Annual Report 2013
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Annual Report 2013 Clare College Cambridge Contents Master’sIntroduction.................................3 TeachingandResearch.............................4–5 SelectedPublicationsbyClareFellows..................6–9 CollegeLife....................................10–12 Access&Outreach.................................13 FinancialReport.................................14–15 Development..................................16–17 ListofMaster&Fellows..............................18 Captions.........................................19 2 Master’s Introduction The College introduced these annual reports in 2004 in order to As will be seen from the financial statements, conference income and funds raised from our alumni introduce greater accountability and transparency, particular for its constitute over 50% of the College’s income. These were income streams that scarcely existed ten expenditure of public funds and for the ever increasing funding from years ago. The College has raised over £24 million from alumni over the past decade. Teaching its alumni. This report is the last one I will introduce as Master. I am Fellowships, student bursaries to enable the college to follow a needs-blind admissions process, support pleased to report another good year for the College in terms of for music and rowing, all have benefited from the loyalty and support of alumni. A major change has academic performance, access to students of all backgrounds, financial been in the College estate: the major refurbishment of student rooms in Thirkill Court and Castle End, management and the condition of the College’s estate. the building of the Gillespie Centre and Lerner Court, and the completion of two excellent additions to the college’s graduate accommodation on Newnham Road. These projects have cost over £20 million. Our undergraduate results were good, especially for our final year students. They should be good given the quality of the students we The College is well-placed to meet the challenges ahead. But challenges there are. Decisions taken in admit and the resources devoted to their teaching. The results are less the next ten years will determine whether colleges survive in the long-term as providers of excellence good in the first year. The improvement in those results over the three in learning and research. The funding drives to ensure the University remains a world-leading research or four years students are in Cambridge can be taken as testimony to institution will put pressure on college fund-raising and the research thrust of the University will make it the ‘value added’ by the college teaching. The Senior Tutor has launched various initiatives to improve all the more important, and harder, for Colleges to sustain excellent undergraduate education. We face the study skills of first year students, new to the University. But these results do need to improve. a crisis in graduate funding. Graduates now constitute one third of Clare’s student body – perhaps the biggest change in the College over the past fifty years. Unless new funding sources for graduate students Academic excellence in terms of research can be found in the list of Fellows’ publications, their are found, graduate studies in Clare and Cambridge will become, particularly in the arts and humanities, continued success in terms of grant applications and the promotion of Gordon Ogilvie, Tim Lewens, the preserve of the well-off. The need to sustain the College estate, notably the once-in-a-lifetime need and Bill Byrne to personal chairs. It is a measure of their distinction that they were all first elected to to refurbish Old Court, will require that the College’s success in fund-raising will need to be continued Fellowships in the past thirteen years. It is important to remember that the College makes a major and improved on. The College is, thanks to its Fellows and alumni, in a good position to meet those contribution to research by funding six Junior Research Fellowships at any one time: a major challenges. But it will only succeed if the University also succeeds. The Colleges collectively need to commitment to providing the next generation of academic leaders at a cost of £250,000 a year. respond positively, not fatalistically, to these challenges. It is by no means certain that the collective 39 Clare graduate students received their PhDs this year. capacity of the Cambridge Colleges to engage with these challenges constructively is sufficiently robust. The College is committed to admitting the best students, whatever their social and economic I have to end on a sad note. The academic year 2011-12 was overshadowed by the tragic death of background. We currently admit between 68% and 70% of our home-based students from the state final year student Rebecca Chamberlain. The academic year 2012-13 was overshadowed by the sector which reflects the proportion of state school students applying to Clare. It will require a constant desperately sad and untimely death of Professor Philip Ford. No career could have highlighted more the commitment to increasing the number of state school applicants in the future to ensure that we good fortune of this College in having senior academics of international distinction whose commitment continue to improve on those figures. This is the tenth year of our Partnership for Schools to research in no way compromised their commitment to graduate and undergraduate teaching. Philip programme, funded by corporate sponsors associated with our alumni. The work of our Schools was a role model for collegiality and good citizenship in both the College and the University. He Liaison Officers in Tower Hamlets and Hackney is the College activity which gives me greatest pride. exemplified the values that the College needs to sustain in the face of the challenges ahead. The programme is about raising aspirations for university education in general in those communities. Last year the College organized 159 events for 6,328 schoolchildren. In 2012 40 students from Tower Hamlets came to interview preparation days: in 2013 120 came. We bring children from age 10 to Cambridge, the only programme in Oxbridge to do so. Teachers in Tower Hamlets and Hackney have excelled in recent years in producing a dramatic improvement in the academic results in their boroughs. I am pleased that the College has made a contribution to that improvement. 3 Teaching and Research Undergraduate Numbers 2012–13 Undergraduates by country/region of origin Examination Results 2013 Year Year Year Year Years In 2013, Clare ranked 11th in the university table of all Subject 1 2 3 4 5-6 To t a l 5% undergraduates performances, and 5th in the table of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic 1 2 2 5 UK 3% finalists. Of particular note is the high level of “value added” Archaeology & Anthropology 3 3 2 8 EU – Clare has established a strong record of each cohort of Architecture 2 2 3 7 students moving up the tables as they progress through their Overseas Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 2 2 2 3 9 time in Cambridge. In 2013, Clare undergraduates recorded particularly strong performances in Law and Mathematics. Chemical Engineering 6 4 1 11 Classics 5 5 6 1 17 Computer Science 4 4 2 10 Teaching Economics 6 6 7 19 Clare has been fortunate to be able to appoint some Engineering 8 8 9 5 30 outstanding new academic Fellows. In 2013, we admitted English 10 10 8 28 two new Fellows in French: Dr Alexander Roose, who Geography 3 3 6 specialises in French literature in the early modern period, History 8 9 8 25 and Dr Tim Chesters, who is a University Lecturer in 92% Sixteenth-Century French Studies. The College also History of Art 1 1 1 3 admitted Dr Hester Vaizey, who is a Lecturer in Modern Land Economy 3 2 3 8 German History, and Dr Jason Carroll, who combines his Law 5 5 6 16 role as Group Leader/Principal Investigator of the Carroll lab Linguistics 3 2 1 6 at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute with the Management Studies 1 1 role of Careers Tutor at Clare. Four Junior Research Fellows were also admitted: Jessica Goodman (Modern & Medieval Mathematics 10 11 9 8 38 Languages), Clemens Matthiesen (Physics), Jonathan Fawcett Medical and Veterinary Sciences 14 15 12 18 59 (Cognition and Brain Science), and Florence Sutcliffe- Modern & Medieval Languages 7 7 9 11 34 Braithwaite (Modern British History). Music 4 4 4 12 Natural Sciences 22 25 41 19 107 Philosophy 1 2 1 4 Politics, Psychology & Sociology 5 5 6 16 Theology 2 2 4 8 Total 135 139 135 60 18 487 4 Graduate Student Numbers 2012–13 Gilbert, A. J.: Morality, soldier-poetry, and the American War in Vietnam Holmstrom, A.: Arakelov motivic cohomology Jagger, B. W.: The influenza A polymerase in viral pathogenesis Research postgraduates 245 Kastrissianakis, K.: Reassessing public space in Beirut: continuity and change since the Ta’if Agreement, Taught postgraduates 21 1990–present Total 266 Kaus, A.: Extremal charged brane world black holes Lai, T.-H.: Computational studies of defect distribution and diffusion near interfaces in Yttria-stabilized Zirconia McCaig, R. J.: The legality of unrestricted submarine warfare in the first world war Morgan, H. L.: The construction and maintenance of a sense of ownership over one’s body: Graduate Students by behavioural, pharmacological and psychiatric investigations country/region of origin Mulherin, R. C.: Fully conjugated diblock copolymers for photovoltaic devices Narendra, D.: Involvement of PINK1 and Parkin in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease Osei-Poku, J.: The evolution and genetics of vector competence in mosquito disease vectors 28% Ostojic, L.: Social cognition in a cooperative context: are perceptions of a social partner distinctly social? Palmer, C. M.: A cylindrical specimen holder for electron cryo-tomography UK Paterson, S.: Elucidating surface dynamics in systems of atomic and molecular adsorbates EU 51% Pawlowska, M. M.: Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the late mesoproterozoic kumakha subformation (Lakhanda group) – a multiproxy approach Overseas Reams, C.