Changing stations - Roy Chisholm

The novel, set in 1983-4, deals with academic, personal and romantic relationships between members of staff in the new University of Stedborough. It focuses on the development by a young physicist of a Theory of Human Consciousness. Premature disclosure of his ideas leads to a financially attractive offer of collaboration from an American Creationist Church. The offer causes serious ethical disagreements within the University, and provokes a student demonstration. On the way to a crucial meeting to decide the issue, the key protagonist of the proposal is killed in an apparently unexplained accident.