Graduates in print
Terry Hissey – History and Music 2005
Ruth Chigwada-Bailey – Sociology 1983
Come if ye Dare – The Civil Defence George Crosses tells the stories of eleven people whose courage earned them the highest civilian gallantry award. Terry Hissey is a member of the CDA and his research took him to the National Archives at Kew as well as to museums, libraries and archives around the country. Presently Terry serves as a Musician in the Territorial Army and recently received a Bar to his Volunteer Reserves Service Medal. Professionally, he works for the Ministry of Defence as a Historical Researcher in Whitehall.
Criminology in the Millennium was edited by Ruth Chigwada-Bailey, an independent criminologist who has been running Race, Gender and Criminal Justice conferences since 1991. She is well known in the United Kingdom and abroad as a commentator and writer on issues affecting black women, notably in relation to criminal justice. Her own chapter is entitled ‘Black Women’s Experiences of the Criminal Justice System.’
Christy Lefteri - MA English 2002, PhD Arts current A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible has won critical and public acclaim. It is July 1974 and on a bright, sunny morning, the Turkish army has invaded the village of Kyrenia in Cyprus. For many people, this means an end to life as they know it. But for some, it is a chance to begin living again.
Huw Turbervill – Sports Science and English at West London Institute, 1991-1994 The Toughest Tour Daily covering the last 64 years of Ashes series Down Under – 16 tours with a chapter on each. Telegraph sports writer Huw interviewed 23 England cricketers including Nassar Hussain, Mark Butcher, Frank Tyson, Ray Illingworth, Ian Bell and the late Alec Bedser.
Professor Angus McLeod – Chemistry 1975 Performance Coaching Tool kit – McGram-Hill and the OU
Deborah Klaassen – current Creative Writing student Bek dicht en dooreten – Published in Dutch. Deborah began the book as her dissertation for the MA Creative Writing. Her supervisor Matt Thorne described it as “a blackly comic and in places genuinely disturbing piece of work” but added “it is also one of the most original and most imaginative novels that I have ever encountered from a student”.
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Valerie Jack – PGCE 2007 Fireworks is a play about family ties and special needs. Katie has Prader-Willi Syndrome and a documentary maker has come to stay. A cracked combination code, a missing jigsaw piece, new red lingerie, and a serious allegation build towards a darkly explosive climax. ‘Intriguing and disquieting’ Hampstead Theatre. Visit www.valeriejack. com for future performances.