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The 90s
Entries are classified according to year of entry
Look out for people from your year here and find out what they have been doing – job changes, awards, weddings, books and news from alumni from each decade.
For more alumni news visit the WGA website.
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Chris Atkins
Film director Chris Atkins (BSc Mathematics and Physics 1996-99) was nominated for a BAFTA earlier this year for the film 'Taking Liberties'. One of the highest grossing film documentaries in Britain last year, this 'shockumentary' castigates the Blair government for eroding basic freedoms as part of the war on terror. The film was premiered at a special preview at Warwick Arts Centre and will be screened on More4 in early May. Chris was nominated in the BAFTA category: Best First Time Director.
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Bethan Roberts
'The Pools' (Serpent's Tail) by Bethan Roberts (BA English and American Literature 1991-94) was published last year and awarded the Jerwood / Arvon Young Writers' Prize. Bethan teaches creative writing at Chichester University and for the Open University.
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Stephen Williams
Footnotes 92 - 94, out now on Cherry Red Records, is a retrospective 'best of' compilation album from early 90s indie band Adorable, who feature three Warwick graduates: Stephen Williams (MA English 1990-95, BA English Literaure 1987-90); Piotr Fijalkowski (BA Film and Literature 1987-90); and Kevin Gritton (BSc Engineering 1989-92). Both Stephen and Kevin were still studying at Warwick when the band signed to Creation Records in 1992 and although they never reached the heights of labelmates Oasis, they did release two hit albums and seven singles. In addition to the album's 17 songs, Footnotes 92 - 94 follows the story of Adorable from second place in a University of Warwick talent contest to their show-stealing appearance at Glastonbury '93 to nights out with Blur in Tokyo's entertainment district. Nowadays, many of Warwick's Indian alumni will be familiar with Stephen in his current role as Senior Liaison Officer in the University's International Office.
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David Craig
David Craig's (EngD WMG Engineering EngD (Research) 1996-03) second book 'Squandered' (Constable & Robinson) has been published. Subtitled 'How Gordon Brown is wasting one trillion pounds of our money', the book relates the story of New Labour's years of mismanagement squandering almost unimaginable amounts of taxpayers' money, rewarding the man responsible with the keys to Number 10.
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Sharon Beamish
The new chief executive of The George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust in Nuneaton is Sharon Beamish (BA Social Studies 1994-01). Sharon has worked in the NHS for 20 years, mainly within the acute hospital sector, including three years in the West Midlands Regional Office and West Midlands South Strategic Health Authority.
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Rebecca Fraser
'Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina' (University Press of Mississippi) has been written by Rebecca Fraser (PhD History 2001-03, MA Interdisciplinary Gender Studies 1999-00, BA History and Sociology 1996-99). She argues that the courting relationship afforded the enslaved a significant social space through which they could cultivate alternative gender and sexual identities to those which were imposed upon them in the context of their daily working lives.
Rebecca is lecturer in American Stdies at the University of East Anglia. Her essays have appeared in Journal of Southern History and Slavery and Abolition.
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Sabira Lakha
One of the members of the new National Muslim Women's Advisory Group (NMWAG) set up by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, is Sabira Lakha (BA Politics with International Studies 1991-94, LLM Law in Development 1994-97).
Since 1999 Sabira has been an adjudicator at the Financial Ombudsman Service where she has adjudicated on high profile and sensitive cases. She was the first and only female to be globally elected as an Executive Councillor of the World Federation of KSIMC. She has represented the organisation on the Central Working Committee of the Muslim Council of Britain and serves on its Legal Affairs Committee.
Since July 2005 she has been actively involved in consultation work with UK government ministers and New Scotland Yard. She was also on the Preventing Extremism Together working group for 'Community Security – including addressing Islamophobia, Increasing Confidence in Policing and Tackling Extremism'.
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We'd love to hear from alumni from the 90s. Contact Warwick e-network with your news by emailing
e-network@warwick.ac.uk so that graduates from this decade are well represented in the next issue.
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