Dr Colin Morris

I read geography at Exeter: BA from 1971-1974, PhD from 1974 to 1978. My particular interest was in why/how people use semantic space – aka language – to evaluate how townscapes affect them. I then put all my energies into becoming an opera singer. Very few people manage to be fully employed in the performing arts so I juggled two careers for most of my working life, namely opera and offender learning. My singing has taken me around the world, chiefly playing rather silly old men who should know better, but coming back to working in prisons in the ‘gaps’ was probably very grounding. My advice is to follow your desires. The only certainty in life – apart from death and taxes – is that if you give up, you definitely won’t succeed at what you really want to do.