SOMERVILLE COLLEGE REPORT 2014-2015 Somerville College Report 2014-15

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Fellows Philip West, MA, (PhD Jonathan Burton, MA, Visitor, (in order of seniority) Cantab), Associate (PhD Cantab), Associate Professor of English, Times Professor of Organic Fellow and Tutor in English Chemistry and Tutor in Joanna Mary Innes, MA, Principal, Chemistry (MA Cantab), Winifred Holtby Fellow, Tutor in Julie Dickson, MA, DPhil, Fellows, Modern History (LLB Glasgow), Associate Mason Porter, MA, (BS Professor of Law and Tutor Caltech, MS, PhD Cornell), in Law Professor of Nonlinear and Lecturers, Almut Maria Vera Complex Systems and Tutor Suerbaum, MA, (Dr Phil, in Applied Mathematics Staff Staatsexamen, Münster), Manuele Gragnolati, MA, Associate Professor of (Laurea in Lettere Classiche, German and Tutor in Pavia, PhD Columbia, DEA Steven Herbert Simon, Visitor German Paris), Professor of Italian MA, (PhD Harvard), Literature, Tutor in Italian Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics The Rt Hon The Lord Richard Stone, MA, DPhil, and Tutor in Physics Patten of Barnes, CH, FIMechE, CEng, Professor Annie Sutherland, Chancellor of the University of Engineering Science, MA, DPhil, (MA Cantab), Tutor in Engineering Science Associate Professor in Hilary Greaves, BA, Old and Middle English, (PhD Rutgers), Associate Rosemary Woolf Fellow and Professor of Philosophy and Lois McNay, MA, (PhD Tutor in English Tutor in Philosophy Principal Cantab), Professor of the Theory of Politics, Tutor in Alice Prochaska, MA, Politics Daniel Anthony, MA, Luke Pitcher, MA, MSt, (PhD Lond), Professor DPhil, (PGCert Durham), DPhil, FRHistS of Experimental Associate Professor of Roman Walczak, MA, Neuropathology and Tutor in Classics and Tutor in (MSc Warsaw, Dr rer nat Medicine Classics Heidelberg), Reader in Vice-Principal Particle Physics, Associate Professor and Tutor in Michael Hayward, MA, Matthew Kenneth DPhil, Professor of Inorganic Higgins, BA, (PhD Cantab), Fiona Stafford, MA, Physics; Dean (HT, TT) Chemistry and Tutor in Professor of Molecular MPhil, DPhil, (BA Leicester), Chemistry Parasitology and Tutor in Benjamin John FRSE, Professor of English Biochemistry Language and Literature, Thompson, MA, DPhil, Beate Dignas, MA, DPhil, Tutor in English Literature (MA, PhD Cantab), FRHistS, Associate Professor of (Staatsexamen Münster), Simon Robert Kemp, Medieval History and Tutor Associate Professor of BA, MPhil, (PhD Cantab), in History Ancient History, Barbara Associate Professor in Craig Fellow and Tutor in French and Tutor in French Ancient History Charles Spence, MA, (PhD Cantab), Professor of Alex David Rogers, (BSc, Experimental Psychology, Natalia Nowakowska, MA, PhD Liv), Professor of Tutor in Experimental DPhil, Associate Professor Conservation Biology and Psychology of History and Tutor in Tutor in Biology History Jennifer Welsh, MA, DPhil, (BA Saskatchewan), Professor of International Relations 6 | Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Lecturers, Staff

Christopher Hare, BCL, Dan Ciubotaru, BSc MA Administrative John Hawthorne, MA, (BA (Dip. D’Etudes Jurid. Babes-Bolyai, PhD Cornell, Manchester, PhD Syracuse), Poitiers, MA Cantab, Associate Professor of Fellows Templeton Senior Research LLM Harvard), Associate Mathematics and Tutor in Fellow Professor of Law and Tutor Mathematics Sara Kalim, MA, Development Director in Law Muhammad Kassim Guido Ascari, BA Pavia, Javaid, (BMedSci, MBBS, Bhaskar Choubey, DPhil, MSc PhD Warw, Professor Anne Manuel, (LLB PhD London), MRCP (BTech Warangal NIT), of Economics and Tutor in Reading, MA, MSc, PhD Bristol), ACA, Librarian, Associate Professor of Economics Philip Kreager, DPhil Engineering Science and Archivist and Head of Information Services Tutor in Engineering Science Boris Motik, (MSc Zagreb, PhD Karlsruhe), Professor of Andrew Parker, BA, MA, Charlotte Potts, DPhil, Professorial Fellows Computer Science (BA Victoria University CIMA, Treasurer of Wellington, MA UCL), Stephen Weatherill, Frans Plank, (Staatsexamen Steve Rayner, BA, (PhD Sybille Haynes Associate MA, (MA Cantab, MSc Munich, MLitt Edin, MA Durham), FRAS, MInstP, Professor of Etruscan and Edinburgh), Jacques Delors Regensburg, DPhil Hanover) Early Italic Archaeology and Professor of European Law Senior Tutor, Tutor for Art, Katherine and Leonard Graduates and Tutor for Philip Poole, (BSc PhD Woolley Fellow in Classical Admissions Rajesh Thakker, MA, DM, Murdoch) Archaeology and Tutor in (MA, MD Cantab), FRS, Classical Archaeology FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci, Michael Proffitt, (from May Professor of Medicine January 2015) Karen Nielsen, (Cand mag, Senior Research Cand philol Trondheim, MA, Fellows Stephen Roberts, Tessa Rajak, MA, DPhil PhD Cornell), Associate MA, DPhil, Professor of Professor of Philosophy and Engineering Science Amalia Coldea, (MA, PhD Tutor in Philosophy Owen Rees, MA, (PhD Cluj-Napoca) Cantab), ARCO, Professor Stephen Guy Pulman, Jonathan Marchini, DPhil, of Music MA, (MA, PhD Essex), FBA, Colin Espie, (BSc MAppSci (BSc Exeter), Professor Professor of Computational PhD DSc(Med) Glas, FBPsS, of Statistics, Professor of Linguistics CPsychol), Professor of Statistical Genomics and Behavioural Sleep Medicine Tutor in Statistics Honorary Senior Aditi Lahiri, (PhD Brown, MA, PhD Calcutta), Sir Marc Feldmann, (AC, Research Fellow Julian Duxfield, MA, (MSc Professor of Linguistics BSc (Med), MB BS, PhD, LSE), University Director of MD (Hon), DMSc (Hon), Stephanie Dalley, MA, (MA Human Resources Matthew John Andrew FAA, FMedSci, FRCP, Cantab, Hon PhD London), Wood, MA, DPhil, (MB, ChB FRCPath, FRS), Professor FSA Renier van der Hoorn, Cape Town), Professor of (BSc, MSc Leiden, PhD Neuroscience and Keeper of Sarah Gurr, MA, (BSc, Alfred Gathorne-Hardy, Wageningen), Professor of the College Pictures PhD London, ARCS, DIC), (BA Edinburgh, PhD Imperial), Plant Sciences, Associate Professor of Molecular Plant Research Director, Oxford Professor of Plant Sciences Pathology India Centre for Sustainable and Tutor in Plant Sciences Development Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Lecturers, Staff | 7

Junior Research Brian Hedden, (AB Giorgio Valmorbida, British Academy Princeton, PhD MIT), (MSc Campinas, PhD Fellows Templeton Junior Research INSAToulouse), Fulford Fellow Fellow Junior Research Fellow Charity Anderson, (PhD Helen De Cruz, BA Ghent, Saint Louis University), PhD Free Univ. of Brussels, Lisa Lamberti, (BSC Bonnie Van Wilgenburg, PhD Groningen, British Templeton Junior Research Geneva, MSc Copenhagen, Summa Cum Laude Utrecht, Academy Post-doctoral Fellow PhD ETH Zurich), Mary DPhil Oxf, Fulford Junior Fellow Ewart Junior Research Research Fellow Matthew Apps, BSc PhD Fellow RHUL, (MSc Reading), Joaquim Vieira, (PhD Fulford Junior Research Erik Marklund, MSc, PhD UCL), Fulford Junior Fellow Uppsala, Fulford Junior Research Fellow Emeritus Fellows Research Fellow Margaret Adams, MA, Lucy Audley-Miller, MPhil, Allison Wetterlin, (MA, DPhil, (BA Newcastle), DPhil Heidi Olzscha, (BSc, MSc DPhil Konstanz), Fulford Woolley Junior Research Hamburg, PhD Max Planck Junior Research Fellow Fellow Institute Munich), Fulford Pauline Adams, MA, BLitt, (Dipl Lib Lond) Junior Research Fellow Nahid Zokaei, BSc Matthew Benton, (MA Yale, PhD UCL, Fulford Junior PhD Rutgers), Templeton Benjamin Owens, (BSc Research Fellow Lesley Brown, BPhil, MA Junior Research Fellow Bristol, PhD York), Fulford Junior Research Fellow Marian Ellina Stamp Patrick Clibbens, (BA, Dawkins, CBE, MA, DPhil, MPhil, PhD Cantab), Mary Gokce Su Pulco, (BSc Career Development FRS Somerville Junior Research Bogazici, PhD Boston), Fellow Fellow Fulford Junior Research Katherine Duncan-Jones, Fellow MA, BLitt, FRSL William Dunaway, (PhD Donna Harris, (MPhil, PhD Michigan), Templeton Junior Cantab) Dani Rabinowitz, BA, Karin Erdmann, MA Oxf, Research Fellow DPhil, Templeton Junior Dr rer nat Giessen Research Fellow Jane Dyson, (BSc, MSC Miriam Tamara Griffin, Edinburgh, PhD Camb ), Early Career Fellows Jose Manuel Roche, MA, DPhil Fulford Junior Research (MSc, PhD Sussex), Fulford Fellow Siddharth Arora, B Junior Research Fellow Mary Jane Hands, MA Tech DA-IICT, DPhil Oxf, Vanessa Ferreira, DPhil, Parkinsons UK Early Career James Sleigh, DPhil, Barbara Fitzgerald (Bsc MIT, MD British Fellow (MBiol Bath), Fulford Junior Harvey, CBE, MA, BLitt, Columbia), Fulford Junior Research Fellow FRHistS, FBA Research Fellow Maan Barua, BSc Dibrugarh, MSc DPhil Oxf, Stephanie Thiem, BSc, Judith Heyer, MA, (PhD Edward Grefenstette, British Academic Early MSc, PhD Chemnitz Univ. of Career Fellow London) MSc, DPhil, (BSc Sheffield, Technology, Fulford Junior MLitt St Andrews), Fulford Research Fellow Junior Research Fellow Julianne Mott Jack, MA

Carole Jordan, DBE, MA, (PhD London), FRS 8 | Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Lecturers, Staff

Norma MacManaway, Carolyn Emma Kirkby, Janet Margaret Bately, Sarah Broadie, MA, BPhil, MA, (MA, MPhil Dublin, DEA DBE, OBE, MA, Hon DMus, CBE, MA, FBA (PhD Edinburgh), FBA Paris) FGSM Margaret Kenyon (Mrs), Harriet Maunsell, OBE, Helen Morton, MA, (MSc Joyce Maire Reynolds, MA MA Boston, MA Cantab) MA, (Hon DLitt Newcastle- upon-Tyne), FBA Tamsyn Love Imison, Mary Midgley, MA Hilary Ockendon, DBE, BSc, FRSA MA, DPhil, (Hon DSc Hazel Mary Fox (Lady Hilary Spurling, CBE, BA Southampton) Fox), CMG, QC, MA Clara Elizabeth Mary Freeman (Mrs), OBE, MA Catherine Jane Royle de Josephine Peach, BSc, Averil Millicent Cameron, Camprubi, MA MA, DPhil DBE, MA, (PhD London), Alyson Judith Kirtley FBA, FSA Bailes, CMG, MA Nancy Rothwell, DBE, Frances Julia Stewart, BSc, DS, (PhD London), MA, DPhil Baroness O’Neill of Jenny Glusker, MA, DPhil FMedSci, FRS Bengarve, CH, CBE, MA, Adrianne Tooke, MA, (BA (PhD Harvard), Hon DCL, Ann Rosamund Oakley, Baroness Shriti Vadera, London, PhD Cantab) FBA, Hon FRS, Pour le MA, (PhD London, Hon DLitt BA Mérite Salford), AcSS Angela Vincent, MA, MB, Elizabeth Mary Keegan, BS, (MSc London), FRS, Kay Elizabeth Davies, Theresa Joyce Stewart DBE, MA FMedSci DBE, CBE, MA, DPhil, FRS (Mrs), MA Carole Hillenbrand, OBE, Baroness Jay of Baroness Lucy Neville- BA, (BA Cantab, PhD Paddington, PC, BA Rolfe, DBE, CMG, MA Edinburgh), FBA, FRSE, Foundation FRAS, FRHistS Fellows Irangani Manel Judith Ann Kathleen Abeysekera (Mrs), MA Howard, CBE, DPhil, (BSc Angela McLean, BA, (MA Lady Elliott (Margaret Bristol), FRS Berkeley, PhD Lond), FRS Whale, 1945), MBE, MA Paula Pimlott Brownlee, MA, DPhil Victoria Glendinning, Michele Moody-Adams, Sir Geoffrey Leigh CBE, MA BA, (BA Wellesley, PhD Julia Stretton Higgins, Harvard) DBE, CBE, MA, DPhil, Hon Mr Gavin Ralston, MA Jennifer Jenkins, DBE, DSc, FRS, CChem, FRSC, Hon FRIBA, Hon FRICS, Judith Parker, DBE, QC, CEng, FIM Hon MRTPI, MA MA

Honorary Fellows Catherine Eva Hughes Nicola Ralston (Mrs), BA Esther Rantzen, CBE, MA, (Mrs), CMG, MA (D. 10 DBE Dec. 2014) Baroness Williams of Antonia Byatt, DBE, CBE, Crosby, PC, MA FRSL, BA Ruth Thompson, MA, DPhil Doreen Elizabeth Boyce, MA, (PhD Pittsburgh) Anne Marion Warburton, Anna Laura Momigliano Caroline Barron, MA, (PhD DCVO, CMG, MA Lepschy, MA, BLitt London), FRHistS Ruth Hilary Finnegan, OBE, MA, BLitt, DPhil, FBA Kiri Jeanette Te Kanawa, Rosalind Mary Marsden, DBE, Hon DMus DCMG, MA, DPhil Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Lecturers, Staff | 9

Fiona Caldicott, DBE, BM, Xon De Ros, DPhil, (Fellow Staff IT: Chris Bamber, Abdur BCh, MA, MD (Hon), DSc of LMH), Spanish Razzak, Jason Turner (Hon), FRCPsych, FRCP, Academic Office: Jo FRCPI, FRCGP, FMedSci Andrew Elliott, MPhil, (BA Ockwell, Saphire Library: Sue Purver, Cantab), Economics Richards, Victoria Matthew Roper Emma Rothschild, CMG, Wilson, Alison Davies, MA Kerrie Ford, MA PhD Eileen Gartside, Barbara Maintenance: Kevin (Cantab), Medicine Raleigh, Foteini Dimirouli McEneaney, Steve Venkatraman Johnson Ramakrishnan, Kt, (BSc Christian Hill, (PhD Dean’s Office: Simone Baroda, PhD Ohio), Nobel Cantab), Chemistry Finkmann, Phd, Assistant Nursery: Jane Long, Laureate, FRS (President- Dean, Sameer Sengupta, Stacey Long elect, 2015) Sebastian Langdell, DPhil DPhil, Junior Dean, Hazel Oxf, English Tubman, MPhil, Junior Porter's Lodge: Mark Tessa Ross, CBE, BA Dean Ealey, David Atkins, Alistair Matthews, Julian Smith, Francis Joanna Haigh, CBE, MA, MA, MSt, DPhil, Modern Conferences, Catering & Choo Yin, John Forrester, DPhil, FRS Languages Events, Kitchen: Dave John Franklin, Robert Simpson, Paul Fraemohs, Lyford-Smith, Daniel Akua Kuenyehia, BCL, Quentin Miller, DPhil, Richard Vowell, Agata Kurowski, Ade Okubanjo, (LLB University of Ghana) (BMath Waterloo, Canada) , Biel, Lloyd Cassidy, Aga Rzad, Danny Stocks, Computer Science Trevor Forbes, Sandy Richard Twine, Graeme Baroness Wolf of Jin, Jodie Herron, Ann Walker Dulwich, CBE, BA MPhil Dianne Newbury, DPhil, Miller, Aiden Williams, (from June 2015) (BSc Nottingham), Medicine Madeleine Woolgar Principal’s Office:Tamara Parsons-Baker Sian Piret, MBioChem, Domestic & Housekeeping: DPhil, Medicine Teresa Walsh, Oluswen Treasury & Finance: Stipendiary Alabi, Michaela Blake- Elaine Boorman Cox, Sandra Levaginiene, Lecturers Benjamin Skipp, MA, MSt, (College Accountant), Jolanta Stadaliene DPhil, Music Paul Francis, Salome Hughes, Andy Warren, Nicola Byrom, (BSc Nott, Development: Brett de Ian Wooldridge, Michael DPhil Oxf) Psychology Graeme Smith, MPhys, Gaynesford (Deputy Wooloff DPhil, Physics Development Director), Annelies Cazemier, Rebecca Edwards, Clare (MA (Vrije Universiteit Katharine Sykes, MA, Finch, Jessica Mannix, Amsterdam), MSt, DPhil) DPhil, History Heather Weightman Chapel Director Ancient History (From January 2015) Zachary Vermeer, BA Alumni Relations: Brian McMahon, MA MSt, Sydney, BCL MSt Oxf, Law Liz Cooke, MA; MA Essex Sarah Cooper, (BA, MSci, Lisa Gygax, MA PhD Cantab) Biochemistry Timothy Walker, MA, Plant Sciences Estates: Robert Vilma de Gasperin, (Laurea Washington, David Director of Chapel Padua, DPhil Oxf), Modern Townsend Languages Music Human Resources: Lorna David Crown, (MA Cantab) White, Wendy Dawson 10 | Principal’s Report

Principal’s Report

Each year at Somerville brings new successes, and as I reflect on the academic year 2014-15, the overwhelming impression is one of further progress. In terms of Somerville’s public profile and particularly the esteem that is signified by fund-raising success, there has been a gratifying surge, as Sara Kalim’s report describes. Our strategic review, to which I referred in last year’s report, affirmed a steady consolidation of existing programmes; and it is good to see that our current projects are attracting increasing attention and support. These include the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development, with its growing number of postgraduate Indira Gandhi Scholars joining us from Indian universities, and the Margaret Thatcher Scholarship Trust, whose growth accounts for a large part of the past year’s fund-raising success.

Much of our administrative effort goes on support for students, not only financially through bursaries and scholarships but in enhanced facilities. The Treasurer has made exciting plans for new accommodation to be built in partnership with a local property developer: and we expect to offer about 140 new student rooms by the autumn of 2020. The first thirty or so will be available next year. By the time this Portrait of Dr Alice Prochaska painted by Richard Twose building project is complete, there will be rooms for all undergraduates throughout their course, whereas at present more than fifty students in their second year live out of college; and we will also be able to offer accommodation to all first-year graduate students. With 75% of our postgraduates coming from overseas (considerably more than the Oxford average), this is an important benefit.

The financial environment for UK students is increasingly uncertain, especially since the government announced its intention to replace maintenance grants with loans, and the University of Oxford as a whole is acutely conscious of the ever- growing need to provide assistance. Somerville is already among the leading colleges in terms of the amount of finance it provides for its students. We Principal’s Report | 11

will be in a position this year to start making awards alongside one of mutual support and encouragement to Somerville students for special projects under the will always be a difficult balance. This year, among other Margaret Thatcher Scholarship programme; and we challenges, there was a perceptible rise in cases of hope to announce our first full scholarships under the bullying and harassment among students. scheme for students entering the college in 2016. We welcomed several new Fellows during the The profile of Somerville’s student body changed year: Guido Ascari (Economics) and Dan Ciubotaru slightly in 2014-15. Graduate numbers continue to (Mathematics), and Simon Kemp moved from nudge upwards, an increase welcomed by the Middle his position as Domus Fellow to the substantive Common Room, who have added new activities and appointment of Fellow and Tutor in French, in a joint new elective offices to reflect a stronger sense of appointment with the Modern Languages Faculty. New community. We now accept students in both the MBA Senior Research Fellows included Professor Colin Espie degree and the new Masters in Public Policy (MPP) (Medicine), Professor Sir Marc Feldmann (Medicine) and which is taught by the Blavatnik School of Government. Professor Philip Poole (Plant Sciences). The University’s By the time the new term begins in October, the MPP annual Recognition of Distinction exercise awarded students will be conveniently based in the School’s the full title of Professor to Daniel Anthony (Medicine), magnificent new circular building, which towers over Michael Hayward (Chemistry) and Matthew Higgins our skyline on the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter. (Biochemistry). Undergraduate numbers declined unexpectedly owing to a nation-wide dip of about 5% in the numbers of Somerville Fellows continued to bring in prizes and students gaining top A-level grades. This worked its research awards (listed in detail elsewhere in this report) way through to Somerville, but happily that decline has at University and international levels. To mention only not continued, and the intake of first-year students a few: Professors Marian Dawkins and Raj Thakker in 2015-16 will be closer to the norm of just over both became Fellows of the Royal Society. Professor 120. Both undergraduate and postgraduate students Mason Porter was awarded the prestigious international distinguished themselves with some stellar academic Erdos-Renyi Prize and the Whitehead Prize of the results, reflected in the awards of University prizes and London Mathematical Society. Professors Jonathan the college Principal’s Prizes, and Mary Somerville and Marchini and Renier van der Hoorn both won major Archibald Jackson Prizes. Top-scoring Somervillians research grants funded by the European Research appeared this year in the class lists for Biochemistry, Council, and Professor Steve Simon received the Royal Chemistry, Engineering, Experimental Psychology, Society’s Wolfson Research Merit Award with five years History, Law and Mathematics; with some solid of research funding. Professor Simon also received successes in most other subjects. Notably among his second university teaching award. Professor Steve graduate degrees, the two top marks in the highly Roberts’s Centre for Doctoral Training won funding, and competitive Masters in Jurisprudence were awarded to Professor Alex Rogers won the accolade of a university Somervillians Talita de Souza Dias and Tobias Lutzi. Impact Award, and also represented Oxford at the World Economic Forum in Davos. A significant loss In last year’s report I reflected on the excellent ratings from the ranks of distinguished Somervillians was the that Somerville students consistently give to their death of Professor Anna Morpurgo Davies DBE FBA, tutors, in contrast to the relatively low place we gain in commemorated in Chapel in a moving secular funeral in the somewhat crudely constructed Norrington league September 2014, and later in a memorial service. table. The college has put in place tighter procedures to ensure that underperformance is caught at an early Among Junior Research Fellows, Siddharth Arora (Indira stage, and in both 2014 and 2015, our overall results Gandhi JRF) won the position of Parkinson’s UK Early have climbed. At the same time our top priority remains Career Fellow, Maan Barua (Indira Gandhi JRF) was to help all our students to do the fullest possible justice awarded a British Academy Early Career Fellowship, to themselves. Maintaining a culture of excellence and Edward Grefenstette (Fulford JRF) sold his spin-out 12 | Principal’s Report

company Deep Blue to Google, who now employ him Bank. With sorrow we also record the deaths of two and his business partner in developing their Deep Mind Honorary Fellows, the former Principal Catherine subsidiary. Classics lecturer and Assistant Dean Simone Hughes and Dame Anne Warburton. Finkmann (who is about to leave us for a prestigious research post in Germany) won an award for her support Notable staff changes included the arrival of Foteini work from OUSU (the student union) and in the same Dimirouli, Barbara Raleigh and Victoria Wilson in event Vilma de Gasperin, lecturer in Italian, was voted the Academic Office, and Lisa Gygax and Heather best tutor in Humanities. Psychology lecturer Nicola Weightman in Development, respectively supporting Byrom won a Queen’s Young Leader Award for founding alumni relations and the annual fund. Steve Johnson the nation-wide charity Student Minds, which deals with was promoted to Maintenance Manager following the student mental health. Warmest congratulations are due departure of Kevin McEneany in December. (Very sadly, to all of them. Kevin died in July.) Alex Monro left in August after two years as the college’s first full-time communications It is gratifying to see our illustrious group of Honorary officer; his final task was to put in place the much Fellows becoming increasingly engaged with the needed new web site. David Crown, Director of Chapel college in various ways. Professor Sir Venkatraman Music, is leaving after nine years during which he raised Ramakrishnan is about to take office as President of the quality and the public profile of the Somerville Choir the Royal Society. A Nobel prize-winner himself, he significantly, and treated the college to many splendid delivered the keynote address at our symposium for concerts and recitals. the fiftieth anniversary of Dorothy Hodgkin’s Nobel Prize. Hilary Spurling gave a second special lecture on The Library, Archives and IT Services produced Matisse on our behalf at Christie’s, this time a spell- several exhibitions for special occasions. The World binding talk on the paper cut-out works of his later War I Road Show, held in Flora Anderson Hall and the years; and she and the Royal Society of Literature gave Brittain-Williams Room in November, included exhibits us a lovely portrait of her which now hangs in the Old from the college archives and further afield, a digital Somervillians room in the Library. Dame Tamsyn Imison scanning facility for people’s mementoes, and interviews came to speak in the “Principal Presents” series about recording family memories of the war. We opened it “Leading and Learning”, Judge Akua Kuenyehia spoke up to the local community and it was crowded out. in the same series about the International Criminal On the same day, the production team for the feature Court, Tessa Ross joined Alison Skilbeck (1964) for a film Testament of Youth (based on Vera Brittain’s session, talking about careers in drama and the media, classic memoir) joined Baroness Shirley Williams and and Shirley Williams’s most recent contribution is her mother’s biographer Mark Bostridge for a highly mentioned below. A gathering of Honorary Fellows and successful Literary Lunch attended by several hundred some of their husbands joined us in March for a seminar alumni. The Development Office meanwhile participated discussion about Somervillian careers, and then for the in all of these and many other special events, which Foundation Dinner in Hilary Term, where they met scores Sara Kalim mentions below. of students over drinks and then dinner; we hope to Somerville, in short, has had an eventful year. We will repeat that event once every two years. Meanwhile it is continue and enhance our vigilance for student welfare. a pleasure to congratulate some Honorary Fellows on We will continue our efforts to support and celebrate the recent distinctions: Lucy Neville Rolfe, who was made a achievements of students and academic staff. And we Baroness in 2013, is now Parliamentary Under Secretary continue to seek a high profile for everything that makes in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Somerville special. Professor Alison Wolf is now a Baroness; and Baroness Onora O’Neill was awarded Germany’s highest honour ALICE PROCHASKA “Pour le Merite”, which sits alongside the CH in the long August 2015 list of distinguished initials after her name. Baroness Shriti Vadera is the new Chief Executive of Santander Development and Alumni Relations | 13

Development and Alumni Relations Sara Kalim (Classics, 1990)

Securing support for the world-class education that Somerville provides our students, as well as for the generation of students to come after them, remains our highest priority. The current financial pressures on young people entering higher education are well documented in the media. Our wish is that no student with the academic ability to study at Somerville should be unable to take up a place due to financial pressures.

Somerville was founded to ‘include the excluded’ and was built on the visionary philanthropy of our founders. Today, the College retains both its pioneering ethos and its emphasis on providing support to guarantee places for outstanding students regardless of financial means. The Somervillian community of alumni and friends never lets us down in achieving these goals. We are enormously grateful to each and every alumna and alumnus who provides financial support for the bursaries and scholarships, internships, travel grants and top-quality teaching which allow our students to flourish. Significant numbers of you (more than one in five) have supported us this year and we cannot offer enough appreciation for this continued commitment to your College.

It is hugely gratifying to report on another strong fundraising year for the College. In the financial year 2014-15 a record £5.4 million has been raised. You have helped us achieve so many milestones: a record- breaking total of £312,000 raised in the Telethon with Our Annual Fund, which meets core financial needs – over half of those contacted during the campaign from the provision of new mattresses to the repair of choosing to make a gift to the Annual Fund; or group leaky boilers as well as urgent hardship funds – has crowdfunding for student-led initiatives such as buying flourished this year thanks to you. This year we have a brand new boat for our excellent women rowers. raised over £519,000 and more of you have become Early gifts have started to arrive for the Dorothy regular givers. Alumni support for the Annual Fund Hodgkin Career Development Fellowship, which is is an invaluable help to those making financial plans designed not only to commemorate our Nobel Prize for the College. Over the last two years, a group of winning scientist but also to play our part in enabling alumni have pioneered a Matched Funding Scheme early career women, so often lost to the ‘leaky pipeline’, to incentivise new, regular gifts over the course of the to prosper and flourish in the pursuit of scientific Telethon, which has proved highly successful. research. 14 | Development and Alumni Relations

Another initiative aims to support brilliant law Our professional network committees continue to postgraduates from India and commemorates (yet support our efforts to engage with a spectrum of another) illustrious Somervillian, Cornelia Sorabji. It is alumni. With the help of some notable alumni who work in the early stages of fundraising and we welcome all in public service, we hope to launch a Civil Service offers of advice and support for securing the Cornelia Network later this year. The committees bring together Sorabji Graduate Law Scholarship. This is just one Somervillians in teaching, in medicine, in finance, law part of our India-focused work, which finds its fullest and media – plus we have a very popular London expression in the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Group. They not only provide brilliant speaker events at Development, which was established at Somerville unique venues but allow current students and recent two years ago thanks to a funding agreement with the graduates to benefit from careers advice and wisdom Government of India. from those who have come before them – a truly virtuous circle. In the final month of the academic year we were delighted to launch the College’s first Legacy Society: In addition to our programme of regular events there Somerville Will Power. The College has benefited have been several significant memorials as well as our enormously from the generous legacies left by Commemoration Service, always hugely appreciated Somervillians and it was important to us to formally by Somervillians’ families and friends. show our gratitude for those who have told us about their bequests. These are often the most significant We are extremely fortunate to have such a committed, gift an individual can make, and over the years have loyal and dynamic community of alumni and friends proven transformational to Somerville. The inaugural whose generosity helps us to secure Somerville’s Somerville Will Power Legacy Lunch was celebrated in future. Members of our Development Board lend their July with wonderful musical entertainment provided by tremendous energy, strategic advice and hospitality to our Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History, Dr Benjamin help us constantly to raise our game. Thank you for Thompson, who sang an intensely moving rendition of continuing to make such life-changing contributions Schumann’s Dichterliebe. to our students, since these contributions have been crucial to enabling them to go out into the world and Fundraising aside, our engagement with alumni has make their mark. been particularly energetic this year through our Alumni Relations team, headed by Liz Cooke and Lisa Gygax. As one ‘vintage’ US-based alumna recently wrote to It has delivered a broad programme of events, covering us, ‘At this point in my life I seem to get increasing subjects which ranged from cybercrime to prisoner pleasure from my association with the College … and rehabilitation. Registrations (including those for the the difference it is making in the world’. Gaudy, reunions, and Dorothy Hodgkin Symposium) reached in excess of 2,000, a College record. Our event in September 2014 celebrating 20 years of We are actively seeking support from alumni co-education proved a huge draw for our younger for the development projects mentioned and alumni. Another highlight was the Shirley Williams for ongoing support of Somerville’s students Literary Lunch which featured clips from the recent film and teaching and heritage. If you would adaptation of Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth and like to discuss ways in which you might interviews with the film producers. It was held the same contribute, we would be delighted to hear weekend as our very well-attended World War One from you: Email: [email protected] Roadshow. Sara Kalim, Director of Development and tel. 01865 280596 Fellows' and Lecturers' Activities | 15

Fellows’ and Lecturers’ Activities

Biological Sciences art taught entirely with artefacts in Oxford and London museums. Alex Rogers has focused on understanding the implications of the concept of blue growth for the ocean and the impacts of climate change on marine Economics ecosystems. Alex has led a European Marine Board This year Donna Harris continued her research in report on managing industrial activities in the deep sea. Behavioural Economics, investigating the impacts of He spoke at The Economist’s World Ocean Summit in social interactions on individuals’ economic decisions. Lisbon and he is in the closing stages of co-ordinating She is currently writing two related papers which are a major report on the topic which will be published in preparation for publication. The first examines the in September. Alex also worked with colleagues on a extent to which face-to-face communication changes report on the implications of different CO emissions 2 individual preferences using economic experiments and pathways on the oceans and the ecosystem services a non-stochastic model of revealed preferences before they provide. This culminated in a paper in Science in and after interactions. The second paper uses functional June which demonstrated the serious consequences magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study brain of high-emissions ‘business as usual’ pathways for activities when people make decisions alone compared many ocean ecosystems which are relied on for food to when they are in a group and able to observe others’ and coastal protection. Alex’s team won a Royal decisions. The results shed a light on the importance Geographic Society award for an expedition to explore of the effects of social environments on individuals’ the mesophotic coral ecosystems of Honduras. Alex decisions. She was invited to give a talk based on the successfully co-bid for an Oxford Martin School project first paper at the University of Chicago in May 2015. on ocean management worth £1.5 million.

Classics Engineering Stephen Roberts continues with his research into data Luke Pitcher has been working primarily on the Greek analytics with application in physical and life sciences historians this year. He has published an article on how as well as finance and economics. In a joint project with the second century CE writer Appian of Alexandria Kew Gardens he was a winner at the Google Impact described the career of the Seleucid monarch Challenge awards and has recently taken on a role on Antiochus III, who ruled in Syria at the end of the third the Science Programme Committee of the new national century BCE. He has also re-edited with a commentary Alan Turing Institute. Stephen continues to be Director of the fragments of Artemon of Pergamum, a Hellenistic a Centre for Doctoral Training and was recently elected writer who is mentioned in the early commentaries on to Fellowship of the IET. Pindar as having been interested in the affairs of Sicily. Richard Stone continues with his research into Charlotte Potts has been busy travelling and teaching combustion with experiments ranging from burners this year. She gave talks in Cardiff and Athens about to engines. A BP funded project has started on auto- her forthcoming monograph on Etrusco-Italic temples, ignition, and important foundations for this were laid and in Wassenaar spoke about her new article on by Will Travis in his final year project – Will was one of Vitruvius and Etruscan design. She has also recently the four Somerville engineers who graduated with a been given a Teaching Excellence Award for developing First Class degree last summer. Blane Scott, another and teaching a new undergraduate paper on Etruscan Somerville engineer, has completed his final year project 16 | Fellows' and Lecturers' Activities

using the same engine as Will, but this time making In March, Philip West spoke on the subject ‘Editing measurements of the instantaneous heat flux and John Donne’s Sermons from Manuscript’ at a gathering relating them to the severity of the auto-ignition. Blane of international Donne scholars at the ‘Reconsidering is returning as a Research Student, but this time on Donne’ conference at Lincoln College, Oxford. An another project, funded by Jaguar Land Rover, using article based on his discovery of early manuscript our engine that has optical access into the combustion imitations of the Latin poetry of Henry Vaughan was chamber. published in Scintilla: The Journal of the Vaughan Association, and a chapter on Ben Jonson’s Epigrams and The Forest appeared in The Oxford Handbook English of Ben Jonson. He is currently working on ‘The Drama of James Shirley’s Poems’, a contribution to a Fiona Stafford had a Leverhulme Research Fellowship forthcoming collection of essays entitled James Shirley in 2013-2014, so she spent the summer working on and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical Perspectives her volume for The Oxford History of English Literature. (Ashgate). She also gave a guest lecture on Mary Wollstonecraft at the Georgian Festival in Beverley; lectures on Jane Austen at the Wordsworth Summer Conference Experimental Psychology and for the Jane Austen Society in York; the Annual Wordsworth Lecture in London; and a paper on Clare Charles Spence has recently published The Perfect at the ‘John Clare and Botany’ Symposium at the Meal on the new field of gastrophysics – the science Botanic Garden in Cambridge. She delivered a third of the diner. He has been conducting research with a series on ‘The Meaning of Trees’ for Radio 3’s The number of chefs around the world, and a number of Essay in May 2015. She also published an essay on his experiments are running currently at the Science ‘Wordsworth and the Poetry of Place’. In the current Museum in London. He has been working with chef academic year, Fiona has been heavily occupied Jozef Youssef on the Synaesthesia pop-up dining with being Vice-Principal of Somerville, Chair of the experience in Maida Vale. examination for the Masters programmes in English and convenor of the Faculty’s Romantic Research Seminar, though she has, as ever, enjoyed teaching French Somerville students. Simon Kemp, formerly the college’s Domus Fellow This year, Annie Sutherland’s book, English Psalms in French, began his new role this year as Associate in the Middle Ages, has been published by OUP. In Professor and post-holder in the Modern Languages addition, she has completed writing two articles, one faculty. His research continues to focus on literary on the Wycliffite Bible and one on prose translation representations of the mind, and activities include a of the Psalms in fourteenth-century London, for two joint presentation with the neuroscientist Larry Squire edited collections of essays to be published next year. on habituation, conditioning and other forms of She has also been enjoying a new challenge, doing unconscious memory in modern literature. As well as some preliminary work on her new project, which is being very much involved in Somerville’s own outreach an edition of a collection of early thirteenth-century activities, he has continued to represent the sub-faculty English prayers for solitary women, under contract with of French as Schools Liaison officer, talking to teachers Liverpool University Press. and school students in Oxford and around the country, and taking our new French outreach blog, Adventures on the Bookshelf (please Google it!), to over a million hits in under two years. Fellows' and Lecturers' Activities | 17

History Two books co-edited by Benjamin Thompson came out in the first half of 2015: Political Society in Later Joanna Innes is overseeing the final year of her three- Medieval England: a Festschrift for Christine Carpenter, year Leverhulme ‘international network’ on the theme with John Watts (Boydell: bit.ly/1Dt8XJ1), and of ‘Re-imagining Democracy in the Mediterranean Polemic: Language as Violence in Medieval and Early 1750-1860’, and has once again organised a series of Modern Discourse, with Almut Suerbaum and George workshops across southern Europe. A book of essays Southcombe (Ashgate: bit.ly/1BxW6NU), the second arising from the project is in progress. She has also Somerville medievalists’ interdisciplinary collaboration. continued her research on developments in social His own contributions to both of these explore the policy-making in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- complexities of the late medieval church’s relationships century Britain, and has done new work on education with English society and politics and the structures of and on the role of land surveyors as social observers. ideas and languages governing them. A further aspect She continues to serve as one of the History Delegates of that larger project, the fate of the ‘alien’ priories of the University Press. in England (those under French governance), has provided the subject for his sabbatical-year writing, Oren Margolis curated an exhibition marking the while the medievalists have moved on to Temporality 500th anniversary of the death of Renaissance printer for their next topic. Aldus Manutius (6 Febrary), which opened at the Bodleian Library in January 2015, received national and international press attention, and boasted three Law Somerville History undergraduates as curatorial assistants. He co-organised a symposium on Aldus, Julie Dickson has continued with her research in the and took part in conferences in Venice and Berlin, as philosophy of law and the philosophical foundations well. Alongside other publications, he completed his of European Union law. Two articles on these topics monograph The Politics of Culture in Quattrocento are being published in summer 2015, and work is also Europe: René of Anjou in Italy, which will appear this progressing well on her book, working title Elucidating coming year with Oxford University Press. He also Law: The Philosophy of Legal Philosophy, under received one of the University’s Awards for Excellence. contract with Oxford University Press. She continues to find Somerville a happy home for her academic career, Natalia Nowakowska is continuing to spend 50% and values teaching the College’s excellent students, of her time directing the European Research Council and working together with her colleagues in the (ERC)-funded project Jagiellonians: Dynasty, Memory interests of the College. From October 2015 she will, and Identity. The project – which takes a fresh look at together with Fellow in French Professor Simon Kemp, one of Renaissance Europe’s most successful royal take on the role of Equality and Diversity Champion at dynasties – employs a team of five post-doctoral Somerville. historians (www.jagiellonians.com). A launch event for the project, held in Somerville in autumn 2014, The year saw publication of Professor Stephen was attended by diplomatic representatives from six Weatherill’s Cases and Materials on EU Law in its countries. Natalia has given papers on the Jagiellonians eleventh edition (Oxford University Press). He wrote in Poland, Cambridge and at the Leeds International several papers, including ‘Why there is no “principle of Medieval Congress. She also spoke in Oxford and mutual recognition” in EU law (and why that matters Berlin on another strand of her research, the early to consumer lawyers)’, published in Purnhagen and Polish Reformation. In the Somerville medievalists’ Rott (eds), Varieties of European Economic Law and latest volume, Polemic, Natalia contributed an essay on Regulation, and ‘Viking and Laval: The EU Internal printed anti-Reformation polemic. Market Perspective’, in Freedland and Prassl (eds), EU Law in the Member States: Viking, Laval and Beyond. His teaching is both in the classroom and in the form 18 | Fellows' and Lecturers' Activities

of graduate supervision: he has students working in neuroinflammation in the outcome of SCI, mechanisms areas of EU law such as human rights, state aid, loyalty underlying neuronal integrity and the behaviour rebates, sub-national entities, and labour law. Spare associated with stress and depression. He has also time is spent wondering whether politicians will be able been awarded £180,000 in grant income for his work to out-do themselves in misrepresenting the nature of which currently supports two studentships. the EU and the ECHR. They always are. Medieval and Modern European Mathematics Languages Dan Ciubotaru’s research area is the representation Manuele Gragnolati was given the title of Professor theory of Lie groups. Lie groups, named after of Italian in October 2014. During the academic year the Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie, are 2014-15, he had the opportunity to present his latest mathematical objects underlying the symmetries book Amor che move. Linguaggio del corpo e forma inherent in a system, while their representations, del desiderio in Dante, Pasolini e Morante (Milan: il i.e., the ways in which the Lie groups can manifest Saggiatore, 2013) in several venues including Oxford, themselves, have had an important impact in theoretical London, Berlin, Paris, Pavia, Milan, and Chicago. He physics and number theory. One recent advance is an also gave several talks and lectures, two of which are extension of the Dirac operator theory to the setting of currently being turned into articles: one on Dante’s representations of p-adic semisimple Lie groups and Rime and one on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza related algebraic structures (affine Hecke algebras and in the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini. He organised an symplectic reflection algebras). The results have been international conference on ‘Abandon’ in Berlin and published in top mathematical journals (in 2015: Journal took part in the Somerville research group on ‘Medieval of the European Mathematical Society, Proceedings temporalities’. He is currently working on a project of the London Mathematical Society, Advances in on non-linear form of temporalities in medieval Italian Mathematics and Selecta Mathematica) and reported in poetry up to Petrarch. invited lectures at prestigious international conferences (MIT, Yale, Franken-Akademie). After three years as Vice-Principal, a term of research leave gave Almut Suerbaum the opportunity to Mason Porter continues to conduct research in finish a series of articles on medieval religious song. networks, complex systems, non-linear systems, and April saw the publication of the second Somerville related topics. During the last year, he published new medievalist volume, Polemic: Language as Violence in papers on topics such as topological data analysis of Medieval and Early Modern Discourse, in collaboration spreading processes on networks, migration in Korea, with Benjamin Thompson and George Southcombe. and extraction of force-chain network architecture in Work is already under way for the next project, granular materials. In 2015, he won an LMS Whitehead provisionally entitled ‘Temporality’. A first workshop in Prize and joined the editorial board of SIAM Review (the June allowed an exchange of ideas on concepts of top applied mathematics journal in the world). being in or out of time – because it became apparent that the predominant pattern of thought in medieval Medicine writing on history, religion and literature is not linear and binary, but shows evidence of interest in disrupted Daniel Anthony has enjoyed a successful year time. In August, colleagues from Tübingen with continuing with research into the mechanisms whom she has collaborated on concepts of religious underlying neuroinflammation. He has published 23 knowledge in the medieval and early modern period papers between 2014 and 2015, and given seven will be in Somerville for a conference on ‘Religöses keynote papers at international conferences. He Wissen: Verschränkungen – Grenzen – Produktive has approached topics as diverse as the impact of Konkurrenzen’. Fellows' and Lecturers' Activities | 19

Philosophy Statistics

October 2014 saw the start of Hilary Greaves’ Marco Scutari joined Somerville last academic year three-year project ‘Population Ethics: Theory and as a Tutorial Fellow in Statistics and Probability, and Practice’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. This project as a Departmental Lecturer at the Department of investigates ethical questions in the variable-population Statistics. He divides his time between investigating context, both at the level of abstract moral theory how to improve selection techniques to improve yield and in relation to real-world ethical controversies. In and disease resistance in plants based on genetic November 2014, the project organised a ‘networkshop’ information, studying the theoretical properties of bringing together top representatives of law, climate network models, and writing scientific software for science, economics and population-reduction companies and scientists to use. He has recently campaigning organisations in an attempt to advance started to study applications of network models to interdisciplinary dialogue on these issues. Dr Greaves high-dimensional human genetics data, building on his has recently been awarded a British Academy Rising experience in applied statistics and plant genetics. Star Engagement Award, which will fund two further workshops over the next 12 months. She spent July Jonathan Marchini has started his ERC Consolidator and August 2015 as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Award and has employed two post-doctoral National University. researchers who are developing statistical methods for uncovering structure in high-dimensional datasets in human genetics and neuroscience. His group Plant Sciences have played a major role in two studies that will soon appear in the journal Nature, on analysis and Renier van der Hoorn investigates the manipulation statistical methods development for the final phase of plants by pathogens, with a focus on plants from the of the 1000 Genomes project, and the discovery of nightshade family (tomato, potato and tobacco). His lab the first genetic variants influencing risk for major has pioneered chemical proteomic tools using custom- depression. Prof. Marchini co-leads the Haplotype made synthetic small molecule probes to study these Reference Consortium, and has recently completed plant-pathogen interactions. His research program is the construction of a haplotype reference panel of over supported by an ERC Consolidator Grant and also 32,000 human genomes. This will constitute a major aims at increasing recombinant protein production in resource for researchers working to uncover novel risk plants by controlling the activities of secreted plant genes for human diseases. proteases. This would lead to increased production of antibodies e.g. for the Ebola medicine ZMapp and for influenza vaccines. His research team has a dynamic, international and interdisciplinary character, partly because the lab often hosts visiting scientists who come to apply chemical proteomic technologies that the lab has developed. Renier has organised a conference on Chemical Proteomics in April 2015 at Somerville College, and is organising another conference on Plant Proteases in April 2016. 20 | Report on Junior Research Fellowships

Report on Junior Research Fellowships The work of Junior Research Fellows makes a significant contribution to the achievements of the university and the College is very pleased to offer mentoring and a good academic environment to enable our JRFs to flourish. What follows is an overview of their recent research.

Matthew Apps studies the mechanisms in the brain iconoclasm. Lucy is currently revising her book, Faces responsible for learning and decision making. Matthew of Empire, for publication by Oxford University Press. uses brain imaging and brain stimulation in conjunction Matthew Benton is a philosopher working on the with computer models to investigate how statistical Templeton Foundation-funded project ‘New Insights information about costs and benefits is processed in and Directions for Religious Epistemology’ with which the brain. Matthew has recently been awarded a Future Somerville has links. Matthew’s interests focus on Leader Fellowship Grant by the Biotechnology and how we understand knowledge and put it to use in Biological Sciences Research Council and has given our language and in communication, in the labelling invited talks at UCL, Ghent and Roehampton. of experts, what we should say about knowledge and Siddharth Arora is developing algorithms to allow what to believe in cases of widespread disagreement, Parkinson’s Disease to be diagnosed and monitored how we ought to think about the relationship between remotely from a clinical setting by use of a smartphone knowledge and various emotions (such as hope, or app. The phone can collect data for voice, reaction fear, or optimism), and whether knowing persons times, tremor, gait and postural sway from the subject (as subjects) is a kind of knowledge distinct from and the algorithm can use these inputs to determine knowledge of facts. Matthew will shortly leave Oxford the presence and severity of the disease, allowing a to take up a post as Research Associate at the remote clinician to recommend appropriate treatment University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA. options. Siddharth’s work has not only generated Jane Dyson is an ethnographer, examining the politics academic publications but has also generated stories of educated unemployed youth in India. Much of Jane’s on the BBC and Sky News websites. Siddharth fieldwork has taken place in a village in the state of also uses his mathematical skills to model arrivals, Uttarakhand in the Indian Himalayas. Jane’s recent admissions and discharges across hospitals in the book, Working Childhoods: Youth, Agency and the West Midlands. The work is used to guide capacity Environment in India, was well received. The related planning for the area. short film, Lifelines, has been shown in film festivals in Lucy Audley-Miller returned to research part-time New Zealand, Pakistan, Slovenia, the USA, Canada, following maternity leave occasioned by the birth Nepal and the UK. Jane will shortly leave Oxford to of Alfie. Lucy is the Woolley Junior Research Fellow take up a permanent lectureship at the University of in Classical Archaeology and has been working on Melbourne. excavations at Miletus in Turkey, acting as the site Vanessa Ferreira uses magnetic resonance imaging expert on ancient sculpture. A forthcoming article (MRI) to study heart disease. Vanessa is based in the will describe the discovery of a group of images Radcliffe Department of Medicine but collaborates deliberately defaced and then buried. The discovery with colleagues in Physics and Engineering. The promises to throw new light onto facets of ancient particular imaging technique, called T1 mapping, offers Report on Junior Research Fellowships | 21

the prospect of improved and earlier diagnosis of Stefanie Thiem studies the magnetic properties of heart disease. Vanessa has recently won £238,000 in quasicrystals, which are solids whose constituent research funding from the British Heart Foundation to molecules are arranged into ordered structures, allow her to take on a research assistant. but without translational symmetry. In other words, they do not repeat individual lattice components as Erik Marklund works in the Chemistry Department, happens in a normal crystalline structure – the 3-D writing and applying novel computer software equivalent of penrose tiling. Stefanie uses numerical to enhance the effectiveness with which mass simulations to model the magnetic interactions spectrometry can be used to study proteins. Accurate mediated by conduction electrons and to study the modelling of ion mobility and interaction cross sections low temperature behaviour of rare earth quasicrystals. allows the mass spectrometry data to be interpreted to A better understanding of the underlying principles of reveal not only the composition but also the structure of the experimentally observed magnetic properties is an proteins. Improved computer algorithms (Erik’s IMPACT important step for the construction of novel tailor- code is a million times faster than previous techniques) made materials. allow investigations to go further and cover more ground. Erik’s work constitutes a step change in this Giorgio Valmorbida studies fluid flow with a view important field. to designing Engineering solutions that will reduce drag forces and therefore increase energy efficiency Heidi Olzscha investigates the role and behaviour of in fluid flow systems. Giorgio’s research focuses on enzymes, known as HDACs, which form part of the optimising solutions to the fluid flow equations using protein production quality control system in human novel computing solutions. The code that Giorgio has cell lines. Elucidating the mechanisms by which these produced has been incorporated into Matlab toolbox molecules affect protein production and destruction and allows Engineers across the world to use his has potential benefits in finding new cancer therapies. techniques to improve their designs. The challenge Gokse Pulcu works in the Chemistry Department but ahead is to generate code that can deal with ever more her work, developing techniques to generate molecular complex systems and produce solutions in a practical machines, would generally be referred to as Biophysics. amount of time. The aim is to develop molecules which can impart Bonnie van Wilgenburg studies the properties of T motion without human intervention to carry cargo – cells in the human body. It is well known that T cells bricks of the nanoworld – to a target destination. The play an important role in the body’s defences against potential for what can be achieved by harnessing the bacteria but until recently, no anti-viral role had been molecular world to work together in a coherent fashion reported. Bonnie’s work has recently shown that T cells is almost limitless. Gokse has been invited to give do respond to certain viruses, including the Hepatitis C talks in Boston, San Francisco and Heidelberg in the virus. In addition to her research, Bonnie is enthusiastic last year. about public outreach and teaches on the Science James Sleigh is interested in understanding the and Public Policy course at the Blavatnik School of reason why peripheral nerves degenerate in a number Government. As if that weren’t enough, Bonnie was of different neuromuscular conditions. These diseases selected to represent the UK in the Trail Running World are often caused by mutations in genes that produce Championship in Annecy, France. proteins that are important throughout the body, yet Joaquim Vieira works in the department of Physiology, very specific detrimental effects on the motor and Anatomy and Genetics, studying the ways in which sensory nerves are observed. James and his team are genes are activated or deactivated (epigenetics) in the studying the disease mechanism on a molecular level in development of the outer heart wall, the epicardium. the expectation that a better understanding of how the These mechanisms are potentially important in relation disease occurs will open up new therapeutic options. to diseases affecting the epicardium. The ultimate 22 | Report on Junior Research Fellowships, JCR Report, MCR Report

aim is to use an enhanced understanding of how the Nahid Zokaei studies working memory using a heart develops in the embryo to learn how new heart range of techniques. Measuring working memory and cells can be generated in adults who lose hearts cells discovering the factors that affect how well we retain (currently unreplaceable short of transplant) due to information in this part of our brain’s storage system heart disease. Joaquim’s work has been published has potential impact and benefit on our understanding in the high profile journal Nature and has attracted not only of how healthy brains work but in particular on press coverage from ITN and the Oxford Mail, along key neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s with a youtube video produced by the British Heart Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease. Nahid was awarded Foundation. a prestigious British Academy Fellowship in 2015, which will fund her work for the next three years.

JCR Report

Somerville students have flourished in the past year in secured for posterity by a student-led crowdfunding more ways than there is space here to mention. It was campaign, student societies like the Pool team and good to see our teams excelling across the field (and Dance Society grew in size over the course of the in the water) – the second women’s boat won blades year, and Arts Week and EqualiWeek were both a at Torpids, the second men’s football team won their great success. Louis Mercier has been elected the league and were duly promoted, and the men’s rugby new JCR President, and Stuart Webber was elected team was promoted to the top flight for the first time. Union President, the first Somervillian to hold the post Perhaps best of all, Somerville’s men’s cricket team for many years. won the Cricket Cuppers! Molly’s Library in Ghana was NASIM ASL (English, 2013)

MCR Report

This academic year began with a big fat Greek of Eights. The MCR also supplied a coach, who was wedding, when two MCR members tied the knot in key to these successes. As the MCR continued to Euboea. But our MCR did not only win at love, we also grow in both size and diversity, our greatest successes excelled academically – with many distinctions and cannot be measured or awarded prizes. They include scholarships attained – and on the playing fields and the knowledgeable, passionate and compassionate rivers. The Somerville MCR had a great year in rowing, discussions we had in the MCR and college bar, contributing to both the men’s and women’s side of and the new friendships that promise to last through Somerville College Boat Club. Highlights included sickness and health. female MCR rowers winning blades with WII in Torpids, NELE POLLATSCHEK (English, 2012), MCR President and with WI, and bumping back into the First Division Library Report | 23

Library Report 2015

As a Librarian, I often get asked if anyone still uses printed books. So it was a relief this year to see the results of our user survey showing that students do still use books and libraries (80% of respondents work in the library every week and 91% borrow books from us). 195 students completed the survey (35% response rate) and the large number of comments received about what they did and didn’t like will enable us to plan our work and expenditure over the coming years. The survey findings are reinforced by our own hourly headcounts which show an 18% increase in numbers using the library over the past three years. We have continued to purchase books for the library in all subjects and have been fortunate to receive gifts of two major collections: one from William and Deborah Thomas (on John Stuart Mill and his circle) and the other from the bequest of a Somervillian, Enid Stoye. Monetary gifts have been received from Margaret Lee, Antonia Gransden, Valerie Mendes, Barbara Harvey, Shriman Sai Raman and the Sussex Egyptology Society, for which we are very grateful indeed and which have enabled us not only to buy some interesting books but also to frame another of Amelia Edwards’ watercolours and to provide protective presentation boxes for some items from WW1, as reported in this year’s Somerville of the library treasures. From 1 August 2014 to 31 July Magazine. Dorothy Hodgkin, Mary Somerville and Vera 2015, 1974 books have been accessioned (of which Brittain provided the inspiration for some of the other 497 are gifts) and 99 DVDs (61 gifts). As ever we have exhibitions held during the year. been delighted to receive book donations from a large Finally, mention must be made of our fundraising number of people during the year and they are listed campaign to help preserve the library’s John Stuart below – many thanks to all of them. Mill Collection. With the organisational help of the In addition to our normal activities, we have held several Development Office and students Oliver Johnston- special events and exhibitions this year using material Watt and Shriman Sai Raman along with the financial from the archives and special collections. In August, backing of Christopher Kenyon, the crowd-funding for example, we held a round- table discussion on the campaign raised a total of £13,500 which will enable 20th anniversary of the College’s decision to Go Mixed us to make a start on preserving the books, many involving six current and Emeritus Fellows who had been of which are in a poor state of repair. We are also involved in the process in the early 90s. We filmed this planning a further phase of the campaign to enable the discussion for the archives. In November, we held the marginalia of Mill and his father James to be digitised. very popular Great War Roadshow where we asked Please contact the Librarian for further alumni, staff and the general public to bring in their information [email protected] 24 | Library Report

List of Library Donors 2014-15:

Alexandra Abrahams Alistair Fair (History, 2000)* Devaki Jain* Fiona Stafford* (PPE, 2013) Isabela Fairclough Virginia Kennerley (Kent, Enid Stoye (History, 1938) Pauline Adams & (Preoteasa, Comparative Classics, 1954)* Almut Suerbaum Robert Franklin Philology and Philip Kreager* Linguistics, 1992)* Annie Sutherland* Brigid Allen (History, 1963)* Meriel de Laszlo (Kitson, Ruth Finnegan Madhura Swaminathan Susan Allen (History, 1985)* Physiology, 1968)* (Classics, 1952)* (Economics, 1982)* Emilie Amt (History, 1984)* Margaret Lee (Cox, Jennifer FitzGerald* Anne Spokes Symonds* English, 1943) Sonia Anderson Melanie Florence (Modern Judith M. Taylor (Mundlak, (History, 1962)* Kate McLoughlin Languages, 1981)* Natural Sciences, 1952)* (English, 1988)* Angelika Arend (Manyoni, Hazel Fox (Stuart, Benjamin Thompson* Modern Languages, 1977)* Valerie Mendes* Law, 1946) Meg Twycross (Pattison, Irena Backus (Kostarska, Jacqueline Mitton (Pardoe, Judy Frankel (Noble, English, 1954)* English, 1968)* Physics, 1966)* English, 1958) Miranda Villiers (McKenna, Anthea Bell (English, 1954)* Piero Morpurgo Liam Garrison Classics, 1954)* The Ben Uri Gallery (Chemistry, 2012) Karen Nielsen* Rob Walters* Francesca Betkowska Malcolm Graham* Srishti Nirula (English, 2013) J.S. (Jacqueline) Watts (Modern Languages, 2011) Antonia Gransden (Morland, Jenna Orkin (Music, 1974)* (English, 1979)* Margaret Birley History, 1947)* The Public Catalogue Jennifer Welsh Mark Bostridge* Miriam Griffin Foundation* Ann Whitaker (PPE, 1946) Elio Brancaforte* Linda Hart (Herbst, 1969)* Dani Rabinowitz Jane Wickenden (Stemp, Rosie Carpenter (History and Barbara Harvey Susan Reigler English, 1980)* Modern Languages, 2011) (Biology, 1977)* Marion Hebblethwaite Jean Wilks (English, 1946) Allan Chapman* (Educational Studies, 1979)* Jane Robinson* Alexandra Worrell and Stuart Elaine Chow (Law, 2012) Judith Heyer (Cripps, Matthew Roper Webber (both English, 2013) PPE, 1956)* Jane Clarke (Morgan, Saint Cross College* Colin Wyman* Mathematics, 1973) Suzanne Higgs (PPP, 1989)* Charity Scott-Stokes Liz Cooke Carole Hillenbrand (Oriental (English, 1957)* Studies, 1968)* *Gift of donor’s Claudine Dauphin* Maxine Semmel Colette Hooper own publication Winifred Dawson* (History, 1999)* Steve Simon*

Sir Gerald and Lady Joanna Innes Emma Sky (Oriental Margaret Elliot (Whale, Studies, 1987)* Classics, 1945) President’s Report | 25

President’s Report

Shirley Williams and Mark Bostridge speaking with an attendee of the Great War Roadshow held by Somerville on November 15th 2014

Dr Alice Prochaska, the Principal, opened this year’s Somervillian, Dr Sarah Beaver. We look forward again Winter Meeting with a fascinating talk on Mary to Family Day in September and a literary lunch in Somerville, Scientist, Writer and a Woman of her Time. October with Simon Russell Beale in conversation with We saw a sequence from Mike Leigh’s film Mr Turner, Katherine Duncan-Jones. We will be inviting recent in which Mary explains the physics of light to her artist years’ leavers to drinks in the Oxford and Cambridge friend. Sara Kalim then conducted a lively interview with Club in November. Lesley Manville, who played Mary in the film. In all, a May and June also saw memorial services for most enjoyable and appropriate start to another busy Catherine Hughes, our former Principal, and Professor year of many highlights. Anna Morpurgo Davies. Family and friends joined us To mention only a few, in November 2014 we had for lunch and the annual Commemoration Service a wonderful afternoon watching clips from the new to celebrate the lives and achievements of those Testament of Youth film, with discussion from Shirley Somervillians who have died in the course of the year. Williams, Mark Bostridge and the film team. We Finally, we record with great pleasure the remarkable celebrated Miriam Griffin’s 80th birthday in May with Somervillians recognised with Honours this year: in the papers presented in her honour on a dazzling range New Year list, Dame Esther Rantzen, for her services of topics from the influence of St Augustine’s mother to charity, and Sonia Phippard CBE, Director of Water Monnica to Graeco-Jewish marriage contracts. In May and Flood Risk Management at DEFRA; in the Queen’s and June, Emma Sky and Lord Peter Hennessy spoke Birthday list an MBE for Elizabeth Chapman, who to the London Group, respectively on Iraq and the was Librarian of the Taylor and Professorial Fellow of condition of British politics in the light of the election. Somerville 1997-2003. In July the Lawyers and City Groups came together for dinner at All Souls, including a guided tour of the SUSAN SCHOLEFIELD wonderful Chichele Library by our host and fellow 26 | The Somerville Senior Members' Fund, 2014-2015, Horsman Awards

The Somerville Senior Members’ Fund, 2014-2015

This year the Somerville Senior Members’ Fund find themselves in need will not hesitate to call upon resumed its support for a Somervillian wishing to the Fund. continue graduate studies at Somerville. We are glad to hear from third parties who think help In addition, the Fund has been available to provide would be appreciated. And we are always grateful for small sums to help alumni with unforeseen expenses donations to the Fund. Applications for grants should be and hardship, and to subsidise the cost of individuals made to [email protected] or attending College events which would otherwise have [email protected] been unaffordable for them. We hope that people who

Somerville Gaudy 2014 Horsman Awards

The Alice Horsman Scholarship was established in 1953. Applications from Somerville students/alumni who have Alice Horsman (1908, Classics) was a great traveller who secured a place on the Teach First scheme will be wished to provide opportunities for former Somerville looked on favourably. students to experience other countries and peoples, For application forms please email whether through travel, research or further study. [email protected] or download The Alice Horsman Scholarship is open to final-year from http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/studying-here/ students and to all Somerville undergraduate and fees-funding/student-awards/ . Applications graduate alumni who are in need of financial support are now accepted at the start of each term. for a project, usually involving travel, research or further Applications for Michaelmas Term will close on study, that is intended to enhance career prospects. Wednesday 21st October 2015. Somerville's Great War | 27

Somerville’s Great War The Great War saw a College for women turn hospital for men. Convalescing soldiers, poets and writers all found a home at Somerville. The fortunes of female students were changed forever, writes Frank Prochaska.

In September 1914 Harold Macmillan, an undergraduate war service – military, medical, administrative or at Balliol College, took the widely held view that the war charity-based. Moreover, in April 1915 the War Office would be over by Christmas. “Our major anxiety was requisitioned Somerville as a military hospital. As the by hook or crook not to miss it.” He didn’t. Like large soldiers arrived, the students decamped to Oriel. The numbers of Oxford undergraduates he signed up in the Oxford Magazine noted that a former dean of Oriel early days of the war and, like thousands of others, he “must be turning in his grave” at the thought of females paid a heavy price for it. In his case he was wounded in the college. But Vera Brittain, a first-year Somerville three times, severely at the Battle of the Somme. He undergraduate reading English, remarked: “It is really spent the remainder of the war in a military hospital and splendid – much better as a Hospital than as a College.” never returned to Oxford to finish his degree. “I just could not face it. To me it was a city of ghosts.” ‘Oxford versus War’ and ‘Learning versus Life’, wrote Brittain of her college days in her memoir Testament of The war transformed Oxford and its university. Youth, an elegy for the lost generation of the First World Academic life largely ended in the men’s colleges, with a War. She had arrived in Somerville (the recipient of an consequent loss in fees and tuition. The local economy exhibition) in the autumn of 1914, a tumultuous world also suffered from the dramatic decline in the number far different from her tranquil childhood in Derbyshire, of students – nearly 15,000 college men served in the and, as she put it, “tried to forget the war”. Brittain joined forces and 2,716 of them died. "A different wartime the Oxford Society for Women’s Suffrage and became Oxford soon emerged,” Malcolm Graham, a historian friends with, among others, the novelist Dorothy L. of the city observes, “as college, university, and other Sayers. Despite labouring over her Greek verbs, she public buildings filled with billeted troops and wounded came to believe the war had made student life “more soldiers.” Convalescing servicemen could be seen in the elevated & less petty” and was positive about moving Exam Schools, the Town Hall and a tented hospital in to a men’s college and wrote of the “dusty old dons New College garden. The Radcliffe Infirmary joined the and proctors” who criticized Oriel for taking them in, Third Southern General Hospital and, between them, comparing them with those men who “have sufficient they treated some 105,000 patients during the war. imagination and far-sightedness to be feminists”.

If the war was disastrous for the men of Oxford, it The status of female education at Oxford remained presented an opening for the women left behind. For the fragile, but the College’s Principal, Emily Penrose, first time, female dons were permitted to lecture in the devoted herself to both the needs of wartime and the university, coach male undergraduates and plan courses progress of women within the university. She “gladly and lecture lists. The chance of academic advancement surrendered” the college buildings and gardens to for women was not to be missed by a progressive the military and saw an opportunity in the transition institution like Somerville, which naturally saw itself in the to an ancient men’s college; it was an indication of vanguard of female education. the progress that female students had made in the university. “We have”, she warned her exiled students at Wartime pressures posed a serious dilemma Oriel, “to defend against the would be critics a long line for individual women in Somerville. A number of of trenches; each student has her bit of the line to keep.” undergraduates and dons quickly volunteered for 28 | Somerville's Great War

The magazine The London Opinion took a less noble Officers view of the move: In 1916 the authorities decided to turn Somerville into O Oriel, centuries ago a hospital for officers with capacity (thanks in part To flowing-vested monks devoted, to think that thou to tents on the quad) for 262 beds. The domesticity again canst show a horde of scholars petticoated! of the setting may well have appealed to the new And when thy gallant sons return, arrivals. Siegfried Sassoon wrote of arriving in August Of whom the cruel wars bereave thee, will not thy fair 1916 with a case of gastric fever. “To be lying in a little alumnae spurn suggestions that it’s time to leave thee? white-walled room, looking through the window on to a College lawn, was for the first few days very much In fact, Somerville’s “petticoated feminists” were cut off like paradise”. Released from the horrors of the front in from the few remaining men at Oriel and relegated to general, and the Battle of the Somme in particular, he St Mary’s Hall. Fortifications were erected between the expressed his cynicism about war in verse with such quads to allay the Oriel Provost’s fears of a ‘Pyramus poems as ‘The Stretcher-Case’, ‘The Father’ and ‘The and Thisbe’ incident – a reference to Ovid’s ill-fated Hero’. lovers. In fact, he would return to the front within a few Brittain herself found her studies overshadowed by months, but a further injury in April 1917 brought him the new precariousness of her love affair with Roland home permanently. His friend and fellow poet Robert Leighton, who was stationed in France, and she took Graves, wrongly reported dead at the Somme in The refuge in the poetry of Rupert Brooke. By the end Times, ended up at Somerville too. “How unlike you to of the academic year she had decided to become a crib my idea of going to the Ladies’ College at Oxford,” nurse, and after a spell in Buxton Hospital and London, Sassoon wrote to him in 1917. But Somerville also she moved on to Malta and France as a member of saw Graves meet his first love, a probationer nurse the Voluntary Aid Detachment. In the battle of ‘Oxford and professional pianist called Marjorie – he gave up versus War’ and ‘Learning versus Life’, the latter had his hopes when he discovered she was engaged to a won on both fronts. “I, too, take leave of all I ever had.” Somerville's Great War | 29

man at the front. But he liked the College all the same: university’s women. Moreover, the granting of women’s “I enjoyed my stay at Somerville,” he later recalled. “The suffrage in 1918, albeit for women over 30, pointed sun shone, and the discipline was easy.” After the War to a glaring anomaly in which women could vote for he took up his place at St John’s. parliamentary candidates for Oxford University but were still denied degrees. Once the war ended, the return to normality between Oriel and Somerville was delayed, sparking both In Testament of Youth, Brittain recalled the day in 1920 frustration and an incident in spring 1919 known as the when women were finally granted degrees. She paid Oriel raid, in which male undergraduates made a hole particular tribute to the work of Miss Penrose: “What in the wall dividing the sexes – the following day the a consummation of her life-work this was for her!... Somerville Principal and Fellows took it in turns to guard More than any Oxford woman [the Principal] has the breach. “It was a dramatic climax to Somerville’s been responsible for the symbolic celebrations of that residence at Oriel,” wrote Pauline Adams, historian of morning...she was an academic Metternich of an older Somerville and former Librarian of the College. In July regime – but it was a Metternich that the War and post- 1919 the Principal and Fellows were relieved to return war periods had required...[when it came to] reconciling to Somerville. college and university... probably no woman living could have done it so well.” Vera Brittain, however, was sad to return to “a city of ghosts” and grew disappointed with her peers’ desire Frank Prochaska is a Member of Somerville. This to forget the war which had cost her a fiancé, brother article is adapted from an article that appeared in the and numerous friends. But she was able to press on May 2015 edition of History Today. with her political activism, noting that the war had been “a wonderful period of progress” for the status of the 30 | Members' News and Publications

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1933 We are delighted to record that two members celebrated centenaries in 2015: Margaret Leith-Ross (Mrs Hagger) on 7 January and Mary Goodland (Mrs Burns) on 15 January. They both read Modern Languages. We congratulate them both most warmly. 1938 Mary Scrutton (Mrs Midgley) has had two books published by Routledge in recent years, The Solitary Self (2010) and Are You an Illusion? (2014). 1946 Audrey Clark (Mrs Butler) writes: ‘My husband and I have been married 65 years on 17th June … We met at a lecture in Schools (WA Pantin on Church History). He had also just matriculated and was at Worcester College, having just come out of the Lady Kirk at the opening of the new bridge over the Murk Esk army, and we have been together ever since.’ to Exmoor in 2000, and from Elizabeth Graham (Lady Kirk) Scarborough to the Brecon Beacons 1953 has been working on bridleways and in 2006, both about 450 miles; a Ann Mansfield-Robinson access to the countryside on horse, long ride is planned for next year to (Mrs Currie) and her husband foot and bicycle since the 1960s. highlight the fact that in 2026 a great Giles have settled in a cottage at ‘Mostly it is hard legal slog, research, many historic rights of way will be lost Amesbury Abbey Mews – sheltered public inquiries, negotiations and so if not claimed. accommodation which includes forth but occasionally one gets a day excellent lunches in the restaurant. out to celebrate’ – e.g. the opening 1952 ‘They mix us up and we have 40 new of a very special bridge designed Judith Mundlak (Dr Mundlak friends. We are in the Stonehenge and built by pioneering engineer Dr Taylor) published a new book area and there is a very exciting Geoff Freedman (Rural Bridges) in the in December 2014: Visions of mesolithic dig in our grounds.’ North Yorks Moors national park. With Loveliness: Great Flower Breeders friends, she rode from Scarborough of the Past (Ohio University Press). Members' News and Publications | 31

1955 The Difficulties of Teaching English bard and political campaigner. As Language and Pronunciation in the bard of the Land League she Jenny Teichman has two middle- a Multi-Cultural Environment at appeared before audiences across aged sons who are academics and a universities in Poland, Spain and the Scotland. A doughty Victorian grand-daughter who is a lawyer. Her Czech Republic. This is part of an woman, her songs of exile, hope and book The Philosophy of War and initiative to raise awareness in adult joy in the natural world are sung to Peace has been re-published several learners about environmental issues. this day. times and translated into various foreign languages. 1962 1967 1959 Jennifer Black (Professor Carolyn Beckingham writes: ‘I'm Coates). The editors apologise for still doing regular voluntary work for Marieke Clarke has a chapter an error in last year’s Report. The the International Liberty Association in War and Women Across language Jennifer had to learn for her and have translated another book Continents, edited by Ardener, project with the Harris Academy was from French for them. I am also Armitage and Sciama, to be Lugwere, a Bantu language that has part of the team running the Link published by Berghahn Books in only very recently been written down, for Freedom Foundation, which is autumn 2015; it is about her aunt, not Luganda, which is the national campaigning to establish freedom Ank Faber-Chabot, a Dutch woman language of Uganda. and justice in Iran and help its people who sheltered Jews in World War II. form a democratic government, as Onora O’Neill has been awarded 1966 well as freeing those of its opposition (November 2014) Germany’s highest Maggie Gee was appointed members living in prison-like honour ‘Pour Le Mérite’. This honour Professor of Creative Writing at Bath conditions in Iraq.’ is limited to 40 German citizens, Spa University in 2012. In the same Alison Potter (Professor Wolf) ten each in the fields of humanities, year she was awarded an OBE for joined the House of Lords in natural science, and medicine and the services to literature and there was December 2014 as a crossbench arts, and 40 non-Germans. an international conference about peer, the Baroness Wolf of Dulwich, Esther Rantzen (Mrs Wilcox) her work at St Andrews University. CBE. We congratulate her most was made a Dame in the New Year’s A study of her work, Maggie Gee: warmly. Honours’ List for her services to Writing the Condition-of-England charity. We congratulate her most Novel, by Turkish scholar Mine Özyurt 1968 warmly. Kiliç, was published by Bloomsbury Honor Godfrey (Mrs McCabe), Academic. In 2014 Maggie published who retired earlier this year from the 1961 her new novel, Virginia Woolf in Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum Maria Perry-Robinson says that Manhattan, which brings Virginia (where she has been Curator since she is still writing and researching Woolf back to life in the 21st century 1999), received an MBE from the her biography of Queen Charlotte as in New York and Istanbul. A collection Queen at Buckingham Palace in a botanist – working title Strelitzia of essays about her work in the November 2014. Our warmest Regina, Queen of Flowers, but Gylphi Contemporary Writers: congratulations. she has been invited concurrently Critical Essays series is forthcoming to contribute to a new history of later this year. 1969 the Church of the Immaculate Liz Masters (Mrs MacRae Shaw) Harriet Carswell (Mrs Wilson) Conception, Farm Street. As part has published Love and Music will has just moved house and now has of the Erasmus+ programme she Endure. This novel is about Mary a large garden. She is still doing has also been lecturing recently on MacPherson, the 19th century Skye 32 | Members' News and Publications

a monthly column of advice from house, which is faced in Burford 1976 Maidenhead Citizens Advice for the stone, meets high environmental Finola Clarke (Mrs Gowers) has local paper. standards and is heated by a ground- served as a magistrate for just over source heat pump. (Somervillians in three and a half years in the adult 1970 the Oxford area who are considering courts at Camberwell and Croydon. a building project are welcome to get Sabina Lovibond, Emeritus Fellow, Last year she was successful in her in touch if they would like to learn Worcester College, was an invited application to be appointed to sit on from my experiences.)” speaker at the College of William the Youth Panel and she has now Olwyn Hocking combines enjoyable and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, completed the initial training and is freelance work – proof-reader/ USA (conference on ‘The Authority enjoying her interest in youth justice editor and community media – with of Tradition’, October 2014) and and rehabilitation, hoping by timely volunteering (she raised more than at the British Wittgenstein Society interventions to prevent re-offending. (conference on ‘Wittgenstein and the £400k for a local cricket club which Ruth Coggan (Mrs Mayes) is Social Sciences’, University of Exeter, faced closure). There are big changes taking early retirement this summer June 2015). She has published two in her family: her daughter has joined after thirty-five years in education, articles: ‘Baggy Monsters Digest Oxfam and moved to Oxford; her son fourteen as a head teacher. She says: the 1980s: The Realism of the Later is marrying a lovely US citizen and will ‘I am looking forward to having time Iris Murdoch’, Iris Murdoch Review be moving to New York State – she to travel, see family and pursue a 5 (2014); and ‘Second Nature, is looking forward to trips there, but range of interests. I have yet to decide Habitus, and the Ethical: Remarks on not relishing the de-cluttering and about any work!’ Wittgenstein and Bourdieu’, Ethical downsizing that now seems timely. Perspectives 22 (2015), special issue Jane Mellor (Professor Everson) 1978 on ‘Wittgensteinian Approaches to took slightly early retirement from Angela Bonaccorso, Professor Moral Philosophy’ edited by Benjamin Royal Holloway at the end of at the Instituto Nazionale di Fisica De Mesel and James Thompson. September 2014, but she is not really Nucleare, has been involved in retired. She was appointed Visiting organising a programme which is 1973 Professor at the University of Padua included in a prestigious summer Gill Parkes (Mrs Sharpe) has and has enjoyed working there on a schools course : http://www. been awarded a Master of Arts in six-month contract. summerschoolsineurope.eu/ Philosophy (with Merit) from The Jenna Orkin published in course/5055/re-writing-nuclear- Open University. Recently retired from November 2014 Scout: A Memoir of physics-textbooks-30-years-of- a commercial career in advanced Investigative Journalist Michael C. radioactive-ion-beam-physics materials, she now serves as a Ruppert, with Against the Dying of trustee director of a large private the Light. Ann Olivarius is senior partner in sector pension fund. the firm McAllister Olivarius (solicitors). 1975 She writes: ‘My firm represents women who have been discriminated 1974 Joanna Haxby has retired from against at work, sexually harassed Marie Ann Giddins writes: General Practice management and is at work or at university, survivors of “In 2014, I was promoted to living happily on the Somerset coast, child sexual abuse, and businesses Advisor, Reservoir Engineering, in creating a garden, growing food, with commercial disputes, in the US Schlumberger, where I specialize in baking bread, sewing, swimming, and UK – and it’s been a busy year! reservoir simulation and enhanced listening to Radio 4 and revelling in We’ve handled cases for several oil recovery studies. I also finished the landscape. university vice-chancellors and moving into my new “self-build” Members' News and Publications | 33

senior bankers in London and New 1980 cent. In August 2014 she walked York. We sponsored a conference the Capital Ring (78 miles around Margaret Casely-Hayford, who on ‘revenge porn’ in London in April London) to raise funds for the Garden is Chair of Action Aid, and Non- with senior academics, activists and Museum’s expansion (see www. Executive Director of NHS England, victims which received considerable gardenmuseum.org.uk). now sits on the Independent press attention. The research project Oversight Panel of the Metropolitan Emma Sky is a Senior Research I founded about the lives and careers Police. Fellow at Yale; her new book is of women Rhodes Scholars, the Unravelling: High Hopes and Rhodes Project, happily brings me 1981 Missed Opportunities in Iraq. back to Oxford and Somerville quite published in May. On 18 May she was Shriti Vadera has been appointed often; OUP is to publish a book based the speaker at a Somerville London Chairman of Santander UK; she is the on its data next year. I still really enjoy Group event at LSE. being fully busy and engaged, and first woman to head a major UK bank. hope to keep going for a while yet!’ 1988 1982 Sonia Phippard, Director of Water Julia Aglionby writes: ‘The Board of Catherine Royle was appointed & Flood Risk Management at DEFRA, Natural England has been rather more Political Advisor to NATO in January was awarded a CBE in the New demanding than anticipated from a 2015. Year’s Honours List. We warmly non-exec position but also a huge congratulate her. privilege and fascinating – beavers, 1984 badgers, wind farms as well as my 1979 Wendy Janet Padley remarried in core role of how do we balance all Professor Dona Cady is currently August 2014. She has retired from society and farmers’ demands from President of the Oxford and teaching after 22 years and begun the uplands.’ Cambridge Society of New England. working as an administrative assistant to the Norfolk Community Health and Julia Gasper has been elected 1989 Care NHS Trust. South East regional chairman of the Anna Kemp is busy with her English Democrat political party. She Spanish amphitheatre: http://www. is one of the contributors to a book: 1986 mevuelveslorca.com/. She writes: Jephthah’s Daughters : Innocent Sacha Romanovitch is the new ‘We were invited by the royal opera Casualties in the War for Family CEO of Grant Thornton; she is the house in Madrid to take part in the ‘Equality’, published by CreateSpace first woman to head a major UK European Opera Days initiative, which on 17 February 2015, and has accountancy firm. aims to reach new audiences ... so on also published a new book called the 8th of May, we took La Traviata to Homosexuality and Paedophilia : A 1987 the streets of Granada, and over 500 Reference Guide. Her daughter has Shiban Akbar has new job as people watched as it was streamed graduated in Religious Studies from Lecturer / Instructor in English at King live from the Teatro Real.’ Wolfson College, Cambridge. Saud University in Saudi Arabia. Jacqueline Watts’s new novel Sally Prentice was the Labour Witchlight was published in May candidate in North Herefordshire in 2015. She writes under the name J.S. the 2015 General Election, increasing Watts. See www.jswatts.co.uk for the Labour vote from 3373 to 5478 further details. and the share from 7 to 11 per 34 | Members' News and Publications

1990 2003 on the east coast of China to set about doing this. He called his school Premier Dawn Ohlson writes : 'After 6 Seamus Holden writes: ‘We have English and it has expanded steadily, years on secondment to Thales been living in Lausanne since 2011. I transferring in June 2014 to a purpose- headquarters in Paris I am now finally work as a post-doc at the EPFL, and fitted school in the Chenyang district back in a UK role although still with Eleanor is a primary school teacher at of Qingdao; for more information see Thales after 25 years. During those 6 Geneva English School. Switzerland [email protected]. years of commuting from Twickenham has been fantastic, particularly to Paris I had two daughters, Matilda since we are both very keen skiers/ Rachel Lovibond is an account now 4 and Florence now 2. I recently snowboarders! In July we will move manager at CHI & Partners, an won the 2014 First Woman of back to the UK – I recently received advertising agency. Engineering award.' a Newcastle University Research Fellowship and will be starting my 2011 1994 own laboratory there working at Matthew Robinson, sad to be leaving Musab Hayatli has been sent to the interface of biophysics and Somerville, is going on to do a Masters the US by his Belgian employers to microbiology.’ at King’s College, London. set up and manage a new entity, cApStAn Inc., specialising in linguistic 2002 2012 quality control of international and Edward Robinson and Charlotte Daisy Johnson has won the AM multilingual tests and surveys. He Robinson-Jones (2004) are both Heath Prize for fiction. This prize, offered hopes to discover new markets and practising lawyers, Edward as a by one of London’s most prestigious expand the business. solicitor and Charlotte a barrister. and long-established literary agencies, is awarded annually for the best piece of 1995 2004 fiction written by a graduating student of Stephen Allen has been promoted Kathryn (‘Kat’) Gordon’s debut the MSt. Victoria Hobbs, director of AM to Full Professor at Rider University novel The Artificial Anatomy of Parks Heath, said, ‘Daisy Johnson’s stories and nominated for a Grammy in the was published by Legend, 1 July are brave and unusual – writing with Music Educator category. 2015. the very best kind of inventive ambition. From the striking opening image of 2000 2010 headless eels in “Starver”, to the eerie poise of the fox at the end of “There Alistair Fair, who is Chancellor’s Daniel Balderson spent 2 years in Was a Fox In the Bedroom”, I was Fellow in Architectural History at China learning Mandarin and teaching hooked. I am very much looking forward the University of Edinburgh, has English in Beijing before coming to seeing what this writer does next.’ published 'Brutalism Among the up to Somerville to read PPE. He Ladies: Modern Architecture at dreamed of establishing an English Somerville College, Oxford, 1947-67', language training school in China, Architectural History, 57 (2014), 357- specialising in small group and one- 82. He has sent a copy to College for to-one teaching, and immediately the library and archives. after graduating he left for Qingdao Marriages, Births | 35

Marriages

Chatfield – Luscombe Moulding – Baker on 5 December 2014 on 14 March 2014 Melanie Chatfield (1982) to Nicholas Luscombe Mark Moulding (1999) to Sarah Baker Fitter – Tu Padley – Adeney on 14 September 2013 on 29 August 2014 Richard Fitter (1999) to Lena Tu Wendy Janet Padley (1984) to Mark Adeney (with the Editors’ apology for not including this announcement in last year’s Report) Smithson – Gunn On 9 August 2014 Kaouri – Theodorides Philippa Smithson (2009) to Alexander Gunn (2008) on 8 November 2014 Katerina Kaouri (1999) to Neophytos Theodorides Stanley – Tuerk on 18 October 2014 Kerr – Frederick Rosalyn Stanley (2002) to Alina Tuerk on 8 August 2015 Andrew Kerr (2010) to Laura Anne Frederick Woolf – Krige on 24 August 2014 Antony Kadri Thomas Woolf (2005) to Nadia Mei Meer Krige Births

Allfrey To Philip (2003) and Sarah Allfrey on 9 December 2014 a son James George Allfrey Black To Caroline (née Carrick, 1993) and Nicholas Black on 15 June 2014 a daughter Caitlin Anne Black Fitter To Richard (1999) and Lena Fitter on 13 June 2014 a daughter Isabella Ailla Fitter. Holden To Eleanor (née Earl, 2004) and Seamus (2003) Holden on 10 December 2014 a son Francis Patrick Holden James George Allfrey Lomax To Caroline (née Lee, 2004) and Oliver Lomax on 26 Robinson September 2014 a son Timothy Arthur Lomax, a brother for To Eleanor (née Mann, 2000) and Edward Robinson on 3 Reuben January 2014 a daughter Aurelia Mae Robinson Lovett Roberts To Isabelle and Ferdinand Lovett (1999) on 14 July 2015 a To Andrew Whelan (1998) and Catherine Roberts on 12 son Cassius Louis Lovett August 2014 a son Emil Reuben Augustus Roberts 36 | Deaths

Deaths

Hughes Donaldson Pestell Catherine Eva Hughes née Pestell Tamsin Jane Donaldson née Proctor Muriel Ada Pestell née Whitby (1951) on (Principal 1989-96; Honorary Fellow (1958) on 16 September 2014 Aged 75 29 May 2015 Aged 82 1996) on 10 December 2014 Aged 81 Ferguson Philps Warburton Joan Collier Ferguson née Sinar (1943) Dilys Bronwen Philps née Jones (1937) Anne Marion Warburton (1947; on 18 January 2015 Aged 89 on 24 April 2015 Aged 96 Honorary Fellow 1977) on 4 June 2015 Aged 87 Greenwood Schiele Maria Katazyna (‘Kasia’) Greenwood Pamela Gwendolen Schiele (1936) on Al Qadhi née Smolenska (1953) on 8 October 29 June 2015 Aged 97 Elizabeth Al Qadhi née Strachey (1955) 2014 Aged 79 on 1 October 2014 Aged 78 Simmonds Hayward Haag Stephanie Jane Simmonds (1990) on 3 Avery Sally Belinda Parminter Hayward Haag June 2015 Aged 46 JoAnn Avery née McDonald (1955) on née Hayward (1956) on 1 July 2013 19 February 2015 Aged 82 Aged 76 von Sivers Marion (Mandy) Elizabeth von Sivers née Bagchi Hall Boyd (1966) on 8 May 2014 Aged 79 Jashodhara Bagchi née Sen Gupta Ursula Eunice Hall née Ewins (1949) on (1958) on 9 January 2015 Aged 77 1 July 2015 Aged 89 Stoye Enid Dorothy Stoye (1938) on 2 January Barber Harvey 2015 Aged 95 Christa Renate Barber née Krause Hilda Jean Harvey née Thompson (1953) on 20 January 2015 Aged 87 (1946) on 18 August 2014 Aged 89 Tillet June Mary Tillet née Burdess (1939) on Barrett Kennet 13 December 2014 Aged 95 Barbara Ann Barrett née Presswood The Lady Elizabeth Ann Kennet née (1957) on 3 July 2015 Aged 77 Adams (1941) on 30 November 2014 Tizard Aged 91 Barbara Patricia Tizard née Parker Burrell-Davies (1944) on 4 January 2015 Aged 88 Joan Burrell-Davies née Royle (1940) on King 11 July 2015 Aged 93 Hilary Katharine King née Presswood Tonge (1965) on 25 June 2015 Aged 69 Kathryn Anne Tonge (1982) on 2 Chaloner January 2014 Aged 49 Kathryn Mary Chaloner (1972) on 19 King October 2014 Aged 60 Pauline Mary Colette King (1956) on 12 Townsend October 2014 Aged 84 The Lady Juliet Margaret Townsend née Clark Smith (1960) on 29 November 2014 Carol Elizabeth Clark née Gallagher Liya Aged 73 (1959) on 20 June 2015 Aged 74 Susan Mary (‘Sally’) Liya née Villiers– Stuart (1964) on 15 February 2015 Vernon Davies Aged 69 Joanna Vernon née Gillies (1937) on 8 Jean Davies née Roderick (1947) on 1 August 2015 Aged 96 October 2014 Aged 86 Malcolm Susan Mary Malcolm née Waller (1966) Walter Deutsch on 17 August Aged 68 Effie Marion (‘Jane’) Walter née Edna Wishart Deutsch née Robertson Brinkworth (1936) on 7 February 2015 (1960) on 7 December 2014 Aged 75 Medcalf Aged 97 Margaret Lilian Medcalf (1946) on 20 Dinnage April 2015 Aged 93 Woodall Rosemary Kemp Dinnage née Allen Enid Constance Woodall (1933) on 12 (1946) on 10 July 2015 Aged 87 Miles March 2015 Aged 100 Patricia Mary Miles née Storey (1949) on 8 March 2015 Aged 84 Obituaries | 37

Obituaries

Catherine Eva Hughes, CMG, née Pestell (St Hilda’s, 1952), Principal of Somerville 1989-1996, Honorary Fellow of Somerville, 1996-2014

Catherine Hughes, who died on 10 December 2014, was born 24 September 1933. Family tradition says she was of Huguenot descent, but she never tried to pin down the link. Her father was a civil engineer, her mother Scottish, and an important source of encouragement to her bright daughter. Catherine spent, despite the background of war, a ‘happy period of stability in the somewhat stark setting of industrial Leeds’. She won a scholarship to Leeds High School for Girls: an excellent education, she later said, balanced between arts and sciences. Two history tutors who had studied at St Hilda’s College, Oxford encouraged her to apply; having gained a scholarship to read history, 1952-5, she came under the formidable aegis of Beryl Smalley and Menna Prestwich. She served as President of the Stubbs Society – a university society of high-achieving historians. local society against subversion. With a small aid- budget, Catherine got involved in the SEATO School Success in the Civil Service exams took her to the of Engineering (which survived its parent to become Foreign Office in 1955. The world she then joined was The Asian Institute of Technology) and also with the male-dominated: this was only nine years after women battle against the liver fluke which devastated river- were first allowed to join the career structure; until 1972 dwelling communities. She visited Hill Tribe Settlements they continued to be required to resign on marriage. in Northern Thailand and spent time in Laos where Not that Catherine with her lively mind and ironic battle raged on the Plain of Jars. Then – now as a First humour ever let such things hold her back; by her own Secretary – she returned to the FCO as principal desk account she had no sense of limits being set to her officer for Vietnam. She was one of those who argued ambitions. strongly against British involvement in America’s escalating war. She thought this incompatible with The next 30 years she described as ones of ‘constant Britain’s role as co-chairman (with Russia) of the changes of place and subject’. She steadily climbed Geneva Conventions, and moreover believed that the ladder, serving as Third Secretary in The Hague Asian nations would ultimately have to sort out their during the first year of the European Communities, then own futures. Second Secretary in Bangkok, where, as UK member of SEATO’s Permanent Working Group, she had a In 1978 she returned to Europe as Political Counsellor ringside seat on the accelerating war in Indo-China. in East Berlin. She quickly became a leading expert on Set up as one of the ring of pro-Western defence the Four Power Status of this divided city, which was organisations to contain the Communist threat, SEATO constantly under challenge by the Communist bloc. ran a number of aid projects designed to strengthen She also played a political role advising the British 38 | Obituaries

Military Government in West Berlin how to handle the (Lord Jenkins, as Chancellor of the University), and the East Germans. As a colleague remarked, her STASI dispute and its aftermath blighted college life for two file must be a classic. A few years later she was years. Catherine Hughes, as she had by then become, back in Germany as Minister (Economic) in Bonn, played robustly the role of primus inter pares; she further deepening her knowledge of the country. In favoured the decision, but always tried to represent the 1967 she assumed her final, Ambassadorial-level general wish of the fellowship; students who suspected job as Assistant Under-Secretary for the Public her of imposing her views could not have been more Departments. Her responsibilities included the FCO wrong. She said, though, that this was not the greatest relationship with the BBC and the British Council. The challenge she faced as Principal – and indeed it mainly cost of the World Service and the British Council fell required resilience. She found more deeply taxing the on the Foreign Office vote, and at a time of cuts there perennial challenge of making colleges and university were inevitably tensions; she was known as a tough work well together. She served on a variety of university negotiator. She also supervised the FCO’s Consular bodies, especially ones relating to her diplomatic and Information Departments. interests: Queen Elizabeth House and the Foreign Service programme. At Somerville, she saw through Former colleagues recall her as a tireless and the admission of the first male Fellows and students delightful colleague with a subtle sense of the absurd (in 1993-4), but took early retirement in 1996, to share and a bubbling sense of humour. She had a slightly more time with Trevor Hughes. subversive attitude to authority: as she told one interviewer, ‘I like that tiny seed of cantankerousness An important source of stimulation and enjoyment in which doesn’t lie down and accept things’. her later years was the St Frideswide Book Club, a club devoted to the discussion of non-fictional works, A period spent as a visiting fellow at St Antony’s founded by Roger Bannister, and largely consisting College, Oxford in 1974 renewed her interest in of former heads of house; Catherine was an early Oxford and appreciation of its values; when asked member. In a last contribution, which Trevor gave in her if she was willing to be considered for the post of absence, they nominated Perugino as an artist whose Principal of Somerville College in 1987, she agreed. work they would like to have on their walls: one warms References written at that time underline some of her to him, they said, not least ‘because in his long life, he traits: ‘a great ability to go to the root of any problem, was eclipsed by other painters, notably Michelangelo and to express opinions without fear or favour’; and Raphael’. ‘entirely without conceit’; ‘doesn’t fuss’ and ‘would not be interfering’. It was suggested that while ‘she Catherine bore the onset of cancer with characteristic may appear somewhat aloof at first meeting ... she resilience, and fought it for several years, enjoying has in fact warmth, affection and perception.’ ‘She global cruises when she was well enough to travel. In has very high standards but combines these with a nursing home during her final illness, she remained enjoyment of life’. interested, brisk and opinionated. She had latterly begun to make generous gifts to support students in She took office at Somerville in 1989, finding this History, English and Modern Languages, to help them phase of her life rewarding but with some surprises. take opportunities to develop themselves according to ‘The nicest of surprises’ was her marriage to Dr any convincing plan they put forwards; she did this in Trevor Hughes, a neuropathologist who was then the undaunted conviction that study of these subjects Acting Warden of Green College, next door to provides a basis for a useful and public-spirited life. Somerville. (His best man asked at the wedding She described the object of her gifts as ‘liberating why he couldn’t just have climbed over the wall in excellence’. the time-honoured way.) Less pleasantly surprising was how hard students fought the Fellows’ wish JOANNA INNES, to admit men to the college as both students and Professor of Modern History and Fellows. The students drew in the College Visitor Fellow & Tutor at Somerville Obituaries | 39

Sally Chilver (Graves, 1932; Honorary Fellow 1977)

Elizabeth Leila Millicent Chilver, known to all as Sally, was born in Constantinople on 3 August 1914. Her father was Philip Perceval Graves of The Times; her uncle Robert Graves. War having broken out the next day, the family were evacuated to Alexandria and then to Greece. In due course Sally came to school in England, winning a scholarship to Benenden, and in 1932, after two terms at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and three months in Germany, she came up to Somerville to read History. Her tutors included Lucy Sutherland and Maude Clarke and her contemporaries Barbara Ward and Marghanita Laski; at this time she was renamed ‘Sally’ from a fanciful resemblance between her skirts and those worn by the heroine of a comic novel of the period. She retained very fond memories of Somerville and remained in close touch Two Somervillian Principals of LMH : Sally Chilver with her predecessor and former tutor, Lucy Sutherland with the College, being elected Honorary Fellow in 1977. When she was blind in old age, a Somerville student frequently read to her, and there were plans student revolts; she coped characteristically well with afoot to celebrate her 100th birthday here, had she not these, inviting the ring-leaders into her office and, died on 3 July 2014, a month before the birthday. Gauloise dangling from the corner of her mouth, asking their advice on ‘her’ problems. They responded by After going down, Sally travelled in Germany, the calling her ‘Granny’; essentially the revolt was over. Middle East and Bulgaria (where she and her father were briefly guests of King Boris). Back in London in In 1971 she moved back to Oxford, as Principal of 1937 she married Richard Chilver, an Oxford classicist LMH, and remained there till 1979. Dr Frances Lannon, and civil servant. Sally herself was recruited into the later Principal of LMH herself, writes of her: Ministry of Economic Warfare in 1939, and later the ‘As it happens, I was an undergraduate entering Cabinet Office, working on overseas supplies, and my third and final year when Sally took over from it was then that she developed her interest in Africa, another Somervillian, Dame Lucy Sutherland, who particularly the Cameroon. After the war and a spell had been a notable Principal of the College for 26 in journalism, she returned to the Civil Service, in the years. A transition like that has its challenges. We Colonial Office. students noticed immediately a more informal style. By 1958, back in Oxford as Director of the Institute of She was unstuffy, and a moderniser. Sally was rather Colonial (later Commonwealth) Studies, Sally oversaw shy, but kind and approachable, and we liked her its merger with Queen Elizabeth House. Long vacations snazzy trouser suits and lively sherry parties. Sally’s enabled her to deepen her interest in the Cameroon tenure coincided with the movement by many Oxford and to travel there with her anthropologist friend colleges, at first cautiously and then in a great rush, to Phyllis Kaberry, a specialist in the Grasslands of the abandon single-sex education. The discussions over Cameroon. For the rest of her life she remained at the this historic change were often agonised. Sally had centre of a network of ‘Cameroonists’. already overseen the transition at Bedford College; in her non-confrontational style, she led LMH, the In 1964 she was appointed Principal of Bedford oldest of the women’s colleges in Oxford, to move College, London. There in 1968 she had to deal with swiftly and confidently to embrace co-education in 40 | Obituaries

1978. Sally Chilver lived longer than any other head She was proud of having reorganised LMH’s garden of an Oxford college has done. She was creative, and wine cellar and said her life had been ‘fun’. clever, kind, original, tolerant, and learned. She was also a generous benefactor to LMH and Somerville. In 1979 she retired to her house in Kingston Road; Her long life was rich in friendship, adventure, and her husband died in 1985. Her last years were, sadly, intellectual engagement. An LMH undergraduate dogged by illness and later almost total loss of recalls her remarking “the life of the mind can be lived eyesight. on the edge of a packing case”. That captures very This obituary is compiled from tributes composed by well Sally Chilver’s striking combination of intellectual FRANCES LANNON and EVA GILLIES, full copies of seriousness, her sense of living life on the move, and a which are available by applying to Liz Cooke somewhat bohemian style.’ ([email protected]).

Anne Warburton (1947; Honorary Fellow 1977-2015)

Dame Anne Warburton, Britain’s first woman in England exhibition. Following the state visit of the ambassador, former President of Lucy Cavendish Queen in 1979, she was created Dame Commander College at Cambridge, Honorary Fellow of Somerville, of the Royal Victorian Order. Her continuing interest leader in the global campaign for women’s rights, and in Denmark can be seen in her book, Signposts to lifelong public servant, has died at the age of 87 after a Denmark, published in 1992. long illness. From 1983 to 1985 she served as permanent UK Born in London, Dame Anne earned a BA from Barnard representative to the United Nations in Geneva, again College in New York City in 1946 and then read PPE holding the rank of ambassador. In that role she led at in two years at Somerville. For the next eight years official level numerous UK delegations, including that to she worked in London and Paris as an economist with the United Nations Women’s Conference in Nairobi and the Marshall Plan, NATO, and the merchant banking other events of the UN Decade for Women. firm Lazard Frères. It was useful experience but her ambition was to become a diplomat. In 1957 the After leaving the Foreign Service, Dame Anne entered opportunity finally arose to take the entrance exam for another challenging career as the fourth president the Foreign Service, and over the next nineteen years of Lucy Cavendish College, a small and relatively she held posts in London, Bonn, and at the United young college whose mission was to provide Nations in New York and Geneva. educational and research opportunities for mature women. During the nine years of her leadership the In 1976 she achieved the highest rank in British number of students nearly doubled, the college’s diplomacy with her ground-breaking appointment first new building was erected and plans were laid as Ambassador to Denmark, a post she held until for two more, and her membership on the UK Equal 1983. During this period of growth and change in Opportunities Commission raised the college’s profile Britain’s relationships with the Common Market, the outside the university. The long-term significance of her ambassador was called upon to represent Queen and contributions can be seen in the building that now sits country not only on the diplomatic front but also in the at the heart of the college, a handsome dining facility, commercial world, including agriculture and fishing. She Warburton Hall. immersed herself in Danish life and culture and worked to encourage cultural exchange, such as the Vikings Dame Anne returned briefly to the diplomatic world in 1992 when Prime Minister John Major asked her Obituaries | 41

to lead a multi-national team to investigate atrocities against Muslim women in Bosnia during the Yugoslav civil war. The appointment reflected his belief that she would be able to gain the confidence of the women and present the team’s findings without bias. The mission brought worldwide awareness to the horrors that the war had brought to Bosnia.

Before retiring from Cambridge in 1994, she was elected to a three-year term on its Council of Senate, served on the Overseas and Commonwealth Student Grants Committees, and was a syndic of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Outside the university, she served on the board of the British Library and shared her wisdom, Anne Warburton knowledge and experience with the Council of the University of East Anglia and the Board of Governors of she was one of the first women in hitherto all-male the English-Speaking Union. precincts but, she said, ‘I always wanted to do a good job at anything I did. The only difference in being the Once again retirement to the home she had built first woman was that it made it important on other in Suffolk was interrupted when at the end of 1994 people’s account.’ she was appointed to the Standing Committee on Standards of Conduct in Public Life, the Nolan Her service to her country and humanity brought her Committee, which had been set up after the cash-for- honours from governments and institutions around the questions scandal. During her three-year term it issued world: West Germany, Denmark, Spain, and, in the two reports that began a pattern of well-thought- US, the University of Arkansas and Barnard College out recommendations intended to restore public of Columbia University. In 1977 she was named an confidence in elected officials. When she was finally Honorary Fellow of Somerville and in 1994 of Lucy able to focus on her own community, she was for five Cavendish College. She was admired and valued in years chairman of Music in Country Churches and a life as she is remembered by all who knew her, for her leading supporter of the Early English Organ project. integrity, her kindness, her intelligence, good humour, modesty, and devotion to her family. Throughout her career, Dame Anne’s professional accomplishments were combined with awareness that TONI COFFEE

Pamela Gwendolen Schiele (1940)

Pamela was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Somerville. (Rachel’s portrait currently hangs in the Herbert Schiele, who ran the family farm, and Winifred, corridor outside Somerville’s dining hall.) the 5th of the 6 daughters of Augustus George and Rachel Mary Vernon-Harcourt. Augustus was Pamela’s father died when she was one, so Winifred a distinguished Chemist and academic, so it is not and her two young daughters, Rachel and Pamela, surprising that with so many daughters the Vernon- returned to England, to Oxford, where Pamela was Harcourts were among the founding members of educated at Wychwood School. At Somerville she read 42 | Obituaries

Natural Sciences Mods followed by Geography for survival of two semi-endangered species of bird and her Finals. many species of native grass.

By this time the war was well under way, and she went Not having children of her own, Pamela was devoted to to work at the Admiralty in the Mine Design Department her wider family, and was generous in giving support of and then the Department of Operational Research. all kinds to those who needed it.

After the war, apart from working in town and country Her generosity also extended to Somerville, for which planning from 1948 to 51, she devoted herself to she retained a lasting soft spot. For instance, when she relief and rehabilitation work, first as a volunteer wanted to sponsor two rooms in a new building she did with Save the Children in Greece, and later with the not want her name to appear twice on the doors, so Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, she named one room after me, being the only other Old and the Red Cross, work which took her to Greece, Somervillian in the family. Yugoslavia and Austria. She also continued to take a lively interest in a broad While engaged in this work she became fluent in number of subjects, travelling regularly from her home Modern Greek and German; she could also speak in Headington to attend seminars and lectures in Spanish and had a working knowledge of French. central Oxford.

Together with her sister Rachel, Pamela inherited She remained in remarkably good mental and physical the family farm in Argentina where she applied her health almost to the end. When I visited her in the scientific knowledge and her passion for conservation John Radcliffe Hospital during her last illness she was to turning the farm into the first and largest organic most annoyed that they would not let her out to attend farm in Argentina. The sisters founded the UK charity a function in Oxford! She died peacefully in her own Foundation Rachel and Pamela Schiele, devoted to home on June 29th 2015. the conservation of the flora, fauna and the soil in the Central Argentinian Pampas. Their work led to the ELIZABETH CAMPBELL (Nowell-Smith, 1962)

Enid Dorothy Stoye (1938)

Enid was born on 10 March 1919. She spent her early of Enid, later exhibited at the Royal Academy, that is childhood in Bushey, though the family later moved reproduced here. to Headington. At Wycombe Abbey Enid proved to be a good all-rounder, both academically and in other After graduating, she took a Diploma in Education and aspects of her life – she played sport and was in the became a teacher, her first post being at Bedford High school lacrosse team; she played the piano and the School. Later she taught at Roedean School. clarinet (the start of a lifelong love of music). Then there seems to have been a longing to return In 1938 Enid went up to Somerville to read Modern to academia, or perhaps a longing to return to History. Here she worked hard, won a blue for netball Switzerland, so she gave up teaching to study for a and played tennis for her college. She never lost her PhD in History at the University of Fribourg. Her PhD interest in Somerville itself. Enid also converted to thesis, leading to a book published in 1954, was Catholicism, to the disapproval of her father. It was entitled Vincent Bernard de Tscharner 1728-1778: A around this time (1940) that her father drew the portrait Study of Swiss Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Obituaries | 43

Enid stayed on in Fribourg for some years, undertaking various teaching posts. She loved being in Switzerland (she was already fluent in French and German, later adding Italian to her linguistic skills) – she skied in winter (she continued skiing until her eighties) and walked and climbed in the mountains in summer.

In the late 1950s Enid felt under pressure to return to the UK to give her parents more support. She became a Lecturer, later Senior History Lecturer, at Royal Holloway College, a post she held until her retirement 22 years later. In term time Enid divided her time between Egham and Oxford, but spent her holidays, as far as possible, in Switzerland where she maintained a pied-à-terre only reluctantly given up when she became unable to travel there again.

As a person, the most striking elements that characterise every period of her life were her capacity for deep and enduring friendships, and her strong religious faith. The latter, though firmly based in Roman Catholicism, was open-minded and ecumenical in outlook.

Many of her friends commented about her good brain, her integrity, her sense of humour, her interest in life and that ‘it was a privilege to know her’. Enid Stoye, drawn by her father, Walter Stoye, in about ANNE STOYE 1940, and subsequently exhibited at the Royal Academy

June Mary Tillett (Burdess, 1939)

My mother June Tillett was the daughter, and grand- that her four children had a childhood filled with music. daughter, of non-conformist ministers. Her family was She discovered a passion for new ideas and learning packed with strong women who were powerful role in general, and Somerville in particular, that would models, notably her mother Mabel, and also her great stay with her for life, and would be enthusiastically aunt, the social reformer Mary Higgs. She inherited transmitted to others. strong values from both sides of the family, reinforced Her mother, a Somerville undergraduate before her by her time in Somerville. (Mabel Kingsland, 1908), started a tradition, and June Somerville, where she read for a BMus after gaining was delighted when her two daughters won places to her Associateship of the Royal College of Music, Somerville (Penny Tillett, 1964, and Elizabeth Tillett, had a profound influence on her life. She made 1966). Delight turned to joy a generation later when four lifelong friends. She was able to extend her one of her grandsons, Andrew Whelan (1998), followed musical knowledge, appreciation and violin and viola in their footsteps with a scholarship to Somerville. performance skills, a wonderful side effect of which was 44 | Obituaries

June packed yet more into her time at Somerville. When she went up in 1939 she was already engaged to my RAF father-to-be, John Tillett, an arrangement that was taxing for all concerned. My father often cycled over to Somerville when he was stationed in Abingdon, my mother worried constantly about her work and his welfare, and Somerville had to work out rules for engaged couples in wartime, and decide whether my mother should be allowed to marry while an undergraduate. The Bursar, A. B. Stonedale, wrote her this note: ‘It’s all right for you to have your fiancé in your room any time except before 10am and after Hall.’ When her fiancé faced an imminent posting abroad, the college allowed them to marry. Helen Darbishire and Vera Farnell were witnesses to the marriage and the Principal presented them with a bright green Susie Cooper coffee set. My June Tillett mother always said, rightly or wrongly, that she was the first female undergraduate to marry while still up. happily in the 1960s when she discovered a talent for Although my father enjoyed his (successful) attempt to music teaching. She inspired many O and A level music take a bath in Somerville without getting caught, a very students at Norwich High School who still remember significant achievement at the time, Somerville in wartime her fondly, not least Diana Burrell, who was one of her of course had its very dark side. first students, and who has become a distinguished composer. June received (and kept) this note on headed paper from the Bursar, dated 8 November 1939: ‘I can think of no Following my father’s death in 1976, she started a new excuse for your utter disregard of College regulations life involving much travel and embarked on a round- and of the national lighting order. Perhaps if you have the-world trip when she was in her mid-60s, making any, you will come and tell me; if not I must ask you to many friends en route. pay a fine of 2/6 which would have been much larger Travel, learning and teaching continued for the rest had your room happened to face on to Woodstock Rd or of her life. A notable new venture in later life saw Walton St.’ Nonetheless a hefty fine, and my mother was her taking up the viola da gamba and early music mortified. generally – she was closely involved with the Jacobean The lively upbringing we four children had owed a great Consort – and going on to teach this new learning. She deal to Somerville traditions and its encouragement of my continued to run a U3A music appreciation group in mother’s independent mind. She was an early advocate Oxford well into her nineties. of green ideas and I remember her talking to us about The final year was a very a sad time. Dementia is so ground-breaking books like Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring cruel, yet my mother bore it with great dignity, stoicism when it came out. and even, occasionally, humour. One day near the end, Throughout her life my mother made things happen one of the staff at the nursing home told me that she musically. She got people together to play. And she took had said to my mother that she couldn’t remember my great interest in contemporary music. She trained choirs name. ‘Neither can I,’ my mother replied, with a huge for concert performances. During the 1960s and 70s she grin, completely unfazed. was a very active figure in musical life in Norwich. Hers was a life lived to the full with passion, energy and Her academic grounding, her communication skills, and intelligence. her boundless enthusiasm for music came together CLARE BONNEY (Penny Tillett, 1964) Obituaries | 45

Lady Elizabeth Ann Kennet (Adams, 1941)

Lady Kennet was born Elizabeth Ann Adams in London in 1923, to Bryan Adams and Audrey Marshall. Her mother drowned in Lake Geneva when Elizabeth was six. She witnessed this and dealt with it alone. Maybe it was this early, enforced independence that helped create her fantastically independent mind.

After attending schools in Switzerland and England, she won an exhibition to Somerville College to read PPE. She served as a Wren in the war. Liz met her husband Wayland Young, later 2nd Lord Kennet, at a Cambridge Ball. They married in 1948 and had six children, twelve grandchildren and one great grandchild (so far!).

She applied her cool analytical intelligence to the many causes which interested her. Central to her work was her partnership with Wayland. Liz was proud to be ‘back office’ to Wayland, who had the public platform. We remember her in her massive sofa, surrounded by papers, pamphlets, books (never fiction!). Above all she made connections others had not seen, across different fields, and having ensured that she had securely forged those connections, she would move on to the next cause which required her attention. She had particular expertise in the law of the sea, disarmament, Elizabeth Kennet cyber warfare, and wrote several books, alone or with Wayland.

Till a year before her death, she was attending meetings beetle, a Renaissance painting, a flower, a Hawksmoor at Chatham House, Royal United Services Institute and church. She made sure we knew that justice was the International Institute for Strategic Studies, asking crucial, that truth and facts were necessary, and that difficult questions of visiting politicians and generals. To the sexes were equal but not interchangeable. the end of her life, she continued to write, working on a book started with Wayland before Alzheimer’s claimed Elizabeth Kennet, campaigner and writer, was born on his memory. The book, Pre-emptive Mourning, was so April 14, 1923. She died at home on November 30, grand in scale that she did not manage to complete it, 2014, aged 91, surrounded by her family. She is buried but her family hope that something of it will rise from the with Wayland in Wiltshire, and there will be a Memorial ashes one day. Service for her at Christ Church Spitalfields in London at 3.00pm on 28 November 2015. Liz had a lifelong relationship with beauty, and with justice. She found and saved beautiful things: a dead EASTER RUSSELL 46 | Obituaries

Barbara Tizard (Parker, 1944)

Barbara Parker was born on 6 April 1926. Of working after two further pregnancies, gained a PhD in the class background with a largely absent father and a psychological effects of brain damage. She became a mother heavily involved in teaching, Barbara spent part-time clinical psychologist at the London Hospital much of her early life in boarding schools and with and in 1960 moved to the Maudsley Hospital Children’s various substitute parents. She did not like these Department. arrangements and was critical of her boarding school regimes, but never lost her love for her mother. In 1964 Barbara moved to the Thomas Coram Barbara won a scholarship to St Paul’s School for Research Institute in the Institute of Education where Girls, London, and remained there through much of the Jack himself was now established. She made her name blitz. After a short visit to Oxford, Barbara developed as a fearless researcher in child development, following a passionate desire to win a scholarship to Somerville her own findings even when they were at variance with College. This she did, initially to read medicine, but after received wisdom. She published six books as sole a year switching to PPE. or co-author on subjects including early education, adoption and the effects of race and mixed race on From her childhood Barbara had a strong commitment children’s learning and development. Her interest in to social justice and equality. She became a member mixed race was a personal one. After three children of of the Communist Party but left in 1956 after the Soviet her own she adopted two more of mixed race. invasion of Hungary. I also came up to Somerville in 1944 (to read chemistry) and, as contemporaries with Until Jack died in 1979 Barbara had regarded herself similar political affiliations, we became friends. as a backroom researcher although she was by then a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a In her third year Barbara fell in love with Jack Tizard, a University Reader, and a well-regarded team leader. New Zealander working on a research degree. In 1947 After Jack died, she became director of the Thomas Jack accepted a psychology lectureship at St Andrews, Coram Research Unit, remaining so for 10 years, and while Barbara remained in Oxford. They missed each was promoted to professor. In 1983 Barbara made other greatly and Barbara persuaded the Principal, a number of visits to India, Indonesia and Ethiopia Janet Vaughan, to allow them to marry (then frowned as consultant on early education and childcare for upon for undergraduates). Thus began a happy married WHO and Save the Children. She was shocked by life until Jack died of cancer in 1979, aged 60. the extreme poverty and the frequency of depression among women. Jack moved to research at the Institute of Psychiatry in the Maudsley Hospital, London, in 1948, and Barbara Barbara was an Amnesty International supporter and took a course at University College in the psychology a peace activist. In her retirement she also took a of young children and their development. Meanwhile diploma in fine art and pursued her love of poetry and Barbara and her mother, who had opposed her theatre. She wrote a fascinating memoir Home is where marriage, to a large extent became reconciled. She one starts from. She was a true Somervillian with an had developed cancer and Barbara looked after her enquiring mind, strong opinions and a free spirit. until she died in February 1952. After her first baby, Barbara began research at the Maudsley and in 1956, PAULINE HARRISON (Cowan, 1944) Obituaries | 47

Hilda Jean Harvey (Thompson, 1946)

Jean Harvey (centre front) with the Oxford University Tennis Team

Jean was born in 1925. She was the daughter of Dr In 1946 Jean came up to Somerville to read English. Ashley Thompson, an alumnus of Pembroke College, She had the opportunity of attending lectures by both Cambridge, and Muriel Thompson. Her father had C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, and her tutor was the served in the Great War in the RAMC, was mentioned formidable Mary Lascelles, with whom she stayed in in despatches, and after a spell in the Punjab later touch throughout their joint lives. She took up rock- became Medical Officer of Health in Lambeth, South climbing, and headed the University Ladies’ Tennis London. On her mother’s side, Jean was distantly Team (see photograph, Jean is front centre). related to the artist John Callcott Horsley RA, who painted the first Christmas card. She was the third of After graduation she worked for a time in London, four children, her elder brother being the well-known with a brief spell in the Philippines with Shell. She then zoologist, Professor John Cloudsley-Thompson. started work at the Old Schools in Cambridge, where she met and married (1957) Laurence Marshall Harvey, At St Paul’s Girls’ School she was a Foundation of St Catharine’s College, who rose to become Deputy Scholar and became Head Girl. In 1944 – on her Secretary-General of the Faculties. last day at school – her home was destroyed by a flying bomb, but her family all mercifully survived. She For some years she was content to be a housewife joined the WRNS and became a small part of the then and mother, but later she took up tennis again, and secret world of Bletchley Park for the last few months continued to play well into her seventies. She was of the Second World War. She and her messmates involved in charity work for the blind as Editor for many maintained the Colossus computer in working order, years of Cambridge Talking News, and in the affairs a seemingly mundane mechanical task. Almost the of Grantchester Parish Church. She was an active only hint they had of the importance of their task was member of the Wrens’ Association, the Jane Austen the strict injunction, to which they all faithfully adhered, Society, and the University of the Third Age. She died to keep strict silence about their work – until decades in Addenbrooke’s Hospital on 18 August 2015. She is later, when it became public knowledge, and they were survived by her husband and two sons. sought out by producers of television documentaries. PETER HARVEY 48 | Obituaries

Jean Davies (Roderick, 1947)

Jean Davies was born on 24 April 1928 in Rossington, a Yorkshire mining village. She won a place at a girls’ grammar school in Leeds and, despite hardship, went on to Somerville in 1947 to read PPE. In her first year Jean married Owen Davies, a Rhodes scholar and physicist from New Zealand, without permission from Somerville and so was asked to leave.

Owen became a lecturer at Queen Mary College, London. After their fourth child reached school age, Jean trained as a teacher of history and maths at secondary level, and the family moved to Cardiff.

1982 was a terrible year. First, Jean was treated for breast cancer and had just returned to work when Owen died suddenly of a heart attack in London. She took early retirement and in 1984 she moved to start a new life in Oxford, making up for those lost years at Somerville. She joined the Labour Party, served as a governor of two local primary schools and was active on the Oxford SACRE (Standing Advisory Committee for Religious Education), representing Humanism, a lifelong interest. Jean Davies Jean met Peter Wright at a music weekend in May and they were married in November, declaring that if they Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, was a clear indication. She had ten years together they would consider themselves was determined to die proving her point, but wanted to very lucky. They spent the rest of their lives in happy protect her close family and her medical adviser, who retirement at Pegasus Grange, united by their love of respected her wishes. This left only one very painful music and their respect for each other’s very different choice: slow starvation. Jean was 86, but not suffering take on religion and philosophy: Peter was as devout a from any terminal illness. Christian as Jean was an atheist. Peter died of natural causes in 2008, and in 2014 Jean decided that she no The Sunday Times of October 19th published details of longer wanted to live. She had worked for the cause of her last interview in August, nine days into her long fast. Choice in Dying for thirty years and in 1997 published The final photograph has a hint of that mischievous a book, prefaced by Dirk Bogarde, on the need for a smile that captivated so many people, and the steady change in the law governing Assisted Dying. gaze of one who did not suffer fools gladly. Jean’s heroic odyssey ended in the afternoon on October 1st, At the celebration of Jean’s long and amazing life no having taken much longer than she had hoped. direct reference was made to the manner of her death, but her choice of music, ‘When I am laid in earth’ from ELAINE LEVER (Kelsey, 1957) Obituaries | 49

Patricia Mary Miles (Storey, 1949)

Pat Miles wrote a series of novels for young adults. where she taught English, French and General Studies Illuminated by her passion for history and her classical at the Nobel School, Stevenage. Later she became education, the books are full of loving detail taken from a well-liked tutor on creative writing courses for people and places she knew. If I Survive (1976) tells Hertfordshire schoolchildren. the story of Lady Cathcart of Tewin in Hertfordshire, held prisoner for 20 years by a rascally husband. A In 1978-79 Pat accompanied Francis on a secondment Disturbing Influence (1979) takes place around the to Tokyo. There she taught English as a foreign A1(M) motorway and features Pat’s elder son (me) language and made many Japanese friends. In as a principal character. The Gods in Winter (1978) retirement she worked as a guide at Knebworth House chronicles an apparition of the Greek gods to a family where she was commissioned to write An Uncommon very like our own. Criminal (1999, with Jill Williams), a life of the suffragette Lady Constance Lytton. She was an active She was born in Bolton, Lancashire, on 8 September member of the Society of Authors; her other works 1930, the only child of Robert Storey, a grocery include Nobody’s Child (1975), Louther Hall (1981), The wholesaler, and his wife Bride (née Clancy), who hailed Mind Pirates (1983), Sweet Peril (1987) and Beloved from Tipperary and herself had stories published in Enemy (1987). Ireland’s Own. From Mount St Joseph convent school in Bolton, Pat won a scholarship to Somerville where She was loved by all who knew her. Although her last she read Greats. After her graduation in 1953 she years were clouded by dementia she kept to the end married a fellow Greats scholar, Francis Miles, who had her warm, witty, friendly and charming personality. been at New College and became a sales executive Francis predeceased her. She is survived by her with ICI. children, Siobhan, Hugh and me, and by her She began a teaching career in 1964 at Orpington grandchildren Harry and Eddy. Grammar School for Girls. The following year Pat, PATRICK MILES Francis and their three children moved to Hertfordshire

Carol Elizabeth Clark (Gallagher, 1959)

Carol Elizabeth Gallagher was born in Glasgow on 25 At Somerville, Elizabeth Armstrong’s influence may well November 1940. Her father was an engineer, and her have contributed to Carol’s interest in the 16th century. mother, whose family came from the Tuscan town of She had, as did so many others, the greatest affection Pietrasanta, a book-keeper. Bilingual in English and and admiration for Christina Roaf. She believed in Italian, she attended a Catholic boarding school in Somerville. Girvan, most of her summer holidays being spent abroad with members of her maternal family. After Oxford, Carol taught in schools in London, and later in Bamako, West Africa. In 1966 she obtained a At the age of 16, she matriculated at the University of research scholarship at Westfield College, where she Glasgow to take an Arts MA. From there, in December gained her PhD in 1971. In 1968 she had already been 1958 she won an exhibition to Somerville, in 1962 taking appointed Assistant Lecturer in French at Glasgow a First in French and Italian. University, being promoted to a full Lectureship two years later. 50 | Obituaries

In 1963 she had married David Clark. Their son Paul As her friend Douglas was born two years later. In 1971 her husband died, Duprée has commented however. So when in 1973 she was elected to a elsewhere, her Tutorial Fellowship in Modern Languages at Balliol, friendships with people she was both a widowed mother with a still young young and older were son, and the first woman Fellow of any ancient Oxford truly ‘catholic’. No matter college. In 1999, she became the Balliol fellowship’s how different or how first grandmother. conventional they were, she had curiosity and She taught early modern French literature, her favourite respect for all those she authors including Montaigne, Rabelais, and Molière, met, not minding healthy as well as Baudelaire. Her lectures set both minds and disagreement. She had Carol Clark hearts on fire. a mischievous sense of humour, too. Her own students She published books on Montaigne (1978) and loved her, as did the many others she encountered in a Rabelais (1983). In 1995, her translation of Baudelaire’s variety of college contexts, not least the chapel choir. Selected Poems appeared in Penguin Classics. She After retiring in 2004, she moved to the Marais in Paris, was Tutor for Admissions in Balliol from 1995-98, but dividing her time between there and a house she had found time to co-edit Baudelaire in English (1998), bought in Faversham to be near Paul and his family. again for Penguin Classics. Her translation of The When Paul moved to Canada, she returned to Oxford, Prisoner (vol. 5 of Proust’s In Search of Time Lost) where in 2010, an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol, she was came out in 2002. made a Lecturer at Merton.

The book she was most proud of, however, came more On Sunday 14 June 2015, she had been singing recently. Her French Literature: A Beginners’ Guide with the Balliol chapel choir, when that same evening (2012) is written with exemplary clarity, its sample texts on her way home to Iffley she was taken ill and in French accompanied by her own translations and rushed by ambulance to the John Radcliffe Hospital. commentaries. She had suffered a massive stroke, never regained Carol, like most good teachers, was very particular in consciousness, and died peacefully in the early hours of choosing future students. She asked apparently simple, 20 June. straightforward questions, and she was encouraging ERIC SOUTHWORTH and helpful. Her approach as a tutor was the same.

Lady Juliet Townsend, DCVO (Smith, 1960)

Many of us will remember the then Juliet Smith from circles, these informed her tastes, sympathies and our Somerville interviews as the girl who never stopped opinions, for Juliet was essentially loyal to her family talking – but although nervousness in fact underlay and her upbringing. her apparent confidence, Juliet came from a family of communicators, the granddaughter of the first Viscount Together with a highly developed sense of fun she held Camrose, proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, and of fast to her moral values. So, although she enjoyed the brilliant lawyer F. E. Smith, first Earl of Birkenhead, the (unauthorised) use of her Mini for such unofficial whose devastating wit at the Bar has passed into jaunts as a midnight visit to Avebury, and regularly legend. Brought up in influential literary and political climbed into College after hours, she was not one for Obituaries | 51

the more disreputable parties – although her preference for zest and discretion. It lemon barley water rather than alcohol (she was a lifelong required personal and teetotaller) would have been a useful safeguard. political diplomacy, as well as the sometimes She passed on her love of word games and comic mundane work of intellectual competitions. She entertained little boys organising the details of from a children’s home to tea in college, borrowing a visits in Britain and the rug to dress up as a bear. Children’s books, especially Far East, nineteenth century ones, remained a lasting interest, she herself producing a children’s novel in 1971. At After her marriage Oxford Juliet regularly attended services at Christ Church to John Townsend Cathedral, having an especial love of Evensong. All her in 1970, Juliet and Juliet Townsend life she remained devoted to the Anglican Church and the her husband took on the running of the family farm language of its worship. and estate. As well as bringing up three daughters they established many new enterprises, including a Juliet was uncertain of her future after Somerville: unlike bookshop – and a butcher’s! Increasingly, too, Juliet most of us, she would not have to work for a living, but took on roles in local government and in support of neither would she remain idle. She travelled for a while, local groups and charities. In 1998 she became the first including a stay in Hong Kong, and in 1966, at John woman Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire. Betjeman’s suggestion, she wrote the Shell Guide to her beloved native county of Northamptonshire. In October 2014, just before her death from cancer, Juliet was made a Dame Commander of the Victorian The previous year, however, had been a significant one. Order. Her life had been a full one; she gave as Juliet was invited to be Lady in Waiting to Princess much as she had received. Loving, funny, intelligent, Margaret, who wanted a companion who could also committed to serving others, she was a very great advise her on books and culture. Juliet fulfilled this very friend. demanding role full-time until 1971 and then part-time until the princess’s death in 2002, performing it with both ANNE POPE and CLAIRE COGHLIN (1960)

Kathryn Mary Chaloner (1972)

Kathryn came to study mathematics at Somerville from 1978, after working as a statistician in the Department strong northern roots, having been born and brought up of Employment, Kathryn moved to Pittsburgh, USA in Crewe. She was cheerful and enthusiastic, ready to to pursue a PhD at Carnegie-Mellon University. Her sample all Oxford had to offer. I recall an ill-advised taster thesis, Optimal Bayesian design for linear models, was evening at the University Go club and a longer lasting shared published in 1982. engagement with the Somerville tennis team and flute band. Kathryn also joined college friends in an informal cookery By this time Kathryn had met her husband, Luke club, providing experimental alternatives to supper in Hall. Tierney, an assistant professor at Carnegie-Mellon. We became firm friends, in and out of term, and I came to Together they moved to the University of Minnesota, love her for her courage, directness and good humour. Kathryn as assistant professor in the School of Statistics. Two sons, Graham and Patrick, had been She was an able mathematician and her interest in statistics born by the time I visited them in 1996, the same year blossomed early. After Oxford, she achieved distinction Kathryn was appointed Professor. The northern English on the Masters course at University College London. In accent had gone – she had truly become an American. 52 | Obituaries

Kathryn built up an outstanding reputation in several research fields including Bayesian design of experiments, Bayesian approaches to outliers and residuals, clinical trials, and models for the HIV epidemic. In 2002 the family moved to the University of Iowa where Kathryn became Head of the Department of Biostatistics.

In addition to pursuing the application of cutting-edge statistical methods to medicine and public health, it is evident that Kathryn was a superb mentor with a passion for diversity and the inclusion of underrepresented groups. In 2014, she received the prestigious Elizabeth L. Scott award for her commitment and success in these areas Kathryn Chaloner and ‘for serving as a role model, balancing work and family while excelling as a teacher, researcher and academic administrator.’ work and family until shortly before she died, on 19 October 2014. She is survived by Luke, Graham and Kathryn was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2011 and Patrick, her sister, Debbie, and brother, Christopher. was grateful for the surgery and chemotherapy which prolonged her life, allowing her to remain engaged with VAL JAMES (Jacobs, 1972)

Stephanie (‘Steph’) Simmonds (1990)

Steph was born on 1 March 1972. She came up to read Biological Sciences in 1990. Among the jeans- clad, luggage-laden new freshers, she stood out like a ray of sunlight with her inimitable style, red hair, and great sense of humour.

The youngest of three siblings, a keen horse rider and ballet dancer, Steph experienced life-long medical problems but never let her illness stop her; few knew how ill she was in recent years.

She moved from a successful career in insurance to excel in marketing: as leader of Marketing Services at Acorne, she won the notable accolade of Virgin Star of the Year for her outstanding achievements on Virgin Experiences.

ALEXANDRA WATSON-GANDY (1990) Stephanie Simmonds Academic Report 2014-2015 | 53

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Mathematics and Philosophy, Politics Graduate results Computer Science and Economics Class I Eilidh McKemmie Class I Michael Davies Bachelor of Medicine and Albert Slawinski William Thomas Bachelor of Surgery Class II. II William Juan Class II.I Leo Bentley Distinction Christopher Derry Xiaofan Ji Ewan Blackledge Betty Gration Abigail Carroll Pass Josephine Holland Medical Sciences James Gardner Miriam Longmore Class I Gabrielle Todd Amelia Hamer Kimberley Monks Jonas Hoersch Certificate in Class II.I Rebecca Oram Abdul Huson Diplomatic Studies Emma Pencheon Stratis Limnios Kanoko Matsuzaki Kin Seng Tong Isabel Marr Lawrence Meats Doctor of Philosophy Modern Languages Thomas Smith Class I Laura Schack Clinical Medicine Physics Class II.I Jenny Hewlett Tao-Hsin Chang Class I James Parkinson Laura Jennings Chloe Lockwood Class II.I Ian Buchanan Comparative Philology and Matthew Robinson Jun Jie Leong General Linguistics Daniella Shreir Dong-Hong Ji Physics (BA) Class III Matthew Rylance John Kerby Class II.I Matthew Khan Modern Languages and Class II.II Natalie Fuller Engineering Science Linguistics Faraz Janan Physics and Philosophy (BA) Class I Rowan Lyster Class II.I Marsha Sudar English Music Susan Barbour All students are offered the choice, at the Class II.I Antony Beere start of their course, of opting out of any public list that the University or College History may produce. There are therefore the Fiona Gatty following results to announce, without reference to subject or name: Class I = 2 International Relations Class II.I = 8 Ruben Reike Class II.II = 1 Law Jakub Macak

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Medieval and Modern Master of Science Theoretical Chemistry Languages Pass Anuradha Ashok Chiara Carpita Applied Statistics Pass Yadi Bao Annika Demosthenous Master of Studies

Organic Chemistry Biodiversity, Conservation and Comparative Philology and Management Lukas Lercher General Linguistics Pass Sumanas Koulagi Leo Marx Pass Nok Sze Christie Lam Inga Pfeffer Computer Science Creative Writing Pass Pak Kiu David Choy Pharmacology Distinction Daisy Johnson Yau Pok Lau Global Governance and Pass Hannah Hardy Diplomacy Politics English (1700-1830) Distinction David De-Wei Wong Pui Heng Tseung Pass Rita Mansuryan Pass Jessica Fliegel Statistics Global and Imperial History History of Science, Medicine Pass James Hutton Peter Forbes and Technology Pass Kiley Hunkler Greek and/or Roman History Magister Juris Distinction Thaddeus Thorp Law and Finance Distinction Talita de Souza Dias Pass Shohini Sengupta Modern Languages Distinction Tobias Lutzi Pass Fiona Rhian Dakin Pass Victor Cracan Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing Modern South Asian Studies Master of Philosophy Pass Claudiu Antonovici Pass Jasneet Aulakh Economics Mathematical and Philosophy Pass Katharine Lauderdale Computational Finance Pass Konrad Molitor Pass Yixuan Wang Late Antique and Byzantine US History Studies Pass Zhenru Wang Distinction Gabriel Raeburn Distinction Jeannie Sellick Neuroscience Women's Studies Politics: Political Theory Distinction Lev Tankelevitch Distinction Kiley Hunkler Merit Philip Huff Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Master of Public Policy Pass Victoria Hammond

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Postgraduate Certificate Bryant Scholarship Dukinfield Exhibition in Education Amrit Bal (Biochemistry), Karl Jamie Brynes (Engineering Hudson (Biochemistry), Nathan Science) Pass Simon Walker Mattock (Chemistry) Ginsburg Exhibition Cobbe Scholarship Grace Barnes (Medical Sciences) All students are offered the choice, at the start of their course, of opting out of any Eden Harrison (Engineering Haynes Exhibition public list that the University or College Science), Elizabeth Mansfield Robert Adam (History) may produce. There are therefore the (Physics and Philosophy), Casilda following results to announce, without reference to subject or name: Prado (Philosophy, Politics and Jessel Exhibition Claire Ben-Chorin (Classical Pass = 4 Economics) Archaeology and Ancient History) This list is accurate at the time of print and Haynes Scholarship some exam results may be released after Rizwaan Malik (Philosophy, Politics Jones Exhibition this date. Graduates with an * after their names completed in 2013/14, but their and Economics), Matthew Jennifer Allan (Ancient and Modern results were released after going to print, Moriarty (Law with Law Studies in History) and are therefore included here. Europe) Lefevre Exhibition Jones Scholarship Ursula Gazeley (Philosophy, Politics Awards to Hannah Sharpe (Biological and Economics), Daniel Khan (History) Undergraduate, Graduate Sciences) and Postgraduate Nuffield Scholarship Murray Exhibition Tom Carruthers (Biological Joseph Gilfillan (Engineering Students 2014-15 Sciences), Francois Herinckx Science) Barraclough Scholarship (Engineering Science), Timir Pope Exhibition Weston (Biological Sciences) James Aldred (Modern Abigail Carroll (Philosophy, Politics Languages), Pauline Thien Scourse Scholarship and Economics), Natalie Lo An Lea Chatelan (Modern Magnus Fugger (Medical Sciences) (Engineering Science) Languages), Harriet Dixon (Modern Seymour Scholarship Exhibition Languages), Rebecca Heitlinger Harry Travis (Music) Anna Clark (History), Dominique (Modern Languages), Charlotte David-Vincent (Classics and McLean (Literae Humaniores), Beilby Exhibition Oriental Studies), Harriet Fry Andreea Raslescu (Experimental Ying Zhu (Mathematics and (Modern Languages), Alicia Kaupp- Psychology), Michael Scott Computer Science) Roberts (Jurisprudence), Eleanor (Engineering Science), Alex Worrell Bull Exhibition Lynch (Jurisprudence), Oluwatoyosi (English) Cicely Robinson (Mathematics) Odetunde (Law with Law Studies Beilby Scholarship Coombs Exhibition in Europe), Uxue Rambla Eguilaz (Classical Archaeology and Ancient Amber De Vere (Biological Olivia Anderson (History), Shyamli History) Sciences), Dan-Andrei Gheorghe Badgaiyan (Philosophy, Politics (Computer Science), Anthony Guo and Economics), Helen Ryan (Computer Science), Christina Hunt (Mathematics) (Biological Sciences), Eduardo Rodriguez (Physics) Academic Report 2014-2015 | 57

Prizes and Other Awards (Physics), Cameron Fern Mary Somerville Prizes to Undergraduates and (Mathematics), Magnus Fugger (for a First in the (Medical Sciences), Liam Garrison Graduates Final Honour School (Chemistry), Dan-Andrei Gheorghe Examinations in 2015 (Computer Science), Joseph Archibald Jackson Prizes Robert Adam (History), Olivia Gilfillan (Engineering Science), Anderson (History), Richard (for Graduates with a Anthony Guo (Computer Science), Beck (Engineering Science), Livia Distinction in their exams Callum Hall (Chemistry), Eden Bridge (Experimental Psychology), in 2015) Harrison (Engineering Science), Guy Bud (Ancient and Modern Talita de Souza Dias (Magister Benjamin Hawkey Gilder History), Rosemary Carpenter Juris), Christopher Derry (Clinical (Chemistry), Francois Herinckx (History and Modern Languages), Medicine), Betty Gration (Clinical (Engineering Science), Leonie Tom Carruthers (Biological Medicine), Kiley Hunkler (Women's Hoffmann (Philosophy, Politics Sciences), Anna Cartwright Studies), Daisy Johnson* (Creative and Economics), Kenneth Hughes (Experimental Psychology), Ming Writing), Tobias Lutzi (Magister (Physics), Michael Hutcheon Kwong Chung (Mathematics), Juris), Gabriel Raeburn (US (Physics), Jakob Kastelic (Physics), Michael Davies (Philosophy, History), Jeannie Sellick (Late Prannay Kaul (Engineering Politics and Economics), Xuan Antique and Byzantine Studies), Science), Amy Kidd (Biochemistry), Du (Jurisprudence), Jessica Lev Tankelevitch* (Neuroscience), Tien Sun Lo (Engineering Science), Eastwood (Chemistry), Martin Briar Thompson* (Public Policy), Martha MacLaren (History Engelcke (Engineering Science), Thaddeus Thorp (Greek and/or and Modern Languages), Louis Karl Hudson (Biochemistry), Daniel Roman History), David De-Wei Mercier (Philosophy, Politics Khan (History), Susan Leung Wong (Global Governance and and Economics), David Miron (Chemistry), Rowan Lyster (Modern Diplomacy) (Biological Sciences), Augustus Languages and Linguistics), Eilidh Neate (Engineering Science), McKemmie (Mathematics and Note: Graduates with an * after their Philippa Nicholls (Biological Computer Science), Kimberley names completed in 2013/14, but their Sciences), George Pearson results were released after going to print, Monks (Medical Sciences), James (Chemistry), James Pidgeon and are therefore included here. Parkinson (Physics), Linda Perkio (Physics), Eduardo Rodriguez (Engineering Science), Rachel (Physics), Alexandra Romagnoli Porter (Chemistry), Rory Robinson College Prizes (for a First (Mathematics), Helen Ryan (Mathematics), Laura Schack Class or Distinction in all (Mathematics), Hannah Scott (Modern Languages), Michael (History), Andrew Smith (Physics), exams other than Finals Scott (Engineering Science), Tsz Long Tang (Molecular and in 2015) Albert Slawinski (Mathematics Cellular Biochemistry), Peter Gabriel Asman (Computer and Computer Science), William Thompson (Classical Archaeology Science), Emma Beer Thomas (Philosophy, Politics and and Ancient History), You Wu (Mathematics), Krishan Bhalla Economics), James Thompson (Engineering Science), Dianzhi (Mathematics), Christopher (Computer Science), Gabrielle Yu (Mathematics and Computer Broughton (Modern Languages), Todd (Medical Sciences), Anna- Science), Chengzhi Zhou Jamieson Brynes (Engineering Sophia Warren (Experimental (Engineering Science) Science), Peru d'Ornellas Psychology), Fabian Mucheng Ying (Mathematics) 58 | Academic Report 2014-2015

Principal’s Prizes 2015 Postgraduate Awards University and External Awarded to those students who awards scored in the top 5% or better Alice Horsman Scholarship of their subject and/or gained Nathalie Botcherby (English Classics Declamation Prize top marks for a dissertation or Language and Literature), Jennifer for Latin Reading in a particular set of papers in a Butler (Classics), Anna Cartwright Dominique David-Vincent university examination. (Experimental Psychology) , Callum (Classics and Oriental Studies) Robert Adam (History), Xuan Clifton (Experimental Psychology), Du (Jurisprudence), Martin Rachel Cummings (English Margaret Harris Engelcke (Engineering), Rachel Language and Literature), Holly Memorial Prize Porter (Chemistry), Terence Tang Ewart (Classics), Sara Ffrench- Christopher Derry (Medicine) (Biochemistry), Chengzhi (Tom) Constant (Medicine), Polly Zhou (Engineering Year 3) Fullerton (English Language and Gibbs Book Prize Susan Leung* (Chemistry) Graduate degrees: Literature), Ruth Hopkins (Music), Jack Kennedy (Biochemistry), Talita d’Souza (M. Jur), Tobias Lutzi GlaxoSmithKline 3rd Year Daniel Khan (History), Eve (M. Jur) Undergraduate Prize in McQuillan (PPE), Zoe Moores Practical Organic Chemistry (Classics and Modern Languages), Margaret Irene Seymour Susan Leung* (Chemistry) Instrumental Awards Delia Morris (Modern Languages), SaffiyahKeig-Momin (Music), Emily Nott (Modern Languages Hogan Lovells Law Prize and Linguistics), Harry Spencer Steve Park (Chemistry), Rosemary Du Xuan (Jurisprudence) Pearce (English) (Biological Sciences), Anna-Sophia Warren (Experimental Psychology), BP Prize for Best Somerville Lawyers Reem Yahia (Pharmacology) Performance in Group Prize Chemical Engineering Somerville College Alumni Xuan Du (Law) Robin Nyland* (Engineering Scholarships Science) Sarah Smithson Prize Martin Engelcke (Engineering Chloe Lockwood (Modern Science), Alex Fraser Laurence Binyon Prize (Psychological Research) Languages) Laura Schack (Modern Languages)

Gibbs Prize Andrew Smith* (Physics)

Awards with an * were awarded in 2013/14 after going to print, and are therefore included here.

Note: This list is accurate at the time of print and some prizes may be awarded after this date. Academic Report 2014-2015 | 59

Students Entering Classical Archaeology and Carys Miller, Stantonbury Campus College in 2014-15 Ancient History Henrietta Mosforth, King Edward Hannah Gain, Groton School, USA VI Camp Hill School for Girls Undergraduates Peter Thompson, Hills Road Sixth Daunish Negargar, King Edward VI Form College Camp Hill School for Boys Ancient and Modern History Madeleine Wood, Roundhay Computer Science School, All-through education Frederick Clamp-Gray, Abingdon Radu-Bogdan , Colegiul from 4 to 18 (formerly Technology School Berteanu National Andrei Saguna College) Biological Sciences Engineering Science Experimental Psychology Jonathan Baker, Highgate School Prannay Kaul, Birkdale School Emily Albery, Kings College Georgina Baynham, Hereford Sixth Sheffield Taunton Form College Michael Lin, Pate's Grammar Helen Burridge, Central Sussex Charles Chen, Reading School School College, Haywards Heath Campus Nina Faure Beaulieu, Lycee Augustus Neate, Radley College Francais Charles De Gaulle History James North, Royal Grammar Angelina Konnova, School of David Barker, King Edward VI School, Buckinghamshire Young Politicians Gymnasium 1306 Grammar School, Chelmsford Lenard Ong, Jerudong International David Miron, JFS School Anna Bett, Wilmslow High School School Philippa Nicholls, City of London Tomas Dillon, Forest School, You Wu, Raffles Junior College, Freemen's School Snaresbrook Singapore Kirsten Simkin, St Pauls Girls Matthew Evans, The Perse School School English and Modern George Galla, King Edward's Languages School, Edgbaston Chemistry Joanna Kaye, Walthamstow Hall, Fairlie Kirkpatrick Baird, Bernards Nicola Bailey, Saffron Walden Sevenoaks High School County High School Shari Landa, Thomas S Wootton Frances Green-Armytage, English Language and High School Norwich High School for Girls Literature Joshua McStay, William Howard Callum Hall, The Crypt School Maria Adebisi, Greenford High School Steve Park, Camberwell Grammar School, Greenford Hannah Scott, Wellington College, School Rosalie Baxter, John Roan School Crowthorne Callum Prentice, The Sixth Form Jack Cottam, Merchant Taylors' Naomi Southwell, Crompton College, Solihull School House CofE School Ayane Semba, Lancing College Isabel Ireland, Chiswick School Frances Varley, Heckmondwike Caitlin Jauncey, Ysgol Morgan Grammar School Academy Trust Llwyd History and Economics Daniel Keane, Ibstock Place School Daniel Smith, Leventhorpe Trust Charles la Fosse, Cranleigh (formerly The Leventhorpe School) School, Cranleigh 60 | Academic Report 2014-2015

History and Modern Mathematics and Statistics Lara Chittick, Woodbridge School, Woodbridge Languages Hongyan Wang, The International Martha MacLaren, Wallington High Centre of Normal College, Connor Jackman, St. Joseph's School For Girls Shenzhen University Catholic Academy Katharine Ward, Wycombe Abbey Sophie Jackson, Tonbridge School, High Wycombe Mathematics in Mathematics Grammar School Cameron Fern, The Crypt School Tzvetelina Tzonova, European Jurisprudence Louise O'Rourke, Inverurie School, Luxembourg 1 Zachary Foo, St. Andrew's Junior Academy Kate Wasyliw, Greenhead College, College, Singapore Alexandra Romagnoli, Presdales Huddersfield Alicia Kaupp-Roberts, European School School, Culham Janessa Stackhouse, Walsall Molecular and Cellular Eleanor Lynch, Farringtons School Academy Biochemistry Amy Kidd, Clitheroe Royal Amelia Nguyen, British International Andrew Tweddle, Prior Pursglove Grammar School School, Vietnam College Katie Paul, Wellington School, Oluwatoyosi Odetunde, Newstead James Woodfield, Loreto College, Somerset Wood School Manchester Finn Strivens, Highgate School Kate Ross, Bablake School Medical Sciences Martin Vesely, Dollar Academy Zeyang Wu, Raffles Junior College, Stavros Dimitriadis, Costeas- Singapore Gitonas School, Greece Music Literae Humaniores Calum McIntyre, Aquinas Diocesan SaffiyahKeig-Momin , Altrincham Grammar School. Belfast Girls Grammar School Satoko Aizawa, Uppingham School Miranda Rogers, Magdalen Harry McSwaine, Calday Grange College School, Oxford Grammar School Chloe Funnell, Kent College, Tunbridge Wells Oliver Shotton, St Paul's School, London Philosophy, Politics and Natalie Milner, Twycross House Economics School, Atherstone Zoe Thursz, Berkhamsted School William Barrott, Westminster Connor Roth, The Hotchkiss School School Medicine John Frazer, Foyle and Yoojin Chung, Korean Minjok Rebecca Todd, Cheltenham Londonderry College Leadership Academy Ladies' College Eleanor Grant, University of Michael Costante, Nottingham Mathematics and Computer Sheffield High School Science Shaya Ghadimi, King's College Modern Languages School Robert Kirk, St Aidans & St John Fisher Associated Sixth Form, Martha Bellamy, St Pauls Girls Leonie Hoffmann, BG Harrogate School Seebachergasse Graz Dianzhi Yu, Dipont Education Christopher Broughton, Nicholas Machin, Collyers VI Form Management Group, China Manchester Grammar School College, Horsham Academic Report 2014-2015 | 61

Louis Mercier, Tiffin School Doctor of Philosophy in Grace Young, Massachusetts Angela Shi, Auckland International Biochemistry Institute of Technology College Nadiya Ishnazarova, Moscow M V Doctor of Philosophy Lomonosov State University Russia Physics in Geography and the Scott Bennetton, Poole Grammar Doctor of Philosophy in Environment School Classical Archaeology Narendra Killada, The University of Oxford James Dborin, Queen Elizabeth's Foteini Athanasiadou, King's School, Barnet College London Doctor of Philosophy in David Hung, St Paul's School, History London Doctor of Philosophy in James McAuley jr, The University Joanne McAtear, Ullswater Clinical Medicine of Oxford - Somerville College Community College Lucas Malla, Limburgs Universitair Centrum (LUC), Diepenbeek James Pidgeon, Greenhead Doctor of Philosophy in College, Huddersfield Doctor of Philosophy in History (History of Science Cameron Saint, Queen Mary's Clinical Neurosciences and Medicine & Economic College and Social History) Hakan Cetin, Vienna University Physics and Philosophy Austria Peter Denby, University of Buckingham Luke Stamper, Cheney School Jeffrey Martin, University of Nijmegen Ligita Visockyte, London School of Economics and Political Science Graduates Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Philology and Doctor of Philosophy in Law Auto Intelligent Machines and General Linguistics Andrea Zappalaglio, University Systems (EPSRC CDT) Joseph Lovestrand, Graduate College London Stefan Saftescu, The University of Institute of Applied Linguistics Oxford Doctor of Philosophy in Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics Bachelor of Medicine and Computer Science Pengyu Wei, Chinese University of Bachelor of Surgery Filippos Lazos, National Technical Hong Kong Radhika Sholapurkar, The Unversity of Athens Greece University of Oxford - Somerville Doctor of Philosophy in Brendan Shillingford, University of College Medieval and Modern British Columbia Matthew David Titterington, The Languages University of Oxford Doctor of Philosophy in Joanna Raisbeck, The University Engineering Science of Oxford - Somerville College Certificate in Diplomatic Ibrahim Almosallam, University of Studies Missouri-Columbia Doctor of Philosophy in Music Kanoko Matsuzaki, Keio University Alice Barron, Royal Academy of Deyan Dimitrov, Linkoping Music University Sweden 62 | Academic Report 2014-2015

Doctor of Philosophy in Doctor of Philosophy in Master of Philosophy in Neuroscience Psychiatry International Relations Lev Tankelevitch, University Eloise Stark, The University of Rebecca Kuperberg, Haverford College London Oxford College

Doctor of Philosophy in Doctor of Philosophy in Master of Philosophy in Organic Chemistry Theoretical Physics Social Anthropology Tim Markovic, Gottfried Wilhelm Nicholas William Jennings, The Shahana Munazir, The University Leibniz Universitat Hannover University of Cambridge of Oxford - Somerville College Thomas Wilson, The University of York Doctor of Philosophy in Master of Public Policy Zoology Abraham Akoi, Johns Hopkins Doctor of Philosophy in Nishant Kumar, Saurashtra University Pharmacology University, Rajkot Ouiem Chettaoui, Institut Superieur Amelie Gavard, Universite Paul des Sciences Humaines de Tunis Magister Juris Sabatier (Toulouse III) Sondos Shalaby, The American Kim Wals, Vrije University Victor Cracan, Institut d Etudes University in Cairo Netherlands Politiques de Paris, France Talita de Souza Dias, Universidade Master of Science by Research Doctor of Philosophy in Federal de Pernambuco Brazil in Inorganic Chemistry Philosophy Tobias Lutzi, University of Cologne Diming Xu, Nanjing University China Yuanbo Liu, The University of Germany Oxford Master of Science by Research Master of Business in Oncology Doctor of Philosophy in Administration Aaron Simpson, The University of Physiology, Anatomy and Jaime Allinson Reading Genetics Jessica Lau Tirsa van Westering, The University Master of Science in Adam McKay of Bristol Computer Science Master of Philosophy in Ruben Janssen, University of Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Amsterdam Sciences English Studies (Medieval) Romperto Vasileios, Koustas Gala Pouzanov, Queen Mary and Friederike Grosse-Holz, Ruprecht- University College London Westfield College Karls Universitat Heidelberg Konrad Strack, AGH University Germany Master of Philosophy in in of Science and Technology / Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza (AGH) Doctor of Philosophy in Modern Languages im. Stanislawa Staszica w Krakowie Primary Health Care Fiona Rhian Dakin, The University of Exeter Ioannis Zifos, National and Helen Ashdown, The University of Capodistrian (Kapodistrian) Oxford University of Athens Academic Report 2014-2015 | 63

Master of Science in Master of Science Master of Studies in English Contemporary India in Mathematics and Lindsey-Anne Bridges, King's Aamaal Akhtar, University of Delhi Foundations of Comp Sci College London Saumya Krishna, University of Yuchen Wu, University College Rita Mansuryan, University of Western Ontario London California, Los Angeles

Master of Science in Master of Science in Master of Studies in Global Environmental Change and Pharmacology and Imperial History Management Yusra Shah, The University of James Hutton, University of Cape Garima Singh, TERI School of Southampton Town Advanced Studies Master of Science in Master of Studies in Greek Master of Science in Global Psychological Research and/or Roman History Governance and Diplomacy Alexander Fraser, University of Thaddeus Thorp, The University of Jessica Fliegel, Catholic University Wales, Bangor Liverpool of America Washington DC Wenjia Zhao, Tsinghua University Master of Studies in Shagun Gupta, University of Delhi Master of Science in Medieval History David De-Wei Wong, National Radiation Biology Kalil Jack Copley, University of University of Singapore Yuechuan Chi, University of Toronto Durham Master of Science in Law Master of Studies in Modern and Finance Master of Science in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies South Asian Studies Shohini Sengupta, National Law Jasneet Aulakh, University of Institute University, Bhopal Victoria Hammond, University of Melbourne Southern California Master of Science in Master of Studies in US Mathematical and Master of Science in History Computational Finance Water Science, Policy and Management Gabriel Raeburn, The University of Yixuan Wang, The University of Sussex Oxford Ranu Sinha, London School of Economics and Political Science Zhenru Wang, Fudan University, Master of Studies in China Master of Studies in Women's Studies Master of Science in Creative Writing Kiley Hunkler, The University of Mathematical Modelling and Jonathan Crossley, Loyola Oxford - Somerville College Marymount University Scientific Computing Postgraduate Certificate Thomas Gaudelet, Ecole Centrale Stefano Domingues de Castro in Education de Lyons, France Pachi, Ruprecht-Karls Universitat Heidelberg Germany Simon Walker, The University of Emily Susan Kruger, The University Oxford - Somerville College of Keele 64 | Somerville Development Board

Somerville Development Board

Clara Freeman OBE Niels Kroner (Philosophy & Honorary Development (Jones, History, 1971), Chair Mod. Lang., 1996) Board Members Former Executive Director of Stores Managing Director, Green Hedge & Personnel, Marks & Spencer; Renewables plc Harriet Maunsell OBE Honorary Fellow (Dawes, PPE, 1962; Nicola Ralston Honorary Fellow) Hilary Newiss (PPP, 1974), (Thomas, History, 1974) Deputy Chair Director, Co-Founder, PiRho Lawyer; former Head of Intellectual Investment Consulting; Non- Doreen Boyce (Vaughan, Property, Denton Hall Executive Director; Honorary Fellow PPE, 1953; Honorary Fellow)

Basma Alireza (PPE, 1991) Sybella Stanley (Ancient & Paddy Crossley Vice President of Corporate Affairs Mod. History, 1979) (Earnshaw, Chemistry, 1956) Rezayat Europe Limited Director of Corporate Finance, RELX Group plc Lyn Haight Tom Bolt (Schofield, Classics, 1966) Franchise Performance Director, Sian Thomas Marshall Lloyds (Biology, 1989) Margaret Kenyon Former Brand Manager at Proctor (Parry, Mod. Lang., 1959; & Gamble and Account Director at Ayla Busch (PPE, 1989) Honorary Fellow) Saatchi & Saatchi Managing Director and owner, Busch Holding GmbH Nadine Majaro (PPE, 1975) Dr Alice Prochaska Sam Gyimah (PPE, 1995) (History, 1965), Principal Member of Parliament for East of Somerville Roger Pilgrim Surrey and Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State for Childcare and Education Somerville Association Officers and Committee | 65

Somerville Association Officers and Committee, as at 15 March 2015

President Joint Secretaries Committee Members

Susan Scholefield Elizabeth Cooke Nick Cooper (Psychology (Classics, 1973), (Greenwood, History, 1964) and Philosophy, 2008) CMG, elected 9 March 2013 01865 270632 or [email protected] [email protected] Home tel. 01608 683346; Nick is doing graduate work in Susan joined the Civil Service in [email protected] Psychology at St John’s College, 1981 and worked in a fascinating Practised at the Bar for 10 years; Oxford. range of departments, finally has worked for Somerville since as Director General for Human 1987. Lives in North Oxfordshire. Richard Forrest (Classics & Resources and Corporate Services for the Ministry of Defence. From Modern Languages, 1994) Lisa Gygax (PPE, 1987) 2012 to 2014 she was School rich.forrest Secretary at the London School of Tel. 01865 270632; @pensionsadvisoryservice.org.uk [email protected] Economics and Political Science. Richard works for an offshoot of the She is a magistrate. Department for Work & Pensions. An alumnus of the first mixed year at Somerville, he lives in London and Oxford with his wife Emily (née Freedland, 1994).

Mrs Juliet Johnson (Adams, History, 1975) [email protected]

Ben Pilgrim (English, 2006) [email protected] Ben works for the advertising agency AKA, where his main client is the Royal Opera House. When at Somerville he was President of the JCR.

Susan Scholefield Lisa Gygax 66 | Somerville Association Officers and Committe

Dr Natasha Robinson Ms Lorna Sutton Fellows Appointed by (Physiology, 1972) (History, 2010) the College Natasha is a Consultant Lorna is living in London and Anaesthetist and Associate Director has been doing an internship at at Northampton General Hospital. the Institute for Government, an Dr Benjamin Thompson Her mother and her daughter were independent think tank, working (Fellow and Tutor in also at Somerville and her father alongside two other Somervillians. Medieval History) taught Physics here for many years. [email protected] Mrs Karen Twining Fooks His mother is a Somervillian (Joy Ms Virginia Ross (Twining, English, 1978) née Taylor, 1951). Dean 2001-4. He sings and is involved in College (MCR, 1966) [email protected] music, and co-ordinates the annual [email protected] Karen is an International College Commemoration Service. Retired as Head of Finance & Development consultant, working Administration, Undergraduate with International NGOs, with a Admissions Office, University of focus on Africa. She also manages Professor Fiona Stafford Oxford. Alumni groups for Oxfam, ActionAid (Fellow and Tutor in English) and others. [email protected] Ms Beth Seaman There is a photograph and profile of (Physiology & Psychology, Mrs Frances Walsh Fiona on page 9 of the Somerville Magazine 2010. 2004) (Innes, History, 1956) [email protected] [email protected] Beth qualified as a Frances is a retired History Tutor chartered accountant with and Emeritus Fellow, Harris PricewaterhouseCoopers and is Manchester College, Oxford. now Commercial Finance Manager at Arcadia Group. She was JCR Secretary while at Somerville.

Two Committee vacancies will occur in 2016 and nominations are invited for election at the next AGM (Saturday 12 March 2016). Please send all nominations to Liz Cooke ([email protected]) or Lisa Gygax ([email protected]) Events Programme 2015-2016 | 67

Events Programme 2015-16 Events are in College unless otherwise stated

2015 2016 4 October Literary Luncheon: 22 January Symposium Simon Russell Beale Remembering Eleanor Rathbone : From 16 October Ada Lovelace Somerville to Bicentenary/ Westminster, 1893-1946 Mathematical Institute 18-9 April US Reunion in 3 December Carol Concert for Washington Alumni tbc 12 March Winter meeting and Parents’ Luncheon

11 June Commemoration Service

25-26 June Gaudy for matric years pre 1964

Details of some of these events are already on the College website (www.some.ox.ac.uk/alumni/). Further details will be supplied in due course and any enquires should be directed in the first place to Liz Cooke at Somerville (tel. 01865 270632, email [email protected])

The Somerville London Group holds regular events in London and these are usually advertised by email; if you would like to be included in this email circulation, or if you are interested in helping to organise events in London, please contact Liz Cooke [email protected] 62 | Events Programme 2015-2016

Events Programme 2015-16 Events are in College unless otherwise stated

2015 2016 4 October Literary Luncheon: 22 January Symposium Simon Russell Beale Remembering Eleanor Rathbone : From 16 October Ada Lovelace Somerville to Bicentenary/ Westminster, 1893-1946 Mathematical Institute 18-9 April US Reunion in 3 December Carol Concert for Washington Alumni tbc 12 March Winter meeting and Parents’ Luncheon

11 June Commemoration Service

25-26 June Gaudy for matric years pre 1964

Details of some of these events are already on the College website (www.some.ox.ac.uk/alumni/). Further details will be supplied in due course and any enquires should be directed in the first place to Liz Cooke at Somerville (tel. 01865 270632, email [email protected])

The Somerville London Group holds regular events in London and these are usually advertised by email; if you would like to be included in this email circulation, or if you are interested in helping to organise events in London, please contact Liz Cooke [email protected] Somerville College Oxford OX2 6HD Telephone 01865 270600 www.some.ox.ac.uk

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