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STEPS 2019 - 2 Keep in Touch Lancaster Alumni Magazine 2019 PROFESSOR DAME SUE BLACK A MISSION TO FURTHER ENGAGEMENT ACADEMIC FREEDOM FOR ALL THE LANCASTER SANCTUARY FELLOWSHIP PROJECT WWW.LANCASTER.AC.UK/ALUMNI Keep in touch www.lancaster.ac.uk/alumni Welcome Contents Last year, my introduction 03 07 to Steps reflected on the dramas and challenges Mission to Melissa’s facing our world. Twelve months on and little has Engage Magic Candy 15 changed – and I didn’t anticipate writing this piece Professor Dame Sue Black talks Factory in a UK that still lingers on about her vision for her new role University News the edge of Brexit! in the University. Meet Melissa Snover who was inspired to start her business Updates and developments about whilst at Lancaster. your University. Easier by Email Do we have your current email address? Most of our communications use email for speed 09 and to restrict the amount of paper we use. To ensure you receive our Friends for Life 17 Enews and event invitations, please email us at [email protected] An alumni couple, who are and we will verify that we have pursuing diverse careers and Championing the appropriate information for all returning to Lancaster to future communications. Also if you Despite the political and legislative As in many other areas of university life, celebrate their wedding. Disability Arts headwinds we face, it has been another philanthropy has played an important move house or no longer require a successful year for Lancaster, borne role in making this Institute a reality. Tony Heaton, disability activist printed copy of the magazine, please out by our UK league table placings. Charitable and philanthropic donors and artist, describes Lancaster’s contact us. You can also let us know While we maintained our highest position are helping our mission more and more, part in helping him fight for what by using the form provided. in the Times/Sunday Times’ Good and alongside the Chancellor, Alan he believes. We look forward to hearing from you. Milburn, I was delighted to unveil our 05 University Guide for a second year (6th), 11 we also achieved our best ever result first permanent donor wall in the Library Keep in touch! in the Complete University Guide (7th.) earlier this year. It is heartening to see Alumni in Print Let’s Get this list grow. Whatever Brexit’s outcome, Lancaster A round up of books published Together 19 is committed to maintaining strong I finish with a note of farewell. I will by Lancaster alumni. connections with Europe, while we be leaving Lancaster in October, to A round up of events and take up the post of Vice-Chancellor Making a continue to expand our educational volunteer activities across the Published by: and President at the University of offering worldwide. Having been the first world in the past year. Difference Development & Alumni Relations Office UK university to establish a campus in Southampton. I’ve been tremendously E: [email protected] sub-Saharan Africa (Lancaster Ghana) privileged to lead this great University Highlighting some of our Additional Contributors: Rachel Pugh and built on strong relationships with since 2012 and I take with me some 06 philanthropic donors and projects Designed and produced by: China through the launch of our University fantastic memories of the alumni I’ve met supported financially by our alumni. www.fusiondesign.co.uk College at Weihai, in September we will across the globe. Perhaps I was lucky The Big Day Cover image: be launching a new branch campus in that respect to be Vice-Chancellor Image courtesy of the RSE’s Women in Science in Scotland. Photographer: Ian Georgeson. in Leipzig, Germany. This is another during our 50th anniversary year; but Your wedding celebrations over the I sense the alumni enthusiasm and pride opportunity to share Lancaster’s exciting past twelve months. The articles printed here, to the best of vision with a broader audience. I’ve witnessed is a universal constant. our knowledge, were correct at the time of 21 going to press. We cannot guarantee that Thank you, for your friendship 13 Alongside new ventures, our long- and support during my time as Vice- all articles submitted have been printed and established partnership with Sunway Academic Honorary we reserve the right to edit material where University in Malaysia is moving to a Chancellor, as well as your continuing necessary. Furthermore, the views expressed new level later this year. The launch interest in the wellbeing of Lancaster. in this magazine are not necessarily those of Freedom For All Degrees and Lancaster University or the Editor. of the Future Cities Research Institute You are a vital part of our success story demonstrates our commitment and I will always be grateful for your How the Lancaster Sanctuary Steps is available to view online at support. I wish you the best for the future. Alumni Awards www.lancaster.ac.uk/alumni as a PDF. to sustainability research, while Fellowship supports at-risk If you require this magazine in another strengthening this strong and Professor Mark E. Smith academics to carry on research Awards presented in last year’s format, please contact the Alumni & fruitful relationship. Vice-Chancellor and complete their qualifications. Graduation Ceremonies. Development Office. 1 STEPS 2019 - 2 Keep in touch www.lancaster.ac.uk/stepswww.lancaster.ac.uk/alumni “He came to us and thanked us,” she says with disbelief. Lancaster is keen to capitalise on Sue’s determination “I felt so humble. I was just doing my job. I was in the right to pose those questions because it has just signed the place at the right time that day to be able to help him.” Civic Universities Agreement, which recognises that universities are partly funded from the public purse with Her humanity, incisive mind, professional rigour and a civic and community responsibility to the public. passion for justice - developed whilst working to identify human remains in some of the most harrowing war and Starting with the campus itself, she has organised disaster zones of recent decades - are some of the Big Conversations involving all teaching, research and qualities which gained Professor Dame Black her professional services staff to establish on a ‘who what, appointment at Lancaster University as first Pro Vice- when, where, how and why’ basis how effective the Chancellor for Engagement. They have also given her University is at engaging with its own. Then she thinks the a voice people want to listen to. ‘Town and Gown” relationship needs to be strengthened. Professor Black - who prefers simply to be known as Sue She admires the links that the University already has with - also has a world reputation for forensic identification the economically deprived North West region, particularly of bodies, numerous serious publications on forensic plans for the Health Innovation Campus to prevent rather anthropology and several books to her name (including than cure disease. The Eden North project offers further the recently published All That Remains) and a number of opportunities for Lancaster to contribute to the awards including a DBE, not to mention a ferocious name economic, environmental and health regeneration of for getting things done. Morecambe and the region. She also wants to nourish The whole concept of university links with FE colleges in the North West. engagement excites her enough to One regret she has is that she will have lured her from her native not be teaching, but she will be Scotland and the role she loved giving some public lectures, at Dundee University as for a public thirsty to hear Professor of Anatomy and about her experiences at Forensic Anthropology - in home, overseas and with a department she built up the police. over 15 years from three staff and 90 students to Her forensic anthropology 18 staff and 900 work continues in new students - to come ways in collaboration with to Lancaster. Dundee University to build the world’s first She has long admired searchable database of and been curious about the anatomy and variation Lancaster’s high national of the human hand for use rankings despite its size to convict child abusers. and believes it could play a Sue pioneered the technique more powerful and dynamic which has enabled a number role in the region and beyond. of high-profile convictions. She is also personally ready for The project has attracted European a change. Research Council funding of 2.4m Her appointment is for four years (with a Euros over five years. possibility of an extension) with the enviable task of She contrasts the high expectations of today’s fee- MISSION TO creating her own job to make sure that Lancaster paying students, to herself when she fell into the communicates as effectively as possible as an institution, nearest university to her home: “Young people now that it engages with the neighbouring city region and have a much more mature view about the range of punches above its weight in the wider academic scene opportunities available to them and are more likely to nationally and abroad. experiment, take a gap year or split their studies. “I will have succeeded if my job is mothballed at the end of There is more flexibility to try out different things. ENGAGE four years, “ she says with a laugh. “I should be in a position University for them is an experience and there is to make myself redundant. Successful engagement is a demand for greater quality.” PROFESSOR DAME SUE BLACK, PRO VICE-CHANCELLOR FOR about a culture and if the culture is embedded you do Although Sue is working flat out to ‘make myself not need a Pro Vice-Chancellor to lead it.” ENGAGEMENT JOINED LANCASTER’S MANAGEMENT TEAM IN 2018.
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