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Winter Spring Summer Autumn Constitution

The University’s constitution is set out in its Royal Charter, Statutes The business of the University is conducted in accordance with the and Ordinances. seven principles identified by the Nolan Committee on Standards in Public Life (selflessness; integrity; objectivity; accountability; The Court meets once a year to receive the University’s Annual openness; honesty; leadership) and follows the further advice about Review and Accounts and, as appropriate, to appoint a Chancellor governance from the Committee, the Higher Education Funding of the University. The Court’s membership includes representatives Council for England and the Committee of University Chairmen. The from many sectors of the local and national community as well as Council maintains a Register of Interests of its members and staff staff, student and graduate members. of the University. The Government’s response to the Dearing Report on Higher Education (1998) endorsed a recommendation that the The Council is the executive governing body of the University and Council should be reviewed at least once every five years. The most comprises lay and staff members and students, with a non- recent review of the Council’s effectiveness was undertaken during executive, lay majority. The Statutes of the University define the summer/early autumn 2008. The review included a detailed report powers and responsibilities of the Council (and of the Court and the from an External Adviser, John Lauwerys, formerly Secretary and Senate, see below). By custom and under the advice of the Higher Registrar at the University of Southampton. The review concluded Education Funding Council for England, the Council has that overall the Council was effective. Some changes to further responsibility for the ongoing strategic direction of the University, enhance its operational effectiveness are under consideration. The approves major projects and receives regular reports from next review of the Council’s effectiveness will be in 2012/2013. Committees and Executive Officers acting under statutory or Enquiries about the constitution and governance of the University delegated powers. should be directed to the Secretary of the Council.

The Senate is the academic authority of the University and comprises academic staff and student members. It directs and regulates the teaching and research of the University. 2008

Contents

2 Introduction 4 Winter 2008 12 Staff profile – Sarah Lonsdale 14 Spring 2008 22 Staff profile – Professor Sarah Spurgeon 24 Summer 2008 32 Student profile – Berna Ucel 34 Autumn 2008 42 Staff profile – Dr Mark Smales 44 Books 47 Open Lectures 48 Summary of financial performance 50 Awards, appointments, promotions and deaths 52 Principal officers

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Professor Julia Goodfellow – introduction

It seems amazing that I have been the UK overall in the 2008 National Student at the University of Kent for over a Survey. An important part of current strategy year. It has been an exceptionally is to strengthen postgraduate provision. Professor Diane Houston, formerly Head of busy and exciting time for all of us. the Department of Psychology, has been appointed first Dean of the new Graduate A particular highlight was the award of a School. Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education for the work of the Kent In the autumn, postgraduate students took Law Clinic. We were extremely proud to up residence in Woolf College. This is the receive the award from the Queen at first new college to be built at Canterbury Buckingham Palace. for nearly 40 years. There are two further building projects underway at Canterbury: We were delighted with the outcome of the a new state-of-the-art building for our highly Government’s 2008 Research Assessment rated School of Drama, Film & Visual Arts, Exercise (RAE). The University is 24th in the and the Innovation Centre, funded by list of UK higher education institutions in SEEDA, which will support local businesses terms of University performance in the best, and the creation of jobs in the region. 4*, research grading. There are top rankings in a range of subject areas. History, for At Medway, construction of purpose-built During the year I have been delighted to example, is third in the country and we student accommodation has started, with meet many alumni at University events in the have six in the top ten of their disciplines completion due in 2009. This year has seen House of Lords, in New York, San Francisco, nationwide. This is a significant shift for the the graduation of the first group of MPharm Brussels and Hong Kong. I look forward to University. I should like to thank all those students from the Medway School of meeting more in the year ahead. We have involved in the University’s submission. Pharmacy and the start of an exciting new also welcomed a number of distinguished degree programme in journalism. speakers to the University, including Sir The University of Kent also improved its Simon Jenkins, who gave the Chancellor’s position in the national newspaper league The University’s campus in Brussels Lecture. This Annual Review is only a tables. We are very pleased that the celebrated its 10th anniversary with a snapshot of the University’s activities and University is now 28th out of 117 higher successful reception held in the British achievements during 2008. However, I trust it education institutions in the UK, according Ambassador’s residence in Brussels. Hosted conveys a picture of a University committed to The Guardian, ranking higher than some jointly with Kent County Council, the keynote to excellence, enterprise and engagement in major civic universities. According to address was by Lord Hannay of Chiswick. everything it does. I hope you share my The Guardian University Guide 2009, ‘Kent excitement about what we have achieved describes itself as “the UK’s top European As with all UK universities, financial matters this year and my expectation of future university”, and many courses offer a foreign cannot be overlooked. Our financial achievements. language option or a year abroad ... But statements for 2007/2008 indicate a no matter how much it gazes towards the successful year but increasing financial Finally, I should like to thank all staff, the continent, it also takes its regional role pressures require a sustained focus to Executive Group and members of the seriously’, a welcome endorsement of our ensure continued well-being. Fundraising Council, especially Valerie Marshall (Chair), regional commitment and our teaching and is ever more important and Kent is poised to John Simmonds (Deputy Chair) and our research at an international level. take advantage of the Government’s scheme Chancellor, Sir Robert Worcester, for their to match the funding raised by universities support during this outstanding year. Student recruitment continues to rise, and over the next three years. We are set to our student population is almost 17,000. launch a fundraising campaign focusing on Kent students again voted Kent ‘number one capital funding projects, scholarships and university in London and the south-east for the student experience. student satisfaction’ and we were ninth in Professor Julia Goodfellow CBE, FMed Sci Vice-Chancellor

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Language and linguistics centre launched

The Centre for Language and Linguistic Studies, based in the School of European Culture and Languages (SECL), was launched with a public lecture, entitled Genocide and ethnocide: the suppression of the Cornish language, given by Dr Jon Mills from the University’s English Language Unit.

The Centre aims to provide a forum for research collaboration and research-led teaching outside the confines of SECL and its language sections. Among those to benefit will be other sections and departments across the University which have identifiable linguistic interests, such as Anthropology, Classics and Archaeology, Computing, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology, as well as local schools and members of the community.

Research Research reveals views on government spending on the poor

How will the UK end indigenous child poverty by its deadline of 2020 when most people think this is not the government’s responsibility? This is one of several concerns uncovered by Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby in his analysis of a survey carried out by NatCen on changing perceptions of social justice.

Professor Taylor-Gooby, a member of the School of Social Policy, Research Publications 2007 Sociology and Social Research, used national survey data from the British Social Attitudes Report to show that the proportion of The University has revived the publication of an annual list of the people who think the government should spend more on benefits publications of its staff. Publications and research grant awards are for the poor has fallen from over half to under a third since the late listed by individual, and grouped by department and faculty. This is a 1980s, and that people in the UK are becoming less inclined to web-based publication that can be corrected and updated at any time. see helping vulnerable groups as the business of government. Research Publications 2007 provides a comprehensive picture of The results of Professor Taylor-Gooby’s research were published the range and depth of research and its outputs produced by the in the National Centre for Social Research’s British Social University. It can be seen at: www.kent.ac.uk/library/research/kar.html Attitudes: 24th Report. During March 2009 the second volume, Research Publications 2008, will appear.

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Minor icy bodies and cosmic dust

The University’s long history of research in solar system science continued with the award of a new £500,000 research grant from the Science and Technology Facilities Council to Professor Mark Burchell of the Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science in the School of Physical Sciences. The grant is for work in two related fields, both concerning icy bodies. A limit to the lifetime of such bodies is a catastrophic collision with another icy body. The work at Kent is to modify the existing high speed gun so that it can fire ice projectiles at solar system speeds. By destroying ice targets it becomes possible to work out how much energy is needed to break up an icy body via an impact. The grant also supports on- going Kent work studying the composition of dust collected in 2004, by the NASA spacecraft Stardust, from comet 81P/Wild 2. “Professor Mark Burchell Understanding Kent has played a significant role in the received an award of the changing Stardust mission since its initial planning £500,000 from the Science in 1996, and continues to do so today. and Technology Facilities nature of ageing

Council for his work with icy A study by Professor Julia Twigg of the bodies and cosmic dust.” School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research aimed to understand the changing nature of ageing in modern society by exploring the views and experiences of older women about fashion, and dress.

The study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, is based on interviews with older women and sought to learn why, in an era when older people not only represent a significant proportion of the population but also have considerable disposable income, many women in their fifties, sixties and beyond who are interested in clothes claim they have difficulty finding ‘something to wear’ in retail outlets. People in the fashion and media industries are also being interviewed about their perceptions of this group to establish to what extent they cater for this market.

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Kent contributes biometric expertise to UK training consortium

Kent joined the Continuing Education in Electronics Systems Integration (CEESI) training consortium of 11 leading UK universities, contributing four new advanced modules in the area of biometrics and security.

The Department of Electronics, acknowledged to be a world leader in biometrics, is currently working with leading industrial companies such as Motorola and Electrone.

The CEESI-Training programme, supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, is intended to address industry’s need for flexible training in electronics systems design and integration by establishing a ‘pool’ of training modules at postgraduate level, accessible mainly via the internet.

Institution University of Kent receives Queen’s award

The Queen presented the University with the prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education at Buckingham Palace. The award was given for the work of the Kent Law Clinic in ‘enriching the academic study of law through a casework service to the community’.

Through its outstanding outreach activities, the Kent Law Clinic provides a free legal advice and representation service to the local “The Department of Electronics is community in Canterbury and Medway and delivers a first-class acknowledged to be a world leader legal education to law undergraduates. in biometrics.” The Queen’s Anniversary Prize was the latest in a series of accolades awarded to the Kent Law Clinic. It was awarded a Times Higher Education Award in 2007 and in 2006 Director Professor John Fitzpatrick was awarded an OBE for ‘services to the administration of justice’.

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Regional business performance enhanced by Kent research

University researchers launched a ground- breaking project aimed at enhancing the business performance of up to 300 companies throughout the Kent and Medway region.

The project, called Promoting Sustainable Performance, was the brainchild of the Centre for Regional Business Productivity (CRBP), one of the five key research centres of Kent Business School (KBS). Led by CRBP Director and Senior Lecturer in KBS, Dr Mark Gilman, the project will provide unrivalled research into, and analysis of, a company’s strengths and weaknesses. He said: ‘The project will facilitate the development of research and business networks, and will assist businesses and social partner groups with ongoing productivity and efficiency improvements.’

“University researchers aim to enhance the business performance of up to 300 companies in Kent and Medway.”

“The Kent Law Clinic provides a free legal advice and representation service to the local community in Canterbury and Medway.”

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Sir Simon Jenkins University cathedral concert gives Chancellor’s Two composers and two cathedrals provided the theme for this year’s Colyer-Fergusson Lecture Concert, with over 250 University musicians performing in the magnificent setting of Canterbury Cathedral’s Nave. The evening began with a performance of Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony, with its solemn fourth movement inspired by the awesome Gothic architecture of Cologne Cathedral. That composer’s tragic death in 1856 was the initial catalyst for his close friend Johannes Brahms to compose his choral masterpiece, the German Requiem, performed in the second half of the concert. The University’s Chorus and Symphony Orchestra were joined by two outstanding soloists, soprano Anne Osborne and baritone Benjamin Bevan, and the concert was conducted by the Director of Music, Susan Wanless.

Sir Simon Jenkins, columnist and writer, gave the Chancellor’s Lecture this year, with a lecture entitled British politics in decay? Sir Simon Jenkins began his career on Country Life magazine, worked for The Times Educational Supplement and the London Evening Standard, and edited the Insight page of The Sunday Times. He was political editor of The Economist (1979-86) and went on to found and edit The Sunday Times Books section, where he also wrote a weekly column. In 1988 he was voted Journalist of the Year, and in 1993 Columnist of the Year. He has won the Edgar Wallace and David Watt awards. He is currently chair of the National Trust.

Previous speakers in this lecture series have included Professor Lord May of Oxford and Lord Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool.

“For this year’s Colyer- Fergusson concert, over 250 University musicians performed in the magnificent setting of Canterbury Cathedral’s Nave.”

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IT Clinic launched in Medway

The Kent IT Clinic (KITC) has extended the service it provides to businesses with the launch of a new IT Clinic at the Medway campus. The Clinic, which offers high- quality, low-cost IT support, training and consultancy to small and medium-sized enterprises in the region, is unique as all its Students and teaching consultants are undergraduate computing students at the University, whose work is mentored and supervised by experienced Helping children with computer programming co-ordinators. The Computing Laboratory teamed up with computing magazine PC Pro in an effort to popularise the way children learn to programme computers. Many of the students involved have gained industrial and consulting experience through PC Pro published an article that encouraged children of all ages to experience programming by placements at major organisations including creating their own computer games using Greenfoot, an easy-to-use Java-based programming IBM and Microsoft. The work they carry out system developed by staff from Kent and Deakin University, Australia. By following the 12 easy at the clinics also forms an essential part of steps to programming guide, children can build a simple game in a single afternoon. their final degree programmes.

Greenfoot has been designed The KITC has been running at the specifically for children of school age University’s Canterbury campus since 2004 and makes learning to programme fun. and was recently awarded the Enterprise It incorporates many features which and Training Award for Excellence from make it appealing and relevant to Technology Enterprise Kent. In 2006 it was today’s children who are accustomed shortlisted for another major industry award, to playing sophisticated and visually the VNU Business Publications Computing stimulating games online. Awards for Excellence.

“The Kent IT Clinic offers high-quality, low-cost IT support, training and consultancy to small and medium-sized enterprises.”

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Pharmacy student’s world-class experience in Brazil

A Medway School of Pharmacy student has broadened her academic and cultural horizons after undertaking a three-month work placement in Brazil. Allison Coll, a third-year student reading for her MPharm at Medway, spent her placement at the Federal New residences at Medway University of Vicosa, where she helped carry out a range The University has exchanged contracts with leading developer of pharmaceutical research Berkeley First for the construction of purpose-built, high-quality projects. accommodation for more than 600 students based at its Medway campus. The first students will take up residence from late summer Allison is a former winner of the British Pharmaceutical 2009. Students’ Association (BPSA) Student of the Year competition. Her trip was part of a programme run by IAESTE – the Situated less than a 15-minute walk from the Medway campus at International Association for the Exchange of Students Chatham Maritime, the scheme will provide 549 single study for Technical Experience – which selects students who bedrooms and 55 studios. Split between two main buildings, the have demonstrated that they can help develop business larger block will contain 406 rooms around a central courtyard opportunities or scientific studies abroad. Allison competed and the second, smaller building will contain 198 rooms. against more than 400 students in Britain and Northern Ireland to make the final shortlist of ten for the IAESTE UK Trainee of The accommodation is based at Liberty Pier, a development which the Year award, organised by the British Council. will include shops, bars, restaurants, leisure facilities and more than 800 new homes. The 20-acre site will feature landscaped green spaces and river walks.

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Journalism Alumni and events degree launched Alumni update The University welcomed in the new year In January an alumni event was held at the with the launch of its degree programme in Duke of Kent pub in Toronto, Canada, Journalism. Based at the Medway campus, hosted by Trusts and Foundations Manager the Centre for Journalism is led by Professor Deanna Wolf and Vice-President of Tim Luckhurst and combines the teaching of University of Kent in America, Chris traditional print media and journalism skills Bellingham. with training in digital and multimedia communications, including radio, television Chortle Award winners and if.comedy and online publishing. Best Show Nominees, Pappy’s Fun Club (featuring Matthew Crosby, Brendan Dodds A special panel of advisers has been set up and Tom Parry) performed at the Gulbenkian to help oversee the new degree programme Theatre in February. Later in the year they and provide expert tips and guidance from starred in their own show on BBC Radio 4, inside the news industry. The panel includes featured in a half-hour special on Channel 4, Gavin Esler, one of the main presenters of appeared at the Melbourne International BBC Two’s Newsnight programme; Roger Comedy Festival and had a sell-out run at Alton, editor of national newspaper The the Edinburgh Fringe. Independent; Phil Harding, a former editor of Radio 4’s Today programme and one of the founders of the BBC’s 5 Live radio station; and Simon Irwin, Editorial Director of the Kent Messenger Group.

The National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) has given full accreditation to the degree programme.

“The new Journalism degree programme combines the teaching of traditional print media and journalism skills with training in digital and multimedia communications.”

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Sarah Lonsdale

Sarah Lonsdale is Lecturer in Reporting and Writing at the University’s new Centre for Journalism, based at the Medway campus. Her work has been internationally recognised and earlier this year she was awarded the prestigious accolade of Environment Writer of the Year for her ‘Greenpiece’ articles, a weekly column she has been writing for the Daily Telegraph for the past two-and-a-half years.

Sarah started her journalism career writing ‘In my mind it is the best journalism degree features for an obscure business magazine, in the country, meshing the strong, practical Westminster, the in-house journal of the skills of reporting, writing and broadcasting Westminster Chamber of Commerce. It had with academic modules in history, politics all the hallmarks of a magazine of the time – and law. The award of our accreditation from produced in a cramped attic room stuffed the National Council for the Training of with busy impoverished scribblers all Journalists, before we admitted a single hammering away on old-fashioned student, is a first for the NCTJ, and a typewriters, fingers inky from carbon paper. testament to the Centre’s excellence.

‘I got a lucky break interviewing a group of ‘Journalists suffer a poor reputation in this bankers and advertising executives who country, for having scant regard for the lived in a squat in Hackney and sold the simple virtues of fairness, accuracy and the piece, ‘The smoked salmon squatters’, to the ability to tell a good story. The public will put Evening Standard. Seeing my ‘byline’ in print up with gossip-mongering and tittle-tattle as was a heady feeling and I had to have more.’ long as journalists also hold government and big business to account, shine a light in dark After two years training as a cub reporter on places, and give a voice to those who can’t the Reading Chronicle Sarah was offered a speak up for themselves. The BA we offer at job on the Observer newspaper as a general Kent will, we hope, turn out journalists having reporter. She covered the 1992 General more in common with George Orwell and the Election, the inner city riots of the early BBC’s courageous Orla Guerin than JK 1990s, the demise of Margaret Thatcher Rowling’s ghastly mendacious Rita Skeeter.’ and campaigned on social justice issues. Professor Tim Luckhurst, Head of the Centre Sarah originally came to Kent to teach non- for Journalism, has nothing but praise for fiction modules for the School of English. Sarah, ‘Sarah’s excellence as a reporter She later moved to the Centre for Journalism makes her a brilliant and inspiring teacher and was immediately impressed by for the new generation of multimedia Professor Tim Luckhurst’s vision for journalists learning the profession here journalism at Kent. at Kent.’

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Research Kent study to promote physical exercise to teenage girls

A new study at Kent aims to reduce obesity and promote well-being by encouraging increased physical exercise for girls aged between 11 and 15.

The three-year study, conducted by Jenny Billings, Ferhana Hashem and Jan Macvarish of the Centre for Health Services Studies, seeks to identify the issues that prevent or inhibit girls in this age group from engaging in regular physical exercise or sport. It will recommend new and innovative ways to inspire increased regular participation in local programmes. Major grant for EU Study of ‘invisible’ Wendy Davey, Thanet Schools Sports Co-ordinator, Claire Martin, Public Health web architecture history of mixed-race Specialist with Eastern Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust, and pupils from schools in project Britain Margate and Westgate are working David Chadwick, Professor of Information A major new study, jointly undertaken by alongside the University. The study is Systems Security at the Computing Peter Aspinall, Senior Research Fellow at the supported by the Big Lottery Fund. Laboratory, has been awarded €942,534 for Centre for Health Services Studies, and his participation in the EC-funded project Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared at London South Bank University, is looking Services (TAS3). into who was considered to be mixed race in Britain between 1920 and 1950, and how Kent is one of 18 partners from across this population was perceived and treated Europe being funded on this four-year by officialdom, the media and wider society. €9,400,000 project, the main aim of which is to develop and implement a dependable, Entitled ‘The era of moral condemnation: robust, cost-effective, reliable and cross- mixed race people in Britain 1920-1950’, domain trustworthy architecture for web- the study will use first-hand accounts, based services. autobiographical recordings and a range of archival material to understand how these Professor Chadwick’s role in TAS3 is to perceptions emerged and the impact they develop and manage a core technical may have had on the conceptualisation of component titled Identity Management mixed race people in Britain today. and Authorisation and Authentication. Its function is to ensure that users of the TAS3 infrastructure are properly authenticated and authorised before they are granted access to the personal information they have requested.

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Kent scientist Reducing CO2 highlighted for emissions from contribution to biomass and coal- UK economy fired power plants

A scientist from Kent was highlighted as Yong Yan, Professor of Electronic one of the leading bioscience researchers Instrumentation and his colleagues Peter contributing to the UK’s economic and Lee and Gang Lu in the Department of social well-being. Electronics have been awarded £411,147 in the Engineering and Physical Sciences Professor Mick Tuite’s research has led to Research Council (EPSRC) under the a successful generic technology for the programme of Renewable Energy production of biopharmaceuticals and it was Technologies. This is part of an international showcased at a recent event at HM Treasury, collaborative project with partners from the run by the Biotechnology and Biological Universities of Nottingham and Leeds and Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). The collaborators from Zhejiang, Xian Jiaotong research has a range of applications in Bringing new Dickens and Tianjin Universities in the People’s biopharmaceuticals – medical drugs Republic of China. The overall support from produced using biotechnology. letters to light the EPSRC for the consortium is nearly £900,000. Additionally, power generation The event, ‘Bioscience:Biomillions’, showed Professor Malcolm Andrews from the School organizations, including E.ON, RWE npower, how the UK’s excellent bioscience research of English has been working with a small Alstom Power and China Datang base, principally funded by BBSRC with editorial team to publish newly discovered Corporation, have agreed to provide in-kind over £400m of public money each year, is Dickens letters. support of more than £120,000. This project making a substantial economic and social seeks to optimise the operation of biomass/ impact. Following the publication of the 12-volume coal-fired power plants through integrated OUP ‘Pilgrim’ edition of The Letters of measurement and computational modelling. Charles Dickens, it transpired that there was As the lead partner in the consortium, the no longer an official publishing site for newly Kent team will be responsible for the discovered Dickens letters which continued instrumentation and monitoring aspects to surface in auction houses, antiquarian of the project. These include on-line bookshops and library archives. Professor measurement of biomass/coal/air three- Andrews subsequently bid for the right for phase flow, on-line particle sizing, and The Dickensian to publish new letters, continuous monitoring of burner conditions gaining permission from the Dickens family and flame stability under biomass/coal which owns copyright on all unpublished co-firing conditions. Dickens material. The Dickensian began publishing supplements of the new letters in Coal is the main source of energy in many 2002 and this year the project received a countries, so co-firing with biomass will help £54,000 research development award from “Coal is the main source of reduce global emissions of CO2 and other the British Academy. The team has an energy in many countries, so greenhouse gases. This collaborative project agreement that when sufficient numbers of provides a platform for the research groups co-firing with biomass will letters have been published, the OUP will from the UK and China to tackle the common help reduce global emissions bring out an additional 13th volume of the co-firing challenges together, which will lead letters. The Dickensian’s supplements will of CO and other greenhouse ultimately to significantly reduced emissions 2 also be put online by Intelex. and efficient use of biomass from a diverse gases.” range of sources in a wide variety of forms on a much greater scale.

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Institution Kent ranked in the top 30 by The Guardian

Kent was placed among the top 30 universities in the UK according to The Guardian’s 2008 Higher Education League Tables. The tables put Kent in 28th place – out of 117 listed higher education institutions. This represents a rise of 18 places since last year.

According to The Guardian University Guide 2009, ‘Kent describes itself as “the UK’s top European university”, and many courses offer a foreign language option or a year abroad … But no matter how much it gazes towards the continent, it also takes its regional role seriously.’

The Guardian, in line with all published league tables, continues to rate Kent as the top university in Kent and Medway.

Pregnancy and substance misuse

Dr Alex Stevens and Dr Polly Radcliffe from the European Institute of Social Services carried out an Economic and Social Research Council-funded study in which they investigated the experiences of women who misuse substances with the antenatal services in three NHS regions. Using qualitative interview and non-participative observation, the researchers explored how substance misusing women are assessed, monitored and treated, and how they manage and respond to these processes. The question of how substance misusing women are able to balance their identities as mothers-to-be and substance misusers was explored.

As part of the study, a sample of women, who were either pregnant or who had given birth in the last two years, were interviewed to ascertain their experiences of antenatal services. In some cases they had not disclosed their substance misuse to these services. With the consent of patients and health professionals, antenatal appointments and ultrasound scans were observed. In addition, interviews were carried out with midwives, doctors and “The Guardian, in line with all radiographers. The researchers also investigated how health care practitioners assess and monitor substance misusing pregnant published league tables, continues women, and on what kinds of evidence they draw in making to rate Kent as the top university in decisions about the welfare of unborn children. This research raises questions for the research community about the stigmatisation and Kent and Medway.” regulation of pregnant women and will be of benefit to policymakers and practitioners who are interested in improving the health of substance misusing pregnant women and their babies.

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Symposium shines spotlight on Medway region

A unique one-day symposium entitled ‘Medway Lives, Gateway Futures: History, Community and Place’ brought together more than 60 academics, policymakers and community group representatives for a series of talks and discussions about Medway’s past, present and future. Topics under review included the legacy of industrialisation; regeneration and construction work; religion in everyday life; and traveller communities.

Speakers included academic staff from the universities of Kent, Greenwich and Middlesex, and from English Heritage, while Paul Clark, MP for Gillingham and Rainham, and Robin Cooper, Director of Regeneration and Development at Medway Council, participated in the round-table discussions. People from the local area contributed their ideas about regeneration, and representatives from organisations such as World Heritage and Medway Renaissance Chinese Ambassador also attended. The event was organised by Dawn Lyon and Joanne Warner, both academics in the School of Social Policy, Sociology to the UK visits Kent and Social Research, together with other colleagues from the Faculties of Social Sciences and Humanities. The University welcomed Her Excellency Madame Fu Ying, the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, to its Canterbury campus. During her visit, Madame Fu Ying, a Kent alumna, met with some of her former lecturers as well as Vice-Chancellor Professor Julia Goodfellow and the Chancellor Sir Robert Worcester. She also met with academic staff and students from several University departments and took part in a round table discussion on the subject of international relations.

Ambassador Fu also gave a lecture, entitled Changing China in the evolving world, to staff and students.

Ambassador Fu, who studied for an MA in International Relations at the University in 1985-86, started her diplomatic career in 1978 as Attaché of the Chinese Embassy in Romania. She has been the Chinese Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the UK since April 2007. Before that, she was Chinese Ambassador to Australia; Director-General, Department of Asian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ambassador to the Philippines; and Minister Counsellor, Embassy in Indonesia. Later in the year, she was awarded an honorary degree by the University,

“Her Excellency Madame Fu Ying, a Kent alumna, has been the Chinese Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the UK since April 2007.”

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Universities at Medway inspires government plans for more campuses

Universities at Medway sets a shining example to the country of how higher education can help transform a region’s economy and workforce, according to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, John Denham.

Mr Denham visited the Medway campus in March 2008 and chose the occasion to outline his plans for a huge expansion of higher education in the United Kingdom. Branded by the government as ‘a new university challenge’, the proposals could provide study places for up to 10,000 additional students, and see the creation of 20 or more new campuses over the next six years at a cost of £150 million.

The minister highlighted the pioneering Medway partnership – between Kent, Greenwich and Canterbury Christ Church Celebrated Indian ensemble at the University universities – as an inspiration for the new project. ‘I want to build on the successes of the last few years, which have The Canterbury campus hosted a visit by Project. The event was funded by the Arts seen new centres of higher education – the Milón Méla ensemble on its first ever Council England, South East, and supported such as the Medway campus – transforming trip to the UK. This unforgettable ensemble, by the Arts & Humanities Research Council local economies and the lives of local which includes Baul musicians from Bengal, and Organic Theatre. people,’ he said. masters of Kalaripayattu martial art from Kerala, Chhau dancers from Bihar, Gotipua dancers from Orissa, Muslim “Universities at Medway Fakir musicians and Hindu-Muslim Patuas is a shining example of painters and storytellers, screened a documentary film about their activities how higher education can and met the audience at the University’s help transform a region’s Aphra Theatre. economy and workforce.”

This was followed by a spectacular parade across campus, where live acoustic music, acrobatic dances, sword combat and whirling fires combined to make it one of the most memorable performances ever seen at the University. The event was organised by Dr Giuliano Campo, Research Associate in the School of Drama, Film & Visual Arts, in collaboration with The British Grotowski

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Students and teaching Dean of new Graduate School appointed

Professor Diane Houston has been appointed Dean of Kent’s new Graduate School. Formerly Head of the Department of Psychology, Professor Houston is a social psychologist. She has published widely and is Chair of the Social Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society and a member of the Academy of Social Sciences.

A key purpose of the Graduate School is to provide internationally distinctive, exciting and innovative programmes of study that combine academic excellence with an exceptional student experience and appropriate learning resources.

Kent has an excellent record in winning studentship support from the research “A key purpose of the councils and recently announced the Kent academic Graduate School is to creation of 90 of its own fully-funded presents TV history research studentships totalling nearly £1.5m provide internationally a year. These studentships are available to distinctive, exciting and programmes both home and overseas applicants. innovative programmes Dr Alixe Bovey, Lecturer in Medieval History, of study.” presented a series of six programmes on BBC Four as part of the channel’s Medieval Season. In the series, In Search of Medieval Britain, she explored the length and breadth of Britain using the 14th century Gough Map, the oldest surviving route map of Britain (left).

Dr Bovey began her career as a curator in the Department of Manuscripts at the British Library, and joined the University in 2005. Her teaching focuses on the cultural history of medieval Europe.

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University’s first Fine Art exhibition

The University’s first Fine Art students showcased their work at an exhibition at 35 Pound Lane, Canterbury. Both undergraduate and postgraduate students exhibited an innovative range of practice, including figurative painting, abstract sculpture and installations. Limited edition colour catalogues were available for sale, with all proceeds going towards future end-of-year shows.

The BA and MA programmes in Fine Art are entirely new programmes for the University, with a strong practice-based element. They enable students to explore and develop their creative interests and talents, irrespective of medium. Conservation student Lecturer wins “The BA and MA wins top award Environment Writer programmes in Fine Art of the Year award enable students to explore HRH The Princess Royal presented a Whitley Award to Patrícia Medici, a PhD student in and develop their creative Sarah Lonsdale, who lectures in reporting Biodiversity Management in the Durrell and writing at Medway’s Centre for interests and talents.” Institute of Conservation and Ecology Journalism, was awarded a prestigious (DICE). The awards ceremony was held accolade for her ‘Greenpiece’ articles, a at the Royal Geographical Society in London weekly column she has been writing for the (see left) and co-hosted by BBC broadcaster Daily Telegraph for the past two-and-a-half Martha Kearney in front of a 350-strong years. audience that included Sir David Attenborough, embassy representatives, Ms Lonsdale’s column encourages readers leading scientists and celebrity conservation to reduce the environmental impact – supporters. particularly carbon emissions – from all aspects of their daily lives. Topics range The Whitley Award to Patrícia recognised from limiting energy usage to growing fruit her work in the highly threatened Coastal and vegetables in allotments and gardens, Atlantic Forests of Brazil, where she uses and installing renewable energy systems in her research on lowland tapirs to capture homes. (See p13 for more details.) interest and support for active habitat conservation of benefit to many other wildlife species. “Sarah Lonsdale’s ‘Greenpiece’ column Patrícia’s prize included a Whitley Award encourages readers to reduce project grant of £30,000 plus the opportunity to apply for ongoing long-term project the environmental impact of support through the Whitley Foundation for their daily lives.” Nature. Patricia was also the recipient of the 2008 Golden Ark Award by the Golden Ark Foundation.

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Law student awarded Alumni and events Queen Mother’s Alumni update Scholarship In March a London Pub Night for young Janie Clement-Walker, who completed her alumni was held at the Pitcher and Piano law degree at the Medway campus in 2008, in Trafalgar Square. Over 60 alumni from has received a Queen Mother’s Scholarship all decades attended and were able to from the Middle Temple, which has allowed drop in on their way home from work or stay her to train for a career as a barrister. for the evening. The response to this more informal alumni event was overwhelmingly Middle Temple scholarships are highly positive and another event is planned for sought after and are awarded to candidates March 2009. who have shown outstanding personal qualities and commitment during the course In May a dinner was held for 20 of the of their studies, as well as demonstrating ‘First 500’ (Kent’s first students) at the impressive intellectual ability. National Liberal Club in London. Every year John Platt brings a group of approximately With the aid of the £10,000 grant that comes 20 alumni together to reminisce about their with the scholarship – one of the highest time at Kent and to stay in contact with awards made by the Middle Temple – Janie each other. National Teaching has now enrolled upon her bar vocational course. Children’s author Louise Arnold, author of Fellowship awarded the critically acclaimed Invisible Friend to Kent lecturer series (see below), held a writing workshop at the Gulbenkian Theatre. Professor Michael Kölling from the Computing Laboratory was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy.

Professor Kölling’s £10,000 award is in recognition of his innovative work on the BlueJ and Greenfoot systems, both of which are used in the UK and abroad to enable students to learn computer programming via the Java programming language.

Since the 1990s, Professor Kölling has been working to address the shortage of computer scientists and programmers in the national employment market. Initially this was through the development of BlueJ, a highly successful software system that fundamentally changes the way in which modern Java programming can be taught to beginners. Today it is used in more than 850 institutions worldwide, including more than half of all English universities. Professor Kölling is also co-author of a text book on BlueJ, which is the best-selling Java text book in Europe and number two in the USA.

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Professor Sarah Spurgeon

Professor Sarah Spurgeon is Professor of Control Engineering and Head of the Department of Electronics. In July 2008, she received a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering – the highest accolade in her discipline.

Professor Spurgeon originally studied the needs of 21st-century society and Mathematics at the University of York and pursue the interdisciplinary agenda that is became involved in control engineering now the norm for our discipline. I am proud purely by chance when an opportunity to be able to lead such an exciting arose for a competent mathematician to Department forward and to contribute to the work on a joint project between the then Vice-Chancellor’s vision for our institution. British Aerospace and the Department of Electronics at York. ‘I had no training in She is unequivocal about her own vision for control at that point but recognised that Electronics at Kent. ‘I am driven by the fundamental concepts were related to some pursuit of excellence in terms both of my of the applicable mathematics I had most own personal aspirations and of my enjoyed.’ She has since forged a remarkable aspirations for my Department, the career that has produced to date more than colleagues who work within it and our 200 refereed publications, including one of student body. We seek to offer excellent the most highly cited books in her area, and teaching, provide an environment which a range of projects funded by research supports world-class research in the subject councils, charities, the EU and industry. areas in which we teach, and continue with our enviable track record of achievement in Prior to her arrival at Kent, Professor enterprise-led activity, which enhances Spurgeon was Head of Engineering at student opportunities. We also strive to the University of Leicester, an excellent, maintain strong working contacts with traditional unified engineering department. academic and industrial organisations within But she decided to come to Kent to work the UK, in Europe and worldwide.’ within a very different department. ‘Electronics at Kent conducts fundamental Professor Spurgeon is also the first female research which is on a par with research at Engineer at Kent to hold a Fellowship of the any other institution in the UK. Where we Royal Academy of Engineering, the most differ is with our unique contributions to, and prestigious engineering institution, and is relationships with, industry. My Department among just a small number of women in the has produced over 100 products for industry country to receive such an accolade. She which, particularly given its size, is an has been recognised for her ‘fundamental exceptional record. contributions to the development of nonlinear control and estimation methods, ‘We have a diverse blend of experts in from theoretical developments through to engineering and technology, and experts in trials and subsequent industrial support of design, visualisation and creativity which technological exploitation’. renders us uniquely placed to contribute to

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Research ‘The outcomes of social care for adults’

There is an increasing emphasis on outcomes in the field of social care in terms of practice, policy, regulation, and monitoring performance. At all levels there is a need to measure more effectively the impact of interventions on service users and the value of that impact. ‘The outcomes of social care for adults’ study has been funded by the Health Technology Assessment branch of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) with the aim of generating a gold standard preference weighted measure of social care outcomes that can be used in a variety of circumstances including social care evaluations, cost-utility and policy analyses.

The study runs until January 2011 and builds on previous and other ongoing studies conducted by members of the research team, which is led by members of the Risky drinking Conservationist to Personal Social Services Research Unit at Kent with partners from the Universities of in over 55s aid parrots in peril Bristol and Sheffield, Rand (Europe), and Accent. A new study led by Simon Coulton, Professor A once critically endangered species of of Health Services Research in the Centre parrot now under threat from a highly for Health Services Studies, aims to improve contagious virus may be offered a renewed services for over 55s caught up in ‘risky chance of survival through the work of a drinking’. Kent conservationist.

Traditionally, risky drinking in young men Dr Jim Groombridge, Lecturer in Biodiversity and women receives most attention but the Conservation in the Durrell Institute of ageing process means that older people Conservation and Ecology (DICE), has been experience alcohol-related problems at awarded £215,594 from the Leverhulme lower consumption levels. It is now estimated Trust to lead a three-year project that aims that 60% of older people coming into to determine what factors drive the Mauritius hospital because of repeated falls, parakeet’s susceptibility to infection, and confusion, chest infections and heart failure in particular the spread of the highly have undiagnosed alcohol problems. contagious (and often lethal) parrot-specific virus Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease Professor Coulton’s study, which will be (PBFD) that has recently infected this conducted in association with the University endangered parrot. of York, and is funded by the NHS National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment Programme, aims to determine whether screening by GPs, followed by brief psychosocial interventions, can help.

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University leads dive tourism research project

Dr Mark Hampton, Director of CENTICA – the Centre for Tourism in Islands and Coastal Areas, part of Kent Business School – is leading a project that explores the economic and social impacts of international dive tourism in Malaysia. The research project, which is one of the first of its kind, is the latest collaboration between the University of Kent and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

CENTICA has been awarded more than £33,000 from the British Council in order to lead the two-year project. The funding is part of the Prime Minster’s Initiative Programme, which aims to strengthen Britain’s economic and educational ties with certain key countries.

Dr Hampton, who runs the University’s Tourism Management degree programme, based at Medway, said he was delighted to be starting what promised to be ground-breaking work. ‘Little is known about the economic and business consequences for a rapidly developing nation such as Malaysia. We want to know what impact international dive tourism is having on the local economy and local communities,’ he said.

The research team is concentrating on three main sites – Sipadan Island in Sabah, East Malaysia, Redang Island in West Malaysia, and This project is all the more important given the Perhentian Islands. The findings of the project will be presented that the once widespread population of the at a conference in Malaysia for the international tourism industry. Mauritius parakeet (Psittacula echo) fell to just 12 in 1987, following a century of habitat loss and competition from the introduced ringneck parakeet. However, following a highly successful avian restoration programme, numbers of Mauritian parakeets eventually recovered to 350 birds (resulting in its downgrading from critically endangered to endangered), but in 2004 an outbreak of PBFD threatened this still recovering population.

Dr Groombridge’s partners on the project are: Dr Owen Lyne, Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent; Dr Chris Faulkes, Queen Mary, University of London; Dr Andrew Greenwood, International Zoo Veterinary Group, UK; and Dr Carl Jones, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Mauritius Wildlife Foundation on Mauritius.

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Reverse engineering tools for hackers

Dr Andy King from Computing has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Industrial Fellowship which allows him to be seconded to Portcullis Computer Security Limited where he will work with so-called ethical hackers who diagnose security holes in commercial software before malicious hackers exploit them and cause damage. Dr King is developing techniques that automatically extract information for binary executables which are application programmes and libraries that are translated to sequences of numbers and codes that make sense to a computer, but are very difficult for humans to understand. Hackers – both those who secure software and those who attempt to break it – search these sequences for bugs and security loopholes. This is a very time-consuming, labour-intensive and expensive process, as well as being error-prone and is one which motivates computers to search these sequences themselves. This is the technical focus of the project, and Dr King has devised a new technique that helps humans to make sense of these binary sequences.

Prestigious art award for Kent academic

Clio Barnard, Senior Tutor in Film Studies at Kent, was one of three artists to win the Jerwood/Artangel Open, chosen from over 1,000 proposals from artists in the UK. The award came only a year after Barnard received the similarly prestigious Hamlyn Award. Her work deals with the relationship between documentary and fiction and she often constructs fictional images around verbatim audio. Her Artangel project is a multi-site performance and television film that will take place on Bradford’s Buttershaw Estate and the House of Lords.

Buttershaw responds to the Andrea Dunbar play Rita Sue and Bob Too and A State Affair by Robin Soans, both directed by Max Stafford Clark. Barnard’s proposal is to make a new work to create a trilogy that will be performed and choreographed in and around the Buttershaw Estate and again in the House of Lords. Scheduled for completion in 2010, the work will look at life “Dr Andy King from Computing has been today on the Buttershaw Estate to see what awarded a prestigious Royal Society has changed – particularly in the context of Industrial Fellowship to work with so-called the government target to abolish child poverty by 2020. ethical hackers.”

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Leading archaeologists support new Kent Centre

Leading archaeologists have given their support to Kent’s new Centre for the History of Archaeology. Many of the world’s leading archaeologists have taken an active interest in, or are pledging a part of their entire archive collection to, Kent’s Centre for the History of Archaeology. The Head of the Centre is Dr Evangelos Kyriakidis, Lecturer in Aegean Prehistory. The history of archaeology is an emerging field that seeks to understand how archaeology and archaeological theory have developed over time, permitting researchers to explore how the discipline contributes to knowledge about history, cultures and civilisations, as well as empowering those interested or involved to use archaeology more effectively.

The Centre will house the archives of hospital, their carers, ward staff and leading University of Cambridge Dignity in practice: managers will be interviewed to find out archaeologists Professor Lord Colin Renfrew about their experiences and priorities and Professor Anthony Snodgrass, as well care of older adults concerning dignified care. The findings as the slide archive of Professor Glyn Daniel from these interviews will be complemented – resources that will be used to promote The importance of providing dignified care by a period of observational study on 16 research and teaching of the subject. for older people has been recognised in wards across the four trusts. It is expected Financial support for the Centre has come recent years in a wide range of health and that the outputs from the study will include from the Kent Alumni Trust, the Cotsen social policy research. It has also attracted the identification of aspects of the Family Trust and the Institute for Aegean media interest and is high on the political care environment which impact on the Prehistory. agenda. A recent national report on caring for dignity showed marked variations in the provision of dignified care together with provision of dignified care for older people recommendations for policymakers, in acute hospital settings. commissioners, providers and practitioners. The study is funded by the National Institute Professor Michael Calnan from the School of for Health Research, and is a joint project Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research between Kent and the Department of is leading a study which builds on previous Geriatric Medicine, Cardiff University. research by the team and uses qualitative methods to examine the factors that influence the provision of dignified care in four acute NHS trusts. Older people who have recently been discharged from

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Students and teaching Bold new generation of architects and designers on show

The creativity, vision and talent of a bold new generation of architects and designers went on public display at the University. Titled EXIT, this powerful and at times provocative end-of-year exhibition showcased models, drawings, devices, photographs, films, and installations from the graduates of the Kent School of Architecture.

EXIT also gave visitors the opportunity to see a wide range of imaginative, intriguing and thought-provoking responses to many difficult and challenging problems, all of which display a breadth of ability and design awareness which bodes well for “The breadth of ability the architecture and design professions. University celebrates and design awareness Many projects were located in Kent, shown by students bodes outstanding student affirming the University’s and the School’s musicians commitment to engagement with well for the architecture contemporary issues in the region, and design professions.” This year’s music prizes at the University including the Thames Gateway. of Kent were awarded to six outstanding students, all of whom reflect the range of musical talent, dedication and enthusiasm of the many students who make music at Kent, while studying for a wide spectrum of degrees.

The students, whose academic studies range from languages and law to history and politics, recently received their prizes and congratulations from Rosie Turner, Director of the Canterbury Festival, Jonathan Monckton from the Colyer-Fergusson Trust, and Professor Keith Mander, Deputy Vice- Chancellor.

The six – Luke de Pulford, Carina Trigwell, Robert McKay, Daniel Wheeler, Matthew Billingsley and Piran Legg – have all performed in the University’s choirs, orchestras and bands, and also received Music Scholarships.

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Summer School success

The University’s annual residential Summer School for partner schools (right) was deemed a resounding success by all those involved.

Attended by more than 50 Year 11 pupils, the Summer School was designed to give them a taste of university life, from both an academic and a social perspective. The pupils, aged between 15 and 16 years, were from schools including: Archers Court Maths & Computing College, Dover; Chapter School, Strood; Chaucer Technology School, Canterbury; The Hundred of Hoo School, Rochester; and The Marlowe Academy, Ramsgate. Institution Staff and student mentors from the University were on hand for the week, providing each pupil with encouragement “The Summer School is Lambeth conference and support as they participated in a designed to give Year 11 The University welcomed the 2008 Lambeth programme of challenging and fun pupils a taste of university activities. Conference (below) to its Canterbury life from both an academic campus, the fourth time the event has taken and a social perspective.” place at Kent.

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Historic graduation day for Medway School of Pharmacy

A historic day for Medway School of Pharmacy came in July, as it witnessed the graduation of the first group of students on the four- year Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree programme.

A joint project between the universities of Kent and Greenwich, Medway School of Pharmacy opened in 2004. Today it has more than 550 undergraduate and 100 postgraduate students, and has a portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. It is recognised as an established School of Pharmacy by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, having achieved its final accreditation in June 2008.

The Vice-Chancellors of the universities of Kent and Greenwich, Professor Julia Goodfellow and Baroness Blackstone, officiated at the ceremony, which was held at the Medway campus.

Foundation degree and postgraduate students at Medway School ArtsFest 2008 of Pharmacy also received their awards, and two doctoral awards were made. Tributes were also paid to Professor Clare Mackie, who Thousands of people flocked to the was the founding Head of School from 2004 until 2007, when she Canterbury campus to attend the 2008 became Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Kent. ArtsFest. The event, which has become a permanent music feature in the region and a key date in the University calendar, showcased all sorts of music and entertainment performed by University societies, schools and the community, featuring everything from jugglers to jazz, and gospel to grunge – all free of charge. As always, Estates and Kent Hospitality offered invaluable support to this one-day event, which ended with a stunning firework display overlooking the floodlit Cathedral.

“ArtsFest has become a permanent music feature in the region and a key date in the University calendar.”

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Alumni and events Alumni update

In June almost 200 alumni and staff celebrated the 40th Anniversary of Kent Law School with a reception at the Law Society in London. Hosted by John Wightman, then Head of Kent Law School, the event was attended by alumni from 1965 to the present day. Professor John Fitzpatrick spoke about the successes of the award-winning Kent Law Clinic.

Events were also held at the Cornell Club in New York City and at the official Residence of the Consul General in San Francisco by the University of Kent in America. Hosted by the Vice-Chancellor, these events gave alumni in the USA the chance to find out about recent developments at Kent.

July saw the launch of the new Former Staff Association, with an inaugural meeting in the Senate Chamber. Over 100 former members of both academic and administrative staff attended, and a liaison group has been New degree for dental care professionals formed to organise events and other activities. A unique degree course aimed at dental care professionals was launched at the Medway campus in 2008. The BSc in Primary Dental Care – believed to be the first The University also held its fourth annual degree of its kind in the United Kingdom – is for qualified professionals such as Benefactors’ Garden Party at the Vice- dental nurses, hygienists and therapists, orthodontic therapists, and clinical dental Chancellor’s residence in Canterbury, to technicians. thank donors to the University over the past year. Over 100 guests were welcomed by The programme was devised by the University in response to a drive by the Kent, Professor Julia Goodfellow and by some of Surrey and Sussex Deanery – the organisation which oversees postgraduate the scholars who have benefited from the medical and dental education – to provide a means for dental care professionals to generosity of donors. gain new skills and broader knowledge through better access to higher education.

“The BSc in Primary Dental Care is believed to be the first degree of its kind in the United Kingdom.”

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Berna Ucel

Berna Ucel, a Kent undergraduate, landed a dream role at this year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games. Berna, who is currently in her final year studying for a degree in Creative Events: Design and Production at the Medway campus, flew out to Beijing in the summer to spend several weeks working alongside members of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). She helped to produce and stage-manage the special handover ceremony at the end of this year’s Games, where the Olympic flag was passed from the Mayor of Beijing to the Mayor of London. The theatrical spectacle was watched by tens of thousands of spectators in Beijing and was screened to approximately one-and-a-half billion people around the globe.

Berna first came into contact with LOCOG After all the excitement of Beijing, Berna when they visited the University to give a returned to her studies in September. ‘At presentation on the Olympics. ‘The times I thought I’d never come back down presentation made us realise how incredibly to earth, but actually I was really looking exciting it would be to be there. Then we forward to returning to Kent. There’s a lot were told there was a possibility of a student going on in the final year with very placement and invited to submit our CVs interesting modules, so it’s been tremendous and a personal statement. Quite a few of fun. On the Creative Events programme, we us applied. I had an interview and got the work on all sorts of different projects and call about 10 days later to inform me that get experience of every aspect of events – I’d got it. coming up with original ideas, working out how you can actually make them happen, ‘Although this project was on a massive the planning, stage managing – everything scale, the course shows you what it’s like you can think of. It was lovely to see all my to work on all aspects of events, so I knew friends again, too.’ what everyone was talking about and could just take on whatever I needed to do. I was Berna is currently keeping an open mind accepted straight away as part of the team, about her career after graduation. ‘I know which was wonderful, and all the jobs were I want to work on big events, but whether it shared out as they would be normally. will be concerts, corporate events, theatre – I don’t know. But, eventually, it would be ‘I was assistant stage manager for the wonderful to have my own company.’ handover ceremony. I’d never worked with a huge cast and crew before; it was extraordinary. Not only did we have to get our show right, rehearsing on our own, we also had to make sure it would all go smoothly on the day, together with the Chinese closing ceremony. It was an amazing experience and I feel really lucky to have been part of such a great event.’

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Research University of Kent ranked 24th for its world-leading research

In what has been Kent’s best ever Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), much of the University’s research has been classed as world- leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour (4*). The University was placed 24th out of 118 participating institutions in terms of the best, or 4*, research.

Both The Guardian and The Times newspapers ranked Kent 29th for its overall research activity.

Five subject areas had 30% of their research rated 4* – Drama; English; History; Law; Social Policy and Sociology. Six of its subject areas have been ranked in the top ten of their disciplines nationwide – History; Metallurgy and Materials; Social Policy and Sociology; Law; French; and Statistics and Operational Research.

The RAE also ranked a further four subject areas at Kent among the Conservationists celebrate UK’s top 20 – Drama and Film Studies; Anthropology; Economics; double achievement and English. Conservationists in the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology A further ten subject areas are in the UK’s top 30 – Applied (DICE) celebrated a double achievement – the success of a Mathematics; Classics and Archaeological Studies; Religious conservation programme in Rwanda that has helped turn gorilla Studies; DICE; Spanish; Electronics; German; Business and poachers into ecotourism guides, and a major international award Management Studies; Computing; and Philosophy. for the programme’s founder, alumnus Edwin Sabuhoro.

Vice-Chancellor Professor Julia Goodfellow said: ‘I am delighted that Edwin Sabuhoro, a Rwandan national, completed his one-year MSc the results from the RAE show how well research has developed at in Conservation and Tourism at DICE in 2006 with a dissertation the University of Kent. Kent’s move into the top 30 research-led entitled Ecotourism as a potential conservation incentive for local institutions is justly deserved. Of particular note are those subjects communities around Rwanda’s Parc National des Volcans. Edwin put which have been ranked among the top ten in the country. his research findings into action by founding the Iby’Iwacu Cultural Village in Northern Rwanda, a community-based ecotourism initiative We are immensely proud to be a university designed to develop incentives for local people to protect gorilla where our students are taught by, and have habitats. regular contact with, top-rated researchers The outcomes of his project are astonishing and it is for this reason and which is committed to the widening that Mr Sabuhoro was named Young Conservationist of the Year by participation agenda. the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world’s oldest and largest global environmental network. Thanks to his work, local people own 100% of the project and the cultural village has The RAE results reflect the impact of our institutional research increased ecotourism by 40%, generating a sustainable income base strategy, with its emphasis on postgraduate studies and the from it. Most significantly, the poaching of gorillas has been reduced consolidation of our position as world-leader.’ by 60%, as the revenue from ecotourism has encouraged local people to protect them.

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Giles collection becomes part of Britain’s online cartoon archive

The largest collection of British social and political cartoons has gone online at www.cartoons.ac.uk, thanks to the work of the British Cartoon Archive (BCA) located at the University. The project, funded by JISC, a joint committee of the UK Further and Higher Education funding bodies, allows free access to over 120,000 images from 250 leading cartoonists including work by Ralph Steadman, Martin Rowson and Steve Bell. A key part of the archive comprises the Carl Giles Collection (1916-1995) and includes original cartoons, sketches, letters and documents from arguably the most portal which gives the public and famous cartoonist of his generation and researchers the ability to access, examine Million-pound creator of the much-loved ‘Giles Family’. and share not only cartoon images but donors report personal material from Giles, such as The new online database is freely available correspondence, photos and fan letters. Health charities, international aid/ and contains cartoons from the 18th to the development organisations, and higher 21st centuries, providing valuable insight The launch of the new website coincided education institutions are the main into the changing political and socio- with a Giles exhibition ‘Giles: One of the beneficiaries of the largest charitable economic landscape of the UK. With JISC’s Family’ at the London Cartoon Museum. donations made in the UK, according to funding, the BCA has developed a new the Coutts Million-Pound Donors Report, world-wide cartoon resource and dynamic released during the launch of the new Centre for Philanthropy, Humanitarianism and Social Justice (CPHSJ). The report explains that of the 193 gifts of £1 million or more made in 2006/07, 64% were for under £3 million but 12% were for £10 million or more (with the total of all million-pound donations being £1.6 billion). The five largest donations – worth £100 million or more – were all placed into trusts and foundations for distribution at a later date, rather than given directly to charities.

Written by Beth Breeze of the CPHSJ, the Coutts Million-Pound Donors Report, the first to focus on million-pound charitable donations, also includes case studies of ‘million-pound donors’ and of charities that have received donations of this size.

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Sex differences in New appointment leadership highlighted to the Academy of

New research at Kent has confirmed that a Social Sciences male leader is preferred at times of conflict between groups, whereas a female leader Professor Jan Pahl, Professor Emeritus is preferred during conflicts within groups. of Social Policy, has been appointed an Academician at the Academy of Social According to Professor Mark Van Vugt, Sciences. Professor Pahl’s appointment the origin of these sex biases in ‘war’ and brings the University’s total number of ‘peace’ leadership may lie in evolved Academicians at the Academy to 17. preferences. Based in London, the Academy of Social Dementia screening He said: ‘In ancestral times, having a leader Sciences aims to promote social sciences in would have been instrumental in tackling the UK for the public benefit. The University’s weakness identified conflicts within and between groups. Due Academicians are: Professor Dominic to a relatively lower parental investment, it Abrams and Professor Diane Houston, A research team led by Dr Alisoun Milne, would have been more attractive for men Department of Psychology; Professor Senior Lecturer in the Tizard Centre, has to take the lead in intergroup conflicts, Mary Evans, Professor Chris Hale, Professor identified weaknesses in the most widely because raiding another group could Jan Pahl, Professor Chris Pickvance and employed dementia screening instrument enhance their reproductive opportunities. Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby, School of currently used in primary care. Conversely, for ancestral females, Social Policy, Sociology and Social maintaining peaceful relations with other Research; Professor Ann Netten, Personal The team, which included three senior group members might have been more Social Services Research Unit; Professor health care practitioners from the Kent and important to provide social support.’ Francis Green, Professor Tony Thirlwall and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Professor Roger Vickerman, Department of Trust, conducted a study that included a Economics; Professor Jim Mansell, Tizard review of research evidence, a systematic Centre; Professor Thomas Saalfeld and clinically informed evaluation of the most “A male leader is preferred Professor Richard Sakwa, Department of Politics and International Relations. The commonly used screening measures, and at times of conflict between a survey of measures employed in primary 17 also include Emeritus Professors Martin care in Kent. groups, whereas a female Knapp, Bleddyn Davies and Ray Pahl. There leader is preferred during are also a further number of Academicians Although the survey revealed that the Mini who have very strong links with Kent Mental State Examination (MMSE) was the conflicts within groups, new including Professor John Craven and most widely used measure in Kent – with as research at Kent has Professor Sir Ron Cooke. many as 51% of respondents using it as the confirmed.” only screening tool – the review concluded that three other less commonly used instruments are easier to administer, clinically acceptable, more effective, and less affected by patient education, gender and ethnicity.

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OK! editor delivers magazine masterclass

Students at the Centre for Journalism had a taste of the magazine world when they attended a masterclass given by the editor of the American edition of OK!

Sarah Ivens, a Kent graduate, made a flying visit from her office in New York to the Medway campus. Her masterclass saw her recalling some of the key moments in her career – such as launching OK! in the United States while still in her 20s – and handing out tips and advice on how to handle the pressures of working on a best-selling weekly magazine.

Ms Ivens graduated from Kent in 1996 with a degree in Politics and Economics. After spells at Tatler and Marie Claire magazines, she became a feature writer for the Daily Mail before returning to magazines as Features Director with Woman’s Journal, Having to start Students and teaching rising to the position of Associate Editor. She also worked for the Mirror Group and all over again? Students continue had a second spell at the Daily Mail, as assistant editor of Femail, before becoming As anyone who has ever worked in an office to rate Kent among Deputy Editor of OK! in London. She knows, constant interruptions are often par launched the US edition of OK! in 2005. for the course. Dr Ulrich Weger, Lecturer the UK’s top ten of Psychology, is looking into the effects of such interruptions, particularly during Students once again voted Kent among the reading. This is a particularly consequential UK’s top ten universities. Figures from this activity because of the large amount of year’s National Student Survey (NSS) also information that often needs to be showed that, for the second year running, maintained. Refreshing this information after Kent is the top university in London and an interruption is often a costly and time- the south-east. In addition, the survey consuming task. Using state-of-the art eye revealed that 90% of final-year full-time tracking methods, Dr Weger’s project seeks undergraduates at Kent are satisfied with to investigate how interruptions affect the the quality of their courses. Other normal reading of text and identify what universities in the top ten include Oxford, makes some readers more efficient in Cambridge, St Andrews and Exeter. dealing with interruptions than others. The project will also determine whether people This annual survey is organised by the can be trained to deal with interruptions Higher Education Funding Council for more effectively. England (HEFCE), in partnership with the Government and the National Union of Students.

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Author and TV producer joins Kent

Dr Suzanne Franks, a distinguished television producer, author, journalist and broadcaster, has joined the University. Dr Franks has become Director of Research for the Centre for Journalism and also works for the Department of Politics and International Relations.

Part of her remit is to help develop the Centre for Journalism’s portfolio of programmes and courses, particularly for its postgraduate students, as well as lecturing and organising conferences and events.

Dr Franks spent the first decade of her career as a producer for BBC television, working on programmes including Newsnight, Watchdog and Panorama. She also ran her own TV production company, Sevenday Productions, for more than 14 years, producing a series of news and political programmes and documentaries for major broadcasters including Sky News, Channel 4, ITV and BBC Radio 4.

Top writer becomes Royal Literary Fellow

Simon Levack, a popular novelist and short story writer, has been appointed as the University’s new Royal Literary Fellow, based at the Medway campus.

His remit is to provide students with advice and support in all aspects of their writing, through one-to-one coaching. The guidance he offers is wide-ranging, from tips on writing essays, reports and dissertations, to making presentations, carrying out research and even writing applications for work placements.

Mr Levack has published four novels – Demon of the Air, Shadow of the Lords, City of Spies and Tribute of Death – which are all historical mysteries set in Pre-Columbian Mexico, on the eve of the Spanish colonisation of the Americas. Demon of the Air (2004) won the Debut Dagger Award, made by the UK Crime Writers’ Association. His work has been published in the United States, Spain and Russia.

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PhD student wins top music award

YolanDa Brown, a PhD student at Kent Business School, beat off stiff competition to win a 2008 MOBO award. YolanDa, who won the ‘Best Jazz’ category, celebrated with a concert at London’s Cadogan Hall in November.

As well as building a successful music career, YolanDa has completed a Master’s in Management Science and a Master’s in Social Research Methods.

YolanDa’s PhD supervisor, Professor John Mingers, Director of Research at Kent Business School, said: ‘When YolanDa started her PhD, she sometimes said that she was playing the saxophone that evening. I presumed that she just played in small venues somewhere. I was absolutely staggered when I saw a video on “When YolanDa started her PhD, she sometimes YouTube of her filling the Hackney Empire. It’s fantastic that she is able to do that as well as said she was playing the saxophone that evening. work at the highest level of academic study.’ I presumed she played in small venues somewhere.”

Woolf College welcomes its first residents

The newly-built Woolf College opened its doors to its first residents, as 544 postgraduates settled into the en suite accommodation which is at the heart of Kent’s new graduate school. As well as first-class accommodation, the £25m College has a 496-seat lecture theatre. A formal opening is planned for spring 2009.

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Institution A successful Kent opens first Enterprise Week labyrinth on an Students and local businesses were among those to benefit from Enterprise English university Week on both the Canterbury and Medway campuses. The first labyrinth to be built on an English university campus has been formally opened The event, which was part of a wider at Kent. The University commissioned national event, was established to researcher and designer Jeff Saward to New arts building for encourage students to develop business construct the labyrinth, a teaching and ideas and to present what the University learning resource. Based on medieval Canterbury campus has to offer to the business community. designs, the labyrinth is sited on University It was organised by Kent Innovation & grounds overlooking Canterbury Cathedral The University held a special turf-turning Enterprise (KIE), the University’s dedicated and provides a peaceful and accessible ceremony to celebrate the construction of business development unit. walk for the University’s staff and students, a new £6.25m building to house its School as well as for the wider community. of Drama, Film & Visual Arts. Highlights included the launch of the University’s Ideas Factory, a scheme to The impetus for the building of the labyrinth This latest addition to the Canterbury provide increased access to funding for came from Dr Jan Sellers, Creative Learning campus, to be completed in autumn 2009, the support of innovative and enterprising Fellow in the University. In 2005, Dr Sellers will provide the School with a dedicated ideas; and the Flying Start Rally, a free won a £50,000 National Teaching Fellowship facility providing drama, art and film studios, half-day event aimed at turning the skills, and she sees the labyrinth as a valuable teaching rooms, a postgraduate centre, knowledge and passion of young people teaching and learning resource. and academic and administrative offices. into the reality of entrepreneurship.

More than 30 local businesses attended an event designed to explain how student work placements could improve their profitability through students transferring new skills to existing staff, improving workplace practices, facilitating the introduction of new technology and creating new sources of competitive advantage.

“More than 30 local businesses attended an event designed to explain how student work placements could improve their profitability.”

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Creative Campus Canterbury Alumni and events initiative gains Innovation Centre Alumni update momentum The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Julia In October receptions were held in Brussels The University has launched an exciting Goodfellow, welcomed the Minister for and in Hong Kong. The Brussels reception, new initiative: the Creative Campus. Kent the South East, Jonathan Shaw MP,and held in partnership with Kent County was one of only 16 universities chosen this representatives from South East England Council, was hosted by British Ambassador year to take part in the prestigious ‘Change Development Agency (SEEDA), Kent to Belgium, Dr Rachel Aron, and featured Academy’, led jointly by the Leadership County Council, and the East Kent Spatial a keynote speech by Lord Hannay of Foundation for Higher Education and the Development Company (EKSDC) to the Chiswick, entitled ‘Global challenges: how Higher Education Academy. Canterbury campus where they took part can the EU best respond?’ Over 120 guests in the ground-breaking ceremony for the attended including current students and Six members of staff from across campus, £7.3m Canterbury Innovation Centre. alumni of the University of Kent at Brussels. with responsibilities for learning and teaching, estates, the arts, conservation The Centre, due for completion in October The Hong Kong alumni reception was and the environment, were joined by the 2009, is being funded by SEEDA and built organised with the assistance of a number education sabbatical officer from the Kent by the EKSDC. It will provide much needed of our Hong Kong alumni, and was held Union on a four-day retreat. high-tech incubation space and support at the Hong Kong Bankers’ Club. The for entrepreneurs in almost 25,000 sq ft of event was hosted by the Vice-Chancellor, The outcome is a cultural change offices, studios and workshops. The Centre Professor Julia Goodfellow, who gave a programme aimed at combining and is part of the University’s strategy to presentation entitled ‘Kent Today’, showing co-ordinating initiatives in these areas, in encourage innovation and enterprise within some of the most recent developments order to enhance opportunities for staff, the University, and to make it more attractive at the University. Alumnus Eddy Fong students and the local community to take for graduates to stay and work locally. welcomed guests on behalf of the Hong part in creative events across campus. Kong alumni.

As part of this initiative, the University held In December a reception organised by Labyrinth Week, which included the official alumnus Walter Nason was held in Miami, launch of the Canterbury Labyrinth and the Florida and hosted by Senior Deputy Vice- production of material for the ‘Poetry on Chancellor David Nightingale. the buses’ series by students on the MA in Creative Writing programme. Other Creative Campus initiatives have involved work with the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers – Dr Ian Bride of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) and the student Conservation Society have engaged with practical wildlife conservation projects, including coppicing and hedge-laying.

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Dr Mark Smales

Dr Mark Smales joined the University of Kent in November 1997 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Biosciences in September 2003, and was subsequently promoted to Reader in October 2006. He is now working with academics from across the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medical Sciences to develop an exciting new Centre for Molecular Processing at the University of Kent.

Since his appointment as lecturer in 2003, of therapeutic agents and biomedicines Dr Smales has been awarded research from biological systems. The Centre for grants and projects as principal investigator Molecular Processing will build upon Kent’s with a total value in excess of £3 million to research strengths in the Faculty of Science, work on aspects relating to improving our Technology and Medical Studies, and will understanding of the biology that underpins result in the integration and linking of the production of therapeutic recombinant appropriate expertise and know-how proteins from mammalian expression between Biology, Chemistry, Mathematical systems. Of particular interest to Dr Smales’ and Computing Sciences, Electronics, and group is the production of therapeutic industrial R&D. The Centre will bring together antibodies which must be in a particular a world-leading and world-acknowledged shape and decorated with sugar molecules interdisciplinary team that delivers cutting- correctly, otherwise they do not work. edge research and training in molecular processing. It will link research and ‘The cells used to produce such antibodies development with production and industrial have a very complex set of machinery application in order to understand and to make the antibodies and put their enhance intrinsically complex cellular components together into the right shape. processes. The Centre will be ideally This works very well when the cell is not positioned to exploit the resulting knowledge expected to make much of the antibody and intellectual property to leverage further in question. However, the cells we use to growth opportunities for the University. make antibodies are much less efficient at producing these drugs when we try and ‘The creation of the Centre will establish produce more of the product.’ Kent as the leading research and training institution in this area in the UK and as a In 2008, Dr Smales successfully obtained major international player, generating world- funding for this work from both research leading research and intellectual property councils and industry, including the and building collaborative training, research Biotechnology and Biological Sciences and IP portfolios with local, national and Research Council (BBSRC) and Lonza international academic and industrial Biologics plc. partners.’

Molecular processing encompasses the mechanisms and cellular requirements that influence disease states and the synthesis

University of Kent 43 Annual Review Books 2008: a selection

Picasso & Apollinaire Les Dessins de Guillaume The Persistence of Memory Apollinaire (Paris, Buchet-Chastel, (University of California Press) 2008) Professor Peter Read, SECL Professor Peter Read, SECL

This book explores the close and fraught This large-format volume presents colour relationship between the poet and the reproductions of hundreds of previously Spanish artist from 1905 to 1918, and the unpublished drawings and paintings by works of art and literature that resulted from Guillaume Apollinaire, located by Peter Read their contacts and exchanges. The book and Claude Debon in French archives and also assesses Apollinaire’s posthumous private collections. The earliest surviving presence in Picasso’s subsequent life and works show the poet as a young teenager work, discussing a series of works that already seeking to combine words and include: Picasso’s self-portrait, drawn on images in complex compositions that the night the poet died; his semi-abstract prefigure his later 'calligrammes'. Scores of painting ‘La Cuisine’ (1948); and his projects such illustrated pages from the poet’s files for sculptures to commemorate Apollinaire, and notebooks are here reproduced for the The Culture War in the Civil in welded iron, steel rods and bronze. first time. Here also are Apollinaire’s carefully Rights Movement (University According to the review in The Burlington constructed proofs and maquettes for ‘Le Press of Florida) Magazine (November 2008): ‘Read is the Bestiaire ou cortège d’Orphée’ (1911) and Dr Joe Street, Centre for only person who could have written this ‘Calligrammes’ (1918): the interplay of American Studies book. On the one hand it is a comprehensive printed and manuscript poems, drawings study, the result of years of research and and layered collages, makes these precious From Aretha Franklin and James Baldwin conversation, both in England and France; documents into unique, autonomous, hybrid to Dick Gregory and Martin Luther King, the on the other hand, it demonstrates a works of art. Other drawings in letters and civil rights movement deliberately used continued engagement with current thinking. manuscripts provide a graphic, first-hand music, art, theatre and literature as political […] Essentially a specialist in literature, record of front-line existence during the weapons to broaden the struggle and Read shows himself once again to be an Great War, while the watercolour and legitimise its appeal. equally engaging and authoritative art gouache paintings Apollinaire made after historian, and his work is informed by the being wounded in the trenches set out to Joe Street places these cultural forms at most recent research and writing on Picasso. counter the reign of Thanatos with brightly the centre of the civil rights struggle, and […] Exacting and witty, Read’s book is as coloured, uninhibited, life-affirming and argues that the time has come to recognise multi-faceted, penetrating and truthful as a proto-surrealist energy. The illustrations are the extent to which African American history Cubist painting.’ accompanied by extensive introductory and culture were vital elements of the essays, notes, and annotations in which movement, calculated to broaden the Claude Debon and Peter Read relate movement’s appeal within the larger black Apollinaire’s drawings and paintings to his community. He places considerable poetry and prose and set them in the context emphasis on Amiri Baraka’s interpretation of his voracious visual appetite and his of the importance of music and art to the passion for medieval manuscripts and development of black nationalist thought in woodcuts, tribal art, children’s art, posters, the 1960s, especially as expressed in his book and newspaper illustrations, Russian jazz criticism and plays. neo-primitivism, cubism, and abstract painting.

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Challenging conventional disciplinary Peter Taylor-Gooby is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent. boundaries, thisG wide-ranging and illuminating collection of essays by scholars in literary and reframing social cultural studies pursues these issues through the modern city, the night, gender, trauma, citizenship modernism, early cinema, the ghost film, Peter Taylor-Gooby contemporary fiction, and terrorism. Opening up the debate beyond Freud, the essays suggest that the uncanny both testifies to a distinctive sensibility, calling for a cultural aesthetics of the modern experience, while inevitably subverting the serene confidence of any explanatory framework that seeks to capture it.

Karl Brandt – The Nazi Doctor: Social Theories of Risk and Medicine and Power in the Third Reframing Social Citizenship Uncertainty (WileyBlackwell) Reich (Hambledon Continuum) (Oxford University Press) Ed. Dr Jens O Zinn, SSPSSR Professor Ulf Schmidt, School of History Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby, SSPSSR

Written by leading experts in the field, Social The Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Throughout the world, governments are Theories of Risk and Uncertainty is an Third Reich is the first full-scale biography of restructuring social and welfare provision to introduction to mainstream theorising on risk Karl Brandt, Hitler’s doctor and one of the give a stronger role to opportunity, aspiration and uncertainty in sociology. It provides an most powerful figures of the Third Reich. and individual responsibility, and to overview of the historical developments and competition, markets and consumer choice. conceptual aspects of risk. It identifies why Brandt was the highest medical authority This approach centres on a logic of theorising on risk is necessary, highlights in the Nazi regime; he initiated experiments individual rational action: people are the best specific sociological contributions to this on concentration camp inmates and was judges of what serves their own interests field of research, and explores key topics eventually put in charge of biological and and government should give them as much including: risk society and reflexive chemical warfare. This riveting biography freedom of choice as possible. modernisation; culture and risk; explores how a rational, highly cultured governmentality and risk; systems theory young professional came to be responsible This book analyses the pressures on social and risk; and edgework and voluntary risk for mass murder and criminal human citizenship, from changes in work and the taking. Finally, it offers a comprehensive look experiments. Schmidt examines the young family, political actors, population ageing, at the promises, pitfalls, and perspectives of ‘expert élite’, which Brandt was a part of, and the processes within government, in risk theorising. who supported an oppressive, militarist and the relentless international process of racist government, and ultimately turned its globalisation that have shaped the response. Uncanny Modernity: Cultural exterminatory potential into reality. Theories, Modern Anxieties (Palgrave Macmillan) Ed. Jo Collins and John Jervis, SSPSSR

The uncanny is an experience of disorientation, of something disturbing, so that our ordinary world seems suddenly strange, eerie. Where does the uncanny come from? Why has it become a favourite figure for our simultaneous experience of the present as homeless and the past as haunting? And could it be that the uncanny is a peculiarly modern experience?

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Feminism and Criminal Justice – Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring A Historical Perspective the Experts May be Best for Your (Palgrave Macmillan) Child (Continuum) Dr Anne Logan, SSPSSR Professor Frank Furedi, SSPSSR

Dr Logan’s book is a wide-ranging study This new edition of Paranoid Parenting of the impact of the women’s movement in calls for parents to ignore the policymakers England and Wales on criminal justice policy, and 'parenting experts', and to regain tracing the 50 years or so from the end of a viewpoint that advances children's the First World War through to 1970. The well-being. First published by Continuum author examines the role of women in Books in 2001, Paranoid Parenting: Why bringing about major changes to the justice Ignoring the Experts May be Best for Your system that are taken for granted today – Child turned the spotlight on a society where Cultural Criminology: such as the introduction of women jurors children are deemed at risk from an ever An Invitation (Sage) and barristers. The book also unearths expanding range of dangers such as cots, Professor Jeff Ferrell, Dr Keith Hayward, plenty of surprising truths along the way, babysitters, school, the supermarket and the Professor Jock Young, SSPSSR such as the fact that as late as the 1960s, park. With this new edition, Professor Furedi very few women actually sat on juries, and is motivated by the conviction that, in an era Described as the definitive book on cultural in many cases were deliberately excluded. when parenting has become more paranoid criminology, Cultural Criminology draws than ever, if parents can grasp why their role together the work of three of the leading has been turned into such a troublesome international figures in the field today. enterprise, then they can do something The book traces the history, current about regaining their self-confidence. configuration, methodological innovations and future trajectories of cultural criminology, mapping its terrain for students and academics interested in this exciting field.

The book highlights and analyses issues of representation, meaning and politics in relation to crime and criminal justice, covering areas such as crime and the media, everyday life and transgression, popular culture and social control.

46 University of Kent Annual Review Open Lectures 2008

25 January Tizard Annual Lecture 14 March 15 October The Keith Tucker Memorial Death by indifference – failure of the NHS to Partition, Proust and Palestine Lecture: Kent Law Society Lecture deliver good quality health care to people Professor Jacqueline Rose, Professor of Eurojust – its role in tackling transnational with a learning disability English, Queen Mary, University of London crime in Europe and elsewhere Dame Jo Williams DBE, Chief Executive, Mike Kennedy CBE, Former President of Eurojust Mencap 19 March Darwin Lecture Natural history: it had to happen 24 October CHSS Annual Lecture 1 February Chancellor's Lecture Professor David Bellamy OBE, International British politics in decay? Botanist, writer and broadcaster The challenge for the NHS in Kent at 60: Sir Simon Jenkins, Columnist and writer being business-like but not like a business Professor Andrew Gray, Emeritus Professor 16 May of Public Management, University of 8 February Ian Gregor Memorial Lecture Where ignorance is bliss: folly and family Durham Writing biography: the case of Edith Wharton secrets Professor Hermione Lee CBE, Goldsmiths' Professor Rachel Bowlby, Professor of 29 October Professor of English Literature, New College, Modern English Literature, University University of Oxford College London Where next for the UK economy? Professor David Blanchflower, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College, US 13 February 30 May Jo Brand, comic and writer in conversation The birth of the microscope 12 November Special Guest Lecture with... Professor Brian Ford, research scientist, Dr Oliver Double, School of Drama, Film & author and broadcaster The future of higher education Visual Arts, University of Kent David Willetts MP 4 June 20 February Special Guest Lecture Our other Shakespeare: Thomas Middleton 28 November The challenges facing the UK and the and what it means to be British If music is the staff of life, pay up! implications for higher education Professor Gary Taylor, writer, editor and Sir John Tusa, writer and broadcaster Sir David Varney lecturer, Florida State University 5 December In conjunction with the English 22 February Lord Mayor's Lecture 6 June Special Guest Lecture SDFVA Annual Speaking Union Globalisation Lecture The Voyage of English The Rt Hon John Redwood MP,Former Nick Starr, Executive Director National The Lord Watson of Richmond CBE, Cabinet Minister, writer and chair of the Theatre International Chairman Emeritus of the Conservative Policy Group of Economic English Speaking Union Competitiveness 11 June The strange case of the Kentish eolithic and 11 December Special Guest Lecture 5 March Special Guest Lecture its place in the history of science Food versus bio fuels and the sustainability The race to the top: how can we compete in Professor Roy Ellen, Professor of of climate change the new global economy Anthropology and Human Ecology, Professor Robert Watson, Chief Scientific Lord Sainsbury of Turville University of Kent Adviser for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 7 March Special Guest Lecture 30 September Special Guest Lecture Changing China in an evolving world Breaking up: Britain and the four nations at 12 December Madame Fu Ying, Chinese Ambassador the beginning of the 21st century Is Champagne an English invention? Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the UK Dr David Starkey CBE Daniel Lorson, Head of Marketing, Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne 6 October Special Guest Lecture Reims Churchill and Roosevelt Professor John Lukacs, author and historian

University of Kent 47 Annual Review Summary of financial performance for the year to 31 July 2008

Financial highlights for the year to 31 July 2008 Income

• Operating surplus of £5.7m The growth in income followed another good year of student • Total income up 13.9% to £145.3 recruitment with an increase in the block grant received from the • Residences and catering income up £3.3m Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) of £4.3m to • Effective cost control with favourable performance against £50.9m. In comparison to last year, this second year of variable fees budgeted expenditure also brought in an additional £4.7m net income after payments of • Improvement in net current assets to £4.2m bursaries. • Cash, short-term deposits and current asset investments up 20.4% to £18.8m Research income remained at the high levels seen in 2006/07 with • Capital expenditure of £17.6m good margins continuing to be reported. Income from student residences rose significantly due mainly to successful conference Financial summary activity and improved occupancy levels following the refurbishment of study bedrooms. Returns on investments and cash balances once The University’s consolidated results for the years ended 31 July again improved. 2008 and 31 July 2007 can be summarised as follows: Expenditure Restated 2007/08 2006/07 Change Staff costs rose by 11.1% in the year, following investments in £000 £000 %age academic departments to enhance further the research and teaching functions and from the continuing impact of the 2006-09 national pay Income 145,345 127,656 13.9 agreement. Expenditure (139,745) (124,935) 11.9 Transfer in respect of Other operating expenses increased by £5.3m (13.9%) and included Specific Endowments 92 83 costs associated with a new Centre for Journalism, the provision of Surplus for the Year 5,692 2,804 103.0 new studentships across the faculties and an additional £1.0m in bursaries to students affected by variable tuition fees. Further 2007/08 was another successful year resulting in a surplus of £5.7m investment was also made in e-strategy and systems software (2006/07: £2.8m) which substantially exceeded the budget of £2.0m developments and on increasing and updating library stocks. and was once again achieved by the continuation of positive income Residences and catering costs increased by £1.0m largely as a growth combined with effective budgetary control over expenditure. result of increased conference activity.

Analysis of Income 2007/08 (£000) Analysis of Income 2006/07 (£000) (restated)

Endowment and Endowment and Investment Income 1,264 Investment Income 1,151

Other Other Income Income 31,803 28,150

Funding Council Funding Council Research Grants 55,325 Grants Grants and Research 50,395 Contracts Grants and 13,032 Contracts 13,076

Tuition Fees and Tuition Fees and Education Contracts 43,921 Education Contracts 34,884

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Depreciation charged in the year increased by £1.0m following high Statement on behalf of the University’s Council levels of refurbishment of residential accommodation and staff and student social facilities. The above summary provides an overview of the University’s financial performance during the 2007/08 financial and academic Balance sheet and cash flow year. It is consistent with the information incorporated in the University’s audited Financial Statements for the year to 31 July 2008 Net current assets increased to £4.2m from £3.5m with a current and largely comprises information detailed in the Operating and asset ratio of 1.17. The University’s cash position at the end of the Financial Review contained within these statements. Full details of year remained strong with total cash, short-term deposits and current the University’s financial results, performance and year-end position asset investments amounting to £18.8m (2006/07: £15.6m). In line can be found in the University of Kent Financial Statements for the with the general economic downturn, the market value of the Year to 31 July 2008, which can be found on the University’s website University’s endowment assets fell by £0.6m to £4.4m whilst the or by writing to the Secretary of the Council, The University of Kent, market value of current asset investments fell to just above cost. The Registry, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NZ.

Long-term bank loan debt fell by £2.0m in the year with gearing levels now reduced to 42% as a percentage of income.

Capital projects

Capital expenditure amounted to £17.6m in the year, of which £4.6m was spent on the construction of a 496-seat lecture theatre and new seminar rooms as part of a new post-graduate college development. Work will continue into 2008/09 with an expected total cost of £6.7m. Other developments in Canterbury included a £3.8m series of lecture theatre, seminar room and laboratory refurbishments, mainly funded by 2006-08 HEFCE teaching and learning capital grants, and the continuation of a rolling programme of refurbishing student residences at a cost of £2.0m. Refurbishment of catering and conference facilities at the Medway campus was also completed with additional costs this year of £0.8m.

Analysis of expenditure 2007/08 (£000) Analysis of expenditure 2006/07 (£000) (restated)

Interest Payable 4,158 Interest Payable 4,330 Depreciation Depreciation 7,781 8,817

Other Other Staff Costs Staff Costs Operating Operating 82,704 74,413 Expenses Expenses 43,421 38,111

Exceptional Exceptional Restructuring Costs 645 Restructuring Costs 300

University of Kent 49 Annual Review Awards, appointments, promotions and deaths 2008

Awards University of Kent Honorary Degrees 2008 Awards for 2008 include the following: Awards for 2008 include the following: Professor Sir John Enderby, FRS, Doctor of Science Emeritus Professor Ray Pahl – Fellow of the British Academy Robert Fisk, Doctor of Letters Professor Sarah Spurgeon, Head of the Department of Electronics – Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sir David Frost OBE, Doctor of Letters Emeritus Professor Jan Pahl – Fellow of the Academy of Social Her Excellency Madame Fu Ying, Doctor of Civil Law Sciences Professor Keith Gull CBE FRS, Doctor of Science Professor Julia Goodfellow, Vice-Chancellor – Honorary Fellow of the Professor David Harvey, Doctor of Science British Association for the Advancement of Science. Sir Simon Jenkins, Doctor of Letters Queen’s Birthday Honours Professor Sir David Melville CBE, Doctor of Civil Law

Dr Cyril Isenberg, School of Physical Sciences – MBE Robert Neame CBE, Doctor of Civil Law Anna Miller, Subject Librarian in the Templeman Library – MBE Rebecca Parker MBE, Doctor of Science Rebecca Parker, Honorary Graduate 2008 and Head of Physics, Professor Janet Thornton CBE FRS, Doctor of Science Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, Canterbury – MBE Sir John Tusa, Doctor of Civil Law

John Williams, Honorary Graduate 2008 and Head of Heritage Dr John Williams MBE, Doctor of Civil Law Conservation, Kent County Council – MBE Academic and research staff promotions National Teaching Fellowship Awards for 2008

Professor Michael Kölling, Computing Laboratory Promotion to Professor Sally Fincher, Computing Laboratory Dr Michael Kölling, Computing Laboratory Dr Thomas Saalfeld, Department of Politics and International University Teaching Prizes 2008 Relations Humanities Faculty Prize: Dr Ben Thomas, School of Drama, Film & John Fitzpatrick, Kent Law School Visual Arts Dr Jon Williamson, School of European Culture and Languages Social Sciences Faculty Prize joint winners: Dr Stefan Rossbach, Dr Richard Carrette, School of European Culture and Languages Department of Politics and International Relations, and a team from the Department of Anthropology (Dr Sarah Johns, Dr Scott Legge Dr Janet Montefiore, School of English and Dr Nicholas Newton-Fisher) Simon Coulton, Centre for Health Service Studies, School of Social Barbara Morris Prize for Learning Support: Dr Les Walczowski and Policy, Sociology and Social Research Mr Mark Ellis, Department of Electronics Dr Andrew Fearne, Kent Business School

Dr Cyril Isenberg Rebecca Parker Sally Fincher

50 University of Kent Annual Review Awards, appointments, promotions and deaths 2008

Promotion to Reader Dr Stefan Goebel, School of History

Dr Alex Freitas, Computing Laboratory Dr Lynn Cooke, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research Dr Nathan Gomes, Department of Electronics Dr Manali Desai, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Clio Barnard, School of Drama, Film & Visual Arts Research Dr Alastair Bailey, Kent Business School Dr Sarah Moss, School of English Dr Caroline Rooney, School of English Dr Eleni Hatzidimitriadou, TIzard Centre, School of Social Policy, Peter Aspinall, Centre for Health Service Studies, School of Social Sociology and Social Research Policy, Sociology and Social Research Dr Derek Kirton, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Promotion to Senior Research Fellow Research Alex Stevens, European Institute of Social Services, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research Promotion to Senior Lecturer

Dr James Groombridge, Department of Anthropology Deaths Dr Richard Williamson, Department of Biosciences The University is sorry to announce the following deaths during 2008: Dr William Howells, Department of Electronics Sir Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Honorary Graduate Dr Stefan Rossbach, Department of Politics and International Daniel Boucher, Honorary Graduate Relations Adrian Hambrook, Rutherford College Dr Theresa Gannon, Department of Psychology Steve Lutman, Lecturer, School of English Dr Ana Guinote, Department of Psychology Oliver Postgate, Honorary Graduate Dr Tendayi Viki, Department of Psychology Stanley Rogers, first Bursar of Rutherford College Sarah Turner, School of Drama, Film & Visual Arts Paul Schofield, Honorary Graduate Dr Alison Dean, Kent Business School David Shrimpton, Lecturer, Computing Laboratory Dr Anneli Albi, Kent Law School Dr Keith Webb, Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Catherine Carpenter, Kent Law School Relations Lorna Collopy, Kent Law School Douglas Wood, Honorary Senior Member, Rutherford Alan Thomson, Kent Law School Dr Simon Kirchin, School of European Culture and Languages Scarlett Thomas, School of English Dr Barbara Bombi, School of History

Dr Jon Williamson Dr Andrew Fearne Simon Coulton

University of Kent 51 Annual Review Principal officers

Visitor The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

Chancellor Sir Robert Worcester, DL, BSc (Kansas)

Chair of the Council Valerie Marshall, MA, MBA, MSI, LRAM

Vice-Chancellor Professor Julia Goodfellow, CBE, PhD, FMedSci, FIBiol, FInstP

Chair of the Finance and Resources Committee John Simmonds, AIB

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor David Nightingale, MA (Oxford)

Deputy Vice-Chancellors Denise Everitt, BA (Hons) ACA (Kent) Professor Keith Mander, BSc, PhD (Nottingham), CEng, MBCS, MCMI

Pro-Vice-Chancellor External Professor Alex Hughes, BA, PhD (London) PGCE (Oxford)

Pro-Vice-Chancellor Medway Professor Clare Mackie, BSc (Hons), PhD (Strathclyde), MSc (Glasgow), MCPP,MRPharmS

Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research Professor John Baldock, BA (Oxford), MA (Kent)

Dean of the Faculty of Humanities Dr Karl Leydecker, MA DPhil (Oxford)

Dean of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medical Studies Professor Peter Jeffries, BSc, PhD (London)

Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences Professor Andrew Derrington, BA (Oxford), PhD (Cambridge)

Secretary of the Council Karen Goffin, BA (Durham), MA (Kent)

Master of Darwin College Nancy Gaffield, BA, MA (Northern Colorado), MA (Kent)

Master of Eliot College Dr Michael Hughes, MA EdD (Sheffield) BEd CertEd (Exon) DipRSA

Master of Keynes College Dr Anthony Ward, MA (Cambridge), PhD (Nottingham)

Master of Rutherford College Dr Rachel Forrester-Jones, BSc Econ (Hons), PhD (Wales)

Master of Woolf College Nancy Gaffield, BA, MA (Northern Colorado), MA (Kent)

52 University of Kent A Review of this length can only indicate very briefly some of the principal achievements and activities which took place during 2008.

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