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The last 12 months have witnessed Our investment in academic excellence City in numbers extraordinary developments at City and our estate, together with support University London. from our alumni community, is helping to ensure that our students benefit In a period of increasingly challenging from an outstanding experience competition in the higher education while at City. This is demonstrated by sector, City has more than doubled the University’s performance in the the proportion of its academic National Student Survey, in which City’s Alumni Office staff undertaking world-leading or rates of satisfaction with City among is now in contact internationally excellent research. with over 100,000 our students showed the highest This is hugely important for the former students in percentage increase in England, Research Excellence Framework, something about which we are which assesses the quality of research 202 particularly proud. countries in UK higher education institutions and determines indirectly a significant You can discover more about percentage of the University’s income. some of our outstanding research, developments to the estate and what In the meantime, continued investment life is like at City for current students in in the estate now provides facilities of this year’s edition of City Magazine. We which students and staff can be proud. shall also continue our two bi-monthly At the start of the 2013/14 academic A record e-newsletters aimed at keeping you up- year, new and returning students were to-date on developments and events, greeted by a rejuvenated campus at to which you will be very warmly 85% Northampton Square with state-of-the- of current students welcomed. We are very keen to keep in indicated their art facilities and brand new premises touch with our former students and are satisfaction with their at 200 Aldersgate for Cass Business truly grateful for the help we receive, experience at City School Executive Education. through the all of which helps to benefit current 2013 National There have been significant and future students. Student Survey improvements to premises for The I hope you enjoy reading this magazine City Law School and the School of and that its contents encourage you Health Sciences. In addition, there to come back soon to see how the has been a transformation of facilities University has progressed since your for Engineering including the time here. £ reconfiguration of the lower floor of the Tait Building and installation of a City was ranked new wind tunnel. In early 2015 we are among the due to open CitySport on the site of the old Saddlers Sports Centre, offering an top 5 outstanding new service for students universities in the UK and the local community. for the starting salaries David Street of its graduates 2013/14 also saw more scholarships, bursaries and prizes awarded Director to students than ever before; an Development & Alumni Relations indication of the increasing support offered by our alumni and friends and for which we are extremely grateful. Between 2012 and 2016, £130m will be invested in City’s estate
City Magazine 1 The 2013/14 transformation of our estate continues with work Dispatches on new facilities for learning, research and sport. Our Chancellor discovered more about the Dubai Centre while high-profile lectures, conferences and an innovative video series ensured City was at the forefront of public debate. Changing spaces
Buil If you have walked along Goswell CitySport A visualisation of Road in the past six months the Sport England- d in numbers
ing t you might have noticed a steel standard sports structure rapidly rising out of hall in CitySport
heo Visi the ground. This building, due to be completed in early 2015, will be home to City’s new
n sports centre, CitySport, as well as new accommodation Accommodation for more than 800 students. for more than CitySport will be 75 per cent larger 800 than its predecessor, Saddlers Sports students Centre, with more than 100 fitness stations, five multi-sport studios and full disabled access. Built upon the old Saddlers Sports Centre site, the new facility will incorporate over 500 bricks from that building, along with the original marble tablet 75% commemorating our first Director larger than its of Exercises, Rudolph Oberholzer. predecessor Schools have also benefited from undergraduate laboratory, engineering the first phase of estate investment. hall, improved research space and a City has embarked on a five year, The undergraduate programme at new wind tunnel. £130 million programme of investment Cass Business School now has The School of Health Sciences recently in the University’s estate and enlarged, refurbished accommodation infrastructure, bringing redundant launched its new interdisciplinary in the Drysdale Building, while Clinical Skills Centre designed to spaces back into use and creating The City Law School and the outstanding new academic facilities. More than mirror ‘real’ healthcare environments School of Health Sciences have for students and to enhance their Other recently completed projects seen substantial investments in include the opening of a new facility 100 learning and skills before they put fitness stations academic office space through them into practice. for Cass Executive Education at improvements in the Tait Building 200 Aldersgate, while at the main and the complete refurbishment Future development plans include site in Northampton Square the first of the Gloucester Building. a new Students’ Union bar and café, element of a three-phase Lecture created on the ground floor of the Tait Space project has delivered stunning Engineering facilities have been Building and due to open in late 2014; new education spaces, created from transformed, as almost the entire lower and an iconic new building on the long-neglected basement areas of the ground floor of the Tait Building has corner of Sebastian Street for research University Building. 5 been reconfigured to provide a new and postgraduate use. multi-sport studios
Incorporating over 500 bricks from the old building
2 City Magazine Dispatches Window on the world
Ev Leading academics, acclaimed an overview of their research to
en authors, business leaders, Dr Mark Carney, colleagues, students and the general
t Governor of the Bank
s a distinguished journalists and public. Recent inaugural lecture topics Members of Parliament are of England, at Cass have included: the role of speech t Ci among the many speakers Business School in and language therapy in helping
t March 2014
y to have contributed recently vulnerable young people to express to City’s lively and eclectic their feelings without resorting to events programme. violence; the case for giving the public greater involvement in health Topics as diverse as media regulation, research; and how brain imaging and street art, the changing shape of war mathematical modelling can enhance in the Middle East, Hollywood our understanding of the mechanisms and human rights and the Obama and functions of the eye. presidency reflect the breadth and depth of City’s research strengths. Of course, the City community extends far beyond the borders of EC1. The In March 2014, at one of the most high- City Perspectives series brings expert profile events of the year, the Governor commentary to a wider audience of the Bank of England, Dr Mark Carney, through a series of web articles and used the annual Mais lecture at Cass videos. Data leaks, the video game Business School to announce a major of Journalism, a series of events which industry and the possibility of an EU re-organisation of the institution and seeks to remind how the power of opt-out are among the issues discussed set out his vision for the Bank’s future. the pen can have a positive effect on recently by City academics in the series. society. The same month Robert Peston Elsewhere, at a time when the British of the BBC delivered the annual James media are under more scrutiny than Cameron memorial lecture and more ever, City continued to shape public Events at City are usually free and recently, in April 2014, the Rt Hon Dame debate on journalism. In October 2013, open to the public. For information Tessa Jowell MP led calls for greater Ed Richards, Chief Executive of Ofcom, about forthcoming events please visit representation of women in the media outlined why regulation is good for www.city.ac.uk/events. Or search online at the Women on Air conference. broadcast journalism, while a month for ‘City Perspectives’ to hear the views later, Orwell-prize winning journalist Inaugural lectures offer new academic of leading academics on contemporary Andrew Norfolk launched In Defence staff the opportunity to present political, economic and social issues. From the Square Mile to the Middle East
Ci In November 2013, City University t and her consort, Nicholas Woolf, Lord Mayor of y’s ne y’s London joined Worshipful have already made their mark on the London, Alderman Companies, the armed forces, University. The Lord Mayor’s Charity Fiona Woolf
w Chan charities and musical bands Leadership Programme, organised from near and far in a three and by Nicholas and run in collaboration a half mile celebration of the with Cass Business School’s Centre
c appointment of Alderman Fiona
o ell for Charity Effectiveness, comprises Woolf as Lord Mayor of London. a series of lectures, conferences Only the second woman to hold r and debates designed to promote the post of Lord Mayor, Alderman excellence in charity leadership. Woolf was formally welcomed as City’s Chancellor at the University’s The Lord Mayor also visited degree congregation in January 2014, City’s overseas campus in Dubai, when she was awarded a Doctor of where she met Cass alumni, Science honoris causa. students, staff and members Since 1966, when the unique of the Dubai International Finance relationship between the University Centre (DIFC). She praised the and the City of London was established, Dubai Centre’s emergence as an successive Lord Mayors have flown the educational hub for the Middle flag for City, championing our research, East and North Africa (MENA), education and enterprise. Alderman noting that the current Executive Woolf is certainly no exception and MBA cohort has students of over in her first six months in office, she 20 different nationalities.
City Magazine 3 Guy Burgess, one of the “Cambridge Start-Ed helps kickstart Spies” student success
Po After his mobile smartphone international pre-orders. They really
r ran out of battery again one set us in the right direction.” t a b afternoon in early 2013, Founded by Reader in Law Dr David le c City University London Collins and City alumnus Eric Klotz in postgraduate student Frank harger 2011, Start-Ed has assisted more than Milani (Masters in Innovation, 700 start-ups and small businesses. Creativity and Leadership) It is staffed by students from The was inspired to come up City Law School who are supervised A voice from with a solution to this very by local professionals including common problem. barristers, solicitors and accountants. the past Just a year later, Frank and his Dr Collins notes that a lack of access business partner Matt Sandrini to simple legal advice is one of the G The story of the ‘Cambridge
uy Burgess t Burgess uy are about to launch Popcord, their major barriers to success in the Spies’ epitomised the distrust portable smartphone charger. A start-up sector: and fear of the early Cold War. Kickstarter campaign to raise funds “Legal advice, even in the most basic Four men, educated at the for its manufacture attracted £47,000 form, is essential for anyone thinking University of Cambridge during of pledges, more than double their of starting a business or engaged in the tumultuous inter-war period, original £20,000 target. apes became informants to the KGB the early stages of running one. But in the belief that only the Soviet While developing their business, unfortunately it can be prohibitively Union could defeat fascism. Frank and Matt received input expensive for small companies. During and after the war, the men from the University’s student Popcord is a highly successful start- climbed career ladders in the Foreign enterprise team, CityStarters; up that promises to be an exciting and Office, MI5 and the Secret Intelligence City’s entrepreneurship centre, profitable venture. I am pleased that Service (MI6), while continuing The Hangout; and The City Law we were able to provide Popcord with to report to Moscow. In 1951, the School’s advice clinic, Start-Ed. the initial legal assistance to point its founders in the right direction.” two men in the Foreign Office, “We first attended Start-Ed in Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, December 2013 to ensure that we In April, Popcord was one of five disappeared, only to resurface in were taking all the necessary steps winners of the CitySpark competition. Moscow five years later. to protect our intellectual property Frank and Matt received a prize of It was only with the end of the Cold War and obtain legal cover in a global £3,000 and a place on the CitySpark that historians could begin to piece market,” recalls Frank. “At a later Summer Accelerator programme. together the full story of the Cambridge stage, the solicitors at Start-Ed Spies, though their endeavours were helped us to establish the right frequently hampered by classified files legal structure and understand the To find out more about Popcord, visit and incomplete archives. In January terms and conditions required for www.popcord.co. 2014, City academics Professor Stewart Purvis and Jeff Hulbert, both of the Department of Journalism, uncovered From left, Frank a piece of the jigsaw puzzle that adds Milani and Matt Sandrini, Popcord depth and life to the fascinating tale. founders In researching their new book, When Reporters Cross the Line, Purvis and Hulbert secured the release of an 11 minute audio recording from FBI files. Recorded in 1951 in New York, just three weeks before his defection to Russia, Guy Burgess talks of visiting Chartwell to meet Winston Churchill and mimics Churchill’s characteristic speech. The only known recording of Burgess’s voice, which captures his humour and betrays no hint of the drama of his defection that was to follow, drew the attention of media outlets including the BBC, Sky News, The Conversation and Channel 4.
4 City Magazine Dispatches Open doors for open-source at City
DrupalCa City University London has Mathematics, Computer Science & become an important location Engineering, DrupalCamp London for Drupal open-source has twice selected City as the venue enthusiasts. Drupal operates over for its annual jamboree.
m a million websites for a variety p Lo of high-profile users including DrupalCamp London 2014, held at City the Cabinet Office, the World at the beginning of March, welcomed n
n do Economic Forum, the Grammy 650 DrupalCamp community members, 2014 reinforce City’s reputation as a Awards, the University of Oxford including established tech businesses, major provider of computing talent. and The Economist. Belgian start-ups and City computer science “We are delighted that City was computer scientist Dries Buytaert students. There were more than 50 selected for two consecutive years started running Drupal software sessions for attendees to choose from, as the venue for such an important on an online message board in 1999. including “How to Release More Code”; gathering of digital experts. Events By 2001, drupal.org had become “What the ECK!”; “I want my MTV: such as this offer excellent exposure a popular open-source platform. Inside the guts of a global publishing and opportunities for our computer The Drupal community gained platform”; and “A gitworkflow for science students. DrupalCamp further momentum in 2005 with Drupal core development.” London 2014 also underscores City’s several collaborative coding Commenting on the success of the emphasis on an integrated approach sessions and conferences. event, Professor Roger Crouch, Dean of to mathematics, computer science Thanks to a relationship developed the School of Mathematics, Computer and engineering which makes our two years ago by the Professional Science & Engineering, noted that students highly desirable in the very Liaison Unit in the School of events such as DrupalCamp London competitive field of technology.”
High Jumper Georgia Nwawulor competes at the BUCS Individual Indoor Aiming high in sport Championships
S As City Magazine goes to press, cheerleading competition squad, p
o r the University’s sportsmen and finished in second place at the ICC
t women are coming to the end of British Nationals Competition in ing su cc another successful season. In the March 2014. British Universities & Colleges CitySport is as committed to its Sport Leagues (BUCS), the Men’s individual sportsmen and women ess Rugby team secured promotion, as it is to its representational teams. winning 11 of its 12 league At the BUCS Individual Indoor matches. The Men’s Tennis Championships in February 2014, team enjoyed similar success, City fielded an exceptional group of winning 8 of 10 matches and league student athletes who competed in promotion, while their female sports including Fencing, Judo, Karate, counterparts reached the quarter Mountaineering and Swimming. In the final of the Conference Cup, an Men’s Judo Individual Championships, achievement that was recognised Sungyong Jeong reached the semi- when they received the Team of the final in his category, while High Year shield in City’s 2014 Students’ Jumper Georgia Nwawulor (pictured Union Awards. left) represented the University for Golf and Cheerleading may be the second consecutive year. With an relatively new sports for the University, impressive 1.67 metre jump, Georgia but novelty has proved no barrier claimed the Bronze medal on the final to success. The Mixed Golf team day of the competition and just one marked the end of its second season month later, she won the prestigious with a runners up finish in its league, Sportsperson of the Year award at the while the Central City Allstars, City’s Students’ Union Awards.
City Magazine 5 City’s biomedical engineers are pioneering new developments Discoveries in healthcare, with sensors that transform life opportunities. Elsewhere, academic staff are changing how we think about smell and touch, deepening our understanding of a complex continent and challenging the fundamentals of criminal procedure. Engineers at the forefront of healthcare
From left, Dr Justin Phillips, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering and Professor Panicos Kyriacou, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
6 City Magazine Discoveries Bi City’s Biomedical Engineering a personal lithium blood analyser for om Research Group (BERG), patients with bipolar disorder. This e d established in 2004, is leading will revolutionise the monitoring of Transformative i c the way in a discipline that is psychiatric disorders given that there al engineering transforming developments in is currently an absence of non-invasive telehealth medicine and healthcare delivery. medical devices for monitoring or
Under the leadership of Professor assessing bipolar disorder. H Telehealth, which is the Panicos Kyriacou, the Group eal The mood of patients with bipolar management or delivery has as its mission the extension t disorder frequently changes, featuring h of health-related services of the frontiers of science and c episodes of depression (with feelings are re through telecommunications technology by developing of being lethargic and ‘low’) and technologies, has the potential new tools and techniques to solve mania (with feelings of being ‘high’ to transform healthcare in the challenging medical problems. vo and overactive). These patients are United Kingdom and around More specifically, BERG’s focus is dependent on lithium to maintain lu the world. It offers healthcare t
i providers the means of tackling
on the use of engineering principles their mental equilibrium. Too much o to advance understanding of how lithium causes toxicity and too little n the twin challenges of an biological or physiological systems causes patients to have uncontrollable ageing population and limited operate. The ultimate goals? The mood swings. resources, while for patients and their development of effective medical-based families, telehealth could help avoid technologies for application across admissions to and lengthy stays in societal needs including breakthroughs Some sensors are no larger than hospital, as it can facilitate care in in the diagnosis, treatment and a hair and can “go into places in the home or the local community. prevention of disease and the design of Professor Stanton Newman, Dean of the novel devices, sensors and processes. the body that people have never School of Health Sciences and a leading Reflecting BERG’s twin emphases expert in telehealth, has undertaken on advances in basic bioscience and gone before.” research into the integration of health applied biomedical engineering, technologies in the healthcare pathway Professor Kyriacou says the The personal lithium blood analyser for different chronic conditions and Group’s work can be summed up will assist in providing more individuals with different levels succinctly as “creating biomedical information on lithium blood levels to of severity. He notes that “while technologies from design to the psychiatrists, clinicians and patients, telehealth holds huge promise, it’s patient.” The Group’s principal areas allowing for more effective management important for us to recognise that we of expertise are in medical sensors of bipolar disorder with lithium have a long way to go before we can and instrumentation; biosignal and therapy. A low cost, portable healthcare easily and successfully implement such imaging analysis; biomedical optics; technology which makes use of smart a programme throughout the country. electrical impedance; physiological medical sensors allows bipolar patients “We need research to demonstrate the measurement; and physiological to have more control of the earliest signs best techniques to integrate telehealth modelling. of health problems with medications into a sustainable and effective model that can be detected and corrected. that could not only save many lives, Transformative sensors Preliminary studies will involve the but also help the NHS save millions spectrophotometric evaluation of of pounds annually,” adds Professor Developments in optical technologies lithium in blood to determine the Newman. “Key to the sustainability mean that some sensors are no larger optimum parameters for the sensor. of a telehealth pathway for chronic than a hair and in the words of Professor The ultimate goal is to provide a conditions is ensuring that patients Kyriacou, can “go into places in the body handheld technology to monitor are able to utilise the additional that people have never gone before.” lithium levels non-invasively at home information that telehealth can provide The startling potential of ever-smarter and to provide a personal monitor to and change their behaviour to manage and smaller sensors created by the assist, support and inform both the their condition.” Group includes non-invasive monitoring patient and clinician. of blood oxygen levels in specific organs To help bridge the gap between and tissues to ascertain their condition traditional and technology-based and tracking the progress of critically ill healthcare, Professor Newman patients during surgery and in intensive Funding future has been involved in launching care. This research challenges the status the Advancing Care Coordination quo in monitoring blood components breakthroughs and Telehealth Deployment (ACT) programme, a pan-European study such as glucose, haemoglobin and While members of BERG are that will uncover some of the barriers cholesterol by innovating new non- revolutionising the care of patients in to implementation of telehealth invasive sensors that have the potential critical condition, colleagues elsewhere services and establish best practice to make such measurements possible, in the School of Mathematics, in the sector. without the invasive extraction of blood. Computer Science & Engineering, led Such technologies will enable patients by its Dean, are set to transform the with chronic diseases such as diabetes life opportunities of babies born with The Development & Alumni Relations to monitor their wellbeing and remain congenital heart disease. Office is supporting Professor Newman in control of their condition. Find out how alumni and friends of City with this important research. To find out BERG has recently been awarded a can help funding this groundbreaking more about how alumni can help, please major research grant by the National research on page 15. contact David Street: +44 (0)20 7040 Institute of Health Research to develop 5557; [email protected].
City Magazine 7 Catching a whiff of pervasive computing
Mixe Professor Adrian Cheok, In January 2014, Professor Cheok Professor of Pervasive Computing joined Michelin-starred chef, Andoni Professor d R at City, is working on innovative Luiz Aduriz and Dr Luis Castellanos, Adrian Cheok eali ways of using mobile phone President of creative consultants
t technology. El Jardin de Junio at Spain’s culinary y
t extravaganza, Madrid Fusion, to unveil
e Liberating digital interaction from
c Scentee, a new digital mobile app and
hn the confines of the computer or mobile phone screen, Professor device. The app is attached to an Apple o
l o Cheok and colleagues in his iPhone and allows the user to make
gy Mixed Reality Lab are exploring gestures and virtually prepare a recipe mixed reality and empathetic from a restaurant. communication by digitally conveying Professor Cheok and his colleagues smell and touch. have been spearheading new research and to improve the lives of those with smell and taste disabilities. The ever-expanding field of pervasive methodological approaches for digitally computing involves embedding simulating taste and smell to enable Professor Cheok has recently received microprocessors in everyday objects remote communication through the use extensive media exposure for his such as mobile telephones, kitchen of these senses. They aim to obtain a work, including appearances on BBC devices and items of clothing. It is the controllable and accurate actuation of Click and CBS News and articles in “internet of things”, implying instant taste and smell using digital methods publications including Wired and connectivity and availability. for the benefit of industry and academic Computer Weekly. Questioning a complex continent
Fun The European Social Survey
d (ESS), based at City University ing su cc London, has long been recognised as a critical tool for charting and explaining the interaction between Europe’s ess changing institutions and the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of its diverse populations. At the end of 2013, the European Commission acknowledged its importance by granting it the status of a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). Established in 2001, the ESS was led by its founder, Professor Sir Roger Jowell, until his death in 2011. Now under the directorship of Rory Fitzgerald, the Survey takes place every two years and is currently in its sixth round. It asks questions of Europeans from over 30 countries concerning their political orientations, attitudes and behaviour; their social and moral values; and their national, ethnic and religious allegiances. The Survey is renowned for its The ESS is the only ERIC hosted in corresponding freedom to plan for rigorous methodologies and while the UK and it joins some of the most future exploration of the changing the data it generates are of critical innovative research infrastructures faces of Europe. value to academics and policymakers, in Europe, including CERN, the its commitment to promoting world’s largest particle physics excellence in quantitative research laboratory. With this prestige comes Find out more at is of equal importance. long-term funding stability and the www.europeansocialsurvey.org.
8 City Magazine Discoveries Educational needs of deaf children
f Dea Research conducted at the School of Health Sciences has shown ness an that deaf children with reading difficulties are being neglected, as current tests focus exclusively d
d rea on hearing children and adults. The findings indicate that reading and dyslexia-sensitive ing tests can be used for some deaf children: these tests could allow educators to understand better the reading deficits of deaf children and to support them through specialist Other challenges in research and reading interventions. practice include a lack of suitable reading tests for the diagnosis of While there have been extensive dyslexia in deaf children, as there studies of dyslexia in recent years, the is little information about reading to profound levels of deafness – a relationship between deafness and profiles for this group. Without an significant proportion of oral deaf reading difficulties has been virtually understanding of the typical reading children of this age in the UK – with unexplored. There are 44,000 deaf level for a deaf child in a given age 20 hearing children with dyslexia. schoolchildren in the UK and many group, it is difficult to determine Half of the oral deaf children had face difficulties when learning to whether a deaf child has dyslexia. reading delays that were at least as read. Dr Ros Herman, a member of the severe as the problems faced by hearing research team, explains more: “As As part of the first phase of their children with dyslexia and in some reading is based on spoken language research, the team, comprising Dr cases they were more severe. – which many deaf children struggle Herman, Professor Penny Roy and to acquire – reading problems in this Dr Fiona Kyle, targeted deaf children In the next stage of the project, the group are generally attributed solely who communicate orally, rather than team will turn their attention to deaf to deafness, yet given the genetic basis through sign language, in their final children who sign, to ascertain whether of dyslexia, it is likely that some deaf year of primary school. The study that group could also benefit from children will also be dyslexic.” compared 79 children with severe specialist reading interventions.
The privilege against self-incrimination
m Cri The privilege against self- Criminal Justice, examines the operation “If this is the case, then it is misguided incrimination is often represented of this principle in criminal proceedings. to expect the privilege to perform inal pr as a principle of fundamental He says the research highlights several a major role in regulating pre-trial importance in the law of criminal doctrinal and theoretical issues that are criminal process and the focus should procedure and evidence. A of particular contemporary concern. instead be on ensuring the existence oc logical implication of recognising of robust pre-trial regulation. Having e d this privilege should be that a “The evidence demonstrates that dedicated pre-trial protections in ured an person cannot be compelled, on despite the supposed importance of the place which are routinely supervised pain of a criminal sanction, to privilege against self-incrimination, and enforced may be far more provide information that could there is little agreement on its content important than expending energy
e reasonably lead to his or her or effect. The law as it has developed on attempting to define precisely v Professor
i over the years cannot very easily be
d prosecution for a criminal offence. Andrew Choo what the privilege against self- en However, there are statutory rationalised. This is partly because incrimination should entail.”
c of a lack of care or consistency in the
e provisions in England and Wales Professor Choo is the author of five making it a criminal offence not articulation by the courts of the legal books and numerous publications to provide particular information rules that govern the privilege.” about criminal evidence and procedure. that, if provided, could be used in a Professor Choo asks whether, far from His published work has been cited in subsequent prosecution of the person being a fundamental principle, the decisions of various appellate courts, providing it. privilege is in reality, a device deployed including the House of Lords, the UK Professor Andrew Choo’s 2013 book, The by the courts when it is convenient for Supreme Court, the Privy Council and Privilege Against Self-Incrimination and them to do so. the Supreme Court of Canada.
City Magazine 9 This year’s Diary attests to the global nature of City’s alumni network. Diary Events around the world provide opportunities to network, learn and rekindle old friendships, while alumni stories articulate exactly what makes City so special. Elsewhere, alumni generosity and a very special legacy are shaping City’s provision of outstanding education, research and student support. Events in 2013/14
In the last 12 months we have been delighted to 1 meet alumni around the world. Here are just a few of the highlights.
June 2013 Annual London Reunion (1) Nearly 200 alumni returned to Northampton Square to meet fellow former students and hear about the University’s plans for the future. Members of the Year of 1968 took the opportunity to meet for lunch and tour their old haunts before the reunion.
September 2013 Visit to Bletchley Park with Professor David Stupples (2) 2 3 Professor David Stupples, Director of City’s Centre for Cyber Security Sciences, gave a fascinating talk on codes and code-breaking to a group of alumni at Bletchley Park. Pictured are alumni at the Polish Memorial while on a guided tour of the park.
September 2013 Hong Kong (3) Local alumni and students attended a masterclass on “Market Cap or Monkey? An Evaluation of Alternative Equity Index Weighting Schemes” led by Dr Nick Motson, Lecturer in Finance at Cass Business School, at Hong Kong Maritime Museum. This was followed by a drinks reception hosted 4 by Alderman Roger Gifford, the then Lord Mayor of London and Chancellor of City University London.
December 2013 New York (4) Alumni and friends of City joined other guests at a reception and panel discussion at the British Council in New York. “Ethics in Business: Still a Tick-Box Exercise?” was the title of a debate featuring a panel of distinguished alumni. Pictured from left: Bob Kelly, Nicole Young, Huw Daniel and panel chair, Professor Andre Spicer, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Cass Business School.
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City Magazine We look . ll our events are also posted at former studentstime the staffnearer and receivewith information. more To our bi-monthly events email bulletin, please provide us withyour email address. A www.city.ac.uk/alumni forward to seeingyou during the next year. 15 / , when we will celebrate . A particular highlight will be 15 / 2014 years since the establishment of the establishment the of since years vents in 2014 in vents 5 7 6 We are now planning our events calendar for in autumn 2015 40 Department of Music. We will contact E
) ) 2014 6 ) 7 5 2014 2014 2014 pril thens ( Toronto ( Johannesburg Theannual alumni evening in Athens was held in the Grande BritagneHotel. Hosted by Professor Dinos Arcoumanis, DeputyVice-Chancellor (International Development)& and Ambassador-at-Largeof the Hellenic Republic (Energy Policy andTechnologies), the evening included an LLM Maritime LawPanel Discussion and Masterclassa led by Dr Anthony Papadimitriou,President of the Alexandros S. Onassis Public BenefitFoundation. A ProfessorStanton Newman, Dean of the School of Health Sciences,hosted an alumni event the at Radisson Blu Gautrainin Johannesburg. Professor Victoria Joffe, Associate Deanfor taught postgraduate studies the at School of Health Sciencesand leadinga authority in developmental speech, languageand communication needs in children and young people,explained how the University’s Changing Behaviours Changing– Futures research is helping improve to lives. A March March Hostedby Professor Carl Stychin, Dean of The City Law School,receptiona for alumni in Canada was held at OsgoodeHall in Toronto. Dubai ( AldermanFiona Woolf, The Lord Mayor of London and City UniversityChancellor, London’s was the guest speaker The at LordMayor’s Annual Alumni Reception in Dubai. Pictured withAlderman Woolf (second from left) are Roy Leighton, Chairmanof Cass/City Advisory Board for Middle East and NorthAfrica (MENA), Council Chairman of British UKTI; Expertise Champions Services Financial of Chairman and February EhsanRazavizadeh, Regional Director, MENA and Head ofDubai Centre and Edward Hobart, Her Majesty’s Consul Dubai. to General City graduates are entitled to a range of benefits and services from the University, from the new Graduate Loyalty Discount to continued access to the library. A lifelong relationship
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12 City Magazine Diary Alumni take centre stage Ci
t How can a university engage Jaz Rabadia (BEng (Hons) Mechanical y
b its diverse audiences, from Engineering, 2006; MSc Energy, ran prospective undergraduate Environmental Technology and Academic excellence for business and the professions students to major employers, Economics, 2010), the campaign d c from working professionals to was an opportunity to showcase a
m over 17,000 current students? paign For City, the answer is through Help big business harnessing the power of its The campaign focuses on the to go green. alumni network. ways that time spent at City As City Magazine goes to press, Start here. the University’s Marketing & Communications team is launching can provide firm foundations Jaz Rabadia studied Mechanical Engineering at City University London. a major promotional campaign built Now she’s helping Debenhams to cut for professional success. energy costs and reduce its around inspiring alumni stories. carbon footprint. Designed to strengthen the University’s her work as an Energy Manager at identity and support student Debenhams and to help to promote recruitment, the campaign focuses on an institution close to her heart. Jaz, how studying at City can provide firm pictured left, explains more: “Since foundations for professional success. I left City four years ago, I’ve returned Featured alumni include Pim Baxter as a visiting lecturer, spoken at events (MA Arts Administration, 1989), for prospective students and been Deputy Director of the National Portrait involved with alumni activities. Gallery and Lay Cannon of St Paul’s The campaign was another welcome Cathedral; Keith Abel (PG Dip Law, opportunity to stay connected and Find out where City can take you. 1987), founder of organic food delivery share my City experience”. www.city.ac.uk company Abel & Cole; and Vivian Yin (MA Transnational Media and Globalisation, 2011), who has built a If you have an inspiring story that could career in television production and feature in the City campaign we would One of the new campaign now works as Chief Representative of love to hear from you. Contact us at posters, featuring Star China International Media. For [email protected]. alumna Jaz Rabadia
Bar success for From City to Sochi City alumni St Oly In February 2014, the eyes of News Channel, a feed to rights- Seven City University London alumni were named ars a ars
m the world were on Sochi, Russia, paying broadcasters worldwide. He amongst the top ten young barristers in England pi as 2,876 athletes competed for filmed news packages, interviewed and Wales in 2013. c t jo urnalis 1,300 medals at the 21st Winter athletes before and after their events
he Bar he A report by Legal Week, a leading law magazine, Olympic Games. Riding high and produced features on topics included them on the annual ‘Stars at the Bar’ list on the back of the 2012 Olympic surrounding the games. after a tight selection from more than 325 Games in London, the Sochi Elsewhere, Julie Stewart-Binks recommended junior barristers. Professor Carl t Games received more media s (MA International Journalism, 2010), Stychin, Dean of The City Law School, commented: coverage than any Winter who undertook an internship with “It is tremendous to see our alumni achieving this level Olympic Games in history, with Sky Sports and Sky News during of recognition so early in their careers.” an estimated 88,000 hours of her MA at City, streamed regular worldwide cumulative television The City stars were Simon Atrill (BVC, 2005) of Fountain reports on the performance of US and and digital coverage. Court Chambers; Siddharth Dhar (BVC, 2005) and Amy international athletes for Fox Sports 1, Sander (BVC, 2006) of Essex Court Chambers; Charles Two City Journalism graduates were as part of the Sochi Now series. Julie Raffin (BVC,2005 ) of Hardwicke Chambers; Luke Pearce at the heart of the action. Benjamin is familiar to US audiences for her role (BVC 2007) of 20 Essex Street and the University of Westlake-Tritton (BA (Hons) as a correspondent on Fox Soccer Oxford; Michael Watkins (PG Dip Professional Legal Journalism, 2013) was an Assistant Daily, a programme she joined in Skills, 2009) of One Essex Court; and Can Yeginsu Assignment Editor for the Olympic August 2013. (GDL, 2007) of 4 New Square.
City Magazine 13 Fundraising in numbers A timely legacy: Supporting the George Daniels CBE George Daniels, who passed away in October 2011, was one Since 2008, of City’s most University 801 esteemed students have alumni. After participated in attending the Professional George evening Mentoring Daniels classes in Scheme, CBE supported by horology at the Annual Fund the Northampton Institute, Daniels became a renowned watchmaker. He produced his first mechanical watch in 1969 and subsequently became famous for creating the co-axial escapement, widely regarded as the key development in watch-making over the last 8 250 years and still present in most students have quality watches today. received City Future Fund He was awarded an MBE in 1981 and Scholarships a CBE in 2010. In 2007, City University Beneficiaries of the City Future since 2012 London awarded him a Doctor of Fund. From left, Justyna Wolczyk, Science honoris causa. Duc Hoang and Zoe Rinaldi In his estate, George Daniels bequeathed substantial funds to Over the past 10 years, support On the importance of the scholarship, provide scholarships for City University from alumni and friends has Emma says: “My scholarship has London students and to benefit changed the face of student life at alleviated a great deal of pressure, City research in measurement and City University London. Last year, which has in turn reduced the burden Since 2011, instrumentation. This bequest is generous support from alumni raised on my children and allowed me space administered by the George Daniels over £83,000 for a variety of student- to engross myself in my studies. I am 16 Educational Trust. based projects around the University. so grateful to those responsible for postgraduate By donating to the Annual Fund, this support and for the helping hand students have In September 2013, City celebrated received bursaries alumni can make a real difference that has lifted so many students over to present their George Daniels’ life and legacy with to the student experience at City the years.” research at an event that featured the formal now and in the future. international renaming of the University Clock to conferences the George Daniels Clock. A plaque You can find out more about the The Cass Fund has been placed inside the entrance of Annual Fund and all of the projects Through the Student Assistance Fund, the College Building to commemorate mentioned above by visiting our the Cass Fund supports high-achieving this occasion. Following the renaming, website (www.city.ac.uk/alumni). students at Cass Business School who the inaugural George Daniels Lecture, Alternatively, please use the gift form face unexpected financial difficulty. £ entitled “Optical Atomic Clocks: enclosed to make a donation. For many recipients of bursaries light years ahead?” was delivered by from the Fund, this support is the Professor Patrick Gill of the National boost which enables them to reach 49 Physical Laboratory. The City Future Fund graduation day. Last year, all 16 students have The 2014 George Daniels Lecture will Second year student Emma Rhodes recipients either graduated or are received emergency take place on 3rd December and will embarked on her journey at City as now in their final year of study. financial support be given by Andrew King, widely a mature student, juggling family since 2011 to commitments and a commute to One 2013 recipient of a bursary from recognised as a leading authority on the Fund said, “I am very thankful enable them to Harrison Clocks. To book tickets to the London in order to pursue her complete their long-held dream of becoming a for the assistance and now after studies Lecture, please call +44 (0)20 7040 8271 Speech and Language Therapist. graduating and starting a new job, or email [email protected]. Studying full-time and raising a young I am a very active member of the Cass alumni community.” family meant Emma had to give up If you would like to find out more her job and look for other ways of Alumni donations to the Cass Fund about shaping City’s future through supporting her studies financially. have also helped to create a brand new a gift in your Will, a Trust or an Fortunately, Emma became one of state-of-the-art financial resources suite, individual donation, please contact the recipients of a City Future Fund complete with eight new Bloomberg Jennifer Palmer, Development Scholarship, worth £6,000 over the terminals, numerous new study spaces Manager: +44 (0)20 7040 5559; three years of her course. and other computer facilities. [email protected].
14 City Magazine Fundraising Brighter futures for newborn babies The Development & Alumni Relations Office at City is commencing the planning for a new campaign to fund research into pioneering technology designed to improve the life opportunities of newborn babies and young infants affected by congenital heart disease. Congenital heart disease, which refers to a range of heart conditions or defects that develop in the womb, affects up to 9 out of every 1,000 babies born in the UK. It can include holes between the chambers of the heart or incomplete formation of the heart valves. In one third of all cases, repair by surgery is required. While most infants now survive this traumatic start to life, for many, their quality of life as they grow older can be limited by the need to avoid undue stress on the heart. Until recently, it has not been possible to predict the effect of heart surgery on a child’s subsequent ability to enjoy identify bypass solutions tailored to From the early experimental work of life to the fullest. However, computer- each individual patient that will enable Professor Roger Frederick Handley Page in aeronautical based simulation models have the optimal blood supply and pumping Crouch, Dean engineering to George Daniels, who was potential to act as a powerful new efficiency post-surgery. For children of the School of one of the leading watchmakers of the tool for cardiac surgeons. born with heart defects, this may Mathematics, twentieth century, we have at our core Computer Science enable them to have the freedom to run, the ability to make a real difference. Academics from the School of & Engineering play and participate in sport at a level This research, which has the potential Mathematics, Computer Science & not previously thought possible. to transform young lives, takes current Engineering are working with leading technology to the next stage through its clinicians to develop a comprehensive The advanced modelling involved in emphasis on patient-specific features. It computational capability to simulate this research represents a new frontier will place City firmly on the map in the the complete behaviour of an infant’s in computational bioengineering, field of computational bioengineering”. heart. Led by Professor Roger Crouch, harnessing the power of high- the School’s Dean, the City research performance parallel computers, will be unique in its capacity to magnetic resonance imaging and If you would like to find out more about combine highly detailed 3D models sophisticated finite element analysis. how you can help to fund this ground- of the whole heart with computer As Professor Crouch notes, “City has breaking research, please contact Ruth simulations of blood flow. Such a model a rich history of leading where others Velenski, Head of Campaigns: +44 (0)20 will, for example, allow surgeons to follow, particularly in Engineering. 7040 5251; [email protected].
Aeronautical excellence: the BAE Systems Sir Richard Olver Chair
BAE Systems, one of the world’s Dick graduated from City in 1970 engineering and mathematics. largest defence contractors, has with a first class honours degree This Chair is a fitting way to celebrate partnered with City University in Civil Engineering and in 2004 he his work. It will benefit business London to establish the BAE was awarded a Doctor of Science and academia by providing Systems Sir Richard Olver Chair in honoris causa by the University. the opportunity to further our Aeronautical Engineering in the Before joining BAE Systems, Dick understanding of emerging School of Mathematics, Computer worked for BP for over 30 years. technologies.” Science & Engineering. The new Of the new chair, Mr Ian King, City’s aeronautical engineering Chair will honour Sir Richard (Dick) BAE Systems Chief Executive, said: courses are accredited by the Royal Olver’s contribution as Chairman of “During his time as Chairman of Aeronautical Society and the BAE Systems between 2004 and 2014 BAE Systems, Dick was a passionate Sir Dick Olver Institution of Mechanical Engineers receiving his and will support research into the supporter of the company’s objective honorary degree and the aeronautical research group ways that emerging technologies of encouraging young people to from City University is an active participant in the new can benefit aerospace design. pursue careers in science, technology, London in 2004 UK Aerospace Technology Institute.
City Magazine 15 From left, Dr David Barling, Professor Tim Lang and Professor Martin Caraher of the Centre for Food Policy
16 City Magazine Centre for Policy Food contributor:
Nicky Evans is a food journalist and alumna of City’s Department of Journalism. She has written for publications and websites including BBC Food, Time Out and Square Meal, where she is currently News and Online Editor (SquareMeal.co.uk). Food Fighters Whether they’re inspiring guerrilla gardening or grappling with governments, the academics at City University London’s Centre for Food Policy have one goal: to make food and everything associated with bringing it to our plates part of the national and international consciousness. Nicky Evans meets the three crusaders who consistently set the global food policy agenda and who have spent more than two decades hammering home the message that food matters.
The town of Todmorden, in West “I’d had enough of waiting for others to cooks turning leftover produce into Yorkshire, is a town in bloom. Herbs do something,” explains Warhurst. “I dishes to sell in the market. Once sprout from the train station platform, wanted to see what we could do to help established, it went further, obtaining fertile plots in the church cemetery people rethink the way they live and lottery funding for a ‘food hub’ at the double as raised beds and ears of corn the future environment they want for town’s high school and developing wave in the breeze outside the police their children. I decided to put food at donated land into greenfield sites. station. Wherever there’s a stretch of the heart of community, learning and So far, this resounding success story unused public land, there’s food – and business and motivate people to create has inspired more than 200 similar it’s all free to anyone passing by. change for themselves.” initiatives in Britain and worldwide. The vegetables were the first stage in a What started as guerrilla gardening Warhurst credits Professor Tim Lang, multi-faceted project masterminded by became a phenomenon that Professor of Food Policy at City’s Centre activist Pam Warhurst. Tired of waiting rejuvenated the town and its for Food Policy (CFP), as the inspiration for local government to rescue her inhabitants. Warhurst encouraged behind Incredible Edible. “In 2007, I town’s dying market and flagging high allcomers to bring their individual heard Tim remind us about the plight street, she came up with an idea to use skills to the project, with designers of the planet and future generations and the common language of food to bring creating placards to describe the food I just thought, ‘Right, that’s it’. I made her community together, branding it on offer, green-fingered locals helping the whole thing up on the train home Incredible Edible. children to grow vegetables and keen and it launched the following year.”
City Magazine 17 sustainability; his ‘food miles’ concept –
the CO2 produced by food travelling from farm to plate – drew widespread media attention in 2005 and has evolved into his current concern: sustainable diets. “How do we eat food that is good for our health and the environment?” asks Lang. “Current government advice is to eat two portions of fish a week. Where is that fish coming from? We are told to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, but we should be eating at least seven if we want to see mortality figures drop. We need to reassess land use to stop our fruit and vegetables being shipped from across the world.” All this energy and expertise has been harnessed time and again by government departments, NGOs, charities and campaign groups – from Lang’s stint as a consultant to the World Health Organisation to Caraher’s work alongside the Department of Health and Barling’s role as a council member of the campaigning charity Sustain. It all adds up to a lot of fingers in a lot of policy-flavoured pies. “There are only three of us but we are A broad remit scandal hit the papers, Lang conducted noisy – we have an impact bigger than 70 interviews in just six weeks. our sum,” says Lang. Although inspiring grass-roots projects That impact and influence can be seen in English market towns is not the Over the last decade, the Centre has all around us. Take the Cabinet Office bread and butter of the CFP, the fact brought in nearly £1 million of research Food Matters report, which was put that it played a part in the origins of grants for work that illustrates both the firmly on the public’s agenda by the Incredible Edible comes as no surprise, scope and complexity of the food policy Centre’s academics in 2008. The first considering the breadth and scale of the tapestry and the challenges we face. attempt at an integrated food policy Centre’s reach. Since moving to City in since the Second World War, it was 2002, Professors Tim Lang and Martin a document that offered practical Caraher and Dr David Barling have “We are traditional academics trying solutions to the challenges posed by become major players in UK-based and core food policy issues, including international food policy conversations, to explore what a good food system rising food prices, food waste and sitting on advisory boards; working diet-related ill health. The report would with government, industry and NGOs is and holding up a mirror to society go on to inform the Department for to establish policy frameworks; and Environment, Food & Rural Affairs’ giving speeches about their research to ask, ‘Is this what you want?’” Food 2030 strategy, which aimed to at international conferences. Their address the long-term sustainability manifesto is ecological public health: Caraher has dedicated much of his of the UK’s food system. looking at the food chain in its broadest career to children’s health, including sense and the impact each aspect has research around school meals and Andrew Opie, Food and Sustainability on public health and the environment. cooking in schools; the start of this year Director at the British Retail Consortium, which represents the “We are traditional academics trying saw him author a report addressing interests of British businesses, to explore what a good food system childhood obesity, which mapped the witnessed Lang and Barling at work is and holding up a mirror to society fast-food outlets around two secondary when they were part of the government to ask, ‘Is this what you want?’”, says schools in Tower Hamlets. steering group that created the Food Lang. What this means in practice is Barling, meanwhile, explores food Matters report. He credits the CFP for that whenever there’s a food and public governance policies, covering issues its creation. health story – be it the fallout from last from supply-chain management year’s horsemeat scandal, chef Jamie and traceability to food waste. He “Food Matters was very much a group Oliver’s crusade to improve school is currently involved in three pan- effort, but the CFP’s big achievement dinners, debates about the quality of was putting forward the need for such European projects including SENSE, hospital food, childhood obesity and a document in the first place,” he says. which helps small and medium-sized even edible towns in Yorkshire – the “The CFP was one of the first groups food businesses assess and improve CFP’s academics are likely to have been talking about the need for a more their environmental impact. involved. They are also likely to be joined-up food policy strategy and barraged by media requests for quotes Lang is perhaps best known for arguing that food covers a lot more than and analysis: when the horsemeat his research into food security and just agriculture or food legislation.”
18 City Magazine Centre for Policy Food High stakes open up again through another door. Professor Andrew Jones, Dean of the We always look at the big picture.” University’s School of Arts & Social When it comes to food policy, there Sciences, certainly thinks so. “The CFP Part of this bigger picture involves is much at stake, not least for the is a truly world-leading centre which planning for the future and this means food industry, where “big money goes from strength to strength,” he nurturing the next generation of food and big vested interests” are at play, says. “It is no exaggeration to say that according to Lang. As he encourages colleagues within the Centre have been government to rethink the issues “There are only three of us but we responsible for developing the whole around sustainable diets, big field of food policy on a global stage business is anticipating the potential are noisy – we have an impact and have propelled City to the forefront consequences new policy could have – of global policy debate in this area.” and using the CFP’s expertise. bigger than our sum.” Despite their impact on the policy “The CFP helps to identify issues and landscape and their contribution find solutions that lead to private activists, many of whom go on to to the long-term rise in interest in sector initiatives or policy framework fill advocacy roles at NGOs, take up food matters in Britain, the academics conversations,” says David Croft, policy-related positions within the are wary of thinking about their place Director of Quality and Technical at private sector, or continue academic in history. Waitrose. “The Centre helped us to research. The department welcomed 43 “We are in no place to talk about assess the long-term sustainability of postgraduate students in 2013 from all legacy,” says Lang. “We are too fish populations. All of our fish comes over the world: three times the number focused on the future. Britain is a from sustainable sources, but by 2015 it who enrolled when the Centre first divided society and the food sector will be fully third-party certified, which opened at City. illustrates that we face rapidly growing will ensure fish stocks are maintained “Tim, Martin and David are the rich-world hunger, a food system that’s in the long term. Tim’s insight into seed-bed of the next generation of appalling in its land use and a massive these issues and how policy might well-informed food policists,” says impact from diet-related diseases. develop from them makes it easier for Opie. “They are taking the next I’m looking to the future. That’s why businesses like ours to invest large generation forward.” young people come to study with us sums of money in the future.” from all over the world: we are asking Navigating these choppy waters requires the right questions.” a steady hand, especially when the A world-class reputation They are also inspiring non-policists, academics’ message might not be what They also supervise PhD students: one like Warhurst, to question convention of Barling’s current PhD candidates everyone in the room wants to hear. and, more importantly, to take action. is studying urban food strategies at However, those on the business side of “I had long had concerns about City as part of PUREFOOD, a Marie the table say the CFP’s self-proclaimed sleep-walking into an environmental Curie-sponsored training programme “firm but acceptable critics” are disaster,” she says. “Tim boldly which awarded the CFP a €250,000 constructive networkers. “The way challenged the status quo from the grant. In 2012, he negotiated co-funding they approach problems and the fact stage. Bingo: the damascene moment for a City Masters student to compare that they have personal-level dealings just happened and I thought, ‘I’m Australia’s National Food Plan with with many people in the industry not a world leader, I’m not a national British policies formulated as part of means that they get more access than champion for the environment, but Food Matters and Food 2030. It is telling they would otherwise do,” says Opie. I’ll have a go if no one else will’. The that the other organisation funding her “Their approach helps them sell both rest is history. I guess there was a bit research is Australia’s national research themselves and the University.” Croft of serendipity in the air that day.” agrees. “By discussing important body, the Commonwealth Scientific subjects with passion, commitment and and Industrial Research Organisation intelligence and in ways that are relevant in Sydney, which had been impressed Graduates of the Centre for Food Policy to their audience, Tim, David and Martin by a keynote speech Barling gave at its have recently established an alumni influence people very effectively.” international conference. group. To find out more about talks and events, join the Centre for Food Policy, Having dedicated their careers to food Such global reach and the fact that City University London LinkedIn group. policy issues, it is no surprise that the the CFP’s reputation precedes it in academics focus steadfastly on the international policy circles, means bigger picture. Governments come and that the Centre is a beacon for the go, shaking up the policy landscape University’s worldwide reputation. as they pass through, meaning policy “We have a symbiotic relationship changes the Centre has achieved with City,” says Barling. “We have during one political era can be reversed grown with City over the years and as in the next. This happened with Food the University has become stronger, Matters: the report’s recommendations so have we.” were implemented in part by the last Government but shelved under the Lang agrees that the CFP found a good home at City. “The University has been current administration. fantastic. It took a risk on us 13 years “There are frustrations, but the nature ago, when food policy and the questions of policy is twist and turn,” says we were asking were seen as radical. Barling. “It can be an incremental City gave us headroom and the space process much of the time. There are a to ask awkward questions. We like to lot of dead ends, but opportunities can think that risk has been paid back.”
City Magazine 19 In this year’s edition of Five to Watch, we meet recent graduates going places in the worlds of technology, sport, healthcare, 5 broadcasting and entrepreneurship. Emma towatch Barnes
BSc Speech and Language Therapy, 2012 Since leaving City, Emma has been able to combine her passion for campaigning and Philip political influencing with her love for speech and language therapy and desire to help others. She works at the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, running the Whitehall Giving Voice campaign, a UK-wide initiative to raise awareness of speech and language BSc (Hons) Computer Science with therapy and communication difficulties. Games Technology, 2011 She emphasises how important it was for Philip is a Software Engineer at the BBC, her career to develop her campaigning skills responsible for the development of the through her work as a part-time officer on news website of one of the most prestigious the Students’ Union Executive Committee. broadcasters in the world. His career in In her final year at City, she was awarded the broadcasting and web development started Outstanding Contribution to the Students’ in 2006 when he was involved in online Union award and a Silver Carrot award for radio broadcasting through Radio Nintendo, contribution to student experience. where he produced live shows. He later went on to create XiinEngine, a platform Emma says: “The support that lecturers for web development. and staff at the Students’ Union gave me to combine a challenging degree with a busy Philip’s freelance work allowed him to refine Union role was invaluable in helping me to his skills as a developer and his time at City gain the skills I needed to be a campaigner.” was also crucial for his career. He says: “City really helped me craft my career path, thanks “Find out what you are passionate about to the Professional Liaison Unit and the and shout about it, use extra-curricular wide array of modules available. The skills I opportunities and get involved with acquired opened up many job opportunities everything happening at City” is Emma’s after I graduated. My degree helped me with advice to City students preparing for soft skills, like interacting with people and graduation and their professional lives. also with critical architecting skills.” Commenting about his future ambitions Philip says: “I want to make a big impact in either the software or broadcasting world. Both mean a lot to me and I want to be involved with these ideas at a higher level in the future.” He expects that his next big step will be to become a product manager, either within a large organisation or working independently.
20 City Magazine Five to watch watch to Five
Lanre Anne Oyebanjo BSc (Hons) Mathematics Jason Faber and Finance, 2013 Lanre is a professional footballer who MA Television Current Affairs combined his degree in Mathematics and Anastasinis Journalism, 2008 Finance, during his first year at City, with his training sessions at York City FC. In his first MSc Management, Anne Faber began her journey in food season the club won the FA Trophy and gained 2009 journalism when, during her time at City, she promotion to the Sky Bet League Two in a play- After graduating from Cass Business School took an internship at ITV’s Saturday Cooks. off final at Wembley Stadium. In June2014 he in 2009, Jason faced a challenging decision: After graduating she worked at Associated Press joined League One side Crawley Town FC. for over two years before she decided to pursue whether to join a major company and fight his her real passion: food journalism. His job as a footballer involves training four way up the corporate ladder or channel his times a week, competing in matches once or energies and passion into building his own On her internship experience, she comments: twice a week and, in the days leading up to a company. He chose the latter. “City was a great stepping stone. The internship game, analysing the opposition and working In April 2012, after a couple of years of gave me a real insight into the industry and also on tactics and formation. Lanre says: “What researching the travel market and using his got me my first job. It was the perfect placement! I enjoy most about my job is the whole match- educational experience, he launched his Who could have known that, five years later, day experience. Running onto the pitch and online company: TravelStaytion. The company I’d have my own cooking show?” hearing the fans roar gets my adrenaline is a letting and holiday rental website that pumping. This is where all the week’s training Anne became a regular freelancer for Time within its first month managed to feature comes into action and where everything Out’s Food & Drink section, worked for German more than 2,000 properties across Europe. really counts.” television channels and has been writing her In the early days Jason benefited from using food blog “Anne’s Kitchen” since 2010. In 2012 Completing his degree at City allowed Lanre the incubation facilities offered by the Cass she was commissioned to write a cookery book to reinforce his abilities to be organised, Entrepreneurship Fund. With this support, and she also pitched an accompanying television disciplined and focused when taking on he was able to start operating his company in programme to a broadcaster in Luxembourg. In new challenges and achieving results. He London and employ seven members of staff, 2013 the channel commissioned her show for also feels that having a degree will help him three based in London and four in Greece. two years and Anne’s ultimate dream is for the when he retires from football. Talking about show to be adapted and broadcast to German his ambitions he says: “I aspire to play at the Jason’s favourite part of his job is to travel television audiences. highest level possible and become the best around the world, getting to know new footballer that I can be.” cultures. That way, his company can offer Commenting on what she loves about her job, the best service for holiday makers looking Anne says: “I love waking up every day and for accommodation, as well as attracting knowing that whatever I’m doing, I’m doing suitable property owners. “Every day feels it for myself. I really enjoy the full spectrum like a trip for me and for the team. They of the creative process, from coming up with provide the local feel for each destination recipes to cooking, styling and photographing we cover around the world.” the final dish and writing little stories to accompany my recipes.”
City Magazine 21 Opening doors to higher education
A student journey Research into Widening Participation collated by the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) points to the importance of “consistent and sustained interventions” that “start early and engage young people at different stages of their educational career.” For a student at one of the schools City works with (and there are over 150), engagement might start when he is 9 or 10, with a visit to the University’s campus. Once he enters secondary school, he might benefit from the support of a mathematics tutor to help him improve his attainment. Careers workshops, led by a City careers advisor and held in his school, could help him to identify his strengths and interests, attendance at a City Masterclass would offer insight into his chosen subject and a financial literacy workshop would help him understand the financial support available to students entering higher education. By the time he enters his final year of school, he should have the information to make a balanced, realistic decision about his future.
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Fifty years ago, the Robbins Report asserted that university degrees contributor:
‘should be available to all who are qualified by ability and attainment to Joanna McGarry is Publications pursue them and who wish to do so’. The Report’s recommendations Officer at City and the Editor of City heralded an era of expansion of higher education, but today, concerns Magazine. remain that a student’s background can still affect his or her decision to attend university. Joanna McGarry asks what it means to widen In a darkened seminar room in the participation in 2014. College Building, 15 captivated faces are glued to the projector screen as a thrilling car chase plays on screen and Metallica booms across the audio system. When the clip comes to an end, Dr Diana Salazar, Lecturer in Music at City, composer and sound artist, restarts it, but the music has now changed to a jaunty polka, giving the car chase an almost comical feel. Some of the students giggle, but the example has perfectly demonstrated the importance of synergy between music and visuals. The clips provoke an animated discussion of film composition and the way that music can contribute to the emotion and direction of cinematography. The film composition workshop is one of a series of events organised as part of a Music Taster Week at City for 14 and 15 year olds and it offers just a snapshot of five days in the life of one of the hardest working teams at City. Danielle Russo, Head of Widening Participation, explains more: “We run events for students at primary and secondary schools in London. One day, we might have a group of Year six students (ages 10 to 11) visiting the University and the next might involve a Law Masterclass for Year 12 students (ages 16 to 17), led by City academics and students.” The ultimate goal of the Widening Participation team is to ensure that bright and capable students who face barriers to higher education have the resources and support they need to make an informed decisions about their future.
Overcoming barriers The students that Danielle and her team meet confront a variety of challenges. Typically, their parents or siblings might not have attended university and they will study at a school where few students progress to higher education. These issues might be compounded by economic factors: students may come from neighbourhoods with low average incomes and they may be entitled to free school meals. ‘Looked- after’ students – those leaving the care of local authorities at the age of 18 – also benefit from Widening
City Magazine 23 Participation support, as do students with disabilities. In equipping these students with information about higher education, Danielle emphasises the importance of a joined-up approach. “Tutoring is a big part of what we do. City student ambassadors visit schools each week to support individuals or small groups of students in their learning.” The success of the tutoring scheme in raising academic standards is manifest: at City of London Academy Islington, 30 City mathematics tutors contributed to record success rates in 2013 GCSE results. For students, contact with a City tutor can be the first step towards greater engagement with the University’s other outreach activities (see inset box on page 22). It can also offer something less tangible: the chance to simply talk about what university is like and answer begun their careers.” Danielle agrees: universities and Colleges of Advanced questions that will be familiar to anyone “We emphasise that tuition fees should Technology and Education were who recalls their teenage years: will I From left, Sharmin be one of several factors to consider Kamaly, Widening granted the power to award degrees. fit in? Are there other people like me? when deciding whether to apply to Participation Am I clever enough? Though Robbins foresaw the increase university, but they should not be the Projects Officer and Danielle Russo, in student numbers that this shift deciding factor.” For students from low Head of Widening would cause, it is doubtful that even income backgrounds, organisations Financial fears Participation he could have envisioned the steady like SEO London and university-based Since 2012, another question has been rise in student numbers that continues teams like Danielle’s play a critical added to this list: can I afford to go? to this day. The commitment to access role in helping students balance their The introduction of tuition fees of up for all transcends political party lines: financial concerns with an awareness to £9,000 for undergraduate study in in 1999, Tony Blair committed his of the benefits of higher education England is a concern for many of the government to a target of 50 per cent of and recognition of their own capacity students who participate in Widening young adults in higher education and to succeed. Participation initiatives. For SEO in 2015, the current government plans London, an organisation that works to lift all student number controls, to support young people from under- Supply and demand leaving universities free for the first represented backgrounds as they move time to accept as many qualified Of course, Widening Participation into higher education, the key is to students as they choose. initiatives can only be effective if provide information and break down places are available for all students misconceptions. “In everything we who are capable of attending university do, we emphasise that barriers can The future and wish to do so. This issue was at be overcome,” says Nishma Chauhan, The economic, social and political the heart of Lord Robbins’ landmark SEO Scholars Programme Manager. debates that have shaped access to ‘Higher Education Report’ in 1963. “So in the case of tuition fees, we share higher education for the past fifty When he began his research in 1961, details on scholarships and bursaries years are absent from the Music Taster just four per cent of school leavers and we also ensure that our Scholars Week, where, after a trip to City’s entered university, despite the fact that understand that fees are paid back over Department of Music and lunch with increased secondary school provision a long period of time, once they have student ambassadors, participants in the post-war period meant that depart for a guided tour of the O2 arena more students than ever before were in Greenwich. But Robbins would surely “qualified by ability and attainment.” approve of the scene: bright, capable The Report emphasised the impact of Robbins and City students learning, experimenting and educational, familial and economic testing the waters of higher education One of the main recommendations backgrounds in determining which for the first time. of the Robbins Report was to students progressed to university, remove the “artificial differences of roundly rejecting the argument status” between colleges, institutes that it was possible to “ascertain an and universities. Just three years intelligence factor unaffected For universities today, the commitment after the Report’s publication, this by education or background.” to supporting students does not end recommendation would have profound when they reach their goals and secure Robbins recommended that higher consequences for students and staff at a place at university. the Northampton College of Advanced education should be dramatically Technology, when a Royal Charter expanded to redress the imbalance The Professional Mentoring Scheme at granted it university status and it between demand and supply and to City has helped hundreds of students became The City University (now City open doors to university for students from non-traditional educational University London). regardless of background. More places backgrounds to excel. Find out more were made available at established about the Scheme on page 28.
24 City Magazine Professional Development Professional Continuing your journey at City City has a long-standing reputation for excellence in part-time evening and weekend courses and in 2013/14, over 4,000 people joined us to learn new professional skills and further their careers.
City’s commitment to education held once a week in the evening. Some “I have been cover a broad range of topics in for business and the professions courses include weekend visits, or the fields of nursing, radiography, dates back to the University’s earliest take place entirely at weekends. Many inspired and midwifery, optometry, health days as the Northampton Institute, subjects, including languages and motivated, I management and leadership and when it was founded to train young computing, are offered at several levels, have learnt speech, language and communication. men and women from Clerkenwell in allowing students to progress over The City Law School offers a broad key skills required by the industries several terms. to carve out range of courses and skills workshops of the borough, from horology to moments for and it also regularly develops bespoke domestic economy. writing and my in-house training for companies Continuing Professional and organisations. Cass Executive As City’s neighbourhood has evolved imagination has Education employs a variety of since 1894, so has its professional Development and Executive innovative learning methods in its educational provision: with Tech City, been awakened. Education provision of research-led professional the City of London and Gray’s Inn on I loved this Through City’s Continuing Professional education in business, finance and our doorstep, our courses encompass Development (CPD) and Executive course!” management. business and law, computing, Education provision, those working languages and translation. Part-time Claire Green, in the legal, healthcare, business and evening students also benefit from and translation sectors can develop Writing for For more information about the University’s expertise in the creative and broaden their professional Children, 2013 short courses, please visit industries, with short courses in event skills, benefiting from the expertise www.cityshortcourses.com. management, film making and writing. of academic staff at the University. For information about Continuing Students may undertake modules on Professional Development courses Short courses a stand-alone basis, or accumulate in Law, Health and Translation, credit towards an undergraduate or City’s suite of over 120 short courses visit www.city.ac.uk/courses/cpd. postgraduate qualification. is designed with busy professionals To find out more about Cass in mind. Courses begin each term and In the School of Health Sciences, Executive Education, visit mostly consist of ten two-hour classes, short CPD courses and workshops www.cass.city.ac.uk.
City Magazine 25 Learning to lead In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, leaders and leadership in the business world came under greater scrutiny than ever before. Jeremy Hazlehurst explores how innovative approaches to education at Cass Business School are equipping today’s leaders for a dramatically different landscape.
From left, Professor Cliff Oswick, Deputy Dean of Cass Business School and Head of the Faculty of Management; Dr JoEllyn Prouty McLaren, CEO, Cass Executive Education and Professor Bobby Banerjee, Professor of Management
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Jeremy Hazlehurst is a freelance business writer. He has written for Management Today, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.
Arguably the most extraordinary moment in the whole of the financial crisis that exploded five years ago came in the House of Commons Select Committee of 10th February 2009. MPs asked Sir Tom McKillip and Fred Goodwin, the former chairman and CEO of The Royal Bank of Scotland, and the leaders of HBOS, Andy Hornby and Lord Stevenson, whether they – the men who had presided over the collapse of both banks – had any formal banking qualifications. Between them, they did not have a single such qualification. Given their seniority, the revelation prompted incredulity among politicians and the wider public. This moment, perhaps more than any other, cemented the idea that the crisis was caused by a failure of leadership. Almost all business disasters can be traced to a leadership problem. When BP spilled billions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Chief Executive Tony Heyward got the blame, and the sack. When it transpired that Enron was crooked, CEO Jeff Skilling and founder Kenneth Lay were found to be responsible. Windows’ recent poor performance has been blamed on boss Steve Ballmer and over at Apple all eyes are on CEO Tim Cook. Can he fill Steve Jobs’ shoes? When things go wrong people rarely blame a firm’s culture, or the shareholders’ unreasonable expectations. They blame the leader. And when things go right, they put the credit squarely on the shoulder of the leader. Leadership matters and it’s no surprise that it is central to research and education at Cass Business School and other institutions around the world. But how have the lessons of the 2008 crisis affected leadership education?
City Magazine 27 How can business schools do their bit he adds. Novelties such as internal the education is to hand when it is to make sure this generation of leaders crowdsourcing are taking off in some most needed, which is why at Cass avoids the disasters of the past? Can industries and hierarchies are being Business School, executive education they become part of the solution and replaced by networks. In future the is increasingly being delivered in a not part of the problem (see inset box)? best leaders might well “fly under the “blended” way, with a mix of face- radar, because they are not looking to-face, on-site courses, and remote, for attention. They are engaged with technology-enhanced learning. Values and culture the business,” says Oswick. This allows busy professionals who The first way to look at these questions This raises another interesting line might not be able to spend time is to look at the type of leadership of enquiry: are leaders actually all thoughtfully working their way that is taught. According to Professor that important? And were they ever through a long course to still dip into Cliff Oswick, Head of the Faculty of as important as the hype suggested? business education when they need Management and Deputy Dean of Cass Professor Bobby Banerjee, Professor to, allowing them to stay up-to-date Business School, leadership education of Management at Cass, says that with best practice and new thinking. has changed in two main ways. “First, “the more we talk about individual there is more values-based leadership, “Executives benefit from moving to a wrong-doers or do-gooders, the more which is about authentic leadership; blended format,” says Dr JoEllyn Prouty we obscure what was systematically understanding what’s right and wrong McLaren, CEO of Executive Education wrong” during the years leading up to and doing the right thing,” he says. at Cass Business School. “But the trick the financial crisis, meaning among He adds that this has “a strong ethical is to find the right approach for the other things “the short-termism and strand to it and aims to set strong right experience and the right outcome the obsession with growth at any ethical lines and ensure the leader at the right time.” But that is not the cost.” He adds that the whole idea of adheres to those values.” same for everybody. “The willingness the leader is a Western one. There is, to do things virtually drops the The second change is that people are he says, a “guru mentality” around further you go up the hierarchy in the thinking more deeply about the notion the usually white, usually male organisational chart,” Prouty McLaren of leadership and how it should be CEO that is almost cultish and the points out. undertaken. There is a move away dominant business culture tends to from the idea of “great leaders” and ignore complex things like a firm’s So what can be done remotely, and “rock-star CEOs.” Those charismatic philosophy, its management structure, what is best done face-to-face? leaders who make all the decisions the demands of shareholders or “Enterprise activities and preparatory are hard to challenge. even whether its products are any work are typically acceptable for good. Instead, there is a tendency to online activity; while relationship- Cass Business School is focusing on simply attribute credit or blame to the building and discussions tend to be “leadership rather than leaders,” says figurehead at the top, no matter what reserved for face-to-face,’ says Prouty Oswick. Different types of decisions the truth. McLaren. “However, if organisations might be best made in different ways. are more technically savvy, they can If a budget needs to be cut, the boss Leaders are less important than the use new learning platforms to facilitate might have to do that alone. But cultures they work in, goes this line of discussions and the socialisation of when it comes to allocating resources, enquiry and many of the failed leaders content virtually.” everyone can, and should, be involved. who emerged during the crisis were “So it’s a shared responsibility, at the head of macho organisations Blended approaches, says Prouty rather than a single responsibility,” with a leadership style that was both McLaren, are most in demand Oswick says. autocratic and hands-off, meaning from “talent development-driven they would tell people what to do, organisations.” She goes on: “They “Engaging a broader range of then pay little attention to what they know intuitively that development is stakeholders means higher-quality subsequently did. one of the most critical talent magnets decisions. We are seeing a move an employer has. The more they can towards more democratic and All of this means that some business offer great learning and development participative forms of leadership,” schools have not produced managers, to the entire organisation, the better but rather people who can use their employer brand will be and the models. There is a need to ensure better their talent will be aligned.” that leaders understand the ethical Part of the problem? dimension of their jobs, which is one Leadership has always been one Post-2008, many argued that business reason why Banerjee and others were of the most important fields of schools, in placing too much emphasis asked to set up the ETHOS Centre for education and research in business on the importance of making money Responsible Enterprise at Cass, whose and the failures of recent years have for shareholders, bore a share of the aim is to encourage “responsibility, spurred new recognition of the critical blame for the financial crisis. Such an sustainability and good governance” role that business schools play. emphasis, the argument followed, had among business leaders. Understanding the nature, promise led business leaders to abandon their and limitations of leadership is scruples in the headlong pursuit of critical, but research is just part of profit, encouraging them to ignore the Delivering innovation the solution. As the Cass experience messy realities of the world in favour of The second way to address the question shows, innovative approaches to the bottom line. Articles in the Harvard of how leadership education has learning, which allow busy leaders Business Review, the New York Times changed is to ask how the courses to access knowledge and benefit and The Times shone an unprecedented are actually being delivered. If from academic expertise, is equally spotlight on the role and mission of business schools are to educate key, if tomorrow’s leaders are to be a business schools. effective21 st century leaders, they better-rounded and more thoughtful have a responsibility to ensure that group of men and women.
28 City Magazine Professional Mentoring Professional City’s Professional Mentoring Scheme is one of the University’s outstanding success stories: in the 2013/14 academic year, over 325 students benefited from relationships with mentors united by their commitment to support, encourage and inspire. Here, we talk to Professional Mentoring Leader Thalia Anagnostopoulou and overleaf, we meet four of the Scheme’s stars. City alumni inspiring success
Ask a group of mentors why they give “I think mentors feel quite a connection their time to the City Professional to the University and to each cohort of From left, Mentoring Scheme, now in its 12th year, students, not just their own mentee. Taryn Ferris, and you should be prepared to receive We see mentors interacting through Professional an array of answers. For some, the our social media channels, attending Mentoring Co-ordinator deciding factor might be a desire to help our networking events and often and Thalia students facing a highly competitive employing students from the Scheme: Anagnostopoulou, employment market, in which their involvement makes a huge Professional professional skills and knowledge are difference to its success.” Mentoring Leader increasingly important. For others, In 2013/14, over 60 per cent of mentors the chance to share the lessons they were City graduates, but the role of have learnt over the course of their City’s Alumni Network does not end career might be what appeals: many there. Indeed, the expansion of the Could you mentor a emphasise the difference they feel a Professional Mentoring Scheme – mentor would have made to their own current City student? which has seen the number of pairs experience of university. Others still grow from just 20 in 2007 to a projected Inspiring, dedicated mentors are might emphasise how much they learn 500 in 2014/15 – would have been crucial to the success of the Mentoring and gain from the mentoring process impossible without the financial Scheme at City. and from the students with whom they support of donors to City’s Future are partnered. Mentors, supported by the Fund. “In 2012, we were able to bring Professional Mentoring team, can There are, then, probably as many Taryn on board thanks to donations contribute immeasurably to the answers as there are mentors. What to the City Future Fund,” says Thalia. personal, professional and academic is apparent, however, is the degree of “This year, we piloted a postgraduate development of their mentees, while loyalty that mentors feel towards the strand, which we plan to develop in helping them to build their confidence Scheme and the belief they have in 2014/15. We’ve also been able to offer and plan their futures. its capacity to develop and empower more rigorous support to mentors and students. There is no greater indication mentees through their journey, which If you would like to find out more about of this than the fact that so many I’m delighted about”. becoming a mentor, Thalia and Taryn mentors return, year after year. Of would be delighted to hear from you. the 312 mentors in 2013/14, 54 per Please email professionalmentoring@ cent have been involved in previous For more information about the City city.ac.uk or call +44 (0)20 7040 0288 years. As Thalia explains, many Future Fund, which provides funding mentors consistently go beyond the for the Mentoring Scheme, please turn commitment they make to their mentee: to page 14.
City Magazine 29 Kerina Richards BSc HONS PSYCHOLOGY, Kerina is a Financial Adjudicator at the Financial Ombudsman Service. At present, she is responsible for resolving nancial complaints relating to the mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI). During her time at City, Kerina was part of an early cohort of mentees in the Mentoring Scheme. In she became a mentor for the rst time. “ When I started at City I wanted to become a clinical psychologist, but as time went on, I found that I was more drawn to the business world. Participating in the Mentor Scheme as a mentee was transformative: my mentor helped me clarify my interests, she gave me the courage to change direction and she emphasised the importance of networking.” “ I graduated from City when the economy was weak and many companies weren’t hiring recent graduates. Initially I worked in sales, ultimately managing a team of people, before starting my current job in . I have packed in a lot since I graduated: that was part of the reason I felt I could give something back to the Mentoring Scheme and current students.” “ When I returned to City as a mentor, I was amazed at how much the Scheme had grown. I think that the Scheme works really well in bridging the gap between university and professional life and helping students stand out as they enter the employment market.”
Steven Adams BSc HONS MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, Steven is a consultant who advises organisations on subjects including business strategy, process re- engineering and quality planning. Until , he worked at the Ford Motor Company in a variety of executive roles around the world. Steven’s relationship with Ford began at City, when he gained industry experience there as part of his ‘sandwich’ degree. “ When I le Ford a er nearly years, I looked around for projects that I had previously not had time to do. An email from the City Alumni Relations team inviting people to join the Mentoring Scheme came at just the right time: I replied asking whether I might be of use and within minutes a response of ‘yes!’ landed in my inbox.” “ I have mentored four Engineering students in the last three years and I’m now proud to consider each of them as friends. I’ve watched them develop in di erent ways and I am so pleased to have played a small part in that process.” “ Today’s graduates are entering a competitive marketplace and the engineering sector is no exception. Participating in the Mentoring Scheme allows students to develop the attributes that will help them stand out in a crowd and have the con dence to aim high.”
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There is no better reward for helping them along the way.” worked with have, without exception, been superb: dedicated, ambitious, gracious hard-working.” and worked with have, without exception, been superb: dedicated, ambitious, gracious hard-working.” and MAMA PROPERTY PROPERTY VALUATION VALUATION AND AND LAW, LAW, “ There is no xed formulaThere for is no success “ and every mentor/ Time,Time, encouragement encouragement““ and and honest honest feedback feedback can can have have profound profound LaurenceLaurence Jones Jones LaurenceLaurence completed completed his his MA MA at at Cass Cass Business Business School School part-timepart-time while while working working for for niche niche retail retail agency agency practicepractice Dalgleish. Dalgleish. 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Whether it is internships and preparing multiple applications. Whether it is juggle their studies and home life with the pressures of getting juggle their studies and home life with the pressures of getting o en enough to secureo a graduate job, but now students have to o en enough to secureo a graduate job, but now students have to today face real challenges: when I was a student, good grades were today face real challenges: when I was a student, good grades were “ One of the reasons“ I became a mentor isbecause I think graduates “ One of the reasons“ I became a mentor isbecause I think graduates as I see it is building con asdence.” I see it is building con as I see it is building con asdence.” I see it is building con and what they are capable of achieving. A big part of the mentoring role and what they are capable of achieving. 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She joined Moonlight Media in My degree at City“ was quite technical, but at an early stage in my career, I realised AllaAlla Lapidus Lapidus AllaAlla is is a Director a Director of of Moonlight Moonlight Media, Media, a public a public relations relations agency agency that thatnancialnancial specialises specialises in in tradingtrading and anderer technology. technology. graduating graduating from from A A City, City, Alla Alla worked worked in inthe the development development ofof trading trading room room applications applications before before moving moving into into technology technology product product management, management, marketing and public relations. She joined Moonlight Media in “ My degree at City“ was quite technical, but at an early stage in my career, I realised Painting the bigger picture
From left, Professor Jo Wood, Alex Kachkaev, Professor Jason Dykes and Dr Aidan Slingsby
The giCentre at City has worked with The old adage maintains that “a picture as it managed to accumulate in its entire paints a thousand words”, but for history to 2003, visualisation represents partners including Transport for London, Professor of Visualisation Jason Dykes, a powerful tool for governments, part of the challenge for the emerging companies and individuals alike. the Ministry of Defence and Nokia to help discipline of information visualisation is showing just how powerful an image them make sense of their data through can be. “When we are trying to make A collaborative approach interactive, creative and elegant information sense of data, we are more accustomed A recent partnership with E.ON, one to dealing with numbers. However, a of the UK’s leading energy providers, visualisations. The giCentre recently turned visual representation of data can often provides an example of how the be much more successful than a set giCentre’s techniques help businesses its attention to energy, allowing one leading of numbers in helping us recognise establish what they can do with patterns, place data into a wider context their data. The UK Government has supplier to prepare for an approaching data of time and space and solve problems.” committed to installing smart meters, revolution in the sector. In a world where humanity now which give real-time feedback on produces as much raw data in 48 hours energy usage to users and suppliers,
32 City Magazine giCentre in every home by 2020. For suppliers, Global reach (Human Terrain Analysis) through the real-time readings generated by visualisations. Indeed, the giCentre’s smart meter technology will provide As befits a group of academics whose work is by no means limited to human more data than ever before about backgrounds are predominantly in activity: recent projects, led by Dr energy consumption. The giCentre the field of geography, the giCentre is Aidan Slingsby, involved collaboration worked with E.ON’s energy analysts to embedded within a global network of with animal ecologists to design and develop four visualisation prototypes data visualisation experts. The E.ON implement visualisation techniques (using sample data from a group of 100 project was undertaken in partnership to understand the daily movements homes) that would show peaks and with the IMDEA Energy Institute of seabirds and the migratory troughs in daily demand, compare in Spain and the giCentre regularly characteristics of geese as these modelled to optimised solutions (to collaborates with other leading data birds move through time and space. visualisation groups in countries demonstrate, for example, the impact For Dykes, who will chair IEEE of energy-saving technologies), including France, Germany, Japan, the United States and Australia. In Information Visualisation, the pre- group consumption by appliance and March 2014, the giCentre was awarded eminent conference for visualisation identify trends and anomalies. The €500,000 of EU funding to explore researchers and practitioners at the visualisations offered E.ON a snapshot the potential for the use of visualisation end of 2014, some of the “big questions” of how it might harness the power in criminal intelligence analysis, part dominating the discipline at present of its data in the smart home era. of a wider €13 million VALCRI project relate to how visualisation can reflect The E.ON project is a case study involving 18 other European partners. uncertainty: both the measured and in the collaborative approach that immeasurable unknowns present That the VALCRI project – which will characterises the giCentre and is crucial in data sets that can be so key to our involve mapping data of different to its success. At a micro level, three interpretation and use of data. There types and from different sources to giCentre academics were involved is also increasing interest in personal help intelligence analysts develop in designing and developing the visualisation, with the advent of smart hypotheses and establish narratives prototypes along with PhD students watches and other trackers that can – sits alongside the E.ON project in Iain Dillingham and Alex Kachkaev The Demand monitor our lives, from our sleep to our the giCentre stable is an indication Horizons prototype (pictured), while Sarah Goodwin, blood pressure, heart rate and physical of the applicability of visualisation pictured here shows who is also studying for a PhD in activity, presenting new challenges in techniques across the breadth of daily consumption visualization, was involved in design by device through how we convey ever greater volumes human activity. Some of the giCentre’s a dynamic interface. of data in our daily activity. workshops and design specification best-known work uses Transport for and coordinated much of the activity. Daily patterns can London’s data on the Cycle Hire Scheme be compared and the They worked closely with colleagues to map travel patterns in the capital, effects of possible from elsewhere at City: Dr Sara Jones, while other projects have explored energy savings on To find out more about the giCentre, visit together with PhD student Graham voter bias in London local elections overall demand, www.gicentre.net. To watch a video of Dove and Research Fellow Alison due to behaviour and involved working with the change or more the E.ON visualisation prototypes, visit Duffy from the Centre for Creativity Ministry of Defence to help the www.city.ac.uk/2014citymagazine/ in Professional Practice coordinated efficient devices, military understand local populations can be explored. gicentre. creativity and evaluation workshops through which design needs and possibilities were established; while the energy consumption modelling generated by Dr Veselin Rakocevic of the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering formed the basis for some of the visualisations. Collaboration was also at the heart of the relationship between E.ON and the giCentre. “With all our end-users, the building of relationships and the establishment of trust is crucial,” explains Dykes. “In our requirements workshop, the City academics worked in partnership with the E.ON energy analysts to establish, through a variety of creative techniques, how visualisation could help the analysts make use of what initially seemed to them to be unmanageable data.” For the giCentre, one measure of success is when end-users begin to see how visualisations can help them answer existing questions using their data. But a more important sign of a “job well done” is when visualisations lead partners to ask more sophisticated questions and begin to re-shape business practice by seeking answers to these.
City Magazine 33 Mumbai calling
The Department of Culture & Creative Industries has been educating in the field of cultural and arts management for 40 years. Alumna Shireen Gandhy (MA Arts Administration, contributor: 1987) talks to Professor Andy Pratt of the Department Professor Andy Pratt is an internationally renowned scholar in the field and a policy about her time at City and her work as Director of Gallery advisor to UNESCO. He joined the Department of Culture & Creative Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai. Industries at City in 2013.
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Gallery Chemould was founded in 1963 Then comes the actual exhibition people and even after 25 years I still by Kekoo and Khorshed Gandhy and planning – reaching out to the press, maintain those contacts. over the course of its fifty-year history, designing the brochure, designing the it has represented major artists in exhibition and finally setting up and What are some of the challenges India’s modernist and contemporary presenting the exhibition. of running an art gallery in art movements. In 1988, following her On the other side you then have the Mumbai? Is your work changing year at City, Shireen Gandhy joined “marketing” of the show: just in the her parents at the Gallery. Under her with growing wealth and an way you develop and build artists and leadership, Gallery Chemould has expanding middle class? develop and work with collectors. If focused particularly on showcasing the artists have fragile egos that need to Our audience, regardless of social class, work of young emerging artists with be looked after, so do collectors. The has not grown up in a museum-going experimental and interdisciplinary gallery becomes a mediator between the environment: the large (and growing) approaches. In 2007, the Gallery two. Developing and communicating middle class are not necessarily eager moved to the expansive space shown with a fantastic database is of essence consumers of any form of art. The in these images. when running a gallery – it becomes population is massive but the audience the spinal cord of the business in many is extremely niche, extremely select What is your unique quality and despairingly small! as a gallery? ways. Apart from that, keeping the gallery global also means keeping That said, in a city like Mumbai, the We promote art and artists, rather the website active, contemporary and private gallery scene is really vibrant. like agents promote writers, but more accessible: that is a very important There are at least 11 very serious so, as galleries act as an indicator of part of the gallery activity. galleries that follow a programme of value. It’s important to stress how we their own, have an identity and could place our artists more and more in What were some of the highlights exist on par with many other galleries Above: Installation significant collections: not just private of your year at City and how did in the world. This helps in the general view of Citizen Artist: but also public collections, which have forms of address. the MA help you? cultural climate of the city: on a given the status of being purchased for the Saturday afternoon an art enthusiast This image and state. At the end of the day this is what When I was a postgraduate student, images 1 to 5 on this has several options of where to go and counts most – “what museum collects one of the advantages was the student page show a series most of them are concentrated within community: there were people who were of five exhibitions a gallery’s artist?” or “what museum a certain district. held during 2013 and exhibitions has a gallery’s artist had?” interested in dance, music, theatre. It 2014 to celebrate exposed us at the start of our careers to The galleries also work closely with fifty years of Gallery As an owner/director of a private professions were very different and yet each other, so that we are able to Chemould. All images gallery what does your job entail? had very similar issues. What I found to draw more audiences and create reproduced courtesy be an invaluable experience was that an atmosphere that nurtures and of Chemould Prescott “Finding” the right artist that fits your the course allowed and helped us to enhances the prospects of art in the Road, Mumbai. gallery programme is the first step. gain secondments in that year. It forced city. We work together in creating Top right: Then comes the relationship between one to get out and look for internships. longer working evenings by sending 1. Cabinet Closet artist and gallery, which is almost joint invitations. We take on initiatives Wunderkammer as binding as a marriage contract – Working with a private gallery in which invite scholars and speakers to 2. Floating world not just in terms of an actual paper London for a month, and then in the educate our collectors. 3. Phantomata contract, but in terms of the give-and- Whitechapel Art Gallery, opened my 4. Citizen Artist: take that a gallery and an artist have eyes to the many options of how I could forms of address with each other. Each artist plays a proceed. Also being in London was the Visit Chemould Prescott Road’s 5. Subject of death part in the development of a gallery most exciting thing in the world. I took website at www.gallerychemould.com. 6. Shireen Gandhy, programme. Exhibition planning, full advantage of it. I visited every show Find out more about City’s Department Director of Gallery which involves a curatorial, advisory there was to see, I went to openings of Culture & Creative Industries at Chemould. role can take a long time to develop. when it was possible, connected with www.city.ac.uk/cci.
City Magazine 35 My year at City While 1st January might be the time for champagne and resolutions, at City, the new year begins in September, when corridors, cafés and lecture theatres come to life after the long summer break. Here, a current student and member of staff share thoughts on their years at City.
Daniel Cox, Senior Admissions Officer Anna Summersall, MSc Speech applying material from my lectures to I work within a team that handles and Language Therapy my work in the clinical setting. applications for undergraduate courses: My first year at City as a postgraduate Though my degree is intense, I wanted we are the referees in the enormous student has involved juggling a full to continue with some of the extra- contest of over 20,000 applicants vying timetable of lectures and tutorials, curricular activity I was involved in as for just under 2,000 places. clinical placements, Widening an undergraduate. So at the start of the Between September and January of Participation work and volunteering. year, I applied to become a Widening Participation ambassador. Since each year we receive the majority The nerves I felt as I moved from then, I’ve been involved in welcoming of undergraduate applications. Just Newcastle to London in September primary and secondary school students as most people are starting to wind were quickly forgotten as I embarked visiting City and helping out with group down for Christmas, everyone in on a three week intensive biomedical discussions and activities. I really enjoy our office is getting busier! Between science course. Though it was a it and the experience of working with January and March, I work through baptism of fire, the course was also a young people is useful for me as prospective students’ applications good opportunity to meet my fellow a therapist. I’m also a volunteer with and assess whether they have met students: when Welcome Week finally the Stroke Association and the Giving or are likely to meet the University’s arrived at the end of September, I Voice campaign. entry requirements. Working with had already made some friends and academic colleagues, I look at grades we attended some of the Students’ After the Easter holidays, the focus or predicted grades, but I also consider Union events together. I’ve also got to shifted from lectures and placements personal statements, work or voluntary know London with them, with trips to preparing for exams, which take experience and references. to museums, nights out to pop-up place in May and June. This is definitely After Easter, I’m often out of the cinemas and foodie excursions to the most challenging part of the year: office, supporting colleagues in Borough Market. thoughts of the summer are keeping me going through long days in the library! Undergraduate Marketing and Once Welcome Week was out of Recruitment as they attend fairs and the way, we settled into our weekly conferences for prospective students. timetables. Four days a week, we have We sometimes have to field strange lectures, tutorials and masterclasses questions: two of my all-time favourites run by academic staff and therapists were: “Is City University London in and on the remaining day, we attend London?” and “Do midwives get tips our clinical placements. Attending after a baby is born?” placement from the very start of In August of each year, we receive the the course has been really helpful: exam results for all students holding my confidence has increased and a Conditional Offer from City. Over a the integration between theory and period of three days, we go through practice also means that I find myself each set of results to see which students have met their offers. Then, on the day that students receive their ‘A’ Level results, Clearing begins. This is when we can recruit qualified students to fill any remaining undergraduate places. We convert a floor on campus into a call centre and (with the help of student ambassadors and a lot of coffee) field over 30,000 calls from students hoping to secure a place at City. By the end of August, Clearing is over and I begin to prepare for the arrival and registration of new students. Just as Welcome Week winds down, the first batch of new UCAS forms arrive and the cycle starts again.
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