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Kent Bulletin 40 Spring 2003

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Inside story

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Letter from Angola

Fe at u r e s 8 11 14 15 16 17
The politics of identity Lord Parekh The Research Assessment Exercise Hilary Saunders interviews Jacqui Forsyth Special feature: UKC Radio Mary Dagg E99 Best friends Nicki Howard K92 An interview with Kate Cann Rose Warman R00 Alumni life: Career change Karl Wilcox E82

News and Views 4 7 12 18 19 20

University news The Development Programme Enterprise and innovation Letter from Angola Sam Godfrey E94 Inside story: Stuart Harrop Whos What Where?

Thank you

Transmanche University
The Education Secretary, Charles Clarke, recently signed an education accord with his opposite number in France, Luc Ferry, to establish the first cross-Channel

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Boulogne, Calais and Dunkirk. The five universities will collaborate on research and teaching. Kent students and staff will benefit by regular cross-Channel contact. Staff will exchange and develop research ideas and projects, while students will benefit from greater subject choice and the chance to learn French in France. more than 4.5m from the Department of Trade and Industry under the Science Research Investment Fund (SRIF). The award will be used to support the Universitys research activities, providing opportunities for investment in equipment, the refurbishment of laboratory space or upgrading existing buildings. The award was made as part of a government scheme to invest in scientific excellence. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor David Melville,

said: this is great news; the University of Kent has a worldwide reputation for the quality of its research work, which this grant can only enhance. We plan to use the money to develop state-ofthe-art research facilities.

Circles of Fear
The recommendations of Breaking the Circles of Fear, a report about black peoples experience of mental health services, are soon to be implemented as a three-year project. Its lead researcher and author is Dr Frank Keating (above) of Kents Tizard Centre. At present, black people mistrust and fear mental health services,

university. The accord officially endorses the two-yearold Transmanche University project initiated by Kent, the three Universities of Lille and the University of the Littoral, which is based in

while professionals and the police are wary of black service users. The result is a vicious circle of fear perpetuated by prejudice, misunderstanding and misconception. Commissioned and published by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health (SCMH), Breaking the Circles of Fear will result in statutory mental health and voluntary sector groups being helped to ensure that black service users, families and carers receive a better standard of care than they do at present. These groups will also be given a say in what happens to them and why. The project will be managed by the SCMH with funding from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.

4.5m grant from the DTI

The University is to receive

In top five for increased funding

Kent is among the countrys top five universities in terms

of the percentage increase in funds allocated by the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) this year. Ten percent of all of Englands university expansion will be at Kent, with more than 600 additional student places available from this autumn. Working with further education colleges and other higher education institutions, Kent has developed a range of initiatives to ensure university education is accessible to as many people as possible, including those who would never have previously considered it as an option. The increased grant represents a rise in income of over 7m for the University. In particular, students in Medway will benefit from the additional funding, as well as those in Tonbridge and Canterbury. Over the past three years, the University

people
Professor John Baldock will be the new Dean of Social Sciences, succeeding Professor Chris Hale on 1 August. Robert Worcester has joined the University Council, Jonathan Sloggett, formerly of Dover Harbour Board and a long-time Member of the University Council, will, from 1 August, become Deputy Pro-Chancellor. Professor Glynis Murphy is head of the Tizard Centre, succeeding Peter McGill. Professor Michael Fairhurst succeeds Professor Leslie Little as Electronics Department Director.
Michael Fairhurst Glynis Murphy

has increased its student population by over 2,500 and this latest settlement ensures growth is set to continue.

interfaces that are more sensitive to the human user.

Writer-in-residence
Award-winning novelist Radhika Jha is currently Writer-in-residence at the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research in the School of English. Her first novel, Smell, was published by Quartet in 2001. It was then translated into French and won the Prix Guerlain. The novel is set in Nairobi and Paris, and tells the story of Leila, an illegal immigrant. Radhika, from Bangalore, is now working on a collection of stories. The Writer-in-residence programme is supported by the Charles Wallace Trust of India. The Programme is for a writer from India to spend up to 12 weeks at the University, to make contact with British audiences and publishers, and to write. Though they have no teaching obligations, the writer-in-residence may participate in workshops or give readings and talks while at Kent. Past writersin-residence have included Upamanyu Chatterjee,

Kent academic to give computers human touch

Howard Bowman and Colin Johnson of the Computing Laboratory have been awarded a grant of 150,000 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to construct computational models of human attention. The research will be in collaboration with the Medical Research Councils Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, one of the UKs leading centres for research into human attention. Humans are very good at focusing on the highest priority event in their environment and ignoring the rest. If we see a car careering off the road towards us, we break our conversation and immediately focus on the car and jump out of its way. Computer systems struggle to perform effectively where demands on them change unpredictably. This study will try to increase our understanding of human attention and allow us to build computer

World Wildlife Fund sends students up the Amazon

The World Wildlife Fund (Peru) is funding the Universitys Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) to establish a community-based conservation project in the Rio Pastaza that will include DICEs annual Amazon Research and Learning Expedition. Second-year students on the BSc in Biodiversity and Conservation Management at DICE learn practical skills by conducting research in the Peruvian Amazon, one of the Earths most biodiverse regions. Final-year student Amanda Hutchinson says, the trip to Peru was amazing and I will never forget it. Collecting data for ecological studies and seeing animals previously discussed in lectures was a real incentive to further my studies. There are two research boats, the Lobo de Rio and the Nutria, and we could travel into the interior to look at monkeys, macaws, parrots, caimans, fish, deer and tapir. The Expeditions are run in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana (UNAP) and the Wildlife Conservation Society. University of Kent and UNAP students work side-by-side, with Kent students contributing a strong theoretical background and UNAP students demonstrating excellent on-the-ground experience.

Mukul Kesavan, Githa Hariharan, Smita Agarwal and Manju Kapur, all of whom have recently published new novels or collections of poems.

Campus developments
The new Social Sciences building, housing the 5* (top Research score) School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR), opened in the autumn. The Sports Centre extension is progressing, and will provide superb additional gym space, a healthy eating bistro, dance and aerobics space, and

more. The extension to the Registry building, replacing the temporary huts that were the accommodation for Personnel, Payroll and Pensions for many years, is due to be finished in October. It will house Admissions & Recruitment, Communications & Development (including Alumni Relations, Congregations & Events), and the International and European Offices. The University is planning more student accommodation - for September 2004, 300 additional rooms at Tyler Court and another 200 in Park Wood.

Art on campus
The second HEArtworks exhibition opened on 6 February, with works by KIAD staff and students and by recent KIAD graduate, Rebekah Sunshine-Harris. Paul Goodrick, K68, who studied English & Philosophy at Kent, was just awarded a Fine Arts degree (a First) at KIAD. His sculptures and paintings are in the Keynes Atrium. In the summer term will be an exhibition by African artist Shaukat Khan, organised by the charity

Seeds for Africa, and from 16 May Kent students in the Universitys Student Art Society will be showing their work. The University will be hosting two outdoor sculptures as part of the 100 days of contemporary sculpture in Canterbury exhibition organised by KIAD and the City Council. The two sculptures will be sited in a prominent location, probably south of Keynes (one on each side of University Road).

The

Development

Programme

a chance to put something back

With every mailing of the Bulletin, we offer you an easy way (on the carrier sheet) to make a gift to the Annual Fund, and, among the stacks of carriers that come back to us, with your address confirmations, new work details, 3W notes, or offers of help for the Careers Fair, are always some donations. Most donors tick the box Areas of greatest need. A tick in this box means the Development Trust can allocate your gifts to just that - areas of greatest need. Thank you very much! Kent karate

phonathon. It is never too late! As a result of the donations received we have been able to award another alumni postgraduate scholarship and assist the South African Adventure project (below).

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South African Adventure

Students at Kent, Christchurch University College and Canterbury College are collaborating on a Duke of Edinburgh exploration project that will take them to the Milimani Reserve in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa this July. In 2004, South African students will come to Kent. The Milimani Game Sanctuary is 10,000 acres of
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and sharing Zulu culture, including getting to know the village witch doctor, and they will work on animal welfare with the Reserves care expert, tagging animals and participating in the daily patrols. The Annual Fund is helping with this project.

SERKAWT FARHAN KHOLA (LEFT) IN THE UK STUDENT CHAMPIONSHIPS

Pharmacy course
The new Medway School of Pharmacy, a collaboration between Kent and the University of Greenwich, has just been given the go ahead to offer a highly innovative degree. The new course will run from this September and has been designed to address the shortage of pharmacists in the Southeast. Pharmacists have an increasingly diverse role.

They are responsible for the safe supply and use of medicines, they are involved in research into new medicines, and they also work with patients one-to-one. Graduates of the new degree will be equipped for a range of careers, including those in community and hospital pharmacies, primary care trusts, medical research, drug development, scientific publishing and marketing.

Serkawt Farhan Khola E99, former student in Computer Systems Engineering and a current postgraduate, was recently awarded a Gold medal in the Senior Kata division at the British Karate Championships in Belfast. The Alumni Programme is helping Serkawt travel to St Petersburg to participate in the World Karate Championships in June.

wilderness, and is home to major antelope species, as well as to an abundance of other species such as giraffe, zebra, bushpigs and rhino. The UK students will help with a community building project in the local Zulu village, living in the village

Alumni Scholar in Sumatra

In May, the 2003 alumni postgraduate scholar will be chosen. Matthew Linkie, the 2000 scholar, reports that his PhD research work on preserving the habitat of the Sumatran Tiger is near completion. He wrote, In Sumatra there was rarely a day when something didnt go according to plan. For example, running away from elephants in deck shoes (no grip) because the night before my field guide had accidentally burnt my boots on the campfire, or sleeping on a mountain ridge, cold and hungry, because we had spent the entire day dismantling snare traps along the ridge and were then unable to get to the camp before nightfall. I worked closely with two

Online donation facility

ABOVE: PAUL GOODRICK K68 IN THE KEYNES ATRIUM WITH HIS SCULPTURE AND BELOW: PART OF 'HE KILLED THE RABBIT SO THAT HE COULD FEEL ALIVE', BY REBEKAH SUNSHINE-HARRIS

Indonesian undergraduates; Nata graduated last year, and Lili now has entered his final year. Working with them created good links between Kent and the National Uni-

versity of Indonesia. And Nata and I have secured short-term funding for him to return to Kerinci Seblat National Park and co-ordinate the tiger research project.

It is now possible for alumni and friends to make contributions to the Annual Fund on the Web, using your credit card. Go to www.kent.ac.uk/alumni/donate As with all our activities, we would welcome your feedback on this new facility.

Obituaries
Larry Grant 1943-2003 came to Kent in 1974 as a solicitor to the recently set up Law Clinic and as a lecturer in law. During his time here, the quality of his teaching and writing was regarded by many as remarkable. He and his students tackled a wide range of cases, including representing Philip Agee, the former CIA officer threatened with expulsion by the Home Office. To his last role, as an immigration adjudicator, he brought his independence of mind, integrity and judgement. He died on 4 January 2003.

Update on the phonathon

Over 100,000 was pledged by alumni, parents and friends in the autumn telephone fundraising campaign, and 70,000 of the pledges have been fulfilled. We are still receiving gifts - nearly six months after the

THE MUNTJAC IS AN IMPORTANT TIGER PREY SPECIES IN SUMATRA.

Professor the Lord Parekh

When we talk about a society being multicultural we think either of a society characterised by a variety of cultures or one that is marked by cultural diversity. But what does cultural diversity mean? Culture can be described as a system of meaning and significance in terms of which human beings or a group of people define and organise their individual or collective lives.
Cultural diversity is a fact of modern life from which we can benefit by, for example, eating at an Indian restaurant or listening to Afro-Caribbean music. No culture is perfect: one sees certain things very clearly and doesnt see other things at all. We disagree fundamentally about whether marriage is a desirable institution; the meaning of co-habitation; about homosexuality; about obligations to parents and friends, or whether religion is more important than loyalty to the state. It is not possible to prove that a particular way of life, a particular sexual orientation, is the natural, normal, or proper way. We are committed to respecting choice and therefore to respecting cultural or individual diversity. Globalisation increases cultural diversity. Not only do goods travel freely - and goods are never culturally neutral but also literature and political ideology. Geographical frontiers do not coincide with the frontiers of ideas, so new forms of culture constantly take root. Cultural diversity will also increase because the love of liberty or individuality, which has been characteristic of liberal society for a couple of hundred years, is beginning to spread to people in cultures where this was not the norm. A particular kind of sensibility or ethos has been gaining ground in the last few years - the desire for self-fulfilment or authen-

In this sense, culture affects all aspects of our lives. What food should I eat? In what form? With whom? Relations with ones children, with ones parents, between husband and wife or between friends, are all cultural. Sexuality and attitudes to life in general are shaped by the system of meaning that we have inherited, which we then modify after critical reflection. A multicultural society is one that is not agreed on a single system of meaning or values. Different groups or individuals organise themselves in terms of sometimes overlapping, sometimes conflicting, systems.

T h e Po l i t i c s o f I d e n t i t y : M u l t i c u l t u ra l i s m in Moder n Br itain
tic self-expression. This desire has not always existed. I remember my mother reading a newspaper where somebody had said, I do not feel sexually fulfilled, and she asked, what can they possibly mean? It was not part of her mental or moral universe to know that something called fulfilment existed in areas like sexuality, let alone other areas. With immigration, new people bring their different cultures with them. We can no longer take for granted that societies share a common, comprehensive culture. Politics must take account of cultural diversity, and no culture is perfect. Modern culture places enormous value on individual choice, and in the process misses out on humility, contentment, a spirit of community, or a sense of piety, with certain relations characterised by a degree of sacredness. In other kinds of cultures, where those values are prized, individuality is less so. Each culture benefits from dialogues with those embodying different visions. Cultural diversity offers new sources of imagination and creative energy. People going to the United States from different parts of the world, with new ambitions and approaches to life have built up that country over the last two centuries. Immigrants bring in enormous amounts of energy for the simple reason that they struggled to get where they are and are anxious to do well in the society where they have chosen to settle. At the same time, no society - particularly a multicultural society - can flourish without social cohesion. Diversity alone has no co-ordinating principle and

We d i s a g r e e f u n d a m e n t a l l y a b o u t w h e t h e r mar r iage is desirable

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can easily mean a society that is fragmented or destroyed. If a society has no sense of stability, it will not have the confidence to live with its diversity and may panic at the appearance of every difference. In any society there will be inequalities that need to be addressed with some form of redistribution of wealth. The legitimacy of redistribution through income tax assumes some form of community and mutual sympathy. What kind of political structure can both create a sense of community and foster respect for legitimate forms of diversity? The problem here is the politics of identity, a common sense of citizenship. Political identity overarches religious and other identities, providing a common space to meet and a principle with which to regulate the demands of other identities. What it means to be British has changed during the last 30-40 years in response to the presence of ethnic minorities, different races, and different religions - especially Islam. British-ness cannot be equated with English-ness, or with the white population, or with Christianity, without excluding vast chunks of British people. Being British must include, automatically, the presence of blacks in the noisy streets of Leicester and London. Not just John Majors old ladies cycling through the early morning mist to Holy Communion, but Muslims going to prayer, or Hindus chanting Hare Krishna. We can reconcile the demands of diversity and a strong sense of community through a body of shared common values in areas pertaining to the fundamental organising principles of social life such as

T h e Po l i t i c s o f Identity: M u l t i c u l t u ra l i s m i n Moder n Br itain

racial and sexual equality. Yet you and I might subscribe to equality while giving it different meanings. For one, equality means equal human worth - nothing more. For the other, equality might mean equal opportunity or equal outcome, or the equal ability to lead a good life. So we can end up disagreeing as much as if we had not agreed in the first place. Values inevitably conflict. What happens if freedom of speech comes into conflict with freedom of religion? The Rushdie affair is one example. Some will say, of course, unless I am free to lampoon, what is the use of my freedom of speech? Others would say, what is the point of that freedom? Is it not important that other values like the right not to be ridiculed for following a particular religion be at least one factor regulating the limits of free speech? Yet when we talk about common values, it shouldnt be too difficult to arrive at a commitment to liberty, justice and democratic discussion. We cant agree on every aspect of life and to attempt to do so would be a violation of individual freedom. People need some cultural competency in the society in which they have chosen to settle and that would include knowledge of the language and way of life - a cultural grammar. But one should also be careful here. Some say that there must be a shared historical narrative for a country to be vibrant and cohesive. But we cannot have an identical understanding of, for example, British colonial adventures or the

Being British must include the presence of blacks in the noisy streets of Leicester and London, Muslims going to prayer and Hindus chanting Hare Krishna.
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Industrial Revolution. The history of any country is inevitably a history of some periods of pride and some periods of shame; one cannot expect a broad agreement over these. Individuals dont feel part of a community unless they have a stake in it. What can equality mean in a culturally diverse community? Unless they feel that the community cares for them, just as they care for the community, it will never work. Every community is characterised by a broadly shared way of life, and its members build their expectations on the norms required by it. People feel disorientated when they are suddenly confronted by too many outsiders or by people who are alien to their way of life, or unwilling to integrate. If these feelings are politically engineered or xenophobic, they need to be fought. On the other hand, people might genuinely feel that those coming in have no intention of settling or have no legitimate claims to be here. When these fears have some political or moral base, they need to be addressed, partly because they create a panic-stricken society that is not comfortable with itself or with outsiders. It can also lead to a crisis of integrity, not just a crisis of identity. Someone might say, I define myself as a Christian, as a good Englishman, as a moral human being. I want to relate to people in a certain way, but Im not quite sure whether I should trust them. Where there is no reciprocity, a society might feel diseased and threatened. But even when one feels that these fears are legitimate, they are a part of life and politics consists in coming to terms with that. We have been facing this problem for some time and the only answer is a coherent government policy based on consensus and implemented in line with our international obligations. There is nostalgia for a wonderfully settled world of moral conformity. That world never existed and even if it did, its not available to us. What we have to do is to forge the sense of community out of the inescapable reality of disagreements. And that requires a new kind of flexible politics and a new form of citizenship, one that is respectful of differences. This article was adapted from the Lecture Lord Parekh gave at the University earlier this year.

JACQUI FORSYTH, HEAD OF RESEARCH AND ENTERPRISE SERVICES

The Research A s s e s s m e n t E xe r c i s e
The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) is the system used by the Higher Education Funding Council to determine the quality of research in universities. Subject areas are judged across seven grades: 5*, 5, 4, 3a, 3b, 2 and 1. The results inform the distribution of core research funding.

All the RAE milestones were at Christmas, says Jacqui Forsyth. The panel criteria and guide to submissions came out at Christmas 1999, Christmas 2000 was when the all-consuming work had started, and Christmas 2001 was when the results were published. Kent ran a pilot scheme in 2000. On the basis of that pilot exercise we drew up the final submission. An institution can submit to as many different units of assessment as it wishes, which is quite complicated. You dont have to return whole departments together, and you have to decide if some staff might be better suited to different areas of assessment than the rest of their department. Those decisions made, next is identifying employment and contractual details;

publications produced during the assessment period; research student numbers; studentships and degrees awarded; research income; strategy and evidence of esteem. Kent submitted to 23 units of assessment. Each department had a co-ordinator, and Jacqui and the then Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Robert Freedman, held several meetings with each department. One of the most fascinating parts of the whole process was seeing how differently different groups approached it. We also had some faculty-wide boards where all the RAE co-ordinators read each others submissions and made comments, which was a useful way of sharing good practice. There were almost eight months between the submission in April and the results in December. As the results date drew nearer it was such a sense of anticipation, you felt sick to your stomach. The results had to be collected from London by Nick McHard, Secretary and Registrar, and Graham Harlow, Research Office Co-ordinator. As soon as the results were available we had to analyse them against UKCs previous performances and against sector performance. We got all the figures ready for a meeting of Heads of Department and other senior staff in the afternoon, having worked out the highlights wed improved our performance: wed eliminated 3bs, we had two 5*, and the percentage of staff at 4 and above had increased dramatically. We were one of the most improved universities in the sector. There were some really exciting results, such as English and Anthropology both going from 3a to 5. In 2002 we developed a new research strategy to improve performance further. To be able to implement it, we identified some essentials, including: to provide staff with quality research time; to invest strategically in research; to enhance our reputation for research; and to establish research targets. The recent White Paper on the future of higher education states that future research funding and training should be further concentrated and collaboration increased. A major review of research assessment, currently underway, should be out for consultation in May. A range of models is being explored, but it is clear that the next RAE, probably in 2008, will look very different from the one in 2001. Jacqui Forsyth was interviewed by Hilary Saunders, University Publications Manager.

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Photograph: Martin Levenson

a n d i n n ova t i o n a t K e n t Enterprise
Higher education generates more than 34 billion for the UK economy, and supports more than half a million jobs. But fewer than one in five businesses tap into the skills and knowledge to be found in universities. This is all set to change under proposals in the Governments recent White Paper, The Future of Higher Education.
Among the measures put forward is a strengthening of the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF), the funding of a network of 20 Knowledge Exchanges, which will reward and support higher education institutions (HEIs) working with business, the building of stronger partnerships between HEIs and regional development agencies and helping the skills councils forge stronger alliances between business and relevant university departments. This is an area which has significantly moved up the agenda here at Kent, says Phil Davies (Pro-Vice-Chancellor and himself a Kent graduate), partly in response to government policy, but also because of our wish to maximise the use and impact of the expertise and technology of the University. This activity will complement and enhance teaching and research activity.

Enterprise Hub and Innovation Centre

The University has applied to the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) to establish an Enterprise Hub

on campus. The Hub will focus on information and communications and healthcare technologies. An application to fund the building of an Innovation Centre will be made as part of the project; in the meantime hatchery space for new companies will be provided. The Enterprise Hub will increase the number of local knowledge-based companies (including spin-outs from the University); increase the growth and survival rates of these companies through collaboration with the University and access to its research expertise; and attract inward investors. The project is being developed in close collaboration with Canterbury City Council and SEEDA.

Proteomatics Factory
In collaboration with Purely Proteins Ltd, the University is establishing a bespoke protein characterisation service for industry using the specialist equipment of the Department of Biosciences. The initiative will enable scientists to identify and characterise novel proteins as part of an informatics-led programme to accelerate and enhance proteomics discovery, and contribute to pharmaceutical and biotherapeutical discoveries.

Schools for Business and Enterprise

Schools in Kent interested in applying for Business & Enterprise College status are being given the opportunity to link up with potential sponsors at a special event being run by the University of Kents Canterbury Business School (CBS). The Specialist Schools Programme is one of the key strands in the Governments mission to build diversity in education and radically change secondary schools in England. According to Mike Murphy, Head of Marketing at CBS, the Business Schools strong connections with both business and schools in the region make it the ideal host for such an event. Our aim is to enable people to find out more about each other with a view to developing a sponsorship agreement. We are also on hand to offer support and advice to those considering this move. Schools applying to become Specialist Schools must raise 50,000 sponsorship, prepare four-year development plans, with measurable targets in teaching and learning in their specialist subject area, and make provision to involve other schools and the wider community. In return, the successful applicants receive a 100,000 capital grant and 123 per pupil per year, initially for four years.

Preparing for business

The University is offering students training in Preparing to Start a Business. The module, which was developed in collaboration with the East Kent Enterprise Agency, began in January and is

STUDENTS ON THE BUSINESS START-UP MODULE AND STAFF FROM THE ENTERPRISE UNIT SETTING 3RD ANNUAL INNOVATION SEMINAR FOR YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS AT SITTINGBOURNE RESEARCH CENTRE. THE EVENT, CO-HOSTED BY THE KENT AND MEDWAY UNIVERSITIES FOR BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE (KUBE) INITIATIVE, ATTRACTED OVER TWENTY STUDENTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY. SPEAKERS AT THE EVENT INCLUDED DR CATHY PRESCOTT OF AVLAR BIOVENTURES, A FORMER KENT RESEARCH FELLOW, DR. KANES RAJAH FROM THE CENTRE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH AND MARTIN QUINN OF HAARMANN HEMMELRATH LAW FIRM, WHO GAVE A TALK ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. THE EVENT PROVED TO BE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SEMINAR SITTINGBOURNE HAVE HELD. SARA BHANA, A FIRST YEAR BIOSCIENCES PHD STUDENT, SAID SHE HAD LEARNED, IF YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT BUSINESS SET-UP THEN THERE ARE PLENTY OF PEOPLE WILLING TO HELP. YOU MUST BE PASSIONATE ABOUT YOUR IDEA.
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open to students from all disciplines. It was set up by the Canterbury Business School (CBS) and the Enterprise Unit as an independent campus-based variation of CBSs involvement in the Governments New Entrepreneur Scholarships. As with last terms successful first session for final-year undergraduates and postgraduates, students on the second session of Preparing to Start a Business will attend workshops on personal development, planning a business idea, accessing support structures, legal and regulatory requirements, marketing and financial planning. Some of the students plan to produce reconstructions using nuclear magnetic resonance images for criminal investigations and for archaeology, demonstrating the commercial potential of academic research. Professor Phil Davies: the future of UK business depends on enthusiastic, bright young people with good ideas. This module will provide the knowledge needed to take good business ideas to the market, and will allow students an insight into the world of starting a new business. It is about making money, but also about how to do what you want to do and enjoy it.

KUBE Project
Kent and Medway Universities for Business and Enterprise (KUBE) is a joint project of all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Kent to facilitate interaction between HEIs and business and develop the capacity of HEIs to meet regional business needs. It is co-ordinated by the University of Kent and funded through the Higher Education Funding Council for Englands Innovation Fund. The other HEIs involved are the University of Greenwich, Canterbury Christchurch University College and the Kent Institute of Art and Design. Each HEI is responsible for one of the four project themes, European Business Support, Intellectual Property Rights, Staff Development and developing a Web portal.

SME Clinic
Plans are well developed to establish an SME Clinic focusing initially on ICT and multi-media. The Clinic will provide lowcost expert advice to SMEs on the dayto-day problems affecting their business. Kent staff, postgraduates and undergraduates will provide advice and practical support to SMEs, after having carried out an initial health check on systems and performance. The typical problems that SMEs need help with are defining systems and selecting hardware and software to meet needs, set up and configuration, Website and e-enablement problems, IT training and project management. Consultancy will be embedded in the curriculum, enabling the work of students in the Clinic to count towards their degree as well as providing them with valuable experience of working with business.

GRIST
Great Ideas in Science & Technology is a collaboration between Kent, Surrey and Brighton Universities and SEEDA, helping entrepreneurial students to set up new businesses on graduation. Graduates with ideas are given an interest-free loan to implement their ideas. The scheme encourages a whole range of people from the community to apply for the loans, provides a supportive environment for them, increases the involvement of the business community in University knowledge transfer, and stimulates more enterprise within the HE curriculum.

For more information on any of the above projects, please contact the Enterprise Unit on +44 (0)1227 827376 or email enterprise@kent.ac.uk. http://www.kent.ac.uk/business/

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Special feature:
It surprises me that participation in UKC Radio (UKCR) is not overwhelming, when I consider the impact it has had on peoples lives. Hundreds of UKC alumni look back on the radio station as, if not the beginning of a media career, certainly some of the best experience they had at University. And many of these are happy to offer advice to Kent students contemplating a career in the media.

UKC Radio

Mary Dagg

Best friends
Nicki Howard

UKCRs Management Committee (ManCom) is made up of students. There is no censorship (other than legal restrictions), and different tastes in music are catered for. UKCR is a place for student creativity, with everyone having the freedom to develop their own style. And a student can come to Kent with no experience of radio, join UKCR and end up running the station. There is a common misconception that radio involvement means being a DJ. DJ-ing can be extremely rewarding, and the experience is invaluable for those hoping to work in the business once they graduate, but there is so much more. The UKCR Music Department handles the records that are sent to the station. Students in the Music Department can listen to the newest releases and review them, and their reviews may go on air. The popular Programming Department is there to train DJs and organise schedules, and it also acts as a first port-ofcall if DJs encounter problems. Sales and Marketing: if our listeners dont know we are here, how will they know to listen to us? The Finance and Administration Manager sorts out the daily needs of the different departments, and makes sure the books balance. You dont need to be studying accountancy to do this, and it teaches highly transferable skills. The Production team produce shows, jingles and adverts for the station. This is a good way to learn how to use creative IT packages, and incredibly rewarding to hear your work on the air. Finally, the Engineering and IT Departments deal

Photographs by Martin Levenson

STUDENTS AT WORK ON A UKC RADIO SHOW

with technical matters. In short, theres something for everyone at UKCR, and thats the best thing about it. Whatever your abilities, experience, degree subject, or taste in music, UKCR can benefit you, and you can benefit it. And we recently completed a 24-hour radio-a-thon for Children In Need, and raised over 500. Its not all about the work either; one role on ManCom (the OB/Ents. Officer) is dedicated to ensuring that UKCR members party as well as work. UKCR is one of the oldest student radio stations in the country - some say the oldest - and has been important to many. UKCR experience gives you that extra something to make you stand out from the crowd. Oh, and the friends youll make are pretty cool too. Mary Dagg, Station Manager UKCR 1350 AM, is in her fourth year, studying for an MA in US Legal History at Kent.

Its our anniversary - 10 years since (l-r) Louise, Julie, Amy, Ailsa and I (with baby Emily) all magnetized towards each other during our first year at Kent.

It all began in Freshers Week - with that desperate must-make-friends-now mentality. If you dont get it right during Freshers Week, youre going to have a miserable first year, youll end up living in a nightmare house in the second year, and you can forget about 10-year anniversaries. The last time I had to go through this was at age four, when it was a matter of going up to someone who looks pretty cool at playschool, picking up their potato, and starting to make potato prints with them. Bang. Friends For Life. A whole lot easier than sitting in the JCR debating how The Spin Doctors are cool, yeah, but just not quite ironic enough, you know? Ailsa, Julie, Amy and Louise recently

got me through my fathers prostate cancer. I was thousands of miles away from them, living in Dominica when he was diagnosed, but they were there for me every day. And my birthday parcel of carefully chosen books and CDs was the injection of love, closeness and tenderness they knew I needed at that time. Ten years have changed us a little. We have new hairstyles. We have dinner parties around a table, instead of in the I3 communal kitchen. But the basics are the same. At a recent get-together, I smiled on overhearing do you think my flats too stark? Maybe the late 20somethings does my bum look big in this? or will I ever get this essay right? Whatever worries are relevant at the

time, we still turn to each other. I doubt well get together to celebrate this year. Babies, partners, work - life take over. And this decade has had us living in China, Sydney and New York, among other places, and its brought death, illness, and new life. Whatever comes my way, its all made better knowing there are four people I can count on at the end of a phone. Nicki Howard works in publishing in Dublin, Amy Cooper works for the Refugee Arrivals Project in London, Ailsa Saltrese works for Morgan Stanley, Julie Eason is a writer in Sydney, and Louise Zanr is a teacher and mother in Italy. They are all Keynes 92, and all have very high phone bills.

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Kate Cann
interviewed by student Rose Warman
Rose Warman recently spoke with writer Kate Cann (ne Waller). Rose is a third-year student at Kent, writing for KRED and studying English &American Literature and Drama. Kate Cann is known for her very popular and sensitive teenage fiction. Her trilogy Diving In, In at the Deep End and Sink or Swim and the series Hard Cash and Shacking Up are international hits and have been translated into several languages. Kate studied English and American Literature at Kent in the late 70s.

Kate Cann had not always wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be either a journalist or a policewoman. But in school she had been good at English and, as a teenager, had written a lot. She wrote torrid historical romances and even used her own teenage diaries as material for her first three books. While at Kent, she did not join any societies to help her writing career. Back then you didnt worry about getting a job, and societies were seen as sad. I fell into writing as a career after I graduated. I had wanted to get into publishing and worked for Time Life Books for a while as an editor. When the kids came along, I worked freelance. I was editing some teenage books, and they were absolute rubbish. The books that were around were either real doom: all sex was rape and child abuse, or Mills & Boon for teenagers. I wanted to write something about a girls first sexual experience that was positive and realistic, not candyfloss, and not frightening or depressing. I can still remember the day I started writing. I began the day with a run, dropped the kids at school, came back and start writing. Id literally forget to eat - and for me not to eat is unthinkable. It just got me. I would look at my watch and it would be 3.30! I think I wrote Diving in in less than six months. Now I reckon on a year. I want my characters to be fleshed out, and I want to think things through. Getting her first work published was not quite so straightforward. I had a job getting it published. I photocopied it ten times and sent it round to ten different publishers. Most of them said that it was far too sexually explicit. But The Womens Press came back to me, and said if I did some work on it they would publish it. What they liked was that it was from the girls point of view and about her owning her own sexuality. After completing the Diving in trilogy, which deals openly and honestly with the pains and pleasures of a sexual relationship, she wrote Footloose in the same vein. And in Breaking Up, she tackled the repercus-

sions of parental divorce on teenagers. Cann described some of why she likes her career: The incredible freedom. If you wake up and decide you want the day off, you can have the day off. And when it goes well, there is nothing like it. One of my favourite things is when a character takes off. There is a character in the Hard Cash series, Porsha, who is ghastly, and she literally took over. She was originally supposed to be a minor character, but she got bigger and bigger. Porsha took over and decided what would happen. As a writer you can get very isolated, but its a very good life. Im not making mega-bucks; writing is only very well paid right at the top. Im probably making as much as a teacher now, which is excellent because I dont work anything like as hard as a teacher. Her advice to budding writers? Get out and live. Practise writing, but it is terribly important not to cut yourself off. Eavesdropping is enormously important. Im a great believer in public transport. The whole idea for the character in Hard Cash was this kid, I think of about nineteen, I saw in W H Smith. He had his art tin on his knee and his art pencils were literally shaved down to tiny stubs. He was an attractive-looking kid and I thought, what would it be like if you were very good-looking, had lots of friends, were incredibly gifted at art, but you were absolutely skint all the time? The other really boring bit of advice is: go over anything you have written three or four times. Writing is a craft, however corny that sounds. Its layers. Its working on what youve done, going over it again, and standing back, re-reading it. Its very rare that I keep something Ive initially put down. Kate has plenty of plans for the future. She would like to try her hand at psychological horror. There is an awful lot of horror for teenagers, but it is all external - its the monster in the boot cupboard. This is going to be all up in the mind, which is ultimately vastly scarier. Perhaps, when her children have grown up, Kate Cann will move on to adult fiction. I dont want to write for teenagers forever, but I do love it. For teenagers everythings new, raw, dramatic. Immediacy and passion. Theyre an absolute gift for the fiction writer.

A l u m n i l i f e : Career change Kar l Wilcox

It is a measure of my own shallowness that I stood watching the horrific pictures from the World Trade Centre in September 2001 and thought Im going to lose my job because of this. Six weeks later, I did. After 15 years in the IT industry, working as project manager, consultant and systems architect, I am now a freelance lecturer. I would like a noble reason for this career change - the desire to get out of the rat race or some ideological objection to grasping capitalism. But the best I can say is that I ended up with a generous redundancy package that left me free to do almost whatever I wanted.
Science, finding freelance work turned out to be remarkably easy: I am now teaching at Southampton, Reading and Royal Holloway. The variety of material keeps me interested and lets me trot out my fund of jokes and war stories to the students. I have between 15 and 20 student contact hours each week, and there is a lot of preparation, marking and exam setting in addition, but, working freelance, I have no tutees and no administrative duties and I only teach the courses I feel happy with. Best of all, the vacations are mine to share with my family - not, for example, with the next submission for the Research Assessment Exercise. At my local school I chair the Curriculum Committee of the Governors and am frequently amazed at the constraints forced upon the teachers by the National Curriculum. In contrast, as a freelance lecturer, I choose the material and set my own exams. All universities have different practices, and a page to a day academic diary is essential to keep track of my commitments. The management of the flood of e-mails from each institution is also challenging. Most of my lecture notes are finished late the previous night and I have to perform (almost literally) every day. Receiving ninety exams with two days to mark my part of them also came as a shock. And the money is not so good. However, I consider myself truly lucky. I am doing something I really like, and am pleased that, of all the things I could have done, I chose to teach, and help others make the most of their own opportunities. Perhaps there is something just a little bit noble about it after all. Karl Wilcox E82 studied Computer Systems Engineering at Kent. He is married to Lucy, ne Haptas, also E82. Karl has been nominated for an Award for Teaching Excellence by Reading University.

KARL WITH LUCY (E82) AND THEIR SON ADAM

I had always enjoyed links with the academic world and regularly gave guest lectures and seminars at various universities, including Kent. My first thought was to find employment that would let me carry on these activities. I came to realise, however, that rather than seek a job that would permit these peripheral activities as well, I should just do the parts I enjoyed. With the somewhat sceptical support of my wife, I gave up job hunting and started e-mailing universities. Because of the shortage of lecturers in Computer

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Sam Godfrey
Living in a war zone It was 23 June 1998, the day after England had defeated Columbia and proceeded into the second round of the football World Cup. I was on an aeroplane destined for Luanda, Angola in South West Africa

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Having read International Development Studies at UKC, with a years internship in Zimbabwe, I applied for a job as an assistant programme manager with a Canadian Aid Organisation in Angola. I was asked on accepting the job, are you prepared to live and work in rough conditions? I thought, having lived in Park Wood with a housemate who only washed once a week, why not? I arrived in Luanda and was greeted by the driver of a large white Toyota Land Cruiser. It was midnight, 35C with 84% humidity. To

SAM WITH HIS WIFE, AMAKA OBIKA-GODFREY

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compound my discomfort, the driver spoke to me in rapid Portuguese - my Portuguese at that stage was just about good enough to say Bom Dia! In due course, I was driven to the organisations guesthouse. As he left me there, the driver turned and said, Oh by the way, you are leaving for the project at 6am, so be ready in 5 hours. Anyone familiar with Angola will know that, until June 2002, it had been suffering civil war for more than 25 years. I was assigned to a water and sanitation project in the central highlands city of Kuito, which happened to be on the front line between government forces and the UNITA

rebels. Because of the civil war, travel by road was strictly forbidden. On arrival in Luanda, I had asked the driver which plane was mine and he pointed to a small 10seater plane with the words United Nations Special Mission to Angola written on the side. In the dark of the Luandan morning, I clambered in and was whisked off to Kuito. During the flight the pilot announced that owing to intense fighting around Kuito, we would need to spiral vertically into Kuito to avoid potential stray rocketpropelled grenades (RPGs). My knuckles went white, I closed my eyes and just prayed. Five minutes later we were on the ground and the

project manager greeted me. After a few days of recovery, I began to find my feet. The project was focused on water and sanitation provision for the refugees displaced by the war and my role was to supervise the construction teams, organise logistics and manage general field activities. Despite the odd shelling of Kuito, I survived the experience unscathed, staying for two and a half years, and then decided to leave to study for an MSc in Technology and Management for Rural Development at Loughborough University. Sam Godfrey (E94) was awarded a BA in Development Studies at Kent in 1998.

The series where University of Kent people describe what is really going on. Professor Stuart Harrop, to give a flavour of my time at the University the following week is spread over seven years, with one day taken from each year. Professor Harrop is Head of the Department of Anthropology, which includes the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE).

Sunday I am in Peru as part of a task force examining how areas of the northern Peruvian Andes, which are inestimably rich from a cultural and biodiversity perspective, can be sustainably deployed for tourism. Today I am driving from the coastal desert through two vast ridges of the Andes to snowcapped Huascaran, the highest tropical mountain in the world. Such is the incredible variety in Peru that this drive takes me through most of the zones of biodiversity that exist on Earth. My companion is a Peruvian anthropologist who recounts the thousands of years of history of the plants, animals and people inhabiting the dreamlike landscape around us. Monday Today the Anthropology Department Administrator and I are designing the Departments next budget and examining strategies to maintain and increase recruitment and research income. The day is spent in a number of informal meetings as we draw on our colleagues views. Tuesday I attempt to catch up on email and other correspondence, write up a little research and see some of my PhD and Masters students. I had carefully planned my day, but as so often happens, I reach lunchtime without having eliminated even number one on my to-do list!

global trade regime is geared to take account of both biodiversity conservation and animal welfare factors, and is important, so I was very pleased to be given an hour. Back to Canterbury in the afternoon, and after some talks with supervisees, I write up some research inspired by the discussions at the House of Lords.

pushing up through moss. In the evening I travel to Dorset to a meeting of the Herpetological Conservation Trust.

Thursday From 9.30 until 13.00 I teach International Biodiversity Law to Masters students. This is always an exciting experience since the students come from the farthest corners of the earth and their personal reflections and perspectives ensure I get as much from the teaching as I hope they do. In the afternoon I take a class of students to Blean Woods to teach practical wildlife photography techniques. The weather is not pleasant but, in a short break from the rain, we manage to photograph some vividly coloured Fly Agaric fungi (below)

Friday Meetings occupy the day. For some I am there simply as Head of Department; others concern key academic matters. The first meeting of the day is different, however. A member of staff of the Kent Wildlife Trust visits me to obtain my legal views on a controversial project that has received government backing. The project is to develop a site on the South Downs that holds fragile colonies of orchids and butterflies. Later I chair the Departments equipment committee, go on to an Examiners meeting, and attend the formal academic committee meeting of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology. Saturday Family and home.

Wednesday In London to give evidence before a House of Lords Select Committee examining the European Unions handling of a controversial World Trade Organisation dispute. The dispute concerns an import ban on fur from wild animals caught by leghold traps. The issue is the extent to which the

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These constitute a small selection of the entries received for 3W since October, when the last Kent Bulletin was published. The complete listing of 3Ws for the year is on the Web (the URL is opposite). To send us a 3W entry, please use the Alumni questionnaire on the Web. If you would like email addresses for people in 3W below, please email alumni-office@kent.ac.uk. We may be able to help put you in touch. KEY: D: Darwin, E: Eliot, K: Keynes, R: Rutherford; T or M: Information Technology (including Maths), N: Natural Sciences, A: Science, Technology and Medical Studies, H: Humanities, S: Social Sciences, U: Foundation year or Short-term studies. The location at the end of your entry is from your mailing address - if its in parentheses, we think youre not actually living there but use it for Kent mail. Year: 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! 1965 FFIELD, Mary (ES): Senior Lecturer, PGCE at Newnham College, Birmingham. 10 years as primary school teacher and 20 raising a family. Ozzie E65 (first 500) adviser to Birmingham Social Services and consultant with Andy Barclay E65 (also first 500) including work on human rights in India, prisons in Turkey, Moscow and South America. West Midlands. (26/11/2002) HARVEY, Trevor (ES): Retired from local government in 98 and enjoying art and geology. I competed in two10km races in 2002 and plan to run a halfmarathon and visit New York. trevor@sancroft.screaming.net. East Sussex. (19/12/2002)

W h o s W h at Where from Kent?

GOLDIE, William (ET): After Kent worked for 3 years on the Harrier JumpJet, 8 years in machine tools and 21 years mending medical electronics. Now sliding into second childhood as IT Technician at Oxford Brookes and very happy! Married in 90; 2 children; one sadly died at 8 weeks. Would love to hear that Charmion Pickford R67 is well and happy, and also Rosemary Waren R69, Gilly Archer E67, Sally Gilbert, Rosemary Brown. bill@goldie.uklinux.net. Gloucestershire. (21/10/2002) STILL, John (RN): Currently in Tehran giving business/political/security advice to foreign oil companies. jrstill99@yahoo.co.uk. (Scotland). (28/11/2002) 1968 DOUGHTY, Stuart (KH): Returned to the BBC, after nearly 30 years, as series producer of new soap, Rivercity, for BBC Scotland. Buckinghamshire. (07/01/2003) HOLTON-KRAYENBUHL, Anne (EH): Still working on medieval Ely. Classics at Kent provided useful background for reading and analysing documents. Recently published in The Archaeological Journal. Cambridgeshire. (08/01/2003) WHITEHEAD, Christopher (RS): Still married to Helen (Thomas) R69 who teaches reception class. I manage Bristol Social Services Adult Resources Team, charged with maintaining people in their own homes for as long as possible. Four grown-up children. We both look back to Kent as a really happy and important time in our lives. chris@bristoluk2000.freeserve.co.uk. Bristol. (01/11/2002) 1969 ATTERSON, Gillian (EH): Still teaching 4-year-olds in Norwich, with one son now at Kent (English Lit and Film) and another doing A-levels. Norfolk. (15/01/2003) BAMBER, Jeffrey (RN): Continuing to head a small research team at the Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital. It was a pleasure to return to Kent to provide a guest lecture last year. My wife translates Russian. Eldest son now reading music at Bristol, another has a place at the Guildhall and my daughter is at school in Sutton. London. (15/01/2003) BHANJI, Abdul (ES): Do contact me at abdul.f.bhanji@uk.pwcglobal.com. London. (06/09/2002) 1970 DUTTON, Roger (ES): With our second daughter now at Canterbury Christchurch we are revisiting old haunts. I keep expecting to see Quines Restaurant followed by pints of Skol at the Olive Branch. Oh well, progress I suppose. Wrexham. (07/01/2003) 1971 DUFFY, Bernard (DS): Currently on secondment to the European Commission as a national expert advising on tax policy in the single market. Berkshire. (07/01/2003) 1972 FRANKS, Pat (RN): Working for a power electronics firm in California and would love to hear from old friends, particularly people caught up in Social Action! or found disgraced on a Saturday night in RJCR. USA. (13/01/2003) ROSSER, Peter (KS): I own a company training people to run pubs. Still playing tennis and golf. Married; 2 boys; 1 dog. Contemporaries please get in touch. Bristol. (15/01/2003) 1973 MOFFATT, Joanna (EH): Working at the British Council in London after 7 years living in Nigeria and 3 in Tanzania. London. (24/01/2003) OSMAN, Ahmed (ET): Currently heading a task force preparing Sudatels third 5-year business plan and the creation of a Strategic Planning Unit. Sudan. (14/01/2003) 1974 ROPER, Tom (EH): Now Information Resources Development Co-ordinator for the new Brighton and Sussex Medical School. 2 children. Brighton. (06/02/2003) WARD, Ruth (KS): My Law degree has finally come in useful - I am now an editor with Canada Law Book. Canada. (27/12/2002) 1975 CHILD, Andy (RS): My interests are still urban design, architecture, classic soul records, real ale, Alfa Romeos and my daughters. survs@blakeneyleigh.demon.co.uk. London. (07/01/2003) LEVY, Martin (KT): Moved to USA in 81, settled in Scotts Valley near Santa Cruz. Married; 2 children. USA. (13/01/2003)

An updated, multi-indexed 3W is now up at www.kent.ac.uk/alumni Please use the Alumni questionnaire you will find there to send us your next 3W message.
1976 Adcock, Malcolm (RS): I am looking to contact members of Kent Liberals now working in the media. Does anyone know the whereabouts of Chris Croughton E75? Northamptonshire. (21/01/2003) BOWHAY, Janet (EH): I had my first child, Chloe Charlotte, at the age of 44. Born last August, she has changed my life completely. Living happily in Harold Wood with my partner, Craig. Essex. (07/01/2003) VANNERLEY, David (EH): Third year of ministerial training for the Church of England and registered with Kent for the Dip HE (Ministry) plus MPhil in Theology at Canterbury Christ Church University College. Jenny, Peter, Helena and I live in Herne Bay, Simon 22 is a journalist and Tim, 20, a horticultural technician. vannerley@aol.com. Kent. (11/10/2002) 1977 HEELER, Stephen (KS): I have taken the post of Eurasia Tax Manager in Moscow with Halliburton Oil Services. My wife and 7yr old triplets are looking forward to wearing big furry hats and the change in culture! Surrey. (15/01/2003) SWEET, Jonathan (KS): I am now back at the UK Permanent Representation to the EU as Head of the Justice & Home Affairs Section, so will now be staying in Belgium until July 2006. Daughter Lucy is now almost a year old and keeping both of us fully occupied. (London.) (29/01/2003) WOOD, Simon (RH): Still in the unequal struggle of the manufacturing industry. Whilst body and soul remain reasonably intact I continue to play cricket, follow Brighton & Hove Albion and stay in touch with many from Kent. Three children under 8; 2 cats over 8. East Sussex. (21/01/2003) 1978 HAYES, Judith (KH): Still living in Normandy. The original 5yr plan for the barn conversion is now in its 17th year! EFL and primary school teacher. (07/01/2003) JONES, Carol (RT): Lecturer for South East Derbyshire College and tutor for Derbyshire County Council. Twins in their last year at junior school. c.jones@sedc.ac.uk. Derbyshire. (20/12/2002) LEVENE, Richard (KS): Hi to everyone from 78/81. Married Debbie Penhale R78; 2 children. I would love to hear from anyone who remembers me. Bristol. (13/01/2003) 1979 FARROW, Richard (KH): I am retraining as a primary teacher at Greenwich University. Kent. (03/02/2003) FOSTER, Annette (DS): Family solicitor in rural Wiltshire. Married.Wiltshire. (03/01/2003) MCCARTHY, Peter (DN): Living in Florida for the last 18 years studying marine organisms as a source of new therapeutic agents. Would be glad to hear from anyone who may remember me. Does anyone know what happened to John Foley and Bill Lively? USA. (29/01/2003). 1980 CANTY, Jess (KH): What happened to everyone? Its nearly 20 years! Has life begun for you at 40? ciamik44@hotmail.com. Buckinghamshire. (11/10/2002) CROWSON, Joanna (KH): I have been living in Cadiz for the past 12 years with Chris Davidson D81 and 2 daughters. I am working for the School of Life - a foundation for a sustainable future - plus teacher training and self-development workshops. Chris does management and teaches English in a co-op. jocrow@teleline.es. Spain. (26/11/2002) FIELDS, Fiona (ES): I had some very sad news last year when I was given a prognosis of terminal pancreatic cancer with secondaries in the liver. Preparing my 6yr old son for living with his grandparents, but fighting on with alternative therapies for quality and quantity of life. Channel Islands. (03/01/2003) 1981 DESAI, Anuj (DS): Still in Kenya with Jaswinder (Bilkhu) R80 and our two daughters. A big Jambo to all our friends from UKC. anuj@dspadr.com. Kenya. (13/01/2003) GOOCH, Jane (KS): Qualified as a primary school teacher and worked in Essex and Norfolk. Married. Now at home looking after 3 yr old triplets. Norfolk. (21/11/2002) IORIO, Flavio (RS): Since Kent I have worked for two Italian banks in the City. Currently back with Intesa BCI. Married to Franca; 1 child, 5 cars! Presidente Del Consortio Lancia Montecarlo in the UK. (03/01/2003) 1982 BROWNE, Tibby (DS): About to go overseas with VSO for 2 years so this could be your last chance for a while to get in touch! London. (11/12/2002) JENKINS, Mark (ES): Joined the Shoaibi Group as a director in 2002 and off to live in Bahrain. It would be great to be back in contact with the Soul Patrol of 82/85 or the squash team. markdj@mail2eat.com. Bahrain. (05/01/2003) 1983 MOHD DERUS, Shima (ET): I have started my own ICT business. Previously at Ericsson Global IT Services and Telekom Malaysia. Married; 3 children. Anyone with interesting products to market in the Far East or Asia can contact me at shimaderus@yahoo.co.uk. Malaysia. (31/12/2002) would be happy to hear from anyone who remembers me. thedivinediana@hotmail.com. Buckinghamshire. (25/11/2002) Stuart Williams K91 with Susan Wanless, Director of Music at Kent, at the June 2002 Alumni in the Media event. ZAFAR, Aman (DT): My 3 years at Kent were the best. I am living in Toronto and would love to hear from anyone I knew from Kent. amanzafar@amanzafar.com. Canada. (22/09/2002) 1991 CHOUDHRY, Ali (ES): Worked in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and now in UAE, still with Citibank. ariazpk@hotmail.com. United Arab Emirates. (13/01/2003) HUNTINGTON-THRESHER, Ivan (DA): Currently working in Canada for a year or so. I would love to hear from any of the old gang. ivanht@yahoo.co.uk. (Kent). (27/01/2003) KWOK, Shereen (RS): I would love to find friends with whom I have lost contact. shereen_kwok@hotmail.com. Malaysia. (13/01/2003) LEFF, Jonathan (EH): had a great study experience in 91/92 at Kent and would love to hook up with old friends, especially Aled Smith E91, David Morgan E91, Alex Gooch E91, Guy Middleton E91 and Gavin Gunavardhana E91. poigo@earthlink.net. USA (24/01/2003) 1992 ALEXANDER, Neil (EH): I am the celebrity co-ordinator for the learning disability charity, Mencap.Based in London. neil.alexander@mencap.org.uk. County Antrim. (03/02/2003) NASH, Karen (RN): Currently teaching in a Steiner-Waldorf school and heading back to environmental education. I lost contacts during research, consultancy, marriage and 2 sons! karen.nash1@virgin.net. Kent. (15/01/2003) PRZYSUCHA, Sabine (DT): Living in San Francisco since 97 and working in export. I have lost my British accent and lost e-mails when I switched jobs so would love to hear from Maureen, Sarah Hutton D92, Yaffle and anyone else from the old hockey crowd. Please write. USA. (21/10/2002) 1993 COUTAZ, Claude (RS): I am a Barrister in Grenoble. claude.coutaz@wanadoo.fr. France. (16/10/2002) GERARD, Nicolas (ES): I am working as Program Manager for the UN Institute for Disarmament Research. Are there other UKC alumni at the UN in Geneva? nicolasgerard@hotmail.com. Switzerland. (27/01/2003)

SAKU, Yas (KH): is back in Tokyo heading IR Advisory Team at UBS Warburg (Japan). Tel: 81 3 5208 7316 or 81 90 7229 5943 when you are in Tokyo. Japan. (31/01/2003) 1984 LIGHT, Jeremy (RH): After Kent I did a postgraduate creative writing course and have worked in advertising/design ever since. Married; 2 daughters. Whatever happened to Andy Lawday R84 and did Simon Smith K83 complete his PhD at Cambridge? Middlesex. (14/11/2002) MCQUILKIN, Janice (RH): I am Assistant Librarian for Social Sciences & Business at the University of Ulster. Looking after the law students is fun some of my experience at Kent is coming in useful at last. Still in contact with Wendy but whatever happened to James, Patrick, James and Paul (all R84)? j.mcquilkin@ulster.ac.uk. Londonderry. (08/10/2002) 1985 BARRETT TRANGMAR, Rachel (KS): I am currently writing and illustrating childrens books in the Caribbean, after emigrating from the UK with my husband to circumnavigate on our yacht. Leicester. (11/11/2002) IWAMOTO-STOHL, Nobuko (DS): After graduating I worked for the UN in Vienna for 7 years. Now living in London. Married; 2 children. I got tired of being a full-time mother and am enjoying work again. It has been nice to see old friends names on the Web. London. (12/09/2002) MASON, Jennifer (DS): Does anyone know the whereabouts of Fiona Bodipalar D85? We lost touch about 8 years ago. USA. (5/11/2002) 1986 ELLIOT, Claire (KS): I am really enjoying married life and my new house. Working as a speech and language therapist and thoroughly enjoying it, particularly working with children with autism and their families. West Sussex. (07/01/2003) GABAN, Johnny (DS): Returned to Malaysia in 91 and have been working for Shell since then. Currently based in Kuala Lumpur. I miss the cold morning air at Kent! Malaysia. (01/10/2002) GUNTHER, Stefan (EH): About to become a United States citizen. Still working for the USDA Graduate School. USA. (07/01/2003) RICHARDSDOTTIR, Asa (DS): Working as Executive Director of the Iceland Dance Company. Iceland. (21/10/2002)

1987 POLYCARPOU, Christos (KT): MSc (Essex 91). Moved back to Cyprus in 92. Married; 3 children. I am an engineer for CYTA. christos.polycarpou@cybee.com.cy. Cyprus. (08/11/2002) TATLOW, Jo (ET): Still enjoying life to the full in the Royal Navy. Married; 2 children. Moving to the South of France for 3 years this summer. Please get in touch. Hampshire. (31/01/2003) TURNER, Jay (DT): Having led a small team to become the first people to cross the Qatar Desert unsupported (120 miles in 80 hours with 4 hours sleep!) I am now planning to run in the polar circle marathon in September. Hampshire. (15/01/2003) 1988 FALKINER, Cathy (EH): After life in Australia got a little dull, I headed off to the wilds of Africa in 95 and have been stuck here ever since. Currently in Tanzania after 5 years in Ghana, consulting to anyone who listens. yingyang@iinet.net.au. (Australia). (21/10/2002) DOSHI, Ameet (KS): Managing my family business in Kenya. Married; 2yr old daughter. I would like to get in touch with anyone who remembers me. Kenya. (28/01/200) 1989 HARE, Esther (RT): Still running competitively - won a bronze medal at the 2002 World Masters Games HalfMarathon in Melbourne last October. Just passed 10yr anniversary with Anthony whom I met at Kent and looking forward to the birth of our first child in July. USA. (13/01/2003) MAGEE, Colum (RS): Returned to Ireland before studying for the Bar in London. In 2000 I set up Claimfirst Solicitors Network and Consolidated Legal Services. It has been a roller-coaster few years but things are taking off. Recently attended a Law Faculty invitation lecture and was surprised at the number of faces I recognised. Still single and living in Greenwich. London. (12/10/2002) 1990 RASHID, Haroon (KS): Still enjoying the exciting world of accountancy. Married; 2 children. I would love to hear from old friends. haroon.rashid@kpmg.co.uk. West Yorkshire. (15/01/2003) REED, Diana (EH): I have had an eclectic career including working for the Embassy of Japan, web design and marketing internet-protocol software. I have found my niche in Strategic Projects for Richemont luxury goods. I

John and Sally Tagholm (ne Fenby ) with David Evans, all E65, at the 2002 Alumni in the Media event in London. 1966 BRADFORD, Ann (EN): Now a tutor at home after working as a medical laboratory scientist and teacher. Les E66 and I still together since Kent; 3 graduate children. Berkshire. (16/01/2003) PENNY, John (RS): Now working for the European Commissions Delegation in Kazakhstan following political and economic affairs in Central Asia. Very interesting and a nice place to be! (16/01/2003) 1967 CATLOW, Joyce (ET): Retired and happy! Kent. (08/01/2003)

Earl Okin E65: In 2002, I did a tour in a show called 'Untitled Slapstick' (misnamed, really, for there was no slapstick in the show) with two German comedians, Kai Eikermann and Mario Ecard. And my subsequent solo show to towns in Germany and Switzerland, which involved heart-stopping cliff-edge bus and train rides, ski-lifts and cold that turned my ears, nose and feet blue, went really well. After a gap of 33 years, I'm on the brink of signing a new recording contract with Sony-Jazz. I recorded a pop single while at Kent in 1967, for EMI at Abbey Road Studios, and two years later another, this one for CBS, which was my last major-label recording. (Ironically, CBS is now part of Sony.) I still live where I did while studying at Kent, and am one of the few to claim membership of two colleges, Eliot and Rutherford. While as a member of the 'House Committee', I helped to plan College C and D, as they were then called. (3/1/03)

Isabel Robinson K97 and Kate Sangway E92 at the Alumni in the Media event in June 2002, in London.

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MIFSUD, Nigel (ES): Now working for PwC in Gibraltar as Counsel. Married Olivia Ossi K93; 2 boys. Still keep in touch with Matt, Mark, Alexia and others but does anyone know the whereabouts of Hosam Ali El-Bilbaisi K93? Gibraltar. (07/10/2002) PAPAKONSTANTINOU, Panagiota (DS): Do contact me at: argtv18@hotmail.com. Greece. (04/12/2002) 1994 DELLA-PORTA, Augustus (RH): Contact me at abd24@cam.ac.uk. Cambridge. (06/09/2002) MCGAIN, Tim (EH): Married Natasha Guest D94 last May. Many friends from UKC attended the day. Both of us would love to hear from friends who have lost touch. Essex. (07/01/2003) 1996 AHLES, Yi-Jan (KS): yi.jan@btopenworld.co.uk. Berkshire. (11/12/2002) EXINTAVELONI, Maria (RH): Back in Thessaloniki doing something totally irrelevant but enjoying it! Still missing every moment I spent at Kent. maria_exintaveloni@hotmail.com. Greece. (25/11/2002) KING, Frances (KH): I am currently living and working in Vicenza but miss my time and friends at Kent. I hope to hear from somebody soon! Italy. (25/01/2003)

Erin Carufel D98 recently appeared as Batgirl in Return to the Batcave: the Misadventures of Adam and Burt, a new TV movie.Erin is also a stunt double, working as Jennifer Garner's stunt double in Daredevil, and for Cameron Diaz in the upcoming Charlie's Angels 2. She is a two-time US Open Gold Medalist in Tae Kwon Do and is a Champion in kickboxing. USA.

PAPATHANASOPOULOU, Sophia (ES): I opened my own law firm near Athens this year. sophia040199@hotmail.com. Greece. (27/01/2003) 2000 BLAKESLEY, Jaime (ES): Gareth E00 and I send greetings from Chicago. USA. (31/01/2003) DEL VALLE URZAIZ, Mito (KS): I am back in Spain and in 2 years will be working for the government! I am proud to have been a Kent student. Spain. (16/10/2002)

Alumni links

40th anniversary
In 2005 the University of Kent will be 40 years old. We are beginning to plan a calendar of celebratory events now, to include special concerts, visual art exhibitions, an open day, lectures, events in the Gulbenkian and a huge Reunion Weekend. The Reunion is scheduled for the spring break weekend of 8-10 April, and will focus on the years 65&66, 75&76, 85&86 and 95&96. All alumni are welcome, but events will be centred around alumni who started at Kent in any of

TRADITIONAL KENT PIANO RACING

2001 Stamatoula Kaditi (KA) married Dimitrios Sanos D95 in October 2002 in Greece. (08/01/2003) 1997 EVLIYAZADE, Neslisah (ES): I work for a national and local newspaper and live in Istanbul. Hope to see all of my friends here sometime. neslisah@hotmail.com Turkey. (15/01/2003) GREEN, Matthew (RA): I am now studying for a PhD in cancer drug development at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. I am trying to remain a student until I retire! Dorset. (03/02/2003) PEREZ RUIZ, Raquel (RH): I am an English teacher at a High School in Seville and also work as a conference hostess. Spain. (03/02/2003) 1998 ALI, Umera (RS): I am an Associate at Vellani & Vellani, Advocates and Legal Consultants in Karachi. umera.ali@vellani.com. Pakistan. (24/09/2002) ANDRE, Jean-Francois (ES): Working as a pupil barrister at a chancery set in London. After that I need to find a tenancy/another pupillage. London. (06/02/2003) 1999 HODGE, Dean (ES): Since leaving Kent I have been employed at the Anguilla National Trust where I have been managing their bioconservation projects. Now taking up a new post as Environmental Officer with the Government of Anguilla. Anguilla. (22/01/2003) JARVIS, Erin (KH): I am looking for a job in Cornwall and would like to teach film, drama and photography to deaf people. I am also helping to start up a small company writing and making our own films. It would be great to hear from old Kent friends. thegoodwylie@hotmail.com. Cornwall. (01/09/2002) 2002 LAUSMANN, Peter (DH): Thanks to Joe, John, Robin and Anthony for the best semester of my university time. Also thanks to Catarina, Julie, Christin and Heloise. Hope to see you on campus in Spring. Germany. (05/02/2003)

those years. We have booked the campus and will soon be trying to get alumni from these years together to plan

the weekends events. Please let us know if youd like to help (alumnioffice@kent.ac.uk)

The Careers Fair

The Kent alumni Careers Fair has been going for 18 years - it was one of the first in the UK, and a number of Kent alumni can claim to have attended nearly all of the Fairs. The Fair is one of the most valued ways alumni help the University and todays students. Many alumni will recall the old Milk Rounds, or recruitment fairs. The alumni Careers Fair is completely different

Certificate in Combined Studies

University study open to all Over 100 courses ranging from archaeology to urban history. Available in adult education centres across Kent. Tel 01227 827973

Deaths
We are very sad to have to report the deaths of three alumni in this issue. Geoffrey W Snaydon R75 died on 12 October. Robert Symonds R82 died on 16 November. We were alerted by a friend of Christophe Joseph Rey D93 that he had died. Contact us at the address on page 3 for more information; we may be able to put friends in touch with the family or other friends of the deceased.

Dr Anthony Wallersteiner R96 will become Headmaster of Stowe School in September 2003.

Only Connect Spr ing 2003

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 on the Web) may get a response. 1960s We would like to find Ian Terence Buie R65. Bruce Carson R66 wltf Ronald Cleaver R66. Ian McWhirter E66 wltf Philip John Headford R66. Linda Jane E67 wltf Valerie Palmer D67 and Patricia Simpson-Sowerby (Rashbrook) E67. Tony Robinson E67 wltf Peter Miller R67 and John Still R67. Jo Freeborough (de Clive-Lowe) K68 wltf Jennifer Gait K69. Bob Gidlow R69 wltf Peter Stow E66 and Tony Penning K66. 1970s Phill Watson wltf John Lewis D70. Brian Greenow K71 wltf Alan Leigh and Alastair McFarlane, both K71. Makoto Honjo K71 wltf Martyn Booth K69 and Duncan Cross K68. Alan Lear R71 wltf Elspeth Baillie D71. Azy Salour R71 wltf Alan Foley D81. Peter Taylor D71 wltf Maureen Morgan (Freeman) R67. Richard Whiteing E71 wltf Paul Bains R71 and Michael Flood R71. Mohammad Alem E72 wltf Irene Dipple R73 and Manijeh Nazery R71. Peter Bone K72 wltf Anne Waterland K72. Caroline Groves D72 wltf Caroline Betterton D72. Nina NewtonMoumtzelis K73 wltf Angie Davies K73. Carolyn Steele E73 wltf Michael Carter E71. Mick Lowe K74 wltf Chris (Robin) Hodge K74. Kaiyoze Billimoria R75 wltf Mike Woodhead R75. Jack Romano K75 wltf Lesley Ball K74. Janet Cox (Kay) E76 wltf Andrew Rooke K74. Themis Themistocleous K78 wltf Kathy Davis K77. Debra Chamorel-Wood D79 wltf Makis (Greek PhD Student 79/80). Anthony Clarke D79 wltf Philip Milburn D80. Di Owen K79 wltf Andrea Gall K79 and Charlotte Hague K78. Sarah Sheehan K79 wltf Ann-Marie Porisse-Girard E79. Amanda Thomas (Jones) E79 wltf Susan Hendrie E79. 1980s Tajammal Abidally R80 wltf Philip Sng D81. Jan Comrie (Herbert) E80 wltf Angus Chisholm K81 and Steve Whiston R80. John Foley wltf Richard Leslie R80. Neale Whyatt K80 wltf Mohammad Zadeh Morshed Beik D80. Keith Arbour D81 wltf Jeni Price R81. Dan LeClerc R81 wltf Horst Schade E79, Chris Ryan D81, Jenny Hartley E79, Chuck Gray E81 and John Feeley E81. Clive Staple D81 wltf Stephen Bowden E82, David Brammer K81, Sally Ewin E81 and Tony Gilling K82. Darren K White K81 wltf Sarah Norris E81 and Kathy ORiordan K81. Charles Abbott K82 wltf Gillian Anderson K82. Colin Adams E82 wltf Malcolm Joyce K82. Paul Beaumont E82 wltf Seraphina Wong E82. Adebanjo Odutola R83 wltf Helen Gray K82. Man-Chung Tsang R83 wltf Joseph Woo R83. Kate Amos R84 wltf Britt Reynolds R86, Sharon Johnstone R86 and Sally Meek D85. John Dixon K84 wltf Richard Timm K70. Kate Horn (Eccles) E84 wltf Susan Osborne E84. Kerry Jones K84 wltf Oliver Wagg K88. Philip Duddy R85 wltf Colin Miles R85. James Hunt K85 wltf Karen Morgan R85 and Matthew Ferraro R85. Andrew Roberts R85 wltf Tim Gregory E85, Mark Poultney R85. Antonio Olivo Farias R86 wltf Haitham Salam K86. Karen Holmes-Malone E86 wltf Elke Huberti E86 and Sonya Lancaster R86. Alex Knight D86 wltf Michael Rheinnecker D86. Lisa Neden (Bush) E86 wltf Charles Denham E86. Silvester Phua R86 wltf Simon Knowles R86. Amanda Watson E87 wltf Tim Yarnell E86 and Lawrence Peck E86. Carol Whitwill D87 wltf Maisoon Rehani K87. Kevin Wilby K87 wltf Julian Palmer K84. Sarah Lewis K88 wltf Spencer Marshall E92. Amin Sabooni wltf Dr Philip Philip D88. Helen Turner (King) D88 wltf Jane Batley (Tovell) D88. Gregory Weinkauf R88 wltf Melanie Shearer R88. Faryal Maudarbocus D89 wltf Aine McGreevy D89. Ali Shamseddine R89 wltf Denise Freilich R89. Anar Virani (Nanji) E89 wltf Mayra Loughney E89 and Husam Hourani E89. 1990s Khang Chew K90 wltf Andrew Brittain K88. Ian Bradley D91 wltf Barbara Coghlan E89. Russ Hayton R91 wltf Julie Baden-Powell-Jones D92. Crystal Hutton D91 wltf Barry Kiernan D91. Mert Palabiyik K91 wltf M Khodor Mekkaoui R91. Andrew Reid K91 wltf Diana Candida K91. Cornelius Tanis R91 wltf Hanan Hamdan R91. Christopher Davis E92 wltf Roy Cogo E93. Zoel Othman E92 wltf Panagiotis Leventis R92 and Kwai So K92. Andrew Courtney K93 wltf Mark Lawrence K93. Angela Day R93 wltf Gina Barton E93. Chris Fradin E94 wltf Kevin Moore E94 and David Wallis R94. Louisa McGinn R94 wltf Calvin Hunter E94. Kevin Breidenbach R95 wltf Claire Casey K95. Gregory Furmaniak D95 wltf Atsunori Ehara E94.

If your name is listed above and you have been lucky enough to re-connect, please let us know. Thank you.

from these. It is a unique opportunity for students to ask alumni about their career experiences in the friendly and familiar setting of Rutherford Dining Hall. Students attending the Fair have been helped and inspired by alumni knowledge and a number of them have been offered workshadowing opportunities, some of which have led to jobs and careers. The Fair is targeted at second-years, who have reached the stage at university when they should be exploring their options. Many final years also attend, and even postgraduates! Alumni who have been to the Fair have told us they enjoy it, and that they value the chance to help todays students. The Fair always takes place on the first Thursday in March, so please pencil it

Overseas alumni
The British Council offices in most countries around the world have been working hard to organise events for alumni from all British universities. If you are interested in becoming involved, please get in touch with the British Council office in your country; alternatively, we may be able to give you the appropriate contact details (alumni-office@kent.ac.uk). We know that Australia, Brunei Darussalam, China, Colombia, France, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam are among those with UK alumni programmes.

Photographs: Jos Casal-Gimnez

in now if you are interested, and let us know (alumnioffice@kent.ac.uk). We will write to volunteers in the New Year.

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University of Kent Studentships

The University of Kent is a traditional University based on a green and friendly campus overlooking the medieval city of Canterbury. It has a thriving cosmopolitan atmosphere which provides a stimulating environment in which to live and learn. Opportunities for Postgraduate Study, both by coursework and research, are available. The University also has a number of studentships and bursaries available in the following areas. HUMANITIES Classical and Archaeological Studies English European and Comparative Literary Studies and Languages (French, German, Italian and Spanish) Drama Film History History and Culture Studies of Science History and Theory of Art Theology and Religious Studies Philosophy SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICAL STUDIES Biosciences Chemistry Computing Electronic Engineering Mathematics Physics Statistics SOCIAL SCIENCES Anthropology Biodiversity Management Economics Law Learning Disability Mental Health Politics and International Relations Psychology Social Policy Sociology Womens Studies

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