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INSIDE YOUR 2020 EDITION: ❱ Change is coming to campus ❱ Alumni Award winners 2019 ❱ Pioneering in public health ❱ CONTENTS

04 News Vice-Chancellor Professor Dame ALUMNI 20 18 Janet Beer introduces a round-up of In Case of The Yorkshire Vet campus news ver the past year, we have Emergency, Peter Wright, the star of Channel 5’s welcomed many new Break Habits The Yorkshire Vet, reminisces on his 16 Award winners members to the team to Celebrating University of Liverpool O The University of time as a student take a lead on engaging with our alumni and their worldwide impact recent graduates and international Liverpool is transforming networks, managing our to fit into a sustainable 26 Passports to volunteering programme and future – and everyone Possibilities developing our fundraising appeals. has a role to play Driving forward with our commitment In my new role as Head of Alumni to global education Engagement, it has also been a great honour to take the helm as editor of your Alumni magazine. 27 Legacies The theme of this year’s magazine is ‘facing global Highlighting the enormous challenges’ - from alumna Professor Louise Kenny (MBChB contribution made by our legacy Hons 1993) who is leading on the University’s commitment supporters to improving the health of people in the Liverpool region and beyond, to our research and impact in the areas of climate 28 Class Notes change and sustainability. What happened to your classmates Read on to hear about the winners of our inaugural Alumni after graduation? Awards, which recognise the many and varied achievements 34 In memoriam of our alumni community. Nominations for this year’s awards 14 Including alumni, staff, students, are now open; turn to page 16 to learn more. Building on Friends of the University and On page 10 you can learn more about the developments a Legacy Honorary Graduates taking place on the Liverpool campus as part of the Executive Pro-Vice- University’s investment in its estate and commitment to Chancellor Professor 38 Enterprise Fund sustainability. If you have not been back to campus for a Supporting enterprising students while, now is the perfect time to do so! 10 Louise Kenny on Our Changing Liverpool’s contribution and alumni Thank you from all of us in the Development and Alumni Campus Relations team for your continuing support. to addressing challenges 39 Events Revitalising our campus and in public health Events and reunions from the year the student experience With best wishes, gone by

Caroline Mitchell Head of Alumni Engagement

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2 ALUMNI 2020 EDITION LIVERPOOL.AC.UK/ALUMNI 3 ❱ NEWS ℹ MORE: www.liverpool.ac.uk/news IntoUniversity North Liverpool Centre receives £300k birthday gift

IntoUniversity North Liverpool Centre has received a £300k ‘birthday gift’ to help mark its 2nd birthday following a successful fundraising campaign by the Development and Alumni Relations team. Next important phase in infectious diseases research launched

Professor Dame Sally Davies DBE (Hon DSc 2009) helped to launch an ambitious new programme how you can contribute, are of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) research in A message from our available on page 10. the Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases The last 12 months have also Research (CEIDR), which is tasked with tackling the Vice-Chancellor seen success in university league current AMR crisis and its impact on human health WELCOME TO YOUR ALUMNI MAGAZINE tables, with a climb of eight in Liverpool, the UK and globally. places to 28th in the Complete University Guide, a 16 place improvement in the Times Higher t has been another teaching and performance Education World University University and Guild of Students sign successful year for our centre. This £22.1 million facility Rankings 2020, and a climb University of Liverpool will include the 600-seat Paul of 11 places in The Times and UN Sustainable Development Goals Accord community, crowned with Brett Lecture Theatre, seminar Sunday Times Good University The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals were established by world leaders in 2015 to create a Iwonderful graduation ceremonies facilities, informal study spaces Guide 2019. better world, end poverty, fight inequality and take action on climate change. Signing the Accord demonstrates which saw us confer honorary and the 400-seat Tung We are, of course, known as the University’s commitment to sustainability and builds on existing activities and research and education degrees on a range of exceptional Auditorium which will have the original redbrick university, strengths in this area, placing these goals at the heart of our decision-making. people, many of whom are alumni. capacity for a 70-piece now used as the collective term Another high point was an orchestra. I am incredibly for the civic universities founded opportunity to celebrate our passionate about the exciting in the 19th century. We take our alumni – this time through the opportunities this project offers. civic role very seriously and have inaugural Alumni Awards The space will further enrich published a report, Celebrating ceremony. It was a fantastic the vibrant cultural life of our the University of Liverpool’s event which celebrated the city and will also offer important Contribution to Liverpool City incredibly diverse and important real world experience for our Region, which highlights some contributions our alumni make students. As part of our of our work in this area. We have to society and you can read fundraising efforts for this new a number of important plans to more about their inspiring facility, we are currently offering further enhance our positive stories on page 16. the opportunity to name a seat impact on the City Region over A further development has in the Tung Auditorium and I am the next twelve months and I look been the launch of our Estate very pleased to be naming one forward to sharing more on that Masterplan which provides a for my grandson, Blake, who with you soon. vision of the campus over the was born last year. Details on next 15 years and beyond. One the Masterplan and this new Professor Dame Janet Beer DBE of the early projects is a new project in particular, including Vice-Chancellor

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First female president appointed to University Management School Council Liverpool and Shanghai secures prestigious twinning milestone EQUIS accreditation Carmel Booth (BA Hons Geography 1995) has been The University played a key role in a series of events appointed as the new President held in Shanghai to coincide with the 20th anniversary The University of of University Council. She is of the city’s offi cial twinning with Liverpool. Liverpool’s Management the fi rst woman to chair the School has secured the University’s pre-eminent prestigious EQUIS decision-making body and accreditation, thanks in will take up her new three-year part to our alumni Prince and President term when the Earl of Derby, volunteers, and is now draw the crowds one of just 187 accredited DL (Hon LLD 2008) steps down institutions worldwide. at the end of July. Crowds of well-wishers lined Ashton Street as the Prince of Wales Pledging £1 million and the President of Ireland, Michael for scholarships D. Higgins, visited To mark the 30th anniversary of the University the University to of Liverpool Graduate Association (Hong Kong), cement their roles the University’s oldest Alumni Association, the as joint patrons of committee signed an agreement to donate the Institute of £1 million to support student scholarships. Irish Studies.

▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ▾ ● Dr Martyn Blissitt MRCVS Chief Medical Offi cer for of Willowbrook Hospice, Fundraising (BVSc 1982), Veterinary Adviser England, received a Dame received a BEM for services to the Scottish Government for Grand Cross for services to to End of Life Care. complete for Animal Health and Welfare, Public Health and Research. innovative received an OBE for services ● Professor Jane Hurst, William ‘child-friendly’ Alumni and to Animal Health. ● Claire Dove (Diploma in Prescott Chair of Animal Science, staff recognised Social Studies 1987), Chief received an OBE for services to HIV treatment ● The Honourable Charles Executive of Blackburne House, Animal Welfare. in New Year Cliff ord (LLB Hons 1995) received received a CBE for services Honours list an MBE for services to Customs to Social Enterprise. ● Julia Unwin CBE (BA Hons Our £400,000 HIV nanomedicines fundraising campaign to help and Border Control in the Medieval and Modern History improve drug therapies for children with HIV reached its target, more Cayman Islands. ● Christine Haywood (BSc Hons 1978), former Chief Executive than eight months ahead of schedule. Thanks to the income raised by Professional Health Studies of the Joseph Rowntree donors, researchers were able to successfully apply for funding and in ● Professor Dame Sally Davies 2000, MSc Ethics of Health Foundation , received a DBE January 2020 were awarded a grant of more than £24.5 million from DBE (Hon DSc 2009), former Care 2004), Clinical Director for services to Civil Society. Unitaid, a non-profi t organisation, to further their research in this fi eld.

6 ALUMNI 2020 EDITION LIVERPOOL.AC.UK/ALUMNI 7 ❱ EMMA JANE UNSWORTH ℹ MORE: liverpool.ac.uk/alumni/meet-our-alumni

F Emma’s new book Adults was published in February 2020 and featured on the AT Sunday Times Bestsellers List. mma Jane Unsworth (BA Hons English Language and Literature 2000) is an alumna and award- battlegrounds, even in this day and age. I hope winning writer. Her novel Animals, which follows hedonistic duo Laura and Tyler as they navigate I write comedies, but I hope they are comedies with friendship, love, and partying, was recently adapted into a fi lm of the same name starring Holliday dark, ferocious undercurrents. I do have things to Grainger and directed by Sophie Hyde - giving Emma the chance to realise her dream of becoming say, and the characters I’m interested in will always Ea screenwriter. Looking back on her days at university, Emma recalls discovering her love for Liverpool’s nightlife, be suff ering in some way under the patriarchy. the experiences that shaped her university career and the friendships that have defi ned and inspired her. HEART From page to screen WILDI WAS AN AVERAGE STUDENT REALLY – a bit of a I write a lot about women’s bodies Having Animals made into a fi lm was utterly surreal. smart-arse sometimes in tutorials. Studying at I’m very grateful to have been given the chance Liverpool was a transformative time of my life: I was because I like writing about physicality, to adapt my own book, as not many fi rst-time starting to build my own life, with the books I loved but also because women’s bodies are screenwriters get that. I’ve always wanted to be a around me. It gave me time and space to become battlegrounds, even in this day and age. screenwriter because dialogue is my favourite thing myself; to start honing my writing style and my own to write. Seeing the fi lm for the fi rst time was voice as a critic and essayist. traumatic, in a good way. I was an emotional wreck; While studying I was also reviewing books night – rather than getting drunk by 9pm and ending it felt like I’d handed over my baby and met it again as occasionally for The Big Issue in the North. That felt up in McDonalds. I had so many adventures with my a teenager. But the director did such a good job and huge and journalism became my (paid) way into friends in Liverpool. We really looked after each I’m so proud of how hard everyone worked. Premiering writing. After I graduated I went back to my other, too. A lot of that went on to inspire Animals, at the Sundance Film Festival was a dream come true hometown of Manchester and did an MA in Creative which is about friends out on the town. I dedicated – probably the best week of my life. Writing whilst working part time as a journalist for an the book to my best friend Alison Taylor, who I met in My advice to aspiring writers in the alumni arts magazine. If I wasn’t a writer, I’d probably have a lecture theatre at Liverpool. My friendship with community? Finish it. Whatever it is, fi nish it. Get to ended up working behind a bar, because that’s the Alison changed my life. She was a lot more mature the end of a draft, even if it is a terrible fi rst draft, only other thing I can really do. I used to quite enjoy than me – a bit older; she’d had a gap year. She still which it probably will be. Until you do a draft of some being a barmaid. You hear some great stories. is a lot more mature than me to be honest. kind, you won’t even know what it is you’re writing. The Liverpool nightlife also inspired me a lot. I was I think all my fi ction is quite political. I write a lot Then, edit, edit, edit. Otherwise, you’ll polish the F Emma (left) graduating an avid clubber. A voracious drinker. I started going about women’s bodies because I like writing about with friend Alison Taylor same fi rst fi ve pages for 10 years. Trust me – I’ve out properly there, and really savouring the whole physicality, but also because women’s bodies are in 2000 done that. ●

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OUR WHAT DO YOU THINK?

CHANGINGWe are excited about our long-term vision for the campusF The Department of which builds Music’s new Teaching CAMPUSon feedback from staff, students and key stakeholders.and Performance Centre F The images in THE UNIVERSITY’S this feature are MASTERPLAN ESTATES for conceptual purposes and STRATEGY IS SET TO may be subject REVITALISE OUR CAMPUS to change AND THE LIVERPOOL STUDENT EXPERIENCE

f you were to take a walk around campus many years after your graduation, you would likely notice a few changes. Perhaps you’d fi nd that your favourite reading spot has Ibeen fi lled with bike hire racks, or one of your old lecture halls has been knocked down and replaced by a glossy new building. With the latest plans for regeneration, the University campus is set to change over the next 15 years. The ‘Masterplan Estate Strategy’ is a £0.5bn investment in the quality of teaching, research, learning and leisure facilities over the next 10 years. The plan will support our sustainability goals as well maintain the excellence of our research facilities and improve the experience for our students. As part of our vision for a greener future, the Masterplan includes a pledge to plant 1,000 trees on campus, and to create a brand new ‘University Park’ opposite Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. This, alongside investment in sustainable travel options, will reduce traffi c and pollution around the University: a win for both sustainability and the wellbeing of staff and students. And it’s not just The University campus is set to change and humans enjoying life on campus – the University become more sustainable over the next 15 years of Liverpool has recently been declared a

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In earlier consultations, staff and students said that they wanted the estate to enable a sense of community, to feel inclusive and accessible and to prioritise green space. This Masterplan seeks to respond to this feedback and many of the other suggestions raised.

The campus will be zoned by faculty, providing clear communities for In addition to improving the campus’ links to the City and encouraging students and staff. We are also proposing a significant increase in green greater visitor interaction with the campus, this £1billion investment will space, courtyards and event spaces to provide a range of opportunities for provide important economic benefits for the region, creating employment staff, students and visitors to come together and enjoy the campus. opportunities and using local suppliers and resources. The Masterplan also includes clear plans and commitments to enhance accessibility and further promote equality, diversity and inclusivity across our campuses.

WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK

LIVERPOOL CAMPUS LEAHURST CAMPUS Staff from Facilities, Residential and Commercial Services and the On Wednesday, 22 May staff from Facilities, Residential and Commercial Masterplan’s architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, together with Services and the Masterplan’s architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, P4 Planning and Planit, will be available 12pm-1pm and 2pm-3pm on will be available 3-7pm in the Leahurst lecture theatre to answer Wednesday, 1 May and Friday, 10 May in the Street in the Guild of questions and hear feedback. Students to answer questions and hear feedback. In addition, presentations on the Masterplan will take place at the following times for staff and students: ONLINE Wednesday, 1 May, 1-2pm, Mandella room, Guild of Students Please visit https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/facilities-residential- and-commercial-services/masterplan-estate-strategy to Friday, 10 May, 1-2pm, Lecture Theatre D in the Central Teaching Hub. feed back online. A feedback session for the general public will take place on Wednesday, 1 May, 5-7pm in the Bronte Youth and Community Centre, Trowbridge St. ❱ CAMPUS VISION

Now We’ve put saved your you a name seat on it

F Extension to the Also in the works is a 2000m² extension School of Architecture to the School of Architecture with a ou are invited to play a leading role in our Put your name down in history design selected by a panel of students, mission of making the world’s greatest For a minimum gift of £250, your dedication will be staff , and alumni, including Tate Y music accessible to everyone. engraved on a plaque and affi xed to a seat in the Hedgehog Friendly Campus. The scheme aims to By naming a seat in the Tung Auditorium, at Tung Auditorium, where it will remain for the lifetime raise awareness of hedgehogs, whose numbers are Modern Director Maria Balshaw CBE the heart of the new Teaching and Performance of the seat. Gifts can be made in full or in monthly plummeting, and to introduce practical measures Centre, you will ensure that the University of instalments. to protect their habitats. Also in the works is a 2000m² extension to the Liverpool continues to be a top choice for Whether you choose to name your seat for yourself Among other exciting developments for the School of Architecture with a design selected by a students worldwide. or your family or for someone special who always University estate, a Digital Innovation Facility (DIF) panel of students, staff , and alumni, including Tate Opening in autumn 2021, the Centre will sits beside you, you will be supporting our mission (pictured below) is due for completion later this year. Modern Director Maria Balshaw CBE (BA Hons support activities including concerts, lectures to bring this wonderful new facility to the University Bringing together complementary areas of research English Literature and Communication Studies 1991, and exhibitions and will unite people of all ages and the city. in computer science, robotics, and engineering, the Hon LittD 2018). and backgrounds. Join fellow University of Liverpool alumni and friends DIF will be a centre of excellence enabling The Department of Music’s new Teaching and who share the belief that music and the arts matter. collaborative R&D and support for businesses linked Performance Centre, home to the Tung Auditorium to digital technologies. The DIF is forecast to create and Paul Brett Lecture Theatre, is due to open in approximately 400 jobs over a ten-year period, while autumn 2021. We know that music plays an important boosting the city region economy by £44.5 million. part in the lives of many of our alumni; our current Our campaign ambassadors are all playing their part Name a Seat fundraising campaign is one way that you can get involved in the project – see the following page for more details. As we enter a new decade, the changes outlined in the campus strategy articulate how the University is contributing to the vibrant community in Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter. There couldn’t Professor Averil Nick Robin Dr Joan Dr Yoko Ono Dame Patricia be a better time to pay us a visit. ● Mansfi eld CBE Riddle Bloxsidge Rodgers CBE Lennon Routledge DBE

F Digital Innovation To arrange a campus tour or reunion, contact the Facility Alumni team at: [email protected] BE PART OF OUR STORY We’ve saved you a seat. Now put your name on it. Find out more at: liverpool.ac.uk/giving/name-a-seat

12 ALUMNI 2020 EDITION Photo of Yoko Ono by Matthew Placek LIVERPOOL.AC.UK/ALUMNI 13 ❱ LOUISE KENNY ℹ MORE: liverpool.ac.uk/health-and-life-sciences

The story of Liverpool is intrinsically tied to the Research shows that living below development of medicine as a discipline. As the UK’s first Medical Officer of Health, Liverpool native the poverty line has a devastating and William Henry Duncan combated high levels of and lasting impact on children’s health tuberculosis, cholera and typhus by addressing as well as their life chances. poor sanitation and living conditions among the city’s poor. Moreover, William Blair-Bell, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies DBE (Hon DSc Liverpool, authored The Principles of Gynaecology, 2009) launched the initiative alongside Professor a seminal textbook in the field, and founded the William Hope, the new Director and holder of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Dame Sally Davies Chair. in 1929. In line with this legacy, Professor Kenny “AMR is an existential threat to humankind,” and her team have driven progress on a range of said Louise. “In Liverpool, we have a long and rich initiatives aimed at tackling the most urgent heritage of discovering new drugs; we are known challenges to public health. worldwide for being a centre of excellence for BUILDING clinical pharmacology, as well as for infectious “A civic responsibility” diseases research. So it made sense to unify these By reintegrating world-class teaching and distinctions to contribute to the national and cutting-edge scientific research, Project SHAPE international agenda in AMR.” ON A is a major strategic realignment that aims to Louise feels it is the University’s duty to the city of deliver tangible social impact by improving health Liverpool, and wider national and global responsibility, outcomes throughout the Liverpool City Region to address these issues. and beyond. “Although Liverpool has undergone massive LEGACY “Research shows that living below the poverty transformational change, many health outcomes line has a devastating and lasting impact on are still performing poorly; in fact, some indices are children’s health and life chances – particularly getting worse. The Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, in the first 1,000 days,” says along with the University as PROFESSOR LOUISE KENNY orking in health research Louise. “Project SHAPE will a whole, is committed to (MBCHB HONS 1993), EXECUTIVE has always been more than enable us to realign our FACT FILE: addressing this. I believe we just a job for Professor Louise expertise through a new Professor Louise Kenny have a civic responsibility to PRO-VICE-CHANCELLOR FOR THE Kenny. Having grown up in and structure and vision, so we can ● Founding Director of Irish the people of Liverpool - to the FACULTY OF HEALTH AND aroundW Liverpool before working on hospital wards be more agile and respond to Centre for Fetal and people I grew up with - to LIFE SCIENCES, DISCUSSES as a student at the School of Medicine, Professor unmet societal needs locally, Neonatal Translational utilise and develop our standing LIVERPOOL’S CONTRIBUTION TO Kenny has a strong personal affinity for the city nationally and globally.” Research (INFANT) as the largest provider of and its people. Furthermore, an ambitious health and life science ADDRESSING CHALLENGES IN ● Science Foundation Ireland “I have very fond memories of my time as a new programme of antimicrobial Researcher of the Year capability and resources in the PUBLIC HEALTH student,” said Louise. “Liverpudlians are very proud resistance (AMR) research has (2015) UK, to address these urgent of the city’s history in educating doctors and recently been announced as public health concerns.” ● ● 2015 Irish Tatler Woman pioneering medical research, so I never had to part of a new chapter for the of the Year for STEM apologise for being a student when I was on the Centre of Excellence in ● Listed on the 2020 Northern Find out more about the University’s AMR research wards. Patients, doctors and medical staff were Infectious Diseases Research Power Women List at: always supportive and accommodating.” (CEIDR). Former Chief Medical liverpool.ac.uk/ceidr

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Dr Jaclyn Bell Dr Sze May Ng Roisin Ross BSc (Hons) Mathematics 2010, MSc MSc Medical Sciences 2005, PhD 2010, BA History with Criminology 2017 Mathematical Sciences 2011, PhD 2016 LLM Law 2014 Senior Domestic Violence Senior Teaching Fellow at Imperial Consultant Paediatrician and Caseworker at Solace Women’s Aid College London and an oustanding diabetes specialist who has been and the founder of the CAIM Project advocate for the University of Liverpool, regularly involved in setting national diabetes policy. She has that trains volunteers working with refugees on sexual volunteering to help inspire the next generation also published a 10-year memoir about her experience and domestic violence. of students. THE INAUGURAL UNIVERSITY of raising a child on the autism spectrum. OF LIVERPOOL ALUMNI Megan Stammers Lucy Byrne AWARDS, HELD IN FEBRUARY Faith Osiobe MEng Mechanical Engineering with BA (Hons) Art History and MSc Global Human Resources Management 2018 2020, CELEBRATED THE Management 2011 English Literature 2002 Graduate Engineer at Rolls-Royce HR professional who has been the Managing Director of dot-art, a ACHIEVEMENTS OF OUR and the founder of the University’s University’s Nigerian alumni Liverpool-based social enterprise COMMUNITY. THE WINNERS annual Engineering alumni and student networking ambassador since her graduation. that works to support local artists, schools and event which she established in her final year of study. HAVE SHOWN THE IMPACT Working with the Alumni team, Faith has been actively businesses to champion art in everyday life. THAT LIVERPOOL ALUMNI ARE supporting and helping more than 600 graduates in Professor Michael Thrasher MAKING ACROSS THE WORLD Nigeria since 2011. Dan Chambers BA (Hons) Political Theory and BA (Hons) Geography and Pre-historic Rob Owen OBE Institutions 1974, PhD 1982 Archaeology 1989 BA (Hons) Geography and Politics 1987 One of the UK’s leading election Award-winning engineer who CEO of the St Giles Trust, a multi- commentators and an expert in UK has spent more than 20 years the Yukon Development Corporation. Justin helped to award winning national charity, and is local elections. He has been part of the team that handmaking wheelchairs for athletes and people establish a modern day treaty between his indigenous a key figure in tackling knife crime produced the joint BBC, ITV and Sky exit poll for the with limited mobility. Since the 2000 Games, Draft community and the Canadian government. and ‘County Lines’ gangs. He has last four general elections. Wheelchairs, the company Dan co-founded, has helped to reform more than 25,000 clients a year. won 47 Paralympic medals. Dr Danielle Greenberg Dr Sean Wensley BVSc 1998 Jasmin Paris BVSc 2003 Danielle Chan Director at The Liverpool Vets, an BVSc 2008 An advocate for animal welfare and Clinical Lecturer at the University of LLB 2003 independent veterinary practice former president of the British Edinburgh. In 2019, she broke the Head of Communications and in Liverpool city centre, voted Vet Veterinary Association. His work has existing male record by 12 hours to Engagement at Community of the Year in 2019. been recognised by the World Veterinary Association become the first woman to win the 268-mile Spine Integrated Care. After moving from who awarded him their Global Animal Welfare Award Race along the Pennine Way. law into communications, Danielle has pioneered Dr Muhammad Khan for Europe. internal communications and won numerous awards MRes Clinical Sciences 2014, Steve Peacock from industry bodies. MBChB 2015 LLB (Hons) 1988 James Yu Co-founder of the Health Careers Partner and Regional Office Head BA (Hons) Business Economics 2013 Portal to combat the poor level of Co-founder of Wicker Wings, Dr Ebony Escalona at Weightmans law firm in Liverpool. widening participation in healthcare. The HCP has blending the Chinese art of wicker BSc Veterinary Conservation Medicine He sits on the Liverpool Law School been described as ‘the Duke of Edinburgh Award… weaving with British leather 2007, BVSc 2009 Advisory Board and has helped to set up and host Founder of Vets: Stay, Go or but for the NHS’. craftsmanship to create luxury handbags. Wicker events for Liverpool Law School alumni. Diversify, an online support platform Wings has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, The for vets, which she launched in 2017 to help combat Professor Charles Kingsland Ioan Roberts Times, Vogue and Glamour. the growing problem of vets leaving the profession. MBChB 1982, MD Obstetrics and BA (Hons) Popular Music 2007, MA Gynaecology 1994 Music Industry Studies 2011 Founder of the Hewitt Fertility Owner and director of 24 Kitchen Justin Ferbey You can find out more about all of our 2019 Alumni MBA 2011 Centre in Liverpool. Charles has Street, an independent music venue Awards winners and how to submit your nomination Deputy Minister for the Department performed more than 50,000 consultations with in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle. The venue has seen for the 2020 awards at: liverpool.ac.uk/alumni/ awards of Economic Development for the couples and has spent considerable time training the world-renowned artists performing as well as some Yukon Government and President of next generation of fertility doctors in the UK. of the University’s Chinese students. Photos: Jaclyn Bell © Peter Dibdin, Jasmin Paris © Mick Kenyon

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testament to my time at University and all the opportunities it off ered that my time as a vet student fl ew by so quickly.

Filling his shoes THE Alf Wight – aka James Herriot – was a quiet and humble man who was always there for me in the early stages of my career. If I asked for guidance, he was there with a pearl of wisdom. He always put his clients and patients above everything else and YORKSHIRE considered himself 90% vet and 10% author. I am FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS proud to follow in his footsteps but only profess to OF HIS FORMER COLLEAGUE be a pale imitation of the great man. JAMES HERRIOT, ALUMNUS AND I consider myself to be very lucky to have spent VET PETER WRIGHT (BVSC 1981) VET virtually my whole career as a country vet in our IS BRINGING TO LIFE THE small rural community. You are not anonymous – you feel very much part of the place. In 1995, just before FASCINATING WORLD OF Alf Wight died when his son Jim was senior partner A RURAL VET AS THE STAR OF in the practice, we made the decision to move to CHANNEL 5’S THE YORKSHIRE purpose-built premises. We called the new surgery VET. PETER REMINISCES ON HIS Skeldale, after the fi ctitious name of the practice in the Herriot books. It was shortly after this time that TIME AS A STUDENT AND THE I took on the role of senior partner – a role that some CHARMS THAT DREW HIM BACK 20 years previously would have been beyond my TO HIS BELOVED NORTH wildest dreams. YORKSHIRE COUNTRYSIDE In 2014, Channel 5 asked a small TV production company called Daisybeck Studios to document the work of a veterinary practice – what would become The Yorkshire Vet. When they approached us at was born in a very small village in rural North Skeldale, my initial reaction was to say no – being a Yorkshire surrounded by small family farms. suspicious Yorkshireman I was wary about damaging When I was in the sixth form at Thirsk School, our thriving practice. But the Managing Director of the Head of Careers suggested Veterinary Daisybeck, himself a IScience to me; he had taught Jim Wight, son of It is testament to my time Yorkshireman, had an James Herriot, and he arranged for me to spend at University and all the honest and likeable face, a day at the practice in Thirsk. I was immediately opportunities it off ered that and promised me he would smitten and knew this was what I wanted to do. I was not let me down. Daisybeck totally hooked by the variety of work, the friendliness my time as a vet student fl ew have brought our work and and banter – in the small animal surgery as well as by so quickly. characters into people’s the visits to farms in the beautiful North Yorkshire sitting rooms without countryside. It was perfect! sensationalising it. The show appeals to everyone: I look back with great aff ection and gratitude for from four year olds to people in their nineties, and my time spent studying at the University of Liverpool. I am proud that it showcases my beloved Thirsk. ● I was very proud to walk through the doors of the prestigious Faculty of Veterinary Science in October Join the University of Liverpool Veterinary Alumni Association (ULVAA) to connect with fellow 1976. It was a small course with a true family F The Yorkshire Vet was recently awarded the Royal Television Society’s award for Best veterinary graduates and receive the latest news atmosphere, and little did I realise that the friends Documentary Series in the Yorkshire region and event invitations to your inbox. Update your I met at that time would be friends to this day. It is details via: [email protected].

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AS THE CLIMATE CRISIS IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, CONTINUES TO ESCALATE, THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL IS UNDERGOING A TRANSFORMATION TO ENSURE IT FITS INTO A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE – BREAK AND EVERYONE HAS A ROLE TO PLAY HABITS PHOTOGRAPH: © THOMAS WINZ / GETTY he University of Liverpool’s research Paris Agreement, the possibility of delayed warming into climate change is world-leading, even if we stop carbon emissions, and how oceans from investigating the impact of global gain heat during climate change. Ric believes warming and carbon emissions to universities can be a ‘powerhouse ’ for fi nding solutions Tdeveloping pioneering solutions to reduce these to climate change. eff ects. Liverpool is home to some of the world’s “Universities are, of course, important in educating top academics in environmental studies, experts in students, but increasingly we need to be providing fi elds such as coasts and marine life, microbes and new solutions and ways forward to reduce our disease, conservation and extreme weather. But dependence on using carbon. Some of those when it comes to the climate crisis that we are solutions might be technical, such as developing currently facing, it is not enough to know: we need to act. So what is the University of Liverpool doing Environmental concerns are high to address climate change? on our agenda - we have set up a new The University’s ‘green agenda’ seeks to build sustainability board to monitor and an institutional culture of sustainability, embedding environmental concerns into the campus, curriculum drive this progress, both in the short and community. The ‘Masterplan Estate Strategy’ and long term. for 2026 (see page 10 for more) envisages a transformation of the University’s estate into a new materials to capture pollutants, more effi cient ‘green campus’, including the development of a ways of storing energy in batteries or capturing new park, investment in sustainable travel options energy from the sun, or reducing the use of more and a commitment to planting 1,000 trees over the harmful greenhouse gases.” He continued: “The next six years. University is engaged in many of these challenges, Ric Williams is a Professor in Ocean Sciences at the but no doubt, collectively, we need to do more.” University of Liverpool, whose research specialises in In terms of climate research, Professor of Ocean studying the eff ect of warming on our ocean systems. Sciences Alessandro Tagliabue has also played a His current research focuses on how much carbon can leading role in drafting the new Intergovernmental be emitted if we are to meet the targets set out in the Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on

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the Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, power of activism and that momentum is gathering including participating in the approval session for further change. “It was a sign that the University by governments. This report has highlighted the does listen to the students when we all act together. widespread observed and projected changes Off the back of this success, the Guild is now occurring to multiple aspects of the ocean, with forming student-led action groups where students a key focus on the societal challenges and impacts. can come together to brainstorm ideas for activism He also participated in the recent COP25 climate – how we can persuade the University to act on meeting in Madrid, where he presented IPCC report topics such as fast fashion, plastic waste, and meat results during the main plenary. consumption on campus.”

Powering through Waste Not Want Not There has definitely been a shift in A key area of change at the University has been in F The Green Liverpool students hail from all over the world, so energy sources. The University of Liverpool is host attitudes recently. Many people are going Guild organises items left behind at the end of term are a significant to the North West’s first interdisciplinary centre for volunteering source of waste. Leave Liverpool Tidy is combatting on climate protests and it’s being talked opportunities for energy research – the Stephenson Institute for about more. The University is introducing students to learn this issue by collecting unwanted items such as Renewable Energy. The Institute was recently more about kitchen utensils, clothes and decorative items, which awarded £11.2m by the Faraday Institution to fund fantastic initiatives and making great sustainable are then distributed to those in need in the local ways of living the development of next-generation lithium steps in the right direction. community and other students. In 2018 alone, more batteries to power electric vehicles. It conducts vital than ten tonnes of items were redistributed through research into innovative, sustainable energy sources the scheme. such as solar harvesting, wind and marine energy to all. “Like many people my age, it scares me that Members of our alumni community are also taking and fusion technology. our window for halting the impacts of climate important steps. Alumnus Arthur Rowland (MEng With an aim to reduce its carbon footprint, the change is closing so fast,” says Anna. “But it can Engineering with Product Design 2014) is making University of Liverpool invested £19m in the be difficult for students – or anyone – to know how a huge impact on the local community through the construction of a Combined Heat and Power Plant they can change their own lifestyle, especially foundation of his Community Interest Company (CHP). The CHP provides both electricity and gas for when individual changes are undermined by Direct action (CIC), Plastic Tactics. The company aims to empower University facilities, and captures the excess heat businesses who don’t place the climate over profit.” The potential impact of student-led climate activism and encourage Liverpudlians to use and reuse generated and distributes it into the University’s The work of the Green Guild includes organising was seen in 2019 when the University of Liverpool plastic responsibly and reduce waste, through heating system. Compared to energy supplied by volunteering opportunities for students to learn pledged to divest from all fossil fuels by 2022. The activities like litter picking and turning waste into the National Grid, the University expects savings more about sustainable ways of living, as well as Fossil Free campaign, organised by the Guild and useful items like coasters and key rings. of 7,000 tonnes of CO2 every year – a 13% reduction helping reduce waste in the local community. student activists, put pressure on the University to It is often said that the years spent at university in its carbon footprint. In addition, three Solar PV These include vegetable growing workshops; consider the environmental impact of their are some of the most formative in life. Hopefully, sites have been introduced on campus, each with ‘gleaning’, collecting food from local farms that investment portfolio. the culture of sustainability that the University of the potential to reduce carbon emissions by up to would otherwise go to waste; workshops for “This decision is an example of environmental Liverpool is building will stay with alumni, inspiring 20 tonnes. making ‘eco-bricks’ out of plastic waste; and even concerns impacting financial decisions, with the them to continue living climate conscious lives, or beekeeping on the Guild’s roof garden. potential risks to financial returns being outweighed even to help protect the environment through their The Green Guild In Anna’s experience, there is huge variation by concerns around fossil fuels,” said Nicola Davies, careers. If the climate crisis is going to be effectively Liverpool’s Guild of Students has a team dedicated amongst students’ attitudes towards climate Director of Finance at the University. “Environmental addressed, sustainability must be at the core of to sustainability, known as the Green Guild. Anna change – but she is hopeful for the future. “There concerns are high on the University’s agenda – we everything we do, every decision we make; and every Scott is the Green Guild’s Sustainability Assistant, has definitely been a shift in attitudes recently. have set up a Sustainability Board to monitor and person and every institution must take action. ● as well as a final year undergraduate studying Many people are going on climate protests and drive progress in this area, both in the short and Geography. Anna’s mission is to spread the it’s being talked about more. The University is long term.” message of sustainability to staff and students, introducing fantastic initiatives, and making great Anna at the Green Guild believes the divestment Read more about The Fossil Free campaign at: liverpoolguild.org/fossilfree making eco-friendly living easier and more accessible steps in the right direction.” decision has encouraged students to believe in the

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world’s leading sportswear and sports Staying flexible equipment providers, since its foundation Hilda completed an MBA online with MANAGING DIRECTOR OF ASICS in 1949. the University of Liverpool, graduating GREATER CHINA AND ALUMNA It has been the responsibility of Liverpool in 2011. The flexibility she was afforded HILDA CHAN (MBA 2011) TALKS alumna Hilda Chan to promote this approach by studying online allowed Hilda to across China, since her appointment as balance her education with executive TACKLING BUSINESS TRADITIONS, Managing Director of ASICS Greater China management responsibilities - a priority PROMOTING WELLBEING AND THE in 2015. After joining the company in 2014 as of hers at the time. BENEFITS OF STUDYING ONLINE a Business Strategy Manager, Hilda quickly “The MBA course content was very rose through the ranks and now leads her varied; I was able to find leadership courses team as it progresses through a ‘2.0 phase’ that I wanted to focus on in particular,” says of business in the Chinese market. Hilda. “I chose the University of Liverpool “The transition to the Managing Director because it offers a diverse student pool role in 2015 was exciting because China, across the globe, which gave me a lot of Hong Kong and Taiwan were in very international insights and a ‘think outside different business stages,” says Hilda. “The the box’ mindset.” SOUND new role allowed me to rebuild strategies This global outlook is also reflected in the for each of the different markets in order to course content and professors, which led to put the ASICS brand on the right track.” “very fruitful discussions”, according to Hilda. Hilda’s proudest moments of her tenure “Studying online required very high MIND, so far include rebuilding ASICS Greater discipline, given the different time zones China’s overall marketing strategy to grow between professors and student groups. brand awareness, optimising the company’s The course was tough but fun at the e-commerce platform to act as both a same time.” means of sales and as a branding platform, SOUND and expanding the team in Hong Kong to The diverse student pool reorient their business model. gave me a lot of international “Giving back to society through different corporate social responsibility initiatives, insights and a ‘think outside BODY such as our long-term partnership with the the box’ mindset. Samaranch Foundation which is helping to n the early 2nd century develop the next generation of Chinese Although Hilda has unfortunately AD, Roman poet soccer, has also been essential to our goal never visited Liverpool, she applies the Juvenal proposed: of delivering quality of life for today’s lessons learnt through her course across “You should pray for Chinese consumer, in line with our her work on a daily basis. In her spare Ia sound mind in a sound body, founding philosophy.” time, Hilda enjoys exploring China’s for assuredly, the only road to diverse cultures, spending time with her a life of peace is that of virtue.” family, and having an active lifestyle – He was inspired by the Latin swimming and cycling being her activities maxim anima sana in corpore of choice. In doing so, she maintains a sano, meaning ‘healthy soul in positive work/life balance and lives by the a healthy body.’ It is this belief founding philosophy of the company that – that physical health is she leads. ● intrinsic to mental and psychological wellbeing – that For more information on the University’s has informed the business postgraduate study programme visit: philosophy, brand and indeed liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate- acronym of ASICS, one of the taught/

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PASSPORTS CELEBRATING OUR LEGACY TO POSSIBILITIES SUPPORTERS THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL’S hen the University of Liverpool was founded, it was NEW PASSPORTS TO POSSIBILITIES thanks to philanthropy, public spirit, jam and sugar. PROGRAMME WILL TAKE OUR W Built in 1892, the original University building which Did you know? COMMITMENT TO GLOBAL now houses the Victoria Gallery & Museum was funded by the attending lectures and taking part in fi eld trips and people of Liverpool and local philanthropists. The Jubilee Memorial ● The phrase ‘redbrick EDUCATION FOR ALL ONE STEP social events. Committee gifted the clock tower as the city’s gift to Queen Victoria university’ was coined FURTHER... WITH YOUR HELP on her golden jubilee, jam manufacturer, Sir William Hartley, funded by Liverpool’s Professor The diff erence of a global experience the clock’s bells, and sugar magnate, Sir Henry Tate, fi nanced the of Spanish, Edgar Allison According to the Higher Education Funding Council building’s entire library block. Peers , inspired by the he University of Liverpool’s ambition is to for England (HEFCE), students who participate in In the last 10 years, the University has received more than Victoria Building’s red attract the most talented students from all over study abroad are more likely to graduate with a 2:1 £10,877,800 in legacy gifts that have been vital to supporting bricks ? Professor Peers T the world and from all walks of life; that’s what or First Class degree, are more likely to be in further key developments across campus. ● also left a legacy gift of makes our student body such a rich and thriving education or employment six months after £68,781 to the University community. We want to attract the graduating and will earn higher for the teaching best, so we work closely with This was my fi rst time than average salaries. of Spanish. prospective students from groups travelling abroad, so There are also the academic and that are currently under-represented personal benefi ts to Study Abroad ● The fi rst recorded legacy at the University to raise aspirations I was both nervous and including improved study to the University was in and to showcase the opportunities excited... I refl ected on techniques, increased self- 1885, with a gift of books Liverpool has to off er. all my incredible new awareness, confi dence and to the College Library Our record speaks for itself; self-reliance and inspiration for from Assistant Professor we’re not only fi rst in the Russell experiences, and the future career or study choices. Clark . In 2010 , alumna Group for the admission of confi dence and Janet Gnosspelius (BA students from areas where entry knowledge of the wider Help us create Passports Architecture 1948) gifted to University is traditionally low, to Possibilities £2.4 million in her Will to but we also have the second world I had gained We successfully launched Passports the Sydney Jones Library . highest percentage of students along the way. to Possibilities in June 2019 with a from state schools and colleges. Daniel Platt, fi nal year BSc Computer Science student pilot group of 20 specially selected Free Will writing service* ● A £54,738 legacy gift However we need to do more. students who travelled to the The University of Liverpool is part of the Bequeathed from former Lady Our new initiative, Passports to Possibilities, University of Georgia in Atlanta, US. After their Charity Consortium, which provides a free online Will President, Elizabeth will provide students, regardless of background, experience , the students reported improved levels writing service. Liverpool alumni can take advantage of Gidney (BA Hons English the opportunity to access summer study abroad, of confi dence, independence, communication, their services, which include the option to pay for Language and Literature something that they may otherwise miss out on due networking and inter-cultural awareness . ● additional legal advice whilst making your Will online. 1938, Diploma in to fi nancial or social barriers. The programme will If you would like further information about how you can Education 1939) was equip our students with valuable skills to use in their help to realise the hopes of students through a Liverpool used to support the study and personal life, as well as enriching them We want to give more students the opportunity to legacy, or about the Bequeathed Will writing service, redevelopment of the experience a global education, but we need your help. with a rewarding, global experience. please contact Carolyn Jones, Legacy Offi cer, via: Guild of Students . To fi nd out more about this programme and how you Thanks to a generous legacy donation, students can help to give students access to life-changing [email protected] or visit: liverpool.ac.uk/ will have the opportunity to spend a week at partner opportunities, please visit: liverpool.ac.uk/giving/ giving/legacies. universities in the United States and Malaysia, passports or contact : [email protected]. *Applies to residents of England and Wales

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Cilla Grain (née Jones) (LLB 1955) was called methods for purifying viruses that preserved as Chair of the Community Library in Lingfield Class Stephen Jones (BDS 1974) along with his children Abigail to the Bar of Gray’s Inn in 1957. She worked their function; these have now been applied which is run by volunteers for residents of the (BA English and Hispanic Studies 2009, MA 2010) and in legal publishing and the Foreign Office to more than 90 different viruses. An exciting surrounding area. Selina is also still involved Benjamin (BSc Psychology 2013) completed the Valencia before marriage to Alan Grain. Cilla recent development is the purification in archaeology on the Thames foreshore, NOTES 10K in December 2019 with his middle son, Christian, Where has life taken combined bringing up four children with a of exosomes from blood plasma. These come rain or shine! completing the full marathon. Stephen’s other son, your classmates since lecturing career in further and higher membrane-bound particles shuttle between Nathaniel (BSc Hons Tropical Disease Biology 2006, MSc graduation? education, specialising in General Principles different tissues carrying metabolic messages; 2007) had hoped to run the marathon but was unable to of Law and Business Law. Upon retiring, she the aim is to engineer these exosomes to ❱❱ 1970s secure a place which was a shame as then there would returned to the classroom to study English deliver molecules to specific diseased cells to have been a full house. Stephen was running in aid of the Motor Neurone Disease Association in memory of his late Find more online: Literature, which led to a writing career. render them inactive. wife Christine (née Cain) (MBChB 1975), who sadly died of Her novel, Watershed (2015), concerns a liverpool.ac.uk/ the disease in 2013. alumni/class-notes Liverpool family evacuated to mid-Wales in Anthony Hyde (BSc Hons WW2; the protagonist of Roses for Breakfast Metallurgy 1965, MSc (2018) is a traumatised WW2 prisoner, who 1987) stayed in education Jenny Parry (BA Hons Electrical Engineering to Ottawa, Canada, for 14 years as a Global faces mental challenges as a Liverpool teaching Physics in the 1973) worked for a few years in the UK, before Computer Consultant, followed by six years ❱❱ 1940s medical student. UK, Australia, India and moving to California with her husband and in Tokyo, Japan, as a TESOL English teacher Switzerland. He has been the instigator of two children. She spent 35 years there before and communication skills trainer. He returned George Mercer JP (Master of Civic Design John Ingham (LLB 1957) has long since and mentor for community service projects in Professor Lynne Hunt (née Hardy) (BA retiring in the UK in 2016. Coming back was to London in 2003 with a Japanese wife and 1948, BA Hons Geography 1950) was forced retired and now spends his leisure hours Ladakh, Peru and Kenya. He is a consultant for Hons Social Science 1970, pictured above, a very interesting experience even though son, and still delivers IT Software and Soft to complete his BA in two parts, owing to playing golf and watching Liverpool FC risk assessments of educational conferences right) recently met lifelong friend, classmate they visited many times over the years. Jenny Skills training in the UK and worldwide. He military service in Palestine between 1945-48. at Anfield. worldwide and is presently a supply teacher, and fellow retiree, Professor Marilyn made a pilgrimage back to Liverpool in 2017 has just published his first children’s book, Fortuitously, this enabled him to meet Joan workshop leader and examiner in Physics (IB). (Lyn) Durward (BA Hons Social Science and thoroughly enjoyed it. Tree Fellas: Olly Oak. Stopforth (BA 1951) to whom he has been He has climbed and trekked in many of the 1970, pictured above, left), in Coventry. Lyn happily married since 1953. Following an greater mountain ranges of the world. worked as Research and Policy Officer of Laurence Lee (LLB Hons 1973) never moved Reverend Brenda illustrious career in town planning leadership the Maternity Alliance. She later served as out of Liverpool and had his own high profile Jacqueline Stober (BSc in the North West and nationally, while Richard Saxon CBE FRIBA an Investigator with the Commission for criminal practice, representing Jon Venables 1979) received her MA in simultaneously serving as a JP, George retired (BArch 1965, MCD 1966) Local Administration - the local government in the James Bulger case and regularly Theology and Ministry in 1997. Joan retired in 1986 following a had a 40-year career ombudsman. She retrained and finished her appearing on TV and radio. Laurence has from Durham in 2019, successful teaching career. Three daughters with international career teaching English as a foreign language. been a Type 1 diabetic since he was 14 years which she thoroughly enjoyed. and seven grandchildren keep them busy, as Alan Allison (BEng Civil Engineering 1959) architecture and Lynne taught sociology in universities in the old and has written an upbeat book which he have interests in photography, foreign travel is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered engineering firm, BDP, peaking as its UK and Australia and won the 2002 Prime aims to have published worldwide entitled (behind the Iron Curtain in a camper van in the Environmentalist and has worked for the chairman from 1996 to 2002. Since 2005 Minister’s Award for Australian University Diabetes - A Piece of Cake. ❱❱ 1980s 70s!) and fell-walking. Admiralty, Kent County Council Highways, he has been a construction client adviser, Teacher of the Year and the Australian Award Ministry of Agriculture, National Rivers digital built environment guru and non- for Teaching in the Social Sciences. She Dr Paul Ducksbury (BSc Hons Computer Authority and Environment Agency. executive director. He was made a CBE concluded her career as Professor and Pro- Science 1980) left Liverpool and headed ❱❱ 1950s in 2001 for services to architecture and Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) at down south (with his Liverpudlian sense construction, mainly for championing reform the University of Southern Queensland. of humour, sometimes not appreciated!) to William Cartmell MRCVS (BVSc 1951) was an ❱❱ 1960s of the industry. Richard co-founded and work as a software engineer before doing a assistant in a veterinary practice in Gloucester led the British Council for Offices and was Dr Ann Ap-Thomas (MBChB 1973, FRCR PhD in numerical optimisation and parallel (1950-54) then owner principal of a practice Dr John Graham (BSc Hons Biochemistry a vice-president of RIBA. He has published 1979) was consultant Radiologist at Aintree computing. Paul then headed west to work in Wickham, Hampshire. He started Wickham 1965, PhD 1968) has spent his 50-year five books on Atrium Buildings and Building for 20 years. She is happily married with at GCHQ before settling as a scientist for the Laboratories Limited in his garden as a research career involved in the purification Information Modelling. Find out more: two children and two grandchildren, and Ministry of Defence in Malvern. He worked contract research organisation; the company of mammalian cells, subcellular particles www.saxoncbe.com. both children live close by. She had a hip Jon Gilbert (BA Hons Computational and in advanced image processing, image now employs 135 personnel with a global and viruses. About 25 years ago, he had the replacement in summer 2019 and is now Statistical Science 1974) began his career understanding and AI-based techniques. clientele in the life science industries. Find out privilege of working with Professor Tony Hart, Selina Springbett (BA Hons Combined rehabilitating to get back on the golf course in the UK as a PE and maths teacher before Paul now lives back up north, having retired more: www.wickhamlabs.co.uk. here in Liverpool, on the development of Studies 1969) found a new role in retirement for yet more frustrating rounds! becoming an IT Business Analyst. He moved to the mountains of Cumbria.

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Dr Kevin Devine (BSc Hons Chemistry 1982) Graham Hopwood (BA Hons English Language Surgeon, Medical Superintendent of a before embarking on a PhD at the National Jason Buultjens (LLB Hons 1995, MAC has been a senior lecturer in chemistry and Linguistics 1985) lives in Windhoek, hospital and Medical Director of a cancer Engineering Laboratory near Glasgow, International and European Law 1996) and pharmaceutical sciences at London Namibia, and is the Executive Director of hospital. He is currently Professor of Clinical awarded by the University of Leeds. He did worked in private practice as a commercial Metropolitan University since February 2008. Namibia’s leading think tank - the Institute Academia at PAPRSB Institute of Health a three year postdoctoral at Leeds and a bit litigator before joining the Government Legal He obtained a PhD in nucleic acid chemistry for Public Policy Research. Graham has Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, of agency work before joining the IT industry. Department in 2008. Jason is currently on from King’s College London in 1989 and then published research on electoral democracy, the teaching and fostering the next generation In November 2019, his debut radio drama, secondment as Head of Domestic Asylum embarked upon a series of postdoctoral functioning of parliament, and the effectiveness of doctors. He is still involved in clinical Escape Kit, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Policy for the Home Office. roles in the UK, Switzerland, Ireland and the of anti-corruption laws and strategies. practice as Visiting Consultant Surgeon at US. Highlights of Kevin’s research career a private hospital. Mike Hughes (BA Ruth Barton (BA Hons History 1996) has just Professor Andrew Pitman (BSc Hons Hons Political Theory completed a MA in History at the University include the co-development of a new class of Geography 1985, PhD 1988) is now the and Institutions 1989) of Northampton and is hoping to commence anti-cancer and anti-viral nucleotide pro-drugs Director of the Australian Research Council’s embarked on a career a PhD exploring aristocratic emotions in known as ProTides and the development of Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes as a journalist with March 2020. an analytical protocol for the extraction and based at the University of New South Wales. the BBC after graduation, initially as a identification of organic molecules in Mars The Centre links multiple research groups news reporter before moving into sports Professor D Harlan Wilson soils and other extra-terrestrial samples. across the world to understand and improve journalism and football commentating. (MA Science Fiction Studies Dr Duncan Currie (BSc Hons Pharmacology our ability to predict climate extremes using Mike covers Liverpool and Everton matches 1998) is a Professor of Sarah Taylor (née Battye) (BA Hons French 1985) completed a PhD and postdoctoral the latest high performance supercomputers. for BBC Radio Merseyside and has been English at Wright State 1983) spent four special years in two vibrant work before becoming a regulatory medical John Osborne FICE (BEng Hons Civil fortunate enough to travel around Europe University-Lake Campus cities, Liverpool and Bordeaux, on her year writer in the pharmaceutical industry. Duncan Jane Isabel Cole (BA Hons Engineering 1988, pictured above, left) commentating on many high-profile matches, in Ohio. He is the author of more than 20 out as a teaching assistant. She met her now lives in Kent and in June 2019, he made English Literature 1986) worked for a UK contractor on tunnel projects including Champions League, FA Cup and works of fiction and non-fiction, most recently husband in her final year, on 7 October an all too infrequent trip to Liverpool which has written her first novel before joining CERN in Switzerland in 1998. League Cup finals. He has also written, J.G. Ballard (University of Illinois Press, 2017), 1982 at Tuxedo Junction. Following several included a campus tour and a sentimental pint under the pseudonym of John now manages a team responsible for produced and presented a number of football Natural Complexions (Equus Press, 2018) and years working at Mirror Group Newspapers in the AJ. He also visited Carnatic one more Estelle Kennedy, a fictional civil engineering and infrastructure studies documentaries. Mike often wonders what The Psychotic Dr. Schreber (Stalking Horse and Paribas, and after having two children, time before its demolition, noting that it was romance set in central Liverpool, which is to for large scale future physics projects in the happened to the rest of his year group and Press, 2019). she works in a business which enables poignant to think of all those generations of be published by Novum P.C., and has almost Geneva region. He has kept in touch with of the Politics department football team of organisations to be more sustainable. She first years who have called it home over the completed a sequel. Now fully recovered from fellow students from Liverpool, most recently which he was captain. is renovating a house in Loire Valley, and years; students including his 18-year-old self a long illness which lasted a few years, she catching up with a fellow lodger at McNair ❱❱ 2000s continues to enjoy all that France and in 1982 as a fresh-faced resident on the top intends to complete her legal studies with a Hall, Colin Greene (BA Hons Economics 1988, French life has to offer. floor of Morton House C block. view to qualifying as a solicitor. She says she pictured above, right) at the 2019 Rugby ❱❱ 1990s could not have studied in a better city. World Cup Final in Japan. Colin has had an amazing journey in the tech industry, most Dr Juliette Riddall (BVSc 1990) works in Dr Richard Summersell (BSc Hons recently working for Apple for the past 13 Melbourne, Australia, at Lort Smith Animal Chemistry 1984, PhD 1988) worked years in Japan, Korea and the US. Hospital, a large not-for-profit veterinary in the pharmaceutical industry as a hospital. Juliette is still enthusiastic about chemist for a couple of years after being a vet and is also busy with conservation graduation before retraining as a work on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia European patent attorney, qualifying revegetating remnant bushland and making in 1994. Since then, he has worked safe habitats for wildlife. for large and small companies giving advice on intellectual property issues Dr Richard Piper (né Goodall) (BA Hons in Europe, the US and globally. After Geography 1994) is CEO of Alcohol Change Dr Emma Courtney (BDS 2000) is a general having a family, he took up climbing UK, the social change agency that runs Dry dental practitioner and personal trainer and has scaled many major peaks in January and campaigns for a less alcohol- coach as well as a speaker and presenter the Himalayas and South America! Dr William Thirsk-Gaskill (BSc Hons saturated drinking culture, drives innovation on the subject of stress and burnout within Professor Kenneth Yuh Yen Kok (MBChB Chemistry 1988, pictured above, left) worked in alcohol treatment, and leads research to the profession. Emma lives and works in 1987) has held positions of Consultant General for a year at a chemical plant in Poole, Dorset, eliminate alcohol harm. Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Tyrone Dominique (BA Hons Politics 2000) business, Bennd Yoga, and now teaches Pallavi Rangavajhala (MBA 2009) was Dr Shehu Sambo (MSc International Public roboticist of AMY Robotics, an innovative systems to support humanitarians, soldiers has just returned to London after spending Sun Power yoga and Vinyasa in nurseries, named Social Media Leader of the Year at Health 2010) is a Director at the Jigawa State technology company focusing on the research and police in protecting women and children 12 years working in Hong Kong, Chicago and schools, village halls, local gyms and even the 2019 Leadership Summit and Awards. Primary Health Care Development Agency and development of service robots in China. in conflict zones. He assists them using New York. He is currently heading up the in a Hotpod! in Nigeria where he oversees the delivery of communication and information technology European compliance department for a Carri-Ann Taylor (BA Hons English Language health care to the grassroots and especially PC Kate Hollis (BA Hons Geography 2014) facilities, trains them in setting up income- global family office and is married with two Hauwa Hamza (BSc Combined Honours and Literature 2009) has spent the last 10 hard to reach and nomadic population of the completed an MA in International Development generating activity and provides them young children. 2004) worked in immigration before years working as a journalist after starting state. He has helped to strengthen routine at the University of Manchester before working with peace-building and peace-keeping in deciding to go back to university and retrain out in local newspapers before moving on immunisation participation, which has for the Salvation Army supporting victims of their communities. Simon Boon (BSc Hons Zoology 2001) joined in Midwifery - a lifelong dream. She currently to the nationals. She is now a senior news drastically reduced the outbreak of vaccine modern slavery and human trafficking as a the Royal Navy after leaving Liverpool. holds an unconditional offer from the producer for ITV. preventable diseases like measles and caseworker. In July 2019, Katie graduated from Shah-Zeib Ahmed Having served abroad in submarines and University of Northampton in April 2020 whooping cough leading to improved child a two year Police Now graduate leadership (FIMBA 2017) works for ships in various countries including Iraq, Italy and cannot wait to get started. survival rates. development programme and now works as a FIFA and was involved and Nepal, home is now in Devon on the ❱❱ 2010s police officer within the Criminal Investigation in delivering numerous outskirts of Dartmoor National Park. Simon Carina Lawson (MBA 2011) Department in Hampshire Constabulary. tournaments, including was promoted to Commander in 2019 and is Macarena Lavin (MA has opened Ponderlily Paper the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia and the currently attending the Advanced Command Popular Music Studies and Planners, an Shane Ivers (BA Hons Music/Popular Music 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France. This and Staff Course in Shrivenham, home of the 2010) works as a freelance eco-friendly luxury stationery 2013, MMus 2014) continued working as last tournament was particularly poignant as Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. He music journalist with more brand. She has taught a composer and producer upon leaving he had written his MBA work-based project is also studying for a MA in Defence Studies. than 10 years’ experience classes on entrepreneurship to students at the university. He now runs Silverman Sound about investment in women’s football and got reporting and researching Virginia Commonwealth University and works as Studios which provides royalty-free music the chance to contribute to the growth and Bryan Jones (MPhys Physics 2005) works the Chilean music scene. She has been an Associate Director of Academic Operations for content creators under a Creative development of the sport. at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, a involved in the local music industry as a at a leading US-based research university. Commons license. You can find his work at: world-leading centre for research which publisher for independent record labels, www.silvermansound.com. Gustavo Gastelum (FIMBA 2018) works at offers unique insights into the properties teaches in two universities and has released Dr Ruijiao (Ricky) Li (BSc Artificial Intelligence Mattel as head of e-commerce for the Latin of materials on the atomic scale. two albums. 2012) is the co-founder, product director and American Region.

Professor Rob Pettitt MRCVS (BVSc 2002, Kristian Treen (BA Hons CEPT 2014) was awarded a personal chair at English 2018) runs his own the University in Small Animal Orthopaedics Yonghong Zhang (LLM International magic business in Leeds, at the end of 2018 and is currently the Head Business Law 2008) is a senior judge Kristian Treen Magic, and of Surgery at Leahurst. On a sporting front, and deputy head of Shanghai Songjiang Vanessa Endeley (LLB 2015) is a self-taught regularly gets booked to Rob represented Great Britain at the 2019 People’s Court. He was among the visual artist and documentary photographer perform at weddings and private parties Gran Fondo World Championships, a fabulous nine finalists for China at the inaugural born and raised in the city of Lagos. She is across the country. experience and one that will live long in his Education UK Alumni Awards and was focused on addressing the social injustices memory (and the weary legs). selected as a finalist for the Social Impact faced by Nigerian women, education, health Kailin Hu (MSc Human Resource Management Award. His Royal Highness, the Duke of and insecurity in the north eastern region of 2019) returned to China and joined Dell as Cambridge, met with him at the ceremony Nigeria. Her ongoing project, Working Women, a HRBP intern responsible for training and in Shanghai and congratulated him on aims to document sex workers and the trials employee relations. ● his achievement. During his Master’s, he they go through in their profession. conducted a comparative study on the enforcement of judgments between the Caoimhe O’Neill (BA Hons Irish Studies and UK and Chinese legal systems, which English 2015) is a sports journalist at the culminated in English Enforcement Law, Liverpool Echo, reporting on Liverpool the first Chinese book to outline the UK and Everton football clubs. system to Chinese practitioners. Helen Braithwaite (BA Hons Politics 2003) Sehidou Diaby (MBA 2016) is a Peacekeeper left full-time teaching in 2018 to start her own at the United Nations. He uses computer

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❱ Stephen Alexander ❱ Lyn Braithwaite (née ❱ Roger Ewbank MRCVS OBE ❱ Anthony Hewitt ❱ David Kendall ❱ Mary O’Loughlin (née ❱ Joseph Sleigh Staff , students, (BA 1971) Hanson) (BSc 1966, (BVSc 1957, MVSc 1970) (BA Hons 1965) (BA 1999) Barry) (Diploma 1992) (BA 1965) Friends of the Certifi cate in Education 1967) University ❱ ❱ Major John Parkinson ❱ Frank Smith ❱ Lorraine Allan (née ❱ Mary Fazakerley ❱ Dr Sidney Hoddes Dr Alan Kirby of Liverpool ❱ Andrew Bridson (MBChB 1956) FRCVS (BVSc 1943) (BA Hons 1956) Hutchinson) MRCVS (BA Hons 1945) (MBChB 1952) and Honorary (BEng 1985) ❱ ❱ Daniel Parry ❱ Dr Jeanette Smith (née Graduates (BVSc 1975) ❱ Dr Maurice Fowles ❱ Margaret Houghton (née Johan Klaassen ❱ Gabrielle Brydon (née (MBA 2005) (BSc 2012) Ferguson) (MBChB 1959) ❱ (MBChB 1954) Pigot) (LLB Hons 1952) Dr Margaret Alston- Kenny) (Certifi cate Professor Sir Alasdair ❱ Barry Lipkin ❱ James Peachey ❱ Muriel Snazell Breckenridge CBE (Hon Garnjost (née Alston) in Advanced Study in ❱ His Honour David Gee ❱ Dr Ivor Hughes (LLB 1959) (MSc Eng 1991) (BA 1956) MD 2007) former Professor (BSc Hons 1951, PhD 1952) Education 1994) OstJ TD (LLB Hons 1957) (MBChB 1960) Clinical Pharmacology ❱ Dr Eric London ❱ John Pearson ❱ Kenneth Speers ❱ ❱ Professor Roger Burgess ❱ Jeff rey George ❱ Professor Julian Crampton, Dr Henry Alty David Hydes (BSc 1952) (BA 1970) (BDS 1965) (PhD 1949) former Pro-Vice-Chancellor (BDS 1952, MBChB 1958) (BArch 1951) (BEd 1971) of the University ❱ David Lusk ❱ Stephen Phillips ❱ Philip Stevens ❱ Andrew Bygrave MRCVS ❱ Rachel Gollins (née ❱ Arthur Garnett, member of ❱ Fred Atkinson David James (BA 1985) (Diploma in Public Admin (BA 1978) (BVSc 1957) Lawson) (BA 1958) staff in Facilities Management (BA Hons 1960, Diploma (BEng 2005) 1985) and local historical tour guide ❱ Robin MacDonald ❱ Bert Stokes in Education 1961) ❱ Derek Codling ❱ Mateusz Górzynski ❱ Sue Jarvis (née Punter) ❱ Dr Graham Pogrel (BA Hons 2004) Emeritus Professor Alan (BArch 1965) (BA Hons 1954) (LLB 2018) (MBChB 1971) Harding, Professor of ❱ (BA Hons 1958) ❱ Grahame Atkinson MRCVS ❱ Dr Rukhsana Majeed David Stoneman Medieval History ❱ John Codner MRCVS ❱ Joseph Grady (BVSc 1969) ❱ Siv Jensen MRCVS ❱ Professor Derek Poole (BEng 1952) (BVSc 1971) (M Obst Gyn 1989) Professor Kate Marsh, (BEng 1964) (BArch Hons 1956, MCD ❱ (BVSc 1997, M Phil 2002) ❱ Anthony Swift Professor of French Studies Michael Bailey ❱ ❱ Meg Mann (née Evans) Kenneth Cox ❱ Stanley Gray 1957) (BSc 1966) ❱ Margaret Jinks (BA Hons 1960, Certifi cate in (BDS 1962) Emeritus Professor David (BEng 1959) (MEng 1941) ❱ Morgan, former Dean of (BA 1969) Education 1961) James Prentice ❱ ❱ Christopher Terry the Faculty of Social and Kenneth Barker ❱ Dr Roy Crombie ❱ (LLB Hons 1947) Penelope Groom ❱ (BEng 1957) Environmental Studies (BSc 1966) (MBChB 1968) ❱ Richard John Dr John Phillips McKay (BSc 1969) ❱ Emeritus Professor David Professor Martin Mortimer, (BEng Hons 1957) (MBChB 1966) ❱ Gillian Thompson ❱ John Barraclough ❱ Edmund Davies MRCVS Price Evans (BSc Hons 1948, former Head of Department ❱ Christopher Haff ner ❱ (BSc Hons 1963) of Plant Sciences, Institute of (BVSc 1947) ❱ Cyril Jones Gertrude McLoughlin MBChB 1951, MSc 1957, MD (BA 1968) (BArch 1959) Integrative Biology (BEng 1952) (BA Hons 1947, MA 1954) 1959, PhD 1965, DSc 1981, ❱ James Tomlinson ❱ Glyn Davies James Mulvihill, from the ❱ John Barrington ❱ Dr Paul Halewood ❱ Hon LLD 2008) (BA Hons 1961) (BSc Hons 1972) ❱ John Millar CBE Department of Chemistry and (BEng Hons 1958) (BSc Hons 1949, PhD 1952) Robert Jones (BArch 1947) ❱ John Priestley ❱ Eileen Tregunna (née former member of staff in the ❱ Charles Doyle (BDS 1973) Sports Centre ❱ Dr Anne Bayley ❱ Marjorie Harriman (née ❱ (BSc Hons 1970) Buckley) (BSc 1946) (BCom Hons 1967) ❱ Roy Millett (BA Hons 1947) Ronald Kay Dr Michael Oglesby CBE (MBChB 1960) Jones) (BSc 1967) ❱ Nicholas Quinn ❱ Mark Waples ❱ (LLB 1952) DL, former Vice President of Christian Dujardin Liverpool School of Tropical ❱ David Harris ❱ (BEng 1965) (BA 1994) ❱ Margaret Beattie (MBA 2011) Julia Molyneux Medicine (LLB 1955) ❱ Eur Ing Desmond Kealey (BA 1984) (BEd 1985) ❱ Neil Richardson ❱ Landeg White ❱ Soad El Bosseri (BEng 1944) Dr Peter Sissons (Hon LLD ❱ Dr Bernard Hayes MRCVS ❱ (BSc Hons 1956) (BA Hons 1961, MA 1964) 2002) ❱ (Diploma in Tropical Dr Michael Murphy Margaret Beeching ❱ Olive Keidan (née Tulloch) Medicine and Hygiene 1994) (BVSc 1954) (MA 2010) ❱ Dr David Roberts ❱ Dr Derek Whittaker Sandra Hughes, (née Bevan) (BA 1948) (Certifi cate 1944, BSc 1950) (BSc 1969, PhD 1973) (BEng Hons 1951, PhD 1958) Employability and ❱ Dr Anthony Enoch FRCP ❱ Eur Ing Terry Hedges ❱ Ruth Naylor Placements Offi cer in the ❱ Timothy Berry (BSc Hons 1959, MBChB (BEng Hons 1966, MEng ❱ Reverend Canon Dennis (BN 2001) ❱ Mary Robinson (née ❱ David Willis Management School (LLB Hons 1966) 1962) 1968) Kelly (BA 1952) McIntyre) (BSc 1955) (DLOW 1996) ❱ Lord Donald Nicholls of Yuxiao Yang, student on the MSc Human Resource ❱ ❱ Joshua Brooker ❱ Caroline Evans MRCVS ❱ Dr Alexander Henderson Roger Kelly Birkenhead (LLB Hons 1956, ❱ Lesley Robinson ❱ Dr James Wright Management programme in (BA 2014) (BVSc 1981) (BSc 1961, PhD 1965) (LLB Hons 1975) Hon LLD 1987) (BA 1966) (MBChB 1952) the Management School

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GRADUATES Lord Tony Hall CBE (Hon LLD Stephen McGann (Hon LittD Amrit (BA Hons 1987, Hon LittD 2019) is one of the key figures 2019) is an actor, author and 2019) and Rabindra (BA Hons in the UK’s media and arts science communicator. Born in 1987, Hon LittD 2019) Singh MBE industry. He held the position of Liverpool, he began his acting – better known as the Singh Director-General of the BBC for career in 1982 in London’s West Twins – are Wirral-raised seven years and will become End and is currently starring as contemporary artists whose Chair of the National Gallery’s Dr Turner in Call the Midwife. award-winning work explores a IN 2019, THE UNIVERSITY Board of Trustees in summer Stephen is a keen public speaker broad range of social and AWARDED HONORARY 2020. In 2006, as the then and writer on the social political issues. They were made DEGREES TO 10 ESTEEMED Chief Executive of the Royal dimensions of science and Honorary Citizens of Liverpool in FIGURES IN RECOGNITION Opera House, he was awarded medicine in popular culture. His 2010 and received MBEs for OF THEIR SUCCESS AND a CBE for services to Opera book, Flesh and Blood: A History services to the Indian miniature and Ballet and was made a life of my Family in Seven Sicknesses, tradition of painting within CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY peer in 2010 with the title traced the relationship between contemporary art in 2011. Baron Hall of Birkenhead. social history and public health.

The Honorable Wendy The Honourable Sir Stephen Professor Ray Donnelly MBE Max Steinberg CBE FRSA (Hon Dr Matt Taylor (MPhys 1997, Hon Heidi Thomas (BA Hons English Beetlestone (BA Hons Cobb (LLB Hons Law 1984, Hon (Hon LLD 2019) is a retired LLD 2019) is Chair of the Board of DSc 2019) is a Project Scientist for Language and Literature 1983, Philosophy 1984, Hon LLD 2019) LLD 2019) is a Justice of the High Consultant Cardiothoracic the ACC Liverpool Group, which the European Space Agency’s Hon LittD 2019) is a multi-award is a Judge in the United States Court, assigned to the Family Surgeon and Founder and runs the Arena and Convention Rosetta Mission that successfully winning screenwriter, producer District Court of the Eastern Division. In his judicial role, he President of the Roy Castle Lung Centre on the famous Liverpool landed a probe on a comet and playwright. She is best District of Pennsylvania. has taken responsibility for Cancer Foundation. A pioneer in waterfront. He was awarded an travelling at 135,000 km per hour. known as the creator of the Nominated to the bench by leading reform of the procedures his field, he was the first person OBE for services to Housing and After leaving Liverpool, Matt global hit BBC series Call the President Barack Obama in 2014, for determining parental disputes worldwide to remove a lung Regeneration in 1997 and a CBE completed a PhD in Space Plasma Midwife, with other works she was notably instrumental in concerning children, and for the cancer using keyhole surgery. He for services to Business and the Physics at Imperial College including Cranford, Upstairs issuing an injunction to block a resolution of family cases which was awarded an MBE in 2009 for Community in 2013. London, followed by a series of Downstairs, Ballet Shoes and controversial change to women’s involve domestic abuse. Voluntary Services to Healthcare. postdoctoral placements. I Capture the Castle. reproductive healthcare rights by the Trump administration.

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