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Page 1 forever: keele Issue Seven / 2012 KEELE:D[mi Coming of Age

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onathon Porritt was officially and to his engagement in developing installed as the new Chancellor and delivering our vision for Keele of Keele University at a special and its students over the coming J years, as we seek to further enhance ceremony in the University Chapel the achievements, profile, reputation in February 2012. and influence of Keele University.” He is the University’s fourth In his oration to present the Chancellor and succeeds Professor Chancellor Designate, Professor Sir David Weatherall. His installation Pat Bailey, Pro Vice-Chancellor as Chancellor is the first official event and Dean of Natural Sciences, in Keele’s 50th Anniversary year. said: “Jonathon has received acclaim The new Chancellor told a packed and recognition from the highest audience in the University Chapel: levels, but is committed to addressing “This is quite a privilege for me – quite issues that affect everyday people a daunting experience to be honest. around the world. His impact on This is a very heavy responsibility environmental issues is aligned to placed on my shoulders and a very Keele’s commitment to sustainability interesting time to take up this role as – a commitment that concerns the University embarks on the 50th activities ‘locally’ here on campus, Anniversary of its incorporation.” but also in the wider regional and He said he was “absolutely delighted UK communities… and hopefully and deeply honoured” to be the globally too. His adherence to Chancellor of Keele University – academic rigour and scholarly a critical part of my excitement at argument align perfectly with the taking up this role is that Keele is ideals of this University.” already an exemplar in many aspects As he proceeded to his of sustainability and academic Chair of Office, escorted by rigour; good science and the use of Pro Vice-Chancellors, Professor knowledge are an essential part of Mark Ormerod and Mr Kevin what we are doing.” Mattinson, the Chancellor Designate Professor Nick Foskett, Vice-Chancellor was formally greeted by the of Keele University, said: “We believe Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire, that Jonathon’s appointment as Sir James Hawley and The Mayor Chancellor recognises and of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Trevor underlines our core values and Hambleton, and the President of ambitions. His own profile as Keele University Students’ Union, critical thinker, as clear advocate Rosie Weatherley. Pro Vice-Chancellor, for the values that we share, Professor Marilyn Andrews, presented as believer in the importance of the robes, while Pro Vice-Chancellors, evidence-based and science-based Professor David Shepherd and policy and decision-making, and of Professor Andy Garner, assisted course his leading commitment to the sustainability of current and with the robing. future society matches closely what A further selection of Installation we uphold at Keele. We look forward pictures can be seen here: to his support, to his wise counsel http://tinyurl.com/8xmhrr7

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2012 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Charter of Incorporation to the University of Keele. !e Charter Year features a programme of events and initiatives throughout the year

ELIZABETH THE SECOND by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING!

WHEREAS an humble Petition has 1. There shall be and there is hereby been presented to Us by the constituted and founded in Our University College of North County of Stafford a University Staffordshire praying that We should by the name and style of constitute and found a University “The University of Keele”…. within North Staffordshire... 2. Our most dear and entirely NOW THEREFORE know Ye that beloved Sister Margaret Rose… We by virtue of Our Royal and all… Members of the University Prerogative and of Our especial are hereby constituted and from grace, certain knowledge and mere henceforth for ever shall be one motion have willed and ordained body politic and corporate with and by these Presents do for Us, perpetual succession and a Our Heirs and Successors will and Common Seal by the name and ordain as follows:- style of “The University of Keele”

Some Charter Year Events

9 February: Installation of the Chancellor, 8-9 July: Golden Graduates’ Reunion 16 October: Keele in the Capital – we Jonathon Porritt CBE 9-12 July: Charter Year congregations for the celebrate the success and promote the 22 March: Charter Year World Affairs conferment of degrees development of the University at the House of Lords Lecture by Lord Rees of Ludlow 11 July: Graduation Gala Dinner 17 October: Charter Year Programme 14-19 May: Charter Year Alumni Reunions 13 July: Charter Year Staff Celebration and Visits in Canada and USA of Poetry Readings begins with Simon 9 September: Keele Hall, Gardens, Chapel Armitage 28-31 May: Charter Year Alumni Reunions and University Archives open as part of Autumn: Charter Year Programme of and Visits in Kenya English Heritage Open Days Keele Concerts Society begins 24 September-1 October: Charter Year October: Naming of The David Weatherall Autumn Charter Year Art Gallery Alumni Reunions and Visits in Malaysia, Building (Medical School) Brunei and Hong Kong Exhibitions begin October: Opening of the new Day Nursery 23 June: Community Day for the people of November: Launch of the History of the October: Opening of the new Moot Court the local community and region Astronomical Observatory

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Page 7 forever: keele Issue Seven / 2012 and development work to improve the quality of domestic abuse NOVEMBER prevention initiatives for children Jonathon Porritt, the eminent writer, and young people in Europe. broadcaster and commentator on sustainable SEPTEMBER development, will be Keele’s new Chancellor. Keele is placed, for the first time, Keele and football giant, Manchester United share top spot among the top universities in the in the UK Environment Agency’s new energy efficiency world in the Times Higher Education league table. World University Rankings. The Keele is successful in regaining the Carbon Trust Standard. University is positioned in the band Planning permission is granted for a major project which 301-350 for the world and 130th equal will transform the heart of the campus, including the in Europe. reconfiguration of the Union Square plaza, providing new The University awards degrees seating, tree planting and a central sculpture. to more than 100 students at two Work starts on a new £2.9 million purpose-designed special ceremonies in Malaysia. nursery on campus. It is the first time Keele has awarded degrees to students at ceremonies JULY in Malaysia, following the launch of Dr Patricia Black is awarded a a collaborative programme three prestigious National Teaching years ago between KDU College Fellowship by the Higher Education and Keele. Academy. Dr Black is one of just 55 The Vice-Chancellor unveils the lecturers and learning support staff to University’s new corporate be awarded Fellowships – the most visual identity. prestigious awards for excellence in higher education teaching and support for learning. OCTOBER A major project to restore Arthritis Research UK, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic the fountain in the gardens Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, of Keele Hall is completed. Oswestry, and Keele launch a major DECEMBER experimental tissue engineering A special celebratory dinner in Keele Hall marks the Peter Styles, Professor of Applied and centre which aims to regenerate bone retirement of the Chancellor, Professor Sir David Weatherall, Environmental Geophysics/Applied and cartilage by using patients’ own after nine years’ distinguished service to the University. It was and Environmental Geophysics stem cells to repair joint damage announced at the dinner that the School of Medicine building Research Group, gives evidence at caused by osteoarthritis. will be named The David Weatherall Building, in honour The House of Lords Select Committee The Keele University Sustainability of Sir David. at the Science and Technology Hub opens to provide a focus for the New purpose-built accommodation for medical Inquiry on Nuclear Research and institution’s widespread activities students undertaking GP placements in south Shropshire, Development Capabilities. around the sustainability agenda. north Herefordshire and the Powys border, are opened. Keele Astrophysics PhD student, Masha Lakicevic and her supervisor Jacco van Loon, make significant new discoveries about a supernova that exploded in 1987 in a nearby galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. AUGUST Keele is confirmed nationally as a top ten university by the National Student Survey. The annual survey, which began in 2007, has shown that 90% of Keele students were satisfied with their course compared to an average of just 83% nationally. A programme created by Keele to encourage university applications and raise aspirations and attainment in science is shortlisted for the prestigious 2011 Times Higher Education Awards for ‘Widening Participation Initiative of the Year’. Psychologist, Dr Claire Fox, is jointly leading a pioneering cycle of implementation, research evaluation

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Keele Key Fund and Fundraising Review 2011-2012

The Disbursement Committee I am pleased to report is very pleased with the wide diversity of projects which included grants towards the creation of the Keele that once again the Keele Green House, the Chapel Organ Fund, The Keele Concert Society Key Fund had a successful and a major new outreach project, “Grey Matters” which aims to provide year with 25 applications facilities and access to Keele to allow the “older” community to engage in activities in and around the campus to the fund of which 19 The committee also agreed to extend their meetings to three projects received grants times a year to accommodate the timetabling of some grant applications. We were also pleased totalling £43,000 to welcome Dr Sherilyn McGregor onto the disbursement committee. Once again I would like to thank all our alumni who have been very generous in their support for the Keele Key Fund despite the economic climate. It really does make a difference to student life here at Keele.

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1986) (Willingham) Xandra Gilchrist Mike Taylor 1961 Hill (Smith - 1976) Anne Smithson Brian & Anna Reginald Ward 1966 Fergus Michael Murphy Betts (Thomas - David Ashton McGauran 1970 Steve Russell 1986 1966) Elizabeth Key Robert & Alison Ruth Nicolson Andy Benn Lorraine Fletcher Abbey (Slater) Roger Wilson 1956 Paul Sommerfeld Sylvie Summer John Birch Stan Cooper (Lane) Roger Eagle David & (Stumler) Victoria Denison Roger Hartley Mike & Lois Linda Friis 1979 Vanessa Kearns Fulker Barbara Thomas Margaret (Foster) Richard Dunsire Joanna Killian (Timmins - 1964) (Stagg - 1967) 1974 Homeyer Anita Gerard Alex Hunt Arthur & Liz Peter Bradley Robert Oldfield Brian Webb Anju Kaler (Roberts) Williams (Evans) Rob & Jennifer Susan Gilbert Tony Winnall Richard Russell Howard Mounsey Hedges Christopher John Patton (Anderson - Andrew Sains Peter Paice Graham Graham Stroud 1967 1973) 1962 Stephen Carter Steve Johnson Martin Webster David & Alison 1987 Joe Batt Andrew & Sarah Stephen Brann Keith Hodgen 1957 Roger & Cuninghame Packer (Phillips) 1981 Jane Burns Bill & Jill Betts (Rowles) Jonathan Brown Roger Fellows Derick Parry Martin Field Pauline Hanna (Fellows - 1961) Andy Macmullen Christine Spratt Peter Wentworth (Jones - 1959) Joannna Hallett Tom Mayhew Jon Gould Fos & Jill Rogers (Howells) (Crow) Mark Kent Jos & Pam (Hughes - 1964) Leo Pilkington 1982 O’Sullivan John Head Connie Mike & Nikki Liz Walmsley 1975 (Delany) (Claridge) 1963 Hazel Miles Robertson Betty Albon Cooper Tony & Jill Budd (Woolston) David & (Tuck - 1981) Aileen Roberts (Gear) (Garnett) Zac & Denise Todd David Ellis 1988 (Wycherley) Sharon Barker Peter & Tracey Tim & Gill Cox Joan Newton (Stracstone) (Young) Timothy Hunt Baldwin Barbara Ryder (Drury - 1964) (Searby - 1968) John & Jane & Helen Ross Nici Hildebrandt (Robinson - (Hawkins) John & Sylvia Walder (Owen - (1984) Jane Williamson Hamish 1989) Kane (Bishop) (Easterfield) 1969) Simon Knock McArthur Richard Blows John Mallen Fiona Woolf John & Janet Kath Parson 1958 Paul Findley Doris Davidson Brenda Paul (Swain) McCartney (Riley) 1968 Wendy Gibson (Comley) (French) George Fraser Felice Wright (Barnes - 1974) Richard & Anne Katherine Jack & Barbara Joe & Dorothy Linda Fryd (Sister Mary Gordon & Katy White Gosling Thomas Sowerby (Dunn) Russell Haggar Anselm) Mousinho (Tebbutt - 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Banco Santander believe in the need women in leadership positions that we Some of the highlights for the group to equip the next generation of global knew of.” included listening to a variety of inspirational women leaders for service as board Once on-site, the work only intensified speakers from a number of diverse members. Experts predict that a according to Heather: “We had five intense backgrounds. The authoritative speakers combination of globalisation, economic days of training, coaching, workshops and included a vice president from Myspace, crisis and talent demand will drive change, lectures and were on-campus at UCLA a hedge fund manager, a recruitment specialist expectation and aspiration for the female from 8.00am until 7.00pm each day for and a retail leader. work experience. The programme is designed to tackle this by encouraging a variety of different types of study To prove the Keele ‘family’ extends women to come together and look at a sessions. The topics were wide-ranging, far and wide, Heather, Victoria, Laila and number of key topics, including strategic from understanding a balance sheet to Anna-Mary also took the opportunity while leadership, corporate governance, business getting to grips with organisational in LA to meet up with another ex-Keele acumen and mentoring and networking. structures and governance.” student, Mark Kalisch who is a board Targeting young alumnae between 30 The chance to exchange views, thoughts member for NAFKU – North American and 35 years old, it aims to build upon and insight with a female peer group from Foundation for Keele University. attendees’ substantive professional work across the globe made the experience even experience. As part of the Santander Heather says it was great to meet up with more valuable. Heather continues: “It was Universities network, Keele’s University someone who also shares the Keele amazing to meet women from all over students, alumni and staff are eligible for heritage. “Mark was a perfect host and he inclusion on the programme. the world who had their own unique and his wife were generous to spare the time experiences. There were about 50 in total, to show us around some of the sights of The Keele connection was realised including women from South America, the Los Angeles. We drove down Rodeo Drive, in 2011 when Heather MacLennan, Victoria USA, Spain, China and Russia, as well as five Alkiviadese, Laila Takeh and Anna-Mary drove up Mulholland Drive, saw the hotel Cawthorne-Barcham were accepted for of us from the UK. It was great to attend from Pretty Woman and looked over the city places on the programme. After hearing with three fellow ex-Keele students.” from the famous hills. about the opportunity from Keele’s alumni officer, the group had to provide an “Mark shared some of his memories of studying at Keele extensive CV, complete an application and and told us about his new life in LA. It was a lovely obtain a letter of recommendation before they heard they had been successful. part of the whole trip, reminded us all of Keele and Before travelling to the USA in June, rounded off a memorable experience that demonstrated the attendees were expected to prepare thoroughly, as Heather MacLennan explains: the commonalities between us transcend cultural and “We had quite a lot of reading material to get through including articles from language divides.” Harvard Business Review and McKinsey. The on-campus experience in LA was the hub of a three-month leadership journey which also We also had to complete interviews over included in-depth post-programme analysis.

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Sophie’s four track EP Twenty-year-old, Stafford-born Keele student, ‘Eyeline’ is now available Sophie Bohanan, is a busy lady with some interesting on Assorted Records choices ahead. She is studying for a Law and Criminology degree and at the same time building a promising singer/ songwriter musical career which has seen her sign for a record label, release her first EP and perform at gigs around the country. She is also following in her father’s footsteps when it comes to her chosen academic path. forever: keele caught up with Sophie to find out more.

How did you become interested in music? You are studying Law and Criminology at Keele. My musical career began at school. I performed a Tell us about that. variety of solo performances at various concerts and I have always been interested in the legal system. then went on to train in musical theatre and study I wanted to study a degree course which would music for GCSE. I have always adored music and give me great options whether I decide to be a singling and it has definitely been an ambition from lawyer or not. Keele is unique as it allows me an early age. to combine vocational elements of learning to be You are signed to Assorted Records, how did this a lawyer with the theory of criminology. come about? How do you balance your academic studies and It all happened about a year ago. I responded to a musical career? newsletter advert and sent some of my tracks over I never want to disregard academia because the at breakfast time. I was then in a meeting with them music industry is hard to crack. If I am successful by lunchtime! They are great people to work with that’s great, if not I will hopefully be set with great and very supportive. foundations to start a career in the legal profession. What are the future plans? Sometimes it is difficult to balance the two, but it’s worth it. The University Law department has been Well, we have released our first EP in January this very supportive – especially the head, Andrew year. It is four tracks available in digital form on Francis. I always say it’s a bit like being ‘super iTunes and a physical copy from the Assorted woman’ – law student by day, music artist by night! Records store. At the moment we are doing a variety of radio shows and gigs as promotion and Your father, Karl, also studied criminology just trying to spread the word. at Keele? What are your musical influences? Yes, my Dad received a Masters in Criminology in I am inspired by current artists such as Jessie J, 1994. He is also looking to return to commence a Adele and Pink. I also love old school artists such as PhD in Criminology after he retires from the police Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone and Peggy Lee. force. I think he is proud that we both went to the My co-writer is a massive fan of classic rock. I think same university and it will be great to put our the mix of our taste in music brings together a pop/ degree certificates side by side. It’s fantastic rock style. Hopefully it’s something a little different. knowing he studied at Keele and his knowledge also helps with my degree. What are your ultimate music ambitions? Any singer/songwriter wants to ‘make it’. It would be Finally, what do you feel the Keele experience has amazing to play all over the world and hear people given you? singing our songs. My biggest dream would be for It is true when they say it is like a bubble. It’s more my music to help others in their life, like great artists like school than university. Everyone seems to know have to me. everyone and there is a real family environment.

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So we have a vision for the We are also testing the concept of May2012 | Version 8 Keele curriculum to be redesigned to into work and life after Keele. provide more opportunities for students “alumni circles” to be run by each Keele University The DKC Team will coordinate Become a distinctive graduate 1962 50 2012 Graduates who Engagement with our to achieve their potential through academic school and faculty so that undergraduate programmes make a difference will enable you to develop I can make the Keele was founded on the your intellectual, personal and most of my professional capabilities. We call potential principle that a different these our ten Graduate Attributes partnerships dependent on and they include independent co-curricular activities. 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Our educational “Distinctive Keele Graduates” to enjoy publicity, employability, research balance essential specialist programmes and learning and expert knowledge environment are designed to help A supportive you to become a well- rounded with a broad outlook and graduate who is capable of making community of a positive and valued contribution students and staff entrepreneurial spirit of our staff, independent approach. in a complex and rapidly changing a distinctive experience and to stand and academic work around their Keele remains committed to world, whichever spheres of life You will join a supportive you engage in after your studies community that places a high value these founding principles. are completed. on excellence in both education and research. The Keele educational experience centres on high The flexibility to quality teaching by lecturers students and alumni. We plan to thrive in a rapidly who demonstrate the diversity, out. The campus and community have changing and particular subjects and interests. Demonstrating A professional uncertain world dynamism and intellectual curiosity and reflective approach independence to live and study excitement of the subject. Our of thought programmes are at the forefront of research, education and practice: The ability to Interdisciplinarity participate and an awareness our distinctive dual honours and create a network of support and responsibility and of the provisional major/minor degrees offer breadth, always enhanced education here and We hope in time that Keelites will collaboratively as Keele and dynamic nature an active citizen of knowledge flexibility and choice; and many single honours programmes provide Graduate expertise and the most up to date The self Information confidence training, alongside a professionally literacy: locate, and self awareness Attributes evaluate and recognised qualification. to actively pursue synthesis data your goals now we aim to combine the academic experience, to enhance our feel part of their school’s alumni Our professional student services, such as the Library Services and the Creative problem The ability to solving using a Student Support and Development communicate range of different clearly and Services, support and empower An appreciation approaches and effectively of the social, techniques you so that you have the skills a environmental and global implications nd confidence to make the most of of your studies curriculum with the co-curriculum to students’ time at Keele and help circle as much as they do of the your potential at Keele and beyond.

Open doors, widen horizons, and expand opportunities with one of over 500 subject combinations in them acquire and develop the wider alumni family. our dual honours and major/minor degrees, or through our single honours and professional degrees… enhance their distinctiveness still further.

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is building the Dallas Shopping contribute technical input into 1954 Centre in Kamloops and Rachel mining and engineering projects 1962 Stan Beckensall: I recently is in Maui. in various areas including Ghana, 1963 Gabon, Zaire, Mozambique and published four books: Sue Gil (Devons): I am still George Broadhead: I am retired the USA. The last ten years were ‘Northumberland’s Hidden working part-time as a London from teaching. I have lived in spent in the Rand Mines Head History’, ‘Northumberland registered blue badge tour guide Kenilworth for 36 years with my Office as Manager Technical Viewpoints’, ‘Empire Halts and find my history degree and Here: Viewing the Heart of partner of 45 years’ standing Consulting Services. and we had our civil partnership FY knowledge extremely useful. Hadrian’s Wall’ and ‘Coastal Mike Steele: I went with my dear A group of Keele graduates from Castles of Northumberland’. in 2007. I have long been friend Madeleine Caton (Parker) the early sixties meet regularly My next two books will be on involved in and campaigned on to Turkey where I taught Physics in the London area to catch up Northumberland’s landscape behalf of the Humanist, Secular and Chemistry. We have two and wine and dine. More Keelites and old churches. and LGBT movements. In 2006 I received a ‘Lifetime Achievement daughters by that marriage, are always welcome. There were 1955 Award’ from the National Yvette and Jessica. Madeleine only about 800 of us on campus Secular Society for “services to lives in California. I became in the early 60s and we all seem 1956 secularism and gay rights”. a journalist in Hanley for the to keep in touch! Martin Tunnicliffe: I designated Evening Sentinel and then at the David Heard: I spend about 2011, as my “year of nostalgia”. Gill Milner (Rance): In memory House of Commons as a lobby nine months of the year in Through my rose-tinted of Stuart Riley. After Keele and correspondent. I became Liberal Abu Dhabi with breaks in Swathmore, Stuart lived a very spectacles, gently reinforced by Party National Press Officer and London, Munich or North enthusiastic and energetic my selective memory, I look then joined a freelance news Wales. Shortly to publish life. Sang in several groups, back on a fabulously interesting agency until my retirement “From Pearls to Oil, How the painted, beat his children and and rewarding time at Keele, in 2008. I have remained an Oil Industry came to the United grandchildren at table tennis followed by a brief career as Australian citizen and in 1992 Arab Emirates”. almost to the end. In retirement married my second wife Sonia a salesman, then 50+ years he restored antique furniture in the back yard of my brother Hilary Lainé (Fletcher): of wonderful and privileged Semi-retired, living miles from and repaired old houses for Jeremy Steele and his wife ministry in my spiritual home, Keele and working part-time at his children and built and Margaret (Owen). No longer a the Church of England. Married Keele in the English Language cropped a walled vegetable journalist, I am now training to Irene in 1965 and we have three Unit. Family is scattered around garden. He was Vice Principal be a Parliamentary guide. children, two grandchildren, and at Southwark Tech in 1964 when the UK. Still in touch with a one great-grandchild. Retirement we returned from three years in few Keelites. brings new pleasures, the 1959 a Swiss mountain hamlet Barry Pegg: I have retired greatest of which is time. teaching and writing. Then 1960 after teaching “Brit Lit” This allows me to play the piano Guildford Tec (VP) and Principal at Michigan Technological and to explore piano jazz: also to at Crawley Tec, becoming Brenda Dawson (Warne): I married George (1959) and University (1973-2007). write books and articles, sketch, enthusiastically involved with went to the University of fool around with the Internet and the local high tech industries. Anthea West (Roast): Now Arizona in the mid 1960s. sleep after lunch. A very good father to four downsized but keeping up the children and a loving inspiring I obtained MD and Fellowship allotment and subjecting myself 1957 grandfather and husband. We in Clinical Anatomy and to exercise classes for the sake both believed that the Keele Pathology and moved later of staying upright and mobile. This year Mary Bianco (Becker): Experiment in liberal education to the University of Auckland I have enjoyed good health and was terrific and we were glad to where I still teach part-time. 1964 much travel. I visited Maui to We have two children and four have been there in the glory of Eric and visit my daughter Rachel, Spain grandchildren and we celebrated Cynthia Deeson (Sing): its enthusiastic beginnings. I went to Manchester earlier and Portugal with the Kamloops our 50th wedding anniversary in the year to meet Carolyn Outdoor Club, England with shortly before George passed 1958 Staplyton (Crawshaw) and Nina and Darren and their family away in November 2011. to show them where I used to Gerry Emère: After I married Jean Vann (Fenwick). How the live. We went to France and I Jean (Powis) in Keele Church, 1961 years rolled away as we caught went on to Croatia. I went with we set off for South Africa to up. We are both very involved the ROC to Brazil to see some teach. I actually began a new Barry Carter: Retired from in local community activities wonderfully scenic places and career serving mines where Oxford Brookes University as and would love to meet up with also visited southern British geotechnical problems prevailed Senior Lecturer in History and other Keelites. Columbia to see my brother and acquired Certificates in Principal Lecturer in 1995 after Alan Phillips: My wife and Richard. The children are all Mining Engineering. Because 24 years. Earlier teaching in I have now been living in doing well. Byron is in Toronto, of my exposure to ‘hard rock’ secondary, teacher-training, Trivandrum, India, for ten years Nina is in Port Coquitlam, Scott mining, I was also invited to further education and TEFL and consider it our home.

Page 21 forever: keele Issue Seven / 2012 Sylvia Woods: Enjoying volunteer at Book Cycle, helping Pat Cunniffe (Millard): Just retirement! to send books to Africa and 1973 retired from BCU as Senior plant trees. Jil Dobson: Now semi-retired, Lecturer, Faculty of Health. Now 1965 Chris Bull: Retired, but did VSO working as an examiner for the doing voluntary work, CAM, in Namibia; now volunteering English Speaking Board. I intend clinical hypnosis and NLP. David Utley: Married Megan to live in Bulgaria from May 2011. Croxen but she died in 2005. with DfID’s pilot programme in Walter Hawes: Keele was an Worked overseas in Hong Kong, an overseas territory. 1974 inspiration that has been with then for the British Council in Katherine Cuthbert (John): me all my life. The idea of Thailand, Ghana, Greece, China, David Frost and Patricia Frost showing me how to try and I chose Keele because of FY, (Anderson): We both retired Namibia and India. Retired in 2001 but doing a joint honours achieve our true potential as and became an author, mainly of from teaching in 2008. In 2010 human beings and also the degree was crucial. I studied we moved to a village in Kent books for children. Also involved Psychology and Biology ideals that were like a beacon in amateur dramatics; acting, and divide our time between and continues to shine... and and my career has been directing, producing, writing. there and Anjou, France, where that specialising was anathema lecturing in the former. I have we run a B&B. to learning. continued the Keele tradition 1966 of innovative education. In 1993 David Masten-Rosen (Rosen): Ian Moncrieff: Retired from the Alan Bailey: I’ve retired to the my life changed after onset I transferred to the LSE for a Royal Navy as Rear Admiral in BSc in Economics then worked Yorkshire Dales and travel to of multiple sclerosis and my 2010 after 34 years in Service. in Latin America before coming visit family, including a first knowledge of psychology was Highlights were command of back to the USA for an MBA grandchild. I’m still infatuated vital. I have recently published HMS Nottingham and HMS in Finance. I have worked on with landscape, particularly a memoir of my coping Wall Street as a Partner at Bear Endurance and as Commander limestone, and mountains, so experience – ‘Keeping Balance: Stearns before setting up British Forces South Atlantic frequent visits to the Alps and A psychologist’s experience of my own shop ten years ago. in the Falklands followed by Nepal are part of the picture. chronic illness and disability’. We manage institutional four years as the National Hydrographer. I was appointed Bridget Sant (Hooper): Retired pension money for US states, from teaching in Sydney to play 1970 cities and some foreign CBE in 2010. My retirement lasted ten days as I returned as golf, enjoy the grandchildren Monica Dillon (Cohen): I went financial institutions. Chief Executive of the National and help with a major regional to Liverpool Uni for a Diploma Hydrographic Office. Living museum, the Lady Denman. I in Social Administration and 1975 in Exmoor National Park and undertake research, write local trained as a Probation Officer. Redundant at the John Burton: married to Marion with two: history and create exhibitions. I am about to retire after end of August 2011, so more Andrew is now in the Royal Currently working on one to forty years with the Probation time for trekking and hockey – Dragoon Guards and James is celebrate Canberra’s centenary Service. I have two children, and the grandsons. reading Politics at Newcastle in 2013 three stepsons and eight Married to University and goes to grandchildren with two more on Martyn Dell: Sue (Doyle) since 1975. Sandhurst in 2012. 1967 the way. Nicky Stanton (Pontin): Living Philip Newall: After nine years 1976 Graham Stalley: Visited United mostly in Netherlands where in the NHS as an audiologist and States for two months but Jim Moran: Moved to Tripoli, Mike Stanton is working; retired 27 years as an academic, I have stayed for thirty years. Libya in early September as FE/HE Lecturer/Head of Business taken up a part-time position My son Alex is in his second Head of the EU Mission there, Studies and consultant in in teaching and research at an year at Keele. Business Communication. My and hoping that the Arab spring institute. My audiologist wife will now turn to summer. book ‘Mastering Communication’ Cristy and I visit Samoa three 1978 has just gone into its 5th edition. times a year for voluntary work Patricia Taylor (Best): Dave Hill: Rebecca (Smith) and testing deaf children and fitting I am working for Pfizer I moved to Brighton last year. Pharmaceuticals 1968 hearing aids. I have two sons Virtually empty nesters but Trevor Allison: Taught in – John is also an audiologist Eva Zissimides: After a not quite. I will be taking early Preparatory Schools between and Tony is a health economist. Postgraduate Diploma in retirement in 2011. I will continue 1968 and 1994, then in Royal Mail We still travel to overseas Technical and Specialised to work in the affordable until 2007. Took early voluntary conferences and spend time Translation at the University of housing sector but with more redundancy and have got more with granddaughter Ava. Westminster and Postgraduate free time in this great part of and more involved with the Diploma in Interpreting at the the country. Ramblers. I am now Footpath 1971 University of Geneva, I settled in Greece in 1978 and married Robert Wilkins: I have been in Secretary for the Shropshire Still working, still Laurie Walker: George Papandreou, Prime Asia since 1982 (Yokohama and Area, looking forward to full married, still like the Bee Gees Minister of Greece. One son Hong Kong). Both daughters pensions at 65. and Neil Young. aged 29. were born in Hong Kong and Michael Rigby: Having retired are studying at the University from a very enjoyable later career 1972 1977 of Sydney. at Keele, I am now involved in a Carol Birch (Fidler): My new Keith Cole: Director of Mimas, variety of expert roles, including novel, ‘Jamrach’s Menagerie’ has 1979 supporting the advancement work with OECD, the EU and been featured on BBC London of knowledge, world-class Alex Hunt: I have stopped various international projects, TV News and on Radio 4’s Open research and teaching. Mimas is working for my company while enjoying life in Ireland. Book and I appeared at the a national data centre based at Beach Shack Ltd and taken a Edinburgh International Book The University of Manchester, sabbatical to study for an MSc in 1969 Festival, amongst other events. and hosts a significant number High Performance Computing at Chrissy Allott: Retired so Frank Jones: I am retired of the UK’s research information Edinburgh. It has been a shock when my husband was made following a career as a teacher assets and builds applications to going back to university after redundant we moved to of English and secondary help people make the most of 30 years! Students sure work beautiful Devon. Working as a school administrator. this resource. hard these days. I haven’t had

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much time to attend clubs and financial services, local Paul Dutch: I am a partner of the Keele FY ideal. Professor societies because the work load government and surveying, at Harold Benjamin solicitors Peter Lawrence of Keele is so high. I will be glad to get accountant and legal specialising in Property Law, provided invaluable guidance back to work! partnerships. I also worked for Development Planning and on early drafts and those who a trade association. Currently Currently Regeneration. I was involved remember the late Professor Roger Jameson: Deputy Secretary of Lloyd’s of Business Systems Manager in legal work relating to Fishman, as I do fondly, should London on the top floor of at Housing Choices Australia. construction projects for the recognise his influence. that iconic building. Married Formerly lived in Auckland 2012 Olympic Games. late at 45. Live in London and Philip Hyde: Married to Nicki working as a General Manager still in contact with Keelites Veronica Lindsay: Accountant with one daughter, endlessly in the software industry for an round the world. for Housing Association for designing software for clients asset planning consultancy. the last ten years, living in and for our website and e-shop. 1981 London. Two children, boy 16 Youri Korsak-Koulagenko: 1980 and girl 13. I am a Christian, Completed an MBA with The Taught Sharon Bate (Loveridge): enjoying life and retraining to Alison Bate (Godfrey): Married Nicholas, had five Open University in 2000 and German and French in London teach money management. children and divorced. Trained lecturing with the OU Business and Brighton till 1999 then as Registered Mental Nurse, Mike (Mlevin) Nicholas: School since 2001. Working moved “for two years” to and now working on acute Just published a book with Atos as a project manager, Melbourne with my husband psychiatric ward in Ipswich. of bedtime stories and based in Belgium. and three daughters but we’re celebrated eighteen years still here. Head of Dept, Head of Glynn Catterall: Living in since co-founding Nicholas 1985 Year, Head of Middle Years but Hampshire, married with two and Knight, the specialist food I’m over the senior management boys. Working hard to improve Ro Gorell (Mee): I have now marketing company; married thing now and “just” teaching. my golf. written a couple of books: with three boys, still in touch “50 Top Tools For Coaching” Peter Collop: I retrained as a #eo Dennison: Working as a with lots of Keelites and in 2009 with Gillian Jones and maths teacher and taught for 25 communications consultant. regular at official and “Are They On The Right Bus? years in London. At 50 I began unofficial reunions. I came straight The 55-Minute Guide to Talent teaching overseas: first year in Paul Girvan: to New Orleans and here I Have my PhD Management”. It’s a long time Jordan, now in China. I teach Geoff Walton: remain, married with one son and working part-time in since I left Keele but I often pass maths to Chinese students who and living in the old French Staffordshire University Library as I travel up north on the M6. want to go to university in USA Quarter. Partner in consulting or UK. Still climbing, skiing & and part-time researcher I left Stockport firm specialising in feasibility Andy Gosling: travelling in school holidays. in the Arts Media & Design and am loving life in beautiful studies for hotels, casinos, Department. Caroline (Bollen) West Yorkshire with the I am theme parks etc. Richard Devonshire: and I played in bands in wonderful Alexandra. on active service with the and around Keele such as British Army. Amanda Jones (Childs): Married with three Currently retired banker living “Decomposition”, “Heymaker” Andy Paul: wonderful kids. Jeremy Duggan: Independent IT in Pinang. and “Boneshaker”. consultant and Oracle specialist I work for the Sue Ralph (Smith): Davina Morgan (Davies): 1984 Environment Agency in Cardiff Twenty Married Howard in 1981; Stefan Kosciuszko: as a Water Resources Business years in investment banking, we have two sons. Rob Collins: I am living very Planner. I am married to Nick travelled around the world, five happily near Oxford. I am Nearly thirty and have two children, Georgia years as CEO of Asia House and Jill Raistrick: Director of Business Processes years in TV Production (film and Sam. now acting as Senior Advisor Improvement for GMAC editing, script editing, producing Asia Pacific for a couple of Commercial Finance. I gained I have drama), I now live in the lovely Mary Rasefske (Toolan): companies and also Chairman an MBA from Henley Business been teaching elementary Languedoc of the South of of a digital media company. Two School, and am a visiting Fellow music for 25 years. I am married France running a gite business. daughters, one at Cambridge at Kellogg College Oxford. Who’d have thought it? Just and have three children: Adam and the other at Durham. Flat I teach at Oxford University in wish I’d studied French at Keele! is a freshman at Binghamton in London and country house in Software Engineering. I have University. My twin daughters, the Yorkshire Dales. Life is good, three boys (age 17, 15, 13) and Caitlin and Kelsey, are at smoking, drinking and eating 1982 soon to be a dad for the fourth high school. whatever I want. Peter Bird: My latest novel has time. In my free time I learn and come out as an e-book. teach Salsa dancing and Lindsay Markham: Divorced restore my beautiful 1976 VW 1986 with a 19-year-old son and Kevin Mullaney: Now living bay-window camper van. Petra Godfrey: Now living running a B&B on the outskirts in Northamptonshire! in Australia and working as of Bath; training to be a Reader Ian Down: Started my midlife Alan Taylor: My EU base is still a project manager in in the Church of England. crisis in earnest by swimming Financial Services. Berlin, but currently teaching the English Channel in Elizabeth Schupbach (Webb): and researching in South Africa. August 2010. Michael Green: Still living in Living in Switzerland for sixteen I am Professor of what used Plymouth with wife Samantha years with husband and three to be the Pretoria Film School. Angela Fletcher: I am married and our three daughters. children. Main profession has Interesting times! with two sons. I made a career been EFL in a great variety of in IT and became a full-time Giles Halliwell: I have worked organisations. 1983 mum. I am a Therapist and Life in the world of Fine Art since Coach and a Spurs fan and live leaving Keele and lived in France Vicki Taylor: Living in Milton Trevor Barr: I am Head of in Essex. ‘There is no try, there is for a period. Keynes doing lots of coaching Academic Music and Head only do or do not’ (Yoda). and mentoring. of Lower School at Warwick Jo Partington: Currently School. I still do lots of Choral Ian Harris: My latest book, seconded to the Department of Melinda Triggs (Storey): Conducting, so my time as “The Price of Fish”, was Health as a Project Consultant I qualified as a Company Organ Scholar at Keele was of launched at Gresham College – and as a Management Fellow to Secretary and worked in great benefit. the progenitor and last bastion City University London.

Page 23 forever: keele Issue Seven / 2012 Julie Turner (Redmond-Lyon): Jonathan Standen : Worked done almost twenty I trained as a shoemaker. Got in the brewing industry for 1990 years specialising in financial married, trained as a teacher 24 years, now in Burton with Paul Adamson: After over crime roles. and had two kids and am Molson Coors. I was married to fifteen years working in UK Stuart Forsyth: Owner of surprised to find am about to be Liz Swinson – two kids are still Government, I left to try my Longfield Chemicals Ltd, one 47 and still love teaching! Happy keeping us both busy. hand in Big 4 Consulting. Been of the UK’s leading distributors in Somerset in a tiny cottage with Deloitte for a couple of of polymers. with three dogs and a van. years now. 1988 Kathryn Warwick: Worked In Hong Kong David Buck: Currently working Nicholas Case: as a research cell biologist 1987 and China since 1992, running in China as Vice President of a for ten years in Oxfordshire, a training editing firm and Bridget Appleby (Leathley): Chinese IT Outsourcing firm. then emigrated to Australia. Finished my Masters in 2011. now developing language learning software. Now living the rural life, Kim Cherono: Did some work Nicola Burnell: Still living on with Ian and two kids. as legal practitioner, lovely Cape Cod. Publisher, Carol Fry: Self employed, living development worker, now into novel writing coach and the dream. 1992 creativity workshop facilitator. real estate development. Kevin Hurley: I am now in Peru Life is very good! Mark Dunster: Living on a farm Dave Darrall: Living in Reading with my wife and two children. in Guernsey – became the first with wife Linda and three Mark McKrell: Qualified ACA. I run Peru Language School, Advocate to hold the elected children. I work in IT. Married with two daughters. specialising in Medical Spanish. office in Guernsey. Kiran Desai: I qualified as a Funmi Ogboye: I worked in Renik Fair: I’m employed in a Scott Newell: Living in a small the research and development lawyer in London and set telecommunications company mountain village, thirty miles departments of the cosmetic up an office in Brussels in call centre in Melaka. I was east of Seattle, enjoying life industry with skincare, colour 1992. The firm merged and I initially at HSBC International with my family of six. Taking cosmetics and fragrances. In am partner in charge of the Call Centre in Kuala Lumpur and Brussels office, concentrating advantage of the beautiful 2005 I started my own business countryside out here, skiing and called Sentelle, manufacturing before that I was a broadcaster on EU law. I am married to on Radio Light & Easy in Anne-Marie, who is French/ water sports. soy candles. Malaysia. I’m active in Church Portuguese and we have two David Passmore: Living Craig Owen: I moved to Hong work and glad that I made the daughters (Alice and Eloise). and working in rural Ireland Kong in 1996. I worked in the move to Melaka as it has helped Oil and Gas industry in Africa Micheàl Ó Foghlú (Foley): with my five children (two me to see life from a meaningful and SE Asia for four years. Settled in Waterford, Ireland, sets of identical twins) working perspective. Keele is a favourite After MBA from Durham (2000), with my partner Mary O’Connell. as Performance Director of place and has helped me to be I lived and worked in London We have two girls Meadhbh Irish Hockey. for five years until I moved to in touch with friends from all (2005) and Ãline (2007). Vietnam for just over two years. walks of life. Graduated with a Doctorate in 1989 I moved to Australia in 2008 I moved Education from Sheffield 2010. Donna Scott (Bolton): Barry Bassett: Still Managing where I now live and work for to Northampton in 2008 to live CTO of FeedHenry, a spinout Director of VMI and enjoying Ansarada Pty Limited. I married from TSSG research institute with my fiancé and numerous mostly working from home in a lovely Aussie girl in November in Waterford, where I have cats. I became the first official rural Kent, cycling loads , playing 2010 and have now made been research director for past Bard of the town in 2009. I cricket and jazz saxophone. Australia my home. five years. am an IT trainer and freelance Mary-Ann Preston (Dowling): writer and editor, specialising in Married to Tricia Alistair Frisby: After Keele, Edward Finch: I am married to Jeremy. We met science fiction, and I am Awards (Walklett) and living in Surrey I worked in Brighton for a few at Keele in the early 90s but Administrator for the British with our son, Adam. years then moved to Canada. broke up after a couple of years. Science Fiction Association. Been here 18 years now – home Then we met again after thirteen Fellow Oh, and I do a bit of stand-up is where your kids live! Anne Groarke: years apart, married in 2008 and of Institute of Chartered comedy too. I am a freelance had a baby boy last year. Never Anna Myatt: Secretaries and Administrators Beautiful memory Music Specialist working in say never! Baldev Singh: since 2004. makes beautiful people. Early Years and Primary. I am Mark Todd: After working as a married to Roger Marsh and Adam Konowe: I was named solicitor for a number of years Kam Wahab: Happily married we have three children, Charlie, Vice Chair of the US National I traded my desk for a boat. to Deborah Pengelly – another Lotte and Hilda. Press Club’s broadcast I skippered a 72-foot sailing Keelite. We have two lovely daughters aged 3 and 3 months. Ian Saikia: I went to University committee in Washington, yacht for Ocean Youth Trust College Dublin and gained an DC. I rejoined TMP Government South, a charity that offers Jonathan Wright: Now running MSc in Petroleum Geology in after eight years at another personal development through a biophysics research group 1988. I have worked in the oil agency as Vice President, adventure under sail to young in Taipei. industry for 23 years with the client strategy (aerospace people aged 12-25. Having spent and defence). I also teach British Geological Survey, Clyde thirteen years at sea, I am now 1993 communications at American the charity’s chief executive, Petroleum, Mobil and now, University in Washington, a Yachtmaster Examiner and Ezela Hai Eng Barker: Had a ExxonMobil. We have had lots recently earning the rank of spend about 2-3 months on successful career in international of fun travelling and living in adjunct professorial lecturer. the water. banking and consultancy and different cities. We have been now enjoying early retirement in Houston for the last five years. Lyndon Richards: I am a solicitor 1991 thanks to Keele. Recent highlights are trips to living in South Wales. Yellowstone, Yosemite, seeing Gavin Coles: Moved to Australia Chris Booth: Recently live music and being at the Stephen Swaine: I am alive – in 2005 for a year and stayed! escaped from “The Smoke” final launch of the Endeavour living in York and CEO of my Divorced, with two wonderful for fresh air, mountains and space shuttle. own company. nippers. Recently realised I have lakes in Switzerland.

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Brian Davies: I emigrated to Desmond Royle: Working Klair Scattergood: Worked as been working there for the New Zealand and now living for Shell for thirteen years. an IT tutor at Newcastle-under- last ten plus years and heading in Auckland. I’m a Financial Started in IT and now Service Lyme College until 2008. Now a the HR Department in Cyprus Controller for ABC Learning Assurance Manager, moving into freelance illustrator and art tutor, since 2006. Centers in NZ and got married audit and compliance. still living in the area. Nick Kimani: Became in 2011. Michael Sneyd: I continue my 1995 an Academic. Nicholas Fry: I got a trainee career as EFL teacher, teacher Jan McLure (Brockhurst): role at the investment bank trainer and author. Sandrine Bautista (Stefanelli): Currently working in Shanghai Salomon Brothers. After two Married since 1999, two children for Jaguar Land Rover. Mark Wiggin: Now working (14 and 11 years old). years I went to NationsBank as a Police Officer for before embarking on a tour of Ash Rahmani-Shirazi: Staffordshire Police. Toby Dawson: Joined the digital I completed MA in ‘The Chinese North America, Australia and SE revolution and work for one of Business World’ at SOAS Asia during 1997/98. I then spent 1994 the leading companies in digital and then lived, worked and seven years at Deutsche Bank advertising: Google. studied Chinese in China from before going off globetrotting Nina Bunton: I took a career Carved out 1998-2005. Most recently again, this time across Africa, break in 2007-2008 and went to Matt Drewry: a career in IT working for working IT for non-profits and Asia, Australia and New Zealand Australia and New Zealand as a Freeserve, Yahoo, Match.com completing a part-time MSc. and South America with my tourist and India as a volunteer in Software Engineering at English teacher. I took voluntary and Friends Reunited. Currently lovely wife Isabelle. Since enjoying family life in London. Kellogg College, Oxford. Soon returning in 2006 I have been redundancy from the University moving to Honolulu, Hawaii, busy fathering two wonderful of Bristol after fifteen years of Elizabeth Parker: I qualified as an affiliate scholar at the boys and working at a large academic administration and as a teacher and then trained East-West Center, and applying consultancy in the City. retrained as an English teacher. as a Teacher of the Deaf. I’ve to start PhD in 2012. I aim to work abroad as an EFL worked in mainstream schools, Nat Godley: I taught and teacher. I also do freelance schools for the deaf and for Nicola Williams (Dulwich): Married Andy in 2000, and studied in France for a couple editorial work. an advisory service. I currently of years before coming to manage special provision for we had a baby boy called Ben I married the USA for my PhD in 1995. Rachel Hall (Howe): deaf children in a primary school in 2006. Steve, and we have two beautiful I have been married to Heather in Swindon. I’ve become fluent Andy Polshaw: First proper since 2001 and we just adopted children. We emigrated to in British Sign Language and job was as a technical and son Reggie, to add to our Canada and spent nine amazing can also use Cued Speech. In my later commissioning editor and daughter Catherine. I am now years there before returning to free time, I love playing viola in trainer for Wrox Press. When teaching History at Alverno the UK in the summer of 2010. local orchestras. they went under, I became a software developer. College in Milwaukee. Roger Harris: Married, with twin 1996 Begona Carreno Gomez daughters, living in Virginia. 1997 (Carreno): Married and living Kelly Home: I attended Chester Josephine Bruce: Qualified as in Switzerland. Law College for a year and criminal defence solicitor and Karl Bohanan: Obtained moved to Lincolnshire. Now Executive Diploma in Leadership moved to Dubai directly after David Green: Working as a Food left the legal profession and and Management in 2005. finishing. I have been living Inspector for a local authority. attempting to address some I have ventured into the world in Dubai and working in the Cherryl Hartland: Got married in of the underlying causes of of lecturing and planning to communications industry for crime. Still performing when retire from the police force in 2011, to be closely followed by fifteen years. my son Michael who is getting I get the chance! July 2012. married in June 2012. Aileen Lothian: I completed Neil Bunford: I am retired after Nova Dudley-Gough (Dudley): my MPhil, PhD and PGCE at Worked in publishing in London I am still teaching as a Lecturer at Dudley Emma Jarman-Jones: Keele before moving back to and Oxford. Married Simon, in Singapore (almost nineteen College of Technology. I still hold Scotland. I am Director of the a geologist, and moved to years now!) I work for my own dreams of completing a PhD, but Young Science, Engineering Holland. After six years there as Training Consultancy Company more realistic is a (first) novel. and Technology (SET) a magazine editor, we couldn’t and lecture part-time at one of Ambassadors based at Joanna Farthing (Goh): face another winter or horrible the universities. Currently taking a career break Edinburgh. I design, develop commute and now live in to be a full-time mum. Jonathan Lytle: Happy with and deliver environmental Borneo, where I am a full-time mum to our daughter, Lila Blue. Susie and our young son Harry. educational programmes Stuart Geach: I took a A full life in marketing – agency and work in Scotland, Shenzhen, postgraduate diploma in Law, Will Hatton: In May 2011 had and client side – and now Shanghai and Hong Kong. qualified as a barrister and daughter, Evie, a sister for running a biz in Surrey. I was chosen for the Edinburgh cross-qualified as a solicitor. James. Happily married to Alli Now own Ridgeway Solicitors Worked as finance Napier University Alumnus for seven years. Working as Claire Milne: based in Oxford. journalist in London. Moved to of the Year 2011 Award and a Problem Manager for CSC Edinburgh to work as technical attended the awards ceremony Chris Haacke: Married Nichola Computer Sciences Corporation copywriter. Trained in integrative before Christmas. (Turner) and we now have twin in Whitehaven. Enjoying life, love medicine and spiritual direction girls Emilie and Lucie who are and photography in this green I went to in USA. Set up and run my own David Ndzi: two years old. and rather wet part of Cumbria! University of Portsmouth, healthcare charity with projects I got married and studied for PhD. Kiki Kallis: Masters in HRM from Darren Massey: in Scotland, Asia and Africa. Leeds in 1997. I worked for a and had a son. I did the Everest I have put on shows in Edinburgh April Ross (West): After year in a small consulting firm in base camp circuit two years ago. Fringe. Unmarried, no children qualifying as a solicitor, I was Cyprus and then for two years at It’s been and a happy auntie to three boys. Kim Owens (Leahy): in private practice before PWC as an Associate Consultant a busy couple of years – a gap Allan Scanlon: Have mostly becoming a solicitor for the Isle before being headhunted by year travelling, moving house, been in Italy, France and Japan of Wight Council. I am now the British American Tobacco for the getting married and then having since graduation. Democratic Services Manager. position of HR Manager. I have a baby.

Page 25 forever: keele Issue Seven / 2012 Donna Smith: Declan and Rabbinate, having just returned Research UK as a Project I were married on Cocoa 2000 from a year in Israel studying at Manager. Then in 2011 I joined Beach, Florida. Nelson Almeida: I’m back HUC Jerusalem – amazing. the management consultancy in Brazil, as professor at Hay Group as a project Stephen Womack: Went into the Universidade Federal Paul Peros: I worked at Keele’s manager working on employee Aviation Security. de Pernambuco. Postgraduate Office before opinion surveys. moving to London in 2003 1998 Kathryn Ambrose (Evison): after getting married in Keele Zoe Groves: I am a PhD Married Ben in 2002. Did PhD Chapel. I have worked for the candidate in African History Michelle Harris (Russell): at Keele then returned to General Social Care Council and at Keele. Now working as a teaching. Had a little boy, as a legacy fundraiser for British Sustainability Manager at the Jill Hanby: Nearly exactly John-Paul in 2007. Quakers. I am now a policy officer ten years to the day since I University Hospital of North Married to Amy for the General Medical Council. started at Keele as a scared Staffordshire. Married Andrew Nick Feltham: Hall (2000). undergraduate and I met my in May 2010 and still living in 2002 boyfriend Andrew Penn (2004), We Leek. I’m still involved with the Amanda Hall (Cannings): we have just got engaged! Staffordshire Knights moved to Rugby to be closer to Sian Batchelor: I have a little Drum and Bugle Corps in husband’s work and to family as boy called Daniel and married Gordon Robinson: Have been in 2011. Newcastle-under-Lyme. we’ve just had our first baby – a living in Canada for seven years, little girl called Saffron. Adam Collier: Met my wife, Susie married to a wonderful Canadian Elizabeth Madsen (Cheng): woman with a son. Have been After living (Lillywhite) at Keele and we now Married in 1999 and now a mum Amy Stuttle (Bell): working for Museums in Canada and teaching in Cambridgeshire have an amazing 6-month old with three children in Sweden. and for the past five years I for ten years, we moved to West boy, William. have been curator of museums Catherine Makin: Now living in Sussex. We are proud parents Belinda Hazzard (Teal): I got and collections for the City of Greece with twins. of two beautiful boys, and I married in 2005, had a baby Kingston in Ontario. Nicola Rickett: Travelled the have decided to take a career daughter in July 2008 and a son world by joining the travel and break to focus on teaching two in 2010. Ruth Wallis: Qualified as a Legal Executive in October 2010 and tourism industry, using my particular pupils full-time! Michael Morgan: Entered the work as a Private Client Lawyer languages to set up tours in Lawyer in Mark Walton: university of life. for a leading law firm in the Europe. Eventually progressed Victoria, British Columbia with a South East. into specialist adventure tour 17-month old son named Arthur. 2003 operating, managing the polar Jim Yonazi: Completed my PhD Andrea White (Cox): Happily regions programme (a dream Brian Beckett: I moved to at the University of Groningen. enjoying the madness of family come true) and eventually Vietnam in 2008 with my Keele life with Simon, Rowan (3) and girlfriend – now my wife! We became involved more closely Ben (8 months). 2005 with Antarctica – working for have been there three years and we are expecting our first child. Megan Collins (Johnson): two seasons on a historic base I attended Keele on study 2001 My degree proved very useful down there, with no running abroad from BGSU. Currently, I have toured in getting my first job in the water, little heat, no mains Edward Cooper: I am happily married in Ohio, the UK and Europe with my development sector. electricity, just lots of smelly teaching first grade and penguins – great fun and rock band supporting LA Guns, Darren Bland: Happily married attending BGSU to obtain challenging. When not ‘on ice’ Vixen and House for Lords and with a baby girl and another my masters in curriculum I enjoy the leafy Surrey Hills, also been featured in Metal little girl due in the New Year. and instruction. working in travel, managing Hammer magazine. Founded Sarah Grady: I completed Mike Kenyon: Now working at the Iceland and Greenland iPhone development company ‘Candid Innovations’. a Postgraduate Diploma in CERN on software projects in programme (we even organise Personnel Management and the IT department. fieldtrips for Keele). Dennis Eifert: Working as a self- gained my CIPD accreditation. Kandappu Mylvaganam: employed lawyer in Frankfurt. I married my Keele boyfriend Martin Saxon: Working as a I have established clinical financial compliance officer and Kate Francis: I worked in the Liam in 2010. ethics committee in the hospital also as a freelance writer. luxury travel industry for six great Jon Hopper: Following my and chair the committee, years before taking a sabbatical studies at Keele, whilst working also involved in teaching & Emma Sundblad (Betteridge): to go travelling throughout The family continues to grow, at the UK Department of developing policies. the Pacific and Australia. I got with a little girl joining our four Health, I moved into Executive married in Western Australia to boys in 2010. Management in the Medical 2006 my long-term partner. I returned Devices Industry. to Chester and worked for a Rajiv Ariaraj: I’m teaching the 1999 charity assisting people with Sandra Nicholls: Working for a subjects I studied at Keele at a local sixth form college. Andrew Carter: Married a disabilities into paid work. Since global outsourcing company as gorgeous girl, living in Bristol, having my daughter last year, a Senior Consultant. Robyn Wilson (Bright): one kid, loving life. I work part-time as Marketing Just celebrated our first Manager for an arboricultural 2004 wedding anniversary with Joanne Clark: I completed DPhil consultancy, which is great as Jean-Marc (2003). in Molecular Neurobiology at Jonathan Cronshaw: I have I love the environment and the completed an MA and PhD New College, Oxford and then Stewart and Emma Cope great outdoors. at Leeds in the History of moved to Boston where I am (Hodgson): We met in our first Art. My thesis is about now a junior faculty member at I went to year at Keele in 2003, we both Adam Frankenberg: Jacob Epstein. Harvard Medical School. Manchester where I took an MA studied music and played in in Jewish Studies. I stayed on to Laura Gill: I joined a market Keele Concert Band together Claire Walsh (Carlin): I married study a PhD in Jewish Studies. research company (Ipsos MORI) and we got married in 2010 in an Oliver who also graduated in IR I am currently studying at Leo on their graduate development “all-Keele affair”. The ceremony in the same year. Baeck College in London for the scheme. I then joined Cancer was held at Keele University

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Chapel. We thought this was a Qiu Li: I miss Keele so much! executive for an exhibitions very appropriate place to get company and married Ellen 2010 I am married as we met at Keele and Farshid Sefat: (Tines) who came to Keele on Ad Broersen: Followed EuMaG working as a post-doctorate played many concerts in the Study Abroad from Oklahoma courses as a part-time student research assistant. Chapel throughout our time at State. I plan to further my career from VU, Netherlands. Keele. We graduated together Amy Sell: I’ve just found out in marketing and will begin on the same day in the Chapel in Stephanie Case: Currently that I’ll be performing in the taking my chartered marketer studying MSc Management at 2006. The reception was held at opening and closing ceremonies exams next spring. University of Southampton. Keele Hall and the entertainment of the London 2012 Olympic was provided by Keele Big Band. Games. Excited! Matt Forde: I participated in the Nikki Cooper: After a year as Three of the bridesmaids, one student enterprise programme Vice President at KUSU, I moved of the ushers and the best man Lourdes Villamor: Completing at Keele and began turning back to Birmingham; started were all ex-Keele students. It a Master of Education degree my idea of running an online an MA at Warwick University, at York University (Canada) and was a truly amazing day! We window blind business into a started doing freelance couldn’t have imagined getting looking into PhD programmes in reality. Over the past four years photography and am working married anywhere else but Keele Education and Communication. I have continued persevering part-time at Birmingham Guild and it was thanks to Keele that I got my call of Students. we met and fell in love. We now Joey De Whytell: with the business, tackling a to the Canadian Bar, finally! I’m live in Leek together and are number of challenges and a Mfon Etukudo (Ekon): I now officially a practicing lawyer! I’m enjoying married life. lot of hard work along the way. live in Houston, Texas and work being thrown in at the deep end The business is showing steady as Environmental Investigator I’ve just with my first criminal trial being Louise Gibney: growth as a sideline project at the Texas Commission on published my first novel, in the court of Queen’s Bench. to working for a national blind Environmental Quality. ‘Girl Meets Boys’. It’s an internet It’s going to be fabulous – I company running their customer age romantic comedy based on can’t wait to get stuck in. How Laura Fletcher: I returned to service office and as a buyer. my real-life experiences of online is Keele? I miss it there. It’s so Keele for my PGCE in Secondary The experience gained from dating. The book’s been very cold over here in Canada at the Mathematics and was fortunate well received so far with lots of moment! It was minus 53 at one working for a national company to get a job at my placement support locally and globally. point last week! has provided me with a real school in Kidsgrove. I now insight into what is needed to Oliver Kean: Studied an MSc teach the subject I love, to 2008 succeed as well as giving me wonderful kids, and get to see in Petroleum Geoscience at the skills and contacts needed Imperial College London then Joined John Lewis, the odd squirrel around the Peter Betts: to grow my own business became a Geoscientist at then Waitrose, opening stores place to remind me of the fun tremendously, which I hope to Centrica Energy plc. Exploring across the country and Jersey I had at Keele! be running full-time within the for oil and gas to supply to and Guernsey. Laura Inman: Going to do our downstream business, next year. Working in PGCE in Secondary English British Gas. Stewart Godwin: London for a Lloyds of London Georgie Hammerton: Having with Media at the University Adam Lightfoot: Moved onto Insurance Syndicate. always loved my time spent of Cumbria in September. at Keele’s KUBE Radio where a PhD at Liverpool and now a Bridget Miles: I am volunteering Dan Reed: I moved to Hull to Peter ‘Neb’ Brooks and I spent career in research. for the charity Self Help Africa, study advertising and marketing, many long nights in the studio I went to an international development Ally Memon: and now work as a marketing tweaking the various pieces of Edinburgh for further education professional. Still looking to charity supporting rural technology and then chatting and teaching. get into the gaming industry! communities in Africa to grow about matters of great geeky Recently got engaged to Fiona enough food to feed their Lizzy Rushton: I completed an importance. I took a job working McIlroy; we met at Keele, I families and earn an income. MRes in English and Media proposed at Keele and we may for my parent’s camping guides and a PGCE in English. I am Krzysztof Pazowski: even get married at Keele! company but something had currently a teacher at a local to change. I developed an Completed MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Stoke-on-Trent School. Katherine Reveley: Went to iPhone app with a ‘guide in Computing at Oxford. Birmingham and completed your pocket’ as the idea. The Masters in Toxicology, then 2007 whole experience was great fun, Nimal Ratanyake: I am back in trained to be a teacher and Teddy Abrokwa: Had a challenging and hard work but Sri Lanka. I got married and now teach in an international wonderful year at Keele and still I loved it. I’d found my passion we are having a baby too. I work school in Italy. enjoying the benefits. for iPhone apps. I called Peter to for a manufacturing company as GM Sales & Marketing. Alexander Ashton: I recently Graeme Smallman: join me in starting a company. Financial Consultant. My wife and I are keen to returned from a 16 month Fergus Murray: Moved to embark on our own business travelling trip in which I visited Travelled for a Ian Stanley: Singapore to work in the Oil and venture as early as possible. Peru, USA, Bolivia, Chile, New month, trained as a journalist, Gas industry (Upstream). Our first most likely venture will Zealand, Australia and Canada. worked in a charity for a be in professional education and year then got a job in PR Abia Ng: I have found a job in Desiree Capstick: I went to at Motorpoint, the car Hong Kong with a two year student migration consultation. work in Ontario and then supermarket giant. contract as a piano and music Bernard Farrell-Roberts: back-packed to Europe. I went theory teacher. back to university in 2009 and I work as Director of Diaconal did an MA in Journalism and 2009 Anemone van Zijl: I am a PhD Formation at the Maryvale now work as a Journalist. I plan Mel Coudert: Currently doing student within the Finnish Institute in Birmingham, where to move to Canada for good! my PGCE at... Keele! Living Centre of Excellence in I lecture in Bioethics, Theology happily with my boyfriend Interdisciplinary Music Research, and Healthcare. I also lecture Jen Johnson: I now work for whom I met at… Keele! University of Jyvaskyla. at the Theology Faculty of the Knowledge Media Institute Barcelona and the Religious at the Open University and am Tom Ellison: I have worked Samantha Williams: I am a Sciences faculty in Tarragona. engaged with plans to wed and travelled in America. I am Doctor at Mater Children’s I gained a Masters in Theology, in 2012! currently working as a marketing Hospital in Brisbane. to add to my Keele Masters

Page 27 forever: keele Issue Seven / 2012 and my OU one in Applied Theology, and am about to complete a teaching licence in Theology. I am two years away from completing my doctorate in Bioethics at Surrey. I do some guest lecturing in Twickenham In Memory and Scotland. Nathan Greenwood: Student at University of Derby and part-time cashier for Morrisons PLC. Lina Meghani: I am a Chemist working for AkzoNobel. Nuran Ozan: Training as a Courtney Rice (1956) George Duncan (1967) Barrister hopefully! Philip Sheppard (1956) Sue Cooper-Maggs (Francis) (1968) Harriet Palmer: Went into John Cole (1957) David Childs (1969) property management, and looking to move into Mary Tainton (Aldridge) (1957) Stuart Ballantyne (1971) recruitment consultancy. Anne Docking (Pearson) (1958) Chris “Kit” Renwick (1971) Steve Price: I work in Teddington William Andrews (1959) Barbara Fryer (Anderson) (1973) for Ikon Science, which designs and builds software based on George Dawson (1959) Paul Kelly (1976) rock physics. Denis Delay (1959) Bob Miller (1976) Currently Yasmin Rajan: Roger Perry-Hands (Hands) (1959) Jan Czul (1983) studying Masters in clinical psychological research at David Price (1959) Debbie Hayward (Bush) (1985) Keele University. Joyce Rhodes (Nelson) (1959) Ros Effer (1986) Craig Shenton: Continued at Keele, for MSc Christopher “Ticker” Hayhurst (1960) Mike Fryer (1986) Environmental Sustainability Ray Joyce (1960) Peter Hudson (1986) and Green Technology. Chris Powell-Evans (1964) Dave Pilot (1987) Aaron Smith: Studying for MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience Maureen Ritchie (1964) Kristina Humphries (1994) at York. Sally Wright (Vasey) (1964) Donald Williamson (1995) Mick Bennett (1966) Pauline Booth (1997) Suzy Straw (1966) David Mountford (2009)

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Keele University graduate Local girl Vicky fell in love with the University through the Geological has been heavily involved in geology from an early age and was Conservation Group, Vicky has taken some of the key investigative often out picking up pebbles on the the experience she has gained and is A beach. When it came to deciding now working at Leicester University work surrounding the Staffordshire where to formally study a subject as a curatorial and teaching support Hoard – the largest collection of she was passionate about, Keele was technician within the Geology Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork her obvious choice. “I loved my time Department. She is using both her ever found anywhere in the world. studying at Keele, the specimens in geology and educational skills to help #e world-renowned collection was the labs and the staff who were great. students and researchers. She still, discovered in a field near Lichfield Going on the field trips with fellow however, retains fond memories of in 2009 and consists of more than geologists was fantastic fun and a her time at Keele and the foundation great learning experience.” it gave her. “Although I am a scientist 3,000 items. After leaving Keele, Vicky taught at heart, dual honours at Keele led Vicky Tunstall, a graduate in Geology science before landing her position me to where I am now – I was able & Educational Studies, used the at the Potteries Museum which to study the perfect combination skills she acquired gaining her opened up the chance to become so that I can now do exactly what degree as the only geologist on involved with the Hoard. In recent I dreamed of doing.” the team tasked with the testing times, as well as retaining links with of materials found with the hoard. The opportunity to become involved with an archaeology find that astounded experts came courtesy of Vicky’s role as trainee curator at the Potteries Museum in Hanley. When the Hoard was acquired by the museum, it presented Vicky with the chance of a lifetime – one she was delighted to accept. She says: “!e Staffordshire Hoard has been a fantastic find for Staffordshire and the Potteries Museum. After the Hoard was acquired by the Museum, I went to the Louvre in Paris as the only geologist on the team, assisting the researchers who were testing the materials found on and with the finds. It was an incredible experience.”

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Natasha Flick NAFKU USA Scholar 2012 MA Diplomatic Studies Natasha Flick was the first in her family to graduate – from San Diego State University. She says: “My time on study abroad in the United Kingdom shaped my future more than anything else. I researched Keele and it looked perfect for me. SDSU is a huge urban campus but I wanted to be part of something more accessible, part of a community. Everything is close by and it’s so English – and yet there are people here from all over the world. It’s a great place to get a true global perspective. And it’s gorgeous. Walking to class every day I see something new, something different, it’s just beautiful. My study is focused and serious, very intense. There are no lectures; it’s all debate and discussion, so you can really challenge the professors and one another. That’s very different from my undergraduate experience. There is a feeling of a common purpose, people who really want to learn. Keele is great. I love Keele.”

Annabelle Flores NAFKU Canada Scholar 2011-2012 MA Human Rights, Globalisation and Justice Annabelle Flores studied at Ottawa University and says: “The great experience I had at Keele on study abroad is part of the reason I returned for my postgraduate studies here. I want to get to know British students better and to improve my English because my first language is French. I heard out about the programme in Human Rights, Globalisation and Justice. It is a unique course, unlike anything else I have seen elsewhere, and certainly not a course I could pursue in Canada. I knew Keele already and I liked the course so it was a very easy decision. Keele seems to be a traditional University with a good community life. I really like the idea of being in the country – there are cows on campus here – that’s weird! And I like the way of teaching here; the groups are much smaller than I am used to and we have much closer connections to the lecturers. I can meet a lot of people here from different countries and it’s great to learn first-hand from people and not just from books.”

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