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MASTER Susan C Cooper, MA (BA Collby Ashok I Handa, MA (MB BS Byron W Byrne, MA, DPhil Angela B Brueggemann, DPhil Professor Roger W Ainsworth, Maine, PhD California) Lond), FRCS (BCom, BEng Western Australia) (BSc St Olaf, MSc Iowa) MA, DPhil, FRAeS Professor of Experimental Physics Fellow by Special Election in Tutor in Engineering Science Fellow by Special Election in Medicine Tutor for Admissions Biological Sciences FELLOWS Peter R Franklin, MA (BA, DPhil Reader in Surgery Wellcome Trust Career Sudhir Anand, MA, DPhil York) Tutor for Graduates W I F (Bill) David, MA, DPhil Development Fellow Tutor in Economics Tutor in Music Fellow by Special Election in Harold Hindley Fellow Professor of Music James L Bennett, MA (BA Physics James E Thomson, MChem, DPhil Professor of Quantitative Reading) Fellow by Special Election in in Economic Analysis John Charles Smith, MA Fellow by Special Election Andrew M Barry (BA Camb, DPhil Chemistry (Leave M11) Tutor in French Linguistics Home Bursar Sus) (Leave M11-T12) Tutor in Geography Andrew J Bunker, BA, DPhil Richard J Parish, MA, DPhil (BA David J Womersley, MA (PhD Reader in Geography Tutor in Physics Newc) Penny A Handford, MA (BSc, PhD Camb), FBA (Leave H12) Reader in Astrophysics Tutor in French S’ton) Warton Professor of English Philip Spencer Fellow Tutor in Biochemistry Literature Richard M Bailey (BSc Leics, Adrian L Smith (BSc Keele, MSc Professor of French Wolfson Fellow MSc, PhD Lond) Wales, PhD Nott) Professor of Biochemistry Cressida E Chappell, MA (BA, MA Tutor in Geography Tutor in Zoology Fram E Dinshaw, MA, DPhil Hull) Official Fellow Timothy Cook, MA, DPhil Fellow by Special Election Gaia Scerif (BSc St And, PhD Andreas Muench, MA (Dr phil, Finance Bursar Fellow by Special Election Academic Registrar Lond) Dipl TU Munich) Secretary to the Governing Body Tutor in Psychology Tutor in Mathematics Peter D Battle, MA, DPhil Richard I Todd, MA, DPhil (MA (Leave M11-H12) Reader in Applied Mathematics Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry Camb) David R H Gillespie, MA, DPhil Unilever Fellow Tutor in Material Sciences Tutor in Engineering Science Karl Sternberg, MA Professor of Chemistry Goldsmiths’ Fellow Rolls-Royce Fellow Fellow by Special Election Kerry M M Walker, DPhil (BSc Professor of Materials Memorial, MSc Dalhousie) A Gervase Rosser, MA (MA, PhD Peter P Edwards, MA (BSc, PhD Christoph Reisinger (Dipl Linz, Junior Research Fellow in Lond) Marc Lackenby, MA (PhD Camb) Salf), FRS Dr phil Heidelberg) Physiology Tutor in History of Art Tutor in Pure Mathematics Professor of Inorganic Chemistry Tutor in Mathematics Librarian Leathersellers’ Fellow (Leave M11) Udo C T Oppermann (BSc, MSc, (Leave T12) Professor of Mathematics Patrick S Grant, MA, DPhil (BEng PhD Philipps Marburg) Nott) FREng Timothy J Bayne (BA Otago, PhD Professor of Musculoskeletal John S Foord, MA (MA, PhD Marc E Mulholland, MA (BA, MA, Cookson Professor of Materials Arizona) Sciences Camb) PhD Belf) Tutor in Philosophy Tutor in Physical Chemistry Tutor in History Justine N Pila, MA (BA, LLB, PhD (Leave M11-H12) Alain Goriely (Lic en Sci Phys, Professor of Chemistry Wolfson Fellow Melb) PhD Brussels) Vice-Master Dean Tutor in Law Robert E Mabro, CBE, MA (BEng Professor of Mathematical College Counsel Alexandria, MSc Lond) Modelling Robert A Leese, MA (PhD Durh) Gavin Lowe, MA, MSc, DPhil Fellow by Special Election Fellow by Special Election in Tutor in Computer Science Bart B van Es (BA, MPhil, PhD Naomi Freud, MA, MSc Mathematics Professor of Computer Science Camb) Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr, MA, Fellow by Special Election Director of the Smith Institute Tutor in English DPhil (Grunnfag Oslo, BA Yale) Director of Studies for Visiting Richard M Berry, MA, DPhil Senior Tutor Tutor in English Students Louise L Fawcett, MA, DPhil (BA Tutor in Physics (Leave M11-T12) Lond) Tommaso Pizzari (BSc Aberd, Jonathan E Morgan, MA (PhD Tutor in Politics PhD Shef) Camb) Wilfrid Knapp Fellow Tutor in Zoology Tutor in Law (Leave M11-H12) (Leave M11) Catz Year_2011 [f] CMYK_Catz Year 2007a 30/01/2012 17:15 Page 1
CONTENTS Contents
Master’s Report 2 College Life A Proctor’s Year 6 Catz|fivezero: 1962 - 2012 9 Postcards to the Master 10 Catz Hearts Arts 12 The Nairne Lecture 13 OXIP 14 The Cameron Mackintosh Inaugural Lecture 16 Finals Results & Prizes 2011 18 Graduate Degrees & Diplomas 21 The Katritzky Lecture 23 Sports Review 24 Student Perspectives Ben Trigg 26 The Year Abroad 27 Wills Cannell-Smith 30 Alex Hamilton 32 Camilla Turner 34 Rob Campbell-Davis & Ellie Pinney 35 Alumni News James Marsh (1982, English) 36 Sir Tim Brighouse (1958, Modern History) 38 Holly Harris (2008, History of Art) 39 Richard Cox (1951, English) 40 Darren Chadwick (2003, Human Sciences) 41 Matt Robinson (2005, Law) 42 College Events 43 News in Brief 44 Catz Research Dr Eleanor Stride 46 Louise Fawcett 47 Sir Michael Atiyah 48 Marc Mulholland 50 JC Smith 52 Peter Franklin 54 Gazette Wilfrid Knapp 56 Laurie Baragwanath 60 Other Obituaries 62 Admissions 2012 79
Front Cover Image: Remembering Wilfrid Knapp, Founding Fellow, 1924-2011
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homage by filling St Mary’s to the gunwales. Since his Since his death, the Wilfrid Knapp Memorial Fund has been established, and our community has continued to death, the demonstrate vigorously the esteem in which he was Wilfrid Knapp held. The Fund – when combined with other scholarships and prizes set up in the Knapp name – currently stands Memorial Fund at £430,000. Meanwhile, a bronze bust of him, sculpted has been by Pat Knapp, will be arriving soon to preside over the Wilfrid Knapp Room. It is sad to reflect that the life of established, our last link amongst the Fellowship to St Catherine’s prior to the Bullock era has been extinguished, but the and our vivid memories of Wilfrid’s vigour and creativity will live community has on. continued to 2011 also brought the sad loss of our Founding Fellow in demonstrate Economics, Laurie Baragwanath. The debt we owe to him is considerable and we reflect upon his tireless efforts in vigorously the On the eve of our fiftieth year, our sense of renewal entrenching our endowment in the early days. He died remains as timeless as ever. The vibrancy and brilliance shortly after making what would turn out to be his last esteem in of St Catherine’s comes from the dynamic interaction visit to College, to attend the Stated General Meeting, which he was between our students, Fellows and staff. Renewal, and I find it most poignant indeed that he was able to however, implies loss as well as gain, and we were do so. I know that he drew much comfort from finding held deeply saddened to lose Founding Fellow Wilfrid Knapp the College to be in good health. in March of this year. Wilfrid’s character, and the selfless help and advice which he and his wife Pat universally This Michaelmas Term, we welcomed several new dispensed, had touched the heart of a very large St members to the Fellowship. It was a great pleasure to Catherine’s global community, who came to pay due have admitted Giles Keating (1973, PPE), who has given
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a most important benefaction to the College to aid the London. Her research focuses on the design of systems The Fellows work of our Indian Visiting Students programme. Giles which combine therapeutic delivery with imaging and Keating’s benefaction provides a Scholarship Fund that treatment monitoring. I am delighted, too, to report the have worked as will help students from India, with high academic ability appointment of Professor Peter Ireland to the Donald hard as ever in but from disadvantaged backgrounds, to come to the Schultz Chair in Turbomachinery. Peter maintains the College as Visiting Students. While providing these strong and vigorous link with Rolls-Royce started by Don juggling the students with all the advantages of an Oxford education, Schultz, Founding Fellow here in Engineering. we hope too that they will return to India equipped and competing calls prepared to serve their communities. We are deeply We were sorry to lose our Junior Research Fellow in on their time grateful for this gift which will enable us to continue to Philosophy, Maja Spener, who came to the end of her uphold the vision of our Founders, deepening our tenure. Maja played an active role in Common Room life commitment to widening participation in Higher and we wish her well. At the same time, we welcome Education. Jess Metcalf as Junior Research Fellow in Biology, whose research focuses primarily on infectious disease dynamics We are equally delighted with the new teaching additions and human demography. She has broad research to the Fellowship. Ben Bollig arrived this term from Leeds interests and has published on the conservation of University as Tutor in Spanish, specialising in Latin marine turtles and the longevity of tropical rainforest American Literature. Ben’s research includes coordination trees. On the Medical Sciences front, we celebrated in of the ‘Poetics of Resistance’ project which aims to June the considerable contribution to the life of the examine the contemporary relationship between political College that Helen Mardon had made over the years, resistance and poetic creation in the Spanish and wishing her well in facing new opportunities ahead, Portuguese-speaking worlds. He follows in the whilst at the same time welcoming Professor Kate Carr to distinguished footsteps of Colin Thompson, who retired the Fellowship. Kate has already played a pivotal role, this year. Colin spent most of his final year as Senior alongside Ashok Handa and Robert Wilkins, in running Proctor. Countless colleagues in the University, including the Medical Sciences programme for a large number of the Vice-Chancellor, have expressed their admiration to students. me regarding the way Colin discharged his duties in that office, and we are grateful for that. The Fellows have worked as hard as ever in juggling the competing calls on their time, and whilst there are many We also welcome Eleanor Stride, our first Fellow in I could single out, space permits the mention of just Biomedical Engineering. Eleanor comes with an three. We recently received the fruits of Richard Parish’s impressive research portfolio from University College, Bampton Lectures, Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth
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The Century French Writing, published by Oxford University Part 1 (David Shepherd, Gibbs Prize); two other prizes Press. The Bampton Lectures have taken place since in Chemistry: Jonathan Mannouch, Alice Gatland; achievements 1780 and concentrate on Christian theological topics. exceptional performances in every sense of the word in Richard joins a long line of prestigious Bampton Music finals, and the Junior Mathematical Prize to Zubin of our lecturers, including of course our former Master Raymond Siganporia. We were delighted that our Materials students this Plant, and he is to be congratulated for bringing his Scientists did so well across the board, and in Medicine, book to press in record time following their delivery. Emily Brown won the Examiner’s Observed Structured year seem Similarly, Marc Mulholland has miraculously delivered the Clinical Examination Prize for overall performance in particularly completed script of his new book Bourgeois Liberty and Part I Prelims, and Katharine Orf secured the Peter the Politics of Fear: From Absolutism to Neo- Tizard Prize in Paediatrics. Paul Fisher crowned his remarkable, Conservatism, also to OUP, having produced it at the College career with the Law Faculty prize in same time as holding the office of Dean, as well as Constitutional Principles of the European Union, for his and as ever, being History Senior Subject Tutor and delivering a performance in the BCL. diverse substantial teaching load. Finally, Mr J C Smith has published with co-authors The Cambridge History of the Our students’ sporting achievements continue to amaze Romance Languages, Volume One: Structures. We us all. Abigail Milward and Margherita Phillip secured congratulate him and his collaborators on this substantial Blues in skiing, and Alex Hamilton represented the piece of work, no doubt the start of many volumes. University at the annual Varsity Rugby League Match, for which he was awarded a Blue. In the wider world, Professor Peter Edwards has had the honour bestowed the achievements of our community have been on him of being invited to deliver a Royal Society Prize remarkable. Femi Fadugba was named as the UK’s Top Lecture, the Bakerian Lecture, whilst Professor Sir Black Student at a ceremony in the House of Commons Michael Atiyah has been appointed a Grand Officer of – commended for his visionary efforts in developing the Légion d’honneur in recognition of his work in solar energy across Africa. Meanwhile, Michael Saliba, mathematics. Professor Ahmed Zewail, one of our ten who is studying for a DPhil in Physics, was ranked Nobel Laureates, was made the 2011 Priestly Medallist fourth in this year’s World Universities Debating for the development of ultrafast probe methods in Championship for ‘English as a Second Language’ (ESL) chemistry, biology and materials science. debaters, the highest ranking ever achieved by a German native at the World Championship. The achievements of our students this year seem particularly remarkable, and as ever, diverse: five Firsts When colleagues around the University and further in Chemistry; the top First in the University in Chemistry afield see our annual report, they inevitably remark on
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the breadth and intensity of activity which emanates St Catherine’s over the years, but decidedly not an There will be a from this College. I pay tribute to the enormous energy encyclopaedic history of our community. Contributions and commitment which Fellows and staff bring to bear to the book were to be sought from friends and very active in helping the College achieve its objectives. I am students alike, and having mapped out a suitable deeply grateful, too, to the College officers for their structure for the story, these would be used to illustrate programme of detailed work, most of which is often carried out the text as it developed. activities for behind the scenes, in helping to ensure that St Catherine’s continues to be a stimulating place where This carefully constructed master-plan has, however, our alumni and our students may develop their potential. been hijacked by the avalanche of contributions supporters unearthed during the process of producing the book. Excitement is growing as we approach our half-century Michael Frayn, on one of his visits to College as the over the next as a College next year. Since 1962, financial support for Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary our students has been increasingly important. Our Theatre, talked about the moment, in writing a play, year to mark friends and alumni have shown they understand this when the characters begin to find their own voices, the our fifty years and the number of Foundation Scholarships in College, play then being taken in the direction the voices designed to support those who are most in financial dictate. So it has been with our book – our as a College need, has increased by twelve in the last year, taking preconceived notions of the story to be told have been and a book our total number of Foundation Scholars to fifty-four. I overtaken by the vibrant and insistent voices of our am very pleased, too, to announce the recent arrival of contributors. Instead of a narrative illuminated by about St a most generous pledge of challenge funding for two contributed vignettes, we have a series of rich Reach Oxford Master’s Scholarships. We have accepted portraits, very much to the fore, with the narrator Catherine’s the challenge with alacrity. merely interlinking information. will also
There will be a very active programme of activities for Of the many submissions we have received for emerge from our alumni and supporters over the next year to mark inclusion, I conclude by quoting from just one of them. our fifty years as a College and a book about St Surely our founders would be satisfied to know that the presses Catherine’s will also emerge from the presses. It seems our students had felt of St Catherine’s that it ‘was a some while now since we took the decision to produce quiet place where I could think, could dwell in books this to mark the fiftieth year of the College’s existence, and work on being the person I wanted to be’. It is and one hundred and forty-four years after the original most humbling for all of us to play a small part in that Delegacy of Unattached Students was formed. The great story. ■ book was to be picture-rich, designed to portray life at
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A Proctor’s Year
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committee and call for any papers they want to see. They Left: The Master and Fellows gather on the Quad before 2011 saw Rev Dr Colin therefore acquire a detailed working knowledge of the proceeding to Convocation House Thompson complete his tenure way the University works and contribute to policy-making. for the admission of the Senior Some weeks were spent in wall-to-wall committee Proctor as the University’s Senior meetings, usually in windowless rooms in Wellington Square, and it was easy to lose concentration. But this is Proctor: the fourth St how policy is formulated and important decisions are Catherine’s Fellow in our history taken – for example, about major building projects or Oxford’s response to the fees question – so one needs to If you don’t to have held the post. He looks keep as alert as possible. It’s also the price of democracy. Better a few hours of boredom punctuated by the secretly enjoy back on a period of office occasional lively exchange than top-down management dressing up, which speaks the language of consultation but which Latin and marked by student protest, prefers the tactics of the bully. sermons, the reviewing a year he ‘wouldn’t Fortunately, the representative role of the Proctors Proctorship is have missed for anything’. extends into more entertaining parts of university life, probably not for with frequent invitations to receptions and dinners, from tenants of university farms to college feasts. One you The two Proctors ascended the old stone stairway to the unforgettable experience for me was climbing Magdalen Archive Room in the Great Tower of the Bodleian Library, Tower early on May Morning in full Proctorial fig and as if entering a long-forgotten corner of Gormenghast. standing there as the choir greeted the spring. The The Archivist showed us a parchment document from Proctors also have a considerable ceremonial role. If you 1248 which contained the earliest written reference to don’t secretly enjoy dressing up, Latin and sermons, the the Proctors in the University of Oxford. Proctorship is probably not for you. They play a significant part in degree ceremonies, and mastering the ritual and The fundamental responsibility of the Proctors is to the Latin was a challenge I rather enjoyed. It was hard to ensure that the Statutes of the University are upheld. keep a straight face because it felt as if we were unlikely They sit on the Council and all the central committees of models strutting our stuff in some strange fashion parade. the University, representing the ordinary academic in the Proctors also attend University sermons – less of a corridors of power. They have a weekly off-the-record hardship for me than for some of my predecessors; meeting with the Vice-Chancellor, at which they may raise indeed, the finest sermon I have heard in a very long time any issue they consider important, can attend any other was preached by the Jewish agnostic Howard Jacobson
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The most (‘The only delusion is certainty’ which may be were not students of the University, and they refused to downloaded from the University Church website). I was enter into any kind of dialogue. Senior officers met in difficult the first Senior Proctor for a good many years to almost permanent session to explore options, but serious undertake one of the stated duties of the office, singing concerns about the building and its contents led us to moment we the Latin litany early one morning in St Mary’s, an unlikely accept police advice. I watched the whole operation as had to face but interesting task for a Nonconformist minister like me. the police went in and evicted the remaining protesters, People sometimes question these relics of Oxford’s very quietly, efficiently and carefully, then went in to inspect was the Anglican past, but I believe that it is salutary to remember the damage (of which there was very little). It was a occupation of where we have come from and enjoy such occasions for troublesome time, because many of us were sympathetic what they are. Fortunately, we are not expected to to the protesters’ cause, though not to their tactics. We the Radcliffe sacrifice every weekend to ceremony: both my Pro- decided that it would be counter-productive to impose Proctors, Angela Brueggemann and Karl Sternberg, any sanctions other than a warning. The fines we Camera. Many occasionally stood in for me, and both rose to the collected for other instances of bad behaviour during the of the challenge splendidly. They also helped with the much less year were recycled into a good cause, the Oxford Hub, an agreeable task of attempting to prevent post-Finals inspirational body which co-ordinates all student voluntary occupiers were behaviour from getting out of hand and imposing spot work in the University. not students fines on those who were caught trashing. You would perhaps be surprised at the chosen weapons we The more serious cases (mercifully infrequent) have to be of the confiscated, which ranged from eggs and baked beans to referred to a Disciplinary Court, at which the Proctors act shampoo and squid. as prosecutors. Much of the detailed preparation of University, and evidence is done by Dr Brian Gasser, Clerk to the Proctors, they refused Older members of St Catherine’s will recall that the and his small but dedicated staff. Brian has the most Proctors exercise disciplinary powers over the student extraordinary fund of knowledge of precedents, to enter into body, and may themselves have been subject to Proctorial procedures and regulations and a Proctor would be foolish attention, when Proctors prowled the streets of Oxford at to ignore his advice. any kind of night trying to stop misbehaving undergraduates escaping dialogue from their clutches and climbing into their colleges. But I may have now retired from the fray, but there remain the old policing powers of the Proctors, and their ability battles to be fought in Higher Education. To remain silent to act as both judge and jury in cases of breaches of the when we should speak out or apathetic when we should regulations, were removed a few years ago. The most act can only hasten the triumph of the unimaginative, the difficult moment we had to face was the occupation of uninspired and the undemocratic. That’s one lesson I’ve the Radcliffe Camera at the end of November 2010, just learned these past few years. As for the Proctorial year as the winter cold began to bite. Many of the occupiers itself, I wouldn’t have missed it for anything. ■
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The Master writes about Catz|fivezero, the College’s fiftieth anniversary campaign, ahead of a monumental year for Catz the College. fivezero Our fiftieth anniversary presents us with a remarkable to honour the legacy of our late Founding Fellow, Wilfrid securing the future opportunity, both to reflect on all that St Catherine’s has Knapp. So far, almost £200,000 has been raised for this achieved and to look forward with excitement and fund, which will be used to endow new scholarships for I am confident expectancy to what the future will bring. In that spirit, I our students. The broadening of our student community want to send my sincere thanks to our generous community was an issue perennially close to Wilfrid’s heart and I am that 2012 will of donors for all they have done in securing the future of delighted that we are able to pay tribute to his vision our mission: the pursuit of academic excellence and the through the establishment of this Fund. be a simply enhancement of creative thinking. unforgettable I am confident that 2012 will be a simply unforgettable Launched in Trinity Term 2008, the Catz|fivezero campaign year for all of us associated with the College. I hope that year for all of aims to raise in excess of £10 million to fund major you will enjoy reading through our enclosed brochure, investments in four key areas: student support, teaching detailing the many events which will commemorate our us associated and research, buildings and facilities, and the general golden jubilee, and indeed, that we will see you at some with the endowment. I am delighted to announce that we are half- of them. ■ way towards achieving that goal, following our most recent College financial year in which we secured over £2 million in donations. Please see our donor list for a complete list of If you would like more information about supporting those who so generously gave during the last calendar year. the Catz|fivezero campaign, or about our upcoming programme of events, please contact our Head of It has been particularly moving for me to note the Development, Saira Uppal, on +44 1865 281 585 or at tremendous response to the Memorial Fund established [email protected].
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Postcards to the Master
This year, College Travel Awards were awarded to over thirty students, who planned, organised and undertook expeditions to different parts of the world. Many students undertook charitable work once they reached their destination, and all found their experiences culturally and educationally enriching. Postcards landed on the Master’s desk from, amongst other countries, Ghana, Indonesia, South Africa, Italy, China, Singapore and Thailand. Here are four of the many he received…
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COLLEGE LIFE Catz Hearts Arts Aidan Clifford (2008, History), JCR President 2010-11
Catz Arts Week, held last Trinity Term, The main intention of the week was began with the Summer Showcase variety displaying works which usually remains performance, a staple of the Catz cultural hidden in College; works which, during the calendar. Familiar faces were out in force – week, were displayed finely in the exhibitions the occasion was a swan song for some of which opened in the JCR and Bernard Sunley our finalists – as well as many new talents. with a champagne reception. The JCR walls The DNA actors whetted appetites for the became charged with the colours of Catz-directed and produced play running paintings, drawings, watercolours, digital throughout Arts Week. DNA, as playwright pieces and photographs. Across the quad, Dennis Kelly explained in a Q-and-A session Fine Artists, Jennifer Mustapha and Adriana in the JCR, is a study in how extreme Blidaru had achieved something wonderful in situations get out of control, bond unlikely gathering a collection of pieces under the the natural green of the Quad and the and dysfunctional people together and theatre’s roof. Eerie geometry mixed with calculated symmetry of Jacobsen’s buildings. change the relationships we take for screen-printed buildings and media pieces to granted. Bullock Drama and theatre coming produce an atmosphere of brooding in It has been a privilege to be at the heart of out of St Catherine’s can be relied on to contrast with the colourful reflections on Arts Week. Co-organiser Ali Godwin and I have experiment and challenge, and DNA was no memories of people, places and experiences been touched by the way individuals have exception. which were the mainstay of the amateur gone above and beyond to help make an idea submissions. casually bandied about in Hilary, a Trinity Term As the week went on, salsa, ceilidh and beat- success. We have many people to thank: the boxing workshops offered something My favourite part of the week was listening Arts Committee – Vicky, Annelise, Mariam, Tara, different to do in the evening and the ever in on reactions to the sculptures which Adriana, Jennifer, Ridhi, Stephan and Robin; the popular Open Mic Night proved relaxing, as invaded the College overnight. Confusion Music Society – especially Ben and Scott, DNA jazz and spoken word filtered through a over the plaster cast birds which littered the director Louisa and producer Natalie, the dimly lit MCR. Meanwhile, yoga, life drawing water garden was fast followed by admiration College; and last but not least, all those who and the popcorn-fuelled ‘Cannes at Catz’ for the tower of collapsing Perspex, which helped cart the easels from the Ruskin and foreign film nights proved immensely popular. stood out as a blatant anomaly against both back. I hope that the tradition will catch on. ■
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‘The Future of Intervention and Nation-Building’: Ambassador Peter Galbraith (1973, PPE)
After a decade of high-profile international World War II. He described the interventions in intervention, Ambassador Peter Galbraith, Bosnia, Kosovo and Libya as relatively distinguished diplomat and author, successful, yet suggested that unrealistic returned to St Catherine’s to deliver the ambitions and the absence of local partners in thirteenth annual Nairne Lecture. Afghanistan and Iraq had created ‘wars without end’. Operations in Bosnia, Kosovo, There can be few people more qualified to and Libya succeeded, he claimed, because address the College on ‘The Future of they enjoyed international support. Intervention and Nation-Building’ than Predominantly airborne, these were operations Ambassador Galbraith. Instrumental in for which the support of local partners on the Most notable was the Ambassador’s criticism uncovering the gassing of Kurds in Saddam ground was overwhelmingly clear. In contrast, of the lack of attention paid to ethnicity in the Hussein’s Iraq as Senior Advisor to the US a desire to ‘nation-build’ in Iraq and nation-building strategies employed by the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Afghanistan was too unrealistic a goal, and and its allies. He said that the US military pivotal, in his role as the first US Ambassador caused the missions to fail. ‘seem clueless that it might matter whether to Croatia, to the conclusion of conflict in the they are talking to a Kurd or Arab, a Sunni or country; the former UN Deputy Special The lack of local partners meant that nation- Shiite, a Pashtun or Tajik.’ Representative for Afghanistan has enjoyed a building would simply not work in Iraq and remarkable career. Afghanistan, Galbraith claimed. The enactment Galbraith’s concluding message was one of and legislative activity of the Coalition caution and pragmatism. Successful The Ambassador’s characteristic willingness to Provisional Authority, created following the intervention, he maintained, was both possible frankly give voice to his opinions was evident successful defeat of Saddam Hussein, and necessary, but he urged intervening in a wide-ranging lecture in which he represented an ‘extraordinary programme of powers to limit their ambitions to the removal questioned the wisdom of interventions in Iraq state building’. A breathtakingly wide array of of tyrants only when ‘local partners are and Afghanistan. He reminded the audience ambitious reforms, he argued, was poorly capable of being assisted’, and insisted that that the war in Afghanistan will be the longest executed by military personal with scant such partners must then be left to shape their in the United States’ history and that the US expertise to carry them out and was entirely own destinies. ■ has spent money more in Iraq than it did in unwanted by local populations on the ground. Rob Campbell-Davis (2009, PPE)
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OXIP: A Mid-Term Report
By 31 October Oxford Investment Partners (OXIP) has now passed the Return strategies (hedge funds of various kinds) do not five-year mark since its inception in May 2006. By 31 reliably live up to their name; in aggregate they fell 2011 assets under October 2011, assets under management had grown 20% in 2008 and are down about 4% in 2011. management had from the initial £90 million to £445 million; the number Choosing the right managers is therefore essential. of clients had increased from the original three – Catz, Commodities and other real assets are closely tied to grown from the Christ Church and Balliol – to a total of seventy-four. economic cycles: investment timing is crucial. initial £90 million Five Oxford colleges now account for 34% of assets Currencies trade at valuations that no-one can reliably under management, eight external pension fund clients account for or forecast. Equities do provide protection to £445 million for 52%, nine charity clients for 6% and fifty-two against moderate inflation, and the compounding individual clients for 7%. In February 2012, we are power of the reinvested dividend is undeniable. It is launching a Defined Contribution pension fund, which not surprising that the experience of uncomfortably will be available on the Fidelity platform. high inflation, followed in the final quarter of the last century by the ‘great moderation’, caused investors to As a long-term investor, our investment objectives are dramatically increase their allocations to equity. But to protect against inflation, to allow for a sustainable those equity investors celebrating the above-average amount of annual spending, say 3%, and to accumulate returns earned in the years leading up to the new capital (but only once the first two objectives have millennium would have been astonished to learn that, a been satisfied). These objectives necessitate taking mere eleven years later, the real return on government investment risk. The nearest thing to a risk-free asset, securities in the thirty-one-year period since 1980 Government index-linked gilts, satisfy the first would have exceeded that on equities. objective, but not (today) the second and the third. The question is then: how much risk should we take We know from history that equity volatility can be and in what form? disturbing over periods of twenty-five to thirty years – significant even for a long-term investor. We regard Nominal bonds, starting from today’s yields, are equities as the natural return-seeking asset and would unlikely to achieve any of the three objectives, unless happily invest passively for the 100-year return. But we are heading for prolonged deflation. Absolute the medium-term volatility of equities leads us to seek
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Cash 9.5% a better risk-adjusted return, so Global Equity 16.9% we aspire to match equities over High Yield 2.2% Volatility Arbitrage 0.9% the long-term while running at Insurance 3.0% half the volatility. We do this by diversifying away from equities, Emerging Debt 2.8% but seeking to make up the Emerging Equity 5.6% consequent loss of expected Property 3.3% return with different sources of Infrastructure 2.4% manager skill as uncorrelated as
possible to each other. That Commodities 3.5% means seeking to invest in Passive Equity 10.8% managers of exceptional skill in Real Estate 1.5%
whatever asset class they may be Private Equity EM 2.2% found. In this way we can outperform down markets by Activist 3.1% more than we underperform up Private Equity DM 8.6% RFITS 1.5% markets, leading to a better Infrastructure Equity 1.7% overall return. In its first five years, an exceptionally volatile Macro 8.5% Long Short Equity 8.5% period in the markets, it is good Long Short Credit 3.5% to report that OXIP has served the college this ‘free lunch’. Since its inception, the fund has outperformed our benchmark (global equities 75% hedged to sterling) by 2% per annum. inflation as the politically more acceptable alternative. Since its inception, Equities are now cheaper in relative terms than they the fund has Europe is in turmoil. Growth is stagnant in the were when we established OXIP and therefore offer a developed world and diminishing in emerging better prospect of meeting their historic real return of a outperformed our little over 5%. The fund is about 50% exposed to a economies. Bond markets are forecasting the kind of benchmark by 2% ‘lost’ generation experienced by Japan over the last mixture of public and private equity. The remainder is twenty years. We do not subscribe to that view, since diversified into a mixture of infrastructure, property, per annum we believe that, despite the self-imposed torture of insurance, credit, hedge funds and, not least, 9% in fixed exchange rates in Europe, public policies in cash to preserve some optionality for the bumpy ride indebted democracies will incline towards moderate that no doubt awaits us. ■
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COLLEGE LIFE The Cameron Mackintosh Inaugural Lecture
‘Actor? We thought you said Doctor’
This Michaelmas Term, distinguished playwright, actor and writer, Meera Syal, delivered her Inaugural Lecture as Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre.
Meera Syal MBE, the writer and actor best described ‘brown girl who spoke Black known for her television work in Goodness Country’, Meera found comic material in her Gracious Me and The Kumars at No. 42, was ‘cultural schizophrenia’. welcomed to St Catherine’s in Michaelmas Term to begin her Cameron Mackintosh It was success at the National Student Drama Professorship in Contemporary Theatre. A Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe which large audience of students, academics and propelled Meera into the professional world, invited guests enjoyed the narrative of acting with Joint Stock on a tour which ended Meera’s professional career, punctuated with at the Royal Court. Meera admitted, ‘I can’t film clips, monologues and one-liners. deny the universe handed me a whopper of a gift at this point in my life. And luck does play Meera directly connected her British-Indian a part, but the important thing for me was to identity with her passion for theatre: ‘I had to grab every opportunity even if it scared me, somehow tell those stories in order to be because what I didn’t want to do was live heard, to exist’. Creativity was, she explained, with regret’. At the Royal Court, she was part ‘a matter of survival’, and theatre can take of a golden period of creativity under Max ‘the confusion and apparent random mess of Stafford-Clark: ‘This was the mid-1980s, when life and fashion them into two hours of alternative comedy was challenging a lot of condensed story that makes sense’. As a self- old prejudices and kicking out sexism and
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racism in stand-up, and similarly, the theatre picks up your thought processes, the swivel of Shakespearean role at the RSC, playing was actively looking for new unheard voices’. an eyeball has meaning and, if anything, you Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing: ‘I hope I underplay and let the audience fill in the will be able to involve some of the students in After theatre and film successes, and subtext and come to you’. But in either case, ‘it the preparation process for this role over the publishing the novel Anita and Me (which she has to be real’. Meera was able to combine the next academic year’. would later adapt for film), Meera found a ‘live buzz’ and the ‘spontaneous connection’ of surprising lack of challenging parts in improvisation with the television studio in The Whether they wished to find careers in theatre television: ‘It was a real reality check. After Kumars At Number 42, a unique blend of or not, Meera advised the students in the playing such diverse roles on stage, none of sitcom and chat show. audience to ‘celebrate and exploit what makes the work I was offered reflected the kind of you different. Be proactive, as life can hand you women, like me, that I knew’. Flaws in Asian Having been involved in two successful nuggets of luck but you have to dig for them characters were hard to find, ‘and flaws are comedy series back-to-back, Meera found first. And most importantly, follow your passion. very important because people were terrified herself ‘a comedy actress, or even worse, a A life without purpose goes very slowly.’ ■ of casting an Asian as a bad character in case comedienne, all the years of theatre work they appeared racist’. Out of this desire for forgotten’. However, she fought this David Ralf (2008, English) graduated from representation came Meera’s first writing for typecasting with a second novel, Life Isn’t All Catz last Trinity Term and has taken up his television – My Sister’s Wife, and the film, Ha Ha Hee Hee, which she then adapted for post as this year’s University Drama Officer, a Bhaji on the Beach. It also inspired the Radio BBC Two, and a musical for Andrew Lloyd position created by the Cameron Mackintosh Four cross-over hit, Goodness Gracious Me, Webber called Bombay Dreams. On the Drama Fund. later televised for BBC Two, and the much difficulty of choosing projects, she quipped, ‘I beloved sketch, ‘Going Out for an English’, always ask myself what would Dame Judi do? which Meera played for the audience, saying: Would she do Celebrity Coach Trip? Probably ‘When it works, comedy is immediate, brutal, not, and that’s good enough for me’. and magical’. However, when she was offered the role of Meera’s career has given her an expert Shirley in Willy Russell’s iconic Shirley perspective on comparing live performance Valentine, Meera says, ‘I grabbed at it. Though with television. She sometimes toured with two hours on stage alone in a one-woman material from her television work: ‘On stage show was completely terrifying, that’s why I you use your whole body and voice to reach to knew I had to do it. You have to do stuff that the back of the stalls, and you ride the scares you at regular intervals; it’s what makes audience’s reaction like a surfer on a wave; it’s you grow and keeps you alive and curious’. a shared experience. On screen, the camera This summer, Meera will be taking on her first
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Medical Sciences Ayokunmi Ajanaku - II (i) Finals Results 2011 Ilsa Haeusler - II (i) Christine Hesketh - II (i) Aminul Islam - II (ii) Biological Sciences Engineering, Economics Charlotte King - II (i) James Newman - II (i) Jeffrey Douglass - II (i) & Management (MEng) Radoslav Lolov - II (i) Chui San Tsang - II (i) Rebecca Hibbert - II (i) Matthew Passman - I Tessa Lord - II (i) Peter Ibbetson - I Ben Lyons - II (i) Modern Languages Joseph O’Brien - II (ii) English Language & Sarah McCready - II (i) Caroline Barker - II (i) Samuel Phillips - II (i) Literature Alice Pooley - II (i) Timothy Beyer - II (i) Oscar Robinson - I Rebecca Argall - II (i) James Sullivan-Tailyour - I Harry Forman Hardy - II (i) Caroline Bird - II (i) Luiza Grizzelle - II (i) Chemistry (MChem) Matthew Evans - II (i) History & Politics Felix Grovit - II (i) Edward Beake - II (i) Rebecca Gardner - II (i) Nathan Jones - II (i) Mary Heath - II (i) Hannah Buckley - I Roland Lasius - I Letisha Lunin - II (i) Helena Moore - II (i) Claire Carpenter - I Jenny Medland - II (i) Eleanor Mortimer - II (i) Simon Cassidy - I Anna Milne - II (i) History of Art Aileen Frost - II (i) Mark O’Brien - II (i) Caledonia Armstrong - II (i) Modern Languages & Alice Gatland - I David Ralf - II (i) Holly Harris - II (i) Linguistics Katherine Higgon - II (ii) Theodore Whitworth - II (i) Emma Mansell - II (i) Sophie Roberts - II (i) Jeremy Law - II (i) Michelle Savage - I Experimental Human Sciences Molecular & Cellular Psychology Francis Athill - II (i) Biochemistry Computer Science (BA) Amanda Boyce - II (i) Alexander Hamilton - II (i) (MBiochem) Peter McCurrach - II (i) Alice Higgins - II (i) Caroline McLean - II (i) Nishal Desai - II (i) Emma Holmes - I Charlotte Heads - II (i) Computer Science Law Rachel Moore - II (i) (MCompSci) Fine Art (BFA) Amy Crocker-White - II (i) Christopher Powell - II (i) Toby Smyth - II (i) Svetlana Grishina - II (i) Alaa Eltom - II (i) Kate Stuart - II (i) Marcin Ulinski - II (i) Florence Mather - II (i) Heather Lam - II (i) Isla Smith - II (i) Music Economics & Geography Rebecca Taylor - II (i) James Maloney - I Management Carl Assmundson - II (i) Louise Maltby - II (i) Abigail Millward - II (i) Jade Ferrari - II (i) Materials Science Mark Simpson - I James Grant - I (MEng) Jonathon Swinard - I Engineering Science Hannah Hammond - II (i) Joe Bennett - I (MEng) Natalie Ingham - II (i) Timothy Butler - I Oriental Studies Alexander Dibb - II (i) William Stockdale - II (i) Cheuk Tung Wong - II (i) Sarah Galali - II (i) Matthew Perrins - II (i) Nina Suter - II (i) Marta Krzeminska - I Edward Porter - II (i) Miranda Walters - II (i) Mathematics (BA) Samuel Rushworth - II (i) Thomas Wrigley - II (i) Panu Yeoh - I Philosophy, Politics & Gavin Sillitto - II (i) Kenneth Yarham - II (i) Economics Joshua Sutherland - I Mathematics (MMath) Nicolaas Borgstein - II (ii) Mark Weston - II (i) History Zubin Siganporia - I James Fong - II (i) Alan Davies - I Zhongyi Zhang - II (ii) Katherine Lark - I Eleanor Hafner - II (i) Stephanie Newton - II (i)
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Santhosh Thomas - II (i) Science) Geoffrey Griffith Thomas Schofield PRIZES AND AWARDS Hoare Prize for Best Rolls Royce - Armourers Felix van Litsenburg - II (i) Scholar (Chemistry) College Scholar Overall Performance in & Brasiers’ Company Olivia Higgs (Law) David Katrina Spensley (Biological University Prizes Computer Science 2011 Prize for Outstanding Physics (BA) Blank Scholar Sciences) Rose Scholar Undergraduates Jennifer Hackett (Computer Performance in Prelims David Cheng - II (ii) Joshua Hill (Chemistry) Daniel Sperrin (Engineering Armourers & Brasiers’ Science) 2011 Chaos Chhapi - II (ii) College Scholar Science) College Scholar Company Prize for Best Duncan Johnstone (Materials Amy Johnson - II (ii) Michael Hill (Economics & Holly Tabor (Geography) Part II Project 2011 IBM Prize for Best Science) Xiao Yi Tan - III Management) Baker Scholar College Scholar Joe Bennett (Materials Project 2011 Lydia Hunter (Modern Samuel Tham (Materials Science) Benjamin Gazzard Southern Field Studies Physics (MPhys) Languages & Linguistics) Science) College Scholar (Computer Science) Book Prize 2011 Geoffrey Evans - I Goldsworthy Scholar Alexandra Turney (English Bannister Trust Organic Oscar Robinson (Biological Pascal Jerome - II (i) Rosemary Lang (Chemistry) Language & Literature) Chemistry Thesis IoM3 A T Green Prize Sciences) Alun Perkins - I F M Brewer Scholar College Scholar Runner-up Prize 2011 for the Best National Scott Riseborough - II (i) Dennis Law (Physics) ATV Laetitia Weinstock (History Alice Gatland (Chemistry) Ceramics Graduate Waddesdon Manor Scholar of Art) Brook Scholar Nomination 2011 Design Prize 2011 Physiological Sciences Laurens Lemaire (Computer British Telecom Timothy Butler (Materials Thomas Treherne (Fine Art) Hayley Dean - II (i) Science) ATV Scholar Exhibitioners Research and Science) Michelle Lim (Materials Naeem Abdulhussein Technology Prize for Graduates Psychology, Philosophy Science) ATV Scholar (Mathematics & Statistics) Mathematics & James Lowell Osgood Bristol-Myers Squibb & Physiology Anja Mizdrak (Human College Exhibitioner Computer Science 2011 Memorial Prize for Prize in Cardiology Jessica Giesen - I Sciences) Clothworkers Valentin Aslanyan (Physics) Mel Mason (Mathematics & Chamber Music 2011 Scholar College Exhibitioner Computer Science) Composition 2011 Imran Mahmud (Medical Christopher Newell Carl Assmundson Mark Simpson (Music) Sciences) SCHOLARSHIPS AND (Materials Science) ATV (Geography) College Bruker Prize for EXHIBITIONS Scholar Exhibitioner Performance in Prelims Junior Mathematical Examiners’ OSCE Prize Alexander Owens Amy Bellamy (Mathematics 2011 Prize 2011 for Overall Scholars (Mathematics) College & Philosophy) College Jonathan Mannouch Zubin Siganporia Performance in Part I Karen Belcher (Mathematics) Scholar Exhibitioner (Chemistry) (Mathematics) Prelims 2011 College Scholar Eleanor Pinney William Cannell-Smith Emily Brown (Medical Anna Byrne-Smith (Human (Physiological Sciences) Rose (Mathematics) College Gibbs Prize 2011 Morgan Advanced Sciences) Sciences) Clothworkers Scholar Exhibitioner David Shepherd (Chemistry) Ceramics Prize for the Scholar Andrew Pountain (Molecular Lucie Dearlove (Chemistry) Best Performance in Hetherington Memorial May Chick (Geography) & Cellular Biochemistry) College Exhibitioner Gibbs Prize for First-year Practicals Prize for the Best College Scholar Sembal Scholar Rachel Moore (Molecular & Performance in Mods 2011 Second-Year DPhil Talk Otis Clarke (History) Philip Martin Ramsdale Cellular Biochemistry) 2011 Duncan Johnstone 2011 Fothergill Scholar (Mathematics) College College Exhibitioner Charlotte Clark (English (Materials Science) Lewys Jones (Materials) Gregory Craven (Chemistry) Scholar David Ralf (English Language Language & Literature) Kaye Scholar Christopher Rees & Literature) College QinetiQ Prize for Best Law Faculty Prize in Benjamin Gazzard (Engineering Science) Exhibitioner Gibbs Prize for Practical Third-year Team Design Constitutional (Computer Science) College College Scholar Benjamin Rinck (Human Work in Part B 2011 Project 2011 Principles of the Scholar Edward Richardson (Modern Sciences) College Chaos Chhapi (Physics) Harry Parson (Materials, European Union 2011 Alice Godwin (History of Art) Languages) Goldsworthy Exhibitioner Economics & Management) Paul Fisher (Law) College Scholar Scholar Grace Smith (Law) College Abramson Prize for Charlotte Goff (History) Alexander Sanders Exhibitioner Modern Hebrew Peter Tizard Prize in Garret Scholar (Engineering, Economics & Chui San Tsang (Medical Literature 2011 Paediatrics 2011 David Griffin (Engineering Management) College Sciences) College Marta Krzeminska (Oriental Katharine Orf (Medical Scholar Exhibitioner Studies) Sciences)
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College Prizes The Harold Bailey Prize The Neville Robinson national sport, or cultural Bullock Career Award Studies) The Bailey Prize for for Asian Studies was Prize for the best or musical activities was Alexander Turney (English Timothy Rosser (Chemistry) debating was not awarded. awarded to Marta performance in Physics Part awarded to Jonathon Language & Literature) Alyona Rydannykh Krzeminska (Oriental B was awarded to Aslanyan Swinard (Music). (Geography & the The Burton Prize for the Studies). Valentin (Physics). The Antony Edwards Environment) best academic performance The Thomas Jefferson Bursary was not awarded Gavin Sillitto (Engineering during the year in an area The Hart Prize for the The Neville Robinson Prize for the North Science) covering Psychology, best essay on a historical Prize for the best American student who has Mark Davys Bursary Daniel Smith (History) Sociology, Geography and subject by a first or second performance in Physics Part contributed most to the James Fisher (Law with Law Katrina Spensley (Biological Human Sciences was year undergraduate was C was awarded to Geoffrey College academically, Studies in Europe) Sciences) awarded to James Grant awarded to Kirstie Smith Evans (Physics). socially or culturally ‘in the Lavinia Randall (Law with Eleri Tudor (Biological (Geography). (History). spirit of Thomas Jefferson’ Law Studies in Europe) Sciences) The Nick Young Award was awarded to Lincoln Hill Antoine Robin (Law with The Cochrane Evidence- The Katritzky Prize for will be announced later (History & Politics). Law Studies in Europe) Based Medicine Prize for the best performance in this year. Kathleen Shields (Law with the best essay on an aspect Chemistry Part I was College Travel Awards Law Studies in Europe) of evidence-based practice awarded to David Shepherd The Rose Prize for the Wallace Watson Award or the critical appraisal of a (Chemistry). best academic performance Thomas Mallon (English The Charles Wenden topic by a graduate student during the year in Language & Literature) Fund has continued to in clinical medicine was The Katritzky Prize for Biological Sciences was support the sporting life of awarded to Sophie Richter the best performance in awarded to Susan Hawkins Emilie Harris Award the College. (Medical Sciences). Proxime the Final Honour School in (Biological Sciences) and Abigail Wesson (Chemistry) Accessit Nicholas Denny History of Art was awarded Benjamin Trigg (Biological College Travel Awards (Medical Sciences). to Emma Mansell (History of Sciences). Patricia Knapp Travel Sownak Bose (Physics) Art). Award Brieana Dance (Medical The Francis and Caron The Rupert Katritzky Laura McLaren (Medical Sciences) Fernandes Music Prize Leask Music Prize, awarded for the Sciences) Vishnupriya Das (Human for contributing towards Scholarships were best performance in the Sciences) the musical life of the awarded to Cameron Millar Final Honour School in Philip Fothergill Award Georgina Davis (Philosophy College was awarded to (Music), Andrew Tyler History, was awarded to Imran Mahmud (Medical & Modern Languages) Jonathon Swinard (Music). (Music) and Natalya Zeman Alan Davies (History). Sciences) Nicholas Denny (Medical (Music). Sciences) The Frank Allen Bullock The Smith Award for Agriculture/Biology David Fisher (Biological Prize for the best piece of The Michael Atiyah Services to Drama within Travel Award Sciences) creative or critical writing Prize in Mathematics for the College was not Rebecca Hibbert (Biological Joshua Hill (Chemistry) was not awarded. the best mathematics awarded. Sciences) Wen-Chun (Porshia) Ho essay or project written by (Management Studies) The Gardner Prize for a St Catherine’s The Smith Award for Raymond Hodgkin Dilraj Kalsi (Medical outstanding contribution to undergraduate in his or her Services to Music within Award Sciences) the life of the College was second year reading for a the College was not Gerard Sadlier (Law) Anja Mizdrak (Human awarded to Katrina degree in Mathematics or awarded. Sciences) Spensley (Biological joint school with Bullock Travel Award Abigail Nehring (Visiting Sciences). Mathematics was awarded The Stuart Craig Award Victoria Noble (English Student) to Liam Dempsey given to an outstanding Language & Literature) Nanjala Nyabola (Mathematics). student who has gained Jessica Thorn (Geography & (Interdisciplinary Area distinction in a university or the Environment)
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Andrew Swearingen (Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics) Graduate Degrees & Diplomas Romance Imperatives: syncretism, irregularity, autonomy During 2010-2011, leave to supplicate for the DPhil was granted to the following: Nicolas Van de Sijpe (Economics) Foreign Aid and Government Behaviour
Justin Winslett (Oriental Studies) * Roham Alvandi (Politics & International Relations) Rajeka Lazarus (Medical Sciences) Form Or Function: The Representation Of Deities In Early Nixon, Kissinger and the Shah: US-Iran Relations and the Memory B-Cell Responses to Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Chinese Texts Cold War, 1969-1976 and Conjugate Vaccines in Adults Adeala Zabair (MPLS Doctoral Training Centre) Amitava Banerjee (Medical Sciences) Yu Ping Luk (History) Segmentation of Stress Echocardiography Sequences Using Neglected Issues In The Epidemiology Of Vascular Disease Empresses, Religious Practice and the Imperial Image in a Patient-Specific Prior Ming China: The ‘Ordination Scroll of Empress Zhang’ (1493) Benjamin Britton (Materials) * * indicates previous graduate of the College A High Resolution Electron Backscatter Diffraction Study of Tomasz Mazur (Computing) * Titanium and its Alloys Model Checking Systems with Replicated Components using The following were successful in other CSP examinations: Alexander Fletcher (Mathematics) * Aspects of Tumour Modelling from the Subcellular to the Samantha Mirczuk (Medical Sciences) Nik Abdul Aziz, BCL Tissue Scale Role of transcriptional factors GCMB, SOX3 and GATA3 in Matthew Abraham, BCL parathyroid developmental disorders Felicity Bedford, MSc (C) Biodiversity, Conservation & Jane Friedman (Philosophy) Management * † The Doxastic Attitudes and Evidential Norms Michael Pekris (Engineering Science) * Sanjoy Bhattacharyya, 2nd BM * Flow and Heat Transfer in Two Turbine Shaft Seals: The Henrik Boe, MSc (C) Financial Economics Audrey Gilson (Medical Sciences) Brush and Leaf Seal Robin Boudsocq, MSc (C) Biomedical Engineering Towards the Identification of Intervertebral Disc Biomarkers: Heidi Carr-Brown, PGCE Their Role in Tissue Engineering for Degenerated Disc Repair Pedro Raposo (History) Edmund Chan, 2nd BM * Polity, Precision, and the Stellar Heavens: The Royal Joseph Chedrawe, MPhil Law * Taylor Gray (Geography & the Environment) Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon (1857-1910) Tian Chen, MJuris A Corporate Geography of Canada: Governance and Rebecca Clark, PGCE Networks Enrique Sacau-Ferreira (Music) Serryth Colbert, Master of Science in Evidence-Based Performing a Political Shift: Avant-Garde Music in Cold War Health Care (part-time) Daniel Hudson (Materials) Spain Matthew Cook, MSc (C) Biology (Integrative Bioscience) Zirconium Oxidation on the Atomic Scale Marco Corradi, MPhil Law * Alistair Seddon (Geography & the Environment) Brieane Dance, MSc (C) Global Health Science Jessica Jaxion-Harm (Zoology) Palaeoecology, Biogeography and Evolution of Benthic Zoe De Toledo, MSc (C) Psychological Research The Relationship Between Coral Reef Fish (Larvae, Juveniles, Littoral Diatoms from the Galapagos Islands Aleksandar Dedic, MSc (C) Financial Economics and Adults) and Mangroves: A Case Study in Honduras Eva Didier, MSc (C) Social Science of the Internet Sudhakar Selvaraj (Medical Sciences) Lei Ding, MSc (C) Mathematical & Computational Finance Markos Karavias (Law) * Serotonin Transporter in Depression Asad Dossani, MSc (C) Financial Economics † Corporate Obligations Under International Law Robert Dullnig, MSt English Roberta Sottocornola (Medical Sciences) John Dunn, MSc (C) Social Anthropology Ilias Kylintireas (Medical Sciences) Investigation of the Role of ASPP2 in the Development of Rachel Dunn, MSt English † Use of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance for the the Central Nervous System Paul Fisher, BCL * † Evaluation of Cardiovascular Risk
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Rachel Garrett, 2nd BM (Graduate Entry) Mari Rabie, MSc (C) Applied Statistics Ronnie Gibson, MPhil Music Juliet Raine, 2nd BM * Graduate Scholars Amit Gill, MSc (C) Evidence-Based Social Intervention Camille Rajnauth, BCL Admas Haile, 2nd BM * Kie Riedel, MSc (C) Water Science, Policy & Management † Gianna Hessel, MSc (C) Applied Linguistics & Second Andrew Robertson, 2nd BM * Asha Amirali (International Development) Overseas Language Acquisition † Ilona Roman, MSc (C) Education (Child Development and Scholar Sze-Kie Ho, PGCE * Education) Leopold Bauer (Visiting Graduate Students) Max Planck Wen-Chun (Porshia) Ho, MBA Lialin Rotem-Stibbe, MSt Classical Hebrew Studies Fellow Kate Hodgkinson, MSc (C) Nature, Society & Suzanne Ryan, 2nd BM (Graduate Entry) Anne Brock (Chemistry) Leathersellers’ Company Scholar Environmental Policy † Alyona Rydannykh, MSc (C) Environmental Change & Raquel Catalao (Medical Sciences) Light Senior Scholar Simon Holmes, MSc (C) Economic & Social History † Management Alissa Cooper (Social Science of the Internet) Light Michael Huberts, MBA Max Schulz, Diploma in Legal Studies † Senior Scholar David Innes, MSc (C) Economics for Development * † Victoria Semernaya, MJuris Kimberley Czajkowski (Oriental Studies) Random House Rajan Jandoo, 2nd BM * Rahul Shah, MBA Scholar Natalie Keating, MSc (C) Mathematical Modelling & Sevanna Shahbazian, MSc (C) Clinical Embryology Nicholas Denny (Medical Sciences) Light Senior Scholar Scientific Computing Alan Shirfan, MPhil Economics * Emma Foster (Chemistry) Leathersellers’ Company Theresa Kevorkian, MPhil Oriental Studies (Islamic Efthymios Sofos, MSc (C) Mathematics & the Scholar Studies and History) Foundations of Computer Science Paul Gray (Experimental Psychology) Light Senior Scholar Nikki Kitikiti, MSc (C) Global Health Science Dmitry Sokolov, MBA † Craig Johnston (Chemistry) Leathersellers’ Company Scott Krenitski, MSc (C) Refugee & Forced Migration Malcolm Spencer, MPhil Russian & East European Scholar Studies Studies * Hege Larsen (Medical Sciences) College Scholar Joshua Landreneau, MSc (C) Integrated Immunology Samantha Sung, MBA Carly Leighton (Geography & the Environment) C C Bei Li Liang, MSc (C) Mathematical Finance (part-time) Jessica Thorn, MSc (C) Environmental Change & Reeves Scholar Sheila Lin, MSt English Management Jessica McGillen (MPLS Doctoral Training Centre) Cheng Ma, MSc (C) Social Anthropology Dev Toor, MSc (C) Contemporary India Overseas Scholar Austeja Mackelaite, MSt History of Art & Visual Culture † Nicholas Tsao, MSc (C) Environmental Change & Emmi Okada (International Development) Kobe Scholar Imran Mahmud, 2nd BM Management Rohan Paul (Engineering Science) Light Senior Scholar Andrew Miller, MSc (C) Modern Chinese Studies † Onyema Ugorji, MSc (C) Law & Finance Chun Peng (Law) Wilfrid Knapp Scholar Barney Moores, MSt Modern British & European History Janine Willcock, MSt Psychodynamic Practice (part-time) * Rok Sekirnik (Chemistry) College Scholar Sneha Nainwal, BCL Anahita Yousefi, MSc (C) Environmental Change & Arghya Sengupta (Law) Great Eastern Scholar Ali Nihat, MSt Modern British & European History Management Tohru Seraku (Linguistics Philology & Phonetics) Light Nanjala Nyabola, MSc (C) African Studies Jing Zhu, Certificate in Diplomatic Studies Senior Scholar Tayo Oyedeji, MBA Aimee Zisner, MSc (C) Neuroscience David Soud (English Language & Literature) College Irem Ozcan, MSc (C) Clinical Embryology Scholar Caroline Pierrey, Diploma in Legal Studies * indicates previous graduate of the College Malcolm Spencer (History) Light Senior Scholar Katherine Pollard, MSc (C) Education (Child Development † indicates candidates adjudged worthy of distinction by the Javier Takamura (Modern Languages) Light Senior and Education) Examiners Scholar Edurne Ponce de León Tazón, MSc (C) Environmental Alexander Taylor (History) College Scholar Change & Management Jennifer Thomas (Medical Sciences) Glaxo Scholar Rasmus Wissmann (Mathematics) Alan Tayler Scholar
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To Russia with love? Anglo-Russian social, cultural and scientific relations, 1941-1945
In May, Emeritus Fellow Professor Jose activities reflected a genuine popular interest in ‘communist’ propaganda, popular Harris delivered a Lecture in honour of Russia, or were simply a product of engagement with Russian culture in wartime Honorary Fellow Professor Rupert Katritzky. propaganda put out by an unusual alliance Britain was far more widespread, diverse and The Lecture had additional significance for between the British Communist Party and the spontaneous than could be wholly accounted Jose, since she taught Rupert’s son as one wartime Ministry of Information. for by such orchestrated pressures. of her first students when she joined Catz Furthermore, close exchanges between in 1978. Secondly, the lecture looked at Anglo- scientific and academic bodies were powerfully Russian contacts and exchanges during the driven by the functional pressures of war, but Professor Harris’ lecture examined Anglo- war period between universities, academic again went far beyond what mere wartime Russian cultural relations during the Second researchers and specialist scientific bodies in raison d’État required. Finally, though British World War at several different levels. First, the two countries (including exchange of attempts to spread reciprocal information about she discussed the extraordinary degree of advanced scientific, medical and engineering British culture within the Soviet Union were popular interest in Russian life and culture research). And thirdly, Professor Harris severely limited and censored, surviving records that appeared to break out in Britain after examined the (necessarily much more limited) relating to the British Ally suggest that they Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. This British attempts to spread reciprocal were more extensive and less uniformly futile interest was expressed in Russian art information about British ideas and culture than later Cold War commentators allowed. ■ exhibitions, theatrical performances, concerts, within the Soviet Union, through such media film shows, public lectures, school projects and as the British Russian-language newspaper, the Popular engagement with ‘Anglo-Soviet cultural weekends’ that were British Ally (edited by a small group of British held in cities, towns and villages journalists resident in the Soviet Union). Russian culture in wartime throughout Britain – often in the most unlikely Britain was widespread, places – between 1941 and 1944. The lecture The lecture suggested that, although posed the question of how far such undoubtedly fostered by both ‘official’ and diverse and spontaneous
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‘Our Sports and Societies Review community
evinces a most In 1968, Wilfrid Knapp wrote that ‘no visitor to the The new Cross Country Running Club, under the College in term time will encounter a deathly hush, leadership of Jamie Shadbolt, became Cuppers impressive civic nor could one fail to be impressed by the continuity champions in October, scoring 628 points, more than spirit. As ever, of undergraduate life and activities.’ Over forty double the score achieved by runners-up Magdalen years later, a hushed St Catherine’s has yet to be with 309 points. sports, clubs experienced, with our students throwing and societies themselves into a thriving, and eclectic, array of Men’s Hockey secured promotion to the First Division sporting and cultural activities. under the leadership of Ben Rinck. provide The College’s Men’s First XI Football team, which The Men’s Rowing crew performed impressively in evidence of included top scorer and player of the season, Carl Torpids, their first boat bumping on the last day, rising vigour and Assmundson, finished third in a very competitive to fourth on the river, their highest position ever. Premier Division. The Second XI remained unbeaten in Meanwhile, the second boat bumped every day, good the Reserves Premier League. securing blades. humoured The College’s Women’s Football team were promoted Our Pool team, led by James Foster and Danny Smith, competition in as unbeaten League winners and reached the Cuppers were promoted to the Second Division, while our Darts Final, after beating a combined St Antony’s/Wolfson team secured promotion under the leadership of Ben the College side 6-2 in the semi-final. Stokes. body’ College Rugby saw a large intake of talented Freshers Catz proudly remains the only College with a dedicated Dodgeball club, while the new Women’s Basketball Dr Marc Mulholland, boosting the ranks of our more seasoned players. Alex team, under the captaincy of Juliane Guderian, is a Dean Hamilton, last year’s Captain, represented the Blues Rugby League team in the Varsity Match against welcome addition to College sports. Cambridge and received a Blue. Matt Perrins and Rob Campbell-Davis played in the victorious Oxford Colleges Catz Music Society and Choir continue to host a rich XV against Cambridge. programme of Open Mic Nights and lunchtime and evening recitals, under the leadership of Music Society
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Captain Tom Larkin (centre) and the Second XI football team – unbeaten League winners
President Maria Perevedentseva and Student Welfare teams continue to offer a Choirmaster Nick Barstow. broad programme of film nights, ‘Fifth Week Cookies’, yoga classes and an annual The newly-formed Junto Society, ‘Welfest’: a highlight of Freshers Week. under the leadership of Courtney Yusuf, and named after Benjamin And, finally, the JCR’s summer poll saw Franklin’s debating group, offers Becky Wyatt voted ‘Catz Sports Personality students the opportunity to discuss of the Year’ for her passionate commitment contentious issues in a relaxed setting. to Blues Tennis, Football, Hockey, Rowing and Netball. Meanwhile, Nick Barstow A new Poetry Society, headed by was crowned ‘Catz Arts Personality of the Benson Egwuonwu, continues to churn out a diverse Year’ for his management of the Choir and participation Student performers range of poems as well as offering space for the Holly Harris (left) and Tom Garton in Out of the Blue, the a capella group which this year discussion of classic and contemporary pieces. (right) appeared on Britain’s Got Talent. ■
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appearance, when we started getting stopped every few minutes to pose for photographs with fans!
The high-profile nature of the race was also highlighted by the sheer size of our audience. Some 35,000 turned out to watch the race, more than attended the rowing event at the last Olympic Games!
Despite the overwhelming scale of the race, we tried to ensure that we did not put too much pressure on ourselves. Yet, as a college team, we couldn’t help but think that competing internationally against university Ben (centre) leads his boat to teams might be punching a little above our weight! collect their medals Ben Trigg (2010, Biology) Despite our initial apprehension, we raced very well. The race was Unfortunately, a lack of translation at the start meant held on the that we didn’t know that the race had started until the This summer, twelve members of the College other boats had taken their first few strokes, and so we lake used by travelled to South Korea to represent St Catherine’s lost a good few seconds from the offset. However, we in the country’s annual STX Cup Korea Open went on to finish third of eight; a great result and a Seoul when it Regatta. The 2km-long race was held on the Misari testament to the hard work that the crew has put in hosted the Lake, the rowing venue used by Seoul when it this year. hosted the 1988 Olympics. 1988 Olympics We would like to thank Joon-Son Chung (2010, EEM) The aim of the race was to raise the profile of rowing in and his father, Mr Mong-Gyu Chung (1985, PPE), a South Korea. This meant that, among our opposition, student and alumnus of St Catherine’s respectively, was a boat made up entirely of celebrities. Aside from who handled logistics and helped to fund the trip. providing exciting competition, the participation of the Without their help it is unlikely that we would have celebrity boat meant that we appeared in two episodes even had this fantastic opportunity at all. Their support of the South Korean TV programme, Infinite Challenge, and generosity were very gratefully received. or ‘Muhan Dojeon’, in Korean. Hugely popular, its national acclaim is said to rival that of Top Gear in the Somehow Torpids on the Isis will never be the same UK! This quickly became apparent after our first again… ■
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A noticeable trend in The Year Abroad recent years has been for students to
For many years, the student of Modern Languages in where the option of speaking one’s mother tongue be more adventurous Oxford has spent their third year in a country where simply does not exist. The opportunity might also occur and roam more the language they are studying is spoken. This year to join, for example, a sports team, musical group or widely. Latin America saw Catz students scattered as far afield as religious organisation, providing an easy entry point into is now as popular a Martinique, Paris, Cairo, and Buenos Aires. Professor the local community. Richard Parish, Tutor in French and JC Smith, Tutor in destination for French Linguistics, give a tutor’s insight ito the But then, in addition to this, more and more Catz students of Spanish experience. linguists have made their own, often imaginative choices and Portuguese as – to work independently for a financial institution, Spain and Portugal When I first came to Oxford as a tutor, the Year Abroad following a stage with a commercial organisation (L’Oréal themselves; students remained optional, affording a freedom that seemed to me was popular for several years), or working for a charity. like a throwback to the times when, in certain Colleges at And the advantages? Inestimable. of French often least, the moral risks of going to foreign places were spend time in the considered too high to contemplate. This is now happily The difference a tutor notices in the maturity and French territories of different, and for many years, undergraduates have motivation of returning linguists is striking in almost all the Indian Ocean or profited from the fulfilling and linguistically challenging cases. And of course, to return to the justification for experience of living and working abroad. the whole scheme, the language(s) should have passed the Caribbean, in from competence to fluency. Canada, or in French- University courses abroad tend, rightly in my view, to be speaking Africa; and the least favoured option. Unlike the cosy, caring That does not mean that it is a cure-all solution, and the at least one student atmosphere of an Oxford college, a continental European risk is always present, if the grammatical fundamentals university can be an anonymous and unwelcoming place, are insufficiently grasped before the year abroad, that of German is with literally hundreds of students attending lectures. people will return speaking fluent but inaccurate French, currently eyeing These universities often fail to afford any obvious setting Spanish or German. But, more often, there is just a sense Namibia, where a for making friends, thereby heightening the risk of in which the immersion in the language and culture has small Germanophone resorting to the company of non-native speakers. made the practice of the spoken language into a second community survives nature. And that degree of linguistic security is a The long-standing assistantship scheme is far more permanent and not an ephemeral privilege. ■ from colonial times. successful, frequently landing people in environments Richard Parish JC Smith
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these were trivial and endearing – hitchhiking to work Jack Goldstein every day due to a total absence of public transport – whilst others were more starkly apparent. The ugly (2008, French & Linguistics) underworld of gangs in school and in wider society was never far away, and the attempted stabbing of a One of France’s best-kept secrets is that there’s a teacher at one my schools certainly brought this home. whole lot more of it than you might think. The However, it was in confronting such issues that my Republic counts not only the Alps and the Med idealised vision of an island paradise became a real amongst its natural attractions, but also the tiny picture of a place with its own complexities and island paradise of Martinique in the Caribbean. problems like any other.
Martinique is a blend of European and Caribbean that The year abroad provided me with an honest glimpse of completely defies any attempt to classify it as one or another culture, warts and all. There’s a Creole proverb the other; freshly-baked baguettes are as available as suggesting that, ‘if lizards were good to eat, they freshly-picked mangoes, and locals speak a mixture of wouldn’t lie on pavements’ – in other words, something French and Creole, the local language, that they easy to catch is never going to be particularly tasty, affectionately call français banane; banana French. With and the year abroad is particularly full of flavour the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Caribbean Sea precisely because it is a whole lot tougher than a on the other, the two cultures wash and mingle holiday in the sun; it’s a practical lesson in chatting and together in unpredictable ways, and I certainly had to haggling and schmoozing and arguing, and a thousand expand my French vocabulary accordingly – European other ways to use French beyond translating literature. French doesn’t talk much about custard apples or It’s a lesson too in getting by with concerns other than mosquito nets. But beyond simply learning the French the next tutorial essay, and whilst the Martinique spirit words for different types of fruit and rum – rum of bosser moins, vivre cool – ‘work less, live cool’ – snobbery possibly being more important to Martinicans might not sit too comfortably with life at Oxford, the than wine snobbery is to the French – I was able to get taste of a world away from the Dreaming Spires a taste of this place and to define these new words certainly will. ■ with real life experiences.
I worked as a language assistant in two schools, The year abroad provided me teaching English. My time in Martinique was not just a with an honest glimpse of holiday – I really lived and on the island, with all the challenges and frustrations that that involved. Some of another culture, warts and all…
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the ‘day of the revolution’. When the protests began on Tuesday (25 January), they weren’t large but they picked Isobel Platts-Dunn up momentum, and by Thursday, the government sent in (2009, European & Middle Eastern Languages) riot vans. After Friday prayer, my friends and I set out to ‘investigate’ only to be quickly pulled into our local shisha Reading about the Mubarak regime in my Lonely Planet café by the waiters as we saw hundreds of men walking guide on the plane over to Egypt, it briefly crossed my down Kasr el-Aini Street chanting and heading to Tahrir. mind that this could be an exciting year. Mubarak was We were stuck in the empty shisha café watching the getting older, and the scheduled elections in November news. It was only when the waiters came in, their eyes could provide the much-needed impetus for the Egyptian stinging from the tear gas, that the severity of the people to challenge the oppressive regime. Such situation really hit me. By coincidence, we had a trip to thoughts quickly became side-lined, however, as I was Luxor organised and had already pre-booked the train to thrown into Cairo – a dusty city of 20 million – with go there that night. Luckily, or rather stupidly, given that limited knowledge of a completely different culture, by this time there were running battles on the streets, we religion and language. Having started Arabic ab initio at decided to risk it and left at 10pm that night to try and Oxford, we had been taught Modern Standard Arabic get to the station. (Fus’ha) which, when spoken, sounded to the everyday Egyptian like someone speaking Shakespearean here; We managed to catch the last train to Luxor and watched unintelligible and rather amusing. For the first three the events unfold in Cairo from there. As the situation months, I was pretty much resigned to the blank stares worsened, the University asked us to come home. It the Egyptians gave me when I tried to speak Arabic. At would take several pages to describe living under military the end of the year, however, on my travels to Palestine, I rule and curfew immediately after the revolution, but was quite proud when the Palestinians we met shouted suffice to say that when I returned to Egypt, the Egyptians after us, “Egyptians, Egyptians”. I took this to mean that seemed to have a new-found hope for the future of their we had improved! country.
At the beginning of January, I remember sitting in a I learned from my Egyptian friends that the revolution was shisha bar one afternoon as I watched the events in just the beginning; they still faced an uphill struggle to Tunisia develop on the news. The coffee shop owner ensure that the old regime was completely removed and suddenly turned to me and said, “That’s going to happen held to account. I think I came back from my year abroad here you know”. I didn’t believe him. We even joked not only with a better grasp of the Arabic language but a about it in class, finding it quite amusing that my friend’s deeper understanding of the struggles that protesters flatmate had refused to make plans on Friday as it was across the Middle East face when attempting to oust their dictatorial regimes. ■
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Passo dello Stelvio, the second- highest paved mountain pass in Wills Cannell-Smith (2008, Maths), the Eastern Alps (2757m, 9045ft) winner of the 2010 Wallace Watson Award writes about his experiences cycling across the Alps.
I loved the feeling of freedom and discovering new places (using only my internal compass) that When applying for the Wallace Watson Award, I must number of major mistakes and was treated for admit that I didn’t know a great deal about tour cycling dehydration and hypothermia, spending the night in such a journey and only owned a girls’ bicycle I had rescued from a hospital. I spent the next few weeks travelling more affords skip. However, I had always liked the idea of travelling sensibly and taking things easier, gingerly cycling the by bike, having previously explored the flatlands of Passo dello Stelvio – the second-highest paved Norfolk in this way. I loved the feeling of freedom and mountain pass in the Eastern Alps – on my way to discovering new places (using only my internal Geneva. compass) that such a journey affords. By the time I got to Geneva, having cycled 1,000 miles, Starting in Vienna, and travelling alone with all my I had done my training, developed bigger leg muscles luggage on my bike, I didn’t know quite what I was and sent home unnecessary items. I was ready to letting myself in for. After completing my first col (a tackle the French Alps on la Route des Grandes Alpes. road which joins two valleys), a week in, I made a It was Teddy Watson who pushed me further and
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inspired me to go for the whole Alps; and before I left, I knew I had to forget one thing he said that night: ‘Edge over your we had discussed the possibility of throwing in the limits’. It was a lesson I was forced to take seriously the Pyrenees at the end, but I didn’t think it would become push myself to next morning, when my friends, due to collect me on my a reality. finish in nine completion of the cycle, notified me that they were arriving three days early! Just after Geneva I met another Englishman, James Eaton, days, and for cycling the same route to Nice. We had a few days Racing to the end point, I covered 95 miles and 6 cols a playing the roles of hare and tortoise, meeting again on the first two day. I slept in peoples’ back gardens, washed in streams the way up Col de la Bonette; the highest paved road in days I did and cycled when the sun was down. The last day was the Europe. Travelling by bike is, in my opinion, the best way hardest and, strangely enough, the fastest. I reached the to see mountains. You can travel at a slow enough speed exactly that, top of the last col just as the sun was setting, and to take in views, while being able to go fast enough for a cycling from freewheeling down to the sea I had a breath-taking view real adrenaline rush as you hurtle down the mountains. of the Atlantic. When I got to the beach, I realised I had On arrival into Nice, I had only one thing on my mind – sunrise to completed the Pyrenees in just five and a half days. the Pyrenees. The route I would follow encompasses 34 cols going from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. sunset Without the Wallace Watson Award, I wouldn’t have even started the trip I came to finish. I cycled alone, but I knew I had to push myself to finish in nine days, and for propelling me to completion were the Watson family and the first two days, I did exactly that, cycling from sunrise my College, without which none of this would have been to sunset. That night, I met some people from Holland, possible. I remain enormously grateful for the and we all exchanged stories over a few glasses of wine. opportunity to edge over both my limits as well as a few One fellow cyclist was a sports coach and I will never (mercifully rare) mountain drops! ■
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It takes schedule and gruelling trips ‘up north’ to battle it out Alex Hamilton against tough opposition in the most hostile conditions. commitment (2008, Human Sciences), secured a Despite all the focus placed upon the Varsity Match, it is and grit to Blue this year for his performance the season leading up to the event that lays the stick to the against Cambridge in the annual foundations of a successful campaign, and a pivotal aspect of this is the training regime. Typically, the squad regime Rugby League Varsity Match. would train three times a week, both late at night and alongside all early mornings, plus at least one match per week, which The Varsity Match is rich in history and bitter rivalry, felt is on top of gym sessions in groups designated at the your academic both on and off the pitch. It binds people together and beginning of the year. It takes commitment and grit to breeds camaraderie. It was an honour and a privilege to stick to the regime alongside all your academic expectations play Rugby League during my time at Oxford, expectations, and it is an exercise in organisation and representing Catz in the 2011 Blues Varsity. Playing a determination. But the feeling of running out onto that sport for Oxford at any level takes time and dedication pitch makes the whole thing worthwhile: every missed and rugby league is no different, with a rigid training night out, every ache and pain on Thursday morning, every early-morning training session on the frozen Iffley track.
During the couple of weeks leading up to the match, the squad was whittled down to the starting XIII and, including replacements, a final XVII. I can remember being told by our captain face-to-face in my room that I had been named to the starting XIII, and feeling a rush of elation coupled with nervous excitement. In the few days leading up to the match, we spent as much time as possible together, eating all lunches and dinners together where we could, fostering a sense of togetherness and intense focus. The main thing was to stay busy and not to let the pressure and nerves get hold of you; to harness that energy and release it on the pitch, ripping into the Tabs. Luckily, that was exactly what we managed to do.
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Alex in action during this year’s Rugby League Varsity Match
From the moment we ran out of that tunnel, nothing else I have always believed that Catz is a very special mattered; 80 minutes of pure hard work, concentration college, one in which people from all walks of life are and physicality ensued. The kickoff itself was ominous, made to feel welcome and at home. This belief was only with our first tackle driving the Cambridge centre back intensified by the support my friends gave to me during towards his own line and forcing a knock on in their first the season and during the Varsity campaign. They put set. From there on out, the match was all Oxford, and we up with my training, my incessant talk of Rugby League achieved a record win of 60-16. Playing Rugby League at and my single-track mind for over a month. Oxford was not only one of the best things I did during Furthermore, I was not only offered the support of my my time there, but also one of the best things I have friends, but that of the College staff, as well as my done so far in my life. The hours of work put in, the pain, tutors. It is for these reasons that I’m proud to be a the injuries and the commitment were all made Blue, not only at Oxford, but even more so, at Catz. ■ worthwhile when that final whistle blew.
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Camilla Turner (2009, History), remembers her summer spent in Ghana, after winning the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize.
In December 1983, an IRA bomb killed six paper where, upon my arrival, the Deputy Editor Ghana. This proved to be an especially people when it exploded at the Harrods store immediately invited me out for lunch. Having fascinating parallel to the British phone- in London. Among its victims was a young already eaten, but eager to make a good hacking scandal which would envelop the Oxford alumnus and journalist, Philip Geddes, impression, I politely gulped down a very large News of the World while I was in Ghana. who bravely remained inside the building in bowl of ‘fou-fou’, a traditional Ghanaian dish of an attempt to cover the story. This year, I was dough, meat and fish. My unfaltering appetite Another placement took me to The Daily fortunate enough to secure the £1,000 prize must have impressed them, and the Editor said I Graphic, Ghana’s oldest and biggest circulation awarded annually in his name, enabling me to could start working there the next day. newspaper. It was while working at The Daily travel to Ghana to immerse myself in the Graphic that I encountered a media storm journalism of a country radically different to I quickly learned that most newspapers took a fuelled by homophobia. A June article had any I had ever experienced. firm stance in supporting one of the two main alleged that some 8,000 homosexuals were Ghanaian political parties and often exhibited ‘registered’ by various non-governmental My earliest observation about the media a strong tendency to launch personalised organisations as living in and around the landscape in Ghana was the very limited use attacks on individual politicians. The recent Central and Western regions of the country of the internet, which made it nearly trend for these personal political attacks to be and that the majority were HIV-positive. This impossible to organise a placement at a made along ethnic lines was particularly revelation unleashed a wave of homophobic newspaper in advance; few newspapers gave worrying, and it motivated an extraordinary demonstrations and a torrent of media abuse. contact details online, and the e-mails I sent conference between politicians and journalists and phone calls I made went unanswered. in the run-up to the impending election. The Living and working in Accra gave me a Undeterred, I arrived in Accra, and from one ethno-political divisions in Rwanda, which had fascinating insight into the workings of the of the stalls selling papers in the bustling city led to the genocide of 1994, were still in media in a foreign country, observing, most centre, I noted down all the addresses of all living memory, and served as a constant starkly, the reception with which stories are the newspaper offices listed in the papers. reminder to all African nations of what an greeted by the public. It also allowed me to escalation of ethnic tensions can lead to. The pursue my own stories and investigative work Equipped with my CV and cover letter from the importance of press regulation and the in a completely new social, cultural and Geddes Trust, I went round the various responsibility of journalists not to polarise political environment. Finally, I hope, that my newspaper offices in Accra. One of my first stops opinion, particularly along ethnic lines, were time in Accra contributed to ensuring that the was The Daily Dispatch, a small, privately-owned regular themes of debate during my time in vision of Philip Geddes is able to live on. ■
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Background image: Skovshoved petrol station, designed by Arne Jacobsen and opened in 1936
Rob Campbell-Davis (2009, PPE) & Ellie Pinney (2009, Physiological Sciences), hitchhiked to Arne Jacobsen’s birthplace on the eve of the 50th anniversary of St Catherine’s – a College Jacobsen’s grandson has described as ‘the best thing he ever did’.
From criminals to political activists kidnapping cultures and ideas. Along our journey, we awkward shuffling motion. Yet, as he you – it’s amazing what fear-filled risks discussed the tragic Tsunami and radiation attempted to take his weight, he simply mothers will conjure up in an attempt to scare in Japan with a nuclear engineer from stumbled off into grass and fell to the floor as dissuade you from hitchhiking through Europe. Edinburgh, mused over the fate of European though his legs had been swigging from a Yet, with blind optimism, we ignored our economies with a Dutch executive from bottle of over-proofed gin without the rest of elders’ warnings, donned matching lurid pink Phillips, and sat terrified in the back of a his body noticing. Struggling for words we T-shirts, and strolled out towards the first road rapidly deteriorating Lada as it careered down shook hands, thanked her, and watched as she headed to the south coast. Our plan – if a the Autobahn with only the truculent tones drove off hurriedly. We remain certain that that scribbled line across a collection of Google of our Eastern European driver regaling us Oxford-educated young man had provided an Map printouts sellotaped together constitutes with stories of how he had put someone in a incentive for our kindly driver never to offer a one – was to hitch our way to Calais on the coma the last time he crashed on this road. lift to a hitchhiker again. Eurotunnel, then catch the traffic headed through Belgium and Holland into Germany. There are some situations, however, where After stops in Bruges, Amsterdam, and Our final destination would be Copenhagen – words seem entirely inadequate. Having Hamburg, we made it to Copenhagen, tired a pilgrimage to the land which bore Arne flagged down a lift from a wonderfully but satisfied. Copenhagen is a wonderful city, Jacobsen, the man behind the Egg Chair, beds effervescent young Dutch woman near where beautiful design appears to flow barely big enough to roll sideways in, and our Eindhoven and clambered into the back of her through the town like the crystal clear river entire College – an architectural masterpiece. Alpha Romeo, Rob began to panic. Turning to around which the city throbs. After paying Ellie, he whispered that he couldn’t feel his tribute to Arne’s iconic Skovshoved petrol With Facebook, Xbox and Ocado, we are legs. The combination of squeezing his 6ft3 station, we tucked into the bread rolls we’d descending into a world where face-to-face frame into the back seat of a sports car and bought from the local bakery; safe in the communication may join the telegram and tie the weight of the tent poles resting against knowledge that civilisation hasn’t quite yet clips in the landfill of things we no longer his thighs had stifled his circulation. When the gone to the dogs. It would seem that people have use for. Yet, hitchhiking tears open that car pulled to a halt at our destination, Ellie still do nice things for strangers, they still usually private space of a person’s car to the sprung out leaving Rob, at this point entirely want to talk and gain new insights, and joys of conversation with utter strangers, unable to control his lower limbs, to Facebook hasn’t melted everyone’s brains exposing both driver and passenger to new manhandle his legs out of the car in an just yet. ■
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James Marsh (1982, English)
I meet James Marsh at a post-production continued work it provides – from the outset, The theme of non-conformity is pertinent to suite in Soho where he’s currently adding the it is obvious he is a filmmaker devoted our chat, as it is in both James’ individualistic finishing touches to his latest film, Shadow entirely to his art. filmmaking style and the subjects of his work, Dancer. Several editors are engrossed in not least in his groundbreaking Oscar winner, manipulating footage on powerful-looking But how did it begin, and what part did Oxford Man on Wire, which details the wire walk computers – one tells me to take a seat; play? On graduating, he secured the College’s performance across the World Trade Centre of James has slipped out for coffee – the annual Nick Young Award – a work placement the outré Phillipe Petit. It resonated through inevitable refuelling, I soon realise, in the in television which represented his ‘first step in his student days beyond his tutorials. He exhaustingly immersive lifestyle of the the direction of becoming a filmmaker’, and speaks candidly about a feeling of separation filmmaker. The actors being cut-up are Clive which made tangible the career in film that on from the grander aspects of Oxford life, which Owen and Gillian Anderson, two of the leads arrival in Oxford had been a ‘fantasy rather for him followed a year of squatting in in Marsh’s upcoming feature, an espionage- than an aspiration’. His career was also spurred London. As well as acknowledging the thriller about the Irish Republican movement by the peers with which he surrounded likelihood of feeling similarly elsewhere, he which, if it is anything like his recent efforts, himself, and in the influence of his senior tutor credits the importance of Oxford life in will have critics fawning. Michael Gearin-Tosh, a ‘first mentor’ to James. forging a creative impulse: ‘the best work Of the former, he cites fellow English student comes from unconformity,’ he states, Marsh, a Catz English alumnus, is among the Benjamin Ross, a lifelong friend and filmmaker, reiterating the influence of his tutor, Gearin- most celebrated filmmakers of his generation, as making a particular impression. He enthuses Tosh. with countless plaudits, including American about the film club Ross established, where and British Academy Awards, a documentary they played tapes of great films learning what On the whole, I’m surprised at the extent to which frequently makes Greatest of All Time was to become their craft. Their enthusiasm which James, contrary to some ‘creatives’ who lists, and a versatility with genre (he flits was fanned by tutor Gearin-Tosh – ‘a very leave Oxford, acknowledges his studies as a between fiction and non-fiction styles like interesting man to be exposed to for three few can) that has led to valid comparisons years’ – who encouraged ‘original thought’ with the great auteur Werner Herzog. before all else. He provided a general education, rather than one designed for exam Despite his achievements, he appears totally expertise. ‘It wouldn’t just be English without ego. As he greets me and continues Literature: we’d watch films and be to speak with compelling erudition about his encouraged to read Russian Literature. He and others’ work, I sense the benefit he encouraged us not to submit ourselves to the gleans from his success is crucially the conformities of ‘the world out there’’.
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a father’. For James Marsh, film, ‘like poetry, works best at the level of feeling, not ideas’.
Leaving a place like Catz for the last time as a student, as I did in June and as James Marsh did twent five years ago, is a challenging experience. Despite being equipped with a valuable qualification, and a priceless life experience, only the luckiest avoid an initial sense of professional-rudderlessness and an Photo by David Dilley by Photo James working on the set of Project Nim; his documentary about a radical 1970s social experiment aching nostalgia for a time barely passed. With this in mind, I ask James for the advice he’d give vital part of his development: he notes that It’s no surprise, then, that James sees his to someone in my situation. His answer is the education he received was largely about documentaries as ‘driven by a love for the simple, but telling. ‘Define your aims. Know organising original thought clearly – ‘It’s been story’. I wonder, therefore, what he thinks of what you want to do and do it’. Leaving Catz, something I’ve taken into my writing and film; attempts in the press to uncover the ‘grand James knew he wanted to work for himself, in imagination has to be subject to structure and moral’ within his work. For example, his 2011 film, and he worked hard to achieve that. He rigour.’ This marriage of imagination and documentary Project Nim, which tells the story tells me that ‘It’s a huge privilege to be a film structure is palpable in James’ films, which are of a new-born chimp raised as a human child by maker. It’s a way of controlling your own notable for their unorthodox techniques. One an American family, had critics holding claim to destiny’. of the most startling features of the the director’s real message: it ‘shows the documentary, Man on Wire, is its heist-film humans to be the chumps’ claimed one. Again, I realise that James Marsh’s true success lies not structure – an effective blending of drama and it is the narrative, not the ideas, that he deems in his list of accolades, or enviable critical non-fiction that is rarely seen elsewhere. important. He tries not to ‘spoon-feed a silly acclaim, but in his success in forging a career Similarly, his early cult film, Wisconsin Death little moral’ and instead recognises that ‘films that he loves. In his 2009 Oscar acceptance Trip, details the true story of a mysterious are good for drama and emotion. Within them speech, the message he touchingly sent to his outbreak of murder and mental illness in the you can uncover ideas, but you generate that daughters was, ‘Nothing is impossible’; a belief otherwise sleepy nineteenth-century American through the act of telling stories – not by he’s lived out by converting his ‘filmic fantasy’ state of Wisconsin, adopting the imaginative discussing the ideas’. If the story is deliberately as a student to the filmic reality of his life today. cinematic methods of a thriller, rather than a left open, people will draw their own This is, surely, his greatest achievement. ■ documentary. conclusions: ‘a mother may react differently to James Maloney (2008, Music)
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ALUMNI NEWS
Sir Tim Brighouse (1958, Modern History)
Four years old as the 1944 Education Act As Birmingham’s Chief Education Officer really ‘effect change’ as many of the county’s was steered through Parliament, Sir Tim (1997-2002), he introduced the commitment schools became comprehensives as part of the Brighouse’s life and career have mirrored the that all of the City Council’s primary school drive to increase their number nationally. Ten changing, and sometimes stormy, tides of children would participate in a public years as Oxfordshire’s Chief Education Officer British post-war educational thought. Yet, performance; undertake a residential field trip; were followed by a Professorship of Education he has been much more than a passive take part in a collective environmental enquiry; at Keele University, whose Vice-Chancellor was participant in that continuing debate, having experience the expressive arts; and work Brian Fender, one of our Founding Fellows at actively sought to shape it as a teacher, together in producing and critiquing a book or Catz. But it was in Birmingham that Tim faced academic and educational administrator. multimedia project. He pioneered this initiative perhaps his hardest challenge. through Birmingham schools, he remembers, It was, he recalls, reading History at Catz under by asking local head teachers the simple Birmingham’s education authority was the redoubtable George Holmes and Peter question: ‘are these basic experiences you’d battling a poor reputation and low morale to Dickson which first enabled him to explore the like your own children to have?’ such an extent that thirteen schools had history of ideas and political movements that opted out and become grant-maintained in so enthralled him. Tim arrived at Catz fresh Widening education, for Tim, extends far the year before Tim joined. Yet, with from two very different schooling experiences; beyond the classroom walls. He has characteristic optimism, Tim describes it as experiences which moulded his commitment to consistently articulated a desire for ‘the happiest time of my life’; praising the providing future generations of students with a communities to play a greater role in what ‘amazingly good’ teachers he was given to ‘more holistic educational programme’. At his goes on in schools, pointing to the recent riots work with and humbly rebutting reminders of Leicestershire grammar school, he describes as an example of what can go wrong when the enormity of the task. Indeed, a himself as a ‘school-phobic’ boy in an ‘young people are allowed to feel disengaged government inspection of the city in 2002 otherwise academically-rigorous institution and disillusioned and to remain aloof from insisted that it was ‘an example to all others which, he felt, didn’t encourage the refinement their schools and society at large’. of what can be done, even in the most of other talents. When his father moved the demanding urban environment’, singling out family to Lowestoft, Tim transferred to a Tim has always, clearly, concerned himself with Tim’s ‘energising and inspirational example’ ‘lovely, sleepy grammar school’ which, quite the societal ills which stem from educational for particular praise; a claim Tim will hear simply, ‘changed his life’. disadvantage and has consistently sought to none of, merely pointing to the talented tackle them. After graduating, he became a teachers and support staff he was fortunate Years later, it is still evident that Tim’s own teacher, and was promoted to a deputy to be surrounded by. Empowering and schooling experience continues to influence his headship by the age of twenty-six. An opening encouraging others remains an appropriate approach to quality and breadth in education. in Monmouthshire gave him the opportunity to hallmark of the lifelong educator. ■
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Holly Harris (2008, History of Art)
On leaving Catz, my plan was to get an entry- to stay in school to finish their A-Levels in the level job in a large arts organisation and hope of securing better futures. My challenge eventually work my way up the career ladder. with QK House is to send the message out that Instead, I found myself in the third sector – highly disadvantaged young people really can something which I had never even thought turn their lives around with the right support about going into before I was offered the and care. opportunity to work with an embryonic London-based charity. At the time, my This year, I got in touch with former winner of experience with fundraising was mostly BBC Young Musician of the Year, fellow Catz
theatrical, having produced a number of plays alumnus and close friend, Mark Simpson Holly Harris during my time at Catz, including one at the (Music, 2008). Together, we decided Edinburgh Fringe. I was also a caller in the to put on a fundraising concert in 2010 Catz Telephone Campaign, an experience London in aid of QK House, to be held I enjoyed immensely. at Cadogan Hall in Sloane Square, home to the Royal Philharmonic QK House is a charity that aims to provide Orchestra and hosting venue of the accommodation for sixteen to eighteen-year BBC Chamber Proms. The repertoire old homeless students, who are still in full-time will take our audience on a journey education and who aim to go to university, back through 200 years of classical with the goal of raising £1.5 million. The music from Thomas Adès to charity was founded by Jo Shuter CBE, Head Beethoven via Shostakovich’s
Teacher of Quintin Kynaston School in St John’s virtuosic Cello Concerto. The orchestra will The QK Concert logo Wood, and her deputy, Irene Forster. Alongside consist of some of Britain’s finest young them both, and some very dedicated teachers, musicians from the Royal Academy, the For more information about the concert or QK we are working on an exciting project. We are Guildhall School, the Royal College and the House please email: [email protected]. at the very beginning of what we are hoping Royal Northern. The concert really aims to will be a remarkable journey. symbolise what young people can achieve The concert, ‘From New to Old: Young when given the support that they deserve. Musicians for Young Minds’ will take place Crucially, all the students we work with are in Given the historical foundations of St on 4 March at 7pm at Cadogan Hall. To book full-time education, and all of them, despite Catherine’s, I feel very proud that the College tickets, please telephone +44 20 7730 4500 being homeless, have made the brave decision has chosen to support the concert. ■ or visit www.cadoganhall.com
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ALUMNI NEWS
Richard Cox (1951, English)
Almost sixty years after graduating from St Catherine’s, Richard Cox found himself a student again – this time at King’s College, London – studying for an MPhil in History!
I had always wanted to study for a postgraduate degree (my Oxford MA notwithstanding), but throughout my career, first as a journalist and then as a fairly successful author, I could never quite find the time to take three years off.
However, a recent interest in family history encouraged me to fulfill a longstanding ambition. Entitled, ‘William Cox and the Making of an Australian Landed Gentry’, my Gascoigne of the University of New South Richard is currently working on turning his thesis addressed Cox’s early nineteenth- Wales, led to enrolment at the Menzies thesis into a full-length book which has been century tenure as Paymaster of the New Centre for Australian Studies at King’s commissioned by a Sydney-based publisher. A South Wales Corps. Investigations revealed College. I made three research trips to retired Member of the Alderney and Guernsey that he embezzled army funding before being Australia, the last as a visiting lecturer on the States (parliaments) in the Channel Islands, dismissed and later rehabilitated by Australia’s Arcadia, a vast P&O liner, where I discovered Richard was also a distinguished journalist and decorated Governor Macquarie (‘the Father of my social status as a lecturer was on a par prolific novelist. A career in journalism included Australia’). He was then allowed to build the with that of the on-board dancing troupe! stints as Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday first road through the Blue Mountains in Times and Defence Correspondent for The 1814. My connection to William Cox was one After some exhaustive research, the thesis Daily Telegraph. about which I knew very little. It was not until was finally submitted last April. Examiners following my mother’s death, that I came said that the work ‘made an important and He added that while a late return to academia across a magazine article among her papers original contribution to our knowledge of the proved both fascinating and fruitful, he would where I discovered the ancestral link. early British colonisation of Australia… and not recommend a five-and-a-half decade break Subsequent research, and contact with John merits publication’. to aspirant postgraduates! ■
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Darren Chadwick (2003, Human Sciences)
This year has been a really exciting one Importantly, firms have also often approached I have also developed a series of Global for me, both from a business perspective sustainability in an ad hoc way, reacting to Policy Seminars which look to explore global and from an academic one. I run the issues without stopping to consider how they challenges in an interdisciplinary way. Each award-winning sustainability consultancy, could use them to their advantage. So, we term, we take an evening to explore different Brite Green and continue to teach have had huge success in developing strategic issues with a panel of speakers and a glass sustainability to Human Scientists. I am approaches to sustainability issues for firms. or two of wine. We have, so far, looked at enjoying both jobs immensely. It’s been great to work in such an exciting the relationship between sustainability and area and very pleasing indeed to be development with experts from the World A proud highlight for me came last recognised with an award. Bank, DFID and Oxfam. Most recently, we November, when I was named as one of the explored the nature of environmental UK’s top 100 young social and environmental It continues to be a great privilege to be able conflict, with fantastic speakers who talked entrepreneurs, winning a Future 100 award to combine my commercial work with about the nature of the conflict in Darfur, for the work we are doing at Brite Green. The undergraduate teaching, allowing me to give the relationship between ethnic violence and award recognised our innovative approach: something back to the course I took whilst at water scarcity, and the roots of ecological embedding sustainability into corporate Catz. Human Sciences is a truly conflict between humans and lions near business strategy and achieving outstanding interdisciplinary course which looks at people game reserves. These seminars are open to environmental, social and commercial from all directions: from our genetic make-up, everyone so do get in touch if you would be outcomes for our clients. to psychology and our ecology. It aims to interested in attending them in the future. develop understanding about what it is to be Our focus has always been to help firms to human and get a real insight into the nature I have been lucky enough to keep close ties use sustainability as a tool to innovate: of the complex problems we face. with the College Boat Club and I am now the reducing costs and risks but also creating Secretary for the Rowing Society, the alumni new products and ways of working that are I have been teaching the Human Ecology organisation that provides significant funding both environmentally and commercially option, introducing aspects of environmental for the Boat Club and a great way to keep in effective. Too often, firms have seen the law, policy, and an understanding of how touch with other alumni. I run drinks on a environmental and social challenges they businesses fit into the picture, to the already quarterly basis in London to keep in touch face as a compliance issue or a marketing rich course content which covers conservation with friends and other alumni, so please do headache, whereas they actually have the and ecosystem management. get in touch if you would like to know more. ■ potential to be focal points for business [email protected], innovation and improved profitability. +44 7916 127085
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Matt Robinson (2005, Law)
Twelve months ago, I started a tech founders of some of the world’s most We started in earnest last January and built a company, GoCardless.com, with two successful tech companies, like Facebook, first version of our product in three weeks. friends, from the bedroom of our shared PayPal and DropBox. Hearing their reflections Building our final vision will take years, but it flat. Fast forward twelve months, and on their various successes and failures along was important to get some version of our we’ve just raised $1.5 million in investment the way was as enlightening as sitting in a product out there. We subscribed to the from some of the world’s best investors. tutorial with the world’s foremost expert on philosophy of Reid Hoffman, founder of The past year has oscillated between some trust law. LinkedIn: ‘If you’re not embarrassed of your of the most demanding and rewarding first product release, you’ve released too late’. experiences of my life. Yet, we faced severe challenges, arising Unsurprisingly, people didn’t want that first mostly from a relatively sheltered last five version, but it allowed us to discover that, in it, The most exciting thing about a start-up is years spent at Oxford University and McKinsey there was a kernel of the product that people the endless possibility. You could do anything, & Co. For example, the months we spent did want. be anything, and do it exactly how you want. working together in our flat with no salary; or We wanted to build a great consumer web posting our idea on a web forum, only to Starting your own business is, undeniably, a product, and we knew that the best place in watch responses spiral from a fair and huge risk, and a constant challenge, but it is the world to learn how to do that was Silicon reasonable exposition of its limitations, to a immensely rewarding for all that you learn and Valley. So, we put everything on hold and personal character assassination that closed achieve along the way. And every day that I moved to San Francisco for four months. with me being advised to ‘get a real job and continue to learn and improve, I will continue to start earning an honest penny’. love what I do. Spending the summer in the Valley was a great learning experience. In many ways, it When you start anything new, most feedback If anyone wants to start their own business, I’d reminded me of the ‘Oxford bubble’. San you hear is likely to be criticism. It’s far easier love to help. You can read more about my Francisco, like Oxford, has become a tightly to tear something apart for its flaws than to experiences at www.mattjackrob.com and you knit eco-system comprising people, spot its potential. Just look at Google, can reach me @mattjackrob on Twitter or knowledge and institutions that foster Facebook or Twitter. If someone pitched an [email protected]. And if you want excellence in a particular field. It reminded me early version of something as transformative cheaper online payments for your business, go how much power there is in such clusters, as that to you today, do you think you would to gocardless.com! ■ and most importantly, in the people that be more focused on the 100 reasons why it comprise them. For instance, whilst out in the won’t work, or the one reason why it just Valley, we were fortunate enough to meet the might? That people want it. GoCardless
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COLLEGE EVENTS
College Events 2012 The College Time Capsule The College Enigmatist offers the next clue, in a Saturday 25 February Rowing Society AGM and Dinner series of 50, to the contents of the time capsule Saturday 3 March Degree Day buried under St Catherine’s College: Thursday 8 March Wallace Watson Award Lecture To each his own.
Saturday 12 March Parents' and Freshers' Lunch* The clues so far: Friday 23 March Oxford Intercollegiate Golf Tournament, 1. Two thirds of my number is one and a half Frilford Heath Golf Club times what I am. Monday 26 March Hong Kong Drinks Reception with the Master 2. Pooh in 1927, true of us today? Saturday 7 April Singapore Drinks Reception with the Master 3. Do they belong to longevity? Saturday 14 – Sunday 15 April North American Reunion in New York 4. The first 6 000 flowers. TBC North American Reunion in California 5. A good hiding... TBC North American Reunion in San Francisco 6. Six of one and half a dozen of the other. Saturday 12 May Degree Day 7. Initially he found like an insect… Saturday 19 May Degree Day 8. Bovine comes to river. Thursday 24 May London Party at the Danish Embassy 9. To each his own. Thursday 31 May The Katritzky Lecture Saturday 2 June Family Day Saturday 9 June Degree Day Saturday 16 June Parents' and Second Years' Garden Party* London Party 2012 Saturday 16 June Undergraduate Leavers’ Day* Thursday 24 May 2012, 6:30 – 8.30pm Saturday 23 June – Sunday 8 July Out of Architecture Exhibition at Arup’s THE DANISH EMBASSY Saturday 14 July Degree Day Friday 7 – Sunday 9 September St Catherine's Anniversary Weekend In our fiftieth year, we are delighted to host our Friday 7 – Sunday 16 September Out of Architecture Exhibition at St Catherine’s London Party at the Danish Embassy. Designed by Saturday 20 October Degree Day Arne Jacobsen, the Embassy will be a fitting venue Saturday 3 November Degree Day for this popular annual event. Invitations will only be sent out to those who live in London and the Saturday 24 November Degree Day Home Counties. If you live outside this area, but * Invitations for these events will be sent nearer the time. would still like to attend, please contact the
To book your place on any of the above events, or for any other enquiries, please contact the Development Development Office directly. Office on [email protected] or +44 1865 271 760. For more information about these and other forthcoming events, please keep an eye on the College website, www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Institute of Linguists. Sean, who graduated from the University of Warwick with an MBA, News in Brief has also been elected to a Visiting Fellowship at Catz for Hilary Term 2013 and is delighted Lewis Stevens with PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Award was to be returning. (1955, presented at a glittering dinner at the Hilton Biochemistry) has Park Lane Hotel in London. Nick Gee (1987, Geography) has been published An awarded a PhD by the University of East Unforgettable Anglia for his ethnographic study of Woman: The Life community sentiments that evolve during and Times of Rosa residential Geography fieldwork. He remains Newmarch, at East Anglia as Associate Dean in the chronicling the Faculty of Social Sciences. remarkable story of a remarkable David Shoukry (1993, Music) has relocated woman who, Lewis claims, was instrumental in to India to take up a post as Head of Music at introducing many Russian, Sibelius and Czech the International School in Bangalore. composers to the English concert-going public. Drawing upon Newmarch’s own unfinished and Paul Price (1997, Chemistry) and his wife unpublished autobiography, An Unforgettable Catherine are delighted to announce the Woman is a fascinating tale about this prolific Professor David Mabberley (1967, Botany) arrival of James Thomas Price (below), who personaltiy. has been appointed as the new Executive was born on Sunday, 11 December 2011. Director of the New South Wales Royal Alan Waller OBE (1964, Mathematics) was Botanic Gardens Trust in Sydney, Australia. appointed International President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Gabriel Moss (1968, Law) has been in January. A well-known figure in the appointed to a Visiting Professorship in industry, Alan’s long and distinguished career Corporate Insolvency Law by the Faculty of began at British Steel, followed by over Law at The University of Oxford. twenty-five years working in industries across the world. In November, he won the Individual Sean Hand (1976, Modern Languages) has Contribution Award at the Supply Chain been elected to membership of the Academia Standards Awards. Arranged in partnership Europaea and to a Fellowship at the Chartered
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Bonnie Nicolle (née Butler) (1999, Physics) was delighted to announce her marriage to Daniel Nicolle. Bonnie trained as a Lynx Pilot earlier this year and will be deployed to Afghanistan in May 2012.
To celebrate our 50th anniversary, we are delighted to announce the imminent release of our book, St Catherine’s, Oxford: A Pen Portrait. This beautifully- illustrated, glossy publication is the definitive history of our community – told through the memories of our alumni, students, Fellows and friends.
To own your piece of Catz history, please visit www.tmiltd.com/shop/home/pId/131 to join over 850 students, alumni, Fellows and friends who have already purchased a copy.
Alice White (née Tedd) (2000, EEM) and Paul White (1997, Chemistry) are happy to A job well done at night by the lamps of scores of newcomers. announce their marriage on 23 April 2011. Arriving at St Catherine’s had something in The buttery was crowded at lunch, and the JCR Now living in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Catz common with a peacetime visit to had to order twenty copies of some couple are equally excited to announce that Passchendaele. My parents’ little Ford Prefect newspapers – so thick was the throng. they are expecting a baby in June. bounced through a field of rutted red mud and splashed through puddles of rusty water until I By 1965, St Catherine’s was every bit as busy, Alexander Campkin (2002, Music) has had was eventually deposited beside a cement mixer jovial and amused with itself as any of the other his latest orchestral piece, True Light, and a dump truck, both roaring away adding colleges. It had come of age, in double-quick performed at Birmingham Cathedral in finishing touches to a bridge across a moat. time – and small wonder that Alan Bullock could November. It was the first ever choral and look around himself, with no small sense of orchestral setting of John 1 and was But the rest of the foliage did thrive – and so did satisfaction, at a job well done. His dream of a commissioned by the Cathedral as part of its we. By my second year, the hedges were filling brand new Oxford college was up and running, celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary out, the shrubberies were blooming, and rooms and the envy of all. of the King James Bible. on the far side of the quad, once empty, were lit Simon Winchester (1963, Geology)
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CATZ RESEARCH Dr Eleanor Stride Fellow by Special Election in Engineering Science
More recently, the use of microbubbles as It is also possible to engineer their Engineering vehicles in therapeutic applications such as biodegradability and rupture threshold to targeted drug delivery and gene therapy had control drug release. Bubbles also been investigated. The bubbles can be loaded with a drug or DNA, tracked through Loading the microbubbles with magnetic The presence of bubbles in the blood the body under ultrasound imaging and then nanoparticles, which enables them to be stream is normally considered to be highly destroyed by briefly increasing the ultrasound concentrated in a target site using an undesirable. Celebrated as the undetectable power in order to release the drug at a target externally applied magnetic field and this is murder weapon in the plots of 1930s location. By localising the delivery in this way currently being investigated to improve detective novels, they certainly represent an the risk of harmful side effects can be treatment localisation. all-too-real hazard for deep sea divers and significantly reduced. astronauts. There is, however, a rapidly Developing new techniques for microbubble growing number of biomedical applications in This type of application poses a number of preparation, which provide a high degree of which bubbles can offer significant benefits. significant challenges, and the aim of the work control over their size and coating currently being undertaken at the Institute of characteristics in order to ensure accurate In ultrasound imaging, bubbles of a few Biomedical Engineering in this area is to dosing of a given therapeutic agent. ■ 1000ths of a millimetre are injected into the address these in a series of interrelated bloodstream to increase the strength of the projects. These include: echoes from blood vessels. This enables clinicians to map the flow of blood in a Modifying the structure and particular region in order to identify different composition of the microbubble types of disease, particularly in cardiology coating to change the acoustic and the detection of small tumours. Crucially ‘signature’ of the microbubbles, for these applications the microbubbles need which allows them to be imaged to be stabilised by coating them with a even at very low ultrasound powers. surfactant or polymer shell. This prevents the bubbles from either dissolving too rapidly or Right: Scanning electron microscope image of uniform from coalescing to produce larger bubbles polymer coated bubble which could potentially create a blockage. Inset: Internal structure of a multilayered micrbubble
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CATZ RESEARCH Louise Fawcett Tutor in Politics and Wilfrid Knapp Fellow
My long-awaited sabbatical year (2010- Pacific and Latin America, have become more 2011) was profitably spent pursuing both important global players in the twenty-first- new and old lines of research. My latest century, reflecting the demise of Cold War research project, which is still in progress, is bipolarity and the rise of new regions and new part of a larger study on the contribution of powers. Such institutions encourage Latin American scholarship to questions of cooperation between like-minded states across years and recent events in the Arab world are International Relations and International Law. a range of areas, from politics and economics to just another example of this. Apart from acting Studying the extensive intellectual output of nuclear non-proliferation and climate change. as the general editor, my own contribution to Andres Bello, a Venezuelan-born scholar and They represent an important and perhaps the volume looks at the role of regional publicist, has helped illuminate both the decisive development in International Relations, institutions in the Middle East, contesting the richness of ‘non-Western’ thought but also its where the so-called hegemony of the West notion that these have been relatively relative neglect in contemporary International and Western assumptions about international unimportant – a position supported by recent Relations literature. order are under increasing challenge. events where their roles in conflict mediation have been highlighted. There are many good The work on Andres Bello links more widely to One exciting arena in which to test this reasons to suppose that regional organisations other areas of research which I have been challenge is the Middle East, which represents like the Arab League, or the Gulf Cooperation developing over the years. One of these is the the third main strand of my research. Following Council, or a wider pan-regional association, study of regional institutions broadly conceived. the success of the two earlier editions of my will come to occupy a more important space in I am particularly interested in how and why edited volume, The International Relations of Middle East international relations. states cooperate in international organisations the Middle East, I have been asked by Oxford and what consequences that has for University Press to put together a revised and Latin American thought, regional institutions international order. In the post-Cold War world, expanded third edition to be published later and Middle East politics at first sight look like regional organisations have grown significantly this year. This is a timely invitation as the fast an eclectic research mix, but these different in number and importance and are widely seen pace of events in the region since the start of strands are all linked by a common as playing significant roles in the international the ‘Arab Spring’ in early 2011 demands a undertaking, which is to show why we should system. As argued in a recent article co- thorough reconsideration of the region’s take more seriously the agency of developing authored with a former DPhil student, not only politics and its international relations. Western countries and acknowledge their increasingly the European Union, but a range of regional assumptions about the politics of the Middle important roles in an evolving and more institutions from Africa, the Middle East, Asia- East have been repeatedly challenged over the pluralistic international system. ■
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Sir Michael Atiyah (Honorary Fellow) ‘The Republic honours his contribution to knowledge worldwide’
This year, Sir Michael Atiyah, Honorary and in the same year, you became the first Fellow, was appointed a Grand Officer of Director of the city’s Isaac Newton Institute for the French Légion d’honneur. The French Mathematical Sciences, which you had been Ambassador to Britain, HE Mr Bernard Emié, instrumental in creating. You were President of pays his tribute… the Royal Society from 1990 to 1995, Chancellor of the University of Leicester from The French Republic honours your huge 1995 to 2005, and President of the Royal achievements which have certainly made you Society of Edinburgh from 2005 to 2008. one of the most influential living mathematicians. I want to pay special tribute to your wife, Lady Atiyah, whom this award also honours, because You were born in April 1929 in London, and she has supported you unwaveringly spent your youth in Africa, before completing throughout your long career. your studies in Manchester. You then entered the prestigious Trinity College, Cambridge, and You’ve collaborated with six years later, submitted your thesis, the starting-point of a brilliant career as a mathematicians of many mathematician. nationalities, shattering the From 1957, you were a Research Fellow at illusion of the solitary Pembroke College, Cambridge, leaving in 1961 for St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where you mathematician were a Fellow as well as holding the University’s chair of Savilian Professor of You’re also a great sharer and imparter of Geometry from 1963 to 1969. You became knowledge. You’ve collaborated with dozens of Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1990, mathematicians of many nationalities,
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Académie des Sciences – of which you’ve been a member since 1978 – distinguished with its Grande Médaille.
You’re a foreign member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, France’s Académie des Sciences, Germany’s Leopoldina, and you have received honorary degrees from more than 30 universities. I want to pay special tribute to your role from the 1960s-onwards in rebuilding mathematical ties between European countries, particularly via the European Mathematical Society.
You were the first eminent British Sir Michael Atiyah with the French Ambassador, His Excellency Monsieur Bernard Émié mathematician to acknowledge and use the new geometrical ideas developed in France, shattering the illusion of the solitary who have developed your ideas and today which led to a turning-point in algebraic mathematician and showing that dialogue is form a dynamic mathematical community, geometry at the global level. You also essential to resolving the most complex holding leading positions in scientific circles restored great vitality to cooperation between problems. As you once said, ‘If you attack a the world over. the British and French schools of differential mathematical problem directly, very often you geometry. Many people remember the care come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to The scale of your life’s work has earned you a you took, when you were President of the work and you feel that if only you could peer large number of prizes. You have been Royal Society, to cultivate closer ties with our around the corner, there might be an easy awarded the three most renowned distinctions Académie des Sciences. solution. There is nothing like having in mathematics. The first was the Fields Medal, somebody else beside you, because he can which you received in 1966 – at the age of For all these reasons, and because of your usually peer around the corner.’ only thirty-seven! In 1988, you were awarded contribution to Franco-British relations in the the Royal Society of London’s Copley Medal, field of science, the Republic today honours a You’ve trained several generations of students and in 2004, the Abel Prize, regarded as the figure who is outstanding in the scale of his and researchers in the United Kingdom of ‘mathematician’s Nobel prize’. In 2010, you life’s work and in his contribution to course but also many in the United States – were the second mathematician whom the knowledge worldwide. ■
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CATZ RESEARCH Marc Mulholland Tutor in History and Wolfson Fellow
In his latest work, Bourgeois Liberty and Its historical scope encompasses the claim Before the continental revolutions of 1848, the Politics of Fear: From Absolutism to that the middle classes consistently the European ‘Springtime of Peoples’, there Neo-Conservatism, to be published later abandoned their ideological commitment was much confidence that commercial, middle- this year, Marc Mulholland charts a to liberty, fearful of ‘red revolution’ in the class, and bourgeois society was so dynamic remarkable story, spanning from the face of an increasingly articulate and that, in time, it must succeed in reorganising seventeenth-century to the twenty-first, organised proletariat. It presents a clear society at large, not just economically but also and covering a wide range of countries set of arguments that shed new light on politically. A coherent liberal programme, and thinkers. the creation of our modern world. resting upon the interests of commercial civil society was widely acknowledged. As Beales and Biagini put it, ‘economic liberalism meant business, and a parliamentary constitution meant power and security against the crown.’1 Freedom to employ labour, take remunerative jobs, and accumulate wealth without vexatious taxation was widely appealing. In Britain, Richard Cobden (1804-1865), a British manufacturer and radical liberal, described the basis of reform movements, from anti-slavery to Anti-Corn Law, as comprising ‘the middle- classes, backed by the more intelligent of the working-classes, and led by the more honest sections of the aristocracy.’2 The middle-class seemed to be harbingers of a free and
1. Derek Beales and Eugenio Biagini, The Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy, 2nd edition (Harlow, 1971, 2002), 36-7. 2. Quoted in Brian Harrison, The Transformation of British Politics, 1860-1995 (Oxford, 1996), 29.
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From the Philippines to authoritarian movements promising to combine But the story took a new turn sometime in the modernisation with security for middle-class 1970s. The roll-back of popular socialism and Ukraine, it was the Statue property and prospects. By the 1930s, it was the collapse of communism restored many of painfully evident, outside of the old countries the conditions of the pre-1848 era. of Liberty rather than the of ‘bourgeois revolution’, that the middle- Communism’s fall was the culmination of a Red Flag that inspired the classes were prey to the appeals of ‘new historic eclipse of the idea of anti-capitalist Caesars’ of a terrible kind. Émile Vandervelde, socialism. As the veteran Trotskyist, Ernest masses the Belgian-born leader of international Social Mandel, admitted sadly in 1990, ‘Five Democracy, wondered, in the mid-1930s what generations of socialists and three generations prosperous society. To the surprise of almost had happened to that boundless middle-class of workers were convinced that socialism is everyone, the 1848 liberal revolutions in energy and confidence that had once animated possible and necessary. Today’s generation is Europe, though initially volcanic and all- liberalism; such élan, he remarked ruefully, not convinced that it is possible’.4 US Neo- conquering, collapsed with dizzying rapidity. could now only be found ‘among the conservatives, in particular, concluded that Nonetheless, from the mid-nineteenth- reactionary bourgeoisie, when the task of the democratic revolution could now be positively century, capitalism developed with day is the strangulation of democracy’.3 To be encouraged in the sure knowledge that unprecedented power and speed, but it was sure, the old liberal core countries of Britain socialist revolutionary movements would not no longer so easy to automatically associate and the United States, though only in alliance thereby be sparked amongst the mobilized commercialism, a liberal middle-class, and with Stalinist Russia, succeeded in re- working-class. From the Philippines to Ukraine, constitutional government. Bourgeois conquering most of Western Europe for liberal it was the Statue of Liberty rather than the liberalism was mostly anaemic outside those constitutionalism. But no wave of emancipatory Red Flag that inspired the masses.5 History countries – Britain, the United States, France, bourgeois liberalism followed immediately never comes to a full-stop, however, and the Belgium, and Switzerland – where it had world-wide. During the Cold War, the USA debacle of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and stormed the ramparts of absolutism before again and again preferred for its client states the Great Recession from 2008, suggested that 1848. Still, with the spread of solidly anti-communist dictatorships to the the destiny of bourgeois civil society remained constitutionalism, few doubted that a new perils of democratic self-determination. It uncertain. ■ liberty was dawning, even if bourgeois civil supported authoritarian regimes and opposed society had to jostle with the lively legatees of revolutionary movements if doing so 4. Quoted in Jan Willem Stutje, Ernest Mandel: A aristocratic absolutism and the upstarts of apparently served the greater security of the Rebel’s Dream Deferred, trans. Christopher Beck and ‘proletarian democracy’. ‘Free World’ in the global Cold War. Peter Drucker (London, 2009), 244. 5. Most famously, the pro-democracy Chinese students With the Russian Revolution of 1917, a Red camped in Tiananmen Square in 1989 constructed a 3. Quoted in Gerd-Rainer Horn, European Socialists ‘Goddess of Liberty’, modelled on the Statue of Liberty. Menace loomed, and fear for the values of civil Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism, and Andrew Langley, Tiananmen Square (Minneapolis, society recruited many an anxious bourgeois to Contingency in the 1930s (New York, 1996), 126-7. 2009), 8.
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CATZ RESEARCH JC Smith Tutor in French Linguistics
Earlier this year, JC Smith, Tutor in French Refunctionalization is the acquisition of a Linguistics, co-edited The Cambridge new value or function by an existing History of the Romance Languages, the morphological opposition (the phenomenon most comprehensive survey of the history which Lass 1990, borrowing a term from of the Romance languages ever published evolutionary biology, refers to as in English. Engaging with new and original ‘exaptation’). However, the terms topics reflecting wider-ranging comparative ‘refunctionalization’ and ‘exaptation’ have concerns, Volume 1 highlights the recurrent often been used without distinction to refer themes of persistence (structural both to instances in which the original value inheritance and continuity from Latin) and of the formal opposition has disappeared and innovation (structural change and loss in to those in which this original value has been Romance). The result is a rich structural retained alongside the new meaning (indeed, history which marries together data and in subsequent work, Lass 1997 explicitly theory to produce new perspectives on the envisages both possibilities). I propose that structural evolution of the Romance the notion of ‘refunctionalization’ should be languages. limited to the former case, in which the new function replaces (or displaces) the old one. A To celebrate its release, we print a chapter good example of this development is the opposition in the Latin neuter; in these cases, which JC contributed, Change and evolution of some Latin accusative pronouns not only do the nouns exhibit distinct Continuity in Form-Function Relationships into conjunctive (clitic) forms and their dative genders, but, additionally, it is the feminine counterparts into disjunctive forms in a variety which retains the original literal meaning and In this chapter, I shall motivate and discuss a of Romance languages. the masculine which comes to encode a typology of changes in the relationship derived figurative meaning. between linguistic form and linguistic Adfunctionalization is the term I shall use to function, with reference to the Romance designate the second state of affairs outlined Functionalization occurs when an languages, and attempt to elucidate some above, in which the new function is added to opposition which has not previously had a general principles which may underlie the the existing one. As an example, we may take morphological or lexical value comes to developments described. It will be useful to many of the Romance masculine/feminine encode one. This development may take distinguish four types of change. doublets which derive from the singular/plural place as the result of differential
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phonological change; compare the creation of nominative case and the other derives from lexical and morphological doublets in French the Old French oblique case). I have claimed as a result of the lexically diffuse evolution of in recent work (Smith 2005, 2006) that the diphthong [oi]. It may also arise (as it refunctionalization and adfunctionalization are does in Istro-Romanian) from the not random, but involve a principle of ‘core- redistribution, within a single linguistic to-core’ mapping, whereby some element, system, of originally ‘synonymous’ items in however abstract, of the original opposition the two languages of a bilingual (and survives in the new one. It may be that a diglossic) speech community. similar process is at work even in some cases of functionalization, although the evidence Defunctionalization is the loss of value of an does not for the moment justify such a claim. opposition. This may happen in a variety of ways. One of these is for the two forms to The data presented will provide some survive as quasi-synonymous stylistic or (though by no means all) of the answers to sociolinguistic variants; sometimes (but not Joseph’s question (Joseph 1998): ‘Where always), one of the forms is perceived as more does morphology come from?’. Morphological archaic than the other. Another possibility is oppositions may arise from existing the reduction of what was previously a morphology (although this is something of a meaningful (lexical or morphological) mise en abyme), from phonology, and from opposition to the status of mere phonological the lexicon. In addition, a (similarly non- variation (more accurately, a variation in exhaustive) answer is given to the question pronunciation, as defined by Chambers and ‘Where does morphology go to?’ – it may Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith & Adam Trudgill 1998:97). One possible example of become lexicalized or phonologized, or Ledgeway (eds.). The Cambridge History of such a development is the alleged conflation remain as sociolinguistic or stylistic variation. the Romance Languages. in Old French of the verbs amer and esmer. My hypothesis is that the general principles Volume 1: Structures. xxii + 866 pp. here adumbrated from Romance are Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Within refunctionalization (and applicable more generally. ■ 2011. ISBN 978 0 521 80072 3. adfunctionalization), we may distinguish between intramorphological change, lexical to morphological change (e.g., suppletion), and The result is a rich structural history which marries together morphological to lexical change (e.g., the data and theory to produce new perspectives on the existence in modern French of doublets where one of the items derives from the Old French structural evolution of the Romance languages
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CATZ RESEARCH Peter Franklin Tutor in Music and Professor of Music
Seeing Through Music is an attempt to demonstrate the wealth of knowledge to be plundered through analysis of film music. The book argues convincingly that film music’s importance to the study of musical culture and society is significantly undervalued.
Franklin takes a new angle on classic Hollywood film scores by approaching them from a musicological, rather than a film studies, perspective. Opposed to the view of the scores as soft, manipulative, mass cultural musical pulp, Franklin proposes that the composers were far more critical and self-aware than they are traditionally given credit for. While classic Hollywood film scores are often seen as the underside of modernism, and are consequently left out of music histories, Franklin suggests that film music is, in fact, much more important to understanding the history of Western musical culture and society than has been assumed.
Seeing Through Music proposes that there is, in fact, an element of modernism running throughout the scores ‘What does a Music student possibly need from the themselves. Paradoxically, however, the scores prove Library – surely all they need is the Music House?’ additionally interesting in their attempts to embody that As an undergraduate Music fresher, it’s a question I which modernism was actually seeking to define itself frequently face, and addressing this might have against. been an aim of Peter Franklin’s latest work, Seeing Through Music: Gender and Modernism in Classical Franklin’s encouragement to reappraise can also be Hollywood Film Scores. seen in the second key theme of the book: the claim
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that gender underpins the way we think about Boundaries between what is Hollywood film music. The way we analyse the musical output of the period is influenced by gender, just as, in respectively deemed to be ‘high’ turn, those forms of analysis carry ‘gender and ‘low’ art are blurred, and the implications’. Franklin notes that certain influential strands in the critical discourse label modernism as scores cannot simply be dismissed ‘masculine’ and mass culture as ‘feminine’. Film composers validated this perspective by claiming they as worthless on musicological worked purely for financial reasons instead of artistic grounds fulfilment. This led to the view that film music lacked artistic ambition, merely representing a contribution to ‘mass culture’. ‘Mass culture’, being labelled feminine concert while Helen listens over the radio, having and assumed irrational, in turn, led to film music being realised that the relationship is over. During the regarded as purely sentimental. broadcast, Helen drowns herself in the sea. Franklin points out that while this appears to be a typical Seeing Through Music sets out to challenge such melodramatic conclusion, it actually problematises what simplistic, and according to Franklin, superficial, divisions. is implicit in the opera: once the hero is gone, there is Boundaries between what is respectively deemed to be nothing for the heroine to do but to drown in music. ‘high’ and ‘low’ art in this context are blurred, he argues, and the scores cannot simply be dismissed as worthless Indeed, what is also remarkable is that Waxman chooses on musicological grounds. to turn this music for Isolde into a concerto for two men. The woman’s voice is appropriated by two male The 1946 film Humoresque, directed by Jean Negulesco, artists who were purportedly above the business of love provides a brief example of Franklin’s analysis. The score and melodrama. And yet, Helen can be seen to suffer features selections by nineteenth-century composers what the men can only ‘perform’. Franklin consequently such as Wagner and Dvořák, re-orchestrated by Franz views the ending of the film as a modernist gloss on Waxman. The leading lady, Helen Wright (Joan Crawford), the history of Tristan and Isolde, not just a is ‘undone’ by falling in love with a Hungarian violinist. melodramatic piece of mass cultural nonsense. The film ends with a Liszt-like arrangement of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde as a violin and piano concerto. It This is just one example from a perceptive piece of particularly features the Liebestod, in which Isolde sings musicological analysis, which invites us to ask whether after Tristan’s death about sinking and drowning in there is indeed more to be seen through music. ■ billowing waves of sound. The violinist plays this in a Nathan Klein (2011, Music)
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Wilfrid Knapp Founding Fellow, 1924-2011
Following the sad loss of way beyond that date, for another two August 1943, when he joined the RAF decades, almost until the day he died. Photographic Unit, loading cameras into Wilfrid Knapp earlier this reconnaissance Spitfires, developing and year, we print the Master’s There are two important aspects of Wilfrid’s life printing results to assist the Normandy that I want to expound upon: firstly, how the landings, and later micro-filming documents remarks at his Memorial interweaving of Wilfrid’s and Alan Bullock’s used in the Nuremberg trials. Service held at the destinies, and the subsequent closeness of their friendship, forged the creation of a new His return to New College, and to his tutors University Church in June. College from the long-standing St Catherine’s Alan Bullock and Isaiah Berlin, came in early Society. And secondly, how the warmth of 1946, with PPE finals in 1948. Following ‘In the 42 years in which he has been Wilfrid’s qualities as a tutor, his interest in graduation, he spent the next year as a associated with St Catherine’s, longer than people, the care and trouble he took over their postgraduate at the Sorbonne, funded by a any of the rest of us, no-one has made a personal lives, and especially the role he took Korda Scholarship, researching ‘Jules Michelet greater contribution to the foundation and on as the custodian of the global alumni and the development of French Republicanism’, formation of the College. Wilfrid has played community of the College, ensured that St and kindling what was to become his life-long many roles, from fundraiser to Senior Tutor Catherine’s would never want for support from love of France. A year later, Bullock tempted and Dean, from expert on the modern Middle those whose lives had been touched by it. him back to New College as a Junior Lecturer in East to a much sought-after supervisor of Politics, and soon afterwards, Wilfrid saw, graduate students, but I believe he will be Wilfrid was born in 1924, the younger of two shortly before the closing date, a notice inviting remembered, above all, as an outstanding brothers, whose father was the headmaster of applications for the more substantive post of tutor in a great tradition which is the heart the primary school in the village of Sipson, now Tutor in Politics at St Catherine’s Society. of Oxford’. almost buried under the northernmost runway Bullock and Berlin encouraged and supported at Heathrow. The family unit was self-contained his last-minute application, writing references That was the view of the late Alan Bullock, and supportive, with firm ambitions that the which portrayed the characteristics which the Founding Master of St Catherine’s two brothers should go to Oxford. Wilfrid remained with Wilfrid for the rest of his life. College, when Wilfrid Knapp retired in 1992. followed his brother to New College in October But Wilfrid’s service and commitment, always 1942, with the award of an exhibition in Isaiah Berlin: ‘He was my pupil in PPE and sparkling with energy and imagination, to the Modern Subjects following shortly afterwards. although Philosophy was not his strongest suit, College and community he loved, continued The war arrived for him barely a year later, in he impressed me as a thoughtful and
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not so difficult – but seems to have a peculiar College, as Wilfrid came to play an important capacity for bringing out the best in the role over the succession as Head of the intellectually weaker pupils, who, under his Society when Censor Brook retired in 1951. guidance, sometimes make astonishing Alan Bullock, Tutor in History for seven years progress’. at New College and a vigorous Dean amongst men returning from the war, was seen by Bullock’s view was equally enthusiastic – some as a possible candidate for the ‘toughened by his stay in France, most succession. But was Censor of St Catherine’s successful in getting on easy and friendly something that he wanted? He later said that terms with those he teaches. People like him Wilfrid persuaded him to let his name go because they feel he is genuinely interested forward. Wilfrid’s recent view was, ‘That is not in them and their problems, and that he is my memory, but undoubtedly I ‘talked up’ St more interested in helping them, than in Catherine’s, where I was happy teaching and displaying his own cleverness or knowledge. I where I enjoyed the vigour and diversity of was instrumental in getting him back to New the undergraduates’. Either way, Bullock was College as Junior Lecturer and he would appointed… and the destiny of the great St admirably fulfill your requirements now – Catherine’s project could begin to take shape. scrupulous man whom it was a pleasure to integrity of character, honest in his opinions, teach. The Politics section of PPE, in which he sincere and unpretentious’. Wilfrid Knapp (left) and Alan Bullock (right) specialised, and which he teaches in this College, is a subject which too often attracts The scribbled notes of the soulless hacks, who both learn and teach as if interview kept by Censor it were a technological discipline, of a Brook sum Wilfrid up: ‘liked particularly dreary kind. Wilfrid Knapp is a him; modest and unassuming, man of very humane attainments and great v sensible – interested in intellectual sensibility, and in his hands, the chaps’. The post was offered subject has become a branch of humane and accepted without studies with great profit to his pupils. His hesitation. greatest merit seems to me to lie in his capacities as a teacher: he has a gentle, That instant of acceptance was, sweet and attractive nature, and is therefore without doubt, a determining good at teaching not merely first class and moment in the development of good second class pupils – which is perhaps the future St Catherine’s
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Wilfrid’s studies began to gain an increasingly Sunday – not impossible. John international perspective. From his initial Simopoulos arrived in Beirut at a time interest in France, Wilfrid extended his when we had just gone through a resources to take in French North Africa, and period of practical frustration, and he the lands bordering the Mediterranean, and may have brought back an from there it was a natural progression to the excessively gloomy account of what I Middle East, an area on which Wilfrid became am doing. Naturally, I learn most by an acknowledged expert, with many friends in talking, and I manage to meet both the Arab lands and Israel. people worth talking to. The Kandara Palace Hotel in Jeddah is In their early years together, Pat, his wife, furnished throughout on the repeatedly accompanied Wilfrid, with their ground floor with Jacobsen: I half hoped the Wilfrid Knapp watches the College being built young sons, on arduous journeys in old man would come stalking in to put the connection with his work on the Arab world chairs in the proper place’. West Africa: A Political and Economic Survey. and Iran, journeys which included crossing The first book, A History of War and Peace deserts on ill-made roads and spending nights Bullock responded to Knapp: ‘We are within two 1939-1965, commissioned by Chatham House in a rather basic Volkswagen camper van. He days of the beginning of Schools and so far and published through Oxford University Press, described his first seven-month tour to the nobody has burst into my office to demand was a full-scale survey of the international Middle East in 1966 as ‘Oxford to Tunis, due removal to the Warneford. I suspect that is affairs of that period. Wilfrid had a strong south, turn left outside Tunis, across King because quiet and cosy arrangements have desire to aim for perfection and had become Idris’s Libya to Cairo, ship from Alexandria to already been made for all the people taking locked in a continuous process of revision. In Beirut (two months there) by air to Saudi English. I am holding the first meeting of a terms of his friendship with Bullock, this Arabia, then on the van again to Jordan, Syria University and Colleges Committee on Student began to provoke a slight re-emergence of the and through Iraq to Iran, back through Turkey’. Health today. I expect this will reveal some academic hierarchy of Master-pupil, which horrors before it is finished, and we shall no however diffused by time and affection, never Frequent exchanges by letter with Bullock as doubt receive an earnest petition from the quite leaves any of us. the tour progressed illuminate the issues Humanist Society, in favour of the free which occupied them. distribution of contraception and purple hearts’. Bullock, in the end, wrote to Wilfrid, on his travels, ‘There is a special hazard of books Wilfrid, in Riyadh, wrote to Bullock: ‘Dons on Wilfrid’s scholarly work progressed in tandem about current affairs, and every author we have sabbatical leave should put up an appearance with his exploration – his books covered a to deal with, wants to go on altering his books, of serious austerity, and fleshpots are harder wide range from Unity and Nationalism in until the moment of publication. I have exactly to find here than an open pub in Wales on Europe since 1945 (1969), through to North the same impulse about Bevin, and the only
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thing to do is to be strong-minded on it. I hate on Hilltop Road a haven for men and women of attracting funds to the College so that St to talk like a Dutch uncle to you: re-write Suez from all countries, welcomed with a warmth Catherine’s could compete as an academic by all means, if you must, but get if off to us as beyond artifice to a place they had made so institution with the older colleges. soon as you can, and then, I beg you, stop comfortable and gracious together. worrying and forget about the damn book’. To quote from just two of the hundreds of Wilfrid was devoted to the College of which he letters we have received: As the decades passed by at St Catherine’s, was a Founding Fellow, and to being a Wilfrid’s talents, which Berlin and Bullock had proponent for the expansion of ideas, rather ‘His relations in the world, and his astute highlighted – the excellent human being, the than for the ossification of the desires of a observations were always conveyed in a gentle splendid teacher, deeply attached to his closed circle of pioneers. His hallmark was to manner that could never cause offence. Let us pupils – provoked a reciprocation of affection encourage, and indeed to adapt to, the hope that his wisdom and diplomacy will be in those he taught, and indeed, even in those innovation of successive generations, injecting, carried on to the next generation’. who came to know him through more oblique in all his years in Oxford, a great zest for life, a paths. sense of energy, verve and style into whatever ‘To have Wilfrid as my Tutor and mentor was he undertook. His fellow journeyman in College my life’s great blessing. He made us feel at Many remember with fondness Wilfrid’s in this mission of adaptation and innovation home and comfortable. It will be difficult to perpetual movement – he was always cycling, accompanied by style, over all six decades, was imagine St Catz without Wilfrid Knapp’. moving, talking, engaging. He used to talk John Simopoulos, rarely to be found in perfect about being ‘a man in a hurry’, which changed harmony with Wilfrid’s enthusiasms, but Wilfrid’s essential qualities were caught by the only recently into ‘an old man in a hurry’. certainly the vital, and perfect, contrapuntal late Lady Bullock, at a dinner to mark his Whilst his apparently boundless energy and accompaniment. retirement, and although, of course, in his last open-mindedness could be an irritant to those years he no longer cycled, the vivid portrait is who wanted the College to be more cautious, More than anyone else in the College, Wilfrid’s of the character we knew and loved: or more hidebound, he saw disagreements as indefatigable work built a community of an opportunity for reconciliation, not as a support for St Catherine’s which extended far ‘I will leave you with a characteristic vignette of chance for a feud, and even those who did not beyond Britain, through Europe and the Middle him, as he cycles at breakneck speed down share his diverse enthusiasms found it difficult East, to America and the Far East. The Manor Road, no hands on the handlebars, his to be cross with him for long. All of his social avalanche of letters which have been received coat tails flying as he turns to wave at a friend interactions were accompanied by a sense of in College in recent weeks are testimony to the passing by. It is a cold day, but he is wearing the opportunities afforded by conviviality, success of his work and the affection in which only a jacket and no gloves, as though the enhanced by the care and attention to detail he was held. This careful stewarding, so much very warmth of his heart will keep the apparent in any kind of hospitality for which he an integral part of his character, translated into elements at bay’. ■ was responsible. He and Pat made their home considerable international success with his aim Roger Ainsworth
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Laurie Baragwanath was born in Melbourne in fortune that he chose us. He received an MA in financial powers were constructed that would May 1923. The name Laurie, by which we all 1955 and became a lecturer at the University enable Laurie and his colleague, Lloyd Stocken, knew him, was not a shortened name but a of Oxford. to pursue a more adventurous investment family surname. He was educated at Scotch policy when it would become safe to do so. College and had a successful career at school Alan Bullock had undertaken that both the They became a sub-committee of two which academically and personally. In 1942, he went financing of buildings for the College, and an met in College for around two hours most to Melbourne University, initially with the endowment with which to run it, could be Saturday mornings. The College Finance thought of entering its celebrated Law School. secured – for once independence was Committee prescribed how much income was But winning a prestigious State Prize in achieved, the College would receive no state to be generated each year, but Laurie Economics may well have led him towards a funding. The St Catherine’s College persuaded the Governing Body that the figure general arts degree in which he concentrated Committee, which governed the College until that really mattered was the total of income on philosophy and history. Again, he independence was achieved, had to be each year plus capital gain taken together. This distinguished himself; the intellectual clarity satisfied of this, and in 1961, made Laurie a set the stage for the substantial increase in the and incisiveness that we came to know so well member of its Investment Committee, though College endowment that was about to occur. was already emerging. Between 1945 and investment policy at this stage had, 1947, he served in the Forces, rising to the necessarily, to be conservative; a position Not everyone on the Governing Body or in the rank of Lieutenant. In 1948, he came to Oxford which changed in 1963 when the College University approved of this emphasis on capital to do a BPhil, and while here met, and in 1952 received its Charter. growth, but it was a policy to which Alan married, his strikingly beautiful and delightful Bullock was prepared to give his backing. wife. During the 1950s, he was tutoring for a Between 1961 and 1963, the College had Investment of Trust funds was treated more number of colleges, but particularly for Jesus been designing its Constitution and Laurie was circumspectly, and the policy was made subject and the St Catherine’s Society, soon to become consulted by Derek Davies who was in charge to checks and balances. Every investment a College. A turning point came in 1958, when of designing it. The College was still being decision taken by the sub-committee had to be both Jesus and St Catherine’s made approaches built so it was not possible to isolate its reported to the Master weekly. The Finance to him to become a Fellow. It was the College’s endowment until a little later, but a range of Committee monitored progress regularly. A
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substantial sum of money was placed with a years that were crucial for the future of the merchant bank for management in order to College, an endowment of a distinctly lowly provide a benchmark. Investment strategy, order was turned into one that was however, was firmly in the hands of the sub- comparable to many others in Oxford and, as committee. No other College had such a Alan Bullock had promised it would be, one system. It was the spirit of enterprise that Alan that was not dependent on subsidy from the Laurie, (centre) with hat in hand Bullock brought to the whole idea of founding University. the College. And like St Catherines itself, the Laurie became particularly expert in the policy worked. The general endowment was resources sector of the Australian economy and But the lure of the resources sector continued not held in a classical mix of fixed interest, the associated services. A most considerable to attract Laurie, and he returned to Australia property and shares, but was mainly invested in capital gain was made by investing in Pan- in 1976, when the College made him an equities. Moreover, the cash surpluses that Continental Mining, a company which had the Honorary Fellow. He remained in touch occurred on receipt of fees at the end of each right to develop a uranium mine, and he throughout his years in Sydney, and calendar year were invested straight away, care produced for the Finance Committee and the participated to good effect in the College’s being taken to ensure liquidity when it was Governing Body detailed geological maps of the joint venture in Japan with Kobe Steel. He needed. Money was money. The sub-committee area surrounding the mine. His choice of an made his last visit to the College to attend the looked at which economies gave promise of a investment was always based on research rather annual Stated General Meeting last September. good return, then at which sectors looked than hunches. But eventually his interest in the attractive, and finally selected individual shares, sector began to prevail over his interest in At a lunch given by the Master in his honour, Lloyd Stocken contributing valuable scientific teaching, and in 1973, he resigned his Tutorial and on a number of other occasions during the input. The strategy was global, and Laurie Fellowship to join a stockbroking partnership in visit, he said how happy he was to have been negotiated a dollar loan facility to avoid the the City. Research was his principal commitment given the opportunity to participate in the St surrender tax then charged on dollar purchases. and he was encouraged in this by a former pupil Catherine’s venture. No one minded the It was the first time that such a loan was at Oxford, Derek Childs, who soon moved his enormous number of hours that went into obtained by an Oxford college. Another first small specialist team to the prestigious firm of taking the manifold decisions needed to derived from his suggestion that the new Rowe & Pitman. In the ensuing years, Laurie ensure that the College had an auspicious College statutes included a power to regard remained a member of the Governing Body of start. It was creation. He emphasised that, capital and income as interchangeable. It is the College, continuing to provide investment despite the difficulties, it had been fun. Those probable that no-one on the Committee of the advice, especially through his former St of us who knew him will remember that University Council, which recommended that Catherine’s pupil Paddy Fitzpatrick. It is difficult irrepressible smile of his, the charm and civility, the Statutes be approved spotted its inclusion, to quantify precisely the degree of increase in as well as the rigour of his intellect and his but other colleges soon saw the advantages the endowment for which we have to thank effectiveness. ■ and followed suit. Laurie. But this can certainly be said: in these Derek & Margaret Davies
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fathers of the JCR. On the football field, starring in local politics, but nothing very Obituaries 2011 however, he could creak down the wing to definite. In the early 1990s, a group of old good effect. Catz had a formidable football Catz men mounted definite attempts to get in side then and, captained by James ‘Twinkle- touch. From 2000, Dick was a regular toes’ Waite, the team had just won Cuppers, attender at our annual gatherings. Each year, FREDERICK BARNARD (1945, PPE) passed and Dick was a stout member of the subsidiary around Easter, the convener begins to gather away peacefully on 22 February. He was born side so ably skippered by Norman Goddard. the ‘team’ for the year’s ‘fixture’. The venue in Czechoslovakia in January 1921, is always the same, in the quiet Lakeland immigrating to England in 1938. After Catz was an idiosyncratic institution then, valley where I live and am honoured to be graduating, meeting and marrying his late with a preternaturally large proportion of the host. wife, Rachel (née Zeisler), he joined the mature and overseas students. National Scott Davidson (1954, English) British Army and subsequently qualified for a Service occupied two years between leaving position as Economics Master at Wyggeston school and coming up, so our Common Room Grammar School in Leicester. He completed a was a much more adult community. It was a DR RAWLE FARLEY (1955, Industrial PhD, and after his tenure at the University of richly diverse society, of which we felt Relations) was Professor of Economics at the Salford, immigrated to Canada in 1964 with privileged to be members, and had just been State University of New York (SUNY), College his wife Margot and daughter Yvonne, where vitalised by the appointment of Allan Bullock at Brockport, since 1966. He was the founder he taught in the Political Science Department as Censor. and first Chair of the Department of at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1970, Economics at SUNY Brockport, becoming he joined the Department of Political Science Dick dropped into this community as though Professor Emeritus in 1995. He authored a at the University of Western Ontario. a born native. In debates, he displayed a number of seminal works that helped shape Professor Barnard received numerous awards humorous tolerance of views he opposed, the study of the economics of the developing including the 2002 International Herder Prize with a devastating ability to put down the world, including The Economics of Latin for the Advancement of Herder Studies. pretentious or stubborn. To see him fumble in America: Development Problems in his fob for a coin and to watch him toss it on Perspective (1972). the table and hear him say, ‘A shilling blind’, RICHARD BEARDSLEY (1955, Modern was to know that here was a man of He was born Rawle Egbert Griffith Farley in Languages) was a notable character in substance and determination. It was fitting Guyana, leaving when he was young to College. His craggy face was still seamed with that he became JCR President. attend school in England. He eventually the scars of an earlier motor accident. ‘A bad earned a PhD from the University of London smash’, he would say, but no more. These After graduating, he dropped out of sight before attending Catz. While a student in marks gave him a gravitas that most of us and sound. It was rumoured that he’d been England, during one period he couldn’t find a lacked. It seemed that he was one of the building castles in Spain, managing Unilever, landlord willing to rent a room to a Caribbean
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scholar, so he ended up sleeping in a hallway DR JONATHAN DAVID LANDAU (1955, Law), who passed between the rooms of two white friends. HALLIDAY (1968, away in September 2010 aged 72, achieved Physics) was many academic successes including a First from My dad and mom raised four sons. All of us Technical Director Oxford. went to public school, and all of us went to of Nimbus Harvard or Harvard Law School or both. All of Technology & When he arrived for my brothers, thanks in large part to their Engineering, and his interview, Lord guidance, have gone on to interesting jobs. designer of the Bullock was waiting by Christopher Farley Nimbus-Halliday the door of his College Laser Beam rooms with a large Recorder. His initial contribution, the creation packed suitcase, saying JOHN EDWARD FERRY (1949, Law) was of a Laser Beam Recorder, enabled the ‘help me into the taxi, born in Ramsgate in 1929, and studied at company to make the massive leap from LP Landau’. A taxi was Chatham House Grammar School. He to CD manufacturing, earning him a Queen’s waiting at the Master’s matriculated in 1949, after a period of Award for Technology. gate to take him to the National Service in the Parachute Regiment. station. David was interviewed in the taxi and He graduated from Gray’s Inn in 1956, Aside from his technical brilliance, it was his on arrival at the station, Lord Bullock said, ‘See working as an in-house lawyer to Ronson deep love of music that made him the perfect you at the start of the new term’. David Products before moving to Brussels to join addition to the Nimbus Board. In 1984, he jokingly attributed his successful application to the European Commission as Director of one designed Nimbus’s Ambisonic ‘surround- his skillful baggage handling. of the competition departments. He remained sound’ microphones and was always an in Brussels to open the office of an American important voice in determining the company’s David found his time at Oxford idyllic and law firm, and consulted for an Italian law approach to sound recording. remained closely associated with the College, company before retiring to south-west maintaining a close friendship with his former France, where he lived very happily in the Jonathan’s creativity, knowledge, skill and tutor, Derek Davies. During his time at Oxford, country, integrating well with the French generosity were witnessed by a generation of he was President of the Oxford Jewish Society community. He died a few days after a fall at the company’s staff and customers. He was and Chairman of the Law Reform Committee. his home. at the heart of Nimbus for over twenty Gillian Ferry turbulent years, and his fellow directors After his death, Derek Davies wrote very greatly miss his contribution to our work and movingly about David, ‘In the whole of my time his presence in our lives. at St Catherine’s I taught no pupil of higher intellectual ability. Discussing issues with him was a pleasure. His mind not only absorbed
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information very rapidly, but he could see immediately what the next point was going to By the mid 1970’s, David had found a new David was an active member of his local be and the range of issues to which it would field of interest – pensions. He became one synagogue, conducting services, adding to the lead. It is one of the joys of a tutor’s life to of the pioneers of the ‘self-administered’ pleasure of those attending with his melodious teach a person of David’s calibre, and I was pension funds for private companies and voice and contributing to the successful running fortunate to have him at an early stage of my became a trustee of up to 1,000 funds. Later, of the synagogue for the benefit of the whole career. There was also his charm and his wit with an acute financial brain, he became community. and time with him could never be dull’. chairman and a director of several companies involved in such diverse products as printing, David was married for forty-five years to Angela David set up a trust fund at St Catherine’s to furniture, brick-making, sweets and Rosen, a barrister. They had three daughters assist and advance legal education which has restaurants. and seven grandchildren to whom he was prospered and will bear his name in perpetuity. devoted. On his 70th birthday, David spoke During all this time, David was acting as a about the most important legacy to pass on to Although he never formerly returned to Clerk to the General Commissioners of Taxes. his family – ‘I have long believed that we form academia, he became the Law Society’s senior Among the very interesting cases he faced one link in what hopefully will be an endless examiner in Revenue Law, writing in the Law was one involving Bobby Moore in 1966. The chain, but that, as lawyers might say, our role is Quarterly Review, and was a contributing editor Revenue wanted to tax his World Cup prize both as a beneficiary of the deeds and of Simon’s Taxes. money, with which David disagreed. There thoughts of past generations, and also as a were other hair-raising cases involving the trustee of future generations in respect of the David joined Culross & Co, a West End firm of Kray brothers, with their attempt to intimidate teachings and personal example we can set’. solicitors, and shortly after, in 1962, he became the Clerk and the Commissioners by Angela Landau a partner. His versatility of mind showed in the demanding to know their names. variety of cases he had and the clients who consulted him. In 1991, he was appointed an Assistant FREDERICK MAITLAND STOBART (1956, Recorder and, in 1995, Recorder of the Crown Modern History) was born in Chester in 1937, David’s practice was expanding into many Court, and sat mainly at Luton and St Albans. attending Chester City Grammar School before commercial fields. He advised pop stars and winning a place at St Catherine’s. created a public company – Management Always seeking challenges, he studied with Agency & Music – to deal with the stars’ vast the Open University, taking numerous courses After finishing his studies, he was incomes as tax rates rose to 98%. He acted for until he was, in effect, asked to stop taking recommended by Alan Bullock to a the Iraqi State Bank and was involved in the any more because he had enough credits to Postgraduate Diploma at Strasbourg University, Lloyds of London multi-billion pound claim over get a BA twice over! In 1990, he was awarded which he completed before entering the the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, resulting in the an MA degree in Hebrew and Jewish Studies Secretariat of the Council of Europe. He spent destruction of their entire air force. from the University of London.
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the next thirty-eight years in Strasbourg where remarkable way. The stuttering boy grew to by Louis Nthenda and Lupenga Mphande, the he met his wife Annemarie from Austria, who be an eloquent academic; the missionary of edition of the journal includes a detailed he married in 1968. Malawi became a university professor. Mathijs essay on Schoffeleers’ time at St Catherine’s, was an anthropologist with a theological where he was described by a contemporary as Most of his career was devoted to the approach, neither dogmatic nor zealous but a ‘sort of pyromaniac intellectual, lighting improvement of history teaching in European convinced that life is concerned with so much fires everywhere he went’. It can be viewed, schools. For the last eleven years, he ran more than clear-headed reality might make us online, at programmes to help educational reform in believe. www.societyofmalawi.org/journal.html Central and Eastern Europe, which he found deeply satisfying. Life to him was a dramatic lijnenspel, the beginning and end of which we cannot easily GERALD MOORCRAFT (1955, English) After his 1997 retirement, he returned to perceive: a notion which he imparted from graduated in 1958, a founding member of the Chester, devoting much of his time to military African culture. Well before there were talks ‘Beer and Blade’ established by the crew of history, gaining a postgraduate MA in the of intercultural and interreligious dialogue, he the College’s Second Torpid in Hilary Term subject. He died at home on 23 March. approached the non-Christian world, pleading 1957. The members of this dining society, Annemarie Stobart for interaction of cultures free from feelings whose enthusiasm for good food and drink at of superiority. He discovered striking least equalled their dedication to rowing, similarities between Biblical texts and African provided the foundation for the later JAN MATHIJS SCHOFFELEERS (1964, religious traditions and was convinced that his formation of the Rowing Society. Anthropology) was born in The Netherlands scientific research was fundamental to the in 1928. He was ordained to the ministry in promulgation of the Gospel in African culture. After graduation, he spent a year teaching in March 1955, before leaving for Malawi as a France whilst he was considering his vocation missionary. He came to St Catherine’s in He carried his final disease admirably. to the priesthood. On his return, he was 1964, receiving a BLitt in 1966 and a DPhil in Sometimes, he would even appear happy for accepted as an ordinand by the Northampton 1968, before returning to Malawi. He became it, as though he saw through it a higher Diocese and sent to continue his studies for Director of the Catechetical Training Centre in purpose – perhaps a lesson in humility. the priesthood at the seminary of St Sulpice Likulezi and a Professor at the University of Montfolaan 12, Oirschot. Translated by in Paris. Zomba. In 1976, he became a Professor at Felix van Litsenburg (2008, PPE) the Free University of Amsterdam and, later, In June 1964, he was ordained in St David’s at Utrecht University, where he remained until The Society of Malawi Journal has published A Cathedral, Cardiff. His first three years were his retirement. Tribute to the Life of Fr. Matthew spent as Curate at the English Martyrs Parish Schoffeleers: Malawianist, Renaissance in Cambridge before he was called by Bishop Many things in Mathijs’ life happened in a man and free-thinker (2011). Guest-edited Charles Grant to serve as his secretary in
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Northampton in 1967. In 1970, he became tutorial partners. Kevin was astonishingly hard- Diocesan Treasurer, where he watched over REV GERALD NEEDHAM (1937, Modern working, ideally settling down in the Radcliffe the finances of the Diocese with care and Languages) was born in 1918. In 1939, he Camera soon after nine on Monday morning, determination. He continued to undertake the joined the Friend’s Ambulance Unit, serving in and by lunchtime having read the first of the office as Diocesan Episcopal General for Egypt, North Africa, Sicily and Italy; 300-page monographs on that week’s reading Finance and Development for thirty-one years experiences which led him to serve as a list. He would go through his notes laboriously until his eventual retirement. Methodist minister. In 1945, he was accepted copying arguments and details before he for training in Cambridge. Throughout his would write, producing masterly syntheses that In 1975, Gerald was appointed to be parish ministry, Gerald held a passion for education. A took forty minutes or more to read out. His priest at the church of St Thomas More in history of the Kingswood School in Bath notes First was no surprise. He took his pleasures Towcester, later moving to become parish ‘Gerald Needham’s constant efforts as chaplain, equally seriously. In these years he was a priest at Princes Risborough. During this time, to encourage the boys to look on others with striking figure, his hair long, down to the he also served as the Diocesan Vocation compassion and understanding and to seek waist, wearing Levis at a time when these had Director and had a great influence on the ways of putting Christian belief into positive yet to become universal. And woe betide you if training of new priests. The preparation for action’. Gerald will be remembered as a deep you challenged him on the bar-football tables. the priesthood he had undergone in Paris was thinker with a strong faith and firm views on an underpinning experience which enabled war and social justice. He was appreciated for Research beckoned, and he was to enjoy a fine him to become a much loved pastor whose his encouragement, optimism, and his academic career. A Junior Research Fellowship diocesan duties never prevented him from characteristic sense of humour. Gerald was at Oriel was followed by Lectureships at giving full-time care to his parishioners. He actively supported by his first wife, Margaret, Hertford and Christ Church, and a post at was appointed Monsignor in 1991. and in later years, by his second wife, Sheila, Southampton in 1978, where held a Research and is survived by his three children, seven Chair between 1994 and 2001, when he moved In recent years, health problems brought grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. to Warwick and then, in 2005, to Queen Mary. major strokes which damaged his sight, The Methodist Record, 3 February 2011 weakened his mobility and forced him to His interests in history, literature and eventually hand on his duties with reluctance political thought first came together in to a successor whilst he moved into a nearby KEVIN SHARPE (1968, his doctoral subject, the early flat owned by the parish. He died after a Modern History) and I seventeenth-century antiquary Sir Robert heart attack on 29th April, just a few days met on our first day at Cotton, supervised by Hugh Trevor-Roper. before his seventy-fifth birthday. The funeral Oxford, arguing over the In Faction and Parliament (1978), Kevin Mass was attended by a large congregation of merits of Christopher offered a revisionist history of early Stuart his former parishioners, Diocesan clergy and Hill’s work, and we parliaments, emphasising an underlying friends from his school and college days. continued arguing as consensus of interest, qualified by short- John L Lipscomb (1956, Mathematics)
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lived factional rivalries. That led him to (2010), the story ‘of a struggle to appropriate In his mid-twenties, when Kevin was his most reconsider traditional views of Charles I. In his and control the traditional scripts and signs of ambitious, he came across a PhD thesis from monumental vindication of The Personal Rule authority’. The first volume (Selling the Tudor nearly twenty years before, which seemed to of Charles I (1992), Kevin argued powerfully Monarchy) was awarded the American College anticipate the claims he was now formulating. that the 1630s saw well-intentioned, largely of Art Association annual History of British Art What to do? Ignore the thesis? Include a polite welcomed and successful attempts to prize. The third volume completed before his reference in a footnote surrounded by other reinvigorate the governance of the country death, Rebranding Regality: Images of matter? That was not Kevin’s way. He located and were in no way an inevitable prelude to Monarchy 1660-1714 will appear from Yale the author, one Norman Ball, who was now the civil wars of the 1640s. Concluding that University Press next year. pursuing Spanish rather than English history, in Charles I ‘believed some principles worth the University of Southampton. Kevin wrote to adhering to whatever the political When we remember him, we shall, I suspect, him, visited him, and struck up a lasting repercussions’, Kevin added ‘and, well, he above all remember Kevin as Kevin. He was a friendship – and was proud to include an essay may even have been right’. charismatic figure. When he wrote of Sir by Norman in his book. Robert Cotton that ‘he had the capacity to Already, that body of work was more than make friends and to charm women’, he could Kevin’s career and life were remarkable. I shall most scholars achieve in a lifetime. have been describing himself. Although he go on reading and re-reading his writings. I Remarkably, Kevin was moving on to the never married, he enjoyed a succession of shall continue in my mind to hear his distinctive worlds of literature and art. A study of the intense relationships. And his friends were voice, not least praising some scholars, and poets and dramatists of the 1630s turned legion. Kevin enjoyed nothing more than a witheringly assailing others. Above all, I shall into a book which won the Royal Historical convivial evening with them in the pub or long treasure my memories of so wonderfully Society’s Whitfield Prize. Kevin then spent a over a meal. He was the most direct of stimulating and so staunchly loyal a friend. decade and a half researching and writing a friends. And no-one would take more trouble George Bernard (1968, History) trilogy of studies of ‘images of authority’, for friends over personal matters, and exploring how rulers from Henry VIII to Queen especially when writing meticulously crafted JOHN SUNLEY Anne deployed the arts and literature to references for promotions and grants. He John Sunley was one of enhance their power. Two massive volumes always took his teaching very seriously the founding Trustees of have already appeared: Selling the Tudor indeed, continuing to re-read literary texts the the Bernard Sunley Monarchy (2009), showing, he claimed, that day before the class in which they would be Charitable Foundation, ‘it was through a new emphasis on writing, discussed. He was endlessly encouraging to and Chairman since depicting and performing their rule’ that the committed young scholars, making a point at 1989. The Foundation, to Tudor monarchs survived challenges, and conferences of talking to them rather than to date, has made grants of Image Wars: Promoting Kings and his peers. He set himself very high standards over £93m to a very Commonwealths in England 1603-1660 and judged others by them. wide range of charities.
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John was passionate about the Foundation’s CHRIS TALBOT (1962, Physics) NOTIFICATIONS ability to help improve quality of life, Chris was one of the College’s first Physics Mr Michael Ingham (1969, Mathematics) particularly amongst the young, the elderly undergraduates. He joined the Boat Club and Mr Morris Gradel (1949, PPE) and the disadvantaged. Another theme was rowed in the First Eight of 1963, 1964 and Mr Joseph Gerber (1946, Geography) the importance of community – over the last 1965. He became Boat Club Treasurer, and Professor Edward Ullendorff (1948, Oriental fifty years, hundreds of village halls have some twenty years later, became Treasurer of Studies) received assistance in updating their the College Rowing Society: a post he was Mr Michael Howarth (1960, Modern facilities, transforming the lives of a great holding at his death. His devotion to his alma Languages) many people. mater was one of the strongest, recently Mr Michael Fletcher (1948, Botany) attending, with his wife, the College’s Mr Subimal Mukherjee (1963, English) Known as ‘Sunshine’ to his friends, John inaugural ‘Lunch for Legators’. Dr Stephen Floersheimer (1950, Modern Sunley completed a business degree at Languages) Columbia University. He then served with the His memorial service took place in Cllr Roland (Colin) Holt (1963, PPE) Royal Marines from 1954-56. He completed Buckinghamshire earlier this year; the Mr Leslie Collins (1952, PPP) his work apprenticeship with Allan congregation numbered over four hundred of Professor Thomas Bennett (1959, Modern Charlesworth accountants and Weatherall family, friends and representatives of Chris’ Languages) Green and Smith Chartered Surveyors. In many interests which included Rowing, Rugby Mr Christopher Gosden (1954, Modern 1960, he joined the Boards of Blackwood and Motorcycling, and former colleagues from Languages) Hodge Ltd and the Bernard Sunley the Civil Service and of charities, one of which Mr Richard Pulford (1963, Law) Investment Trust. was Headway, for brain injury. The latter was Mr James Shaw (1969, English) tragically appropriate since Christopher was Mr Roger Addison (1960, English) John’s generosity was legendary, as was his fatally injured when riding his motorcycle. Mr George Millar (1952, Modern History) mischievous sense of humour. He is sorely Mr David Helm (1979, Modern History) missed. Printed in their celebratory Order of Service, his Dr Michael L Shaw (1959, Engineering) The Telegraph, 22 March 2011 family say that as St Catherine’s aims to Mr Nicholas G R Macy (1960, Modern guarantee that no talented individual is History) As Chairman of the Bernard Sunley Trust, discouraged from applying for a place due to Mr Norman Whittington (1952, Geography) John was instrumental in funding the financial constraints, ‘we would like to make a Mr Kenneth Gordon Michel (1939, Physics) construction of the College’s Mary Sunley gift to St Catherine’s student support to assist Dr Alex Ormerod (1959, Physiological Building, named after his mother. The undergraduates in financial need’. To date, just Sciences) Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre remembers over £1,000 has been donated towards student The Revd Paul Edward Lawrie (1946, his father’s contribution to the College. hardship, honouring Chris’ name and memory. Theology) Tony Hancox (1949, English)
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Geography Ashleigh Ainsley - Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham Admissions 2011 College, London Benedict Cohen - St Paul’s School, London Thien-Kim Diep - Loreto College, Manchester Zara Fraczek-Streeter - Burnham Grammar School, UNDERGRADUATES Engineering Science Berkshire Adeleke Abolade - Queen Elizabeth School, Barnet Kimberley Grave - Bancroft’s School, Woodford Green Biological Sciences Sabrina Barrett - Thorpe St Andrew School, Norwich Sebastian Koa - Raffles Institute, Singapore Felicity Allen - Parkstone Grammar School, Poole Catherine Howse - Hills Road Sixth Form College, Katherine Pears - St Paul’s Girls’ School, London Lottie Chapman - Torquay Grammar School for Girls, Cambridge Pablo Simko - Geneva College de Candolle, Switzerland Devon Dean Irvine - Wallace High School, Lisburn Marcus Stevenson - University College School, London Joseph Davies - Eccles College, Salford Mandeep Mohan - Queen Mary’s Grammar School for Adenais Vachon - All Hallows Catholic School, Farnham Rebecca Elliott - Stowe School, Buckingham Boys, Walsall Benjamin Jeffrey - King Edward VI School, Iona Richards - Northgate High School, Ipswich History Northumberland Sagar Shah - British School of Brussels, Belgium Jack Graham - Hampton School, Middlesex Poppy Lambert - Marlborough School, Woodstock Benjamin Thomas - Royal Grammar School, High Emmanuella Kwenortey - Graveney School, London Carla Peters - Repton School, Derbyshire Wycombe Michael Livesey - Reading School, Berkshire Hope Simpson - Judd School, Tonbridge Anirudh Mandagere - Stockport Grammar School, English & Modern Languages Cheshire Biomedical Sciences Amaryllis Barton - Chellaston School, Derby Peter McKenna - Sherborne School, Dorset Georgina Colquhoun - Heathfield School, Berkshire Joseph Newall - Alsager School, Stoke-on-Trent Ladislav Fidrmuc - D’Overbroeck’s College, Oxford English Language & Literature Owen Sellers - Hampstead School, London Robert Hohan - Colegiul Naţional Sfântul Sava, Romania Thomas Bell - Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge Christopher Starkey - Coventry Bablake School, West Molly Brown - King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds Midlands Chemistry Sophie Devlin - Skipton Girls’ High School, North Jake Whittaker - Priestley Sixth Form College, Warrington Roya Athill - Gresham’s School, Norfolk Yorkshire Chun-Mann Chin - Abingdon School, Oxfordshire Otis Graham - Beechen Cliff School, Bath History & Economics Matthew Fisher - Marlborough School, Woodstock Oliver Hancock - Bishops Stortford College, Essex James Hicks - St Kevin’s College, Australia Michael Hirst - Driffield School, Yorkshire Sarah Illingworth - Collyer’s Sixth Form College, West Arthur Lee - Tonbridge School, Kent Sussex History & Modern Languages Jacob Page - Wellsway School, Bristol Joseph Kidd - Oldham Sixth Form College, Lancashire Tara Flores - Norwich High School for Girls Fiona Porter - Haberdashers’ Aske’s Girls’ School, Elstree Matthew Reynolds - Roade School, Northampton Jacob Pratt - Heart of England School, Coventry George Shankar - Maidstone Grammar School, Kent History & Politics James Windmill - St Mark’s Catholic School, Middlesex Alicia Smith - Abbey Grange Church of England High Amy Trenter - Copleston High School, Ipswich Jacob Wood - King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford School, Leeds History of Art Computer Science European & Middle Eastern Languages Laura Hill - Toll Bar Business & Enterprise College, Grimsby Laura Bengescu - Colegiul de Informatica Tudor Vianu, Clementine Brown - Prior Park College, Bath Isobel Renton - St Paul’s Girls’ School, London Romania Hannah Wills - Chesham High School, Buckinghamshire Samuel Lanning - Magdalen College School, Experimental Psychology Northamptonshire Oliver Barnes - Richard Hale School, Hertford Human Sciences Michael Savage - Alcester Grammar School, Warwickshire Robert Blakey - Solihull School, West Midlands Namo Ata - Cheam High School, Surrey Peter York - Bristol Grammar School Tayla McCloud - Chelmsford County High School, Essex Kee Jia Phang - Hwa Chong Junior College, Singapore Imogen Sharkey Ochoa - Washington International Economics & Management Fine Art School, USA Karum Bachra - Eton College, Windsor Hana-Mai Hawkins - Chelsea College of Art & Design, Ross Williamson - Old Swinford Hospital School, Scott Tully - The Oratory School, Reading London Stourbridge
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Law Modern Languages & Linguistics Lauren Adams (BA Regent’s Park College, Oxford), Hugh Brannan - Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, Joseph Cock - City and Islington Sixth Form College, London Bachelor of Civil Law Elstree Omar Ahmady (BA University of California Santa Barbara, Eleanor Gill - Dr Challoner’s High School, Amersham Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry USA), Master of Science in Financial Economics John Hartley - St Benedict School, Derby Rosemary Bridson - West Kirby Grammar School, Wirral Sakib Ahmed (BSc Brunel University), Master of Business Leslie Ho - Hwa Chong Junior College, Singapore Katherine Ember - School of St Helen & St Katharine, Administration Catherine Hunt - Wesley College Dublin, Ireland Abingdon Guy Ainsley (MBA University of Reading), Master of Nicholas Kamlish - City of London School Miles Huseyin - Westminster School, London Science in Major Programme Management (part-time) Matthew Wigens - Farlingaye High School, Woodbridge James Neate - Sir Thomas Rich’s School, Gloucester Ayokunmi Ajanaku (BA St Catherine’s), Bachelor of Ralph Wu - Auckland International College, New Zealand Carolyn Scott - Bishop Strachan School, Canada Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery * Samer Alabed (MD Damascus University, Syria), Master of Law with Law Studies in Europe Music Science in Evidence-Based Health Care (part-time) Roxane Reiser - CEC Andre Chavanne, Switzerland Alice Angliss - Lady Eleanor Holles School, Middlesex Caroline Alewaerts (LLB, LLM University of Liege, Nathan Klein - Hampton School, Middlesex Belgium), Magister Juris Materials Science Chloe Scott - Loreto Grammar School, Altrincham Naif Almuqati (BSc King Saud University, Saudi Arabia), Sam Eardley - Adams’ Grammar School, Shropshire Heather Young - Furze Platt School, Maidenhead Master of Science (by Research) in Inorganic Chemistry Robert Hamlet - Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen Bernice Ang (BA Keble College, Oxford), Master of Science Frederica Onslow - James Allen’s Girls’ School, London Philosophy, Politics & Economics in Modern Chinese Studies Joshua Crossley - Royal Grammar School, Guildford Ifeyinwa Aniebo (BSc Queen Mary and Westfield College; Mathematics Victoria Gbadebo - St Saviour’s and St Olave’s Church of MSc University of Nottingham; St Catherine’s), Master of Paul Allen - Taunton’s College, Southampton England School, London Science in Global Health Science * Paul Dobson - Dorchester Thomas Hardye School, Dorset Juliette Ginsberg - North London Collegiate School, Alexander Annaev (Dipl Budget and Treasury Academy of Charles Grover - Westminster School, London Middlesex the Ministry of Finance, Russia), Master of Science in Yunfei Ma - Hwa Chong Junior College, Singapore Thomas Goulding - Winchester College, Hampshire Environmental Change & Management Sophia Saller - German School, London James Lighton - Eton College, Windsor Karim Arabi (BBA American University of Beirut, Lebanon), Edward Steele - Highgate School, London Clara Perez Bocanegra - King’s College Madrid, Spain Master of Business Administration Patrick Tesh - University College School, London Fergal Stamp - St Declans College Dublin, Ireland Raluca Besliu (BA Vassar College, USA), Master of Science Dowan Suh - Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies, South in Refugee & Forced Migration Studies Mathematics & Computer Science Korea Kaushik Bettagere (BSc Bangalore University, India; MCA Alexander Eyers-Taylor - Norwich School Kuvempu University, India), Master of Science in Software Physics Engineering (part-time) Medical Sciences Alistair Adams - Charterhouse, Godalming Malak Bhatt (BA, LLB Nalsar University of Law, India), James Black - Cheadle Hulme School, Cheshire James Arch - Latymer Upper School, London Bachelor of Civil Law Corrina Horan - Peter Symonds College, Winchester Simon Battersby - St Georges School, Harpenden Jakub Boguszak (BA Charles University in Prague, Czech Sebastian Povlsen - Whitgift School, Surrey Indira de Graaf - Westminster School, London Republic), Master of Studies in English (1550-1700) David Rowland - Manchester Grammar School Jasmine Finer - South Hampstead High School, London Rahul Bohra (BE National Institute of Technology Morwenna Senior - Berkhamsted Collegiate School, Mark Johnson - Ashby Grammar School, Leicestershire Karnataka, India), Master of Business Administration Hertfordshire Thomas Miller - Oldham Sixth Form College, Lancashire Ravinder Bola (BEng Nottingham Trent University), Master James Taylor - Canford School, Wimborne Ruud Skipper - Whitgift School, Surrey of Science in Major Programme Management (part-time) Guillaume Bourda (MSc Ecole Centrale Electronique, Modern Languages Psychology & Philosophy France), Master of Business Administration Charlotte Badenoch - Wycombe Abbey School, High Ignas Rubikas - Vilnius Lyceum, Lithuania Simon Cassidy (MChem St Catherine’s), Doctor of Wycombe Philosophy in Inorganic Chemistry * Jeremy Ferec-Dayson - King Edward VI School, Jack Castle (BA University of Bristol), Master of Studies in Southampton GRADUATES English (1900-present day) William Goddard - Eltham College, London Radhika Chadha (BSc University College London; MSc Olivia Peacock - Charterhouse, Godalming Christelle Abadie (Maîtrise Ecole Nationale Superieure de Green Templeton College, Oxford), Bachelor of Medicine & Ruwan Seevaratnam - Eton College, Windsor Techniques Avancées, France), Doctor of Philosophy in Bachelor of Surgery Jocelyn Turton - Westminster School, London Engineering Science
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Chintan Chandrachud (LLB University of Mumbai, India), Ryan Foley (BA Dartmouth College, USA; MSc International Vit Hornacek (Dipl, MBA The Open University), Master of Bachelor of Civil Law University College of Turin, Italy), Master of Science in Social Science in Major Programme Management (part-time) Jimmy Chen (BA Simon Fraser University, Canada), Master Anthropology (Research Methods) Peter Ibbetson (BA St Catherine’s), Master of Science in of Business Administration Alexandra Fottinger (BSc University of Ottawa, Canada), Integrated Immunology * Matthew Clarke (BA University of Bristol), Master of Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (Graduate Entry) Lucy Ingham (BA Lancaster University), Postgraduate Studies in the History of Design (part-time) Benjamin Fowler (BA Peterhouse, Cambridge; GDL City Certificate in Education - History David Cole (BA University of Exeter), Postgraduate University), Bachelor of Civil Law Adam Jackman (BSc University of Reading), Doctor of Certificate in Education - History Kristen Frederick-Frost (BSc Bates College, USA; PhD Philosophy in Physical & Theoretical Chemistry Lindsey Collins (BA Queens University of Charlotte, USA), Dartmouth College, USA), Master of Science in History of Neha Jaganathan (BA University of California Los Angeles, Master of Studies in Modern British & European History Science, Medicine & Technology USA), Master of Science in Contemporary India Rebecca Collins (BA, PhD, LLB University of Western Mark Fuller (MPhys, PhD University of Leicester), Huaizhou Jin (BA Bard College, USA), Master of Science in Australia, Australia), Bachelor of Civil Law Postgraduate Certificate in Education - Physics Computer Science Massimiliano Colonna (Laurea Sapienza University of Rajeet Ghosh (BSc University of Manchester), Postgraduate Resson Kantai (BSc University of Nairobi, Kenya), Master of Rome, Italy), Master of Science in Modern Japanese Studies Certificate in Education - Geography Science in Biodiversity, Conservation & Management Christopher Copplestone (MEng Trinity College, Oxford), Benedict Gilkes (MSci University of Nottingham), Arsalan Karim (MPharm University of Portsmouth; PGDip Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (Graduate Postgraduate Certificate in Education - Chemistry Newcastle University), Master of Science in Experimental Entry) David Grob (BEng, MEng Eidgenössische Technische Therapeutics (part-time) Renzo Corrias (BSc Libera Università Internazionale degli Hochschule Zurich, Switzerland), Doctor of Philosophy in David Kayondo (MBA University of Wales), Master of Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Italy), Master of Philosophy in Engineering Science Science in Major Programme Management (part-time) Economics Serdar Gunbay (BSc Middle East Technical University, Turkey; Rafay Khan (BA Knox College, USA), Master of Science in Stuart Cribb (BA Selwyn College, Cambridge), Bachelor of MSc Erciyes University, Turkey), Master of Business Economics for Development Civil Law Administration Richard Kim (BA Yale University, USA), Master of Science in Kimberley Czajkowski (BA St Hilda’s College, Oxford; Martha Gutierrez-Marquez (MSc Universidad de los Andes Migration Studies MLitt University of St Andrew’s), Master of Studies in Jewish Colombia; PhD University of Regensburg, Germany), Master of Monesh Kirpalani (BSc London School of Economics & Studies Science in Mathematical Finance (part-time) Political Science; MA Columbia University, USA), Master of Zoe De Toledo (BSc Oxford Brookes University; MSc St Ilsa Haeusler (BA St Catherine’s), Bachelor of Medicine & Business Administration Catherine’s), Master of Science in Criminology & Criminal Bachelor of Surgery * Juergen Klanert (BIT Griffith University, Australia; BBus Justice * Paul Haguenauer (Université Paris-II Panthéon-Assas, Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Master of Chiara Della Cava (BA, BJ University of Missouri-Columbia, France), Diploma in Legal Studies Science in Software Engineering (part-time) USA), Master of Science in Material Anthropology & Yang Han (BS Peking University, China), Master of Science in Hanna Kroukamp (BA University of South Africa, South Museum Ethnography Environmental Change & Management Africa), Master of Science in Software Engineering (part- Claire Desjardins (Université Paris-II Panthéon-Assas, Christa Hansen (BA Stanford University, USA; MBA Columbia time) France), Diploma in Legal Studies Business School & London Business School), Master of Reenen Kroukamp, Master of Science in Software & Mario Draper (BA University of Kent), Master of Studies in Philosophy in Economics Systems Security (part-time) Modern British & European History Helen Hastings (BA University of Sheffield), Postgraduate Hege Larsen (BSc University of Manchester), Doctor of Ekaterina Dubovitskaya (BBA Parsons Paris School of Certificate in Education - English Philosophy in Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics Art and Design, France), Master of Studies in Creative Mary Heath (BA St Catherine’s), Postgraduate Certificate in Meng Li (BSc, MSc Nanjing University, China; PhD Rutgers Writing (part-time) Education - Modern Languages * University, USA), Master of Science in Mathematical & Mark Dyble (BA Clare College, Cambridge), Master of Jasper Hedges (BA, JD University of Melbourne, Australia), Computational Finance Science in Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology Bachelor of Civil Law Xia Li (BA Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, China; Martin Ellis (MSc University of Surrey), Master of Science Lance Hendrix (BA University of California Berkeley, USA), MSc University of Warwick), Certificate in Diplomatic Studies in Major Programme Management (part-time) Master of Science in Refugee & Forced Migration Studies Lihao Liang (BSc University of Bedfordshire; MSc University Juan Escobar (Ing Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia), Christine Hesketh (BA St Catherine’s), Bachelor of of Edinburgh; Dipl Sun Yat-Sen University, China; MSc St Master of Business Administration Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery * Anne’s College, Oxford), Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Guillaume Ferlet (Université Paris-II Panthéon-Assas, Richard Higgins (BA, BCom University of Auckland, New Science France), Diploma in Legal Studies Zealand), Master of Philosophy in Development Studies Man Tat Luk (BSc Binghamton University, USA), Master of Kira Fischer (BSc University of Maastricht, Netherlands), Chin Pang Ho (BSc University of California Los Angeles, Business Administration Master of Science (by Research) in Biochemistry USA), Master of Science in Mathematical Modelling & Andrew McInnes (BSc University of Edinburgh), Master of Scientific Computing Science in Mathematical & Computational Finance
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Juan Mejia Rios (BSc EAFIT University, Colombia), Master of James Richardson (BSc Oxford Brookes University), Andrew van Paridon (BSc, BEng University of Queensland, Business Administration Postgraduate Certificate in Education - Physics Australia), Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Science Andrey Melnik (BSc Samara Municipal University of Victoria Sainsbury (BA University of Adelaide, Australia), Anushree Varma (BSc, MSc University of Delhi, India), Nayanova, Russia), Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics Master of Science in Archaeological Science Master of Business Administration Graciela Mohamedi (BS, MS University of Rochester, USA), Anna Mara Sanktjohanser (BA The Queen’s College, Polina Vasilyeva (Dipl Krasnoyarsk State University, Russia), Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Science Oxford), Master of Philosophy in Economics Magister Juris Juliana Mohd Janurudin (BEng, MEng Tokyo Denki Martin Schwaiger (Dipl-Ing Fachhochschule Salzburg, Jan Vonk (BMath Ghent University, Belgium; MASt Emmanuel University, Japan), Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Austria; MSc Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden), College, Cambridge), Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics Lukas Molthof (BA University of Maastricht, Netherlands; MA Master of Business Administration Rebecca Wage (BA University of California Santa Cruz, USA), University of Warwick), Master of Science in Modern Chinese Ye Shao (Maîtrise Ecole Centrale Paris, France), Master of Master of Science in Migration Studies Studies Science in Mathematical & Computational Finance Robert Walker (BA St Anne’s College, Oxford), Master of Kashif Mumtaz (BA University of the Punjab, Pakistan; MSc Bruno Silva Rodrigues (Lic Universidade Aberta, Portugal; Science in Russian & East European Studies Quaid-I-Azam University, Pakistan; MIA Australian National MSt St Catherine’s), Doctor of Philosophy in Medieval & Yonatan Weizman (BA Tel Aviv University, Israel), Master of University, Australia), Master of Philosophy in Development Modern Languages * Studies in Creative Writing (part-time) Studies Nicholas Simcik-Arese (BA University of California Berkeley, Katharina Kim Wolff (Staatsexamen University of Anna Murphy (BA University College Cork, Ireland), Master of USA; MSc London School of Economics & Political Science), Hamburg, Germany), Master of Studies in History of Art & Studies in History of Art & Visual Culture Doctor of Philosophy in Geography & the Environment Visual Culture Peter Murphy (BCL University College Cork, Ireland), Master Priya Singh (BA University of Arizona, USA), Master of Chun Lai Wu (BEng The Chinese University of Hong Kong, of Science in Law and Finance Science in Visual Anthropology Hong Kong; MSc City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Sparsha Nandavanam (BEng Visveswaraiah Technological Nariman Smailov (BSc University of International Business, Master of Business Administration University, India; MSc University of Southern California, USA), Kazakhstan), Master of Science in Financial Economics Zhemin Wu (BSc, MSc Shanghai University, China; PhD Master of Business Administration Katherine Smalley (BA University of Tennessee, USA), Vanderbilt University, USA), Master of Science in Sonja Noll (BA Colby College, USA; MA University of Master of Science in Refugee & Forced Migration Studies Mathematical & Computational Finance Washington, USA; MA Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Malcolm Spencer (BA, MPhil St Catherine’s), Doctor of Yang Xu (BSc London School of Economics & Political USA), Master of Studies in Classical Hebrew Studies Philosophy in History * Science), Master of Business Administration Emmi Okada (BA, LLB University of Sydney, Australia; MLitt Giorgio Stefanoni (BSc, MSc Libera Università di Bolzano, He Zhang (BSc Tsinghua University, China), Master of Science University of Tokyo, Japan), Master of Philosophy in Italy), Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science in Financial Economics Development Studies Melanie Stewart (BA University of Lancaster), Master of Yunxian Zhang (BSc Imperial College, London), Master of Joshua Owen (MSci University College London), Doctor of Studies in Women’s Studies Science in Mathematical & Computational Finance Philosophy in Engineering Science Edward Still (BA University College London), Master of Samuel Phillips (BA St Catherine’s), Master of Science in Studies in Modern Languages Visiting Graduate Biodiversity, Conservation & Management * Jennifer Thomas (BA Worcester College, Oxford), Bachelor of Stephen Pink (BA Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; MA Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery Leopold Bauer (University of Bonn, Germany), Max Planck Birkbeck College, London; MSt, DPhil Somerville College, Wendy Tibbitts (Adv Dipl University of Oxford), Master of Visiting Fellow Oxford), Postgraduate Diploma in Theology Science in English Local History (part-time) Katherine Porter (BA University of Bath), Postgraduate Tamara Toolsie (LLB University College London), Bachelor of * indicates graduate of the College Certificate in Education - Modern Languages Civil Law Alan Price, Master of Science in Major Programme Zara Tsang (BA St Catherine’s), Bachelor of Medicine & Admitted to the Fellowship Management (part-time) Bachelor of Surgery * Christopher Prosser (BA, BPsych Australian National Lucina Tse (BASc University of Waterloo, Canada), Master of Professor Peter Ireland to a Professorial Fellowship in University, Australia; MPhil St Cross College, Oxford), Doctor of Business Administration Turbomachinery Philosophy in Politics Daniel Tybjerg (BA University College London), Master of Professor Katharine Carr to a Fellowship by Special Benjamin Prouty (BA University College London; MSc Studies in Creative Writing (part-time) Election in Medicine Imperial College, London), Master of Business Administration Omar Valero Ricart (IA Polytechnic University of Valencia, Dr Jessica Metcalf to a Junior Research Fellowship in Zoe Radford (BSc University of Durham; MSc University of Spain; MSc Cranfield University), Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology Exeter), Postgraduate Certificate in Education - Biology Engineering Science Dr Benjamin Bollig to a Tutorial Fellowship in Spanish Naheed Raza (BA St Hilda’s College, Oxford; BA Chelsea Johannes Van Erp (Leiden University, Netherlands), Diploma Dr Eleanor Stride to a Fellowship by Special Election in College of Art & Design; MA Slade School of Fine Art), in Legal Studies Engineering Science Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (Graduate Entry)
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Gordon Gancz, BM BCh, MA Eleanor P J Stride (BEng, PhD Masaki Orita (LLB Tokyo) Barrie E Juniper, MA, DPhil, Vee Meng Shaw, BA Fellow by Special Election Lond) The Hon Sir (Francis) Humphrey Secretary for Alumni Bruce G Smith, CBE, MA, DPhil, College Doctor Fellow by Special Election in Potts, Kt, BCL, MA Henry C Bennet-Clark, MA (BA FREng, FIET Engineering Science Professor Joseph E Stiglitz (PhD Lond, PhD Camb) Keith Clark, BCL, MA Geneviève A D M Helleringer MIT), FBA Professor Daniel W Howe, MA Anthony W Henfrey, MA, DPhil (Maîtrise ESSEC, JD Columbia, HONORARY FELLOWS Sir Peter M Williams, Kt, CBE, (PhD California) Roushan Arumugam, MA Maîtrise Sciences Po, Maîtrise Professor Sir John W Cornforth, MA (PhD Camb), FREng, FRS Stephen J Sondheim (BA Usha Q Arumugam, MA Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Kt, CBE, DPhil (MSc Sydney), FRS Sir (Maurice) Victor Blank, Kt, Williams) Nadia Q Arumugam, MA Maîtrise Paris-II Panthéon-Assas, Professor Sir Brian E F Fender, MA Sir Ian McKellen, Kt (BA Camb) Simon F A Clark, MA Doctorat Paris-I Panthéon- Kt, CMG, MA (BSc, PhD Lond) Professor (Anthony) David Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Kt, CBE Marshall P Cloyd, BSc Southern Sorbonne) Ruth Wolfson, Lady Wolfson Yates, MA Michael V Codron, CBE, MA Methodist University, MSc Junior Research Fellow in Law Professor Sir James L Gowans, Professor Ahmed Zewail (BS, MS Sir Peter L Shaffer, Kt, CBE (BA Stanford, MBA Harvard EC Postdoctoral Research Fellow Kt, CBE, MA, DPhil, FRCP, FRS Alexandria, PhD Penn) Camb), FRSL The Rt Hon Sir Patrick Nairne, Michael Billington, BA Richard S Attenborough, The Rt VISITING FELLOWS Duncan A Robertson, DPhil (BSc GCB, MC, MA Professor Alan Katritzky, DPhil, Hon Lord Attenborough of Dr Ad Bax (Hinshelwood Lond) Sir Cameron A Mackintosh, Kt FRS Richmond upon Thames, CBE Lecturer), National Institutes of Fellow by Special Election in Sir Michael F Atiyah, OM, Kt, MA Professor C N Ramachandra Sir Richard C H Eyre, Kt, CBE (BA Health, T12 Management (PhD Camb), FRS, FRSE Rao, MSc Banaras, PhD Purdue, Camb) Professor Kevin Edwards, President of the Senior Common John Birt, The Rt Hon Lord Birt of DSc Mysore, FRS Thelma M B Holt, CBE University of Aberdeen, T12 Room Liverpool, MA Professor Richard J Carwardine, Dame Diana Rigg, DBE Professor Richard Harris, Tom Phillips, CBE, MA, RA, RE MA, DPhil, FBA Nicholas R Hytner (MA Camb) Rutgers University, T12 Jonathan Healey, BA, DPhil (MA Professor Sir Geoffrey Allen, Kt Mark H Getty, BA Stephen D Daldry (BA Sheff) Professor Diana Jeater, UWE, Reading) (BSc, PhD Leeds), FRS, FREng, Simon B A Winchester, OBE, MA, Professor Malcolm L H Green, M11 Fellow by Special Election in FRSC, FInstP, FIMMM FRGS, FGS MA (PhD Lond), FRS Professor Mark Lewis, University History Professor Sir (Eric) Brian Smith, Christopher P H Brown, BA, Dipl Sir Timothy M B Rice, Kt of Alberta, M11 Kt, MA, DSc (BSc, PhD Liv), FRSC, (PhD Lond) Professor Terence V Jones, MA, Associate Professor Ben Ovryn, Peter T Ireland, MA, DPhil CChem Professor John B Goodenough, DPhil Albert Einstein College of Donald Schultz Professor of Tan Sri Dato’ Seri A P MA (PhD Chicago) Professor Gilliane C Sills, MA Medicine of Yeshiva University, Turbomachinery Arumugam, AP, CEng, FIEE, Giles B Keating, MA (PhD Lond) H12 FRAeS, FIMarEST, FinstD, PSM, Patrick Marber, BA Professor Elizabeth Thomas- Katharine E Carr (BSc, PhD Glas), SSAP, SIMP, DSAP, DIMP EMERITUS FELLOWS Phyllida Lloyd, BA Birm Hope, University of the West FIBiol Peter Mandelson, The Rt Hon Ernest L French, FHCIMA G Ceri K Peach, MA, DPhil Indies, M11 Fellow by Special Election in Lord Mandelson of Foy and John Ch Simopoulos, BPhil, MA, G Bruce Henning, MA (BA Dr Michael Rossington, Medicine Hartlepool, MA Dean of Degrees Toronto, PhD Penn) Newcastle University, T12 Sir John E Walker, Kt, MA, DPhil, Professor D Michael Sullivan, Professor Jose F Harris, MA Pekka Hämäläinen (MA, PhD FRS MA, DLitt (BA Lond, MA, LittD (PhD Camb), FBA CHRISTENSEN FELLOW Helsinki) Professor Noam Chomsky (PhD Camb, PhD Harvard) Sir Patrick H Stewart, Kt, OBE RESEARCH ASSOCIATES Rhodes Professor of American Penn) Professor John O Bayley, CBE, Michael Frayn, CLit, BA Camb Roger Gundle, BM BCh, DPhil History Nicholas H Stern, The Rt Hon MA, FBA Professor John R Ockendon, (MA Camb), FRCS (Eng), FRCS From 1 July 2012 Lord Stern of Brentford, DPhil (BA Professor Donald H Perkins, MA, DPhil, FRS (Orth) Camb), FBA CBE, MA (PhD Lond), FRS Revd Colin P Thompson, MA, Patrick E McSharry, DPhil (BA, C Jessica E Metcalf, BA (PhD Raymond Plant, The Rt Hon Lord John W Martin, MA, DPhil (MA, DPhil MSc Dub) Lond) Plant of Highfield, MA (BA Lond, PhD, ScD Camb) Sir Trevor R Nunn, Kt, CBE (BA Riccardo Bartolini (MPhys Pisa, Junior Research Fellow in Zoology PhD Hull) J Derek Davies, BCL, MA (LLB Camb) PhD Bologna) Professor David J Daniell, MA Wales) Eric Mandelbaum (BA Rutgers, Benjamin A F Bollig (BA Nott, (BA, MA Tübingen, PhD Lond) Professor Peter G M Dickson, DOMUS FELLOWS MA, PhD North Carolina) MA, PhD Lond) Professor Nicanor Parra (Lic MA, DPhil, DLitt, FBA Sir Patrick J S Sergeant Tutor in Spanish Chile) Bruce R Tolley, MA, DPhil (MA Melvyn Bragg, The Rt Hon Bragg Victoria, Wellington) of Wigton, MA Catz Year_2011 [f] CMYK_Catz Year 2007a 30/01/2012 17:17 Page b
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