Fay citizen. Geography, RHBNC – Martin is an airline pilot with British Airways. Elliott Steele MSc Mathematics, RHBNC – Elliott is working on new Adelina Holmes payment technology at VISA Europe, including mobile payments and digital wallets. English, RHBNC – Adelina has left Taiwan and is now teaching English at Princess Nora University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 2002 Sarah Cox (née Awty) Dr John Miles Geography, RHBNC – Sarah was married in December English, RHBNC (MA 2005, PhD 2010) – See Chloe 2011 and lives and works in Kingston as a commercial Naalchigar, 2004 property solicitor. She studied Law at Birmingham University. Chloe Naalchigar Biochemistry with Science Communication, RHBNC Isabel (aka Isabel Hopgood - Drama & Theatre – Chloe married Dr John Miles (English 2004, MA Studies, 2001) saw her musical sketch about 2002 2005, PhD 2010) in the Royal Holloway Chapel on Internet trolls go viral on YouTube. The sketch, Dr Becca Edwards 3 September 2011. Chloe and John met on their second Thank You Hater!, was described by Stephen Geography, RHBNC (PhD 2008) – Becca is now working day at College in September 2001. Fry as “a masterpiece”. in research development at Bournemouth University. She is married to Alex and they live near the beach and 2005 have a small menagerie. Ernest Kusi Charlotte Rankin MSc International Relations, RHBNC – Ernest returned Nikos Grigoriadis MSci Mathematics, RHBNC – Charlotte has recently to Ghana and gained a first class degree in Law in MSc Mathematics, RHBNC – Nikos is working on moved to Sydney to start a new job. 2010. He completed the professional law programme in three major projects for Attica Bank: the core banking Ghana in 2012, winning an award for the Best Student system, the accounting IT system and the HRM system. Emily Stride in Convenyancing and Drafting. He is currently studying Drama & Theatre Studies, RHBNC – Emily was an for the Bachelor of Civil Law program at Oxford University. Dr Clare Howard (née Britton) understudy on the national tour and West End premiere Geoscience, RHBNC – See Simon Howard, 2002. of Noel Coward’s Volcano and is now joining the Royal Holloway alumni-run Original Theater Company for Francesca Robinson their 2013 national tour of Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong. French & Music, RHBNC – Francesca gained a PG Dip Simon Howard in Adult Nursing from King’s College, University of MSc Geoscience, RHBNC – Simon and Clare 2006 London in 2012 and is now working in acute medicine (Geoscience, 2002) had a daughter, Sophie, born in at St George’s Hospital in south London. 2012. She is thriving and is the apple of their eye. Travis Wu MA Asia Pacific Business, RHBNC – Travis became an Leonard Yong Fuensanta Monroy Hernandez Australian citizen on 25th January 2013. MSc Social Work, RHBNC – Leonard is working within German & Management Studies, RHBNC – Fuensanta the Generic Adults specialism of social care. He would is teaching various subjects in English at the Catholic recommend the College to all prospective students. University of San Antonio in Murcia. She is also 2007 working hard to finish her PhD thesis. Lis Ace Drama & Theatre Studies, RHBNC – Elizabeth married 2008 Keiko Soejima (née Sugimoto) Matthew Packwood-Ace on 10th November 2012. Louise Brinded Drama & Theatre Studies, RHBNC – Keiko is enjoying Management Studies, RHBNC – See Joseph Keech, life with her husband and recently took courses in Choniso Chasi 2007. Person Centred Expressive Art Therapy, which she found inspirational. MSc Social Work, RHBNC – Choniso is proud to have walked in the hallways of Royal Holloway and been Louise Gregory educated in such a great institution. Molecular Biology, RHBNC – Louise loves working at 2003 the Institute of Child Health at Great Ormond Street Hospital and says her varied biological degree put her Philippa Gibbs (née Stone) Koel Chatterjee in a great position for getting her job. Her research is Social Policy & Political Studies, RHBNC – Within the MA Shakespeare, RHBNC (doctoral candidate) – Koel has returned to Royal Holloway as a PhD student in the genetics of the pituitary gland and she has already last year, Philippa has married Colum Gibbs, started a attended many national and international conferences. new job and moved house. Shakespeare.

Ana Peck (née Biggs) Victoria Costis 2009 Biology with Science Communication, RHBNC – Victoria Zoology, RHBNC – Ana married John Peck, a Brunel Jason Brock University graduate, in April 2012. They met at the became engaged to partner Roy McGranaghan during a holiday in Australia. They plan to marry in 2013. Modern History and Politics, RHBNC (MA 2010; Royal Holloway Students’ Union in February 2002. doctoral candidate) – See Helen Carey, 2009.

Anna Taylor Joseph Keech English, RHBNC – Anna became engaged to her Psychology, RHBNC – Joseph is to marry Louise long term partner, Jamie, in 2012. Together they run Brinded (Management, 2008), a fellow member of the RecruitmentRevolution.com. Hockey Club committee.

Royal Holloway 41 Helen Carey Matthew Clark Ashley Coates History, RHBNC – Helen and Jason Brock (Modern MSc Sustainability and Management, RHBNC – History, RHBNCSimon – Ashley gainedTopping press interest for History and Politics, 2009; MA 2010; doctoral Matthew continues to have fun making presentations her campaign to tweet Queen Victoria’s diary entries candidate) became engaged on Helen’s birthday to MSc students for Dr Lutz Preuss and Dr Mike Dolton. in real time. She manages international sales for an in the shadow of Queen Victoria’s statue, with the agricultural software firm and promotes a free version Choir’s practice ringing through Founder’s North Quad. David Ellis of the software to help poorer countries with their They met at the College in 2007 and have been in a livestock. History, RHBNC – David has started his own sailing relationship since 2008. Both look forward to seeing company, Escape Yachting, and takes people on friends from Royal Holloway at their wedding in the summer trips on the Solent and Caribbean holidays in Simon Gosling near future. the winter. Contact [email protected] MSc Human Neuroscience, RHBNC – Simon is studying and mention RHUL for a discount. Medicine at University College Cork. Alex Carroll Music, RHBNC – Alex started a PGCE, but then Khalid Imrysah became an employment coach for job seekers from the Simon (MA Playwriting, 2012) was one of MSc Petroleum Geoscience (Tectonics), RHBNC – Department for Work and Pensions. He now manages three writers to win the recent inaugural BBC Khalid is working at Sebha University in Libya as the Careers Department at the Birmingham campus of Writer’s Prize, having seen off stiff competition Assistant Lecturer in the Geology Department. the London School of Business and Finance. from a total of 1,200 entries. His play, Rock me Amadeus, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Christopher O’Shaughnessy Jules Maroto MA Theatre (playwriting), RHBNC – Christopher is now Politics & International Relations, RHBNC – Jules a doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths. He is a dramaturg, finished his MA at Sciences Po in Paris and spent six Alexandros Hoc actor and researcher for Encompass Productions and months on a field mission in South Sudan with Doctors MSc Politics and International Relations, RHBNC – made his screen acting debut in their first film, Stormin’ without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières). Alexandros is doing a PhD in Political Science at the Norman. He is also a theatre reviewer for Onestoparts University of Toronto. and produced a new English version for Guy Retallack 2010 of Lars Saabye Christensen’s Dracula, which had a well-received rehearsed reading at Jermyn Street Natasha Kennedy Nikolay Aleksandrov Theatre in February 2012. MA Victorian Literature, Art and Culture, RHBNC – MSc Mathematics of Cryptography and Natasha enjoyed a class reunion in Glasgow in October Communications, RHBNC – Nikolay is working at Red which included one Victorianist from Denver. Hat with the leading contributors and maintainers of 2011 the Linux kernel. He was chosen by his undergraduate Sharon Axcell (née Odams) Romina-Iro Savvopoulou university, NBU, for their calendar of most successful MA Screenwriting for TV and Film, RHBNC – Sharon Management, RHBNC – Romina-Iro is to study for an students. married Simon Axcel in Beaconsfield on 29th MSc in Management and Human Resources at the LSE. September 2012. James Carter Emily Smyth MSci Geoscience with International Studies, RHBNC Shaun Juncal History and International Relations, RHBNC – Emily has – James was working in Queensland when the the English, RHBNC – Shaun is the co-founder of a begun an MA in Music Theater on a scholarship at the Australian mining industry collapsed. He is currently sustainable urban agriculture start-up based in Central School of Speech and Drama in London. backpacking round New Zealand, but plans to return to Vancouver, BC and an online start-up headquartered in Oz when things have picked up. Santa Barbara, California. Staff

2012 Dr Bill Stephenson Gaz Choudhry On the re-organisation of London University, Bill moved Sheila Binns to the Mathematics Department at UCL. He retired MA Victorian Literature, Art and Culture, RHBNC – in 2004, but continued to do some part-time teaching Sheila would encourage others to study in a field that and became a Labour councillor on Harrow Council. In really interests them after retirement. A wonderful and 2010, he became Leader of Harrow Council and gave up rewarding experience. She continues to do research. teaching. The Council won the award of Best Achieving Council in the county for 2011-12. Bill has now stepped Mario Black down as Leader. Molecular Biology, RHBNC – Mario is studying for an MSc in Intellectual Property at Queen Mary, University of London and is hoping to continue with a PhD in a similar field.

Dylan Carver Geography, Politics and International Relations, RHBNC Gaz (BA Politics, 2006) played in the – Dylan is doing an MSc in Business. ParalympicsGB Wheelchair Basketball Team at London 2012. The team came a valiant fourth, losing out to the USA in the Bronze Medal match. In 2011 the team won Gold at the European Championships.

42 Higher magazine InThe month memoriamand/or year of death are given where known.

Graduates of Bedford College Graduates of Royal Holloway College Gwyneth Hickton (née King) – English (1936-39). March 2013 Gladys Muddle – Mathematics (1934-37). November 2012 Joan Munday (née Hollyer) – French & German (1938-41). November 2012 Mary Weston (née Lees) – French (1937-40). October 2012 Eleanor Wilyman (née Pridgeon) – Chemistry (1941-44). March 2012 Margaret Bell (née Powell) – Classics (1939-42). January 2013 Betty Symmons (née Thimbleby) – History (1943-46). June 2012 Catherine McQuillin – Botany (1939-42). September 2012 Margaret Wake – Mathematics (1943-46). January 2012 Margaret Trevenna (née Pedlar) – English & Icelandic (1942-44). March 2013 Margaret Butler (née Gameson) – Mathematics (1946-50). October 2012 Joyce Durham (née Bryan) – Chemistry (1943-46). August 2012 Margaret Foreman – Chemistry (1946-51). June 2012 Ruth Humphreys (née Ives) – History (1946-49). 2012 Norma Ridyard (née Jones) – Botany (1947-50). March 2012 Joan Williams-Ashman (née Mellers) – German (1946-49). November 2012 Patricia McGrogan (née Cole) – Mathematics (1949-52). December 2012 Eileen Dickens – Mathematics (1951-54). January 2013 Gillian Whitfield (née Forrest) – Classics (1949-52). March 2012 Margaret Peden (née Howard) – English (1954-57). November 2012 Monica Whitmore – Botany (1950-53). January 2012 Jean Shail (née Page) – Mathematics (1954-57). December 2012 Dr Mohamed Badawi – PhD English (1950-54). 2012 Sheila Oldfield – General Science (1956-59). January 2012 Rosemary Luckas – Classics (1952-55). October 2012 Sue Young (née Marshall-Harvey) – German with French (1961-64). April 2013 Pamela Bullimore (née Symmons) – Sociology (1953-56). October 2012 Dr Derek Yalden – PhD Zoology (1962-66). February 2013 Anne Atkins (née Blackwell) – Sociology (1954-57). December 2012 Dr Sylvia Sikes – PhD Zoology (1964-67). October 2012 Dr Elizabeth Dron – Zoology (1961-64). February 2013 Arnold Lloyd – Chemistry (1967-70). December 2012 Valerie Smith (née Willis) – Mathematics (1963-66). January 2013 Andrew Martin – Chemistry & Computer Science (1975-78). November 2012 Jane Leaviss (née Wilson) – Physiology (1965-68). July 2012 Ian Roberts – History & Politics (1975-78). 2012 Rosemary Reid (née Taylor) – Geography (1965-68). September 2012 Liz Scott (née Annand) – French & Music (1979-82). February 2013 Dr Norman Smout – Zoology (1968-70; PhD 1976). December 2012 Cynthia Jones – Psychology (1971-74). September 2012 Graduates of RHBNC Dr Annie Hood (née Knapton) – Geography (1971-77). September 2012 Dr John Doran – History: Medieval & Modern (1984-87; PhD 2009). October 2012 Doreen Bushell – Social Science & Administration (1975-78). February 2012 Elizabeth Harrison (née Noon) – Botany (1984-87). 2012 Renee Cohen (née Hoffmann) – Sociology (1975-78). 2012 Nicky Rampling – Drama & Theatre Studies (1992-95). October 2011 Sukhy Chawla (née Gill) – Mathematics & Physics (1982-85). July 2009 Catherine Baulk – English (1996-2002). September 2012 Mark Chenoweth – Mathematics & Psychology (1982-85). May 2012 Dr David Bennett – PhD History (1996-2003). October 2012 Justin McPhee – MA Medical Sociology (2000-02). March 2011 Staff Dr Linna Bentley – Botany Department (1952-85), Bedford College. April 2013 Professor Colin Duckworth – French Department (1953-71), Bedford College. December 2012 Emeritus Professor Robert Howie FGS – Geology Department (1986-92), RHBNC. March 2012 Peter Prochnik – German Department (1963-98), Royal Holloway College & RHBNC. April 2012 Emeritus Professor Konrad Singer – Chemistry Department (1947-82), Royal Holloway College. March 2013

Honorary Fellows Professor Sir Andrew Huxley OM FRS Sir Derek Wanless Sir Andrew, who died on 30 May 2012, was the Sir Derek, who died on 22 May 2012, was a leading Visitor to the College from 1986-92. A physiologist banker who prepared significant reports for the and biophysicist, he was President of the Royal Government on the NHS. He persuaded Gordon Society and shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for his work Brown as Chancellor to double the spending on on the electrical impulses in nerves that enable the the NHS. His 2005 lecture at College was entitled function of the central nervous system. Securing Good Health for the Whole Population.

Royal Holloway 43 Obituaries of staff

Dr Linna Bentley (1928-2013) Botany Department (1952-85), Bedford College Dr L. E. Bentley, a to remain a women’s college until 1965. The For much of her time at Bedford, Linna was also prominent figure in the Department had its own botanic garden, in which warden of Lindsell Hall at Swiss Cottage, where last thirty years of Bedford Linna took a special interest. many students benefited from her clear-sighted College in Regent’s Park, Linna spent her entire career at Bedford, except and practical advice. died on 7 April 2013 at for a semester at the Macaulay Research Institute With the merger between Bedford and Royal the age of 84. in Aberdeen in 1963-64, and a year’s secondment Holloway in the mid 1980s, Linna decided to take Linna Bentley was to head a new department of Botany in Lesotho early retirement. She continued to support many born in Manchester in 1966. causes, kept cats and published Educating Women and graduated from In 1967 Linna published her book, Plants that – a Pictorial History of Bedford College, University of Manchester University. She came to King’s College, eat Animals, a popular account of insectivorous London, 1849 – 1985 (1991). She also assisted her London for her PhD in Plant Biochemistry. In 1952 plants. In 1972 she was promoted to Senior Lecturer. first head of department, Professor Leslie Audus, she was appointed Lecturer in the Botany She was a firm upholder of women’s rights, and in writing a gruelling account of his experiences as Department of Bedford College, which was an encouraging mentor to younger colleagues. a Japanese prisoner of war.

Professor Colin Duckworth (1926-2012) Lecturer, French Department (1953-71), Bedford College Colin Duckworth, who Bedford to take up a post as Professor of Romance only university professor to act in Neighbours (three died on 6 December Languages at Auckland University, and in 1978 different roles over several seasons). 2012, was a Lecturer moved to the University of Melbourne as Professor Undoubtedly he will be best remembered as in French at Bedford of French. one of the most significant writers on the works College from 1953 until Colin’s research and writing interests extended of Samuel Beckett. In 1966 he produced the first 1971. His speciality was well beyond his main teaching speciality. He edited critical edition of En attendant Godot (Waiting 19th- and 20th-century a number of Voltaire’s comedies for the Complete for Godot) and Colin was the only person Beckett French Literature. A Works published by the Voltaire Foundation and was allowed to study the original manuscript in detail. passionate advocate of recognised internationally as an expert on Samuel His correspondence with Beckett is widely cited modern French drama, he directed several student Beckett. He was also a talented actor, translator, as answering many of the questions scholars and productions of avant-garde plays, including the novelist and librettist, and made a considerable audiences have about one of the greatest works of Bedford College entries for the annual drama contribution to Australian cultural life outside the modern drama. competition run by the French Institute. He left confines of academia. It is likely that Colin was the

Emeritus Professor John Healy (1926-2012) Professor of Classics, Classics Department (1961-90), Bedford College, Royal Holloway College and RHBNC Professor John F. Healy, Born in Plymouth, the son of a naval architect, He joined Bedford College in 1961 as Reader in who died on 25 April John attended Battersea Grammar School when Greek, and moved to Royal Holloway College in 2012, was a distinguished the family moved to Clapham. He was evacuated 1966 to become Professor of Classics and Head of Classicist and colourful to Worthing and Hertford during the war, and was the Department of Classics. He was Dean of the character whose later reunited with his parents in Bath. At the City Faculty of Arts from 1978-81 and Chairman of the research interests were of Bath Boys’ School he was inspired to take a keen Department of Classics from 1985-88. notably wide-ranging, interest in scholarly pursuits, encouraged by his rich In his private life, he was the sometime curator of spanning archaeology, classical surroundings. Greek coins at Manchester Museum, and President numismatics, ancient After his first year studying at Cambridge of the Windsor Art Society. In retirement, John technology and science. He published articles in a University, John was called up for National Service. never lost his enthusiasm for lecturing; he was range of journals beyond the classical mainstream, As a Captain in the Army Intelligence Corps from an active member of The Speakers Agency, and including Nature, and wrote a number of 1943-1949, he saw service in India and Singapore, gave talks in the UK, Europe, Far East and USA to authoritative books. He was well-known for his interpreting in the Japanese War Crimes’ Trials. He learned societies, universities, museums, libraries, desire to share his knowledge with as many people returned to complete his studies, becoming a senior local clubs and groups, as well as offering cultural as possible, and for his amazing sense of humour. His scholar and graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge. enrichment programmes for major British and position as both a Classicist and a scientist enhanced He began his academic career in Classics and American cruise lines. his outstanding academic abilities. Classical Archaeology at Manchester University.

44 Higher magazine Professor Robert Howie FGS (1923-2012) Lyell Professor of Geology, Geology Department (1986-92), RHBNC, subsequently Emeritus Professor Professor Robert Howie Just a few years in the RAF provided a lifetime of substantive contribution towards the establishment of FGS, who died on 10 adventure, including learning to perform aerobatics the new Department, formed from the merger of the March 2012, was an in Tiger Moth aircraft in Saskatchewan, and a close three small Geology Departments from King’s, Bedford outstanding research brush with death when a Halifax bomber that was and Chelsea Colleges. Bob brought a national and scientist, abstractor and attempting to take off skimmed the top of his hut international reputation to the new Department, but co-author of the most and crashed into the sea. He was later posted to also established a great rapport with undergraduate widely used mineralogical Gibraltar, where he contracted polio and spent a and post-graduate students. His field trips to Skye were reference book of the year bed-ridden. He was left permanently disabled. memorable experiences for generations of students. 20th century – the Rock- After being invalided out of the RAF, Bob went to Bob was very active in University of London Forming Minerals series. He had an extraordinary Trinity College, Cambridge, to read Chemistry, Geology politics from the 1970s until near his retirement, knowledge of minerals, which he disseminated in and Mineralogy. He went on to study for a three-year acting as Dean of Science from 1979-83 and as the form of 1,600 abstracts each year – something Doctorate in the chemistry of very dark granites in Chairman of Academic Council from 1983-86. he continued from his home in Derbyshire well past India, known as charnockites. Upon graduation in He was a member of the University of London retirement age. It was this knowledge and enthusiasm, 1953, he was appointed to a lectureship at Manchester Senate from 1974–78 and 1980–90 and a member teamed with a steadfast integrity, which ensured a University, and then became Reader and later Professor of the University Court from 1984–89. His many great rapport with colleagues and students alike. at King’s College London. Throughout his academic achievements include being awarded the prestigious He is also one of the few scientists to have a mineral career, Bob wrote extensively on minerals and their Murchison Medal by the Geological Society in 1976; named in his honour (the Fe-Mn Silicate Howieite). chemistry. He was principal editor of the journal becoming the first non-US recipient of the Public Born in Buckinghamshire in 1923, Bob grew up Mineralogical Abstracts from 1971-2003. Service Award of the Mineralogical Society of on a farm and joined the RAF aged 18. He was sent In 1986 came his appointment as Lyell Professor America in 1999; and becoming an Honorary Life to Edinburgh, where he specialised in meteorology. of Geology at Royal Holloway, where he made a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society.

Peter Prochnik (1933-2012) German Department (1963-98), Royal Holloway College & RHBNC Peter Prochnik, who died After graduating from University College of University’s acknowledged expert on the works of on 26 April 2012, was a North Wales, Bangor in 1959, Peter taught for a Hans Erich Nossack. warm, generous and year at Cornell University and then for three years Peter continued to enjoy life to the full in supportive colleague at Aberystwyth. He joined the German Department retirement: he became an enthusiastic organic and an inspirational at Royal Holloway in 1963 and remained there gardener with his own allotment, travelled widely teacher, much loved by until his retirement in 1998. Peter was devoted and derived great joy from his young grandchildren. generations of students, to twentieth century German literature, both as a He is much missed by all who knew him. in whom his lively and teacher and a scholar. His field of special expertise challenging lectures was twentieth century fiction and he was London engendered a lasting love of German literature.

Emeritus Professor Konrad Singer (1917-2013) Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry Department (1947-82), Royal Holloway College Konrad Singer, who Born to Austrian-Jewish parents, he was brought high. Yet he was intensely modest about his died aged 95, pioneered up in Vienna, where he discovered his twin loves of achievements, and a host of younger scientists bear the use of computer music and science. He had embarked on a Chemistry witness to his patience and intellectual generosity. simulations in physical degree when the Anschluss came in 1938. It was Konrad retained his affection both for German chemistry. His main his great fortune – of which he remained always culture and for Vienna, where he returned frequently research was in statistical conscious – not just to find shelter in the UK, but also for pleasure as well as academic collaboration. A mechanics, using to be allowed to continue his studies there, taking fervent rationalist (and long-term Labour party computers to predict the his PhD at Glasgow University in 1941. member), in retirement he attempted a work of properties of fluids. In the After wartime work as an industrial chemist, ethics based on incontrovertible rational principles. technologically primitive 1960s – when programmes he joined Royal Holloway College in 1947, where He impressed others not just with his devotion to were punched on rolls of paper tape – he was the he remained until his retirement. There, he met a calm, unbiased rational inquiry, but also with his love first UK scientist to set up a research group devoted talented student, Jean Longstaff (BSc Chemistry, of the arts. His philosophical outlook and kindness to computer simulation, using the (later very widely 1950; PhD 1954), with whom he shared enthusiasms affected many people. exploited) Monte Carlo method. He made seminal within and beyond science. She became his research contributions to the field through the 1960s and colleague and life partner. 1970s, and continued to foster international Konrad’s standards of intellectual rigour and collaborations after his retirement in 1983. personal self-discipline could seem intimidatingly

Royal Holloway 45

New books by alumni This regular section reviews recently published books by alumni. Please send details of your books to [email protected]

Emma Chapman Anne Dunhill Dr Catherine Fletcher Jane Gardam OBE (MA Creative Writing, 2009) BA English and Italian, 1989; MA (MA Renaissance & Early Modern FRSL Representations of Italy, 2002) Europe, 2004; PhD History, 2008) How To Be a Good Wife (BA English, 1949 Bedford College; Anita: A Memoir The Divorce of Henry Honorary Doctorate, 2010) When penning her debut novel VIII: The Untold Story during her Creative Writing This memoir is about Anne Last Friends from Inside the Vatican course, Emma Chapman Dunhill’s daughter, Anita Last Friends is the final volume couldn’t have dreamed that it Ferruzzi, a fellow Royal Holloway Dr Fletcher has gained high of Gardam’s superb trilogy would provoke a scrabble for alumna who died of cancer praise from Hilary Mantel, about love, friendship, ageing the rights from top publishers. in 2009, aged 35. It deals amongst others, for her masterly and the bittersweet experiences But, that is what happened, frankly with their tempestuous telling of the well-known story of a now-forgotten empire. Old with Picador securing the deal. relationship, the twists and turns of Henry’s divorce. Set against Filth (2004) was told from the Set in an unnamed part of in their lives, and how they the backdrop of war-torn perspective of Sir Edward “Old Scandinavia, she tells the story finally achieved reconciliation, Renaissance Italy, the book Filth” Feathers, a successful of Hector and Marta, who only to have it snatched away combines a gripping family saga barrister who spent most of have been married for a long following the diagnosis of with a political battle between his career practicing law in time – so long that Marta finds Anita’s illness just six weeks the Tudors and the Vatican. Southeast Asia. The Man in it difficult to remember her before her death. The story is Henry, desperate to marry Anne the Wooden Hat (2009) was life before Hector. She’s done poignant, but doesn’t focus Boleyn, asks Pope Clement VII told from the perspective of everything she can to be a good purely on death and grief. It tells to grant him a divorce. Italian his wife, Betty. Last Friends wife, but since their only child Dunhill’s own eventful life story, diplomat Gregorio Casali is hired sees the turn of Filth’s great fled the nest, their domestic about being a member of the to represent Henry’s interests in rival in court and in love, Sir life has started to unravel. cigarette dynasty, a successful the Vatican, and spends six years Terry Veneering. The son of Marta sees things, or perhaps model, and about escaping a playing off one powerful patron a coal vendor and a Russian- remembers them. A blonde girl violent first husband. It also against another, negotiating born acrobat, Terry escaped his is trying to tell her something. describes how she met Count with ambassadors from Spain, impoverished childhood and the How to be a Good Wife is a Roberto Ferruzzi (Bobo), a well- France and beyond. Before he war to emerge in the Far East as tense, compelling read and a known Venetian artist 19 years is finished, Henry will decide a man of charisma, success and wonderfully assured debut. her senior, who was to become to divorce not just Catherine, fame. Although only a third of Anita’s father. Anita: A memoir is but the Church itself. Drawing Picador, January 2013 the entire story, this impeccably- an interesting and inspiring read. on the unexplored riches of written tale is enjoyable as a (hardback) Quartet Books, March 2012 Italian archives, Fletcher enlarges stand-alone. ISBN: 978-1447216186 the well known story, and to (paperback) Also available as an e-book magnificent effect. Little, Brown, June 2013 ISBN: 978-0704372474 (hardback) Also available as an e-book Vintage, February 2013 ISBN: 978-1408703670 (paperback) Also available as an e-book ISBN: 978-0099554899 Also available as an e-book

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett Amy Licence Daljit Nagra Dr Julie Peakman (BA English, 1973 Bedford College) (BA English, 1995) (BA English, 1991) (MA Women’s History, 1994) The Pike - Gabriele Anne Neville: Richard Tippoo Sultan’s Mighty Lewd Books d’Annunzio: Poet, III’s Tragic Queen Incredible White-Man- Dr Julie Peakman is a historian, Seducer and Preacher Anne, Richard III’s Queen, has Eating Tiger Toy- author and broadcaster who is of War previously been portrayed as a Machine!!! internationally renowned for her Gabriele D’Annunzio was Italy’s passive, manipulated, grief- This poetry collection from Daljit work on the history of sexuality. premier poet at a time when stricken creature. As a teenager, Nagra follows his prize-winning Since its first publication in poetry mattered enough to she married the bloodthirsty debut, Look We Have Coming 2003, Mighty Lewd Books trigger riots, and a brilliant self- heir to the throne, and returned to Dover! (2007). The title takes has become essential reading publicist in the first age of the from exile only to find she was its cue from the 18th-century for anyone interested in the mass-media. He used his fame fatherless and widowed. The automaton (a tiger savaging 18th-century and the history to sell his work, seduce women, killer of both was the future a British soldier) in a series of sexuality. Through the promote his Fascist politics and Richard III, who wanted her of poems that begin at the examination of more than fan the flames of war. In 1915 for his wife. Her life, and her throat of the old British Empire. 500 pieces of British erotica, his incendiary oratory helped untimely death, has always Written in a mix of Punjabi it charts the development of drive Italy to war. In 1919 he been shrouded in controversy. and English (Punglish) and an pornography in 18th-century led a troop of mutineers into By exploring Anne’s role, her adopted mother tongue, the England, looking at sex as the Croatian port of Fiume, and health and her marriages, Amy poems are vivid stories about seen in culture, religion and established there a delinquent Licence presents an alternate corner shops and classrooms, medicine. Peakman explores city-state populated by futurists, view of this elusive woman, and family feuds and religious popular images in erotica; anarchists, communists and suggests that the Kingmaker’s bigotry, and there is even a female flagellants whipping their proto-fascists. After fifteen daughter was actually a modern Asian version of Romeo submissive charges; depraved months a gunship brought it courageous pragmatist whose and Juliet. It takes a special monks corrupting innocent to an end, but it had its sequel endurance was repeatedly author to write a collection that nuns; libertine rascals seducing when, three years later, belting pushed to the limit. Like the is at once delightful, comical young virgins; and rakes out anthems learnt there, the author’s previous historical and powerful, but Nagra makes carousing with their whores. fascists marched on Rome. books, this is a vivid and it seem effortless. You can’t Using these images, records Hughes-Hallett’s compelling entertaining version of events – generally judge a book by its and depositions as evidence, biography is well-crafted and proving that Licence is not only cover, but actually, in this case Peakman takes a feminist punchy, and her flamboyant an admirable historian, but also you can: colourful, curious, approach within a framework of protagonist is most certainly an admirable writer. enticing. gender history, and challenges the traditional view that women stranger than fiction. Amberley Publishing, April 2013 Faber, June 2012 (paperback) were generally seen as sexually (hardback) Fourth Estate, January 2013 ISBN: 978-0571264919 passive. (hardback) ISBN 978-1445611532 Also available as an e-book Palgrave Macmillan, October ISBN: 978-0007213955 2012 (paperback) Also available as an e-book ISBN: 978-1137033963

Royal Holloway 47 The Alumni Fund: How your donations enrich the student experience

A tradition of giving lies at the heart of our College: Elizabeth Jesser Internships - The Geography Department has developed internships Reid and Thomas Holloway founded their colleges on a vision of alongside placement-linked dissertations, which allow students to gain industry experience. Your donations help students to take up these placements. philanthropy. Today, with College resources tightly stretched, we rely on our supporters more than ever. Rare Disease Day 2013 - Your funding allowed us to host a day of In 2012, an incredible £100,000, generously donated by alumni and activities related to rare diseases for students from local secondary schools. This included a series of presentations on current gene research friends of the College during our Alumni Fund telephone campaigns, at College, in addition to debate-style sessions on the ethics surrounding was awarded on a competitive basis to worthy beneficiaries. genetic testing. The Alumni Fund has provided invaluable financial support to clubs, societies, academic projects and new facilities, all of which Sports Equipment - New kit has been purchased for growing sports clubs, including new starter packs for the American Football Club, new help our students to become well-rounded individuals. Many projects kit for both the Hockey Club and Fencing Society, lacrosse sticks for the supported by your donations aim to widen participation, ensuring Lacrosse Club, judo mats for the Martial Arts Clubs and a tumble track that as many students as possible enjoy the very best student for the Tom Cats, our award-winning cheerleading squad. experience that College can offer. Volunteering - Donations allowed student participation in several wider community initiatives including “Make a Difference Day” and “The Big Beneficiaries have included: Spring Clean Community Project”, both of which respond to requests submitted by local community organisations. Politics and International Relations Society - The PIRS received a donation to help fund academic and social events featuring high-profile Classics Day 2013 - An annual celebration of all things Greco-Roman, speakers. These are designed to complement the academic experience brought together classicists and Classics-lovers, as well as acted as an of those students interested in political and international affairs. introduction to the subject for prospective students, local schools and the wider community. The Choir - The world-class Choir of Royal Holloway toured the Baltic States and various venues across London, including St Paul’s Cathedral Musical Equipment - The Musical Theatre Society was able to purchase and St Martin-in-the-Fields. In addition, they held a Choir training camp a much-needed new keyboard and the Gospel Choir was able to purchase thanks to the money received from the Alumni Fund. a new PA system.

Rowing - We have recently taken over the lease on Strode’s College Boat Drama & Computer Science - A new playwriting tool is supporting House and alumni donations have allowed us to purchase six boats to students on both the Computer Science and Playwriting courses to increase the level of student participation. Our students are also delivering develop properly formatted plays, which allows more time to be a rowing programme to Strode’s students. dedicated to the main creative process.

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48 Higher magazine Some of our student Callers

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The American Foundation of Economics - Our student-run OMK Investment Royal Holloway and Bedford Club hosted The London Economics New College Symposium, entitled The Road to Recovery On Good Friday, the Principal hosted an from the Economic Crisis - Perspectives of alumni dinner at the Surrey Hotel in New Different Industry Leaders. The day produced York City. The dinner was for 40 guests, proposals of ways in which we could recover including students from our Politics from the economic crisis. and International Relations Society, who were delegates representing Music & Dance - Key events including France in this year’s National Model United Nations conference. Members the Musical Theatre Society’s Annual Amy Bryant of the Society walked away with the Summer Cabaret and the Inter Varsity Dance Outstanding Delegation award, putting Association, the most prestigious Ballroom Royal Holloway in the top 10 out of and Latin American dance competition held in more than 200 competing universities. Blackpool, were both supported by donations. Our delegation gave speeches and took part in debates on topics ranging from Student Leadership Programme - This peacekeeping to nuclear proliferation. series of sessions is delivered by students to Alumni attending the dinner work in the other students and is run from the Students’ worlds of technology, banking, the arts Union, in partnership with the Careers and politics, and the students were as Service and the Institute of Leadership and keen to get advice from them as the Management in London. The project aims to alumni were to hear about life at Royal Holloway today. The Principal spoke create a legacy of confident student trainers about events at College, including the who are able to deliver practical sessions to Arif Islam Olympics and Paralympics, the Regius students covering a wide range of topics. Chair in Music and the recognition for our excellence in cyber security (see page 31). Preston Bryant, the For a complete list of all the beneficiaries, please visit: US Foundation Chair, spoke of his www.rhul.ac.uk/alumnifund/beneficiaries commitment and enthusiasm for US Alumni to get behind the initiative to send five US students to Royal Holloway A sincere and heartfelt ‘thank you’ each year on a Masters scholarship. to all of our donors for your The trip was a resounding success and ongoing support. we are now building on the momentum created with our US partners as we approach several US trusts to seek Krissie Ferris support for our initiatives. We also want to build on our networks with our US-based alumni and hold more local events in the East, West and Central regions. The US has a culture of supporting education and we hope we can nurture this support to benefit our students today and in the future.

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Royal Holloway 49 Dates for your diary

A selection from our programme of events for 2013.

Sunday 15 September 2013 Heritage Open Day North Quad, Founder’s Building, 11am-5.30pm An opportunity to explore the spectacular Grade I listed Founder’s Building, Chapel and extensive grounds. There will be guided tours of the Picture Gallery, Founder’s Building including the Library and the Archives. There will also be an opportunity to visit the former Holloway Sanatorium in Virginia Water. Refreshments will be available for purchase. Admission free, all welcome, no pre- booking required

Saturday & Sunday 7-8 December 2013 Lessons and Carols Service College Chapel, 6pm (both days, seated by 5.45pm) Saturday & Sunday Our ever popular carol service, followed by a 22-23 June 2013 reception in the Picture Gallery. Admission free, by ticket only. The 1970s Alumni Reunion To book contact [email protected] from Royal Holloway campus Monday 4 November giving your name, A 1970s-themed reunion weekend for telephone number, the number of tickets all those who studied at Royal Holloway you would like (up to a maximum of four), College during the 1970s, featuring a and for which day. Tickets will be allocated dinner and disco on the Saturday evening, in the order that enquiries are received. Medicine and Stumble Inn (the former Cameron dining hall and bar) will be used for the bar and disco. For registration and the dinner we are using Imagine (the former Saturday 23 November 2013 Athlone Common Room).The Picture Gallery will be open on Sunday morning and there St Cecilia’s Evening will be campus tours on both days. Concert, College Chapel, 6pm-7pm; The reunion is co-ordinated by alumni Feast, Founder’s Dining Hall, 7.30pm volunteers Jon Cutter (BSc Computer Science & Mathematics, 1974) and A feast of music, with a concert by the Choir Pete Challinger (BSc Physics, 1974), in of Royal Holloway. After the concert there conjunction with the Alumni Relations team, will be a reception followed by a three-course and will have the same casual feel as their dinner with musical interludes by the Choir. successful 2010 reunion. Guests attending both concert and feast are required to pre-book their tickets. Reunion tickets: £38. Accommodation on campus is separate. Concert: £tbc (also available on the door). To book visit www.rhul.ac.uk/alumni/ Feast: £55. Dress: Black Tie. eventsandreunions. Further information To book contact Sue Heath: 01784 443004 can be found at www.RHC70s.org or [email protected]

50 Higher magazine Thomas Holloway’s College The First 125 Years A fascinating pictorial record of the first 125 years of Richard Williams has been associated with Royal Holloway Thomas Holloway’s College. The book, first published for 50 years, working as a Senior Technician in the in 1993 under the title A Pictorial History, has been Department of Chemistry between 1962-92, and as a redesigned and brought up to date with new material. College Tour Guide since then. Having a keen interest in It now provides an insight into the life and development of local history, Richard joined the Egham-by-Runnymede the College from its pioneering roots in the Victorian era to Historical Society in 1982 and specialises in the histories of the recent hosting of a satellite village for teams competing Runnymede and Englefield Green. in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

To order a copy please send a cheque payable to RHBNC for £12 (inc p&p) to: Events Office, Royal Holloway, Egham TW20 0EX.

Royal Holloway 51 You r will... leaving a lasting legacy

This is the story of a lady called Margaret Young. Margaret was wonderful at Physics and dedicated her life to making the subject exciting and challenging for her many students in both her adopted Canada and native England. Like many people who come to the College, Margaret was also a keen sports woman. She was passionate about riding and was a pretty brave horsewoman, as this picture demonstrates.

When Margaret died at the age of 89 she left £830,000 to Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, after taking care of her family and her beloved horse, Mr Magic.

This legacy will be used to provide new sports facilities at College for students and local people. Our current capacity levels have been stretched so far that those willing to maintain their sports interests are severely limited by lack of space and facilities. We think Margaret would be happy to know that because of her considerable generosity more than a thousand people will be able to enjoy sport at Royal Holloway. We look forward to opening the Margaret Young Sports Centre.

If you would like to talk to us about leaving a gift to Royal Holloway and Bedford New College then please call Sarah Nikkel on 01784 414478 or [email protected]