10 June 2021 • NO 5316 • VOL 151 Gazette

THURSDAY 10 June 2021 • NO 5316 • VOL 151 Gazette

Council and Main 460 Lectures 461 Committees

Council of the University: Examinations and Boards 462 Register of Congregation Examinations for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Congregation 460 Changes to Examination Regulations: Congregation 10 June: E ducation Committee Contested elections Medical Sciences Board Social Sciences Board Congregation 15 June: (1) Voting on Legislative Proposal: Statute VII: Divisions, Faculties, Colleges, Halls and Societies 463 Sub-faculties, Departments, and the Department for Continuing Obituaries: E ducation Merton (2) Voting on Legislative Proposal: Statute VII: Divisions, Faculties, Elections 463 Sub-faculties, Departments, and the Department for Continuing Council E ducation (3) Voting on Legislative Proposal: Nominating Committee for the Statute X and Congregation Vice-Chancellorship Regulations 3 of 2002 – establishment of the Degree of Buildings and Estates Master of Biomedical Sciences Subcommittee (4) Voting on Legislative Proposal: Part 14 of the Schedule to the Statutes Advertisements 468 (5) Voting on a Resolution authorising the allocation of space in Phase 2 of the Notifications of Vacancies 470 Biochemistry Building (building Colleges, Halls and Societies number 387) to the Medical Sciences Division and the External Vacancies Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division

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General Notices: Gazette publication arrangements

Appointments: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Medical Sciences

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Council Congregation and Main Committees

Council of the University Congregation 10 June Meeting information The meeting of Congregation is Register of Congregation Contested elections cancelled. The sole business comprises The Vice-Chancellor reports that the Council questions to which no opposition has following names have been added to Nominating Committee for the Vice- been notified and in respect of which the Register of Congregation: Chancellorship no request for adjournment has been Buildings and Estates Subcommittee received, and the Vice-Chancellor will FitzHerbert, S G I, Faculty of Oriental accordingly declare the legislative Studies Details are in ‘Elections’ section below. proposals at 1–4 above and the McLeod, F, Bodleian Special resolution at 5 above carried without a Collections Congregation 15 June meeting under the provisions of Sect 7 Divisional and Faculty Boards (1) of Statute VI. (1) Voting on Legislative Proposal: For changes to regulations for Statute VII: Divisions, Faculties, Note on procedures in Congregation examinations see ‘Changes to Sub-faculties, Departments, and the Examination Regulations’ below. Department for Continuing Education ¶ Business in Congregation is conducted in accordance with For full text of legislative proposal see Congregation Regulations 2 of Gazette No 5314, 27 May 2021, p430. 2002 (https://governance.admin. ox.ac.uk/legislation/congregation- (2) Voting on Legislative Proposal: regulations-2-of-2002). A printout of Statute VII: Divisions, Faculties, these regulations, or of any statute or Sub-faculties, Departments, and the other regulations, is available from Department for Continuing Education the Council Secretariat on request. For full text of legislative proposal see A member of Congregation seeking Gazette No 5314, 27 May 2021, p431. advice on questions relating to its procedures, other than elections, (3) Voting on Legislative Proposal: should contact Mrs R Thomas at the Statute X and Congregation University Offices, Wellington Square Regulations 3 of 2002 – Establishment (telephone: (2)80317; email rebecca. of the Degree of Master of Biomedical [email protected]); questions Sciences relating to elections should be directed to the Elections Office (email:elections. For full text of legislative proposal see [email protected]). Gazette No 5314, 27 May 2021, p433. While COVID-19 working restrictions (4) Voting on Legislative Proposal: Part remain in place, any notice that needs 14 of the Schedule to the Statutes to be given to the Registrar in writing should be sent by email to registrar@ For full text of legislative proposal see admin.ox.ac.uk. Notices sent to the Gazette No 5314, 27 May 2021, p433. University Offices may not be received. (5) Voting on a Resolution authorising the allocation of space in Phase 2 of the Biochemistry Building (building number 387) to the Medical Sciences Division and the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division For full text of resolution see Gazette No 5314, 27 May 2021, p434. University of Oxford Gazette • 10 June 2021 461

Wouter de vos Mostert, PhD Notices Queensland; Associate Professor Lectures of Engineering Science (Civil Engineering Fluid Mechanics) and fellow of Worcester from 1 October 2021 until 30 September 2026

CONFERRALS OF HEADSHIPS OF DEPARTMENTS The Mathematical, Physical and Life General Notices Social Sciences Sciences Board has conferred the Joint Headship of the Department Gazette publication arrangements Saïd Business School of Materials upon Angus Wilkinson, Since Trinity term 2020 the Gazette has Fellow of St Cross, and Hazel Assender, OXFORD SMART SPACE SERIES been published online only as a result Fellow of Linacre, from 1 February 2021. Robert Eberhart, Associate Director of office and printer closures. The Mathematical, Physical and Life of Research on Entrepreneurship and It has now been decided by GPC and Sciences Board has conferred the Society, Stanford, will host a discussion by Council that print production will Headship of the Department of Plant with Alexander MacDonald, Chief not resume when COVID-19-related Sciences upon Mark Fricker, Fellow of Economist, NASA, Candace Johnson, lockdowns end. Pembroke, from 1 October 2021. Partner and Chair of Advisory Board, Seraphim, and Mike Lawton, Director The Gazette will continue to be The Mathematical, Physical and and co-founder, Oxford Dynamics, at published online on Thursday Life Sciences Board has conferred 3pm on 18 June online followed by a mornings according to its usual the Headship of the Department of Q&A. Free and open to the public. To schedule. It will also be printed in a Zoology upon E-J Milner Gulland, Tasso register: https://oxfordsmartspace- limited run for libraries, archives and Leventis Professor of Biodiversity and eberhart-18june.eventbrite. paid subscribers. These arrangements Fellow of Merton, for the period com/?aff=Gazette or see the Oxford will be announced once libraries are 1 October 2021–30 September 2022. Smart Space Channel. open again. The Mathematical, Physical and Life Subject: ‘Space venturing, lessons Sciences Board has conferred the learned and differences with other Appointments Headship of the Department of Zoology sectors’ upon Timothy Coulson, Professor of Mathematical, Physical and Life Zoology and Fellow of Jesus, from Sciences 1 October 2022. APPOINTMENTS Medical Sciences Robert Hilton, PhD Camb; Sackler- Clarendon Associate Professor REAPPOINTMENTS of Sedimentary Geology, Sackler Geoffrey Bird, BSc PhD UCL, Fellow in Earth Sciences with title Associate Professor of Experimental of Professor and fellow of Worcester Psychology and Professor of Cognitive from 1 September 2021 until Neuroscience, Department of 31 August 2026 Experimental Psychology, and Fellow Bartosz Klin, PhD Aarhus; Associate of Brasenose, has been reappointed to Professor of Computer Science the retiring age with effect from (Programming Languages) and 1 January 2022. fellow of University College from 1 September 2021 until 31 August Musical and other Events 2026 St Cross Mark Mezei, PhD MIT; Associate Professor of Mathematical Physics A SUMMER EVENING AT THE OPERA (MI) and fellow of Wadham from 15 Opera-lele will perform an hour of August 2022 until 14 August 2027 well-known operatic and classical sung Paulo Savaget, PhD Camb; duets accompanied by their ukeleles, Associate Professor of Engineering from Puccini and Verdi to traditional (Engineering Entrepreneurship), Neapolitan songs, at 7pm on 2 July, Department of Engineering Science livestreamed on YouTube. Free. and Saïd Business School, and non- Registration required: www.stx.ox.ac. tutorial fellow of Worcester from 1 uk/event/a-summer-evening-at-the- September 2021 until 31 August 2026 opera. 462 University of Oxford Gazette • 10 June 2021

Examinations and Boards

Examinations for the Degree of Doctor Changes to Examination Regulations of Philosophy For the complete text of each regulation listed below and a listing of all changes This content has been removed to regulations for this year to date, please see https://gazette.web.ox.ac.uk/ as it contains personal examination-regulations-0. information protected under the Data Protection Act. Education Committee Members of the University with GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR THE a SSO account can log in to read DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE BY COURSEWORK the redacted content. change to list of programmes to which regulations apply Medical Sciences Board

MSC IN INTERNATIONAL HEALTH AND TROPICAL MEDICINE (a) addition of one optional module (b) change to title of optional module

MSC IN MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES rewording module names to better reflect course and information provided in handbook and webpages

MSC IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH minor amendment to assessment

MSC IN PRECISION CANCER MEDICINE (a) minor change to schedule (b) clarification of assessment structure

MSC IN RADIATION BIOLOGY (a) minor assessment amendment (b) removal of detail covered in Conventions Social Sciences Board

MSC IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING (PART- TIME) MSC IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION amendment to reflect changes to coursework submission process

MSC IN EDUCATION (a) amendment to reflect changes to process of coursework submission (b) introduction of new pathway University of Oxford Gazette • 10 June 2021 463

Professor Sir Gordon W Duff, Colleges, Elections Principal of St Hilda’s Professor Nicholas Day, Kellogg, Halls and Mahidol Oxford Medical Research Unit Societies Professor Adrian Hill, Magdalen, NDM/Jenner Institute Professor Kevin Marsh, St Cross, NDM Professor Sarah Rowland-Jones, Christ Church, NDM Obituaries Contested elections 10 June Professor Diego Sanchez-Ancochea, St Antony’s, International Merton The nomination period for the elections Development below closed at 4pm on 13 May. Due William Alastair Leslie Manson, Professor Helen J Swift, St Hilda’s, to current COVID-19 restrictions, the 2021; 1949. Aged 92 years. Medieval & Modern Languages elections on 10 June will be conducted Alun Parry Thomas, 2021; 1951. Aged Dr Rebecca Surender, Green electronically. 87 years. Templeton Professor S J Woolf, 1 May 2021; The electronic ballots will be Dr Benjamin Thompson, Somerville, 1953. Aged 85 years. administered by Civica Ltd (CES Votes) History on behalf of the University of Oxford. Candidate statement: All members of Congregation are As a member of the collegiate eligible to vote in the four contested University since 2003, I have benefited elections. from inspiring colleagues, a nurturing Members of Congregation were sent environment and extraordinary an email with further instructions students. I have been afforded the on Wednesday 26 May. The email opportunity to contribute to an from CES Votes contains links to the increasingly diverse and inclusive candidates’ statements and a unique community of global health leaders. link to the voting website – when voters I work continually to realise the click on the link, they will be taken to University’s strategic priority of the voting website where they can cast fostering inclusive and supportive their vote. Voters may wish to read environments to further enhance the candidates’ statements before diversity and innovation. As course completing their electronic vote. The director for the MSc in International voting period will close at 4pm on 10 Health and Tropical Medicine, I have June. The results will be announced extended opportunities for access on the University website as soon as for under-represented students from possible thereafter (https://governance. LMICs with tremendous potential web.ox.ac.uk/current-elections) and to effect positive change in their published in the next issue of the contexts through securing more than Gazette. £3,600,000 in graduate scholarships. I recognise that recruiting students For further information, please contact from disadvantaged backgrounds the Elections Officeelections.office@ ( necessitates efforts to support them admin.ox.ac.uk). to succeed. This involves creative curriculum design and teaching Council innovations. I am immensely proud • One member of Congregation elected to have been recognised by Oxford by Congregation from members SU with six teaching awards to date, of the faculties in the Divisions of including the Special Recognition Mathematical, Physical and Life Award, and by MSD with a Major Sciences and of Medical Sciences, to Educator Award. I share my passion serve until the start of MT 2025 [vice for teaching through Divisional Professor Tim Coulson] teacher training workshops as well as workshops across our Oxford Tropical The following nominations have been Medicine sites in Thailand (MORU and received: SMUR), Vietnam (OUCRU) and Kenya Professor Proochista Ariana, DPhil (KEMRI). As a current member of the Oxf, SM Harvard, Mansfield, Faculty of University’s Education Committee, Clinical Medicine I engage with discussions and help inform educational policy decisions. Nominated by: I have also contributed to the Student Helen Mountfield QC, Principal of Attainment Gap Working Group to Mansfield 464 University of Oxford Gazette • 10 June 2021

address a significant challenge to Professor Alexander Schekochihin, I believe that the University’s first meaningful inclusion efforts. BSs MIPT, MA Oxf, MA PhD Princeton, priority must be its people – students, Fellow of Merton, Department of faculty, staff – as the University is only On Council, I will draw on my Physics ever as excellent and as happy as they experience to advocate for are. accountability on commitments to Nominated by: diversity, inclusion, educational Professor Irene Tracey, Warden of • One member of Congregation, innovation and the well-being of our Merton, Clinical Neurosciences not necessarily being members of community. Professor Katherine Willis, Principal any division and not in any case of St Edmund Hall, Zoology being nominated in a divisional Professor H Bhaskaran, BE COEP, Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart, capacity, who shall be elected by MA Oxf, PhD Maryland, Wolfson, Merton, Law Congregation, to serve until the Department of Materials Professor Sir Rory Collins, St John’s, start of MT 2025 [vice Mr Richard Nominated by: Population Health Ovenden] Tim Hitchens, President of Wolfson Professor Fabian Essler, Worcester, The following nominations have been Professor Hazel Assender, Linacre, Physics received: Materials Mrs Juliane Kerkhecker, Oriel, Professor Martin Booth, Jesus, Classics Professor O P Daley, BSc Middx, MA Engineering Science Professor David Paterson, Merton, PGCE Lond, Fellow of Jesus, Subfaculty Alistair Cory, Begbroke Science Park Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics of Geography Martin Edmunds, MPLS Divisional Professor Ian Shipsey, St Catherine’s, Nominated by: Office Physics Professor A Dancer, Jesus, Professor Patrick Grant, Professor Patricia Thornton, Merton, Mathematics St Catherine’s, Pro-Vice- Politics & International Relations Professor G Garnett, St Hugh’s, Chancellor (Research), Materials Professor Sir Andrew Wiles, Merton, History Professor Sam Howison, Mathematical Institute Professor P Kewes, Jesus, English Mathematical Institute Candidate statement: Dr I Klinke, St John’s, Geography Professor Robert Taylor, Queen’s, I am a Professor of Theoretical Professor K Kohl, Jesus, Medieval & Physics Physics and a Tutor at Merton. I was Modern Languages Professor Angus Wilkinson, St Cross, educated in Russia and the US and Dr S Krishnan, Brasenose, Geography Materials worked at three universities in the Professor A Lora-Wainwright, Candidate statement: US and UK before coming to Oxford St Cross, Geography I am keen to represent the interests in 2008. My research interests are in Dr A Murrey, Mansfield, Geography of the experimental sciences that plasma (astro)physics, ranging from Professor S Tuck, Pembroke, History require laboratory and other shared thermodynamics of galaxy clusters Dr A Vasudevan, Christ Church, infrastructure within the University to magnetic-confinement fusion for Geography community, which are primarily based clean energy production. I have a Candidate statement: in MPLS and MSD. As an experimentalist fair amount of experience of college I have been a member of the University working in the Department of Materials, and departmental governance; a big since 1991 when I was appointed I have seen how crucial it is for students task that was particularly rewarding University Lecturer in Human as well as academic staff to engage (intellectually) and revealing (of how Geography and Tutorial Fellow at actively in work within such shared or things work) was helping set up and Jesus College. In 2016, I was appointed specialized facilities to enhance human run the new MMathPhys degree, Professor of the Human Geography of understanding and knowledge. Indeed, for which I am currently Chair of Africa. In that time, I have served on, such experimental work is often the Examiners. During the 2018 pension and chaired, several committees and catalyst for true breakthroughs in the crisis, I was deeply involved in the working groups, taught thousands sciences, and for transformative social campaign that persuaded Council of Oxford students and learned a change. Thus, University decision to declare protecting pensions a tremendous amount regarding the making requires active representation top priority. The most immediate inner workings of our institution. In of areas that overlap with and rely challenges that, if elected, I expect to 2015-16, I was the University Assessor. heavily on such infrastructure. I hope face as a member of Council are how to This position enabled me to gain to actively represent the creativity resolve the 2021 pension crisis without specialised knowledge of almost all the involved in experimental work that detriment to employees; how to stop University’s operations and Council uses physical resources, and the the decade-long erosion of salaries; sub-committees, from Education challenges associated with it. I would and how to enable merit-based access to Buildings and Estates. I have also inform decision making on ways and to Oxford education, undergraduate accumulated considerable knowledge means to effectively champion such and postgraduate, for a diversity of about the operations of colleges in my work within the collegiate University. I talent from across the world, a task that role as Vice-Principal of Jesus College, bring in experience across industry and has been made more pressing by the which ends this academic year. From academia as well as a global network extension of overseas fees to all non-UK 2012 to 2015, I was a committee member into the role, which might help Council students; convinced of the merits of of the Oxford branch of the University develop effective benchmarks for goal academic self-governance, I will also and College Union, where I served setting. do all I can to keep Council accountable as Equalities Officer and sat on the to Congregation in a meaningful way. University of Oxford Gazette • 10 June 2021 465

Negotiating Committee. I am currently I was elected a Fellow of St Catherine’s the day-to-day teaching of our students, a member of the University’s Race College in 2010 and completed my and in the research life of the University, Equality Task Force and I chair one of DPhil in 2005 at Christ Church. I teach are heard in the process of nominating our subcommittees. Coming from a at Trinity College and St Hugh’s. a Vice-Chancellor: one of the privileges Black British Caribbean background, My research concentrates on the of academic life at Oxford—one to be I bring a distinct and transcultural intersection of social and physical guarded—is the direct involvement perspective to Council. I am deeply processes, and I have spent much of the of academics in its governance. As an committed to ensuring that the academic year analysing and modelling policy academic in the early stages of his career, mission of the university is central to all responses to the Covid crisis. with experience of service on faculty decision-making and that the wellbeing and college committees, I would hope Before moving to academia, I was an of students and staff is prioritised. to bring to this process a significant undergraduate at Imperial College awareness of the needs of those working Dr Duncan Robertson, BSc Imp, MA London where I studied physics. I then on the ground, and of the interests of DPhil Oxf, Fellow of St Catherine’s, qualified as a Chartered Accountant graduate students and early career Faculty of Management before pursuing research in academic academics now and in the coming years, management. I intend to use these Nominated by: when resources across all disciplines are professional skills for good to engage Professor Kersti Böjars, Master of likely to be further straitened. with some of the more technical aspects St Catherine’s, Linguistics, of Council business whilst ensuring A Vice-Chancellor should command Philology & Phonetics that Council retains its overarching the respect of the University as a whole Professor Judith Buchanan, Master responsibility of accountability to and show a commitment to academic of St Peter’s, English Congregation. excellence. An understanding of, and Professor Kate Blackmon, Merton, respect for, the democratic structures Saïd Business School Committees reporting to Council or of the collegiate University and the Professor Ben Bollig, St Catherine’s, one of its main committees different roles of Colleges, Faculties, Medieval & Modern Languages NOMINATING COMMITTEE FOR THE Departments, Council, and Congregation Professor Peter Edwards, VICE-CHANCELLORSHIP are of paramount importance. The Vice- St Catherine’s, Chemistry Chancellor must be able to represent the Professor Andrea Ferrero, Trinity, • Three persons, not also being interests of the academy in general and Economics members of Council, elected by the University in particular, nationally Dr Roger Gundle, University College, Congregation, one to serve until the and internationally, and must be able to Clinical Medicine/NDORMS start of MT 2025 and two to serve build bridges and facilitate exchange, Dr Georgy Kantor, St John’s, Classics until the start of MT 2022 whether financial or intellectual. Above Professor Alexander Schekochihin, The following nominations have been all, the Vice-Chancellor must lead by Merton, Physics received: example, demonstrating and defending Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, the values and interests of our University. St Catherine’s, English Dr Tristan E Franklinos, MPhil DPhil If elected, I will endeavour to help the Oxf, MA St And, Fellow of Trinity, Candidate statement: University choose a Vice-Chancellor Faculty of Classics The strengths of the University have who will understand, and rise to, the been clear to see in the national and Nominated by: challenges of the office. international response to Covid, Dame Hilary Boulding, President of Professor Martin C J Maiden, BSc Rd’g, from the advice given to Government Trinity MA Oxf, PhD Camb, Fellow of Hertford, through SAGE and its committees Professor Philip A Booth, St Peter’s, Department of Zoology through to the coordination of the History/Theology & Religion RECOVERY clinical trials and the Dr Andrew J Counter, New College, Nominated by: development of the Oxford/Astra Medieval & Modern Languages Mr Thomas Fletcher, Principal of Zeneca vaccine. We can be very proud Professor Pepper Culpepper, Hertford of the University’s contribution. Nuffield, Blavatnik School of Professor Timothy Coulson, Jesus, Government Zoology The University has however been Dr Sophie V Duncan, Christ Church, Professor Susanna Dunachie, through an exceptional period of English Kellogg, NDM emergency Covid governance, and it Professor Stephen J Heyworth, Ms Jennifer Makkreel, Estates is important that, as we recover from Wadham, Classics Services the emergency measures and move Professor Katherine M Ibbett, Professor Sophie Marnette, Balliol, to more routine yet no less critical Trinity, Medieval & Modern French business – pensions funding; academic Languages Mr Nigel Portwood, Exeter, OUP independence; changing Government Professor Marta Z Kwiatowska, Professor Emma Smith, Hertford, funding and policy priorities; Trinity, Computer Science English attractiveness of the University for Dr Barnaby L S Taylor, Exeter, Classics Professor Christoph Tang, Exeter, the best academics and access to the Professor Charlotte K Williams, Pathology University for the best students – that Trinity, Chemistry Dr Alison Woollard, Hertford, democratic governance measures in Biochemistry the University are re-established and Candidate statement: Professor William Whyte, St John’s, revitalized. 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Candidate statement: Professor Matt Higgins, Merton, Professor Irene Tracey, Warden of After working in the NHS for nine Biochemistry Merton years, I joined the University in 1997 Professor Yvonne Jones, Jesus, NDM Professor Roger Goodman, Principal as a Welcome Trust Senior Fellow. Professor Simon Newstead, Christ of St Antony’s Since 2004 I have been a Tutorial Church, Biochemistry Professor Maggie Snowling, Fellow at Hertford College and Professor Fiona Powrie, Wadham, President of St John’s Professor of Molecular Epidemiology Kennedy Institute Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft, in the Department of Zoology. I have Trinity, Medical Sciences Candidate statement: undertaken a wide range of academic Professor Dame Kay Davies, Personal History and administrative roles in Hertford, Hertford, Medical Sciences I arrived in Oxford in 2017, after nearly the Department, and the University. I Professor Ewan McKendrick, Lady 23 years at St Andrews. I am a senior was closely involved in the response Margaret Hall, Law research fellow at Jesus College and a to the Tinbergen building closure Professor Sir Andrew Wiles, Merton, member of the division of structural (2017-18) and was Senior Proctor Mathematics biology. I am a scientist working 2019-2020. Consequently, I have a at the interface of chemistry and Candidate statement: comprehensive overview of the many biology. Currently I am the director I am a research-led teaching academic, constituencies within Oxford and their of the Rosalind Franklin Institute, Fellow of Merton College and Head of complex and interconnected needs. (at Harwell). I am an elected fellow the Department of Physiology, Anatomy I know intimately the difficulties of of the Royal Society, Royal Society & Genetics (2016-). Since arriving at maintaining the high standards of of Edinburgh, Academy of Medical Oxford in the mid-1980’s on an overseas teaching, research, and administration Science, American Association for scholarship as a graduate student (New that Oxford sets itself and the Advancement of Science and European College), I have had the privilege of enormous pressures that this generates Molecular Biology Organisation. viewing the collegiate university through for all members. many different lenses. As a JRF (Christ Qualifications Being a Proctor provides unique insights Church), Tutor (Merton), Sub-Warden, I have experience in dealing with into the extremely challenging, but Senior Pro-Proctor and Deputy Head of level appointments. I served on the highly rewarding, role of the Vice Division (MSD 8 years) my experiences University Court (governing body) of Chancellor. Oxford’s long-term success have been both challenging and the University of St Andrews as the across an extraordinary range of rewarding. Chairing MSD Education, elected science & medicine professor. I intellectual and practical activities is Research and Personnel committees, and was a member of the search committee principally due to its ideals of academic as Acting Head of Division (6 months) on for the St Andrews new principal & vice freedom and self-governance. Balancing Council gave me further insights into the chancellor. I currently serve on the the requirements of all members of workings of the university. As President council of the Royal Society and was a Oxford’s complex ecosystem in an of The Physiological Society, and a fellow member of the panel that interviewed environment of limited resources and of several learned societies, I continue and recommended the new foreign ever-increasing externally imposed to run a research group, which has had secretary. I currently serve as the UK constraints is very demanding. The uninterrupted external funding for over representative on the board of the Vice Chancellor simultaneously has 35 years. My research career together European X-ray Free Electron Laser. I a vital outward-facing role, including with my lecturing, examining and service served on the board of Diamond Light interfacing with government and on national RAE/REF committees, is Source and was on the search panel for donors. The coming period will present in keeping with my conviction of the the new chief executive. Oxford with many challenges and to importance of both academic research face these effectively we must choose Motivation and teaching. As such, I have a good an outstanding individual as Vice I would like to contribute to the appreciation of the qualities I would most Chancellor to guide us. I am confident University and my skills fit this role. admire in a vice chancellor. If appointed, that I can broadly represent the My experience has taught me the I would bring to the committee this members of the University in making value of an academic voice in these experience that supports the core values this crucial choice. appointments. The Vice-Chancellor of the university. is primus inter pares, thus must Professor James H Naismith, BSc Edin, Dr Sam Wolfe, MA MPhil PhD Camb, be a respected scholar, a leader, a PhD Manc, DSc St And, Fellow of Jesus, St Catherine’s, Faculty of Linguistics, colleague, a capable administrator, NDM Philology & Phonetics a skilled negotiator and an articulate Nominated by: spokesperson. Nominated by: Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Principal Mr Miles Young, Warden of New Professor D J Paterson, MA DPhil Oxf, of Jesus, Computer Science College MSc DSc WAust, Fellow of Merton, Professor Andrew Baldwin, Professor Kersti Börjars, Master of Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Pembroke, Chemistry St Catherine’s Genetics Professor Patricia Clavin, Jesus, Professor Benjamin Bollig, History Nominated by: St Catherine’s, Spanish & Professor Benjamin Davis, Mr John Bowers QC, Principal of Portuguese Pembroke, Chemistry Brasenose Professor Byron Byrne, Professor Veronique Gouverneur, Professor Sir Rick Trainor, Rector of St Catherine’s, Engineering Merton, Chemistry Exeter Science University of Oxford Gazette • 10 June 2021 467

Professor Aditi Lahiri, Somerville, BUILDINGS AND ESTATES Professor Karen O’Brien, University Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics SUBCOMMITTEE College, English Professor Carolyne Larrington, St Professor Andrew Simpson, Kellogg, • One person elected by Congregation, John’s, English Computer Science to serve until the start of MT 2024 Professor Martin Maiden, Trinity, Professor Mike Wooldridge, [vice Ms Laura How] Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics Hertford, Computer Science Professor Kate Nation, St John’s, The following nominations have been Candidate statement: Experimental Psychology received: Having been a member of the Professor Ian Watson, Christ Church, Tania Boyt, MBA Open, MA Oxf, Fellow University in various guises as student, French of Reuben researcher, lecturer, and professor, I Candidate statement: think I have a reasonably good grasp Nominated by: The upheaval of the past fourteen – as far as anyone does – of how the Dr Nick Leimu-Brown, Principal of months has cast into sharp relief place works, what drives and motivates Linacre the need for effective, collaborative, colleagues and peers, and some of the Professor Lionel Tarassenko, and sensitive leadership to take the constraints we must all work within. President of Reuben, Engineering University forward. The challenges At the University level, I chair the Joint Professor Sir Rory Collins, St John’s, facing the next Vice-Chancellor Information Security Advisory Group, Population Health are considerable. Whilst COVID-19 and am a member of CUREC, as well as Laura How, Bodleian Libraries has reminded us of the University’s leading a number of activities related Tracy Tompkins, Experimental strengths, for many it has either to equality and diversity, and ethics, in Psychology compounded or highlighted existing my Department. I have led a number of John Tranter, St Cross weaknesses; a newly elected Vice- cross-disciplinary initiatives in Cyber Gary Walker, Kellogg Chancellor will need to grapple with Security research and education, and Dr Stuart Wilkinson, Reuben, maintaining the University’s reputation take part in a number of committees Research Services for world-leading research and teaching within my College. I have also tried whilst ensuring the financial security Candidate statement: to maintain a sense of how life works which permits both. Presenting Oxford Since joining the University in 2001, beyond the ring-road, in membership as socially responsible, both in terms I have held the roles of Departmental of various boards and projects related of access and outreach activities and Administrator/Head of Administration to Cyber Security nationally, and as a our impact on our planet, is likely to be and Finance for five different Trustee of Bletchley Park. more integral to the role than it has ever departments across two divisions, and These activities have exposed me to been before. more recently I was appointed as Bursar many of the complexities of building at Reuben College. Undertaking these If elected to the Committee, I would projects within the University and roles has provided me with a wide and aim to ensure we nominate a candidate outside. I am presently leading the varied breadth of experience in relation who can rise to these challenges early stages of a project aiming to build to building and estates issues, as well as with particular regard for Oxford’s a new Information Sciences building the challenges they present. unique history of democracy and self- on the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter. governance, working constructively As a member of Congregation, I believe If elected to BESC, I would bring with Colleges and Congregation it is important and an obligation to this broad range of experience and members, so that the significant policy participate in the operation of the understanding of stakeholder needs to challenges ahead are dealt with in a way University community. I currently sit its discussions, and would learn much that enjoys broad support from across on numerous University committees that will be of value in helping new our community. and working groups and these add to building projects run smoothly. my growing depth of knowledge. I feel Since arriving in Oxford five years I would be a valued member of BESC ago, I have served on the Faculty of and would welcome the opportunity Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics to bring my operational expertise Faculty Board, the Conference of and experience to assisting the wider Colleges Steering Committee, and University. coordinated a national project on care- leavers’ access to Higher Education. In Professor Andrew Martin, MA DPhil addition to experience of recruitment Oxf, Fellow of Kellogg, Faculty of exercises within a University and Computer Science College context, I have been closely Nominated by: involved in recruiting senior leaders Professor Jonathan Michie, in the Further Education and charity President of Kellogg, Continuing sector. Education Dr Keri Dexter, MPLS Division Professor Richard Hobbs, Harris Manchester, Primary Care Health Sciences Professor David Mills, Kellogg, Education 468 University of Oxford Gazette • 10 June 2021

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