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<strong>Somerville</strong> Magzine | 9<br />
When Thilo’s daughter, Elizabeth McLean (née Hunter) came up in 1950, Dame<br />
Janet was in the Principal’s Chair and Jean Banister just starting her long and<br />
infl uential tenure as Physiology Tutor. Jean had been allowed a large group (fi ve)<br />
for <strong>Somerville</strong> from the then quota <strong>of</strong> women entrants to Medicine, a group that<br />
included Shirley Summerskill, later a minister in the Labour Government, 1974–9.<br />
Liz went on to two half-careers, the fi rst during her childrens’ early years in Pathology<br />
research, the second in NHS Psychiatry where, as Medical Director <strong>of</strong> the Victorian<br />
Asylum housing the inpatients <strong>of</strong> St George’s Hospital Medical School, she laboured to<br />
accustom staff and patients (alike heavily institutionalised) to the potential advantages<br />
<strong>of</strong> the new policy <strong>of</strong> Community Care. Later she led one <strong>of</strong> the earlier Community<br />
Psychiatric Teams in Inner London. This team, after taking a hard look at its patient<br />
base, set itself a principal aim <strong>of</strong> prioritising care to those patients with long-term<br />
mental health problems. To this end they devised a simple, clinical-based checklist<br />
designed to defi ne the “long-term” patient and to separate such from the “others”.<br />
With this tool they were able to audit their success or failure vis-à-vis their chosen<br />
aim. To graduates working in other clinical specialities, this device must appear<br />
so elementary as to be hardly worth mentioning. Psychiatrists and administrators,<br />
however, will recognise that it represents a level <strong>of</strong> accountability in mental health<br />
service delivery which is too rarely achieved.<br />
Angela’s imaginative application <strong>of</strong> the Mathematical training she got from <strong>Somerville</strong><br />
is described above. As for Florence, not yet half way through her second year, history<br />
awaits. To date it can be said that she takes seriously the need to organise a social<br />
side to <strong>College</strong> life. She was an animating spirit <strong>of</strong> <strong>Somerville</strong> Freshers’ Week 2009,<br />
and continues as an active member <strong>of</strong> the Bop Committee.<br />
Other current<br />
Somervillian FRSs<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dame Kay Davies<br />
(Partridge, 1969, Chemistry)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dame Julia Higgins<br />
(Stretton Downes, 1961, Physics)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Judith Howard<br />
(Duckworth, 1966, Physical Science)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dame Louise Johnson<br />
Hon. Fellow<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dame Carole Jordan<br />
Emeritus Fellow<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Anne Treisman<br />
(Taylor, 1957, Psychology)<br />
Baroness Margaret Thatcher<br />
(Roberts, 1943, Chemistry)<br />
Fellow<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>ile:<br />
PROFESSOR<br />
KATHERINE<br />
DUNCAN-JONES<br />
Senior Research<br />
Fellow<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
Fiona Stafford<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Fiona Stafford was elected to a Tutorial<br />
Fellowship in English Literature in 1992. She came<br />
to <strong>Somerville</strong> from Lincoln <strong>College</strong>, where she wrote a<br />
doctoral thesis on James Macpherson and The Poems<br />
<strong>of</strong> Ossian, subsequently published as The Sublime<br />
Savage, and held a British Academy Post-Doctoral<br />
Junior Research Fellowship. In 2008, her scholarly<br />
distinction was recognised by the <strong>University</strong> with the<br />
award <strong>of</strong> a titular Pr<strong>of</strong>essorship. In 2006, she was<br />
elected as a Fellow <strong>of</strong> the Royal Society <strong>of</strong> Edinburgh.<br />
Fiona has written extensively on Scottish, Irish and<br />
English poetry from the eighteenth century to the<br />
present day, as well as on the novels <strong>of</strong> Jane Austen.<br />
In her current project, Local Attachments: The Province<br />
<strong>of</strong> Poetry, to be published in July 2010 by <strong>Oxford</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> Press, she studies connections between<br />
poems and places and considers the crucial role <strong>of</strong><br />
poetry in society.<br />
Fiona has always been an extremely active teaching<br />
member <strong>of</strong> the English Faculty, supervising large<br />
numbers <strong>of</strong> graduate students both at Master’s<br />
and Doctoral level, as well as <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>. She very<br />
much enjoys teaching undergraduates in <strong>Somerville</strong>,<br />
and for other <strong>College</strong>s, and appreciates the variety<br />
<strong>of</strong> life as a Fellow.<br />
In 2008/09 she performed a key role for <strong>Somerville</strong><br />
in chairing the committee appointed to elect a new<br />
Principal in succession to Dame Fiona Caldicott.<br />
She has also served as Tutor for Admissions, Tutor for<br />
Graduates and Secretary to the SCR, and was actively<br />
involved with managing the <strong>College</strong> Nursery, where both<br />
her children were cared for before they went to school.<br />
She has also been actively involved in alumni events,<br />
and – as a tutor for seventeen years in the always<br />
populous English school – she has many former<br />
pupils <strong>of</strong> her own. She is one <strong>of</strong> two Fellows sitting on<br />
the <strong>Somerville</strong> Association Committee as representatives<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Somerville</strong>’s Governing Body.