st cross college

record number 31 2014

ST CROSS COLLEGE RECORD

NUMBER 31, 2014

EDITOR’S NOTE

This edition of the St Cross College Record covers the academic year October 2013 to September 2014. I have included reports by most College Officers. I would be pleased to hear from any member of the College past or present who would be prepared to write something for publication. Again I have tried hard to remove errors in Fellows’, Students’ and Members of Common Room entries that have crept in over the years and would be glad to be notified of any errors that remain.

E J Williamson [email protected] February, 2015

CONTENTS

The College of St Cross at Oxford 5

Degrees Taken 35

Master’s Report 42

Awards, Achievements and Recognition of Distinction 45

New Fellows 47 Shailendra Bhandare Francis Leneghan Anthony Geffen Mathilda Mommersteeg John Gledhill Timothy Pound Heather Harrington Emilie Savage-Smith

3 College Talks 50

Bursar’s Report 52

Director of Development’s Report 54

Dean and Junior Deans’ Report 62

Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions’ Report 64

Archivist’s Report 65

Art Committee Report 66

Librarian’s Report 68

Garden Master’s Report 71

Director of IT’s Report 72

Common Room Report 72

Student Welfare Officers’ Report 73

Sports Report 74

Catering Manager’s Report 75

Music Report 76

Photographic Competition 77

Obituaries 79 Brian Atkins Lorna Casselton Philip Beckett Derek Roe

The West Quad of St Cross 93 Mark Jones

4 THE COLLEGE OF ST CROSS AT OXFORD

2014

MASTER

Jones, Sir Mark Ellis Powell, MA (Hon DLitt Lond.; Hon DArts Abertay; Hon LLD Dundee; Hon DLitt UEA) FRSE, FSA

FELLOWS

Parsons, Barry Eaton, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) Professor of Geodesy and Geophysics Waters, David John, MA, DPhil (MA Camb.) Associate Professor in Metamorphic Petrology; Curator, University Museum of Natural History; Webmaster Garcia-Bellido, Estrella Paloma, MA (MA Texas (Austin); MA, PhD Universidad Complutense, Madrid) Associate Professor in Spanish Philology and Linguistics; Harassment Adviser Treadwell, William Luke, MA, DPhil (BA Camb.) Samir Shamma Associate Professor in Islamic Numismatics, Ashmolean Museum Thompson, Peter John, MA (BA Warw.; PhD Pennsylvania) Sydney L. Mayer Associate Professor of American History Scott, Katharine, MA (MA, PhD Camb.; BAFA Cape Town) by Special Election Adam, Christopher, MA, MPhil, DPhil (MA St And.) Professor of Development Economics MacCulloch, Revd Diarmaid Ninian John, Kt, MA, DD (MA, PhD Camb.; Hon DLitt E.Anglia; Hon DLitt St And.; Hon DLitt University of the South at Sewanee; Hon DD Virginia Theological College) FBA, FSA Professor of the History of the Church Hamerow, Helena Francisca, MA, DPhil (BA Wisconsin-Madison) FSA Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology Chatty, Dawn, MA (BA, DPhil UCLA; MA Institute of Social Studies, The Hague) Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration Doherty, Maureen Patricia, MA (BA Lanc.; MA Open) by Special Election; Bursar; Wine Steward Ulijaszek, Stanley Jan, MA (BSc Manc.; MSc, PhD Lond.) Professor of Human Ecology Taylor, James, MA (MA Camb.; MSc Lanc.; PhD Lond.) Professor of Decision Science Mitter, Rana Shantashil Rajyeswar, MA (BA, MPhil, PhD Camb.) Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China; Vice-Master Briant, William Richard Christian, MA (MA Camb.) by Special Election; International Director, Saïd Business School Dalton, Gavin Bruce, MA, DPhil by Special Election; Professor of Astrophysics Jirotka, Marina Denise Anne, MA, DPhil (BSc Lond.; MSc S.Bank) Professor of Human Centred Systems; Director of IT

5 Deutsch, Jan-Georg, MA (MA Hanover; PhD SOAS; habil. Berlin) Associate Professor in African History Ligoxygakis, Petros, MA (BA Athens; MSc, PhD Crete) Associate Professor in Genetics; President of Common Room Parker, Michael John, MA (BSc Manc.; BEd, MPhil W.England; PhD Hull) Professor of Bioethics Pfeiffer, Judith, MA (MA Cologne; PhD Chicago) Associate Professor in Arabic/Islamic History Robinson, Mark, MA (PhD Lond.) Professor of Environmental Archaeology; Dean; Garden Master Romero Morales, Dolores, MA (MSc Seville; PhD Erasmus University Rotterdam) Reader in Operations Research Savulescu, Julian, MA (BMedSci, MB, BS, PhD Monash) Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics Venables, Katherine, MA (BSc, MSc, MD Lond.) Reader in Occupational Medicine Ashbourn, Joanna Maria Antonia, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) FRAS, FHEA by Special Election; Senior Tutor; Tutor for Admissions Hamill, Heather, MA, DPhil (MA St And.) Associate Professor in Sociology Papanikolaou, Dimitris, MA (BA Athens; MA, PhD Lond.) Associate Professor in Modern Greek Sweetlove, Lee, MA (BSc E.Anglia; PhD Camb.) BBSRC Fellow; Professor of Plant Sciences Dexter, Colin, OBE (MA Camb.; Hon MA Leic.; Hon DLitt Oxf.Brookes) by Special Election Kapanidis, Achillefs, MA (BA Thessaloniki; MSc, PhD Rutgers) Professor of Biological Physics Mahone, Sloan Courtney, MSc, DPhil (BA Hofstra; MS Boston) Associate Professor in the History of Medicine Bostrom, Nick Rolf Lars, MA (BA Gothenburg; MA Stockholm; MSc Lond.; PhD LSE) Professor of Applied Ethics Power, Timothy, (BA Massachusetts; MA Florida; PhD Notre Dame) Associate Professor in Brazilian Studies Wilkinson, Angus, MA (BSc, PhD Brist.) Professor in Materials Yee, Margaret, MA status, DPhil (BSc NSW; BD Sydney) Senior Research Fellow by Special Election, Principles of Knowing: Science, Humanities and Theology Biggs, Michael, (BA Victoria New Zealand; MA, PhD Harvard) Associate Professor in Sociology Frood, Elizabeth, DPhil (BA, MA New Zealand) Associate Professor in Egyptology Jacobsen, Sten Eirik Waelgaard, (MD, PhD Bergen) Bass Professor of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology McNicholl, Jane, MSc (BSc Liv.; PhD Lond.) Associate Professor in Educational Studies Bosworth, Mary, MA (BA Western Australia; MPhil; PhD Camb.) Professor of Criminology

6 Daniels, Inge Maria, (BA Leuven; MA Nara, Japan; PhD Lond.) Associate Professor in Social Anthropology Floridi, Luciano, MA (MA Laurea Rome La Sapienza; MPhil, PhD Warw.) Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information Pollard, Andrew John, (BSc, MBBS, PhD Lond.) DIC, MRCP (UK), FHEA, FIDSA, FRCPCH Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity O’Hanlon, Rosalind, (BA Camb.; MA, PhD Lond.) Professor of Indian History and Culture Bogaard, Amy Marie, (BA Bryn Mawr; MSc, PhD Sheff.) Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology Johnson, Helen Louise, (BSc, PhD R’dg) Associate Professor in Climate and Ocean Modelling Pirie, Fernanda, MA, DPhil (MSc Lond.) Associate Professor in Socio-legal Studies Bowles, Neil, DPhil (BSc Lond.) Associate Professor in Planetary Physics Hicks, Daniel, MA (BA Brist.) Associate Professor in Modern Archaeology Friedrichs, Jörg, (DPhil Munich) Associate Professor in Politics Olteanu, Dan Alexandru, MA (Dipl.Ing University Politechnica of Bucharest; Dr. rer nat. Munich) Associate Professor in Computer Science Siveter, Derek, (BSc PhD, DSc Leic.) by Special Election; Professor of Earth Sciences Watt, Andrew, (BSc Glas.; MSc DIC Lond.; PhD Queensland) RCUK Fellow in Novel Photovoltaic Devices, Department of Materials Swafford, Glenn Lawrence, MA (BA Victoria Univ. Wellington; MPolLaw La Trobe; PhD Flinders Univ. S. Australia) by Special Election, University Director Research Services; Harassment Adviser De Crespigny, Robert James Champion, (BComm Melbourne) by Special Election Topsfield, Andrew Stephen, MA, DPhil (MA Lond.) by Special Election; Keeper of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum Lora-Wainwright, Anna, DPhil (BA, MA Lond.) Associate Professor in the Human Geography of China Van Hear, Nicholas James, MA (BA Camb.; PhD Birm.) by Special Election Shapiro, Joel, (BA Washington in St Louis; MA, PhD Princeton) Associate Professor in Financial Economics Hoyland, Robert Gerard, MLitt Professor of Islamic History Standley, Eleanor Rose, (BSc, MA, PhD Durh.) Associate Professor and Assistant Keeper of Medieval Archaeology, Ashmolean Museum Lee-Thorp, Julia, (BA, BSc, PhD Capetown), FBA Professor of Archaeological Science Golestanian, Ramin, MA (BSc Sharif; MSc, PhD IASBS) FInstP Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Bjola, Corneliu, (MA Leuven; PhD Toronto) Associate Professor in Diplomatic Studies Trefethen, Anne, (BSc Cov.; PhD Cranfield)by Special Election; Professor of Scientific Computing; Chief Information Officer; Pro-Vice-Chancellor without portfolio Magiorkinis, Gkikas (MSc, PhD, MD Athens) Junior Research Fellow; University Research Lecturer

7 Makepeace, Richard Edward, CMG, MA by Special Election; Registrar, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Sharpe, Michael Christopher, MA (MB, BChir, MD Camb.) FRCP, FRCPsych Professor of Psychological Medicine Zanna, Laure, (BSc Tel Aviv; PhD Harvard) Associate Professor in Climate Physics Crowther, Alison, (BA, DPhil Queensland) Junior Research Fellow Corbett, Philip Peter, (MPhil, MTheol St And.; STM Yale) Pusey Fellow Harrison, Henrietta Katherine, DPhil (MA Harvard) FBA Professor of Chinese Studies Malmberg, Lars-Erik Joakim, (MA, PhD Vasa, Finland) Associate Professor in Quantitative Methods in Educational Research Carlisle, Robert Crispin, (MSc, PhD Birm.) Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering Larfors, Johanna Maria Magdalena, (MSc, PhD Uppsala) Junior Research Fellow Warnaby, Catherine Elizabeth, (MPhys, PhD Manc.) Junior Research Fellow Jarvis, Matthew, DPhil (MPhys Birm.) Professor of Astrophysics Beeson, David Murray Wendover, (BA, MA Camb.; PhD Lond.) by Special Election; Professor of MolecularNeurosciences, Leader Neurosciences Group, Wetherall Institute of Molecular Medicine O’Neill, Peter, (BSc, PhD, DSc Leeds) CChem, FRSC by Special Election;, Deputy Director, MRC/CRUK Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology Marsh, Kevin, (MB, ChB Liv.) MRCP by Special Election; Professor of Tropical Medicine Gray, Lesley J., (BSc S’ton.; PhD R’dng) by Special Election; Professor of Atmospheric Physics Strand, Steve, MA (BA, PhD Plym.) Professor of Education Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin, (MA, PhD Munich; habil. Bremen) Barnett Professor of Comparative Social Policy and Politics Bardenet, Rémi Jean-Luc, (MSc ENS Cachan; PhD Paris-Sud) Junior Research Fellow Robinson, Stuart Alan, MA, DPhil Associate Professor in Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Collins, Sir Rory, MA, MS (MBBS Lond.), FMedSci, FRCP Professor of Population Health Westhaver, George Derrick, MA (MDiv Toronto; PhD Durh.) Pusey Fellow; Principal, Pusey House Burn, Katharine Clare, MSc, DPhil (BA Camb.) Associate Professor in Education (History) Jacobs, Adriana Ximena, (BA William and Mary; PhD Princeton) by Special Election; Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature Legg, David Alexander, (BSc Port.; MSc Brist.; PhD Lond.) Junior Research Fellow Harrington, Heather, (BS Massachusetts, PhD Lond.) Junior Research Fellow Geffen, Anthony, MA by Special Election Leneghan, Francis Paul Vincent, (BA, PhD Dub.) Associate Professor in Old English Bhandare, Shailendra, (BPharmSci, MA, PhD Mumbai) by Special Election; Assistant Keeper, Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum Savage-Smith, Emilie, (MA, PhD Wisconsin-Madison, Hon DLitt DePauw University, Indiana), FBA by Special Election; Archivist

8 Pound, Timothy Brett, MA, DPhil (BA Sheff., MA Keele) by Special Election; Archive Registrar Mommersteeg, Mathilda Theodora Maria, (MSc, PhD Amsterdam) Associate Professor of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine Gledhill, John Gary, (BA Dub., PhD Georgetown) Associate Professor in Global Governance

HONORARY FELLOWS

Allen, Prof Sir Geoffrey, (BSc, PhD Leeds), FInstP, FPRI, FRS Seyoum, Prince Mangashia, GCVO, MA Crutzen, Paul Josef, (MSc, PhD, DSc Stockholm) Director, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie 1980- ; Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1995 Lee, Prof Dame Hermione, CBE, MA, BPhil Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature 1998-2008; President of Wolfson College 2008- Repp, Richard Cooper, MA, DPhil (BA Williams College, Massachusetts) University Lecturer in Turkish History 1965-2003; Senior Proctor 1979; Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1994- 2003; Master 1987-2003 Brook, Sir Richard John, OBE, MA (BSc Leeds; ScD MIT) Professor of Materials Science 1990-2001 Eisenstein, Elizabeth, (AB Vassar; MA, PhD Radcliffe College) Warrell, David Alan, MA, DM, DSc, FRCP (Edin.), FMedSci, Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine; Fellow 1977-2005; International Director (Hans Sloane Fellow), Royal College of Physicians Hamilton, Andrew David, (BSc Exe.; MSc British Columbia; PhD Camb.) FRS Vice-Chancellor Goudie, Andrew Shaw, MA, DSc (MA, PhD Camb.) Professor of Geography 1984- 2003; President of the Oxford Development Programme and Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1995- 1997; Master 2003-2011 Thomas, Sarah, MA (AB Smith; MS Simmons; PhD Johns Hopkins) Vice-President for the Harvard Library Warner, Marina Sarah, DBE, MA Hon DLitt Professor of English Creative Writing, Birkbeck College, London Weber, Susan, (AB, MA, PhD) Director, Bard Graduate Center, New York

EMERITUS FELLOWS

†van Heyningen, Ruth Eleanor, MA, DPhil, DSc (MA Camb.) Fellow 1965-1979; Senior Research Officer in Ophthalmology 1952-1978 †Jones, Alan, MA (MA Camb.) Fellow 1965-1980; Professor of Classical Arabic 1997- 2000 Whittaker, Eric James William, MA (BSc, PhD Lond.) FInstP Fellow 1967-1983; University Lecturer in Geochemistry 1965-1967; Reader in Mineralogy 1967-1983

9 Porter, Simon Robert, MA, DPhil Fellow 1977-1987; Bursar 1977-1987 Hassall, Tom Grafton, OBE, MA, Fellow 1974-1988; Director, Oxfordshire Archaeological Unit 1973-1985; Secretary, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England 1984-1993 †Hodcroft, Frederick William, Commander of the Order of Isabel the Catholic, MA (MA Manc.) Fellow 1965-1990; University Lecturer in Spanish 1953-1990 Barton, Revd John, FBA, MA, DPhil, DLitt (Hon Dr theol. Bonn) Fellow 1974-1991; University Lecturer in Theology (Old Testament) 1974-1989, Reader in Biblical Studies 1989-91; Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture 1991- Hockey, Susan Margaret, MA Fellow 1979-1991; Teaching Officer for Computing in the Arts 1975-1989; Director of the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies 1989-91; Fellow 1979-91 Smith, George David William, MA, DPhil, FInstP, FRS Fellow 1977-1991; University Lecturer in Metallurgy 1977-1993; George Kelley Reader in Metallurgy 1993-1996; Professor of Materials 1996-2010; Emeritus Professor 2010- †Britton, Dennis, MA (MA Camb.) Fellow 1965-1992; University Lecturer in Prehistory 1961-1992 Brookes, Edward Michael, MA (BSc Durh.; Hon LLD Waterloo; CEng) MICE Fellow 1972-1992; Assistant University Surveyor 1964-76; University Land Agent 1976- 1983 Glare, Peter Geoffrey William, MA (MA Camb.) Fellow 1976-1992; Editor, Oxford Latin Dictionary 1955-1981; Editor, Liddell & Scott Supplement 1981-1996 Brown, Helen Wingate, MA Fellow 1969-1994; Assistant Keeper, later Senior Assistant Keeper, Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, 1958-1994 Mould, Charles Marshall, MA, DPhil (BSc (Eng.) Lond; Hon DLitt Oxf. Brookes) Fellow 1981-1995; Secretary of the Bodleian Library 1981-1995 Olliver, Joseph Gascon, MA, DPhil (BSc Nott.) Fellow 1970-1996; University Lecturer in Surveying and Geodesy 1966-1996 Nizami, Farhan Ahmad, MA, DPhil (MA Aligarh) Junior Research Fellow 1983-1985; Islamic Studies Fellow 1985-1997; Director, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 1985 - Bishop, David Hugh Langler, MA, DSc (BSc, PhD Liv.) Fellow, 1984-1998; Director, NERC Institute of Virology 1984-1995 Roberts, Adrian David Scudamore, MA, BLitt (MA Camb.) Fellow 1978-1998; Sub- Librarian, Bodleian Library 1976-1998; Keeper of Oriental Books 1976-1998 Vessey, Martin Paterson, CBE, MA (MB, BS, MD Lond.) FMedSci, FRS Fellow 1973-2000; Professor of Public Health 1974-2000 Richards, Donald Sidney, MA Fellow 1967-2000; University Lecturer in Arabic 1960- 2000; Dean of Degrees Benton, Peter, MA (MA Camb.) Fellow 1987-2001; University Lecturer in Educational Studies (English) 1976-2001 Woolnough, Brian Ernest, MA (BSc R’dg; Cert Ed Camb.) FInstP Fellow 1984-2001; University Lecturer in Educational Studies (Physics) 1978-2001

10 Mackridge, Peter Alexander, MA, DPhil Fellow 1981-2003; University Lecturer in Modern Greek 1981-1996; Professor of Modern Greek 1996-2003; Dean of Degrees Williamson, Edward James, MA, DPhil Fellow 1970-2004; University Lecturer in Physics 1968-2004; Dean of Degrees; Publications Officer Abramson, Glenda, MA (MA, PhD Rand.) Senior Research Fellow 1981-1989; Fellow 1989-2004; Cowley Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew 1989-2004 Allan, James Wilson, MA, DPhil Fellow 1990-2005; Assistant Keeper, Department of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum 1966-1988; Senior Assistant Keeper 1988-1991; Keeper (Professor) 1991-2005 McLatchie, Robert Craw Forsyth, MA (BSc Glas.) Senior Research Fellow 1991-2005; Executive Director, Oxford Parallel 1991-2005 Harris, Ann, MA (PhD Lond.) Fellow 1991-2005; University Lecturer in Paediatrics 1991-2005; Professor of Paediatric Molecular Genetics 1999-2005 Gosden, Christopher, MA (BA, PhD Sheff.) Fellow 1994-2006; University Lecturer in World Archaeology 1994-2006; Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum James, Wendy Rosalind, CBE, BLitt, MA, DPhil (DSc Copenhagen), FBA Fellow 1972-2007; University Lecturer in Social Anthropology 1972-1996; Professor of Social Anthropology 1996-2007 Tiffany, John Michael, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) Fellow 1979-2007; University Lecturer in Ophthalmological Biochemistry 1976-2007 Browning, David George, Order of José Matías Delgado, MA, DPhil (BA R’dg) Fellow 1968-2007; University Lecturer in Geography of Latin America 1968-1985; Founder Registrar, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 1985-2007 Hedges, Robert Ernest Mortimer (MA PhD Camb.) Fellow 1989-2009; University Lecturer in Archaeology 1989-1995; Professor of Archaeology 1995-2009 Kruger, Nicholas, MA (PhD Camb.) Fellow 1989-2009; University Lecturer in Plant Science 1990-2009 Zimmerman, Friedrich Wilhelm, BPhil, MA, DPhil (MA Erlangen) Fellow 1976- 2009; University Lecturer in Islamic Philosophy 1976-2009 Pieke, Frank Nikolaas, MA (BA, MA Amsterdam; PhD Berkeley) Fellow 1995-2010; University Lecturer in the Modern Politics and Society of China 1995-2010 Raynes, Edward Peter, MA (MA, PhD Camb.; DSc Hull) FInstP, FRS Fellow 1998- 2010; Professor of Optoelectronic Engineering 1998-2010 Endicott, Jane Anne, MA (MA, PhD Toronto) Fellow 1998-2011; University Lecturer in Molecular Biophysics 1998-2011 Davage, Revd William Ernest Peter, MA (BA Newc.; MPhil Leic.) Pusey Fellow 1994- 2011 Hope, Ronald Anthony, MA, BM, BCh (PhD Lond.) FRCP, FRCPsych, MFPH Fellow 1990-2012; Lecturer in Psychiatry 1987-1990; Leader, Oxford Practice Skills Project and Hon Consultant Psychiatrist 1990-1995; University Lecturer in Practice Skills 1995-1996; Reader in Medicine 1996-2000; Professor of Medical Ethics 2000-2012 Mayhew, Nicholas, MA, DLitt Emeritus Professor of Numismatics and Monetary History, Ashmolean Museum; Fellow 1992-2013

11 Whiteley, Jon James Lamont, MA DPhil Former Senior Assistant Keeper, Department of Western Art 1978-2013, Ashmolean Museum; Fellow 1996-2013 Orford, Barry Antony, MA (BA, MTh, PhD Wales) Pusey House Priest Librarian and Pusey Fellow 2000-2014

† Founding Fellow

VISITING FELLOWS

Frenz, Margret, MA (PhD Heidelberg), FRHistS, FHEA Millhouse, The Hon Robin Rhodes, QC (LLB Adelaide) Crawford Miller Visiting Fellow

RETIRED FOUNDING FELLOWS (other than Emeritus Fellows)

Barbour, Ruth, MA Burridge, Kenelm Oswald Lancelot, BA, BLitt, MA (PhD Canberra) Zussman, Jack, MA, DPhil. Griffith, Thomas Gwynfor, B.Litt., MA, DPhil Tucker, Richard George, B.Sc., BM, MA, DPhil. Coles, Barry Arclay, MA, DPhil

12 MEMBERS OF COMMON ROOM

Former Fellows

David McBeath Anderson MA (BA Sus.; PhD Camb.) FRHS Michael Blowfield (BA Newc., MA Sus.) Benjamin Bradford (BSc, MSc, PhD Lond.) Hung Cheng MA, DO, FRCS Lesley Forbes MA (BA Durh.; Dip.Lib. Lond.) Peter Groves BA, DPhil Anastassia Loukina MPhil, DPhil (Dipl. St Petersburg State Univ.) Beatrix Nagyova DPhil (MD Dr. Comenius) LRCP, LRCS, DipLMSSA, MRCP Rebecca Nicholls DPhil (BA, MSc Camb.) Ian Page MA (BSc Lond., MSc City) FIEE John Bernard Pethica, KBE, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) FRS Lorenzo Andrea Santorelli (BSc Florence; MS, PhD Houston) Julie Scott-Jackson DPhil Thomas Pitt Soper BLitt MA, PhD Philip Bernard Tinker DSc, PhD Roger Trigg MA, DPhil Peter Ward Jones MA, FRCO Oliver Watson (BA Durh.; PhD Lond.) Paul Silva Wikramaratna MMaths, DPhil Holger Witte MSc, DPhil

Former Students

Walter Arader MPhil (BA Richmond) Michael Stuart Armstrong DPhil (BA Camb.) Michael Athanson MSt, DPhil (MA, MPhil Glas.) Casper Gregers Bangert, BA, MA, MPhil Katarina Beckman MSc Mariano Beguerisse Diaz MSc Jamie Franklin Berezin MPhil (BA Dalhousie) Shih-Chung Chen DPhil (BA Nat Chenghi Univ.; MA Lond.) Susan Clark EMBA Gari CliffordD Phil David Clifton DPhil (MEng Brist.) Matthew David MSc (MA, DPhil Kent; BSc Glam.) Angela Davis DPhil MSt (BA Lond.) Annie Demosthenous MSt (MA St And.) James Edward Dodd DPhil, BSc Vaughan Dutton DPhil (MSc, BSc Univ KwaZulu-Natal; BSc Univ. Natal)

13 Sarah Marie Ekdawi DPhil Brian Fahy MPhil (MA San Francisco; MA Boston) Alexander Farquhar DPhil (MA Glas.; MA Lond.) Julian Faultless MSt, DPhil Helen Sian Fisher DPhil (MA R’dg; BA Richard Germuska DPhil, MEng Luca Giberti DPhil Adam Gilbertson MSc, DPhil (BA Western Washington Univ.) Pär Lennart Gustafsson DPhil (MA, MPhil/DPhil) Natalie Hill MSc (BA Brist.) Cherry Warrington Hutton DPhil (BA, MA Chelt. & Glous. Coll; HEB Durh.) Hiuroshi Iwamura EMBA (BA Meiji) Devra Kay MLitt, BA, MPhil Lingbing Kong DPhil (BA, MSc Beijing Univ. Chem. Tech.) Felix Benedikt Kullchen DPhil Rebecca Latchford MSc (BSc Aberd.) Jonathan Lusthaus DPhil, MSc Rupert Macey-Dare MA, DPhil (MA Camb.; MSc Econ Lond.; LLM City; Call Middle Temple) Joy MacInnes DClinPsy, DPhil, BSc Marcus Charles Plowman Milwright DPhil Sayeed Al Noman MPhil (MRes LSE.) Peter Chikaodi Ntephe MSc (PhD Lond) Oliver Hugh Owen DPhil (BA Camb.; MSc Lond.) Luca Petrarulo MSc, BA, MA Joanna Pike DPhil, MPhil (BA R’dg) Chandra Sekar Ramanujan DPhil, BSME, MSMSE Margaret Jean Rayner MPhil John Rowe MA Kate Sargan MSt Michael Shott MSt BA Maria Spirova MSc (BA Sofia Univ.) Troy Sternberg DPhil (BA Calif.; MSc Texas Tech.Univ.) Stig Topp-Jorgensen MSc Paulina Villapando Lorda MSc, BA Sue Walters DPhil, MA Robin Wells MSt Simon White DPhil Jie Yang DPhil MSWc (BSc Tianjin Univ. Commerce) Annette Zimmermann MPhil

14 Elected Members

Daisy Agarwalla Peter Alexander (BA, PhD Lond.) Sheila Allcock MA (BSc Leic.) Librarian Chetan Anand Libish Balachandran Amanda Berlan DPhil, MPhil Susan Berrington (BA Liv.) Director of Development Suzanne Bobbett Judith Bogdanor (MB BS) LRCP MRCS DFFP College Doctor Richard John Bradley MA (Fil. Dr h.c. Lund), MIFA, FSA, FBA Susan Bull (PhD, MA Lond.; LLB Canterbury, New Zealand) Hilary Callan Dip, MLitt, BA Jules Cave Bergquist Aditi Chatterji MLitt (PhD Calcutta) Tony Coady BPhil (BA Sydney; MA Melbourne; MA Camb.) Alan Coates MA, DPhil (MA, Dip.Lib. Lond.), FSA, FRHistS, MCLIP Tonia Cope Bowley BSc Alasdair Crawford (BSc, MSc), MRAC Gill Davidson (BSc, MSc) Reena Dayal Michael Dunne BA, BLitt (DPhil Sus., MA Calif.) Elizabeth Edwards MA David Favis-Mortlock BA, PhD Charles Foster (PhD Warw.; BA, MSc Exe.) Jill Fresen (BA, MEd, PhD Pretoria) Sheldon Garon (BA Minnesota; AM Harvard; PhD Yale) David Gautrey Roya Ghafele (DPhil Vienna; MPhil Vienna/Sorbonne; PG Dip John Hopkins) John Gledhill (BA Dub.; PhD Georgetown) Daphne Hampson DPhil (BA Keele; MA Warw; ThM, ThD Harvard) John Hanks (BA Durh.; PGCE Camb.; LLM Wales) Gay Haskins (BA, MBA) Ines-Agnes Hasselberg (PhD Sus.) David Helliwell MLitt John Hewitt (MCIOB, MIFireE) Kei Hiruta MSc, DPhil (BA Keio, MA Essex) Suzy Hodge MBA Domestic Bursar Ajay Jain Christine Jeffery BLib (Wales) Christopher John Jenner BA, MStud, DPhil Rosie Kay BA

15 Jane Kaye DPhil Angeliki Kerasidou MA, DPhil (MA Thessaloniki) Laura King (BA Sur.) Former Development and Alumni Relations Manager Ajay Kolhatkar Rajamanohar Konerirajapuram Somasundaram Cezary Koscielniak (MA, PhD Adam Mickiewicz Univ., Poland) Manjunatha Kukkuru Laurence Leaver (MA Camb.), BM BCh, MRCGP College Doctor Judith Ledger, Accounts Manager Daniela Mairhofer DPhil Toby Martin BA MSt (PhD Sheff.) Shyam Menon Alison Mignanelli (BSc Lond.) College Accountant Toqir Mukhtar (MSc Lond., BSc Leeds) Nicola Murphy (BA DeMont.) Accommodation and Facilities Manager John Nandris MA, PhD (Camb.) FSA Ed Nash, (MA St And.; MSc Edin.) Erika Kristin Nitsch (BA Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Canada) Jeremy Peter Northover MA, DPhil Razvan Novacovschi, (PhD Sibiu) IT Manager Paulina Nowicka (BSc Gothenburg; MS, PhD Lund) Philip O’Reilly (MA Kent) Mark O’Shea, BM, BS College Doctor James Pettifer MA Clare Pollard DPhil (MA Camb.) Timothy Brett Pound DPhil, (BA Sheff. MA Keele) Archive Registrar Ian Pugh (BA Derby) Academic Administrator Abha Rishi Laurence Robb (BSc, MSc, PhD) Liana Saif (BA Jordan; MA, PhD Lond.) John Samuel William Scott-Jackson (MSc, PhD Oxf.Brookes) Naomi Setchell (BSc, MA Lond.) Shalini Sharma Mark Stafford Ryan Stones (LLB Lond.) Suzanne Straebler, College Independent Welfare Adviser Amy Styring (BSc, PhD Exe.) Simon Swain MA, DPhil Alan Taylor PhD, MSc Sergei Tochlin MSc Sarah Louise Turnbull (PhD Toronto) Giovanna Vitelli (BA R’dg; PhD Harvard)

16 Robert Elwyn James Watkins (BSc Salf.; DPhil Suss) Alasdair Watson (BA Lond.; MSc Edin.) Premila Webster DPhil (MBBS Madras; MSc Lond.) Julia Wigg MA (MA Lond.) Michael Wigg

Associate Members

Malgorzata Bialokoz Smith Marguerite Blackwell Lanna Cheng DPhil Sue Hodgson (BA Wales; DipEd Sheff; MA Oxf. Brookes) Clodagh Jakubovics Mary Juel-Jensen Janine Lee MA (MA Lond.) José Patterson Helen Saunders-Gill

17 GRADUATE SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS

Students who were engaged in a course of study at St Cross during the academic year 2013-2014

2000 szeverenyi, Vajk Peter MA (MA)

2002 Hebbert, Benjamin Mark (BSc Lond.Guild.; MMus Leeds)

2003 stefansson, Kolbeinn Holmar MSc (BA Univ. Iceland) Woerner-Powell, Thomas Richard George (BA Durh.)

2004 barisin, Ivana (MSc Ulster)

2005 mcGill, Darryl Andrew (BSc, MBBS Univ. NSW; PhD Austr. National univ.) oshmyansky, Alexander Roman (BA Colorado; MD Duke) solywoda, Stephanie Lynn (BA Smith Coll, Mass)

2006 Heinz, Sanda Sue (BA Loyola Marymount Univ.) Jun, Jiweon MSc (BA Seoul National U niv.) lowe, Alexandra Dorothea MPhil (BA Open) reuter, Victoria Agnes MPhil (BA Rutgers) santalova, Antonina Alexandrovna MPhil (BA Kyrgyz State Nat. Univ.)

2007 gregory, Justin Paul MSc (BSc Oxf. Brookes) Hamilton, Julie BA locascio, Philip Francesco (BSc UMIST; MSc Westminster) loughry, Robert Joseph (BA Colorado; MSE Seattle) marks, Zoe Elizabeth Zoog MSc (BA Georgetown Univ.) Papanastasiou, Anastasia (MA Univ Lond.) rees, Griffith Sewall (BA) rizkallah, Rafik Ramsis Annis MSc

2008 bhushan, Manav (BA Delhi) bhambra, Manmit (MSc /BSc LSC) bovell, Virginia Margaret (MA Lond.; MSc York) dahl, Anna Caroline Elizabeth (BSc Edin.) du, Mi (MEng Sheff.) Farquhar, Alexander James King (MA Lond.; MA Glas.) galicia Lopez, Oscar (MChem Mexico) Huang, Li-Chieh MSc Jo, Yong Mie (Nichola) MSc Kelly, Tara Beth (BA Washington; MA Lond.)

18 Kocher, Paul Tilman (MA) Kozak, Ladislav (BA Toronto) Kulvmann, Jesper (MSc) mark-Thiesen, Cassandra Onike (BA, MSc Florida State Univ.) mueller, Milena (BA Lond.; MPhil Camb.) Penrose, Sefryn BA (MA Brist.) rappak, Natalia schorle, Katia (MPhil) Vider, Jaanika BA Wright, Carrie Carlota (BA Hamline Univ. Minnesota; MSc Bourne.)

2009 Ahmad, Norainie (MSc Lond.) Altoft, James Richard Andjelkovic, Maja (MLaw Kent) Andrianova, Varvara (BA Louisiana State) Ashraf, Saquab (MA SOAS Lond.) beach, Brian Alvis (MA Univ. NC, Chapel) becker, Philipp Werner (BSc Cologne) bham, Saif Ahmed Shahab (BSc Manc.) boon, Chia Weng (BA Nanyang Tech. Univ SG) chan, Mun Chiang (BSc Brist.) chen, Haoyu (BEng Dalian) chung, Soo Min (MSc) coates, Adam (MPhil) czyz, Witold Wojciech (BSc Cardiff) dakin, Helen Angela MA (BA Camb.) devenish, Annie Victoria (BA) di Rodi, Morgan Michele Daniel (BA) do, Hyun-Woong Felce, James Hannes Fink, Robert Dion (Dipl. Ludwig Maximillians) Florez, Maria Teresa (MA Chile) grant, Clare Frances Jane (BSc Brunel, MSc Lond.) gruber, Claudia (BSc, MSc Cologne) gunnoo, Smita (MSc Brist.) Hawari, Aliah Hazmah Binti (BSc, MA Kebangsaan) Henderson, Morag Elizabeth (MSc) Herman, Joseph Lewis BA (BA Camb.) Hogue, Joshua Todd (MSc Lond.) Inboden, Rana Ann Hing-Jun Siu (BA Georgetown, MA Stanford) Jonson, Trent Maxwell Huram MPhil Karki, Shrochis (BA) Kubo, Teppei (MA Lond.)

19 le Febvre, Emilie Kathleen (MA Il Ben Gurian, Negev) lotharukpong, Chalothorn (BEng Lond.) maczka, Melissa May (BSc Lond.) majed, Rima Mohamad (BA Amer. Univ. Beirut) makino, Seiko mancilla-Garcia, Maria (MA École de Hautes Études en Sciences) marsh, Bradley John Jr MSt (MA Oral Roberts) marsh, Kimberly Stephanie (BA Singapore, MA Leeds) mcClung, Rebecca Alexandra (MA Kentucky, MSc Edin.) mcKerracher, Mark James MSt (BA) mcQuinn, Brian Peter (MA US Notre Dame) meng, Ke MPhil moore, James Daniel Paul (MSc Durh.) ntusi, Ntobeko Ayanda Bubele (BSc Heverford, MD Cape Town) onyambu, Frank Gekara (BA) Palmer, Duncan Stuart Sinclair (MSt Warw.) Paget, Daniel Jerome BA, MSc Periz Coloma, Francisco Javier (MSc Manc., PhD Lond.) Pettingill, Philippa May Pritchard, Eleanor Mary (MPhil Lond.) ribeiro Fernandes, Hugo Jose rowan, Erica Stacey K (BA McMaster) ryder, Nicholas Charles (MSc Brist.) rytel-Andrianik, Pawel MSt (BA) schluter, Jonas (MSc Westminster) sharma, Reetu (BA Univ. Delhi) sinkkonen, Marja Elina (BA, MA Helsinki) styer, Steven Andrew (BA Texas, MA) subianto, Landry Haryo (MA Essex) thomas, Nigel Verghese (BSc York) trueck, Johannes (DMed Eberhard Karls) Wang, Yixiong (BSc Nanjing) Wehby, Jennifer Leigh (BA, MSc Georgia) Wiebel, Jacob MSc (BA Lond.) Xu, Weijun (MA Harvard) You, Zixi

2010 Abdul Jawad, Sultan (MSc Aberdeen) Acosta-Nielsen, Colleen Denise (MA Johns Hopkins) Ally, Masud MA, BA (MSc) baker-Hytch, Max Rupert Owain (MA/BA Exeter) batchelor, Charlotte Claire (MS) bohingamuwa, Wijerathne Bohingamu Herath Mu (MA)

20 bull, Katherine Rose (BA) carveley, Kenneth Cyril (PhD Leeds) challinor, Dana (MSc Lond.) cirstea, Teodor-Matei cohen, Jack Andrew (MPhys) collins, Katharine Alice dahlsjo, Cecilia Anna Linnea (BSc) dearlove, Bethany Lorna (MSc) ding, Zi Qian (MSc) djerasimovic, Sanja duchi Llumigusin, Diego Armando Duchi elby, Tristan Edward (MSt) espinoza Revollo, Patricia Claudia (MPhil) Facchini, Raffaella Maria ganle, Kuumuori (MPhil) gulati, Aashish (Higher Degree Royal Coll of Surgeons) Hager Conroy, Kathryn Alexandra (MA) Hancock, Gemma Henson, Katherine Elizabeth MSc Hoechner, Hannah Kathrin (MPhil) Honti, Frantisek (BSc Bath) Jayaraj, Maria Sangeetha BCMed, MBA St John’s Med. Coll.) Jeannet, Anne-Marie Therese (BA) Johansen, Anniken Marie Henriksdatter (MA) Kasseri, Alexandra (MA) Kelly, Paul (MSc) Kenny, Nathan James (BA Otago, N.Z.) Kim, Taehoon (MSc) Koelbel, Andrea (MBA) Kotarba-Morley, Anna Maria (MA Kracow) Krakowka, Kathryn Ann MSc (BSc. MSc) langley, Michelle Claire li, Yang (MPhil) lloyd, David lodwick, Lisa Ann (BA) martin, Nicole Sylvia MSc (BA) moguerane, Khumisho Ditebogo (MSt) nockles, Victoria oesch, Nathaniel Tillman ostendorff, Daniel Alan (MA Queen’s Belfast) Palmer, Thomas John (BA, MA York) Patel, Jaimini (MA) Pimentel, Marco Andre Figueiredo (MEng)

21 Puzey-Broomhead, Philippa Maria Dorothea rafiq, Adnan (MPhil) rogozhina, Anna (MSt) segaren, Nathaniel (MA Johns Hopkins) sovdat, Tina (BA) stokes, Elizabeth Ann straulino, Daniel sui, Tan (BSc) szekely, Aron (MSc) teversham, Edward Mark (MA) ustek, Funda (MSc) Van Schaik, Sebastiaan Johannes (MS Utrecht) Verma, Akash Weissmueller, Nikolas Thomas (MSc) Wiersma, Wybo MSc (MA) Williamson, Zachary James (MPhys) Wisetsuwannaphum, Sirikarn (MChem) Wright, Laura Jayne (MPhys Durh.) Wu, Guo (BSc Shanghai Jiao Tong) Yang, Peidong (MPhil) Zhao, Tao (BA Tongji) Zhurakovskyi, Oleksandr (MA Arizona) Ziriax, Margaret Ruth

2011 Aid, Thaddeus (BSc R’dg) Anastasi, Maxine Raimondina Trenchard (BA, MA Malta) Antrobus, Richard (BA Birm.) Arndt, Sabine (MA Amsterdam) Atoyan, Tigran (BA, MSc McGill) bellander, Magnus Lars Jonas (MSc Lond.) bin Mohd Nasir, Nazirudin (MSt) blumberg, Diana Renee (MSc Lond.) bonchev, Ivan Boyanov (BA Sheff.) bray, Emma Rachel (BA) britton, Judy Louise (BSc Leic.) bulbrook, Daniel (BSc Lond.) caputo, Alessandro Thanasis (BA Melbourne) chalei, Vladislava (BSc Edin.) chan, Kai Hoo (MSc Lond.) chou, Dean (MA Alabama) chow, Zhan Lou (BSc York) cliff, Emily Rose (MSc Toronto) cottle, Amy Masumi (MA Camb.)

22 cresci, Irene (MSc) d’Andrea, Paola (BA, MA Degli Studi di Milano) de Feo-Giet, Danielle Karanjeet Julie (MA Harvard) de Teixeira Carrelha, Joana Isabel devisscher, Tahia (MSc Lund) di Paolo, Diana (BSc, MSc Pisa) doherty, Christina Marie (BSc Dublin City) duering, Andreas MSt (MA Eberhard Karls) duglan, Drew (BSc Birm.) estcourt, Lise Jane (BA Camb.) Fadeev, Sergey Mikhaylovich (BA, MA, DPhil Nizhny Novgorod) Filip, Marina Rucsandra (BEng Bucharest) Filipova, Rumena Valentinova (BA Camb.) Fiske, Peter Nicholas (MA Leiden) Floe, Hilary (BA, MSt) galeazzi Gonzalez, Juan Manuel (MSc Groningen) gavriliouk, Tatiana (BA, MSt) gray, James Andrew Russell (MSc Brist.) Handsel, Jennifer (MChem Sur.) Hartley, Nicholas John (MSc Lond.) Henderson, Rowena Claire (MSc York) Hill, Donal (MA Belf.) Jetter, Janina (MA Albert Ludwig) Kirkpatrick, Katherine MSt/BA Korzycka, Karolina Anna (MChem Lodz) Krause, Anna Christine MSt (MA Missouri) laranjeira Gomes, Simao Jacques (MA Lond.) liddle, Alexander David (BSc, BMed Lond.) lou, Ieng Tak (MSc Edin.) mansor, Latt Shahril (MA Columbia) mills, William Gundry mohd Yusof, Hanis Ayuni Binti (MEng Malaya) nibber, Anjan o’Higgins, Aoife Anais (MA) okilo, Idi (MA Calif) omar, Muhammad Yusof (MSc George Wash.) Pachal, Katherine Elizabeth (BSc Victoria, BC) Pope, Madeleine (BSc Royal Vet.) reschen, Michael Edward (BSc, BMed Nott.) rottwilm, Philipp Moritz sakai, Yurika (MSc Durh.) sawyer, Craig Anthony (MSc Camb.) searle, Andrew David

23 sha, Zhe (BSc Xi nan) sherr-Ziarko, Ethan Samuel shim, Jaemin (MPhil) stenson, Laura Catherina subramaniam, Sumithra (MSc Lond.) suciu, Maria Cristina (MSc Lond.) tan Chia Chun, Desmond (MEd Aberd.) tirfoin, Remi Antoine (MChem Pierre et Marie Curie) tobin, Vincent Redmond (MSc Lond.) tompkins, Abigail Elizabeth Insul MSt (BA Durh.) townshend, Ashley (BA Sydney) trick, Jemma Louise (MBioch) Walker Vadillo, Veronica (PG Dip Oberta de Catalunya) Wang, Pengyu (MPhil Camb.) Wang, Yunqi (MSc Stanford) Weiss, Miriam (MSc Georg-August) Wheatley, Lucy (MBioch) Wong, Chi Him (Gary) Wragg, Stefany (MPhil Camb.) Wu, Kuan-Jung (BSc National Taiwan) Yang, Xuezheng (MSc Lond.) Zhang, Jing (BSc Peking) Zhu, Tingting (MSc Lond.) Zuliani Alvarez, Lorena (MSc Lond.)

2012 Ambuehl, Antonietta (MSc) Amrein Esnaola, Cristina (BSc Birm.) bartels-Bland, Cara Viola (MA Glas.) baymul, Cinar (MSc Manc.) bishop, Sylvia (BA) blight, Joshua Miles (BSc Lond.) borghese, Federica burgess, Samuel Charles (MPhil Camb.) carayon, Francois-Xavier Jehan-Roch (BA Warw.) castro, Juan Francisco (MSc Lond.) chanwattana, Thakonwat (BSc Mahidol) cheung, Ka Lun (MPhil Ch. Univ. Hong Kong) cheung, Shu-Faye (MSc Camb.) chim, Yick Gee Philea (MSc) choi, Kayoung (BSc Adv. Inst. Sci. and Tech. Korea) colbran, David Trevor (BA Lond.) coutinho, Maria Ester Freitas Barbosa Pe (Eu. Bacc. Porto Univ.) cowburn, Gillian Elizabeth

24 de Sousa Pinto, Joao Moreira (BSc Warw.; BSc do Porto) dhaliwal, Punjeet (MPhil) dong, Jing (BA Beijing) donnelly, Victoria Anne (MPhil Camb.) drautzburg, Anja Annette (MA Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms) duffy, Kirsty Elizabeth (MPhys) dunbar, Danielle (MA Stellenbosch) edwards, Kyle Tierney (BA Princeton) eule, Joachim (BA Bayreuth) Fernandez, Lydia Emmeline (MA Warw.) Ferri, Carlo (MA INALCO France) Fonseca Ferreira, Lino Andre Fonseca (BSc Nova de Lisboa) Fung, Timothy Hoi Min (BMed/BSurg - Leic.) galson, Jacob BA garvey, Killian Kevin (BA Liv.) gillin, Edward John (MPhil Camb.) gonzalez dos Santos, Miguel EU MSc gucciardi, Stephen Michael (BA Toronto) Habisreutinger, Severin Niklas (BSc, MSc Munich) Haji Ibrahim, Khairunnisa Binti (MSc Leics.) Hallack Miranda Pureza, Andre (BEng, MEng) Hamilton, Alexander BA Hammack, Stephen Aubrey (MA East Carolina) Hammed, Asad (MSc/BA Rawalpindi) Hannam, Emily Sophia (MA Edin.) Hasnain, Saher (MSc Pennsylvania) Hayton, Gemma (BSc Anglia Ruskin) Heisey, William Michael (BA Durh.) Heng, Jeremy Jian Min (BSc Lond.) Hobbs, Eleanor (BSc Lond.) Hoekzema, Renee (MSc Utrecht) Homsy, Victoria Rose Marie (BSc Lond.) Huda, Mohammed Saif (MRCP - Lond.) Jackson, Hugo Stephen (BA Newc.) Jeffrey, Amy (MSc Royal Holloway & Bedford New College) Jenkins, Harry David BA Johnson, Sarah Cresap (BA Princeton) Johnston, Andrew James (MA Lond.) Kelley, Kathryn Erin (MPhil) Keravuori, Rose-Henrietta Powers (MA Oklahoma) Kerr, Alastair George (MSc Brist.) Khan, Amjad (MSc) Khanina, Anna (MA Lond.)

25 Kidd, Natasha Ann (BA, MA Lond.) Kirchhelle, Charlotte Elisabeth Marie (BSc, MSc Tech. Univ. Munich) Kraljic, David (MSc Camb.) Krijgsman, Marten (MA Glas.) lanier, Joshua Alexander (MA Boston) lee, Patricia Tung (BA UC Riverside) lehne, Johanna Maria (BA Lond.) liu, Ruiliang (MSc Northwest Univ.) macEwen, Clare Rosemary (BA, BMed) mackway-Jones, Euan Charles (BA Warw.) mallet, Sarah (MSc) mangiarelli, Lisa Nicole (BA George Washington) matheou, Nicholas Stylianos Moyes (MA Edin.) mcGowan, Erin Ruth (BA, MA Melbourne) mcGregor, Kirstie Ann Forbes (MPhil) menard, Aubrey F (BA Smith Coll.) middleton, Emma (BA, MA Manitoba) miller, Mary Sadb Bernadette (MSc) mistry, Rupal (BSc Lond.) mohammad, Talal (MA City) montgomery, Anna Barbara Kay (BSc Strath.) morehouse, Lindsay Rose (BA Macalester) murrell, Kelsey Rene MSc newson, Martha (BSc Suss.) norris, Charles Ashley (BS AU National) ortiz, Gregory Robert (BA North Park) Patta, Vaia (MA Aristotle) Pearce, Nicholas Mark (MA) Perez De Arcos, Marina (MPhil) Peringer, Katherine Olivia (BA) Phanumartwiwath, Anuchit (MSc Brist.) Picco, Noemi (MA/BA Polit di Torino) Pignot, Matthieu (MSt) Pino Emhart, Alberto Antonio Ignacio (MA Duke) Popescu, Iulia Andreia (MA/BA Timisora) Potts, Robert James (MA Edin.) Powell, Andrew (MPhys Warw.) raj, Ritu (MA) ramirez-Rozo, Juan (MPhil KCL) rea, Beatrice (BA McGill) rickard, Katie (BA Warw.) riksa, Marta (BA York) ringheim, Hannah Leftheris (BA George Washington)

26 roe, Joshua James (BA Wales) sainsbury, Victoria Alice (MSc) salinas Ivanenko, Andrea Polina (BA Bard Coll.) salman, Ahmed Mahmoud (MSc Ain Shams University Egypt) seminog, Olena MSc (MSc) sheard, Catherine Elizabeth (BSc Yale) sim, Anne-Marie (BA, MSc) sishuwa, Sishuwa Dipak (MSc) smith, Sian Elizabeth Horan (MA/BA Exe.) spath, Katharina Eva (MSc Edin.) stansbie, Daniel James (MA Wales) stoicescu, Claudia (MSc) stroud, Elizabeth Anne (MSc Lond.) tang, Xiaojia (BA Peking) tanner, Rachel Louise BA torres, Maria Ines Coutinho Dinis (BA) toth, Daniel (BA Goldsmiths) tuck, Sean Lewis umoren, Imaobong Denis (BA, MA Lond.) Vaiglova, Petra (MSc) Van Dalm, Laura Eline Vande Wiele, Héloïse Capucine (BA) Vela Banados, Jacinta Ignacia (BA Pontificia Católica de Chile) Volkmar, Norbert Wang, Yiduo (BSc Shandong) Watts, Isobel (BA) Wheater, Katharine (BA, MPhil) Whiteman, Oliver (BA SOAS) Williams, Brian Alan (MTheol Regent Coll.) Wiltsche, Clemens (MSc SZ ETH) Wojciechowski, Konrad (MSc - Jagiellonian (Kracow)) Woodruff, Philip Nicholas (BA Kent) Wu, Sarina (MPhil Cambridge) Xu, Teng (BA Renmin) Yang, Wenya (BA) Zheng, Zhong (MSc York) Zhou, Xiaofei (BSc Fudan University) Zhou, Yu (BEng, MEng Wuhan) Zimmermann, Annette (BA Freie Univ.)

2013 Ababneh, Nida’a Anwar Mohammad (MSc Jordan) Abebe, Lealem Mersha (BA, MA Addis Ababa) Adamson, Christopher James MA

27 Ahrend, Jan Marten (MSc Birm.) Ahmad, Faizzan Syed (MSc US CUNY Queens) Anttila, Aleksi Ilari (MA St. And.) Askonas, Jonathan David (BA, BSc - Georgetown) Aydin, Robert (BA - Alabama) baldi, Alexandra Elizabeth (BA SOSA) balgova, Maria (BA Camb.) balin, Andrew Kaan (MPhys - Warw.) barker, Camilla Rose (MA - Harvard) batchelor, Andrew John MSc bear, Brittany Alyson (BA Washington) behar, Dominic (BA Lond.) beland, Florence (BA McGill) bello, Erica (MSc Newc.) bengtzen, Hans Martin Jorgen (MLaws Stockholm Univ.) bernardo-Ciddio, Leah (BA York CA) bhattacharya, Subhankar (MPhil Jadavpur) bobic, Ana Magister Juris boehm, Emilia BA bolliger, Lennart (BA Enon. Geneva) bruzelius, Cecilia (MSc Lond.) cacali, Evan Regis (MA Heidelberg; BA Montana-Missoula) cardoso, Anabelle Williamson (BSc Cape Town) chandhok, Prabal BA (BA Hons OO) chen, Tong (BSc Lond.) colopy, Glen Wright MSc cook, John Leslie Laidlaw (MA AU Melbourne) crabtree, Adam Wallace (MA Hawaii at Manoa) curello, Gregorio (MA Barcelona) cuthbertson, Patrick MSt d’Amico, Marzia (MA IT Uni degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’ ) damren, Danielle Leigh (BA Elon US) david, Edward Anthony (MA Georgetown) de Francisco, Angela (BA Hong Kong) donnelly Moran, Patrick Edward (BA Chicago) doolittle, Helen Jane MA doyle-Markwick, Eleanor Rachel (BA NSW) drummond, Ross (MA Lond.) eddy, Rohit Philip BA (MSc Univ. S California) el Taraboulsi, Sherine Nabil (MA American Univ. in Cairo) ellison, James Daniel (BSc Exe.) elul, Shaltiel (MChem IL Bar-lian) evans, Timothy MA

28 Fang, Hui (BSc Kent) Fenech, Emma Joanne (MSc, BSc Durh.) Ferry, Quentin MSc Ford, Oliver BA, MA gachechiladze, Mariami (BA American Univ. in Bulgaria) gemmell, Laura Christine (BA Harvard) ghosh, Ipshita (MA Delhi) godwin, Samantha (MA Lond.) gola, Anita MSc graham, Jordan Enya (BA McGill) green, Laura (MA Lond.) gross, Isaac Lionel Webster (BSc Melbourne) guo, Rui BA (BSc Warw.) gupta, Anisha (BA - Delhi) gupta, Tania (MA Lond.; BA Shanjah) Hartmann, Amelie Felicitas (BA Leipzig) Hashmi, Anas (BEng, MSc Nott.) Hauck, Sofia BA He, Yiling (BA, MA Lille) Hector, Andre (MSc Lond.) Hildebrand, Carl Henry (MA Ottawa) Hirst, Jennifer (BSc St And.) Holstrom, Myrna Gene Martin (MA Colorado) Hyun, Jean Young (MA Harvard) Idinger, Lisa (Magister Juris Vienna) Imamura, Satoshi (BA, MA Tohoku Univ. Japan) Ingham, Oliver (BLaws Exe.) Iro, Mildred Adaku Janulis, Klint Edward (BA Colorado) Jiao, Xiyu (MSc Lond.) Jolliffe, John David (MChem Newc.) Jordan, Joseph (BSc Warw.) Joyce, Henry Horatio (BA Chicago) Kaasik, Daniel (BA Tartu U; Master Laws Edin.) Kamau, Musheer Olatunji (MA US Tufts Univ.) Kaufmann, Anna-Kristin (BSc Munich) Kesseli, Pascal (BSc SZ ETH Swiss Fed Inst.) Khadria, Anjul (MSc Lond.) Kilerci, Basak (MA Bosphorus) Kniess, Johannes Eduardo MSc Kotzias, Dimitrios (BSc Deree Coll. American Coll. of Greece) Kruger, Matthew John (BA KwaZulu - Natal) Kwok, David Yiu Kwong (MA Hong Kong)

29 lai, Chun Sing (BEng Brunei) latimer, Andrew Neal Charles (BA Glasgow) lau, Sze Yeung (BSc, MSc Lond.) lavista, Veronica (BLaws, MLaws New York Univ.) lee, Seungyoon (BA Univ. Yonsei) lee, Yun Woo leipold, Bruno (MA Lond.) leung, Karlson King-tao (BA British Columbia) li, Ang (MSc Edin.) li, Qiaochu (BSc Techn Hochschule Dermstadt) liang, Limeng (BA Hong Kong) lic, Agnieszka Anna (MA Lond.) lim, Yuan Chong Jason (BSc Lond.) long, Graham Alexander (MA St And.) lu, Zhou (BA Toronto) luptak, Adam (BA Lond.) ma, Heidi Li (BSc Emory) makarchev, Nikita (BA Harvard) mann, Anica (MA SOAS) martin, Natalie Grace (BA Auckland) martinez, Andrew Bartholomew (BA Guilford Coll.) martinho, Antone (BA Harvard) mcNulty, Tess Dorothy (BA Yale) melia, Michael Bryant (MA St And.) mezzano, Giovanni (BPhil Sorbonne) milana, Irene (BA Univ. degli Studi di Roma) miller, Vail Lauren (BA Calif.) mohamed, Fatimah Binti (BA Brunei Darussalam) mohamed-Ahmed, Olaa (BMed Cardiff) mok, Wesley Siu-Kay (BA Camb.) morris, Julia Caroline (PGCE Durh.) mossallam, Mohammed Ahmed (BA American Univ. in Cairo) muchala, Subhash Reddy Reddy (Undergrad Masters Indian Inst. of technology) mui, Sze Wai (Stephanie) (BA Chicago) mysoor, Poorna (MA Lond.) newport, Thomas BA o’Driscoll, Eugene Gerard (BA Notre Dame) obermeier, Katharina Emma (BA British Columbia) ott, Cameron Keeley (BA - Barnard Coll.) Pallis, Dimitrios (BTheol Athens) Papazian, Hrag Vatche (BA Lebanese American Univ.) Platzman, Paul Bernard (BA - Rutgers)

30 Potter, Anthony Michael MSc Proudfoot, Malcolm (BMed Lond.) Qin, Xiao (BSc Peking) Quesada-Alpizar, Tomas (MSc Lond.) ramakrishnan, Ketan (BA Harvard) raul, Pranoy Pratik (BEng, MEng Inst of Science, Bangalore) ravishankar, Mathura (BA McGill) reid, Alice Elizabeth (BA Tasmania Hobart) reynolds, Jacob (BA Sheff.) riley, Brendan Dominic Rancy (BA St Francis Xavier Univ. CA) robinson, Rachel Elizabeth (BA - Barnard Coll.) roushanbakhti, Ahria (BSc Southampton) ruffmann, Claudio (Clinical Medicine Univ. Milano Bicocca) ryzhov, Andrey (BSc E.Angl.) saakian, Anna Gevorkovna (MSc Moscow State Univ.) sachschal, Julianne (Higher Humboldt) salaru, Maria Alexandra MSc santander Martinez, Demetrio Eduardo (MA - Andina Simon Bolivar) sariev, Eduard Georgiev (BSc, MSc National and World Econ. Sofia) sarris, Konstantinos Ilias (BA National & Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens) sawkar, Smriti (BA Lady Sri Ram) schneider, Patrick Michael (BA NSW) schnittker, Christian Hugo (BA Camb.) severin, Philip (PhD OO) shahpuri, Simren BA (BSc Lond.) sheldon, Alexandra (BA Trinity College, USA) sheng, Yuewen (BSc Shanghai Jiao Tong) shoar, Kya (MEng Lond.) shurville, Jennifer (BA, MA Lond.) simmonds, Emily Grace (MSc Lond.) sims, Geoffrey James (MSc, PGCert Chichester) sissons, Katherine Elizabeth BA, MSc smith, Richard David James (BA Harvard) sor, Eric (BA Warw.) sorlie, Karin Elisabeth (MA Oslo) sridhar, Srilekha (BA Nat Acad. of Legal St & Res Univ.) su, Huizhong (BSc Peking) sun, Benjamin Wai Ming (BSc Univ. Calif.) tai, Chun Yin Terrence (BA Camb.) taylor, Richard Francis MSt tertytchnaya, Katerina MPhil terziyan, Chantal Mari (MA Bogazici) thomsen, Soren Sloth (BA, MSc Camb.)

31 tiley, Alfred Leif toumazou, Sophia Irenee (MA Manc.) Vacas Oleas, Jose Sebastian (MSc Lond.) Van Bruggen, Paul (BSc Utrecht) Wettach, Lena MA White, Paul (BSc Leeds) Winkler, Anderson Marcelo (MSc Federal do Parana) Wolf, Achim (MSc York) Wu, Wenchuan (MSc Tsinghua) Xia, Yang (BSc Berkeley) Xie, Lei (BSc Peking) Ying, Siqi (BEng Nott.) Yuen, Wai Kai Zenobia Maggie (BA Lond.) Yumnam, Ratika (BA Christ, IN) Zanetti Domingues, Lidia Luisa (BA, MA Univ. degli Studi di Milano) Zepa, Inese (BSc Lond.) Zhang, Dong (BSc Brist.) Zhang, Hanlin (BSc Peking) Zhang, Jiannan (BSc Beijing) Zhang, Zhongwen (MSc Edin.) Zhu, Ling (BSc, MA Sichuan) Zimmer, Jutta Patricia (BSc Phillips Univ. Marbug) Zorkot, Mira Ata (BSc, MA American Univ. Beirut)

COLLEGE OFFICERS

Vice-Master Professor Rana Mitter Bursar Ms Maureen Doherty Mr John Tranter (from 15th September 2014) Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions Dr Joanna Ashbourn Dean Professor Mark Robinson Deans of Degrees Dr Jim Williamson Mr Donald Richards Professor Peter Mackridge Director of IT Professor Marina Jirotka Librarian Ms Sheila Allcock Archivist Professor Emilie Savage-Smith Wine Steward Ms Maureen Doherty Garden Master Professor Mark Robinson President of Common Room Dr Petros Ligoxygakis

32 Harassment Advisers Professor Glenn Swafford Dr Paloma Garcia-Bellido Publications Officer Dr Jim Williamson

MEMBERS OF STAFF

Master’s PA Mrs Lesley Sanderson Academic Administrator Mr Ian Pugh Admissions & Academic Assistant Mr Thomas Clews (from 6th January 2014) Ms Rosalind Sainty (to 22nd November 2014) Academic Secretary Mrs Jenny Baxter Domestic Bursar Ms Suzy Hodge Bursary Administrator Miss Emily Blackman Accommodation and Facilities Manager mrs Nicola Murphy Accommodation Assistant Miss Lara Summerhill (from 7th July 2014) Miss Kiranpreet Gill (to 4th July 2014) Miss Emma Farrant (to 20th December 2013) Accounts Manager Mrs Judith Ledger Accounts Assistant Miss Jessica Andrews Accounts Assistant Mr Timothy Doran Accounts Administrative Assistant Mrs Laura Chesterman Accounts Administrative Assistant Ms Kathryn Deeley Events Assistant Mrs Flori Olteanu IT Manager Dr Razvan Novacovschi Maintenance Manager Mr Kenny Cox Maintenance Assistant Mr Donato Karwowski Head Porter Mr Paul Wicking Evening Porter Mr Tony Mead Director of Development Ms Susan Berrington (from 12th October 2013) Alumni Relations & Development Manager Mrs Laura King (to 6th July 2014) Alumni Relations & Development Administrator miss Emma Farrant (from 23rd June 2014) Communications Assistant Miss Ella Bedrock (from 9th July 2014) Ms Megan Palmer (to 2nd April 2014)

33 Database & Development Assistant Miss Alice Robertson (from 29th September 2014) Mrs Yulia Kitova (to 19th September 2014) Miss Alice Haylock (to 9th January 2014)

STUDENT OFFICERS

Junior Deans Mr Peter Fiske Ms Abigail Tompkins Bar Manager Ms Laura Wright (to 4th July 2014) Ms Hannah Ringheim (from 5th July 2014) Site Warden – Annexe Ms Mariami Gachechiladze (to 28th September 2014) Mr Teodor- Matei Cirstea (from 29th Sept 2014) Site Warden – Annexe Mr Trent Johnson (to 14th April 2014) Ms Mathura Ravishankar (from 1st May 2014) Site Warden – Annexe Mr Philipp Rottwilm (to 11th June 2014) Ms Sophia Toumazou (from 18th July 2014) Site Warden – Stonemason Ms Janette Chow (to 28th September 2014) Mr Asad Hameed (from 29th September 2014) Site Warden – Stonemason Mr Akash Verma (to 28th September 2014) Mr Antone Martinho (from 29th September 2014) Site Warden – Stonemason Mr Joshua Blight IT Officer – Main Site Mr Wybo Wiersma IT Assistant – Main Site Mr Marten Krijgsman IT Assistant – Stonemason Mr Joshua Blight IT Assistant – Annexe Ms Emily Simmonds (to 28th September 2014) Ms Anne-Marie Sim (from 29th September 2014)

34 DEGREES TAKEN

The following students graduated during the academic year 2013-2014

2013 BCL Jessup, John Malcolm maclean, Liam nohle, Ellen Margareta shah, Neil

DPhil bhala, Neeraj Coxibs and traditional NSAIDs: Systematic overviews of the randomised evidence for the effects of traditional non-steroidal anti- inflammatory drugs and selective inhibitors of cyclo-oxygenase-2 on vascular and upper gastrointestinal outcomes

* bloch, Katarzyna Structural and bioenergetic changes in tumour spheroids during growth

buckingham, Kathleen Carmel the marginalisation of an orphan species: examining bamboos fit within international forestry institutions

chui, Cecilia Sheung Chi memory T Cells In Influenza A Infection and Vaccination In Humans

gerelle Stuart, Maria Synthesis and Elaboration of Heterocycles via Palladium-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization

gilbertson, Adam Lloyd the ecology of risk in an informal settlement: interpersonal conflict, social networks, and household food security

* greenaway, Rebecca Louise Palladium-Catalysed Cyclisations of bromoenynamides in the Synthesis and Applications of Aminodienes

Hume, David Stephen embeddings of infinite groups into Banach spaces

35 Hutchinson, Sarah Jane Informal carers’ attitudes to pensions and retirement Savings

Kalli, Antreas Computational studies of talin-mediated integrin Activation

Konstantinidis, Michalis Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis - new methods for the detection of genetic abnormalities in human preimplantation embryos

lewandowski, Adam James the Impact of Preterm Birth on the cardiovascular System in Young Adulthood

Pillar, Helen Rose Sensitivity of the Atlantic Meridional overturning Circulation to Surface Forcing

rasulova, Saltanat Temirbekovna child agency and economic circumstances: How does family economic status affect child agency in Kyrgyzstan’s post-Soviet culture of transition?

robertson, Stephen Dixon shobodan: an ethnographic history of Japan’s community fire brigades

tindana, Paulina Ethical Issues in the Collection, Export, storage and Uses of Human Biological samples in Africa: An analysis of stakeholders’ perspectives

tsanas, Athanasios Accurate telemonitoring of Parkinson’s disease symptom severity using nonlinear speech signal processing and statistical machine learning

Yamamoto, Keisuke Modification and Application of Glycosidases to Create Homogeneous Glycoconjugates

36 MPhil Kowalczuk, Sylwia Samira Adedokun, Ayokunu Bukolao latsi, Georgia liu, Meng MSc loh, Kwang Yen Matthew beckman, Katarina Suyin metcalf, Kerri Kathleen berbers, Roos-Marijn newson, Martha * bradley, Miriam Linda Joyce * oge, Robin chautard, Alice Charlotte Pointer, Kate Alice * christodoulaki, Eirini Polonski, Vyacheslav chu, Ling-Yi (Julie) Potts, Franchesca Hannah * clowry, Declan Tomas * robertson, Stephen Dixon cummins, Gabrielle Henrietta rone, Julia Eduards de Sousa Pinto, Joao Moreira * salt, Yvonne Louise efthymiadis, Alexandros savisaar, Rosina * el Idrissi, Ayman sha, Zhe enock, Florence Elizabeth summers-Plotno, Amanda Blair geck, Marshall Timothy thomas, Nigel Verghese goddard, Beatrice Marie Emmanuelle Wang, Zhongzhen goldie-Scot, Matthew Robert * Yamin, Timothy graf, Caitlin Gabrielle Zacarias Fiadeiro, Joao Afonso * groszkowski, Lukasz Kacper Hakobyan, Ani Valeri MSt He, Ruodong * Al-Azem, Talal * Heaton, Michael * blackledge, Aimee Evette Hill, Natalie Jane matthews, Elizabeth Honnah, Akim Matthew Williams, Alice Jean * Hudelson, Carly Elizabeth Israel, Karl-Friedrich MBA King, Amelia Iwamura, Hiroshi

2014 BCL gupta, Anisha may, Ryan John

DPhil Amer, Rawya Mohamed Tawfik state-Society Relations and Regional Role: comparing Egypt and South Africa

bhushan, Manav Motion Correction and Parameter Estimation in DCE- MRI Sequences: Application to Colorectal Cancer

37 * blackledge, Aimee Evette material for the Artist’s Mind: Artists as collectors in Eighteenth Century England

boon, Chia Weng Distinct Element Modelling of Jointed Rock masses: Algorithms and their Verification

* calabrese, John Robert In the Hall of the Flop King: Two Applications of Perverse Coherent Sheaves to Donaldson-Thomas Invariants

* canales, Andrea Morelia degree Completion in the UK: Individual, institutional and contextual factors that explain students’ chances of educational success in British Universities

chan, Hsien Wern Investigation of the role of Der p 1 specific t cells in the pathogenesis of cutaneous atopic disease

* chang, Lily Contested Childhoods: Law and Social deviance in Wartime China, 1937-1945

coates, Adam Methods for ultra-broadband correlator development focusing on high-speed digital sampling techniques

cohen, Jack Andrew Active Colloids and Polymer Translocation

dearlove, Bethany Lorna genome Evolution and Epidemiology of Human Pathogens

Farquhar, Alexander James King Arthur Johnston and the Fostering of Scottish Letters

Florez Petour, Maria Teresa Assessment reform in Chile: a contested discursive Space

* ganle, Kuumuori Free but not Accessible to All: Free Maternity care, Access, Equity of Access, and Barriers to Accessing and Using Skilled Maternal and newborns Healthcare Services in Ghana

gregory, Justin Paul Exploring Counterintuitiveness: Template- and Schema-Level Effects

38 * gulati, Aashish Outcome After Medial Unicompartmental Knee Replacement

gunnoo, Smita Site-Specific Chemical Modification of Antibodies for the Modulation of Function

Henderson, Morag Elizabeth Family Size and Educational Consequences in the UK

* Herman, Joseph Lewis multiple sequence analysis in the presence of alignment uncertainty

Hopper, Keith Daniel Projecting the Nation: Neil Jordan’s Irish Narratives

Hunter, Kathleen Allison gender and Science in Engineering: negotiating Contested Boundaries

Kaplan, Josiah David ‘The West and ‘The Rest’’?: Critiquing the ‘Hierarchical Assumption’ of Global Peace Enforcement Capacity

Kelly, Paul Assessing the utility of wearable cameras in the measurement of walking and cycling

Kenny, Nathan James The Evolution and Development of Left/ right Asymmetry in the Lophotrochozoa

* luthfa, Samina Confronting the Juggernaut of Extraction: local, National and Transnational mobilization against the Phulbari Coal Mine in Bangladesh

mcKerracher, Mark James Agricultural Development in Mid Saxon England

moguerane, Khumisho Ditebogo A History of the Molemas, African notables in south Africa, 1880s to 1920s

nicolae, Daniel Sebastian A mediaeval court physician at work: Ibn Jumay’s commentary on the Canon of Medicine

Patel, Jaimini Modes of Presence in the Contemporary Sculptural Encounter

39 Periz Coloma, Francisco Javier single molecule fluorescence studies of viral Transcription

Pettingill, Philippa May Investigating the pathogenic effects of antibodies against the VGKC-complex and n-methyl-D-aspartatereceptor in CNS disorders

Probst, Cornelius Bayesian analysis of stochastic point processes for financial applications

schroeder, Elizabeth-Ann the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of intrapartum maternity care in England

* sheftel, Anna The Construction of Formal and Informal Historical Narratives of Violence in North- Western Bosnia, World War II Until Present

slater, Gary Stovall Trajectories of Peircean Philosophical theology Scriptural Reasoning, Axiology of thinking, and Nested Continua

* stefansson, Kolbeinn Holmar economic Inequality and Social Class

thomas, Jewel Kathleen risk and Panics: National newspaper coverage of the cases of the contraceptive pill, drug facilitated sexual assault, dangerous dogs and road rage in the United Kingdom

Verhoeven, Harry Water, Civilisation and Power: Sudan’s Hydropolitical Economy and the Al-Ingaz Revolution

Xu, Weijun Inverting the signature of a path

* Yang, Peidong Foreign Talent. Desire and Singapore’s China Scholars

* Zhurakovskyi, Oleksandr Pericyclic and related rearrangements for the synthesis of nitrogen heterocyclic ring systems

MPhil * Flanigan, Edmund Richards Tweedy Amrein Esnaola, Cristina gucciardi, Stephen Michael carayon, Francois-Xavier Jehan-Roch Hannam, Emily Sophia * eule, Joachim Heisey, William Michael

40 Johnson, Sarah Cresap * makarchev, Nikita * Khan, Saba Karim manthorpe, Richard James lehne, Johanna Maria * mikolyzk, Alice Elaine mackway-Jones, Euan Charles * mohamed, Ahmed Medhat Abdel mangiarelli, Lisa Nicole Rahman * menard, Aubrey F nakanishi, Tatsuya morehouse, Lindsay Rose * Phillips, Laura Helen * Persson, Robert Charles rappak, Natalia rea, Beatrice santander Martinez, Demetrio rickard, Katie Eduardo riksa, Marta sor, Eric ringheim, Hannah Leftheris starfield, Marcus Otto salinas Ivanenko, Andrea Polina tan, Genim Siu Xian schoenefeld, Jonas Julian * tsang, Wai Chung srupsrisopa, Jirayut Van der Hoven, Zoe Alice torres, Maria Ines Coutinho Dinis Varriano, Alexa Vande Wiele, Heloise Capucine * Vongswasdi, Pisitta * Velyvyte, Vilija Wu, Ni Na Tina Woodruff, Philip Nicholas Yumnam, Ratika Xu, Teng Zayed, Dina Mohamed Badreldin Yang, Wenya Zepa, Inese Zimmermann, Annette Zhang, Zhongwen

MA MSt * elby, Tristan Edward Aydin, Robert * latimer, Andrew Neal Charles MSc liu, Ruiliang * Ali Abdelbary, Mohamed Abdelbary * mcNulty, Tess Dorothy Altoft, James Richard mui, Sze Wai (Stephanie) * beland, Florence o’Driscoll, Eugene Gerard bray, Emma Rachel Zanetti Domingues, Lidia Luisa * briggs, Adam Derek Michael * chang, Lily MBA d’Cruz, Katherine Lucy case, Jane Boucher de Francisco, Angela grafin von Krockow, Alexandra ghosh, Ipshita Sophie Isabelle gjikola, Arjan Halder, Hannah * In Absentia Ho, Chung Wai (Raymond) Idinger, Lisa Kissel, Alexander Victorovich * liu, Hui * maarova, Anna

41 MASTER’S REPORT

The following is the text of the Master’s speech given at the Founders’ Feast in Michaelmas term 2014 and, as such, refers to some events that took place outside the current Record period.

Two of our founding fellows, Alan Jones and Fred Hodcroft, are here with us at our Founders’ Feast, our Development Director Sue Berrington met up with another, Kenelm Burridge, in California only last month and both Ruth van Heyningen and Dennis Britton are still very much part of College life. Not bad for a fellowship that began 49 years ago. Our guest speaker this evening is not a founder, but a very distinguished alumna of St Cross, Sally Mapstone, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Professor of Older Scots Literature. But before she speaks I would like briefly to look back over the past year.

There have inevitably been losses. Derek Roe, a Fellow of St Cross since 1970, and Vice-Master 1988-1990, was a distinguished archaeologist, who published on the Lower and Middle Paleolithic Periods in Britain. Derek was also responsible for the analysis and publication of the hand-axes found by Mary Leakey in the Olduvai Gorge. A collector of English silver, water colours and glass and a connoisseur who cared greatly for the College collections, Derek was endlessly generous with his time, working with Peter Benton to rehang College art, lending his collection of ancient glass to the College, commissioning contemporary silver on its behalf and only last year completing a new catalogue of the Blackman Collection of watercolours.

Lorna Casselton, a distinguished fungal geneticist was a Fellow of St Cross from 1993–2003. She was Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society and we elected her an Honorary Fellow here only last year. She was a great contributor to College life and, like Derek Roe, she left us a generous bequest. Thanks to Jo Ashbourn’s energetic fundraising an annual lecture and a scholarship have been established in her memory.

The College lost two more Emeritus Fellows during the year; Philip Beckett a soil and plant scientist who was elected to a Fellowship in 1966 and Brian Atkins a mineralogist who became a Fellow in 1975 and who contributed to the 1993 history of the St Cross Pusey House site.

A big event of the year was the retirement of Maureen Doherty. When she became Bursar in 1997 the College had 180 students and was admitting 76 a year. When she left there were 568 students with 235 arriving this year alone. Business-like and methodical, Maureen created and sustained an excellent team, put the College on a sound financial footing and took endless trouble to ensure that the College worked well for all its members. We welcome in her place John Tranter, from St Aldate’s Church, who has already become a central figure in College life.

42 Other long serving Fellows who retired during the year and who have been elected to Emeritus Fellowships are Nick Mayhew, who was Deputy Director of the Ashmolean Museum and a former Vice-Master, Jon Whiteley of the Department of Western Art in the Ashmolean who chaired our Art Committee, and Barry Orford, a Pusey Fellow.

Photograph taken at the reception prior to the Governing Body Dinner in Trinity term to mark the Bursar’s retirement

Newly elected Fellows were Francis Leneghan, Shailendra Bhandare, Emilie Savage- Smith our long-standing Archivist, Tim Pound, Mathilda Mommersteeg and John Gledhill. We also welcomed six new Junior Research Fellows.

St Cross has, of course, an exceptionally distinguished Fellowship. This year the Duke of Cambridge opened our Vice-Master Rana Mitter’s new China Centre. John Pethica, Vice- President of the Royal Society and our new Honorary Fellow was knighted, Michael Sharpe was named Psychiatrist of the Year by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Nick Bostrom has been ranked among the Top 15 World Thinkers by Prospect, Ramin Golestanian received the Holweck Medal for ‘his pioneering contributions in the field of soft matter, particularly microscopic swimmers and active colloids’ and Henrietta Harrison was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Five of our Fellows became Professors this year: Amy Bogaard – Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology, Mary Bosworth – Professor of Criminology, Matthew

43 Jarvis – Professor of Astrophysics, Marina Jirotka – Professor of Human Centred Computing, Lee Sweetlove – Professor of Plant Sciences. Jane Kaye, a Member of Common Room, is now Professor of Health, Law and Policy.

Where sport is concerned 2014 was a good year for the Wolfson-St Cross boats. Both men’s and women’s first boats proved themselves in strong Division I finishes in the Summer Eights, the Men’s 3rd achieved blades, and the Women’s 2nd earned its highest finish in decades. 2014 has been a vintage year for the College cricket team who won the 2nd XI premier division, with wins against Keble and Balliol leading to a deciding match against a strong Worcester College side.

What else? Our friends at Pusey House have just celebrated the centenary of their beautiful Chapel. And St Cross has published a 50th Anniversary volume in preparation for our anniversary next year. Written by Georg Deutsch, Diarmaid MacCulloch and Tim Pound and edited with great tact and firmness byE milie Savage-Smith it will doubtless find a place on everyone’s Christmas list this year.

With so many students, new space is more urgently needed than ever. Last October, a rather bad tempered meeting of the City Council’s Planning Committee turned down our application for planning permission. This June the planning inspector deputed to determine our appeal found in the College’s favour. So now we hope to go ahead with the construction of a new building, with 53 new student rooms, a library with workspace for 50 students, two seminar rooms and a small lecture hall. It is sad for the College that the year’s delay is likely to cost us dear: inflation in the construction industry has been roaring ahead. On the bright side our 50th Anniversary Campaign has made good progress. A major gift from the Kephalos Research Fund – a foundation created by an old member of the college – has pushed us past the halfway mark.

A strong Alumni network is a real benefit to students and is very important to our future. We now have 17 Alumni Reps in in 11 countries (United States, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, the Emirates, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, China and Kenya). At our most recent event in Seattle, Doug Wigdor, who did an MLitt in Social Studies here in the early 90s and is now one of the leading employment lawyers in New York, was named Alumnus of the Year.

Finally I want to thank my colleagues here at St Cross: John Tranter, Suzy Hodge and all who work in the Bursary, Jo Ashbourn and the Academic team, and Sue Berrington and those who work in Development and Alumni Relations, for everything they have achieved in the past year. Our staff guests this year are Emily Blackman the bursary administrator and Lesley Sanderson my PA, to whom the College owes a great debt for keeping both me and many aspects of College life in good order. Finally we must thank the catering team ably led by Darryl Pretorius and our renowned chefs Robert

44 Rudman, Chris Brook and Paul White for all their hard work through the year and for an excellent dinner this evening.

And now can I ask you all to raise your glasses to Our Founders.

AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND RECOGNITION OF DISTINCTION

Amy Bogaard has received the title of Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology.

Mary Bosworth has received the title of Professor of Criminology.

Inge Daniels has been awarded the ICAS (International Concention of Asian Scholars) Book Prize and the Reading Committee Accolades for her book The Japanese House: Material Culture in the Modern Home. She was also awarded a Japan Foundation Fellowship to spend two months as a visiting professor at Osaka University.

Luciano Floridi is now Director of Research and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute. He has been awarded Cátedras de Excelencia by the University Carlos III of Madrid. He has received the Weizenbaum Award from the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology and has been elected a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

Charlie Foster has been made Associate Professor in Population Health. He was also successful in two substantive collaborative bids within the University, one in the UK and one in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Joerg Friedrichs’ book The Future is Not What it Used to Be: Climate Change and Energy Scarcity was awarded honorary mention for the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, as one of the three best books on the environment published in 2013.

Ramin Golestanian has won the Holweck Medal and Prize for his `pioneering contributions to the field of active soft matter, particularly microscopic swimmers and active coloids’. This medal is jointly presented annually by the Institute of Physics and its French counterpart, the Société Française de Physique. He has also received the Nakamura Lecturer Award by the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Lesley Gray has become Chief Editor of the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

45 Helena Hamerow has been elected President of the Society for Medieval Archaeology and Honorary Vice-President of the Archaeological Institute.

Henrietta Harrison has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Sten Jacobsen has been awarded the 2014 Tobias Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Tobias Foundation for outstanding scientific contributions of relevance for blood diseases and stem cell transplantations.

Matt Jarvis has become Professor of Astrophysics.

Achillefs Kapanidis has been awarded a Proof-of-concept grant of €150,000 from the European Research Council to pursue the commercial development of miniaturized single-molecule imaging.

Jane Kaye has become Professor of Health, Law and Policy.

Anna Lora-Wainwright has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Geography.

Gkikas Magiorkinis has been awarded the title of University Research Lecturer.

Rana Mitter’s book, China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival, was named Book of the Year in the Economist, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Observer and New Statesman and has been named as finalist for thr Bernard Scwartz book prize by the Asia Society of New York.

José Patterson was awarded runner up for her book No Buts, Becky! at the People’s Book Prize Awards Ceremony in the Stationers’ Hall, London.

Lorenzo Santorelli has been appointed Director of the Doctoral Training Centre in Oxford.

Emilie Savage-Smith has been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters by her alma mater, DePauw University, Indiana in acknowledgement of her significant contribution to the study of Islamic Science and Medicine.

Troy Sternberg has received the 2014 Margaret Mead Social Science Award from the British Science Association. His Award Lecture, given in September, was entitled Climate Hazards in a Globalised World: Chinese Drought, Bread and the Arab Spring.

Steve Strand has been appointed Special Adviser to the House of Commons Education Select Committee in its Inquiry into the Underachievement in Education of White Working Class Children. He has also been appointed to the Editorial Boards of the

46 British Journal of Sociology of Education and the Oxford Review of Education.. He has been commissioned by the British Educational Research Association to provide a publication entitled What Accounts for Ethnic Achievement Gaps in Secondary Schools in England.

Martin Vessey’s article Oral Contraceptive Use and Cancer: final report from the Oxford- Family Planning Association Contraceptive Study, published in the international journal ‘Contraception’ has been selected for the Daniel R Mishell Outstanding Article Award.

Marina Warner has been made a Senior Fellow of the Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York. She has also been made a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College.

NEW FELLOWS

The following ‘pen portraits’ have been provided by the new Fellows.

Shailendra Bhandare was born and educated in Bombay (Mumbai), where he did his first degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (1991). Having got quickly bored of a corporate career he decided to return to a subject he loved - Numismatics and History. He did his MA in History in 1994 and was awarded a PhD in 1999 for his research on the coinage and political history of peninsular India during c.200BC-200AD. He subsequently came to Cambridge as a Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow to work on the collection of coins of the Indian Princely States in the Fitzwilliam Museum and was then appointed as a post-doctoral fellow at the Society for South Asian Studies (British Academy) to work as a curator in the Dept of Coins and Medals in the British Museum in 2000. In 2002, he was appointed the Assistant Keeper in the Heberden Coin Room of Ashmolean Museum, with responsibilities to curate the collections of South Asian and Oriental coins, and World paper money. Over past twenty years, he has consistently contributed to various numismatic and historical publications. His chief interests lie on monetary history of the Indian subcontinent and he enjoys providing multifarious contexts to coins, which touch upon varied themes in History, Art and Archaeology. As part of his appointment with the Ashmolean, he also is a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies and has been teaching selected courses with the departments of Classics and Archaeology.

John Gledhill hails from Sydney, Australia, but has spent his adult life roaming the world. After completing an undergraduate degree in History and Political Science at Trinity College, Dublin, he worked in London, before moving to Washington DC,

47 where he studied for a doctorate at Georgetown University. In 2008, he moved back to London, to take up a post-doctoral post in Global Politics at the London School of Economics. He then joined the Department of International Development at Oxford in 2011, and was appointed Associate Professor of Global Governance in 2014. John’s work focuses on conflict processes and responses to violent conflict. He is particularly interested in trying to understand conflict dynamics during periods of political change; why do efforts at regime change sometimes dissolve into violent conflict but, at other times, remain peaceful? Alongside his work on transitional violence, John has explored issues of justice and reconciliation in post-authoritarian contexts, and processes of transnational social mobilization. When he is not studying, John enjoys playing guitar badly with his sons, and playing cricket even more poorly.

Heather Harrington, from Concord, Massachusetts, completed a degree in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2006. She undertook her PhD at Imperial College London. Her research focused on constructing and analysing mathematical models of immune response and cell death. During this time, she realised some of the challenges involved in selecting the best model that describes (noisy) data and (unknown) model parameters. To address this, after her PhD, Heather gained experience with noisy data, parameters and Bayesian statistics as a postdoctoral researcher in the Theoretical Systems Biology group at Imperial College London. This work led her to embrace and develop parameter-free approaches for combining data with mathematical models and statistics. In particular she is employing ideas from algebra, geometry and topology with optimisation and statistics to develop methods for understanding models/networks with data. Heather has been a research fellow at the Mathematical Institute since July 2013. She also rowed with Wolfson/St Cross Boat Club in the women’s first boat last year and is now the Sports Fellow at St Cross.

Francis Leneghan was born in Chester, and read English at Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 1999. After teaching English for a year in Italy he began graduate work at TCD, completing his PhD on Beowulf in 2006. After teaching medieval English for several years at both TCD and UCD, he was appointed Departmental Lecturer in Old English at first Hertford College, then St Peter’s College, Oxford, in association with the English Faculty. He was appointed University Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Old English and Non-Tutorial Fellow of St Cross College in May 2014. His research focuses on the intersection of pagan Germanic and Christian Latin culture in Old English literature in two main areas: heroic poetry, especially Beowulf; and prose writing associated with the court circle of King Alfred. Recent and ongoing projects include a monograph on Beowulf and Old Testament kingship, articles on the compilation of the Vercelli Book and the political context of the Old English translation of Paulus Orosius’s History Against the Pagans, and a book chapter on the Old English metrical translation of the psalms. Together with colleagues at Queen Mary, University of London, he is a co-organiser of an international research

48 network on English responses to the Book of Psalms from the early medieval to early modern periods, and is currently co-editing a collection of essays entitled The Psalms in Medieval English Literature, c. 700-1500.

Mathilda Mommersteeg obtained her PhD in 2009 from the University of Amsterdam, where she worked in the laboratories of Prof. Vincent Christoffels and Prof. Antoon Moorman on the development of the conduction system and venous pole of the mammalian heart. In 2010, she joined the laboratory of Prof. John Parnavelas at University College London (UCL) as a long-term EMBO fellow. At UCL, her work focused on deciphering the roles of the Slit-Robo signalling pathway during mammalian heart development. During her time there, she set up a project researching heart regeneration in Mexican cavefish together with Dr. Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, which was sponsored by the British Heart Foundation in 2012. In July 2014, she became a Fellow of St Cross College and joined the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics as an Associate Professor of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine. Both her post-doctoral projects form the basis for her current research interests in investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying heart regeneration and development.

Tim Pound was brought up in a Worcestershire village, attended a nearby grammar school and went on to read English Literature at SheffieldU niversity. After graduating, he moved to Keele to study for a PGCE in 16-19 education and then stayed on for a further year to complete an MA by research on the writing and early teaching experience of the Marxist literary critic and theorist, Raymond Williams. He spent more than ten years teaching A-level English and Theatre Studies in sixth- form colleges before going up to Keble College to begin research into the ways in which examination syllabuses in English, particularly at A-level, implicitly function as agents of cultural reproduction. He migrated to St Cross in 1991 and on completing his DPhil, took up a lectureship in the field of Educational Studies, where his research interests and publications centred on the rise of English as an academic subject, curriculum and examination reform in the post-16 sector and a a critical evaluation of both the A-level system and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. He is also the author of the opening chapter of a book celebrating the first fifty years of the College’s history, aptly entitled St Cross at Fifty and published in 2014. Having taken early retirement from full-time university teaching and research, he now works part-time as the College’s Archive Registrar.

Emilie Savage-Smith was elected a Fellow by Special Election and is continuing to serve as Archivist of the College. She was from 2004 to 2010 a Senior Research Fellow, and from 1978 to 2003 was a Member of Common Room at St Cross. She is also Professor of the History of Islamic Science in the Oriental Faculty of the Oriental Institute. In 2010 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and she is currently the recipient of a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award to head a joint

49 Oxford-Warwick project: A Literary History of Medicine: The Best Accounts of the Classes of Physicians by Ibn Abi Usaybi‘ah (d. 1270). She is also on the Council (a Trustee) of The British Institute for the Study of Iraq (formerly, The British School of Archaeological in Iraq) and co-editor of the monograph series ‘Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science’ published by Brill. She has recently edited St Cross College at Fifty by Jan- Georg Deutsch, Diarmaid MacCulloch, and Tim Pound (to be published by St Cross in November of 2014). Her most recent publication is An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe: The “Book of Curiosities” (with co-author Y. Rapoport) (Leiden, 2014).

COLLEGE TALKS

The following talks, organised by Dan Hicks, were given on Tuesdays during term at 5:30 in the St Cross room, usually prior to Hall.

Michaelmas term 2013 22nd October derek Roe “An introduction to the art collections of St Cross” 29th October Amy Bogaard “The agricultural origins of urban civilization: the AGICURB project” Erika Nitsch “Pinpointing the effect of charring on stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in six crop taxa” Amy Styring “Locating past crop cultivation in the landscape using strontium isotopes”

5th November georg Deutsch “The Historical life of things: writing a history of St Cross College” Khumisho Moguerane “ Intersections of the private and the public, the local and the regional: exploring the Land Act of 1913 in South Africa through the lens of family history”

12th November Inge Daniels “It’s not my culture and this is not Japan: Museum experiments in living ethnography” Maria Salaru “Souvenirs from the other side: A social biography of photographic postcards in the Tropenmuseum”

50 19th November luke Treadwell “Islamic silver and the origins of Europe” Trent Jonson “The earliest Islamic coinage of North Africa”

26th November steve Strand “School league tables - what are they good for? (absolutely nothing?)”

Hilary term 2014 4th February george Westhaver “Edward Bouverie Pusey: Romantic, scholar and social activist”.

11th February rana Mitter, “Three books on China: A celebration of Anna Lora-Wainwright new scholarship in Chinese studies at St and Henrietta Harrison cross”

18th February shailendra Bhandare “Numismatic landscape of the Periplus Maris Erythriae” Veronica Walker Vadillo “The snake, the crocodile and the king: symbolism and power in Angkorian royal barges”

25th February elizabeth Edwards “Photographic uncertainties in the Colonial Office:B etween evidence and reassurance” Jaanika Vider “Constructions of early 20th century Siberia: recollecting the past through materials of Maria Czaplicka’s expedition”

4th March Francis Leneghan “Knowledge and power in the writings of King Alfred’s court”. Stefany Wragg “The way to Winchester: Insular tradition and early Winchester style”

11th March michael Biggs “Has protest increased since the 1970s? How a survey question can construct a spurious trend” Rima Majed From political protest to sectarian violence: A Sunni-Shia split in lebanon?”

Trinity term 2014 – No talks

51 BURSAR’S REPORT

2013-14 was, again, an extremely busy year for the Bursar across several fronts. It began with great disappointment when our application for planning permission to build the new wings was refused by Oxford City Council. We were astonished given that the City planners had recommended the scheme and we decided to appeal. We appointed a high profile planning consultancy and set about the task. As late as August 2014 we learned that we had succeeded. This was speedily followed with news from the University that they had decided to grant our request for a loan of £4.5million to support the project (in part). There was great joy on the first floor admin corridor. As I write, in late August 2014, plans are afoot to embark on the building phase imminently.

At the end of the financial year, the fund for building the new wings had grown to £2.8m. This will be afforded by the sale of two houses and by further donations (we hope). Unfortunately, the process of appeal cost the College £109,000 over the year, which meant that there is a reduced operational surplus available to the Building Fund in this particular year.

The end of year accounts to 31st July 2014 illustrate that the College’s total net assets have increased from £12.9m in July 2013 to £13.1m. This is an interesting contrast to the £5.4m which was the value of the assets when I arrived. The Investment Sub-Committee was content with the performance of the Endowment Fund; the total value increased from £7.1m to £7.29m over the year.

There was quite a number of staff changes during the year. Roz Sainty, the new Assistant Academic Administrator, departed and has been replaced by Thomas Clews. Kiran Gill, the Accommodation Assistant, left also and we have welcomed Lara Summerhill. Megan Palmer left the role of Communications Assistant and Ella Bedrock is now settling into the post. Alice Haylock, Development Assistant, left and was replaced by Yulia Kitova who left in September. Laura King, the Development and Alumni Relations Manager, left some 8 years after joining the College. I decided to retire from the post of Bursar at the end of the academic year after 17 years of service and my successor, John Tranter, has been appointed. He joined St Cross in mid-September. A much welcomed development from all quarters was the Governing Body decision in Trinity Term to appoint the first weekend porters and they will join the College in time for Michaelmas Term.

I have enjoyed very much my time as Bursar of St Cross College. It has been a privilege to serve this community and I am delighted and grateful to be able to continue my association as an Emeritus Fellow.

52 It was a small place when I arrived 17 years ago with 167 students and 7 staff whereas today, with over 600 students and 27 staff, it is one of the largest of the graduate colleges. My predecessor and the third Master, Dick Repp, had been very busy with the building of the accommodation block on St Cross Road and the college had spent all available funds. The immediate task was one of “professionalising” the administrative processes. There was much to do in terms of improving the catering offer, accommodation systems, HR, finance and embedding the dreaded Health and Safety culture. This was an iterative process over the years. With the arrival of the fourth Master, Andrew Goudie, there was a great deal of legal work to plough through as we worked through a new Agreement with Pusey House to a successful conclusion. Peter Thompson (in the adjacent office) and I were turfed out of our offices overlooking St Giles as part of the Agreement but I quickly became comfortable and happy in the new one overlooking the very pretty Blackwell Quad. Over the years, as student numbers grew, we acquired more accommodation and the numbers of staff in the Bursary increased to look after the students and handle the ever growing legislative and University requirements. Governing Body approved our proposal to establish an academic department to handle the increasing workload associated with the growth in student numbers. My final three years have been spent working with the current Master, Sir Mark Jones, on plans to build the West and North wings and I am delighted that, just as I leave, funding and planning permission have been secured. Building will commence soon.

Over the years, I have had the pleasure and sometimes the challenge of working with various student presidents, vice-presidents and treasurers. I have found one- to-one work with students endlessly interesting as we have had serious discussions about the facilities and services at St Cross, prior to the launch of initiatives from the student President. Some Presidents have spent hours each week with me and been dedicated to their responsibilities and achieved much. I shall watch their future progress with great interest and expect to see some of them in high profile roles.

I have been fortunate to have an effective and well-motivated group of staff in the Bursary who have made a serious contribution to the smooth running of the College. Most of their work goes unnoticed by design but I have been very appreciative of the sheer volume of work which they have handled. I must pay a particular tribute to my immediate reports who have been dedicated, hardworking and loyal both to the College and to me. Emily Blackman, the Bursary Administrator has been my capable secretary with a sunny personality in addition to assisting others for the past year. Judith Ledger was here on my arrival, the sole person working on accounts in 1997. She now has two full-time and

53 two part-time staff members and the battels run is over 800 each term. Judith’s knowledge of the College and its processes and activities is without parallel and she is core to the effective functioning of the College. I am very grateful also to Alison Mignanelli, our consultant accountant, who has provided invaluable support to me with financial models used to secure the funding of the new wings. Razvan Novacovschi is the single staff member handling IT (with the assistance of a number of part-time student workers) for over 650 computer users which is a very heavy workload which he handles without complaint. Finally, I am delighted to report that Suzy Hodge who has been the Assistant Bursar for 14 years and a loyal lieutenant has been promoted to the role of Domestic Bursar.

I shall watch developments at St Cross with great interest and my very best wishes go to all sections of the community but naturally, in particular to the Bursary staff. Thank you, and bonne chance mes amis!

Maureen Doherty

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT’S REPORT

It is a pleasure to see the number of donors to St Cross, for Financial Year 2013/14, increasing to 347 from the previous year’s 198, an increase of 149 donors. One of our proudest achievements is the fact that the majority of the funds for the West Quad originate from the philanthropic support of St Cross members - this is quite unusual for an Oxford College building campaign. Our task is a bit more difficult because we are a graduate college and most of our Alumni are relatively young so this achievement is an incredible testament to the warmth of the people associated with the College. Thank you.

In November 2013, the College hosted the Inaugural USA Founders’ Feast at the Robert and Bernice Wagner Alumni House, Georgetown University, Washington DC. A record number attended, making it an extra special night. The attendees received a presentation on the impact of legislation on employment rights in the US given by Alumnus of the Year 2014, Doug Wigdor (MLitt Social Studies, 1993), recently named as one of the top 100 trial lawyers in the USA. The event was made possible by the support of Georgetown University, in particular the provision of the venue to the College free of charge arranged by Paul O’Neill, Chief Operating Officer for Advancement. Special thanks go to John Glavin, Professor of English and Director of the Office of Fellowships, Awards and Research (GOFAR) at Georgetown. John co-ordinates the Tim S Healy SJ Scholarship from Georgetown to St Cross. Professor and Mrs Glavin further supported the College by giving me somewhere to stay in Washington, saving the College costs for accommodation. More support

54 came during this trip, Doug and his wife Catherine confirmed naming a room in the West Quad, the Douglas and Catherine Wigdor Room. We are most grateful. The Founders’ Feast USA will take place every other year. The 50th Anniversary USA Founders’ Feast will take place on the 7th November 2015 at the University Club in Chicago. All welcome.

This year of firsts for the College’s Alumni calendar found the Master and me in Singapore later in November. Our host for the SE Asia Alumni Reunion was the British High Commissioner to Singapore and Oxford Alumnus, Antony Phillipson. The Commissioner hosted St Cross Alumni in his beautiful and elegant home, speaking positively on the future of St Cross, and made our guests feel at ease with his easy-going charm. Antony later tweeted about the event and started following the College on Twitter. Following this event, some attendees held an unofficial post- Alumni Reunion reunion at a local bar. We could not persuade Antony to join us as he wanted to drink a beer at home and watch Ambassadors on the BBC.

The Master found himself in familiar territory in December at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, where previously he held the role of Director of the Museum. The College hosted a Scotland Winter Drinks event at the new Board and Bute Rooms of the Museum, a stunning extension to the building, for which the Master had secured funding during his tenure there. The event included an exclusive out-of-hours and truly fascinating tour of The Scottish Collection.

The annual London Winter Drinks was once again a capacity event and we enjoyed a lecture from the then Vice-Master Professor Stanley Ulijaszek at the Oxford and Cambridge Club. The Professor gave an interesting lecture on health and avoiding obesity. I came away with a determination to consume more fish or Omega 3, as I am sure did many of my fellow audience members. It is a pleasure to see many of our Alumni and friends returning each year to enjoy this event with the College.

The 1965 Club Dinner, the College’s annual dinner to thank our donors, fell appropriately on Valentine’s Day this year. It was a perfect night and a pleasure to have the opportunity of thanking our supporters who make such an impact on College life. I don’t think Cupid’s arrow landed anywhere specific however and, as always, the food was really good.

The Audrey Blackman Lunch held in April gave the opportunity to thank our friends and supporters who have remembered St Cross in their Will. The number of legacy pledgers to the College grows steadily each year and the lunch is an enjoyable fixture in the College’s annual calendar. Legacy giving helps the College to look to the future with confidence. We hope our members will continue to remember St Cross in this way, especially helping to build our endowment and enabling the College to fulfil our ambition of Royal Charter status.

55 Fred’s lunch was held the day after the Audrey Blackman lunch allowing for a thoroughly enjoyable build up to the Easter break. Once again, the incredible Fred Hodcroft joined us.

Fred with some of his former students at Fred’s lunch this year.

The University hosted its first formal Asia Reunion in April, the star speaker of the weekend being the College’s own Professor Rana Mitter, Professor of Modern History and Politics of China, Vice-Master of St Cross College and Director of the China Centre. Some Colleges took the opportunity of hosting College reunion dinners during the weekend. Professor Mitter and I enjoyed welcoming St Cross Alumni to a reunion at the China Club, our room generously sponsored by Sir David Tang. We enjoyed a delightful dinner, welcoming Alumni and supporters of the College from across the region.

The College’s dinner at the 2014 North American Reunion, part of the University of Oxford’s reunion programme, was a stylish black tie affair in the beautiful surroundings of the National Art Club, Gramercy Park, New York. Held alongside the reunions of Lincoln, Exeter and Magdalen Colleges, the pre-dinner drinks hosted by the Vice-Chancellor made it the place to be that night.

The College hosted the first independent European Reunion in Zürich in September this year, with a delightful lunch held at the Zürichberg Hotel. It was a pleasure to meet our Alumni and friends from the region, including parents of current students who are always welcome to College events. We enjoyed an update on the Anniversary Campaign for the West Quad, followed by an impromptu walk in the beautiful surroundings.

56 The College enjoyed the well-attended College Alumni event on the 20th September, the Champagne High Tea. More than 70 Alumni and guests enjoyed some Champagne and treats on the day. It was a pleasure to see so many of our community coming back to the College and enjoying the surroundings and great food. We will enjoy more Champagne High Teas at College in the future.

Alumni and supporter event dates and further information is available on the College website and on the back page of Crossword. This year sees the launch of the 50th Anniversary website (www.stx.ox.ac.uk/50), which contain information relating to the College’s 50th birthday in 2015, including events, merchandise including the Anniversary Volume, Poetry Competition and much more.

The saddest thing for the Development and Alumni Relations Office this year was saying farewell to Laura King. Laura has been a fixture at St Cross for several years, starting in the Bursary and progressing steadily year on year, eventually becoming the Manager of the Development and Alumni Relations activity for St Cross. Laura’s hard work and creativity has set the tone and provided a firm basis from which the office can grow and develop. We miss her and wish her well in her new role as Development Manager at Stowe School, a well-deserved promotion. One of Laura’s last tasks in the office was to pull together Crossword 2014. This year’s edition is clearly the best so far. We will be seeing Laura again at some College events.

Emma Farrant, formerly the Accommodations Officer in the Bursary, returned from her travels and took up the post of Development and Alumni Relations Administrator earlier this year; Emma is already helping the office to make the step change we have planned. We are joined by Ella Bedrock as Communications Assistant, demonstrating technological and creative talent, and most recently Alice Robertson as Development and Database Assistant. We have managed not to frighten any of them away, just yet.

Donors to St Cross, August 2013 to July 2014

The College is grateful for all gifts, particularly at a time of economic uncertainty for all of us. Every gift and donation to St Cross makes a difference to the quality of the experience we offer to our students.

The list of names on these pages is based on all gifts received by St Cross College between 1 August 2013 and 31 July 2014 and includes individuals, companies and foundations. We thank you all. We have made every effort to ensure accuracy and completeness, but we apologise for any errors that may be contained in the list.

57 Individual Donors

Dr Susan Allen Mr John Campbell Ms Jamie B Aller Dr Alfonso Castrejón-Pita Miss Noura S Alturki Mr Samidh Chakrabarti Mr Antonio Alvarez Tapia & Dr Mike Challen Dr Catelijne Coopmans Mr Robert Champion de Crespigny Professor David Archer Mr Hung Cheng Dr Sigríður A Ásgeirsdóttir Mr John W Clarke Jr Professor Sir Eric Albert Ash Dr John Clutterbuck Dr Jo Ashbourn & Dr Adam Saunders Dr Roger Collins Dr Michael Athanson Dr David Conlon Professor Sir Michael Atiyah Professor Ian Connerton Mr Mark A Avagliano Dr Victor Cook Dr Daniel N Axford Mrs Tonia Cope Bowley Dr Peter Ayling Miss Jean Cormack Professor Jere Bacharach Dr Tumena Corrah Mr Steven Baker Mr Alasdair D Crawford Professor Flora Banuett Ms Cliona Dando Mr Stephen M Bass Professor Dame Kay Davies Dr Eelco Batterink Mr Edward Davies Miss Katarina S Beckman Mr Michael Day Mr Peter Benton Dr Theresa De La Fuente Dr Natalie S Betts Professor Caroline Dean Mrs Malgorzata Bialokoz Smith Dr Michael Dee Mr Jonathan P Bied Professor Anne Dell Ms Tess B Bird Mr Colin Dexter Dr Susanna E Blackshaw Dr James Dodd Professor Andrew Blake Ms Maureen Doherty Professor Sir Tom Blundell Professor Dame Athene Donald Dr Jennifer J Bonsell Professor Peter Donnelly Mr James R Brett Professor Ann Dowling Mr Richard W Briant Dr Michael K Durkin Professor Andrew Briggs Dr Paul Dyer Mr Dennis Britton Professor Daniel Ebbole Professor Sir Richard J Brook Professor Dianne Edwards Dr Andrew Brown Ms Daria Eggers Mr Rory Browne Professor Sir Roger Elliott Dr David Browning Professor Reginald J Ellis Dr Kathleen Buckingham Mr Michael Ellison Dr Katarina Burnett Professor Jane A Endicott Dr James Busuttil Lady Judith English Professor Geraldine Butler Dr Maria G Enriquez-Harris

58 Dr Bronwen Everill Ms Catherine Homsey Professor Pedro Ferreira Mr Maksym Honcharenko Professor Roderick Flower Professor Yoichi Honda Dr Dan & Dr Jane Forbes-Ford Professor Judith Howard Dr Margret Frenz Ms Caroline Howard Jones Professor Sir Richard Friend Professor Barbara Howlett Professor Dame Uta Frith Ms Laura Hurst Dr Edward Furgol Dr Robert Hyland Professor Graham Furniss Dr Raphael Ingelbien Dr John Galaty Dr Robert Jackson Professor Stefan Gaubatz Professor Wendy James Dr Katharine L Gearing Ms Patricia Jayne Professor David Geiser Professor Martin Jones Professor John Glavin Mr Mark Jones Rebecca Golbert Dr Mark R Jones Professor Bertie Gottgens Professor Alan Jones Professor Andrew Goudie Sir Mark Jones Professor Neil Gow Dr Hazel Jones Professor Sir Brian Greenwood Professor Regine Kahmann Dr David Gregg Professor Takashi Kamada Dr Mary Gregory Dr Janet Keene Professor T Gwynfor Griffith Dr Joan Kelly Professor Keith Gull Mr Neil Kensit Professor Sunetra Gupta Mr Anupum Khaitan Dr Pär L Gustafsson Ms Laura King Professor J D Haigh Sir John Frank Charles Kingman Professor Emily Hannum Lord Krebs Miss Lesley Forbes Professor Ursula Kües Professor Ann Harris Dr Benjamin W Lacey Mr Derek Harrison Professor Sir Peter Lachmann Mr Tom Hassall Dr Geoffrey Lairumbi Professor Sir Brian Heap Ms Kit Shan Lam Mr John Hendry Miss Georgia Latsi Ms Hilary Henson Dr Andrew Leaver Dame Julia Higgins Mrs Judith Ledger Mr Toshiharu Hishinuma Professor Andrew Leitch Professor Nigel J Hitchin Professor Ottoline Leyser Mr Kiam Ho Mr Xingyu Li Professor Susan Hockey Mr Yuxuan Li Mr Fred Hodcroft Ms Xiaoluan Liu Ms Suzy Hodge Dr Stephen Lloyd Professor Andrew B Holmes Dr Mary Lloyd

59 Dr Laura Lopez Pascua Professor Timothy R Orchard Professor Jennifer Loros & Professor Jay Dr Malcolm Oster Dunlap Mrs Margaret Owen Dr Anastassia Loukina Professor Ian Page Ms Victoria Love Dr Aristides Panayotou Mr Alan & Mrs Carol Lowne Professor Barry Parsons Revd Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch Mr Yogesh Patel Kt Professor Teresa Pawlowska Professor Georgina Mace Professor Sir John Pethica Dr Oskar MacGregor Professor James Pettifer Mr Johannes Machielsen Professor John A Pickett Professor Nyovani Madise Dr Tim Pound Mr Vasanth Manickam Dr Patricia Pukkila Mr Manuel Manrique Gil Ms Kelly Quinn Dr Gihan Marasingha Professor Paul B Rainey Dr Tamsin A Mather Professor Carlene A Raper Mr Peter Mathias Mr Alexander Rayner Mr Panos Mavrokonstantis Professor Peter Raynes Professor Lord May of Oxford Mrs Marit Rebane Professor Nicholas Mayhew Professor Martin Rees, Lord Rees of Mr Bob C McLatchie Ludlow Dr John McLaughlin Mrs Cathy Repp Professor John McWhirter Dr Richard Repp Dr Jane Mellanby Dr Glen Reynolds Mr Richard Middleton Professor Daniela Rhodes Mr Michael Miller Mr Donald S Richards Mr Robin Millhouse Professor Steve Roberts Dr Michael Milner Dr Stephen Robertson Professor Ron Morris Professor Derek Roe Professor Vivian Moses Mr David Rogers Dr Charles Mould Professor Antonios Rokas Mr Vladimir Mukanaev Mr Ivan Romanovski Mr Ryan Murray Mr John Rowe Miss Chilombo Musa Dr Pedro Ruiz Castell Professor Steve Ngo Mr Richard Rushforth Miss Lucile Nicot Professor Matthew Sachs Mr Michael Noone Ms Jessica Sack Mr M Frank and Mrs Sandra A Norman Master Addison Saunders Mr Jonathan Oakley Professor Barry Scott Miss Aoife O’Higgins Ms Sandy P Shattock Mrs Ann Oldfield Dr Suzanne L Sheehy Dr Joseph Olliver Mustapha Mustapha Sheikh Ms Ailbhe O’Loughlin Professor John Shepherd

60 Dr Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr Professor Barbara Valent Dr Nicholas Shrimpton Dr Ruth E van Heyningen Dr Shi Ming Si-Hoe Professor Veronica van Heyningen Miss Kate Simkins Ms Anne Vandenabeele Professor Patricia Simpson Mr Mark Vastenavondt Professor Elizabeth Simpson Miss Charikleia Vavoura Professor Derek Siveter Professor Martin Vessey Sir John Skehel Professor Angela Vincent Mr Joseph C Smith Professor Karen Vousden Professor Andy Hopper & Professor Professor Ros Wade Alison Smith Dr Caroline Wagner Mr Kuo Tong Soo Mr Peter A Ward-Jones Dr Garrison Sposito & Dr Mary E Dr Katie Warnaby Sposito Professor David A Warrell Mr Marcus Starfield Professor Jonathan Wastling Mr Charles Starkie Dr Robert Watkins Ms Anne Stedman Dr Sarah Watkinson Ms Keely Stevenson Professor Robin A Weiss Professor Trevor Stuart Mr Robin Wells Dr Keith Suter Dr Eric Whittaker Miss Heather Sealy Lewis Mr Douglas & Mrs Catherine Wigdor Professor Nicholas Talbot Mr Christopher Williams Dr Jo Pei Tan Sir Peter Williams Dr Alan Taylor Dr Jim Williamson Professor Sir Martin Taylor Professor Sir Alan Wilson Mr Clive Tee Professor Alan Windle Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas Mr Brian Woolnough Professor Ulrike Tillmann Professor Julia M Yeomans Professor P Bernard Tinker Professor Mimi Zolan & Professor Jeff Miss Abigail Tompkins Palmer Mr Aleksander Trajce Mr Ivo Zucha Dr Lindsay Turnbull Professor Jack Zussman Professor Tim Unwin

Companies, Trusts & Foundations African Academy of Sciences Fungal Genetics and Biology (Elsevier) Caltag MedSystems Ltd Americans for Oxford Interest Account British Society for Plant Pathology MO BIO Laboratories, Inc Cambio Ltd The Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation

61 Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences Google Ltd Mycological Society of China Nigerian Academy of Science Tanzania Academy of Sciences The Mabs Mardulyn Charitable Foundation The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 The Royal Society Trends in Genetics Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education Stratech Scientific Ltd

Legacy Notifications

Dr Brian F Atkins Professor Lorna Casselton

Anonymous Donors and Gifts in Kind

We would also like to thank 16 anonymous donors to the College.

DEAN AND JUNIOR DEANS’ REPORT

The Dean and Junior Deans work with Domestic Bursar Suzy Hodge, the Porters, and the entire bursarial staff regarding discipline and welfare issues at the College.

The 2013–2014 academic year was as peaceful and enjoyable as you might expect from a graduate college. As usual, the Dean met and communicated with students regarding specific issues. We are fortunate to be able to say that there were no serious incidents to speak of, which is in itself a testament to the character of this community.

A number of social events were held throughout the year, including several bops and, of course, our annual ball, which was as pleasant and entertaining an experience as you might imagine. The Dean and Junior Deans worked with the Porters, the student Social Secretaries, the Bar staff, and the external security team to make sure that the events were handled safely, responsibly, and according to the regulations.

62 The Junior Deans, new to their roles this year, underwent First-Aid/CPR training at the beginning of the year along with other members of the College staff. Midnight rounds have been conducted as usual, just to make sure that the College and its people are safe and secure. There were, inevitably, a few fire alarms throughout the year, but we are glad to say that students, fellows, and staff all worked together make sure that the safety system went smoothly. The addition of weekend Porters at the end of the academic year is a welcome prelude to additional protection planned for the advent of the new building.

The Dean and Junior Deans fill an important welfare role and serve as an interface between the students and the rest of the St Cross College community. The Junior Deans are students, sharing in the same experiences, joys, and struggles as their fellow students. They are then, thankfully, close enough to them to listen to their needs, travails, and victories.

Along with the entire welfare team, the Dean and Junior Deans offer advice, help, and guidance to students at every stage of their degrees. For good reason, mental health in academia has recently been a subject of public discussion as well as discussions at the University and College levels. We are pleased to report that increased attention has been given to student welfare across the board: from the fellows and leadership, including the Senior Tutor’s office, to the staff and students. These are ongoing developments.

In the meanwhile, we would like to offer our best wishes for the coming academic year.

Mark Robinson Dean

Peter Fiske Abigail Tompkins Junior Deans

63 SENIOR TUTOR & TUTOR FOR ADMISSIONS REPORT

St Cross welcomed 205 new students in Michaelmas Term 2013 and the research community within the College goes from strength to strength with DPhil students making up nearly half of the new intake. The College’s international diversity now comprises 53% from overseas, 25% from the European Union and 22% from the UK. This academic year the College had, in the new student intake, 54% men and 46% women, thus reversing the previous year’s trend.

The College was delighted to again award several scholarships to new students who will bearriving in Michaelmas 2014 as follows:

• The Scholarship in Archaeology was awarded to Jessica Dunham from the usA to support her DPhil; • The Scholarship in History was awarded to Riccardo Liberatore from Italy to support his DPhil;

• The E.P. Abraham Scholarship in Chemical, Biological/Life and Medical sciences was awarded to Celina Jin from Australia to support her D.Phil. in Paediatrics;

• The Unilever Graduate Scholarship in the Sciences was awarded to Yijia Zhang from China to support her DPhil in Organic Chemistry;

• The MPhil Scholarship was awarded to Mary Bateman from the UK to support her studies for the MPhil in English Studies (Medieval);

• The Scholarship in Global Health Science was awarded to Anna Fry from the uK to support her MSc;

• The Robin and Nadine Wells Scholarship was awarded to Kiran Stallone from the USA to support her studies for the MSc in Latin American Studies. this award was generously sponsored by one of our Alumni, Robin Wells and his wife, Nadine.

In Michaelmas 2013, the College held its third Graduate Open Day, which was intended primarily for current undergraduates and Masters students at Oxford, who might be considering doing a postgraduate degree. The Open Day went very well with a number of prospective students across a wide variety of subjects looking around the College and speaking to both St Cross students and Fellows. Some of these subsequently applied to St Cross and will be arriving in October 2014. In addition,

64 the College organised a special Study Skills session for both taught and research students, and has continued with the termly Medical Sciences Lunch in Headington for our students and Fellows who are based at the John Radcliffe Hospital or the Old Road Campus.

The College currently has over 530 graduate students, of whom 7 are doing part- time graduate degrees. Trinity Term 2014 went very well for the majority of students with 25 of our Masters students (either MSt., MSc or MPhil) achieving a Distinction overall in their courses. Following the retirement of Chris Roberts (the Admissions & Academic Secretary), the Academic Office was very pleased to welcome Tom Clews as the new Admissions & Academic Assistant.

Jo Ashbourn

ARCHIVIST’S REPORT

Most of this year was devoted to the production of a highly-illustrated celebratory volume published by the College to mark the 50th anniversary in 2015 of the College’s foundation. It was sent to the printers in August of 2014, with a book launch at the Winter Drinks Party in December of 2014. The volume is titled St Cross College at Fifty, and it is being published in two versions: a high-quality paperback edition and a Limited Edition published by subscription; the latter will be hardbound, numbered, and signed by the authors and editor, with the names of subscribers listed at the back.

St Cross College at Fifty will comprise three chapters: “The Foundation Years: 1965– 1979” by Tim Pound (Fellow by Special Election and Archives Registrar), “Growing on a New Site: 1979–1996” by Diarmaid MacCulloch (Official Fellow), and “A Feeling of Permanence: 1996–2014” by Jan-Georg Deutsch (Official Fellow and former Senior Tutor). The Master, Mark Jones, contributed a Foreword, and the volume has been edited by the present Archivist. The volume has been beautifully designed by Isobel Gillan, whose portfolio of publications for which she has been the designer includes volumes for the Royal Collection (including The Royal Baby Book) and the V&A (Halfway to Paradise: The Birth of British Rock). Lesley Sanderson, the Master’s PA, was helpful in organizing professional photography by Studio Edmark of certain items in the art collections. In addition to photographs held by the College Archive, or ordered from the Bodleian Library or the Oxfordshire History Centre, we were able to use photographs generously supplied by the van Heyningen family, as well as some taken by Tim Pound, Peter Benton, and Derek Roe.

After a full draft of the volume was completed, copies were made available, if requested, to senior members of the Fellowship (including Emeritus Fellows and some Honorary Fellows) for comment. Drafts were also sent to our two former Masters,

65 Andrew Goudie and Dick Repp, as well as to Founding Fellows Ruth van Heyningen, Fred Hodcroft, Alan Jones, and Dennis Britton, asking them for any comments or suggestions they might wish to offer. Comments received from Jim Williamson, Derek Roe, John Tiffany, JohnB arton, Maureen Doherty, Peter Benton, Donald Richards, David Browning, Michael Brookes, Margret Frenz, Rana Mitter, Brian Woolnough, Bishop GeoffreyR owell, and Alan Coates (the previous archivist), were also of enormous help in preparing the final version.

Throughout the year, work also continued on the 50th Anniversary Archiving Project, carried out primarily by Former Fellow Lesley Forbes, Emeritus Fellow Glenda Abramson, and Former Fellow Hung Cheng, along with the Archivist. Work focussed on records relating to the Arts Collections as well as some old student photographs, early employee records, and papers relating to the Associated Centres. In the course of this work, more material was discovered regarding the Audrey Blackman bequest. The team worked on Tuesday of every week, in the van Heyningen Room. Tim Pound (Archives Registrar and Fellow) continued his important work on developing a system of archiving electronic student records.

Donations to the Archives of various newspaper clippings have been received from Alan Coates (former archivist) and from some anonymous donors. Emeritus Fellow George Smith donated some of his papers, while Emeritus Fellow Tom Hassall donated valuable papers concerned with the election of our second Master, Godfrey Stafford, and with the benefaction of FredL ange. All donations will be welcomed by the College Archives and duly acknowledged in the Record.

Emilie Savage-Smith

ART COMMITTEE REPORT 2013-2014

The sad and sudden death of Professor Derek Roe on September 24th, 2014 leaves the Committee without one of its mainstays. Derek had revived a flagging Art Committee in the mid nineteen-nineties and given it purpose and direction, chairing it for several years with unmatched knowledge particularly in the areas of British watercolours, silver and glass. He made several handsome donations to the College, including fine pieces of silver and, as a final gift, he has bequeathed his personal collections of watercolours and glass to the College. It is expected that College will retain at least part of each collection as a permanent memorial to Professor Roe.

At the end of Trinity Term 2013 the Committee bade farewell to Jon Whiteley who had chaired its meetings in recent years and thanked him for his many shrewd and knowledgeable contributions to their work. In his place, Luke Treadwell and

66 Elizabeth Frood were welcomed as guardians of the Blackman Collection and would jointly chair the Committee.

They have had a very busy year. There have been a number of developments under their energetic chairmanship, some of which were already in train. Notable among these was the publication of Professor Roe’s splendid and beautifully illustrated account of The Blackman Collection of Watercolours at St Cross College, Oxford which also contains notes on the origins of the College’s Art Collections in general.

Copies are available at £5.00 each or £3.50 for students. Various examples of the College’s art works have also been professionally photographed for inclusion in the 50th Anniversary volume.

The Committee supported a proposal from the Archivist, Professor Emilie Savage- Smith, that the College should acquire a very high quality volume in which there could be inscribed the name of each donor of artwork to the College, along with a statement of exactly what was donated. The purpose of this was twofold, providing both an accurate record of each donation as it was made and also being an attractive way to indicate to the donor that the gift is appreciated and remembered through time. The College has benefited immeasurably from donations but, given our lack of space and specialist conservation facilities, the Chairman advised that all future offers of donations should be carefully vetted first through the Art Committee.

One donated item, originally part of the Treverton Collection, was a Korean, Koryo Dynasty, 14th Century oil bottle, decorated with flying cranes which had been loaned to the Ashmolean Museum in 1972 and not recently displayed. The Committee expressed its gratitude to the indefatigable Lesley Forbes for tracking down this item and it is now back in the College.

There have been several more recent donations including a delightful Persian miniature depicting Bahram Gur Hunting Wild Ass which was given by the late Lorna Casselton and is now displayed in the St Cross Room. The Committee also selected three geometric works by the late Kathleen Miller for eventual display in the Crawford Miller Room. The Committee thanked Gary Kelsey for his donation of Somewhere in Oxford which is displayed appropriately in College.

The Committee agreed that the Master should proceed with his proposal that a commemorative 50th Anniversary medal should be produced. Such a medal, which would be designed by a leading artist in the field, could be given to all major donors and distinguished guests and be on sale to College members.

67 The Committee viewed the 21 entries received for this year’s photographic competition with the theme of “Home Towns”. The top five entries and the winning photograph can be seen under ‘Photographic Competition’ later in this Record.

Luke Treadwell and Liz Frood oversaw a thorough overhaul and cleaning of the art store in March. All items were placed on a revised inventory thanks once again to Lesley Forbes who has, in so doing, undertaken the preparatory work for the art donations volume referred to above. It was felt that, with appropriate modifications, a secondary art store could be sited in the Old School Annexe.

Finally, our thanks to Tim Pound who agreed to give guided tours of the College’s art collection during September’s Oxford Open Doors Weekend organised by the Oxford Preservation Trust. This occasion was arranged jointly with Pusey House who gave tours of their chapel and library.

Peter Benton

LIBRARIAN’S REPORT

Alumnus Collection

The following books were donated by College Members and put into the Alumnus Collection:

Akira Akabyashi, The future of bioethics: international dialogues. Oxford University Press. 2014

S.J. Allen and Emilie Amt, The Crusades: A reader. Toronto University Press. 2nd ed. 2014

Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Fernanda Pirie, Order and disorder: anthropological perspectives. Berghahn. New ed. 2011

Jerome Booth, Emerging markets in an upside down world. Wiley. 2014

James J. Busuttil, Naval weapons systems and the contemporary law of war. Oxford University Press. 1998

Roger Collins, Die Fredeger-Chroniken. Hahnsche Buchhandlung. 2007

Roger Collins, Early medieval Europe, 300 – 1000. Palgrave. 3rd ed. 2010

68 Roger Collins, Early medieval Spain: unity in diversity, 400-1000. Macmillan. 2nd ed. 1995

Roger Collins, Law, culture and regionalism in early medieval Spain. Variorum. 1992

Bronwen Everill and Josiah Kaplan, The history and practice of humanitarian intervention and aid in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan. 2013

Andrew Goudie, Arid and semi-arid geomorphology. Cambridge University Press. 2013

Andrew Goudie, The human impact on the natural environment: past, present and future. Wiley-Blackwell. 7th ed. 2013

Dan Hicks, World archaeology at the Pitt-Rivers Museum: a characterization. Archaeopress. 2013

Anna Lora-Wainwright, Fighting for breath: living morally and dying of cancer in a Chinese village. University of Hawaii Press. 2013

Rana Mitter, China’s war with Japan, 1937-1945. Allen Lane. 2013

Malcolm Oster, Science in Europe, 1500-1900: a primary sources reader. Palgrave. 2002

Malcolm Oster, Science in Europe, 1500-1900: a secondary sources reader. Palgrave. 2002

James Pettifer, Albania and the Balkans: essays in honour of Sir Reginald Hibbert. Elbow Publishing. 2013

Derek Roe, The Blackman collection of water colours at St. Cross College. St. Cross College. 2014

Katherine Venables, Current topics in occupational epidemiology. Oxford University Press. 2013

Miranda Vickers and James Pettifer, The Cham issue: the next stage. Naimi Publishing House. 2014

Marina Warner, Joan of Arc: the image of female heroism. Oxford University Press. New ed. 2013

69 Brian Woolnough, Good news from Africa: community transformation through the church. Regnum Books. 2013

Once again I am happy to express my gratitude to all those members of College who have donated these books. The wide variety of titles provides good evidence of the spread of interests within the College.

Other new books

There were 219 new books put into stock during the year. Apart from the Alumnus Collection titles, the Library also received gifts of 110 books. Many of these were from students leaving and responding to my request to donate books at the end of their courses to help future students in the same subject.

Library Management System

As usual I express my disappointment with the search programme SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online). It is constantly being “upgraded” but still produces strange results. It is quite difficult to explain to people at the Library Induction meetings how to get the best results from a search.

Displays

The displays of New Books continued, matching the regular monthly lists emailed to all members of College. This display continues throughout the year and the other display varies from term to term. This year there were displays of books commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War and of Biographies in the Library. The Michaelmas Term display is always on Study, Research and Writing techniques and is very popular with new students.

Induction Sessions

As usual the induction sessions for new students on “An introduction to Oxford Library Services and Electronic Resources” were very crowded. However, those attending represented a minority of students. Following the innovation in 2012 I attended the Freshers’ Fair in the afternoon of the “College Induction Day” and this worked well as I was able to answer specific subject queries from new students on a one-to-one basis. I also sent out explanatory emails covering my presentation and inviting people to contact me with requests for books to be bought for the Library or help with databases.

70 Library Assistant

This year there was no new Student Library Assistant as Kimberly Marsh was still in College. She worked cheerfully and reliably on the tasks of processing new books, organising displays, shelving returned items and liaising with students. I wish her luck in her future career and welcome the new Student Library Assistant, Anna Khanina.

Sheila Allcock

GARDEN MASTER’S REPORT

The mild winter meant that daffodils planted in the autumn of 2012 were in flower by the middle of Hilary Term. Varieties were chosen to flower as early in the season as possible including the tazetta daffodils (each stalk has a cluster of several highly scented flowers) which have the reputation of only being growable in Cornwall but are hardier than generally assumed and should give a distinctive character to the College garden. The mild weather (unlike the previous year) also made it possible to plant out hardy bedding plants already in flower - polyanthus, primrose and pansy - during Hilary and some kept a good display well into the summer.

Few of the plants in the back quad will survive the building of the new wing apart from the Wisteria by the entrance arch and the Ceanothus on the wall of Pusey House chapel. Even the Robinia (false acacia) is to be cut down but as part of the planning consent, a semi-mature must be planted to replace it. The City Tree Officer has approved our suggestion of a walnut.

Mark Robinson

71 DIRECTOR OF IT’S REPORT

Things have mostly run very smoothly this year. The University’s Information Security Policy was discussed at length and the St Cross College IT Working Group proposed the adoption of the Conference of Colleges document as a framework with some adaptations.

A new printing system has now been installed throughout the College with success. Three of the existing lines of the Stonemason accommodation have been upgraded to provide a better connection for residents. The other lines were disconnected. This will provide better internet speed at less cost.

The proposal to provide University Cards for two-day MCRs was accepted by Governing Body and the Fellowship Committee; any new enquiries will be discussed by the Fellowship Committee on a case by case basis.

Marina Jirotka

COMMON ROOM REPORT

This has been again a busy year for the Common Room Committee. Opening hours in the bar were extended and the College introduced suppers that were warmly received by the St Cross Community. There were elections for the SRC following a lively debate in the Common Room (a first!). An electronic-only voting system was used and we are looking to transfer voting to Weblearn for maximum security. On another note, one unresolved issue is the provision of non-English language newspapers in the Common Room. Members of College voted overwhelmingly to have these but budgetary constraints prevented us from providing them this year. We have, however, consolidated all our subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals with a view to revisiting the budget soon. Once again I would like to pay tribute to our student committee with a most active and helpful President and Vice-President who organized the election debates and proved (if proof were needed) that the College’s biggest asset is its students.

Petros Ligoxygakis President

72 WELFARE OFFICERS’ REPORT

The Welfare Officers are members of the Student Representative Committee who have what may be called a duty of care for each of St Cross College’s few hundred Junior Members. There to ensure that students take care of themselves while they are studying in Oxford, the male and female Welfare Officers provide information and assistance on welfare matters to students, organize events for the St Cross community, and make themselves available to Junior Members for consultation and advice.

Perhaps more than other Oxford colleges, St Cross College has a diverse community of international graduate students. In addition to students from across the United Kingdom, there are many from elsewhere in Europe and other parts of the world. Some students are living away from their countries of origin for the first time; others have lived abroad before but are living in the UK for the first time. This gives the work of the St Cross Welfare Officers a particular character.

The Student Welfare Officers provide assistance and information to students orientating themselves to Oxford. In conjunction with the Vice-President, the Bursar, and the Senior Tutor, they contribute to those arrangements in Freshers’ Week relating to the general welfare of new members, including recruiting Junior Sponsors and assigning them to incoming students.

The Students’ Welfare pages on the St Cross website contain information on arriving in Oxford; transportation by train, coach, bus, or bicycle; student accommodation; student bank accounts, the city of Oxford; and emergency, security, and medical services. It also has information on health and safety, food, gyms, and counselling as well as on theft, insurance, traffic, theatres, green spaces, and deaf and hard of hearing facilities. Information about high-chair and changing table have also been added to the website. The Welfare Officers answer any questions relating to these matters and act as a resource for finding further information.

The Welfare Officers also make themselves available to support those students that might come to them, either personally or through their personal email (male.welfare. [email protected] or [email protected]) with a sexual issue. They regularly refill the stocks of condoms and pregnancy tests available in bathrooms and Caroline Miles room, as well as providing confidential counselling.

Over 2013/2014, the Welfare Officers managed to have St Cross College join the official Peer Support programme of the University. Every year, 3 to 4 students are to be trained over Michaelmas term. Once their training is completed, their name and email can be found on the St Cross website, along with those continuing students that are already peer supporters.

73 The Welfare Officers also have to take care of those students that are also parents, and organize events related to families. In Trinity 2014 we organized a Pizza & Cake event that was very much appreciated by parents that got to know each other. The Welfare Officers should regularly address those parents, and let them know that their families (children included) are welcome to lunch and College.

The Welfare Officers play a role in creating and supporting the St Cross community, organizing events such as tea and cakes socials, weekly brunches and yoga sessions, and walks through Oxford and the surrounding area. They are and they should be amongst the most visible members of the SRC, and take particular care of those members of College that do not regularly attend College events. They also support the activities of other Common Room Committee members, particularly those activities relating to student welfare. As part of their work for Common Room, the Welfare Officers represent the views of Junior Members at the College’s Welfare and Equality Committees. At the same time, they play a role in helping to implement St Cross’ Integrated Equality Policy, supporting opportunities for engagement and access across the College.

The result, it is hoped, is an improved quality of experience, life, work, and study for the members and staff of the College.

Giovanni Mezzano and Beatrice Rea

SPORTS REPORT

The following are some of the College’s sporting achievements during the last academic year.

Football: The Wolfson-St Cross Football Club failed to outplay Brasenose this year, and the team is undergoing major squad changes, hoping to reconquer its glory as the most successful team in MCR football. A second football team was founded this year, and seems to be here to stay. After a shaky start on the third league, it went on to become a much more competitive team, and hopefully it will succeed in achieving some solid victories in the upcoming year.

Rowing: Summer Eights 2014 went well for St Cross (as part of the Wolfson College Boat Club) Both men’s and women’s first boats proved themselves in strong Division I finishes. The men’s third boat achieved blades and the women’s second boat earned its highest finish in decades. Great fun was had by all!

74 Cricket: 2014 has been a vintage year for the College cricket team, who have been able to draw on a large pool of committed players and transfer this enthusiasm into on-field success. We have had a run of good form, winning the 2nd XI premier division, with wins against Keble and Balliol leading to a deciding match against a strong Worcester College side. With strong batting and tight bowling, victory was secured by just 17 runs. The following week St Peter’s College conceded to hand Wolfson-St Cross the title.

Matthew Kruger

CATERING MANAGER’S REPORT

Since joining the catering team in January, my time at St Cross has proven to be exceptionally exciting and busy. I am happy to report that the team in the kitchen has made me feel incredibly welcome and together we have handled some challenges very well.

The kitchen has seen a change in the team with Anna Cardoso leaving to return to her home county of Slovakia. Anna has been replaced by our new Chef de Partie, Paul White, who joins us with some great culinary skills from his former base at Langer Hall Hotel in Nottinghamshire.

We have retained all other staff members who between them have a joint service time of over forty years. Our longest serving member Robert Rudman has been at the College for 14 years this coming February.

We had a number of special events this year and the catering team have demonstrated tremendous talent and commitment to delivering a truly outstanding service.

This term, alongside the very popular Special Dinners and Hall Nights we will be adding weeknight suppers to the termly calendar and look forward to welcoming you to them.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your kind comments and your continued support.

Darryl Pretorius

75 The kitchen staff preparing College lunch

MUSIC REPORT

Our annual carol service in Pusey House Chapel on 10 December 2013 was as crowded and splendid as ever, with the choir apparently effortlessly convening and preparing its music, conducted by Peter Ward Jones with Peter Lynan at the organ. Peter had chosen his usual varied repertoire of choir items (no fewer than eight this year), ranging over the centuries from the medieval brio of ‘Gaudete’ and an arrangement of the Cherry Tree Carol through Christmas comfort-food from Hector Berlioz, John Rutter and John Stainer to some palate-cleansing Peter Warlock and John Tavener (with of course, some J.S. Bach). It was a delight that the new Principal of Pusey House Fr George Westhaver preached and led the service, with the help of Fr Barry and Fr Mihai, and as ever we were grateful to the sidesmen from Pusey House, and to all those College members who read lessons. The retiring collection captained by Max and Anna Hamerow produced a record result for the homeless charity Gatehouse, and the Hélène La Rue Scholarship Fund. In what is now venerable custom, mulled wine and mince pies segued into a crowded Christmas Hall. We were sad to say goodbye this year to some long-term faithful members, especially Charles Mould, Peter Glare and Mark McKerraher.

76 The Musical Evening in March 2014 boasted a good audience in the Dining Hall, and real variety in the performances; it was devised by Anna Krause with Jim Williamson as avuncular compère. It opened with a lively pop song from Edward David, Tú by Dylan O’Brien & Shakira, then Anna sang Pergolesi’s gut-wrenching duet from Stabat Mater with a countertenor friend from St Peter’s, followed by the Schubert Lied Gretchen am Spinnrade, both with the instrumental help of Peter Ward Jones, who then played a Schubert Impromptu as a partner-piece. Poorna Mysoor’s Hindustani classical singing was a particular highlight. She explained the tradition to the assembled company as she was performing. Yurika Sakai and Ian Page both contributed their talents in classical piano and English folk songs, respectively, as they did last year, and Griff Rees performed a song he had written on the St Cross guitar that he and Anna had discovered in the bar, just waiting to be showcased. The event was wafted into dinner with a gentle a capella quartet by Arthur Sullivan.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

The subject of this year’s Photographic Competition was `Home Towns’. Entries were displayed in the Common Room prior to Fred’s Lunch on 10th April. The winner was presented with a bottle of Crémant de Bourgogne on 24th March by Luke Treadwell and Elizabeth Frood, co-chairmen of the Art Committee. The top five entries were as follows:

1st Prize Héloïse Vande Weile ‘His home town is now the crumbling empire of his childhood dreams (Old city of Aleppo, 2011)’

2nd Ashley Townshend ‘A town on the long way home (Sary-Tash Kyrgyzstan)’

3rd Eric Sor ‘Kids’ pancake race, Wallingford, oxon.’

4th Héloïse Vande Weile ‘After 8 years and a passport – the way back home (Kirkuk, Iraq)’

5th Carl Hildebrand ‘Withering Sphinx (Sphinx glacier in Garibali Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada)’

77 His home town is now the crumbling empire of his childhood dreams

78 OBITUARIES

Brian Atkins (1937 – 2013)

Frederick Brian Atkins was born on 2nd March 1937 in Hull, to Donald and Mabel Atkins, themselves from Hull families, with Danish ancestors in the 19th Century on his mother’s side.

He was brought up in Hull, going at age nine to Giggleswick School in West Yorkshire. He enjoyed his time there, playing rugby and becoming school captain, joining in school dramatics and was Company Sergeant Major of the school CCF, Leaving at 18, with a place at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to read Chemistry, he spent two years in the Royal Artillery (with a commission) mostly in Germany and again enjoyed the experience.

He went up to Oxford in 1957 but after his first year he changed subjects and read Geology. Oxford and Geology were to be his working life. During his undergraduate days he played more rugby, captaining his college team, playing for the Greyhounds, Oxford’s 2nd team. He also played darts for Oxford which was, he said, a half blue (not sure if that was a joke), and was a member of Vincent’s Club. After his BA, he spent 4 years researching for his doctorate, supervised by Professor L R Wager, on the Pyroxenes of the Bushveldt and gained his DPhil in 1965.

Brian and Pat met in 1957. Brian was still a student and Pat a nurse. They married in July, 1963. After his DPhil, Brian spent time as a Research Assistant then as Demonstrator, and became Lecturer in Mineralogy, and Curator of the University Mineral Collection in 1969. He enjoyed the teaching part of his work, but the University Museum Collection was, I think, the more important part of the work to him. He was the first and, I think, the only curator of the Minerals Collection, which was in a neglected state at that time, and he spent many hours bringing it up to date, and with the help of his assistant Monica Price, displaying it in a much more interesting and scientific way. He loved the Museum building itself, even when called out in the night because rain was coming through the immense glass roof, and was instrumental in having the name changed to the University Museum of Natural History.

In 1975, Brian was elected to a Fellowship at St Cross. He was a member of the working party that enabled the College to move from the `wooden hut’ in St Cross Road to its present home in St Giles’. There he found intellectual challenges and many good friendships. He became an Emeritus Fellow in 1997 but increasing difficulty with mobility meant that his visits in recent years became limited.

79 Brian had already moved to Eynsham, with a growing family, in 1969. He quickly became involved in Eynsham affairs, with support for the emerging Eynsham Society (1972), for building the Sports Pavilion (1977); and fund-raising for restoration of St Leonard’s (1977 – 1987) with his long-term friend Charles Caine. He also served as President and Secretary of the Probus Club.

However he will be chiefly remembered for his work with the Eynsham History Group. He launched the group journal, Eynsham Record, (1983) and edited it for 30 years (well served by an eye for cliché and misplaced apostrophe). The long hours writing articles, revising submissions and setting everything out for the printer – including regular “Then and Now” photos, of which the modern were mostly his own – provided a legacy to the village and personal satisfaction.

Brian played a major part in rescuing stones from Eynsham Abbey and later (2002) in creating the heritage trail around the abbey precinct, with cairns incorporating abbey stones and panels illustrating abbey life. Although frustrated by mobility problems, he still revelled in intellectual challenge – no crossword was too hard.

Brian and Pat celebrated their golden wedding last July with all 3 children and 4 grandsons. His family and friends will miss him greatly.

Pat Atkins

Lorna Casselton (1938 - 2014)

Few people would see the office of Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society – a post predating the government’s Foreign Secretary by 60 years – as an invitation to try out extreme sports.

Yet Lorna Casselton, one of Britain’s leading fungal biologists, took her tenure as an opportunity to make her first sky dive at the age of 72 and to scale a 140 ft tree in the Malaysian rainforest. Her exploits at the tropical forest research station in Danum Valley in Borneo were so impressive – she was severely stung by wasps as she descended the tree – that colleagues visiting later were amazed to find that they had been immortalized on a blue plaque fixed to one of the trees.

However her biggest contribution to science addressed the sexual development in fungi. In particular, she made it her mission to answer the intriguing question of how mushroom fungi decide how to mate given that, in the different species, there are not just two sexes but tens and sometimes hundreds of different `sexes’.

80 Faced with so many choices, how did fungi recognize potential partners? It was a problem that had long perplexed scientists.

Over a period of two decades Lorna Casselton applied painstaking genetic analysis and molecular biology to identify the fungal genes involved in sex determination. She established how the mushroom fungus Coprinus cinereus – which has 12000 sexes – distinguishes `self ’ from `non-self ’ and interact with each other, permitting recognition between sexes and enabling mating to occur.

For her discoveries she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999. Her legacy as Foreign Secretary and Vice-President from 2006 was enormous – especially in Africa – a continent that became her lifelong love after spending time as a visiting lecturer in Nigeria. She participated in the founding of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and she nurtured the Tanzania Academy where she is fondly remembered for announcing “we are here to listen to you”.

In all her activities she had the same rugged determination that she demonstrated in her meticulous scientific work on fungi. Last November (2013) she gave an enthralling lecture about her time as an ambassador for UK science, relishing the role of her ancient post “to enjoy mutual intelligence and affairs with all manner of strangers and foreigners”. None of the audience suspected that she was gravely ill. One of them said “she is my favourite scientist.

She stayed in touch with many of her students decades after graduation. Volunteering once to help undergraduate field studies in Norfolk she whipped up hearty dinners in the basic kitchen of an old lifeboat house for students returning from Blakeney Point’s marshes and sand dunes.

She was a qualified glider pilot, a passion she shared with her amateur pilot husband, William Tollett, who survives her. Together they marked the end of her tenure as Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society with a flying holiday in New Zealand.

Lorna Ann Casselton was a pupil at Southend High School for Girls before studying at University College, London and starting her scientific career at Royal Holloway College in London and Queen Mary, University of London. The final part of her career was spent in Oxford as Fellow of St Cross College and as Professor of Fungal Genetics. She was appointed CBE in 2012 in recognition of her services to fungal genetics and international science.

Reprinted with the kind permission of The Times

81 Eulogy prepared by Lorna’s husband, Bill Tollett, and read at the funeral by the Reverend Richard Budgen.

For some, Lorna was Mrs Tollett, Bill’s beloved wife, a sister, an aunt, and a much loved family member. For others she was Professor Casselton, scientist and teacher. To all she was beautiful, full of life, committed, passionate and loyal.

Lorna was the child of two extraordinary people. Her mother came from immigrant Jewish stock which had escaped from the horrors of life in Central Europe. Her father was a solid, dependable English countryman. From them Lorna inherited beauty, brains, honesty and a passion for nature and science.

Lorna’s generation was the first in her family to go to university and almost by accident she studied at University College, London. She went to UCL with a State Scholarship and earned a First Class Honours Degree. She stayed at UCL for her doctorate and that brought her into the world of fungal genetics, which she worked on all her life, indeed until a very short time before her death.

(With a satisfying symmetry, Lorna received a Senior Studentship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 in 1963 and then in 2001 she began serving the Commission assessing Research Fellows.)

From UCL, Lorna went to Royal Holloway College and then Queen Mary College, both in London. It was a hard slog all the way but she had the tenacity to make her science count and be recognised. In 1991 she took up a research post here in Oxford which allowed her to drive her science forward, at, incidentally, a very considerable cost in both financial and other terms.

She succeeded and her science was recognised by the award of her DSc, by election as a Fellow to the Royal Society, and the award of multiple honorary doctorates. (I understand that there was some family talk about exchanging one of her honorary DSc degrees for a Bachelor of Music degree so she could then play the piano!) In 2006 Lorna became a Vice-President and the Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, a post she held until 2011.

Bill tells me he has received many elegant tributes to Lorna and has asked me to read a little of the letter he received from Professor Nick Talbot.

“I am a fungal biologist working at the University of Exeter and I have known Lorna for more than 20 years as a colleague and, to a great extent, a mentor. I very much admired Lorna for her incredible contributions to the field of fungal biology.S he was a fantastic scientist who provided a fundamental new understanding of the control of

82 fungal mating systems and broke completely new ground in our understanding of the way in which these organisms interact.

I certainly consider Lorna to have been the most prominent and important fungal biologist in the UK in the last 30 years and she was also a fantastic ambassador for our discipline, and also much more widely for experimental sciences, in particular during her role as Foreign Secretary to the Royal Society. I know this was one that that she enjoyed greatly, but also one that I know was hugely valued and widely appreciated.

On a personal note, I always enjoyed Lorna’s company enormously; she had a fantastic sense of humour, a really sparkling wit. She was a formidable critic too and didn’t suffer fools lightly. Perhaps more than anything, what I will remember is her continued commitment to excellence in everything that she did. She was a fantastic role model as a scientist and someone I have looked up to throughout my entire career and who I will always remember with very, very fond memories indeed.”

Lorna’s work has spread around the world. From Professor Yoichi Honda of Kyoto University, Japan:

“Lorna was not only a supervisor during my stay in Oxford but a teacher who told me what science is. Without her assistance, I would have not got the position I have now. I have a full professorship in Kyoto University and I am continuing research and the teaching of molecular genetics of mushrooms. Lorna’s legacy is being, and will be, spread continuously beyond this generation, in the Far East.”

Lorna was a shining star as a scientist and teacher. With her family, friends and in her community her other attributes and qualities showed. She loved music, people, art and everything a well-round person loves.

Bill thanks you all for being here and asks that you remember Lorna for all she has contributed to her science and for the influence she has been on the lives of her family and friends.

Philip Beckett (1928–2014)

Philip Beckett, who died in July 2014, was formerly lecturer in soil science at Oxford University and fellow of St Cross College there. He had wide interests, and in one respect sparked a revolution in pedological thought and application.

Philip read Chemistry at Oxford, but his principal enthusiasm as an undergraduate was for exploration. In 1947 he was chemist on a University expedition to Iceland. By his account this experience taught him that the expedition chemist’s life was one

83 of drudgery: analysing samples while colleagues from other disciplines monopolized exploration of the landscape and also expected the chemist to do the cooking. For this reason he equipped himself with a copy of The Study of Soil in the Field by G.R. Clarke, then University Reader in Soil Science, and led the next expedition as a soil surveyor.

That expedition was to Kerman, Iran, and is documented by Anthony Smith in the book Blind White Fish in Persia (1952). Smith wrote: ‘Philip dug holes wide and deep, made a cloud of dust and wrote lengthy notes in his book.’ In due course Philip’s findings on the soil were published in the Journal of Soil Science. Other papers described the historical geography of the region, its climate, agriculture, the distribution of blood groups among the population and the qanats (underground tunnels built to channel water from upland aquifers).

After graduation Philip began research under Walter Russell’s supervision. On Russell’s departure to East Africa, however, he was left without a supervisor and was called up for National Service in the Army’s Intelligence Corps. One of his tasks was to investigate the bogging of British armour in North Germany towards the end of the second World War: why had tanks sunk into what was expected to be firm ground? The reason was that commanders were relying on inference drawn from geological maps without knowing what lay on top of the rocks; they did not know in advance what the soil was like.

Philip returned to Oxford to continue research, but now supervised by R.K. Schofield and on a fresh topic, namely the thermodynamics of exchange reactions of potassium in soil. His papers on that work in the Journal of Soil Science brought him world-wide recognition. He was also appointed to the University staff.

In an article in New Scientist magazine, Philip wrote ‘In research, as in life, the most seminal ideas often arise before the mind and imagination have settled into a rut’. He took this principle seriously, resisting narrow specialization. So, while he continued research on exchange processes he was ready to apply himself as a scientist to any interesting problem.

One such came to light because of his ongoing attachment as a Territorial Officer to a unit of the British Army’s Royal Engineers in which he rose to the rank of major. That unit identified the need for information on the soil to predict going conditions for vehicles and for makeshift roads and airfields, and it persuaded the government to fund research into the matter for both military and civil purposes. The received wisdom at the time was that all could be achieved with conventional soil maps. Philip was unconvinced, and for two reasons: (a) conventional mapping was too slow, and (b) it did not and almost certainly could not represent all the variation present. The first problem could be addressed by physiographic mapping from air photography, which Philip and his team demonstrated with land-system atlases of Uganda, Swaziland and

84 western Kenya. The second could be placed on a statistical footing so that predictions could be accompanied by assessments of uncertainty. That was the revolutionary spark, and it led to what we now know as pedometrics.

Soft going on the Oxford Clay: Philip Beckett, left, with geologists of the Royal Engineers

This new branch of research was developed by a series of doctoral students, who examined multivariate methods for soil classification and survey, logistics of soil survey procedures, remote sensing and soil information systems. Philip was also editor in chief of a series of twelve books, Monographs on Soil Survey, which was published by Oxford University Press between 1977 and 1986 and in which an international authorship wrote authoritatively about, inter alia, statistics, soil classification, land evaluation, soil description, geographical information systems and soil survey for forestry and engineering.

Philip Beckett retired in 1995. He was the last of the soil scientists sensu stricto in the University, and to mark the occasion he held, in his college, a wake attended by many of his former students and colleagues.

85 We remember him with affection for his guidance early in our careers, his good humour, stimulating discussions and care for our well-being.

Murray Lark and Richard Webster

Derek Arthur Roe (1937 - 2014)

Derek Roe was an archaeologist who is best known for his pioneering studies of the British Palaeolithic period. His PhD thesis, A Study of Handaxe Groups of the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic, represents a milestone in Palaeolithic studies. The method for the morphometric description and analysis of handaxes which he devised is still widely used throughout the world, while the appendix to his thesis, the Gazeteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, continues to represent an invaluable source of reference for scholars of early British prehistory.

Derek was born in 1937 in Hastings and educated at St Edward’s School in Oxford, where he was a Scholar and School Prefect. He played in the 1st team for golf, squash, tennis and shooting and, under the tuition of Lawrence Toynbee, became a talented painter. From an early age he had an interest in anything old, such as

86 fossils, Roman coins, and field monuments. After fulfilling hisN ational Service with the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Intelligence Corps in Berlin, he went up to Cambridge University in 1958 with an Exhibition and State Scholarship to study Archaeology and Anthropology at Peterhouse. Grahame Clark’s Cambridge department of the late 1950s and early 1960s was a happy and lively place, with many talented contemporaries. Derek’s instinct for older things led him to specialise in the Palaeolithic period, and in his second and third years one of his partners for supervisions was Glynn Isaac who went on to become a dominant force in African Palaeolithic Archaeology. Working on younger periods were Peter Addyman, with whom Derek shared rooms at Peterhouse, and Martin Biddle, while the year below included Colin Renfrew, Barry Cunliffe and Paul Mellars, all of them future movers and shakers of the archaeological world. Derek Roe graduated with a First Class Honours degree in 1961 and then stayed on at Cambridge as a research student, working on the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic under the supervision of Charles McBurney.

It was during his last year as an undergraduate that Derek Roe contacted The Times to enquire about the possibility of working for them as their Archaeology Correspondent. His first report, on new radiocarbon dates for Irish Neolithic tombs, was published in September 1961, and over the following five years he published more than 150 articles on excavations, current research, exhibitions and book reviews. The scope of his reporting ranged from the Palaeolithic to the Medieval period, and covered the length and breadth of the United Kingdom as well as Africa and Europe. During this time he was travelling all over Britain to visit museums in order to gather information for his doctoral thesis (he estimated that he travelled some 50,000 miles) and this afforded him the opportunity to visit and report on nearby excavations, including those of his former Cambridge contemporaries, such as Martin Biddle’s excavation of Saxon Winchester, Barry Cunliffe’s work at the Roman sites at Fishbourne, Portchester and Bath, and Peter Addyman’s dig at the Saxon sites of Sleaford and Lydford.

Before he had completed his postgraduate studies, Derek Roe was appointed University Lecturer at Oxford University in 1965. For the next thirty-eight years, until his retirement in 2003, he taught Palaeolithic Archaeology to generations of Oxford students, at first only to graduates and then, since 1994, to undergraduates too. At Oxford he conceived the idea of setting up a research facility for graduate research students working on Palaeolithic Archaeology and related Quaternary topics. He raised the funding by approaching Francis Baden-Powell for a generous benefaction in memory of his father, Donald, who had been Roe’s predecessor in teaching Palaeolithic Archaeology in the university. The Donald Baden-Powell Quaternary Research Centre was officially opened in 1975. Under Derek Roe’s guidance and direction, the Centre, which was located at No.60 Banbury Road, became an international hub of Palaeolithic studies, as well as a home away from home for postgraduate students and

87 visiting fellows. Tea and coffee around the library table were informal daily events at which Derek Roe provided a very warm welcome to anyone who came to visit him, regardless of whether they were eminent scholars passing through Oxford, such as Richard Leakey and Philip Tobias, or amateur archaeologists. Derek Roe served as Honorary Director of the Centre until his retirement in 2003, when it was transferred to the Institute of Archaeology on Beaumont Street.

After his exhaustive study of the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic, Derek went on to apply his methods to the assemblages of handaxes and cleavers from various sites in sub-Saharan Africa, including Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and Kalambo Falls in Zambia. He visited Olduvai several times, and his friendship with Mary Leakey led him to play a key role in the writing of her autobiography, a process which is recorded in his book The Year of the Ghost: An Olduvai Diary (2002).

Apart from his teaching and research activities, and the supervision of numerous doctoral and Master’s degree students, Derek Roe served various terms of office as Director of Graduate Studies in Archaeology at Oxford University, and served on numerous committees, including the Archaeology Committee of the National Museum of Wales, the National Museum of Wales Collections and Education Committee, and the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Irene Levi Sala Care Archaeological Foundation, as well as the editorial advisory boards of Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, World Archaeology, L’Anthropologie, Geoarchaeology and the Review of Archaeology.

He was awarded a DLitt by Oxford University in 1983, and other honours include his election as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1978, and the award of the Henry Stopes Medal by the Geologists’ Association of London in 1985. In 1997 he was conferred the title of Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Oxford University.

Derek Roe was a Fellow of St Cross College, elected in 1970, and served as Vice- Master for three years (1988-1990). He showed a particular gift for fundraising, and his efforts were crucial in bringing to the College a major benefaction enabling the construction of the first purpose-built College building. After his retirement he continued to play an active role in the College Art Committee, cataloguing and publishing the College’s collections of watercolours and silver. Derek Roe also maintained close ties with his alma mater, St Edward’s School. Invited to join the Governing Body in 1970, he continued to serve until his death.

Upon retirement, Derek tried to withdraw as much as possible from the world of archaeology, in order to have more time to indulge his long-standing passions for fly- fishing, photography, and collecting watercolours, glass and silver. Nevertheless, he continued to honour long-standing friendships with colleagues by agreeing to write

88 introductory chapters for edited books, and giving advice on Palaeolithic finds to professionals and amateurs alike.

Derek Roe married Fiona Greig in 1964 and had two children, Bridget and Nicholas. The marriage was dissolved in 1991 and he remarried in 2004.

Sarah Milliken

Derek, in the Cross Room, with part of the collection of glass which he has bequeathed to the College

The following is an edited version of the tribute prepared by Michael Walker who was a Visiting Fellow at St Cross in 1994. The complete text is available in the College Archive. Ed.

The sad death on September 24th 2014 of Derek Roe fills all of us who knew him with a profound feeling of immense loss. Derek’s tireless work for the College went far beyond his official duties, whether as Treasurer, Vice-Master, or Chairman of the Arts Committee, because he also devoted enormous time and energy in helping to secure

89 funding for the move to St Cross’ site in St Giles which is now the centre of College life. Thanks to his initiative, a benefaction was forthcoming for the creation of the Donald Baden-Powell Quaternary Research Centre of the Pitt-Rivers Museum from Donald’s son Francis Baden-Powell. The Centre opened in 1975, with Derek as its Director, and was transferred from the Museum to a large Victorian house at 60 Banbury Road that henceforth would house those university lecturers who hitherto had occupied that part of the Museum annexe which is the Balfour Library.

Appointed Oxford University Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology in 1965 in the Department of Ethnology and Prehistory, he was to become Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology from 1997 until his retirement as Emeritus Professor in 2003. He also rendered service to the University as Director of Graduate Studies in Archaeology. Last, but not least, he gave life-long service as a Governor of St. Edward’s School which he entered a pupil in 1950 and where a memorial service for him was held on October 28th 2014. After leaving school in 1956 he undertook his National Service with the Royal Sussex Regiment and served in the Intelligence Corps in Berlin. In 1958 he began undergraduate study at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he played cricket, squash and senior trial golf; throughout his life he remained a devotee of cricket and golf, and he also took up fly-fishing. In 1961 he took First Class Honours in Part II of the Anthropology and Archaeology Tripos. He took his MA in 1964, and studied under the eminent Palaeolithic scholar Dr. Charles McBurney. In 1967 he was awarded his PhD for the thesis “A study of handaxe groups of the British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic, using methods of metrical and statistical analysis, with a Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites” (the Gazetteer was published in 1968). 1970 saw his publication of Prehistory: An introduction. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1978. 1981 saw the publication of his landmark book The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain. In 1983 he received a DLitt from Oxford University. In 1985 the Geologists’ Association of London awarded him the Henry Stopes Medal. He served on the National Museum of Wales Archaeology Committee from 1982-1999 and subsequently on its Collections and Education Committee. He was an assiduous member of the Scientific Advisory Panel of the IreneL evi-Sala CARE Foundation for Prehistoric Research in or related to Israel, and also served on the editorial boards of several international learned journals. He was author or co-author of several important monographs and books, as well as numerous scientific articles. In 2001 there was published in his honour a volume edited by Sarah Milliken and Jill Cook entitled A very remote period indeed. Papers on the Palaeolithic presented to Derek Roe.

Derek Roe was endowed with a graceful personality and a wry self-effacing sense of humour. He charmed all who knew him with his congeniality, thoughtfulness, courtesy, patience, quiet generosity and consideration for others. He was truly a gentleman, in every meaning of the word. Humanity, sincerity and decency exuded from all his pores. He was a perfect host and afternoon tea at 60 Banbury Road invariably

90 attracted a wide range of colleagues, students and friends. Moreover he was a superb cook as those of us who have dined at his house well know (as well as giving us an opportunity to inspect his astounding collection of antique glass-ware). I first met Derek at the beginning of Michaelmas Term in 1967 when he and Dennis Britton (who was a Founding Fellow of St Cross) occupied offices in the Balfour Library adjoining the Pitt-Rivers Museum where they taught the post-graduate Diploma in Prehistoric Archaeology which I took in 1968. At that time, Donald Baden-Powell was still very much in evidence and active notwithstanding his retirement as University Lecturer in 1965 when Derek had the daunting task of stepping into his shoes.

From its inception Derek’s initiative and enthusiasm made the Donald Baden-Powell Quaternary Research Centre a hive of activity. His achievement was considerable. Particular mention must be made of two very significant aspects of Derek’s scientific approach to Stone Age research. First, his fostering of microscopy in the study of how stone tools were used, through analysis of the different kinds of marks or traces left on their edges that can be seen under the microscope after tools have been used on different kinds of material (wood, plant stems, leather, meat, bone, etc.). He ensured that a laboratory at 60 Banbury Road was well equipped for this type of research and several doctoral theses, books and scientific articles resulted from it. Secondly, Derek was a pioneer in the use of advanced statistical analysis, which he applied to measurements taken on stone tools. His Cambridge PhD thesis, summarized in his article on “British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic handaxe groups” published in 1968 in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (volume 34, pages 1-82), showed how statistical analysis can shed useful light on what had seemed to be an intractable puzzle about differences in shape between Palaeolithic “Acheulian” handaxes.

Derek’s own research was far from being restricted to British Palaeolithic studies. He made several visits to Tanzania in the early ‘seventies to analyze Acheulian handaxes found by the Leakeys at Olduvai, resulting, after an interminable 20-year delay, in publication by Cambridge University Press in 1994 of the monograph Olduvai Gorge, 5, Excavations in Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds by Mary Leakey with Derek Roe, who contributed a lengthy chapter on metrical analysis of the handaxes. Other examples of Derek’s interests outside Britain include his editorship of Adlun in the Stone Age: The excavations of D.A.E. Garrod in the Lebanon 1958-1963 (British Archaeological Reports International Series 159) and his 1995 article in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology on “The Orce Basin (Andalucía, Spain) and the initial Palaeolithic of Europe.” Derek had visited the excavations at Orce in the course of Integrated Anglo-Spanish Actions in 1995 and 1996 that Derek and I had organized under the auspices of the British Council and Spain’s Ministry of Education and Science. In preparing for the Integrated Actions I spent an enjoyable Michaelmas Term in 1994 at 60 Banbury Road as Senior Visiting Research Fellow of the Institute of Archaeology and Visiting Fellow at St Cross. Derek maintained a close interest in the Spanish sites and we met almost every year for lunch at St. Cross, the last time being in June 2014. I valued his

91 friendship and had come to regard him as if he were an affectionate elder brother, always full of helpful suggestions and wise advice. It is an honour as well as a privilege to give this account of how much he meant to me and, I am sure, to everyone I know who was associated with him and benefited from his openness and helpfulness to others with whom he shared his scholarship and expertise so generously and tirelessly, sometimes even to the detriment of advancing his own projects. He was a shining example to us all.

I cannot do better, both as a tribute to his approach to life and to evoke the memory of his spirit, than to quote something he wrote a few years ago: “I think it is fair to say that for the last quarter of the 20th century, the Donald Baden-Powell Quaternary Research Centre at 60 Banbury Road contrived to become and remain a rather special, very friendly and even pleasingly productive place. Curiously, one reason for the ‘nice atmosphere,’ on which so many visitors commented, was probably the fact that the University never gave the Centre any money of its own, and staff and students shared with genuine equality the tasks and the pleasures of keeping everything going. The triumphs or disasters of any one member of the small community were the triumphs or disasters of us all. Visitors from many parts of the world would look in, and we set ourselves to welcome them and to help them, as best we could, with whatever it was that had brought them to Oxford – not the sort of attitude that would endear an institution to any hard-headed, cost-conscious University in the competitive world of today, because we were not a named cost-centre. But at least they let us get on with it, for more than two decades, and many people benefited from that, as a succession of talented graduate students came and went, and we enjoyed the visits of distinguished scholars, who would share their knowledge and experience, as much informally as by the giving of seminars.” (Lithics Journal of the Lithic Studies Society volume 25, page 5, 2004).

For Derek, getting on with it is what it was all about, but doing so quietly and calmly, maintaining a low profile, with modesty, and without creating the perpetual fuss that some high-profile researchers nowadays seem to believe is essential for promoting the opportune advancement of their research team. The results of Derek’s attitude to what a University ought to be about are there for all to see in his legacy, physically in the College, and intellectually in all whom he stimulated to inquire with scientific rigour into the vast heritage bequeathed to us by our prehistoric ancestors.

Michael Walker, Emeritus Professor of Physical Anthropology, Murcia University

92 The West Quadrangle of St Cross

From its inception St Cross has wanted a purpose built building of its own. An interesting, modernist scheme by Stout and Litchfield developed in 1966 [Fig 1], later modified at John Betjamin’s suggestion to incorporate the St Cross schoolroom and lodge [Fig 2], was succeeded by a more traditional scheme in the mid 1970s [Fig 3]. But at that stage in its existence the College lacked the funds to build.

Fig 1. Stout and Litchfield design for a new building for St Cross, 1966

Fig 2. The Stout and Litchfield design modified to retain the St Cross Schoolroom

93 Fig 3. Scheme for a new building for St Cross in the mid 1970s

Then came the move to St Giles. Besides its central site and beautiful existing buildings, one of the things which attracted the Fellows of St Cross to Pusey House in 1980 was the thought that it would be possible for the College and Pusey House to build a second quadrangle in the garden that lay behind it. Initial plans included student rooms and a new library for Pusey House.

Plans were submitted in 1984, but an initial refusal of permission by the local authority set the project back rather and it was not until 1991 that construction of a first phase, the South Wing, designed by Philip del Nevo of Oxford Architects Partnership, began [Figs 4]. A Post Modern design, very much of the late 1980s, it neatly negotiated the transition between the new building and the 1926 extension to Temple Moore’s building and was cleverly planned to provide the dining hall that the College so badly needed, while rather untraditionally but very usefully creating accommodation above it. Due to financial constraints, however, the North and West Sides of the quadrangle [Figs 5 and 6] were not built.

Fig 4. The South wing of the West Quadrangle of St Cross, completed in 1993

94 Fig 5. Oxford Architects Partnership design for north side of the quadrangle

Fig 6. Oxford Architects Partnership design for west side of the quadrangle

By the time I arrived in 2011 it was clear that the 1989 plans were no longer quite what the College needed. The last opportunity to build on our central site needed to provide what was lacking: sufficient accommodation to make possible the communal life which is so essential to a college, places for students to work, rooms in which to hold lectures and seminars and to teach.

The College, with input from Fellows, students and staff, drew up a brief, setting out its requirements, and with the help of Malcolm Reading Associates launched an architectural competition. The Buildings Committee was entrusted by Governing Body with drawing up a shortlist and, after carefully inspecting a lot of relevant recent buildings, decided on a list of four architectural practices: Wilkinson Eyre whose Oxford work included the Earth Sciences Building, Pringle Richard Sharratt who had done the refurbishment and extension of the Pitt Rivers Museum which opened in 2006, Walters and Cohen responsible for the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew Gardens and Niall McLaughlin Architects, who had just completed a new building for Somerville and were working on Bishop Edward King Chapel at Cuddesdon, shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2013.

There was a lot of discussion, both within the College and with neighbours. The architects presented their plans, and many people including me changed their minds as they listened to their presentations, looked carefully at the different proposals and

95 thought through what each one could achieve for the college. In the end a large majority thought Niall McLaughlin’s design the best: both because it showed a real understanding of the College’s needs and because of its sensitive response to place and context, to the relationship between building and garden, new and old.

In Niall McLaughlin’s final design elegant seminar and meeting rooms, a lovely library and a pocket lecture theatre are so arranged that they open out both to the garden and to the entrance which looks diagonally across to the entrance of the 1993 building [Figs 7, 8 and 9]. Clever planning avoids the need for basements, which as we know from the bar and Ian Skipper room can feel gloomy and claustrophobic. Rooms are planned round stairs, in a way reminiscent of traditional sets, but these stairs are filled with light. Communal kitchens and dining areas look out over the gardens, and at the top of the building, to St John’s Street. Hotel-like corridors and uniform rooms are avoided.

Fig 7. Niall McLaughlin Architects design for a new building for St Cross, 2014

This is a stone building with mullioned windows which refers to and respects Oxford’s continuous collegiate tradition. It is designed as a whole, with carefully detailed interiors which will, I hope be a delight to inhabit. It will be a building that it is of this place and for this College, carefully thought out through a long and thorough collaboration between architects and client, not a design taken off the peg and modified to fit.

96 Fig 8. Niall McLaughlin Architects ground floor plans for a new building for St Cross, 2014

Fig 9. Niall McLaughlin Architects plans for the third floor and drawings of a new building for St Cross, 2014

The designs were welcomed by the City Council planning officers, by the South East Regional Design Panel of the Commission for the Built Environment and by English Heritage, so it came a something of a shock and a disappointment when the Planning Committee of Oxford City Council turned it down. But our appeal was successful; fundraising has helped the College to reduce the amount of borrowing needed and it now looks as though, in 2016, St Cross will at last have what it needs: a new building for the twenty-first century which grows out of tradition while being distinctively of the moment in which it was made, a fine building of which the College will have reason to be proud.

Mark Jones

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