ST CROSS COLLEGE
RECORD NUMBER 32 2015
ST CROSS COLLEGE RECORD
NUMBER 32, 2015
EDITOR’S NOTE
This edition of the St Cross College Record covers the academic year October 2014 to September 2015. I have included reports by most College Officers. I would be pleased to hear from any member of the College past or present who would be prepared to write something for publication. Again I have tried hard to remove errors in Fellows, Students, Members of Common Room and Staff entries that have crept in over the years but I would be grateful If readers would check their entries and notify me of any errors that remain.
E J Williamson [email protected] February, 2016
CONTENTS
The College of St Cross at Oxford 0
Degrees Taken 00
Master’s Report 00
Awards, Achievements and Recognition of Distinction 00
New Fellows 00 Apirat Chaikuad Jane Kaye Matthew Erie Sarah Kendrew Lesley Forbes Michael Landreh Anthony Geffen (2013) Ho-Yin Mak
3 Ursula Martin Tom Scott-Smith Brent Mittelstadt John Tranter Mark Stafford An Van Camp
St Cross Talks and Workshops
Bursar’s Report
Domestic Bursar’s Report
Director of Development’s Report
Deans’ Report
Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions’ Report
Archivist’s Report
Art Committee Report
Librarian’s Report
Common Room Report
Student Representative Committee Report
Sports Report
Catering Manager’s Report
Music Report
Photographic Competition
Obituaries 00 Eric Whittaker Adrian Roberts
A Gift for St Cross -? 00 Tonia Cope Bowley
Attenborough’s Virtual World 00 Anthony Geffen
4 THE COLLEGE OF ST CROSS AT OXFORD
2015
MASTER
Jones, Sir Mark, MA (Hon DLitt Lond.; Hon DArts Abertay; Hon LLD Dund., Hon DLitt East Ang,) FRSE, FSA
FELLOWS
Parsons, Barry Eaton, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) Professor of Geodesy and Geophysics Waters, David John, MA, DPhil (MA Camb.) Associate Professor in Metamorphic Petrology; Curator, University Museum of Natural History; Webmaster Garcia-Bellido, Estrella Paloma, MA (MA Texas (Austin); MA, PhD Universidad Complutense, Madrid) Associate Professor of Spanish Philology and Linguistics; Harassment Advisor Treadwell, William Luke, MA, DPhil (BA Camb.) Samir Shamma Associate Professor in Islamic Numismatics, Ashmolean Museum Thompson, Peter John, MA (BA Warw.; PhD Pennsylvania) Sydney L. Mayer Associate Professor of American History Scott, Katharine, MA (MA, PhD Camb.; BAFA Cape Town) by Special Election Adam, Christopher, MA, MPhil, DPhil (MA St And.) Professor of Development Economics MacCulloch, Revd Diarmaid Ninian John, Kt, MA, DD (MA, PhD Camb.; Hon DLitt E.Ang.; Hon DLitt St And.; Hon DLitt University of the South at Sewanee; Hon DD Virginia Theological College) FBA, FSA Professor of the History of the Church Hamerow, Helena Francisca, MA, DPhil (BA Wisconsin-Madison) FSA Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology Chatty, Dawn, MA (BA, DPhil UCLA; MA Inst. of Social Studies, The Hague) FBA Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration Ulijaszek, Stanley Jan, MA (BSc Manc.; MSc, PhD Lond.) Professor of Human Ecology Taylor, James, MA (MA Camb.; MSc Lanc.; PhD Lond.) Professor of Decision Science Mitter, Rana Shantashil Rajyeswar, MA (BA, MPhil, PhD Camb.) Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China; Vice-Master Briant, William Richard Christian, MA (MA Camb.) by Special Election; International Director, Saïd Business School Dalton, Gavin Bruce, MA, DPhil by Special Election; Professor of Astrophysics Jirotka, Marina Denise Anne, MA, DPhil (BSc Lond.; MSc S.Bank) Professor of Human-Centred Computing Deutsch, Jan-Georg, MA (MA Hanover; PhD SOAS; habil. Berlin) Associate Professor of African History
5 Ligoxygakis, Petros, MA (BA Athens; MSc, PhD Crete) Associate Professor of Genetics; President of Common Room Parker, Michael John, MA (BEd West Eng.; PhD Hull) Professor of Bioethics Pfeiffer, Judith, MA (MA Cologne; PhD Chicago)Associate Professor of Arabic/Islamic History Robinson, Mark, MA (PhD Lond.) Professor of Environmental Archaeology; Dean; Garden Master Savulescu, Julian, MA (BMedSci, MB, BS, PhD Monash) Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics Venables, Katherine, MA (BSc, MSc, MD Lond.) Reader in Occupational Medicine Ashbourn, Joanna Maria Antonia, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) FRAS, FHEA by Special Election; Senior Tutor; Tutor for Admissions Hamill, Heather, MA, DPhil (MA St And.) Associate Professor of Sociology Papanikolaou, Dimitris, MA (BA Athens; MA, PhD Lond.) Associate Professor of Modern Greek Sweetlove, Lee, MA (BSc E.Ang.; PhD Camb.) Professor of Plant Sciences Dexter, Colin, OBE (MA Camb.; Hon MA Leic.; Hon DLitt Oxf.Brookes) by Special Election Kapanidis, Achillefs, MA (BA Thessaloniki; MSc, PhD Rutgers) Professor of Biological Physics Mahone, Sloan Courtney, MSc, DPhil (BA Hofstra; MS Boston) Associate Professor of the History of Medicine Bostrom, Nick Rolf Lars, MA (BA Gothenburg; MA Stockholm; MSc Lond.; PhD LSE) Professor of Applied Ethics Wilkinson, Angus, MA (BSc, PhD Brist.) Professor of Materials Yee, Margaret, MA status, DPhil (BSc NSW; BD Sydney) Senior Research Fellow by Special Election, Principles of Knowing: Science, Humanities and Theology Biggs, Michael, (BA Victoria New Zealand; MA, PhD Harvard) Associate Professor of Sociology Frood, Elizabeth, DPhil (BA, MA New Zealand) Associate Professor of Egyptology Jacobsen, Sten Eirik Waelgaard, (MD, PhD Bergen) Bass Professor of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology McNicholl, Jane, MSc (BSc Liv.; PhD Lond.) Associate Professor of Educational Studies Bosworth, Mary, MA (BA Western Australia; MPhil; PhD Camb.) Professor of Criminology Daniels, Inge Maria, (BA Leuven; MA Nara, Japan; PhD Lond.) Associate Professor of Social Anthropology Floridi, Luciano, MA (MA Laurea Rome La Sapienza; MPhil, PhD Warw.) Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information Pollard, Andrew John, (BSc, MBBS, PhD Lond.) DIC, MRCP (UK), FHEA, FIDSA, FRCPCH Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity O’Hanlon, Rosalind, (BA Camb.; MA, PhD Lond.) Professor of Indian History and Culture
6 Bogaard, Amy Marie, (BA Bryn Mawr; MSc, PhD Sheff.)Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology Johnson, Helen Louise, (BSc, PhD R’dg) Associate Professor of Climate and Ocean Modelling Pirie, Fernanda, MA, DPhil (MSc Lond.) Associate Professor of Socio-legal Studies Bowles, Neil, DPhil (BSc Lond.) Associate Professor of Planetary Physics Hicks, Dan, MA (MA, PhD Brist.) MCIfA Associate Professor and Curator in Modern Archaeology Friedrichs, Jörg, (DPhil Munich) Associate Professor of Politics Olteanu, Dan Alexandru, MA (Dipl.Ing University Politechnica of Bucharest; Dr. rer. nat. Munich) Associate Professor of Computer Science Siveter, Derek James, (BSc, PhD, DSc Leic.) by Special Election; Professor of Earth Sciences Watt, Andrew, (BSc Glas.; MSc, DIC Lond.; PhD Queensland) RCUK Fellow in Novel Photovoltaic Devices, Department of Materials Swafford, Glenn Lawrence, MA (BA Victoria Univ. Wellington; MPolLaw La Trobe; PhD Flinders Univ. S. Australia) by Special Election, University Director Research Services; Harassment Advisor Topsfield, Andrew Stephen, MA, DPhil (MA Lond.)by Special Election; Keeper of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum Lora-Wainwright, Anna, DPhil (BA, MA Lond.) Associate Professor of the Human Geography of China Van Hear, Nicholas James, MA (BA Camb.; DPhil Birm.) by Special Election Shapiro, Joel, (BA Washington in St Louis; MA, PhD Princeton) Associate Professor of Financial Economics Hoyland, Robert Gerard, MA, DPhil Professor of Islamic History Standley, Eleanor Rose, (BSc, MA, PhD Durh.) Associate Professor and Assistant Keeper of Medieval Archaeology, Ashmolean Museum Lee-Thorp, Julia, (BA, BSc, PhD Capetown), FBA Professor of Scientific Archaeology Golestanian, Ramin, MA (BSc Sharif; MSc, PhD IASBS) FInstP Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Bjola, Corneliu, (MA Leuven; PhD Toronto) Associate Professor of Diplomatic Studies Trefethen, Anne, (BSc Cov.; PhD Cran.) by Special Election; Professor of Scientific Computing; Chief Information Officer; Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Services and University Collections) Magiorkinis, Gkikas (MSc, PhD, MD Athens) Junior Research Fellow; University Research Lecturer Makepeace, Richard Edward, CMG, MA by Special Election; Registrar, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Sharpe, Michael Christopher, MA (MB, BChir, MD Camb.) FRCP, FRCPsych Professor of Psychological Medicine Zanna, Laure, (BSc Tel Aviv; PhD Harvard) Associate Professor of Climate Physics Harrison, Henrietta Katherine, DPhil (MA Harvard) FBA Professor of Chinese Studies
7 Malmberg, Lars-Erik Joakim, (MA, PhD Vasa, Finland) Associate Professor of Education in Quantitative Methods Carlisle, Robert Crispin, (MSc, PhD Birm.) Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Warnaby, Catherine Elizabeth (Katie), (MPhys, PhD Manc.) Knoop Junior Research Fellow Jarvis, Matthew, DPhil (MPhys Birm.) Professor of Astrophysics Beeson, David Murray Wendover, (BA, MA Camb.; PhD Lond.) by Special Election; Professor of Molecular Neurosciences; Leader Neurosciences Group, Wetherall Institute of Molecular Medicine O’Neill, Peter, (BSc, PhD, DSc Leeds) CChem, FRSC by Special Election;, Deputy Director, MRC/CRUK Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology Marsh, Kevin, (MB, ChB Liv.) MRCP by Special Election; Professor of Tropical Medicine Gray, Lesley J., (BSc S’ton.; PhD R’dng) by Special Election; Professor of Atmospheric Physics Strand, Steve, MA (BA, PhD Plym.) Professor of Education Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin, (MA, PhD Munich; habil. Bremen) Barnett Professor of Comparative Social Policy and Politics Bardenet, Rémi Jean-Luc, (MSc ENS Cachan; PhD Paris-Sud) Junior Research Fellow Robinson, Stuart Alan, MA, DPhil Associate Professor of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Collins, Sir Rory, MA, MS (MBBS Lond.), FMedSci, FRCP Professor of Population Health Westhaver, George Derrick, MA (MDiv Toronto; PhD Durh.) Pusey Fellow; Principal, Pusey House Burn, Katharine Clare, MSc, DPhil (BA Camb.) Associate Professor of Education (History) Jacobs, Adriana Ximena, (BA William and Mary; PhD Princeton) by Special Election; Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature Legg, David Alexander, (BSc Port.; MSc Brist.; PhD Lond.) Junior Research Fellow Harrington, Heather, (BS Massachusetts, PhD Lond.) Junior Research Fellow Geffen, Anthony, MAby Special Election Leneghan, Francis Paul Vincent, (BA, PhD Dub.) Associate Professor of Old English Bhandare, Shailendra, (BPharmSci, MA, PhD Mumbai) by Special Election; Assistant Keeper, Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum Savage-Smith, Emilie, (MA, PhD Wisconsin-Madison, Hon DLitt DePauw University, Indiana), FBA by Special Election; Senior Research Fellow 2002-2010; Professor of the History of Islamic Science; Archivist Pound, Timothy Brett, MA, DPhil (BA Sheff., MA Keele) by Special Election; Archives Registrar Mommersteeg, Mathilda Theodora Maria, (MSc, PhD Amsterdam) Associate Professor of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine Gledhill, John Gary, (BA Dub., PhD Georgetown) Associate Professor of Global Governance Chaikuad, Apirat, (BSc Chulalongkorn; PhD Brist.) Emanoel Lee Junior Research Fellow
8 Kendrew, Sarah, (MSc, PhD Lond.) Junior Reasearch Fellow Mittelstadt, Brent, (BA Albright Coll., Reading PA, USA; MA Linköping; MA Utrecht; PhD de Montfort) Junior Research Fellow Tranter, John, MA (BSc Bath) by Special Electon, Bursar Landreh, Michael, (BSc Lubeck; MSc Leiden; PhD Karolinska Institutet, Sweden) Junior Research Fellow Kaye, Jane, DPhil (BA ANU, Canberra; LLB Melbourne) by Special Election; Professor of Health, Law and Policy; Director, Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) Forbes, Lesley Eleanor, MA (BA Durh.; DipLib Lond.) by Special Election; Art Registrar Martin, Ursula Hilda Mary, CBE, (BA Camb.; MSc, PhD Warw.), FBCS, FIET, FIMA by Special Election; Professor of Computer Science Mak, Ho-Yin, (BSc Northwestern Univ.; MSc, PhD Berkeley) Associate Professor of Management Science Erie, Matthew, (BA Dartmouth; MA, PhD Cornell; JD Pennsylvania; LLM Tsinghua Univ. Law School, Beijing) Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies Scott-Smith, Tom Alastair, MPhil,DPhil (MA, MSc Lond.) Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration Van Camp, An, (BA Leuven; MA Trier; MA Lille; MA Lond.) by Special Election; Assistant Keeper Northern European Art, Ashmolean Museum
HONORARY FELLOWS
Allen, Prof Sir Geoffrey, (BSc, PhD Leeds), FInstP, FPRI, FRS Seyoum, Prince Mangashia, GCVO, MA Crutzen, Paul Josef, (MSc, PhD, DSc Stockholm) Director, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie 1980- ; Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1995 Lee, Prof Dame Hermione, CBE, MA, BPhil Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature 1998-2008; President of Wolfson College 2008- Repp, Richard Cooper, MA, DPhil (BA Williams College, Massachusetts) University Lecturer in Turkish History 1965-2003; Senior Proctor 1979; Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1994- 2003; Master 1987-2003 Brook, Sir Richard John, OBE, MA (BSc Leeds; ScD MIT) Professor of Materials Science 1990-2001 Eisenstein, Elizabeth, (AB Vassar; MA, PhD Radcliffe College) Warrell, David Alan, MA, DM, DSc, FRCP (Edin.), FMedSci, Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine; Fellow 1977-2005; International Director (Hans Sloane Fellow), Royal College of Physicians Hamilton, Andrew David, (BSc Exe.; MSc British Columbia; PhD Camb.) FRS Vice-Chancellor Goudie, Andrew Shaw, MA, DSc (MA, PhD Camb.) Professor of Geography 1984- 2003; President of the Oxford Development Programme and Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1995- 1997; Master 2003-2011
9 Thomas, Sarah, MA (AB Smith; MS Simmons; PhD Johns Hopkins) University Librarian and Vice-President for the Harvard Library Warner, Dame Marina Sarah, CBE, MA, Hon DLitt Professor of English Creative Writing, Birkbeck College, London Weber, Susan, (AB, MA, PhD) Director, Bard Graduate Center, New York Pethica, Sir John Bernard, (MA, PhD Camb.) FREng, FRS University Lecturer 1987- 1996; Professor of Materials Science 1996-2001; Fellow 1987-2001
EMERITUS FELLOWS
†van Heyningen, Ruth Eleanor, MA, DPhil, DSc (MA Camb.) Fellow 1965-1979; Senior Research Officer in Ophthalmology 1952-1978 †Jones, Alan, MA (MA Camb.) Fellow 1965-1980; Professor of Classical Arabic 1997- 2000 Porter, Simon Robert, MA, DPhil Fellow 1977-1987; Bursar 1977-1987 Hassall, Tom Grafton, OBE, MA FSA Hon MCIfA Fellow 1974-1988; Director, Oxfordshire Archaeological Unit 1973-1985; Secretary, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England 1986-1999 †Hodcroft, Frederick William, Commander of the Order of Isabel the Catholic, MA (MA Manc.) Fellow 1965-1990; University Lecturer in Spanish 1953-1990 Barton, Revd John, MA, DPhil, DLitt (Hon Dr theol. Bonn) FBA Fellow 1974-1991; University Lecturer in Theology (Old Testament) 1974-1989, Reader in Biblical Studies 1989-91; Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture 1991- Hockey, Susan Margaret, MA Fellow 1979-1991; Teaching Officer for Computing in the Arts 1975-1989; Director of the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies 1989-91 Smith, George David William, MA, DPhil, FInstP, FRS Fellow 1977-1991; University Lecturer in Metallurgy 1977-1993; George Kelley Reader in Metallurgy 1993-1996; Professor of Materials 1996-2010; Emeritus Professor 2010- †Britton, Dennis, MA (MA Camb.) Fellow 1965-1992; University Lecturer in Prehistory 1961-1992 Brookes, Edward Michael, MA (BSc Durh.; Hon LLD Waterloo; CEng) MICE Fellow 1972-1992; Assistant University Surveyor 1964-76; University Land Agent 1976- 1983 Glare, Peter Geoffrey William, MA (MA Camb.)Fellow 1976-1992; Editor, Oxford Latin Dictionary 1955-1981; Editor, Liddell & Scott Supplement 1981-1996 Brown, Helen Wingate, MA Fellow 1969-1994; Assistant Keeper, later Senior Assistant Keeper, Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, 1958-1994 Mould, Charles Marshall, MA, DPhil (BSc (Eng.) Lond; Hon DLitt Oxf. Brookes) Fellow 1981-1995; Secretary of the Bodleian Library 1981-1995 Olliver, Joseph Gascon, MA, DPhil (BSc Nott.) Fellow 1970-1996; University Lecturer in Surveying and Geodesy 1966-1996
10 Nizami, Farhan Ahmad, MA, DPhil (MA Aligarh) Junior Research Fellow 1983-1985; Islamic Studies Fellow 1985-1997; Director, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 1985- Bishop, David Hugh Langler, MA, DSc (BSc, PhD Liv.) Fellow, 1984-1998; Director, NERC Institute of Virology 1984-1995 Roberts, Adrian David Scudamore, MA, BLitt (MA Camb.) Fellow 1978-1998; Sub-Librarian, Bodleian Library 1976-1998; Keeper of Oriental Books 1976-1998 Vessey, Martin Paterson, CBE, MA (MB, BS, MD Lond.) FMedSci, FRS Fellow 1973-2000; Professor of Public Health 1974-2000 Richards, Donald Sidney, MA Fellow 1967-2000; University Lecturer in Arabic 1960- 2000; Dean of Degrees Benton, Peter, MA (MA Camb.) Fellow 1987-2001; University Lecturer in Educational Studies (English) 1976-2001 Woolnough, Brian Ernest, MA (BSc R’dg; Cert Ed Camb.) FInstP Fellow 1984-2001; University Lecturer in Educational Studies (Physics) 1978-2001 Mackridge, Peter Alexander, MA, DPhil Fellow 1981-2003; University Lecturer in Modern Greek 1981-1996; Professor of Modern Greek 1996-2003; Dean of Degrees Williamson, Edward James, MA, DPhil Fellow 1970-2004; University Lecturer in Physics 1968-2004; Dean of Degrees; Publications Officer Abramson, Glenda, MA (MA, PhD Rand.) Senior Research Fellow 1981-1989; Fellow 1989-2004; Cowley Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew 1989-2004 Allan, James Wilson, MA, DPhil Fellow 1990-2005; Assistant Keeper, Department of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum 1966-1988; Senior Assistant Keeper 1988-1991; Keeper (Professor) 1991-2005 McLatchie, Robert Craw Forsyth, MA (BSc Glas.) Senior Research Fellow 1991-2005; Executive Director, Oxford Parallel 1991-2005 Harris, Ann, MA (PhD Lond.) Fellow 1991-2005; University Lecturer in Paediatrics 1991-2005; Professor of Paediatric Molecular Genetics 1999-2005 Gosden, Christopher, MA (BA, PhD Sheff.)Fellow 1994-2006; University Lecturer in World Archaeology 1994-2006; Professor of European Archaeology 2006-Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum James, Wendy Rosalind, CBE, BLitt, MA, DPhil (DSc Copenhagen), FBA Fellow 1972-2007; University Lecturer in Social Anthropology 1972-1996; Professor of Social Anthropology 1996-2007 Tiffany, John Michael, MA (MA, PhD Camb.)Fellow 1979-2007; University Lecturer in Ophthalmological Biochemistry 1976-2007 Browning, David George, Order of José Matías Delgado, MA, DPhil (BA R’dg) Fellow 1968-2007; University Lecturer in Geography of Latin America 1968-1985; Founder Registrar, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 1985-2007 Hedges, Robert Ernest Mortimer (MA PhD Camb.) Fellow 1989-2009; University Lecturer in Archaeology 1989-1995; Professor of Archaeology 1995-2009 Kruger, Nicholas, MA (PhD Camb.) Fellow 1989-2009; University Lecturer in Plant Science 1990-2009
11 Zimmerman, Friedrich Wilhelm, BPhil, MA, DPhil (MA Erlangen) Fellow 1976- 2009; University Lecturer in Islamic Philosophy 1976-2009 Pieke, Frank Nikolaas, MA (BA, MA Amsterdam; PhD Berkeley) Fellow 1995-2010; University Lecturer in the Modern Politics and Society of China 1995-2010 Raynes, Edward Peter, MA (MA, PhD Camb.; DSc Hull) FInstP, FRS Fellow 1998- 2010; Professor of Optoelectronic Engineering 1998-2010 Endicott, Jane Anne, MA (MA, PhD Toronto) Fellow 1998-2011; University Lecturer in Molecular Biophysics 1998-2011 Davage, Revd William Ernest Peter, MA (BA Newc.; MPhil Leic.) Pusey Fellow 1994- 2011 Hope, Ronald Anthony (Tony), MA, BMBCh (PhD Lond.) FRCP, FRCPsych, MFPH Fellow 1990-2012; Lecturer in Psychiatry 1987-1990; Leader, Oxford Practice Skills Project and Hon Consultant Psychiatrist 1990-1995; University Lecturer in Practice Skills 1995-1996; Reader in Medicine 1996-2000; Professor of Medical Ethics 2000- 2012 Mayhew, Nicholas, MA, DLitt Emeritus Professor of Numismatics and Monetary History, Ashmolean Museum; Fellow 1992-2013 Whiteley, Jon James Lamont, MA DPhil Former Senior Assistant Keeper, Department of Western Art 1978-2013, Ashmolean Museum; Fellow 1996-2013 Orford, Barry Antony, MA (BA, MTh, PhD Wales) Pusey House Priest Librarian and Pusey Fellow 2000-2014 Doherty, Maureen Patricia, MA (BA Lanc.; MA Open) Fellow 1995-2014; Wine Steward
† Founding Fellow
VISITING FELLOWS
Cairns, Hugh Campbell, MA (BD, PhD Edin.) Crawford Miller Visiting Fellow Golan, Amos, (BA, MS Jerusalem; PhD California)
RETIRED FOUNDING FELLOWS (other than Emeritus Fellows)
Barbour, Ruth, MA Burridge, Kenelm Oswald Lancelot, BA, BLitt, MA (PhD Canberra) Zussman, Jack, MA, DPhil Griffith, Thomas Gwynfor, BLitt., MA, DPhil Tucker, Richard George, BSc, BM, MA, DPhil Coles, Barry Arclay, MA, DPhil
12 MEMBERS OF COMMON ROOM
Former Fellows
Michael Blowfield (BA Newc., MA Sus.) Benjamin Bradford (BSc, MSc, PhD Lond.) Hung Cheng MA, DO, FRCS Margret Frenz MA (PhD Heidelberg), FHEA, FRHistS Peter Groves BA, DPhil Anastassia Loukina MPhil, DPhil (Dipl. St Petersburg State Univ.) Beatrix Nagyova DPhil (MD Dr. Comenius) LRCP, LRCS, DipLMSSA, MRCP Rebecca Nicholls DPhil (BA, MSc Camb.) Ian Page MA (BSc Lond., MSc City) FIEE Lorenzo Andrea Santorelli (BSc Florence; MS, PhD Houston) Julie Scott-Jackson DPhil Thomas Pitt Soper BLitt MA, PhD Philip Bernard Tinker DSc, PhD Roger Trigg MA, DPhil Peter Ward Jones MA, FRCO Oliver Watson (BA Durh.; PhD Lond.) Paul Silva Wikramaratna MMaths, DPhil Holger Witte MSc, DPhil
Former Students
Walter Arader MPhil (BA Richmond) Michael Stuart Armstrong DPhil (BA Camb.) Michael Athanson MSt, DPhil (MA, MPhil Glas.) Casper Gregers Bangert, BA, MPhil Katarina Beckman MSc Mariano Beguerisse Diaz MSc (BSc ITAM, Mexico) Jamie Franklin Berezin MPhil (BA Dalhousie) Saif Ahmed Shahab Bham DPhil (BSc Manc.) Shih-Chung Chen DPhil (BA Nat Chenghi Univ.; MA Lond.) Gari Clifford DPhil David Clifton DPhil (MEng Brist.) Matthew David MSc (BSc Glam.; MA, DPhil Kent) Angela Davis MSt, DPhil (BA Lond.) Annie Demosthenous MSt (MA St And.) Diana Di Paolo DPhil (BSc, MSc Pisa) James Edward Dodd DPhil (BSc Lond.) Kirsty Elizabeth Duffy MPhys Vaughan Dutton DPhil (BSc, MSc Univ KwaZulu-Natal; BSc Univ. Natal)
13 Sarah Marie Ekdawi DPhil Brian Fahy MPhil (MA San Francisco; MA Boston) Alexander Farquhar DPhil (MA Glas.; MA Lond.) Julian Faultless MSt, DPhil Helen Sian Fisher DPhil (MA R’dg; BA Sur.) Richard Germuska MEng, DPhil Luca Giberti DPhil Pär Lennart Gustafsson DPhil Ben Hamer DPhil (BA Durh.) Natalie Hill MSc (BA Brist.) Myrna Holstrom (MA Colorado) Cherry Warrington Hutton DPhil (BA, MA Chelt. & Glous. Coll; HEB Durh.) Devra Kay BA, MLitt, MPhil Lingbing Kong DPhil (BA, MSc Beijing Univ. Chem. Tech.) Felix Benedikt Kullchen DPhil Rebecca Latchford MSc (BSc Aberd.) Jonathan Lusthaus MSc, DPhil Rupert Macey-Dare MA, DPhil (MA Camb.; MSc Econ Lond.; LLM City; Call Middle Temple) Joy MacInnes BSc, DClinPsy, DPhil James Moore DPhil (MSc Durh.) Brian McQuinn DPhil (MA Notre Dame) Sayeed Al Noman Mphil (Mres LSE) Peter Chikaodi Ntephe MSc (PhD Lond) Oliver Hugh Owen DPhil (BA Camb.; MSc Lond.) Joanna Pike MPhil, DPhil (BA R’dg) Marcus Charles Plowman Milwright DPhil Eleanor Pritchard DPhil (Mphil Lond.) Chandra Sekar Ramanujan DPhil, BSME, MSMSE Margaret Jean Rayner MPhil John Rowe MA Pawel Rytel-Andrianik MSt, DPhil Antonia Santalova DPhil (BA Kyrgyz State National) Kate Ailsa Sargan MSt (BA Lond.) Michael Shott BA, MSt Maria Spirova MSc (BA Sofia Univ.) Troy Sternberg DPhil (BA Calif.; MSc Texas Tech.Univ.) Stig Topp-Jorgensen MSc Paulina Villapando Lorda BA, MSc Sue Walters MSc, DPhil (BA Wolv.; MA Essex; MA Kent) Robin Edward Wells MSt Simon White DPhil Jie Yang MSc, DPhil (BSc Tianjin Univ. Commerce)
14 Jiannan Zhang MSc (BSc Beijing; BSc Minnesota) Annette Zimmermann MPhil
Elected Members
Sam Aldred Peter Alexander (BA, PhD Lond.) Sheila Allcock MA (BSc Leic.) Librarian Ananth Aravamudan (BE Bangalore) Atul Aslekar (BE Pune) Amanda Berlan MPhil, DPhil Susan Berrington (BSc Liv.; MA Heythrop Coll. London) Director of Development Judith Bogdanor (MB BS) LRCP MRCS DFFP College Doctor Richard John Bradley MA (Fil. Dr h.c. Lund), MIFA, FSA, FBA Susan Bull (PhD, MA Lond.; LLB Canterbury, New Zealand) Fergus Butler-Gallie BA Hilary Callan MA, Dip Soc Anthrop., MLitt Janier Castaño Jules Cave Bergquist Paramjyoti Chattopadhyay (BSc Calcutta; MSc Sikkim Manipal) Alan Coates MA, DPhil (MA, DipLib. Lond.), FSA, FRHistS, MCLIP Tonia Cope Bowley BSc Alasdair Crawford (BSc, MSc), MRAC Gill Davidson (BSc, MA) Reena Dayal Mahesh Devani (MBBS Rajasthan; MHA PGIMER Chandigarh; MHA Johns Hopkins) Michael Dunne BA, BLitt (DPhil Sus., MA Calif.) Elizabeth Edwards MA FBA Alan Eglin Heathcote Emery (MD, DSc Manc.; PhD Johns Hopkins) FRCP, FRCPE, FACMG, FLS, FRS(E), FRS(SAf) David Favis-Mortlock BA, PhD Dilan Fernand DPhil (MSc Nott.) Thomas Fink-Jensen (BEd Christelijke Hogeschool Ede) Benjamin Fisher Elizabeth Angela Helga Forster MSt, DPhil Charles Foster (PhD Warw.; BA, MSc Exe.) Jill Fresen (BA, MEd, PhD Pretoria) David Gautrey Roya Ghafele (MPhil Vienna/Sorbonne; DPhil Vienna; PG Dip Johns Hopkins) Rami Ginat (BA, MA Tel Aviv; PhD LSE) Shehani Gomes (MSc Edin.)
15 Daphne Hampson DPhil (BA Keele; MA Warw; ThM, ThD Harvard) John Hanks (BA Durh.; PGCE Camb.; LLM Wales) Gay Haskins (BA, MBA) Ines-Agnes Hasselberg (PhD Sus.) David Helliwell (BA, MLitt) John Hewitt MCIOB, MIFireE Kei Hiruta MSc, DPhil (BA Keio; MA Essex) Suzy Hodge MBA Domestic Bursar Suzanne Ingram Anna James (BA, MA Lond.) Christine Jeffery (BLib Wales) Christopher John Jenner BA, MSt, DPhil Andrew Meirion Jones (BSc PhD Glas.) Rosie Kay BA Dominic Kelly (BA, MB, BChir Camb.; PhD Open) Angeliki Kerasidou MA, DPhil (MA Thessaloniki) Laura King (BA Sur.) Former Development and Alumni Relations Manager Kvetoslav Tomas Krejci (BA, MA, PhD Charles Prague) Laurence Leaver BM BCh (MA Camb.) FRCP, FRCGP College Doctor Judith Ledger, Accounts Manager Neil Lovis Levy (BA, PhD, PhD Monash) Toby Martin BA MSt (PhD Sheff.) Shweta Marwah (MBBS Maharashtra Univ. Health Sciences; PGDM Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode) Ian McNiven (BA, DPhil Queensland) Alison Mignanelli (BSc Lond.) College Accountant Peter Molloy (BA Carleton; MA Regent’s) Rahul More (PhD) Toqir Mukhtar (BSc Leeds; MSc Lond.) Nicola Murphy (BA DeMont.) Accommodation and Facilities Manager John Nandris (MA, PhD Camb.; Doctor Honoris Causa Sibiu, Transylvania) FSA Ed Nash, (MA St And.; MSc Edin.) Erika Kristin Nitsch (BA Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Canada) Jeremy Peter Northover MA, DPhil Razvan Novacovschi, (PhD Sibiu) IT Manager Paulina Nowicka, (BSc Gothenburg; MS, PhD Lund, Sweden) Mark O’Shea, (BA Dubl.; BM, BS Nott.; PhD Camb.) MRCGP DCH DRCOG College Doctor James Pettifer MA Clare Pollard DPhil (MA Camb.) Ian Pugh (BA Derby) Academic Administrator Manisha Premnath (BSc, MSc Bombay; PhD Pune) Mahimapati Ray Rai (BA Delhi; MA Jawaharlal Nehru, Delhi)
16 Lucia Raspe Laurence Robb(BSc, MSc, PhD Witwatersrand) Liana Saif (BA Jordan; MA, PhD Lond.) John Samuel William Scott-Jackson (MSc, PhD Oxf. Brookes) David Sclar (PhD City Univ. New York) Yaacov Shapira Sachinder Mohan Sharma (BE Inst. Engineers, India; MPA National, Singapore) Ochintya Sharma (Btech Nat. Inst. Technology, Warrangal; MS Illinois Inst. Technology, Chigago) Paul Shore (MA Yale; PhD Stanford) Krista Slade ((BA, MA Toronto) Matthew Snape (MMMS, MD Melbourne) Suzanne Straebler, College Independent Welfare Advisor Amy Styring (BSc Exe; PhD Brist.) Simon Swain MA, DPhil FBA Alan Taylor (MSc, PhD) Sergei Tochlin MSc Sarah Louise Turnbull (PhD Toronto) Giovanna Vitelli (BA R’dg; PhD Harvard) Robert Elwyn James Watkins (BSc Salf.; DPhil Sus) Alasdair Watson (BA Lond.; MSc Edin.) Premila Webster DPhil (MBBS Madras; MSc Lond.) Julia Wigg MA (MA Lond.) Michael Wigg Roger Wyn-Jones MA
Associate Members
Malgorzata Bialokoz Smith Lanna Cheng DPhil Sue Hodgson (BA Wales; DipEd Sheff; MA Oxf.Brookes) Clodagh Jakubovics Mary Juel-Jensen Janine Lee MA (MA Lond.) José Patterson Helen Saunders-Gill William Tollett
17 GRADUATE SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS
Students who were engaged in a course of study at St Cross during the academic year 2014-2015
2000 Szeverenyi, Vajk Peter MA (MA)
2002 Hebbert, Benjamin Mark (BSc Lond.Guild.; MMus Leeds)
2004 Barisin, Ivana (MSc Ulster)
2005 McGill, Darryl Andrew (BSc, MBBS Univ. NSW; PhD Austr. National Univ.) Solywoda, Stephanie Lynn (BA Smith Coll, Mass)
2006 Jun, Jiweon MSc (BA Seoul National Univ.) Lowe, Alexandra Dorothea MPhil (BA Open)
2007 Gregory, Justin Paul MSc (BSc Oxf. Brookes) Hamilton, Julie BA Locascio, Philip Francesco (BSc UMIST. MSC Westminster) Loughry, Robert Joseph (BA Colorado; MSE Seattle) Rees, Griffith Sewall (BA) Rizkallah, Rafik Ramsis Annis MSc
2008 Bhambra, Manmit (MSc /BSc LSC) Bovell, Virginia Margaret (MA Lond.; MSc York) Dahl, Anna Caroline Elizabeth (BSc Edin.) Du, Mi (MEng Sheff.) Jo, Yong Mie (Nichola) MSc Kozak, Ladislav (BA Toronto) Kulvmann, Jesper (MSc) Penrose, Sefryn BA (MA Brist.) Rappak, Natalia Schorle, Katia (MPhil) Vider, Jaanika BA
2009 Ahmad, Norainie (MSc Lond.) Andjelkovic, Maja (MLaw Kent) Andrianova, Varvara (BA Louisiana State) Ashraf, Saquab (MA SOAS Lond.) Beach, Brian Alvis (MA Univ. NC, Chapel) Chan, Mun Chiang (BSc Brist.) Chen, Haoyu (BEng Dalian) Chung, Soo Min (MSc)
18 Czyz, Witold Wojciech (BSc Cardiff) Di Rodi, Morgan Michele Daniel (BA) Do, Hyun-Woong Hawari, Aliah Hazmah Binti (BSc, MA Kebangsaan) Hogue, Joshua Todd (MSc Lond.) Inboden, Rana Ann Hing-Jun Siu (BA Georgetown, MA Stanford) Jonson, Trent Maxwell Huram MPhil Karki, Shrochis (BA) Kocher, Paul Tilman (MA) Kubo, Teppei (MA Lond.) Le Febvre, Emilie Kathleen (MA Il Ben Gurian, Negev) Lotharukpong, Chalothorn (BEng Lond.) Majed, Rima Mohamad (BA Amer. Univ. Beirut) Marsh, Bradley John Jr MSt (MA Oral Roberts) Marsh, Kimberly Stephanie (BA Singapore, MA Leeds) McClung, Rebecca Alexandra (MA Kentucky, MSc Edin.) McQuinn, Brian Peter (MA US Notre Dame) Meng, Ke Moore, James Daniel Paul (MSc Durh.) Paget, Daniel Jerome BA, MSc Palmer, Duncan Stuart Sinclair (MSt Warw.) Pritchard, Eleanor Mary (MPhil Lond.) Styer, Steven Andrew (BA Texas, MA) Subianto, Landry Haryo (MA Essez) Wehby, Jennifer Leigh (BA, MSc Georgia) Wiebel, Jacob MSc (BA Lond.)
2010 Abdul Jawad, Sultan (MSc Aberdeen) Ally, Masud BA, MA (MSc) Baker-Hytch, Max Rupert Owain (MA/BA Exeter) Batchelor, Charlotte Claire (MS) Bohingamuwa, Wijerathne Bohingamu Herath Mu (MA) Bull, Katherine Rose (BA) Carveley, Kenneth Cyril (DPhil Leeds) Challinor, Dana (MSc Lond.) Cirstea, Teodor-Matei Collins, Katharine Alice Dahlsjo, Cecilia Anna Linnea (BSc) Ding, Zi Qian (MSc) Djerasimovic, Sanja Duchi Llumigusin, Diego Armando Duchi Elby, Tristan Edward (MSt) Espinoza Revollo, Patricia Claudia (MPhil)
19 Facchini, Raffaella Maria Hager, Kathryn Alexandra (MA) Hancock, Gemma Henson, Katherine Elizabeth MSc Honti, Frantisek (BSc Bath) Jayaraj, Maria Sangeetha BCMed, MBA St John’s Med. Coll.) Johansen, Anniken Marie Henriksdatter (MA) Kasseri, Alexandra (MA) Kim, Taehoon (MSc) Koelbel, Andrea (MBA) Kotarba-Morley, Anna Maria (MA Kracow) Krakowka, Kathryn Ann MSc (BSc. MSc) Lloyd, David Lodwick, Lisa Ann (BA) Martin, Nicole Sylvia MSc (BA) Nockles, Victoria Oesch, Nathaniel Tillman Ostendorff, Daniel Alan (MA Queen’s Belfast) Palmer, Thomas John (BA, MA York) Pimentel, Marco Andre Figueiredo (MEng) Puzey-Broomhead, Philippa Maria Dorothea Rafiq, Adnan (MPhil) Rogozhina, Anna (MSt) Segaren, Nathaniel (MA Johns Hopkins) Sovdat, Tina (BA) Stokes, Elizabeth Ann Straulino, Daniel Szekely, Aron (MSc) Ustek, Funda (MSc) Van Schaik, Sebastiaan Johannes (MS Utrecht) Verma, Akash Wiersma, Wybo MSc (MA) Williamson, Zachary James (MPhys) Wisetsuwannaphum, Sirikarn (MChem) Wright, Laura Jayne (MPhys Durh.) Ziriax, Margaret Ruth
2011 Aid, Thaddeus (BSc R’dg) Anastasi, Maxine Raimondina Trenchard (BA, MA Malta) Antrobus, Richard (BA Birm.) Arndt, Sabine (MA Amsterdam) Atoyan, Tigran (BA, MSc McGill) Bellander, Magnus Lars Jonas (MSc Lond.)
20 Bin Mohd Nasir, Nazirudin (MSt) Bonchev, Ivan Boyanov (BA Sheff.) Britton, Judy Louise (BSc Leic.) Bulbrook, Daniel (BSc Lond.) Caputo, Alessandro Thanasis (BA Melbourne) Chalei, Vladislava (BSc Edin.) Chan, Kai Hoo (MSc Lond.) Chou, Dean (MA Alabama) Chow, Zhan Lou (BSc York) Cliff, Emily Rose (MSc Toronto) Cottle, Amy Masumi (MA Camb.) Cresci, Irene (MSc) D’Andrea, Paola (BA, MA Degli Studi di Milano) De Feo-Giet, Danielle Karanjeet Julie (MA Harvard) De Teixeira Carrelha, Joana Isabel Devisscher, Tahia (MSc Lund) Doherty, Christina Marie (BSc Dublin City) Duering, Andreas MSt (MA Eberhard Karls) Duglan, Drew (BSc Birm.) Fadeev, Sergey Mikhaylovich (BA, MA, DPhil Nizhny Novgorod) Filip, Marina Rucsandra (BEng Bucharest) Filipova, Rumena Valentinova MPhil (BA Camb.) Fiske, Peter Nicholas (MA Leiden) Floe, Hilary (BA, MSt) Galeazzi Gonzalez, Juan Manuel (MSc Groningen) Gavriliouk, Tatiana (BA, MSt) Gray, James Andrew Russell (MSc Brist.) Handsel, Jennifer (MChem Sur.) Hartley, Nicholas John (MSc Lond.) Henderson, Rowena Claire (MSc York) Hill, Donal (MA Belf.) Jetter, Janina (MA Albert Ludwigs Univ.) Kirkpatrick, Katherine BA, MSt Korzycka, Karolina Anna (MChem Lodz) Krause, Anna Christine MSt (MA Missouri) Laranjeira Gomes, Simao Jacques (MA Lond.) Lou, Ieng Tak (MSc Edin.) Mansor, Latt Shahril (MA Columbia) Mills, William Gundry Mohd Yusof, Hanis Ayuni Binti (MEng Malaya) Nibber, Anjan O’Higgins, Aoife Anais (MA) Pachal, Katherine Elizabeth (BSc Victoria, BC)
21 Reschen, Michael Edward (BSc, BMed Nott.) Rottwilm, Philipp Moritz Sakai, Yurika (MSc Durh.) Sawyer, Craig Anthony (MSc Camb.) Searle, Andrew David Sha, Zhe MSc (BSc Xi nan) Sherr-Ziarko, Ethan Samuel MPhil Shim, Jaemin (MPhil) Stenson, Laura Catherina Subramaniam, Sumithra (MSc Lond.) Suciu, Maria Cristina (MSc Lond.) Tan Chia Chun, Desmond (MEd Aberd.) Tirfoin, Remi Antoine (MChem Pierre et Marie Curie) Tobin, Vincent Redmond (MSc Lond.) Tompkins, Abigail Elizabeth Insul MSt (BA Durh.) Trick, Jemma Louise (MBioch) Walker Vadillo, Veronica (PG Dip Oberta de Catalunya) Wang, Pengyu (MPhil Camb.) Wang, Yunqi (MSc Stanford) Weiss, Miriam (MSc Georg-August) Wheatley, Lucy (MBioch) Wragg, Stefany (MPhil Camb.) Wu, Kuan-Jung (BSc National Taiwan) Yang, Xuezheng (MSc Lond.) Zuliani Alvarez, Lorena (MSc Lond.)
2012 Ambuehl, Antonietta (MSc) Bartels-Bland, Cara Viola (MA Glas.) Baymul, Cinar (MSc Manc.) Blight, Joshua Miles (BSc Lond.) Borghese, Federica Burgess, Samuel Charles (MPhil Camb.) Castro, Juan Francisco (MSc Lond.) Chanwattana, Thakonwat (BSc Mahidol) Cheung, Ka Lun (MPhil Ch. Univ. Hong Kong) Cheung, Shu-Faye (MSc Camb.) Chim, Yick Gee Philea (MSc) Choi, Kayoung (BSc Adv. Inst. Sci. and Tech. Korea) Coutinho, Maria Ester Freitas Barbosa Pe (Eu. Bacc. Porto Univ.) Cowburn, Gillian Elizabeth De Sousa Pinto, Joao Moreira MSc (BSc Warw.; BSc do Porto) Dhaliwal, Puneet (MPhil) Dong, Jing (BA Beijing)
22 Donnelly, Victoria Anne (MPhil Camb.) Dunbar, Danielle (MA Stellenbosch) Edwards, Kyle Tierney (BA Princeton) Fernandez, Lydia Emmeline (MA Warw.) Ferri, Carlo (MA INALCO France) Fung, Timothy Hoi Min (BMed/BSurg - Leic.) Galson, Jacob (BA) Gillin, Edward John (MPhil Camb.) Gonzalez dos Santos, Miguel EU MSc Habisreutinger, Severin Niklas (BSc, MSc Munich) Haji Ibrahim, Khairunnisa Binti (MSc Leics.) Hallack Miranda Pureza, Andre (BEng, MEng) Hameed, Asad (MSc/BA Rawalpindi) Hamilton, Alexander BA Hammack, Stephen Aubrey (MA East Carolina) Hasnain, Saher (MSc Pennsylvania) Hayton, Gemma (BSc Anglia Ruskin) Heng, Jeremy Jian Min (BSc Lond.) Hobbs, Eleanor (BSc Lond.) Hoekzema, Renee (MSc Utrecht) Homsy, Victoria Rose Marie (BSc Lond.) Huda, Mohammed Saif (Bmed Liv.; MRCP – Lond.) Jeffrey, Amy (MSc Royal Holloway & Bedford New College) Johnston, Andrew James (MA Lond.) Kerr, Alastair George (MSc Brist.) Khan, Amjad (MSc) Khanina, Anna (MA Lond.) Kidd, Natasha Ann (BA, MA Lond.) Kirchhelle, Charlotte Elisabeth Marie (BSc, MSc Tech. Univ. Munich) Kraljic, David (MSc Camb.) Lee, Patricia Tung (BA UC Riverside) Liu, Ruiliang (MSc Northwest Univ.) MacEwen, Clare Rosemary (BA, BMed) Mallet, Sarah (MSc) Matharu, James (BSc LSE) McGowan, Erin Ruth (BA, MA Melbourne) McGregor, Kirstie Ann Forbes (MPhil) Miller, Mary Sadb Bernadette (MSc) Mistry, Rupal (BSc Lond.) Mohammad, Talal (MA City) Montgomery, Anna Barbara Kay (BSc Strath.) Newson, Martha MSc (BSc Suss.) Norris, Charles Ashley (BS AU National)
23 Ortiz, Gregory Robert (BA North Park) Patta, Vaia (MA Aristotle) Pearce, Nicholas Mark (MA) Perez De Arcos, Marina (MPhil) Phanumartwiwath, Anuchit (MSc Brist.) Picco, Noemi (MA/BA Polit di Torino) Pignot, Matthieu (MSt) Pino Emhart, Alberto Antonio Ignacio (MA Duke) Popescu, Iulia Andreia (MA/BA Timisora) Potts, Robert James (MA Edin.) Powell, Andrew (MPhys Warw.) Raj, Ritu (MA) Ramirez-Rozo, Juan (MPhil KCL) Ringheim, Hannah Leftheris (BA George Washington) Sainsbury, Victoria Alice (MSc) Salman, Ahmed Mahmoud (MSc Ain Shams University Egypt) Seminog, Olena MSc (MSc) Sheard, Catherine Elizabeth (BSc Yale) Sim, Anne-Marie (BA, MSc) Sishuwa, Sishuwa Dipak (MSc) Smith, Sian Elizabeth Horan (MA/BA Exe.) Spath, Katharina Eva (MSc Edin.) Stansbie, Daniel James (MA Wales) Stoicescu, Claudia (MSc) Stroud, Elizabeth Anne (MSc Lond.) Tanner, Rachel Louise BA Tuck, Sean Lewis Umoren, Imaobong Denis (BA, MA Lond.) Vaiglova, Petra (MSc) Van Dalm, Laura Eline Volkmar, Norbert Wang, Yiduo (BSc Shandong) Watts, Isobel (BA) Wheater, Katharine (BA, MPhil) Whiteman, Oliver (BA SOAS) Wiltsche, Clemens (MSc SZ ETH) Wojciechowski, Konrad (MSc – Jagiellonian, Kracow) Woodruff, Philip Nicholas (BA Kent) Wu, Sarina (MPhil Cambridge) Zheng, Zhong (MSc York) Zhou, Yu (BEng, MEng Wuhan) Zhou, Xiaofei (BSc Fudan University)
24 2013 Ababneh, Nida’a Anwar Mohammad (MSc Jordan) Abebe, Lealem Mersha (BA, MA Addis Ababa) Adamson, Christopher James MA Ahrend, Jan Marten (MSc Birm.) Anttila, Aleksi Ilari (MA St. And.) Askonas, Jonathan David (BA/BSc Georgetown) Baldi, Alexandra Elizabeth (BA SOAS) Balgova, Maria (BA Camb.) Balin, Andrew Kaan (MPhys Warw.) Barker, Camilla Rose (MA Harvard) Bear, Brittany Alyson (BA Washington) Behar, Dominic (BA Lond.) Bello, Erica (MSc Newc.) Bengtzen, Hans Martin Jorgen (MLaws Stockholm) Bernardo-Ciddio, Leah (BA York Univ. Toronto) Bhattacharya, Subhankar (MPhil Jadavpur, India) Bobic, Ana MJur Bolliger, Lennart (BA Econ. Geneva) Bruzelius, Cecilia (MSc Lond.) Colopy, Glen Wright MSc Cook, John Leslie Laidlaw (MA Melbourne) Curello, Gregorio (MA Barcelona) Cuthbertson, Patrick MSt D’Amico, Marzia (MA IT Uni degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’ ) Donnelly Moran, Patrick Edward (BA Chicago) Doolittle, Helen Jane MA Drummond, Ross (MA Lond.) Eddy, Rohit Philip (MSc Univ. Southern California) El Taraboulsi, Sherine Nabil (MA American Univ in Cairo) Elul, Shaltiel (MChem IL Bar-lian) Evans, Timothy MA Fenech, Emma Joanne (BSc, MSc Durh.) Ferry, Quentin MSc Ford, Oliver BA, MA Gerlach, Alice (BA Hobart, Tasmania) Godwin, Samantha (MA Lond.) Gola, Anita MSc Graham, Jordan Enya (BA McGill) Green, Laura (MA Lond.) Gross, Isaac Lionel Webster (BSc Melbourne) Hartmann, Amelie Felicitas (BA Leipzig) Hauck, Sofia BA He, Yiling (BA, MA Lille)
25 Hector, Andre (MSc Lond.) Hildebrand, Carl Henry (MA Ottawa) Hirst, Jennifer (BSc St. And.) Hyun, Jean Young (MA Harvard) Imamura, Satoshi (BA, MA Tohoku Univ. Japan) Iro, Mildred Adaku Janulis, Klint Edward (BA Colorado) Jiao, Xiyu (MSc Lond.) Jolliffe, John David (MChem Newc.) Joyce, Henry Horatio (BA Chicago) Kamau, Musheer Olatunji (MA Tufts Univ. Massachusetts) Kesseli, Pascal (BSc ETH Zurich) Khadria, Anjul (MSc Lond.) Kilerci, Basak (MA Bosphorus) Kniess, Johannes Eduardo MSc Kwok, David Yiu Kwong (MA Hong Kong) Lai, Chun Sing (BEng Brunei) Lau, Sze Yeung BSc, MSc Lond.) Lavista, Veronica (BLaw, MLaw New York) Lee, Seungyoon (BA U Yonsei, S Korea) Leipold, Bruno (MA Lond.) Leung, Karlson King-tao (BABritish Columbia) Li, Ang (MSc Edin.) Lic, Agnieszka Anna (MA SOAS) Lim, Yuan Chong Jason (BSc Lond.) Long, Graham Alexander (MA St And.) Luptak, Adam (BA Lond.) Mann, Anica (MA) Martin, Natalie Grace (BA Auckland) Martinez, Andrew Bartholomew (BA Guilford Coll.) Martinho, Antone (BA Harvard) Melia, Michael Bryant (MA St And.) Mezzano, Giovanni (BPhil Sorbonne) Milana, Irene (BA Univ degli Studi di Roma) Miller, Vail Lauren (BA Univ.Calif.) Morris, Julia Caroline (PGCE Durh.) Mysoor, Poorna (MA SOAS) Newport, Thomas BA Obermeier, Katharina Emma (BA British Columbia) Ott, Cameron Keeley (BA Barnard Coll.) Pallis, Dimitrios (BTheol Athens) Papazian, Hrag Vatche (BA Lebanese American) Potter, Anthony Michael MSc
26 Proudfoot, Malcolm (BMed Lond.) Qin, Xiao (BSc Peking) Quesada-Alpizar, Tomas (MSc Lond.) Ramakrishnan, Ketan (BA Harvard) Raul, Pranoy Pratik (BEng, MEng Inst of Sci, Bangalore) Ravishankar, Mathura (BA McGill) Reynolds, Jacob (BA Sheff.) Riley, Brendan Dominic Rancy (BA St Francis Xavier Univ., Canada) Robinson, Rachel Elizabeth (BA Barnard Coll.) Roushanbakhti, Ahria (BSc S’ton) Ruffmann, Claudio (IT Univ Milano Bicocca) Saakyan, Anna Gevorkovna (MSc Moscow State) Sachschal, Julianne (Higher Humboldt) Salaru, Maria Alexandra MSc Sawkar, Smriti (BA Lady Sri Ram) Schneider, Patrick Michael (BA New South Wales) Schnittker, Christian Hugo (BA Camb.) Severin, Philip (DPhil) Sheng, Yuewen (BSc Jiao Tong Univ. Shanghai) Shurville, Jennifer (BA, MA Lond.) Simmonds, Emily Grace (MSc Lond.) Sims, Geoffrey James (MSc, PGCert Chichester) Sissons, Katherine Elizabeth BA, MSc Smith, Richard David James BA (Harvard) Sorlie, Karin Elisabeth (MA Oslo) Tertytchnaya, Katerina MPhil Terziyan, Chantal Mari (NA Bogazici) Thomsen, Soren Sloth (BA, MSc Camb.) Tiley, Alfred Leif Toumazou, Sophia Irenee (MA Manc.) Van Bruggen, Paul (BSc Utrecht) Wettach, Lena MA White, Paul (BSc - Leeds) Wolf, Achim (MSc York) Wu, Wenchuan (MSc Tsinghua Univ. Beijing) Xia, Yang (BSc Berkeley) Xie, Lei (BSc Peking) Ying, Siqi (BEng Nott.) Zimmer, Jutta Patricia (BSc Phillips Univ. Marbug) Zhang, Dong (BSc Brist.) Zhang, Hanlin (BSc Peking) Zhu, Ling (BSc, MA Sichuan) Zorkot, Mira Ata (BSc, MA American Univ. Beirut)
27 2014 Aggleton, Jessye Anna BA Ahmad Faizzan Syed (MSc CUNY Queens) Alves, Eduardo MSc Anamwathana, Panarat (BA Lond.; BA Pennsylvania) Annabell, Paul Eyang (BCL, BSc Melbourne) Aravind, Sakshi (BCL National Law School, Bangalore) Arevalo Botero, Mateo (MSt St And.) Arndt, Alexander Hayes (BA Los Angeles) Aye, Yee Latt (BA Univ. California) Baden-Powell, Ventia Lakshmi Radhika (MA Edin.) Balme, Henry Brian (BA City) Barritt, David Philip William MSt (BA Lond.) Bateman, Mary Isabelle (BA Lond.) Batsumber, Munkhjin (MN) Belak, Viktorija (BA Sheff.) Belle, Roman (MSt Nijmegan ) Bhatia, Udit (BA Delhi; MA Lond.; MPhil Camb.) Bierman, Raynette Nicole (MA St And.) Bin Norjoharuddeen, Nurfikri (MSc Lond.) Bochu, Annie (BSc Lond.) Boehm, Emilia BA MSc Bos, Kristen Nicole (BA Toronto) Bovornchutichai, Phurit (BEng Chulalongkorn Univ. Bangkok) Bramwell, Stuart Gordon (BA Suss.: MA Glas.) Brast-McKie, Benjamin Lev Pueo (BA Brandeis Univ. Waltham, Mass) Bridges, Fraser (BA Essex) Bruce, Samuel John (BA Uni. Maastricht) Bryan, Allison Lynn (BSc Bowling Green State Univ. Ohio) Butti, Elena (BA Uni Utrecht Middelburg) Cardiff, Cassandra Miriam (BA Dalhousie Univ. Canada) Carr-Trebelhorn, Julia Anne (BA Rochester Inst. of Tech.; BA, MA Kentucky) Chen, Cheng (BSc) Chen, Jinfeng (MSc Edin.) Chen, Xiaoqing (BA Tsinghua Univ. Beijing) Chepkwony, Caroline Chepngetich (BA) Cherneva, Lidiya Aleksandrova (BA York) Chiu, Rong-Bing (BA National Taiwan Univ.) Choi, Yoonha (Andrew) (BA Georgetown) Chu, Brian Tze Chuen (MA Lond.) Coates, James (BEng McGill) Coleman, Miles Adam (BA Brist.) Collier, Jamie Sebastian (BA Nott.)
28 Cook, James Edward Timothy (BEng Lond.) Coombs, Beth (BSc York) Cooray, Navin (BA, BSc Queensland) Cristante, Elias (MA, BA) Cruz, Mariana Ilda Howorth Barbosa D (BCL Univ. Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon) D’Souza, Nikhil Harry (BCL Bangalore; MLaw Hamburg) Davies, Christopher MPhys De Silva, Harith Erantha Rishan (BA Columbia) De Wijer, Sophia Theodora (BA) Delaforce, Christopher Shaun (MSc E.Ang.) Diallo, Kanny (BSc, MSc Mcgill) Ding, Xuejie MPhil (BA Macau) Di Qual, Anna Dogra, Mandvi (BA) Dunham, Jessica (MA Durh.;BA Minnesota) Dury, Jack Percival Richard (BSc York) Eberz, Simon BA (MSc) Edwards, Alexander William Joseph Howel BA Eichinger, Natasche Maria (MSc Lond.) Ezeh, Ugochukwu Raymong (BCL Lagos) Fabiano, Joao Lourenco De Araujo (BPhil, MPhil SanPaulo, Brazil) Fallon, Rebecca Hollibaugh (BA Williams Univ.) Fannon, Zoe Veronica BA Farmanov, Farman (MSt Manc.) Ferreira, Rodrigo Hora Gomes (BA SanPaulo, Brazil; MSc Brist.) Finnerty, Peter Francis (BA Southern Methodist Univ. Dallas) Francis, Marie-Louise Rosina MSc (BSc Keele) Frey, Anna-Lena (BA R’dg.) Frode, Karin (BCL Essex) Fry, Anna Katja Zoe (BSc Lond.) Fu, Chi Ho (BCL Leic.) Gan, Yee Min (BSc Durh.) Gatten, Mark Joshua (BA) Ghosalkar, Sanskruti Sunil (BA) Goudreau, Amelia (BCL) Granshaw, Susan Elizabeth MSc (BA Durh.: BSc, MSc Open) Guo, Ang (BSc, MSc Jilin, China) Hamer, Benjamin Francis (BA Durh.) Han, Manjae (BA Camb.) Hansen, Kristoffer Mousten BA (MSt de Rey Juan Carlos Univ. Madrid) Harding, Robert Graham (BA, MPhil Camb.) Harper, Emma BA
29 Harrison, Hannah (MSc Lond.) Hayashi, Yoshiyuki Head, George Peter (BA Newc.) Healy, Conor (BCL) Herold, Viktoria Susanne (MA Edin.) Holcroft, Richard Stanley (BA Durh.) Hopkins, Sean MSt Howells, Thomas (Max) David (BA Liv.; MA Lond.) Hutchinson, Christopher MA Ioffe, Iuliia (BA, MSt; MLaw Taras Shevchenko Univ. Ukraine; MLaw Harvard) Iqbal, Anam (BSc Lond.) Islam, Tazin Trisha (BA McGill) Izquierdo Tort, Santiago (BA Instituto Tec. Autonomo de Mexico) Jain, Himanshu (DPhil Inst. Science, Bangalore) Jaric, Jelena Borivoja (BA, DPhil Macedonia; MA Budapest) Jetley, Saumya (BCE Pune, India) Jin, Celina (BA Melbourne) Jin, Xiao Joelsson, Hanna Irmelin ( BA Gothenburg; MA Lond.) Johnson, Alexandra Christina (BA Florida State Univ.; MSc Sheff.) Jones, Mathew Lee (BSc Nrthamtn) Kamath, Veena Kulur Jagadish Chan (BA Kandasamy, Rama Narayan (BA Sydney) Kebede, Michael Kelly, Maria Grace (BSc Birkbeck; MSc Lond.) Keosavang, Bouphanimith Killen, Abigail Charlotte (MSc Lond.) Kinchen, James (BA Camb.; Bmed Lond.) Klatzow, James Justyn (BA Cape Town; MSt Camb.) Klosowski, Milosz Jan (BA Dublin) Koenig, Franca (BA Maastricht) Kramer, Yuval (BA, MA Tel Aviv) Krijgsman, Marten MPhil (MA Glas.) Kruger, Matthew John BCL (BA KwaZulu-Natal) Kubie, Oenone MSt (BA Durh.) Kuga, Kimiko (BA, MA Keio Univ. Japan) La, Yeonjoo (BA Korea) Ladwig, Marie (BSc Lond.) Larke, Martin Stephen (BSc Sheff.) Lawrence, Rebecca (BA Camb.) Lefebvre, Marnina Tanya (MA Sydney; MA Macquarie, Sydney) Lewis, Eleanor Jane (BA Lond.)
30 Li, Jingwen (BSc Birm.; BSc Beijing) Liberatore, Riccardo (BA Durh.; MA Lond.) Liew, Andre Ying-Song (BA Queensland) Love, Rebecca (BSc) Lunz, Kristina (BSc Johannes Guttenburg Univ.) MacAonghusa, Maggie (BCL Galway) MacMillan, Douglas Middleton (DPhil Sur.; DMus Royal College of Music) Maier, Alexander (BA Freie Universitat Berlin) Malone, Joanna Louise (BSc S’ton) Marais, David Erasmus (BCL Stellenbosch Univ. SA) Marmolejo Cossio, Francisco Javier (BA Harvard) Marshall, Joshua (BCL Manc.) Martin, Thomas Nicholas Mastroianni, Adam (BA Princeton) McDermott, Lucy (BSc Manc.) McGough, Jennifer Rebecca Lee (BA Cornell) McKittrick, Jordan Hall Felton (BA Washington & Lee Uni.; BSc Columbia) Mendez Lopez, Ana (BA Uni. Complutense de Madrid) Middleton, Alexander Luke (BSc Wales) Mirza, Qurat-ul-Ann (BA Lond.) Mitchell, Corinne Amanda (BA Washington Univ. St Louis) Moore, Timothy Luke (BSc Lond.; MA York) Mozes, Ferenc Emil (BEng, MSc Petru Major Univ. Romania) Mukherjee, Sayan (BL Gujarat National Law Univ. India) Murray, Sarah (BA, BSc Glas.) Mwesigwa, Brian (PGDipl) Naik, Prachi Nasilyan, Meri (MA Ng, Jean Hui (BA Chicago) Ng, Michael Tsz Hin (BSc Birm.; MSc Aberd.) Nguyen, Hanh Ha (BA Amsterdam; MA Maastricht) Nusselder, Ward (BA) O’Docherty, Neil (MA, MStL Glas.) Okada, Takuya Osborne Dikerden, Aydin Emre BA Osei, Adjoa (BA Lond.) Parlasca, Markus (BA Camb.) Parsons, Sam (MSc Oxf.Brookes) Paulsen, Tine Nansen (BA New York Univ.) Pearson, Michelle Anna (BA Harvard) Pendleton, Carlie (BA Randolph-Macon College, Virgina)
31 Perrin, Thomas Michael (BA Leic.) Plan, Jasper (BA Trinity College Dublin) Poiesz, Vienna (BA Berkeley) Powell Davies, Rosie Ellen BA Pullicino Orlando Smith, Jennifer (MSc Lond.) Purvis, Lucian MChem Quinn, Genevieve Alma (BA Trinity College, Hertford Conecticut; MSc Lond.) Raj, Prema Ramachandran (BA Warw.) Randall, Helen Josephine (BA SOAS) Rasovic, Ilija MEng Richardson, Evelyn BA Robbe, Pauline (BA, MSc Montpellier, France) Rohrhofer, Raphaela Sophia (BA Vienna; AT; MA Courtauld) Ryan, Stephen Nicholas (BA Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) Sacca, Elena (BA Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) Sager, Tia (BA British Columbia) Santander, Cindy Gilda (MPhil Camb., BA Redlands Univ. California) Semchuk, Liana (BA De Paul Uni. Chicago) Sheldon, Alexandra Aversa (BA US Trinity College, Hertford, Conecticut) Sher, Varshita (BSc Delhi) Shi, Yunqi (BA Warw.) Shimamura, Hanako MSt (BA Jochi Univ. Japan) Shlyk, Alena (BA Belarus State Univ.; MA Universitat Kassel, germany) Skorka, Melissa Laine (BA California) Sluganovic, Ivo (BA, MA Zagreb) Smallman, John Donald (BA Sheff.) Smith, Laura Clare (BSc Newc.) Smith, Mark Alexander BA Sojref, Maja (BA Lond.) Solimena, Paola (BA) Sookdeosingh, Rhea Veronica (BA Toronto; MA Lond.) Spodaru, Silvia (MA Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris) Sridhar, Akshay (BEng India) Stallone, Kiran Devi (BA Barnard College New York) Statz, Kaitlin Ann (BA New College, Florida) Suleimenov, Galymzhan Svistunova, Daria Tamimova, May (BA American University of Beirut) Taylor, Aaron (BA) Thevenin, Pierre (BA) Thomas, Joaquin Teru BPhil (MSc, DPhil Chicago) Thompson, Elisabeth Margaret (BA Queensland)
32 Topouzova, Stanislava Gueorguieva MSc (BA Harvard; BA McGill) Tsai, Hsin-Ta (BA Berea College, Kentucky Tseng, Wen-Yi (MSc Chang-Gung Univ. Taiwan) Tsyupko, Anna (BA Camb.) Tudhope, Andrew Michael (BSc, BA Rhodes Univ. SA) Tufan, Ege Safak (BA Maastricht; MA Lond.) Ubl, Linus Benedikt Eberhard (BA Katholische Univ. Eichstatt, Germany) Unur, Murat BA Vacas Oleas, Jose (MSc Lond.) Valk, Julie MSc (BS Camb.) Vlahovicova, Kristina (BA) Von Gleichen, Rosa Frances Helena BA Walker, Chloe Samantha (BA Toronto; MPhil Cave Hill Campus, Barbados) Wallace, Martin Ian (BA, MA Lond.) Wang, Mingde (BCL Sichuan China; MA Leiden) Wehner, Kyle Sheridan (BA Colby College, Maine) Werner, Stefanie (MSc Friedrich Alexander Univ. Germany; BSc Bielefeld Univ. Germany) Wertheim, Jillian Alexander (BA Berkerley) Wheatley, Patrick Michael Philip (BA Sus.) Wicks, Anthony James (BA, BCL Otago, New Zealand) Wiessner, Megan (BA Fordham Univ. NY) Wijnands, Boudewijn Rudolph Hubert (BSc Amsterdam) Willcocks, Lewis James (BA Durh.) Willett, Meghan Ashley (BA Kansas) Williams, Brian Alan (ThM Regent Coll. Vancouver) Wilson, Christopher Thomas (BA Manc.) Wong, Charles Kian Hoe (MSt Chinese Univ. Hong King; MSt Nat. Univ. Singapore) Wong, Wai Kwan (MPhil) Wu, Pei-Jung (BA National Taiwan Normal Univ. Taipei) Young, Mei Ling Mary (BA Hong Kong) Zaharieva, Zhanet (BA Emory Univ. Atlanta) Zekoll, Stefanie Ulrike (MChem. Bath) Zhang, Peng (MA Manc.) Zhang, Qiang (BCE Jiao Tong Univ. Shanghai; MSt Camb.) Zhang, Yijia (BSc Beijing) Zhao, Chenyu (BA) Zhao, Yize (Moss) (BSc Baptist Uni. Hong Kong) Zhong, Shuran (BA Renmin Univ. Beijing) Zulfiqar, Hasan Mohammed Qureshi (BL Essex)
33 COLLEGE OFFICERS
Vice-Master Professor Rana Mitter Bursar Mr John Tranter Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions Dr Joanna Ashbourn Dean Professor Mark Robinson Deans of Degrees Dr Jim Williamson Professor Peter Mackridge Director of IT Dr Dan Olteanu (from 13 October 2014) Professor Marina Jirotka (to 12 October 2014) Librarian Ms Sheila Allcock Archivist Professor Emilie Savage-Smith Wine Steward Ms Maureen Doherty Garden Master Professor Mark Robinson President of Common Room Dr Petros Ligoxygakis Harassment Advisors Professor Glenn Swafford Dr Paloma Garcia-Bellido Publications Officer Dr Jim Williamson
MEMBERS OF STAFF
Master’s PA Mrs Lesley Sanderson Academic Administrator Mr Ian Pugh Admissions & Academic Assistant Mr Thomas Clews Academic Office Secretary Mrs Jenny Baxter (to 13 March 2015) Domestic Bursar Ms Suzy Hodge Bursary Administrator Miss Hannah Cooper (from 21 January 2015) Miss Emily Blackman (to 20 January 2015) Accommodation and Facilities Manager Mrs Nicola Murphy Accommodation Assistant Miss Lara Summerhill Events Administrator Mrs Flori Olteanu Director of Development Ms Susan Berrington Development and Alumni Relations Administrator Miss Emma Farrant Communications Assistant Miss Ella Bedrock Development and Database Assistant Miss Alice Robertson Accounts Manager Mrs Judith Ledger
34 Accounts Assistant Mr Toby Cherrill (from 1 July 2015) Miss Jessica Andrews (to 5 June 2015) Accounts Assistant Mr Timothy Doran Accounts Administration Assistant Mrs Laura Chesterman Accounts Administration and Events Assistant Ms Kathryn Deeley IT Manager Dr Razvan Novacovschi Maintenance Manager Mr Kenny Cox Maintenance Assistant Mr Donato Karwowski Head Porter Mr Paul Wicking Evening Porter Mr Tony Mead Weekend Porter Mr Ben Faycal Weekend Porter Mr Nikhil Sevak
STUDENT OFFICERS
Junior Deans Mr Peter Fiske Ms Abigail Tompkins Bar Manager Ms Hannah Ringheim Site Warden – Annexe Mr Teodor- Matei Cirstea (from 29th Sept 2014) Site Warden – Annexe Ms Mathura Ravishankar (from 1st May 2014) Site Warden – Annexe Ms Sophia Toumazou (from 18th July 2014) Site Warden – Stonemason Mr Asad Hameed (from 29th September 2014) Site Warden – Stonemason Mr Antone Martinho (from 29th September 2014) Site Warden – Stonemason Mr Joshua Blight IT Assistant – Main Site Mr Wybo Wiersma IT Assistant – Main Site Marten Krijgsman IT Assistant – Stonemason Mr Joshua Blight IT Assistant – Annexe Ms Anne-Marie Sim (from 29th September 2014)
35 DEGREES TAKEN
The following members of the College were awarded degrees during the academic year 2014 – 2015
2014 BCL Ingham, Oliver
DPhil * Acosta-Nielson, Colleen Denise Causes and consequences of maternal sepsis in the UK
Gruber, Claudia Investigation into the Regulatory Mechanism of BRCA2 Stability
* Langley, Michelle Claire Investigating Maintenance and Discard Patterns for Middle to Late Magdalenian Antler Projectile Points: inter-site and inter- regional comparisons
Mancilla-Garcia, Maria Pollution, Interests and Everyday Life in Lake Titicaca: Negotiating Change and Continuity in Social-Ecological Systems
Mark-Thiesen, Cassandra Onike Going for Gold in Colonial Ghana: Mechanised Mining and the Persistence of Precolonial Labour Relations, c. 1870s to 1910
* Mueller, Milena CSR Innovation: A Comparative Study of India and the UK
* Ryder, Nicholas Charles Measurement of the invisible width of the Z boson using the ATLAS detector
Trueck, Johannes B cell response to Pneumococcal Vaccines
Weissmueller, Nikolas Thomas Needle-free Vaccination: Formulation and Dermal Delivery of Diphtheria Toxin CRM197 Mutant
Woerner-Powell, Another Road To Damascus: An Integrative Thomas Richard George Approach to ‘Abd al-Qadir Al-Jaza’irt
36 * Wu, Guo Understanding the Role of Oxidation in Bonding of Aluminium Alloys
You, Zixi Split intransitivity in Old Japanese
* Zhao, Tao Investigation of Landslide-Induced Debris Flows by the DEM and CFD MPhil Mohamed-Ahmed, Olaa Allen, Matthew James Murrell, Kelsey Rene Krijgsman, Marten Platzman, Paul Bernard Lanier, Joshua Alexander Ryzhov, Andrey Von Berg, Maximilien Randolph Sariev, Eduard Georgiev Williams, Brian Alan Sarris, Konstantinos Ilias Toth, Daniel MSc Yuen, Wai Kai Zenobia Maggie Boehm, Emilia Zhang, Jiannan Cacali, Evan Regis Cardoso, Anabelle Williamson MSt * Crabtree, Adam Wallace David, Edward Anthony Ellison, James Daniel Mossallam, Mohammed Ahmed Fang, Hui Murphy, Sean Gachechiladze, Mariami * Woerner-Powell, Thomas Richard Gemmell, Laura Christine George Gupta, Tania Kotzias, Dimitrios MBA Li, Qiaochu * Sridhar, Srilekha * Liang, Limeng * Lu, Zhou BA Ma, Heidi Li * Gledhill, John Gary Mohamed, Fatimah Binti 2015
BCL Wicks, Anthony James (presented by St Anne’s) * Aravind, Sakshi Doyle-Markwick, Eleanor Rachel * Garvey, Killian Kevin * Goudreau, Amelia Kruger, Matthew John * Marais, David Erasmus
37 DPhil * An, Mi Young Income resources in later life in South Korea
Batchelor, Charlotte Claire Buying a Balance: The ‘Individual - Collective’ and the Commercial New Age Practices of Yoga and Sufi Dance
Bham, Saif Ahmed Shahab Role of Delta-like 4 in Solid Tumours and Response to Radiation Therapy
Bhambra, Manmit The social worlds and identities of young British Sikhs and Hindus in London
Chalei, Vladislava Investigating molecular mechanisms of Dali, an intergenic chromatin-associated lincRNA regulating genes locally and neural differentiation genome-wide
Dakin, Helen Angela Economic evaluation of factorial randomised controlled trials
Devenish, Annie Victoria Being, Belonging and Becoming: A Study of Gender in the Making of Indian Post-colonial Citizenship 1946-1961
* Ding, Zi Qian Large Area Vacuum Fabrication of Organic Thin-film Transistors
Estcourt, Lise Jane Risk Factors for Haemorrhage in Patients with Haematological Malignancies
Facchini, Raffaella Maria Investigating the Specific Roles of the Growth Factor Kit Ligand in the Regulation of Murine Haematopoiesis
Felce, James Hannes A Survey of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Stoichiometry
Fink, Robert Dion Evaluation of relational algebra queries on probabilistic databases: Tractability and approximation
Galicia Lopez, Oscar Synthesis and Trifluoromethylation of Allylsilanes
38 Grant, Clare Frances Jane Investigating primary and secondary B cell responses in cattle after immunisation with existing and novel vaccines
Hancock, Gemma Identification of Immunological Targets for HIV-1 Vaccine and Cure Strategies
Hawari, Aliah Hazmah Binti Metabolic Modelling of Tomato Fruit Ripening
Heinz, Sanda Sue The Statuettes and Amulets of Thonis- Heracleion
James, Rachel Elizabeth The effects of Neuroinflammation on the Subventricular Zone Neurogenic Compartment following Theiler’s Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus infection and its regulation by Galectin-3
Jeannet, Anne-Marie Therese Immigration and Public Opinion in Europe: The Case of the 2004 Enlargement
* Jonson, Trent Maxwell Huram A Numismatic History of the Early Islamic Precious Metal Coinage of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula
Karki, Shrochis Education and Employment: Transitional Experiences in Nepal
Kasseri, Alexandra Archaic Trade in the Northern Aegean: The case of Methone in Pieria, Greece
* Kelly, Tara Beth Plants, Power, Possibility: Manoeuvring the medical landscape in response to chronic illness and uncertainty
Kocher, Paul Tilman Nanoscale measurements of the mechanical properties of lipid bilayers
Li, Yang Understanding lineage-specific biology through comparative genomics
Liddle, Alexander David Failure of Unicompartmental Knee Replacement
39 Lodwick, Lisa Ann An Archaeobotanical Analysis of Silchester and the Wider Region Across the Late Iron Age-Roman Transition
Maczka, Melissa May Investigations into the effects of neuromodulations on the BOLD-fMRI signal
Marks, Zoe Elizabeth Zoog The Internal Dynamics of Rebel Groups: Politics of Material Viability and Organizational Capacity
Martin, Nicole Noelle Discrimination and ethnic group identity as explanations of British ethnic minority political behaviour
McQuinn, Brian Peter Inside the Libyan revolution: cognitive foundations of armed struggle
* Meng, Ke Political Institutions, Skill Formation and Pension Policy: The Political-Economic Logic of China’s Pension System
Moore, James Daniel Pau Viscoelastic modelling of crustal deformation
Ntusi, Ntobeko Ayanda Bubele Characterisation of Cardiovascular Involvement in Inflammatory Arthropathies and Systemic Rheumatic Diseases Using Multi-Parametric Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
* Onyambu, Frank Gekara Study of Platelet-Mediated Clumping Phenotypes of Plasmodium Falciparum- Infected Erythrocytes
Owen, Oliver Hugh The Nigeria Police Force: An institutional ethnography
Pritchard, Eleanor Mary Albanian law and Nation Building
Reuter, Victoria Agnes Penelope Differently: Feminist Re-visions of Myth
Ribeiro Fernandes, Hugo Jose Elucidating the role of GBA in the pathology of Parkinson’s disease using patient derived dopaminergic neurons differentiated from induced pluripotent stem cells 40 Rowan, Erica Stacey Roman Diet and Nutrition in the Vesuvian Region: A study of the bioarchaeological remains from the Cardo V sewer at Herculaneum
Rytel-Andrianik, Pawel Use of Isaiah in the Fourth Gospel in Comparison to the Synoptics and Other Places in the New Testament
Searle, Andrew David Application of Nanostructured Emitters for High Efficiency Lighting
* Sharma, Reetu Coordination of frontline workers for improving health of children in Rajasthan (India): A case study
Sinkkonen, Marja Elina Rethinking Chinese National Identity. The Wider Context of Foreign Policy making during the Era of Hu Jintao, 2002-2012
Sovdat, Tina Toward Understanding Speed, Efficiency and Selectivity in Retinal Photochemistry
Sui, Tan Thermal-mechanical behaviour of the hierarchical structure of human dental tissue
Ustek, Funda Invisibility, Struggle and Visibility: Women Workers’ Strategies for Survival in the Informal Sector
Wiebe, Jacob Revolutionary Terror Campaigns in Addis Ababa, 1976-1978
Wright, Carrie Carlotta Calcium isotopes in sheep dental enamel: a new approach to studying sheep weaning and dairying in the archaeological record
Yang, Jie Three Dimensional Perfused Cell Culture for in Vitro Toxicity Testing
MPhil Bolliger, Lennart Abebe, Lealem Mersha Crockett, Cailin Ann Askonas, Jonathan David * Donnelly Moran, Patrick Edward Behar, Dominic Graham, Jordan Enya Bernardo-Ciddio, Leah Gross, Isaac Lionel Webster
41 Jiao, Xiyu Wijnands, Boudewijn Rudolf Hubert * Karki, Shrochis Wilson, Christopher Thomas Leung, Karlson King-Tao Zhong, Shuran Levy, Yotam Eli Zimmer, Jutta Patricia Long, Graham Alexander Luptak, Adam MSt Matheou, Nicholas Stylianos Moyes Aggleton, Jessye Anna * Meng, Ke Balme, Henry Brian Milana, Irene Bateman, Mary Isabelle Miller, Vail Lauren Bos, Kristen Nicole Okilo, Idi Davies, Rosie Ellen Powell Robinson, Rachel Elizabeth Hamer, Benjamin Francis Schneider, Patrick Michael Harper, Emma Van Bruggen, Paul Herold, Viktoria Susanne Xie, Lei Johnson, Alexandra Christina * Zimmermann, Adam Brown Keravuori, Rose-Henrietta Powers McGough, Jennifer Rebecca Lee MA Mirza, Qurat-ul-Ann * Segaren, Nathaniel Naik, Prachi Kiran Ng, Jean Hui MSc * Richardson, Evelyn * Clancy, Charlotte Mary Cecilia Statz, Kaitlin Ann Coleman, Miles Adam Tsyupko, Anna Damren, Danielle Leigh Tudhope, Andrew Michael Hughes, Ross Ubl, Linus Benedikt Eberhard * James, Rachel Elizabeth Wertheim, Jillian Alexander Jordan, Joseph Wong, Chi Him (Gary) Koenig, Franca Lunz, Kristina MBA Maier, Alexander * Chandhok, Prabal * Mansour, Ali Guo, Rui Mok, Wesley Siu-Kay Mass, Eric Michael * Mwesigwa, Brian Shahpuri, Simren O’Hare, Alasdair Michael * Owen, Oliver Hugh BPhil Peringer, Katherine Olivia Matharu, James Fraser Rose, Timothy Paul * Ramakrishnan, Ketan * Saakyan, Anna Gevorkovna Reynolds, Jacob Sawkar, Smriti Shlyk, Alena * In Absentia * Shoar, Kya Sun, Benjamin Wai Ming Taylor, Aaron Andrew Arrowsmith
42 MASTER’S REPORT
The following is the text of the Master’s speech at the Founders’ Feast in Michaelmas term, 2015 and, as such, refers to some events that took place outside the current Record period.
I’d like to begin by welcoming the new Principal of Green Templeton College, Professor Denise Lievesley, and her husband Professor Roland Rosner. This is also an occasion to welcome and thank Judith Bogdanor to whom the College owes a great debt of gratitude for everything she has done as College Doctor. I would also like to salute Alan Jones, Founding Fellow of St Cross and our first Vice Master, who spoke so well at our anniversary dinner in October.
It is traditional on these occasions for the Master of the moment to look back over the past year and report on the main events of the year. 2015 is of course our 50th Anniversary year. We have celebrated in a variety of ways. With a grand dinner at which the Chancellor of the University Lord Patten also spoke, and with a remarkable and popular series of anniversary lectures. Thomas Heatherwick the internationally famous designer, spoke about his work; Susan Weber, founding Director of the Bard in New York, gave a lecture about John Lockwood Kipling; and our honorary fellow Dame Marina Warner spoke here in Pusey Chapel about St Helena and the Holy Cross. The generosity of her friends and colleagues from around the world meant that the College has been able to endow a lecture in memory of our former and Honorary Fellow Lorna Casselton. The inaugural lecture was given by Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel Laureate and President of the Royal Society.
Then there was the anniversary volume, ably edited by our archivist Emilie Savage- Smith, and authored by Tim Pound, George Deutsch and Diarmaid MacCulloch which came out to general acclaim early in the year. The anniversary medal by Felicity Powell has evoked a warm response from recipients and a poetry competition on the theme Ad Quattuor Cardines Mundi, conceived and run by Kate Venables, attracted impressive international entries and resulted in ‘Four Corners’ - the first volume of poetry to be published by the college.
Alumni of every generation, including our very first matriculated student, Professor Roger Kitching came to celebrate our 50th anniversary Gaudy. Professor Dame Hermione Lee and Professor Sally Mapstone, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education - both alumnae of the College – spoke; Diarmaid MacCulloch, Doug Wigdor, and Emilie Savage-Smith gave fascinating lectures, and we had a memorable evensong in Pusey Chapel.
The main event of the year has, I suppose, been progress on the West Quad. Last year I reported that we hoped ‘to go ahead with the construction of a new building’. The good news is that we have gone ahead: the new building is now very much a
43 reality. The concrete frame is finished, the views from the top floor are lovely, and the proportions of the rooms and public spaces seem, to me at least, very attractive. The glass-reinforced concrete mullions that surround the windows are being lifted into place, the blockwork is well underway and a formal topping out ceremony, conducted by the new Vice-Chancellor, is planned for the 15th January. I hope that next Summer we will all be able to enjoy the new rooms opening out onto what will once again be a lovely garden.
Fund-raising has gone well with a generous gift from our alumnus John Moussouris, through the Cephalos Foundation. Derek Roe left his fine collections of watercolours and glass to the College. We kept some of the best of both for the College and the remainder, as he wished, were sold, making a significant contribution to fund-raising for the West Quad.
Sue Berrington, our Director of Development, Rana Mitter and I have travelled the world in search of St Cross alumni. To the West Coast of the United States in November of last year; to New Delhi, Bangalore and Dubai early in the year; to Vienna and Boston; and more recently to Beijing, Taipei and Hong Kong. Wherever you go St Cross alumni are impressive indeed, with warm memories of the College. They get real pleasure from meeting other former students and are keen to support the College. This network will, I believe, be of growing value to our students in the future and will ensure the College a bright future.
New Fellows this year included John Tranter, our Bursar; Mark Stafford, a Pusey House Fellow; Jane Kaye, Professor and Director of the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies at Oxford; Lesley Forbes, our Art Registrar; Ursula Martin, Professor of Computer Science; Ho-Yin Mak, Associate Professor in Management Science at the Said Business School; Matthew Erie, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies; Tom Scott-Smith Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration; and An Van Camp, Assistant Keeper in Northern European Art at the Ashmolean Museum.
Our new Junior Research Fellows are Drs Jürgen Brem and Takao Sasaki, and visiting Fellows included Hugh Cairns, Amos Golan, Keith Suter and Seamus Miller. Sadly we lost two Emeritus Fellows: Adrian Roberts who was Keeper of Oriental Books at the Bodleian and our College Librarian, and Eric Whittaker, a Fellow from 1967 and Vice- Master of the College at the time of its move from the Hut to Pusey House. Eric was the first to elucidate the structure of Chrysotile or white asbestos, and Reader in Mineralogy in the Geology Department. We remember also Marguerite Blackwell, whose family gave so generously at the time of St Cross’ move to this site. Professors Dawn Chatty and Barry Parsons were elected to Emeritus Fellowships on their retirement earlier this year, and Professor Henrietta Harrison has, to our sadness, changed her job and moved to Pembroke.
44 Members of College won many distinctions last year, as every year. Diarmaid MacCulloch, whose latest successful television series ‘Sex and the Church’ went out on BBC 2 this year, is to be Vice President of the British Academy, for Public Engagement. Marina Warner was made a Dame and won the Holberg Prize. Hermione Lee won the Plutarch Award for her biography of Penelope Fitzgerald, Rana Mitter won the Duke of Westminster medal for his book China’s War with Japan; Anthony Geffen arranged for President Obama to interview David Attenborough; and Luciano Floridi won the Copernicus Scientist award for his work on the philosophy of information. Shelley Pearson and Jamie Cook were responsible for the sporting triumph of the year, winning the Boat race, twice over - in the women’s and men’s boats. In June we were glad to welcome back our alumnus Tim Foster, who rowed for Oxford in the 1997 Boat Race and who went on to win a gold medal in the Sydney Olympics. And that was not all. The three women’s boats won blades in Torpids and the men’s and women’s third boats won blades in the Summer Eights after bumping every day of the competition. Josh Marshall scored a try in Oxford’s victory over Cambridge in the 35th Annual Rugby League Varsity Match, Andrew Choi was awarded a half blue for Powerlifting; the College Cricket team won the 2nd Eleven Premier Division; and Foxes Women’s Football team - representing St Cross, St Antony’s, Wolfson, and Nuffield - won Cuppers against Pembroke and Corpus Christi, thanks to a winning goal by Hannah Ringheim.
Lastly I want to thank my colleagues here at St Cross: Rana Mitter whom the College is lucky indeed to have as Vice-Master and as leader of the search for my successor; Mark Robinson our wonderfully level-headed and experienced Dean; all the Fellows who take an active part in the governance of the College; John Tranter, Suzy Hodge and all who work in the Bursary; Jo Ashbourn and the Academic team; and Sue Berrington and her colleagues in Development and Alumni Relations, for everything they have achieved in the past year. Finally we must thank the catering team ably led by Darryl Pretorius and our renowned chefs Robert Rudman, Chris Brook, and Paul White for all their hard work through the year and for an excellent dinner this evening. And now can I ask you all to raise your glasses to Our Founders.
45 AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND RECOGNITION OF DISTINCTION
Mick Blowfield has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce.
Hilary Callan has been awarded the title Director Emerita of the Royal Anthropological Institute (of which she was formerly Director).
Elizabeth Edwards has received the Lifetime Achievement Award for 2014 by the Society for Visual Anthropology. She has also been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Alan Emery has been awarded an honorary DSc from the University of Chester.
Matthew Erie has been named a Strategy and Policy Fellow by the Smith Richardson Foundation.and has been awarded a Truman Security Fellowship. He has also won a research grant from the Association for Asian Studies, China and Inner Asia Council.
Elizabeth Frood has been appointed Director of the Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH).
Adriana Jacobs has been awarded a 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant. She has also received the title of Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature.
Gkikas Magiorkinis has been elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists.
Nick Mayhew has been awarded the John Sanford Saltus Gold Medal of the British Numismatic Society 2015.
Rana Mitter has won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature for his book China’s War with Japan, 1937 – 1945: The Struggle for Survival. In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
John Nandris has been made Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Sibiu in Transylvania
Peter O’Neill has been given the Failla Award by the Radiation Research Society in recognition of his being an “Outstanding Member of the Radiation Research Community”.
46 Derek Siveter has been awarded a 2-year Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Research Fellowship.
George Smith has been elected a Fellow of the International Field Emission Society in recognition of his work on Atomic Probes.
Glenn Swafford has received the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA) Outstanding Contribution to Research Management and Administration award.
Marina Warner has been made an Honorary Research Associate by the Archive for Greek and Roman Drama in Performance.
NEW FELLOWS
Apirat Chaikuad grew up in Bangkok, Thailand, and completed his first degree in Biology at Chulalongkorn University (2004). He then moved to Bristol to study structural biology and macromolecular X-ray crystallography, and completed a PhD degree for his research in structural comparison of potential malarial drug targets. He then joined the Crystallography group at Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicines, Oxford, and has determined more than a hundred three-dimensional structures of human proteins, including an alternative methodology for growing protein crystals. During the time at SGC, he developed an interest in drug discovery, and then joined the chemical biology group under the supervision of Professor Stefan Knapp. His research combines multi-disciplinary techniques including structural biology to aid development of potent and selective inhibitors of human proteins that play a key role in diseases including cancer and in inflammation. Together with worldwide collaborations, his work has led to a number of drug-like inhibitors, providing not only a tool for in-depth study of the role of disease-relevant proteins for drug target validation but a chemistry starting point for drug development.
Matthew Erie was born in Connecticut, not too far from where Mark Twain lived before he moved to Europe due to poor financial investments. (Fortunately, Matthew’s reason for relocating to England is not due to unwise economic planning.) Matthew majored in English literature and history (with a minor in anthropology) at Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1999. He volunteered in Asia in 2000 where he taught Tibetan orphans in Dharamsala, India, and became interested in issues of international human rights. He later spent a few years in Beijing to understand the Chinese side of such disputes. He completed a Juris Doctoral degree at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2008 and a Master of Laws degree at Tsinghua University Law School in the same year. He practised corporate law in Beijing
47 and New York before returning to his core interest in conducting social scientific research on contemporary China. He obtained a PhD in anthropology from Cornell University in 2013. His research has focused on the possibilities and pitfalls of law in Chinese society. He lived in Muslim communities in northwest China for several years and studied Arabic in Jordan. Over the past two years Matthew has written his book on Islamic law in China as a post-doctoral associate at Princeton University.
Lesley Forbes grew up in Oxford, Birmingham and Plymouth. She read Greek, Hebrew and Religious Knowledge at Durham University, followed by a Diploma in Librarianship at University College, London. From 1965-73, she worked at the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and in 1973 returned to Durham, to the University Library, as Keeper of Oriental Books. There, as well as managing the regular orientalist library collections, she became involved in developing the Sudan Archive, a constantly growing research collection of manuscripts, photographs, maps, cine-films, museum objects, printed and other materials. In 1999 she moved to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, as Keeper of Oriental Collections, with responsibility for managing the extensive collections of the Bodleian Library relating to Asia, the Middle East and North Africa along with the related libraries. She was a Professorial Fellow at St Cross while she held this post, until her retirement in 2008. From March 2015, as a Fellow by Special Election and Art Registrar, Lesley has been responsible for the organisation, documentation, conservation, storage and other issues relating to the art collections belonging to the College.
Anthony Geffen is one of the world’s leading documentary makers and multi- platform storytellers. Among his many international awards he is the first producer to win the coveted Hugh Wheldon Specialist Factual BAFTA Award twice, and three American Emmy’s for a single documentary. His diverse body of work includes directing and producing over 100 films and series which have been seen in over 190 countries. They include the BBC series Inside the House of Commons, the theatrical film Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest, the BBC’s Promised Land series about America’s great black migration, and eleven projects with David Attenborough including the most recent BBC series Great Barrier Reef. Anthony read Geography at St Benet’s Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1983. During his time at Oxford he represented the university in four sports. He joined the BBC as a graduate trainee and worked there for 10 years before setting up Atlantic Productions in 1992; one of the most respected high-end factual production companies in the world. Over the last 24 years, the company has grown to include separate companies specialising in 3D films, computer graphics, virtual reality, and theatrical films. He regularly contributes to newspaper articles and books and he lectures around the world. He also sits on several university and not-for-profit boards. He lives with his family between London and the Black Mountains in Wales.
48 Jane Kaye is the Director of the Centre for Law, Health and Emerging Technologies at Oxford (HeLEX) University of Oxford. She obtained her degrees from the Australian National University (BA); University of Melbourne (LLB); and University of Oxford (DPhil). She was admitted to practice as a solicitor/barrister in 1997 and is a member of the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Law. She is also on a number of international expert committees and scientific advisory boards and has been on the UK Ethics and Confidentiality Committee of the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care; also the Nuffield Council Bioethics Working Group on Biodata and Rapporteur for the EC Expert Report, Biobanks for Europe - The Challenges for Governance June 2012*. She is on the editorial boards of Law, Innovation and Technology, the Journal of Law and Information Science and Life Sciences, Policy and Society. Her team is leading the Dynamic Consent project and she is one of the leaders in the ELSI 2.0 Global Initiative. Her research focuses on the relationships between law, ethics, and the emerging technologies in health including genomics. * http://www.publichealth.ox.ac.uk/helex/biobanks_for_Europe.pdf
Sarah Kendrew grew up near Brussels, Belgium, the daughter of a British father and Flemish mother. In 1997 she moved to London to study for an MSc degree in Astronomy at University College (UCL), aged 16. She continued for a PhD in Physics, developing technology for ultra-lightweight deformable mirrors for ground- and space-based imaging systems in UCL’s Optical Science Laboratory. After graduating she held postdoctoral appointments at two world-leading institutions: the University of Leiden, Netherlands (2007-10), and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany (2010-13). Sarah joined Oxford University as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Astronomy Instrumentation in September 2013, and became a Junior Research Fellow at St Cross the following year. In her career she has worked on instrumentation for several major international telescope projects: the European Extremely Large Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope Interferometer. Her research interests in astrophysics are broad, from galactic-scale star formation in the Milky Way Galaxy to the characterisation of galaxies in the early Universe. She is an experienced and popular science communicator, giving frequent talks to local amateur science groups, museums, and scientific institutions, and she features regularly on TV and radio.
Michael Landreh (né Fitzen) was born in Kempen, Germany, in 1981. He obtained his BSc in Molecular Biotechnology from the Universität zu Lübeck before moving to Leiden University in the Netherlands and then to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for an one-year MSc in Biomedical Science. Following his interest to combine chemical and biological research, he then joined the group of Professor Hans Jörnvall at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, to work on the biophysical characterisation of proteins that self-assemble, ranging from Alzheimer’s disease to the mechanism of spider silk formation. After his PhD in 2012 and a short post- doc with Hans Jörnvall, he joined the group of Professor Dame Carol Robinson at
49 Oxford’s Department of Chemistry in the autumn of 2014 to explore the use of mass spectrometry to study how lipids modulate the structure and function of membrane proteins. He currently holds an ERC Marie Curie Career Development Fellowship and a JRF at St Cross College. He is married and has two sons aged 1 and 4 years.
Ho-Yin Mak is an Associate Professor in Management Science at Saïd Business School and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He grew up in Hong Kong and received undergraduate and postgraduate education in the United States, obtaining his BSc at Northwestern University and MSc and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. His specialises in the study of improving business operations using data and quantitative methods, and more specifically, the use of optimisation and operational research techniques. His recent research has been focusing on tackling various planning problems in the domains of supply chain management, sharing economy, energy, and health care.
Brent Mittelstadt is a philosopher and ethicist who has been working since 2014 with Professor Luciano Floridi on the ethics of biomedical Big Data and data mining algorithms at the Oxford Internet Institute. Brent grew up in New Jersey and studied Philosophy and English Literature at Albright College from 2003 to 2007, followed by a dual Master of Arts in Applied Ethics in a joint Erasmus Mundus programme between Linköping University in Sweden and Utrecht University in the Netherlands. In 2014 he completed a PhD in Applied Ethics at De Montfort University, UK on the ethical aspects of personal health monitoring devices. His research focuses broadly on ethics foresight of emerging technologies across computing and medicine. His current work unpacks the ethical risks and opportunities of data proliferation and algorithmic decision-making with a view to how these processes challenge the `individual’ as the chief unit of moral value.
Tom Scott-Smith was born in Oxford and moved to Scotland for his education, graduating with an MA in Politics from Edinburgh University in 2003. He spent several years working abroad in international development, living in New York, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Territories and then returning to London in 2007. From there he managed education development work across Sub- Saharan Africa and the Middle East, whilst pursuing an MSc in Development Studies at the University of London. In 2009 he returned to academia full time, completing an MPhil and then a DPhil at the Department of International Development in Oxford, and writing a thesis on the history of emergency feeding in humanitarian emergencies. After being appointed Lecturer at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, he returned to the University of Oxford in 2015 to take up an Associate Professorship in Forced Migration at the Refugee Studies Centre. His current research examines humanitarian relief and its impact on the lives of refugees, with particular attention to the nutrition and shelter sectors.
50 The Rev’d Mark Stafford joined the college in January 2015, after becoming part of the Chapter of Pusey House in September of the previous year. After graduating from Liverpool University in Modern Languages, and from National Circus Schools in Paris and Bristol, he spent the best part of a decade as a Circus Performer, before running away from the Circus to join the Church. Mark trained for Ordination at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, and has served as Assistant Curate in the Parish of St. Barnabas and St. Paul, Jericho, and as Junior Chaplain at Merton College, since being ordained. Before coming to Oxford, Mark was the founder and Director of the Youth Charity ‘redthread’, and lists among his interests football, duelling weapons of the 18th Century, and Group Analytic Psychotherapy. He is currently part-way through a Masters in one of these disciplines. He is married to Lizzie, who is a Research Nurse at the John Radcliffe - they have two young children, and are both studying the effects of chronic sleeplessness on the human nervous system.
John Tranter is originally from Coventry. He holds a BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bath University. He worked for many years in telecommunications, most notably holding a number of senior management roles during 20 years at Vodafone. This included a five-year secondment as Director of Business Operations based in San Francisco. John moved into the charity sector in 2009 to work for St Aldates Church, Oxford (one of the largest churches in the Church of England). As Operations Director for five years, he provided strategic direction and line management for the operations team comprising facilities, finance, HR and general administration. He took up the position of Bursar at St Cross in September 2014. He holds a Diploma in Biblical and Theological Studies from Wycliffe Hall. John lives near to Wantage in South Oxfordshire. He is married to Carin and they have three grown-up daughters (one of whom studied at St Hugh’s). He is a keen cyclist and is the Chairman of CTC Wantage (a local branch of the UK’s national cyclists’ organisation) covering Wantage and the surrounding towns and villages. His other hobby is music - he plays guitar and bass guitar badly but enthusiastically.
An Van Camp was born and bred in Antwerp (Belgium) and has studied History (MA), Archaeology and Art History (MA) and Museum Studies (MA) at the universities of Leuven (Belgium), Trier (Germany), Lille (France) and at University College, London. She recently joined the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology as Assistant Keeper of Northern European Art. Before taking up this post in September 2015, An was Cataloguer of Dutch and Flemish Prints (2006-10) and later Assistant Keeper of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Prints at the British Museum in London (2010-15) and Lead Curator of the Asahi Shimbun Objects in Focus Displays (2013- 15). She has curated two displays on drawings by Adriaen van Ostade and David Teniers the Younger (The British Museum, August-December 2010) and on the hand- coloured etchings by Hercules Segers (The British Museum, January-May 2012). More recently she was the co-curator of a critically acclaimed major international exhibition exploring the metalpoint drawing technique: ‘Drawing in Silver and Gold: From Leonardo to Jasper Johns’ (The British Museum, September-December 2015). 51 ST CROSS TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
The following events, organised by Dan Hicks, were given on Tuesdays during term, usually at 5:30 in the St Cross Room prior to Hall.
Michaelmas Term 2014 21st October Workshop “Ethno-archaeology” The Palaeo-ethnography of extinct societies (with practical demonstration): Junior Members Will Mills, Klint Janulis and Patrick Cuthbertson, with visiting researchers from the Sorbonne and Nanterre: Ludovic Mevel, Olivier Bignon-Lau, Anita Lau- Bignon, Grégory Debout, Lucie Chehmana and Miguel Biard.
28th October Glenn Swafford “Supporting Oxford’s research ambitions: the many roles played by University research administrators”
4th November Conversation Chairman Dan Hicks: “Prehistoric Art” Richard Bradley, Member of Common Room and Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at Reading University and Andy Jones, Visiting Member of Common Room and Reader in Archaeology at Southampton University).
11th November Matt Jarvis “Galaxy formation and cosmology with astronomical surveys” Sarah Kendrew “The European Extremely Large Telescope: Bringing the distant Universe into focus”
18th November Workshop “Technology in Neuroscience” Anderson Winkler “Looking into the brain with neuroimaging: past, present and future” Wenchuan Wu “Probing brain connectivity using diffusion imaging”
Hilary Term 2015 20th January Conversation Chairman Dan Hicks “Nous Sommes Tous Charlie?” Europe after the Charlie Hebdo Shooting. Short presentations and responses by Joerg Friedrichs, Luke Treadwell and Jan- Georg Deutsch and Sarah Mallet (Junior Member, Archaeology), followed by a conversation with the audience.
27th January Graham Harding “A Wine Society for St Cross?”
52 3rd February Presentations “Port meadow: Sweet especial rural scene” In advance of the Congregation debate on Port Meadow, this celebration of the meadow involved six short presentations including David Radford (City Archaeologist, Oxford City Council), Chris Gosden (Professor of European Prehistory and Emeritus Fellow of St Cross), Rory Carnegie and Miranda Cresswell (artists), and a reading of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Binsey Poplars” by Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch (Fellow of St Cross).
10th February Talks “Archaeology, Anthropology and Indigenous History” Professor Ian McNiven, Programme for Australian Indigenous Archaeology, Monash Indigenous Centre, Monash University, and Visiting Member of Common Room: “Archaeology of Torres Strait Islanders via Pitt Rivers Museum”. Professor Lynette Russell, Director of Monash Indigenous Centre, Monash University, and Visiting Fellow of All Soul’s: “British Association for the Advancement of Science and the Emergence of Anthropology, 1831-1914”.
17th February
Museum Collections and Experimental Archaeology: Bridging the gap. Presentations on the 2014-15 St Cross Workshop theme of “Ethno-Archaeology”
Presentations by Junior Members William Mills, Klint Janulis, and Patrick Cuthbertson
24th February
Clinical applications of neuroimaging: Presentations on the 2014-15 St Cross Workshop theme of “Technology in Neuroscience”.
Junior Member Mathura Ravishankar “Using neuroimaging techniques to study disorders of the brain” Senior Member Katie Warnaby “Imaging altered states of consciousness in Humans”
Trinity Term 2015 9th June Workshop “Beyondpretty pctures: The fture of Neuroimaging”
Dr Saad Jbabdi “Analysis of BIG data in Neuroimaging” Dr Claire Sexton “Imaging the ageing brain” Dr Charlotte Stagg “Modifying the brain: Using non-invasive brain stimulation to improve motor learning and relearning after stroke”
53 Dr Johannes Klein “Deep brain stimulation to treat tremor”
Keynote talk by Professor Jamie Sleigh, University of Auckland: “Using general anaesthesia as a probe to understand consciousness”
23rd June Workshop “How museum collections inform experimental Archaeology: Hafted stone tools” with special guest Karl Lee.
The day-long workshop ran as follows:
• Tour of the Pitt Rivers Museum hafted displays • Experimental hafting workshop in the front quad • Round table discussion followed by drinks reception
Dan Hicks
BURSAR’S REPORT
I arrived as the new Bursar of St Cross right at the beginning of the 2014-15 academic year. I owe a considerable debt of gratitude to my predecessor, Maureen Doherty, retiring after 17 years of dedicated and tireless service to the College. She has left me with a very strong staff team, well-documented processes and in general an excellent operation.
Even allowing for my newness, 2014-15 has undoubtedly been a very full and busy year. I arrived to the welcome news that planning permission had been granted for our West Quad building project. The supervision of this project has taken up a great deal of my time through the course of the year and we have progressed well from initial ground clearance through excavation and foundation work and, by the summer of 2015, into full scale construction of the main concrete frame of the building. Mention should be made of ‘The Lady of St Cross’, a skeleton found in a shallow grave during the excavation work. To the disappointment of the local press, this turned out not to be an Inspector Morse style mystery but instead a Civil War burial of a young woman in a domestic back garden – perhaps a plague victim buried during the Parliamentarian sieges of 1644-46. Fortunately, her discovery did not delay the project and we are on target for completion of the new building in May/June 2016. We very much look forward to fully utilising the new library, lecture theatre, seminar rooms and 53 student bedrooms that this will provide.
The progressing of the building works has of course meant that we have had to begin paying for them. I am pleased to report that during the course of the year we completed arrangements for the necessary funding for the project (in total
54 approximately £10.5 million), albeit to include a substantial loan facility of £4.5 million from the University. Generous donations and the transfer of a better-than- expected operating surplus for the year have contributed significantly to this, as has the successful sale of two houses – a rare example of the infamous Oxford housing bubble being of benefit to us!
The end of year accounts to 31st July 2015 indicate that the College’s total net assets have increased from £13.1 million to £15.1 million over the year. The Investment Sub-Committee was very pleased with the strong performance of the Endowment Fund: the total value increased from £7.29 million to £8.56 million over the year.
Staffing has remained mostly stable during the year, with the exception of the following changes: Alice Robertson joined us as Development Assistant, Emily Blackman was replaced by Hannah Cooper as Bursary Administrator, Jessica Andrews was replaced by Toby Cherrill as Accounts Assistant, and Jenny Baxter, Academic Secretary, left us after seven years of service at the College. I would like to record particular thanks to my direct reports in the Bursary team: Suzy Hodge, Domestic Bursar; Judith Ledger, Accounts Manager; and Razvan Novacovschi, IT Manager for their assistance and patience during my first year here. It is a great honour to serve the College and I look forward to playing my part in the future of this fine institition.
John Tranter
55 DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT’S REPORT
This year St Cross celebrates 50 years since its founding, and in the international spirit of the College we have been connecting and reconnecting with as many of our alumni as possible to mark this special anniversary, literally travelling to the four corners to do so! The 2015 50th Anniversary West Quad Campaign has done incredibly well so far, thanks to you and all our College friends. We have raised nearly £6m from philanthropy towards the overall £10.5m cost. I hope we will name some more rooms this year, and in due course the building itself. There are not many student rooms left to name, so if you have been thinking about this, do let me know soon.
Back in September, I travelled to Switzerland and hosted a relaxed weekend lunch. Alumni and their guests joined me, as well as an incoming student for Michaelmas term who brought along his family. The afternoon was arranged with the help of our Alumni Representative in Switzerland, Evelyn Kuhn, who suggested a beautiful walk around the local area following lunch; the event proved a wonderful opportunity to network as well as explore.
Closer to home we hosted a Champagne Afternoon Tea as part of the University of Oxford’s ‘Meeting Minds’ Alumni Reunion weekend held every September. A packed common room enjoyed the late summer sun in the front quad. The champagne washed down the delicious home-made cakes, made by our amazing head chef, Robert Rudman, and his team.
October saw the College come alive again as we welcomed the new intake of students, this year totalling 236. Freshers’ fortnight was the usual mix of Pimm’s and croquet, punting, and of course whiskey tasting in the bar. A great fortnight was had by all.
In November, the Master and I travelled to San Francisco to meet some of our alumni and donors, I then travelled on to Washington State before hosting our first reunion in Seattle. Our group of alumni, their families and their friends enjoyed an exclusive curatorial tour of the Seattle Art Museum’s Pop Departures Exhibition, which showcased some of the greatest work from the American Pop Art movement of the 1960s, including icons such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg. It was a real treat.
The Winter Drinks in London came around in early December and we were grateful to our speaker Professor Emilie Savage-Smith, Archchivist and Editor of St Cross at Fifty, who talked about the challenging but rewarding process of compiling the commemorative volume.
The start of 2015 saw the College’s first reunion in India; in late January and early February we were delighted to welcome so many alumni to our reunions in New
56 Delhi and Bangalore. Across the two cities, the Master and I met alumni, joined by their families and friends of the College. The reunions also proved a wonderful opportunity to meet with some parents of current students who joined the relaxed dinners. We went on to host our first College reunion in Dubai before heading back home.
Back in College, the annual and much-loved Fred’s Lunch took place in March. Conversation was flowing as we saw alumni and members from across the 50 years connecting with each other and sharing stories on how times at St Cross have changed - yet somehow remained reliably the same (in all the right ways).
PIC TO BE SUPPLIED! Fred Hodcroft and friends at ‘Fred’s Lunch’ 2015
April saw St Cross join the University’s European ‘Meeting Minds’ Weekend in Vienna. Along with the other graduate colleges of Nuffield, Wolfson, Green Templeton and Kellogg, we organised a joint dinner to start the main weekend of events. We were most grateful to Vice-Master Rana Mitter for presenting a lecture in the evening, ‘China 2022: Where China is going and why it matters’. Sixty alumni and guests from the five colleges enjoyed the evening greatly.
We were very excited to have two St Cross students in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race this year one in the men’s and one in the women’s. A packed coach of proud St Cross members headed to London to cheer on the Dark Blues. Our rowers Jamie Cook and Shelley Pearson along with alumnus, Tim Foster MBE (Dip Social Studies, 1996), grace the front cover of this year’s Crossword magazine.
An East Coast USA reunion was hosted in May. I was joined by Emma Farrant, alumni and their guests in Boston.. We enjoyed spectacular views and food, and a
57 wonderful evening was had by all. The following day we were incredibly grateful to Alex Zhurakovskyi (DPhil Organic Chemistry, 2010), who showed those unfamiliar with the area around the Harvard campus, where he was carrying out research work.
Back in Oxford, June saw the Encaenia Garden Party take place in the Quad, providing the opportunity for the Master to award the first Inez Oliver Prize to student Hanh Ha Nguyen. The prize, given for an outstanding essay, was donated by friend of St Cross Paul Oliver and named for his wife to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. College members enjoyed a visit to Wadham College for a performance of Twelfth Night by the Oxford Shakespeare Company; fantastic events to welcome the summer and say goodbye to Trinity Term. In July, the Master and I rounded off the academic year with reunions in Beijing, Taipei and Hong Kong. In Beijing, alumni and their guests were joined by members of the Beijing Oxbridge Club and enjoyed a talk from local journalist James Palmer on social mobility in China. A drinks reception and buffet lunch followed in Taipei, and the Master concluded the trip by hosting an informal lunch for alumni and their families in Hong Kong. All our forthcoming reunions can be found on the back page of the Crossword magazine and on the College website.
Thank you to all our alumni and friends for making this 50th Anniversary year so special. I wish to personally thank Emma Farrant, Ella Bedrock, and Alice Robertson for working so hard together to make our activities and development initiatives so successful.
Donors to St Cross, August 2014 to July 2015
The College is grateful for all gifts, particularly at a time of economic uncertainty. Every gift and donation to St Cross makes a difference to the quality of the experience we offer to our students.
The list of names on these pages is based on all gifts received by St Cross College between 1st August 2014 and 31st July 2015 and includes individuals, companies and foundations. We thank you all. We have made every effort to ensure accuracy and completeness, but we apologise for any errors that may be contained in the list.
Individual Donors Mr William Ackerman Mr Andrew Amend Mr Kashif Afzal Dr Brecken Armstrong Kelsey Mr Hardeep Aiden Professor Jonathan Arnold Professor Cathie Aime Dr Rachel Asante-Owusu Dr Susan Allen Dr Michael Athanson Ms Jamie Aller Professor Jere Bacharach Mr Malcolm Allison Dr Yahia Baiza
58 Mr Steven Baker Mr Muzahir Degani Ms Judith Barr Professor John Dewey The Revd Professor John Barton Dr Elona Dhembo Mr Stephen Bass Dr Ziqian Ding Dr Michael Bates Dr James Dodd Dr Eelco Batterink Professor Michael Dunne Professor Joan Bennett Dr Michael Durkin Mr Peter Benton Ms Natasha Ebtehadj Dr Neeraj Bhala Professor Peter Edwards Mr Saif Bham Mr Chris Eling Mrs Malgorzata Bialokoz Smith Mr Tomiwa Erinosho Dr Timothy Biggs Dr Bronwen Everill Mr Jonathan Bird Miss Emma Farrant Sir Walter Bodmer Ms Cynthia Fellows Dr Jennifer Bonsell Dr Benjamin Fenby Mr Simon Bonvoisin Mr Brian Fence Dr Carlos Borsa Dr Christopher Ferguson Professor Sir Mike Brady Dr Aliza Finkler Dr Simon Brain Dr Margret Frenz Mr Richard Briant Dr Edward Furgol Mr Dennis Britton Miss Shelley Xiaoyan Gao Professor Sir Richard Brook Dr Katharine Gearing Mrs Helen Brown Mr Anthony Geffen Mr Rory Browne Dr Eva Gluenz Dr David Browning Dr Grizelda George Dr Katarina Burnett Professor Thomas Griffith Dr Claire Burns Mr Rui Guo Professor Kenelm Burridge Professor Sir John Gurdon Mr John Campbell Dr Pär Gustafsson Ms Sharon Carlson Dr Klaus Hachmeier Mr Samidh Chakrabarti Professor David Haig Professor W Chaloner Dr Alison Cook Dr Mary Chamberland Mr Derek Harrison Mr Hung Cheng Professor Henrietta Harrison Dr Lanna Cheng Lewin Mr Tom Hassall Ms Hilary Clauson Mr John Hendry Dr Roger Collins Ms Hilary Henson Dr Victor Cook Mr Paul Hermann Mrs Tonia Cope Bowley Professor Susan Hockey Professor Stephanie Cragg Mr Fred Hodcroft Mr Alasdair Crawford Ms Suzy Hodge Ms Cailin Crockett Professor Jonathan Hodgkin Professor Peter Day Dr William Honey
59 Professor Ronald Hope Dr Elizabeth Mellor Professor Lord Julian Hunt Dr Michael Milner Dr Simon Hunt Dr David Mitchell Miss Laura Hurst Mr Prashant Mohan Dr Kenneth Hylson-Smith Professor Michelle Momany Dr Kawori Iguchi Mr Jasper Morgan Professor Harold Jaffe Dr Charles Mould Ms Patricia Jayne Dr John Moussouris Dr Brent Jenkins Dr Penny Moyle Mrs Wendy Johnson Mr Vladimir Mukanaev Professor Martin Jones Mr Ryan Murray Sir Mark Jones Dr Beatrix Nagyova Professor Jonathan Jones Professor Steve Ngo Professor Alan Jones Professor Richard Nichols Mr Joseph Jordan Mr Michael Noone Dr Mrinal Kaul Mr M Norman Mrs Karin Keeble Mr Jonathan Oakley Mrs Laura King Professor Berl Oakley Professor Sir John Kingman Dr Ana Oliveira Professor Dame Frances Kirwan Mr Paul Oliver Professor Marc Knight Dr Joseph Olliver Professor Kristine Krug Dr Suzanne O’Shea Dr Geoffrey Lairumbi Ms Algi Ozbarcin Miss Georgia Latsi Dr Jacqueline Papo Mrs Judith Ledger Mr Yogesh Patel Dr Anthony Lemon Dr Jack Paton Mr Adam Levin Dr Margaret Pelling Mr Yuxuan Li Mrs Bronwen Percival Dr Petros Ligoxygakis Professor Fran Platt Dr Mary Lloyd Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff Mr Jonathan Lloyd-Davies Mrs Monique Praill Dr Laura Lopez Pascua Dr Catherine Price Dr Anastassia Loukina Mr Alexander Rayner Ms Victoria Love Mrs Catherine Remmington Mr Alan and Carol Lowne Mr Christian Rieck Professor Terence Lyons Mrs Chris Roberts Dr Johannes Machielsen Professor Steve Roberts Mr Manuel Manrique Gil Professor Derek Roe Dr Aruna Marasingha Mr David Rogers Mr Peter Mathias Mr Ivan Romanovski Mr Panos Mavrokonstantis Ms Jessica Sack Dr Nicholas Mayhew Dr Almut Scherer Mr Robert McLatchie Dr Katharine Scott
60 Dr Mustapha Sheikh Professor Miltiades Tsiantis Dr Ji Young Shin Dr Richard Tucker Dr Elena Simakova Dr Ruth van Heyningen Ms Therese Skatun Ms Anne Vandenabeele Dr Lorna Smith Mr Marc Vastenavondt Mr Kuo Tong Soo Professor Martin Vessey Dr Thomas Soper Dr Mick Ward Professor Garrison Sposito Professor David Warrell Mr Charles Starkie Professor Bernard Wasserstein Mr Peter Strong Mr Simon White Professor Azim Surani Dr Eric Whittaker Dr Glenn Swafford Mr Douglas Wigdor Dr Alan Taylor Mrs Julia Wigg Mr Bernard Taylor Dr Jim Williamson Mr Clive Tee Dr Paul Williamson Mr Nigel Thomas Professor Lord Robert Winston Dr John Tiffany Mr Brian Woolnough Dr Andrea Tighe Ms Mengbing Xi Professor Philip Tinker Mr Weijun Xu Mr William Tollett Dr Oleksandr Zhurakovskyi Miss Abigail Tompkins Professor Jack Zussman
Companies, Trusts & Foundations Royal Microscopical Society Fullerscope Services Ltd Landis International Inc Mabs Mardulyn Foundation Databiology Ltd BioGene Ltd Art Fund Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education Ethiopian Academy of Sciences St Hilda’s College Southend High School For Girls Society for Applied Microbiology TCS Biosciences Ltd
Anonymous Donors and Gifts in Kind We would also like to thank 14 anonymous donors to the college.
Susan Berrington Director of Development
61 DEANS’ REPORT
As readers of the Record will remember, the Dean and the Junior Deans work with the Bursary, Academic Office, and Porters to promote the welfare of the St Cross community and to ensure that members follow the regulations set forth by the college regarding conduct.
On the whole, the 2014–2015 academic year saw no incidents of particular note, although, as usual, minor incidents, such as the occasional after-hours noise complaint, were addressed by the Dean and Junior Deans. Nevertheless, it should be added that our members tend to behave with the maturity that one would expect at a graduate college. In fact, for the first time in many years, the Dean has had no cause to fine a student. Social events proceeded without much incident—indeed with much enjoyment—and observations and suggestions were made to augment and support existing safety and behavioural regulations and procedures.
Fortunately, this has allowed the Dean and Junior Deans further time and scope to expand and contribute to the welfare provision of the College, often in collaboration with the Senior Tutor and the Academic Office. The Junior Deans attended First Respondent Training for Sexual Violence training offered through the Oxford University Student Union (OUSU) and were able to bring some of that information back to the College in order to supplement existing practices. This prompted a contribution to student plans for Consent Workshops scheduled for the beginning of the 2015–2016 academic year.
With a view towards continuing efforts last year directed at promoting good mental health, the Dean and Junior Deans also contributed to ensuring the continued operation of the Peer Support programme. Crucially and in keeping with the peer support ethos, the Dean and Junior Deans do not run this programme, but are nonetheless invested in its success. Junior Dean office hours have also been instituted in order to provide further avenues through which students might seek assistance on individual or social matters. These office hours have quickly proven themselves valuable venues for communication.
Further training in First Aid/CPR and fire safety was undertaken, and new, more modern fire alarm systems are planned for the coming year. Integration with the work of the new weekend porters has gone smoothly, and the sense of teamwork and comaraderie has grown with each new year and new member of the team. The Dean and Junior Deans would like to thank all members of the College community –fellows, staff, and students, those mentioned herein and those too numerous to mention – for their efforts and support in what we are pleased to call an enjoyable and successful year.
62 Please accept our best wishes for the coming academic year.
Mark Robinson, Dean Abigail Tompkins and Peter N Fiske, Junior Deans
SENIOR TUTOR & TUTOR FOR ADMISSIONS REPORT
St Cross welcomed 235 new students who arrived in Michaelmas Term 2014. The College’s international diversity with the new intake of students in 2014 comprised 50% from overseas, 24% from the European Union and 26% from the UK. Last year the College had in the new student intake 51% men and 49% women, thus returning to previous years’ trends of nearly equal balance.
The College was delighted to again award several scholarships to new students arriving in Michaelmas 2015: i) The inaugural Lorna Casselton Memorial Scholarship in Plant Sciences was awarded to Marcel Bach Pages from Spain to support his DPhil; ii) The Hélène La Rue Scholarship in Music was awarded to Alice Little from the UK to support her DPhil; iii) The Godfrey Tyler Scholarship in Economics was awarded to Gregorio Curello from Italy to support his DPhil; iv) The Scholarship in History was awarded to Lidia Zanetti Domingues from Italy to support her DPhil; v) The Scholarship in Paediatrics was awarded to Gabriella Schmidt Melada from Spain to support her DPhil; vi) The MPhil Scholarship was awarded to Abigail Desmond from the USA to support her studies for the MPhil in Archaeology; vii) The Scholarship for Residents of Greece was awarded to Eleni Katsampouka to support her MSt in Legal Research; viii) The Robin and Nadine Wells Scholarship was awarded to Lucy Hanks from the UK to support her studies for the MSt in English (1830-1914). This award is generously sponsored by one of our alumni, Robin Wells and his wife, Nadine.
63 The College currently has over 550 graduate students, of whom 8 are doing part- time graduate degrees. Trinity Term 2015 went very well for the majority of students with 32 of our Master’s students (either MSt/MSc or MPhil) achieving a Distinction overall in their courses - the highest number obtained in recent years. After a number of years at the College with the last in the role of Academic Office Secretary, Jenny Baxter retired to spend more time with her family.
This past year has had a sparkling array of academic lectures and events, a number of which were in celebration of the College’s 50th anniversary. In addition, the College held the inaugural Lorna Casselton Memorial Lecture on 15th May 2015, which was given by Professor Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society and Nobel Laureate. The Lecture was entitled ‘Science as Revolution’ and a video is available to view on the College website. The 2015 St Cross Science Lecture was given on the 7th July 2015 by another Nobel Laureate, Professor Frank Wilczek from MIT, who spoke on ‘A Beautiful Question - Finding Nature’s Deep Design’. Lastly, the College’s first academic centre, the St Cross Centre for the History & Philosophy of Physics (HAPP) was established in Michaelmas 2014 and has held a very successful series of termly one-day conferences on ‘Wittgenstein and Physics’, ‘Voltaire and the Newtonian Revolution’ and ‘Physics and the Great War’. Videos of all the conference lectures are available on the HAPP website at http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/HAPP.
Jo Ashbourn
ARCHIVIST’S REPORT
On 8th December 2014 a book launch for St Cross College at Fifty formed part of the Winter Drinks event held at the Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, London. The Archivist gave a short talk about the making of the volume and the discovery of our history. This provided a venue in which the Archivist could thank the many people who assisted in its production. At the end of the talk, two toasts were offered: First, to the triumvirate of authors – Jan-Georg Deutsch, Diarmaid MacCulloch, and Tim Pound – for preparing this highly readable – at times quite humorous – retrospective look at the past 50 years of our history. Second, to St Cross College and our next 50 years – may we be equally blessed with learned fellows, brilliant students, and generous benefactors.
64 PIC TO BE SUPPLIED!
Work continued on the 50th Anniversary Archiving Project, carried out primarily by Glenda Abramson (Emeritus Fellow), Hung Cheng (Former Fellow), and Lesley Forbes (Fellow by Special Election). The Archivist herself was relatively inactive in the first half of 2015 because of a knee replacement that was required. The rest of the team, however, carried on working every Tuesday in the san Heyningen Room on sorting, organising, and cataloguing materials. Papers related to various associated centres were the focus of Glenda Abramson’s attention, followed by the organisation of different sets of the Governing Body Papers extending back to the foundation of the College – a more complicated task that was at first apparent. Hung Cheng focussed upon the files relating to JRF fellowships and scholarship funds. Tim Pound, the Archive Registrar (and Fellow by Special Election) continued his work on developing a system of archiving electronic student records.
Lesley Forbes continued her task of organising all the records relating to the Art Collections and constructing a database in which to record data on each item. The College has now appointed her ‘Art Registrar’ and elected her a Fellow by Special Election. A considerable number of drawings and photographs that were part of Audrey Blackman’s personal materials and had been stored in College were returned to the family via Audrey Blackman’s great-nephew Alasdair Crawford. Lesley Forbes
65 also met with Jennifer Opie and gave her access to various letters and documents relating to the ceramics in College acquired with funds from the Treverton Trust by Kits and Ruth van Heyningen, with the guidance of Charles Handley-Read. Jennifer Opie is preparing an article on our some of our ceramics for the Journal of the Decorative Arts Society.
The Archives also received a request for information regarding one of our Founding Fellows, John Ashley Spiers, and we were able to supply copies of some documents and one photograph. The 50th Anniversary Archiving Project Team had a working lunch with Archivist and Curator of Manuscripts at Balliol College, Anna Sander, which provided us with much useful information and guidance.
Donations to the Archives of various newspaper clippings have been received from Alan Coates (former archivist) and from some anonymous donors. Emeritus Fellow George Smith donated some of his papers, while Emeritus Fellow Tom Hassalls donated valuable papers concerned with the election of our second Master, Godfrey Stafford, and with the benefaction of Fred Lange. All donations will be welcomed by the College Archives and duly acknowledged in the Record.
Emilie Savage-Smith
ART COMMITTEE REPORT
Our meeting on 4th December 2014 was the first without Derek Roe who passed away on 24 September after a short illness. A connoisseur and collector of English silver, Derek was the founder and a former Chairman of the Art Committee and devoted considerable attention to the care of the College collections of watercolours, silver, ceramics and glassware. Derek was always very generous with his time and felt great affection for St Cross. His death has been an immense loss for the College.
As reported in last year’s Record, Derek left both his collections of British watercolours and antique glass to the College. The Art Committee chose six pieces from each collection to be displayed in College as a permanent memorial, the remaining pieces to be auctioned by Mallams. Mallams kindly agreed to mount a private view of both collections for members of College prior to the auction. The six paintings to be retained by St Cross are by Samuel Prout, Cornelius Varley, Henry Gastineau, Johann Cristoph Dietzsche, George Cattermole and Myles Birket Foster. The six pieces of glass are, all bar one, 18th Century wine or ale glasses. At the auction, held on 18th November 2015 a substantial sum was raised for the College.
66 Gifts to St Cross during the year included a pair of English Queen Anne style silver candlesticks made in 1915 by Hawksworth, Eyre & Co in Sheffield, donated by Peter and Sue Benton to mark the Fiftieth Anniversary of the College.
Candlesticks donated to the College by Peter and Sue Benton
The Chinese Scroll offered to the committee by Dr Joerg Friedrichs was consigned to Christie’s Interiors sale in London on 28th January; it is believed to be a later copy in the style of a court artist. Offered as a decorative painting with an estimate of £2,000-£3,000, it was sold for £3,200 (hammer price). Dr Friedrichs had kindly agreed that St Cross should receive 65% of the sale proceeds.
The gift of a Chinese Silk outfit from Tonia Cope Bowley has been gratefully accepted by the Ashmolean Museum. St Cross will not be sharing the item with the Museum but may borrow it for very special occasions.
Dame Marina Warner has donated a handsomely presented set of four vinyl records from the Ada project. This project had been an ongoing series of musical commissions between the highly regarded artist Conrad Shawcross and leading contemporary composers. Each piece of music was developed using a bespoke choreographic light robot developed by Conrad and his team in London. The project takes its name from the Victorian mathematician Ada Lovelace. It is anticipated that the four records will be a feature in the new building.
Professor Seumas Miller presented the three geometric works by the late Kathleen Miller selected by the Art Committee for the Crawford Miller room.
67 The Art Committee accepted a small glass side table by Philip Koomen from a close friend of Lorna Casselton in memory of Lorna. The piece belonged to Lorna until her death upon which it was bequeathed to the donor.
A commemorative 50th Anniversary Medal was designed and produced by the late Felicity Powell, fine artist and one of Britain’s best known medallists. Fifty medals in sterling silver (55mm in diameter) have been produced by Thomas Fattorini in Birmingham. It is intended that major donors and distinguished guests should be presented with the medal but some will be on sale to College members.
The activities of the Committee are many and varied. Lesley Forbes’ ongoing work on the College Art Inventory is deserving of special mention. Lesley has also arranged for better storage and greater protection for art objects. As a direct result of her efforts, a number of hitherto unrecorded items have come to light. These include 11 etchings by W. A. Delamotte, Studies of Trees dated 1804-6. These will be mounted and framed with a view to possible exhibition. Lesley has agreed to be the College’s Art Registrar and members of the Committee were delighted to note that she has been elected to a non-Governing Body Fellowship.
The ‘library copy’ of the College’s Coat of Arms, painted on vellum, and also unearthed by Lesley has been framed and hangs in the Administration corridor. John Tiffany provided the accompanying text.
The ceramic and glass items in the display cases in the Library and Saugman Common Room have been given identifying numbers and appropriate labels. One case in the St Cross room has been similarly labelled; the items in two other cases await rearrangement before labels are attached.
College has welcomed a large number of visitors to view our art collections and buildings. As part of the Oxford Open Doors scheme in September 2014, Tim Pound and Alex Farquhar conducted 60 visitors around the College’s art collections and the Pusey chapel and library. Lesley Forbes took over the role from Tim for the 2015 Open Doors event. Peter Benton and Alex Farquhar provided a similar tour for members of the Oxfordshire Art Fund in April 2015. In addition, the Master hosted a visit by the Oxford Colleges’ Art Group on 9th March 2015.
There were two arts based competitions during the year. A competition for student art to be hung in the bar area, which was proposed to the Committee by Rachel Robinson, was held on 11th June. Twenty entries were received: the winners were Anthony Cheung and Kate Kirkpatrick. In addition there was the annual photographic competition. The Committee viewed 24 entries for this year’s event with the theme of ‘Contradictions and Contrasts’. The winner was ‘1915’ by Anthony Cheung.
68 The top five entries and the winning photograph can be seen under ‘Photographic Competition’ later in this Record.
Throughout the year there has been much discussion of the provision of art in the new building. The Committee welcomed Paul Hobson, Director of Modern Art Oxford, to its June meeting. His suggestions as to the possible guiding principles for new acquisitions were extremely helpful. As the building rises, so the discussion will become more urgent. We look forward to reporting on the outcome in next year’s Record.
Peter Benton
LIBRARIAN’S REPORT
The Alumnus Collection (Books written by and donated to the Library by members of College)
Susan J. Allen and Emilie Amt, The Crusades: a reader. Toronto U.P. 2nd ed., 2014
Jerome Booth, Emerging markets in an upside-down world: challenging perceptions in asset allocation and investment, Wiley. 2014
Hugh Cairns, Dark sparklers: Yidumduma’s Wardaman aboriginal astronomy night skies Northern Australia. 2004
Anthony Fletcher and Diarmaid MacCulloch, Tudor rebellions. Pearson. Rev. 5th ed., 2008
Dan Hicks and Mary Carolyn Beaudry, The Oxford handbook of material culture studies. OUP. 2010
Robert Hoyland, In God’s path: the Arab conquests and the creation of an Islamic empire. OUP. 2015
Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Bay Psalm Book: imprinted 1640. Bodleian Library. 2014
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Building a godly realm: the establishment of English Protestantism 1558 – 1603. Historical Association. 1992
Jason Nicholls and Bryan Cunningham, Constellation analysis: a methodology for comparing syllabus topics across educational contexts. Peter Lang. 2014
69 Emilie Savage-Smith ed, St. Cross College at fifty. The College. 2014. (Chapters by Jan-Georg Deutsch, Diarmaid MacCulloch and Tim Pound)
Roger Trigg, Religious diversity: philosophical and political dimensions. CUP 2014
Marina Warner, Alone of all her sex: the myth and the cult of the Virgin Mary. OUP. New ed. 2013
Once again I am happy to express my gratitude to all those members of College who have donated these books which they have written. The wide variety of titles provides good evidence of the spread of interests within the College. Please remember the College Library when you publish a book.
Other new books There were 228 new books put into stock during the year. Apart from the Alumnus Collection titles the Library also received gifts of 130 books. Many of these were from students leaving and responding to my request to donate books at the end of their courses to help future students in the same subject. This has become a useful source of books for students on taught courses. The Library continues to acquire new books to support our students but during the year the pressure on space - both for books on the shelves and study places for the students - became ever tighter. We look forward to the new building with its larger Library.
Displays The displays of New Books continued, matching the regular monthly lists emailed to all members of College. This display continues throughout the year and the other display varies from term to term. The Michaelmas Term display is always on Study, Research and Writing Techniques and is very popular with new students. In Hilary Term there was a display of books on Architecture and New Buildings (appropriate as we watched the growth of our new building) and in Trinity Term (often the most pressurised) the display was of Light Reading.
Induction Sessions As usual the induction sessions for new students on ‘An introduction to Oxford Library Services and Electronic Resources’ were very crowded. However, those attending represented a minority of students. I again attended the Freshers’ Fair in the afternoon of the College Induction Day and this worked well. I was able to answer specific subject queries from new students on a one-to-one basis. I also sent out explanatory emails covering my presentation and inviting people to contact me with requests for books to be bought for the Library or for help with databases.
70 Library Assistant This year was unusual in that there were two Library Assistants during the course of the Academic Year. Anna Khanina was appointed to start in Michaelmas Term, but sadly was ill in the spring. Emma Harper was the Library Assistant in Trinity Term. Both of them worked well and were a great help to me.
Sheila Allcock
COMMON ROOM REPORT
This has been again a busy year for the Common Room Committee. There has been a consolidation of the bar’s budget and the new bar manager has done a lot of work to bring this in line with available funds. College suppers continued to be warmly received by the St Cross community, in waiting for the completion of the new building, which among other things will give a huge boost to student on-site presence. There were elections for the SRC following a lively debate in the Common Room. An electronic-only voting system was used and we are looking to introduce a personalised password for maximum security.
On another note, one unresolved issue remains the provision of non-English language newspapers in the Common Room. Members of College voted overwhelmingly to have these but budgetary constrains prevented us from providing them this year. We have, however, consolidated all of our subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals with a view to revisiting the budget soon. Once again I would like to pay tribute to our student committee with a most active and helpful President and Vice-President, who organized the election debates and proved (if proof were needed!) that the biggest asset of the College is its students.
Petros Ligoxygakis President
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE REPORT
The academic year 2014-15 was a time of opportunities and challenges. The Student Representative Committee (SRC) recognised the efforts of last year’s committee and endeavoured to build upon them, whilst simultaneously moving forward with new initiatives this year. In doing so, we have laid the groundwork for next year’s committee to do the same, adapting to changing circumstances as necessary. Thanks must be given to our student representatives, all of whom rose to the task admirably.
71 The building works in the West Quad had their own particular impact on the student community, requiring us to think creatively and work with the means available. Since we are a graduate college, some of our members are here for a year only and will not be here to enjoy the benefits of the new building. Our ability to organise events has also been impacted by the ongoing works. Nonetheless, we have done our best to accommodate for those affected and to minimise the impact of the construction work. Even despite this, our summer ball was a great success thanks in no small part to its excellent organisation. The theme, Once Upon a Dream, was well received and great effort was put into decorations and attractions, certainly making it one of this year’s highlights.
Our budget remains in good shape, with contributions being made towards the boat club, student equipment, social activities, and free gym membership for all our students. One of the ways in which we sought to provide for our students was to organise college suppers during term time. The Bursary Office was helpful in catering to student needs and working out the financial picture, and we are glad to see our continued efforts for regular evening meals fulfilled. Apart from benefitting current students, the suppers have provided a useful case study to better understand student needs when we quadruple our on-site residential community with the new building.
In terms of the SRC itself, a long-running conversation about the possibility of creating new representative positions continued during our tenure and hopefully will be completed next year. As one of Oxford’s most international colleges, we must be mindful of the diversity that helps make the St Cross community such an engaging one. We have suggested creating one or more new positions that we hope would bring together the SRC and the Student Association, which it represents, even more.
More so than in previous years, we promoted student participation by organising regular Student Association meetings. We noted an increase in attendance, and several significant student initiatives were put forward. Additionally, an SRC website was created, which we hope will be used effectively to communicate with student members. We can look back on a productive, cooperative, and enjoyable year.
Marten Krijgsman Çinar Beymul
72 SPORTS REPORT
I would like to highlight the team sporting achievements this year at St Cross.
Varsity sports
St Cross had athletes compete for the following University teams: Archery, athletics, boxing, clay pigeon shooting, cycling, dance sport, rowing, rugby league and water polo.
In the annual Rugby League Varsity Match, Oxford tasted success again, winning, for the sixth time in a row, with one of eight tries scored by St Cross’ own Josh Marshall, this was a record-breaking victory.
Two St Cross students, Jamie Cook and Shelley Pearson, were involved in the 161st Oxford and Cambridge Boat Races. It was a historic race: for the first time the women raced over the same course and on the same day as the men. Shelley and Jamie were also responsible for another boat race first – this being the first time that St Cross had two students in the Blue Boats.
Inter-collegiate sports
College teams have meanwhile been active in a number of inter-collegiate sports:
Women’s football: Wolfson/St Cross had another very impressive year. With 4 St Cross members – Kyle Edwards, Hannah Ringheim, Anne-Marie Sim and Brittany Bear – they managed to win both the Cuppers tournament and Trinity Cuppers. Their success in these competitions was, in fact, the first time a graduate team managed this feat. Throughout the year, the team achieved a remarkable run of 11 wins in their 12 games, finishing second overall in the league.
Men’s football: Although not having the best year in its otherwise illustrious history, unfortunately being knocked out early on in the Cuppers competition, the men’s team did manage to stay in the top division. St Cross also cemented a second team in the MCR competition this year. There were a number of great performances throughout the year, but the standout player, according to the team’s captain, Joao Sousa Pinto, was Andre Liew.
Cricket: This has been a year of mixed success for the St Cross/Wolfson team. Although knocked out early in the Cupper’s competition, the cricketers retained their league title, as champions in the 2nd XI division. Good performances were seen this year by the various St Cross members of the team, including from Edward Gillan, Pranoy Raul, Chris Adamson and Matthew Kruger.
73 Rowing: It has been probably the most successful year in a decade of rowing, due to an exceptional recruitment.
At the Christ Church Regatta, the women were placed third among the colleges. The men’s team reached the quarter finals.
Torpids was impressive. St Cross/Wolfson had eight boats competing, and made 50% more bumps than any other club. All three women’s boats got blades - which has only happened once previously in Oxford rowing history. The men’s 1st VIII bumped twice, finishing 5th in the division.
Summer Eights brought more success with two boats winning blades and Wolfson/ St Cross achieving the largest number of bumps overall. The men’s 3rd VIII holds the headship of third boats, having raised its position for 30 consecutive days. Congratulations to Stefanie Zekoll, Irene Milana, Stefany Wragg and Prachi Naik, (women’s 3rd VIII) and to Brian Chu, Alex Edwards, Morgan Di Rodi, Giovanni Mezzano, Tomás Quesada, and Sofia Hauck (cox) (men’s 3rd VIII).
At Oriel regatta, Wolfson/St Cross won the mixed VIII and Mixed IV. The Women moved up 40 positions at this year’s Head of the River Race.
Heather Harrington
CATERING MANAGER’S REPORT
I am proud to report that since the last publication the catering department has seen no change to the team who continue to work incredibly hard to provide an excellent service.We were awarded a 97.9% score in our external European Safety Bureau audit, one of the highest scores across the BaxterStorey business.
The team have worked tirelessly to ensure that the standards are continually raised and we hope to achieve an even higher score this year.
The College’s 50th Anniversary celebrations which took place in October, saw renowned chef John Campbell deliver a truly spectacular menu for the Anniversary Dinner ensuring that it really was a very memorable occasion.
We have had fantastic attendance at all Hall Nights, Special Dinners and College Suppers over the past year. The chefs have been following all current food trends and are continually developing new dishes and recipes which we hope you enjoy.
74 St Cross Kitchen Staff, 2015 From left to right: Laura Covarrubias, Iwona Wegiera, Amanda Clare, Darryl Pretorius, Robert Rudman, Paul White, Chris Brook.
With the new building now well underway, we are developing our plans for an extended catering offering with many exciting plans that we hope will all come to fruition. Watch this space…
Darryl Pretorius
MUSIC REPORT
Our annual carol service in Pusey House Chapel on 9th December 2014 was, as usual, a happy and crowded occasion. The choir was conducted by Peter Ward Jones with Peter Lynan at the organ, aqnd the service admirably led by Fr George Westhaver our Fellow, and Principal of Pusey House, and Fr Mihai. Unflappable assistance was given by Paul Wicking, Alex Farquhar, sidesmen from Pusey House, and the various readers from the College. Peter had chosen seven choir items, with some interesting pairings and a variety of moods: Nielsen’s We sing of David’s daughter with Lennox Berkeley’s I sing of a maiden; David Willcocks’ arrangement of Infant Holy with Peter’s own arrangement of Il est né le divin enfant; a bubbly Willcocks version of the Sussex Carol with Howells’s passionate Here is the little door, and a rousing send-off of Benedicamus Domino by Peter Warlock. The retiring collection captained by Max and Anna Hamerow produced a fine result for the homeless charity Gatehouse, and for the Hélène La Rue Scholarship Fund. In immemorial custom, mulled wine and mince pies were followed by a crowded Christmas Hall.
75 The Musical Evening in March 2015 boasted a good audience in the Dining Hall; it was devised by Anna Krause with Diarmaid MacCulloch compering. The Bursar and Domestic Bursar showed the human face of battels bills with their affecting duet performance More than Words to open the show. Many thanks to Mary Bateman, Lidiya Cherneva and Ian Page for varied songs across the centuries (and to Ian for introducing the gazuki to an expectant College). Sam Bruce with Leah Broad at the piano provided substantial Schubert lieder, and wind instruments were championed by Douglas Macmillan’s recorder, visiting Jacob van Eyck in the seventeenth-century Low Countries, and by Veena Karath on the Indian classical flute. Otherwise the evening was home-grown in more than one sense, as Anna Krause paired Brahms with a performance of her own haunting Welcome and Parting, accompanied by Peter, and the College singers performed Diarmaid’s setting of Jabberwocky (thanks to Sam Bruce for providing decent print copies of the score). The performance ended with Tudor madrigal innuendo from the College singers, which inaccurately announced the month of Maying, rather than the imminent arrival of the last Tuesday Hall of term.
Diarmaid MacCulloch
PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
The theme for the competition this year was ‘Contradictions and Contrasts’. Entries were displayed in the Common Room for a week prior to ‘Fred’s Lunch’ and were judged by members of the Art Committee. The prize, a bottle of champagne, was presented to the winner, Anthony Cheung, at ‘Fred’s’ lunch, for his photograph “1915”.
The highly commended entries were:
“The Five in Snow” by Anthony Cheung “Man in Brasenose Lane” by Anthony Cheung “The Resident of the Atomic Bomb Dome. Hiroshima, Japan, 2014” by Kitty Wheater “Fir Tree on a Spider Thread. Kyoto, Japan, 2014” by Kitty Wheater “Architectural Contradictions” by Laura Haapio-Kirk
76 The winning photograph “1915” by Anthony Cheung
77 OBITUARIES
Adrian Roberts (1933–2014)
Adrian Roberts, former Keeper of Oriental Books and Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library and Fellow of St Cross, died on 19th December 2014. He was born at Ely, Cambridgeshire, and was educated at King Edward’s School, Birmingham. National Service in the Royal Air Force followed, during which Adrian learned Mandarin Chinese, and spent a period of six months in Hong Kong. When he returned to the UK, he went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, to read first French and German, and then Chinese. Having completed his degree, Adrian was appointed in 1957 by the then Keeper of Oriental Books, Norman Sainsbury, to the senior staff of the Bodleian, to catalogue Chinese and Far Eastern accessions (including, in later years, material in Korean and Burmese). Eventually Adrian succeeded Sainsbury as Sub- Librarian and Keeper in 1977. He was elected to a Professorial Fellowship of St Cross in the following year, and, on his retirement from the Bodleian in 1998, he became an Emeritus Fellow of the College.
The Bodleian’s Department of Oriental Books and Manuscripts had responsibility for material from the Near, Middle and Far East, covering an enormous geographical area, and from different periods and cultures. By the time of Adrian’s retirement, it included not just the collections in the New Bodleian Library and the Indian Institute Library, but also the Bodleian Japanese Library at the Nissan Institute in the planning of which Adrian had been an active participant; the Oriental Institute Library; and the Chinese Studies Library in Walton Street.
Changes in librarianship in Oxford were not simply geographical. Perhaps the greatest development for all libraries in recent years has been the huge expansion of automation. Adrian was quick to appreciate this, both from a departmental and from a college perspective. He was among the earliest people to be trained as a cataloguer on OLIS (what was then the University’s online library catalogue).
In addition to the practical side of online cataloguing, Adrian encouraged work on the scholarly side of his department’s collections. He proposed and secured funding for the Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to A. Neubauer’s Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (work which was undertaken by the late Ron May, also a Fellow of St Cross). In similar vein, Adrian initiated and also secured some funding for A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, volume 1: Medicine (by Emilie Savage-Smith, another Fellow of St Cross). He supported the Supplementary Catalogue of Turkish Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, the catalogue of the Chandra Shum Shere Sanskrit manuscript collection, and the Catalogue of Old Chinese Books in the Bodleian Library. Indeed, Adrian’s goal was to have new or revised catalogues for the manuscripts (and, where possible, early printed books) of all the languages within his care. In addition, he noted the growing interest in local Chinese gazetteers as a source of scholarly information, and was one of the first librarians to collect them. Adrian amassed for the Bodleian what was, and still is, the most comprehensive collection of both Chinese and later Japanese local histories.
78 Adrian had his own academic interests as well, and he engaged in Chinese studies throughout his career and during retirement. He had a particular interest in the late Ming scholar and statesman Qi Biaojia (1602–1645), whose life was the subject of Adrian’s Oxford B.Litt. thesis (submitted towards the end of 1969, as a member of Magdalen College).
At St Cross Adrian played an active part in the life of the college community. He acted as College Librarian from 1986 till his retirement from the Bodleian in 1998, and served on college committees. During his time as Librarian (in which office he succeeded the late Paul Morgan, another Bodleian colleague), Adrian had the library join OLIS, and he himself catalogued as many books as he could. This paved the way for his successor to classify the library fully, to increase its size, and to provide space for students in which to work. Adrian was also senior sponsor to new graduate students, and was a regular attender at lunch, continuing to come in after his retirement, until illness curtailed his visits to college in recent years.
Our sympathies are extended to his widow, Sue, and their family.
Alan Coates Assistant Librarian, Bodleian Library
Eric Whittaker (1921–2015)
Eric James William Whittaker, distinguished crystallographer, mineralogist and geochemist, died on Thursday 2 July 2015 in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, after a short illness. Born on 1st November 1921, he attended Stockport Grammar School and Derby School, where he showed an early aptitude for mathematics and science, and then took his BA degree (1943) in Chemistry at Magdalen College, Oxford during the Second World War. The circumstances of the time were to influence his undergraduate research project since much university work was naturally directed towards the war effort. Using x-ray methods he investigated the structure of phases within the charcoal used in gas masks – an unusual but good experience in helping establish his crystallographic interests and expertise.
On leaving Oxford, Eric joined the research team at the brake-lining manufacturer Ferodo UK (based in Derbyshire and a subsidiary of Turner & Newall, the asbestos manufacturing company) and started his long and successful research career into the structure of amphiboles and related minerals. An early ground-breaking achievement was solving the difficult problem, using x-ray diffraction, of the true nature of chrysotile fibres, a mineral of much importance to the industry. He revealed that their structure is based on silicate curved layers rather than chains. Indeed, chrysotile was to remain one of his favourite topics over many years, with its varieties and the nature of its cylindrical lattice. Many other seminal papers on mineral structure, especially for the asbestiform amphiboles and serpentines, were to follow, with several in association with other crystallographers including Jack Zussman.
79 Eric was a natural researcher but success within Ferodo led inevitably to promotion (1963) and to an increasing managerial role – as head of the Mechanical and Physical Sciences unit - and away from his favoured vocation. Within two years he had resigned to take up (1965) the lectureship in geochemistry at the Department of Geology, University of Oxford. But his time at Ferodo had given him exceptional experience in structural crystallography, established his reputation as a world authority on the structure of asbestiform minerals and had earned him a doctorate (1957) from the University of London.
Oxford refreshingly gave him opportunities to work with new colleagues, students and methods, as well as to develop the postgraduate course for the Diploma in Geochemistry. Within two years he became Reader in Mineralogy (on the departure of Jack Zussman to the Professorship of Geology at Manchester University) until his retirement in 1983. This was a very fruitful period. Amphiboles were to remain his principal focus, working with colleagues including Barbara Cressey and John Hutchison, on important topics such as the accommodation of defects and disturbances, the termination of lamellae, and the role of twinning within their structures. He brought also innovative approaches to other subjects such as silicate liquid structures and the application of ionic radii for use in geochemistry. Twice (1977 and 1978) he and his co-author, Fred Wicks, received the annual Hawley medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada for the best paper in their journal, on serpentine structures and textures.
Eric was indeed admired for his systematic and logical approach to all aspects of his work (the words ‘systematically explored’ often occur in his own publications). His clarity of thought could be daunting when in discussion with him about a research topic but it was always tempered by his gentle humour and infectious laugh. Not surprisingly, his text book with its purposeful title Crystallography: An Introduction for Earth Science (and other Solid State) Students, published in 1981, has a special elegance through its logical emphasis on the repeating pattern of atoms. His style and expertise also made him a valuable member over several years of the International Mineralogical Association’s committee on the nomenclature of amphiboles and his renown led to the amphibole Whittakerite being named after him. Oxford also gave Eric a special role in his College – St Cross – where he was an official fellow from 1967 and Vice-Master for three years (1979-1982). He made a substantial and appreciated contribution during a phase of expansion and change especially with the College’s move to its new site in St Giles.
For many years Eric enjoyed the pastime of painting, in addition to his interest in ancient cultures and hieroglyphics. Later in his career he became interested in more theoretical aspects of crystallography, especially involving higher dimensions. He published his An Atlas of Hyperstereograms of the Four-Dimensional Crystal Classes (OUP, 1985) and became fascinated by Penrose patterns as soon as he learned of them and understood their relationship to higher dimensional lattices. He was delighted to be made an Honorary Life Fellow of the Mineralogical Society in 2010 in recognition of his considerable achievements.
80 He is survived by his two sons Anthony and Roger. His wife, Dorothy, whom he married soon after joining Ferodo, predeceased him. He is remembered with considerable affection by many colleagues and students especially for his invaluable help, encouragement and genuine interest.
Paul Henderson, July 2015
81 A gift for St Cross College – ?
Once, as a child growing up on a South African Farm, I came across an astonishing secret carefully concealed in a sturdy leather suitcase labelled F.C.3. The richly embroidered silk gown was out of character with farming surrounds. I had to find out more!
Skilful prodding got my father, Frederick Cope, talking about the years he had lived in China. As an Industrial Consultant his office was in Hong Kong while he lived in mainland China on Shameen Island, Canton (Guangzhou). Life was good until the Japanese invasion reached Canton in 1938. Fred was put under house arrest and later taken into solitary confinement.
With foresight Fred, long before he was detained, collected assorted valuables that would transport easily when, as he believed, he would return to England. Among these was the magnificent Chinese gown.
I was fortunate to inherit this splendid gown (selected illustrations) but what do you do with such a treasure? For many years it was safely stored and kept out of the light. Occasionally it was displayed for interested people. Gradually the light dawned. The gown was far too beautiful to hide away but where should it go?
My first thought was to offer it to St Cross College where I had benefitted as a Member of Common Room since 1988. Excitement at this prospect stirred in parts of the College until our wise Master, and former Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, explained that the College did not have the facilities to care for such an object. So the search was on to find a home for the gown.
First consider its origins and expert opinion,
82 Expert opinion: Helen Persson, Victoria and Albert Museum said: The outfit is exquisite. It is called an aoqun set, a jacket (ao) and a skirt (qun). This was an outfit for a Han woman (high official). Only Han Chinese women wore this kind of skirt. It dates back to the late 19th century, or turn of the century. The skirt is extravagantly embroidered and beautifully pleated as a ‘fish-scale skirt of 100 pleats’. Claire Brown, of Bonham’s, adds: Your outfit is stunning – the colours are gorgeous and the embroidery very fine.
Suzhou – the gown’s origin This garment was made in Suzhou, an important centre for the Silk Industry in China, and renowned for high-quality embroidery. It is one of the oldest and fastest growing major cities in the world. Founded in 514 BC its history spans some 2500 years. Suzhou, dubbed ‘the Venice of China’, lies in the Yangtze basin 100km from Shanghai
The Gown’s new home - Ashmolean Museum The gown’s new home is the Ashmolean. And this is where St Cross benefits. It is agreed that St Cross has the right to borrow it for special college occasions by arrangement.
This two-part silk gown will be part of the Ashmolean’s rotating display of textiles in the Later China gallery (room 38). Anyone wishing to view the gown when not on public display should arrange for a private viewing by contacting: The Jameel Centre, Department of Eastern Arts; Ashmolean Museum.
Forthcoming biography on Frederick Cope (2016):
ONE MAN, THREE LIVES The man who would never give up
Tonia Cope Bowley, November 2015
83 Attenborough’s Virtual World
In November 2014, I joined the film crew for my eleventh project with David Attenborough. We were aboard the 56 metre research vessel ‘Alucia’, heading for Osprey Reef in Australia. A year earlier, I had asked David if there was one more big series for the BBC that he would like to make, and what it should be about. Without hesitating, he said the Great Barrier Reef. This was a place that meant more to him than anywhere else in the natural world. He had been one of the first people to dive it using early scuba gear sixty years earlier and this had been captured in extraordinary black-and-white footage for his series Zoo Quest. David was keen to revisit the Reef and use the latest technology and science to understand the state of the Reef and how things have changed.
At the time of the trip David was 88 and it was clear that he was not going to be able to scuba dive. Instead, I arranged for access to the ‘Alucia’ which had a unique Triton submarine, capable of diving to the bottom of the Reef. This would allow David not only to revisit the shallower depths around 30 metres, but also to go much deeper and see the Reef as he had never seen it before. We hoped to dive deeper than anyone had ever done on the Reef – over 1000 feet. Throughout the dive, we would film in a brand new digital format – 360 degree virtual reality – (VR) enabling us to create the world’s first 20-minute VR experience: ‘diving with David Attenborough on the Great Barrier Reef ’. This specialist filming required several VR rigs containing multiple cameras, shooting simultaneously to capture the reef in 360 degrees. The viewer would feel as though they were actually diving with David Attenborough.
As we approached Osprey Reef (effectively a mountain below the water that you dive down the side of), the whole ship was consumed with preparations for the dive. Eight separate camera systems had been installed inside and outside the Triton (which was known by the crew as the ‘Nadir’). These would film in both ultra-high definition (4K) and virtual reality. The ever-energetic Triton pilot, Buck Taylor, was carefully checking all the instruments. We had great trust in him, as he had been a top navy submariner and involved in several submarine rescues including the ‘Kursk’ submarine disaster. Separately, the ‘Alucia’ scuba team, led by Steve Hudson, was preparing its underwater scuba gear to capture the dive from outside the submarine to a depth of 60 metres – which is way beyond most divers’ capability.
On the day of the dive, David appeared from his cabin ready to climb aboard the sub; a procedure which involved climbing a ladder to enter through a rather awkward hatch at the top of the three-metre-square vessel. He was remarkably nimble. There was no doubt that this was to be a very special day; even in the world of David Attenborough. The ‘Nadir’ can carry three people – in this case, David, Buck Taylor and our cameraman, Paul Williams. About fifteen people are involved in moving the nine-tonne sub onto a crane and then into the water, a process which took around twenty minutes. Once in the water, divers disconnected the sub so it could start the dive under its own control. I moved from the deck
84 to the Alucia’s control room to watch on monitors a digital representation of the sub’s descent. It was not long before the scuba team had reached its maximum depth of 60 metres and the sub disappeared into the abyss, becoming a little blip on the computer screen. Hereon we received only intermittent radio contact from David and the crew.
David Attenborough and Anthony Geffen in front of the Triton Submarine
During this dive, one of the Nadir’s missions was to use a mechanical arm to capture some deep-water coral, to be brought to the surface for analysis by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). With the current global threat to corals from changes in ocean conditions, AIMS has been investigating whether these cold-water corals – being more resistant – could be grown at a higher depth to help save the Reef.
The coral collection was not without challenge. Buck later revealed to me that as the mechanical arm picked up the sample, it fell out of reach. He deftly manoeuvred the sub to retrieve and place it carefully into a special bag.
Its task complete, the Nadir continued to dive deeper. While I watched this on the monitor, the radio suddenly lit up with Buck’s voice announcing that they had reached 306 metres (just over 1000 feet). This was the deepest dive ever achieved on the Great Barrier Reef – as David confirmed with a big smile later when he surfaced.
A few hours later, the dive at an end, the submersible suddenly shot to the surface like something out of Thunderbirds. From my position on the support vessel, as the glass bubble of the sub broke through the surface of the water, I could see that
85 the team members were delighted with their accomplishments. The virtual reality footage that had been captured was extraordinary – even for David Attenborough who, over the last 60 years, has filmed in every medium: black-and-white, colour, standard-definition, high-definition (HD), 3D, and even the latest format ultra- high definition (4K). New science had also been achieved on the dive as the coral sample turned out to be a brand new species of particular interest to the AIMS scientists aboard.
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