HUGHES THE MAGAZINE OF HUGHES HALL | UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ISSUE 30 | MICHAELMAS TERM 2020
IN THIS ISSUE Introduction
The worst of years Dear alumni and friends The best of years – The President describes Hughes Political satire is having a good run this Hall’s response to the immediate year with all the challenging issues and people we face at every turn. global challenges 1 One pundit even suggested that 2020 Sowing for a distant harvest 4 shouldn’t count. We haven’t really had it.
Exceeding expectations 6 At Hughes Hall we have certainly had a 2020, but so far it hasn’t been anything Recent publications 7 like what it was meant to be. In March, we went into lockdown. Students Insight Zooms were launched over News from Hughes Hall who could, headed home. Those who the summer for offer-holders to Boat Club 10 couldn’t stayed on, many in the college. ‘meet’ with our alumni and ask them In keeping with government guidance about their time here. This has proved An outstanding gift to enhance and University policy, every effort has popular and will grow in the future. corporate climate change been made to look after their wellbeing We are trying new things, in new engagement 12 and to support them through the ways, and much of this will inform a virtual Easter Term. Most college staff very different future. Innovation and Awards and achievements 15 have been working from home or on imagination will be central. furlough. It has been hard on everyone Staying in touch 19 and a very different experience for all This issue of Hughes, originally of us, no matter what our roles are. scheduled for June, features the Making a difference 20 achievements and news from the Throughout, the robustness, wider Hughes community. In the A heartfelt thank you to all our caring and mutual concern of our centre section we also announce 2019–2020 donors 22 community has shone brightly. a splendid philanthropic gift in support of our Centre for Climate We are very grateful that our fundraising Change Engagement. campaign for student hardship and general college support has broken all My colleagues and I hope you all stay records in terms of money raised and safe and well through this perilous participation rates. Thank you. For the time, and to those of you on the front academic year 2020/21 we will need lines of the fight against COVID-19, to continue as the uncertainties ahead our sincerest thanks. of us are daunting and the anticipated needs greater still. With best wishes,
Photo credits The ‘new normal’ of online remote On the cover and p9 Dr Dheeraj Pandev (2019, Conservation Leadership) working, meeting and collaborating has necessitated fresh thinking about This page Thomas Farnetti; p1 Jean-Luc Benazet; how Hughesians engage worldwide. pp3 and 20 Chris Loades; pp12, 13 (bluebells) The University’s 2020 Alumni Festival William J Conner and 14 ©Marks Hall Estate (p14 photographer Bryan Shaw); p23 Hannah Bruce (2000, will be entirely online, as will our By-Fellow and Director of Institutional Education) @hannahbruceart autumn schedule of alumni activities. Advancement HUGHES HALL: ENHANCING OUR MISSION 1 THE WORST OF YEARS THE BEST OF YEARS The President describes Hughes Hall’s response to the immediate global challenges.
A huge effort We supported over 240 students This is proving to be both the best who had to remain in Cambridge of years and the worst of years. in a healthy and safe manner, as well as the continued learning In September, we welcomed the of all our students. The new-style largest number of Hughes Hall assessments in place of traditional students to date. Our conference exams were challenging for students business was humming and providing and supervisors alike; there were a good source of income. The Bridge inevitable local difficulties that we was demonstrating dynamic progress had to overcome. in a number of key areas. The college had been working increasingly closely We are delighted to report that despite with Chapter Zero on climate change the disruption, our exam results are engagement, and one of our largest superb. They include a starred first in Dr Anthony Freeling ever funding gifts, for the Centre for law, which is very rare in Cambridge. Climate Change Engagement, was on the horizon. Issues remain. The financial impact from returning rents to students and Then in November the college no conference season are considerable. community endured but slowly Another difficulty is that we have no recovered from the shock of the idea how many students will arrive for killing of Jack Merritt in the London Michaelmas Term. Predictions range Bridge attack. from 50% below to 50% above normal figures. The number of international In Lent Term, COVID-19 and students is the major unknown. lockdown arrived. A strong plan A huge effort was made by all the In March, we had to respond to the different teams in the college to meet pandemic with minimal warning. the challenges on several fronts. Apart from a few hiccups, we coped Thanks go to all, but particularly very well with a rapid transition to a to everyone working directly with virtual learning regime. Despite the disruption, our students, in housekeeping, the “ tutorial, porters and welfare teams, Going forward, we can’t legislate for exam results are superb and the college nurse who worked everything but have used the time to unstintingly to secure their wellbeing. anticipate a range of scenarios and 2 HUGHES HALL: ENHANCING OUR MISSION
any students working away from college for all or part of the year, and plans for end-of-year assessments. We“ are sharing best practice We will invest selectively in technology, communications, fundraising and income generation to enhance learning and community realities of work in different sectors in building. We hope to raise more different countries. Anthony participated in the Hughes Hall philanthropic money to make up for graduation celebration via Zoom lost student and conference income, Hughes Hall evolves and are investigating launching one In the previous issue of Hughes I develop contingency strategies for or two business initiatives. described how colleges evolve, and further lockdowns. We are sharing the last six months certainly proves best practice with other Cambridge Distinctively Hughes Hall the truth of that. colleges and the University. We have Sustaining the whole Cambridge a strong plan in place for the coming experience within the Hughes Hall Our estates strategy continues and academic year so that we can react community is paramount. To achieve we are carrying on conversations swiftly and in a more organised this, in the first few weeks of the with planners. We have sufficient manner to the evolving knowns and Michaelmas Term, our efforts will funding for essentials, but will need unknowns. Preparations are in hand be concentrated on engendering a campaign for those aspects of the to ‘open up’ on campus as much as the Hughes Hall community with student experience that do not have possible, while retaining the flexibility comprehensive pastoral care and an immediate payback. we may need if rules on social social activities including dinners. distancing ebb and flow throughout There will be opportunities for We are also seizing the opportunity the academic year. students to meet each other and a to enhance – not diminish – our stimulating range of scholarly pursuits, mission. The pandemic has drawn Our overriding goal is to facilitate the on- and offline, with in-person into even sharper relief the global best possible student education and opportunities facilitated wherever challenges facing us all. At Hughes provide a fulfilling student experience, possible. Our intention is that Hall we have already been focusing while creating as safe an environment whatever transpires in the succeeding on several of these, including climate as we can. This includes ensuring months, our members will have got change, global health, inclusion that we have the maximum amount to know each other and feel a part of and conflict. We intend to strengthen of accommodation we can fit in under Hughes Hall. our intellectual exploration in social distancing, that facilities such these areas, as the following two as catering and the library will be As a college of mature students, we examples demonstrate. open, that public and study spaces are fortunate in that we can trust our will be safe, and that most staff will community to keep itself as safe as Meeting the COVID challenge be back in college. We are increasing feasible, and this will enable more involves both medical/vaccine our investment in resources to activities to take place. and educational aspects, where promote wellbeing. our people are particularly strong We want to encourage a dialogue and can make a significant Our students’ education is key. across the whole Hughes Hall contribution. Another area is work on Lectures that are possible with community, in person and virtually, understanding the mechanisms by 1m distancing will still take place. and so hope to engage you, our which the pandemic is exacerbating Other lectures will be online in alumni and friends, far more. You can health inequalities – and producing real-time so students can respond play an important role in several ways. new ones – and ways to mitigate this. live. Supervisions and seminars will One immediate example is that our As rapid responses to the pandemic be face-to-face or via Zoom. Our graduates are concerned about their become embedded, reducing, not strategies encompass mentoring, future careers and many alumni are increasing, national and international including from alumni, supporting much better placed to convey the health inequalities is critical. HUGHES HALL: ENHANCING OUR MISSION 3
In the climate change arena, we but also for the calibre of graduates We are confident that, with your are proud of our work with Chapter and postgraduates that it produces, continued support, we will have the Zero – arguably the primary way and the impact they can have. funds and people to deliver against our non-executives and corporates can plan. Together, we will ensure students engage with climate change science The COVID pandemic and climate at Hughes Hall have the best possible at Cambridge. An extraordinary gift change are only two of the global education and experience, whatever for the Hughes Hall Centre for Climate challenges that society faces. the next 12 months throws at us. Change Engagement is described on There are – and will be – others. In pages 12–14. This will enable us to Cambridge terms, Hughes Hall might make real advances in this area. be considered a youthful college but, as this issue of Hughes demonstrates, Prepared for the future our alumni are having a real impact as Maintaining the Cambridge they work for a better future. We are in Dr Anthony Freeling experience is important not only for this for the long-term. President the sake of that unique experience, We are ready to welcome our students this Michaelmas Term. We will accommodate them, teach them, feed them and develop a an extraordinary gift community spirit. We know what “ we need to do and we know how we will do it.
The Charnley Law Dinner 2020 4 HUGHES HALL: NO ORDINARY ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
Sowing for a distant harvest
Jean Lambert, Life Fellow and Honorary Archivist of Hughes Hall, writes about the college’s history of mutual aid and supporting its alumnae from its very earliest days.
In 1891, six years on from the foundation of the college, a group of former students, the Principal (Miss Hughes) and her academic colleagues set up The Cambridge Training College Gild (CTC Gild). Their aim was to establish and maintain a close connection with the college’s growing numbers of alumnae, by then some 146 scattered across the UK and various countries in several continents – Australia, South Africa, India and Canada.
It was, however, no ordinary alumnae association. As was typical of the Hughesian pioneering spirit, the association created a special means to extend ‘that union and hearty co-operation’ engendered within the college to a community. It united past and present members, staff as well as students. According to Miss Hughes, this new corporate ‘force’ would enhance the strength and effectiveness of the college – a college the like of which had never been started before, a college in advance of most in the educational world of Cambridge.
Miss Hughes believed: ‘We sow for a The title page of the very firstGild Leaflet distant harvest’. Her vision of the ideal college was one having work to do in (friendship); and Marsh Marigold medieval religious fraternities from the world, both directly by affecting – the college flower and, later, the which many of the livery companies the world and indirectly by benefiting name chosen by the Tramp Club. developed. Nevertheless, many its students. Essentially, it lives for a Gild, Miss Hughes’s preference, held historians have adopted it as a generic wider end, for humanity at large. sway. Alternatively spelt ‘guild’, the term for craft and trade organisations, term has had a contentious history. a use that has become ubiquitous. What to call this newly formed Although it has been used to refer to In adopting it, CTC’s gild members organisation? Names suggested any association requiring subscription acknowledged the original meaning include: St Katherine of Siena; Kingcup payments, some historians have of ‘gild’ as an association of those League; Granta; Camus; Cyfeillach restricted its application to the of the same class for the purpose HUGHES HALL: NO ORDINARY ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION 5
of mutual aid. One member noted that as well as professional, notably, the the spelling ‘guild’ was false – not that Assistant Mistresses Association and there is space to consider that here. the Teachers’ Guild. Sadly, no example of this artefact has, so far, been to“ experiment, to develop The CTC Gild was steered by a recovered although we do hold an and to improve committee consisting of Miss Hughes illustration of the original design. as president, two college officers as vice-presidents, one of them chair, and The Gild Leaflet several alumnae. Annual membership Thanks to the Gild Leaflet, published cost 2s 6d (an eighth of a pound termly between 1891 and 1972, sterling). From its inception, the Gild we have systematic records of proved an active fellowship, aligning its matriculations and alumnae projects with the college’s objectives: to vocational destinations from 1885 to experiment, to develop and to improve. the association’s demise in 1972 – the year before Hughes Hall admitted Alumnae supporting alumnae students in disciplines besides The Gild organised biannual meetings education. The Leaflet also included in London and Cambridge, branches information on overseas visitors and in London, Manchester and Liverpool, Gild, college and student activities. and leisure pursuits. In addition its alumnae members provided: The pages of the Gild Leaflet preserve many things of value to us historically. a mentoring facility for trainees Among these are: the principal’s and information on job opportunities students’ termly ‘letter’; the Gild and at home and abroad college contributions to the war effort a ‘Questions and Answers’ section and subsequent ‘Reconstruction’ in the 1914–1918 period; the Sunday guidance on pedagogical theory evening working men’s meetings and practice, including teaching in Miss Hughes’s rooms; lectures by methods across a broad liberal prominent figures; an increasing arts and sciences curriculum offering of extra-curricular activities, encompassing health and physical such as overseas school visits – for exercise, including some that were instance, to China, Russia, South East The Cambridge Training College Gild experimental or proposed for Asia and Australia; and clubs and Badge, designed by Miss Maude different types of disability societies devised by and engaging Berry. The ribbon was blue, green and yellow, the college colours at the time. funds for a new building (now the students and alumnae throughout Margaret Wileman Building), for the 81 years of the Gild’s existence. study and educational travelling our collegiate lives. Yet, from what scholarships, in memory of a student Composing verse, often read at is preserved in the pages of our that died, for the college loan fund, the famous ‘cocoa’, was an abiding forerunners’ Leaflet, it can be claimed and to alleviate college debts student pleasure. Published examples with certainty that 19th and early afford us an insight into student 20th-century graduates of this college trees for the gardens concerns, sensibilities and erudition, were in great demand and actively and set up a loan library. all often conjoined, as in one poet’s sought by employers, or, to borrow whimsical tour through a ‘medley’ from one alumna, that they had ‘a By 1894, to create a visible sign of of educational thought. good passport’. And, undoubtedly, the group affinity, it had also produced material evidence around us stands the marigold badge (in silver at We can only speculate on the impact testament to the ‘solid foundations’ 10s [one half of a pound sterling] of the corporate force of the Gild on of that distant harvest sown by Miss or bronze at 2s 6d). Members wore Hughes Hall and the world beyond, Hughes, her students and a handful them at various gatherings, political and on the presence of the past in of supporters almost 130 years ago. 6 HUGHES HALL: ALUMNI MAKING AN IMPACT Exceeding expectations
In February Katrina Ffrench (2006, Social and Political Sciences) returned to Hughes Hall to talk to Mary Buckley about her career path since graduation and the challenges of being a first-time CEO for StopWatch.
Katrina Ffrench was the first member of her family to go to any university, let alone one as prestigious as Cambridge. ‘Not many young black women from South London make it to Cambridge,’ she comments wryly, ‘so my time there prepared me for the “othering” that I have gone on to experience subsequently. But Cambridge and Hughes Hall had a huge and positive impact on my life. It’s often about how people make you feel and I encountered some amazing people who wanted me to succeed and Professor Mary Buckley and Katrina Ffrench inspired me to exceed expectations.’ headhunted for CEO of StopWatch. My might be improved and promote good She values her time at the college and regular volunteering flagged up how examples, such as the Bedfordshire her continuing relationship with it. committed I was to striving for good police’s stop and search panel. ‘Undergraduate numbers at Hughes police practice and accountability.’ Hall are quite small, and it’s not as Not surprisingly, Katrina stresses ‘It is fantastic that now my day job is famous as Trinity or King’s, so it’s the importance of volunteering for something that I used to do in my free important for graduates to describe those keen to learn about procedures, time,’ Katrina says. ‘My role is to serve their career trajectories and champion especially if they hope ultimately to others and I am privileged to hold a successes so students can see what make an impact on policy. position in which I can help to make is possible. I feel it is incumbent the world a better place. For me, that’s upon me to help lower the ladder In her insightful talk, Katrina highlighted what it is all about.’ so that others, if they so wish, have that in the UK today black people the opportunity to take advantage of are ten times more likely than white what the University has to offer.’ people to be stopped and searched StopWatch is a coalition of legal and Asian people twice as likely. This experts, academics and citizens After graduating, Katrina worked disparity causes a mistrust in the whose goal is to ensure effective, in local government roles for eight police and is not conducive to positive accountable and fair policing years. ‘I also did a lot of volunteering police and community relations. One through legal and policy analysis, in areas of interest and concern to of StopWatch’s goals is to campaign media coverage, advocacy me,’ she explains. ‘I really enjoyed that against the disproportionate use of and litigation. and it was the experience and skills stop and search and to call for more that I acquired in those voluntary accountability. Another is to make Visit www.stop-watch.org roles that ultimately led to me being recommendations on how legislation HUGHES HALL: OUR MEMBERS’ RECENT PUBLICATIONS 7
Recent publications
Tamay Besiroglu (2019, Dr Jean Lambert (Life Fellow; Dr Alastair Lockhart (Governing Economics) Honorary Archivist; Tutor) Body Fellow; Deputy Senior Tutor; Tamay co-authored The Jean’s latest book is Teachers in Early Director of Studies for Theology, Effectiveness and Perceived Burden Modern English Drama: Pedagogy Religion and Philosophy of of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions and authority (Routledge, 2019). Religion; Honorary Co-Archivist) against COVID-19 Transmission: A This fascinating study explores Alastair’s monograph, Personal Religion modelling study with 41 countries. This male teachers as representing and and Spiritual Healing: The panacea was published on medRxiv, a site engaging with types of authority society in the twentieth century (SUNY dedicated to complete but not yet in English plays and dramatic Press, 2019), presents a unique peer-reviewed medical research. entertainments by Shakespeare and historical study of the personal his contemporaries from the late 16th nature of religion, spirituality and to the early 17th century. healing in the 20th century based Dr Stephen Cave (Governing Body on the letters of ordinary people Fellow; 1996, Philosophy) from around the world. He has had Stephen co-edited AI Narratives: Dr Patrick Leblond (1995, Social & two articles published recently: A history of imaginative thinking about Political Sciences) New religious movements and quasi- intelligent machines (OUP, 2020). The Patrick recently co-edited Promoting religion: cognitive science of religion at edited collection reveals not only how and Managing International Investment: the margins in archive (Psychology of AI narratives have consistently been Towards an integrated policy approach Religion) and Holy places and religious entangled with the emergence of real (Routledge, 2020). This overview of language in new religious movements robotics and AI, but also how they offer international investment policy and (New Blackfriars), and co-authored a rich insight into how we might live policymaking draws upon perspectives Health help-seeking behaviour in with these revolutionary machines. from law, economics, international spiritual healing practice (Journal of business and political science. Religion and Health).
Dr Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury (1998, History) Osten Mah (2019, Planning, Dr Jinfeng Li (2013, Nuclear Energy) Growth & Regeneration) Deep Kanta published a review of Sven Jinfeng published his latest research Beckert’s The Empire of Cotton: A new Osten is a MPhil student at the Liquid crystal-based enclosed coplanar history of global capitalism in History Department of Land Economy. He waveguide phase shifter for 54–66 GHz and Sociology of South Asia (2019). spearheaded an article in the Journal of applications in Crystals and A novel Twitter Cultural Heritage (May 2019): Generating sentiment analysis model with baseline a virtual tour for the preservation of correlation for financial market prediction the (in) tangible cultural heritage of Professor Nikolaos Kazantzis with improved efficiency in IEEE. Jinfeng Tampines Chinese Temple in Singapore. (Associate) is a research fellow with Southampton This outlines a methodological Nikolaos recently co-authored University and a visiting research framework for the creation of a virtual Incorporation of safety and fellow with Imperial College London, tour to document the physical built sustainability in conceptual process developing novel surface acoustic wave environment and the intangible socio- design via a return on investment metric, systems for monitoring the structural cultural aspects of built heritage. published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry integrity of LNG tanks. In 2019 he was & Engineering, vol 6. This received appointed a session chair of the IEEE the Best Paper Award from the IoTSMS–SNAMS conference in Spain. He David Monk (1977, Education) Sustainability Division of the American is a member of the Technical Program Further Up the Beach is a redemptive Institute of Chemical Engineers. Committee for SOTICS 2020. tale about a young boy, Sam, his 8 HUGHES HALL: OUR MEMBERS’ RECENT PUBLICATIONS
relationship with his father, and his Mark Pallis (2001, Law) Dr Jenny Rose (1977, Education) search for identity. Though fictional, Mark published a new children’s Jenny’s latest book, Between Boston the narrative is informed largely by series with the award-winning artist and Bombay: Cultural and commercial David’s own experience. It is based Peter Baynton. The Fabulous Lost encounters of Yankees and Parsis, on the premise that in order fully to and Found uses the innovative ‘story 1771–1865 (Palgrave Macmillan, understand our own lives, we must powered language learning method’ 2019), maps the circulation of goods, first understand those of our parents to introduce children aged 2–7 to capital and ideas between Bombay and previous generations, who may their first words in a new language. Parsis and their contemporaries in otherwise be long-forgotten. The children are so busy laughing that the north-eastern USA, uncovering they don’t realise they are learning. a surprising range of cultural Current versions include French, interaction. Using several previously Professor Bill Nuttall (Governing Italian, German, Czech, Welsh, Tagalog, unpublished primary sources, it Body Fellow) Irish, Latin and Dutch. presents the narrative of American- Bill co-authored a paper that won the Parsi encounters within the broader James Watt Medal from the Institution context of developing global trade of Civil Engineers. Coal in the twenty- Dr Charles Pigott (Quondam Fellow) and knowledge. first century: a climate of change and Charles’s book, Writing the Land, uncertainty explores basic coal facts, Writing Humanity: The Maya literary recent market trends and directions renaissance (Routledge), contains in- BJ Sadiq (2005, Economics) globally, and issues shaping the future depth studies of eight representative BJ’s book Let There Be Justice: The of coal. texts. It argues that they present political journey of Imran Khan (2017) literature as a trans-species has been a bestseller in South Asia. BJ phenomenon that is not reducible is currently working on a collection of Johan Ordish (Associate) and only to human creativity and develops poems covering topics ranging from Alison Hall (Associate) the first conceptual map of how religious extremism to nature. The PHG Foundation and Alison and literature constantly emerges from Johan, Hughes Hall Senior Members, wider creative patterns in nature. published Black Box Medicine and Dr David Stevenson (1990, Transparency. These six reports, Genetics) funded by the Wellcome Trust, Dr Arazi Pinhas (2015, Astronomy) David’s book, Granite Skyscrapers examine the human interpretability Inspired by his own experience, (Springer-Praxis) was one of five of machine learning in healthcare and Arazi’s Wisdom of a Mystic, a book international titles shortlisted by Choice research. They analyse in detail the on Bhakti Yoga, spirituality and for best academic book of 2019. It requirements for interpretability and mysticism, tells of the heartbreaks explains not only how granites form explanation, and address different and hardships that ultimately led to on various planets and astronomical dimensions of the black box problem. his spiritual awakening. It explores objects, but also how their formation The aim is to improve patient and the idea that wisdom is often hidden is inextricably linked to the evolution public trust in machine learning, in plain sight and that spirituality can of life on Earth. It ties in biology, social ensuring that the healthcare benefits – and should – be informed by our geography and even Scottish history to are realised for all. most mundane experiences. the rise of these igneous rocks.
Laura Oxley (2010, Education) Jason Reece (1991, Education) Reverend Penelope Swithenbank, Co-authored with Dr John Tillson Jason has co-edited The Birds of née Walter (1974, History & (Liverpool Hope University), Nottinghamshire (Liverpool University Philosophy of Science) Laura’s paper Children’s moral Press, 2019). The first review of Penelope’s second book is Walking rights and UK school exclusions in Nottinghamshire’s birds in over four Back to Happiness (2019). During her Theory and Research in Education decades, this comprehensive overview time at Hughes Hall Penelope was JCR considers whether school exclusions of the present state of the county’s president and met her now husband, are compatible with children’s birdlife is set against a context of who was also studying at Cambridge. moral rights. environmental and climatic change. Since becoming a vicar nearly 20 HUGHES HALL: OUR MEMBERS’ RECENT PUBLICATIONS 9
years ago, she has worked in churches debut poetry collection was Smoothie Annemarie Young (Associate; in the UK and the USA, and has led (2017). In 2019 she performed at the Tutor) pilgrimages in the UK and Europe. National Theatre River Stage, during Annemarie co-authored Young She is a chaplain at Bath Abbey and a the Shubbak Festival of Contemporary Palestinians Speak: Living under spiritual therapist and counsellor for Arab Culture in London. Two Tongues occupation (2017) with Anthony clergy (and some normal people too). will be published by Carcanet in 2020. Robinson. In 2018 it received an honourable mention in the Middle East Book Awards. With Michael Rosen Professor Hang Wu Tang (1998, Professor Seema Yasmin (2005, she published What is Right and Law) Medical Sciences) Wrong? Where do Values Come From? Hang Wu first studied The Law Seema’s second book, Muslim Women (2018) and What is Politics? Why Should of Restitution in depth when he Are Everything: Stereotype-shattering We Care? (2019) in Wayland’s Big was a LLM student at Hughes Hall stories of courage, inspiration and Questions series. Their fifth book, Why more than 20 years ago. In 2019 his adventure (HarperCollins) has now been do We Need Art? What Does It Mean to Principles of the Law of Restitution in published. Viral BS: Medical myths and be Creative? will be published in 2020. Singapore (Academy Publishing) was why we fall for them will be published published. He is Professor of Law at in 2021. Seema is a Clinical Assistant To view a comprehensive list Singapore Management University Professor at Stanford University’s of alumni and members’ and Director of the Centre for Cross- Department of Medicine, Director of publications, including cover Border Commercial Law in Asia. the Stanford Health Communication images and where to find a copy, Initiative, and a Medical Analyst for CNN, please visit www.hughes.cam. working closely with the network on ac.uk/homepage/alumni Claudine Toutoungi (2007, the COVID-19 outbreak. She has written Education) about her career as a disease detective If you’d like to let us know Claudine’s poems have appeared for The New York Times and Rolling about your recently published in Poetry Chicago, The Guardian, The Stone and made multiple other media work, do get in touch via Financial Times and The Spectator. Her appearances speaking on health issues. [email protected] 10 HUGHES HALL: DECADES OF EFFORT PAY OFF
News from Hughes Hall Boat Club
‘Success across the board’ summarises Hughes Hall Boat Club’s performance during the 2020 Lent Campaign – not only on the water but in the growing and diverse aspects of our operation.
Hughes Hall Boat Club (HHBC) got off had only two rowers returning after determined to see rowing at Hughes to a great start to the rowing year with the split with Lucy Cavendish, yet Hall thrive. Indeed the current over 70 novices turning out for trials in during the 2020 Lent Bumps two full situation gives credence to the old Michaelmas Term. women’s crews competed. and sacred motto: ‘When the going gets tough, the tough get rowing.’ At the 2020 Lents, M1 were hailed What Cambridge collegiate rowing by many as the ‘strongest crew on will look like in the new rowing year Thanks to the Senior Treasurer and the river’ having gone up six stations, is uncertain, but it’s a question not Director of Rowing, HHBC for this report. achieving an over-bump and collecting of ‘if’ but ‘when’ rowing will resume. Super Blades. The misfortune of being Notwithstanding, HHBC’s future remains Keep up to date with news ‘Sandwich Boat’ meant M2 had to row bright. Growing alumni participation from the river an exhausting seven races in four days, alone has enriched the club with many but eventually achieved a permanent stories and photos from its history and To join our HHBC Alumni mailing place in the Lent fixture – the first time over £2,500 in generous donations. list, please email the volunteer that HHBC has had such a result. alumni coordinator at hhbca@ Since lockdown, we have organised hughes.cam.ac.uk There is great potential for virtual meetings and training sessions, Follow the latest club development in the women’s squad including a Zoom clinic with Steve news on facebook.com/ too, with many rowers now on 3–4 Trapmore, former Blues Head Coach, HughesHallBoatClub and on year programmes. At the outset of the Olympic gold medallist and current Instagram at @hugheshallboatclub rowing year, the women’s programme Team GB Rowing Coach. HHBC is
The whole squad at the Lent Bumps 2020 HUGHES HALL: DECADES OF EFFORT PAY OFF 11
Men’s eight at the May Bumps in 1980, the crew (top) and on the river (bottom) [Photos provided by John M1 at the Lent Bumps 2020 Butler (1979)]
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After decades of effort on the Cam, strengthen and grow the Club. Over If you would like to make a donation HHBC has made great strides in its 1,500 Hughes Hall rowers and coxes of any size, please visit www.hughes. performance and celebrated some have competed for the Blue and cam.ac.uk/gift and select ‘Hughes fantastic results this year. We thank HHBC since 1979, and a donation Hall Boat Club Alumni Donation’ the hundreds of past rowers, coxes of just £5 each would help to fund our from the designation list. All gifts and friends who are responsible for continuing efforts and foster future will make a great difference to the this achievement and hope that you generations of talented crews. HHBC’s future. will continue to support us as we
Other sporting successes
Husein Alireza (2016, largest student-run organisations Rory Triniman (2016, Biosciences) Entrepreneurship) in Cambridge. The Light Blues had and Tom Lovelace (2019, Business Husein took up rowing at Hughes Hall some excellent results at the Varsity Administration) and was a member of the Hughes Hall match in Val Thorens Stade, France, Rory, a PhD candidate at the Boat Club 2016–2017. He has gone last December, with the Men’s and Department of Pharmacology, and on to represent Saudi Arabia, winning Women’s Blues and 2nd teams all Tom, a student at the Cambridge Bronze at the 2019 Asian Indoor Rowing celebrating victory. Rupert (Blues Judge Business School, both helped Championship in Thailand, becoming team 2018 and 2019) lifted the Cambridge University Rugby Union the first Saudi to win a major rowing trophy 31 years after his father and Football Club claim a 15 – 0 victory medal. He hopes to represent Saudi ex-President Richard (Blues team 1987 over Oxford University in the 138th Arabia at the Tokyo Olympics. and 1988) did the same. Varsity Match at Twickenham in December – the first time there has Rupert Swallow (2018, Law) been a victory to nil for either side Rupert is a current mature since 1976. undergraduate at Hughes Hall. In 2019 Rupert was voted President of Cambridge University Ski and Snowboard Club, one of the An outstanding gift to enhance corporate climate change engagement
A private philanthropic trust has pledged £4.5 million to enable the Hughes Hall Centre for Climate Change Engagement to build on its already significant achievements and rapidly scale up its work with companies to effect a corporate transformation towards a carbon zero future.
Understanding of climate change in August 2019. Since then, in a and how individual businesses remarkably short but successful pilot and public bodies can contribute period, it has become a key pillar of the to mitigation is increasing, but college’s research translation agenda. boards continue to struggle with Under the leadership of Director Julie their responses to the physical and Baddeley, Hughes Hall By-Fellow and transitions risks, and how to deliver one of the UK’s most experienced the UK’s net-zero emissions ambition. women directors, the HHCCCE has gone from strength to strength. Founded in 2018 to increase awareness It holds a unique position in the of climate change mitigation and climate change research ecosystem adaptation on the boards of private in Cambridge, working with the companies, the Hughes Hall Centre people who influence company for Climate Change Engagement decision-making – the chairs and non- (HHCCCE) was formally established executive directors. Julie Baddeley HUGHES HALL: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO CORPORATE CLIMATE CHANGE ENGAGEMENT 13
The Centre is already delivering real of 47 FTSE100 companies. It aims to impact in the business world, both have at least two members on the in the UK and globally. This major board of the top 350 companies donation will enable it to achieve listed on the LSE by November even more in several ways, working 2020. This will represent substantial at the intersection of business, law, reach and influence across the UK’s government and science. corporate landscape.
HHCCCE and Chapter Zero Chapter Zero is also leading the way Dr Emily Shuckburgh HHCCCE’s flagship project is Chapter on the formation of a global network Zero. This enables non-executive of equivalent Chapters, under the HHCCCE and directors in UK boardrooms to engage auspices of the World Economic effectively in a strategic debate about Forum’s Climate Governance Cambridge Zero the climate change challenge for Initiative. Over the coming months, A critical element of the University’s their businesses. The project has seen it has planned a plethora of events, climate change initiative, Cambridge a huge take up since its inception. It workshops and webinars to continue Zero, is to develop strong has already reached 940 members, to engage decision makers in the field engagement with policymakers, including directors on the boards of climate change. businesses and others. The aim is to ensure that University ideas and innovations to tackle climate change and support a more resilient and sustainable future are rapidly deployed in the real world. The We“ are delighted to be able to support Hughes Hall Centre for Climate HHCCCE and its new hub aims Change Engagement. This is an important global issue that concerns us all, to act as a ‘bridge’ between the especially those in succeeding generations. two, helping to drive the required As trustees, we recognise the importance of engaging comprehensively across transformation of global society. the corporate arena, not just with companies but also amongst the financial sector, banks and investors, in order to explore and deliver prompt and effective ‘The collaboration with HHCCCE solutions. This we understand to be an important aspect of its work. We hope will create a powerful platform that our donation will allow greater links with other climate change activities for delivering this,’ says Dr Emily across the University and, through the Centre and its subsidiary, Chapter Zero, Shuckburgh OBE, who leads onward dissemination to board members across the UK. Cambridge Zero. ‘This substantial A Trustee gift is a significant investment in championing the agenda surrounding climate change. We look forward to working with Julie and her team.’ 14 HUGHES HALL: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO CORPORATE CLIMATE CHANGE ENGAGEMENT
An interdisciplinary centre positions will all have an aspect of A transformative gift of excellence for environmental, ‘applied’ policy through HHCCCE. This In a remarkably short space of time, sustainability and climate law will ensure the focus on real world the HHCCCE has had an impressive The Centre’s position in Hughes Hall is impact is paramount. impact, yet its ambition is to extend its highly relevant, enabling it to draw on reach still further in the boardrooms a wide range of academic disciplines The core professional team at the of influential companies. This gift will in addition to climate science and law. Centre will include policy analysts enable it to do so. who will establish a knowledge The vision includes the creation of a brokering service. This will offer centre of excellence and academic relevant climate material for use hub for environmental, sustainability by the corporate sector, as well as and climate law within Hughes providing analysis of the academic This“ generous new funding will make Hall. This will include a new chair, literature, research by Cambridge a massive difference to us all by a number of college lectureships academics and published reports by driving international corporate action and PhD studentships in law. These organisations across the globe. on climate change engagement. Dr Anthony Freeling President of Hughes Hall
Our greenprint for the blue planet
This transformative gift will Law, regulation and governance carbon markets, the role of green finance and the green economy, allow the HHCCCE to expand Ho w might law, regulation and and how they might influence the its future strategy and seek governance be used to support corporate sector. solutions to pivotal questions, and incentivise companies in their transition to a zero carbon economy? encompassing three major Change management for the transition to a carbon areas. Each of these areas will The Centre will aim to devise and disseminate mechanisms neutral future include both academic and to achieve this. Given that we now know what real world activity. we need to do and have the Capital markets, finance relevant technology available and investment to us, why do we as citizens, With specific regard to the role corporations and governments, of banks, asset owners, asset decline to take the necessary managers and investors, how might action on climate change? the influence of capital markets be The Centre will seek to understand used to accelerate the transition this dilemma, and propose solutions to a zero carbon economy? and approaches that might make it Areas the Centre will explore include easier for such action to take place the nature of carbon trading and within the necessary timescales.
For more information visit www.climatehughes.org | www.chapterzero.org.uk www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/hhevents/taking-action-the-hughes-hall-centre-for-climate-change-engagement www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/chapter-zero-launch HUGHES HALL: NEWS FROM OUR MEMBERS 15
Awards and achievements
Professor Arshin Adib- for vol 9. Patrick also convened the students experience of university-level Moghaddam (By-Fellow; 2000, CILJ’s Seventh Annual Cambridge STEMM education. International Relations) International Law Conference. Arshin is an Affiliate Scholar on The Richard Cawley (1976, Education) Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs After his PGCE (for mathematics) at Harvard University’s Weatherhead and a PhD at Delft University (2007), Center, launched in 2019. This exciting Richard worked for the European new project undertakes advanced Commission in Brussels for 35 years. research on the multifaceted and Since retiring in 2018, he has set-up diverse manifestations of Shi’ism in three businesses: A*Research-Funding the contemporary world. He was also which seeks to help researchers invited for the second time to serve based in the UK who find it difficult to on the National Panel of the Queen’s CILJ Annual Lecture 2019–20: Catherine obtain research funds following Brexit; Royal Anniversary Trust, which confers and Patrick with the guest speaker, A*Cyber-Safe which provides basic the highest national award to UK Professor Pierre-Marie Dupuy practical advice on cyber-security; and higher institutions, and he attended BOATS (British Overseas Association both the ceremony at St James’s Other CILJ Editorial Board members of Tennis Supporters) which seeks to Park and the prizewinners’ dinner in include Tom and Darren as Managing encourage support (outside the UK) the London Guildhall in February. Editors, while Markus and John are for the GB Tennis Team. Arshin did both his MPhil and PhD at on CILJ’s Academic Review Board. Hughes and held the Elizabeth Cherry Lora was Convenor of the Ninth JD Deming (1986, International Scholarship for successive years. Annual Conference (2020), where Relations) Cristian successfully presented on The White House has appointed JD Catherine Drummond (2014, ‘International Law and Global Risks’ to the Cultural Property Advisory Law), Patrick Simon Perillo (2017, with a critical assessment of the Committee at the US State Land Economy), Tom Boekestein human rights benefits of satellite Department. He will work to protect (2017, Legal Studies), Darren Internet megaconstellations, balanced and preserve cultural heritage through James Peterson (2017, Law), Dr against the serious risk of space cultural property agreements that Markus Gehring (Governing Body debris. He argued that states should aim to promote stability, economic Fellow; Praelector; Director of apply existing environmental law to development and good governance in Studies for Law), Dr John Barker orbit and more strictly regulate private countries around the world. (Life Fellow), Lora Izvorova (2018, space actors. Legal Studies) and Cristian van Vidya Diwakar (2017, Education) Eijk (2019, Law) Dr Joanna Brunker (Research PhD student Vidya was awarded Associate) and Dr Fernando A number of Hughesians are now at the Caroline Spurgeon Centenary Gonzalez Zalba (Governing Body the helm of the reputable and well- Fellowship at the Graduate Women Fellow; 2008, Natural Sciences) regarded Cambridge International Law International Centenary Celebration Journal (CILJ). This double-blind, peer- Joanna and Fernando were both reviewed journal provides a platform awarded a Royal Society Partnership for both young and established Grant to introduce pupils at North academics to publish outstanding Cambridge Academy to the world of research on cutting-edge and topical AI and the era of Digital Brains. The issues in international law. Catherine activity was done in the framework of and Patrick were Managing Editors action of iLab, a Hughes Hall-driven for vol 8 and are its Editors-in-Chief charity that gives secondary school 16 HUGHES HALL: NEWS FROM OUR MEMBERS
in Geneva in 2019. The event’s theme earlier Professor of Psychiatry at management for the masses. The was ‘Peace through Education’, in line Yale University. Marco’s translational annual award, run by the Hughes Hall with GWI’s recognition that education research project in the Department Enterprise Society, is a business plan for women and girls is central to the of Paediatric Gastroenterology at competition open to teams from the advancement of peaceful, just and Addenbrooke’s Hospital investigated University of Cambridge, where at least sustainable societies. The fellowship prognostic biomarkers for the care one member of the team is a current covers a large part of Vidya’s PhD costs of children affected by Inflammatory Hughes Hall student or recent graduate. for a year, supporting her ambition Bowel Disease. Marco is now a to increase the power and voice of paediatric gastroenterologist at The Maxwell Harding (2018, marginalised girls in India through her research. Royal London Hospital. Entrepreneurship) Maxwell is a part-time MSt student Stella Dudzic (1983, Education) Anne-Lise Gere (1992, and founder and CEO of Dynamify, a Management Studies) Stella is working with MEI London-based tech start-up backed (Mathematics Education Innovation), Anne-Lise, of Gere Consulting by £1 million in venture capital. an independent charity committed to Associates LLC, earned Bronze in the Dynamify recently won a contract improving mathematics education in category of Best Human Resources with the world’s fourth-largest the UK, to develop a new curriculum Firm from Coastal Virginia Business contract caterer, Elior, which is using in maths for post-16 GCSE students. Magazine’s Best of Business Awards Dynamify’s white-label food ordering The project, funded by the Nuffield (2019). The awards are based on platform across its sites. Foundation, places a greater emphasis nominations and voting by Coastal on the maths needed for everyday life. Virginia business community It begins the process of enhancing members and highlight businesses the learning experience for GCSE resit that are excelling. students, and outcomes for the wider population by improving knowledge Sheen Gurrib (2016, Materials and attitudes towards maths (visit Science) mei.org.uk/post16-GCSEproject). A PhD student at the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials, Sheen is the first girl from Mauritius to have attended both Oxford and Cambridge. Dr Riikka Hofmann (Governing She is very active in breaking down Body Fellow) and James de Winter barriers to education and is co-founder (Associate) of Project Access for Refugees and an The Cambridge University Student Ambassador for Women in STEM. She Union (CUSU) student-led teaching has since been involved in setting up awards celebrate outstanding teaching ReShape Co, a consultancy that seeks and student support across Cambridge. to engage students from prestigious They provide a unique opportunity for Dr Marco Gasparetto (2015, international universities to help students to nominate and recognise Medicine) organisations respond to business the contributions that staff have made A Hughes Hall post-grad MD downfalls caused by COVID-19. to their time at Cambridge. Riikka, a student (2015–2019), Marco Senior Lecturer, won the award for received the Ralph Noble Prize for Stuart Heyworth (2018, Business Postgraduate Supervisor, and James, a the Academic Year 2018–2019 for Administration) and Melissa lecturer in Science Education, won the his MD dissertation. The Prize is the Stringer (2016, Business Lecturer category. generous gift of Mrs Noble and her Administration) family in memory of her husband Stuart and Hannah were the winners Sheen Jet Leong (2015, Ralph Athelstane Noble, formerly of the first round of the 2019–2020 Management) of King’s College, Cambridge and Hughes Hall Enterprise Awards. Their Sheen’s new steakhouse, The Feather Senior Consultant Psychiatrist new smart money app, Wealth Ninja, Blade, has been named as one of the at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, and optimises and simplifies wealth best in Singapore by Time Out, as HUGHES HALL: NEWS FROM OUR MEMBERS 17
well as being mentioned in several other publications.
Nancy Luo (2019, Business Administration) Nancy is an MBA student at the Cambridge Judge Business School. children with a focus on teaching and Nancy featured in the Forbes China learning through play and creativity. 30 Under 30 report (2019). This lists the The first students who joined the top Chinese entrepreneurs under the Professor Clive Knights (1987, Centre at seven years old had never age of 30. History & Philosophy of read an entire book; seven months Architecture) after taking part in the Centre’s Dr Jo Montgomery (1997, literacy programme, the group had Clive’s mixed media hand drawing, Biological Sciences) completed 17. ‘Many students have The Appeasement of Ceres, was Jo’s new enterprise, Dr Jo Science developed a remarkable interest in selected as a finalist in the 2019 Solutions, delivers fun and engaging, literacy,’ says Zola. ‘Even more exciting, international KRob Architectural hands-on, curriculum-relevant they keenly create captivating Delineation Competition. Clive is science workshops for primary school content, shaping their own narratives generating a new body of collage and children, home education groups and – narratives by a dynamic emerging monotype work during a year-long science clubs. Through it she supports generation of young African writers. sabbatical from August 2019, when, teacher training and development, We’re so proud to nurture and publish after 12 years, he voluntarily stepped and facilitates training for STEM these stories!’ down from his leadership role as Learning and Primary Science Quality the founding director of the School Mark (PSQM). Antonija Pacek (1996, Psychology) of Architecture at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA. Parma Recordings, an American Janet Mui (2010, Business See more of his studio work in his classical music label, will release Administration) Instagram gallery @knightsclive Antonija’s fourth album, Forever, in Brewin Dolphin (one of the UK’s 2020. This is a hopeful and relaxing largest investment management counterbalance to the sadness and and financial planning firms) recently disruption faced by so many. Writing appointed Janet as Investment music is a kind of therapy for Antonija, Director, with responsibility for and she hopes Forever will provide communicating the company’s the same for listeners. macro/investment views to clients and the media. Janet also supports Freedom-Kai Phillips (2019, Land Soterios Loizou (2013, Legal Cambridge Judge Business School Economy) and Dr Markus Gehring Studies) alumni who wish to pursue a career (Governing Body Fellow; Praelector; Soterios was awarded the International in investment management, with Director of Studies for Law) Arbitration Club of New York’s 9th a particular focus on sharing her Freedom-Kai was a panellist at annual Smit‑Lowenfeld Prize for the experience of being an Asian woman the United Nations Framework best arbitration paper in recognition in a male-dominated industry. Convention on Climate Change of his article: Establishing the content COP25 at Universidad Autónoma of the applicable law in international Zola Okpara (2015, Education) de Madrid Faculty of Law (2019). arbitration. This was published in After moving to Nigeria, Zola set up The panel presented case studies of Conflict of Laws in International the Zolala Learning Centre in Lagos countries protecting their oceans and Commercial Arbitration (2019). to educate primary-school-aged investment regimes, and developing 18 HUGHES HALL: NEWS FROM OUR MEMBERS
highly sustainable battery that stores Loop, USA. ‘My research with children energy in a unique way in its devices. with English as an Additional Language It also uses water-based electrolytes is proving very useful, as I teach French (instead of organic electrolytes) which to children who speak a variety of simplifies the manufacturing process, languages,’ she says. ‘The Great Lakes minimising energy consumption and area is a great basis to explore all the the carbon footprint of final products. fascinating sites that the US has to offer.’ frameworks for innovation. Freedom- Kai and Markus both spoke on the Richard Wakeford (Life Fellow) second day, when leading legal Richard has been active as a experts highlighted opportunities psychometrician for many years, for enhancing Paris Agreement developing and quality assuring compliance and innovation through examinations of professional international and domestic law reform. competence. He recently supported a major US-based educational Maurizio Raffone (1996, Yusuke Shimizu (2003, Chinese multinational, Kaplan, to establish Economics) Studies) examinations for the Qualified Lawyers Maurizio was recently awarded the Yusuke had the honour of being the Transfer Scheme. Its success helped most innovative FinTech CFO in Asia interpreter for Pope Francisco in his Kaplan to win the contract to develop prize by Acquisition International meetings with the Japanese Emperor and deliver a series of assessments magazine for his work as CFO of and Prime Minister Abe in November for the accreditation of all qualifying Credify. The mission of this Singapore- 2019. This was the first papal visit to solicitors in England and Wales, the based fintech startup is to elevate Japan in 38 years. Solicitors Qualifying Examination, trust and simplify user onboarding which he continues to support. experiences in digital economies. Patrick Yip (2010, Law) Dean Rowley (1997, Education) Patrick is a Deloitte International tax Dean has become a fellow of the partner based in Hong Kong and was Chartered College of Teaching. He is appointed to the position of Vice Chair working on an online project with of Deloitte China last year. He is now Canadian, Australian and Singaporean the Deloitte Legal leader for China schools to develop ideas of (including Hong Kong), the largest legal mathematical challenge and problem Kevin Tai (2018, Education) practice in Deloitte’s Asia Pacific region. solving for key stage 4, and exploring Kevin is currently an Economic what can be transferred from these and Social Research Council (ESRC) News request education systems to the UK. Scholar and Doctoral Candidate in We would love to hear your news Applied Linguistics at the UCL Institute over the year for the members’ news Kaidi Ru (2017, Management) of Education. He is also a Visiting sections in our 2021 Easter Term Kaidi won 4th place in the 10th Global Colleague at the University of Hawaii Peter Drucker Challenge. She is the at Manoa, Affiliate Scholar in the East- edition of Hughes. To make sure first Chinese national to receive any West Centre (August–October 2020), we can feature as much news as honours in the manager/entrepreneur Teaching Assistant in Language Studies possible please keep your message category. An avid writer, Kaidi has at the Open University of Hong Kong, to no more than a 100 words. Send also been shortlisted as one of the 15 and Editorial Board Member and your news to development@hughes. promising sci-fi authors for the 8th Editorial Assistant of the Language cam.ac.uk or Alumni Relations and Masters of the Future Award. Learning Journal (Routledge). Development Office, Hughes Hall, Cambridge CB1 2EW. Andrey Shigaev (2005, Yuna Toudic Charles (2014, Deadline for news for the Engineering) Education) next Easter Term issue will be Andrey’s Finnish startup, Geyser Yuna’s latest career move is to the British Monday 22 March 2021. Batteries Oy, produces a new type of International School of Chicago, South Staying in touch
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Obituaries Anthony Taylor (1984, Education) Kenneth Turner (Life Fellow) on 12 August 2019 on 26 March 2020 We regret to announce the passing of the following Hughesians Pamela Soanes (1988, Geography) on 1 August 2020 over the past year. We send our Please note that this only reflects sincere condolences to their family Wasi Siddiqi (1991, Education) the information that we have and friends. in August 2019 received and therefore may not be complete. To notify us of the Joyce Westwood (1935, Education) Farhad Khoyratty (1994, Education) passing of a Hughes Hall Member on 7 January 2020 in July 2020 please get in touch. Alison Round (1971, Education) Jack Merritt (2016, Criminology) on 9 May 2020 on 29 November 2019 20 HUGHES HALL: SUPPORTING YOUR COLLEGE
Making a difference
The response to the an immense difference. Our fundraising USA: for alumni resident in the USA emergency appeal over the needs for 2020/21 will be no less urgent. we would advise your gift to be past few months has been We welcome support towards our made to Cambridge in America Annual Fund. Gifts can be made online (www.cantab.org), indicating that remarkable, breaking all or by donation form and designated to you wish to direct your gift towards records on previous college the priority areas of Student Support, Hughes Hall. fundraising and for which the Buildings and Infrastructure or to entire college community is General Purposes (where it will be Canada: for charitable donations deeply grateful. directed where it is most needed). to be tax-deductible from Canada, the University of Cambridge will The way forward Methods of giving prepare a receipt acceptable to the Securing dedicated funding for student In these tough times, help us to Canadian tax authorities which will be hardship will remain a priority for the safeguard Hughes Hall for generations forwarded to the donor. college as we go into the new academic of students to come by making a gift year. Like all universities and colleges, via our online donation form at Other ways of giving we face agonising dilemmas about www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/gift Leaving a legacy: by remembering where to tighten our belts, but we Hughes Hall in your will, you will be are committed to doing all we can to Hong Kong: we have set up the able to safeguard the college for future mitigate financial barriers to education Hughes Hall Hong Kong Limited generations. We understand that you for our students now and in future years. account, which ensures that we are may wish to keep your decision private, able to accept donations via bank but if you do choose to inform us that Your collective generosity in response to transfer in a tax efficient manner. you have included Hughes Hall as a our 2020 Emergency Fund appeal made Please contact us for details. beneficiary in your will, we would like HUGHES HALL: SUPPORTING YOUR COLLEGE 21
to recognise your generosity during donation, which could double the with the opportunity to ask questions your lifetime through membership of value of your gift to Hughes Hall at and find out more about life at our Marsh Marigold Society. Members no extra cost to you. Contact your HR Hughes Hall. will receive our Marigold lapel badge or charity department at work to find and will be invited to our donors’ out more. If you are interested in volunteering events. Find out more at www.hughes. in this way or would like to offer your cam.ac.uk/leaving-a-legacy Volunteering: during the pandemic expertise in other areas – whether the college has had to adapt swiftly, delivering a workshop on workspace Corporate matched giving: many exploring new virtual ways of skills for students or hosting a regional companies enable their employees to engaging with our global community. networking event for alumni – we participate in Give As You Earn (GAYE) In doing so, the support of alumni would be delighted to hear from you. and Payroll Giving, which allows you volunteers from around the world has Please contact the Alumni Relations to make a tax-free donation directly been invaluable. In June the college and Development Office to discuss from your UK salary or pension. launched its first ever series of ‘Insight how you can help. Your employer may also match your Zooms’ to provide our offer-holders
Our thank you
Regular gifts, of any size, are We also value the lifetime giving of our If you would like to make a the bedrock of our fundraising. loyal donors, recognised through our transformational gift to the college, the Every year we will recognise Giving Circles: Alumni Relations and Development Office would be delighted to advise all those who have made a The Gild: supporters who have you on the naming opportunities given £1,000+ gift in the previous financial available and how you can direct your year through our donor roll, The Elizabeth Hughes Circle: support in the most impactful way. To published in the Easter Term supporters who have given £5,000+ discuss how your philanthropy could edition of Hughes. make a difference to Hughes Hall The President’s Circle: supporters please contact us. who have given £25,000+
The 2020 Richard Berg Rust Lecture
Hard work and heavy drinking, Dan mined the deep roots of Enlightenment’ which saw the sociability and militarism, Northumbrian culture and analysed flowering of both literacy and art, sentimentality and masculinity the origins and misunderstandings and the curiosity and ingenuity that – these were just some of the of stereotypes about the North-East made it a centre for world-changing contradictory themes highlighted in of England. The very geography inventions, from the locomotive to Dr Dan Jackson’s lively illustrated talk. and geology of Northumbria placed the light-bulb. In ‘Understanding the Northumbrians: it at the forefront of centuries of cultural archaeology and the pursuit border warfare and the dangerous of the longue durée in the history but nationally vital work in the coal of North-East England’, he explored mining and shipbuilding industries. We are very grateful for the generous the persistently distinctive culture of support of all those who have made Northumbria, its historical ancestry Yet the region’s landscape and possible this lecture series held in and the impact of different influences natural history contributed to the memory of our former Director from Bede to Brexit. emergence of a ‘Northumbrian of Development, Richard Berg Rust. 22 HUGHES HALL: THANKING YOU
A heartfelt thank you to all our 2019–2020 donors
The following list includes all those who have made a donation, gift-in-kind or a legacy pledge to Hughes Hall during the college’s last financial year (1 August 2019–31 July 2020). We would like to thank all of our donors and also those who have given their time and expertise in support of college activities. Your generosity has made a great difference to Hughes Hall, especially during what has been such a challenging year for the college and many of our members around the world.
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Alumni Janet Oliver* George Dolhai* Carl Bradshaw* 1940s Lesley Parkin Demetrius Floudas** Katherine Brokaw* Anonymous x 1 Ken Parsons* Vivienne Gadzekpo-Duker* Pierre Caquet* Julia Priestley Stratis Georgilas*** Mary Catty*** 1950s Michael J Reiss* Anne-Francoise Gremling* Philippe Charmoy Jean Bowker* Ruth Stanier Kris Hinterseer* William Charnley*** Elizabeth Bryan* Marianne Williamson* Frank Hoffman** Alfred Cheng** Gillian Packer* Richard Khaw** Lynn Clarke** Julia Roskill* 1980s Chihiro Kojima* Ryan Close** Philippa Russell* Anonymous x 4 Leong Lam Marco Costanzi** Gillian Scales Moses Acquaah** John Law** Ian Coveny Teresa Barnes** Jean Marguerat* Kyle Coveny** 1960s Alan Buzza** Liam Mooney* Alexander Dobrinevski* Anonymous x 1 Bertrand Carissimo* Jairo Moyano Will Doward Nora Butler** Jeff Cook*** Fergal O’Reilly** Ann Farrell*** Muriel Gurbutt** Bimal Desai* Elena Papanikolaou Wilson Finch Susan Hampton* Stella Dudzic* Sonali Pathirana** Gareth Forde Jennie Henderson** Kathleen Leitao*** Boma Claudius Pepple Sujoy Ganguly Brigid Norris Terry Nicholls* Chaipong Pongpanich* Rene Gonzalez Campos** Susan Pawson** Grant Ogilvie Peter Prabhu* Liane Grant David Peters-Corbett** Kurt Ritter Joshua Harper 1970s Sally Pinnock* Edward Sankey* Martha Hart Anonymous x 3 Jon Platten Jason Saunders** David Hemsley** Clare Addison*** Robert Powell*** Kenji Takamiya* Bjarki Holm** Penny Andrews* Byron Russell** Shigeki Takebe* Jill Hutton** Ian Bardrick* Martin Sebaldt** Hang Wu Tang* Atsushi Iguchi Steve Clifton** Evan Wallach*** Mark Tashkovich* Asad Kalimi Frances Clow* Alan Walters* Kevin Walsh** Julie Mahoney* Pamela Forde Jay Yates* Zarko Maletin* Neil Grossman*** 1990s Danielle Yeow Michael G Masters Helen Hares Anonymous x 2 Jeffrey Ziegler* Ashwin Mathew* Robert Harley** Katharine Brewer** Andreas Zoupas Murray McCullough Judith Hodson*** Rodney Brown** King Mills* Wendy Julian* Winston Chiu** 2000s Sarah Mills** Jean Lee** Bertrand Dauvergne Anonymous x 4 Hiroyuki Miyake Ian Lewis** Lih-Wen Deng Lilanthi Ambanpola Stuart Moore** Rhona Lewis* Widge Devaney** Lesley Bilby Aoife Murray* HUGHES HALL: THANKING YOU 23
Kevin Outterson* Shotaro Nagino Tony Dickinson* Friends Abdul Qureshi** Xing Yee Neo Ming Qing Du Anonymous x 1 Jonathan Richardson* Tobi Olasunkanmi John Durrell* Man Sing Chan* Hussain Shalchi Bartosz Rogala* Alan Farrow* Chiu Family, Regina, Joy Keir Shiels** Salwa Rogers Anthony Freeling*** and Winston** Leo Y H Siu* K Ru* Emanuele Giovannetti Mindy Grossman*** Stephan Steinmüller Rohan Sakhrani Andrew Gould David Hares Code Sternal* Zhi Wei Set Nick Gray Norman Ho** Alexander Taylor** Dogukan Sevinc Jonathan Hellyer Jones** Kevin Leitao*** John Torr Ashraf Shouaib Ian Hodge Mike Pawson** Peter Waller Jasmin Silver Nevin Hughes-Jones*** Sylvia Raffan** Wayne Williams* Alejandra Soltero Lopez Jon Hutton** Anselmo Reyes** Christopher Worsley*** Niko Stahl Aga Iwasiewicz-Wabnig*** Jo Studdert* Daniel Yong* Goran Studen* Philip Johnston** Marnie Wildenthal*** Yang Su Nikolas Kazantzis* Linda Yip 2010s Timothy Tay Tobias Kohn Hayk Aloyan John Tobing Yury Korolev Trusts and corporations Takis Angelides Carlo F Villorente Celine Labouesse ARM Jordan Appel Samer Wahbeh Edwin Leong*** Bacon Foundation* Jian Wei Aw John Walker-Robertson* Ged Martin*** Beryl Alexander Charity Zerxes Banaji Thanawan Wichienkuer Charles Moseley*** Caisson Investment Jie Bao Joy Williams* Laurel Powers-Freeling*** Management* Stefanie Barone Chloe Wong John Raffan** The Calgary Foundation Jonathan Beagle* Zongyin Yang John Rawlings** Cambridge Precision Ltd Maximilian Campbell Li Yuan Yao Carole Sargent* The Conduit Trust Shivapragash Chandirakumar* Patrick Yip Dan Saxon The Doris Zimmern Charitable Kevin W K Chu Mattia Zarulli Carol Seymour-Richards Foundation*** Felicity Clarke Azedine Zoufir Paul Siklos*** Epic Games Christopher Covey* Janet Smith* The Hatton Trust Juan Del Río Nieto Seniors and staff1 Peter Studdert* Ho Tim Foundation** Fatoumata Diané Anonymous x 4 Jonathan Taylor*** The Owen Hart Foundation Ina Dimireva Buchanan ** Nabeel Affara* Paul Tracey Tai Hung Fai Charitable Graeham Douglas Michael Barrett Caroline Trotter Foundation* Rodrigo Duarte Peter Britton Lars Vinx Niles Garratt* Mary Buckley* Kern Wildenthal*** Joseph Gordon Hilary Burton** Jennifer Williams 1 Marcin Grochowski William Conner Annemarie Young** who are not also alumni Stephanie Grönke Amit Grover* Anurag Gupta Taylor Edward Harris** Stephen Irish* John Jarvis* Zacharias Kapellakis Tarun Kapoor Amritraj Khattoi Wolfgang Sebastian Lautz Lok Yi Lee Sheen Jet Leong Heng Lee Henry Liew Sunganani Lungu* Mariam Malik* Firas Mohamed Marafie Fangda Mei Farhad Mirzayev SOME FUTURE EVENTS
Due to COVID-19 we have had to postpone all our in-person alumni events for the foreseeable future. We will be following public health guidance and regularly reviewing this decision throughout 2020/21 so follow our social media channels and website to stay up to date with our plans.
ONLINE EVENTS
Alumni Festival Regional Zoom Meetups 17–26 September 2020 Dates TBC The 30th year of the Alumni Festival is taking place completely As well as an opportunity to ask questions and hear updates online. Hughes Hall will be represented by Dr Sara Hennessy, from college, these events will allow you to connect with Governing Body Fellow and Reader in the Faculty of Education. other Hughesians in your area. As times, dates and regions are Join her online at 2pm BST on Tuesday 22 September 2020 to confirmed, we will release more information. discover how effective, interactive uses of educational technology and high quality classroom dialogue can support student learning. There will be a large number of other online events to explore from across the University.
Hughes Hall Online Lecture Series Dates TBC Join us for Hughes Hall Online, a series of online webinars, lectures and conversations that will bring you some of the most interesting topics from around Hughes Hall. Keep an eye on our If you have a suggestion for an online event that you website and social media for more information would like to see us organise do get in touch with the Alumni Relations and Development Office.
We look forward to welcoming you to an event in person when it is safe for us to do so.
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