Congratulations to any or all our students that graduated this season! I was delighted so that you can celebrate with a number of them at our Graduation Reception on Friday 17th This summer.
School in history academic staff were happy to celebrate with this particular year’s graduates
Numerous students were also given School in history prizes:
Best First
Marina-Chevonne Spiteri
Best History Dissertation (split)
Marina-Chevonne Spiteri
Jody Johnson
Best War Studies Dissertation
David Thorup
Most Improved Performance
Hayley Kirk
Copley Prize (split)
Sean Spencer
Lynne Roberts
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Megan Brett
Best Imperial/non-Western History Dissertation (split)
Jessica Houghton
Oliver Harrison
Special Prize – Outstanding Contribution towards the Student Experience
A Brief History Society Committee:
Kate Morgan – President
Stuart Austin – Vice-President
Laura Jewitt – Secretary
Rotary Prize
Frederick Clements
Marina-Chevonne Spiteri
Student Ambassadors
Kate Morgan
Laura Jewitt
Louise Jarrold
The College in history located a launch party on Thursday 9 This summer, to celebrate the discharge of Professor Ulf Schmidt’s latest book Secret Science: A Hundred Years of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments .
It, that has been accustomed to inform a chapter of BBC World Service’s Witness radio series around the chemical tests at Porton Lower. supplies a comprehensive good reputation for chemical and biological weapons research in great britan and The United States. It incorporates formerly key military, scientific, and government archival material with interviews with servicemen and scientists although recognising developments in global debates on medical ethics.
Numerous Porton Lower veterans attended the launch, which required place at Canterbury’s Cathedral Lodge, in addition to academics and staff in the School.
Professor Ulf Schmidt’s latest book Secret Science: A Hundred Years of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments has been utilized to tell a chapter of BBC World Service’s Witness radio series.
Since serving as a principle expert witness on informed consent within the 2004 Inquest searching in to the dying of Ronald Maddison, a twenty-year-old Royal Air Pressure engineer who died after being uncovered to some nerve agent at Porton Lower in 1953, Professor Schmidt has researched and discussed a brief history of medical ethics and national peace of mind in publish-war British and European societies.
His latest work, Secret Science: A Hundred Years of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments. supplies a comprehensive good reputation for chemical and biological weapons research in great britan and The United States by formerly key military, scientific, and government archival material with interviews with servicemen and scientists although recognising developments in global debates on medical ethics.
Professor Schmidt’s research has additionally been accustomed to inform a chapter of BBC World Service’s Witness on Chemical Weapons Tests at Porton Lower .
Update 09/07/2015:
Professor Schmidt’s studies have made an appearance like a major news item around the College of Kent website as well as in The Independent newspaper .
Secret Science is printed by Oxford College Press and much more information are available around the writer’s catalogue .
