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Annual Report 2011 Clare College Cambridge Contents Master’s Introduction . 3 Teaching and Research . 4–5 Selected Publications by Clare Fellows . 6–7 College Life . 8–9 Financial Report . 10–11 Development . 12–13 Access and Outreach . 14 Captions . 15 2 Master’s Introduction For the second year in a row I am very pleased to report excellent The academic achievements have not been at the expense of a rich College life in music, the arts, and exam results. The College rose from 6 th to 4 th in the Baxter Tables student societies. But I would particularly draw attention to unprecedented sporting success with Blues (17 th in 2009). I received the first inkling of another good run of in rowing, rugby union and hockey as well as a host of other sports. results when I chaired the Part II examiners in History. After Thanks to the support of our alumni, the Development Office, the Investments Committee and our classifying all the students with only the candidates ’ numbers in front Conference Office , the College is well-placed to respond to the financial challenges that are ahead. of the examiners, the Board finally sees a list of the candidates by I should pay particular tribute to Toby Wilkinson’s efforts. Toby has moved to head the University’s name and college. It was only then that I could see that six of the International Strategy Office. Before Toby’s arrival the College raised £400,0 00 in 2002-3 from alumni, Firsts (including one of the starred Firsts ) in History came from Clare, in recent years it has averaged over £2 million a year. At the moment, that is the crucial difference more than from any other college. These results were replicated in between financial success and failure for the College. subjects in which we have done well in recent years – Law, English, Modern Languages, Economics – but it was reassuring to see a welcome improvement in results in the I noted last year that any new fee settlement was unlikely to produce additional money for the College Natural Sciences. Credit for these results, first and foremost, to the students themselves. But the and the university. In effect, the new fee regime has produced a steady state in Cambridge’s finances. improvement is the result of special efforts by the Senior Tutor and the Directors of Studies, an The likely additional income from the £9,000 student fee that comes in next year has been offset by increase in College resources earmarked for teaching, and the support by alumni for funding teaching the withdrawal of funding in teaching in the Arts and Humanities. The College is unlikely to receive in some of the subjects that have shown the greatest improvement. The commitment of the more in academic fees under the new system but will face real challenges in continuing to pay for Fellowship to deliver excellent undergraduate teaching is highlighted by the award to Dr Charlie Weiss excellence in undergraduate teaching, just as it will need to continue to find as much money as in Classics of the University-wide Pilkington prize for excellence in undergraduate teaching, the tenth possible for bursaries and student support. Fellow of Clare to win one of these prizes in ten years. Ultimately the College’s success depends on the success of the University. The new fee settlement is In another area where I have previously commented in these reports on disappointing figures, I am unlikely to be permanent. The risk, at the moment, is that the current financial underpinning of the pleased to report that 62% of the home-based students just admitted this year are from state schools, University makes it difficult to be certain that it can remain a world-leading university over the next a steady improvement which runs counter to the trend in the university as a whole. This year’s figures twenty years. The jury is out. Nevertheless, it is heartening to note that the University has officially mask an overall figure of 65% acceptances from the students who applied in 2010 and lead me to just closed its 800 th anniversary campaign. It raised £1.72 billion (£649 million by the University, hope that our goal in the College’s recently adopted strategy of reaching 65% state school admissions £523 million by the Colleges). Using average annual exchange rates, that constitutes $2 billion and by 2015 is attainable. 65% is what the University should be admitting from the state sector if it is to makes the campaign the equal of the top division of US university campaigns. recruit the very best students in the country irrespective of background based on the highest A Level scores. In Clare’s case, the College’s strategy is to reach 70% by 2020. The real issue is not in the To sustain the College and the University’s performance in academic results, access, and research selection process. It is getting the best students, irrespective of school, social and economic background poses real challenges. But thanks to the support of our alumni, I believed that there is every reason to or region, to apply in the first place. I am confident that the outreach activities of the College, be optimistic about our ability to meet these challenges successfully. supported by our alumni and by our corporate sponsors (described on page 14 ) are the most ambitious in Cambridge. As one of the first colleges to move to a purely merit-based admissions system under John Northam and Eric Ashby, that is entirely appropriate. 3 Teaching and Research Undergraduate numbers 2010–11 Undergraduates by country/region of origin A number of Clare students were awarded prizes by the University. In the Arts and Humanities; Oliver Soden (2008) Year Year Year Year Years 44.5%. 5% 2.5% Subject 1 2 3 4 5-7 Total won the University’s Chaucer Reading Prize and the Austin 5% Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic 2 3 1 6 UK Dobson University Prize for the best performance in the Archaeology & Anthropology 2 4 6 EU compulsory elements of the Tripos: Practical Criticism and Architecture 2 2 2 6 Asia Tragedy Papers, and the Compulsory Dissertation. Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 4 3 6 3 16 Catherine Simon (2008) received the Shaykh Zayed Prize Other Chemical Engineering 2 4 2 3 11 for Islamic Studies. Three Classicists were awarded Classics 5 5 6 1 17 University Prizes ; James Wakeley (2008) received the Computer Science 2 1 3 6 Browne Scholarship and Pitt Prize, Clara Gleeson (2008) Economics 5 6 5 16 received the John Stewart of Rannoch Scholarship and Engineering 11 5 7 3 26 Corbett Prize, and Talitha Kearey (2009) was awarded the English 11 9 8 28 Davies Scholarship . The 1 Chancery Lane Prize for Tort was 88%88 % Geography 3 3 2 8 awarded by the University to Emma Crawford (2010). History 6 7 12 25 History of Art 3 1 1 5 In the Sciences; Nicholas Goodwin (2008) was recognised Land Economy 3 2 1 6 Examination results 2011 by the University with the award of the 2011 Francis Law 5 5 5 1 16 Clare has risen to 4th place this year (compared to 6th last Willmoth Prize for the best dissertation in Part II History and Linguistics 2 2 year) among the Cambridge colleges in the Baxter Table Philosophy of Science; Merlin Sheldrake (2007) won the Management Studies 3 3 measuring all Tripos. In addition , the College ranked 1 st University’s Lipton University Prize for the best performance Manufacturing Engineering 2 2 overall in History and Law. Economics and English both in History and Philosophy of Science. Matthew Cliffe (2007) Mathematics 9 10 7 1 27 ranked 5 th overall. There has also been a dramatic was awarded the Norrish Prize for distinction in Physical Medical and Veterinary Sciences 16 18 9 20 63 improvement in the sciences overall, with Clare coming 7th Chemistry, and Harry Simpson (2007) received the Modern & Medieval Languages 9 12 8 8 37 out of all the colleges (compared with 12th last year and Manufacturing Engineering (Part I): Major Project Prize. Music 5 5 8 1 19 20 th in 2009). Natural Sciences 31 32 43 22 128 Dr Charlie Weiss, College Tutor and Language Teaching Philosophy 2 2 3 7 Five Clare students were awarded starred Firsts : Matthew J Officer in the Faculty of Classics, was awarded one of the Politics, Psychology & Sociology 4 3 2 9 Cliffe in Natural Sciences Part III , Michael Philo in University’s prestigious Pilkington Prizes for Teaching. He Theology 3 2 4 9 Archaeology & Anthropology Part IIB, Elly D Robson in brings to ten the number of Clare Fellows to win a History Part II, Harry C Simpson in Manufacturing Pilkington Prize in the last ten years – a singular achievement Total 147 140 140 57 20 504 Engineering Part II, and Aron White in Asian & Middle by one college and a reflection of Clare’s commitment to Eastern Studies Part IB . providing a world class undergraduate education. 4 Graduate student numbers 2010–11 Bowden, S.K. Brautwerbungsepik : a re-evaluation of a problematic genre. Studies of König Rother, Salman und Morolf, the Münchner Oswald and Grauer Rock Browning, L.E. Individual contributions to care in cooperatively breeding chestnut-crowned babblers ( Pomatostomus ruficeps ) PhD 184 Bullock, J.M.R. Biomechanics of the fibrillar adhesive system in insects Masters courses (MPhil, MEd, etc.) 58 Chowdhury, M.H. Intelligence agencies and the evolution of the state in South Asia: from East Pakistan to Other 10 Bangladesh, 1947–2008 Churches, O.F.