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Research Active The Newsletter of University of Kent Research Services, Vol 7 Issue 2, Feb 2013
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In June last year Dame Janet Finch published her report on ‘Accessibility, Sustainability, Excellence: How to Expand Access to Research Publications’. Whilst the title may sound like a familiar jumble of aspirational labels, the report itself will have a real and fundamental effect on academic publishing. Its main recommendation was that
‘a clear policy direction should be set towards support for publication in open access or hybrid journals...as the main vehicle for the publication of research, especially when it is publicly funded’.
The Government accepted all the conclusions of the report, and since the summer has been grappling with how best to implement them.
Notes from OA Forum Over fifty members of staff gathered in the Senate Chamber on 15 January to discuss issues around the new policy. The VC, Prof Dame Julia Goodfellow, opened the Forum by making clear that ‘the direction of travel
Thus, the Research Councils have stated that, from 1 April 2013
‘papers which result from research that is wholly or partially funded by the Research Councils...must be published in journals which are compliant with Research Council policy on Open Access.’ The preferred route for publication is ‘Gold’ OA rather than ‘Green’ (see box, right). Some block funding will be made available for the cost of this, but this policy has wider implications for the way that knowledge is shared, and for the future of academic publication. Over the next few months Research Services will work with Information Services, the Graduate School and academics to develop a policy to support, protect and promote Kent staff in this new landscape.
has been set for us, it is for us to discuss the best way to respond.’ A number of concerns were raised, including: The effect of OA on learned societies; The cost of implementing OA; The mechanism for distributing block funding at the University; The need to protect intellectual property; The fact that many of the most prestigious (US) journals don’t
GOLD vs GREEN? The terminology surrounding OA can be confusing. There are basically two forms of OA publishing: Gold and Green. GOLD open access is publication, either through an OA journal, or a standard journal that allows free access to any articles. Some journals may demand an ‘article processing charge’ (APC). The block grant referred to in the main article is intended to off set these APCs. GREEN open access is selfarchiving, in institutional repositories such as KAR, or international ones such as PubMed, following publication elsewhere.
INSIDE THIS EDITION In Committee REF Update ECR Network Overview of Funding New Awards Changes to VAT Equipment Sharing Welcome to New Staff NIHR Information Day Notes from Grants Factory Choice Cuts from the Blog
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allow OA; differences in academic publishing are not accounted for in the government’s policy.
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Despite these reservations the audience was, in principle, supportive of ‘green’ OA, but were cautious until the detail was confirmed. It was agreed that a working group develop a University policy for OA, and consult widely on its proposals.
ResearchActive is edited by Phil Ward. Contact him for more information or clarification on any of the items in this edition. In addition, 1 for the latest from the world of research funding, go to fundermental.blogspot.com, or Twitter @unikentresearch & @frootle
In Committee
Strategy The DoRN and BRE continued to discuss the draft Research & Impact Strategy. In both committees there was a belief that the role of Director of Research needed to be formalised, incentivised and monitored in order for the Strategy to be successfully implemented.
As we move into the final phase of preparations for the REF submission deadline of 29th November 2013, the University is encouraging all REF eligible staff to participate in the ‘Individual Staff Circumstances’ survey outlined in the University’s approved REF Code of Practice. (http://bit.ly/VkFA0f)
Furthermore, with the implosion of the 1994 Group, the DoRN discussed whether membership was something that should still be aspired to, or whether the University should instead look at ad hoc groupings with other institutions based on shared disciplinary interests, a similar profile or geographical location.
We would like all academic staff to participate in the survey – even if just to declare a ‘nil return’ – which will determine whether individuals can be included in the REF with fewer than four research outputs. It will also help us confirm who meets the definition of ‘Early Career Researcher’ (ECR) for this year’s HESA return.
REF Both committees discussed the University’s preparations for the REF (more detail right).
To help work out if you qualify as an ECR, the following definition is extracted from the REF ‘Guidance on Submissions’ (http://bit.ly/ Uzt8MP)
Data Management Policy The Research Councils, led by the EPSRC, will be implementing a data access policy. This is intended to encourage award holders to make available all data resulting from RCUK-funded grants. Both the BRE and DoRN discussed issues arising from this, such as defining data, selecting which data to archive, and providing the necessary infrastructure to store large amounts of data. Athena SWAN Application The BRE commended the work of the Faculty of Sciences in applying for an Athena SWAN bronze award. The scheme was intended to encourage and support a more equal gender balance in STEM subjects.
85. Early career researchers are defined as members of staff who meet the criteria to be selected as Category A or Category C staff on the census date, and who started their careers as independent researchers on or after 1
ECR Network The ECR Network, launched in October 2012, has given academics at the beginning of their careers an opportunity to meet people in a similar position in different Schools across the University. As well as sessions on ‘getting published in top journals,’ and ‘developing collaborations,’ the Network now offers a monthly pub 2
August 2009. For the purposes of the REF, an individual is deemed to have started their career as an independent researcher from the point at which: a. They held a contract of employment of 0.2 FTE or greater, which included a primary employment function of undertaking ‘research’ or ‘teaching and research’, with any HEI or other organisation, whether in the UK or overseas, and b. They undertook independent research, leading or acting as principal investigator or equivalent on a research grant or significant piece of research work. (A member of staff is not deemed to have undertaken independent research purely on the basis that they are named on one or more research outputs.) Full details available from the Kent Individual Staff Circumstances web pages (http://bit.ly/14q8Ecu), but if you have any queries about this or any other aspects of the REF, do contact either the Co-ordinator for your UOA, or Clair Thrower (c.thrower@kent.ac.uk).
meeting to socialise and chat about university life, the academic universe and everything in between. If you want to come along, or just find out more, contact Phil Ward (p.ward@kent.ac.uk, xtn 7748).
Image of ECR Network pub meeting at the Dolphin courtesy of Dr Wei-Feng Xue, Biosciences
An update from the Board for Research & Enterprise (BRE), and the Directors of Research Network (DoRN) Meeting.
An Overview of Research Funding, Sept-Dec 2012 THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Whilst there’s a wide spread of funders featuring in the results this term, the majority of the funding came from just seven projects: the three featured below, and the following four: Prof Martin Warren (BBSRC), Prof Simon Thompson (EC), Prof Michael Smith (STFC), and Prof Glynis Murphy & Prof Jennifer Beecham (NIHR). Details of their awards are given overleaf. Congratulations to all who have gained an award last term.
Split of Total Humanities Award Value by 21% Faculty
Social Sciences 23%
Sciences 56%
Total Award Value by Faculty
Largest Individual Awards (titles of projects listed overleaf) STFC, 10%
Humanities: Dr Will Pettigrew (History) £818,692 from Leverhulme
Other (<1%), 4% BBSRC, 25%
EC, 12% ESRC, 13%
Leverhulme, 20%
NIHR, 9% Sciences: Prof Darren Griffin (Biosciences) £535,554 from BBSRC
EPSRC, 3% Royal Society, 3%
Award Value
Award Number (>1award)
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Social Sciences: Dr Kate Bedford (KLS) £533,292 from ESRC
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Kent Cancer Trust 3
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FULL LIST OF AWARDS: 1 Apr—31 Aug 2012 Below are awards for more than £1000 made last Term. It does not include extensions or supplements. HUMANITIES Architecture Dr Henrik Schoenefeldt: Research on Teaching of Environmental Design in Architectural Education (Higher Education Academy, £6,025) Arts Dr David Roesner: (right): Musicality in the Theatre: Concepts and Practices of Interart Processes in Theatre Making (AHRC, £4,262) European Culture & Languages (SECL) Prof Nuria Triana Toribio: Film Cultures in the Spanish Transition: the ‘Other’ Transition in Nuevo Fotogramas (1968-1980) (BA, £2,700) History Dr Will Pettigrew: Corporations and Cultural Hybridisation: English Overseas Trading Companies in the 17th Century and the Development of a Global Dialogue about Governance (Leverhulme, £818,692) Prof Ulf Schmidt: Research within Bounds: Protecting Human Participants in Modern Medicine. Past, Present and Future of the Declaration of Helsinki 1964 -2014 (Wellcome, £20,200) SCIENCES Centre for Molecular Processing Prof Martin Michaelis: Investigation of Drug-Resistant Cancer Cell Lines (Kent Cancer Trust, £5,000) Prof Martin Michaelis: Determination of the Effect of Cancer Cell Adaptationto Anti-Cancer Drugs on the Cancer Cell Stemness Properties (Royal Society, £13,000)
Medway School of Pharmacy Prof Janet Krska: Community Pharmacists Supporting Patients’ SelfManagement of Medicines (Health Innovation & Education Clusters, £22,100) Biosciences Dr Campbell Gourlay: Gourlay Kent Cancer Trust exCelligengence System (Kent Cancer Trust, £16,500) Prof Darren Griffin: Genome Assembly, Chromosomal Organisation and Comparative Genomics of Multiple Bird Species: Beyond ‘Catalogue of Genes’ (BBSRC, £535,554) Prof Mike Geeves: Myosin Gene Diversity and Function (NIH, £17,889) Prof Martin Warren: Development of Cobalamin Surrogates as Probes and Carriers through Synthetic and Chemical Biology Approaches (BBSRC, £481,242) Dr Dan Lloyd: Support for MSc Cancer Biology Students (Kent Cancer Trust, £5,000) Dr Brian Cox: The Use of Yeast for Studying Amyloid-Based Modulation of Human p53 Activity (NIH, £9,115) Dr Jeremy Rossman: Identification of Viral Scission Proteins (Royal Society, £13,825) Dr Jeremy Rossman: Development of an In Vitro Assay System for Influenza Virus Budding (Biochemical Society, £1,200) Computing Ian Utting: Supporting a Research Community around Web-Scale Data Gathering (Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., £2,975) Prof Simon Thompson (right): PROWESS: Property-Based Testing of Web Services (EC, £471,706) 4
Engineering & Digital Arts (EDA) Dr Jim Ang: An Interactive Computer-Based Intervention for Condom Use Training (NIHR, £2,062) Mathematics, Statistics & Actuarial Science (SMSAS) Dr Contstanze Roitzheim: Finiteness Structures in Chromatic Derived Categories (EPSRC, £36,558) Physical Sciences (SPS) Prof Mark Green: Wolfson Research Merit Award (Royal Society, £100,000) Prof Michael Smith: Consolidated Grant for Astrophysics and Space Science (STFC, £406,113) Dr Donna Arnold: (right): Multiferroic Behaviour in A– and B-Site Cation Ordered Perovskites (EPSRC, £78,794) Sport & Exercise Sciences Brian Minikin: A Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for NOCs (International Olympic Committee, £10,000) Prof Louis Passfield: Studentship with Canterbury Academy (Canterbury Academy, £76,000) SOCIAL SCIENCES Kent Law School (KLS) Dr Bernard Ryan: Labour Migration and Regulation in Hard Times (Journal of Law and Society, £2,201) Dr Kate Bedford: A Full House: Developing a new SocioLegal Theory of Global Gambling Regulation (ESRC, £533,292) Anthropology & Conservation (SAC) Dr Zoe Davies: Conservation of Elusive Forest Carnivores: Effects of Fragmentation on the Small Felid Guina. (Oxford University, £9,995)
Workers in a field overseas. Liable to VAT. Image: Library of Congress Dr Jim Groombridge: Arabian Leopard Pilot Genetics Project (Conservation Education & Research Trust, £8,603) Economics Thomas Singh: Commonwealth Fellowship (Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, £1,000) Psychology Prof Dominic Abrams: Prosocial Behaviour: Exploring the Role of Moral Outrage and Moral Elevation (People United, £9,000) Dr Caoilte O’Ciardha: Comparing Multiple Indirect Measures of Sexual Interest with an Implicit but Direct Eye Tracking (National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers, £4,999) Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research (SSPSSR) Prof Glynis Murphy (right) and Prof Jennifer Beecham: Costs and Benefits of Social Care Support for ExOffenders with Learning Disabilities (NIHR, £352,677) Prof Simon Coulton: Developing and Evaluating Interventions for Adolescent Alcohol Use Disorders Presenting through Emergency Departments (NIHR, £12,168) Prof Simon Coulton: A Feasibility Pilot Trial of Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention to Prevent Hazardous Drinking in Young People Aged 14-15 in a High School Setting (SIPS JR-HIGH) (NIHR, £5,755)
CORRIGENDUM The EPSRC project, ’Higher Order Sliding Mode Based Decentralised Strategies for Complex Interconnected Systems’ was awarded to Dr Xinggang Yan, not Prof Yong Yan. Apologies for this misattribution (RA, Vol 7, Issue 1).
Changes to VAT Implications for overseas fieldwork services New government rules mean that all fees paid by the University to people based abroad who provide fieldwork services are subject to a form of Value Added Tax (VAT) known as a ‘reverse charge’. Fieldworkers and associated services (including the hiring of translators, transportation and on-site labour) will be categorised as supplying a service to a UK-taxable body (i.e. the University), and are therefore liable to the 20% levy.
are both somewhat complex, and we would be happy to explain them in more detail to those affected. In addition, we will of course help with the administration of this charge. In the meantime applicants should keep this rule in mind when submitting new proposals, and allocate adequate financial budgets for the potential ‘reverse charge’. Currently active projects will not be affected by this rule. Please contact Jon King (j.king@kent.ac.uk) if you require any further information.
The rationale for this rule change, and the mechanism that supports it,
Equipment Sharing The Wakeham Review (2010) forced the Research Councils to consider how to implement ‘efficiency savings’. They decided that one way to save money was to encourage universities to consider sharing equipment. As a result, applications that include a request for a single piece of equipment worth more than £10,000 have to include a statement confirming that the equipment is not already available either within the institution, or at any other ‘accessible location’. Quite what counts as an accessible location is open to interpretation. For its part, the University needs to make sure that you can easily find out what equipment is available here, if it does what you want it to do, and who you need to talk to in order to use it. To this end, we are now starting to talk to all Schools to find out what equipment they feel could reasonably be shared. The results will be used to help decide how best to make this 5
information available. Watch this space for updates!
I know what it means to work hard on machines: equipment sharing, WWII style. Image courtesy of Library of Congress
WELCOME! 28 academics have joined the University since December. Welcome to them all; here is a summary of their research interests.
Prof Amalia Arvanti (SECL): phonetics and phonology (primarily of rhythm and intonation); psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, Greek. Dr Joseph Brooks (Psychology): visual perception, attention, and human sexuality and the neural processes that give rise to these behaviours. Dr Ward Blanton (SECL): Early Jewish and Christian religions and their cultural afterlives within continental philosophy and critical theory. Mr Donal Casey (KLS): food governance and regulation, and issues of legitimacy and accountability. Dr Olivia Constantin (SMSAS): various classes of operators acting on scalar or vector-valued spaces of analytic functions Dr Chrysoula Dimitriou-Fakalou (SMSAS): modelling, estimation and inference for linear time series, spatial and spatio-temporal processes. Prof JoĂŁo de Pina Cabral (SAC): religion, symbolism and power; family, kinship and the person; ethnicity in colonial and post-colonial contexts; and the history of ethnographic methodology. Dr Charles Devellennes (PolIR), left: the history of political thought, primarily in the eighteenth century, and particularly in the field of religion and politics Prof Steven Gao (EDA): satellite antennas, smart antenna, phased array, RF/microwave/ millimetre-wave circuits, satellite communications, mobile communications, radars (UWB radars, synthetic-aperture radars) and small satellites (micro-satellite, nanosatellite) Dr Nigel Hardiman (SAC): social and biophysical impacts of ecologi-
cally sustainable tourism, and the potential for private plus public sector sustainable development initiatives to contribute to biodiversity conservation. Dr David Henig (SAC): Central Asia and the East Mediterranean (especially the Muslim Balkans); socialist/ post-socialist economy and society; exchange and materiality; anthropology of Islam; landscape; social computing. Prof Tom Henry (Arts): the life and art of Piero della Francesca, Pietro Perugino, Bernardino Pintoricchio, Luca Signorelli, Raphael and Giulio Romano .
Dr Michael Kampouridis (Computing): the use of Computational Intelligence to Business applications, such as Finance, Economics and Telecommunications Prof Richard King (SECL): Hindu and Buddhist philosophy, mysticism and spirituality, theory and method in Religious Studies, critical and postcolonial theory. Dr Caroline Li (Computing): brain signal processing and its applications including: EEG-based biomarker discovery for brain diseases, neurofeedback applications for medical and sport applications and brain computer interface. Dr Brian Minikin (Sports): the structure of sport organisations, and the impact that progress in certain key result areas impacts upon the rest of the organisation. Dr Claudia Molitor (Arts): a composer and sound artist whose work draws on the traditions of contemporary music but extends to video, performance and fine art practices. Dr Fernando Otero (Computing): bio-inspired algorithms, bioinformatics, and data mining and knowledge discovery. Prof Karla Pollman (SECL): Classical literature, culture, and their tradition, early Christian and late antique studies, patristics and recep6
tion studies. Dr Giridharan Renganathan (Architecture): Urban Morphology and Climatology, with specific interest in mathematical modeling for Urban Heat Island Effect and outdoor thermal comfort. Dr Benito Sanz-Izquierdo (EDA): Compact multiband antennas, Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) structures, Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS), Reconfigurable electromagnetic structures Prof Yvonne Sherwood (SECL): The Hebrew Bible and its cultural and political afterlives, legal and conceptual constructions of 'the religious' and the 'the secular', the Bible and empire, religion and continental philosophy Prof Kwang Sim (Computing): Cloud Computing; Search Engine & Information Retrieval; Artificial Intelligence; Computational Economics & Game Theory; Multiagent Systems & Distributed Intelligent Systems; Automated Negotiation; Evolutionary Computing Dr Mark Wass (Biosciences): Structural Bioinformatics particularly the analysis and prediction of protein function, structure and interactions. Dr Chao Wang (EDA): Microwave photonics, ultrafast optics, and biophotonics for sensing, communications, biomedical and defense applications Dr Ayse Uskul (Psychology), left: how different cultural settings shape social cognition, conceptions of self, and interpersonal relationships. Dr Sam Winter (Sports): body segment inertia parameters in different populations; the application of algorithms from the fields of statistical physics and non-linear dynamics to biomechanics in order to determine principles of movement and adaptation. Dr Shaomin Wu (KBS): stochastic operations research, statistical data analysis, warranty management, reliability analysis and maintenance policy optimisation
Applying to the NIHR Information Day 11 April 2013 Government funding for healthrelated research is distributed through two main routes: the Medical Research Council (MRC), and the NIHR. The MRC deals with more fundamental research, the NIHR with research that will affect the NHS, including social care and public health research. Its role is to develop research evidence to support deci
sion making by professionals, policy makers and patients.Last year it gave out over £200m of research grants through a range of programmes. This event will be a chance to understand how the NIHR works and fits together, and to hear from those who have had experience of working for or with the NIHR. The Research Design Service SE will be
on hand to share their knowledge and insights. It follows on from a similar event held last May, taking on board feedback to further improve the relevance and content of the day. The programme will be confirmed shortly. The event was oversubscribed last year, so do please book early (http://bit.ly/WxahT3) to avoid disappointment.
Notes from the Grants Factory Notes and slides from all Grants Factory and ECR Network events are available on the Research Services’ SharePoint: http://bit.ly/Wxepmb.
number of common elements. Mastering these is essential if your application is going to get the consideration it deserves, no matter how good your underHere are notes from two relying research idea is. cent events to give you a flaThere are three elements vour of the ground covered. that make a project fundable: Developing Collaborations It must ask an important (Jon Williamson & Peter question; Bennett) It must offer a realistic chance of a solution within Collaborating with others has The offices of Research Services cower in the shadow of the time; many positives. It gives you the the mighty Grants Factory. Image: Library of Congress It must be run by someopportunity to answer a large one who knows what or complex research question, searchers, giving them the opportuthey’re doing. when you don’t have the skills, the nity to work with more experi- Demonstrating these three elebackground, the data, or the time to enced partners, who will challenge, ments should be the main aim of solve it yourself. Moreover, it gives stimulate and formulate their own your proposal. The application itself you the chance to learn from oth- interests, and increasing your visibil- is a complex patchwork of sections, ers, develop new ideas and new ity and chance of winning of grants. but all of these must tie together to connections, and propagating your Some of the best collaborations are achieve this aim. ideas more widely. born in tea rooms and pubs. But, As well as an essential purpose, the However, you have to be careful in whilst collaborations can be fruitful, application must use the right lanthe collaborations you develop. You they will all inevitably end. This is guage. It is analogous to the lanare going to work with these people not a failure, but a natural cycle, and guage you use to seek a mortgage: for some time, and you have to you can move on to find others, you don’t need to justify why you make sure they have the time, com- through conferences, seminars, re- need a house, but you do need to mitment and personality to make a search visits and citation analysis. show that you can handle it, that success of it. you’re the one, and you’ve got a Additionally, you have to be wary of Essential Elements of a Good good ‘investment’. ‘It’s the language potential pitfalls, such as project Application of money’, suggested Paul, but your 'bloat', and how collaborations are (Mick Tuite & Paul Allain) proposal should also ‘tell a story’ seen in your particular discipline. with a clear and compelling narraNevertheless, collaboration is par- Everyone’s research is different, but tive. ticularly useful for early career re- successful funding proposals share a 7
CHOICE CUTS FROM THE BLOG For the latest news and rumours from the world of research funding, log on to http://fundermental.blogspot.com/ Acro-monious 25 Sept 2012 We research administrators love our acronyms. When we talk we sound like Russians gargling nails. A typical exchange runs like this: 'Judith! I've not seen you since the ARMA conference.' 'Good to see you Maureen. I've been away at EARMA in Dublin.' 'How was it?' 'Brilliant. The INORMS lot were there: you know, from CAURA, SRA,ARMS, SARIMA, WARIMA...' 'Not NCURA?' 'Oh yes. NCURA, naturally. Oh, and ACU. Good times! So how’re preparations for the REF at UCL?' ‘Tougher than the RAE.. The 3A, 3Bs and 4 are proving difficult. I don't know what HEFCE were thinking. How about KCL?' 'The same. The VC and PVC think things will be easier if the JISC RMAS system ever gets off going. The HoDs are less sure.' 'I hear the problem with that is individual researcher IDs. HR has concerns. But if they learn from CERIF-CRIS...' 'Hopefully ORCID will do that.' 'True. But then is RCUK going to accept it? And what about HESA? It'll affect ROS. And e-VAL.' 'Hmm' [general sucking of teeth] 'Oh, did you hear? We got that big EPSRC grant!' ‘The joint one with MRC & NIHR?' ‘No, NERC and AHRC. The PI and Co-I are ecstatic!' 'Lots of RAs and PhDs?' 'Of course! But the SSC has cocked up the award: put the wrong amount via JeS!' 'No! You mean 'It wasn't fEC?' ‘Yes!’ ''So much for TRAC!!' [both laugh, and wipe tears from their eyes] Ah, you had to be there.
The T Factor 6 Dec 2012 The ESRC’s new 'transformative research' scheme is planning to test out a new way of reviewing proposals. Shortlisted applicants will have to ‘pitch to peers' who will then rate each others’ projects. It’s like The X Factor for social scientists What could possibly go wrong? Dermot O'Leary: 'So, Prof Plimsole, what did you think of Dr Doomberger's project?' Prof Plimsole (sniffily): 'To be honest, Dermot, it lacked cohesion. I admire her bravery in exploring the sociology of Lego, but her research questions were all over the place, her objectives were unrealistic, and her outputs were frankly negligible.' (boos from the audience) Dermot O'Leary: 'Hmm, I'm not sure the audience agrees with you, Prof Plimsole...' (squeals from the audience. O'Leary turns to Doomberger) And Dr Doomberger: what do you think of Prof Plimsole's project?' Dr Doomberger (angrily): 'I've never seen such routine, dull...Incremental research (gasps from the audience) masquerading as transformative in my life! His project couldn't transform its way out of a paper bag!' (the audience explodes) Yes, we're looking forward to the TV series, and are ready with our speed dial to vote for our favourite Kent contestants.
‘It’s a Sad Great...um...’ 30 Oct 2012
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I was very pleased to see that the STFC has in place a former Dr Who, Prof Keith Jeffrey, as Director of IT and International Strategy.
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Medics were today called to a house in the leafy home counties to try and resuscitate a local celebrity. Known only as '94', the once glamorous patient had recently cut a shuffling, slightly confused figure, and friends had become increasingly concerned by his apparent lack of direction. 'He used to corner people at parties,' confided one university, which wished to remain anonymous. 'He'd plead with them to be his friend, to join him. When they didn't, he'd start to rant and swear. It was frankly embarrassing'. Lately he had been seen at bus stops in the dodgier university towns, with a can of Special Brew, shouting at the passing cars. On more than one occasion the police had to be called, and one of his fourteen remaining friends had to bail him out. It is believed that 94 had issues around maintaining his position in society. When passers-by started to concentrate their funding elsewhere his friends abandoned him, and his descent accelerated.
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I believe that this is very forward thinking of the Council. After all, you don't get much more international than Gallifrey, and there's not a lot that Dr Who Jeffery doesn't know about IT.
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