ALUMNI MARIA BALSHAW: TATE’S FIRST FEMALE DIRECTOR

INSIDE YOUR 2019 EDITION: ❱ A new concert hall for Liverpool ❱ The engineers of the future ❱ A bastion of digital tech ❱ CONTENTS

04 News Vice-Chancellor Professor Dame ALUMNI Janet Beer introduces a round-up 20 of campus news The most powerful 10 Class of 2018 woman in Welcoming more than 10,000 new British art graduates to the Class of 2018 How Liverpool shaped the path of Maria Balshaw 12 Making the law F Ecestiniti soluptate quod es voluptae. Offi ctis Harum quos CBE towards directorship 16 endignam facea qui blautIt’s es been maximin 125 years ullores since tibusam, the Liverpool comnia of the Tate galleries Navigating uncharteddollaccus exerunt. Law School was established. We and museums territory take a look at some of its greatest Three young entrepreneurs tell us achievements about their businesses, their Seismic events are by no motivations and how the Universitymeans feasibly19 predicted, IntoUniversity but n this issue we catch up with graduate Maria Balshaw helped them along the way Alumni volunteers have given their about her journey from Liverpool to the Tate; making steps towardstime to support such and enhancean the celebrate the 50th anniversary of the fi rst crossing of objective is imperativeexperiences of our students – here’s I how you can do the same the surface of the Arctic Ocean in which alumnus Dr Ken Hedges participated; and learn more about the new Digital Innovation Facility coming to Liverpool. 28 Class notes Thank you for all your feedback on last year’s magazine. What happened to your classmates Please do let us know what you think of this year’s edition. 36 after graduation? As always, we can never fi t everything in so please visit our 08 Turn south 34 In memoriam website to keep up to date with all the news from your The Liverpool at the Pole University. Symphony Including alumni, staff , students, Remembering the Friends of the University and Finally, we will be celebrating the achievements of our We’re building a new concert fi rst crossing of the Honorary Graduates alumni with the launch of the Liverpool Alumni Awards. hall for Liverpool, but we need surface of the Find out more on page 15. We’re looking forward to hearing your help to fi nish it Arctic Ocean about your achievements! 39 Calendar Events and reunions for 2019

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Anita Irving Deputy Director, Alumni Engagement and Regular Giving 24 P.S. Thank you to everyone who updated their contact Digital Liverpool Alumni can claim £3 off an Independent Liverpool preferences. Should you wish to update your information, Just over a decade ago, card until 1 December 2015. Simply enter discount please visit: www.liverpool.ac.uk/alumni. as the European Capital of code LIVALUMNI at: www.independent–liverpool.22 co.uk. Culture, Liverpool took back Engineering its cultural identity. Today, excellence the city is harnessing the Why the University of LIVERPOOL CONNECT transformative power of digital Liverpool’s Mechanical to take on some of the greatest Engineering graduates Connect with your alumni community for advice and support. More than 2,500 Liverpool graduates are challenges and opportunities are amongst the most already participating. of our time employable in the UK

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A message from our University podcast series in top fi ve list immunisation schedule in 2012. The University’s podcast series – which covers a wide range of topics including Vice-Chancellor The vaccine is now part of the cancer-detecting smelling machines, Beatles tourism and astrophysics – has 2018 HAS BEEN ANOTHER GREAT YEAR FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF vaccination schedule in 96 been named as one of Liverpool’s top fi ve podcasts by local tourism body Visit LIVERPOOL, WITH MANY SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS countries. An evaluation of its Liverpool. Listen now: www.liverpool.ac.uk/news/podcasts. AND STUDENT AND GRADUATE SUCCESSES. impact in Malawi was published in 2018, showing that it has reduced infant deaths by nearly a third. rom being named top in In November 2018, a team of University of the future the Russell Group for the our researchers in the Department F number of graduates in of Archaeology, Classics and Plans have been unveiled for a new campus for our joint venture work or further study six months Egyptology, working with institution in China, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), in the after graduating, to opening the colleagues from the French city of Taicang, Jiangsu province. The campus, expected to open to Materials Innovation Factory, Institute for Oriental Archaeology students in 2020, will include space dedicated to research, learning which houses one of the highest in Cairo, announced that they may and teaching as well as innovation and entrepreneurialism, and will concentrations of materials have solved the question of how off er students the opportunity to study in both China and the UK. science automation robotics in the Ancient Egyptians built the the world, there has been much pyramids. Working at the site of to celebrate. the Hatnub quarries, they In conversation This year our IntoUniversity discovered what could be the North Liverpool centre has helped remains of a 4,500-year-old ramp with Pep more than 1,000 children and system to transport the huge Guardiola young people living in Anfi eld, Highlights from our many alabaster blocks used in the one of the most deprived areas research achievements can be construction of Egypt’s Great Pep Guardiola, Manchester City in the country, with their school found in the News section, on the Pyramid. The extremely well- FC Manager and former FC work. Children attending the next few pages. We have a preserved ramp had a staircase Barcelona player, joined centre, which is a collaboration fascinating feature on ‘Digital on each side lined with postholes, Liverpool academics for a between the education charity Liverpool’ on pages 24-27, which to which ropes were possibly tied, sell-out lecture to discuss IntoUniversity and the Liverpool includes interviews with Colin thousands of years ago, to drag Catalan identity, culture, politics Football Club Foundation, are Sinclair, CEO of Knowledge the huge stone blocks. This is a and sport as the keynote speaker doing better at school and are Quarter Liverpool, and Professor remarkable breakthrough, which for the University’s annual Edgar more likely to apply for university. Joe Spencer, the University’s may fi nally answer a question that Allison Peers Symposium. Watch I am particularly proud of the Academic Lead for Sensor City. has long puzzled Egyptologists. the lecture online: impact of this project, which has I also want to highlight the work Finally, on a personal note, 2018 www.liverpool.ac.uk/pep2018. been made possible thanks to a of other colleagues whose was particularly memorable for community of more than 71 research has been particularly me as I received my Damehood. donors, me included. I would like impactful. For the past 20 years, My sincere thanks to all who took to take this opportunity to thank Professor Nigel Cunliff e has led a the time to write to me with your Liverpool Connect those who have given so programme of rotavirus research congratulations. I am proud to generously and ensured that we in children in Malawi. This highly lead and represent this University, reaches membership are inspiring and supporting infectious stomach bug kills and hope that you enjoy refl ecting milestone children and young people to almost 200,000 infants and on our successes, including those achieve more at school and children in Africa and Asia each of the alumni and students featured Our networking and mentoring platform, Liverpool believe in their ability to go to year. The work of Professor in this issue of Alumni. Connect, now has more than 3,500 alumni, staff and university, regardless of their Cunliff e and his team led to the student users, with 1,336 members also registered to background. You can read more introduction of a new rotavirus Professor Dame Janet Beer take part in our online mentoring programmes. Join the about IntoUniversity on page 19. vaccine into Malawi’s childhood Vice-Chancellor network today: www.liverpool.aluminate.net.

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A game changer for cancer research The Liverpool Head and Neck Centre will draw together world-class research and medical expertise A lasting legacy for the high number of head and neck cancer patients in the Liverpool City Region, which has of culture three times the national average of cases and The national and international compares with socio-economically deprived regions reputation of Liverpool of India, South America and South Africa. continues to be infl uenced by the European Capital of Culture 50 years of University a decade on, according to a major study between the Rugby League University of Liverpool and The University welcomed alumni, guests and Liverpool John Moores current student players for a weekend of activities University, showing that 2008 to celebrate 50 years of both the University of was the year when external Liverpool Rugby League club and the Student narratives changed and local Rugby League. people’s sense of pride substantially improved.

Space ageing Materials Innovation experiment set Factory offi cially opened for lift-off The new £81 million facility, part of a collaboration Scientists at the Institute of Ageing and Chronic with Unilever, features cutting-edge robotic and Disease are using funding from the UK Space computational equipment and will bring together Agency to study age-related muscle loss in some of the UK’s most talented materials scientists microgravity. Astronauts can lose up to 40% and academics. of their muscle mass after six months in space. Our scientists hope that by studying these changes in astronauts they can better understand how we age. Supporting enterprising students New Game Design Santander Universities UK has been generously supporting some of the University’s most Studies programme entrepreneurial students as they turn their exciting The new course, which can be studied as part of business ideas into reality with seed funding, Architecture, Communication and Media, English, mentoring and start-up support. Santander also Music, and Philosophy degrees, will consider games provides funding for overseas study opportunities and their design from all angles – from the practical and internships with local businesses, all contributing elements of design and composition, to the to improving the employability of our students. philosophical questions to which gaming gives rise.

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University campus, it will house a 400-seat for the next stage in its cultural off ering. With this performance auditorium with an optimum acoustic space, we are seeking to create a new landmark for profi le and capacity for a 70-piece orchestra. It will the campus and for the city. also feature three combinable lecture theatres with a total capacity of more than 1,000 students, and Help us create the Liverpool Symphony provide exemplary seminar facilities. Graduates who have lived, worked, studied and Beyond teaching, practice and performance, the played in Liverpool are performers in an ongoing space will facilitate ventures with external partners symphony. Through them, the sound of Liverpool and commercial opportunities. Concerts held within is now spread across the world, and its echo is the auditorium will be open to the public as well as profound. To remember the sound of Liverpool broadcast for television and radio. It will sit alongside is to be reminded of a place in which careers have some of the UK’s leading concert venues, including been made and lives have been changed. the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. It will exist as a We are investing £17.5 million in the project, and destination for people of all ages and backgrounds we need £3 million in philanthropic funding. It is a seeking truly enriching musical experiences, and be symphony in the making, but we need the help of easily accessible to outlying communities being our alumni community to fi nish it. X positioned on the border between the entrance to the city and the University. To fi nd out how you can play a part in this exciting As a performance space, there is no equivalent. new venture and in doing so contribute to the As a fl exible and unique learning environment, there cultural growth of Liverpool, please visit: is nothing comparable. The University is tuning up www.liverpool.ac.uk/symphony.

THE UNIVERSITY’S NEW Music has a crucial role to play in this. When MULTI-MILLION POUND TEACHING Liverpool was awarded UNESCO City of Music status in 2015, its place at the beating heart of worldwide AND PERFORMANCE SPACE WILL culture was confi rmed. It’s a city where music is ENSURE THAT MUSIC REMAINS lifeblood, a proven force for social and economic A TRANSFORMATIONAL POWER good. It’s a city of sound, and through our alumni that IN LIVERPOOL – BUT WE NEED sound is echoing far and wide across the world today. YOUR HELP TO BUILD IT An iconic home for music Needless to say, music is a proud focus for the University of Liverpool. We’re committed to making the world’s greatest music – specifi cally classical and iverpool has long been home to a contemporary compositional – performed by the best culturally diverse range of people who regional and touring musicians, accessible to all. We have been inspired to change the world want to foster a deep-seated appreciation of the in their own ways as global citizens. Like transformational power of music. Nowhere knows this Lyou, many of these people are graduates of the power better than Liverpool. University of Liverpool – and together, regardless Building on this, in the coming months we will be of academic discipline or circumstance, you share breaking ground on a new teaching and performance a collective memory of Liverpool’s culture. space. Situated on the south-east edge of the

8 ALUMNI 2019 EDITION WWW.LIVERPOOL.AC.UK/ALUMNI 9 ❱ GRADUATION  MORE: www.liverpool.ac.uk/alumni/2018 ELCOME WTO THE CLASS OF TOP TIPS FOR CLASS OF 2018 Update your contact details 1Stay connected to the alumni Honorary degrees were given to eight prestigious community to receive regular updates individuals in 2018, including three Liverpool alumni: 2018 about what’s happening across the Dr Maria Balshaw CBE (BA Hons English n July 2018, we welcomed benefi ts, including free access online networking platform, University and how you can get involved. Literature and Communication Studies 1991), the more than 10,000 new to online journals, invitations Liverpool Connect. Find out fi rst female Director of Tate (see page 20 for more). graduates to our to social and careers-focused more about what your alumni Join Liverpool Connect Professor Peter Gallagher (BSc Hons Chemistry University of Liverpool events around the world, and community has to off er by 2 Sign up to our online e-networking 1983, PhD Organic Chemistry 1987), Executive Ialumni family. discounts on postgraduate visiting your dedicated Class platform, Liverpool Connect. Network with Vice President for Strategic Sciences at Unilever Members of the Class of 2018 study, travel and leisure, as well of 2018 website: current students and fellow alumni to and Visiting Professor at the University. are entitled to a wide range of as membership of our exclusive www.liverpool.ac.uk/class-of-2018. advance your career and join with Jonathan Rushworth (LLB Hons 1970) a retired like-minded graduates. solicitor and the great-great-grandson of the founder of the Liverpool family music business, Rushworths. Check-out the alumni benefi ts Also honoured were David McDonnell CBE DL 3 Being a Liverpool graduate comes FCA, former University of Liverpool Pro-Chancellor with all sorts of benefi ts. from discounted and President of Council; Paul May, Senior hotels, access to online journals or a Neurosurgeon at The Walton Centre; John Higgins, lifetime Guild membership. Check out all artist and writer for 2000 AD, DC and Marvel the benefi ts on off er at: Comics; Dr Clemency Fisher (pictured above with www.liverpool.ac.uk/class-of-2018/ Vice-Chancellor Professor Dame Janet Beer and discounts. Chancellor Colm Tóibín), Emeritus Senior Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at National Museums Liverpool; and Professor Dame Jane Dacre, President of the Royal College of Physicians.

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1972 – Liverpool Law School 1992 – The Faculty MAKING alumna Dame Rose Heilbron DBE celebrates its centenary with a QC becomes the fi rst female major programme of academic THE judge to sit at the Old Bailey. and social events.

IT’S BEEN 125 YEARS SINCE THE LIVERPOOL LAW SCHOOL WAS ESTABLISHED. WE TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF ITS GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS 1966 – Faculty of Law Building 1982 – The Cayman Islands 2001 – Honorary degree LAW on Chatham Street formally Law School was established, an (Doctor of Laws) conferred opened by Lord Denning. affi liation between the upon Yoko Ono, artist and government of the Cayman founder of the University’s 1904 – The Faculty of Law is Islands and the Liverpool Law John Lennon Memorial 1882 – Law is taught for created with the constitution of School, where students receive Scholarships. the fi rst time at Liverpool. the University of Liverpool. The University of Liverpool (LLB) Funded by the Law Society, direction of legal studies was degree programmes. the Law Students’ made by a Board of Legal Association, the legal Studies initially consisting of 1918 – Following the First profession and money members of the College, the World War enrolment began to annexed from the funds Law Society and the Law climb from zero students in 2018 – The Liverpool Law 2014 – Strategic partnership provided by Queen Victoria. Students’ Association. 1918–19 to 168 in 1934–35. Clinic, a pro-bono centre at the agreement with the University University off ering free legal of Law to off er joint and dual advice to the public, celebrates programmes in Law with 10 years serving the community. Business and Management The clinic has aff orded students Education, the fi rst major the opportunity to work on many collaboration of its kind in the high-profi le cases, including the UK. Baroness Hale, then-Deputy Hillsborough inquests. President of the Supreme Court, offi cially opens the Liverpool Law Clinic’s new premises.

F Backdrop: Staff and Honours students of the – Liverpool Law School – Liverpool Law Students’ Association host Faculty of Law, 1892 1910 in the garden is established, making it one of one of their fi rst Mock Trials with the case of of Abercromby the oldest law departments in General Lee Hardupp versus Herr Robinson Square (1948-9) the UK. Caruso. The case focused on a noise complaint between General Lee, the plaintiff , and Herr Robinson, a ‘noisy’ music teacher. 2019 – The Liverpool Law School will move into 2016 – Wendy Beetlestone (BA Hons Philosophy a new £25 million home as part of the new School 1984), a US District Judge nominated by Barack Obama, of Law and Social Justice. speaks at the annual Liverpool Law School lecture.

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UNIVERSITY2019 OF LIVERPOOL ALUMNI female to sit as a judge at the Old AWARDS Bailey. Later, she became the second female High Court judge and eventually the fi rst female THIS YEAR, WE ARE leader of the Northern Circuit. LAUNCHING OUR Rose retired in 1988 – but not, FIRST ANNUAL John says, before culminating ALUMNI AWARDS, with a fi nal fi rst: being elected the Treasurer of Gray’s Inn, the fi rst RECOGNISING THE female Treasurer of any of the IMPACT, SUCCESS four Inns of Court. She passed AND ACHIEVEMENTS away in 2005, survived by her DAME ROSE HEILBRON: daughter Hilary, herself a silk and OF OUR GRADUATES. author of Rose’s biography. The 10 graduates and 10 recent next generation of women in the ENGLAND’S FIRST graduates will be recognised for legal profession, from Cherie their successes in the world since Booth to President of the they graduated. Find out more Supreme Court Baroness Brenda FEMALE JUDGE information, including how you Hale, have credited their success can nominate a Liverpool to Rose’s work, life and legacy. HOW TRAILBLAZER AND UNIVERSITY graduate, via our website: www. “It should be of no surprise liverpool.ac.uk/alumni/awards OF LIVERPOOL ALUMNA DAME ROSE that Rose has had a lasting and HEILBRON CHANGED THE FACE OF profound infl uence on women . THE LEGAL PROFESSION in the legal profession,” says John. “This is because of both her undoubted professional orn and raised in the fi rst woman to be awarded success and excellence, but also Liverpool, Rose Heilbron the Lord Justice Holker because of her trailblazing B attended the University scholarship. activity in balancing the heavy of Liverpool between 1932 and Three years later, Rose was demands of professional life with 1937. She graduated with a First called to the Bar before being the equally heavy demands of Class LLB degree, “the fi rst of elected to the Northern Circuit. family life. She combined both many subsequent fi rsts in her life,” Her practice focused on criminal with great success.” X says Dr John Tribe, a lecturer in defence work and personal injury CLOSING DATE FOR Law at the University of Liverpool. work. Despite institutional sexism NOMINATIONS: An exceptional student by all (Rose was prohibited from taking Join the Liverpool Law School Alumni Association Friday 10 May 2019 accounts, Rose exhibited during part in ‘bar mess’ at the time), she Stay connected with the her time at University the work achieved a great deal of success University, the Liverpool THE AWARDS WILL ethic that she would become during her career. Involved in Law School and fellow alumni, BE PRESENTED IN and benefi t from career known for throughout her career. defending many of the causes AUTUMN 2019 development and networking Upon gaining an LLM she went célèbres of her day, Rose was opportunities. . on to the Honourable Society of the fi rst woman to lead in an Find out more: www.liverpool. Gray’s Inn. In 1936 she became English murder case and the fi rst ac.uk/law/alumni.

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ALUMNI SAT DOWN WITH THREE or some students and graduates, the YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS FROM road less travelled leads to more. The University of Liverpool has a strong THE WORLDS OF GIN, PROPERTY reputation for its support and flexibility MANAGEMENT AND HIGH FASHION Fin encouraging and developing the next generation NAVIGATING of entrepreneurs. Our Enterprise Programme exists TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THEIR BUSINESSES, THEIR MOTIVATIONS to help students of the University build new or existing business ideas, and through our Enterprise AND HOW THE UNIVERSITY Fund budding entrepreneurs can win up to £500 UNCHARTED HELPED THEM ALONG THE WAY. kick-start funding. TERRITORY

“I SAID AT THE START “ONE-DAY MODE CAN THAT EVEN IF THIS LAST FOREVER; BEFORE DOESN’T LEAD TO YOU KNOW IT YOU’RE ANYTHING I’M STILL IN A FULL-TIME JOB BETH HERON LEARNING SKILLS THAT JOE DAVIES AND ONE DAY IS EVEN www.in2gin.com ARE INSTRUMENTAL www.host-so-simple.com FURTHER AWAY THAN IN A FUTURE CAREER, WHEN YOU STARTED” WHETHER THAT’S IN GIN OR OTHERWISE”

t was while working in The University of Liverpool has University, competing against oe Davies (BA Business there was a viable business in received support on business Liverpool bars that BA (Hons) supported Beth along the way, other student start-ups, and was Management 2017) couldn’t servicing local Airbnb properties, plans, tips and presenting, and I Marketing undergraduate opening up networking recently awarded £500 by the J have asked for a better the pair set up a website and inspiration from other young Beth Heron had her business idea. opportunities and enabling her University and Santander’s placement than the one he got welcomed their first clients. entrepreneurs. Now, their The gin market was saturated, but to study her business. “I’m getting Enterprise Fund. whilst studying at the University of By the time Joe was back at business services more than 100 nobody seemed to be investing in key insights into my customers As an undergraduate student Liverpool; a great culture, flexible University for his final year, properties across Liverpool and the ‘added extras’ – garnishes and and how they interact, and how growing her own business, hours and plenty of extra curricular Host So Simple had nine clients. Manchester. “A lot of people have flavourings in particular. Beth I can capitalise on that,” she says. Beth might be in a minority – activities. There was just one “I didn’t want the business to business ideas, but those ideas started experimenting in her The University also introduced but she doesn’t think she need problem: he didn’t like it. “I was fizzle out,” he says. “I was running normally stay inside,” says Joe. kitchen and before long she had Beth to Santander UK, who be. “I really enjoy what I do. worried that if I didn’t like that, into the library stairwell to answer “Getting it onto paper makes it developed three gin infusion packs. helped her set up a business University is a great place to then what was I going to like?” client calls. It was tough.” more real. It gets your ideas in In2Gin now trades extensively bank account. She participated in start a business because you’ve At the same time, Joe’s Joe and Katie recently motion and your mind into a across Liverpool, at trade shows the Santander Entrepreneurship got an unparalleled support partner, Katie, was servicing an competed in the Santander this-is-happening mode instead and online. Awards on behalf of the system at hand.” Airbnb property. Realising that University Challenge, where they of a one-day mode.”

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“I CAN’T STRESS ENOUGH THE VALUE OF GAINING WORK EXPERIENCE IN THIS

INDUSTRY. FASHION JENNIFER DAVIES BRANDS ARE CRYING www.nabilnayal.com OUT FOR PEOPLE TO COME ONTO INTOUNIVERSITY F LFC goalkeeper, Simon Mignolet, with THE BUSINESS SIDE” NORTH local school children at the launch event. LIVERPOOL OPENING DOORS TO BRIGHT, university and all the opportunities on offer. Also, INSPIRING FUTURES when I have problems in school, I can come to the centre and someone will listen to me.” ast year, Jennifer Davies In the wake of the win, Nabil eight weeks before. It was all As part of the mentoring programme, the pair (MSc Operations and Nayal made its inaugural consuming, but ultimately an visited the University of Liverpool’s School of L Supply Chain Management appearance at London Fashion incredible experience.” n its first year, the IntoUniversity North Liverpool Medicine, which had a significant impact on 2016) was awarded the British Week, the highlight in the Jennifer is now looking ahead centre in Anfield has given more than 1,000 Precious who is now even more determined to Fashion Council Fashion Trust calendar of luxury fashion brands to Paris Fashion Week and Istudents a quiet and safe place to study, achieve her goal of becoming a paediatrician. prize for Nabil Nayal, the luxury the world over. “We’d never numerous British Fashion Week inspirational mentorship, one-to-one academic tutors Lady said of the visit: “I was just smiling so much fashion brand she co-directs. done anything like it before,” events. In addition to co- and a taste of what higher education can offer them. seeing Precious get more and more excited about Stocked internationally, its patrons says Jennifer. “We were thrown directing her brand, she is doing Precious started attending Academic Support the medical school. Being a mentor has helped me include Rihanna, Victoria in at the deep end as we only a PhD at Liverpool in sustainable sessions at IntoUniversity North Liverpool in 2017, to better understand young people of that age – Beckham and Lady Gaga. decided to do the presentation supply chain management in the after her family moved to the UK from Luxembourg. they’re not children, they’re not adults, but they fashion industry. To aid her development, she was paired with need your advice. I’ve had fun during a difficult year “Something I learned in my IntoUniversity mentor Lady Tettey, an English and looked forward to it each week.” X MSc at the University of Liverpool Literature and Business student from the University IntoUniversity North Liverpool has been made was to take the bigger picture of Liverpool. Lady attended the IntoUniversity possible by donations from our alumni and and break it down into smaller centre in North Kensington from the age of eight. supporters. You can open doors to inspiring futures projects,” says Jennifer of her Precious said: “Having a mentor built up my by supporting us. Find out more: www.liverpool.ac. uk/giving/intouniversity. strategy for success. “It makes confidence a lot. I have learnt a lot of things about things much easier to achieve. As for working in fashion, the “IntoUniversity has made me knowledge that I’ve gained on supply chains and the realise that education is important. management of them has I’ve had a wake-up call about proven invaluable to me.” X revision; I want better grades

Join our Professional Interest and a good future. My life’s Network for Entrepreneurship completely changed” & Social Enterprise: www. liverpool.aluminate.net/ – Kansan, IntoUniversity North groups/entrepreneurship. Liverpool student (pictured right)

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WHEN MARIA BALSHAW CBE English Literature degree and spent much of my three WAS APPOINTED AS THE NEW years reading Stuart Hall, Julia Berger and many others – DIRECTOR OF THE TATE ART writers I still draw on in my work today. GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS, SHE Making art accessible to all BECAME THE MOST POWERFUL I arrived in the city as Tate Liverpool opened its doors. WOMAN IN BRITISH ART. IN HER It was the fi rst gallery I felt was ‘mine’, so to speak. I didn’t WORDS, THIS IS HOW LIVERPOOL come from an especially gallery-going family, so it was here that I learned to start looking at art properly. I saw SHAPED HER FUTURE Dali’s Lobster Telephone and was hooked. I found myself one Sunday lying on the fl oor of the gallery staring up at Richard Long’s Norfolk Flint Circle. I didn’t know it at the time, but that was the beginning of the career I have now. Upon graduating, I planned to embark on an academic career. After teaching and leading academic research THE MOST projects, I was asked to lead Creative Partnerships in Birmingham. This important pilot project brought artists and arts organisations into the schools that would otherwise have not been able to connect to them. It POWERFUL resourced supporting the creativity of young people, whatever their background. The sense of welcome and ownership I felt for Tate WOMAN IN Liverpool as ‘my’ part of the nation’s collection is a feeling I try to extend, as Director of Tate, to those who are visiting the Tate galleries and museums globally. My visits there as a student impacted the course of my life hugely. For me, BRITISH ART this all began in Tate Liverpool. ttending university was a leap of faith for me. This underpins my mission at Tate. I want the next I’d come from a working-class, Irish Catholic decade to be a time when more diverse audiences enjoy background, and the comprehensive school art and culture. There has to be a change in who comes in which I’d been educated was judged the to art galleries. Older patterns of exclusion need to be left UK’sA worst school in the fi rst year of Margaret Thatcher’s behind. The Tate galleries need to lead the way; Tate league tables. While I was earnestly devoted to books, changes what the world thinks about art and changes I was understandably daunted by the prospect of life at the art the world thinks about. an institution like the University of Liverpool. I’ll close with a thought about the world just now. If my While I wish I could say I was attracted to the University life history to date demonstrates anything, it is the for academic reasons, the reality is diff erent: I went importance of our cultural and creative infrastructure in because of my lifelong love for Liverpool FC, born out of unlocking the potential in young people. I found myself, rebellion against my father’s love of Manchester United. as well as art and ideas, in the cultural encounters I had Eventually, though, I come to realise that football prowess in Liverpool. To me, art allows us to see and to think about – even that of Kenny Dalglish’s dream team – was no the world through diff erent eyes. It posits the idea that indicator of how much I would enjoy studying English there may be more than one answer – or no answer at all Literature. I quickly found myself lost in a new city. – to complex questions about life and society. This is During my studies I had two marvellous feminist completely vital in an evermore complex world. X tutors who pointed me towards a road I didn’t even know was there and opened my eyes to the opportunities Read more stories from your alumni community on our website: www.liverpool.ac.uk/alumni/meet-our-alumni. available to me. I added Communication Studies to my Photograph ©Hugo Glendinning, 2017

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F The World Human Powered Speed Challenge takes place in Nevada, USA, in June ENGINEERING each year

projects came about as part of a these skills are fully honed and EXCELLENCE long-term educational reform in developed. Students are working WHY THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL’S MECHANICAL ENGINEERING the School of Engineering. The under high pressure with big University was one of the early budgets, huge stakes and GRADUATES ARE AMONGST THE MOST EMPLOYABLE IN THE UK adopters of a teaching framework international teams. It’s as close called the CDIO™. Established by as they can get to professional the Massachusetts Institute of engineering at university.” n seven decades of Design at the University of years they go from zero to a car engineers, fitting everything else Technology (MIT) in response Beyond what Capstones mean supporting the shifting Liverpool and Module Coordinator that zips around Silverstone. around that.” to industry concerns, it provides in terms of employability, it’s not priorities of the British for the Capstones. They’re required to spend about Another current Capstone students with an education hard to see their attraction for nuclear industry, the seven hours per week on the involves the Institute of Veterinary focused not just on the students. “Imagine being able ISellafield nuclear site on the Beyond nuclear project in third year and double Science’s Leahurst Campus. acquisition of scientific to sit down in a job interview and Cumbrian coast has become one Other Capstones concern sport that in fourth, but most end up “The mortality rate of horses after knowledge, but equally on the tell the story of how you and your of the biggest environmental – most notably Formula Student. living and breathing their projects general anaesthetic is one in development of graduate personal colleagues built the world’s remediation challenges in Europe Established by the Institute every day. It’s a lifestyle choice as 100,” says Matt. “They try to stand and professional skills that are fastest human-powered vehicle – and one without a blueprint. of Mechanical Engineers, it’s much as an academic decision.” up too quickly and damage their essential in 21st-century or improved clinical outcomes in Mechanical Engineering a testing ground for the next Similar is the World Human legs. Students on this Capstone professional engineering and equine surgery around the world. students from the University of generation of engineers. Powered Speed Challenge, which have been briefed by veterinary our society. Capstone projects Imagine being able to say that Liverpool are having a significant The competition sees students takes place each June in Nevada, surgeons to design, build and test are an essential part of this. you contributed to cleaning up hand in its clean-up. The School from universities around the world USA. In 2018, the University team a rope-assisted recovery system For the last two years, the Sellafield. It’s stories like these of Engineering runs projects design, build and race a single- broke four world records in the to improve vet safety and improve University of Liverpool’s that help convince employers called Capstones, aimed at seat racing car. “Students arm-powered category. “These patient survival rates.” Mechanical Engineering students that our graduates have what consolidating and applying combine their scientific education are incredible experiences for have topped the government’s it takes to succeed.” X knowledge gained over the with their knowledge of design students,” says Matt. “They’re Employable engineers Destination of Leavers from

degree. Presently, one concerns principles and computer-aided international competitions that Entrepreneurship is also factored Higher Education survey. “This The James Moruzzi the design and build of tools to design, develop and build students earn credits for. They into Capstones, with one survey provides useful data on Engineering Enterprise Award a nuclear rover with systems a race vehicle,” says Matt. “In two work full-time as pre-professional specifically aimed at developing employability, and 100% of our Current students and recent graduates are invited to apply that can withstand nuclear the next generation of folding Mechanical Engineering for a new award of up to £5,000 radiation, to be deployed bike. According to Matt, existing graduates are in professional to support them in their pursuit in Sellafield as part of the “Students are working offerings in this market fail to jobs six months after graduation,” of developing innovative engineering solutions with decomissioning process. under high pressure with appeal to many market sectors. says Matt. “We have an industrial potential to create new “This Capstone is a perfect “This project involves much liaison board, and the employers products. The award recipient big stakes, huge budgets will need to demonstrate a example of our students not just more business planning and on it report that our graduates are passion for their project, will working within our four walls but and international teams. commercial work. It’s industrial distinctive in their confidence, receive support and mentoring actually solving real-world It’s as close as they design and engineering for a communication, practical skills throughout, and will benefit from using state-of-the-art problems with industrial consumer product.” and teamwork. This is all evidence can get to professional F Formula Student sees teams from facilities in Sensor City. Find out partners,” says Dr Matt Murphy, around the world take cars from the The University of Liverpool’s proving that Capstones really more: www.liverpool.ac.uk/ a Senior Lecturer in Engineering engineering at university” drawing board to the racetrack commitment to offering Capstone work, because this is where giving/opportunities.

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F Colin Sinclair, CEO Knowledge Quarter Liverpool

JUST OVER A DECADE or Colin Sinclair, the CEO of AGO, AS THE EUROPEAN Knowledge CAPITAL OF CULTURE, Quarter Liverpool LIVERPOOL TOOK BACK F(KQ Liverpool), Liverpool has ITS CULTURAL IDENTITY. been a city of transformation since Capital of Culture. TODAY, THE CITY IS Tourism, regeneration and HARNESSING THE a burgeoning knowledge TRANSFORMATIVE economy have continually POWER OF DIGITAL TO powered the city forward – to TAKE ON SOME OF THE the point that it has morphed from a post-industrial city GREATEST CHALLENGES into one of the fl agship AND OPPORTUNITIES metropolises of the digital OF OUR TIME revolution. KQ Liverpool lies at the beating heart of the city’s work to this end. An on-going, multi-billion pound, 450-acre development spanning the city centre as well as the city’s university campuses and their numerous world-leading facilities, it aims to bring together the city’s key partners to collaborate, to grow the local economy, and to ultimately close the societal gap between the digitally rich and the digitally poor. “KQ Liverpool doesn’t just concern the area of Liverpool in which it’s situated,” says Colin. “It’s having an impact on the rest of the city, the wider Liverpool City Region (LCR) and the Northern Powerhouse as a whole. It’s transforming a place whilst improving people’s lives.”

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Future proofi ng to bring people who can’t necessarily aff ord The humanities are likewise benefi ting Sensor City, a newly opened collaboration the internet or mobile phones back into from Liverpool’s pioneering digital work. between the University of Liverpool and society, so that it’s not only the richest 80% Using digital technologies to bring Liverpool John Moores University, and part of society who are developing but the together existing and new genealogical, of KQ Liverpool, is doing just this. It’s a poorest 20% too.” biometric and criminal justice datasets has space for academics, organisations and In addition to Sensor City, KQ Liverpool allowed researchers at the University of start-ups to work together as a community will soon be home to the Digital Innovation Liverpool to trace the lives of British and in developing sensor solutions across all Facility, a centre of excellence dedicated Australian convicts. Of interest to the 12 aspects of society, from energy and to combining the research areas of million family historians active in the UK, aerospace to manufacturing and healthcare. computer science, robotics and engineering not to mention the families of those “Sensors are used in almost every in which the University has world-class involved, the project crucially addresses sector today,” says Professor Joe Spencer, capabilities, and enabling engagement the social policy concern of criminal the University of Liverpool’s Academic with businesses to promote innovation. rehabilitation and penal estate costs. “Sensors can tell Lead for Sensor City. “We’re using them Already up and running is the Virtual Even teaching at the University is you the temperature, not just to measure temperature or light, Engineering Centre. Part of LCR 4.0 – the benefi ting from digital advances with the blood pressure and but to get a holistic view of entire systems. business support programme which has just creation of Stream Capture, which records heart rate of a hospital Sensors can tell you the temperature, been listed in the Financial Times’ ‘Top 100 lectures for students to refer back to at a blood pressure and heart rate of a hospital European digital champions’ – the Centre is later date. This has the added benefi t of patient, for instance, patient, for instance, but without delivering innovative digital engineering helping students with learning diffi culties but without combining combining that data in a holistic way you solutions to industry through the and those whose fi rst language isn’t that data in a holistic can’t tell how the patient really feels.” exploitation of academic research and the English to review the lecture content and Sensor City is currently investigating the latest scientifi c technology infrastructure – slides at their own pace. The system was way you can’t tell how opportunities of community wi-fi in health from paediatric surgery modelling for Alder designed and built by the University’s own the patient really feels” and social care, a project made possible Hey Children’s Hospital to product design Computing Services Department. Since its by a £3.5 million grant awarded through and development acceleration for Jaguar launch in 2015, it has captured more than the Department for Digital, Culture, Media Land Rover. 32,000 lectures which, if viewed back to and Sport’s 5G Testbeds and Trials Digital innovation and societal growth back, would take 1,210 days to watch, and says Colin. “We’re positioning ourselves to programme. Low-cost, open-source 5G require powerful computing and data have been viewed by students more than take the lead and make change, and we’re network technology was installed in the solutions, which is why the University 8 million times. having an impact globally. Kensington area of Liverpool, aff ording the of Liverpool has developed its Big Data “We don’t just want to regenerate our residents of one of the most deprived and High Performance Computing MSc Creating true wealth city and make it a global world-class city areas of the UK a previously inaccessible scholarship with the Scottish Power Liverpool’s mark on the digital world may region though; we want to focus on health means of communication. Foundation. Graduates equipped with the be young yet, but it’s already signifi cant and social justice through our multi- “And we’re thinking of other services skills to manage and interpret large-scale – a reality apparent in the amount of disciplinary expertise and collaboration, on top of this,” says Joe. “We’re trying to datasets are in huge global demand, inward investment in the city. “Eight years particularly through digital innovation. create a local communication cooperative, a reality which this course anticipates. ago,” says Colin, “investors would have We want to create wealth, but we want to a consortium that will turned away from Liverpool. Now they’re do it the right way. I can’t think of another use this technology all coming here. Students have recognised city that has done, or is doing, more than to reduce the digital the city’s potential for a long time, and Liverpool to close the gap between the divide locally, and to investors are fi nally doing the same.” richer and poorer in society in terms of build in things like As for the implications of Liverpool’s wealth and digital connectivity.” X outpatient monitoring mark on the digital world, that too is and support for the signifi cant, and not just locally. “We’re a Find out more about how our digital lonely. Really, this is city with an enormous opportunity to get research is changing lives: technology that is going things right and make a huge diff erence,” www.liverpool.ac.uk/research.

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Betty Norris (née Ellerker) (BSc Hons Burroughs, Mitsubishi, Datapoint and Liverpool John Lennon Airport and enjoyed a they both retired in 2005. Both are currently Class Chemistry 1948) worked in public analysis in Ericsson. He married his classmate Tessa meal at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, replicating involved with the Rochdale Field Naturalists’ Liverpool and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for 16 Harrington (BCom 1957) in 1960. Their their annual dinners of the past with toasts, Society, Karen with the Yorkshire Dales NOTES years followed by five years teaching Maths daughters attended Bristol, Liverpool, Balliol speeches, a notable guest speaker and singing Millennium Trust and Rick with the Friends and Chemistry in Melbourne, Australia. Betty College, Oxford and Hull universities and their ‘The Engineers’ Song’. of the Dales. Where has life taken then spent 13 years as Technical Secretary to son attended Manchester. They now have your classmates since the National Health and Medical Research 12 grandchildren and another on the way. Peter Whittaker (BSc Hons Biochemistry 1961) Richard Baldwin MBE graduation? Council’s Food Standards Committee in Those old enough have attended or are went on to complete his PhD at the University (BCom Hons 1969) qualified Canberra, Australia. She and her late husband, attending university: one is a doctor, another of Leicester and lecture at the University of Hull as a chartered accountant in Find more online: Richard (BSc Hons Chemistry 1948), spent studying dentistry – all that’s needed is a and the University of Sussex. In 1978 he was 1972 and then specialised in www.liverpool.ac.uk/ 56 happy years together living in the UK, physiotherapist and an undertaker and appointed Professor and Head of Biology at tax. He retired as Tax Partner Malaysia and Australia. Colin retired as a everything is covered! Maynooth University in Ireland and from 2002 in Deloitte in 2005 where he was able to year after her degree. She then went on to alumni/class-notes Government Analyst in 1988. Betty is now 92 to 2008 he was Professor of Biological Ethics at pursue his love of sport in a professional gain her PhD at the University, which led her and lives in Canberra, having retired more Lancaster University. He was Vice-President of capacity, being the tax part of the team that to work for Bass Brewery in Runcorn as than 30 years ago. ❱❱ 1960s The Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, successfully bid for the London 2012 Management Trainee and then as Brewery Secretary General of the International Union of Olympics. He was awarded an MBE in 2012 for Chemist. Ann moved to the Bass headquarters Dr Robert Atlay (MBChB 1960) started his Biological Sciences and a member of the his services to sport. He continues to provide in Burton-on-Trent and became Chief Chemist. ❱❱ 1950s career as a house physician and chose a career European Group on Ethics which advised the pro-bono tax advice to community sports She worked for the company, which eventually path in obstetrics and gynaecology. He moved President of the European Commission. clubs, which have used tax breaks to get became Molson Coors, in the technical function John Richmond Davey (BDS 1952) celebrated up through the ranks in Liverpool, Nottingham money back from HM Revenue and Customs. as a Quality Manager, with a lead role in his 90th birthday in January 2019. One of his and Sheffield, returning to Liverpool for a Dr Janet Massey (MBChB 1968) continues to Analytical Chemistry, Quality Management five grandchildren is a Liverpool Medical consultant position at Mill Road, Sefton and publish papers in lymphology, the third vascular Systems, Food Safety and HACCP. She met her graduate and GP who is expecting what will Broadgreen in the 1970s. He spent 25 years in system, that is not discussed so often. After ❱❱ 1970s husband, Tim, in Liverpool, has two children be John’s second great-grandchild. this position before moving to the Liverpool graduating, having four sons and working in and retired in 2010. They spend their time Women’s Hospital where he ended his career various posts in the North West of England and Dr Ann Mundy (BSc Hons Biochemistry 1976, playing music, holidaying in their caravan and Hilary Fox (née Colecliffe) (BA Hons French as Medical Director. Robert has always been Germany, she achieved her dream of attaining PhD 1981) worked at Unilever Research for a generally enjoying life. 1952) met her husband Michael (BA Hons involved in medical politics and was a Council a UK GP Partnership in Felixstowe. Janet met French 1952) on entering the University in the member at the Royal College of Obstetricians with her former classmates in Liverpool Victoria Building in 1948. They lived in Paris for and Gynaecologists in London for 20 years, recently to celebrate 50 years since graduating 20 years after retiring in 1994 before moving serving as Honorary Secretary for seven years. and enjoyed seeing how fit, happy and ❱❱ 1940s to Amsterdam in 2014. He worked as an examiner at eight universities self-fulfilled everyone was and how grateful and served as Her Majesty’s High Sheriff of they are to the Liverpool Medical School for Robert Jackson (BEng Hons Mechanical James (Ralph) Gibbs (BA Hons Hispanic Merseyside in 2003–2004. He retired from the their educations. Engineering 1943) remembers his class Studies 1952) lived in Derby Hall (Greenbank) NHS in 2001 after 41 year’s service. completing their Engineering studies in a from 1949 to 1950 and played in the Rugby Richard (Rick) Cowley (BA Hons Geography building that had suffered from a parachute A and B teams and also the tennis second Richard Neal (BEng Hons Electrical 1969, MCD 1971) and his wife, Karen (BA Hons bomb exploding outside and undergoing team. After graduation, Ralph took up a Engineering 1961) reunited with the Geography 1969), have continued their military training at University. After the war scholarship at the University of Virginia, Engineering Class of 1961 in 2017 to celebrate retirement travels, most recently to southern ended, Robert joined the Shell Research Charlottesville. He now lives in Bournemouth more than 56 years since graduating from the Africa, thereby completing trips to Centre where he worked on car engines and after a career taking him to Canada, Britain, University. The graduates meet every two each of the seven continents. They Peter Cluderay (BA Hons Modern History and Politics 1971, PGCE 1972) and his wife, Anne was later seconded by Shell to the company Germany, Indonesia and Thailand. years and on this occasion Richard met with live in Rosendale, Lancashire, (née Owen) (BSc 1972), met as freshers at a Rathbone Hall disco more than 50 years ago. that built the world’s first liquefied natural gas his fellow graduates at the Victoria Gallery & enabling regular trips to Liverpool, They shared student life at the University together and married during their studies. Peter has plant. He later lived in China where he worked Tony Stevens (BCom Hons 1957) was an RAF Museum for lunch before they separated for most recently to see the amazing now retired from his job as a history teacher and Anne retired after a career as a medical on coal gasification and taught students Officer during his three years of National optional visits to the Metropolitan Cathedral Giants parade through the city. Rick laboratory scientist. They have two daughters, four grandchildren, two Cavalier King Charles English, and in the US where he worked on Service. Tony (also known as Steve at and the Mersey Tunnel Tours. They arranged pursued a career in town planning Spaniels and live in Bishop’s Stortford. methanol as the world’s cleanest fuel. University) had a career in sales spanning for an exclusive visit to Air Traffic Control at and Karen one in education, before

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Alan Bloor (BSc Hons Genetics 1977) worked as a Lab Technician in the Genetics Mick Hegarty (BEng Hons ❱❱ 1990s department at the University of Southampton. Electronic Engineering 1982) is Alan used this experience to become a settling into his second job Sally Mattison (BA Hons Combined Honours biomedical scientist, specialising in blood after leaving Liverpool. He 1990) is organising a reunion for Saturday 11 transfusion. He worked in Oxford and then spent 34 years at BT in a May 2019 for anyone who stayed in E block of Leicester until he reached Senior grade. He range of management and Morton House halls between 1986 and 1987. If took early retirement in 2015. He has been commercial roles. Mick is you’re interested, you can email Sally via: married to his wife, Caroline, for 36 years. currently at GBC, a data [email protected]. They have two daughters, one grandchild business. He lives in London and are expecting another this year. but is also in Chester a couple Richard Saunders (BEng Electronic of days a week. His youngest Engineering 1994) obtained his European David Dunkley (BSc Hons Zoology 1977) child is studying Maths at Diploma and Specialist status in Zoo Health attended the University on a Civil Service Liverpool and is loving it. Management this year and was presented Department bursary. After graduation, he with the Ceva Vet of the Year award. returned to the Freshwater Fisheries Dr Liam Herringshaw (BSc Hons Geology and Physical Geography 1998) is a Lecturer in Geology Laboratory Field Station in Scotland to Sara Kettle (MCD 1995) pursued a career in and Physical Geography at the University of Hull. This July, to mark 20 years since graduation, continue research on the Atlantic salmon academic, teaching Leadership and is a father of four. Playing too much conservation and urban design and then Liam met with Pete Robinson and the man, the legend, Professor Jim Marshall on the steps of the population in the North Esk. He moved to Management in the Engineering Department rugby means his knees are in a bad way proceeded into economic development and Herdman Building and reminisced about the marvellous times they had in Liverpool. Edinburgh to take up the post of Inspector and Professional Ethics in the Architecture but worldwide travel is still possible regeneration. This led her to take a regional of Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries and later Department in Turkey. Berna lecturers and enjoyed. role in terms of maximising the economic on this role was combined with Head of Policy. in Oxford at the Erasmus Centre and has impact of a £120 million new build scheme. Light Brigade by The Tallywags featuring Sex He retired in 2008, before earning an OBE in published books on leadership and Andy Kirchin (BSC Hons Sara is now working in a strategic regional Pistols’, Paul Cook, which placed Number 8. 2009 for his services to salmon and management, ethics and communication Geophysics with Geology role on behalf of 10 public sector agencies to Much more to come! freshwater fisheries and conservation. in leadership. She has two sons. One is an 1987) is now working in support children who are affected by the He is currently involved with the Montrose electronic engineer living in Turkey and the Houston as Managing imprisonment of a parent. Matthew Slater (BEng Electronic and Natural History and Antiquarian Society and other is a lecturer in Philosophy of Education Director, Energy (North Communication Engineering 1997) joined the dedicates volunteer work to Healthcare at Oxford Brookes University. America) for RPS Group PLC. In his dual role BBC as an Engineer. However, he was eager to Improvement Scotland. as Global MD for the Training Division, he travel the world and did so at several broadcast Dr Jerry Walker (BA Hons Biochemistry is now working with Gary Nichols who systems integrators, building television stations Mark Austin (BSc Hons Geology 1979) 1982, PhD 1987) is the CEO at Intelligent was teaching at Liverpool during his in Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia and emigrated to South Africa in 1981 to work on Fingerprinting Ltd in Cambridge. Jerry works undergraduate years! even New Zealand. He has come full circle and the deep gold mines. Mark spent time in on developing drug screening devices based has been back at the BBC for a few years, Mining and Exploration and built a small gold on the collection and analysis of fingerprint Ted Robertson (BA Hons Modern History based in Salford working as a Project Manager. mine in Kenya. For the past five years he has sweat samples for use in a wide range and Politics 1989) studied at the University Jason Hodgson (BSc Hons Computer Science His current project is the technology fit out for had his own geological and mining of applications. of Reading for a postgraduate diploma in and Psychology 1996) launched his own record all the television production systems in BBC Services in 2010. In 2015 he was elected consultancy that operates throughout Africa. careers advice, after graduating from label, Barrel And Squidger Records, which led Wales’ brand-new building. Mayor of the city of Porsgrunn. Ian Simmons (BVSc 1985) has been an Liverpool. He later obtained a post as Careers to a debut release of the 7” EP Rock Honorary Associate Professor and Advisor at Liverpool Polytechnic (now Remembers Rick, in memory of Status Quo’s Saxbourne Cheung (BA ❱❱ 1980s Consultant of Paediatric and Neuro- Liverpool John Moores University). He was Rick Parfitt and to raise funds for a children’s ❱❱ 2000s Hons Architecture 2004, Ophthalmology at Leeds Teaching Hospitals involved with the new careers education cancer charity. In addition to tracks by Massive BArch 2007) is an Associate Dr Berna Bridge (BEng NHS Trust since 2001. Ian’s international module and retired in 2000. Since then, Ted Wagons and Walkway featuring original Quo Dr Robin Kåss (MBChB 2003) started working Partner at Foster and Hons Electronic research interests include paediatric has been reading more than ever and enjoys drummer John Coghlan, the EP featured Jason as a family doctor in 2004. In October 2008 Partners. He has been Engineering 1981) has ophthalmic oncology and neurofibromatosis. the company of his University friends and his duetting with CJ of Britrock legends The he was appointed Deputy Minister in the involved from the very beginning and formed completed her Doctorate He set up a retinoblastoma treatment centre wife. He is also trying to improve his crown Wildhearts. It entered the UK Physical Singles Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, part of the design team who delivered the in Leadership and in Uganda in 2009. He has been the singer green bowls, but with very little success, he Chart at Number 2 in December 2016. His next before being appointed Deputy Minister in the new multi-award winning Bloomberg European Management and become a lecturer and in The Soul Surgeons Band for 22 years and is sad to report. release was the World Cup song Charge Of The Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care headquarters, located in London.

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His role also included the integration of a new produce the best health outcomes for their now seven years into practice and focuses on award from the Association for Psychological Adam Masson (BSC Hons Microbiology 2014) Nittin Rogbeer (MBA 2015) is a University entrance to Bank Underground Station and populations. She ensures US taxpayer’s commercial chancery, insurance and personal Therapies (APT) in 2015, 2016 and 2018 for started as a laboratory analyst in a quality Lecturer and Course Coordinator teaching the reconstructed Roman Temple of Mithras dollars are efficiently allocated to provide injury. Outside of his main practice, he is a his work with challenging behaviour. He is control food testing lab after graduating. Four Film Production at the Rabindranath Tagore within the building. The building is an positive development impact and end the Board Advisor to a sports body that acts for currently doing a post-doctoral degree in years on, he is now the Laboratory Manager. Institute. Having made most of his career exemplar of sustainable development, need for the existence of foreign aid. sporting professionals through his appointed Clinical Neuropsychology at the University He said that he couldn’t have done it without in the film and advertising industry, formerly achieving a BREEAM Outstanding rating, and role to Sports Resolution Pro-bono Panel. of Bristol. the practical lab skills he gained at University! being employed as the Technical Executive was awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize 2018. John Ngosa (MSc for the Mauritius Film Development At the televised award ceremony in London, Operations and Supply Corporation, he is now disseminating the the judges called the building a “once-in-a- Chain Management 2012) knowledge acquired over decades to the new generation project”, that has “not just raised continued working in Zambia generation of stakeholders of the industry. the bar for office design and city planning but for Medical Stores Ltd as smashed the ceiling.” Director of Logistics after graduating. During Mac Promese Kwami Amegashie (MSc that time he pursued an APICS certification as Operations and Supply Caroline Giddins (née Haniak) (BSc Hons a Supply Chain Management Professional, a Chain Management 2016) Psychology 2008) has dedicated her career to designation he gained in 2013, becoming the is currently working for improving the lives of young people. She has first American Production and Inventory Control Dr Miguel Montenegro (DCLINP 2013) has Dr Isioma Okolo (DTM&H 2013) has become the United Nations as worked in the fields of substance misuse, Society, Certified Supply Chain Professional in worked as a registered and chartered an obstetrician and gynaecologist and focuses Regional Transport Officer child sexual exploitation and, more recently, Zambia. He is currently managing an Abt clinical psychologist in brain injury and on global women’s health. She has recently in Kirkuk-Iraq, one of the most dangerous at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust with Associates/Unitaid funded project among nine neuropsychiatric services since graduation. returned from Uganda where she taught places in the world. He is passionate about young people who are living with a cancer countries in East and Southern Africa (of the 15 He founded Dynamic Neuropsychology Ltd, teaching emergency obstetric skills with the Arshi Pathan (MBA 2014) works as Assistant helping humanity. Due to security restrictions, diagnosis. Caroline’s work with the Christie participating). The project aims to provide which focuses on providing clinical Royal College of Obstetricians and Vice President at Sembcorp Marine Ltd in he has found it difficult to achieve his led her to winning the HRH Integrated support to participating countries to access psychology and neuropsychology services Gynaecologists. Isioma was inspired by her Singapore, a global leader in innovative objectives. However, he has been unofficially Approaches to Care Award in 2015 from the malaria vector control and elimination tools at around Liverpool. In 2016 he was awarded time in Liverpool to keep learning and offshore oil and gas projects and shipbuilding. able to reach out to a few national Nursing Times. Caroline has since specialised relatively cheap prices and to work towards a the Aly Plummer Award at St Andrew’s exploring her interest in global health and is His role involves global business development colleagues on how important and delicate in the field of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy competitive market for the tools. Through this Healthcare in Northampton for “excellent hoping to complete a further postgraduate in offshore drilling and production sectors. education is to the development of the and she is an accredited therapist with the project he has worked in a number of countries patient care.” He also received a RAID® degree in public health or global health. future of the young, and its benefits. Gender British Association for Behavioural and in Africa, Europe and the US and has just Zulqarnain Siddiq (MSc Information Systems equality is one of the critical issues he raises Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). completed his second master’s degree. Management 2014) is the founder and CEO of awareness about. Danielle Jackson (BVSc 2014) completed Airbook and XBS companies, as well as CEO Dr Richard Sanderson (BVSc 2009) is the Frances Franc Adewumi a wildlife veterinary internship immediately of Oxygen Aerospace. Stephen Kyalo Titus (MPH 2016) works for owner of Sanderson Vet, a bespoke mobile (MPH 2013) worked as a after graduation which led to a permanent the International Committee of the Red veterinary service covering the North West medical officer in an adult position. She then moved out to South Africa Alejandro Garcia Sosa (PhD 2015) received Cross and is involved in health systems and Heswall. It is a state-of-the-art clinic HIV clinic in Nigeria for six where she developed a huge passion for his PhD after completing his research as a strengthening projects in middle- and low- offering veterinary services. Richard is also months before moving on conservation. Following her exposure to the Marie Curie Fellow at CERN, where he income countries. His studies in International the holder of a graduate diploma in Law to work as an LGA officer with an international poaching crisis, she has been moved to set developed beam diagnostic devices for the Public Health have come in handy and he and he offers expert witness work in organisation that supports polio eradication. up the organisation Equine Anti-Poaching, HIE-ISOLDE project. His scientific career is grateful he took the course. His journey the courtroom. She later took up a position as a DHIS2 officer which works under the umbrella of another continued as a Postdoctoral Research in public health has so far taken him to in the same organisation with the core South African, non-governmental Associate at Fermilab in Illinois, US where South Sudan, Ethiopia, Israel and Palestine, responsibilities of strengthening real-time organisation, the African Rhino Conservation he developed and upgraded the Magnetron and he will be heading to Papua New ❱❱ 2010s reporting of routine immunisation data and its Centre, a network created to coordinate the H-Ion Sources that provide beam to Fermilab’s Guinea shortly. use for action. This experience has opened battle against the destruction of the Eastern accelerator complex. He currently works as an Elizabeth Williams (MPH 2010) is a Foreign up her love for health data and she hopes Cape’s rhino population. Danielle recently Ion Source Scientist/Engineer at the European Lisa Evans (LLB Hons 2017) was awarded Service Health Officer with the United States to further broaden her experience in health saw the successful handover of their first unit Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden, where he a scholarship from the Honourable Society Agency for International Development. She data management. after a 12-month pilot project. She is now is helping to build the world’s most powerful of Grays Inn to study the Bar Professional works with host governments, usually in back in the UK fundraising so they can set up pulsed neutron source. Alejandro is a member Training Course. She was called to the Bar in developing countries, to design, implement Daniel Glover (LLB 2013) accepted Pupillage more mounted units across South Africa. of CERN Alumni and a former member of the July 2018 and will be commencing pupillage and sustain health policies and activities that at Deans Court Chambers in Manchester. He is QUASAR group. in Manchester in 2019. X

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❱ Dr Robert Alexander Agar ❱ Reverend James ❱ Karen Patricia Godfree ❱ Joan Kalinsky (née Corke) ❱ Philip Eden William Morris ❱ Megan Audrey Roberts ❱ William Bernard Supple ❱ Dr Deborah Cosette (BSc Hons 1974, PhD 1978) Stuart Casson (née Imms) (BA 1946) (BA 1960) (Diploma 1972, MEd 1975) (BA Hons 1957) Wilson (BA Hons 1954) (BA 1985) ❱ ❱ (MBChB 1976) ❱ Glenn Allan ❱ Joseph Wanley Kennedy Helen Mary Mullany ❱ Peter Robinson MRCVS Anne Josephine Synnott (Diploma 1989) ❱ (MSc 2014) ❱ Dr Pamela Anne Casson ❱ Dr Raymond Leslie Goyne (BSc Hons 1949) (BEd 1981) (BVSc 1944) Bernard Bucknall Wright Esq (née Deane) (MBChB 1957) ❱ Michael Murphy ❱ ❱ Dr Derek William ❱ Robert Allen ❱ Victoria Louise Kerly Michael Robson (LLB Hons 1954) (MBChB 1955) (BA Hons 1990) (BEng 1967) Tavernor FRCVS (BSc 1956) ❱ Arthur Graley (LLB 2000) (BVSc 1954, PhD 1969) ❱ Dr Reginald Angelo Yorke ❱ John Chambers (MPhil 2000) ❱ Dr Joyce Marjorie Nelson ❱ ❱ Shelagh Grace Allen ❱ Gerard Michael Paul (MBChB 1954) Dr John Costain Knight (née Towers) ❱ Gerald Edward Taylor (BCom 1960) ❱ Harold Anthony Green Rooney (LLB 1976) (BSc 1956) (BSc Hons 1957, PhD 1960) (MBChB 1959) (BEng 1953) (BEd 1974) ❱ ❱ ❱ David Michael Charters Francis Rossiter Dr Paul Arrowsmith ❱ Kelvin Layer ❱ Raymond Newcomb ❱ Jeremy George Taylor (BA 1981) ❱ Peter Lowden Griffi ths (BEng 1947) (MBChB 1957) (BSc 1975) MRCVS (BVSc 1962) (BSc 1969) Staff , students, (BCom 1953) ❱ ❱ ❱ June Clayton Dr Peter John Rowe ❱ Jamal Fayez Awadeh ❱ Peter John Lewis ❱ Dr Harry Charles Newns Lynda Barbara Thorn Friends of the (MPhil 2000, MSc 2003) ❱ Professor Rodney (PhD 1988) (BA 1972) (BEng 1982) (BDS 1968) (BSc Hons 1949, PhD 1953) University Harris CBE ❱ Dr Neil John Russell ❱ ❱ William Varnam Coxon ❱ William Nicholas Timmis Anna Elizabeth Ball (Diploma 1954, MD 1958) ❱ Gordon Christison Lindsay ❱ Barry Anthony Newsam of Liverpool (BA 1973) (MBChB 1982) (BSc 1962) (BA 1994) (LLB Hons 1954) (BSc Hons 1959) and Honorary ❱ Rachel Henney ❱ Professor Kenneth ❱ ❱ Professor David ❱ Brian John Craven ❱ Geoff rey Norris James Frank Varey Graduates (MA 2004) ❱ David William Longman Richard Seddon (BA Hons 1948) Ian Bateman (BSc 1968) (LLB 1957) ❱ (PG Cert 2004) (BSc Hons 1970, PhD 1973) (BA Hons 1956, MA 1958) Carol Margaret Henrys ❱ Geoff rey Ewart Walker ❱ Dr Ann Christian Cross ❱ Professor Paul O’Brien CBE (MA 1995) ❱ James Hugh Mackay ❱ Kenneth Arthur Shone (BA Hons 1958) Dr Brain Aldiss OBE ❱ Christian Battelley (née Young) (BSc Hons 1975, (BA 2004) (BEng 1942) (Hon LittD 2008) (BA 1996) (MBChB 1956) ❱ Jonathan Marc Hill Hon DSc 2013) ❱ Hubert Eaton Walker (BSc 1994) ❱ Carmel Rose Anne Short (BEng Hons 1949, ❱ Kenneth John Marsh ❱ Martin Stuart Page Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister ❱ John Bennent ❱ Barrie Crossley (BEd Hons 1984) MEng 1951) CH (Hon LLD 1972) ❱ (BSc 1969) (BSc Hons 1987) (BEd 1982) (MEd 1976) Barry Hindess (MA 1967) ❱ Robert James Paul Sinnott ❱ Barbara Eileen Emeritus Professor Roy ❱ Eileen M Marsh ❱ Dr Ednyfed Wyn Parry ❱ Ernest Bethwaite ❱ Saikirthi Daswani (BSc 1995) Wallington (née Moulton) Chester, former member ❱ (née Cawte) (MBChB 1962, PhD 1967) (BEng Hons 1948) (MBA 2018) Christopher James Hole (BSc 1964) of staff (BSc 1969) (BA Hons 1947) ❱ Joyce Isabel Skerrett ❱ Professor Geoff rey ❱ ❱ Joan Bone (née Wilson) ❱ David John Dent (née Plaister) John Charles Walsham Peter Harry Gayward OBE, ❱ Frank Holroyd ❱ Dr Esmond Bradley Eric Petts former member of staff (BSc 1937) (BA Hons 1969, MA 2011) (BSc 1942) (MEd 1976) (BEng Hons 1946, MEng Martin FRGS (BSc Hons 1974) ❱ Kristina Walters Emeritus Professor Leslie ❱ David Thomas Emrys ❱ 1950) ❱ ❱ Peggy Dorette Jardine Paul Donleavy (PhD 1971) Alice Elizabeth Pinchard (BA 1981) L Green, former member Bowen MRCVS (BSc 1981) (née Cook) (BA 1988) Sloan (BCom 1948) ❱ Anthony Hopper ❱ of staff (BVSc 1952) Fred Mawdsley ❱ Phillip Kenwyn Wearne ❱ Dr Vanessa Anne Sluming ❱ Dr Keith Rodney Dumbell (CEPT 2018) (BEng 1959) ❱ Alfred Hugh Pinnington (BA 1979) Dr Barry King, Reader in ❱ Andrew Charles Lloyd (MBChB 1944, MD 1950) (BSc Hons 1941) (née Longridge) the Physics Department ❱ Sarah Louise Hornby Braithwaite ❱ Norman McConnell (MSc 1992, PhD 2002) ❱ Professor Sir David ❱ (BSc 2005) ❱ Patricia Platt John Weatherall William (Bill) John Slater (MA 1995) Catherine Earlam (BSc Hons 1951) ❱ (BA Hons 1989) Raymond Anthony (MBChB Hons 1956, CBE, Director of Physical (Diploma 1989, PG Diploma ❱ Georgina Anne Hyde ❱ Carmel Cornelia Brooks ❱ Dr Joseph Kevin Southern MD 1962, Hon LLD 1992) Education at the University 1992, MA 1994) (BA 2005) ❱ Olga Poel (née Lazarus) (BA 1995) McNamara (BA 2001, MPhil 2005) 1968–70 and member of (BSc Hons 1942) ❱ Professor John Charles ❱ Dr Harold Garton Emlem ❱ (PhD 2007) the University’s Sports Hall ❱ Patricia Jackson ❱ Sharon Ann Stevens Webster Kenneth Hedley Brown (BSc Hons 1940) ❱ James Rand of Fame (BA 1954) ❱ (MEng 1991) (MCivic Design 1971) (BSc 1966, BSc Hons 1967) Dr Donald Norwood (BA 1972) ❱ Sir David Cecil Smith Barbara Fargher MRCVS ❱ Richard Victor Johnson Menzies ❱ Valerie Ann Strauss ❱ ❱ Jane Patricia Carson ❱ David John Williams (Hon DSc 1986) (BVSc 1973) (BArch 1950) (MBChB 1948) Dr Henry Francis (BA 1996) (MPA 1997) (née Drake) Valentine Riddle James R E Wishart, former (Cert in Education 1965, ❱ Clare Mary Gallagher ❱ Michael Josypenko ❱ Peter Myles Moran (BSc 1952, PhD 1958, ❱ Adarsh Subramonian ❱ Martin Williams member of staff BSc 1965) (BA Hons 1953, MA 1963) (BA Hons 1979) (LLB Hons 1957) MBChB 1959, MD 1970) (MSc 2017) (BSc 1970)

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There is within us an innate and ventured upon the obliterating faculty that seeks the meaning turmoil of pack ice of life. This is the human spirit, with its ominously a vessel of discovery for an silent and suddenly gaping maw of open accountable purpose to each water fi ssures, or the precious lifespan and how growl of churning we should live it pressure ridges advancing like towering walls of lava. n 29 May 1969, two Always we were alert to the men arrived at the stealthy approach of polar bears. foot of the towering For a full fi ve months we were cliff s on a small under perpetual polar darkness, Ooff shore island called Vesle testing our mettle against the Tavloya in the remote Norwegian unpredictable consequences archipelago of Svalbard. They’d of prolonged social isolation. balanced agility against vulnerability in getting there, Homecoming 1969 MIGHT BEST BE roped together while delicately After our return, a celebratory REMEMBERED FOR THE negotiating an unstable lunch was held at the Athenaeum PIONEERING 11-DAY ROUND kilometre-wide maelstrom of Club in London. As conversation TRIP WHICH SAW NEIL breaking ice, forged by its own drifted to the far end of the table, ARMSTRONG AND BUZZ momentum and impacted by Lord John Hunt, the leader of the wind, prevailing currents and a fi rst ascent of Everest, quietly ALDRIN SET FOOT ON THE powerful spring tide. No sooner engaged me in conversation. MOON. BUT SEVEN WEEKS had they landed than the tide Here was a recognition between BEFORE THAT MOMENTOUS turned and the ice surged. a Peer of the Realm who had led LUNAR ACHIEVEMENT, Unable to retrace their steps, the fi rst expedition to reach the they leapt between uncertain highest point on Earth above ANOTHER LANDFALL HAD footholds to reach the familiar mean sea level, and a younger BEEN MADE BY TWO MEN safety of their two companions man who, just months earlier, had ON EARTH. DR KEN HEDGES and dog teams now drifting out passed through the lowest point, (MBChB 1962), A MEDICAL to sea on an ice fl oe. the geographical North Pole, the Thus was marked the distinctly point on the Earth’s surface GRADUATE FROM THE unceremonial albeit successful which by virtue of its shape as an UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL, completion of the fi rst ever oblate spheroid, is closest to its WAS ONE OF THEM. THIS surface transit of the Arctic centre. It was those extremes of IS HIS STORY OF THE FIRST Ocean. The four-man party was geophysical elevation, whose EVER SURFACE TRANSIT made up of Wally Herbert, Fritz vast and hitherto unyielding Koerner, Allan Gill and me. domains of wilderness set OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN Together we’d covered some beyond the evocative boundaries 6,000 kilometres, navigating a of human habitation were labyrinth carved through moving inaccessible, primal, dangerous, sea ice. For 476 days we lived and yet awe-inspiring, which

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has attracted our respective prospects which may lie dormant interests as explorers. within each generation. Yet it is A long journey into such an not just our circumstances but environment not only probes into also the mindset of the moment the unknown; it becomes an which serves to move us. Like exercise in social deprivation. the fi rst mountaineers to summit She’s Eclectic: Women Artists Science in the Snug and Football reunion event On the Arctic Ocean there are no Everest, we had left footsteps in of the VG&M Collection City lectures 22–23 March: A weekend of families, no institutions, no media, the snow where none had gone January–April: An exhibition February–November: Join us events to celebrate the 40th no weekends and, incredibly, few before, but our tracks soon showcasing the breadth and for a series of informative, anniversary of the University’s laws bar the fragile jurisdiction of thawed, recycled in the economy diversity of the Victoria Gallery’s entertaining lectures in both football team winning the your own moral code. You of nature to leave no attestation collection of paintings, prints and Liverpool and London on popular Universities Athletic Union subconsciously entrust your of our passing. sculptures by women artists. science topics. cup in 1979. sanity to your own capacity for “If there was common self-composure under duress. ground to report, it A farewell from whales If there was common ground to was the capacity of In the 12 days following the report, it was the capacity of the precarious landing by Gill and me, human spirit characterised by the the human spirit our reunited four-man crossing courage to hold fast in the characterised by party struggled to close the presence of uncertainty and the the courage to hold distance with the Royal Navy’s good, old-fashioned sense to ice-patrol vessel HMS Endurance. fast in the presence share the load. Helicopters from the vessel were The world with its shifting of uncertainty” dispatched to extricate us, our EVENTS horizons invites attention to dogs and our equipment. Eleanor Rathbone: In the unrehearsed moments An Independent Woman CALENDAR as we waited for the helicopters, Until April: An exhibition something stirred in the isotherms to celebrate the Liverpool HERE ARE JUST A FEW OF THIS YEAR’S of an unseen world beneath the suff ragist, MP and social reformer, ice. Resting my head on the featuring materials from her EVENTS. FULL LISTINGS AT: sheepskin which had served as personal archive. WWW.LIVERPOOL.AC.UK/ALUMNI/EVENTS a mattress for the last 476 days, I became aware of an almost imperceptibly melodic whistling conducted through the ice. The immense silence of the Arctic was transmuted into the pristine farewell song of a whale pod. It was as if they were confi rming that we were not there by accident, any more than our own lives and how we live are destined Open House Fred Freeman Lecture Oceanography to be bereft of signifi cance. X 13-18 May: A festival of talks, on Philanthropy centenary event performances, exhibitions and 21 May: Academic colleagues Dr 19 October: Special reunion interactive experiences Beth Breeze and Professor Hugh event including tours, drinks Do you have a story to share? showcasing great ideas, Cunningham from the University reception and dinner, to celebrate Email us at: alumni@liverpool. ac.uk and we could feature knowledge and culture at the of Kent discuss the reputation of 100 years of Oceanography you in a future edition of Alumni. University of Liverpool. philanthropy, past and present. teaching at Liverpool.

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