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Making the Cut We Celebrate 50 Years of Student Television Avenue The magazine for alumni and friends of the University of Glasgow Making the cut We celebrate 50 years of student television Walk this way Big news for big data Glasgow’s new app to get And other research news you walking from across the University Issue 56 June 2014 1 Continuing your study Postgraduate study can help you to further your career or delve deeper into a subject you are passionate about. With more than 280 postgraduate taught programmes on offer, you can find something to match your interests. We offer postgraduate programmes in: • arts and humanities • science and engineering • social sciences, business, education, law and interdisciplinary studies • medical, veterinary and life sciences. Welcome Contents The University offers a 10% discount to its alumni on all postgraduate taught Welcome to the latest edition of Avenue, our twice-yearly magazine for alumni and News 2 programmes. friends of the University. Recent activities and achievements Making the cut 8 At the University’s London Burns Supper earlier this year, I had the pleasure of again talking Take the next step and discover the programmes on offer, flexible study options, Glasgow celebrates 50 years of student with television writer and producer Steven Moffat. Steven, as well as being a graduate of the fees and funding opportunities and the lively postgraduate community of over television University, is a proud former GUSTie. Glasgow University Student Television (GUST) members 6,000 students. past and present are celebrating the station’s golden anniversary this year, and in this issue of Walk this way 12 Avenue we take a look at how GUST has helped to kick-start the careers of many graduates A new app to get you walking during (page 8). the Commonwealth Games Careers in progress 14 As well as celebrating 50 years of student television, we are preparing for a special year Career updates from alumni of sport. The first ever Sport Alumni Ball will take place this summer, coinciding with the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow (page 20). Also launching in time for the Games is a new Alumni news and events 16 walking app called MyCity: Glasgow, which has been developed by a team of researchers Clubs, reunions and personal news here at the University, along with local partners. You can download MyCity: Glasgow for free; Report to the General Council 22 through the app you’ll discover Glasgow and improve your fitness at the same time. And you Minutes from the Half-Yearly Meeting don’t have to be in Glasgow to use it (page 12). of the General Council, including the Principal’s report You’ll also notice that several articles tell you there’s more to read online. We’re dedicated to advancing how we bring Avenue to you, and the new online version of the magazine not Obituaries 25 only allows you more ways to access the articles, it means we can also bring you some extra Deaths of members of the General content, such as video or expanded versions of a story. Council Exhibitions and events 28 As always, I hope you enjoy reading this issue of Avenue and continue to get involved with the What’s on at The Hunterian University wherever you are in the world. Half-Yearly Meeting of the General Council Saturday, 19 July 2014 Alumni are invited to join the Chancellor and the Principal at the General Council Professor Anton Muscatelli Half-Yearly Meeting on Saturday 19 July at Principal and Vice-Chancellor 11am. The venue is to be confirmed. Read the report of the last meeting on pages 22 and 23. Cover image: Anna Garoucheva Gonzalez, current member of Glasgow University Student Television. How to contact Avenue Giving to Glasgow: Development & Alumni Office, Produced by the Communications Office, 2 The Square. Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4951 University of Glasgow. Editorial Strategy Committee: Email: [email protected] Executive Editor: Ailie Ferrari Photography by the University Photographic Unit. Changes of address and obituaries: Editor: Lynne Maclagan Additional photography by Shutterstock, Development Development & Alumni Office, 2 The Square & Alumni Office, The Hunterian, Archive Services, Cathy Bell, Lesley Richmond, Emily Howie, Tel: +44 (0)141 330 7146 Email: [email protected] Theodore Wood, European Space Agency/Science Alan Macfarlane, Helen McAvoy, Jasmin Singh. Letters to the Editor: Photo Library, James Byrne, F5 Networks, Inc. See following contact details. All addresses are Communications Office, 1 The Square Printed by J Thomson. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ. Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4919 Email: [email protected] Views expressed are not necessarily those of the University or the Alumni news: © University of Glasgow June 2014. ISSN 0950-7167. editors. All rights reserved. Nothing may be reproduced without Development & Alumni Office, 2 The Square written permission from the Editorial Strategy Committee. www.glasgow.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4951 Email: [email protected] 2 3 News News in brief New funding for wind tunnel Big news for big data The University has been awarded £1.7 million The University’s expertise in big data will from the Engineering & Physical Sciences significantly expand thanks to £14 million Research Council and the UK Aerodynamics of funding from the Economic & Social Centre to upgrade one of the School of Research Council to establish the Urban Big Engineering’s four wind tunnels. Data Research Centre in Glasgow, as well as funding for three major research projects to Glasgow is one of seven UK universities – the help analyse big data in the arts. only one in Scotland – that has been selected to form the National Wind Tunnel Facility, creating new opportunities for pioneering The Urban Big Data Research Centre is one aerodynamics and fluid dynamics research, of three new data research centres for the UK as well as aiding the development of key announced by the Minister for Universities and technologies in the wind energy sector. Science, David Willetts MP. As lead partner in the project, Glasgow will share in the With plans being made to enhance the £14 million of funding to establish the centre. capabilities of the tunnel, particularly by The other partners are the Universities of introducing a gust facility and equipping it Edinburgh, Cambridge, Reading, Bristol and with state-of-the-art diagnostic equipment Illinois-Chicago. that will allow real-time measurement of Boost to talent scholarships off- and on-body flows, the facilities will be ‘Data is a huge priority for government as available for use by researchers and industry. For the first time, the University has awarded it has the potential to transform public and It will be able to simulate a wide variety of £2000 talent scholarships to 21 postgraduate private sector organisations, drive research environments to build understanding of both students from the talent scholarship fund. and development, increase productivity and low- and high-speed conditions. The UK’s The scholarships, supported by philanthropic innovation, and enable market-changing aerospace industry is the second largest in the donations to the University, are for students products and services,’ says David Willetts MP. world, employing more than 230,000 people with excellent academic records, whose ‘The new data research centres will help the and contributing £24 billion to the economy financial circumstances mean that without this UK grasp these opportunities and get ahead in each year. funding they might not be able to take a place the global race.’ at the University. The unique facility will bring together a mix of World lead in suicide prevention expertise in urban social sciences and data Space research is go at Glasgow sciences to address problems of dynamic Professor Rory O’Connor from the University’s resource management, social justice, lifelong Scottish space research has been given Institute of Health & Wellbeing has been learning and urban engagement. a major boost with the announcement elected president of the International Academy of nearly £4 million in support for of Suicide Research for the next two years, Meanwhile, researchers from the University’s projects on solar flares and the the first UK-based holder of the post. The Queen presents award to the University College of Arts are building on their big data exploration of Mars. The University’s Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory, capabilities thanks to funding from the Arts Space Glasgow group is spearheading which Professor O’Connor leads, is Scotland’s A delegation of leading researchers from Among its successes are: & Humanities Research Council and the 2 of 12 new UK-led projects that have leading research group looking at suicide and the Boyd Orr Centre for Population & • Major contributions leading to the Economic & Social Research Council. received funding from the European self-harm, promoting collaboration between Ecosystem Health went to Buckingham declaration of global canine rabies Commission’s Seventh Framework researchers and experts working in social, Palace in late February to receive the elimination as an objective of the World Lexicographer Dr Susan Rennie will lead Programme for space-related psychological and biomedical sciences. Queen’s Anniversary Prize. They were Health Organisation, Food and Agriculture one of these projects: the first ever historical research. joined by the Principal, Professor Anton Organisation and the OIE (World thesaurus of Scots, classifying every word in Copyright for creatives Muscatelli, and the Chancellor, Sir Organisation for Animal Health); the Scots language, from earliest records to Creative industries contribute more than Kenneth Calman. • An extended collaboration to pioneer the the present. £70 billion a year to the UK economy, and use of whole-genome sequencing to trace a new website has been launched to help The award recognises the centre’s applied foot-and-mouth disease transmission; You can read more about this and the those working in the music, film, literature, research into the links between human • An extensive programme of work on the other projects at www.glasgow.ac.uk/ visual arts and technology industries activity, ecological changes and the overall epidemiology of bovine TB, including avenue.
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