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THE THIRD ISSUE OF OUR ANNUAL ALUMNI MAGAZINE LOOKS AT THE ROLE WESTERN JOURNALISM HAS PLAYED IN COVERING THE EVENTS OF THE ARAB SPRING, FOLLOWS THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF AN OLYMPIC 2012 CYCLING BID, ASKS ‘WHAT NEXT?’ FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UK AND EXPLORES HOW FACEBOOK IS DECODING OUR BEHAVIOUR CONTENTS GREEN TEMPLETON COLLEGE |GTC MAGAZINE 2011 © Green Templeton College 2011 any form of bindingorcover thanthat inwhichitis published ofthepublisher,writing normay itbeissuedto thepublicorcirculated in or transmitted inany form orby any in permission meanswithouttheprior ofthispublication may bereproduced,No part usedinaretrieval system, ForceInterim inLebanon Front cover: Andrew Lee Butters withtheUnited pictured Nations stevemDesigned by: With thanksto Heather Ebner Editorial advisors: DrDavid Levy, SueBerrington. Tel +44(0)1865274787,email:[email protected] Editor: Sue Wilson, Communications Manager Green Templeton College, Oxford. Development and Communicationsat Office The GTC ispublishedannuallyby Magazine the

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How will we work in 5 tomorrow’s world? 4 PRINCIPAL’S WELCOME 5/6 How WILL We work in tomorrow’s world? 7/9 ONE OF THE CROWD 10/11 media revolution of the arab spring 12/14 MEDIC ON TRACK 15/16 EYE ON THE HEAVENS 17/19 GTC NEWS 20/21 THE YEAR IN PICTURES 22/23 NEWS FROM THE UNIVERSITY 24/26 FUNDING HE UK 27/29 BREAKING NEW GROUND 30/31 BACK TO THE WILD 33 SUPPORT FOR RISING RESEARCH STARS 32/37 SUPPORTING GTC 38 ALUMNI FOCUS 39 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY GREEN TEMPLETON COLLEGE | GTC MAGAZINE 20102011

Green Templeton College: in conversation

These events all underline the the world how conversations begun College’s very considerable in Oxford have come to structure ‘convening power’. An example, their personal and professional lives. which I am personally looking Meanwhile, closer to home and even forward to greatly, is our third

PRINCIPAL’S WELCOME PRINCIPAL’S more personally, I particularly enjoy Emerging Markets Symposium, to my conversations with Michael Pirie, be held between 13 and 15 January the College gardener (who never 2012, when policy-makers, scholars complains about having to lay aside and practitioners from all around his hoe), colleagues in the Porters’ the world will address the theme of Lodge (whose fingers are always tertiary education. All of the societies firmly on the pulse of College life), they represent are struggling with the families of students who are the challenge of how best to design, neighbours in Observatory Street, deliver and nurture those systems Photo: Rob Judges Photo: and the Chair of the Common Room of post-compulsory education Liaison Committee (Emeritus Fellow that enable their members to live he best description I know of Professor Ken Reid) on the tennis productive, purposeful, responsible what we are trying to do in higher court (he always wins). and fulfilling lives. In this sense, the education is of ‘a conversation emerging economies are throwing GTC Associate Fellow Theodore between more and less into sharp relief, and with a sense Zeldin concludes his Conversation T experienced learners’. This is the of urgency, questions about equity (based on a series of talks given on definition we used in the report and efficiency with which more BBC Radio Four and published by the of the Dearing Committee (Higher established nations (like the UK, as Harvill Press in 1998) as follows: Education in the Learning Society, I argue elsewhere in this Magazine) 1997). It is why research and “What is missing from the world is have yet fully to engage. teaching are inextricably linked. a sense of direction, because we It is how higher education is Such exchanges are also are overwhelmed by the conflicts always an unfinished business: we underpinned by the College’s which surround us, as though we are seek the truth, but in asymptotic profound sense of place, which will marching through a jungle which fashion we never quite reach it. only be reinforced as major Schools never ends. I should like some of and Departments of the University us to start conversations to dispel Green Templeton College is awash in join us on the Radcliffe Observatory that darkness, using them to create conversation: informally over lunch; Quarter, and (I hope) join in our equality, to give ourselves courage, rather more formally (especially conversations in the café we are to open ourselves to strangers, when we have our usual ration of planning as part of the proposed and most practically to remake our interesting guests) at dinner; over new western quadrangle for the working world, so that we are no coffee in the Stables Bar and Gallery College. I see a lot of Aristotelian longer isolated by our jargon or our or Common Room; and in many peripatetic teaching and advising professional boredom…That is what more structured sessions too. going on as fellows and students I call the New Conversation.” wander around the site. Meanwhile, The latter include: our annual And what better locus is there for it is no accident that when I call programme of lectures and seminars this noble enterprise than Green meetings involving other members (in early 2012 the GTC Lectures will Templeton College? of the University they frequently address ‘States in Crisis’); the thematic ask to hold them in the College. series we host and help to plan (for Here they can enjoy our garden, the example with the Reuters Institute or communal spaces in the Observatory the Future of Work Programme); and Professor Sir David Watson and our excellent catering facilities. student-led events like the Tuesday Principal, Green Templeton College evening Welfare and Wine discussions It is also why other conversations (the only thing wrong with which is matter deeply. I have found the title – I am impressing upon the Collections to be an especially “The ideal college is Mark GCR that much of global conversation effective way of getting to know our Hopkins (President of Williams around welfare deliberately eschews remarkable student body, and the College 1836-72) on one end alcohol), and the annual student-led importance of their work. It has also of a log and a student on Human Welfare Conference (another been an immense pleasure to hear the other.” James Garfield considerable success in 2011). from alumni and alumnae all around 4 | 5

How Will We Work in Tomorrow’s World?

Few subjects are more vital to current policy and economic debates FEATURE than the prospects for work and employment. Green Templeton’s Future of Work Programme aims to enhance our understanding of the critical developments most likely to impact on our working lives in a world of rapid economic, social and technological change.

“ suppose the danger with calling the Launched in February 2010, the our programme could not come at initiative the Future of Work is that interdisciplinary Future of Work (FoW) a more critical time.” it’s misleading because it implies Programme brings together a diverse Four GTC fellows are leading the that we are somehow speculating group of academics and researchers, Programme: joining Ian Kessler and I about what work will look like in both within GTC and across Oxford, to Marc Thompson are Martin Seeleib- some far off ‘space age’,” says Ian explore why and how work is changing Kaiser, Professor of Comparative Social Kessler, GTC Fellow and Reader and impacting societies, and how and Policy and Politics in the Department in Employee Relations at the Saïd whether the development of work of Social Policy and Intervention and Business School. and employment might contribute Robert Walker, Professor of Social to social, economic, physical and “In fact, we are very firmly rooted in the Policy, Department of Social Policy psychological well-being. present: we are seeking to understand and Social Work. They are supported more deeply what is happening now, The programme’s interpretation by research assistants Jonas Heirman so that we can better appreciate future of ‘work’ is broader than just (DPhil Development Studies) and Joe changes in the nature of work and employment: it also includes Feyertag (DPhil Social Policy), both employment and their consequences.” the concept of volunteering, so GTC students. important in the independent sector, The Programme has held regular and activities in the domestic domain, lunchtime seminars and a larger termly often traditionally undertaken by seminar with speakers such as John women. The FoW research agenda Martin, OECD Director for Employment, INNOVATE SOCIAL focuses on six themes: identity Labour and Social Affairs, and in March and work; work boundaries; ethics ETHICS 2011 Junior Research fellow Tuukka IDENTITY of work; mind body and work; PROFESSION Toivonen led a workshop focusing on researching work and innovation youth, early careers and motivation. A and change in work. reading group has also been set up, led FUTURE “The route to full participation in by GTC Junior Research Fellow Karenjit society and a healthy economic order Clare, and the Ngo Future of Work goes through the workplace,” argues Prize, generously sponsored by GTC Marc Thompson, Fellow in Strategy Singapore alumnus Professor Steve RESEARCH and Organisation at Saïd Business Ngo, has been established. School. “All forms of work are worthy It grew out of a shared interest in work of basic dignity and respect – in terms BOUNDARIES and employment issues at a macro and of decent work, decent wages, good micro level at both the former Green and working conditions and the ability to Templeton Colleges. When the colleges sustain a rich family life. Our agenda is merged, it was an obvious area for joint MIND to understand how such conditions, research, integrating as it does many rather than pertaining to the lucky few, of the College’s disciplines: education, can be shared by all. social policy, management, and even “At a time when unemployment in healthcare professions. It also links the UK is racing towards three the ‘four Ps’ of the College’s academic million and where the chances of agenda – professions, practice, policy getting work for young people in and public understanding. countries such as Spain, Portugal, continued overleaf Greece and Ireland is diminishing,

GREEN TEMPLETON COLLEGE | GTC MAGAZINE 2011 ➔ Martin Seeleib-Kaiser cites the FoW “We envisage scholarships associated Timothy Phakathi event held last June as a good example with the six work-related themes receives his prize of bringing stakeholders together and to link the GTC student community from Professor Martin Seeleib- beginning a constructive dialogue. more strongly with the FoW initiative. Kaiser. Building an inclusive workforce in the This could be very powerful in terms wake of the economic crisis looked at of generating high-quality research how the recession and economic crisis outputs,” says Seeleib-Kaiser. “We are has impacted on workforces and what also interested in exploring sponsorship might be done. of particular research areas.”

“The workshop was designed to Kessler adds: “In five years’ time, we help stakeholders identify areas of hope to have established a strong agreement and difference in relation network of engaged practitioners, to these issues and to pave the way for policy makers and academics to come more constructive decision-making together at least once a year to discuss and policy formulation,” he says. an issue of mutual interest. The crucial starting point for the “Instead of the usual presentations, “We also want to have carved out a programme , says Kessler, is engaging presenters gave a brief introduction national and international reputation students and fellows to build an and then discussions began: it for GTC as the place where key players intellectual community within GTC was a more interactive, more come to talk about issues of work around work and employment issues. participative approach.” and employment.” “It’s a ‘grass roots’ approach and we The high-profile participants included are succeeding in getting students László Andor, European Commissioner The Ngo Future of Work Prize actively involved, although there is still for Employment, Social Affairs and scope to get more fellows involved Inclusion, European Commission; The Prize, which has been generously from different academic disciplines, Robbin Brugman, Managing Director sponsored for three years from 2009 particularly the health arena.” of global recruitment consultancy by GTC alumnus Steve Ngo, is awarded annually to an aspiring researcher who Randstad, and Professor Guy Standing, The next stage is to reach out to the has contributed significantly to the former Director of the International rest of the University and establish growing body of knowledge enabling a strong presence as an academic Labour Organisation based in Geneva. people to understand the future ‘hub’ for this activity, before moving of work. “The event showed the value of out from Oxford to national and our workshop model approach: the This prize is open to GTC students international engagement. protected environment meant that no- from all departments and study areas “What makes the initiative distinctive one had to worry that what they had and provides participants with new opportunities to gain experience and is that as well as undertaking research, said would be in the news headlines recognition for their research. we are creating a safe space within the following morning! It has also the College where stakeholders, opened up a relationship between the Students must submit an innovative, including practitioners, policy makers initiative and senior European policy discrete piece of research which has and academics, can engage in genuine makers which is important,” adds either been written specifically for the prize or is based on conference dialogue about issues with a view to Seeleib-Kaiser. papers, papers prepared for journals, or influencing how public policy around chapters or abbreviated sections from labour markets and employment With his FoW colleagues, Seeleib-Kaiser their thesis or dissertation. develops. This three-way stakeholder is now planning a workshop for Spring interaction is crucial and different,” 2012 focused on the implications of an The 2010 Prize was awarded to Timothy explains Kessler. ageing workforce, which will link into Phakathi (DPhil Sociology) for his SOCIAL the European Commission’s Year of paper Getting on and getting by: the Kessler believes that an Oxford college Active Ageing. gold miners’ informal working practice of ETHICS is a good place to create a space for making a plan (planisa). these kinds of discussions because of Other plans for the Programme’s future The 2011 Prize was awarded to Melanie its boundaries and scale: a college is are also underway. It is looking to Bunce (DPhil Politics and International FUTURE an intimate space where people can begin substantive research activities Relations) for The new foreign engage with one another. Whereas and source sustainable funding. At correspondent at work: Local-national many similar initiatives might use big the present time, the Programme ‘stringers’ and the global news coverage set-piece events like large conferences is funded by the College although of conflict in Darfur. BOUNDARIES where participants sit and listen and it is hoped that funding from other then ask questions, GTC’s workshop sources, for example grants from the MIND model allows people to thrash EU or major gifts, will be available, out issues and develop genuine especially to fund scholarships or understanding. junior research fellowships. 6 | 7

JUST ONE OF THE CROWD? With our friendships and social interactions increasingly mediated by technology, through networks such as Facebook and Twitter, FEATURE the digital data trail we leave behind us is helping to transform our understanding of human behaviour.

ocial scientists have long gathered from Facebook makes indicating that adoption decisions questioned how changes in it possible to analyse the growth were made independently of one group social behaviour arise, in popularity of individual apps in another? Or was ‘copying’ behaviour whether it be the popularity unprecedented detail. involved, with the fact that a friend S of a best-selling book or a or other users adopted an app Reed-Tsochas, James Martin Lecturer commitment to recycling. Are influencing the likelihood of its in Complex Systems and Co-Director these changes a result of many subsequent adoption? of the CABDyN Complexity Centre at people simultaneously coming to the Saïd Business School, and Jukka- The results showed that both a similar, independent decision, or Pekka Onnela, at the time a post-doc independent thinking and copying a result of social influence as they with Reed-Tsochas and now based behaviour could be observed, but copy others’ behaviours? at Harvard Medical School, analysed that each type of behaviour tended to The digital age is providing huge anonymous data that tracked 100 dominate under different conditions, amounts of hard data about how we million installations of apps adopted and that this determined whether behave. GTC Fellow Felix Reed-Tsochas by Facebook users over two months apps became hits or not. is using Facebook and its millions of in 2007. When a new app first appears, it is users as a ‘living laboratory’ to examine The data allowed them to monitor adopted by users independently how ideas and behaviours spread, with on an hourly basis the rate at which of their friends. But if its popularity a recent research study throwing light just over 2,700 apps, all that existed crosses a threshold – corresponding on how online social influence works. at the time, were installed by the full to a sustained rate of about 55 The study is based on an analysis population of 50 million Facebook installations a day at the time - its of how millions of Facebook users users, and to track how users’ adoption growth becomes explosive, with its adopted software, known as apps, behaviour evolved over time. Were popularity seemingly driving future to personalise their pages. The data apps adopted in a random pattern, popularity. A typical app was installed

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by thousands of users, but the most would raise all sorts of difficult privacy of users’ choices rather than the result popular app ‘Top Friends’ was in a issues. So the question that we pursued of marketing campaigns by app different league, being adopted by 12 instead was: what could we infer purely developers or online reviews, million users, more than a fifth of the on the basis of the data that we had because neither of these activities entire Facebook population. Below this collected at the level of individual apps, were noticeable at the time. threshold, the effects of social influence not users?” on an app’s adoption are imperceptible. “So, we know there is both local and “Without information that global information that people can Moreover, because popularity seems allowed us to trace how the access about the popularity of apps,” to depend mainly on the choices of apps spread on the network, explains Reed-Tsochas. “We find that other users in the community, rather we were in exactly the same up to certain point people seem to than intrinsic characteristics of the apps position as an investor or be making independent choices with themselves, it does not appear possible financial analyst trying to make regard to app installation. But above this to predict ahead of time which apps sense of the stock market. We threshold, suddenly we find that what will succeed and which will fail. can follow the prices of shares people are doing very much influences what others are doing. The important “We realised that these data would over time in great detail, and thing is that the threshold is not the total allow us to address a number of quite know that the observed market number of apps, but the rate at which it different really interesting questions,” behaviour represents the is adopted. If the number of new users a explains Reed-Tsochas. collective outcome of many individual decisions to buy or day reaches a certain level consistently “One related to cultural products, sell shares based on various bits for a particular app, then my behaviour such as books and films, which have of information, but generally will switch, and my decision to adopt will some really interesting characteristics: we don’t know what sources suddenly be strongly influenced by the because we’re uncertain what value of information influence the choice that other users have made with to attach to them we are particularly choices of individual investors.” respect to that app.” susceptible to the views of others and This ‘switch’ mechanism (and the therefore social influence. The second However, what they did understand fact that it vanishes in a computer characteristic of cultural products is was the structure of the Facebook simulation that randomises the that they are notoriously unpredictable: environment that users faced, and observational data according to even highly-seasoned experts are not what information users had access to specific rules) reveals that what is good at predicting what will succeed and could make use of before choosing happening on Facebook is different and what won’t. The classic example of to install a particular app. that, of course, is that eight publishers from ‘epidemic’ models because it is rejected the first Harry Potter book. First, when the data were collected not the number of users who have So one way we thought about in 2007, Facebook friends were installed the app that is driving it, it is Facebook apps was that they share key automatically notified if one of their more about the rate at which it characteristics of cultural products.” online friends adopted a new app is happening. (although this has now changed). All For Reed-Tsochas, there was also Facebook users could also see a list of The findings should also translate into something interestingly unique in the most popular apps and so knew other online settings, such as online the Facebook environment in relation which apps both the ‘global’ as well as book retailers like Amazon, who allow to social influence. “We simply don’t their ‘local’ community of Facebook users to rate products and thereby know what the Facebook network friends preferred. Importantly, the influence the future popularity of those looks like – for that we would have had 2007 data were collected very shortly products. Of course, in such cases the to obtain consent from Facebook to after apps were launched, so the effects of marketing and advertising access anonymised user data, which rankings were a very pure reflection that are absent for the Facebook apps 8 | 9

The Facebook research also connects constraints that reflect the evolution up to another research agenda about of the human brain, one intriguing the way that new technologies diffuse question is whether the increasing and spread, with the social network use of technology to mediate our providing an opportunity to look at social relations is changing the rules how competing innovations spread. of the game. Does new technology “You can of course argue how much of simply provide alternative channels for an innovation a Facebook app is, but it sustaining social relations, or does it gives a fabulous setting to understand change the nature of our social world? the spread of innovation processes, and the tremendous advantage of all the Felix Reed-Tsochas Robin Dunbar comments: studies in the online world is that we “Network analysis is one have complete and therefore unbiased would need to be included as well. data on this. By contrast there are very of the most exciting new Beyond the online world, the study strong methodological problems with developments in the social may inform us about our behaviour in collecting this kind of data in the real and life sciences in the last the offline world too. world,” argues Reed-Tsochas. half decade. It is opening up unexpected avenues for “At this stage, we cannot There are also broader questions that research and providing some say whether this marks an the Facebook research links to which remarkable insights into important difference between relate to how people use technology human behaviour and social offline and online behaviour, to interact. Reed-Tsochas is exploring organisation.” or whether more detailed and these ideas within the ICTeCollective comprehensive data from project, which is funded by the “Because of the enormous amount of offline contexts will identify European Commission as part of its data in the digital world that we are similar collective behaviour initiative on Future and Emerging able to collect, we really are on the in settings that do not involve Technology. In collaboration with threshold to a different age in the social online environments,” says Robin Dunbar, Oxford Professor of sciences,” concludes Reed-Tsochas. Reed-Tsochas. Evolutionary Anthropology, Reed- Tsochas and colleagues are analysing “As Duncan Watts, one of the pioneers of this new field, has argued, it’s a bit “It’s frustrating that we have some data generated by a group of students like the dawn of the age of the radio clear results and an idea of what might tracked over 18 months as they telescope for the social sciences. Social influence users, but can’t quite put the move from school to university, with science has traditionally been a very pieces together yet,” says Reed-Tsochas. traditional survey data augmented by records of mobile phone usage data-constricted area of research. With colleagues he is working to including calls and texts. Typically data are difficult to obtain, build theoretical computer models often incomplete and noisy, as well as to try to close that gap. GTC research The study is looking at how the subject to multiple biases. Suddenly fellows Eduardo López and Jianguo structure of individuals’ social networks we are in a very different world – Liu are exploring to what extent we evolves over time, as revealed by surrounded by an overwhelming see these behaviours in other systems communication patterns, during a amount of data where the challenge such as online movie ratings, while period when relationships are likely to is to develop new methods that can GTC student Daniel Conrad, who be in flux. Since Dunbar has proposed, help us make sense of the information previously worked for Google, is trying in what he calls the social brain that we are surrounded by. That’s why to understand what the possibilities for hypothesis, that the structure of our some people call this the new age of more ‘predictable’ apps might be. social world is determined by cognitive computational social science.” GREEN TEMPLETON COLLEGE | GTC MAGAZINE 2011 Photo: James May/Alamy Photo:

Media revolution of the Arab Spring FEATURE Journalist and RISJ Visiting Fellow Andrew Lee Butters reports on the role traditional Western journalism played in covering the uprisings which are reshaping the Middle East.

ot long after I moved to Oxford this a profession in crisis. With new media Alexander the Great’s Empire. But mine past winter as a sabbatical of sorts platforms eviscerating old media was even shorter-lived than his, and after eight difficult years working business models, news organisations TIME closed my bureau late last year. as an American journalist in the have been relentlessly shedding So you can imagine my chagrin when N Middle East, I received the perfect journalists. just as I started a journalism fellowship English welcome in the form of Almost as soon as I joined TIME at the Reuters Institute for the Study a police checkpoint on Banbury magazine as the Beirut bureau chief of Journalism (RISJ) in January, the Road. Getting a £20 fine for riding just a few months before the financial biggest Middle Eastern story of a a bicycle at night without lights crisis in 2008 – after several years of generation – the Arab democracy felt like being handed the keys to freelancing for them in and out of uprisings – began breaking out first the city, a sign that I’d left a region Iraq – I began to worry about my job. in Tunisia and then in Egypt. Luckily, of conflict – and almost non- During my tenure, TIME closed its the Institute kindly allowed me to existent traffic law enforcement bureaus in Baghdad, Cairo, and even postpone my fellowship, and – far behind. for a time in Jerusalem, until I was I returned to the Middle East, filing But the truth is that I’d also come to the only staff correspondent for the once again for TIME in Egypt, Lebanon, Oxford not just for a respite from a magazine from Iran through North Iran and Libya, only this time as region in perpetual crisis, but also from Africa – a beat roughly the size of a freelancer. 10 | 11

But even in this smaller role, there was opposition groups did this on their Professional journalists – for our all much about my experience in the Arab own, deserve all the credit, and are still epistemological failings – can do Spring that gives me hope for the future paying the price for it in blood. this not just because we are known of foreign journalism in the region. credible entities: unlike cyber- The way the Western media, especially phenomena such as the ‘Gay Girl in Much has been said about how those of us who have covered the

Photo: James May/Alamy Photo: Damascus’ who turn out not to be protestors organised themselves region for years, played a role is by Syrian lesbian bloggers but married through social media, or how activists reassuring our audiences that, in fact, male American graduate students circumvented media crackdowns the Arab uprisings, rather than posing a in Edinburgh. by posting home-made videos of threat to Western values and interests, government brutality on YouTube. And could potentially redeem them. And not just because it’s easier for yet good old-fashioned journalism still Western audiences to pay attention to Of course, it’s a fair question to ask that mattered to the Arab Spring, if not to ‘the Other’ when the Western media if Western journalism is so valuable, media pundits at home, at least the gives them narratives that are easy to why didn’t we see this coming? participants themselves. digest at home, or celebrity heroes to Indeed, some soul searching is in order social stories, such as Anderson Cooper I received a roughing up by pro-Mubarak because by and large, the Western getting beaten up in Tahrir Square. thugs that detained me on the edge of press, like me, was taken by surprise We can do this because it’s in the DNA Tahrir Square on the one hand, and on by the Arab Spring and stuck in a of real journalists to try to get our the other, an astonishing welcome from Cold War mentality too. And when stories right. the free people of Benghazi – some of I look back at the eight years I’d spent whom literally gave me clothes from reporting and ask if I did enough work One of my journalism professors at their backs, rides in their cars, and food about human rights and democracy Columbia University’s Graduate School from their homes – to remind me that issues, of course, my knee-jerk reaction of Journalism taught our class a kind of the ability of a professional press corps to is: no, I didn’t do enough. In retrospect, Hegelian exercise for hacks called the shine the white-hot light of international I wish I’d known more bloggers and ‘airplane theory’, referring to the idea attention on the abuses of governments more opposition leaders, and why did of what a story should be, worked out is still feared by the powerful and I never do a story about social media in journalist’s head on the plane trip respected by the oppressed. in the Middle East? before landing in a new assignment. The trick of a good journalist is not just But what we should really feel good to have an airplane theory, but to know about is that our coverage did But actually when I take a when – faced with the inevitably messy something that a local press, local deep breath and Google reality on the ground – to get rid of it. activists, and the blogosphere couldn’t myself, with the exception of the fact that I still have have done on its own, which is to very My airplane theory on the flight from written next to nothing about quickly help re-frame the paradigm for Heathrow to Cairo in January was Facebook, not only did I stay how events in the Middle East were that the protests in Egypt were the on top of humanitarian issues, understood in the West. beginning of the end of the Camp but the growing anger and David Accords that signed peace Until the Arab Spring, most observers hopelessness of average between Israel and Egypt and one of of the region had projected a Cold War people, the slow pace of the final chapters of Pax Americana, understanding onto the Middle East reform, and the failure of the the era of American over-lordship in – a zero-sum regional battle between region’s elites was a consistent the Middle East. But when I got to Iran and its allies on the one hand and theme in my work and that of Tahrir Square, I saw very quickly that the US and its allies on the other, with most of my colleagues. almost no one was talking about the no one really winning except al Qaeda- US or Israel and that the revolution in inspired extremists who thrive in the Most of my generation of journalists, Egypt was about Egypt and not about no-man’s-land between fading powers. who cut their teeth in the wars in realigning regional power. ➔ But what Arab anti-authoritarian Afghanistan and Iraq, are more drawn to stories about average people and Of course, a new regional dispensation Andrew Lee Butters activists have done is to break that bi- in Beirut where he polar thinking, and show that a popular life as it’s lived than we are to palaces is on its way, and Arab revolutionaries worked as bureau path for the region to modernise itself and power brokers. But I think our, or and Western journalists will have their chief for TIME rather my, failing was to see people work cut out for them. But as change magazine through human rights does exist. Arab in the region through the prism of inevitably comes to the Middle East, the region’s power politics rather it will arrive country by country, and than as an engine of change in and of each will deal with it, like Tolstoy’s themselves, possibly in part because unhappy families, in its own peculiar we’d seen how Western actions way. So perhaps the ultimate lesson of and invasions – which supposedly the Arab Spring is now not to force a had meant to bring modernity and new paradigm – Western democracy democracy to the region – had actually – onto the region, but perhaps to force tarnished those ideals. We were wrong, that narrative onto ourselves. There will but we realised it, changed our minds, be plenty of unemployed journalists and brought our audience with us. to help. 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MEDIC ON TRACK GTC student Claire Galloway (Clinical Medicine) has spent the

FEATURE last year training with the GB cycling squad. She shares the highs and lows of her bid to represent Great Britain in track cycling at the London 2012 Olympics. 12 | 13

ust over a year ago I was given one of the hardest things I have ever tend to be longer and much more the opportunity of a lifetime: the done. You are constantly aiming technical with tight corners and chance to train for a place on the to achieve perfection, all the while twisting descents, not to mention GB women’s Team Pursuit cycling knowing that it can never really be the cobbles! J squad for London 2012. reached, as you will always be able to I represented GB for the first time at go that little bit faster! I had started road cycling in November a World Cup team time trial and road 2009 having recovered from a rowing race in Sweden alongside Olympic back injury, and by February 2010, I I was trying to get to a very champion Nicole Cooke. We could use was racing and completely hooked. high standard in a very short race radios in this event which was On the back of some good results that space of time, so as soon as I great fun, especially when one of the season, British Cycling invited me for a got the hang of something the team got a puncture and I got called day of testing in June. To my complete coaches pushed me on to the back to ‘tow’ her back to the peloton surprise they asked me to join the next level, which was incredibly (she got to slipstream behind me so squad training to compete in the frustrating sometimes. using less effort); something I had Olympic Games. However, the thrill of reaching never done before, but it was satisfying speeds of more than 60kph to be able to help the team. I love sport and I love competing to does not seem to wear off – the highest level I possibly can, so I and neither does riding round After the road racing it was back to the knew that although it would mean the very highest part of the track, with a small break in October putting my medical studies on hold for banking at the very top of the for a training camp in Mallorca. In at least a year, there was no way I could track and looking down! November I was selected as Team turn down such an opportunity. Pursuit reserve for the European Track Championships. Although I had not Summer 2010 was spent learning a Along with the sheer physicality of the expected it and was over the moon whole new cycling discipline: track training comes the science behind just to be there, watching the girls cycling. it, which is fascinating. Sometimes in a track session there will be more win gold in Poland exactly a year on Going round and round a velodrome coaches, physiologists, biomechanics, from when I first started cycling was may not sound that difficult or that sports scientists, and mechanics fantastic, and made me want to be in appealing, but quickly I realised that than athletes. Alongside the latest the team more than ever. there was much more to it than just most aerodynamic kit there is video, Winter was tough, with the weather pedalling round in circles and you power and biomechanical analysis, turning ever colder up in Manchester. get to go very fast! However, up in both on the track and in the lab, as There was plenty of track training but Manchester at the GB training camp well as lifestyle changes to maximise as endurance riders we also did a lot of headquarters, being coached by Paul performance during and recovery training on the road. Despite a trip to Manning and training with the likes after sessions. France and another training camp in of Wendy Houvenaghel and Rebecca Mallorca, it was impossible to escape Romero, I was being taught by the I also had a month road racing on the the snow and ice. One memorable best in the world. continent with the GB Under 23 girls, December ride involved three hours which was another huge learning curve. Learning how to ride on the track was of riding in the snow with our coach like learning a new sport, with different Racing in Belgium and Holland is very following in a car behind, enjoying bicycles, a different type of training, different to in the UK; for them it is a watching us suffer while he sat with and completely new techniques. Both national sport and the standards are the heating on full blast!

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Right: Claire discusses race tactics with coach Paul Manning during a training session at the Manchester Velodrome

Far right: Claire took part in a number of road races during

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At the beginning of January the Cup in February, in preparation for the months have been dogged by illness whole Team Pursuit track squad came World Championships in March. and unfortunately I have had to back together in Manchester for withdraw from two of my season Having achieved so much out of the two weeks’ track training, where we targets: the National 25-mile Time Trial track work in January, it was time to worked on our power and speed. On Championships and the National Road move things on again. The plan was the last day we did half race distance Race Championships. to enter two teams for the home World efforts holding a pace faster than the Cup, a development team and Not the season that I had wanted, but current Team Pursuit world record. a podium team. I have come to realise that cycling This required discipline and teamwork at this level has to be a long-term from everyone, but to know how fast Although I had improved enormously project. I plan to carry on racing to the we were going, and the fact that there since I first started in the summer there highest standard I possibly can, and were nine of us able to do so, was were still aspects on the track where hopefully next season get some more incredibly satisfying. I was just not quite good enough international road racing experience in compared to some of the others. Then it was time for an endurance Europe with a semi-professional team. training block in Mallorca to enable us The difference in lap times was It’s hard to find the words to sum up to hold the power and speed we had milliseconds but at the level we were my experiences over the last year, but found on the track for longer. Although aiming at it meant I was only a reserve I have learnt a huge amount about not shorts and short sleeve weather, once again. This was both hugely both cycling and myself, and have met there was no snow, and only one day frustrating and disappointing for me. some incredible people along the way. of rain. I felt I could do what was required, but just needed that little bit more time. It I also know it’s not the end of my cycling career; I still have a lot to look It was a tough couple of weeks meant I would not be in contention for forward to and plenty to achieve. with four to five-hour rides the World Championships and I would Alongside that I have really missed including harder efforts up the not get the time that was needed. medicine, and I hope I can use some of mountains, as well as shorter The decision was made that I would what I have learnt as a doctor too. rides with full-on efforts on the no longer be on the Team Pursuit flats. We were lucky to be out squad for London 2012 and so I would However, one thing is for certain: I there with Team Sky (the Tour return to fifth year medicine at Green cannot thank GTC enough for all its de France Team), who had their Templeton in July. support. The grant from the Annual personal chef cooking at the Fund meant I could support myself in hotel and the food was not My plan was to make the most of the the first few months before I was eligible only amazing but incredibly three months I had before starting my to receive funding from British Cycling. studies again, and enjoy the summer healthy too. Finally I need to thank the College road racing season. tutors, in particular GTC Fellow After a few days to recover, we were It got off to a good start, and to Dr Laurence Leaver, for not only back on the track and thinking about raise my game I entered some helping me in taking my year out, but

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EYE ON THE HEAVENS One of the most important historic scientific buildings in the UK, the Radcliffe Observatory played a pivotal role in the historical development FEATURE of astronomy for 161 years from 1773. Charles Barclay, Director of the Blackett Observatory at Marlborough College and a GTC Common Room Member, charts its contribution to our understanding of astronomy.

or those who drive along Woodstock observed well and the need to succeed also managed to beat Greenwich Road or whose studies bring them in the 1769 transit was heightened. to the last and finest of John Bird’s within the gates of Green Templeton The Astronomer Royal was considered mural quadrants and observations College, the Radcliffe Observatory too important to risk on a long voyage commenced in 1774. F and the Tower of the Winds are and thus his ‘number two’ was sent in The building was well thought out, universally appreciated but there the care of a young naval lieutenant to with the East wing for the main is little to suggest the pivotal role newly discovered Tahiti. After successful instruments, the West for teaching that the Observatory played in the measurements, James Cook was instruments and the first floor a development of UK astronomy free to sail on south and discovered lecture room with laboratories in over the course of one and a half the Antipodes. two side rooms. The Observer’s centuries. instruments could be reached via a The only giveaway is the due East-West Oxford was in the driving seat covered walkway from the residence, construction; domes and telescopes for science in the 18th century enabling and encouraging frequent came later. Key to the success of and particularly astronomy. A observations, though Hornsby did not the Observatory in its 18th century succession of Savilian Professors, work after midnight. first Edmund Halley, then infancy was its top-of-the-range continued overleaf mural quadrants, instruments to make James Bradley (both went on to positional measurements of the Sun, become Astronomer Royal) and Moon, planets and bright stars, which then Thomas Hornsby led the demanded North-South walls. quest for knowledge.

The story of the Observatory starts Hornsby had observed the 1769 transit with a black dot; the beautifully circular from his ‘observatory’, a room in Corpus

and jet black shape of the tiny planet Christi College. This perhaps more than Trustees courtesyPhoto of the Radcliffe Venus as it crosses in front of the Sun. anything persuaded him that a serious Only exactly aligned every 120 years observatory was needed in Oxford or so in a pair of transits, the last was and he petitioned for Radcliffe funds, in June 2004, the next is 6 June next following the Library and the Infirmary, year: after that we will have to wait till for a building north of the City. Not December 2117. only did he succeed but he Due to a number of disasters, the first predicted transit in 1761 was not GREEN TEMPLETON COLLEGE | GTC MAGAZINE 2011

2012 Transit of Venus The transit of Venus starts in the evening of Tuesday 5 June and ends just after sunrise on Wednesday 6 June 2012. The timing makes live

viewing from Oxford unlikely but ➔ this rare planetary phenomenon will be marked by a number of events The Barclay Equatorial organised by the College and Oxford telescope arrived at the Observatory in 1885 Astrophysics in the days leading up (right) to the transit. The Observatory Tower Check the GTC website at room was completed www.gtc.ox.ac.uk for more details in 1795 and was ideal when events are confirmed. for the use of telescopes (far right)

The eminence of the Observatory By 1879 when Edward Stone became Africa in 1935 and the instruments came from Hornsby’s meticulous the sixth resident, the Observatory were offered to a couple of museums observations and timings and was in poor repair, lacking funds and academic institutions; some of the accuracy of the instruments, and instruments. Stone apparently the small instruments and quadrants producing tables for the nautical petitioned his Royal Astronomical went to the Museum of the History almanacs which facilitated safe Society dining colleague Joseph of Science, others to the Science navigation at sea through accurate Barclay to donate his fine 10-inch Museum. The Barclay telescope went longitude determination. His 80,000 aperture Cooke 1860 refractor to Marlborough College in Wiltshire to measurements over a period of 29 telescope to the Observatory. The be re-discovered, taken apart, restored years were of a quality unequalled Barclay Equatorial arrived in 1885 and computerised in 2003. elsewhere and so voluminous that in time to record the longest light In its 161 years of astronomical they were not fully computed till 1932. curve of a supernova in neighbouring observations, apart from the value of Andromeda galaxy, data which was In 1781, ‘beyond the meridian’ the published meridian tables, the later important in the 1950s theory observing – the use of telescopes to Radcliffe Observatory boasts a fine of nucleosynthesis. scan the sky rather than concentrating tally of discoveries – minor planets, purely on North-South meridian asteroids, comets, double stars, novae crossings – took off following William Following the establishment and supernovae – while the accurate Hershel’s discovery of the planet of the University Observatory observations of the anomalous motion Uranus from Bath. in The Parks in 1873, the of Mercury were used to support Radcliffe Observatory lacked Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity The patronage and fame he obtained the patronage and financial over a century later. attracted amateurs to search the skies support of the University. Only with small portable telescopes. The a serious instrument could give Tower room, finished in 1795, was it a new lease of life and this ideal for this as small instruments came with the huge 24/18-inch could be manoeuvred out onto the double refractor telescope balconies and the dark skies north of delivered in 1903. Oxford were ideal for exploratory work in addition to the serious meridian Sadly, though a world-class instrument, timings measured on the ground floor. it came too late, as chemical and light The Observatory was still ranked in pollution made the site less than ideal the top four worldwide in 1820 with for observing the heavens. The last UK Berlin, Koenigsberg and Cambridge. based observer Harold Know-Shaw The heyday ended in 1839 when engineered the move to South the University and its Savilian Chair parted company, weakening Oxford’s scientific offering. The Observatory had to stand on its own as a private establishment with a ‘Radcliffe Observer’ at its helm. Photo: Greg Smolonski/Photovibe Greg Photo: Photo: Brendan Photo: Harmon 16 | 17

ANCIENT WALL AND WATER GATE RESTORED

he restoration by Green Templeton at which time the Abbey site became the College maintenance team who of Rewley Abbey wall, which was a coal yard. retired last April. David is a skilled metal overgrown and falling down, and worker who, during his apprenticeship, The 300 foot long wall included a its water gate has brought back was trained as a blacksmith learning watergate through to the adjacent T to life a historic view of 13th such traditional skills as hammer mill stream depicted in several old century Oxford. welding. He has worked on many illustrations of Rewley Abbey, but it historic buildings in Oxford and had disappeared, either taken down The ancient wall built in Coral Rag, a surrounding towns. stone no longer quarried, runs along or disintegrated with time. Mill Stream (also known as Sheepwash IJP Conservation, who previously Designed to be in keeping with old

Channel) path, which is accessible restored the Tower and Tythe Barn pictures and illustrations, the gate NEWS GTC from Hythe Bridge Street, and now at Greys Court, Henley, was selected is made of mild steel in two leaves forms part of Rewley Abbey Court, a to undertake the restoration project. opening inwards against the existing College student residence near to the Restoration required removal of historic stone steps and is built within a Saïd Business School. extensive overgrowth of ivy and other support frame to avoid damage to the surrounding stone arch. The gate, frame, Rewley Abbey was founded in 1281 foliage and dismantling, cleaning and rebuild of much of the length. A supply latches and lock housing were all made by Edmund, Earl of Cornwall and by David in his workshop at home. was intended as a chantry of secular of Coral Rag originating from Oxford priests to pray for his soul. His son, Castle was located and a traditional “Since its completion as a working also Edmund, went further and in lime mortar mix was used to rebuild gate, not only do the students use 1280 founded a college for Cistercians the stonework. it regularly but we see many people at Oxford. The college continued in “Once work on the wall was walking along the mill path, stopping various forms until 1536 when it was complete, a replacement gate was just to enjoy the sight of this ancient dissolved into several smaller houses. needed to complete the restoration. craftsmanship which looks now as if It is recorded that its annual income at After discussion with the Oxford it could survive another 700 years,” that time was £174. Preservation Trust and English adds Mike. Heritage, we decided to construct a In 1851 Rewley Road station was built The restoration project won an Oxford new gate ourselves,” explains Mike on the site by the Buckinghamshire Preservation Trust Award 2011 for a Dudley, College Bursar and GTC Fellow. Railway Co., after the fashion of Crystal small project which was presented Palace, serving the line to London via The new gate was designed and to David Witham at the OPT Awards

Bletchley. The station closed in 1951, made by David Witham, a member of evening on 3 November. ➔

The new water gate in the restored Rewley Abbey wall (right) was made by retired GTC staff member David Witham. (Photo by Debra Farrell)

An 18th century engraving from the British Library archives depicts the original water gate (far right top)

The overgrown wall and gate before the restoration project began (far right bottom) © The British Library Board (Add. 15546 f.52) British Library (Add. © The Board GREENGREEN TEMPLETON TEMPLETON COLLEGE COLLEGE | GTC | GTC MAGAZINE MAGAZINE 2009 2011

A SPORTING CHANCE A proposed new multi-purpose That’s set to change with the a store room at either end which will sports building is set to enhance construction of a new multi-purpose help to alleviate storage constraints sporting opportunities at GTC. sports building which will stretch which prevent the provision of across part of the back gardens of additional sporting equipment such GTC students are a sport-loving lot. College houses in Observatory Street. as a tennis table and martial arts mats. As well as the Boat Club, other College Outside there will be a barbecue area GTC NEWS GTC sports clubs and teams from football Designed by architect Graeme and a children’s play area. The building to squash, and basketball to table Beamish, the £100,000 building is a will leave two-thirds of the back tennis, are popular and becoming room, approximately 20 metres by 8.5 garden areas untouched. increasingly successful in intra-mural metres, which can be used as one large competitions. A number of students unit or can be partitioned off, allowing The application for planning are also representing the University part to be used as a weights room, permission is being prepared as the and winning Blues in their chosen while the other part can be used for Magazine goes to press but there have sports. other activities such as yoga, circuits, been positive indications so far from dance, handball, and netball. It will be the City Council, including from local But although the College benefits from constructed of recyclable materials, Councillor Clark Brundin. a squash court, a small gym in Lord with solar panels planned for the roof. Napier House and two hard tennis “The building is a much-needed courts, space to enjoy other forms of There will be a foyer with lockers, and very welcome addition to the exercise is limited. benches and drinking fountain and College,” says GCR Sports Officer Laurel Steinfield. “To make it happen, the GCR pledged to raise £25,000 towards the costs of construction from student-led initiatives and in two months we have managed to raise over £12,500 through fundraising events and activities.” Events included barbecues, a music festival, a sports banquet, donations,

and a very successful promises ➔ auction which raised almost £3,500. Artist’s impressions of the Additional fundraisers to kit out the exterior and interior of space with cardio machines, weights, proposed multi-purpose sports building (above mats and other equipment are

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Jasen scoops the Principal’s Prize The Prize is awarded annually to a Fourteen members of staff were member of staff who has made an nominated for the Prize this year, and outstanding contribution to the College. there were also (tongue-in-cheek!) nominations for Burbank, the College cat. Jasen was nominated by members from all sections of the College Sir David said: “For many important community for the excellent job he does purposes, Jasen is the public face of as the friendly and welcoming ‘front the College. The advisory panel who of house’ in the dining room and his made the award was impressed by efficient management of the catering the fact that he was praised by all service with the rest of the team. corners of the community for his Comments from those who nominated warmth and helpfulness. I’m also him included: “Jasen is a star. He is aware that so much of his work takes ➔ Jasen Bustin, College Butler and a place behind the scenes where he Jasen Bustin with familiar smiling face for all alumni always professional, smiling and willing Professor Sir David works enormously hard and with who have eaten in College over the to go out of his way to help,” and “One Watson great professionalism.” last few years, has been awarded of his many attributes is a cheerful willingness to deal with Fellows’ special this year’s Principal’s Prize in “It’s fantastic to receive the Principal’s entertaining requirements which in recognition of his hard work and Prize in recognition of my work at my experience he does with unfailing dedicated service in heading up the GTC, although credit is also due to the enthusiasm and creativity”. dining and catering facilities at GTC. brilliant team of waiting and kitchen He was presented with an engraved Jasen came to the former Green staff who support me so well. The fact decanter by Professor Sir David Watson College in 2004 as Assistant Steward/ that I was nominated by members of at the College summer garden party Butler from Jesus College. In 2008 he the College community makes the in July. became the College Butler. honour even more special,” Jasen said. Outstanding student achievement marked by Nautilus Awards Twenty-one GTC students received Nautilus Awards are made to students community through their contribution Nautilus Awards in recognition of who have enhanced the College’s to College life. Winners are nominated their exceptional achievements and reputation throughout the University by fellow students and are selected by a contribution to the vibrant life of through their outstanding athletic small panel of College officers. Winners the student community over the or academic achievement, or who received a certificate and a specially- last academic year. have enriched the life of the student designed silver Nautilus jewellery. The Nautilus Award winners 2011 are: Academic Achievement Catherine Taylor. For excellence in commitment to supporting students her programme. with disabilities. Charlotte Greenhalgh For organisation of the Welfare and Wine programme. Sporting Achievement Caitlin Corner-Dolloff GCR Environment Officer. Druv Joshi For excellence in his David Bruce For Blues Athletics and Cross Country. Sean Grant For contribution to college programme and for leading mentoring community spirit, including GTBC, Human groups for students on the MBA Nadine Levin For establishing the GTC Welfare Conference, the Summer Ball, programme. Squash Club and coordinating College LimeAid and Telethon. sports fundraising. Yael Litmanovitz For organisation of the Burcu Ozdemir For bar management Welfare & Wine programme. Seonsam Na For College Table Tennis. and bop organisation. Nicholas Sabin For establishing the GTC Kate Roll GCR Charities & Development Mahiben Maruthappu For academic Squash Club. success outside his programme, Officer. including founding the UK Medical Laurel Steinfield For achievements in Caroline Sanvitale President of the Student Association, and winning a University Football and Triathlon, and GTC Ball Committee Kennedy Scholarship to Harvard next coordinating student sports fundraising. academic year. Josephine (Jojo) Scoble GCR Publicity Andrew Symington President of Green Officer. Templeton Boat Club 2010-2011. Myura Nagendran For published research Anna Seeley GCR Welfare Officer. and national prizes, including the UK College Citizenship Cardiothoracic Surgery Society’s National Marshall Worsham GCR Vice-President Student Presentation Prize. Amy Burrell GCR Treasurer, and for Welfare. GREEN TEMPLETON COLLEGE | GTC MAGAZINE 2011

1 2 THE YEAR IN PICTURES In academic, social and sporting terms, life at Green Templeton has been busy and successful again in 2010-2011: here are just a few of the highlights in pictures.

1: Alumni reunion in Kuala Lumpur in August (l to r): Mr Khamarul Baharain Sulaiman; Dr Ahmad Ibrahim; Ms Alina Tunku; Mr Hanson Toh; Dr Paul Temporal; GTC Director of Development and

PHOTO FEATURE PHOTO Communications Sue Berrington; Mr Keng Lee Teo, and Dr Edward Loke Foo 2: Laurel Steinfield creates original art at the Welfare and Wine exhibition launch event 3: Oxford Vice Chancellor Andrew Hamilton (left) is presented with a gift from students of University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand by GTC’s Bree Loverich (right) in thanks for support for the earthquake- damaged university 4: The Comedy Store’s Neil Mullarkey with students during the improvisation workshop at GTC 5: The Human Welfare Conference 2011 organising committee 6: Sir John Hanson (former Warden of Green College) makes a new friend at the summer garden party 7: LimeAid raised £650 for local charity 8: GTC FC celebrate promotion 9: Jack Templeton (far left) and Pina Templeton (far right) at the Foundation Dinner with alumnus and associate fellow Dr Nicholas Edwards and former Development Director Heather Ebner 10: Alumni based in North America at the GTC New York Reunion hosted by Professor Sir David Watson in April 11: The GTBC Men’s First Eight crew win blades at Eights Week in June 12: Sir Douglas Hague introduces his eponymous annual lecture at the Saïd Business School 13: Boat naming ceremony at Longbridges Boathouse 14: Students gather to celebrate the traditional Thanksgiving holiday in Oxford. Photos by: Debra Farrell; Charlotte Greenhalgh; Peter Hudston; Rob Judges and Andrew Symington.

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Oxford gets ‘app-y’ A new iPhone app, is bringing the utilises the iPhone’s GPS technology to to the latest news story, events and history, traditions, culture and show where they are on a map, with exhibitions. architecture of Oxford University places of interest nearby. All proceeds from the sale of the app will to life in a new format. Another feature is ‘We Suggest’, a series be used to develop and fund free apps Aimed mainly at the nine million of personal recommendations for a for current and prospective students in tourists who visit Oxford each year, as ‘Perfect day in Oxford’ which sets out the future, possibly the undergraduate well as everyone with an interest in the things to see and places to visit to and graduate prospectuses. There are collegiate University, the app combines make up an ideal day, from where to also plans to create a version of the text and images with live news and eat breakfast to what to do at the end Oxford app for iPad users and a version events feeds to provide up-to-the- of the day. for Android devices. minute information about Oxford in an These fascinating personal insights The Oxford app is available to engaging and mobile format. into the city and the University from download from the Apple Store at The main feature of the app is themed University staff and students include a cost of £2.49. collections of information which where the Chancellor likes to walk his Find out more at www.ox.ac.uk/apps enable visitors to follow an itinerary dog and where the Vice-Chancellor that is of interest to them, such as goes to unwind after Literary Oxford (for fans of JRR Tolkien a busy week, while or CS Lewis), Nobel prize winners, or Professor Sir David stained glass. There are even Harry Watson, GTC Principal, Potter and Inspector Morse tours, suggests visiting the which include the Oxford locations Radcliffe Observatory used in the popular films and and the Osler television programmes. McGovern Centre at 13 Norham Gardens. Each theme offers a list of locations and attractions highlighted on a live Content from the map, and users can either choose to University’s website UNIVERSITY NEWS follow the full itinerary or select just is also available via some items for a customised tour the app, from the ‘On using a ‘favourites’ list. Users can also this Day’ and ‘Famous use a feature called ‘Near me’ which Oxonians’ features,

Oxford establishes Blavatnik School of Government Scholars and practitioners of health, opened in September of this year Economic Governance is enthusiastic welfare, science and public policy – and, with GTC having already offered about the project: “The world has and there are many at GTC – will be its support, Blavatnik students shown in recent years that it needs interested to note the launch of the should be on site in the late summer the skills of public policy makers like Blavatnik School of Government, of 2012. never before. Oxford has answered Europe’s first major school of and our job now is to provide the It is fitting that GTC provides support government and a significant new leaders of tomorrow with the skills and from the first stages as the Blavatnik development for the University. knowledge to make the best decisions School will soon be the College’s close

Photo: John Cairns Photo: for humanity.” neighbour; the School’s exceptional new Professor Ngaire Woods The School has already seen significant building will be one of the landmarks on interest in its curriculum which The School is especially interested in the redeveloped Radcliffe Observatory addresses public policy making from a cultivating contacts in smaller and Quarter. Until then the School will take global perspective and draws on law developing countries, both in terms up residence at 10 Merton Street, part of and economics, philosophy and ethics, of encouraging applications and University College. medicine, science and statistical analysis. potential future areas of research study Applications for the school’s flagship Ngaire Woods, the School’s Academic and partnership. Find out more at the qualification Master of Public Policy, Director and Professor of Global School’s website at www.bsg.ox.ac.uk 22 | 23

Historic development New Dean boosts academic links for Saїd

Green Templeton’s strong The Institute aims to become the Business academic links with the world’s first interdisciplinary academic Department of Primary Health research centre dedicated to School Care, where a number of GTC understanding the attitudes, values fellows are based, are set to be and experiences of people coping with strengthened by the Department’s illness or making decisions about their move to brand new offices on health, and to use this to make the Radcliffe Observatory a difference, and to inform policy Quarter (ROQ). and healthcare providers.

One of the first buildings to be The new building is a small part of constructed on the University’s 10-acre the wider redevelopment of the site, development adjacent to GTC will which is one of the most significant Peter Tufano

be a three-storey, £11.5m health development projects the University Powell Tracey Photo: centre, on which construction began has undertaken for more than a Professor Peter Tufano of the in June 2011. century. It will create a lively social, Harvard Business School is the cultural and academic centre for both new Peter Moores Dean of Oxford’s The upper floors of the centre will be the city and the University. Saїd Business School. He took up home to the University’s Department his post on 1 July 2011, succeeding of Public Health and Oxford University A new Mathematical Institute building Professor Colin Mayer. Press, while the Jericho Health Centre, is planned, as well as a Humanities with three GP practices, will move to centre and library. The complete Professor Tufano spent over 30 years at the ground floor from its current base refurbishment of the Radcliffe Harvard, earning his AB in economics in Cranham Street. Infirmary building is now underway (summa cum laude), MBA and PhD in with completion due in the summer Business Economics from the University. The state-of-the-art building will be of 2012. The building will be occupied He has been a member of the Harvard situated in the north-western corner by the Humanities Divisional Office, Business School faculty for 22 years, of the ROQ site and is scheduled for the Faculty of Philosophy and the latterly as the Sylvan C Coleman completion in May 2012. Philosophy and Theology Libraries. Professor of Financial Management. In particular, the Oxford Health Most importantly for GTC, new spaces Over the past decade, he has worked to Experiences Institute (HEXI), which and vistas will be created around the advance the field of consumer finance. is based at GTC and is a partnership Observatory, bringing the building and This work has influenced businesses project between the College and the the College to prominence within the city. and policy makers, leading to two Department, supported by the DIPEx changes in US federal tax policy and charity, is likely to benefit from the Find out more about the ROQ and see new approaches to financial education. close physical proximity. a live webcam at www.ox.ac.uk/roq. “I am thrilled to be asked to lead the School. Society faces many problems today, and business, as the economic engine of society, has a critical and constructive role to play in addressing many of them. The world looks to leading business schools for innovative ideas that inform action, and for well- trained and principled graduates. The School is well positioned to excel on both of these dimensions.” He added: “It is served by an outstanding faculty, and attracts some of the most able and committed students internationally. I am greatly

looking forward to building upon ➔ this success, working with my new colleagues at the School and in the An artist’s impression of the new ROQ broader University to produce powerful health centre due for ideas and outstanding graduates to completion in 2012 strengthen both business and society.” GREEN TEMPLETON COLLEGE | GTC MAGAZINE 2011

Funding UK HE: what has the Coalition done? FEATURE As the implications of the proposed reforms to the UK higher education system set out in a recent government White Paper sink in, Professor Sir David Watson offers his view. 24 | 25

iewed from almost any this half-century of reform of brittle In early and mid-December, perspective, higher education in certainty, uncertainty and evidence- and against a background of the UK seems to be in turmoil as free gambling on the outcomes. the strongest student protest we enter the academic year 2011- seen since the late 1960s, Some things are confirmation of V 12. How much of this is political, the Coalition won votes in announcements we have already how much economic, and how both Houses of Parliament had, including the broken-backed much about the state of relations representing a significant response to Browne on fees. The between teaching, research and modification of what the proposals here attempt to make a the wider world? What are the Report said. For example, curious kind of market, where at one implications for Green Templeton Browne had suggested that end students with high qualifications College, in the short and longer the upper limit (or ‘cap’) on (AAB at A Level) can almost demand term? There are no easy answers. fees should be removed, and entry to a range of so-called elite Higher education is a policy area in that fees above a certain institutions (whether or not these have which the Conservatives and Liberal level should be subject to the capacity to respond) and at the Democratic Parties fought the 2010 a government-retained other, institutions will be encouraged election on diametrically opposed ‘levy’ to help to support the to undercut each other on price. At the positions. This difference was not whole system. In the event same time the Office for Access (OFFA) just about undergraduate fees. The a cap remained and the levy will have its teeth sharpened. disappeared. Conservatives promised continued A second category of proposals expansion, on the grounds of both (mostly those where the Coalition From all of this we knew what was social mobility and economic priority. initially disagreed), are out for intended to happen to the funding of The Liberal Democrats (not just ‘consultation’. These include: post- UK and EU-based undergraduates. because they struggled to see how to qualification admissions (PQA), where pay for it) thought that enough was On 28 June 2011 the government surely by now there ought to be enough. Perversely, in terms of many finally published its White Paper on enough evidence for a system with of their other policies, they have come higher education, Putting Students at courage and confidence simply to to be the ‘pulling up the ladder’ party. the Heart of The System. This represents choose; up-front payment of fees (but the eleventh new ‘framework’ for UK with precious little modelling of likely In November 2010 the Coalition higher education since the Robbins effects); “criteria for degree-awarding government stated that it ‘accepted’ Report of 1961. To put the point powers”; reduction or removal of VAT the Report of the Review led by Lord crudely, for every third entry of a for shared services (surely a no-brainer, Browne (former CEO of BP) of the cohort into the system since then the except to the Treasury); and another funding of higher education. This system has been thrown up into the attempt at devising a regulatory Review had been a condition, set out air by a government claiming that system that is both lighter-touch and in 2004, of the Labour government’s it is fixing the sins of the previous more interventionist. introduction of ‘variable’ student fees, administration (including sometimes contrary to their own Manifesto and Meanwhile, a serious silence in the its own party). with the combined opposition of paper (with implications for university the Conservative and Liberal This latest framework exhibits the pricing policies) is exactly how much Democratic parties. characteristic mixture throughout grant they might expect for the STEM continued overleaf

The main features of the White Paper included: • a massive cut (the general estimate is certain level (set for now at £21,000) of around 60 per cent by the end of over a period of up to 30 years; the period) to the grant to be made • a stringent test for any institution to the Funding Council to support planning to charge more than the undergraduate teaching; base-line fee £6,000 that it is setting and meeting targets related to • its replacement, at least in part, by a under-represented groups in higher framework of higher fees (between education; and £6,000 and £9,000 per year, compared to the current maximum of just • some residual funding from HEFCE over £3,000), to be paid up-front to the institutions for subjects that by government to the institutions are “of strategic importance” (like and then recovered from graduates science, engineering, technology through the tax system (all across and medicine) or “vulnerable” (like

the EU) when their incomes reach a some languages). with the permission of Parliament reproduced images are copyright Parliamentary GREEN TEMPLETON COLLEGE | GTC MAGAZINE 2011 FEATURE Photo: Sabrina Martins, Aventura Selvagem, Brazil Selvagem, Sabrina Photo: Martins, Aventura Photo: DanielPhoto: Clements ➔ Students protest (Science, Technology, Engineering and As suggested above, all of this is about recently declared that no students will against the proposed Mathematics) subjects. Sir Tim Wilson’s undergraduate funding (although pay more than the current maximum hike in university fees in 2010 review of “how we make the UK the there is the welcome feature that fee (£3,200) uplifted for inflation. best place for university-business part-time students at this level are Meanwhile, in wider international collaboration” falls into the same zone finally going to get a look-in on state terms England is also out of step. As of ‘more research needed’. support). Browne was also asked to Alan Langlands, the Chief Executive look at the situation of post-graduate of HEFCE, reminded us in a lecture In contrast, there are the evidence-light funding, although in the end proposed in Oxford just after Browne reported, leaps of faith, where clearly no further basically ‘no change’ in a couple of we have to be ready when a future research would be welcome. These desultory pages at the end of the government returns, as it surely include: the robustness of data about Report. The government have yet to will, to invest in HE. In his words “we the student experience (someone address this important question. should paint ‘when did you last see must not accept that the decision to reduce public investment in higher your supervisor?’ [after W F Yeames]); It can be argued that this education is fixed for all time… Most the lighter-touch ‘regulation’ of is a serious abdication of other developed nations are investing standards and awards (surely counter- responsibility. All around in higher education, science and intuitive after the post-expansion the world the importance of research to drive economic growth moral panics about what constitutes a ‘second cycle’ higher education and recovery.” (See www.hefce.ac.uk/ degree anyway), and the cavalry over is increasingly recognised. the hill of the ‘for-profit sector’ (with no news/hefce/2010/invest.htm). acknowledgement of the US evidence More generally, other than the belated As a graduate college, Green about how the same companies can recognition of part-time undergraduate Templeton is in effect downstream fleece and distort a generous system study – as exemplified in the pioneering from where the political controversy of public support for deserving role of the UK’s Open University – the lies. This is not necessarily a students). Another dilemma concerns focus of the debate continues to be far comfortable place to be. Our potential the concept of the ‘high-performing’ away from that of higher education’s students will mostly apply with a vastly institution. Here the analysis seems contribution to an overall system of increased burden of debt. If we are to heavily predicated on what students life-time learning. It is easy to forget that meet our ambition of admitting the start out with rather than their a comfortable majority of the 2.1 million most promising students, from the UK situations when they graduate. students studying in our universities are and overseas, on a ‘needs-blind’ basis, not on full-time first degrees. we are going to have to redouble our Most serious of all is the likely effect on efforts to raise funds for scholarships. the public finances. Up-front this will The politics here are quite fragile, and simply increase costs (and at the same yet another U-turn (following the At the same time, the kind of time, perversely, dampen demand). NHS, defence spending, and the sale intellectual leadership and policy Over time, and not least because of of forests) is not out of the question. and practice-related solutions to EU-wide obligations, the returns look England is now even further out of major problems in which the College wildly optimistic. Perhaps the most line with Scotland (which wants no specialises are likely to be even more in significant piece of whistling in the truck with fees, except for students demand. We shall work hard to play a dark is the blithe confidence that from England) and inching away from full part in the deliberations within the 70 per cent of the funds advanced Wales (which will apparently subsidise University, across the higher education on students’ behalf will come back its students being charged fees above system, and with the wider world, as through the loan system. the 2004 level). Northern Ireland has the plot unfolds. 26 | 27

BREAKING NEW GROUND An innovative aid programme in Nigeria, managed by Darryl

Stellmach (MSc Medical Anthropology 2009), is responding to an FEATURE environmental emergency which has caused the deaths of young children from heavy metal poisoning.

arryl Stellmach launched into “Oxford was something I had a career in humanitarian aid dreamed about since I was a kid. shortly after completing his After a decade of humanitarian field undergraduate degree in work, coming to Oxford was electric. D anthropology in Canada in 1998. “Some of the core questions of “It’s something I wanted to do since I medical anthropology are questions was a teenager. I would read about aid that confront us daily in aid work: workers in the newspaper, and I would ‘What is an epidemic? What is think: this is a way for a person to take famine? How to define it and declare action in the world that is immediate, it – without hard data? In marginal effective, relevant and ethical.” environments, what factors – Formative university years at the time biological, social, ecological – of humanitarian crises in Rwanda and foster health or undermine it?’ Bosnia fortified that belief. Stellmach began his career in “It wasn’t just a cerebral war-torn northern Uganda in 2001 exercise. The theory was with Action Against Hunger. Two immediate, applicable and years later he joined the renowned relevant to humanitarian medical aid organisation Médecins medicine. It convinced me to Sans Frontières (MSF). Since then, he return for a doctorate, as soon has worked with MSF in some of the as I can manage.” most difficult political environments in the world. After completing his degree, Stellmach returned to MSF in late His first MSF posting was Sierra 2010 as the Head of Mission (Country Leone. He then returned to northern Director) for MSF’s intervention in Uganda in 2004. After leaving north-western Nigeria. From bases in Uganda, Stellmach served as a project Sokoto and Abuja, he manages a staff coordinator, delivering free medical of 400 international and Nigerian and mental health care to people aid workers, spread over three large displaced by Colombia’s long-running medical projects. Those MSF teams violent conflict. Then he ran an MSF provide lifesaving medical care to hospital during a cholera epidemic in around 170,000 Nigerians annually, Somalia from 2006 to 2007. people who might otherwise have After a year and a half managing nowhere to turn. medical programmes in militant- “MSF has worked in Nigeria since controlled border regions of Pakistan, 1996,” says Stellmach. “We are the Stellmach took time off. Seeking an only international NGO with a

➔ opportunity to reflect on his years substantial presence in the neglected An outbreak of lead as an aid worker, from Michaelmas poisoning in Zamfara, north-west corner of the country. Nigeria was caused by 2009 he read an MSc in Medical

Photo: John Heeneman/MSF Photo: small-scale gold mining Anthropology at GTC. continued overleaf GREEN TEMPLETON COLLEGE | GTC MAGAZINE 2011

In north-western Nigeria, MSF runs in less than a year. With the permission small-scale gold mining, a profitable a maternal and child healthcare of Nigerian authorities, MSF flew occupation for poverty-stricken programme in the town of Goronyo. blood samples to Europe for testing in farmers in the area. The programme sees 10,000 women specialised labs. Lead poisoning was “The ore was the source: it’s not so and children every month, many of the confirmed diagnosis. much gold ore contaminated with whom travel great distances to access lead, but lead ore contaminated with services. On the arid edge of the “Lead is insidious,” says gold,” Stellmach explains. Sahel, under-nutrition compounds Stellmach. “Children can live the effects of infectious disease; the symptom-free for a long time “The villagers were crushing ore Goronyo nutrition programme is one – happy, playing, running using grain grinding machines, which of the largest in MSF, treating 8,500 about and laughing – all the released toxic lead dust that settled malnourished children in 2010, with while with toxic levels of lead around the villages. Then they would more expected in 2011-2012. in their bodies. At a certain often dry the crushed ore on the floors of their huts. This allowed lead dust to Stellmach also oversees MSF’s point, children may start to contaminate their food preparation Nigeria Emergency Response Unit, a experience symptoms – loss and sleeping spaces.” rapid-response mobile public health of appetite, decreased play, team, dispatched around the region headaches, restlessness, While adults were sickened by the to monitor and combat seasonal vomiting. If untreated this lead, small children fared worse. Not outbreaks of measles, meningitis can lead to more severe only are children’s growing bodies and cholera. In the north of Nigeria, symptoms – muscle weakness, more sensitive to heavy metal toxins, outbreaks can quickly reach epidemic convulsions and then death.” but their play brought them into close proportions. In autumn 2010, while the contact with the contaminated earth; world’s attention was on Haïti’s cholera Even when it isn’t fatal, lead poisoning babies and toddlers’ hand-to-mouth epidemic, Stellmach’s Nigerian team can have permanent health behaviour led them to ingest the treated 21,000 cases in four months. At consequences for young children contaminated earth directly. At least the height of the intervention, 1,500 – including lowered IQ, blindness, 286 children died from acute lead patients per day crowded the team’s deafness, kidney and brain damage. poisoning before MSF could intervene. Cholera Treatment Units. MSF quickly set up specialised The medical treatment is life-saving. Most innovatively, Stellmach manages treatment centres in some of the But it can only be effective if people a unique programme in the state of affected villages to care for the can return to an uncontaminated Zamfara. There, MSF responded to the sickest patients. They simultaneously environment. MSF supported US- most extensive mass lead poisoning in convened an expert advisory group, based TerraGraphics Environmental medical history. consisting of representatives of the Engineering to decontaminate the World Health Organisation, Centers for affected villages. In late March of 2010, MSF investigated Disease Control and Prevention and reports that large numbers of children Since mid-2010, the multi-agency external toxicology specialists to help were dying of unknown causes in an intervention has succeeded in guide this heavy metals intervention of isolated region of Zamfara. A joint MSF- bringing mass mortality under control. unprecedented scale and complexity. Ministry of Health rapid survey showed But the scale of the problem is vast, several villages had lost over 30 per Attention also turned to the source and the exact extent still unknown. cent of children under the age of five of the outbreak. The culprit was Where the UK’s lead toxicology centre

➔ Darryl Stellmach (right), Head of Mission (Country Director) for MSF’s intervention in north-western Nigeria

In Goronyo, mothers and patients are enrolled on the MSF therapeutic feeding

programme (far right) DavidPhoto: Maene Batechi/MSF Melanie Schiemann/MSFPhoto: 28 | 29 Photo: John Heeneman/MSF Photo:

➔ annually sees 50 or 60 new lead “International agencies need to step health. But at the same time they need Small-scale gold poisoning cases, in the space of a year, up cooperation with the Nigerian income, and they have few alternatives mining in Zamfara in Nigeria is a profitable the MSF team in Nigeria has enrolled authorities. These communities need to gold mining. occupation for 1,500 children from seven villages long-term health and environmental “Global health is at a juncture. With poverty-stricken alone. And more villages are waiting to management to prevent this from farmers rapid urbanisation, industrialisation, be de-contaminated. happening again. and population growth, more small- In May of this year, MSF received the “People who engage in small-scale scale or slum communities work Green Star Award, presented jointly gold mining need facilities and unprotected in industrial activities by the UN Environment Programme programmes that will allow them like ore processing, ship-breaking (UNEP), the UN Office for the to safely mine or process the ore. and electronic waste recycling. Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs And they need education about the Governments will be confronted (OCHA), and Green Cross International consequences of unsafe mining and with more environmental health (independent, non-UN), for responding ore processing, so they can take steps emergencies. to better protect themselves and their to the lead poisoning in Nigeria. “MSF’s work in Nigeria gives us the families,” says Stellmach. Stellmach is well aware of MSF’s chance to learn toxicology in a humanitarian setting. The need for limitations as an emergency aid “A surveillance system for organisation: “We’ve taken the first this is clear,” continues Stellmach, recontamination needs to be pointing to the recent example of steps in managing this crisis, but we put in place. Then there are can’t continue doing it alone.” Japan. “After the earthquake and tidal the lifelong health and social- wave damaged a nuclear reactor, The life-saving therapy that draws the support needs of families authorities were able to contain and lead out of patients’ bloodstreams living with severely disabled limit the human health consequences. is expensive and can take years to children.” It would have been different had the complete. Most of MSF’s young same scenario occurred in one of the patients have yet to achieve the For Stellmach, the response to lead emerging nuclear powers – densely- acceptable blood lead levels that poisoning in Nigeria is indicative of populated nations with limited would allow them to be taken MSF’s future. emergency infrastructure. off treatment. In addition, the “I believe that MSF has to come to “It’s up to the Nigerian and success of the treatment depends grips with environmental emergencies. international medical communities on the maintenance of lead-free They’re a kind of toxic consequence of to learn from Zamfara. Heavy metal environments – which needs urbanisation and globalisation. poisoning is only one facet of a specialised expertise to implement nascent humanitarian toxicology. and monitor. So Stellmach and his “Lead poisoning is a side-effect of team are vigorously lobbying other economic desperation. People don’t “It’s the first intervention of its kind for agencies, in Nigeria and abroad. want to compromise their children’s MSF. But it won’t be the last.” GREENGREEN TEMPLETON TEMPLETON COLLEGE COLLEGE | GTC | GTC MAGAZINE MAGAZINE 2009 2011

BACK INTO THE WILD The subtropical forests of Indonesia are the backdrop to a research

FEATURE project by Hannah Trayford (MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management 2006) which is helping release orangutans back into their natural habitat. 3012 | 31| 13

ehabilitating captured orangutans With forest habitat still in decline musculo-skeletal strength and co- and reintroducing them into the in Indonesia, orangutans are often ordination, and psychological fitness wild with the skills necessary to left in fragmented areas of forest so that they have the capacity to cope survive is not an easy process. where resources are scarce and are in the wild. I am also looking at ways to R sometimes forced to venture onto develop better monitoring methods,” But the research of one Green farmland in search of food, resulting in says Hannah. Templeton graduate aims to bring conflict with local people. science into this process by assessing After 14 months in Sumatra, the most effective techniques for ‘Pet’ orangutans are also seen as a Hannah will visit two more centres releasing them successfully back into status symbol by some military and in Kalimantan, Indonesia later this their natural habitat. Hannah Trayford political figures, making enforcing the year. Data collected from the centres has been studying, volunteering, or illegality of this activity even more will help her compare fully different running her own research projects problematic. rehabilitation techniques in use. At in this field of interest for the past the end of the project she will provide The captured orangutans have been seven years and has spent the last year guidelines and a recommendations’ caged or kept illegally as pets, usually undertaking her research in the forests manual for rehabilitation care based on since they were infants. In the wild, of Sumatra. her scientific results. they spend up to 8 years with their “My time at GTC was the spring- mothers learning how to survive on “I believe that improving board in enabling me to get as their own. By killing mothers and reintroduction outcomes will not only far as I have with my work,” says taking them from the forest, infants mean a better future for the individuals Hannah. “Although I had spent don’t learn necessary survival skills. who benefit from the release process, but will also benefit the valuable time in Indonesia before Oxford, One centre alone has more than 600 forest habitats where they live,” says it was through my studies there orangutans in its care. “The orangutans Hannah. “Furthering the success of that I was really able to develop in the centres have traumatic histories, reintroduction as a conservation methods for applying science having been forcibly removed from tool will reinforce the falling number to conservation and welfare their mothers after her murder: an of wild orangutans, provide forest efforts.” orangutan mother will never willingly areas without current orangutan part with her infant,” explains Hannah. populations with important seed “The Masters degree was pivotal to “Some have further been chained, dispersal mechanisms, and improve my understanding of conservation beaten, attacked by dogs, stabbed, or the chances of allocating forest areas and the people I met in Oxford were shot – one individual arrived with 62 for protection.” an inspiration as to how you can, and air rifle pellets in his body when locals I now believe need to, apply science did not want him near their village”. She adds: “Although far removed from and research to conservation to the forests where I spend much of my achieve a common goal.” However, rehabilitation techniques have time, the environment at GTC is one of historically often been well-meaning but Indonesian orangutan rehabilitation diverse thought and critical thinking, with poor or unknown results. Hannah’s centres exist because of the large and it was this enthusiasm, from work aims to overcome this. numbers of individuals that are people with different backgrounds removed from their homes, either “I am using quantifiable methods and interests that taught me solutions by poachers or as an outcome of to test exactly what conditions are lie in the ability to see beyond the legal and illegal deforestation for needed to provide these animals immediate problem. I genuinely don’t paper and pulp industries, palm with an environment that meets their think that I would have got where I am oil, mining, or other development. physiological needs, such as building today without my time at GTC.”

➔ Beckham, a rescued

orangutan ➔

Hannah working in the field (right) Oki after release (far right) Photos: Hannah Rose Trayford Photos: GREEN TEMPLETON COLLEGE | GTC MAGAZINE 2011

SNAP HAPPY College members once again focussed their camera lenses on the College to snap their entries for the annual GTC photography prize. The competition is made possible by a generous gift from Dr Elman Poole, a retired neurologist living in Oxford who is also a Common Room Member. This year’s theme was ‘GTC in Autumn’ and the College gardens and grounds obliged our talented photographers SUPPORTING GTC SUPPORTING with a blaze of foliage colour and atmospheric vistas through the autumn mists.

First prize was lifted by Deb Farrell, GTC Deputy Librarian who oversees the management library, with her striking photograph of autumn foliage against the Radcliffe Observatory.

Brendan Harmon (MPhil, Geography and the Environment) scooped the runner up spot for his moody shot Debra Farrell’s winning photograph of the Radcliffe Observatory of the Observatory through an early evening mist. Deb and Brendan both commended by the judging panel a pack of College notecards to be received cash prizes. which was made up of fellows, staff produced later this year. and students and guest judge, Oxford- Three other entries – from students Almost 30 College members entered based photographer James Hudson. Sean Grant, Tim Hannigan and the competition, submitting 45 Karl Segnoe – were very highly All five images will be featured in individual photographs. PRIZE RAFFLE COOKS UP FUNDS a fundraising dinner, the traditional to continue their studies when Christmas Fair and a raffle with a first financial circumstances might have prize of a gourmet cookery ‘masterclass’. made it impossible to continue.”

Raffle winner Juan Guan (DPhil At least one in six GTC students Zoology) and four friends had a unique participated in the prize raffle and opportunity to pick up culinary skills the dinner. from GTC head chef Verity Anton before enjoying a private dinner in The Fund was boosted by the the Radcliffe Observatory. Runners up generosity of an anonymous Annie McEwen (DPhil Social Policy) benefactor who challenged students and Josephine Scoble (DPhil Zoology) to raise at least £2,000 which he received GTC goody bags filled with matched pound for pound. College merchandise. An additional £200 was raised after

Photo: Eleanor Brace Photo: “The raffle is just one of a number of students won a bet proposed by the The Student Hardship Fund is different projects through which the Principal Professor Sir David Watson. a lifeline for students facing GCR and Development Office have in order to win the bet, students had to difficulties as a result of been fundraising for the Fund over the whisper through the entire first course unforeseen circumstances. last year,” explains GCR Charities and of a formal dinner. While the students Development Officer Kate Roll. Alumni, students, fellows and staff succeeded, whispering did little to have raised more than £4,800 for the “The Fund provides invaluable support overcome the challenging acoustics in Fund this year, from activities including to students, often enabling someone the College dining room! 32 | 33

SUPPORT FOR RISING RESEARCH STARS ➔ Karenjit Clare (left) Getting the first step on the “I want to understand how careers “Young people in Japan are asserting and Tuukka career ladder can be tough for work within that sector. It is seen as new values which are impacting on Toivonen (right) young academics - but thanks glamorous and exciting but there is a their choice of career. Instead of working to generous funding from the ‘dark side’ to that,” she explains. for status or to be successful on old Templeton Education and Charity measures such as salary and bonuses, Trust (TECT), Green Templeton is She is busy writing up a book they are working in jobs they love and now able to support two young manuscript on creative careers and helping to solve social problems using researchers working in the broad three papers for publication: one on business methods. In that way social field of management studies. the inequalities that young workers entrepreneurs in Japan are challenging in the sector face; one on whether what a company should be. Karenjit Clare and Tuukka Toivonen it is through choice or the way the are GTC’s first Junior Research Fellows, industry is structured that means so “The big question is how to harness both now one year in to a three-year few women head up big agencies, and the new motivations and new desire fellowship. the third looking at the ‘hidden’ role of to contribute to society, be more Junior Research Fellowships offer headhunters in the professional lives creative and expressive. That tension young researchers of exceptional of creative workers. between the old and the new values intellectual calibre a first substantial is an underlying theme for me.” She is also kicking off a new project paid academic or research which will look at transnational Earlier this year he spent time in Japan appointment and an opportunity to labour, migrant workers and ideas (supported by a Japan Foundation pursue their research. of entrepreneurship and market fellowship) finding out how young An economic geographer (the first at competition in the emerging economies. people and social entrepreneurs are GTC), Karenjit is investigating creative helping Japan recover from the 11 labour in the ‘cultural economy’ and “Being at GTC has brought me into March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. specifically in the UK advertising contact with other people working on similar issues from different disciplines He has also published two books this industry. Tuukka is a sociologist by year: Japan’s Emerging Youth Policy: training and his research explores youth, – policy, management, sociology - and that is stimulating. The College is vital Getting Young Adults Back to Work work, and motivation in ‘post-materialist’ (Nissan Institute/Routledge, 2012), societies. They share office space in a to my work; it broadens my contacts and involvement with the Future based on his PhD thesis and available College house in Observatory Street on Amazon, and a co-edited volume which has been recently refurbished of Work Programme has been particularly exciting.” entitled Unable to conform, unwilling (also thanks to TECT). to rebel? Youth, culture, and motivation “Our research has much in common, Tuukka has returned to GTC after his in globalizing Japan (Frontiers in especially our interest in youth and that DPhil in Social Policy at the former Psychology, 2011). adds an extra dimension to our work: Green College. “I applied for the Although busy pursuing their we are able to share ideas and push fellowship because I knew GTC would individual research projects, Karenjit each other in new ways,” says Karenjit. be a great research environment and I also think I have something to and Tuukka collaborated last March to Her focus is on how workers navigate contribute,” he says. convene an international workshop on through and make sense of the ‘Youth, Early Careers and Motivation’ advertising industry’s labour market, He is exploring the motivation and at 13 Norham Gardens in Oxford. especially in respect of the insecurity, values of young workers through a They are now planning to host a large inequality and exploitation in this sector, study of social entrepreneurs and international conference in Oxford in and the ways these are embedded in other types of young workers in Japan 2013, the last year of their fellowships, social networks and place. and China. looking at the future of work. GREENGREEN TEMPLETON TEMPLETON COLLEGE COLLEGE | GTC | GTC MAGAZINE MAGAZINE 2009 2011

Alumni and friends pledge over £80,000 in 2011 Telethon Generous Green Templeton alumni, fellows and friends have pledged gifts totalling £82,000 to the GTC Annual Fund in the telephone campaign which took place between 13 and 27 March 2011. Thank you everyone! Gifts received will be used to fund key areas in College, such as scholarships, student hardship grants, sporting grants, academic initiatives and the maintenance of our historic buildings The GTC student callers gear up for the Telethon and grounds. 32 different countries. As well as “Although it was a lot of hard work, it A team of 11 student callers contacted making donations to the Annual was really rewarding to know that our alumni all around the world with the Fund, a number of alumni offered telethon team was working towards aim of reconnecting to share recent to mentor students and provide bringing alumni and current students College news, ask for feedback on internships. together, and I met so many fabulous our programme of alumni events people along the way.” Student caller Nicola Beer (DPhil Clinical and publications, and to raise money SUPPORTING GTC SUPPORTING Medicine) says: “I really enjoyed the GTC The calling team were: Ezimamaka for the Annual Fund. Student callers telethon! It was a great way to become Ajufo, Alice Blake, Nicola Beer, also discussed ways for alumni to get more connected with the College, and Susannah Eyre-Brook, Sean Grant, involved in college life. through fundraising for the GTC Annual Shuaishuai He, Samson Mundia, Fariha Over the two-week campaign, the Fund, I really felt like I was working for Naeem, Laurel Steinfield, Minhee Yeo, team spoke to over 500 alumni from the benefit of future students. and Jin (Robyn) Xu. Annual Fund 2010-2011: making a difference Academic initiatives, including the Personal and Professional Development Series and the Human Welfare Conference, are set to receive support, while a new pilot programme for science research students to develop transferable skills has also won funding.

Finally, a number of building projects are in the pipeline: both the tennis pavilion and the Hayloft will be Over the coming year, the Annual Fantastic support from alumni, refurbished and funds will also be Fund will give a boost to College friends and fellows for this year’s directed to the new multi-purpose clubs and societies, including the Annual Fund appeal saw more sports building (find out more about Boat Club, which has been awarded than £95,000 pledged in support that project on page 18). of projects across three key areas funds to support a summer training in College: student support, programme following its most The distribution of the Annual Fund academic initiatives and buildings successful year ever. has been overseen by a working and facilities. group of fellows, students and staff Other projects include a Clarendon in accordance with the wishes of our Many alumni and friends made gifts, Scholarship for a DPhil student donors and the needs of the College. all of which will help to enhance and USB sticks containing useful student life and experience at information about the College for all For more information, please visit Green Templeton. new students as part of their induction. www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/annual-fund 3412 | 35| 13

Tribute fund to continue Ann’s vision

be driven by the experience of (HEXI), described in her own words as patients and that doctors, health care a place “where the world of academia professionals and medical students meets real life”. Her work in relation to should better understand what it feels the Institute was featured in the first like to have an illness. GTC Magazine in 2009.

During a long and distinguished career, This is a ground breaking initiative, which began as a GP in Oxford, she as the first interdisciplinary academic was the inspiration behind a number research centre dedicated to of significant initiatives which gave life understanding the attitudes, values to her unique vision. and experiences of people coping

with illness, or making decisions ➔ She joined the Department of Primary about their health, and to using the Care, Oxford University, where she set Ann with actor Hugh research to make a difference. up the patient experiences research Grant, a patron of Ann was the founding Director of Healthtalkonline courtesyPhoto of DIPEx group DIPEx and the associated HEXI and continued to work closely website www.healthtalkonline.org Green Templeton has launched with the team, even in her which publishes the results of the final days. Ann’s Fund to celebrate the life group’s research online and now has and pioneering work of Fellow over two million hits a year. Ann’s Fund will support these initiatives Dr Ann McPherson, who lost her with the aim of continuing Ann’s work courageous battle with cancer A second website www.youth and vision. in May. healthtalk.org devoted to the experiences of young people, was For more information about Ann’s The tribute fund was set up at the launched in 2005 and Ann also Fund and how to give, contact Susan request of Ann and her family and will co-hosted a teenage virtual doctor’s Berrington, Director of Development benefit a number of projects close to surgery for 10 -15 year olds, & Communications, 01865 274777 her heart. www.teenagehealthfreak.org or [email protected]. Ann was a gifted communicator who Ann’s final project was to establish the Donations can be made online at: believed that health care should Oxford Health Experiences Institute www.giving.ox.ac.uk/annsfund

In bloom: original paintings in memory of Ann Award-winning textile designer reflecting her loving and generous Sarah Campbell, co-founder of spirit. She was ever on the side of renowned British design company doing, having, working, laughing Collier Campbell, has created four that little bit more and hoping for original paintings to illustrate a set the same from us. When I think of of small cards for Ann McPherson’s her I remember William Blake’s line: family, friends and colleagues to ‘Enough – or too much’. I hope these give out to publicise the fund set little paintings have something of up in her memory. that same abundance.”

Collier and Campbell’s bold, hand- Sisters Susan Collier and Sarah painted designs which are known Campbell produced some of the all over the world were a particular most iconic prints of the second favourite of Ann’s, and Sarah’s half of the 20th century and beautiful designs for the cards reflect collaborated with many design Ann’s own love of vivid colour. houses such as Jaeger, Yves St Sarah, a close friend of the Laurent, Cacherel, Habitat and McPherson family, generously Liberty of London Prints. offered to create the paintings in After 50 years in the marketplace, memory of Ann. their designs continue to be Sarah says: “‘Ann’s gardens featured with many high street overflowed with colour and jostle, retailers. © Sarah Campbell 2011 Campbell © Sarah GREEN TEMPLETON COLLEGE | GTC MAGAZINE 2011

GREEN TEMPLETON DonorS 2010 –2011

Over the last twelve months, alumni, friends and Fellows have This is our opportunity to thank everyone who has donated made gifts both large and small to the College. This support to the College this year, including those who have chosen makes possible so many projects that enhance College life, to remain anonymous. The following list includes the enabling us to invest further in our support for students, in individuals, companies and foundations that have made a academic initiatives and the improvement and development gift from August 2010 to July 2011. If you have any questions of our buildings and grounds. regarding the donor roll, please contact the Development Office on +44 (0) 1865 274797.

Dr Arun Aggarwal Mr Carlos Clavijo Tovar Mr Maurice Gooderham Dr Ibrahim Al Bakir Mr Douglas Clements and Dr Graham Gooding Mr Mohammed Aleem Mrs Wendy Clements Professor Derrick Gosselin Mr John Alexander Professor Philip Crotty The Graduate Common Room Dr Mark Almond Dr Sean David Mr John Graham Professor Billy Andrews Mr Arthur Davidyan Green Templeton Boat Club Ms Jane Atkinson Dr Andrew Davis Mr Richard (Rick) Grzeslo Ms Hnin Aung Dr Michael Dawrant Dr Alex Guerrero Mr Issa Baconi Mr Matthew Dawson Mr Feng Guo SUPPORTING GTC SUPPORTING Mr Projjol Banerjea Mr William De Laszlo Ms Putul Gupta Mr Philip Barnard Mr Marc Desmidt Professor Guillermo Gutierrez Mr Paul Barrett Dr John Diggens Sir Douglas Hague Mr Bruce Beckett Terrell Ms Sarah Dorfman Dr Peter Havelock Ms Susan Berrington Mr Andrew Dougal Dr Theodore Haywood Mr Robert Bowen and Dr Fiona Duxbury Dr Judith Heaton Mrs Kim Blackburn Professor Michael Earl Mr Jeroen Henrich Professor Michael Bracken Dr Nicholas Edwards Dr Declan Hill Dr Paul Brankin and Professor Gerald Elliott Mrs Marie Brankin Mr Philip Hirschsohn Mr Ron Emerson Ms Alison Brimelow Mr Ali Hsieh Mr Craig Broussard Professor Alan Emery Professor Sir Andrew Huxley Mr Ron Brussel Dr Kenneth Fleming Mr Eric Itambo Professor Christopher Bulstrode Dr Thomas Foley Mr Bing Ji Mr Kevin Burke Professor Keith Frayn Mr Thomas Judge Professor Jeff Burley Mrs Geraldine Freedland Mr Francesc Julia-Sala and Mrs Jean Burley Mr Shinichiro Fukuda Ms Tessa Keating Rothrock Dr Mark Campbell Miss Faye Gao Mr Cyrille Kechavarzi Cannon Foundation Mr Peter Garnham Mr John Kelly Professor Donald Chambers Timothy Garton Ash and Mr Lazaro Kimang’a Dr Richard Chapman Mrs Danuta Garton Ash Dr Mike Knight and Mrs Sheila Knight Ms Sharon Cheung Mr Robert Glaze Mr Viktor Koska

To give back is to put a little back into the system we so happily enjoyed. And it preserves that happiness, privilege and eternal memories, not only for ourselves but for others. Every college, department and school needs support from its alumni. We are the present that the future is founded on. No matter how small the donation, it is important, as it shows that you are a supporter of this great institution and have a voice.

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Professor Simon Kroll Mr Joe Minlah Dr James Stewart Mr Buddhika Kulatunga Dr Marc Morgan Dr Rosemary Stewart J W Laing Trust Dr Gerald Myatt Dr William Summerskill Mr Stuart Lancashire Mr Simon Narroway Dr Rebecca Surender Dr Wright Nichols Dr Suzanne Lapwood Mr Richard Taggesell Ms Elizabeth Lauro Professor Jacob Nyenhuis Miss Babette Tegldal Dr Bernadette Lavery Dr Sally Parnell Templeton Education & Charity Trust Dr Laurence Leaver Mr Roger Parry Dr Marc Thompson Mrs Janine Lee Dr Sahar Parvizi Dr Gordon Paterson Mr Ian Todd Dr Grant Lee Dr Demetris Patsios Dr Andrew Toner Dr David Levy Dr Alexander Pepper Dr Sara Toth Professor Donald Light Mrs Catherine Peters Mr Vikas Tyagi Miss Wenjing Liu Mr Pedro Pfeffer Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe Dr Martin Lockett Mr Thomas Pickett and University College Dr Louise Locock Dr Liza Pickett Professor John Wass Mr Jian Lou Dr Joanna Pickles Professor Sir David Watson Ms Sitong Lu Dr Elman Poole and Lady Betty Watson Professor Ingrid Lunt Professor Jim Reed Dr Penelope Webb Dr Roderick MacRorie Mr Roger Remington Mrs Joyce Weil Dr Pamela Manners Dr Keith Ruddle Dr Daniel Wheeler Dr Andrew Markus Mrs Kathleen Ryan Dr Sean Whyte Dr David Mather Mr James Salo Mr Tim Willens Dr Elizabeth Maughan Mr John Sanders Dr Lampros Mavrogiannis Mr Keith Saunders Mr Dan Williams II Dr Janet McGee Professor John Sear Mrs Aileen Wood Dr Bill McQuillan Mr Mukul Shrivastava Mr Bill Woodley Professor Michael McVaugh Professor Bernard Silverman Miss Betul Yalcin Dr Nicholas Meyer Miss Helen Smy Dr Marshall Young Dr Ulrich Meyer-Bothling Mr Richard Stavros Mr Demetrios Zemenides

Having been a student caller for last year’s telethon, I’d seen the remarkable support we’d received from the alumni and how much every gift had contributed to the College’s growth. When I received a call from a GTC student caller this year, I was delighted and only too eager to contribute. My gift, albeit small, gave me a chance to contribute to GTC’s development plans and more importantly, keep up my sense of affinity to the institution that for a year was a home away from home for me.

Putul Gupta (MSc Sociology 2009) GREEN TEMPLETON COLLEGE | GTC MAGAZINE 2011 ALUMNI FOCUS ALUMNI

Green Templeton Alumni

Although I have only been here for GTC also has an official Facebook page, entitled to dine in College (at modest a few short months, I already feel so why not ‘like’ us when you’re next charge) once every term and also to very much a part of the friendly, online and catch up with the latest use the Stables Gallery lounge space. vibrant and inspiring Green GTC news? For more details please visit Templeton community. the website. We also want to hear your news, Alumni and friends are an incredibly so please keep in touch with your I look forward to perhaps meeting you important part of our global ‘family’ and achievements and experiences. If you or hearing from you in the future but it is your contribution to the College and are happy to share this news, we would meanwhile do enjoy reconnecting with your achievements which help make it like to keep your fellow alumni informed GTC through the stories in these pages. what it is today. Wherever in the world in our newsletters and in this Magazine. you are now living and working, Enclosed with this Magazine is the I hope that you carry happy memories contact information we have for Sue Berrington of your time studying in one of the most you. Please let us know if this needs Director of Development & intellectually exciting colleges in one of updating so that we can keep Communications the greatest universities of the world! sending you invitations and College publications. In particular, please keep I also hope that you will wish to take Contact us us updated about your email address: some of the many opportunities to Sue Berrington, Director of we are looking to change some of our stay connected with the College and Development and Communications: with old friends and colleagues. publications – including the In Transit [email protected] newsletter – into electronic format to I have met a some of you at various reduce our impact on the environment. Amanda Broughton-Francis, reunion and networking events over Alumni Relations: the last few months, most recently in I am often asked how people can [email protected] support the College. There are a number Singapore and Kuala Lumpur which was David Humble-White, of ways, from supporting current an incredible and inspiring experience. Annual Fund Manager students through mentoring or work [email protected] Our events programme for the coming experience opportunities, to offering a year offers yet more occasions to get venue to host an alumni event. Kasia Sikora, together: reunions are planned for Acting Conference and We are also very grateful for your Events Manager the East and West coasts of the USA, magnificent support through gifts [email protected] Canada, China and Hong Kong. We both large and small, which enable are also launching a series of ‘business Sue Wilson, Communications: the College to provide students with breakfasts’ for those of you based in or [email protected] the very best possible experience near London. For more details, see the while they are here. This year’s Telethon T + 44 (0) 1865 274797 events programme opposite. raised a record amount, thanks to your Visit the GTC Alumni and Friends But even if you can’t make it along in generosity: information about how your web pages at: person, there are other ways to stay donations are being used is on page 34. www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/alumni connected: for example, through Like us on Facebook: If you would like to find out more the GTC website (www.gtc.ox.ac. about how you can support GTC, www.Facebook.com/ uk) where you will find podcasts GTCAlumni please contact me for a discussion. of lectures, news stories, an online Join the GTC LinkedIn group calendar of upcoming social and As an alum, you are welcome to visit academic events, and our short film. us whenever you are in Oxford. You are 38 | 39

Dates for your Diary 2011 – 2012

Thursday 10 November 2011 Thursday 16 February 2012 June 2012 City Breakfast in London Alumni Drinks reception in London Summer Eights at Longbridges Join us between 7.30am and 9.30am for Join us on HMS Belfast for a drinks reception Boathouse GTC’s first-ever early morning breakfast between 6.30pm to 8.30pm, hosted by the Enjoy all the rowing action and cheer on the meeting to hear Dr Stephane Girod (2008 Principal Professor Sir David Watson. Green Templeton Boat Club crews as they DPhil Management Studies), Research Fellow race on the Isis! Accenture Institute for High Performance, Saturday 7 April 2012 who will present and discuss ‘Managing the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, Multinational Company in a Saturday 23 June 2012

London EVENTS Multi-Polar World’. Cheer on the Dark Blues from the safety of Summer Garden Party at Green Venue: Oxford and Cambridge Club, the Thames riverbank! Templeton Pall Mall, London SW1 Enjoy the beautiful college grounds, music, Saturday 14 April 2012 entertainers and afternoon tea. Fun for Thursday 17 November 2011 alumni and family, as well as GTC fellows, GTC North American Alumni Reunion Sir Douglas Hague Lecture 2011 students and staff. Details to follow. Followed A reception and dinner for alumni living and with Michael Portillo by the Scholarship Donor Reception. working in New York. Michael Portillo will ask why it is that after Venue and details to be confirmed. the democratic experiment in Athens in the July 2012 fifth century BC, the world put democracy Saturday 21 April 2012 away for two thousand years, and why it GTC Alumni Reunion in Hong Kong was that most thinkers from Plato onwards GTC Canadian Alumni Reunion Dates and full details to be confirmed. regarded it as a dangerous thing. Were they A chance to meet old friends and colleagues, right to believe that democracy would living, working or visiting Canada at a GTC 15 September 2012 lead to the brutality of mob rule? reunion event. The lecture takes place at the Saïd Business Venue and details to be confirmed. Alumni Reunion at Green Templeton School at 6pm and will be followed by a Please join us for the annual gathering of drinks reception at 7pm. May 2012 GTC alumni and friends at the College during Register at: www.sbs.oxford.edu/events/ the Oxford University alumni weekend. City Breakfast in London portillo There will be a special programme of events Join us for an early morning networking and activities and dinner in the Radcliffe event in central London to hear a guest Friday 25 November 2011 Observatory. speaker on the theme of leadership and Alumni Drinks Reception in Edinburgh medicine. Please join us between 6pm and 8pm for Date, venue and details to be confirmed. drinks and canapés at the National Museum of Scotland which re-opened in July after a Monday 28 May to For more information about these events, £47.4 million facelift. There will be a chance Wednesday 6 June 2012 please contact: to tour the refurbished collections as well as Transit of Venus at GTC [email protected], catch up with old friends and new. Tel +44 (0)1865 284556 GTC in collaboration with Oxford Or go to www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/AlumniEvents Thursday 8 December 2011 Astrophysics is planning to celebrate this ‘once in a lifetime’ planetary phenomenon Please note that all dates and details are Varsity Rugby Match at Twickenham with a series of special events centred around correct at the time of going to press but The pinnacle of amateur and student the Radcliffe Observatory, in its time one of may be subject to change. Please check the rugby in the 130th clash between Oxford Europe’s finest astronomical observatories. Green Templeton website for the and Cambridge. More details to follow. latest information. www.gtc.ox.ac.uk

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