The magazine for alumni and friends of City University London 2015 issue PLUS City alumni in the food and drink industry. The history of Optometry at City. Cyberjacking: a new threat to air travel?

Picture From the Large Hadron Collider to refugees in Greece, City student this Anna Pantelia is one of the most talented documentary photographers of her generation Contents

1 Welcome City Magazine 2015 Letter from the Director The magazine for alumni and friends of 2 Dispatches City University London, The latest news from your alma mater produced by the Development & Alumni 8 Research Relations Office. Editor Research success across the University Chris Lines 12 Diary Contributors 18: Anna Pantelia Anthony Coleman, Celia An update on City’s global alumni network Enyioko-Hanniford, Ed Grover, Nicola Ranson, 17 Fundraising Julian Rogers, Inspiring projects made possible by the 22: Five to watch George Wigmore generosity of City alumni and partners Design and production Fabrik Brands 18 Louder than words Print and distribution The story of City MA student Anna Pantelia’s Sterling Solutions experiences as Official Photographer at CERN Photography Sophie Göst, Simon Jarratt, Erdi Karaca, 22 Five to watch Helena Kardova, Dasha City alumni going places Miller, Anna Pantelia, Elizabeth Starling, 24 Flavours of City Ed Wright A host of alumni have launched successful Illustration food and drink businesses. We profile four of 28: Optometry at City thelongandtheshortofit. co.uk the best Imagery on this page, from top: 28 Looking back Anna Pantelia outside Chronicling the history of Optometry at City, the College Building; from its late 19 th century foundations through Arthy Ravichandran, a 2011 alumna and to the present day now Aerospace Growth Partnership 31 Keeping City in the family Programme Manager; Four alumni discuss the major part that City has clinical training in the Department of played in their families Optometry, 1953; Binnie and Paul Barnes, who 34 Cyberjacking: a new threat to air travel? met at City in the 1980s, Professor David Stupples warns that aircraft pictured in the old computer systems could be hacked swimming pool at City. 36 In profile From City alumna to starring in The X Factor, it’s been a breakthrough year for Fleur East

31: Keeping City in the family Welcome

Welcome

I would like to extend a warm With a view to providing outstanding City in numbers welcome to the 2015 edition of City facilities for our students, further Magazine and especially to our 6,450 significant developments to our estate new readers who graduated during have been introduced. Students the last year. You are joining an now benefit from state-of-the-art alumni network with over 130,000 underground lecture theatres and an members, the ages of whom range impressive new social space, CityBar. from 21 to 101, representing a rich The jewel in the crown though has to City’s Alumni Office heritage of former students who be CitySport, our new sports centre on is now in contact with over 130,000 studied at City or one of its former Goswell Road, constructed on the site former students in affiliated institutions. of the old Saddlers Sports Centre. This is the largest student sports facility As many will be aware, City has a long 202 in central London and was opened in countries tradition, dating back over 160 years, of March by Olympic gold medal winning providing high-quality education with cyclist Dani King. Our students now a focus on business and the professions. have facilities of which we are proud. Our roots go back to the founding of the Inns of Court School of Law in 1852, Elsewhere, over 1,000 alumni and now known as The City Law School, friends supported the University St Bartholomew’s College of Nursing financially by donating to the Annual and Midwifery (1877) and of course Fund and funding named scholarships, 83% the founding of the Northampton thus helping to improve the lives of of current students Institute in 1894. In 1966 the Institute current and future students. If you were indicated their satisfaction with was granted a Royal Charter and City one of our donors then please accept their experience University London came into existence. our thanks. If you were not, you can at City through the City has maintained and developed find out how to donate by visiting 2014 National its close connections with business www.city.ac.uk/alumni/support-us. Student Survey and the professions with around You really can help to make a difference. 60 per cent of our courses currently I hope that this edition of City Magazine recognised by professional, statutory gives you a flavour of why City is such or regulatory bodies. an exciting place to be at the moment. So we are proud of our heritage. If you haven’t been back for some time, However earlier this year City was why not contact us and arrange a visit? also listed in the 2015 Times Higher I am sure you will be impressed. 75% Education 100 Under 50 ranking of of City’s submission to the 2014 Research the world’s best ‘young’ universities. Excellence Framework The table showcases the rising stars was rated either who are demonstrating great potential. ‘world-leading’ or The significant developments made ‘internationally over the past few years are no doubt excellent’ reflected in City’s inclusion. David Street The highlights of the last year are many. Director In the Research Excellence Framework Development & Alumni Relations (REF), which assesses the quality of research, City leapt from 51 per cent to 75 per cent of research entered Between 2012 being considered as ‘world-leading’ and 2016 over or ‘internationally excellent’. This £130M important measurement is crucial to the will be invested in research reputation of the University City’s estate and places us well among our peers.

City Magazine 1 Our estate continued to transform with the opening of CitySport, Dispatches CityBar and new, modern lecture spaces. Cass Business School named a new Dean, two University buildings were named after former Vice-Chancellors and our music studios were used to film a series for BBC Four. Building the Vision

VISION FOR 2016 FOR VISION The University has made CitySport significant investment in the in numbers estate over the past few years as part of its Strategic Plan, to provide high-quality academic spaces and areas for students to socialise that help create a sense of community. Seating for over The newly opened CitySport is one 400 of the biggest student experience spectators initiatives in which the University has recently invested and provides a sporting hub for students, staff and alumni. The fitness centre, located in the Franklin Building on Goswell Road, was opened in March by Olympic gold Dumbbells from medal winning cyclist Dani King. The custom-built facility is 75 per cent 2kg- larger than its predecessor, Saddlers Sports Centre and is equipped with 50kg more than 120 fitness stations. There (in 2kg increments) is also a strength and conditioning area with free weights and resistance equipment and purpose-built studios for group exercise, martial arts, mind and body classes, spinning and team sports. The standout feature of the new More than centre is the Sport England-standard hall that can accommodate a range 120 of team sports from basketball to fitness stations badminton, with retractable seating for up to 400 spectators. In addition to CitySport, the Franklin Building is home to new educational facilities and office space. Further along Goswell Road lies £30 the recently opened CityBar, the per month phases, the first of which was in the and swivel seating (making it easier University’s new social space membership for alumni University Building. for students to work together) and for students. CityBar has been designed flexible computer rooms with to be modern and welcoming and The new rooms are light and airy, pop-up PCs. the glazed façade draws natural light. having been carved out of formerly Work has also been completed dark and underused parts to provide a new suite of lecture of the estate. The copper light-wells City alumni can benefit from exclusive spaces in the formerly redundant draw daylight into the area, which discounts at CitySport. Prices start Classes from Drysdale Building basement. has been equipped with modern at £4 for a class and £30 per month This was part of the Lecture Space £4 furnishings and the latest technology. membership. Visit www.citysport.org.uk Project, which is formed of three per session This includes moveable furniture for more information.

2 City Magazine Dispatches New Dean appointed at Cass

CASS BUSINESS SCHOOL CASS Professor Marianne W Lewis academic leader and talented has been announced as the new communicator and stood out from Professor Dean of Cass Business School. a field of exceptional candidates Marianne W Professor Lewis, who praised from around the world. Her strong Lewis will assume the “buzzing, vibrant energy” commitment to educational quality, the role of Dean of Cass in the at Cass upon her appointment, combined with international levels autumn term. is currently Professor of of research excellence and close Management and Associate partnerships with the business world Dean at the Carl H Lindner are an excellent fit for us as Cass College of Business at the consolidates its position among the University of Cincinnati. world’s leading business schools.” With over 20 years’ experience in Professor Lewis will join Cass as Dean- international business research and Elect at the end of the summer and will education, she has been Associate work initially alongside the current Dean at the College since 2006. Dean, Professor Steven Haberman, who capable, dedicated and driven. They She will lead Cass and become a has enjoyed three very successful years strive for excellence and envision even member of the University’s Executive as Dean of Cass and, previously, ten greater potential for Cass. Committee when she assumes the role years as Director and Deputy Dean. “I am most looking forward to building of Dean in the autumn term. Professor Lewis said: “I am very excited partnerships – within Cass, across City Welcoming the appointment, Professor to be joining Cass. It has a buzzing, University London, within the London Paul Curran, Vice-Chancellor of City vibrant energy which is fuelled by its community and across an international said: “I am delighted to welcome momentum, people and place. The network: partnerships that can harness Marianne. She is an innovative people I have met are exceptionally the potential of Cass Business School.” City honours former Vice-Chancellors

NAMING BUILDINGS NAMING City has a history of naming Professor Franklin was appointed buildings to recognise the City’s third Vice-Chancellor in 1978 contributions made by former and held the post until 1998. He is the Vice-Chancellors and eminent University’s longest serving Vice- staff. In keeping with this Chancellor and was successful in tradition, the University has raising additional income through his opened the Franklin Building collaboration with business and the and named the Rhind Building professions. He rapidly expanded in honour of former Vice- City’s professionally oriented Chancellors Professor Raoul Franklin postgraduate programmes with the and Professor David Rhind. mantra ‘City makes other universities’ The Franklin Building on Goswell Road graduates employable’. houses the University’s new sports Professor Rhind succeeded Professor centre, CitySport, plus new educational Franklin as Vice-Chancellor in 1998 space and student bedrooms operated and held the position until July 2007. He by City’s accommodation partner. did much to shape the University that The Rhind Building was completed we see today: in particular he improved during Professor Rhind’s tenure as the estate, strengthened research Vice-Chancellor. Previously known as and launched the Cass Business the Social Sciences Building, it houses School. Previously he was Director parts of The City Law School and the General of the Ordnance Survey where School of Arts & Social Sciences. he oversaw the transformational digitisation of its maps. Speaking before unveiling a commemorative plaque, Professor In 2002 Professor Rhind was the first Rhind said: “Having been involved geographer elected to the Royal Society from beginning to end in the creation taken place, I am deeply honoured by  for nearly 50 years and holds the of this superb, functional yet beautiful the University’s decision to name it the The new building distinction of also being a Fellow of the modern building, in which much Rhind Building.” names on display. British Academy. In 2011, City awarded top-class education and research have him an honorary Doctor of Science.

City Magazine 3 Alumnus runs for US Senate

US ELECTION US A City alumnus is bidding for University of Oxford. The prestigious a place on the United States award offers select US citizens the Senate in 2016. Alexander chance to study in the UK. ‘PG’ Sittenfeld will run for On his time at City, Sittenfeld said: one of the two available seats “City University London was a in Ohio, on 8th November wonderful, formative experience for SU petting zoo next year. me and I learned a lot from both my The 30-year-old, who completed teachers and my fellow students.” a Masters in Creative Writing brings the calm (Non-Fiction) in 2010, has been Following work experiences at Google and as a freelance reporter for The New

STUDENTS’ UNION STUDENTS’ described as a ‘rising star’ of US Remember how stressful York Times, Sittenfeld returned to his examinations were? ‘Keep Calm politics by journalists and political commentators. He is representing home town to become the Assistant and Study On’ is a City University Director of the Community Learning London Students’ Union the Democratic Party in the race for the Senate and will compete Center Institute. The organisation campaign aimed at supporting helps to turn schools (otherwise students during their assessment against current Republican Senator Rob Portman. unused in the afternoons and period. The Students’ Union fully evenings) into hubs of neighbourhood appreciate that examination time Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, activity offering health, educational, is an intense period for City students Sittenfeld is currently serving in cultural and recreational and aim to do what they can to make his second term as a member of the opportunities for students, families it that little bit easier. city’s council, after being elected and the surrounding community. The campaign involves a range of in 2011 and 2013. He is Chair of the Education & Entrepreneurship On his campaign website, the activities encouraging students to take politician says: “I never forgot where a break so they can go back feeling Committee and serves on the Budget & Finance Committee and the I came from and chose to come back focused. One of the highlights of the to Ohio: first to build stronger, better campaign this year was a petting zoo, Major Transportation & Regional Cooperation Committee. schools for our next generation and sponsored by the City Future Fund. then to serve as an elected leader The City alumnus attended Princeton The zoo was held in Northampton MA Creative for Cincinnati.” th University after graduating from Square on Wednesday 13 May. There Writing alumnus were goats, lambs, a Shetland pony, a PG Sittenfeld Seven Hills School. He was then rabbit and ferrets in attendance to meet (centre) is running chosen for the postgraduate Marshall For more information, visit students and bring a smile to their faces. for Senate in Ohio. Scholarship and studied at the www.pgsittenfeld.com. Members of the local community and schools were also invited. The animals were provided by Surrey Docks Farm. The Students’ Union also hosted a stall every day on campus with a ‘Procrastination Station’, games, free stationery, stress balls, bubble wrap, water bottles and massages. They also provided information on support services available to students that include the Union Support Service, the Mental Health and Counselling Service and Samaritans. Students’ Union President Rima Amin said: “We’d like to thank all those who contributed to the City Future Fund for helping us to support students better. We wouldn’t have been able to do it without you.”

For more information or to donate to the City Future Fund, visit www.city.ac.uk/ alumni/city-future-fund.

4 City Magazine Dispatches Stammering course seeks new funding

STAMMERING The impact of a speech disorder and eighteen (divided in two age on a person’s functioning groups) includes sessions on general and emotional state can be communication skills and managing severe, but a course at City the struggle of stammering along with University London is helping personal goal setting on which students young people reduce the anxiety can continue to work after the course and embarrassment associated is over. On the last day of the course with stammering. students also prepare a presentation for their peers and their families, which “Services for young people who puts into practice some of the skills stammer are extremely variable across learnt during the intensive course. London – and indeed across the country – and not all young people who Originally developed the late Mrs stammer receive some form of therapy Roberta Williams, former Director of through the NHS,” said Dr Bernard the Clinic, the course builds on the Camilleri, Senior Lecturer in Language skills and experience of the staff in and Communication Sciences (LCS) the LCS Division within the School and manager of the City University of Health Sciences. Previously run London Speech and Language Therapy completely free of charge, the team (SLT) Clinic. “The course offers young is hoping to find different sources of people who might not otherwise have funding to ensure it can continue to run would be a great help as we want to access to therapy the chance to work successful clinics while keeping costs The course offers continue to offer students a chance to in small groups with a specialist to families as low as possible. young people find something that works for them in speech and language therapist towards a chance to “We naturally want to continue to a safe environment and give them the managing their stammer. This can work with a make courses available to all young confidence to tackle social situations make a significant difference to their specialist speech people who need the support and and language that they normally fear or avoid.” day-to-day lives.” welcome applications from people therapist. Run at the Clinic, the four-day courses who are unable to pay the fee,” said Dr For more information, please visit for people between the ages of eight Camilleri. “But any financial support www.city.ac.uk/stammering-course. Celebrating 40 years of music, culture and arts management at City

th ANNIVERSARIES 2015/16 marks the 40 the start of a year of celebrations and anniversaries of both Music and special activities. Culture, Policy and Management at City University London. Stephen Cottrell, Professor of Music and Head of the Departments of Music A groundbreaking Bachelor of and Culture & Creative Industries said: Science in Music, the first of its “I am delighted to be involved in our kind in the UK, was established in th 1975 by Malcolm Troup (who was then 40 anniversary celebrations and I look Director of Music at the Guildhall School forward to welcoming as many of our of Music and Drama). Music achieved alumni as possible to the exciting range departmental status in October 1982 of events we have planned for the year.” and today ranks as one of the top 15 music departments in the country and If you would like to receive further one of the University’s highest-ranking departments in terms of its research. information about these events when it becomes available, please visit In the same year, City also launched www.community.city.ac.uk/city/home a pioneering programme in arts to update your details or call management education. Now under To celebrate these 40th anniversaries,  +44 (0)20 7040 5551. If you are a Music the guise of our MA Culture, Policy and the Department of Music will be Archive image of Management, it is the longest established hosting an alumni event on 10th Simon Emmerson, or Culture, Policy and Management programme of its kind in the UK. Its October, with a similar event Director of alumnus and have photographs from network of alumni can be found in to follow in November for Culture, Electroacoustic your time at City that you would like to Music Studios at City share as part of the celebrations, please some of the most prestigious cultural Policy and Management (details from 1976 to 2004. management positions around the world. available soon). Both events will mark email [email protected].

City Magazine 5 1 BBC music series Bright filmed at City sparks

CITYSPARK Booking a haircut, checking for plaque and understanding politics were just some of 2 the challenges tackled by the winners of CitySpark, City’s enterprise and innovation competition. From over 60 entries, the 15 top ideas were selected to set up a stall at the CitySpark ‘marketplace’, where they presented their ideas to a panel

of roaming judges. SOUND OF SONG The Performance Space at City’s Department of The panel, comprising business Music was the setting for an episode of the new experts, entrepreneurs, alumni and BBC television series Sound of Song. The first City staff, voted for the ideas they hour-long programme of the series, titled felt were the most innovative, well- The Recording Revolution explored the history 3 designed and sustainable. The five and development of popular music recording winners each took home £3,000 and and aired on BBC Four in January. a coveted place on the FastForward business accelerator. During the episode, musicians were filmed recreating historical recording practices and giving demonstrations of contemporary digital processes at the facilities in City’s The winners College Building. Inspired by problems finding a salon, Sequences from the works of Lieber and Stoller, Irving Qrown It [1] founders Olorunfemi Berlin, Phil Spector, Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra Fagunwa and Kunmi Olatunji devised were performed on the Department’s Steinway piano. an app connecting independent black hairdressers with clients in London. Neil Brand, writer and presenter of the series, praised the “wonderful facilities”. He said: “We have had access to When Hawaa Budraa’s sister had everything we needed in one very convenient space and a brace fitted she found it hard 4 the result is better than I could have hoped.” monitoring the health of her gums without going to the dentist. It gave Dr Miguel Mera, Deputy Head of Music at City, explained Budraa the idea for her Plaque Checker that Brand had previously performed in the University’s [2] app as a quick and effective way to concert series and given guest lectures to City students: check oral health. “We have always had strong external links with the music industries but it is especially pleasing to be working on Peeps by Instetto [3] was created by this project with the BBC. Christoffer Olsen and Daniel Infante as a way for people instantly to share “This documentary focuses on the close interaction social and business contact details. between music and technology, which has been a core Olsen came up with the idea after he concern of the Department of Music at City since its watched people “clumsily trying to inception 40 years ago,” he said. network” and thought there had to be Series producer Alastair Williams described some of the a better way. 5 recording techniques his team were able to reproduce in Brothers George and Freddie Shelton the facilities: “The City Performance Space was ideal for came up with the idea for Bet U [4], our needs,” he said. “It gave us an opportunity to re-enact an interactive app that ‘gamifies’ and produce our own musical moments from the history challenge-based fundraising, while of recorded music. cycling from London to Gibraltar. “So we recreated the Edison Tone Test and gathered a Journalism alumnus Jeremy Evans band together to record acoustically as they did in 1906 was frustrated by the lack of innovation on wax cylinders. In the recording studio we made our in how information is displayed. own version of the song Believe by Cher, to illustrate how He created Explaain [5] as a way to Pro-Tools and Auto-Tune can change the sound of song. go behind the headlines with an “These were fascinating and productive days exploring interactive guide to current issues. a century of recorded sound.”

6 City Magazine Dispatches City in print

PUBLICATIONS Several successful publications Seamstress is the second release by  Beaufort and founder of the Met have been released by academics former journalist Trenow. The book, From left, Professor Office Robert FitzRoy, the historical and alumni of City University which tells the story of a seamstress Ronen Palan, Liz account explores the meteorological London this year. working at Buckingham Palace during Trenow, Peter Moore. enlightenment of the 19th century. It has been described by The Sunday Professor of International Politics the Edwardian era, has now been Times as “exhilarating”. at City, Professor Ronen Palan, published in countries across the world has co-authored a book titled Legacies including the UK, Germany and the Two City alumni have created of Empire in collaboration with Royal USA. The author’s second novel was Sixpenny, a digital magazine of six Holloway Professor of International inspired by a trip to the Warner Textile illustrated short stories that each Relations, Professor Sandra Halperin. Archive in Braintree and a visit to a take six minutes to read. Elizabeth former Victorian mental asylum. She The book, published in July, examines  Leonard and Kate Thomas both has since written two further books, the recent historical phenomenon Front covers of graduated from the MA Creative of the nation-state. Taking a look at The Poppy Factory and The Master three of the books. Writing (Novels) in 2013. several millennia of human history, it Piece, in addition to the novel she shows how the modern world has been penned as part of her City course, shaped by empires of the past and The Last Telegram. applies these to contemporary politics. Peter Moore is an alumnus of MA Professor Palan joined the Department Narrative Non-Fiction and now lectures of International Politics at City in on the course. His second book, The September 2012. Weather Experiment, was published MA Creative Writing alumna Liz in May and featured as BBC Radio 4’s Trenow has reached number 18 in Book of the Week programme. With a The New York Times Best Sellers cast that includes notable figures John list for ebook fiction.The Forgotten Constable, Samuel Morse, Francis Law graduate’s Pyongyang exchange

CHOSON EXCHANGE CHOSON Having completed his Graduate entrepreneurship in North Korea providing rural communities with Entry LLB (GELLB) course at City, through intensive training workshops access to sustainable energy. He Scott Howe has now embarked delivered by foreign professionals also successfully established two on a journey of a different kind. in areas such as finance, policy, law backpacker hostels in Kenya. He has He has travelled to Pyongyang in and management. It provides an “always been fascinated” with North the Democratic People’s Republic opportunity for foreign professionals, Korea and was even in Pyongyang last of Korea (North Korea) to be a such as Scott, to share their knowledge year on a sightseeing tour. trainer on the Choson Exchange and support economic development in He is “delighted and grateful” with the programme, with backing a very challenging environment. financial support offered to him by The provided by The City Law School. Scott, who hails from Vancouver  City Law School, which will go a long The Choson Exchange is a Singaporean in Canada, has been involved in City Law alumnus way towards supporting his work with non-profit organisation supporting international development work Scott Howe. the Choson Exchange.

City Magazine 7 The 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF2014) results Research were exceptionally important for City. In less than three years the University made a greater improvement in research quality, per Funding Council research pound, than any other UK university. A brochure, titled Research Impact and focusing on the Impact Case Studies submitted to REF2014, was recently published and a couple of the Impact Case Studies are summarised on these two pages. Better care for older people

8 City Magazine Research CARE HOMES CARE City is helping to lead the way to being and independence of residents residents are at risk of being unseen, better futures for older people. In and develop effective leadership and unheard and treated as ‘objects of care’, 2006, Help the Aged (later merged management. With government and rather than as active participants in with Age Concern to form Age UK) the healthcare sector needing support decisions that affect them. in collaboration with the National to improve standards of care, MHL Research showed the importance of Care Forum (representing the not- focused on the best approaches to give helping older people to have more for-profit care sector) commissioned older people a better life. The aim for voice, choice and control about what research that would improve quality MHL was to share the lessons learned happens to them. This means helping of life in care homes for older people. and become a recognised voice in the to maintain their identity, involving City’s Professor Julienne Meyer CBE sector. The University’s secondment  them in decision-making and positively was invited to take charge of the (and subsequent recruitment) of Tom Professor Meyer connecting them with others. project and My Home Life (MHL) Owen from Help the Aged as MHL’s Co- receives her CBE was born. Director was key to this aim. from Prince William. The study’s findings help policymakers What MHL has achieved at local and national level have a better Research that is MHL research has provided a understanding of the issues facing care framework for improvement in homes for older people, provide them changing lives care homes by highlighting issues with a framework for ‘best practice’ Despite significant levels of disability affecting the sector, testing new ways and give older people more choice and and frailty, MHL found that residents of working and creating leadership control over their lives. were mainly being cared for by low- training initiatives. Across the UK there are over 18,000 paid, poorly qualified social care Having begun as a small project pulling care homes, providing housing with workers, not healthcare professionals. together the evidence base for best care for approximately 400,000 older Given the limited status and pay of practice in care homes, MHL is now people, including some of the most staff working in care homes and the seen as a social movement for quality vulnerable citizens in society today. physically and emotionally exhausting improvement that has crossed national Care homes have long faced a host of nature of the work, it is understandable borders into Wales, Scotland and complex challenges. They must deal that staff problems were identified as a Northern Ireland. Professor Meyer has with difficulty in securing investment; key obstacle. Through MHL, managers also spoken about MHL in Australia, problems with staff recruitment, can be effective in supporting staff to Canada, China, Japan, Malta, Spain retention, training and wages; negative ensure care revolves around the choices and the USA. public perceptions; older and sicker of older people. This way staff are residents; and increased public more able to connect with older people expectations. Care homes are also as individuals and understand and Royal recognition having to cope with significant cuts in respond to their interests, opinions, public spending and cuts in the health aspirations and needs.  In the light of her work as the driving and social care system. force behind My Home Life, Professor Positive relationships were found to Opposite: Professor Julienne Meyer CBE, Julienne Meyer was awarded a CBE in The continuing MHL study was based underpin much of the good practice who leads the the 2015 New Year Honours list for her on working with successful care homes observed in the MHL study. Where My Home Life services to Nursing and Older People. to discover how they promote the well- these relationships are absent, project at City.

Regulating detention law

DETENTION LAW LAW DETENTION Immigration detention is and a book, Immigration Detention: Professor Wilsher’s work proposed widespread in the UK and Law, History, Politics which has since clear standards for policymakers beyond. It means thousands informed policymakers across the for improving the balance between of vulnerable people are held world. It has brought into focus the migration control and an individual’s for long periods without trial vulnerability of detainees and the fundamental rights. In particular, he or access to adequate legal shortcomings of legal systems in stressed the need for judicial review, representation. City research providing them with appropriate time limits on detention and the has influenced the legal framework protection and legal support. elimination of detention for vulnerable and practices that govern detention groups, such as children. By 2011, around 27,000 people went and has encouraged courts and through immigration detention in the A wide range of government bodies and governments to respect the detainees’  UK, at a cost of £130 million. In the NGOs has consulted Professor Wilsher basic rights. Professor same year, the US detained 429,000 Daniel Wilsher. and he has sat as an immigration judge Professor Daniel Wilsher at The City immigrants, costing $1.7 billion. On a on detention issues. Law School was behind the research, global scale, immigration detention is aimed at developing legal and ethical on the rise and largely unregulated, so standards to regulate immigration governments have the power to decide To view City’s Research Impact detention. From its findings, he whom they detain and release, without publication online, visit www.issuu.com/ produced a series of academic articles reference to universal guidelines. cityuniversitylondon/docs/impact.

City Magazine 9 Footing the bill for acts of God

REINSURANCE Academics at Cass Business Professor Jarzabkowski said: “Climate School have conducted research change means that natural disasters The authors say that considers how natural and are increasing in frequency, while the book is a manmade disasters cost the new threats are emerging such as “call to arms” to reinsurance industry billions cybercrime and cyberterrorism. the reinsurance industry. of dollars. “On the one hand changes in the Based on the research of Professor reinsurance market are creating a Paula Jarzabkowski and Research wider pool of insurance products and Fellow Rebecca Bednarek, Making a access to cover, while driving prices Market for Acts of God looks at how down. On the other hand, what is the changes to the way reinsurance is quality of these products? Under what calculated and traded could have circumstances do they pay? profound and widespread implications. “After a disaster, we can’t afford to The book explains how losses from wait years and wade through costly natural and manmade disasters court cases before receiving the pay- have been increasing in frequency out that lets us rebuild. Natural and and severity, how the reinsurance manmade disasters are just so horrific. market has been changing and how It’s going to be better not to find out those changes can potentially have in retrospect whether these new worldwide implications. reinsurance methods are substantial enough to cope.” A move towards bundling the underwriting of natural disasters and The book looks closely at the Tohoku changing the way in which potential (Japanese) Earthquake in 2011 one of these years was 2011. We saw losses are assessed could mean that (estimated to have cost the reinsurance that the drivers of risk are increasing investors in insurance bonds and industry $37.5 billion) and the Thai and the range of disasters across the financial products end up footing the floods the same year, the world’s world during that year demonstrate bill, or even slow the rate at which we fourth-costliest disaster. Indeed, 2011 the systematic and linked nature of rebuild societies following a disaster. was the most expensive year on record that risk. for natural disasters, placing the costs The book’s authors describe their “What we are showing is how a flood of recovery on the insurance and work as a “call to arms” to the industry, in Thailand can disrupt global supply reinsurance industries. warning of the potential threats chains, impacting the operations of arising from these changes to the Professor Jarzabkowski said: “We businesses as far away as the American reinsurance market. studied the industry for three years and chain, Walmart.”

‘Nurture’ over ‘nature’ for overweight children

CHILDHOOD OBESITY Nature versus nurture: it’s are admirable, our results suggest that healthy lifestyles urgently required. a relationship that has long the primary focus should be on helping Wider acknowledgement of the impact been debated, especially when parents adopt healthier lifestyles of cultural factors in the transmission it comes to things as vital as and be better role models concerning of obesity is also needed to help combat lifestyle and specifically weight. healthy eating and physical exercise.” the increasing prevalence of the But in a new study published condition among children. this year, academics from City Comparing the overweight status of and London School of Economics biological and adopted children to that seem to have settled the of their parents to determine whether argument for good as they discovered children inherit their overweight that parents’ lifestyles rather than problems or whether they are the result of their genes are primarily responsible the environment in which they develop, for their children being overweight. the team found that when both adoptive parents are overweight, the likelihood Speaking about the research, Mireia of an adopted child being overweight is Jofre-Bonet, Professor in Economics up to 21 per cent higher than when the at City, said: “The good news is that parents are not overweight. our research shows that we can do something about children’s weight The research could have significant problems. Although initiatives that implications for health policy, with target schools and children themselves further support for parents to adopt

10 City Magazine Research Technologies to help people living with dementia engagement in meaningful activities for people living with dementia, thus helping them to live more independent and rewarding lives; ‘The Dementia Cookbook’, a mobile app which supports people to cook independently and eat healthily; and ‘Maggie’, a mobile app that helps young children to learn about dementia through fun, creative and interactive tools, centred around the story and experiences of Maggie, a fictional character living with dementia. The aim of these tools is to help people living with dementia at home to flourish through increasing their sense of independence and

DEMENTIA self-sufficiency; to facilitate their City academics are working to The technologies are being developed  participation in community group develop three new online and by City’s Centre for Creativity in Professor mobile tools with the aim of Professional Practice, led by Alise Neil Maiden activities; and to foster healthy transforming the experiences of Kirtley, a Culture Change Manager and is overseeing intergenerational relationships people living with dementia and Practice Development Consultant with research at City between young children and people into helping those living with dementia. those of their friends, families and carers. care homes and Professor Neil Maiden, with dementia. Professor of Systems Engineering and Over 6.8 million people live with co-founder of the Centre. Professor dementia in the EU, around two thirds If you would be interested in learning Maiden leads the research at City to of whom live at home. Yet family carers more about this innovative work, develop new forms of digital support for report a severe lack of real-time, practical please contact Mehrangez Rahman, care of older people with dementia. advice. There are currently 800,000 Trusts and Foundations Officer, people living in the UK with dementia The three tools are: ‘Non-Trivial at +44 (0) 20 7040 8008 or and most are supported by unpaid carers. Pursuits’, an online tool that facilitates [email protected]. Innovative turbine engine research

TURBINE TECHNOLOGY TURBINE Professor Abdulnaser Sayma electricity. Assisted by the European and his team at City have achieved Turbine Network (ETN), City provides Professor a major milestone for their solar coordination and management of the Abdulnaser Sayma dish power generation project. project. The OMSoP project began leads the OMSoP project at City. in 2013 with eight partners from five Known as the Optimised countries and a total budget of €5.8M. Microturbine Solar Power system (OMSoP), the project is initiated The Brussels-based ETN is a non-profit and led by Professor Sayma and is association which consolidates the co-funded by the European Union’s entire value chain of Europe’s gas 7th Framework Programme for Research turbine technology community. It and Development. It is aimed at facilitates gas turbine research and providing and demonstrating technical technology development, promoting solutions for the use of a state-of-the-art environmentally friendly, stationary concentrated solar power system (CSP) gas turbine technology, with reliable coupled to micro-gas turbines (MGT) to and low-cost operation. produce electricity. The intended system Professor Sayma, who is an active is expected to be modular, producing member of the ETN Project Board and electricity in the range of 3-10 kW. chairman of the ETN’s Operational in terms of our target capacity for The MGT will be integrated with the Flexibility Technical Committee, said: generating electricity. Our research CSP at the Casaccia Research Centre, “We are elated with our progress so represents a considerable advance in 25km northwest of Rome, in early far and we have demonstrated that we the possibilities for clean, reliable and 2016. It is expected to generate 6 kW of are on course to achieve our objectives sustainable energy solutions.”

City Magazine 11 This year’s Diary showcases several outstanding City alumni events Diary around the world over the past academic year and scenes from the January 2015 Graduations. Alumni events offer a wonderful opportunity to network, rekindle old friendships and learn about how City is changing. Events in 2014/15

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January th 26 BBQ party, Cass Alumni Weekend, Monaco. . 2 Bletchley Park visit with Professor David Stupples, Director of City’s Centre for Cyber and Security Sciences. . 6 . 2014 to Bar Professional Training Course Cocktailreception and fundraising evening, hosted by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (pictured centre), as part of the annual Cass Alumni 8 . . 12 then Chancellor of City of Chancellor then University London. Northampton at Reception Square. Weekend in Monaco. Dublin, withguest speaker Archie Kane (centre), Governor of the Bank of Ireland. 2011 7 a ‘selfie’ at Graduation on 1 15. Alumni Reception at The British Consulate General, Hong Kong. The opening address was delivered by Deputy Trade Commissioner Richard Flood, followed by a speech from Mingkang Liu (MBA, 1987), former president of the Bank of China. 16. Alumni Reception, Seoul, at the British Embassy with Professor Stephen Cottrell, Head of the Departments of Music and Culture & Creative Industries. 17. An evening Alumni Reception at Scottish Television (STV) in Glasgow, which included a talk by Rob Woodward, CEO of STV Group and Chair of Council, City University London. 18. Mandana Mofidi (MA International Journalism, 2010), Producer of the Vice series on HBO (pictured left) interviewed Nicole Young (MA International Journalism, 2003), award-winning Senior Producer for CBS News and the renowned 60 Minutes programme (right) at an alumni event in New York. 19. Nicole Young (far left) and Mandana Mofidi (second left) raise a toast at the New York alumni event.

15 Events in 2015/16 We are now planning our events calendar for 2015/16. Highlights will include: • 5 th Annual Cass Alumni Weekend in Monaco, 4th-6th September 2015 • Visit to National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park, 3rd October 2015 • Department of Music 40th Anniversary Party, 10th October 2015 • Recent Graduates Christmas Party in CityBar, 17th December 2015. If you graduated between 2012 and 2015, please save the date! To receive our bi-monthly events bulletin and sign up for the events 16 17 you would like to attend, please join our Online Community (details on opposite page) and make sure your email address is up to date. City also hosts a range of public lectures, seminars, conferences and concerts throughout the year, which all alumni are invited to attend. For details of events being hosted at City over the year ahead, please visit www.city.ac.uk/events.

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14 City Magazine City graduates are entitled to a wide range of benefits and services from the University, including continued access to the library and discounted membership of CitySport, the University’s brand new fitness centre on Goswell Road. Benefits and services

Library membership CitySport Eye care City alumni are entitled to free use of CitySport is our brand new sport and City’s newly refurbished Fight for Connect the University libraries for reference fitness centre and offers competitive Sight Clinic recently joined forces with and an 80 per cent discount on the membership fees and special rates for Topcon, a manufacturer of optical Keeping in touch annual rates charged to external alumni. It has leading-edge equipment equipment for ophthalmology and with your alma mater is an easy visitors for borrowing privileges. with high-quality trainers, smart surveying, putting it at the forefront of way to expand Membership includes access to the facilities and studios. We also have developments in eye care technology. your network main University library in Northampton Olympic-quality courts for several team Not only will you receive a thorough eye and learn more Square and libraries at Cass Business and individual sports, so why not come about the latest examination at the clinic, your support School and The City Law School. along for a game of badminton or a five- developments at will enable our Optometry students to a-side football match? the University. Registered members of the Alumni continue to develop their clinical skills. Join the Alumni Online Community can access Get free eyesight tests, contact lens Network on e-journals and databases remotely To join CitySport or the library, please fittings, aftercare and up to20 per cent LinkedIn, through Emerald Insight, Business contact us for your Alumni Network off a complete pair of glasses, including Facebook, Twitter Source Premier Alumni Edition, Card. You will need this to verify your and blog to get the exclusive designer styles. JSTOR, Refworks and Sage (coming status as an alumnus when visiting for latest updates from soon). There is also on-site access to the first time. Please go towww.city. our community – you will find all of other online resources through the ac.uk/alumni/benefits-and-services To book your appointment please the links on the University libraries at Bunhill Row or telephone +44 (0) 20 7040 5557 to call +44 (0) 20 7040 8338 or email back cover of and Northampton Square. request your card. [email protected]. City Magazine.

Online Community Ask Alumni Other benefits E-Mentoring Have you moved house or changed job Graduate Loyalty Discount recently? To access all of the benefits Ask Alumni is our relaunched e-mentoring A fee discount of at least 10 per listed on this page (and more), please platform. Simply register and create a cent when enrolling for one of 150 remember to review and update your profile to provide or seek informal,ad hoc postgraduate taught courses. careers advice. You can link your Ask contact details using the Online Career and employment services Alumni profile to your LinkedIn account Community. You will then receive Whether you are a job hunter (up to make getting set up even easier. Once invitations to local City events and to three years after graduation) logged in, you can search the database information relevant to your profession or recruiter, our Career & Skills for mentors based on their location, and industry. Development Service can help. experience, course or what type of support they are happy to provide (everything Lifelong email To join: from email advice to work shadowing). Alumni who graduated from 2013 If you are a City alumnus, visit onwards can continue to use their City email account. community.city.ac.uk/city/home. To sign up to Ask Alumni, either as If you are a Cass alumnus, visit a mentor or mentee, please visit community.city.ac.uk/cass/home. www.city.ac.uk/alumni/ask-alumni.

City Magazine 15 A lifelong relationship Become part of a global network and help others to succeed

International Ambassadors City is one of the most popular “I moved from London to Singapore “As an Ambassador, I want to help universities in the UK for international in 2010 and was eager to expand my my fellow alumni stay in touch and students. Over 25 per cent of our network. I contacted the Alumni team promote City to prospective students. alumni live outside the UK and our but there wasn’t an Ambassador for I have been doing this by helping City’s global alumni network ensures that the area organising any local activity. International Office at recruitment former students, no matter where they I volunteered so I could give fairs and answering questions from are in the world, can maintain their something back. prospective students. I also assist connection with the University. at alumni events in Singapore and “The year I had at City was the most welcome those who relocate here. Since the last edition of City Magazine, intense of my two-year course yet the the Alumni team has continued to work most rewarding, both academically “In future, my aim is to organise closely with former students around and professionally. I was lucky enough Juliet Ye Zhu. regular local events with other active the world. Here Juliet Ye Zhu (Erasmus to find an internship in a company group members. The role is very Mundus MA in Global Journalism, near the main campus, which turned enjoyable and rewarding and I would 2008) explains why she is proud to out to be the company I am still with encourage others to get involved.” volunteer as City’s International more than eight years later. The Careers Ambassador in Singapore: Service at City gave me a lot of valuable For more information about our advice, both as a student and after International Ambassadors Scheme, my graduation. please visit www.city.ac.uk/alumni/ international-ambassadors or call +44 (0) 207 040 5567.

City alumni inspiring success Feedback from City students has others has helped me manage my shown that innovative ways to engage time better. I have made friends and Insight into Industry with alumni and ‘real-life’ exposure built positive relationships while my to industry are rated very highly. In mentees have grown in confidence and Our Insight into Industry Scheme offers response, the Alumni team works self-efficacy; they can now see the tree City’s most proactive students an closely with the Career & Skills from the forest. The future feels a lot opportunity to shadow professionals Development Service to offer a range brighter for them and having someone who have specific knowledge about the of ways for alumni to meet current to ask any perceived silly questions occupation or career in which they are students and help them prepare always serves as an asset. This new interested. This is a competitive scheme for employment. confidence, I believe, is something that where students apply for a place and will propel them to greater heights. complete a series of assessments and The Professional Mentoring Scheme Kenneth Emeka training tasks. This helps ensure we is one of the University’s outstanding “I absolutely plan to continue Okoroafor. send the brightest and best students success stories. Here Kenneth Emeka mentoring for the foreseeable future. who are prepared to make the most of Okoroafor (BSc Economics and I see it as an opportunity to solve your valuable time. Accountancy, 2005) explains why problems. And nothing beats solving he has volunteered as a mentor for problems that change lives using what We recognise that, in some cases, it can the past five years: I know and the resources around me.” be difficult to arrange structured work experience so we have devised various “I wanted to get involved with the ways for you to get involved, from Professional Mentoring Scheme Could you mentor a current City hosting a few days of work shadowing because even a little open door student? Inspiring, dedicated in your office to holding a short meeting can change lives. mentors are crucial to the success at City. “My mentoring journey has been very of the Mentoring Scheme at City. For more information about the Insight rewarding. I have learnt a lot about To find out more, please email into Industry scheme, please email myself and my own career trajectory. [email protected] [email protected] or call Carving out time to meet and assist or call +44 (0) 207 040 0288. +44 (0) 207 040 8425.

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City extremely City’s is Livery the and Companies. entities corporate trusts, foundations, Building bridges with business Anna Pantelia, pictured in the Silent Study area in the main University Library. 18 City Magazine Anna Pantelia Anna Considered one of the most promising documentary photographers of her generation, Greek photojournalist Anna Pantelia came to City last year to study a Masters and enhance her career prospects. From the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to her homeland’s troubles with immigration and racism, her skill at encapsulating complex stories in a single image is evident. Chris Lines sat down with Anna to hear about her work in photography to date and the path that led her to City. Louder than words n February this year, the influential Early days quickly producing art photography photographic agency Magnum of a sufficient standard that it was Photos announced a ‘30 Under 30’ list In her home country of Greece, there published at a small exhibition in identifying emerging photographers is a tradition at the end of high school Athens for new artists. Her interest aged 18 to 30, with the aim of for students to embark on a five-day suitably stimulated, she opted to Irecognising and providing a platform for trip. Most students partake in this rite study for a BA in Photography and burgeoning photographic talent. Among of passage but Anna had other ideas. Audiovisual Arts at the Technological them was City MA student Anna Pantelia. “I said to my dad, ‘I don’t want you to Educational Institute of Athens. pay for me to go on this trip. Can you “It was the most important thing give me this money to put towards a that’s ever happened to me,” she says. new camera instead?’. Up to that point Heading to CERN “I could never have imagined this I had been taking photographs with a happening – it really means a lot.” “My family thought I should do pocket camera.” Her father relented and something else,” she says. “My Magnum, founded in 1947 by some bought his daughter a Canon SLR. marks were way higher than the of the world’s leading photographers “It was a very good camera to have entry requirements and they worried as an ‘international photographic when I was only 16 or 17,” she says. I might be wasting the good grades cooperative’ and owned by its “Normally someone of such a young I had achieved.” Architecture and photographer-members, is seen as age would never have such high- physics were both suggested to Anna a standard bearer in documentary quality equipment. I remember my as alternatives. These conversations photography. For 23-year-old Anna, mother saying to my father, ‘If she asks led to her father arranging for her to a ringing endorsement from those for a Ferrari are you going to buy her meet a customer of his, who worked she most admires means everything one of those, too?’” in the University of Athens’ Faculty of to her. It’s also a clear indicator of Physics. While the physicist failed to her potential and the latest step in Although her father was a keen change Anna’s mind, it nonetheless her fledgling career. But even before amateur photographer, Anna taught proved to be a fortuitous encounter. Magnum drew attention to her talent, herself the basics of photography Anna had already had some remarkable by experimenting with the camera. “We later spoke again and he asked if experiences behind the lens. She took to it like a natural and was I would be interested in coming to

City Magazine 19 agreed to help as a favour and neither of them thought any more of it. The day the interview was published, Anna was on holiday in Israel when she suddenly started getting telephone calls from Greek national television and radio stations. They all wanted to talk to the young Greek woman working at CERN. “I got so much attention and all because of a single article,” she says. “This helped me to understand how the media works. It’s all about whether you are lucky, whether somebody will discover you or write something complimentary about you.” The realisation that she needed to become more media-savvy would soon lead her to City.

Refugees and racial tension in Greece Anna’s experiences at CERN gave the media a feel-good angle they could work with. The same however cannot be said of the photojournalism she had produced prior to CERN. Having started work as a photographer at CERN, the her degree at the same time as the global European Organization for Nuclear financial crisis was enveloping her Research, where he was working as country, she saw her peers becoming part of the Greek team.” increasingly xenophobic, even racist, as the jobs market dried up and desperation Anna expressed her interest but started to creep in. She paints a bleak assumed her father’s customer was just picture of a country in turmoil. making polite conversation. She sent him her cv and subsequently received “Greece has a history of its people an application form that she completed migrating to other countries, such as and returned. A letter later arrived on Australia and Germany, so we were 2nd April confirming she had a place at always sympathetic to other people CERN, conditional on passing her final coming here,” she says. “Greeks didn’t examinations. “I wondered if it was an have any racism in their blood, but as April Fools’ joke that had been delayed the crisis boomed from 2008 to 2012, in the post,” she recalls. CERN. She proved a popular and hard- things changed quickly. Some 52 per working addition to the team and was cent of young people in Greece are By chance, while Anna was busy Images of CERN subsequently hired for a further year taken by Anna unemployed nowadays and 26 per revising in the last few days before as Official Photographer. With CERN during her cent of the total population. This all her finals, news broke that the Higgs- enjoying a well-earned shutdown after time as Official happened within a few short years Boson particle (often referred to as Photographer its momentous discovery, Anna had and people had no explanation for the ‘God particle’ and long considered at the nuclear the freedom to visit (and photograph) it. This is why racism started: people the missing piece in the jigsaw for research facility. absolutely everything, including all needed somebody to blame for their physicists trying to understand how the 27km of the Large Hadron Collider. problems and, of course, people don’t universe works) had been discovered Nothing was off limits and she was blame themselves.” at CERN’s £6.2 billion Large Hadron able to put together a remarkable Collider (LHC). It was one of the most In 2012, during the Greek national body of work, at times using a bicycle significant discoveries in the history elections, the far-right political party to expedite travel along the lengthy of particle physics, not to mention Golden Dawn gained unprecedented tunnel housing the LHC. the biggest story ever to come out of support from the Greek electorate, CERN. “The news was everywhere, all She would also be posted to cover garnering seven per cent of votes, the professors were giving interviews events such as open days, concerts enough for the party to enter the on television,” she says, recalling the and, most memorably, the visits of VIPs Hellenic Parliament for the first time intense distraction of wall-to-wall to CERN. Professor Stephen Hawking with 21 seats. Plainly this was not an coverage for an organisation she was and actor Morgan Freeman are two easy time to be an immigrant in Greece. tantalisingly close to working for. that Anna picks out, with Freeman “The situation continued to get worse, “I couldn’t believe it, because if I didn’t even taking time to quiz her on her partly because Greece couldn’t keep pass the examinations then I wouldn’t background and her photography. “He its borders secure,” says Anna. “Most be able to go to CERN.” was very friendly, not like a VIP at all.” immigrants have no legal documents, Thankfully she did pass and was A friend working at a Greek national so it’s difficult for the authorities to initially taken on for a two-month agency asked if she could interview even ascertain where they come from paid internship as a photographer at Anna about her experiences. Anna if they did want to send them back. All

20 City Magazine Anna Pantelia Anna London seemed like an ideal destination, Anna’s striking loaded as it is with media companies, images highlighting communications agencies and third- the plight of sector organisations. And City had the immigrants in perfect course to offer, a Masters degree Greece led to her selection for in International Communication and Magnum Photos’ Development. She successfully applied ‘30 Under 30’ list and started the course last autumn. Anna realised while working at CERN that it is communications professionals, not photographers, who plan photographic assignments and make decisions about what gets published. Studying communication would allow her to work for a wider range of employers, from brands to charities and NGOs. “Ideally I would like to work for an NGO or charity as a communications officer and photographer. I would like to do both, even more than these problems were increasing. There pure photography, because as a is poverty, there is unemployment, so photographer you can sometimes feel inevitably there is more crime.” like a tool. I want to have an input into Anna became acutely aware of the the direction, the communication immigrants’ plight. Rejected by the strategies and techniques.” society around them, they often She is benefitting from a year studying occupied abandoned buildings, living at City, which has included being in squalor and unable to find work or shortlisted in the Student Photographer the better life they craved. Yet many of the Year category in The Guardian doubtless viewed their situation as Student Media Awards 2014. “There are preferable to the one they had fled in some very good professors at City,” she their own country. Anna’s skilful eye says. “I wish I had more time to enjoy and compassion allowed her to capture their teaching. I particularly admire striking documentary images of the Dr Carolina Matos; she’s a very dynamic immigrants’ predicament. woman. She has taught me a lot “They were mainly Syrian and building where a community of Syrians about how media can make a positive Palestinian immigrants of a similar age were living. “The next day I messaged difference in developing countries.” to me, 20 to 25. These people came from him and asked how he was. After Dr Matos, in return, is equally their countries more or less on foot.” several hours came the reply: ‘Good complimentary about her student: Many of those she met had been students morning, I am in Sweden’. He hadn’t “Anna has showed herself to be in their homeland but were forced to mentioned anything the previous day. intelligent, bright and capable. She has leave. They got around border controls Some immigrants have no option but proved her capacity to engage well with a by arriving by boat up a river. They then to travel illegally, so they don’t want series of complex theories and debates.” walked all the way from northern Greece anybody to know. They try to escape to Athens. “It’s impressive to learn these and sometimes they manage to do it.” After completing a dissertation, Anna stories,” says Anna. will leave City in September equipped She went with her camera to visit Learning valuable skills at City with the necessary skills and know-how an old building with no windows to build a career around her undoubted While the photographs Anna took or doors, where refugees from Syria talent and an eye-catching cv. However, of the immigrants were also those were living. Some families were very despite London’s status as a media hub, submitted to Magnum and subsequently welcoming and wanted to have their it’s likely that Anna’s immediate future exhibited at The Photography Show at stories told, but as she left a man was will be overseas. Birmingham NEC in March this year, she screaming at her from the balcony. “Opportunities for photojournalists are had struggled to get Greek media to pay “He was angry and yelling that the not good in the UK, especially if you attention to her work. In contrast to the BBC had come, CNN had come, people want to cover humanitarian issues” clamour to interview her when she was always took photographs and videos she says. “You have to be in the places at CERN, the miserable circumstances but yet nothing had changed with their where the problems are happening, so of refugees were not a subject the CONTRIBUTOR: situation in months,” she says. maybe I will relocate somewhere like Greek media wanted to present to their A former editor the Middle East or go back to Greece. Anna got to know some of the audience. Anna, growing somewhat of business and I can’t predict what will happen next; immigrants quite well. She met a group cynical of the workings of mass media, consumer titles, I just hope I will be doing something of Syrians at a kiosk in Athens who, knew she needed to get under the skin of 2003 Periodical that helps people. And I will do despite their own difficult situations, how media and communication works. Journalism alumnus Chris Lines is photography, of course.” were selling falafel to raise funds to She needed to box clever if she was to Publications Officer send back home. She befriended one achieve her ultimate aim of using her at City and the Editor of the group and later visited him at a photography to make a difference. of City Magazine. www.annapantelia.com

City Magazine 21 In this year’s edition of Five to Watch, we meet graduates going places in the worlds of optometry, television news, engineering, 5 management consultancy and law. Arthy towatch Ravichandran

MEng AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING, 2011 Arthy started her career at GKN plc as an International Leadership Development Programme member. As part of her Abbas programme she had secondments in the UK, India and USA in areas of engineering, purchasing and programme management. She joined the Aerospace Growth Partnership Asaria (AGP) team in September 2014 as Programme Manager. The AGP has led to a step change BSc OPTOMETRY, 2007 in the relationship between government and Abbas enjoyed studying in the heart of London industry, while encouraging UK companies to while at City, not least being surrounded by cooperate more closely in addressing problems dynamic personalities and “inspirational” that affect the sector as a whole. academic staff. “I just knew I wanted still to Managing a busy schedule while studying be part of that even after graduating and that at City taught Arthy how to manage her determination led me to where I am today,” time effectively. The management training he says. she received also helped her gain an After qualifying, Abbas initially worked as a understanding of the business environment, freelance optometrist to allow him to explore preparing her as an eligible graduate for his career options. It led him back to City as any company. a Clinical Tutor and he went on to become a Arthy says: “Most of my lecturers had a great Clinical Skills Tutor and Lead Clinician. He industrial and research background and hence has since joined leading optical equipment could relate the lessons to current problems manufacturer Topcon as a Clinical Affairs faced by the industry. They would force you Specialist and currently holds the position to think outside the box in every aspect of Area Sales Manager and Product Specialist. and would encourage you throughout the He cites showing his gratitude to City with whole course.” the incorporation of a fully sponsored and Her ambitions for the future are to equipped Teaching Suite and a personal continue on the path she has started and acknowledgement from the Dean as the to play an important role in developing the highlight of his career so far. His aims are to AGP and UK aerospace. help the next generation of eye practitioners, become involved in global product development and “help revolutionise the way eye care is perceived and practised through modern advances in automated technology”.

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Roy Hilary Appiah LAW LLB, 2012 Rhiannon Moore Roy is an associate in the litigation department at Clifford Chance LLP. He qualified in EXECUTIVE MBA, 2011 February and is currently working on several Mills commercial disputes. Prior to qualifying Hilary is now a Communication Specialist in litigation he completed stints in private PG Dip BROADCAST JOURNALISM, 2002 at international management consultancy equity (where he worked on the purchase Rhiannon has worked for Sky News since McKinsey & Company. “I support their of We Buy Any Car by British Car Auctions), 2010 and at the start of the year became the clients and consultants with a huge range general banking and asset finance (where channel’s Royal Correspondent. It has proved of challenges – I love it,” she says. he had the unique experience of going to the to be a busy first few months. She reported Airbus facility in Toulouse and overseeing the Hilary did an Executive MBA at Cass Business from Davos on allegations made in America purchase of an aircraft for a client). School, which she describes as being fun, against Prince Andrew, went to Japan to follow stimulating and satisfying. She says: During his time at City, he mentored students Prince William and most recently travelled to “I graduated with four powerful benefits: insight, from a pupil referral unit, was a course New Zealand on a tour with Prince Harry. network, confidence and prestige. Regarding representative and was nominated student She says that broadcasting live on the birth insight, I understood every element of business graduation speaker. “The thing these roles of Princess Charlotte was “an amazing buzz”, on a strategic level. Through networking, I left all have in common,” he says, “is that I found while securing a world exclusive interview with a powerful web of contacts and friends each daunting and thought I might not be with Prince Harry, about his future away from throughout London’s business scene. In terms equipped with the ability to succeed in them. the army and his desire to have children, of confidence, I left with raised ambitions and The main benefits from my time at City were proved to be an enormous scoop. belief in my ability to create change. And in being encouraged to do things outside my terms of prestige, an MBA from such a good comfort zone and understanding when After completing a History degree at Leeds school definitely helps open doors.” ask for help, which established a desire University in 2001, her postgraduate course Other highlights of her career include being a constantly to seek ways to become a better at City gave Rhiannon the chance to focus on concert harpist, doing an MA and PhD in the version of myself.” her ambitions to enter journalism. Media law training was essential and she gained great USA, completing a year’s volunteer work in Roy’s life goal is to make a difference. The contacts in the industry. Her first full-time job Africa and becoming a published author. manifestation of this as a career goal is to was at Hereward FM and offered a chance to put identify the sector of law that he is extremely In her spare time Hilary is forming a non- into practice all the skills she’d developed at City. profit organisation called Brave, Strong Girls passionate about and become one of the which creates and sells children’s books with leading litigators acting in that field. He “From reporting on the Soham murders to the strong girl characters. The proceeds will go aspires to work on cases that interpret Rolf Harris trial, flooding in the West Country towards empowering and educating girls and shape the law in that sector. to the phone-hacking scandal, I’ve certainly in the developing world. had a varied career to date,” she says.

City Magazine 23 Flavours of City

24 City Magazine Food andFood drink  Humble Grape founder James Dawson was attracted by the ‘romance’ of the wine industry.

From the simplicity of fresh fruit and veg to the complexity of opening a teahouse in a bustling Burmese metropolis, City alumni have launched all manner of businesses in the food and drink industry. Julian Rogers profiles a handful of the most interesting and hears the story of their successes.

ity University London is not Starting with their first outlet close short of entrepreneurial to Charing Cross railway station, alumni who have rolled up the predominantly London-focused their sleeves to launch startup business has mushroomed into a businesses in the competitive network of more than 100 branches Cbut exciting world of food and drink. across the country. Eat sells 6.5 million For starters, ex-Business Studies cups of coffee a year. It is proof, if it students Matthias Gilles, Olympia de were needed, that mighty oaks do Proyart and Jules Couten founded pop- indeed grow from little acorns. CONTRIBUTOR: up style restaurant Flambée, which celebrates the traditional Alsatian With this in mind, City Magazine Julian Rogers caught up with four former students is a freelance and South German dish tarte flambée. journalist who has Meanwhile, Economics graduate to hear why they chose to take the covered a wide Garvin Bhangu quit his job in Dubai plunge and dive into the food and range of subjects with Deloitte last year to take charge drink industry. including business management, of London-based Fusion Catering and e-commerce Fusion Rasoi, two bespoke catering and financial companies gaining a distinguished James Dawson, technology. reputation for their Asian-influenced Humble Grape cuisines. And then there’s 23-year- By his own admission, former Cass old Peter Honegger, who launched Business School MBA student James Austrian wine store Newcomer Wines Dawson has always been fascinated in trendy Shoreditch pop-up shopping with wine. Besotted even. The 41-year- centre Boxpark while studying at Cass old is what’s known as an oenophile. Business School. “I really love the product and I’m so But perhaps the biggest success story passionate about it,” he explains at is that of former hedge fund manager the Canada Square headquarters and City University London alumnus of his boutique wine merchant and Niall MacArthur who, together with tasting event business Humble Grape. his wife Faith, founded award-winning “The romance of the industry and the Flavours of City sandwich chain empire Eat in 1996. vineyards really grabs me. I’m

City Magazine 25 totally obsessed with wine and Rangoon Tea House, situated in a learning more about it.” historic, colonial building, caters for a burgeoning middle class and the It was while working in the City six steady influx of foreigners, including years ago that he decided to import 20 diplomatic staff (the American and cases of wine and organise informal British ambassadors have visited). wine tastings in his dining room. The next day he would strap the bottles he Myet Oo admits to being very much sold the previous night to his motorbike hands-on, spending seven days a and crisscross London delivering his week at the teahouse, which opened cargo before commencing work. Yet its doors in November 2014 and can this moonlighting left some friends and accommodate up to 75 diners. He family members a little bemused. “A lot employs over 40 kitchen, bar and floor staff and two permanent electricians of people said to me ‘you’re an MBA at because the city is plagued by a FTSE 100 company and getting paid intermittent power cuts during the really well so why are you working summer months. In fact, the teahouse’s evenings and weekends doing these back-up generator blew up on the day wine tastings to earn just £75?’” Myet Oo spoke to City Magazine. But this wine connoisseur remained “Being able to improvise and make undeterred: after establishing Humble decisions on the spot is your biggest Grape with £10,000, he rented a Htet Myet Oo, asset here,” he remarks. “In the UK you warehouse and imported wines directly Rangoon Tea House can search Google and teach yourself from France. He also organised tastings how to set up a business: here it’s Htet Myet Oo had long yearned to for financial institutions, law firms and on-the-job training.” Myet Oo, who resettle in his homeland of Burma tech startups. Indeed the corporate imported and sold 4x4 vehicles to help – a country he left at four when his market, which accounts for around finance the project, concedes that it parents, both doctors, migrated to the 40 per cent of revenue, insulated the has been a “huge learning curve”. UK. And that urge intensified for the Ultimately, though, the goal is a chain fledgling business from the prolonged City Economics graduate at the turn of Rangoon Tea Houses in Yangon and economic maelstrom. “People were of the decade when the Southeast  abroad. “In four or five years I’d love to concerned about buying wine when Asian country began to open up Htet Myet Oo, open this in the UK.” Don’t bet against they had mortgages to pay. It was economically and politically. “People definitely tough. We wouldn’t have founder of the him doing just that. Rangoon Tea have an image of Burma that it’s a survived 2012 and 2013 were it not House in Yangon. third-world country, there’s poverty for the corporate events.” and it’s violent. But it’s really not like Carmel McConnell, Today, Humble Grape employs six that here,” Myet Oo explains. Magic Breakfast people and imports wines from 54 The 25-year-old grafted 20 hours a day It’s not often a boss candidly admits family-owned vineyards across seven for six months in order to launch his to wanting to see their enterprise put countries. Dawson recently raised co-owned upmarket teahouse in the out of business. But that’s exactly the over £500,000 in capital, including steamy commercial capital Yangon, mindset of Carmel McConnell, founder £360,000 from equity crowdfunding formerly known as Rangoon. “I’ve of charity Magic Breakfast, which site Seedrs. Most has been ploughed always loved food [his Instagram provides free, nutritious breakfasts into creating a Humble Grape wine – porridge, cereals, fresh fruit and bar and shop in Battersea Rise bagels – to 17,000 children in 440 (opening in July 2015), alongside a “Being able to improvise and schools. “We absolutely plan to solve subscription-based wine club whereby this problem and make sure there is no a ‘vinotyping’ algorithm selects wines make decisions on the spot are child hunger in our schools at all in five to suit members’ palates based on years – we want to put ourselves out of questionnaires. “We’ll have about your biggest assets in Burma business,” she states emphatically. £50,000 left after the wine bar opens, so for the first six months we’ll try to – Htet Myet Oo” But McConnell, who completed an MBA at City in 1993, certainly isn’t break even and keep the lights on – account showcases a cornucopia resting on her laurels, especially with it’s pretty hairy.” of international cuisine from his 300 schools currently on the waiting For now though, Dawson, who moved travels] and when I came back here in list – the highest since she established to London in 1997 from South Africa the past I would get food poisoning Magic Breakfast in 2003. “This is a and now lives with his wife and four- quite regularly because of the way poverty problem,” she explains. year-old twin girls in Clapham, doesn’t food is sold here on the street and the “Very often parents are working long regret swapping finance for fine wines. chemicals used. There was no place hours in low income jobs and their Indeed, he credits Cass for giving him selling Burmese food to the level of costs are higher than their income. the impetus to take the plunge. “I met a Indian or Italian food in the UK, so Plus there is a lack of food knowledge bunch of people there who were thirsty there was a big gap in the market.” and skills in some families, as well as fairly chaotic homes. Kids are hit by to set up businesses and who thought Teahouses are an institution in Burma this triple whammy.” anything was possible. Cass gives you – typically down-at-heel venues with the confidence that you can just go out an assortment of plastic chairs and McConnell was first alerted to the issue and do it.” stools spilling onto the pavement. while penning a book about creating a However, the more salubrious fairer society. As part of her research,

26 City Magazine Food andFood drink she visited schools in London’s East End and probed the teachers on egalitarianism in society. “Their response was ‘well, we’re bringing in food for hungry kids so what does that tell you?’ It was pretty shocking that children close to my offices in Liverpool Street were too hungry to learn.” Moved by their plight, McConnell took it upon herself to deliver bagels to five schools for the next12 months. And her altruism immediately led to tangible improvements, with teachers noting better attendance, punctuality, concentration and behaviour. Inspired by the impact the food was having, she founded Magic Breakfast. “I realised the cavalry wasn’t coming to save these kids, so the best way was for me to crack on myself.” Commercial partnerships with Quaker Oats and Tropicana later allowed Magic Breakfast to expand from 50 to 180 schools. Today, the charity has 34 core corporate partners and has passed the milestone of doling out six million “We plan to make sure there is no child hunger in our schools at all in five years – we want to put ourselves out of business” – Carmel McConnell

healthy breakfasts. who informed him of the concoction of Yet McConnell, whose varied cv chemicals sprayed on Abel’s potatoes includes everything from management that he decided to switch to organic, consultant to anti-nuclear protestor, agrochemical-free spuds. That pivotal shows no sign of slowing down. “This decision spawned the Essential is what I live and breathe.” For her it’s Organic Veg Box. simple: hunger shouldn’t be a barrier “It was a bloody good product,” he to education. “The education system in says. “You knew exactly how many this country is excellent and these kids customers were ordering so you could will do well, but they won’t if they are get farmers to grow stuff for you and going hungry.” cut it straight away. It was all nice and fresh and there weren’t lots of middlemen.” This was at a time when Keith Abel, Abel & Cole ethically sourced meat, fish, poultry, consumers were taking an increasing  In the summer of 1988, Keith Abel interest in food provenance and organic Above: Magic dairy and all manner of household needed a job and so hatched a curious Breakfast founder was perceived as somewhat trendy. items. Today Abel & Cole boasts plan to buy a bulk-load of potatoes from Carmel McConnell. Indeed, many of Abel’s early customers an annual turnover of around Covent Garden Market and go knocking Below: Keith Abel, were a mixture of journalists and, as he £75 million, handles 80,000 weekly on doors around South London selling co-founder of deliveries and employs almost 1,000 describes them, “it people”. Abel & Cole. them in 10lb bags. It begs the question: people across the company’s had Abel astutely spied a major gap in To reduce costs, the trio were 12 depots. “The business just wants the market? “No, I just didn’t want to themselves handling telephone orders, to keep getting better at what it does,” work in a bar,” the 51-year-old recalls orchestrating delivery distribution Abel says. “It’s still very healthy, with with a smile. routes and doing all the marketing. double-digit growth.” Partly through word of mouth, the As well as convincing friend Paul Cole business began to snowball. And by to go into business with him, Abel, a the mid-1990s, turnover was £3 million To find out more about the companies 1992 graduate of The City Law School a year. Then the internet arrived. founded by the four alumni profiled in (then known as the Inns of Court “It was really an internet business set this article, visit: School of Law), says his mother helped up waiting for the internet,” says Abel. with the selling and his father bought www.humblegrape.co.uk him a pick-up truck to replace his Cole left the company (amicably) in the www.facebook.com/RangoonTeaHouse spluttering £300 Sherpa van. However, 1990s, but Abel’s eponymous operation www.magicbreakfast.com it was when he met a Devon farmer soon expanded into organic and www.abelandcole.co.uk

City Magazine 27 Looking back

28 City Magazine Optometry at City at Optometry

Since the late 19 th century, Optometry has been taught at City. George Wigmore takes a look back at Optometry’s proud history at the University and considers the outstanding contribution of Professor Robert J Fletcher to its success.

ur eyes, and the sight they optics, but it was several years later including the first course in sight testing. afford us, are one of the in 1903 with the foundation of the Full-time classes then started the next most fundamental aspects Technical Optics department that the year, with around 200 students across of what makes us human. Northampton Institute (itself founded all three years taught in the early days. From the everyday world, nine years earlier) developed In 1927, the Institute built on this to art and the environment, vision is O a significant presence in the area. foundation with the establishment of the vital. For over 100 years academics Department of Optometry and Visual at City have been striving to find out Initially founded with the objective of promoting ‘the industrial skill, Sciences, subsequently becoming one of more about our incredible optical CONTRIBUTOR: the first establishments in the world to system in health and disease, helping general knowledge, health and well-being of young men and women educate optometrists – something which hundreds of thousands of people see George Wigmore belonging to the poorer classes’, the remains to this day as City is still the again in the process. is the Senior only institution in London to offer a addition of optics to the original suite Communications One of the oldest establishments of courses made sense considering Officer for City’s BSc in Optometry. to educate opticians in the world, the Institute’s proximity to many School of Health Henri Obstfeld, a City staff member Sciences. He has the relationship between City of the optical businesses in the City and alumnus, who worked for many and Optometry began in 1896 with also written for and provided an important service The Guardian and years at the University’s Optical the incorporation of optometry to Clerkenwell and the City of The Observer. Appliance Testing Service testing high teaching from Finsbury Technical London with its offer of a strong street glasses and sunglasses until his College, which had started offering technical education.  retirement last year, also remembers it 10 years earlier. the University from a different time. A core component of research and Opposite: Adjusting Optometry at the Northampton education from the outset, its creation research equipment “I was a student here in 1961, so that Institute developed further in 1898 heralded the real start of City’s (built by Professor was my first stint at City. I’ve been in Robert J Fletcher) when the Worshipful Company of important contribution to the study of in the Optometry and out over the years,” says Obstfeld. Spectacle Makers offered to pay optometry, with 75 students enrolling for department in the “I studied Optometry in the College the salary of an instructor in visual the first opticians’ evening class in1903 , early 1970s. Building upstairs at the

City Magazine 29 top. At that time there was still a BSc degree in Optometry followed by More recently, the development of Chemistry department and nothing MSc and PhD programmes and contact optometry at City continues, as after in Northampton Square apart from lens courses. 15 years at Bath Street the Fight for a bandstand. Sight optometry clinics are moving to “The Department has grown a new home on Northampton Square “When City University was inaugurated enormously and has seen a huge interest in the Tait Building. The new clinics during a convention at the Royal internationally since my appointment in are due to be handed over to the Festival Hall, I had the privilege of 1950,” says Professor Fletcher about his University mid-August and will open being present,” he says. time at City. “We have welcomed visitors to the public around the beginning of from every continent who have been Having qualified as an optometrist, he October. The move is very exciting for keen to build on our legacy in setting up went into practice while later teaching the Department, not just because the their own courses.” dispensing opticians for fourteen years facilities will all be on one floor, but for at a College of Further Education where Over ten thousand students have the first time the clinics will be on the the Cass Business School is now located. benefited from his teaching in over main University site providing ready He then returned in 1984 to take up a twenty countries and many more access to eye care for staff, students, post as a Lecturer in Dispensing. from other disciplines through his 150 alumni and local residents. Offering publications and 16 textbooks. His thousands of free eye examinations “It wasn’t too far away from what I do research interests have been diverse and contact lens fittings every year, the now as it involved spectacle frames, and he is the designer of several clinics will continue to offer a valued lenses and the equipment that comes optometric instruments, many of which service to the community and also with them. It was what I taught, so I are still used today. training to our students. knew about a lot of this stuff,” he says. “Contact lenses, colour vision, vision One of these students is Dhruvin Patel. Other Optometry alumni continue to for the partially sighted and industrial Graduating this summer from the BSc meet regularly. Ann Wieland, who vision have been my main interests,” Optometry course first established by studied here from 1947 to 1949 and met says Professor Fletcher of his work in Professor Fletcher, Patel has during his her future husband on the course, still the Department. “There was the design time at City developed an innovative periodically meets other classmates of a patented early visual screener, product called OcuShield. at The Peasant pub on St John Street several colour vision tests and unique to reminisce and catch up with her old Winning the CitySpark competition for prosthetic lenses with a recent design friends. “We still manage a reunion student innovation in 2014, OcuShield that has enabled many people in all every year and are in the process of  is a blue light screen that protects your continents to gain some residual sight. organising this year’s meeting in the From top: eyes and aids sleep by cutting out the Each has given me much joy to design.” Henri Obstfeld, summer,” she says. Ann Wieland, blue light transmittance from electronic As a result, Professor Fletcher stands devices, as such frequencies are Wieland has many anecdotes of her Dhruvin Patel. as an important figure in the field known to cause eye strain, fatigue and time at City during the 1940s. She – and in the history of optometry increase the likelihood of eye diseases. recalls the College Building being at City – with his outstanding and in a poor state due to bomb damage, “Studying at City meant I could utilise unique contribution to optometric with “a roof that leaked every time it my Optometry background and the education in the UK and around the rained”. And remembering the College Department’s help in developing world throughout a career lasting Building’s swimming pool, she says: OcuShield as well as calling on Cass seven decades. It is safe to say that no “This was an unbelievable luxury in Business School’s expertise,” says Patel. other person in Europe has had such 1947. One female student was told that “Winning CitySpark in 2014, with a prize influence and it is these achievements girls did not use the swimming pool fund of £3,500 and the amazing support that were celebrated this summer at a because none of the men wore trunks. of the CityStarters team meant I had all symposium marking his 90th birthday. She replied that she did not mind a bit the ingredients to launch my business and would be swimming the next day. and take it from strength to strength.” They all found their trunks.” Launched in January, OcuShield is Having developed steadily since the Professor Robert J Fletcher’s stocked in over a dozen opticians foundation of the Department of and sells on one of the largest UK Optometry and Visual Sciences, a achievements were celebrated this independent eye care e-commerce significant appointment was made later websites and Amazon. This summer on in the 1960s that was to shape the summer with a symposium at City sees Patel working full-time on the Department for many years to come. th business as he aims to extend his In 1966 Professor Robert J Fletcher marking his 90 birthday product range and he will begin was appointed as the first Professor of his pre-registration as an optometrist Optometry outside the United States. in August. Another figure who has gone on to play Originally joining City as a student in a prominent role in the optometry world As a result, with Patel and other 1941, Professor Fletcher was following is Robert Roope, a 1962 alumnus, who, young optometrists coming through, in the footsteps of his father who inspired by his love of eyewear in the City is in great hands as it continues had studied Optometry here in the jazz era and dissatisfaction at the badly to deliver the best possible research 1920s. Having continued his studies made and poorly designed spectacles and eye care to people in the UK and in Manchester, he returned in 1950 as on the high street, created Black around the world, building on the a lecturer, subsequently leading the Eyewear. Since the creation legacy of Professor Fletcher and those Department of Optometry and Visual of the company, Robert’s designs innovative optometrists who paved the Science for two decades until his have become extremely popular way at City University London and the retirement in the 1980s. During this and are worn by celebrities ranging Northampton Institute before it. period he developed a new three-year from Lady Gaga to Will I Am.

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City has played in City played has their families. article four alumni that role the explain are forged and strengthened. In this through education throughand the relationships which changing experience both students, all for University is a life- Keeping City in the family the in City Keeping City’s ‘Sports Club of the Year’. We my course, five of us met our future both still practice Shorinji Kempo and husbands at City.” Maddie is now a blue belt. I have had a varied career, including Bronwyn and Roesheen setting up a consultancy business with Paul, Beaumont Barnes Ltd, working Cosgrave on NHS re-structures and the closure Bronwyn Cosgrave (International of the Audit Commission. I am now Journalism, 1993) recommended City to about to start a new job as a cardiac her sister Roesheen Cosgrave (Finance rehabilitation research nurse and Paul MBA, 1996). Bronwyn is now working will be going to Doha for five months on as an author, curator, consultant a new health project. and journalist in the US. Roesheen is Director of Investment Banking at UBS. I would recommend City to anyone who Bronwyn says: wants a London life and an outward- facing university that can help you “Roesheen and I grew up in Toronto but achieve a global career. As parents I felt it was vital to attend a journalism now, Paul and I are aware that the best school outside Canada to gain an job opportunities may exist abroad and international perspective. This is why gone on to complete the MA Magazine it is therefore very important to us that I chose City: it is based in London, the Journalism course at City. our children have relevant skills. We centre of the world. My classes were Jenny and Colin Chilton met at insist they study a language to at least great. I was on a one-year course and so City (when this At the moment, a production design ‘AS’ Level. When you get to university, it was all very direct and ‘get on with it’; photograph was exhibition I co-curated, Designing 007: you then have to be proactive in just what journalism is about. taken), as did Fifty Years of Bond Style, is touring the networking. The trick is to join clubs Jenny’s parents. world and has just opened in Madrid. When I first moved to London I shared and societies that will bring you in It will open in Paris in the autumn. I a flat in Hampstead with another touch with a range of other people. am also a contributing editor to Vogue journalist. I then moved to London India and the UK edition of Town & I think the main difference between my House, a residence for Commonwealth Country. I owe my diverse career to City. experience of applying to University graduate students, where my sister also I have applied the skills I learnt from and Maddie’s is that there is so much lived when she was studying at Cass my course, which was so rigorous and information to sift through now. We as Business School. methodical, to many different projects parents can help Maddie look through I was very lucky and got a full-time over the years.” it and weigh up the pros and cons, job while still at City but was then whereas Paul and I didn’t get any help made redundant. I started freelancing from our parents; we were the first and that was the making of me. I’m Jenny and Colin Chilton generation to go to university. an active mentor today, especially to Jenny Chilton (Optometry, 1976) met I still keep in touch with most of the young women as I know how difficult it her husband Colin (Ophthalmic Optics, other nurses on my course – we were is to get started. Last year, the Alumni Sisters Bronwyn 1974) at City, as did her mother Brenda (left) and Roesheen a close-knit group. The Alumni Office Office connected Roesheen and me Cosgrave both Hiorns (Optometry, 1953) and father Tom helped me to organise a reunion a few with a student who was looking for studied at City in Bond (also Optometry, 1953). Jenny says: years ago. Of the twelve nurses on some professional advice. She has since the mid-1990s. “My parents met at what was then the Northampton Institute. I applied to City not only because they had studied there but also because it was considered to be the best university for optics and I wanted to live in London for a few years. I have lots of fond memories of City. Colin and I both lived in Northampton Hall for the three years of the course, but as Colin was two years ahead of me, we only lived there together for one year. However, as he remained in London after leaving City, he was around so often that many people assumed he was still a student. He even got an invitation to one of the ‘formal dinners’, which were held monthly by the tutors. I also remember several parties in what was known as the ‘BCR’ (Balcony Common Room) at Northampton Hall. We still keep in touch with our friends from City. There is a group of about seven of us who have met for a weekend

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Jenny Chilton’s parents, Brenda Hiorns and Tom Bond, wearing Northampton Institute blazers.

Tom Tyler followed in father Len’s footsteps in studying at City. every year for over 30 years. We have I was in Africa at the time working on of the Royal College of Paediatrics and been all over the UK for our weekends aid projects, but I took and passed an Child Health. After that I wrote crime and also to Paris, Berlin and Barcelona. aptitude test and was given a year off novels and am now Chair of the Crime Our children are in their twenties and to do an MSc. The British Council had Writers Association. I can’t complain that thirties now so they don’t come with already researched courses and told me I haven’t had a varied career. us anymore, but they do have their to apply to City. I never questioned their I wasn’t surprised when Tom chose City own get-togethers. wisdom at the time or subsequently. for his law course – he’d followed me My mother sadly passed away in 1995 I was fortunate that City happened to to Oxford University for his BA so in a but my dad still meets up with his be my local university. I could walk in way it seemed entirely logical that he friends. They call themselves “the first every morning, which was great but should also do his postgraduate where of the thirds”, in reference to the fact also meant I never had a decent excuse I had. For Tom, everything about the they were the first year when Optics for being late for a lecture. course was right – its reputation and became a three-year course.” position – and of course he could walk to After City I went back to the British the University just as I had. Tom is now Council as planned and ran its small working as a lawyer in the employment Len and Tom Tyler systems department for some time before becoming Director of Office Systems team for health sector specialists Len Tyler (Business Systems Analysis and Telecommunications. This was Capsticks. I guess you could say that City and Design, 1987) is proud that his son considered, for some reason, excellent worked out quite well for both of us.” Tom (Professional Legal Skills, 2010) experience to qualify me for the post of followed his footsteps into City. Len says: Cultural Attaché in Copenhagen, which If you would like to share your City story “In 1986 my then employer, the British is what I did next. Later I left the British with us, we would love to hear from you. Council, was looking for staff to train in IT. Council and became Chief Executive Please email [email protected].

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City Magazine 33 Cyberjacking: a new threat to air travel?

hen Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished en route to Beijing in March 2014, the horror and mystery of the story Wcaptivated the public. And as with any mystery, the lack of a definitive answer left a void for speculation and conspiracy theories. Was the aircraft shot down? Was it hijacked and flown to an unknown location? Was the plane’s computer system somehow hacked allowing it to be controlled remotely? It was this latter theory that most interested Professor David Stupples of City’s Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Professor Stupples is an expert in networked electronic systems and, prior to becoming an academic, spent many years developing military surveillance systems for the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment. He also designed secure communications for surveillance satellites and air defence systems for the Hughes Aircraft Corporation. The MH370 mystery got him thinking: was it possible to ‘cyberjack’ a civilian aircraft? If so, are we at the beginning of a new and terrifying era for commercial air travel? To answer these questions, it’s useful to look at how aircraft have evolved. In the 1970s the US government developed the F-117 fighter plane, the first designed around stealth technology and therefore undetectable by radar. Unfortunately the design made the aircraft aerodynamically unstable: the only way it could be flown was if it had a computer on board.

The computer flies the plane By the 1990s, Airbus had introduced computers on commercial aircraft and today, with the introduction of the firm’s318 , 319 and 320 series, its planes are now almost totally computer controlled. As Professor Stupples says: “The pilot flies the computer and the computer flies the plane.” Today’s modern aircraft have numerous systems, including those for flight controls, automatic pilot, navigation,

34 City Magazine Cyberjacking We accept lengthy queues in airport security as a small price to pay for a couple of weeks in the sun. But could the latest threat to air travel be something that can’t be picked up by metal detectors and x-ray machines? Is cyberjacking (hacking into a plane’s computer systems) a possibility? City’s Professor David Stupples warns that it is possible. But there’s no need to cancel that holiday just yet, as he explains to Anthony Coleman. communication, engine management electronics bay. This is possible but remote-controlled aircraft have and even passenger entertainment. access controls are very sophisticated.” become a popular gadget. Although If these systems can be accessed by relatively small, when willingly or Professor Stupples and his colleagues anyone with malevolent intentions, accidentally misused in public spaces recently carried out research into the the consequences could be disastrous. they can potentially cause harm. most likely ways that a system can More ominously, they can be armed In recent years there have been become infected with malware. They with cameras, transmitters or even numerous cyberjacking scare stories. calculated that the biggest threat came explosives and flown into controlled In 2008, for example, the United from a rogue or coerced employee, areas unnoticed. They could be used States Federal Aviation Authority backed by serious organised crime CONTRIBUTOR: by terrorists for reconnaissance or reported that the computer network or even a state. flown into a descending passenger in Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner passenger Anthony Coleman So what can companies do to protect is one half of plane. There is also concern they may compartment was connected to the themselves? Can a system ever be totally copywriting studio interfere with aircraft navigation or aircraft’s control, navigation and safe? Professor Stupples explains: Two Copywriters. train controls. communication systems. This grave He writes for clients “We’ve started working with Airbus security concern was subsequently in sectors as diverse Due to their size, drones often can’t and Cranfield University and what resolved by Boeing. as education, be seen by conventional scanning we’re doing is not looking at how we engineering, radar, so for Professor Stupples’ latest And in April this year, a security can protect a system from a cyberattack healthcare, research he’s working with Cambridge- researcher was prevented from boarding – because I think a great many of the construction and food. based company Aveillant to develop a a United Airlines flight after tweeting controls are already in place and it’s new kind of radar. This collaboration that he could hack the plane’s systems. debatable how much more secure we has led to what Aveillant calls “the can get – but looking at cybersafety, So is it possible to cyberjack a modern world’s first3 D holographic radar which is something quite different. civilian aircraft? Professor Stupples system”. What makes this so unique is says yes – but there’s a very large ‘but’. “If there’s malware on the system – that it’s able to ‘look’ in all directions and we’re talking about any system, at once, rather than be on target once whether it’s aircraft, trains or nuclear every few seconds. As a result it can A tough nut to crack power stations – the system needs to pick up the tiny drones. “Cyberjacking by a passenger is going recognise it’s behaving in an irrational While this advancement may be to be exceedingly difficult,” he says. manner and then revert to a safe state.” good news for the likes of Airbus, “He can’t come through the Wi-Fi Professor Stupples gives the recent Professor Stupples says that it could system, that’s not possible. He could example of the Germanwings air have ramifications for the world’s most perhaps interfere with the navigation tragedy, in which the co-pilot appeared expensive plane: the multibillion- but the aircraft would warn you. All the deliberately to crash the plane. “The dollar F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter. systems are totally integrated. How then aircraft started to dive into a controlled could he take control of an aircraft? The “I believe this new radar will be able but deep descent in an area with no only way is to get malware on board.” to see it, which makes you question landing facilities,” he says. “The whether [the F-35 is] the correct route Malware is software designed to system [if a proposed failsafe was to go down,” Professor Stupples says. cause harm to a computer system, for in place] would recognise this is an “Not only me but a lot of other people example to disrupt it or steal sensitive unsafe situation and the aircraft would in the radar world take the view that information. Most of us have received then take itself to a stable state. We’re this is not money well spent.” suspicious-looking emails asking us looking at whether it’s possible to take to open attached files: these are often any system affected by malware to a The US and UK governments, who malware viruses ready to infect our PCs. safe state.” have nailed their colours to the mast of the F-35, would probably beg to “One way to get malware on board It’s still early days for this research. differ. Regardless, Professor Stupples’ would be for the software developers But in such an increasingly connected research raises an important issue. to put it on when they develop the world, a security system that detects software,” he adds. But of course abnormalities would be highly valued, Undoubtedly, we are living in a world that means having a rogue employee particularly when the consequences where increasing digitisation and working for the software company. of malware could be catastrophic. interconnectivity are bringing us many “For someone to develop the malware Opposite: Professor advantages. But with those benefits who is outside the aviation industry, David Stupples in come new risks. Thanks to academics that is again a difficult task because The all-seeing radar the flight simulator such as Professor Stupples and others at City, one of the systems are all totally integrated. Another threat to the aviation industry only two such at City, we are able to understand those The other way is to load the malware comes from drones. Widely available simulators in British risks better and introduce measures by accessing the aircraft’s on-board for just a few hundred pounds, universities. that will protect us all.

City Magazine 35 In profileIn In profile: Fleur East Since studying at City, Fleur East has become one of our most high-profile recent alumni, thanks to her starring role in the 2014 series of The X Factor. She finished runner-up and was responsible for one of the biggest talking points in the show’s 11-year history.

orn and raised in It proved to be a wise decision as her out attack”, saying that it was “possibly Walthamstow to a Ghanaian performances impressed the judges Fleur East caused the biggest moment that any Cowell mother and an English father, and she was selected to be mentored a sensation with show has produced since we first met Fleur East studied for a BA in by pop impresario and creator of the her performance Susan Boyle”. Fleur’s performances Journalism and Contemporary show Simon Cowell. She went on to be of Uptown Funk convinced Cowell to sign her to his on The X Factor History (a joint programme between selected for the show’s live finals. Syco record label in January 2015. B in 2014. City and Queen Mary University At the finals, she was catapulted into She is currently recording a debut album of London) from 2006 to 2008 and the limelight when she performed that she describes as “up-tempo and performed in ‘DiverCity’ showcases in the as-yet-unreleased Mark Ronson uplifting”, with the help of musicians the Great Hall during her time at City. track Uptown Funk. Her remarkable including Wayne Hector, writer of thirty In early 2014, after years of striving to performance saw her become the first Number One hits, including seven for make a name for herself in the music contestant to reach number one on the Westlife; Grammy-nominated trio The business and working part-time as a UK iTunes chart during the competition. Invisible Men; Jack Splash, who has waitress to finance her ambition, Fleur Ronson, who was unaware she would written or produced singles for Alicia had reached something of a low ebb. be performing the song, had to rush Keys, Christina Aguilera and Katy Perry; forward the release of his own version and TMS, who have worked with Emeli A previous attempt at finding fame of the song by five weeks. Having spent Sandé, Olly Murs and Little Mix. on The X Factor as part of a girl group several months perfecting the song, he ended with elimination in the first week Since her Uptown Funk performance knew he risked missing his chance to of live shows. Wondering if she may Fleur has spoken to Ronson, whose own capitalise on the buzz. never reach her goals, her motivation version of the song has subsequently started to wane. Friends and family The Guardian critic Stuart Heritage become the biggest-selling single of helped to lift her spirits and persuaded described Fleur’s performance as “two 2015 to date. Ronson admitted that he her to audition for The X Factor again. minutes and fifty three seconds of all- probably owes her a drink.

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