CHAPTER XII TRUSTS ENDOWED UNIVERSITY LECTURESHIPS1 Amended by Grace 3 of 9 October 2019 1. Benefactions received by the University for the endowment of University teaching shall be applied to the payment of the stipends of University Lecturers in connection with the several Faculties as follows: Fund Subject Faculty or Department English Lectureship Fund English English Gilbey Lectureship Fund History and Economics of Land Economy Agriculture Sidgwick Memorial Fund Philosophy Philosophy Girdlers’ Lectureship Fund Economics Economics Huddersfield Lectureship Fund Special Pathology Biology Harding Fund Zoology Biology Humphrey Owen Jones Physical Chemistry Physics and Chemistry Lectureship Fund Sir Eustace Gurney’s Benefaction Forestry Land Economy Eric Yarrow Lectureship Fund Assyriology Archaeology Modern Greek Fund Modern Greek Modern and Medieval (Lewis-Gibson Lecturer) Languages and Linguistics Japanese Studies Fund Japanese Studies East Asian Studies (Kawashima Lecturer) Modern Japanese Studies (Fuji Bank Lecturer) Starbridge Lectureship Fund Theology and Natural Divinity Science (Starbridge Lecturer) Dr William M. Scholl Neurology (Dr William M. Clinical Medicine Lectureship Fund Scholl Lecturer) Kennedy Leigh Fund for Modern Hebrew Middle Eastern Studies Modern Hebrew Sheikh Zayed Fund for Islamic Studies Divinity Islamic Studies Ali Reza and Mohamed Soudavar Persian Studies Middle Eastern Studies Lectureship Fund Herchel Smith Lectureship in Intellectual Property Law Law Intellectual Property Law Fund Hibbitt Endowed Fund for Solid Solid Mechanics Engineering Mechanics Herchel Smith Lectureships in Medicinal Chemistry Any relevant Department in the Medicinal Chemistry Fund School of Clinical Medicine or the Department of Chemistry Gender Studies Fund Gender Studies Politics and International Studies HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Middle Eastern Studies Fund David and Elaine Potter Fund for Governance and Human Rights Politics and International Studies Governance and Human Rights Medieval Scandinavian History Medieval Scandinavian History Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Fund Celtic Polonsky–Coexist Fund for Jewish Jewish Studies Divinity Studies (Polonsky–Coexist Lecturer) Corfield Fund for Mathematics Mathematics (Corfield Lecturer) Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics Hatton Philosophy of Life Sciences Philosophy of Life Sciences History and Philosophy of Fund (Hatton Lecturer) Science Hatton Philosophy of Public Health Philosophy of Public Health History and Philosophy of Fund (Hatton Lecturer) Science Claire Barnes Fund for Marine Biology Marine Biology Zoology (Claire Barnes Lecturer) Harding Lectureships in Physics Fund Physics (Harding Lecturers) Physics Jessica Sainsbury Anthropology of Anthropology of Amazonia Social Anthropology Amazonia Fund (Jessica Sainsbury Lecturer) Granta Design Fund for Engineering Engineering Engineering 1 For endowed Professorships and Readerships see the regulations for Professors and Readers (see pp. 41, 705, and 765). 774 TRUSTS Gilbey. 2. The Gilbey Lecturer shall deliver lectures on rural conservation and on the history and economics of agriculture. Girdlers. 3. An offer received from the Worshipful Company of Girdlers to renew their support of the teaching of Economics in the University by an annual grant of £120 was accepted by the Council of the Senate in April 1949. Humphrey 4. If the Humphrey Owen Jones Lectureship Fund is in future united with any other fund making Owen Jones. further provision for the teaching of Physical Chemistry in the University, the name Humphrey Owen Jones shall always form part of the title of the office. The interest of the Fund accruing during any vacancy shall be added to the principal sum and invested. Eric Yarrow. 5. If in any year the income of the Eric Yarrow Lectureship Fund exceeds £500 but not £550, the excess over £500 may be used to pay the University’s contribution in respect of the Lecturer under the Pension Scheme. Lewis-Gibson. 6. The stipend and pension contributions of the Lewis-Gibson Lecturer shall be paid from the Modern Greek Fund. It shall be part of the duties of the Lecturer to give such instruction as the Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics may require to provide for the teaching of students offering Modern Greek in the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos. The Managers of the Fund shall be two members of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics appointed by the Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics and one member of the Faculty of Classics appointed by the Faculty Board of Classics, one of whom shall be appointed Chair by the Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. The Managers shall be appointed for such terms as the respective Faculty Boards shall determine. Cayley and 7. Two of the University Lecturers in Mathematics shall bear the titles Cayley Lecturer and Stokes Stokes Lectureships. Lecturer respectively. When at any time there is no Lecturer bearing the title Cayley Lecturer or Stokes Lecturer, as the case may be, the General Board may, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Mathematics, confer the title on one of the University Lecturers in Mathematics. Polonsky- 8. The Polonsky–Coexist Lecturer in Jewish Studies shall provide such teaching in Jewish Studies, Coexist Lectureships. with special reference to the relations with the other Abrahamic faiths, for students offering the relevant papers under the regulations for the Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion Tripos, as determined by the Faculty Board of Divinity. Vacancies. 9. When a Lectureship supported by a benefaction mentioned in Regulation 1 falls vacant, the Selection Committee for the Faculty or Department with which the Lectureship is connected may transfer to it with his or her consent, if they think fit, an existing University Lecturer. FUNDS, STUDENTSHIPS, PRIZES, LECTURESHIPS, ETC. GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR AWARDS Restriction of 1. Competition for any University Studentship, Scholarship, Exhibition, Prize, Medal, or other such candidature: date of award shall be restricted to candidates who are actual members of the University unless there is clear application. evidence of a contrary intention in the regulations or document governing the award. Whenever by any regulation for any award it is required that an application or an entry be submitted to the Registrary or to some other person by a certain date that regulation shall be interpreted as requiring that the application or entry shall be sent so as to reach the Registrary or other person not later than that date. Honourable 2. The Examiners are empowered to give honourable mention, in such form as they may think fit, mention. to students who reach the standard of merit required for the award of an emolument though they fail to gain it in consequence of the superior merit of others; but honourable mention may not be given to a student who fails to reach such a standard. 3. If a University Studentship, Scholarship, Exhibition, Prize, Medal, or similar emolument is awarded, or honourable mention given, to a candidate who is a member of a House of Residence recognized by the University, the name of the House of Residence, if it is given in the candidate’s entry for the emolument, shall be given in the announcement of the award in addition to the name of his or her College. Standing and 4. (a) For the purpose of these regulations an Affiliated Student shall be deemed to have kept by eligibility. residence the three terms next preceding the term in which he or she first resides within the Precincts of the University, and to have been matriculated in the first of those terms. FUNDS, STUDENTSHIPS, PRIZES, LECTURESHIPS, ETC. 775 (b) A person who possesses the status of Master of Arts or Bachelor of Arts shall not at any time be eligible for any University Prize, Scholarship, Studentship, or similar emolument for which only undergraduates are eligible. For the purposes of any regulation respecting the standing of candidates for other emoluments the term in which a person received the status of Master of Arts shall be counted as his or her twentieth term, and the term in which a person received the status of Bachelor of Arts shall be counted as his or her tenth term. 5. A candidate elected to any University emolument of which the tenure would normally begin at or shortly after the date of election may be permitted by the Council, for any reason which they may consider adequate, to postpone the commencement of tenure for such period as the Council may approve. 6. Subject to the decision of the Council in case of doubt, if payment of an instalment of the emolument of a Studentship, Scholarship, or similar award is conditional upon fulfilment of requirements which can normally be waived by Grace, and if the holder, by reason of deferment of commencement of tenure approved by the Council, has not satisfied those requirements during the whole, but has satisfied them during a part, of the period to which an instalment appertains, he or she shall receive a proportional part of the emolument. Studentships and Scholarships 7. If the awarders of any University Studentship, Scholarship, or similar award learn that the holder Restriction of has been elected to a Fellowship of a College, or has been awarded any other emolument for the tenure. support of research, or has been appointed to any office or employment in the University, they shall consider the case and may at their discretion reduce or withhold the emolument of the award. 8. Subject to the provisions of any special regulations, the awarders of any University Studentship, Reduction or withholding of Scholarship, or similar award may require that the whole or part of the emolument shall be used for emoluments. one or more of the following purposes: (a) the purchase of books or recordings; (b) the purchase of equipment; (c) travel abroad. 9. If payment of an instalment of the emolument of a Studentship or Scholarship is conditional upon Continuation of the awarders’ approval of a report from the holder, the awarders may delegate such approval to one payments.