Ralph Cooper

Job title
Senior Technical Support

Last book you read?
HSS Catalogue [tool hire company for a Community Action Learning project!]

Your heroes include...
Ernest Shackleton and Lance Armstrong

Favourite line from a film?
“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”
(Roy Batty, the replicant in Bladerunner, as he comes to terms with his own mortality. Played by Rutger Hauer)

Your best day at Impact (so far...)?
Too many to pick an individual day

Who makes you laugh?
Ronnie Barker, Eric Morecambe and Simon Brown from the Accounts team

Last journey you took?
Drove up to the north west of Scotland for a long weekend, for a big cycle event with a friend

What’s on your desk?
Don’t have a desk

How do you deal with stress?
Walk my dogs, play with my ferrets or ride my bicycle

Favourite place?
I like places where I can enjoy peace and solitude in beautiful surroundings, particularly the wilder parts of Scotland

3 people you’d have dinner with (dead or alive)?
John Muir (The Scot who was instrumental in the setting up of the American National Park System), Ernest Shackleton (Explorer and leader) and Albus Dumbledore