1 TUTORIAL R EPORT King’s College, Cambridge Annual Report 2019 Annual Report 2019 Contents The Provost 2 The Fellowship 5 Tutorial 18 Undergraduates 35 Graduates 40 Chapel 45 Choir 50 Research 59 Library and Archives 64 Bursary 67 Staff 71 Development 75 Major Promotions, Appointments, Honours and Awards 102 Obituaries 110 Information for Non-Resident Members 299 shall at long last have accommodation for all our graduates (a long term The Provost ambition), together with provision for Fellows and their families. The new academic year has seen the end of an era. On 30 September Sir Stephen Cleobury, knighted in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours, 2 The last year has seen further significant retired as Director of Music after 37 years of outstanding service to the 3 THE PROVOST progress on the Development front and on College and Choir. Stephen’s last year in post was clouded by serious the College’s building programme, exciting illness, which he bore with great fortitude and a determination to continue new initiatives to encourage greater access his work at the highest level. In this he succeeded, and his final Festival THE PROVOST for students, and very good examination of Nine Lessons and Carols, the centenary of the first performance, was results. There is no point writing about the agreed to be a triumph. There were many tributes paid to him over the effects of the Brexit crisis on the University, year, most notably for the College a ‘surprise’ concert in the Hall given as by the time this appears the landscape by four eminent King’s alumni (Sir George Benjamin, Roy Howat, Krysia may have changed dramatically. My role Osostowicz and Christopher Purves). Tragically, Stephen was found to be as Chair of the Colleges’ Committee – the suffering from inoperable cancer, and he died peacefully in York on 22 umbrella body for Heads of Colleges – has November 2019. A memorial service will be held in the College Chapel come to an end and after a term of leave next year at a date to be decided, and a full obituary will appear in next next January I look forward to devoting myself to the College for the last year’s Report. three and a half years of my tenure. We were also very sorry to lose this year one of our most eminent Life The modernisation and expansion of our buildings, for student Fellows, the Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner. Sydney was our Senior accommodation and Fellows’ offices, continues. The Bodley’s Court Fellow, and at the centre of the College’s life for many years. Latterly he reroofing is coming to a conclusion; half the scaffolding has been removed, was confined to his home in Singapore by illness. There will be a memorial which improves the view from our bedroom window! event for Sydney in the New Year in Cambridge. Work has nearly finished on the Cranmer Road project, to construct two 1 December 2018 saw the launch of the College’s £100 million fundraising buildings with rooms for graduate students. This work has been funded campaign, at a spectacular and widely praised event in the Chapel and through the magnificent donation of £33.6 million that was announced at Hall. The Campaign was given an extraordinary boost by a transformative the Campaign launch. The new graduate accommodation has been built to gift of £33.6 million from a King’s alumnus. The funds will be used to pay Passivhaus standards, promising a very low carbon footprint; this is the for the building works at Cranmer Road and Croft Gardens; the benefit first student building of such a type in Cambridge. We have also begun to the College in not having to find the capital for these projects (about the refurbishment of Garden Hostel, including the addition of a new £450,000 per annum) will be used for student support and welfare, floor. Finally, we have just received planning consent for a new building and for helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds to come to on Barton Road on the Croft Gardens site which will provide a large Cambridge and to prosper while they are here. One way we will do this is number of rooms of various types. When these projects are complete we to expand our student numbers to admit 10 extra students per year from such backgrounds. These initiatives are not only fully in line with our own values, but complement the University’s drive for wider access as part The Fellowship of its agreement with the new Office for Students. Further gifts since the launch have now taken us two-thirds of the way to our final target. Our Development Director Lorraine Headen and her team are to be warmly 4 congratulated on this excellent outcome. The College records with great sadness the death on 22 November 2019 of 5 Sir Stephen Cleobury, Fellow and Director of Music 1982–2019. Sir Stephen THE FELLOWSHIP During the year I have been able to travel to the US, Hong Kong, Singapore had been elected to a Life Fellowship upon his retirement. A full obituary and China. It is heartening to meet alumni there who have such a warm will appear in the Annual Report 2020. THE PROVOST affection for the College. Our contacts in China are beginning to bear fruit and we have received an initial gift of £1 million towards a proposed ‘Silk Fellows moving on Road programme’ to support research on economic and cultural matters The following left their Fellowships in the last year: from Beijing to Cairo. Establishing such contacts is an important part of Dr Nathanael Berestycki my role and I intend to continue to meet as many alumni and friends of the College as I can. Dr Goylette Chami Following the demise of the Baxter Tables it is no longer possible to rank Dr Megan Donaldson our academic performance against that of other Colleges, though we can still compare ourselves with the University average. Tim Flack, our Senior Professor Julian Griffin Tutor, provides more detail in his report, but I can say that our finalists Professor Clément Mouhot were well above the University average, and showed very pleasing progress during their time here, a compliment to the dedication of our supervisors Dr Mezna Qato and Directors of Studies. Dr Marek Rei On a personal note, I am very grateful to the College for arranging for my portrait to be painted by the well-known artist Ben Sullivan. It was New Fellows completed this spring and now hangs outside my study door, so that those JAMES TAYLOR (Fellow, Engineering) coming to see me can compare it with the real thing within. James is an engineer working at the Whittle Laboratory in collaboration with Rolls-Royce. He aims to improve understanding of the physical MICHAEL PROCTOR mechanisms that govern the air flow within aircraft engines and therefore increase their efficiency and safety through better design. His interests include three-dimensional flow topology, machine learning techniques, advanced machining and 3D printing, computational modelling and experimental testing. He finished his PhD on three-dimensional flow mechanisms in compressors recorded variously for Opus Arte, Linn, Naxos and EMI records, and is in 2011 when he began a JRF at King’s. His projects for the last four years planning future releases on the King’s College label. have included collaborations with Siemens, Reaction Engines and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Future projects TEJAS PARASHER (JRF, History [Representation]) will focus on miniaturisation of the gas turbine core and novel propulsion Tejas Parasher is an intellectual historian with a focus on the political ideas 6 systems for vertical take-off aircraft with the Future Technologies Group at of 19th- and 20th-century South Asia. His main area of research concerns 7 THE FELLOWSHIP Rolls-Royce. the history of economic thought in colonial India. He is interested in the development of ideas about property, commerce and state authority He has taught maths, computing, mechanics and vibrations for King’s among Indian nationalists and their critics from the late 19th century undergraduates – although always with encouragement towards specialising onwards. More generally, he is interested in the legal and political thought THE FELLOWSHIP in fluid mechanics! of Asian and African anti-colonialism. DANIEL HYDE (Fellow, Director of Music) Tejas’ current book project is a study of federalist thinking about Daniel Hyde, who succeeds Sir Stephen Cleobury as Director of Music, decentralisation among Indian economists during the interwar period. He received his earliest musical education as a chorister at Durham Cathedral. is also writing more broadly on the relationship between liberalism and He passed the Fellowship examination of the Royal College of Organists socialism in South Asian intellectual history. at the age of 17 and came to King’s as Organ Scholar in 2000. Soon after graduating with a First in the Music Tripos in 2003 he was appointed Tejas received his PhD in Political Thought in 2019 from the University of Director of Music at Jesus College, where he was closely involved in the Chicago, where he studied as a Division of Social Sciences and Andrew W. commissioning and building of the Huddleston Organ, the first instrument Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellow. in the UK to be built by the leading Swiss organ builder Kuhn. In 2009 he succeeded Grayston (Bill) Ives as Informator Choristarum at Magdalen RYAN HEUSER (JRF, English [Immateriality]) College, Oxford, where he was also an Associate Professor in the Faculty Ryan Heuser is a literary critic whose work brings computational methods of Music. He left Oxford in 2016 to take up the prestigious post of Organist of text analysis to the study of literature and its history.