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Chris Ellicott Christopher Ellicott is Registrar and Director of Student Services at Bath Spa. One of his many responsibilities is to oversee the smooth running of the graduation ceremonies each year. We had a quick chat with him after the first ever winter graduation ceremony held at the Bath Assembly Rooms.
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What do you love about Bath Spa University? The extent to which so many people in our community – staff, students, governors – genuinely care about the University, and each other.
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Where is your favourite spot on campus? I live close enough to the Newton Park campus to be able to walk home in 40 minutes. I often walk across the track towards Newton St Loe (carefully avoiding the cows if they are in a particularly frisky mood that day) and look back at the half way point to see the Commons building across the fields.
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Tell me something you’re passionate about at the moment? Walking in the countryside, away from it all. Not much beats a pint and a packet of crisps outside a pub on a summer’s day after a ten-mile ramble…
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If you went on Mastermind, what would your specialist subject be? When I was the series winner of the BBC Radio 4 music quiz ‘Counterpoint’ a few years ago my specialist subject was Minimalism, but perhaps I’d go for either 20th Century British Classical Music; Prog Rock; or the history and continuing underachievement of Bristol City Football Club.
And finally, complete this sentence. Not many people know this about me but… …a band led by a friend at university played at my 20th birthday party in a house in Oxford. It was only years later that I discovered that my friend’s band was called Ugly Rumours and the lead singer of Ugly Rumours was a certain Tony Blair.