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u A major new Oxford research project Under investigation: aims to take a fresh look at the Jagiellonians, Sigismund Augustus, the last king of the Jagiellonians, a dynasty that ruled over the territories as painted by Lucas Cranach the Younger of no fewer than 14 present-day countries in central, eastern and northern Europe between 1386 and 1596. The five-year project will investigate the dynasty’s impact on European history and politics, and how they are remembered to this day. Funded by the European Research Council, this €1.4m grant is one of the largest awarded to study the history of pre-modern central Europe. ‘Our aim is that, by the end of this project, far more people will understand who the Jagiellonians were, and the role they played in our shared European history,’ says Dr Natalia Nowakowska of the History Faculty and Somerville College, who is leading the project. ‘The Jagiellonians were cosmopolitan, highly international, and raise questions about the boundaries and identity of Europe itself: in that, they are surely a dynasty for our times.’

u A new hepatitis C vaccine being developed with the class of their fathers, and found that Oxbotica has been founded by Dr Ingmar Posner by a team at Oxford has shown promising around three-quarters of men and women and Professor Paul Newman of the Mobile results in an early clinical trial. The vaccine alike ended up in a different class to the Robotics Group (MRG) and will commercialise was found to be safe and well tolerated in one they were born into. The experience of MRG’s robotics and autonomous systems the 15 healthy volunteers who took part. The upward mobility has become less common, technologies. Current MRG projects include researchers also showed the vaccine generated while going down the social ladder has robotic survey systems for roads and railways, strong and broad immune responses against become more common. low-speed driverless pods for urban transport, the virus causing the disease. These results a robot electric car, and robotic rovers for use have paved the way for a new trial, now under u The high visibility of police horses and on Mars. ‘We believe that Oxford University’s way in the US, to test whether the vaccine riders on neighbourhood patrols boosts levels robotics expertise can transform a wide spectrum offers any protection from hepatitis C to of public confidence in the police, researchers of application domains,’ Dr Posner says. ‘Our intravenous drug users – a group at high risk have found. While interviews with police at intended markets range from devices that survey of infection. It is the first hepatitis C vaccine the start of the research project suggested our roads, buildings and chemical plants to to reach this stage of clinical trials. ‘The size that mounted units were best employed as a autonomous systems for warehouse logistics and, and breadth of the immune responses seen resource for crowd control, the researchers of course, autonomous driving.’ in the healthy volunteers are unprecedented found that police horses and riders were in magnitude for a hepatitis C vaccine,’ says particularly effective in neighbourhood principal investigator Professor Ellie Barnes of policing because they acted as ‘ice-breakers’, the Nuffield Department of Medicine. encouraging greater positive interaction between the police and members of the public. u More of us are moving down the social Trials of neighbourhood patrols by pairs of ladder rather than going up as in the past, mounted police officers in Gloucestershire and according to a new study. The findings, London were found to generate around six

co-authored by Dr Erzsébet Bukodi and times more public interest than foot patrols GloucestershireConstabulary Dr Lorraine Waller from the Department over the same period; although most of these of Social Policy and Intervention, with interactions were brief, they were largely John Goldthorpe from the Department of positive. The research was conducted by Sociology, and in collaboration with the Dr Ben Bradford from Oxford’s Centre for London School of Economics and Political Criminology and Dr Chris Giacomantonio, Science, are published in the British Journal a researcher with RAND Europe. of Sociology. Their study looked at more than 20,000 British men and women in four u New opportunities in robotics and birth cohorts from 1946, 1958, 1970 and autonomous systems are to be targeted by 1980–84. They compared the social class of a spin-out company from the Department each individual when in their late 20s or 30s of Engineering Science and Isis Innovation.

For more information, visit www.ox.ac.uk/news and www.ox.ac.uk/staffnews Breaking the ice: mounted police www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint November 2014 BLUEPRINT | 3 people and prizes

Dr Brenda Boardman, outstanding contributions by young Nisbet Fellowships, in recognition of her Emeritus Fellow in the mathematicians in areas influenced by the career-long outstanding contributions to

Phil Sayer Phil School of Geography mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Dr educational research. and the Environment, Maynard has obtained spectacular results has been awarded a in prime number theory, especially the small Heather Viles, Professor of Biogeo- Lifetime Achievement gaps problem. morphology and Heritage Conservation, Award for services has been awarded the Ralph Alger Bagnold to energy efficiency and fuel poverty by the Dr Alex Mullen, Medal of the European Geosciences Union Carbon Action Network. postdoctoral in recognition of her outstanding scientific research fellow in contribution to the study of geomorphology.

Martin Booth, Chin Gudu-Yeu classics at All Souls Professor of College, has won the Catherine de Engineering Science, 2014 James Henry Vries, Professor of has been awarded the Breasted Prize of the European Politics, 2014 International American Historical has been given the Commission for Association for her book Southern Gaul 2014 Emerging Optics Prize ‘for and the Mediterranean: Multilingualism Scholar Award by his innovative and pioneering research and Multiple Identities in the Iron Age and the Elections, Public on dynamic optical methods and new Roman Periods (Cambridge University Press). Opinion and Voting approaches to adaptive optics’. John Norbury, Emeritus Associate Professor Behavior section of the American Political Martin Bridson, Whitehead Professor of of Applied Mathematics, has won the Louis Science Association. Mathematics, has been elected a Fellow of J Battan Author’s Award of the Council of Anthony Watts, Professor of Biochemistry, the American Mathematical Society ‘for his the American Meteorological Society for is to receive the 2015 Anatrace Membrane contributions to geometric group theory as his book Invisible in the Storm – the Role Protein Award of the Biophysical Society well as its exposition, and for service to the of Mathematics in Understanding Weather, mathematical community’. written jointly with Ian Roulstone. in recognition of his many innovative approaches to studying membrane proteins. Dame Kay Davies, Dr Lee’s Professor of Peter Rothwell, Action Research Professor Anatomy, was selected as the 2014 recipient of Neurology, has won the first Senior Sir David Weatherall, Regius Professor of of the British Neuroscience Association Science Award of the International Aspirin Medicine Emeritus, has been awarded the award for Outstanding Contribution to Foundation for providing compelling Anthony Cerami Award in Translational British Neuroscience. evidence for the substantial role of aspirin in Medicine by the Feinstein Institute for the reduction of cancer incidence, metastasis Medical Research and the journal Molecular Anna Gloyn, Professor and mortality. Medicine in recognition of his discoveries in of Molecular Genetics inherited disorders of haemoglobin. and Metabolism, Michael Sharpe, Professor of Psychological has been awarded Medicine and consultant psychiatrist, has Dr Gavin Williams, Emeritus Fellow of the 2014 Minkowski been named Psychiatrist of the Year 2014 St Peter’s College, has received the Prize by the European by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The Distinguished Africanist award of the UK’s Association for the award particularly recognises his research African Studies Association, for his lifetime Study of Diabetes, integrating medical and psychiatric care for achievement. particularly for her work on the naturally cancer patients with depression. occurring mutations that cause or are Kathryn Wood, associated with increased risk of diabetes. The Revd Dr Jenn Professor of Strawbridge, research Immunology, has Marta Kwiatkowska, Professor of Computing lecturer and Chaplain

Ruth Cowen Ruth been awarded the Systems, has been awarded an honorary at Keble College, has inaugural Woman doctorate by the KTH Royal Institute been awarded the first in Transplantation of Technology, Sweden. The citation Society for Biblical award of The acknowledges her as ‘a world-leading Literature/DeGruyter Transplantation computer science researcher and a driving Prize for Biblical Society. A former force for the development of probabilistic Studies and Reception History, intended to and quantitative methods within computer support biblical scholars at the early stage of president of the society, she founded its science’. their careers. Women in Transplantation group.

Dr James Maynard Kathy Sylva, Professor Dr Tristram Wyatt, senior research of the Mathematical of Educational associate in the Department of Zoology and Institute has been Psychology, has Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, has

Eleanor Grant Eleanor awarded the 2014 been awarded one of won the Society of Biology’s 2014 award SASTRA University the first two British for the Best Postgraduate Textbook for his Ramanujan prize, Educational Research book Pheromones and Animal Behavior which recognises Association John (Cambridge University Press).

4 | BLUEPRINT November 2014 www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences new Zealand Honour Two Oxford academics have received working on a book on corruption in modern David Paterson, Academy of Social Sciences Fellowship India, based on four years of fieldwork in Associate Head status. Uttar Pradesh, north India. of the Medical Sciences Division Craig Jeffrey, Louise Fitzgerald, (Education) and Professor of Visiting Professor Professor of Development in Organisational Cardiovascular Geography in the Change at the OTAGO Otago Daily Times Physiology, has School of Geography Saïd Business been elected as an and the Environment, School, investigates Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society is an internationally organisational of New Zealand. recognised expert change in complex Professor Paterson, who was in South Asian and Development studies, organisations, especially healthcare bornin New Zealand, is a leading specialising in the social geography and services, and organisational development. cardiorespiratory physiologist and a political anthropology of contemporary Recent research examined health care world authority in cardiac–neural control. India, in particular Indian youth. He is managers’ use of research evidence and His work focuses on the relationship currently leading a large international how they share their knowledge, both between cellular and molecular project on the politics of educated across professions and with relevant mechanisms in cardio-respiratory control unemployed youth in South Asia and is organisations. during physiological stress.

fellow of the Royal bodleian energy project praised The Bodleian Libraries’ energy project Academy of Engineering has been highly commended in the 2014 Paul Newman, Green Gown Awards, which recognise BP Professor sustainability initiatives being undertaken by of Information universities and colleges across the UK. Engineering and The aim of the project was to reduce Fellow of Keble the libraries’ annual utility costs by at least

College, has been Images/Photovibe University Oxford £100,000. By identifying opportunities for elected a Fellow energy saving, including building insulation, of the Royal LED lighting installation and heat metering, Academy of Engineering. the libraries have saved 925 tonnes of Professor Newman is co-leader of carbon, and the project will see a yearly the Mobile Robotics Group in the saving of nearly £170,000. Department of Engineering Science and The Green Gown judges commented: has led research into mobile autonomy, ‘A very well-presented project which developing machines which map, achieved good carbon savings across a range navigate through, and understand their of buildings and providing a demonstration environment. One of the group’s flagship project for other departments. A clear target projects is the RobotCar, a Nissan was set at the outset which motivated staff to get involved and was more than achieved.’ Leaf electric car that can drive itself for The project is now being used as a springboard to create collaborative projects on carbon stretches of a route. reduction between Estates Services and other departments across the University.

isis innovation wins Technology Transfer Unit of the Year Isis Innovation, the University’s research and technology commercialisation company, has been named ‘Technology Transfer Unit of the Year’ at the Global University Venturing 2014 Summit. Isis Innovation spin-out NaturalMotion, bought by US games company Zynga earlier this year for $527m, also won ‘Exit of the Year’. ‘I and my colleagues at Isis are honoured to be recognised in what has been an extraordinarily active and exciting year, both for us and the industry generally,’ says Tom Hockaday, managing director of Isis Innovation. ‘We got off to a fantastic start in the first few months with the NaturalMotion exit, the launch of our University of Oxford Isis Fund, and the investment of a record £12m in one of our spin-outs, Nightstar. We’ve already launched seven spin-outs this year, and we’re very excited by the potential of our pipeline of further spin-outs and intellectual property from Oxford, as well as the promise of the start-

NaturalMotion ups from our Isis Software Incubator.’

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Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences immune cells can lead to chronic intestinal Law Fiona Powrie, Sidney inflammatory disease, offering new research Luca Enriques, Full Truelove Professor avenues for the treatment of these conditions. Professor of Business of Gastroenterology Law at LUISS Guido and Fellow of White’s Professor Carli University, Green Templeton of Moral Philosophy Rome, Italy, took College, took up Jeff McMahan, up this post in the this post in the Professor of Philosophy Faculty of Law on Nuffield Department at Rutger’s University, 1 October. He also of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and USA, took up this became a Fellow of Jesus College. Musculoskeletal Sciences on 1 October. She post in the Faculty of Professor Enriques’ chief areas of research has also become Director of the Kennedy Philosophy on 1 October. He is a Fellow of are corporate governance, European Institute of Rheumatology and is now a Fellow Corpus Christi College. company law, comparative company law and of Wadham College. Professor McMahan specialises in the securities regulation. In addition to holding Professor Powrie’s research focuses on the ethics of war, legal theory, and applied many academic posts, he has worked at interactions between the immune system and ethics generally. He has published a number the Bank of Italy and with law firm Cleary the large number of intestinal bacteria and of books with Oxford University Press, Gottleib Steen and Hamilton, acted as an how this normally beneficial relationship including The Ethics of Killing: Problems at advisor to the Italian government and served breaks down in inflammatory bowel disease. the Margins of Life (2002) and Killing in War as a member of the European Commission’s Her research has identified regulatory (2009). Forthcoming OUP books include a Forum of Market Experts on Auditors’ T cells that police the immune response in collection of essays called The Values of Lives Liability and its Reflection Group on the the intestine, preventing it from attacking and The Right Way to Fight, a book on war Future of EU Company Law. beneficial bacteria. Deficiencies in these for both academic and non-academic readers. noticeboard u Dr Samina Khan, it’s easy to give as you earn Deputy Director of charitable purpose such as community the Undergraduate groups. Admissions and Giving directly through payroll has tax Outreach (UAO) office, benefits as your donation is taken from has been appointed as the your pay before income tax is calculated University’s new Director and deducted. So if you’re on the 20% tax of Undergraduate rate, a £20 donation will cost you just £16, Admissions and Outreach. She is responsible while the £4 that would have been paid in for coordinating admissions, access and student tax goes direct to the charity (less a small recruitment activity across the University, and administration fee deducted by CAF). On for media liaison in this area. the 40% tax rate, the tax reduction is £8 on Samina studied at King’s College London, gained a doctorate in organic chemistry at a £20 donation, and on 45% it is £9. Loughborough University and completed Once you have decided how much you a PGCE at St Hilda’s College. Prior to joining would like to give each month, you have the University UAO office two years ago, three options: she worked for the Department of Education; • You can nominate a charity or group of for the Department of Business, Innovation

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6 | BLUEPRINT November 2014 www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint Rob Judges Rob life in the ‘Land of the Gods’ Dr Jane Dyson tells Maria Coyle how she charts the lives of a community in the Himalayas

Many of us want to get away from it all once made a 15-minute film calledLifelines , with focuses on the urban youth of India, hers is in a while, but social geographer Dr Jane accompanying teaching materials to open up in the rural communities. Jane is currently a Dyson has taken it to a different level – living this world to geography students at secondary Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville in a Himalayan village for 15 months, with no and higher education levels in the UK, USA College and a Research Associate at the School electricity, no phones, and no road in or out. and India. of Geography and the Environment. In 2003 Jane arrived at a place in the So where did her wanderlust come from? Recently, she and Craig stayed in the Indian Himalayas known locally because of Jane explains that her father, who was a village for a few months with their own two its beauty as the ‘Land of the Gods’. She had doctor, liked to move around. As a young children. They arrived via a newly built dirt been travelling on her own in Uttarakhand, child she lived in a remote part of Scotland, track that allowed transport for the first time. intending to find a village where she could live Australia and – the place that influenced her Their daughter, Florence, adapted well; it was with a community and conduct her doctoral getting back to England that proved to be a research on children’s work. By chance, a ‘I got used to the idea of problem. Jane explains: ‘When we got back she villager on the same route up the mountain led communal living, with felt isolated by living indoors. She would say, her to his village, where she was welcomed. “How will people come and go if we always Perched 2,500m high on a wind-swept ridge, people popping round all have the front door closed?”’ it was 40km from the main road and half a the time’ This year, Jane took filmmaker Ross day’s uphill walk from the nearest dirt track. Harrison to the village to chart the changes. After assessing its suitability for her research, most – Hong Kong. Jane was only five at the By 2012 the village had a road, irregular she lived among the people and has returned time, but even then was struck by the stark electricity, and a telecommunications tower to them many times. Indeed, she now regards contrast between the rich expat community for mobile phones. It is now relatively them as her second family. and the poverty of the Vietnamese boat people. straightforward for villagers to study; some On that first visit, she was studying This interest in inequality is at the heart even take a higher education course by children’s everyday lives and spent time in of her work today. Jane began with an correspondence. Yet many of the youth the fields and surrounding forests, weeding undergraduate degree in zoology at Edinburgh are frustrated by the lack of employment potatoes, harvesting crops or hay with a sickle University, and spent several years working on opportunities, and the older people (who are and caring for livestock. She spoke in Hindi conservation projects in Africa. It was while largely illiterate) find it hard to support this and enlisted a local research assistant who conducting elephant research in Zimbabwe younger generation. ‘This is the story of a helped her pick up the local dialect, Garhwali. that she began to realise that she was more particular village, but it represents many places ‘It’s basic living, but I love the outdoor interested in the people – how they made across the world now,’ says Jane. ‘There is lifestyle,’ says Jane. ‘I got used to the idea of use of their resources and managed their hope for many people, but also a real sense communal living, with people popping round environment. of uncertainty.’ all the time. There is no privacy; there is a Later, in Edinburgh, she met her future This month she returned to the Himalayas lot of laughter and joking and teasing. I am husband Craig Jeffrey, who is now Oxford’s to follow this same cohort she once observed looked after as part of the community. That’s Professor of Development Geography. They as children, who are now on course for a very what I miss when I come back to England.’ share an interest in contemporary society and different life to the generations that have As Jane has continued to work in the global development, but while his research gone before. village over the past decade, her project has broadened in response to quite dramatic changes in the area. Drawing on her research More at www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/jdyson.html. You can watch and her relationship with villagers, she has Jane’s film at www.lifelinesfilm.comand find teaching resources written an academic book, Working Child- and other related materials at www.lifelinesfilm.com/resources hoods (Cambridge University Press), and also www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint November 2014 BLUEPRINT | 7 An HIV virus in the bloodstream Shutterstock on the Origin of Disease Scientists from the Department of Zoology are pinpointing viruses to their origins – and predicting where they’ll strike again, Jamie Condliffe discovers

Many of the world’s most serious diseases, between the 1930s and 1950s, most notably from influenza to Ebola, began life in to the mining cities Mbuji-Mayi and animals. But while we may despair when they Lubumbashi in the south. Comparing their spill over to humankind, researchers at the results to historical archives, they realised Department of Zoology are pinpointing their that Kinshasa was growing rapidly at the origins – because finding out may enable us to time, with a very active railway network that better handle future outbreaks. carried people – and the virus with them. ‘It’s unheard of to be able to point to a ‘By 1922, 300,000 passengers were using the creature and say: this was the animal that a railway annually,’ explains Faria. ‘By the end human interacted with and eventually caused of the 1940s over a million were travelling a pandemic,’ explains David Pigott from the through the country each year.’ Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group at By the 1950s pockets of HIV existed the Department of Zoology. ‘But there’s often across the entire country. Then, in 1960, the a narrative in the scientific literature about Republic of the Congo as it was then known hunters or butchers being the link between achieved independence from Belgium, and the two populations.’ with it came changes in commercial sex work and public health initiatives against tropical ‘What’s happened with Ebola diseases using unsterilised needles. Such social in West Africa in the past change likely contributed to the explosion in viral infections in the region, and helped HIV Where will Ebola strike next? Oxford researchers year has been like rolling become established in the rest of southern are modelling how the virus is circulating in animal a dice and getting a six, then Africa. By the time the virus was officially populations discovered in 1983, it was too late to stop it. another, then another…’ Ultimately, then, the pandemic is a result able to plot their longitude and latitude of bad luck. ‘Our research suggests that there across Africa. Then, using data about the Perhaps the most famous example is HIV. was only a small window of opportunity environment across the entire continent – The virus is known to have been transmitted for group M to emerge and spread into a rainfall, temperature, vegetation and the from monkeys and apes to humans at least pandemic,’ explains Faria. Sadly, it seized it. like – he was able to work out which factors 13 times, but only one of those led to the It’s not, of course, an isolated bout of were most common amongst the spillovers. pandemic we live with today: HIV-1 group misfortune. ‘What’s happened with Ebola From there, he could predict how likely a new M, which accounts for over 75 million of in West Africa in the past year has been like transmission was at any point across Africa. all HIV infections to date. There are many rolling a dice and getting a six, then another, ‘The most common factor is vegetation,’ genetic forms of HIV-1 group M, but they’re then another…’ explains Pigott. ‘A cascade of he explains, ‘which fits with the narrative all believed to stem from a single transmission rare events that have happened in the right – from animal to human – we just don’t know or wrong – order.’ He should know: for the of Ebola – because the suspected bats live in exactly when or where. past few months, he’s been probing data sets forested areas.’ In contrast to Faria’s historic Now, thanks to Dr Nuno Faria and his about the transmission of the disease from pinpointing, then, Pigott’s analysis reveals colleagues at the Department of Zoology, animal to human in order to establish where more broadly where other outbreaks could we’re getting closer to understanding. ‘For future outbreaks are likely to occur. occur. ‘Our map can’t do much to help stop the first time, we’ve been able to analyse a As with all Ebola outbreaks, West Africa’s the West African situation,’ he explains. ‘But large sample of HIV-1 genetic variants from began when a human came into contact with we can use it to prepare for the future.’ If we Central Africa, to reconstruct their ancestral an infected animal, most likely a bat. Thought can test for the Ebola virus in animals where history in time and space,’ explains Faria. to be the major carriers of the disease, at least Pigott’s maps show the virus could most easily The team used dated and located genetic three different species of fruit bat carry the spill over, pre-emptive interventions could sequences collected from blood specimens virus while displaying no symptoms – but ensure that local populations – and the rest of between 1959 and the 2000s – including the they can pass it to humans. ‘There’s one the world – don’t fall foul of disease again. oldest-known HIV-positive sample – to create documented case of ten people sharing a bat But now, with so many diseases stemming a timeline of the evolution of the virus. ‘We carcass – both the butchering process and from animals, how do these researchers work reconstructed the family tree of HIV-1 group subsequent consumption,’ explains Pigott. out where to focus their attentions next? ‘We M viruses in the Congo River basin in Central ‘They all contracted Ebola.’ already figured that out,’ smiles Pigott. ‘One Africa, where the greatest diversity of HIV-1 But what Pigott’s really interested in is how way of considering it is by weighing how forms has been found,’ explains Faria. Then, likely a new spillover event from the animal many cases of each disease there are in the using modern-day understanding of how fast kingdom is. Taking known examples of world with the amount of work being done the virus evolves, they traced the original Ebola transfer into humans and information to understand where they are. But last time ancestor of the pandemic to Kinshasa, capital on infection in various animals, he was I checked, there were about 45 on my list.’ of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in around 1920. From Kinshasa, their findings suggest, More information at evolve.zoo.ox.ac.uk and seeg.zoo.ox.ac.uk the virus spread further across the country www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint November 2014 BLUEPRINT | 9 everyone counts The lives of children in developing countries are providing a resource for teaching maths skills, as well as for critical thinking about poverty and inequality, explains Julia Paolitto

Teachers looking for new ways to bring mathematics to life have a new resource thanks to a collaboration between Oxfam and Oxford researchers involved in Young Lives, an international study examining

the causes and consequences of children’s Costa Lives/Ninos Young poverty. Young Lives is tracking the lives of 12,000 children in four developing countries over 15 years. Its surveys and interviews with the children have yielded insights into the drivers of inequality and provided data for further research in fields ranging from health and gender to early childhood education. Now the stories of some of the children who have taken part in the project are being used to teach core maths skills and engage British children in critical thinking about poverty and inequality. Called ‘Everyone Counts’, the free resource is available for teachers to download from the Oxfam website. ‘One of the key aims of Young Lives is to highlight the daily reality of poor children’s lives to improve policies for children – and this partnership with Oxfam is a great way of sharing this knowledge with a wider audience in the UK,’ says Caroline Knowles, the Young Lives communications manager based at the University’s Department of International Development. After being introduced to several of the the lives of children in different parts of the Young Lives children, such as Afework from globe, at a time when a growing gap between ‘Even skills such as plotting Ethiopia, Harika from India and Lien from rich and poor is being seen in many countries Vietnam, the school students are encouraged to around the world.’ line graphs can be practised examine concepts that affect their lives, such as While the material has already been in the context of real-world what it means to be ‘doing well’ in life, or the endorsed by the Maths Association in the unequal distribution of resources. Even skills UK, the Young Lives team hopes to develop social awareness’ such as plotting line graphs can be practised in Everyone Counts for use in developing the context of real-world social awareness, as countries themselves. Knowles recalls visiting The Everyone Counts project came about Everyone Counts includes sessions where the Peru in 2010 with a Young Lives researcher after Knowles shared a copy of a book of children construct their own graphs based on and discovering children in shanty towns profiles of some of the Young Lives study data about life expectancy around the world or outside Lima using English-language teaching children with Oxfam’s Education and Youth interpret graphs showing changes in GDP per materials that included exercises in identifying team. The Oxfam team then worked with capita in Young Lives countries. tube stops on the London Underground. her on adapting the material into teaching Liz Newbon is Oxfam’s Education and ‘Nothing could have been further from their materials for schoolchildren at Key Stage 2 Youth Adviser, and was a writer for Everyone world or the possibilities open to them,’ she (ages 8 to 12), a process which included Counts. She explains: ‘Real-life data is in reflects. ‘We have already adapted some of piloting in several schools. The Young Lives constant demand by teachers for two reasons: our research material to be used for English- material has been adapted to focus on the first, its use is encouraged by the curriculum language textbooks in Ethiopia and are maths curriculum, in particular handling and by Ofsted, and second because it has the looking for ways to adapt these materials as data and measuring time and distance. For capacity to engage pupils more effectively in well to give children in developing countries example, the school students use data about their learning. In this case, Everyone Counts access to more resources that are child-focused the daily activities of Young Lives children to enables pupils to explore how inequality affects and relevant to their lives and contexts.’ calculate and compare time spent on tasks, using analogue clocks and digital 12- and 24-hour clocks. They also use this information More information at www.younglives.org.uk and maths teaching to compare how and in what ways their own resources at www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/ lives may be similar or different to those of the everyone-counts featured Young Lives children.

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www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint November 2014 BLUEPRINT | 11 bridge that gap The University’s pilot Temporary Staffing Service is proving a big success, finds Sally Croft

have University charges no VAT and, in addition, if a temp experience – perhaps applies for and gets the permanent post they a previous fixed-term are temporarily covering, unlike an external contract – or are keen agency there is no additional introduction fee. to become familiar ‘From June to October we estimate savings of with University systems £60,000 for departments – that’s money that’s to enhance their CVs. stayed within the University instead of going The flexible nature of to outside agencies,’ says Annie. temporary work – full So what do the temps think of the TSS? or part time, short or David Richardson has been working for the longer contract – is Staff Immigration Team since June. ‘I can’t also very attractive. recommend the TSS highly enough,’ he says. ‘Some candidates may ‘I’ve been in contact with all departments and be existing University colleges, have already been on one course on part-time workers who creating and managing web content and am want to take on a few booked on another relating to the University’s more hours, or perhaps HR system.’ iStockphoto/Globalstock Sam Buckley, who is working in the they’ve retired but purchasing team at the Kennedy Institute, is What do you do when a vital admin or clerical still want to do some work,’ explains Annie. also a fan: ‘I’ve always found TSS helpful, worker suddenly calls in sick or hands in his or ‘We also take on some DPhil students and friendly and quick to respond to any query her notice? How do you arrange some holiday the Careers Service sometimes refers suitable I might have. Within three days of my cover or get extra help when it’s particularly people to us if, say, they want some temporary interview they had found me a job.’ He adds: busy or there’s a special project underway? work while thinking through their career ‘I also receive the same staff benefits as other For many departments, the answer is to call a options. It’s also very pleasing that we’re now University staff, there’s a competitive salary recruitment agency and arrange for temporary seeing departments pointing good applicants and longer annual leave than other agencies, staff to come in. Sometimes that works fine, who were shortlisted for permanent posts in plus TSS takes an interest in what I, as a but sometimes your temp just isn’t up to speed our direction.’ worker, want to do.’ with University systems and practices and On the University side, feedback has also actually needs quite a lot of support. ‘We organise their University been very positive. ‘The TSS has been very In June this year the University launched Card, email and single sign- easy to work with and extremely professional,’ a pilot project to explore the feasibility of says Christine Jeffrey, Director of running its own internal agency-style bank of on, so they’re all ready to Development Services. ‘They came to visit our temporary workers, available to be deployed be parachuted into a job’ office so they could learn about how we are at short notice when departments need them. set up and what we do. To date we have filled Working with pilot departments across all An important aim of the TSS is to retain three posts via the TSS, and each candidate divisions, the Temporary Staffing Service (TSS) candidates with University-based expertise has subsequently gone on to be appointed to has set about recruiting people who want to within the University by finding them the permanent post they initially filled while work at the University, initially focusing on successive posts in different locations, thus we were recruiting.’ clerical and administrative roles but with a broadening their training and experience. Lynne Hirsch, Head of Humanities view to expanding in due course into other There are currently 65 candidates working Administration and Divisional Secretary, areas such as finance and project management. for the TSS and 150 assignments have so far has used the TSS to fill administrative ‘Candidates mostly come to us as a result been filled. One temp has already worked in posts in the divisional office, including of our advert on the University website or five areas. the Executive Assistant to the Head of via word of mouth,’ says Annie Harris, TSS Another goal is to offer departments a fast, Division. She comments: ‘It’s been a genuine Manager. ‘We’re getting about six to ten tailored service that understands their needs pleasure engaging with TSS, owing to its enquiries a day. We have a phone conversation and saves them both administrative time and very high quality and personalised service. It to check they have relevant experience, vet money. As soon as a department asks for a understands better than external agencies the them and look at their CV and then ask them temporary worker, TSS staff identify available University’s administrative requirements and in for a more detailed assessment. If we then candidates whose skills closely match the does a much better job in matching candidates take them on, we do any necessary checks, requirements. The hiring manager chooses with posts. It’s a fantastic initiative that saves such as their right to work in the UK, and also who to interview (if required) from a shortlist administrators filling temporary vacancies time – and this is a big plus for the departments and the TSS arranges the interviews. and trouble.’ – we organise their University Card, email The TSS aims only to cover its set-up and With a successful pilot behind it, TSS looks and single sign-on, so they’re all ready to be running costs by charging a small admin- set to roll out across the University in early parachuted into a job. We can also organise istration margin. As an internal agency, it 2015. online information security training and there are plans to develop this to include other online training courses.’ More information at www.admin.ox.ac.uk/tss Many of the candidates who apply already

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Exhibitions

William Blake: Apprentice and Master 4 December 2014–1 March 2015 Ashmolean Museum www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/williamblake

Major exhibition focusing on the life and London Tate, work of William Blake (1757–1827), printmaker, painter and revolutionary poet of the prophetic books. Family friendly

Remembering Radcliffe: 300 years of science OxfordUniversity Images/David Fisher Christmas Carol Tea Party and philanthropy Monday 1 December, 3pm Until 20 March 2015 McKenna Room, Christ Church Exhibition Room, Bodleian Library Concerts Tickets £25 www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whats-on www.chch.ox.ac.uk/conferences/chch-events/ Simply Gershwin The Bodleian’s winter exhibition celebrates teas Wednesday 3 December, 7.30pm the life and legacy of John Radcliffe, the Celebrate the festive season with an afternoon St John the Evangelist Church, Iffley Road physician and philanthropist who left a tea inspired by Dickens’ description of Tickets £18 / £16.50 lasting mark on the University and city of Scrooge’s first encounter with the Ghost of www.sje-oxford.org/events.html Oxford. Christmas Present. Pianist Viv McLean and soprano Sarah Gabriel perform a selection of Gershwin favourites. Lectures and talks Creatures of the Zodiac All proceeds from the concert will go to the St Saturday 13 December, 2–4pm ‘Mine angry and defrauded young’ John the Evangelist building restoration fund. Museum of the History of Science Tuesday 2 December, 5.30pm www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/events OSJ Proms 2014: Christmas Concert Examination Schools Discover the Zodiac and make decorative Sunday 14 December, 7.30pm www.english.ox.ac.uk/news-events/regular- hanging stars or a magical celestial dial. Drop- Ashmolean Museum events/professor-poetry in event suitable for children aged 5 upwards. Tickets £25 / £10 Lecture by Professor of Poetry Sir Geoffrey Hill. www.osj.org.uk pecial events Strategies for vaccines for the 21st century Programme of Christmas music with OSJ S Ashmolean Voices, taking inspiration from Thursday 4 December, 3.30pm AfterHours: Folklore and Storytelling the museum’s collections. Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street Thursday 4 December, 6.30–9.30pm www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events Pitt Rivers Museum With a new outbreak of the Ebola virus Drama www.prm.ox.ac.uk/afterhours.html claiming thousands of lives in Africa, does a Late-night event at the museum – explore the First Episode by Terence Rattigan successful strategy for creating and delivering rich folkloric collections, listen to a talk about Friday 28 and Saturday 29 November new vaccines require a whole new approach? Victorian anthropologist Edward Burnett Simpkins Lee Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall Tylor, and enjoy live music and poetry reading. The 2015 UK elections and the role of Tickets £15 / £35 (gala performance) leader-writing www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/events Geek out! Friday 5 December, 5pm First-ever revival of Terence Rattigan’s earliest Saturday 6 December, 10am–5pm Butler Room, Nuffield College play, written while he was still a student. Museum of the History of Science reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/page/ Proceeds from ticket sales will support Lady www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/events seminars Margaret Hall’s new building project. A day of retro-gaming with the Sinclair Talk by associate editor of The Guardian ZX Spectrum and the BBC Micro, plus a Martin Kettle. Workshops recreation of Mahler’s First Symphony for Anglo-Saxon Christmas Christmas wreath-making an orchestra of Spectrums! Thursday 11 December, 2pm Saturday 6 December, 10am–12.30pm Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum or 1.30–4pm Bone density screening day Tickets £5 / £4 Harcourt Arboretum Tuesday 20 January www.ashmolean.org/events Tickets £45 Iffley Road Sports Centre Talk by Professor M J Toswell of the www.harcourt-arboretum.ox.ac.uk/whats Test fee £30 University of Western Ontario about the Make your own moss-based wreath using www.ox.ac.uk/event/bone-density-screening-day Anglo-Saxon Christmas, the earlier traditions natural materials from the Botanic Garden Find out whether you could be at risk from of midwinter festivals and how they merged and Harcourt Arboretum, including berries, osteoporosis by undergoing a short test to with Christian nativity stories. seed pods, dried flowers and pine cones. measure your bone density.

www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint November 2014 BLUEPRINT | 13 the essence of Oxford The University’s ceremonial home is celebrating its 350th anniversary, reports Matt Pickles

Engraving of Broad Street by James Basire, from a drawing by Edward Dayes, c.1800, showing the Clarendon Building, Sheldonian Theatre and Old Ashmolean Museum

Right: Excitement mounts – awaiting the start of a graduation ceremony in the Sheldonian Theatre

replaced, holes in the canvas fixed and over- painting removed before being put back in the ceiling in 2008. During the conservation process, architectural paint researchers noticed that the original colour scheme chosen by Wren had been painted over in the 1720s. The theatre was restored to Wren’s original vision. With the refurbishment work having been completed, the Sheldonian Theatre

Oxford University Images/Museum of the History of Science began offering tours this summer. Its one- hour guided tour, which runs from May to Some 350 years ago, Oxford University University’s degree-giving ceremonies, with a October, explains the history of the theatre struck a deal to put a new building on a site printing house underneath to accommodate and of the University. Visitors can see the formerly occupied by seven widows’ cottages. the developing Oxford University Press. It Ladies Gallery, the Cupola, the Clarendon It was agreed that the University would remains the University’s ceremonial hall Quadrangle, Radcliffe Square and the pay £7 twice a year to a small charity – one today and is also used for concerts, drinks Bodleian Quadrangle. Self-guided tours are pound for each cottage. That same year, the receptions, meetings, lectures and talks. also available all year round, subject to the foundation stone of what was to become the The Sheldonian Theatre is planning a opening hours listed on the Sheldonian’s Sheldonian Theatre was laid on the site. series of celebrations over the next few years, website. culminating in an exhibition in 2019 to ‘The tours have been very popular, ‘All University members can mark the 350th anniversary of the opening with 98% of visitors giving us a rating of of the building. The celebrations began this “excellent”, and we recently received Visit access the theatre for free, with month, with a performance of Beethoven’s England Accreditation, which puts us in the up to four guests, and benefit Ninth Symphony on 16 November by a top 5% of tourist venues in England,’ says specially formed Sheldonian Anniversary Kay Hogg, Senior Event Marketing Manager from a discounted rate for a Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Dr Paul at the Sheldonian Theatre. ‘We encourage guided tour’ Coones, the Chairman of the Curators of the University staff to visit. All University Sheldonian. ‘Beethoven’s Ninth was chosen members can access the theatre for free, The Sheldonian was the first major building because it was the symphony performed by with up to four guests, and benefit from a designed by Sir Christopher Wren, who was Richard Wagner after he laid the first stone of discounted rate for a guided tour.’ at the time Oxford’s Savilian Professor of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in Germany,’ says The Sheldonian looks set to be busier than Astronomy. He chose a classical style evoking Dr Coones. ever as it celebrates its anniversary over the the amphitheatres of ancient Rome, which Unsurprisingly for a building nearing its next few years – as long as the University made the building look strikingly different 350th birthday, significant work has been keeps paying its biannual £7 lease on the site. from other buildings in Oxford in the 17th carried out on the theatre in the last decade. ‘We neglected to pay in recent years so now century. The theatre was built between A four-year restoration of the painting on the I check regularly to make sure it is getting 1664 and 1669 and was funded by Gilbert ceiling began in 2004. The 32 panels were paid,’ Dr Coones explains. ‘It’s the sort of Sheldon, the Archbishop of Canterbury and temporarily removed and had their linings thing that could only happen in Oxford.’ Chancellor of the University, after whom it is named. Inside the building is a famous painting on the ceiling by Robert Streater; For more information about tours (which will run from May to it depicts Truth descending upon the Arts October 2015) and other events at the Sheldonian Theatre, visit and Sciences to expel ignorance from the www.sheldon.ox.ac.uk University. The theatre was built to hold the

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M‚§§¡„, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, šƒ†, šƒ†¡ 1 Thurs. C–ƒ¥µ¦¥–†–™„* 1 D Septuagesima Sunday F.[3] 1 D 2 S. in Lent [7] 1 Wed. 1 Fri. S­ Pœ–¨–ž ‚„§ S­ J‚¦¡† 1 Mon. Nicomede R. J. C‚ƒ°‚ƒ§–„¡, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, š ‚, (Personnel and Equality) New College 2 Fri. Bodleian Library reopens 2 Mon. Pƒ¡†¡„­‚­–™„ 15 ™š Cœƒ–†­ –„ Thurs. ­œ¡ David 2 Thurs. M‚µ„§˜ Tœµƒ†§‚˜ 2 Sat. 2 Tues. Queen’s Coronation, 1953 14 Sat. Valentine 15 D 4 S. in Lent 12 D 1 S. after Easter 13 Wed. F. 15 Mon. Sir Cµƒ­–† Pƒ–¥¡, ¦‚, žœ § W. S. J‚¦¡†, †¥, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, 3 Sat. T¡¦ž¨¡* 2 Mon. Chad 3 Fri. G™™§ Fƒ–§‚˜ 3 D 4 S. after Easter [2] 3 Wed. R. J. C‚ƒ°‚ƒ§–„¡, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, š ‚, Lincoln Brasenose (Planning and Resources) 4 D 2 S. after Christmas Candlemas Day 3 Tues. Richard, Bishop of Chichester Invention of the Cross 4 Thurs. Corpus Christi S. L. M‚ž†­™„¡, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, St 5 Mon. Cambridge Lent Term begins 3 Tues. Blasius 4 Wed. Bodleian Library closed until 4 Mon. 5 Fri. Boniface H. R. W™µ§œµ˜†¡„, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, š ‚ 6 Tues. Ež–žœ‚„˜ 4 Wed. 5 Thurs. 5 Tues. 6 Sat. Hilda’s (Education) 7 April All Souls Wed. D š¨†°, šƒœists 7 Hilary Term begins 5 Thurs. Agatha 16 Fri. 6 Fri. 4 Sat. E‚†­¡ƒ E—¡ 6 Wed. John Evangelist, ante Portam 7 1 S. after Trinity [7] Festum Ovorum 16 Mon. 14 Thurs. A†¥¡„†–™„ D‚˜* 16 Tues. Sir J™œ„ V–¥²¡ƒ†, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, š ‚ L™° Sµ„§‚˜ J. N. P. R‚°¨–„†, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, Wolfson 8 Thurs. Lucian 6 Fri. Queen’s Accession 1952* 7 Sat. Perpetua Ambrose Latinam 8 Mon. š¨†°, šƒœist†, President(Development of and ExternalCorpus AŒ airs) 9 Fri. 7 Sat. 8 D 3 S. in Lent [8] 5 D E‚†­¡ƒ D‚˜* 7 Thurs. 9 Tues. Columba Magdalen I. A. W‚¨¦†¨¡˜, žœ §, šƒ†, St Hugh’s 10 Sat. 8 D Sexagesima Sunday [4] 9 Mon. Commonwealth Day 6 Mon. 8 Fri. 10 Wed. Duke of Edinburgh born, 1921 D. C. C¨‚ƒ˜, ¦‚, †¥ §, šƒ† (Research, Academic Services, and 11 D 1 S. after Epiphany 9 Mon. 10 Tues. 7 Tues. Bodleian Library reopens 9 Sat. 11 Thurs. S­ B‚ƒ„‚ ‚† Brasenose 12 Mon. 10 Tues. Scholastica 11 Wed. 8 Wed. 10 D 5 S. after Easter [3] 12 Fri. Cambridge Full Term ends University Collections) 17 Sat. Antony A. K. B™°¦‚„, ¦‚, žœ 15§, § ¨–­­, š ‚, D Quinquagesimaincludes Sunday [5] 17 Tues. Patrick information Mon. relevant 15 Fri. to the 17 Wed. University 13 13 Tues. Hilary 11 Wed. 12 Thurs. Gregory 9 Thurs. Rogation Sunday 13 Sat. Queen’s O‹ cial Birthday š†‚ Christ Church R. W. A–„†°™ƒ­œ, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, šƒ‚es, Cambridge Full Term begins 12 Thurs. 13 Fri. Cambridge Full Term ends 10 Fri. Cambridge Easter Term begins 11 Mon. (provisional date) Christi Corpus Christi Also available: luxury Audi A8 limousine with beige leather seats and Master of St Catherine’s 14 Wed. 13 Fri. 14 Sat. Full Term Ends 11 Sat. 12 Tues. 14 D 2 S. after Trinity [8] R. J. C‚ƒ°‚ƒ§–„¡, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, š ‚, R. J. C‚ƒ°‚ƒ§–„¡, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, š ‚, 15 Thurs. 14 Sat. Valentine 15 D 4 S. in Lent 12 D 1 S. after Easter 13 Wed. F. 15 Mon. š¨†°, šƒœists š¨†°, šƒœist†, President of Corpus 16 Fri. 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Fri. 2 0 19 S­ J™†¡žœ 2 0 Fri. 22 5 S. in Lent 18 Sat. 2 0 Wed. Full Term ends St John’s 17 Shrove Tuesday 15 Wed. 17 S. after Ascension Day [4] 19 š ‚, šƒ†¨, President of Wolfson 21 Wed. Agnes 21 Sat. 23 Mon. 19 D 2 S. after Easter 21 Thurs. 21 D 3 S. after Trinity M. J. S„™°¨–„«, žœ §, š ‚, š¦ed†ci P. A. M‚§§¡„, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, šƒ†, šƒ†¡, 22 Thurs. Vincent 22 D 1 S. in Lent [6] 2 4 Tues. F. Alphege 22 Fri. Ember Week Jesus Provost of Queen’s 23 Fri. Ember week 25 Wed. A„„µ„¥–‚­–™„ ™š ­œ¡ BVM* 2 0 Mon. Trinity Term begins 23 Sat. F. 22 Mon. Alban Trinity The Right Honourable Lord Kƒ¡ † ™š Principal of Lady MargaretA. Pƒ™¥œ‚†²‚, ¦‚, § žœ–¨Hall, šƒœist†, 2 4 Sat. 23 Mon. F. Hilary Term Ends 21 Tues. Queen Elizabeth II born, 1926 2 4 D Wœ–­ Sµ„§‚˜* [5] 23 Tues. F. D W˜­œ‚¦, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, š¦ed†ci, šƒ† 25 3 S. after Epiphany [2] 2 4 Tues. S­ M‚­­œ–‚† Cambridge Lent FullTerm ends Term Cambridge Full Term begins begins John and Charles Wesley 2 4 Wed. N‚­–—–­˜ ™š S­ J™œ„ B‚ž­–†­ 18 Wed. A†œ W¡§„¡†§‚˜ 2 0 Fri. Cuthbert 18 Mon. 2 0 Sat. Translation of Edward, Principal of Somerville 16 Thurs. C™„—¡ƒ†–™„ ™š S­ P‚µ¨ 25 Wed. F. 2 6 Thurs. 22 Wed. 25 Mon. 25 Thurs. Wadham ▸ A. Tƒ¡š¡­œ¡„, žœ §, St Cross 2 6 Mon. 2 6 Thurs. 27 Fri. 23 Thurs. George 2 6 Tues. Augustine of Canterbury 2 6 Fri. F. Lord M‚¥§™„‚¨§ ™š R–—¡ƒ G¨‚—¡„, The Revd R. W‚¨¨¡ƒ, ¦‚, žœ §, 27 Tues. 27 Fri. F. 2 8 Sat. 2 4 Fri. 27 Wed. Bede 27 Sat. F. ·¥, ¦‚ Sir I—™ƒ R™ ¡ƒ­†, ¦‚, š¥–¨ Principal of Harris Manchester 2 8 Wed. 2 8 Sat. F. 2 9 D P‚¨¦ Sµ„§‚˜ 25 Sat. S­ M‚ƒ² 2 8 Thurs. 2 8 D 4 S. after Trinity Pembroke 2 9 Thurs. 19 Mon. 30 Mon. 2 6 D 3 S. after Easter [1] 2 9 Fri. 2 9 Mon. S­ P¡­¡ƒ 19 Thurs. 21 Sat. Benedict Fri. 19 Tues. Dunstan King of the West Saxons Dame L˜„„¡ Bƒ–„§¨¡˜, ¦‚, šƒ†‚ 17 Dame H¡ƒ¦–™„¡ L¡¡, Proctors¦‚ , ¦ žœ–¨, 30 Fri. Charles I, King and Martyr 31 Tues. Full Term begins 30 Sat. 30 Tues. 2014–15 K. B¨‚¥²¦™„, ¦‚, žœ §, 31 Sat. 27 Mon. 31 D Tƒ–„–­˜ Sµ„§‚˜* [6] Worcester Merton; H. Eƒ­¨, ¦‚, ¦ †¥, žœ §, 2 8 Tues. A. J. B‚­¡, ¥ ¡, žœ §, š ‚, šƒ†¨ Linacre 2 9 Wed. Hertford 30 Thurs. D 2 0 Tues. Fabian W. N. Hµ­­™„, ¦‚, ¦ ‚2 0 Fri. 22 5 S. in Lent 2 0 Wed. Full Term ends St John’s 2015–16 Sat. L. M. B¡„§‚¨¨, ¦‚, žœ §, 18 š ‚, šƒ†¨, President of WolfsonKeble; G. S. G‚ƒ„¡­­, ¦‚, žœ §, St Keble air suspension to waft you to your destination in comfort and style Hughʼs Sir J™„‚­œ‚„ Pœ–¨¨–ž†, žœ § St Edmund Hall as well as, for instance, sunrise and sunset Assessor J  ·  A   ·  S ·  O  ·  N  ·  D ·  Day Lunation Sunrise Sunset Day Lunation 21 Sunrise Sunset Wed. Day Lunation SunriseAgnes Sunset Day Lunation Sunrise Sunset Day Lunation Sunrise Sunset Day Lunation Sunrise Sunset K. Gµ¨¨, ¥ ¡, § †¥, š¦ed†ci, šƒ† Sat. 23 Mon. D Thurs. D 2014–15 21 21 21 3 S. after Trinity P. J. M‚ƒ­–„, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, 19 2 S. after Easter ☾ 7 2.03 a.m. 5.36 a.m. 8.44 p.m. ☾ 5 9.54 a.m. 6.23 a.m. 7.44 p.m. ☾ 4 9.06 p.m. 7.10 a.m. 6.37 p.m. ☾ 3 12.24 p.m. 7.02 a.m. 4.34 p.m. ☾ 3 7.40 a.m. 7.52 a.m. 3.57 p.m. M. J. S„™°¨–„«, žœ §, š ‚, š¦ed†ci Wadham ○ 2 2.20 a.m. 4.51 a.m. 9.27 p.m. Lady Margaret Hall ● 14 2.53 p.m. 5.47 a.m. 8.31 p.m. ● 13 6.41 a.m. 6.36 a.m. 7.25 p.m. ● 13 12.06 a.m. 7.25 a.m. 6.17 p.m. ● 11 5.47 p.m. 7.16 a.m. 4.21 p.m. ● 11 10.29 a.m. 8.01 a.m. 3.55 p.m. ☾ 8 8.24 p.m. 4.56 a.m. 9.23 p.m. F. L‚„„™„, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, šƒœists 2015–16 P. H‚ƒ—¡˜, ¥ ¡, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, ● 16 1.24 a.m. 5.05 a.m. 9.16 p.m. ☽ 22 7.31 p.m. 6.00 a.m. 8.14 p.m. ☽ 21 8.59 a.m. 6.49 a.m. 7.07 p.m. ☽ 20 8.31 p.m. 7.37 a.m. 6.02 p.m. ☽ 19 6.27 a.m. 7.30 a.m. 4.10 p.m. ☽ 18 3.14 p.m. 8.08 a.m. 3.55 p.m. P. A. M‚§§¡„, ¦‚, § žœ–¨,§ †¥, šƒ†, Jesus šƒ†, ☽šƒ†¡ 24 4.04 a.m. , 5.15 a.m. 9.07 p.m. ○ 29 6.35 p.m. 6.12 a.m. 7.59 p.m. ○ 28 2.50 a.m. 7.00 a.m. 6.50 p.m. ○ 27 12.05 p.m. 6.50 a.m. 4.47 p.m. ○ 25 10.44 p.m. 7.40 a.m. 4.03 p.m. ○ 25 11.11 a.m. 8.11 a.m. 3.59 p.m. Somerville ○ 31 10.43 a.m. 5.26 a.m. 8.56 p.m. 22 Thurs. Vincent A. Pƒ™¥œ‚†²‚, ¦‚,22 § žœ–¨, šƒœ ists D 1 S. in Lent [6] 2 4 Tues. F. Alphege 22 Fri. Ember Week Public Orator St Hugh’s R. H. A. J¡„²˜„†, ¦‚, ¦ ¨–­­, The Right Honourable Dame 1 Wed. 1 Sat. Lammas Day 1 Tues. Giles 1 Thurs. Remigius 1 D 22 S. after Trinity [4] 1 Tues. Jesus Lady Margaret Hall 2 Thurs. Visitation of BVM 2 D 9 S. after Trinity Bodleian Library reopens Michaelmas Term begins A¨¨ S‚–„­†’ D‚˜* 2 Wed. E¨–†œ A„«–™¨–„–, ž¥, ·¥, ¨¨ , šƒ†‚ Provost of Queen’s 3 Mon. 2 Wed. 2 Fri. 2 Mon. All Souls’ Day 3 Thurs. St Hilda’s Bodley’s Librarian and Director of 3 Fri. Tues. Fri. 3 Thurs. Sat. 3 Tues. 4 Fri. Cambridge Full Term Ends 4 Sat. Translation of St Martin 4 23 3 Wed. * Sat. F. Mon. Alban Sir G™ƒ§™„ Dµšš, ¦ ¥œ, ¦‚, žœ §, Ember week 25 A„„µ„¥–‚­–™„ ™š ­œ¡ BVM 23 22 University Library Services 2 0 Mon. Trinity Term begins D 5 Wed. 4 Fri. 4 D 18 S. after Trinity 4 Wed. 5 Sat. Full Term Ends R. O—¡„§¡„, ¦‚, šƒ†‚, š†‚, Balliol 5 5 S. after Trinity š¦ed†ci, šƒ¥ž, šƒ¥ž¡, šƒ†¡ 6 Thurs. Tƒ‚„†š–«µƒ‚­–™„ 5 Sat. Francis of Assisi 5 Thurs. 6 D 2 S. in Advent 6 Mon. Trinity Term ends St Anne’s The Right Honourable Lord Kƒ¡ † ™š Keeper of the Archives 7 Tues. 7 Fri. Name of Jesus 6 D 14 S. after Trinity 5 Mon. 6 Fri. Leonard Nicolas 8 Sat. 7 Mon. Evurtius, Bishop of Orleans 6 Tues. Faith 7 Sat. Ember Week T. D. G‚ƒ§‚¦, ¦‚ S. B‚–¨¡˜, ‚, ¦‚, Linacre 8 Wed. 9 Thurs. 9 D 10 S. after2 Trinity 4 Sat 8 Tues.. Nativity of BVM 7 Wed. Cambridge Full Term begins 8 D 23 S. after Trinity [5] 7 Mon. St Peter’s 23 Mon. F. Hilary Term Ends 21 Tues. Queen Elizabeth II born, 1926 2 4 D Wœ–­ Sµ„§‚˜* [5] 23 Tues. F. A. Pƒ™¥œ‚†²‚, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, šƒœ ist10 Fri. †, 10 Mon. Laurence 9 Wed. 8 Thurs. Remembrance Sunday 8 Tues. Conception of BVM M. D. D‚¦‚¸¡ƒ, ¥ ¡, ‚, ¦‚ Director of Ashmole’s Museum 11 Tues. 10 Thurs. 9 Fri. Denys 9 Mon. 9 Wed. F. A. S­µƒ«–†, ‚, žœ §, Worcester 11 Sat. St Catherine’s 12 D 6 S. after Trinity 12 Wed. 11 Fri. 10 Sat. 10 Tues. 10 Thurs. W˜­œ‚¦, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, š¦ed†ci, šƒ† R. W. A–„†°™ƒ­œ, ¦‚, § žœ–¨, šƒ‚e† Clerks of the Market 13 Mon. 13 Thurs. 12 Sat. 11 D 19 S. after Trinity [1] 11 Wed. Martin 11 Fri. F. 14 Tues. John Keble 14 Fri. 25 D 13 D 15 S. after Trinity 3 S. after Full Term beginsEpiphany 12 Thurs. 12 Sat. [2]F. Nuffield Tues. Cambridge Lent Term ends John and Charles Wesley Wed. J. H‚¥²„¡˜, ¥¨, ¦‚, St Edmund Hall 2 4 S­ M‚­­œ–‚† Cambridge Full Term begins 2 4 N‚­–—–­˜ ™š S­ J™œ„ B‚ž­–†­ 15 Wed. Swithun 15 Sat. Assumption of BVM 14 Mon. H™¨˜ Cƒ™†† 12 Mon. 13 Fri. Britius 13 D 3 S. in Advent Sir A„§ƒ¡° D–¨„™­, ¥ ¡, ¦‚ Principal of Somerville and Wadham 16 Thurs. 16 D 11 S. after Trinity 15 Tues. 13 Tues. Translation of King Edward, 14 Sat. Prince of Wales born, 1948 Lucy St Antony’s R. C. S. W‚¨²¡ƒ, ‚, žœ–¨, ¦‚, 17 Fri. 17 Mon. 16 Wed. Confessor 15 D 24 S. after Trinity [6] 14 Mon. M. O. M‚¥M–¨¨‚„, ™¥, ‚, žœ–¨, § žœ–¨, Magdalen 18 Sat. 18 Tues. 17 Thurs. Lambert 14 Wed. Machutus 15 Tues. ¦‚, § žœ–¨ 19 D 7 S. after Trinity 19 Wed. 18 Fri. C™„—¡ƒ†–™„ 15 Thurs. ™š 16 Mon. Edmund,S­ Archbishop P‚µ¨ 16 Wed. O Sapientia 25 Wed. F. 2 6 Thurs. 25 Mon. 25 Thurs. Wadham Linacre Wed. Registrar 22 2 0 Mon. Margaret 2 0 Thurs. 19 Sat. 16 Fri. 17 Tues. Hugh 17 Thurs. Michaelmas Term ends E. G. M¥K¡„§ƒ–¥², ¥¨, ¨¨ , ¦‚, 21 Tues. 21 Fri. 20 D 16 S. after Trinity 17 Sat. Etheldreda 18 Wed. 18 Fri. Bodleian Library closed until 2 N. D. Bƒ™°„, ¦‚, ¦ †¥, § žœ–¨ times. A. Tƒ¡š¡­œ¡„, žœ §, St LadyCross Margaret Hall 22 Wed. S­ M‚ƒ˜ M‚«§‚¨¡„ 22 Sat. 21 Mon. 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Raymond Killick Head chef, St Anne’s College

How big is the catering team at St Anne’s? teamwork and atmosphere. I then attended The Brigade consists of the head chef (me), a catering course at the University of deputy head chef, two second chefs, one Reading and was hooked. I began my career senior third chef, four third chefs and one at the Institute of Directors in London, fourth chef – ten chefs in all. A deputy or moved to Pergamon Press and then joined second chef is in charge of the operation St Anne’s some 25 years ago as head chef.

at all times. The kitchen is divided into RobJudges What do you most enjoy cooking? sections so, for example, two chefs will be And least? working in the main course section, one on I love cooking Sunday lunch at home as the vegetable section and one on the sweet it’s a lovely way to relax. Pastry is my least section; the other chefs will be doing the favourite item as it can be tricky and I prep for plated dinners. There are also four have never discovered the knack – luckily kitchen porters who wash up (not by hand!) several of my chefs have, though! Blueprint is published bimonthly for the staff of the and also clean the kitchen and put stores University of Oxford by the Public Affairs Directorate away. In addition, five or six casual staff What’s the most important meal you’ve Editor: Sally Croft ever cooked? Designers: Laëtitia Velia/Nadja Guggi will clean and wash up at busy times. Picture research: Janet Avison The Guild of Chefs Dinner, which is held What does your own job entail? Items for possible inclusion are welcome and should at a different Oxford college each year. It is be sent to [email protected] The efficient and smooth running of the extremely challenging as a number of local If you would like to receive an email alert when kitchen! My job involves the planning of catering professionals attend and there is a future issues are published, please send a blank email staff rotas, menu compilation, catering to [email protected] degree of competition. My menu consisted Advertising costings, health and safety requirements, of quail and avocado salad with raspberry To advertise in Blueprint, please contact budget control and food ordering. I’m Rosalind Cuomo on 01865 280548 vinaigrette, fillet of beef with baby veg and or email [email protected] pleased to report that the kitchen recently a red wine jus, and pear tatin. The University accepts no responsibility scored the coveted 5 stars as ‘scores on for the content of any material in Blueprint. Readers should note in particular that the doors’ for cleanliness. Any near-disasters in the kitchen? the inclusion of news, editorial items On one occasion, the gas supply was cut and advertisements does not imply the endorsement by the University of the How many do you feed in term time? off during service. Fortunately St Anne’s matters reported, the views expressed or the goods or services advertised. On a daily basis we cater for 120 for has two kitchens so we had to transfer to breakfast, 320 at lunch time and 275 the other one. That really was a nightmare for dinner. when catering for a large number!

And what about outside term? Who’s your favourite TV chef? viewfinder St Anne’s has a conference business which Raymond Blanc. His passion for using the generates in excess of £2m a year – mostly finest ingredients stands out, together with Where’s this wonderful window? Answer on p6. academic-related conferences plus summer his eye for detail. schools, day events and formal plated dinners. It’s not unusual during the height Favourite activities outside work? of the season (June and July) to be hosting Football, horse racing, rugby and fine dining. eight or more events at the same time. My favourite is the Waterside Restaurant Our impressive stock of meeting space, run by Alain Roux. The maitre d’ and his together with the can-do approach of the team, together with Alain, are so welcoming and friendly and as a chef I get to have a staff, enables us to do this. Last year we guided tour of the kitchen and he will throw organised over 900 events. in an extra course! My partner, Lisa, also What’s your favourite college function? loves going there. I’d have to say the staff Christmas lunch – it’s very relaxing and a time when non- What will you be serving in college for academic staff and SCR come together. the Christmas festivities? Very traditional: roast turkey with all the There is a raffle, unlimited wine and time trimmings, preceded by melon and followed for a few corny jokes. The money raised by Christmas pud. from the raffle goes to local charities. And finally, what would you choose for Your childhood ambition? your own ‘last supper’? Just to be happy. But my first actual job Seabass with lemon risotto; loin of lamb was a paper round. with a red wine jus, cauliflower cheese So how did you get to your current job? and roast potatoes; glazed apple tart with I worked in a kitchen on a casual basis at vanilla ice cream; accompanied by an the age of 15 and thoroughly enjoyed the unoaked chardonnay.

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