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Clare Univ AR Cover Annual Report 2010 Clare College Cambridge Contents Master’s Introduction . 3 Teaching and Research . 4–5 Selected Publications by Clare Fellows . 6–7 College Life . 8–9 Financial Report . 10–11 Development . 12–13 Access and Outreach . 14 Captions . 15 2 Master’s Introduction In my recent reports I have expressed disappointment at the College’s academic housing complex on Newnham Road. We have strengthened and professionalised our performance. I have argued that, while exam results are only a partial measure of operations with full-time appointments for Development Director, Steward and HR educational achievement, Clare should expect to deliver better results given the Officer. The active Fellowship has risen from 69 to 80, and full-time staff members from number and quality of both our applications and our Fellowship. I am delighted to 105 to 124. In 2003 we admitted 64% of our undergraduates from the state sector; in report this summer that we have risen dramatically in the Baxter Tables from 17th to 2009 we admitted 55%. These statistics throw up some obvious challenges. 6th. This is our best position for six years and reflects not only the efforts of the I do not believe that the Browne review, whatever it recommends on tuition fees, Senior Tutor, Directors of Studies and students, but also the appointment of College will provide significant extra money for either the University or the College in the Teaching Officers, largely funded by alumni, in Law (where we are now 4th in the next three to four years. So the expert advice of our Investments Committee, the University) and Economics (where we are now 3rd). But these results give no cause robust examination of the College’s financial management by the Finance Committee, for complacency. We still have a number of under-performing subjects, especially in the scrutiny of our accounts by the Audit Committee, and the interrogation of the physical Natural Sciences; and Clare should expect to be regularly among the spending plans by the new Estates Committee are all essential. One of the most highest-placed colleges. promising signs for the future is the success of the College’s Annual Fund. Major gifts While the provision of a world-class undergraduate education is, I believe, the are always welcome, but the £300,000-£400,000 donated each year in the form of College’s paramount responsibility, research and teaching are inextricably linked. The relatively small gifts by large numbers of alumni will be vital in the long-term. election of Nicola Clayton to the Fellowship of the Royal Society and of Philip Ford to The need to widen participation in the College student body is still imperative. It is the Fellowship of the British Academy, the £5M BBSRC grant for Lorraine Tyler, the not simply a question of increasing the number of state school admissions. We need a Leverhulme Prize for Helena Sanson, the British Academy Prize for Mike Lapidge, the more diverse student body for the future well-being of the College in general and the Honorary Degrees for Andrew Wiles and Anthony Snodgrass, and the students themselves. It cannot be healthy that we admitted only three students from Interdisciplinary Fellowship for Tim Lewens are recent examples of the Fellowship’s Yorkshire and none from Northern Ireland in 2009, or that just 11% of our intake research achievements. Clare also supports research in other direct ways. We award two research fellowships a year - highly competitive posts which promote path- was from the north of England where a quarter of the UK population lives. The breaking research by future academic leaders - chosen from an international field of College compares well against the recommendations of the Harris Report on applicants. At any one point, Clare is funding six research fellows at an annual cost of widening access to highly selective universities, and we should be proud of the efforts £250,000. We also have 258 graduate students, many of whom are supported by of the Schools Liaison Officer and the admissions team, described in more detail on research studentships or other forms of College financial assistance. page 14. But there is much more to do, and I hope that we might set ourselves more ambitious access targets when we draft our new strategic plan this autumn. With the College about to re-visit its five-year strategic plan, it is appropriate to take stock and identify major issues for the futures. I can start with some basic information. Since I became Master in October 2003, Clare has raised close to £15 million from alumni. The College has refurbished Thirkill Court and Castle End, built Lerner Court and a graduate 3 Teaching and Research Undergraduate numbers 2009–10 Undergraduates by country/region of origin Subject Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Years 5-7 Total Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic 212 5 Archaeology & Anthropology 41 5 Architecture 223 7 UK Asian & Middle Eastern Studie s * 3332 11 EU Chemical Engineering 23 4 9 Asia Classics 663 15 Other Computer Science 132 6 Economics 655 16 Engineering 5757 24 English 989 26 Geography 323 8 Examination results 2010 History 7 11 11 29 In the 2010 Tripos examinations, 86% of all Clare students gained Firsts or 2.1s, compared History of Art 11 2 with 79% last year. Among the finalists, 98% of students in Arts subjects achieved Firsts or 2.1s. Land Economy 211 4 Overall, 23% of all Arts students and 24% of Science students gained Firsts, together Law 6482 20 representing 24% of all Clare students (compared to 21% last year). Management Studies 33 In the arts and humanities, five out of eight students reading English Part I gained Firsts, as did four Manufacturing Engineering 11 out of six students at Economics Part I and half of all students reading Asian and Middle Eastern Mathematics 11 85 4 28 Studies (formerly Oriental Studies). In the sciences, Mathematics showed the strongest Medicine (including Clinical Medicine) 13 14 10 8 15 60 performance with Firsts awarded to four out of five students at Part IA, half of the students at Part IB Modern & Medieval Languages 14 98 8 39 and six out of eight students at Part III. Music 584 17 Natural Sciences (Biological) 19 12 13 1 45 Seven Clare students were awarded Firsts with distinction: Sabri Al-Safi, Jack Lamplugh and Colin Natural Sciences (Physical) 17 17 19 10 63 McQuillan in Mathematics Part III; Jonathan Austin and Matthew Causier in Engineering Part IIB; Philosophy 231 6 Sam Farnfield in Modern and Medieval Languages Part II; and Karen Sim in Chemical Engineering Politics, Psychology & Sociology** 323 8 Part IIA. Karen Sim also won the University’s Exxon/Mobil Prize, while the University’s Major Theology 336 12 Project Prize for Part I Manufacturing Engineering was awarded to Harry Simpson. Veterinary Science 54226 19 Clare has risen dramatically this year to 6th (compared to 18th last year) among the Cambridge colleges in the Baxter Table measuring all Tripos results - the College’s best performance since Total 145 140 130 52 21 488 4 2004. Economics continued to perform well, with Clare ranked 3rd overall. The College was 2nd overall in English, 4th in History and Law, and 5th in Mathematics. * formerly known as Oriental Studies ** formerly known as Social & Political Sciences Graduate student numbers 2009–10 Brown, K. The middle to upper Palaeolithic transition in an Iberian refugium: a comparative study of the subsistence strategies and ecology of Neanderthal and Modern Human populations at Gorman’s Cave, Gibraltar, in the wider context of Iberia Cato, L. Investigation of the interactions between linker histones H1/H5 and HMGB1 PhD 235 Cook, M. R. Antarctic Intermediate Water – Pacific Sector variations over the past 150ka Masters courses (MPhil, MEd, etc.) 61 Davies, C.J.S. MRI studies of complex fluids and microchannel flows PGCE 2 Dirks, J.-H. Mechanisms of fluid-based adhesion in insects Other 4 Doupé, D.P. Quantitative analysis of epithelial homeostasis English, S. Individual variation in cooperative behaviour in meerkats Total 302 Evans, S.W. Flow control in compressors Graves, M.J. Developments in fluoroscopic magnetic resonance imaging Graduate students by Horner, A.J. The role of stimulus-response bindings in priming: multiple routes and multiple stages country/region of origin Hwang, I. Charge separation and transport in polymer photovoltaic devices Jones, D.T.W. A molecular-genetic analysis of pilocytic astrocytoma Kahraman, A. The geometry and physicochemistry of protein binding sites and ligands and their detection in electron density maps Kay, A. De Amoribus: the figure of Greek Eros in the poetic and philosophical practice of the Renaissance Klinge, S.N. Structural and mechanistic studies of the yeast primosome UK Lazos, O. The enzymology of macrocyclic polyketide and siderophore biosynthesis EU Lu, Y. Growth of Chinese indigenous big businesses in the open environment - review of four cases in the automotive industry from strategic management perspective USA Mahoney, C.L. Identification and functional characterisation of a genetic subset of non-small cell lung cancer Asia Manning, D.S. Blasphemy in England, c. 1660-1730 Australia & New Zealand McFadden, E.C. Socioeconomic status and health: a prospective population study Metherell, B.G. Offspring care and communication in the banded mongoose Canada Mok, W.H. Polymer informatics: computational studies on cellulose, pluronics® and polyoxymethylene Others Mok, Y. MicroRNA regulation of B-lymphocyte development and function Neaves, K.J. Atomic force microscopy of DNA and DNA-protein constructs Parfitt, D.E. The dynamics of mouse blastocyst formation Phillips, C.L. First principles modelling of the ZnO/Ag interfacial system Pike, C.V.S. The proline isomerase FKBP25 as a chromatin modifier PhD theses successfully defended by Clare graduate students Raj, A.
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