Are you working on Thesis then be careful | Maybe you lost
it and get trouble | Be careful and make multiple copies of Thesis and store on
different devices. The lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan has lost four years of
work. She lost whatever she has done and made Thesis.
A woman has issued a desperate appeal for help after thieves
stole a laptop and hard drives containing her PhD thesis. Postgraduate
photography student Jacqui Knight has been left devastated after criminals made
off with four years of academic work when they broke into her car in Llandaff,
Cardiff.
The Cardiff Metropolitan University associate lecturer had
parked her car in the car park of the Maltsters pub on Tuesday, December 5, to
meet a colleague.
After smashing the window of her Volkswagen Golf, thieves
took her MacBook Pro laptop along with two portable hard drives, six USB pen
drives, and her passport. Jacqui had been working on her PhD photography thesis
for four years The Plymouth University student, from Cornwall, said:
“Unfortunately I do so much traveling I have to leave things in my car. “It’s a
big car park with floodlights so I thought it would be reasonably safe so I put
it under my seat with my scarf on top.”
After being offered the chance to screen a film in Newcastle
the following night the academic had been traveling with multiple hard drives
containing different files. Her passport was also in the same bag after taking
it to the university for a DBS check. She said: “The worst thing about it is the
personal information. “My thesis is the culmination of four years work as I’m
in my write-up year. “It’s an unimaginable amount of hard work. Some of it I
can retrieve piecemeal but not the entirety.”
Jacqui had visited the archives of photographers across
Europe for her thesis. As well as annotated notes, the hard drives and laptop
also contained archived photos and material from photographers across Europe.
Miss Knight, 44, said: “I had gone to copy old photos
archived in Amsterdam and from the Magnum Photos archives.“I had to travel to
these places as they are very guarded, they weren’t sent by email. “I went to
David Hurn’s house and he gave me artifacts from his personal archives – he was
really supportive of my work. “You can’t get any of that back.” She added:
“It’s nothing to do with the physical value of it – I would rather have given
them £1,000 for a computer.”
A spokesman for South Wales Police said: “We can confirm
that a laptop was stolen among other personal items from inside a car which was
parked in The Maltsters pub car park on December 5. Anybody who has information
about the theft is urged to contact South Wales Police via 101 quoting
reference 476691.”
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