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In this issue:

Disasters, risk and doom– page 6

Running a country estate– page 10

New Honorary Award holders– page 16

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� The Anglia Ruskin University Alumni Magazine Winter 2011/2012

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WelcomeA very warm welcome to all our alumni, including those from our prior institutions

In Essex:

� Mid-Essex Technical College & School of Art

� Brentwood College of Education

� Chelmer Institute

� Essex Institute of Higher Education

� Anglia Higher Education College

� Anglia Higher Education College & Anglia Polytechnic University

and from all our partner institutions across the UK eastern region and worldwide.

In Cambridge:

� Cambridge & County School of Arts,Crafts & Technology

� Cambridgeshire Technical College& School of Art

� CCAT

� Homerton School of Health Studies

The new Lord Ashcroft Buildingand courtyard on theCambridge campus

Check out our postgraduate study opportunities at www.anglia.ac.ukThere’s never been a better time to study to increase your skills and employability

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Contents

YOUR STORIES9 A life of continued learning as a mature student

Angela Lucas talks about her ongoing study

15 A new career to help break smoking addictionFrances Franklin starts up company marketing electroniccigarettes

19 Alumni News Bites Snippets of information on our alumni

13 Anglia Ruskin graduate highlights plight of Africanrhinos Tony Ellis photographs anti-poaching teams

8 Burmese Days Alan Smart – Director, British Council

7 Committed to lifelong learning Jenny Gray charts herlearning experience with us

14 Helen’s route to her PhD Helen Doyle talks of how shesucceeded in her study

12 Honorary Award Holder Mark Wood Profile of alumnus andhonorary Mark Wood

29 Reunion in Cambridge Sian Harrison organises a reunion for1980 Modern Languages

27 Ronald Searle obituary10 The challenge of running an estate

The Hon Hugh Crossley talks of his life at Somerleyton

ESPECIALLY FOR ALUMNI27 Alumni pin Lapel or tie pin of our University crest –

now in full colour

7 Alumni Success in Business AwardPaul Watson is the 2011 winner

29 Being a mentorA mentor and mentee give their view of our scheme

32 Last words A message to alumni from Sue Jacobs

11 Links Short messages from alumni

11 Marriages7 MBA annual dinner

In Cambridge this time, on Tuesday 19th June

27 Obituary Professor Tony Wigram

4 The Vice Chancellor The welcome message from MichaelThorne

11 Winter Law event Write-up of the event in December 2011

ANGLIA RUSKIN NEWS28 Campus Developments

Update on our outstanding redevelopment

21 Can Anglia Ruskin Transcription Service help you?The services we can offer to businesses

5 Development Update News of our development activity overthe last 6 months

6 Disasters, risk and doom Aled Jones (Global SustainabilityInstitute) discusses crisis management

21 Employer engagement Our relationships with commerce

22 Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences Latest arts newsfrom the faculty

23 Faculty of Health, Social Care & EducationContinuing success and research news

24 Faculty of Science & Technology News from the faculty

5 Graduation ceremonies on four campusesCeremonies at our joint ventures, Cambridge and Chelmsford

18 International Focus Alumni profiles and overseas events

25 Lord Ashcroft International Business SchoolGlobally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI)

27 Mission Croatia Special report and information on 2011 trip

30 News in brief Snippets of news from Anglia Ruskin

16 Outstanding individuals given Honorary AwardsOur new 2011 Honorary Award holders

26 Research Focus on two of the many projects we are undertaking

31 Sports Report Sports update from Chelmsford and Cambridge

20 Staff Snippets News on staff ventures and successes

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This issue of Aspects includes an articleby Dr Aled Jones, Director of our GlobalSustainability Institute, on Crisis Management.Thanks to a continuing avalanche ofgovernment policy changes, I am not aloneamong Vice Chancellors in taking a deepeninginterest in that subject. While each individualchange might well have its own internal logic,there are so many of them and theirinteractions with each other so unpredictablethat we are facing what mathematiciansformally define as ‘chaos’: namely, changesto so many variables in such a way that itis impossible to predict the consequences.On top of the tripling of fees for UKundergraduates, the removal of the right towork after studying for international students,the new and less predictable visa regime for

international students, the devastating cutsto teacher training numbers and attacks onthe funding we get to support the academicsuccess of those coming to university fromnon-traditional backgrounds, we are nowfacing student numbers being taken away fromus annually and bidding to get them back!

As an alumnus you will be pleased to knowthat, despite this unpropitious governmentbackdrop, your alma mater is doing well. LastSeptember we saw a rise in student numbersin all categories, including internationalstudents. And as is reported in more detaillater in these pages, our employer engagementwork – delivering degrees in the workplace – isgoing from strength to strength. Applications tostudy as an undergraduate next year are, at

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the moment, up 17%: a long way from thenational demise predicted by so many pundits.

The greater priority we have been givingresearch has begun to pay off with increasinglevels of success in our bid for Europeanresearch grant funding and major philanthropicsupport for two of our research institutes (theGlobal Sustainability Institute and the Instituteof International Management Practice), as wellas for Music Therapy research. Recently, thePresident and Council of the Royal College ofSurgeons visited our Postgraduate MedicalInstitute and were impressed by our facilities,the live surgical demonstrations beamed infrom our partner hospitals, and the progresswe have made – not least in establishing threeMasters degrees in surgery as well as an MDprogramme. Their visit followed on from ushosting the annual conference of theInternational Society of Laparascopic (keyhole)Colorectal Surgeons. This was the first time wehave been able to host a major internationalconference on our Chelmsford campus, madepossible by its complete redevelopment overthe last decade. Similarly, we hosted thelaunch of Cambridge Cleantech at our EastRoad campus in Cambridge where a packed400-seat lecture theatre was addressed on thetopic of businesses which support the low-carbon sustainability agenda – again,something which would not have beenpossible before the new Lord Ashcroftbuildings were completed.

We are very proud of you, our alumni, andyour achievements. I hope you look on youruniversity with pride as its presence grows inthe region, nationally and internationally. Wehave redoubled our efforts to make contactwith those not yet firmly connected to ouralumni community, be they at the early stagesof their careers or by now eminent in their fieldof work. I hope you enjoy reading about someof the latter in this edition and that you willhelp us reconnect with alumni whereverpossible. We really want to know more aboutyour progress and successes, the better tobroadcast our collective achievements.

Every good wish for 2012.

Professor Michael ThorneVice Chancellor

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Development Updateshift supervisors, who ensured that theywere kept motivated throughout. Thisprovided an excellent opportunity to speakto our graduates about their time here andwhat they have been doing since and alsoto update contact, email and professionaldetails. The telethon has also been a greatway for our students to build upon theircommunication and teamwork skills whichwill be of benefit to them in their studiesand future employment.

Check out our dedicated websitewww.anglia.ac.uk/makingadifference forongoing information about our Annual Fundand other fundraising projects and waysyou too can get involved!

Raise funds when buying online using ournew initiative called ‘Give as you Live’which enables you to raise funds for ourMusic Therapy Appeal – but at no cost toyou! By simply going towww.anglia.ac.uk/giveasyoulive, you candownload the free online application toyour computer so every time you shoponline at one of the partner stores(including Amazon, ASOS, iTunes, The

We would like to thank everyone who hassupported our Telethon 2011, our firsttelephone campaign since 2006, raisingmuch-needed funds for scholarships andbursaries, medical research, music therapyand other campus priorities. This has beena highlight of our Annual Fund campaignand we are pleased that we have raisedover £38,000, more than doubling our2006 total. In addition, our alumni havemade offers of mentoring and workplacements.

With 28 of our current students callingfrom our Chelmsford campus, we talkedto over 1,000 alumni during this 3-weekcampaign. The callers were supported by

Graduation Ceremonies on FOUR campusesOver 4,000 graduates and10,000 guests attended the2011 graduation ceremoniesin Chelmsford and Cambridgelast October. It was great tosee our graduates so happyand reminiscing with fellowclassmates. We also had somevery special guests join ourceremonies – go to the centrepages to see all our newhonorary award holders.

We were also delighted tobe invited to attend thePeterborough ceremony at theBlack Bull Hotel for the firsttime in September. We metas many of you as we couldto share the Alumni Networkbenefits and services available

to you. King’s Lynn was on 8thOctober at St Nicholas Chapel.The weather seemed to holdonto the rain until after theceremony, thankfully!

Trainline and many more) we automaticallyreclaim a small percentage. It really is thatsimple, and the more supporters who signup, the more we can raise to support MusicTherapy.

Girton Golf Club, based in Cambridge, helda golf day for us in September 2011 in aidof our Music Therapy Appeal where over£2,600 was raised. A great day was hadby everyone, and our thanks go to all thoseat the club for their efforts in raising thismoney for Music Therapy. The club hasbeen raising funds for us during 2011 aswe are this year’s Captain’s Charity andhave raised over £3,800 in total.

If you missed out on purchasingyour memorabilia on yourgraduation day, you can stillorder your graduationphotographs, DVD, yearbook,

t-shirt and hoodies from thecompanies below:

• Graduation photographs –www.tempest-graduations.co.uk

• DVD of your ceremony –www.visionsunlimited.co.uk

• T-shirts and hoodies –www.campusclothing.com

• Gradfinale yearbooks –www.gradfinale.co.uk

Congratulations to all of thisyear's graduates – we hope youand your guests had a fantasticday!

Helen Valentine, Pro Vice Chancellor, Anglia Ruskin University (3rd from left),with staff from King’s Lynn at their graduation ceremony.

Fundraisers at Girton Golf Club wearing their clothesinside out and under their underclothes – all in agood cause.


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Disasters, risk and doom

There are many things that society needs tofind ways of coping with, from naturaldisasters such as earthquakes, tidal waves,volcanoes and extreme weather events toman-made disasters such as global climatechange, peak oil, water shortages, povertyand food shortages.

Natural disasters cause disruption anddevastation on a massive scale and whilescientists are getting better at predictingindividual events this still remains adiscipline in its infancy. Man-madedisasters only add to the array of thingssociety needs to cope with.

Disasters are only going to get morecommon and stronger and there are threemain ways to cope with the associatedrisks:

• Prevent the risk• Move away from the risk• Manage the impact of the risk

Prevention is easier with man-madedisasters. To prevent stronger extremeweather impacts needs a global politicalresponse to the climate change challenge.To prevent food shortages leading to faminerequires better water and soil management,political stability, supply chains set up to

distribute food and the tools to grow aresilient food crop in the first instance.Prevention is the best cure.

If as a society we fail to see the value inprevention, then moving away from therisk is our next best option. No one, whensitting down with a blank sheet of paperand asked to plan a society, would putcritical infrastructure or people in an areaincredibly likely to be hit by a disaster atsome point in the future. If someone saidthat there was a 25% chance that theplane you were going to board would crashbefore it landed, you’d be unlikely to getonto it. However, people all around theworld move to disaster-prone areas all thetime. A flood plain is called this because itgets flooded. Building a nuclear reactor ontop of an earthquake zone (like Japan orCalifornia) is a disaster waiting to happen.

However, we are not going to manage asa society to prevent or move away fromdisasters (and moving away or preventingall disasters would be impossible in anycase). Therefore, putting in place gooddisaster risk management tools isimportant. The tool of last resort (althoughoften the first one used) is insurance.However, building resilient infrastructure

(flood-proof homes in flood plains) isa critical tool that we should use eventhough this usually involves highercapital investments up front. Resilientinfrastructure doesn’t always meandisaster-proof infrastructure. For example,in some areas where disasters regularlyoccur it may be cheaper and more resilientto build ‘flexible’ infrastructure – buildingsyou expect to fall down but are designed insuch a way that they are really easy to putback up again. At the end of the day, whatwe want to try and prevent is the need todeploy the excellent services that societyhas created to cope with disasters oncethey have occurred, whether it’s the RedCross or International Aid.

At the Global Sustainability Institute wework to understand some of the underlyingtrends that drive the unsustainablechallenges we now face and how policymakers, businesses and individuals canrespond to these challenges. We focuson what drives individual behaviours and‘corporate thinking’ and try to understandsome of the levers that are necessary topull to manage the risks associated withthese trends. This extends from how toencourage individuals to behave in a moreenergy-efficient way (to help prevent therisk) to what the East of England can doto adapt to climate change (manage theimpact of the risk).

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Dr Aled JonesDirector, Global Sustainability Institute

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ALUMNI2011 Alumni Success in Business

winnerWe are delighted that Paul Watson – BA(Hons) in Primary and Community Careand Specialist Practice (School Nurse)2007 – has been awarded the 2011Success in Business Award. Paul is nowworking as a Team Leader in NorfolkCommunity Health and Care NHS Trust,managing Health Visitors and SchoolNurses.

Paul was featured in last winter’s edition ofAspects, not only for his career in the NHS,but also for his work on a new AsthmaSpacer Device, which is being developedin collaboration with Health Enterprise East.This new spacer ‘The Pocketflow’ has hadto go through many stages to end up witha product and evidence base that gives itcredibility in the medical field. There hasbeen extensive computer modelling, as well

Committed to lifelong learningI seem to be a definite product of lifelonglearning and the Anglia Ruskin family. Istarted on the CIS (Chartered Institute ofSecretaries Course) at Mid-Essex Tech in1969 at the tender age of 16. During thefirst year I met my husband, Phil Gray, whowas doing an HND in Applied Physics andliving in residence on the Roxwell Road. Ifondly remember the monthly dances heldthere, as I am sure do many others.

We married in December 1970 amid direwarnings from everyone that "it would notlast". Well, 41 years later I think we haveproved everyone wrong on that one! Myhusband went on to complete his HND andI attended lots of courses over the years,visiting nearly every campus in the process,

S T O P P R E S S !The date for our annual MBA dinner has now been confirmed as Tuesday 19th June. It will be held on the Cambridge campus andwill include a tour of the new Lord Ashcroft International Business School building.

Please visit the MBA page of our website at www.anglia.ac.uk/alumni for further details as they are confirmed and to book a place.

as product testing by independentspecialists. These tests have shown thatthe product is as good as, if not betterthan, current items on the market. Paulis currently working with a manufacturingcompany, ViVO Smart Medical Devices,who wish to take this product to market,hoping to have a production model bythe end of 2011. This new device hasenormous potential and could significantlychange the lives of those suffering withasthma, not to mention the cost savingsto the NHS.

The potential impact of his device on thoseliving with asthma and his drive to succeedmake him an excellent role model for ourstudents and is the reason why Paul is aworthy winner of the 2011 Alumni Successin Business Award.

and finally completing my MA in MentalHealth between Cambridge andChelmsford. My eldest son Karl also joinedthe Anglia family when he completed hisSocial Work course at Chelmsford.

I am now the Director of a Mental HealthCharity called HUBB, which providesstatutory advocacy for people detained underthe Mental Health Act (1983) and also forpeople who come under the remit of theMental Capacity Act (2005). To mark ourtwentieth anniversary as a Charity this year,HUBB has produced a brilliant book calledRecovery Is. The book has been writtenentirely by people who have discovered theirown ways to well-being, apart from theforeword, penned by yours truly.

What next? Well, maybe I will get round tothat PhD one day after all!

Jenny GrayHUBB Director

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Burmese DaysGeorge Orwell once wrote about the greatdivide that existed between the Burmesenatives and British colonialists who residedin Burma during the days of the BritishEmpire. Today, Alan Smart, alumnusof the Cambridgeshire College of Art andTechnology (CCAT) and Director of theBritish Council in Burma, is responsible forthe far stronger cultural relationship thatexists between Britain and Burma today.

Since graduating from CCAT in 1983, Alanhas proceeded to live a life of vast culturaldiversity and unique experience. In someways, those features are exactly what tookhim to Cambridge to study at CCAT in thefirst place. Alan studied for a joint honoursdegree in English Literature and Art Historywhich captured his interest in both literatureand the arts, whilst also allowing him tosatisfy his creative instincts. In fact, Alansays it was the largely unique open accessto the artist studio that the course offeredwhich swayed him to enrol at CCAT and sethim on his journey to where he is today. Hestill holds very fond memories of Cambridgeand “the vibrancy of the whole city thatmakes it such a wonderful place for students– not to mention the number of pubs!”

His current role as Director of the BritishCouncil in Burma sees him managing ateam of approximately eighty staff andbeing responsible for overseeing operationsin that country. The British Council arewhat Alan describes as a ‘cultural relationsorganisation’, responsible for engagingnations from across the world with Britishsociety to help establish formalisedstructures for education, the arts andgreater society in countries less developedthan our own, whilst the teaching of Englishstill remains a key component of their work.When talking to Alan, the passion he holds,not only for transferring knowledge andexperience to other nations and societiesbut also for embracing entirely contrastingcultures, is really quite striking.

When looking back on his career so far,Alan clearly holds great pride in some of thework he has been involved with. He cites afew personal highlights and achievementsthat he looks back on fondly, including thesetup of a teacher training programme inPalestine, supporting a production ofShakespeare’s A Midsummer’s NightsDream on the Gaza Strip and, most

Alan SmartCCAT, 1983

recently, working closely with Burmesepolitician and activist, Aung San Suu Kyii,following her public release from housearrest, which she had been under for sevenyears by order of the Burmese government.Clearly, he is not one to shirk a challenge.

Despite having first-hand experience ofbombings and gunfire, Alan says he wouldrecommend working abroad to anybodywho gets the opportunity, whether paid orvoluntary. When he first moved to Egypt,he remembers he was earning less thanhe could have claimed being on the dolein the UK, but he felt far ‘richer’ for theexperience and enjoyment of what he wasdoing. On reflection, it certainly stood Alanin great stead and this was recognised inthe Queen’s Birthday Honours last yearwhen he was awarded an OBE for his workfor the British Council.

To read the full version of this interestingarticle, please go to our website onwww.anglia.ac.uk/alumni.

“…he can happilyrecall having to changeValerie Singleton’s(former Blue Peterpresenter) waste bin”After graduating, Alan moved to Londonand spent two years working as a porter forthe BBC. Whilst housekeeping duties werenot part of a long-term career plan, he canhappily recall having to change ValerieSingleton’s (former Blue Peter presenter)waste bin and regularly cleaning thedressing room toilet of Robin Day (formerQuestion Time host and BBC journalist)!

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Angela LucasBA Hons Humanities, 2005

‘Life is a great big canvas;throw all the paint on it you can.’Danny Kaye (1913–1987)

Getting older is challenging – life’s markersare passed leaving a future without adesignated template and the challenge ishow to own that space. Cicely Tyson isquoted, “Challenges make you discoverthings about yourself that you never reallyknew”. How true that proved to be!

My five adult children, their spouses andeleven grandchildren are close friends andallies in my life adventures which includebeing a student at Anglia for two degrees.

“My only qualificationon leaving school aged15 was expulsion”My failing was in not coming up to themark in a prestigious Grammar school. Myfifties were a good age – I did a full-timeone-year course at College for a PrivateSecretary’s Certificate, worked in SaudiArabia, then Egypt, did TEFL and studiedArabic. However, I was always aware thatI only ever ‘just passed’ the exams.

Age 64 and time for a new challenge, soI enrolled at the local Further Educationcollege for A Level English. Seeing the youngstudents fill in university application formsthe thought came – I can do that!

I applied and was accepted to do aHumanities degree at the Benfleet campus

A life of continued learningas a mature student

– the oldest student at age 68. I wasgranted local authority fees funding formy first degree, but as a senior citizen myincome was the basic State Pension creditsand, while newspaper headlines screamed,‘Pensioners have to choose between food orheating,’ I had fares and textbooks into themix, something which became more of achallenge with a second degree wherefunding wasn’t available. A second degree?The study bug had bitten and I was trulyhooked.

Aged 71 I was accepted for training as aChurch of England Lay Evangelist, whichran concurrently with my first year studiesof Christian Theology with the CambridgeTheological Federation, accredited byAnglia Ruskin. Living outside the normalgeographical area which the CTF coversposed some logistical challenges.

Two remarkable people walked that journeywith me. Firstly, the Director of BA inChristian Theology in Cambridge, whohaving accepted me as a student atinterview, became equally determined tofind a way for me to complete. The secondis a no-nonsense, elderly tutor who didn’tknow what ‘average’ meant. My first essaywas met with, “this is not an essay, it’sa suet pudding with too many currantsunevenly mixed”. It was to be two yearsbefore a compliment emerged, “Finally(long pause) finally, you have got in touchwith a brain!”

‘Challenge’ has been the key word. Ageismwas an issue with some young students at

the Benfleet campus. Money, or the lack of,was an ever-present difficulty. In my closingsemester, a planned placement opportunitywas withdrawn and I emulated VictorMeldrew, muttering, “I don’t believe it!I can’t believe that at this final stage I amgoing to fail”. It was my Director of PastoralStudies who found an alternative to enablecompletion.

Would I do it again? Yes! Currently, I amin the second year of studies as SpiritualDirector, and in October I begin a CreativeWriting degree with the OU. Maybe, oneday, my mark will be the coveted ‘A’.

‘I don’t want to get to the end of my lifeand find that I just lived the length of it.I want to have lived the width of it as well.’(Diane Ackerman)

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The challenge of running an estate

For many of our alumni, runninga family business, starting yourown business or being anentrepreneur will be a familiarconcept. However, for alumnusthe Honourable Hugh Crossley,all three have to be combinedon a daily basis. Nestled in theSuffolk countryside is the ratherstunning Somerleyton Hall, alarge country house and estatemanaged by Hugh and his wifeLara.

The house has been in hisfamily since 1862 when hisancestors, made rich throughthe industrial revolution, decidedto buy a country property awayfrom their home in Halifax.Crossley Carpets was a hugelysuccessful family business andits success in the late 1800sallowed Sir Francis Crossley tobuy the 5,000 acre estate for£80,000. That was nearly 150years ago and the house is nowa working home for Hugh, Laraand their son John.

Hugh grew up at SomerleytonHall and attended Eton beforearriving at Anglia PolytechnicUniversity in Cambridge to readHistory in 1991. He is hugelycomplimentary about his timewith us, starting out by livingin a B&B in Hills Road beforebuying a house in GeorgeStreet where he lived for theremainder of his universitydays. They were, he says, ‘great

East and history as well asbusiness. Dish Dash went onto become a success with threerestaurants to its name, butdisagreements with WestminsterCouncil meant that Hugh learntmany lessons and eventuallysold his part in the business in2009 to become the full-timemanager of Somerleyton.

Since he took over from hisfather, the estate has seensome significant changes.

Hugh CrossleyBA Hons History, 1994

Hugh and wife, Lara

fun’ and a completely differentacademic and learningenvironment compared to Eton.He was able to join societiesand use the facilities atCambridge University, whichat the time were open to allstudents from Anglia. Hughadmits he was ‘obsessed’ withhistory and worked hard toachieve his degree, graduatingin 1994. After this, Hugh wentto London, and with his thirstfor all things historicalcontinuing, sought to findwork in television production.However, this was a competitiveindustry and after workingfor Hat Trick Productions (ofHave I Got News For You andOutnumbered fame) Hugh wenton to work for a landscapegardening company and finallyproperty company Savills.

Hugh’s father, LordSomerleyton, had learnteverything about the estatefirst hand, having taken it overas a young man. He wantedhis own son to have a differentexperience and so encouragedHugh into business. It was ona plane back from Yemen, andwhile being tested on his Arabicby a fellow traveller, that Hughcame up with the idea of hisfirst restaurant business, DishDash (a traditional Arabic itemof clothing). The plan was tocombine his love of the Middle

Hugh has always had anambition to prove himself asmore than just an heir by nameand has wanted to succeed toshow others that he has thedrive and acumen to makeSomerleyton the success itdeserves to be. With DishDash behind him, he nowfeels confident as to whereto go with Somerleyton andrecognises you need a ‘goodteam partnered with goodinstinct’ to make a success.

“you need a ‘good team partneredwith good instinct’ to make asuccess”

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This was another successfulevent in Cambridge with a goodmixture of alumni, students andstaff, so thank you to those whoattended. Professor Home gavea talk on the history of the DaleFarm gypsy evictions. He hadworked and published onplanning aspects of the gypsycaravan site from 25 years ago.Fahd al-Hemeiry, who is one ofour current students who is due

Law EventFriday 9th December 2011

Marriages

to complete his PhD this year,delivered a taste of Shari’a Law.Unfortunately, Fahd only had30 minutes to fit in what hecould from a very wide subject.A big thank you goes to all ourguest speakers for an interestingand enlightening evening.

Please watch out for our nextLaw Networking event inChelmsford in July 2012.

Mark Beattie (BSc Multimediaand Business Studies 2000)and Jennifer Young weremarried on 29th July 2011.Mark met Jennifer in a discoclub in Chelmsford. She’soriginally from Northern Irelandand studied at Queen’sUniversity in Belfast.

Sadly, Lord Crossley is ill withAlzheimer’s and Hugh wouldnow love to discuss the plansand thoughts he has aboutSomerleyton with someoneelse who knows what it is liketo run such a vast and variedbusiness. In many ways hehas spent the last few yearsworking to get the estate backon an even financial playingfield. The house has a steadyturnover of 22,000 visitorsevery year but it is still theone part of the estate whichmakes a loss. This isparticularly tough in thecurrent economic climate.Instead Hugh has looked toother parts of the estate tobring in money to helpsupport the house. He hasrenovated another house onhis land and turned it into asuccessful boutique hotel. Hehas developed the village puband he has built a number oflog cabins on Frinton Lake asholiday homes, all of whichare starting to becomeprofitable. The propertyportfolio has also been builtup and Hugh has outsourceda lot of the farming. Futureplans include building andexpanding on the hotel andFrinton Lake and there areplans to open a farm shop.Hugh has had to earn thetrust and respect of thosewho live and work in andaround Somerleyton, butknows that over time he willbe able to prove that trust iswell founded.

After all these changes andhard work, you would thinkthe entrepreneur in Hughwould have been satisfied,but the industrialist in himstill wants to go further andhe is planning to open a newchip shop with a differencein Norwich in the new year.Hot Chip will give the Britishchip a make over, combininghealthy cooking methods withorganic unusual dips on theside. It will hopefully expandand become a franchisemodel and Hugh is veryexcited about the prospectof having a project outsideof Somerleyton.

For now though, thechallenge of the house is abig one. In recent years ithas been harder and harderto get government funds tohelp upkeep large houses,with money tending to gotowards larger estates andNational Trust or EnglishHeritage properties. As Hughputs it “in most business youwould cut out the bit notmaking money but this is alsoour home. The house is likea drug – it's beautiful andspacious but it is costly andneeds investment. Theselarge houses were built forpeople with disposableincome and to be flashy andthey need resources to keepthem going. My challenge isto leave it a richer place thanhow I found it”.

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When Mark Wood received a letter offeringhim an honorary degree from AngliaRuskin, he was a little confused. As a CCATgraduate, like many of you, the connectionbetween where he studied in the 70s andour University today seemed tenuous. Ontop of this, we were not his first choiceof college, but having not quite achievedthe A level results he was expecting andhaving got on well with the lecturer whointerviewed him, Mark was glad he joinedCCAT in 1971 and was delighted to receivehis honorary degree in 2010 and becomemore closely associated with us.

“Cambridge was a wonderful city to bea student in”, Mark enthuses. Although avery different campus to the one today,CCAT was an institution that was growingrapidly and had an excitement about it.The library had just opened and Mark hadgreat fun living with eight other studentsand the seven cats his landlady owned.The experience taught Mark self sufficiency,the ability to make apple pie, and friendsthat he still sees occasionally today.“University gives you the luxury of time;thinking and reflecting is not something youhave time to do in business.”

Mark knew the charity was the NSPCCbut had no idea what they did or howthey operated. Since then he has raisedmillions for the cause and as chairman isdetermined to make real change. He iscurrently particularly focussed on reducingdeaths in children under one, who arecurrently eight times more likely to die aviolent death than children of any otherage. By alerting a control group of 80,000new parents to the consequences ofshaking infants violently, the charity aimsto reduce infant deaths by 40%. Markcommented, “The NSPCC has over800,000 regular donors. I want to makesure that the charity is the most efficientit can be to give donors the best value formoney. I used to think we simply had toaccept that charities are less efficient, butsince becoming more closely involved, I seethat the opposite is true.”

Away from work, Mark enjoys spendingtime with his three children, gardening andwatching films, (plus the occasional cigar)– he wishes he could live without sleep.So what advice would he give to otherbusiness graduates starting in the Citytoday? “Don’t listen to advice. There arehuge demands on people working inbusiness today. When I started there wereno mobiles, laptops, iPads etc – I had tosave up to buy my calculator! It all madethe split between home and business mucheasier to manage.” Mark also commentsthat “no one in the City will ever tell youthat you’ve done enough; it’s hard work butat the end of the day, well, I'd do the samething again”.

Alumnus Honorary Award Holder

Mark WoodCCAT, 1974

Mark has certainly kept himself busyin business for the last 38 years. Sinceleaving CCAT he has forged a highlysuccessful career in the City. He startedby training to be an accountant forPricewaterhouseCoopers before movingthrough and up a succession of companiesin London and New York ,including Aviva,Barclays, British & Commonwealth and theAA before becoming Chief Executive of AXAand then finally working for the Prudential.Then in 2006 Mark decided to go out onhis own and, having raised more than£500 million in private equity, he set uphis company Paternoster which was thefirst new life insurance company in theUK for 30 years. Mark sold Paternosterto Goldman Sachs in January 2011.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking thatmeans Mark is retired, though. He believesyou should always have five things on thego, so his current portfolio of work is:Chairman of Lloyds of London underwriterChaucer; Chairman of Jardine LloydThompson Employee Benefits; Chairmanof Digitalis; and Senior Advisor to privateequity firm Carlisle (who have justcompleted the sale of RAC). Finally, Markis Chairman of the National Society of thePrevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC),a charity he is hugely passionate about.

Mark became involved with the NSPCC inthe early 1990s when he was Chairmanof a small bank which was consumed byinternal squabbles. In order to try and bringthe team together, he suggested they raise£1million for the charity round the corner.

“it’s hard work but at the end of the day, well,I'd do the same thing again.”

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forces and, despite leading a team of 20,he admitted that his current mission is thetoughest of his career, not least because ofthe corruption that takes place.

“Those caught poaching commonly get awarning or a 150 rand (£14) fine from thelocal police, which is not a major deterrent,”explained Tony, who left a job in softwaresales to fulfil his ambition of becoming aprofessional photographer. “The majority ofthe firearms are traced back to the policeand it’s believed this is the main source ofillegal weapons trading. This cooperationbetween poachers and corrupt policeexplains the ineffective ‘warnings’ and verylow fines that arrested poachers face.”

The problem of poachingis fuelled by simpleeconomics, with rhinohorn commonly beingsold for up to £22,000per kilo.

Anglia Ruskin graduate highlightsplight of African rhinos

Tony EllisBA Hons Photography, 2011

BA (Hons) Photography graduate Tony Ellishas spent time photographing the work ofSouth Africa’s armed anti-poaching teamsto highlight the issue of illegal rhinohunting. He was embedded with a unitworking in the Kruger National Park, whichcovers an area of over 7,300 square miles.

Poaching hit an all-time high in 2010 withan estimated 333 rhinos killed in SouthAfrica alone. At the current rate the blackrhino is expected to become extinct withinnine years and it is feared that the entirespecies could be wiped out by 2025. Tonytold us, “My trip to South Africa was aneye-opening experience. The extinction ofthe rhino is almost certain now; it’s just amatter of time. With poaching attractingsophisticated criminal networks usinghelicopters, night-vision, tranquilizersand silencers to kill rhinos at night, thechallenge faced by game parks andreserves is huge”.

The Ranger that Tony accompanied wasformerly a member of South Africa’s special

It was originally used in the manufactureof handles for daggers and cutlery, but thehigh price is now due to its demand inChina and Vietnam for use in traditionalmedicine.

“The Ranger told me that the guys whoare taking the highest risk by tracking therhinos and then killing them, see about25,000 rand (around £2,300),” addedTony. “The fact that this beautiful andincredibly valuable animal shares the landwith a local population who can be livingon less than 50p per day, you begin to seethe motivation for these people. There’s noevidence of the effectiveness of using rhinohorn in medicine and apparently it’svirtually identical in make-up to humanfinger nails. My dream is to travel to Chinaand Vietnam to work on photographing theother side of this criminal infrastructure.”

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my dream so close torealisation. I refused to give itup; how would I explain myPhD failure to my children inyears to come? With muchsupervisory support and anaction plan agreed, I returnedto my thesis in earnest. Writingup was limited to late eveningsand five hours of childcarea week. Ideas and thoughtsduring nappy changes andfeeding were noted down forlater consideration. Studyingwith babies is a rollercoaster ofemotions and productivity; theirneeds always come first andthis has to be accepted. Withan understanding husband, mythesis was sent to supervisorsfor comment on Christmas Day2010, with submission on AprilFool’s day 2011!

Much anxiety surrounded theviva, with the possibility of myhusband being deployed abroador another imminent relocationof the family. Fortunately, withaccommodating examiners andhubby minding three babies,I travelled back to Cambridge.After a very nervous start, Isuccessfully defended my thesiswith minor corrections in July2011.

Despite three babies and threehouse moves, my PhD wascompleted part-time in sixyears. Graduation day wasa very proud family occasionwith my parents, husbandand children. Hopefully, mydetermination to fulfil mydream will inspire my childrenin years to come.

Helen Doyle (née Dunningham)PhD, 2011

Helen’s route to her PhD

With a lifelong ambition toachieve the highest academicaccolade that I was capableof, after completing my BScin 1997, I embarked on myclinical Perfusion career whichenabled me to conductresearch alongside and sparkedmy interest to study for a part-time PhD at Anglia

The first 18 months werebusy with study design,data collection and a newrelationship on the horizon.My PhD blossomed as did mypersonal life, culminating inmarriage in 2008. Arriving

Helen DoylePhD, 2011

I left hubby in charge of ourfour-month-old daughter whilstI returned to Cambridge. I wasvery unwell during this week,so returned home early. I wasadmitted to hospital due to thedetrimental effects of carryingtwins and was also advisedto expect the worst! My eldestwas aged only five months, somy whole world was reelingfrom this latest discovery.I couldn’t face telling mysupervisory team at this earlystage as I battled extremedehydration, sickness,exhaustion and further hospitaladmissions. At the same time,I vowed to get as much of mythesis structured and writtenbefore the twins arrived,knowing the impact of justone baby, and hoped thiswould soften the news when Ieventually told my supervisoryteam. I was concerned thatthree children under 13months would be considereddetrimental to my studies.I needn’t have worried, asthe team were extremelysupportive, if not stunned.

When the twins were born, mythesis structure was draftedand two chapters written. I wasgiven a 4–6 month intermissionwhilst baby routines wereestablished and the dustsettled, but not before anotherhouse move! The return to mydoctoral studies started withan annual review expressingconcerns over my ability tocomplete with such a youngfamily. If ever fuel was added tomy fire, this was it! With post-natal depression, I alreadydoubted myself, but this was

home from honeymoon, myconfirmation of candidaturewas granted and a pregnancyconfirmed. My data collectionwas almost complete andmaternity leave commenced, soI relocated with my husband,prior to our daughter’s birth.

Being a new mum wasoverwhelming for the first 12weeks, so studying abruptlystopped until sleep returned.Data analysis was limited tonaptimes, evenings and oneafternoon of childcare a week.With experimental clarificationrequired to cement my findings,


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The electronic cigarettes we havedeveloped are a revolutionary smokingalternative that look, feel and taste likea real cigarette and give smokers all thepleasure and satisfaction of traditionalsmoking without the health, social andeconomic problems. Most smokers do sobecause they enjoy the tactile, emotionaland physical sensations. Cigair electriccigarettes provide these pleasures.

Tobacco smoking is well known to beharmful, but it is hoped this thoroughlyresearched electronic cigarette will assistpeople to overcome their deadly addiction.Extensive research and financial investmenthas gone into the preparation of thisbusiness, which is still in its infancy. Wehave set up promotion stands across the

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UK in an effort to reach members of thepublic, including Chelmsford for a weeklast July. It was lovely to be in familiarsurroundings.

I am enjoying meeting people from allwalks of life and listening to their stories.My admin skills have been valuable tothe business and I love being part of theworking environment again, promoting aproduct I believe can have positive results– feedback from customers so far has beenvery positive. Please visit our website atwww.cigair.co.uk to see what we aredoing. Anyone wishing to purchase ourproducts can enter ALUMNI at checkoutto receive an exclusive 10% discount.

Frances FranklinBSc (Hons) Social Work 1997

My career panned out over 20 years inEssex Social Services as a ResidentialHomes Manager, Team Manager at CountyHall, Team Manager at Broomfield Hospitaland St Andrews Burns Unit Hospital.During this time I obtained variousqualifications through Anglia Ruskin,including Social Work Training (1990),Practice Teaching (1994), PQSW (1997),Postgraduate Certificate in AppliedOrganisational Development in the PublicServices (2001) and MA and AdvancedAward in Social Work (2004).

I retired from Essex Social Services in2006 and moved to Hampshire with myhusband to be close to family. I thenworked in Surrey Social Care as a LocumCare Manager for People with LearningDisabilities until 2009 when I finally retiredfrom Social Work. I had a complete breakfrom work devoting time to my 95-year-oldaunt and my youngest 3-year-old grandsonwho lives in Scotland, taking frequent tripsto spend time with him and his parents.

However, I began to miss the challenge ofworking life and in 2011 I decided to gointo partnership with my son to start anew venture – Cigair – an internet salesbusiness promoting a healthy alternative totobacco smoking. This decision was basedon my personal experience of losing a closefamily member and watching other familyand friends contract debilitating diseasesdirectly related to tobacco use, whichhas seriously impeded their quality of life.Although a different direction from mysocial work career, it has parallels in thatit is underpinned by caring about people.

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In addition to his talents as a jockey, hehas taken up after-dinner speaking, andhas become a partner in Frankie’s Bar andGrill with renowned chef Marco PierreWhite. He has also released a cookbookand has a line of frozen Italian foods.Many will also know him from his manyappearances on A Question of Sport.

In 2000 he was awarded an MBE forservices to sport.

Anya Hindmarch MBEAnya Hindmarch MBE is the handbagdesigner and style icon who is knownaround the globe for her brand of gorgeousbut delightfully- understated bags, clothesand accessories.

Anya started her business during the1980s aged just 18. With an eye for detail,design and quality, her business has grownto a multi-million pound global fashionempire, incorporating 54 branded shopsin 17 countries.

Born in Essex, it was while in Florence tolearn Italian as part of her gap year thatshe noticed the popularity of the classicleather duffel bag and, seeing the potential,borrowed money to import some toEngland. Anya sent a bag to fashionmagazine Harpers & Queen, resulting

Frankie Dettori MBELanfranco ‘Frankie’ Dettori MBE is a worldclass flat race jockey and one of the elitestars of international horse racing. Histrademark ‘flying dismounts’, cheeky senseof humour and dapper dress sense havemade him a household name.

Born in Milan in 1970, his first experiencewith horses came at the age of twelve,when his father bought him a Palominopony. At 13 he left school to work as astable boy and at just 15, came to Englandto join a Newmarket stable as anapprentice. Frankie’s first success came inItaly in 1986, with his initial British win atGoodwood a year later. He took the 1989British champion apprentice title andbecame the first teenager since thelegendary Lester Piggott to ride a centuryof winners in a British season, recording141 successes in 1990.

Frankie went on to ride 233 winners in1994, securing the first of three Britishjockeys’ championships. On 28thSeptember 1996, he won all seven ofhis races, a feat which had never beenaccomplished before. Frankie has smashedalmost all known horse racing records withover 40 victories at Royal Ascot alone. Outof 1,000 races a year, he wins around 200,which he admits is not a bad hit rate.

This October we were delighted towelcome our new Honorary Awardholders. There was a truly internationalfeel this time, with recipients travellingfrom across the globe and we wereagain delighted that several are ourown alumni. Please go towww.anglia.ac.uk/honoraries to readfull profiles of all our new Honorariesand those who have been awardedpreviously.

November 2011 awards

Kate Barker CBE

Manish Bhasin (alumnus)

Mike Brace CBE

Jilly Cooper

Kevin Crossley-Holland

Frankie Dettori MBE

Mary Jane Drummond

Joe Greenwell CBE

Mark Foster

Professor Liu Gonghui

Anya Hindmarch MBE

Junius Ho (alumnus)

John Holder (alumnus)

Richard Madeley

Sir Keith Mills

Dr Jonathan Milner

Kylie Minogue OBE

Sadaharu Muramatsu (alumnus)

Stephen Skelton (alumnus)

Mark-Anthony Turnage

Outstanding individuals given

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in sales of 500. She had started herinternationally acclaimed business andconsequently never made it to University.

Anya went on to design her own bags,which are popular with film stars andcelebrities. Her early products were heavilyinfluenced by Italian design principles andall her pieces are based on quality ofworkmanship, with a British emphasis onhumour and bespoke adaptation. They arealso influenced by a continued interest inarchitecture.

In 2007, Anya, in collaboration with theglobal social change movement ‘We AreWhat We Do’, designed the global sell outTote bag ‘I’m Not A Plastic Bag’ and alsolaunched Anya Hindmarch Bespoke.

In 2009 she was awarded an MBE inrecognition of her contribution to the Britishfashion industry and was nominated as oneof the 25 most influential people workingin Britain’s fashion industry.

Kylie Minogue OBEKylie Minogue OBE is one of the mostadmired and enduring artists in today’smusic industry, releasing her first single inJuly 1987. In 2010 she became the firstsolo artist in UK chart history to have fourNo 1 albums spanning four decades and an

incredible 45 consecutive UK top 20 hitsingles. Kylie has made the transition from‘Pop Princess’ to serious artist, a step veryfew musicians have been able to achieve.

In 2005 she was diagnosed with earlystage breast cancer and spent the next12 months focusing on her treatmentand recovery. In 2006 readers of GQ andGlamour both voted Kylie their Womanof The Year. In 2008 she collected theChevalier de L’ordre des Arts et Lettres.France’s Minister of Culture andCommunications acknowledged the impactshe had made by publicly discussing hercancer diagnosis and treatment, saying,“Doctors now even go as far as saying thereis a ‘Kylie effect’ that encourages youngwomen to have regular checks”.

Kylie has won numerous other awards andin December 2007 was awarded an OBEfor services to music.

Kylie is an inspiration to millions of peopleworldwide, not only for her music, but forthe way she has dealt with her own breastcancer diagnosis and her work promotingawareness through the BreakthroughBreast Cancer charity, including taking partin the Fashion Targets Breast Cancercampaign, which has raised over £11.5million.

Honorary AwardsScientists in the Helen Rollason CancerCharity research laboratory on ourChelmsford campus are currentlyresearching blood markers that in the futuremight be used to identify breast cancer atan early stage. Kylie’s story will serve as aninspiration to everyone involved in this work.

Sir Keith MillsSir Keith Mills is an Essex-born self-madeentrepreneur who has excelled in thebusinesses of marketing and sport.

His enthusiasm for sport began as a youngboy when he was introduced to sailing byhis father and witnessed the adventuresand affluence of the sailing community. Itwas a defining moment – rather than watchthose with money all his life, he decidedthat he would make some.

Sir Keith worked in marketing andadvertising for over two decades, startingas a copy assistant, then moving tomarketing, then advertising. In 1985 hefounded his own agency, acquiring topnamed clients including Shell and BritishCaledonian.

He went on to build a lucrative add-onto his business based on customer loyaltyby inventing Air Miles, an incentive schemethat filled spare capacity on planes.Sir Keith followed up with the Nectarsupermarket loyalty programme, an ideathat has transformed British retailing byproviding the facility for data capture andcustomer profiling.

In 2003 he became Chief Executive andInternational President of the London 2012campaign, seeing London selected as hostfor the 2012 Summer Olympics. He is nowDeputy Chairman of the London OrganisingCommittee for the Games, but admits tohaving no sporting background beyond thehobby inspired by his father – yacht racing.

Sir Keith, his wife and family are alsoinvolved in a new Foundation calledSported, which aims to improve the lives ofdisadvantaged young people through sport.

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Alumni Profile

International Focusfrom Anglia Ruskin I receivedproper training, guidance,coaching etc, which I believehelped mould me to becomearticulate, creative, visionary,with problem-solving abilities onissues and deadlocks in decisionmaking. As a result, my servicehas been sought, even duringthe economic downturn back in1997. My first job was workingas a legal assistant in one of thelaw firms in my home town, thenas a broker in the equity marketand I also worked with thegovernment doing paralegalwork, administration, humanresource management anddevelopment, secretarial,investment, project managementand event management tasks.The proudest moment ofmy career was when I wasappointed as a Deputy Secretaryto the State Parliament ofSarawak in February 2011.The position is equivalent to theDeputy Clerk of the Parliamentin the House of Commons in the

interesting. After I graduatedfrom law school I started mylegal career as a private legalpractitioner, then I worked withan IT company as their in-houselegal counsel. More thanthree years ago I founded aspecialised legal recruitmentbusiness and website, the firstof its kind in Malaysia, with theaim of assisting law firms andcorporations in sourcing legaltalents.”

Pele Peter TinggomLLB (Hons) Law 1996Deputy Secretary to the StateParliament of Sarawak

“As a proud former studentof Anglia Ruskin University(formerly known as APU) I wouldlike to share my brief careerdevelopment since I graduatedback in my own country.Alongside my degree certificate

Overseas eventsMalaysia – Kuala Lumpur on 1st October 2011

The first official alumni eventhere was successfully organisedby Raymond Lee, our CountryDevelopment Manager forSouth East Asia, with our

Country Ambassador, EddieLaw. We wished to show thatAnglia Ruskin University isalways very keen to maintainrelationships with alumni in

order for them to feel a sense ofbelonging to their alma mater.Over 50 alumni from all overMalaysia attended the event,including the British CouncilAlumni representative andMr Low, the Head of School ofBusiness from KBU College,one of our partners in Malaysia.

France – Paris on 4th October2011

We give a huge thank you toGuillaume Bourgeais (BA HonsEuropean Business 2000) andalso Alumni Ambassador inFrance, for helping organisethis event.

UK and performing the tasksof two officers in the House ofCommons, namely the ClerkAssistant and Reading Clerk. Ifgiven the opportunity, one dayI would like to do my mastersdegree at Anglia RuskinUniversity or another reputableUniversity in the UK.

Ambassador ProfileEddie LawLLB (Hons) Law 1999Legal Recruitment Director inwww.eLawyer.com.my

“I was doing my final year oflaw degree course in Chelmsfordcampus more than 10 yearsago. Studying in the UK,especially at Anglia PolytechnicUniversity (as it was thenknown), was indeed one of themost memorable moments inmy life. The sweet memories stilllinger in my mind today. Theexperience of living abroad hasopened my view of the worldand has made my life more

Germany – Berlin on 5thNovember 2011

Our Development & Alumniofficer, Sharon Wuyts, flew overto meet graduates for our 7thsuccessful consecutive Germanevent. Wendy McConnell andStella Duncan joined us fromthe Lord Ashcroft InternationalBusiness School for dinner.A huge thank you goes toChristian Ramcke, our AlumniAmbassador for Germany, whohelped put this Alumni Networkevent together, and also to Stellafor giving everyone an update onAnglia Ruskin University.

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STORIESAlumni News BitesShanta Everington (BA Education 1995)has recently published a new book, Baby’sFirst Year – A Parent’s Guide, coveringeverything from handling your newbornand adjusting to parenthood, to soothinga teething baby and tackling weaning –no avenue is left unexplored! Shanta isa parent, writer and qualified early yearsteacher with experience of providinginformation and support to parents for arange of charities. She is also the authorof The Terrible Twos – A Parent’s Guide.

Helen Millgate (BA Hons Modern History1982) was featured back in 2002 with herbook, Got Any Gum Chum? about AmericanGIs in Britain during the Second World War.Helen’s new book, written with MaureenShaw, is again on a wartime theme –War’s Forgotten Women – British Widowsof the Second World War. Largely ignoredby the government and the majority ofthe population, this is the story of theirstruggle for recognition. Widows’ liveswere particularly bleak, with their meagrepensions taxed at the highest rate, leavingthem barely enough to feed themselves andtheir children. Helen tells me that there hasbeen a good response to the book, being sorelevant these days. They even turned downan appearance on TV’s Loose Women!

Amanda Graves (first class BA Hons FineArt 2011) was the worthy winner ofthe 2011 Dr Supanee Gazeley Fine ArtPrize. Dr Supanee Gazeley, who is aninternationally renowned artist, graduatedin 1962 from Cambridge College of Arts& Technology (CCAT), a forerunner of ourUniversity. Before focusing on art, DrGazeley was a leading figure in the HongKong business community for 40 years,helping to make the former British colonya leading player in the global watch andoptical industries. Amanda Graves caughtDr Gazeley’s eye this year for her seriesof abstract images depicting cities, and inparticular a piece of work titled ‘Metro-cell’.

Amanda Hall (Diploma in Graphic Art1978) is an award-winning internationalillustrator. Based in the UK, she isparticularly well known for her many booksfor the children’s publishing market, whilstalso illustrating for both ‘grown-ups’commissions and educational publishingin the USA and UK. For more informationabout Amanda’s career, please visit herwebsite atwww.amandahall-illustration.com

Esther Quarcoe (Diploma in HigherEducation 2004) was featured when sheset up the Disablement Foundation ofGhana, a charity providing health andsocial care for people with learningdisabilities here in Britain and in Ghanaand is also affiliated to Down SyndromeInternational. Esther is now looking for avolunteer for communication and marketingduties, so if any of you would like tobecome involved with this worthwhilecharity, please contact her direct [email protected] or telephone 07939299694.

Pina Santoro-Ellwood (BA Fine Art(sculpture) 2005) has her own studioand works part-time at City CollegePeterborough teaching life drawingand sculpture. In December 2011 sheexhibited some of her work in the Louvrein Paris. Her work was nominated for thisprestigious honour after she took part inan exhibition in London earlier in 2011.

James Vinciguerra (BA Hons Illustration1996) has recently created a pictureof Trinity Lane, Cambridge, which heis selling as prints. It can be seen inThe Lawson Gallery, Kings Parade,Cambridge, or bought direct fromhttp://www.vinciguerra.co.uk. Jamessays, “loved my time at Anglia Ruskin,lovely place”.


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Staff SnippetsOur Teaching FellowshipAwards celebrate excellence inlearning and teaching practicewith the bar set very high.Winning is a significantachievement, with only sixawarded each year. This year’swinners are:

Dr Toby Carter – Life Sciences

Julia Anne Druce – Education

Dr Julio D’Escriván – CreativeMusic Technology

Dr John Gardner – EnglishLiterature

Paula Sobiechowska – SocialCare

Dr Isabel Williams – Health,Social Care & Education

Professor Munir Morad hasjoined the Faculty of Science& Technology as Deputy Dean.Previously at London SouthBank University, he bringsconsiderable experience asboth an academic leader anda highly successful researcher.

Professor Rob Home, Professorof Land Management, ResearchCo-ordinator, Law, gave aninvited paper to an internationalconference in Spain, entitled‘The role of kinship, social andeconomic networks around landrights in Africa’, and follows onfrom his work last year inKisumu (Kenya) with adiaspora-development volunteerpilot project.

Professor Helen Odell-Miller,Music Therapy and Director ofour Music for Health ResearchCentre, presented the keynotespeech at this year’sInternational Centre forResearch in Arts Therapies(ICRA) conference in London.The event was attended by over100 doctors, arts therapistsand other professionals fromaround the world.

consideration of two novelswith an explicitly theologicaldimension.

Angela Cobbold, SeniorLecturer, Operating DepartmentPractice, has been appointedthe Association forPerioperative Practice (AfPP)Regional Lead for the whole ofAnglia, communicating bestpractice, promoting highstandards and ensuring efficientand effective safe patient careis at the forefront of theperioperative healthcareprofession.

Professor Roger Buckley andProfessor Madhaven Rajan ofour Vision & Eye Research Unit(VERU) have been awarded firstprize in the Medical Technologycategory of the SpotlightCompetition for developing asmall environmental chamberfor the preparation of donortissue used in cornealtransplant surgery, meaning asimpler and quicker operationon patients with age-relatedcorneal disease.

Dr Katy Price, Senior Lecturer inEnglish Literature & Writing, co-developed an exhibition at theScience Museum in London thatexplored the roots of modernelectronic music, funded by ourCultures of the Digital Economy(CoDE) Research Institute.‘Oramics to Electronica:Revealing Histories of ElectronicMusic’ showcased a range ofelectronic instruments, includingthe Oramics machine, as well asrare archive footage.

Professor Rowland Wymergave his inaugural lecture on‘Science Fiction and Religion’.After a brief account of someof the many different ways inwhich science fiction canengage with religious ideas,there was a more detailed

Clarissa Campbell Orr, Readerin Enlightenment, Gender andCourt Studies, headed to YaleUniversity last autumn to takeup a visiting fellowship. Theposition of Andrew W MellonSenior Visiting Scholar, offeredby the Yale Centre for BritishArt, is part of a new three-yearprogramme funded by theAndrew W Mellon endowmentat Yale.

Recent publications:John White, Lecturer. Film &Media – Westerns, discussesthe evolution of the Westernthrough history and looks attheoretical and criticalapproaches to the genre.

Toby Venables, sessionallecturer in Film & MediaStudies (and alumnus, BAEnglish & Art 1987) – TheViking Dead, his first novel.

John Gardner, PrincipalLecturer in English – Poetryand Popular Protest: Peterloo,Cato Street and the QueenCaroline Controversy. The bookinvestigates the relationshipbetween poetry and protestbetween 1815–1822.

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Employer engagementWe are working closely withinternational brands such asTimberland, Specsavers, UPS,Harrods, Barclays Bank andthe RAF to deliver our degreesin the workplace. Below aretwo examples of currentpartnerships.

RAF study fromtheir postingsHigh-flying medics are able tostudy with us from countriesas far flung as the FalklandIslands, Cyprus andAfghanistan. We have beenchosen by the RAF to providehigher education health coursesto its medics, beginning withBSc (Hons) in Health & SocialCare, BSc (Hons) Management& Leadership in Health & SocialCare, and a Foundation Degreecourse. All courses are deliveredby distance learning so thatmedics can continue studyingwhen posted overseas. The RAFalso plan to roll out a numberof postgraduate qualificationsfor their personnel.

Flight Lieutenant Ric Stubleysaid, “We currently haveRAF medics working in theFalklands, Afghanistan andnumerous other countriesaround the world, as well as inthe UK. We have an educationcentre at our base in Kandaharwhere RAF medics will be ableto access the course via theinternet. In fact, when onpostings such as Afghanistan,studying for an online degreeis a perfect way of filling theirdowntime. The opportunitiesnow available to RAF medicpersonnel provide an excellent

path for them to achievehigh-value higher educationqualifications in their area”.

Barclays DegreeBarclays UK Retail and BusinessBanking launched the RetailDevelopment Programme (RDP)in 2007 to provide their nextgeneration of branch managers.The first group of studentsstarted studying with us for a‘Barclays Degree’ in 2008 and13 graduated in October witha BA (Hons) Management &Leadership. In addition to the

Can Anglia Ruskin TranscriptionService help you?In a previous issue of Aspects, I wrote anarticle describing my experiences as thefirst blind student at Anglia PolytechnicUniversity and the barriers I faced instudying as an Information Systemsundergraduate in the early 1990s. Theseexperiences led to the establishment of theAnglia Ruskin Transcription Service, whichprovides transcription services to supportstudents, staff and other customers, and toexternal customers on a commercial basis.

Over two million people in the UK havesevere sight loss and many disabled peoplealso require information in alternativeformats. We can help in a number of ways,including: Braille; digital audio; large print;digital text; tactile graphics; and accessiblebusiness cards.

The Anglia Ruskin Transcription Serviceis registered under the ISO 9001, 2008quality standard and Customer Service

Excellence and is a member of theUK Association of Alternative Formats.

To find out more about the servicewe can offer to improve your business,please contact Janice [email protected] or ValerieWilliams [email protected] telephone 0845 196 3175.

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tuition fees being paid byBarclays, the RDP packageincludes a salary of £12,495plus London weighting, studytime, a business mentor, pensionscheme and share options.The degree is work based andthe students are employed byBarclays from the verybeginning.

Johannah Lynch, BarclaysUK Retail Bank GraduateDevelopment Specialist, says,“Barclays is proud to haveestablished, in partnership withLAIBS, a market-leading, entrylevel programme. Talent andleadership development is atthe forefront of our learningagenda and the sponsoreddegree programme has alreadydemonstrated its success increating a pipeline of talentedleaders in our branch network”.Speaking about the course,student Ian Falder said, “Itexceeded my expectations, andI had high expectations to startwith! I was able to go frombeing a school leaver to abranch manager of a bankin 18 months”.


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Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences

The CambridgeFestival ofIllustration, 2011The first Cambridge Festival ofIllustration took place from14th–20th November 2011 inCambridge. A collaborationbetween our Cambridge Schoolof Art and the city’s Heffersbookshop, the festival featuredsome of the UK’s best knownpicturebook artists and manyrecent graduates. Among theguests were Quentin Blake,Anthony Browne, ChrisWormell, Nadia Shireen andMarta Altés. The Festival logowas designed by MA Children’sBook Illustration graduateBirgitta Sif.

For more information visit:www.anglia.ac.uk/ccbs

John Burnside winsForward Poetry PrizeAnglia Ruskin University has astrong tradition of supportingcontemporary poetry, and ofnurturing distinguishedcontemporary poets among itsstaff and students. John James,Richard Berengarten (Burns),Nigel Wheale and GrahameDavies have all either studiedor taught at CCAT, AngliaPolytechnic University or AngliaRuskin University.

2011 saw further internationalrecognition for a poet withstrong Anglia Ruskinconnections, when former CCATstudent and Anglia RuskinUniversity Honorary Doctor ofLetters, John Burnside, wasawarded the £10,000 ForwardPrize for the best collection ofthe year for Black Cat Bone.The Forward Prize has beendescribed as the Booker ofpoetry, and this year's winrepresents a great personal

accomplishment for John, whohas been shortlisted 3 timesbefore, particularly as theshortlist this year – whichincluded outstanding newbooks by Geoffrey Hill, DavidHarsent and Sean O'Brien,among others – was consideredby many to be the strongestsince the prize began in 1991.

Chair of this year’s judgingpanel, Sir Andrew Motion –another of our Honorary Awardholders – described John'swinning collection as "a verydirect and a very subtle book.There's no doubting its bigthemes – of mortality,transience and various kindsof catastrophe – but they arehandled in a way that rightlyallows their menace to seeminsidious as well as brutal. Thismakes the book one to lingerover, as well as one to enjoyat first reading".

For more information aboutour MA Creative Writing pleasevisit:www.anglia.ac.uk/macreativewriting

Visualise – NewPublic Art Comes toCambridgeAnglia Ruskin University isbringing new public art toCambridge throughout 2012.Visualise has commissioned arange of contemporary artistsand curators to work with us tocreate exciting public artprojects, exhibitions, workshopsand events across Cambridge.Visualise consists of three mainprojects; A public artcommission, Art & Technologycollaborations and a series ofexhibitions which include:

Birgitta Sif, Fireflies

Enigma & N-DustLiliane Lijn and Jamie Allen

An exhibition of the work ofLiliane Lijn, leading poet andvisual artist, who uses differentmedia including film, text,sound and kinetic sculpture.Accompanied by Jamie Allen,they are working together onan Arts Council England-fundedproject called N-Dust relatingto industry and mythology.

BetweenSusan Aldworth and KarenIngham

‘Between’ proposes a newmodel of collaborative researcharound contemporary notions ofembodiment. The project willbring together art, philosophy,and neuroscience. Central tothe project’s premise is thedesire to move beyond the label‘sciart’ and to embed the art ina broader cultural context.

Poetry, Language, Code &Games Artists PlayArtists include: Eduardo Kac,William Latham, Liliane Lijn,Alessandro Ludovico, PaoloCirio, John Cayley and JacquesDonguy

This exhibition, opening in theweek of the centenary of AlanTuring’s birth, will focus on theinterrelationship of text codeand visual image.

Throughout July watch out forGuerrilla Artists Film Screeningsaround Cambridge, inassociation with CambridgeFilm Festival and other localpartners. We also have aprogramme of cultural walksplanned and a collaborationwith the Institute of Astronomy.


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Researchers study childprotection volunteersResearch looking at the benefits of trainingvolunteers to support families with childrenat risk of serious harm and subject to childprotection plans has been presented to theChildren's Minister, Tim Loughton.

The Volunteers in Child Protection (ViCP)project, piloted by UK volunteering charityCSV in the wake of the Victoria Climbiétragedy, sees specially recruited, trainedand supported volunteers work inpartnership with children's serviceprofessionals to support good parenting,improve school attendance and providestructure and extra stability to family life.

From March 2010, researchers from AngliaRuskin measured the outcomes of CSV'sproject in Southend involving 37 familieswith children on child protection plans. Theresearch – carried out by Dr Jane Akister,Niamh O'Brien and Teresa Cleary – showedthat in 87% of cases involving volunteers,children moved to lower levels of risk asindicated by Child Assessment FrameworkLevels. This included 11 families who wereremoved from child protection plansaltogether and seven families who reportedimproved school attendance.

Happy New Year to all our alumni;much has changed since the lastedition, notably the merging of theFaculty of Health & Social Care andthe Faculty of Education. This mergebrings together great synergy and areal opportunity to further enhance thelearning and teaching opportunities atthe University. Have a look at ourrevamped website to find out morewww.anglia.ac.uk/fhsce

Continuing SuccessOperating Department Practice alumnaYasmin Sesay is celebrating after winningan award at the recent Association forPerioperative Practice (AFPP) awards.The AFPP, one of the professional bodiesfor perioperative practitioners, awardedYasmin a Certificate of Recognition forcompleting the 3M AfPP Academy personaldevelopment programme 2011. Yasminwas delighted and said '”I’m so excited toreceive this Certificate on completion of the3M AfPP Academy programme. Winningthe award meant that I got the opportunityto complete a fantastic programme thatcovered subjects which are applicable bothto my professional and personal life”.

Dr Jane Akister, Reader in Social Work,said, "This study shows what a crucial rolethese volunteers can play, working withextremely complex families where socialservices are involved because of childprotection concerns. The families are veryhard to engage and are suspicious becausethey are worried that people might taketheir children away; they see the volunteersas being on their side, helping them todevelop confidence in their own parenting.There is evidence of marked improvementafter the ViCP intervention. Critical to thesuccess of the programme is that CSV, asan organisation, are extremely effective inthe recruitment, training, managing andsupervision of volunteers".

Essex and Cambridgeshireschools pilot new .NETGadgeteer.NET Gadgeteer is an exciting new productdeveloped by Microsoft Research to enablethe prototyping of a huge range of gadgets.It has great potential in schools as it can beused to teach students simple electronics,computer programming and also somecomputer-aided design. It's also verymotivating for young people to be able tobuild their own gadgets – a digital cameracan be built in about half an hour!

There are two school pilots running withGadgeteer, one in Seattle, USA and the otherright here in Essex and Cambridgeshire,being coordinated by Sue Sentance from ourDepartment of Education. The pilot waslaunched at a teachers' workshop in October2011 and all the pilot schools wererepresented, in addition to other interestedlocal teachers. Also present was the ChiefResearch Officer for Microsoft Research.

Yasmin Sesay and Sue Lord

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Sport and Exercise Sciencesannounce partnership withCambridge UnitedStaff and students from our Sport andExercise Science programme have recentlycarried out the first of a series of stringenttests as part of an exciting new partnershipbetween our University and CambridgeUnited to assess player fitness and informthe teams training regime as they look topush for promotion back to the footballleague this season.

Sports Programme Leader Roy Luckhurstand his team implemented a battery oftests to measure players’ body fat, aerobiccapacity, lactate thresholds and maximumheart rate. Tests include hydrostaticweighing to measure body fat levels,a process that involves exhaling for 10seconds whilst being fully submergedin water. VO2 max tests have also beencarried out, which involve recordingplayers’ heart rates to maximum whilstthey run on a treadmill with an ever-increasing gradient. The resulting datawill be used to help set optimum training

intensities for each of the Cambridgeplayers, which can then be monitored inreal time whilst the players train usingwireless heart rate monitors.

Roy commented, “We are very proud tohave forged this working relationship withour local club. In the highly competitiveworld of professional football, every 1%improvement counts. If Cambridge Unitednow have a successful season, we will bevery proud to have in some waycontributed to their success”.

Students have grand designsOur students – in partnership with WrittleCollege, Changing Chelmsford and00:/research architects – demonstratedtheir self-build skills as part of the Festivalof Ideas in Chelmsford on Saturday, 5thNovember.

Students and staff from our Department ofthe Built Environment worked together withmembers of the Interior Design and InteriorArchitecture programme at Writtle College tobuild a section of an innovative WikiHousein Chelmsford’s Market Square. WikiHouseis an online resource where architects freelyshare designs and techniques to allowanyone interested in self-build to orderand construct their own home.

A date for your diaryOnce again our Faculty is proud to beassociate sponsors of the Cambridge ScienceFestival. On Saturday 17th March 2012 wewill be holding our ‘Science on Saturday’event in the Cambridge Guildhall from10am–4pm, offering many science-basedactivities and hands-on demonstrationssuitable for all the family. It’s a great dayout and we hope to see you there.

Eight out of ten CrimeScene Investigators prefercat litter!Academics in our Forensic ScienceDepartment have revealed a novel tool thatcould be used to help catch arsonists – catlitter. Most brands of cat litter contain themineral sodium bentonite, which is a clayformed from volcanic ash. Up close, theclay is full of microscopic tunnels with anetwork of capillaries which retain thepetrol on the surface without reacting.Petrol is a complex mixture of around 200components and 15 of these are targetedduring its analysis to give a positiveidentification. This is a requirement for thepresence of petrol to be proven in court.

The next stage of the research will seethe scientists attempt to adapt the catlitter to improve its ability to detect otherflammable materials, particularly diesel.The aim is to develop a universal absorbentto aid detection of a range of ignitableliquids and to contribute to a standardmethod that is used in fire investigation,and accepted by courts, across the world.

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We also worked on The 50+20 Projectduring the GA. This project aims to createa breakthrough in the transformation ofmanagement education to meet societaland environmental needs of the world in the21st Century. The GRLI has worked on thebusiness school of the 21st century sinceits inception in 2004. In January 2011 theGRLI joined forces with the World BusinessSchool Council for Sustainable Businessand the United Nations Principles forResponsible Management EducationSecretariat to form the 50+20 Project.This collaborative partnership combiningthe efforts of the three organisations isfocussed initially on producing a catalyticbreakthrough report for the Rio EarthSummit (Rio+20) being held in June2012. I am now part of the team writingthis report for the Rio Earth Summit.

At the same time as the GA, Daimlerorganised a ‘Student World Dialogue’.Members of the GA joined the students onthe 4th October and had a most inspiringand thought provoking time.

Dr Jonathan Smith, Chartered FCIPD,Senior Lecturer, LAIBS

Participants of the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative’s General Assembly.

Four Students from LAIBSparticipate in DaimlersStudent World DialogueThe topics of global responsibility andsustainability are becoming a major factorof economic, ecological and social life. Inits anniversary year of 2011, Daimler tookthe opportunity to bring representativesof the Globally Responsible LeadershipInitiative (GRLI) together with the potentialglobal leaders of tomorrow – today’sstudents. In doing so, it created a newplatform for exchange and discussionbetween the current and next generationof globally responsible leaders. The GRLIwas founded by the UN Global Compactand the European Foundation forManagement Development (EFMD) withthe aim of promoting and developing thenext generation of leaders with globalresponsibility, and we are members ofthis initiative.

Daimler organised this Student WorldDialogue during the GRLI’s GeneralAssembly and invited 125 students toattend, explore the issues, and experiencethe different aspects of global responsibleleadership. The dialogue took place at theMercedes-Benz Museum and the Carl BenzArena in Stuttgart, Germany last October.This was an all-expenses-paid trip, fundedby Daimler.

Students who were interested in takingpart were asked to submit their CV andan essay on what globally responsibleleadership meant to them. In total, 1100people from across the world applied, sowe are delighted that four students fromLAIBS were successful and were invited totake part. These were:

Trang Nguyen – BA International Business(Berlin-Cambridge)

Annika Eving – BSc in Business Economics

Abena Appenteng – MBA

Eze Ogbonnia Eze – PhD

This was a really fantastic achievementon the world stage for our students – welldone and hearty congratulations Trang,Annika, Abena and Eze.

The latest GloballyResponsible LeadershipInitiative (GRLI)Inspiring and thought-provoking events tookplace recently regarding this initiative thatwe are part of. I was lucky enough to beable to attend the latest General Assemblyof the GRLI where the 68 members frombusinesses and business schools fromaround the world came together to continuetheir work on global initiatives for developingthe next generation of globally responsibleleaders. The general assembly was heldat Daimler’s training centre at HausLautenbach near Stuttgart and took placein October. I was supported in attending thisGA by the Enterprising Academics schemeour university ran over this summer.

During the GA I presented the research Ihave conducted at Adnams brewery whichwas supported through the EnterprisingAcademics scheme. The Adnams researchwill form part of their corporation of the21st Century research I am involved withat the GRLI.


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Researchquickly. It was also suggestedthat the secretive nature ofcyber-bullying causedadditional fear in the victim andbecause it could take place atany time and in any place,options for escape are limited.

Steven Walker said, “Many ofthe respondents thought thatcyber-bullies don’t actuallythink they are bullying. In themain, they thought that it wasseen by bullies as merely aform of ‘harmless fun’, a jokeand therefore not an issue.Others thought cyber-bulliesare motivated by a lack ofconfidence and a desire forcontrol, perhaps because theyare too cowardly to bully face-to-face. As the use of socialmedia amongst young peoplecontinues to grow, unlessproperly addressed by hostsites and government agencies,the problem of cyber-bullying isonly likely to get worse”.

Two new researchprojects for policebodiesTwo new research projects inconjunction with two differentpolice bodies are about to beundertaken by Dr SamanthaLundrigan, Pathway Leader forCriminology. The importanceof partnerships between policeand academics was stressedin the recent Science &Technology Innovation Strategy,published by the NationalPolicing Improvement Agency.The strategy called for theclosing of the ‘gulf’ betweenresearchers and police andassurances that police wereharnessing science, technologyand social science to maximumeffect.

The first of these projectsinvolves developing an offender-based interview tool withCambridgeshire Constabulary.This tool will be designed foruse with the area’s Priorityand Prolific Offenders. Froman academic perspective,the project will enhanceunderstanding of offenderdecision-making and willexplore the psychological andenvironmental factors thatdetermine where offenderscommit their crimes.In practical terms, thedevelopment of a toolthat allows for a focussedunderstanding of offenderbehaviour and geography hasobvious operational utility forfront-line policing and crimedetection.

The second project is workingwith the Serious Crime AnalysisSection (SCAS) of the NationalPolicing Improvements Agencyto examine male-on-malestranger rape. SCAS wasinitiated by the Home Office in1998 to identify the potentialemergence of serial killers andserial rapists at the earlieststage. Together with acolleague from the Universityof Cambridge, Dr Lundrigan isworking on the developmentof a behavioural model of male-on-male stranger rape. Thestudy will help to remedythe current lack of base-rateinformation regarding the typesand frequencies of behavioursthat occur in male rape.This is crucial when tryingto determine those facets ofoffences that are behaviourallyimportant – a central questionfor stranger-rape investigations.

Cyber-bullyingaffects one in fiveyoungsters in theEnglandCyber-bullying affects one infive youngsters in Englandaccording to research carriedout by academics in ourFaculty of Health, Social Care& Education. The study,commissioned by the NationalChildren’s Bureau, examinedthe scale of cyber-bullying andthe negative effect it has onyoung people’s health.

Steven Walker, PrincipalLecturer in Child & AdolescentMental Health, led the researchamongst over 490 youngpeople aged 10–18 anddiscovered that cyber-bullyingwas far more prevalentamongst girls – 18.4% of thosesurveyed admitted to being avictim of cyber-bullying, and69% of these were girls. Moregirls than boys had alsowitnessed cyber-bullying orknew somebody who had beenbullied or who had cyber-bullied others.

Of those who had been cyber-bullied, the most commoneffects were on theirconfidence, self-esteem andmental and emotional well-being, with 28.8% saying theyhad stayed away from schooland 38.9% having stoppedsocialising outside school asa result. Most young peoplethought cyber-bullying was justas harmful as other forms ofbullying, but some thought itfar worse as the bullying ispermanent in written or pictureformat, could get very personaland could be transmittedto many more people more

Other researchcarried out overthe last year:History research project helpsrestore theatre of Georgian eraAcademics from our Englishand History Departmentsresearched how theatre wasperformed in the 18th andearly 19th Centuries, resultingin performances and acontribution to a book.

Tiger conservation strategiesSimon Evans and GrahamWebster of LAIBS carried outresearch in Ranthambhore(India) and HeilongjiangProvince (China) on issuessurrounding the economicramifications of tigerconservation strategies.

Where there’s muck…Science & Technology’s PeterStroh researched the dispersalpotential for seeds from avariety of fenland plants viacattle dung collected from twoof Cambridgeshire’s NationalNature Reserves.

The Second Life ToxicWarehouse projectDr Debbie Holley, EducationPathway Leader, and AlanHudson, London MetropolitanUniversity, received funding todevelop a three-dimensionalvirtual learning environmentthat is an online warehousewith a number of design flawsthat can be visited by studentssingly or in groups.

Mental health problems andthe benefits of artJenny Secker, Professor ofMental Health, led a study toassess the benefits of artsparticipation for people withmental health problems.


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Pedestrian-friendly car bonnetScience & Technologyresearchers collaborated withCellbond to develop and test apedestrian-friendly car bonnetdesign that collapses inwardsupon impact, lessening thepotential for impact injury.

Male pill researchMental Health lecturer DrSusan Walker, researched thepotential uptake of the malecontraceptive pill, when itbecomes available. Shesurveyed 134 women and 54men, of whom only 50% saidthey would use that method.

Studying the toxic effectsof BZPScience & Technologyscientists, led by Professor MikeCole and Dr Beverley Vaughan,carried out research into thelong-term health risksassociated with the taking ofbenzylpiperazine (BZP), whichrevealed it causes damage tothe liver and kidneys, causingserious illnesses, and thatdifferent batches of the drugcontain different levels ofimpurities.

Tracking voracious ‘alieninvaders’Abby Stancliffe-Vaughan,Faculty of Science &Technology, is researching inNorfolk and Suffolk into apotential control method of thesignal crayfish. Introduced intothe UK for farming in the1970s, it is now causingserious damage to ponds, riversand canals and out-competingour native white-clawedcrayfish.

ObituariesProfessor Tony Wigram1953–2011Professor Tony Wigram (PhD,Professor of Music Therapy,1953–2011) has died aftera year’s courageous battleagainst cancer.

Tony qualified as a musictherapist in 1974 from theGuildhall School of Music andDrama in London. His earlylife as a music therapistshowed him quickly emergingas a leader of the musictherapy profession in the UK,

The University crest hasevolved from our full Coatof Arms, granted by theCrown, which has the mottoExcellentia Per Societatem– Excellence ThroughPartnership. But what do theelements of your Universitycrest stand for?

A Symbol of your University• The blue border represents

the East Anglian regionsurrounded by the sea.

• Sheaves of wheat representagriculture.

• Gold roundels representindustry.

• Herons are East Anglianbirds.

• Crowns represent the royalconnections of the region.

You can wear this high qualitypin badge of our Universitycrest either on your lapel oras a tie pin. It is available inperson from the Alumni Officeon the Chelmsford campus for

Ronald Searle CBE1920–2011As we were going to press weheard that Ronald Searle CBE,had sadly died. One of ouralumni and an honorary awardholder, he was not only thecreator of St Trinian’s, but alsowell known for his work as agraphic satirist. In recognitionof his talent, our School of Artannually awards the RonaldSearle Award for Creativity inthe Arts.

Please visit Aspects online toread the full article.

and later worldwide,pioneering and developingmusic therapy treatment foradults and children withlearning disabilities.

Tony was a brilliant academic,a generous and supportivecolleague and an inspiringman. He will be deeply missedby colleagues, students,patients, friends and family.

Professor Helen Odell-MillerHead of Music Therapy

£3.00. Alternatively,it can be purchased online(including postage) for £4.00for UK residents and £5.00for overseas.

Please visit our online storehttps://store.anglia.ac.uk/and search under the ProductCatalogue for AlumniMerchandise.

Alternatively, visit usin person:

The Development& Alumni OfficeAnglia Ruskin UniversityBishop Hall LaneChelmsford CM1 1SQUK

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At the beginning of November we weredelighted to welcome Griff Rhys Jones,a well loved TV presenter and comedian –and our Honorary Award holder – backonto our Cambridge campus to officiallyopen our new drama and performing artsspace. The facility, which is part of the new£35 million redevelopment at the heart ofthe Cambridge campus, provides much-needed rehearsal and performance spacefor students at Anglia Ruskin.

Griff said, “As an honorary fellow of AngliaRuskin University I am delighted to be ableto return to Cambridge to open the new

The courtyard has been designed to be accessible from all sides and is visible from many vantage points.

Performing arts space official opening

We have reached a milestone in the historyof our Cambridge campus with the openingof the new £35-million redevelopment,very generously supported by ourChancellor, Lord Ashcroft KCMG. Thoseof you who studied with us even just acouple of years ago will not believe thetransformation. Our new building wrapsaround the centre of our campus, linking

existing buildings, including the UniversityLibrary and Mumford Theatre. As well ashousing our Lord Ashcroft InternationalBusiness School, the new facilities forstudents and staff in all our facultiesinclude a 400-seat lecture theatre, two200-seat lecture theatres, better access tothe library, a new home for the i-Centre, abright new rehearsal space, a café and an

open-access area with 250 new computersto use.

Sandy Lynam, Director of Estates & FacilitiesServices, said a need for more space initiallyinspired our redevelopment of the campus.“We had the wrong-sized teaching rooms fora modern curriculum. Faculties were havingto repeat teach and the students didn’t get tosee who else was studying with them, neverbeing able to get together as a single group.We also recognised we needed more studentsocial space that was comfortable andinspiring to be in, and more open-accesscomputer areas to improve our students’experience of a modern university.”

As research shows that buildings andenvironment affect mood and behaviour,our investment to transform the learningexperience is driven by our focus onstudent success. The building featurescurved sections, designed to createinteresting rooms on the inside, and isbuilt around a central courtyard, filled withtables and chairs, and is enhanced byplants. “It’s nice to see people sitting in thecourtyard,” Sandy said. “It’s my favouritefeature of the development, and the factthat you can see and access it from somany vantage points in the building.”

drama and performing arts space. In fact,as someone who has frequented a fewdraughty rehearsal halls in my time, it’swonderful that the students havesomething that’s purpose built for theirneeds. This is the bright future and hugelywelcome. In these difficult economic timesit is a great achievement to have managedto get this space funded, supported andbuilt and I am full of congratulations foreveryone involved. Now let’s get dancing,acting and performing”.

Our Cambridge campus now boasts theMumford Theatre – which is a professional

standard performing space – a recital hallequipped for small-scale concerts, and nowthis new drama and performing arts space.

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Reunion in Cambridge for old friendsCCAT graduates (1980) inBA Hons Modern Languagesorganised a reunion weekend inCambridge at the end of October2011. People flew in fromGermany, Switzerland, Franceand Greece, and some evenmade the trek from ‘Up North’.Comparing notes, we found thatthe weekend had promptedmixed feelings, from anticipationand excitement to anxiety anddread; understandable whenyou think most of us hadn’t seeneach other for 31 years!! In theevent, it was like going back intime and we all quickly felt atease and wanted to catch upon everyone’s lives since CCATdays.

On Saturday, we wanderedthrough the Anglia Ruskincampus, marvelling at howdifferent it looks today; shinyand modern – practicallyunrecognisable from whenwe knew it as ‘The Tech’!At lunchtime the Spanish

contingent headed to The TramDepot on East Street to meetup with Tony Morgan (and hiswife Annie), lecturer in SpanishLanguage and Latin AmericanHistory in CCAT days. We spenta very enjoyable couple ofhours reminiscing about whata fantastic time we had duringour four years on the course.

We then met up with theGerman and Italian factions inThe Eagle for more reminiscingand photo swapping, beforegoing for an evening meal atThe Eraina Taverna. This hadbeen booked for nostalgicreasons – it was a favouritehaunt back in the olden days(because it was cheap and yougot chips with everything).Unlike the campus, it had notchanged at all – still cheap, stillchips with everything and thefood not remotely recognisableas Greek (as confirmed byLaurel, who lives on a Greekisland)!

Sunday morning was spentwandering round Cambridge,reliving very happy memoriesand culminating in a farewelllunch in The Anchor. We allhad a great time and agreedthat we would do it again in

a few years’ time, hopefullyhaving managed to track downa few more people from thecourse to swell our numbers.

Sian Harrison

Being a MentorJane’s viewI completed my CIPD at Anglia PolytechnicUniversity in the 1990s. There wasn’t aMentoring Scheme then and I dependedsolely on my manager at the time for adviceand guidance and she was a fantasticsupport. However, she specialised inTraining and Development and a mentorwho had experience in HR would havehelped me a great deal. I think that I waslucky that I was working in HR and couldrelate my learning to real-life situations.I realise this is not always possible whendoing full-time academic study. So when theopportunity arose to become a mentor I feltI could give someone the help I didn’t have.

My mentee, Michelle, was is in her 2ndyear of a Human Resource Management

degree but had not worked in HR. Theprogramme was an excellent opportunityfor Michelleto gain some practical knowledge and toenhance her ability to gain employment inan HR role. We drew up an action plan ofthe things we agreed Michelle should coverand set up dates when she would attend.

Michelle completed 20 hours here atBinley’s. She covered Recruitment &Selection, Appraisal and Probation reviews.She has seen part of our Induction course,attended a ‘How To Get That Job’ courseand our Mock Assessment Day. Michelle’scommitment and determination to succeedremained focussed throughout.

Jane GraceHead of HR at Binley’s (Beechwood HousePublishing Ltd) and Alumni mentor

Michelle’s viewHaving a mentor has been great. Jane tooka special interest in me and explained to methe different areas of work in HR. This gaveme a much broader view of the HR role thanI had previously understood and showed methe long-term career opportunities whichcould be available to me. I now understandthe importance of keeping up to date withemployment and case law, reading CIPDarticles and using appropriate websites forContinuous Professional Development (CPD)in the future.

Michelle Williams2nd year HR Management Student

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Back row, from left: Sonja Woodman, Carol Deiss, Diana Gill, Dids Odling, SallyThornton, Stella Hawkins, Carolyn Cook

Middle row, from left: Laurel Watkins, Renata Fudakowska, Dennis Wells,Dominic Putnam, Sian Harrison (me!), Jo Nibler, Kathy Contaris

Bottom row, from left: Llinos Evans, Mark Amstutz, Jill Harper, Anne Foulkes

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News in BriefPatients play a crucial role inhelping to design courseprogrammes. We are one of thefirst universities in the countryto have met the Nursing &Midwifery Council’s new pre-registration nursing educationstandards. To date, only 12universities in the UK havefulfilled the new criteria, whichare designed to ensure thatnewly qualified nurses areprepared for the future needs ofpatients and employers. Theywill help future nurses carefor an ageing population, withgrowing numbers of peoplewith long-term conditions,and also to meet rising patientexpectations. Universities havebeen encouraged to take aninnovative approach and arenow required to involve patientsin student selection, coursedesign and teaching.

Vision & Eye Research Unit(VERU) hosts Symposium. Partof our Postgraduate MedicalInstitute (PMI), in April VERUhosted the first CambridgeCornea & Cataract Symposium.A series of lectures weredelivered by national andinternational speakers thatfocussed on the twin themesof ‘cornea’ and ‘refractive andcataract surgery’. VERUDirector, Professor ShahinaPardhan, commented, “I amdelighted that the symposiumwas such a success. The factthat 95% of attendees plan tomodify their clinical practiceis ample evidence of howimportant and relevant thelectures were to clinicalpractice. We look forward toVERU arranging more of thesein the future.”

Advances and newdevelopments inosteoarthritis conference.Last June Anglia Ruskin, incollaboration with Meditechand Healthtech andMedicines KTN, held the 5thjoint Medical Engineeringmeeting at our PostgraduateMedical Institute (PMI). Theevent attracted 60 delegatesfrom leading institutions,medical companies andhospitals in the UK,Switzerland, Iceland, Franceand the USA. The conferencewas entitled ‘Advancesand New Development inOsteoarthritis/DegenerativeDiseases – Benchtop toBedside’ and was an excellentway to launch our new state-of-the-art BiomechanicsLaboratory. We anticipatemany intellectuallystimulating research projectswill be conducted within thelaboratory, alongside studentsbeing taught and mentored.

Anglia Ruskin student teamtakes top awards at GamesJam. In July Team Vertigo –students from our BA HonsComputer Games and VisualEffects and BSc HonsComputer Gaming Technologycourses, along with a graduateteaching assistant – took partin the 48-hour Games Jamcompetition, beating rivalteams from across the UKand Europe. The competition,to produce a fully workingcomputer game over a singleweekend with the help ofindustry experts, was part ofthe Brains Eden games festivalorganised by Creative Front andhosted by us on our Cambridgecampus. Six awards wereissued and Team Vertigo tookthree of the top honours,including Best Overall Game.

(l–r) Mark Green (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) presents the award forBest Overall Game to Team Vertigo – Jason Mitchell, Serhan Miah, RobinBurkinshaw and Will Campbell

Cambridge Cleantech –a new organisation supportingthe growth of environmentalgoods and services in GreaterCambridge, across the regionand beyond – was launchedat Anglia Ruskin in October.Over 250 local businessesand organisations attendedthe launch at the new LordAshcroft Building at ourCambridge campus. Thekeynote speaker was JulianHuppert MP, who gave hisviews on the opportunitiesfor this crucial growth sector.Cambridge Cleantechencourages supply-chainopportunities for companiesin the sector, enables sharedexperience of innovative growthbusinesses and providescollective services, such asaccess to finance, governmentregulatory updates and links tointernational partners. Dr AledJones, Director of our GlobalSustainability Institute, said,“We are delighted to be afounding member and to hostthe launch event of CambridgeCleantech. Tackling today’sglobal challenges requiresa society of innovation, andthe opportunities created byleading the transformationtowards a green economycould be significant. This iswhy we are keen to work withentrepreneurial companies inour region to help unlock someof these opportunities andaccelerate this journey”.


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ChelmsfordLots of things happening in our sportingagenda! Our athletics star, James Shane,made it to the world games in Korea andis an Olympic hopeful. He’s with the UKsquad undergoing altitude training inKenya. Good luck James.

Netball have got more players involved andwe’ve put out two teams on Wednesdayafternoons – one still in the SESSA leagueand a team picking up friendlies againstlocal opposition. The plan is to entera team in the British Universities andColleges leagues for 2012/13, as wellas keeping a team in SESSA.

Football have stepped up first time inthe BUCS leagues, keeping a presence inthe SESSA leagues. Both teams are goingwell and the regular turnout is down to theenthusiasm of Frank Hodge, the coach. Ourfirst team will be entering the SESSA Cupand we hope they can do better than theirsemi-final finish from last year.

Rugby have gone up a league and arenow holding their own. In fact, this isan understatement – they have beenchallenging for a top three spot and,depending how things go, could stillbe in with a shout.

As always, we'll be supporting Fairtradefortnight with our annual staff v studentsfootball match. Any local old boys wouldbe more than welcome to help the staff outon 5th March, starting at 5.30pm.

For those of you that knew Simon Roberts– affectionately known as Doggy or MadDog – unfortunately, he passed away aftera battle against cancer. Many willremember Simon as the indestructiblesportsman; he will be missed by all thatknew him.

For information on cricket, cheerleading,American football and to see what’s newfor 2012, please visit Aspects on-line.

I hope you all are enjoying the New Yearperiod; live life to the full!

Stephen DupreeHead of Sport, Active Lifestylesand Wellbeing

of conversation in the local rowing mediaabout their success, some claiming thatARBC only use rugby players! The club’sobjective this year is to increase theNational Regatta medal tally to three, whileworking towards men’s and/or women’sHenley qualification as a composite crew.

In cricket, our combined efforts withCambridge University through the MCCUhad proven very fruitful last season, withan outright win in the BUCS league. TheCambridge MCCU managed to securevictory over defending champions Cardiffwith a 100-run victory at Wormsley CricketGround. Many of the squad members willcontinue to represent their respectiveUniversities in the 2011/2012 season,making the prospect of ‘defending titlechampions’ a real possibility.

For more sports information please checkwww.bucs.org.uk

Martyn BlackfordGym and Sports Manager

CambridgeThis academic year has already seen anunprecedented level of engagement ofsports and health-related activity since thedawn of the 2011 Fresher’s period. Theincrease may be attributed to prospectivestudents trying to beat the wider issues ofincreased tuition fees – but hopefully ourability to serve the students’ needs is alsoplaying a key part. Staying on the widerissue of University sport, Anglia Ruskin hasnow included the theme in its strategic planand initiated an external audit of its currentprovision in hope to formulate a ‘uniteddirection’ to improve sporting success.

Rowing have managed to secure Gold andBronze National Regatta medals in the2010/2011 season and is now focussingon building its novice base to improvesustainability. The club has over 80 activemembers this year and the novice crewshave already won the Claire Novice RegattaPlate and the Fairburn’s Novice FastestSecond VIII. In the spirit of competitivesport, the club have started to attract a lot

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Firstly, let me wish you all a veryprosperous and happy New Year. Despitethe predictions of doom and gloom for2012, we’ve started the year with someexcellent news as Anglia Ruskin hasseen a huge increase in demand. Ourundergraduate applications are bucking thenational trend as they are up 17.6% on2011, and up a massive 39.7% on 2010.More people than ever are choosing tocome to your University, drawn here by ourattractive portfolio of courses and excellentnew facilities.

On the staffing front, in the last issue Imentioned that we were expecting Tomto join us and I’m delighted that he is nowworking with the development team todrive our fundraising forwards. Our latestinitiative was a telethon to raise fundsfor our Alumni Annual Fund. We enjoyedtalking to so many of you and hearingabout your time here (so many funnystories!) and what you are doing now. Anda big thank you goes to those who decidedto give their support – it’s great to see ourpast students helping those of the future.

Nathan has also joined the team as ourInformation Officer, so he now deals withall your address updates and the newsthat you send in to us. Please keep thesecoming – along with your email addresses

– so we can ensure this magazine, newsand invitations do actually get to you.

As always, this issue is crammed withalumni stories and University news and Ihope you have enjoyed reading the articles.As we were going to press we heard thatRonald Searle had sadly died, but it wastoo late for us to find room for his fullobituary, so please visit our website to seea write-up on this great man, who we werehonoured to number as one of our alumni.

Well, that’s all for this issue. I wish youwell for the year and look forward tohearing from you with your news –and your email address, of course!

Sue JacobsHead of Alumni Relations

Alumni & Development Officers:Erin Butcher and Sharon Wuyts

Development Managers:Tom Kay and Claire Shearer

Information Officer: Nathan Sexton

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