JOURNALISM FOR JADA

Congratulations are in order to Jada Joshi (OW 2019), for successfully completing her apprenticeship with the BBC, passing in all areas. She is now classed as a Band A journalist and working as a digital journalist with Midlands Today.

WHAT’S THE SCORE?

On 9th and 10th November at the National Stadium in Cardiff, Glyn Thomas (OW 1959) captained Wales’ Over-75s hockey team in their first international tournament. Glyn was not the only OW on the pitch however, as Ray Jeff (OW 1964) was playing - against him - for the England Over-75s, the reigning European Champions.

England won both games 2-1, much to Glyn’s disappointment, but we are assured that the games were exciting and much fun was had by both teams. Testament to this is the team photograph, showing Glyn and Ray together, front and centre!

Julian Moves North

This year, we learnt that Professor Julian Griffin (OW 1990) had been appointed as the new Director of the Rowett Institute at the University of Aberdeen, beginning his role in July. The Rowett Institute is a research centre for studies into food and nutrition where there are currently research projects into food inequality, food security, obesity and the sustainability of food, among others, taking place.

Professor Griffin received his D.Phil in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford before working at Harvard

Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Radiology. Employed at both Imperial College London and Cambridge over recent years, Professor Griffin has been working in the field of Metabolomics, the study of chemical processes involving metabolites, to further understand how nutrition and metabolism contribute to metabolic disease.