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The Eliot JCC safe
We were hoping you could devote a few lines
in the B u l l e t i nto help us solve a my s t e ry –
the whereabouts of the key to our safe. Eve n
our longest serving member has no recollection
of the safe ever being opened, so we
were wo n d e ring if any Eliot alumni who
s e rved on the Committee may remember
something – whether it is having seen it in
use or if they were themselves keyholders. If
we can get a rough idea of when it was last
used regularly, we can take a look at the
meeting minutes for that period to find out
more. We are intrigued to know whether
there is anything in the safe!
- Peter Hastings E99, Eliot JCC
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UKC RADIO
On 21 January, alumni who had been
involved with UKC Radio as students
were invited to a VIP reception on campus,
organised by the current
Management Committee of the station.
The event involved a drinks buffet reception
with a jazz band on Friday evening,
and the opportunity to experience the
Students’ Union nightclub, The Venue, later
that night. Several alumni stayed overnight
to participate in radio programming on the
PICTURED: PAUL DAS D88, NICK PORTALSKI E91, STUART
THOMAS K91, JAMES HIRST D90, ROB VENES D91 AND
NEIL MOSSEY D90
Saturday – some did their own shows, others were interviewed for a history of the radio
station, and others helped the current team with their expertise. There were even offers
of work shadowing from alumni now working in radio. Among alumni who attended
the event were two from the earliest years of the station, which many believe to be the
oldest University radio station in the UK! According to the current Management Committee
for UKCR, this was just the first of what is hoped will become a regular event. If
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UK Prospectuses tops!
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the country to have won two awards in
the annual Heist (Higher Educat i o n
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Marketing Awards Programme. For the
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There were 222 entries this year, 32 of
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Allie’s Song
Alison Browne (E93)
graduated in 1997 with a
2:1 in English and American
Literature. She died,
aged 21, of cystic fibrosis
in June that year. Her
family have collected her
poetry, paintings and
diary entries into a book,
printed by the University
Print Unit. Allie’s Song is
available for £9.95; use
your Carrier sheet and
please add £2.00 for
postage and packing.
Whatever profits may
arise will go to the
Cystic Fibrosis Society.
The Sea
I'm floating, in limbo,
The sun beams lovingly and showers me with kisses.
Water laps gently, sucking and slapping my skin.
There is no past and no future, only now.
I have no worries and no hopes, I just am.
Feeling the sun's embrace,
Hearing the water's symphony,
Tasting the salt air.
Someone swims past, kicking feet cause havoc,
Cold water lashes at my face,
Submitting, I roll over,
Plunging my face into the fresh crisp sea.
Stretching, moving arms and legs,
Waves bite and their venom floods my veins.
Turning blood to ice.
Though taken unawares, I remain determined
And swim on.
The sun smiles,
And in time, as with all things,
The waves mellow.
They carry me now, no longer a burden.
But a testimony to their strength.
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Sir Crispin Tickell
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14 Britain in 2010:
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16 Social inclusion at UKC
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7 The Development Programme
18 Letter from Singapore
19 No elbows here
20 Who’s What Where
23 Inside story: Killara Burn
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Excellent mark
for Psychology
Psychology is the latest subject
at Kent to gain high marks in
its Subject Review assessment.
The assessors spent four days
on campus and pronounced
the overall mark as 22, out of a
possible 24, with the maximum
4 rating in five of the six
categories judged. As Vice-
Chancellor Professor Robin
Sibson indicated, in terms of
quality of teaching, the assessment
team gave Psychology a
rave review. ‘The assessors
made clear that students of
Psychology at Kent have an
outstanding educational
experience,’ he said, in congratulating
the Department on
its result.
Preparing for a Quality
Assurance Agency assessment
is hard work. Professor Derek
Rutter, Head of the Psychology
Department, said: ‘Undergoing
Subject Review is a
gruelling task, but I’m delighted
that in our core teaching
activity we gained maximum
marks. It has been a magnificent
team effort.’
E-Commerce
at Kent
The University’s Canterbury
Business School was praised
by Secretary of State for
Education David Blunkett at
the Chartered Institute of
Bankers annual President’s
Dinner in January. CIB President
Derek Wanless, former
CEO of NatWest, also mentioned
Kent in his introductory
speech, commenting on the
Institute’s productive partnership
with UKC.
Guest of honour David
U n i ve rsity
N E W S
Blunkett said he placed enormous
value on the educational
work of the CIB and applauded
the partnerships with
universities. He picked out the
links with Kent as ‘innovative
and exciting’. This spring
CBS is collaborating with the
CIB on the launch of a new
master’s in e-commerce.
The first student intake onto
the new master’s will be in
January 2001.
Michael Foale
becomes UKC DSc
All honorary graduates are
high fliers, but in 1998, astronaut
Michael Foale (below
left) gave new meaning to the
expression as nominee for a
UKC honorary degree. When
the University decided to
award him an honorary Doctorate
of Science, Foale was
otherwise engaged - in a space
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station called Mir. He is due to
receive his DSc (Hon) at a
ceremony on Tuesday 18 July.
Educated at the King’s School,
Canterbury, Dr Foale gained
his doctorate in astrophysics at
Cambridge. He joined NASA
in 1983 and rapidly demonstrated
he had the right stuff.
His most recent trip was last
December, on the mission to
repair the Hubble Space
Telescope.
Professor Bob Newport,
Head of the School of Physical
Sciences, who proposed
Michael Foale for the degree,
comments, ‘Michael’s stellar
career shows just what you can
do if you’re dedicated to
science. Given Kent’s Unit for
Space Sciences and Astrophysics’
lead roles in European
Space Agency /NASA projects
such as the Cassini-Huygens
mission to Saturn and the
Mars Express, he seemed the
perfect choice as a Kent
honorary graduate. Further,
with our space connections
now extending from the innovative
use of robotic space
explorers to encompass the
manned presence in space, it is
perhaps fitting that we shall
have both British-born NASA
astronauts as honorary graduates
(Helen Sharman got an
honorary degree in 1995).’
UKC signs
college deal
At the meeting of the University
Court in December, an
agreement was signed by
UKC, Canterbury College and
South Kent College to enable
the two colleges to become
Associate Colleges of the
University. Building on the
success of their joint bid for
£1m extra government funding
last year, the agreement
will enable the three organisations
to consolidate their
existing links, which is in line
with the government’s drive to
widen participation.
The aim of the agreement
is to provide a clear pathway
through the education system
to degree level for students
from non-traditional backgrounds
as well as those with
A levels. It is a move warmly
welcomed by University Vice-
Chancellor, Professor Robin
Sibson, and by the Principals
of both colleges. According to
Canterbury College’s Susan
Pember, ‘This is a very welcome
development. We have
about 120 students really
excited about this move. It is

incredibly aspirational, encouraging
them to work harder so
that they can move on to
higher education locally.’
Jim Crewdson of South
Kent College (pictured, signing,
while the Vice-Chancellor looks
on) said ‘As more people than
e ver look to their local institutions,
this type of agreement is
the way ahead, providing clear
p r o gression routes as well as
the benefits of shared expert i s e
and resources.’ He added that
visit days to the Unive rsity are
already being arranged for all
their 16-19 year-old students.
As the B u l l e t i n goes to
press, a similar but even more
wide-reaching agreement is
being made between the
U n i ve rsity and Mid-Kent
C o l l e g e .
Graduate careers
Graduate unemployment has
reached a ten-year low.
Nationally, it has fallen to 5.7
percent, and at Kent the rate is
just 2.7 percent. But we continue
to work to lower the rate
even further, and one of the
ways we do that is through
organising the annual Alumni
Careers Fair, which took place
on 2 March this year, and the
Alumni Careers Network.
Over 900 alumni have volunteered
for the Network - they
offer students help ranging
from advice by letter to work
shadowing and even jobs.
David Mamet at Kent
American playwright
David
Mamet gave the
Eliot Lecture at
the University in
February.
Mamet’s lecture,
entitled the Barber
and the King,
attracted an
enthusiastic
audience of over
500 and drew on
fairy tales, philosophy
and Freud.
The Eliot Lecture
used to consist of
four lectures. This
year it took a new
form: a single key lecture, plus a workshop with
David Mamet giving advice to 60 fortunate
students in Drama, Film and English. David
Mamet’s lecture will appear in a forthcoming
book of essays. He joins a distinguished roll call
of past Eliot lecturers, which includes George
Recent well-publicised incidents
h ave highlighted the dangers
a s s o c i ted a with certain strains of the
b a c t e ium, r E coli. Even though
m a ny strains of this remarkable
microbe live in the human gut
without causing disease, others can
cause life-threatening infections.
Scientists have battled for over two
decades to understand why some
strains of E coli are so dangerous,
but now pioneering research wo rt h
ON 2 MA R C H, AT T H E CA R E E R S FA I R, S I X T Y A L U M N I S P E N T T H E D AY BAC K AT KE N T H E L P I N G
C U R R E N T S T U D E N T S W I T H CA R E E R S A DV I C E. PI C T U R E D: AL I S O N BR E N NA N (E67) A N D
PAU L MA L O N E Y (E65) A DV I S I N G C U R R E N T S E C O N D-Y E A R S, I N C L U D I N G PAU L’S D AU G H T E R
AN N I E (L E F T) O N CA R E E R S I N HO U S I N G A N D SO C I A L WO R K.
Major grant for E coli research
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more than a third of a million
pounds, by Biosciences’ Dr Ian
Blomfield, looks set to help tip the
balance in our favour in the fight
against the disease-causing E coli.
One of the major dri ve s
behind work such as Dr Blomf
i e l d ’s is the increasing freq
u e n cy of antibiotic-resistant
b a c t e ria which are presenting a
significant challenge to the
p h a rmaceutical industry as it
searches for new ways of
stopping bacterial infection.
The aim of Dr Blomfield’s
research, which is funded by
the Biological and Biotechnol
o gical Science Research
Council, is to understand how
c e rtain strains of E coli c a u s e
Steiner, Richard Ellmann, Jonathan Miller, Asa
Briggs, Anthony Burgess, Tom Wolfe, Edward
Said, and Seamus Heaney. The Eliot Lectures
have been hosted by the University of Kent and
supported by Faber and Faber and Mrs Valerie
Eliot since 1967.
illness, part i c u l a r l y,
painful uri n a ry tract infections.
He is looking at why and how
the bacteria stick to human
c e l l s. ‘In order to cause disease,
E coli must make special chemicals,
called adhesins, that allow
the bacteria to stick to our cells,’
Dr Blomfield explains. ‘E coli
does not make adhesins all of
the time, but does so duri n g
the first stage of infection of
the body. Cri t i c a l l y, if we can
t rick the bacteria to switch off
the production of adhesins, this
should block the infection.’
Dr Blomfield recently
moved his laboratory from
Wake Forest University School
of Medicine, USA, to Kent.

Art on campus
Huella Humana (human
fingerprint) is a life-size bronze
statue representing the birth of
the human race. On a pedestal
near the Biosciences building,
she was unveiled in December
by University Chancellor Sir
L-R ASUNCION BASSAS MUJTABA,
HER DAUGHTER HELEN BASSAS,
WHO WAS AWARDED AN MSC IN
BIOTECHNOLOGY FROM KENT
IN 1997, SIR CRISPIN TICKELL,
KIRSTY NAYLOR AND DR LOUISE
NAYLOR. KIRSTY’S HANDPRINT
FORMS PART OF THE SCULPTURE.
Crispin Tickell. The
statue is the result of
a joint project
between Biosciences’ Dr
Louise Naylor and Asuncion
Bassas Mujtabab, a local artist
and MA student at Canterbury
Christ Church University
College, and was funded by
the Royal Society and the
British Association Millennium
Awards Scheme.
U n i ve rsity of Kent at Canterbu r y
Alumni Diar y 2000
28 April - 3 May International Office to visit Oman
28-29 April UKC Music Theatre Society: Cabaret
2-6 May Darwin week
6 May Darwin Feast
12 May Open Inaugural Lecture: Mike Geeves, Professor of
Physical Biochemistry
17 - 20 May International Office to visit Jordan
19 May Open Inaugural Lecture: Tony Hale, Professor of General
Psychiatry, KIMHS
26 May Annual Reuters Lecture: Michel Rocard
28 May - 5 June International Office to visit Pakistan
2 June Open Inaugural Lecture: Les Hatton, Professor of Software
Reliability
9 June Open Inaugural Lecture: Dick Jones, Professor of Polymer
Science
16 June Open Inaugural Lecture: Francis Green, Professor of
Economics
30 June Open Inaugural Lecture: Peter Fleischmann, Professor
of Mathematics
30 June Schools Open Day
27-28,30 June - 1 July University of Kent Summer Opera: The
Beggar’s Opera
13-15 July University at the Kent Business Expo (Kent County
Show) - Detling
18-19 July University Congregations Ceremonies, Canterbury
Cathedral
26 September London Alumni Reception - House of Commons
Unless otherwise indicated, events are at UKC. For further details on
any of these events, please contact us (see page 3.)
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Professor Kenneth Graham
K n i g h t 1 9 2 1 - 1 9 9 9
Ken Knight was the firs t
linguist to be appointed to the
U n i ve rsity of Kent, and as
Reader in German, was directly
i nvo l ved in establishing the
p at t e rn of modern language
teaching as part of an integr ated
Humanities Pa rt I. His
enthusiasm for his subject wa s
b o rn of a belief in the humanising
aspects of contact with
foreign culture. During the
war, Ken (as a conscientious
objector) served on a ri ve r b o at
with the Thames Fire Serv i c e
and, after D-Day, on relief
work in the Netherlands and
G e rm a ny. At Cambridge, he
was introduced to the esoteri c
world of the Baroque seve n-
teenth century, which became
his principal area of research.
While working for his PhD, he
spent a year in Heidelberg and,
at this time of curr e n cy reform
and the outbreak of the cold
War, joined the Fe l l owship of
R e c o n c i l i ation, played an active
role in the Campaign for
European Nuclear Disarm a-
ment and worked for the Save
the Children Fund. In 1971 he
was awarded a personal Chair,
and in 1979 took up an
appointment as Professor at
Leeds, where he remained until
his retirement. In 1988 he
r e t u rned to Canterbu ry, where
he joined the Society of Fri e n d s
and worked with the homeless.
At Kent his infinite capacity
and willingness to see the other
People
Obituaries
Professor Ian Swingland h a s
been appointed Emeri t u s
Professor of Conservat i o n
B i o l o g y. Dr Chr i s t o p h e r
B a r ry, c u rrently Senior Lecturer
at Cardiff, will be Professor
of Cognitive Psychology
from 1 May 2000. P r o f e s s o r
Mark Steel , currently Professor
of Economics at the Unive
rsity of Edinburgh, will be
Professor of Stat i s t i c s. Wi l l i a m
G u l l i c k was previously Professor
of Molecular Oncology and
P rincipal Scientist in the ICRF
Molecular Oncology Unit at
the Imperial College School of
Medicine, and has now been
appointed Professor of Cancer
Biology at Kent. Dr Bill
Je n k i n s was promoted to
Professor of Public Po l i cy and
Management in October. D r
Crosbie Smith has been
promoted to Professor of the
H i s t o ry of Science.
p e rs o n ’s point of view may
sometimes have led in the eye s
of others to the suppression of
his own, to temporary disadvantage
in their view. But
a lways, ‘he loved chiva l rye ,
trouthe and honour, freedom
and curt e i s ye... he was a ve rr ay
parfit gentil knight’, and will be
remembered by many for that
reason with gr atitude and
k i n d n e s s. - Maurice Raraty
Stephen Darlow , UKC's firs t
L i b r a rian, died on 19 Fe b ru a ry
f o l l owing a stroke. He had
been suffering from
Alzheimer's for some time. A
remarkable man, it was his task
to create the Library from
s c r atch. It was largely thanks to
his efforts that the first home
of the Library (on Stat i o n
Road) was soon bu rsting at the
s e a m s. By the time the firs t
u n d e r gr a d u ates arri ved in
1965, around 20,000 books
had been catalogued and
m oved to temporary quart e rs
on campus. The first stage of
the permanent building wa s
completed and occupied in
1967 and the Library managed
to gr ow rapidly under
Stephen's direction. By the
time he retired in 1977, he had
c r e ated a library of the highest
q u a l i t y. Stephen Darlow wa s
highly respected by those who
worked with him and will be
remembered for his unique
c o n t ri bution to the foundat i o n
of the Unive rs i t y. His funeral
was held in Yorkshire.

D e v e l o p m e n t
T h e
P r o g r a m m e
Out of this world?
When Miss Nora Bing drew up
her will in 1966, the year after
UKC took its first students,
she certainly intended to help
the Unive rsity of Kent. But
she may not have realised that ,
in the following century, she
would play a part in launching
rockets and creating stage sets
in virtual reality. The £3,000
she left to the Unive rsity of
Kent, invested in the Unive rs i-
ty Benefa c t o rs’ Fund along
with other legacies, enables us
to back the adventurousness of
g e n e r ations of students and
s t a f f. Recent schemes supported
by the Benefa c t o rs’ Fund
include the Kent Amat e u r
Rocket Team, based in our
Space Sciences Unit, who
successfully launched a rocket
KE N T A M AT E U R RO C K E T T E A M. A 3D V I RT U A L R E A L I T Y S TAG E S E T.
called Ernie to a height of 2km
in 20 seconds. The Fund is
helping make possible a production
of A Midsummer
N i g h t ’s Dream using a 3D
v i rtual stage set and draw i n g
on the skills of the Kent Intera
c t i ve Digital Design Studio,
working with a visiting scholar
from Kansas. It supported a
student-organised conference
on European Business, which
brought together students from
both sides of the Channel to
work with top-name practitione
rs. Lively people with bri g h t
ideas, just needing practical
s u p p o rt to make them happen.
TH E UN I V E R S I T Y S U P P O RT S A N U M B E R O F O U T S TA N D I N G S T U D E N T
AT H L E T E S W I T H B U R S A R I E S; T WO F U N D E D B Y C O L L A B O R AT I O N S
W I T H L O CA L C O M PA N I E S A N D C L U B S A N D OT H E R S T H RO U G H T H E
AL U M N I PRO G R A M M E. AL U M N I S P O RT S B U R S A R I E S H AV E G O N E TO A
VO L L E Y BA L L P L AY E R, A C R I C K E T E R, H O C K E Y P L AY E R S, A S W I M M E R,
A T R A M P O L I N E R, A B L AC K B E LT I N TA E KWO N- DO A N D A J U D O
S TA R. TH E L AT E S T B U R S A RY W I N N E R I S LAU R A WO O D RO O F, I N H E R
F I R S T Y E A R S T U DY I N G HI S TO RY. LAU R A (P I C T U R E D ) S TA RT E D
P L AY I N G N E T BA L L F O R KE N T CO U N T Y AT 13. SH E I S N OW I N T H E
EN G L A N D U N D E R 21 S I D E, P R E PA R I N G F O R T H E WO R L D YO U T H
CH A M P I O N S H I P S TO B E H E L D I N CA R D I F F T H I S S U M M E R.
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Life on e a r t h :
Humans and
other cat a s t r o p h e s
C rispin Tickell
The University Chancellor, Sir Crispin Tickell, recently gave an Open Lecture at Kent, which
provoked great interest and many requests for copies. This is an edited version of the text.
Most of us find it almost impossible to
imagine the world before Darwin and the
theories of evolution and natural selection.
Even so, many believe, almost unconsciously,
that the world was created for the
convenience of mankind, and that with
God’s authority - and presumably cooperation
- we can rule it as we will.
Stephen Jay Gould wrote of life:
‘Life is a copiously branching bush, continually
pruned by the grim reaper of
extinction, not a ladder of predictable
progress.... Little quirks at the outset,
occurring for no particular reason, unleash
cascades of consequences that make a
particular future seem inevitable in retrospect.
But the slightest early nudge contacts
a different groove, and history veers
into another possible channel, diverging
continually from its original pathway.’
We are now used to a view of life that
can be summarised as evolution by natural
selection and genetic mutation. For most
people that has meant competition, sometimes
of a violent kind, between organisms.
Herbert Spencer’s slogan of survival
of the fittest is misleading. A better one is
survival of the luckiest.
Another vital element is co-operation
between organisms. Indeed the very first
nucleated cells were probably the result of
non-nucleated cells coming together to
their common advantage. We could not
live without bacteria, which account for 10
percent of our dry body weight. If organic
beings are assemblages of other organisms,
so organic beings constitute the assemblage
which is the life system of the earth.
Mutual dependence is fundamental, but
its degree in each case is often unknown
until we tamper with it. Obviously the
ecosystem is more important than individual
species within it, and some species are
more important than others. The extinction
of the Irish elk after the end of the last
glaciation probably made little difference
to other species in the ecosystem. But the
story of the Californian sea otter is very
different. They were heavily culled as rival
fish eaters and for their skins. The result
was that the sea urchins on which the
otters lived vastly multiplied. More sea
urchins consumed
more
kelp, which had
been the habitat
of thousands of
coastal fish
species. The
consequent
decline in fish
species changed
the character of off-shore waters and
damaged fishing along the Pacific coast.
There are many other cases, most
arising from the thoughtless activities of
our own species. Certain species of fig tree
in Amazonia can only be pollinated by
certain species of wasp. Remove the wasps
in the holocaust of deforestation, and the
fig trees can no longer reproduce. But the
fig trees are a vital food source for animals
in the dry season. Thus if there are no figs,
there can be no spider monkeys, no pecca-
The slogan of surv i val of the fittest is misleading.
A better one is surv i val of the luck i e s t
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ies, no toucans and so on up and down
the chain.
In general, mutual dependence has
c r e ated a pretty robust life system. Species
can be extinguished and ecosystems
d e s t r oyed, but over the ye a rs - millions of
ye a rs - new species will evo l ve and new
ecosystems will be formed. Cat a s t r o p h e s
h ave struck the earth from time to time.
H owe ver the catastrophe of one species is
often the opportunity of another. If the
extinctions of the Pe rm i a n / Triassic and
C r e t a c e o u s - Te rt i a ry boundaries had neve r
happened we would not be here today.
When our successors come to look at
The catastrophe of one species is
often the opportunity of another
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the deposits of the last 250 years, they will
find one of the biggest discontinuities of
all: a swathe of destruction comparable to
that which followed the likely impact of
other extinctions in the past. I dread to
speculate on what they will think of us and
our residues: lumps of concrete; batteries,
packing and plastic bags; and fossilised
cars with a spicing of radioactive and other
toxic waste.
Until the industrial revolution, the
effects of human activities were local, or at
worst regional. All the great civilisations of
the past have cleared land for cultivation,
introduced plants and animals from elsewhere,
and caused lasting change. Many
of those who visit the southern and eastern
coasts of the Mediterranean seldom realise
that they are in an area devastated by
humans some 2000 or so years ago. The
soils became sands, the trees are
now camel grass and animals of
all kinds have disappeared.
The consequences of the industrial
revolution, which began some 250
years ago, are still more serious. On the
one hand there has been a huge growth in
human populations; on the other there has
been a huge growth in consumption of the
world’s resources and saturation of its
natural sinks. Higher standards of living
have inevitably involved higher consumption
and more waste. The most recent UN
Environmental Data Report (1993-4)
showed that 17 percent of the world’s soils
had been degraded by human activity
since 1945.
A c i d i f i c ation from industry has affected
wide areas of the atmosphere. Depletion of
the ozone layer, our protective blanket
against ultraviolet B radiation, is perm i t t i n g
more ultraviolet radiation to reach the
s u r face of the earth with so-fa r
unmeasured effects on organisms
unadapted to it.
By adding carbon dioxide,
methane and nitrous oxide to the
atmosphere, we are altering global
climate with unforeseeable local
consequences. During the last ice
age the concentration of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere was on
average between 180 and 210 parts
per million. The interglacial average
was 280 parts per million, the
level before the beginning of the
industrial revolution. It is now
around 365 parts per million and
rising. In the late 1990s annual
emissions of carbon dioxide were
almost four times the 1950s level.
Demand for fresh water doubles every
21 years and is accelerating. Pollution of
both fresh and salt water has increased.
Global freshwater consumption rose
sixfold between 1900 and 1995, more than
twice the rate of population growth. Seals
in Antarctic seas may never have seen a
human, yet have human-made chemicals
in their blubber. Fish stocks are declining:
at present only 4 in every 100 one-year-old
cod in the North Sea survive to sexual
maturity. This is causing perverse effects
on reproduction.
Eighty percent of the forests that
o ri ginally covered the Earth have been
cleared, fragmented or otherwise degr a d e d .
L o g gi n g, mining and other large-scale
projects threaten 39 percent of the remain-

The miner’s canaries may be dying all over the place,
but we cannot appreciate why
ing natural forests. In 1996 it was estimated
that 25 percent of the wo r l d ’s mammal
species and 11 percent of the bird species
were globally threatened - in other words at
significant risk of total extinction.
Major uncertainties remain, but they
are more about the magnitude and geographical
distribution of change than
about change itself. This combination of
natural and human-made change has
profoundly affected the living world of
which humans, for all their destructiveness,
are no more than a tiny part.
At present our ignorance creates a kind
of helplessness. We cannot yet judge the
significance of what is happening. Nor do
we know how to resist the forces - social,
economic, and political - that are doing
such damage, real and potential, to current
patterns of life.
Is there a point at which we could
irremediably foul the nest? No one can yet
tell. In planning a solution, no single
element is more important than human
population increase. Unless this can be
brought under control, all efforts to
restore stability to our environment will be
in vain. I fear that if we do not do the job
ourselves, Nature will do it for us.
It is not as if the answers to the problem
are unknown. Human fertility is
closely related to four main factors. The
first is the status of women. When women
are equal citizens as in the state of Kerala
in India, population gets back into balance;
when they are not and are regarded
as baby-making machines, fertility remains
high. The second factor is education,
particularly of girls. The third is care in
old age. The fourth, the availability of
contraceptives.
There is a tendency in the comfortable
West to think that all this is someone else’s
problem, but this takes no account of the
rising tide of refugees, already pressing
heavily on the frontiers of the industrial
countries. I am thinking not only of political
refugees, but also of people who, for a
variety of environmental, economic or
social reasons, feel obliged to migrate. All
over the world people are on the move as
never before.
There are ethical, aesthetic, economic
and ecological reasons for trying to cons
e rve other forms of life on Earth. It is
ethically questionable whether we have the
right to exterm i n ate other species - howe v-
er useful to humans - on the living planet.
Respect for life as such has always been a
central tenet of Buddhism and Ta o i s m ,
among other systems of belief, and there is
an increasing awareness that humans have
an ethical responsibility for the we l fare, or
at least the continued existence, of our only
k n own living companions in the unive rs e .
The aesthetic aspects of nature usually
go without saying, but they are difficult to
define. Even the most hardened city
dwellers need space and greenery in their
work and play. The culture of every people
is closely allied to its landscapes and their
living inhabitants.
Our economic interest in biodiversity is
obvious. We need to maintain our own
good health as well as that of the plants
and animals, big and small, on which we
depend for food. We have our place in the
food chain like any other creature, and are
more vulnerable than most as predators at
the top of it.
At present we enjoy, mostly without
realising or recognising it, an enormous
wealth of free natural services. Such
services mean a broadly regular climatic
system with ecosystems - terrestrial,
marine, and atmospheric, to match. We
rely on fertile soils, regular water supplies,
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recycling of nutrients, disposal of wastes,
and a supporting cast of animals, plants,
fungi and micro organisms. The first ever
attempt at valuing them, published in
Nature in May 1997, estimated that they
were on average worth around US$33
trillion. The current GNP of all countries
in the world is almost US$30 trillion. A
more recent paper in Nature of February
1998 proposed various economic instruments
that would allow investors to obtain
economic returns from environmental
assets, such as forests and landscapes,
while ensuring their conservation. This is
the mental world in which we live, and has
its own internal logic. On the other hand,
we have to recognise that nature has an
existence far beyond that of a warehouse
of marketable raw materials, and few
realise the extent to which we have been
appropriating those resources: already we
use - or abuse - some 40 percent of total
photosynthetic production on land.
The problem is how to concentrate
people’s minds. Perhaps we need a big
catastrophe. So far no catastrophes have
had sufficient global impact. No one likes
the spread of African bees or the mass
deaths of trees, the eruption of such new
diseases as AIDS and lethal bacteria
resistant to antibiotics. The miner’s
canaries may be dying all over the place,
but we cannot appreciate why.
Petri plates are round glass dishes with
transparent food on them disposed to
allow the biologist to see colonies of
microbes with the naked eye. From small
When women are rega rded as bab y - m a k i n g
m a c h i n e s, fe rtility remains high
beginnings the microbes multiply at an
accelerating rate. They are at their most
prolific as they reach the edge of the plate.
Then the food runs out, the microbes die
in their multi-billions, and extinction takes
place. We are not microbes on Petri plates.
Nor do we want to become them.
The price of sticking to our present
system of values and not adapting to new
ones is intolerably high. So far all past
human civilisations - some 30 of them -
have crashed. None over time has learned
how to reach a well-regulated steady state
with population in balance with natural
resources. But it is still within our power
to change direction and succeed where
others have failed. The penalties of failure
are too drastic to contemplate.

Alumni life:
the Civil Ser va n t
JOA N NA ‘S H A D OW I N G’ BR I A N BE N D E R,
PE R M A N E N T SE C R E TA RY AT T H E CA B I N E T OF F I C E
UKC has a particularly good employment
record for our graduates. For ‘Alumni
life’, Killara Burn asked one of them,
Joanna Griffiths (K82), about her work.
Joanna is a Higher Executive Officer with
the Cabinet Office and about to move
to Brussels. She studied French and
Comparative Literary Studies at Kent.
HHow did you land in the
Civil Service? At University I
didn’t have a clue what I might
want to do as a career. Still
don’t! After I graduated, my
then boyfriend (also Kent) had
a year in Italy, and as I loved
travelling - a taste developed in
my third year which I spent in
Chateaudun, near Orléans -
I went along.
I then tried a variety of
things - training courses,
including IT, work with a
campaigning group. I got
onto the Graduate Gateway
Programme (run by the
University and Manpower
Services). A work placement
with the East Kent Bus Company
was a major part of the
three months’ programme.
I conducted market research
on smoking on the buses. And
I’m pleased to say smoking was
banned from EK buses after
my report!
The Civil Service was
thought of as a good career
for humanities graduates,
and it seemed a good idea, so
I applied, and joined in summer
1988.
What exactly do you do?
Most of my career has been
with the Charity Commission.
I’ve worked in a number of
areas, including the Investiga-
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tion Division, where I looked
into maladministration or
abuse of charity funds, and the
Policy Division, where I had to
assess the implications for
charities of new legislation or
policy emerging from other
government departments or
from the EU. I had to learn all
about charity law, I had to
analyse and provide briefing
for senior staff on relevant
issues and I dealt with all sorts
of people from village hall
committees to the Met Police.
I’m now at the Cabinet
Office, right at the heart of
Whitehall. My team’s job is to
get more UK nationals wo r k i n g
in the EU institutions. We gi ve
advice to people (including a
fair sprinkling from Kent) and
help them prepare for recru i t-
ment competitions. I often
single-handedly represent the
UK at meetings in Bru s s e l s.
My language skills came in
ve ry handy on one part i c u l a r
occasion when I had lunch
with the French Ambassador!
Do you ever look back?
The skills I learned at Kent -
not least my languages - made
me able to do my job. As a
humanities student, you learn
to analyse and pick out key
points in written and oral
material quickly, conduct
research, work as a team
through participating in seminars
- you learn to listen, not
‘score points’ off each other,
and you learn communications
skills. These are all crucial in
the Civil Service. And my new
post - with the EC in Brussels
- would be impossible without
my French, of course.
The worst at work?
I have developed rsi, which is a
nuisance. I am in the process
of learning to use voice-activated
computer software,
which, fortunately, is not as
hard as you might think. One
of my most difficult tasks has
been to organise a ministerial
visit to Rome. Not something I
want to repeat right away! The
time pressure is so tight - and I
had to get briefings from the
right people in the right style,
and think of everything the
minister could possibly need.
The best? The Civil Service
has terrific career development
opportunities. In addition to
the numerous different jobs
I’ve already done in the past
twelve years, I was able to
shadow the Permanent Secretary
at the Cabinet Office
(nothing like Sir Humphrey!)
and even shadowed two MPs
last year. Not only was this fun
and good for my career development,
it was useful at the
time. Communication with
MPs is normally via the Minister.
But when I work-shadowed
them, the MPs and I
spoke directly which each
other, which helps understanding
in the long term.
I’m looking forward to the
new job in Brussels, where I
will be working in the European
Commission’s Personnel
Directorate on the human
resource aspects of a major
programme of reform.

T h e B o n d i n g
When The World is Not Enough opened on 22 November 1999, no one cheered for 007
as loudly as Rob Wade and Neal Purvis (both E80). After all, they wrote the scr i p t .
The Dome restaurant-bar in the King’s
Road is an unlikely place to write a film.
Yet that was the place chosen by Rob Wa d e ,
one half of the screen-writing duo behind
The Wo rld is Not Enough, while Neal Purv i s
(the other half) tapped away on a laptop in
a restaurant-bar in Richmond.
Working amidst the hubbub of restaurants
is a habit Purvis and Wade picked up
two years ago. They might be unrecognised
outside their own living rooms, but
they are set to become among the most
successful screenwriters in Britain. For
besides scripting the Bond picture, one of
the greatest prizes in the movie-making
world, the duo have also written a bigbudget
remake of the classic British film,
The Italian Job. They are in discussions
about writing the next Bond film, due out
in 2002. And they have just signed a deal
with a leading UK film-maker to work on
a £40m package of films. As the boyish
looking Wade says, ‘Everything finally
seems to have come up trumps.’
The Bond business has been transf
o rmed since the making of the first 007
film, 1962’s Dr No. Eve rything is bigger
n ow, not least the bu d g e t s. At £75m, T h e
Wo rld is Not Enough, the 19th in the seri e s ,
is the most expensive Bond movie eve r.
But the rewards are that much gr e ater too.
The last two 007 films - G o l d e n E ye ( 1 9 9 5 )
and To m o rr ow Never Dies (1997) - gr o s s e d
nearly $700m (about £450m). No other
m ovie made in Britain this year approaches
The Wo rld is Not Enough in terms of sheer
scale.
In late 1997, Purvis and Wade were
invited to the offices of Eon Productions,
the makers of the Bond movies. At their
first meeting with producers Michael G.
Wilson and Barbara Broccoli - the stepson
and daughter of legendary movie-maker
‘Cubby’ Broccoli, one of the series’ original
producers - they were asked where
they thought Bond should go next. The
screenwriters felt the time was right to
It helps to have a
bonkers idea wh e n
yo u ’re trying
to invent a bad guy
take him in a different direction. ‘We
thought some of the core Fleming elements
in the story had been lost,’ says
Purvis. ‘In Tomorrow Never Dies’ he was in
danger of turning into a Die Hard-style
action hero. Rather than blasting at people
with a machine gun, as he did in that film,
we felt he should make the difference by
picking up his Walther PPK and firing a
single shot. We also wanted to delve
deeper in Bond’s character and make the
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new film a little bit Hitchcockian. After all,
the screen Bond of the 60s owed a lot to
Hitchcock.’ Luckily, Wilson and Broccoli
shared their enthusiasm for rebranding
Bond. So, in early 1998, Purvis and Wade
were flown out to LA and installed in a
hotel in Santa Monica. ‘We started out
with a handful of ideas such as a riverchase
sequence and a villain with a bullet
lodged in his head,’ says Wade.
Time was critical. The World is Not
Enough’s release date had been decided
before Purvis and Wade had even started
work on the script. Back in Britain, at their
respective restaurant-bar offices, the two
embarked on the job of turning their
20-page treatment into a script.
‘We watched the films on video, night
after night, and eventually realised we had
to ask not where he’d not been, but where
he’d not been recently because he’s been
almost everywhere,’ says Purvis. As for
creating a baddie, they reckon that in
Renard, their bullet-in-the-brain anarchist,
they have delivered. It helps to have a
bonkers idea when you’re trying to invent
a bad guy’, says Wade.
The 115-page screenplay was delivered
in June 1998 - just weeks before preproduction
work on the film was due to
start. It contained plenty of action: the
pre-title sequence alone features an attack
on MI6’s London HQ, a chase along the

p r o c e s s
Thames, and a fight on the roof of the
millennium dome. It had locations, with
scenes set in Azerbaijan, the Bahamas,
Bilbao and Chamonix, plus stunts and
special effects. And it incorporated the
requisite Bond babes and the fanciful
dialogue. But the Purvis and Wade script
also included greater drama and depth
than previous 007 films, and the final
decision about whether to go along with
their rebranding of Bond was down to
Wilson and Broccoli: they liked it.
‘In a way, all our good luck came at
once, But we wouldn’t have had that good
luck if we hadn’t been plugging away over
the years.’ They first met at the University
of Kent in 1980. They were assigned to
the same room. Wade had enrolled on a
film studies course - ‘Basically, it involved
watching lots of movies’‚ he says - and
Purvis was studying philosophy. After a
term, Purvis dropped out to do a film and
photography course at the Polytechnic of
Central London. But they kept in touch.
‘After graduating, I started to write a
script, not knowing what the hell I was
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doing. The idea was that I would direct
and Neal would edit,’ says Wade. Called
Good News for Dreamers, it was about a
teenager who falls in love with a woman
who is an alien. ‘In those days, you couldn’t
get hold of books on how to write scripts,
so it was very much a case of trial and
error. I couldn’t even get my hands on a
script to see what one should look like.’
When a wealthy friend of a friend offered
to finance a film based on the script, Wade
combined with Purvis to rewrite the
screenplay, thus launching their writing
partnership. But things went wrong, as
they often do in the film business: the
movie never got made. It was to be the
start of a steep learning curve. ‘What we
hadn’t realised was that you’re meant to
keep on writing scripts,’ says Purvis. ‘We
thought “let’s get this made and then write
another one‚” whereas you’re meant to
keep on banging them out.’
The next few years were difficult. ‘It
was the worst possible time to get into
script writing,’ says Wade. ‘Very few films
were being made in Britain.’ Odd jobs kept
them in cash. Their first big break came in
1990, with the filming of Let Him Have It,
based on the story of Derek Bentley, who
was hanged for the shooting of a policeman.
‘A friend had been to Bentley's
school and told us about it,' says Wade.
Christopher Ecclestone starred as Bentley,
and the movie received excellent reviews.
After a trip to LA, and a short stint on
a Disney project, Purvis and Wade were
hired to work on a sequel to American
Werewolf in London. That one never got
made, but the cameras did roll on their
next project, Plunkett & Macleane, a £15m
action adventure based on the story of two
18th-century English highwaymen. ‘We
took the bare bones and came up with a
new story,’ explains Purvis. ‘We felt it was
our best script yet.’ The movie starring
Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller was
released last year. While Purvis says the
‘extended pop video which got made was
not what we set out to do,’ the screenplay
he and Wade wrote got them the Bond job.
The future looks good:
t h e y ’re among the
most sought-after
w ri t e rs in this country.
They hope that a £5m
film they have wri t t e n
about the my s t e ri o u s
d e ath of rock legend
B rian Jones, prov i s i o n-
ally titled S t o n e d, will
shoot next summer.
They have adapted two
n ovels, and are currently
in negotiat i o n s
with Eon about writing ‘Bond 20’, due to
be released in three ye a rs. Most exciting of
all is the package of films they are deve l o p-
ing with Working Title. ‘The deal invo l ve s
us doing a rewrite, a polish, a big-bu d g e t
a d venture film and even a chance to
direct’, says Wa d e .
In the longer term, Purvis and Wade
want to form their own production
company. ‘It’s one thing getting this far,
but it’s another staying here,’ says Purvis.
‘We don’t want to be 50 and still working
for somebody else. We want to be in
control of our own destiny.’
This article was adapted from a piece by
York Membery in the Financial Times
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B ritain in 2010
Professor Richard Scase is Europe’s leading business forecaster. Professor of Organisational
Behaviour at Kent, he is a well-known, keynote corporate presenter around the world. He is a recog -
nised authority on cutting edge business issues, ranging from the impact of demographic trends for
future consumer markets to managing creativity, the impact of information and communication tech -
nologies, to future patterns of work and employment trends.
R i c h a rd Scase
His recent ESRC-funded report, Britain
towards 2010, has kept him in the limelight
since its publication by the DTI. On 20
March, with his book Britain in 2010, based
on the report, he helped launch Science Week,
and was introduced at the Royal Opera House
by Lord Sainsbury, Minister for Science and
Technology. He has been interviewed by more
than 80 radio stations in the UK and around
the world and the press cuttings file on Britain
towards 2010 is three inches thick.
‘However we look at it, there has never
been a more compelling need to see what the
social consequences will be in the future of
decisions made now .... Yet never has it
seemed more difficult to make the right decisions,’
said Barbara Becket of the DTI’s
Foresight Programme. Richard Scase’s report
is already helping decision makers move in the
right directions.
What is happening to Britain in the first
decade of the new century? How will business
be affected by an ageing population, an
increase in the number of single person households,
and of women who choose to live alone?
How will the economy react to the challenge of
Internet technologies? Will the new technologies
- with higher education on the Web -
mean the death of the traditional university?
Many reports predicting the future are deliberately
provocative; others are downright
speculative. Decision makers need more
empirically grounded approaches which
construct a view of the future based on the
analysis of current trends. In his report and
subsequent book, Professor Scase used social
science enquiry to interpret these trends and
present a more reasoned and sensible view of
the future. To help illustrate that view, he
described three scenarios for 2010, one of
which follows:
Duncan and Kim have lived together
for twelve years. They met at Leicester
University in the early 1990s, almost
twenty years ago. They still debate
whether or not they should get married,
Will the new
t e c h n o l ogies mean the
d e ath of the tra d i t i o n a l
u n i versity?
but cannot see the point: no tax or other
financial benefits!
Duncan is a self-employed tax adviser
and Kim works in a central gove rn m e n t
d e p a rtment. Although self-employe d ,
Duncan has been engaged by the same
c o rp o r ate client for the past seven ye a rs. He
likes the freedom this affords him. Prov i d e d
he completes his assignments on time and
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within budget, he can do more or less as he
l i k e s. This is in sharp contrast to the situation
in the mid-1990s, when he had to
commute into the centre of London eve ry
d ay. It was not until the first ye a rs of 2000
t h at the company decided to make full use
of the rapidly changing inform ation and
c o m m u n i c ation technologies and embarked
on a drastic cost-cutting progr a m m e .
The programme resulted in closing its
large high-rent offices in the centre of
London. The offices were no longer
required since all the employees could
work from home. The company kept a
small presence in the City, mainly for
client meetings and colleague brainstorming
sessions, but even the value of this
facility has been queried as most face-toface
contact with customers is now conducted
on customer premises. Equally, as
everyone is now familiar with using interactive
video and voice ICTs, meetings
with colleagues are becoming redundant.
The company has been able to claim
tax rebates because it has implemented a
number of home working policies. As part
of its environmental and anti-pollution
policies, the government introduced tax
incentives to companies to reduce the
volume of traffic into London. Overall,
these policies have been successful: the
journeys into the capital have gone down

y more than 28 percent since 2000.
Duncan’s company has paid for the installation
of ISDN lines in all staff and core
consultant homes. It also offers compensation
for additional home costs such as
heating and the maintenance of homebased
workstations. Duncan’s work
involves considerable travel, particularly in
Euroland. The harmonisation of tax laws,
corporate audits and fiscal regimes has led
to a huge expansion of the company’s
business in mainland Europe. This is the
reason that he and Kim chose to live in
Southeast England. The six hourly trips
made by Eurostar to the mainland make it
a good location. Even so, Duncan has
recently noticed that his company’s clients
in Europe are now more likely to exchange
data through ICT, so less travel is needed
than five years ago.
Kim works flexible hours, part-time -
half at her London office and the other
half at home. She is also studying for a
higher degree with Harvard University,
and is now on module 7, having completed
courses with universities in Australia
and the UK. A consortium of transnational
universities offers courses on the Internet
and accredits her studies. Kim enjoys
collaborating with other students in virtual
seminar groups as this allows her to share
experiences with students worldwide. She
also enjoys the intensive face-to-face
contact at the ‘personal creativity’ summer
schools held at different participating
universities. She feels that she learns more
and develops her personal knowledge far
more effectively than when she was a
student in the 1990s.
Duncan and Kim have one child. He is
ten years old. He attends the local secondary
school where all the children are
expected to have their own PCs. For the
small number of under-privileged pupils
there are scholarships enabling them to
buy their own computers. PCs are now at
the very core of the pupils’ learning
process. More time is spent working on
projects at home and attendance at school
is flexible. This school has become a
‘learning resource centre’, with teachers
working with pupils on an individual basis.
In collaboration with parents, teachers
develop personal learning portfolios, much
of which pupils pursue at home. (This is
not the pattern in schools in less-privileged
parts of the country.)
For Duncan, Kim and their son, the
home is the centre of their working lives.
Although modern technology has replaced
many traditional household tasks, they still
need to employ a cleaner once a week and
an au pair. Their large country house is
full of the latest information and communication
technology. Each room has a large
flat screen, which allows all forms of data
to be received and transmitted. There is
no need to shop for the basics as these are
ordered on-line and delivered to the secure
and temperature-controlled service box
attached to the side of their house.
The bathroom is a medical centre and
incorporates a variety of equipment for
monitoring personal health - from blood
pressure levels to psychological states.
Duncan and Kim organise their work
around this information. It is also important
to feed the data into the household
database because this is
used by their insurance
company to determine their
premiums. In fact the
insurance company has
recently proposed that the
data should be fed directly
into its own database. The
company uses this information
to predict life
expectancy and, through its
collaboration with a private
healthcare provider, recommends
treatment as well as
preventive care regimes.
Kim and Duncan have a
broad network of friends all
TH E F U T U R E? AN D R E A CAT H E RWO O D L AU N C H E S VI RT U A L VA N D R E A,
over the world. Tr ave l l i n g
A C Y B E R C L O N E O F H E R S E L F, AT T H E MI L L E N N I U M DO M E
to Australia and the USA is
n ow a common feature of their holiday
p l a n s. They make use of their home-based
video conferencing facilities to keep in
touch with their geogr a p h i-
cally dispersed fri e n d s.
These same technologi e s
also enable them to monitor,
on a 24-hour basis, the
health condition of Kim’s
mother, who is in her 70s and lives in
Central Scotland. In fact Kim orders online
all of her mother’s shopping needs
which, on a daily basis, are delivered by her
local supermarket. This is much more
c o nvenient than having her live with them.
The scenario reflects emergent trends in
British society: greater individualism, personal
mobility, individual freedom and choice, and
the greater use of information and communication
technologies. But they also reflect the
continuing divisions of British society in which
economic, educational, social and cultural
inequalities persist. Each of the scenarios in
the report reflects sources of continuity as
well as of discontinuity. The challenge is to
identify, in various aspects of lifestyle, which
of these will be the more powerful.
Britain in 2010 (Capstone) is available at
major bookshops.
Kim enjoys collab o rating
with other students in
v i rtual seminar gr o u p s
1 5

High up the agenda for
the gov e r nment are
actions to promote not
only enter p r ise b u t
equity: to ensure that
groups outside the
mainstream of society
are not left stranded as
the current of new
H
economic and educational
dev e l o p m e n t s
rushes on. At Kent, we
h ave a number of distinguished
research
groups inv o l ved in
‘social inclusion’
p r o gr a m m e s ,
whose exper t i s e
is widely dra w n
on by polic y -
m a k e r s.
A i n c l u s i o n
Action for Inclusion
People in Kent, who for a va riety of reasons,
may find themselves disadva n t a g e d
when looking for work, have had their
chances of getting a job radically improve d
through an ESF (European Social Fund)
INTEGRA project. Under Action for
Inclusion, organisations across the county
became part n e rs within the project to help
people develop skills that employe rs are
looking for. More than 400 benefited from
the scheme which targeted a number of
specific groups, including job seekers with
l ow basic skills, gypsies and trave l l e rs, lone
parents and carers, alcohol and substance
m i s u s e rs, people from ethnic minori t i e s
and those disadvantaged in labour market
t e rm s. The project is managed by the
European Institute of Social Services at the
U n i ve rsity of Kent on behalf of Kent
County Council. According to Assistant
Project Co-ordinator, Anni Neal, the
overall aim is to help people become more
confident and to gi ve them the chance to
d e velop their literacy and numeracy skills if
they need to, or gain qualifications such as
NVQs in horticulture and IT. 'All those
i nvo l ved have one aim - and that is to help
people become more employable. Without
c e rtain basic skills, getting a job can be
extremely difficult.' As part of Action for
Inclusion, a two - d ay event was held in
Maidstone in March. Speakers included
Health Action Zones
In Ja n u a ry 1999, a group of researchers led
by Professor Ken Judge at the Pe rs o n a l
Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU)
began work on eva l u ating the nat i o n a l
e va l u ation of
Health Action
Z o n e s. The
research is funded
by the Depart m e n t
of Health for two
ye a rs in the firs t
instance, invo l v i n g
a grant of £400K.
Health Action
Zones are a central
p a rt of new
L a b o u r ’s health
p o l i cy. They are
l o c ated in 26
d i ve rse areas across
England, from
1 6
Peter Skinner MEP, Sandy Bru c e - L o c k h a rt ,
Leader of KCC, Paul Godwin, Leader of
M e d way Council, Gabriel Chanan,
Director of Research and Dissemination at
the Community Development Fo u n d at i o n ,
and Mike Stewa rt, from the Centre for
Social Inclusion. The event included a
p r e s e n t ation from project part i c i p a n t s ,
i l l u s t r ating the impact it has had on them.
O r g a n i s ations in Kent taking part in the
Action for Inclusion project are Kent
County Council, Medway Council,
Thames Gat e way Trust, Kenward Tru s t ,
Kent Council on Addiction, The Children's
Society and Kent Probat i o n .
N o rth Cumbria to Corn wall. All the zones
face common problems of depri vation and
poor health. HAZs aim to identify the
public health needs of each area and tackle
health inequalities. They are also expected
to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and
r e s p o n s i veness of serv i c e s. A pri n c i p l e
central to the HAZ initiat i ve is part n e rs h i p,
both between agencies and with local gr o u p s
and individuals. This means that multiple
o r g a n i s ations, from local authorities and the
police to the vo l u n t a ry sector, health authorities
and Trusts, are invo l ved. PSSRU has
also been awarded a related grant to monitor
the implementation of the public health
white paper Smoking Kills. Programmes to
help smokers break the habit will be deve l-
oped in Health Action Zones during the firs t
year of implementation, and an assessment
of these services will be conducted by
Professor Judge, Dr Linda Bauld and other
colleagues at the PSSRU

at UKC
CCriminal Justice Centre
Professor Chris Hale (Dean of
Social Sciences), Steve Uglow (Kent
L aw School) and Dr Ann Netten
( Pe rsonal Social Services Research
Unit) are coordinating seve r a l
projects eva l u ating initiat i ves aimed
at reducing crime. Reducing cri m e
is one ve ry important route to
c o m b ating social exclusion. One of
these initiat i ves is a deve l o p m e n t
project for tackling racially motivated
crime, proposed by the Metropolitan
Police. In another initiat i ve ,
the UKC team will be eva l u at i n g
enhancements to the Pa r e n t i n g
S u p p o rt Service, established to help
parents and families prevent their
yo u n g s t e rs from re-offending, by
o f f e ring counselling, support
groups, good links with the Children
and Adolescent Mental Health
S e rvice and va rious other serv i c e s.
A third project will look at 'market
d i s ruption strat e gies' to reduce cri m e .
These strat e gies may be placed in two
broad cat e g o ries: targeting traditional
markets for the disposal of stolen propert y,
namely residential fences, the used car
trade, licensed premises or car boot fa i rs ,
and publicity campaigns designed to
d e velop communities' awareness of the
consequences of theft for the victims, to
i m p r ove the flow of inform ation to the
police, and consequently to reduce people's
willingness to purchase stolen goods.
The most recently awarded project is
on the implementation of referral orders
for young offenders. This initiat i ve aims to
're-include' young offenders through
i nvolving their communities more in
helping them confront and make reparation
for their offending behav i o u r. In this
p r o gramme, Youth Offending Pa n e l s ,
made up of vo l u n t e e rs, will provide a
f o rum, away from the formality of the
c o u rt, where the young offender, the fa m i l y
and, where appropri ate, the victim, can
consider the circumstances surr o u n d i n g
the crime. The panel will agree a contract
with the young offender, which will include
r e p a r ation to the victim or wider communit
y, and a programme of activity designed
p ri m a rily to prevent further crime. For all
of these initiat i ves, of which the goal is
u n i f o rmly to reduce crime and, thereby,
social exclusion, the role of the UKC team,
sometimes in collaboration with colleagues
at other unive rs i-
ties, is to eva l u at e
the success or
potential for
success of the
i n i t i at i ves, and to
feed back to
p o l i cy - m a k e rs
clear inform at i o n
on results and
h ow to improve
t h e m .
1 7
The Tizard Centre
The Unive rs i t y ’s Tizard Centre launched a
new part-time Cert i f i c ate in Community
Care Practice in Ja n u a ry. The new programme,
part of the Unive rs i t y ’s Widening
Pa rt i c i p ation developments, is taught at
B ridge Wardens’ College in the Medway
and is aimed at staff working in health and
social care services for vulnerable adults.
E d u c ational opportunities for such staff are
ve ry limited and it hoped that the Cert i f i c at e
will provide an entry into Higher Educat i o n
t h at can enhance both staff competence and
the quality of service prov i s i o n .
Since 1996, the Tizard Centre has
been working in partnership with East
Kent Health Authority on the development
of a University-affiliated programme
to improve the quality of local services for
people with learning disabilities. An initial
benefit of this partnership was the involvement
of Centre staff in plans for the
closure of Eastry Hospital. The people
living in the hospital, many of whom had
spent most or all of their lives excluded
from community living, moved into houses
during 1999, and are now enjoying a
quality of life incomparable to that which
they had previously experienced.
C
College partnerships and
widening participation
Last year the University was awarded over
£1million for additional non-traditional
student numbers. The Funding Council
have now raised that figure to over £3m
for us to expand this programme. For
2000-2001, the University will aim to
recruit over 600 additional students (parttime
and full-time), with almost as many
again for 2001-2002. Among the subjects
expanding at UKC are Biosciences; Law,
Accounting and Finance; Health Care;
Business IT and Criminal Justice. The
widening participation funding plays a
significant part in our new association
with Mid-Kent College. UKC will, from
September 2000, provide all of the Higher
Education teaching at Mid-Kent; courses
covered by this arrangement will include
Business Studies, Law and Social Sciences.
Planned for entry 2001 at Mid-
Kent are degrees in Sports Science,
Multimedia Technology, Music Technology,
Urban Regeneration and Travel and
Tourism Management.

Letter from
S i n ga p o r e
Living in
a food love r ’s
p a ra d i s e
T
TI M OT H Y O N A R E C E N T T R I P TO C L I M B MO U N T KI NA BA L U I N SA BA H ( BO R N E O), MA L AY S I A
I have a strange problem.
I am a non-foodie
trapped in a nation of
F
food-mad people.
foodie /’fu:.di / noun [C]
informal
a person who enjoys preparing
and/or eating good food
Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy
good food, I have a healthy
appetite and I even cook. But I
am the odd exception in this
‘food lover’s paradise’.
Why? Because I eat to live.
Everyone else on our tiny
island nation lives to eat.
Oh boy, do they live to eat.
Being a cosmopolitan
society, at the junction of East
and West, we
probably have
as global selection
of food as
can be found in
any one place on
Earth. A visitor
from anywhere
would probably be able
to find their native cuisine in
some form. Of course, the
major culinary cultures of the
world are unfairly represented:
Italian, French, American,
Mediterranean, Japanese,
Thai, Indian and Chinese....
But any true blue Singaporean
will vote in favour
of ‘local’ food -a meld of
Chinese, Malay, Indian,
Indonesian and other regional
cuisines, and some concoctions
unique to Singapore and
neighbouring Malaysia that
incorporate the influences of
all these cultures.
With such a cornucopia
of choices, naming a national
dish is at best contentious.
But Hainanese Chicken Rice
would probably take the pole
position. Equally popular are
Char Kway Teow, Fried
Hokkien Prawn Mee, Nasi
Lemak, Rojak, Laksa, Mee
Siam.... You get the idea.
I love eating these delicious
dishes, but the reason I say I’m
1 8
no foodie is that I don’t go to
the lengths many other Singaporeans
will to find good food.
The French may be renowned
for their love of food, but
Singaporeans fixate on the
ultimate feast, compulsively
judging the merits of every
meal. It is this perpetual hunt
for good food that drives
Singaporeans’ social lives.
The local equivalent of ‘How
are you?’ is ‘Makan already?’
(meaning ‘Eaten yet?’)
Living in Park Wood at
UKC, Singaporeans and
Malaysians will constantly be
found cooking up a storm,
creating irresistible aromas
and often attracting neighbours,
who may even invite
themselves in for a taste.
Food can be found around
the clock in Singapore. Certain
well-known food establishments
are only open in the wee
hours of the morning. Rows of
Mercedes Benzes double-park
along these sometimes
narrow and dingy alleys at 3
AM, and people patiently
queue to buy packets of fried
noodles. Some hawker centres
are more packed with people
at midnight than at regular
mealtimes. No one around
here bats an eyelid when asked
to have supper at some
unearthly hour. And it doesn’t
matter if it’s a long drive - as
long as it’s good food.
As for me... Well my
girlfriend Ong Yi Pen (D92)
is constantly working on that.
Bit by little bit, I’m being
trained in the art of appreciating
good food. Maybe one day,
I too will crave Char Kway
Teow at midnight and stop at
nothing to get a steaming hot
plate of it, to savour the delicious
aromas and tuck in with
the gusto only a Singaporean
can show.
If any UKC alumni are
travelling to Singapore, email
me at ttmt@pacific.net.sg;
maybe I can hone my food
ferreting skills by bringing you
out for a meal. Just don’t be
surprised if it’s in the middle
of the night!
Timothy T.M.Tan E92 was
awarded a BSc in Biochemistry
from Kent in 1995. He is now
a PhD research student at the
Nanyang Technological University
in Singapore.

In the first of a series profiling
specific features at UKC,
Killara Burn describes the
vitalising impact the creation
of a special room has had on
Physics students.
Three years ago, Physics created, out of
what had been a store room, a special
space for Physical Sciences undergraduates.
Windows the length of the outside
wall, a large picture window into the
Physics foyer - it is a very pleasant space.
And it is now equipped with new chairs
and tables, pigeonholes for all Physics
undergraduates, a small library with noncore
physics books and magazines like
New Scientist and Physics World,
whiteboards to scrawl on, notice
boards to keep students up to date
on lecture changes and other
department information, six computers
and - possibly most important
- an open door all day for
Physical Sciences undergraduates.
I visited the Physical Sciences
student room on a recent Tuesday
morning. Tuesdays at noon, the
weekly Physics coursework is due.
The room was full to overflowing,
and pleasantly noisy; students are
there to work together. As Daniel
Burgarth, an exchange student from
Marburg, Germany, (below) said to me,
‘There are no elbows here.’
A group of third-year students in the
room had done the Physics Foundation
year together. The student room had been
talked about in their Foundation year,
come to life in their first year, and they
now use it constantly - ‘We live here!’, one
said. I asked which groups of students
found the room most useful. ‘First-years
are not really in the frame; it may be they
feel intimidated by it as they haven’t
yet made friends and done much
group work.’ First years also mostly
live on campus, which may be a
factor. Second-years and finalists
use the room all day long - from 8
am to 5pm. One student said that
before the room was established, he
got so much less work done. Asked
where he would be if the room
didn’t exist, he said without
hesitation, ‘Keynes bar or the loo!’
I spoke at some length to Jo Keeble
(right), who is in her final year studying
Physics with Management Science.
N o
e l b ow s
here:
the
P hy s i c a l
S c i e n c e s
s t u d e n t
r o o m
‘Physics is solving problems; we need to be
able to put our heads together.’ Jo is from
Folkestone. Until she was 19, she had
thought she wanted to be a civil engineer
and to go to one of the big northern civic
universities. She applied and was offered
a place. But working locally during a year
out after A-levels, she changed her mind.
She is sure she would have dropped out
of University had she not changed course
and come to Kent.
Daniel Woods told me ‘As a mature
student, I was somewhat wary of fitting
in with student life, meeting people with
similar interests and attuning my brain to
a more studious mode. The student room
has solved this, offering an atmosphere
where getting help from people who know
is unavoidable!’
Several students in the room were
either exchange students from other
countries or UK students just back this
year from their year away. Rachel Drummond,
a fourth-year MPhys student
(Rachel spent a year in Grenoble), and a
rocket-builder,
said, ‘I use the
room every day as
a meeting point for
my friends. The
pigeonholes are
invaluable for
communicating
with my tutor and
the supervisors of
our rocket project.
There are times we don’t see them for a
week, but they can still get articles to us
through the room pigeonholes. The computers
are also a great help; of course a
printer would be even better...! The notice
boards are good too - yes for practical
things such as lecture changes, but there
are also special interest notices - SPACE
Society meetings, things to be seen in
the sky this week, adverts for jobs, postgraduate
placements and trips. I love
our student room, and can no longer
remember how we managed without it.’

These are some of the entries received for
WWW since November, when the last
Kent Bulletin was published. To send us a
3W entry, please use your carrier sheet - or
just drop us a note or an email (see the
Web address for the form opposite).
KEY: D: Darwin, E: Eliot, K: Keynes,
R: Rutherford; T or M: Information
Technology (including Maths), N: Nat u r a l
Sciences, A: Science, Technology and Medical
Studies H: Humanities, S: Social Scie
n c e s ,U: Fo u n d ation year or Short - t e rm
s t u d i e s. The location at the end of your
entry is from your mailing address - if it’s
in parentheses, we think you’re not actually
living there but use it for UKC mail.
Ye a r : We place you under your year of
entry to Kent, not exit and if you were
here for more than one course of study,
we try to put you in your first entry year -
please let us know if corrections are needed!
The most recent year’s batch of 3W
entries has now been added to the earlier
ones on the Web. The URL is opposite.
1966
ROBINSON, Peter (EN) Back at Kent as
a Senior Research Fellow in Biosciences.
We have some new tricks to persuade the
immune system to attack cancer cells,
funded by the Leukaemia Research Fund.
Surprised to find many of my old teachers
still around. Although UKC is MUCH
bigger, the social scene is as good as ever!
Canterbury, Feb 2000.
ROSS, Charles (RH). Just re-elected as
local branch chairman of the Christian
Democrats (just in time for the donations
scandal featuring greater political animals
than me!). I now have responsibility for a
small nature reserve so have been doing
such exciting things as counting tree-frogs
(yes... there are other things that are more
exciting). Three children still at school,
one at the Public Record Office, following
in his parents’ footsteps. Great to have
contact with old friends, particularly Sally
Carr (R66 née Jordan), Sue Arnell (R68
née Cail) who stayed with us recently on
her way from New York to Munich. Also
Richard Cockbill R66 who shares my
passion for birdwatching. Drop me a line
at goshawk@t-online.de. Dec 99, Germ a ny.
1967
ARCHER, Gilly (EH). Wishing everyone
who reads this a very happy new millennium.
Nice to see UKC scored so well in the
drama tables - there wasn’t a drama degree
when I came (and I probably wouldn’t
have done it anyway, although I did do a
‘fun’ drama course run by Professor
Hathaway once a week). Ironic that I’m
now a drama teacher. The 6th Form
college I work for is very popular in
Nottingham and has an atmosphere similar
to the one I remember at UKC - small and
friendly. Probably that’s why I’ve stayed
there for my whole career. Dec 99,
Nottinghamshire.
NEILL-HALL, Bill (EH). We moved to
North Cornwall in 97 because Juliet was
Jane Hutt (RS)
is the Member
for the Vale of
Glamorgan of
the National
Assembly for
Wales and the
Welsh Health
Secretary.
Cardiff,Jan 2000.
W h o ’ s W h a t
W h e r e
f r o m U K C ?
offered a big job by the Cornish Education
Authority and I can do my job as a literary
agent from anywhere in the country with a
decent phone line and post office. Bliss! I
find that business has increased as authors
and publishers love to come here to
discuss books strolling the beach in the
mornings followed by a pint of Doom Bar
at lunch then a chat about advances in the
afternoon. That’s the way to do business.
Dec 99, Cornwall.
1968
DOWNING, Richard (RS). After many
years (a whole life actually!) at ICL, I’ve
risen (fallen) to manage the company’s
Technical Strategy. Still in love with Ros
(R68 née Arlow) whom I met at UKC all
those years ago. Oct 99, Berkshire.
MEIER, Paul (RH). I have recently been
working as dialect coach on Ang Lee’s civil
war epic film, Ride With The Devil. Also
the founder and director of IDEA
(International Dialects of English
Archive), the world’s first and only online
database of English language dialect and
accent samples for the theatre and film
industries. This is found at
www.ukans.edu/~idea at the University of
Kansas where I am a Professor in the
Theatre and Film Department. Dec 99,
USA.
1969
DENNIS, Norm (RS). School teacher in
Bootle. Married with two children. Jan
2000, Lancashire.
1971
GLYNOS, Tony (KS). Still at the British
Library. Jan 2000, Bedfordshire.
1972
JONES, Gareth (DS) was appointed in
January by Greg Dyke to head Personnel
at the BBC. London, Jan 2000.
1973
CHEESMAN, Pamela (Morrish; RH).
Recovery following heart surgery was good
in 98 but 99 has seen lung trouble. 2000
will see a new woman able to enjoy
smashing new home with sea views. Jan
2000, Kent.
1975
KEKIC, Razia (DADA; RS). Still working
with the Refugee Legal Centre in asylum
matters and coping with two daughters.
Just obtained a PhD in Anthropology after
over a decade’s work! Get in touch. Jan
2000, Middlesex.
MCLOUGHLIN, Ian (ES). PhD
( U n i ve rsity of Bath 83). Curr e n t l y
Professor of Management and Head of the
Newcastle School of Management,
U n i ve rsity of Newcastle upon Ty n e .
Previously lectured and researched at
B runel, Kingston and Southampton. Most
recent book is C r e at i ve Te c h n o l ogi c a l
C h a n ge: Shaping Te c h n o l ogy and Orga n i s a-
t i o n, (Routledge). Fondest UKC memory
- the undefeated Eliot College football
team - what e ver happened to them?
M a rried; 3 children. Dec 99, Nort h u m-
berland.
SULLIVAN, Anna (stage name Anna
Gilbert; DH). I’m still working as an
actor (recent credits include Kavanagh
QC and Whizziwig). Still teaching
American Drama students and enjoying
my 2 year old son Charlie. Dec 99,
London.
1976
PEER, Caroline (KH). Now settled in
sunny Dorset as Vice Principal of a
Technology College. Still off exploring
when time & money permit. Last one
Sulawesi in Indonesia, next one to South
America hopefully. Jan 2000, Dorset.
1977
HILL, Gareth (KS). Made redundant
from BUPA after 16 years working in
Hospitals Division. Now working as
Faculty Accountant for the Faculty of
Medicine & Veterinary Medicine at the
University of Edinburgh. It’s a big change
to be working in the public sector! Still in
contact with Philippa Paterson (K77 née
Castle) and met up with Jonathan Sweet
K77 earlier this year. Nov 99, Midlothian.
1978
JONES, Russell (ES). Two years with arts
and business at the forefront of
business/arts relationships. Also still just
about a member of the London Symphony
Chorus. Dec 99, London.
1979
CAHILL, Robert (ET). Senior Lecturer in
Electrical Engineering at Queens University
Belfast. Dec 99, Newtonabbey.
KATWALA, Sandeep (DS). Working as a
Solicitor for Linklaters & Alliance mainly
on infrastructure projects in India. Jutta
E86 busy looking after Keiran, Dedan and
Daniel. Moving to Tonbridge in Dec 99.
Jan 2000, Kent.
O’SHEA, Maurice (KS). Since leaving
UKC I married Liz, and got 4 children, an
MBA from the London Business School
and a lot older. Sept 99, West Sussex.
1980
BARTLEY, Anthony (KN). Moved to
Canada in 85 after my MSc. PhD in
Science Education (British Columbia, 95).
Working in the Faculty of Education at
Lakehead University in Ontario. Sept 99,
Canada.
SEALEY, Movga (ES). Still as mad as
ever, not the typical chartered accountant,
and still managing to kick a bag of air
around at weekends. Nov 99, Somerset.
1982
CONACHER, Judith (KN). Doing IT in
the pharmaceutical industry, which pays
the mortgage, and living in the Peak
1971
Sa'ad Barakati
1949-1999
Sa'ad (EN) was born in
Baghdad and brought up
in Jordan. He came to
England on secondment
from the Jordanian Army,
and in 1971 came to UKC
to study Electronics. He
stayed in the UK for some
years after graduating,
doing a PGCE at Christ
Church, and then teaching
at the Queen Elizabeth
Grammar School in
Faversham. At the time of
his death he was working
in the computer department
at the Royal Court in
Amman. He visited
England as often as he
could and was a generous
and tireless host to those of us who were lucky enough to stay with
him in Amman. - Cathy Meeus(E72)
I do not consider myself to be the
p a i n t e r; I only know the colours
and the brush. Nature port ray s
itself through the hand of the
p a i n t e r, who hands over control
to Nat u r e.
Sunsets: It's a journey of the
h e a rt and of the mind, wh i c h
absorb the beauty of the scenery,
gi ve it voice through colours and
e n rich it through the fullness of
feelings guiding eve ry single
b rush stroke.
Look at the scene you wa n t
to paint and absorb it, then let
your hand do the wo rk without
t h i n k i n g. Pretend that the scene
is doing it, pretend that the tree is
m oving the brush to paint itself -
e ve ry straw, eve ry leaf, eve ry
cloud, eve ry object is controlling
the brush to port ray itself. Then
you know the deed is done, wh e n
you look at your painting and
think: OK, that's when you have
got harm o ny with nature, that ' s
when you understand wh at God
meant by saying: 'Your creat i o n
and resurrection are but like a
single soul.
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And you can update your contact details, including your next 3W message, using the form you find there.
1979
Jonathan Ray
about wine.
(KS) BA, MPh writes
District, which is wonderful. Planning to
get married in 2000. Keen to rekindle old
friendships so email me at: judith.conacher@rp-rorer.co.uk
or
j.conacher@talk21.com. Sept 99.
Cheshire.
TOLUN, Mehmet (KT). I was elected as
the IEEE Turkey Section Chair in Dec 97.
Professor in Computer Engineering and
also the Acting Dean of the Engineering
Faculty at the Eastern Mediterranean
University, Gazimagusa. Dec 99, Turkey.
1984
JONES, Richard (EN). Working on
Quality Management Systems for
Kelloggs. Married recently to Elaine who
works in quality for Nestlé. Relocated to
Cheshire, which is good for accessing
Snowdonia, the Peak and Lake Districts.
Honeymooned walking the Alpine Haute
route from Chamonix to Zermat for 2
weeks. Sept 99, Cheshire.
ROBINSON, Sally (RH). I moved to
North London after returning from several
years in Mexico. I have been working as
Project Manager of a new project for 90
homeless young people in Hayes, near
Heathrow Airport. I planned, opened and
manage a foyer, offering young people
accommodation and training on site. It has
been a challenging two years, working with
vulnerable young people, and I have
learned a lot. I miss the sunshine of
Mexico, and its people, but I am happy
and settled in Harrow. I am still supporting
the boys in red - Liverpool FC - and
still watch them play at Anfield whenever I
can. Dec 99, Middlesex.
TREWIN, Simon (DH). I have joined
Europe’s largest multi-media talent
agency, Peters Frasers & Dunlop
(www.pfd.co.uk) as Literary Agent. I am
always on the lookout for exciting fiction
and non-fiction. Contact me at:
strewin@pfd.co.uk. Jan 2000, London.
WILBY, Kevin (KH). Living in Colchester,
working in London. Renovating a
house for fun. Have the most beautiful
daughter in the world. Jan 2000, Essex.
1985
GOODWIN, Robin (ES). I have taken up
a Readership in the Department of
Human Sciences, Brunel University. Dec
99, North Somerset.
1986
GUNTHER, Stefan (EH). Successfully
defended dissertation on Holocaust
literature at Brandeis University. Still
working in Washington DC. Married in
April 99. Jan 2000, USA.
PEDUZZI, Julia (Starr; RH). Am
currently taking a break from banking to
bring up my daughter Emma, born in
April 99. Would love to hear from any 86
people. Jan 2000, Kent.
THOMPSON, Trevor (KS). Is there
ANYONE left from 86/7 MA Management,
or am I the only one? Dec 99, East
Sussex.
1987
BRADBURY, Stella (RN). Re Allister
Chamber’s comments in the last Kent
Bulletin (No 33) - yes, we (that’s Andy
Gibb K87 and I) remember vividly. Hope
your colour sense has improved. Dec 99,
Herefordshire.
EVANS, Chris (ET). Aside from doing the
Virgin breakfast show I am currently
working for an Internet solutions company
in Hammersmith. Previously a teacher and
spent four mad years teaching at the
British School in Milan. Have at last readjusted
to those strange quirks of English
life - ‘last orders please!’. kris.evans@virgin.net.
Oct 99, Leicester
TATLOW, Jo (ET). Hello to everyone who
knew me. David and I became parents in
August 99 and I return to work in the
Royal Navy shortly. Jan 2000, Hampshire.
TUFFEN, John (RT). Married with
daughter born June 99. Still attempting to
kickstart a musical career.... I hope that
2000 will bring me some sort of success -
along with some money preferably (whilst
it is nice to get music out into the world, it
would be nice if I actually got paid for it
once in a while). Anyone who wants to
hear my music can go along to
http://www.mp3.com/dktr-t/. If you do, let
me know what you think! Dec 99, North
Yorkshire.
1988
BRADFIELD, Kelly (EN). Married in
M ay 99. Working for HSE as HM Inspector
of Health & Safety. Best wishes to all that
remember me. Jan 2000, Berkshire.
FITZGERALD, Neil (RN). Completed
my PhD in Analytical Chemistry last
January. Married May 99. Chemistry
Lecturer at Barnard College (the women’s
college of Columbia University, in New
York City). Dec 99, USA.
D e a t h s
We are very said to have to report that
we have been notified of the deaths of
several alumni since the Autumn
Bulletin. Sa’ad Barakati (K71) died in
September. Mark Evan Wiltshire R76
and 84, died recently. Edward Malcolm
Russon E77 died in 99. Kenneth
Percy Witney R87 and 95, died in
September. Terrence Stephen French
(K92) died in autumn, 1999.
with Coventry University. Contact me at:
mark@stratford11.freeserve.co.uk. Sept
99, Warwickshire.
MANGAT, Chen (DH). Finally made the
move to the Big Smoke. Working for
Trailfinders in London, joining the Zone 3
invasion of the centre every morning.
Commuting bad, life good! Jan 2000, Essex.
1989
BLENKINSOP, Dave (ES). Enjoying
living and working in Berkshire in the
comms industry. Memories of UKC
include cruising down the hill and
staggering back up again; Eliot glory over
Keynes in inter-college football (woo-hoo!)
and too many other fine moments with
some outstanding people to mention here.
Contact me at:
dblenkinsop@energis.co.uk. Dec 99,
Berkshire.
DARBY, Pete (DH). Still being a
responsible parent, but available for
weddings, parties, summer season... May
get Equity card 10 years and one child too
late soon. Dec 99, Kent.
DAYALJI, Rupash (DN). Greetings to all
my friends from UKC. I hope time has
been good to you. Anyone planning to
travel to Africa on holiday and in need of
some good advice? Email me at:
ranad@malawi.net. Sept 99, Malawi.
KLEINKNECHT, Ina (EH). After
working in many countries I am back in
Germany with the Science Department of
an Embassy. Hello to everyone who
remembers me from 89. Dec 99, Germany.
MACKEY, Rachel (ES). Spent 8 years in
Canterbury after graduation then moved
to Ireland where I run my own Social
Research and Evaluation business. Anyone
who wants to discuss the ‘auld’ days would
be very welcome to email me at:
rachel.mackey@oceanfree.net. Sept 99,
Irish Republic.
1990
MAHMUD, Najam (ES). Kent was a
lovely experience. I now work for HSBC in
Pakistan as the Head of Human
Resources. Email me at
najam@super.net.pk. Dec 99, Pakistan.
STEPHENS, Peter (RN). Currently
working on a development project in
Malawi, a small country in central
Southern Africa. Contact me at
stephens@malawi.net or via
www.angelfire.com/pe/stephens. Dec 99,
Malawi.
WEBB, Karen (ET). Working for the
Prince’s Trust and living in Chiswick. Sept
99, London.
WELSH, Richard (ET). I am a freelance
graphic designer for Web sites and other
electronic media. Currently living in and
working from Oxford - and liking it.
Contact me at richard@welshdesign.co.uk
or visit www.welshdesign.co.uk. Jan 2000,
Oxfordshire.
GRIFFIN, Mark (EH). Drama lecturer in
Stratford, managing courses in association
1991
ALLEN, Claire (EH). Have been living in
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Melbourne (by the beach) for a year,
working as a lawyer specialising in
intellectual property and anti-counterfeiting,
and taking the opportunity to travel
this side of the world. Still see and keep in
contact with my Kent friends - shared a
flat in London with Anita Grover D88
until moving Down Under. Dec 99,
Australia.
BALL, Dave (ES). Happily married to
Rebecca Greene D91 and settled in
Washington, just down the road from
chairman Bill. We are both continuing our
careers as (respectively) geek and lawyer.
Send cash, letters, death threats to
dave@gotmonkey.com - we may even
reply! Jan 2000, USA.
GRIFFITHS, Griff (DT). Working for
Electronic Arts writing computer games.
Worked on both Dungeon Keeper 2 and
Theme Park World. Living in Guildford
but have been abroad much of the year in
Japan and Canada working on the Sony
Playstation 2. Nov 99, Surrey.
POOLE, Ben (RH). Still developing Lotus
Notes/WWW applications at PWC. Still
married to Sam with son Thomas and
another on the way. Jan 2000, Essex.
REDGRAVE, Giles (RN). DPhil (Sussex
98) and have been a lecturer here since.
Sept 99, East Sussex.
THOMSON, Robert (EN). I have now
moved even further away from the field of
Physics and work as a UNIX Support
Engineer for an Essex-based company. In
my spare time I’m usually to be found at
the Globe Theatre or flying a Cessna out
of Cranfield. I would love to hear from
anyone I knew at UKC. Email me at:
rt@angband.demon.co.uk. Jan 2000,
London.
1992
CLIFTON, Grace (Bailey; EH). Married
Matthew Clifton E92 in December 99 -
difficult getting used to the Mr and Mrs
Clifton thing! The wedding was fantastic -
really wintry with lots of candles etc.
Emma Silvestri D92 was a bridesmaid and
Erik Childerhouse D92 was one of the
ushers. Other guests were Samantha
Davies E94 (née Northover) and Nicole
Kemble D92. Dec 99, Oxfordshire.
LARKING, Stuart (RT). E-commerce
consulting in Silicon Valley. Looking to
recruit UKC grads with Java experience to
work in the USA! Email me if you’re
interested at: slarking@intrasolvconsulting.com.
Nov 99, USA.
1993
HAREWOOD, David (DN). Musician.
Skint. Jan 2000, Surrey.
1992
Stephane Coulaux DS The ‘Losers’ Society, created in 1992 by 3 LLM students, 1 IR
and 1 Computer Sciences fellow held a reunion last summer on the Greek island of Paros
Left to right: Stephane Coulaux DS, Yvon Hui DS, Zoi Panagiotara DS, Duke
Samankraisorakti DS, Chryssa Karakoida (not-UKC), Liana Marangou DS and Trifon
Papadopoulos DS
INNES, Christopher (ES). Teaching at
Boise State University in Idaho. Married
with one son. Sept 99, USA.
PANDIT, Umesh (ES). Still ‘buzzing’ after
all these years! Currently working for
NatWest Bank but looking for a job in
Investment Banking or IT. I hope to visit
India again this winter and maybe the Far
East. Sept 99, Essex.
1994
BONSER, Sophie (DH). Now working in
University administration at King’s
College because the call of Uni was too
strong to resist. Hoping to stay here and
make a career of it now I have finally
found something I enjoy! Sept 99,
London.
FASSNIDGE, Tom (KH). Having fallen
into a job the day after graduation, I find
myself still here after a year and a half,
although thankfully I’m doing something a
bit more interesting than I was when I
started. I now write for a living of sorts -
1995
Lucy Russell (KS)
PGCE (Canterbury
Christ Church)
teaches at the
Westlands School in
Sittingbourne. Her
final-year UKC
dissertation on the
1984-85 Miners’
Strike was the cover
story for the winter
99 The Historian.
Deal Feb, 2000.
corporate brochures and the like. I would
love to hear from anyone who remembers
Keynestock, Twister in the courtyard,
foolish bomb crater antics or top campus
band Diamond. Contact me at: tomfassnidge@hotmail.com.
Dec 99, London.
HAJI BADRI, Azamudin (ES). Thinking
of doing my postgraduate studies at UKC
some time in 2000, hopefully, and meet
the teaching staff at the CBS. As an
academic staff at one of Malaysia’s
Universities, having a postgraduate
qualification is a must and given the
opportunity, I would like to do that at
UKC. Dec 99, Malaysia.
KEEN, Claire (Dulson; KS). Working as a
Press Officer for the Department of
Environment, Transport and the Regions.
Married to Jeff Keen K94. Email me at:
cjkeen@pawprints.org.uk. Oct 99,
Northamptonshire.
YOSHIDA, Midori (DT). One of the most
exciting things that happened in 99 was
publishing my book (in Japanese), which I
introduced to the people at the Kent
Reunion in Tokyo last Spring. In it I wrote
about my life in the UK including the
University. Dec 99, Japan.
1996
VIGAR, John (R H). P/t lecturer UKC
Unit for Pa rt-Time Study, WEA and
Kent Ad Ed. Author of 8 books on
English local history. Regular contri bu t o r
to BBC radio and television. Leader of
specialist historical tours to pri vat e l y
owned country houses. Email me at :
j o h n e v i g a r @ b t i n t e rnet.com. Sept 99,
Kent.
Only Connect...
Lost touch with an old
friend? The UKC alumni
database may be able to
help. If we have a current
address for them, we
would be happy to
forward a message from you. If we too
have lost touch, ‘Only Connect’ (which is
printed in the Kent Bulletin twice a year
and broadcast on the Web annually) may
get a response:
C a n t e r bu r y Cathedral Library ( ~ A D
1383) would like to find E l i z a b e t h
Claire Ga t h e r c o l e (R82). B ru c e
C a rs o n (R66) wltf Ronald Cleav e r
(R66). To ny Robinson (E67) wltf Pe t e r
M i l l e r (R67) and John Still ( R 67 ).
Kevin Connell (E68) wltf A n g e l a
Wa l k e r ( Jepson, E70). Bob Gidlow
(R69) wltf Pete Stow (E66) and To ny
Pe n n i n g (K66). Phill Wa t s o n wltf Jo h n
L e w i s (D70). B r ian Greenow ( K 71 )
wltf Alan Leigh and Alastair McF a r -
l a n e (both K71). R o b e r ta Kedzier s k i
(K71) wltf John Henry Witt ( R 71 ).
Alan Lear (R71) wltf Elspeth Baillie
(D71). Richard Whiteing (E71) wltf
Paul Baines (R71) and Michael Flood
(R71). Paul Gibson (E72) wltf Jo h n
M c G owe n (72). Mick Lowe (K74) wltf
C h r is (Robin) Hodge (K74). I a n
M c L o u g h l i n (E75) wltf members of the
u n d e f e ated Eliot Football Team. K a i yo z e
B i l l i m o ri a (R75) wltf Mike Wo o d h e a d
(R75). D ave Grant (E76) wltf Ian Scott
G i l c h ri s t (E76) and Aubrey Irwin
(E75). Themis Themistocleous ( K 78 )
wltf K at hy Da v i e s (K77). D e b r a
C h a m o r e l - Wo o d ( Wood D79) wltf
M a k i s - Greek PhD student 79/80.
Tajammal Abidally (R80) wltf P h i l i p
S n g (D81). John F o l e y wltf R i c h a r d
L e s l i e (R80). Dan LeClerc (R81) wltf
H o r st Schade (E79), C h r is Ry a n
(D81), Je n ny Har t l e y (E79), C h u c k
G r a y (E81) and John F e e l e y ( E 81 ).
Charles Ab b o t t (K82) wltf G i l l i a n
A n d e rs o n (K82). Colin Adams ( E 82 )
wltf Malcolm Jo y c e (K82). Helen Ray
(Daniel R82) wltf Russell Hanlon ( E 82 ).
Adebanjo Odutola (R83) wltf H e l e n
G r a y (K82). K ate Amos (R84) wltf
B r itt Reynolds (R86), Sharon J o h n-
s t o n e (R86) and Sally Meek ( D 85 ).
John Dixon (K84) wltf Richard Timm
(K70). Philip Duddy (R85) wltf C o l i n
M i l e s (R85). Andrew Rober t s ( R 85 )
wltf Tim Gregory (E85), M a r k
Po u l t n e y (R85) and A d r ian Newman-
Ta n c r e d i (E88). Laurence Sands ( K 85 )
wltf M a r ion Wa c h t e l (D85). K a r e n
H o l m e s - M a l o n e (E86) wltf E l k e
H u b e r ti (E86), Antoinette Van Zelm
and S o n ya Lancaster (R86). A l e x
K n i g h t (D86) wltf Michael Rheinnecke
r (D86). Tom Mar t i n (E86) wltf
Simon Da v i d s o n (E86). Joanna Roach
(K87) wltf Richard O’Br i e n ( E 89 ).
Amanda Wa t s o n (E87) wltf T i m
Ya rn e l l (E86) and L awrence P e c k
(E86). Carol Whitwill (D87) wltf
Maisoon Rehani (K87). Kevin W i l b y
(K87) wltf Julian P a l m e r (K84). A m i n
S a b o o n i wltf Dr Philip Philip ( D 88 ).
Mineko Honda (R88) wltf S i b e l
K a l ay c i o g l u (R74). Sarah Lewis ( K 88 )
wltf Spencer Mar s h a l l (E92). J u l i a
Wa l t e r (R88) wltf G avin Emmer s o n
If yo u ’ ve used ‘Only connect’ and been lucky enough to re-connect, please let us know! Thanks.
(R86). G r e g o r y We i n k a u f (R88) wltf
Melanie Shearer (R88). Fa r ya l
M a u d a r b o c u s (D89) wltf A i n e
M c G r e e v y (D89). Ali Shamseddine
(R89) wltf Denise Freilich ( R 89 ).
Marcus Stahlhofer (K89) wltf G i l e s
R i c h a r d s o n (K89) and Neil Aitchison
(K89). Laura Hutchison (D90) wltf
Tom Harg r e a ves (D88). Karen W e bb
(E90) wltf A n t h o n y Hall (R90). C ry s t a l
H u t t o n (D91) wltf B a r ry Kier n a n
(D91). Douglas J a m e s (E91) wltf L a n a
Jo h n s t o n - F r a s e r ( Johnston E91). M e r t
Pa l a b i y i k (K91) wltf M Khodor
M e k k a o u i (R91). Andrew Reid ( K 91 )
wltf Diana Candida (K91). C a r o l i n e
T i g n e r (E91) wltf Luke Thur s t o n
(E91). Ian Bradley (D92) wltf B a r b a r a
C o g h l a n (E89). Lisa Flexner (K92) wltf
Kostas Alexakis (R92). A n d r e w
C o u rt n e y (K93) wltf Mark La w r e n c e
(K93). Josephine Dew e l l (R94) wltf
Said Al-Enezi (K91). Louisa McGinn
(R94) wltf Calvin Hunter ( E 94 ).
G r e g o r y Fur m a n i a k (D95) wltf
A t s u n o r i Ehara (E94).
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I n s i d e
s t o r y
The series where
UKC people
describe what’s really
going on.
Killara Burn, Alumni
and Development
Officer, explains
how alumni work is
never done...
KI L L A R A (R I G H T) AT WO R K W I T H A L U M N I.
Sisyphus had it
e a s y
I
I start my mornings reading
email (after News on line
[ h t t p : / / w w w. u k c. a c. u k / u k c / n e w s. ] )
With so many alumni overseas,
email is critical for us. Mostly
alumni are seeking old friends,
updating us on themselves,
asking about the Kent Bulletin,
or alumni events and reunions
(we offer help with data and
invitations, and, when appropriate,
put them in touch with
the Conference Office).
Next on my list today is the
Alumni Careers Fair. 1999’s
was the best ever – over 60
alumni, and an excellent
student turnout. This year, of
the two hundred or so alumni
who said they’d come to the
Fair, only thirty had actually
confirmed less than a month
before! So we had to remind -
especially those in the popular
areas: media, financial services,
international (TEFL,
VSO). Done jointly with the
Careers Advisory Service, the
Fair is one of the high points
of our year. Students get
friendly help from alumni;
alumni enjoy coming to the
Fair and the chance to ‘put
something back’.
The life’s blood of our
office is the alumni database
(Sisyphus comes to mind.) On
average the British move house
every four years - and telling
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this office when they do is not
always first on alumni minds.
We are always pleased to hear
from alumni, and it is great
when colleagues tell us they’ve
heard from one of their former
students. The alumni database
has almost every student who
ever registered at Kent - about
60,000. It contains academic
information and anything
alumni have told us about
themselves – current job,
spouse, number of children,
etc, plus whether they’ve
helped at the Careers Fair or
attended events, or made
donations to the Annual Fund.
We recently bought a new
database system and are going
through the nightmare of
conversion, but are hopeful the
new system will permit easier
updating - even by alumni
themselves - through the Web.
On which subject, meeting
with Web editor tomorrow -
must finalise my Web wish list:
Email for life, directories,
more effective list-serves,
interactive Who’s What Where
pages, links and more links -
just an up-to-date alumni
calendar would be terrific! Can
it all be done? Must prioritise.
We d n e s d ay: UCAS visit
d ay. More and more parents
a c c o m p a ny their
p r o s p e c t i ve
student; we try to
make them feel
welcome. I organise
a rota of staff
vo l u n t e e rs to lunch
with parents,
a n swer their questions,
find out what
c o n c e rns them now.
( H ow much will it
cost? Will she be
safe? Does he need
his own computer?)
I t ’s good to see how
parents - and their
o f f s p ring - like the campus.
I log on to an email from
Professor Colin Seymour-Ure
about the new Head of Personnel
at the BBC – he’s one
of ours! Gareth Jones studied
Sociology at Kent. We have a
striking number of graduates
working in the media; many at
the BBC. Keith Lampard,
Faculty Secretary for Humanities
and himself a Kent graduate,
emails me about Richard
Kwietniowski, who directed
Love and Death on Long Island
and had studied at Kent in the
80s. The cherry on top was a
newspaper cutting about an
alumna Member of the Welsh
Assembly! We knew about
Reg Race (an MP in the 70s),
about Christopher Davies
(former Lib Dem MP for
Oldham East and Saddleborough,
and now a Euro MP)
and David Lepper (current
MP for Brighton Pavilion).
Jane Hutt, Health Secretary
for Wales, also studied at
Kent. It’s appropriate we’re
holding the September alumni
reception at the House of
Commons.
Now I must spend some
time persuading some speakers
to say yes for the CASE
Europe Conference in
September. (This is the big
training opportunity for people
in educational PR, marketing,
alumni relations and fundraising.)
I am co-chairing the
Alumni Track with my counterpart
at Newcastle, and we
will arrange approximately 25
sessions with good speakers on
alumni subjects running from
‘E-Alumni’ to ‘Thanking your
alumni donors’ to ‘Being
effective in a small shop’. It is
a great chance to compare
notes and spark new ideas.
So watch this space - and
send your own suggestions to
me on a postcard or to
J.K.Burn@ukc.ac.uk!

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