Avenue Issue 56 - University of Glasgow

Avenue
The magazine for alumni and friends of the University of Glasgow
Making the cut
We celebrate 50 years of student television
Walk this way
Glasgow’s new app to get
you walking
Big news for big data
And other research news
from across the University
Issue 56 June 2014
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Welcome
Contents
Welcome to the latest edition of Avenue, our twice-yearly magazine for alumni and
friends of the University.
News2
At the University’s London Burns Supper earlier this year, I had the pleasure of again talking
with television writer and producer Steven Moffat. Steven, as well as being a graduate of the
University, is a proud former GUSTie. Glasgow University Student Television (GUST) members
past and present are celebrating the station’s golden anniversary this year, and in this issue of
Avenue we take a look at how GUST has helped to kick-start the careers of many graduates
(page 8).
As well as celebrating 50 years of student television, we are preparing for a special year
of sport. The first ever Sport Alumni Ball will take place this summer, coinciding with the
Commonwealth Games in Glasgow (page 20). Also launching in time for the Games is a new
walking app called MyCity: Glasgow, which has been developed by a team of researchers
here at the University, along with local partners. You can download MyCity: Glasgow for free;
through the app you’ll discover Glasgow and improve your fitness at the same time. And you
don’t have to be in Glasgow to use it (page 12).
You’ll also notice that several articles tell you there’s more to read online. We’re dedicated
to advancing how we bring Avenue to you, and the new online version of the magazine not
only allows you more ways to access the articles, it means we can also bring you some extra
content, such as video or expanded versions of a story.
As always, I hope you enjoy reading this issue of Avenue and continue to get involved with the
University wherever you are in the world.
Recent activities and achievements
Making the cut
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Walk this way
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Careers in progress
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Alumni news and events
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Report to the General Council
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Glasgow celebrates 50 years of student
television
A new app to get you walking during
the Commonwealth Games
Career updates from alumni
Clubs, reunions and personal news
Minutes from the Half-Yearly Meeting
of the General Council, including the
Principal’s report
Obituaries25
Deaths of members of the General
Council
Exhibitions and events
What’s on at The Hunterian
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Half-Yearly Meeting of the
General Council
Saturday, 19 July 2014
Alumni are invited to join the Chancellor
and the Principal at the General Council
Half-Yearly Meeting on Saturday 19 July at
11am. The venue is to be confirmed.
Read the report of the last meeting on
pages 22 and 23.
Professor Anton Muscatelli
Principal and Vice-Chancellor
Cover image: Anna Garoucheva Gonzalez, current member of Glasgow University Student Television.
How to contact Avenue
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Editor: Lynne Maclagan
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News
News in brief
Big news for big data
New funding for wind tunnel
The University has been awarded £1.7 million
from the Engineering & Physical Sciences
Research Council and the UK Aerodynamics
Centre to upgrade one of the School of
Engineering’s four wind tunnels.
The University’s expertise in big data will
significantly expand thanks to £14 million
of funding from the Economic & Social
Research Council to establish the Urban Big
Data Research Centre in Glasgow, as well as
funding for three major research projects to
help analyse big data in the arts.
Glasgow is one of seven UK universities – the
only one in Scotland – that has been selected
to form the National Wind Tunnel Facility,
creating new opportunities for pioneering
aerodynamics and fluid dynamics research,
as well as aiding the development of key
technologies in the wind energy sector.
The Urban Big Data Research Centre is one
of three new data research centres for the UK
announced by the Minister for Universities and
Science, David Willetts MP. As lead partner in
the project, Glasgow will share in the
£14 million of funding to establish the centre.
The other partners are the Universities of
Edinburgh, Cambridge, Reading, Bristol and
Illinois-Chicago.
With plans being made to enhance the
capabilities of the tunnel, particularly by
introducing a gust facility and equipping it
with state-of-the-art diagnostic equipment
that will allow real-time measurement of
off- and on-body flows, the facilities will be
available for use by researchers and industry.
It will be able to simulate a wide variety of
environments to build understanding of both
low- and high-speed conditions. The UK’s
aerospace industry is the second largest in the
world, employing more than 230,000 people
and contributing £24 billion to the economy
each year.
‘Data is a huge priority for government as
it has the potential to transform public and
private sector organisations, drive research
and development, increase productivity and
innovation, and enable market-changing
products and services,’ says David Willetts MP.
‘The new data research centres will help the
UK grasp these opportunities and get ahead in
the global race.’
The unique facility will bring together a mix of
expertise in urban social sciences and data
sciences to address problems of dynamic
resource management, social justice, lifelong
learning and urban engagement.
Queen presents award to the University
A delegation of leading researchers from
the Boyd Orr Centre for Population &
Ecosystem Health went to Buckingham
Palace in late February to receive the
Queen’s Anniversary Prize. They were
joined by the Principal, Professor Anton
Muscatelli, and the Chancellor, Sir
Kenneth Calman.
The award recognises the centre’s applied
research into the links between human
activity, ecological changes and the overall
health of ecosystems that include humans,
livestock and wildlife. Recent research
themes have included diseases which
cross from animals to humans – zoonotics.
They include rabies, foot-and-mouth
disease, bovine tuberculosis and malaria.
The award also highlighted the success
of the centre in building close ties with
external research institutions to support
major research initiatives, including over
£40m in grant income from a diverse array
of UK and international funding sources.
The centre fosters collaboration between
researchers working across a wide range
of disciplines, including veterinary science,
mathematics, ecology, evolutionary biology,
physics, engineering, economics and the
social sciences.
Among its successes are:
• Major contributions leading to the
declaration of global canine rabies
elimination as an objective of the World
Health Organisation, Food and Agriculture
Organisation and the OIE (World
Organisation for Animal Health);
• An extended collaboration to pioneer the
use of whole-genome sequencing to trace
foot-and-mouth disease transmission;
• An extensive programme of work on the
epidemiology of bovine TB, including
the first ever use of whole genome
sequencing to track the disease between
hosts, and the development of innovative
approaches to surveillance at a national
scale;
• A partnership that includes 11 different
African institutes via the Wellcome Trustfunded Afrique One consortium.
Professor Rowland Kao, director of the
centre, says: ‘Our centre is committed to
breaking down traditional boundaries across
academia and promoting new research
partnerships that have a direct
and positive impact on communities around
the world.’
You can read about the centre’s
research at www.glasgow.ac.uk/
avenue.
Meanwhile, researchers from the University’s
College of Arts are building on their big data
capabilities thanks to funding from the Arts
& Humanities Research Council and the
Economic & Social Research Council.
Lexicographer Dr Susan Rennie will lead
one of these projects: the first ever historical
thesaurus of Scots, classifying every word in
the Scots language, from earliest records to
the present.
You can read more about this and the other projects at www.glasgow.ac.uk/
avenue.
Space research is go at Glasgow
Scottish space research has been given
a major boost with the announcement
of nearly £4 million in support for
projects on solar flares and the
exploration of Mars. The University’s
Space Glasgow group is spearheading
2 of 12 new UK-led projects that have
received funding from the European
Commission’s Seventh Framework
Programme for space-related
research.
Boost to talent scholarships
For the first time, the University has awarded
£2000 talent scholarships to 21 postgraduate
students from the talent scholarship fund.
The scholarships, supported by philanthropic
donations to the University, are for students
with excellent academic records, whose
financial circumstances mean that without this
funding they might not be able to take a place
at the University.
World lead in suicide prevention
Professor Rory O’Connor from the University’s
Institute of Health & Wellbeing has been
elected president of the International Academy
of Suicide Research for the next two years,
the first UK-based holder of the post. The
Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory,
which Professor O’Connor leads, is Scotland’s
leading research group looking at suicide and
self-harm, promoting collaboration between
researchers and experts working in social,
psychological and biomedical sciences.
Copyright for creatives
Creative industries contribute more than
£70 billion a year to the UK economy, and
a new website has been launched to help
those working in the music, film, literature,
visual arts and technology industries
through the complications of copyright law.
Academics from the Universities of Glasgow,
Bournemouth, Edinburgh, Reading, Exeter and
Strathclyde collaborated to write and develop
the new resource. www.copyrightuser.org
30 years since The Smiths
played QMU
It is 30 years since The Smiths played at
the Queen Margaret Union. On 2 March
1984, having reached number two in the UK
Albums Chart, the band played the Union as
part of their The Smiths Tour. Following the
band’s request for cut flowers, many dozens
of daffodils disappeared from the University
grounds that night and were later thrown into
the crowd.
Read the full stories online at
www.glasgow.ac.uk/avenue.
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News
News
Faces could show less
emotion than first
thought
It has long been believed that there are six
basic emotions universally recognised through
facial expressions regardless of language
or culture – happiness, sadness, fear, anger,
surprise and disgust. But researchers from the
Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology have
uncovered evidence that could challenge this
view, suggesting that there are in fact just
four, with fear and surprise sharing a common
signal – the wide open eyes – and anger and
disgust sharing the wrinkled nose.
Techniques and software developed at
the University enabled the study, which
is the first to objectively examine how the
brain coordinates its different regions for
the processing of facial expressions. The
Generative Face Grammar, developed by
Professor Philippe Schyns, Dr Oliver Garrod
and Dr Hui Yu, uses cameras to capture
a three-dimensional image of faces of
individuals trained to be able to activate all 42
individual facial muscles independently.
Studying the range of different muscles
within the face – or action units – involved
in signalling different emotions, as well as
the timeframe over which each muscle was
activated, the team found that fear/surprise,
and anger/disgust were confused at the early
stage of transmission, only becoming clearer
later when other action units were activated.
Students vote Edward Snowden as Rector
The University’s students have elected Edward Snowden as Rector for the next three
years. Mr Snowden, an American computer specialist and former CIA employee,
is currently a fugitive in Russia. The results of the online election were announced
to candidates and their supporters in the Bute Hall shortly after polls closed on 18
February.
‘I am humbled by and grateful to the
students of the University of Glasgow for
this historic statement in defence of our
shared values,’ says Mr Snowden. ‘We are
reminded by this bold decision that the
foundation of all learning is daring:
the courage to investigate, to experiment,
to inquire.
‘This election shows that the students of the
University intend to lead the way and it is
my great honour to serve as their Rector.’
The Rector is elected by the University’s
students and, as well as representing
the students, is ex-officio chairman of the
University Court, the body which administers
the University’s resources. In the run-up to
the election Mr Snowden was favourite to win
and won the election with a clear majority,
beating Alan Bissett, Kelvin Holdsworth and
Graeme Obree.
Edward Snowden follows in the steps of
Charles Kennedy, Rector for two terms,
from 2008 to 2014. ‘It has been a pleasure
and a privilege to serve the students of the
University for the past six years,’ says Mr
Kennedy. ‘The post of Rector is an important
one, and I would like to wish my successor
all the very best for his term of office.’
Lead researcher Dr Rachael Jack says:
‘Our results are consistent with evolutionary
predictions, where signals are designed
by both biological and social evolutionary
pressures to optimise their function. What
our research shows is that not all facial
muscles appear simultaneously during facial
expressions, but rather develop over time.’
The findings were published in the journal
Current Biology.
Our changing campus
The third and final round of public engagement on the Campus Development
Framework, which will guide the reshaping of the Gilmorehill campus, drew to a close in
May. The consultation gave University staff and students, and the wider general public,
the opportunity to express their views in a survey. A public exhibition outlining the vision
for the future development was on display in the John McIntyre Building during April.
www.glasgow.ac.uk/campusdevelopment.
Meanwhile, other sites around the University are also being improved, see below:
New building for virus research
Change of SCENE
Dental School developments
The MRC-University of Glasgow Centre
for Virus Research (CVR), which is
currently split between the Garscube
campus and the Gilmorehill campus,
will move to one site at Garscube this
summer. A new building, which will
significantly enhance the centre’s
laboratory facilities, will open alongside
the existing Garscube CVR facilities.
The University’s teaching capacity in
ecology and environmental sciences will
significantly expand with the opening
of a new facility this summer at the
Scottish Centre for Ecology & the Natural
Environment’s (SCENE) site in the Loch
Lomond & Trossachs National Park.
Doors opened to a new and muchneeded clinical research and training
facility at Glasgow Dental School in May.
The CVR works not only on human diseases
but also animal diseases, which is unique
in the UK, and it has the largest number of
human and veterinarian virologists working
together. It was set up in 2010 as the result
of a competition by the Medical Research
Council, which was seeking to establish a
centre for excellence in virology in the UK.
The new building will have both wet and dry
laboratories; a bioinformatic hub; a cryoelectron microscopy suite; laboratories for
viruses which require biosafety containment;
insectaries – to study viruses transmitted via
insects which are expanding worldwide; as
well as tissue biobanks.
‘Since the centre was established
the number of our researchers and
postgraduate students has steadily risen,’
says Professor Massimo Palmarini, director
of the CVR. ‘Nevertheless, we have been
operating in two different sites of the
University. The construction of this new
building in the Garscube campus will allow
the relocation of the CVR to a single site.
This will facilitate research collaborations –
the foundations of all we do!’
This latest phase in SCENE’s development is
part of a £7m investment that will help the field
station boost the number of students being
trained in field biology from the current 600 to
1,600 over the next three years.
The research wing opened in 2007 and has
been recognised by a number of awards,
including the Carbon Trust’s ‘Low Carbon
Building’ award. Also sensitively designed to
its surrounding environment, the new teaching
facility includes a laboratory with 45 bench
spaces, a lecture and dining hall and other
learning resources such as an invertebrate
specimen room.
Benefitting from the natural environment on
the field station’s doorstep, SCENE leads on
teaching, training and research in ecology
and environmental sciences, and is run by the
University’s Institute of Biodiversity, Animal
Health & Comparative Medicine.
Professor Colin Adams, director of SCENE,
says: ‘This development of our excellent field
teaching facilities will further consolidate the
University as the place to study ecology and
environmental topics.’
The £230,000 joint University and NHS
project saw a clinical techniques facility on
level 7 that was no longer needed converted
into a combined clinical research facility
and area for basic life support training. The
facility is named in honour of Dr Jim Rennie
CBE, former Dean of postgraduate dental
education for Scotland and erstwhile senior
lecturer in Pathology at Glasgow.
‘I welcome this development, which is an
excellent example of partnership working
between the University and the NHS,’ says
Professor Anna Dominiczak, Vice-Principal
and Head of the College of Medical,
Veterinary & Life Sciences. ‘The new facility
provides very valuable support for the
flourishing research portfolio within the
Dental School, whilst the life support training
area will further enhance the undergraduate
student experience.’
The bespoke accommodation has two
dedicated chairs, an essential resource for
academic staff and postgraduate students
conducting clinical trials. The life support
training area includes technology such as
video-recording so that students can review
their performance in detail and make faster
progress.
To read more about the school’s developments and its history, see
www.glasgow.ac.uk/avenue.
Get involved
Glasgow graduates and academic staff automatically become members of the General Council. Members can be a part of the conversation
on how the campus develops by attending General Council meetings. There you will be able to hear what is happening, how the consultation
has progressed and voice your thoughts. Find out more about the General Council and dates of the next meeting on page 22.
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News
News
Tackling Type 2
diabetes
Saved from closure
It seems a distant memory now. But it
is only 25 years since a government
determined to cut public spending tried
to close Glasgow’s School of Veterinary
Medicine.
‘They primarily looked at the costs of
different university courses and at future
manpower,’ says Professor Peter Holmes,
a head of department then and an editor of
the school’s history.* ‘Medical courses were
subsidised by the NHS, so the six UK vet
schools came out at the highest cost per
student.’
Closure of two schools, including Glasgow,
was recommended and that was almost the
end of a distinguished history that began
in 1862. ‘It was devastating news,’ says
Professor Holmes. ‘We were determined to
fight.’
Sir James Armour was the new Dean of the
school. ‘William Kerr Fraser had just been
appointed Principal of the University,’ he
says. ‘So it was almost the first thing on both
our desks.’
‘The year-long campaign that rallied
domestic and international support was a
wonderful team effort,’ says Sir James. ‘We
got tremendous backing from the University.’
Researchers from Glasgow’s School of
Medicine are collaborating with Newcastle
University in a Diabetes UK funded project
that will look at whether following a lowcalorie diet could put Type 2 diabetes into
remission.
Support from the Evening Times and the
Herald was also crucial, says Professor
Holmes. ‘We received letters from all over the
world, saying “You can’t close Glasgow Vet
School”.’
Eventually the powerful campaign – 700,000
people signed the petition – swayed the
government and the school was saved.
The £2.4 million research project, the largest
single research project Diabetes UK has
funded in its 79-year history, will involve
140 people with Type 2 diabetes spending
between 8 and 20 weeks consuming just
800 calories per day, mainly in the form
of nutritionally complete formula shakes.
As normal meals are reintroduced, they
will learn how to permanently change their
lifestyle.
The strength of feeling then has been
supported by hard facts since, says
Professor Ewan Cameron, the current
Head of School. ‘It was supposed to be
a manpower survey but they got it wrong.
Student numbers in UK vet schools have
increased steadily and new schools are
opening.
‘Glasgow’s School of Veterinary Medicine has
gone from strength to strength. But we have
always been strong – both in research and in
teaching. They got it right in the end.’
* Glasgow Veterinary School 1862–2012.
University of Glasgow. It is available to buy
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Finding Franklin
Fresh analysis of forensic and other
historical data by Glasgow scientists has
cast new light on the fate of Captain Sir
John Franklin’s Royal Navy expedition to
find the Northwest Passage nearly 170
years ago.
The disappearance of the Franklin expedition,
which set off in 1845, made international
headlines and led to the biggest search and
rescue mission in history.
The expedition was the first to use canned
supplies, and in the 1980s Canadian scientists
found high levels of lead in ice-preserved
remains, prompting the theory that lead
poisoning played a large part in the men’s
deaths. But Professor Keith Millar of the
Institute of Health & Wellbeing and Professor
Adrian Bowman of the School of Mathematics
& Statistics, working with their colleague,
archaeologist and author William Battersby,
have found that while there was evidence of
lead poisoning, rates were in line with normal
rates for 19th-century Britain.
Statistical estimation showed great variation
in lead levels, suggesting that only some of
the men had symptoms. This is backed up by
written records from the expedition, showing
that the first two years went well, with the
crew doing extensive exploration on land and
building winter camps. This would not have
been possible if they had all suffered from lead
poisoning, which causes psychological and
neurological damage.
It is now known that the expedition set out at
a time when Arctic climatic conditions were
unusually harsh. The two ships became
trapped for two winters in a remote region
where neither rescue nor escape was possible.
Participants will be monitored over two
years, and results compared to another 140
people with Type 2 diabetes following what
is currently accepted as the best advice for
managing weight. Some will have MRI scans
to help researchers understand what is
happening inside their body.
‘The reason for doing this research is that
we do not know whether the extra effort, and
possible stress, of following a very restrictive
diet for several months will indeed bring
benefits in the long term,’ says Professor of
Human Nutrition Mike Lean (pictured). ‘This
is why we need to study sufficient numbers
of people for long enough to be sure that the
benefits outweigh the costs.’
Free online learning
The University’s first Massively Open
Online Course (MOOC) started in May. The
course – ‘Cancer in the 21st Century’ – is
one of two Glasgow courses to launch this
year on FutureLearn, a UK-led platform for
delivering high quality, free, online courses.
The second course, ‘Right vs Might in
International Relations’ starts on 23 June
and runs for six weeks.
Glasgow is one of 26 university partners of
FutureLearn, which is backed by the Open
University. While not credit-bearing, free,
online courses are seen as an excellent way
for increasing knowledge and interest in
different subject areas.
Professor Frank Coton, Vice-Principal for
Learning & Teaching, said: ‘Our partnership
with FutureLearn will allow us to reach
out to a whole new group of learners and
underlines the commitment of this University
to widening access to education.’
The University will be launching more
courses, see www.futurelearn.com.
TEDx connects
The University hosted its first TEDxUniversityof
Glasgow conference on 15 March. At the
event, speakers from the University and
further afield shared ideas and experiences
around the theme of connectivity, broken down
into technology, multiculturalism and intersubjectivity.
Seven of the University’s international
students led the TEDx programme, which
brought people together to build on the TED
(Technology, Entertainment, Design) ethos
of Ideas Worth Spreading. The non-profit
organisation, which began in California 26
years ago, hopes that TEDx events around
the world will help people to connect the best
stories, ideas and experiences, which will
inspire world-changing thinking and initiatives.
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Making the cut
Glasgow celebrates 50 years of student television,
where many of television’s writers, producers and
presenters cut their teeth and learned the skills needed
to get ahead in television.
When Glasgow University Student Television
(GUST) was founded in 1964, it was
a standalone society dedicated to the
appreciation of a relatively new phenomenon.
Today, it is an integral part of the student
media arm of the Students’ Representative
Council, serving as both a social outlet for
students and a University-funded service. For
the 50 years in between, GUST has been the
impetus for the forging of lifelong friendships,
the winning of countless awards and the
carving out of fledgling careers in what is a
notoriously competitive industry.
television stations with really cheap cameras,’
says former GUST controller and Scotland
Tonight assistant producer James Cheyne
(MA 2005). ‘Right now, there’s almost certainly
a future Jeremy Paxman, Kirsty Wark, Ewan
McGregor or Steven Spielberg hanging about
in one of these university offices somewhere,
waiting to be discovered. Student TV is
giving them the opportunities to develop, the
opportunities to learn, the opportunities so that
when they go to a job interview, they’re just
going to blow them out of the water.’
Television writer and producer Steven Moffat
(MA 1983), of Doctor Who and Sherlock
fame, believes GUST certainly influenced
his and others career direction. Among his
contemporaries, John Hardie (MA 1983)
now runs ITN, Hamish Barbour (MA 1983) is
MD of IWC Media, and married couple Peter
Jamieson (MA 1984) and Julia Knowles (MA
1983) are each renowned producer-directors
in their own right. There continues to be a
great success rate among recent ‘GUSTies’ in
securing employment in television journalism
or production.
‘Right now, there’s almost
certainly a future Jeremy
Paxman, Kirsty Wark, Ewan
McGregor or Steven Spielberg
hanging about in one of these
university offices somewhere,
waiting to be discovered.’
A lasting legacy
Enthusiasm for the station lasts long after
members graduate. Though no longer a
student of the University, former controller
Bobby Rae (MA 2011, LLB 2013) is still an
honorary GUST member. Having given seven
years’ service to the station, Bobby has been
drafted in as GUST 50 coordinator. Piecing
together the evolution of the station has been a
long and steady process, and there are many
gaps still to be filled. Much like the technical
knowledge of the longest continually operating
student-run television station in the world*,
GUST’s history has been passed on from one
cohort of members to the next.
‘No one comes in to teach us how to do
things,’ says Bobby. ‘Quite often what happens
is that members will go out on work experience
placements where they learn skills and they
then bring those skills back to teach others.
The big thing about the GUST 50 project is
creating a legacy and part of that is about
ensuring that people continue to pass on their
knowledge and skills. So as well as beginning
to archive our footage, we have written various
working practice guides that will be accessible
via a dedicated microsite.’
Former GUSTies who now work in the industry
shared their expertise with current members
and students in a day of workshops held as
part of this year’s celebrations. The workshops
touched on all aspects of TV, from making
news and drama to production management.
Bobby Rae is GUST’s 50th
anniversary coordinator.
‘It’s almost frightening to think of the power
that’s being developed in small student
James Cheyne, assistant producer,
Scotland Tonight
Broadcasting bonus
In 1967 the University established a television
studio in Southpark House that remains in
use to this day by the University’s own Media
Production Unit and Film & Television Studies
students. GUST jumped at the chance to
use the new facility and by the early 1970s
the station was starting to look a lot like it
does today. The National Student Television
Association (NaSTA) was established in 1973,
with GUST one of its founding members.
An amazing stroke of luck meant that GUST
was able to buy a radio frequency (RF)
transmission line at some point in the late
1980s or early 1990s. Legend has it that the
price paid was just £1, as it was purchased
from a BT subsidiary that was going out of
business. The RF line gave GUST a direct
Picture opposite:
Caption....
Former GUSTie Kirsty Malcolm now works as an STV News video journalist.
*According to NaSTA
2004
Rather than transmit
dead air, GUST would
switch to a camera
pointed on the office
goldfish Gustav.
Gustav died live on
air while the crew
were eating a latenight dinner in the
Union.
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1960s
Programmes were
not recorded in the
early days, but played
live in lecture theatres
and other parts of the
campus.
1973
The National
Student Television
Association (NaSTA)
was established,
with GUST one of its
founding members.
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1964
Glasgow University
Student Television
was founded as a
standalone society
dedicated to the
appreciation of what
was a relatively new
phenomenon.
1967
The University
established their
television studio in
Southpark House,
and it is still in use
today by the Media
Production Unit, Film
& Television Studies
students and GUST.
Late 80s/early 90s
Legend has it that
GUST bought a RF
line for just £1, which
allowed them to
transmit programmes
across campus, with
screens in places like
the QM and the Hub.
Mid-2000s
GUST stopped
broadcasting via
the RF line when the
company who owned
it sold it off and it
wasn’t replaced.
feed from the office to the studio and then
out across the campus. For almost 20
years, Glasgow students could tune in to the
latest GUST programmes on screens in the
QMU and GUU and even in student halls of
residence.
the recent switchover from taped-based to
high-definition cameras, a laborious and costly
process.
GUST programming has always been a
mixture of the serious and the not-so-serious.
Among the Betamax tapes to be catalogued
and archived is footage of celebrities like Jude
Law and Sean Pertwee being interviewed
together before they went stellar, and Stephen
Fry discussing ‘his G-Spot’ in a tongue-incheek promo for the station’s now 20-yearold arts programme. The first music video of
Glasgow alumna and multi-award winning
singer songwriter Emeli Sandé, Kill the Boy,
was directed and produced by none other
than GUST.
The annual NaSTA conference and awards
is one of the most eagerly anticipated
events of the year and GUST throws itself
wholeheartedly into preparations. Compiling
entries invariably necessitates all-night editing
sessions and the journey to the host university
is often an event in itself. While smaller stations
send just one or two delegates, the band of
30 eager GUSTies that made the 12-hour
pilgrimage to Exeter by bus in 2013 is typical
of past turnouts.
Rather than transmit dead air when it ran out
of programmes to broadcast, GUST trained
a camera on the office goldfish. Gustav was
the station’s placeholder until the day he died
on air – so the story goes – just as the crew
had settled down to eat dinner in the Union
refectory.
Chris Hall (MA 2007), who now works
alongside property experts Kirstie Allsopp and
Phil Spencer as senior production coordinator
at Raise the Roof, remembers hearing about
Gustav’s death by text message. ‘I seem to
remember text messages going round saying
Gustav is dead,’ says Chris, who became
GUST’s Controller in 2005, the year after
Gustav’s death. ‘People were watching the
dead fish floating around for about an hour
until we realised.’
It was also during Chris’s time with GUST that
the station stopped broadcasting via the RF
Line, when the line was sold off and then not
replaced. The station began posting more and
more videos online, a trend that has continued.
Digital broadcasting has since allowed student
TV to really take off, and all of the Glasgow
station’s programmes are now available online
at www.gust.tv. Live broadcasts include the
Freshers’ address. Quality has improved with
‘Most student TV stations have enormous
budgets, which obviously does increase
production values,’ says Technical Coordinator
Arif Nadeem. ‘Most of our programmes don’t
really require any budget at all and whatever
money we have goes towards equipment. I
think one of the reasons we do so well at the
NaSTA awards is because we show that you
don’t have to have the best equipment, it’s
about the idea and how you execute it with
what you do have.’
Betamax gems
GUST is run by the ‘top four’ – the controller,
two heads of programming (creative and
factual) and the technical coordinator – and
currently has 64 members. It is the only
student media team that’s elected, with the
successful candidates taking up their posts
for the following session in July. This allows
plenty of time to prepare for Freshers’ Week,
an intense period in the GUST calendar. More
Freshers’ Week programming was produced in
2013 than ever before.
‘We produced five programmes every single
day,’ says current controller Alicja Tokarska
(pictured below), whose personal highlight
was interviewing The Maccabees, who DJ’d
at the QMU. ‘That is usually a 24/7 process –
the office is never empty. This year, Go Think
Big reviewed Freshers’ Week coverage from
universities all around the country and ours
was selected as the best in the UK.’
The crew was there to tell the story when
the Bower Building went up in flames, and
covering serious news has brought GUST
industry attention on more than one occasion.
When BBC News had a technical glitch
while trying to cover the student protests,
it was GUST that stepped in to film on the
team’s behalf. In the 1990s, BBC Scotland
commissioning editor Ewan Angus enlisted
GUST to produce a student night that went out
on BBC2. And two of the crew famously filmed
the Edinburgh riots that kicked off during
the G8 summit in 2005, having ‘embedded’
themselves with a group of anarchists.
For James Cheyne, the footage helped to
secure him one of six places on the highly
coveted Sky graduate trainee programme.
‘We filmed this incredible footage,’ he says. ‘It
turned very violent quite unexpectedly – people
were running into traffic and were hit by cars,
cars were turned over. We marched up to the
mainstream media, some of whom had pulled
back a bit, and offered them the footage for
£300. In the end, I settled for £150 and a good
word for the Sky News traineeship.
‘I think I was the only candidate accepted who
didn’t have a journalism-related degree or
postgrad and that was down to the experience
that I had had in GUST.’
NaSTA-tastic
Testament to the talent and hard graft of crew
old and new is the shelf heaving with awards
that skirts the perimeter of the GUST office in
the John McIntyre Building. GUST has been
crowned Best Broadcaster more than any
other student TV station in the UK and at its
peak took the top NaSTA title ten years in
a row.
2014
GUST celebrates
50 years of student
television and looks
forward to continuing
to evolve with the
ever-changing world
of television.
2004/2005
The station
purchased the www.
gust.tv domain and
began posting more
and more videos
online.
2011
GUST updates its
technology and buys
its first high-definition
digital camera.
Were you a member
of GUST?
Help Bobby piece
together a full and
accurate story of
GUST’s history. This
article and timeline
shows some of what
we think we know so
far, but we need past
members to help
confirm these dates
and fill in the gaps.
Email your memories
and photos to gust50@
gust.tv.
STV News video journalist Kirsty Malcolm (MA
2010), who joined GUST in 2005, was heavily
involved in preparations when Glasgow hosted
the NaSTA conference in 2010. She credits
the experience with giving her opportunities
she would otherwise never have had to make
industry contacts – some of whom she is still in
touch with today.
‘Nobody likes you just asking for work
experience – you have to be more inventive
than that,’ says Kirsty. ‘Saying that you’re
organising the National Student Television
Association awards sounds really good and
you get to talk to people you probably wouldn’t
get to talk to normally. Even the year before
the awards I used it as an opener to ask STV
director of content Alan Clements for his
contact details. Everyone else was going up
and giving him their CVs, but he didn’t give his
contact details to anyone else from GUST that
night.
‘Some people are in GUST to be creative
or just for the fun of it. But if you are on a
bit of a mission to get somewhere, it is very
good at helping you to make those industry
connections.’
Steven Moffat’s screenwriting tips
Don’t believe the hype
There’s no such thing as talent, and people who believe in talent are just making excuses
for themselves. People think you’re born with a certain amount of ability and that isn’t
improvable. That maybe is true for running but it’s not true for writing.
Hone your skills
Becoming a writer is more possible than you think and way harder. Writing is a craft and
you can get as good as you want to be.
‘Once someone has been in GUST for a
couple of years it does stay with them,’ says
Bobby. ‘No matter how successful you get or
where you go in television, you know that it all
began in a little office at the top of the John
McIntyre building.’
Write about what you love
You can read more about the experiences and memories of GUST members past and present online, see www.glasgow.
ac.uk/avenue.
Success is only the moment in your life when what you happen to like doing happens to
be what everyone likes watching. It’s not a great moment of genius on your part: you just
got lucky.
Anniversary celebrations
A dinner and party to celebrate 50 years of
GUST will take place in October, and it’s
expected to sell out fast. For more information
and tickets, see www.gust.tv/50.
Don’t try and write what you think other people would like because you don’t know. Forget
looking at research and what people are into these days. Just write the thing you really
want to do.
Keep it in perspective
Explore all avenues
It’s the people that you meet and the things that you do at university that can really help
you. Certainly being involved with GUST was one of them, and from my generation a load
of GUST members got on television and became big names.
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Walk this way
Take up walking, improve your fitness and discover the city
of Glasgow at the same time. The University is launching
a new app to encourage us all to do just that, and it can be
used from anywhere in the world.
You don’t have to be an elite athlete competing
in the Commonwealth Games to be fit and
healthy. All you need to do is walk. The catch,
of course, is that it has to be regular – 150
minutes a week, according to the latest
recommendations. So, among its preparations
for the Games, the University has developed
an app that will get us motivated and keep us
moving.
‘It’s called MyCity: Glasgow and we plan to
launch it on 23 June, in time for the Games,’
says Dr Cindy Gray at the Institute of Health &
Wellbeing. ‘There will be versions for Android
and iPhone and it will be free.’
Based firmly on behaviour change research,
the app adapts to the user, says Dr Gray. ‘The
first day you get no target. Next day it sets
you 1,000 steps. So it’s training you to use it.
From then on it looks at your activity over the
previous days to calculate your goal each day.
If you sit behind a desk, your goal will be lower.
If you walk lots, it’ll be higher. But it will always
be achievable. We want people to play the
game and to show the concept works.’
The feature that gives the app its name is the
set of links to landmarks around the city – in
this case, Glasgow. ‘It’s a pilot study,’ says Dr
Gray. ‘If it works well, we can readily adapt it to
other sporting events in other cities. So, once
you’ve chosen your avatar and your country,
from those competing at the Games, the goals
you achieve and the engagement you show
with Glasgow will go towards your country’s
position on the MyCity leaderboard.’
Avatars that appeal to people were
crowdsourced, Dr Gray says. ‘So, we’ve got
a boy, a girl, a panda – we’re hoping there
might be a pregnancy – a duck, a giraffe, an
octopus. They will have athletes’ names, so
the dog will be Wiggins, the duck Daley, and
so on.’
The app, which has been produced in
partnership with Dr Marilyn McGee-Lennon at
Strathclyde University, Glasgow Life, Glasgow
City Marketing Bureau and Glasgow 2014,
takes advantage of built-in smartphone
features, such as GPS for location and an
accelerometer for counting steps. ‘If you
have it in your pocket or your bag, it registers
reasonably brisk walking, but not shuffling
around the house,’ says Dr Gray. ‘We’ve been
working closely with Computing Science and
they developed the software to count the
steps.’
A user’s sense of accomplishment comes
not just from reaching their walking goals but
from building the city, she says. ‘Each time
you reach your daily goal a new Glasgow
building appears on your screen. There are 42
buildings incorporated in the app, so the game
is designed to run for six weeks before and
during the Commonwealth Games. Over that
period, you ‘build’ the city of Glasgow, with all
the Games venues and iconic buildings, such
as the Mitchell Library, the City Chambers, the
School of Art and the People’s Palace.’
The app can be used to motivate walking
anywhere in the world, but the added value
from using it in Glasgow during the Games
comes from earning rewards by undertaking
challenges, such as walking the Games
Marathon Route or completing MyCity treasure
trails.
‘There will also be a prize draw for people
who keep using the app,’ says Dr Gray. ‘The
Institute of Health & Wellbeing is all about
sustained behaviour change. We want people
to become more active and to keep it going.
MyCity: Glasgow will help them do that.’
Gold-winning game changers
The MyCity: Glasgow app received its
own Gold medal in the Creative & Cultural
category at the Game Changer awards in
April. Universities Scotland and Colleges
Scotland teamed up to host this one-off award
ceremony to recognise and celebrate the
many contributions that staff and students
in Scotland’s further and higher education
sectors are making to ensure that Glasgow
2014 is a fantastic success and delivers
an enduring legacy. A total of 21 colleges
and universities took away medals, with the
University winning three Gold, two Silver and
two Bronze medals for initiatives they were
either leading on or working on along with
other universities.
Download for free
From 23 June MyCity: Glasgow can be
downloaded free from Google Play or the
Apple Store.
Around the Games
• Researchers at the University are
engaged in a number of projects relating
to the preparation, management and
legacy arising from the Games; including
research programmes looking at the
promotion of physical fitness, the security
of the Games and the impact of the
Games in the East End of Glasgow.
• In July we are co-hosts with the
University of Edinburgh for 33Fifty,
a Commonwealth Youth Leadership
programme which will see 100 young
people spend two days at the University,
participating in seminars, workshops and
masterclasses.
• At the University’s annual
Commemoration Day on 18 June,
the President of the Commonwealth
Games Federation, HRH Prince Tunku
Imran, and the Secretary-General of the
Commonwealth of Nations, General
Kamalesh Sharma, will be awarded with
honorary degrees.
• From 9 to 11 June, the University will host
the Scottish Student Sport’s annual threeday conference.
• The University’s chaplain, the Reverend
Stuart MacQuarrie, will be chaplain to the
2014 Commonwealth Games.
• The University is holding a varied cultural
programme of events at the University
before and around the Games, including
music events and a Scottish Gold
exhibition at The Hunterian.
You can find out more about
the University’s Commonwealth
Games activities, events and
research at www.glasgow.ac.uk/
commonwealthgames.
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Careers in progress
From following a passion to finding a niche, three alumni
share their career stories. Avenue speaks to entrepreneur Carol
Deeney, legal director and football lover Patrick Stewart and
statistician and blogger Graeme Archer.
Caption
A way with words and numbers
Graeme Archer, BSc 1990, PhD 1994
Current position: Director of clinical
statistics with GlaxoSmithKline and
Telegraph political columnist
Entrepreneurial spirit
Learning how to work as a self-directed
investigator through his time at university has
pushed Graeme Archer in directions he never
would have imagined.
Carol Deeney, MA 2008
Current position: Founder and owner of
Deeney’s Scottish Flavour, London
As director of clinical statistics for
GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) Alternative Discovery
& Development group, Graeme leads
groundbreaking research and development in
drugs for ophthalmology, rare diseases and
the emerging markets. In his spare time, he
turns the analytical skills honed during his PhD
in statistical inference to writing an acclaimed
political column for the Telegraph.
Carol has been serving up a taste of Scotland
at markets across London since 2012. The
success of her haggis toastie – the ‘Macbeth’
– inspired her to launch the Deeney’s haggis
range in time for Burns Night.
Q: How did you get into running your own
business?
A: I moved to London to work in advertising.
But after almost three years I really wanted
to get back into hospitality – I grew up in my
parents’ restaurant. Street food was a low-risk
option to get things off the ground. I quite
quickly built up some good markets and,
now that I have some staff, we do weddings,
ceilidhs and festivals too.
Q: How did your time at the University help?
A: Some might struggle with where to start,
but my degree gave me knowledge of every
area of business planning. I was also exposed
to some fantastic ideas at Enterprise Society
meetings. But the big thing for me was doing
my third year at the University of Toronto, that
was a fantastic learning curve.
Q: How are you growing the business?
A: We have worked with Bel’s Butcher in
Edzell to develop our own haggis range, which
includes the 2kg Chieftain for the Address to
a Haggis. We brought the range to our stall in
time for Burns Night and now it’s about getting
it into retail shops and small supermarkets to
reach as many people in London as possible.
Q: What do you love about what you do?
A: There’s such a buzz. I love meeting new
people and going to new places. That sort
of freshness in my job is great. I like that it is
quite demanding too. You have to constantly
problem-solve – how do I get there, what will
I need, what’s the weather going to be like –
and the excitement keeps you going. There’s
also fantastic flexibility. Essentially you make
your own decisions.
Q: Where do you see yourself going next?
A: Ultimately, my dream is to have a
restaurant, where I can just turn the key and
everything is there. But there will also be the
outside catering, the market stalls and stalls at
festivals and other events. It’s about having as
many different aspects of the business running
at once. I have this opportunity – I might as
well try it all and see what works.
www.deeneys.com
Graeme enjoyed university life all the more
during his second degree, and by the time he
handed in his thesis, he was set on staying
on at Glasgow. But the research post that had
Graeme’s name on it turned out to be in Italy.
Following five years at the Joint Research
Centre of the European Commission, Graeme
returned to the UK to join GSK in 1998.
For the love of football
Patrick Stewart, LLB 1994
Current position: Director of legal &
business affairs at Manchester United
Had it not been for the Erasmus student
exchange programme, Patrick Stewart would
probably not be where he is just now – director
of legal & business affairs at Manchester
United.
Patrick, who was brought up in Aberdeen,
became one of the first in-house lawyers to be
appointed by a football club, north or south
of the border, when he moved to Manchester
United in March 2006. But that career success
might never have been achieved had he
not been the first-ever Law student at the
University to take part in Erasmus, established
in 1987 by the European Union.
The programme took him to the University of
Mainz in Germany in 1991, where he studied
Law through German for a year, improving his
language skills, studying new aspects of law,
but most importantly, stepping outside what he
describes as his comfort zone.
After practising at two law firms in Edinburgh
– W & J Burness (as it then was) and Maclay,
Murray & Spens, where he worked on a shirt
sponsorship deal for Hibs with Le Coq Sportif
– he realised that it was possible to marry his
love for football with his legal training.
That career-changing moment led to a
position with Team Marketing, the Lucernebased marketing agency that deals with the
sponsorship and television rights for the UEFA
Champions League.
‘My German and my experience in Mainz were
absolutely pivotal to getting that job,’ he says.
It in turn led to his dream job as Manchester
United’s first in-house lawyer, where a wideranging legal role includes negotiation of a
record-breaking shirt sponsorship deal with US
car brand Chevrolet and professional contracts
for players and managers.
Patrick’s academic mentor was Jim Murdoch,
Professor of Public Law, who was recently
appointed international dean for mobility.
Patrick was also a founder member of the
Kelvin Ensemble, in which he played the
French horn.
Carol, Patrick and Graeme have
given a little of their time through
the Glasgow Careers Alumni
Network, a global community that
supports the future employability
of our students. You can too,
see www.glasgow.ac.uk/
glasgowcareersalumninetwork.
Statistics isn’t Graeme’s only passion. During
his time at the University, he found refuge in
the English literature section of the library,
and specifically in Iris Murdoch’s novels. He
was also a member of the Glasgow University
Young Conservatives and remains as
committed to the party today.
Graeme talks fondly of his time at Glasgow:
‘The left and right sides of my brain were
brought to maturity by the daily run of the
place – both the academic side and the
culture of it all.’
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Alumni news
Alumni news
Notes from No 2
Executive of the year
Karina collects Young Alumnus Award
News from Emily Howie, alumni manager
in the Development & Alumni Office at
No 2 The Square.
We had a busy and enjoyable start to
2014, with a number of successful alumni
events happening around the world. It was
encouraging to see how well supported
and attended these events have been, and
in particular to see our international alumni
having the chance to celebrate their Scottish
heritage at our Burns Suppers. You can read
about these on page 21.
There are a number of other celebrations
coming up that will bring together alumni
who are linked by their similar interests, and
notably this year it’ll be alumni who took part
in sport or student television during their
time at the University.
As you will have read in the GUST feature
story (see page 8), Glasgow’s student
television station is celebrating a very
special anniversary this year. It’s wonderful
to see that past and present members will
have the chance to get together this October
to celebrate the evolution and achievements
of the station, which has had a huge impact
on the careers of so many graduates.
Another association that has played a
major role in the university experience
and sporting careers of countless alumni
is Glasgow University Sports Association
(GUSA, or GUAC as it was previously
known). Past members, along with alumni
who participated in sport during their time
at the University, will attend the University’s
first Sport Alumni Ball on 19 July, just before
the Commonwealth Games kicks off in
Glasgow.
I’ve been enjoying the buzz around Glasgow
as it gears up for the beginning of the
Games. The University has been holding
a number of public events, and here in
the Development & Alumni Office we have
also enjoyed following the journey of the
Commonwealth Games Queen’s Baton
Relay. After having travelled an impressive
190,000km in just 288 days, the baton
returns to Glasgow in time for the Games’
opening ceremony on 23 July. You can find
out more about what’s happening at the
University around the Games on page 12.
In the last issue of Avenue, I asked for your
photos and stories of the MacBrayne Halls.
Thank you to everyone who has sent me
interesting stories and photos so far; keep
them coming. I would also like to hear from
alumni who stayed in Queen Margaret Halls
in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. If you were a
resident, please get in touch and share your
stories and memories.
Thank you for taking the time to read this
latest issue of Avenue, and I hope you’ve
also had a look at the online version of the
magazine, where we feature extra content,
including expanded news, history, videos
and alumni stories. See www.glasgow.
ac.uk/avenue.
Please continue to send me your news and
reunions to: [email protected], or
Development & Alumni Office, 2 The Square,
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ.
At the University’s Christmas dinner,
Chancellor Sir Kenneth Calman presented
conservation pioneer Karina Atkinson (BSc
2007) with the prestigious Young Alumnus of
the Year Award 2013 for her work in Paraguay.
‘When I found out that I’d won the award, I was
very surprised and also humbled to be a part
of it,’ says Karina, who runs the award-winning
conservation organisation Para La Tierra in
Paraguay. ‘There are lots of people around the
world doing fantastic and important work and
I’m really lucky to be part of that network. My
time at Glasgow gave me the self-confidence
to do the things I wanted to do; it inspired me
to follow my dreams.’
The former student from Wishaw, now
president and chief executive officer of the
tech company F5 Networks, was awarded
the title of 2013 Executive of the Year by the
Puget Sound Business Journal. Previous
holders of the annual award include Jeff
Raikes, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, and the Amazon.com founder
Jeff Bezos.
John took over F5 Networks in 2000, just
before the bottom fell out of the dotcom
market. But he has diversified the company
and grown it from a staff of 300 to 3,500 in the
intervening years.
It is all a far cry from when he graduated with
a first-class class Honours degree in 1972
when the technology was still in its infancy
and he worked with an English Electric KDF9
computer which filled a whole room and
was less powerful than an iPhone is today.
John completed his computer studies with a
scholarship from one of the early computer
technology companies in Scotland, Honeywell,
and remembers his time at university fondly:
‘Computing was as exciting then as it is now.’
To read more about John’s career, see www.glasgow.ac.uk/avenue.
Commemorating 100 years since WW1
To mark 100 years since WW1, the University
has established a Commemoration Group
to coordinate the centenary activities. The
Great War impacted on the whole University,
with contribution and sacrifice cutting across
boundaries between staff and students
and across all faculties. Reconciliation and
education will be important themes, with many
events planned for the University Memorial
Chapel, itself opened in 1929 to mark the loss
of so many friends and colleagues. There are
currently 761 names of the Fallen recorded
in the Chapel. With information now widely
available online, new names are continually
being submitted for inclusion in both the Rolls
of Service and the Fallen. To ensure the story is
as complete as possible, the group welcome
more submissions. You can email your story to
[email protected].
Scientist wins top award
Dr Martin Lavery (BSc 2009, PhD 2013), a
postdoctoral researcher in the School of
Physics & Astronomy has been awarded the
Scopus Young Researcher Award 2013. The
member of the University’s optics group was
the winner in the physical sciences category,
thanks largely to his published research into
the properties and applications of orbital
angular momentum – the property of light that
gives it a twist.
New Year Honours 2014
Dr Donald A Cameron (BSc 1961, DEng)
received an MBE for services to Design &
Manufacturing.
Professor Anthony O B Finn (MA 1974)
received a CBE for services to Education.
Students studying in Queen Margaret Halls in 1964.
John McAdam (BSc 1972), one of
the University’s earliest graduates in
computing science, has won one of
the most illustrious business titles in
Seattle, recognised as the US centre of
technology since the 1980s.
Emeritus Professor Peter W MacFarlane (BSc
1964, PhD, DSc) received a CBE for services
to Healthcare.
To find out about commemoration activities
and events see www.glasgow.ac.uk/ww1.
Auld students of Kolkata
Glasgow Auld Students of Kolkata recently
celebrated their 60th anniversary with a special
dinner on 11 January and a musical evening
on 22 February at the Indian Council for
Cultural Relations, Kolkata.
Asoke Kumar Mukherjee, who graduated in
1961 with a BSc in Civil Engineering, was just
16 years old when he arrived in Glasgow. ‘So
to all intents and purposes, our friends and
classmates became our families.’
The group, graduates from the universities of
Glasgow and Strathclyde, regularly meet to
catch up, socialise and reminisce about their
time in Glasgow. Several members studied in
Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s, and can recall
a time when there was no such thing as emails
and telephone calls, and when a six-week wait
for a letter from home was the norm.
Prabhat Kumar Bisnu, convener of the
Glasgow Auld Students group since 1963,
agreed: ‘Glasgow is our second home: the
experience, the friends, the countryside visits
and above all the Scottish people’s affection
towards us made it unforgettable. I’ve never
visited Glasgow since 1962 but I miss it from
the core of my heart.’
‘When we went to Glasgow in the 1950s we
felt that we had left our home forever,’ says
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Reunion reports
Reunion reports
Organising a reunion?
GUVM ’52 Year Club
We can provide advice and help you with
contacting your classmates. To submit
a notice for inclusion in the next Avenue,
please contact the Alumni Office on the
details below.
The year has met regularly since the 25year reunion held at the Royal Society of
Medicine, London in 1977.
Ten members of the year, together with
partners, convened at the Pond Hotel on
Friday 4 October 2013 for a buffet supper.
On Saturday we toured Garscube; the
highlights of the tour were the visits to the
Weipers Equine Centre and the new Small
Animal Hospital, to which many of us had
contributed. We had an enjoyable time
talking to staff, who had kindly interrupted
their weekend to show us round. Our thanks
to Sandy Love and colleagues for their time,
and our further thanks to Sarah Hunter of the
Alumni Office for the excellent organisation.
In the evening, we gathered for our last
Reunion Dinner with much reminiscing about
our student days. We finished the evening
with our traditional toast to absent friends,
many of whom had been remembered with
affection during the course of the evening.
We parted company on Sunday morning,
vowing to keep in touch.
The reunion notice should include the
class and year, dates, location, contact
details and a very short description.
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0)141 330 7146
www.glasgow.ac.uk/alumni
BVMS Class of 1963
Fourteen of our graduating year of 38
students, three of whom were female, got
together to celebrate the anniversary of their
final year at the School of Veterinary Medicine.
On Saturday morning, we assembled at
the Small Animal Hospital at Garscube. We
started with a tour of the new hospital, and
our jaws continued to drop as we passed
from consulting to operating rooms and the
imaging suite. At the Weipers Equine Centre
we received a warm welcome from Professor
Sandy Love. Our eyes were opened to the new
farm animal teaching unit and we reminisced
about days in the byres and loose boxes
under the eagle eye of Professor Ian McIntyre.
The evening saw us in the Bothy on Byres
Road where a Scottish menu, along with many
a dram, enhanced the telling of yarns and
escapades. After the meal, the tales continued
into the wee small hours until we admitted
that our stamina was fading. We vowed that
we would see each other in five years back in
Glasgow.
1988 graduates
Over 260 guests enjoyed a delicious meal in
the Bute Hall at the 2013 Christmas dinner.
The University Chapel Choir once again
entertained the guests with a wonderful
Christmas repertoire. A special welcome was
given to those celebrating their jubilee reunion,
marking 25 years since their graduation.
Karina Atkinson (BSc 2007) was awarded the
Young Alumnus of the Year Award for 2013
and proposed the toast to the Alma Mater. See
Karina’s photo on page 16.
The 2014 Christmas dinner will take place on
Saturday 6 December. A special welcome will
extend to the 1989 group.
1968 Civil Engineers
Twenty-five graduates from 1968 with their partners enjoyed yet another reunion dinner
– this time the 45th – in Randolph Hall at the University. This group holds a formal dinner
every five years, with other activities in between, such as weekends away, beer nights and
informal lunches. It has also established the GU68 Engineers Trust, to help engineering
students of today with their project work, and has made 34 awards so far. The trust was
funded originally by the 1968 graduates, but is now being supported by other years. If
you want to get involved in any of the above in the future, contact either Hugh, email
[email protected] or Andy, email [email protected].
1983 BDS
1988 Chemistry
After 30 years with only one reunion –
celebrating 10 years since graduation – it
takes a fair bit of effort to organise a weekend
get-together. Thanks to Annibale Coia,
Alyson Wray, Viv Binnie and David Watson,
the Accidental Dental Graduates of 1983
gathered in Glasgow from 21 to 23 June 2013
to celebrate.
Late September 2013 saw a gathering of the
Chemistry class of 1988 to celebrate 25 years
since graduation. Although numbers attending
were slightly lower than in 2008, when the
class held a 20-year reunion, an enjoyable
weekend was had by all. It was a great
opportunity to renew friendships and relive
memories, some of which are now fading
slightly. A meal and drinks in the city centre
on the Friday night (and the wee hours of
Saturday) was followed by a leisurely morning
stroll up Woodlands Road in glorious weather
to the School of Chemistry where Professor
Joe Connolly treated the class to an extensive
tour of the facilities – where things really have
changed in 25 years!
Most of the group met for a drink and chat at
Òran Mór on the Friday night. Others joined for
the meal and drinks reception at the Central
Hotel on the Saturday night, making it a total
of 47 present. We were entertained by a trio
of musicians and heard some reminiscences
from Alasdair Buchanan and Father Desmond
Keegan. An excellent slide show was put
together by Ross MacRae and gave us a
chance to see edited highlights of our time as
students.
We remembered two of our number (Mike
Herbert and Chris Hogg) who are sadly no
longer with us, as well as those who could not
join us on this occasion.
Overall it was a very successful and enjoyable
event, with many lost friendships rekindled.
After coffee and cakes with an assortment of
class photos from 1988, kindly provided by Dr
Bob Peacock, the group settled in on Ashton
Lane to really drink in (pun intended) the
wonderful West End atmosphere. More former
classmates arrived and a great evening of
chat, Byres Road pubs and pakora ensued.
Once again it had been a fantastic weekend.
Some of the classmates had travelled long
distances from abroad to be there – just
showing how strong the pull of renewed
friendship and this wonderful place is. The next
gathering is planned for 2018 (if not before) in
Glasgow.
Vet alumni reunion weekend 2013
(Vet 151)
The School of Veterinary Medicine’s reunion
weekends go from strength to strength.
The Vet Alumni Reunion Dinner will take place
on 1 November 2014. For more details contact
[email protected] or call
+44 (0) 141 330 7145.
On Friday 30 October and Saturday 1
November 2013, the School of Veterinary
Medicine welcomed back many graduates
and friends, including reunion groups who
graduated in years ending 3 and 8.
The weekend included the Sir William Weipers
Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor
Os Jarrett, tours of the Vet School and a
CPD programme. This was followed by a
celebration reunion dinner and ceilidh in the
Bute Hall, which was attended by over 220
graduates. For details of the next vet alumni
reunion dinner see page 20.
Glasgow University Aberdeen Club
Queen Margaret Halls mini-reunion
On 8 November 2013, at the Royal Northern
and University Club, 60 members and
guests thoroughly enjoyed the annual
dinner of the Aberdeen Club. Speeches
were given by Professor Gordon Cameron,
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University
of Aberdeen; Professor Sir Graeme Catto,
Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the
University of Aberdeen and former Chairman
of the General Medical Council of Scotland;
and from Vice-Principal Professor Frank Coton,
who brought everyone up-to-date with current
developments at the University.
In September 2013, four Queen Margaret Hall
residents from 1959–1961, Gillian Walters (née
Fisher), Elizabeth Hunter (née Walker), Shirin
Lockhat (née Vawda) and Parveen Mirza (née
Sufi) spent a weekend together at Elizabeth’s
house near Cambridge and, of course, being
ladies, they lunched in Cambridge.
The president of the club, Sheriff Douglas
Cusine, presented Professor Frank Coton with
a cheque for £600 for the scholarships fund.
The club meets three times a year and new
members are always welcome. For further
information contact Evelyn Dobson, tel +44
(0)1224 868275.
Glasgow University Women’s Club
London
The club held a very enjoyable spring lunch on
Saturday 1 March at St Columba’s, Pont St,
with 31 members and guests in attendance.
Lunch was followed by an interesting talk by
Steve Hawe of the charity Beanstalk, which
provides voluntary reading help in schools
across the country.
For more information on how to join, or if
you would like to attend an event as a guest,
please contact the membership secretary:
Marjorie Bremner, membership@gu-london.
org.uk. www.gu-london.org.uk.
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Reunion notices
Alumni events
1979 Delta Club
Friday, 31 October to Sunday, 2 November
2014, St Andrews
Delta 79 Medical Year Club is holding its
35th reunion at The Old Course Hotel in St
Andrews.
Contact: Gail Addis, email gail.addis@mac.
com
GUST Golden Anniversary
18 October 2014, Glasgow University
Union
A dinner and after-party, including a ceilidh
and DJ, to celebrate 50 years of Glasgow
University Student Television. For more
information and tickets, see
www.gust.tv/50.
Sport Alumni Ball
Saturday, 19 July 2014, Glasgow
Sport & Recreation invite you to reminisce with
old friends and teammates, whether you were
an active participator in sport or a proactive
member of GUAC or GUSA (as it is now
known) at the inaugural Sport Alumni Ball in
Glasgow. For more information and to book,
see www.glasgow.ac.uk/alumni/events.
2014 Christmas Dinner
Saturday, 6 December 2014
A special welcome is extended to 1989
graduates who will be celebrating 25 years
since graduating.
Contact: Email [email protected]
Commemoration Day on Wednesday 18 June.
Contact: Olive Melvin, email bill.melvin@
btinternet.com or call +44 (0)1563 820 958
1964 History
Advance notice: September 2014
Several of the 1960–64 class hope to gather
for a reunion at the University in midSeptember. Arrangements are at the planning
stage and we need your support. Please get
in touch if you would like to be involved to
celebrate 50 years since graduation.
Contact: Beth Melrose, email:
[email protected]
1964 Notre Dame
Friday, 7 November 2014
Contact: Evelyn Dobson, call +44 (0)1224
868275
Vet Alumni Reunion 2014 (Vet 151)
1964–67/68 Law
Saturday, 1 November 2014
The Vet Alumni Reunion Dinner
Contact: Sarah Hunter, email Sarah.Hunter@
glasgow.ac.uk or call +44 (0)141 330 7145
Friday, 17 October 2014
A 50-year reunion dinner is being planned
for 17 October 2014 for all those who began
their LLB degree course in 1964 – a once in a
lifetime experience.
Contact: Morag Macdonald Simpson, email
[email protected]
1954 Natural Philosophy
Summer 2014, Glasgow
The Nat Phil 1954 class might be gathering
for a reunion at the University in the summer
of 2014. To gauge interest Alan Cairnie is
contacting classmates and would be delighted
to hear from any.
Contact: Alan Cairnie, email cairnie@cogeco.
ca or call +1 613 341 8681
1964 Classics
Saturday, 21 June 2014
A reunion to celebrate 50 years since
graduation.
Contact: Gordon Hepburn, email gordon@
hepburn13.freeserve.co.uk
1964 Dental Year Group
Tuesday, 17 to Thursday, 19 June 2014,
Glasgow
A 50th Anniversary reunion of this group will
be held from Tuesday 17 to Thursday 19
June 2014 in Glasgow. This will include the
Hong Kong
1979 Pharmacology
Thursday, 28 August 2014, Randolph Hall
A reunion to celebrate the 50th anniversary of
our graduation. We will have Mass at 11.30am
at the University Chapel, followed by lunch in
the Randolph Hall.
Contact: Helen Tennant (Dawson), email
[email protected]
University of Glasgow Club of
Aberdeen
Alumni around the world get together to celebrate their connection with the University of Glasgow.
Representatives from the University attend these social events to meet with, encourage and grow
our esteemed network of graduate, current and future students. To find out about these events,
including dates and locations, see www.glasgow.ac.uk/alumni/events.
1969–1975 Delta Club
Friday, 17 to Sunday, 19 April 2015, Dunkeld
The 1975 Delta Club is having its 40th reunion
in April 2015. The reunion will take place at the
Hilton Dunkeld House Hotel.
Contact: Muriel Smith (Shannon) at
[email protected] or Bill Thomson
at [email protected]
1973/4 Biochemistry Reunion
Saturday, 21 June 2014, Glasgow
We have contacted most of you, and over
20 people will be attending the reunion. We
would like to find everyone who started Junior
Honours Biochemistry in 1972. If you are
interested and/or have contact details for other
class members please get in touch.
Contact: Alistair Lax, email alistair.lax@kcl.
ac.uk
October 2014
A reunion is planned for October 2014.
Contact: Ian Thomson, email IanChris@
madasafish.com
1984 Chemistry
Botswana
September 2014, Glasgow
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Honours
Chemistry Class of 1984, Stuart Cameron is
looking into the possibility of holding a class
reunion. Get in touch if you are interested.
Contact: Stuart Cameron, email scameron@
btinternet.com
Queen’s Baton Relay welcomed by graduates
in Botswana on 30 January.
1984 Delta Club
Saturday, 4 to Sunday, 5 October 2014,
Glasgow
The 1984 Delta Club is having its 30th reunion
in October. The highlight will be a dinner at the
University on Saturday, 4 October.
Contact: Helen Hunter, email info@delta84.
co.uk
1989 BSc Geology Class
August 2014
There is going to be a reunion of the 1989 BSc
Geology graduates in August 2014, to mark a
quarter of a century since graduating (a drop
in the ocean in geological time).
Contact: Ian Bray, email iansjbray@yahoo.
co.uk
Boston
20 February 2014
The Boston Burns Supper made a welcome
return in February at the Hampshire House in
Boston. The event was well supported with
over 60 alumni, applicants and friends in
attendance. A group of current study abroad
students from Glasgow, who were midway
through their study abroad year at Boston
College, also joined the event. Singer Kirsten
Cairns performed as part of the evening’s
entertainment, and the musical trio of Tom
Pixton, Mike Macnintch and Jen Schoonerver
kept guests on the dance floor. Special
thanks go to our Boston Alumni Association
coordinator Stewart Craig (BSc 2000, EdD
2013) for his help in organising the event.
Delta 94 Year Club
Saturday, 13 September 2014, Glasgow
The Delta 94 year club reunion will take place
in September in Glasgow.
Contact: Juliet Sim, email [email protected]
London
17 January 2014
2014 saw another successful London Burns
Supper at the Caledonian Club. Clark McGinn
(MA 1983) delivered a spectacular Address
to the Haggis and a highly entertaining Toast
to the Immortal Memory. The entertainment
continued with Robert Barr, who gave the
Toast to the Lassies, followed by Professor
Adrienne Scullion’s Reply; both had the room
captivated. The dinner was followed by a very
energetic ceilidh. Thanks go to Tunnocks, who
sponsored the evening. The 2015 event will
take place on Friday, 16 January.
Mainz
Jakarta
26 January 2014
Alumni were invited to the Four Seasons Hotel,
Jakarta for a Burns-themed night with an
address by Scots alumnus Scott Younger, as
well as Scottish drinks, snacks, poems and
songs. This was followed by a rousing ceilidh,
courtesy of the band Adwi Adwaito and the
Jockarta Ceilidh Crew. The crowd danced
to the best-loved Scottish country dances
including Strip The Willow, The Dashing White
Sergeant and The Gay Gordons.
1994 Geology
July 2014
The reunion will take place at the University.
Please get in touch for more information or if
you would like to attend.
Contact: Graham Bryce, email graham@
dugeo.com
23 November 2013
Professor Nick Pearce, Head of the School
of Culture & Creative Arts, opened the first
exhibition devoted to the images of China
taken by the Scottish photographer John
Thomson (1837–1921) at the Hong Kong
Maritime Museum. Born in Edinburgh
two years before the invention of the
daguerreotype and the birth of photography,
Thomson first travelled to Asia in 1862, where
he set up a professional photographic studio.
Over 40 graduates and their guests joined the
sellout crowd to listen to Professor Pearce’s
talk about Thomson’s legacy and the many
challenges encountered by a photographer at
that time. The event concluded with a private
drinks reception hosted by the Principal, who
updated those in attendance with the latest
news from Glasgow.
his family for very kindly opening up their home
for the occasion and for their most generous
hospitality. A highlight of the evening included
the pipes and drums performance by a
detachment of the Malaysia Pipe Band Club,
who plan to travel to Glasgow to attend the
World Pipe Band Championships in 2014.
5 December 2013
Some 25 German alumni attended a
festive event at the Kurfürstliches Schloss
in Mainz. The drinks reception was hosted
by the University’s Vice-Principal of
Internationalisation and International Dean for
Europe, Professor James Conroy. Professor
Conroy made a presentation to the audience,
which underlined the continuing strong links
between Glasgow and Germany, and gave an
overview of forthcoming campus development
at Gilmorehill. Alumni were encouraged to sign
up to the Glasgow Careers Alumni Network
(now in its second year) and to join the Ask
Our Alumni scheme to help support current
students in their career path.
Chicago
22 February 2014
Over 60 alumni, guests and prospective
students came together at the University Club
of Chicago for the popular Chicago Burns
Supper. Professor David Fearn, international
dean for the Americas, welcomed guests and
thanked all in attendance for their support
of the University’s initiatives. Alumnus and
well-known Burns enthusiast Clark McGinn
(MA 1983) took centre stage to Address the
Haggis. Dr Alexander D Macrae (BSc 1983)
and Dr Jane M Tiller (MBChB 1986) delivered
an entertaining Toast to the Lassies and Reply
respectively. Special thanks to musical group
Glen Ayre and Dave Johnston for keeping the
ceilidh going into the wee small hours.
New York City
Kuala Lumpur
20 October 2013
The Principal was delighted to invite alumni
to an open house evening hosted at the
residence of Patrick Russell (LLB 1986). Even
with the torrential rain, the evening was a great
success. Many thanks must go to Patrick and
5 December 2013
Frances Shepherd, vice-president international
development, and Emma Sloan, international
development officer, invited alumni and friends
to join them for an informal pre-holiday drinks
evening at the Houndstooth Pub. Alumni
enjoyed the opportunity to catch up with fellow
graduates from the local area and to meet old
friends and new.
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The General Council
General Council Business Committee
and convener’s comments
In my role as convener for the General Council Business Committee I really enjoy
getting involved in the discussions around the future wellbeing and prosperity of the
University.
If you are a graduate or a member of academic staff of the University, then you are
a member of the General Council. You can attend the Half-Yearly Meetings of the
General Council, and, like myself, you could get involved with the General Council
Business Committee.
The committee has 20 elected members. We meet five times a year and are involved
in the governance of the University. As the University has exciting plans ahead
to reshape the campus, it’s a particularly significant time to be involved with the
Business Committee.
We have vacancies coming up. Could you bring fresh ideas and perspectives? If
you’re interested in getting involved with the Business Committee then we’d love to
hear from you. Please email [email protected].
George Tait, convener
General Council Business Committee
Date of next meeting
Saturday, 19 July 2014, 11am. Venue is to be confirmed.
The General Council of the University was set up by Act
of Parliament to give voice to the views of the graduates
and academic staff on the regulation and wellbeing of the
University.
A report prepared for the General Council
by Robert Marshall, Clerk to the General
Council. [email protected].
The last General Council meeting was held on
Saturday, 1 February 2014 in the Sir Charles
Wilson Lecture Theatre on the University’s
Gilmorehill Campus. The Chancellor, Professor
Sir Kenneth Calman, was in the chair.
This article contains an abbreviated
description of the business of the meeting.
A full minute can be found at www.glasgow.
ac.uk/gcreports.
Election of General Council Business
Committee Members
Three Members were elected to serve on the
General Council (GC) Business Committee:
Kate Dunlop (LLB 2007); Gerry Law (BSc
1980); Lesley Sutherland (MA 1973).
Report of the Business Committee
Convener, Mr George Tait
Modernisation and Communication: the
Committee remains focused on modernisation:
improved GC meeting format and better
information; live streaming of the meeting;
high-quality video recording.
Business Committee Meetings: Themes
include: better relationships with Court, Senate
and academic staff; communication with GC
Members through the Development & Alumni
Office; better GC presence on web and social
media.
Business Committee Matters: Court
proposes to reduce the number of GC
Assessors when making other changes to the
composition of Court as part of the process
of complying with the new Code of Higher
Education Governance. Further consultation
will take place.
Western Infirmary Site: the Business
Committee has contributed to the consultation
taking place about the University’s acquisition
of the whole Western Infirmary site.
E-Learning: Professor Frank Coton, VicePrincipal for Teaching and Learning, briefed
the Committee.
Science & Engineering College: Professor
John Chapman, Vice-Principal and Head of
the College of Science & Engineering, briefed
the Committee on College progress.
Independence contingencies: Secretary of
Court David Newall organised an exercise to
consider University issues that might arise out
of a ‘Yes’ vote.
Principal’s Report, by Principal & ViceChancellor, Professor Anton Muscatelli
Governance: the Principal explained changes
in governance of Higher Education Institutions,
recognising the value of drawing on a range
of skills and experience to guide the University
in the 21st century. SFC funding will be a
condition of compliance with the new Scottish
Governance Code, including a change in
Court composition via an Ordinance. Because
of the Ordinance process, the date of the next
half-yearly GC Meeting will not be set until later
in the year. Council will be advised of the date
and venue of the next meeting.
Financial Growth: the University is doing
exceedingly well; growth was 7.3% on a
turnover of £450m (2011–12 to 2012–13),
allowing investments in the run-up to the
Research Excellence Framework exercise,
including over £16m in new staff.
Glasgow 2020: Key Objectives are to: deliver
an excellent student experience; deliver
excellent research; extend the University’s
global reach and reputation.
Enhancement-led Institutional Review
(ELIR): this exercise is held every five years
and is required by the Scottish Funding
Council. As in 2004 and 2009, the University
is expected to receive the highest possible
outcome for 2013.
Research: the financial measure of research
success is measured by research spend. The
University reached its largest order book ever
in the current academic year (over £210m).
Global Excellence Initiative: Benefits of
restructuring: as a result of restructuring, the
University is able to put together complex
interdisciplinary bids, with exciting results.
For the third time, it has been awarded the
Queen’s Anniversary Prize (for the Boyd Orr
Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health).
REF Submission: 32 Units of Assessment were
submitted. Only research at 4-star (worldleading) and 3-star (internationally excellent)
will be funded.
Internationalisation: third key objective of
the 2020 strategy: to extend the University’s
global reach and reputation. The international
student population has nearly doubled
over the past four years. In the International
Student Barometer survey, the University is
again top of the Russell Group for Student
Satisfaction (89% of students satisfied).
International research income has grown by
£5.4m. International partnerships have been
established in places such as Columbia (NY),
Nankai University (China); Chengdu (China)
and Singapore. Finally, the University has
steadily climbed the ranks of the QS World
University league tables.
Support of Friends and Alumni: the
University could not have achieved its current
position without the support and help of
donors and supporters. It is very grateful and
hopes that this support will continue, as the
University develops its new ambitious campus
development plan following acquisition of
the Western site (2015). The University’s
investment strategy in people and facilities
over the next 10–15 years could reach
£500–750m.
Q&A: in answer to questions, Principal noted
that: Russell Group graduates tend to do
better in employability and societal impact
over the longer term; the review of Modern
Languages in 2010–11 took place to better
align provision with student interest and the
School of Modern Languages & Cultures is
now meeting increased demand, and led to
additional investment in the school which is
doing extremely well at present. The University
was keen to expand language provision in
areas of high student demand. The impact of
zero-hour contracts at the University had been
exaggerated and in this University they were
used primarily for people who valued flexible
contracts, including postgraduate students
and retired staff. However, the University was
committed to continue to review the use of
these contracts with the trade unions.
Closure of the Meeting
The Chancellor thanked all those present and
informed the meeting that the date and venue
for the next meeting would be announced in
good time when the governance process was
clearer.
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The General Council
Paper A: Report by the Principal
Deaths of Members of the General Council
noted from March 2013 to February 2014
On Saturday, 22 February 2014 we welcomed the Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and
friends for the annual Snell dinner. Normally this is held in Balliol College but this year we
hosted the dinner in the Bute Hall. Over 220 guests attended.
Names are listed alphabetically within each year of graduation decade.
The dinner celebrated our links with Balliol
and in particular the legacy of John Snell of
Colmonell, who in the latter half of the 17th
century established a fund to support students
from Glasgow to attend Balliol. They became
known as the Snell exhibitioners. From that
small beginning great things happened. The
roll call of Snell exhibitioners is distinguished,
among them Adam Smith. Snell’s generosity
and initiative not only benefited individuals, but
forged the links with Balliol we celebrate to this
day.
In a way the dinner was a timely reminder
of our timeless validity. It was a coming
together of two great institutions which
believe in the liberating and empowering
benefits of education. But our capacity to
deliver this mission rests on some important
fundamentals.
We must be financially sound. We’ve worked
to achieve this. Over 2011/12 to 2012/13 we’ve
managed a growth in income of 7.27% and
this growth is reflected across all our colleges.
Our budget for 2013/14 projects further growth
(7.3%), and again this is projected across all
colleges.
This success relies principally in our capacity
to grow our teaching and research income,
something, as I reported at the General
Council meeting in February, we’ve managed
to achieve.
But this success in turn depends on
us achieving excellence in the student
experience, research and global reach, our
three strategic priorities.
Assessing our excellence
Measuring ourselves against the best is
therefore important. The University has been
in the throes of completing two major external
assessment exercises which help drive the
excellence agenda and identify and validate
our excellence wherever it exists.
One assessment focuses on the quality of
our student experience and the academic
standards of our awards. It is called the
Enhancement-led Institutional Review (ELIR).
Required by the Scottish Funding Council and
carried out by the Quality Assurance Agency
(Scotland), the University must submit a
‘reflective analysis’, a substantial document
which provides an overview of all learning and
teaching activities and our own assessment
of our performance in this area. The University
was then visited by an external team (19–20
February and again on 24–28 March 2014)
who met with a range of colleagues. The
outcome of the review is received in early April.
The University was reviewed in 2004 and 2009
and received the highest possible outcome.
1930–1939
Bennett, George Alestair Alison (Rev), MA 1934, died
24/04/2013
We want to achieve this again and we believe
we will.
Bews, James, MA 1937, died 15/11/2013
The quality of our research is also assessed
externally and across the UK by the Research
Excellence Framework (REF) exercise. We
completed our submission in November.
Staff and their research were returned in 32
Units of Assessment along with case studies
on impact; a total of 4,090 outputs were
submitted.
The biggest change over previous assessment
exercises was the requirement to identify the
impact of our research. Though a challenging
exercise, it reveals, at least in part, the
importance of what we do across business
and industry, the physical world, the arts and
culture, history and heritage, education, health
and wellbeing, policy and governance.
The outcome of REF 2014 will be notified to
institutions in December 2014 and, critically, it
will have consequences for our grant funding
in 2015/16.
Creating partnerships
As John Snell reminds us, the quality of
what we do also relies on, and creates,
partnerships. Recent successes, such as
securing the lead role in two multi-million
pound innovation centres (Stratified Medicine
Scotland and CENSIS), receiving a share
of £14 million funding to create and host a
unique ESRC facility: The Urban Big Data
Research Centre, or the success of our Boyd
Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystems
Health in winning a Queen’s Anniversary Prize
(the latter two are featured in this edition of
Avenue) prove the point. They’re all built on
collaborative, multidisciplinary approaches that
blend a mix of internal and external, national
and international, partnerships.
And again, like Snell, our partnerships
are intended to enhance the staff/student
experience. The recent launch of an innovative
early career scheme with our strategic partner,
the University of Columbia (New York),
enabled nine PhD students and postdoctoral
researchers from Glasgow to travel to New
York, and three Columbia researchers to come
here to benefit from resources and specialisms
not available at home. By September 2013
we established two international hubs/
campuses: one in Singapore, and one in
Chengdu (China), with a Joint Graduate
School with Nankai University Tianjin planned
for autumn 2014. I visited Nankai in March to
take our discussions forward. This will be the
first joint UK–Chinese graduate school. By
2016 Glasgow will have over 2,000 students
studying for Glasgow degrees in China and
Singapore.
Davidson, Elizabeth (Mrs Walker), MA 1933, died
30/03/2013
Fearon, Agnes Louisa (Mrs Curran), MA 1938, died
25/12/2012
Haughton, Frank (Rev), MA 1937, died 31/03/2013
Logan, William Philip Dowie (Dr), BSc 1936, MBCGD,
MD, DPh, died 11/12/2012
Lumsden, James Alexander, MBE, LLB 1938, died
31/03/2013
Investing in our resources
But our potential to deliver excellence depends
too on investing in our resources and estate.
John Snell didn’t just fund a scholarship. He
donated books to our library and gave funding
to complete the bell tower of the Old College.
Development of our campus is vital, and this
edition of Avenue highlights the importance
we give to this strategy, particularly over the
months that lie ahead. Our ambition will be
translated into an estates strategy which will go
to our governing body towards the end of 2014
for approval.
If approved, our investment in people and
facilities over the next 10–15 years could reach
£600–750m, a bigger capital investment than
the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and a
huge boost for the economy.
As Snell reminds us, we’ve relied on the help
and support of alumni, friends and trusts to
deliver our plans. The minutes of the February
General Council meeting record just what an
impact such support has had. Over the last
15 years, £41m of the total cost of new builds
(£101m) was raised through philanthropic
funds. We are what we are today – a research
powerhouse and a place of teaching
excellence – because people have believed in
us and what we can achieve.
John Snell understood the value of giving to
people and places, investing in a future he
would not see but he was content to support.
As we build for the future today, our approach
is the same: it’s about creating opportunities
for people through the excellence of our
research and teaching, our partnerships and
infrastructure, enabling our staff and students
to raise their capabilities to new heights and
possibilities.
Fife, Robert (Dr), MBChB 1945, died 25/09/2013
Findlay, John, MA 1946, died 17/05/1972
French, Jane, MA 1948, died 09/05/2012
Gibb, Helen Sommerville Tennant (Ms Fergusson), MA
1942, died 14/08/2013
Gibson, Agnes Corson (Mrs Chisholm), MA 1947, died
28/08/2012
Scott, John Alexander Miller (Rev Dr), MA 1943, DD,
died 15/05/13
Shaw, Douglas Sime, BSc 1945, died 09/09/2013
Gray, George William (Professor), CBE, FRS, BSc 1947,
died 12/05/2013
Singer, Konrad (Dr), PhD 1941, died 2013
Nicholson, Charlotte Annie (Mrs Edgar), MA 1933, date
of death unknown
Halliday, Isobel Wightman (Mrs Williams), MA 1945,
died 22/08/2013
Rannie, Ian (Professor), BSc 1935, MBChB, died
30/08/2013
Hendry, Arthur Thomson (Dr), MBChB 1941, died
21/03/2013
Spence, John Hourston, MA 1935, LLB, died 04/04/2013
Hill, Jean Paterson Torrance (Mrs Kitchen), MA 1946,
died 17/06/2013
Hoffman, Ruth (Dr), MBChB 1945, died 13/12/2013
Wells, Margaret Elizabeth (Dr Inglis), MBChB 1939, died
18/09/14
Hutchison, Winifred Margaret (Mrs Roberts), MA 1949,
died 09/06/2012
1940–1949
Jolly, Margaret Finlayson (Mrs Brickell), MA 1944, died
10/06/2013
Allison, Eileen May (Mrs Baker), MA 1945, died
08/01/2013
Sainty, David Livingstone, LLB 1940, died 05/2013
Shelley, John Henry (Dr), BSc 1940, PhD, died
13/12/2013
Mollison, James Watt, MA 1938, died 2012
Allan, Jane Easdale (Dr Cook), MBChB 1942, died
25/03/2013
Rutherford, John Archibald, BL 1947, died 15/11/2012
Gilchrist, Helen Craig (Mrs Bowman), MA 1949, died
10/2013
Guilbride, Francis Terence Langford, BSc 1940, died
14/01/2013
Walls, Elizabeth Ann Cameron, MA 1934, died
26/05/2013
Robertson, Lachlan, OBE, MA 1949, TD, DL, died
10/2012
Kilpatrick, Helen Paterson (Dr Burnett), MBChB 1940,
date of death unknown
Kirkland, Williamina Margaret (Mrs Forrest), BSc 1948,
died 26/11/2013
Steedman, John Robert Hendry, BSc 1949, died
16/04/2013
Sunderland, Anna Gladys (Mrs Bates), MA 1949, died
18/02/2013
Tennant, Eleanor (Dr), MBChB 1941, died 07/10/2013
Thomson, Thomas James (Sir), OBE, CBE, MBChB
1945, LLD, died 20/07/2013
Urquhart, James Macconnell (Dr), MBChB 1941, died
10/03/2013
Vaughn, John (Professor), MBChB 1944, MD, died 2012
Whiteside, Sheila Mary (Dr Gray), MBChB 1949, died
25/12/2013
Williamson, James (Professor), CBE, MBChB 1943,
died 29/06/2013
1950–1959
Alexander, Ronald, MA 1953, died 09/2012
Logan, John David, MA 1943, date of death unknown
Andrews, Joyce Ramsay (Mrs Clarke), BSc 1952, died
2013
Andrew, Alexander Miller (Dr), BSc 1949, PhD, died
31/05/2013
Mackie, William Stanley, BSc 1949, ARCST, died
24/03/2013
Arnott, Struther (Professor), CBE, BSc 1956, PhD, died
22/04/2013
Brocklehurst, John Charles (Professor), CBE, MBChB
1947, MD, died 27/06/2013
MacLean, Helen Douglas Jones (Mrs Boulter), MA 1949,
died 2013
Arthur, George William, MA 1952, died 31/01/2013
Brown, Daniel McGillivray (Dr), BSc 1944, died
24/04/2012
McBride, Maurice Patrick, BSc 1941, died 26/08/2012
Anderson, Jean Reid (Mrs Sutherland), BSc 1945, died
29/01/2013
Brunjes, Henry Otto, MA 1949, died 18/01/2014
McLaughlin, Josephine (Mrs Brankin), MA 1945, died
07/06/2013
Burnett, Walter (Dr), MBChB 1941, DPh, date of death
unknown
McNay, William Gordon, OBE, BL 1949, died 05/07/2013
Calder, Margaret Helen Stewart (Dr), MBChB 1947, died
23/04/2013
Morrison, James Douglas (Professor), AO, FRSE, BSc
1946, PhD, DSc, died 01/02/2013
Cameron, James Adam, BSc 1945, died 07/06/2013
Neil, Doris Isobel Thomson (Mrs MacLean), MA 1945,
died 21/09/2013
Carnachan, Gordon Alexander (Dr), MBChB 1946, died
13/06/2013
Nelson, Alfred John (Dr), MBChB 1945, died 2012
Clark, Catherine Elizabeth Patricia (Dr Roberts), MBChB
1943, died 22/12/2012
Nelson, Peter Frederick, BSc 1946, died 06/01/2014
Newton, John (Dr), MBChB 1941, died 30/11/2012
Climie, Robert Burns, MA 1948, died 20/02/2013
Nicoll, Kenneth John, MA 1946, died 17/06/2013
Clyde, John Lawrence, MA 1948, died 25/10/2011
Nisbet, Robin George Murdoch (Professor), MA 1947,
died 14/05/2013
Coats, David Jervis (Dr), CBE, BSc 1943, died 09/2013
Crawford, Janet Barclay (Mrs Ramsay), MBE, MA 1941,
died 25/09/2013
Dawson, Ebenezer Scott, BSc 1947, died 10/09/2012
Deighton, Ian Armstrong, MA 1940, died 10/01/2013
Dick, James Forrest (Dr), MBChB 1949, died 04/01/2013
Eastop, George, BSc 1946, died 06/04/2013
Paterson, Elizabeth Agnes (Mrs Babister), MA 1944,
died 19/01/2013
Paul, John Poskitt (Professor), FRSE, BSc 1949, PhD,
died 13/11/2013
Bech, Alexander Nicolai, BSc 1958, date of death
unknown
Belton, Gerald Fox, OBE, MA 1958, died 08/11/2013
Bestow, Trevor Terance, BSc 1951, died 19/03/2013
Birch, Elsie Rule (Mrs Manson), MA 1951, died
05/05/2013
Bowyer, Mavis Jean (Dr Allanson), MBChB 1952,
DRCOG, died 05/09/2013
Boyd, Robert Hutton (Dr), MBChB 1954, died 2012
Brown, ‘Toni’ Edith Middleton (Mrs Thomas), MA 1951,
died 30/10/2013
Browne, Matthew Kennedy, OBE, BSc 1951, MBChB,
MD, died 10/10/2013
Chadwin, Marion Armstrong (Mrs Morton), MA 1956,
died 11/09/2013
Chisholm, Ian Andrew (Professor), MBChB 1956, died
25/09/2013
Cormack, Ian Leslie, MA 1952, died 17/09/2013
Currie, William Mackenzie (Dr Ken Currie), OBE, BSc
1958, PhD, died 29/12/2012
Ramage, James Topley, BSc 1948, ARCST, died
19/10/2013
Dallas, Ronald William, MA 1950, died 19/05/2013
Reid, Alick Mitchell (Dr), MBChB 1949, died 25/09/2013
Davidson, John Stirton (Dr), FRSC, BSc 1954, PhD,
CChem, Cert Ed, died 23/06/2013
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Dean, William Forbes, BSc 1951, died 04/05/2012
Devine, Maureen, Diploma 1952, died 03/03/2012
Donnelly, Margaret Christine (Dr O’Halloran), MBChB
1958, died 10/09/2013
Elder, James Gordon, BSc 1951, died 07/06/2013
Farrington, Ira Earle (Dr), MBChB 1953, died 09/11/2013
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Roxburgh, James Smith (Dr), MBChB 1952, DPH, DIH,
died 22/11/2013
Maclean, Fiona Stewart (Mrs Cameron), MA 1964, died
01/2013
Clark, Ronald McDonald (Dr), MBChB 1973, died
18/05/2013
Soylemez, Muhittin (Professor), PhD 1990, died
26/09/2012
Ryan, Francis Noel, MA 1952, died 28/03/2013
Macleod, Angus (Dr), MBChB 1967, died 01/03/2013
Durbin, John Terrence, MBE, LLB 1977, died 17/06/2013
2000–2009
Shipway, James Simpson (Dr), BSc 1951, ARCST, died
09/08/2013
Macrae, Kenneth, MA 1964, died 29/06/2013
Fox, Mary (Mrs Doyle), Diploma 1973, died 08/06/2012
Banks, Iain (Dr), DLitt (Honorary) 2005, died 09/06/2013
Marshall, Iain Stuart, MA 1962, died 26/10/2013
Herbertson, Margaret Stewart, BDS 1976, died
25/10/2012
Liang, Ya, MBA 2005, died 17/02/2014
Trotter, Robert Kempton, MA 1952, died 12/08/2013
Fogo, James, BSc 1950, died 20/09/2013
Walker, Gavin Walter Blackie, BSc 1958, died
07/04/2013
Glen, Alexander Iain Munro (Professor), MBChB 1954,
died 14/02/2013
White, Gertrude Heather Macarthur (Dr Munro), MBChB
1951, died 06/01/2012
Golightly, Roland Douglas, BSc 1951, died 12/12/2012
Wilkie, David (Professor), BSc 1950, PhD, died
03/03/2013
Graham, Rosemary (Mrs Armiger), Diploma 1957, died
28/08/2013
Wilkinson, William Low, BDS 1955, died 09/07/2013
Henderson, Marjory Janet Stafford, MA 1952, died
20/04/2012
Wilson, Leonora Stella Crichton (Mrs Armitt), died
19/08/2013
Hill, Patricia Josephine (Mrs Doyle), MA 1952, died
02/2013
Young, Daniel Greer, (Emeritus Professor), MBChB 1956,
died 20/10/2013
Hood, James Robertson (Dr), MBChB 1950, died
14/07/2013
Young, John Murray Miller (Dr), MBChB 1952, died
14/09/2013
Hulley, Katherine Ratcliffe Smith (Mrs Carson), BSc
1956, died 11/08/2011
1960–1969
Jackson, John Muir (Dr), BSc 1956, MBChB, died
24/11/2012
Adam, Alan Wilson, MA 1964, MEd, died 26/10/2013
Adams, Robert Macindoe (Dr), MBChB 1969, died
01/2013
Jardine, Donald Edgar (Dr), MBChB 1952, died
12/09/2013
Barr, Brian MacLeod, LLB 1965, died 29/10/2013
Jones, Charles W D, BDS 1954, died 27/12/2012
Beattie, Jean Anne (Mrs Lamb), BSc 1960, died
19/12/2012
Kelly, Alistair Francis (Rev), BL 1956, died 04/11/2013
Kelly, John (Dr), OBE, MBChB 1956, died 02/08/2013
Kincaid, William, BSc 1950, died 24/10/2013
Macdonald, John, BSc 1951, died 18/08/2013
Macgregor, Berthea Jayne (Mrs Russell), MBChB 1953,
BDS, died 12/2012
MacKintosh, Donald Callander, BVMS 1954, died
11/08/2013
Martin, Edward ‘Sam’ Corfield, BVMS 1962, MRCVS,
died 18/07/2013
Hessett, Catherine, BSc 1977, died 28/12/2012
McCorquodale, Arthur Johnson, BSc 1965, died
26/05/2013
Joakim, Katerine Rena (Mrs Theophanous), BEd 1975,
died 15/06/2013
McGregor, Gregor Callum, BSc 1964, died 20/08/2013
Kafoussis, John, MEd 1972, date of death unknown
McKinlay, Anne (Mrs Agnes Steane), Diploma 1962,
died 03/08/2012
Livingstone, George, MEd 1974, died 15/02/2013
Meikle, John Campbell, BSc 1964, died 30/05/2012
Miller, George Lindsay (Dr), MBChB 1960, died
17/12/2012
Matheson, Lister Malcolm (Professor), MA 1971, PhD,
died 19/01/2012
McCrosson, John, BDS 1970, died 04/12/2012
Murray, Sheila Elizabeth (Dr Day), MBChB 1962, died
08/11/2012
Reid, William Alexander (Dr), MBChB 1972, died
26/02/2013
Lindsay, Flora Elizabeth Fraser, MRCVS 1947, BVMS,
died 05/10/2013
Nicholson, Ernest Wilson (Rev Professor), PhD 1964,
died 22/12/2013
Richardson, James McKinney, BSc 1976, died 07/2013
Marshall, Thomas Boyd, MRCVS 1945, BVMS, died
03/06/2013
Nicol, John Chalmers (Rev), MA 1960, BD, died
22/07/2013
Parker, Martin Richard, MA 1963, died 08/09/2013
Pettie, Bruce Douglas, BSc 1966, MBA, died 21/09/2013
Robson, Robert, MA 1976, died 06/09/2013
Silver, Alasdair Clark Bruce, MA 1972, died 11/09/2013
Young, Richard Edward (Dr), MBChB 1971, died
23/12/2013
1980–1989
Reford, Francis Surgenor, BSc 1965, died 2013
Barrow, Geoffrey Wallis Steuart (Professor), DLitt
(Honorary) 1988, died 14/12/2013
Robertson, Edward Nicholas, MA 1960, 13/03/2013
Bond, Peter Thomson, LLB 1983, died 21/03/2013
Schweiger, Franc (Professor), PhD 1966, died
12/01/2013
Clark, Peter (Dr), BSc 1983, died 20/06/2013
Coleman, Gerard William, BSc 1982, 13/04/2009
Seaman, Anne Kemp Angus (Mrs Rushton), BVMS 1966,
died 21/03/2013
Frazer, Hugh Samuel, MA 1985, died 04/02/2013
Shah, Tulsidas Haridas (Dr), MBChB 1964, died
30/07/2013
Gillespie, Ruth Selina Sheridan (Mrs Cumming), MA
1980, died 01/12/2012
Siddiqi, Obaidul Haq (Professor), PhD 1961, died
21/07/2013
Lau, Joe Wing-Nin (Dr), BEng 1987, PhD, died
25/02/2012
Simpson, Kenneth Graham (Professor), MA 1965, died
28/09/2013
Macdonald, Alexander Thomas, MSc 1984, died
02/03/2013
Masson, Grant, BSc 1988, died 05/2013
McKichan, Duncan James, OBE, BL 1950, died
30/11/2013
Davidson, Alexander Michael (Dr), BSC 1966, PhD, died
12/05/2013
McMillan, Thomas, MA 1951, LLB, died 09/08/2013
Delany, Michael James (Professor), DSc 1967, died
03/03/2013
McWilliam, Agnes Janet Hamilton (Dr Stone), MBChB
1950, died 31/01/2013
Douglas, Robert (Dr), MBChB 1961, died 27/10/2013
Skinner, Gordon Robert Bruce (Dr), MBChB 1965, died
2013
Miller, John Robert (Rev), MA 1953, died 28/10/2013
Duncan, John Huggard, MA 1965, died 11/07/2013
Smillie, Thomson John, MA 1963, died 18/01/2014
Mathieson, Kirsteen Janet (Mrs Dowie), MA 1982, died
16/09/2013
Miller, Madeline Ruth (Dr Megaw), MA 1959, PhD, died
13/07/2013
Fulton, Alistair Bryce, MA 1966, died 03/05/2013
Stockdill, George (Dr), MBChB 1969, died 06/04/2013
Scott, Elspeth Warren (Dr), PhD 1988, died 2013
Gibson, Malcolm Ritchie (Dr), BSc 1963, died
16/08/2012
Stockwell, Margaret Caldwell (Dr), MBChB 1969, died
08/2013
Shaw, Carol Patricia, MA 1980, 08/2012
Gillies, Barbara Fiona (Mrs Allam), MA 1965, died
18/04/2013
Thomson, Gordon MacKenzie, MA 1969, CA, died
08/2013
Hastie, William Hunter, MA 1961, died 30/12/2013
Webb, Kenneth, BSc 1962, died 26/04/2013
Stoker, Michael George Parke (Sir), CBE, DSc 1982,
died 13/08/2013
Haugejorden, Ola (Professor), BDS 1961, DDPH, PhD,
died 28/02/2013
Willock, Ian Douglas (Professor), PhD 1963, died
03/10/2013
Wilson, Elaine Morrison (Mrs Chestnut), MA 1987, died
11/10/2012
Quinn, Edmund Mackin, MA 1953, died 15/02/2014
Judge, Charles William Forbes, BSc 1960, died
24/12/2013
1970–1979
1990–1999
Lang, Marjorie Leslie (Mrs Deakin), MA 1963, died
27/10/2005
Crombie, Richard McFarlane, MBA 1990, died 09/2013
Rankin, Archibald Macpherson (Dr), MBChB 1950, died
09/03/2013
Brown, Morag MacDonald (Mrs Hill), BEd 1975, died
07/04/2013
Riggans, Mary Patton, MA 1959, died 02/12/2013
Lindsay, Frederic Gibson, MA 1960, died 31/05/2013
Campbell, Brian Cameron (Dr), MBChB 1971, died
10/09/2012
Robertson, Ean James, BSc 1955, died 11/10/2013
Mackenzie, Malcolm Lackie, MA 1960, MEd, died
28/02/2014
Christie, Ann Clelland (Mrs Drysdale), MA 1975, died
24/08/2013
Patrick, Henrietta Spence (Mrs Melrose), MA 1951,died
03/12/2013
Patrick, Sheila Margaret (Mrs Douglas), MA 1954, died
19/04/2013
Robertson, William Girardet, BSc 1952, died 25/05/2013
Beck, Robert, MRCVS 1950, BVMS, died 14/12/2013
Gibson, John Campbell (Captain), MRCVS 1947, BVMS,
died 30/09/2013
Croall, John (Dr), MBChB 1962, died 11/12/2013
Orr, Nigel Macdonald, MA 1953, ARCST, died 2012
Glasgow Vet College
O’Reilly, Diarmuid Finbar (Dr), MBChB 1973, died
07/01/2013
Martin, James Alexander (Captain), BVMS 1954, died
10/05/2013
Munro, John MacGregor (Dr), MBChB 1952, died
29/09/2012
Lewis, Mervyn (Professor Emeritus), former Professor in
Taxation, died 17/09/2013
Mullin, James, BSc 1962, died 06/04/2013
Moir, Ian Archibald, BSc 1962, died 19/10/2013
Burness, Thomas Johnstone, MA 1963, MLitt, died
29/05/2013
Clement, Louise Josephine Mary (Mrs Harrington),
BVMS 1967, died 26/06/2013
Gilles, Dennis Cyril (Emeritus Professor), former
Professor of Computing Science, died 05/10/2013
Carmichael, Angus Macdonald Ewing, MRCVS 1948,
BVMS, died 21/03/2013
Prentice, George Anderson, BSc 1966, died 05/05/2013
Clark, Alexander (Dr), MBChB 1961, FRCS, died
24/07/2013
Allan, Jean D, former employee, died 08/2013
Melsom, Reidar (Dr), MBChB 1970, died 16/01/2013
Binnie, William Hugh (Dr), BDS 1963, died 17/08/2013
Campbell, Isobel Patricia Blair (Dr Morton), MBChB
1967, died 18/10/2013
Ex-Officio
Sime, Alan Arthur Wallace, BSc 1988, BVMS, died
14/08/2013
Duncan, William Fulton, MBA 1990, died 05/08/2013
Mackenzie, Alan Patrick, BEng 1994, died 14/10/2013
McGarrigle, John, MA 1993, died 30/11/2013
Roeren, Vidar Even, BSc 1994, date of death unknown
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What’s on @ The Hunterian
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About The Hunterian
The Hunterian is one of the leading
university museums in the UK and one of
Scotland’s most important cultural assets.
Founded in 1807, it is the country’s oldest
public museum and home to one of the
largest collections outside the National
Museums.
Opening times
Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm
Sunday 11am to 4pm
Free admission to the Museum, Art
Gallery and The Mackintosh House.
Admission charge for some exhibitions
(free to University of Glasgow staff and
students with valid staff/matriculation
card).
The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Glasgow, G12 8QQ.
Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4221
For updates on programmes and events,
see www.glasgow.ac.uk/hunterian.
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Current exhibitions
18 July 2014 to 4 January 2015
Hunterian Art Gallery (Admission charge)
To find out more about the research project,
see www.mackintosh-architecture.gla.ac.uk.
Mackintosh Travel Sketches
18 July 2014 to 15 February 2015
Hunterian Art Gallery (Admission free)
Sketching was an essential component
of an architect’s training, to develop
draughtsmanship, an understanding of
construction and materials and a design
reference library. This new exhibition presents
a selection of drawings and sketchbooks
from the University’s unrivalled Mackintosh
collection. Complementing Mackintosh
Architecture, Mackintosh Travel Sketches plots
National & International loans
The Hunterian’s national and international loans
programme allows many more people to enjoy
our collections across the world.
Mackintosh Architecture
This is the first major exhibition devoted to the
architecture of Scottish artist and designer
Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Mackintosh
Architecture is the result of a landmark
research project led by The Hunterian and
features over 80 architectural drawings from
collections across the UK. Many have never
been exhibited before and are displayed
alongside specially commissioned film,
models and archival material. Challenging
the familiar view of Mackintosh as the sole
genius, the exhibition presents the wider
context of the practice of Honeyman, Keppie
and Mackintosh, introducing the contractors,
suppliers and clients, with a particular focus
on Mackintosh’s designs for dwelling houses.
Sponsored by Turcan Connell with funding
from the Arts and Humanities Research
Council and The Monument Trust.
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Australia: Art Gallery of South Australia,
Adelaide
1 June to 5 October 2014
Exhibition: Mortimer Menpes. On loan: 4
works including Dolce Far Niente.
Germany: Wallraf-Richartz Museum and
Fondation Corboud, Cologne
his travels from early studies in the north of
Scotland, to the series of beautiful studies of
the castle at Holy Island, Northumberland,
and the complex drawings from Cintra in
Portugal. Mackintosh’s sketches culminated
in the late watercolours painted in the South of
France. These are represented by The Fort, an
outstanding example of his draughtsmanship
and mastery of the watercolour medium.
Coming soon
Ingenious Impressions:
The Coming of the Book
February to June 2015
Hunterian Art Gallery (Admission free)
Featuring international treasures of early print
publication, Ingenious Impressions is the first
major exhibition on the invention of the printed
book. Showcasing the University of Glasgow’s
rich collections and the results of the Glasgow
Incunabula Project, the exhibition charts the
introduction and development of the early
printed book in Europe, exploring the transition
from manuscript to print and its impact on late
medieval society.
6 September 2014 to 25 January 2015
Exhibition: Cathedrals, Romanticism,
Impressionism, Modernism. On loan: Sisley’s
The Church of Moret-sur-Loing.
Hungary: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
21 October 2014 to 22 February 2015
Exhibition: Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden
Age. On loan: Rembrandt’s Entombment.
Japan: National Museum of Modern Art,
Tokyo
13 September to 16 November 2014
Exhibition: J M Whistler. On loan: 62 works
including Red and Black: The Fan.
UK: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum,
Glasgow
18 April 2014 to 17 August 2014
Exhibition: How Glasgow Flourished: 1714 to
1837. On loan: The Newcomen Engine.
USA: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC
2 May 2014 to 14 August 2014
Exhibition: An American in London: Whistler
and the Thames. On loan: 4 works, including
the oil painting Battersea Reach.
Become a Friend
If you become a member of Hunterian
Friends you will benefit from a range of
exclusive benefits, including unlimited
access to charged exhibitions. Hunterian
Friends give vital support and make
a direct contribution towards new
exhibitions and galleries, our education
and conservation work and to new
acquisitions. To join, see www.glasgow.
ac.uk/hunterian/support.
About the artwork:
1. Charles Rennie Mackintosh,
Scotland Street School, Glasgow, 1904.
2. Charles Rennie Mackintosh,
Daily Record Building, Glasgow, 1901.
3. Charles Rennie Mackintosh,
Castle, Holy Island, 1901.
4. James McNeill Whistler,
Red and Black: The Fan, c.1891–1894.
5. Alfred Sisley, The Church of Moret-sur-Loing, Rainy weather, Morning, 1893.
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