WEDNESday 14 october 2015 • SUPPLEMENT (1) TO No 5108 • Vol 146 Gazette Supplement

Oration by the Vice-Chancellor

Colleagues and friends of the University, But my purpose today is larger than personal which, it was also interesting to note in a thank you very much indeed for joining memories, much as I will treasure them. If recent Times Higher survey, was ranked as me at the start of another academic year: some of the following sounds like a State one of the leanest in the UK. an academic year which will, of course, see of the Union address, it is not because my The figures I mentioned are impressive, but me depart from a role that I have enjoyed new, American, title of President has gone the reality they reflect is more impressive thoroughly for some six years. to my head. I believe there is some analogy still. People invest in Oxford research between the collegiate University and the Dr Johnson said: ‘When a man knows he is because it guarantees world-class quality. federal USA. Like them, we aspire towards to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates The question of overall performance in a more perfect Union, even if perfection his mind wonderfully.’ My own situation, in the UK’s Research Excellence Framework itself will always remain out of reach. I also leaving for New York University, is not quite assessment is often a contentious one. There believe I can stand before you today and so dramatic. Nevertheless, the prospect of are at least 18 different ways to calculate state that, at Oxford, the State of our Union is my impending departure from Oxford has it. When last December’s REF results were strong – stronger than it has ever been. concentrated my mind on the events of announced, one cynic pointed out there my time here. I have many reflections and I We are strong precisely because we are appeared to be 14 universities in the top hope you will indulge me if I share some of a union. As I have already indicated, the ten. There was less contention about first those with you today. past six years or so have been a challenging place. The Times, Independent, Guardian, economic period. It would have been easy Telegraph and Daily Mail rarely agree on Before I do so, I should add, for the for Oxford to buckle under the budgetary anything. When all five declareO xford is a avoidance of doubt, that I do not intend constraints imposed upon us. We did not clear number one, with more world-class to imply that mine is the only, or even do so. Together, the collegiate University research than anyone else, I think we have to necessarily the most significant departure focused on Oxford’s core mission – providing take their word for it. from the University. Indeed, one of the the very finest undergraduate and graduate later sections of this version records the The Times Higher pointed out that Oxford, education in the world and maintaining a University’s new arrivals, its departures, with the most REF first places by subject, research endeavour as good as any on the and the passing of distinguished and valued would also be enjoying the liveliest planet. For all the frustrations of the budget colleagues. departmental Christmas parties. If I add cuts, it was gratifying to see the colleges, the that many of those celebrations would Of my own time here, my first reflection divisions and the administration working have been in the Mathematical, Physical is: can it really be only six years, almost together with common purpose. and Life Sciences Division, that is not to to the day, since Sir John Hood passed on The results have been remarkable. Over the diminish the magnificent achievements to me the insignia of the Vice-Chancellor past decade, Oxford’s income has grown of other divisions. Rather, it is to lay to of Oxford University? Can that short time by 6–7% a year. If you focus on research rest, hopefully once and for all, the canard have spanned three governments, two income alone, the increase is around 8–9% that Oxford is not a leader for science. Our Comprehensive Spending Reviews, one REF a year. Last year, we secured a total of science group is better than any other in the assessment, two tuition fee regimes, five £478 million for research projects in an United Kingdom, and we have the results to varsity rugby wins, four boat race victories, intensely competitive environment, prove it. several floods and one volcanic ash cloud? from companies, from charities and from The post has taken me to every continent, But in an era of constant economic government. That puts us on a par with Yale from the Davos summit to one of the poorest uncertainty, when nervousness in China and Harvard and more than £100 million townships in South Africa. I have been can trigger a stock market plunge half ahead of the chasing pack in the UK. We can interviewed by the Wall Street Journal a world away, we cannot rest on our sometimes forget the scale of this enterprise, and a Marxist talk radio host. I have been laurels in anything we do. Throughout driven by the hard work and imagination of impressed by so many remarkable figures my time here, I have impressed upon the so many outstanding faculty and students who have travelled to Oxford in my time. I University the need for greater financial and generating an annual turnover of the think of Michelle Obama’s drive and energy, self-reliance, drawing upon the admiration University alone of nearly £1.3 billion. This and, of course, the hope and inspiration and excitement our work provokes among activity is supported by a highly committed represented by Aung San Suu Kyi. alumni and donors the world over. I am and capable University administration

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delighted that message has been heeded. Our donors commit to Oxford because conflicting, issues – climate change, security In May, we announced the Oxford Thinking we commit to excellence. We seek of energy supply, equitable international campaign had reached a total of £2 billion simultaneously to preserve our historic development. It is only right that a bold in gifts, achieved through the fastest rate of strengths and to adapt and innovate to stay 21st-century school should be housed in fundraising in British higher education. ahead of the emerging challenges of the a bold 21st-century building – not always 21st century. For that reason, we acted to easy in Oxford. We believe that the new No one individual can take the credit safeguard the tutorial system, the lifeblood Blavatnik building achieves a striking, yet for reaching this £2 billion landmark. of our outstanding educational system, from sympathetic, solution in the heart of our Once again, it is the common purpose the threat of national budget cuts. Working beautiful medieval city. demonstrated in the fundraising with the colleges, we ringfenced £60 million partnership between the University and the Similarly, the Andrew Wiles Building of the University’s reserves for a match- colleges that has proved to be our strength. brilliantly, almost playfully, folds profound funded Teaching Fund to support tutorial And once again, the number is less arresting mathematical concepts into its very fellows. The total pot has now reached than the stories behind it. fabric. The building is, of course, named more than £140 million, endowing, and after the colleague who cracked Fermat’s Stories like that of Hong Kong entrepreneur protecting, these vital tutorial posts. last theorem. Many other mathematical Sir Ka-shing Li, who through his charitable Likewise, we created a match fund for challenges remain unproven – the Riemann foundations has pledged £20 million to help graduate student scholarships. It is Hypothesis, Goldbach’s Conjecture. I am establish the Li Ka Shing Centre for Health impossible to overstress the importance of going to predict that the 21st century will Information and Discovery. This centre, this. Doctoral students are the engine room see at least one of these major mathematical the first of its kind in the world, will house of our research. They do so much to generate problems solved in the facilities we have more than 600 scientists exploiting big the ideas, the treatments, the technology created here in Oxford. You could call that data research in many fields of medicine, and the policies to address the most the Hamilton Hypothesis. with the potential to transform the challenging, exciting and pressing questions understanding, treatment and management Every Vice-Chancellorship has its of our time. In the past we have competed – of disease. difficulties. I have spoken of two new successfully – with Harvard and Yale for the buildings widely regarded as architectural Or stories like that of interior designer best graduate students in the world despite, delights. I feel I should speak of another Mica Ertegun, who established the Mica not because of, the financial support on development which will never be and Ahmet Ertegun Graduate Scholarship offer here.T hat is not a sustainable position. regarded in the same light. The Castle Mill Programme in the Humanities. Thanks to We have made an excellent start, with a student accommodation. At February’s her gift, leading humanities students from scholarship fund now standing at over Congregation debate on the future of the throughout the world compete annually £100 million, but we must press on for more. flats, theR egistrar spoke frankly of the for fully funded graduate scholarships. There is a third main philanthropic strand lessons to be learned from Castle Mill Her support will eventually be endowed to our educational funding and it is one on consultation and listening. We shall in perpetuity guaranteeing at least 35 such that gives me enormous pleasure. We learn those lessons. But another speaker scholarships at any one time in fields as have now seen the first cohorts from the at that meeting reminded me, with the diverse as literature, history, music and Moritz–Heyman scholarship fund pass out commendable courtesy that marked the archaeology. of their college gates. I mentioned earlier the entire debate, that Castle Mill will be a Sometimes there are hundreds of individual memories I shall treasure most. Foremost particularly visible part of my legacy. Well, stories. The transformation of Pembroke amongst them will be the receptions we Castle Mill now accommodates more than College, with new quadrangles and student have held for graduates of the Moritz– 300 graduate students and families at buildings, came courtesy of more than 1,200 Heyman scheme, meeting the students, reasonable cost in the UK’s most expensive donors who together raised £17 million, learning of their dreams for the future and housing market. Our graduate students are driven by a collective desire to benefit the how the scholarships made it all possible. It’s vital to Oxford’s research strength, as I have entire Pembroke community. exactly what Sir Michael Moritz and his wife already outlined, but they also contribute Harriet Heyman had in mind when they to the vibrancy of the city and often to its And while in reflective mood, I’d like to made Europe’s largest-ever philanthropic economy as entrepreneurs and job creators. pause briefly over the memory of two gift for undergraduate support. Every year, Castle Mill allows them to be here. If that benefactors, now sadly passed away, up to 160 new students from the UK’s is part of my legacy, then I am content it whose friendship and support I have lowest-income families will receive, on should be so. greatly appreciated as Vice-Chancellor. I average, a reduction of £3,000 from their am thinking of David Richards, a wonderful Of course, there is more to our strong tuition fees and a further £4,500 bursary man (despite being a Harvard graduate!) investment record than new buildings. towards living costs. We say, repeatedly, that who has become Wadham’s biggest donor Oxford is a digital pioneer as well. One of the financial circumstance is no barrier to an of modern times. I think too of the great most striking examples was July’s launch Oxford education – and we mean it. Jim Martin whose Oxford Martin School, of the Digital.Bodleian website. More than focusing as it does on interdisciplinary I said earlier that Oxford seeks 100,000 images are now online, making approaches to the world’s most challenging simultaneously to preserve and to universally accessible many treasures that problems, is a priceless asset to future innovate. It’s a difficult balance to achieve, previously could only be seen through generations. Both men, like so many of architecturally just as much as academically. possession of a Bodleian reader’s card. You Oxford’s benefactors before them, have The Blavatnik School of Government can see what is believed to be the earliest made a contribution that will endure, has been created to equip tomorrow’s map of the UK from the middle ages, board though they are gone. international leaders with the tools to tackle games from the Victorian era, political the world’s most challenging, and often posters from the last century and so much University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5108 • 14 October 2015 63

more. Again, one of our historic strengths department directly concerned with With our partners in local government, has been given a new dimension through universities – points to a more than usually the University was a vital player in landing Oxford’s innovative, outward-looking uncertain and challenging period for UK last year’s City Deal, which brought major approach. Higher Education. I can only emphasise investment into the region for high-tech that of all the false economies that might and biotech sectors. Begbroke Science Park That same approach runs through our long be available to ministers, few could be and the new bioescalator at Headington history of commercial enterprise. I hear that more mistaken than cutting support for will be focal points where many of these Oxford’s very first spin-out, a project named universities and their research. If politicians new ventures will be nurtured. I expect to Cambridge University, is still doing pretty and others do not fully understand or see, from across the water, the Oxfordshire well… in all things except perhaps in rowing appreciate what a jewel they have in British Powerhouse as more than a match for any of and rugby. More recently, in my six years, higher education, they risk throwing it away. its regional counterparts. Oxford research has generated 31 new spin- out companies. That rate, more or less 5 new I remarked last year that I was ‘baffled’ by Welcome, too, is the new universities’ ventures every year, is the highest in the UK. UK policy on student visas, that I could not minister’s emphasis on teaching. We await understand why we were harming such the detailed proposals for a new Teaching Last autumn I visited a mosquito breeding an outstanding source of bright minds as Excellence Framework with interest. I plant in Brazil. It may not sound like well as overseas revenue. It caused a bit of don’t know what kind of international the most glamorous aspect of the Vice- a stir. I won’t claim the credit, but in their comparisons, if any, may be invoked in this Chancellor’s role, but it was fascinating. The subsequent election manifestos, all the exercise, but I do know that, in its zeal to plant is the creation of Oxitec, a spin-out major political parties pledged to drop assess teaching excellence, the government exploiting genetic modification techniques students from their immigration targets. must take care not to damage a highly developed in the Department of Zoology. Every political party, that is, except the one successful sector in the eyes of international The Oxitec GM insects are incapable of that actually won. I will not repeat last year’s students. Our competitors around the world reproducing effectively.T he idea is that if argument. But the student visa system was would lick their lips at the prospect of self- they are introduced into the wild, the native an unnecessary hindrance to British higher inflicted negativity around our educational disease-bearing mosquito population will education 12 months ago and it remains one offerings. collapse. There are enormous implications now. for the control of a range of diseases, with I have already alluded to the critical dengue fever perhaps the most advanced. I should also say something about importance of the Oxford tutorial system to There have been successful trials of the increasing government nervousness over the world-class education we provide. There Oxitec mosquitoes in Grand Cayman and campus indoctrination. We are all aware is no substitute, in our view, to spending Panama, as well as in Brazil. that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, an hour defending your ideas to a world and nobody should be complacent about authority, with absolutely no intellectual I was impressed by what I saw in South the sophisticated techniques that can be bolthole to scurry to. The tutorial promotes America, exquisite science applied to a very used to influence young minds.B ut at the rigorous thinking, clarity of articulation real world problem. It came as no surprise same time legislation first introduced as and independence of mind. If it is to be when, in August, an American corporation ‘light touch’ and ‘proportionate’ must not meaningful, the Teaching Excellence bought Oxitec for US$160 million. The erode the very values that we are seeking to Framework cannot adopt a one-size-fits-all commercial sector understands very well protect. Freedom of expression and debate, approach. The better way will be to identify Oxford research’s potential to create wealth, academic independence and integrity – and recognise excellence in teaching jobs and ground-breaking solutions to these are at the very heart of what makes wherever it exists – as for example in the sizeable problems. a great university great. Anything that tutorial model – and think imaginatively The commercial sector may understand undermines them, whatever the intention, about how and where that excellence can be that but I sometimes wonder if others, is more likely to exacerbate than eradicate shared and adapted to general advantage. If particularly in the UK, truly value our the perceived danger. We are not there yet, the power to raise tuition fees is really to be education and research. I am not just talking but the safeguards may be weaker than we linked to performance then there should be about Oxford here. I made a small joke at think. a strong incentive to fund and adopt ways of Cambridge’s expense a moment ago but teaching that demonstrably produce results. Other government initiatives are more the two of us repeatedly figure in lists of welcome. A regional approach to growth, Ah yes, tuition fees. Two years ago I caused the world’s top five universities.T he most exemplified by the Northern Powerhouse, is a stir, another one, when I called for the recent, in the Times Higher, ranked Oxford long overdue. The Oxfordshire region, with student funding system to reflect more second and Cambridge fourth. You will its nexus of universities and knowledge- closely the true cost of a student degree – at usually find four UK universities in the based industries, is well placed to be in the least £16,000 a year in Oxford’s case. My world’s top 20 or so. That is remarkable for forefront of this movement, which can do view on that hasn’t changed, especially an island of this size. It is hard to think of so much to help improve the quality of life when I see the distortions that continue to any other walk of life where the UK is so for individuals and communities. I think, result elsewhere in our academy through eminent. It’s four times the number of top for example, of the deepening partnership the need to divert funding to help plug tennis players we have. And yet this success between medical research and healthcare the cost-gap. What I did not say, but was often seems to go unremarked or under- embodied in the Oxford University often misunderstood to have said, was appreciated. Hospitals Trust – and I’m delighted to that the full burden of that cost should The looming Comprehensive Spending note the granting, just the other day, of fall on the student. Of course it shouldn’t. 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the introduction of higher tuition loans rather than the more compact surroundings And the academics. If I give one example, has not deterred university applications of Oxford. But in many other regards I shall it is because they represent everything from students from lower income families. be grappling with questions and challenges that is outstanding about so many other That may well be the case, so far, but there that are familiar here. That is not surprising. colleagues. Professors Nick White and are no grounds for complacency. It still They are fundamental to higher education Nick Day of the Nuffield Department of could happen and we must all be watchful. and its purpose wherever students, teachers Medicine. Out in the very front line of the I am sure that Oxford will remain vigilant and researchers are brought together. global battle against malaria. Another and continue to reinforce its support Of course how an individual institution memory I shall treasure is visiting them and protection for the most financially approaches them will vary. International at Mahidol University in Thailand to hear vulnerable. The original Moritz–Heyman gift reach itself can take many forms. Unlike about their work there and in Laos. Meeting has been bolstered by a further £50 million Oxford, NYU has overseas academic centres their incredibly gifted research team, with from other donors, all convinced that a and now campuses – so I anticipate that whom they have helped save more than a university education is a public good which travel on university business will continue million lives through their pioneering of must remain available to all. to take up a good deal of my time. artemisinin combination therapy. Their fight continues on theT hailand–Myanmar At Oxford, we are also mindful that the And at NYU in its many guises I know I shall border, now against genetic changes which pressures that fall on UK students are not draw on much that I have learned here. are increasing drug resistance. Their work just financial. We still live in an extremely I have seen so much to inspire me in the encapsulates many of the Oxford strengths tight employment market, and students last six years, including the enthusiasm I have tried to capture in this speech – are perhaps more conscious than ever and interest for Oxford’s work around the academic brilliance, transcending national of the need for a good degree to secure world. It can be environmental research in boundaries and transforming lives around a return on their investment in higher the forests of South America, it can be an the world. education. For some, that pressure archaeological collaboration on historical becomes too much. Much has been made sites threatened by conflict in the Middle At this point in my oration I am reminded in recent months of the numbers of Oxford East, it can be energetic participation in a of an observation in the Guardian profile students accessing our counselling service. family workshop in a tiny South African on the announcement of my new NYU role. 1,070 undergraduates used the service village, run by our Social Policy and ‘Hamilton’s speeches sometimes overrun’ – in 2013–14, up from 453 in 2003–4. I take Intervention researchers. Or, more recently, my first reaction was C‘ an you really have encouragement from this. Students are it can be the extraordinarily moving surge too much of a good thing?’ But then an coming forward. They know that expert, of international support for our WildCRU askance look from my wife reminds me that professional support is available and they conservation team in the aftermath of the the answer is an emphatic ‘Yes!’ Keeping are now more prepared to discuss their shooting of Cecil the lion. Universities have a critical eye on the duration of my public difficulties.A nd we know the system works. an almost unique capacity to break down interventions is just one of the myriad ways Often working with our excellent Student national borders in solving global problems, that my wife Jennie has been a pillar of Union, our counsellors can provide the all the more so through the affection and support for me. I want to thank her publicly advice and guidance to make remarkable respect that Oxford inspires. for all she has done for me and for all her transformations, enabling students to hard work on behalf of Oxford over these I shall take with me too the incredible succeed and once more enjoy their studies. past six years. loyalty and generosity of our alumni. In I have the same confidence about the Oxford, the UK or overseas, wherever There is so much more I could touch on. measures we have put in place on sexual I have met them, our former students I began with a Samuel Johnson quote harassment. In the past year, we have are consumed with curiosity about the and I will add another before I conclude. created clear guidance on what help is University. They have a hunger to hear about ‘Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long available and how to get it. The message the latest research, new student initiatives, absence, though it may be increased by is clear – harassment of any form will not and very often the question then comes, short intermissions.’ I do not intend a long be tolerated at this University and no-one unprompted: ‘How can we help?’ and certainly not a total absence from should hesitate to speak out about it. Oxford. The friendships Jennie and I have Above all, I shall take with me memories The start of the academic year has seen built and the affection we feel for the place of the wonderful people I have worked gender awareness sessions for all our new will not permit that. And even when not with at Oxford. The students. Passionate, undergraduates and again I am extremely around in person, I suspect that part of committed, outspoken but above all grateful to the Student Union for their me at least will still be here in spirit. The sublimely talented. To spend an hour hard work in this regard. Our commitment conviction is growing in me that – as with talking to students – about their ideas, their to a safe campus for all is one of our key many others who have known and loved experiences, their goals – is to see the very undertakings for the UN’s HeForShe this great university – you can take us out of point of this University. The administration, campaign, underlining that gender equality Oxford but you can’t take Oxford out of us. including my own fantastic office team and respect is a responsibility for every one in Wellington Square. At a time of rapid And what will Oxford people say of me, if of us at Oxford. educational change, of an ever-more they see me back? Well, that will be up to Of course, none of these issues is unique complex regulatory environment, a highly them, but if I may express a wish, I’d hope to Oxford or, indeed, to the UK. At NYU, my professional administrative service is vital for something like this: ‘There goes Andrew immediate physical environment will not to any university. That is exactly what we Hamilton. He left the University in a strong resemble Oxford at all. Gothic quadrangles have at Oxford – highly professional and place, and with its best days ahead of it.’ are in short supply in Greenwich Village. The utterly dedicated in their support of our Those days include the arrival of my scale of NYU is also quite different – 50,000 fundamental academic mission. successor, Professor Louise Richardson. I students in one of the largest cities on Earth, know the excitement she must be feeling, University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5108 • 14 October 2015 65

because I felt it myself six years ago. I know Principal of Jesus; and Dr Frances Lannon as Petrovich; Dr Katalin Pinter; Professor that her leadership will continue to take you Principal of Lady Margaret Hall. I should like John Ryan, Professor of Physics; Professor to the extraordinary heights that you are to thank them for their advice and support Alexis Sanderson, Spalding Professor of all capable of. And conversely, I know you during my time as Vice-Chancellor. They are Eastern Religions and Ethics; Professor will give her every support in keeping this succeeded respectively by Mr John Bowers Michael Sheringham, Marshal Foch University as a forward-looking, dynamic, QC, Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Mr Professor of French Literature; Professor 21st-century powerhouse of education and Alan Rusbridger. Professor Denise Lievesley Sir Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of research. You – and she – are in good hands. has become Principal of Green Templeton, the History of War; Dr Michael Stratford; following the sad death earlier this year of Dr Henry Summerson; Professor Kathy The work of the University continues to Sir David Watson. Sylva, Professor of Educational Psychology; receive other forms of external recognition, Professor Derek Terrar, Professor of and during the past 12 months Professor Sir I should like to note the retirement Cardiac Electrophysiology; Professor Alain Rory Collins, Professors Ben Davis, Alison this autumn of two other colleagues in Viala, Professor of French Literature; Dr Etheridge, Philip Maini, Gero Miesenböck, particular: Professor Mike O’Hanlon, who Susan Walker; Dr Helen Walter; Professor Jane Plant and Henry Snaith, and Dr as Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum for Roy Westbrook, Professor of Operations Jonathan Pila have been elected as Fellows the past 17 years has done so much to Management; Mr John Wood; Professor of the Royal Society; Professors Janette transform that much-loved institution and Stephen Woolgar, Professor of Marketing; Atkinson, Dawn Chatty, Rana Mitter, Kia the experience of its many visitors; and and Professor H Peyton Young, James Nobre, Andy Orchard, Sally Shuttleworth Mr Michael Sibly, who – latterly as Deputy Meade Professor of Economics. and Annette Volfing, and Dr Felicity Heal Registrar – brought to a close his long and have been elected as Fellows of the British greatly valued career with the University I would also like to mention those Academy, and Dame Lynne Brindley as administration. colleagues who have retired from important an Honorary Fellow; Professors Matthew administrative, library or service posts in This year has seen the retirement of many Freeman, Simon Hay, Ian Pavord and Irene the University: Mr Stephen Barry, Mrs Elsa other distinguished colleagues who have Tracey have been elected as Fellows of the Bell, Mr Adrian Brooks, Dr Ian Brown, Mrs contributed to the University’s intellectual Academy of Medical Sciences; Professor Ruth Brown, Mr GeoffreyC alvert, Miss life over the years: Dr Bashir Ahmed; Stephen Roberts was elected as a Fellow Ann Cordeaux, Ms Barbara De Bruine, Ms Professor Constance Andreyev; Professor of the Royal Academy of Engineering; Rosemary Dearden, Ms Maureen Doherty, David Banister, Professor of Transport and Professors Louise Fitzgerald, Craig Mr Ronald Doole, Mr Jeremy Drew, Ms Anne Studies; Professor Alan Barclay, E P Abraham Jeffrey and DeborahO xley as Fellows of the Gerrish, Mr Brian Green, Mrs Jill Grieveson, Professor of Chemical Pathology; Professor Academy of Social Sciences. Ms Avril Harrison, Mr Kingsley Hewitt, William Beinart, Rhodes Professor of Mr Alan Hodgson, Mr Julian Hughes, Mr Over the course of the last year, her Majesty Race Relations; Dr Nigel Bowles, latterly Jamieson Hunter, Mr Michael Inman, Mr The Queen has awarded national honours Director of the Rothermere American Alan Kendall, Ms Lidia Lozano, Mr Alan to the following members of the University: Institute; Dr John Bromley; Professor Martin Lyons, Dr Kingsley Micklem, Mrs Alison a GBE to Sir John Bell; knighthoods to Ceadel, Professor of Politics; Dr Norman Miles, Mrs Yasuko Nakajima Peskett, Dr Professors Jonathan Bate and Steve Nickell; Charnley; Professor Dawn Chatty, Professor Barry Pemberton, Dr Michael Redley, Mr the DBE for Professors Marina Warner of Anthropology and Forced Migration; Anthony Sanderson, Ms Jane Smewing, and Fran Ashcroft, and for Ms Frances Professor Susan Cooper, Professor of Ms Patricia Spark, Mr JeffreyT homas, Cairncross; the CBE for Professors Russell Experimental Physics; Professor Pietro Dr Christopher Towler, Ms Helen Turley, Foster and Tim Palmer, and for Dr James Corsi, Professor of the History of Science; Mr Peter Webber, Mrs Kathryn White, Mr Adams; and the OBE for Professors Cyrus Mrs Beverley Davies; Professor Christopher Michael Wigg, Mr David Wiggins and Mrs Cooper and Hugh Williamson. Davis, Reader in Command and Transition Cathleen Wright. Economies; Professor Laurence Dreyfus, Other forms of recognition have included Professor of Music; Sir Marc Feldmann, This year the University community has the British Academy Medal for Professor Professor of Cellular Immunology; lost valued colleagues whose early deaths Patricia Clavin and Professor Roy Foster. Professor Robin Fiddian, Professor of have been a source of great sadness: Mr The British Academy also awarded the Spanish; Professor John Fox, Professor of Jeremy Cresswell, Director of the Foreign Rose Mary Crawshay Prize to Professor Engineering Science; Dr Barbara Gabrys; Service Programme at the Department for Ankhi Mukherjee; the Kenyon Medal for Dr Juris Galvanovskis; Mrs Janet Godden; Continuing Education; and Professor Peter Classical Studies and Archaeology to Mr Dr Julia Goodwin; Dr Douglas Hamilton; McFadden, Reader in Engineering Science. Nigel Wilson; the Sir Israel Gollancz Prize Mrs Christina Hammond; Dr Ann Jefferson; to Professor Ralph Hanna; and the Serena Finally, we pause to remember the Professor Paul Jeffreys; MrC hristopher Medal for Italian Economics to Dr Brian contributions of those colleagues who Jenkins; Dr Keith Lewis; Dr Robert Lockhart; A’Hearn. The Royal Society awarded Royal have died in retirement over the past Professor Colin McDiarmid, Professor of Medals to Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell and year: Professor John Bayley, Mr Augustine Combinatorics; Dr Robert Mayer; Professor Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith, and Bonner, Professor Martin Brasier, Dr Ian Menter, Professor of Teacher Education; the Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture to Sandra Burman, Sir Raymond Carr, Dr Ms Sandra Meredith; Professor Hideaki Professor Kathy Willis. Professor Roger Carol Clark, Professor Roger Cowley, Dr Nagase, Professor of Matrix Biology; Mrs Goodman, Head of the Social Sciences Jaquelin De Alarcon, Mr David Floyd, Malgorzata Nowak-Kemp; Professor Division, became the Chair of Council of the Professor Sheppard Frere, Sir Martin Jennifer Ozga, Professor of the Sociology Academy of Social Sciences. Gilbert, Mr Malcolm Gilmour, Professor of Education; Professor Richard Parish, Sir Henry Harris, Professor Roy Harris, Dr Several Heads of House have retired over Professor of French; Dr Stephen Parkinson; Gerald Harriss, Ms Sulamith Honigsberg, the summer: Professor Alan Bowman Dr Frank Payne; Professor Christopher Mrs Catherine Hughes, Professor Harry as Principal of Brasenose; Lord Krebs as Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek; Dr Olivera 66 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5108 • 14 October 2015

Jones, Professor Paul Langford, Dr Peter Lindsell, Mr Harvey McGregor, Mr Angus McKendrick, Mr Peter Martin, Mr Herminio Martins, Mrs Sandra Moorey, Dr Colin Morgan, Lord Moser, Dr Sigthor Petursson, Professor Terence Ranger, Professor Tapan Raychaudhuri, Dr Marcus Rebick, Mr Adrian Roberts, Professor Derek Roe, Professor Bernard Rudden, Dr Basil Shepstone, Mr John Simopoulos, Ms Angela Skrimshire, Professor Jon Stallworthy, Dr Jacqueline Stedall, Dr Rosemary Stewart, Mr Gerald Taylor, Mr Harold Vine, Mr John Wall, Dr Martin West, Dr Eric Whittaker and Professor Bob Williams.