forever:keeleFOR KEELE PEOPLE PAST AND PRESENT

Issue 7 / 2012

Charter Year 2012Never Forget

A WORLD!CLASS UNIVERSITY

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Welcome“the most original innovation in British university education in the 20th century”

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Page 5 The Royal Charter

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Page 10 Changing Images – Changing Times

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Page 28 In Memory

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ContactsDevelopment Office – Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG Tel: +44(0)1782 733370 Fax: +44(0)1782 584422 Web: www.keele.ac.uk/alumni

Alumni Officer – John EasomTel: +44 (0)1782 733370 Email: j.c.easom@mac.keele.ac.uk

Fundraising Officer – Robin CrossTel: +44 (0)1782 733003 Email: r.i.cross@mac.keele.ac.uk

Database Coordinator – Nettie Payn Tel: +44 (0)1782 733286 Email: a.payn@mac.keele.ac.uk

The views expressed in forever: keele are not necessarily those of the editor, alumni or Keele University.

Welcome to our special issue celebrating the Anniversary of the

Royal Charter of the University of Keele, granted in 1962. The University College of North Staffordshire was founded deliberately and audaciously in 1950 as a different kind of University, so much so that it was often referred to simply as the Keele Experiment.

The grant of the Royal Charter in 1962 recognised that Keele’s innovative approach was making an impact. Indeed, by 1969 Keele University was being described as “the most original innovation in British university education in the 20th century”.

There are many templates for a successful university, a successful community or even a successful world.

Our alumni demonstrate that there are also boundless ways for students to evolve into successful adults – that is, people who make a difference.

The education that happens at Keele – education in the broadest sense – is fundamental to that evolution. Students continue to evolve into “successful adults” at Keele in a time of extreme change, and the University is adapting to new ways of offering educational excellence.

And we are reassured that ‘Keelites’ from every era are helping us to face the challenges of the future with the same audacity and determination as our founders.

John EasomAlumni Officer

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KEELE:

Our history of Keele by alumni for alumni continues in “A Coming of Age, Continuity and Change 1962-1973”, to be launched at the Golden Graduates’ Reunion in July 2012.

The DVD “A Coming of Age” gives an account of Keele students’ experiences, with contemporary photographs, film, music and narrative. In the audio CD “In Our Own Words – Keelites look back at the Turbulent Years” – Brian Walker recalls

experiences through contemporary accounts and interviews.

Your free copy of “A Coming of Age” can be requested from the Alumni Office from August 2012, but we invite contributions to the Keele Key Fund.

The encouragement and support of our anonymous benefactor, the Keele Society Advisory Committee and the Keele Key Fund are greatly appreciated.

Coming of Age

Homecoming – Keele’s biggest alumni event

together again at Keele…”

one another – at our

Homecoming has become a regular date in the diary for former Keele students to plan a get-together with their own circle of friends. Homecoming 2012 has been postponed because of a major refurbishment to the Union Building. We will be back, bigger, better and brighter in 2013 – if not before.

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Thought Leaders A FITTING

TRIBUTE

Jonathon Porritt, the eminent writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable

development, has been o!cially installed as the new Chancellor at Keele University. His installation, which took place in February, was the first o!cial event of Keele’s 50th Anniversary year. Jonathon will be the University’s fourth Chancellor.Jonathon Porritt said: “I am hugely honoured to have been asked to become the next Chancellor of Keele University. I have enjoyed many contacts with the University over the last 15 years, and have been very impressed at the commitment shown by the Vice-Chancellor and many other members of staff in demonstrating real leadership on sustainability issues.

“Now is a very interesting time to be getting involved in the Higher

Education sector and it’s important that my role as Chancellor at Keele is not just about challenging the University, but about challenging the sector as a whole – particularly in regards to sustainability.

“Universities are not just big businesses that should be making their estate more sustainable, but are in the unique position of being able to educate future generations and drive research into the sustainability and environmental agenda.

“Universities are meant to be the thought leaders of society and if they don’t lead the way, there is a risk that less independent voices fill the vacuum with their own agenda on the subject of sustainability, rather than insight based on robust research.

“With the financial future set to remain bleak for some time, this is a gritty and challenging context that we are faced with, but it is essential that universities like Keele stay focused and thrive through these difficult times.”

Keele University will be naming the School of Medicine building on its

Sta!ordshire campus, "e David Weatherall Building, in honour of Professor Sir David Weatherall, who has retired after nine years of distinguished service as Chancellor of the University.Sir David has served Keele with distinction as Chancellor since 2002. He succeeded Lord Moser to become only the third Chancellor of the University and has made a considerable and significant contribution to the University’s success.

During his time as Chancellor, Sir David saw thousands of young people graduate, including the first graduates from the Medical School, and has been an exemplar and role model for students, staff and graduates alike. He has also awarded honorary degrees to prominent scientists, community leaders, and key figures from the world of arts and politics.

Professor Sir David Weatherall is one of the outstanding British clinician scientists of his generation. He is an accomplished pioneering researcher in molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine. He was Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford, 1992-2000, and is now Emeritus Regius Professor. He was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science by Keele in 1993. In 1989, Sir David founded the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University to foster research in molecular and cell biology with direct application to the study of human disease. Sir David is also co-author of the Oxford Text Book of Medicine.

Keele honours

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NEW CHANCELLOR ARRIVES ON CAMPUS

Jonathon Porritt was o!cially installed as the new Chancellor of Keele University at a special

ceremony in the University Chapel in February 2012.He is the University’s fourth Chancellor and succeeds Professor Sir David Weatherall. His installation as Chancellor is the first official event in Keele’s 50th Anniversary year.

The new Chancellor told a packed audience in the University Chapel: “This is quite a privilege for me – quite a daunting experience to be honest. This is a very heavy responsibility placed on my shoulders and a very interesting time to take up this role as the University embarks on the 50th Anniversary of its incorporation.”

He said he was “absolutely delighted and deeply honoured” to be the Chancellor of Keele University – a critical part of my excitement at taking up this role is that Keele is already an exemplar in many aspects of sustainability and academic rigour; good science and the use of knowledge are an essential part of what we are doing.”

Professor Nick Foskett, Vice-Chancellor of Keele University, said: “We believe that Jonathon’s appointment as Chancellor recognises and underlines our core values and ambitions. His own profile as critical thinker, as clear advocate for the values that we share, as believer in the importance of evidence-based and science-based policy and decision-making, and of course his leading commitment to the sustainability of current and future society matches closely what we uphold at Keele. We look forward to his support, to his wise counsel

and to his engagement in developing and delivering our vision for Keele and its students over the coming years, as we seek to further enhance the achievements, profile, reputation and influence of Keele University.”

In his oration to present the Chancellor Designate, Professor Pat Bailey, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Natural Sciences, said: “Jonathon has received acclaim and recognition from the highest levels, but is committed to addressing issues that affect everyday people around the world. His impact on environmental issues is aligned to Keele’s commitment to sustainability – a commitment that concerns activities ‘locally’ here on campus, but also in the wider regional and UK communities… and hopefully globally too. His adherence to academic rigour and scholarly argument align perfectly with the ideals of this University.”

As he proceeded to his Chair of Office, escorted by Pro Vice-Chancellors, Professor Mark Ormerod and Mr Kevin Mattinson, the Chancellor Designate was formally greeted by the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire, Sir James Hawley and The Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Trevor Hambleton, and the President of Keele University Students’ Union, Rosie Weatherley. Pro Vice-Chancellor, Professor Marilyn Andrews, presented the robes, while Pro Vice-Chancellors, Professor David Shepherd and Professor Andy Garner, assisted with the robing.

A further selection of Installation pictures can be seen here: http://tinyurl.com/8xmhrr7

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9 February: Installation of the Chancellor, Jonathon Porritt CBE

22 March: Charter Year World Affairs Lecture by Lord Rees of Ludlow

14-19 May: Charter Year Alumni Reunions and Visits in Canada and USA

28-31 May: Charter Year Alumni Reunions and Visits in Kenya

24 September-1 October: Charter Year Alumni Reunions and Visits in Malaysia, Brunei and Hong Kong

23 June: Community Day for the people of the local community and region

8-9 July: Golden Graduates’ Reunion

9-12 July: Charter Year congregations for the conferment of degrees

11 July: Graduation Gala Dinner

13 July: Charter Year Staff Celebration

9 September: Keele Hall, Gardens, Chapel and University Archives open as part of English Heritage Open Days

October: Naming of The David Weatherall Building (Medical School)

October: Opening of the new Day Nursery

October: Opening of the new Moot Court

16 October: Keele in the Capital – we celebrate the success and promote the development of the University at the House of Lords

17 October: Charter Year Programme of Poetry Readings begins with Simon Armitage

Autumn: Charter Year Programme of Keele Concerts Society begins

Autumn Charter Year Art Gallery Exhibitions begin

November: Launch of the History of the Astronomical Observatory

WHEREAS an humble Petition has been presented to Us by the University College of North Staffordshire praying that We should constitute and found a University within North Staffordshire...

NOW THEREFORE know Ye that We by virtue of Our Royal Prerogative and of Our especial grace, certain knowledge and mere motion have willed and ordained and by these Presents do for Us, Our Heirs and Successors will and ordain as follows:-

1. There shall be and there is hereby constituted and founded in Our County of Stafford a University by the name and style of “The University of Keele”….

2. Our most dear and entirely beloved Sister Margaret Rose… and all… Members of the University are hereby constituted and from henceforth for ever shall be one body politic and corporate with perpetual succession and a Common Seal by the name and style of “The University of Keele”

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

ELIZABETH THE SECOND by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING!

Some Charter Year Events

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MAKING A DIFFERENCE

They are key figures who have made a major impact with significant work over many years in a number of important areas, including the local community and economy, Keele University and higher education, health and medicine, primary medical care and academic history.

1. Professor Richard Blackett, a graduate of Keele and the Andrew Jackson Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, was awarded a Doctor of Letters for his distinguished career as an academic historian.

2. Mr Peter Coates, chair of Bet 365, chair of Stoke City FC and member of the Court of Keele University, was made a Doctor of the University in recognition of his enormous contribution to the local community and the local economy in North Staffordshire.

Keele has awarded Honorary Degrees to six people who have made outstanding contributions within their fields of expertise.

WORLD RANKING FOR KEELE AND MORE ACCOLADESThe University is positioned in the band 301-350 for the world, and 130th equal in Europe. The tables present a broad view of institutional performance and it is the eighth year that the Times Higher Education has published its global university rankings.

Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nick Foskett, said: “This is an excellent result for Keele and congratulations must go to the whole Keele community. It shows that our commitment to providing a high quality educational

experience for students, shaped by outstanding research contributing positively to social, environmental and economic agendas, is being recognised not only locally and nationally, but internationally.”

Keele was also confirmed nationally as a top ten university by the National Student Survey. The annual national survey, which began in 2007, has shown that 90% of Keele students were satisfied with their course, compared to an average of 83% nationally.

In another accolade, Keele and world famous football giant, Manchester United share top spot in the UK Environment Agency’s new energy efficiency league table. They are among the 22 companies placed at No 1 in the league table, which is the first ranking of the UK’s 2,000 largest energy users under the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) energy efficiency scheme.

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3. Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer, was made a Doctor of Science in recognition of her distinguished contribution to Health and Medicine.

4. Professor Stephen Field, Chair of the NHS Future Forum, was made a Doctor of Science in recognition of his contribution to primary medical care at a national level.

5. Professor Dame Janet Finch, DBE, DL, BA, PhD, AcSS, former Vice-Chancellor of Keele University, was made a Doctor of Letters for her distinguished contribution to the University and to higher education.

6. Mr Mike Reynolds was awarded Master of the University for his distinguished service to the local community.

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2011: What a Year!

JANUARYThe Welcome Trust award Dr Gordon Hamilton, Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology/ Research Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine, and co-applicant Dr Orin Courtenay £2,562,995 for a Strategic Translation Award, “Field trials of synthetic sex pheromone to reduce visceral leishmaniasis (VL) transmission by Lutzomyia longipalpis in Brazil”.Groundbreaking work from a team led by William Farrell, Professor of Human Genomics, Research Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine, identifies for the first time a link between changes in the DNA of newborn babies, folic acid supplementation during pregnancy and birth weight.Dozens of people visit the newly-refurbished Keele Earth and Space Observatory, in association with BBC Learning, for Stargazing LIVE events.The Indus Training and Research Institute, Bangalore, announce a collaboration with Keele to launch a teacher training programme, leading to a Professional Graduate Diploma in International Education.Representatives of Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, including the President, Professor Li Hongtian, visit Keele to further cement the co-operation reached with the Faculty of Natural Sciences for a 3+1 arrangement for students.

FEBRUARYA team from Keele is leading a £200k project funded by the Higher Education Academy to see how environmental education can be embedded more widely in university programmes. The team includes Professor Pat Bailey, Dr Zoe Robinson, Professor Mark Ormerod and Dr Peter Knight (Research Institute for the Environment, Physical Sciences and Applied Mathematics).

The School of Nursing and Midwifery is selected by the NHS as the sole HEI provider of accreditation and quality assurance to the “Flying Start England” preceptorship programme.

Keele Astrophysics PhD student, Masha Lakicevic, wins a prestigious studentship at the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Worth approximately 100,000 euros, the studentship enables her to spend two years at ESO’s headquarters near Munich.

MARCHA major new award of £1 million from the Medical Research Council African Research Leader Scheme will support links with Africa, bringing together the medical entomology teams of Dr Frederic Tripet, of Keele’s Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology, and Dr Abdoulaye Diabate, of the Centre Muraz in Burkina Faso. The objective of the project is to better understand male mosquito mating behaviour, enabling new strategies to eliminate malaria.Keele signs a memorandum of understanding with five universities in China during a six day visit by a team of delegates from the University. The Research Excellence Framework team announces that five Keele academics have been appointed to the sub panels for the REF 2014.Keele’s Athletic Union continues to enhance the Varsity Series played against our local rivals, Staffordshire University, winning the sports contest in 2011 – the first time either university had won the title in consecutive years.

APRILProfessor Mark Ormerod, Research Institute for the Environment, Physical Sciences and Applied Mathematics, is heading a collaborative team of six leading research groups from the UK and India that has been awarded c. £1.35 million from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Indian Department of Science and Technology, funding a collaborative three-year research project entitled, ‘Modelling Accelerated Ageing and Degradation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells’.Keele astrophysicist, John Taylor, is a member of an international group of researchers who report the discovery of a unique system of stars in a paper published in the Science magazine. An informal ‘Meet the Staff’ event is held in the Students’ Union Ballroom for students to meet with the Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Deans and Directors on an informal basis. Research by Dr Falko Drijfhout, School of Physical and Geographical Sciences, with Dr Stephen Martin, is published on the Natural Environment Research Council’s research news website, Planet Earth Online.

MAYThe Earl of Wessex visits Keele to get an overview of the University and see a range of teaching and research activities designed to change social attitudes towards older people.Dr Dave McGarvey, School of Physical and Geographical Sciences, is awarded the prestigious 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry Higher Education Teaching Award. Research into creating false memories by Dr Sue Sherman, School of Psychology, presented at the British Psychological Society conference in Glasgow, is featured in the New Scientist.

JUNECouncil approves the University’s revised Strategic Plan.Professor Christian Mallen is awarded an Arthritis Research UK Clinician Scientist Fellowship award to develop a new programme of work on identification and improved management of polymyalgia rheumatica, within the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre at Keele.Research at Keele is featured in Big Ideas for the Future, listing 100 UK university research projects that could revolutionise the world.Professor Shaughn O’Brien, Research Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine, has his latest publication featured on the front page of British Medical Journal.Chris Phillipson, Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology, speaks at a launch in the House of Lords of a manifesto entitled Fighting Poverty, Inequality and Injustice.

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JULYDr Patricia Black is awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy. Dr Black is one of just 55 lecturers and learning support staff to be awarded Fellowships – the most prestigious awards for excellence in higher education teaching and support for learning.

A major project to restore the fountain in the gardens of Keele Hall is completed.Peter Styles, Professor of Applied and Environmental Geophysics/Applied and Environmental Geophysics Research Group, gives evidence at The House of Lords Select Committee at the Science and Technology Inquiry on Nuclear Research and Development Capabilities.

Keele Astrophysics PhD student, Masha Lakicevic and her supervisor Jacco van Loon, make significant new discoveries about a supernova that exploded in 1987 in a nearby galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.

AUGUSTKeele is confirmed nationally as a top ten university by the National Student Survey. The annual survey, which began in 2007, has shown that 90% of Keele students were satisfied with their course compared to an average of just 83% nationally.

A programme created by Keele to encourage university applications and raise aspirations and attainment in science is shortlisted for the prestigious 2011 Times Higher Education Awards for ‘Widening Participation Initiative of the Year’.

Psychologist, Dr Claire Fox, is jointly leading a pioneering cycle of implementation, research evaluation

and development work to improve the quality of domestic abuse prevention initiatives for children and young people in Europe.

SEPTEMBERKeele is placed, for the first time, among the top universities in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The University is positioned in the band 301-350 for the world and 130th equal in Europe.

The University awards degrees to more than 100 students at two special ceremonies in Malaysia. It is the first time Keele has awarded degrees to students at ceremonies in Malaysia, following the launch of a collaborative programme three years ago between KDU College and Keele.

The Vice-Chancellor unveils the University’s new corporate visual identity.

OCTOBERArthritis Research UK, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Oswestry, and Keele launch a major experimental tissue engineering centre which aims to regenerate bone and cartilage by using patients’ own stem cells to repair joint damage caused by osteoarthritis.

The Keele University Sustainability Hub opens to provide a focus for the institution’s widespread activities around the sustainability agenda.

NOVEMBERJonathon Porritt, the eminent writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development, will be Keele’s new Chancellor.Keele and football giant, Manchester United share top spot in the UK Environment Agency’s new energy efficiency league table.Keele is successful in regaining the Carbon Trust Standard. Planning permission is granted for a major project which will transform the heart of the campus, including the reconfiguration of the Union Square plaza, providing new seating, tree planting and a central sculpture.Work starts on a new £2.9 million purpose-designed nursery on campus.

DECEMBERA special celebratory dinner in Keele Hall marks the retirement of the Chancellor, Professor Sir David Weatherall, after nine years’ distinguished service to the University. It was announced at the dinner that the School of Medicine building will be named The David Weatherall Building, in honour of Sir David.

New purpose-built accommodation for medical students undertaking GP placements in south Shropshire, north Herefordshire and the Powys border, are opened.

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PARTNERSHIP BEARS FRUIT

Two recent special ceremonies in Malaysia saw more than 100 students graduate with Keele

degrees. It was the first time Keele has awarded degrees at ceremonies in Malaysia and it follows the launch of a collaborative programme three years ago between Malaysia’s KDU University College and Keele University.Professor David Shepherd, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, represented the Vice-Chancellor of Keele University, Professor Nick Foskett, at ceremonies in Penang and Petalying Jaya, KL, at which students received BA Honours Degrees from Keele’s School of Management.

During the trip to Malaysia, Professor Shepherd, who was accompanied by Keele’s Director of Marketing and Communications, Mr John McCarthy,

met with the Vice-Chancellor of KDU University College, Malaysia, Professor Dr Teoh Kok-Soo and his senior team to discuss further developments and collaboration between the two institutions. The Keele delegation also included Professor Matthias Klaes, Keele Management School, and Dr Matthew Brannan, the School’s Director of International Partnerships & Development.

Professor Shepherd said: “The ceremonies were a major milestone in the partnership between Keele and the institutions in Malaysia. It was a great pleasure for me, and the team from Keele, to be there to present the degrees and diplomas. Keele University and KDU share in the graduates’ excitement and optimism for the future.”

The Vice-Chancellor of KDU, Professor Dr Teoh Kok-Soo commented “I am delighted to have welcomed the team from Keele University. It is clear that the

students have worked hard and enjoyed their studies and we are particularly proud that four students have achieved first class honours degrees. We look forward to further high quality collaboration with Keele University as we seek to develop our partnership.”

Keele University’s partnership with KDU University College started in 2009. The degrees at KDU University College have the same curriculum as Keele, with academic staff from Keele Management School visiting KDU twice a year to meet with staff and students, ensuring quality delivery of the programmes.

The picture shows Professor Kok-Soo receiving a commemorative gift from Professor Shepherd.

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Changing Images – Changing Times

The new image helps applicants, students, staff, alumni and others to identify Keele as an established University with a proud and distinctive tradition.

The image draws heavily on our armorial bearings and reintroduces the rich gold and red of the original arms and crest. Green was added to reflect our campus and commitment to sustainability.

The three woven ribbons of gold, red and green represent our distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum. The five original heraldic devices are also clearly visible in a more contemporary form.

The Keele University coat of arms is adapted from that of the Sneyd family, owners of Keele Hall and the Keele estate since 1540. The scythe is the Sneyd family emblem, although their scythe was black on a white

field. The red and gold scheme was adopted at the behest of our founder, Lord A D Lindsay of Birker. A book and a representation of Rodin’s “Le Penseur” brought an educational flourish and the three devices at the top of the shield represent the three authorities that supported the foundation: the Fleur de Lys for Burton-on-Trent, the Staffordshire Knot for Stafford, and the Fret for Stoke-on-Trent.

The formal grant of arms reads:

Or on a Chevron Gules an open Book Argent in base a Scythe proper on a Chief wavy of the second a Stafford Knot between a Fleur de Lys and a Fret of the first. And for the Crest on a Wreath of the Colours in Front of a Wreath of Laurel Vert a representation of Rodin’s statue “Le Penseur”

The motto “Thanke God for All” belonged to the Sneyd family and is visible in the

stonework at various points around Keele Hall. It is rumoured that Keele students of every generation have been tempted to modify the motto to read: “Thanke God for Ale”....

A series of corporate logos, images and colours has been adopted over the years but most were short-lived. The longest lasting version was introduced in 1995 and lasted until 2011. This design featured green, black and white with an intertwined ribbon motif.

The ribbon was not a representation of the DNA helix, but symbolised the Keele ideal of educational disciplines overlapping and combining to create a greater whole. Green was adopted to reflect the green campus.

The expansion in student numbers since 1995 means that around two-thirds of Keele’s alumni attended Keele “under the helix”.

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BUILDING AMBITIONS

Diane Maclean

‘Forest of Light’

A forest of slim gleaming stainless steel columns of varying dimensions interspersed with circular stainless steel insets in the ground, 50 items in total, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the University. The walk-through installation, composed of multiple pieces, reflects the open nature of the University, its many disciplines and the different backgrounds and countries around the world from which students are drawn.

The columns of varying dimensions are spaced out in a basically circular arrangement, with the tallest in the centre. Circular stainless steel insets 200mm diameter form an outer circle or are interspersed among the columns. Cluster LED lights set in the ground shine through and reflect on the many angled surfaces of the columns.

The columns are square section, with a combination of polished and brushed reflective surfaces. They are spaced so that people can walk between them.

Exciting new plans for the transformation of the centre of Keele’s campus

have been unveiled, with work well underway on a project that will see the heart of the campus transformed and enhanced.There will be a landscaping upgrade of the central campus area, including the repaving and reconfiguration of the Union Square plaza, providing new seating, tree planting and a central sculpture.

The project – designed to provide an external social hub at the centre of

the campus – will be suitable for both informal and formal events and is designed to enhance the student, staff, resident and visitor experience. The Chapel plaza will also be repaved and associated boundary wall modified and repaired. Works will also include paving and new access steps at the Students’ Union main entrance. New paths, new bus lay-bys, shelters and a pedestrian crossing will be installed between Darwin and Students’ Union building.

Construction works will commence in late January and be completed by September 2012.

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A TRUE ROLE MODEL

Keele has recognised four undergraduate students who have excelled

academically, as well as making an outstanding contribution to the wider community.The winner of the University’s prestigious Neil and Gina Smith Student of the Year Award 2011 was Amy Chapman, Psychology. Amy, a 29-year-old student from Crewe, was the first in her family to go to university.

The runners-up, all of whom impressed the interview panel with their achievements and drive, were Danielle Hughes, a student from Crewe, Craig Doughty, an English and History student from Stoke, and Danielle Bremner, a Psychology and Sociology student from Great Totham in Essex.

The winner and the runners–up were recognised at the University’s degree ceremonies.

Amy left school at 15 with no formal qualifications. She trained and qualified as a hairdresser, eventually setting up her own business, whilst continuing with her own professional development. She gained a wide range of work experience before deciding on a career change that involved

taking a degree. Amy came to Keele via an Access to Higher Education course at her local college. She worked throughout her time at University to support herself financially and performed extremely well academically. Her aim was to continue her studies at Keele to postgraduate level.

In addition to her academic success, Amy made valuable contributions both to the student community and the local wider area. She worked with school children as part of the University’s Aim Higher programme, encouraging young people to go into higher education, and acted as a peer mentor for undergraduates. Amy volunteered at a local charity supporting young offenders and currently works as a volunteer mentor for young people who have been in care. She is committed to a career that will involve advocacy and support for young people from unpromising backgrounds and with apparently limited career options.

Her own progression and development makes Amy an excellent role model for young people who would not normally consider university as an option, and she will be a superb ambassador for Keele.

The first stage is to reconstitute the Committee so that members, supported by the Development Office, can extend contacts between alumni, and key parts of the University. Members will no longer try to speak for “their kind” of alumni but will focus instead on supporting key areas of the University’s mission and life. For example, once the new format has been agreed, members may be assigned to liaise with each of our academic Faculties, or to focus on Employability, Sustainability, Internationalisation, Heritage, Staff and Campus or Golden Graduates, etc.

The Chair of the Committee is Marilyn Andrews, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Student Experience and Professor of Professional Education in Health (photo above). Marilyn is determined to increase opportunities for alumni and students to work more closely together and hopes that the new Committee will offer a way to mobilise the expertise, experience and skills of alumni for the benefit of the University.

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Keele University has launched its very own Sustainability Hub (KUSH) to an enthusiastic response from students, local businesses and the community alike. A focal point for the University’s sustainability agenda, KUSH will provide access for all stakeholders to essential information, as well as supporting a full programme of green-based projects.

The Hub – a £4 million refurbishment of Home Farm – houses meeting facilities, a lecture theatre, exhibition space, study areas and a Fairtrade coffee lounge. It is open for members of the public, as well as the student community to visit and access information and learn more about being sustainable. The Hub is a living example of sustainability in action and its design and

construction embraces the latest technology such as solar PV, solar thermal, ground source heat pumps, biomass heating and rainwater recycling.

The Hub aims to be an inspiring location for people of all ages to learn about how changes in attitudes and their behaviours can directly influence the future wellbeing of the planet.

Dr Sharon George is the Sustainability Hub’s Manager and Lecturer and she is confident in the role the new facility at Keele can play.

“We welcome members of the community, local businesses and students of all ages to come and visit us. It’s a key resource for everyone to spark ideas about how to be more sustainable and encourage learning in

this area at every level from primary school right through to our PhD students.”

The Hub is involved in a number of key projects in the UK as well as abroad, including an outreach initiative called ‘Grey Matters’ which engages with the elderly in the local community through lectures and interactive workshops concerning sustainable living, and the development of a ‘green’ children’s centre currently being constructed in the Congo.

Dr George sums up the role of the Hub best. She says: “Ultimately, we want to inspire people to think about their behaviours and make the necessary changes.”

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ACTION STATIONS GRAND DESIGNSKeele students lead the way for energy e"ciency and ‘growing your own’ in unique housing project.

Turning a wish to live more sustainably into reality can present a number of challenges. Many people are faced with old housing stock often in need of updating, while a throw-away society and long-established habits ensure that we don’t always seek the best ways to feed ourselves, adopt recycling practices and conserve precious resources. However, four Keele students are taking sustainability to heart through their idea for a unique project to develop a ‘sustainable student house’ over the course of an academic year. Tackling energy efficiency issues, as well as how to save resources by adopting responsible cooking and shopping behaviours, the project will ensure those taking part will ‘live what they are learning’; help them explore ideas for living more sustainable lifestyles and enable them to share knowledge and learnings with other students.The four students are all studying for a BSc in Environment and Sustainability at Keele. The base of the project is a 1960s bungalow provided by the University which had an original gas boiler, old appliances, little or no insulation and single glazed windows. With the help of course tutors, the students have started to turn the property into an exemplar project for the campus community.Beginning in the garden, they have built raised beds to grow their own vegetables and established a composter. Double glazing has been installed for the windows which is expected to save £130 on energy costs and other energy saving measures include reflective radiator panels. The housemates have also labelled every household appliance in order to help calculate how much energy they are using.Scott Reid says: “Students are not aware of the amount of energy they use, but when they move off campus and start paying bills it can be a big culture shock. It’s therefore important that students learn how much money can be saved and the different ways to save energy. Living sustainably isn’t easy, yet there are lots of things students can do to reduce their carbon footprint. We also hope it will help assist the University in its research into sustainable living.”The University will implement a range of methods to monitor the progress of the project and assess the effects on student and staff perceptions of sustainability, and future plans include handing the house to another group of willing students next year.As part of the project, the students have opened up their house for other students on campus to visit and people interested in the students’ progress can follow their blog and Twitter page – @livegreenkeele.

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Keele University is rightly proud of its sustained year-on-year commitment to the environment. As well as being one of the first handful of universities to be awarded Carbon Trust

Standard and steadily reducing CO2 levels for the past five years, the University’s sta" and students have been identifying ways in which to link current environmental success and a more holistic approach to sustainability for the future.

As an organisation with an estate covering over 600 acres of land, how the University manages the environmental impact of its buildings and its people is key. A holistic approach now encompasses traffic reduction schemes on campus through advocating cycle to work initiatives, as well as ensuring that any new build projects incorporate the very latest energy efficient technology.

Testimony to this approach has been the results achieved. In the past twelve months, Keele has saved over 1.5 thousand tonnes of CO2. Recycling has increased by 34% and a sustainable catering policy at University facilities has seen an increase in the sales of Fairtrade goods and seasonal vegetables and a reduction in food waste per student, as well as lower overall water and energy usage.

An Environmental Awareness Campaign has been launched with 100 staff members volunteering as

Environmental Champions. They are monitoring campus energy usage on a monthly basis and will use these figures to assess performance and communicate key developments and aims for other environmental improvements.

As Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nick Foskett says: “The environment and sustainability have long been part of Keele’s strategic direction and we have worked hard to ensure what we do is not merely a box ticking exercise. Universities are well placed to demonstrate to the rest of the world that sustainability can work in action.”

The future is renewable – the University is actively assessing wind turbine options that could see 70% of Keele’s electricity demand satisfied by a renewable source. Investigations are currently underway into installing solar PV to work alongside the existing solar thermal heating in situ, in a select number of halls of residence.

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Life in the Palace The Fog Line in Jamrach’s Menagerie

Starter For Ten

It Takes TwoWhen Stephen Ashmore and Tracy

Rutheven were both studying at Keele in the early 1990s, little did

they know that they would end up in business together some 15 years later. As graduates in History & Politics and English & Sociology respectively, their paths did not cross during their academic years, but they now jointly run a successful company o"ering clinical audit consultancy and training support following a number of years spent pursuing separate careers in the NHSStephen takes up the story: “After Keele we had very similar career paths and entered the NHS. Somehow we both ended up in the same clinical audit team with the NHS in Leicester.”

Tracy remembers how their budding working relationship took shape. She says: “Stephen had just joined the team in Leicester and we got talking. I remember it was the day after Princess Diana died back in 1997 and that was our only topic of conversation. We then discovered we had been at Keele at the same time and we immediately started comparing what we remembered and who we knew and didn’t know!”After nine years in clinical audit with the NHS, both Stephen and Tracy had enjoyed promotions to senior positions in the same team – but both felt ready for a change. Who better to go into partnership with than someone with a shared Keele background?Tracy continues: “We set up business together about six years ago offering

clinical audit consultancy and training and other associated expertise. We had no idea whether it would work but our family circumstances allowed us to take the risk. I am delighted to say it did work and we now have a network of consultants working with us.”

Stephen says it was the best decision they made: “It’s been great. We have a lot of freedom about what we choose to do and how we do it. That’s great after the NHS! We are joint bosses and make all the key decisions and plans together. It’s amazing how similarly we think.”

Sharing an academic career at Keele has evolved many years later into sharing a successful business career for both Stephen and Tracy. It’s certainly a case of ‘forever Keele’ in their case.

What is your favourite Keele University memory?Staying up all night then walking down to the chocolate machine in the dark and going to the woods as the sun comes up.

What do you think you took from your university experience?I was totally green when I first went to Keele. I did a lot of growing up there, met a lot of great people and garnered a headful of vivid memories both wonderful and terrible. I have a pretty broad spectrum of general knowledge now which I put down to the breadth of the foundation year at Keele.

What first inspired you to write?The very first time would have been when I was about nine, I think, when I had a little lightbulb moment while watching some kids messing about on a wall. I remember starting to write it as a scene in my head, and realising suddenly that I could describe it. But actually

doing it for real as opposed to just scribbling – that was after I went to live in West Cork. I left a lot behind in London, including a couple of good friends who had died. They were the kind of people who left no trace on the world. I wanted to capture a particular time and place and put it in amber. I wanted to give them their trace.

What has been the proudest moment of your writing career?The public reaction to Jamrach. Very gratifying.

If you could have authored any book from any period what would it be and why?I don’t really know how to answer this. There are books I love but I wouldn’t want to have authored them or I couldn’t have the joy of reading them.

Which other author living or deceased do you most admire?James Joyce

Having written three historical novels, what period of history would you most liked to have lived through?I’m OK with the present, there’s no point in being any other way. I suppose if I was banished in a time-machine and old I had to choose something, I’d go for the eighteenth century. All the new thinking, the Enlightenment.

Who has been the biggest influence on your writing career to date?My husband and sons, who’ve provided the stability I needed to get on with it.

What is the hardest part of writing a novel?Making the decision to begin.

What single piece of advice would you give to any budding author?Stick at it, be honest with yourself.

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I am pleased to report that once again the Keele Key Fund had a successful year with 25 applications to the fund of which 19 projects received grantstotalling £43,000

The Disbursement Committee is very pleased with the wide diversity of projects which included grants towards the creation of the Keele Green House, the Chapel Organ Fund, The Keele Concert Society and a major new outreach project, “Grey Matters” which aims to provide facilities and access to Keele to allow the “older” community to engage in activities in and around the campus

The committee also agreed to extend their meetings to three times a year to accommodate the timetabling of some grant applications. We were also pleased to welcome Dr Sherilyn McGregor onto the disbursement committee.

Once again I would like to thank all our alumni who have been very generous in their support for the Keele Key Fund despite the economic climate. It really does make a difference to student life here at Keele.

Rama Thirunamachandran

Deputy Vice Chancellor and Provost

Chairman of the Keele Key Fund Disbursement Committee

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As a participating University, Keele received 50 per

cent matching funding equating to £1.5million. Keele alumni played an important part in this effort with their donations of £344,000 in the period raising £172,000 in matched funding. Well Done Keelites!

CASE Europe has identified institutions participating in the Matched Funding for Voluntary Giving scheme whose performance in the final year of the scheme has shown significant and sustained improvement, meriting an award for fundraising progress. Keele is one of three institutions from tier 2 of the scheme that has been identified and will receive an ‘honourable mention’ at our Matched Funding Awards in May 2012.

Robin Cross, Fundraising Officer said: “We are delighted at this recognition by CASE Europe of Keele’s fundraising efforts.”

Government Matched Funding Scheme success

‘!e matched funding scheme has been a huge success by generating a major increase in philanthropic giving to our universities and colleges. It has also created a step-change in the approach to fundraising and the skills needed continue to encourage individuals, corporations and trusts to donate to higher education. !is has laid foundations on which universities and colleges now need to build.’

2011 Autumn TeamManager: Alex Baugh (Buffalo Fundraising Consultants)Student Assistant Manager: Zoe Richards Student Callers: Juned Ahmed, Zeinab Alliji, Ella Austin, Katie Bennett, Tom Blezard, Gabriella Craparo, Rajpreet Deol, Rachael Evans, Thea Ferguson,

Despite the downturn in the economy and in a climate of general tightening of belts, the calling team, with Buffalo Fundraising Consultants, worked late into the evenings to secure £97,000 of donations and legacy pledges from Keele Alumni.

Robin Cross, Fundraising Officer for the Keele Key Fund, said: “This was a fantastic achievement given the circumstances, with the calling team having to overcome challenges not met in previous telethon campaigns.”

Alex Franklin, Chris Franklin, Philip Goodall, Dione Graham, Sarah Jeremiah, Harpreet Kaur, Kiran Majid, Jack Mills-Davidson, Dom Moore, Chris Morden, Makena Nguyai, Zara Okereafor, Kiah Peters, Robynne Pyatt, Aprajita Rai, Pumundeep Sandhu, Chaquita Taylor, Tilinao Thyangathyanga, Rachel Wilshaw

STUDENTS BATTLE THE ODDS FOR TELETHON TRIUMPH

Keele’s Top Caller Dom Moore

“I heard from people last year that being a caller was fun and interesting. I think communication is so important and this job has really helped me – and my CV! At first I was nervous, maybe even embarrassed, but then I realised it’s just a conversation when we call and I enjoy conversation! Some of our alumni are really fascinating. I particularly remember talking for over an hour to someone who works at Warner Brothers in California – he was inspiring. Oh, and I really enjoyed the atmosphere in the call room with the caller team.”

“I felt very privileged to take a role with more responsibility. Helping to lead the campaign was di#erent from being a caller; I felt a greater sense of ownership, but it was still fun. As a caller, your job begins and ends in the call–room, but now I had to think how to improve myself and how to make the sessions more enjoyable and successful. Asking people to give is always di"cult at first and I tried to help my fellow callers and to guide them through the process. Keele alumni are friendly to talk to so after the first few nervous calls we are soon at ease and we enjoy our conversations more.”

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Each session began with Cevanne Horrocks singing an Armenian song, in

Armenian and English, with harp and tabla accompaniment. Kuljit Bhamra began with an introduction to the tabla in the form of a question and answer session. He asked all the participants which country they thought the drums came from, what the drums were called, what they were made of and what was used for the top. Following the answers provided by the children/young people, he explained that the tabla is a pitched drum with a distinctive sound because of the carbon fibre weight in the centre (which used to be made from cooked rice and black ash). The weight in the centre of the larger drum provides the player the opportunity to make a very special sliding sound, whereas in the smaller drum it determines the pitch.

Kuljit lived in the Punjab, an area that is named after its five rivers. He asked what the students thought the main occupation of those living in the Punjab would be. Several said farmers, which was correct and Kuljit said that harvesting the crops was seen as a good time to celebrate with singing and dancing and lots of music including drumming. Cevanne then introduced the Celtic harp again in a question and answer format. She asked if the students knew the difference between a Celtic harp and a classical harp and what the strings were made of. She explained that a Celtic harp is pegged and a classical harp has a pedal and the purpose of both is to change the key of each note from major to minor. The students were invited to lift as many pegs as they wanted and

Local Schools Tabla, Harp and Armenian song and dance workshops 2012

Cevanne then played the harp to demonstrate how it would sound with several notes in a new key. There was then a vocal warm-up exercise with everyone singing high and low notes as well as loudly and softly with several students invited to ‘conduct’ the whole group. Cevanne then taught each group a 12th century celebratory Armenian dance originally composed for the wedding of the Princess of Georgia to the Prince of Armenia.

The marriage was arranged so that the two countries would no longer be able to be at war with each other. Altogether 670 children and young people took part in the workshops and everyone said how fantastic they were. Several teachers said the children were still talking about it the following day and approximately 50 of the participants together with about 10 teachers came to the concert at the New Vic Theatre, which Kuljit gave with Jacqueline Shave (violin) and John Paricelli (guitar).

“!ank you for the music workshop organised for this morning. !e pupils certainly all seemed to enjoy it immensely and sta" feedback was very positive indeed. Many thanks to the performers for their flexibility, it enabled several groups to benefit from the cultural experience.” Fiona Boulton, Blackfriars Special School

“!e pupils really enjoyed the workshop on !ursday last week.” Alison Boag-Munroe, Clough Hall Technology School

“What a fabulous workshop it was yesterday! !ank you so much for ensuring we got the opportunity to take part again.”Jo Watton, Maryhill High School

Keele Key Fund Projects 2009-2011Project6th Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900Arboretum Accessibility ProgrammeAthletics Union – Honours BoardAU Honours BoardBlack History MonthCampus WatchCommunity Tea Party VEConcerts at KeeleDragons’ DenEuropean & World DuathlonFirst RespondersGEO-Soc Field Trip to NorthumberlandGrey Matters at KeeleHuman Rights India Exchange ProjectInternational Cultural Experience ProgrammeKeele Capoeira Society WorkshopsKeele Community First RespondersKeele Concert Society Music WorkshopsKeele Concerts SocietyKeele Fencing DevelopmentKeele Moth ProjectKeele Oral History ProjectKeele Organ FundKeele Philharmonic Orchestra & ChoirKeele Student Community ConcertsKeele Student Mediation ServiceKeele University Trampolining Club – Approved dependent on their success with Sport England BidKeele VE – Keele Village Christmas PartyKeele VE Overseas ChallengeKeele VE Overseas Challenge 2010 ThailandKeele Welcome Week – Team of Peer AssistantsKimbilo SustainabilityKUAU Scoreboard Regeneration (in principle – must approach Sport England)KUBE Radio – Upgrade ProgrammeKUSU Dancesport SocietyKUSU PaintballKUSU Web-based Materials for PG StudentsMoot Court Project – School of LawMusic & Technology ExhibitionNAFKU Ambassador Representative VisitNightlineNurses Welcome EventPromoting Keele’s HeritageRag Week 2010Ray Pahl Honorary StudentshipSamuel BamfoScholarship for Nathan FarrellShifting LandscapeShoestring MagazineStudy ChinaStudy Tour TurkeyTemplar BarThe LoveKeele:LiveKeele Student GardenUnchosenUNICEF on CampusVE @ Keele Student Volunteer ProgrammeWarwick & London MUN Conferences – KMUNWhat makes you so Special – KUSU

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!e Moot Court Project – Keele School of Law

Mooting has an important role in assisting students to develop high quality research, drafting, analytical and presentation skills. As such, mooting can help our students to strengthen key employability skills and to provide concrete evidence of the same to a range of potential employers. The School runs a popular moot competition among Keele Law students each year. The top four mooters are then selected to compete in the Knights & Sons Moot Court Final. The top two mooters from that competition then go on to represent Keele at inter-university mooting competitions, such as the Observer Moot. The mooting competition is open to students from all years. In the last year mooting has also become a part of the first year Public Law curriculum and it is hoped that

this will act as a ‘feeder’ on to the competition. Given the role of mooting in the School’s skills strategy, we are also considering the introduction of a Professional Skills (including advocacy) module as part of the stable of second year electives (which are currently focussed on preparation for research and the introduction of a broad range of methodological approaches to the study of law).Typically, a Moot Room reflects the appearance and function of a court room and would also include audio visual facilities to allow filming of moots and support detailed feedback to students. The School currently lacks facilities that can properly accommodate or support moots. The establishment of a high-specification Moot Court Room is designed to support

student skills development, enhance their graduate attributes, further develop our engagements with the professional community and as a result, ensure the future success of the Law School by strengthening our position in what will be an increasingly competitive recruitment marketplace. The capital project to create the Moot Court has been identified as a key feature of the School’s Five Year Strategic Vision, particularly with a view to enhancing the international profile and reputation of the School. Preliminary discussions have already been held with architects to generate plans and costings.However, in order to bring the project to a successful completion, we need help from key alumni to achieve the overall

target of £75,000. The generous support from our alumni will deliver a specific resource to the Law School and a lasting legacy in reinforcing the ongoing contribution from Keele Law School to a distinctive legal education. It will enable our alumni to consolidate their association with the Law School and their support would be appropriately acknowledged/commemorated within the Moot Court itself and our website (unless they wished to remain anonymous).

Our alumni’s support of a formal Moot Court has the potential to enhance the activities and reputation of the Law School and University in a number of key ways.

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1954John ThomasAnn Whitehead (Male)

1955Bob MilesMike TaylorReginald Ward

1956Stan Cooper

Roger Hartley

Margaret Homeyer (Roberts)

Howard Mounsey

Peter Paice

1957Bill & Pauline Hanna (Jones - 1959)

Jos & Pam O’Sullivan (Claridge)

Aileen Roberts (Wycherley)

Barbara Ryder (Hawkins)

1958Doris Davidson (Comley)

Jack & Barbara Thomas (Pennell)

1959Brian Cramp

Dai Kerry

Peter Maybank

Mary Reed (Edge)

1960John & Pat Dixon (Pattison - 1962)

Derek Edwards

Christopher Foote

1961Brian & Anna Betts (Thomas - 1966)Lorraine Fletcher (Lane)Mike & Lois Fulker (Timmins - 1964)Brian WebbTony Winnall

1962Joe BattRoger & Jill Betts (Fellows - 1961) Fos & Jill Rogers (Hughes - 1964)

1963Tony & Jill Budd (Garnett) Tim & Gill Cox (Drury - 1964)John & Sylvia Kane (Bishop)John Mallen Brenda Paul (French)Joe & Dorothy Sowerby (Dunn)

1964Faith Flower (Heathcote)Michael HurdleSarah LeighBarbara Newby (Jackson)John Samuel

1965Mike CantorIvor DaviesLinda Holroyd (Barron)Michael RowleyGeoffrey Stanton

1966David AshtonElizabeth KeyPaul SommerfeldDavid & Barbara Thomas (Stagg - 1967)Arthur & Liz Williams (Evans)

1967Stephen Carter Keith CuninghameRoger FellowsJoannna Hallett (Crow)John HeadHazel Miles (Woolston)Zac & Joan Newton (Searby - 1968)Jane Williamson (Easterfield)

1968George FraserLinda FrydRussell HaggarGeoffrey & Mrs HookerBill Proctor David & Clare Radstone (Woodward - 1969)Josie Wheeler (Smith)

1969Chrissy Allott

George Moore

Mary Mountjoy (Finigan)

Chris & Frances Tew (Willingham)

1970Robert & Alison Abbey (Slater)Roger Eagle Linda Friis (Foster)Anita GerardRob & Jennifer Hedges (Anderson - 1973)David & Alison Hodgen (Rowles)Andy MacmullenTom MayhewLeo PilkingtonConnie RobertsonDavid & Denise Todd (Stracstone)John & Jane Walder (Owen - 1969)Fiona Woolf (Swain)Felice Wright (Sister Mary Anselm)

1971Frankie McGauranLinda Sohawon (Goodall)Alec Spencer Jo Williams (Heald)

1972Martin AthawesHugh Coolican & Alison Tyler (1974)Paddy CostiganStephen & Lorna Plant (1971)Stephen RobinsonMarian Small (Smith)Ian SnaithBrian & Anne Stewart (Cockerill - 1975)Daphne Wade

1973Warren ColmanPaula Cooper (Stewart)Jim & Sue Fisher (Jones) Xandra GilchristFergus McGauranRuth NicolsonSylvie Summer (Stumler)

1974Peter BradleySusan Gilbert Christopher GrahamSteve JohnsonAndrew & Sarah Packer (Phillips)Derick ParryChristine Spratt (Howells)

1975Betty Albon (Gear)Sharon Barker (Young)Nici HildebrandtHamish McArthurJohn & Janet McCartney (Barnes - 1974)Gordon & Katy Mousinho (Rutherford)

1976Patricia BlackburnGina HallRichard KingAlison Nicolson (Atkins)

Tony & Beverley Rickwood (Hatch)Barbara VallonchiniStephen & Alison Walton (Broome)

1977Ray & Anne Blackburn (Jones)Nick Hammond & Liz KohnSally Kiddle-Morris (Cotton)Neil & Susan Murray (Robinson) Val Newman

1978Stuart Brearley David & Rebecca Hill (Smith - 1976)Michael MurphySteve RussellRoger Wilson

1979Richard DunsireAlex HuntAnju KalerJohn PattonGraham StroudMartin Webster

1981Jonathan BrownPeter Wentworth

1982Mike & Nikki Cooper (Tuck - 1981)David EllisTimothy Hunt & Helen Ross (1984) Simon KnockKath Parson (Riley)Richard & Anne White (Tebbutt - 1981)

1983Amanda Croft-PearmanCicely Davey (Corke)Phil IsbillJean Marshall (Verney)

Catherine MartinBarrie PopeJeremy Sogno

1984Laurence BroydRoger JacksonSimon MarshJanet MeadowcroftAlison Prowse Christine SnaithGeoff & Caroline Walton (Bollen - 1987)

1985Phillippa Frost (Bracewell)Ro Gorell (Mee)Carol GrayStephen & Lisa Jack (Adnitt - 1986)Anne Smithson

1986Andy BennJohn BirchVictoria DenisonVanessa KearnsJoanna KillianRobert OldfieldRichard RussellAndrew Sains

1987Stephen BrannJane BurnsMartin FieldJon GouldMark KentLiz Walmsley (Delany)

1988Peter & Tracey Baldwin (Robinson - 1989)Richard BlowsPaul FindleyWendy GibsonKatherine Gosling (Thompson)Stephen GreenSimon & Helen Jones (Underwood)Philip LucasSusan SmithJohn StandenPhilippa Tyler

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1989Martin AlcockHelen BurgessCatharine CasaleJennifer Ford (Marshall)Simon HearnMatthew HillAdam KonoweKate Maddock (Heeley)David ParkerJonathan PeacockDenise PickardLorraine Tucker (Bowley)

1990Rosemary Blackett (Bevan)Philip BottrellKate Bradshaw (Lees)Steve ColesDavid & Jemma Farrance (Watkin - 1991)Marie FoggHafisi KadiriTessa Nixon (Bampton)Funmilayo OgboyeDylan ReynoldsJoanne Waltham (Clark)

1991Martin BakerNeil DubeEmma Greenhough (Crampin)Aelwyn GuestNigel JonesFelmai LawrenceSean MacGloinGeoffrey NewtonMatthew Reed

1992Lisa AllenMatt BarkerFrancis Boylan Marnie ButtersRobert DixonKay DowdallWendy Gould (Skipper)Benson Greatrex David HodgettsBarry Job

Michael LangfordMargaret MansellDavid NicholsonCaroline PageIrene PlantNicholas PrestonUsha VelineniHarriet Warner (Barlow)

1993Andrew BakerDavid BrookesSteven BrownSpike CrossleyDavid DalbyKobi Date-BahPhilip DitchfieldAndrew FreemanDavid GentlemanNicola GibsonAlison GlenPaul GrayEmily Haithwaite (Joannou)Claire HaslamGillian LeeMary LevesleyJoanne LouffEllen LyonsMatthew MooreDavid Morton Michael PalinColm PerryJoanne PonteeStuart RatheKate Read (Flint)James StonebridgeRobert Tarr

1994Hilda AndrewsRichard BattyDonna ClancyAndrew & Hannah Cooper (Davey - 1995)Sandra Drewett (Holdcroft)Andy DuttonAlan GordonLeroy GreeneHelen HarrisonDavid HazelwoodCharles HutchinsonMelanie JonesThomas KirbyGlynis KirklandJon Lamb

Rachel McIntosh (Hayward)Franco MilazzoMarsha O’MahonyPhilippa Parker (Bell)Nicholas ParrMo RayApril Ross (West)Alan SchofieldMarion UnwinRoger WalkerHelen WhiteSema Yurtmen

1995Carole AshleyCarol Barker (Jackson)Balbir Bhullar Lizabeth BushillMaggie CoxMark ElliotPete GranbyPeter & Judith Harris (Midgley)Michelle HatfieldMark HetheringtonCatherine HollandChris KirbySaeeda Nasim Ash Regan-Denham (Regan)Vic Spong (Toop)Mitchell WatermanAlistair Watkins

1996Richard GormanRobert GunnellNicholas MaxeyHelen O’Neill-Adkins (O’Neill)Fiona WilsonStephen Womack

1997Darrel Swift

1998Krysia DziedzicBarry MalpassOlutayo OkeAndy SamuRuth Stewart

1999Katherine Lundie HillSankar Sinha

2000Lesley Bunn (Dean)Deborah SuttonPaul Unsworth & Ruhi Singh

2001Jenny GrayJane ParkerEmma Turner

2002Thomas & Charlotte Pearson (Reynolds - 2001)

2003David AllsopSyed AnwerAmy Church (Polson)Matt EvansSandra Nicholls

2006Michael Banks

2008Ryan BaileyLeanne BeechAmy BrennanSimon CharltonLorna EdwardsLaura HartleyNatasha KinsmoreRobert KnowlesNaomi LanderSimon LangleySarah McIntyreNick RenshawJoe RuppertKay Smith

2009Margaret AllenMichael BarnettMichael BennettAdam Betts-SymondsLisa BurnsClaire Consterdine Vijaya DasJackie DeanGanapathy Dhanasekar

Ododo EdiagbonyaAlexander FullerBecky GuilorEwan HenryTara LalIan MahoneyNaison Mkwena Eamonn MooreSarah NorthropCandida OutridgeChristopher PrendergastRichard SimmondsRoger WestonGregory WoodNicola Wycherley

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Alumni DonorsWe also thank the 37 alumni donors who have asked to be anonymous.

Non- Alumni DonorsJoanne McAllister Mohammed AminArthur Berry TrustBarbara Gaskell - Nantwich U3A

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women in leadership positions that we knew of.”

Once on-site, the work only intensified according to Heather: “We had five intense days of training, coaching, workshops and lectures and were on-campus at UCLA from 8.00am until 7.00pm each day for a variety of different types of study sessions. The topics were wide-ranging, from understanding a balance sheet to getting to grips with organisational structures and governance.”

The chance to exchange views, thoughts and insight with a female peer group from across the globe made the experience even more valuable. Heather continues: “It was amazing to meet women from all over the world who had their own unique experiences. There were about 50 in total, including women from South America, the USA, Spain, China and Russia, as well as five of us from the UK. It was great to attend with three fellow ex-Keele students.”

Banco Santander believe in the need to equip the next generation of global women leaders for service as board members. Experts predict that a combination of globalisation, economic crisis and talent demand will drive change, expectation and aspiration for the female work experience. The programme is designed to tackle this by encouraging women to come together and look at a number of key topics, including strategic leadership, corporate governance, business acumen and mentoring and networking. Targeting young alumnae between 30 and 35 years old, it aims to build upon attendees’ substantive professional work experience. As part of the Santander Universities network, Keele’s University students, alumni and staff are eligible for inclusion on the programme.

The Keele connection was realised in 2011 when Heather MacLennan, Victoria Alkiviadese, Laila Takeh and Anna-Mary Cawthorne-Barcham were accepted for places on the programme. After hearing about the opportunity from Keele’s alumni officer, the group had to provide an extensive CV, complete an application and obtain a letter of recommendation before they heard they had been successful.

Before travelling to the USA in June, the attendees were expected to prepare thoroughly, as Heather MacLennan explains: “We had quite a lot of reading material to get through including articles from Harvard Business Review and McKinsey. We also had to complete interviews over

Some of the highlights for the group included listening to a variety of inspirational speakers from a number of diverse backgrounds. The authoritative speakers included a vice president from Myspace, a hedge fund manager, a recruitment specialist and a retail leader.

To prove the Keele ‘family’ extends far and wide, Heather, Victoria, Laila and Anna-Mary also took the opportunity while in LA to meet up with another ex-Keele student, Mark Kalisch who is a board member for NAFKU – North American Foundation for Keele University.

Heather says it was great to meet up with someone who also shares the Keele heritage. “Mark was a perfect host and he and his wife were generous to spare the time to show us around some of the sights of Los Angeles. We drove down Rodeo Drive, drove up Mulholland Drive, saw the hotel from Pretty Woman and looked over the city from the famous hills.

“Mark shared some of his memories of studying at Keele and told us about his new life in LA. It was a lovely part of the whole trip, reminded us all of Keele and rounded o# a memorable experience that demonstrated the commonalities between us transcend cultural and language divides.”The on-campus experience in LA was the hub of a three-month leadership journey which also included in-depth post-programme analysis.

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How did you become interested in music?My musical career began at school. I performed a variety of solo performances at various concerts and then went on to train in musical theatre and study music for GCSE. I have always adored music and singling and it has definitely been an ambition from an early age.

You are signed to Assorted Records, how did this come about?It all happened about a year ago. I responded to a newsletter advert and sent some of my tracks over at breakfast time. I was then in a meeting with them by lunchtime! They are great people to work with and very supportive.

What are the future plans?Well, we have released our first EP in January this year. It is four tracks available in digital form on iTunes and a physical copy from the Assorted Records store. At the moment we are doing a variety of radio shows and gigs as promotion and just trying to spread the word.

What are your musical influences?I am inspired by current artists such as Jessie J, Adele and Pink. I also love old school artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone and Peggy Lee. My co-writer is a massive fan of classic rock. I think the mix of our taste in music brings together a pop/rock style. Hopefully it’s something a little different.

What are your ultimate music ambitions?Any singer/songwriter wants to ‘make it’. It would be amazing to play all over the world and hear people singing our songs. My biggest dream would be for my music to help others in their life, like great artists have to me.

You are studying Law and Criminology at Keele. Tell us about that.I have always been interested in the legal system. I wanted to study a degree course which would give me great options whether I decide to be a lawyer or not. Keele is unique as it allows me to combine vocational elements of learning to be a lawyer with the theory of criminology.

How do you balance your academic studies and musical career?I never want to disregard academia because the music industry is hard to crack. If I am successful that’s great, if not I will hopefully be set with great foundations to start a career in the legal profession. Sometimes it is difficult to balance the two, but it’s worth it. The University Law department has been very supportive – especially the head, Andrew Francis. I always say it’s a bit like being ‘super woman’ – law student by day, music artist by night!

Your father, Karl, also studied criminology at Keele?Yes, my Dad received a Masters in Criminology in 1994. He is also looking to return to commence a PhD in Criminology after he retires from the police force. I think he is proud that we both went to the same university and it will be great to put our degree certificates side by side. It’s fantastic knowing he studied at Keele and his knowledge also helps with my degree.

Finally, what do you feel the Keele experience has given you?It is true when they say it is like a bubble. It’s more like school than university. Everyone seems to know everyone and there is a real family environment.

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

A REAL BALANCING ACT

Sophie’s four track EP ‘Eyeline’ is now available

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This year the Keele Society will celebrate the Charter Year by holding the first ever Golden Graduates’ Reunion on July 8th – 9th. Golden Graduates are those who have celebrated or are due to celebrate their 50th Anniversary since leaving Keele.

The reunion coincides with the traditional week of graduation ceremonies, when our newest alumni of the Class of 2012 and their friends and families will feel honoured to share their special day with the Golden Classes of

1954 to 1962. This year the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nick Foskett, and the newly-elected President of the Student’s Union, Joe Turner, will offer a Keele welcome, and our Golden Graduates will respond to their successors at Keele.

The Keele Society Advisory Committee has agreed that from 2012 onwards we should hold a Golden Graduates’ Reunion every year, inviting Keelites celebrating their 50th Anniversary to a special occasion with their

Class and all earlier Golden Graduates. So, in 2013, we will invite the Class of 1963 and all prior Classes; and in 2014 we greet the Class of 1964 and so on.

Of course, we are planning to develop events for all ages and kinds of alumni and we hope to announce more events for 2013 including, we hope, a revival of Keele in the City. But I hope we all are looking forward to our own Golden Day!

Golden Graduates’ Reunions

A REUNION OF KEELE UNIVERSITY’S GOLDEN GRADUATES

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Engagement with our undergraduate programmes will enable you to develop your intellectual, personal and professional capabilities. We call these our ten Graduate Attributes and they include independent thinking, synthesizing information, creative problem solving, communicating clearly, and appreciating the social, environmental and global implications of your studies and activities. Our educational programmes and learning environment are designed to help you to become a well- rounded graduate who is capable of making a positive and valued contribution in a complex and rapidly changing world, whichever spheres of life you engage in after your studies are completed.

Graduates who make a difference Keele was founded on the principle that a different kind of university education was needed, one which produced distinctive graduates, who were able to balance essential specialist and expert knowledge with a broad outlook and independent approach. Keele remains committed to these founding principles.

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A supportive community of students and staffYou will join a supportive community that places a high value on excellence in both education and research. The Keele educational experience centres on high quality teaching by lecturers who demonstrate the diversity, dynamism and intellectual excitement of the subject. Our programmes are at the forefront of research, education and practice: our distinctive dual honours and major/minor degrees offer breadth, flexibility and choice; and many single honours programmes provide expertise and the most up to date training, alongside a professionally recognised qualification.

Our professional student services, such as the Library Services and the Student Support and Development Services, support and empower you so that you have the skills a nd confidence to make the most of your potential at Keele and beyond.

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to live and study

Students have called Keele ‘the Bubble’ for many years – it is a warm word,

safe and friendly. But it also reflects the risk that we can feel too comfortable, and isolated from the world beyond Keele. Alumni can offer so much, to stretch the imagination and to engage with our students in ways that conventional teaching cannot. Whether it be by inspiring students through their own personal experiences or by supporting students through their academic studies, work experience and co-curricular activities, alumni can play a vital role in helping students burst out of the Bubble and to make even more of their time at Keele. We don’t want to talk about extra-curricular activity but co-curricular – there are so many things that students do, running alongside and adding to their studies and not just on top of them. So we have a vision for the Keele curriculum to be redesigned to provide more opportunities for students to achieve their potential through co-curricular activities. We want “Distinctive Keele Graduates” to enjoy a distinctive experience and to stand out. The campus and community have always enhanced education here and now we aim to combine the academic curriculum with the co-curriculum to enhance their distinctiveness still further.

Keelites are an under-used resource, but the Keele family will increasingly

be able to o"er support for new initiatives, stretching the imagination of and engaging with the current crop of students in ways that conventional teaching simply cannot. Alumni may be invited to inspire students by sharing your personal experience as role models or case-studies or supporting academic and co-curricular work, or even helping with the progression into work and life after Keele.The DKC Team will coordinate partnerships dependent on the goodwill, enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirit of our staff, students and alumni. We plan to create a network of support and experience, to enhance our students’ time at Keele and help them acquire and develop the

attributes so essential to a graduate-level education.

For example, a current student might be offered an internship or work experience with the business or organisation of one of our alumni; or, alumni might volunteer as (e)-mentors for current students. Following our recent successes with guest speakers, alumni may be invited to give talks or lectures or be involved in Q&A sessions or discussions. This could happen in person or virtually, and will be connected to the University’s key strategic aims of sustainability, internationalisation and employability as well as specific academic interests.We are also testing the concept of “alumni circles” to be run by each academic school and faculty so that alumni can support recruitment, publicity, employability, research and academic work around their particular subjects and interests. We hope in time that Keelites will feel part of their school’s alumni circle as much as they do of the wider alumni family.

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1954Stan Beckensall: I recently published four books: ‘Northumberland’s Hidden History’, ‘Northumberland Viewpoints’, ‘Empire Halts Here: Viewing the Heart of Hadrian’s Wall’ and ‘Coastal Castles of Northumberland’. My next two books will be on Northumberland’s landscape and old churches.

19551956Martin Tunnicli"e: I designated 2011, as my “year of nostalgia”. Through my rose-tinted spectacles, gently reinforced by my selective memory, I look back on a fabulously interesting and rewarding time at Keele, followed by a brief career as a salesman, then 50+ years of wonderful and privileged ministry in my spiritual home, the Church of England. Married Irene in 1965 and we have three children, two grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. Retirement brings new pleasures, the greatest of which is time. This allows me to play the piano and to explore piano jazz: also to write books and articles, sketch, fool around with the Internet and sleep after lunch.

1957Mary Bianco (Becker): This year I have enjoyed good health and much travel. I visited Maui to visit my daughter Rachel, Spain and Portugal with the Kamloops Outdoor Club, England with Nina and Darren and their family to show them where I used to live. We went to France and I went on to Croatia. I went with the ROC to Brazil to see some wonderfully scenic places and also visited southern British Columbia to see my brother Richard. The children are all doing well. Byron is in Toronto, Nina is in Port Coquitlam, Scott

is building the Dallas Shopping Centre in Kamloops and Rachel is in Maui.

George Broadhead: I am retired from teaching. I have lived in Kenilworth for 36 years with my partner of 45 years’ standing and we had our civil partnership in 2007. I have long been involved in and campaigned on behalf of the Humanist, Secular and LGBT movements. In 2006 I received a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ from the National Secular Society for “services to secularism and gay rights”.

Gill Milner (Rance): In memory of Stuart Riley. After Keele and Swathmore, Stuart lived a very enthusiastic and energetic life. Sang in several groups, painted, beat his children and grandchildren at table tennis almost to the end. In retirement he restored antique furniture and repaired old houses for his children and built and cropped a walled vegetable garden. He was Vice Principal at Southwark Tech in 1964 when we returned from three years in a Swiss mountain hamlet teaching and writing. Then Guildford Tec (VP) and Principal at Crawley Tec, becoming enthusiastically involved with the local high tech industries. A very good father to four children and a loving inspiring grandfather and husband. We both believed that the Keele Experiment in liberal education was terrific and we were glad to have been there in the glory of its enthusiastic beginnings.

1958Gerry Emère: After I married Jean (Powis) in Keele Church, we set off for South Africa to teach. I actually began a new career serving mines where geotechnical problems prevailed and acquired Certificates in Mining Engineering. Because of my exposure to ‘hard rock’ mining, I was also invited to

contribute technical input into mining and engineering projects in various areas including Ghana, Gabon, Zaire, Mozambique and the USA. The last ten years were spent in the Rand Mines Head Office as Manager Technical Consulting Services.

Mike Steele: I went with my dear friend Madeleine Caton (Parker) to Turkey where I taught Physics and Chemistry. We have two daughters by that marriage, Yvette and Jessica. Madeleine lives in California. I became a journalist in Hanley for the Evening Sentinel and then at the House of Commons as a lobby correspondent. I became Liberal Party National Press Officer and then joined a freelance news agency until my retirement in 2008. I have remained an Australian citizen and in 1992 married my second wife Sonia in the back yard of my brother Jeremy Steele and his wife Margaret (Owen). No longer a journalist, I am now training to be a Parliamentary guide.

19591960Brenda Dawson (Warne): I married George (1959) and went to the University of Arizona in the mid 1960s. I obtained MD and Fellowship in Clinical Anatomy and Pathology and moved later to the University of Auckland where I still teach part-time. We have two children and four grandchildren and we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary shortly before George passed away in November 2011.

1961Barry Carter: Retired from Oxford Brookes University as Senior Lecturer in History and Principal Lecturer in 1995 after 24 years. Earlier teaching in secondary, teacher-training, further education and TEFL

19621963Sue Gil (Devons): I am still working part-time as a London registered blue badge tour guide and find my history degree and FY knowledge extremely useful. A group of Keele graduates from the early sixties meet regularly in the London area to catch up and wine and dine. More Keelites are always welcome. There were only about 800 of us on campus in the early 60s and we all seem to keep in touch!

David Heard: I spend about nine months of the year in Abu Dhabi with breaks in London, Munich or North Wales. Shortly to publish “From Pearls to Oil, How the Oil Industry came to the United Arab Emirates”.

Hilary Lainé (Fletcher): Semi-retired, living miles from Keele and working part-time at Keele in the English Language Unit. Family is scattered around the UK. Still in touch with a few Keelites.

Barry Pegg: I have retired after teaching “Brit Lit” at Michigan Technological University (1973-2007).

Anthea West (Roast): Now downsized but keeping up the allotment and subjecting myself to exercise classes for the sake of staying upright and mobile.

1964Cynthia Deeson (Sing): Eric and I went to Manchester earlier in the year to meet Carolyn Staplyton (Crawshaw) and Jean Vann (Fenwick). How the years rolled away as we caught up. We are both very involved in local community activities and would love to meet up with other Keelites.Alan Phillips: My wife and I have now been living in Trivandrum, India, for ten years and consider it our home.

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1965David Utley: Married Megan Croxen but she died in 2005. Worked overseas in Hong Kong, then for the British Council in Thailand, Ghana, Greece, China, Namibia and India. Retired in 2001 and became an author, mainly of books for children. Also involved in amateur dramatics; acting, directing, producing, writing.

1966Alan Bailey: I’ve retired to the Yorkshire Dales and travel to visit family, including a first grandchild. I’m still infatuated with landscape, particularly limestone, and mountains, so frequent visits to the Alps and Nepal are part of the picture.

Bridget Sant (Hooper): Retired from teaching in Sydney to play golf, enjoy the grandchildren and help with a major regional museum, the Lady Denman. I undertake research, write local history and create exhibitions. Currently working on one to celebrate Canberra’s centenary in 2013

1967Nicky Stanton (Pontin): Living mostly in Netherlands where Mike Stanton is working; retired FE/HE Lecturer/Head of Business Studies and consultant in Business Communication. My book ‘Mastering Communication’ has just gone into its 5th edition.

1968Trevor Allison: Taught in Preparatory Schools between 1968 and 1994, then in Royal Mail until 2007. Took early voluntary redundancy and have got more and more involved with the Ramblers. I am now Footpath Secretary for the Shropshire Area, looking forward to full pensions at 65.

Michael Rigby: Having retired from a very enjoyable later career at Keele, I am now involved in a variety of expert roles, including work with OECD, the EU and various international projects, while enjoying life in Ireland.

1969Chrissy Allott: Retired so when my husband was made redundant we moved to beautiful Devon. Working as a

volunteer at Book Cycle, helping to send books to Africa and plant trees.

Chris Bull: Retired, but did VSO in Namibia; now volunteering with DfID’s pilot programme in an overseas territory.

Katherine Cuthbert (John): I chose Keele because of FY, but doing a joint honours degree was crucial. I studied Psychology and Biology and my career has been lecturing in the former. I have continued the Keele tradition of innovative education. In 1993 my life changed after onset of multiple sclerosis and my knowledge of psychology was vital. I have recently published a memoir of my coping experience – ‘Keeping Balance: A psychologist’s experience of chronic illness and disability’.

1970Monica Dillon (Cohen): I went to Liverpool Uni for a Diploma in Social Administration and trained as a Probation Officer. I am about to retire after forty years with the Probation Service. I have two children, three stepsons and eight grandchildren with two more on the way.

Philip Newall: After nine years in the NHS as an audiologist and 27 years as an academic, I have taken up a part-time position in teaching and research at an institute. My audiologist wife Cristy and I visit Samoa three times a year for voluntary work testing deaf children and fitting hearing aids. I have two sons – John is also an audiologist and Tony is a health economist. We still travel to overseas conferences and spend time with granddaughter Ava.

1971Laurie Walker: Still working, still married, still like the Bee Gees and Neil Young.

1972Carol Birch (Fidler): My new novel, ‘Jamrach’s Menagerie’ has been featured on BBC London TV News and on Radio 4’s Open Book and I appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, amongst other events. Frank Jones: I am retired following a career as a teacher of English and secondary school administrator.

1973Jil Dobson: Now semi-retired, working as an examiner for the English Speaking Board. I intend to live in Bulgaria from May 2011.

1974David Frost and Patricia Frost (Anderson): We both retired from teaching in 2008. In 2010 we moved to a village in Kent and divide our time between there and Anjou, France, where we run a B&B.

David Masten-Rosen (Rosen): I transferred to the LSE for a BSc in Economics then worked in Latin America before coming back to the USA for an MBA in Finance. I have worked on Wall Street as a Partner at Bear Stearns before setting up my own shop ten years ago. We manage institutional pension money for US states, cities and some foreign financial institutions.

1975John Burton: Redundant at the end of August 2011, so more time for trekking and hockey – and the grandsons.

Martyn Dell: Married to Sue (Doyle) since 1975.

1976Jim Moran: Moved to Tripoli, Libya in early September as Head of the EU Mission there, and hoping that the Arab spring will now turn to summer.

Patricia Taylor (Best): I am working for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals

Eva Zissimides: After a Postgraduate Diploma in Technical and Specialised Translation at the University of Westminster and Postgraduate Diploma in Interpreting at the University of Geneva, I settled in Greece in 1978 and married George Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece. One son aged 29.

1977Keith Cole: Director of Mimas, supporting the advancement of knowledge, world-class research and teaching. Mimas is a national data centre based at The University of Manchester, and hosts a significant number of the UK’s research information assets and builds applications to help people make the most of this resource.

Pat Cunni"e (Millard): Just retired from BCU as Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health. Now doing voluntary work, CAM, clinical hypnosis and NLP.

Walter Hawes: Keele was an inspiration that has been with me all my life. The idea of showing me how to try and achieve our true potential as human beings and also the ideals that were like a beacon and continues to shine... and that specialising was anathema to learning.

Ian Moncrie": Retired from the Royal Navy as Rear Admiral in 2010 after 34 years in Service. Highlights were command of HMS Nottingham and HMS Endurance and as Commander British Forces South Atlantic in the Falklands followed by four years as the National Hydrographer. I was appointed CBE in 2010. My retirement lasted ten days as I returned as Chief Executive of the National Hydrographic Office. Living in Exmoor National Park and married to Marion with two: Andrew is now in the Royal Dragoon Guards and James is reading Politics at Newcastle University and goes to Sandhurst in 2012.

Graham Stalley: Visited United States for two months but stayed for thirty years. My son Alex is in his second year at Keele.

1978Dave Hill: Rebecca (Smith) and I moved to Brighton last year. Virtually empty nesters but not quite. I will be taking early retirement in 2011. I will continue to work in the affordable housing sector but with more free time in this great part of the country.

Robert Wilkins: I have been in Asia since 1982 (Yokohama and Hong Kong). Both daughters were born in Hong Kong and are studying at the University of Sydney.

1979Alex Hunt: I have stopped working for my company Beach Shack Ltd and taken a sabbatical to study for an MSc in High Performance Computing at Edinburgh. It has been a shock going back to university after 30 years! Students sure work hard these days. I haven’t had

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much time to attend clubs and societies because the work load is so high. I will be glad to get back to work!

Roger Jameson: Currently Business Systems Manager at Housing Choices Australia. Formerly lived in Auckland working as a General Manager in the software industry for an asset planning consultancy.

1980Alison Bate (Godfrey): Taught German and French in London and Brighton till 1999 then moved “for two years” to Melbourne with my husband and three daughters but we’re still here. Head of Dept, Head of Year, Head of Middle Years but I’m over the senior management thing now and “just” teaching.

Peter Collop: I retrained as a maths teacher and taught for 25 years in London. At 50 I began teaching overseas: first year in Jordan, now in China. I teach maths to Chinese students who want to go to university in USA or UK. Still climbing, skiing & travelling in school holidays.

Richard Devonshire: I am on active service with the British Army.

Jeremy Duggan: Independent IT consultant and Oracle specialist

Stefan Kosciuszko: Twenty years in investment banking, travelled around the world, five years as CEO of Asia House and now acting as Senior Advisor Asia Pacific for a couple of companies and also Chairman of a digital media company. Two daughters, one at Cambridge and the other at Durham. Flat in London and country house in the Yorkshire Dales. Life is good, smoking, drinking and eating whatever I want.

Lindsay Markham: Divorced with a 19-year-old son and running a B&B on the outskirts of Bath; training to be a Reader in the Church of England.

Elizabeth Schupbach (Webb): Living in Switzerland for sixteen years with husband and three children. Main profession has been EFL in a great variety of organisations.

Vicki Taylor: Living in Milton Keynes doing lots of coaching and mentoring.

Melinda Triggs (Storey): I qualified as a Company Secretary and worked in

financial services, local government and surveying, accountant and legal partnerships. I also worked for a trade association. Currently Deputy Secretary of Lloyd’s of London on the top floor of that iconic building. Married late at 45. Live in London and still in contact with Keelites round the world.

1981Sharon Bate (Loveridge): Married Nicholas, had five children and divorced. Trained as Registered Mental Nurse, and now working on acute psychiatric ward in Ipswich.

Glynn Catterall: Living in Hampshire, married with two boys. Working hard to improve my golf.

#eo Dennison: Working as a communications consultant.

Paul Girvan: I came straight to New Orleans and here I remain, married with one son and living in the old French Quarter. Partner in consulting firm specialising in feasibility studies for hotels, casinos, theme parks etc.

Amanda Jones (Childs): Currently retired banker living in Pinang.

Davina Morgan (Davies): Married Howard in 1981; we have two sons.

Jill Raistrick: Nearly thirty years in TV Production (film editing, script editing, producing drama), I now live in the lovely Languedoc of the South of France running a gite business. Who’d have thought it? Just wish I’d studied French at Keele!

1982Peter Bird: My latest novel has come out as an e-book.

Kevin Mullaney: Now living in Northamptonshire!

Alan Taylor: My EU base is still Berlin, but currently teaching and researching in South Africa. I am Professor of what used to be the Pretoria Film School. Interesting times!

1983Trevor Barr: I am Head of Academic Music and Head of Lower School at Warwick School. I still do lots of Choral Conducting, so my time as Organ Scholar at Keele was of great benefit.

Paul Dutch: I am a partner at Harold Benjamin solicitors specialising in Property Law, Development Planning and Regeneration. I was involved in legal work relating to construction projects for the 2012 Olympic Games.

Veronica Lindsay: Accountant for Housing Association for the last ten years, living in London. Two children, boy 16 and girl 13. I am a Christian, enjoying life and retraining to teach money management.

Mike (Mlevin) Nicholas: Just published a book of bedtime stories and celebrated eighteen years since co-founding Nicholas and Knight, the specialist food marketing company; married with three boys, still in touch with lots of Keelites and regular at official and unofficial reunions.

Geo" Walton: Have my PhD and working part-time in Staffordshire University Library and part-time researcher in the Arts Media & Design Department. Caroline (Bollen) and I played in bands in and around Keele such as “Decomposition”, “Heymaker” and “Boneshaker”.

1984Rob Collins: I am living very happily near Oxford. I am Director of Business Processes Improvement for GMAC Commercial Finance. I gained an MBA from Henley Business School, and am a visiting Fellow at Kellogg College Oxford. I teach at Oxford University in Software Engineering. I have three boys (age 17, 15, 13) and soon to be a dad for the fourth time. In my free time I learn and teach Salsa dancing and restore my beautiful 1976 VW bay-window camper van.

Ian Down: Started my midlife crisis in earnest by swimming the English Channel in August 2010.

Angela Fletcher: I am married with two sons. I made a career in IT and became a full-time mum. I am a Therapist and Life Coach and a Spurs fan and live in Essex. ‘There is no try, there is only do or do not’ (Yoda).

Ian Harris: My latest book, “The Price of Fish”, was launched at Gresham College – the progenitor and last bastion

of the Keele FY ideal. Professor Peter Lawrence of Keele provided invaluable guidance on early drafts and those who remember the late Professor Fishman, as I do fondly, should recognise his influence.

Philip Hyde: Married to Nicki with one daughter, endlessly designing software for clients and for our website and e-shop.

Youri Korsak-Koulagenko: Completed an MBA with The Open University in 2000 and lecturing with the OU Business School since 2001. Working with Atos as a project manager, based in Belgium.

1985Ro Gorell (Mee): I have now written a couple of books: “50 Top Tools For Coaching” in 2009 with Gillian Jones and “Are They On The Right Bus? The 55-Minute Guide to Talent Management”. It’s a long time since I left Keele but I often pass as I travel up north on the M6.

Andy Gosling: I left Stockport and am loving life in beautiful West Yorkshire with the wonderful Alexandra.

Andy Paul: Married with three wonderful kids.

Sue Ralph (Smith): I work for the Environment Agency in Cardiff as a Water Resources Business Planner. I am married to Nick and have two children, Georgia and Sam.

Mary Rasefske (Toolan): I have been teaching elementary music for 25 years. I am married and have three children: Adam is a freshman at Binghamton University. My twin daughters, Caitlin and Kelsey, are at high school.

1986Petra Godfrey: Now living in Australia and working as a project manager in Financial Services.

Michael Green: Still living in Plymouth with wife Samantha and our three daughters.

Giles Halliwell: I have worked in the world of Fine Art since leaving Keele and lived in France for a period.

Jo Partington: Currently seconded to the Department of Health as a Project Consultant and as a Management Fellow to City University London.

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Julie Turner (Redmond-Lyon): I trained as a shoemaker. Got married, trained as a teacher and had two kids and am surprised to find am about to be 47 and still love teaching! Happy in Somerset in a tiny cottage with three dogs and a van.

1987Bridget Appleby (Leathley): Finished my Masters in 2011.

Kim Cherono: Did some work as legal practitioner, development worker, now into real estate development.

Dave Darrall: Living in Reading with wife Linda and three children. I work in IT.

Kiran Desai: I qualified as a lawyer in London and set up an office in Brussels in 1992. The firm merged and I am partner in charge of the Brussels office, concentrating on EU law. I am married to Anne-Marie, who is French/Portuguese and we have two daughters (Alice and Eloise).

Micheàl Ó Foghlú (Foley): Settled in Waterford, Ireland, with my partner Mary O’Connell. We have two girls Meadhbh (2005) and Ãline (2007). Graduated with a Doctorate in Education from Sheffield 2010. CTO of FeedHenry, a spinout from TSSG research institute in Waterford, where I have been research director for past five years.

Alistair Frisby: After Keele, I worked in Brighton for a few years then moved to Canada. Been here 18 years now – home is where your kids live!

Anna Myatt: I am a freelance Music Specialist working in Early Years and Primary. I am married to Roger Marsh and we have three children, Charlie, Lotte and Hilda.

Ian Saikia: I went to University College Dublin and gained an MSc in Petroleum Geology in 1988. I have worked in the oil industry for 23 years with the British Geological Survey, Clyde Petroleum, Mobil and now, ExxonMobil. We have had lots of fun travelling and living in different cities. We have been in Houston for the last five years. Recent highlights are trips to Yellowstone, Yosemite, seeing live music and being at the final launch of the Endeavour space shuttle.

Jonathan Standen : Worked in the brewing industry for 24 years, now in Burton with Molson Coors. I was married to Liz Swinson – two kids are still keeping us both busy.

1988David Buck: Currently working in China as Vice President of a Chinese IT Outsourcing firm.

Nicola Burnell: Still living on lovely Cape Cod. Publisher, novel writing coach and creativity workshop facilitator. Life is very good!

Mark McKrell: Qualified ACA. Married with two daughters.

Scott Newell: Living in a small mountain village, thirty miles east of Seattle, enjoying life with my family of six. Taking advantage of the beautiful countryside out here, skiing and water sports.

David Passmore: Living and working in rural Ireland with my five children (two sets of identical twins) working as Performance Director of Irish Hockey.

1989Barry Bassett: Still Managing Director of VMI and enjoying mostly working from home in rural Kent, cycling loads , playing cricket and jazz saxophone.

Edward Finch: Married to Tricia (Walklett) and living in Surrey with our son, Adam.

Anne Groarke: Fellow of Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators since 2004.

Adam Konowe: I was named Vice Chair of the US National Press Club’s broadcast committee in Washington, DC. I rejoined TMP Government after eight years at another agency as Vice President, client strategy (aerospace and defence). I also teach communications at American University in Washington, recently earning the rank of adjunct professorial lecturer.

Lyndon Richards: I am a solicitor living in South Wales.

Stephen Swaine: I am alive – living in York and CEO of my own company.

1990Paul Adamson: After over fifteen years working in UK Government, I left to try my hand in Big 4 Consulting. Been with Deloitte for a couple of years now.

Nicholas Case: In Hong Kong and China since 1992, running a training editing firm and now developing language learning software.

Carol Fry: Self employed, living the dream.

Kevin Hurley: I am now in Peru with my wife and two children. I run Peru Language School, specialising in Medical Spanish.

Funmi Ogboye: I worked in the research and development departments of the cosmetic industry with skincare, colour cosmetics and fragrances. In 2005 I started my own business called Sentelle, manufacturing soy candles.

Craig Owen: I moved to Hong Kong in 1996. I worked in the Oil and Gas industry in Africa and SE Asia for four years. After MBA from Durham (2000), I lived and worked in London for five years until I moved to Vietnam for just over two years. I moved to Australia in 2008 where I now live and work for Ansarada Pty Limited. I married a lovely Aussie girl in November 2010 and have now made Australia my home.

Mary-Ann Preston (Dowling): I am married to Jeremy. We met at Keele in the early 90s but broke up after a couple of years. Then we met again after thirteen years apart, married in 2008 and had a baby boy last year. Never say never!

Mark Todd: After working as a solicitor for a number of years I traded my desk for a boat. I skippered a 72-foot sailing yacht for Ocean Youth Trust South, a charity that offers personal development through adventure under sail to young people aged 12-25. Having spent thirteen years at sea, I am now the charity’s chief executive, a Yachtmaster Examiner and spend about 2-3 months on the water.

1991Gavin Coles: Moved to Australia in 2005 for a year and stayed! Divorced, with two wonderful nippers. Recently realised I have

done almost twenty years specialising in financial crime roles.

Stuart Forsyth: Owner of Longfield Chemicals Ltd, one of the UK’s leading distributors of polymers.

Kathryn Warwick: Worked as a research cell biologist for ten years in Oxfordshire, then emigrated to Australia. Now living the rural life, with Ian and two kids.

1992Mark Dunster: Living on a farm in Guernsey – became the first Advocate to hold the elected office in Guernsey.

Renik Fair: I’m employed in a telecommunications company call centre in Melaka. I was initially at HSBC International Call Centre in Kuala Lumpur and before that I was a broadcaster on Radio Light & Easy in Malaysia. I’m active in Church work and glad that I made the move to Melaka as it has helped me to see life from a meaningful perspective. Keele is a favourite place and has helped me to be in touch with friends from all walks of life.

Donna Scott (Bolton): I moved to Northampton in 2008 to live with my fiancé and numerous cats. I became the first official Bard of the town in 2009. I am an IT trainer and freelance writer and editor, specialising in science fiction, and I am Awards Administrator for the British Science Fiction Association. Oh, and I do a bit of stand-up comedy too.

Baldev Singh: Beautiful memory makes beautiful people.

Kam Wahab: Happily married to Deborah Pengelly – another Keelite. We have two lovely daughters aged 3 and 3 months.

Jonathan Wright: Now running a biophysics research group in Taipei.

1993Ezela Hai Eng Barker: Had a successful career in international banking and consultancy and now enjoying early retirement thanks to Keele.

Chris Booth: Recently escaped from “The Smoke” for fresh air, mountains and lakes in Switzerland.

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Brian Davies: I emigrated to New Zealand and now living in Auckland. I’m a Financial Controller for ABC Learning Centers in NZ and got married in 2011.

Nicholas Fry: I got a trainee role at the investment bank Salomon Brothers. After two years I went to NationsBank before embarking on a tour of North America, Australia and SE Asia during 1997/98. I then spent seven years at Deutsche Bank before going off globetrotting again, this time across Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand and South America with my lovely wife Isabelle. Since returning in 2006 I have been busy fathering two wonderful boys and working at a large consultancy in the City.

Nat Godley: I taught and studied in France for a couple of years before coming to the USA for my PhD in 1995. I have been married to Heather since 2001 and we just adopted son Reggie, to add to our daughter Catherine. I am now teaching History at Alverno College in Milwaukee.

Begona Carreno Gomez (Carreno): Married and living in Switzerland.

David Green: Working as a Food Inspector for a local authority.

Cherryl Hartland: Got married in 2011, to be closely followed by my son Michael who is getting married in June 2012.

Emma Jarman-Jones: I am still in Singapore (almost nineteen years now!) I work for my own Training Consultancy Company and lecture part-time at one of the universities.

Jonathan Lytle: Happy with Susie and our young son Harry. A full life in marketing – agency and client side – and now running a biz in Surrey.

Claire Milne: Worked as finance journalist in London. Moved to Edinburgh to work as technical copywriter. Trained in integrative medicine and spiritual direction in USA. Set up and run my own healthcare charity with projects in Scotland, Asia and Africa. I have put on shows in Edinburgh Fringe. Unmarried, no children and a happy auntie to three boys.

Allan Scanlon: Have mostly been in Italy, France and Japan since graduation.

Desmond Royle: Working for Shell for thirteen years. Started in IT and now Service Assurance Manager, moving into audit and compliance.

Michael Sneyd: I continue my career as EFL teacher, teacher trainer and author.

Mark Wiggin: Now working as a Police Officer for Staffordshire Police.

1994Nina Bunton: I took a career break in 2007-2008 and went to Australia and New Zealand as a tourist and India as a volunteer English teacher. I took voluntary redundancy from the University of Bristol after fifteen years of academic administration and retrained as an English teacher. I aim to work abroad as an EFL teacher. I also do freelance editorial work.

Rachel Hall (Howe): I married Steve, and we have two beautiful children. We emigrated to Canada and spent nine amazing years there before returning to the UK in the summer of 2010.

Roger Harris: Married, with twin daughters, living in Virginia.

Kelly Home: I attended Chester Law College for a year and moved to Dubai directly after finishing. I have been living in Dubai and working in the communications industry for fifteen years.

Aileen Lothian: I completed my MPhil, PhD and PGCE at Keele before moving back to Scotland. I am Director of the Young Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Ambassadors based at Edinburgh. I design, develop and deliver environmental educational programmes and work in Scotland, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Hong Kong. I was chosen for the Edinburgh Napier University Alumnus of the Year 2011 Award and attended the awards ceremony before Christmas.

David Ndzi: I went to University of Portsmouth, and studied for PhD.

April Ross (West): After qualifying as a solicitor, I was in private practice before becoming a solicitor for the Isle of Wight Council. I am now the Democratic Services Manager.

Klair Scattergood: Worked as an IT tutor at Newcastle-under-Lyme College until 2008. Now a freelance illustrator and art tutor, still living in the area.

1995Sandrine Bautista (Stefanelli): Married since 1999, two children (14 and 11 years old).

Toby Dawson: Joined the digital revolution and work for one of the leading companies in digital advertising: Google.

Matt Drewry: Carved out a career in IT working for Freeserve, Yahoo, Match.com and Friends Reunited. Currently enjoying family life in London.

Elizabeth Parker: I qualified as a teacher and then trained as a Teacher of the Deaf. I’ve worked in mainstream schools, schools for the deaf and for an advisory service. I currently manage special provision for deaf children in a primary school in Swindon. I’ve become fluent in British Sign Language and can also use Cued Speech. In my free time, I love playing viola in local orchestras.

1996Josephine Bruce: Qualified as criminal defence solicitor and moved to Lincolnshire. Now left the legal profession and attempting to address some of the underlying causes of crime. Still performing when I get the chance!

Neil Bunford: I am retired after teaching as a Lecturer at Dudley College of Technology. I still hold dreams of completing a PhD, but more realistic is a (first) novel.

Joanna Farthing (Goh): Currently taking a career break to be a full-time mum.

Stuart Geach: I took a postgraduate diploma in Law, qualified as a barrister and cross-qualified as a solicitor. Now own Ridgeway Solicitors based in Oxford.

Chris Haacke: Married Nichola (Turner) and we now have twin girls Emilie and Lucie who are two years old.

Kiki Kallis: Masters in HRM from Leeds in 1997. I worked for a year in a small consulting firm in Cyprus and then for two years at PWC as an Associate Consultant before being headhunted by British American Tobacco for the position of HR Manager. I have

been working there for the last ten plus years and heading the HR Department in Cyprus since 2006.

Nick Kimani: Became an Academic.

Jan McLure (Brockhurst): Currently working in Shanghai for Jaguar Land Rover.

Ash Rahmani-Shirazi: I completed MA in ‘The Chinese Business World’ at SOAS and then lived, worked and studied Chinese in China from 1998-2005. Most recently working IT for non-profits and completing a part-time MSc. in Software Engineering at Kellogg College, Oxford. Soon moving to Honolulu, Hawaii, as an affiliate scholar at the East-West Center, and applying to start PhD in 2012.

Nicola Williams (Dulwich): Married Andy in 2000, and we had a baby boy called Ben in 2006.

Andy Polshaw: First proper job was as a technical and later commissioning editor and trainer for Wrox Press. When they went under, I became a software developer.

1997Karl Bohanan: Obtained Executive Diploma in Leadership and Management in 2005. I have ventured into the world of lecturing and planning to retire from the police force in July 2012.

Nova Dudley-Gough (Dudley): Worked in publishing in London and Oxford. Married Simon, a geologist, and moved to Holland. After six years there as a magazine editor, we couldn’t face another winter or horrible commute and now live in Borneo, where I am a full-time mum to our daughter, Lila Blue.

Will Hatton: In May 2011 had daughter, Evie, a sister for James. Happily married to Alli for seven years. Working as a Problem Manager for CSC Computer Sciences Corporation in Whitehaven. Enjoying life, love and photography in this green and rather wet part of Cumbria!

Darren Massey: I got married and had a son. I did the Everest base camp circuit two years ago.

Kim Owens (Leahy): It’s been a busy couple of years – a gap year travelling, moving house, getting married and then having a baby.

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Donna Smith: Declan and I were married on Cocoa Beach, Florida.

Stephen Womack: Went into Aviation Security.

1998Michelle Harris (Russell): Now working as a Sustainability Manager at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire. Married Andrew in May 2010 and still living in Leek. I’m still involved with the Staffordshire Knights Drum and Bugle Corps in Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Elizabeth Madsen (Cheng): Married in 1999 and now a mum with three children in Sweden.

Catherine Makin: Now living in Greece with twins.

Nicola Rickett: Travelled the world by joining the travel and tourism industry, using my languages to set up tours in Europe. Eventually progressed into specialist adventure tour operating, managing the polar regions programme (a dream come true) and eventually became involved more closely with Antarctica – working for two seasons on a historic base down there, with no running water, little heat, no mains electricity, just lots of smelly penguins – great fun and challenging. When not ‘on ice’ I enjoy the leafy Surrey Hills, working in travel, managing the Iceland and Greenland programme (we even organise fieldtrips for Keele).

Martin Saxon: Working as a financial compliance officer and also as a freelance writer.

Emma Sundblad (Betteridge): The family continues to grow, with a little girl joining our four boys in 2010.

1999Andrew Carter: Married a gorgeous girl, living in Bristol, one kid, loving life.

Joanne Clark: I completed DPhil in Molecular Neurobiology at New College, Oxford and then moved to Boston where I am now a junior faculty member at Harvard Medical School.

Claire Walsh (Carlin): I married Oliver who also graduated in IR in the same year.

2000Nelson Almeida: I’m back in Brazil, as professor at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.

Kathryn Ambrose (Evison): Married Ben in 2002. Did PhD at Keele then returned to teaching. Had a little boy, John-Paul in 2007.

Nick Feltham: Married to Amy Hall (2000).

Amanda Hall (Cannings): We moved to Rugby to be closer to husband’s work and to family as we’ve just had our first baby – a little girl called Saffron.

Amy Stuttle (Bell): After living and teaching in Cambridgeshire for ten years, we moved to West Sussex. We are proud parents of two beautiful boys, and I have decided to take a career break to focus on teaching two particular pupils full-time!

Mark Walton: Lawyer in Victoria, British Columbia with a 17-month old son named Arthur.

Andrea White (Cox): Happily enjoying the madness of family life with Simon, Rowan (3) and Ben (8 months).

2001Edward Cooper: I have toured the UK and Europe with my rock band supporting LA Guns, Vixen and House for Lords and also been featured in Metal Hammer magazine. Founded iPhone development company ‘Candid Innovations’.

Dennis Eifert: Working as a self-employed lawyer in Frankfurt.

Kate Francis: I worked in the luxury travel industry for six great years before taking a sabbatical to go travelling throughout the Pacific and Australia. I got married in Western Australia to my long-term partner. I returned to Chester and worked for a charity assisting people with disabilities into paid work. Since having my daughter last year, I work part-time as Marketing Manager for an arboricultural consultancy, which is great as I love the environment and the great outdoors.

Adam Frankenberg: I went to Manchester where I took an MA in Jewish Studies. I stayed on to study a PhD in Jewish Studies. I am currently studying at Leo Baeck College in London for the

Rabbinate, having just returned from a year in Israel studying at HUC Jerusalem – amazing.

Paul Peros: I worked at Keele’s Postgraduate Office before moving to London in 2003 after getting married in Keele Chapel. I have worked for the General Social Care Council and as a legacy fundraiser for British Quakers. I am now a policy officer for the General Medical Council.

2002Sian Batchelor: I have a little boy called Daniel and married in 2011.

Adam Collier: Met my wife, Susie (Lillywhite) at Keele and we now have an amazing 6-month old boy, William.

Belinda Hazzard (Teal): I got married in 2005, had a baby daughter in July 2008 and a son in 2010.

Michael Morgan: Entered the university of life.

2003Brian Beckett: I moved to Vietnam in 2008 with my Keele girlfriend – now my wife! We have been there three years and we are expecting our first child. My degree proved very useful in getting my first job in the development sector.

Darren Bland: Happily married with a baby girl and another little girl due in the New Year.

Sarah Grady: I completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel Management and gained my CIPD accreditation. I married my Keele boyfriend Liam in 2010.

Jon Hopper: Following my studies at Keele, whilst working at the UK Department of Health, I moved into Executive Management in the Medical Devices Industry.

Sandra Nicholls: Working for a global outsourcing company as a Senior Consultant.

2004Jonathan Cronshaw: I have completed an MA and PhD at Leeds in the History of Art. My thesis is about Jacob Epstein.

Laura Gill: I joined a market research company (Ipsos MORI) on their graduate development scheme. I then joined Cancer

Research UK as a Project Manager. Then in 2011 I joined the management consultancy Hay Group as a project manager working on employee opinion surveys.

Zoe Groves: I am a PhD candidate in African History at Keele.

Jill Hanby: Nearly exactly ten years to the day since I started at Keele as a scared undergraduate and I met my boyfriend Andrew Penn (2004), we have just got engaged!

Gordon Robinson: Have been living in Canada for seven years, married to a wonderful Canadian woman with a son. Have been working for Museums in Canada and for the past five years I have been curator of museums and collections for the City of Kingston in Ontario.

Ruth Wallis: Qualified as a Legal Executive in October 2010 and work as a Private Client Lawyer for a leading law firm in the South East.

Jim Yonazi: Completed my PhD at the University of Groningen.

2005Megan Collins (Johnson): I attended Keele on study abroad from BGSU. Currently, I am happily married in Ohio, teaching first grade and attending BGSU to obtain my masters in curriculum and instruction.

Mike Kenyon: Now working at CERN on software projects in the IT department.

Kandappu Mylvaganam: I have established clinical ethics committee in the hospital and chair the committee, also involved in teaching & developing policies.

2006Rajiv Ariaraj: I’m teaching the subjects I studied at Keele at a local sixth form college.

Robyn Wilson (Bright): Just celebrated our first wedding anniversary with Jean-Marc (2003).

Stewart and Emma Cope (Hodgson): We met in our first year at Keele in 2003, we both studied music and played in Keele Concert Band together and we got married in 2010 in an “all-Keele affair”. The ceremony was held at Keele University

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Chapel. We thought this was a very appropriate place to get married as we met at Keele and played many concerts in the Chapel throughout our time at Keele. We graduated together on the same day in the Chapel in 2006. The reception was held at Keele Hall and the entertainment was provided by Keele Big Band. Three of the bridesmaids, one of the ushers and the best man were all ex-Keele students. It was a truly amazing day! We couldn’t have imagined getting married anywhere else but Keele and it was thanks to Keele that we met and fell in love. We now live in Leek together and are enjoying married life.

Louise Gibney: I’ve just published my first novel, ‘Girl Meets Boys’. It’s an internet age romantic comedy based on my real-life experiences of online dating. The book’s been very well received so far with lots of support locally and globally.

Oliver Kean: Studied an MSc in Petroleum Geoscience at Imperial College London then became a Geoscientist at Centrica Energy plc. Exploring for oil and gas to supply to our downstream business, British Gas.

Adam Lightfoot: Moved onto a PhD at Liverpool and now a career in research.

Ally Memon: I went to Edinburgh for further education and teaching.

Lizzy Rushton: I completed an MRes in English and Media and a PGCE in English. I am currently a teacher at a local Stoke-on-Trent School.

2007Teddy Abrokwa: Had a wonderful year at Keele and still enjoying the benefits.

Alexander Ashton: I recently returned from a 16 month travelling trip in which I visited Peru, USA, Bolivia, Chile, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.

Desiree Capstick: I went to work in Ontario and then back-packed to Europe. I went back to university in 2009 and did an MA in Journalism and now work as a Journalist. I plan to move to Canada for good!

Jen Johnson: I now work for the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University and am engaged with plans to wed in 2012!

Qiu Li: I miss Keele so much!

Farshid Sefat: I am working as a post-doctorate research assistant.

Amy Sell: I’ve just found out that I’ll be performing in the opening and closing ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Excited!

Lourdes Villamor: Completing a Master of Education degree at York University (Canada) and looking into PhD programmes in Education and Communication.

Joey De Whytell: I got my call to the Canadian Bar, finally! I’m officially a practicing lawyer! I’m being thrown in at the deep end with my first criminal trial being in the court of Queen’s Bench. It’s going to be fabulous – I can’t wait to get stuck in. How is Keele? I miss it there. It’s so cold over here in Canada at the moment! It was minus 53 at one point last week!

2008Peter Betts: Joined John Lewis, then Waitrose, opening stores across the country and Jersey and Guernsey.

Stewart Godwin: Working in London for a Lloyds of London Insurance Syndicate.

Dan Reed: I moved to Hull to study advertising and marketing, and now work as a marketing professional. Still looking to get into the gaming industry! Recently got engaged to Fiona McIlroy; we met at Keele, I proposed at Keele and we may even get married at Keele!

Katherine Reveley: Went to Birmingham and completed Masters in Toxicology, then trained to be a teacher and now teach in an international school in Italy.

Graeme Smallman: Financial Consultant.

Ian Stanley: Travelled for a month, trained as a journalist, worked in a charity for a year then got a job in PR at Motorpoint, the car supermarket giant.

2009Mel Coudert: Currently doing my PGCE at... Keele! Living happily with my boyfriend whom I met at… Keele!

Tom Ellison: I have worked and travelled in America. I am currently working as a marketing

executive for an exhibitions company and married Ellen (Tines) who came to Keele on Study Abroad from Oklahoma State. I plan to further my career in marketing and will begin taking my chartered marketer exams next spring.

Matt Forde: I participated in the student enterprise programme at Keele and began turning my idea of running an online window blind business into a reality. Over the past four years I have continued persevering with the business, tackling a number of challenges and a lot of hard work along the way. The business is showing steady growth as a sideline project to working for a national blind company running their customer service office and as a buyer. The experience gained from working for a national company has provided me with a real insight into what is needed to succeed as well as giving me the skills and contacts needed to grow my own business tremendously, which I hope to be running full-time within the next year.

Georgie Hammerton: Having always loved my time spent at Keele’s KUBE Radio where Peter ‘Neb’ Brooks and I spent many long nights in the studio tweaking the various pieces of technology and then chatting about matters of great geeky importance. I took a job working for my parent’s camping guides company but something had to change. I developed an iPhone app with a ‘guide in your pocket’ as the idea. The whole experience was great fun, challenging and hard work but I loved it. I’d found my passion for iPhone apps. I called Peter to join me in starting a company.

Fergus Murray: Moved to Singapore to work in the Oil and Gas industry (Upstream).

Abia Ng: I have found a job in Hong Kong with a two year contract as a piano and music theory teacher.

Anemone van Zijl: I am a PhD student within the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research, University of Jyvaskyla.

Samantha Williams: I am a Doctor at Mater Children’s Hospital in Brisbane.

2010Ad Broersen: Followed EuMaG courses as a part-time student from VU, Netherlands.

Stephanie Case: Currently studying MSc Management at University of Southampton.

Nikki Cooper: After a year as Vice President at KUSU, I moved back to Birmingham; started an MA at Warwick University, started doing freelance photography and am working part-time at Birmingham Guild of Students.

Mfon Etukudo (Ekon): I now live in Houston, Texas and work as Environmental Investigator at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Laura Fletcher: I returned to Keele for my PGCE in Secondary Mathematics and was fortunate to get a job at my placement school in Kidsgrove. I now teach the subject I love, to wonderful kids, and get to see the odd squirrel around the place to remind me of the fun I had at Keele!

Laura Inman: Going to do PGCE in Secondary English with Media at the University of Cumbria in September.

Bridget Miles: I am volunteering for the charity Self Help Africa, an international development charity supporting rural communities in Africa to grow enough food to feed their families and earn an income.

Krzysztof Pazowski: Completed MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing at Oxford.

Nimal Ratanyake: I am back in Sri Lanka. I got married and we are having a baby too. I work for a manufacturing company as GM Sales & Marketing. My wife and I are keen to embark on our own business venture as early as possible. Our first most likely venture will be in professional education and student migration consultation.

Bernard Farrell-Roberts: I work as Director of Diaconal Formation at the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham, where I lecture in Bioethics, Theology and Healthcare. I also lecture at the Theology Faculty of Barcelona and the Religious Sciences faculty in Tarragona. I gained a Masters in Theology, to add to my Keele Masters

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and my OU one in Applied Theology, and am about to complete a teaching licence in Theology. I am two years away from completing my doctorate in Bioethics at Surrey. I do some guest lecturing in Twickenham and Scotland.

Nathan Greenwood: Student at University of Derby and part-time cashier for Morrisons PLC.

Lina Meghani: I am a Chemist working for AkzoNobel.

Nuran Ozan: Training as a Barrister hopefully!

Harriet Palmer: Went into property management, and looking to move into recruitment consultancy.

Steve Price: I work in Teddington for Ikon Science, which designs and builds software based on rock physics.

Yasmin Rajan: Currently studying Masters in clinical psychological research at Keele University.

Craig Shenton: Continued at Keele, for MSc Environmental Sustainability and Green Technology.

Aaron Smith: Studying for MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at York.

In MemoryCourtney Rice (1956)

Philip Sheppard (1956)

John Cole (1957)

Mary Tainton (Aldridge) (1957)

Anne Docking (Pearson) (1958)

William Andrews (1959)

George Dawson (1959)

Denis Delay (1959)

Roger Perry-Hands (Hands) (1959)

David Price (1959)

Joyce Rhodes (Nelson) (1959)

Christopher “Ticker” Hayhurst (1960)

Ray Joyce (1960)

Chris Powell-Evans (1964)

Maureen Ritchie (1964)

Sally Wright (Vasey) (1964)

Mick Bennett (1966)

Suzy Straw (1966)

George Duncan (1967)

Sue Cooper-Maggs (Francis) (1968)

David Childs (1969)

Stuart Ballantyne (1971)

Chris “Kit” Renwick (1971)

Barbara Fryer (Anderson) (1973)

Paul Kelly (1976)

Bob Miller (1976)

Jan Czul (1983)

Debbie Hayward (Bush) (1985)

Ros Effer (1986)

Mike Fryer (1986)

Peter Hudson (1986)

Dave Pilot (1987)

Kristina Humphries (1994)

Donald Williamson (1995)

Pauline Booth (1997)

David Mountford (2009)

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KEELE:

Living the Dream

A Keele University graduate has been heavily involved in some of the key investigative

work surrounding the Sta"ordshire Hoard – the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork ever found anywhere in the world. #e world-renowned collection was discovered in a field near Lichfield in 2009 and consists of more than 3,000 items.Vicky Tunstall, a graduate in Geology & Educational Studies, used the skills she acquired gaining her degree as the only geologist on the team tasked with the testing of materials found with the hoard. The opportunity to become involved with an archaeology find that astounded experts came courtesy of Vicky’s role as trainee curator at the Potteries Museum in Hanley. When the Hoard was acquired by the museum, it presented Vicky with the chance of a lifetime – one she was delighted to accept. She says:

“!e Sta#ordshire Hoard has been a fantastic find for Sta#ordshire and the Potteries Museum. After the Hoard was acquired by the Museum, I went to the Louvre in Paris as the only geologist on the team, assisting the researchers who were testing the materials found on and with the finds. It was an incredible experience.”

Local girl Vicky fell in love with geology from an early age and was often out picking up pebbles on the beach. When it came to deciding where to formally study a subject she was passionate about, Keele was her obvious choice. “I loved my time studying at Keele, the specimens in the labs and the staff who were great. Going on the field trips with fellow geologists was fantastic fun and a great learning experience.”

After leaving Keele, Vicky taught science before landing her position at the Potteries Museum which opened up the chance to become involved with the Hoard. In recent times, as well as retaining links with

the University through the Geological Conservation Group, Vicky has taken the experience she has gained and is now working at Leicester University as a curatorial and teaching support technician within the Geology Department. She is using both her geology and educational skills to help students and researchers. She still, however, retains fond memories of her time at Keele and the foundation it gave her. “Although I am a scientist at heart, dual honours at Keele led me to where I am now – I was able to study the perfect combination so that I can now do exactly what I dreamed of doing.”

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NAFKU Scholars 2011-2012Natasha Flick NAFKU USA Scholar2012 MA Diplomatic StudiesNatasha Flick was the first in her family to graduate – from San Diego State University. She says: “My time on study abroad in the United Kingdom shaped my future more than anything else. I researched Keele and it looked perfect for me. SDSU is a huge urban campus but I wanted to be part of something more accessible, part of a community. Everything is close by and it’s so English – and yet there are people here from all over the world. It’s a great place to get a true global perspective. And it’s gorgeous. Walking to class every day I see something new, something different, it’s just beautiful. My study is focused and serious, very intense. There are no lectures; it’s all debate and discussion, so you can really challenge the professors and one another. That’s very different from my undergraduate experience. There is a feeling of a common purpose, people who really want to learn. Keele is great. I love Keele.”

Annabelle Flores NAFKU Canada Scholar2011-2012 MA Human Rights, Globalisation and JusticeAnnabelle Flores studied at Ottawa University and says: “The great experience I had at Keele on study abroad is part of the reason I returned for my postgraduate studies here. I want to get to know British students better and to improve my English because my first language is French. I heard out about the programme in Human Rights, Globalisation and Justice. It is a unique course, unlike anything else I have seen elsewhere, and certainly not a course I could pursue in Canada. I knew Keele already and I liked the course so it was a very easy decision. Keele seems to be a traditional University with a good community life. I really like the idea of being in the country – there are cows on campus here – that’s weird! And I like the way of teaching here; the groups are much smaller than I am used to and we have much closer connections to the lecturers. I can meet a lot of people here from different countries and it’s great to learn first-hand from people and not just from books.”

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