Obituaries
- 13 March 2025 Peter Haggett, Professor of Urban and Regional Geography, passed away on 9 February at the age of 92. His colleagues and former students in the School of Geographical Sciences pay tribute to one of the discipline’s most distinguished scholars and a former Acting Vice-Chancellor of this University.
- 15 December 2014 Professor David Blockley remembers Rowland Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering, who died in July.
- 5 May 2022 Cynthia Galliers, former assistant to the Graduate Secretary and administrator of PhD graduate teaching and research programmes in the School for Policy Studies, passed away in early March. Her colleague Randall Smith offers a remembrance.
- 9 December 2014 Sheena Heyman, a cleaner based at Old Park Hill from 1996 to 2004, has died. Liz Lynch, Site Services Manager, offers an appreciation.
- 30 June 2022 Professor David L Dineley, former Head of the Department of Geology at Bristol and a noted expert on fossil fishes, stratigraphic methods, and the Devonian Period, passed away recently. His colleagues Dr Liz Loeffler and Professor Michael Benton offer a remembrance.
- 17 December 2014 Nick Talbot, a Bristol alumnus whose eclectic work as an experimental, alt-rock musician under the name Gravenhurst earned him an international reputation, has died at the age of 37.
- 25 August 2022 Former School of Education colleague Professor Malcolm Skilbeck passed away peacefully, aged 89, at his home near Geelong in Victoria Australia on 17 June. Emeritus Professor Michael Crossley, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education, offers a remembrance.
- 12 December 2012 Emeritus Professor Roy Severn CBE FREng FICE, one of the pioneers of earthquake engineering, died suddenly on 25 November 2012, aged 83. Professor David Blockley and Professor Colin Taylor offer an appreciation of his life and achievements.
- 10 October 2018 Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Haydn Trevor Mason died on 16th August 2018 a few months before his 90th birthday. His former colleague Dr Edward Forman has provided this tribute.
- 8 June 2022 Helen Dury, Portfolio Marketing Manager in External Relations, died suddenly in February. Her colleague Mary Millard offers a remembrance.
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