SOMERVILLE COLLEGE REPORT 2016-2017 Somerville College Report 2016-17 Somerville College Contents Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Lecturers, Staff 5 The Year in Review Principal’s Report 9 Baroness Jan Royall 11 Fellows’ Activities 12 Report on Junior Research Fellowships 17 MCR Report 18 JCR Report 19 Library Report 20 Members’ Notes President’s Report 23 Horsman Awards 23 Somerville Senior Members’ Fund 23 Life Before Somerville: Tina Green (1974) 24 Members’ News and Publications 25 Marriages 38 Births 38 Deaths 39 Obituaries 40 Academic Report Examination Results 58 Prizes 61 Students Entering College 64 Somerville Association Officers and Committee 68 Somerville Development Board Members 68 Notices Dates for the Diary 68 Legacies 69 This Report is edited by Liz Cooke (Tel. 01865 270632; email [email protected]) and Sarah Hughes Fellows Annie Sutherland MA, Bhaskar Choubey DPhil, Visitor, (in order of seniority) DPhil, (MA Cantab) Associate (BTech Warangal NIT) Professor in Old and Middle Associate Professor of English, Rosemary Woolf Engineering Science and Tutor Principal, Joanna Mary Innes Fellow and Tutor in English in Engineering Science MA, (MA Cantab) Professor of Modern History, Winifred Daniel Anthony MA, Charlotte Potts DPhil, Fellows, Holtby Fellow and Tutor in (PhD Lond) Professor of (BA Victoria University of History Experimental Neuropathology Wellington, MA UCL), FSA Lecturers, and Tutor in Medicine Sybille Haynes Associate Almut Maria Vera Professor of Etruscan and Suerbaum MA, (Dr Phil, Michael Hayward MA, Early Italic Archaeology and Staff Staatsexamen, Münster) DPhil Professor of Inorganic Art, Katherine and Leonard Associate Professor of Chemistry and Tutor in Woolley Fellow in Classical German and Tutor in German Chemistry Archaeology and Tutor in Visitor Classical Archaeology Fiona Stafford Beate Dignas MA, DPhil, The Rt Hon The Lord MA, MPhil, DPhil, (BA (Staatsexamen Münster) Karen Nielsen (Cand mag, Patten of Barnes, CH, Leicester), FRSE Professor Associate Professor of Cand philol Trondheim, Chancellor of the University of English Language and Ancient History, Barbara MA, PhD Cornell) Associate Literature, Tutor in English Craig Fellow and Tutor in Professor of Philosophy and Literature Ancient History Tutor in Philosophy Principal Lois McNay MA, (PhD Natalia Nowakowska MA, Jonathan Marchini DPhil, Cantab) Professor of the DPhil Associate Professor of (BSc Exeter) Professor of Theory of Politics and Tutor in History and Tutor in History Statistical Genomics and Alice Prochaska, MA, DPhil, Politics; Dean MT Tutor in Statistics FRHistS Jonathan Burton MA, (PhD Roman Walczak MA, (MSc Cantab) Associate Professor Julian Duxfield MA, (MSc Warsaw, Dr rer nat Heidelberg) of Organic Chemistry and LSE) University Director of Reader in Particle Physics, Tutor in Chemistry Human Resources Vice-Principal Associate Professor and Tutor in Physics Hilary Greaves BA, (PhD Renier van der Hoorn Richard Stone, MA, DPhil, Rutgers) Associate Professor (BSc, MSc Leiden, PhD Benjamin John Thompson MSAE, FIMechE, Professor of of Philosophy and Tutor in Wageningen) Associate MA, DPhil, (MA, PhD Cantab), Engineering Science, Tutor in Philosophy Professor of Plant Sciences FRHistS Associate Professor Engineering Science and Tutor in Plant Sciences of Medieval History and Tutor Luke Pitcher MA, MSt, in History DPhil, (PGCert Durham) Dan Ciubotaru (BSc, MA Associate Professor of Babes-Bolyai, PhD Cornell) Charles Spence MA, Classics and Tutor in Associate Professor of Pure (PhD Cantab) Professor of Classics; Assessor Mathematics and Tutor in Experimental Psychology Mathematics and Tutor in Experimental Simon Robert Kemp Psychology BA, MPhil, (PhD Cantab) Guido Ascari (BA Pavia, Associate Professor in French MSc, PhD Warw) Professor Jennifer Welsh MA, DPhil, and Tutor in French of Economics and Tutor in (BA Saskatchewan) Professor Economics of International Relations Alex David Rogers (BSc, PhD Liv) Professor of Damian Tyler (MSci, PhD Philip West MA, (PhD Conservation Biology and Nott) Associate Professor of Cantab) Associate Professor Tutor in Biology Biomedical Science and Tutor of English, Times Fellow and in Medicine Tutor in English; Dean HT-TT Christopher Hare BCL, (Dip d’Etudes Jurid Poitiers, MA Francesca Southerden Julie Dickson MA, DPhil, Cantab, LLM Harvard) BA, MSt, DPhil Associate (LLB Glasgow) Associate Associate Professor of Law Professor of Italian and Tutor Professor of Law and Tutor and Tutor in Law in Italian in Law 5 Louise Mycock (BA Durh, Stephen Rayner MA, (PhD Tessa Rajak MA, DPhil Fernando de Juan Sanz MA, PhD Manc) Associate Durham), FRAS, MInstP (DPhil Madrid) Fulford Junior Professor of Linguistics and Senior Tutor, Tutor for Owen Rees MA, (PhD Research Fellow Condensed Tutor in Linguistics (from April Graduates and Tutor for Cantab), ARCO Professor Matter Physics 2017) Admissions of Music César Giraldo Herrera Steven Herbert Simon (BSc Magister de los Andes MA, (PhD Harvard) Bogota, DC Colombia, PhD Professorial Senior Research Aberdeen) Victoria Maltby Fellows Fellows Junior Research Fellow Anthropology Aditi Lahiri (PhD Brown, MA, Amalia Coldea (MA, PhD Honorary Senior PhD Calcutta) Professor of Cluj-Napoca) Research Fellow Anissa Kempf (MSc, PhD Linguistics (ETH) Zurich) Fulford Junior Colin Espie (BSc, MAppSci, Stephanie Dalley Research Fellow Medicine Stephen Guy Pulman PhD, DSc(Med) Glas), FBPsS, MA, (MA Cantab, Hon PhD MA, (MA, PhD Essex), FBA CPsychol Professor of London), FSA Lisa Lamberti (BSC Geneva, Professor of Computational Behavioural Sleep Medicine MSc Copenhagen, PhD ETH Linguistics Zurich) Mary Ewart Junior Sir Marc Feldmann AC, Junior Research Research Fellow Mathematics Stephen Roberts MA, DPhil, (BSc(Med), MB BS, PhD, FREng, FIET, FRSS, MIOP MD(Hon), DMSc(Hon)), FAA, Fellows James Larkin MBioChem, RAEng-Man Professor of FMedSci, FRCP, FRCPath, (PhD Warwick) Fulford Junior Machine Learning FRS Professor of Cellular Lucy Audley-Miller Research Fellow Medicine Immunology MPhil, DPhil, (BA Newcastle) Rajesh Thakker MA, DM, Woolley Junior Research Patricia Lockwood (BSc (MA, MD Cantab), FRS, FRCP, Manuele Gragnolati MA, Fellow Archaeology and Bristol, PhD UCL) Fulford FRCPath, FMedSci May (Laurea in Lettere Classiche, Ancient History Junior Research Fellow Professor of Medicine Pavia, PhD Columbia, DEA Experimental Psychology Paris) Mariano Beguerisse-Diaz Stephen Weatherill MA, MSc, (PhD Imp Lond) Fulford Hania Pavlou DPhil, (MA Cantab, MSc Edinburgh) Sarah Gurr MA, (BSc, PhD Junior Research Fellow (BSc (Hons) Toronto, Jacques Delors Professor of London, ARCS, DIC) Applied Mathematics MRes Glasgow) Fulford European Law Professor of Molecular Plant Junior Research Fellow Pathology Corinne Betts DPhil Neurogenetics Matthew John Andrew Fulford Junior Research Wood MA, DPhil, (MB, ChB John Ingram (BSc KCL, Fellow Medical Sciences Kerstin Timm (PhD Cantab) Cape Town) Professor of MSc Reading, PhD Fulford Junior Research Neuroscience and Keeper of Wageningen NL) Julia Bird (BA Cantab, PhD Fellow Biomedical Sciences the College Pictures Toulouse) Fulford Junior Muhammad Kassim Javaid Research Fellow Economics Sebastian Vollmer (MSc, (BMedSci, MBBS, PhD PhD Warwick) Fulford Junior Administrative London), MRCP David Bowe BA, MSt, DPhil Research Fellow Statistics Victoria Maltby Junior Fellows Philip Kreager DPhil Research Fellow Medieval Edmund Wareham BA, Italian Literature MSt Fulford Junior Research Sara Kalim MA Director of Boris Motik (MSc Zagreb, Fellow Medieval and Modern Development PhD Karlsruhe) Professor of Melissa Bowerman (BSc, Langs. Computer Science PhD Ottawa) Fulford Junior Anne Manuel Research Fellow Medicine Lauren Watson (BSc, BSc (LLB Reading, MA, MSc, PhD Frans Plank (Statsexamen (Med), MSc (Med), PhD Cape Bristol) Librarian, Archivist and Munich, MLitt Edin, MA Ana Sofia Cerdeira (MD, Town) Fulford Junior Research Head of Information Services Regensburg, DPhil Hanover) PhD Porto and Harvard) Fellow Neuroscience Fulford Junior Research Andrew Parker (BA Philip Poole (BSc, PhD Fellow Medicine Davide Zilli (BEng, PhD Liverpool), MA, ACMA Murdoch) Southampton) Fulford Junior Treasurer Patrick Clibbens (BA, MPhil, Research Fellow Engineering Mason Porter MA, (BS PhD Cantab) Mary Somerville Science Caltech, MS, PhD Cornell) Junior Research Fellow History Michael Proffitt BA 6 Nahid Zokaei (BSc, Miriam Tamara Griffin Carolyn Emma Kirkby Theresa Joyce Stewart PhD UCL) Fulford Junior MA, DPhil DBE, OBE, MA, Hon DMus, (Mrs) MA Research Fellow Experimental (Hon DMus Bath, Hon DLitt Psychology Mary Jane Hands MA Salf), FGSM Baroness Lucy Neville- Rolfe DBE, CMG, MA Barbara Fitzgerald Harvey Joyce Maire Reynolds CBE, MA, BLitt, FRHistS, FBA MA, (Hon DLitt Newcastle- Judith Ann Kathleen British Academy upon-Tyne), FBA Howard CBE, DPhil, (BSc Fellows Judith Heyer MA, (PhD Bristol), FRS London) Hazel Mary Fox (Lady Fox) Pippa Byrne BA, MSt, CMG, QC, MA Victoria Glendinning DPhil British Academy Post- Julianne Mott Jack MA CBE, MA doctoral Fellow Averil Millicent Cameron Carole Jordan DBE, MA, DBE, MA, DLitt, (PhD Jennifer Jenkins (D. 2 Feb. Holly Kennard BA, MPhil, (PhD London), FRS London), FBA, FSA 2017) DBE, Hon FRIBA, Hon DPhil British Academy Post- FRICS, Hon MRTPI, MA doctoral Fellow Norma MacManaway MA, Baroness O’Neill of (MA, MPhil Dublin, DEA Paris) Bengarve CH, CBE, MA, Nicola Ralston (Mrs) BA (PhD Harvard), Hon DCL, Early Career Helen Morton MA, (MSc FBA, Hon FRS, FMedSci Antonia Byatt DBE, CBE, Boston, MA Cantab) FRSL, BA Fellows Kay Elizabeth Davies Hilary