Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Carla Morris who is International Pathways Manager in the Centre for English & World Languages at the University of Kent where she has been for the last 10 years, and we begin by talking about an embarrassing meeting we once had as Senior Tutors for our respective Schools. Carla grew up in Dublin in the 1960s and went to a Methodist school which was her first multicultural experience and later went on to study History of art and Medieval History at Trinity College Dublin. She ended up bookselling for the next few years, and we find out about the ‘curious journey’ she then went on, which included working for an American independent financier and wanting to travel the world, which is how she met her husband, and later teaching refugees and asylum seekers and Business English. We learn why travelling back in time has always been Carla’s passion and we find out that as a child Carla played imaginative games in her garden. Carla has always wanted to help make a difference to people’