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Reports and College Activities Nicholas Dimsdale (Economics – emeritus) I wrote a paper with James Cloyne (University of California, Davis) and Natacha Postel-Vinay (LSE) ‘Interwar Tax Multipliers: New Narrative Evidence from Britain’, which was published as NBER Working Paper WP 24659. I presented the paper to the Monetary History Group in HM Treasury, the Seminar on Financial History at Darwin College, Cambridge and the CSO (Central Statistical Office) conference at Kings College, London. During the year I worked on a project on ‘UK Business and Financial Cycles since 1660: A Narrative Overview’ with Ryland Thomas (Bank of England). This was due to be published by Palgrave Macmillan, but publication has been postponed and the project is being extended to include the current recession. Pete Dobson (Engineering – emeritus) I have been appointed to the UKRI Quantum Technology Advisory Board for three more years, and I have been heavily involved in assessing projects and defining strategy in this important area. My company activities continue, and I have helped with two new ones in particular: Zamna Ltd is a company set up by a Hertford College alumnus which uses blockchain technology to secure passenger information for boarding with airlines. I have assisted with adding medical data, especially COVID-19 data to the passenger details; Nanolyse Ltd is a new spin-off from Earth Sciences that measures the presence of toxic metals in water and soil. I continue to advise around ten other companies on an ad hoc basis. I continue to publish papers and patents, with three more this year, including one that is a simple, rapid, generic platform for virus detection (with colleagues at UCL). My collaborations with UCL, King’s and the Chemistry Department in Oxford are ongoing. In the latter case I am assisting with developing new methods of generating hydrogen from waste plastic, and in the generation of aviation fuel from carbon dioxide and hydrogen. Annette Fayet (Biological Sciences) This year was the first in over ten years where I didn’t go on a field research expedition, with my annual summer field trip to study Atlantic puffins on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, cancelled due to COVID-19. Similarly, a short visiting fellowship I was awarded by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science to visit colleagues 16 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020
in Japan will also be postponed to next year, as is the World Seabird Conference at which I was invited to talk. Nonetheless, the 2019-2020 academic year has been a busy one. I had the pleasure to give guest seminars at Bristol and Cambridge University, where I met new colleagues and even started a few new collaborations, including with a mathematical biologist, a new field for me but one which I have enjoyed exploring. I also became secretary of The Seabird Group, a UK-based charity promoting seabird science and conservation. Reports and College Activities This was also a fruitful year for publications (details of which can be found at annettefayet.com), including one reporting a new tool use behaviour in puffins, which was a fun collaboration with a primatologist and attracted a lot of media interest (google ‘scratching puffin’ to find out more!). But my greatest satisfaction was to finish writing an important paper about a key project of my Junior Research Fellowship, aiming to uncover the causes of puffin population declines in the northeast Atlantic, which will hopefully be published next year. Finally, a proposal led by BirdLife International for a new Marine Protected Area for seabirds in the North Atlantic, in which some of my data on puffin migration were used, was accepted this spring (official announcement postponed to 2021), and it is a real reward to see my work having a real-world impact on conservation policy. I gave a boost to my outreach skills by attending two Science Communication ‘Bootcamps’ organised by National Geographic in Munich and London, where I was taught how to improve my public speaking and received social media training at the London headquarters of Facebook, Twitter and Google, no less. I put the skills to good use by taking part in a National Geographic Explorer Classroom at the beginning of the lockdown, sharing my experience as a seabird scientist in a live online session with an audience of over 1000 children from all over the world. I’m also trying to be more active on social media to share results of my research and raise awareness of seabirds’ plight – you can find me on Twitter and Instagram @AnnetteFayet. Anthony Gardner (Fine Art) This has been my last year as Head of the Ruskin School of Art, the University’s fine art department, and what a year to end on! It began with a residency in Beijing in August and a keynote presentation for the Setouchi Asian Art Forum in Japan’s inland sea region, followed by a series of talks in Hungary and the UK and another keynote at UCL to celebrate the 30 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (the subject of my 2015 book, Politically Unbecoming). I then delivered lectures at the University College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 17
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PUBLICATIONS Bettison, Norman (1983
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