Item OHP/13 - Interview with Alan Walker

Recording of interview with Alan Walker, chaplain at PCL and UOW, 1987-1995, part-time law student c.1986.

Interviewer: Anna McNally, History Project Archivist.

Discusses: childhood; reasons for joining the Polytechnic; law course - staff; Role of chaplain - as he saw it, as others saw it, roles as International Student Officer, Dyslexia Advisor, student inductions; Religion at the Poly - religious services, carol concert; Treatment of members of the Polytechnic Institute - it's role/place, staff ideas of the Institute; Change to university status - rebranding the Institute, Institute's reaction, ethos; Women's Institute (brief mention); Events - carol service, children's party, socials.