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Michaelmas Term 2020 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.
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