ADAM STOREY FARRAR

The Late Dr. Reginald Farrar

Ginny Storey.

Care homes are not institutions, They are people’s homes. They are not “healthcare establishments”, They provide nursing care as part of a range of personal care services. People living in care homes are not “patients”. People living in care homes have a right to expect clean, safe environments and care. People using a service have the right to make choices, including taking risk. People living...

Jeremy Farrar: When disaster strikes

Jeremy Farrar had not intended to be at the forefront of avian influenza research. But as the director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City, the bird flu outbreak found him.

ADAM 10 ( ADAM metallopeptidase domain 10 )

Adam Kilgarriff

A long time ago now (maybe 1988?), Gerald (Gazdar) and I supervised Adam’s DPhil at the University of Sussex. Adam was my age, give or take a year, having come to academia a little late, and was my first doctoral student. Adam’s topic was polysemy, and I’m not really sure that much supervision was actually required, though I recall fun exchanges trying to model the subtleties of word meaning us...