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WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2016 • SUPPLEMENT (1) TO NO 5144 • VOL 147 Gazette Supplement

Vice-Chancellor’s Oration 2016

One four divisions, Humanities, Social Sciences, the Humanities. I have read the books sent MPLS and Medicine, whose research is me by academics like Diego Gambetta's Good morning. Colleagues and friends of responsible for this ranking. Engineers of Jihad and Senia Paseta's Irish Nationalist Women. I have met with the University, thank you for taking time My first nine months have been an remarkable young people such as our Moritz to attend the ceremony this morning, and extraordinary and exhilarating experience Heyman scholars, students participating to listen to my perspective and reflections as I have sought to learn as much as I can in the UNIQ summer school, on the LMH as I begin my first academic year as Vice- about the life and work of the University. Foundation year and in the IntoUniversity Chancellor. I have attended strategy meetings of programs, and so many others. I have also divisions, departments and colleges. I have Before we begin, I think we should sit back, on occasion tried to relax in our wonderful spoken to students in their colleges, clubs, take a deep breath, and contemplate the museums, gardens and parks. Not a day goes societies, in open office hours and over fact that we have just been named the by but I reflect on just how fortunate I am to tea. I have attended lectures on Race in the best university in the world, by the most be a part of this place. widely respected global ranking. This is a Curriculum, on LGBT issues, by Women of spectacular achievement. This is the first Achievement, by Peter Ratcliffe on medicine Regulation time we have reached this pinnacle and the and Michael Sandel on ethics, and many I mentioned challenges. One of the first time any British university has. The others. I met with senior women scientists challenges we face is ever growing, ever way was led for us by our Medical Sciences and junior teaching staff. I've talked to more intrusive, ever more constraining Division which has just been named top in alumni and supporters across the globe. I've government regulation. Just last week we the world for a formidable 6th year in a row. sat on several hiring panels, advisory boards learned that the government is planning This ranking is a testament to the calibre of and many University committees. I've to rank the teaching in British universities the academics who are attracted to work listened to every perspective I'd heard and Gold, Silver and Bronze. Learning this here and to the quality of the research they I have been struck by how much we have brought to mind a question I have asked produce. Amidst all the challenges we face, in common: an unassailable commitment myself repeatedly since coming to the we should just take a moment and enjoy this to excellence, a passionate commitment to UK: Why is it that 'elite' is an accolade achievement. research and education, a belief in Oxford as the ultimate meritocracy and a desire always when it comes to sport, and a criticism The ranking is even more impressive when to do better. when it comes to universities? I've never one realises that we are far less wealthy understood why we treasure elite football than most of our global competitors. The I am still learning the ways of Oxford. I teams and elite athletes but denigrate elite endowment of the entire University, colleges would never have imagined seeing myself in universities. and University together, is less than one- clerical bands. I have learned to appreciate The Gold, Silver and Bronze rankings (the sixth of Harvard's and a quarter of Stanford's, the Proctors and, even, Congregation. I HE Bill doesn't mention medals) reminds Yale's and Princeton's. am belatedly grateful for my five years of schoolgirl Latin, and I am trying to us of the Olympics. Britain's performance I cannot guarantee that we will maintain remember the correct title for each Head of in this year's Rio Olympics was spectacular, this ranking for the next seven years. (The House. and the country rightly rejoiced. We finished problem with being at the top is that there is second in the world, ahead of China with a only one direction to go.) But I can guarantee One particular highlight was cycling to population 22 times our size, and we were to do everything I can to ensure that we Cambridge last month with a group of the only country ever to win more medals in maintain an environment conducive to colleagues from Harris Manchester which, the Olympics after the games it hosted. The conducting the highest possible quality of thanks to the fundraising prowess of the explanation for why we did so well is that UK research and attracting the highest possible , The Revd Ralph Waller, raised Sport took a laser-like focus to British sport quality staff. We will face both external and £1,000,000 for mature students and a and invested in success. internal impediments to maintaining this student hardship fund. They identified sports with potential for position and I will talk about some of them I have seen the impact of an initiative global dominance and invested in them. today but I will also be talking about some like TORCH as it serves as a catalyst for They hired coaches and left them to do what of the many extraordinary people across our innovative interdisciplinary activities in they do best, coach. They didn't insist that

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the coaches, while preparing for Olympic governing bodies. Indeed, academics across of the EU, and for the 12% of our research competition, set up feeder teams among the University serve on the governing bodies funding that comes from the EU. I left the children. They didn't subject the coaches to of state schools, and numerous colleges country of my birth, in the EU, on the day a Coaching Excellence Framework requiring have close links with particular schools. I took my last undergraduate exam and I every coach in the country to complete have not lived there since. I have spent my Our press, , is the same template irrespective of their professional life in universities in different a critical component of primary and special circumstances. They trusted the countries in which one was judged by the secondary education in this country. Over professionals to do what the professionals quality of one's mind not the colour of one's 80% of British schools use a single OUP do best knowing their interest is completely passport. We must maintain that attitude. programme the Oxford Learning Tree to aligned with the national interest. teach children to read. Every year over 11 It is only since the referendum that I have If only the same attitude were adopted million OUP books are sold across Britain's started to think about who is, or is not, a towards universities. Our interests too schools which together educate 8 million citizen of the EU, and of the difficulties of are completely aligned with the national pupils. Over 8,000 individual titles are this separation. Every day I walk down interest. Universities like ours have for available across the range of primary and South Parks Road, I pass the Pitt Rivers centuries served as engines of social secondary levels. OUP has over 5 million Museum whose director, Dr Laura van mobility, as drivers of the economy, as active users of its digital products like Broekhoven, is from the Netherlands. guardians of our culture, as foundations for MyMaths and is one of the largest teacher I move on along the parks and pass our democracy and as generators of new training providers in the UK, offering the wonderfully decorated hoardings ideas. We have proven time and time again training for 100,000 teachers per year, 90% surrounding the vast excavation that is the that we are pretty good at it. Why not trust of which is free to access. The Press seeks to new Beecroft Building for Physics. This us to get on with it? help parents too. Oxford Owl is a free website building is being made possible by the £200 that promotes literacy and numeracy in the million loan from the European Investment Schools home. It provides parents with advice and Bank, then the largest EIB loan ever to a The most recent piece of regulation that has guidance about engaging their children with European university. I walk on and pass been floated, even before the new Higher maths and reading, as well as access to a the wonderfully revamped Weston Library Education Bill has been passed, is that as a wide range of free books. with its open atrium inviting the public in condition of charging a fee above £6,000 (a to explore the unrivalled national treasures In short, our commitment to pre-university figure that covers only a fraction of the cost housed there. This project too was funded education is broad, is deep, and is of very of an Oxford education) we will be required in part by the loan from the EIB. Across the long standing. To set about establishing to establish or sponsor a school or schools. road is the Museum of the History of Science a school locally, however, would be a whose Director is the German-born Dr Silke As an institution populated by educators we, distraction from our core mission of Ackermann. We have never made these of course, have a keen interest in schools. research and university education; it would distinctions before. Our Deanery, which builds on expertise that undermine the often excellent work of already exists in our Education Department, the professionals who are trained to run Staff are drawn to universities by their works in partnership with local schools and teach in schools. In all likelihood the commitment to the power of education to support teachers in their professional educational needs of the 50% of school to transform lives and by their passionate development, enabling them to conduct pupils who choose not to attend university commitment to their research. The topics research on issues important to schools, would be neglected, and surrounding we research, whether diseases, climate and introducing both teachers and pupils to schools would be damaged by the change, literature, terrorism, are impervious university research projects. The Deanery recruitment to the University school. Aside to national borders. They are inherently works with 18 secondary and 5 primary from all that, the only analysis of the relative transnational and universities thrive on our schools across Oxfordshire and thousands of performance of university-sponsored ability to draw academics from across the young people are benefiting. schools has been carried out by HEFCE and globe to work together to address critical their conclusion is that evidence does not transnational issues. Our admissions office and access teams suggest that university-sponsored schools work with teachers and schools across As I mentioned, 15% of our student body are superior to those that are not. the country reaching tens of thousands of are citizens of the EU. We have guaranteed students, their parents and teachers each Again, my plea would be: Let universities get that those beginning their studies this year year. The learning centre in Blackbird Leys, on with what universities do best. and those applying this year to begin their a partnership between the University, Christ studies next year will pay home student fees Europe Church, and the charity IntoUniversity, for the duration of their studies. After that, works with 5 local primary and 4 secondary Another major challenge we face, of course, we simply don't know. It is difficult to plan schools and over 900 children. Our is Brexit. The date 23 June will be indelibly when you don't know the parameters of the Education Department educates teachers imprinted on my mind and that, I expect, playing field but we will endeavour through and would love to educate more. Our of most others in this room. The result fundraising for scholarships for EU students, students join Teach First in record numbers. of the referendum was clear cut but the through negotiating special arrangements implications are anything but. It is gradually with EU universities, and through lobbying Our interest in schools is of long standing. dawning on those charged with executing the government, to try to ensure that not Indeed, Magdalen College established this divorce just how difficult it is going to be only those Europeans who can afford to pay two schools as far back as 1480: Magdalen to untangle 40 years of integration. The vote international fees will study here. College School Oxford, part of the has major implications for Oxford: for the independent sector, and Magdalen College Let me tell you about just two of our 15% of our students who are citizens of the School Brackley, part of the state sector. European students and the contributions EU, for the 17% of our staff who are citizens The college still provides members of the they have made: University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5144 • 12 October 2016 67

In 2001 a postgraduate student from to read and travel while stuck on Banbury Let me tell you about just some of the Germany, Torsten Reil, was researching Road.) research that has been funded by the EU: animation techniques for his Zoology Professor Luciano Floridi is the University's The award-winning HydRegen technology, thesis but decided that it would be more Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of being directed by Professor Kylie Vincent interesting to apply them to computer Information. Google has appointed him and her team in the Department of games instead. The company he built, to their Advisory Council on the Right to Chemistry, which is tackling the dirty NaturalMotion, has since created some be Forgotten, giving him influence on one business of chemical production. of the world's most popular digital games of the most hotly debated principles in and animation for major films like Warner Professor Ian Walmsley's work on quantum information use. Brothers' Troy and Poseidon. The company, computing which has the potential to which is still based in Oxford, was sold for Professor Gero Miesenboeck directs dwarf the processing power of today's over half a billion dollars in 2014, in one of Oxford's Centre for Neural Circuits and conventional computers. (I'm told it will be the largest deals ever involving a University Behaviour. His research has significantly like reading all the books in the Bodleian spinout. advanced our understanding of how our library at the same time, rather than one brains control our behaviour. His biological after another.) Today, Aggy Petersen, a visiting technique, optogenetics, uses light to Anthropology postgraduate student from Professor Henry Snaith's work on perovskite control the activities of cells in the brain Aarhus University in , is working solar cells which have the potential to and has been widely adopted by scientists with residents in a care home in Blackbird harness the power of the sun to make a around the world in the treatments of a wide Leys. She has introduced a seal shaped major contribution to our future energy variety of brain disorders. robot –'Ted' to his friends – to the care home supply. and he is proving very popular with the Professor Constantin Coussios helped Professor Alison Noble's work applying residents. Aggy is working at the Oxford develop a machine that kept two human the latest ideas from machine learning and Institute of Population Ageing to study livers alive outside the body before they computer vision to ultrasound imaging how older people and those suffering from were successfully transplanted into other which will greatly expand the reach of the dementia can benefit from engagement people. The technology could double the technology. with a robot. number of livers available to people on transplant waiting lists. Professor Aditi Lahiri's research on how our As I mentioned, 17% of our staff are from brains form words in different languages. the EU. These staff are found all across the Professor Bent Flyvbjerg is the most University and are an inseparable part of cited scholar in the world on megaproject A pan-European network of over 100 the fabric of this community. Again, we do management. Only two weeks ago, the scholars, librarians, archivists and IT experts not yet know what terms may be imposed Mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, produced led by Professor Howard Hotson who are on their ability to remain in this country. a copy of his study on the costs of staging using digital methods to reassemble and Some who have been here long enough the Olympics when she announced Rome's interpret the intellectual correspondence will, like me, decide to acquire British decision to withdraw its bid to host the networks of the early modern period. citizenship. This is a time-consuming and 2024 Olympics. (It appears that evidence- Finally, Professor Martin Seeleib-Kaiser's expensive process and many may not wish based decision-making is not entirely lost in work on comparative social policy. In one to undertake it. We have set up a series of political circles.) recent study analysing UK Quarterly Labour workshops for EU nationals among our Under the leadership of Lionel Tarassenko, Force survey data between 2010 and 2014 staff to provide information on options for the Institute of Biomedical Engineering was he demonstrated that migrants aged 20–34 protecting their status. It would help us awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for from European countries actually had higher greatly if the government were to guarantee Higher Education for 'new collaborations employment rates and were less likely to the right to remain to all EU citizens who between engineering and medicine seek Jobseeker's Allowance than their UK are resident in the country. It appears, delivering benefit to patients'. peers. His findings have informed several however, that the government prefers to governments and the EU Commission await negotiations before making any such I could go on and on and on. (though evidently not the leaders of the commitment. The University's position is As I mentioned, 12% of our research budget recent Leave Campaign!). clear: we value our EU staff and we wish comes from the EU. Last year this amounted them to remain here. I could go on and on and on. to £67 million. Without this funding there Let me tell you about some the work of just a is no way we would have attained our There can be little doubt that managing – few of our very many European academics: No 1 Global Ranking. It is imperative that and mitigating – the effects of Brexit will we ensure that, whatever arrangements dominate our planning for the years to Professor Petra Schleiter's project are made for Brexit, UK universities come. That said, we cannot simply turn on 'Fairness and Voter Reactions to must be able to compete for this funding inward and lick our wounds. We must Government Opportunism' will influence and participate in the international ensure that we continue to recruit and ongoing debates about whether to introduce collaborations that it allows. We are retain the best European students and or maintain fixed election dates in this lobbying the government to ensure academics and the most competitive country and around the world. that they understand the centrality of research funding. We must ensure that Professor Ingmar Posner is co-director of this funding and these collaborations to our European colleagues realise that, as I the Oxford Robotics Institute which is at British universities, and we are engaging have tried to illustrate just now, they are an the forefront of developing self-driving cars. in conversations with our European integral, inseparable and valued part of this (Whether they will reduce the commute is counterparts to try to ensure continuing university. another matter but at least we will be able research collaboration. 68 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5144 • 12 October 2016

But we must also engage in the national University Innovation, supports 1,600 The Saïd Business School offers Executive debate about a post-Brexit Britain. The jobs in Oxfordshire. In 2014 OUI filed 23 Education Programs which draw on the government faces enormous challenges. patents based on research undertaken in entire resource base of the University to help (When I think I'm having a hard day I just the Department of Engineering alone. OUI managers in both private and public sectors think of Whitehall and realise my job is manages 2,900 patents and generated to inspire individuals, improve performance relatively easy.) There are opportunities almost £25 million in revenue in 2015. (If the and to create significant business impact. for us in this new world and we must not acronym OUI is unfamiliar to you, it used to The Financial Times ranking of executive be so focused on what we are losing – or so be called Isis. I can't imagine why anyone education programmes ranks the open ponderous in our reactions – that we fail thought we should change the name!) enrolment programs no 1 in the UK and 9th to make the most of them. We should not globally. In May last year the University launched miss this opportunity to help shape Britain's a partnership with the newly created The part of our work that brings us closest to future. Oxford Science Innovation PLC. With the community is, of course, our hospitals. The government is going to have to devise a £320 million in funding provided by nine The Oxford University Hospital NHS new industrial strategy in the forthcoming investors including the Wellcome Trust Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS months. One can imagine a strategy and Lansdowne Partners, the aim is to turn teaching trusts in the country and had that would benefit both the national cutting-edge research from the Medical 1.3 million patient contacts this year. The economy and the research universities. Sciences and MPLS Divisions into successful trust had 105,000 planned admissions, An industrial strategy based on science applications. This initiative is unrivalled and 90,000 unplanned admissions and 145,000 and innovation that is led by areas of has the potential to be truly transformative. emergency room visits. They also delivered strength like life sciences, big data, digital 8,700 babies. Participation in other local initiatives and energy could both drive the economy like City Deal and the Local Economic The scale of our admissions and outreach and help the research universities. If the Partnership as well as activities in the work would surprise, I expect, many government could rid itself of the tendency Begbroke and Oxford Science Parks seek people in this room, not to mention those to overregulate and instead establish an to leverage University activities and help outside the University. Last year alone our economy seen as more fleet of foot than the drive the local economy. In addition, the teams worked with 2,756 state schools EU we could have a comparative advantage. museums, libraries, parks and colleges whose pupils rarely apply to Oxford. In the As an expert on terrorism I am out of my help to attract 7 million tourists to the area south west over 22,000 students, parents depth in discussing industrial strategy but annually spending almost £600 million and and teachers from 344 schools with low I know that there have to be opportunities supporting 12,000 jobs in the region. application rates to Oxford attended our as well as problems for us in Brexit and events. In the north east the figure was over we cannot afford to be so preoccupied Our museums and libraries are not there, of 33,000. 5,450 state school students have with the problems that we fail to seize the course, in order to help the local economy. participated in our UNIQ summer school opportunities. They are critical to our research and since it started in 2010. Over 40% of those teaching. This year the Bodleian acquired its Community who applied to Oxford received an offer. 12 millionth book: the only surviving copy of One of the things that was brought home Shelley's first major poem –A poetical essay Notwithstanding all these external to me by the Brexit vote was just how far on the existing state of things – written in 1811 connections universities are too often removed we appeared to be from much of while he was still an undergraduate and perceived as at a remove, as not benefiting the broader population. We cannot blame before he was sent down. It is a wonderful their local communities. Given the reality others for this. We have allowed ourselves 'angry young man' piece. The libraries and of these connections and these benefits to be defined by images that don't accord museums are also an essential part of the we must become altogether more adept at with the reality any of us encounter on cultural life of the city and draw visitors making our case to our local and national a daily basis. We have been reluctant into the University. The Weston Library communities. to draw attention to our extraordinary has received over a million visitors since One Oxford contributions, for example, to the local it opened last year. In the past year our community. These contributions are not in museum and libraries have received The willingness to engage externally, the any sense a result of noblesse oblige; rather 3 million visitors and 125,000 school willingness not to assume that the value they are the natural consequence of the children have participated in school of our work and our societal contributions work that we do and we see ourselves as part programs. are self-evident, are just some of the ways of that local community. we are going to have to adapt to the ever- Our students too engage in the community. I changing world around us. The University of Oxford, including the visited the Oxford Hub last term and learned colleges and the press, is the county's largest about the 50 student-led volunteering I believe that, if we are to adapt successfully, employer. We are responsible for 17,000 projects they support. Last year almost 600 we must act as others see us, as One Oxford. jobs and inject £750 million annually into students volunteered and, in addition to So much of the energy and vitality that the local economy. Contrary to popular projects, they organised over 100 events marks us is derived from the fact that we belief, Oxford has been at the forefront of with over 3,000 attendees. bring together different nationalities, spinouts. Our first, Oxford Instruments, was different disciplinary perspectives, different Our Department for Continuing Education established in 1959 and now employs 2,000 colleges with their own distinct histories, offers over 1,000 courses a year and people in 13 countries. in pursuit of the goals that animate all of us, approximately 14,000 adults enrol annually the determination to push at the frontiers Commercialisation activities by our in courses designed for those who want to of knowledge and to transmit to the next wholly owned research and technology study part time while maintaining a career generation, as Mill put it, 'the accumulated commercialisation company, Oxford or family. treasures of the thoughts of mankind'. University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5144 • 12 October 2016 69

We face real challenges but they are not advantages of a collegiate system is that it Addendum to the Vice-Chancellor's all externally imposed. We must learn to allows for experiments from which others Oration act more effectively together, to make the can learn and can benefit. Initiatives like whole greater than the sum of its parts, to those undertaken by University College and External recognition of the work of the make it easier to pursue interdisciplinary LMH bear testament to the determination University has been received from several initiatives, to take advantage of new across the University to attract students quarters. Professors , Martin technologies, to innovate in our teaching, from the broadest possible background. Bridson, Bill David, , Artur our research and our recruitment. We must Ekert and have been elected If we act as One Oxford we will be able to determine for ourselves what the optimal as Fellows of the Royal Society; Professors learn from one another's experiments size and shape of this university should be. Stephen Broadberry, Patricia Clavin, Judith and ensure that we are maximising the Freedman, , Catherine Over the past nine months I have been opportunity of attracting the very best Morgan, Duncan Snidal and Fiona Williams, working with representatives of the students whatever their background. and Mr Michael Macdonald have been divisions and the colleges to explore how we If we act as One Oxford we will begin to elected as Fellows of the British Academy; can innovate in our teaching and expand our address the competing demands we place Professors Christopher Butler, Georg research without undermining the unique on our young colleagues who so often feel Holländer, Sallie Lamb, Martin Maiden, intimacy of college life. torn between their obligations to their Timothy Maughan, Andrew Pollard and department and their college. If we act as We will only maintain our current global Elizabeth Robertson have been elected as One Oxford we will begin to address the standing if we determine and attain the Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences; implications for undergraduate teaching optimal size and shape for the University. We Professors , Michael of research-only appointments. If we act will only attain the optimal size and shape Freeden and Jeremy Howells have been as One Oxford we will never again have if we act coherently together to respond elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social different parts of the University bidding to societal developments and changes in Sciences. Professor Gilean McVean has been against one another for the same piece of student demand. We must be prepared elected as a Fellow of both the Royal Society real estate. to accommodate new programmes, but and the Academy of Medical Sciences. we must also be willing to do something Conclusion Over the course of the last year, Her Majesty much harder: to stop activities whose It has been a wonderful nine months: The Queen has awarded national honours time has passed. If we wish to grow some exhilarating, energising, humbling, in to a number of members of the University: programmes we must be willing to contract truth occasionally frustrating, but always knighthoods for Professors David Clary others. The fact that something has been fascinating. I would like to express my and Roger Scruton, and Dr Larry Siedentop; done for a long time is not in itself reason deep appreciation to all those who have the DBE to Dr Frances Lannon; the CBE to to continue it. We must have the courage welcomed me so warmly. I have dined at Professors Christopher Bulstrode, Linda to subject current activities to the same almost every college and PPH, some several McDowell, Maggie Snowling and Keith criteria we subject new ones. With good will times, and have met with loyal alumni Willett; the OBE to Ms Fran Bennett, and a focus on our shared rather than our across the globe. I have been mesmerised Professor Georgina Born, Professor Edward particular interests we can achieve this. by the calibre of our staff and the creativity, Melhuish and Mr David Palfreyman; and the Real estate, and in particular the lack ingenuity, complexity and sheer brilliance MBE to The Revd Canon Brian Mountford. of affordable housing for our young of the work of so many of them. It has been Sir received the Abel Prize, researchers, is another serious challenge we a great and undeserved privilege to be here Professor the face and must address. The cost of housing to witness Oxford being ranked the best in Mathematical Sciences, and Sir Peter in Oxford is making it more difficult to university in the world. With the talent we Ratcliffe the Albert Lasker Basic Medical recruit at every level of the University. It have, and the values we share, and with Research Award. The Royal Society is a problem we all share and our ability to a commitment to working together I am honoured Professor Jo Dunkley with resolve it requires us to work together. convinced that we can remain the greatest the Rosalind Franklin Award, Professor university in the world. There have been exciting developments Simon Myers with the Francis Crick Medal, in the past year on the real estate front. I Professor Elizabeth Robertson with the participated in the opening of the Blavatnik 2016 Royal Medal, Professor Henry Snaith School of Government, the refurbished with the Kavli Medal and Professor Andrew Weston Library, and the wonderful Zisserman with the Milner Medal. The Longwall Library in Magdalen College. I British Academy has awarded a President's topped out the Big Data Institute and the Medal to Dr Leofranc Holford Strevens, student accommodation at St Cross and the Derek Allen Prize for Musicology to Dr I broke ground for more accommodation Margaret Bent and the Edward Ullendorff in Harris Manchester and Keble's exciting Medal for Semitic Languages and Ethiopian new HB Allen Centre. I very much hope that Studies to Dr Sebastian Brock. before long we will be breaking ground for Several Heads of House have retired over HansKrebs2 and the sites in the ROQ. the summer: Sir Mark Jones as Master of Many as yet unforeseen opportunities St Cross; Sir Curtis Price as Warden of New are likely to come our way and we must College; Professor Richard Cawardine as be agile enough to seize them, as Nuffield President of Corpus Christi and Mr Tim did last year with its purchase of the city Gardam as Principal of St Anne's. They are sites and Oxpens. Indeed, one of the many succeeded respectively by Ms Carole Souter, 70 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5144 • 12 October 2016

Mr Miles Young and Professor Steven Economics; Professor Robert Walker, Terry Jones, Mrs Daphne Lennie, Mr Robert Cowley. At St Anne's Professor Richard Professor of Social Policy; Dr Bob Watkins; Mabro, Lord Neill of Bladen, Professor Chard will serve as Acting Principal until Professor Oliver Watson, Ieoh Ming Pei Dennis Nineham, Dr Susan Noble, Dr James a successor to Mr Gardam is appointed. Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture; Parkhouse, Dr Denys Potts, Mr Sebastian Professor Christopher Wickham, Chichele Dr Christopher Wilson; Professor Susan Rahtz, Dr Michael Shaw, Professor Michael Professor of Medieval History and Interim Wollenberg, Professor of Music; Professor Sheringham, Mr Donald Stuart, Mrs Angela Head of the Humanities Division, has Kathryn Wood, Professor of Immunology; Tremayne, Professor Brian Trowell, Dr Miles retired, and is succeeded as Head of Division and Professor Boris Zilber, Professor of Vaughan Williams, Dr Donald Walsh, Lord by Professor Karen O'Brien. In addition, Mathematical Logic. Walton of Detchant, Dr Preben Wernberg- Professor Sally Mapstone has resigned her Møller, Mrs Barbara Williamson, Dr Jenny The following colleagues have retired post of Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) to Wormald and Sir . from important administrative, library or become Vice-Chancellor of the University of other posts in the University: Mr Malcolm St Andrews, and Dr Stephen Goss has retired Austen, Mrs Susan Barker, Mrs Susan Bird, from his twin roles of Pro-Vice-Chancellor Ms Kathryn Black, Mr Terry Campton, Mrs (Personnel and Equality) and Director of the Yvonne Cavanagh, Mr Warwick Clifton, Oxford Learning Institute. Miss Gillian Coates, Mr Alan Crowder, Mr This year has seen the retirement of Thomas Dalton, Mrs Alana Davies, Mrs many distinguished colleagues who have Val de Newtown, Ms Liza Denny, Mr John contributed to the University's intellectual Gillic, Mr Jeremy Harris, Mr Paul Hodges, life over the years: Professor Lesley Abrams; Mrs Carole Holder, Mr Richard Hughes, Dr Patrick Baird; Dr Angus Bowie; Dr Susan Mrs Carole Johnston, Miss Julia Knight, Ms Brigden; Professor Kevin Burrage, Professor Maureen McNaboe, Mr Robert Maxwell, of Computational Systems Biology; Dr Mrs Wilma Minty, Ms Lesley Morgan, Canon Andrew Bushell; Professor Maria Chevska, Brian Mountford, Ms Joy Nelson, Ms Pamela Professor of Fine Art; Professor , Nieto, Ms Alison Petch, Dr Graham Piddock, Reader in Physics; Professor Richard Mr Terence Powney, Ms Judith Read, Mr Cooper, Professor of French; Professor Zafra Justin Reay, Dr Nigel Rudgewick-Brown, Cooper, Professor of Clinical Psychology; Dr Mr Matthew Searle, Mrs Wendy Sobey, Mr Angela Coulter; Professor Anne Deighton, Colin Sparrow, Mr Anthony Stark, Mr Clive Professor of European International Politics; Stayt, Ms Pamela Taylor, Mr Michael Thrift, Dr Sally Edmonds; Dr Christopher Farmer; Mr Richard Turner, Ms Anne Walker, Mrs Professor David Ferguson, Professor of Elizabeth Walsh, Mrs Susan Walters, Mr Ultrastructural Morphology; Professor Roy Laurence Walton, Mr Peter Ward, Mrs Jayne Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History; Dr Watson, Mrs Vivien Wilkins, Mr Martin Paloma Garcia-Bellido; Professor Ashley Wright and Mr Robert Young. Grossman, Professor of Endocrinology; This year the University community has Professor Roger Heath-Brown, Professor of lost valued friends whose early deaths have Pure ; Professor David Hine; been a source of great sadness: Professor Professor Nigel Hitchin, Savilian Professor David Bradshaw, Professor of English of Geometry; Professor Andrew Hodges; Literature; Dr Pamela Hartigan, Director of Professor Jonathan Hodgkin, Professor of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship; Genetics; Dr Mike Holland; Dr Richard Jacob; Dr David Howell, Laser Safety Supervisor Dr Belinda Lees; Professor Lynn McAlpine; at the Department of Physics; Professor Professor Linda McDowell, Professor of Glyn Humphreys, Watts Professor of Human Geography; Professor Sir Andrew Experimental Psychology and Head of the McMichael, Professor of Molecular Department of Experimental Psychology; Medicine; Dr John Mason; Professor Lucy Dr Egeruan Babatunde Imoukhede, Clinical Newlyn, Professor of English Language Project Manager at the ; and and Literature; Professor Peter O'Neill; Mr Timothy Pragnell, Senior IT Officer at the Professor Judith Pallot, Professor of the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Human Geography of Russia; Professor Genetics. Robert Parker, Wykeham Professor of Ancient History; Dr Mike Parsons; Professor Finally, a number of former members of Roger Pearson, Professor of French; the University have died in retirement over Professor Gillian Peele; Dr John Pitcher; the past year: Mr John Ashton, Mr Francis Dr David Popplewell; Dr Maggie Redshaw; Barnett, Dr David Barnwell, Mrs Rosalind Professor Linda Scott, DP World Chair for Brain, Lord Briggs of Lewes, Dr Norma Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Dr Robert Bubier, Professor James Campbell, Miss Jane Sim; Professor Roger Smith; Professor Ian Cole, Mr Derek Davies, Mrs Kathleen Duparc, Sobey; Dr Mei-yi Sun; Professor Paul Tod, Mr Anthony Dyson, Mr Robert Elmore, Dr Professor of ; Dr Robin Fletcher, Mr James Hart, Mr Colin Elizabeth Tucker; Dr Robert Vanderplank; Hayes, Professor Arthur Hazlewood, Sir Professor David Vines, Professor of Geoffrey Hill, Mr John Jones, Professor