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INSIDE: PLUS: • First 100 Bursary Awarded • Centenary of Harold Wilson’s Birth • Geography Appeal Launched • Jesus College Through Generations • Plaque to the Leoline Jenkins Laboratories • Working in… Healthcare Unveiled Introduction Comment

CONTENTS WELCOME TO THE TRINITY TERM NEWSLETTER

Welcome from the Principal 2 It hardly seems possible College News 3 that I am approaching the Development News 4 end of my first year as Principal. A year full of new A Selection of Events so far 6 and interesting experiences A Few Moments with… Gavin Schmidt 8 combined with the pleasure Harold Wilson’s Centenary of Birth 10 of making new friends From the Archives: Harold Wilson at Jesus 12 amongst Fellows and staff, Alumni News 14 alumni and students. My family and I have felt very First Recipient of the First 100 Bursary 15 welcome here at Jesus. My Jesus College: Christopher Muttukumaru 16 2016 has seen many notable Fellows’ News 18 student achievements. Here Working in… Healthcare 19 are four that exemplify those achievements. Sophia Hall, Postcards from Overseas 23 recipient of the First 100 Bursary, was chosen by the BBC In Print and Forthcoming Events 24 to compose music, performed live at the Royal Festival Hall, for this year’s International Women’s Day. Christoph Weis and Philipp Kempski helped their team achieve a silver FROM THE EDITOR medal at the International Olympiad in Theoretical Physics. I am pleased to introduce Hannah Greenstreet won the award for the best overall another issue of the Newsletter. production at the Oxford University Drama Society New As ever, we are delighted to Writing Festival. Prime Minister David Cameron presented share with you achievements of MSc student Simon Bayliss with the National Teaching our alumni, students and Fellows. Award for Outstanding New Teacher. We love hearing from our Old Members about their time at Our Fellows continue to excel and bring great credit to Jesus, so please keep in touch the College. Examples include the award of a £5m grant with us by sending your letters from the Welcome Trust to develop and apply new imaging to the editor at nina.kruglikova@ methods to study cellular dynamics. No less than six of our jesus.ox.ac.uk. Fellows worked together to secure the grant: Professors Ian Davis, Martin Booth, Yvonne Jones, Paul Riley and Shankar In the meantime, we are delighted to let you know that we Srinivas. This is an excellent example of the collaborative are preparing a new history of the College to celebrate the spirit that the College engenders. Professor Susan Jebb has 450th anniversary of its foundation in 1571. We would be been in the news as Government Obesity Advisor. Her most grateful if you could help us by sharing your memories research is laying the foundations for effective policy in this of Jesus with the editorial team. Both stories and images important area of public health. Professor Paulina Kewes would be most welcome. If the latter, please scan pictures to us in the first instance. co-leads a fascinating project, Stuarts Online, a resource that brings scholarship on the Stuart era to a wider audience. As many reminiscences as possible will be included in the final text, but space will be limited and we therefore plan to A number of our alumni have been recognised in the last have an internal website to use as much of the material sent six months. Sir Edward Davey (1985), former Secretary to us. If you would prefer not to have your name attached of State for Energy and Climate Change, was knighted in to any submission used in the printed publication or online, the New Years Honours List. In the Queen’s 90th Birthday please do make it clear in your correspondence. Please Honours List Glyn Mathias (1963) was made an OBE for submit your comments and images to our archivist, Dr ‘public service and services to broadcasting in Wales’ and Robin Darwall-Smith, at [email protected]. You may Rajeeb Dey (2004) was awarded an MBE in recognition also make your submissions by post to Dr Robin Darwall- of his services to entrepreneurship. Elizabeth Price Smith, Jesus College, Turl Street, Oxford, OX1 3DW. (1985), winner of the 2012 Turner Prize, displayed her Dr Nina Kruglikova, Contemporary Art Society Award winning work in the Communications and Development Officer Ashmolean Museum. Professor Nigel Hitchin (1965), a Jesus 2 Introduction CollegeComment News WELCOME TO THE TRINITY TERM CHEMISTRY NEWSLETTER REUNION

College Honorary Fellow, has been awarded the Shaw Prize in Math­em­atical Sciences 2016. Carole Souter (1975) has been elected Master of St Cross College, Oxford. I wish her every success as Head of House. This year was my first Town and Gown Run: the Jesus team along with thousands of other runners raising money for the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. I was delighted to discover an algorithm that age corrected my time – apparently I had run much faster than I thought! I was also delighted to witness two of our boats not just bump the opposition at the Summer Eights on 28th May, but they did so directly in front of the College Boat House. Special congratulations to our rowing Blue Tom Cummins who was in the winning Isis team at this year’s Boat Race. We are proud of all our sports teams, Blues and half Blues. Our JCR organised a Staff Appreciation Drinks event in April. It was a really well received gesture and demonstrated the esteem in which our students hold the staff who do so much for them. In the six months since the last Newsletter we have witnessed events that inevitably touch the College and University. The attacks in Paris, Brussels, Orlando and From left: Professor Mark elsewhere remind us that terror and unreason are Brouard and Professor Derek ever-present threats. Our own Dr Caroline Warman Long collected and edited an excellent collection of essays Saturday 9th April from the Age of the Enlightenment – reminding us of 2016 saw the the fundamental importance of tolerance. Chemistry Reunion Most recently we have had the results of the EU with the unveiling Referendum. The consequences for Higher Education of the plaque to will be significant. The UK benefits from EU funding for the Leoline Jenkins research in science, technology, engineering, medicine, Laboratories as the social sciences and the humanities. We employ, with no highlight of the day. let or hindrance, outstanding researchers and staff from across the EU. The flow of students with the EU is a As one who once significant enrichment to this nation’s intellectual and worked there, Emer- cultural life. I hope that any settlement is able to retain itus Professor Derek and preserve these remarkable advantages. Long unveiled the plaque next to the What is certain is that Jesus is a community that values entrance to Staircase XVII, which reads as follows: ‘This build- and cherishes all of its members. We are, and will always ing was opened in 1907 as the Leoline Jenkins Laboratories, be, an open, tolerant and welcoming environment in one of the first college chemistry laboratories at the University which to study and work. of Oxford. Under the leadership of Dr D.L. Chapman (Fel- low 1907-44) it was distinguished for its teaching and research and, during the Second World War, it hosted secret atomic research codenamed the Tube Alloys project. The Laboratories closed in 1947.’ The labs are now occupied by one of the Col- Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Principal of Jesus College lege’s three libraries. 3 Development News Comment

UK-CHINA HIGHER EDUCATION FORUM

Visit of the Chinese delegation to On 19th February 2016, the Ship Street Centre delegates meeting the Pro Vice-Chancellor the Fellows’ Library at Jesus College was proud to be the venue Professor Nick Rawlins, a visit to the Rhodes for the UK-China Higher Education Forum, House to meet the Warden and hear about organised by Oxford Prospects Programmes. the newly launched Rhodes Scholars in China Panel discussions on the topic of globalisation programme, and a dinner at St Hugh’s College, and collaboration in higher education included attended by the Jesus College Principal, Sir ‘Developing a University’s International Nigel Shadbolt. The participating universities Strategy’ with speakers Professor Ying Wang from China were: Tsinghua University, Fudan (Director of Academics, Fudan University), University, Jilin University, Shanghai Jiaotong Professor Vincent Emery (Pro Vice-Chancellor University, Zhejiang University, Xiamen of Surrey University), Mr Loren Griffith University, Nanjing University and Nankai (Director of Oxford International Office) and University. UK institutions included: Imperial Ms Hilary Layton (Director of International College, York University, Surrey University and Office, York University); and ‘Global impact of Warwick University. UK/China Collaboration in Higher Education’ with speakers Sir Drummond Bone (Master Jesus College is currently fundraising for a new of Balliol College), Professor Hong Gao (Vice- endowed Graduate Studentship Fund for a Provost of Tsinghua University), Professor student ordinarily resident in Hong Kong or David Gann CBE (Vice-President of Imperial mainland China. College) and Ms Ying Xu (Director of For further information please contact our Internationals, Zhejiang University). Senior Development Executive: rachel.page@ Other highlights of the Forum included the jesus.ox.ac.uk; +44 (0)1865 616812. 4 DevelopmentComment News

GEOGRAPHY APPEAL Jesus College is launching an appeal to endow £900,000 towards the endowment of two a Tutorial Fellowship in Geography. This Geography Fellowships. It has allowed us to endowment will help secure the future of endow the College side of the Geography tutorial teaching of Geography at the College. Fellowship held by Professor Patricia Daley It could be said that Geography is better placed with a fund of £600,000. It also enables us than any other academic subject to tackle the to put £300,000 towards the endowment most pressing challenges of the 21st century of the second Fellowship, currently held by on a global scale – problems which increasingly Dr Richard Grenyer, a physical geographer. affect us all, such as climate change, forced We now need to raise £300,000 to match migration, globalisation, resource competition, it. We aim to achieve this by April 2019. The sustainability and rapid urban growth. Fellowship will be named after Lord John Krebs and Professor Colin Clarke. In order to endow a Geography Fellowship in perpetuity, the College needs to raise For further information please contact our £600,000. In 2015 we received an astonishingly Senior Development Executive: rachel.page@ generous donation towards Geography at jesus.ox.ac.uk; +44 (0)1865 616812. Jesus College. Mr Victor Wood (1944) gave TELETHON 2016

Telethon team with the Director of Development (left), the Principal (middle) and the Annual Fund Manager (right) The annual telephone campaign went off to and scholarships that will enable us to make a flying start on 9th April. As usual, the calling a tangible difference to current and future took place in the Upper SCR with a team of students. Equally, if not more important, were twelve dedicated and enthusiastic students the calibre of the conversations with advice telephoning alumni to talk about careers, and insights being so freely shared between College and the annual Development Fund. current and former students. As one of the The team, who comprised both MCR and many ways we stay in touch with alumni, we JCR members, called over two weeks in the were also able to give updates on the newest evenings and weekends. We had a fantastic developments in College. On behalf of the time as a team with haikus being written and entire team, we would like to thank all who many chocolate treats consumed. partook and to say that we look forward to future conversations. Financially, the response has also been fantastic with over £148,037 raised to date, which is a For further information and to ensure that we huge testament to the generosity of our donor have up to date contact details please contact community. This money will be used to fund our Annual Fund Manager: casper.bangert@ immediate priorities, such as access bursaries jesus.ox.ac.uk +44 (0)1865 279740. 5 Events Comment A SELECTION OF EVENTS SO FAR

Town and Gown Run. 15th May 2016

Benefactors Dinner. 26th April 2016 Benefactors Dinner. 26th April 2016 Chemistry Reunion. 9th April 2016 Chemistry Reunion. 9th April 2016

Drinks Reception for Said Business School Associate Drinks Reception for Said Business School Associate Gaudy. Year 2011. 18th March 2016 Members. 18th February 2016 Members. 18th February 2016 6 CommentEvents

JR Green Reunion. 8th January 2016 JR Green Reunion. 8th January 2016 Parents’ Brunch. 28th May 2016

Summer Eights. 28th May 2016 7 A Few Moments with… Comment GAVIN SCHMIDT (Mathematics, 1985)

Dr Gavin Schmidt is the Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. He was appointed in June 2014 after the retirement of long-time director James E. Hansen, becoming the third person to hold the post since 1961. Dr Schmidt is also a co-founder of the climate science blog ‘RealClimate.org’ and was awarded the inaugural American Geophysical Union Climate Communication Prize in 2011. His 2014 TED talk on climate models has been seen over 1 million times.

Can you remember why you chose Jesus College? was a great experience; everyone camped out Yes – it seemed like it was more normal than in an old masonic lodge. I also did lighting for some of the other colleges. I was coming from a couple of summer outdoor Shakespeare an ordinary comprehensive with no track events ‘All’s Well’ and ‘Twelfth Night’. Oh and, record of sending people to Oxbridge, and the College pool ‘B’ team. We weren’t very Jesus not only said that they welcomed people good, but we had fun. like me but actually followed through. Do you think you were conscientious as a student? What are your most cherished memories from Initially no. In my first year I basically coasted your time at College? and didn’t really distinguish myself. The The first (and so far, only) time I cleared the summer of Year 2 I decided that this was a bit pool table from the break. Cycling to the Perch of a waste and so I knuckled down, particularly for Sunday lunch. Beating the quiz machines at in the last six months of the last year. I won an a pub on George St. Getting a First. exhibition and ended up with a First. …and what are your least? What did you do immediately after leaving Breaking the ice off my hands rowing for the College? third boat in the dark at 6am in December. The I travelled. I arranged a work visa for the feeling of dismay when it became abundantly summer in the US. I ended up in Boston clear, two minutes in, that the effort I made working as a security guard at a Gucci store prior to my first tutorial was totally and utterly and driving cars for Avis Car Rental out of inadequate. Logan Airport. The latter job didn’t last long Did any staff members make a lasting impression after I crashed into a car on the Hertz parking on you? lot. Oops. I then travelled across the US to New Zealand and then spent a year and a half Yes. David Acheson and Peter Clifford – both in Australia, again on a work travel visa. There, Maths tutors. I waited tables, picked grapes, tutored high What clubs and societies were you involved in schoolers and ran a youth hostel in Perth in outside of studying? between travelling through the Nullabor, diving I was quite involved in the Student Union the Great Barrier Reef, breaking down off the and I was on the JCR Council (is that what it main road 200 miles from the nearest town was called?) for two or three terms. I think I and meeting some absolutely fabulous people. ran a stationery shop or something. I enjoyed I came back to the UK via South and South being involved in drama though – I’m not sure East Asia after about two years away, eager to how it happened but I went to the Edinburgh do something more intellectual than just the Fringe with the Oxford Theatre Group which Guardian crossword once a week. 8 A Few MomentsComment with…

Dr Schmidt’s presentation in the Ship What does your current work involve? What is the most important lesson life has Street Centre on 4th May 2016 I run a NASA research lab of about 150 taught you? people, mostly scientists, and I’m the principal Almost nothing is as important as it seems. investigator on a big project to develop and But a few things are far more so. improve climate simulations, including for What, if anything, would you have done newly discovered exoplanets. So my day differently? is made up of dealing with people, having fascinating conversations about research and Joining the boat crew for a term was not a sneaking a little science in between conference good use of my time. I should have trusted my calls, media requests and writing. instincts more. Have you found the experiences and education Who, if anyone, has been your role model and you received at Jesus College to be useful in your why? working life? I’ve always been intrigued by those who Obviously your early adult years leave a big communicate science well – Carl Sagan, of impression – but it’s hard to know what part course, but also people like Isaac Asimov, of that was specifically related to being at Martin Gardiner, Steven Jay Gould and Oxford. Being able to try a lot of different Stephen Schneider. When I was younger, things in a reasonably compact community Richard Feynman was also an inspiration, but was certainly a great opportunity. The key as I’ve spent more time thinking about science lesson, a great deal can be accomplished in a as an enterprise, his flaws loom larger, so his short amount of time if one works intensely, role as a role model has diminished. has stuck. Sum up your experiences at Jesus College in a What advice would you give to recent graduates? nutshell. Do what you love and try to find a way to get You grow up a lot from age 18 to 21. paid for it. A truism, but almost all the people I know who made this work are happier than the ones who didn’t. 9 Feature Comment HAROLD WILSON’S CENTENARY OF BIRTH by Professor Glen O’Hara Professor Glen O’Hara was at Jesus College between 1993 and 1997, taking an MA in Modern History and an MSc in Economic and Social History. He is now Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of a series of books about modern Britain, including ‘From Dreams to Disillusionment: Economic and Social Planning in 1960s Britain’ (2007) and ‘The Paradoxes of Progress: Governing Post-War Britain, 1951-1973’ (2011). He is currently finishing a book entitled ‘A History of Water in Modern Britain’ (forthcoming, 2016). He blogs, in a personal capacity, at Public Policy and the Past, as well as for The New Statesman, and can be followed on Twitter as @gsoh31. James Harold Wilson (1916-1995) won radical reformer, struggling with the inflationary four elections as Labour Party leader – one economic slowdown of the late 1960s and more than his recent successor, Tony Blair, – early 1970s, but still possessing the power and was Prime Minister for eight years in to unify, heal and lead in dark and uncertain the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. Yet for many days. Incipient environmental crisis and fears of years his reputation lay in abeyance, almost widespread shortage; the Cold War and the an embarrassment to his party and often Vietnam War, which bitterly divided opinion forgotten by the country – a strange fate for in the West; the oil shock and the inflationary a man who it once seemed, if only fleetingly, price rises it brought in its train; trade union had established Labour as the natural party of militancy and industrial strife: to all of these government and himself as a kindly, avuncular crises Wilson brought a calm head, a seemingly uncle or father figure to the nation. unlimited indefatigability and an attempt to forge a socially democratic ‘middle way’ long There were many reasons for this relative fall before the Social Democratic Party, ‘New’ from grace. Wilson set himself to take the Labour, ‘Compassionate’ Conservatism or the country and his party through very difficult ‘Big Society’ were even foreshadowed. economic times without allowing them to fall apart – in which endeavour he could seem Much of this was down to his academic endlessly obsessed with tactics, and that great background. As a young man at Jesus College art of media self-representation which would in Oxford between 1934 and 1937, he studied later become known as ‘spin’. The early lustre Modern History and Politics, Philosophy and and glamour that attached to his call for Economics (or ‘Modern Greats’ as it was economic regeneration in the ‘white heat’ of the initially styled). He excelled at both, driven to ‘technological revolution’ faded after sterling’s ever greater feats of hard work partly by the devaluation in 1967. In his last stint in No. 10, liberating feeling of discovering the scale and he became convinced that there were hidden scope of what was intellectually available, but intelligence plots against his government taking perhaps more deeply by a feeling that tutors place behind the scenes and began to seem (perhaps in particular the political theorist defensive, even obsessive. GDH Cole of University College) appreciated him and what he had to say. Though he As so often, however, the passing of time perhaps never saw himself as any great or novel has leant a little perspective, and more of a thinker, he was self-consciously an assimilator, sense of detachment. Wilson’s stock among a synthesiser, absorbing enormous quantities contemporary historians has seemingly risen of information while at his books before and risen ever since his death, after a long presenting plausible and deeply researched struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, in 1995. The essays. late Ben Pimlott’s 1992 biography of Wilson, researched and written as Labour once against Wilson won the Gladstone Memorial Prize attempted to modernise itself and return to for his essay ‘The State and Railways, 1823-63’, power, presented Wilson as a committed and secured a brilliant First, and went on to work 10 CommentFeature

for the great progenitor himself as a man of the world, a black-coated of Britain’s welfare state, clerk of governance or trusted family doctor to Sir William Beveridge, whom one would turn in adversity: though his who was at that time Parliamentary majority in 1964 was very small, Master of University he was able to boost it to 96 in 1966. College. The sheer It was at this stage that things began seriously volume of data on which to deteriorate. After defending sterling’s dollar he worked so patiently value for three years, Wilson’s government for Beveridge, focusing was forced into devaluation in November on unemployment and 1967, a blow from which his reputation never the trade cycle, suited quite recovered: in other policy areas, long his tastes as a Northern negotiations in the search for independence grammar school boy in Rhodesia, a failed attempt to enter the attending what was then, perhaps, still a rather European Economic Community, and unfashionable college: humiliating rebuffs to any role to forge an he became still more independent policy over Vietnam, wore down of a self-consciously Wilson’s impressive physical resilience without practical, reformist yielding any real results. and administrative By 1976 and a second ministry chiefly notable ‘roundhead’ to the for its ‘social contract’ with the unions (an socialist and Keynesian agreement that traded industrial peace for cavaliers around him in social concessions and a policy-making role Oxford politics at that for organised labour), Wilson seemed simply time. exhausted. Though his resignation came as Alan Warren © These then went on a shock to many, it probably came as a relief to be some of the defining hallmarks of his to him and especially to his long-suffering political career. Wilson was, in the 1950s, seen wife, Mary Wilson, who had never sought as a Left-wing Bevanite, having resigned from the spotlight and had at the outset of their the Cabinet with Health Secretary Aneurin marriage imagined life as the wife of an Oxford Bevan over the issue of National Health Service academic. charges in 1951. Though nominally of the ‘Left’ All that said, Wilson’s governments passed the in the 1950s, however, Wilson soon diverged first legislation to outlaw racial discrimination from the Bevanites, and began to forge his own and passed the first laws insisting on equal pay path as an able theorist of the welfare state for women. He vastly increased the education and the managed economy in his own right. budget, so that for the first time it overtook For Wilson, post-war Conservatism may have defence spending. There were massive pushes made its peace with the trade unions, higher on council housing, road building and new wages and low unemployment, but Britain’s universities. There was the Open University, infrastructure was out-of-date, investment Wilson’s own pet project and a life-changing was too low, planning horizons were far too higher education revolution for those who short-term, and innovation was positively wanted to better themselves. The Wilson discouraged. years saw the shadow of the death penalty It was this analysis that brought him to Labour’s lifted and abortion law reformed. He set leadership in 1963, at the tragic early death of up the Department of the Environment his predecessor, Hugh Gaitskell, and launched and the standing Royal Commission on the him on the road to the premiership with his Environment, recognising public concern and most famous speech to Labour’s Scarborough pressing need on that front. He kept the UK Conference in the autumn of 1963 – the out of the war in Vietnam. Pensions rose. moment at which he coined the phrase ‘the Wages rose. Productivity rose, to an all-time white heat of the technological revolution’, with high; unemployment remained fairly low, by which he will forever be associated. At a time subsequent standards; growth stayed strong. when the Conservative Government under For all these reasons, as well as his evocation Harold Macmillan and then Alec Douglas- of the ‘technological revolution’ which he Home had come to seem old-fashioned, sensed, perhaps far ahead of his time, Wilson’s tired, ageing and Edwardian, Wilson presented reputation has risen, and bids fair to keep rising. 11 From the Archives Comment HAROLD WILSON AT JESUS Dr Robin Darwall-Smith FSA FRHistS In a year when we celebrate the centenary of a record of his progress through the College, the birth of Harold Wilson, it would be pleasing first of all with his many prizes and scholarships, to report that we have more about him in the and then his prime ministership. archives than we actually do. But here are a It is well known that Wilson did not play a few traces of one of our very greatest Old prominent role in College life when he was Members from the archives and elsewhere. here, preferring to get on with his work. But at First of all, at the bottom of this page, you the end of his time at Jesus, people woke up will see the card created for Wilson when he to the remarkable figure in their midst. So the came up in 1934. We have long created these Jesus College Magazine of June 1937 included Harold Wilson’s College record card cards for our new members, and you can see this fine photo of him, shown on the top

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Photo of Harold Wilson from the Jesus College Magazine, June Harold Wilson visiting Jesus in 1969 1937 Photo reproduced by kind permission of Chris Rapley (1966)

Portrait of Harold Wilson in the Dining Hall Lord Wilson’s Garter banner in the Chapel left-hand corner. The Magazine had an article Of course, so great an Old Member needs to called ‘Valete’ about College members about have a portrait of himself in the Hall, and many to go down, in which, amongst all the sporting readers of the Newsletter will recognise the hearties, the writer added, ‘Even Harold portrait of Wilson by Ruskin Spear. There is, Wilson may leave to continue his brilliant however, a portrait of Wilson down the road academic career elsewhere’. There was also a at University College, where he became a JRF jocular article called ‘Sayings of Schoolsmen’, in on leaving here. Here is a good parlour game: which ‘J. H. W-L-ON’ said, ‘I dreamt of Leibniz how many people have portraits of themselves last night’. in more than one Oxbridge Dining Hall? Later members of Jesus took an interest in Finally, we show a more poignant relic of Wilson. When he visited the College in 1969, Wilson, namely his Garter banner, which once Professor Christopher Rapley (1966) took hung in St George’s Chapel Windsor, but which some photos of the event, including one of came to the College after his death and is now Wilson speaking from High Table. displayed in our own Chapel.

13 Alumni News Comment NEW MASTER OF ST CROSS

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The Fellows of St Cross College have elected Master of St Cross since 2011. Speaking about Carole Souter (PPE, 1975) CBE as the next her appointment, Carole said, ‘I am delighted Master of the College. She will take up office to be succeeding Sir Mark Jones as Master in September 2016. Since 2003 Carole has of St Cross in September. He has delivered been Chief Executive of the National Heritage a spectacular legacy for the College with the Memorial Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund, West Quad and I am really looking forward before which she worked in the Civil Service. In to seeing the new facilities come to life. I have addition to her Oxford degree, Carole has an been overwhelmed by the warmth of welcome MA in Victorian Studies from the University of from those members of the College family I London and is a Fellow of the RSA, the Society have already met. It is a privilege to join the of Antiquaries, and a member of the Academy College team as it builds on its first 50 years of Urbanism. She is an Honorary Fellow of our and goes forward from strength to strength College and was awarded the CBE in 2011 for into the future.’ Sir Mark added, ‘I am delighted services to conservation. to welcome Carole Souter as my successor. She brings an outstanding reputation from the Carole will take up office in September 2016, Heritage Lottery Fund and is ideally fitted to succeeding Sir Mark Jones, who has been lead St Cross into its second half-century.’ 14 StudentComment News SOPHIA HALL First Recipient of the First 100 Bursary

Gillman & Soame © We are delighted to announce that we have The first bursary was awarded to Sophia Hall, reached our target of £100,000 to endow a Music student, in October 2015. Sophia is the First 100 Bursary. The first 100 women making the most of her first year at Jesus, both joined the College as undergraduates and academically and personally, and is a member graduate students between 1974 and 1976. of the Oxford University Jazz Band. She was In 2014, to mark the 40th anniversary of this chosen as a young female composer by the milestone, Jesus College launched an appeal BBC to compose and workshop a piece for to establish a bursary in celebration of the this year’s International Women’s Day in first 100 pioneering women who crossed the collaboration with composer Anna Meredith. threshold as students, with the aim of ensuring Her piece was performed live from the Royal that others have the opportunity to follow Festival Hall on the BBC Radio 3 programme in their footsteps. We are thrilled that we In Tune, presented by Suzy Klein, alongside will be able to commemorate the milestone famous works by Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara of co-education in the College’s history. The Schumann, Imogen Holst, Rebecca Clarke and first 100 women can be very proud of their Cheryl Frances-Hoad. achievement in supporting exceptional talent We would like to thank all the donors to this and enabling outstanding students to study appeal for your tremendous show of support here at College. for the First 100 Bursary. 15 Comments Comment MY JESUS COLLEGE Christopher Muttukumaru CB (Jurisprudence, 1970)

Since 1911, Jesus College has influenced while the fire service raced up Staircase V. the lives of three generations of my family. That was impressive until the fire hose broke The College has embraced its overseas free from its anchor on the fire engine and fledglings and provided us with constancy limply bounced past us. Then the Home Bursar and inspiration. Jesus means everything from (a former military officer) realised that the Hall continuity to challenge; from friendship to fun; ceiling was likely to collapse and that priceless from enthusiasm to excellence. Why? paintings needed rescuing. Leading a motley assortment of long-haired young men, he Continuity first. The College is always there supervised the rescue of all the paintings save for us. Given the College’s position in central Oxford, its buildings and gardens are a place one (as the fire took hold above). The only of tranquillity and of welcome. Even the ex topic of conversation was not the health and paratroop sergeant who was Head Porter safety implications of the rescue; rather there in 1970, while stern, cared about the flower- was a raucous debate about whether Robin powered, pampered youth of his time. Wilson, then a Mathematics don, would save Continuity also meant the return of many his father’s portrait or someone else’s. Old Members for the Quatercentenary Enthusiastic endeavour was encouraged. celebrations. Their affection for the College Outstanding tutors tried heroically to nurture was palpable. The Old Members’ Building, built nascent talent. They also fostered enthusiasm with Quatercentenary donations, is permanent for extra-curricular activity. Everyone had evidence of that affinity. Continuity does not a chance to play sport, sing in choirs or act mean stagnation. Jesus, leading the challenge in College plays. The Caroline Society, for to received wisdom, was the college which led example, put on three productions in four the group of five colleges which decided that terms – of ‘Alice in Wonderland’, ‘Antigone’ women should be admitted as undergraduates. and ‘Volpone’. Two were performed in the rain It was a momentous signal that the College was and mud in the LMH Rose Garden. Stoicism, The handbill for the Jesus not only 400 years old but also wise beyond its as well as enthusiasm! Excellence? Whether College Quatercentenary years. It has never ceased to challenge itself, not in accountancy, as members of Parliament, as Miscellany, performed in the College Hall in the summer least with the appointment of a new principal doctors, as Queen’s Counsel, as teachers or of 1971 whose expertise lies in the development of IT. College lecturers, as members of the public Why friendship? The service and even as head of an Oxford college, friendships formed our contemporaries have excelled in society. It on our first day have was an exhilarating environment in which to lasted. Many of those grow up. friends together, 46 The Miscellany to celebrate the College’s years later, lead the foundation was written by the BBC’s Douglas 1970 Fundraising Group. Cleverdon in 1971. I played Dom Moraes The group seeks to who remarkably won the Hawthornden Prize support the College in 1958 while still an undergraduate at Jesus. through a fundraising His poetry is largely forgotten but it deserves initiative that, through more attention: regular, modest giving, may one day pay rich ‘But breezes talk to trees dividends. Fun? We had While seasons come and go fun, even in moments of high drama. When a And in frail winter light serious fire broke out Pale feathers of the snow above the Hall in 1971, a number of us stood Will flutter and alight idly in the Front Quad Bearing a branch of peace…’ 16 CommentsComment

The First and Second Generations of the Muttukumaru Family at Jesus College the more remarkable careers embarked upon by Old Members…[since he had had] three distinct careers…’ Anton, having read PPE, was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn (where, coincidentally, his youngest son became a Bencher in 2010). He practised in Ceylon until the outbreak of World War II, when he became an officer in the Ceylon Light Infantry. Having been demobilised in 1945, he rejoined the Army prior to Ceylon’s independence. According to an obituary of Anton in The Daily Telegraph in April 2001, he had been chief of staff to the Earl of Caithness and had become the first Ceylonese Army Commander in 1955, ‘perhaps a surprise choice [as a Tamil] The Queen invests Anton with the The link between Ceylonese students and Jesus to lead an essentially Sinhalese army at a Coronation Medal in 1953 is longstanding. It is not clear how or when that time of mounting ethnic violence.’ In 1960 link was formed. FH de Winton, a Fellow of Anton became a diplomat, serving initially as the College, travelled to Ceylon in 1879 to High Commissioner in Pakistan, subsequently take up the first of a number of ecclesiastical in Australia and finally as Ambassador in appointments and was eventually Archdeacon Egypt. In retirement, Anton wrote ‘A Military of Colombo from 1902 to 1925. Given the History of Ceylon’. An accomplished pianist, small Christian community in Colombo, it is and violinist, he composed music, including not impossible that he encouraged applicants ‘An Ode to Anzac’, first performed in 1965 to apply to Jesus. at the Australian War Memorial on the 50th Cyril Brito-Mutunayagam (1911) read for a anniversary of the Gallipoli landings. He BCL degree at Jesus. The legal connection had collected walking sticks (at one time, he had begun with Cyril’s grandfather, Christopher the second largest walking stick collection in Brito, known as ‘Advocate’ Brito. Advocate the world), including two gun sticks and two Brito had been a Deputy Queen’s Advocate. 19th century Harrovian headmasters’ canes, He was also a famous Tamil scholar, translating given to him by the Headmaster of Harrow! in 1876 ‘A Tamil History of the Kingdom of The Telegraph noted that, as Caithness’s chief Anton outside Staircase III in 1955 Jaffna’ prepared for the Dutch Governor of of staff, Anton led contingents of soldiers for Jaffna in the eighteenth century. the Victory Parade in 1946, for the funeral The translation and his lengthy of George VI in 1952 and for the Queen’s accompanying narrative are coronation in 1953. The third occasion still in print. Cyril’s own father ‘included a personal invitation, couched was Mr Justice Mutunayagam, a as a command, from the future Queen to puisne judge of the Travancore attend the service in Westminster Abbey. But High Court. After Oxford, Muttukumaru decided instead to march with Cyril became a barrister and his soldiers. The Queen…congratulated him was eventually appointed as on the smartness of his men, as they mounted a Crown Counsel in Ceylon. guard at Buckingham Palace along with [the He subsequently became Guards] on the eve of her coronation. In 1954, Principal of the Law College in she appointed him as an ADC [aide de camp].’ Colombo. The Queen is known to be a strong supporter Anton Muttukumaru came up of the Commonwealth and solicitous about in 1928. In the College Record her former ADCs. Once Anton retired, he of 1992/93, John Walsh, would still return to England every two years Emeritus Fellow, wrote an and she would grant him an audience on each article about Anton, recalling visit. that Anton had had ‘one of Christopher Muttukumaru CB (1970) 17 Fellows’ News Comment MAKING HEALTHCARE SAFER

Charles Vincent is Professor of Psychology, Lead for Patient Safety in the Oxford Academic Health Science Network and Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College. He trained as a clinical psychologist and began his academic career at University College in London. In 2002 he moved to the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College, where he led the Centre for Patient Safety. His most recent book is ‘Safer Healthcare. Strategies for the Real World’ which is freely available through Springer Open Access. While healthcare Can healthcare be as safe as brings great benefits, all aviation? treatments and many Politicians often cite aviation as the investigations carry model to which healthcare should aspire. some risk. Healthcare In commercial aviation exposure to risk is perhaps the most is controlled, as when an airline grounds complex and hazard- flights in bad weather; there are also ous environment of strict controls on how many hours pilots any of the safety critical can fly and how long they must rest. industries but has been Radiotherapy, blood products, imaging slower than many oth- systems and the management of drugs in er industries in system- pharmacy are like aviation in being highly atically studying how to regulated and very reliable. In many areas improve patient safety. of healthcare, however, such as obstetrics My research over many years has addressed a and surgery, risk cannot be avoided but must simple question: how can we make healthcare be managed with strong teamwork and a safer? culture which encourages people to speak up when they notice potential problems. Managing risk in healthcare Looking ahead Studies in many countries have shown that about 10% of hospital patients suffer some Standards of care and patient outcomes are harmful event caused by healthcare rather improving all the time, but healthcare systems than their disease; most of these are minor but are facing unprecedented challenges which a proportion are serious. These events include will pose new risks. An ageing population, complications of surgery, falls, pressure ulcers increasing complexity and comorbidities, and an incredible pace of innovation, contrast and urinary tract infections associated with sharply with the limited capacity of healthcare use of catheters. Frail older people in hospital systems and the realities of financial austerity. are more vulnerable to delirium, depression Healthcare will increasingly be delivered in and other problems if care is not of optimal people’s homes; we will have to give much standard. more attention to errors that can be made We now have a much better understanding by patients and families with drugs and of the causes of error and harm, and of new technologies. My colleagues and I are ways of improving safety. For instance, the currently working on developing a menu of introduction of the World Health Organisation risk management strategies that can be used Surgical Safety Checklist has had huge impact by everyone from patients and frontline staff worldwide. The checklist ensures that the to hospital boards and regulators. We hope operating theatre team fully understands the that this will provide us with a much richer surgical procedure, the equipment needed and more comprehensive set of strategies and and that essential steps in the process such as interventions to ensure the safety of patients antibiotic prophylaxis are not forgotten. across all the settings of healthcare. 18 AlumniComment News WORKING IN… HEALTHCARE Phil Clayton (Physiology, 1991) Looking back, the learning environment at Jesus helped me learn and understand the at Jesus was very stimulating. The science of Paediatrics – I managed to get challenge of memorising many dry through the exams quite quickly. I married medical facts was made more relevant Suzanne, another doctor, and settled in by strong scientific undergirding.Aylesbury. I realised that my heart was in my The experience of doing new emerging family, my community and church as undergraduate research (mine was well as family medicine, so I then returned to pinging magnetic fields into my friends’ Oxford (Cowley) to train as a GP, getting a brains) was an incredible opportunity distinction in yet more exams (MRCGP), then became a GP Partner in Aylesbury where I also and just laid on for us as part of the live. Following that, for seven years I worked course. The close medical student back in Oxford a day a week seeing sick kids community was a good support. The as a paediatrician in the John Radcliffe Hospital, tutorials at Jesus and other colleges worked and the rest of the week as a GP. I continue to well to summarise and consolidate the work as a GP and children’s allergy doctor at bewildering array of lectures, kept us working the John Radcliffe, which is a lovely balance. hard and gave us confidence in our subject. I am also gratefully aware of how the tutorial Studying at Jesus improved my scientific system helped tutors pick up on areas where I understanding of medicine, helped with clear, needed to improve my learning skills and exam creative and sceptical thinking, exam techniques, and gave me some passion, skills and discipline technique. to learn and study further. It was also lots of Working as a junior doctor in London, I found fun and some of the extra-curricular activities, myself doing postgraduate exams in Paediatrics such as music which I did then, continue today. (MRCPCH). Digging out those files recently, I And I can’t seem to shake off Oxford from my realised how the scientific foundation I received working life! Professor Antony Denman (Physics, 1967) While I was at Jesus studying Physics, I had no Hospital in September 1972 and becoming idea that physicists worked in hospitals. head of department in 1976 when my boss Disappointed when I was not offered retired. a postgraduate research post in the Oxford Atomic Physics Department, The work included planning cancer patient I got a holiday job in the Sterile treatments in radiotherapy and ensuring patient Services Department of Queen Mary’s and staff radiation safety both in radiotherapy Hospital, Carshalton. Fortunately, and the rest of the hospital. Shortly after starting, nuclear medicine – injecting short- the head of department was very lived radioactive isotopes into patients to help friendly with the chief biochemist, diagnosis – developed. At first, everything Dr Jan Stern, and the message came was done on paper and with slide rules. Over back – did I know that physicists the years the introduction of computers and worked in hospitals? Through his new technology – linear accelerators, CT and connections, I spent a day in the nearest MRI scanners, new short-lived isotopes like cancer hospital – which just happened to be technetium-99m – have resulted in a huge the internationally renowned Royal Marsden – expansion of the work of physicists in the and the rest, as they say, is history. Well, it was hospital, so that when I left Northampton one year as a Research Biochemistry Technician, General Hospital at the end of 2007, there was and one year on an MSc in Radiation Biology at a team of 12 physicists and 15 technicians. the Royal Free Hospital, before landing the job of Assistant Physicist at Northampton General These days undergraduates do not need 19 Alumni News Comment

to rely on chance, as the four-year physics Hospital, and the way to become a medical degree at Oxford includes the possibility of a physicist has been formalised into a national few undergraduates working at the Churchill scheme of placements and MSc. Shona Jacobsberg (Mathematics, 1994) When I was nine, I changed schools would use my degree, when a friend at College after my family moved house. My dragged me along to a recruitment evening Mathematics teacher was surprised for the NHS Graduate Management Training by my aptitude for the subject and Scheme. The people I met at the event really predicted that I would go to Oxford hit a chord, so I applied and happily worked to read Mathematics. Nine years later, as an NHS manager, across three different I found myself fulfilling this prophesy. I London trusts, for five years. However, I missed had picked Jesus, mainly because, when the human contact that I had experienced as a I rang up to enquire about visiting the Health Care Assistant, and when I read about College, the porters had seemed really the graduate medical degree that had been set friendly. An impression borne out in up at St George’s, University of London, I felt person! To fund my degree (or rather that this might be my calling. my travelling habit), in addition to working Fourteen years of training later and fifteen behind the bar, I also worked as a Health months of becoming a consultant, on the eve Care Assistant. This experience was very of the first all-out junior doctors’ strike, I find humbling as I met so many amazing people, myself unsure of what both the future of the who maintained immense dignity in the face of NHS and my future career will hold. However, physical frailty. my time at Jesus has well prepared me for In my final year at Jesus, I was unclear how I coping with adversity and uncertainty. Dr Daniel Kapitan (Physics, 1994) I am indebted to the EU for providing what is known today as data science, and the opportunity to study at Oxford particularly so in healthcare. If machines can on two accounts. Having finished my predict which books we are most likely to bachelor at Leiden University in the enjoy reading next, surely these algorithms Netherlands, I was awarded an Erasmus can be used to predict which treatment will exchange scholarship to conduct result in the highest increase in quality of life my Master’s research project at the at the lowest possible cost? As Chief Data Clarendon Labs. That first year flew by, Officer at an integrated healthcare provider and as I was packing my bags – having in the Netherlands, my daily work focuses on reconciled myself with the numerous acquiring, ‘munging’ and using a wide spectrum rejections in my attempts to obtain a of clinical data to optimise the care we provide full scholarship – I was over the moon at our GP practices, mental care practices and when Colin Webb offered me a DPhil position specialty clinics in 100 locations across the as part of a European research programme. It country. To me, data science really is about was only logical that I would join Jesus, and experimenting. More than ever, established have thoroughly enjoyed my three years there practices based on double-blind randomised as a graduate student. clinical studies are being challenged. I believe that the democratisation of data in the Fast forward 20 years. My modelling and healthcare domain has only just begun. analytics skills have proven very valuable in

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Jonathan Musgrave (Greats, 1959) My entry into healthcare was indirect. Pre-Clinical Dean to armies of medical, dental After finishing Greats in 1963, I stayed and veterinary students for thirteen, sat on on for a year to obtain a Diploma Admissions Committees for twenty, mentored in Anthropology. A precarious year trainee surgeons and examined countless followed as a part-time office boy at human remains for the police and coroners. the Royal Anthropological Institute What skills did I learn at Jesus that prepared and part-time MSc student in the me for this unexpected career? Reading Department of Anatomy at the Royal Greats was challenging and rewarding. Free Hospital School of Medicine. In Principally, it gave me the courage to explore 1965 Churchill College Cambridge interesting ways of earning a living. After its rescued me with a Research literary rigours, my practical side emerged. Studentship. In 1968, with an almost Ethnography, Prehistory and Quaternary complete PhD thesis on Neanderthal, Upper Geology classes were a delight. I even learnt Palaeolithic and earlier hands (awarded 1970), to draw, not very well, but enough to help me I came to Bristol as an Assistant Lecturer in understand and explain complex anatomical Anatomy. relationships later. I also became a competent During my 48 years here I have taught human dissector, not something that entered my head anatomy to medical and dental students, had when I stepped into the College in October a go at veterinary anatomy, run the human 1959. Dissecting Room for sixteen years, served as Thank you, Coll. Iesu, for nurturing me. Dr David Steel OBE (PPE, 1966) After PPE at Jesus (where I was the new national bodies responsible for setting first JCR President to serve for a and monitoring standards of care. Since my year rather than a term) and a DPhil retirement in 2009, I have reverted to the at Nuffield, I embarked upon what I world of research, through an honorary expected to be an academic career appointment at Aberdeen University. in the Politics Department at Exeter I count myself extremely fortunate to have University in 1972. However, in 1979 had a hybrid career, most of it in an area as I was appointed to serve as a non- rewarding as the NHS. Throughout, my training executive on the local health authority, in political science, economics and (although I which proved to be the first step out didn’t appreciate it at the time) philosophy has of academia into the world of NHS proved invaluable; the tutorial system equipped policy and management where I me well for handling new and challenging worked for the next 25 years. After a couple of issues and managing people with much greater years at what is now the NHS Confederation, knowledge of the subject matter than myself; I moved to Edinburgh, where I had five senior and my experience in the JCR provided a NHS posts, including a period on secondment good induction to the arts of negotiation to the Scottish Health Department and, as and controlling articulate and at times unruly Chief Executive, establishing and running two colleagues.

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Brad Wilson (Geography, 1967) When I think about my thirty-year Jesus and the ability to meet and interact with career in the healthcare space and so large a variety of fellow students is a big plus. how an Oxford/Jesus College tutorial I have been lucky enough to have worked for education helped me, there are three some great companies in the healthcare sector or four points that come to mind: and have founded and invested in two of my firstly, learning to develop an enquiring own. I have worked in the pharmaceutical mind and practising the art of asking industry (for GlaxoSmithKline, Recordati and good (=analytical/insightful) questions; Zentiva), in e-health (for OnMedica) and in the secondly, not accepting the status quo care sector (for EnViva Care); at the Board level and pushing the boundaries to get in executive and non-executive positions; as a things done; thirdly, managing one’s time Founder/Investor; and as a Strategic Advisor amidst conflicting priorities; and finally, to start-ups. The healthcare industry is a richly the ability to work with a diverse group of rewarding one in which to work, and I would people, be a creative team player and galvanise encourage Jesus undergraduates to consider the team’s efforts towards commonly shared the diversity of career options available within objectives. The breadth of the education at it. Peter Simpson (Physiological Sciences, 1960) In the 1960s, Oxford took 60 preclinical the upcoming Regius of Medicine and Master medical students a year one of whom of Downing College in Cambridge, addressing was at Jesus. Our lives were split two the Medical Society. And our Oxford Regius ways, half the time in College and half George Pickering invited the President of in the labs and library near the Parks. the College of Physicians Lord Rosenheim to The common theme was excellence Norham Gardens for an anniversary meeting with world-renowned scientists of the Osler Society. such as Florey, who extracted from How fortunate we were to have such a a mould the life-changing antibiotic foundation, heights that would not be matched penicillin, and Krebs, whose cycle in subsequent years. I did my clinical training explained the generation of energy at St Thomas’ where the reducing numbers from carbohydrates and who was the father living in central London detracted from the of our recent principal Lord Krebs. They both bedside experience and the distractions of the lectured to us. city made the attendance of the consultants less certain. Then in the Health Service itself In the Turl, the leading lights were equally they turned us from enthusiasts to cynics in distinguished with Robert Graves following only four years, as my friend from St Peter’s WH Auden as the Professor of Poetry, so aptly remarked. The Senior Physician at while Kenneth Clark talked weekly on the Leicester Royal told us at the Christmas development of Western Art in the Playhouse. Dinner in 1967 how lucky we were that with Undergraduate initiative brought ‘The Rolling the War behind us, ours would be the time Stones’ to the Magdalen Commemoration Ball of great development and success. And this and in the same year the Jesus Eights Week has proved true in the rapid developments in the science of physical and mental health, but Ball had its previous English student Paul Jones the organisation of 2,500 hospitals and 30,000 as lead singer in ‘Manfred Mann’ who had general practitioners inherited in the forties just gone to the top of the Hit Parade. Also, into a united and unified service remains an as medical students we were very aware of extremely difficult problem…However, for old Oxford’s pulling power with Stafford Clark, the codgers like me, we can live with the memory psychiatrist who authored ‘Your Life in their of things done right, which is my abiding Hands’ for the BBC, and with John Butterfield, memory of my days in College. 22 Postcards fromComment Overseas POSTCARDS FROM OVERSEAS

Jason Shepherd (Diploma in Global Business, 2015) On May 2, 2016, after just over five years as an attorney, I had the honour of being called to bar of the United States Supreme Court. The motion for my admission was made by Mr. Jeffrey Wall, a high school classmate of mine who has since become an attorney and who has served as a law clerk to Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, as well as in the U.S. Department of Justice as an assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, Elaine Kagan, who is now also an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts accepted Mr. Wall’s motion and welcomed me to the Court as the first attorney that day to be called following the Court’s publication of its decision in Ocasio v. United States, a case concerning police corruption in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. While, as an attorney, it is an honour to be admitted to the highest court in the United States and to have the Chief Justice personally welcome you by name, another treat came when Mr. Wall introduced me as a member of the Bar of Georgia and Justice Thomas, a Georgia native himself, turned to me and gave me an approving nod as the Chief Justice granted Mr. Wall’s motion. In what is one of the pinnacles of the legal profession, outside possibly winning a case at the U.S. Supreme Court, I deliberately chose my accessories; cufflinks given by a dear friend, a lapel pin for the Federalist Society, a legal society that was a favourite of recently deceased Justice Antonin Scalia, and, most especially, my Jesus College tie.

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IN PRINT EVENTS CALENDAR 2016

Count us in Friday 16th September Gaudy (1971, 1976, 1996, 2008) Gareth Ffowc Roberts (1964) Friday 23rd September Mathematics, like language, very particular Welsh prism. Cadwallader Dinner is a universal experience. As a popular book on Every society counts and Saturday 24th September mathematics and on the 25th & 40th & 50th Reunion is empowered by its ability personalities who created Dinner to count and to measure. that mathematics, there are The mathematical processes Monday 24th October no prerequisites beyond the London Drinks developed within various reader’s rudimentary and cultures differ widely, and the possibly hazy recollection of Wednesday 7th December Christmas Carols book explores these cultural primary school mathematics links, viewing them through a and a curiosity to know more. 2017

The Buddha Pill: Can Meditation Change You? Tuesday 28th February Dr Miguel Farias (2000) St David’s Day Tea in co-authorship with Dr Catherine Wikholm Friday 24th March Written by an academic and Its most controversial chapter Gaudy (1962, 1969, 1982, 2012) a clinical psychologist, The examines meditation’s poten­ Friday 31st March Buddha Pill examines for the tial to cause harm, from Society Dinner first time over 40 years of an increase in anxiety to Friday 23rd June the science of meditation. psychosis, a topic which has Gaudy (1952 & before, 1977, It takes a critical view of the 1990, 1997, 2009) been further explored in a extraordinary claims that series of media articles and Friday 15th September practicing techniques like Gaudy (1972, 1975, 1992, 2002) transcendental meditation a BBC Radio 4 documentary and mindfulness will deeply entitled ‘Mindfulness and Friday 22nd September change and heal individuals. Madness’. Cadwallader Dinner

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