UNIVERSITYNEWSIssue 3 JANUARY 2007

Tackling global warming

Running the Royal Navy

Working for the Prime Minister

Teaching in Outer Mongolia

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exeteru n i v e r s i t y o f In 1920 Donald Barber won a

scholarship to study Physics at Exeter

After a varied career combining his interests in biology, astronomy andphotography in Britain and the United States, Donald Barber returned to Devon and took charge of the Norman Lockyer Observatory. He remembered the University in his Will and his legacy of £11,000provided an undergraduate teaching telescope in an automated domeon the Physics building. This picture of the Whirlpool Galaxy, 23 millionlight-years away from Earth, was taken using the Donald Barbertelescope.

We’re still seeing the benefitsBequests from many benefactors have helped the University of Exeterto maintain a tradition of excellence and to ensure that students can fulfiltheir potential. A legacy from you will help it continue to do so. YourWill allows you to decide the future of your assets. It can also helpinfluence the future of Exeter and a new generation of students.

Send for our information leafletDevelopment and Alumni Relations Office,Northcote House, The Queen’s Drive, Exeter EX4 4QJTelephone 01392 269015 Email Shirley Lovegrove ons.m.lovegrove@exeter.ac.uk

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Golden Jubileeunderlined how

important alumni are to the growth anddevelopment of the University. Many alumnihave given up countless hours to act asmembers of Council, as pro-chancellors andother lay roles: or as donors, advocates andsupporters.

It is very important that we engage with alumni and the expansion of theDevelopment and Alumni Relations Office is helping us to do this. We have organisedevents in Exeter and London and later thisyear will be going to Turkey, China, HongKong and Dubai.

Universities receive direct public funding, butwe also have the ability to generate incomeof our own through research, consultancy,philanthropy, hospitality services, recruitinginternational and postgraduate students andso on. A total of 62% of our income comesfrom non-government sources and it is ourambition to increase that still further. It’s notbecause we want to make money for its ownsake, but because a greater degree of financialindependence gives us more control overour own destiny.

The University is now higher in the leaguetables than it has ever been before; 18thplace in the Sunday Times is a real fillip for allthe staff who have worked tremendously hard

to keep on raising standards. Researchincome has risen by 21% over the last two years. Coming in the top ten in theNational Student Survey two years runningdemonstrates we are meeting studentexpectations. We have one of the loweststudent dropout rates in the country and one of the highest proportions of studentsreceiving first class and upper second classdegrees.

The University now directly employs 2,900 staff but its activities create a further2,220 jobs in UK as a whole. It has a majorbeneficial impact on UK plc, generating aneconomic output of £334 million a year. The benefits are social as well as economic.Exeter students devote 86,000 hours tovoluntary service a year – the equivalent of 50 full-time voluntary sector workers.

No organisation is ever perfect and we will be attempting to move forward this year in a number of important areas. ThisUniversity has the potential to go higherthan 18th place in the UK, but to do so we will continue to need the help, support,advice and advocacy of our alumni. Whenyou look around the world today it is veryobvious that the most successful universitiesare those with the most friends.

Professor Steve SmithVice-Chancellor

Contact details

For information on the alumni programmeplease contact: Development and Alumni Relations Office,Northcote House, The Queen’s Drive, Exeter EX4 4QJTel: 01392 263141Email: alumni@exeter.ac.uk

Please send address changes to the aboveaddress.

For information about supporting the AnnualFund and current University projects call01392 263360 or email: annualfund@exeter.ac.uk

For contributions and comments on themagazine contact the Alumni Relations team on01392 263141 or alumni@exeter.ac.uk

UNIVERSITYNEWS is edited by Stuart Franklinwith contributions from Sarah Hoyle, AbigailDixon, Stephen Brown and Bernie Sluman.

Design and production by the Design andPublications Office.

Copy deadline for the next edition: 2 May 2007.

Sunday Times league table; National Student Survey; Cornwall Campus 3

Physics’ mirror research; Developing world leaders; the Dubai office 4

Who met the Chancellor 5

Global warming warning 6-7

Coming home to Cornwall; Success in Film Studies 8

Ted Wragg awards 9

Running the Royal Navy 10-11

Who’s won what grant (staff edition) 12-13

Crossmead reunion; Alumni network news 12-13(alumni edition)

More grants; University as economic powerhouse 14(staff edition)

Convocation news; Farming bequest 14(alumni edition)

Alumni advising the Prime Minister; the future of St Luke’s 15

How the Annual Fund is being spent 16-17

Growing the University 18

Devonshire House revamp 19

Transatlantic tales 20-22

Helping Mongolian teachers 23

Back page: Diary

Cover picture: High summer on the beach at DawlishWarren. After another year of record-breaking summertemperatures, most experts now believe global warming to be reality rather than theory. With the help of funding from the Met Office, the University is building a formidable team of experts to help tackle this vitally important issue. See pages6 and 7 for the full story.

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The latest league table of universities published by The Sunday Times puts Exeter in 18th place in the

UK out of 120 listed institutions – its highest ever position.

The University was also shortlisted for University of the year for a record third time in five years.

The Sunday Times says: ‘Exeter’s excellent record meritsspecial recognition…Students here are some of the mostsatisfied in the country…High entry standards and lowdropout rates further entrench its standing.’

The newspaper adds: ‘Exeter is a partner in two hugelysuccessful initiatives in the region, establishing the PeninsulaMedical School in 2002 and then the Combined Universitiesin Cornwall project, which has brought university educationto Cornwall for the first time at a new campus in Tremough,near Falmouth. About £1m has been set aside annually to bespent on scholarships and bursaries to attract the cream ofA-level candidates.’

Exeter was shortlisted for University of the Year in 2001,2003 and, now, in 2006.

Cornwall Campus soars in popularity stakes

For the second year running, the University of Exeter is among the top ten universities in the UK for student

satisfaction.

Students at 128 universities and higher education colleges in the UK were polled for the National Student Survey. TheTimes Higher Education Supplement ranks Exeter in joint10th place out of 95 universities. Exeter retains its crownas the University with the most satisfied students in theSouth West.

More than 157,000 final year students across the UK weresurveyed in the spring of 2006. At Exeter a total of 1,540students gave their views, 65% of those invited to take part. Students were asked for their views on teaching,assessment and feedback, academic support, organisation and management, learning resources, personaldevelopment and overall satisfaction. Responses ratedsatisfaction as higher or the same as last year in 20 out of22 questions. Exeter has the ‘most satisfied’ Managementand Finance & Accounting students in the UK.

The third year of operation for theUniversity’s Cornwall Campus near

Falmouth has seen a large rise in demandfor courses. The number of studentsstudying Renewable Energy increased by157% this year, Mining Engineering by114% and Biosciences by 35%. Thecampus, which is shared with UniversityCollege Falmouth, has also attracted veryhigh quality academic staff.

The first phase of the campus wasopened in 2004 and represented an

investment of £68 million of European,UK government and university/universitycollege money. Building work on Phase 2of the project, worth a further £24.5million, is currently underway and Exeterwill be launching new courses in Law,Politics, History and Cornish Studies in2007. The University is currently biddingfor a Phase 3 of development that couldbe bigger than phases 1 and 2 combined.The result of the bid is expected in theautumn of 2007. Daughter of Cornwallleads new Law degree – see page 8.

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The Centre for Leadership Studieshas seen groups of top executives

from both the USA and Luxembourgpass through its doors this autumn.Doug Throckmorton, Robert Bishopand Richard Anspacher from US financecompany Penson have been studying forCertificates in Leadership at the Centre.Penson, which has offices in Californiaand Texas, chose Exeter after evaluatingdifferent leadership programmes fromaround the world.

Similarly, senior managers fromLuxembourg telecommunicationscompany L’enterprise Postes etTelecommunications (P&T) have

also been studying for a Certificate inLeadership Studies. A recent graduationceremony was attended by theAmbassador of Luxembourg, HisExcellency Jean-Louis Wolzfeld, and the Directeur General of P&T MarcelGross. Speaking about the effect of theprogramme on his company, M. Grosssaid that the difference in the actions ofhis managers was noticeable very quicklyand that phrases such as ‘companymentality’ were being used for the firsttime. His colleagues at P&T wereobviously pleased with the results andCLS is delighted that a further cohort of six P&T managers enrolled on theprogramme in October 2006.

The Centre’s international clients alsoinclude the European Central Bank inFrankfurt (coaching of senior staff) andAssicurianza Generali, Trieste (design of ‘international masters degree inpractising leadership’ for middlemanagers).

See: www.leadership-studies.com

A Middle East and North Africa Office has beenopened by the University in Dubai. The office will belooking to create new business opportunities in theregion and forge closer links with the University’salumni and other friends. Exeter has a strongreputation in the Middle East through the work of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and staffoften travel to the region. There will be an alumnireunion in Dubai in May.

Leadership courses attractworldwide attentionUnique courses in leadership run by the University of Exeter are attracting a growing international fan club amongst some of the worlds leading companies.

Amirror, in ‘Harry Potteresque’ fashion may be made almosttransparent by coating with thin films. Dr Ian Hooper and

Professor Roy Sambles, of the School of Physics, sandwiched themirror layer (a silver film only 40-nanometers thick – a nanometerbeing a millionth of a millimetre – and which reflects over 95% of light)between two thin films of zinc sulphide (a transparent insulator). Whenlight was shone on this structure far less light was reflected than by themirror alone. It became partially invisible.

‘The light reflections from the various interfaces in the system canceleach other out to give no overall reflection,’ say the researchers. ‘Thisalso means that far more light is able to pass right through the silverthan would normally be the case. Interestingly, using simply light and amirror we have established a new general principle for any quantummechanical system. This means that the quite remarkable effect knownas quantum tunneling (where particles can pass through a classical‘brick wall’) can now be strongly enhanced using the same ideas.’

The technique could be used to improve the efficiency of a newgeneration of light-emitting diodes and semiconductor devices, whichcould have major implications for the future development of electronicequipment. It may even have implications for the generation ofelectricity from nuclear fusion.

ThroughthelookingglassEveryone knows that light reflects from a silvered mirror, but researchers in the School of physics have shownthat this need not be the case.

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Nearly 400 alumni and other friends of the University attended receptions in London and Exeter to meet the newChancellor, Floella Benjamin. The events were held on 16 October in the Xfi building on the Streatham Campus andon 2 November at the Jerwood Space in Southwark, London. Dr Benjamin told guests at both events that they were part of an ‘extended family’ and she drew attention to the University’s recent rise up the University league tables.

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Climate changein the undergrowth

If we want to predict climate change, we need to look

at what’s going on in nature, according to a University

Mathematician.

Professor Peter Cox, the newly-appointed University and MetOffice research Chair in Climate System Dynamics, is leadingthe way in studying how natural processes at ground-level willaccelerate global warming and how plant-growth is linked tomass drought. Professor Cox has worked with collaboratorsat the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research,part of the Met Office, to research the effect of soildecomposition on climate over the last ten years, a processknown as ‘the compost effect’. About half the carbonemissions created by human activity, such as the burning offossil fuels, are currently absorbed by the land and ocean. Butsoils decompose at warmer temperatures, so as the Earthheats up soils will decompose more rapidly and release morecarbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Professor Cox recently presented this research at the RoyalGeographical Society’s annual conference in London. Hewarned that if we do not understand the response of soil totemperature, we will not be able to accurately predict therate of future climate change.

Pictures show storms lashing Dawlish and Sidmouth. Global warming could meanthere is much worse to come.

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Exeter joins forces withMet Office to tackle global warming

The University of Exeter and the Met Office have joined

forces to tackle global warming by creating and jointly

funding three major new research posts.

The two institutions have appointed three of the UK’sleading climate change experts in a move that willconcentrate expertise and encourage the transfer ofinformation. The three Chairs are focused on improvingclimate prediction and weather forecasting, using advancedmathematics to refine model equations and to make betteruse of observational data. Professor Peter Cox, formerlyScience Director for Climate Change at the Centre forEcology and Hydrology has just taken up his position as Chair in Climate System Dynamics and Dr DavidStephenson, Reader in Statistical Climatology at theUniversity of Reading, will join as Chair in Statistical Analysisof Weather and Climate in April 2007. Professor JohnThuburn joined the University last year.

‘Global warming, caused by carbon emissions, is causing aprocess that is resulting in yet more emissions. We call thisprocess ‘positive feedback’,’ said Professor Cox. ‘It’s a vicious circle that could accelerate the rate of carbon dioxideincrease over the next 100 years by up to 50%. We need tounderstand this process now if we’re to have any chance atintervention.’

Professor Cox is Director of the Climate and Land SurfaceInteractions Centre (CLASSIC). Along with other scientistsfrom CLASSIC, he has recently published research whichreveals that the quantity of green vegetation has a majorinfluence on rainfall in the Sahel region of Africa. This area, south of the Sahara desert, suffered catastrophicdroughts during the 1970s and 80s.

‘Rains at the start of the growing season cause vegetationgrowth, which encourages more rainfall by making the land-surface darker and recycling water by evaporating it back tothe atmosphere. Again, we’re seeing ‘positive feedback’ atwork, says Professor Cox. ‘In this case, we want to harnessthe feedback to avoid the terrible events of the past and helpto regenerate the region.’

Professor Cox is just one Exeteracademic whose researchfocuses on climate change.Researchers across manyschools, including Engineering,Computer Science andMathematics, Biosciences, andGeography, Archaeology andEarth Resources are looking ataspects of climate change andglobal warming. For ProfessorCox there is no question that a University like Exeter, whichbrings together key thinkers across a range of scientificsubjects, should be channelling a large portion of its researchon climate change. ‘Climate change is an incredibly complexissue and it is only by bringing together researchers from arange of disciplines that we can hope to understand what isgoing on and work out what we need to do about it. Thefuture of our children and grandchildren depends on anunprecedented global effort to deal with climate change, and institutes like ours have a critical part to play in thisendeavour.’

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The work of Exeter Film Studies students is getting exposure in film festivals across Europe.

Undergraduate and postgraduate courses place an emphasis onfilm practice as well as the academic study of cinema.

Recent graduate Edward Brooke-Hitching’s final year dissertationfilm The Really Terrible Orchestra scooped top prize in this year’sShort Scottish Documentary Award at the Edinburgh InternationalFilm Festival.

Four students’ films were selected to be shown at RennesUniversity in October to celebrate the 50th anniversary of thetwinning of the town with Exeter. Jonnie Williams’ Son of Salmon,James Farmer’s The Nature of All Things, Josh Gaunt’s The GatsbySyndrome and Ben Sherriff’s The Nightless Nights of Jerry Hart wereall screened. This followed success for Ben Sherriff and Josh Gauntin the annual Two Short Nights festival in Exeter.

Filmmaker in residence John Sealey, who is due to complete hisPhD in Film by Practice at Exeter this year, was commissioned bythe Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol to make a short documentary fortheir Blaxploitation Event in 2006.

The granddaughter of a Cornish tin miner isreturning to Cornwall to head up Exeter’s

new law degree in the county.

Law is one of four new subjectsto be offered at the Cornwall

Campus near Falmouth fromSeptember 2007. This is part of

the £24.5 million Phase 2 of thecampus which is currently under

construction.

Professor Williams has Cornish rootsin a tin mining family. Her grandfather

Isaac Hosking worked the windingengine at South Crofty for 40 years.

Her father Ernest Hosking grew up inPool and scored the top marks in the County in the school

examinations before joining the Navy at 15. He then taughthimself sufficient law to become Probate Registrar for Devonand Cornwall.

She has been Professor of Law at the University of Swanseasince 2005 and previously worked at theUniversity of Aberystwyth. She studied lawat Cambridge, having passed the openentrance exam aged 27 with two youngchildren.

Said Professor Williams: ‘I came into law as I have a great interest in moral questionsand what makes people decide what is rightand wrong.’

The University will offer degrees in Law atits Cornwall campus from September 2007.

Daughter of Cornwallleads new Law degree

Screen success for Film Studies

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Ted Wragg Awardsfor outstanding teacher trainees

Nineteen newly-qualified teachers from the School of Education and Lifelong Learning had cause for

celebration as they received awards of £500 each. Theawards, for outstanding achievement, were set up inmemory of the legendary Professor Ted Wragg, who died in November 2005.

Professor Debra Myhill, Head of InitialTeacher Training, said: ‘Ted was nationallyrecognised as an advocate of the teachingprofession and a man who inspired agreat many of today’s best teachers andteaching practices. It is fitting that theseawards have been developed in his nameto recognise, encourage and financiallyreward our best PGCE students.

Recipients were judged on their year as atrainee, with the input of school mentors,tutors and course leaders. Competition was strong as thereare 160 primary trainees and 400 secondary traineesstudying this year. They work in more than 300 schoolsacross the South West region and a small number inLondon.

Gemma Harries was “shocked” to get the award as shethought that so many people on the course were verygood. However, award-winning teaching runs in her family.Her mother is a past Teacher of the Year.

‘My mother loves her job and has never been jaded,’ saidMs Harries, who has a job at Newquay Treviglas School.‘She told me it is the best job in the world.’

Richard Parker, from Okehampton, has wanted to teach for years but was busy running his ownentertainments company. However, he often found himself working withchildren in a training capacity and runningsummer schools and youth groups, so he decided to follow his destiny and dothe PGCE course. He found the coursedemanding, particularly as his third child was born while studying, but wasencouraged by positive feedback fromcourse leaders and teachers and therapport he developed with pupils.

‘During the year I had such positivefeedback, telling me to keep doing what I was doing, so I thought I was on the right track. But winning an awardwas unexpected.’

Mr Parker is now working at Great Torrington School,North Devon where he trained. There are plans to run theawards scheme annually. Profiles of more of the winnerscan be found online at www.exeter.ac.uk/education

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The peace dividend enjoyed by the UK at the end of theCold War has resulted in a much smaller Royal Navy.

The Navy now has half the personnel and three fifths of thenumber of ships compared to when Admiral Sir JonathonBand joined up in 1967. Whilst it’s not expecting to fightanother world war any day soon, naval units are constantlydeployed around the world, including Iraq and Afghanistan,putting a great deal of pressure on Britain’s senior service.

‘There is no doubt the Navy is very busy,’ said SirJonathon. ‘A high operational tempo is a good thingbecause navies that don’t go to sea aren’t very goodnavies. However, I have to guard against our peoplebecoming over-stretched. I would say that today we have a navy that does the essentials, but there isn’t a bit of spare anywhere.’

Sir Jonathon was appointed First Sea Lord and Chief ofNaval Staff in February 2006. This is the Navy’s top joband puts him in charge of the UK’s ships, submarines, FleetAir Arm and Royal Marines. In a 40-year career he servedas Flag Lieutenant in the Falklands campaign and in the

Balkans as captain of the aircraft carrier HMS IIlustrious.Promoted Rear Admiral in 1997, he was involved in theKosovo Campaign and then in 2002, as Commander-in-Chief Fleet, the Iraq Campaign.

Sir Jonathon has seen a great deal of change in theoperational environment, having joined a Navy dedicatedto fighting the Soviet Bloc. Today’s Royal Navy is mostlyengaged in joint operations in the world’s trouble spots,keeping the high seas safe for maritime trade, promotingUK plc, and tackling drug running and illegal immigration. Sir Jonathon also says that ‘good old fashioned piracy’ isalive and well and advises against sailing holidays aroundthe Horn of Africa or West Africa!

Although the Navy is much smaller than in the past it doesretain political support with a new class of destroyers anda new class of submarines in prospect. Plans have alsobeen laid for new carriers. The question of whether toreplace Britain’s submarine-borne nuclear deterrentTrident is likely to be more controversial.

With increasing demands on the RoyalNavy, is it now too small to do its job?

First Sea Lord and Exeter economicsgraduate Jonathon Band has the job of

ensuring it remains fit for purpose.

Navy days

Pictures courtesy of the Royal Navy Picture Desk. HMS Illustrious, top right, was Sir Jonathon’s last sea command.

Said Sir Jonathon: ‘I don’t make the decision on Trident,that’s up to the politicians. My personal view is that for thetype of country we want to be, and with a very uncertainstrategic future, this is not the right time to be getting outof this business.’

Sir Jonathon remembers his time as a student at Exeter(1969-72) as a happy time and retains a close involvementwith the University. He was made an honorary graduate in2005, has been a Shaping the Future guest lecturer, and isan Exeter University Foundation donor.

‘I have thoroughly enjoyed my dealings with the Universityand remain very happy to do my bit and speak up onExeter’s behalf ’, he said.

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Ms J Bagnall, School of Business and Economics: £22,681 from Disablity RightsCommission (Disability into Leadership)

Professor M Bakheit, Peninsula Medical School: £14,167 from PlymouthTeaching Primary Care Trust (Support for Science Funding)

Professor WL Barnes, School of Physics: £1,500 from Rank Prize Funds(Optoelectronics Advisory Committee Vacation Studentship 2006)

Mr A Barton, Peninsula Medical School: £30,000 from Plymouth Hospitals NHSTrust (RDSU Research Fellow)

Dr PD Bayliss, School of Education and Lifelong Learning: £14,019 from SCOPE(Evaluating Inclusion)

Dr J Bishop, Peninsula Medical School: £58,427 from European Social Fund(Disability and Biomedicine)

Dr A Bleakley, Peninsula Medical School: £35,479 from European Social Fund(Establishing a Research Centre of Excellence for Interprofessional Teamworkand Patient Safety); £5,000 from Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (Supportfor Science re Theatre Team Resource Management Project)

Dr Z Boughton, School of Arts, Languages & Literatures: £200 from BritishAcademy (PFC2006: Approches Phonologiques et Prosodiques de la VariationSociolinguistique: le cas du Francais)

Dr CS Brace, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources: £6,203from Arts and Humanities Research Council (Understanding Landscape ThroughCreative Auto-Ethnographies (Joint grant with School of Arts, Languages &Literature, total value £12,406))

Mrs P Bradley, Peninsula Medical School: £5,000 from Higher Education FundingCouncil for England (Teaching Fellowship Award)

Professor AG Brown, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources:£6,085 from Oxford Archaeology (Preparation and assessment of pollensamples from Monoliths along A30 Bodmin to Indian Queens); £4,751 fromMuseum of London Archaeology Service (Frankwell Shrewsbury); £4,500 fromMuseum of London Archaeology Service (Environmental Archaeology (pollenanalysis) of Archaeological Sites Excavated as part of the Olympic Developmentsin London); £3,356 from Exeter City Council (Burlecombe Pollen Samples);£1,500 from English Heritage (Geoarchaeology Conference)

Dr M Burrows, School of Sport and Health Sciences: with Dr J Fulford £2,853from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (The Use of MRI inthe Assessment of Cortical and Trabecular Bone Structure in Paediatrics)

Dr CS Butler, School of Biosciences: £247,792 from Biotechnology andBiological Sciences Research Councils (Bioengineering A Thermo-StableOxyanion Reductase for Enhanced Selenate Bioremediation [Transfer in fromNewcastle])

Professor D Butler, School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics:£298,296 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (SUE:Water Cycle Management for New Developments: WaND [Transfer in fromImperial]); £55,364 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council(Platform Renewable: Urban Water Research Group Platform Grant)

Dr R Byng, Peninsula Medical School: £54,763 from St George’s, University ofLondon (The Professional Experience of Governance and Incentives: Meetingthe Needs of People with Complex Conditions in Primary Care)

Dr J Calvert, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £3,716 from SocialScience Research Council (EGENIS – The Social Dimensions of Systems Biology)

Dr H Campbell, Peninsula Medical School: £475,048 from Department ofHealth (Management Support for Department of Health Cancer Research)

Professor J Campbell, Peninsula Medical School: £228,028 from Department of Health (NCCRCD PhD Proposal); £20,000 from Royal Devon and ExeterHealthcare Trust (Supporting Primary Care Research); £14,000 from ExeterPrimary Care Trust (Support for Science funding for TREAD); £10,211 fromSouthWest General Practitioners Trust (Supporting Primary Care Research);£1,200 from Wellcome Trust (Wellcome Vacation Studentship); £930 fromWellcome Trust (Wellcome Vacation Studentship)

Professor CJ Caseldine, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources:with Dr P Langdon £96,788 from European Commission (European Climate ofthe Last Millenium (MILLENIUM))

Dr E Cayley, School of Arts, Languages & Literatures: £11,070 from TheLeverhulme Trust (An Edition of Late Medieval French Debate Poetry); £4,503from British Academy (A Critical Edition of Eight Late Medieval French DebatePoems)

Dr RJ Chapman, School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics:£59,561 from Government Communications Headquarters (Secondment toHeilbronn Institute of Mathematics – Year 2)

Dr S Childe, School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics:£44,843 from Momenta & £21,516 from Swisstulle UK Limited (KnowledgeTransfer Partnership KTP001382 with Swisstulle UK Limited (Joint grant withSchool of Business and Economics, total value £100,544))

Dr J Chilton, Peninsula Medical School: £162,248 from Wellcome Trust (TheRole of Actin-Binding Proteins in Neurons Undergoing Tangential MigrationDuring Embryonic Development); £8,809 from Northcott Devon MedicalFoundation (Neuronal Development and Repair; Role of the Recently IdentifiedProtein Jamip 1)

Professor MC Cook, School of Arts, Languages & Literatures: £4,000 fromBritish Academy (The Correspondence of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, 1737-1814[extension]); £787 from British Academy (The Correspondence of Bernardin deSaint-Pierre – 1789)

Professor P Cox, School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics:£174,770 from Met Office (Joint Chair in Climate Change Systems)

Dr M Cramp, Peninsula Medical School: £16,654 from Plymouth Hospitals NHSTrust (Protection from Hepatitis C – Is it Possible? (Extension))

Dr JE Cresswell, School of Biosciences: £8,761 from Canadian Food InspectionAgency (Assessment of the Risk of Breach of Gene Confinement in Safflower)

Dr A Curnow, Peninsula Medical School: £175,000 from Duchy Health CharityTrust (A Real Time Investigation of the Essential Components of ClinicalDermatological Photodynamic Therapy); £169,915 from European Social Fund(Using PDT for the Treatment of Nodular Basal Cell Carcinoma)

Dr SRX Dall, School of Biosciences: £19,528 from Natural EnvironmentResearch Council (Integrating Factorial Experiments, Game Theory andAnalytical Models to Test the Role of Interactions in Emergent Dynamics.)

Dr H Dehghani, School of Physics: £219,178 from Engineering and PhysicalSciences Research Council (Model Based Algorithms for Structural andFunctional Dual Modality MRI and Optical Imaging); £640 from Royal Society(Charity Arm) (Third IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging:From Nano to Macro); £500 from Royal Academy of Engineering (IEEEInternational Symposium on Biomedical Imaging)

Professor A Demaine, Peninsula Medical School: with Professor N Morgan£45,000 from Peninsula Medical School Foundation (The Rotary CentenaryResearch Studentship); £27,000 from Takeda UK Limited (Pledge); £5,000 from Novo Nordisk (UK Research Foundation) (Pledge)

Dr MRT Dumper, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £8,000 fromSchool of Oriental and African Studies (A Rights Based Approach to thePalestinian Conflict – SOAS Contribution)

Professor J Dupre, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £3,629 fromEconomic and Social Research Council (When Beliefs Become Realities: Motivesand Strategies for Essentialising Intergroup Differences (Joint grant with School ofPsychology, total value £136,711))

Dr P Eggleton, Peninsula Medical School: £34,000 from Diving DiseasesResearch Centre (Human Neutrophil-endothielial Interactions in the Prescenceof Hyperbaric Oxygen)

Professor KE Evans, School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics:with Dr L Savage & Mr M Felstead £349,567 from Department of Trade and Industry (Selective Laser Manufacturing for Advanced Functionality(SLAMFUNC)); with Professor DZ Zhang £78,263 from Momenta & £38,547from Torbay Medical Research Fund (Knowledge Transfer Programme withTrackwise Designs)

Dr PH Evans, Peninsula Medical School: £36,000 from Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare Trust (Clinical Lead for the Peninsula Diabetes Local ResearchNetwork)

Dr RM Everson, School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics:with Dr JE Fieldsend £49,298 from NATS Limited & £45,562 from Momenta(Knowledge Transfer Partnership KTP001395 with National Air Traffic ServicesLimited); £48,185 from Motorola Limited (CDMA UNTS Performance Analysis[additional funds])

Dr PJ Foster, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources: £30,128from European Social Fund (Improving the Health & Safety Performance at SmallQuarries through Behavioural Based Safety Interventions); £11,656 from WBBMINERALS (Improving the Health and Safety Performance at Small Quarriesthrough Behavioural Based Safety Interventions)

Dr T Frayling, Peninsula Medical School: with Professor A Hattersley £249,909from March of Dimes (Comprehensive Study of Genetic Susceptibility toPreterm Delivery); with Professor A Hattersley £17,964 from University ofOxford (Using large-scale Resources to Assess the Epidemiological Impact ofNewly-identified Diabetes-Susceptibility Variants) Dr AD Gilbert, School ofEngineering, Computer Science and Mathematics: £3,500 from Royal Society(Charity Arm) (MHD and Dynamo Action: Numerical and Theoretical Aspects)

Professor CJ Gill, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £29,847 from Artsand Humanities Research Council (The Naturalistic Self in the Second CenturyAD: Galen and Stoicism)

Mr NP Givens, School of Education and Lifelong Learning: £92,555 fromEconomic and Social Research Council (No Outsiders: Researching Approachesto Sexualities Equality in Primary Schools)

Professor HJ Glass, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources:£19,821 from Rio Tinto Technical Services Ltd & £1,200 from Goonvean Ltd(Studentship)

Dr BJ Godley, School of Biosciences: £1,500 from Project Aware UK (HarbourPorpoise Survey – Funding from Project Aware)

Professor JR Gosling, School of Business and Economics: with Dr R Boldenfrom Economic and Social Research Council (Balancing The Tensions: UsingOrganisational Theory to Inform Business Practice (Joint grant with School ofPsychology, total value £15,376))

Dr C Greaves, Peninsula Medical School: £269,997 from Department of Health(NCCRCD Post Doctoral Award)

Dr F Guala, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £7,000 from Economicand Social Research Council (Conventions and Norms: An ExperimentalApproach)

Dr O Hanemann, Peninsula Medical School: £49,824 from Fritz Thyssen Stiftung(Pathogenesis of Tumours in Neurofibrematosis 2: the Role of the Small GTPases)

Professor AF Harding, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources:£7,401 from British Academy (Visiting Fellowship)

Dr C Haslam, School of Psychology: £800 from British Academy (The 4thInternational Conference on Memory (ICOM-4))

Professor SA Haslam, School of Psychology: with Professor T Postmes, ProfessorJ Jetten, Dr C Haslam, Dr H Williams & Dr M Ryan £1,063,022 from Economicand Social Research Council (The Individual in the Group: Social Identity and the Dynamics of Change); £26,000 from Rentokil Initial Plc (What are thepsychological impacts of the managerial manipulation of office space); with Dr I Adarves-Yorno £15,376 from Economic and Social Research Council(Balancing The Tensions: Using Organisational Theory to Inform BusinessPractice (Joint grant with School of Business and Economics, total value £15,376))

Professor A Hattersley, Peninsula Medical School: £319,600 from EuropeanCommission (EURODIA); with Dr T Frayling £17,964 from University ofOxford (Using large-scale Resources to Assess the Epidemiological Impact of Newly-identified Diabetes-Susceptibility Variants)

Mr S Hawken, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources: £5,350from Devon County Council (Community Archaeology Project Beer Head andBerry Barton); £1,250 from Devon County Council (Radio Carbon Dating –Pollen Analysis & Lithics Report, Haycroft, Membury)

Dr GS Haynes, School of Education and Lifelong Learning: with Professor WBRichardson £48,859 from Department for Education and Skills (Key Stage 4Engagement Programme Equal Opportunities Project)

Dr D Hegazy, Peninsula Medical School: £6,000 from Northcott Devon MedicalFoundation (Hepatitis C Virus and Cell Entry Mechanism)

Ms SJE Hennessy, School of Education and Lifelong Learning: £19,920 fromLondon Symphony Orchestra Productions (Make Music! The LSO and HackneyContinuing Professional Development Scheme Evaluation Project)

Dr J Hill, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources: £200 fromBritish Academy (13th International Conference of Historical Geographers,Hamburg)

Dr D Horrell, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: with Dr FStavrakopoulou £196,333 from Arts and Humanities Research Council (Uses of the Bible in Environmental Ethics); £400 from British Academy (Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting)

Dr KS Howe, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources: £5,500from Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Cost and BenefitsAnalysis Workshop – additional funding)

Dr J Hunt, School of Biosciences: with Professor AJ Moore £411,466 fromNatural Environment Research Council (The Evolution of Male Sexual TraitsThrough Differential Allocation)

Dr LM Hurcombe, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources:£750 from LEJRE (A Prehistoric functional puzzle: Flint serrated edges for plantprocessing)

Dr J Iriarte, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources: £5,885from British Academy (The Domestication of Cassava in the Upper MadeiraRiver, Southwestern Amazonia, Brazil)

Grants: 04.06 - 09.06The following externally funded grants and contracts have been reported in the period 1 April to 30 September 2006.

This list is compiled by the Research Accounting Section.

Please note. With multiple grant holder grants the amount quoted is the sum of individual grant holder awards in all other cases the amount quoted is the individual sponsor award.

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Professor M Jackson, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £71,658 from Wellcome Trust (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Food Additives, and the History of the Feingold Diet, 1970-Present – PhDStudentship); £67,315 from Wellcome Trust (Children’s Illness and Paediatrics inEngland, 1550-1700 – PhD Studentship); £19,823 from Wellcome Trust (MA inMedicine, Occupation and Health in Historical Perspective – MA Studentship)

Dr AG Johns-Putra, School of Arts, Languages & Literatures: £6,203 from Artsand Humanities Research Council (Understanding Landscape Through CreativeAuto-Ethnographies (Joint grant with School of Geography, Archaeology andEarth Resources, total value £12,406))

Dr E Jones, School of Arts, Languages & Literatures: £1,313 from BritishAcademy (Rites of Enclosure for English Anchorites)

Professor R Jones, School of Physics: £20,288 from Diamond Trading Company(Theoretical Characterisation of Extended Defects in Diamond)

Dr RCM Jones, Peninsula Medical School: £35,526 from Plymouth PrimaryCare Trust (COPD Pathways (Extension))

Dr RT Jones, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources: £4,436from Royal Society (Charity Arm) (The Development of Quantitative Recordsfor the Holocene in SW China); £2,600 from Higher Education AcademySubject Centre for Geography Earth & Environmental Sciences (Exploring theSharing, Re-use and Repurposing of e-learning Materials in the GEES Disciplines)

Dr E Kaminski, Peninsula Medical School: with Professor N Morgan £4,250 fromPlymouth Hospitals NHS Trust (A Study of the Role of Interleukin-4 in ProtectingPancreatic Beta Cells from Apoptosis (Extension))

Dr Z Kapelan, School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics:£12,014 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Simplicity,Complexity and Modelling (SCaM))

Dr TR Kaplan, School of Business and Economics: £24,999 from TheLeverhulme Trust (Optimality of Contest Design)

Professor T Kendall, School of Arts, Languages & Literatures: £50,000 from TheLeverhulme Trust (The Papers of Robert Frost – 2005 Philip Leverhulme Prize)

Dr AC King, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £5,000 from BritishAcademy (NATO Transformation and the New Networks of European MilitaryExpertise)

Dr PS Kowalczyk, School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics:£700 from Royal Society (5th International School on Nonlinear Dynamics)

Professor HM Lappin-Scott, School of Biosciences: £17,385 from Society forGeneral Microbiology (Administrative Support for Hilary Lappin-Scott as an SGMCouncil Officer); £1,755 from Society for General Microbiology (Biofilm andVirulence Gene Expression in Polymicrobial Communities – A MolecularApproach to Understanding Clinical Infections)

Professor JA Littlechild, School of Biosciences: £11,370 from StrategicPromotion of Ageing Research Capacity (Genes Versus Environment inDetermining Healthy Human Ageing (Joint grant with Peninsula Medical School,total value £56,851)

Professor JK Little, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources:£2,555 from British Academy (Placing Fear & Hope Among Young People: A Local Geopolitics of Risk)

Dr M Lobley, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources:£258,550 from Economic and Social Research Council (Improving the Successof Agr-Environment Inititiatives: The Role of Farmer Learning and LandscapeContext); with Professor M Winter £19,850 from Taste of the West (FoodProduction, processing and distribution in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly); withProfessor M Winter £8,000 from South Hams District Council (Monitoring theLandscape Heritage Scheme); £7,755 from Exmoor National Park Authority(The Rationale and Potential Impact of HFA Reform); £2,200 from ProgressiveFarming Trust (Research Work with the Elm Farm Research Centre); £1,450from Footprint Ecology (Green Space Quality in the Thames Basin HeathsArea); £1,225 from National Farmers Union (Why Farming Matters Campaign –SW Data Research)

Professor S Logan, Peninsula Medical School: with Professor N Britten & Ms VEdwards £375,000 from Cerebra the Foundation for the Brain Injured Infant(Osteropathy for Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Randomised Controlled Trialof the Effects on the Health and Well Being of Children with Cerebral Palsy);£50,000 from Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust (Research Support for HealthStatistics Research)

Dr J Love, School of Biosciences: £1,309,000 from Industrial Sponsor (VibrioFurnissii); £388,999 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences ResearchCouncils (Day Length Signalling and Crosstalk Between Cytoplasmic andChloroplastic Calcium Oscillations in Arabidopsis Thaliana)

Dr KM Macleod, Peninsula Medical School: £15,353 from Royal Devon andExeter Healthcare Trust (Diabetes Scoping)

Dr J Maloney, School of Business and Economics: £1,124 from NuffieldFoundation (Bastable on Trade and Public Finance)

Dr JA Mark, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £400 from BritishAcademy (38th National Convention of the American Association of theAdvancement of Slavic Studies)

Dr RS Maull, School of Business and Economics: £23,101 from Momenta & £11,084 from Swisstulle UK Limited (Knowledge Transfer PartnershipKTP001382 with Swisstulle UK Limited (Joint grant with School of Engineering,Computer Science and Mathematics, total value £100,544))

Professor VA Maxfield, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources:with Dr G Juleff £14,687 from English Heritage (Exmoor Iron Phase 2 – Fundingof PD)

Professor M McCaughrean, School of Physics: £38,283 from EuropeanCommission (ARENA)

Dr J McHarg, Peninsula Medical School: £7,400 from Brightside Trust (I Can Bea Doctor Too)

Miss S McHarg, Peninsula Medical School: £2,000 from Northcott DevonMedical Foundation (An Investigation of the Functional Role of Phospholipase DActivation in Insulin Signalling in Human Endothelial Cells)

Professor D Melzer, Peninsula Medical School: £12,313 from Health Canada(International Genetics and CT Models)

Dr BA Millward, Peninsula Medical School: £51,396 from Novo Nordisk (UKResearch Foundation) (East Cornwall Satellite Site); £41,564 from Royal Devonand Exeter Healthcare Trust (Peninsula Diabetes Local Research Network)

Dr FN Milton, School of Psychology: £57,034 from Economic and SocialResearch Council (Processes of Free Classification) Professor N Morgan,Peninsula Medical School: £9,000 from Peninsula Medical School Foundation(Funding for Tissue Culture Cabinet); £2,380 from Royal Society (TranscriptionalRegulation of Pancreatic Beta-Cell Functionality)

Dr T Morton, School of Psychology: with Professor T Postmes £133,082 fromEconomic and Social Research Council (When Beliefs Become Realities: Motivesand Strategies for Essentialising Intergroup Differences (Joint grant with School ofHumanities and Social Sciences, total value £136,711))

Professor PJ Mumby, School of Biosciences: £2,150 from Royal Society (CharityArm) (The Impact of Marine Reserves on the Recovery of Coral Reefs [SummerStudentship])

Professor GC Murray, School of Business and Economics: £10,000 fromEuropean Investment Fund (EIF Contribution to NORFACE Seminar)

Mr B Neild, School of Education and Lifelong Learning: £23,175 from EuropeanSocial Fund (ESF Impact Analysis)

Dr AP Nicholas, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources: £250from British Geomorphological Research Group (British GeomorphologicalResearch Group – Travel Grant to Working Group)

Professor D Ogden, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £800 fromBritish Academy (Alexander the Great and His Successors: A Symposium)

Dr FY Ogrin, School of Physics: £4,521 from Engineering and Physical SciencesResearch Council (XPEEM of Anisotropic Dipolar Coupling in PeriodicNanomagnet Arrays)

Dr MA O’Malley, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £500 from BritishAcademy (The History of Science Society, Society for Social Studies of Science,and The Philosophy of Science Association Joint Meeting)

Dr CV Owens, Peninsula Medical School: £194,796 from Medical ResearchCouncil (Public Involvement in Suicide Prevention); £33,525 from NationalHealth Service (Bridges and Barriers to User and Carer Involvement in CarePlanning); £31,094 from University of Wales Swansea (Medical School) (LifestyleInterventions to Improve the Physical Health of People with Severe MentalIllness: Barriers to Uptake)

Dr L Parisi, School of Arts, Languages & Literatures: £20,221 from Arts andHumanities Research Council (Interpreting Manzoni: How Manzoni’s Work HasBeen Read in the 20th Century)

Professor PJ Payton, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £800 from BritishAcademy (Australian Mining History Association Copper Triangle Conference)

Professor A Pinching, Peninsula Medical School: £1,850 from Unviersity ofNewcastle Upon Tyne (Music and Medicine – Another Dimension)

Professor R Pine, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources:£30,000 from CSM Trust (Research Equipment Upgrade); with Dr D Pirrie£5,000 from CSM Trust (Research Support for Applied Earth Resources)

Dr Y Plumley, School of Arts, Languages & Literatures: £231,359 from Arts andHumanities Research Council (Citation and Allusion in the Ars Nova FrenchChanson and Motet: Memory, Tradition and Innovation)

Dr JJ Plunkett, School of Arts, Languages & Literatures: £19,699 from Arts andHumanities Research Council (Optical Recreations: A History of Screen Practice1780-1914)

Dr ME Portnoi, School of Physics: £5,039 from International Association for thePromotion of Co-operation with Scientists fro the New Independent States ofthe Former Soviet Union (Electomagnetics of Nanostructures)

Dr RJ Powell, Peninsula Medical School: £53,008 from Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare Trust (Research Fellow: Dr K Sweeney (extension))Dr J Poyner, School of Arts, Languages & Literatures: £1,830 from BritishAcademy (Writing Under Pressure: the Ethics of Intellectual Practice in Apartheidand Post-Apartheid South Africa)

Dr TA Quine, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources: withProfessor DE Walling £19,103 from Department for Environment, Food andRural Affairs (Scoping Study of Soil Loss through Wind Erosion, Tillage Erosionand Soil Co-extracted with Root Vegetables)

Dr J Quinn, School of Education and Lifelong Learning: £3,955 from Economicand Social Research Council (HEIs and Local Communities: Forward andBackward Linkages)

Professor C Radaelli, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £6,698 fromEuropean Commission (Advanced Colloqium on Better Regulation)

Dr TA Richards, School of Biosciences: £50,000 from The Leverhulme Trust(Comparative Genomics and Eukaryote cell Evolution)

Dr SJ Rippon, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources: £6,593from British Academy (Beyond The Village: The Origins and Development ofRegional Variation in the Character of Medieval Britain)

Dr S Rizvi, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £7,500 from BritishAcademy (Mapping Islamic Philosophical Traditions and Knowledge Networks in India, 1450-1850)

Dr J Rose, School of Education and Lifelong Learning: £40,000 fromDepartment for Employment and Education (Improving ProfessionalDevelopment Phase 2)

Mr P Russell, Peninsula Medical School: £500 from Higher Education FundingCouncil for England (The Educational Value of Streaming; How to Turn UsefulTechnology into Excellent Education)

Professor JR Sambles, School of Physics: £1,240 from Nuffield Foundation(Freederickz Transitions in the Dual Frequency Liquid Crystal TX2A)

Dr P Saukko, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: with Professor SHughes £79,460 from Wellcome Trust (Claims-Making in Nutrigenomics: A Policy-Driven Analysis of Marketing and Media)

Professor D Savic, School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics:£3,226 from Royal Society (Data Mining for Pipe Burst Modelling and WaterLoss Management (Visit by Professor Suiqing Liu from China))

Mr K Schulte, School of Arts, Languages & Literatures: £700 from BritishAcademy (The Fourth International Conference on Construction Grammar(ICCG4))

Dr S Schwartz, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £4,355 from BritishAcademy (Networks of Metalliferous Mining Migration in the NineteenthCentury Transatlantic World: the Cornish and Irish – a Comparative Study)

Dr M Shepherd, Peninsula Medical School: £277,613 from Department ofHealth (NCC RCD Career Scientist Award: Investigating the Impact of NewGenetic Technology)

Professor AC Shore, Peninsula Medical School: £50,340 from Department of Trade and Industry (Optical and Near Infrared Blood Vessel Imaging forPhlebotomy, Venipuncture and Surgery (“BVIPS”)); £6407 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Feasibility of Determining Small VesselCompliance Using Doppler Optical Coherence Tomography

Professor JR Sneyd, Peninsula Medical School: £2,800 from AnaestheticResearch Society (Anaesthetic Research Society Student Grant Awards)

Professor GP Srivastava, School of Physics: £15,978 from Engineering andPhysical Sciences Research Council (Ab Initio Study of Electrons and Phonons in Multiferroic BiFeO3)

Dr JR Stevens, School of Biosciences: £9,000 from The Tweed Foundation(Salmon Genetics in the River Tweed); £3,000 from Westcountry Rivers Trust(Characterisation of Atlantic Salmon (linked to AWRB2974))

Dr GR Tabor, School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics:£1,440 from Nuffield Foundation (Computation of Blood Flows in Arteries Pre- and Post-Operatively)

Dr AT Takesono, School of Biosciences: £85,842 from Royal Society(Investigation of Molecular Mechanisms for the Germ Cell Migration in Zebrafish)

Professor NJ Talbot, School of Biosciences: £307,078 from Biotechnology andBiological Sciences Research Councils (Identification of Secreted VirulenceFactors from the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe Grisea); £1,874 from RoyalSociety (Charity Arm) (Eighth International Mycological Congress)

Dr A Tauchert, School of Arts, Languages & Literatures: £1,540 from Arts andHumanities Research Council (Narrating the Eighteenth Century: Methods andMethodologies)

Dr RS Taylor, Peninsula Medical School: £5,000 from Medtronic limited(Systematic Review of SCS for Refractory Angina)

Professor I Tonks, School of Business and Economics: £57,270 from Bank ofEngland (Impact of Funded Pension Schemes on Financial Markets – HoublonNorman Fellowship)

Dr T Tregenza, School of Biosciences: with Dr D Hosken £248,156 fromNatural Environment Research Council (Sexual Conflict Coevolution –Population Size, Divergence and the Emergence of New Variation)

Dr G Tregidga, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £35,438 fromEuropean Social Fund, £11,000 from Tamar Valley AONB, & £3,000 fromCAVA Community Partnership (Promoting Specialist Tourism)

Dr JH Tripp, Peninsula Medical School: £24,013 from Royal Devon and ExeterHealthcare Trust (Confidential Enquiry into Perinatal and Childhood Deaths(Extension))

Mr MM Turner, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources:£121,908 from Economic and Social Research Council (Economic Aspects of Growing Energy Crops); £480 from National Farmers Union (Bovine TBdatabase for NFU)

Professor CR Tyler, School of Biosciences: £25,000 from Exeter EnterprisesLimited (Endocrine Disruptors in the Aquatic Environment – UK-JapanPartnership-Additional Funding for Assessors)

Dr MZ Varul, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £79,043 fromEconomic and Social Research Council (Fair Trade Consumerism as an EverydayEthical Practice / A Comparative Perspective)

Dr JA Vincent, School of Humanities and Social Sciences: £964 from NuffieldFoundation (The Language and Metaphor of Anti-Ageing Science)

Dr P Vukusic, School of Physics: £363,726 from Biotechnology and BiologicalSciences Research Councils (A Detailed Study of the Interaction BetweenFluorescence and Nanostructure in Naturally Evolved Photonic Systems);£1,646 from Royal Society (Charity Arm) (The 7th Internaitonal Conference on the Electrical, Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media)

Professor DE Walling, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources:£33,000 from ADAS Consulting Ltd (ADAS Studentship); £2,400 from BritishCouncil (Study Visit); £1,600 from Ministry of Science and Technology Brazil(Support Costs for study visit); £1,062 from University of Stellenbosch (LakeSiltation – University of Stellenbosch); £650 from British Council (Study Visit);£400 from British Council (Study Visit)

Dr ER Watkins, School of Psychology: £464,048 from Medical Research Council(Cognitive Training as a Facilitated Self-help Intervention for Depression);£221,349 from Wellcome Trust (Reducing Vulnerability to Depression:Dysregulation of Processing Style and Depressive Rumination); £15,000 fromNorth Devon Primary Care Trust (An Investigation of the Impact of a FacilitatedSelf-Help Intervention for Patients with Depression on Psychosocial Well-beingand Social Functioning – Studentship)

Dr N Wedell, School of Biosciences: £2,350 from Royal Society (Charity Arm)(Sex-Ratio Distortion and Sperm Production in Flies: A New MolecularTechnique)

Dr H Welters, Peninsula Medical School: £33,559 from European Foundationfor the Study of Diabetes (Research Fellowship in Islet Biology)

Mr A Wetherelt, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources: withDr JS Coggan £60,000 from CSM Trust (Investigation into Blast Vibration in theNear-Field Within Tunnelling Applications)

Dr PA Whalley, School of Education and Lifelong Learning: with Mr B Neild£136,710 from North Devon College (HEIF 2: North Devon College SkillsAnalysis Project)

Dr J Whatmore, Peninsula Medical School: £45,000 from FORCE (FORCEStudentships)

Dr AR White, Peninsula Medical School: with Dr CF Randall & Professor JCampbell £6,200 from University of Bristol (South West Chronic Pain Group :TOPUP Survey); £1,384 from Dr Susil Kumar and Jamila Mitra Charitable Trust (UK) – Alternative Medicine (Do General Practices which Provide anAcupuncture Service Have Different Referral Rates and Analgesic PrescribingCosts?)

Professor TJ Wilkin, Peninsula Medical School: £175,000 from Peninsula MedicalSchool Foundation (Earlybird)

Dr A Wills, School of Psychology: £69,162 from Economic and Social ResearchCouncil (Unsupervised Categorisation: Analytic and Non-Analytic Processes)

Professor CP Winlove, School of Physics: £118,818 from Engineering andPhysical Sciences Research Council (Effects of Ultrasound on the Cells of theVascular Wall); with Dr JJ Moger £55,000 from Glaxosmithkline Research &Development Ltd (Detection of Biomarkers by Surface-enhanced Coherentanti-stoke Raman Scattering (SE-CARS) for application in Microdose Drug Trials)

Professor PG Winyard, Peninsula Medical School: £45,481 from StrategicPromotion of Ageing Research Capacity (Genes Versus Environment inDetermining Healthy Human Ageing (Joint grant with School of Biosciences,total value £56,851)); £9,000 from Northcott Devon Medical Foundation(Structural and Functional Studies of the Peroxiredoxin-Sulfiredoxin EnzymeSystem: Do Inhibitors of this System Induce Apoptosis in Inflammatory Cells?)

Professor CD Wright, School of Engineering, Computer Science andMathematics: £37,495 from European Commission (WIND); £24,936 fromThe Leverhulme Trust (The Cognitive, Configurable, Chalcogenide Computer)

Dr K Wyatt, Peninsula Medical School: with Dr R Durie & Dr GM Sweeney£10,958 from South West Peninsula Health Authority (Modernising theWorkforce – Leading Improvement Programme in the South West Peninsula(LIP) (extension))

Dr PG Young, School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics:£500 from Royal Academy of Engineering (Travel for Emma Johnson); £64,834with Dr GR Tabor from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council(Feasibility of Determining Small Vessel Compliance Using Doppler OpticalCoherence Tomography)

Dr PJ Young, Peninsula Medical School: £5,885 from Northcott Devon MedicalFoundation (Is The Loss of Motor Neurones in Childhood Spinal MuscularAtrophy (SMA) Due to Increased Programmed Cell Killing?)

Dr J Zajicek, Peninsula Medical School: £300,000 from Multiple Sclerosis Society(A Randomised Double Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial of Cannabinoids to Slow Progression in Multiple Sclerosis); £5,000 from South West RegionalDevelopment Agency (Post Doc Cannabinoids Research); £1,000 from RoyalCornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (MND Research Project)

Professor K Zhang, School of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics:£900 from Royal Society (Charity Arm) (AGU Western Pacific GeophysicMeeting, 2006)

Please note. With multiple grant holder grants the amount quoted is the sum of individual grant holder awards in all other cases the amount quoted is the individual sponsor award.

Grants: 04.06 - 09.06 CONTINUED

A new study reveals the economic benefit brought to theSouth West by the University of Exeter.

It reveals that:

• The University, its staff and students are worth £246 milliona year to the regional economy. Overall the Universitygenerates £334 million a year for UK plc.

• In addition to the 2,900 staff employed by the University, a further 1,418 jobs are maintained in the region and 2,218in the UK as a whole.

• The University generates £32 million a year in exportearnings.

• Its non-UK students spend £10.7 million a year in theregion.

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter ProfessorSteve Smith said: ‘Most people probably don’t think ofuniversities as economic powerhouses, but that is what they are. Not only do they bring direct spend on goods andservices, but they generate new ideas and projects which in

turn lead to further economic benefit. In the UK as a whole, higher education generates more income thanpharmaceuticals and aerospace. Universities are also a great export earner for the UK.’

The University is part public and part private funded. Some38% of its income comes from government grants, mostnotably for teaching home undergraduate students. The restcomes from a wide variety of sources including research,consultancy, conferences and accommodation, philanthropyand student fees. Much of that income is spent in the SouthWest, by the University, its staff and students paying forgoods and services.

The University also has an important part to play in economicdevelopment, for example through its Innovation Centrewhich provides start-up space for small high technology firmsand through its student business projects programme whichprovides affordable consultancy for local firms. It also bringsimportant new projects to the region, such as the dentalschool (in partnership with Plymouth University) and the £14 million Great Western Research project which linksresearch with areas of regional economic importance.

The study was based on a new economic model developed by Strathclyde University.

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University of Exeter generates£246 million for region

Yes,Will Perrin and Nick Rowley met whilst working at

No 10 Downing Street and were surprised to find theyhad something else in common – an Exeter degree. Mr Perrin(Economics, 1993) has spent ten years in the civil service doingthings as varied as media regulation through to energy policyand then worked as the PM’s advisor on technology, mediaregulation and a wide range of other issues. Mr Rowley (Politics,1989) worked for the Premier of New South Wales and thencame back to the UK to work as the PM’s adviser on theenvironment and other issues.

So what’s it like to work in 10 Downing Street?

; Said Mr Perrin: ‘There is a pronounced Tardis effect whenyou walk into Downing Street. Interestingly, the White Househas exactly the opposite effect – it looks very large on the TV, but in fact is much smaller than it appears. At the rear ofNumber 10 is a late seventeenth century urban villa, whichcontains all the State rooms. However, you can find yourselfworking in a garret in the roof, which isn’t all that glamorous. It is an extraordinary place to work – the seat of power, aworld heritage site, that sort of thing.’

; Said Mr Rowley: ‘Finding a fellow Exeter alumnus beaveringaway in the office we shared above the black door was aterrific discovery. Little did the Newsnight editor know when the camera panned up to our window that we were

discussing Devonshire House doughnuts and the DoubleLocks and not the future of David Blunkett!’

And Tony Blair?

; ‘Very charismatic. Strong sense of humour. Extraordinarygrasp of strategy,’ said Mr Perrin. ‘Working for Mr Blair was an incredible experience. People often say that politics is acutthroat business, but I think that’s wrong. I would say,however, that the pressure and burden of responsibility isenormous.’

; Said Mr Rowley: ‘Having travelled halfway around theworld with a young family, I had a very high opinion of TonyBlair when I started at Number 10. When I left after two yearsI had a higher one. Not only does he have a quite awesomeability to master a brief, ask the most challenging questions andset a course, he is also one of the most thoroughly decent andgenerous people I have met.’

Now back in Sydney, Mr Rowley works with governments andcorporates on tackling climate change, is on the Advisory Boardof the Climate Group and a member of the Faculty of thePrince of Wales’ Business and the Environment Programme.

Mr Perrin is leading the implementation of a new strategydesigned to get the public sector to emulate private sectorstandards of customer service.

The University hascommissioned a feasibility

study to look at the options forthe future of the St Luke’s Campus. The Campus is occupied by three very successful academic schools, namely thePeninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Sport andHealth Sciences and Education and Lifelong Learning. TheUniversity faces a problem caused by the success of thesethree schools. If they achieve their planned expansion overthe next ten years then they will run out of space and thusdamage their prospects. Possible future options include

moving one or more Schools from St Luke’s to theStreatham Campus and selling all or part of the site to raisecapital to fund the moves. No decisions have been madepending receipt of the feasibility study, which should beavailable in February. The University will then embark upon a lengthy period of discussion and consultation beforereaching decisions hopefully by the end of the currentacademic year. Email your feedback to alumni@exeter.ac.uk

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Working for the PrimeMinister is exhilarating, but it comes with theburden of great pressureand heavy responsibility.

Prime Minister!

The future of St Luke’s

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A total of £377,000 raised from alumni

and other donors has been allocated to 25

University projects by the Exeter University

Foundation.

The money was donated through the Annual Fund campaignand donors were invited to choose from a number ofdifferent investment areas: Scholarships and StudentHardship funds, Student Life, Library and IT, the GraduateSchool and International Students. Others chose to leave itto the discretion of the Foundation trustees to direct themoney ‘wherever the need is greatest’. In all cases themoney is being spent on projects that directly enhance thestudent experience and support the University’s mission tobe a top 20 institution.

Elizabeth Smith, Director of Development and AlumniRelations, said: ‘The generosity of our alumni and otherdonors means that we now have funding available on anannual basis to enable lots of small and medium-sizedprojects to go ahead. We have carefully selected projectsthat benefit students, that serve the University’s strategicaims, and that could not be funded through other sources. I would like to thank everyone who has contributed and I hope you can now see that your donations are making a direct impact on the quality of the student experience.’

A full list of projects funded is given on the opposite page.Some of the bigger projects include:

• £31,000 for two new minibuses for the Students’ Guild.The minibuses are vital to the work carried out byCommunity Action, which contributes 86,000 hours of volunteering work to the local community each year.

They are used to transport vulnerable children and elderlypeople to and from activities run by student volunteers.

• £20,000 for two beach volleyball courts. Beach volleyballis an Olympic sport and the courts will encourage bothserious sporting development and greater physical activityby casual users.

• £20,000 to help fund a student field trip to study coralreefs in the Bahamas. The effect of global warming oncoral reefs is a major research area for the School ofBiosciences and this funding will enable students to getinvolved in world leading work.

• £6,500 for a grand piano. This is part of the University’sprogramme to give students opportunities to developtheir musical skills.

• £20,000 for the Archaeology Exploration Fund. Thismoney will be used to enable more students to take part in digs and expeditions.

• £34,000 for new laptops and storage lockers for theLibrary. The aim is to encourage greater access to theLibrary’s wireless network by loaning laptops to studentsand providing secure storage space for students who wish to bring their own laptops. A further £10,175 will be spent on enhancing digital media and wireless networkfacilities in the Alexander Building, which is home to theDepartment of Drama.

More than 70 applications were received by the Foundationtrustees of which 25 were selected for funding.

If you would like to contribute to the Annual Fund 2006/07,please complete the form opposite. If you have anyquestions please contact the Annual Giving Officer, LisaWilliams, on 01392 263360 or l.c.williams@exeter.ac.uk.

The Vice-Chancellor, Steve Smith, with Felicity Murdin, Foundation Trustee. Photo courtesy of Express and Echo.

Yourdonationsput togood use

Guild Piano

Creation of a laptop lending and storage facility for Library users

Employability Seminars and Newsletter

Vacation Research Scholarships

Archaeology Exploration Fund

SoGAER Employability initiative

Supporting Integration of International Students

SHSS Careers Day 2008-10

Postgraduate study and widening participation; Aiming (even) higher

Improvements to the facilities in the communal area/foyer of Richards Building, St Luke’s Campus

Digital media and wireless network enhancements in the Alexander Building

Enhancement of audio-visual and IT resources in the Foreign Language Centre and Deptartment of Modern Languages

PG Travel bursaries: Students in Cornwall accessing the Cornish Literary Archives

Community Action Minibus

Summer Adventures, Community Action

High Performance Equipment

Rowing Training Room

Beach Volleyball Court

My Exeter – University Portal Expansion

Postgraduate Social Space, St Luke’s Campus

Café Society – Talking Shop

SoBE Competition Year 2007

Widening access to field trips

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Growing the University

Where the Physics tower now stands used to be rows ofcabbages. Raspberries ripened where cars now park in

Stocker Road. And where children play in the family centre,apples and pears were picked each autumn.

Things have changed a lot since Gordon Newton joined the Streatham Campus grounds staff 47 years ago. In those days the University grew much of its own fruit andvegetables, a practice that had taken off during the ‘dig forvictory’ campaign of WWII. But as the University got larger,buildings gradually filled the original farmland and thepractice of growing fruit and veg slowly died. Mostfoodstuffs are now bought in.

However, plant cultivation remains alive and well on thecampus today under Mr Newton’s expert eye. Tucked awaynear Clydesdale can be found greenhouses and polytunnelswhere thousands of plants are grown each year. Some areused to replenish shrubs and trees on the University’scampuses and others to create displays for conferences andother events. In the ‘cold house’ can be found conifers,azaleas and hypoestes. Schizanthus, celosia and bulbiferumcrowd the ‘warm house’ and palms, selaginella andnephrolepsis can be found in the ‘hot house.’

Said Mr Newton: ‘There were a lot of old gardeners herewhen I arrived who had been here years. The depth of their knowledge was amazing and I learnt a lot from them.After work I would go to a florists in Heavitree and spendhours watching how they did it. Today I still do all thearrangements for University functions.’

Those flower arrangements have included posies for theQueen and the Princess Royal and orchids for Prince Philipwhen he opened the Harrison Building. More routinely,arrangements are required for weddings, conferences andUniversity functions like the Golden Jubilee events. EachMay the University exhibits at the Devon County Show(where Mr Newton is Chief Steward) and has a proudrecord of winning medals and prizes for its work.

Said Mr Newton: ‘Parts of the campus are better than you would find on a National Trust property and we havemay rare and unusual plants, including the national Azaracollection. I think the old gardeners would think that we had looked after the campus if they could see it today.’

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The Long Lounge has been turned into a new wine and

coffee bar supplying a range of healthy organic and ethical

foods sourced locally. As well as a refit, the terrace area has

been refurbished. The Junior Common Room has been

similarly smartened up with new furniture, new flooring and

new lighting.

Downstairs on the ground floor, the coffee bar has received thesame treatment, but will continue to serve the famous all-daybreakfast so beloved of students through the years. The terracehas also been revamped with new seating and awnings for useon sunny days. The refurbishment includes a new seating areaat the far end, where students can consume their own food.The music and drama room has been given a new floor andpaint job and improved disabled access.

Moving upstairs, the refectory has been re-painted and ‘re-lighted’ and the always very gloomy entrance to the Great Hall has been given a much lighter and airier feel.

Opening the Long Lounge the Vice-Chancellor Professor SteveSmith said: ‘As well as providing a better service to students thiswill provide a boost to Guild finances. This in turn will enablethe Guild to carry on providing support and welfare services.That sounds to me like a win-win situation.’

Very little had previously been done to update large parts ofDevonshire House since it was opened in 1960 and some of the student social areas had become dated and rather tatty. The improvements to Devonshire House are the second phase of a major investment in student facilities. They follow the improvements made to Cornwall House last summer and the revamping of the Lemon Grove.

Parts of the Amory and Harrison buildings were alsorefurbished over the summer.

It’s DevonshireHouse, Jim, but not as we know itDevonshire House has been given amakeover as part of an £8 million campusrefurbishment programme carried out atgreat speed over the summer.

In 1991 Angela Potter Brassley (English and American andCommonwealth Arts 1995) and her sister Jenny were sorting

through their mother’s effects when they came upon thousandsof letters, photographs, press cuttings and diaries stuffed intoold suitcases. Closer inspection revealed the bulk of them to be a long-running and highly detailed correspondence betweentheir mother Virginia Potter (known as Ginnie) and grandmotherVirginia Dickinson Reynolds (a cousin of the poet EmilyDickinson and known as Bougie). The material covers theperiod from 1929 until Bougie’s death in 1966.

Separated by the Atlantic for nearly forty years, theircorrespondence represents a fascinating account of turbulenttimes and is a wonderful record of an intensely closerelationship. Both women were born and raised in Richmond,Virginia and shared the same outlook on life, which was bothconservative and Confederate. The family had suffered in theAmerican Civil War and this personal memory helped to fuelConfederate attitudes in succeeding generations. So Bougie,born in 1883, remained firmly entrenched in Southern views

and Ginnie, born in 1908, saw no reason to differ. Said Angela:‘I remember once as a child that I was playing ‘John Brown’sbody lies a mouldering in his grave’ on the piano. My mothercame storming into the room and told me in no uncertainterms that she would not have that tune played in her house.The Unionist battle hymn still had the power of raising herhackles nearly a hundred years after the war.’

Bougie, daughter of a Confederate Army officer, employedAfrican-American maids yet had an ambiguous view of them,being touched by the loyalty and devotion of ‘dear old Carrie’,but having a Southerner’s condescension towards her. She was‘horrified’ by the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s andwas a segregationist at heart.

In September 1957 she wrote to Ginnie:‘Personally I like all the negroes who work for me – and nine tenthsof the poor things don’t know what it is all about and don’t wantto go to school with the white children. The real issue is muchdeeper than that. It is the States Rights to manage their ownaffairs – We are conservative and the Yankees are growing pinkerby the day – We find the whole business loathesome and are angry.’

Many weeks each year were spent staying with Ginnie’swealthy uncle, Huntly Drummond, in Canada. Huntly owned alarge home in Montreal, an estate in the Laurentian Mountainsand a summer house on the St. Lawrence River. The familyspent time each winter skiing and each summer swimming andsailing.

Huntly Drummond was an avid art collector whose house wasfurnished with paintings by Renoir and Monet. During the warhe put up the money to buy the RAF two Spitfires, one ofwhich was named after Angela’s sister, Jennifer, and the otherBougie. Bougie wrote in July 1941:‘Don’t you love “Jennifer” and “Bougie” swooping over Germanyand blowing up a few Nasties.’

Both women shared a love of travel and visited Europe eachsummer. They crossed the Atlantic in ocean liners. According toGinnie’s unpublished memoir, on one occasion in 1930 Bougieand Ginnie travelled on the Empress of Australia on whichPrince Henry, the Duke of Gloucester was also a passenger.Ginnie was commanded to dine with him and went, asinstructed by his aide, to his private salon on the ship, whereafter a good dinner they played gramophone records anddanced. When she got back to her cabin and was asked by

Transatlantic talesA meeting with Agatha Christie, echoes of the American DeepSouth, fun and games in high society, and naming your ownSpitfire. A 37-year transatlantic correspondence between motherand daughter has been brought vividly to life in a new book.

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Partying at Monte Carlo in the 1920s.

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Bougie if she’d conducted herself properly, Ginnie replied: “Oh, I had a lovely time. I’ve been teaching the Duke to shag!”

It should be explained that this was a dance of the day. Ginniewas a Bright Young Thing and a good time girl but she alwaysbehaved within the bounds of good taste and morals expectedof her.

Her mother, Bougie, also enjoyed social occasions and hadmany friends, but was less hedonistic than her daughter. Herworld was influenced by a political and cultural agenda. She was a self-confessed feminist and had been a suffragette. Whilstenjoying the company of men, she wrote in 1947 that it washer experience that ‘most men are selfish’ and that ‘matrimony is difficult under almost any circumstances.’

Bougie’s development over the years was not one of greatchange, but of continued cultural and intellectual activity,punctuated by visits to Canada and later to her daughter whenshe moved to England.

The life of Ginnie, on the other hand, changed considerably.She travelled to London in 1935 to join the celebrations forGeorge V and Queen Mary’s silver jubilee and shared a flatwith two friends for the season. She was introduced to aGuards officer called Gerald Potter, who was so taken with herthat he proposed the very night they met. They married thefollowing year, and their wedding featured in the Gaumontnewsreels of the time.

Gerald and Ginnie lived in London and Hampshire, socialisedenthusiastically, went to the theatre, sailed on the South coast,and dined out in fashionable London restaurants. Ginnieadjusted to married life happily and was pleased to have a largestaff to run their two households. Gerald and Ginnie continuedto enjoy themselves, but soon the increasing threat of war hungover them. Gerald’s experiences as an Army officer, includingthe evacuation of Dunkirk and the Italian landings, are relayedthrough the letters. For the duration of the war Ginnie and herdaughter and a small staff moved to a house near Windsor,which they rented from Eton College. Here Ginnie, the flapper,the one used to first class travel and the finest food, dug forvictory and joined in the war effort. The garden was turnedover to rearing ducks, geese, chickens and rabbits and togrowing a wide variety of vegetables and fruit. Surplus producewas sold or given away.

Ginnie cheerfully launched into her new role, writing inSeptember 1941:‘I know it must make you laugh when you think of me in theanimal world! If I’m not trying to chase a rabbit which has gotloose in the wrong pen, I am bathing a duck’s eye! I keep track of

all the rats caught and the eggs produced. I went to clean out theshed and uncovered a nest of baby mice! My poor sick duck hasdied. Sometimes I half expect to wake up in the morning with anasses head on my shoulders like Bottom the weaver.’

Ginnie also worked for the WVS as a waitress in the BritishRestaurant in Windsor, where she helped to serve over 300meals a day to local workers. This was a true volte-face whenthe waited upon became the waiting.

Throughout the war Ginnie and Gerald had been good friends with their neighbours Bill and Anne. When theirmarriage went through a shaky period, Gerald rather over-comforted Anne by having a fling with her in 1945. Ginnieconsequently underwent a period of great uncertainty and was anxious to go to the States, to visit her mother whom shehad not seen for five years. In 1946 she managed to secure apassage to Canada, where she not only met up with her family,but had an affair with an old French Canadian boyfriend, Pothier

Doucet. Ginnie was subsequently torn between staying with aman who loved her deeply but lived in Canada and was, by allaccounts, a less erratic character than her husband, and herhusband, by whom she now had two daughters and a life inEngland. It was not an easy decision, but she was nothing if notdutiful and, after four months, and many discussions with hermother, came back to her English family. She writes of herreturn journey by liner across the Atlantic where she projectsher mood onto the passing English landscape: ‘I have a slight sinking feeling in my stomach, it is strange to be going back to England to no home – We are passing theDevonshire coast, it is needless to say, raining, which makes methink of cold and seagulls, and more rain – and boiled turbot withphotographic paste sauce, and then I try and switch my mindback to Canada, to that glorious sunshine, Nellie’s cooking,martinis at the Ritz, filet mignon at Café Martin, the hot baths!,the loons and the bullfrogs at Ivry, the silver birches, Huntly’s trees– and all the glorious times I have had on my wonderful holiday –It was far, far more wonderful even than I had expected, because I expected a lot!’

“We are passing the Devonshirecoast, it is needless to say, raining,which makes me think of cold andseagulls, and more rain”

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The Older Woman in Recent Fiction,

by Dr Zoe Brennan (English 1993,

Women’s Studies 1994). A literary

critical study of contemporary novels

that possess an older woman as a

central character. Published by

McFarland Publishers (Jefferson).

Jimmy the Giraffe, by Mary-Louisa

Glynn (Politics 1983). A children’s book

set in Namibia. It involves a giraffe,

Jimmy, and his friend Eric the elephant

who get lost in the jungle. Published by

AH Stockwell.

Falmouth For Instructions, the Story

of Falmouth in the Great War

1914-191, by John Pollock (MA Naval

History 2001). In the glorious summer

of 1914, no one in Falmouth had any

idea that this ancient seaport and

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momentous years, into one of the most

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country. Published by the author:

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The Art of the Vodka Jelly, by Tom

Tuke-Hastings (Archaeology 1999).

His second cookery book seeks to

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Books.

Edinburgh New Town Gardens;

Blessings as well as beauties, by

Connie Byrom (née Dawson, MA

Sociology 1965). An examination of the

gardens attached to this important World

Heritage site, Published by Birlinn.

The Ecology of Learning: Sustainability,

Lifelong Learning and Everyday Life,

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Once Ginnie had made up her mind to stay in England, she set out with a determination to enjoy life and, in spite of theshortages of postwar Britain, the harsh winter of 1947, and an unpredictable husband, she succeeded. After Gerald was

de-mobbed he had invested inthe fishing business in Brixham,owning and running twotrawlers.

Ginnie consequently mademuch play out of her newstatus:

‘So now I am a fishwife!! In a few years time I may be seen walkingthrough the streets of Brixham wearing clogs with a basket of fishon my head. Do you suppose I’ll have to mend the nets?’

After four years the Potters moved to a house Ginnie loved inChurston Ferrers, where she was to remain until 1984. Sailingplayed a large part in their life, and Gerald became a well-respected yachtsman, skippering Britain’s boat to victory in the 1959 Admiral’s Cup race. They were highly sociable,entertaining friends with excellent food and drink. Among thecharacters they met was Agatha Christie, who lived nearby atGreenway on the banks of the River Dart.

Ginnie wrote in September 1952:‘We went to the Cathcarts to a small cocktail party on theSaturday night. Agatha Christie was there and slipped on theslippery stone floor on her way out and came down with a crash.As she has a [somewhat cumbersome] figure and legs like a pianoit was quite a thump.’

These letters offer not just detailed personal narratives, but avivid, contemporaneous account of life in the mid 20th centuryin the USA and in Britain, and reflect an era of enormouscultural and political change. The correspondence is so muchmore than just family letters, and draws its audience into theera with humour, and the language and attitudes of the day, anera that one reader has described as “just beyond memory”.

Bougie would undoubtedly be pleased that the correspondencehas been published. She wrote to Ginnie in February 1942: ‘I keep all your letters. Someday you might want to do somethingwith them.’

Shared Histories: Transatlantic Letters between VirginiaDickinson Reynolds and Her Daughter, Virginia Potter, 1929-1966, edited by Angela Potter, is published by University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0-8203-2802-2.

Gardens, giraffes and jellyExeter alumni, staff and former staff have been busily publishing new works of fact and fiction.

Angela Potter Brassley

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If you were to ask a group of Mongolian academics orteachers for the names of top universities in the UK, it is

highly likely that Exeter would rank at the top of their list.

Since 1995 the University has run three highly successfulEuropean-funded projects in Mongolia, forging links in theeducation sector through sharing expertise and exchangingcultures. The first project helped reform Mongolia’slibraries, with work from Martin Myhill, head librarian at the University and others from the History Department. A second project helped reform the country’s educationcurriculum.

Following an enthusiastic response of Mongolian participantsto this work, in September 2005 the European TEMPUSprogramme provided 300,000 Euros to train teachers inrural schools in Outer Mongolia.

Exeter’s School of Education and Lifelong Learning isworking with teacher educators at the University ofUlaanbataar (UB) in Mongolia’s capital to set up a newMasters programme for teachers that fits with newgovernment-driven educational policy. Professor BobBurden explains: ‘Mongolian education under the Sovietsystem was extremely didactic and largely based on aninformation transmission model where children sat in rows all working from the same textbook page. The newMongolian standards introduced in 2002 set schools andteachers the responsibility of introducing interactiveteaching based upon Vygotskian socio-cultural theory. This shows that learning is not carried out in isolation, but is a social and cultural experience. The problem that the schools are currently facing, therefore, is the translationof new theoretical perspectives into classroom practice.’

Bob and the Exeter team of Dr Phil Bayliss, Dr JanetDraper, Dr Angela Horton and Project Co-ordinator, Will Taylor, have hosted two cohorts of Mongolian teachertrainers. Visits were made to local primary, secondary andspecial schools and, as well as being somewhat the centreof attention themselves, the visitors were encouraged totake part in classroom sessions.

The team made a return visit to Ulaanbataar in February2006. They found the temperature of minus 36o C quite a shock, but were overwhelmed with interest in theirexpertise, and led workshops and carried out usefulclassroom observation to ensure that the new Masters is relevant.

The team, along with academics from CopenhagenInternational Centre for Educational Development,supported the development of the Masters course, and inparticular a conference to kick-start it, which was held inAugust. 90 teachers attended from all corners of Mongolia,some of whom drove up to nine hours over terrain withoutroads to take part.

Each of the teachers has now returned to their own schoolsto gather data on current teaching practice with the aim of beginning a range of action research studies, againsupported by Exeter and UB tutors. Special needs, thenature of residential schools, and the training needs ofteachers are among the research projects underway.

The Exeter tutors will be returning to Mongolia on a twice-yearly basis for the next two years to help maintain theimpetus of this work, but also to establish joint cross-culturalresearch into various aspects of the education process.

Minus 36 degrees– but a warm welcome

9 FebruaryPaddon Award Competition 2007Calling all creative minds – The Paddon Award is anannual arts competition organised by Convocation,the Students’ Guild and the University’s AlumniRelations team. This year’s theme is travel writing.Closing date for entries is 9 February 2007.

For more information and to enter, visitwww.exeter.ac.uk/alumni or contact the Alumni Relations team on +44 (0) 1392 263141.

20 FebruaryExeter Finance Network EventVenue: Fidelity International, LondonAn opportunity for alumni in Finance and BusinessManagement to meet with fellow alumni, the Vice-Chancellor and other senior University staff, andcatch up with the latest developments in Exeter.

For more information and to book a place, contactthe Alumni Relations team at alumni@exeter.ac.ukor on +44 (0) 1392 263148.

10 March, 2pmPaddon Award Competition 2007 – FinalsVenue: Parker Moot Room, Amory Building,

University of ExeterCome and join fellow alumni, students and staff for the finale of the competition. All guests arewelcome. The programme includes the final readingfrom the works of this year’s best entries, musicalentertainment by the World Choir, and the award ceremony.

For more information, visit www.exeter.ac.uk/alumnior contact the Alumni Relations team on +44 (0) 1392 263141.

15 and 19 MarchAlumni Receptions in TurkeyVenue: TBCThe Vice-Chancellor will be visiting Turkey to meetup with Exeter alumni in the region. All alumni areinvited to evening receptions in Ankara (15 March)and Istanbul (19 March). This is a great opportunityto see old friends, catch up with the latest University news and revive friendships.

For more information, contact the Alumni Relations team on alumni@exeter.ac.uk or +44 (0) 1392 262016.

23-27 MarchConvocation Spring ReunionVenue: Hope Hall, University of Exeter Organiser: Exeter University Convocation ClubThis is the highlight of Convocation’s social year witha full programme of outings and other entertainmentplanned for the Reunion. Includes the 52nd AGM ofConvocation on 24 March at 10am. Hope Hall hasbeen booked for four nights’ accommodation fromFriday 23 March to Monday 26 March inclusive.Attendance for part of the weekend or as a non-resident are options.

For more information, please contact Bob andJennifer Evans on 02392 550640 or emailr.evans@ntworld.com.

AprilAlumni Receptions in ChinaDate and venues: TBCExeter alumni in China will have the opportunityto get together in Beijing and Shanghai. The Vice-Chancellor and a delegation of senior University staffwill visit the region to meet with alumni and enjoyan evening of celebrating achievements and lookingto the future.

For more information, contact the Alumni Relations team on alumni@exeter.ac.uk or +44 (0) 1392 262016.

AprilAlumni Reception in Hong KongDate and venue: TBCCalling all alumni in Hong Kong. In addition to thevisits to Shanghai and Beijing, the Vice-Chancellorand other senior University staff will be visiting HongKong during April, and would enjoy the opportunityto meet all alumni.

For more information, contact the Alumni Relations team on alumni@exeter.ac.uk or +44 (0) 1392 262016.

MayAlumni Reception in DubaiDate and venue: TBCThe Vice-Chancellor and other senior staff will be visiting Dubai and Sharjah in May. All alumni in the Middle East are warmly invited to attend areception, meet friends and discuss future alumnirelations activities in the region.

For more information, contact the Alumni Relations team on alumni@exeter.ac.uk or +44 (0) 1392 262016.

Alumni Reunions

21 – 22 JulyAlumni Reunion – Classes of 1957, 1962 and 1967Venue: University of ExeterIf you are celebrating your 40th, 45th or 50thanniversary, this is your reunion weekend! Note the date in your diary to revisit the campus andmeet up with old friends, and see the changes and developments that have taken place since youwere a student at Exeter. Alumni of other years arealso welcome.

For more information and to book a place, visitwww.exeter.ac.uk/alumni or contact the AlumniRelations team on +44 (0) 1392 263141.

28 – 29 JulyAlumni Reunion – Classes of 1987 and 1992Venue: University of ExeterIf you belong to the classes of 1987 or 1992, youare invited back to campus to celebrate your 15thand 20th anniversary. Please note the date in yourdiary, help us spread the word and come back tomeet up with your friends to celebrate yourreunion.

For more information and to book a place, visitwww.exeter.ac.uk/alumni or contact the AlumniRelations team on +44 (0) 1392 263141.

15 – 16 SeptemberAlumni Reunion – Classes of 1972, 1977 and 1982Venue: University of ExeterIf you left the University 25, 30 or 35 years ago,then September is the month of your reunion. Note the date in your diary, help us spread theword and come back to the University, meet up with old friends, and see the changes anddevelopments that have taken place since the 70’sand 80’s.

For more information and to book a place, visitwww.exeter.ac.uk/alumni or contact the AlumniRelations team on +44 (0) 1392 263141.

2007

Diary

For details about public events oncampus see:www.exeter.ac.uk/news/whatson.shtml