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THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL MAGAZINE // AUTUMN 2015 BRISTOL’S CHURCHILL: 1929-65 Autumn 2015 More online Contents The Features nonesuch Make sure you visit bristol.ac.uk/alumni to keep up to date with nonesuch 3 Autumn 2015 news and stories from your fellow graduates. From starting popular ‘I’m not just a clown...’ 7 Editor Catherine Treble snack company, graze, to encountering polar bears in the Arctic, you’ll The red nonesuch, Alumni stories 11 and 19 find advice and anecdotes from alumni working in a wide range of the ‘Flower of Bristol’, Contributing Editors Mind over matter 12 Hilary Brown professions, all around the world. gave its colour to the Hannah Ford University’s academic Bristol’s Churchill 14 Nick Riddle Freya Sterling Here are a few of our top picks: hoods and its name First 100 days 20 to the University’s first The fight against antibiotic resistance 24 Managing Editors student magazine, Tracey Beck // Acting Director, Development and The Bristol Nonesuch, Alumni Relations Tesco Mum of the Year 2014, Laura Young (BSc 1990), explains how in 1911. Nonesuch in its Jill Cartwright // Assistant founding children’s art therapy charity, the Teapot Trust, helped her deal current magazine 20 Director of Marketing and Communications form was first published Bristol welcomes its with the loss of her daughter. bristol.ac.uk/alumni/teapot-trust Rosie Dale // Head in 1991 for ‘all those 13th Vice-Chancellor of Communications who share a common and Regular Giving, interest in the University Development and 4 Alumni Relations of Bristol.’ Dr Maggie Leggett // Interim Arthur Rose (MB ChB 1957) left Poland as an adolescent after the Director of Marketing and Second World War, before winning a scholarship to study medicine at Communications Bristol. In 2013, Rose won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Child Contact Neurology Society. bristol.ac.uk/alumni/arthur-rose [email protected] +44 (0)117 394 1046 (Development and Alumni Relations) +44 (0)117 928 8895 What do you wish you’d known before starting University? Natalie (Public Relations) Jester (BSc 2011, MSc 2013, PhD 2013-) and others share their advice Design for this year’s new students. bristol.ac.uk/alumni/welcome-week 14 pelotondesign.co.uk New research into News Churchill’s chancellorship Produced by Development and Latest from Bristol 2 Alumni Relations In pictures 4 Senate House Tyndall Avenue To celebrate women working in science, technology, engineering Bristol in the news 6 Bristol BS8 1TH and maths on Ada Lovelace Day, Olivia Joyner (BSc 2005, MSc 2006), Research Manager at YouGov, and others shared their career Cover photograph Churchill carried aloft experiences and inspirations. bristol.ac.uk/alumni/ada-lovelace by students after his installation as Chancellor in 1929 (DM250/7) 29 © University of Bristol Library, Special Collections Printed by MPS Marketing Services Ltd and Precision Colour Sign up to our monthly enews to get the latest alumni and 7 Printing University stories, events and social media highlights delivered Simon Pegg Nonesuch, Autumn 2015 (BA 1991) © University of Bristol 2015 straight to your inbox. bristol.ac.uk/alumni/mydetails Nonesuch magazine // Autumn 2015 remembers his Extracts may only Printed on Royal Roto Silk FSC® 130gsm be reproduced with student years the permission of the Development and Alumni Keep in touch Relations team. Telephone +44 (0)117 394 1046 /bristol.university.alumni /UniversityofBristol If you need part or all Listings of this publication in an alternative format, Email [email protected] @BristolUni /universityofbristol please telephone 24 In memoriam 28 +44 (0)117 394 1046. Website bristol.ac.uk/alumni bristol.ac.uk/alumni/linkedin /bristoluniversity Rise of the superbugs Events 29 Autumn 2015 // nonesuch 1 Latest from Bristol bristol.ac.uk/news News Giving India a voice Alumni Astrophysics graduate, Shreya Singhal (BSc 2012), made headlines after playing a pivotal role in safeguarding the right to freedom of speech on India’s internet. Messel magic In November 2012, Singhal filed a public interest Arts litigation, challenging Section 66(A) of India’s Innovators of the future The University of Bristol Theatre Information Technology Act. Section 66(A) University Collection has acquired the personal related to penalties for people ‘causing offence’ archive of one of the 20th century’s online, and Singhal was growing increasingly From September 2016, students will be able to study one of 11 new foremost theatrical designers, Oliver MBE for computer concerned by its use in a number of arrests, undergraduate courses that combine innovation with in-depth Messel (1904-78). subject specialism. including that of two girls who posted and liked a question on Facebook. Singhal’s case was Thanks to an £80,000 grant from the National science graduate Jenny The University’s Innovation courses innovations, together with the city’s taken up by the Chief Justice of India, and in Heritage Memorial Fund, as well as generous Alumni will offer students the chance to read reputation for creativity, high-growth April, the court finally ruled Section 66(A) to be support from alumni, friends and charitable a traditional academic subject, like technology and enterprise, make Bristol Jenny Griffiths (MEng 2009), whose fashion app has changed the ‘unconstitutional’ on account of its ‘open-ended, foundations, the University was able to anthropology, computer science or ideally placed to offer students these new way people shop online for clothes, has been awarded an MBE for her undefined and vague language’. The result purchase this impressive collection, which psychology, while also learning how to courses. Third-year student, Dominic achievements, at the age of just 27. has been widely welcomed by free speech includes around 30 boxes of correspondence, be entrepreneurs and innovators. Chapman (BSc 2013-), who co-founded campaigners and media groups in India. as well as thousands of photographs and Griffiths came up with the idea for Snap items from online retailers. Griffiths says: The programmes will be taught in a the online app, PilotPod, in his first year technical drawings. Jo Elsworth, Director of the Fashion while at Bristol, working on the ‘It’s amazing how quickly it’s grown in new, dynamic study space designed of study, says: ‘When I came to Bristol, Theatre Collection, said: ‘The Messel archive concept as part of her thesis. In 2009, popularity. We now have 250 retailers to facilitate creative team-working, and I had no idea that the city was such a will provide a wonderful insight not only into the she won £15,000 in the University’s New on board, and people take a quarter of a students will be encouraged to develop hub for creative ventures. The Innovation process of “making” theatre or film but also the Enterprise Competition to further develop million “snaps” every month.’ solutions to pressing global issues in courses will see students immersed in theatricality inherent in 20th-century society the app. ‘I was so surprised when I heard Nine Bristol alumni were recognised health, the environment and education, that space, and it’s a great time to be life. As a fully accredited museum, we have about the MBE – I just think what I’m doing in the 2015 Queen’s birthday honours list, building on Bristol’s exceptional research involved.’ For more information, and the knowledge and expertise to preserve the is normal,’ says Griffiths. including Sir Philip Campbell (BSc 1972, base in these areas. The University’s to see a full list of courses, please visit “Messel magic” for future generations, and now Snap Fashion is a visual search engine Hon DSc 2008), Editor-in-Chief of science existing track record of commercialising bristol.ac.uk/innovation. hope to raise the money required to catalogue that lets users ‘snap’ a picture of an item journal, Nature, who received a knighthood and conserve the archive.’ of clothing – in a magazine, online or on for services to science. For the full list, Making a chain-ge the high street – and searches for similar please visit bristol.ac.uk/nonesuch. Waiting in the wings Thanks to alumni gifts, students were Engineering able to decide how to spend £20,000 to enhance their University experience. Aircraft wings that ‘self-heal’ after being Teocah’s top accolade from the Queen Alumni damaged could become a reality in the next five to ten years, thanks to technology 1,600 In recognition of her outstanding voluntary work, Teocah developed by Bristol experts in aerospace students voted Dove (MSc 2014) was among 60 young people across the engineering and chemistry. Commonwealth to receive a Queen’s Young Leaders Award at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace in June. Taking inspiration from the way human blood scabs, Professor Duncan Wass’ team has created tiny £20,000 Dove has been volunteering in her home country of Trinidad and Tobago microspheres that can be embedded in the carbon of alumni donations and the wider Caribbean for ten years, primarily in youth and community the aeroplane wing and release a liquid agent on impact. development. ‘It is an honour and a humbling experience to be recognised by The liquid seeps into any cracks caused by the impact Her Majesty the Queen,’ she says. ‘The award, which includes a residential and hardens, thanks to an additional catalyst used when 50 programme and mentorship, has truly empowered me to make a difference making the wing. In the future, this technology could bicycles for students to in the future.’ Dove is now working to help young people in the juvenile justice translate to many other everyday products, including bike rent during term time system, and provide young people and women with training and employment helmets, mobile phone screens and nail varnish.