THe magazine for the sTaff of the UniversiTy of CambriDge sUmmer 2013 Public art a new f lowering The joy of sets: Dons in the House: passing on passion from laws of motion to for maths page 8 laws of the land page 10 SUMMER 2013 | UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE NEwSletter | 1 snaPsHoT Murder most foul: The violence of everyday life in 19th-century Europe – ConTenTs handsome bandits to wicked women – is revealed in all its bloody detail in a new TH e magazine for THe sTaff of exhibition at the University Library. Cover THe Un iversi Ty of Ca mbri Public art Dge ‘Read all about it! Wrongdoing in Spain Millions of pounds will be a new flowering sUmmer 2013 and England in the long nineteenth invested in public art at North century’ contains a catalogue of West Cambridge. But what criminality from the Library’s remarkable makes art public and what collections of books, broadsides, penny does public art bring to the The joy of sets: passing on passion Dons in the House: for maths from laws of motion to page 8 laws of the land SUMMER 20 13 | UNIVERS ITY OF CA page 10 dreadfuls and cheap, mass-produced MBRIDGE N University and the city? Turn Ew S lETTER | 1 ephemera. Runs until 23 December 2013. to page 6. 2-5 News round-up Reaching the pole: ‘Re-imagining 6-7 Cover feature Scott: objects and journeys’ is a new 8-9 Making a difference exhibition of work by artist Professor For the past 25 years Cambridge students Paul Coldwell exploring Scott’s final have helped teach maths in local expedition and how it might be possible schools. We ask students and teachers to re-imagine aspects of the tragic final what makes the STIMULUS project so journey through the objects left behind. successful. The prints and sculpture are the result of the year Coldwell spent researching in 10-11 Feature the archives of the Scott Polar Research From 1603 to 1950 the University sent Institute, and explore the extraordinary two MPs to the House of Commons, but public reaction to Scott’s death. Runs to do academics make good politicians and coldwell 20 July 2013. do we need more of them in Parliament paul today? England’s first painter: Despite having 12 People no formal training and dying at the age of 29, Christopher Wood left a remarkable 13 Small adverts body of work. Running until 1 September 14-15 Prizes, awards and honours at Kettle’s Yard, a new exhibition unites paintings and drawings from the Front cover photograph: Chris Loades University and Kettle’s Yard collections – many not normally on display – with archival materials, including the artist’s own set of playing cards, to offer new insight into Wood’s life and work. newsletter The Newsletter is published for the staff of the University of Cambridge and is produced by the Zoology Museum wraps up until 2016: Office of External Affairs and Communications. Collections Manager Matt Lowe Please send in ideas for content and other ways carefully unveils the skeleton of a dodo – we can improve the publication. which has not been on public display Tel: (3)32300 or email [email protected]. for 40 years – to a lucky tour group. Suggestions for articles for the next edition should reach the Editor by 30 August. The Museum of Zoology closed on 1 Managing Editor: Andrew Aldridge June for three years as the Arup Building Editor: Becky Allen evolves into the new home of the Design: Creative Warehouse, Cambridge Cambridge Conservation Initiative. Printers: Labute Printers Staff and volunteers at the museum are Contributors: Andrew Aldridge, Becky Allen, now busy packing away millions of bones Alex Buxton, William Ham Bevan and specimens to protect them during the refurbishment. newsletter online SIR CAM www.cam.ac.uk/for-staff 2 | SUMMER 2013 | UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE NEwSletter wHaT’s NEW Your comments and contributions are always welcome. Please send them to the Editor at [email protected] The deadline for the next issue is 6 August. roger Taylor is new Director of estates strategy Roger Taylor, currently Project Operations will look after the for mixed-use development for Director of the North West Cambridge day-to-day management of the Taylor Wimpey, the UK’s largest Development, has been appointed University’s estate. housebuilder. Director of Estates Strategy, taking up Mr Taylor will continue to lead He takes over from current post on 1 October 2013. and hold strategic oversight for the Director of Estate Management Mr Taylor will retain his current North West Cambridge scheme. Michael Bienias, who is retiring. position at the North West Until recently, the main body of work l A new team based in the Estate Cambridge Development, devoting had been concerned with planning Management Division has been approximately 25 per cent of his time and stakeholder engagement, most formed to recognise the increasing to work there and 75 per cent to the notably with the local authorities importance of environmental issues Estate Management Division. and the local community. But with within the University. He will be supported in both the Regent House having given The Environment and Energy roles by two new posts – that of approval for work to start on Phase Section will co-locate the currently Deputy Project Director at North West One of the development, and the separate Environment and Energy Cambridge and Head of Operations University securing planning consent offices, and make a number of new at Estate Management – as well as ginns in February this year, the project team appointments to support carbon senior managers in both locations. will now focus on the design and reduction across the University. The University hopes to fill these new marcus delivery of the first phase of works, Led by Joanna Simpson, the team positions by the start of Michaelmas Roger Taylor will focus due for completion in early 2016. will work closely with the Pro-Vice- Term 2013. on strategic planning in Before joining the University Chancellor for Institutional Affairs At Estate Management, Mr Taylor a new role in the Estate in 2008, Mr Taylor oversaw a wide and the Environmental Strategy will focus on strategic planning, Management Division range of mixed use developments in Committee to review the University’s decision making and forward places such as Docklands, Glasgow environmental policy and its practical planning on a number of key and Oxfordshire, and was a director implementation. University developments, including ongoing work at West Cambridge and development at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and New Museums Site. The new Head of See our menu online at unicen.cam. ac.uk north west Cambridge update Imaginative, locally sourced, modern The Chancellor of the University, as being an exemplar of sustainable Lord Sainsbury of Turville, and the living. The first phase of the British food. Served Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek development will cost an estimated in a sophisticated Borysiewicz, attended a ground- £281 million, with whole scheme setting with views breaking ceremony at the North costing £1 billion. across the River West Cambridge site on 20 June to In other developments at North Cam. mark the start of the largest single West Cambridge, the University is capital development project in the seeking market housing developers University’s 800-year history. for Phase One, and the scheme’s Open Monday to Saturday Lunch 12.30-14.00 Members of the University first artists in residence have been Why not join us for Dinner18.30–23.00 Council, local authority appointed. They are Tania Kovats, Dinner & Jazz? (last orders 21.00) representatives, architects, Hannah Rickards, Nina Pope and See For reservations call consultants and community Karen Guthrie. www.unicen.cam.ac.uk 01223 337759 members were also at the historic for details event, which signalled the start of Phase One for the development. University Centre, Granta Place, Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RU The North West Cambridge finD out more 01223 337759 | www.unicen.cam.ac.uk | fi nd us on facebook Development has been designed as Formoreonthesestoriesand an extension to the city. It will be of theschemeingeneralvisit the highest design quality, as well www.nwcambridge.co.uk SUMMER 2013 | UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE NEwSletter | 3 RR Jazz Ad.indd 1 20/01/2013 20:32 wHaT’s new globe Theatre celebrates girton’s pioneers Girton College arrives in London “There were brave, outspoken men this August when a new play inspired who gave everything up for the cause. Blue Stockings’ author, Jessica Swale by the pioneers of women’s education I wanted to ensure that the play didn’t at Cambridge opens at the Globe portray great women and awful men,” Theatre. Written by Jessica Swale, she said. BlueStockings begins in 1896 – a year More than a century on, student before the University Senate voted protest is alive and kicking. “There down a proposal to grant women was a magical day when we were full degrees. rehearsing. We were practising the According to Swale: “It was a time riot, shouting ‘education for all’ and of turbulent social change; what we had to stop working because the with the momentum building in the student protests were marching down suffrage movement, you’d expect that Gower Street and they were shouting it might have been simple to allow the same things 110 years later,” them equal recognition, but the force said Swale. of the opposition was astonishing.” BlueStockings opens on 24 August Drawing on hours of research in at the Globe Theatre, London and runs Girton’s archive, Swale based two until 11 October.