The Queen's College Record 2020
Reports and College Activities cohort of Future Leaders in Industry, Enterprise and Research (FLIER), a UK leadership programme developed by The Academy of Medical Sciences. In addition, I was elected as a representative for The Joint Neurosciences Council and have now also become a clinical lead for the education platform eBrain where I head the development of the neurosciences course for medical students. Poorna Mysoor (Law) The academic year 2019-20 began with two guest lectures I delivered. The first was at the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) at the Law Faculty, University of Cambridge. I spoke on a methodology for implying copyright licences. I received incisive and helpful feedback from the audience. The second was at the LTEC Lab, School of Law, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. I spoke on the right of communication to the public and the internet and how implied licences can help resolve some of the copyright issues online. I was invited to be a Visiting Fellow at the EW Barker Centre for Business Law, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. I spent the whole month of February there, conducting my research and engaging with the academic community. I gave a seminar at the Centre on issues of copyright infringement on the internet. While I was in Singapore, I also received an invitation to present at the School of Law, Singapore Management University. I spoke on the influences of private law on copyright law. I also had an opportunity to present at the webinar organised by the Faculty of Law at Oxford on ‘Property Law Connections’. I presented a paper on ‘Form and Copyright – A Property Debate’, which was well received. This paper is part of my larger Leverhulme project which examines the analogies of tangible property principles in copyright law. A paper derived from this presentation is being published by the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA in its summer 2020 issue. Chris O’Callaghan (Medicine) In early 2020 I broke several bones in a cycle accident coming down Headington Hill and by the time I was fit again the coronavirus pandemic was upon us. All teaching and non-COVID research were shut down in the clinical departments and I rapidly became immersed in full-time clinical duty on the ‘frontline’ in acute general medicine and in renal medicine. I still do general medical ‘takes’ – seeing people with acute illness and caring for 22 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020
them if they are admitted to hospital – and even in normal times this can be very busy with unwell people, but the pandemic was unlike anything I have ever experienced. COVID-19 is a fearsome pathogen and day after day I saw young and old people brought to the hospital gasping for breath and terrified that they were infected. While some improved and recovered, sadly others did not. Soon members of staff were falling ill too and some did not survive. The sad consequences of the pandemic on patients and their loved ones are well known and seeing this at first hand and at scale was painful. Reports and College Activities In this context, I was hugely impressed with my medical, nursing and other colleagues, who continued to come to work and care for patients despite significant personal risk. People really did go out of their way to help each other and this and the positive morale was inspiring. To their great credit, some of our clinical students volunteered to help in the hospital and the sixth year students graduated early to take on a professional role. Let us hope that we never see anything like this again, but it has been, for me, a very real reminder of the great power of people to be kind and help other, even when the going gets tough. Richard Bruce Parkinson (Egyptology) A sabbatical year allowed me to revive a long-standing project to write a commentary on The Tale of Sinuhe. The sabbatical began in October with a trip to Cairo to teach at the annual Académie hiératique at the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (podcast: bit.ly/RBPoct19). I was able to examine the copies of the poem in the Institut’s collection and to visit locations that feature in the poem; some lectures for the Excellency cluster ‘Temporal Communities’ in Berlin gave me a chance to re-visit the papyrus of the poem there. Progress was assisted by a three month stay in Denmark as a visiting researcher in the Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, generously enabled by the Nordea Foundation, and a first draft of the commentary has been completed. A planned recording of a companion poem with actress Barbara Ewing was postponed while she was locked-down in New Zealand, but our earlier work on Sinuhe was featured in the TORCH Light Night in November 2019: bit.ly/source-code2019. I’ve learnt a lot from working with Christopher Hollings on the reception of Ancient Egyptian mathematics, and in the next years we will develop this historiographical project (which has strong links to Queen’s). Research on LGBT+ history continued with two articles on the reception of Ancient Egypt in twentieth century queer writers, Marguerite Yourcenar and E.M. Forster, and the British Museum’s touring exhibition ‘Desire, Love, College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 23
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Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
cohort of Future Leaders in Industry, Enterprise and Research (FLIER), a UK leadership<br />
programme developed by <strong>The</strong> Academy of Medical Sciences. In addition, I was elected<br />
as a representative for <strong>The</strong> Joint Neurosciences Council and have now also become<br />
a clinical lead for the education platform eBrain where I head the development of the<br />
neurosciences course for medical students.<br />
Poorna Mysoor (Law)<br />
<strong>The</strong> academic year 2019-20 began with two guest<br />
lectures I delivered. <strong>The</strong> first was at the Centre for<br />
Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) at the<br />
Law Faculty, University of Cambridge. I spoke on a<br />
methodology for implying copyright licences. I received<br />
incisive and helpful feedback from the audience. <strong>The</strong><br />
second was at the LTEC Lab, School of Law, University<br />
of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. I spoke on the right of<br />
communication to the public and the internet and how implied licences can help resolve<br />
some of the copyright issues online.<br />
I was invited to be a Visiting Fellow at the EW Barker Centre for Business Law,<br />
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. I spent the whole month of February<br />
there, conducting my research and engaging with the academic community. I gave a<br />
seminar at the Centre on issues of copyright infringement on the internet. While I was<br />
in Singapore, I also received an invitation to present at the School of Law, Singapore<br />
Management University. I spoke on the influences of private law on copyright law.<br />
I also had an opportunity to present at the webinar organised by the Faculty of Law at<br />
Oxford on ‘Property Law Connections’. I presented a paper on ‘Form and Copyright – A<br />
Property Debate’, which was well received. This paper is part of my larger Leverhulme<br />
project which examines the analogies of tangible property principles in copyright law. A<br />
paper derived from this presentation is being published by the Journal of the Copyright<br />
Society of the USA in its summer <strong>2020</strong> issue.<br />
Chris O’Callaghan (Medicine)<br />
In early <strong>2020</strong> I broke several bones in a cycle accident<br />
coming down Headington Hill and by the time I was<br />
fit again the coronavirus pandemic was upon us. All<br />
teaching and non-COVID research were shut down in<br />
the clinical departments and I rapidly became immersed<br />
in full-time clinical duty on the ‘frontline’ in acute general<br />
medicine and in renal medicine. I still do general medical<br />
‘takes’ – seeing people with acute illness and caring for<br />
22 <strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong> | <strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong> <strong>2020</strong>
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