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Social history | Oxford’s entrepreneurs | Where do graduates go? news in brief u A collection of rare documents held by or giving presentations to school children. the Bodleian, which chronicle the history All nominees will receive a certificate and of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, an invitation to a drinks reception, while is now available online. The website, outstanding science ambassadors will receive www.aamarchives.org, features three a cash prize. Details at www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/ decades' worth of videos, photos, posters outreachawards. and documents relating to the movement, including posters from campaigns to save u Times Higher Education is offering the Rivonia trialists from the gallows in Oxford staff a half-price subscription on 1964 and to stop the Springbok cricket tour an annual print or digital package. For in 1970, and letters from Margaret Thatcher £19.50 you can enjoy unrestricted access Don’t become a victim arguing against sanctions on South Africa. to all THE content online, a weekly digital You wouldn’t leave your edition, a weekly editor's highlights email house u The Temporary Staffing Service is a and an iPad and iPhone app; the same unlocked, new central University service to support what package plus the weekly print magazine about your departments in their recruitment and costs £32.50 for a year’s subscription. computer? management of temporary staff. The service is To take advantage of the offer, visit inviting applications from individuals available www.tslshop.co.uk/the/ukuniversity. for temporary work from June 2014 onwards Aldebaran Robotics / Ed Alcock Robotics / Ed Aldebaran who possess strong administrative and clerical u Are you aware of how to keep your skills. Anyone can register with the service – personal information secure and the risks you may already be working within the you run if it gets into the wrong hands? University but would like additional hours, The Information Security team is running or perhaps you’ve been temping and are now odule a series of short lunchtime briefing sessions y awareneSS online m Take the informaTion SecuriT looking for your next assignment. Details at “you are The TargeT!” this term entitled You are the target! The and book for the course www.admin.ox.ac.uk/tss. briefings are open to all staff and provide an overview of information security and u Photographs by leading contemporary www.it.ox.ac.uk/infosec how to protect yourself, your family and the artists were auctioned at Sotheby’s this month University. The sessions will be held at the in support of the Bodleian Libraries’ campaign Old Road Campus Research Building and to save the personal archive of William Henry the University Offices in Wellington Square. Fox Talbot. The photographs were donated by major figures in contemporary photography, For details and to book, visit http://courses. including Hiroshi Sugimoto, Martin Parr and it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TWEH. Candida Höfer. The Bodleian’s appeal was u Could you spare some time on launched in December 2012 with an initial Wednesday 2 or Thursday 3 July to help deadline of the end of February 2013 to raise at the undergraduate open days? If so, join the £2.2m needed to purchase the archive. the Undergraduate Admissions & Outreach Almost £1.9m has now been raised and the team in welcoming prospective students and fundraising deadline has been extended to their families at key locations across Oxford. August 2014 to raise the remaining £375k. No specialist knowledge is required – the From top: Try temping; stay secure; u Are you, or is one of your colleagues, a role simply involves giving directions and volunteer for open days passionate promoter of science to the public? you will be invited to a briefing beforehand. The MPLS Division has launched an award To volunteer – whether for a couple of hours scheme to recognise the contribution made by or a full day – complete the online form or blueprint people across the collegiate University who phone (2)70745 by 30 May. The forms are Staff magazine for the University of Oxford | May 2014 Social history | Oxford’s entrepreneurs | Where do work in science outreach. The awards are for at http://tinyurl.com/2Julyhelp and http:// graduates go? any role, whether it’s helping behind the scenes tinyurl.com/3Julyhelp.

u Over the next three years a new telecommunications system will be delivered across the collegiate University. The Integrated Communications Project will not only

iStockphoto/ Woodcock John replace the existing phone system, but offer a range of modern communications features such as instant messaging, availability status and video-conferencing, as well as the option to use mobiles, tablets and laptops as extensions to desktop phones. The new unified communications technology Cover: will become available for deployment shortly after the The Ride, a linocut by Rosie Fairfax-Cholmeley, completion of a pilot in February 2015. Details artist-in-residence at Wytham Woods (see at www.ox.ac.uk/staffnews. www.ox.ac.uk/staff/news/wytham_studio.html)

2 | BLUEPRINT May 2014 www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint research round-up u The personal circumstances of defendants in home possession cases are often not disclosed The ‘Scotland Yard of Egyptology’ goes digital to judges, new research reveals. Yet judges who were interviewed by the researchers said that knowing about personal circumstances – such as problems caused by age, mental infirmity, dependent children, and an inability to understand the proceedings – could have a major bearing on their judgement. Professor Susan Bright of Oxford’s Faculty of Law and Dr Lisa Whitehouse of the University of Hull looked at the factors influencing the orders made by judges in housing possession cases. They also found that defendants who participate in the possession process and those who have access to legal advice, or are represented in court, are likely to have a better legal outcome. However, the research revealed that fewer than half of defendants attend their court hearings. The researchers suggest a review of court forms, which are read by the judges, so that they include information about a defendant’s personal circumstances alongside existing information about a defendant’s financial affairs. They also say a less formal Department of Earth Sciences estimated the hip-hop, electronic or funk music, but may feel process for dealing with repossession cases body mass of 426 dinosaur species based on less desire to dance when listening to a highly could improve attendance rates. the thickness of their leg bones. The team syncopated type of music, like free jazz,’ says reports in PLOS Biology that dinosaurs Dr Witek. u Researchers in the School of Geography showed rapid rates of body size evolution and the Environment have reported a small shortly after their origins but these soon u The Griffith Institute’sTopographical but statistically significant increase in the slowed: only the evolutionary line leading to Bibliography, described as ‘the Scotland Yard probability of extremely wet winters in birds continued to change size at this rate, for of Egyptology’, is being brought into the digital southern England. Following the winter deluge 170 million years, producing new ecological age. Known informally as the TopBib, the between December 2013 and February 2014, diversity. ‘We found exceptional body mass eight-volume tome was begun in the late 19th they undertook the first scientific experiment variation in the dinosaur line leading to birds, century and has now reached more than 7,000 to analyse whether the risk of extreme rainfall especially in the feathered dinosaurs called pages, with additional information compiled has changed due to climate change. They maniraptorans. These include Jurassic Park’s on over a million more references. The digital found that a 1-in-100-years winter rainfall Velociraptor, birds, and a huge range of other version has been two years in the making event is now a 1-in-80-years event. Using the forms, weighing anything from 15 grams to and was officially launched on 21 May. The spare capacity on volunteers’ home computers, 3 tonnes,’ says Dr Benson. Topographical Bibliography is an essential they compared thousands of possible weather and comprehensive reference resource for simulations in our present-day climate u The funk music of James Brown gets people Egyptologists, presenting and analysing both with tens of thousands of simulations of a on the dance floor because of an ideal balance published and unpublished information about hypothetical world without the influence of rhythmic predictability and complexity, ancient Egyptian monuments. of past greenhouse gas emissions in the say researchers interested in why some music atmosphere, using the same climate model. make us want to get on up and dance more The weather@home project used different than others. Dr Maria Witek, formerly at climate models to estimate the pattern of Oxford and now at the University of Aarhus global warming. The researchers say that while in Denmark, along with Oxford neuroscientist their finding is statistically robust, the result Professor Morten Kringelbach and Professor depends on how manmade climate change is of Music Eric Clarke, set up an online survey represented in the experiment. in which people rated different drum-breaks according to which made them want to move, u A study that ‘weighed’ hundreds of and how much pleasure they experienced. The dinosaurs suggests that shrinking their bodies highest ratings were for drum breaks with may have helped the group that became not too much, not too little, complexity in birds to continue exploiting new ecological rhythm. ‘Many people find themselves unable niches. A team led by Dr Roger Benson of the to resist moving their bodies to the beat of

For more information, visit www.ox.ac.uk/news Extremely wet winters are looking and www.ox.ac.uk/staffnews more likely www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint May 2014 BLUEPRINT | 3 people and prizes

Tipu Aziz, Professor of Neurosurgery, has Zhanfeng Cui, Donald Dr Belinda Lennox, been awarded the 6th Phillip Gildenberg Pollock Professor of clinical senior lecturer lectureship in Functional Neurosurgery at Chemical Engineering in the Department of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, USA. and Director of the Psychiatry, has been Oxford Centre for appointed Clinical Professor Christopher Tissue Engineering Director of the Brown, Director of the and Bioprocessing, has Thames Valley and Ashmolean Museum, been elected a Fellow South Midlands NIHR is to be given the of the American Institute of Medical and Clinical Research Freedom of the City Biological Engineering in recognition of his Network. The 15 new regional networks are of Oxford to mark his outstanding contributions to the development intended to bring together local hospitals, retirement. The Lord of novel tissue engineering technologies and doctors’ surgeries and other healthcare Mayor of Oxford will their commercialisation. providers to collaborate on high-quality present him with the clinical research studies. honour at a ceremony in July. Matthew Freeman, Professor of Sir Richard Peto, Professor of Medical Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh Pathology and Head Statistics and Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Department of Department at the of the Clinical Trial Service Unit, has been of Experimental Sir William Dunn elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Psychology has been School of Pathology, American Association for Cancer Research. awarded the 2014 is to receive the Spearman medal of the Novartis Medal and Katherine Rundell, British Psychological Prize from the Biochemical Society in 2015. an Examination Fellow Society in recognition The award recognises the transformative at All Souls, has won of outstanding contributions of his research to the field of the 2014 Waterstones published work in psychology. biochemistry, especially regulated proteolysis, Children’s Book membrane trafficking, signal transduction Prize for her book Cyrus Cooper, and developmental cell biology. Rooftoppers, about Professor of a girl’s race over the Musculoskeletal Sarah Harper, rooftops of Paris to find her missing mother – Science, has won Professor of inspired by her own night-time trespassing the Pierre D Delmas Gerontology and on the roof of All Souls College. Earlier in the Prize for his Co-Director of the year she also won a Blue Peter Book Award outstanding work Oxford Institute of for ‘best story’ and a Blue Peter badge. in the epidemiology Population Ageing, of musculoskeletal has been appointed John Stradling, Emeritus Professor of disorders. The €40,000 prize is awarded to the government’s Respiratory Medicine, has been awarded by the European Society for Clinical Council for Science and Technology. The an honorary doctorate from the University and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis council’s remit is to advise the Prime Minister of Grenoble, citing in particular his and Osteoarthritis and the International on strategic science and technology policy epidemiological, observational and Osteoporosis Foundation, with the support issues that cut across the responsibilities of interventional studies in the field of sleep of Servier. individual government departments. apnoea and its consequences.

major medical prize for rheumatoid arthritis breakthrough Sir Marc Feldmann and Sir Ravinder Sir Ravinder (left) is group then showed that an antibody-based Maini of the Kennedy Institute of a visiting professor in treatment could block the action of TNF, Rheumatology have been named amongst the Kennedy Institute. and was safe and effective for treating eight winners of the 2014 Canada The award recognises people with rheumatoid arthritis – Gairdner Award, one of the world’s most their discovery of reducing pain, improving mobility and prestigious awards for medical research. an antibody-based boosting quality of life; it also plays Professor treatment, or ‘anti- a major role in protecting joints from Feldmann (left) TNF’ therapy, for degeneration. is head of the the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. This novel treatment was the first Kennedy Institute In the mid-1980s Feldmann and Maini’s demonstration of an effective therapy of Rheumatology, research team used tissue from joints of for a long-term autoimmune disease now part of the patients and animal models of the disease which used a biological molecule University’s Nuffield to demonstrate that a molecule belonging to as a drug. It led to recognition in the Department the cytokine family – tumour necrosis factor pharmaceutical industry that biological of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and – was a major driver of inflammation and drugs could compete with traditional Musculoskeletal Sciences. joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis. The chemical drugs.

4 | BLUEPRINT May 2014 www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint new Royal Society Fellows appointed The Royal Society has elected six Oxford researchers as new Fellows:

Dorothy Bishop is Professor of Developmental Patrik Rorsman is Professor of Diabetic Neuropsychology and a Wellcome Principal Medicine at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Research Fellow at the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, and a Fellow

Robert Taylor Robert Experimental Psychology. Her research and Tutor at Harris Manchester College. focuses on the nature and causes of His research relates to insulin secretion and neurodevelopmental disorders such as specific aims to explain how changes in the plasma language impairment, dyslexia and autistic glucose concentration via islet cell electrical spectrum disorder. activity and increases in the cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration regulate exocytotic release of insulin as well Marian Stamp Dawkins is Professor of as glucagon and somatostatin. Animal Behaviour in the Department of Zoology and Emeritus Fellow in Biological Rajesh Thakker is May Professor of Medicine Sciences at Somerville College, where she at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology was previously Vice-Principal. Her research and Metabolism, and a consultant physician. interests include animal welfare and He is also a Professorial Fellow at Somerville behaviour, automated assessment of welfare, College and a Senior Fellow at Harris Manchester bird vision, signals in birds and fish, herd College. His research investigates the molecular synchrony and animal consciousness. basis of important endocrine and metabolic disorders that principally affect calcium and Liam Dolan is Sherardian Professor of Botany, phosphate homeostasis. Head of the Department of Plant Sciences, and

John Baker John Co-Director of the Plants for the 21st Century Anthony Watts is Professor of Marine Institute at the Oxford Martin School. He Geology and Geophysics in the Department researches cellular development and evolution of Earth Sciences. He has made fundamental in land plants, the aim being to understand contributions to the understanding of the general principles of cell development and structure and evolution of the world’s ocean evolution using specialised rooting cells such basins and their margins. as rhizoids and root hairs as models.

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www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint May 2014 BLUEPRINT | 5 arrivals board american Academy new Athena SWAN elections awards Nuffield Professor of Sociology Melinda Mills, Two Oxford The University has achieved further Full Professor and academics have success in its applications for Athena Rosalind Franklin been elected to SWAN awards, which recognise Research Fellow in the American good practice in recruiting, retaining the Department of Academy of Arts and promoting women in science, Sociology, University and Sciences. technology, engineering, mathematics of Groningen, the John Broome and medicine in higher education. Netherlands, will take (top), White’s Oxford has successfully renewed up this post in the Professor of Moral its institutional Bronze award, and put Department of Sociology on 1 June. She will Philosophy, and in place an ambitious plan to achieve also become a Fellow of Nuffield College. Peter Edwards, Silver status when it next renews in Professor Mills’ research focuses on Professor of three years’ time. the study of the life course – namely Inorganic The Department of Primary Care fertility, partnership relationships and Chemistry Health Sciences upgraded its award employment. She leads an ERC Consolidator and Fellow of to Silver, while six departments Grant interdisciplinary sociogenetics St Catherine’s and units – Public Health; Clinical research project that examines the social College, have Laboratory Sciences; Orthopaedics, environmental and genetic underpinnings been elected among the class of 2014 as Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal of reproductive choice (timing and number Foreign Honorary Members. Sciences; Oncology; Pathology; and of births) and the interaction between genes The Academy is one of America’s Pharmacology – received Bronze awards and the environment. She is also involved in most prestigious honorary societies and for the first time. All departments in the large European Families and Societies a leading centre for independent policy the Medical Sciences Division have now Network, examining childlessness and research. The current membership achieved awards. the demographic, economic and societal includes more than 250 Nobel laureates The University now holds a total of 26 consequences of assisted reproductive and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners. awards – six at Silver and 20 at Bronze. technology.

club class In June 2004 the University Club on Mansfield Road opened its doors to members. A purpose-built facility, with a café, bar, gym, all-weather pitch and sports field, it was designed as a place where staff and graduate students could meet, relax and keep fit. A decade on and the Club has firmly established itself as a sports and social hub for the University. Open seven days a week, it offers a centrally located venue where you can come for breakfast, take a coffee break with the papers, have lunch, meet friends for a drink or dinner in the evening, and take part in a wide range of classes and activities. From archery to Zumba, the Club hosts a class or group for most sport and keep-fit activities you’ve ever heard of, as well as some you may not, such as Krav Maga and Capoiera. And for those who prefer their sport viewed from the comfort of an armchair, Sky, BT Sport and ESPN sports are streamed live on TV screens. ‘The Club is a great facility for University staff,’ says General Manager Kishore Seegoolam. ‘It’s a convenient and welcoming place to drop in at any time of day, whether you’re wanting a quick work-out at lunchtime or to relax with colleagues after work. It’s also an ideal venue for functions – we can host meetings for up to 45 people and cater for parties or weddings for up to 150 guests.’ Membership of the Club is free for current University and college staff, retired staff, graduate students, visiting scholars and contractors. Family and friends can also join as associate members for £25 per year. Membership gives access to the café and bar, and the ability to sign up to classes, sports and the onsite gym (which costs £55 per year). Members can also benefit from discounted rates on accommodation – the Club has 14 ensuite bedrooms overlooking the sports field. The Club will be celebrating its 10th anniversary with a week of special activities from 2 to 6 June. To find out more, visit www.club.ox.ac.uk or email [email protected].

6 | BLUEPRINT May 2014 www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint therapy goes online Professors David Clark and Anke Ehlers are pioneering an online version of their established therapy for social anxiety disorder, Jonathan Wood discovers Rob Judges Rob

To get therapy, you need to see a therapist. The disorder can be a persistent blight on Professor Clark. ‘When people find they are It stands to reason – you need to talk things people’s lives too. It most often develops in perfectly accepted as they are, without trying through face-to-face. Well, perhaps not. childhood or teenage years, but most people to cover up, it is very powerful.’ People with Clinical psychologists at the University have starting treatment are in their 30s. ‘People social anxiety often feel very self-conscious been wondering if an online version of the tend to think of it as their “personality” and focus much of their attention on leading therapy for social anxiety could be and not recognise it as a condition that is themselves. Attention training which helps just as effective. Instead of a lot of individual treatable,’ says Professor Clark. them to ‘get out of their heads and absorb sessions with a therapist, how about guided the conversation’ can also be a great help. exercises at a computer? Social anxiety disorder is The new internet therapy that Clark The most effective therapy for social and Ehlers’ research team has developed anxiety disorder was developed ten years common – and is far more involves a series of modules written to help ago by Professors David Clark and Anke than being a little shy people understand and overcome their Ehlers of the Department of Experimental social anxiety themselves. Some modules Psychology: their technique is recommended The specialised form of cognitive are for everyone and some are designed for as the treatment of choice in the National behaviour therapy that Clark and Ehlers’ particular fears. It involves a lot of the same Institute for Health and Care Excellence team at Oxford developed is highly effective. exercises as the conventional therapy, but (NICE) clinical guidelines. But it is heavy on Randomised controlled trials in several they are demonstrated in specially recorded therapist time and there simply aren’t enough countries have consistently shown that 60– video clips. Professor Clark explains: therapists to go round. So Clark and Ehlers 80% of people recover and that it is superior ‘There are modules for specific concerns have been working on recreating the steps to other treatments such as psychodynamic such as sweating, shaking, worries about of their cognitive therapy in online modules, psychotherapy or medication. But at 14 sounding stupid or feeling responsible for videos and exercises. individual therapy sessions of 90 minutes, everyone’s enjoyment. You are allocated They are now nearing the end of a trial to it is very demanding on resources. a therapist but it is all done via remote test whether the online version is as effective The treatment helps people identify the communication through the secure online as the standard form. If so, their internet main psychological processes that maintain portal. The therapist can release modules therapy could improve access to the best their anxiety and helps them change. For that are relevant, track progress and send cognitive therapy and greatly increase the example, someone with an intense fear of encouraging comments. It all requires 80% numbers of people treated in the UK and blushing might have a distorted image of less therapist time.’ overseas. how they appear to others. Playing back a Professors Clark and Ehlers are now close Social anxiety disorder is common, video showing they do not turn beetroot to the end of a randomised control trial estimated to affect around 5–7% of people. red in conversation can be very helpful. funded by the Wellcome Trust to compare the It’s far more than being a little shy. People People often develop ‘coping strategies’ they new internet therapy with the conventional experience intense fears over routine social use to cover their social fears or to prevent version. Data from 102 people followed interactions, being at parties, meeting a an unrealistic catastrophe happening, but for around a year will be complete around stranger, speaking up at work, talking on these are often more of a problem than a Christmas. If the internet therapy proves as the phone or eating while being observed. help. ‘It’s about identifying unhelpful self- effective, it could be an approach that works It interferes with normal life, making protective behaviours, encouraging people for other conditions. The team is already friendships and relationships difficult, and to experiment with dropping them and considering starting on an internet therapy greatly impairs performance at work and observing other people’s responses,’ says for post-traumatic stress disorder. school. Often, the fear is driven by worries about doing something embarrassing or humiliating, and of people seeing your More at www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/oxford-centre-for-anxiety- anxiety. ‘It’s fear of other people seeing disorders-and-trauma your fear,’ says Professor Clark. www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint May 2014 BLUEPRINT | 7 welcome to Entrepreneurial Oxford Initiatives such as The Shed, Launchpad, the Software Incubator and Wolfson Innovate are hothousing new University talent, reveals Jamie Condliffe

With a concentration of bright minds, science and medicine, but elsewhere in the Across town at the Careers Service Oxford fizzes with inspiration and ideas. University more diverse groups are gathering. is The Shed: not a place to do woodwork, Now the collegiate University is actively ‘When I arrived in Oxford four years ago, but the University’s friendly face of helping to bring together like-minded people the business school had two centres for entrepreneurship training. ‘I was helping – from undergraduates to alumni – to turn entrepreneurship: the Skoll Centre for Social several groups of students who had come ambitious academic thinking into world- Entrepreneurship and the Saïd Business to the Careers Service to talk about changing businesses. School’s Entrepreneurship Centre,’ says entrepreneurial ideas,’ explains Jonathan Oxford’s main focus always has been – Pamela Hartigan, director of the Skoll Black, Director of the Careers Service, who and always will be – learning. But there’s Institute. ‘I immediately thought that was also has experience in entrepreneurship and an increasing shift toward academic work dumb: why have two, when there shouldn’t chairs an Isis Innovation spin-out company. being used to make a difference to the rest of be any dichotomy? Every entrepreneur should ‘I asked them why they weren’t going to other world. ‘The University is primarily focused have social, environmental and financial University initiatives, and most of them said on teaching and research,’ explains Stuart concerns in mind.’ that they were a little… intimidating.’ Wilkinson from the University’s Knowledge The result is more educational programme, Exchange team. ‘But people outside these ‘The magic really happens less business incubator. ‘We didn’t want walls – government, industry, alumni – are to actually develop start-ups, just provide increasingly focused on the impact it can when we bring diverse sets students with skills they’d find useful in have. And a large part of that is down to of students together’ the future,’ says Black. So The Shed runs entrepreneurship.’ innovation workshops, where students learn Oxford already has a fine track record start-up basics and business plan challenges, in turning academic work into commercial Hartigan’s point is now practice. The two where they see how an idea goes from concept success. Most recently NaturalMotion – an centres have joined forces to form Launchpad, to fully fledged business proposal. Perhaps animation technology company for the video which opened in February 2014. ‘The idea the jewel in The Shed’s crown is the Start- game industry, established in 2001 out of the was to create a shared space, where students, up Immersion: a 48-hour taste of life as an Department of Zoology – was purchased by faculty and alumni could come together to entrepreneur, where students form teams, social network gaming company Zynga for a “ideate”,’ explains Hartigan. While some develop ideas, interview potential clients, cool $527m. But while it certainly succeeded prioritise financial concerns, and others social build business models and pitch ideas to because of great ideas and talented staff, it or environmental, the new centre provides a panel of enterprise experts. was given an important helping hand by a melting pot in which Oxonians from any Furnished with such experiences, it’s Isis Innovation. background can work on business ideas. no surprise that Oxford’s students are Established in 1988 to help Oxford Hartigan believes that cross-pollination is the now taking on researchers and alumni. researchers commercialise their work, the key to its success. ‘The magic really happens Wolfson Innovate, for instance – a social University-owned company recently noticed when we bring diverse sets of students entrepreneurship competition open to college that the road to commercial success has together,’ she says. ‘The problems of the world members, with a prize of £5,000 and expert changed. ‘We realised that there were start-ups aren’t going to be solved by MBAs alone.’ advice from professional mentors – is just based on ideas coming out of undergraduate That was evident at a recent case study one of a handful of events designed to pit and postgraduate work, not just established competition, where teams worked to prepare Oxford entrepreneurs of all ages against each research labs,’ explains Tom Hockaday, and pitch proposals for social entrepreneurial other. The winners of the 28 April event? Managing Director of Isis Innovation. ventures. The event drew 72 students from A team of DPhil students from the Institute ‘Those guys just don’t fit the same model as 26 departments. ‘We had people from the of Biomedical Engineering, who have academics.’ These bright young things for Departments of International Development developed wearable sensors to measure whom enthusiasm and determination are a and Public Health, the Blavatnik School the health of the elderly. surrogate for a lifetime in research naturally of Government – even the English and Law Clearly, the bright young things are showing need a different kind of help. Faculties,’ explains Hartigan. Such popularity established academics and alumni a thing Isis Innovation’s solution is the Software comes at a cost, though: Launchpad is or two – so initiatives like Launchpad and Incubator: a physical space and support inundated. ‘Term time is crazy,’ she admits. Wolfson Innovate which bring them together network which allows teams to develop ‘Last month we had 300 people wanting to will inevitably spur new ventures. ‘We’re at nascent software ideas into real products. use the space. It’s just not big enough!’ There the very beginning of a wave of interest in ‘We give them space to call their own, are plans afoot for Launchpad to grow, but entrepreneurship,’ muses Hartigan. ‘And I provide professional services like commercial in the meantime it’s fortunate that there’s think the overall message is that you need an mentoring and intellectual property advice, another student-focused initiative in the excellent team around you to succeed. If you and generally lend a hand,’ explains University too. can’t find that at Oxford, where can you?’ Hockaday. Open to all University members, the incubator is used by alumni as regularly as undergraduates. ‘So far, 27 projects have come in and 11 have turned into successful companies,’ says Hockaday. More information at http://bit.ly/1g4WU3u, http://bit.ly/RnHRMb, Unsurprisingly, Isis draws most of its talent www.wolfsoninnovate.com and http://incubator.isis-innovation.com from the sciences, engineering, computer

8 | BLUEPRINT May 2014 www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint Entrepreneurship in action: Zoology spin-out animation company NaturalMotion was purchased for $527m a century of social enquiry Spencer Lenfield looks back at the ‘citizens’ house’ that led the way to research and training in social policy

right: The original Barnett House, on the corner of Broad Street and Turl Street, is pictured on this 1916 brochure

left: Barnett House’s home from 1936 until 1957 was on Beaumont Street; today it’s in Wellington Square

intervention in the real world’, as Teresa Smith, former Head of Department, notes. She is currently working with collaborators on a history of the department and its ancestors at Oxford, from Barnett House to the present. The department’s current dedication to interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work across the social sciences, far from being part of an academic fad, goes back to its very foundation, she says: ‘A lot of the people who were economists and political scientists in the early 1900s were teaching and researching in what we would now call sociology and social policy.’ Unconstrained by disciplinary Barnett House in Wellington Square is home In the early 20th century that meant boundaries, they simply forged the home they to the University’s Department of Social teaching social work – then broadly defined – needed for the work they felt the public Policy and Intervention. The name is a nod and providing a lively centre for debate, study, good required. to the department’s earliest predecessor – an research and social action. After the PPE Professor Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, the institution which was founded in June 1914 (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) course current Head of Department, notes that and the ethos of which is still thriving 100 was established in 1923, Barnett House was the commitment of faculty members to years later in its modern counterpart. for a time a centre for those students too. public service has continued throughout the The original Barnett House was founded department’s history: ‘In the 1960s, they in honour of the late-19th-century clergyman ‘They simply forged the might have called it the “social responsibility” and social reformer Canon Samuel Barnett of academics; now, we might call it “impact”,’ who, with his wife Henrietta, had founded home they needed for the he explains. But it amounts to the same Toynbee Hall, one of the first university work they felt the public endeavour: producing work that responds settlements, in the East End of London in to the needs of the world. Part of what has the 1880s. After the canon’s death, a group good required’ changed, however, is the geographical scope of Oxford professors and reformers led by Its mission as a citizens’ house continued of that work. The department now comprises Sidney Ball – all interested in adult education, until 1957, when it was officially wound up, some three dozen members of academic staff university reform and social action – founded but it passed on its name to the University from twelve countries, whose work ranges Barnett House as a ‘citizens’ house’: an department, which was by then teaching what across issues as varied as AIDS orphans in institution in the heart of Oxford intended as was successively known as ‘social training’, South Africa, pensions in France, parenting a centre for social action, social reform and ‘administrative studies’, ‘social work’ and in England and poverty in various regions of social enquiry. ‘social studies’. Today the Department the world. In its day Barnett House was one of the of Social Policy and Intervention teaches The department, Professor Seeleib-Kaiser few institutions in the UK that held an easily ‘comparative social policy’ and ‘evidence- emphasises, continues to produce work that accessible library of government legislation, based intervention’ postgraduate courses. informs the decisions of governments in the reports and papers alongside the publications In 2014 the department is a very different UK, the EU and elsewhere: ‘In most of the of voluntary societies, educators and other place, but nevertheless reflects many of developed world, “social policy” absorbs social scientists. It was a nexus of thinkers: Barnett House’s original ideals: aiming to about 20–30% of GDP,’ he points out. academics of various disciplines, civil provide an intersection between disciplines ‘Social policy is at the core of what most servants, government ministers, people from (shaped by a commitment to academic governments do,’ and it is, he affirms, every the town and people doing on-the-ground excellence) that practise ‘public-spirited bit as important now as it was a century ago. social work and research could come to share ideas with one another. From the beginning it married a commitment to producing high- More information on the centennial celebration of Barnett House quality original research with the training at www.spi.ox.ac.uk/centenary.html and education of professionals.

10 | BLUEPRINT May 2014 www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint pembroke reaches out Innovative access schemes are stimulating interest in areas including languages, theology and science, reports Matt Pickles

The numbers around Oxford’s access lecture to up to 300 students from the region work are staggering. In the last year, on cutting-edge research topics such as brain 2,200 outreach events were held across the imaging and driverless cars. ‘When these collegiate University, contact was made with students come to apply to university, they will 78% of all schools in the UK, and more than be able to show that they have gone beyond £5.5m was spent on access work. Behind their textbooks and thought more deeply these figures, those involved in outreach about their subject,’ says Dr Claus. ‘Through are thinking carefully about how to be as the centre, they will get the chance to meet effective as possible. and question academics and industry leaders Pembroke College’s outreach scheme is who are working on the latest developments a good example of an innovative access in engineering and science.’ programme which is getting results. Of Pembroke has also set up the North West the 23 state school students who took part Theology and Religious Studies Centre, in their ‘Pem-Brooke’ London scheme in 2011–12, five took up places at Oxford this year. During the five years that Pembroke has ‘We aim to prepare young worked with Brooke House Sixth Form (BSix) people from disadvantaged in Hackney, East London, the number of its backgrounds for intensive students winning places at Russell Group universities has risen by 500%. learning in competitive Pembroke’s activities are concentrated universities’ on four academic centres: in East London, West London, South Cheshire and Greater which has invited Year 12 students across Manchester. Each is based at a school in the Greater Manchester and Cheshire to inter- area, which acts as a hub to host students faith discussion events hosted by community and teachers from across the region at groups, as well as lectures by leading regular events led by Oxford academics academics on the theme of ‘War, Faith and and admissions staff. ‘Our approach is Religion’. The East End Classics Centre, a unashamedly academic and subject-driven,’ collaboration with the Iris Project, Classics explains Dr Peter Claus, Pembroke College’s for All, BSix College, Wadham College and Access Fellow. ‘We aim to prepare young other universities, provides seminars and people from disadvantaged backgrounds for study visits for pupils and teachers. intensive learning in competitive universities Teachers are also an important part of by encouraging them to look beyond the the outreach work carried out by Pembroke’s school curriculum. We believe that sustained subject centres. Launched only last year, intervention over long periods provides the the London Centre for Languages and best means of encouraging and supporting Cultures (LCLC), in partnership with talented students as they seek to make William Morris Sixth Form in Hammersmith decisions about their future.’ and The Open University, supports teachers Students who take part in Pembroke’s of Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, ‘Pem-Brooke London and Pembroke Japanese, Persian, Portuguese and Spanish by North’ access schemes are selected through providing language study days, a network of a competitive interview process and are study resources, and a residential course at required to prepare for and attend a series the college. LCLC is funded by a grant from of seminars on Romanticism and the the London Schools Excellence Fund and Enlightenment given by Pembroke academics. was recently highlighted as a flagship project Pupils also have the chance to learn study by London’s Deputy Mayor for Education skills from current Pembroke undergraduates, and Culture, Munira Mirza. ‘By supporting and are invited to stay in the college on a teachers in state schools to teach their residential summer school week. students a range of languages which might Another main focus of Pembroke’s not otherwise be taught up to A-level, we approach is to expose students to the value hope to see more students applying to Oxford of a university education in a subject which and other competitive universities in these might be perceived as non-vocational. less vocational subjects in five or ten years,’ Launched late last year, the North West Dr Claus says. Centre for Science, a collaboration with Oxford’s Corpus Christi College, brings academics from Oxford and other top Read more at www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/access universities to South Cheshire College to

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Exhibitions

Geek is Good Until 28 September 2014 Museum of the History of Science www.mhs.ox.ac.uk A playful exhibition taking a reverse chronological look at some of the devices that may have been the geek gadget of SPECIAL EXHIBITION GALLERY their day, from 1980s’ home computers to 15 MAY - 28 SEPTEMBER 2014

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Points of Departure Until 7 September 2014 Pitt Rivers Museum Conferences www.prm.ox.ac.uk/points_of_departure.html Photography exhibition featuring the work UAS Conference of Mamadou Gomis and Judith Quax in Thursday 26 June, 12–4.45pm Senegal, which examines the phenomenon Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory of migration, documenting migrants’ Quarter absences as felt by the families they www.ox.ac.uk/uas_conference left behind. Training and information event for administrative staff across the collegiate University. Registration opens 2 June. Lectures and talks

Wytham Woods’ history and ecology Concerts Thursday 29 May, 7pm Wytham Woods, Oxford OX2 8QQ Jonathan Powell piano recital www.ox.ac.uk/event/wytham-woods-history- Friday 30 May, 8pm and-ecology Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Find out more about the history and ecology St Hilda’s College of Wytham with Dr Keith Kirby from the Tickets £15/£10 Department of Plant Sciences. www.sthildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building Marking the centenary year of the outbreak of WW1, pianist Jonathan Powell presents Bodies – when appearance is fetishised music that reflects composers’ reactions to Friday 13 June, 5pm this conflict, including Ravel’sLe Tombeau Mansfield College de Couperin. www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/alumni/events.html

iStockphoto/MikeLane Talk by psychoanalyst, writer and social critic Susie Orbach. Family friendly Micro and Mega Big Wild Sleepout with the RSPB In conversation with Baroness Amos Tuesday 27–Wednesday 28 May, 1–4pm Saturday 21 June, 3pm until dawn Tuesday 17 June, 5.15pm Pitt Rivers Museum Wytham Woods Saïd Business School www.prm.ox.ac.uk/events.html Tickets £40/£22 www.sbs.oxford.edu/events Half-term activities encompassing tiny dolls www.rspb.org.uk/events Discussion with Valerie Amos, Under- and enormous dinosaurs; investigate, sketch Spend the night with Wytham’s amazing Secretary-General for Humanitarian and create. collection of wildlife. Activities include Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator an evening badger watch and a night-time at the United Nations. walk with bat detectors. Special events

Open access and monographs Money Pitt LoveFriday Wednesday 18 June, 2–5.30pm Wednesday 18 June, 6pm–8.30pm Friday 27 June, 7–10.30pm Radcliffe Humanities Lecture Room Pitt Rivers Museum Ashmolean Museum http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TZ005 www.prm.ox.ac.uk/afterhours.html www.ashmolean.org/livefriday A forum for academics and researchers Explore the world of global currencies and An after-hours LiveFriday event dedicated to debate the issues around scholarly trade and find out how different cultures have to love. Seek out love in the museum’s monographs and open access with responded to the common challenge of finding collections through musical and theatrical publishers and research funders. ways to assign value and facilitate exchange. performances and interactive workshops.

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after Oxford,what next? Stuart Gillespie takes a look at where our graduates are six months on – and why it would help to know more

Where will the average Oxford student graduates without relevant work experience to collect data from all Oxford leavers and be six months after graduating? The answer, would find themselves less than competitive to achieve a response rate of 80% from UK according to the data collected by the in the graduate marketplace. This applies graduates and 55% from EU graduates. University’s Careers Service, is that more to Oxford too and, of the 6% who remain According to Lucy, the importance of this than 90% will be in work or undertaking unemployed six months after the end of their survey is threefold: ‘First, it helps us as a further study, with those in employment course, it’s often a lack of experience which is Careers Service to target our support. For spread across a wide range of industries, holding them back.’ example, as part of supporting alumni for sectors and roles. Jonathan Black, Director of the Careers life we get in touch with alumni who state Lucy Hawkins, a careers adviser at Service, has been leading research into the that they are unemployed to offer individual the Careers Service, explains: ‘Oxford proportion of students from each Oxford support and guidance. Second, it’s a key was ranked first inThe Times Global course being in a graduate-level job six factor for prospective students. Third, Employability University Survey 2014 months after leaving. ‘The only statistically destinations data helps current students and based on reputation with recruiters and is significant indicator of whether a student gets recruiters.’ one of the most targeted universities in the a graduate-level job is their gender,’ he says. She adds: ‘A recent staff exchange to the country in terms of student employability. ‘The proportion of female leavers who are in University of California, Berkeley, found The dominant sector is undoubtedly a graduate-level job is typically 10 percentage that collection of destinations data in the education, with around a third of students points lower than their male counterparts, UK is much envied across the pond. There finding work in universities, schools and and this seems true in both arts and sciences.’ are moves to put a similar system in place, education-related organisations. This simple so high is the importance of the information statistic begins to counter the impression gathered.’ among students – inundated with marketing ‘Around a third of Oxford The exercise to collect graduate destination materials from large corporate recruiters – students find work in the statistics for HESA is carried out between that Oxford students all end up in the City.’ education sector’ November and March. ‘We initially email, Other popular destinations include law, then telephone, then send paper surveys health and social care, accounting, banking in a process which becomes increasingly and investment, and consulting. Oxford is In the light of this finding, Jonathan is now cost-intensive,’ says Lucy. ‘Any support that also well represented in the media and in carrying out attitudinal research to explore staff can give to encourage their leavers to government-related roles, as well as in the if and how male and female undergraduates complete the email survey would be much charity, advertising and IT sectors. think and behave differently in relation to appreciated. Some departments mention this But simply having an Oxford degree is no their future careers. to their leavers in communications at the guarantee of securing a job. Lucy says: ‘The The Careers Service is required by the end of their course, and more support in this Oxford system provides careers support for Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) fashion is always welcome.’ students, but – just as in academic matters – the student must be proactive. A recent study found that 37% of vacancies at top graduate Further information on how University staff can assist the Careers recruiters were expected to be filled by those Service can be found at www.careers.ox.ac.uk/information-for- who had already worked for the organisation, university-staff and employers repeated warnings that www.ox.ac.uk/blueprint May 2014 BLUEPRINT | 15 advertisements

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In a nutshell, what do you do? So what was your first job? I worry, so you don’t have to! Everything My first paid engagement was at the age and anything associated with the smooth of nine as a dancer in Cinderella at the running of events at the Mathematical New Theatre (or The Apollo as it was Institute, from arranging catering to then). As disparate as that may seem to providing audiovisual support. My my current role, I think it stood me in primary aim is to minimise the stress on good stead – keep smiling, and if the

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