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Events 27 Alumni in memoriam 28

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Carbonbalancingbythe WorldLandTrusttacklesclimate changethroughprojectsthatboth offsetcarbondioxide(CO 2 )emissionsandconservebiodiversity.

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eat year for the University, aghlight was the Universitys rst

uation Celebration in Beijing.

l, many University staff, alumni anders worked tremendously hard to makeduation Celebration and receptions inand Shanghai a great success. Building

aged alumni community brings its ownchallenges in any country, and this wasortant step in that direction since Bristolse alumni now comprise our largestas alumni group having overtakenased alumni in 2012. Numbers keepg, with over 550 new Chinese studentsting from Bristol every year.ether you live in the UK, China, or anyother 60-plus countries where alumniI sincerely hope to see you in Bristol-7 July for the 2013 Alumni Weekend.up with old friends, revisit your almafor lectures, lunches, tours and dinners,

e the city that has just been voted thety to live in England.s is also the time of year for Bristolto select our Committee Members

presentatives on Court. Do go onlineercise your right to vote for theates they will genuinely appreciate

pport. I hope to see you at thei Weekend in early July.

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In the last issue of Nonesuch , wespoke about Bristols expandingundergraduate numbers. This yearsrecruitment is strong again and weexpect to reach our targets, both forundergraduate and postgraduatestudent entry in 2013.

Student growth has necessitated somephysical growth. Our largest building projectsinclude new student housing in Stoke Bishop(see page 15) , a new Life Sciences Building(see page 19) on Tyndall Avenue andmajor updates to the Students Union(now known as the Richmond Building) visit bristol.ac.uk/estates for more information. A rolling programme of improvements inhalls, libraries and other public study areas hasa big impact on students. Such investment willcontinue, in part thanks to alumni support. Wealso have plans for a new large lecture theatre,a maths building, and more. Bristol constantly asks whats next? forintellectual inquiry. The key, as we considerall opportunities, is to balance Bristolsinvestment in the buildings where ideas cometo fruition, with investment in people and theexciting ideas they generate and inspire.

Professor Eric Thomas (Hon LLD 2004) Vice-Chancellor

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apow , a new online shop sellingn and illustration for homes andns, is being featured in magazineswspapers across the UK.

journalist Cat How (BA 2004) and herd ex-BBC producer Rog How (BEng 2004)le studying at Bristol Universi ty in 2002. Afterion they spent time working in both Londonstralia, before returning to Bristol in 2010,and ready to set up a business.ing quirky products from independent

ers, illustrators and design companiesound the world, their Bristol-based shoppow arose out of a shared desire to nurtures unsung talent. Cat explained: We tooktisfaction in slogging it out together at artist

markets in Melbourne and London, and metwonderful and exceptionally talented people alongthe way. Unfortunately, and as is often the case withdesigners, we found many of these people lackedeither the marketing experience or commercialsupport they need to reach a wider audience. So,when we realised our own adventures had placedus in a unique position to provide that support, we

jumped at the opportunity and Howkapow was born. The Howkapow shop reects their belief that

investing in bright, new designers with originalideas is how innovation truly ourishes.

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Jenny Grifths (MEng 2009) nal-yearcoursework on image processing has helpedher establish a start-up fashion business thathas snapped up a US $100,000 prize.

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A must for all fashionistas, Jennys ingenious phone app,Snap Fashion, lets users upload an image of any item of clothingand search for it online. Drawing on a library of 250,000 itemsfrom 120 retailers, shoppers can discover the cheapest outlet forthe object of their desire, browse through similar items, and whentheyve made their nal choice they can even click through to buy. Jenny became interested in computer vision during thesecond year of her Computer Science degree. In her fourth yearshe wrote software that could recognise soft objects, such asclothes, and catalogue them. She set up her business in her

spare time, using money and expertise from small contests(including Bristols New Enterprise Competition) to build up theuser interface, negotiate with outlets and assemble a team.Shes also getting advice from Nokias former UK vice-president. Snap Fashion took rst prize at the Cisco BIG (BritishInnovation Gateway) Awards for start-ups.

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David Walliams (BA 1992)was awarded the ChildrensBook of the Year by theNational Book Awards forhis fth novel Ratburger ,the story of a little girl calledZoe and evil burger-chefBurt who wants to turnZoes pet rat into a newsecret ingredient.

Five of Bristols alumnae,and its Chancellor, madeBBC Radio 4s WomansHour list of the UKs 100most powerful women. Aswell as Baroness Haleof Richmond (Hon LLD2002), Bristols Chancellorand a Supreme Court

judge (named fourth most

powerful woman) the listincluded: Professor DameCarol Black (BA 1962, MBChB 1970, MD 1975, HonDSc 2003), Departmentof Healths expert adviseron improving the welfare ofworking people, Cambridge;

Alison Cooper (BSc 1988).chief executive of Imperial

Tobacco; Clare Foges (MA 2003), Number 10speech writer; RachelWhetstone (BA 1989),senior vice president ofcommunications andpublic policy, Google; andJasmine Whitbread(BA 1986), CEO of Save theChildren International.

Actress and singer Charlotte Ritchie (BA 2011)has jumped from student to The Independents one to watch, starring as Oregon in Ch annel 4saward-winning comedy Fresh Meat .

Fresh Meat follows six undergraduatesforced to live under one roof after they fail toapply for halls on time. Charlotte, the youngestof the ensemble at 22, was cast as Englishliterature student Oregon, who plays down herabilities and hides the fact that she owns a carand a horse in order to impress her peers.

Fresh Meat was nominated for a BAFTAfor Best Sitcom, and went on to win Best NewComedy at the British Comedy Awards andBest TV Show at the NME Awards. Since itssuccess in reeling in an average audience of2.7 million, Channel 4 has announced a thirdseries, likely to air this autumn.

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Long-distance dance A Danceroom Spectroscopy event( danceroom-spec.com) is planned to runsimultaneously in public spaces in Bristoland Barcelona. Special events like thiscould become truly global affairs.

Streaming brains In spring 2013, high-denition video ofMRI scans made atCardiff UniversitysNeuroscience andMental Health ResearchInstitute was streamedto a lab in BristolsSchool of Medicine.

Getting ghosts on board Plans are being discussed to bringholographic projections to the ss Great

Britain , so that visitors can walk around theship with the ghosts of its passengers.

School skills Local schools could access theUniversitys High-PerformanceComputing facility from theclassroom to give pupils much-needed experience of state-of-the-art technology.

eed to redesign the internet. But how?ns out that Bristol the University and the provides ideal conditions for a large-scale,-capacity test network. With the arrival ofessor Dimitra Simeonidou s High-Performanceworks Group at the Faculty of Engineering,network is becoming a reality and will helpuip Bristol with truly global credentials.

the city of Bristol recently made a successful bidding from the Governments Urban Broadbandyou could almost hear the nal pieces of a thrillingcture snapping into place. The ne detail in theisnt clear yet, but it may well feature a wealth of newlogies and applications, many not yet invented. Thes canvas is massive global, in fact and Bristolians,

with citizens across the world, will feel the benet.understand the background to this larger, faster internet,

d to go underground, where a problem has been lurking.beneath our feet are bre-optic cables that girdlenet in ever greater quantities. And they need to,e the internet is no longer a novelty, but increasingly

y, like water or gas. As wit h any utility, we nowr granted that this mesh of interconnected pathwaysing us what we expect: in this case, information,unication and entertainment.parts of the network are under increasing strain, as mores and applications are launched on the same bre-opticthat barely coped when streaming video came along.growing demands on the consumer side of the networkop in the ocean compared to the vastly complex tasks

pid, high-volume transactions being carried out byh centres, businesses, banks, governments, and the res t.

Grand plansWhat could we do with a bigger, faster internetThe ideas are only just getting started.

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Too much informationIt was a wake-up call for many when scientists at CERN inSwitzerland started wondering how to handle the massiveamounts of data generated by the Large Hadr on Collider(LHC) experiments.

They wanted a way of storing parts of the data indifferent places: some at CER N, some at a supercomputingfacility in Barcelona, and some at other faci lities aroundthe world, says Professor Dimitra Simeonidou. Her grouphad been working on optical bre networks that couldanswer the requirements of big scientic projects such asthose at the LHC, and she played a leading role in deningthe standards for work such as the CERN project. In theprocess, the idea of cloud computing at a global scale beganto emerge as a rea l proposition.

Becoming cloudyThe basic idea behind cloud computing is this: rather thansimply push data fr om one computer to another, the internetcan itself be used for a lot of the processing that were used todoing on our PCs. A simple example is Google Picasa, whichenables you to upload a photo to its servers and then edit orenhance it using software that sits on the network rather thanon your own computer.

Simeonidous group has demonstrated that using opticalbres to bring together networks and computers makespossible some very advanced processing, such as analysingand processing a large amount of scientic data in a networkenvironment. As collaborative work between institutionscontinues to grow, and as ever greater quantities of data areproduced, the concept of an ultra-fast, global network withalmost innite capacity is an exciting one.

Going large

But how do you design and test s uch a thing withoutinadvertently blowing a gasket in the internet we have now?You cant design a new internet in a lab, says Simeonidou.What you need is a very large-scale experimentalenvironment. Her group began working on exactly that:a dedicated test network that could be used by researchersto run experi ments, identify problems, and see what a new,high-capacity internet is capable of. We managed to bring communities together physicists, biologists, radio astronomers and give themcomputational resources somewhere else in the world overbre networks, she says. Its more efcient, too: if youhave your own data centre with, say, 1,000 servers, mostof the time youre only using 100, and the other 900 aresitting idle unless theres a sudden spike in demand. Sharing

-performance networks

resources across a global network, on the other hand,means that you can have parts of your processing r unningin Bristol, in Barcelona, in North Carol ina, and in Rio,because your network can see all these devices throughvery high-speed links.

Simeonidou and her group arrived at the Universityof Bristol in late 2012, when the scale and complexity oftheir work began to require expertise outside their owneld of optical networking. Bristols research communityincludes world-renowned groups and facilities special isingin areas including wireless networks, high-performancecomputing, and photonics a full suite of skills and facil itiesto call on. And its located in a city ready to t ake the nextstep in connectivity.

The city rewiredGigabit Bristol the citys successful bid to the BroadbandFund focuses on providing services to the local communityin order to improve the quality of li fe for city residents,

THE CONCEPT OF ANETWORK WITH ALMOSTINFINITE CAPACITY IS

AN EXCITING ONE

explain s James Lancaster in Research and EnterpDevelopment, who is leadi ng the Universitys negotiatwith its partners. But we got together with a numberof local groups the Watershed, IBM, Toshiba, and soon to argue that this was an opportunity to createsomething much more ambitious: a city-scale test netwBristol has microelectronics, advanced manufacturinenvironmental and creative communities who areheavily reliant on high levels of computing power andbandwidth connectivity. That test network has been adopted as one ofthe mainstream proposals within the Gigabit Bristolprogramme. In effect, were giving the local infrasta massive upgrade, says Lancaster, to create a networunning around the city to schools, companies, commgroups, and both universities so that people have accto this test network from wherever they m ight need it

What will this make possible? At this stage, the wide open, and the search is on for people and organisato come forward with ideas for early experiments.Schoolchildren could use the Universitys medicalimaging facilities or its High-Performance Computvia a connection in their classroom; cinemas and thecould screen events from around the globe in augmimmersive reality, far beyond 3D; city-wide sensor netcould enable a rapid response to trafc congestion, prowith public utilities or a range of emergencies; compobjects purchased online could be manufactured in tshop around the corner on a 3D printer; musicians coplay in real time with other musicia ns on other continthe performance relayed instantly to screens anywha local artist could produce simultaneous artwork indifferent countries.

Cities across the globe are doing similar thingssays Lancaster, and Dimitras team are working onconnecting them up into a high-speed, high-capacitynetwork of networks. Again, its too soon to knowwhat kind of new technologies will develop althou3D holographic projections are already on the way the next generation of designers, engineers and artihave an almost limitless sandbox ready and waitingthem to play in. Make no mistake, this is the beginning of a newinternet, says Lancaster. In the UK, theres no betterto try it out than Bristol.

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om Bristol to Sweden,enya, Paris, Weybridge,emen and Nepala Sterling interviews Dr Martin Gregory (BVSc 1961)inary Epidemiologist

It was my research into hedgehogs thathelped get me to where I wanted to be: theParasitology Department at the Central Veterinary

Laboratory in Weybridge, where I worked oncoccidiosis in sheep. Normally these protozoanparasites do no harm, but i n crowded conditions,they can kill. Suprisingly, lambs born in dirty pensdid better. They got massive doses of coccidia,which, at that age, caused no disease butconferred some immunity.

After 13 years in Weybridge, I went toNorth Yemen to organise a countrywideserological survey of the livestock. Itwas a massive challenge. The job had neverbeen done before. There were no mapsand I had to learn Arabic. Six weeks aftermy arrival, the country tripled in size whenit merged with South Yemen, making my

job even bigger. But I loved Yemen and thefriendliness of the people there.

I also played a part in the eradication ofRinderpest (Cattle Plague) from Nepal.Rinderpest used to decimate herds in Europe,

Africa and Asia but its now been eradicatedfrom the world. My job was to prove the infectionwas no longer present, which was not easy. Itinvolved taking blood specimens from thousandsof animals to get a statistically valid sample of thelivestock population.

I call myself a veterinary epidemiologistexcept in the company of epidemiologists then Im a parasitologist. As a vet, I haveenjoyed travelling the world, but Im still a biologist atheart and, having now been awarded a Fellowshipof the Society of Biology, I feel that my cup is full.Well, almost. I have a few stories to tell rst.

t really want to be a vet; I wantedology. I chose the veterinary coursee it offered applied biology, and the

Veterinary School had an excellention as a lively, young, and innovativeI have never regretted it and the outcomet I became several different vets in theof one career.

gave me a taste of life away from During the course we were encouraged

arming experience. I chose to spend twoin Sweden on a little old farm buried deeprest, where my employer knew no English

dnt know any Swedish. His two-yearhelped me with the language, shouting

a as he bounced on my bed.

graduation I soon discovered thatary practice didnt suit me. When thes owner was satised, that was that, andto the next client. I always wanted to lookand go further. So after a spell in practice,two-year contract in Kenya, whichd my life.

wing Kenyas independence, theovernment bought farms owned byean expats and divided them upen landless Africans. Each was loanedck and my job was to keep them healthyile, so their new owners could repay theirlearned so much about Kenyas animals,re about its peoples, their languages,s, problems and prejudices.

wo years, I moved to Paris to do al veterinary medicine course atns-Alfort. It was 1968, there were riots,had to shut the windows to keep the tearBut I got my diploma and went back

ya, where I spent four years training eldnts. In my spare time I studied the localogs their mange-mites, courtship callsll-unexplained transmissible tumour.

BRISTOL GAVE ME A TASTE OF LIFE AWAYFROM HOME

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Sound and vision

By Nick Riddle

That music you hear as Brian Coxstands on a mountain peak itdoesnt just happen. Somebodyhas to write, arrange and producethe soundtracks we usually takefor granted. The University trainspostgraduates in the art, craft andtechnology of composing musicfor film and television.

Mastering lm scores

ts mid-January, in the main auditoriumat the Victoria Rooms. Joe Newtonis conducting a professional string

ensemble and trying to synchronise hisscore so that a cello string is slapped at t heexact moment an onscreen predator seizesits prey. His music is spiky and percuss ive, incontrast with his own natural leanings (Im a bigfan of tunes, he confesses), but it suits the sequenceperfectly. And that, natura lly, is the point. Newton is one of the students on the MA inComposition of Music for Film and Television(MACFTV for short). Each student has a sessionwith the ensemble, conducting from their ownscore for a live recording-to-lm session. Itsquite a challenge. And by common consensus,the most exciting 30 minutes of the year so far.

They hardly have time to look at the visualson screen, says Jean Hasse (MA 2006), the coursetutor. Theyre too busy looking at their score,conducting to a click track from headphones, andcueing the players. Theyve also had to prepare adetailed score and separate parts for each musician.And their peers are in the auditorium watchingthem. William Goodchild, who teaches theMedia Composition class of which this is theculmination, is also assessing their per formance. Downstairs, Jonathan Scott, manager ofthe Composition and Recording Studios, isrunning the technical side of the sessions. Hehas set up the microphones in the auditorium togive the students a good range of options whenit comes to mixing the na l piece. Next up is David Muoyerro (above), whohas been assigned a different clip: a tranquilscene featuring a lily and a beetle. Scott starts the

click track, and upstairs Muoyerro leaensemble in his score. In contrast with Ntense atonality, this is a lyrical piece, leipastoral with intertwining string parts. his choice of style is a nice t for the sce

Cue musicEach year, a cohort of composers with vdegrees of experience, skills and musisensibilities get a thorough education inthe techniques of music composition anproduction for lm, television, and othe

Think of l m music and youre probhearing a favourite snatch of a title t hemwith some images a sleigh whipping osnowy Russian steppes to the strains of

Jarres Laras Theme for Doctor Zhiperhaps. But most music composed forand television consists of cues short
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David Hamill (MA 2007) Composes for award-winning lms anddocumentaries (including

Eliminate: Archie Cookson and The High Street );extensive work incommercials, musicediting and orchestration.

Laura Coates (MA 2009)Composes musicand sound designsfor TV, lm, animation(including work for theBBC and Aardman), andtheatre. Also works as afreelance boom operatorand sound recordist.

Blair Mowat (MA 2009)Has composed musicfor over 50 short lmsand ve feature lms,including the Bollywoodthriller 7-WelcomeTo London and Electric

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ed to heighten the atmosphere of a sceneh arent designed to be memorable.u cant just let your theme grow andsays Hasse. The music has to serve a lmy different ways, from enhancing thens of a scene to aiding characterisat ion

pporting the overall structur e of the story.are all important, tr icky things to learn.A offers a thorough study of these andssues from several perspectives, including-based critical analysis, professionalsing and advanced orchestration.e give the students a broad introductionposing for media, says Hasse. They

hance to whet their appetite with a lot of, and to nd their strengths. Throughoutr they a lso work on composition projectsusion in their nal Media Compositionio, due in September.

and mechanicsthey can think about their portfolio,er, each student must get up to speed onhnical aspects of music production, anduide for this is Jonathan Scott .ven the way the industry works these daystightness of budgets, being your own

producer has become a crucial part ofsoundtrack composer, says Scott. A lotemporary music for the media is entirelybased, maybe with a few live instruments

ubbed. Only a small handful oftions have a music budget large enoughloy a s ymphony orchestra or equivalent.

e rise of music production has made it easieraverage user to cobble together a multi-iece of music, but nobody on the MA is

gfor average. Scott leads them throughhniques of achieving the most effective whether from software-based instruments

m a live recording, and combining realmulated instruments to make them soundey belong together. Production involvesh of a musical thought process as it does acal one, he says. Its a musical decision in, but its informed by a lot more sciencehnology than the compositional process

So its a matter of getti ng the relationshipetween the music and the technical input.

Scene and heardAn accomplished composer in her own right,Hasse graduated from the course in 2006 and haswritten a number of scores for lms includingFW Murnaus 1926 silent feature, Faust . Shebecame co-ordinator of the MA in 2008; aroundthe same time, the Music Department began to

receive enquiries from a number of lm-makersin London who were looking for soundtrackcomposers. A timely development, as it tur ned out. Weve always worked with the Departmentof Drama to pair together our composers w ithlm-makers on their courses in Film andTelevision Production and Archaeology forScreen Media, says Hasse, but nding outsideprojects to bring in gives our s tudents a muchgreater range of materia l to work on and helpsthem develop contacts in the profes sion. Regular collaborators now includeMountview Academy of Theatre Arts in

London, whose students perform in professionallydirected lms as part of their course, and lm andanimation students at the University of the Westof England and universities in Wales. Closerto home, Hasse also established links withBristols Computer Science Department, whosethird-year students work in groups to developcomputer games, all of which need soundscapesand music. Its a very exciting collaboration,she says. Its sometimes a struggle, but similarto what theyll have t o do in the outside world.

Talking picturesA fortnight later, MACFTV students AislingBrouwer and Joe Newton are talking aboutthe recording-to-lm session.

That was a highlight of the course so far,no question, says Brouwer. Hearing yourmusic played by professional musicians on liveinstruments theres nothing like it. How do they nd composing to order,rather than starting with a blank sheet? Thatshow I like to work Ive always written musicthat has a story and char acters, says Newton.I naturally re spond to someone elses work,

like a painting, or I make up my own brief.Horses for coursesFittingly for an MA that emphasises exibility,its graduates work on commissions far beyondthe connes of lm and television. Alumnihave written music for theatre productions,radio dramas, audiobooks, computer games,smartphone apps, news bulletins, and evendressage events. So you never know; the subtlelift you feel watching a sweeping shot of theSerengeti, an emotional reunion scene, ora well-executed equine trot, may be due inpart to the discreet musical enhancementsof a Bristol MACFTV graduate.

With undergraduate numbers rising,Bristol is upgrading and expanding itsHalls of Residence. New developmentsat Hiatt Baker, and a renewed focuson pastoral care at all residences, areexamples of the Universitys efforts toprovide each new Bristol student witha welcoming home away from home.

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alls of Res idence, and their Wardens,vital role in providing students w ithof security and support as they start

sity life. Bristol provides housing forndergraduates and many overseasaduates in their rst year, helping to easeons into independence (or, for overseasaduates, into a whole new country).niversity of Bristol acts as alma mater ruest sense of the word.

h student numbers expanding now,iversity is building new foundations.s existing hall s of residence have hadg plan of investment in recent years,will continue going forward. Contractseen agreed with private providers oft housing throughout Bristol, withal care (including university Wardens)ded in each. The biggest project of al lreation of 327 new bedrooms as part ofaker Hall in Stoke Bishop, at a cost of

20.7 million.student numbers rise, it becomes more

nging to ensure that todays freshers nd

oming community when they arrivetol, just as Bristol students have fors. The new Hiatt Baker developments,mimic townhouses, are designed toage small cohorts of friends in a self-g environment with the larger benetsexperiences sti ll on students doorsteps.ved transport connections, including ated bus line, are already helping all Stokep students feel better connected to thesity precinct and city centre.lding work began in Stoke Bishop lastnd foundations were laid in FebruaryWork will be completed for studentsg in 2014.

Self-catered accommodation willbe split between shared three- andfour-storey townhouses, housing nito 12 students, and cluster blocks.The cluster blocks will have eight toten en-suite rooms on each oor, andstudents will share a large communadining and kitchen area, similar tothose in Goldney Halls newer block

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to achieve high standards ofaccessibility, and four rooms areadapted for disabled people.

A new transport hub will replacexisting bus stop on Saville Road,catering for students living in all sixStoke Bishop halls of residence.

Hiatt Bakers main receptionbuilding will be refurbished to impand extend facilities including thestudent bar, cafs and the library,as well as security.

Bat/bird boxes will be installed oretained mature trees, along withswift and sparrow terraces on newbuildings, to encourage wildlife.

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Refurbishment of halls

In the past few years, over 300 bedroomshave been refurbished and modernised inthe Universitys historic halls, including:130 at Manor Hall; 70 at Churchill; 68 inWills Hall, 92 at the Hawthorns and 23 in theHolmes. The maintenance work is essentialand has replaced boilers, pipes, windows,rewiring and redecorating throughout.Residential improvement work is continuous;the rolling programme ensures that theUniversitys residential estate is maintainedwith minimal disruption to students.

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Early in the morning of 24 October 1913, a group ofwomen set re to the Universitys sports pavilionat Coombe Dingle. They were all members of the Bribranch of the Womens Social and Political Union ( WSPUa movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline and ChristabelPankhurst that soon became better known as the Suffragett

Retaliation was swift: later that day a group of some300 students descended on the Votes for Women shop at37 Queens Road, rampaging through the premises like aband of Wild Indians anxious for scalps according to onefrightened woman. Within a few minutes the shop and WSofce upstairs had been wrecked. Onlookers applauded, thpolice conned their actions to crowd control, and theDaily Press later described how a bonre on the street, fuby the shops literature and furniture, made an effectivespectacle in the failing light. The University let the incide

pass without comment. Students celebrated the shop attack with verses anddrawings, and in the December 1913 issue of Nonemade their retaliation motives clear in a cartoon entitled TheUniversity Alphabet. A is for Arson depicted the Suffrageand R for Revenge showed a sketch of the counterblow. Mockery didnt dampen the resolve of the Suffragetteswho continued with their arson campaign until the outbreaof the First World War, when many women joined the wareffort and the movements energy was redirected to nationsurvival. But what was for many a dramatic distraction hasignicant legacy, paving the way for partial enfranchisemof women in 1918 and equal voting rights with men in 192Thanks to Lucienne Boyce (lucienneboyce.com) , author of adetailed account that appeared in the Spring 2003 edition of

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How long have you worked as a Warden? This is my third year, working as part of avibrant team to help our students make themost of their time at the University of Bristol.

What is so special about being in halls? To me, the Hall is a real community, and onein which students and staff play a vital partto help support the transition between homeand university life.

Why did you choose to become a Warden? As a Senior Lecturer I have the ability tosee a real difference that a n enjoyable,academic, residential environment canmake to the performance of a student onthe whole. It is one of the reasons I becamea Warden in the rst place.

What do you enjoy most about the job?Its important to me to promote and supportacademic endeavour alongside a wide rangeof extracurricular activities. Being a Wardenis a position that I very much enjoy, and I hopeto continue with it for many years to come.

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at, once the king of crops, is losing its yieldwn to young pretenders like rice and maize.w the wheat genome project, involvingessor Keith Edwards and Dr Gary Barker , eeding up the development of new, morest varieties that can stop this declinehelp us meet the challenge of feedingworlds growing population.

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eep in the heart of the University of Bristolsexperimental glasshouses Keith Edwards,Professor of Cereal Functional Genomics,

ing what he calls his space wheat. Apogeeiety of dwarf wheat that has been specically brede in the conned area of a space capsule. Not that

e is planning to start g rowing wheat in space anyon although one day Apogee might help ensurened mission to Mars doesnt run short of toasteds. But the idea we might eventually have to re sortSilent Running -style glasshouses oating around the

ystem if were to feed our ever g rowing population isg to look less and less fanciful. We havent run out ofble land just yet; but we might not be that far off.e worlds population has already tipped the sevenmark, and by the year 20 50 its predicted to haveby almost half ag ain. Exactly how were going toose three billion extra hungr y mouths is a dilemmaing the minds of policy makers and academics alike.

ere are no easy answers. Using more land might seemplest solution, but cutting down swathes of rainforest

w more crops will only make climate change, andtures attendant woes, worse. If we want to ensure thatne has access to enough food for a healthy diet, wemake the far mland we have work harder. And thatincreasing the yields from crops, especially wheat.

of the cropil now, one barrier to developing higher-yield wheatsen the complexity of its genome. Triticum aestivum,mon bread wheat, is whats known as a hexaploid,ng it has six sets of chromosomes (three times that

ans), and its genome is also a round ve times biggerur own. Now a team of scientists that includessor Edwards and Dr Gary Barker (PhD 1995) fr oms School of Biological Sciences, has succeeded inering this complex genetic code.ve years ago you wouldnt have contemplated this kindect, says Edwards, who led the Bristol team. It was alogy change called next-generation sequencing thatt possible. Instead of sequencing one or two genes itequence 10 or 20 million genes in one go. Now therechines that will do 200 to 30 0 million genes at a time.e task of sequencing the genome of determiningct order in which pairs of nucleotide bases, adenineymine (T), guanine (G) and cytosine (C), appear

gment of DNA was carr ied out by the team at the

University of Liverpool. The Bristol team is now tak ing thatdata to the next stage. What were doing in sequencing,explains Barker, is working out how the words are spelled.Weve gone from taking individual lette rs, which made nosense at all, to being able to make sentences. Now we wantto put those sentences into t he correct order. To do thistheyre comparing Liverpools sequencing of the ChineseSpring wheat with other varieties.

Theyre looking for sequence differences, known assingle nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs (pronouncedsnips), that dene the variations in all species includinghumans. SNPs explain why some of us have blue eyes whileothers have brown; we all have the same complement ofgenes but the versions of those genes are slightly different. If we have the sequence of one variety versus anotherwe can see what SNP differences there are, says Edwards.We then can identify those that are responsible for diseaseresistance or for growing in drought. Breeders can then usethat information to screen hundreds of thousands of lines forthose that have particular SNPs that dene disease resista nce,or increased yield, or whatever theyre interested in. Searching for SNPs is no easy task. To nd just one canmean sifting through around half a terabyte of data andseparating the genes f rom vast amounts of non-codingdata. Its a task made slightly more manageable by BristolsIllumina sequencer, which can plough through data tentimes faster than the machine used at Liverpool. Thesoftware to do this was written by Barker, who modestlydescribes hims elf as a computer-savvy biologist, thoughhis biology-specic programming expertise mea ns he moretechnically deserves t he title of bioinformatician.

Reaping rewardsAll this data cr unching is helping identify the molecularmarkers that can help breeders screen precisely for desirable

wheat characteristics. As well as comparing differentvarieties of wheat theyre also comparing wheat to itsclose relatives, such as r ye, and to versions of the diploid(two sets of chromosomes) and tetraploid (four sets ofchromosomes) grasses that combined some 10,000 yearsago to produce modern hexaploid wheat. Luckily, wheat isvery promiscuous, says Edwards. So it will cross with a verylarge number of species, including its or iginal progenitors. One of those species is a grass called Agropyron, whichgrows in extremely ar id and salty conditions. By locating thegene that allows Agropyron to thr ive with little water, it maybe possible to develop a drought-resistant wheat that couldsurvive in areas where water is scarce. Genes fr om othergrasses could make wheat more resistant to diseases, or evenimprove our own health and all of these improvements can

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Locating all of these markers is the ultimate a im othe wheat genome project, but it is already reaping resWhat weve got are the individual pieces of the puzzwere starting to piece those together, explains EdwaWe know weve got all of the pieces and we know thewill al l t, but we dont know exactly how.

The day that nal piece can slot into place is gettincloser. Already a team at Oxford University is develotechnology that can theoretically sequence 100,000 bcontinuously. That, says Edwards, wi ll turn what is nthe equivalent of a 20 mil lion-piece jigsaw puzzle intmore manageable 2,000 -piece. But while mapping thentire genome may be the Holy Grail for academics, inot vital for breeders.

It was a condition of the funding grant from theBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research C(BBSRC) that all the data collected was made publiavailable, and Bristols molecular markers have alreabeen adopted as industry standar ds. Now theyre useby hundreds of groups on thousands of projects acrosthe world, which is fantastic, says Edwards. Ourwhere all of the data is available and downloadable, iof the most accessed websites for wheat genomics in tworld. We even have a collaboration with a genotypincompany called KBioscience that will undertake wgenotyping on peoples behalf if they dont want to doin their own laboratories.

Against the grainFor Edwards, who spent more than a decade working fICI and its successor Zeneca before moving into acaderesearch, such collaborations between academia and iseem both natural and necessar y, and he welcomes thitowards sharing data fr om the wheat genome project.

It seems crazy to think that even in the UK there people who are doing duplicate work: somebody mighfunded by the BBSRC and somebody might be fundethe Wellcome Trust to do the same work, simply beca

the person whos doing the work rst hasnt been willshare it he says. Better communication between scientists and bescience and industry may go some way to feeding agrowing population but it can only go so far. Science atechnology cant solve the problem in isolation; we alhave more than enough food to feed the world, but a bipeople still go hungry because they cant afford to buEnsuring everyone gets their fair shar e of future foodis going to require social a nd economic change, not jutechnical advancements. In the meantime, painstakinscientic endeavour, from the likes of Edwards and Bwill continue to improve the productivity of agricultuand ensure that the day our dai ly bread comes from ouspace remains strictly in the real m of science ction.

The idea that problems such assecuring food supplies cant be solvedin isolation comes as no surprise toBristols Cabot Institute.

Since its inception it has brought togetheracademics from across the Universitys sixfaculties to take a multidisciplinary approachto tackling problems such as climate change,food security, energy security, water accessand natural disasters.

When volcanic ash grounded ights around the

world three years ago, Cabots natural-hazardsresearchers helped the UK Governmentevaluate the risks. Its global change researchershave built some of the most sophisticatedearth-system models, and contribute theirndings to the Intergovernmental Panelon Climate Change.

Cabot is also helping researchers withinthe University to nd funding for a range ofpotential multi-disciplinary projects, suchas a joint project between researchers atBristol and the University of Exeter to lookat how plants stabilise soil erosion.bristol.ac.uk/cabot

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ere in Bristol we like to do thingsdifferently. When Englands11 largest cities were asked in

mber 2012 whether they wanted ay elected mayor, almost all said no.eferendum, Bristol was the only onege from a system of council leaders to aelected by popular vote. In November,e Ferguson ( BA 1968, BArch 1971, Hon99) was duly sworn in on an independentbeating candidates from all theream political parties as part of the biggestup of local government in a generation.

m an establishment rebel, says theayor in an interview with Nonesuch.body who comes from the establishment,ssively questions the way it operates.on certainly has a long and varied

ation with Bristol as an alumnus of thesity, an architect, a social entrepreneur,

Liberal councillor but doesnt think off as part of the political consensus. I dontgard myself as a politician, he says. Im

mebody who is passionate about his cityes dif ferent ways of making it better.

ad to City Hallng dynamic leadership to the city wasthe aims of introducing directly electeds, but will the switch bring the benetsed by its advocates? Thats the question

ying researchers on the Bristol Civicship Project (BCLP) , a joint endeavourthe University of Brist ol and thesity of the West of England.

combined with detailed surveys on leain the city, were published in March. Wthat councillors tended to be optimisticleadership before the election of the mapessimistic about it afterwards, says Swhereas everybody else was pessimisand optimistic afterwards. Following the Yes vote in the refereand the election of Ferguson in May, ththeoretical arguments are now being puthe test. We now have an independent min a council full of party councillors, sSweeting. Itll be interesting to se e honew arrangement works out.

Calling the shotsThe change should certainly shake thinup. One of the BCLPs key ndings waBristolians were disil lusioned with inleadership: a constant churn of relativelanonymous council leaders from the mpolitical parties. Mayor Ferguson claimthe situation is now much improved.

Im not at all exercised about whethre-elected in four years time, he claims.different to a leader of a party who is alwlooking over their shoulder, always hav

Directly elected city mayors are relativelycommon in other countries, particul arly inEurope and the USA. Theres little trad itionof it here, despite plenty of debate over theweakness of local governance. The rst andmost high-prole of UK mayoral appointmentswas that of Ken Livingstone as Mayor ofLondon in 2000. Although his election hardlyled to a rush of mayors elsewhere: to date only17 UK cities have opted to replace their councilleaders, and some of the biggest cities, includingBirmingham and Manchester, have continuedto resist the change.

Bristol was seen by some as beingparticularly suitable for reform, with itsreputation for political non-conformism anda perception of historically unstable councilleadership. Until the November referendum,though, it was far from cert ain which way thecity would go: then-council leader Barbara

Janke argued that Bristolians were palpablyapathetic about the proposed change.The BCLP was instrumental in changing

perceptions. We ra n public debates, saysDr David Sweeting, lecturer in Urban Studiesin the School for Policy Studies and one ofthe research team. We had somebody settingthe case for, and somebody setting the caseagainst. They were widely reported on andresulted in a substantially raised media prolefor the referendum.

The team also ran workshops bringingtogether elected councillors, council ofcialsand representatives of the business andcommunity sectors. The results of these,

OUR RESEARCH IS ABOUT EVALUATING THE IMPACT THAT A MAYOR MAKES... THE ONUS IS NOWON HIM TO DELIVERDr David Sweeting

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are really dr iven to lead regeneration, heexplains, not the big house builders, not thesupermarkets, not the ofce builders; theyrenot the regenerators. The regenerators are thepassionate people in the community who getup and do s omething. On transport, weve got to be quite radical,he adds. Weve got to look at working towardsa universal re sidents parking scheme, and wevegot to be prepared to look at congestion chargingso we get more people on the buses. Here, heidenties some good role-models close to home.By far the best bus service in this city is providedby the universities, so I hope better buses inBristol are going to be led by their example.

Holding to accountAs the new dispensation beds down, academicsat the BCLP will be closely following progress.Our research is about evaluating the impactthat a mayor makes, says Sweeting. We wantto help the city to avoid some of the problemsassociated with mayors in other places. That means an ongoing series of surveysand workshops, keeping tabs on perceptionsin the city and tracking changes as they happen.Weve got a research advisor y board containingpeople from the council, and also peoplefrom the great and the good of Bristol t hevoluntary sector, the private sector, from theChamber of Commerce. Ferguson is keenon saying that the new system is a ki nd ofexperiment, and Id agree with that. Theonus is now on him to del iver.

The BCLPs research is a prime exampleof academic work feeding into the realmof practical policy-making. Academicinstitutions need to make their research relevantto society, says Sweeting. This is relevantin direct ways: were reporting to the cit ycouncil and the public on issues of realimportance. And this wont only have animpact in Bristol: well be contr ibuting to thedebate at the national level as well, feedingback lessons and ideas for other cities that arethinking of having, or already have, directly

elected mayors. Its a sentiment that Ferguson shares: Ivealways thought that universities should besomewhere near the centre of government in acity, he says. Theres a powerful t riumvirate ofthe two universities and the city: we have hugeintellectual capital in this city and we shouldmake the very most of it. Between now and the next election in 2016,Bristolians will have plenty of opportunity tomake up their own minds about whether thechange in leadership has brought the benetspromised by its advocates. Until then, academicsat the citys two universities will continue to playan active role in shaping the debate.

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Events

Calendar May December 2013Unless otherwise stated, more information and booking detailsare available from bristol.ac.uk/alumni/events or by calling+44 (0)117 331 8204 . The events programme is always beingupdated, so keep an eye on the website for the latest event news.

May

Wednesday 22 MayConvocation Lecture // Bristol

The 43rd Annual ConvocationLecture will be given by Dr HansFriederich (PhD Hydro-chemistry1982), European Regional Directorfor The International Union forConservation of Nature.

July

Friday 5 Sunday 7 July Alumni Weekend 2013:Best of Bristol // BristolCome back to Bristol, officiallyone of the best cities in England,and catch up with old friendsand rediscover your old haunts.

There will be special anniversarycelebrations for those whograduated in 2003, 1993, 1983,1973 and 1963 and earlier. The

full programme of events (whichincludes the Convocation AnnualGeneral Meeting) is available onlineand highlights are shown below.

Friday 5 July Alumni Weekend 2013:Best of Bristol // Bristol

An evening boat tour of Bristolharbour, followed by a drinksreception at the Watershed.

Saturday 6 July Alumni Weekend 2013:Best of Bristol // BristolCelebratory reunion lunch in theGreat Hall of the Wills MemorialBuilding, followed by an afternoonlecture from Dr Bradley Stephenson Les Misrables . Hall dinners willtake place in the evening at ChurchillHall and Wills Hall.

Sunday 7 July Alumni Weekend 2013:Best of Bristol // Bristol

There will be a full day of eventsorganised by the Wills Hall

Association; more informationand booking forms are online.

September

Friday 27 29 SeptemberEastern CanadaReunion // Toronto

Alumni in Eastern Canada areinvited to attend the 11th annualreunion: join us for the wholeweekend, just for dinner, or forany other event. Information andbooking forms are online.

Saturday 28 SeptemberCambridge Branch AnnualDinner // Cambridge

This enjoyable evening, organisedby volunteers, will take place atQueens College Cambridge.

October

Wednesday 9 OctoberPioneers reception // London

This is an invitation-onlyevent for our Bristol Pioneers.Become a Bristol Pioneer atbristol.ac.uk/pioneers .

November

Saturday 16 NovemberOfficer Training Corps

Annual Dinner // Bristol The Alumni Association of the BristolUniversity Officers Training Corpsinvites all former Bristol membersand their guests to the 4th AnnualDinner, AGM and drinks reception.

December

Thursday 5 DecemberConvocation AnnualReception and Student

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ni in memoriam

niversity extends its sin cere condolences to the friends and families oflisted below for whom we have received notificat ion of death.

f degree date

ge Jeffersoned Septemb er 2012, aged 91

mith (ne Apter), Diploma 1934)

ember 2012, aged 101

d Lovell 4, PhD 1936)ust 2012, aged 98

Elgar6, Diploma 1937)ch 2012, aged 96

ike7, Cert Ed 1939)ary 2012, aged 95

uffin8, Diploma 1939)ber 2012, aged 96

Wilmot-Morgan9) died November 2012, aged 94

cis Walley0, MSc 1948, PhD 1968)ber 2012, aged 93

John Fitzjohn 1) died September 2012, aged 92

n Couper1, PhD 1950)ust 2012, aged 92

omfray2) died April 2012, aged 90

Shooter (ne Wallace)B 1942)ember 2012, aged 94

k Warren42) died January 2013, aged 95

Ward4, Diploma 1945)2012, aged 88

Coombs 5) died July 2012, aged 87

gg5) died March 2012, aged 88

ewport6) died July 2012, aged 92

hen Tonkin7, PhD 1980)ust 2012, aged 86

e Hughes7, Cert Ed 1948)ust 2012, aged 86

eynon7, Cert Ed 1950)ber 2012, aged 86

y Prime, Cert Ed 1949)ber 2012, aged 84

NorrisB 1948)ember 2012, aged 89

macombe8) died 2012, aged 85

Willford (ne Bick)) died November 2012

Henry Page(LLB 1949) died Jul y 2012, aged 86

David Salkeld(BSc 1949) died 2012, aged 84

Alec Bell(BA 1949, Cert Ed 1950)died October 2012, aged 91

Ren Bourion(PhD 1949) died July 2012

Dr John Cowie(BSc 1950, PhD 1953)died January 2013, aged 93

Dr Joan Ashley (ne Walker)(MB ChB 1950)died November 2012, aged 86

Kenneth Morgan(BA 1950, Cert Ed 1953)died September 2012, aged 83

Thomas Fowler(BSc 1950) died 2013, aged 91

Arthur Hand(BA 1950, Cert Ed 1951)died January 2012, aged 85

Dr John Hepworth(BSc 1950, MSc 1953)died 2012, aged 93

Wing Commander Stanley Page (BSc 1950) died 2012, aged 91

Emeritus Professor James Fletcher(BDS 1951) died 2013, aged 85

Suzanne Morse (BSc 1951, Cert Ed 1952)died December 2012, aged 82

The Rev Mr Douglas Hare (BA 1951)died September 2012, aged 85

Peter Meyer(BSc 1952) died October 2012, aged 87

Professor Emeritus Nancy Millis(PhD 1952) died 2012, aged 90

Joan Morgan (ne Smith)(BA 1952, Cert Ed 1953)died November 2012, aged 82

Professor Ranjan Daniel(PhD 1953) died 2012, aged 89

George Grigg(BA 1953) died August 2012, aged 79

Muriel Hackett (ne Crowther)(Testamur 1953) died 2012

Dr Raymond Glaister(BSc 1954, PhD 1958)died May 2012, aged 80

Keith Lye(BA 1954) died November 2012, aged 79

The Rev Ruth Rann (ne Webber-Taylor)(BA 1954) died May 2012, aged 79

Murray Bell(LLB 1955) died August 2012, aged 78

Dr Christopher Bowler (BSc 1955, PhD 1960)died June 2012, aged 80

Dr Ian Keil(BA 1955, PhD 1965) died 2012, aged 79

Dr Nancy Mercer (ne Baxter)(MB ChB 1955) died 2012, aged 81

Dr Jeffrey Neilson(MB ChB 1955) died August 2012, aged 79

Peter Stanford(BSc 1955) died June 2011, aged 78

Donald Lawson (BSc 1956) died December 2012, aged 77

Dr Terence Morley(MB ChB 1956)died September 2012, aged 83

Joy Bolton(BA 1956) died 1981, aged 46

Pauline Tait (ne Notley)(BA 1956) died 2012, aged 77

Helen Brandt (ne Floyd)(LLB 1957) died April 2012Jennifer Haskins (ne Hocking)(BA 1957) died 2012, aged 76

Dr David Mahy(MB ChB 1957)died December 2011, aged 79

Peter Young(PGCE 1957) died Januar y 2012, aged 81

Dr John Burchill(MB ChB 1958)died February 2012, aged 77

Dr Hugh Leather(MD 1958) died April 2012, aged 86

John Tully(BSc 1959, Cert Ed 1960)died May 2012, aged 74

Dr Carole Diffey (ne ODriscoll)(BA 1960, PhD 1965)died August 2012, aged 73

Derek Walker(BA 1960) died January 2013, aged 76

Christopher Joslin(BA 1961) died September 2012, aged 73

David Trowbridge(BVSc 1961) died October 2012, aged 74

Brian Hall(LLB 1964) died August 2012, aged 69

William Parker(BSc 1964, Cert Ed 1965) died November2012, aged 75

Dr Maria Danuta Siala (ne Piorkowska)

(MB ChB 1964) died June 2012, aged 74Michael Stammers(BA 1966) died January 2013, aged 69

Michael Gregory (BA 1967) died February 2012, aged 65

Elizabeth McMeekan(BSc 1968) died October 2012, aged 65

Alan Bull(LLB 1969) died November 2012, aged 65

Jill Reynolds(BSc 1969, Cert 1970) died 2012, aged 64

Peter Galpin(BA 1973) died October 2012, aged 62

Professor Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke(BA 1974) died 2012, aged 59

Christine Cogger(LLB 1975) died July 2012, aged 58

Andrew Stephens(BSc 1975) died April 2012, aged 57

Barbara Fielder (ne Spark)(BDS 1978) died 2012, aged 59

Alan Stephenson(BSc 1980) died November 2010, aged 53

Antony Wardell(BSc 1980) died July 2012, aged 53

Dr Jennifer Morgan (ne Ealand)(MB ChB 1981) died October 2012, aged 55

Shelagh Holland(BVSc 1982) died May 2012, aged 52

Dr Robert Scott

(BSc 1982) died September 2012, aged 51Professor Mbong Udofot(PhD 1985) died Januar y 2012, aged 71

Helen Bridges (ne Manley)(BSc 1988) died 2012, aged 45

Darren Tostevin(BEng 1990) died October 2012, aged 44

Frances Stevenson(BA 1990) died 2013, aged 45

Hayder-Aly Thanawalla(BSc 1995) died July 2012, aged 38

Sir Gabriel Horn(Hon DSc 2003) died 2012, aged 85

Alistair Chalmers(BA 2004) died June 2012, aged 31

Joe Surtees(BSc 2010) died August 2012, aged 23

Alexander Ward(MEng 2011) died July 2012, aged 23

John St Joseph(BSc 2012) died January 2013, aged 22

Leondis Gammack(Chemistry 2012-)died January 2013, aged 18

Due to an administrative error, the death ofFranklyn Bovey (BA 1956) was mistakenlyannounced in the Autumn 2012 editionof Nonesuch . He is alive and well, and weapologise for any concern caused.

Because of incorrect historical records,Kenneth Matthews degree date and agewere recorded incorrectly in the Autumn 2012edition of Nonesuch . Kenneth Matthewsgraduated in 1949 and died at the age of 87.

Please email any notifications of death [email protected]

Chronic fatigue syndrome

Feature

Fighting fatigueChronic fatigue syndrome in children is one of the lastunderexplored illnesses. Dr Esther Crawley has made ither special area, as both clinician and researcher, andher work is beginning to improve the lives of childrensuffering from chronic fatigue.

By Nick Riddle

f you were relying on certain parts omedia for your information, it mighthat chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS

known as myalgic encephalomyelitis ( sprang into existence in the 1980s, tawith the dismissive nickname of yupp

But its history extends much furt herto at least the 19th century, when outbrefeaturing strikingly similar symptoms fatigue, muscle and joint pain, headachediagnosed and newly named as neurasIt had other names, too, including the faAmericanitis, referring to its reputatiothen, as a disease of the wealthy.

Like most illnesses, chronic fatiguactually more common in situations of deprivation, says Dr Esther Crawley, Rin Child Health in the School of Social aCommunity Medicine. But its mostlyricher families who go to the doctor, hemisperception. The true picture of chrofatigue has also lacked another importaelement: its incidence in children. Crawhas made it her mission to put this r ight

Out of the shadows It was during her training in paediatricrheumatology that Crawley worked withof children suffering from chronic painfound that many of these children also sfrom chronic fatigue, and that the NHS hservices for them. So she applied for Deof Health funding to set up a paediatr ic ME service, which is based in Bath.

We began to realise how little we kabout chronic fatigue in children: how c

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ho it affects, how you can treat it, saysey. She was able to begin addressing theseons when the National Institute of Healthch (NIHR) awarded her a Clinicianst Fellowship in 2009. Subsequent workd in a series of resea rch publications,ng the rst paper to describe CFS iny schools. Crawleys team also began toide the condition into types and tracele areas of overlap with other conditions,s chronic migraine.

ng the cost eys research on chronic fatigue inn has uncovered some startling statistics:per cent of secondary schoolchildrensing a day a week of school with chronicsyndrome, and around 2 per cent ofr-olds are probably affected to a lesser. Worrying gures for a condition we

almost nothing about.paediatrics its kind of the last unknown says Crawley. Its impact on families and

yis huge: the child mi sses loads of schoolay well end up bedridden at some point.ow almost all of them get better, but wenow how long it takes, a nd we knowanything about treatment.

ch paper published by Crawley and heron links to socio-economic backgroundess in pregnancy, access to services for

adult sufferers, the cost to the economy, andmuch else besides helps to clarify another partof the picture. Meanwhile, the clinical side ofthe work aims to improve that picture.

Of the 300 or so children referred toCrawleys clinic every year, around 17 per centare too unwell to attend school at all. Part of herclinical work involves visiting those so severelyaffected that theyre unable to leave the house.I try to establish whether its chronic fatigueor something else, she explains. Often theyhave fatigue with something else, but its verydifcult to do research without making theircondition worse. But we need to understandmore about the illness, and why these childre nbecome so severely affected, before we ca n lookat ideas for treatment.

Early interventionNot all aspects of Cr awleys work are so fraughtwith difculty. Catching the condition earlyis proving particularly effective in preventinga vicious circle from developing.

Sleep is a good example, she says: If youfeel very tired , you tend to sleep longer, butover-sleeping reduces the restorative part of

your sleep, so you feel more tired, and yousleep for longer. Some children in my clinic aresleeping 20 hours a day and still feeling terr ible.

Hence her clinics emphasis on sleeprestriction: the children are encouraged tosleep for only as long as is norma l for their age.That simple strategy has drastically reducedthe amount of medication the clinic had beenprescribing to improve sleep. Not only that,says Crawley, but when she gave similar adviceto schoolchildren early in their illness, some ofthem came back to us later and said I d id what

you said, and Im completely better. So earlyintervention really is t he key.

Who makes that intervention was a questionthat Crawley took to a patient advisory groupat the Centre for Child and Adolescent Health.

I thought we could get a therapist or a doctorto go into a school and talk to the kids whoare missing school with fatig ue, she says.The teenagers in the advisory group liked it,but they didnt want a professional coming intoschool they said everyone would think Iwas a complete nutcase. We go to se e the schoolnurse about cool stuff like contraception andsmoking, so if we go to the school nurse,no one will know why weve gone.

The school nurse it was, then. Havingcompleted feasibility testing in Bath to seewhether school nurses could deliver theintervention, the next step is to get fundingto run a larger trial across the UK.

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nic fatigue syndrome Taken

This image, taken using one of the microscopes in the WolfsonBioimaging Facility , represents a milestone: the publication of the500th research paper to include data acquired in the Facility.

The image shows detail of a single Purkinjecell (a kind of neuron, here labelled green usingimmunouorescence) in the brain of a patientwith multiple sclerosis (MS).

The paper, by Dr Kevin Kemp and colleaguesin the School of Clinical Sciences and publishedin the journal Brain, used confocal microscopyto show for the rst time how circulating bone

marrow cells inltrate and fuse with Purkinje cellsto form heterokaryons (cells with two distinctnuclei) in the MS patients brains.

The researchers hypothesis is that thisformation is a natural strategy to introducehealthy nuclei or functional genes into aged ordegenerating cells. The prospect of enhancingthis inbuilt mechanism could open up an exciting

new avenue for treatment of inammatorybrain disease as well as a wide range ofneurodegenerative conditions of the cereb

The Facilitys extensive range of advanand electron microscopy systems supports a brange of biomedical and physical science reprojects throughout the University and beyobristol.ac.uk/biochemistry/wbif

OF SECONDARYHOOLCHILDRENE MISSING A DAY

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Priorities There are plenty of rese arch avenues tochoose from, all at varying stages in thefunding application process: studyingcognitive problems using MRI brain scanning;examining more closely the conditions linkswith maternal anxiety and depression (usingdata collected via the Universitys Childrenof the 90s project); and set ting up a global bio-resource of patients DNA, blood and urine,together with details of their symptoms, inorder to study the varieties of chronic fatigue

and their mechanisms. This is all importantwork; but the priority, Crawley emphasises,lies in helping patients as soon as possible.

The aim of my fellowship is to improve thediagnosis and management of children withchronic fatigue syndrome, she says. Thatswhat Im about. I always think that if I wasinvolved in a car crash, and my femoral arter ywas gushing blood sorry, thats a doctor thing

and I knew I only had ve minutes left, Iwould hope Id say At least I made a differenceto kids with chr onic fatigue.

Dr Esther Crawleys research is funded by NIHR, the Linbury Trust and the Ashden Trust, Research forPatient Benet and Action for ME .

MobileME

Managing chronic fatigue isespecially tough for children,says Crawley. She createdactivity monitoring charts, butmany children hated colouringthem in. After the team hadtried different ideas energydebit cards, even marbles a friend suggested an iPhoneapp. So Crawley worked withthe Royal National Hospitalfor Rheumatic Diseases , theNorthern CFS/ME ClinicalNetwork and Indigo Multimediato develop ActiveME, whichhelps patients monitor theiractivity and energy levels. Theapp won a Bright Ideas awardfrom NHS Innovations North.

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Helping future generations

bristol.ac.uk/centenarycampaign/how/legacies

We remember with pleasure and gratitude our own times at Bristolstudying rst as undergraduates and then as postgraduate scientists.We notice that recent political and economic pressures are drivinguniversities to work rst and foremost on teaching, and only on research

when it is aimed at a demonstrable benet to humanity. Researchwhere eventual outcomes, uses and impact are completely open andunmapped, but which has historically yielded exciting breakthroughs, isnow the poor relation, and is threatened with extinction. We give whatwe can now, but by specifying that our legacy to Bristol University beused for blue skies research, we are able to make a contribution torectify this unwelcome trend beyond our lifetimes.Dr Ted Moss (BSc 1966, MSc 1968, PhD 1971) and Dr Catherine (Kitty) Moss (BSc 1964, Testamur 1965, PhD 1970)

If you would like to know moreabout leaving a gift in your Will, pleasecontact Laura in condence either onthe phone, via email or through thepost and she will be delighted to getin contact at your convenience.

Contact: Laura SerratriceHead of FundraisingUniversity of Bristol, Senate House

Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TH

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