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Weir Common Room<br />
The Weir Common Room continues to be one of the<br />
most sociable and lively postgraduate communities across<br />
Oxford, and we are sad to say goodbye to all our outgoing<br />
members, as well as being excited to welcome new<br />
students to our vibrant, proudly international, diverse and<br />
open community.<br />
The WCR Committee has been busy running the<br />
usual run of services and events, as well as seeking to<br />
improve the experience of our members. Most recently,<br />
the WCR added the positions of International Students Officer, Women’s Officer, Ethnic<br />
Minorities & Racial Equality Officer, LGBTQ+ Officer, Students with Disabilities &<br />
Accessibility Officer, and Mature Students and Families Officer, to our committee; and<br />
we look forward to such officers putting on a range of events within the College as well<br />
as campaigning on issues of awareness and policy. We have also worked with the Senior<br />
Tutor in revamping the Graduate Mentor Scheme, hoping to breathe new life into a very<br />
helpful initiative. Our Environment Officer, Sam Cornish, has worked with the rest of<br />
the <strong>Univ</strong> Sustainable Investment Campaign in putting together a successful proposal,<br />
whereby the College will now investigate sustainable investment options that may be open<br />
to <strong>Univ</strong>. I would also like to thank both the current and outgoing committees for the dayto-day,<br />
week-to-week work that makes our community thrive.<br />
One of the WCR Committee’s key priorities for the year ahead is helping to improve<br />
<strong>Univ</strong>’s accessibility in the long-run, and the WCR Committee is encouraged to hear that<br />
this will be a priority for the ‘<strong>Univ</strong> North’ development.<br />
Particular highlights of this year have been, as usual, our Welcome Weeks and the<br />
WCR Christmas Formal. There have also been a fantastic range of ongoing events,<br />
such as WCR yoga, Grad Bar Nights, and Sunday Socials. In addition to these, Rachel<br />
Skokowski and Charles Evans have convened a fantastic set of Martlets Talks held in<br />
the Master’s Lodgings this past year, which continue to remind us of the thoroughly<br />
interesting and ground-breaking research going on within the WCR.<br />
We all look forward to another year and hope next year will be just as successful as<br />
this one!<br />
Max Shock<br />
President, Weir Common Room<br />
President: Max Shock<br />
Vice President/Treasurer: Elizabeth Raine<br />
Secretary: Olivia Ashton<br />
Social Secretaries: Staszek Welsh, Liliana Barbieri, James Parker and Emilie McDonnell<br />
Equality, Diversity and Welfare Officers: Miranda Gronow and Mitchell Robertson<br />
Women’s Officer: Ellen Cliff<br />
LGBTQ+ Officer: Fflur Elin<br />
International Students’ Officer: Tales Padilha<br />
External (Oxford SU) Officer: William Prescott<br />
Environment & Hall Officer: Sam Cornish<br />
Obituaries<br />
Thanks also to James Kirkpatrick and Tamar Koplatadze for serving on the committee.<br />
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