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ANNUAL REPORT CONTENTS PRO-CHANCELLOR’S FOREWORD . . . . . 02 PEOPLE ...... 40

VICE-CHANCELLOR’S INTRODUCTION . . . . 03 HONORARY DOCTORS AND FELLOWS . . . 47

COMMUNITY ...... 04 NEW PRINCIPAL LECTURERS AND READERS . . 48

OUR STUDENT EXPERIENCE ...... 12 GOVERNORS AND OFFICERS ...... 49

INVESTING IN THE FUTURE ...... 20 ACCOUNTS ...... 50

PARTNERSHIPS ...... 27 STATISTICS ...... 52

RESEARCH WITH IMPACT ...... 32 Pro-Chancellor’s Vice-Chancellor’s FOREWORD INTRODUCTION

Over the last 12 months, my colleagues and I in A significant area for future development is the Change is inevitable in a large sector like higher and stakeholders have helped to shape these plans the Governing Body have witnessed first-hand Estate Master Plan which signals a new era for education, bringing many opportunities and over the last 12 months through regular meetings some of the remarkable achievements by staff and the University in terms of its physical presence in challenges for universities as we adapt to new and our public exhibition over the summer . students at Canterbury Christ Church University . Canterbury and diversification into new areas such policy, political vision and market expectations . as engineering, science and technology . In parallel, business and industry leaders have been During the academic year we meet staff who are The prospect of change is likely to continue as we working with us to develop a vision for engineering, undertaking research, delivering frontline services The Governing Body has been working closely work through the consequences of one of the most science and technology at Christ Church . A new to current and future students and, of course, with the Senior Management Team as these plans significant events in recent history with the decision partnership-based and industry-facing hub, which teaching . move through the formal stages of consultation by the electorate to leave the European Union . we plan to locate in a new facility on our city and planning, the outcome of which will be campus, will produce highly-skilled graduates in We also have the pleasure of meeting students as known later this year . We are fortunate: we have a strong track record of sectors important to local economic growth . they graduate, an exceptional day in the life of the adapting swiftly and innovatively to political and University marking the culmination of three years’ I would like to take this opportunity to thank social change, and, while we wait with the rest of We have also secured funding for large research and commitment to study and personal development . Governors for their support and, of course, the country to understand the full outcome of this teaching projects, from Leverhulme Trust funding University staff, partners and students for their decision, for our University it remains business as to support science research to winning the regional Hearing all their perspectives is a valuable ongoing contribution to the success of the usual . contract to deliver the new South East STEM reminder of the tangible difference that university University . Ambassador scheme . These examples, together education can make to the individuals who choose Internationalisation is crucial to university life with an outstanding financial outturn at the end to study at Christ Church and the staff who are and, indeed, to our wider communities . It helps of the 2015/16 academic year with a surplus of helping them in their journey to succeed . cultural diversity and inclusivity to flourish . We are £7 .2m, continue the narrative that Canterbury Christ really proud of our EU and international students Church University is thriving and seeking out new This Annual Report helps to highlight the breadth and staff and all that they bring to Christ Church, opportunities to make a difference in society . of work undertaken at Christ Church while and this sense of pride, together with our strong outlining its plans and vision for the future . institutional values, will underpin our efforts to Finally, I would like to take the opportunity to ensure we remain an international university with thank staff for their commitment and hard work a global perspective . over the last 12 months . What you read in this Annual Report is a product of their energy and During this period of national and international vision, as we maintain a focus on providing uncertainty, we can reflect on many examples of excellent education opportunities for our students how we are providing certainty, stability and vision and a working environment that enables people to for the future . achieve their full potential .

In early September, we submitted plans to Canterbury City Council to transform the former Stephen Clark TD Canterbury prison site in the city into a campus Professor Rama Pro-Chancellor for the 21st century . We are privileged to be part Thirunamachandran and Chair of the of the city of Canterbury and its UNESCO World Vice-Chancellor and Governing Body Heritage Site, and these plans help to celebrate the Principal city’s heritage and status, opening up new public routes and community facilities .

In this report, you can find more details of these exciting plans to convert the prison site enabling us to provide excellent new facilities for research and teaching, together with new student and public spaces . Importantly, local residents, students, staff

02 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 03 COMMUNITY

Over the last 12 months we have been working hard to join up with, and support, local communities on many important issues for both students and residents .

KATIE LATCHFORD COMMUNITY LIAISON MANAGER

We all have a different understanding of the Locally, I spend a lot of time speaking to word ‘community’. It’s something that is our neighbours, residents and businesses, often used to describe geographical locations to understand how we can positively work or boundaries but for many of us it’s about together, and we have been working hard the people and places around us that give us to increase our engagement with local a sense of belonging and identity. communities with new initiatives such as Street Marshals and Community Champions, For a university like ours, which really values which you can read about in this report. its physical location in Kent and Medway We joined forces with Canterbury City Council and Next year, we will be implementing a new as well as the opportunity to be actively This will continue in earnest as we look for Kent Police on zero tolerance of sexual harassment Community Champions scheme to promote involved in community life, relationships are new ways of working together and to add in Canterbury pubs and clubs, linking to our good neighbour relations between students and hugely important. value to the communities we are proud to high-profile Expect Respect campaign launched local residents . This follows a model successful in be part of. University-wide in 2016 . other parts of the UK . The pilot will involve three Our communities are both local and global, students being employed for five hours a week in with deep connections that bind us in University staff, alongside council representatives, high density student areas such as Wincheap to common causes. From projects which are also knocked on hundreds of residents’ doors in work with fellow students in developing initiatives helping to improve health and education Canterbury at the start of the academic year to that will benefit the local community . systems in different parts of the world, to offer guidance to new and returning students, students and staff who are volunteering for while meeting our neighbours . local charities, clubs and societies, there is a sense that we are working together This was followed by an end of year blitz on bins to make a difference to the communities and rubbish . Extra bin collections were organised around us. to ensure local neighbourhoods were kept clean . Students were encouraged to donate their left Our students and staff are also very over non-perishable food to the local food bank much part of Kent and Medway’s while we worked with the British Heart Foundation communities, through their work, study to collect unwanted furniture . and living in the area.

For more information about community initiatives and how to make contact with our Community Liaison Manager, Katie Latchford, visit: www.canterbury.ac.uk/about-us/community-liaison

04 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 05 STREET ENGAGING EVENTS MARSHALS AND DEBATES

Universities are central to free debate, discussion and critical thinking . Across the country, universities like Christ Church are creating opportunities for academics, students and the public to come together to explore issues of local and national significance .

These events demonstrate our commitment We also hosted Kent’s only public event with to freedom of speech, core to our values as a the police and crime commissioner candidates . University and Church of England Foundation . Academics from Policing and Criminal Justice and Politics and International Relations led the public Over the last year, we have hosted a wide range event to give the community the opportunity to of public events, encouraging community meet the 2016 candidates . partipication and engagement . The Canterbury Street Marshal scheme is the first of Peter Tatchell also gave a keynote speech at the As part of our Public Lecture series, high profile University’s public discussion: Re-radicalising its kind in the South East, and the first to be funded and engaging speakers joined us for talks and Queers?, while politics academics organised events by universities in the UK . Q&As on wide ranging issues, including War Horse focused on the Middle East conflict with Israeli author Michael Morpurgo and Shami Chakrabarti, and Palestinian speakers contributing to talks The Street Marshal initiative was introduced to The initiative operates in busy residential areas former director of human rights organisation during the year . safeguard the safety and wellbeing of students as such as St Michael’s, Martyrs Field and Sturry Liberty . they make their way through designated areas of Road, with marshals patrolling in pairs during For more information about public events, visit: Canterbury at night . However, the Street Marshals University term time . We also hosted an important debate on the www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture – who do not make a distinction between refugee crisis and its impact on the region as students and the wider public travelling through The partnership involves a number of part of our Making Politics Matter campaign . the designated areas – also provide an important organisations, including Canterbury Christ Church Crisis on Europe’s Shores: a debate on the current reassuring presence to local residents . University, University of Kent, Kent Union, Christ refugee crisis, included speakers from our Politics Church Students’ Union, Kent Police, Canterbury and International Relations team, local charities The Street Marshals are all Security Industry City Council, the Residents’ Associations of north Samphire and Kent Refugee Action Network, as Authority accredited, have been vetted by Kent and south Canterbury and Right Guard Security . well as the UK Institute for Migration Research – Police and undertaken training prescribed by a joint initiative by Christ Church and the charity the Association of Chief Police Officers under Over the year, the street marshals have spoken Migrant Help . the Community Safety Accreditation Scheme . to more than 10,000 people, with reports of All have been selected for their professionalism, fewer disturbances and a reduction in anti-social friendliness and communication skills in this behaviour across three residents’ surveys . unique role in Canterbury .

06 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 07 BRINGING HISTORY ALIVE LAW STUDENTS OFFER VALUABLE COURT SERVICE Medieval Canterbury was internationally important as the site of St Thomas’ shrine, and was on the main In recent years, the UK Government highway between London and mainland Europe, has significantly cut civil legal aid in traversed by kings, knights and merchants . areas such as housing, family and welfare benefits .

The cuts have been opposed by many, including lawyers, who have raised concerns that they could leave the most vulnerable unrepresented in court and undermine the civil justice system .

Over 30 students studying Law will take on the role of Community Legal Companions, based on the ‘McKenzie Friend’ principle, by supporting litigants who are entitled to assistance in court .

The project, Access to Justice CLOCK in Kent, is a social justice outreach initiative following on from the success of the pilot introduced by Keele University’s Law School in 2013 .

Students will be working with partner organisations and local legal firms to assist court users on benefit related issues, divorce and housing evictions . They are trained over a six-week period to ensure they understand their role and The city was therefore an ideal setting for a responsibilities before entering court . weekend programme of lectures and guided visits that showcased recent research on the Middle District Judge William Jackson and member of “Whilst the project provides vital support Ages . The joint venture between Canterbury Christ the Advisory Board for Canterbury Christ Church for members of the local community, it Church University and Canterbury Cathedral drew University’s Mediation Clinic, said: “On behalf also enables University students to acquire audiences from as far away as Wales, Cornwall, of the judiciary and court office at Canterbury, valuable employability skills and applied Newcastle and Manchester . I welcome the initiative shown by the University’s experience, before entering the workplace . School of Law in establishing its CLOCK project . Journalist and historian Dan Jones spoke to In these days of declining eligibility for legal aid it “As students have not yet qualified as a lecture theatre packed with enthusiastic The success of the weekend enabled the is increasingly important that those who wish to lawyers or solicitors they cannot give legal medievalists about the Plantagenets . The Medieval University’s Centre for Kent History and Heritage bring claims or are facing legal proceedings should advice or represent clients, but they are Canterbury Weekend then moved to the Clagett to create the Ian Coulson Memorial Prize providing have the opportunity for assistance and guidance . able to bridge the justice gap by offering Auditorium at Canterbury Cathedral Lodge with a bursaries for five postgraduate students . The To have help in drafting documents, preparing assistance and information to those who talk by David Starkey . weekend also helped to raise funds for four of the for a hearing and being supported by someone at need it most ”. city’s historic buildings . A total of £4,000 has been such a hearing will prove invaluable . The Medieval Canterbury Weekend, which split equally between four medieval buildings that Ben Waters, Programme Director for LL.B Law attracted over 1,500 people, will be held again in featured as venues for the guided tours during the “The enthusiasm and commitment shown by and CLOCK Director, who implemented the 2018, with a Tudors and Stuarts History Weekend weekend, including St John’s Hospital, St Mildred’s the students already encourages me to believe scheme in Canterbury planned for 31 March – 2 April 2017, featuring Church, the Westgate Towers and Poor Priests’ that the project will benefit considerably those in Alison Weir, Janina Ramirez and David Starkey . Hospital . Canterbury and beyond who use our local courts ”.

08 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 09 ACTION NETWORK VOLUNTEERING IN THE COMMUNITY Internationally acclaimed artist, Adam Chodzko, worked with our city centre Community volunteering is an Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury important opportunity for our staff Festival and Kent Refugee Action and students to contribute to the local Network (KRAN) to help KRAN students community while gaining valuable strengthen their communication work experience and skills . skills, gain confidence and obtain art qualifications .

Each year Canterbury Festival’s LINK project aims to build connections between local communities and the wide variety of creative opportunities We are connecting with many different on offer in East Kent . Last year, it partnered with organisations and charities to support their “Raza managed to combine studying the Sidney Cooper Gallery to co-run a series of community work . They range from environmental, full-time at Broadstairs with his workshops with KRAN students so they could educational, sports and culture projects, to vital role as Special Constable in the obtain a nationally recognised Bronze Arts Award work with vulnerable groups in society . Metropolitan Police Service and qualification . his other volunteering position in Policing student Raza Kirmani, who studied at Catching Lives . The two organisations KRAN students from a number of different our Broadstairs Campus, volunteered as a Police complement each other very well countries including Eritrea, Africa, Vietnam and Special Constable and also for Catching Lives in and clearly added to the breadth and Afghanistan, took part in a range of gallery tours Canterbury for five hours a week for the duration depth of his studies . As a consequence, and workshops, finally creating two artworks of of his degree . Raza should be highly commended for their own . his participation in these volunteering While at Catching Lives he prepared and served roles and without doubt is a credit to Adam Chodzko met the students and answered food, chatting with the service users and getting Canterbury Christ Church University ”. each of their questions, using this information to know them really well . to design two different skills-based workshops Bob Underwood, Senior Lecturer in for the students, whose ages ranged between Raza said: “These volunteering sessions tested the School of Law, Criminal Justice and 14 and 19 . my academic, physical and emotional ability Computing to see how I work under pressure . Most of the Natasha Wright, Volunteer Coordinator for KRAN “It was a delight to officially open the training and learning was practical which really Education Canterbury, said: “Working alongside Adam Chodzko exhibition at the Sidney helped me develop my resilience and to not give the Sidney Cooper Gallery and Adam Chodzko Cooper Gallery and celebrate the up if a situation was not ideal, and to control my was a fantastic opportunity for our students to not achievements of the KRAN students in emotions and maintain professionalism . This also only engage with the professional art world but securing their Bronze Arts Awards . helped me understand my own strengths and also to feel part of the local community . weaknesses and to see what I need to develop “There was a tremendous warm and further ”. “We are extremely proud of all the hard work and appreciative buzz among those who dedication our students put in to create the pieces had gathered for the opening in Raza won one of the Outstanding Christ Church of art for the exhibition and achieving their Arts recognising and applauding the students’ Extra Portfolio prizes at our volunteering award Award qualification . achievements which were of credit to ceremony earlier in the year and was also each and every one of them ”. nominated for Outstanding Volunteer of the Year . “By participating in this project it has also provided our students with the confidence and necessary Dr Keith McLay, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and skills to pursue creative courses at college and Humanities and institutional lead for arts and enabled KRAN to establish links with the Sidney culture Cooper Gallery to work on further projects ”.

10 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 11 EMPLOYABILIT Y

Employability of our students and graduates is OUR STUDENT strong, with the latest national survey showing 96% of our full-time and part-time graduates EXPERIENCE in employment or further study six months after completing their course (DLHE 2014/15) .

DR MOIRA HELM DIRECTOR OF STUDENT EXPERIENCE

We believe it is important that our students As we welcome new students to Christ belong to a nurturing and supportive Church each year we look forward to community, regardless of where and what supporting their transition through each they are studying. We recognise that each stage of their journey with us – from the of our students is an individual, who join us moment they choose to study with us with different life and education experiences. through to joining our large community of In addition to the important emphasis we place on “Providing students and graduates with This drives us to work really hard to graduates. Partnership working internally employability in the curriculum, we have a wide meaningful work experience that will engage directly with all of our students in and effective engagement externally is range of career advice and employment services to contribute to their employability and a meaningful way, listening to their direct critical to giving our students the best help build our students’ and graduates’ skills and future prospects is our priority . We feedback to understand their needs and chances of achieving their career and life prospects . hope to increase the amount of paid expectations, and continually improve. ambitions, in their own communities and work available and give students the as global citizens. Unitemps is our recruitment service for students, opportunity to contribute valuable skills The student experience extends far beyond graduates and the community . The Unitemps to the local labour market ”. gaining a degree or qualification. Choosing franchise offers part-time and holiday work, to study at university opens up so many life internships, placements and full-time work Unitemps Branch Manager, Sam Taylor and skills opportunities, bringing together opportunities both within the University and in the students from different backgrounds, local area . cultures and outlooks, to share their perspectives and hopes for the future. Unitemps placed over 1,140 graduates and students into employment in their first full year of We are passionate about providing operation in 2015/16 . an outstanding student experience, in partnership with our students and the The service has been successful in placing graduates Students’ Union. This means striving to into many roles including marketing, IT and finance provide excellent learning and teaching, sectors, and has already hit its target for 2016/17 support services, extra curricular to work with 100 businesses such as Saga, Facs opportunities, great facilities and International, Givaudan and Reed Education . inspirational teachers and staff. They also have ten undergraduates working on a regular, weekly, basis across six different local businesses, with this figure growing weekly .

12 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 13 INVESTING IN SPORT EXTENDING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES We offer an exciting range of sport and physical activity opportunities We welcome students that are inclusive, progressive as individuals and and student focused . encourage them to be active and influential members of our University community .

Minilympics

We also work hard to make sure that higher In 2015/16 the University’s Outreach Team education is available to everyone who has the hosted, supported or delivered 300 events for Our offer is built around our Participation Pathway academic potential . 12,700 students . The Outreach Team has a helping us to ensure that there is something for network of over 100 student ambassadors active everyone . Move More is our health and wellbeing We have a strong widening participation and in the community . Ambassadors are helping project that aims to reduce inactivity in all parts outreach programme which is working with more primary school children with literacy support; of campus life and TrySport is the programme than 50 schools and colleges in Kent and Medway secondary school pupils with a variety of activities which brings exciting opportunities to students at Kent Cricket Women’s Team to encourage those with the potential to enter including residential summer schools; and targeted affordable prices so they can try new sports . higher education . support for children in care and adult learners . We have excellent facilities on campus, including Ambassadors spent 1,000 hours in the community PlaySport is funded by Sport England which our modern sports hall and recently refurbished Latest figures show that 82% of Christ Church in 2015/16 . An example of our collaborative provides an extensive range of social and gym and spin studio . The total investment in graduates from less advantaged backgrounds community outreach is the Minilympics delivered in recreational opportunities for sport participation, refurbishing the University Sport Centre facilities moved up to the top socio-economic groups partnership with King’s School . including Turn Up and Play sessions, Intramural was close to £250,000 and also included the within six months of completing their studies Leagues and Local To You opportunities where creation of a treatment room for our new (DLHE 2014/15, includes full-time and part-time The event brought together local primary schools, students can access subsidised sport near where physiotherapy service . The University also graduates) . featured training sessions and talks from Kent they live . opened in October 2015 a new indoor facility in County Cricket Club, Paralympic Skier Milly Knight partnership with Polo Farm Sports Club to provide To support young people from less advantaged and a member of the Brazilian athletics team as Our Performance Sport programme includes access to a new sports hall, indoor tennis centre, backgrounds in accessing higher education, we well as sessions on nutrition, healthy eating and competitive sport via the student-led sports three floodlit, synthetic pitches and other facilities . organise outreach activities and special events, wellbeing . clubs; a Sport Scholarship programme; and a We also use specialist facilities at other venues such as our Minilympics and summer schools, Coach Education programme where students including 3G pitch provision at The Langton and working in partnership with other universities, can access National Governing Body coaching the athletics track at Invicta Athletics Club . schools and authorities through membership of courses in a wide variety of sports . We Kent and Medway Progression Federation . increasingly work in partnership with local clubs For the second year running, the University was and facilities to enhance the all-round sport also major sponsor of the Kent Cricket Women’s experience and build on our excellent community Team, who have achieved significant national links . Partnerships include Canterbury RFC, success over the last 12 months by winning both Canterbury Golf Club, Dover Sea Sport Centre the county championship and the NatWest T20 and local equestrian centres . Blast competitions .

14 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 15 ALUMNI GALA STUDENT MIDWIFE OF THE YEAR DINNER Final year student midwife Natalie Corden won the prestigious Student Midwife of the Year Award at the 2016 Student Nursing Times Awards .

During her time at Christ passionate and this has led her said: “I am absolutely thrilled Church, Natalie was elected to engage at a local and national and delighted that Nat’s onto the Royal College of level . She will challenge others to contribution as a student has Midwives Student Midwife ensure that the women she cares been recognised by this award; it Forum as an England for have a positive experience ”. is immensely well deserved . It is representative, presented at a positive acknowledgement of the student Royal College of Natalie said: “I feel honoured her journey into her professional Midwives conference and keeps to be recognised as the Student career which will inspire our a blog reflecting on her journey Midwife of the Year in these current student midwifery body into midwifery and her growth national awards . It was an and many others “. as a practitioner . accolade to be shortlisted among some amazing student midwives The annual awards recognise The judging panel, made up of from all over the country so to and reward educational senior and influential figures from win was a wonderful surprise . establishments committed the health sector, selected Natalie to developing new nursing Hany Wisa, Gill Rowland, Vice-Chancellor Rama to win the award recognising her “I love being a student midwife talent as mentors, lecturers Thirunamachandran and Iain Hawthorne outstanding work and passion as it is a privilege to be with and providers of placements . for midwifery . The panel said: women and their families during The awards also pay tribute “Natalie came into midwifery to the special life event of pregnancy to students who have Over the summer we held our first The Faculty of Education is committed to working make a difference having had and birth ”. demonstrated the academic ever Alumni Gala Dinner to thank and in partnership with local and regional schools her own personal experience achievement, clinical prowess and, as Assistant Headteacher, Gill exemplified that inspired her journey into Debra Teasdale, Dean of the and personal qualities that will celebrate all our alumni volunteers . every quality the University could hope for in a midwifery . She is enthusiastic, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, make them excellent midwives . “Canterbury Partnership Teacher”:

The event, held at Augustine House, brought • consistently advocating the importance of the more than 100 alumni together for an evening of work of the Faculty of Education, our initial celebration and recognition . teacher training and professional development STUDENT RADIO ASSOCIATION AWARD to schools across Kent and the region Former students can make a profound • always willing to be called upon to act as a Anna Walter, a third year Film, Radio and Television student specialising in contribution to university life and its community, spokesperson to exemplify how the University’s radio, won the Silver Medal for Best Female Presenter at the Student Radio enriching the experience of current students, work is underpinned by outstanding championing the University within business and partnership links Awards 2015 . the wider community, and encouraging student • going far beyond the usual requirements in her recruitment . role of “lead mentor” in one of our partnership Anna was presented with her and the event was amazing – schools . She gave up large amounts of her award at an industry ceremony a particular highlight was going The highlight was the presentation of the new own time to model exemplary practice in at the O2 Arena in November . into the VIP area afterwards Alumni of the Year Award, recognising former the education and training of new entrants as I met so many inspiring students who have been outstanding in their to the profession, including following up a She said: “I am absolutely thrilled industry professionals . I want support of Christ Church . Nominees for this trainee after they had taken on their first post to have won such a prestigious, to say a huge thank you to the award are put forward by staff, and the alumni to ensure they were getting an appropriate national Silver award for Best SRA and all the judges for my community vote for the winner . induction . Female Presenter sponsored by win, to Canterbury Student Radio 1 and Global . Radio for all their continued Gill Rowland, BA Hons Religious Studies and Gill was the first partner school colleague to chair encouragement and support Education and PGCE 1984, was the winner of the our ITE Partnership Committee voluntarily fulfilling “The ceremony at the 02 arena right from the start . I’m very 2016 Award . and developing this role for three years . was a rollercoaster of emotions excited about the future ”.

16 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 17 HELPING TO IMPROVE GRADUATE SECURES EDUCATION IN NIGERIA NATIONAL AWARD Massive population growth in Nigeria Sophia Stapleton studied a combined Biosciences and a sharp rise in the number of and Legal Studies degree, graduating in 2014, and is private schools has impacted severely now pursuing a career as a barrister . on the quality of its education system . Over 63% of the country is under Last year, she became the first electives . Sophie discovered the age of 24 and, in 2012, UNESCO winner of the Incorporated a natural flair for the subject estimated that one in five Nigerian Council of Law Reporting eventually graduating at the Pupillage Award, enabling her to top of her year with a first class primary school-age children were not take up a pupillage to become degree . attending school . a barrister at 2 Dr Johnson’s Building, London . She said: “I am really glad that I had the opportunity to study With a keen interest in science, two subjects as it enabled me approaches to this helped she started her degree in to pursue different interests and me to develop my analytical Biosciences at Christ Church, work out what I really enjoyed . skills which has been a huge and quickly discovered a passion Both law and science involve advantage in pursuing a career for law after taking law-based analysis . Studying different as a barrister ”. Inspired by his experiences of education in the UK, Christ Church alumnus Nigerian-born Durotimi (Timi) Adeboye (PGCE 2007), decided he wanted to do something about it . UNICEF BABY FRIENDLY STATUS When Timi was growing up during the 1960s and ‘70s, a smaller population meant that public funding for schools was more generous and Breastfeeding can be a The School of Public Health, Nursing programme has been standards in schools were high . Timi spent most taboo subject in the UK Midwifery and Social Work a great privilege . Our students of his childhood in metropolitan Lagos where his Crucially, the platform included a database of (PHMSW) has been enhancing have fully engaged with father owned a joinery outfit and his mother was schools’ mobile numbers, opening access to over and while breastfeeding the training that student the theoretical and practice a shopkeeper . 20,000 schools and reaching many schools located rates are gradually health visitors, school nurses components of the programme in low income and rural areas for the first time . increasing, they are still and midwives receive to ensure and the stories which have Timi helped his father but found the carpentry It was this database that played a part in helping among the lowest in they fully understand the emerged about how they work hard . He turned to education and after to stop the spread of Ebola in Nigeria by enabling level of care and support that have supported mothers with graduating in Sociology from the University of more than 300,000 texts to be sent out carrying Europe . mothers and their babies need breast feeding have been really Ilorin in North Central Nigeria, Timi started a vital information about the disease . to make an informed decision heartening . career in media . In 1996 he followed his UK- about whether or not to born wife and three children to Britain . While Lagos Schools Journal, a publication that breastfeed . “I believe the successful working as a senior signalman on the London accompanies lagosschoolsonline has reached accreditation is the icing on Tube, he reflected on his children’s schooling and 5,000 schools with information promoting The School’s Specialist the cake for our programme increasingly felt a calling to teach . He joined our teaching and learning . Since 2010, around 5,000 Community Public Health and demonstrates how serious PGCE in 2006 . teachers in low-income schools have benefited Nursing programme has been we are about improving public from the provision of low-cost continuing awarded the internationally health outcomes ”. Inspired by conversations with his tutor Ralph professional development . Timi’s work has also recognised Baby Friendly Leighton and by the provision of resources for helped to promote awareness about special Initiative Award by UNICEF UK . The School has now set up UK schools on the OFSTED website, Timi decided educational needs in Nigeria . a Kent-wide Infant Feeding to combine his experience of teaching and the Jane Arnott, Senior Lecturer Interest Group to discuss media to help improve educational standards in In 2016, the significance of Timi’s work was in the School of PHMSW, best practice and act as a Nigeria . He set up lagosschoolsonline com,. an recognised by the British Council when he was said: “The journey to the mechanism to support ongoing online platform that provided resources to support shortlisted as a finalist for their Alumni Awards accreditation of the Specialist improvements to the care teaching and learning . (Nigeria) under the Social Impact category . Community Public Health offered to parents and babies .

18 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 19 A VISION FOR THE FUTURE

Canterbury Christ Church University INVESTING IN is entering a new and exciting era THE FUTURE of development .

PROFESSOR HELEN JAMES PRO VICE-CHANCELLOR (EDUCATION AND STUDENT EXPERIENCE)

Universities in the UK have a global Our environment is one that encourages reputation for excellence in education and innovation and enterprise, and our research. At the heart of their success is the vision for the future will provide further desire to question the world around us, to opportunity to expand into engineering, A view of Building 2 develop solutions for positive change and to science and technology. inspire the next generation of graduates who will pioneer for the future. Higher education has never, perhaps, Our vision is to create a campus which truly Their feedback has been really important in been so critical to the future of local and celebrates our unique location in Canterbury and helping to design a campus for the future, one The motivation to innovate and succeed at global communities and we look forward to recognises the city’s remarkable heritage and which we hope the city and its residents can be Christ Church is driven by our values and playing our part, working with our partners, status . proud of . mission – to pursue excellence in higher business and industry leaders, in providing education: transforming individuals, ideas and solutions that make a difference to We are extremely fortunate to be based in a creating knowledge, enriching communities the world around us. World Heritage Site and to be so close to the and building a sustainable future. communities we serve . “Canterbury Christ Church University is Every day I see examples of staff and This special connection we have with the city and one of a few universities in the UK that students articulating these values through its communities has heavily shaped our plans to can boast being within a UNESCO World their actions, in small and big ways. From transform the former Canterbury Prison site over Heritage Site . initiatives that are helping to deliver an the next 10 to 15 years . excellent student experience to research “Our principal design aim is to ensure that that is responding to critical social issues. This transformation will ensure we continue to the University and its local community can Some of these examples are contained provide the very best facilities for our students celebrate the heritage of the site and its within this report. and communities, while extending our expertise position within the city, while providing into new academic areas strengthening the local the University with new modern facilities ”. economy . Chris Harding, leading the design on behalf of We have listened very carefully to local employers, BDP Architects residents, staff and students over the last 12 months .

20 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 21 ENGINEERING, SCIENCE GROUNDS AND GARDENS AND TECHNOLOGY Our Grounds and Gardens team continue to Business and industry leaders have been working win awards for their dedication and care of our with us to develop a vision for engineering, science campus gardens . The Kent Wildlife Trust has and technology at Christ Church . awarded the team a gold award again this year for the gardens at St Martin’s Priory in Canterbury, These plans will help to unlock regional economic while they received a gold award in the Jewel in growth and employment in the engineering, the Town Garden . science and technology sectors . The North Holmes Campus, including the Priory, A new partnership-based and industry-facing was also awarded a Silver Guilt in the Business hub will produce highly-skilled graduates in Landscape category of the South and South East sectors important to local economic growth, in Bloom awards held recently . while providing excellent facilities for research and development . TRAVEL PLAN These expansion plans build on successful science initiatives, including: Our Estate Master Plan has been a catalyst for a new Travel Plan, with an emphasis on sustainable • the recent opening of a Life Sciences Industry travel and transport . St Martin’s Steps Liaison Lab at Discovery Park, Thanet, which allows students and staff to link up with The plan is based on a full transport assessment Over the summer, we held a public exhibition There will be three main stages to the planned companies working at the cutting edge of around the North Holmes site, comprehensive of our plans which attracted over 400 visitors development of our campus . First the creation research, helping them to find solutions that staff and student surveys across all campuses, over the course of the eight-day event . We also of a new Arts building on our existing campus, lead to new treatments and ground-breaking and engagement sessions with staff and consulted regularly with 36 stakeholders including reinforcing our investment in the city’s arts discoveries students covering key issues such as parking, Historic England, Canterbury Archaeological and culture . Secondly, a new building on the • the creation of a centre of excellence for cycling, walking, placement travel and student Trust and the Alliance of Canterbury Residents’ Prison Quarter site providing specialist learning postgraduate medical education and research commuting . Association . and teaching facilities for engineering, science, with the launch of the Institute of Medical technology, and health . Sciences (IMS), based at our Medway Campus . We are investing in alternative transport initiatives Plans for the site were submitted to Canterbury This builds on the strength of our stem cell for staff and students, including shuttle bus City Council in early September . If approved The last stage will be the conversion of the research and work in the area of minimally facilities, while promoting ‘active travel’ to students, staff and the public will be able to enjoy: former prison building to create a student hub invasive surgery . enhance health and wellbeing . and heritage centre . Here the design fuses old • a new building which offers courses and with the new, retaining the prison’s historical A view across St Augustine’s Abbey research in areas that are important to the architecture while transforming the building into a regional economy, such as engineering, contemporary space . science and technology, as well as health and wellbeing As well as the perfect setting for a heritage and • a transformed Prison Quarter, celebrating the education centre within the unique environment site’s past and offering public open spaces for of the original prison wing, multi-use social and the local community to explore and enjoy resource spaces will enhance the student and • the restoration of the former Pilgrims’ Trail visitor experience at the heart of the University . from St Martin’s Church through the campus to The design aims to promote the widest possible Canterbury Cathedral . access to this special new, yet old, place in the city .

For more information about the University’s plans, sketches and a video, visit: www.canterbury.ac.uk/about-us/master-planning-review

22 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 23 INSTITUTE OF WHOLE EARTH? MEDICAL SCIENCES A major international exhibition challenging people to think about how we can work and live together to meet current and future environmental needs, toured the University’s campuses during 2015/16 . Professor Tony Young, National Clinical Director at NHS England, officially opened the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS) at our Medway Campus this year .

Professor Young said: “We are facing challenges Peter Milburn, Director of the Institute, explained: within the NHS: a health and wellbeing gap, a “Canterbury Christ Church University has worked care and equality gap and a productivity gap . By in partnership with local healthcare providers for adopting the latest medical innovations, we can over 20 years to help identify and meet the needs rise to the challenge and help transform patient of our local communities . care and experience . We need to be brave and re-invent the way we offer care, because at the “Universities play a significant role in supporting moment we are wedded to an old system that was the evolution of medical sciences through not made for the health challenges we are facing cutting edge research and education, and the now and in the future . development of our Institute of Medical Sciences is the next stage in the University’s medical “Universities are fundamental to changing local education provision . It will offer the opportunity health provisions for the better . Canterbury Christ for top clinicians to remain in Kent to continue Church University has demonstrated their ability their development, as well as have the potential to to deliver practical skills and now, with the new attract key personnel into the region ”. Institute, will be able to deliver the skills needed to help develop a new type of NHS . The Innovation Professor Graeme Dewhurst, Postgraduate Dean WHOLE EARTH? is an outdoor exhibition based Director of Sustainability Development Hub is an incredible opportunity for clinicians for Health Education Kent, Surrey and Sussex on the theory that the future belongs to young Dr Peter Rands explained why aiming to make to create innovations to improve efficiency and (HEKSS), said: “HEKSS is delighted to support the people, suggesting that universities across the sustainability relevant to the lives of staff and students is so important: quality, decrease costs and transform your local new Institute of Medical Sciences at Canterbury globe play a major role in making society more health provision ”. Christ Church University, which offers a wide range sustainable . Co-created by photojournalist “This exhibition is a challenging of stimulating educational and research activities Mark Edwards and environmental writer Lloyd provocation . We want staff and students The Institute will offer research and medical to support the current and future workforce ”. Timberlake, the exhibition is a sequel to the Hard to reflect on the possibilities of adapting education opportunities for clinicians, as well Rain project . our approach to teaching, learning and as a medical innovation hub to support them in business so we embed the principles of developing new and creative ideas for practice . The installation was officially opened by acclaimed sustainability, as set by UNESCO and the “We believe that the Institute will have children’s novelist and one of our Honorary United Nations ”. A stem cell research and advanced bioengineering significant impact preparing the current Doctors, Michael Morpurgo OBE, who went on laboratory has been purpose built to ensure the and future local healthcare workforce to give a public lecture entitled ‘The Best of All Institute will be at the forefront of research and and will have a positive influence on the Possible Worlds’ . The lecture explored the subject studies in biomedical engineering . It is equipped population of Kent’s health . of writing about the environment for children, with the technology needed to support the latest which Morpurgo feels is critical to connecting innovations in stem cell culturing, bioengineering, Professor Abdollah Tavabie, Chair of the Institute children with nature . The Hard Rain project, which was also produced computing and 3D printing . of Medical Sciences Advisory Board by Mark Edwards, attracted around 15 million WHOLE EARTH? aims to provide the evidence people, highlighting current world issues and the Also on offer is a broad portfolio of postgraduate students need to join the debate about their need to tackle them together . WHOLE EARTH? medical education programmes to enhance clinical future, inviting them, and their tutors, to articulate extends Hard Rain by showcasing the ideas and skills and knowledge to enable career advancement . the kind of world they would like to live in . movements that aim to solve these issues .

24 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 25 SCIENCE AMBASSADORS STEM Ambassadors (Science, PARTNERSHIPS Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) in Kent and Medway are challenging stereotypes and working to reduce the national shortage of engineers and scientists by motivating and inspiring students across the region to study STEM subjects at A level and beyond .

SUE KENDALL-SEATTER With more than 165 different employers in DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS Kent and Medway working with the national AND DEVELOPMENT ambassadors programme, there are many role models . Hellen Ward, Principal Lecturer in the School of Teacher Education Development, As the landscape of higher education Further developments are under way to add said 82% of teachers reported that STEM changes in Britain, with an ever growing new partners to the list of those who will Ambassador activity in their schools improved demand for high quality degrees which develop programmes for delivery abroad. As pupils’ motivation and aspirations to study directly link to employment, so universities well as providing an important income source STEM subjects further . need to reflect upon and develop their for the University, these partnerships help to portfolio of opportunities. Increasingly enrich the experience of staff and students In the 2015/16 academic year, 66% of secondary students are choosing to study in their here in the UK, who will benefit from global schools in the region made use of STEM own cultural or geographical region, and perspectives both in study and life. Ambassadors on three or more occasions, some are seeking qualifications which reflect the more than 20 times . world in which they wish to live and work.

Kent and Medway STEM has also supported more Working in partnership with education than 890 STEM activities, including large events providers and organisations, we are such as STEM at Work, and Big Bang Near You, actively seeking to extend our reach to which more than 1,300 pupils attended . parts of the UK and beyond and so bring high quality education closer to those who Following a competitive process, and building on wish to study locally. its experience of running Kent and Medway STEM, the University has been selected to run the new From an international point of view, we South East STEM Ambassador HUB . are building a portfolio of strong and sustainable partnerships with a select From October 2016 Canterbury Christ Church range of vocational and higher education University has the contract with STEM Learning providers. To date we have established a Limited to manage the South East hub, an area successful partnership in Greece, and more with more than 2,000 schools . Our ambassadors recently in Hong Kong and Sri Lanka. include apprentices, zoologists, set designers, climate change scientists, engineers, farmers, geologists, nuclear physicists and architects . They help to open the doors to a world of opportunities For more information on the work of Kent and and possibilities which come from pursuing STEM Medway STEM or to register as an ambassador subjects and careers . please visit: www.kentandmedwaystem.org.uk

26 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 27 INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP EDUCATION PROJECTS OFFERS NEW COURSE FOR IN PALESTINE BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS Improving teaching quality in Palestine has been a focus for many organisations across the world for nearly a decade but despite significant improvements the performance level of Palestinian school children remains below the international average .

Ms Kumudini Sarathchandra, A collaboration with the Informatics Institute of Professor Heather McLaughlin, Professor Rama Thirunamachandran Technology (IIT) in Sri Lanka is providing a number of and Dr Sampath Kannangara business studies courses at both institutions . Teams from our Faculty of Education have been We are the lead partner for this project working The first course to be offered as part of the Dr Sampath Kannangara, Chief Executive Officer, awarded almost £900,000 in funding to lead with Faculties of Education at Al-Azhar University collaboration is a part-time Master of Business and Ms Kumudini Sarathchandra, Head of two high-profile projects to develop, strengthen Gaza, Birzeit University, Hebron University in Administration (MBA) programme designed Department of Business Management at the IIT, and sustain the teaching quality and teaching Palestine, Fontys University, Netherlands, and for the professional development of working visited the University to meet with the Vice- community in Palestine . University of Eastern Finland, Finland . executives to increase their career options, Chancellor, Professor Rama Thirunamachandran, update their knowledge or enhance their skills . and colleagues from the Business School, Faculty The first project, Raising the Quality of Teacher The second project, which has received $300,000 The course has already attracted interest from of Education, International Office and Registry . Education Programmes in Palestine through of funding from the World Bank, is for the IIT’s alumni, many of whom work as executives Technology Enhanced Learning, Teaching and expansion of the previous Teacher Education in the expanding IT industry in Sri Lanka . An Assessment, is being undertaken over the next Improvement Projects (TEIP) undertaken in undergraduate Business Management course will three years . It aims to develop innovative primary Palestine between 2012 and 2015 . The initial also start in 2017 as part of the IIT’s expansion . “This is an exciting international education degree programmes in three Palestinian projects aimed to enhance the teaching practice of development for the Business universities that allow students to follow specialist undergraduate degree programmes through staff School . IIT has a proven track record pathways in teaching, including diversity, inclusion development and develop training modules to in delivering quality programmes and special education needs or technology upgrade the teaching competences of practicing “We hope that this is the start of a and we look forward to working enhanced learning, teaching and assessment . teachers . The success of the project, and the productive relationship between our with them in the expansion of their impact it has had over the past three years, has two institutions . The demand for business portfolio . There will also be It will also focus on nurturing skills in higher led to the project being expanded nationally with degree programmes in Sri Lanka is opportunities for student exchanges education teaching methods and developing three additional universities involved in teacher very high and we are delighted to be which is incredibly valuable for practice-based research for academic staff in the education . partnering with a UK University with students in their employability ”. Palestinian universities . such a good reputation for quality in TEIP will continue to enhance the quality of both learning and teaching ”. Professor Heather McLaughlin, Director of The project received €890,000 of funding from pre-service and in-service teacher training through the Christ Church Business School the European Commission’s Erasmus+ Key Action wide-ranging programmes of curriculum renewal Dr Sampath Kannangara, Informatics 2 Higher Education Capacity Building project and skills development and mentor training to Institute of Technology and is one of 140 projects chosen from over transform the quality and effectiveness of the 500 funding applications . entire teacher education system in Palestine .

28 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 29 NEW VENTURE IN TEACH FIRST PROGRAMMES – OFSTED SUCCESS HONG KONG Our School of Teacher Education and Development achieved success in a two-stage Ofsted inspection of its Teach First programmes in London and the South-East .

The reports highlight ‘a clear that in London ‘the partnership William Stow, Head of the vision for excellence, strong produces large numbers of School of Teacher Education partnerships and the absolute consistently good, and often and Development in the Faculty commitment of everyone to the outstanding, teachers who of Education, said: “We are Teach First core values, [which] significantly enhance the quality delighted to have the quality and underpin every aspect of the of education in London schools’ . scale of our work recognised programme’ . through the Ofsted process . The Overall the Teach First London inspectors not only recognised Inspectors commented on Partnership was rated as the considerable strengths of the the commitment of both outstanding and the South- current provision but also our partnerships to improving East partnership as good, with commitment and capacity to the quality of education for outstanding leadership and further enhance our Teach First disadvantaged pupils and noted management . programmes .”

SCIENCE, HEALTH AND WELLBEING FUTURES ACADEMY

Bromley College of As in HE, the further education working closely with them, We have forged a new partnership The University validates, quality assures and Further and Higher landscape continues to shift together with science, health with Compass College, Hong Kong – provides development opportunities for staff in and adapt as opportunities for and wellbeing sector employers, Hong Kong to deliver top-up degree courses . Education (HE) is one new partnerships and education to open a school with a our second strategic offshore partner . of our key strategic initiatives emerge . specialist focus on preparing The College is located in the central The partnership is launching with top-up degrees partners and together young people for careers in business district and boasts impressive in Tourism, Hospitality and Hotel Management we are providing new On 1 August, Greenwich these sectors . facilities with a very strong track and Business, and will follow in 2017 with Community College and Bexley undergraduate Media courses . During the education and training College came together with This will include the provision record in employer relations which coming years the portfolio will expand to include opportunities in the Bromley College to create a new of industry standard learning lead to both work experience and progression to Masters degrees in Media, Business South East . organisation – London South experiences as part of their employment for many of its students . and Hospitality Management . East (LSE) Colleges . education .

This work builds on a similar strategic partnership A flagship project in the We want to inspire many of the in Athens, Greece, in which our University University’s partnership with LSE pupils to aspire to university supports the delivery of degrees in a range of Colleges is the development of level study, including courses in subjects, including Leadership and Management, the 11-19 Science, Health and science, health and wellbeing Health and Early Childhood Studies . Wellbeing Futures Academy . at Christ Church . A prime site This is an important project has been located in the heart of Partnerships, like those in Hong Kong and Athens, in the University’s strategic Bromley and we hope to open are extending education to students who would partnership with LSE Colleges, the school in 2019 . not otherwise come to the UK to study . Compass College currently teaches students to diploma level, but it is anticipated that students will carry on their studies to gain a Christ Church degree .

30 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 31 RESEARCH AT DISCOVERY PARK

RESEARCH WITH The new Life Sciences Industry Liaison Lab officially opened at IMPACT Discovery Park’s Building 500 earlier this year .

PROFESSOR MIKE WEED PRO VICE-CHANCELLOR (RESEARCH AND ENTERPRISE)

“We are proud to support research At the heart of our institutional mission is From contributing to debates about that has contemporary relevance to a commitment to transform lives: of our Christianity within an increasingly secular today’s society and we are delighted students; of our staff; and of our partners in, society, through understanding how school to be entering into this exciting new and the users of, our research. summer holidays might affect children’s phase for Christ Church Life Sciences at activity levels, to the contribution worms Discovery Park . With a long-standing commitment to public might make to understanding Parkinson’s The lab will give our students the opportunity to service, we seek to deliver high quality and Alzheimer’s diseases, our research is gain experience of working with industry and help “The Life Sciences Industry Liaison research across our broad subject portfolio designed to make a significant contribution to build the skills needed to work in the sector . Lab will not only benefit our research that is universally acknowledged as having to issues and problems that matter to projects and partnerships with local public value. We do this by supporting staff society. It will also enable postgraduate students and staff companies and industry, but will to engage in research that shapes their to work directly with industry and local companies also give our students experience of discipline and influences policy and practice on research projects that address their specific working within an industry setting ”. in the industries and sectors that we serve, challenges . and in which our students aspire to be Dr Simon Harvey, Director of employed. Some of the research projects already underway Life Sciences in the labs by our PhD students include the use of tarantula venom in providing treatment for pancreatic cancer and improving IVF success rates and embryo freezing techniques in pigs and cattle . Dr Katie Fowler, an expert in non-human Dr Carol Trim is researching the use of tarantula embryology is working with Genea on improving venom to help find a treatment for pancreatic in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) success rates and embryo cancer, which has one of the lowest survival rates freezing techniques in agricultural animals, of all cancers . Working with Venomtech, Dr Trim predominately pigs . is seeking to find which molecules from venom can block a ‘receptor’ in a cancer cell . Venom has Dr Fowler hopes that by succeeding in getting a already proved successful in blocking receptors more reliable outcome and higher success rate for for other cancers; by blocking the receptor in the animal embryology, the process can start to be cell it is possible to stop the cell from growing and implemented by agricultural companies, which developing more cancerous cells . Synthetic venom means frozen embryos rather than livestock will be has already been used successfully in cancer drugs . transported around the world .

32 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 33 LEVERHULME TRUST FUNDING

“To improve the outcome for people with dementia we need to understand the factors that determine who develops the disease and how quickly the disease progresses . We understand some of this, but many questions still remain to be answered . Particularly important is the need to identify and understand the genetic differences between people that affect both incidence and disease progression .

“A mutation in a gene can cause cells within the brain to increase the production of protein . Those proteins then misfold and clump or stick together into ‘plaques’ . At the same time ’tangles’ develop, which are twisted protein CAN WORMS HELP IN THE FIGHT fibres formed inside a dying cell . In the case of The Leverhulme Trust is providing funding for two AGAINST ALZHEIMER’S AND Alzheimer’s it is the plaque and tangles that are PARKINSON’S? the underlying pathology for the disease . For major projects to research the resilience of plants Parkinson’s, the excessive production of protein or and whether genetically modified worms can help Scientists have also been awarded funding to use misfolding causes damage to nerve cells specific in the fight against Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s . genetically modified worms to help in the fight to the production of dopamine . The decrease against Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s . in dopamine signalling is the cause of that condition’s pathology . The funding, from the Leverhulme Trust to the University, will allow academics to embark on a “For the first strand of the project we will be Dr Naeem Syed, Senior Lecturer in Plant Biology Dr Syed said: “Plant clock genes control almost all two-year research project that will seek to identify using worms that have the human Parkinson’s in the School of Human and Life Sciences, has functions of a plant, especially responses to harsh why some versions of genes make worms more gene and monitoring how protein is being been awarded £268,000 to research the resilience environmental conditions such as drought, disease resistant to the damage caused by Alzheimer’s and expressed and produced, and how it aggregates of plants and how they adapt to a changing and high temperatures . Alternative splicing not Parkinson’s related proteins . or sticks together . The protein produced will be environment . only fine tunes the functions of plant clock genes fluorescently labelled so we will be able to clearly but also of other genes involved in drought and There are nearly a million people in the UK detect how it is behaving ”. As human beings, our senses, ability to move and higher temperature tolerance . currently diagnosed with either Alzheimer’s or basic instincts give us a sense of time . This sense Parkinson’s, a figure that is expected to rise as Dr Harvey will be using worms with different of time is also coordinated by our internal time “Further research into the process of alternative there is still no cure for these degenerative brain genetic backgrounds, the equivalent of looking keeping mechanism known as the circadian clock . splicing in relation to plant clock genes needs to diseases . at the genetic history of distant family members, be done to understand just how vital the process to gain a greater understanding of how genetic All living organisms, including plants, possess is for plant survival . The outcome of the research The worms, which will be given human genes variations can affect the pathology of the disease . circadian clocks, which help them to keep a track will progress the information currently being relating to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, have been of time even without the day to night cues . discussed in the alternative splicing and plant clock chosen due to their accelerated life-span and close “As the worms get older they will experience gene research community and potentially develop genetic link to human pathology . The project will greater paralysis due to more and more protein Circadian clocks control almost one third of plant more resilient crop plants for the future ”. be able to follow an individual worm’s entire life, plaques and tangles . It’s actually a very close genes and have a big effect on plant activities through disease progression and monitor key mirror to the pathology of Alzheimer’s in humans,” including photosynthesis, response to drought stages and changes in less than a month . added Dr Harvey . and disease . Dr Simon Harvey from the School of Human and The final part of the project will look specifically Recent research has discovered that a process Life Sciences will lead the project . He explained: at the production and behaviour of the worms’ known as alternative splicing occurs in plant clock “Dementia is an increasing global concern . normal proteins as they age . By looking at three genes . Alternative splicing allows organisms to While details of the causes of diseases such as different types of proteins, it is hoped that the potentially make multiple proteins to undertake Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s differ, project will offer a general understanding of the different functions for survival . they are linked by incorrect protein folding . process, one that is not specific to one disease .

34 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 35 DISTRESS IN THE CITY: OVERCOMING IT BARRIERS FUNDAMENTALISM IN THE CLASSROOM A four-year case study of a distressed In Western Europe, the use of technology post-industrial city in the Midlands within the classroom is well established . struggling with problems of racism In Malaysia, however, effective use of IT is and fundamentalism, including small more challenging . Working with alumni, pockets of Islamism, shows how we are researching how these difficulties worrying levels of mental ill-health, a might be overcome . fractured economy, poor experiences of education, a crisis of local government and the hollowing out of representative democracy combine to create conditions in which racism and fundamentalism can thrive .

Stik’s interpretation of Marcantonio Franceschini’s The Guardian Angel (1716)

But it also demonstrates how the history of the But Professor West discovered that the Workers’ city can provide resources of hope, which include Educational Association and other adult education the role of workers’ education and the Lidice Shall and health groups sought to bring different Live campaign, where local people combined communities together, creating dialogue and together to build a vibrant social democracy and shared understanding . to resist fascism . In an earlier example, the city’s Lidice Shall Live We have long-established links with Malaysia, The alumni have also been leading workshops to The project was undertaken by Professor Linden campaign was borne out of a reaction to the through a training partnership with its Ministry of raise awareness of the potential of technology for West, Faculty of Education, and sought to show destruction of a Czech mining town by the Nazis, Education . Now these links are being reinforced teaching and learning within their schools . The how racism, Islamophobia and Islamism can in retaliation for the murder of Reinhard Heydrich, as six Christ Church alumni play a fundamental research is looking at whether these workshops take hold . Qualitative tools were used, alongside author of the Final Solution . The campaign offers role in a research project investigating the use help extend the use of technology within schools interdisciplinary psychosocial perspectives, to a basis for a renewed civic education in schools of technology in English language lessons in and whether the alumni, as newly qualified interpret the stories of more than 50 people today . It draws on families and grandparents, as Malaysian secondary schools . teachers, can take on a leadership role . living and working on predominantly white well as children, in former mining communities, to working class estates and, in particular, Muslim work together to understand the history of how Nancie Saw, Lip Vi Teoh, Emira Nabila, Nur Safiqa The project is funded by the British Council English communities . people in the city reacted angrily to the Lidice Sapar, Shap (Syafiqah Yaccob) and Sheida Suhaimi Language Teaching Research Partnership Awards . atrocity and helped rebuild Lidice after the war; as all studied in Canterbury between 2009 and 2013 The outcomes of the research will be shared via Organisations such as the BNP succeeded, for a well as of the importance of resisting racism today . as part of their BEd TESL programme (for teachers a British Council publication and conferences in while, because they spoke directly, if perversely, of English as a second language) . Malaysia and the UK . to the needs and anxieties of local people, and Professor West’s book, Distress in the city: racism, helped solve immediate problems . Some of those fundamentalism and a democratic education The project is led by Kevin Balchin and Carol Wild, attracted to Islamist groups had been radicalised (Trentham Books/UCL Press) was launched at his senior lecturers in the School of Language Studies in prison and gave time and support to other public lecture on 11 February . and Applied Linguistics . By visiting the alumni in young people who were often struggling with the schools in which they teach, the project aims identity issues . to see how their exposure to the use of technology throughout their lives, and particularly within the classroom in the UK, has influenced how they integrate it into their classes in Malaysia .

36 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 37 POETRY, MEMORY AND POSITIONING ROMNEY TWEED IN THE MARKET THE FIRST WORLD WAR A market research project conducted by staff and students at Christ Church Business School supported the creation of a high-end contemporary tweed made from Romney wool which could leverage its geographical location and community mission .

Professor Heather McLaughlin, Romney Tweed, the community Romney Tweed has since gone Director of the Christ Church interest company which from strength to strength and Business School, said that the commissioned the work, has has recently produced its first project examined the fortunes the dual aim of encouraging tweed in partnership with one of similar niche producers in local industry and of helping of the Yorkshire textile mills . Scotland and Ireland, as well young people acquire skills as the increasing popularity of and jobs in the Romney Marsh wool products for the export area . The final report presented Research into the ways we have memorialised the market . The findings revealed to the board of directors, has dead of the First World War has contributed to a gap in the market for an formed an important part of English brand with a strong the company’s business plan, debate over the ongoing commemorations during narrative, inspired by the and has been instrumental in the war’s centenary years . region for the region . securing further funding .

Dr Andrew Palmer and Dr Sally Minogue have Dr Palmer, Principal Lecturer in Modern Literature published articles, and are now completing a at Canterbury Christ Church University, said: book, The Remembered Dead: Poetry, Memory “The exhibition’s title, ‘Remembering, we forget’, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH LECTURESHIP and the First World War, on the ways in which comes from a poem by the soldier-poet Siegfried poets have written about dead soldiers, and how Sassoon . It draws our attention to the real A clinical psychologist from Kent is the first psychologist in the country to be these poems interact in our minds with other difficulty in these centenary years of the war: we forms of remembrance such as stone memorials can be so busy commemorating that we forget to awarded a prestigious Department of Health Clinical Lectureship which she will and photographs . remember in ways that are meaningful and real . use to conduct research into anorexia .

This work shaped a unique exhibition at “The poems we included don’t simply express Canterbury Christ Church University’s Sidney grief, they also engage with that difficulty of The study, SPEAKS (Specialist Anna will be conducting “At the moment the National Cooper Gallery entitled ‘Remembering, we expressing grief without eliding or blurring the Psychotherapy with Emotion for the study at the KMPT Institute for Health and Care forget’: poets, artists and the First World War truth of the traumatic experience ”. Anorexia in Kent and Sussex), will Eating Disorder Service and Excellence guidelines cannot which explored the ways poets and artists have focus on trying to understand in conjunction with Sussex identify one intervention as responded to the First World War . Drs Palmer and Minogue are making a research how to tackle some of the Partnership NHS Foundation being clearly effective for adults trip to the Forester’s House near Cambrai where emotional difficulties associated Trust . The research for this with anorexia, and we urgently The exhibition included a collage of more than the poet Wilfred Owen spent his last night, before with adult anorexia and offer new psychological approach to need to find better ways to 200 photographs brought in to the gallery by being killed in action on November 4, 1918 . The help to the patient by regulating helping people with anorexia help . Part of the work will be to local residents, depicting their ancestors who took house has been transformed by artist Simon their feelings and increasing their will be hosted by the Salomons learn more from people with part in the war . Nigel Breadman, Photographic Patterson into a memorial/artwork consisting tolerance of emotion . Centre for Applied Psychology lived experience of anorexia Archivist at Canterbury Christ Church University, of visual and aural elements derived from the at Canterbury Christ Church about how we can best help gathered the images and listened to the stories handwritten drafts of Owen’s poetry . This Dr Anna Oldershaw, a clinical University for the duration of the them and I will be having lots of behind them . most interesting act of commemoration, which psychologist at Kent and award, which started earlier this conversations with current and draws together poetry, art, stone memorial and Medway NHS and Social Care year and ends in 2021 . former patients, families and The photographs were placed alongside responses photography, will inform the closing chapter of Partnership Trust (KMPT), is being therapists ”. to the war made through poetry, sculpture, print, their forthcoming book. funded by the National Institute Anna said: “I am so excited about drawing, photography and film . Contemporary of Health Research whose winning the fellowship as I am very responses in photography and art included fellowships support ‘outstanding passionate about this work, which the work of Kent-based practitioners Karen individuals to become health I started during my PhD and have Shepherdson, Dawn Cole and Roy Eastland . leaders of the future’ . been building on ever since .

38 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 39 NEW SENIOR MANAGEMENT PEOPLE TEAM APPOINTMENTS PROFESSOR DAVID SHEPHERD

Professor David Shepherd Educated at the University of for many years on the Arts and was appointed Deputy Vice- Oxford, Professor Shepherd Humanities Research Council’s Our community of staff is crucial to the In our most recent staff survey, 85% of our Chancellor over the summer . completed his PhD at the Peer Review College, and was a success and vitality of our University. Every staff would recommend the University as a University of Manchester, panel member for the national day there are examples of staff going the good place to work and 90% of our staff say He has responsibility for leading where he was a Lecturer from research assessment exercises extra mile to ensure Christ Church remains a this is a friendly place to work. We have also, the planning and delivery of the 1983 until his appointment RAE 2008 and REF 2014 . centre of innovation and excellence for both once again, been accredited as an Investors University’s academic strategy . in 1994 to a Chair of Russian students and the wider community. in People employer. at Sheffield University . At Professor Shepherd, former Sheffield he founded the Our People Strategy 2015 – 2020 sets out This summer, we also surveyed our sessional Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean Bakhtin Centre and held a how we will continually develop staff to staff, colleagues who support the delivery of Humanities and Social wide range of leadership roles, deliver our University’s vision and objectives of a wide range of academic activities, from Sciences at Keele University, is including Head of the School within a first class working environment. providing specialist knowledge or teaching, an internationally distinguished of Modern Languages and We also want to ensure that our mission to supporting academics in delivery of their scholar in twentieth-century Linguistics, Director of Research and values are integrated into everything we courses. Russian culture, pioneering for Arts and Humanities, and do and are reflected in the everyday work new multidisciplinary Director of the Humanities of staff, leaders and managers across the Feedback showed that 89% of respondents approaches, and in critical Research Institute . University. said they would recommend the University and cultural theory, working as a good place to work and 89% also said it in particular on the Russian Professor Shepherd has held As a major employer in Kent and Medway, is a friendly place to work. philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin a number of national roles . A we believe in creating an inspiring place and the Bakhtin Circle . He has former President of the British for people to work and achieve their full also conducted research in the Association for Slavonic and East potential. digital humanities . European Studies, he served

We launched a new Occupational Health service this year, following a comprehensive and competitive tender process. Our new provider is offering services on site in EAMON MALONE specialist premises at our Sport Centre one day a week. We also have a comprehensive Eamon Malone was appointed to the role of Employee Assistance Service, which includes Director of Estates and Facilities this year . confidential support and advice, and we annually host a Wellbeing Fair for all staff. Eamon joined the University from Belfast Health and Social Care Trust where he was Head of Estates .

Before taking up his role at Belfast Health and Social Care Trust in 2007, Eamon was Divisional Estates Officer at the Royal Group of Hospitals Trust, Belfast, Senior Projects Manager at the Down Lisburn Trust, Co . Antrim, and Senior Building Officer at Down Unit of Management, Co . Down .

As Director of Estates and Facilities, Eamon has overall responsibility for Estates and Facilities across all campuses, as well as managing the Estate Master Plan .

40 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 41 DEAN OF CHAPEL INFLUENTIAL NURSING LEADER AWARDED NATIONAL Professor Kim Manley, Co-Director of our England Centre for FELLOWSHIP Practice Development, has been acknowledged as one of the The first ever distinguished fellowship country’s most inspirational and influential nursing leaders of the Colleges and Universities of the by the Nursing Times . Anglican Communion (CUAC) was presented to the Reverend Dr Jeremy One of 48 nursing professionals patient care, management, highlight to the wider public Law, Dean of Chapel and Chaplain of to be recognised in the Nursing research and academia, just how far nursing has come Canterbury Christ Church University, Times Leaders 2015 list, national organisations and in the past two decades . Professor Manley was selected charities . at the Dearing Lecture . by a panel of expert judges . “Nurses are no longer junior Nursing Times editor, Jenni partners in healthcare, they The nominees were judged Middleton, said: “This list influence all levels of healthcare on the impact of their work celebrates a group of the from clinical practice to on nursing policy, practice or most influential, intelligent government policy, and patients care; their influence on, and and impactful nurses in the benefit from their skills and understanding of, how health profession, and demonstrates insight ”. In presenting the award, the Chair of the Europe and social care fit together; the huge contribution nurses chapter of CUAC, the Reverend Canon Professor the sustainability of their and midwives make to defining Peter Neil, Vice Chancellor of Bishop Grosseteste achievement and the extent to and implementing excellent University in Lincoln, commented that it was a which they act as role models patient care . I hope they will huge honour for the United Kingdom to have for others . They come from inspire others in the profession the first fellowship offered to such a deserving all aspects of the nursing to have the confidence to individual in one of the leading Anglican profession including frontline achieve their full potential, and institutions in the country .

In a letter from the General Secretary of CUAC, the Reverend Canon James Callaway, praised Jeremy for his unique role in forming the next generation PRESIDENT OF THE BRITISH of students . He stated that the Trustees were delighted to offer this fellowship in recognising “It is relatively unusual for someone to CARTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Jeremy’s charisms . live out their priesthood in the world of the University, but this is what Jeremy’s Dr Alexander Kent, Reader in Cartography and Over the last 21 years, Jeremy has made an vocation has required of him . Geographic Information Science in the School of outstanding contribution to the work of University Human and Life Sciences, has been elected President Chaplaincy and to theological scholarship . “His ability to combine this with his scholarship is remarkable . He is a generous of the British Cartographic Society (BCS) . Jeremy has vociferously supported the work of and gracious colleague with a passionate CUAC over the years . This international body, commitment to the best kind of university which connects many Anglican universities and education that Anglican Universities can The BCS is a charity and learned and runs a programme of “The BCS is a superb colleges from all over the world, has benefitted provide . This is why we all delight in the society that has been promoting workshops called Restless organisation that brings a from his active support and connections with the recognition that he has been given by the maps and mapmaking since Earth which has seen over wide range of people together Church of England colleges and universities; not International Board of CUAC ”. 1963 . Among its 700 members 15,000 schoolchildren design to establish and reward best least Canterbury Christ Church University . are Ordnance Survey, the UK maps to support disaster relief practice in scholarship and The former Bishop of Newcastle, the Right Hydrographic Office and Harper operations . industry . My appointment Jeremy Law was made deacon in 1987 and Reverend Martin Wharton, international Collins (publisher of the Times builds on the important ordained priest the following year, serving curacies CUAC trustee range of atlases) . Alex said: “I am delighted to contribution to the field we in parishes in Salisbury and Oxford, where he have been elected as President are already making here at the was also awarded his DPhil . He took up his post The Society produces a of the British Cartographic University and will hopefully as Dean of Chapel at Canterbury Christ Church peer-reviewed periodical Society and especially in inspire more research in this University in 2003 . The Cartographic Journal International Map Year . exciting area ”.

42 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 43 NORTHERN IRELAND NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT FLAG COMMISSION ON INNOVATIVE TEACHING Christ Church historian Sara Wolfson has been shortlisted for a Times Higher Education award in the category of Most Innovative Teacher of the Year .

This award seeks to reward the academic whose imagination and passion have transformed Thomas Hennessey, Professor of a course and inspired students . It is open to Modern British and Irish History, has academics in all UK higher education institutions . been appointed as a member of the Sara, who works in the School of Humanities, newly established Northern Ireland was shortlisted from hundreds of nominees . In Executive’s Commission on Flags, her submission, Sara had to explain how she Identity, Culture and Tradition . evaluated and developed her own professional progress in teaching; show how her engagement with students impacted positively in, and beyond, her academic role and how it has had an effect beyond Canterbury Christ Church University; Northern Ireland’s First Minister, Arlene Foster, and show evidence of sustained commitment to and Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, “The establishment of this Commission advancing and positively influencing the student announced the membership of the commission marks another key milestone in experience . earlier this year . the Fresh Start Agreement . The Commission presents a unique Sara said: “In my teaching, I value innovation in As outlined in the Stormont House Agreement, opportunity to take a fresh approach shaping the individual student experience, while the Commission will consist of 15 members . to dealing with the complexities of maintaining the academic rigour of historical study . Seven members were appointed by the leaders of flags, identity, culture and tradition . the political parties and eight have been chosen “From 2014, I have experimented with workshops from outside of Government . “The Commission will undertake a rather than traditional lectures in students’ first very important programme of work and second years . This differs from the way history Before joining Canterbury Christ Church University, and I commend those who are taking is taught across the sector . Students in my first Professor Hennessey was a member of the Ulster an active role in shaping a Northern year course recreated Charles I’s trial of 1649 with Unionist Party’s Talks Team during the negotiations Ireland free from segregation and the help of an external scholar, Dr Simon Healy, of Good Friday Agreement in 1998 . His specialisms division ”. from History of Parliament . The core reading include Northern Irish history from 1886 and for the task was split up among the students, political violence in Ireland . First Minister, Arlene Foster who then separated into prosecution and defence teams . Role-play, historical investigation, teamwork and interaction presented the course in a creative way to highlight the historical debates that are still very much alive today ”.

Sara has also embedded graduate employability more broadly within her history modules by building upon the skills developed through good citizenship and collaborative learning .

44 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 45 SIR PETER MAXWELL Sir Peter is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost composers of our time and was DAVIES appointed Master of the Queen’s Music in 2004 . HONORARY DOCTORS AND To us, he was a great friend, regularly visiting Christ Church Music and Performing Arts students FELLOWS 2015/2016 in his role as Visiting Professor and, latterly, Honorary Fellow . The following people received Honorary Doctorates and Fellowships from the We have been privileged to enjoy such a long and fruitful relationship with Sir Peter over University in 2015/2016 many years . His legacy will endure, not only in the public recognition of a building named in acknowledgement of Sir Peter’s contribution to the University, but also in the many staff and Ms Felicity Aston MBE students whose lives and understanding of music HONORARY DOCTOR Earlier this year, we were saddened have been so enriched by his teaching, inspiration and the extraordinary enthusiasm with which he British polar explorer to learn of the death of Sir Peter shared his considerable talents and experience . Maxwell Davies .

Mr Paul Barrett HONORARY FELLOW PROFESSOR OF ORTHOPAEDICS Managing Director of Barretts of Canterbury Ltd . BECOMES SPECIALIST ADVISER TO NICE

Professor Anan Shetty has been Ms Shirley Cramer CBE appointed as a Specialist Adviser to HONORARY DOCTOR the National Institute for Health Chief Executive of the Royal Society for Public Health and Care Excellence (NICE) .

A leading knee and limb or treatment that involves said: “This role as a Specialist Mr Mark Hammond reconstruction surgeon, and making a cut through skin, using Adviser to NICE reflects HONORARY DOCTOR Professor of Orthopaedics for instruments to enter the body the international standing Former Chief Executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission the University’s Institute of or the use of electromagnetic Professor Shetty commands Medical Sciences, Professor radiation such as lasers or X-rays . as a leader in the field of Shetty will offer advice to It also looks at whether current regenerative medicine . It NICE’s Interventional Procedures and future procedures are safe will complement his role as Programme . and work well for NHS patients, Director of Stem Cell Research and whether doctors should leading our work within the Ms Pamela Jones OBE Specialist Advisers are selected consider specific intervention Stem Cell and Advanced because of their knowledge and procedures to treat or diagnose Bioengineering Laboratory at HONORARY FELLOW experience of procedures . their patients . the University ”. Headteacher at Ifield School, Gravesend

The programme offers guidance Peter Milburn, Director of the The appointment will last on procedures used for diagnosis Institute of Medical Sciences, three years .

46 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 47 NEW PRINCIPAL LECTURERS GOVERNORS AND OFFICERS AND READERS IN POST 2015/2016 PRINCIPAL LECTURERS READERS GOVERNING BODY

Jo-Ann Delaney Dr Mark Bennister Mr Stephen Clark – Pro-Chancellor Sir Ian Johnston Ms Deborah Upton School of Teacher Education and Development School of Psychology, Politics and Sociology and Chair of the Governing Body Mr Cedric Frederick Ms Claire Alfrey – Staff Governor Rt Revd Trevor Willmott – Deputy Mr Frank Martin (Academic Board) Rayya Ghul Dr Fergal Jones Pro-Chancellor Learning and Teaching School of Psychology, Politics and Sociology Ms Ruth Martin Dr Richard Henson – Staff Professor Rama Thirunamachandran Governor (Teaching staff) Ms Meradin Peachey Dr Sam Hitchmough Dr Steve Tong – Vice-Chancellor Dr Gill Perkins – Staff Governor Mr Quentin Roper School of Humanities School of Law, Criminal Justice and Computing Mr Christopher Calcutt (Professional Services staff) Mrs Janice Shiner Mr Colin Carmichael Mr Krum Tashev – Student Tony Mahon Governor School of Teacher Education and Development Marian McCormick School of Allied Health Professions OFFICERS OF CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH Dr Alan Meades UNIVERSITY School of Media, Art and Design Chancellor Deans of Faculty The Most Reverend and Right Honourable the Lord Dr Keith McLay – Arts and Humanities Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby Dr John Moss – Education Vice-Chancellor and Principal Debra Teasdale – Health and Wellbeing Professor Rama Thirunamachandran Professor Callum Firth – Social and Applied Sciences Pro-Chancellor and Chair of the Dean of Chapel Governing Body The Reverend Dr Jeremy Law Stephen Clark Director of Estates and Facilities Deputy Pro-Chancellor Eamon Malone Rt Revd Trevor Willmott Director of Finance Deputy Vice-Chancellor David Leah Professor David Shepherd Director of Human Resources and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education and Organisational Development Student Experience) Pauline Farrell Professor Helen James Director of Marketing and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Communications Knowledge Exchange) Marco Keir Professor Tony Lavender General Counsel and Clerk to the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Resources) Governing Body Andrew Ironside Paul Bogle

48 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 49 ACCOUNTS

Restated CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE 2016 2015 INCOME AND EXPENDITURE £000 £000 For the year ending 31 July 2016 TAXATION – – Restated Surplus/(Deficit) for the year 7,232 6,245 2016 2015 Endowment comprehensive income for the year (2) £000 £000 Actuarial (loss)/gain in respect of pension schemes (1,101) (3,192) INCOME Total comprehensive income for the year 6,131 3,051 Tuition fees and education contracts 102,034 97,126 Represented by: Funding body grants 9,817 8,302 Endowment comprehensive income for the year – (2) Research grants and contracts 1,444 1,462 Unrestricted comprehensive income for the year 7,232 6,245 Other income 21,220 19,112 Restricted comprehensive income for the year (1,101) (3,192) Investment income 318 221 Total Comprehensive income for the year attributable to the 6,131 3,051 University Total income 134,833 126,223

All items of income and expenditure relate to continuing activities . EXPENDITURE Staff costs 71,211 67,6 41 The above is extracted from the University’s Annual Report and Accounts which is subject to formal approval by the Governing Body on 29 November 2016 . Interest and other finance costs 2,020 1,659 Other operating expenses 48,597 44,202 Depreciation 5,773 6,489 Total Expenditure 127,601 119,991

Surplus for the year after depreciation of tangible fixed assets at 7,232 6,232 cost and before taxation Taxation – –

Surplus for the year after depreciation of tangible fixed assets at 7,232 6,232 cost and taxation

Exceptional item: Net loss on disposal of tangible fixed assets – –

Surplus for the year after depreciation of tangible fixed assets at cost, disposal of tangible fixed assets and taxation 7,232 6,232

Gain on investments – 13

Surplus for the year retained within general reserves 7,232 6,245

50 Canterbury Christ Church University Annual Report 2015/16 51 STATISTICS OUR STUDENTS EXIT QUALIFICATION Qualification No. Students % 2015/16 Doctorate 64 1 1%. Other higher degree 225 4 .0% AGE GROUP Postgraduate Certificate in Education 476 8 5%. Age Group Full-time % Part-time % Total % Total Other postgraduate 439 7 9%. Under 18 16 0 .1% 0 0 .0% 16 0 .1% First degree 3,031 54 5%. 18–20 years 5,781 33 5%. 189 1 1%. 5,970 34 7%. Professional Graduate Certificate in Education 201 3 6%. 21–24 years 3,035 17 6%. 482 2 8%. 3,517 20 4%. Foundation degree 226 4 .1% 25–29 years 1,221 7 1%. 818 4 7%. 2,039 11 8%. HND/DipHE 89 1 6%. 30+ 1,946 11 4%. 3,732 21 7%. 5,678 33 0%. Other undergraduate 817 14 7%. Total 11,999 69.7% 5,221 30.3% 17,220 100% Total 5,568 100%

GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN Figures are based on the provisional HESA student data return for 2015/16 Region Full-time % Part-time % Total % Total England (Kent) 5,967 34 7%. 3,389 19 7%. 9,356 54 .3% England (other) 5,258 30 5%. 1,535 8 .9% 6,793 39 4%. Wales 49 0 .3% 5 < 0 .1% 54 0 .3% Scotland 14 0 .1% 31 0 .2% 45 0 .3% OUR STAFF N Ireland 40 0 .2% 22 0 .1% 62 0 4%. CI & IoM 10 0 .1% 20 0 .1% 30 0 .2% Average number of FTE staff for the year ending July 2016 . Other EU 531 3 .1% 82 0 5%. 613 3 6%. Non EU 109 0 6%. 133 0 8%. 242 1 4%. Teaching Teaching Support Admin & Central Premises Total Other Europe 21 0 .1% 4 < 0 .1% 25 0 .1% Departments Services Services Total 11,999 69.7% 5,221 30.3% 17,220 100% 624 244 668 36 1572

Please note: Figures are rounded to one decimal place . MODE OF STUDY Mode No. Students % Full-time 11,999 69 8%. Part-time 5,221 30 .2% Total 17,220 100%

FACULTY Faculty No. Students % Arts and Humanities 2,611 15 .2% Education 5,386 31 .3% Health and Wellbeing 4,413 25 6%. Social and Applied Sciences 4,755 27 6%. Other 55 0 .3% Total 17,220 100%

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