THE MAGAZINE OF HUGHES HALL, CAMBRIDGE ISSUE 20 EASTER TERM 2014 Hughes
AFRICA PROGRAMME HONG KONG ENTREPRENEURSHIP SIR ANDREW MOTION Culture, Public Health, Loyal friends and families: Small beginnings and big War, Peace and Poetry: Research, Training: Hughes the relationships between successes: the innovators remembering the Great War engages with Africa. Hughes and Hong Kong. from Hughes Hall. at Hughes PAGE 4 PAGE 12 PAGE 14 PAGE 18
RISING HIGH – OUR SPECIAL PARTNERSHIPS IN HONG KONG DR EDWIN LEONG’S MAJOR GIFT TO HUGHES
1 IN THIS ISSUE
From The President 3 Student News 20
Hughes Hall in Africa 4 The Honor Chapman Lecture 22
College and Staff News 9 PGCE – Then and Now 23
Fragrant Harbour: Hughes Hall and Hong Kong 12 Alumni News 24
Entrepreneurs 14 Overseas Trips 25
Sport 16 Hughes Hall and the Great War 26
Events 18
The first game of the season at Fenner’s
2 WELCOME From The President
Dear Alumni and Friends of Hughes Hall
This will reach most readers shortly before I move on from Hughes Hall at the end of August, after eight years as President. So I take this opportunity to say a warm ‘thank you’ to all those who have given such friendly support over this time, to me and to the College – and not least to the many who have responded with such wonderful generosity to the ‘leaving fund’ which goes to swell our scholarships endowment.
It has been an extraordinary experience. Perhaps more than any other college, Hughes is in a state of evolution. We seek to keep the best of the past – our sense of a proud history, our friendliness and informality – and harness that to new ambitions as we grow and build our academic reputation and as we assert ourselves on the Cambridge scene.
The College is a lively place, animated by the hundreds of bright young people who bring their energy and ideas to enhance our daily life. I have thoroughly enjoyed being part of this life and feel it a great privilege to have played a part in the history of Hughes. I wish my successor, Anthony Freeling, and all those who will steer its future path, every success.
With all good wishes
Sarah Squire President 2006-2014
3 HUGHES HALL IN AFRICA
University launches Cambridge-Africa programme
The Cambridge-Africa projects, to enhance and Wolfson, King’s and Churchill, Africa Programme, Professor Programme aims to boost sustain research culture in will be matched with a David Dunne, Fellows spoke training for doctoral and Africa in the long term Cambridge academic and on topics as diverse as ‘Framing post-doctoral researchers and to continue building spend up to a year in their Peace: Exploring Conciliatory from African Universities and Cambridge’s engagement research group or laboratory. Radio Programming in Burundi Institutes through partnership with the continent. and Uganda’, ‘Graphene Based with Cambridge University. A Research Showcase featuring Natural Dye Sensitized Solar These relationships will enable Hughes Hall is one of four the Visiting African Fellows Cells’ and ‘Genetic Diversity, researchers from Africa and colleges to host an affiliated took place at Hughes in late Linkage Disequilibrium and Cambridge to collaborate on African Fellow. The Visiting November. Chaired by the Genomic Selection of the academic and administrative Fellows, who will also be at Director of the Cambridge- Ashanti Dwarf Pig of Ghana’.
Programme initiatives:
Wellcome Trust-Cambridge African researchers to address institutions to improve health and senior fellowships as well Centre for Global Health problems which inhibit the use and welfare throughout the as collaborative partnerships Research (WT-CCGHR) of medical advances to meet region. Talented young African with African researchers. key healthcare challenges: the researchers working in health- The University is home to one lack of scientific infrastructure, related disciplines will be of the Wellcome Trust’s Centres research training and assigned mentors who will Training Health Researchers for Global Health Research. mentoring, unavailable in large help them with the writing, into Vocational Excellence in These five University-based parts of the continent. planning and presentational East Africa (THRiVE) centres support researchers skills required to secure funding working in public health The Centre will benefit from for their projects. Clinical and African countries have a and tropical medicine and access to the extensive basic biomedical researchers in disproportionately large encourage interaction between biomedical and health-related Cambridge deemed to have number of diseases that are UK institutions and those research capacity across many exceptional ability to carry less understood, or for which in low and middle income departments and institutes out independent research medicines are unavailable, countries. The Cambridge in Cambridge, exchanging programmes in Africa will be which slows economic Centre will be working with knowledge with African offered clinical intermediate development across the
4 of the Alborada Trust. Primarily come to Cambridge for a concerned with animal welfare six-month visiting academic The Cambridge-Africa collaboration in the UK and Ireland, the Fellowship. The second is charity also supports worldwide for four African research will enhance Africa’s research “ health projects. The Fund will managers or administrators to culture in the long term. assist collaborators from the receive a few weeks’ training University of Cambridge and at the University’s Research sub-Saharan African institutions Operations Office. continent. The THRiVE and co-mentorship provided with research and travel costs, partnership aims to strengthen by leading Cambridge research with grants ranging from the scientific infrastructure of scientists. African PhD students £1,000 to £20,000. Makerere University/UVRI the region, boosting disease may choose to spend a year Infection and Immunity control and improving public working in their mentor’s Research Training health. Led by Makerere laboratory in Cambridge, while Cambridge Africa Programme (MUII) University in Uganda, the post-doctoral researchers are Partnership for Research partnership will support young offered two-year Fellowships Excellence (CAPREx) MUII will combat the shortage researchers, helping them to and the possibility of spending of trained professionals develop into self-sustaining up to 8 months in Cambridge. Two types of Fellowship are qualified to deal with endemic scientific leaders capable of available every year through diseases by supporting the addressing health threats. the CAPREx programme. training of East Africans University launches Cambridge-Africa programme Alborada Research Fund The first enables 10 to 15 researching infection and Cambridge University will African scholars working in immunity. This will be achieved support African researchers The Cambridge-Africa the fields of humanities and through the collaboration working in Africa on health Alborada Research Fund was social sciences, engineering of regional and international priorities, with co-supervision established with the support and biological sciences to research institutions.
Visiting African Fellows share their research at Hughes
On 26 February, the Visiting Dr Ferdinand Okwaro spoke work on gender stereotypes in African Fellows took part in a on the ethics of transnational Ugandan oral literature. Prior Research Showcase at Hughes. bio-medical research, and the to 1970, the literature studied Each Fellow explained their unwillingness of governments in the country was heavily work, highlighting the key in the south to provide funding influenced by its status as a research they have undertaken for Public Health research. former British colonial territory. since starting at Cambridge. Gradually, more African writers After an introduction from Ms Allen Kabagenyi explored were taught and an armchair Professor David Dunne, who the high population growth revolution took place. Without thanked Hughes for hosting rate in Uganda, a result of high completely rejecting European the event and supporting the fertility and declining mortality literature, the revolution made programme, the five Visiting levels. The country’s population a case for the reduction of Fellows took to the floor. is the youngest in the world: these texts to make room been described as the most 78% of Ugandans are under for African literature. The Pentecostal city in the world, Dr Betty Nannyonga, a 30, and 52% are under 15. development of oral literature although Muslims make up mathematician working with Ms Kabagnyi examined the was a result of this movement. almost 50% of the population. the Department of Education, low rate of contraceptive use is one of only three women in the region that has led to The final speaker was Dr Egodi Hughes was proud to host in her department at the this phenomenon Uchendu from the University this event, to demonstrate University of Makerere. She of Nigeria, who spoke on the Hall’s commitment to wants to understand why girls In collaboration with the narratives of conversion to supporting innovative research consistently fail at maths in English Faculty, Professor Abasi Islam in Nigeria’s eastern in and for Africa and to help secondary school in Uganda. Kiyimba has advanced his Niger Delta. Lagos has make it more widely known.
5 Electronic medical records strengthen pathways of HIV care in Kenya
John assisting with the Kenya Red Cross emergency response to the Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi
(EMR) that could strengthen the linkages between testing and care, as well as subsequent support and follow-up. We secured some funding and a year later returned to Kenya to implement the system.
In 2009, we returned to Kakamega and worked with the Ministry of Health to ensure that the system adhered to national standards. We implemented the first version of the EMR in Provincial General Hospital David Okello is 52 years old remains inadequate and fewer constrained settings like Kenya, and enrolled as many patients and lives with his wife and than 40% of people living with antiretroviral treatment (ART) is as we could still find who had four children in a village near HIV know their status. In Kenya, available and free to those who tested HIV positive during the Kakamega in Western Kenya. In only 36% of adults have ever need it. community campaign. A year 2008 he tested positive for HIV. had an HIV test and only 16% later we enrolled all HIV patients of adults living with HIV know The problem in these settings registered in the hospital – David was one of nearly 2,000 they are infected. is ensuring that people are nearly 8,000 in all. people who tested HIV positive effectively linked, monitored during a community-based and retained in care. This In 2012, we received a grant campaign of HIV testing in Testing positive for requires strengthening from the Canadian Government Western Kenya, in September HIV is only the start of the health system and to continue to develop the 2008. Almost 50,000 people of a long journey pathways of care. There is also EMR model and expand to were tested in the space of just a shortage of qualified medical other clinics. By the end of last one week. I went out to Kenya For David and those 2,000 personnel to treat and manage year, more than 17,000 HIV for my medical elective, while other people, testing positive needs adequately. patients were registered in the studying Medicine at Hughes for HIV is just the first step on a system, which is implemented Hall, to help plan and prepare long journey. HIV is no longer There was a real need to in two hospitals and three for the campaign. considered the acute, life- ensure that those who tested health clinics. threatening disease it once was HIV positive during the The campaign was launched and it can now be treated as community-based campaign by the Ministry of Health in a chronic disease like diabetes were referred and followed- Improving clinical Kenya, supported by national or hypertension. People living up in care and support. Back and public health and international partners, in an with HIV can expect a decent at Cambridge, some fellow decision-making effort to increase access to HIV quality of life if the disease medical students and I came testing services. Knowledge of is monitored and treated up with the idea to develop The EMR is being used to HIV status in sub-Saharan Africa effectively. Even in resource- an electronic medical record guide clinical and public
6 health decision-making for decision support over a twelve standardised reports and making. This is particularly various aspects of HIV care. month period last year. 880 aggregated dashboards true in resource-constrained The electronic patient record patients eligible for ART, but not of indicators to the Ministry settings like Kenya, where can now be created at the on ART, had started treatment of Health and partners for access to standardised, reliable place of testing, for example, and a 50.6% increase in patients their own decision-making. health data is often inadequate. and this electronic record on ART was recorded. We also hope that access to is automatically sent to the information in this way can nearest treatment centre The EMR is also being used to Looking beyond HIV improve the accountability to create a ‘virtual linkage’ follow-up patients who have of the health service – and the between testing and care. been lost from care, by flagging These are just some of the individual clinician – to ensure This provides the clinic with anyone who has missed their ways in which an electronic that patients receive the quality the knowledge and information next appointment date by medical record can be used of care they deserve. physically to follow-up the more than two weeks. More to improve clinical and public patient and not simply rely on than 4,000 patients have been health decision-making for HIV, Dr John Haskew the patient showing up for care. followed-up in this manner, and we are now looking and more than 1,300 patients at other applications. John studied Medicine at Once in the care system, the who had previously been lost Hughes Hall and completed EMR reviews every patient from care for more than three Last year, the Ministry of Health foundation clinical training in record daily against national months have agreed to return and Japanese Government Liverpool, during which he guidelines and flags any to clinic. This has turned out to asked us to adapt the system spent one year in Kenya. He patients, for example, who be a very important part of our for routine antenatal care and is interested in access to and should be ART but are not, programming, given that follow-up of pregnant mothers. use of health information, and or who have missing clinical nearly 50% of patients are lost The International Organisation particularly the use of mobile parameters that should be to follow-up for more than for Migration is exploring information technologies to monitored. These flags provide a three months. how the system could be inform different levels of form of clinical decision support implemented in Somalia, clinical and public health for the clinician who can As well as improving where access to reliable health decision-making in resource- review them within the patient decision-making within the information is a real challenge. constrained settings. consultation and make more consultation, the EMR enables informed decisions to improve standardised, real-time data to We believe that electronic the quality of patient care. be shared beyond the clinic, medical records can improve thus informing public health access to and use of health We reviewed the impact of decision-making at district information to improve clinical introducing this form of clinical and national level. We provide and public health decision-
Climate Change examined challenges presented Legal Studies, University Sustainable Development Law by multi-level forest and land Lecturer and a Fellow at (CISDL) he is Lead Counsel for Symposium governance and accountability; the Lauterpacht Centre Trade, Investment and Finance forest, water and land rights; for International Law. For and has developed an online and law and low-carbon the Centre of International green economy course. investment in sustainable Dr Markus Gehring, Fellow land use. The panel of speakers and Director of Studies for Law, contributed their expertise was a leading speaker and in climate change law and Chair at a symposium held in governance, considering how November, entitled Climate lessons acquired from specific Change, Forests and the Law in regions, countries and legal Africa: Addressing Governance systems can be used to shape and Research Challenges. climate policy across the globe.
The symposium explored the As well as his posts at Hughes, law relating to the sustainable Markus is also Deputy Director use of forests in Africa, and at the Centre for European
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Alumnus starts debating initiative: The African ‘Action for Children Trophy’
For many years I have entered children had no opportunity and enthusiastic that I stayed occasion when eight school my sixth-form students in the to question anything or think for two weeks teaching English teams fought it out for the Action Cambridge Union Schools independently. Additionally, each day in two different for Children Trophy. My ultimate Debating Competition. One of there was no hope of any of schools, ending each session goal had always been to make my former team members, who them progressing to secondary with some debating. Not only the initiative a self-sustaining was at that time volunteering for school without competence were the 12/13 year-olds not one. Therefore, in 2013 I risked Action for Children in Conflict, in English. fazed by the Cambridge Union staying away and just sent in a rather grim slum near debating protocols (five-minute medals, certificates and prizes/ Thika, in Kenya, challenged me So, never having been to Africa, speeches, protected time, transport/refreshment funds. to go one summer and see if I I headed off to Thika and the points of information, summing Despite a teachers’ strike, the could drum up any enthusiasm Kiandutu slum back in July up and so on) but they would hard-working staff got things for debating in the primary 2007, only to find that my one have put to shame many I had together and the great event schools around the slum. The contact had already moved worked with at home. The happened in September, to my reasoning was that the teaching on. The children benefiting quality of English was initially, to great satisfaction. It seems that there was heavily dependent from the charity’s feeding be fair, quite poor, but so much despite our daily images from on rote-learning and the programme were so welcoming progress had been made by the parts of that continent, there is end of my stay that I organised still a great thirst for democratic a fiercely-fought competition debate in Africa, and the between the two schools on Cambridge model travels well! the Friday: the underdogs won against the odds. I plan to return sometime during this, my sabbatical year, I returned the following year to congratulate them all. The children were not fazed by and added another rural school the Cambridge Union debating “ in the nearby coffee plantation, Dr Terry Nicholls protocols and would have put to another the next year and so on (Education 1981-1982) shame many... at home” until, in 2012, we had a grand
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COLLEGE AND STAFF NEWS
New President poised to take the reins
Hughes Fellow Dr Anthony Partner, leading its Marketing Freeling will succeed Sarah and Sales Practice across Squire as President in September, Europe. A recognised authority upon the completion of her on marketing, Anthony Freeling eight year term of office. published Agile Marketing in 2011. Anthony Freeling is a former Scholar of St John’s College, Dr Freeling will become the Cambridge, where he fifteenth head of Hughes Hall. graduated with First Class Since 2006 he has Chaired Honours in the Mathematics the Development Committee Tripos in 1978. Subsequently for the UK’s Open University he qualified with an MPhil and is a member of its Council. and a Cambridge PhD in He is a Director of Ashridge Management Studies. He Strategic Management spent eighteen years working Centre and a Trustee of at McKinsey & Company in UnLtd, the Foundation for the UK, where he was a Senior Social Entrepreneurs.
A healthy delivery
Dr Hilary Burton, Fellow of ABOVE Hughes Hall and Director of the Dr Hilary Burton (third left) with Brazilian colleagues PHG Foundation, passed on PHG’s Health Needs Assessment Hughes and Pavia: modern and ancient links Toolkit for Congenital Disorders Genetics, will ensure the toolkit to a Brazil-based consortium at Under the initiative of Dr an address on the Battle’s is kept up to date and will a ceremony attended by health Mike Franklin, Hughes Hall anniversary, the Praelector promote its uptake throughout leaders and policy makers has established an exciting began to nurture a relationship Latin America and the rest in Porto Alegre, southern partnership with the with one of Pavia’s Colleges, of the world through their Brazil, on Saturday 5 April. The University of Pavia. In 2011 the Santa Caterina da Siena. networks in the international consortium, from a national Cambridge University Boat health community. centre of excellence in genetics Club was invited to a Regatta The arrangement permits and congenital disorders, which Dr Burton said: ‘We are commemorating the Battle of members of one College to visit includes the Universidade delighted to pass on the PHG Curtatone and Montanara, in the other; Hughes members Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Foundation toolkit for birth which students from Pavia and benefit from reduced rates for the Hospital de Clínicas de defects into the safe hands of Pisa fought to secure a pyrrhic board and lodging in Pavia. Porto Alegre and INaGeMP, our Brazilian colleagues who victory against the Austrians Visit www.collsantacaterina.it the Brazilian National Institute have been such important in the first Italian war of for more information on our for Medical and Population supporters of this project.’ Independence. While delivering sister College.
9 City Fellow Dr Mark Turin lectures Rowena Ironside on ‘Vanishing Voices’
Our City Fellow this year is and the environment, and was In February Dr Mark Turin to preserve forms of oral Rowena Ironside. Rowena spent on the board of Cupcake Mum, spoke on ‘Vanishing Voices: literature facing extinction. 25 years as an executive in the an entrepreneurial start-up, Reflections on Documenting ICT industry, including the start- from 2007 to 2012. Endangered Languages Between 2009 and 2012 up and sale of an IT services Collaboratively’ at the Yale Club Dr Turin was a Research company and leadership Rowena is currently executive of New York City. Informed Associate at the Museum of of several large, multi- Chair of Women on Boards UK, by 20 years of work in the Archaeology and Anthropology national professional services an open, action-oriented social Himalayan region, Dr Turin in Cambridge, and he remains businesses. Over the past ten enterprise which provides discussed the challenges a Fellow at Hughes and a years she has built a second encouragement, support and faced by small-scale societies regular presenter for the BBC. career as a non-executive inspiration to women in all whose oral speech forms He is a Lecturer and Associate director, consultant and angel sectors who are seeking to are increasingly at risk of Research Scientist in South investor. She has held executive leverage their professional skills disappearing without record. Asian Studies at Yale University and non-executive roles in the and experience into board and Through the establishment and Programme Director of not-for-profit sector working on leadership roles. of the World Oral Literature the Yale Himalaya Initiative. end-of-life rights, microfinance Project, a scheme which From July 2014 he will take encourages collaboration up a position as Chair at the between local communities University of British Columbia and fieldworkers, Mark hopes in Vancouver.
News from Seniors
Our Seniors and Fellows regularly achieve recognition for their research. Here is a selection of their most recent projects.
Mr Demetrius Floudas Demetrius Floudas is the an Adjunct Professor since from a stipend from IKBFU Deputy Director of the 2012. The award is intended to Development Programme). Demetrius Andreas Floudas, International Legal Summer support the organisation and Senior Associate of Hughes Hall, School, organised annually research activities of the IKBFU The USRF was founded to has been awarded a grant of by the Legal Clinic of the International Legal Summer promote Russia’s Economic, 100,000 USD by the US Russia Faculty of Law of Immanuel School, under the direction Legal and Institutional Foundation for Economic Kant Baltic Federal University of Prof. Ekaterina Osipova Advancement. Its mission Advancement and the Rule (IKBFU) in Kaliningrad, Russia, (who visited Hughes Hall is to support the long-term of Law (USRF). where Demetrius has been in May 2012, benefiting economic development
10 of the country’s market L’Image Brisé (Paris: Editions economy, working in close Garnier, in the Press). partnership with the Russian government and leading Thomas Campion’s ‘There is Russian institutions. IKBFU is a Garden in her Face’: text, one of the nine Universities context, subtext, in Leonor de accorded Federal status by the Santa Barbara, ed. Flowers: Russian government to pursue Proceedings of the International leadership in tertiary education. Interdisciplinary conference, Nueva Universidad de Lisboa, 2011 Húmus, for Fundação Dr Charles Moseley para Ciéncia e a Tecnologia (In the Press). Dr Moseley has contributed chapters and articles in the following publications: Dr John Barker Res Publica: a Matter of Concern, in Luis Manuel A. V. Bernardo, Dr Barker wrote a chapter in a Leonor Santa Barbara, and Luis book called The International Andrade, (eds.), Representações Rule of Law and Professional da República, (Lisbon: Húmus, Ethics, which was published for Fundação para Ciéncia e a by Ashgate in January of this Tecnologia, n.d [2013]), pp.29-39. year. The chapter was entitled Reflections on the Rule of Law: Speaking pictures: mediaeval Its Scope and Significance for religious art and its viewers, Partners in Development. in Stephen Prickett (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to the Bible, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Professor Nikolas Kazantzis University Press, 2014) Judicious, sharp spectators? Form, pattern Professor Kazantzis received 2: Technical Committee: James McParland, was and audience in early modern funding from the US Nonlinear Control Systems, published by Viking Penguin theatre: some problems, Cahiers Department of Energy (DOE), International Federation of in November 2013. It has been Elizabethains, (in the Press) National Energy Technology Automatic Control (IFAC). very positively reviewed in The What’s in a name? The Theatre of Laboratory (NETL) for a Phase New York Times and other major 1576, Early Modern Culture Online, II Project entitled: Engineering US newspapers. (in the Press). Design of Advanced H2-CO2 Dr Beau Riffenburgh Pd/Alloy Composite Membrane Emblems and emblematics, Separations and Process Dr Riffenburgh has recently Dr Paola Ricciardi Cambridge World Shakespeare Intensification (with Y. H. Ma been awarded a Royal Literary Encyclopaedia, ed. Bruce Smith and A. Dixon). Fund Fellowship for the Dr Ricciardi has recently been (Cambridge University Press: In 2014–15 academic year. This selected, along with four other the Press). He currently serves as an scheme places writers in higher young researchers from the Associate Editor of the education institutions to offer University of Cambridge, to Forging the key of remembrance’: following journals: support to students who want participate in the 1st edition books, cultures and memory 1: IEEE Transactions on Control to learn good writing practice of Cambridge Shorts, a new in Michaela Irimia (ed.) Systems Technology across all disciplines. He will be University project which will Literature and the Long 2: Systems and Control Letters based in the English Department allow him to work with a film- Modernity, (Bucharest: Rodopi, 3: European Journal of Control at Swansea University. maker and make a short film in the Press). 4: Journal of Loss Prevention in about his research. The films the Process Industries. His most recent book, will be premiered during the Look on this picture, and on this’: He is member of: Pinkerton’s Great Detective, Festival of Ideas 2014. or ‘words, words, words’?, in 1: IEEE Control Systems Society which is a biography of A. Lafont and N. Myers, (eds.) Conference Editorial Board. nineteenth-century detective
11 HUGHES HALL IN THE ‘FRAGRANT HARBOUR’* The special partnerships between Hughes and Hong Kong
Dr Edwin Leong’s generous patronage
Dr Edwin Leong, one of Hong Kong’s leading entrepreneurs, has made the largest gift to Hughes Hall in modern times, with a £750,000 donation to the Endowment Fund for Scholarships and Bursaries. The gift agreement was signed at a special dinner in Hong Kong on 11 April hosted by the President, Sarah Squire. The new gift will almost double the size of the existing Scholarship Fund and thus substantially increases the amount of money available each year for the support of students. Kong have already been able He formed the Tai Hung Fai ABOVE ‘I myself have never been to to pursue their postgraduate Charitable Foundation, through Dr Edwin Leong and Cambridge, but I have long studies at Hughes Hall. which he established – among President Sarah Squire sign the gift agreement known of its great reputation for many other social welfare learning’ said Dr Leong. ‘The story Dr Leong is a prominent projects – the Henry G Leong of Hughes Hall interested me business figure in Hong Kong, Mobile Integrative Health Centre, development of the new library immediately when I heard about a major philanthropist and providing free health screening over the years since it was first it from my friend Frank Lee, a an Honorary Fellow of three and monitoring services to begun in 2008, it will in due Hughes alumnus. He spoke very leading Hong Kong Universities. disadvantaged senior citizens course be named in his honour. highly of his time there. I am Born in Hong Kong, he studied throughout Hong Kong. He has now delighted to contribute at the University of British also endowed university Chairs in As the President said, in thanking to the future of Hughes by Columbia and the University honour of his late father, to lead Dr Leong at the celebration making this gift which I hope will of Toronto before founding Tai research into provision of care dinner, ‘We shall welcome Dr help the College to offer more Hung Fai Enterprise Company for the elderly and research into Edwin Leong as a Fellow of our opportunities for the brightest in 1977. neurodegenerative disorders. College. We shall commemorate and best students from the UK His philanthropic activity extends him and think of him each time and around the world to study Tai Hung Fai, named by his to mainland China, where he that we enter the library named at Hughes and open up mother, Madame Leong, is a prominent benefactor in his honour. And, thanks to new horizons.’ flourished and grew into a of the China Foundation for his great generosity, many major property investment Poverty Alleviation. future generations of fortunate Dr Leong’s benefaction comes and development company. students will receive the financial as an addition to an already The College plans to mark its help they need to succeed in very generous scholarship A longstanding and generous debt of gratitude to Dr Leong in their Cambridge education’. programme, specifically for benefactor to a range of Hong two ways. He will be elected a students at the University Kong charities, Dr Leong has Pfeiffer Fellow of the College, the *Hong Kong’s English name of Hong Kong, which he shown a particular commitment highest category of Fellowship is derived from two Chinese established four years ago. to improving health and social reserved for major donors. characters, Heung and Thanks to this, a number of care provision for the elderly, And, reflecting the friendly Gong, usually translated as young people from Hong and support of the young. interest that he has taken in the ‘Fragrant Harbour’.
12 Sik Yan Tse: a union of three families Hughes Autumn Visit to Hong Kong A Farewell for the President
A special ceremony was held to witness the fruition of this In November, President Sarah Tat Ho Thomas (周達豪) is at Hong Kong University to Scholarship in her honour, Squire and Development a Chinese calligraphy artist mark Sik Yan Tse’s generous and in memory of my late Director Richard Berg Rust devoted to promoting Chinese scholarships award to Hughes. grandfather and father’, flew out to Hong Kong for calligraphy and culture in Hong The ‘Tse Family HKU-Cambridge Mr Tse said at the ceremony. two special alumni events. Kong. In 2008, he established Hughes Hall Scholarships’ On Wednesday 20 November his workshop, the Roundsquare will support HKU PhD students ‘There is a western saying that a Law Dinner took place, Chinese Calligraphy and started pursuing an MPhil degree ‘Charity begins at home’. What kindly sponsored by Dr Ron teaching Chinese calligraphy. (Education or Science) more worthwhile charity could Zimmern, in honour of Lord at Cambridge. I establish than a scholarship Philips of Worth Matravers, Of the scroll, he explained; ‘As which could connect my three HG PC. Alumni were joined by for the text, it is written ‘光輝 Mr Tse (MPhil Education, big Families together? My two distinguished legal guests and 歷程’, which means ‘a glorious 2006) is the first alumnus alma maters have been so kind members of Hughes Hall at the course’. We understand that of both institutions to set up as to allow me to set up this Hong Kong Country Club. This Sarah is retiring next year and a scholarship that allows the humble fund to pay tribute to event was followed by another now that we look back at her recipients to further their studies my three filial seniors as well as fantastic dinner, organised by history, we must say that she by following his own path. my three Roots.’ our Hong Kong Hughes Hall has gone through ‘a glorious He hopes that his gesture may Alumni Group. Over 30 guests path’. We can clearly see the serve the goal of ‘throwing out Commented President Sarah gathered to show their support support she has given the Hong a tiny pebble in order to attract Squire: ‘It’s marvellous to have for Hughes Hall and the Hong Kong community, leading to the the more precious jade to come’, an alumnus making such a Kong Alumni Bursary. ‘blossoming relationship’ to use as the Chinese saying goes. generous contribution to her words in the dinner. So we Hughes. We’re very grateful The President’s last Hong Kong have prepared this calligraphy ‘Today I am so blessed to have to Sik Yan and his family and alumni dinner was marked by to signify her glorious path and my mother with us at this very much look forward to the presentation of a beautiful we hope that she will always auspicious occasion who, at welcoming the first Tse Family scroll by the Hong Kong remember that the Hong Kong the elderly age of 93, is able scholars at Hughes soon’. Alumni Association. CHOW alumni do appreciate her work.’
First Graduation The President Sarah Squire and she urged them to strive ‘Yesterday’s deficiency, Ceremony at addressed the first graduation constantly after new knowledge difficulties and struggles have S H Ho College ceremony at S H Ho College as they began their careers. grown into today’s sweet on 21 November, with Master memories.’ He referred to Steve Samuel Sun presiding. Sarah Master Samuel Sun said in his Jobs’ famous quote ‘Innovation reminded graduates of the speech that he appreciated the distinguishes between a leader unique nature of their college graduates’ courage and wisdom and a follower’ and encouraged education – the chance to live in selecting S H Ho College the College pioneers to uphold with and become friends with to affiliate with in its first year. the spirit of innovation, to fellow students and academic Their pioneer spirit and the charge into the challenging staff from across the whole footsteps imprinted on this world ahead, to lead, and to spectrum of intellectual life, young college were cherished. pursue their dreams.
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP Small beginnings and big successes
Hughes entrepreneurs welcomed by Bruce and Ashley
On 23 April, a group of Hughes students with entrepreneurial ambitions joined established Hughes alumni for a dinner at the Hampstead home of alumnus Bruce Steinberg (BA English 1979) and his wife Ashley Dartnell. The guest speaker was Cambridge entrepreneur and Honorary Hughes Fellow, Dr Hermann Hauser.
Hermann Hauser is one of the to replicate his level of success, into enterprises that generate greatest modern Cambridge but he has such energy and financial and social value. entrepreneurs, having achieved optimism, that he makes you success in a wide range of feel like trying’. The winner of an American technology sectors, including Academy of Poets prize as an Acorn Computers, Active Book Hughes has a strong track undergraduate, Bruce holds a Company, Virata, Net Products, record in producing successful BA from Columbia University NetChannel and Cambridge entrepreneurs from a variety and MBA from Harvard as Network Limited. He was a of academic backgrounds, well as his Cambridge MA. He founder director of IQ (Bio), such as Emmanuel Carraud began his career with MTV SPOTLIGHT IXI Limited, Vocalis, SynGenix, (MagicSolver), Shamus Husheer Networks, later becoming Advanced Displays Limited (Temperature Concepts) Chief Executive Officer of Fox Hermann Hauser (acquired by Cambridge and Riley O’Doyle (Desktop Kids Europe, General Manager Hermann Hauser is one of Display Technology), Electronic Genetics). It also has one of of Broadcasting at BSkyB and our Honorary Fellows. Born in Share Information Limited, the highest proportions of Chief Executive Officer of UK Austria, Dr Hauser obtained E*Trade UK and has supported MBA and EMBA students of Gold and UK Living TV. He is a his MA in Physics from Vienna many other start-ups. any Cambridge College, many founding Principal of Dendy before completing his PhD at of whom have an interest in Partners Limited, a venture Cambridge, and has received He outlined his business establishing new start-ups. capital company investing in honorary doctorates from philosophy in an engaging early stage digital media and Loughborough, Bath and address: ‘The main thing is to We aim to build on this spirit technology companies. He is Anglia Ruskin. He is also an have fun and create, and to do of enterprise by creating also currently a Board member Honorary Fellow at King’s that you need to have a certain mentoring and support of JDRF UK, a charitable College, Cambridge. amount of money’. Arpit Gupta, networks and establishing a organisation dedicated to one of the Hughes students prize for Hughes entrepreneurs finding the cure for Type Hermann is probably best present, said: ‘Hermann was and their partners. It would 1 diabetes. Ashley is an known for co-founding very inspiring for all of us. It offer the chance to win acclaimed writer and author of Acorn Computers in 1978 would be difficult for anyone investment to transform ideas Farangi Girl, about her exotic and his part in developing and turbulent childhood in the ARM microprocessor. Tehran and Esfahan. Educated Since then he has founded in Tehran, she later graduated or co-founded over 20 from Bryn Mawr and earned technology companies. her MBA from Harvard Business School. The evening was highly In 2001 Hermann was enjoyable and stimulating and awarded an Honorary CBE we would like to thank Bruce for his contribution to UK and Ashley for their kindness enterprise and is a Fellow and hospitality as hosts. of the Institute of Physics, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society. Bruce and Ashley
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Alumnus’ start up goes global How a start-up business succeeds
Life at Hughes Hall went by so MPhil classes is not something fast. I still remember meeting I would recommend to any President Sarah Squire at graduate student at Hughes, induction like it was yesterday. I somehow managed to I met my current business make it work. I returned to partner, Nathan Boublil (Selwyn Hughes Hall in February 2013), just a month after that. where my team and I began Together, we built a business an acceleration programme case over a weekend around at the Judge Business School the idea of leveraging big data (JBS). Soon enough, I found technology to aggregate and myself spending time at the standardise all of the world’s Accelerate Cambridge offices open government data onto in-between classes, iterating one visual platform, thereby the business case and working generating high-value location on the product with my team intelligence in an easy-to- to a point where we were lucky consume format for retailers, enough to secure financial marketeers, consultancies and investment from the JBS’s new governments themselves. seed fund.
Little did we know that what Today, Stat.io is incubated began as a 54-hour event at Microsoft Ventures in East organised at the university London and has recently would turn out to become a expanded into Latin America global business a year later. with offices in Santiago, Chile. In November 2012, our venture We are now exploring new Little did we know that what began Stat.io won the best startup sectors in which to apply our as a 54-hour event organised at the idea at Startup Weekend big data technology, with “ Cambridge. Fast-forward a few increasing interest in the university would turn out to become days and we were in London financial services sector. a global business a year later.” competing against similar local We believe big data will winners from across the UK at change consumer finance, Silicon Valley comes to the UK and emerging markets is (SVC2UK), a Google-sponsored where this change will have event. Winning this nationwide the greatest impact. It sure competition led us to California is an exciting time to be in GET IN TOUCH two months later where our this sector and I thank Hughes We’re in touch with many of our alumni entrepreneurs (whether technology received a special Hall for being a part of the social or business oriented) throughout the world, but there are prize from San Francisco Mayor story that took me there. others out there whom we haven’t yet met. If you’re interested in Ed Lee. joining a Hughes entrepreneurs network, get in touch with the Elliott Verreault Development Director and we’ll add you to a mailing list for future From there, it felt like there colloquia and events at Hughes – email: [email protected] was no going back. Although missing two weeks of your
15 SPORT by ‘The Hawk’
Hughes’ Henry Hoffstot feathering his blade in Blue boat practice four days before the race. Chief Coach Trapmore, Olympic Gold medallist 2000, looks on. DR MIKE FRANKLIN Will light blue get heavy again?
Hughes again played what In rowing, last year’s dismal of the discussions concerning Oxford specially to favour the is now its traditional major outcome was also regrettably the future arrangements for admission of sportsmen and role in the two highest profile repeated: only a single victory administering and developing women, are now being openly University sports: rugby and to report in all the various sport here in the Cambridge. talked about as issues which rowing. In rugby the Hughes contests, male and female, must be addressed. backline barely got the ball lightweight and heavyweight. Although Oxford’s centralised at Twickenham as the dark Congratulations to Hughesians governmental model is being There are some who believe blues, doubtless refreshed by Henry Hoffstot rowing at Stroke lauded as one of the principal that the overall pattern of copious quantities of breakfast in the Blue Boat, Izzy Vyvyan causes of their supposed Varsity match results reflects cereal, defeated our boys for in the Ladies Blue Boat, Florian greater sporting success, Cambridge’s greater access- the fifth time in a succession. Herbst, in the Goldie Boat, and other important, but hitherto friendliness meaning that the The Hughes contingent was Rosemary Ostfeld, coxing Goldie. unspoken issues, such as the light blues are only able to again strong – congratulations ‘optional matriculation’ at one excel in the more global sports to Kristian Cook, Courtenay The other place’s greater of their colleges specifically, like soccer and athletics, rather Morrison, and Andy Murdoch sporting success has and the apparent lowering than the more elitist rowing on their Blues. significantly raised the profile of academic standards by and rugby. But one glance
16 Thorbjorg Agustsdottir makes her mark on University fencing HREYSTI
PhD student Thorbjorg home the trophy for all three Agustsdottir represented weapons, and the Women’s the University in fencing in Blues team beat Oxford 135 February against competitors to 108, earning Thorbjorg her from Imperial College, Surrey, Half Blue. Oxford and Cardiff. As part of the sabre team, Thorbjorg Despite an impressive effort and her teammates achieved against Edinburgh in the an impressive 45-38 win BUCS final in late March, against Oxford. The University’s Cambridge lost by 4 points combined performance overall. Cambridge won in boosted the women’s fencing two out of three weapons, team up from second position including Thorbjorg’s, and she in the Southern Premier League was nominated Woman of the to secure the title. Match. At the Leon Paul British Sabre Open in London she took In March, Thorbjorg home the bronze. It’s been a represented the victorious phenomenal year for the Full Cambridge team at the Varsity Blue sportswoman, who still
Match. Cambridge took has a further two at Cambridge. MAGNUSSON KJARTAN
at the web pages of British in the third division, whereas Rowing is all that is needed to the Ladies made serious Supporting the Boat Club dispel the myth that rowing is progress in the second division exclusively the preserve – well done to them. Hughes has a strong tradition in rowing and the Boat of independent schools. Club is the largest club or society in the College with a The current dominance of The huge intake of novices to remarkable 120 members. It does not enjoy the funding the dark blues is for CUBC the Club (100) bodes well for of most College Boat Clubs and lacks many of the facilities and CUWBC to solve; winning the future, as does the return they possess. Sponsorship opportunities offer part of the streaks have been a facet of of our various University squad solution to funding issues. If any alumni or friends of Hughes Boat Race history before, on members for the Mays. The work for companies that can offer corporate sponsorship both sides, and they have men will aim to cement their to the Boat Club, with website branding presence, features always been broken. position in Division 2 (the Bears in the Hughes magazine and corporate entertainment are too far ahead to catch this options at the Bumps, Henley and other events, contact the HHBC’s results this year have year) while the Ladies hope Development Director, Richard Berg Rust: [email protected] been mixed: in the Lents M1 to reverse their descent into ultimately went down a place Division 3 last June.
17 EVENTS
Sir Andrew Motion
On 4 June, Hughes was Honorary Fellow Professor delighted to welcome one of Masa Ohtake, who has made the UK’s leading poetic voices a gift of his collection of rare and former Poet Laureate Sir books to Hughes, a collection Andrew Motion for a special particularly rich in rare Edward Burns’ Night Formal Margaret Drabble Q&A event to mark the centenary Thomas editions and World War of World War One: ‘When the One poetry. The College was alive with the In January, Margaret Drabble sun shone in vain’ – Sir Andrew scent of heather, the flash of answered questions from Motion on Edward Thomas and ‘Professor Ohtake and I share bright tartan and the soulful Professor Mary Buckley on the War Poets. a love of Edward Thomas’s wail of the pipes on 24 January Cambridge days, the themes work and I was delighted to as we celebrated Burns’ night she explores in her novels and The audience was captivated see the early Thomas editions in the company of students, the issues about which she by Sir Andrew’s readings from as well as the other beautiful Fellows and guests. Professor cares most, including attitudes Thomas and from selections books which Professor Ohtake Nabeel Affara, resplendent in a towards mental health and of his own work. He also has donated to Hughes. It is a kilt of Affara Tartan (seriously!) gender relations. Margaret paid tribute to Hughes Hall marvellous collection.’ delivered a tour-de-force Drabble is a Cambridge recitation of the ode to the graduate and internationally Haggis, fresh from its tour of acclaimed for her contribution the dining hall in the company to literature. In 2011 she was of a kilted Dr Michael Franklin. given the Golden Pen Award It was then devoured, along for ‘a lifetime’s distinguished with its smaller kin, by the service to literature’ and in appreciative throng. 2013 her eighteenth novel
18 Boat Club Dinner
The Pure Gold Baby received Club Dinner, maintaining City Lecture outstanding reviews. After the their connection to the Club. discussion there was a lively Following the tremendous On 1 May 2014, Hughes Hall was proud to host the fourteenth City question and answer session success of our Women’s crew Lecture, featuring the Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, discussing and Margaret was presented in Lent Bumps, the dinner was the topic ‘Can Banking Clean Up Its Act?’ with flowers by Hughes a fittingly lively occasion, with librarian Diana Hutchison. students, alumni and friends of Six years after the financial crisis, controversy continues to rage College rowing joining forces about high pay, professional misconduct and perverse incentives to celebrate the fine tradition of in the banking industry. Yet bankers live in a new regulatory world Boat Club Dinner the Hughes Hall and Hughes/ with stiffer rules on capital, curbs on risky trading activities and a Lucy Cavendish crews. There clampdown on the so-called bonus culture. During the lecture, For some alumni, their time in were high spirits all round, and Lionel Barber assessed the progress on reform and examined the the Boat Club produced their the evening showcased the broader cultural and professional challenges in modern banking. most treasured memories of the incredible popularity of rowing His conclusion ‘We cannot turn bankers into saints. Nor should we College. It’s no surprise, then, at the College among both male banish risk-taking. It is the sine qua non of market capitalism. Bankers that they make the pilgrimage and female students of all ages, have begun to clean up their act. But more must be done – and they back to College for the Boat backgrounds and subjects. must reconnect to the community. The alternative may not be a living hell, but will it be a prolonged spell in purgatory?’
2014 Law Dinner a triumph high profile guests. We have United Kingdom, peppering established a pattern of eminent his speech with fantastic On an evening in February speakers, and this year was no anecdotes. It was wonderful to we opened our doors to different as we welcomed The see such a diverse turnout for Law academics, alumni and Right Honourable Lord Justice this extremely popular dinner. students for the 2014 Charnley Lloyd Jones PC, Chairman of First year BA students were able Law Dinner, kindly sponsored the Law Commission. After an to rub shoulders with more by Hughes Fellow Mr William introduction from Honorary experienced Law academics and Charnley. The dinner celebrates Fellow Lord Phillips of Worth practitioners, and the night was and promotes the study of Law Matravers, Sir David spoke a great success. We look forward at Hughes Hall and is open engagingly on his work for the to an equally triumphant event to Law students, alumni and primary law reform body in the in 2015.
19 STUDENT NEWS
Christos Tsirogiannis wins ARCA’s award for Art Protection and Security
Alumnus Dr Christos Tsirogiannis private collections. Thus far, he received the 2013 award for Art has identified more than 800 Protection and Security from masterpieces of antiquity from the Association for Research all over the world, resulting in into Crimes against Art (ARCA). several repatriations, mainly for Christos was employed as a Greece and Italy. forensic archaeologist at the Greek Ministry of Culture, the Christos’ PhD thesis is entitled Greek Ministry of Justice and Unravelling the International Illicit the Greek police Art Squad Antiquities Network through the (2004-2008), and has identified Robin Symes-Christos Michaelides an impressive array of stolen Archive and its International antiquities over the years. His Implications. He aims to create investigations have affected the first European library for illicit international galleries and antiquities research with auction museums, auction houses and house catalogues since 1970.
Raoul-Gabriel Urma releases book on programming
Computer Science PhD Raoul-Gabriel explained that Student talent recognised student Raoul-Gabriel ‘The decision to write the book at Shearman & Sterling Urma has released a guide is basically twofold: computer Negotiation Competition to Java 8 lambdas and science education is something functional programming very close to my heart so I We are delighted to announce and has called the result an in Java. Java 8 Lambdas in always wanted to ‘write a that two Hughes students ‘extraordinary achievement’. Action will teach advanced book’, and the realisation that came in as 1st Runner Up programming concepts to programmers will need to at the Shearman & Sterling More than ten teams industry professionals, and is learn to program in a different Negotiation Competition held participated in the competition, co-authored by Mario Fusco, style to keep up with new at the Cambridge Law Faculty which consisted of two rounds a senior software engineer, computer architecture.’ in March. BA Law students and involved negotiating on and Alan Mycroft, Professor Timothy Liang and Jian Wei behalf of a client in a fictional of Computer Science at the Prior to his PhD, Raoul-Gabriel Aw were each awarded a contractual dispute. The aim University of Cambridge. In worked as a software engineer £50 cash prize, along with an was to give practical insight November a thousand pre- for Oracle’s Java Platform Group, offer to attend an Open Day into how best to promote and orders were placed in just two Google’s Python team, eBay, and with Shearman & Sterling LLP. protect clients in negotiations, weeks as a result of content Goldman Sachs. His website can Director of Studies Dr Markus and to fulfill their strategic and available in advance. be found at urma.com. Gehring accompanied the pair, commercial objectives.
20 Fotis Vergis granted Modern Law Review scholarship
Third year PhD student Fotis Fotis is the recipient of a Vergis has been awarded College bursary, and his a Modern Law Review supervisions are much scholarship for the year 2013- appreciated by undergraduates. 2014, following nomination by the Law Faculty and submission of a proposal. Competition for the scholarships was fierce, making Fotis’ achievement all the more impressive.
Two masters: Hughes Hall and the Cambridge MBA
For most MBA students, the social fabric by way of varsity Student spotlight concept of dealing with a sports, pub crawls, seminars, Rosemary Ostfeld University, a business school societies and so forth. This and a college is a befuddling is not to undermine some Rosemary Ostfeld completed forest ecosystems in Malaysia, trinity. For the 40 odd students fascinating conversations over an MPhil in Environmental a current supplier of biomass from the Cambridge MBA tea at Peter Richards or the Policy in 2012-2013, and wished for biofuels to the United programme at Hughes Hall, Pfeiffer room with scientists, to stay at Hughes for further Kingdom and other parts of this arrangement is a way mathematicians and beyond. postgraduate studies. Receiving Western Europe. Outside of her of life and learning. It is this intellectual exchange a scholarship from Hughes Hall studies, Rosemary plans events across the academic divide that allowed her to secure additional for the Cambridge University Whilst the world at Judge creates a mutually fruitful and funding, which enabled her Expeditions Society, which Business School can be quite a unique Cambridge experience. to stay at Cambridge. She is exists to encourage current bubble, Hughes Hall provides currently in the first year of her students, members and alumni an alternative community The Cambridge MBA class is PhD in Land Economy. She is to organise, plan, and join called home. Waking up to a confluence of 140 students being supervised by global expeditions. She has the soothing sight of the from 44 countries. Hughes Mr David Howarth, former MP helped bring a screening of the Fenner’s ground, exchanging Hall is home to around 600 of Cambridge, Dr David Reiner Banff Mountain Film Festival to pleasantries with the porters students across the University. from the Judge Business School, Cambridge, which had nearly and rubbing shoulders with These systems ultimately feed and Dr David Coomes from 500 attendees, and speakers college mates at lunches and into a 200,000 global alumni the Plant Sciences department to Hughes Hall including Rosie formal halls makes one feel part base. This juxtaposition of on research that examines Swale Pope MBE. Rosemary of a system that is refreshingly institutions is an unquantifiable biofuel policies in the United is also a coxswain for the different and rejuvenating. experience which is enriching Kingdom and European Union. Cambridge University Boat Club. and enlightening. How’s that The more efficient and Her research will also involve Without a scholarship, none of for social network? enthusiastic amongst us completing a case study on the this would be possible – thank have contributed to the Abhinav Charan effects of biomass cultivation you to Hughes Hall! for biofuel production on
21 LAND ECONOMY Cities and Society – The Honor Chapman Lecture
Land Economists gathered with a range of Hughes students from other disciplines for the first anuual Honor Chapman Lecture on 7 May, delivered by Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas DBE, on ‘Cities and Society’.
This lecture series was created when three leading London real estate figures led by new Hughes City Fellow Marc Mogull, Managing Partner of Benson Elliott Capital Management, together with Rosemary Feenan of JLL and Andrew Gould, former CEO of JLL and now Chairman of the UK Green Building Council, came together to form a lasting tribute to their world of rapidly growing – London. In 1994 Honor was the such a scale that the impact esteemed colleague, the late and competing – cities. Her founding CEO of Think London of cities on economic, social Honor Chapman CBE. contribution to the report (then called London First Centre and environmental geography London: World City in 1991 (LFC), and now part of London & is unprecedented. The speed Honor was a truly exceptional marked a new approach Partners), the inward investment and extent of urbanisation figure: a uniquely creative whereby cities applied the agency for the capital. She also represents one of the largest thinker about cities and real disciplines of rigourous analysis, served on the board of the global challenges of the twenty- estate; a true innovator who brand development and London Development Agency first century, engendering major brought research-based marketing from the world of and advised a wide range of issues of economic growth, approaches and R&D into the business. Typically, she then put developers on their London sustainability, environmentalism planning and development it into practice by launching and portfolios and projects. and social justice; accordingly of our cities. One of the first leading the body responsible the lectures will take an women to become recognised for marketing London to More than 50% of the world’s interdisciplinary approach. as a business leader of the international businesses. population now live in cities highest calibre in the sector according to the UN, a figure set We wish to acknowledge the and in the wider business Honor, who died in 2009, was to rise to 75% by 2050. Urban kind sponsorship of this event world, she challenged a new a Partner and International growth is now taking place on by JLL. generation of professionals to Director at JLL. She worked aim high and to think creatively. with the emerging London First The new lecture series at Business lobby group to build Hughes Hall will extend that the promotional agenda for challenge and inspiration to a London and chaired the London new generation in her memory. Office Review Panel for LPAC. She set up the London First One of Honor’s notable Centre, becoming its first CEO, London has become a city of soft power: achievements was to bring before going on to lead other “ a place full of influencers and a place these perspectives into sharp ventures such as the London focus on the issue of London Development Agency, where that is able to work through informal as itself and its position in a she was Vice-Chair, and Future well as formal decision-making….”
22 PGCE – THEN AND NOW WHEN STUDENTS RETURN TO THE EDUCATION FACULTY
Literature. Now older, a mother Studying the PGCE course in and living further away, I still History, it is comforting to have want to be involved. The a large volume of fellow trainee internet now means I am kept teachers with whom to laugh, up to date with all College cry, and discuss the general life news and gossip. I am always of a teacher. Mixing with other warmly welcomed at events, students is, however, always and great efforts are made to a fun change, encouraged by support students with families. activities such as the ‘speed Hughes Hall is perfect: small meet’ early in the year. Trainee As a mature student living enough to feel exclusive yet Nervous. That was how I felt teachers and other students off-site, I realise (with regret certainly inclusive. upon arriving at Hughes Hall. can often be found sharing a and envy!) that my Cambridge Having never lived away from joke in the bar. experience may differ to that of I feel truly privileged to be back home, I was hopeful that my a residential one. However, I still at Hughes and at Cambridge. time at Hughes would be an As a History graduate, it is hard want to feel part of College life: The vibrant, varied, interna- enjoyable new experience. not to think about all the train- Hughes Hall delivers that. tional community is constantly Luckily, this is exactly what has ee teachers of the past who invigorating and always surpris- happened. From the very first have walked the long corridors My first experience of Hughes ing. At the Faculty of Education, day, Hughes has proved itself of the Margaret Wileman Build- Hall was as a PGCE student back I am taught by the finest in my to be one of the friendliest ing before us. The building, in 1999-2000. I came to Formal field. It’s just all so very exciting. colleges at Cambridge. From with its large sash windows and Hall (then in the Victorian build- lively themed bops to sophisti- high ceilings, lends itself to the ing) and was kept in the College Kathryn Brereton cated lunches at the President’s historian, and one can’t help loop via my pigeon hole. house – albeit with some but think of the secrets and spontaneous trampolining – stories the building holds. The Over a decade on, I am Hughes has always encouraged trainee teachers of today are self-indulgently taking time a warm, welcoming atmos- eager to add several more to out from teaching to study phere to the College to which the history of Hughes Hall. part-time for a MEd in Critical the students certainly adhere. Approaches to Children’s All are welcome. Rhian Fender
23 ALUMNI NEWS
Ken Ogata’s research powers high-capacity batteries
Alumnus Dr Ken Ogata and electrodes in batteries with other researchers from the silicon can reduce charging University have been moving time to mere minutes. The towards the delivery of Department of Engineering at high-capacity batteries that the University has successfully recharge quickly and retain conducted their own research their power for weeks. At into batteries to uncover present, these batteries are how the materials interact. If able to store large amounts silicon-based technology can of power, but charging them be harnessed then we may see can take hours. American the mass production of high- researchers have discovered capacity batteries far sooner that replacing the carbon than expected.
From one bubble to another
I have a confession: I am process. However, this year I definitely an intensive course. a Cantab through and was even more excited: I was St Andrews just doesn’t have through. Having studied my packing to go to St Andrews to that community atmosphere undergraduate degree at begin my PhD. Now, so many and strong bond that you get Newnham College and then people ask me how the two from a Cambridge College. I’ve my PGCE at Hughes Hall last universities compare. Like most, visited Cambridge twice since year, I am more light blue than I assumed that they would be moving to St Andrews and the sky on a (good) summer’s pretty similar. They both have have come to the conclusion day! Getting ready for the very good reputations, are old, that, whilst you can take the Lizzy with her parents Russ beginning of the University year both referred to affectionately girl out of Cambridge...! Indeed, and Julie has always been an exciting as ‘The Bubble’ by their students, I would encourage more and are associated with Prince Hughesians to come back to William and Kate Middleton. Cambridge and re-discover CONNECTING HUGHES However, this is where the the magic that the place offers, similarities end. St Andrews take time to catch up with old 2015 will see us launch a brand new, interactive alumni is a town on the East coast of friends, and, of course, give directory to help connect the Hughes community worldwide. Scotland that consists of three back to the College in any As a truly global College, this will give us the opportunity to streets and lots of ancient grey way that you can. For me, this connect all our alumni so that you can find others with similar stone buildings, Cambridge means taking time to update academic interests, in similar lines of work, or just friends from is a city in inland Eastern the Development Office on College days! Already, we have begun recruiting Hughesians to England that has distinctively my activities since graduating be Alumni Ambassadors around the world, catalysing activity, eclectic architecture. And most and talking to current PGCEs giving us advice and feedback, co-ordinating local events and important of all, Cambridge about their experiences so far helping generate news and articles for Hughes. has Colleges. I’m sure many and (hopefully) providing some We already have particularly strong groups in the US and Hong of you have fond memories reassuring words. Whatever it Kong and also have interested alumni in Malaysia, Sweden of going to MCR nights, means for you, be sure to keep and Germany keen to start up groups there – if you are Bumps races, intercollegiate in touch. As I’ve learnt, Hughes interested in helping us make connections, please email us on swaps, and Formal Halls, all Hall will always be your ‘home’. [email protected]. of which enriched your time studying what was almost Lizzy Cole
24 OVERSEAS TRIPS
Alumni warm to Forest Fuel Lecture
On 9 April Hughesians and Wood was today’s oil, the major alumni from other colleges fuel until the industrial age, and gathered over drinks and Robyn looked at patterns of canapés at the superb offices wood consumption in Ancient of Venable LLP to hear Hughes Rome. Did the Ancient Romans Visiting Fellow Dr Robyn Veal have a sustainable fuel supply? deliver her lecture ‘Forest The answer was largely ‘yes’. Economics in the Ancient World: the evidence from Pompeii’. The evening was generously hosted by Hughes alums Widge After taking in the panoramic Devaney (LLM Law 1994) views of Manhattan, the and Sonali Pathirana (MPhil audience was treated to Development Studies 1998), Robyn’s examination of at the offices of Widge’s law patterns of wood production firm, Venable LLP. Our thanks to and consumption in Ancient them for this kindness and to Rome a subject that was the staff at Venable LLP for all thought particularly relevant to their support for the event. a city which had just emerged from a particularly long and bitter winter.
Japan
This February, Dr Elizabeth R who met with Dr Moore at an Moore, Hughes Hall’s Director izakaya bar in Kochijoji were of Studies in English, travelled equally welcoming and shared to Japan to deliver lectures fascinating stories of their on literature and to meet with experiences in Cambridge. Hughes Hall alumni. She is also Director of the Hughes Hall The success of the TWCU Summer Programme in British summer programme at Hughes Politics and Cultural Studies led to its expansion last year attended each year by students to include a new cultural from Tokyo Woman’s Christian studies summer programme University (TWCU). with TWCU alumni and we look forward to more exciting During Dr. Moore’s visit, TWCU developments in the future. President Masako Sanada, as well as the TWCU students The Hughes association with and alumni, all emphasised TWCU began when Elizabeth their appreciation of the Hughes, our founder, became a longstanding relationship Visiting Professor there in 1900. between the two institutions. The Hughes Hall alumnae, Dr Elizabeth Moore in Tokyo
25 ‘Toiling for life and eternity’ College Members and the First World War
It took a cataclysmic event to open up vocational opportunities for women in the last century. During ‘The Great War’ of 1914-1918 many women embraced the chance to undertake unfamiliar roles and learn new skills in support of Britain’s war effort. Among those enthusiastic to explore novel occupational terrain were a group of women teachers, alumni and Gild members of the Cambridge Training College for Women (CTCW).
Some of these mistresses war ‘as an educator’ and, hence, Miss Wood also substituted while they knitted and sewed. transferred to boys’ schools urged CTCW members to her Friday evening lecture for a A ‘Miss Neroutsos’ provided to fill places left by masters contribute towards alleviating class to teach English to Belgian material for treasure bags and serving at the front while the the impact of total warfare. As girls and admitted a Belgian handkerchiefs for soldiers and more restless left their teaching she asserted in her address to trainee to CTCW, enabling her by 1918 ‘many treasure bags jobs to enter technical, students and Gild members: to complete her qualification had been made’. Also, a student munitions, and hospital or relief ‘everyone is eager to do his by helping her to secure a noted the interruption of the work at home and overseas, bit’ and asking ‘what can I do teaching practice in French in work parties during Lent Term, including: matron of the to help?’ CTCW response to a local school. CTCW students due to blackout conditions: Annexe to Blinded Soldiers this was to incorporate 1914 may have taught some of the ‘we are living like the rest of and Sailors’ Hostel, St Dunstan’s, idealism with the typical many Serbian boys at the Perse England in a dim religious light’. Regent’s Park; Miss Hughes’s ‘old Hughesian spirit epitomized School for Boys in Cambridge. The ‘tenour’ of College life was students’ working in Voluntary by toiling for life and eternity – They certainly taught English disturbed on three nights by Aid Detachment (VAD) hospital articulated in the College motto1 classes to Serbian boys at three Zeppelin alarms and units; project workers in the – through the marshalling of Cheshunt College. on one occasion the special Syrian and Palestinian Relief a diverse range of exemplary constable was not completely Fund and Serbian Relief skills. Throughout the war years Endeavouring to understand satisfied with the College’s Committee, Corsica. and beyond, the residents of the meaning of the war, efforts to diminish lighting – Wollaston Road managed their College members of the ‘a solitary candle screened by Accordingly, the prospect usual lectures and teaching University Christian Union an umbrella’. of teacher training proved practices alongside a range participated in a study circle comparatively less appealing to of unconventional extra- on Bible teaching and the However, CTCW Entertainment female graduates. Admissions curricular activities. problem of war as well as a Committee, responsible for a to CTCW fell over the wartime conference on Christianity and programme of readings and period: from 44 in 1914 In 1914, a service to mark war. They also made a silver music, succeeded in lifting (exceeding their cap) to 29 in the ‘Universal Day of Prayer’ collection on behalf of the the general spiritual gloom 1917. These were ‘hard times’ was held in College and the Russian Relief Fund. Similarly through a number of fund- for the College, the Principal Principal introduced a weekly engaged, CTCW’s branch of raising dramatic performances (Dr Mary Hay Wood, 1908-1933) intercession service, for which the Women Students’ Church in College: a skit on College life recording in the Gild Leaflet her students expressed Society organised a lecture in aid of the Cambridge Branch that the third year of the war gratitude: on the work of the ‘Music in of the Belgian Repatriation was a ‘critical and anxious Wartime Committee’. Rather Fund; Laurence Housman’s time’. Further, the ‘national Like all the world, we are more practically, the ‘War Work The Chinese Lantern, to raise calamity’ meant the loss of much oppressed by the Party’ met for one hour most a collection for the Star and communication with ‘friends’ war, and we are thankful Saturday evenings to make Garter Home for Disabled in European neutral countries. for the intercession service, clothes and ‘treasure bags’ for Soldiers and Sailors; a staging Nevertheless, in spite of the which Miss Wood conducts soldiers and Belgian refugees. of Alice in Education Land (re- downturn in numbers and on Saturday mornings on Speeches and readings relating played by popular request) finances, Miss Wood regarded account of the war. to the war were read aloud and the play The Admirable
26 Crichton by J M Barrie, both published in the Gild Leaflet of camp. In 1920, she became ABOVE on behalf of Cambridge 1917, and lectures on medical Dr Hughes, being awarded Hughes class of 1915 with Serbian Relief Fund. Of course, war-work were delivered an honorary LLD from the Miss Wood ninth from the left middle row the students’ engagement during summer Gild meetings University of Wales for services in an unprecedented range in Cambridge. The renowned to Welsh education. of events and activities ‘on psychiatrist and St John’s account of the war’ did not College, Cambridge, Fellow, By 1920, CTCW residents had regeneration. Her 1919 post- excuse slippage in decorum. Captain William Rivers of RAMC emerged from ‘under the war challenge to students Conversely, the Principal Craiglockhart War Hospital near dark cloud of war’, having and alumni was: ‘Social issued written instructions to Edinburgh described his work ‘weathered the storm’. Reconstruction – Where do her ladies about maintaining with soldiers presenting with Following the Armistice, we come in?’ propriety, reminding them that neuroses (Siegfried Sassoon’s admissions immediately rose, it was unbecoming conduct Diaries 1915-1918 document bringing total numbers to 31 Dr Jean Lambert to walk through one of the his time at Craiglockhart under in 1918 and 35 in 1919 – more Fellow & Tutor men’s colleges more than Rivers). Miss Elizabeth Phillips workers for relief projects once per day or to greet fellow Hughes (first Principal of CTCW, dealing with war’s aftermath. students outside the College. 1885-1899) spoke on her ‘Red Yet, conscious of the overriding Aligning with Miss Wood’s Cross Work’ as commandant sense of ‘depression and ‘war as an educator’, the Gild at the Glamorgan VAD unit disillusionment’ enveloping provided opportunities for she set up and for which she the nation, Miss Wood called students and alumni to learn was appointed MBE. She also on students and alumnae something about the war as delivered lectures to wounded to sustain the wartime spirit 1 We work not for School but experienced. Extracts from the servicemen and organised and marshal the various skills for Life / We toil not for Time but Diary of a Land Worker was the first women’s Red Cross honed to assist with national for Eternity
27 ‘Now that Spring is here!’ The renewed Hughes Hall garden looking UPCOMING EVENTS splendid this May. May Ball 2014 As we go to print, we are but a few days away from the May Ball. With a theme like Terra Do Brasil, it’s set to be an extremely glamorous affair. Look out for coverage of the event on social media!
Summer Garden Party It’s nearly time for our Summer Garden Party, taking place this year on the afternoon of Saturday 5 July. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet with old friends or to show your family the College grounds. We had a strong turnout last year and hope to see you there.
Summer London Drinks Reception Our next London drinks will be held at the Oxford and Cambridge Club on Wednesday 30 July. London-based alumni, as well as those from further afield, are invited to share an evening together over canapés and drinks.
Alumni Weekend Event Gene, Genomes and Disease: it’s not all in the genes 26 September 17:30. Lecture by Hughes Hall Fellow, Professor Nabeel Affara, Head of the Division of Cellular Molecular Pathology. Followed by a drinks reception and dinner at 7:30 pm.
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