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Somerville College Report 12 13 Somerville College Report 12 13 Somerville College Oxford OX2 6HD Telephone 01865 270600 www.some.ox.ac.uk Exempt charity number 1139440. Oct 2013 Somerville College Report 12 13 Somerville College Contents Visitor, Principal, Academic Report Fellows, Lecturers, Examination Results, 2012-2013 114 Staff 3 Prizes 117 Students Entering The Year in Review College 2012 120 Principal’s Report 10 Somerville Association Fellows’ Activities 16 Officers and Committee 124 Report on Junior Somerville Development Research Fellowships 30 Board Members 127 J.C.R. Report 34 M.C.R. Report 36 Notices Library Report 37 Legacies Update 130 Report from the Events: Dates for the Diary 132 Director of Development 42 Members’ Notes President’s Report 48 Somerville Senior Members’ Fund 50 Life Before Somerville: Suzanne Heywood (Cook, 1987) 51 Gaudies and Year Reunions 58 Members’ News and Publications 61 Marriages 76 This Report is edited by Liz Cooke (Tel. 01865 270632; email Births 77 [email protected]) and Amy Crosweller. Deaths 78 Obituaries 80 Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Lecturers, Staff | 3 Sarah Jane Gurr, MA, (BSc, ARCS, Manuele Gragnolati, MA, (Laurea Visitor, PhD Lond, DIC), Daphne Osborne in lettere Classiche, Pavia, PhD Fellow, Professor of Plant Sciences, Columbia, DEA Paris), Reader in Tutor in Biological Sciences Italian Literature, Tutor in Italian Principal, (until January 2013) Annie Sutherland, MA, DPhil, (MA Richard Stone, MA, DPhil, FIMechE, Camb), Rosemary Woolf Fellow, Fellows, CEng, Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Old and Middle English Tutor in Engineering Science Daniel Anthony, MA, (PhD Lond), Lecturers, Lois McNay, MA, (PhD Camb), Tutor in Systems Pharmacology Professor of the Theory of Politics, Staff Tutor in Politics Michael Hayward, MA, DPhil, Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry; Dean Roman Walczak, MA, (MSc Warsaw, (Michaelmas 2012) Visitor Dr rer nat Heidelberg), Reader in Particle Physics, Tutor in Physics Beate Dignas, MA, DPhil, The Rt Hon Christopher Patten CH, (Staatsexamen Münster), Barbara Chancellor of the University Benjamin John Thompson, MA, Craig Fellow, Tutor in Ancient History (MA, PhD Camb), FRHistS, Tutor in Medieval History Natalia Nowakowska, MA, DPhil, Principal University Lecturer in History, Charles Spence, MA, (PhD Camb), Tutor in Early Modern History Alice Prochaska, MA, DPhil, FRHistS Professor of Experimental Psychology, Tutor in Experimental Psychology; Jonathan Burton, MA, (PhD Dean for Hilary and Trinity 2013 Camb), University Lecturer in Organic Vice-Principal Chemistry, Tutor in Chemistry Almut Maria Vera Suerbaum, MA, Jennifer Welsh, MA, DPhil, Mason Porter, MA, (BS Caltech, (Dr Phil, Staatsexamen, Münster), (BA Saskatchewan), Professor of MS, PhD Cornell), Tutor in Tutor in German International Relations, Tutor in International Relations Applied Mathematics Fellows (in order Matthew John Andrew Wood, MA, Nicolai Meinshausen, MA, MSc, DPhil, (MB, ChB Cape Town), Tutor in (PhD Zurich), Tutor in Statistics of seniority) Medicine, Keeper of the College Pictures Steven Herbert Simon, MA, Joanna Mary Innes, MA, (MA Camb), (PhD Harvard),Tutor in Theoretical Winifred Holtby Fellow, Tutor in Modern Helen Morton, MA, (MSc Boston, Condensed Matter Physics History MA Camb), Treasurer (until Dec 2012) Hilary Greaves, BA, (PhD Rutgers), Karin Erdmann, MA, (Dr rer nat Philip West, MA, (PhD Camb), Tutor in Philosophy Giessen), Tutor in Pure Mathematics Times Tutor in English Luke Pitcher, MA, MSt, DPhil, Fiona Jane Stafford, MA, MPhil, Julie Dickson, MA, DPhil, (PGCert Durham), Tutor in Classics DPhil, (BA Leicester), FRSE, Professor (LLB Glasgow), Tutor in Law of English, Tutor in English Jeremy Donald Whiteley, MA, Michael James Ashdown, BCL, MA, (PhD Camb), University Director of (MA Camb), Tutor in Law Personnel and Administrative Services 4 | Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Lecturers, Staff Matthew Kenneth Higgins, BA, Senior Research Andrew Edward Armitage, DPhil, (PhD Camb), Tutor in Biochemistry Fulford Junior Research Fellow Fellows Simon Robert Kemp, BA, MPhil, Lucy Audley-Miller, (BA Newc) (PhD Camb), Tutor in French Richard Ashdowne, MA, DPhil MPhil, DPhil, Woolley Junior Research Fellow Alex David Rogers, (BSc, PhD Liv), Zsolt Bagi, (PhD Semmelweis Professor of Conservation Biology, University Budapest) Matthew Benton, (PhD Rutgers), Tutor in Conservation Biology Templeton Junior Research Fellow Amalia Coldea, Julie Christiane Hage, (ICS, BA, MA (MA, PhD Cluj-Napoca) Charlotte Dodson, (MA, PhD Camb), Roskilde, DEA Paris), Fulford Junior Research Fellow Samir El Andaloussi, Development Director (until Jan 2013) (PhD Stockholm) Alfred Gathorne-Hardy, (BSc Edin, Anne Manuel, (LLB R’dg, MA, MSc, MSc, PhD ICL), Special Fulford Junior John Hawthorne, MA, PhD Brist), ACA, Librarian Research Fellow (PhD Syracuse) Christopher Hare, BCL, (Dip Martina Hallegger, (MA, PhD Muhammed Kassim Javaid, d’Etudes Jurid Poitiers, MA Cantab, Vienna), Fulford Junior Research Fellow BMedSci, MBBS, (PhD Lond), MRCP LLM Harvard), Tutor in Law Suzan Hammond, (BS Cincinnati, Philip Kreager, DPhil Stephen Rayner, BA, (PhD Durham), PhD Northwestern University, USA), FRAS, MInstP, Senior Tutor Fulford Junior Research Fellow Boris Motik, (Dr rer pol Karlsruhe) Andrew Parker, (BA Liv), ACMA, Vanessa Harrar, (BA, MA, PhD York, Tessa Rajak, MA, DPhil Treasurer (from January 2013) Toronto), Mary Somerville Junior Simon Reddy, (MSc Aberd) Research Fellow Professorial Fellows Owen Rees, MA, (PhD Camb), ARCO Brian Hedden, (PhD MIT), Templeton Junior Research Fellow Stephen Weatherill, MA, (MA Camb, Nigel Saunders, (BMedBiol, MB, MSc Edinburgh), Jacques Delors Clare Howarth, (MSci Imp, PhD ChB, MSc, PhD, DipRCPath) Professor of European Law KCL), Fulford Junior Research Fellow Rajesh Thakker, MA, (MA, MD Honorary Senior Taeyoung Koo, (BSc Kyung Hee, Camb), FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci, MSc Yonsei UCM, PhD Lond), May Professor of Medicine Research Fellow Fulford Junior Research Fellow Stephen Guy Pulman, MA, (MA, Stephanie Dalley, MA, (MA Camb, Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar, (MSc PhD Essex), FBA, Professor of Hon PhD Lond), FSA Mexico City, PhD Barcelona, MC Computational Linguistics IEF), Fulford Junior Research Fellow Aditi Lahiri, (DPhil Brown, MA, Junior Research Edward Macaulay, DPhil, (MSci DPhil Calcutta), Professor of Linguistics Fellows Imp), Fulford Junior Research Fellow Stephen Roberts, MA, DPhil, Charity Anderson, (PhD SLU), Stephen Montgomery, (BA, PhD Professor of Engineering Science Templeton Junior Research Fellow Camb) Fulford Junior Research Fellow Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Lecturers, Staff | 5 Mate Nagy, (MSc, PhD, ELTE Emeritus Fellows Angela Vincent, MA, MB, BS, (MSc Budapest), Fulford Junior Lond), FMedSci Research Fellow Margaret Adams, MA, DPhil Katherine Duncan-Jones, MA, BLitt, Dani Rabinowitz, BA, DPhil, Pauline Adams, MA, BLitt, FRSL Templeton Junior Research Fellow (Dipl Lib Lond) Marian Ellina Stamp Dawkins, MA, Tyler Reddy, (BSc, PhD Dalhousie), Rachel Jean Banister, MA, DPhil Fulford Junior Research Fellow (BSc Edinburgh) (d. 15 February 2013) Laura Ross, (BSc, MSc Groningen, Foundation Fellows PhD Groningen/Edinburgh), Lesley Brown, BPhil, MA Fulford Junior Research Fellow Lady Elliott (Margaret Whale, 1945), Anna Morpurgo Davies, DBE, MA, MBE, MA David Sergeant, MA, DPhil, (Dott Lett Lib Doc Rome), FBA Mary Ewart Junior Research Fellow Sir Geoffrey Leigh Miriam Tamara Griffin, MA, DPhil Gerardo Licenciado Simari, Mr Gavin Ralston, MA (Magister Bahia Blanca, Argentina, Mary Jane Hands, MA MSc, PhD Univ. of Maryland College Evelyn Christina Mervyn Roaf, MA, Park), Fulford Junior Research Fellow Barbara Fitzgerald Harvey, CBE, DPhil MA, BLitt, FRHistS, FBA Devin Terhume, (BA Concordia Univ. Montreal, MSc Liverpool, Judith Heyer, MA Honorary Fellows PhD Lund, Sweden), Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, LG, Fulford Junior Research Fellow Julianne Mott Jack, MA OM, PC, FRS, BSc, MA Elizabeth Tuncliffe, (MPhys Manc, Carole Jordan, DBE, MA, (PhD (d. 8 April 2013) MSc UCL, PhD Camb), Fulford Lond), FRS Junior Research Fellow Baroness Williams of Crosby, PC, Norma MacManaway, MA, (MA, MA Sebastiaan Verweij, (MA MPhil Dublin, DEA Paris) Amsterdam, PhD Glasgow), Elizabeth Millicent Chilver (Mrs), Fulford Junior Research Fellow Hilary Ockendon, MA, DPhil, (Hon MA DSc Southampton) Allison Wetterlin, (MA, DPhil Anne Marion Warburton, DCVO, Konstanz), Fulford Junior Josephine Peach, BSc, MA, DPhil CMG, MA Research Fellow Evelyn Christina Mervyn Roaf, MA, Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw, DBE, DPhil DL, MA, DPhil, FIMA, FCP Career Development Kiri Jeanette Te Kanawa, DBE, Hon Fellows Olive Lenore Sayce, MA, DLitt (d. 25 February 2013) DMus Lee Walters, (BSc LSE, MSc, PhD Frances Julia Stewart, MA, DPhil Jean Ruth Fraser Wilks, CBE, MA, Lond, MA, MPhil UCL) Philosophy FCP, (Hon LLD Birmingham) Adrianne Tooke, MA, (BA Lond, PhD Donna Harris, (MPhil, PhD Camb) Camb) Carolyn Emma Kirkby, DBE, OBE, Economics MA, Hon DMus, FGSM 6 | Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Lecturers, Staff Joyce Maire Reynolds, MA, (Hon Tamsyn Love Imison, DBE, BSc, Catherine Jane Royle de Camprubi, DLitt Newcastle-upon-Tyne), FBA FRSA MA Hazel Mary Fox (Lady Fox), CMG, Clara Elizabeth Mary Freeman Nancy Rothwell, DBE, BSc, DS, PhD, QC, MA (Mrs), OBE, MA FMedSci, FRS Louise Napier Johnson, DBE, Alyson Judith Kirtley Bailes, CMG, Baroness Shriti Vadera, BA (PhD Lond, Hon DSc St Andrew’s), MA FRS, MA (d. 25 September 2012) Elizabeth Mary Keegan, DBE, MA Nina Mary Bawden (Mrs Kark), CBE, Averil Millicent Cameron, DBE,
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