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King's College, Cambridge 1 TUTORIAL R EPORT King’s College, Cambridge Annual Report 2020 2 EPORT R Annual Report 2020 TUTORIAL Contents The Provost 2 The Fellowship 6 Tutorial 25 Undergraduates 41 Graduates 44 Chapel 53 Choir 60 Research 65 Library and Archives 71 Bursary 74 Staff 79 Development 82 Major Promotions, Appointments, Honours and Awards 106 Obituaries 112 Information for Non-Resident Members 248 extended quarantine on the way back. I returned to the UK on 23 March, The Provost the day of lockdown. How strange it has been since then. The Easter Term was like no other, with all teaching and supervisions online. We are relatively fortunate to be living in the 2020s rather than 2 When it comes to the time to write my piece 25 years ago, when online events would have been almost impossible. It is 3 THE PROVOST for the Annual Report, I look back over hard to describe how strange the College was – my wife and I were here for the previous year’s submission in search most of the spring and summer, and were able to walk through the empty of inspiration. How unhelpful that has courts with, initially at least, no punts on the river, and with only a few THE PROVOST been this time! Reading about last year’s herons for company. Very many of our staff were on furlough. The Porters activities is like looking into another world ran an excellent skeleton service, and the Gardens team did a great job entirely. None would (though perhaps some holding things together over the summer with a rotating complement of should) have predicted how the nation’s and half the usual staff, but with the addition of the Provost who volunteered the College’s life would be turned upside as undergardener to help out with the mowing. down by the pandemic. I would like to pay warm tribute to the senior College Officers (the Vice- Things started off familiarly enough. Provost, the Bursars and the Senior Tutor), whose hard work and planning Michaelmas Term was quite normal. A particular highlight for me was the when I was still away was crucial to the successful handling of the very end of the works on Bodley’s roof and the departure of all the scaffolding difficult situation that the College faced in the early days of the pandemic from the Provost’s garden. The Collyweston stone slates are not only and the run up to the lockdown. They are still giving their all to keep the beautiful and durable (they should last up to two hundred years) but in community safe, and all of us here are very grateful. addition, in order to source them the College has contributed to the revival of a moribund industry in Northamptonshire. The new graduate buildings, The College was able to take advantage of the furlough scheme and continue including the Stephen Taylor Building (the College’s first project built to to pay those staff who would not have been able to work from home. I am Passivhaus standard), were in the last stages of completion. Other building very pleased to say that there have been no compulsory redundancies as a projects were pushing ahead, as can be read about in the Bursar’s report. result of the COVID-19 crisis; as I write everyone is getting back to work, and the great majority of students are returning, further lockdowns permitting. The Christmas Eve A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols repeated its We have kept in touch with absent friends through regular newsletters and a annual magic under our new Director of Music, Daniel Hyde, following number of online ‘town hall’ meetings where information can be exchanged in the footsteps of Sir Stephen Cleobury, who served for 37 years and who and questions answered. died last autumn, tragically only a few months after his retirement. In fact in spite of the lockdown a number of issues arose over the summer that Then it was the New Year, and I departed on a term’s sabbatical leave to have occupied our very effective Communications team. Apart from the need the Far East and New Zealand. I was in a safe place there, but it became to deal with the A-level fiasco, which the Senior Tutor will discuss in his report, clear that if I wanted to go home I would have to leave early to avoid the Black Lives Matter events of the summer have led us to re-examine what more we can do to help our students from under-represented backgrounds the concept in the next several years. None of it would have been possible feel comfortable here, and to continue to improve our efforts to identify without the sterling work of Steven Coghill and his Gardens team. and combat discrimination. We have been engaged in constructive discussions with our student representatives and will continue to do so. Now we are at the end of the summer and, new lockdowns permitting, More widely we have instituted a study of the College’s links with slavery, are getting ready to welcome our Freshers and continuing students. We 4 both historic and modern. Though its progress has been slowed by the have had to say au revoir to those who were supposed to have graduated 5 THE PROVOST pandemic we should have a report by 2022. And next year we are going to in June, and who were devastated to miss all the events of May Week. But appoint a Research Fellow on the topic ‘Slavery’, which will help to drive this we hope to welcome them back too next year for an event that will take the work forward. place of their lost graduation ceremony. THE PROVOST With no opportunity for in-person alumni events or visits abroad the What of the coming term? By the time you see this we will know how it has King’s Campaign has of necessity been proceeding at a lower level. £71.2 gone. But we know it will be very strange. There will be Chapel services, but million has so far been raised towards the target of £100 million. The only for resident members for the time being. The Chapel is open to visitors effects of the lockdown on the College’s general finances have been severe – but in very small numbers and by online ticket only. There will be no big since they have affected all our main sources of income. The Bursar will dinners, and only the simplest of catering. There will be elaborate signage be discussing these in his report. But in the short term we have been able, to ensure social distancing and face protection, and full risk assessments through SASI, our new Student Access and Support Initiative, the SEF will be in operation. The College in general will be open only to resident and other hardship funds, to respond promptly and generously to those members, which I know will be disappointing for many of our NRMs. But students who have found themselves in difficulties through no fault of we hope in spite of what COVID-19 may throw at us next that something of their own. We are very grateful to all of our donors who have supported the normal life of our community can carry on, boosted by the University’s these funds and enabled us to help our students at this difficult time. forward-thinking decision to test all students resident in College (in their ‘households’ of six to eight) every week even if asymptomatic. Our students, In spite of the general gloom there have been some bright spots. We have Fellows and staff are at one in understanding the measures needed to keep demonstrated our credentials as good citizens by collaborating with the safe and to minimise the chances of a serious outbreak. City Council to house a number of homeless people in the Bene’t Street Hostel over the summer; and we have also made our contribution to al Let us hope that I can find inspiration for the 2021 report from 2019 and fresco socialising by opening up the grass plots in front of the College to not 2020! small social groups who want to relax in the city centre. MICHAEL PROCTOR King’s is nothing if not a radical place, eager to pursue new ideas, so what could be more natural than to convert a large part of the Back Lawn, which has existed as mown turf for centuries, into a wild flower meadow? Many of you will have seen the pictures of the first year’s crop, and the project has had wide and admiring attention. Next year will see a different mix of plants, with perennials coming to the fore. We will continue to refine currently working on quantifying the macroeconomic effects of climate The Fellowship change as well as identifying the risks from climate change to the economy, so as to help inform the design of mitigation and adaptation policies and supporting institutions. 6 New Life Fellows Kamiar is an Economic Research Forum Research Fellow, currently 7 THE FELLOWSHIP Professor Robert Foley, elected a Life Fellow on 17 July 2020 serving as its Thematic Co-Leader for the macroeconomics theme; he has Professor Christopher Gilligan, elected a Life Fellow on 17 July 2020 also recently joined Rebuilding Macroeconomics as Co-Leader for the Dr David Good, elected a Life Fellow on 17 July 2020 Sustainable Growth Hub. In addition, Kamiar is Associate Researcher at the Energy Policy Research Group at the University of Cambridge, Associate Visiting Fellows THE FELLOWSHIP Fellow of the USC Dornsife Institute for New Economic Thinking, Research Professor Rochelle Dreyfus, 2019-2020 academical year Associate at the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute at the Federal Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza, Michaelmas Term 2019 Reserve Bank of Dallas, and Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Professor David Simpson, Michaelmas Term 2019 Macroeconomic Analysis at ANU in Australia.
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