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From the Provost We were delighted, for example, together with the History Faculty to be able to announce the new Brittenden Fellowship in Black British History, and to welcome back the former Harmsworth Professor of History, Barbara Savage, to be on the appointment panel. A further storm hit in August during the final stages of admissions. Those of you in the UK will know that the government’s method for predicting A-level grades was found to be systemically biased against students from state schools and therefore deeply flawed. Like other colleges, Queen’s had UK offer-holders whose admission was conditional on their A-level grades and who initially appeared to fail to meet their conditions. The situation for these young people was incredibly difficult. Meanwhile each college’s decisions on admissions had implications for faculties, other colleges and the University and for fairness between student cohorts. The College considered each of its outstanding cases carefully and, in the light of the changed evidence, admitted all of them. The result is that the matriculating year of 2020 will be the largest ever. It also contains the highest proportion of UK admissions coming from state schools (and this was true before the conditional offer holders were admitted). In 2021, due to the generosity of a donor we will be able to recruit a coordinator to work full time on collaborative outreach in the North East of England, helping us to go further to support the brightest young people, whatever their start in life. Finally, as I write, the Chapel has just emerged from its year-long seclusion behind scaffolding and sheeting. Its roof has been repaired (a project delivered on budget and to time by our former Clerk of Works, David Goddard), possibly for the first time since it was built. The first events on the newly reopened site were weddings – the first the marriage of two Old Members who met when they were in the choir together, and the second between Emeritus Fellow Angus Bowie and College Lecturer Almut Fries. Throughout everything, the College’s guiding approach is to focus on its core purposes: teaching, learning and researching – and to be safe. We have all tried, and will continue to try, to do that in ways that are characteristic of the best of Queen’s throughout time: resilient, brave and kind. I would like to continue to pay particular tribute to the current generations at the College for the ways in which they have responded throughout. 8 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020
SENIOR TUTOR’S REPORT The College elected twelve new Fellows this year. Professor Jon Keating FRS joined us as the new Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy. He was formerly the Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics in Bristol, and Chair of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research. His research interests include random matrix theory and its applications to quantum chaos, number theory, and the Riemann zeta function. Reports and College Activities Nicholas Owen Our new Fellow in Philosophy, replacing Professor John Hyman, who moved to the Grote Professorship of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College, London, is Professor Catharine Abell. She comes from the University of Manchester, where she has worked since 2006. Her most recent book is Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis (Oxford, 2020), which develops a philosophical account of fiction as a social practice, providing original explanations of the nature of fiction, the norms governing its understanding and interpretation, and the nature of fictional entities. Her next research project will address the nature and importance of artistic style. Professor Steve Kelly, our Browne Research Fellow, has become our second Fellow in Biological Sciences, in association with a Royal Society University Fellowship at the Department of Plant Sciences. He works on photosynthesis, evolution, gene expression and bioinformatics. His research group aims to identify the molecular regulators and mechanisms that control the expression of photosynthesis genes in the world’s most important food crops, the grasses. We also elected a second Fellow in Materials Science. He is Professor Robert Weatherup and comes to us from a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the USA, and a Diamond-Manchester Fellowship at Diamond Light Source. His research concerns reactions occurring at material interfaces in batteries and catalytic reactors. He is leading a new project, funded by the Faraday Institution, to develop characterisation methods for probing buried interfaces in lithium-ion batteries. We were also joined this year by a new Fellow in Applied Mathematics: Professor José Carrillo. Professor Carrillo was Professor of Applied and Numerical Analysis at Imperial College London from 2012 to 2020. He has recently been awarded a European Research Council grant which will fund his research on non-local partial differential equations for complex particle dynamics. This research focuses on systems involving a large number of individuals showing collective behaviour, and investigates how to College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 9
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