THE NEWSLEttER OF WOLFSON COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Ring TrueIssue 17 Spring 2014 FROM THE PRESIDENT RING TRUE 4 | NOTES AND NEWS FROM THE EDITOR This issue of Ring True will be the last one before our College’s 50th Anniversary Peter Dowling year in 2015. It is therefore fitting that Karen Stephenson, our Development Director, describes the various activities and events planned so far and, at the same time, seeks suggestions and input from the Wolfson community worldwide (see page 10). THE NEWSLEttER OF WOLFSON COLLEGE Otherwise, this edition follows the by CAMBRIDGE 5 | MEET THE COLLEGE now well-established format of a mixture of news, profiles of a number of Wolfson From the President ....................................3 members and more on life at the College. I am most grateful to all those who Notes and News ..........................................4 have contributed to this issue, be it by Meet the College ........................................5 writing or by providing helpful advice Culture and Sport .......................................8 and suggestions. WCSA News ..................................................9 Alumni and Development News........ 10 Recently I was asked by our Senior Wolfson in 50 words ............................... 11 Members to give them a presentation Wolfson’s Gardens ................................... 12 at their Termly meeting about how the Future Events ............................................ 12 College publications (Ring True and The Wolfson Review) work and what I do as Front Cover: Wolfson students in the Sundial Garden. Editor. I presented a brief overview of Cover photograph: Stephen Bond how our publications have evolved over Design: H2 Associates, Cambridge the ten years that I have been editing 9 | WCSA NEWS them, but I fear I didn’t really convey the joy and satisfaction I personally (or presumably any other editors) gain from an editorial role. It is a great way for me to remain engaged with the wide range of activities at Wolfson, and to have closer contact with an interesting cross-section of our members. Conrad Guettler [email protected] Stay up to date with Wolfson news on Facebook at: wolf50n www.facebook.com/WolfsonCollege 2 RING TRUE 2012 FROM THE PRESIDENT FROM THE PRESIDENT PROFESSOR SIR RICHARD EVANS reflects upon the diversity of Cambridge College Heads of Houses and Wolfson’s outward-looking approach to part-time students. Karen Stephenson proFESSOR SIR RICHARD EVANS y the time you read this, I will have B reached the half-way point in my Presidency of the College – hard to believe, but the time has gone by incredibly fast, always the case when you’re enjoying yourself. The College Statutes nowadays prescribe a seven- year term for the President, in common with those of most Cambridge Colleges: we live in a rapidly changing educational, cultural and financial environment and bringing in someone Laws Tom new every few years to provide a fresh perspective has become standard Cambridge Colleges have long ceased co-operation with English Heritage; the practice in both the great Collegiate to be the introverted and inward-looking new interdisciplinary Master’s Programme Universities. institutions some of them once were. in Sustainability Leadership, aimed at Since its foundation in 1965, Wolfson top business executives from many Heads of House these days come has always looked beyond Cambridge different sectors of the economy; and the from many different walks of life: to make contacts with the world outside MSt in Applied Criminology and Police recent appointments in Cambridge academia. One of the most exciting Management, which attracts senior police include a senior BBC executive, a top aspects of my time as President of officers from all over the world. management consultant, a leading Wolfson has been the experience of manager in the National Health Service, hosting a wide range of new part-time Talking to the students taking these the Chief Executive of Oxfam, and a graduate courses that bring professionals courses, it’s clear they value and enjoy leading QC, as well as distinguished in many fields into the College for a few their connection with the College and academics. The variety of backgrounds weeks every year. These include the MSt continue to feel a strong sense of loyalty ensures that the Collegiate University in Building History, inaugurated by the to it after they graduate. We now host gets the benefit of a huge and diverse Department of Architecture in 2011 in over 300 part-time graduate students range of experience from many different and continue to be open to approaches fields, and while commitment to Talking to these students, it’s clear they from the directors of new part-time academic ideals is indispensable, people value and enjoy their connection with the courses across the University. They who have reached the top of their College and continue to feel a strong sense make a valuable addition to our core profession outside academia usually of loyalty to it after they graduate. complement of 500 full-time graduate learn fast, and would not be applying and 175 full-time undergraduate students; for the job if they were not enthusiastic another aspect of Wolfson’s openness to supporters of science, learning and the world. education. WOLFSON COLLEGE, CambRIDGE 3 NOTES AND NEWS NOTES AND NEWS PRESS FELLOWS Ahmad Idris, Assistant News Editor of in reporting on the increasing flow the English-language daily The Star, and of investment from China and In the Easter Term, Wolfson will again Cindy Yeap, Assistant Editor for Corporate Russia into New Zealand assets and be hosting a number of Press Fellows. and Capital Markets of the English- businesses, while Mike proposes to Visitors confirmed so far are Albert language business newspaper The Edge. look at miscarriages of justice and how Oppong-Ansah from the Ghana News to improve New Zealand journalists’ Agency, and two journalists from New Albert will undertake a study of media ability to expose wrongful convictions. Zealand: Martin van Beynen from The practices and regulation in the UK In addition, Karen Rothmyer, the Press newspaper in Christchurch and and what lessons these may have distinguished American journalist, Mike White from North & South Magazine, for journalists in East Africa. As an will be returning as a Visiting Fellow Auckland. We are also expecting two investigative journalist, Martin plans to for the Term. journalists from Malaysia: Abdul Razak probe how to overcome the difficulties COLLEGE RESEARCH President on the Conspiracy and a joint project of the British Red Cross ASSOCIATES (CRAs) Democracy project funded by the and the International Committee of the Leverhulme Trust. Other Wolfson Red Cross (ICRC) to update the ICRC This category of College membership has CRAs at CRASSH are Ge Chen studying Study on Customary International been growing steadily, and readers may intellectual property and global Humanitarian Law. not be aware of the diversity of researchers regulations and Eleonora Rosati, a for whom Wolfson provides a home. For specialist in intellectual property and The College now also includes three example, the College has close links with copyright law. new CRAs who came to Wolfson via an the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social initiative of the University Researcher Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), where The Lauterpacht Centre for International Development Committee that is CRAs Theodore Hong, Andrew McKenzie- Law hosts three CRAs, Natália Ferreira de encouraging researchers to become McHarg and Alfred Moore are based, Castro, Vanessa Holzer and Helen more involved in a College. working with our President and Vice- Obregón Gieseken, who all participate in u u u u u l FORMER PRESS FELLOW Iain News King (left), Stability Adviser in the Department for International in Brief Development, was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2013 for services to governance in VASSILIS KORONAKIS Libya, Afghanistan and Kosovo. FELLOW Vassilis Koronakis has FELLOW Jan Vermunt has become won a seven-year Wellcome Trust Editor-in-Chief of Learning and Senior Investigator Award to support IAIN KING CBE Instruction, a scientific journal his studies of signalling pathways at ranked second by impact factor in biological cell membranes. ‘Educational Research’ and also second in ‘Psychology, Educational’ in the Journals Citation Index. 4 RING TRUE 2014 MEET THE COLLEGE MEET THE COLLEGE Wolfson has a wide-ranging membership which forms a diverse and open community. Ring True profiles a selection of its members. SPYROS FLOGAITIS Tom Laws Tom VISITING FELLOW his is Spyros’ third visit to Wolfson. He was Arthur DAVID FROST TGoodhart Professor of Legal Science at the Law Faculty and then Yorke Distinguished Fellow. In Lent 2013 he taught FELLOW AND TUTOR LLM students on the State, its concept and evolution and, avid is Wolfson’s Tutor for part-time students, one of the during this Lent Term, taught administrative law and its Dteam of Tutors who provide pastoral care for students, unprecedented journey. acting as their advisers and, when necessary, their advocates. David elaborates on his role: “Part-time students are not as Spyros recalls: “It was on 5 October 1982 that Professor Sir visible as others because they tend to be around the place at David Williams welcomed me to Wolfson. I was a Lecturer odd times of the year, but there are many of them, typically at the Law Faculty of Athens University, and had recently on Masters of Studies courses in subjects such as Criminology, been elected Professor of Law at the University of Thrace. International Relations and Creative Writing.” My stay in Cambridge that year not only changed my career orientation but, on a personal level, also forged my David also teaches the HertsCam MEd in Leading Teaching relationship with my wife, Fay, who was then a postgraduate and Learning – all Wolfson students – and supervises doctoral student in Paris and is now Professor of International Law. students in Education.