st cross college
record number 30 2013
ST CROSS COLLEGE RECORD
NUMBER 30, 2013
EDITOR’S NOTE
This edition of the St Cross College Record covers the academic year October 2012 to September 2013. I have included reports by most College Officers. I would be pleased to hear from any member of the College past or present who would be prepared to write something for publication. Again I have tried hard to remove errors in Fellows’, Students’ and Members of Common Room entries that have crept in over the years and would be glad to be notified of any errors that remain.
E J Williamson [email protected] December, 2013
CONTENTS
The College of St Cross at Oxford 5
Degrees Taken 33
Master’s Report 39
Awards, Achievements and Recognition of Distinction 43
New Fellows 45 Remi Bardenet Henrietta Harrison David Beeson Adriana Jacobs Katharine Burn Matthew Jarvis Robert Carlisle Magdalena Larfors Lesley Gray Kevin Marsh
3 Peter O’Neill Catherine Warnaby Stuart Robinson George Westhaver Martin Seeleib-Kaiser Paul Wikramaratna Steve Strand
College Talks 51
Archivist’s Report 52
Art Committee Report 53
Bursar’s Report 55
Librarian’s Report 56
Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions’ Report 59
Garden Master’s Report 60
Common Room Report 61
Student Representative Committee Report 61
Director of IT’s Report 63
Sports Report 63
Catering Manager’s Report 64
Music Report 66
Photographic Competition 66
Director of Development’s Report 68
Obituaries 76 Desmond Walshaw Godfrey Stafford Geoffrey Smith
Free Thinking - And How To Organise It 83 Rana Mitter
4 THE COLLEGE OF ST CROSS AT OXFORD
2013
MASTER
Jones, Sir Mark Ellis Powell, MA (Hon DLitt Lond.; Hon DArts Abertay; Hon LLD Dundee; Hon DLitt UEA) FRSE
FELLOWS
Parsons, Barry Eaton, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) Professor of Geodesy and Geophysics Waters, David John, MA, DPhil (MA Camb.) University Lecturer in Metamorphic Petrology; Curator, University Museum of Natural History; Web Master Garcia-Bellido, Estrella Paloma, MA (MA Texas (Austin); MA, PhD Universidad Complutense, Madrid) University Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics and Philology; Harassment Adviser Mayhew, Nicholas, MA, DLitt by Special Election; Professor of Numismatics and Monetary History, Deputy Director (Collections) Ashmolean Museum Treadwell, William Luke, MA, DPhil (BA Camb.) Samir Shamma University Lecturer in Islamic Numismatics, Ashmolean Museum Thompson, Peter John, MA (BA Warw.; PhD Pennsylvania), Sydney L. Mayer Lecturer in American History Scott, Katharine, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) by Special Election Adam, Christopher, MA, MPhil, DPhil (MA St And.) Professor of Development Economics MacCulloch, Diarmaid Ninian John, MA, DD (MA, PhD Camb.; Hon DLitt E.Anglia; Hon DD Virginia Theological College) FBA Professor of the History of the Church Hamerow, Helena Francisca, MA, DPhil (BA Wisconsin-Madison) University Lecturer in European Archaeology (Early Medieval) Whiteley, Jon James Lamont, MA, DPhil by Special Election; Senior Assistant Keeper, Department of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum Chatty, Dawn, MA (BA, DPhil UCLA; MA Institute of Social Studies, The Hague) Professor of Forced Migration Doherty, Maureen Patricia, MA (BA Lanc.; MA Open) by Special Election; Bursar; Wine Steward Ulijaszek, Stanley Jan, MA (BSc Manc.; MSc, PhD Lond.) Professor of Human Ecology, Vice-Master Taylor, James, MA (MA Camb.; MSc Lanc.; PhD Lond.) Reader in Decision Science Mitter, Rana Shantashil Rajyeswar, MA (BA, MPhil, PhD Camb.) Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China
5 Orford, Barry Antony, MA (BA, MTh, PhD Wales) Pusey Fellow Briant, William Richard Christian, MA (MA Camb.) by Special Election; International Director, Said Business School Dalton, Gavin Bruce, MA. DPhil by Special Election; Professor of Astrophysics Baker, Jonathan Mark Robert, MA, MPhil Principal of Pusey House Churchill, Grant Charles, MA (BSc, MSc Saskatchewan; PhD Minnesota) University Lecturer in Chemical Pharmacology Jirotka, Marina Denise Anne, MA, DPhil (BSc Lond.; MSc S.Bank) Reader in Requirements Capture Deutsch, Jan-Georg, MA (MA Hanover; PhD SOAS) University Lecturer in Modern History Ellis, Vivian Thomas, MA (BA Warw.; MA Washington State; PGCE Camb; PhD Lond.) University Lecturer in Educational Studies (English) Hall, Rodney Bruce, MA (MS, MA, PhD Pennsylvania) University Lecturer in International Political Economy Ligoxygakis, Petros, MA (BA Athens; MSc, PhD Crete) University Lecturer in Genetics; President of Common Room Parker, Michael John, MA (BEd W.England; PhD Hull) Professor of Medical Ethics Pfeiffer, Judith, MA (MA Köln; PhD Chicago) University Lecturer in Arabic Robinson, Mark, MA (PhD Lond.) Professor of Environmental Archaeology; Dean; Garden Master Romero Morales, Dolores, MA (MSc Seville; PhD Erasmus University Rotterdam) Reader in Operations Research Savulescu, Julian, MA (BMedSci, MB, BS, PhD Monash) Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics Venables, Katherine, MA (BSc, MSc, MD Lond.) by Special Election; Reader in Occupational Medicine Ashbourn, Joanna Maria Antonia, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) by Special Election; Senior Tutor; Tutor for Admissions Hamill, Heather, MA, DPhil (MA St And.) University Lecturer in Sociology Papanikolaou, Dimitris, MA (BA Athens; MA, PhD Lond.) University Lecturer in Modern Greek Sweetlove, Lee, MA (BSc E.Anglia; PhD Camb.) BBSRC Fellow; Reader in Plant Biochemistry Dexter, Colin, (Hon MA Leic.; Hon DLitt Oxf.Brookes) by Special Election Kapanidis, Achillefs, MA (BA Thessaloniki; MSc, PhD Rutgers) University Lecturer in Biological Physics Mahone, Sloan Courtney, MA, DPhil (BA Hofstra; MS Boston) University Lecturer in the History of Medicine Anderson, David McBeath, MA, (BA Sus.; PhD Camb.) FRHS Professor of African Politics Bostrom, Nick Rolf Lars, MA (BA Gothenburg; MA Stockholm; MSc Lond.; PhD LSE) Professor of Applied Ethics
6 Power, Timothy, (BA Massachusetts; MA Florida; PhD Notre Dame) University Lecturer in Brazilian Studies Wilkinson, Angus, MA (BSc, PhD Brist.) University Lecturer in Materials Yee, Margaret, MA status, DPhil (BSc NSW; BD Sydney) Senior Research Fellow Social Policy Biggs, Michael, (BA Victoria; MA, PhD Harvard) University Lecturer in Sociology Frood, Elizabeth, DPhil (BA, MA New Zealand) University Lecturer in Egyptology Jacobsen, Sten Eiric, (MD, PhD Berger) Bass Professor of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology McNicholl, Jane, MSc (BSc Liv.; PhD Lond.) University Lecturer in Educational Studies Bosworth, Mary, MA (BA Western Australia; MPhil; PhD Camb.) Reader in Criminology Daniels, Inge Maria, (BA Belgium; MA Japan; PhD Lond.) University Lecturer in Social Anthropology Floridi, Luciano, MA (LaureaRome; MPhil, PhD Warw.) by Special Election Pollard, Andrew, MA (BSc, PhD Lond.) FRCPHC Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity O’Hanlon, Rosalind, (BA Camb.; MA, PhD Lond.) Professor of Indian History and Culture Gardini, Nicola, MA (PhD New York) University Lecturer in Italian Bogaard, Amy Marie, (BA Bryn Mawr; MSc, PhD Sheff.) University Lecturer in Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology Johnson, Helen Louise, (BSc, PhD R’dg) University Lecturer in Climate and Ocean Modelling Pirie, Fernanda, MA, DPhil (MSc Lond.) University Lecturer in Socio-legal Studies Bowles, Neil, DPhil (BSc Lond.) University Lecturer in Planetary Physics Hicks, Daniel, MA (BA Brist.) University Lecturer in Modern Archaeology Friedrichs, Joerg, (DPhil Munich) University Lecturer in Politics Olteanu, Dan Alexandru, (Dr. rer nat. Munich; Dipl. Ing. Bucharest) University Lecturer in Information Systems; Director of IT Siveter, Derek, (BSc PhD Leic.) by Special Election, Professor of Earth Sciences Watt, Andrew, (BSc Glas.; MSc DIC Lond.; PhD Queensland) RCUK Fellow in Novel Photovoltaic Devices in the Department of Materials Swafford, Glenn, (BA Victoria Univ. Wellington; PhD Flinders Univ. S. Australia) by Special Election, University Director Research Services; Harassment Adviser Blowfield, Michael, (BA Newc., MA Suss.) Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment De Crespigny, Robert James Champion, (BComm) by Special Election Topsfield, Andrew Stephen, MA, DPhil Keeper of Easter Art, Ashmolean Museum Lora-Wainwright, Anna, DPhil (BA, MA Lond.) University Lecturer in the Human Geography of China Van Hear, Nicholas James, MA (BA Camb.; DPhil Birm.) by Special Election Shapiro, Joel, (MA, PhD Princeton) University Lecturer in Finance Hoyland, Robert Gerard, MA University Professor of Islamic History
7 Standley, Eleanor Rose, (BSc, MA, PhD Durh.) University Lecturer in Medieval Archaeology Lee-Thorp, Julia, (BA, BSc, PhD Capetown) Professor of Scientific Archaeology Golestanian, Ramin, (MSc, MPhil, PhD Sheff.) University Lecturer in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Bjola, Corneliu, (MA Leuven; PhD Toronto) University Lecturer in Diplomatic Studies Trefethen, Anne, (BSc Cov.; PhD Cranfield) by Special Election; Professor of Informatics Selmi, Daniele, MBiochem Junior Research Fellow Magiorkinis, Gkikas (MSc, PhD Athens) Junior Research Fellow Makepeace, Richard Edward, MA by Special Election; Registrar, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Bradford, Benjamin, (BSc, MSc, PhD Lond.) by Special Election; Career Development Fellow Sharpe, Michael Christopher, MA (MD Camb.) FRCP, FRCPsych Professor of Psychological Medicine Santorelli, Lorenzo Andrea, (BSc Florence; MS, PhD Houston) Junior Research Fellow Zanna, Laure, (PhD Harvard) University Lecturer in Physical Climate Science Crowther, Alison, (BA, DPhil Queensland) Junior Research Fellow Bonell, Christopher Philip, (MA, MSc, PhD Camb.) University Lecturer in Evidence Based Social Intervention Corbett, Philip Peter, (MPhil, MTheol St And.; STM Yale) Pusey Fellow Harrison, Henrietta Katherine, MA, DPhil University Lecturer in Chinese Studies Malmberg, Lars-Erik Joakim, (MA, PhD Vasa, Finland) University Lecturer in Quantitative Methods in Educational Research Carlisle, Robert Crispin, (BSc, MSc, PhD Birm.), University Lecturer in Engineering Science Larfors, Johanna Maria Magdalena, (MSc, PhD Uppsala) Junior Reasearch Fellow Wikramaratna, Paul Silva, MMaths, DPhil Junior Research Fellow Warnaby, Catherine Elizabeth, (MPhys, PhD Manch.) Junior Research Fellow Jarvis, Matthew, DPhil (MPhys Birm.) University Lecturer in Astrophysics O’Neill, Peter, (BSc, PhD, DSc Leeds) FRSC by Special Election, Deputy Director, Grays Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology Beeson, David Murray, (BA, MA Camb.; PhD Lond.) by Special Election, Leader Neurosciences Group, Wetherall Institute of Molecular Medicine Gray, Lesley J., (BSc South.; PhD R’dng) by Special Election, Professor of Climate Physics Strand, Steve, (BA, PhD Plym.), Professor of Education Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin, (MA, PhD Bremen), Barnett Prof of Comparative Social Policy and Politics Bardenet, Rémi Jean-Luc, (MSc Ecole Normale Superieure; PhD Paris-Sud) Junior Research Fellow Robinson, Stuart Alan, MA, DPhil, University Lecturer in Sedimentology Collins, Rory, FMed FRCP, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Head, Nuffield Department of Population Health
8 Westhaver, George Derrick, (MA Toronto; PhD Durh.) Pusey Fellow, Principal, Pusey House Burn, Katharine Clare, MSc, DPhil (BA Camb.), University Lecturer in Education Jacobs, Adriana Ximena, (BA William and Mary; PhD Princeton) by Special Election, Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature Legg, David Alexander, (BSc Port.; MSc Brist.; PhD Lond.) Junior Research Fellow Marsh, Kevin, (MB, ChB Liv.) MRCP by Special Election, Professor of Tropical Medicine
HONORARY FELLOWS
Allen, Sir Geoffrey, (BSc, PhD Leeds), FInstP, FPRI, FRS Seyoum, Prince Mangashia, GCVO, MA Crutzen, Paul Josef, (MSc, PhD, DSc Stockholm) Director, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie 1980- ; Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1995 Lee, Dame Hermione, CBE, MA, BPhil Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature 1998- 2008; President of Wolfson College 2008- Repp, Richard Cooper, MA, DPhil (BA Williams College, Massachusetts) University Lecturer in Turkish History 1965-2003; Senior Proctor 1979; Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1994- 2003; Master 1987-2003 Brook, Sir Richard John, OBE, MA (BSc Leeds; ScD MIT) Professor of Materials Science Eisenstein, Elizabeth, (AB Vassar; MA, PhD Radcliffe College) Warrell, David Alan, MA, DM, DSc, FRCP (Edin.) Professor of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Fellow 1977-2005 Hamilton, Andrew David, (BSc Exe.; MSc British Columbia; PhD Camb.) FRS Vice-Chancellor Goudie, Andrew Shaw, MA, DSc (MA, PhD Camb.) Professor of Geography 1984- 2003; President of the Oxford Development Programme and Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1995- 1997; Master 2003-2011; Director, China Centre Casselton, Lorna Ann, CBE, MA (BSc, PhD, DSc Lond.) FRS Emeritus Professor of Fungal Genetics Thomas, Sarah, MA (AB Smith; MS Simmons; PhD Johns Hopkins) Vice-President Harvard University Library Warner, Marina Sarah, CBE, MA Hon Dlitt Professor of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex Weber Soros, Susan, (AB, MA, PhD) Director, Bard Graduate Center, New York
EMERITUS FELLOWS
†van Heyningen, Ruth Eleanor, MA, DPhil, DSc (MA Camb.) Fellow 1965-1979; Senior Research Officer in Ophthalmology 1952-1978
9 †Jones, Alan, MA (MA Camb.) Fellow 1965-1980; Professor of Classical Arabic 1997- 2000 Whittaker, Eric James William, MA (BSc, PhD Lond.) FInstP Fellow 1967-1983; University Lecturer in Geochemistry 1965-1967; Reader in Mineralogy 1967-1983 Porter, Simon Robert, MA, DPhil Fellow 1977-1987; Bursar 1977-1987 Hassall, Tom Grafton, OBE, MA, Fellow 1974-1988; Director, Oxfordshire Archaeological Unit 1973-1985; Secretary, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England 1984-1993 †Hodcroft, Frederick William, Commander of the Order of Isabel the Catholic, MA (MA Manc.) Fellow 1965-1990; University Lecturer in Spanish 1953-1990 Barton, Revd John, FBA, MA, DPhil, DLitt (Hon Dr theol. Bonn) Fellow 1974-1991; University Lecturer in Theology (Old Testament) 1974-1989, Reader in Biblical Studies 1989-91; Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture 1991- Hockey, Susan Margaret, MA Fellow 1979-1991; Computing Officer in the Arts 1975- 1991 Smith, George David William, MA, DPhil, FInstP, FRS Fellow 1977-1991; University Lecturer in Metallurgy 1977-1993; George Kelley Reader in Metallurgy 1993-1996, Professor of Materials Science 1996- †Britton, Dennis, MA (MA Camb.) Fellow 1965-1992; University Lecturer in Prehistory 1961-1992 Brookes, Edward Michael, MA (BSc Durh.; Hon LLD Waterloo; Ceng) MICE Fellow 1972-1992; Assistant University Surveyor 1964-76; University Land Agent 1976- 1983 Glare, Peter Geoffrey William, MA (MA Camb.) Fellow 1976-1992; Editor, Oxford Latin Dictionary 1955-1981; Editor, Liddell & Scott Supplement 1981-1996 Brown, Helen Wingate, MA Fellow 1969-1994; Assistant Keeper, later Senior Assistant Keeper, Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, 1958-1994 Beckett, Philip Henry Trim, MA, DPhil, DSc Fellow 1966-1995; University Lecturer in Soil Science 1958-1988; Redesignated University Lecturer in Plant Science 1988-1995 Mould, Charles Marshall, MA, DPhil (BSc (Eng.) Lond.) Fellow 1981-1995; Secretary of the Bodleian Library 1981-1995 Olliver, Joseph Gascon, MA, DPhil (BSc Nott.) Fellow 1970-1996; University Lecturer in Surveying and Geodesy 1966-1996 Atkins, Frederick Brian, MA, DPhil Professorial Fellow 1975-1997; University Lecturer in Mineralogy 1969-1997; Curator of the Mineralogical Collection 1969-1997 Nizami, Farhan Ahmad, MA, DPhil (MA Aligarh) Junior Research Fellow 1983-1985; Islamic Studies Fellow 1985-1997; Director, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 1985 - Bishop, David Hugh Langler, MA, DSc (BSc, PhD Liv.) Fellow, 1984-1998; Director, NERC Institute of Virology 1984-1995 Roberts, Adrian David Scudamore, MA, BLitt (MA Camb.) Fellow 1978-1998; Sub-Librarian, Bodleian Library 1976-1998; Keeper of Oriental Books 1976-1998 Vessey, Martin Paterson, CBE, MA (MB, BS, MD Lond.) FRS Fellow 1973-2000; Professor of Public Health 1974-2000
10 Richards, Donald Sidney, MA Fellow 1967-2000; University Lecturer in Arabic 1960- 2000; Dean of Degrees Benton, Peter, MA (MA Camb.) Fellow 1987-2001; University Lecturer in Educational Studies (English) 1976-2001 Woolnough, Brian Ernest, MA (BSc R’dg; Cert Ed Camb.) FInstP Fellow 1984-2001; University Lecturer in Educational Studies (Physics) 1978-2001 Roe, Derek Arthur, MA, DLitt (MA, PhD Camb.) Fellow 1970-2003; University Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology 1965-199; Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology 1997- 2003 Mackridge, Peter Alexander, MA, DPhil Fellow 1981-2003; University Lecturer in Modern Greek 1981-1996; Professor of Modern Greek 1996-2003; Dean of Degrees Williamson, Edward James, MA, DPhil Fellow 1970-2004; University Lecturer in Physics 1968-2004; Dean of Degrees; Publications Officer Abramson, Glenda, MA (MA, PhD Rand.) Senior Research Fellow 1981-1989; Fellow 1989-2004; Cowley Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew 1989-2004 Allan, James Wilson, MA, DPhil Fellow 1990-2005; Assistant Keeper, Department of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum 1966-1988, Senior Assistant Keeper 1988-1991; Keeper (Professor) 1991-2005 McLatchie, Robert Craw Forsyth, MA (BSc Glas.) Senior Research Fellow 1991-2005; Director, Oxford Parallel 1991-2005 Harris, Ann, MA (PhD Lond.) Fellow 1991-2005; University Lecturer in Paediatrics 1991- 2005; Professor of Paediatric Molecular Genetics 2005 Gosden, Christopher, MA (BA, PhD Sheff.) Fellow 1994-2006; University Lecturer in World Archaeology 1994-2006; Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum James, Wendy Rosalind, BLitt, MA, DPhil FBA,CBE Fellow1972-2007; University Lecturer in Social Anthropology 1972-1996; Professor of Social Anthropology 1996-2007 Tiffany, John Michael, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) Fellow 1979-2007; University Lecturer in Ophthalmological Biochemistry 1976-2007 Browning, David George, Order of José Matías Delgado, MA, DPhil (BA R’dg) Fellow 1968-2007; University Lecturer in Geography of South America 1968-1985; Registrar, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 1985-2007 Hedges, Robert Ernest Mortimer (MA PhD Camb.) Fellow 1989-2009; University Lecturer in Archaeology 1989-1995; Professor of Archaeology 1995-2009 Kruger, Nicholas, MA (PhD Camb.) Fellow 1989-2009; University Lecturer in Plant Science 1990-2009 Zimmerman, Friedrich Wilhelm, BPhil, MA, DPhil (MA Erlangen) Fellow 1976- 2009; University Lecturer in Islamic Philosophy 1976-2009 Pieke, Frank Nikolaas, MA (BA, MA Amsterdam; PhD Berkeley) Fellow 1995-2010; University Lecturer in the Modern Politics and Society of China 1995-2010 Raynes, Edward Peter, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) FInstP, FRS Fellow 1998-2010; Professor of Optoelectronic Engineering 1998-2010 Endicott, Jane Anne, MA (MA, PhD Toronto) Fellow 1993-2011; Professor of Structural Biology
11 Davage, Revd William Ernest Peter, MA (BA Newc.; Mphil Leic.) Pusey Fellow 1994- 2012 Hope, Ronald Anthony, MA, BM, BCh (PhD Lond.) FRCP, FRCPsych, MFPH Fellow 1990-2012; Lecturer in Psychiatry 1987-1990; Leader,Ooxford Practice Skills Project and Hon Consultant Psychiatris 1990-1995; University Lecturer in Practice Skills 1995-1996; Reader in Medicine 1996-2000; Professor of Medical Ethics 2000-
† Founding Fellow
VISITING FELLOWS
Nicol, Norman Douglas, (MA Penn State; PhD Univ. Washington) Samir Shamma Visiting Fellow Chatterji, Aditi, MLitt (PhD Calcutta) Dodds, Klaus-John, (BSc, PhD Brist.) Drory, Joseph, (BA, MA, PhD Jerusalem) Geffen, Anthony, MA Iles, Robert L, (BA, MA Melbourne; DPhil Alberta) Crawford Miller Visiting Fellow Ilisch, Lutz (DPhil) Samir Shamma Visiting Fellow Martin, Andrew James, (BA, MA, PhD Sidney) Mkenda, Festo DPhil (BA Nairobi; MA Lond.) Sulaiman, Mu’yad Mohammed, (BSc, MA, PhD Mosul) Kerr, Rev Graeme Kelvin, (BA Melboune; BD Otago) Crawford Miller Visiting Fellow Haider, Sayed Najaf, DPhil (MA, Mphil Aligarh Muslim Univ.) Samir Shamma Visiting Fellow Frenz, Margret, MA (PhD Heidelberg)
RETIRED FOUNDING FELLOWS (other than Emeritus Fellows)
Barbour, Ruth, MA Burridge, Kenelm Oswald Lancelot, MA Zussman, Jack, MA, DPhil. Griffith, Thomas Gwynfor, B.Litt., MA MA, DPhil Tucker, Richard George, B.Sc., BM, MA, DPhil. Coles, Barry Arclay, MA, DPhil
12 MEMBERS OF COMMON ROOM
Former Fellows
David McBeath Anderson MA, (BA Sus.; PhD Camb.) FRHS Hung Cheng MA (MA, MB, BChir Camb.) MRCS, LRCP, DO, FRCS Lesley Forbes Peter Groves BA, DPhil Anastassia Loukina MPhil, DPhil (Dipl. St Petersburg State Univ.) Beatrix Nagyova DPhil (MD Dr. Comenius) LRCP, LRCS, DipLMSSA, MRCP Rebecca Nicholls DPhil (BA, MSc Camb.) Ian Page MA (BSc Lond., MSc City) FIEE John Bernard Pethica, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) FRS Emilie Savage-Smith, MA, (PhD), FBA Archivist Julie Scott-Jackson DPhil Thomas Pitt Soper MA, PhD, BLitt Philip Bernard Tinker DSc, PhD Roger Trigg MA, DPhil Peter Ward Jones MA, FRCO Oliver Watson PhD Paul Silva Wikramaratna MMaths, DPhil Holger Witte MSc DPhil
Former Students
Walter Arader MPhil (BA Richmond) Michael Stuart Armstrong Dphil (BA Camb.) Michael Athanson MSt, Dphil (MA, Mphil Glas.) Casper Gregers Bangert, BA, MA,MPhil Jamie Franklin Berezin, MPhil (BA Dalhousie) Chih-Yun Chang (MS Lond.; MBA Nott.; BA Nat. Taiwain Univ.) Shih-Chung Chen DPhil (BA Nat Chenghi Univ.; MA Lond.) Wei-Ni Chen MSc (BA B.C.) Zhiyu Chen MSc (BSc Zhejiang Univ) Susan Clark EMBA Gari Clifford DPhil David Clifton DPhil (MEng Brist) Matthew David MSc (MA, DPhil Kent; BSc Glam.) James Davies DPhil (BA Lond.) Angela Davis DPhil, MSt (BA Lond.) Annie Demosthenous MSt (MA St And.) James Edward Dodd DPhil, BSc Vaughan Dutton DPhil (MSc, BSc Univ Kwazulu, Natal; BSc Univ. Natal)
13 Sarah Marie Ekdawi DPhil Brian Fahy MPhil (MA San Fransisco, MA Boston) Julian Faultless MSt, DPhil G Helen Sian Fisher DPhil (MA R’dg; BA S awedzkaMS Richard Germuska DPhil, MEng Paer Lennart Gustafsson DPhil (MA, MPhil/DPhil) Cherry Warrington Hutton DPhil (BA, MAChelt. & Glous. Coll. HEB Durh.) c, Hiuroshi Iwamura EMBA (BA Meiji) BS Devra Kay MLitt, BA, MPhil Lingbing Kong DPhil (BA, MSc Beijing Univ. Chem. Tech.) Felix Benedikt Kullchen DPhil Jonathan Lusthaus DPhil, MSc Rupert Macey-Dare MA,DPhil (MA Camb.; MscEcon Lond.; LLM City; Call Middle Temple) Joy MacInnes DPhil, BSc Oliver Hugh Owen DPhil (BA Camb.; MSc Lond.) Marcus Charles Plowman Milwright DPhil Sayeed Noman MPhil (BA Lond.) Peter Chikaodi Ntephe MSc (PhD Lond) Joanna Pike DPhil, MPhil (BA R’dg) Chandra Sekar Ramanujan DPhil, BSME, MSMSE Margaret Jean Rayner MPhil John Rowe MA Michael Shott MSt BA Maria Spirova MSc (BA Sofia Univ.) Troy Sternberg DPhil (BA Univ. Calif.; MSc Texas Tech.Univ.) Stig Topp-Jorgensen MSc Paulina Villapando Lorda, MSc, BA Sue Walters DPhil, MA Jie Yang DPhil MSWc (BSc Tianjin Univ Commerce)
Elected Members
Peter Alexander (BA, PhD Lond) Sheila Allcock MA (BSc Leic.) Librarian Siddharath Banerjee (BGEI Harvard) Amanda Berlan DPhil, MPhil Susan Adebanjo Berrington (BA Liv.) Suzanne Bobbett Judith Bogdanor (MB BS) LRCP MRCS DFFP College Doctor Susan Bull (PhD, MA Lond.; LLb Canterbury, New Zealand) Hilary Callan Dip, MLitt, BA
14 Umesh Chandrappa (CGPA Nat. Law Sch.) Alan Coates MA, DPhil Tonia Cope Bowley BSc Sujit Danait (MSc Cov.) Jill Davidson (BSc, MSc) Michael Dunne BA, BLitt (DPhil Sus., MA Calif.) Elizabeth Edwards MA David Favis-Mortlock PhD Charles Foster (PhD Warw.; BA, MSc Exe.) Jill Fresen (BA, PhD) Roya Ghafele (MA Vienna) John Gledhill (BA Trinity College, Dublin; PhD Georgetown) Ayush Gupta (BA Roorkee) Daphne Hampson DPhil (BA Keele; MA Warw; ThM, ThD Harvard) John Hanks (BA Durh.; PGCE Camb.; LLM Wales) Gay Haskins (BA, MBA) Ines-Agnes Hasselberg (PhD Sus.) David Helliwell MLitt John Hewitt (MCIOB, MIFireE) Kei Hiruta MA, DPhil MSc Suzy Hodge, MBA Assistant Bursar Sanghamitra Biswas Jayant (NIT Durgapur) John Jenner MA, (BA Lond.) Anjali Kaushik (PhD Delhi) Jane Kaye DPhil Laura King, (BA Sur.) Development and Alumni Relations Manager Angeliki Kerasidou MA, Dphil (MA Thessaloniki) Mrinmayee Bhushan Kondhalkar PhD Cezary Koscielniak (MA, PhD Adam Mickiewicz Univ., Poland) Lawrence Leaver, (MA Camb.), BM BCh, MRCGP College Doctor Judith Ledger, Accounts Manager Daniela Mairhofer DPhil Alison Mignanelli (BSc Lond.) Toqir Mukhtar (MSc Lond., BSc Leeds) Nicola Murphy (BA DeMont.) Benjamin Nagengast Dip. John Nandris, MA, DPhil FSA Devender Nahar (MBA FMS Delhi, LLB) Derek Nelson (PhD, MDiv Yale, AB Wabash) Erika Kristin Nitsch (BA Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Canada) Jeremy Peter Northover MA, DPhil Razvan Novacovschi, (PhD Sibiu) IT Manager Mark O’Shea, BM, BS College Doctor
15 Luca Petrarulo MSc, BA, MA James Pettifer MA Asok Kumar Gopala Pillai (Btech Trivandarum) Clare Pollard BA, DPhil Timothy Brett Pound MA, DPhil, PGCE Ian Pugh (BA Derby) Tapan Kumar Ray (PhD Jadavpur Univ., Koltata) Laurence Robb (BSc, MSc, PhD) William Scott-Jackson Naomi Setchell (BSc, MA Lond.) Sankalp Shivastav (Mtech, IIT Delhi) Suzanne Straebler, College Independent Welfare Adviser Amy Styring (BSc, PhD Exe.) Simon Swain MA, DPhil Alan Taylor PhD, MSc Sergei Tochlin MSc Ida Toth DPhil (BA Belgrade University) Sarah Louise Turnbull (PhD Toronto) Sushrut Vaidya (MA Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth) Sanket Virkar (BIndEng Univ. Pune)Robert Elwyn James Watkins (BSc Salf.; DPhil Sus) Michael Wigg
Associate Members
Malgorzata Bialokoz Smith Marguerite Blackwell Suze Hodgson BSc, PGCE Mary Juel-Jensen Clodagh Jakubovics Janine Lee Butcher MA (MA Lond.) Jose Patterson Helen Saunders-Gill
16 GRADUATE SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS
Students who were engaged in a course of study at St Cross during the academic year 2012-2013
1996 Hopper, Keith Daniel (BA University Coll., Galway)
2000 Petruccioli, Guido MPhil (BA Univ. PA; Maturita Instituto ‘Gallio’ Licao classico) szeverenyi, Vajk Peter MA (MA)
2001 shimazono, Yosuke (BA Waseda Univ.; MA Kyoto) Zambone, Albert Louis (BA Johns Hopkins; MA Catholic Univ. of America)
2002 Hebbert, Benjamin Mark (BSc Lond.Guild.; MMus Leeds)
2003 sheftel, Anna (BA Concordia Univ.) stefansson, Kolbeinn Holmar MSc (BA Univ. Iceland) Woerner-Powell, Thomas Richard George (BA Durh.)
2004 barisin, Ivana (MSc Ulster)
2005 Hunter, Kathleen Allison BA, MA, DPhil Univ. Western Ontario) Kaplan, Josiah David MPhil (AB Dartmouth College) macfarlane, Elizabeth Clare BA mcGill, Darryl Andrew (BSc, MBBS Univ. NSW; PhD Austr. National univ.) oshmyansky, Alexander Roman (BA Colorado; MD Duke) solywoda, Stephanie Lynn (BA Smith Coll, Mass)
2006 Adighibe, Omanma Ejiamaizu (BSc, MSc George Washington Univ.) Heinz, Sanda Sue (BA Loyola Marymount Univ.) Jun, Jiweon MSc (BA Seoul National U niv.) lowe, Alexandra Dorothea MPhil (BA Open) reuter, Victoria Agnes MPhil (BA Rutgers) santalova, Antonina Alexandrovna MPhil (BA Kyrgyz State Nat. Univ.)
2007 Amer, Rawya Mohamed Tawfik (BSc, MSc Cairo) bloch, Katarzyna (BSc Wash. State; MSc Wrockan Univ.) gilbertson, Adam Lloyd (BA Western Washington Univ.) gregory, Justin Paul MSc (BSc Oxf.Brookes) Hamilton, Julie BA Hutchinson, Sarah Jane (BA Leeds; MSc Lond.)
17 James, Rachel Elizabeth (MSc Nott.) locascio, Philip Francesco (BSc UMIST. MSC Westminster) loughry, Robert Joseph (BA Colorado; MSE Seattle) marks, Zoe Elizabeth Zoog MSc (BA Georgetown Univ.) munz, Marton owen, Oliver Hugh MA (BA Camb.; MSc SOAS) Papanastasiou, Anastasia (MA Univ Lndn) Parise, Cesare Valerio (Laurea Univ. Degli Studi Di Milano-Bicocca) rasulova, Saltanat Temirbekovna MPhil rees, Griffith Sewall (BA) rizkallah, RafikR amsis Annis MSc saleh, Lena Denise (BSc, MSc McMaster) schroeder, Elizabeth-Ann (BA/MA Natal; PGDip Curtin Univ.)
2008 Alishahi, Samira (MSc Lond.) Arjinian, Sebouh Yaacoub MSc (BA Amer. Univ. Beirut) bhala, Neeraj (MRCP; MBCHB Sheff.) bhambra, Manmit (BSc, MSc Lond.] bhushan, y (BA Delhi) bovell, Virginia Margaret (MA Lond.; MSc York) buckingham, Kathleen Carmel (BA Lond.; MSc Edin.) cakal, Huseyin (MSc Victoria Manc.) canales, Andrea Morelia (BA Pontifica Univ. Chile; MSc Lond.) chui, Cecilia Sheung Chi (BSc Lond.) dahl, Anna Caroline Elizabeth (BSc Edin.) du, Mi (MEng Sheff.) Farquhar, Alexander James King (MA Lond.; MA Glas.) Fletcher, John Thomas (BA Lanc.; MA Sheff.) galicia Lopez, Oscar (MChem Mexico) gryte, Kristofer Eric (BSc St Peter’s N.J.) Hua, Sha (BSc, NSc Lond.; MSc Harvard) Huang, Li-Chieh MSc Jo, Yong Mie (Nichola) Kalli, Antreas (BSc Cyprus) Kelly, Tara Beth (BA Washington; MA Lond.) Kocher, Paul Tilman (MA) Konstantinidis, Michalis (BSc Kingston) Kozak, Ladislav (BA Toronto) Kulvmann, Jesper (MSc) lucas, Claire luthfa, Samina (BA, MA Dhaka; MA Lehigh) mark-Thiesen, Cassandra Onike (BA, MSc Florida State Univ.) mueller, Milena (BA Lond.; MPhil Camb.)
18 nicolae, Daniel Sebastian (BA HU; MSc Edin.) nicolay, Nils Henrik (MA US Ed Comm.; MS Ruprecht-Karls Univ.) Penrose, Sefryn BA (MA Brist.) Pillar, Helen Rose (BA R’dg) rappak, Natalia russell, Aidan Sean MSc (BA, MPhil Camb.) schorle, Katia (MPhil) seel, Andrew Graham thomas, Jewel Kathleen (MSc R’dg) Vider, Jaanika BA Wright, Carrie Carlota (BA Hamline Univ. Ninnesota; MSc Bourne.) Yamamoto, Keisuke (MSc Tokyo)
2009 Ahmad, Norainie (MSc Lond.) Altoft, James Richard Andjelkovic, Maja (MLaw Kent) Andrianova, Varvara (BA Louisiana State) Ashraf, Saquab (MA SOAS Lond.) beach, Brian Alvis (MA Univ. NC, Chapel) becker, Philipp Werner (BSc Cologne) berzal, Gorka (BSc R’dng) bham, Saif Ahmed Shahab (BSc Manc.) boon, Chia Weng (BA Nanyang Tech. Univ SG) chan, Mun Chiang (BSc Brist.) chen, Haoyu (BEng Dalian) chung, Soo Min (MSc) coates, Adam (MPhil) czyz, Witold Wojciech (BSc Cardiff) dakin, Helen Angela MA (BA Camb.) degnan, Ryland James devenish, Annie Victoria (BA) di Rodi, Morgan Michele Daniel (BA) do, Hyun-Woong Felce, James Hannes Fink, Robert Dion (Dipl. Ludwig Maximillians) Florez, Maria Teresa (MA Chile) gao, Yuan grant, Clare Frances Jane (BSc Brunel, MSc Lond.) greenaway, Rebecca Louise (MChem Sheff.) gruber, Claudia (Bsc, MSc Cologne) gunnoo, Smita (MSc Brist.) Hawari, Aliah Hazmah Binti (BSc, MA Kebangsaan) Henderson, Morag Elizabeth (MSc)
19 Herman, Joseph Lewis BA (BA Camb.) Hogue, Joshua Todd (MSc Lond.) Hume, David Stephen (MA Birm.) Inboden, Rana Ann Hing-Jun Siu (BA Georgetown, MA Stanford) Jones, Adam Anthony Tudor (BSc, MSc Lond.) Jonson, Trent Maxwell Huram MPhil Karki, Shrochis (BA) Kiss, Csaba Zsolt (BA) Kubo, Teppei (MA Lond.) lacey, Benjamin William Hubert le Febvre, Emilie Kathleen (MA Il Ben Gurian, Negev) lewandowski, Adam James (BA) lomax, Keith lotharukpong, Chalothorn (BEng Lond.) maczka, Melissa May (BSc Lond.) majed, Rima Mohamad (BA Amer. Univ. Beirut) makino, Seiko mancilla-Garcia, Maria (MA Wcole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences) mantri, Shiksha (MA Ind. Inst. of Tech.) marsh, Bradley John Jr (MA Oral Roberts) marsh, Kimberly Stephanie (BA Singapore, MA Leeds) mcClung, Rebecca Alexandra (MA Kentucky, MSc Edin.) mcKerracher, Mark James MSt (BA) mcQuinn, Brian Peter (MA US Notre Dame) meng, Ke moore, James Daniel Paul (MSc Durh.) muradas, Fernando Martins (MA Rio de Janeiro) ntusi, Ntobeko Ayanda Bubele (BSc Heverford, MD Cape Town) onyambu, Frank Gekara (BA) Palmer, Duncan Stuart Sinclair (MSt Warw.) Papadopoulos, Polykarpos Periz Coloma, Francisco Javier (MSc Manc., DPhil Lond.) Pettingill, Philippa May Pritchard, Eleanor Mary (MPhil Lond.) Probst, Cornelius (MA Rheinische Friedrich-Wihelms) ribeiro Fernandes, Hugo Jose rowan, Erica Stacey K (BA Mcmaster) ryder, Nicholas Charles (MSc Brist.) rytel-Andrianik, Pawel MSt (BA) schluter, Jonas (MSc Westmstr) sharma, Reetu (BA Univ. Delhi) sibley, Amanda Nicole (MA Tulane) sinkkonen, Marja Elina (BA, MA Helsinki)
20 slater, Gary Stovall (BA Univ. Virginia, MTh Edgbrgh) styer, Steven Andrew (BA Texas, MA) subianto, Landry Haryo (MA Essez) taiti, Agnes Kirigo thomas, Nigel Verghese (BSc York) tindana, Paulina trueck, Johannes (DMed Eberhard Karls) Wang, Yixiong (BSc Nanjing) Wehby, Jennifer Leigh (BA, MSc Georgia) Wiebel, Jacob MSc (BA Lond.) Xu, Fan (BEng, MEng Tsinghua) Xu, Weijun (MA Harvard) Yamin, Timothy You, Zixi Zeldin, Robert Oliver Burns (MPhil)
2010 Abdul Jawad, Sultan (MSc Aberdeen) Acosta-Nielsen, Colleen Denise (MA Johns Hopkins) Ally, Masud MA, BA (MSc) baker-Hytch, Max Rupert Owain (MA/BA Exeter) batchelor, Charlotte Claire (MS) bohingamuwa, Wijerathne Bohingamu Herath Mu (MA) bull, Katherine Rose (BA) calabrese, John Robert (MSc Pisa) carveley, Kenneth Cyril (DPhil Leeds) challinor, Dana (MSc Lond.) cirstea, Teodor-Matei cohen, Jack Andrew (MPhys) collins, Katharine Alice dahlsjo, Cecilia Anna Linnea (BSc) dearlove, Bethany Lorna (MSc) ding, Zi Qian (MSc) djerasimovic, Sanja duchi Llumigusin, Diego Armando Duchi elby, Tristan Edward (MSt) espinoza Revollo, Patricia Claudia (MPhil) Facchini, Raffaella Maria ganle, Kuumuori (MPhil) goldie-Scot, Matthew Robert MA, BA (MEd) gulati, Aashish (Higher Degree Royal Coll of Surgeons) Hager, Kathryn Alexandra (MA) Hancock, Gemma Henson, Katherine Elizabeth
21 Hoechner, Hannah Kathrin (MPhil) Honti, Frantisek (BSc Bath) Iwamura, Hiroshi BA (BA Meiji) Jayaraj, Maria Sangeetha BCMed, MBA St John’s Med. Coll.) Jeannet, Anne-Marie Therese (BA) Johansen, Anniken Marie Henriksdatter (MA) Johnson, Paul Anthony BA Kasseri, Alexandra (MA) Kelly, Paul (MSc) Kenny, Nathan James (BA Otago, N.Z.) Kim, Taehoon (MSc) Kirkpatrick, Katherine Ann MSt (BA) Koelbel, Andrea (MBA) Kotarba-Morley, Anna Maria (MA Kracow) Krakowka, Kathryn Ann (BSc. MSc) langley, Michelle Claire langor, Gillian Camille BA (MSc) li, Yang (MPhil) lloyd, David lodwick, Lisa Ann (BA) mansour, Ali (MSc) martin, Nicole Sylvia MSc (BA) maschmeyer, Lennart (BA) moguerane, Khumisho Ditebogo (MSt) njuguna, Elizabeth Diana Njoki BA, MSc nockles, Victoria oesch, Nathaniel Tillman ostendorff, Daniel Alan (MA Queen’s Belfast) Palmer, Thomas John (BA, MA York) Patel, Jaimini (MA) Pimentel, Marco Andre Figueiredo (MEng) Puzey-Broomhead, Philippa Maria Dorothea rafiq, Adnan (MPhil) rogozhina, Anna (MSt) sanak, Sheetal segaren, Nathaniel (MA Johns Hopkins) sovdat, Tina (BA) stokes, Elizabeth Ann straulino, Daniel sui, Tan (BSc) szekely, Aron (MSc) teversham, Edward Mark (MA) ustek, Funda (MSc)
22 Van Schaik, Sebastiaan Johannes (MS Utrecht) Verma, Akash Weissmueller, Nikolas Thomas (MSc) Wiersma, Wybo (MA) Williamson, Zachary James (MPhys) Wisetsuwannaphum, Sirikarn (MChem) Wright, Laura Jayne (MPhys Durh.) Wu, Guo (BSc Shanghai Jiao Tong) Yang, Peidong (MPhil) Zhao, Tao (BA Tongji) Zhurakovskyi, Oleksandr (MA Arizona) Ziriax, Margaret Ruth
2011 Addanki, Shyamal BA (BSc) Aid, Thaddeus Michael (BSc R’dg) Anastasi, Maxine Raimondina Trenchard (BA, MA Malta) Antrobus, Richard (BA Birm.) Arader, Walter Graham IV (BA Richmond) Armstrong, Paul Tomasz Arndt, Sabine (MA Amsterdam) Atoyan, Tigran (BA, MSc McGill) Auffray, Cyrielle Amelie (MA Inst. d’Etudes Pol. de Paris) bellander, Magnus Lars Jonas (MSc Lond.) bin Mohd Nasir, Nazirudin (MSt) blumberg, Diana Renee (MSc Lond.) bonchev, Ivan Boyanov (BA Sheff.) bray, Emma Rachel (BA) brighton, Anneka Victoria (BA Dartmouth) britton, Judy Louise (BSc Leic.) bulbrook, Daniel (BSc Lond.) caputo, Alessandro Thanasis (BA Melbourne) caradonna, Peter Philip (BA) case, Jane Boucher BA (BA Tufts) chag, Avni Yagnesh (BA SOAS Lond.) chalei, Vladislava (BSc Edin.) chan, Kai Hoo (MSc Lond.) chang, Qingchen Vicky (MA Durh.) chou, Dean (MA Alabama) chow, Zhan Lou (BSc York) cliff, Emily Rose (MSc Toronto) coccia, Leonardo (BSc Comm Luigi Bocconi) cottle, Amy Masumi (MA Camb.) cresci, Irene (MSc)
23 d’Andrea, Paola (BA, MA Degli Studi di Milano) dai, Ming (BA, MA Hong Kong) de Feo-Giet, Danielle Karanjeet Julie (MA Harvard) de Teixeira Carrelha, Joana Isabel devisscher, Tahia (MSc Lund) di Paolo, Diana (BSc, MSc Pisa) doherty, Christina Marie (BSc Dublin City) donnelly, Alexander (BA Camb.) duering, Andreas (MA Eberhard Karls) duglan, Drew (BSc Birm.) estcourt, Lise Jane (BA Camb.) Fadeev, Sergey Mikhaylovich (BA, MA, DPil Nizhny Novgorod) Falconer, Ruairidh Alexander (BA Aberd.) Filip, Marina Rucsandra (BEng Bucharest) Filipova, Rumena Valentinova (BA Camb.) Fischer, Jens (BA St Gallen) Fiske, Peter Nicholas (MA Leiden) Floe, Hilary (BA, MSt) galeazzi Gonzalez, Juan Manuel (MSc Groningen) gansonre, Christelle (BA Genea) gao, Xiaoyan (BA) gavriliouk, Tatiana (BA, MSt) gray, James Andrew Russell (MSc Brist.) Handsel, Jennifer (MChem Sur.) Hartley, Nicholas John (MSc Lond.) Haven-Tietze, Chloe Lindsy (BA Wooster) Henderson, Rowena Claire (MSc York) Hill, Donal (MA Belf.) Hirschberg, Mairena (BA Sus.) Honnah, Akim Matthew (BSc Brist.) Jetter, Janina (MA Albert Ludwig)) Klimenka, Filip (BA Belarusian Univ) Kopycinska, Julia Magdalena (BA Bath) Korzycka, Karolina Anna (MChem Lodz) Kramer, Dustin (BA Cape Town) 1 Krause, Anna Christine (MA Missouri) laranjeira Gomes, Simao Jacques (MA Lond.) li, Mengxuan (BSc Lond.) liddle, Alexander David (BSc, BMed Lond.) lou, Ieng Tak (MSc Edin.) mansor, Latt Shahril (MA Columbia) mills, William Gundry mohammed, Khaliqa (BSc Augustine, Trinidad)
24 mohd Yusof, Hanis Ayuni Binti (MEng Malaya) murphy, Sean (MA Glas.) musa, Chilombo (BA Copperbelt) nibber, Anjan o’Higgins, Aoife Anais (MA) okilo, Idi (MA Calif) omar, Muhammad Yusof (MSc George Wash.) Pachal, Katherine Elizabeth (BSc Victoria, BC) Pasic, Lana (MA Degli Studi di Trento, Italy) Pope, Madeleine (BSc Royal Vet.) rajabzadeh, Shokoofeh (BA Berkeley) rajbhandari, Amod BA (BA Tufts) raubo, Bartosz Maciej (BA Liv.) reim, Frederik (BA St Gallen) reschen, Michael Edward (BSc, BMed Nott.) rocha Avila, Guilherme BA (PG Cert) rottwilm, Philipp Moritz sagar, Devina (BEng Lond.) sager, Lutz (BA St. Gallen) sakai, Yurika (MSc Durh.) sawyer, Craig Anthony (MSc Camb.) schoenefeld, Jonas Julian (BA Middlebury Coll.) searle, Andrew David sha, Zhe (BSc Xi nan) sherr-Ziarko, Ethan Samuel shim, Jaemin (MPhil) sinha, Sahasrangshu BA slayton, Emma Ruth (BA) sodnomova, Irina Nimaevna (BA St Petersburg) srupsrisopa, Jirayut starfield, Marcus Otto stenson, Laura Catherina subramaniam, Sumithra (MSc Lond.) suciu, Maria Cristina (MSc Lond.) swiderski, Lukasz (BA Georgetown) taha, Hebatalla Hassan Mohamed (BA George Washington) tan Chia Chun, Desmond (MEd Aberd.) tirfoin, Remi Antoine (MChem Pierre et Marie Curie) tobin, Vincent Redmond (MSc Lond.) tompkins, Abigail Elizabeth Insul (BA Durh.) townshend, Ashley Sydney (BA Sydney) trick, Jemma Louise (MBioch) tsai, Yi-Tien BA (BSc Cornell)
25 tsang, Wai Chung (BA Hong Kong) Vavoura, Charikleia (DPhil Lond.) Von Berg, Maximilien Randolph (BA Essex) Walker Vadillo, Veronica (PG Dip Oberta de Catalunya) Wallenius, Tomas Pekkovich (BA Helsinki) Wang, Pengyu (MPhil Camb.) Wang, Yunqi (MSc Stanford) Weideman, Julian (BA Univ. BC) Weiss, Miriam (MSc Georg-August) Wheatley, Lucy (MBioch) Wong, Chi Him (Gary) Wragg, Stefany (MPhil Camb.) Wu, Kuan-Jung (BSc National Taiwan) Xie, Wenxin Yang, Xuezheng (MSc Lond.) Zhang, Jing (BSc Peking) Zhu, Tingting (MSc Lond.) Zuliani Alvarez, Lorena (MSc Lond.)
2012 Ambuehl, Antonietta (MSc) Amrein Esnaola, Cristina (BSc Birm.) 2 Asseraf, Arthur (MA Columbia; MSc Lond.) Ayat, Daniel Simon (MA Lond.) barrilleaux, Jane Lindsey (BA Rhodes) bartels-Bland, Cara Viola (MA Glas.) baymul, Cinar (MSc Manc.) beckman, Katarina Suyin (BA Calif.) berbers, Roos-Marijn (BSc) bishop, Sylvia (BA) blight, Joshua Miles (BSc Lond.) borghese, Federica burgess, Samuel Charles (MPhil Camb.) carayon, Francois-Xavier Jehan-Roch (BA Warw.) castro, Juan Francisco (MSc Lond.) chanwattana, Chanwattana (BSc Mahidol) chautard, Alice Charlotte (BSc McGill) chen, Jiawen (Troy) cheng, Yi Meng (BA Beijing) cheramboss, Sharon Jepkemboi (BA Kent) cheung, Ka Lun (MPhil Ch. Univ. Hong Kong) cheung, Shu-Faye (MSc Camb.) chim, Yick Gee Philea (MSc) choi, Kayoung (BSc Adv. Inst. Sci. and Tech. Korea)
26 clowry, Declan Tomas (BA) codas Thompson Perez, Jorge Daniel (MA Chile) colbran, David Trevor (BA Lond.) coutinho, Maria Ester Freitas Barbosa Pe (Eu. Bacc. Porto Univ.) cowburn, Gillian Elizabeth cummins, Gabrielle Henrietta (BSc W. Aust.) d’Cruz, Katherine Lucy (BSc Warw.) de Sousa Pinto, Joao Moreira (BSc Warw.; BSc do Porto) dhaliwal, Punjeet (MPhil) dong, Jing (BA Beijing) donnelly, Victoria Anne (MPhil Camb.) drautzburg, Anja Annette (MA Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms) duffy, Kirsty Elizabeth (MPhys) dunbar, Danielle (MA Stellenbosch) edwards, Kyle Tierney (BA Princeton) efthymiadis, Alexandros (BSc Warw.) el Idrissi, Ayman (BSc Erasmus) enock, Florence Elizabeth (BA Edin.) eule, Joachim (BA Bayreuth) Fernandez, Lydia Emmeline (MA Warw.) Ferri, Carlo (MA INALCO France) Fonseca Ferreira, Lino Andre Fonseca (BSc Nova de Lisboa) Fremont, Catherine (BLaw McGill) Fung, Timothy Hoi Min (BMed/BSurg - Leic.) galson, Jacob (BA) garvey, Killian Kevin geck, Marshall Timothy (BSc Berkeley) gillin, Edward John (MPhil Camb.) goddard, Beatrice Marie Emmanuelle (MA St And.) gonzalez dos Santos, Miguel EU MSc goodman, Rosa Laura Lightbody (BA Lond.) graf, Caitlin Gabrielle (BA Duquesne) grafin von Krockow, Alexandra Sophie Isabelle BA (MSc SOAS) gucciardi, Stephen Michael (BA Toronto) Habisreutinger, Severin Niklas (BSc, MSc Munich) Hakobyan, Ani Valeri (Higher Deg AM Yerevan) Halder, Hannah (BA Beloit) Hallack Miranda Pureza, Andre (BEng, MEng) Hammack, Stephen Aubrey (MA East Carolina) Hannam, Emily Sophia (MA Edin.) Hasnain, Saher (MSc Pennsylvania) Hayton, Gemma (BSc Anglia Ruskin) Heaton, Michael (BA Camb.)
27 Heisey, William Michael (BA Durh.) Heng, Jeremy Jian Min (BSc Lond.) Hill, Natalie Jane (BA Brist.) Hobbs, Eleanor (BSc Lond.) Hoekzema, Renee (MSc Utrecht) Homsy, Victoria Rose Marie (BSc Lond.) Hudelson, Carly Elizabeth (BA Brown) Israel, Karl-Friedrich (MSc) Jackson, Hugo Stephen (BA Newc.) Jeffrey, Amy MSc Royal Holloway & Bedford New College) Jenkins, Harry David BA Jessup, John Malcolm (BA Wales) Jiang, Lu (BA Beijing) Johnson, Sarah Cresap (BA Princeton) Johnston, Andrew James (MA Lond.) Juhos, Anna (MA) Kelley, Kathryn Erin (MPhil) Kennett, Timothy Peter Aplin (BA Camb.) Keravuori, Rose-Henrietta Powers (MA Oklahoma) Kerr, Alastair George (MSc Brist.) Khan, Amjad (MSc) Khanina, Anna (MA Lond.) Kidd, Natasha Ann (BA, MA Lond.) Kimberly, Amanda (BA Harding) King, Amelia (NA Courtauld) Kiran, Usha (Higher Degree - Kathmandu) Kirchhelle, Charlotte Elisabeth Marie (BSc, MSc Tech. Univ. Munich) Kowalczuk, Sylwia Samira (BA Birm.) Kraljic, David (MSc Camb.) Krijgsman, Marten (MA Glas.) lanier, Joshua Alexander (MA Boston) latsi, Georgia (MSc Athens Univ. Econ. and Bus.) lee, Patricia Tung (BA California) lehne, Johanna Maria (BA Lond.) liu, Hui liu, Meng (BMed Huazhong) liu, Ruiliang (MSc Northwest Univ.) loh, Kwang Yen Matthew (BSc Lond.) maarova, Anna (BSc Lond.) macEwen, Clare Rosemary (BA, BMed) mackway-Jones, Euan Charles (BA Warw.) maclean, Liam (BLaws Strathclyde) madrinkian, Michael Alex (BA Loyola Marymount)
28 mallet, Sarah (MSc) mangiarelli, Lisa Nicole (BA George Washington) marraccini, Miranda Claire (BA Amherst) matharu, James Fraser (BSc Lond.) matheou, Nicholas Stylianos Moyes (MA Edin.) matthews, Elizabeth (MA Edin.) may, Ryan John (BA, BLaw Sydney) mcGowan, Erin Ruth (BA, MA Melbourne) mcGregor, Kirstie Ann Forbes (MPhil) menard, Aubrey F (BA Smith Coll. ) metcalf, Kerri Kathleen (BA Northwestern) middleton, Emma (BA, MA Manitoba) miller, Mary Sadb Bernadette (MSc) missakian, Cross Matthew (MLaw California) mistry, Rupal (BSc Lond.) mohammad, Talal (MA City) montgomery, Anna Barbara Kay (BSc Strath.) morehouse, Lindsay Rose (BA Macalester) mortha, Naveen BA (BEng Ind. Inst. Tech.) murrell, Kelsey Rene (BA Kansas) newson, Martha (BSc Suss.) nicot, Lucile (MA Bourgogne) nohle, Ellen Margareta (MA) norris, Charles Ashley (BS AU National) nwaoko, Pamela Ebelechukwu Uzoamaka (BA Georgetown) oge, Robin (BA Papua New Guinea) ortiz, Gregory Robert (BA North Park) Panayiotou, Efrosyni (BA Lond.) Patel, Chandni Shanna (BA Lond.) Patta, Vaia (MA Aristotle) Pearce, Nicholas Mark (MA) Perez De Arcos, Marina (MPhil) Peringer, Katherine Olivia (BA) Phanumartwiwath, Anuchit (MSc Brist.) Picco, Noemi (MA/BA Polit di Torino) Pignot, Matthieu (MSt) Pino Emhart, Alberto Antonio Ignacio (MA Duke) Polonski, Vyacheslav (BSc Lond.) Popescu, Iulia Andreia (MA/BA Timisora) Potts, Franchesca Hannah (BA Camb.) Potts, Robert James (MA Edin.) Powell, Andrew (MPhy Warw.) raj, Ritu (MA)
29 rea, Beatrice (BA McGill) rickard, Katie (BA Warw.) riksa, Marta (BA York) ringheim, Hannah Leftheris (BA George Washington) roberti, Marta (MSt Genova) roe, Joshua James (BA Wales) rone, Julia Eduards (BA Sofia St Kliment) rose, Timothy Paul (BSc Western Australia) rutherford, Duncan Thomas sainsbury, Victoria Alice (MSc) salinas Ivanenko, Andrea Polina (BA Bard Coll) salman, Ahmed Mahmoud (MSc Ain Shams University Egypt) salt, Yvonne Louise (MA Autonoma del Esado) sargan, Kate Alisa (BA Lond.) 3 Savisaar, Rosina (BA de Nancy) seminog, Olena (MSc) shah, Neil (BLaw Lond.) sheard, Catherine Elizabeth (BSc Yale) sim, Anne-Marie (BA, MSc) simkins, Kate (BA Leeds) sishuwa, Sishuwa Dipak (MSc) smith, Sian Elizabeth Horan (MA/BA Exe.) spath, Katharina Eva (MSc Edin.) stansbie, Daniel James (MA Wales) stoicescu, Claudia (MSc) 4 Stroud, Elizabeth Anne (MSc Lond.) tan, Genim Siu Xian (BSc Nat. Univ. Singapore) tang, Xiaojia (BA Peking) tanner, Rachel Louise BA thompson, Clare Elizabeth (BA Sheff.) torres, Maria Ines Coutinho Dinis (BA) toth, Daniel (BA Goldsmiths) tuck, Sean Lewis umoren, Imaobong Denis (BA, MA Lond.) Vaiglova, Petra (MSc) Van Dalm, Laura Eline . Vande Wiele, Heloise Capucine (BA) Vela Banados, Jacinta Ignacia (BA Pontificia Catolica de Chile) Velyvyte, Vilija Magister Juris Verboom, Benjamin Edward (BA Toronto) Volkmar, Norbert Wang, Yiduo (BSc Shandong) Wang, Zhongzhen (BSc - Exe.)
30 Watts, Isobel (BA) Webb, Adam (BA Carleton) Webber, Emma Rosemary (BCL) 5 Wheater, Katharine (BA, MPhil) Whiteman, Oliver (BA SOAS) Williams, Alice Jean (BA Camb.) Williams, Brian Alan (MTheol Regent Coll.) Williamson, Colin Patrick (MA St And.) Wiltsche, Clemens (MSc SZ ETH) Wojciechowski, Konrad (MSc - Jagiellonian (Kracow) Woodruff, Philip Nicholas (BA Kent) Wu, Ni Na Tina (BA Hong Kong) Wu, Sarina (MPhil Cambridge) Xu, Teng (BA Renmin) Yang, Wenya (BA) Zacarias Fiadeiro, Joao Afonso (BSc Lond.) Zayed, Dina Mohamed Badreldin (BA American in Cairo) Zheng, Zhong (MSc York) Zhou, Xiaofei (BSc Fudan) Zhou, Yu (BEng, MEng Wuhan) Zimmermann, Annette (BA Freie Univ)
1 Helene La Rue Scholar in Music 2 Graduate Scholar in History 3 Robin and Nadine Wells Scholar 4 Graduate Scholar in Archaeology 5 Graduate Scholar in Anthropology
COLLEGE OFFICERS
Vice-Master Professor Stanley Ulijaszek Bursar Ms Maureen Doherty Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions Dr Joanna Ashbourn Dean Professor Mark Robinson Deans of Degrees Dr Jim Williamson Mr Donald Richards Professor Peter Mackridge Director of IT Dr Daniel Olteanu Librarian Ms Sheila Allcock Archivist Professor Emilie Savage-Smith Wine Steward Ms Maureen Doherty Garden Master Professor Mark Robinson
31 President of Common Room Dr Petros Ligoxygakis Harassment Advisers Professor Glenn Swafford Dr Amy Bogaard Publications Officer Dr Jim Williamson
MEMBERS OF STAFF
Master’s Secretary Mrs Jenny Baxter Accounts Assistant Miss Joanne Beazley Maintenance Operative Mr Maurice Brown Maintenance Foreman Mr Kenny Cox Accounts Administrative Assistant Mr Timothy Doran Alumni Relations & Communications Assistant miss Monica Esposito Accommodation Assistant Miss Emma Farrant Bursary Administrator Mr Gordon Fernie Database & Development Assistant Miss Alice Haylock Assistant Bursar Ms Suzy Hodge Catering Manager Mr Thomas Kilroy Alumni Relations & Development Manager mrs Laura King Accounts Manager Mrs Judith Ledger Evening Porter Mr Tony Mead Accommodation and Facilities Officer Mrs Nicola Murphy IT Manager Dr Razvan Novacovschi Events Assistant Mrs Flori Olteanu Academic Administrator Mr Ian Pugh Admissions and Academic Secretary Mrs Chris Roberts Lunchtime Assistant Mrs Lily Prior Head Porter Mr Paul Wicking
STUDENT OFFICERS
Junior Dean Mr Morgan di Rodi Junior Dean Mr Sebouh Arjinian Bar Manager Miss Laura Wright Site Warden - Annexe Mr Max von Berg Site Warden - Annexe Mr Nikolas Weissmueller Site Warden - Annexe Mr Philipp Rottwilm Site Warden - Stonemason Miss Janette Chow Site Warden - Stonemason Miss Yvonne Salt Site Warden - Stonemason Mr Akash Verma IT Assistant - Main Site Mr Gorka Berzal IT Assistant - Main Site Mr Marten Krijgsman
32 DEGREES TAKEN
Owing to an administrative error, students who graduated at the ceremony on 4th May 2012 were omitted from the lists published in last year’s Record. They are therefore included in this year’s lists which follow. I am very sorry about this and apologise to all those concerned. Ed
2012 DPhil Aubry, James Russell Mark non-Contacting Shaft Seals for Gas and Steam Turbines
blackmore, Victoria Jayne determination of the Time Profile of Picosecond Long Electron Bunches Through the Use of Coherent Smith-Purcell Radiation
burke, Claudine Francesca students of Resistance: Palestinian Student mobilization at Home and in Exile
choi, Yoonjoo Protein Loop Structure Prediction
corrah, Tumena Wandifa A Study of the Phenotype and Function of HLA-C Restricted CD8 T Cells in HIV-1 Infection
* gallant, Jeanette Elise the Governed Voice: Understanding folksong as a public expression of Acadian culture
guo, Xiaonan Automated Domain-Aware Web Form understanding with OPAL with a Case Study in the UK Real-Estate Domain
* Hill, Lisa Julie More-Than-Representational Archaeologies of Leisure in the Landscape of the Dean Forest and Wye Valley National Forest Park
King, Caroline Mary Living with Environmental Change in the endorheic Oasis Systems of the Northern Sahara
Kotsovili, Eirini Dionysia giving an Account of Herself: Life-Writing in maro Douka, Rea Galanaki and Margarita Karapanou
33 lobley, Noel James The Social Biography of Ethnomusicological Field Recordings: Eliciting Responses to Hugh tracey’s The Sound of Africa Series
macaulay, Edward Robert Mark cosmology with Power Spectrum measurements from Galaxy Surveys
matsumoto, Mitsuko Education and the Risk of Violent Conflict in low-Income and Weak States, with Special reference to Schooling: The case of Sierra Leone
ni, Na Study of Oxidation Mechanisms for Zirconium Alloys by Electron Microscopy
nwakwuo, Christopher Chinedu reactive Hydride Composites for Efficient Hydrogen Energy Storage
oh, Yein Anna A Multi-proxy Approach to Examining Palaeoenvironmental Signals and tephrochronology During the Middle Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Phases at grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco
Packer, Thomas Edmund Jesse Helms and North Carolina Politics, 1972-1984
seel, Andrew Graham Incoherent Neutron Scattering Studies of select Inorganic Systems: I. Nuclear momentum Measurements of Multiple masses. II. The Dynamics of Coordinated Ammonia in Zeolite A
sheikh, Mustapha Qadizadeli Revivalism Reconsidered in Light of Ahmad al-Rumi al-Aqhisari’s Majalis al- abrar
shuyska, Jane Alexen Innovating with Technology in the Classroom: experiences with Developing a New Tool in support of Taching and Learning in A-level History
34 sofield,C lifford Martin Placed Deposits in Early and Middle Anglo- saxon Rural Settlements
tsai, Pei-Yuen The Transformation of Social Risks: A Case study of Work- Family Balance Policies in Taiwan
Yager, Nicole Leanne Natural and Therapy-Induced Immune control of HIV-1 MPhil Khan, Afra * burke, Claudine Francesca * Krakowka, Kathryn Ann * chrysostomides, Anna Marie * Kumar, Shashank corthals, Bob levenstein, Michael David du, Feng * lobley, Noel James esparza, Nereyda Berenice * meurer, Jens Peter gola, Pawel mohammed, Khaliqa Kovacova, Martina mukanaev, Vladimir Sergeevich low, Ling Si nakamura, Megumi Esperanza noman, Sayeed Al neubert, Franz-Xaver Puri, Nikhil Raymond niebuhr, Abigail Catherine scotney, Richard o’Loughlin, Ailbhe sing, Marea Gwyneth * Parra, Sonia Gomez Whalin, Douglas Conor Petrarulo, Luca Wright, Jeffrey Marco * rockwood, Neesha Sundari rodriguez Contreras, Gonzalo MSc rushforth, Richard Aiden, Hardeep Singh schlessinger, Sarah Rountree * Aiden, Hardeep Singh * shuyska, Jane Alexen Aldibbiat, Nibras stellato, Amanda Jane bird, Mary Elizabeth stroikos, Dimitrios bird, Tess tso, Jing Wan Erica burke, Noel Anthony * Vancans, Lara Elizabeth cropper, Andrew Carl Veeravalli, Swathi david, Matthew Velarde, Maximilian David * ding, Rui Wagner, Ursula Bianca dunovant, Denise Leigh Wiersma, Wybo Haapio-Kirk, Laura * Wilson, Abigail Jodie * Haven-Tietze, Chloe Lindsy * Zhou, Zhi Henson, Katherine Elizabeth Honcharenko, Maksym MSt Jaffer, Faizal Astley, Caroline Martell Jagani, Sheel Anand barrett, Charlotte Anna Osbourne * Kara, Tessa Marie duering, Andreas
35 * goh, Huishan MBA * He, Yanran * Addanki, Shyamal Krause, Anna Christine Favale, Marcia Elizabeth Christian * sheikh, Mustapha starko, Nicholas Vladimiris
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BCL * Fremont, Catherine * missakian, Cross Matthew
DPhil Adighibe, Omanma Ejiamaizu loss of Chaperone Protein in Human Cancer
Alishahi, Samira Versatile Synthetic Strategies towards the development of Novel Neuroblastoma Inhibitors and their Analogues
burton, Lindsay Julia Community-Based Early Learning in Solomon Islands: Cultural and Contextual Dilemmas Influencing Program Sustainability
cakal, Huseyin Intergroup Contact and Collective Action: An Integrative Approach
Fowler, Jonathan David the Neutral French of Mi’Kma’Ki: An Archaeology of Acadian Identities Prior to 1755
Kiss, Csaba Zsolt The Emotional Voter: The Impact of electoral Campaigns and Emotions on electoral Behaviour in Britain
lucas, Claire An Anatomical Model of the Cerebral Vasculature and Blood Flow
mantri, Shiksha Engineered ?-Hemolysin Pores with chemically and Genetically-Fused Functional Proteins
mcCabe, David John The Formation of Ultracold Rubidium molecules using Ultrafast Photoassociation muradas, Fernando Martins A Novel Framework for Requirements elicitation in a Military Setting
36 nicolay, Nils Henrik The Role of DNA Polymerases Eta in determining Cellular Responses to Chemo- Radiation Treatment
Parise, Cesare Valerio Signal Compatibility as a Modulatory Factor for Audiovisual Multisensory Integration
* Petruccioli, Guido The Portraiture of Caracalla and Geta: Form, Context, Function
richards, Thomas Adam Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Evolution of Eukaryotes
russell, Aidan Sean Talking Politics and Watching the Border in northern Burundi, c. 1960-1972
saleh, Lena Denise Sexual Risk Behaviors of African American men who have Sex wih Men: Implication of situational Factors and Partner Dynamics
sibley, Amanda Nicole child Assent to Clinical Research Participation: How to Determine a Child’s Ability to Assent
todd, Richard Mark William Writing in The Book of The World The existential Journey of Man according to The Works of Sadr Al-Din Al-Qunawt (673/1274)
* Xu, Fan Experimental Research on Particulate Matter emissions from Gasoline Direct Injection Engines
Zambone, Albert Louis the Customs of Moderation: Anglicanism and Intellectual Culture in Virginia, 1676 to 1750
MPhil gansonre, Christelle Arader, Walter Graham IV * gao, Xiaoyan Armstrong, Paul Tomasz Klimenka, Filip Auffray, Cyrielle Amelie Kopycinska, Julia Magdalena chag, Avni Yagnesh * Kramer, Dustin dai, Ming * lam Yan On, Andy Kiang An Lan Falconer, Ruairidh Alexander Yan Filipova, Rumena Valentinova maschmeyer, Lennart Fischer, Jens musa, Chilombo
37 * Pasic, Lana Roberti, Marta rajabzadeh, Shokoofeh rutherford, Duncan Thomas raubo, Bartosz Maciej schaffer, Manuel reim, Frederik * Sheftel, Anna sager, Lutz shen, Pinxiu sherr-Ziarko, Ethan Samuel sitsabeshan, Subaskar slayton, Emma Ruth swiderski, Lukasz sodnomova, Irina Nimaevna thai, Ynhi Thi taha, Hebatalla Hassan Mohamed Valodzin, Ihar Vavoura, Charikleia Vogtle, Matthias Weideman, Julian Wikramanayake, Radhika Mihiri Xie, Wenxin Williamson, Colin Patrick
MSc MSt Azar, Zeina barrilleaux, Jane Lindsey bateman, Wayne bonchev, Ivan Boyanov bjerregaard, Michel Mette Sweedler dyson, Benjamin Hugh * Bosire, Lydiah Kemunto goodman, Rosa Laura Lightbody braithwaite, Janine Catriona Kennett, Timothy Peter Aplin * Burton, Lindsay Julia madrinkian, Michael Alex * Chen, Fei * Marraccini, Miranda Claire cheramboss, Sharon Jepkemboi * Olshan, Jeffrey Samuel cho, Sheung Yu Panayiotou, Efrosyni davies, Rhiannon Sian sargan, Kate Alisa * Degnan, Ryland James simkins, Kate Franco, Destiny Layne thompson, Clare Elizabeth Fung, King Tat Daniel * Todd, Richard Mark William Jiang, Lu * Zambone, Albert Louis Juhos, Anna Kashnikova, Anna MBA Kennedy, Alice Victoria Johnson, Paul Anthony * langor, Gillian Camille Kumar, Saveen li, Mengxuan langor, Gillian Camille lockwood, Sarah Jane * Njuguna, Elizabeth Diana Njoki * lu, Yu rocha Avila, Guilherme mintchev, Georgi Mintchev * Tsai, Yi-Tien * murrell, Kelsey Rene nwaoko, Pamela Ebelechukwu BPhil Uzoamaka schaefer, Gerald Owen * Papadopoulos, Polykarpos Patel, Chandni Shanna * In absentia
38 MASTER’S REPORT
The following is the text of the Master’s speech at the Founders’ Feast held at the end of Michaelmas term. As such it refers to some events which took place after the current Record period. Ed
This evening’s dinner is held to honour our Founders and one of our Founding Fellows: Alan Jones will speak in a minute. But I would like to start by remembering not one of our Founders but our second Master, Godfrey Stafford, who died in July this year. As Director General of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory from 1969- 1981, Dr Stafford played a key part in the development of particle physics in this country and it was his leadership that ensured the Rutherford’s continuing success. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, President of the Institute of Physics and one of the founders of CERN. It is of course primarily as Master of this College from 1979 to 1987 that we remember and salute him. It was Godfrey who brought the College from its wooden hut to Pusey House in 1981. It was he who saw that a new hall, now the Saugman Common Room, could be created from the cloister and the rooms behind it, and it was during his time that St Cross student numbers increased from 12 when he arrived to 85 making it a significant graduate college. There is of course a portrait of him by the splendidly named Aubrey Claud Davidson-Houston here in our dining hall and we have launched an appeal to those who were here during his time which will, I hope, enable us to find an additional way in which we can commemorate his connections with, and contribution to, St Cross.
Two others lost to us this year were Dr Desmond Walshaw and Dr Geoffrey Smith. Desmond Walshaw, Bursar in the 1970s, was a pupil of Gordon Dobson who developed the ozone spectrophotometers which enabled the measurement of the ozone layer. As a member of the International Ozone Commission from 1964 and its secretary from 1976 to 1984, he was part of the team which laid the groundwork for a proper understanding of the effects of chlorofluorocarbons and the eventual signature of the Montreal Protocol banning them in 1987. Geoffrey S mith (1938- 2013) was a lecturer in Astrophysics from 1969 and a Fellow of St Cross from 1978 as well having a teaching post at Magdalen College for over 40 years. He was loyal supporter of, and like Desmond Walshaw, a generous donor to the College.
We said a happier goodbye to Jonathan Baker who left us to take up his new appointment as Bishop of Fulham. It has been a pleasure to have him as a colleague and co-habitant over the last couple of years. He and Andrew Goudie did a great deal to create a harmonious relationship between St Cross and Pusey House – so we are grateful to him for that and wish him well with his new responsibilities.
It is also a great pleasure to welcome the Reverend Dr George Westhaver, the new Principal of Pusey House. We are delighted to have him as a Fellow of St Cross. We also welcome Steve Strand, the new Professor of Education; Professor Peter O’Neill
39 who is leader of the DNA Damage Group and Deputy Director of the Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology; the new Barnett Professor of Comparative Social Policy, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser; Dr Derek Siveter of the Oxford Museum of Natural History, who has resumed his fellowship this year; Professor David Beeson (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Professor Kevin Marsh (Director of the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Chair of the Oxford Tropical Network and the WHO Malaria Policy advisory committe); Lesley Gray (Professor of Climate Physics), Dr Katharine Burn (University Lecturer in Education), Anthony Geffen (CEO, Atlantic Productions), Dr Stuart Robinson, University Lecturer in Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Sir Rory Collins, Professor of Population Health and Dr Adriana Jacobs (Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature).
Junior Research Fellows who have joined us this year are Dr Magdalena Larfors (Mathematics and Theoretical Physics), Dr Rémi Bardenet (Statistics) and Dr Heather Harrington (Mathematical Biology). Visiting Fellows have included Reverend Graeme Kerr (Theology), Professor Joseph Drory and Dr Syed Najaf Haider (Oriental Institute).
The past year has also seen the election of four Honorary Fellows: Professor Lorna Casselton CBE (Emeritus Professor of Fungal Genetics and Foreign Secretary and Vice President of the Royal Society until 2011); Dr Susan Weber Soros (founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center, New York, whose exhibition on the great British architect and designer William Kent is currently on show in New York), Dr Sarah Thomas (Bodley’s Librarian until earlier this year and now Vice President for the Harvard University Library). And I am delighted that we have with us this evening our new Honorary Fellow Marina Warner. Currently Professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, she will be known to you all as author of Alone of All Her Sex: the Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary, Monuments and Maidens and Joan of Arc; as Reith Lecturer, novelist, and one of the most significant public intellectuals of our time.
We have said goodbye to Dr Anna Pendry (Education and Modern History), Dr Paul Wikramaratna, Junior Research Fellow, who is staying on as a Member of Common Room, Dr Simon Cotter (Mathematics), Professor Peter Kemp (Social Policy), Professor David Anderson (African Politics) who is also staying with us as a Member of Common Room, Dr Viv Ellis (Education), Professor Chris Bonell (University Lecturer in Evidence Based Social Intervention), Dr Grant Charles Churchill (Chemical Pharmacology) and Dr Rodney Hall (International Political Economy). We thank them for their contributions to College life, and wish them success in their future activities.
Amongst the special achievements of our academic community, I would like to congratulate my predecessor Andrew Goudie, Emeritus Professor of Geography
40 and Director of the China Centre who has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the International Association of Geomorphologists, one of only three British geomorphologists to receive this award. Professor Luciano Floridi, Fellow and member of the Sub-Faculty of Philosophy and the Department of Computer Science this year has been awarded the Weizenbaum Award for contributions to the field of information and computer ethics. Following the Ioannis Vlissidis Award for Medical Science by the Academy of Athens last year, Dr Gkikas Magiorkinis, Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Zoology and the Emanoel Lee JRF at St Cross College, has been awarded the Clinician Scientist MRC Fellowship for 4 years with a one million pounds MRC grant) to study the pathophysiological roles of Human Endogenous Retroviruses in cancer and AIDS.
Seventy one graduating students joined our global alumni network this year - many congratulations to them all. 207 students have joined us this year – about half are Masters students and half are doing Doctorates. They are a very impressive group, as I know from having met and talked to most of them individually and, as you would expect, they come from all around the world – 22% from this country, 25% from the European Union and the remainder from the rest of the world. Many of them are here because, in their view, this is the best place in the world to pursue their research and almost all of them are warm in their praise of the college experience. For them being a member of St Cross has already proved to be a valuable part of life in Oxford.
The sporting life of St Cross once again owes a great deal to Lorenzo Santorelli, now a Member of Common Room. Many thanks to him for all his hard work. Worthy of note is DPhil History student, Jacob Wiebel’s victory in the 2012 Cross Country Blues Race, a truly outstanding performance with over 40 metres between him and the second place winner. Congratulations also to Adam Lewandowski (DPhil Cardiovascular Medicine) who came second in in the 800m at the 139th Oxford v Cambridge Varsity Athletics. More good news in sport comes from our rowing teams shared with Wolfson College Congratulations to Wolfson First VIII, who secured their position in Division 1 in Summer Eights and to our other teams who bumped their way up the divisions this year. St Cross is known for having some of the best dancers in the University, providing 10% of the dancers for the Blues Squad. We did well in football this year too; the Foxes (from St Cross, Wolfson, St Antony’s and Nuffield) won the semi-final Cuppers game against Keble in May and the St Cross/ Wolfson Football team beat St Edmund Hall 3-1 and UOP 3-1 in the MCR Cuppers.
During Godfrey Stafford’s time as Master, the College developed plans to build a second quadrangle and he was, I think, disappointed that work had not yet started when his period as Master came to an end. Part of the plan, the South Wing, was completed in 1993, and I know that he was pleased by the plans that we have now developed to complete the work that he began.
41 If new accommodation was needed when students numbered under a hundred, it is even more vital now we have more than 500 students from all around the globe. And precisely because our student body is so international it is more important than ever that St Cross is effective in providing a warm welcome, accommodation for those who want and need it, a lively social hub, sporting activity and perhaps above all a place to feel at home while meeting and exchanging ideas with people from different disciplines and backgrounds.
Niall McLaughlin and his team, working in close collaboration with the College have designed a beautiful new building which would give us 53 new rooms - making a total of more than 70 on this site - a library with workspaces for more than 40 students, a lecture theatre and two seminar rooms. This would help us to improve many aspects of College life: a place where many more students could work, regular evening meals, a stronger and better attended programme of talks and seminars, and accommodation for many more students in the heart of Oxford. We really need this – so it was a great disappointment that the City Council refused planning permission. Now our hopes rest on an appeal which will be heard in the Summer of 2014.
On a happier note our 2015 50th Anniversary Campaign has begun in earnest. We have recently received two significant donations from College alumni and Anthony Geffen has made a terrific film about the College, which will be of invaluable assistance to the College in the coming year. We are most grateful to him and to all those involved in making the film.
I would like to thank the St Cross Telethon Team, Morgan Di Rodi (DPhil History), Yvonne Salt (MSc Social Anthropology), Mary Miller (DPhil Anthropology), Martha Newson (MSc Cognitive Evolutionary Anthropology), Aubrey Menard (MPhil Politics and Comparative Government), Jane Barrilleaux (MSt Modern British and European History), Kuumouri Ganle (MPhil Development Studies) who raised more funds this year than ever before. Congratulations to them.
Our alumni are very important to the future of the College. We have hosted events in Oxford, London, New York, Washington DC and Madrid. Sue Berrington and I have just been to Singapore where a lively group of about twenty alumni met in the High Commissioner’s residence. I would like to think that membership of St Cross will increasingly be something which our former students will value and gain pleasure from through their subsequent careers and later life. Our Alumnus of the Year for 2013, for the second time, is Dr James Dodd who graduated in the 70s with a DPhil in Theoretical Physics, and went on to a very successful career in technology and finance. We are very grateful to James for all his support for the College and in particular for his recent generous pledge to our 50th anniversary campaign.
Finally I want to thank our staff here at St Cross: Maureen Doherty and all who work
42 in the Bursary, Jo Ashbourn and the Academic team, and Sue Berrington and those who work in Development and Alumni Relations, for everything they have achieved in the past year.
Our staff guest this evening is Emma Farrant. Emma joined the College straight from school, so now after more than 5 years at St Cross, she is taking the gap year she missed out on. She has been a terrific colleague and has worked really hard to acquire the British Institute of Facilities Management qualification at Level 3.
And not least we must thank the catering team ably led by Thomas Kilroy and our renowned chef Robert Rudman for all their hard work through the year and for an excellent dinner this evening.
And now can I ask you all to raise your glasses to Our Founders.
AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND RECOGNITION OF DISTINCTION
David Clifton has been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship which will enable him to build up his research group to study the use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare.
Inge Daniels has received two Visiting Professorship grants, one from the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka and the other from The University of Stockholm.
Luciano Floridi has received the Weizenbaum Award for his ‘significant contribution to the field of information and computer ethics through his research, service and vision’. He has been elected a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. His book, The Ethics of Information has been published by the Oxford University Press.
Paloma Garcia-Bellido has been awarded a substantial research grant by the John Fell Fund as Principal Investigator in her project to find the genes responsible for language disorders.
Andrew Goudie has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the International Association of Geomorphologists
Achillefs Kapanidis has received the title of Professor of Biological Physics.
43 Angeliki Kerasidou has been made a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Julia Lee-Thorp has been elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Academy.
Anna Lora-Wainwright has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for her project Living with Pollution in Rural China: an Ethnographic Perspective, and has been invited to the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center for an academic residency in Spring 2014 to work on her book on the same subject. She has also been awarded a John Fell OUP grant for a project on Urban Mining, Toxic Payload: Transnational Circuits of e-waste between Japan and China.
Diarmaid MacCulloch has been awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of St Andrews at as part of their sexcentenary celebrations in 2013. His latest books Silence: a Christian History and Miracles in Lady Lane: The Ipswich Shrine at the Westgate (jointly with J. Blatchly) appeared in April this year. His television programme Henry VIII’s Enforcer: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell was broadcast on BBC2 in May 2013.
Gkikas Magiorkinis has been awarded the European Commission’s Marie Curie ‘Promising Research Talent’ prize for his exceptional work on the Hepatitis C virus. He has also been made a Clinician Scientist Fellow by the Medical Research Council.
John Pethica has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has also become a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Andrew Pollard has received the 2013 Bill Marshall Award of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases and from 1st October 2013 has been appointed Chair of the Department of Health’s Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation which advises the Department on vaccine policy.
Lorenzo Santorelli, our former Sports Fellow, has been offered the position of Associate Director of the Doctorial Training Centre in Systems Biology in the University of Oxford. The Centre offers training for graduates in this new interdisciplinary field.
Emilie Savage-Smith has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award for a project entitled A Literary History of Medicine: The Best Accounts of the Classes of Physicians by Ibn Abi Usaybi`ah (d.1270), an Arabic treatise written by a practicing physician in Syria.
Julian Savulescu has been elected a Fellow of the Hastings Centre. He has also launched the Journal of Practical Ethics, an open access journal.
Michael Sharpe is theme leader of a consortium which has been awarded a substantial
44 grant by the National Institute of Health Research. The aim is to promote greater collaboration between the University and the local NHS.
Kate Venables’ latest book Current Topics in Occupational Epidemiology has been published by the Oxford University Press.
Marina Warner has won the 2013 Sheikh Zayad Book Award, the 2013 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism and the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for her book Stranger Magic: Charmed Stated and the Arabin Nights. She has also been elected to a two-year Fellowship of All Souls College, and Honorary Fellowships of Mansfield College and St Cross College.
David Worrell has received the Redi Award by the International Society on Toxinology. He was presented with a Life-time Achievement Award at the First Oxford World Symposium on Venoms.
NEW FELLOWS
The following ‘Pen Portraits’ have been received from our new Fellows
Rémi Bardenet was born in 1986 and grew up in North-East France. He read mathematics at the University of Strasbourg, France and later turned to computational statistics at ENS Cachan in Paris, France. He obtained a PhD in computer science from Université Paris-Sud XI, developing self-tuning inference and optimization methods. A particular application was the inference of the content of atmospheric showers - cascades of particles triggered by cosmic rays hitting our atmosphere - detected by the Pierre Auger experiment in Malargue, Argentina. Since January 2013, Rémi is a “2020 Science” post-doctoral fellow in the Statistics Department of the University of Oxford, working on large-scale computational inference problems motivated by biological applications.
David Beeson grew up on the eastern fringes of Dartmoor. He read Natural Sciences at Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1979, specialising in Genetics. He then went on to do a PhD at Imperial College, London where he participated in very early gene cloning experiments on ion channel receptors. In 1984 he joined the Neurosciences Group headed by John Newsom-Davis at the Royal Free Hospital in London working on myasthenia gravis, and moved with the group to the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital in 1988. In 1998 he was awarded an MRC Senior Non-Clinical Fellowship, which was renewed in 2003. His current research has focused on inherited disorders of synaptic transmission, which led to the commissioning by the NHS of a national service for the congenital myasthenic
45 syndromes in Oxford. The studies encompass key genes involved in synaptogenesis and the maintenance of synaptic structures, and the role of glycosylation in ion channel assembly. This approach has not only been of practical clinical benefit; it has also provided important insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying human genetic and autoimmune disorders of synaptic transmission.
Katharine Burn first came to Oxford as a PGCE student in 1985. She enjoyed her experiences in the City and the University so much that she taught history for ten years in Oxford secondary schools, while undertaking a series of part-time postgraduate courses to maintain her links with the Education department. She was thus one of Oxford University’s first cohort of part-time Master’s students, enrolling at the newly established Kellogg College (then the only college to admit such students). Ten years, two children and one doctorate later, she was the first Kellogg College alumna to become a fellow of the college when she was appointed to a university lectureship in professional education. Aware that her horizons had perhaps been a little narrow, she moved to the Institute of Education (University of London) in 2010 as a senior lecturer in history education to gain experience teaching and supervising PGCE, Master’s and doctoral students who were themselves teaching and researching in the wide diversity of schools within the capital. Enriched by that experience (if exhausted by the commuting), she was delighted to return to Oxford in 2013, where she now leads the PGCE history programme and pursues research in the fields of history education and teachers’ professional learning.
Robert Carlisle is a University lecturer in Biomedical Engineering and head of the Drug and Vaccine Delivery group. After completing a BSc in Biochemistry, an MSc in Toxicology and a PhD in Gene Delivery at Birmingham University, he worked for 8 years within the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and the Department of Oncology at the University of Oxford. The majority of his work has been concerned with achieving systemic delivery of anti-cancer agents for the treatment of metastatic cancer. This has included the development and testing non-viral and viral gene delivery systems and liposomal agents for the delivery of conventional chemotherapeutics. Recently this work has developed with the application of ultrasound as an external stimulus to both enhance transfer of such therapeutics from the bloodstream into tumours and to trigger their activation and penetration once there. Research within the labs covers the full scope of therapeutic design, formulation and testing with emphasis on how the specificity and efficacy of delivery can be improved.
Lesley Gray grew up in London and read Geophysical Sciences at Southampton University in 1980. She then went on to do a PhD in Meteorology at Reading University. In 1983 she joined the Space Science Department at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), where she spent nearly 20 years working in the field of atmospheric modelling and interpretation of satellite observations of the atmosphere. She also managed to maintain a healthy life-work balance and has two children, both
46 of whom are now in their early twenties. Just before reaching the 20-year landmark at RAL she decided it was time for a move, so in 2002 she returned to the Meteorology Department at Reading University as a Professor and in 2010 joined the sub- department of Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics at Oxford. She is a senior member of the National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) which is funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) and was a contributing author to the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Her prime area of research is in understanding natural variability of the ozone layer and its impact at the earth’s surface, and includes modelling the atmospheric response to volcanic eruptions and the 11-year solar cycle.
Adriana Jacobs is the Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. She grew up in the United States in Vienna Virginia, a suburb of the Washington DC area, but also spent time as a child in Uruguay and Ecuador. She completed her BA. in Literary and Cultural Studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. After three years of Hebrew study in Jerusalem, she went on to complete her doctorate in Comparative Literature at Princeton University. In her graduate work, she focused on Modern Hebrew literature and translation theory and wrote a dissertation on the relation between translation and poetic invention in Modern Hebrew poetry. She has taught courses on translation, Modern Hebrew and Israeli literature and Jewish Latin American literature at Princeton, Hofstra, Yale and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Her current research concerns contemporary Israeli poetry and the economy of translation.
Matt Jarvis grew up Swadlincote, a small town in Derbyshire, but very close to the brewing capital of England - Burton on Trent. He read Physics with Astrophysics at the University of Birmingham, graduating in 1997. He then went on to do a DPhil in Astrophysics at Oxford on the evolution of radio galaxies (galaxies with black holes that are accreting material and then expelling large jets of particles). After finishing his DPhil in 2000, he moved to the University of Leiden in the Netherlands to take up a postdoctoral fellowship, where he diversified in his research somewhat, and published one of the first papers on measuring the mass of black holes in the distant Universe. He moved back to Oxford in 2002 on a STFC funded postdoctoral position, and in 2006 took charge of the science simulations for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), before moving to a permanent faculty position and UK Research Council Fellowship at the University of Hertfordshire. Over the last three years he has also held a visiting SKA Professorship at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, and returned for his third stint at Oxford in October 2012, when he took up a University Lectureship in Physics. He leads several international projects, including the VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) Survey on ESO’s VISTA near-infrared survey telescope, two surveys with the Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope, and the large radio continuum survey with the MeerKAT (South African SKA precursor
47 telescope). He plays a central role in the science working group for the SKA. When not working you can usually find him playing or watching sport.
Magdalena Larfors grew up in Uppsala, Sweden, and obtained a MSc in Engineering Physics from Uppsala University in 2004. She continued to do a DPhil in the Department of Theoretical Physics of the same university, where she studied string theory models relevant for the description of black holes and the cosmology of the very young Universe. After completing her thesis in 2009, she became a postdoctoral fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians-Uniiversität in Munich, Germany, and in 2012 she was awarded a postdoctoral research grant from the Swedish Research Council, with placement at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on mathematical and phenomenological aspects of string theory, with a particular focus on the extra dimensions that string theory require for mathematical consistency. Through the construction of string models where the extra dimensions are hidden by being small and compact, she strives to understand the interplay between the geometry of these hidden dimensions and the four-dimensional physics we observe.
Peter O’Neill grew up in Coventry and studied chemistry at Leeds University (1967-70). He then went on to do a PhD at the University of Leeds on the subject of radiation chemistry of hydrocarbons as coolants for nuclear power stations. On completion of his DPhil in 1974, he went onto a post-doctoral position at the Max- Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie in Mülheim, Germany (1974-77), and then returned to the UK as a post-doc at the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton until 1983, where he became interested in the role of radiation induced damage to DNA and its role in radiotherapy. His research interest became more focused on the effects of ionizing radiation in inducing cancer and as a treatment for cancer. He spent several years carrying out research at the MRC Radiation and Genome Stability Unit in Harwell, Oxfordshire (1983-2005) before moving to Oxford in 2005 as Deputy Director of the newly formed MRC/CRUK Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology. More recently his major research interests have focused on understanding the challenges that radiation-induced clustered DNA damage sites present to the repair pathways and as a consequence contribute to carcinogenesis at environmental radiation levels or to the killing of tumour cells. He is also course director for the MSc on Radiation Biology.
Stuart Robinson grew up in the Cambridgeshire fens before coming to Oxford to read Geology at St Edmund Hall in 1995. He stayed on in 1998 to undertake a DPhil, which was broadly concerned with reconstructing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and carbon cycle perturbations during the Mesozoic Era of Earth history - the age of dinosaurs, some 200 to 65 million years ago. This was followed by post-doctoral appointments at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in New York and the University of Reading. In 2005 he was awarded a Royal Society
48 University Research Fellowship, which he held at University College London until his appointment in July 2013 as University Lecturer in Sedimentology and Stratigraphy at Oxford. His research continues to investigate the causes and consequences of carbon cycle perturbations in the geological past but also aims to document and understand extremely warm climatic intervals in Earth history. To achieve his research objectives he uses the chemistry of rocks, fossils and minerals as proxies for past climatic and environmental variables.
Martin Seeleib-Kaiser grew up in Germany and the US. He received his MA (1989) and PhD (1993) from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and was awarded the venia legendi in political science (habilitation) by Bremen University (2001). Prior to his initial appointment as University Lecturer at Oxford in 2004, he held appointments at the Universities of Bremen and Bielefeld (Germany) as well as Duke University (North Carolina, USA). In addition, he was a visiting scholar/guest professor at George Washington University (USA; 1996), Shizuoka University (Japan; 1997) and Aalborg University (DK; 2008). He was appointed Head, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, in April 2011, and to the post of Barnett Professor of Comparative Social Policy and Politics in February 2013. Seeleib-Kaise’s research focuses on comparative welfare state analysis, the relationship between globalization and welfare systems, as well as more recently on the interplay between public and private social protection policies and associated processes of dualization. His research has been funded by the Anglo-German Foundation, the British Academy, the ESRC, the European Commission, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Research Foundation and the Hans Böckler Foundation.
Steve Strand joined the University of Oxford, Department of Education as Professor of Education in January 2013. Previously he was Professor of Education at the University of Warwick (2005-2012). Prior to that he was Senior Assessment Consultant and Head of Research and Data Analysis at nferNelson (1998-2005), the UK’s leading educational test and assessment publisher, and one of the authors of the Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT). Before that he was Head of Research and Evaluation at Wandsworth Local Education Authority (LEA) (1990-1998) and at Croydon LEA (1988-1990) and in these roles was responsible for pioneering work on ‘value added’ analyses of school performance. He holds a BA first-class (1982) and PhD (1989) in Psychology. Steve has worked extensively with Government departments, Local Authorities and individual schools on the analysis of pupil attainment, school effectiveness and differential pupil progress. Steve has been a consultant to the Department for Education’s Black Children and Pupil’s Achievement Group and the Gender Agenda. He is a member of the editorial boards of the British Educational Research Journal, Research Paper in Education and Educational Review and was a member of the British Educational Research Association Executive Council (2000- 2003).
49 Katie Warnaby read Physics at the University of Manchester, obtaining her MPhys (Hons.) in 2000. She remained at Manchester to complete a PhD in Laser Photomedicine that focused on the development of a thulium fibre laser system and its implementation in human pain research. Katie moved to Oxford in 2005 to extend her research to functional imaging of the brain. Since this time, she has worked on several neuroimaging projects investigating both acute and clinical pain, including chronic pelvic pain and osteoarthritis. Katie currently leads a large observational clinical trial to investigate the factors predicting long-term post-operative pain after Caesarean section. Her Knoop Junior Research Fellowship heralded a change in direction as part of collaborative appointment between the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Division of Anaesthetics and the Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB). The focus of her current research is the application of multi-modal neuroimaging techniques to observe the changes in the brain’s activity and connectivity associated with altered states of consciousness, in particular general anaesthesia and sleep.
George Westhaver grew up near Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the East coast of Canada. He studied philosophy and anthropology at McGill University, Montreal, and International Development Studies at St Mary’s University in Halifax. He then studied at Wycliffe College, one of the member colleges of the Toronto School of Theology. In 1997 George was ordained deacon and later priest in the Diocese of Ely to serve in the parishes of Cherry Hinton and Teversham on the edge of Cambridge. At the conclusion of his curacy, George became Team Vicar in the Ramseys and Upwood, near Huntingdon. In 2003 he moved to Oxford to be Chaplain at Lincoln College and Assistant Minister at St Michael at the North Gate. While in Oxford studying for a Master of Divinity degree at Wycliffe, he began a part-time PhD program in theology at the University of Durham under the supervision of Professor Andrew Louth. At the beginning of 2007, George became the Rector of St George’s Round Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Last year George completed his thesis, on E. B. Pusey’s unpublished lectures, ‘Types and Prophecies of the Old Testament’ and the theological significance of the typological and allegorical interpretation of the Bible for Pusey and other members of the Oxford Movement. George is married to Karen and they have two daughters, Clara, age 14, and Charlotte, age 7. On 1 August he took up the role of Principal at Pusey House.
50 ST CROSS TALKS
The following talks, organised by Mick Blowfield, were given on Tuesdays at 5:30 in the St Cross Room, usually prior to Hall.
Michaelmas Term 2012 16th October rebecca Jones “Education in the recession”
23rd October Yixiong Wang “Atmospheric motions of different planets” David Hume “A Black Box for making music”
6th November david Zeitlyn “Cameroon: why I am obsessed” Cyrielle Auffrey “Knowledge in motion: Chinese companies in Africa and the challenge of localisation”
16th November Anthony Geffen “The Galapagos series and other 3D projects carried out with Sir David Attenborough”
27th November nick Bostrom “Existential risk” Magdelana Lafors “A stringy picture of the Universe”
Hilary Term 2013 22nd January Architects briefing on the plans for the new building
29th January matt Jarvis “The Universe to be viewed with the Square Kilometre Array: a new radio telescope for the next decade” Brian McQuinn “Inside a revolution: the emergence and evolution of armed groups in Libya
5th February neil Bowles “Exploring the Moon, Mars, asteroids and occasionally the Earth from space via St Cross” David Lloyd “X-rays for imaging”
12th February gavin Dalton “The backbone of night” Joshua Blight “Malaria and dengue eradicated by olbachia?”
19th February mick Blowfield “The future of business: why I’m a reluctant optimist” Annie Devenish “Gender in Indian politics 1949-61”
51 26th February James Petifer “The Balkans after 1990 - Is contemporary history writing possible?” Veronica Walker Vadillo “Cambodia’s maritime cultural heritage: past, present, and future”
Trinity Term 2013 30th April nick Mayhew “What’s the money worth? The historical comparison of international prices and wages” Juan Castro “What an economist can say about childhood development?”
7th May dan Hicks “Excavating Pitt-Rivers: documenting the archaeological collections made by Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers” Dan Stansbie “Food, feasting and pottery: archaeological approaches to the long- term history of food in southern england’
14th May Peter O’Neill “Radiation - A double-edged sword” Nicholas Hartley “Nuclear fusion - approaches and obstacles” ARCHIVIST’S REPORT
Work continues on locating, organising and cataloguing the backlog of College records and documents that have accumulated over the years and have been stored in various offices and cupboards. The aim is to have the Archives in fair order by the time of the 50th Anniversary of the College. The work on the 50th Anniversary Archiving Project is currently being carried out by a dedicated team of three volunteers: Lesley Forbes (Former Fellow and Member of Common Room), Glenda Abramson (Emeritus Fellow) and Hung Chang (Former Fellow and MCR). They work Tuesday of every week in the van Heyningen Room, and the archivist joins them whenever possible. Particular attention has recently been directed toward the records of former fellows, the papers regarding various benefactions and establishments of bursaries and scholarships, and the donations of items to the College’s art collections. Tim Pound (MCR), the Archives Registrar, continues his important work on developing a system of archiving electronic student records. The committee established to organise and oversee the production of a commemorative volume to mark the 50th anniversary of the College in 2015 met once each term to discuss the progress on the project. The committee consists of the Master, Diarmaid MacCulloch (Fellow), Jan-Georg Deutsch (Fellow), Tim Pound (MCR) and the Archivist, who at the moment acts as Chair. One session was spent examining various
52 photographs in the Archives that could serve as illustrations for the commemorative volume. It is anticipated that the three basic sections of the volume will reflect the three major periods in the College’s life to date and be greatly enlivened by photographs as well as comments and reminiscences from former and current Fellows and students. Early last year the Master sent out a letter to all former members requesting that they send any reminiscences, stories, photographs and images from their time in the College. To date, the Archives has received materials from Carolyn Kim King (student 1970), Leila Ollaik (student 1998), Browen Everill (student 2005), Noura Alturki (student 2006), Pedro Ballester (JRF 2007), David Andrews (SRF 1980-9), Brian Woolnough (Emeritus Fellow 2001), Bob Churchhouse (Supernumerary Fellow 1978, talking about 1967), Bruno Yaron (visiting fellow 1978-87), Kenneth Hylson- Smith (Bursar 1987-1990s), Martin Vessey (Emeritus Fellow 2000), Eric Whittaker (Emeritus Fellow 1983), Brent Jenkins (student 1985), and Linda Hart (student 1978) and Brian Atkins (Emeritus Fellow 1997) .
Only one enquiry came into the Archives, from Georgetown University, regarding Father Timothy Healy (a supernumerary Fellow 1982-1989) and the establishment of the Healy Fellowship. They wished to know when and how Father Healy (who was President of Georgetown University) came to be associated with the College.
Donations to the Archives of various newspaper clippings have been received from Alan Coates (the former archivist) and from some anonymous donors. With the 50th Anniversary approaching, we are particularly grateful for any donations of documents, reminiscences, and photographs from earlier years at St Cross. All donations will be welcomed by the College Archives and duly acknowledged in the St Cross College Record.
Emilie Savage-Smith
ART COMMITTEE REPORT
The Committee welcomed the transfer of the Audrey Blackman Fund to the Oxford University Endowment Fund where it has continued to earn interest that supports the maintenance of the Blackman Collection in areas such as reglazing, restoration and reframing of paintings. The Committee also agreed that the fund should support the publication of a substantial illustrated account of the Collection by Professor Derek Roe. It was felt that such a publication would be both educational and helpful in promoting the College. Professor Roe has now sent all copy to the printers and the booklet should be available in Michaelmas Term 2013. At the request of the student representatives on the Committee, there will be a number of talks about the College’s art collections in the coming year.
53 We were delighted to receive news of a gift of $20,000 to purchase art for display in the new West Quad when it is completed. This generous contribution to the 50th Anniversary Campaign has been made jointly by Dr Harold W Jaffe MD, MA (Fellow 2004-2010) in memory of Sandy Jaffe, his first wife who was, fittingly, an art historian, by Mr Philip L. Jaffe, their son, and by Dr Mary Chamberland. It is often remarked how the College’s existing art collection enhances our day-to-day environment and it is pleasing to know that our new buildings will be similarly enhanced by new acquisitions. The College is most grateful for the gift.
It has also been suggested that, should there be future surpluses to the Audrey Blackman Fund that are not required for immediate restoration work etc, then the College might use these to purchase further paintings to complement the Collection. In this event a small group will be formed to identify suitable items for purchase. With regard to matters raised in previous Records, it is noted that the College bronzes have now all been photographed and the promised up-to-date art inventory is now complete. In addition, the oriental rugs mentioned in two previous reports have been sold at Mallams for a little over £1000.
Articles donated to College have been extremely varied over the past year. They include a Chinese scroll from Dr Joerg Friedrichs; a diatonic angklung from Steve Ngo (the angklung is an Asian musical instrument made of bamboo tubes attached to a bamboo frame); and finally a splendidE dwardian bookcase from Christine Wrigley, who has had a long association with the College.
St Cross is always very grateful for gifts and owes much of its character to donations from friends, Fellows and students. However, it can be difficult to find space to display them appropriately and occasionally we have been offered items that would really be much better placed in other institutions. All donations are therefore carefully considered by the Art Committee in the first instance before being recommended for acceptance by Governing Body. It is always particularly helpful when an intending donor consults the College before actually offering a gift.
The annual photography competition was opened to all College members this year and judged by Dr Christopher Morton. The competition produced an excellent crop of entries all of which were displayed at Fred’s Lunch on 22nd March. The five best submissions were: 1. “Discovering the Good Times” by Timothy Rose; 2. “Under the Bridges, Ispahan, Iran” by Heloise Vande Wiele; 3. “Stairways to Heaven” by Akash Verma; 4. “Escalation II” by Pär Gustafson; 5. “What Was Beached, France” by Kitty Wheater. Congratulations to all the winners.
It is hoped that, in addition to photography, a wider exhibition of student art could become a regular feature of College life in the future. Exhibition space is extremely limited at the moment but new possibilities for display should certainly open up with the new building. 54 Finally, the Committee thanked Fellows Elizabeth Frood and Luke Treadwell for having agreed to become the guardians of the Blackman Collection of Watercolours under the terms of the Blackman will, and welcomed them as new Art Committee members.
Peter Benton
BURSAR’S REPORT
2012 -2013 was an extremely busy year in the life of St Cross College as the project to build the long anticipated West and North wings sprang into action across many fronts. A Building Committee was established, Niall McLaughlin Architects won our competition and began design work and the College brought in its first Director of Development to focus on fundraising for the new wings. By the end of July, we had plans on the table for 53 en-suite student bedrooms with 2 new meeting rooms, a library and a lecture theatre. Over the summer, detailed design work continued together with work on landscaping and investigations into the significance of our boundary walls. A great deal of consultation with neighbours and interested external groups took place.
At the end of July 2012 the fund for building the new wings was £2m and during the course of 2012-13 donors were asked to make unrestricted gifts or to specify the new wings. People responded kindly and by year end we had received a further £182,000 in gifts. We began to experience very tangible feelings of goodwill towards the College and the project which were inspirational. Together with the surplus on operations, a total of £500,000 was made available to the project over the year. We were fortunate also in receiving an increase in the value of the invested building fund of £203,000. During the year, the College spent some of its own reserves to pay for early stage design work.
The end of year accounts to 31st July 2013 illustrate that the College’s total net assets increased from £11.7m in July 2012 to £12.8m. The Endowment Fund produced good returns with manageable risk over a difficult period and the total value increased from £6.2m to £7.1m over the year. The majority of donations and legacies received were unrestricted and the Governing Body chose to allocate them to the Building Fund for the new wings; the fund was valued at £2.4m at year end.
There were several changes of staff during the year. The introduction of Sue Berrington as the Director of Development represented a major structural change for the College; Sue heads up a department of 4 staff which makes theC ollege able, for the first time to run effective Alumni Relations and to undertake fund-raising work. We celebrated the retirement of Chris Roberts after 17 years of service and brought
55 in Roz Sainty as the new Assistant Academic Administrator. Monica Esposito departed and Megan Palmer joined us as the Communications Assistant. Jenny Baxter moved and became the Secretary to the Academic office and we welcomed Lesley Sanderson as the new PA to the Master. We were pleased to congratulate Joanne Beazley on achieving her AAT qualification ( Association of Accounting Technicians) and although sorry to see her leave, we noted that she had provided almost 6 years of service and we were happy to see her commence professional training and a qualification programme as a management accountant. Finally, Gordon Fernie departed at year end and we welcomed Emily Blackman as the new Bursary Administrator.
Extensive refurbishment of the South Wing guest flat took place during the year with the installation of a new kitchen and new bathroom and we installed a new independent heating system in our other guest flat – the Crawford Miller flat. Extensive work was carried out on our Bradmore Road house in the form of roof repairs, refurbished window frames, underpinning of stone lintels, new guttering, repointing and exterior decoration of the entire house. We understand that our student residents are very happy with the house.
Maureen Doherty
LIBRARIAN’S REPORT
Alumnus Collection
After last year’s record number of over 30 books donated to the College Library for the Alumnus Collection, this year the total has been lower in quantity, but I’m sure not in quality. The wide range of topics again testifies to the variety of academic interests in the College and I would encourage anyone publishing a book to donate a copy to the Library, where you will be in good company.
John Blatchly and Diarmaid MacCulloch, Miracles in Lady Lane: the Ipswich shrine at the Westgate. J.M. Blatchly. 2013. 232.91 BL
Jeremy Bourne, Housman and Heine: a neglected relationship (Additional Study by Linda Hart). The Housman Society. 2011. 821 BO
Roger Collins, The Arab conquest of Spain 710 -797 (A History of Spain). Blackwell. 1994. 282 CO
Roger Collins, Early medieval Spain: unity in diversity, 400-1000 (New studies in medieval history). Macmillan. 2nd. ed. 1995. 946 CO
56 Roger Collins, Die Fredegar-Chroniken. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica Studien und Texte Band 44). Hahnsche Buchhandlung. 2007. 943 CO
Roger Collins, Keepers of the keys of heaven: a history of the papacy. Basic Books. 2009. 282 CO
Roger Collins, Visigothic Spain 409-711 (A History of Spain). Blackwell. 2004. 946 CO
Bronwen Everill and Josiah Kaplan, eds., The history and practice of humanitarian intervention and aid in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan. 2013. 363.85 EV
Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles, The earth transformed: an introduction to human impacts on the environment. Blackwell. 1997. 304.2 GO
Andrew Goudie, Environmental change: contemporary problems in geography. OUP. 3rd.ed. 1992. 333.7 GO
Andrew Goudie, The future of climate. Phoenix. 1997. 551.6 GO
Jonathan Jackson, Ben Bradford et.al., Just authority? Trust in the police in England and Wales. Routledge. 2013. 363.2 JA
Edward Kopowka and Pawel Rytel-Andrianik, Dam im imie na wieki: polacy z okolic Treblinki ratujacy Zydow. Biblioteka Drohiczynska. 2011. 940.53 KO
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Silence: a Christian history. Allen Lane. 2013. 209 MA
James Pettifer, The Kosova Liberation Army: underground war to Balkan insurgency, 1948 - 2001. Hurst. 2012. 949.7 PE
Neil Roberts, ed., The changing global environment. Basil Blackwell. 1994. 333.7 RO (Chapter by Prof. Andrew Goudie)
Christopher Ryan, The story of the Damascus drum. Hakawati Press. 2011. 823 RY
Peter Thompson and Peter S. Onuf, eds., State and citizen: British America and the early United States (Jeffersonian America). University of Virginia Press. 2013. 973 TH
Stanley Ulijaszek et.al., Evolving human nutrition: implications for public health. Cambridge U.P. 2012. 599.9 UL
57 Brian Woolnough, ed., Good news from Africa: community transformation through the church. Regnum Books. 2013. 338.91 WO
Charles Burnett et.al, eds., Medieval Arabic thought: essays in honour of Fritz Zimmermann. The Warburg Institute. 2012. 909.07 ZI
Other new books
There were 144 new books put into stock during the year. Apart from the Alumnus Collection titles the Library also received gifts of 84 books. Many of these were from students leaving and responding to my request to donate books at the end of their courses to help future students in the same subject.
Library Management System
The “new” system (Aleph) has been in use for two years now and most of the early problems have been ironed out. There has been a very big change with regard to cataloguing. Instead of using manuals going back to 1908(!) we are using RDA (Resource Description and Access) protocols to reflect the fact that libraries now include knowledge packed in different media and not just books. The search programme SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online) has recently had an upgrade, but to my mind, still does not work as well as it should. It is quite difficult to explain to people how to get the best results from a search.
Displays
The displays of New Books continued, matching the regular monthly lists emailed to all members of College. This display continues throughout the year and the other display varies from term to term. This year there were displays of books on Information Technology, and on “Know your Oxford” books on the University’s history and the city in general. The Michaelmas Term display is always on Study, Research and Writing techniques and is very popular with new students.
Induction Sessions
As usual the induction sessions for new students on “An introduction to Oxford Library Services and Electronic Resources” were very crowded. However, those attending represented a minority of students. An innovation in 2012 was the idea that I should attend the Freshers’ Fair in the afternoon and this worked well as I was able to answer specific subject queries from new students. I hope to make this additional “Introduction” a regular event. For those who do not attend either event I send out explanatory emails inviting people to contact me with requests for books to be bought for the Library or help with databases.
58 Library Assistant
This year there was no new Library Assistant as Kimberly Marsh was still in College. She worked cheerfully and reliably on the tasks of processing new books, organising displays, shelving returned items and liaising with students.
Sheila Allcock
SENIOR TUTOR & TUTOR FOR ADMISSIONS REPORT
The Admissions exercise at St Cross flourished over the past year with 227 new students arriving in Michaelmas Term 2012 and the increased number of new DPhil. students continuing to strengthen the research community within the College. The College’s international diversity thrives with the new intake of students in 2012 comprising 39% from overseas, 38% from the European Union and 23% from the UK. In the previous year the College had, in the new student, intake 41% men and 59% women. The College was delighted to award a larger number of scholarships than previously to new students arriving in Michaelmas 2013 as follows: i) The Scholarship in Anthropology was awarded to Martha Newson from the UK to support her DPhil; ii) The Scholarship in Archaeology was awarded to Ivan Bonchev from Bulgaria to support his DPhil; iii) The Scholarship in History was awarded to Oliver Ford from the UK to support his DPhil; iv) The Scholarship in Paediatrics was awarded to Natalie Martin from New Zealand to support her DPhil; v) The Scholarship in Politics was awarded to Johannes Kniess from Germany to support his DPhil; vi) The E.P. Abraham Scholarship in Chemical, Biological/Life and Medical Sciences was awarded to Shaltiel Elul from Israel to support his DPhil in Chemistry; vii) The MPhil Scholarship was awarded to Alexandra Baldi from the UK to support her studies for the MPhil in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology;
59 viii) The Robin and Nadine Wells Scholarship was awarded to Robert Aydin from the USA to support his studies for the MSt in Syriac Studies, generously sponsored by one of our alumni, Robin Wells and his wife, Nadine.
In Michaelmas 2012, the College held its third Graduate Open Day, which was intended primarily for current undergraduates and Master’s students at Oxford, who might be considering doing a postgraduate degree. A successful Open Day, enabling applicants to meet current students and Fellows on site, let to a number of admissions for October 2013. In addition, the College organized a special Study Skills session for both taught and research students, and has established a termly Medical Sciences Lunch up in Headington for all our students and Fellows who are based up at the John Radcliffe Hospital or on the Old Road Campus.
The College currently has over 500 graduate students, of whom 14 are doing part- time graduate degrees. Trinity Term 2013 went very well for the majority of students with a bumper crop of 32 of our Master’s students (MSt, MSc or MPhil) achieving a Distinction overall in their courses. Last but not least, Chris Roberts, originally the College Secretary and latterly the Admissions & Academic Secretary, retired after 16 years at St Cross and is wished all the best for a happy retirement.
Jo Ashbourn
GARDEN MASTER’S REPORT
The unusually late spring resulted in the daffodils flowering early in Trinity term rather than being over during the Easter vacation. The wintry conditions also led hungry birds to devastate the wallflowers. However, the wisteria looked as splendid as ever. The building plans are already affecting the back quad where archaeological trenching left the herbaceous border an expanse of bare soil sporting a few weeds. If our building plans go ahead, the future of the attractive Robinia is under discussion. A replacement tree would have to be planted elsewhere in the College.
We now have the University Parks gardeners looking after the Annexe garden, as with the main site, following the negotiations of an improved contract.
Mark Robinson
60 COMMON ROOM REPORT
This has been again a busy year for the common room committee. The most obvious examples are the changes the student committee and the College pushed through in the Bar. It has been refurbished, newly decorated (go down and see!) and, following a generous alumni donation, a projector has been installed. There is now more space for social events. Bar management extended opening hours so on a Friday one can go for an after work-drink. On another note, one unresolved issue is the provision of non-English language newspapers in the Common Room. Members of College voted overwhelmingly to have these but budgetary constrains prevented us from providing them this year. We have, however, consolidated all our subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals with a view to revisiting the budget soon. Once again I would like to pay tribute to our student committee with a most active and helpful president and vice-president who proved (if proof was needed) that the biggest asset of the College is its students.
Petros Ligoxygakis
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE REPORT
The academic year 2012-13 saw considerable activity on the part of the Student Representative Committee (SRC). In many respects, the priorities for this year were the promotion of a sense of community among all members of the college; listening to, discussing, and taking action on student input; and engaging with the major initiatives being set forth by the college as a whole.
The SRC sought to raise the frequency and quality of its offerings, particularly those meant to encourage a sense of belonging and community, including brunch, tea and cakes, and bops. We are also proud of the work done on the external events, LGBTQ, environmental, cultural, sports, societies, and careers fronts, all of which advanced considerably. Thanks must be given to each of the Student representatives for their hard work; their efforts made for a spectacular year. We must also recognize that more can be done in all of these areas, and we have laid the groundwork for ways in which the Students can further contribute to the community and academic life of the College.
Some of the most important work that the SRC engaged in was undertaken as the result of the St Cross Student Survey from the previous year. The Student Survey Report formed the basis of a continuing conversation among the Students, the Administration, and the Fellows, building upon a strong existing foundation of communication and cooperation among all members of the College. Several
61 initiatives were launched, from simplifying Student access to the Administration to collaborative ways of improving communication about services and events. The SRC would like to thank the Fellows and the Administration for their continuing support and openness during this dialogue as well as their input on an improved Student survey, which is being trialled during the 2013-14 academic year.
We are also delighted to announce that we held the first proper Student Association meeting in several years. We found this to be a valuable format for listening to and addressing Student issues and concerns - from views on the performance of the SRC, the responsiveness of the Administration, and the planned new building, - allowing us to foster a sense of community and bring matters of importance forward in a formal way to all members of College. We are also pleased to announce improvements to College social spaces, including the Bar and the Caroline Miles Room, in collaboration with the Administration. The SRC is grateful to the Administration for its contribution and support in these and other areas.
Careful financial management by Treasurers in preceding years had left the SRC with a considerable reserve. In order to ensure that reserve was properly managed for the benefit of the students as a whole and for students to come, this year we set forth a structured reserve scheme for the management of SRC funds. We also collaborated with the Administration on the content of the SRC section of the attractive new College website as well as providing feedback on the form, function, and content of the entire site. We are further pleased to announce closer ties and participation with the Oxford University Student Union (OUSU), which will help us contribute to the direction of the University as a whole. It was unanimously agreed to continue our association with OUSU in the coming year.
In the event that this news does not appear elsewhere in the Record, the SRC is grateful to the Sports Fellow for his efforts ensure that the Iffley Road Sports Centre gym is available to every St Cross Student. We are also proud to have contributed the lion’s share of the funds necessary to make gym membership free as a pilot programme. Thanks must go to the Bursary for its support, both financiall and institutionall, of this scheme. We are also grateful to the Master and the Fellowship for the creation of the new post of Societies Fellow, and we will continue to find ways to support work in these areas to the best of our abilities.
As in previous years, the SRC held a ball, Vive Versaille, hosted by the Student Vice- President. The evening, complete with drinks, dinner, delights, and a jazz band, was a highlight on the social calendar of the year.
Peter Fiske, Student President
62 DIRECTOR OF IT’S REPORT
The IT Group consists of the IT Manager, two IT Student Assistants, the Student President, the Secretary, the Academic Administrator, the Bursar and the Director of IT. The Group has met each term to review the IT regulations and the College’s IT strategy.
The Group is well connected to further committees at the College. The Director of IT reports to the Academic Committee once a term. Members of the IT Group attend student meetings and report back. In addition, the students can report problems or make suggestions to the generic email account ([email protected]) which is accessed by the IT Manager and the IT Student Assistants. Furthermore, the annual Student IT Satisfaction Survey aims at better understanding of both the College’s IT needs and the level of student satisfaction with current IT facilities (wireless/wired Internet access, device setup, computer rooms, printing, IT support, etc). The Group recently introduced a new College printing system, which allows students to print from their own laptops or mobile devices. This is a facility much desired as - reflected in the recent Student IT Satisfaction Survey.
Dan Olteanu
SPORTS REPORT
St Cross Polo 2012-13 This academic year saw the formation of the first ever St Cross Polo team. Anna Krause and Nikolas Weissmueller, Captained by Rachel Tanner, had a rocky start placing 7th in the University Winter League, but some hard training paid off when they won the semi-finals of Summer Cuppers, coming 3rd overall. Rachel competed for Oxford Beginners in 2 SUPA tournaments: University Challenge and the University Nationals, alongside 52 other universities. The team had a great second tournament, beating among others St Andrew’s and Bath Spa to reach 4th place overall, and Rachel was awarded MVP. Anna and Rachel also enjoyed some friendly matches against Oxford Brookes and Radley College. In July, Nikolas and Rachel were lucky enough to attend the Metropolitan Intervarsity Polo in Beijing, China. Though only the Varsity team competed, we had the opportunity to train at the 5-star club with the former Australian Captain.
Ice dance solo - Melissa Maczka Bronze medallist at British Solo Ice Dance Championships 2013 Gold Bar 1 Compulsories Ice Dance test pass
63 Cheerleading Team captain - Melissa Maczka Fourth place at the Jamfest Europe Northern Cheerleading Level 3 competition
Football Wolfson-St Cross team It has been an amazing season for the football team which this year managed to win the MCR league as well as the MCR Cuppers Final at Cuttleslowe Park, beating Mansfield Road 2 - 0.
Rowing Wolfson-St Cross This was another successful year for the Wolfson boat club. After a successful Torpids, with both first Eights holding their own and the lower boats progressing strongly up the divisions, Summer Eights saw the men holding their spot at the top of the first division, the Women progressing into division 1 with a strong final day. The second Eights both achieved their highest-ever rankings despite suffering under the klaxon with the women now standing as the third-highest second eight on the river while the men’s third and fourth both figured strongly with the latter poised within striking distance of the fixed divisions.
Lorenzo Santorelli
CATERING MANAGER’S REPORT
No sooner had I submitted last year’s report when I received an email informing me that the catering operation at St. Cross was to be audited for the prestigious ‘Hospitality Assured’ accreditation. This is an industry benchmark of service quality run by the Institute of Hospitality and is open to any enterprise across the hospitality industry.
The audit process involved a two-month period of gathering evidence and writing reports to demonstrate our systems for service delivery, product consistency, staff development, customer engagement and business effectiveness.T his evidence was then scrutinised by an auditor during a site visit when he also interviewed each member of the St. Cross catering team together with the Assistant Bursar.
Needless to say, we were keen to do well and the team did an admirable job in rising to the occasion, giving a very professional account of what we do throughout the review process. In February 2013, we received news that our result was an outstanding 76.5% which, to date, is the highest score to be achieved within the Foodservice Catering sector.
64 In looking at some of the statistics, I think a couple are worth sharing:
• 84% of our externally-sourced events in 2012-13 were repeat bookings and this is testament to the quality and service of our catering operation and to the tremendous working partnership that exists between the college events team and the catering department.
• the average number of lunches served per month has grown by 22.5% within the last five-year period. This translates to an average growth of 5.2% per year.
During this period of ever-increasing dining numbers, our team has remained primarily the same and has coped admirably with the addition of more dinners to the college calendar and externally booked events as a result of our hospitable reputation. Many of you will be familiar with Robert, Chris, Anna, Laura, Iwona and Amanda carrying out their respective roles diligently every lunch time. In the evening too, dinner guests will recognise Agi, Lalita, Crispin, Huyen and Laura deftly handling the more reserved tempo with professionalism.
In terms of training, Head Chef Robert has had the pleasure (even if it was hard work) of spending a day in the kitchens of David Everitt-Matthias at his two-Michelin- starred “Le Champignon Sauvage” in Cheltenham. His cooking has really benefitted from a day of practicing the highest levels in cooking and service on the line with this elite brigade. Chris, our Sous Chef is currently on a three-day course in London studying Nutrition and Diet where his increased understanding of this key area of food science should play a big role in future menus that he oversees at St. Cross.
As for myself, I have endeavoured to fit in my voluntary role as a Springboard Ambassador around my St. Cross commitments. Primarily, this involves delivering careers presentations in schools and colleges, which inspire young people to consider a career in hospitality. Similarly, we recently hosted fifty hospitality management degree students from Oxford Brookes University at St. Cross to showcase our operation. As a result, three future managers want to come and spend a day with us to learn more about our service during events. To attract the hospitality leaders of the future, we must appeal to them in their formative years. For this reason, I wish to thank St. Cross College for giving me the opportunity to inspire and be inspired as a result of this vital work in promoting a professional and sustainable sector.
Thomas Kilroy
65 MUSIC REPORT
Our annual carol service in Pusey House Chapel on 4th December 2012 had all its usual splendour and capacity congregation, with our choir providing a fine sound on the basis of old lags and new recruits in as great numbers as ever, with the same economical rehearsal time, presided over by Peter Ward Jones with Peter Lynan at the organ. Peter had chosen an imaginatively contrasting set of choir items, ranging in time from Samuel Scheidt and the English traditional carol ‘Rejoice and be merry’ to William Mathias, Harold Darke and a trio of Johns - Joubert, Rutter, and Tavener. We are grateful to Fr Philip Corbett for leading the service with Fr Mihai and for giving the address, and to the sidesmen from Pusey House, and to all those College members who read lessons. The retiring collection invigilated by Max and Anna Hamerow produced a record result for the homeless charity Gatehouse, and the Hélène La Rue Scholarship Fund. In what is now age-old tradition, mulled wine and mince pies and Hall followed on.
The musical evening organised by our first Hélène La Rue scholar Anna Krause and compèred by Diarmaid MacCulloch at the end of Hilary Term showcased much College talent, though the audience was not as large as in previous years. The Robert Fink Sextet opened proceedings with the Alan Menken/Tim Rice number ‘A whole new world’, while Ian Page returned us to an earlier world in English folk-song in ‘Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy’ and ‘Down by the Sally Gardens’. Choir members moved the audience in every sense to the Victorian era with their affecting rendition of Mrs E.A. Parkhurst’s ‘Father’s a Drunkard and Mother is Dead’, while Anna Krause as soprano accompanied by Alex Martin raised the tone with two solos of contrasting mood, Vaughan Williams’ ‘Silent Noon’ and a rousing fragment from Donizetti’s ‘La Fille du Régiment’. Yurika Sakai performed Scarlatti sonatas, Diarmaid MacCulloch reverted to Victorian sentimentality in ‘The Lost Chord’ and Peter Ward Jones revealed the more majestic possibilities of nineteenth-century keyboard music in three movements from Schumann’s Phantasiestücke, op. 12, before the Oxford University Morris Men (courtesy of Mark McKerracher) danced the audience into an appetite for dinner.
Diarmaid MacCulloch PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
This year the subject of the Competition was Discovery. There were a large number of entries, which were displayed in the Common Room prior to Fred’s Lunch on 22nd March, 2013 and also that evening when there was a Special Dinner. The competition was judged by Dr Christopher Morton of the Pitt Rivers Museum, and the winner was presented with a bottle of champagne at Fred’s Lunch. The prizes were as follows:
66 1st prize timothy Rose “Discovering the Good Times” Lancelin Dunes, Western Australia
2nd prize Héloïse vande Wiele “Under the Bridges, Ispahan, Iran”
3rd prize` Akash Verma “Stairways to Heaven”
4th prize Pär Gustsfsson “Escalation II”
5th prize Kitty Wheater “What was beached, France”
Discovering the Good Times
67 DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT’S REPORT
Having arrived at St Cross in December 2012, I missed last year’s College Alumni Reunion in September and the Annual Winter Drinks Event earlier in December. Both events received great feedback, and of course we are now preparing for the upcoming Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity events. Event information and dates are on the St Cross College website and Crossword back page.
In January the College enjoyed the most successful Telethon Campaign to date, raising just over £50,000 for the 2015 50th Anniversary West Quad Campaign. This is a remarkable achievement. The student callers (named in the Master’s Report) updated our participating Alumni on College life and the West Quad project. Thank you to all our Alumni involved, not only for your donations, but for the time taken to share your memories of St Cross with our student callers, all of whom found the experience enriching, and boosting their motivation enormously. As a fresh arrival to the Development team I was fortunate that Laura King, Alice Haylock and Monica Esposito had already organised the groundwork for the Telethon, and worked incredibly hard to make it a success.
The College hosted the 1965 Club Dinner in February to thank significant supporters of the College, the event went very well and it was a pleasure to meet members of the community.
The College hosted two successful reunions in North America. The Master and I welcomed Alumni to the Platt Library at the Century Association on the 18th March and enjoyed a presentation from Níall McLaughlin on the current design of the West Quad. Following the New York event, I met more of our North American Alumni at a small reunion dinner at the University Club in Washington DC on the 19th March. It was such a pleasure to put faces to names, and we are most grateful to those who attended, particularly the New Yorkers who braved a transport-stopping snowstorm to be there.
Back to College and to enjoy Fred’s Lunch on the 22nd, the annual lunch of the Alumni Association. The lunch found the Hall fully booked to meet Fred Hodcroft, who had enjoyed his 90th birthday a few days earlier.
To thank our legacy pledgers, the College hosted the Audrey Blackman Society lunch on the 9th April. It was a pleasure to meet those who were able to attend, and to thank them personally for such heartfelt and personal gifts. Legacy giving has helped the College substantially in development and makes a significant difference, allowing the College to feel a little more secure in the coming years. This year, the College received £1.6 million in legacy pledges. This is a tremendous achievement and testament to the College community.
68 On the 26th April the College shared an alumni reunion dinner with Wolfson and Kellogg Colleges at La Trainera Restaurant in Madrid as part of the Oxford University European Reunion. This was a relaxed and enjoyable affair and we enjoyed the company of some St Antony’s alumni too. Sharing graduate college alumni reunions has become a successful activity for the graduate colleges, especially overseas. We plan to host shared events in Singapore in November 2013, San Francisco in January 2014, Hong Kong in March 2014 and New York in April 2014.
In May, College members enjoyed a visit to Ripon Chapel. Designed by Níall McLaughlin Architects, the Chapel sits in the grounds of Ripon College, a theological centre on the edge of the village of Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire. Recently shortlisted for the RIBA Sterling Prize for architecture, the Chapel gave us an insight into the outstanding creativity of the architectural team responsible for the plans for the West Quad.
The College outing on the 11th July to see the Taming of the Shrew, held outdoors in the Bodleian Library Quad, transported the audience back in time. The theme of misogyny as explored by an all-female cast was rudely interrupted by the overhead flight of a hot air balloon promoting Gossard lingerie, which added a certain something to the merriment of the occasion. Another thoroughly enjoyable event and we plan another theatre outing next year.
This year we welcome our global network of Alumni Representatives. This is a new initiative for the College, marking a step-change in our overseas Alumni activity, and we are most grateful to our volunteers. Our Alumni Representatives will be reaching out to their country alumni, arranging get-togethers and building our networks globally; do give them your support when you can. The St Cross Alumni Representatives comprise:
Africa: Wambui Kamiru (MSc African Studies, 2007), Hong Kong: Dr Lau Pui Yan Flora (DPhil in Sociology, 2002), Japan: Ms Yuka Mizuno (MSc Applied Linguistics & Second Language Acquisition, 2008), Australia: Dr Brent Jenkins (DPhil Materials 1988), Bulgaria: Maria Spirova (MSc Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2007), France: Laura Haapio-Kirk (MSc Visual Anthropology, 2010), Switzerland: Dr Evelyne Bozzi (MPhil Latin American Studies, 2002), United Arab Emirates: Mr Robin Wells (MSt Anthropology, 1993), United States: Dr Edward M Furgol, Washington, DC (DPhil Modern History, 1977), emily Solis-Cohen, Washington, DC (Modern Middle East Studies 2010), rebecca Schneider, Washington, DC (MPhil European Studies, 2009),
69 Peter Williams, New York (MSc African Studies, 2007), tara Maguire, New York (MSc Comparative and International Education, 2009), douglas H Wigdor, New York (MLitt Politics, 1993), Mexico: Paulina Villalpando (MSc Environmental Change & Management, 2010), Brazil: Claudio Bidino de Souza, (MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2011), Peru: Jose Carlos Valer (EMBA, 2010).
Contact information for our Alumni Representatives can be found on the College webpages.
This year the Development and Alumni Relations Office had to manage without Laura King, Development and Alumni Relations Manager, who was away on maternity leave taking care of her young family, with the new addition of Zachary her baby boy. We have now welcomed Laura back to the office. On the 19th August, Megan Palmer joined the team as Communications Assistant, replacing Monica Esposito. Monica left us to join St Antony’s Development Office in a new role in July. We wish her every success at St Antony’s and welcome Megan into our community.
This year, the major focus for the Development and Alumni Relations Office has been the 2015 50th Anniversary Campaign. This will continue and grow over the coming year. Thank you to all our supporters as we endeavour to reach our target.
I am personally grateful to all the Fellows, Common Room Members, staff, Alumni and friends who have made me feel so welcome at St Cross. The College really does live up to its reputation for friendliness. I am most grateful to all those who have taken time to meet with me, to support the College and increase my understanding of the wonderful community that is St Cross College.
St Cross College Donors 2012 – 2013
The generosity and support of Alumni, friends and Fellows has seen a significant increase in giving to the West Quad from the previous year. Excluding legacies, in financial year 11/12 the College received £29,000, rising to £110,000 in financial year 12/13 from individuals. The College is very grateful for all gifts, large and small. Every gift and donation to St Cross makes a difference to the quality of the experience we can offer to our students. In total the College raised £257,000 this year with an incredible £1.6million pledged in legacies.
The list of names on these pages is based on all gifts received by St Cross College between 1st August 2012 and 31st July 2013 and includes individuals, companies and foundations. We thank you all. Should you notice any errors in this information, please let us know.
70 Individual Donors Dr Raul Acosta Garcia, DPhil Social & Cultural Anthropology 2001 Mr Ayokunu Adedokun, MPhil Development Studies 2010 Mr Nibras Aldibbiat, MSc Comparative Social Policy 2009 Dr Susan Allen, DPhil Medieval History 1985 Mrs Jamie Aller, MSc Comparative Social Policy 2002 Mr Malcolm Allison, MSc Forestry 1993 Dr Jose Antonio Alvarez Tapia, DPhil Economics 2000 Mr Felix Arends, MSc Mathematics & Computer Science 2008 Dr Michael Athanson, DPhil Archaeology 2004 Dr James Aubry, MEng Engineering Science 2003 Professor Jere Bacharach, Former Fellow Mr Steven Baker, MSc Computer Science 1999 Ms Judith Barr, MSt Classical Archaeology 2009 Mr Stephen Bass, MSc Forestry and Its Relation To Land Use 1976 Dr Eelco Batterink, DPhil Computer Science 2003 Dr Mariano Beguerisse-Diaz, MSc Math Mod & Scientific Computing 2007 Mr Peter Benton, Emeritus Fellow Dr Joel Berkowitz, Former Fellow Mr Ian Bhugun, MSc Software Engineering 2002 Dr Thomas Birkett, DPhil English 2007 Ms Michel Bjerregaard, MSc Educational Studies 2010 Mr Nicholas Blinco, MSt Ethnology 1993 Dr Jennifer Bonsell, DPhil Theoretical Physics 1984 Mr Simon Bonvoisin, MSc Agriculture & Forest Sciences 1979 Dr Richard Branch, DPhil Life Sciences Interface DTC 2005 Mr Richard Briant, Fellow by Special Election Mr Dennis Britton, Emeritus Fellow Mr Vivian Brown, BPhil Philosophy 1963 Mr Rory Browne, MSt European Archaeology 2007 Dr David Browning, Emeritus Fellow Ms Laura Burnes, MSc Pharmacology 2007 Dr Katarina Burnett, DPhil Atomic & Laser Physics 1997 Professor Lorna Casselton, Honorary Fellow Dr Luis Cereceda, DPhil Mathematics and Computation 2002 Mr Samidh Chakrabarti, MSc History of Science 2003 Mr Konstantinos Chatzimichalis, MSc Mathematical Finance 2007 Mr Hung Cheng, Emeritus Fellow Dr Lanna Cheng Lewin, Friend Mr John Clarke Jr, MSt Theology 1998 Ms Hilary Clauson, MSc African Studies 2009 Dr Roger Collins, DPhil History 1968 Dr Victor Cook, DPhil Philosophy 1990
71 Dr Catelijne Coopmans, MSc Economic & Social History 2000 Mrs Tonia Cope Bowley, Member of Common Room Ms Joanna Craigwood, MPhil Development Studies 2003 Mr Alasdair Crawford, Friend Mr Alan Cropper, Friend Dr Theresa De La Fuente, MSc Geology 1987 Mr Matthew Donmall, MPhil International Studies 2000 Dr Ralf Donner, DPhil Theoretical Physics 1997 Dr Michael Durkin, DPhil Earth Sciences 1988 Dr Vaughan Dutton, DPhil History of Science 2005 Ms Natasha Ebtehadj, MPhil Modern Chinese Studies 2006 Dr Mohamad El Ghonemy, Former Fellow Dr Maria Enriquez-Harris, DPhil Biochemistry 1984 Dr Bronwen Everill, MSt European Archaeology 2005 Mr Brian Fence, MSc Modern Japanese Studies 2008 Dr Philip Frampton, DPhil Inorganic Chemistry 2002 Mr Spencer Frasher, MBA 2002 Dr Margret Frenz, Junior Research Fellow, Member of Common Room Dr Edward Furgol, DPhil Modern History 1977 Dr Rebecca Golbert, DPhil Social & Cultural Anthropology 1996 Mr Jonathan Gorrie, MPhil Modern Chinese Studies 2001 Mr William Gott, PGCE Physics 1993 Dr Grizelda Graham, MSc Psychological Research 1968 Dr Xiaonan Guo, DPhil Computer Science 2008 Dr Mathew Hamill, MSc(Res) Physiology 2005 The Revd Professor Wayne J Hankey, DPhil Theology 1978 Mr Derek J Harrison, MSt European Archaeology 1951 Ms Alice Haylock, Staff Mrs Susan M Hockey, Emeritus Fellow Ms Suzy Hodge, Staff andM ember of Common Room Professor Tony Hope, Emeritus Fellow Miss Esther Horowitz, MSc Applied Linguistics & 2nd Language Acquisition 2010 Ms Laura Hurst, MPhil in Modern Languages 2009 Dr Raphael Ingelbien, MPhil English Studies 1994 Professor Harold Jaffe, Former Fellow Professor Wendy James, Emeritus Fellow Ms Patricia Jayne, Friend Professor Alan Jones, Emeritus Fellow Professor Martin Jones, DPhil Archaeology 1980 Ms Rebecca Jones, PGCE Biology 2008 Sir Mark Jones, Master Mrs Karin Keeble, MPhil Theology 1989 Mr Anupum Khaitan, MSc Computer Science 2001
72 Ms Rachel King, MSt World Archaeology 2009 Ms Laura King, Staff, Member of Common Room Sir John Kingman, Former Fellow Ms Ellen Kingsley, MSc Software Engineering 2000 Dr Pui Yan Lau, DPhil Sociology 2002 Mrs Judith Ledger, Staff,M ember of Common Room Ms Chae Jeong Lee, MSc Comparative Social Policy 2007 Mrs Janine Lee, Associate Member Mr Norman Leenhouts, Friend Mr Adam Levin, MPhil English Studies 1996 Dr Stephen Lloyd, DPhil History of Art 1989 Dr Mary Lloyd, DPhil Biochemistry 1971 Ms Victoria Love, DPhil English 1969 Dr Simon MacDonald, Former Fellow Mr Johannes Machielsen, MSt Modern History 2006 Ms Lisa Maddigan, MSc Material Anth & Museum Ethnography 2002 Mr Vasnath Manickam, MSc Computer Science 2007 Mr Manuel Manrique Gil, MSc African Studies 2008 Dr Aruna Marasingha, DPhil Mathematics 2000 Dr Harvey Marcovitch, Former Member of Common Room Mr Peter Mathias, MSt US History 2010 Mr Nicholas Mayhew, Fellow by Special Election Mrs Jill McCleery, Friend Miss Caitlin McDonnell, MSc Biomedical Engineering 2009 Mr Michael McMahon, MSc Financial Economics 2003 Mr John McLaughlin, MSc Educational Studies 2008 Dr David Mitchell, DPhil Archaeology 2004 Dr Charles Mould, Emeritus Fellow Mr Vladimir Mukanaev, MSc Financial Economics 2009 Mr Vahd Mulachela, Cert Diplomatic Studies 2008 Mr Ugyen Namgyel, Cert Diplomatic Studies 2009 Mr Robert Nathenson, MSc Sociology 2005 Dr Anastasia Natsina, DPhil Byzantine Studies 1998 Mr Robert Neely, MSc Computer Science 1982 Dr Norman Nicol, Visiting Fellow Dr Steven Niederer, Former Fellow Mr Michael Noone, PGCE Biology 1998 Mr Frank Norman, Former Fellow Mr Jonathan Oakley, PGCE Science 1987 Miss Aoife O’Higgins, MSc Evidence Based Social Intervention 2011 Dr Ana Oliveira, MSc Computer Science 1994 Dr Joseph Olliver, Emeritus Fellow Mr Yogesh Patel, MPhil Economics 1998
73 Mrs Bronwen Percival, MSc Social Anthropology 2004 Dr Timothy Pound, DPhil Educational Studies 1990 Mr Alexander Rayner, MPhil Politics 2005 Mr Donald Richards, Emeritus Fellow Professor Steven Roberts, Former Fellow Mr Adrian Roberts, MLitt Oriental Studies 1958 Professor Derek Roe, Emeritus Fellow Ms Sarah Rubin, MSc African Studies 2005 Mr Richard Rushforth, MSc Water Science, Policy & Management 2010 Ms Rebecca Schneider, MPhil European Studies 2009 Dr Caroline Schoenaers, DPhil Astrophysics 2004 Ms Nadine Schoeneck, Exchange Student - Sociology 2001 Mr Reem Shafiq, Friend Dr Mustapha Sheikh, DPhil Theology 2006 Dr Robert Simpson, DPhil Earth Sciences 1998 Ms Meagan Sinclair, MSt Classical Archaeology 2010 Ms Therese Skatun, MPhil Development Studies 2006 Dr Geoffrey Smith, Emeritus Fellow Mr Kuotong Soo, MSc Economics for Development 2002 Dr Thomas Soper, Member of Common Room Professor Garrison Sposito, Former Fellow Mr Charles Starkie, MSc Financial Economics 1998 Dr Keith Suter, Former Fellow Dr Glenn Swafford, Fellow by Special Election Dr Alan Taylor, Member of Common Room Mr Clive Tee, MSc Software Engineering 2004 Dr Peter Teriete, DPhil Biochemistry 1998 Professor Ian Thompson, Former Member of Common Room Miss Abigail Tompkins, DPhil Archaeology 2011 Ms Jessica Van Der Meer, MPhil Development Studies 2006 Dr Ruth van Heyningen, Emeritus Fellow Ms Anne Vandenabeele, MPhil Economics 1998 Mr Mark Vastenavondt, MSc Integrated Immunology 2005 Professor Martin Vessey, Emeritus Fellow Professor Grace Wahba, Former Fellow Mrs Jocelyn Watkins, MSc Evidence Based Social Intervention 2010 Mr Robin Wells, MSt Anthropology 1994 Mr Alexander West, MSc Social Anthropology 2010 Ms Nizie Whiddon, Friend Ms Kathy Whitt, MPhil Modern Jewish Studies 1990 Dr Eric Whittaker, Emeritus Fellow Dr Jim Williamson, Emeritus Fellow Mrs Rebecca Wilson, MPhil Social Anthropology 2001
74 Mr Emmett Wilson, MSc Educational Studies 2007 Professor Christopher Wilson, DPhil Music 1979 Mr Brian Woolnough, Emeritus Fellow Dr Fu Ju Yang, MSc Applied Linguistics & 2nd Language Acquisition 2006 Dr Wang Ying, DPhil Social & Cultural Anthropology 1997 Mr Arthur Zhou, MSc Sociology 2000 Dr Fritz Zimmermann, Emeritus Fellow
Companies, Trusts & Foundations Coral Samuel Charitable Trust Headley Trust
Legacy Pledges We are very grateful for the 8 legacy pledges received this year.
Legacy Notifications Dr Desmond Walshaw, Emeritus Fellow
Anonymous Donors and Gifts in Kind We would also like to thank nine anonymous donors and those who have given gifts in kind to the College.
Susan Berrington
75 OBITUARIES
Charles Desmond Walshaw (1925 – 2013)
Born in Coventry in 1925, the only child of Charles and Ethel, he was educated at Charterhouse, of which he had happy memories, and Clare College, Cambridge. His time at university was interrupted by war service in the Royal Navy, where he served as a teacher, returning to Clare to complete his undergraduate degree.
He was one of the pioneers in the study of Atmospheric Ozone, working with Gordon Dobson and Sir Charles Normande. He studied under Richard Goody for his PhD, working on the spectroscopy of ozone in the laboratory, and later on measurements of ozone in the atmosphere using a ground based infrared spectrometer. This was in the early days of ozone research, and a time when health and safety was less of a concern than it is now. Ozone when liquified is unstable, and liable to explode – and did occasionally. He used to carry it in a dewar on his bicycle from the Cavendish Laboratory to the University Observatory, fortunately without incident!
During the International Geophysical Year he worked for the International Ozone Commission (IO3C) as a ‘travelling physicist’, inspecting and improving operations of the European network of ozone spectrophotometers that had been set up by Gordon Dobson (incidentally, a global Dobson network is still in operation). The IO3C is part of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, who represent the entire community of geophysical scientists around the world.
After the IGY he joined the small Meteorology Department at Cambridge (part of the Cavendish Laboratory) where he worked on a wide range of topics relating to atmospheric ozone. In 1963 the opportunity arose to migrate to Oxford, where he became a University Lecturer in Atmospheric Physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, in the then-small Meteorology Department founded by Gordon Dobson many years earlier. He supervised many DPhil students, who have fond memories of his kindness and helpfulness. As he was a Clare man, Oriel College, arranged his incorporation into the University of Oxford. In 1968 he became a fellow of the newly founded St Cross College.
On the international science scene, he became a member of the IO3C in 1964, and its secretary from 1976 to 1984. After his retirement in 1984 he devoted himself in providing social assistance to those in most need of it, through prison visiting and community work.
Desmond Walshaw was an old-fashioned Christian gentleman. He took an interest in everyone about him: his colleagues, students, their families. He was sociable, friendly, generous and helpful, though modest and reluctant to take credit. He was an active member of the St Peter’s Church community in Wolvercote, serving as a churchwarden, and helping with the Wolvercote Boys’ Club, of which he was honorary treasurer. He was a prison visitor, helping many of the people he visited.
76 His father died young, and Desmond looked after his mother until her death in 1971 after a long illness. He never married.
Clive Rodgers
Godfrey Harry Stafford (1920 – 2013)
Godfrey Stafford was a particle physicist who served as Director of the Rutherford Laboratory in Oxfordshire in the 1970s and as Master of St Cross College, Oxford, from 1979 to 1987.
The Rutherford Laboratory began in 1957 as the National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science, next to the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) at Harwell. Its purpose was to provide a national facility for high-level nuclear physics research. As head of the Proton Linear Accelerator group from the laboratory’s inception, Stafford oversaw the transfer of AERE’s 50 MeV proton linear accelerator to the new laboratory and its subsequent development into the Nimrod synchrotron, a particle accelerator which came online in 1963, helping to ensure Britain’s continued prominence in the field of particle physics and becoming essential to the development of the Standard Model of particle physics. Subsequently he became responsible for the high energy physics programme for Nimrod.
As director of the Rutherford Lab from 1969 to 1979, Stafford oversaw the expansion of the laboratory facilities, including the takeover of the neighbouring Atlas Computer Laboratory in 1975. As it became clear that the next level of accelerator was beyond Britain’s science budget, Stafford argued the case for Britain to collaborate with Europe and became heavily involved with the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) laboratories in Geneva, which was chosen as the centre for a joint European research effort in order to compete with the superpowers. He served as vice president of the CERN council from 1973 and 1975 and chairman of CERN’s scientific policy committee from 1978 to 1980. As accelerator work moved over to CERN, Stafford transformed the Rutherford Laboratory into the first modern national laboratory, a place for smaller scientific groups to be supported and also come together to do large, impressive research a model which has been adopted by research institutions throughout the world.
Godfrey Harry Stafford was born in England on April 15 1920 and moved to South Africa with his family at the age of eight. After Rondebosch Boys High School he went up to the University of Cape Town, graduating in Physics in 1941. The following year he published his first scientific paper on “The Second Maximum in the Rossi Curve” in Nature. His second, “The Production of Cosmic Ray Bursts by Mesotrons” would be published in 1944 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. In the meantime, in 1941 Stafford joined the South African Naval Forces as a Lieutenant Electrical Officer concerned with “degaussing” work in the southern hemisphere. (Degaussing is a technique used to reduce the magnetic “signatures” of ships to counter magnetic mines). In the early days of his military service he was based at
77 Robben Island (later famous as the prison camp where Nelson Mandela was held). Later he moved to Durban to take control of a new degaussing unit. In 1943 he came to England to undertake research on radar at the Admiralty Research Establishment near Haslemere.
The following year he took part in the D-Day landings, personally sailing between ships to coordinate their radar systems. Towards the end of the war he served on a fighter direction ship, a vessel equipped with radar that acted as a control centre for fighter operations. After the war he won a University of Cape Town scholarship to undertake postgraduate studies at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, obtaining his PhD in 1950. During his time at Cambridge he had become interested in nuclear physics and subsequently accepted a post with the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) under Sir Basil Schonland, later Director of AERE, Harwell. In the late 1940s Stafford spent two years at Harwell, working on the development of its proton accelerator, or cyclotron, under Gerry Pickavance. Returning to Pretoria he became head of CSIR’s biophysics subdivision, responsible for the import of all radioisotopes into South Africa and the development of industrial and medical applications. One research project in which he became involved was the use of radioactive tracers to track the incidence of hook worm in Africans employed in South Africa’s gold mines. In 1954, however, he returned to Harwell as a member of Pickavance’s cyclotron group. When the Rutherford Laboratory was founded three years later with Pickavance as its first director, Stafford became head of its proton linear accelerator group.
After his retirement from the Rutherford, he became the second Master of St Cross College, a graduate institution founded in 1965. He oversaw the college’s move in 1981 from its original premises in St Cross Road to join Pusey House on its site in St Giles, a move involving considerable interior renovation and alteration work for which the college won an Oxford Preservation Trust Award.
Stafford was instrumental in the foundation of a new European Physical Society, of which he served as president from 1984 to 1986. He was president of the Institute of Physics (whose Glazebrook Prize and Medal he won in 1981) from 1986 to 1988.
His recreations included motoring (during his years at the Rutherford he owned three Rileys), camping, music and exploring the English countryside.
He was appointed CBE in 1976 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979.
In 1950 Godfrey Stafford married Helen Goldthorpe Clark, an Australian biologist who died in 2003. Their son and twin daughters survive him.
Reprinted, with permission, from The Daily Telegraph
78 The following is the text of the address given by Professor Derek Roe at Godfrey Stafford’s memorial gathering on 18th October 2013 in St Cross College.
Godfrey Stafford’s predecessor in the Mastership of St Cross College was our first Master, the redoubtable Kits van Heyningen. The Founding Fellows chose him from their own number: Kits was a distinguished scholar who had come to Oxford from South Africa via Cambridge, and was living in North Hinksey. When we came to appoint our Second Master, we chose Godfrey Stafford, from our own number, who was also a distinguished scholar who had come to Oxford from South Africa via Cambridge and was living in - yes - North Hinksey. There the coincidences end, for the two were very different in personality, and indeed the tasks confronting them in the College were also by no means the same, but St Cross has many reasons to be deeply grateful to them both for their leadership, and to remember them fondly for their personal qualities.
Godfrey’s election as Master was a great surprise to him: I remember him telling me once that he was aware, as a Fellow of St Cross, that the College was seeking candidates, and he was actually just about to write, a little belatedly, to the Search Committee to suggest the name of a distinguished scientist colleague, when the letter inviting him to accept the post landed on his doormat. The possibility had simply never occurred to him. Fortunately for us, he was able to convince himself that he should accept, and also that it would actually be possible to combine tenure of the Mastership with his hugely important current work as a particle physicist and his Directorship of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. In 1981, he gave up his Directorship of the Laboratory to devote fuller attention to the College, but he never ceased to be a working scientist at the very highest level.
Taking on the Mastership of St Cross in 1979 was no small challenge. Godfrey Stafford inherited a College with only a handful of graduate students, still housed in a wooden hut, still critically short of funds, and still uncertain of what its aspirations were, let alone of how it could possibly realise them. When he retired in the autumn of 1987, the move to St Giles had been made, numbers of students were at last able to increase, plans for a new wing had been completed, and the first substantial benefactions had been received. By the end of his Mastership, the College’s identity had been established, and its remarkable growth, which we see still continuing today, had begun. The continuation and consolidation of all these things would of course be the tasks of Godfrey’s immediate successors, but he was there as an Honorary Fellow to watch it all happen, for he continued to remain closely involved with St Cross after his Mastership ended, and greatly enjoyed attending social and academic events in the College’s programme, right up to his final illness. The College will never forget that it was Godfrey Stafford who presided over the move to St Giles, an event of crucial importance in our history.
I myself had the privilege and pleasure of serving as Vice-Master to Godfrey in the final year of his Mastership, and as I had previously held various committee posts and been Treasurer, I was able to watch him at work over many years. He was tireless in his efforts to promote the College’s interests, and full of innovative ideas of every
79 kind. For example, he took a close and active interest in the building work done to adapt the St Giles site for its new role of accommodating both Pusey House and St Cross College. When you go from here to what is now the Saugman Common Room, reflect that when we first moved to St Giles it was our Dining Hall, with a kitchen and store rooms beside it, where the toilet facilities and the showcases now are, but before that the space had comprised a cloister open to the quadrangle, with a cluster of adjacent small rooms of various kinds. It was actually Godfrey Stafford rather than the architect who perceived the possibility of creating a dining hall out of what existed, without destroying the appearance of the building as seen from the Quad - he suggested in some detail how it might be achieved structurally, and the architect translated it into plans. Later on Godfrey took a very active part in the planning of our new wing, where we are now - I know this, as I was also on the Building Committee at the time. Thanks to some rather unreasonable hostility by certain of our neighbours, and a somewhat Left Wing City Planning Committee that seemed at the time to be at war with the University, the building was not completed within Godfrey’s Mastership, though the initial planning of it certainly was and, after various adjustments, eventually even the neighbours and the City’s authorities saw reason.
Godfrey’s innovative and brilliant mind guided all aspects of his work for the College. He laboured tirelessly, together with Simon Porter, our Bursar, and a few loyal supporters, on the endless business of fund-raising. It was a great pleasure to me that the major gift from Ian Skipper was secured during his final year as Master. His great campaign to secure a large benefaction from the American millionaire Sam Lefrak probably counts as a gallant failure, but can surely never be forgotten by other members of College who got swept up in it. Whether or not Godfrey ever really enjoyed University Committees or being Chairman of Governing Body, I cannot say: the latter was surely very different from any working committee of Scientists on which he had served. Any College has its share of difficult or irascible characters, some with their own agendas: why should St Cross be an exception? Besides, academics are trained to have a point of view and to express it, documenting their arguments with a copious supply of factual information. None of that makes for speedy meetings - except for items when no-one has had time to read all the papers, which is fortunately sometimes the case. But Godfrey in his years as Master rose above all these things to achieve the relatively smooth passage of a huge amount of highly important College business.
The personal character of a Master is of course vitally important to the well-being of his College. We were extremely fortunate in Godfrey: he was not shy of taking decisions, and was a staunch, loyal and sympathetic friend to Senior and Junior Members alike, and to all the other sections of the wider College community. He genuinely enjoyed the College’s occasions, especially those when his beloved wife Goldy could be at his side, and he sometimes revealed an impish sense of humour. He took delight in the achievements of members of St Cross, and in all sorts of those things, often very pleasing, in which a Master becomes involved. For example, though he modestly lamented his own slender knowledge of the Arts, he loved the College’s collections, and was thrilled by the arrival at the new site of the first instalment of the
80 superb Audrey Blackman Collection of watercolours: indeed, one Monday morning we arrived to find he had spent much of the weekend personally hanging some of them in the Lange Room. We didn’t have to make too many adjustments. He was also genuinely delighted when he was told that the College wished to commission a portrait of him to hang in the Hall: in the end, completion of it took rather longer than we had expected, because Godfrey and the artist, Aubrey Davidson-Houston, soon became firm friends and spent part of each session at Aubrey’s studio in Chelsea chatting over a gin and tonic.
I must draw this very brief reflection to a close, inevitably leaving much unsaid. When Godfrey was due to retire in 1987, and the search for a successor began, we found that there were no more distinguished scholars who had come to Oxford from South Africa via Cambridge, and were now living in North Hinksey. So in the end we elected Dick Repp, from Linacre College, and got on with the eternal task of living happily ever after. And as for Godfrey Stafford, we didn’t lose him at all in 1987: we said farewell to a Master, but we welcomed an active and caring Honorary Fellow.
Four Masters of St Cross Dick Repp, Sir Mark Jones, Andrew Goudie and Godfrey Stafford. Picture taken on the occasion of the 1965 Club dinner in February 2013
Geoffrey Smith (1938 - 2013)
Geoffrey Smith grew up in Staffordshire where his father ran a small, mixed farm. Geoffrey attended King Edward VI Grammar School, Stafford, and did well there, eventually attaining a Scholarship to study Physics at Jesus College, Oxford. Geoffrey enjoyed the challenging Physics course and the many undergraduate societies offered
81 lots of opportunities to develop his interests. The Railway Society and the Opera Club were particular favourites. Having obtained a good first degree, Geoffrey was offered the opportunity to remain in Oxford and work for a doctorate. He undertook a laboratory-based project in atomic spectroscopy in the former University Observatory. The project went well and, following the completion of his doctorate and with encouragement from his supervisor, Geoffrey successfully applied for a research position at Argonne National Laboratory, a large US-government laboratory situated just outside Chicago. Geoffrey set out for America on the Cunard liner, “Queen Mary”, in September, 1963, one of his most memorable travel experiences. The Argonne Laboratory proved to be a most stimulating environment. There were excellent facilities for advanced research and talented scientists with whom to interact. Geoffrey joined a group working on the spectra of lanthanide and actinide elements. The generous salary and holidays allowed plenty of opportunities to explore the scenic wonders of the U.S.A. and even make trips to Mexico and Peru.
After two years at Argonne, Geoffrey returned to a post-doctoral appointment at his former Department in Oxford. In 1969 he was appointed to a University Lecturership and at the same time he was invited to take up a teaching Lecturership at Magdalen College. Geoffrey settled down to a life of teaching and research. He made occasional visits back to the U.S.A. Initially these were to the Argonne Laboratory but, in later years, a former colleague from Oxford, now a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Texas, offered opportunities for astronomical spectroscopy at that University’s McDonald Observatory in west Texas. In 1978 Geoffrey was appointed to a Fellowship at St. Cross College. He retained his undergraduate-teaching link with Magdalen but found the more outward-looking atmosphere of St. Cross a refreshing experience. Although only a modest performer, Geoffrey was a keen cricketer who was a stalwart of the Clarendon Laboratory Cricket Club for over twenty years. In 1988, following the retirement of the Professor who had been Head of Astrophysics throughout Geoffrey’s postgraduate years, his Department moved from the former Observatory building to more up-to-date accommodation in the Nuclear Physics Laboratory. A few years later, the Department became a Sub-department of the much larger Physics Department. There followed a period of rapid expansion and Geoffrey took on more and more of the administrative responsibilities of the growing Department.
Geoffrey retired from his Lecturership in 2001 but was able to continue with his Magdalen teaching for a further ten years until forced to give up by increasing ill health. Geoffrey was someone who did not seek personal advancement. He gave good value in his teaching and was popular with his students. In the Astrophysics Department he kept up a steady, if unspectacular, output of research resulting in over fifty papers published in front-line journals. His willingness to help others and undertake administrative chores was much appreciated by both academic colleagues and postgraduate students. Many warm tributes were received on his retirement. Geoffrey is survived by his wife, Bridget, whom he married in 1972, and by their daughter and son.
Fiona Smith
82 FREE THINKING - AND HOW TO ORGANISE IT Rana Mitter
As some College members may know, I’ve had regular opportunities to present programmes on BBC Radio 3. Radio 3 is one of the great glories of Britain’s public culture. Since its birth in 1946 as the “Third Programme” (after the Home and Light), it has been the home of classical music and live concerts on radio, but also the forum for talks, plays and debates with an intellectual, serious-but-accessible and, sometime playful, take on big ideas. Presenting has been an eye-opening insight into a world that is very different from that of academic life. Academic life and serious speech broadcasting are both about ideas. But many of the similarities end there. An academic seminar may last an hour or two – 45 minutes to hear a paper, responses, questions and comments, and then, no doubt, further development over a drink afterward. But in radio, ten minutes is a very long time - let alone an hour. A huge amount of preparation is needed to produce 45 minutes of what sounds like smooth and well-ordered discussion on a particular topic. Each year, we find this out for ourselves as we prepare the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival of Ideas. For the past five years, this has been Radio 3’s flagship outside speech event, held at the Sage, Gateshead, the stunning arts centre that has transformed one of the most deprived cities in the North-East. And each year, the green rooms and backstage part of the Sage become a dynamo of activity as a group of producers, presenters and guests come together to bring off some 20 or more live events in the space of two days, from the opening lecture on the Friday evening to the last events on the Sunday. This year, I had plenty to do for the Free Thinking Festival. One particular treat was being asked to host an edition of Saturday Classics, the two-hour show where someone chooses a wide range of their favourite pieces, with the chance to explain why they like them. To tie in with the festival, I chose pieces with the theme of “freedom,” which enabled me to sneak in huge numbers of my favourite genre: the romantic music of the early twentieth century, much of it associated with ideas of freedom, by Sibelius, Janacek, and Smetana. It’s a real pleasure to be able to hand a shopping list of your favourite pieces to an expert producer and then lead listeners through your favourite choices. But the real work began in Gateshead. Radio 3’s producer teams will turn around a set of events fast – there may be two running simultaneously, and any single one needs plenty of preparation. So as an event presenter, I have to make sure that I make life as easy as possible for the production team as we work together to provide a stimulating event for the audience. On Saturday, one of the events I’m chairing brings together two distinct but related topics: whether as a society we medicalize mental illness too much, and whether people (medically or ethically) ought to be able to take the new generation of “smart drugs” that can dramatically improve concentration and ability to make decisions. We have great speakers: distinguished neuroscientist Barbara Sahakian, who is at the cutting edge of work on drugs that may sharpen our
83 capacities and perceptions, along with Richard Bentall, Professor of Psychology at Liverpool who is fiercely opposed to the way that society has used drugs to medicate mental health issues that may be much better treated by other non-pharmaceutical methods. We also have with us Clare Allan, whose 2006 novel Poppy Shakespeare was widely praised for its portrayal of a group of patients with mental health issues (based on her own experiences).
Clare Allan, Richard Bentall and Barbara Sahakian talk to Rana Mitter at the 2013 BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival
We need to get the most out of the guests for our live audience, and we also need to remember that the event will be recorded and broadcast to a radio audience later on. So much of my work will go into deciding how to structure the debate. Presenters will have sheets with some questions to cue up the speakers , and I sit with the producer to discuss the best way to structure the debate. What will people want to know about mental health issues? Are there points of difference between the speakers? (The latter not because we want a shouting match but because it’s often the best way to understand the point at issue if we have two experts coming at it from different directions). We have a novelist and two academics: how do we get the best out of that combination? Once we’re on stage, I will have the producer’s voice through my ear, giving some thoughts on where we should take the discussion – but in the end, it’s the presenter who has to gauge the audience, move the debate along, and connect the audience’s concerns to the voices onstage. Because there are sensitive issues, in particular mental health, at play, it’s important to make sure that we treat all topics is a way that is both incisive and appropriate. Fortunately, the event turns out to have a great combination of ingredients: guests who are expert and passionate, a topic of huge interest (unfortunately not everyone who wanted to attend could get into the room), and an audience that is well-versed in
84 the issues concerned. Of course, academic research was crucial to the debate. But the radio programme will have brought the insights from that research to a whole new audience that will never read journals of monographs. And that’s one of the reasons that, as a full-time academic who also broadcasts, it’s such a pleasure to be able to link two different worlds and (I hope) enable both sides to hear the best of each other. If you are interested in hearing the debate on smart drugs and mental health, you can find it at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g2wkm
Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at Oxford University
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