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MASTER Timothy Cook, MA, DPhil Oxf Cressida E Chappell, BA, MA W I F (Bill) David, MA, DPhil Adrian L Smith, BSc Keele, K W M (Bill) Fulford, MB Professor Kersti E Börjars, Fellow by Special Election Hull, MA Oxf Oxf, FRS MSc Wales, MA Oxf, PhD Nott BChir Camb, MA, DPhil Oxf, FK Stockholm, Drs Leiden, Fellow by Special Election Fellow by Special Election in Tutor in Zoology PhD Lond, FRCP, FRCPsych Richard I Todd, MA Camb, MA, PhD Manchester Academic Registrar Physics Associate Professor in Fellow by Special Election MA, DPhil Oxf from January 2020 Secretary to the Governing Infectious Diseases Tutor in Materials Sciences Richard M Bailey, BSc Leics, Heidi de Wet, BSc North- Body FELLOWS Goldsmiths’ Fellow MA Oxf, MSc, PhD RHUL Andreas Muench, MA Oxf, Dr West, DPhil Cape Town Fram E Dinshaw, MA, Professor of Materials David R H Gillespie, MA, Tutor in Geography phil, Dipl TU Munich Tutor in Pre-clinical Medicine DPhil Oxf Vice-Master DPhil Oxf Professor of Environmental Tutor in Mathematics Associate Professor in Official Fellow Tutor in Engineering Science Systems Associate Professor in Applied Physiology Marc Lackenby, MA Oxf, Finance Bursar Rolls-Royce Fellow Dean Mathematics PhD Camb Associate Professor in Philipp E Koralus, BA Peter D Battle, MA, DPhil Tutor in Pure Mathematics Gaia Scerif, BSc St And, Udo C T Oppermann, BSc, Engineering Science Pomona, MA Oxf, PhD Oxf Leathersellers’ Fellow PhD UCL MSc, PhD Philipps Marburg Princeton Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry Professor of Mathematics Peter P Edwards, BSc, PhD Tutor in Psychology Professor of Musculoskeletal Tutor in Philosophy Professor of Chemistry (Leave M19-H20) Salf, MA Oxf, FRS Professor of Developmental Sciences Fulford Fellow in Philosophy of Pro-Master from March Professor of Inorganic Cognitive Neuroscience Marc E Mulholland, BA, MA, Alain Goriely, Lic, PhD Mind & Cognitive Science to December 2019(Leave Chemistry PhD Belf, MA Oxf Karl Sternberg, MA Oxf Brussels, MA Oxf Fulford Clarendon Associate H20-T20) Tutor in History Patrick S Grant, BEng Nott, Fellow by Special Election Professor of Mathematical Professor in Philosophy of A Gervase Rosser, MA Wolfson Fellow MA, DPhil Oxf, FREng Modelling Mind Christoph Reisinger, MA Oxf, Courtauld, MA Oxf, PhD Lond Professor of Modern History Vesuvius Professor of Materials Dr phil Heidelberg, Dipl Linz Naomi Freud, MA, MSc Oxf Andrew J Dickinson, BCL, Tutor in History of Art Senior Tutor Justine N Pila, BA, LLB, PhD Tutor in Mathematics Fellow by Special Election MA Oxf Professor of the History Gavin Lowe, MA, MSc, Melb, MA Oxf Professor of Applied Director of Studies for Visiting Tutor in Law of Art DPhil Oxf Tutor in Law Mathematics Students Professor of Law Librarian Tutor in Computer Science (Leave M19-H20) Bart B van Es, BA, MPhil, Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr, Duncan A Robertson, BSc Ian P J Shipsey, BSc QMUL, Professor of Computer Science PhD Camb Grunnfag Oslo, BA Yale, MA, Imp, MA, DPhil Oxf MA Oxf, PhD Edin John S Foord, MA, PhD President of the Senior Tutor in English DPhil Oxf Fellow by Special Election in Henry Moseley Centenary Camb, MA Oxf Common Room Sullivan Fellow Tutor in English Management Professor of Experimental Tutor in Physical Chemistry Richard M Berry, MA, DPhil Sullivan Clarendon Professor of Professor of English and Physics Professor of Chemistry Peter T Ireland, MA, DPhil Oxf English Literature Theatre Studies (Leave M19-T20) Oxf, FREng Philip H S Torr, BSc S’ton, Tutor in Physics (Leave M19) (Leave H20) Donald Schultz Professor of DPhil Oxf, FREng Robert A Leese, MA Oxf, Professor of Biological Physics Tommaso Pizzari, BSc Aberd, Angela B Brueggemann, BSc Turbomachinery Fellow by Special Election in PhD Durh Ashok I Handa, MB BS Imp, MA Oxf, PhD Sheff St Olaf, MSc Iowa, DPhil Oxf Engineering Science Fellow by Special Election in Pekka Hämäläinen, MA, PhD MA Oxf, FRCS Tutor in Zoology Fellow by Special Election in Professor of Engineering Mathematics Helsinki, MA Oxf Fellow by Special Election in Professor of Evolutionary Biological Sciences Science Chief Technical Officer of the Rhodes Professor of American Medicine Biology Professor of Infectious Disease Smith Institute History Fiona R McConnell, BA Camb, Associate Professor in Surgery (Leave M19) Epidemiology MA, PhD QMUL Louise L Fawcett, BA UCL, Tutor for Graduates Benjamin A F Bollig, BA Nott, Byron W Byrne, BCom, James E Thomson, MChem, Tutor in Geography MA, MPhil, DPhil Oxf MA, PhD KCL, MA Oxf James L Bennett, BA R’dg, BEng Western Australia, MA, DPhil Oxf Associate Professor in Human Tutor in Politics Tutor in Spanish MA Oxf DPhil Oxf Fellow by Special Election in Geography Wilfrid Knapp Fellow Professor of Spanish American Fellow by Special Election Fellow by Special Election in Chemistry Professor of International Literature Laura Tunbridge, BA Oxf, MA Home Bursar Engineering Science Tutor for Admissions Relations (Leave H20-T20) Nott, PhD Princeton Ørsted/Royal Academy (Leave M19-T20) David J Womersley, MA, Andrew J Bunker, MA, Tutor in Music of Engineering Research Eleanor P J Stride, BEng, PhD PhD Camb, MA, DPhil, DLitt DPhil Oxf Henfrey Fellow Penny A Handford, BSc, PhD Professor in Advanced UCL, MA Oxf, FREng Oxf, FBA Tutor in Physics Professor of Music S’ton, MA Oxf Geotechnical Design Fellow by Special Election in Warton Professor of English Professor of Astrophysics (Leave M19-T20) Tutor in Biochemistry Professor of Engineering Engineering Science Literature (Leave M19-H20) Wolfson Fellow Science Professor of Biomaterials Professor of Biochemistry CONTENTS Contents

Pro-Master’s Report 2 College Life The Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professorship 5 Senior Tutor’s Report 6 Tutor for Admissions’ Report 8 Tutor for Graduates’ Report 10 Visiting Students Report 11 From the Library 12 From the Archive 14 The Development Office 15 Postcards to the Pro-Master 18 JCR Report 20 MCR Report 21 Sports and Societies Review 22 Finals Results & Prizes 2019 24 Student Perspectives CatzExchange 2019 30 Oliver Vince (2018, DPhil Engineering Science) 32 Ben Ransom (2018, MBA) 35 Laurel Constanti Crosby (2017, Biological Sciences) 38 Alumni News Charlotte Baker (2010, Modern Languages) 40 Robert Morrison (1984, English) 44 Catz Fellows Ian Shipsey (Experimental Physics) 46 Byron Byrne 47 Kirsten Shepherd-Barr 48 College News News in Brief 50 College Events 2020 51 The College Time Capsule 51 Prize Crossword 52 Gazette Obituaries 2019 54 Admissions 2019 72

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ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2019/1 MESSAGESCOLLEGE LIFE

Our finalists Pro-Master’s carried us to fourth place in Report the provisional

One event has dominated College life this year, Norrington namely the death of the late Master, Professor Roger Table and so, Ainsworth. Roger was the longest-serving Master in the history of the College and he was also, at the time of following last his death, the longest-serving Head of House in Oxford. He was described by Peter Oppenheimer in the Oxford year’s third Magazine as ‘indisputably the outstanding Oxford Head place, we can of House of his generation.’ now describe Pro-Master, Peter Battle During the course of the year we also lost Professor ourselves as Ceri Peach. He was a Fellow and Tutor here for 38 years, There has also been academic success at national during which time he served as Bursar, Senior Tutor and ‘typically in the and international level amongst the Fellowship. John Acting Master. A full account of his career appeared in Goodenough and Ian Shipsey have won, respectively, the last edition of The Year. We have also heard of the top five’. the Nobel Prize and Copley Medal of the Royal Society, death of Ernest French, always known as Nelson, who and the Chadwick Medal of the Institute of Physics, and was the Domestic Bursar from 1976 to 1987. I remember Richard Todd’s research has been recognised by the sitting next to him at the first Feast I attended in 1980. European Ceramic Society. Philip Torr and Peter Ireland have been elected Fellows of the Royal Academy of There have, however, been some bright moments Engineering. In the Humanities, Bart van Es won the during the last 12 months. Our finalists carried us to Costa Book Award for his widely acclaimed biographical fourth place in the provisional Norrington Table and so, work The Cut-Out Girl. Within the University, Byron following last year’s third place, we can now describe Byrne won the MPLS Division Impact Award for his work ourselves as ‘typically in the top five’. This reflects on offshore wind turbines, Ashok Handa, our Tutor the hard work put in by Marc Mulholland, our Senior for Graduates, received a Lifetime Achievement Award Tutor, and by the Tutorial Fellows and College Lecturers. and Richard Bailey, the Dean, was given the title of

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Professor of Environmental Systems. The Fellowship (1973, Geography) and Professor Geoffrey Maitland The major also bask in the reflected glory of the alumni; Jonathon (1965, Chemistry) and an MBE for Professor Duncan Swinard (2008, Music) and Richard Atkins (1985, Law) Lawson (1978, Mathematics). ongoing have been appointed Head of Music at Garsington infrastructure Opera and Chair of the Bar Council, respectively and Of course the College also prides itself on the the Institute of Physics awarded the David Tabor Medal achievements of the students away from the classroom, project to Adrian Sutton (1973, Metallurgy). Other Fellows and this year 36 of them were invited to the annual and alumni have been summoned to the Palace to Blues’ Lunch in the Master’s Lodgings. They included within the receive their awards: a knighthood for Simon Russell Augustin Wambersie (2018, Engineering Science) who College is the Beale (Emeritus Fellow), a CMG for Professor Richard rowed in the Boat Race, and Conor Hennessy (2018, Carwardine (Honorary Fellow), CBE’s for Dr. Samir Shah Medical Sciences) and Ben Ransom (2018, Management construction of the new graduate accommodation and MCR at the northern edge of our site, to be opened by Sarah Ainsworth as the Ainsworth Graduate Centre early in 2020.

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I have Studies) who played in the Mens’ Varsity Match, with team. However, it is important to stress that the entire the latter winning the Player of the Match award. Fellowship is behind them on this issue. Our flagship mentioned project is Catalyst, a scheme that will initially focus on the people The major ongoing infrastructure project within the establishing sustained contact with state schools in the College is the construction of the new graduate Lewisham area. We hope to replicate the scheme in who lead accommodation and MCR at the northern edge of our other regions in the fullness of time. site, to be opened by Sarah Ainsworth as the Ainsworth our efforts in Graduate Centre early in 2020. This development has Looking to the future, next year this report will be particular areas been steered, in different ways, by the Finance Bursar, delivered by Professor Kersti Börjars, currently the Fram Dinshaw, the Home Bursar, James Bennett, and Master-Elect. She is a distinguished Professor of but I must the former Director of Development, Saira Uppal. Linguistics at the University of Manchester and, in They have been aided by the other members of the my opinion, a very good thing. We have to thank the emphasise that Building Committee: Byron Byrne, Andrew Dickinson Vice-Master, Penny Handford, for steering the election in my time as and Ashok Handa. This development will represent a process to a successful conclusion; other colleges have significant advance in the facilities we are able to offer not fared so well in the last twelve months. Pro-Master I to our graduate students. We are deeply indebted to have always all those who have contributed financially towards its In February I took on the best job in the world in the construction. I am sorry to say that this project marks worst possible circumstances. I wouldn’t have been able felt that I the end of Saira Uppal’s nine-year association with St to do it without the help of the College Officers who, Catherine’s. She has overseen a great strengthening between them, have stopped me making too many could count of our links with our alumni and she deserves a huge blunders. I am truly grateful for the support that I have on the whole vote of thanks. Jane Rogers has joined us as the new received from all of them. Throughout this speech I have Director of Development and we should thank Emma mentioned the people who lead our efforts in particular Fellowship Simpson for taking on additional responsibilities in the areas but I must emphasise that in my time as Pro- for support Development Office during the changeover period. Master I have always felt that I could count on the whole Fellowship for support when needed, and I am very when needed, The other issue that is dominating both the College grateful to all of them. But it goes beyond that. I have and the wider University is access. That is, ensuring felt that everybody, the alumni, the students and all of and I am very that the playing field of undergraduate admissions is the support staff have also been behind me. Of course, grateful to all as level as possible. Our efforts in this area are led by it isn’t really me they are backing, it’s the College, and the Tutor for Admissions, Jim Thomson, with support the reason they are doing so is because of the spirit of them. from the Academic Registrar, Cressida Chappell, and her Roger instilled in the place. That is his real legacy. n

4 /PRO-MASTER’S REPORT COLLEGE LIFE The Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professorship

John Livesey, University Drama Officer, gives an overview of Deborah Warner’s term as Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre for 2019 and her inaugural lecture, entitled Changing Directions – Journeys in Theatre, Opera and Installation.

Deborah Warner is a director of theatre herself in developing a relationship with and opera, of Brecht and Shakespeare, of the student body and this was very clear in high-concept installation and raw, black-box the response of the students who arrived classical adaptation. Her career is outstanding at the Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre in St in the sheer range of work that it has Catherine’s to hear her finally speak in such produced, and this breadth of experience has a capacity. in the same auditorium, cogs whirring with been to the benefit of students at Oxford new ideas. who, over the last year, have had the privilege The lecture itself was divided into three of learning from such a well-qualified mentor. chapters: Theatre, Installation and Opera. It has been such a pleasure to have Deborah Each part of this triptych focused on a Warner in Oxford over the last year and In October 2019, Deborah Warner’s term as different type of performance and the ways in I know there are many students who the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor which Warner discovered them, developed her have been inspired by her advice and her culminated with her inaugural lecture. Whilst knowledge of them, and finally moulded them dedication to guiding them through the usually such lectures mark the beginning to her purpose. It was a fascinating lesson first stages of their creative careers. The of a professorship, Deborah Warner has in creative ambition, artistic development very special and unfortunately rare work of distinguished herself by focusing on meeting and theatrical history. At the front of the mentorship is something to treasure. We are with students, advising them, holding auditorium sat Cameron Mackintosh himself lucky to have a professorship such as this workshops and seeing some of the drama and one couldn’t help but think that some of and lucky to have such generous people to that Oxford has to offer. She has invested his future collaborators might just be sitting take up the position. n

ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2019/5 COLLEGE LIFE Senior Tutor’s Report

Professor Marc Mulholland, the Senior Tutor, provides an overview of the past academic year at St Catherine’s.

St Catherine’s has had another very was awarded the Frank Allen Bullock Creative successful academic year. As Senior Tutor, I Writing Prize. have some scepticism about the Norrington Table which ranks Oxford colleges by Finals Over the last few years we have been ramping performance. Our primary interest is in ‘value- up emphasis on study skills. Some of this added’ education and we are enormously is delivered centrally. For example, tutors proud of our students, no matter what their put a lot of work into the How to Study at final degree classification, so long as they University session for the Freshers, setting have actualised their potential through hard out the nuts and bolts of how to work work, dedication, and the excellent teaching through material, write up notes, compose of tutors both within and outwith the college. effective submitted work and prepare for Nonetheless, the fact that in the 2018-19 exams. The Senior Tutor meets with Finalists academic year St Catherine’s came out at on a regular basis to discuss the run up to number four in the Norrington Table certainly exams. Our Academic Office put a lot of goal, and I am convinced that St Catherine’s does speak to the enormous achievement of effort into organising not just the regular has made enormous strides in this direction our students and all those who tutored them. mock exam ‘collections’, but also a daily over the past few years. Overall, we had 68 candidates awarded a first, opportunity to sit practice exams, in formal 72 a II (i), 4 a II (ii) and 1 a III. It is no easy conditions, throughout Trinity Term. Most The highlight of the academic year for thing to get an Oxford degree and I’m always importantly, individual subject tutors provide me, and for plenty of others, is the Catz in awe at the students’ fantastic commitment study skills and revision sessions. All of this Exchange Conference. Students, both and enthusiasm. Our highest performing comes on top, of course, of regular feedback undergraduate and graduate, present short students have won a slew of prizes for high through tutorials and classes. Our aim is papers covering a wide range of subjects. performance in their subjects; and some for to give students every opportunity to learn This year we had twelve presentations on achievements outside their subject – Noëlle relevant skills that they themselves can put topics including Artemisia Gentileschi and Rohde (2013, Psychology and Physiology) to work. Autonomous learning for life is the the Historic Exclusion of Women from the

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Art History Canon, Adaptive Significance Of ‘Savage’ in the Landscapes of Thomas Cole. slap-up meal and appreciative speech by the Homosexuality In The Animal Kingdom, and Conference delegates also really enjoyed Senior Tutor. BBC News and Sonic Branding: How To Write the keynote talk from Professor Bart van Es A Soundtrack To The News. The coveted on his smash-hit book, The Cut-Out Girl, It has been a great year and we look forward Silver Cup was awarded to Benjamin Clingman and a beautiful musical performance on the to more of the same dynamism in the (2016, History) for his paper, Painting an College’s recent valuable acquisition, the academic year 2019-2020! n American Empire? ‘Civilisation’ and the Freedman violin. It was all rounded up with a

ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2019/7 COLLEGE LIFE Tutor for Admissions’ Report

Dr Jim Thomson, Tutor for Admissions, provides an overview of the work of the Admissions Office over the past academic year.

We recently celebrated the 150th anniversary One key aspect of our programme is that of our origins and the foundation of the we are working with a network of schools Delegacy for Unattached Students, which in one area. As the partner schools take was established to allow gifted students to it in turns to host pupils from the other come to Oxford without the prohibitive costs schools in the network for Catalyst events, of college membership. Improving access we hope to have a greater impact in terms and widening participation are central issues of the total number of participants and it for the College and we remain committed to also shares the administrative and logistical attracting the most gifted students, whatever strain of organising large-scale events their social background or financial situation. amongst all schools in the partnership. We are piloting this outreach model with years old, at Catz for school visits. We have Earlier this year, we launched a major a group of eight schools in Lewisham and, long-standing relationships with about 100 outreach initiative—the Catalyst programme— ultimately, we would like to set-up three or schools from all over the UK, and with the which aims to raise school pupils’ aspirations four other Catalyst hubs throughout the UK in appointment of Anna McMurtrie as our first regarding higher education. This project addition to Catalyst: Lewisham. Catalyst was full-time Outreach Officer—back in September is a sustained-contact partnership that officially launched with a Teachers’ 2018—we are gradually increasing the number provides pupils with tailored support at Conference held at Catz on 27th September, of outbound school visits as well. four different points in their school career, and our Outreach Team, student ambassadors as well as an opportunity to visit Oxford. and tutors have several visits to the schools We have continued to work closely with The key aims of the Catalyst programme planned over the coming months. several charities and other organisations, are to increase pupils’ understanding of including The Brilliant Club, Pathways, and application processes, to help them develop In parallel with our work on getting Catalyst the Oxford University African and Caribbean practical skills to improve success rates, up and running, we have managed to link Society, on various events throughout the and also to support teachers to help pupils with a number of new schools and hosted year. We remain committed to supporting make competitive applications to university. more than 1400 pupils, ranging from 9 to 17 the expansion of UNIQ, the University of

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Oxford’s flagship outreach programme, and certified, programme for teachers providing with this, we will be introducing new ways to have renewed our support for Target Oxbridge, advice on supporting students during the support offer holders between interview and an organisation that supports UK students of application process. the start of their course, and are exploring the African and Caribbean heritage throughout possibility of setting up a student mentoring the application process. Our team of 60 student ambassadors played programme. We piloted an Offer Holders’ Day a key role in all of these events as well as for Modern Languages and Linguistics students On 7th March, we hosted the third the College Open Days on 3rd and 4th July and this year and are looking to expand this to Leathersellers’ Day as part of the continued 20th September, and they also supported the include a few other subjects next spring. relationship that exists between the College Outreach Team with school visits throughout and the Leathersellers’ Company. A group of the year. As always, the admissions exercise in December 60 students from three schools in Lewisham was a huge operation. This year we received (all now members of the Catalyst programme) We received the first print run of the updated 961 applications (compared to 868 applications visited the College for a packed programme Alternative Prospectus just in time for the in 2017, 837 applications in 2016, and 794 of events including academic taster sessions July Open Days. This document is produced applications in 2015), no doubt in part due to in Biomedical Sciences, English and Law, exclusively by the JCR and is a crucial our third-place ranking in last year’s Norrington and workshops on university life and Oxford resource for prospective students to consider Table. A total of 391 candidates were invited application processes. before making their applications, providing for interview, and well over 1000 interviews information about life at Catz from the were conducted in College during Ninth and We hosted our fifth annual residential summer student perspective. I am especially grateful to Tenth Weeks of Michaelmas Term. Looking school for approximately 70 students and 25 Amie Campbell (2017, Mathematics) and Lola ahead to the next academic year, we are teachers from Northern Ireland from the 30th Grieve (2017, Music) for their contributions to braced for another bumper year of applications June to 4th July. The students experienced life bringing this project to completion. following our recent success, retaining a top- as an Oxford undergraduate, taking part in five spot in the Norrington Table rankings. tutorials in Economics, Engineering, History, Following an extensive re-design of the College Law, Medicine, Modern Languages and website (which launched in December 2018), I am incredibly grateful to all my colleagues in Physics, and also attending various workshops we are planning lots of enhancements to the Admissions Office for their hard work and and presentations, including a session on the outreach pages, including resources for devotion to admissions and outreach at Catz. mock interviews. Alongside the student applicants and schools, current student profiles I’m sure that the next academic year will be full programme there was also a dedicated, CPD and testimonials, and video tours. In parallel of lots more exciting developments. n

ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2019/9 COLLEGE LIFE Tutor for Graduates’ Report

Professor Ashok Handa, the Tutor for Graduates, provides an overview of the past academic year for the graduate community at St Catherine’s.

This has been a difficult year with the loss of These included 27 undertaking an MBA and Roger Ainsworth who was such a purposeful 12 studying a Masters in Public Policy. supporter of the Graduate community and supported it in so many ways. He was College We welcomed 196 graduate freshers in Advisor to over 50 graduates every year, Michaelmas 2019, from over 50 countries, making time in his busy schedule to meet them contributing to our very international personally as well as hosting the much loved graduate community. The College’s investment in our graduate Master’s dinner in Michaelmas term. centre culminated in the construction of 72 This year we have a total of 65 Graduate new en-suite rooms for graduate students This year has been a landmark year for scholars at Catz, made up of eight Light Senior onsite and 60 were occupied by the start of graduate students at St Catz with a record total scholars, four Leathersellers’ scholars, twelve term. Due to some delays, the remaining 12 of 475 graduates, made up of 227 undertaking named scholarships, nine other College or graduate students have been accommodated taught courses and 248 research students. overseas scholars, one MCR scholarship funded in the new Keble College accommodation and by our graduate students and 13 Foundation will be moving in by the start of December. scholars. These Foundation Scholarships are The new Graduate Centre building housing awarded to alumni of ours who gained a first- a larger MCR will be complete in Hilary class degree and are staying on or returning term and an opening ceremony date will be for graduate studies. I shall continue to work circulated in due course. This will provide a with the Director of Development to increase focus for our graduate community in college the total number of scholarships available to with a larger MCR and seminar room in close our graduate students. proximity to the Graduate accommodation on site. We also welcomed a further 18 Oxford-based scholars including three Rhodes scholars and It is an exciting time for graduates at St five Chevening scholars. Catherine’s and the future looks bright! n

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Naomi Freud, the Director of Studies for Registered Visiting Students, provides an overview of our Visiting Students Programme.

We have had another fantastic year of of meeting their academic challenges, and Visiting Students at Catz. Our place in the so ensuring they experience an educational Norrington Table reflects in part the injection journey that simultaneously stretches and of intellectual sparks who join us for the excites them. The Visiting Students are truly academic year, two terms or even one term. part of our College. All are enriched by their Visiting Students, liberated from examinations time here, and many return to study at our themselves, are acting as intellectual pace University as Master’s or DPhil students. The setters and remorseless cheerleaders for integration of Visiting Students enables the would not normally send students to Oxford, matriculated undergraduates, participating and Catz circle to become wider and for Catz’s is now in its seventh year. The Peterson contributing to the effervescent buzz of Catz. networks to become more diverse. Scholarship from Dominican University, Illinois, which makes it possible for first-generation I have the fantastic role of looking after a Whilst the Catherine wheels are turning within university students to join us as Visiting wonderful eclectic (and I mean eclectic!) College, the cogs turn further afield. The Students is in its fourth year. As I write group of students from around the world; of Keating Scholarship, which enables students this, we are finalizing our new relationship making them feel at home and comfortable, to join us from Indian universities who with the University of the West Indies and the McIntyre/Nettleford Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship to facilitate a high-achieving student from UWI to join us at Catz next year.

Catz is much more than the sum of its parts: we are not just individuals, but peers, colleagues, and friends. Whether it is your home for years or for weeks, Catz has a dynamism of its own and a magnetic quality that draws people to its core and binds them together. n

ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2019/11 COLLEGE LIFE From the Library

Professor Gervase Rosser, Fellow Librarian and Fellow in History of Art, writes about the Portraits Project that the College undertook over the past year.

A significant alteration to the appearance staff of the College: Efi Barda, Gilliane Sills, of the Library has been achieved by the Lizzie Andrews, Cressida Chappell, Louise installation of six portraits of Women Fawcett and Naomi Freud. The cost of the Members of the Catz Community. The portraits was born by the JCR. It is hoped Portraits Project originated with a proposal that, if funding can be found, the project can from the Junior Common Room that the be extended in the future. portraits of Founding Fellows in the Library should be diversified. As one of the first The Library Portraits Project complements the Oxford colleges to have adopted co-residence installation of nine painted terracotta portrait in 1974, it was felt that it was high time heads, in the garden hedge just outside the that female members of the College should Library, by the distinguished German sculptor be recognized and celebrated for their Silke Rehberg. Silke was Artist in Residence achievements in this way. The proposal was at St Catherine’s for a term, during which warmly welcomed by the Senior Common she made a group portrait of the College in Room and a poll was conducted throughout nine heads, representative of the community the College to identify the first subjects. The as a whole. Inaugurated at the same time artists chosen were two recent graduates as the Library portraits, these extend the of St Catherine’s, Tara Benjamin-Morgan range of those represented from the Master (2010, Fine Art) and Arthur Laidlaw (2010, to the Chef, to one of the undergraduates: History of Art). The six portraits (three pencil Roger Ainsworth, Gito Lal, Fram Dinshaw, drawings and three monoprints) were hung John Ockenden, Genevieve Helleringer, Barry and inaugurated in the Library at a reception Juniper, Tim Kelsey, Isobel Renton and Gervase on 1 May 2019. They represent some of the Rosser. n tutors and the academic and administrative

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Barbara Costa, Assistant Librarian and College Archivist, talks about the College Library eBook Fund.

Amongst the numerous activities conducted and history have been among the first in the Library over the past year, the CLef acquisitions initiated from St Catherine’s. (College Library eBook Fund) project is worth mentioning. This is a University-wide project The Collection Development Policy of the involving the whole College community of College Library will be updated by the end students and Fellows. The idea is to acquire of the year and it will include that, despite and share common electronic research tools adopting the CLef scheme, the Library does (books and other resources) not otherwise not intend to adopt eBook on a large scale, included in the Bodleian Libraries purchase to the near exclusion of print title. This is programme. The College Library eBook Fund for many reasons, including the fact that (CLeF) was set up in August 2017, with students normally need the printed copy to contributions ranging from £200-£300 from annotate, to look for reference, to check 24 College Librarians. The arrangement for illustrations and graphics with a better represents something of a cultural change for resolution than the ones translated into Oxford colleges, especially for their financial a screen. Our College Library cannot be managers, since the scheme involves sharing imagined without printed copies. the eBooks with other colleges and the entire University. CLef has built many links that did not exist before in the college environment. It is not Initially, a preponderance of suggestions for only an operation of buying eBooks, it is a purchase came from Humanities Librarians new medium of communication which will within the University. Following this, a enhance internal collaborations between particular aim of St Catherine’s has been to librarians and Fellows, Fellows and tutors, and solicit input from scientific subject areas. An librarians and students. n early respondent was the Tutor in Pre-Clinical Medicine, and eBooks in medical physiology

ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2019/13 COLLEGE LIFE From the Archive

Barbara Costa, Assistant Librarian and College Archivist, writes about be displayed, and put in a broader historical context. They can give an invaluable glimpse the activities in the College Archives over the past academic year. of aspects of St Catherine’s not otherwise recorded; something of the community’s history One of the main activities in the Archives and Archive is organised in proper conservation to be admired. They include an attractive lancet Library last year was the preparation of the boxes containing material on the College stained-glass window depicting S. Katarina exhibition entitled Treasures from a modern foundation, the Delegacy for Unattached Virgo,bought in 1986 by Mr Glyn Frewer (1952, Oxford Archive. It was both a contribution to Students, the College architecture and College English), and three costume designs for a the 150th anniversary celebrations and the life and events, divided by subjects and in a production of Twelfth Night directed by Michael launch of a new proper exhibition area in the chronological way.It contains various media, Gearin-Tosh, Fellow in English of St. Catherine’s Library. which are displayed in the cases. Amongst from 1965, presented by Dr Alan Halliday, an these are objects, letters, books, DVD, audio alumnus of St. John’s College. The exhibition explores the material lives and video cassettes and some indication of the of members through archival records which challenges associated with their preservation. At the end there is a ‘low-tech’ listening station, reflect the life of the Delegacy and the College which plays the retirement speech of the man community from the late-nineteenth century It is worth mentioning the seal of the Delegacy principally responsible for the creation of the to the present day. It is not presented in a for Unattached students: Univ. Oxon. Scholares College, Alan Bullock, and an introduction by strict chronological order. Priority is given to Non Ascripti MDCCCLXVIII and the album of Wilfrid Knapp, Tutor, Fellow and Emeritus Fellow the Archives and the ways in which they tell photographs and memorabilia collected at of Politics, between the 1950s and 2011. the history and stories of the Delegacy and the Villa Serbelloni on Lake Como, where the College. There is a chronological context in the Founding Fellows and their spouses met to The exhibition is set in three brand- first panel and in the booklet designed to help discuss the creation of the College and its new showcases, purchased and installed orientate visitors to the exhibition. academic goals in 1962. permanently on the long bench to the right of the main desk, previously used to hold The exhibition is a celebration of the creation A special focus is given to donations, which temporary book displays. The showcases of the Archives by various important people, make the Archives a box of treasures, and will now display material from the Archives, including Margaret Davies and her husband some of these are displayed in the third case. updated on a termly basis and concerning Derek. Margaret was responsible for the Donations reflect the history of the College diverse topics. It is a long-term project to make formal creation of the Archives, after years of community and add value and content to it. stories and histories from the College Archives discussion and hard work. Thanks to her, the They are beautiful pieces of art, worthy to accessible to all. n

14/FROM THE ARCHIVE COLLEGE LIFE The Development Office

The Year in Review to Catz for a reunion dinner and drinks in the where we enjoyed drinks, canapés and great JCR bar. In February, love was in the air at conversation about Catz past, present and 150 years ago the Delegacy for Unattached Catz as we welcomed back 20 ‘Catz couples’ future. Students formed as a means for talented – couples who met at the College – for a students to receive an Oxford education, dinner. On a sunny day during the summer Our 150th anniversary celebrations culminated without the prohibitive costs of College vacation, we were delighted to welcome in an ‘Anniversary Weekend’, held in College membership. The Delegacy became St 100 people – alumni and their families – to in September. This event was a truly fitting Catherine’s Society, and subsequently St Catz for our ‘Family Day’ event. The day was celebration, as we welcomed 320 alumni Catherine’s College. Now, 150 years on, the packed full of childhood favourites including and friends to the College for talks from Catz community continue to support us to magic acts, face paint, balloon modelling, distinguished members of our community, deliver our founding ethos, ensuring that and jelly and ice cream. Needless to say, the tours tracing St Catherine’s history through a first-class education is available to all, children enjoyed themselves, but the event Oxford, recitals by talented Catz musicians, regardless of their background or financial also offered alumni the chance to revisit the and a wonderful dinner in a specially-lit Hall. situation. In this anniversary year, we wanted College, and introduce their children to the We are thankful to all of those who joined to celebrate our community by meeting with idea of university. us at this event to celebrate our anniversary as many of you as possible at events in with us; it was wonderful to see people College and all over the world. During this anniversary year, we made a from across the Catz community – alumni, particular effort to see as many alumni as students, parents and friends – join together We love welcoming alumni back to the College possible by holding regional and overseas to celebrate this special occasion with us. to see the developments around the site, drinks receptions. This year we visited reminisce about their time here and reunite Newcastle, Birmingham, Hong Kong, We understand that not everyone can make with old friends. It was also wonderful to Singapore, Edinburgh and Manchester, it to events, so we try our best to stay in welcome so many of our current parents to our meeting with almost 200 alumni. These touch with our community in other ways. Our Freshers’ Lunch and 2nd Years’ Garden Party. In events provided a fantastic opportunity for publications, CatzEye and The Year, share this historic year, it was particularly special to alumni to meet and network with fellow Catz College news, as well as regular updates on welcome 90 St Catherine’s Society members alumni in their area. The annual London Party our website and social media platforms. We to the College for their Society Gaudy. We also was held at the Leathersellers’ Hall, and hope that all of you who use social media held a Gaudy for 1962-1972 matriculands, was as popular as ever. We were delighted will ‘follow’ us on these platforms and enjoy where 270 alumni and their guests returned to host 150 alumni at the impressive venue, being part of our online community.

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THANK YOU parents – this is an incredible sum which will offer consistent support to our students and allow the College to continue to thrive. to plan for the future. In our 150th year, we were delighted that so many members of our College Community We are incredibly grateful to the 1,200 people In June, we wrote to you to announce that chose to support us, enabling Catz to stay in our community who give a regular donation the College will be naming our new graduate true to its founding ethos to support talented to the College. Regular gifts are extremely building, The Ainsworth Graduate Centre, students to receive a first-class education. important to us as they make a big difference honouring our late Master, Professor Roger We are thrilled to announce that this year we to our ability to offer the brightest students Ainsworth. As always, the Catz community raised over £2.6 million through the generous an Oxford education. By supporting us in this showed its support, and you donated an gifts of over 1,500 alumni, friends and way, you give us the financial sustainability to incredible £600,000 in response. In total, we

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have raised £4.7m towards the new Centre. Professor Geoffrey Maitland CBE (1965, Tony Farag (2018, Geography) It has been very exciting to witness the Chemistry) Robyn Harvey-Smith (2018, Law) construction of this remarkable building and Professor Lord Nicholas Stern (Honorary Fellow) Gaby Kaza (2017, English Language & we cannot wait to see the space being used Dr Tim Stone CBE (1969, Chemistry) Literature) by our students. Mr Adam Foulds (1994, English) Steffan Williams (2017, Human Sciences) Ms Aida Edemariam (1992, English) Dr Jim Thomson (1999, Chemistry) As we end our anniversary celebrations and look Professor Sarah Harper CBE (1979, Dr Sam Wolfe forward to a new academic year, we are excited Anthropology & Geography) Professor Heidi de Wet for the future of St Catz. Thanks to the support Professor Gaia Scerif Charlotte Sansome of our community, the College will continue to Mr Simon Winchester OBE (1963, Geology) Amie Campbell (2017, Mathematics & Statistics) support the brightest students to receive the Professor Peter Battle Lola Grieve (2017, Music) best educational experience possible. Mr Shaun Johnson (1982, Social Studies) Jake Shapter (2018, Modern Languages & Mr Evan Davis Linguistics) SPECIAL THANKS Dr Anneliese Dodds MP For hosting our drinks receptions... Ms Lucy Harris MP Tony Chandler (1958, PPE) for his continued Tony Henfrey (1963, Chemistry) Mr Peter Knowles (1980, English) support and organising the St Catz Golfing Richard Atkins QC (1985, Law) Lord Peter Mandleson (1973, PPE) Society tournaments Wilfred Wong (m.1976) Professor Eleanor Stride Josette Bishop (1973, Mathematics) and Catz Parents Damian and Rhiannon Hills Dr Roham Alvandi (2005, Politics & Gilliane Sills (Emeritus Fellow) for leading Jennifer Younger (Ex Communications Officer at International Relations) the College tours during the Anniversary St Catz) Ambassador Peter Galbraith (1973, PPE) Weekend Michael Summerfield (Fellow at The RSE) Dr Ceren Lord Lisa Roberts QC (1988, English) Professor Bart van Es Guy Bell (1979, Geography) for his Leathersellers’ Dr Joseph Crawford (2004, English Language & photography at our events Literature) Chris Maslanka (1973, Physics) for providing For taking part in our Anniversary Weekend... Mr Daniel Shao (2013, Music) entertainment at our Family Day Dame Helen Ghosh Mr Julian Trevelyan (2018, Music) Dr Vivienne Cox CBE (1977, Chemistry) Dr Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey (2011, Music) Frank Hinks (1968, Law) for storytelling at our Thomas McKeown (2018, Modern Languages) Family Day n

ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2019/17 COLLEGE LIFE

Postcards to the Pro-Master

Every year College Travel Awards are granted to students who plan, organise and undertake expeditions around the globe. Whether undertaking charitable work or fulfilling lifelong ambitions to visit other cultures, all the students who take part find their horizons broadened and their educational experience enriched. This year over 50 Travel Awards were granted. Here are four of the many postcards the Pro-Master received.

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ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2019/19 COLLEGE LIFE JCR Report

Phoebe Whitehead (2016, Human Sciences), the 2018-19 JCR President, shares some of the highlights of the past academic year in the Junior Common Room.

The most notable event on the Catz calendar Big Quiz), film nights, Catz Take Me Out, a the substantial construction project in New this year was our College Ball, where Catz was promise auction and a donation from each Quad – this involved the construction of transformed to fit the theme Continuum as Catz Ball ticket. As well as this, the JCR have a new Graduate Centre and an increase in we celebrated 150 years since our founding. also launched multiple initiatives to make Catz accommodation next to existing rooms. The JCR With almost 2,000 individuals in attendance, greener, including implementing meat-free received substantial support from Governing there were entertainment acts, DJs, a variety Mondays in Hall and a number of students Body for students adversely affected by the of food and drink, fairground games, hair featuring prominently in the University- construction, and all’s well that ends well, as stylists, and even a mini-golf course! The wide divestment campaign. Last year saw the new buildings look impressive. evening was a massive success, and huge the launch of Humans of St Catz, where thanks must go to the Ball Committee for the College’s increasingly diverse members This year has been incredible, but none of organising the event and ensuring it ran so share their experiences, demystifying the it would have been possible without the JCR smoothly. Oxford experience – you can follow the page Committee. The new Committee have a lot to on Facebook and Instagram! Catz Second- live up to, but I’m certain they will make the The JCR Committee continue to support Years also deserve praise for dealing with next year at Catz a great one. n undergraduates by organizing events to promote inclusivity in College life. These range from JCR music nights to first-aid training sessions and welfare dogs. This year saw the establishment of the JCR Project Pot, designed for any undergraduate to receive support from the JCR to run a charitable event or launch an idea. The JCR raised £2,000 for our Catz charities – Emilie’s Charities and Students Supporting Street Kids. Money was raised through our weekly pub quiz (Big Rog’s

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Vivek Kothari (2018, Computer Science), the current MCR President and 2018-2019 Co-President, reflects on the past academic year for the Middle Common Room.

The MCR community is an integral part of surprise and was a blow to the community. He and jurisprudence. Carol Jones (2018, Music) student life for St Catherine’s graduate will be remembered and sorely missed. piece The Light Thief was the joint winner students. We foster a sense of community – a of the 2019 composers’ workshop and will community made of connections. Connections The community and connections built here persist be performed by the Oxford Philharmonic. that are formed and maintained here in Catz far beyond our student years. The anniversary last long after graduation. It is this community weekend, which saw alumni, from as far back The MCR itself has also seen great changes to and the connections it consists of that define as the 1960s, attend is a testament to that. The better support our community. This year saw our MCR. They help our members develop weekend celebrated 150 years since foundation the expansion of Welfare roles across the MCR, not only into excellent academics but also of the Delegacy for Unattached Students, which along with the beginning of a constitutional well-rounded individuals. This year has been a later grew to be St Catherine’s College, with revision process. These are changes that will time to reflect over the last 150 years of Catz distinguished speakers from the Catz community come to fruition in the coming year and shall and the power of those connections and their across areas such as medicine, environmental facilitate future MCR communities. As I write longevity. It has been a time to look forward to policy, writing, and politics. Our alumni have gone this, a new graduate centre building is close to ensure our MCR can serve our rapidly growing far and wide and reached places of great import. being built, 78 new rooms for graduates have community of graduate students to make, Whether it be legally representing differently- been added onsite and we have just concluded foster and strengthen those connections, learning and differently-abled kids in the UK the largest successful election in Catz MCR’s hopefully for the next 150 years to come. court system, publishing their creative work and history, with not a single position remaining journalists covering British politics, graduate unfilled. These changes herald a much stronger Early in the year we lost our Master, Roger students from St Catherine’s have gone on to and more deeply connected community. Ainsworth. He was an inspiring man, enrich the communities they are a part of. whose work and vision over the years built St Catherine’s motto is Nova et Vetera – both St Catherine’s into the thriving college Current MCR members have also been prolific old and new – and this year has been no it is today. He was both a leader and an throughout the year, publishing dozens of exception. Our community achieved great approachable member of the College articles on topics ranging from the structural things setting the stage for the expectation of community. His passing caught us all by integrity of materials to machine learning momentous things in the year to come. n

ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2019/21 COLLEGE LIFE Sports and Societies Review

Nick Heyman (2018, Mathematics and Philosophy), the JCR Clubs and Societies Representative for 2018-2019, shares some of the highlights of the College’s extra-curricular activities over the past year.

Over the past year there has been a huge We also heard the Catz choir perform cuppers for women’s football, pool, mixed amount of involvement by members of the Christmas songs and carols at the Catz carol touch rugby and netball as well as very strong Catz community in theatre, music and other service at Harris Manchester College, ably performances in other sports. This reflects the arts and creative activities. An enthusiastic led by Beth Hollins (2017, Music), as well huge variety of sports which people at Catz group of freshers took part in Drama as regular music nights throughout the year take part in and contribute to. Cuppers this year and managed to come thanks to Daniel Cummings (2016, Music) and seventh with a self-written parody of Oxford Cat Cooper (2016, Geography). The Catz football club had an excellent year life titled ParadOxford – they were also this year. The Men’s 1st XI, captained by nominated for four awards. This kickstarted This year’s Arts Week, organised by Emily Alex Townsend-Teague (2017, Maths and a year filled with drama for Catz students, Stevenhagen (2017, Art) and Agnes Chandler Computer Science), won the top JCR league with one of the highlights being Henry (2017, History of Art), was a resounding for only the second time in the College’s Waddon (2018, Medicine) playing the lead success, featuring a music night at Freud, history and the women’s team, captained by role in the OUDS National Tour Production, a panel discussion on the role of the arts Charlotte Atkins (2017, Biological Sciences), Numbers, which visited London, Brighton, in today’s society and an exhibition of Catz won Cuppers for the first time in the College’s Edinburgh and Oxford, and was assistant- art. The real highlight of Arts Week was the history and came third in their league. During directed by Cydney Beech (2018, English). Pidge a Page art exhibition, inspired by Catz the summer, the women’s team went on tour As part of Arts Week another Catz drama alumnus Tom Phillips (1957, English), as a to Lyon to watch the women’s world cup performance was put on – a production of tribute to the College’s late master, Roger semi-finals and play a match against one of Buckets by Adam Barnard – which was very Ainsworth. Lyon’s university teams. well received. Sport this year at Catz has again been very Following the success enjoyed last year, Catz The last year has seen Catz students strong, with many students featuring in mixed lacrosse has gone from strength to performing in a huge variety of musical university sports teams, ranging from rugby strength, finishing fifth in the league, which ensembles and groups, including the Oxford to ultimate frisbee, and winning Blues for is made up mostly of teams comprising two University Jazz Orchestra, Oxford University their performances. The Catz sports teams or more colleges, and getting regularly large Orchestra, Garfunkel and The Alternotives. have also been very successful with wins in turnouts for training sessions. Meanwhile,

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the rugby team, under the captaincy of novice squad winning Christ Church Regatta at Robinson on a rainy, post-entz Saturday, James Bennett (2017, Molecular and Cellular and W1 achieving blades in Torpids. with coaches setting off at 7.30 in the Biochemistry) were promoted to Division 1, morning. The sports contested were rugby, came second in the Rugby Sevens Cuppers Trinity Term saw the inaugural ‘varsity men’s and women’s football, mixed lacrosse, and won the Mixed Touch Cuppers. Rowing match’ between Catz and our sister college hockey, netball and ultimate frisbee, as well also experienced success, with the men’s in Cambridge, Robinson, which took place as some more traditional sports-day games such as egg-and-spoon races. In the end, Robinson won the sports 4-3 and the overall competition 6-5, but it was very close and a much enjoyed day.

Finally, the JCR voted for Sports and Arts Personalities of The Year, as well as Sports and Arts Moments of The Year – which is new for this year. Congratulations to Rob Smyth (2016, Chemistry) for being voted Sports Personality of The Year for his victories in three of the Pool Cuppers competitions and the design team behind the Catz Ball for being voted Arts Personality of The Year. The Ball also featured as the Arts Moment of The Year, specifically the Stir Fry Dons’ DJ set, and the Sports Moment of The Year was the women’s football team winning cuppers.

Thank so you much to everyone who has taken part in or supported any club or society over the past year – it’s been a very successful one! n

ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2019/23 COLLEGE LIFE

Mathematics (MMath) Thomas Wernham - I Gakuto Fuse (Engineering Emily Ball - II (i) Millicent Wild – I Science) Geoffrey Griffith Finals Results 2019 Katharine Gardner - I Scholar Adam Higgins - I Physics (BA) Christopher George Biological Sciences Duncan Field - I History & Economics Stuart O’Connell - II (i) Lukas Burakauskas - I (Physics) College Scholar James Craig - II (i) Tobias Guppy - I Narishma Kotecha - II (i) Catherine Curtin – I Ella Glover (Biological Jun Lee - II (i) George Todd – I Tobias Nicholson - II (i) Mathematics & Computer Sciences) College Scholar Ellen O’Brien - II (i) Science (BA) Physics (MPhys) Milos Golub (Computer Jenna Poole - II (ii) English & Modern History & Politics Ethan Martin – I Thomas Dickinson - II (i) Science) College Scholar Jack Shepherd-Cross - I Languages Thomas Tutton – I James Fallon - II (i) Tom Gotsman (Chemistry) Emma Millington - II (i) Mathematics & Computer Alexander Langedijk - I College Scholar Biomedical Sciences History of Art Science (MMathCompSci) Harrison Manley - I Joseph Hamley (Molecular Matteo Broketa - II (i) English Language & Madeleine McCarthy - II (i) William Platt - I Ieuan Wilkes - II (ii) & Cellular Biochemistry) Danielle Groves - II (i) Literature Mia Parnall - I Calin Tataru – I Sembal Scholar Alexandra Highcock - II (i) Rachel Craig-McFeely - I Noah Harrison (Molecular Anna Elliott - I Human Sciences Medical Sciences SCHOLARSHIPS AND & Cellular Biochemistry) Chemistry (MChem) Georgia Heneage - I William Bennett - II (i) Cameron Beattie - II (i) EXHIBITIONS Sembal Scholar Daniya Aynetdinova - I Charlotte Hyde - I Isla Collee - I Orlaith Breen - II (i) Charlotte Hughes (Modern Rachel Chan - I Frazer Martin - I Maya Shahor – I Thomas Foord - II (i) Scholars Languages) College Scholar Ziwei Chen - II (ii) Samuel Purkiss - II (i) Oriane Grant - II (i) Kumarsambhav Aggarwal Katie Hurman Daniel Kane - I Georgina Quach - I Law (Engineering Science) (Experimental Psychology) Jacques Morgan - I Beatrice Udale-Smith - II (i) Keshya Amarasinghe - II (i) Modern Languages College Scholar College Scholar Matthew Peters - I Florence Ward - I Wei Jin Chan - II (i) Anousha Al-Masud - II (i) El-Amin Ahmed Jeremy Ingham (Chemistry) Bradley Sheath - II (i) Harry Wragg - II (i) Harry Holmes - II (i) Portia Cox - I (Engineering Science) College Scholar Dylan Jones - II (i) Lorenzo Edwards-Jones - I College Scholar Jiaqi Kang (History of Art) Computer Science Experimental Psychology Giorgia Litwin - II (i) William Ponsonby - II (i) Usman Arshad (Economics College Scholar (MCompSci) Olivia Ong - I Michelle Luo - II (i) Nicole Rayment-Silva - II (i) & Management) Brook Anisa Khan (Law) David Yiyun Shao - I Emma Osborne - I Isabella Risino - II (i) Colette Rocheteau - II (i) Scholar Blank Scholar Thomas Denney - I Thomas Wells - II (i) Katie Rivers - II (i) Isobel Whyte - II (i) Joseph Beesley (Music) Aaron Kiernan (Philosophy, Sauyon Lee - II (i) Kseniia Simongauz - II (i) Clothworkers’ Scholar Politics & Economics) Philip Ciprian Stirbu - I Geography Joshua Tray - II (i) Molecular & Cellular Katherine Benjamin Fothergill Scholar Catherine Cooper - I Biochemistry (MBiochem) (Mathematics & Computer Iksoon Kim (Philosophy, Computer Science & Daniel Hall - I Law with Law Studies in Zoe Catchpole - II (i) Science) Clothworkers’ Politics & Economics) Philosophy (BA) Tiger Hills - I Europe Alissa Hummer - I Scholar College Scholar Matthew Rimmer - II (i) Samuel Mowbray - I Gabriel Moussa - II (i) James Bennett (Molecular Clare Leckie (Philosophy, Eva O’Sullivan - II (i) Jasmin Sahota - II (i) Music & Cellular Biochemistry) Politics & Economics) Economics & Clarisse Pierre - I Daniel Cummings - I Sembal Scholar College Scholar Management Charlotte Potts - I Materials Science (BA) Alexander East - II (i) Amelia Brunton (Modern Leonard Lee (Molecular Ellie Peel - II (i) Emily White - II (i) Bilal Hussain Luke James - II (i) Languages & Linguistics) & Cellular Biochemistry) Nicholson Wells - II (ii) College Scholar Sembal Scholar Nina Wieretilo - I History Materials Science (MEng) Philosophy, Politics & Kaiman Cheung (Chemistry) Oliver Lloyd Williams Jek Woo - II (i) Benjamin Clingman - I Giles Chambers - II (i) Economics College Scholar (History) College Scholar Jake Croft - II (i) Inigo Howe - I Simon Church - II (i) Andrei Draghici (Computer Callum Loader (Philosophy, Engineering Science Jack Harrison - I Junhao Liang - II (i) Ryan Davison - I Science) College Scholar Politics & Economics) (MEng) Rachel Ibbetson - I William Roberts - I Konstantin Friege - II (ii) Ruth Faherty (Engineering College Scholar Aue Angpanitcharoen Lisa Kladitis - I Kieran Marray - II (i) Science) College Scholar Mihaela Man (Fine Art) - II (i) Alexander Maguire - II (i) Mathematics (BA) Hedda Roberts - I George Fleming Kaye Scholar George England - I Molly Williams - II (i) Jake Lee – I Joshua Steinert - II (i) (Experimental Psychology) Jared Maritz (Engineering College Scholar Science) College Scholar

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Declan Marshall Michael Watford PRIZES AND AWARDS Gibbs Prize for the Best Microsoft Prize for College Prizes (Philosophy, Politics & (Engineering Science) Performance in Prelims the Best Project by The Burton Prize for the Economics) College Scholar College Scholar University Prizes Tom Clark (Human Sciences) a Computer Science best academic performance Zachary Nairac Jonathan West (Modern Undergraduates Candidate in FHS Part C during the year in an (Engineering Science) Languages) ATV Scholar Brian Bannister Prize in GlaxoSmithKline in Thomas Denney (Computer area covering Psychology, Goldsworthy Scholar Thomas Wilkinson Organic Chemistrry Organic Chemistry Part Science) Sociology, Geography Timothy Nash (Chemistry) (Mathematics) ATV Scholar Daniya Aynetdinova II Prize and Human Sciences was College Scholar Daniel Wolstenholme- (Chemistry) Daniya Aynetdinova Part II Research Project awarded to Oliva Ong Piotr Parzymies (Biological Powell (History) Garret (Chemistry) Prize (Experimental Psychology). Sciences) College Scholar Scholar Gibbs Book Prize for Elena Zanchini di Kexin Qiu (Geography) Yansong Zhao Performance in Prelims Hoare Prize for Best Castiglionchio (Molecular & The Cochrane Evidence- College Scholar (Mathematics & Statistics) Zachary Lim (Human Overall Performance Cellular Biochemistry) Based Medicine Prize for Amy Ryder (Modern ATV Scholar Sciences) by a Computer Science the best critical appraisal Languages) College Scholar Candidate in FHS Part B Prize for Performance in of evidence answering a Josh Shepherd-Smith Exhibitioners Gibbs Book Prize Marilena Bescuca (Computer FHS Part A practical clinical question (Experimental Psychology) Lucy Adams (Human Alissa Hummer (Molecular Science) Yansong Zhao was awarded to James College Scholar Sciences) College & Cellular Biochemistry) (Mathematics & Statistics) McVeigh (Medical Sciences) Elise Shepley (Modern Exhibitioner Hoare Prize for Best and Matthew Williams Languages) Kaye Scholar Simon Beal (Engineering Gibbs Prize for BA Group Overall Performance Shimadzu Prizes in (Medical Sciences). Benjamin Shuker (Physics) Science) College Project Presentations by a Computer Science Practical Chemistry College Scholar Exhibitioner Catherine Curtin (Physics) Candidate in FHS Part C Rebecca Clarke (Chemistry) The Francis and Caron Kseniia Simongauz (Law) Catherine Cooper Calin Tataru (Mathematics & Fernandes Music Prize for David Blank Scholar (Geography) College Gibbs Prize for Best Computer Science) Shimadzu Prizes in contributing towards the Nevena Slavova Exhibitioner Practical Portfolio Practical Chemistry musical life of the College (Geography) Goldsworthy Ivan Dimitrov (Physics) Emma Osborne John Hicks and George Joseph Daws (Chemistry) was awarded to Alexander Scholar College Exhibitioner (Experimental Psychology) Webb Medley Prize East (Music). Serban Slincu (Computer Benedict Farmer for the Best Overall Shimadzu Prizes in Science) College Scholar (Geography) College Gibbs Prize for Best Team Performace in Economics Practical Chemistry The Frank Allen Bullock Joshua Smailes (Computer Exhibitioner Design Project in FHS Jevhan Pandya (Chemistry) Prize for the best piece of Science) College Scholar Rory Fisk (Modern Ruth Faherty (Engineering Thomas Wernham creative or critical writing Zachary Spavins-Hicks Languages & Linguistics) Science) (Philosophy, Politics & Graduates was awarded to Noëlle (Geography) College College Exhibitioner Economics) Best MSc Migration Rohde (Anthropology & Scholar Ross Jenkinson (Physics) Gibbs Prize for Studies Dissertation Museum Ethnography). William Staunton (Materials College Exhibitioner Distinguished John Hicks Prize for the Anne Schnitzer Science) College Scholar Kar Yan Leong (Engineering Performance in FHS Best Performance in (Anthropology & Museum The Gardner Prize for Emily Stevenhagen (Fine Science) College Georgina Quach (English Quantitative Economics Ethnography) outstanding contribution Art) ATV Scholar Exhibitioner Language & Literature) in FHS to the life of the College Ming Kit Sze (Chemistry) F Samantha Morito (Modern Thomas Wernham Best MSc Pharmacology was awarded to Phoebe M Brewer Scholar Languages & Linguistics) Gibbs Prize for the Best (Philosophy, Politics & Research Project Poster Whitehead (Human Mavis Teo (Biological College Exhibitioner Library Dissertation Economics) Polina Balina (Medical Sciences). Sciences) Rose Scholar Katherine Steele Olivia Ong (Experimental Sciences) Daniel Thomas Du Toit (Chemistry) College Psychology) Junior Mathematics Prize The Harold Bailey Prize (Chemistry) College Scholar Exhibitioner for the Best Performance for Asian Studies was Teodor Totev (Engineering Ciprian Stirbu (Computer Gibbs Prize for the in Mathematics in FHS awarded Aoife Cantrill Science) College Scholar Science) College Best Performance in Part B (Oriental Studies). Bozhidar Vasilev (Computer Exhibitioner Management in FHS Denitsa Markova Science) Baker Scholar Nina Wieretilo (Economics (Mathematics & Computer & Management) Science)

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The John Martin Prize for The Neville Robinson The Smith Award for College Travel Awards Environmental Travel Joseph Rae (Human the best performance in Prize for the best services to Music within Award Sciences) Materials Science Part I was performance in Physics Part the College was awarded Wallace Watson Award Matthew Williams (Medical Carly Sibilia (Geography & awarded to Luke Malone B was awarded to Rogan to Lola Grieve (Music). Lucero Vaca Leon (Zoology) Sciences) the Environment) (Materials Science). Clark (Physics). Oliver Vince (Engineering Daniel Standing (Molecular The Stuart Craig Award Science) Antony Edwards Bursay & Cellular Biochemistry) The Katritzky Prize for The Neville Robinson given to an outstanding Rumaan Malik (Modern Emily Stevenhagen (Fine the best performance Prize for the best student who has gained Wilfrid Knapp Travel Languages) Art) in Chemistry Part I was performance in Physics Part distinction in a university or Award Julian Trevelyan (Music) awarded to Timothy Nash C was awarded to Harrison national sport, or cultural Laetitia Moon (English & Mark Davys Bursary Joshua Wang (Law) (Chemistry). Manley (Physics). or musical activities was Modern Languages) Thomas Roy (Law with Law Anna White (History of Art) awarded to Oriane Grant Isobel Whyte (Modern Studies in Europe) Nicola Wright (Mathematics The Katritzky Prize for the The Peter Raina Prize (Medical Sciences). Languages) Eve Thomson (Law with & Philosophy) best performance during for the best essay by Law Studies in Europe) Jasmine Yim (Law) the year in History of Art by a second-year reading The Thomas Jefferson Patricia Knapp Award a second-year was awarded English was awarded to Prize for the North Natalie Fairhurst (Medical Teach First Bursary The Charles Wenden Fund to Jiaqi Kang (History of Megan Smith (English American student who Sciences) Georgine Hills (Geography) has continued to support Art). Language & Literature). has contributed most to James McVeigh (Medical Narishma Kotecha (History the sporting life of the the College academically, Sciences) & Economics) College. The Leask Music The Peter Raina Prize socially or culturally ‘in the Scholarship was awarded for the best essay by spirit of Thomas Jefferson’ Philip Fothergill Award College Travel Awards to Suleika Fiumi (Economics a second-year reading was awarded to Lily Dubuc Liam Saddington Anran Cheng (Earth & Management). History was awarded (Visiting Student). (Geography & the Sciences) to Oliver Lloyd-Williams Environment) Laurel Constanti Crosby The Michael and Lily (History). The Wilfrid Knapp Prize (Biology) Atiyah Prize for the best for the best essay by a Emilie Harris Award Jonathan Drake (Medical performance in Mathematics The Rose Prize for the second-year reading PPE William Allen (Molecular & Sciences) by a second-year was best academic performance was awarded to Declan Cellular Biochemistry) Antony Farag (Geography) awarded to Yansong Zhao during the year in Marshall (Philosophy, Elliot Frame (Human (Mathematics & Statistics). Biological Sciences was Politics & Economics). Bullock Travel Award Sciences) awarded to Mavis Teo Mary Bonsu (Law with Law Ella Glover (Biology) The Michael Atiyah Prize (Biological Sciences). The Wright Prize for Studies in Europe) Molly Johnson (English in Mathematics for the the best performance in Meirian Evans (Medical Language & Literature) best mathematics essay The Rupert Katritzky Mathematics Part B was Sciences) Peter Lewis (English or project written by a St Prize is awarded for the awarded to Language & Literature) Catherine’s undergraduate best performance in the Denitsa Markova Bullock Career Award Mengyao Lu (Social Policy in his or her second year Final Honour School in (Mathematics & Computer Tosca Tindall (Human & Social Intervention) reading for a degree in History was awarded to Science), Jake Lee Sciences) Joseph MacConnell Mathematics or joint Jack Harrison (History). (Mathematics) and Miroslav (International school with Mathematics Marinov (Mathematics). Raymond Hodgkins Development) was awarded to Katherine The Smith Award for Award Elizabeth Maggs (Modern Benjamin (Mathematics & services to Drama within Steffan Williams (Human Languages) Computer Science). the College was awarded Sciences) Laura Mitchell (Geography) to Beatrice Udale-Smith Kexin Qiu (Geography) (English Language & Literature).

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Rose Mortimer (Medical Sciences) Care and Control: An Ethical Analysis of Parenting Support Graduate Degrees & Diplomas within a UK Prison Mother and Baby Unit

Emma Osborn (Computer Science) During the academic year 2018–2019 leave to supplicate for the DPhil was granted to the following: Small-Scale Cyber Security: Mapping Security Requirements for IT Users at Home and in Small Organisations

Benjamin Abraham (Government) * Theodor Cojoianu (Geography & the Environment) Stephen Pates (Zoology) Ideas and Transnational Climate Change Governance: How Financial Intermediation in the 21st Century: The Rise of Predation in the Cambrian Environmental Beliefs Shape REDD+Projects Environmental Investing and Financial Technologies Simone Pedemonte (Economics) Bryan Adriaanse (Medical Sciences) Christoph Dorn (Computer Science) Essays in Applied Microeconomics The Role of the TSC-complex in Selective Neuronal Associative n-Categories Guilherme Perdigao Murta (Modern Languages) Vulnerability in Alzheimer’s Disease Katri Eeva (Education) Eça de Queirós as Telenovela: Gender, Class and Melodrama in Mette Ahlefeldt-Laurvig (History) * The EU’s European Semester: Soft Power and Knowledge in Brazilian audiovisual adaptations of Portuguese 19th-century The Ritual of Churching of Women after Childbirth in the Governing of Education literature Denmark, 1500-1900 David Grob (Engineering Science) Kinga Petrovai (Education) Alexander Barbaro (Materials) Separation of Superparamagnetic Particle Trajectories in a A Study Investigating Teachers’ Use Of, and Views On, Tablets Spin Resonance in Novel Environments Microfluidic Device for Magnetic Seperation Purposes in the Teaching of Mathematics

Thomas Barnes (Medical Sciences) Juan Gutierrez Rodriguez (Government) Patrick Pflanz(MPLS Doctoral Training Centre) Uses of Near Infra-Red Light for Real-Time Image Guided Oil and State Capture: The Subnational Links Between Oil Diffusion MRI iPremanifest Huntington’s Disease and Early Surgery Revenues and Armed Conflict in Colombia Parkinson’s Disease: Tensor and Tractography Analyses

Louise Bendall (Medical Sciences) Amir Ibrahim (Engineering Science) Kirubin Pillay (Engineering Science) On-Treatment Image-Guided Radiotherapy for Central Lung Air-Film Behaviour in an Air-Riding Face Seal Quantifying Brain Maturation in the Preterm Baby from EEG Tumours Sleep Analyses Sungkyung Kang (Mathematics) Luca Bertinetto (Engineering Science) Z2-equivalent Heegaard Floer Theory and Transverse Knots Feng Qi (Medical Sciences) Learning (to Learn) from Few Examples - Visual Tracking and Quantitative T2 Imaging of Whole Post-mortem Brains in ALS Feng-Chih Kuo (Medical Sciences) Classification with Limited Data Functional Evaluation of the Human Fat Distribution HOXC13 Emily Rayner (Medical Sciences) Serkan Birgel (Geography & the Environment) Gene Locus Functional Analysis of POLE Exonuclease Domain Mutations The Association of Natural Resources and Human Conflict - in Cancer Jesse Liu (Physics) Natural Gas and the Peace Process in Cyprus Discovery Strategies for Dark Matter and Higgsinos at the LHC Allison Roth (Zoology) Alexander Bucknell (Engineering Science) Exploring the Intersection between Animal Personality and Cutherbert Makondo (Geography & the Environment) Ice Crystal Icing in Gas Turbine Engines Sociality Options in Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Sitthichok Chaichulee (Engineering Science) Mitigation: Evidence from Zambia’s Rural-rural Migration Ronan Royston (Engineering Science) Non-Contact Vital Sign Monitoring of Pre-term Infants Investigation of Soil-Structure Interaction for Large Diameter Julian Malisano (Materials) Caissons Chun Mann Chin (Chemistry) * Quantitative Studies of Gas Porosity in Cast Aluminium & the An Investigation of Relaxor Ferromagnets Determination of Melt Quality Matthew Smith (Computer Science) Investigating Security and Privacy in Wireless Avionic Yu-Jen Chou (Materials) Alejandro Martinez Ulloa (Mathematics) Communications Structural Studies of Amorphous Materials Disordered Granular Crystals Stefano Soleti (Physics) Kira Chouliaras (Medical Sciences) Matthias Mergenthaler (Materials) Search for a Low-energy Excess of Electron Neutrinos in Transcriptional Regulation at the Angiogenic Sprout Hybrid Circuit QED with Spin Ensembles and Carbon- MicroBooNE Nanotube-Based Superconducting Qubits

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Zhaoyang Sun (Medical Sciences) Howook Chang, MBA Kai Sheng Hoo, MBA † Structural Studies of the Human GABAB Receptor Using Clement Chantre, Diploma in Legal Studies Nick Hu, MSc (C) Mathematics & Foundations of Computer Cryo-electron Microscopy Eduardo Chazan, MBA Science * † Alexander Chen, Executive MBA (part-time) Ahmed Ibrahim, MBA Minh Tran (Chemistry) Haiyu Chen, MSc (C) Mathematics & Foundations of Mona Ibrahim, MSc (C) International Health & Tropical A New Strategy Towards the Fawcettimine Core of Computer Science †† Medicine Lycopodium Alkaloids Chloe Colson, MSc (C) Mathematical Sciences † Osaruyi Igiehon, MBA Iva Trenevska (Medical Sciences) Brandon Crotty, MBA † Akshay Jamadagni, MSc (C) Nanotechnology for Medicine & Developing Anti-p53/HLA-A*0201 T-cell Receptor Mimic Janet Curry, MSt Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Health Care (part-time) Antibodies for Cancer Immunotherapy (part-time) † Jacqueline Jan, MSc (C) Financial Economics Alexandra Curson, MSc (C) Applied Landscape Archaeology Caitlin Jensen, MPhil Oriental Studies (Egyptology) † Sean Tull (Computer Science) (part-time) Matea Jeric, Executive MBA (part-time) Categorical Operational Physics Jeeban Das, MBA Caitlin Jones, MSt Modern Languages † Tong Wang (Physics) Marcello De Bernardi, MSc (C) Computer Science Trevon Joseph, DEng Renewable Energy Marine Structures Non-polar InGaN Quantum Dots: Polarisation-controlled Alex Deamer, MSt Literature & Arts (part-time) Thessa K Vasudhevan, MSc (C) Nature Society & Semiconductor Single-photon Sources at On-chip Elena Di Lavore, MSc (C) Mathematics & Foundations of Environmental Governance † Temperatures Computer Science †† Alexander Karapetian, MSc (C) Nanotechnology for Medicine Martin Donlon, MSc (C) Learning & Teaching (part-time) * & Health Care (part-time) * indicates previous graduate of the College Babatunde Dosunmu Odunsi, MSc (C) Sociology Elle Kavanagh, PGCE History Alexis Doyle, Master of Public Policy * † Oscar Key, MSc (C) Computer Science † THE FOLLOWING WERE SUCCESSFUL IN OTHER EXAMINATIONS: Sam Duffy, MBA Vitor Kneipp, MBA Samuel Dunkley, MSc (R) Oncology Alina Kontisheva, Master of Public Policy †† K M Achyut Ram, MBA Emily Durfee, MBA † Timm Kruse, PGDip Mathematical Finance (part-time) Carolina Albassini, MSc (C) Social Science of the Internet Sam Edge, MBA Bethany Larsen, MBA * (part-time) Charlotte Evans, MSc (C) Evidence-Based Health Care Gernot Lassnig, MSc (C) Mathematical Finance (part-time) Alexander Ashby, MSc (C) Software & Systems Security (part-time) Elin Leander, MSc (C) Environmental Change & Management (part-time) † Matthew Evans, MSt Archaeology †† Deborah Lee, MSc (C) Evidence-Based Social Intervention & Kristina Astrom, MSt Modern Languages David Ewing, MSt Modern Languages † Policy Evaluation †† Khachik Avetikyan, Master of Public Policy Kate Fairlie, MSc (C) Sustainable Urban Development (part- Victoria Lee, MSc (C) Sustainable Urban Development Roger Bailey, MSc (C) Evidence-Based Health Care (part- time) † (part-time) time) Louis Falissard, MSc (R) Surgical Sciences Chaminie Legrand, MBA Polina Balina, MSc (C) Pharmacology † Alessandro Favero, MSc (C) Financial Economics † Molly Leighton, MSc (C) Cognitive Evolutionary Maelle Barbancon, MBA Ciaran Ferris, MSc (C) Surgical Science & Practice (part-time) Anthropology †† Divya Behl, BCL John Forristal, MBA Rebecca Lenihan, 2nd BM * Yuval Ben-David, MPhil Oriental Studies (Modern Middle Teshil Gangaram, MBA Alexander Li, MSc (C) Financial Economics † Eastern Studies) Oliver Goodman, MSc (C) Migration Studies †† Linfeng Li, MSc (C) Contemporary Chinese Studies Devin Bittner, MSc (C) Cognitive Evolutionary Anthropology Hannah Grange-Sales, MSt History - Modern British History Zonglun Li, MSc (C) Mathematical Modelling & Scientific Thomas Booth, MPhil Oriental Studies (Traditional East 1850-present † Computing †† Asia) † Annabel Green, MSt English (1830-1914) †† Edrys Lupprian, MSc (C) Applied Landscape Archaeology Samuel Boudreault-Larochelle, MSc (C) Evidence-Based Nishant Grover, Executive MBA (part-time) (part-time) * Health Care (part-time) Dewey Hall, MSt Literature & Arts (part-time) † Alexander Ma, MSc (C) Social Science of the Internet James Breckwoldt, MPhil Politics (Comparative Government) Arianne Haneine Stern, MSc (C) Education (Child Joseph MacConnell, MSc (C) Economics for Development † Development & Education) * †† Michaela Bunakova, MSc (C) Comparative Social Policy †† Alison Hardingham, MSt Psychodynamic Practice (part-time) Kiril Maltsev, MSt Philosophy of Physics Colin Burn, MSt Historical Studies (part-time) † Musashi Harukawa, MSc (C) Politics Research Hannah Marmaro, MSt English (1830-1914) †† Alix Campbell-Hutt, MSc (C) Mathematical Sciences Conor Healy, MBA Kaya Masler, MPhil Politics (Comparative Government) Edward Campbell-Rowntree, MSt Music (Musicology) Samuel Hilditch, MBA † James Maxwell Macdonald, MSt Mindfulness-Based Joanna Caytas, MSc (C) Nanotechnology for Medicine & Lai Hong Ho, MSc (C) Applied Linguistics & Second Language Cognitive Therapy (part-time) † Health Care (part-time) † Acquisition Seth McCurry, MBA

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Morgan McGovern, MBA Moritz Sohns, MSc (C) Mathematical Finance (part-time) † Melissa Morton, MSt Music (Musicology) * † Theodore Stanley, MSc (C) Nature Society & Environmental Graduate Scholars Iskandar Muhammad, Master of Public Policy † Governance † Joseph Mukasa, MPhil Development Studies Miranda Stoddart, 2nd BM * † Adrita Agrawal (MPLS Doctoral Training Centre) Great Eastern Catherine Namwezi, MPhil Development Studies Andrew Tabas, MSc (C) Water Science Policy & Management Scholar Giuliano Natali, MPhil Politics (European Politics & Society) † †† Raquel Chanto Viquez (Politics & International Relations) Jessica Neilan, 2nd BM (Graduate Entry) Eliana Tacconi, 2nd BM (Graduate Entry) College Scholar (Arts) George Newton, MSt General Linguistics & Comparative Eugenia Tang, MSc (C) Sociology Leo de Waal (Engineering Science) College Scholar (Sciences) Philology Erika Tannor, Master of Public Policy Leo Geyer (Music) Allen Senior Music Scholar Valentine Njoroge, MBA Jasmin Tarique, MPhil Oriental Studies (Modern Middle André Guerra (Mathematics) Alan Tayler Scholar Elizabeth Nurse, MSt Music (Musicology) Eastern Studies) † Gehan Gunatilleke (Law) Mr and Mrs Kenny Lam’s Graduate Corah Ohadike, MSc (R) Obstetrics & Gynaecology Sophie Taylor, 2nd BM * Scholar in Law Leda Olia, MSc (C) Sociology Florentine Timmer, MSc (R) Molecular & Cellular Medicine Nisha Hare (Medical Sciences) Glaxo Scholar Vishnavi Paruchuri, MSc (C) Financial Economics Aldar Tsybyktarov, MSc (C) Sustainable Urban Development Gavin Herbertson (English Language & Literature) College Thomas Pausey, BCL * † (part-time) Scholar (Arts) Samantha Pay, MSc (C) Social Science of the Internet (part- Abigail Tyer, 2nd BM (Graduate Entry) Sophie James (Music) Light Senior Scholar time) † Rohit Vardhan, MBA Carol Jones (Music) Light Senior Scholar Dan Petrescu, MSc (C) History of Science Medicine & Edwina Vernon, MSt Psychodynamic Practice (part-time) Ragini Khurana (Sociology) Fletcher Graduate Scholar Technology † Emma Vidler, 2nd BM * Kan Li (Politics & International Relations) Light Senior Scholar Christopher Pettigrew, MSc (C) Experimental Therapeutics Shruthi Vijayakumar, MBA † Po Yee Lo (Sociology) Light Senior Scholar (part-time) † Karen Vilas, MBA Miroslav Marinov (Mathematics) Foundation College Scholar Beth Potter, MSt English (1900-present day) † Jeffrey Voth, MSc (C) Major Programme Management Frazer Martin (English Language & Literature) Foundation Alvin Puspowidjono, MBA (part-time) † College Scholar Carina Rampelt, MSt English (1700-1830) Catherine Wall, Master of Public Policy †† Hibba Mazhary (Geography & the Environment) Berlinski- Kathleen Rawlings, MSt History of Art & Visual Culture † Hongshan Wang, MPhil Social Anthropology † Jacobson Graduate Scholar Victoria Rees, PGCE Geography Michelle Wang, Master of Public Policy †† James McVeigh (Medical Sciences) Light Senior Scholar Zoe Reich, MSc (C) Education (Child Development & Vincent Wang, MSc (C) Computer Science * †† Yao Meng (Biochemistry) Overseas Scholar Education) Farzana Waseeq, MSc (C) Social Anthropology Thanishta Mungur (Chemistry) Leathersellers’ Company Tiago Rocha, Executive MBA (part-time) Anya Wasserman, MSc (C) Latin American Studies Scholar Aleksandr Rodzianko, MPhil Music (Musicology) † Samuel Weeks, MBA † Josephine Niala (Anthropology & Museum Ethnography) Aidan Rose, MSt History - British and Euro Hist 1700-1850 Lina Weiss, MSc (C) History of Science Medicine & MCR Scholar Lauren Rowley, MSc (C) Nature Society & Environmental Technology Misuzu Oda (Modern Languages) Kobe Scholar Governance * Katy-Louise Whelan, 2nd BM * Olivia Ong (Social Science of the Internet) Foundation College Isadora Ruiz Dias, MBA Andrew Wiseman, MPhil International Relations Scholar Mustafa Salemwalla, MSc (C) Major Programme Di Wu, Master of Public Policy Brooke Prakash (Medical Sciences) College Scholar Management (part-time) Yunhui Xu, MSt History of Art & Visual Culture (Sciences) Anne Schnitzer, MSc (C) Migration Studies † Sarah Young, MBA Katie Prosser (Philosophy) Ghosh Graduate Scholar Georgina-Louise Scott, MSt Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Mingjie Yu, MSc (C) Social Data Science † Jasmine Proteau (History) Light Senior Scholar Therapy (part-time) Haoyu Zhai, MPhil Politics (Comparative Government) Silvia Raineri (Biochemistry) Leathersellers’ Company Scholar Qiuyang Shao, MSc (C) Statistical Science Guorong Zhang, MPhil General Linguistics & Comparative Carlota Segura Garcia (Geography & the Environment) Carly Sibilia, MSc (C) Biodiversity Conservation & Philology † Leathersellers’ Company Scholar Management † Junjie Zhao, Master of Public Policy Citlali Solis Salas (MPLS Doctoral Training Centre) Light Patricia Silva Castillo, Master of Public Policy †† Zifu Zhu, MBA Senior Scholar Dominique Simpson, MSt Music (Musicology) †† Stephen Turrell (Materials) Light Senior Scholar * indicates previous graduate of the College Kathryn Slenker, MBA Michael van de Noort (Engineering Science) Foundation † indicates candidates adjudged worthy of distinction by the Holly Smith, MSc (C) Integrated Immunology * College Scholar Examiners Philip Snyder, MSc (C) Sustainable Urban Development Huanyuan Zhang (Geography & the Environment) Henfrey †† indicates candidates adjudged worthy of merit by the (part-time) Graduate Scholar Chinese Studies Examiners

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As it spans composite instrument generously bequeathed to the CatzExchange college by the eponymous Catz Alumnus. We were across all especially grateful for Professor Bart van Es’s key-note 2019 subjects speech on The Cut Out Girl, a moving biography of Lien, a Jewish girl sheltered by his family in the wartime In February this year, St Catherine’s hosted the offered by Netherlands, interwoven with historical narrative and seventh annual Catz Exchange, an interdisciplinary the remarkable story of his personal search for the conference organised by and for members of the the college, truth; his 2018 Costa Book prize remains a source of Catz community. Ben Clingman (2016, History), which itself is pride for the whole College. winner of this year’s ‘best speaker’ prize, shares his experience of the event. very balanced My talk focussed on the work of the American landscape painter, Thomas Cole (1801-48), founder Being the largest mixed (undergraduate and graduate) between the of the Hudson River School. Through his depictions of college in Oxford certainly has its perks: from rowing and arts and the ‘savage’ Native Americans, I explored his nuanced views football to debating and drama, our superior numbers on the future of American civilization. By presenting bring us continued success on the university stage (and sciences, it is them as features of the natural landscape, Cole at beyond!). Nowhere is this truer than in the academic certainly an once dehumanized Native Americans and imbued them diversity showcased at our annual, interdisciplinary Catz with great purpose. Cole believed that indigenous Exchange Conference, offering six-minute snapshots into opportunity nations were primitive and so lived in harmony with the most exciting research interests of our students: nature; as they ‘vanished’ as the world they inhabited from second-year undergraduates to those in the final to bridge was sacrificed to unrelenting American expansion and year of their doctorate. enormous gaps industrialization, American ‘civilization’ severed its roots to the natural world supporting it. In his Consummation This year’s talks ranged from James Fallon and Rachel between the of Empire, the third in his famous series, The Course of Qiu’s topical discussion of the difficulties of fossil fuel wide range of Empire, Cole paints a classical allegory for contemporary divestment to Iris Po Yee Lo’s research into same- America: a dystopia where luxury and excess give rise sex families in China; Noëlle Rohde’s assessment of interests of the to a military despot (with a remarkable likeness to the rationality of superstition to Marilena Berscuca’s President Andrew Jackson!) reigning over a city that lesson in machine learning; Jun Lee’s exploration of the students. had banished all nature and indigenous people from theories on the adaptive significance of homosexuality sight. For all their supposed lack of sophistication, the amongst animals to Elizabeth Nurse’s live demonstration simple ‘savage’ was to Cole far more ‘civilized’ than of the ‘Freedman Violin’, a remarkable antique the barbarians he perceived in American high office.

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On top of his artistic genius, Cole’s twin messages the talks raised, emblematic of the inquisitive and of environmentalism and the dangers of demagogic interdisciplinary ethos of the College. A special thanks undermining of democratic norms remain as relevant to our wonderful Senior Tutor, Marc Mulholland, for today as they were 150 years ago. all his efforts to organise the event – unique as the only fully student-led conference in Oxford – and to all After the end of a fascinating afternoon, all the those who offered, listened to, and engaged with the speakers and members of the audience dined together multitude of ideas on display. We look forward to seeing in Hall, where we continued discussing the questions many of you back again next year. n

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Forming an Oliver Vince 8,000km2 Return to Vatnajökull Expedition: the story of plateau of solid packing a lab into ice nestled a sledge between two ridges of active volcanoes, the Vatnajökull receives all of Oliver Vince (2018, DPhil Engineering Science) won I found the diaries from the 1932 expedition a few the 2019 Wallace Watson Award that enabled him months before I arrived at Catz. It quickly became clear the weather to lead an unsupported expedition across Europe’s to me that repeating their expedition and scientific systems from largest icecap. The team mapped glacial retreat, measurements would give a unique insight into any rediscovered artefacts that had lain buried for long term changes in extreme unique environment. the Atlantic nearly a century and became the first to conduct fully off-grid DNA sequencing of polar microbes. Almost as soon as I began to formulate plans to follow Ocean and is in their footsteps, it became obvious why nobody renowned for In 1932, a team of Cambridge students set out on the had attempted to do this before me. Forming an journey of a lifetime: over seven weeks, they pulled their 8000km2 plateau of solid ice nestled between two its high winds sledges over 200km to make the first double crossing ridges of active volcanoes, the Vatnajökull receives all and heavy of Europe’s largest icecap, the Vatnajökull in Iceland. of the weather systems from the Atlantic Ocean and Despite having no prior polar experience and enduring is renowned for its high winds and heavy snowfall. snowfall. severe storms, they returned with a wealth of scientific Though not quite inside the Arctic Circle, very few data, maps and over 200 photographs of this unique people venture onto the icecap and hardly anyone landscape. Two of the 1932 team members, Brian Roberts spends more than a few days there. and Launcelot Fleming, went on to be awarded the Polar Medal for their contributions to Antarctic diplomacy.

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Above: 1932, above right: 2019

I recruited a team of three: Glen Gowers, a biochemistry PhD student at Imperial, and John-Henry Charles, a half-Norwegian with a love of the cold (and me!); and we set about planning our first large-scale expedition. The Vatnajökull provided an ideal challenge; it experiences truly polar conditions but unlike most similar environments, it can be accessed cheaply via EasyJet flights, has 24-hour search and rescue services, and (crucially) no polar bears!

In the 1932 spirit of serious expedition science, we decided to aim to become the first team to conduct truly off-grid DNA sequencing in a polar environment. Development of these techniques is particularly and their impacts are poorly understood. For instance, important as polar landscapes are teeming with some microalgae on the ice surface darken the surface microbial life invisible to the naked eye. Due to the of the ice, increasing the temperature of the ice surface difficulty of the measurements involved, these microbes and accelerating melting.

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To sequence microbial DNA in the field, we had to shrink Left: The 1932 team at their an entire genetic sequencing laboratory into an 18-litre basecamp in the volcanic desert on the Northern edge volume such that it could be packed into the back of of the Vatnajökull icecap. a sledge, along with everything else needed to survive

(and thrive!) in such an environment – food, tent, stove, Below left: The 2019 team survival equipment, etc. The actual devices that would at the same place on the do the sequencing (Oxford Nanopore flowcells) could Northern edge not freeze and so were kept against our bodies at all times for two weeks prior to experimentation!

I am pleased to report that not only did the whole team return safe, healthy and happy from the endeavour, but that we successfully sequenced some of the microbes present on the Northern edge of the Vatnajökull icecap using solar power alone. This was the first time that this was achieved and has since been verified by leading academics in the field. 50% of the microbes that we sequenced had never been seen before! The Wallace Watson Award provides Following the footsteps of the 1932 expedition also financial assistance to yielded some interesting historical findings. We found students, encouraging a handwritten note from the 1932 team that had lain them to undertake buried for 87 years in a cairn and spoke to descendants expeditions or travel of Icelanders that the 1932 team met. We were also of a chanllenging able to retake several of their photographs and re- nature and thus conduct their glaciological surveys. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the fostering an inner Watson family for their encouragement, enthusiasm strength of character, For more information on the expedition, please visit and support for this project. I am looking forward to an appreciation of www.sledgereport.com and come to the Wallace Watson showing the expedition film at the Wallace Watson other cultures and a lecture in Hilary Term 2020 where our expedition film Award Lecture and seeing how Catz students use this broadening of the mind. will be shown. amazing opportunity in the future. n

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Ben Ransom My Varsity Experience

Ben Ransom (2018, MBA) shares his experience playing for Oxford and being crowned man of the match in the Varsity rugby match.

Having recently retired from an eight-year professional rugby career withthe highs of winning European competitions and the lows of injuries, I entered the Saïd Business School to study for my MBA with one focus; to transition away from professional sport to a job within financial services. However, I also had a burning ambition to play in the 2018/19 Varsity Match against Cambridge, commonly referred to as ‘the tabs’ or ‘the other place’.

I was lucky to be part of such a tight family within the Oxford University Rugby Club, and they helped me I was lucky The tour to Madagascar was a highlight of the season understand the wider University beyond the Business and enabled us to get to know each other and start School, as well as make friends for life. The season to be part of to form relationships that would be crucial throughout started even before I had begun my studies, with a such a tight the season. I may have been naïve in thinking that, pre-season week in Oxford before a tour to Madagascar. having played at a high level, I would find the training I shared an Airbnb during pre-season with George family within and games during Michaelmas Term easy; however, I Robson (Keble), whom I had played with during my time was pleasantly surprised by how hard training was from at London Irish (2016-2018); Dom Waldouck (Kellogg), the Oxford the beginning, and I could tell how much each player the captain (commonly referred to as ‘The Duke’); Luca University wanted to wear the jersey and be a part of the Varsity Ignatius (Keble); and Will Barker (Hertford). It was very Match. I realized early on that I was going to have to much like being back when I started my rugby career rugby club ... train hard and, as one of the older members of the and sharing with three or four other lads – let’s just say squad, lead by example and help the coaches as much we were not the tidiest of houses! as possible. I think having the likes of Dom Waldouck

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The build-up and George Robson in the team really helped to get shirts and giving a speech on what it meant to him across our game plan and coach the younger members, to wear the Dark Blue jersey, as well as personalized to the game some of whom were First-Year undergraduates. notes from previous Blues. It set the stage for a great was tense, game the following day and the desire to win not only As a team, we built nicely through the season, coming for myself but also for my teammates, whom I had built with ex-Blue close against Canada (L 20-26) and winning away great relationships with over the previous few months. against Trinity College, Dublin (W 14-55). The Dublin Henry Nwume trip was also great for the guys, with songs running late The first half of the game was tense, but luckily we (Brasenose) into the night in the clubhouse! scored just before half-time to settle the nerves. We went out confidently in the second half and didn’t look presenting The next event for the Club was to go to Cambridge back, scoring some great tries and winning the game and accept the ‘varsity challenge’, laid down by the 38-16. I was lucky enough to have played well, and the shirts previous year’s winners – an interesting experience, but was awarded man of the match, but for me the best and giving one which really cements the history of the rivalry. As a part was being able to share the winning moments squad which had been announced by the Club captain, with guys who I had shared the journey with. A special a speech on Dom Waldouck, earlier in the week, we were to line up mention must go to the late Master of St Catherine’s, what it meant opposite the Cambridge team with the challenge read Professor Roger Ainsworth, who shook my hand and aloud and accepted by us. After this we watched the 2nd congratulated me straight after the match. to him to wear XV (the Greyhounds) beat their Cambridge counterparts 9-6, which really set the tone for a great build up to At times, having to balance my studies with the the Dark Blue the Varsity Match the following week at Twickenham. training commitments of the rugby club made for a jersey... difficult term. However, having been a part of the I have been lucky to be involved in a number of games Varsity Match experience I can honestly say it is still at Twickenham over the years, winning with both one of the great historic fixtures in world rugby, Saracens and London Irish there. I was very excited to and finished my full-time rugby career on a high. I play there again, especially in such a historic fixture as am proud and grateful to have represented Oxford the Varsity Match. The build-up to the game was tense, University and St Catherine’s College on the winning with ex-Blue Henry Nwume (Brasenose) presenting the side in a Varsity Match! n

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The first half of the game was tense, but luckily we scored just before half- time to settle the nerves. We went out confidently in the second half and didn’t look back, scoring some great tries and winning the game 38-16.

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As a First-Year biologist, I was inspired to apply to join the Oxford iGEM team having heard about the positive experiences of previous Catz students. The inter- disciplinary nature of the programme and the chance to work with students from different year groups and from a variety of scientific disciplines – engineering, biochemistry, medicine, chemistry – is rare at undergraduate level and offered an exciting opportunity to learn from others and understand how different specialisms interact to generate new ideas. I was also interested in the challenge of a long-term, self-directed project.

The team was selected at the beginning of Hilary Term 2018 and our first task was to discuss possible project ideas. Initial explorations ranged from developing a The team was system for snake-bite identification to the production Laurel Constanti of biofertilisers. To help us decide on the focus for our selected at project, we conducted an online survey to find out what Crosby the general public thought were the most pressing and the beginning important developments that could be addressed using The annual international science competition, of Hilary Term the tools of synthetic biology. Many people were keen iGEM, presents an opportunity for the application to see the development of a therapeutic, so we decided of synthetic biology to develop solutions to real- 2018 and our to focus our research on the treatment of disease. The world problems. Teams from across the world work recent growth of research into the microbiome, coupled throughout the academic year and over the summer first task was to with recognition that this project was likely to have on projects which address issues within areas as discuss possible the greatest immediate impact on people, cemented diverse as the environment, food and nutrition and our decision to work on developing a novel probiotic therapeutics, and then gather together to present project ideas. treatment for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). their research at the iGEM conference in Boston. Laurel Constanti Crosby (2017, Biological Sciences) IBD encompasses conditions such as Crohn’s and shares her experience competing, and winning gold, Ulcerative Colitis, is estimated to affect around 10 in the competition. million people worldwide, and presents a significant

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burden to patients and healthcare systems. It is an As well as their preferences in terms of delivery methods, but autoimmune disease that results in the attack of ‘self’ to learn if we might be able to combat the side tissues due to immune system dysregulation. Our being a effects associated with current treatments. Another solution to this problem was to develop a probiotic rigorous obligatory element of the project is collaboration with that could be ingested by patients and would act to other iGEM groups – we mentored a high-school team restore the balance between two different immune scientific from Turkey and worked with an undergraduate team cell populations (Th17 and Treg) via the secretion of from a university in Mexico. an anti-inflammatory molecule, IL-10, in response to competition the presence of nitric oxide in the intestinal lumen. necessitating When the project came to an end in October, we To ensure the response was dynamic and sensitive, travelled to Boston for the iGEM Jamboree, a four-day, a feedback loop was introduced which prevented many hours of non-stop event attended by 340 teams, consisting of excessive IL-10 production. The option to end treatment nearly 6,000 individuals from 42 different countries. was made possible by including an inducible kill-switch lab work and The schedule was packed with formal presentations system. This design offers a self-tuning therapeutic that mathematical from each team, combined with poster display responds specifically to immune system dysregulation in sessions and opportunities to discuss our work the individual, unlike conventional immunosuppressants modelling, with fellow students. The conference culminated in which have been associated with causing iGEM also an awards ceremony in which the winners of each immunodeficiency. Having designed a genetic circuit, category were announced. We were delighted to we worked through the long vacation to introduce requires teams win a gold medal in addition to nominations for Best this system into the bacterium and to characterise the Human Practices, Best Wiki and Best Entrepreneurship. components of our system. to engage However, the highlight for our team was returning to with the public Oxford with the ‘Best Therapeutics’ award as, during As well as being a rigorous scientific competition our trip, we had competed against, and seen the necessitating many hours of lab work and mathematical about their ground-breaking work of, teams from across the world modelling, iGEM also requires teams to engage with the work. who had conceived novel and extraordinary ideas public about their work. Over the summer, our team set for the treatment of some of the most challenging up stall at the Oxford Natural History Museum, talked to diseases of our time. n the public at events such as the New Scientist Live in London, and taught at Oxford’s UNIQ summer school. In addition, in order to assess the viability of our project, we spent time talking to IBD patients and clinicians at the John Radcliffe Hospital – not only to determine

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Charlotte Baker (2010, Modern Languages), Full-time journalist for BBC Radio 4

Charlotte Baker (2010, Modern Languages) is a full-time journalist for BBC Radio 4, but in her spare time she runs Small Steps for Africa, a small, registered charity helping children in sub-Saharan Africa access education and healthcare. We spoke to Charlotte about the charity and learnt that it all began at Catz.

Why did you set up Small Steps for Africa? I went to Africa on my year abroad. I remember people looking at me like I was crazy when said I wanted to go to Togo, Cameroon, and Madagascar on my French- speaking year abroad, but my tutor JC (John Charles Smith, Emeritus Fellow) thought it was a great idea, so I got a Heath Harrison Scholarship from the faculty to go. I spent six months between the three places working with difference charities. When I was in Madagascar, I met with an organisation run by two Polish ladies which was putting children into education who would not have otherwise had the chance. I was so inspired by the very simple work these ladies were doing, which was a child sponsorship programme. Together with social workers, they identified children

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I met a family with five children who had never been for whom it is impractical to start – receive a basic education and practical training in either to school – the eldest was 14 – and I said, ‘Whatever hairdressing/beauty treatments, cooking or happens, when I get back to the UK, I’m going to make handicrafts – these are all viable career options for these girls once they are old enough to sure that you can go to school.’ leave the home. People can sponsor the girls in the home and that money covers everything: their accommodation, their clothes, their food, whose families could never afford for them to child sponsorship programme which helps their healthcare, and their education. go to school, and they matched them up with children who live with their parents but who sponsors in Poland. When I visited, I met a come from very poor backgrounds – when Why Madagascar? family with five children who had never been I say very poor, I mean living in a room the It is one of the ten poorest countries in the to school – the eldest was 14 – and I said, size of most people’s bathrooms – who world. Although it gets a lot of publicity ‘Whatever happens, when I get back to the wouldn’t be able to afford education/ and is a fantastic tourist destination – which UK, I’m going to make sure that you can go to healthcare. Sponsorship pays for them to I think more people should go and see school.’ It all started with those five kids, and go to school, to have a hot lunch every day, for themselves – there are real structural now we have 45 children being sponsored and for their uniform and school supplies. problems. Kids just don’t have access to directly through the programme, and another education and healthcare. When you watch 60 being supported indirectly through our The second programme is a home in the a documentary about Madagascar and the wider projects. capital city for vulnerable girls – girls who lemurs, you see how beautiful it is but you can no longer stay with their own families, don’t see these things. What does the charity do? either because they have been orphaned or We currently work exclusively in Madagascar because it is unsafe. The home provides a Having met the two ladies who were already and we run two main programmes. The place for the girls to live – it’s basic, but it’s running a charity in Madagascar, I felt first is a programme in partnership with safe. Girls who have been to school before confident that we could set up a partnership Children of Madagascar, a small organisation (approximately half of the girls) are enrolled together and make a difference, and so that’s based in a village near the capital. It’s a back into school, and those who haven’t – what I did.

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How often do you get to visit and see the What are your aims for Smalls Steps for We have just opened a practical training impact of the work you are doing? Africa? centre near the home for vulnerable girls. Every year, in spring, I visit Madagascar for We want to grow the number of children We have set up a salon in there and we are at least two weeks. Often my partner Joshua we are able to help in both sponsorship setting up a training restaurant there too. Morgan (2010, Computer Science) comes with programmes. To see some of the children me – he supports a lot of what the charity who are currently in our programmes go on How can people get involved if they want does. to university or other vocational training to? would be amazing, but really, every year that We always need sponsors for the children A big part of my trip is home visits – I go these kids stay in school is a bonus. Every across the two different programmes. At the to meet the kids from the village project at year that we get them through another year girls’ home we can offer part-sponsorship home with their families. In person, I get a of education, even if they aren’t getting if someone wants to get involved but can’t sense of which families are doing well and top grades, they are doing something afford to sponsor a child themselves. We which aren’t and then we can help them. I constructive, they are not sat on a roadside. actually have lots of people who do this – can identify when the children need to go The lives of these people is very desperate - they club together with friends to sponsor a to the doctors, or when they need a pair of children can be pressured to leave school, to child. If someone wants to do this but doesn’t shoes, and get these things sorted. go out and earn money for their families. One know someone who wants to add the rest we of the girls on the programme wants to go to can find the other half. When you sponsor I also visit the girls’ home to see what activities university this year to become a doctor. That’s a child, you get updates three times a year they are doing. Most of them don’t speak pretty special. We are doing everything we including photos, an annual report, and the French so I speak Malagasy – I learnt a bit on can to support her with that. opportunity – which our sponsors always my year abroad and improve every time I go to visit. We talk about their ambitions for the future and how we can make them happen. A big part of my trip is home visits – I go to meet the I always make sure I buy lots of handicrafts from the girls’ home and local markets, which kids from the village project at home with their families. I then go on to sell at our events and via In person, I get a sense of which families are doing well Facebook to raise money for the charity. It all goes really quickly! and which aren’t and then we can help them.

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love doing – to send your child a present and a card, which I give them personally when I go on my annual visit. This year I took four massive suitcases of presents with me! They are usually very practical things like clothes and stationery, but the kids never get presents so they love it and the look on their faces is amazing. Our sponsors always feel very involved in the child’s life – sometimes they even go out to meet them!

We are desperate for partners to support the new catering programme at our vocational training centre. We are looking for someone who would be interested in helping us to get this off the ground: to train the chefs who are going to train the girls. In return, we give a lot of publicity to the companies who support us. working for us, so they just need to pay for able to tell people exactly what their money is We are looking for doctors, dentists and their flights and their own travel. We can help being used for. physios to join us on a trip to Madagascar them to fundraise for this if they want us to. next spring where we will be setting up a free It’s the first time we will have done this and If people want to get in touch about any of healthcare clinic for a week. Anyone who we are really excited to see how much work these things, or for more information about wants to volunteer for this could spend a we can get done. SSFA, you can contact me on charlotte@ week working with us, and then the following smallstepsforafrica.org or visit our website: week travelling Madagascar (which we can Of course, donations are always welcome, and https://www.smallstepsforafrica.org/ or help to plan). We will pay for all of the food can be one-offs or standing orders. We always Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ and accommodation while the volunteers are assign them to something specific so we are smallstepsforafrica. n

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Robert Morrison (1984, English), British Academy Global Professor and author

Robert Morrison (1984, English), British on De Quincey had a little more depth and Academy Global Professor at Bath Spa coherence than the other three. University and author most recently of The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, That was enough for me. I produced my Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of MPhil thesis on De Quincey, wrote my the Modern World (2019), talks about his doctoral dissertation on him at the University newest book on Thomas De Quincey, and of Edinburgh (where De Quincey lived and explains how his interest in the essayist wrote for more than thirty years), and then began at Catz. continued my study of him as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manchester, When I arrived at St Catz in 1984, all I knew where I became part of a scholarly team with De Quincey in the broader scholarly about the nineteenth-century essayist and that produced a new, twenty-one volume community, I sought to illuminate the key opium-addict Thomas De Quincey was that edition of The Works of Thomas De Quincey aspects of his life and career: his enduring he had swallowed a great deal of laudanum (2000-03). Jonathan was one of the advisory sorrow over the early loss of his beloved (a potent tincture of opium dissolved in editors on the project. His own scholarship, sister Elizabeth; his masochistic desire for alcohol), and that he knew and idolized the combined with his advice and encouragement, humiliation; his pursuit of and subsequent poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor continued to have a deep impact on my alienation from Wordsworth and Coleridge; his Coleridge, the latter of whom was also, like knowledge of De Quincey, especially in terms unrelenting struggle with drugs and alcohol; De Quincey, an opium addict. In Hilary term of his relationships with Wordsworth and his terrible battles with debt; his fascination of my first year, my supervisor at St Catz, Coleridge. with murder; his imprisonment in Edinburgh Jonathan Wordsworth (the great, great, great gaols; and much else. The book was widely nephew of the poet), asked me to write an In 2009, I published The English Opium- reviewed in both Britain and North America, essay on each of the four major Romantic Eater, the first new biography of De Quincey and was a finalist for the James Tait Black essayists: De Quincey, Charles Lamb, William in almost three decades. Gathering together Prize for Biography. Hazlitt, and Leigh Hunt. Jonathan was, to the vast amount of new information that had say the least, unimpressed with what I been brought to light by the new edition, This year, as part of the 21st-Century Oxford produced, though he did say that my essay and drawing too on the burgeoning interest Authors series, I published a new selected

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edition of De Quincey’s work. The volume demonstrating what ‘literature’ is, and why it Euphoria, and the Literature of Addiction, contains – as it were – his greatest hits. matters. What do you learn from John Milton’s which begins with De Quincey and Coleridge, It features his Confessions of an English epic poem Paradise Lost? he asks. ‘Nothing at and then explores how writers from their Opium-Eater (1821), generally viewed as all. What do you learn from a cookery-book? day to ours have represented their drug the first modern drug memoir. It includes his Something new, something that you did not experience. Both projects will, I hope, deepen three essays On Murder Considered as One know before, in every paragraph. But would our understanding of De Quincey and, more of the Fine Arts (1827, 1839, and 1854), you therefore put the wretched cookery- importantly, throw new light on our ongoing which have had a remarkable influence book on a higher level of estimation than the efforts to come to terms with drug use and on crime and detective fiction. It contains divine poem?’ abuse. his biographical essays on Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834-5) and William Wordsworth After spending most of my academic career My interest in De Quincey began at St Catz (1839), both of which are notable for their in Canada, I recently returned to Britain as thirty-five years ago, and looking back I indiscreet tittle-tattle, and for their searching a British Academy Global Professor at Bath can see the many ways in which my initial insights into the life and writings of the two Spa University. My research time over the conversations with Jonathan have thoroughly poets. It features De Quincey’s finest pieces next four years will be devoted to two main shaped my study of De Quincey. He is, for me, of literary criticism, including his famous projects. The first is a two-volume edition a writer who remains endlessly interesting – examination of The Literature of Knowledge of The Letters of Thomas De Quincey for as a prose stylist, a satirist, a biographer, a and the Literature of Power (1848), where Oxford University Press. The second is a literary critic, and an intellectual who in his De Quincey is intent, as he often was, on monograph entitled In Excess: Trauma, lesser-known works ranged all the way from political economy and philosophy to theology, classical scholarship, and terror fiction. Above My interest in De Quincey began at St Catz thirty-five all, as I put it in my biography a decade ago, De Quincey is, ‘far more than the other great years ago, and looking back I can see the many ways essayists who were his contemporaries’, a in which my initial conversations with Jonathan have writer who ‘speaks to us directly about our divisions, our addictions, our losses, our thoroughly shaped my study of De Quincey. selves’. n

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Ian Shipsey (Experimental Physics), 2019 Chadwick Medal and Prize winner

Ian is an experimental particle physicist. He of the ATLAS Experiment, who contributed works in large international collaborations to the design, prototyping, construction and seeking to understand how the universe commissioning of the ATLAS detector which was born, how it will evolve and how it will identified the Higgs boson for the first time. end. Ian studies heavy quarks and the Higgs His research activity in the group spans the boson, searches for dark matter and studies Higgs boson and the Silicon Tracker upgrade. dark energy, and he develops cameras that enable these studies. On receiving the Institute of Physics Chadwick Medal and Prize, Ian said, “In our field, where As Chair of APS-DFS (American Physical endeavour is collective, this award is made Society Division of Particles and Fields), Ian possible by the contributions of many who coordinated the US Community Particle- have worked so hard together over such a Physicals strategic planning exercise long time to achieve the scientific results ‘Snowmass-2013’. Ian now leads the Oxford recognised today. I would like to share this ATLAS group, one of the founding members award with all who contributed”. n

Catz Fellow, Professor Ian Shipsey, has been awarded the Institute of Physics 2019 Chadwick Medal and Prize. This award recognises distinguished research in particle physics. Ian receives it for his elucidation of the physics of heavy quarks, the development of the enabling instrumentation, and the leadership of scientific collaborations.

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Byron Byrne (Engineering Science), Impact Award winner

Professor Byron Byrne, one of our Fellows Design optimisation of these foundations in Engineering Science, recently won is fundamental to wind farm economics an Impact Award from the University’s and long-term turbine performance. Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences The research, undertaken with the close Division (MPLS), the only one awarded in involvement of ten industry partners, led by the ‘Commercial Impact’ category. energy company Ørsted, and an academic team from Oxford, Imperial College London The annual MPLS Impact Awards aim to foster and University College Dublin, led by and raise awareness of impact within the Professor Byrne, replaces design approaches University, with Professor Byrne’s Commercial dating back 50 years with new and Impact award recognising his contribution to innovative ideas. The new methods allow the new design methods for the foundations that turbine structures to be optimised for specific support offshore wind turbines. geographic locations, leading to savings of up to 30% of the steel required for each Offshore wind is central to decarbonising monopile foundation. In addition, the new the world economy, with at least 1,200 wind approaches allow monopiles to be used at turbines planned to be installed around UK deeper water sites, which might otherwise coastlines in the next decade, and thousands require more costly alternatives. The new more elsewhere around the world. As design methods are already being applied to Principal Investigator of the PISA (Pile Soil the next generation wind farms around the of energy production, in particular because Analysis) project, which ran from 2014 to UK and elsewhere. of its contribution towards the goal of 2016, Professor Byrne has developed new making offshore wind subsidy-free. I feel design methods that reduce the risk and cost Professor Byrne says, ‘By taking into very honoured to receive this University associated with the monopile foundations account complex offshore ground Impact Award, which raises the profile of (large diameter tubular steel piles) that conditions, lighter and more cost effective this research and its important industrial support offshore wind turbines. structures can be created. This research application towards making a renewable has significant implications for the future energy future a reality.’ n

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Kirsten Shepherd-Barr Professor of English and Theatre Studies at Oxford

One of the great things about being a a transformative space for ideas, discussion, researcher in the humanities at Oxford debate, and innovation centred around the is TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre humanities. in the Humanities), a dynamic hub for cross-disciplinary research here at Oxford, One of TORCH’s flagship research activities located on the top floor of the Radcliffe is its network scheme, allowing researchers Humanities Building on Woodstock Road, across different faculties and career stages in between the old Radcliffe Hospital and to connect around a topic of mutual the new Mathematics building. As someone interest, and to involve researchers outside who works across disciplines — my areas Oxford. This scheme brings people together of interest include theatre’s engagement whose research has a lot in common but with science, the relationship between who otherwise might never meet within performance and literary modernism, and the the peculiarly insular structure of Oxford’s works of Henrik Ibsen — I have been actively faculties and departments. Funding lasts for involved in TORCH in a variety of roles since it two years and is renewable, giving ample launched in 2013, and have seen it become time to explore ideas, develop events, and

Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Professor of English and Theatre Studies at Oxford and Fellow of St Catherine’s, has been actively involved with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) since it launched in 2013, including serving as Acting Director in Hilary Term 2017. Here she shares what TORCH is and the work she has been involved with.

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establish collaborations. Networks often We bring together theatre An Octoroon ahead of its opening at the fill an institutional gap: for example, two National Theatre. networks that I co-founded (The Ibsen scholars with theatre Network and the Nordic Network) relate to makers — directors, actors, One of the strengths of the TORCH network Scandinavian culture, something that has scheme is that it allows ECRs (early-career a lively research presence at Oxford but no producers, designers, and researchers, including doctoral students and separate department. Likewise, Oxford has no post-docs) to act as co-convenors and to drama department, yet many researchers here many others. Our events propose and organise events. In Michaelmas study multifaceted aspects of theatre and and topics are wide-ranging 2018, our brilliant group of postgraduate performance across a variety of languages, convenors organised a symposium on cultures, and periods. Recognising this, and, as with all TORCH Collaboration in Contemporary Theatre which I co-founded with Professor Julie Curtis networks, there is no ‘one included talks by John Terry (Artistic Director (Modern Languages) the TORCH Theatre and of The Theatre Chipping Norton), James Dacre Performance Network, which we convene size fits all’... (Artistic Director of the Royal and Derngate, along with five postgraduate students Northampton), Zarema Zaudinova from Teatr. from the faculties of English and Modern network launched in September 2017 with a doc, and playwright Bryony Lavery and director Languages. We bring together theatre symposium on Theatre and the Experience Melly Still on their adaptation of The Lovely scholars with theatre makers — directors, of Time, providing a full day of academic Bones, which is currently touring across the UK actors, producers, designers, and many talks as well as a practical session exploring after its stunning world premiere at the Royal others. Our events and topics are wide- Beckett’s use of time with director Jonathan and Derngate. In addition, the postgraduate- ranging and, as with all TORCH networks, Heron. Next was a conference on Death, led reading group continues to meet biweekly there is no ‘one size fits all’; networks can Dying and the Dead on Stage organised during term-time, exploring topics including organise all kinds of events to suit their by Jessica Goodman (Catz French Fellow), violence, intertheatricality, ecocriticism, interests and participants, from workshops followed by other highlights including Carol postcolonial performance, and documentary and informal lunchtime talks to conferences Rocamora talking about Chekhov and, in theatre. The network comes to a close in April and symposia to theatre outings and reading Trinity 2018, the playwright Branden Jacobs- 2020 but it will live on through the many ideas groups. Our Theatre and Performance Jenkins speaking about his acclaimed play and conversations it has generated. n

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News in Brief

Six of the Catz community received honours from the Queen this year: Honorary Fellow, Professor John Goodenough, was awarded the Royal Society’s Copley Medal in recognition of his outstanding Professor Geoffrey Maitland (1965, Chemistry) was made CBE in the contributions to materials science, including the research he New Year Honours list for services to chemical engineering. conducted which led to the invention of the rechargeable lithium- Sir Simon Russell Beale, former Cameron Mackintosh Visiting ion battery. This is the Royal Society’s oldest and most prestigious Professor (2015), was awarded a knighthood for services to drama in award, and is thought to be the world’s oldest scientific prize, the Birthday Honours. awarded 170 years before the first Nobel Prize.

Professor Richard Carwardine, Honorary Fellow, was awarded the Bart van Es (Fellow in English) won the 2018 Costa Book of the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Year award, one of the UK’s most prestigious and popular literary Birthday Honours for services to the study of American history in the prizes, for his latest book The Cut Out Girl. The Cut Out Girl tells UK and USA. the true story of a young Jewish girl called Lien, who was sheltered Alumnus, Dr Samir Shah (1973, Geography), was awarded a CBE in by Bart’s grandparents in the Netherlands during the Second World the Birthday Honours for services to television and to heritage. War, and has been published in six different languages, as well as featured as ‘Book of the Week’ on BBC Radio 4. Professor Sarah Broadie, Ex-Visiting Fellow at Catz, was awarded an

OBE in the Birthday Honours for services to classical philosophy. Oliver Vince (2018, Engineering Science) was announced as the Alumnus Professor Duncan Lawson (1978, Mathematics) was recipient of the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s coveted awarded an MBE in the Birthday Honours for services to mathematics 2019 scholarship awarded. in higher education. Augustine Wambersie (2018, Engineering Science) rowed in the University team for the Boat Race against Cambridge in April, and If you have news that you want to share with the College and the has been named President of the Oxford University Boat Club for n wider Catz community then we would love to hear from you. the 2020 races. Visit www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/tell-us-your-news to get in touch.

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College Events The College Time 2020 Capsule The College Enigmatist, Chris Maslanka (1973, Physics), offers Monday 17 February Katritzky Lecture the next clue, in a series of 50, to the content of the time capsule Thursday 12 March Wallace Watson Award Lecture buried underneath St Catherine’s College… Saturday 14 March Parents’ & Freshers’ Lunch

Friday 17 April Intercollegiate Golf Tournament With sorrowing heart we close the book.

Friday 17–Saturday 18 April USA Meeting Minds Weekend The clues so far: Sunday 19 April New York Drinks 1. Two thirds of my number is one and a half times what I am. Early June (Date TBC) London Party 2. Pooh in 1927, true of us today? Saturday 20 June Parents’ & Second Years’ Garden Party 3. Do they belong to longevity?

Saturday 27 June Gaudy for 1973–1982 Matriculands 4. The first 6 000 flowers. 5. A good hiding... Friday 11 – Sunday 13 September Oxford Meeting Minds Weekend 6. Six of one and half a dozen of the other. 7. Initially he sounds like an insect... To book your place on any of these events, please contact the Development Office. 8. Bovine comes to river Email: [email protected], Tel: +44 (0)1865 281 596 9. To each his own More events, including regional events, will be confirmed in the New Year. Please 10. Do men gather grapes of thorns… check for updates on the College website: www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/events 11. List: Order half a dozen pears. Ordered. 12. Entry will cost you 32.5p – in old money 13. Twelve characters alternate around a wheel 14. Boys – and their toys 15. First things first, and all in order 16. A leisured jumbling?

Our apologies for the misprint of clue 7 in previous issues, it should be ‘sounds’ not ‘found’.

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CLUES ACROSS 43. I want to become an American author 17. An ambiguous object? (10, 7) 1. & 7. Man of many parts? (12, 7) (5) 19. Poetic device much in evidence in e.g. 13. Spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus 45. — and outs (3) hip-hop (9) angasii (5) 46. Resinous secretion (3) 20. Jolt vessel (3) 14. Clarities made lifelike? (9) 48. Perfect way of setting down 55. across? 21. When in Rome he’s Jupiter (4) 15. Diogenes or Menippus of Gadara? (5) (5, 5, 7) 23. Naming parts of speech (5) 16. Long for yeti! (10, 7) 53. Ellipse or parabola? (5) 25. Sure oasis for bone depositories (9) 18. Couple in network (3) 54. E.g. French flag (9) 27. Mm…a flower (3) 19. Also bring back DNA (3) 55. Tree covering most of the planet (5) 31. Albrecht the printmaker (5) 20. Where sherry comes from? (5) 56. Al-Khwarizmi’s real bag? (7) 33. Snake worn about the neck (3) 22. No room at it at this time of year (3) 57. Zone between Jupiter and Mars? (8, 4) 35. Incorrect belief or assumption leading to 24. Socrates’s stomping ground? (5) error (11) 26. Unit formed for specific purpose — job CLUES DOWN 36. One of the ties that bind? A topological for the Church? (4, 5) 1. Adman fluent in Basic? (11) construct (4) 28. Employ a bit of a ruse (3) 2. Remember the — (Donovan) (5) 37. Each sole makes footwear securer (8) 29. Sly uses novel resort (7) 3. Parrot — Nestor nobilis (3) 38. Spooky instrument the miner played? 30. Pseudonym deriving from the Lena river, 4. In the movies Jean — or Desmond? (5) (8) Siberia (5) 5. Where star retires to? Or an advert for 40. Manage race (3) 31. Doorstep, oddly — exactly what the the film (7) 44. One of clade comprising reptiles, birds, doctor prescribed (4) 6. Princeton and Yale are two of the eight and mammals. 32. Bird in the hibiscus (4) (5) 47. Read 21. down up (4) 34. Predisposition to a particular disease (in 8. Philosophical shaver (5) 49. Reversible spinner (5) homeopathy) (5) 9. Missionary encodes electrons ejected 50. Coins each worth a sixth of a drachma 37. Politician turning to treason (7) under bombardment (9, 8) (5) 38. Metal found in platinum deposits (3) 10. Max, the poet and painter — stern when 51. It could be Handel’s (5) 39. X ✓✓ (9) drunk (5) 52. Mostly irritated (5) 41. e.g. 4. down (5) 11. A protein used to make poison (8) 55. It holds its peas (3) 42. Herb to regret? (3) 12. Not Commoners or Exhibitioners (8)

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University in general and to St Catherine’s drinking of barley wine. He cherished such Obituaries 2019 College in particular has been unstinting and memories, as do I each time I walk past that exemplary. venerable hostelry.

I was privileged to enjoy a close and enduring Like me, he was a grammar-school boy who friendship with Roger for almost fifty years, benefited from the post-war educational and today I speak of the man, because for settlement. We didn’t call it access in those all his distinction as an engineer, a tutor and days, but it was, of its kind. How appropriate, a Head of House, it was his humanity, wise, then, that he should have become Master of warm and utterly without side, which was the a College the origins of which lay in Victorian foundation of all that he achieved and the legislation intended to open Oxbridge up reason why he was so greatly loved. We hope to less privileged students. He knew what that Roger’s family will find some comfort and Oxford had given him and held this to be so strength from knowing that the love they had precious that it should never be taken for for him was so widely shared. Truly, we are all granted or squandered. Evolve, naturally; but PROFESSOR ROGER AINSWORTH the poorer for his passing. do not forget where you have come from and On 13th March, friends, family and colleagues why you are here. Tradition and innovation of the late Professor Roger Ainsworth Roger’s Welsh and Lancastrian parentage were not enemies, but friends, and vigorously gathered in the University Church of St Mary endowed him with the moral strength of independent colleges were not a threat to but the Virgin, Oxford, for his funeral. Below is generations of Welsh-speaking farmers a vital enhancement of the whole. He liked a transcription of the address given by the and chapelgoers and a benevolent to quote Hector’s words in Alan Bennett’s Reverend Dr Colin Thompson, Emeritus Fellow straightforwardness, qualities already The History Boys: ‘Pass the parcel. That’s of St Catherine’s College. apparent when I encountered him in his first sometimes all you can do…. Not for me, not year at Jesus College. From the outset he for you, but for someone, somewhere, one We are here to bid farewell to one taken too was a loyal and committed member of the day. Pass it on.’ And pass it on he did, and, if soon from among us; here to mourn, because community and a stalwart of the Chapel choir. we live true to his memory, so shall we. sorrow and grief are our good and proper After dinner, choir members migrated to The response. None can feel Roger’s death more Grapes, where they joined in songs largely He couldn’t abide pomposity or affected keenly than Sarah, Tom, Emily, Harriet, and unsuitable for divine worship round a battered grandeur. Titles and distinctions, of which he the two little grandchildren who brought old honky-tonk played by an old guy in a could justly have been proud, did not change such joy into his life. But we are also here to red waistcoat and a black bowler and in the him and he was at ease in the company of honour a great and a good man, a devoted company of two elderly Welsh ladies called people of all ages and from all walks of life. If family man, and one whose service to this Sally and Mary who were very partial to the Roger had a fault – though it was in essence

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a virtue – it was that he believed the best Proctor and would have been amused that this tracks in the lane at the back so that I could of people, assumed that they held to the service should take place on the day of the dig out my car and escape: Roger to the same principles as he did, and trusted that Admission of the new Proctors, since he knew rescue, not for the first or the last time. they would abide by them. He was therefore all too well how very convivial the lunches that disappointed, even angry, when experience marked it were. Somehow, he found time to Music was important to him; after all, it was taught him that this was not always so. continue engagement with his own academic in the Jesus-St Anne’s Musical Society that he Sometimes my phone rang – Roger telling me subject and to serve on public bodies, local first met Sarah. He had a fine bass voice and that his blood was boiling because someone and national. He was a brilliant fundraiser, not was delighted to be told not long ago that or other was playing silly games or, worse because he was a practitioner of the art of spin he would be welcome to join the Cathedral still, being devious or placing convenience and the smooth tongue, both of which were choir when in St David’s – almost as thrilled over principle. When it came to contentious entirely alien to him, but because potential as when years earlier in the college choir matters of university or college politics he donors could see how deeply this man of an undergraduate in the row in front told would characteristically say ‘I’m going to absolute integrity believed in the cause. him that his voice made her knees tremble. play that with a straight bat’; and that was He never forgot that. Nor will those present absolutely the man, arguing from principle Each of us will have particular memories, ever forget that evening of impromptu and saying it plainly as he saw it. He believed vignettes of Roger: the unmistakeable figure Gilbert and Sullivan in the Lodgings, when with every fibre of his being that power was making slow and stately progress on his Roger was entertaining our Visiting Fellow only to be exercised with responsibility and bicycle; his love of gadgets and machinery; Joseph Heller and his wife Valerie. Quite how at the service of the ideals of the institution, buying a very expensive lawnmower when his it began I don’t remember, but once Roger not, never, in order to enhance the standing senior manager (Sarah, that is) was away; and I got going we couldn’t be stopped and of those who were entrusted with it. finding an old Danish stove on eBay and general hilarity ensued. It led to modest installing it in the family home. His E-Type, thespian glory, for twice we ganged up with Roger’s long tenure as Master has been Mr Jaggers, was a source of occasional pride undergraduates and performed songs from a golden age in the life of St Catherine’s. but also frustration, because it sulked in damp the Savoy Operas at Catz summer concerts He devoted all his energies to creating an weather. He’d tease us hopeless arts types – the Master of the College cavorting on the environment of openness and trust, which in with a twinkle in his eye as we struggled to stage, and how the audience loved it. turn has enabled a flourishing common life and find an answer to some technical question. Roger was a practical, rational scientist and he a clear sense of direction. His service to the He was kind and generous to the core of his was also man of faith, a committed member University, too, was extraordinary, not least his heart. When I was marooned at home in the of the Church of England. This was an integral many years as a pro-Vice Chancellor and as wilds of Otmoor after a heavy snowfall, Roger part of him. Unbothered by doctrinal niceties, Chair of the Building and Estates Committee rang to enquire if I was all right. When I he felt strongly the importance of shared during a period of unparalleled growth in the explained that I was completely snowed in he values and of belonging to a living tradition University estate. He also served as a Senior drove over in his Land Rover and made deep with faith, hope and love as its highest ideals,

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for they are the poetry and art and music of name. There are other encounters which baffle the likes of Brian Walden and Peter Jay) and the science of the human spirit. That sense and disturb, each of them shards of light frequented the city’s curry houses as places to of belonging was central to him – in close- amid the prevailing gloom, hints which grow go while his landlady prioritized the needs and knit family life, in his college, with its rich into the conviction that death has no final comforts of his old Etonian housemate. diversity of subjects and students, in the dominion over the love which has come from university and the city, in the community of God to dwell among us. Christian hope is born While Oxford remained his spiritual home, in the Church. He loved as much the quiet of the in the darkest place of our fears and grounded the early 1960s Keith moved to Kingston-on- termly Latin communion here as the animated in the eternally self-giving love of God: Thames for a brief spate as an archivist. He singing of Welsh hymns at the Cymanfa Ganu was soon forced out, he felt, by predatory in St David’s. Every year at the College Carol “One short sleep past, we wake eternally, colleagues keen to marry this bright young Service he read from the Prologue to St John’s And death shall be no more; death, thou man. So he left and moved to Rochester, Gospel, which tells of eternal being embracing shalt die.” Kent. He met Winifred, married her and had temporal becoming through the elemental a daughter, Sarah. He began teaching at a symbolism of darkness and light: ‘The light That light shines, so small, so fragile in our boys’ grammar school, Sir Joseph Williamson’s shines in the darkness and the darkness has present darkness, yet it is one with that Mathematical School, more commonly known not overcome it’. Many chapters later, as the greater light which is the end of all our as ‘The Math’, where he stayed for over thirty Last Supper ends, John adds three short Greek journeying and into which this dear, beloved years. He found his feet with the help of an words, ήν δέ νύχ, ‘And it was night’. He does friend of ours shall pass. inspirational mentor, Charlie Malyon, whom not mean it happened to be dark outside. He Keith succeeded as Head of History. His first means that everything that mattered seemed KEITH HOWARD BAKER pupils included two future St Catherine’s lost, swallowed up in the pervasive night of Keith Howard Baker was born in Leek in 1938. students, Kevin Sharpe and Peter Knight, betrayal, suffering and death. We would not Having spent his early childhood in Stoke, his both of whom went on to distinguished be human if we did not fear that that was family moved to Newport after the war when careers. They, like many, attributed much of all there was to our short span of existence. his father started a job as a sports journalist their success to Keith’s early tutelage. Keith But in a stunning oxymoron John sees the on the Western Mail in Cardiff. Keith’s love of later became Head of Sixth Form, enjoying glory of Christ revealed most clearly when he literature stemmed from his time at school in a position that enabled him to help steer is lifted up on a Cross. You and I see no light Newport. His school was a challenging and the futures of bright young things taking shining there, as we may not now, only the ambitious one; several of his contemporaries advantage of the social mobility that Keith awful dominion of death. But John’s story did went up to Oxford alongside him. Keith read saw promoted by grammar schools. not and does not end at that point. There is a History at St Catherine’s between 1956 and garden early in the morning on a third day and 1959 – when it was a ‘Society’ rather than a Keith thrived for three decades at The Math. He a weeping woman who does not recognise college as it lacked residential buildings. Keith was passionate and extremely knowledgeable. a stranger walking there until he speaks her joined the Oxford Union (working alongside He believed in pulling pupils up rather than

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pitching at their level; he wanted them to this entertaining was punctuated by stories Tony Hancox write A history of St Catherine’s follow in his footsteps, finding something far of the progress of this-or-that former pupil, Rowing 1875-1999, published in 2000. beyond the suburban and mundane. To that especially historians, and who had published/ As an undergraduate, Don rowed in the St end, he would also accompany older pupils on reviewed/said what. The conversation was Catherine’s College 1st VIIIs throughout and trips to the National Gallery or National Portrait often mischievous, full of laughter and in representative crews at Marlow, Reading Gallery, encouraging them to think beyond the enthusiasm, and almost always with a glass and Henley Regattas. Don was Secretary of tramlines of syllabuses and examiner-friendly of red in hand. the Boat Club. The Club remained a life-long answers. Keith’s final years in teaching saw source of interest, only relinquishing his role greater regulation through the introduction Kindly provided by Matthew Jenkinson as Vice President at the age of 90. A debater, of the National Curriculum and OFSTED, with Don was a member of the Debating and Dean a more managerial approach to performance DONALD BARTON Kitchin (History) Society in which members management, assessment, and tracking pupil Donald was born in Tottington, near Bury, read original papers at monthly meetings. progress. Keith held out against this as much as Lancashire. Following his father Fred’s, loss he could, and it was testament to his inspiration of employment in 1930, Don experienced a Don graduated in 1951, and shortly after as a teacher that, when he finally tried to retire financially precarious childhood in southern finals, met his future wife, Sylvia Perry, then once and for all in 1999, his A-Level students England. On the outbreak of war in 1939 he PA to the Professor of Zoology - marrying 19 successfully petitioned for him to stay on one was evacuated with his mother, Jenny, and July 1952. Happily his professional dreams more year to complete the course. sister, Pat, to Chepstow. Educated at Chepstow also came true – after a Colonial Service Secondary School, and after two and a half induction course, he was posted to Tanzania Keith always walked from his home in Borstal years’ army service in post-war Germany, he as a District Officer. Although it is now to school in Rochester. In retirement, he went up to Oxford where he read Geography, perhaps unfashionable to credit colonial could frequently be seen – a distinctive with a special emphasis on Africa. From rule with any merits, Don found this to be white-haired, slightly stooped figure – taking childhood, his keen interest in Africa led to the most rewarding period of his working similar walks. Often these were to meet dreams of entering the then Colonial Service. life – on one hand helping to prepare a friends on Rochester High Street, to talk and country for independence, and on the other laugh over a drink or two, before returning Don was recruited for rowing in the Long implementing policies which contributed home to cook one of his legendary curries. Distance Race in 1948 and Torpids in 1949. to the economic, social development and He and Winifred loved entertaining, even Selected as a freshman for the First Eight welfare of his districts. This embraced to the point that Keith almost converted to in June 1949, he rowed as number 5 in the agriculture, forestry, education, public Mormonism because his generous spirit and record breaking ‘Forty-Niner’ crew. He raced health, game control, and infrastructure. unwillingness to say ‘no’ meant that he didn’t at Henley Regatta in 1951 and coached His deep attachment to Tanzania never left want to upset the missionaries who kept novice crew to seven bumps. Active in the him and he relished his regular updates from appearing on his doorstep. In later years, Rowing Society, he helped Anu Dubhia and the Tanzanian Society until the end. Life for

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Sylvia was certainly as challenging, but she and Sylvia were again witness to troubled Defence Force and was posted with the 17th did a sterling job of running a household political times when violence erupted during a Squadron of the SA Airforce to North Africa and bringing up two children, Nicola and brief state of emergency in 1969. Finally, on and Italy. He returned to Durban in 1946 and, Nigel. Always contributing energetically to returning to UK from overseas and threatened after two years studying engineering, which the local community, she was renowned for with another London posting, Don took early he found unsuited to him, he was employed being a gracious and welcoming hostess. As retirement. During retirement, Don’s voluntary in the Native Administration Department in independence approached, Don – like many work with half a dozen national and local Durban. While there, he won a scholarship of his contemporaries – was asked to stay charities were a deep source of satisfaction to Oxford in 1954 and read PPE, his college on and serve the new government. Although and interest. Whether driving the minibus was then known as St Catherine’s Society. an appealing prospect, concern for family for Help the Aged, organizing the books for On returning to South Africa in 1956 he prompted Don to leave. Returning to the UK in a community post office, or providing admin applied for a position at the University of 1961, he joined ICI in Manchester. In this new support and advice to Hampshire Bereavement Fort Hare, where he remained from 1957 job he was bored silly, and after 18 months Trust. Don was in his element when able to until he was sacked in 1959 by the apartheid he resigned and secured the post of Assistant help people; in his career as a civil service Nationalist Government for his anti-apartheid Regional Director with the British Council administrator, in his roles overseas, with his political stance and activities. His students at in Western Nigeria. Here, as in subsequent valued friends, and particularly as a husband Fort Hare included such luminaries as Seretse overseas postings to Malaysia and Afghanistan, and father. His family and friends will miss Choabi and Chris Hani. He was immediately he was responsible for delivering educational his honest, and sage counsel and his dry, self- given a post at Rhodes University in the aid, funded by the Overseas Development deprecating sense of humour. Philosophy Department. He was an influential Administration. Later, several years at London teacher of political philosophy and founded the HQ was less challenging and rewarding. PROFESSOR Department of Political Studies at the University TERENCE VIGORS of which he remained the Head of Department Tanganyika always took pride of place in RAIT BEARD until his retirement at the end of 1991. Don’s overseas postings. Nevertheless, both Professor Beard he and Sylvia enjoyed Afghanistan despite the was an academic, a He was a member of the Liberal Party of 1978 military coup that brought the Afghan political philosopher, South Africa founded by Alan Paton, the only Communists to power. In Nigeria, they both a liberal thinker, multi-racial party at the time, which strove for experienced a violent general election and a World War II one person, one vote. He was banned under military coup d’état. During the Biafran War, veteran and an the notorious Suppression of Communism Don found himself in close proximity to the anti-apartheid Act from 1962 till 1966, a banning order that fighting and was instrumental in aiding the activist. He was born in Durban, South Africa, severely restricted his personal movement, evacuation of some of his local co-workers to and matriculated at Houghton College in teaching, socialising and political activity. The safety. In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, both Don Johannesburg. In 1944 he enlisted in the SA ban was lifted without explanation as part

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of the amnesties associated with the fifth Mike arrived at Catz in 1966, to read Modern just LPs, then CDs, and books (particularly anniversary of the founding of the Republic History, which he did in the odd intervals Pan paperbacks with their lurid covers), but of South Africa and only after frequent when he was not reading novels, or in a also apparently trivial items like cigarette appeals by the Vice-Chancellor to John Vorster, record shop, or at the Scala or the Moulin packets and wine-bottle labels. Of course, the Minister of Justice. During these years Rouge. He thus accumulated a large collection the latter had the added attraction that it was under the banning order he was personally of psychedelia and a comprehensive expertise necessary to smoke the cigarettes and drink contacted by Alan Bullock who took an abiding in the classics of the cinema, all carefully the wine. Reading University has a Centre interest in his welfare. Other St Catherine’s logged in his notebooks. Mike already had a for Ephemera Studies in its Department of figures too, such as Wilfred Knapp and John girlfriend, Ali, from back home in Keswick, and Typography, and the cigarette packets were Simopoulos, segued from being his inspiring her frequent visits to Oxford meant that she deposited in the university as the Mike Bott tutors to becoming close friends. became a familiar face around the College, Ephemera Collection. and a friend to Mike’s many friends. Ali and Oxford remained a beloved place where he Mike were married in 1970, and had two A major stroke forced Mike to retire from and his family spent many a sabbatical. sons, Jamie and Richard. the university in 2007. This was followed by several years of declining health, with He is survived by his wife, Margot, and his Mike began his association with Reading numerous stays in hospital and gradually children, James and Lucy, and two grandsons. University as a graduate trainee, immediately reducing mobility. Despite much pain, Mike after graduation in 1969. A brief spell in remained generally stoic, and greatly enjoyed Kindly provided by Terence’s widow, Margot London while he obtained professional the company of friends from Oxford days, qualifications was followed by a return to who came to lunch in Reading, or joined Mike MIKE BOTT Reading as Assistant Archivist in 1971. There and Ali on holiday. He continued to listen Mike Bott (formally George Michael Charles, he stayed, becoming Keeper of Manuscripts to music, drink coffee (and whiskey when but always known as Mike to family and and Archives/University Archivist in 1985. He nobody was watching), and do crosswords friends) was born on 25 April 1948 and played a major role in developing two of the (concise rather than cryptic as his attention brought up in Keswick in the Lake District. university’s major collections: the Beckett span diminished) and retained his sometimes He always remained attached to his roots Archive, housing the papers of the playwright caustic wit. among the hills and lakes, despite living for Samuel Beckett; and the Archive of British nearly fifty years in Reading, in the lowlands Publishing and Printing, for which he acquired Mike died on 14 June 2018. Ali, Jamie and of the Thames Valley. He grew up in a house material from several major publishers. He Richard scattered Mike’s ashes on Skiddaw, so filled with books, which must have influenced took great pleasure in sharing his extensive that he finally returned home to the Lakes. the whole course of his life – his passion for knowledge of these papers with scholars who collecting and cataloguing started early, and came to the university from around the world. continued both as a hobby and as a career. His own collecting continued unabated, not

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PROFESSOR travel and was indeed one of the first western continued his work with DJCAD until 2007 RICHARD CARR journalists to cross Check Point Charlie into when he retired as an Honorary Professor. Professor Richard East Berlin. Richard’s journalism career was Carr, design evident early on - he once had tea with Pandit Richard contributed to a ‘bewildering range’ historian, journalist Nehru in the Oxford College garden. of books (including writing Tartans, Their and writer has Art and History with Ann Sutton in 1984) passed away on 24 In the early 1960s he joined the Oxford Mail and publications including Craft Horizons December 2018, in and became the paper’s art critic to review (USA), Dormus (Italy), Form (Sweden) Studio Dundee, aged 83. plays, films and books. He subsequently International and for The Royal Incorporated worked as Features Editor of DESIGN magazine Architects of Scotland (RIAS) magazine Born on 13 October 1935 in London, of where he wrote design analysis of cars, and made substantial contributions to two Pictish and English lineage, Richard spent bicycles, chairs and other products, including Scottish periodicals, Craftwork and Artwork. his early years in his beloved Oxford under typewriters and computers designed by Ettore As noted in The Scotsman obituary ‘..under the care of his adoptive mother Dora Minnie Sottsass for Olivetti. In 1969, he became a his experienced journalistic eye, it [Artwork] Butler Carr, and step-father John Henry Carr. freelance journalist continuing to contribute to developed into an important voice, producing Dora would later become Mayor of Oxford DESIGN magazine. His main role, however was ­features, reviews, articles and, often, hard- in 1977-1978 and have a close named after as Design Correspondent for The Guardian. hitting editorials that pulled no punches.’ her. Richard also had a strong bond with his Among the greats he interviewed was Walter godmother Herta, a German Jew who escaped Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, and in the He was made an Honorary Fellow of RIAS from Hitler’s Germany. early 70s he travelled to Italy several times to in 2015. He continued to write for Artwork interview Ettore Sottsass on his life and work, until the end of his life - his last article was Between 1944 and 1954 Richard attended St thereby cementing a life-long friendship. Newcomer on the Dundee Waterfront on the Christopher’s School, Letchworth, England, new V&A museum, for the winter issue 2018. where he would regularly see Michael Winner In 1976 Richard moved to Scotland and driven to the gates in a Rolls Royce. In 1954 embarked on his academic career at Duncan His interest in exhibitions led him to the close he joined the National Service, re-entering of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, to collaboration with late Bill Potter of Inhouse, civilian life in 1956 to attend St Catherine’s establish their Design History program and Edinburgh, helping to organise numerous College, Oxford University, where he read took on the role of Course Director - his exhibitions. In such a way, as Richard Politics, Philosophy and Economics graduating contacts greatly enriched the faculty, as he explained, ‘Putting the objects into their (MA Oxon) in 1959. was able to introduce renowned designers historical and cultural contexts’. to the college. Meanwhile, he continued his Richard was a journalist, an academic and most journalistic career writing for The Scotsman, In 2007 Richard left Scotland with his then certainly, one who enjoyed life. He loved to The Herald and The Sunday Herald. He wife, Marlene Ivey, for Canada. Identity is an

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essential part of one’s well-being and Richard Force Command, who was flying Austers over Colleagues and students alike found Brian found himself bereft of identity in the Atlantic Malayan jungles, doing reconnaissance and fair, considerate and gentlemanly. His area Coast of Canada with its harsh winters, dropping food boxes and supplies. of research interest was originally in the returning to Dundee in 2011 to live out the structure and biosynthesis of extracellular rest of his life in a place that he knew well. As 1957-1961 was spent at St Catherine’s in fungal glucan, pullulan, by Aureobasidium Ettore Sottsass commented in Richard’s 1999 the science laboratories, reading Inorganic pullulans. Latterly, his research was in the monograph Catching Up with Sottsass, ‘Don’t Chemistry, gaining a BA (Hons). During this physiology and biochemistry of ageing yeast worry, not everything works out.’ time he met Oxford City girl, Elizabeth Eyres, and the attachment of fungi to silicates. whom he married in 1963. Richard leaves behind, his eldest son Simon, In retirement, Brian enjoyed voluntary work his wife An-ling as well as younger brothers After a brief period as Research Chemist at at the Museum of Scotland, National Trust’s Michael and Mark Carr. His eldest son Krishna, Ilford Films Ltd, he chose to change from Gladstone’s Land and, always absorbed by pre-deceased Richard in 2004. All his children Inorganic to Biochemistry, and studied and studying maps, he participated in his local are from an earlier marriage to Jennifer Carr. acquired lecturing skills at the Lister Institute History Society mapping projects. Richard is also survived by his sister Judith under Dr Bill Whelan who moved, with most Chipchase. of his research team, to the Royal Free In the last two years, Brian was poorly with Hospital (London) where Brian completed his oedema which led to heart valve surgery from He will be missed by his family and friends, PhD in 1967. In the same year he received his which he was unable to recover and died not solely for his intellect and good manners, MA (Oxon). peacefully in hospital on 26 June 2019. but as a true gentleman. His post-doctoral year was spent at the PAUL CHAMBERS Kindly provided by Simon Carr, Richard’s son. Rockefeller Institute, New York, under the Born in October 1944, Paul was brought up Nobel Prize winners, Professor Moore and in Bradford, leaving Bradford Grammar School DR BRIAN JOHN CATLEY Professor Stein. Meanwhile, Dr Bill Whelan as Head Boy and a proud and confident Brian had a happy Yorkshire childhood with had moved with his team to the Biochemistry Yorkshireman. Already fluent and well-read education at Bradford Grammar School (1945- Department of the Medical School at the in French and German, Paul came up to Catz 1955) and good, memorable experiences University of Miami, Florida, and so Brian and apparently fully formed, mature and self- of being a member of the Boy Scouts. He his family moved to Miami for four years. confident. My mother would recall how, when was awarded a Bradford City Scholarship to they were visiting in Michaelmas Term, Paul Oxford University but chose to do his National From Miami, Brian moved to the Heriot-Watt reassured my parents, ‘We’ll look after him’. Service first (1955-1957). In this he mostly University where he eventually became served as a radio controller with a pilot in the a Senior Lecturer and then Deputy Head He revealed an interest in cooking and Royal Air Force, 656 Squadron, Far Eastern Air of Department of Biological Sciences. preparing food in his College room, treating

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us to meals of pumpernickel, spreads as a dog and cats, and several sixth-form Paul didn’t forsake his interest in language. and wine. Also an able musician, Paul boarders. One ‘OP’, Chris DJ, wrote fondly He remained fluent in French, and undertook was particularly keen on records of Boult, of his time staying with the Chambers: some translation work. As for German, he Klemperer and Furtwängler; he sang Alto in breakfasts with home-made bread, sausages would assist quite frequently at the Goethe Brian Varley’s embryonic Catz Chamber Choir. and the occasional black pudding, babysitting Institute. Music remained important. He took the children, borrowing the hi-fi. Chris says part in and organised concerts, and played the Tony Patterson (1963, Modern Languages) of Paul, ‘Very occasionally, we come across organ at the nearby Chapel of Chapaize, and remembers, ‘PSC started out at Catz like many someone outside our immediate family who even found himself the inheritor of an organ. of us, in the shortie bum-freezer gown. By encourages us to follow a path we might not dint of exceptional Yorkshire grit, great skill in otherwise have taken.’ Chris had intended They earned some extra income putting translation, and excellent results in Prelims, to pursue the sciences, but was persuaded up small parties of visitors, such as school he was awarded an Honorary Scholarship in otherwise by Paul. students and trainee priests. The visit by his second year. He also received a Heath Stephen D, a close friend and the former Harrison travelling scholarship.’ In Schools, Paul also took enthusiastically to the non- head of music at Pocklington, with some of Paul attained a good enough Second to stay academic side at ‘Pock’, as a cricket umpire his choir, was an important annual event. on at Catz, studying for an MPhil. The Master, and as a Rugby referee, not having shown Alan Bullock, appreciated Paul as a fellow much interest in sport at Catz! He also Margaret succumbed to cancer after a long scion of Bradford town and grammar school; maintained his interest in music, singing with illness, early in 2006. Paul mounted an indeed, Paul helped one of the Master’s sons York’s Micklegate Singers. exhibition of her art and craftwork in their in his studies. However, the funding for his house, and we heard Stephen’s choir perform Postgraduate study dried up; Paul left Oxford After 25 or so years of teaching, Paul set his movingly in a memorial concert that summer. for a career in teaching. sights on an early retirement to a challenging Paul stayed on in Bissy for another ten years pile of real estate in Burgundy. Visitors were or so, marrying Catherine, also recently Newly married, he and Margaret set up home welcome especially if they helped out by widowed by cancer. in the lovely village of Mells in Somerset; he levelling the ground outside, sorting out the joined the teaching staff in nearby Downside mysterious French electrics, and, of course, His daughters had both ended up in the Lake Abbey. He also played the organ in Frome stocking the house with fresh market food District; Paul and Catherine finally sold up in for Sunday services. They stayed there for and lots of good wine. They completed the France, moving to Cockermouth, near to Anna just a few years, moving on to Pocklington move around 1994. Paul was now a very good and Catherine Jr in Spring 2017. Their new School, back in Yorkshire, in the Wolds, in cook, invariably preparing the first one or two house, which had escaped the floods, was 1972. He and Margaret enjoyed an impressive courses, Margaret producing equally delicious too small for the larger musical instruments; stone house near the school together with desserts. luckily, the new owners in France were keen their two girls, Anna and Catherine, as well musicians.

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Only a year later, Paul himself fell to an Outside of various publications in his own subject upon which his knowledge had few if aggressive cancer: he survived just a few sphere, he developed a keen interest in local any equals. months after an emergency bowel operation history and published Yeomen and Colliers of in May, dying in July 2018. He had time to Telford in 1980 jointly with Barrie Trinder, a He was survived by his wife (now also plan his funeral service, choosing the hymns, book which advanced greatly the technique deceased) and two sons. readings and other music. Paul’s musical pal, of using inventories to reveal social history. Stephen D, played a couple of organ pieces CLIFFORD MICHAEL and accompanied Paul’s nephew, Mark, in a Away from academic life, he was a DUNKLEY Purcell Anthem. Mark told me later that he’d railwayman by blood and bone; he was the Clifford was born in given the grandchildren permission to laugh first generation of his family not to have Leicester in November at his counter-tenor voice. I wonder if they’d worked on the Great Central Railway since its 1938, the only child ever heard their grandfather singing Alto. foundation, and spent many hours working on of Charles Edward and a voluntary basis in the workshops of the GCR Evelyn Alice Dunkley. Kindly provided by Mike Day at Ruddington. He was a great fellwalker who Having passed the had completed all the Munroes, and would eleven-plus exam a DR JEFFREY COX spend time every summer in Scotland, which year early, he attended the Dr Jeffrey Cox, who has died aged 83, read usually included a further volunteer turn at City of Leicester Boys Grammar School from Chemistry at St Catherine’s College (or the Strathspey Railway’s works in Aviemore. 1949. The School recognized his potential Society, as it was then – a distinction of and he was placed in the fast stream, passing which he was enormously proud) between He settled in Kinnersley, a village in his A Levels a year early. This left his final 1955 and 1959. Following a PhD at Shropshire, where he served the community year to obtain O-Level Latin (from scratch) - a Manchester Polytechnic and a year’s teaching in diverse ways for half a century, including prerequisite for entrance to Oxbridge at the at Imperial College, London, in 1965 he took as a local Methodist preacher. His interests time. Despite City Boys having forged strong up a lectureship in Inorganic Chemistry at in Scotland, Shropshire, the chemistry of connections with colleges at Cambridge, Wolverhampton Polytechnic, and remained the water industry and in chronicling the Clifford was determined to study at Oxford. He there until his retirement in 2000. That oppression of the common man by the was duly awarded a place with a small bursary retirement did not prevent him from spending aristocracy (he was a lifelong socialist and on to study English Language and Literature at St a further 18 years working in an unpaid this subject he felt very strongly indeed) were Catherine’s Society (now College). capacity for the University (as it had then combined in an intense study of the doings of become) as chauffeur, research assistant the Dukes of Sutherland on their Shropshire After graduating in 1960, he worked as an and amanuensis to his wife, the historian Dr estate in which Kinnersley stands, and Assistant Master in several schools in East Nancy Cox. especially their draining of the Weald Moor, a England. However, in 1967 he found his true vocation—academic administration—in a career

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at the University of Leicester that lasted until Throughout his life, Oxford remained very unique individual, not someone you would 1998. He began as a Senior Administrative important to Clifford. From 1997, he helped easily forget and many had a great fondness Assistant, moving up to Assistant Registrar organize the Oxford University Society for him because of this. He leaves behind and finally Senior Assistant Registrar in the Leicestershire and Rutland branch and he three children and seven grandchildren. School of Education by 1987. While working took over running it in 2006. Clifford was for the University his responsibilities included also an active participant in the Victorian ANTHONY FEBLAND the organization of degree congregations, the Society and Wyvernians (City of Leicester Anthony was born in organization and administration of courses in Boys alumni). He was proud of his Leicester Blackpool in 1936. the School of Education and looking after the roots and published a booklet entitled Let’s He was the first child finances of the School. In the later stages of Talk Leicester. He described it as ‘a user- of Simman Febland his career, he was involved in the design of friendly guide to the local lingo’ and it was and Lilly Tax, shortly academic dress for emerging new degrees. reprinted a number of times after selling out followed by his two In 1995, he semi-retired, working until full at Leicester City Council Tourist Office. sisters, Lorraine retirement as a part-time Secretary for the and Elizabeth. University’s Associated Colleges. The Church was important to Clifford and Anthony grew up around he was a member of the congregation at St his two entrepreneurial driven and ambitious Clifford was a member of numerous societies. Mary de Castro’s in Leicester for many years. parents, who were always busy working on Reflecting his life-long passion for literature, As well as his interest in academic dress, he their various businesses and projects. As a these included the Tennyson Society, the had a keen interest in ecclesiastical dress child he excelled at Arnold School for Boys, Betjeman Society, the Kilvert Society and the and ceremony. Being a server and verger at gaining the grades to award him a scholarship Housman Society. He had a long-standing St Mary’s as well as a member of the guilds at Oxford University or Cambridge University, interest in academic dress and in 2002 he for both enabled him to pursue this interest. the choice was his. joined the Burgon Society. The Burgon Another ritual in which he took great delight Society Annual of 2003 included his article, was Morris dancing. He played the fiddle for At university he started off at Oxford, where J. W. Burgon and the Eponymous Hood: A the Man Friday Morris Men from 1994 to 2012, he studied History. He had a natural affinity Trawl through Oxford University Archives. performing with them at pubs throughout for language and spoke four languages Whilst not solving the mystery of Burgon’s Leicestershire every summer. The troupe fluently – his Italian was so good, he was connection with the hood, he discovered formed a guard of honour at his funeral and able to distinguish the difference between evidence of an abandoned set of reforms performed a few dances in front of his beloved the dialects according to regions and Italians to Oxford academic dress. In 2005 he was church afterwards. Cliff requested that the believed he was a native! admitted as a Fellow of the Society following Lord’s Prayer be read in Cornish at his funeral, his publication, Academic Dress of the reflecting his eccentricity as well as his love During his time at Oxford, he was more University of Leicester. of language and of ‘Kernow’. Clifford was a interested in the social events than his

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studies - especially the Jazz events. Having Anthony also formed a Venetian glass RT HON. LORD DEREK achieved grade 5 in piano, he bought a factory in Blackpool in the 1970s. He invited FOSTER double bass and decided to form a jazz band a maestro glass blower from Venice to Rt Hon. Lord Derek and put on nights and arrange gigs in clubs produce stunning glassware as well as taking Foster of Bishop around Oxford. He played and was friendly on apprentices such as John Ditchfield, who Auckland PC, DL, DCL, with some other great characters such as is now a well know glass maker producing died on 5 January, Dudley Moore and Peter Cook. As such highly collectable pieces. aged 81, after a long extracurricular activities were taking over his period of illness. studies and were formally not permitted in Over the next few decades the business the 1950s, he eventually got sent down. He expanded, and new and exciting ranges of Born in Sunderland to a father who was a then decided to try and take his offer at lighting, giftware and statement furniture shipyard fitter and mother who was a shop Cambridge University and was accepted after sourced worldwide were introduced to the assistant, Derek grew up in a working-class blagging his way in, saying he had been market. community with a lifelong passion for social doing national service for the army, as they justice. He gained entry to the Bede Grammar were wondering why he hadn’t until now Anthony was an absolute one-off. An School via the eleven-plus examination and been attending. intellectual, entrepreneur, musician and progressed on to become Head Boy for comedy genius, highly respected and admired the school. His interest and ability in sport Following his studies, Anthony took a job by the many people whose lives he impacted was evident in him being chosen for the with his dad taking van-full of samples of by creating jobs and opportunities for many. Sunderland Boys Cricket eleven and his trial Italian ceramic gifts and capodimonte around He will be truly missed, not only by his loving for the County Durham Rugby squad. the country. Off the back of the success of wife Diana and his three children Tibor, the Italian imports, he started a European Dexter and Tali, but also the many friends, Derek came up to Oxford reading Politics freight business and accidentally fell into acquaintances, clients and suppliers along Economics and Philosophy. Upon graduation the furniture business after being lumbered the way. he took a number of differing roles in industry with a load full of Italian reproduction chair before moving to Youth and Community work frames. Anthony met his wife, Diana, on a A huge legacy has been passed on, as in Washington New Town, fuelling his resolve to London bus whilst she was studying at the Feblands will be shortly coming up to its 70th ensure that Youth were given every opportunity Royal College of Art in Chelsea. They became year of trading. A beautiful business that in life. Derek’s final employment before inseparable and he hurriedly whisked her off Anthony was so passionate about and will entering Parliament was as Assistant Director of to a new life in Blackpool where together be cherished and continued by his family Education for the Borough of Sunderland. they would start a family and build the through generations to come business together. Derek’s political career commenced in 1974 when he was elected to the Sunderland

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Borough Council and then, almost always kind to me and supportive of new the day-to-day matters of the chamber. He immediately, to the new Tyne and Wear MP’s … He served our party with distinction continued to encourage new business in the Metropolitan Council where he served as and will be sadly missed’. North East and this was noted by County chairman of the North East Development Councillor Rob Yorke who said ‘I can’t begin Council. In 2005, after 26 years as a Member of to quantify the contribution he made to or Parliament, during which he also served on region, not to mention the numerous charities His ability in the field of politics was soon the House of Commons Employment Select and organisations he was involved in. His seen and this culminated in him being Committee, was co-chairman of the House of passion was education and employment. He nominated as the Labour candidate and then, Commons Education and Employment Select was the founding father of all local enterprise in 1979, elected as the Member of Parliament Committee and was finally appointed as the agencies in south Durham. He was well aware for the Bishop Auckland constituency, soon shadow chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster, of the changing economy and the need to becoming the Parliamentary Private Secretary Derek resigned and was elevated to the develop new strategies and create more small for the Leader of the Labour party, the Rt House of Lords, where he took the title of businesses’. Hon. Neil Kinnock PC. the Rt Hon. The Lord Derek Foster of Bishop Auckland PC. DL. Lord Foster’s coat of arms Lord Foster leaves a wife, Lady Anne Foster One of his greatest achievements in his carries the motto ‘To Serve the Present Age’, and will be greatly missed by his close family parliamentary career was to be elected a line from a well-known John Wesley hymn, and associates. each year by the Labour MP’s as Chief and it epitomised the service that he gave Whip for the party, a post he held for an both on political and private life and in his Kindly provided by the family and colleagues unprecedented ten years. This achievement lifelong membership of the Salvation Army. of Lord Foster was noted in a tribute by the current Chief Whip, the Rt Hon. Nick Brown, who said, ‘He In 2006 he was given an Honorary Doctorate DAVID BRIAN HALL will be remembered as an outstanding Chief in Civil Law (DCL) from Durham University David was born in Wigan in October 1931. Whip for the Parliamentary Labour Party … as recognition of his major contribution to Growing up during the war, David experienced Derek’s personal qualities shaped the way he business development in the North East, rationing which taught him not to waste and managed the Chief Whip’s job. He presided particularly in the area of South West to enjoy luxuries. As a young man, David had over a period of transformation’. Durham. He also served as chairman of the a sense of adventure and enjoyed travelling to trustees of Bowes Museum, as well as being the Mediterranean, where his love of the sun Harriet Harman wrote, ‘He was effective but appointed chairmen of the Heritage Lottery inspired him to launch a swimwear business kind and considerate. Always ready to listen’, Fund for the North East region. which he ran for more than 40 years. and the current leader of the Labour Party, the Rt Hon. Jeremy Corbyn, paid tribute by His attendance at the House of Lords was Education was very important to David and he saying ‘As Chief Whip of the party Derek was exemplary and he took a full active part in was overjoyed to have the chance to study at

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St Catherine’s. Following a period at Brighton, Lakdasa, or Laki as he was affectionately called his six siblings. He was deeply saddened by he lectured at the University of Bristol up by his friends and family, was born in Colombo the death of Moira in 2010 but was comforted to his retirement in 1993. He published on 6 March 1932. He was the third son of by the company of his twin grand-daughters, Geography and the Geography Teacher in Lillian and Herbert, a prolific writer, newspaper Moira Jane and Lydia. 1976, which was hailed as ‘one of the most editor and diplomat. He completed his BA in important source books for the teaching of Economics at the University of Ceylon in the He loved walking and had a life-long passion for geography for a number of years’. David was early 1950s and subsequently left Sri Lanka to political, economic and international affairs. He passionate about teaching pupils to think for obtain a BPhil from St Catherine’s Society. Laki maintained a close interest in Sri Lankan affairs themselves rather than to recite facts. had wistful memories of England in the 1950s and enthusiastically discussed world events with and early 60s and could recall many interesting friends and family until the end of his life. He David loved to be outdoors and active. He details about his life and the friendships he was buried in Colombo alongside his parents. regularly swam at the Portishead Open made as a young man in Oxford and London. Air Pool and, when it was threatened with DEVAPRIYA LAHIRI closure in 2008, his cheque to the Friends of After completing his BPhil, Laki worked at The Although he had Portishead Open Air Pool helped to save it Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in been in poor health from closing and it is now thriving again. As Rome. He maintained a love of Italy throughout for many years, Dev David grew older, he adapted his activities, his life. He often credited his relatively good Lahiri’s many friends enjoying bridge, gardening, walking and health in later life to his Mediterranean diet of in the UK were playing the piano. David remained active, fruits, vegetables and generous glugs of olive shocked to learn of tending his garden in Bristol for 35 years, oil! his death in India right up to the morning of his death. in August 2018. In the mid-1960s, Laki started his career as an Dev had retired after a distinguished David was married once, and is survived by his economist at UNCTAD in Geneva, Switzerland career in the Indian education system. He two children, Janet and Stephen. (United Nations Conference on Trade and was consecutively a Housemaster in the Doon Development) and remained there until School, Headmaster in The Lawrence School LAKDASA HULUGALLE retirement. He specialized in commodities and Principal of Welham Boys School. Upon Lakdasa Hulugalle died suddenly on 25 and was appointed head of the Division for the news of his passing, the volume of sad December 2018 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He Economic Cooperation among Developing messages on social media from former pupils was planning to spend the holiday season Countries. confirmed once again the deep affection in with his family and friends and looked which he was held. forward to attending the wedding of his Laki married Moira in 1972 and they had a son nephew during this time. and two daughters. They had a wide circle of A Rhodes Scholar, Dev matriculated at St friends and family and Laki was very close to Catherine’s in 1975. It’s fair to say that he

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went on to be one of the most popular figures female student in the bathroom on his mixed PROFESSOR GABRIEL MOSS of his Catz generation. A runaway winner when staircase. He had never before experienced Professor Moss read law at Oxford (BA he stood for election as MCR President, he had, such a close co-ed existence (even fitted with Jurisprudence, First-Class Honours, 1971; BCL, from the start, leaned full-tilt into College life, ‘contraceptive vending machines’). In his book, 1972) before being called to the bar in 1974, loving the politics, the sports (especially long- moreover, Dev readily acknowledged that his having been awarded the Eldon Scholarship. distance running) and the discos – although not whole worldview was transformed as a result He took silk in 1989, and sat as a deputy always the food (he had a particular aversion to of his Oxford years and he remained very judge in the High Court (Chancery Division) the ‘Sprout Pie’ served in Hall post-Christmas). grateful all his life to the special place that from 2001. His practice was wide-ranging, Lord Bullock had created. encompassing banking law, company law, When Alan Bullock, then Master, produced financial services, commercial chancery, a reference for Dev as he took his leave In his later years and even as he continued his off-shore law and litigation, and corporate of Oxford (and, indeed, England) in 1978, career, Dev suffered grievously from chronic insolvency law. In the latter he dominated he correctly observed, ‘He has won golden heart problems and latterly from prostate the field, his unrivalled expertise leading to opinions from all who have met him for his cancer. He was able to catch some of his old many advisory appointments, including most friendliness, reliability and good judgment’. Catz mates in the months before he died recently as specialist legal advisor to the Work This was proved to be lastingly true by and, though the spark was still there, he was and Pensions and Business Innovation and the dozens of sometime under- and post- growing visibly tired. Many from his generation Skills House of Commons Select Committees graduates alike who stayed connected to him will remember him disco-dancing – perhaps a relating to the BHS inquiry. over the decades which followed; many would generous description – at what was to be his journey to India to stay in his house, and last Gaudy. Dancing, laughing and drinking Alongside his practice at the bar and bench, whenever he was able to return to the UK the sparkling wine with so many of the friends he Professor Moss taught and wrote in the field hospitality would be fully returned. had made his own some forty years before. of corporate insolvency law. His scholarship In his second book, The Great Indian School was incisive and clear, and his books Many years later, Dev would reflect on his time Bazaar, his concluding advice to one and all invariably led the field. In the classroom he at Catz in his book With A Little Help From was, ‘Never lose the child in you’. With such was equally comfortable addressing matters My Friends. He was mentored here by his an appetite for life and challenge and fun, Dev of substantive law as he was debating great friend Vir Chauhan, whom he had known absolutely lived that instruction. ‘questions of policy and principle’, as he in India; Vir had been there to meet him at would put it. Students delighted in his deep, the station on his very first day in Oxford. He leaves behind his wife, Indrani, and his two historically grounded, knowledge of the law, Nevertheless, shocks awaited. Apparently, daughters, Diya and Shama. and of the practical realities of insolvency- Dev went to the old Porters’ Lodge on his first related litigation. They thrived under a morning to ask if he was in the right college; Kindly provided by Surojit Ghosh and James teaching style that was witty and generous, this was provoked by casually encountering a Murphy as if all in the classroom were being willed

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on to succeed. Professor Moss was equally Moving to London, John took jobs in sales death. Retirement was not something he ever generous to colleagues. He starred in every and marketing with Fray Bentos, Hotpoint contemplated. insolvency-related conference put on by and Oxo, and three children were born: Faculty members, but he also did much Jane (1960), Martin (1962) and Michael John died suddenly and swiftly while playing other vital but less visible work – supporting (1966). He worked briefly for Elsie’s family’s a round of golf at his beloved Malden Golf scholarships, examining dissertations, advising textile business in Manchester, but he was Club in New Malden, London. He is survived on course structure and syllabi, and making frustrated and sought a setting where he by Marisa, Elsie and their three children. If himself available to discuss new research could use his languages. In 1968 he started anyone would like to get in touch to share ideas. He was hugely respected, and will be work with the global engineering and memories of John, the family would love to greatly missed. consultancy group, WS Atkins, in Epsom, hear from you (please write to his daughter: where he became their youngest ever [email protected]). Kindly provided by Kristin van Zwieten, Technical Director and, in time, their Head of initially for the Oxford Law Faculty South American Projects. Here his linguistic EDWARD and people skills fully came into their own; SHILLINGTON (WILFRED) JOHN PARKER for the next 25 years he travelled all over Edward Shillington, John, as he always known, was born on 20th South America, Africa and the Middle East, who died on 30 April 1935, in Burton on Trent. After Burton working on a huge variety of industrial and September 2019, Grammar School, where he played cricket for infrastructure projects. Following his divorce aged 45, regarded England schools, he did his National Service from Elsie in 1985 he married Marisa Juric, a his days at Catz with the Royal Navy, where being a bright Venezuelan who moved to London to be with (1992-96) as among and able linguist, he was drafted into naval him, and there they worked together for the happiest in his intelligence and learned Russian. He made many years in the property developing and life. He attributed his First-Class Honours the most of his time in the Navy by teaching construction business that he had founded degree (M.Eng. Metallurgy and Science of himself to sail in Kiel harbour in Germany, with his son Martin in 1983. Materials) partly to his closest friends who and this was a passion that remained with enjoyed the subject as much as he did, as him throughout his life. John went up to St John was a voracious and omnivorous reader, well as to his lecturers and especially Dr John Catherine’s College in 1955 to read Modern a sports fanatic and a great lover of golf Martin, Emeritus Fellow in Physical Metallurgy. Languages (Spanish and French) and found and sailing. He had a beautiful old house in plenty of time for cricket, rugby, and the Menorca where in later years he spent an In March 1993, he was awarded the College rowing club. At Oxford he met fellow increasing amount of time when business Armourers’ and Brasiers’/Alcan Sponsorship languages undergraduate Elsie Schaefer and permitted. In time he became a grandfather Award, which included employment during they married shortly after graduation in 1958. and great grandfather, and continued his summer vacations at Alcan’s Banbury working in his property business until his laboratory throughout his course. He based

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his Master’s thesis on his work as a research infancy, as the arena where he could put them, combining the knowledge she gained scientist there in 1995/1996. It was titled many of his skills to good effect. of cancer with her coaching expertise. She The Thermal Stability of Metastable was a huge inspiration to her friends, family Intermetallic Phases in Al-Fe-Mn-Si Canning Ed has left a lasting impression on his Catz and colleagues and loved by us all. Alloys. For this he won the award for the cohort. He is remembered as having a wide best research project in the final year of his circle of friends who always found him in RICHARD HARRY degree. good spirits; hard working yet always eager WAPLINGTON to relax over a game of table football in the Richard, the son While at Catz, he played tennis for the bar. Several of his close friends have many of a tobacco- College tennis team and, in March 1993, fond memories of trips away with him during blender at Players, won the St Catherine’s College Art Prize for and after his College years, including Centre was encouraged photography. Parcs, Le Touquet, Devon, Germany, numerous to study by balls and a recent reunion in Oxford. He was his mother’s Before Catz, he spent a year in the known for his adventurous spirit, the fun and entrepreneurial Purchasing Department of Hoechst AG energy he brought to every social gathering, family and won a Frankfurt (September-December 1991). He and as a kind, loyal, courageous and generous scholarship to High Pavement School, also taught Maths and Science at Magunje friend with a great sense of humour, who will Nottingham. Secondary School in Zimbabwe (January- be very sorely missed. September 1992) where he greatly enjoyed His studies at Nottingham University were teaching scientific principles, even without He is survived by his wife and two sons. interrupted by the war, He initially served the existence of a laboratory. For many years as a Private in the Army Pay Corps until afterwards he sponsored one of his former GILL SMITH commissioned into the Royal Engineers. pupils. During the Catz years, he organised Gill Smith (matriculated 1974) passed A Lieutenant in the Inland Water Division, and led a month-long tour of Zimbabwe, away peacefully on the 24 October 2019, he worked on Mulberry Harbour as part of visiting his former school with fellow Catz surrounded by her family. Gill was a loving the Normandy Landings in 1944. He served students James Wilde and Ravi Mittal, mother to Katie and Sophie, and wife to in France, Belgium and Germany and was reuniting with pupils to catch up on their Jonathan. She had a long career in advertising seriously injured by a land mine, spending progress. before becoming a well-known figure in the over a year in hospital. He was proud of field of coaching, as well as UK Chair at the being a sapper and was amused by being a After Oxford, he went to the University of Association of Coaching. When she became ill ‘War Substantive Officer’, a special category California, Santa Barbara, where he was with cancer, she wrote a book, Because You which made him a ‘gentleman for the awarded a further Master’s degree. In 1997 Can, chronicling her journey with cancer, the duration’. he identified the internet, still then in its issues you can face and ways to deal with

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Once out of hospital he went to Welbeck impressed and put any number of obstacles In 2014, aged 94, Richard attended the Army College and then to St Catherine’s in the way of marriage, however he did 70th celebrations for the Normandy landings to read Modern Foreign Languages. After prevail and after a honeymoon in France, and was appointed to rank of Chevalier, graduating (1951) he worked for the French took his new wife off to Accra. They had Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur in Motor Company in Bombay. However, illness three daughters and four grandchildren whom recognition of his military engagement and forced his return to the UK and it was while Richard adored. involvement in the liberation of France. working in London he met his glamorous wife-to-be, Barbara. Ever the non-conformist, A career with Citroën was followed by teaching He finally picked up his MA (Oxon) in the the story goes that he wore an old army in Cornwall and Norfolk. An active retirement early 1990s; thoroughly enjoying the great coat and an eye patch (a legacy from followed, travelling through France and anticipation and sharing his warm memories the landmine) on dates. Barbara was not England and enjoying family life to the full. of St Catherine’s with his family.

NOTIFICATIONS John D Fletcher (1961, Mathematics) Kenneth A Markham (1961, History & Philosophy of Science) Ivor Louis Frewer (1955, Modern Languages) Michael S Abbott (1954, PPE) Ian S Parkin (1951, PPE) Michael Arthur Lumley Griffiths (1965, Sir Michael Atiyah (Honorary Fellow) English) Samuel Purkiss (2014, English Language and The Reverend Geoffrey Edward Beck (1942, Literature) David Gareth Harvey (1961, Metallurgy) Theology) Dr Catherine Helen Roberts (1996, Medicine) Robin George Higgs (1952, PPE) Michael A Black (1948, English) Ian Andrew Gerald Ross (1945, Modern Roy Luigi Johnston (1979, Chemistry) Lloyd R Caddick (1956, Theology) Languages) Nicholas Graham Jones (1966, Physics) Reverend Eric Samuel Clarke (1951, Theology) Neill John Stewart (1978, Geography) The Reverend Father William Kelly (1957, Professor David Daniell (1949, English) The Reverend Henry Taylor (1966, Modern Theology) Languages) John Brian Eaton (1953, Geography) Graham W Leech (1958, English) James Henry Walker (1941, Engineering) Lawrence George James Edwards (1953, Professor Bryan Magee (Visiting Fellow) Chemistry) David William Weaver (1995, PPP) Peter A Magowan (1964, PPE) Allan Michael Emmett (1954, Modern Dr Kenneth E Wycherley (1962, Chemistry) Languages)

ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2019/71 GAZETTE

Economics & Management Lucas Lyko – Samuel Whitbread Academy, Bedfordshire Zetta Allas – Westminster School, London Christopher Perera – Whitgift School, London Admissions 2019 Sean Carpenter – Birkenhead School, Wirral Tamsin Potter – Tonbridge Grammar School, Kent Lucy Temple – St Albans School, Hertfordshire Engineering Science Joanna Williams – Shrewsbury High School UNDERGRADUATES Emma Gilbert – Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Biology Gloucestershire History Hamza Ahmad – Kingston Grammar School, London Matthew Kunov – Abingdon School, Oxfordshire Daisy Day Fawcett – Forest School, London Amelia Barnes – Colchester County High School for Xuechen Lin – Jinan Foreign Language School Thomas Laskowski – Westminster School, London Girls, Essex International Center, China Nurgul Sahin – London Academy of Excellence Kaylin Chong – Hong Kong International School Thomas Long – Haverfordwest High VC School, Tottenham Chloe-Marie Hawley – Jumeirah English Speaking Pembrokeshire Joshua Self – Eltham College, London School, United Arab Emirates, Stuart Simms – Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh Jonas Topp-Mugglestone – Bartholomew School, Oliver Spacey – Outwood Post 16 Centre, Anirvinya Tirumala – Bournemouth School, Dorset Oxfordshire Nottinghamshire Maria Watt – Brighton, Hove & Sussex Sixth Form Harvey Walsh – Latymer School, London Brithvi Vimalenthiran – Wilson’s School, London College Isabel Williams – Hinchingbrooke School, Samuel Whiteley – Notre Dame High School, South History & English Cambridgeshire Yorkshire Elizabeth Bull – Tapton School, South Yorkshire Omorinre Olusola – Townley Grammar School, London Biomedical Sciences English Language & Literature Airuo Zhang – Mulgrave School, Canada Afiea Begum – Langdon Park School, London Maya Christine Berglin – Peter Symonds College, Lydia Ciaccio – Impington Village College, Eliza Bellerby – Winchester College, Hampshire Hampshire Cambridgeshire Charlotte George – King John School, Essex Gaia Clark Nevola – Maynard School, Devon Nadine Staes-Polet – Raffles Junior College, Singapore, Flynn Hallman – Graveney School, London Chemistry Lili Herbert – Langley Park School for Boys, London History of Art Daniel Aspiazu – Bournemouth School, Dorset Lukas Lacey-Hughes – Cardiff High School, Antonia Fern – Ilkley Grammar School, West Yorkshire Lachlan Bradley – Judd School, Kent Eira Murphy – Merchant Taylors’ Girls’ School, Daniya Jawwad – TNS Beaconhouse, Pakistan Thomas Dyer – Truro & Penwith College, Cornwall Merseyside Kacper Winters – New College Pontefract, West Nandini Guzman – Abbey School, Berkshire Faith Owolabi – Mill Hill School, The Ridgeway, London Yorkshire Xinyao Ma – Beijing National Day School, China Rachael Rajah – Magdalen College School, Oxford Joshua Parker – St Paul’s School, London Rebecca Searle – Emanuel School, London Human Sciences Charlotte Rowland – Bristol Grammar School Mia Gray – Lincoln Minster School Elisha Saeed – Withington Girls’ School, Manchester Experimental Psychology Angus Hunter – Wellington School, Somerset Litong Wu – Nanyang Junior College, Singapore Bethany Biggs – Holy Trinity School, West Sussex Benedict Holden – Helston Community College, Cornwall Law Computer Science Javier Leon Ayarza – Royal Grammar School, Surrey Octavia Banks – Badminton School, Bristol Kelechi Apakama – King Henry VIII School, West Jake Reeve – Havant & South Downs College, Hampshire Grace Bradshaw – Sir William Perkins’s School, Surrey Midlands Matthew Fader – American School of Barcelona, Spain Chun Hei Chang – Hong Kong Baptist University Fine Art Ariel Kaminsky – King David High School, Manchester Affiliated School Wong Kam Fai Secondary and Primary Filip Sokolowski – II Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace w Dorcas Shodeinde – Brampton Manor Academy, London School Bialymstoku, Poland Khushal Thobhani – Watford Grammar School for Boys, James Hughes – Kings of Wessex Academy, Somerset Hertfordshire Matthew Ruddy – Thetford Grammar School, Norfolk Geography Charlotte Thomas – St Clare’s, Oxford Ye Teng – Pennington School, USA Bethan Adams – Langley Park School for Girls, London Xin Zhang – Temasek Junior College, Singapore Adahna Ekoku – Epsom College, Surrey Law with Law Studies in Europe Zeyang Zhao – United World College of South East James Gordon – Alderbrook School, West Midlands Edward Davies – Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Asia, Singapore Freya Holden – Harrogate Grammar School, North Cumbria Yorkshire Leena Van Surell – Notting Hill & Ealing High School, Laurence Kenney – Tiffin School, London London

72/ADMISSIONS 2019 GAZETTE

Materials Science Modern Languages & Linguistics GRADUATES Anjuli Bali – Lady Eleanor Holles School, London Jake Hirsch – University College School, London Andrew Bulla – Shanghai Singapore International Iris Petrillo – Oxford High School Roxanna Abhari (BSc University of Western Ontario, School, China Joe Spencer – Sixth Form College Farnborough, Canada; DPhil St Catherine’s), 1st BM (Graduate Entry) Owen Lawton – Chipping Campden School, Hampshire * Gloucestershire Himani Aggarwal (BA University of Delhi, India; MSc Freya Leyland – Kendrick School, Berkshire Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry University of Bristol), MPhil Evidence-Based Social Archie Moss – Priory Academy LSST, Lincolnshire Kathryn Duffill – Peter Symonds College, Hampshire Intervention & Policy Evaluation Thomas Wagstaff – Westminster School, London Dali Dunn – Bilborough College, Nottinghamshire Henrique Aguiar (MMath Balliol College, Oxford), DPhil Colm Lambert – Abingdon School, Oxfordshire Health Data Science Mathematics Ishani Shah – North London Collegiate School, Aiham Al Musalhi (MSc University College London), Fardeen Ahmed – Newham Collegiate Sixth Form Middlesex DPhil Particle Physics Centre, London Saba Ali (BSc University of Engineering and Technology, Albert Lopez Bruch – Aula Escola Europea, Spain Music Lahore, Pakistan), Master of Public Policy David-Andrei Purcar – Colegiul National Unirea Targu, Anna Jackman Straw – Ashville College, North Yorkshire Sultan Alqaisi (BA, MA University of Petra, Jordan; MSc Mures, Romania Alexander Pollard – Stockport Grammar School, Greater University of Wales), MSt Diplomatic Studies Evan Quiney – King’s College London Mathematics Manchester Monica Arango Olaya (LLB University of Los Andes, School Alexander Yu – St Paul’s School, London Colombia; LLM Harvard University, USA), DPhil Law Benjamin Wilde – Sir John Lawes School, Hertfordshire Stirling Argabright (BA University of Pennsylvania, Yuantao Zhou – Shanghai Guanghua College, China Philosophy, Politics & Economics USA), MSc (C) Clinical & Therapeutic Neuroscience Karl Baddeley – Beechen Cliff School, Somerset Vera Argyle (BCom, MCom North-West University, Mathematics & Computer Science Finlay Beresford – Priory Academy LSST, Lincolnshire South Africa), MBA Ryosuke Kondo – Brickfields Asia College, Malaysia Jonathan Davidson – Winchester College, Hampshire Cyrus Ayubcha (BA University of Pennsylvania, USA), Jay Milligan – University College School, London Louis Finegan – Sutton Grammar School, London MSc (C) Evidence-Based Social Intervention & Policy Mathias Hoie – Nadderud Videregaende Skole, Norway Evaluation Mathematics & Statistics Weronika Lurka – III Spoleczne Liceum Danius Jean Backis (BSc University of Warwick; Lic Ellie Brown – Saint Augustine’s Catholic College, Ogolnoksztalcace w Krakowie, Poland Pantheon-Sorbonne University, France), MSc (C) Wiltshire Emma Weitzman – St Paul’s Girl’s School, London Statistical Science Noah Wilson – London Oratory School Benjamin Barrett (BA Harvard University, USA), MSc (C) Medical Sciences Statistical Science Vincent Allott – Ashton Sixth Form College, Greater Physics Eleanor Beard (BA St Anne’s College, Oxford), 2nd BM Manchester Alice Ardis – Old Palace School, London Cameron Beattie (BA St Catherine’s), 2nd BM * Tinashe Kanyowa – Wymondham College, Norfolk Declan Caulfield – Graveney School, London Emily Bensen (BA Middlebury College, USA), MBA Niamh Louwman – Denbigh School, Buckinghamshire Yang Hu – Temasek Junior College, Singapore Hajra Bibi (BSc University of Kent), MSc (C) Integrated Shriya Pilli – Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, Louise Johnson – Charters School, Berkshire Immunology Cheshire Ethan Kidd – Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, Carlo Bonini (BSc IT Politecnico di Milano, Italy), MBA Tabitha Pring – Tiffin Girls’ School, London Buckinghamshire Marie Boulet (BChem, MChem University of Strasbourg, Simon Williams – Whitmore High School, London Jian Rong Ng – NUS High School of Math & Science, France), DPhil Inorganic Chemistry Singapore Orlaith Breen (BA St Catherine’s), 2nd BM * Modern Languages Lorenzo Piersante – United World College of Changshu, Kevin Bruggeman (BSc Erasmus University Rotterdam, Ginevra Benigni – King Edward VI Community College, China Netherlands), MSc (C) Financial Economics Devon Matthew Scally – Trinity School, London Emmanuel Bugarin Estrada (BM BCh Monterrey Emma Buelte – Gymnasium Augustinianum Greven, Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico), Germany Psychology & Philosophy MSc (C) Integrated Immunology Hayley Daffern – Ysgol Glan Clwyd, Denbighshire Claire Winters – Westlake High School, USA Carolyn Campbell (BFA, BA, MFA University of Alberta, Melissa Driver – Wales High School, South Yorkshire Canada), DPhil Archaeology (part-time) Jessica Harley – Rainford High School, Merseyside David Chalder (BA University of Bradford; LLB Lily Kershaw – Henrietta Barnett School, London University of London; BA Open University), MSc (C) Evie Smith – Sale Grammar School, Greater Manchester English Local History (part-time)

ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2019/73 GAZETTE

Pak Ka Chan (BA, MPhil Chinese University of Hong Reilly Dowd (BSc Georgetown University, USA), MBA Robin Halbreiter (BA Munich University of Applied Kong; MSt The Queen’s College, Oxford), DPhil Oriental Raphael Duhamel (BA University College London), MSt Sciences, Germany), MSc (C) Financial Economics Studies Film Aesthetics Sigrun Hannesdottir (BA University of Iceland), MSt Si Yee Chan (BSc University of Brunei Darussalam, Georgette Eaton (BSc Coventry University; MSc Cardiff Archaeology Brunei), MSc (C) Clinical & Therapeutic Neuroscience University; PGCE Oxford Brookes University; MSc St Matthias Harksen (BSc University of Iceland, Iceland), Lucinda Chaudhuri (BA University of Southampton), Catherine’s), DPhil Evidence-Based Health Care (part- MSc (C) Mathematical & Theoretical Physics MSt English (1700-1830) time) * John Harley (BSc Monash University, Australia), MSc (C) Rishi Chauhan (BSc Indian Maritime University, India), Sally Edmondson (BA Harvard University, USA), MPhil Clinical & Therapeutic Neuroscience MBA Japanese Studies Kristian Hartikainen (BSc, MSc Aalto University, Jacqueline Chen (BA Harvard University, USA), MSc (C) Felicity Edwards (BEng Royal Melbourne Institute of Finland), DPhil Computer Science Global Health Science & Epidemiology Technology, Australia), Executive MBA (part-time) Yue He (BSc University of Sheffield), MPhil Economics Lixiong Chen (BEng ,MEng, MSc McGill University, USA), Olajumoke Fawibe (LLB University of Warwick; LLM Emma Hedley (MSc University of Glasgow), DPhil DPhil Engineering Science Cornell University, USA), MBA Materials Tuoran Chen (BSc University of Manchester; MSc Francesco Fazzi (BSc University of Zurich, Switzerland; Gavin Herbertson (BA Jesus College, Oxford; MPhil Imperial College London; MSc University of Warwick), MPP National University of Singapore), MBA Sidney Sussex, Cambridge), DPhil English DPhil Diamond Science & Technology Amanda Fenyves Sadalla Costa (BPA Getulio Vargas Kudzanai Hwami (BFA University of the Arts London), Jesse Chin (BSocSc National University of Singapore), Foundation, Brazil), Master of Public Policy MFA (part-time) Master of Public Policy Francesco Feriozzi (BA, MPhil Sapienza University of Imran Idris (BA, BM BCh Jesus College, Cambridge), Lo-Ching Chow (BA Wesleyan University, USA), DPhil Rome, Italy), DPhil Medieval & Modern Languages DPhil Clinical Neurosciences Medieval & Modern Languages Thomas Foord (BA St Catherine’s), 2nd BM * Louisa Iselin (BA Oriel College, Oxford), DPhil Harry Cohen (BSc University of Durham), MSc (C) Hamez Gacaferi (BSc, MSc Leiden University, Interdisciplinary Bioscience Mathematical Sciences Netherlands), DPhil Musculoskeletal Sciences Fuga Iwama (BSc University of Warwick), MPhil Eleonora Colli (BA King’s College London), MSt Greek Jennifer Gassowski (BA University of Western Ontario, Economics &/or Latin Languages & Literature Canada; LLB University of Leicester), BCL Benjamin Jackman (BEcon University of Queensland, Chloe Colson (BSc University of Warwick; MSc St Leo Geyer (BM University of Manchester), DPhil Music Australia), MSc (C) Social Data Science Catherine’s), DPhil Mathematics * Tabitha Gibbs (BA University College London), MSt Isaac Jarratt Barnham (BA, MPhil Fitzwilliam College, Malgorzata Cyranka (MSc Maria Curie-Sk?odowska History of Design (part-time) Cambridge), 1st BM (Graduate Entry) University, Poland), DPhil Physiology, Anatomy & Sofia Gieysztor(BA Free University of Berlin, Adam Johnson (BSc University College London), MSc Genetics Germany), MSc (C) Sociology (C) Social Anthropology Abelardo De Anda Casas (BA Monterrey Institute of Jack Gordon (BSc University of Sheffield), DPhil Aaron Jones (LLB, BCom University of New South Technology and Higher Education, Mexico), MPhil Interdisciplinary Bioscience Wales, Australia), BCL Economics Hugh Greenwood (BA University of Manchester), MSt Augustus Jones (BA St Catherine’s; MSc University Elia De Sabbata (Laurea University of Padova, Italy), History - Modern British History 1850-present College London), 1st BM (Graduate Entry) * MSc (C) Mathematical & Theoretical Physics Karina Greenwood (BA University of British Columbia, Minto Jothi Felix (BSc, MSc Monash University, Delphine Delamare (Lic Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Canada), MSt History of Art & Visual Culture Australia), MSc (C) Education (Higher Education) France; Ecole Normale Superieure, France; Ecole André Guerra (BSc University of Lisbon, Portugal; Ioannis Kamas (BEng University of Thessaly, Greece; Nationale des Chartres, France), MASt University of Cambridge; The Queen’s College, MSc Imperial College, London), DPhil Wind & Marine Noemie Deom (BA University of Leeds), MSc (C) Social Oxford), DPhil Partial Differential Equations: Analysis & Energy Systems & Structures Anthropology Applications (EPSRC CDT) Michal Karolak (BA Magdalen College, Oxford), BCL Shobhan Dhir (MEng University of Newcastle; MPhil Gehan Gunatilleke (LLB University of Colombo, Sri Usuta Kavari (BCom North-West University, South Jesus College, Cambridge), DPhil Materials Lanka; LLM Harvard University, USA; MSt New College, Africa), Master of Public Policy Mingyan Ding (BSc Nanjing University of Information Oxford; St Cross College, Oxford), DPhil Law Ragini Khurana (BA Institut d Etudes Politiques de Science and Technology, China; BSc University of Wanying Guo (BSc University College London), MSc (C) Paris, France), MSc (C) Sociology Reading; MSc University of Durham), DPhil Organic Education (Child Development & Education) Maciej Kopanski (BSc University of Warwick), MSc (C) Chemistry Dhruv Gupta (BA Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha Mathematical & Computational Finance David Diwik (BA University of Pennsylvania, USA), MSc University, India), Master of Public Policy Patrick Kratschmer (BA St Edmund Hall, Oxford; MSc (C) Financial Economics Edgar Gutierrez (BA Francisco Marroquín University, University College London), 1st BM (Graduate Entry) Alasdair Dow (BA Queen Mary University of London), Guatemala), MSc (C) Politics Research Olimpia Lamberti (BSc King’s College London), MSc (C) MSt History - British & European History 1700-1850 Global Health Science & Epidemiology

74/ADMISSIONS 2019 GAZETTE

Charlotte Lee (BSc University College London; MSc Misuzu Oda (BA Waseda University, Japan), MSt Maryam Rahbar (BSc York University, Canada; MSc St King’s College London), DPhil Primary Health Care Modern Languages Catherine’s), DPhil Women’s & Reproductive Health * Matthew Lepahe (BSc University of Queensland, Olivia Ong (BA St Catherine’s), MSc (C) Social Data Silvia Raineri (BSc, MSc Vita-Salute San Raffaele Australia), MBA Science * University, Italy; Hertford College, Oxford), DPhil Roger Lewis (BSc London School of Economics; MA Nergiz Oprescu (LLB Bahcesehir University, Turkey), Biochemistry King’s College London), DPhil History (part-time) MJuris Prianka Rao (LLB West Bengal National University of Zhilin Liang (BSc University College London), DPhil Natalia Ospina Ospina (LLB University of Los Andes, Juridical Sciences, India), Master of Public Policy Inorganic Chemistry Colombia), Master of Public Policy Shishir Rao (BA New York University, USA; MSc St Han Sheng Lim (BA King’s College, Cambridge), BCL Helena Page (BA University of York), MSc (C) Hugh’s College, Oxford), DPhil Women’s & Reproductive Veronica Lo Presti Mingrone (BSc University of Florida, Comparative Social Policy Health USA), MBA Giorgos Papadakis (MPharm, MSc National and Oshmita Ray (BA University of Durham), MPhil Politics Francheska Loza Sanclemente (BA Harvard University, Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), DPhil (Political Theory) USA), MBA Organic Chemistry Andrew Reed (LLB University of Buckingham), BCL Moni Manyange (BA University of Nairobi, Kenya; MIS Andreas Papallas (BA University of Sheffield; MPhil Wangping Ren (BSc University of Wisconsin-Madison, Korea University, South Korea), MSt Diplomatic Studies University of Cambridge), DPhil Sustainable Urban USA), DPhil Atomic & Laser Physics Miroslav Marinov (BA St Catherine’s), MSc (C) Development (part-time) Charlie Richards (BA University of Warwick), MPhil Mathematics & Foundations of Computer Science * Julian Parsert (MSc University of Innsbruck, Austria), Politics (Political Theory) Frazer Martin (BA St Catherine’s), MSt English DPhil Computer Science Lorena Richiusa (BEng, MSc University of Palermo, (1900-present day) * Nileema Patel (BM BCh, BSc King’s College London), Italy), DPhil Engineering Science Peerce McManus (LLB, BA University of New South MSc (C) Global Health Science & Epidemiology Laia Rull Armengol (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain), Wales, Australia; LLM Harvard University, USA), Master Parth Patel (BTech Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute Diploma in Legal Studies of Public Policy of Technology, India; MSc University of Durham), DPhil Rohan Saphal (BTech MTech Indian Institute of Sasha McMurray (BA University of Leeds), MBA Atomic & Laser Physics Technology, India), MSc (C) Computer Science Yao Meng (BSc Soochow Univeristy, China; MScR Matthaus Pawelczyk (BSc, MSc University of Bonn, Shayla Schlossenberg (BA New York University Univeristy of Edinburgh; New College, Oxford), DPhil Germany; DPhil Dresden University of Technology, Shanghai, China), MSc (C) Social Anthropology Biochemistry Germany), MSc (C) Software Engineering (part-time) Carlota Segura Garcia (BSc Universitat de Barcelona, Marc-Daniel Mildenberger (BSc, MSc Universitat Carles Pinto Serra (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain), Spain; MSc King’s College London), DPhil Environmental Mannheim, Germany), MSc (C) Mathematical Finance Diploma in Legal Studies Research (part-time) Alexander Pio (BSc Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne, Valentina Semenova (BA Dartmouth College, USA; MSc Kathryn Milner (BA Boston University, USA), MBA Switzerland; MA Breda University of Applied Sciences, Columbia University, USA), DPhil Mathematics Naoto Minakawa (BA Keio University, Japan; MA Netherlands), MSc (C) Sustainable Urban Development Snigdha Serikari (BEng, MSc Birla Institute of Hitotsubashi University, Japan), MBA (part-time) Technology and Science, Pilani, India), MBA Mattea Mrkusic (BA Harvard University, USA), MSc (C) Pawan Poolla (BEng Indian Institutes of Technology, Brandon Severin (MEng St Catherine’s), DPhil Materials * Refugee & Forced Migration Studies India), MBA Sivanne Shalev (BA Tel Aviv University, Israel), MSc (C) Yoshin Nakamura (BM BCh Tohoku University, Japan), Harry Potter (MSc University of Nottingham), DPhil Social Science of the Internet MSc (C) International Health & Tropical Medicine Materials Ananya Sharma (BA University of Delhi, India; MA Michael Newsome (MEng Worcester College, Oxford), Brooke Prakash (BSc Sarah Lawrence College, USA), Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), MPhil Modern South DPhil Engineering Science DPhil Pharmacology Asian Studies Mizu Nishikawa-Toomey (BSc University College Kittithat Promthaveepong (BEng National University Bradley Sheath (MChem St Catherine’s), DPhil London), MSc (C) Computer Science of Singapore), MBA Inorganic Chemistry * Charlotte Notaras (BA Princeton University, USA), Katie Prosser (BA University of Birmingham), BPhil Deanna Shen (BSc New York University, USA), MBA MSc (C) Evidence-Based Social Intervention & Policy Philosophy Jieling Shi (BA Zhejiang University, China; BA University Evaluation Oleh Pylypchynets (DipHE Uzhgorod State University, of Manchester), MSc (C) Sociology Zoe Nunn (BA University College London; MSt St Peter’s Ukraine; DipHE Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Yifu Shi (BEng University of Birmingham; BEng Beijing College, Oxford), DPhil History Ukraine; LLM Queen Mary University of London), Master University of Chemical Technology, China), DPhil Arlette Nyembo (Lic Protestant University, Congo), MSc of Public Policy Materials (C) Global Governance & Diplomacy Roberto Raetzer Rodriguez (BSc University of Cologne, Riya Sidhu (BSc MacEwan University, Canada), MSc (C) Alexander Obregon (BA Colorado College, USA), MBA Germany), MSc (C) Financial Economics Psychological Research

ST CATHERINE’S COLLEGE 2019/75 GAZETTE

William Silver (BA University of Durham), MSc (C) Sonja Witte (BA Hamburg University of Applied Social Science of the Internet (part-time) Sciences, Germany), MSt History of Design (part-time) Varun Srinivasan (BEng PES University, India), MBA Xiaoyue Wu (MChem St Peter’s College, Oxford), DPhil Nora Stai (MA University of St Andrews), MSc (C) Engineering Science Global Governance & Diplomacy Allison Yan (BA Harvard University, USA), MSc (C) George Stokes (BA University of Reading), MSt History Medical Anthropology - Modern British History 1850-present Shangda Yang (BSc University of Manchester), MSc (C) Sean Sullivan (BA Grove City College, USA), MBA Mathematical & Computational Finance Niranjan Suresh (BEng, MSc Birla Institute of Kristiana Yao (BSc University of Miami, USA), MSc (C) Technology and Science, India), MBA Comparative Social Policy Kirsty Sutherland (BA University College London; MSc Edward Yee (BA Nanyang Technological University, University of Edinburgh), Master of Public Policy Singapore), MSc (C) Evidence-Based Social Intervention Agne Taujanskiene (BA Vilnius University, Lithuania; & Policy Evaluation LLB Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania), Executive Lingzhi Yi (BBA City University of Hong Kong, Hong MBA (part-time) Kong), MBA Ehab Tawfik(BA American University of Sharjah, UAE; Serena Yue (BSc Chinese University of Hong Kong, MA Johns Hopkins University, USA), MBA Hong Kong), MSc (C) Global Health Science & Andrea Terminel Lembert (BA Monterrey Institute of Epidemiology Technology and Higher Education, Mexico), Master of Fabian Zaiser (BSc, MSc University of Bonn, Germany; Public Policy MSc New College, Oxford), DPhil Computer Science Edan Umrigar (BA St John’s College, Cambridge), MSt Benjamin Zayton (BSc ETH Zurich, Switzerland), MSc Music (Musicology) (C) Mathematical Sciences Putera Utama (BA University of Indonesia), MBA Anna Zecca (BSc King’s College London), MSc (C) Michael van de Noort (MEng St Catherine’s; MRes Financial Economics Downing College, Cambridge), DPhil Gas Turbine Huanyuan Zhang (BSc University of Birmingham; Aerodynamics * MSc Imperial College London), DPhil Geography & the Leandri van der Wat (BSc, MSc University of Pretoria, Environment South Africa), MBA Yourong Zhang (BSc Imperial College London), MSc (C) Tess van Stekelenburg (BSc University College London), Mathematical & Computational Finance MSc (C) Neuroscience Haotian Zhu (BSc London School of Economics), MSc Joaquin Viquez Arias (BEng EARTH University, Costa (C) Financial Economics Rica; MSc Colorado School of Mines, USA), MBA Ilya Zlotnikov (BA Hebrew University, Israel), Master of Yiran Wang (LLB, PhD Fudan University, China; LLM Public Policy Northwestern University, USA), MJuris Julian Weber (DipHE Johannes Gutenberg University * indicates graduate of the College Mainz, Germany; MA University of Giessen, Germany), MSc (C) Mathematical Finance (part-time) ADMITTED TO THE FELLOWSHIP Charlotte Wendland (Staatsexamen University of Hamburg, Germany), MJuris Dr Rafael Pascual was admitted as a Junior Research Noah Wescombe (BSc University of Bristol), MPhil Fellow in English Socio-Legal Research Dr Ashley Marshall was admitted as a Junior Research Henry Wetherall (BA University of Melbourne, Fellow in Physics Australia), MBA Dr Brian Sheil was admitted as a Junior Research Fellow Laura Wheatley (MEng Trinity College, Oxford), DPhil in Engineering Science Materials

76/ADMISSIONS 2019 Master and Fellows 2019

Anna Christina de Ozório Sumathi Sekaran, BSc, PhD Nicholas H Stern, The Rt Hon EMERITUS FELLOWS Meera Syal, CBE, BA Manc * Professor Dame Carol (Kia) Nobre, MA Oxf, BA Imperial Lord Stern of Brentford, BA Professor Donald H Perkins, Professor Sudhir Anand, Robinson (Hinshelwood Williams College, MS, MPhil, Fellow by Special Election in Camb, DPhil Oxf, FBA CBE, MA Oxf, PhD Lond, Hon BPhil, MA, DPhil Oxf Lecturer), T20 PhD Yale, FBA, Biomedical Sciences Raymond Plant, The Rt DSc Brist, Hon DSc Sheff, FRS Sir J Michael Boyd, Kt, MA Professor Sharon Ruston, Professor of Translational Hon Lord Plant of Highfield, John W Martin, MA, PhD, ScD Edin Lancaster University, M19 Eve Morrison, BA, PhD Dubl Cognitive Neuroscience BA, DLitt KCL, MA Oxf, PhD, Camb, MA, DPhil Oxf Professor Peter R Franklin, Professor Jyotsna Singh, Junior Research Fellow in DLitt Hull Professor Peter G M Dickson, BA, DPhil York, MA Oxf Michigan State University, M19 Shimon A Whiteson, BA Rice, History Masaki Orita, LLB Tokyo MA, DPhil, DLitt Oxf, FBA Gordon Gancz, BM BCh, * Fabrizio Titone, University MA Oxf, PhD UT Austin Canon Murray Fellow in Irish Professor Joseph E Stiglitz, Bruce R Tolley, MA Victoria MA Oxf of the Basque Country, T20 Tutor in Computer Science History PhD MIT, FBA Wellington, MA, DPhil Oxf Professor Richard J Parish, Professor of Computer Science Ashley R Marshall, BS Pacific Sir Peter M Williams, Kt, Barrie E Juniper, MA, DPhil BA Newc, MA, DPhil Oxf, Dean * Christensen Fellow Amanda Power, BA Sydney, Lutheran, PhD Colorado CBE, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, Oxf, Secretary for Alumni of Degrees MA Oxf, PhD Camb Boulder FREng, FRS Henry C Bennet-Clark, BA Professor Susan C Cooper, RESEARCH ASSOCIATES Tutor in History Junior Research Fellow in Sir (Maurice) Victor Blank, Lond, MA Oxf, PhD Camb BA Colby College, MA Oxf, PhD Roger Gundle, BM BCh, MA, Sullivan Fellow Physics Kt, MA Oxf Professor Daniel W Howe, California DPhil Oxf, MA Camb, FRCS Sullivan Clarendon Associate Professor (Anthony) David MA Oxf, PhD California Sir Simon Russell Beale, Kt, Frank Haselbach, PhD, Dipl Brian B Sheil, BEng, PhD NUI Professor in History Yates, MA Oxf Stephen J Sondheim, BA CBE, BA Camb TU Berlin Junior Research Fellow in (Leave M19-T20) Michael Billington, OBE, Williams John Charles Smith, MA Oxf Kerry M M Walker, BSc Engineering Science BA Oxf Sir Ian McKellen, Kt, CH, Claude-Michel Schönberg Memorial, MSc Dalhousie, Jessica M Goodman, MA, Professor C N Ramachandra BA Camb Sir Tom Stoppard, Kt, OM, DPhil Oxf MSt, DPhil Oxf HONORARY FELLOWS Rao, MSc Banaras, PhD Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Kt, CBE CBE, FRSL Professor Alison H Banham, Tutor in French Professor Sir Brian E F Purdue, DSc Mysore, FRSC, FRS Sir Michael V Codron, Kt, MA, DPhil Oxf, FRCPath Associate Professor in French Fender, Kt, CMG, BSc, PhD Professor Richard J CBE, MA Oxf DOMUS FELLOWS Regent Lee, MB BS Western Imp, MA Oxf Susannah C Speller, MEng, Carwardine, CMG, MA, DPhil Sir Richard C H Eyre, Kt, CH, Sir Patrick J 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