Annual Report 2015 Clare College Cambridge Contents Master’s Introduction .................................................................... 3 Teaching and Research .............................................................. 4–5 Selected Publications by Clare Fellows ....................................... 6–9 College Life ........................................................................... 10–12 Access & Outreach ..................................................................... 13 Financial Report ..................................................................... 14–15 Development ....................................................................... 16–17 List of Master & Fellows............................................................... 18 Captions ..................................................................................... 19 2 Master’s Introduction The past year has been full of many introductions for me two new CDs. They are fantastic ambassadors for the College and met some of our alumni in New as a relatively new Master - to student life in its various York - looking ahead; in 2016 they travel to Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore for more concerts. forms, to colleagues, and to our alumni at various events at home and abroad. The College continues to be in Last year I mentioned the need to refurbish Old Court, and this is still very much our priority. The good form, and weathering various new initiatives from Fellowship has just approved - in principle - plans which are now before Historic England, and we are central government, for example the green paper in now waiting for planning permission to renovate the beautiful buildings which make up Old Court. Higher Education which proposed radical changes in the You will know that we have been considering this project for a while, and most carefully as custodians sector in the UK. Fortunately on the access element of of these historic and nationally important buildings - we now have general approval for our fundraising the paper we are way ahead of the proposals. Clare is to start in earnest. We have approved an outline scheme which now does not change the main proud to be a leader within the world-leading institution appearance of Old Court, and renovates the building, including new wiring, plumbing and more ensuite which is Cambridge University - and proud to be part of rooms and public rooms. We also plan to improve disabled access by building on the narrow strip of Cambridge’s new Development Campaign which aims to land which lies between Clare and Trinity Hall, and this will enable us to make the basement buttery and maintain our high ranking as a global leader in education to the SCR and Fellows’ Library accessible. We also plan to extend this as far as the river, and create a and research. The campaign was launched last October River café room which will have stunning views over the Master’s garden and river. This will be used as and Clare’s development targets are part of the £2billion a social space and serve tea, coffee and snacks all day thereby relieving pressure on the buttery which that Cambridge hopes to raise. is very overcrowded - the extra 80 seats in this room will be a great addition to student and staff social life. The total cost of these elements is £35 million - with our fundraising target being at least £25million Many of our academics hold important positions within - the difference being made up of funds we are setting aside from our unrestricted endowment income the University too - Professor Phil Allmendinger is the and other income streams. Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Professor Howard Griffiths, who has been Acting President There is more detail in the Development Director’s report on page 16, and this is just one of the major of the Fellowship, is leading an initiative on global food security. Professor Ottoline Leyser’s work as elements of our fundraising campaign - our mission to support the best students, recruit and retain Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory (Plant Sciences) was highlighted in the University campaign launch the best academics to teach them, and to ensure the College’s long term future by building up the event. We have had three promotions of Clare Fellows to professorships, and one to reader in the endowment, remains as important as ever. summer 2015 round of promotions. Our Fellows are also good at spotting potential - in the Baxter On a sad note, we were very sorry to lose Sir Bob Hepple, our former Master, who died last year. Bob, tables last summer, Clare came top in the ‘value-added’ table - that is the one which shows how much who is much missed by all in our community, was not only a very distinguished lawyer, academic and a students have improved from their first year to their finals so we are excellent at spotting talent and fighter for freedom in apartheid South Africa, but also a man who embodied all that is best about Clare in nurturing it. being an intelligent, warm and friendly person who always had time for students and colleagues. These As well as their output in teaching terms, bringing forth another generation of young people who could are precisely the values that need to be sustained by the College as we face the challenges of the future. change the world, Clare Fellows have contributed hundreds of papers and publications to expand knowledge of everything from the activities of the earliest human societies to whether Spiderman could ever walk up walls! This year we were awarded not one, but two Pilkington Prizes for teaching with Dr Ed Turner Zoology and Professor Jim Woodhouse (Engineering) both winning prizes. However, in Cambridge it is not all about academic work - and I am pleased to say Clare students Lord Grabiner QC continue to do their bit for wider society. Clare students have been heavily involved in promoting Pink Master Week, which raises money for breast cancer care. The members of the Choir have somehow found time to go half way round the world again, performing in six US states in as many days, and releasing 3 Teaching and Research Undergraduate Numbers 2014–15 Undergraduates by country/region of origin Examination Results 2015 In the Baxter tables last summer, the main feature for Clare was Year Year Year Year Years coming top in the ‘value-added’ table, which shows how much Subject Total UK 1 2 3 4 5-6 students have improved from their first year to their finals - so EU our Fellows continue to excel at spotting talent and nurturing it. Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic 1 2 1 4 Overseas Architecture 1 2 3 Teaching and Fellows Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 3 2 2 2 9 A number of Clare Fellows have been promoted into senior Chemical Engineering 1 4 6 11 academic positions: James Rowe (Clinical Neurosciences), Classics 3 5 5 2 15 6% Anna Philpott (Oncology), David Howarth (Land Economy), Computer Science 2 2 4 8 4% and Andrew Preston (History) have been made professors; Economics 5 5 6 16 Dr Robert Semple (Clinical Biochemistry) was promoted to Reader. We are also very pleased to report that Ed Turner Education 1 1 (Zoology) and Jim Woodhouse (Engineering) both won Engineering 12 9 8 8 37 Pilkington Prizes for outstanding teaching – the thirteenth and English 8 11 10 29 fourteenth occasions such a prize has been won by a Clare Fellow in thirteen years. It is extremely unusual for a College Geography 1 1 3 5 to win two Pilkington Prizes in a year, and it demonstrates how History 7 8 8 23 much emphasis we put on teaching History of Art 1 1 1 3 Clare has been fortunate to be able to appoint some Human Social & Political Sciences 7 7 3 17 outstanding new academic Fellows in 2015: Dr David Land Economy 2 5 3 10 Chambers (Reader in Finance), The Rev’d Dr J Hawkey Law 10 2 5 17 (Theology; Dean), and Professor Jorge Vinuales (Law). Linguistics 1 2 3 6 Research Fellows appointed in 2015 were Mr Thomas Schindler (Mathematics), and Mr Benjamin Slingo (History). Mathematics 7 8 10 6 31 Medical and Veterinary Sciences 16 16 15 18 65 90% Modern & Medieval Languages 11 8 7 7 33 Music 4 4 4 12 Natural Sciences 29 26 42 15 112 Philosophy 2 2 1 5 Psychological & Behavioural Sciences 3 1 5 9 Theology 3 4 2 9 Total 140 136 141 55 18 490 4 Graduate Student Numbers 2014–15 PhD theses successfully defended by Clare graduate Novoa-Cain, M A: The protectors of Indians in the royal audience of students 2014-15 Lima: history, careers, and legal culture, 1575–1775 Peeters, M: Attention, awareness and prediction: lessons from classical Research postgraduates 260 Al-Safi, S W:Quantum theory from the perspective of general conditioning, disorders of consciousness and positive rewards probabilistic theories Taught postgraduates 27 Porter, D A: Neo-Latin formal verse satire from 1420 to 1616 Annett, S: On reading rightly wrongly: towards Samuel Beckett’s Total 287 Prescott, G W: Effects of land-use, landscape configuration, and ‘syntax of weakness’ management practice on biodiversity in tropical agricultural Bachman, M: The functions of cytosine modifications in DNA landscapes Bashynska, L: Gentry women and their networks in fifteenth-century Rea, A D: Fast tip-tilt correction at the MROI and beyond Norfolk Graduate Students by country/region of origin Sandoval, J L B R G: Modulation of breast cancer tumour-initiating Bower, R E: Epistolarity and the world republic of letters, 1980–2010 cells in cell lines and patient-derived tumour xenografts Causier, M L T: Viscoelastic behaviour of PBO fibres for use in a Tan, J L Y: Multi-axial fracture behaviour of notched