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THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE<br />
1341-<strong>2021</strong>: 680th Anniversary<br />
COLLEGE<br />
RECORD <strong>2021</strong>
THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE<br />
Visitor<br />
<strong>The</strong> Archbishop of York<br />
Provost<br />
Craig, Claire Harvey, CBE, MA PhD Camb<br />
Fellows<br />
Robbins, Peter Alistair, BM BCh MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Hyman, John, BPhil MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Nickerson, Richard Bruce, BSc Edin, MA<br />
DPhil Oxf<br />
Davis, John Harry, MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Taylor, Robert Anthony, MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Langdale, Jane Alison, CBE, BSc Bath, MA<br />
Oxf, PhD Lond, FRS<br />
Mellor, Elizabeth Jane Claire, BSc Manc, MA<br />
Oxf, PhD R’dg<br />
Owen, Nicholas James, MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Rees, Owen Lewis, MA PhD Camb, MA Oxf,<br />
ARCO<br />
Bamforth, Nicholas Charles, BCL MA Oxf<br />
O’Reilly, Keyna Anne Quenby, MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Louth, Charles Bede, BA PhD Camb, MA<br />
DPhil Oxf<br />
Kringelbach, Morten Lindtner, BSc MSc<br />
Copenhagen, DPhil Oxf<br />
Norbury, Christopher John, MA Oxf, PhD Lond<br />
Sarooshi, Dan, LLB NSW, LLM PhD Lond,<br />
MA Oxf<br />
Doye, Jonathan Peter Kelway, BA PhD Camb<br />
Buckley, Mark James, MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Aldridge, Simon, MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Timms, Andrew, MA Camb, MPhil PhD Brist<br />
Meyer, Dirk, MA PhD Leiden<br />
Papazoglou, Panagiotis, BS Crete, MA PhD<br />
Columbia, MA Oxf, habil Paris-Sud<br />
Lonsdale, Laura Rosemary, MA Oxf, PhD Birm<br />
Beasley, Rebecca Lucy, MA PhD Camb, MA<br />
DPhil Oxf, MA Berkeley<br />
Crowther, Charles Vollgraff, MA Camb, MA<br />
Cincinnati, MA Oxf, PhD Lond<br />
O’Callaghan, Christopher Anthony, BM BCh<br />
MA DPhil DM Oxf, FRCP<br />
Robertson, Ritchie Neil Ninian, MA Edin, MA<br />
DPhil Oxf, PhD Camb, FBA<br />
Phalippou, Ludovic Laurent André, BA<br />
Toulouse School of Economics, MA Southern<br />
California, PhD INSEAD<br />
Yassin, Ghassan, BSc MSc PhD Keele<br />
Gardner, Anthony Marshall, BA LLB MA<br />
Melbourne, PhD NSW<br />
Tammaro, Paolo, Laurea Genoa, PhD Bath<br />
Guest, Jennifer Lindsay, BA Yale, MA MPhil<br />
PhD Columbia, MA Waseda<br />
Turnbull, Lindsay Ann, BA Camb, PhD Lond<br />
Parkinson, Richard Bruce, BA DPhil Oxf<br />
Hunt, Katherine Emily, MA Oxf, MRes PhD<br />
Birkbeck<br />
Hollings, Christopher David, MMath PhD York<br />
Kelly, Steven, BSc Dub, DPhil Oxf, ARIAM<br />
Gault, Joseph Frederick, MSc Imp, PhD<br />
Institut Pasteur & École Polytechnique<br />
Metcalf, Christopher Michael Simon, MA Edin,<br />
MPhil DPhil Oxf<br />
Whidden, Seth Adam, BA Union <strong>College</strong>, AM<br />
PhD Brown, MA Ohio State<br />
Mȕller, Carolin Anne, Dip Ulm, PhD Nott<br />
Stacey, Jessica Anne, BA MA PhD KCL<br />
Prout, David, MA Oxf, PhD Lond<br />
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Kasberger, Bernhard, BSc Vienna University of<br />
Economics and Business, PhD Vienna<br />
Robertson, Alexander William, MPhys Durh,<br />
DPhil Oxf<br />
Smith, Michael Ambrose Crawford, BA<br />
<strong>College</strong> of William and Mary, MA PhD<br />
Princeton<br />
Turner, Jonathan, BA MSt BCL MPhil DPhil<br />
Oxf, LLB Birkbeck<br />
Seigal, Anna, BA MMath Camb<br />
Keating, Jonathan Peter, MPhys Oxf, PhD<br />
Bristol<br />
Abell, Catharine Emma Jenvey, BA Adelaide,<br />
PhD Flinders<br />
Mancall, Peter Cooper, BA Oberlin, PhD<br />
Harvard<br />
Weatherup, Robert Stewart, MEng PhD Camb<br />
Walden, Daniel Kitt Schelly, BA Oberlin, MPhil<br />
Camb, PhD Harvard<br />
Kiener, Maximilian, BA Regensburg, BPhil<br />
DPhil Oxf<br />
Ariga, Rina, MBBS Imperial, DPhil Oxf<br />
Muhammed, Kinan, MBBS Imperial, DPhil Oxf<br />
Marinkov, Viktor Vidinov, BSc Utrecht, MSc<br />
Barcelona<br />
Carrillo de la Plata, José Antonio, BA PhD<br />
Grenada<br />
O’Brien, Conor, BA Cork, MSt DPhil Oxf<br />
Rota, Gabriele, BA Padua, MPhil PhD Camb<br />
Leedham, Simon, BSc MBBS PhD QMUL<br />
Edwards, Jennifer Jane, BA MA PhD RHUL<br />
Honorary Fellows<br />
Hoffmann, Leonard Hubert, the Rt Hon Lord<br />
Hoffmann of Chedworth, Kt, PC, BA Cape<br />
Town, BCL MA Oxf<br />
Morgan, Kenneth Owen, Lord Morgan of<br />
Aberdyfi, MA DPhil DLitt Oxf, FBA, FRHistS<br />
McColl, Sir Colin Hugh Verel, KCMG, MA Oxf<br />
Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy John, OM, KBE, MA<br />
Oxf, FRS<br />
Kelly, the Rt Hon Ruth Maria, PC, BA Oxf,<br />
MSc Lond<br />
Atkinson, Rowan Sebastian, BSc Newc, MSc<br />
Oxf<br />
Bowman, Alan Keir, MA Oxf, MA PhD Toronto,<br />
FBA<br />
Gillen, the Hon Sir John de Winter, BA Oxf<br />
Lever, Sir Paul, KCMG, MA Oxf, Hon LLD Birm<br />
Phillips, Caryl, BA Oxf, FRSL<br />
Stern, Nicholas Herbert, Lord Stern of<br />
Brentford, Kt, CH, MA Camb, DPhil Oxf, FBA,<br />
FRS<br />
Hill, Hugh Allen Oliver, BSc PhD Belf, MA DSc<br />
Oxf, FRS<br />
Reed, Terence James, MA Oxf, FBA<br />
Low, Colin MacKenzie, Lord Low of Dalston,<br />
CBE, BA Oxf<br />
Beecroft, Paul Adrian Barlow, MA Oxf, FInstP<br />
Budd, Sir Alan Peter, GBE, BSc Lond, MA<br />
DPhil Oxf, PhD Camb<br />
Bogdanor, Vernon Bernard, CBE, MA Oxf,<br />
FBA<br />
Morris, Colin, MA Oxf, FBA, FRHistS<br />
Eisenberg, David Samuel, AB Harvard, DPhil<br />
Oxf<br />
Carwardine, Richard John, MA DPhil Oxf,<br />
FBA, FLSW, FRHistS<br />
Hacker, Peter Michael Stephan, MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Margalit, Avishai, BA MA PhD Hebrew<br />
Laskey, Ronald Alfred, CBE, MA DPhil Oxf,<br />
FMedSci, FRS<br />
Barrons, Sir Richard Lawson, KCB, CBE, MA<br />
Oxf<br />
Abbott, Anthony John, MA Oxf<br />
Griffith Williams, the Hon Sir John, MA Oxf<br />
Turner, the Hon Sir Mark George, MA Oxf<br />
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Donnelly, Sir Joseph Brian, CMG, KBE, MA<br />
Oxf<br />
Watt, James Chi Yau, MA Oxf<br />
Booker, Cory, BA Oxf, BA MA Stanford, JD Yale<br />
Garcetti, Eric, BA MA Columbia, MA Oxf, PhD<br />
LSE<br />
James, Ioan Mackenzie, MA DPhil Oxf, FRS<br />
Sloboda, John Anthony, OBE, MA Oxf, PhD<br />
Lond, FBA, FBPsS<br />
Wills, Clair, MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Madden, Paul Anthony, MA Oxf, DPhil Sus,<br />
FRS, FRSE<br />
Barber, Sir Michael, Kt, BA Oxf<br />
Frood, Elizabeth, BA MA Auckland, DPhil Oxf<br />
Gordon-Reed, Annette, BA Dartmouth, JD<br />
Harvard<br />
Ramakrishnan, Sir Venkatraman, Kt, PhD<br />
Ohio, FRS<br />
Sillem, Hayaatun, CBE, FIET, PhD UCL,<br />
MBiochem Oxf<br />
Taylor, Clare, MBE, BA Oxf<br />
Emeritus Fellows<br />
Foster, Michael Antony, MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Kaye, John Marsh, BCL MA Oxf<br />
Salmon, Graeme Laurence, BSc Tasmania,<br />
MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Dimsdale, Nicholas Hampden, MA Camb, MA<br />
Oxf<br />
Neumann, Peter Michael, OBE, MA DPhil DSc<br />
Oxf<br />
Rutherford, John David, MA DPhil Oxf<br />
McLeod, Peter Duncan, MA PhD Camb, MA<br />
DPhil Oxf<br />
Edwards, Christopher Martin, MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Harries, Phillip Tudor, MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Baines, John Robert, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA<br />
Rowland, <strong>The</strong> Revd Christopher, MA PhD<br />
Camb, MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Pearson, Roger Anthony George, MA DPhil<br />
Oxf, FBA<br />
Bowie, Angus Morton, MA PhD Camb, MA<br />
DPhil Oxf<br />
Ball, Sir John Macleod, MA Camb, MA Oxf,<br />
DPhil Sus, FRS, FRSE<br />
Blair, William John, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA, FSA<br />
Supernumerary Fellows<br />
Maclean, Ian Walter Fitzroy, MA DPhil Oxf,<br />
FBA, FRHistS<br />
Constantine, David John, MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Dobson, Peter James, OBE, BSc PhD S’ton,<br />
MA Oxf<br />
Irving-Bell, Linda, MA DPhil Oxf<br />
Jacobs, Justin Baine, BA Tulsa, MPhil PhD<br />
Camb<br />
Browne Research Fellow<br />
Fayet, Annette, MSc ESPCI Paris, MSC DPhil<br />
Oxf<br />
Beecroft Junior Research Fellow (in<br />
Astrophysics)<br />
Bellini, Emilio, BA MSc Trento, PhD Padova<br />
Laming Junior Fellows<br />
Bardazzi, Adele, BA RHUL, DPhil Oxf<br />
Arnaldi, Marta, BA Turin, MA Pavia, MSt DPhil<br />
Oxf<br />
Full-time Lecturers<br />
Sienkiewicz, Stefan, BA MSt DPhil Oxf<br />
Chaplain<br />
Price, <strong>The</strong> Revd Katherine Magdalene, MA<br />
MSt Oxf, BA Sheff<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
From the Provost 6<br />
Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities 9<br />
Senior Tutor’s Report 9<br />
News from the Fellowship 14<br />
Academic Distinctions 26<br />
From the Bursar 35<br />
Outreach 37<br />
Admissions 39<br />
A year in the Library 40<br />
A year in the Chapel 43<br />
A year in the Choir 46<br />
<strong>The</strong> Queen’s Translation Exchange 48<br />
A year in the MCR 50<br />
A year in the JCR 52<br />
Student Clubs and Societies 54<br />
Athletic Distinctions 60<br />
Old Members’ Activities 61<br />
Director of Development’s Report 61<br />
From the President of <strong>The</strong> Queen’s<br />
<strong>College</strong> Association 63<br />
Gaudies 67<br />
Appointments and Distinctions 68<br />
Publications 74<br />
Articles 78<br />
<strong>The</strong> challenges of academic<br />
medicine during a pandemic 78<br />
Modelling a pandemic 81<br />
Papyri and performance: the<br />
problems of ancient poetry 84<br />
Obituaries 88<br />
Prof A D Barker 89<br />
Dr R E Blackburn FRSA 91<br />
Dr M J Cullen 92<br />
His Hon Judge Curran QC 94<br />
Prof K Davies 96<br />
Mr J R England 97<br />
Mr P J Firth 98<br />
Mr R L Hartnoll 100<br />
Mr M E Herman 102<br />
Prof H A O Hill FRS 104<br />
Mr A W S Mundy 105<br />
Dr P M Neumann OBE 107<br />
Mr J W A Okell OBE 108<br />
Dr Z A Pelczynski OBE 110<br />
Ms H Sowerby 113<br />
Mr E D Wetherell 114<br />
Benefactions 116<br />
Information 124<br />
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From the Provost<br />
Credit: David Fisher<br />
FROM THE PROVOST<br />
Queen’s has had a year to be proud of. Obviously, it has<br />
been tough on everyone: students, academics, <strong>College</strong><br />
staff, and Old Members. We have all faced continual<br />
uncertainty, risk, and restrictions, each of us has had<br />
to deal with difficult personal circumstances and some<br />
with tragedy. Collectively, however, as a <strong>College</strong> we have<br />
been amazingly resilient and not only survived but, often,<br />
created opportunities out of disruption.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong> focused on what it has always been here<br />
Dr Claire Craig CBE for: to educate and to support research for the public<br />
good, in the best ways that it possibly can. From the<br />
start, we chose to stay true to our principles, including<br />
thinking for ourselves as we picked our way through the law, guidance, and evidence.<br />
This meant that we did as much in-person as we possibly could, consistent with<br />
safety. Tutorials were face-to-face where they could be, even while University lectures,<br />
exams, and admissions were all online throughout the year.<br />
Each term had its own flavour, reflecting the academic cycle and the various stages<br />
of the pandemic. Michaelmas Term saw most students in residence, but with many<br />
self-isolating at any one time and with all lectures online. Careful choreography<br />
meant that, where they could, students and tutors came together: Freshers’ Week<br />
sessions and mid-term tutorial dinners were repeated so they could be held in<br />
smaller groups; meetings throughout the term were often held in person, but with<br />
various combinations of mask-wearing, the placing of Perspex screens (that made<br />
conversations across the table at lunch or dinner impossible), outdoors in marquees<br />
and under heaters, and people sitting the required distance apart in the larger rooms.<br />
Even so, we all got very familiar with online meeting formats. Some Fellows were<br />
hardly able to get to their labs or archives at all, while others were able to conduct<br />
research from home. Many staff were also fitting work alongside home-schooling their<br />
children. Together with the high levels of uncertainty, of risk, of extra effort and care<br />
that even the most routine activity required, it was a difficult time for everyone.<br />
At Christmas we sorely missed the Gaudies, and some international students had<br />
to stay throughout because they could not return home or, if they did, would not<br />
be able to come back for Hilary. One of them created midwinter cheer by magically<br />
“wrapping” the front door in brightly coloured gauze. However, the first part of Hilary<br />
Term was probably the darkest time of the year, actually and metaphorically. Only a<br />
small proportion of students were in residence, the UK’s national lockdown meant<br />
restrictions were very tight, and the daylight hours were short.<br />
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By Trinity Term the days were brighter, restrictions were a little less, and most students<br />
had returned. For one-year Masters students and for Finalists, the desire to make<br />
the most of every possible day was particularly strong. Queen’s continued to support<br />
in-person events wherever it could and by July we had even managed to fulfil our<br />
commitment to the Finalists of 2020, to invite them back to carefully choreographed<br />
formal Halls for a belated celebration. It was particularly satisfying because the<br />
Norrington league table for 2020 had just been published, with Queen’s placed 3rd<br />
– the best outcome anyone could remember. (I must remind readers that the league<br />
table is a flawed measure, subject to massive fluctuations – but it would be churlish<br />
not to celebrate the very real underlying achievements of students and tutors.) In<br />
addition, the <strong>College</strong> had its best Torpids performance since 1840, and the Men’s<br />
first boat achieved Blades. As a newcomer to the way bumps work, the fact that the<br />
riverside was shut off resulted in a bonus: the organisers provided both an excellent<br />
live-feed and an incredibly helpful set of graphics, making it much easier to follow all<br />
the boats’ progress wherever in the world you were.<br />
From the Provost<br />
Seeking those opportunities created by disruption, we will all want to learn what we<br />
can about new ways of doing things. A lot of our activity this past year has brought<br />
our good works to a much wider audience, making the <strong>College</strong>, in some senses, more<br />
porous. For example, we introduced the Translation Exchange Book Club for Sixth-<br />
Formers; the live-streaming of Chapel services, organ recitals, and choir concerts;<br />
and the imaginative online events for the OM community around the world from Mayor<br />
Garcetti’s Lecture, to the “two Roberts’” tour of the wine cellar. We conducted the<br />
Credit: John Cairns<br />
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From the Provost<br />
search that resulted in six new Honorary Fellows with a fascinating range of interests,<br />
and we finalised the partnership with <strong>The</strong> Access Project that will see Queen’s<br />
investing careful time and effort leading in-depth engagement with selected state<br />
schools in its areas of historic interest in the North West of England. At a time when the<br />
average attainment gap between children in rich and poor households appears to be<br />
widening, this is an important part of the <strong>College</strong>’s continuous determination to enable<br />
all the brightest young people to benefit from the best possible education. Far from<br />
locked-down housebound navel-gazing, the <strong>College</strong> has reached out more than ever.<br />
I want to finish this article with a brief reflection on how the move of so much of<br />
life online also forced us to recognise afresh the value of Queen’s as a physical<br />
community-in-place. <strong>The</strong> practices of working, eating, and sometimes living together<br />
are integral to the <strong>College</strong>’s character and its success. <strong>The</strong>y have their origins in the<br />
scholarly, social, and religious habits of the <strong>College</strong>’s first centuries. While the details of<br />
some of the practices are very different now and some of the reasons for them have<br />
changed, others remain strong or have evolved to take new forms.<br />
That character and success still depend on people being together, on the liminal<br />
conversations: those over lunch, at a feast or seminar, or in the quads. <strong>College</strong><br />
conversations happen with a mix of formality and serendipity and it is the essence of a<br />
<strong>College</strong> that people talk across boundaries in ways that they would not do anywhere<br />
else: across cohorts and generations, across subjects and disciplines, across teams<br />
and specialisms. This fluidity, absorbing the mood, paying attention to each other in<br />
ways that require all the skills of one human being noticing another, building bonds,<br />
is what enables challenge and support. It cannot be exactly replicated online and is<br />
an important part of what makes excellence possible. It is the associated freedom of<br />
expression, intellectual enquiry and reasoned arguments that will help to tackle the<br />
problems of today and create the opportunities for tomorrow. You could say that an<br />
ideal Queen’s conversation, whether about climate change or the menu, combines<br />
passion with respect: decorous passion, perhaps, or passionate decorum.<br />
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SENIOR TUTOR’S REPORT<br />
A year ago, the Senior Tutor ended his report with a<br />
wish that the 2020/21 academic year would mark a<br />
return to normality. Such has, unfortunately, not been<br />
the case. Teaching and meetings this year were a mix<br />
of online and in person, and admissions interviews<br />
were held completely online, as they will be this coming<br />
December. Students spent much of Michaelmas Term<br />
limited to their ‘household’ (often a staircase in <strong>College</strong><br />
accommodation), and then away from <strong>College</strong> during<br />
the second lockdown, which pushed Hilary Term fully<br />
Prof Seth Whidden online. Trinity Term saw the return of most students<br />
to <strong>College</strong>, although nearly all examinations were sat<br />
online, as they had been a year earlier. Despite these<br />
challenges, I’m pleased to report that the <strong>College</strong> pressed on with great resolve,<br />
in teaching and research alike. Against such strong headwinds, persistence alone<br />
would be admirable; that the <strong>College</strong> was able to be so successful despite such<br />
unfavourable conditions is noteworthy indeed.<br />
Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
As last year’s <strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong> was being sent to the printer, we elected four new<br />
Fellows who began in post at the start of this academic year. Conor O’Brien is a<br />
new Fellow in History, specialising in religion and identity in the early Middle Ages.<br />
After research fellowships in Cambridge and Durham, Dr O’Brien has returned to the<br />
<strong>College</strong> where he wrote a doctoral thesis on the Anglo-Saxon monk Bede. That thesis<br />
was the basis for his first book, Bede’s Temple: An Image and its Interpretation (OUP),<br />
which received the Best Book Prize from the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists.<br />
His next book is part of a wider project exploring the possibility of a religion/secular<br />
distinction in the early Middle Ages, and he is also working on issues of community<br />
and identity in the early medieval world.<br />
Gabriele Rota was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in Classics. A product of<br />
the Italian state education system, Dr Rota read Classics at the University of Padua<br />
and completed postgraduate study in Cambridge, where he wrote a doctoral thesis on<br />
the textual history of Cicero’s letters to Atticus. His current projects include producing<br />
a critical edition of Cicero’s entire correspondence and studying attitudes towards<br />
the inclusion of non-authorial matter into Latin classical texts from Antiquity to the<br />
Enlightenment.<br />
To cover much of my teaching while I serve as Senior Tutor, the <strong>College</strong> elected Macs<br />
Smith, who was our Hamilton Junior Research Fellow, to a Career Development<br />
Fellowship in French. Dr Smith’s first book Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and<br />
Politics in the Media City, announced last year (see 2020 <strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong>, p. 27), was<br />
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Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
published by MIT Press this May. After articles on street art and graffiti representations<br />
of the 1871 Paris Commune, and of Dante in contemporary Italian society, he is<br />
working on his second book project, which examines the impact of screen culture and<br />
new technologies on the conceptualisation of the body in contemporary French theatre.<br />
Also interested in aspects of theatre is Jennifer Edwards, our new Career Development<br />
Fellow in early modern English. Previously Research Coordinator and Lecturer at<br />
Shakespeare’s Globe, London, Dr Edwards’ research focuses on the intersections<br />
of early modern literature (primarily Shakespearean), medicine, and philosophy, with<br />
a particular interest in emotion and embodiment. Her current projects include a<br />
monograph that considers how experiences of ecstasy captured the early modern<br />
imagination, and a study that aims to show how distraction at Shakespeare’s Globe<br />
creates theatrical meaning.<br />
During the course of this academic year, the <strong>College</strong> elected ten new Fellows. Meleisa<br />
Ono-George was elected to be the first Brittenden Fellow in History. A social-cultural<br />
historian of race and gender with a focus on Black women’s histories in Britain and the<br />
Anglo-Caribbean, Dr Ono-George was most recently Associate Professor and Director<br />
of Student Experience at the University of Warwick. She is currently conducting<br />
research for a book that focuses on the lives of several Black women in nineteenthand<br />
early twentieth-century Britain, as well as looking ahead to her next project,<br />
on the history of Black mothering in Britain and the politics of historical production.<br />
Readers of the <strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong> are well aware of one point which bears repeating: the<br />
Brittenden endowment enabled the <strong>College</strong> to secure the early release of this post,<br />
despite the University’s recruitment freeze that had been occasioned by COVID-19.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong> will fund the post for the first five years, after which it will be jointly funded<br />
with the Faculty of History.<br />
<strong>The</strong> pandemic left the Harmsworth Visiting Professorship of American History unfilled<br />
in Michaelmas and Hilary Terms. Last year’s postholder, Peter Mancall, was invited<br />
to return for Trinity Term, to make up for the summer term that he lost in 2020. <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>’s connection to the Harmsworth Professorship remains a source of great<br />
strength; recent Harmsworth Professor Barbara Savage (University of Pennsylvania)<br />
was on the selection panel for the Brittenden Fellowship. Her scholarly expertise and<br />
her familiarity with, and fondness for, the <strong>College</strong> made her an invaluable contributor.<br />
To round out the <strong>College</strong>’s coverage of history, we elected Sadie Jarrett to a Career<br />
Development Fellowship in early modern history. Her research examines the Welsh<br />
gentry within the power structures of the English state and disputes the existing<br />
narratives about the Welsh gentry. Her approach to viewing the Welsh people through<br />
lenses of colonialism is one of a number of examples of <strong>College</strong> members who are<br />
engaged with matters to do with race and diversity within their disciplines. Dr Jarrett<br />
has most recently been a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Historical<br />
Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.<br />
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Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
Simon Leedham FRCP was elected as our new Professorial Fellow in Molecular<br />
and Population Genetics. Professor Leedham’s research focuses on the signalling<br />
pathways that control intestinal stem cells and how they can be manipulated by drugs<br />
in diseases like inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer. He is also Director<br />
of the Oxford Centre for Personalised Medicine, which runs 15-20 engagement events<br />
throughout the year.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong> also elected a new Junior Research Fellow in Law: Jan Petrov comes<br />
to us from the Judicial Studies Institute of Masaryk University, in Brno, where he<br />
completed his doctorate. He also worked as a law clerk at the Supreme Administrative<br />
Court of the Czech Republic, and he holds an LLM from New York University. Dr<br />
Petrov’s primary scholarly interests are comparative constitutional law, human rights,<br />
EU law, and public international law, and during his Fellowship he plans to articulate<br />
a theory of judicial reactions to executive dominance with particular help from three<br />
case studies: Brexit, post-2015 judicial reforms in Poland, and the Israeli government’s<br />
response to COVID-19.<br />
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Our new Browne Research Fellow is Finaritra Raoelijaona. Originally from Madagascar,<br />
she holds degrees from the Universities of Strasbourg and Bordeaux. For her research<br />
Fellowship, she will focus on G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR), which represent the<br />
largest family of cell surface receptors encoded by the human genome. Specifically, Dr<br />
Raoelijaona will be investigating a unique receptor known as the very large G proteincoupled<br />
receptor 1 (VLGR1). <strong>The</strong> largest protein known in the GPCR superfamily,<br />
VLGR1 is highly subjected to mutations which are directly related to genetic disorders,<br />
including Usher syndrome type 2 (commonly associated with deafness and blindness).<br />
Rachel Achs was elected to be the next post-doctoral research Fellow in Philosophy<br />
as part of Senior Research Fellow John Hyman’s European Research Council project<br />
on ‘<strong>The</strong> Roots of Responsibility: Metaphysics, Humanity, and Society’. At Harvard, she<br />
wrote her doctoral thesis on self-righteous sentiment, and she is continuing to work on<br />
blame, its meaning, and its value. Dr Achs aims to consider the relationship between<br />
blame and voluntary control: specifically, what sort of freedom is required for the type<br />
of moral responsibility that we should care about having.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Laming Junior Research Fellowship was recast — thanks to the strength of its<br />
endowment — and the first year of it being offered as a three-year Fellowship (instead<br />
of one year with possibility of renewal) led to the election of two new Laming Fellows:<br />
Coraline Jortay and Annalisa Nicholson. Dr Jortay’s primary research interest is the<br />
history of literary translation from English and French into Chinese at the turn of the<br />
twentieth century, with a special focus on the impact of literary translation on language<br />
reform. Dr Nicholson works on the rhetorical strategies (particularly aspects of distance<br />
and alienation) of Huguenot women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.<br />
We also elected two ‘extraordinary’, or non-stipendiary, Junior Research Fellows, in<br />
Physiology and in Physics. <strong>The</strong>se ‘eJRFs’ enable association with the <strong>College</strong> to postdoctorate<br />
scholars whose research activity is already supported through grant funding.<br />
We look forward to welcoming them to our already vibrant group of Early Career<br />
Researchers: Rumaitha Al Hosni (Physiology) and Josu Aurrekoetxea (Physics).<br />
<strong>The</strong>se new Early Career Fellows will have big shoes to fill, as our track record of<br />
attracting the leading scholars of the future invariably leads to departures for greater<br />
pastures; of our Junior Research Fellows, Daniel Walden is leaving for a permanent<br />
position as Assistant Professor in Music Analysis at Durham University, and Bernhard<br />
Kasberger will join the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) at<br />
Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. Recent eJRFs Max Kiener and Adele Bardazzi<br />
will pursue new postdoctoral fellowships with support from the European Research<br />
Council and the Irish Research Council, respectively.<br />
As I write this report, the selection panel completed its work for the new Schwarz-<br />
Taylor Professorship in German. As with the Brittenden Fellowship, this post<br />
(previously called the Taylor chair) is now fully endowed, and it continues to be<br />
associated with a Fellowship at the <strong>College</strong>. <strong>The</strong> new Schwarz-Taylor Professor,<br />
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Karen Leeder, is a specialist in and prize-winning translator of contemporary German<br />
literature, film, and culture. Among Professor Leeder’s numerous current projects is a<br />
study of contemporary German poetry. We look forward to welcoming her next year.<br />
Turning to our existing Fellowship, it gives me great pleasure to note that Fellow in<br />
English Rebecca Beasley and Fellow in Fine Art Anthony Gardner were both given the<br />
title of Professor in the annual Recognition of Distinction exercise.<br />
If I have devoted so much space to profiles of individual excellence, it’s because they<br />
can better convey the <strong>College</strong>’s activities over the past year than, say, numerical<br />
results such as the Norrington Table. While we are always a bit wary of league<br />
tables, since such a focus on exam scores is only one (crude) way to measure<br />
student success, that scepticism is no less important in a year in which students sat<br />
examinations during a pandemic, in far from optimal conditions. <strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s results<br />
are impressive when compared to previous years — we achieved a ‘Norrington score’<br />
of 81.7%, whereas our previous high had been 76.43% and the mean over the last<br />
15 years was 69.9%. And while many colleges enjoyed similar increases (aided by a<br />
general dearth of third-class degrees or lower), the <strong>College</strong> came third in this year’s<br />
table: the highest position on record, and a notable achievement in a uniquely difficult<br />
year. Most importantly, our standing in this league table shows that our finalists were<br />
not disadvantaged by the pandemic last year; their resilience is a testament to their<br />
focus and determination, impressive in light of such unfavourable conditions. In<br />
addition to their strong showing as a year group, students excelled in a number of<br />
individual accomplishments when compared to their cohort across the University, as<br />
the list of examination prizes in this <strong>Record</strong> attests.<br />
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What will we accomplish next year? If the last year has taught us anything, it’s that<br />
predicting the future is a fool’s errand; even the meteorologist gets caught in the rain<br />
sometimes. But with vaccines in our arms and a year’s worth of pandemic-related<br />
experience under our belts, we are eager and committed to return to as much inperson<br />
work as will be permitted. Having made it through this year’s storms in such<br />
good shape, the <strong>College</strong>’s academic future remains bright.<br />
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NEWS FROM THE FELLOWSHIP<br />
Links to full lists of Fellows’ publications can be found on their profile pages on the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s website.<br />
Catharine Abell (Philosophy)<br />
Since the publication of my book, Fiction: A<br />
Philosophical Analysis (OUP) in July 2020, I have<br />
participated in an author meets critics session on the<br />
book at the American Society of Aesthetics meeting in<br />
November 2020 (held online). I have also written a précis<br />
of the book and response to critical commentaries (in<br />
addition to offering some critical commentaries of my<br />
own on other recently-published books on the topic)<br />
for a special issue of the British Journal of Aesthetics on fiction, to be published in<br />
January 2022. I have also started working on a project about artistic media and how<br />
they affect our interpretation and evaluation of artworks. As an extension of that, I have<br />
been thinking about the role of various kinds of non-perceptible features of artworks in<br />
determining their aesthetic properties.<br />
Rebecca Beasley (English)<br />
This year I’ve enjoyed setting several new projects in<br />
train. With Alex Grafen (UCL) and Evi Heinz (Münster),<br />
I’m putting together an anthology of modernist art<br />
and literature by a group of East End Jewish writers<br />
and artists (the group is usually referred to as ‘<strong>The</strong><br />
Whitechapel Boys’—but there were Whitechapel girls<br />
too); I’ve started editing Wyndham Lewis’ Men Without<br />
Art for the Oxford University Press edition of Lewis’s<br />
writings; and I’ve made the very first forays into research for a new book project on<br />
ornithology in modern literature and culture. At the time of writing, I’m researching<br />
a chapter about the poetry debates of the 1920s for a volume commemorating the<br />
centenary of T.S. Eliot’s <strong>The</strong> Waste Land, to be published next year.<br />
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Angus Bowie (Classics – Emeritus)<br />
All attempts to go abroad having been scuppered by<br />
the virus and its variants, I have been compelled to<br />
work from home, largely on my Homer commentary.<br />
One novelty was giving a series of graduate seminars<br />
on Greek dialect texts ‘in’ the Goethe-Universität in<br />
Frankfurt, which took me back 40 years to my earliest<br />
work on Lesbian poetry and showed me how well<br />
teaching online can go with good students. I also<br />
gave a lecture there on ‘Epic Humour: How Funny Are Homer’s Gods?’ (answer: ‘it’s<br />
complicated’). I published an article ‘<strong>The</strong> Ritual Role of Honey in Ancient Egypt, Hatti<br />
and Greece’ in the Serbian journal Istraživanja.<br />
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Jose Carrillo (Mathematics)<br />
Despite all the complications with the COVID-19<br />
restrictions, my first year at Queen’s has been both<br />
fantastic and challenging. Adapting to new duties and a<br />
totally different environment has been eased due to the<br />
nice and friendly welcome from colleagues and students<br />
at the <strong>College</strong>. My research in the 2020-<strong>2021</strong> academic<br />
year continues the development of theoretical and<br />
numerical tools and applications of Partial Differential<br />
Equations (PDE) in the sciences. <strong>The</strong>y constitute the basic language in which most<br />
of the laws in physics or engineering can be written and one of the most important<br />
mathematical tools for modelling in life and socio-economical sciences. I have been<br />
interested in long-time asymptotics, qualitative properties and numerical schemes for<br />
nonlinear diffusion, hydrodynamic, and kinetic equations. I have also worked in the<br />
modelling of collective behaviour of many-body systems with application in charged<br />
particles transport in a plasma, cell movement by chemotaxis or cell sorting by<br />
adhesion forces.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first year of my ERC Advanced Grant has allowed me to further explore and to<br />
launch new aspects of my research in nonlocal PDEs for complex particle dynamics<br />
such as phase transitions, patterns, and synchronization. I have advanced in the<br />
analysis of concentrations and properties of local minimizers of interaction energies,<br />
phase transitions driven by noise/relative strength of repulsion versus attraction and<br />
synchronization of neural networks. David Gomez-Castro joined the <strong>College</strong> as Post-<br />
Doctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) associated with this project and three more<br />
PDRAs will be joining in the next academic year. I have been named as Highly Cited<br />
Researcher for six years in a row by Clarivate Analytics. I have given the QJMAM<br />
lecture at the joint British (Applied) Mathematical Colloquium meeting <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
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Claire Craig (Provost)<br />
<strong>The</strong> last academic year has been a challenging time<br />
for those interested in the provision of science advice.<br />
I was therefore delighted to be elected Vice-President<br />
(Evidence) of the International Network for Government<br />
Science Advice and to start to work with INGSA as it<br />
attempts to ensure that the experience of the pandemic<br />
is used to strengthen the provision and use of evidence<br />
in national, city-based, and regional jurisdictions around<br />
the world. I also contributed to work by the British Academy, commissioned by the UK<br />
Government Chief Scientific Advisor, using humanities evidence to develop plausible<br />
futures for the “Covid decade” ahead, in order to inform future policy priorities.<br />
I have continued to work with Professor Sarah Dillon, of Cambridge University, on new<br />
ways to incorporate narrative evidence as part of a plural evidence base. Storylistening:<br />
narrative evidence and public reasoning is published in November <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Peter Dobson OBE (Engineering – Emeritus)<br />
I continue to work in all of the areas that I described last<br />
year, namely: Quantum Technology, aspects of COVID-19<br />
detection, new concepts to reduce carbon emissions<br />
and a lot of work in helping small companies start up. I<br />
was an author on several papers during the year and in<br />
particular three papers in Nature and associated journals<br />
and have continued to file patents on new methods of<br />
rapid and sensitive virus detection, and new types of<br />
coatings to improve heat exchangers, and ultimately, we hope, heat pumps. Methods<br />
of decarbonising the energy sector remain a passion and I am increasingly involved in<br />
hydrogen generation and applications. <strong>The</strong> COVID-19 restrictions have badly affected<br />
a lot of the experimental work I undertake, especially in universities. It is also making<br />
fund-raising for new companies extremely difficult and much of my time in the past six<br />
months has turned to keeping companies alive. My work with the UKRI and associated<br />
government agencies is associated with the road-mapping of some sectors that use<br />
Quantum Technology, and also the implications for Intellectual Property and export<br />
control arising from the National Security Investment Bill and legislation.<br />
Annette Fayet (Biological Sciences)<br />
After a year working from home, I was delighted to resume fieldwork for my research<br />
this year. I spent most of the spring/summer <strong>2021</strong> on Skomer Island off the coast<br />
of Wales, continuing my long-term study of the migration of Atlantic puffins (now<br />
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in its 13th year!) and starting a new project on Manx<br />
shearwaters. This project, for which I secured funding<br />
from the British Ecological Society (BES) and the<br />
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB),<br />
aims to understand the long-term consequences on<br />
seabirds of breeding, or migrating, in unusually easy or<br />
hard conditions (which they may experience more and<br />
more, with climate change driving greater environmental<br />
variability).<br />
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I published several papers this year (see www.annettefayet.com for details and links to<br />
the papers) but I was particularly pleased to see an important paper about a key project<br />
of my Junior Research Fellowship, aiming to uncover the causes of puffin population<br />
declines in the northeast Atlantic, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology.<br />
Despite working from home I continued to take part in outreach events online. This<br />
included a lecture to prospective Oxford students with <strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong> North-<br />
West Science Programme, as well as lectures to primary and secondary school<br />
classrooms with the Exploring By <strong>The</strong> Seat and National Geographic Learning<br />
programmes, which reached over a thousand students worldwide, and hopefully<br />
inspired a few to pursue studies in biology and wildlife conservation.<br />
Last but not least, I was delighted to accept a tenured research position at the<br />
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, starting in winter <strong>2021</strong>, where I will continue<br />
to conduct independent ecological research and contribute to monitoring important<br />
seabird populations in Norway. While I hope to continue my long-term study of puffins<br />
on Skomer Island in Wales, I am also excited to develop new research projects on<br />
seabird colonies in the Lofoten Islands.<br />
Credit: John Cairns<br />
Christopher Hollings (History of Mathematics)<br />
This year, I have continued to work with Richard Bruce<br />
Parkinson on our historiographical project concerning<br />
the reconstruction of ancient Egyptian mathematics<br />
during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.<br />
Our paper on the 1920s correspondence between<br />
the Egyptologist Thomas Eric Peet and the historian<br />
of mathematics Otto Neugebauer appeared in print<br />
in mid-2020 (‘Two letters from Otto Neugebauer to<br />
Thomas Eric Peet on ancient Egyptian mathematics’, Historia Mathematica 52<br />
(2020), 66–98) and we have published accounts of the ongoing research for various<br />
readerships. <strong>The</strong> writing of a follow-up piece is well advanced. Our work considers the<br />
attitudes of mathematicians, historians of mathematics, and Egyptologists towards<br />
the mathematics of the ancient world, their motivations for studying it, and the uses<br />
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to which they put it. We delivered a joint online talk on this work to the Invariants, the<br />
Oxford undergraduate mathematics society.<br />
This year provided an opportunity for some very varied writing, and I produced two<br />
chapters for different edited collections: one on the financial and reputational capital<br />
earned by mathematical textbooks writers in Britain during the nineteenth century, and<br />
another on the eighteenth-century Savilian Professors of Geometry in Oxford, the first<br />
of whom was the <strong>College</strong>’s own Edmond Halley.<br />
I have continued my involvement in various projects spanning several Oxford<br />
departments whose goal is to present a more diverse image of the subjects taught<br />
at undergraduate level. With a view to emphasising the mathematical traditions that<br />
exist beyond Europe, I produced a series of posters on ‘world mathematics’ that will<br />
eventually be displayed in the Andrew Wiles Building: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/<br />
node/37473.<br />
Jon Keating (Mathematics)<br />
In my research, I have been working mainly on<br />
developing the theory of random matrices, and on<br />
applications to machine learning and number theory. My<br />
group has focused, in particular, on the characteristic<br />
polynomials of random matrices, their extreme value<br />
statistics, and their connection to Gaussian Multiplicative<br />
Chaos. I have written a number of papers on these<br />
topics. With a visitor from the Sorbonne Université, Dr<br />
Henrik Ueberschaer, I also made progress on a longstanding problem relating to the<br />
statistical properties of the wave functions in a family of singular quantum billiards.<br />
I gave lectures at a number of conferences, and a Mathematical Institute Public<br />
Lecture on the extreme values of random landscapes, all without leaving the confines<br />
of my home. Unfortunately, a visit to the Republic of the Congo, to give a lecture at the<br />
four-yearly Pan African Congress of Mathematicians, had to be postponed because of<br />
the pandemic.<br />
My teaching was focused on developing a new undergraduate course in the<br />
Mathematical Institute on Random Matrix <strong>The</strong>ory.<br />
I continued to act as President of the London Mathematical Society, where one sad<br />
duty was to mark Dr Peter Neumann’s passing. Peter was a hugely popular figure in<br />
the Society, as well as in <strong>College</strong>.<br />
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Max Kiener (Philosophy)<br />
My academic year 2020/<strong>2021</strong> happened primarily<br />
online. It was an unusual and very challenging, yet<br />
also productive, year that led to four peer-reviewed<br />
publications, in which I focused on the ethics of<br />
nudging, the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare,<br />
the predicaments that people face in the context of<br />
living organ donation, and questions about how exactly<br />
the law gives us reasons to comply with it. In addition,<br />
I wrote two articles for <strong>The</strong> Conversation, asking whether it is okay to manipulate<br />
people into getting vaccinated against COVID-19 as well as how cyberthreats could<br />
change physicians’ duties of disclosure to their patients.<br />
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Based on my role in John Hyman’s ERC-project Roots of Responsibility, I then also<br />
organised a workshop on questions about moral and legal responsibility, which was<br />
scheduled to be held at Queen’s but then, unfortunately, had to proceed as an online<br />
event due to pandemic restrictions.<br />
Finally, I am happy to say that I received the CEPE IACAP Best Paper Award <strong>2021</strong> for<br />
a paper on the ethics of artificial intelligence, that I was offered a book contract for a<br />
project on moral responsibility, and that I accepted a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship<br />
(ECF) at Oxford, beginning in October <strong>2021</strong>. My Leverhulme ECF will be based at Univ.,<br />
but I hope to keep close ties with Queen’s as well, which has been an ideal home for me<br />
during my two-year fellowship on John Hyman’s ERC-project Roots of Responsibility.<br />
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Laura Lonsdale (Spanish)<br />
Last year brought the publication of <strong>The</strong> Island (Penguin),<br />
my translation of a coming-of-age novel by the Spanish<br />
novelist Ana María Matute, originally published as<br />
Primera memoria in 1959. Set in Mallorca during the<br />
Spanish civil war, the novel is a lyrical account of a girl’s<br />
encounter with the violent realities of both the present<br />
and the past, and a thinly veiled attack on the moral<br />
hypocrisy of Franco’s regime. It’s a great novel for<br />
young people, and I enjoyed presenting it at the inaugural sixth-form event held by the<br />
Queen’s Translation Exchange last summer. <strong>The</strong> year also brought the publication of<br />
a chapter on the Galician poet Manuel Rivas in Multilingualism and World Literature<br />
(Bloomsbury), edited by Jane Hiddleston and Wen-chin Ouyang, a volume that brings<br />
together many of the ideas developed in the World Literature strand of the AHRCfunded<br />
Creative Multilingualism project. My own chapter explores the notion of linguistic<br />
ecology and biodiversity in a collection of poetry that Rivas published simultaneously in<br />
four Iberian languages (Galician, Castilian, Catalan and Basque). Before the pandemic<br />
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struck, I was lucky enough to give a lecture in Sweden on the way multilingual poetry<br />
leaves space for the incomprehensible, exploring, with reference to a poem by Charles<br />
Tomlinson, the metaphors of the bridge (translation) and vacancy (the untranslated).<br />
Christopher Metcalf (Classics)<br />
If asked to define the ‘Classics’, many would probably<br />
reply that the term refers to the Greco-Roman<br />
foundations of Western culture. <strong>The</strong> influence of Greek<br />
and Roman antiquity on the West, and beyond, is of<br />
course enduring, and controversial. But what about<br />
the reception of non-‘Classical’ cultures by the ancient<br />
Greeks and Romans: to what extent did they not only<br />
give, but also receive? One area in which this question<br />
seems particularly important and intriguing is early Greek poetry and myth―a<br />
uniquely rich and important corpus of evidence that becomes accessible to us from<br />
about the 8th century BC onwards, but that clearly presupposes a very deep and<br />
complex history which we cannot recover from the Greek sources alone. It is on this<br />
topic that my colleague Adrian Kelly and I have this year published an edited volume<br />
entitled Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology (Cambridge).<br />
If you are wondering why any of this might matter, consider that the most influential<br />
Greek myth on the birth and rise to power of the chief god Zeus undoubtedly drew on<br />
earlier, non-Greek myths about the rise of the Near Eastern Storm-god. Much remains<br />
to be discovered, including instances where the evidence points in the other direction:<br />
surprising though it sounds, there is good reason to think that an enigmatic passage in<br />
the Biblical book of Genesis, which mentions ‘the heroes of old, the men with a name’<br />
in early human history, reflects the kind of Greek heroic myths that are familiar to us from<br />
Homer’s epics. Our volume explores these and many other topics, including such wellknown<br />
stories as the tale of Pandora and the myth of the Golden Age, in a comparative<br />
perspective – which is the only perspective in which they can be fully understood.<br />
Conor O’Brien (History)<br />
Amidst the miseries of COVID-19, I was very pleased<br />
to join the Fellowship of Queen’s in October 2020,<br />
almost exactly a decade after I started at the <strong>College</strong><br />
as a doctoral student. My career since 2010 has taken<br />
me via Sheffield, Cambridge, Durham, and London,<br />
but I cannot think of anywhere better to have settled in<br />
the middle of the global pandemic than Oxford. While<br />
teaching was, of course, highly disrupted this year, we<br />
were still extraordinarily lucky to be able to do much of our tutorial teaching in person<br />
– a privilege that colleagues and students at many other universities did not have. <strong>The</strong><br />
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opportunity to work closely with students in small groups remains one of the most<br />
enjoyable and uplifting aspects of academic life at Oxford.<br />
A combination of COVID-19, fatherhood, and starting a new job has meant that<br />
the research for my second book ground to a halt for much of this year, but I was<br />
pleased that I could continue to publish. A major article, ‘Chosen Peoples and New<br />
Israels in the Early Medieval West’, appeared at the beginning of the academic year in<br />
Speculum (the journal of the Medieval Academy of America), while a special issue of<br />
Early Medieval Europe that I edited, on ‘<strong>The</strong> Early Medieval Secular’, was published<br />
in January. Hopefully, over the long vacation I will be able to make some long-delayed<br />
progress on my book: <strong>The</strong> Rise of Christian Kingship.<br />
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Credit: John Cairns<br />
Richard Bruce Parkinson (Egyptology)<br />
<strong>The</strong> pandemic hiring freeze initially prevented us from<br />
appointing a Departmental lecturer to cover a colleague’s<br />
sabbatical during this past academic year, but fortunately<br />
a trust fund left by the Egyptologist and Queensman A.H.<br />
Gardiner enabled us to secure a one-year appointment<br />
and to run all our usual courses in Egyptology. Research<br />
on Egyptian mathematics with Christopher D. Hollings has<br />
continued with several joint publications, including one in<br />
Danish as a result of my recent sabbatical visit to Copenhagen. A paper on E. M. Forster<br />
and queer museum spaces, that was originally intended for the cancelled conference<br />
‘Re-Orientating E. M. Forster’ in Cambridge, has now been submitted for publication.<br />
Research time has been taken up by helping prepare for the anniversary of the discovery<br />
of the tomb of Tutankhamun, as the co-director of the Griffith Institute which holds<br />
Carter’s archive. <strong>The</strong> Bodleian will stage an exhibition ‘Tutankhamun: Excavating the<br />
Archive’ (April to December 2022) with around 200 key items from the Institute. I have<br />
edited and co-authored the accompanying publication which we hope will provide a<br />
fresh view of the controversial discovery. For me, this has been a nostalgic and enjoyable<br />
return to museum work, collaborating closely with the Bodleian exhibition team and<br />
designers; I’ve also written for catalogues for an international exhibition on Byblos and for<br />
another on the anniversary of the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script (also discussed<br />
on In Our Time: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s2qd). My own main research<br />
project on <strong>The</strong> Life of Sinuhe is on hold again, and the full draft of the commentary that<br />
was completed during my sabbatical year, has been placed in the Egyptological archive<br />
of the Griffith Institute as an unfinished manuscript, to be resumed in retirement.<br />
Owen Rees (Music)<br />
My research has continued to be divided between work on Iberian and Tudor music.<br />
My recent book <strong>The</strong> Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603) received the Robert M.<br />
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Stevenson Award of the American Musicological Society<br />
at the November meeting of the Society. In that book I<br />
contribute to a fresh understanding of the relationships<br />
between Iberian and Italian sacred music in the sixteenth<br />
and seventeenth centuries, particularly in settings of the<br />
Mass, and this year I pursued such themes in a paper<br />
at the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference<br />
in Lisbon, and in an article to appear in the journal Die<br />
Tonkunst. Early in <strong>2021</strong> the latest CD recording of my<br />
ensemble Contrapunctus was released: <strong>The</strong> Sweetest<br />
Songs (Signum Classics) focuses on – mainly little-known – motets with psalm texts<br />
from the mid to late sixteenth century, and is the last recording in a series exploring the<br />
music of the Baldwin Partbooks, preserved in Christ Church library.<br />
Alexander Robertson (Materials)<br />
My group has continued its research into the behaviour<br />
and failure modes of electrodes for future rechargeable<br />
battery technology. We have been exploring the socalled<br />
metal anode, a type of electrode which promises<br />
significant gains in battery performance and weight<br />
efficiency, yet are particularly volatile. Our recent<br />
publication looked at these anodes for lithium batteries,<br />
where we imaged the charge and discharge process of<br />
the electrode at sub-micron scales and in real-time, giving us important insights into how<br />
to modify the battery electrochemistry to prevent electrode failure. Following on from this<br />
and our other previous work, we are now exploring conceptually similar processes for<br />
other rechargeable battery chemistries based on either zinc or sodium ions rather than<br />
lithium. We’re hoping that these studies will help inform future battery designs.<br />
Ritchie Robertson (German)<br />
My book <strong>The</strong> Enlightenment: <strong>The</strong> Pursuit of Happiness<br />
1680-1790 was published in London by Penguin Books<br />
in November 2020, in New York by HarperCollins in<br />
February <strong>2021</strong>, and has attracted numerous reviews,<br />
most recently by Keith Thomas in the London Review<br />
of Books (20 May <strong>2021</strong>). <strong>The</strong> paperback version will<br />
probably appear in 2022.<br />
Since then I have completed a short book on Nietzsche in the series Critical Lives<br />
published by Reaktion Books (London). It should appear in 2022.<br />
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Before lockdown, I attended a conference in Freiburg on the reception of the Italian<br />
poet Ariosto in German-speaking countries. My contribution, dealing with his reception<br />
in nineteenth-century Switzerland, has now appeared as ‘Ariost aus Schweizer Sicht.<br />
Keller, Burckhardt, Meyer, Spitteler, Widmann’, in Achim Aurnhammer and Mario<br />
Zanucchi (eds.), Ariost in Deutschland: Seine Wirkung in Literatur, Kunst und Musik<br />
(Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020), pp. 337-58.<br />
During lockdown I gave remotely the annual Thomas Mann Lecture in Zurich. It will be<br />
published as ‘Aufklärung und Gegenaufklärung auf dem Zauberberg’ in Thomas Mann<br />
Jahrbuch for <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
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Macs Smith (French)<br />
<strong>2021</strong> saw the publication of my first monograph, Paris<br />
and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the<br />
Media City (MIT Press). <strong>The</strong> book argues that Parisian<br />
urban planning and politics have been organised around<br />
eliminating various so-called “parasites” from the city,<br />
whether they take the form of noise, disease, or the<br />
people who live on the socio-political margins. I argue<br />
this approach to the city is both doomed to failure<br />
and destructive, and I argue for the value – both aesthetic and ethical – of messy,<br />
unpredictable, open cities, where nothing and no one is treated as a parasite.<br />
This year I also published an article on references to the Paris Commune in<br />
contemporary street art, part of a special issue of Nineteenth-Century French Studies<br />
co-edited by Fellow in French, Seth Whidden, marking the 150th anniversary of the<br />
Commune. I was very proud to contribute to such an extraordinary volume. I’m currently<br />
completing another article on street art, this time on its engagement with Dante Alighieri,<br />
for a book entitled Dante Alive (Routledge), marking 700 years since the poet’s death.<br />
Robert Taylor (Physics)<br />
This year I have continued to work on the optical<br />
properties of nanostructures, and I am Chair of the<br />
Physics Examiners for Finals. I was fortunate in April to<br />
hear that I was successful in a grant application to the<br />
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council<br />
and the project entitled “Plasmon-enhanced light<br />
emission from hybrid nanowires: towards electrically<br />
driven nanowire lasers” commenced on 1 August <strong>2021</strong><br />
for three years, where I will be working jointly with Dr Shengfu Yang at the University of<br />
Leicester. During this academic year I have published eight papers.<br />
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Lindsay Turnbull (Biology)<br />
Last year was a year like no other. I am deeply involved<br />
in the organisation of teaching and took on the Director<br />
of Undergraduate Teaching role, as my predecessor<br />
had semi-retired. We managed to keep the teaching<br />
going, including operating the Teaching Lab for most of<br />
the year, enabling our students to gain crucial practical<br />
experience. We are also bringing in a new four-year<br />
MBiol degree to replace the old three-year Biological<br />
Sciences BA. With hindsight, this wasn’t the best timing, but of course hindsight is a<br />
wonderful thing! On the research side, it was crucial to support DPhil students, as they<br />
were often facing difficult constraints on both lab and field work. Two of my students<br />
successfully defended their DPhils in the last year – and I’m very proud of both of<br />
them. One student also managed to produce a high-profile paper in the journal PNAS,<br />
which was the culmination of several years’ work. This paper showed how legume<br />
plants (peas in this case) are able to regulate the symbiotic bacteria that they house<br />
in specialised root structures, called nodules. <strong>The</strong> bacteria ‘fix’ nitrogen from the air in<br />
return for the plant’s sugar, and the plant monitors their efficacy, cutting off those that<br />
don’t provide enough nitrogen, while continuing to support those that do. We have<br />
shown, for the first time, that the plant can make conditional decisions. It might choose<br />
to support a bacterial strain that isn’t great at fixing nitrogen, if it doesn’t have any other<br />
choice, but it will cut off that same strain when a better one is available. <strong>The</strong> lesson?<br />
Never underestimate our green friends. <strong>The</strong>y are always smarter than you think.<br />
Daniel Walden (Music)<br />
This was my second year as a Junior Research Fellow in<br />
Music. Most of my attention was dedicated to my book<br />
manuscript examining the global history of pitch studies<br />
during the nineteenth century. <strong>The</strong> project is developed<br />
from my doctoral dissertation, “<strong>The</strong> Politics of Tuning<br />
and Temperament,” which last November received 1st<br />
Honourable Mention in the Outstanding Dissertation<br />
Award from the International Musicological Society.<br />
My Fellowship has also afforded me the opportunity to pursue several related projects.<br />
I am currently assembling an edited volume with Dr David Trippett (Cambridge)<br />
focused on the history of pitch studies during the long nineteenth century, as well as<br />
a collection of translations of the German and Japanese musical writings of Tanaka<br />
Shōhei (1862-1945) with Dr Jonathan Service (SOAS) for Bloomsbury Press. My<br />
two book chapters on just-intonation theory in British India and Meiji Japan are<br />
forthcoming in edited volumes Sound and Sense in Britain (Cambridge University<br />
Press) and Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Scripta (Schwabe). I also received a<br />
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British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant to pursue a multi-year project<br />
involving the digital reconstruction of nineteenth-century enharmonic keyboards, and<br />
workshops discussing their pedagogical and practical applications.<br />
In addition to my research I delivered tutorials on topics including Programme Music<br />
(FHS) and Study Skills (Prelims), and a graduate seminar at the Faculty of Music titled<br />
“Pitch, Timbre, Loudness” examining the relationship between musical perception<br />
and society, culture, and politics. I am also pleased to report that I will be starting as<br />
Assistant Professor in Music Analysis at University of Durham in September <strong>2021</strong>. But<br />
my delight is tempered by the fact that it means leaving my Fellowship early. I have<br />
greatly enjoyed my time at Queen’s—despite the impositions of a global pandemic—<br />
and feel extremely fortunate to have met such wonderful colleagues and collaborators.<br />
I look forward to returning to <strong>College</strong> often.<br />
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ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS (* denotes distinction)<br />
D.Phil<br />
Hamza A. Alawiye (Partial Differential Equations)<br />
Clare H. Carolin (Fine Art)<br />
Deborah L. Cross (Paediatrics)<br />
Daniel De Moraes Navarro (Experimental Psychology)<br />
Tristan P. Giron (Partial Differential Equations)<br />
Jonathan D. Goult (Structural Biology)<br />
Andrew W. Holland (History)<br />
Joseph Lawrence (<strong>The</strong>ory and Modelling in Chemical Sciences)<br />
Ta-Chun Liu (Oncology)<br />
Christine Lo (Clinical Neurosciences)<br />
Romina O. Mariano (Clinical Neurosciences)<br />
Guillaume Matthews (Materials)<br />
Avi Mayorcas (Partial Differential Equations)<br />
Simon Nadal (Chemical Biology)<br />
Kyung Chan Park (Cardiovascular Science)<br />
Natalia V. Reis (Inorganic Chemistry)<br />
Toni Scharle (Partial Differential Equations)<br />
Edward S. Scrivens (Oriental Studies)<br />
Archna R. Shah (Structural Biology)<br />
Alicia Smith (English)<br />
Beojan Stanislaus (Particle Physics)<br />
Florian Stocker (Medieval and Modern Languages)<br />
Paolo Strampelli (Environmental Research)<br />
Maarten Swart (Molecular and Cellular Medicine)<br />
Teodora P. Trendafilova (Ion Channels and Disease)<br />
Aleksandra B. Wenta (Oriental Studies)<br />
Timothy J. Westwood (Partial Differential Equations)<br />
Samuel J. Wheeler (Materials)<br />
Christopher R. Woodham (Plant Sciences)<br />
Yufei Zhang (Mathematics)<br />
Ili A.B. Zulkifly (Inorganic Chemistry)<br />
BCL<br />
Youcef Boussabaine<br />
Luke Gibbons*<br />
MJur<br />
Anna-Mira Brandau*<br />
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M.Phil<br />
Jasmine Chia (International Relations)<br />
Venunye C.F. Gunu* (International Relations)<br />
Gilang A.G. Lukman* (Modern Middle Eastern Studies)<br />
Nadine S. Lützelschwab* (Modern Middle Eastern Studies)<br />
Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
M.St<br />
Natasha H. Arora (English)<br />
Emma C. Felin* (English and American Studies)<br />
Milo G. Nesbitt* (English and American Studies)<br />
Laurence F. John (Musicology)<br />
Anna S. Glieden* (Modern Languages)<br />
Arthur G. Wotton* (Modern Languages)<br />
M.Sc<br />
Stella Adu-Donkor (Law and Finance)<br />
Yongsheng Jia (Mathematical Scienes)<br />
Linke Li (Japanese Studies)<br />
Po Kwan Li* (Law and Finance)<br />
Gregory D. Royston (Financial Economics)<br />
Axel Schmid* (<strong>The</strong>oretical and Computational Chemistry)<br />
Pattarin Taechamahapun (Law and Finance)<br />
Zecheng Yi (Mathematical Sciences)<br />
Máté Zombai-Kovacs* (Financial Economics)<br />
BM<br />
Heather A. Boagey<br />
Charlotte H. Harrison<br />
Lydia Parker*<br />
P.G.C.E<br />
Victoria Lee-Stevens<br />
Kate Orlandi-Fantini<br />
Alice J. Tarbert<br />
Diploma in Legal Studies<br />
Laura León Maestre<br />
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FINAL PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS<br />
Chemistry<br />
First Class<br />
Harry G. Mark<br />
Imogen A. Ramskill<br />
Yi Xiao<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Henry Gray<br />
Calvin A. Wilson<br />
Fujia Zhu<br />
Experimental Psychology<br />
First Class<br />
Xiaotong Ding<br />
Hannah E. Gray<br />
Jemima F. Greenhalgh<br />
Fine Art<br />
First Class<br />
Zoe Harding<br />
Classics and Modern Languages<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Gurdip S. Ahluwalia (French)<br />
Classics and Oriental Studies<br />
First Class<br />
Joost W.P.M. Botman<br />
English and Modern Languages<br />
First Class<br />
Rachel Kevern (French)<br />
English Language and Literature<br />
First Class<br />
James R. Murphy<br />
European and Middle Eastern<br />
Languages<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Anna L. Griffin (Spanish and Arabic)<br />
History<br />
First Class<br />
Harriet Bates<br />
Isobel L. Cox<br />
William D. Parry<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Julia Duddy<br />
Isabelle L. Gibbons<br />
Emily J.E. Jones<br />
Ada F. Taggart<br />
Findlay G. Thompson<br />
History and Modern Languages<br />
First Class<br />
Isabella H. Massam (Italian)<br />
History and Politics<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Hannah Brock<br />
Angharad Kellett<br />
Matthew Suter<br />
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Jurisprudence<br />
First Class<br />
Noel Y.Z. Low<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Zara Everitt<br />
Joshua W. Forshaw<br />
Oliver K. Reinius<br />
Alison Y.Z.C. Tan<br />
Xiaojian Zhou<br />
Literae Humaniores<br />
First Class<br />
Gareth J. Smith<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Rory E.C. Booth<br />
Materials Science<br />
First Class<br />
Jessica J.Q. Wen<br />
Mathematics<br />
Distinction<br />
Sam I. Lachmann<br />
Merit<br />
Thomas Judge<br />
Xiaoyan Zhao<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Krit Patarapak<br />
Mathematics and Statistics<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Ruizhen Ma<br />
Medical Sciences<br />
First Class<br />
Zuzanna Borawska<br />
Rebecca S. Howitt<br />
Imogen G. Wilkinson<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Elfreda Baker<br />
Yedidiah Tilahun<br />
Modern Languages<br />
First Class<br />
Marte F.E. van der Graaf (German)<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Jake A. Duxbury (Spanish)<br />
Modern Languages and Linguistics<br />
First Class<br />
Eleanor R. MacLeod (Spanish)<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Francesca Duke (French)<br />
Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Cameron J. Brooks<br />
Second Class, Division Two<br />
Keith I. Yardley<br />
Music<br />
First Class<br />
Rachel J.F. Howe<br />
Tamsin E. Sandford Smith<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Thomas Dilley<br />
Bethan E. Rose<br />
Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
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Oriental Studies<br />
First Class<br />
Eleanor Collard (Chinese)<br />
Mary O. Oboh (Chinese)<br />
Sam A. Watkins (Chinese)<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Lauren J. Burke (Chinese)<br />
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics<br />
First Class<br />
Hugo E. Till<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Ethan M. Adams<br />
Julia Hussain<br />
William T.K. McCathie<br />
Man Siu Pun<br />
Physics<br />
Second Class, Division One<br />
Adarsh P. Raghuram<br />
Rohan S. Rao<br />
Maurice Gedney<br />
Psychology, Philosophy, and<br />
Linguistics<br />
First Class<br />
Emily B. Elstub<br />
FIRST PUBLIC EX AMINATIONS<br />
First BM<br />
Ibrahem Al-Obaidi<br />
Oliver W.A. Meek<br />
Sophie A. Payne<br />
Ciaran Sandhu<br />
Karthik Saravanan<br />
Moderations<br />
Law<br />
Nadia Kashoo<br />
Irewamide I. Sofela<br />
Zara P. Watson<br />
Honour Moderations<br />
Literae Humaniores<br />
Frederick Foulston<br />
AJ Jeffries-Shaw<br />
Cyrus Tehranchian<br />
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Preliminary Examinations<br />
Ancient and Modern History<br />
Benjamin Grinyer*<br />
Biology<br />
Daniel Bowen*<br />
Elias S. Formaggia<br />
George A. MacKay*<br />
Henry A. Portwood*<br />
Martha Rigby*<br />
Emily M. Scott<br />
Biomedical Sciences<br />
Daniel Gunn<br />
Evie J. Rosette<br />
Hannah C. Sutton<br />
Chemistry<br />
Joshua O. Abioye*<br />
Tihomir I. Gluharev<br />
Edwin L. Hughes*<br />
Shuiwaner Liu*<br />
Ben Naylor<br />
Fine Art<br />
Loveday M.P. Pride<br />
Angus G. Wood*<br />
History<br />
Rebecca Boettcher<br />
Caitlin E. Gill<br />
Elisabeth E.J. Harris<br />
Alexia North<br />
Henry O’Sullivan<br />
Omira Pitigala<br />
Chanté D.M. Price<br />
Evelyn S.Turner<br />
Katerina Zagurova*<br />
History and Modern Languages<br />
Stella J. Horrell (Spanish)<br />
Rhiannon Petteford (Czech)<br />
History and Politics<br />
Daniel F.G. Craig-McFeely*<br />
Phoebe Hornor*<br />
Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
English and Modern Languages<br />
Hay Yin Chow (French)<br />
Kylah N. Jacobs (French)<br />
Etta Selim (Spanish)<br />
English Language and Literature<br />
Katie H. Bowen<br />
Sarah Hutchence*<br />
Niamh Ward<br />
Experimental Psychology<br />
Rosie A. Jephson*<br />
Jasmine Nieradzik-Burbeck*<br />
Maria Richards-Brown*<br />
Materials Science<br />
Jacx K.Y. Chan*<br />
Milo Coombs*<br />
Ruijie Gu<br />
Thian D. Iskandar<br />
Andrew Sturt<br />
Mathematics<br />
Daniel N. Bell<br />
Hao De*<br />
Injune Hwang<br />
Jiahe Qiu<br />
Ziyang Zheng*<br />
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Modern Languages<br />
Olivia G. Coombs (Italian and Spanish)<br />
Joshua J.D. Dixon (French and German)<br />
Ella Holliday* (French and Spanish)<br />
Fenella Lamle (French and Spanish)<br />
Eleanor Maidstone* (Spanish)<br />
Katie St. Francis (French and German)<br />
Joseph J. Wald (German)<br />
Cara P. Williams (French)<br />
Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry<br />
Molly R. Bower<br />
Magdalena K. Lechowska*<br />
Music<br />
Isaac J. Adni<br />
Cormac Diamond<br />
Alaw G. Evans<br />
Oriental Studies<br />
Cicely D.M. Hunt (Chinese)<br />
Philip J. Mercado (Japanese)<br />
Madeleine Ridout (Japanese)<br />
Beau J.J. Waycott (Japanese)<br />
Philosophy and Modern Languages<br />
Madeleine M.A. Hamilton (German)<br />
Philosophy, Politics and Economics<br />
Johannes R. Haekkerup<br />
Ayesha Khan*<br />
Rani J. Martin*<br />
Max Ronte<br />
Ka L.J. So*<br />
Physics<br />
Jacob Dawe<br />
Sana Khalil<br />
Erin Malinowski<br />
Gian-Galeazzo S. Salvatorelli-Naraghi<br />
Samuel T.W. Wood<br />
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UNIVERSITY PRIZES<br />
Armourers and Brasiers’ Company/TATA Steel Prize for Best Team Design<br />
Project: Chanisa Phutrakul<br />
Best Overall Performance Prize Proxime Accessit in Clinical Studies Finals:<br />
Lydia Parker<br />
Best Practical Portfolio Prize for Experimental Psychology/Psychology,<br />
Philosophy and Linguistics: Emily B. Elstub, Jemima F. Greenhalgh (shared prize)<br />
Braddick Prize Proxime Accessit for best overall performance in the Preliminary<br />
Examination in Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics: Jasmine Nieradzik-Burbeck<br />
Claude Massart Prize for the best performance in French Literature: Ella Holliday<br />
Commendation for practical work in Honour School of Physics Part A:<br />
Jonathan J. Thio<br />
Comparative Philology Prize for the best performance in the Philology and<br />
Linguistics papers in the Honour Schools of Literae Humaniores, Classics &<br />
English, Classics & Modern Languages and Classics & Oriental Studies:<br />
Joost W.P.M. Botman<br />
Cyril Jones Memorial Prize for the best performance in Spanish: Etta Selim<br />
David Gibbs Prize for the best performance in Modern Languages in Preliminary<br />
Examinations: Ella Holliday<br />
Dean Ireland Prize for the highest overall average in the FHS of Literae<br />
Humaniores, Classics & English, Classics & Modern Languages, Classics<br />
& Oriental Studies, Ancient & Modern History and Classical Archaeology &<br />
Ancient History: Joost W.P.M. Botman<br />
Gibbs Prize for best overall performance in Part I: Louis Makower<br />
Gibbs Prize Proxime Accessit for best overall performance in Experimental<br />
Psychology: Jemima F. Greenhalgh<br />
Herbert Hart Prize in Jurisprudence and Political <strong>The</strong>ory: Daniel Gilligan<br />
Iversen Prize Proxime Accessit for best overall performance in Psychology<br />
Papers – Part I: Bik Ying Wong<br />
Law Faculty Prize in Constitutional <strong>The</strong>ory: Daniel Gilligan (shared prize)<br />
LIDL Prize for the best performance by a non-German sole candidate, including<br />
Joint Schools (considering only German Papers): Eve P.G. Mason<br />
Physics Prize for an MPhys Project in Condensed Matter Physics:<br />
Adarsh P. Raghuram<br />
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Physics Prize for practical work in Part B: Jinwoo Kim<br />
Physics Prize for practical work in Part B: Kornel Ksiezak<br />
Physics Prize for practical work in Part B: Krzysztof P. Stempinski<br />
Society for Endocrinology Undergraduate Achievement Award: Jessica S. Zhang<br />
Society for Endocrinology Undergraduate Achievement Award for the best<br />
performance in the Endocrinology option: Bryony Davies<br />
Susan Mary Rouse Memorial Prize for best overall performance in the subject<br />
‘Introduction to Psychology’ in the Preliminary Examination for Psychology,<br />
Philosophy and Linguistics: Jasmine Nieradzik-Burbeck (joint winner)<br />
TATA Steel Prize for best overall performance in Part I Practicals: Adam A. Suttle<br />
Weiskrantz Prize in Psychological Studies for best performance at Part I for the<br />
Honour School of Experimental Psychology: Daniel E. Storey<br />
Wronker Grant for excellent performance in the Honour School of Medical<br />
Sciences: Rebecca S. Howitt<br />
COLLEGE PRIZES<br />
Benefactors’ Prize (for non-academic service to the <strong>College</strong>): Seren K. Ford<br />
Chowdhury-Johnson Prize in Medicine: Triya A. Chakravorty (Medicine), Imogen<br />
Wilkinson (Medicine) (joint first prize)<br />
Ives Prize: Stephanie E. Budenberg (Materials Science)<br />
J.A. Scott Prize: Eve P.G. Mason (English and German)<br />
Many Prize: Ella Farmer (English Language and Literature)<br />
Many Prize Proxime Accessit: Leonardo Hessian (English and Spanish)<br />
Markheim Prize: Florence E. Darwen (History and French)<br />
Markheim Prize Proxime Accesserunt: Rachel Kevern (English and French) &<br />
Anna Migone (French)<br />
Palmer Prize: Olivia Winnifrith (History and French)<br />
Palmer Prize Proxime Accessit: Lionel A.B. Whitby (French and Russian)<br />
Temple Prize: Kexin Wang (Mathematics)<br />
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FROM THE BURSAR<br />
Dr Andrew Timms<br />
Bursar<br />
In last year’s <strong>Record</strong> I wrote that I hoped the<br />
forthcoming year would be thoroughly dull in<br />
comparison to 2020. My aspiration was not fulfilled:<br />
from a financial perspective the past year has been<br />
bumpy. Student tuition income proved resilient and<br />
came in well ahead of budget, but most of the other<br />
categories of income showed notable negative<br />
variances. In particular, student accommodation income<br />
was lower than normal (principally as a result of the<br />
national lockdown in Hilary Term), and income from our<br />
vacation conferences and other commercial activities—<br />
which, in a better year, amounts to over £1 million—was<br />
close to zero. In total, our budget planned for almost<br />
£5 million of operating income, and in the event we<br />
earned £4.7 million, so our performance was not wholly surprising; however, if the<br />
pandemic had not happened, we would probably have budgeted for total operating<br />
income of c. £6 million. <strong>The</strong> impact of the crisis is thus tangible.<br />
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Expenditure grew modestly, but was generally well controlled, with almost all<br />
committees spending less than their budgets. In one sense it is reassuring that the<br />
partial curtailment of many activities of the <strong>College</strong> during the pandemic led to less<br />
expenditure; in another sense, of course, even the Bursar rues the fact that it was<br />
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not possible to spend a little more. <strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong> was fortunate to be able to press<br />
ahead with its programme of improvements to the main site: a project to refurbish<br />
the bathrooms under the east range of Front Quad was tendered and work began<br />
just before the end of the financial year. Once this is complete, we will (hopefully) be<br />
in a position to press on with the plans for a new accessible Lodge, for which we are<br />
currently awaiting planning permission and listed building consents.<br />
Investment performance in 2020–21 was mixed. <strong>The</strong> overall total return was just<br />
under 15%, but the performance of the component asset classes varied significantly.<br />
Our equity investments tracked the generally robust performance of global stock<br />
markets, generating a total return of over 22% (our performance reflects our strategic<br />
underweighting of the US and overweighting of the UK, Asia-Pacific, and emerging<br />
markets). Our agricultural property saw modest rises in capital values, reflecting the<br />
fact that land values have held up well. <strong>The</strong> situation was rather different with respect<br />
to commercial property, however, where the <strong>College</strong>’s retail investments suffered a very<br />
difficult year, with several tenants struggling to clear arrears or to put forward viable<br />
recovery plans.<br />
<strong>The</strong> outlook is marked by uncertainty on almost all fronts. A key concern is the swift<br />
recovery of our conference and summer school activities, which supplement the<br />
educational income of the <strong>College</strong>. <strong>The</strong>re are also persistent suggestions that tuition<br />
fees for UK students may fall, which would be financially unwelcome. Payroll costs are<br />
expected to rise (perhaps quite significantly), not least because of the well-publicised<br />
difficulties of the USS pension scheme. And of course the investment outlook is<br />
notably ‘interesting’, as we all wait to see whether current inflation (which has returned<br />
like an old, and not entirely beloved, friend) is transient or persistent—and what<br />
happens to asset prices if interest rates rise.<br />
I wrote last year of my admiration for the <strong>College</strong>’s staff and their efforts in keeping the<br />
place going (thriving, indeed). <strong>The</strong> same applies this year, with the level of admiration<br />
now raised to a higher power. I am also grateful to many (but not all!) students for<br />
paying their batells in a period in which many have seen their expectations of student<br />
life substantially ruined by the pandemic. A final thank you must also be said to the Old<br />
Membership, which has continued its philanthropic support of the <strong>College</strong> at a time<br />
when this is especially welcome.<br />
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OUTREACH<br />
Katharine Wiggell<br />
Schools Liaison,<br />
Outreach and<br />
Recruitment Officer<br />
As an Oxford Outreach Officer, I would normally find<br />
myself travelling up and down the country between<br />
our link regions multiple times a month to visit schools<br />
and colleges, to deliver talks to pupils about life at<br />
Oxford University. However, as I sit writing this report<br />
in summer <strong>2021</strong>, my suitcase has sat untouched for<br />
18 months (and my railcard is currently missing in<br />
action). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns,<br />
and school closures, visits to schools – as well as<br />
inviting students to visit us here at Queen’s – have<br />
simply not been possible. But not being able to interact<br />
with students in person has not stopped us finding<br />
new ways to actively support our link region schools<br />
throughout this difficult year.<br />
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Throughout the 2020-<strong>2021</strong> academic year, all of our outreach work has taken place<br />
virtually. Presentations on making a competitive application and demystifying the<br />
student experience at Oxford took place over Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google<br />
Meet. This change in delivery format did come with some challenges, including<br />
frozen screens and sometimes questionable Wi-fi connections, but it allowed us<br />
to maintain contact with schools to whom we had previously provided outreach<br />
support, and to develop relationships with new schools too. It was really rewarding<br />
to be able to interact with students even when schools had to carry out the majority<br />
of their learning remotely. Many academically high-achieving students felt frustrated<br />
at being forced out of their classrooms and relegated to working at home with the<br />
distractions and disruptions that can bring, so it was great to be able to run sessions<br />
for them and remind them of the importance of keeping up with their studies in<br />
challenging circumstances so that a university like Oxford could be an option for<br />
them in the near future.<br />
One of my favourite outreach projects from this year was our North-West Science<br />
Programme. Despite some initial reservations as to how this programme would<br />
translate into an online format, I was delighted with how well it was received and<br />
how fantastic the students selected to participate were. Over the course of three<br />
days, science-loving students from Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Cumbria,<br />
and Lancashire took part in a variety of different academic taster sessions, including<br />
workshops, talks, and tutorials. <strong>The</strong>y found out about the cutting-edge scientific<br />
research that is taking place within the University – from the microscope technology<br />
that is being used to detect COVID-19, to research on seabird migration and what<br />
their flight patterns can teach us about global conservation. <strong>The</strong> academic sessions<br />
were met with overwhelmingly positive feedback from the participants who were<br />
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really interested in exploring new material and topics that they don’t cover within their<br />
A-Level subjects. <strong>The</strong>y also had the chance to interact with our Student Ambassadors,<br />
who shared their own experiences of life at Oxford in Q&A sessions and offered advice<br />
on how to navigate the admissions process. Feedback from the event suggested that<br />
the majority of students would now be planning to make an Oxbridge application for<br />
2022 – and I am, of course, looking forward to seeing how many of these Year 12<br />
pupils apply to Queen’s!<br />
As well as delivering our own outreach programmes, we supported outreach work<br />
taking place across the collegiate University, and had the opportunity to communicate<br />
with prospective applicants from all around the globe. We participated in virtual<br />
University Fairs – including ‘Meet the Russell Group’, ‘UCAS Discovery’, and ‘UK<br />
University Search’ days, where Outreach Officers and Student Ambassadors joined<br />
forces to answer 100s of questions from prospective applicants. <strong>The</strong> University’s<br />
Remote Interview Workshops – a new initiative to support Oxford applicants from UK<br />
state schools in the lead up to their admissions interviews – were also a huge success,<br />
with academic and administrative staff coming together from across the collegiate<br />
University to support applicants with their interview preparation. <strong>The</strong> outreach<br />
community at Oxford truly banded together during this year, supporting each other<br />
with delivering online sessions and sharing best practice as we all navigated how best<br />
to deliver virtual sessions that were as engaging and inspiring as in person sessions.<br />
I am very excited to return to face-to-face (or mask-to-mask!) interactions with<br />
students, but we will certainly be making the most of the technology that we have<br />
been using throughout the course of the pandemic to reach an even wider audience<br />
of prospective applicants through our outreach work. <strong>The</strong>re is always more work that<br />
we can do, and I am anticipating that this year may be more challenging than most as<br />
we see the knock-on effects that over a year of disrupted education has had on some<br />
of the country’s most disadvantaged young people. However, I am looking forward to<br />
supporting these students as they deliberate their future choices and helping them to<br />
find out more about why Oxford University may be the place for them.<br />
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ADMISSIONS<br />
This was my first year as Tutor for Admissions, and it<br />
turned out to be a year full of interesting challenges<br />
– most obviously, the need to rework the entire<br />
admissions process to take place online. It was all too<br />
easy to imagine the possible pitfalls of online interviews,<br />
but happily the process ran smoothly, thanks to the<br />
adaptability and combined effort of the interviewers,<br />
administrators, and IT advisors – and indeed the<br />
applicants.<br />
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Dr Jennifer Guest<br />
Tutor for Admissions<br />
One serious concern was whether the move online<br />
would pose disproportionate problems for students<br />
from disadvantaged backgrounds, who in many<br />
cases were already dealing with additional levels of<br />
disruption to their studies due to the pandemic. But although data on a college scale<br />
must be handled with caution due to the small numbers involved, the proportion of<br />
students from state schools joining Queen’s in <strong>2021</strong> is slightly higher than ever before,<br />
continuing to roughly match the University’s overall rising average, and this goes<br />
for our proportion of students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds as well.<br />
We’re continuing to look for ways to expand our outreach activities and our efforts<br />
to demystify the admissions process, so as to make sure all academically driven and<br />
capable students can succeed.<br />
One important step this academic year has been to divide the previous role of the<br />
Tutor for Admissions between two Fellows, creating an additional position of Tutor<br />
for Access and Outreach who can work closely with the Outreach Officer on our<br />
<strong>College</strong>-based outreach strategy and initiatives. At the same time, Queen’s continues<br />
to participate actively in University-wide initiatives, including the Opportunity Oxford<br />
programme; at an individual level, many tutors have also taken part in new events like<br />
online interview workshops, which have helped us make admissions advice accessible<br />
to a wider range of applicants than ever before.<br />
With admissions interviews taking place online again in the coming cycle, we will have<br />
plenty of chances to think about the pros and cons of this format and how it intersects<br />
with our efforts to make sure admissions to Queen’s is as fair and accessible as<br />
possible. In the meantime, we’re very much enjoying welcoming the new <strong>2021</strong> cohort<br />
of students.<br />
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A YEAR IN THE LIBRARY<br />
Matthew Shaw<br />
<strong>College</strong> Librarian<br />
<strong>The</strong> most important thing, perhaps, is that it has been<br />
a year in the library, since our doors have been open<br />
continuously since the relaxation of the first lockdown<br />
in the summer of 2020. More personally, it has been<br />
my first year as Librarian, after joining the <strong>College</strong> in<br />
September from the Institute of Historical Research<br />
and previously the British Library. During this time, the<br />
Library has been able to welcome <strong>College</strong> members and<br />
external scholars to socially-distanced reading rooms<br />
and to put collection items in their hands. After an initial<br />
pilot with seat booking, readers have been able to come<br />
and go as they wish, making use of a one-way system,<br />
which, in something of a silver-lining, provided a view of<br />
the Provost’s Garden when departing via the fire escape.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s carpenter produced book return boxes that were the envy of other<br />
college libraries, and a new click and collect system meant that books could circulate<br />
with relative ease; the latter is an innovation that is set to remain even as we return to<br />
more normal operations. By Trinity Term, the reading rooms were full of concentrated<br />
study, with the spaces and collections continuing to support the <strong>College</strong>’s academic<br />
work, as they always have. By the end of June, 24-hour opening returned.<br />
Not everyone, of course, could come into the Library, with many students necessarily<br />
remaining away from Oxford and others needing to isolate. How to get materials to<br />
them? When appropriate, we could post items as well as scanning chapters and<br />
articles, but more often digital alternatives were available, as publishers and online<br />
libraries temporarily expanded what was available and the Bodleian and the college<br />
libraries, including Queen’s, increased the amount spent on electronic resources. <strong>The</strong><br />
full-time Library team – Sarah Arkle, Dominic Hewett, and Tessa Shaw – helped to<br />
provide the link between reader and digital book where they could, helping to hyperlink<br />
reading lists and offering a guide through the variety of digital experiences. For special<br />
collections materials, most of which are not constrained by copyright in the same way,<br />
camera phones provided an excellent way of supplying materials for research and<br />
for allowing Zoom consultations of books and manuscripts (one of which provided<br />
important information about the date of the volume being examined). <strong>The</strong> Library was<br />
also able to contribute details of its holdings to international bibliographical projects,<br />
such as the Census of Newton’s Principia and the Shakespeare Census.<br />
Among this activity, there have been moments when it has been possible for me<br />
to slip among the shelves and start to become acquainted with the remarkable<br />
collections. Many connected to Old Members of the past seemed keen to make<br />
themselves known: Sir Joseph Williamson’s copy of the third Shakespeare folio (1664),<br />
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Thomas Shaw’s Travels (second edition, 1799)<br />
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perhaps the rarest of the folios thanks to the Great Fire of London; a Boston edition<br />
of William James with Archbishop William Temple’s ownership mark; a first edition of<br />
Drummond Allison’s posthumous Second World War poetry, <strong>The</strong> Yellow Knight printed<br />
on paper conforming to war-regulations; Oliver Sacks’ inscribed gift to the <strong>College</strong><br />
of his Awakenings in the Upper and New Libraries (now all upgraded to the Vault);<br />
and – the first book I pull in the Upper Library on my arrival in September – Thomas<br />
Shaw’s Travels (second edition, 1799), which has as its dedication an engraving of the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s cupola and façade. A good sign, perhaps?<br />
<strong>The</strong> collections have also contributed to teaching and research. At first, this was limited<br />
to a librarian’s contribution to Dr Jennifer Edward’s online seminar, talking through<br />
images taken of some of these texts, but by Trinity Term, a small group of junior<br />
members was able to examine the first folio for themselves, paying close attention<br />
to the printing for clues about the text’s composition. Another of the <strong>College</strong>’s great<br />
treasures, Myles Coverdale’s Goostly Psalmes and Spiritual Songes (c. 1535) – the<br />
first hymnbook printed in English – took centre stage in a well-attended Zoom virtual<br />
reunification ‘broadcast’ from the Upper Library in a seminar held in collaboration with<br />
the Centre for the Study of the Book at the Bodleian Libraries. Around 150 participants<br />
from Britain and the US were able to compare the text with the two other surviving<br />
fragments of the text, held at the Bodleian and at Yale. Building on these investigations,<br />
we contributed to a UNIQ+ Digital Humanities summer internship programme, helping<br />
to expand graduate access to Oxford. <strong>The</strong> entire volume is now digitised and is<br />
available to view online at Digital Bodleian, and an edited and transcribed version<br />
can be found on the Taylor’s Editions website. Other digital experiments included the<br />
beginning of a YouTube series ‘Parchment and Paper’ in collaboration with the Centre<br />
for Manuscript and Text Cultures, with <strong>College</strong> and other experts discussing collection<br />
items and their meaning. <strong>The</strong> series began with a discussion with Dr Edwards on the<br />
Shakespeare Folio. <strong>The</strong> Library team also curated two online exhibitions, ‘Contagion<br />
on the Page’, and ‘Queen’s War Poets’ (curated by Library Assistant Dominic Hewett)<br />
and a series of blog posts highlighting collection items for LGBTQ+ History Month.<br />
Nor have the Library’s physical collections been neglected. Several items have<br />
returned from the Oxford Conservation Consortium, including a large folio-sized<br />
hand-coloured copy of Pennant’s British Zoology (1766), and the collections continue<br />
to grow judiciously. Notable donations include a range of titles from Old Members<br />
and Fellows, and Lord Salisbury’s gift of his William Simpson and the Crisis in Central<br />
Asia (2020), on which Old Member, Ollie Randall, worked as a research assistant. <strong>The</strong><br />
collections are also making their imprint elsewhere in the <strong>College</strong>. Selections from<br />
the collections photographed by Technical Services Librarian Sarah Arkle, including<br />
plates from the Bridgewater Collection of Cumberland and Westmorland, now grace<br />
<strong>College</strong> notecards and some of the redecorated entertainment areas of the Provost’s<br />
Lodgings. <strong>The</strong> Library looks forward to another academic year, whatever it may bring.<br />
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A YEAR IN THE CHAPEL<br />
Even youths will faint and be weary,<br />
and the young will fall exhausted;<br />
but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,<br />
they shall mount up with wings like eagles<br />
(Isaiah 40.30-31)<br />
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<strong>The</strong> academic year that started in Michaelmas 2020<br />
has very much been a year of three terms. Each<br />
term, and sometimes each week, has seen a different<br />
configuration of the <strong>College</strong> community between<br />
Revd Dr Katherine Price resident and non-resident, along with a different set of<br />
<strong>College</strong> Chaplain<br />
laws and guidelines to navigate in the <strong>College</strong> and in the<br />
Chapel. It has also been an exhausting year. <strong>The</strong> energy<br />
and creativity which helped us all push through the first<br />
lockdown has given way to a pragmatic need to conserve strength for the long haul.<br />
For many people, the restrictions on singing have been among the most keenly felt<br />
deprivations of the past year. For a Chapel whose life centres on choral music, it has<br />
been an existential challenge. Early in the year, we invited professional film-makers<br />
to produce <strong>The</strong> Story of the Queen’s <strong>College</strong> Chapel which you can view now on the<br />
<strong>College</strong> YouTube channel. I’m embarrassed to admit how many takes were needed<br />
before yours truly walked through the Chapel door to the director’s satisfaction! It also<br />
features current and former choral scholars, and it was humbling to hear what this<br />
place has meant to them. In the intensity of the Oxford term, the Chapel has been a<br />
place of peace, a place to find a wider perspective, both historical and spiritual. <strong>The</strong><br />
challenge this year has been to keep that true.<br />
Live-streaming has been one of the main ways for the Chapel to remain present in the<br />
lives of <strong>College</strong> members, wherever they are in the world. Through the generosity of<br />
donors (who have chosen to remain anonymous) the Chapel has been able to install<br />
cameras to match the quality of the existing top-end sound recording system. This<br />
work was completed in Spring <strong>2021</strong> and we were able to premiere our first public<br />
broadcast evensong in June. However, our live-streaming experiments didn’t start<br />
there: much kudos is due to our organ scholars Tom Dilley and Isaac Adni for their<br />
ingenuity earlier in the year (initially with just a phone!) as well as David Olds for his<br />
support on the IT front.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Chapel re-opened in Summer 2020 for what we then hoped would be an<br />
unbroken run of in-person worship for the rest of the academic year. <strong>The</strong> Chapel<br />
was in fact the first part of the <strong>College</strong> to ‘unlock’, with two weddings that summer,<br />
including our very own Dr Angus Bowie and Dr Almut Fries, respectively Emeritus<br />
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Archbishop Stephen Cottrell with confirmation candidates<br />
Fellow and Lecturer in Classics. It was a delight to celebrate with them in the<br />
Chapel where they have often worshipped, and particularly touching to see Dr<br />
Peter Neumann, on what I believe was his last visit to the <strong>College</strong> before his death.<br />
His funeral took place in the Chapel in January <strong>2021</strong>, watched online by over 500<br />
mourners, and a memorial event is planned for 2022.<br />
As the Chapel was the first part of <strong>College</strong> to resume operations, it was also the first<br />
to get to grips with COVID-19 risk assessments. This gave us some moments of<br />
comic relief: the Archbishop of York administering the sacrament of confirmation with<br />
a paintbrush, or the remarkable logistics entailed in getting a wedding ring from best<br />
man to groom without touching any shared surfaces – not to mention the debut of<br />
the choir’s high-tech singing masks, colour-coordinated with the cassocks in fetching<br />
purple! But the humour soon wore thin. <strong>The</strong>re were tough decisions and difficult<br />
compromises, as distancing made it impossible to accommodate the whole choir with<br />
any space for congregation. <strong>The</strong> mini-lockdown in November 2020 hit particularly<br />
hard, as Chapel services were closed down when most other activities in educational<br />
settings were able to continue.<br />
Fortunately, just a week before lockdown, we were honoured to welcome Archbishop<br />
Stephen Cottrell, the new Archbishop of York and thus the <strong>College</strong>’s latest Visitor. He<br />
baptised and confirmed members of the <strong>College</strong>, and was enormously gracious, even<br />
when we had to send him away with a pack of sandwiches – quite a step down from<br />
the <strong>College</strong>’s customary hospitality! I was thankful too that lockdown lifted in time for<br />
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‘Oxmas’ and the carol service, which this time was held twice on two consecutive<br />
evenings, with a hugely oversubscribed draw to allocate seats. A highlight for me was<br />
our new History Fellow (and Old Member) Dr Conor O’Brien almost bringing the house<br />
down with words from Evelyn Waugh: a prayer to the Magi or wise men on behalf of<br />
“all who are confused with knowledge and speculation … the learned, the oblique, the<br />
delicate.” But the words which best captured the mood of the year were those read by<br />
the Provost from Isaiah, at the head of this article.<br />
Hilary Term saw our Creation Justice <strong>2021</strong> season. Launched by Tearfund’s Ruth<br />
Valerio, it brought together Christian preachers with speakers from other faith and<br />
secular backgrounds to explore the ethical, spiritual, and psychological aspects of our<br />
response to ecological crisis. <strong>The</strong> initiative came from the Provost, who recognised<br />
that the <strong>College</strong> is uniquely placed to bring together different perspectives, being at<br />
one and the same time an academic institution, a place of worship, and a community<br />
needing to make practical decisions about its own values and way of life. <strong>The</strong> project<br />
was months in gestation, but had to be moved online in just days. Nevertheless, the<br />
online audience was able to hear some fascinating perspectives on topics from ethical<br />
investment to food labelling to the psychology of changing behaviour. A number of the<br />
talks are still available online. For me, the programme illustrated how environmental<br />
threat is not a purely scientific question, but first and foremost a question of how<br />
human beings can motivate themselves to change their lives for the greater good –<br />
surely a central concern of faith!<br />
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Our lives have already changed this year, to a formerly unimaginable extent. Yet,<br />
far from eclipsing other concerns, the pandemic seems to have given us a greater<br />
urgency about long-term challenges, be that climate change or structural racism.<br />
Perhaps living through this time has taught us that we are capable of enduring greater<br />
sacrifice than we thought. I have been humbled by the resilience I’ve encountered in<br />
the <strong>College</strong> community, in students and staff alike. It may be no coincidence that this<br />
year saw the first students in my four years here to make the Christian commitment of<br />
confirmation (with more due to take place in the coming year) as well as the first ‘Quiet<br />
Day’, held at a local convent. <strong>The</strong> monastic tradition, of course, has always found<br />
value in a radically constrained and simple life. At the same time, being unable to plan<br />
for the future has been draining, not least for the couples who are or were due to be<br />
getting married in the Chapel this year. For me too the future is unclear, as I embark<br />
on my final year as Chaplain. This year more than ever I am grateful for the Chapel’s<br />
witness to the faithfulness of past generations, that in the words of the monastic night<br />
prayer, “we who are wearied by the changes and chances of this fleeting world, may<br />
repose upon Thy eternal changelessness.”<br />
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A YEAR IN THE CHAPEL CHOIR<br />
Organist: Prof Owen Rees; Senior Organ Scholar:<br />
Tom Dilley; Junior Organ Scholar: Isaac Adni;<br />
Maurice Pearton Choral Scholar and recipient of the<br />
Hilde Pearton Vocal Training: Rory Booth; Hildburg<br />
Williams Lieder Scholar: Rachel Howe; Librarians:<br />
Jake Sternberg, Charlotte Jefferies<br />
Professor O. L. Rees<br />
Organist<br />
It was a year of innovations, challenges, and<br />
perseverance. After months of silence, it was a great joy<br />
to hear the Chapel filled with choral and organ music<br />
once again in Michaelmas Term. During that term,<br />
whilst I was on leave, the choir was under the inspiring<br />
direction of Eamonn Dougan, Associate Conductor of<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sixteen, and a professional baritone. <strong>The</strong> climax<br />
of the term musically was the production of a video-recorded replacement for our<br />
traditional Carols from Queen’s concert, which reached an audience of about 25,000<br />
online. In the new year we took a tremendous step forward in making the choir’s<br />
work more accessible to audiences worldwide by installing a live-streaming system<br />
in Chapel during Hilary Term, made possible by an extremely generous donation in<br />
support of the choir’s work. We began to use this system to stream some choral<br />
services and organ recitals during Trinity Term, and a regular pattern of streaming<br />
services and all of the choir’s concerts in Chapel begins in Michaelmas Term <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new live-streaming system for the <strong>College</strong> Chapel<br />
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Bononcini recording session at St Michael & All Angels, Summertown<br />
In Trinity Term the choir embarked on a project to perform and record music by the<br />
eighteenth-century composer Giovanni Bononcini, leading to a concert performance<br />
and a CD recording at the end of term. Bononcini, who worked in London from<br />
1720 until 1732, was Handel’s principal London rival in the field of opera: the names<br />
Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee were coined by John Byrom in a contemporary<br />
satirical epigram about their competition for public esteem. Bononcini’s music<br />
continued to be performed in England in the decades following his departure, but<br />
it suffered almost complete neglect in modern times. Among those who prized and<br />
copied Bononcini’s music were the members of the original Academy of Ancient<br />
Music in London, to which Bononcini belonged, and – marking this association –<br />
our project to bring some of his music back to public attention was conceived in<br />
collaboration with the modern Academy of Ancient Music, which is one of the world’s<br />
principal original-instrument orchestras. <strong>The</strong> works selected for the recording included<br />
Bononcini’s imposing funeral anthem When Saul was King over us for the first Duke of<br />
Marlborough, and a spectacular setting of the Te Deum. Three of the four works were<br />
edited from copies of the original manuscript sources, which was one of my major<br />
tasks during Hilary Term. <strong>The</strong> project came to fruition in thrilling and rewarding fashion<br />
during three days of recording sessions in a North-Oxford church after the end of<br />
Trinity Term, and we are looking forward eagerly to the CD’s release early in 2022.<br />
Warm thanks go to all those who completed their time in the choir at the end of this<br />
academic year, and particularly to our two organ scholars – Tom Dilley and Isaac Adni<br />
– for their tireless work.<br />
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THE QUEEN’S TRANSLATION EXCHANGE<br />
For the Queen’s Translation Exchange (QTE), 2020-21<br />
was a year of virtual activities. While we hope that we<br />
are never forced into this position again, it remained a<br />
huge pleasure to open up our activities to people of all<br />
ages across the world, with participants in our book<br />
clubs and translation workshops joining us from every<br />
continent and time zone.<br />
Charlotte Ryland<br />
Director of <strong>The</strong> Queen’s<br />
Translation Exchange<br />
Alongside this international breadth, our prime focus<br />
rested on young language-learners in the UK. We<br />
launched our most ambitious project to date, a national<br />
translation prize for learners aged 11-18. <strong>The</strong> Anthea<br />
Bell Prize for Young Translators quickly developed into<br />
the perfect hybrid: virtual activity at Queen’s translating<br />
into real-life activity in hundreds of schools across<br />
the country. <strong>The</strong> prize is named after the great translator Anthea Bell, acclaimed for<br />
her translations of Astérix, of Freud, and of a huge range of contemporary authors.<br />
By providing teachers with mini translation workshops that they can run in their<br />
classrooms, the prize brings the excitement and creative energy of literary translation<br />
to learners throughout their schooling. It introduces them to a range of texts, from<br />
comics to concrete poetry (an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the<br />
typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance),<br />
classic novels to literary non-fiction. <strong>The</strong>se interactive encounters with great literature<br />
show them what it can mean to be a linguist, and how that energy and pleasure can<br />
carry them through their lives.<br />
Having originally set our sights on engaging 50 schools in this first year of the prize, we<br />
quickly adapted to accommodate hundreds of registrations, and ultimately involved<br />
over 500 schools. Teachers were generous in their feedback, helping us to hone the<br />
resources as the year went on, and sharing their enthusiasm. Teaching languages<br />
at secondary schools has become increasingly challenging in recent years, and<br />
immensely so during the pandemic, so we have welcomed this opportunity to support<br />
teachers as well as pupils:<br />
“We have had a brilliant time delivering these resources. Year 7 all the way<br />
through to Year 13 have engaged brilliantly and students have responded really<br />
well to the challenge. We loved it. <strong>The</strong> resources were so well thought through,<br />
so easy to use, and an absolute joy to teach.”<br />
Involving university students in our outreach work has always been central to QTE,<br />
and these collaborations continued to blossom while teaching remained virtual. In this<br />
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third year of our Creative Translation Ambassadors programme, we trained over 70<br />
students in Oxford, Norwich, Sheffield, London, and Durham to design and deliver<br />
translation workshops in schools. <strong>The</strong> training and the workshops themselves were<br />
delivered virtually, with students making videos, slides, and worksheets for primary<br />
and secondary pupils across the UK. Our ambassadors contributed to the Anthea Bell<br />
Prize too, making videos for pupils and developing teaching resources.<br />
We launched a virtual International Book Club for 15-18-year-olds in summer 2020,<br />
which sits alongside our existing International Book Club. Held in partnership with<br />
Queen’s Outreach department, the club meets termly via Zoom. As well as the short<br />
talk or interview that the translator records for the participants, the strength of these<br />
clubs lies in undergraduate involvement. Each breakout room is moderated by a<br />
student, and they also contribute to the Q&A about studying languages at university,<br />
which follows discussion of the book. We’ve recently published a guide to running an<br />
International Book Club in school, for sixth-formers and teachers, as well as guides<br />
to a number of novels in translation. Translated fiction takes centre stage in our<br />
‘Reviewing the World’ project, too. In partnership with Queen’s Outreach department,<br />
this gives pupils the opportunity to review books in translation, with the best reviews<br />
published on our website.<br />
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Both virtually and in person, and across a range of languages, QTE has reached<br />
thousands of young people in every area of the UK this year. As of this new school<br />
year, we are bringing our programmes together under the umbrella of the Anthea Bell<br />
Prize. All registered schools will have access to all our programmes, from book clubs<br />
to workshops, resources to prizes. By working closely with languages teachers in this<br />
way, we hope to bring inspiring international culture to increasing numbers of pupils, at<br />
every stage of their learning.<br />
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A YEAR IN THE MCR<br />
Samuel Teague<br />
MCR President<br />
President: Samuel Teague; Victualler: David Kaufman<br />
At the beginning of this academic year, it was universally<br />
hoped that we might begin to return to some semblance<br />
of normality following such major disruption, the likes of<br />
which had not been seen since the Second World War.<br />
However, what has since transpired is a year of further<br />
lockdowns, concessions, and limitations unprecedented<br />
in scale and turbulence. All this being said, the entire<br />
MCR membership has overcome these considerable<br />
obstacles exceptionally admirably.<br />
On behalf of the MCR, I wish to thank the <strong>College</strong><br />
and its officers, notably the Provost and the Tutor for<br />
Graduates, who have ensured that the graduate community was always considered<br />
when decisions were being made. Profound thanks should also be given to the library<br />
team, headed by Matt Shaw – who arrived in his new position as Librarian at possibly<br />
the most uncertain time possible – who have worked tirelessly to ensure that all<br />
<strong>College</strong> members have had access to the facilities and resources that they’ve required<br />
even during the depths of Hilary Term and the midst of the third lockdown. Finally, we<br />
are exceptionally grateful to the <strong>College</strong> Porters, Domestic Bursary, Steward, Scouts,<br />
and all those members of staff who made it possible for the <strong>College</strong> community to stay<br />
operational and, most importantly, safe across the year.<br />
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Before proceeding any further, I wish to acknowledge the actions of Sean Telford<br />
during the first portion of this year. He was responsible for negotiating and securing an<br />
expansion of the physical MCR space from the Governing Body that will open for the<br />
beginning of Michaelmas Term <strong>2021</strong> – an exceptionally exciting prospect as we look to<br />
the return of in-person activity.<br />
Freshers’ Week is invariably the largest and most intensive period for any common<br />
room, yet the burden was lightened by the cooperation and support of the entire<br />
executive committee. As part of our preparations for Freshers’ Week, we completely<br />
rewrote and redesigned the MCR Handbook to provide a comprehensive guide<br />
to both our new and current members. Particular thanks go to Gayatri, our Social<br />
Secretary, for managing to organise multiple in-person events despite myriad<br />
limitations and guidelines, and Andrew Orr, for creating an incredible Freshers’ Week<br />
micro-site on the MCR website.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> presence of the MCR at Queen’s has been supported by multiple ‘Queen’s<br />
<strong>College</strong> Symposia’ events, organised by our QCS & SCR Liaison Officer, Tristan<br />
Johnston-Wood. Events have seen multiple members of the MCR present talks on<br />
their academic work, as well as a series of panel discussions on a number of topics,<br />
including ‘which discipline best describes the human experience?’, which have<br />
stimulated thought within both the MCR and SCR communities. In addition, Tristan<br />
successfully set up a mock interview scheme with the SCR, allowing our members to<br />
benefit from the diverse skillset of the Senior Common Room and, hopefully, providing<br />
some excellent interview experience. My thanks go to Tristan and all the hard work he<br />
has done this year.<br />
Trinity Term has seen the return of many activities that one might associate with normal<br />
times. <strong>The</strong>se include the joint JCR-MCR Punt scheme which has allowed our members<br />
to explore the waterways of Oxford (my thanks to Mary O’Connor, our Treasurer, for<br />
setting this up), croquet on Front Quad, the return of beautiful sung services by the<br />
Chapel Choir, and fantastic graduate formals that took place in 5th and 6th week – as<br />
the words of the ‘Boar’s Head Carol’ tell us, no Queen’s experience is complete without<br />
a proper meal in Reginensi atrio!<br />
As I sit writing this, I look back at what has been, all things considered, a largely<br />
successful year for the MCR. My sincere gratitude goes to all the members of the<br />
executive committee, and the wider MCR membership, whose continued support<br />
and enthusiasm has helped make, what would have otherwise been, an exceptionally<br />
difficult period an honour and a privilege to oversee. We have successful weathered<br />
two entirely unprecedented years of uncertainty, and as we hopefully sail clear of the<br />
stormy seas, I have no doubt that the MCR will continue to go from strength to strength.<br />
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A YEAR IN THE JCR<br />
President: Alfred Mowse; Vice President: Aqsa Lone<br />
Defined above all by the pandemic, it will be no surprise<br />
to hear that this year has been an unusual and often<br />
tough one for the JCR, as it has been for many others in<br />
<strong>College</strong> and in all walks of life.<br />
Alfred Mowse<br />
JCR President<br />
Things started well in October: it was a huge relief to<br />
be returning to university again after being unable to<br />
come up for Trinity 2020. <strong>The</strong>re were restrictions, of<br />
course, but generally things appeared to be moving on<br />
a trajectory of slow return to normality. It was a pleasure<br />
to welcome a new cohort of Freshers, who, while facing<br />
a very difficult first year, have settled in relatively well to<br />
the community. I’ve been impressed by the extent to which they’ve managed to get<br />
involved in <strong>College</strong> sport, social events, and the JCR Committee.<br />
For the more optimistic among us, then, it was something of a painful surprise when<br />
the national situation in January led to a third lockdown and large numbers of students<br />
had to face another term wholly online. As well as the immediate difficulties of paused<br />
independence and studying from childhood bedrooms, many JCR members faced<br />
significant uncertainties with their upcoming finals exams and with travel plans.<br />
Thankfully, things had improved by the start of Trinity term and most students were able<br />
to return to Oxford. Through the weeks of good weather, it was a pleasure to see many<br />
people working (sunbathing) together in the Fellows’ Garden, and we enjoyed several<br />
much-needed opportunities for social events which helped to bring together a fractured<br />
student body. <strong>The</strong>re remained some JCR members, mostly international students or<br />
those who are particularly vulnerable, who decided that returning posed too many<br />
difficulties and we were deeply sorry to miss these members of our community.<br />
Despite these difficulties, indeed often because of them, there has been much to<br />
celebrate in the JCR this year. With everything faced by students (and by so many<br />
others), just to do the bare minimum would be praiseworthy, and everyone should be<br />
proud of what they’ve managed to achieve this year. But beyond this, Queen’s JCR<br />
students have continued to show their creativity, skill and hard work, being involved in<br />
everything from plays and magazines to blues sport. Students have also been active<br />
participants in <strong>College</strong> committees and initiatives such as the Race, Diversity and<br />
Access project, engagement which I hope will continue into the next year. This year<br />
we’ve also initiated what will be a closer long-term relationship between the JCR and<br />
the Queen’s Women’s Network, which will serve to forefront the contributions and<br />
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achievements of the <strong>College</strong>’s alumnae whilst providing junior members with further<br />
opportunities for valuable career support.<br />
Throughout, the JCR Committee has worked really hard to help students in many<br />
ways, from welfare to trying to maintain a roster of social activities. We’ve also had to<br />
work closely with <strong>College</strong>, and I’d like to thank tutors, scouts, catering, and library staff<br />
for their continued support of students, despite personal risk in some cases. <strong>The</strong>re’s<br />
no doubt, though, that the university experience this year has been wildly different<br />
to the one that any of us would have wished for, and I think a sense of loss will be<br />
something shared by this cohort of students. Like everyone, then, I’m hoping above<br />
all that the situation as we return for next year will be one that allows us to close this<br />
significant chapter in the <strong>College</strong>’s history, and to safely rebuild our JCR community,<br />
which has been so strained this year.<br />
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STUDENT CLUBS AND SOCIETIES<br />
THE 1341 SOCIETY<br />
President: James McGhee<br />
Like many other societies within <strong>College</strong>, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly<br />
curtailed the activities of the society over the course of the last academic year. While<br />
we have been unable to hold our usual termly luncheons for current parents, I am<br />
pleased to say that the society has still been able to pursue some of its charitable<br />
endeavours, most notable its continued support of the <strong>College</strong> book grant scheme.<br />
I am immensely indebted to the work of the many presidents and committee members<br />
of the society since its inception 20 years ago in 2001; without their sustained<br />
commitment to fundraising over the years, the society would not be in such a<br />
financially secure position to maintain its commitments throughout the pandemic.<br />
Finally, I would like to thank our secretary, Klara Zhao, and our treasurer, Annabel<br />
Vago, for their work for the society over the last year, despite all the frustrations of<br />
being unable to run any of our usual events since Hilary Term 2020. I wish the society<br />
all the best as I hand over to Siobhàn Bridson for what should hopefully be a more<br />
normal years of events; I am sure she will work hard for what is likely be another<br />
challenging year for the society.<br />
CROQUET<br />
Co-Captain: James McGhee<br />
Trinity Term <strong>2021</strong> not only saw a return to a degree of normality as restrictions were<br />
lifted in part, but also the return of the highlight of the Queen’s sporting calendar<br />
– that of course being the ever-popular game of croquet – to Front Quad. It was a<br />
pleasure to see the game constantly in play and we have to commend the near-daily<br />
dedication of certain students to the game, despite the callings of collections, public<br />
examinations, and the other trappings of Trinity Term hedonism.<br />
<strong>The</strong> croquet season started off on an unusually strong note, with the purchase of two<br />
new croquet sets for <strong>College</strong> use, and with it, straight hitting mallets – a novelty among<br />
play on <strong>College</strong> grounds. <strong>The</strong> main event of the year was of course the University-wide<br />
Croquet Cuppers; this year we were unfortunately limited to entering one team owing<br />
to the pandemic. <strong>The</strong> first round saw the team head off against Worcester 2nd’s – a<br />
team with an unexpected tendency to engage in long range, accurate and vicious<br />
roqueting – a challenge that was valiantly met by a selection of Queen’s best. Yet,<br />
while an early start was clinched in one of the two games played, Worcester equalised<br />
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at the final hoop and narrowly secured a posting out. Special mentions go to Ben<br />
Norbury and Julian Whitaker for what was an excellent performance.<br />
In a first for <strong>College</strong> croquet, and owing in part to the inability to enter our usual<br />
number of teams for Cuppers, an internal croquet tournament was set up with an<br />
unexpectedly high turnout of 16 teams! However, while Croquet may have finally<br />
returned to our great lawns in summer, so too did a typically wet British Summer<br />
and about five weeks of rain throughout the term, and so the tournament was<br />
unfortunately left unfinished. Many thanks to everyone who participated and we look<br />
forward to hopefully being able to host a full tournament come next Trinity.<br />
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THE EGLESFIELD MUSICAL SOCIETY<br />
President: Charlotte Jefferies<br />
As was the case with almost every society during the COVID-19 pandemic, the<br />
Eglesfield Musical Society’s regular activities were somewhat hampered. However,<br />
both the Committee and the JCR proved resolute and resilient in the face of adversity.<br />
Throughout the year, members of the <strong>College</strong> and of the wider University successfully<br />
continued our virtual recital series. A special mention should go to Lizi Vineall and<br />
Maxim Fielder for finding willing recitalists and editing these weekly videos (and<br />
unfailingly uploading them in such a timely fashion!).<br />
A virtual performance of One Day More<br />
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In Michaelmas Term, we began the year on a high, with record numbers of people<br />
partaking in rehearsals with EMS A Capella. We were tantalisingly close to our regular<br />
7th Week concert when disappointment struck, and rehearsals had to be called off to<br />
keep the <strong>College</strong> as safe and COVID-free as possible.<br />
While the committee was initially stumped as to how to sustain music-making during<br />
the virtual Hilary Term, we prevailed, and came back stronger: over 30 members of the<br />
JCR, MCR and staff, including our Chaplain, Katherine Price, participated in a virtual<br />
performance of ‘One Day More’ from Les Misérables. We had singers, guitarists,<br />
violinists, and bassoonists galore; all worked together to create a joyous final product,<br />
expertly edited by Rhiannon Harris. <strong>The</strong> video can still be viewed on our Eglesfield<br />
Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram pages.<br />
Our activities remained restricted in Trinity Term, despite the increased availability of<br />
<strong>College</strong> facilities. Our <strong>College</strong> musical, which typically takes place in 4th Week of Trinity<br />
Term, was unable to happen. As compensation, the Society will be organising two (!)<br />
musicals next year. Despite this disappointment, a particularly poignant moment for<br />
the Committee this year was a concert of Latin American Baroque music, organised<br />
by Prof John Sloboda OBE FBA, an Old Member, Honorary Fellow, and former EMS<br />
President. This was the first and only concert we were able to organise this year, but<br />
its success proved that live music is still alive and well at Queen’s.<br />
A final mention should go to next year’s committee, and especially to our President-<br />
Elect, Jemima Kinley. On behalf of the whole <strong>College</strong> community, I wish them all the<br />
best for next year, and hope that we will once again be able to resume our regular,<br />
busy musical schedule.<br />
HOCKEY CLUB<br />
Captain: Henry Patteson<br />
Mixed college hockey matches<br />
played throughout the <strong>2021</strong><br />
Trinity term have given Queen’s<br />
an opportunity to re-establish<br />
a strong hockey culture<br />
throughout the undergraduate<br />
year groups. Despite COVID-19<br />
difficulties, QCHC has flourished<br />
in its first year as a “Queen’s<br />
<strong>College</strong> Only” club. We won all<br />
our matches and hence took<br />
our place as champions of the<br />
Oxford <strong>College</strong> Hockey league.<br />
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Often coming from behind, in each match Queen’s fought hard and found a way to<br />
win – most notably in the final where passion and determination turned the tables in<br />
the favour of blue and white. In addition to good results, it has been wonderful to see<br />
a broad range of abilities and personalities take the field for <strong>The</strong> Eagles and hopefully<br />
new friendships have been formed as a result.<br />
Next year, QCHC will look to soar higher and further with a bright, new committee. <strong>The</strong><br />
loosening of restrictions offers an opportunity for the social aspect of the club to grow<br />
in a bid to match our success on the pitch. <strong>The</strong>re are even rumours of a tour.<br />
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NETBALL<br />
Captain: Pandora Mackenzie<br />
Despite activities being significantly curtailed this year, QCNC has had a spectacular<br />
Trinity term. We found ourselves in the top division this year, playing against teams<br />
that regularly fielded multiple blues players. At the time of writing, the league results<br />
are yet to be announced but Queen’s can expect to be in a respectable tophalf<br />
position and retain their place in Division 1. This year saw a Cuppers league<br />
lasting only one term of five matches but nevertheless the netball team played with<br />
enthusiasm and positivity every time. We managed to field a consistent team which<br />
consisted of a true mix of years – a great improvement on inter-year mixing. <strong>The</strong><br />
year’s shooting was phenomenal thanks to Ying Wong, Ella Farmer, and Harri Kellett<br />
whose partnership brought in many goals for the team. At the other end of the<br />
court, Ire Sofela and Evelyn<br />
Turner made an unbeatable<br />
and intimidating defence<br />
duo. In centre court, Flora<br />
Brown, Josie Kucera, and<br />
Katie Zagurova’s lightning<br />
attacks on the wings meant<br />
the whole team ran centres<br />
smoothly and with utmost<br />
skill. <strong>The</strong> skill and quality of<br />
playing has greatly increased<br />
this year and this shows in<br />
our scores. Despite a loss<br />
to Exeter in our first match,<br />
we brought it back with<br />
three wins in a row against<br />
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St Catz (13-5), St John’s<br />
(8-5) and Pembroke (9-3.)<br />
Unfortunately, our last<br />
match was a disappointing<br />
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loss against Wadham, although not all in vain for one player managed to secure<br />
themselves a date from it.<br />
Outside cuppers, this year saw a flurry of friendlies against Magdalen, Oriel, and<br />
Brasenose, as well as new Sunday netball practices with Exeter. We also had a civilised<br />
black tie social with QCAFC at Wetherspoons, in which next year’s social secretary,<br />
Phoebe Horner, played an integral role in drumming up first-year attendance. <strong>The</strong><br />
highlight of the year, though, has to be QCNC’s rather unorthodox sport photo which<br />
comprised of some very tactically-placed netballs to preserve modesty.<br />
All in all, it has been a wonderful term and I am very honoured and excited to continue<br />
the captaincy for next year. <strong>The</strong> club would also like to pay homage to outgoing<br />
members Harri Kellett and Daisy Southern for their long-standing dedication and to the<br />
former’s brilliant past captaincy.<br />
QUEEN’S COLLEGE MEDICAL SOCIETY<br />
President: Yedidiah Tilahun<br />
Coming into this year plans and visions for QCMS were plentiful, yet as many societies<br />
and our <strong>College</strong> as whole faced the unpredictability of the COVID-19 pandemic,<br />
adaptability has been the keyword. A quality especially pertinent in the medical<br />
profession, it is hoped that as our students move to become junior doctors they would<br />
avail themselves of this attribute. Yet, the QCMS committee of 2020-<strong>2021</strong> proved that<br />
maintaining an adaptable approach may not be solely the reserve of graduates but<br />
can be developed early on within the medical career. As exemplified in Michaelmas<br />
term; QCMS, for the first time since its inception, held its annual dinner virtually rather<br />
than physically.<br />
In accordance with our Society’s raison d’etre, we saw a coming together of students,<br />
graduates, and tutors of Queen’s albeit in a social capacity. Further to the spirit of<br />
lockdown, our speakers for the evening were all “in-house”, Prof Chris Norbury and Dr<br />
Paolo Tammaro, who each gave splendid accounts of their experiences and journeys<br />
within medicine. As the event progressed many more tutors, inspired by the riveting<br />
discussions, similarly provided their own personal accounts – whereby, the many<br />
different perspectives highlighted the varying opportunities presented within medicine<br />
with ultimately the same objective of helping people. A thoroughly encouraging event,<br />
it left all members emboldened in their ambitions to affect the medical fields.<br />
With the oncoming return to a sense of normalcy, QCMS envisions our Medical<br />
Innovation Conference to be included in this return, and to become part of the norm<br />
of our Society. Thus, with a view to the future we rest assured that the incoming<br />
committee of Bethan Storey, Emily Thompson, and Annie Roberts will do excellently.<br />
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Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
<strong>The</strong> Shulman Auditorium set up for QCS<br />
QUEEN’S COLLEGE SYMPOSIA<br />
President: Tristan Johnston-Wood<br />
<strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong> Symposia was set up to strengthen links between the MCR and<br />
SCR, provide a platform for students and Fellows to present their research, and to<br />
enable Queen’s members to listen to and discuss the ideas presented. This year has<br />
been no exception. We have seen newly appointed Fellows give talks on a range of<br />
topics and also introduced a new QCS format: <strong>The</strong> QCS Panel Discussion.<br />
<strong>The</strong> year kicked off with mathematics (Prof José A. Carrillo) and classics (Dr Gabriele<br />
Rota), followed by a panel discussion on ‘<strong>The</strong> Uncertainty of Knowledge’. Hilary term<br />
saw a switch to medicine, with talks by Prof Simon Leedham and Hannah Willis,<br />
and with another panel discussion addressing the question of ‘Which discipline best<br />
describes the human experience?’.<br />
Finally, we finished the academic year with Dr Conor O’Brien discussing religion and<br />
Elisa Cozzi presenting her research on Irish-Italian Connections, with a final panel<br />
discussion about Marine Science and Women in Science. We made the best of the<br />
available streaming technology to broadcast the events across the city, country, and<br />
world and we look forward to hosting many more talks and discussions in person in<br />
the <strong>2021</strong> academic year.<br />
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ATHLETIC DISTINCTIONS<br />
Blues<br />
Agamemnon Crumpton Lightweight rowing<br />
Daniel Craig-McFeely Lightweight rowing<br />
Daniel Stoller<br />
Rugby union<br />
Fred Newbold<br />
Hockey<br />
Henry Patterson<br />
Hockey<br />
Half-Blues<br />
Jack Wilson<br />
Tal Jeffrey<br />
Rugby league<br />
American football<br />
Credit: John Cairns<br />
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DEVELOPMENT AND OLD MEMBER<br />
RELATIONS REPORT<br />
Justin B. Jacobs<br />
Director of Development<br />
& Supernumerary Fellow<br />
Despite the challenges presented by an entirely remote<br />
2020-21 academic year, the Old Members’ Office was<br />
perhaps more connected to the <strong>College</strong>’s Old Members<br />
than at any point in its history. Over 850 Old Members<br />
attended at least one of our nine online events and they<br />
joined us from over 20 countries. We were delighted<br />
to see this level of at-a-distance engagement with<br />
the <strong>College</strong>, and we are excited that many of these<br />
new events will continue in future Old Members’ and<br />
donors’ event programmes. Highlights from the past<br />
year’s Old Members’ events programme can be found<br />
in the report of the President of the Old Members’<br />
Association.<br />
Old Members’ Activities<br />
In turning to the <strong>College</strong>’s fundraising over the same<br />
period we are thankful that the challenges posed by the pandemic did not dramatically<br />
affect our efforts to raise support for our students, researchers, and the wider Queen’s<br />
community. Fundraising at Queen’s during 2020-21 remained buoyant with 610<br />
donors contributing to a new funds raised figure of £3,955,550.<br />
Of note for the 2020-21 academic year were the following gifts received by Queen’s:<br />
• A legacy gift from Old Member Anthony Gwilliam (Modern History, 1948) to support<br />
History teaching at Queen’s and the continued endowment of the John Prestwich<br />
Fund.*<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Richard E Stewart (Jurisprudence, 1955) and Barbara Dickson Stewart Student<br />
Support Gift, set up by Barbara in honour of her late husband, which has enabled<br />
Queen’s to endow:<br />
º <strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s contribution to funding a full Rhodes Scholarship for students from<br />
Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine to come and study at Queen’s.<br />
º A Commonwealth shared scholarship (with the Blavatnik School of Government<br />
in the first instance) to attract and support students to Queen’s from the Global<br />
South.<br />
º <strong>The</strong> creation of a tech support fund to help students at Queen’s with financial<br />
assistance for acquiring technology related to their courses.<br />
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• An anonymous endowment gift from an Old Member to create the Centenary<br />
Visiting Professorship in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), a post shared<br />
with University <strong>College</strong>, Oxford that will bring the world’s best international academic<br />
talent into the colleges to work with students and Fellows and to provide global<br />
perspectives across the three subjects.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se are but a few of the ways in which our Old Members and Friends have supported<br />
Queen’s over the past year and in the <strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong> we are pleased to recognise the<br />
support and generosity of all of those who have contributed to ensuring that the <strong>College</strong><br />
can continue to thrive as an institution and a community. <strong>The</strong> names of all those who<br />
donated to Queen’s in 2020-21 can be found in the Benefactions section.<br />
In 2020-21 Governing Body was also able to recognise key milestones in the amount<br />
of lifetime support received from certain Old Members and friends. Over the past year<br />
Governing Body elected six new Eglesfield Benefactors (in recognition of lifetime giving<br />
of £100,000 and above) and five new Philippa Benefactors (in recognition of lifetime<br />
giving of £10,000 and above). <strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong> always takes a special pride in being able<br />
to bestow these important Benefactorships on those whose lifetime giving to Queen’s<br />
has merited special recognition.**<br />
This year was also significant as it marks the completion of the first phase (2016-<strong>2021</strong>)<br />
of Access All Areas, which covers three key priority areas for the <strong>College</strong>’s fundraising:<br />
student support (undergraduate and graduate), academic excellence, and access and<br />
outreach.<br />
In this initial phase the <strong>College</strong> received gifts from 1,623 Old Members and Friends,<br />
who collectively contributed £23m to support our students, the Tutorial System and<br />
our efforts to make Queen’s a more accessible and open place for students regardless<br />
of their background or geography. We are excited with how far we have come and<br />
look forward to sharing the opportunities to support the second phase of Access All<br />
Areas shortly.<br />
On behalf of Queen’s thank you again for your help in making this such a special place<br />
for everyone who has the privilege to study and work here. We look forward to seeing<br />
you back in <strong>College</strong> just as soon as we can.<br />
* <strong>The</strong> Prestwich Fund was created by the <strong>College</strong> in 2003 in memory of John Prestwich (1914-<br />
2003), medieval historian, Librarian and Fellow at Queen’s from 1937-1981. <strong>The</strong> fund is currently<br />
at 2/3 of the £3 million total required for full endowment and when complete will sit alongside the<br />
recently created and permanently endowed Brittenden Fellowship in History – thus securing both<br />
History Tutorial Fellowships at Queen’s in perpetuity.<br />
** Old Members and Friends interested in their lifetime giving totals can find this out by contacting<br />
development@queens.ox.ac.uk or by writing to the Old Members’ Office.<br />
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FROM THE PRESIDENT<br />
It seems as if the whole of the past year has been spent<br />
observing lockdowns and social distancing. I feared<br />
having to write lamely about a dearth of Old Members’<br />
events, but this is not the case. Instead, the <strong>College</strong><br />
is to be congratulated on the enormous efforts made<br />
to produce a packed programme of virtual gatherings<br />
as well as sneaking in an Old Members’ Picnic in the<br />
<strong>College</strong> gardens in the summer and re-instating the Old<br />
Members’ Dinner for September.<br />
Old Members’ Activities<br />
Paul Newton<br />
President of <strong>The</strong> Queen’s<br />
<strong>College</strong> Association<br />
<strong>The</strong> virtual gatherings provided agreeable alternatives<br />
to physical meetings. <strong>The</strong> Queen’s Women’s Network<br />
kicked-off the year hosting an online event in September<br />
2020 on the theme: How volunteering can support<br />
career progression. Former Chair of the Surrey Bench<br />
Jane Macaulay spoke about her life and experiences, and Alison Sanders (PPE,<br />
1979) discussed volunteering during her varied career as well as reflecting on her<br />
experiences as a new magistrate. <strong>The</strong>re were over 50 attendees using breakout rooms<br />
for further discussions and networking.<br />
Some virtual gatherings have now established themselves as welcome and permanent<br />
fixtures on the Old Members’ calendar. <strong>The</strong> hugely successful Inaugural Provost’s<br />
Lecture held in November 2020 is a case in point. Our guest speaker Mayor Eric<br />
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Old Members’ Activities<br />
<strong>College</strong> Conversation event<br />
Wine-tasting event<br />
Garcetti (International Relations, 1993), Mayor of Los Angeles, Honorary Fellow and<br />
Old Member of Queen’s, gave an especially pertinent presentation on “Leadership in<br />
a time of crisis”. <strong>The</strong> second Provost’s Lecture is, at the time of writing, scheduled<br />
for November <strong>2021</strong> when Dr Venki Ramakrishnan, Nobel prize-winning biologist,<br />
whose many scientific contributions include his work on the atomic structure of the<br />
ribosome, will speak. With the precedent of any university event occurring more than<br />
once naturally becoming an Oxford or <strong>College</strong> tradition, so will it be with the Provost’s<br />
Lecture. Distinguished guest speakers will now share their knowledge and experience<br />
of contemporary issues with the Queen’s community in an online lecture each year.<br />
<strong>The</strong> format will be a conversation between the Provost and the guest speaker with the<br />
facility to take questions from a live audience.<br />
Several extremely enjoyable and informative presentations live-streamed from <strong>College</strong><br />
were held to bring together the Old Member community virtually throughout the<br />
year. <strong>The</strong> Old Members’ <strong>College</strong> Conversation in October provided updates from<br />
the Provost and senior academics on key topics impacting the <strong>College</strong>, including:<br />
COVID-19, admissions, outreach, and the <strong>College</strong> finances. <strong>The</strong> online platform,<br />
developed by Hopin for the <strong>College</strong>, provided the opportunity for attendees to hold<br />
discussions on the key themes in virtual breakout rooms and to network one-toone.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was unsurprisingly a more genial gathering courtesy of a Virtual Wine-<br />
Tasting in December with Prof Robert Taylor, SCR Wine Steward, and Mr Robert<br />
Saberton-Haynes, SCR Butler. Attendees were offered the opportunity to join in<br />
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Wine Steward Prof Robert Taylor and SCR Butler Robert Saberton-Haynes<br />
Head Chef Sean Ducie during the cookalong to make a beetroot Wellington<br />
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Old Members’ Activities<br />
with tasting wine from home by ordering the suggested bottles from a national wine<br />
merchant in advance. <strong>The</strong> event included a pre-recorded tour of the <strong>College</strong>’s Wine<br />
Cellar and discussion on some of the wines stored there. A Virtual Cookalong was<br />
held in January with Sean Ducie, Queen’s Head Chef and Thom Elliot (Experimental<br />
Psychology, 2003), Co-Founder of the restaurant business Pizza Pilgrims. Sean talked<br />
through a recipe for an intriguing dish of Beetroot Wellington and Thom discussed the<br />
impact that COVID-19 has had on the hospitality industry, including his company’s<br />
innovative idea of Pizza in the Post. <strong>The</strong> Virtual Potting Shed in March by Dr Lindsay<br />
Turnbull, Gardens Fellow, and Mr Alastair Mallick, Head Gardener, offered attendees a<br />
tour of the gardens, with top tips and advice.<br />
As a final mention of online events, in April there was the celebration of the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
680th Anniversary run in two sessions to be GMT and Eastern Time friendly. One<br />
highlight was a presentation by the <strong>College</strong>’s Archivist, Michael Riordan, on ‘Queen’s<br />
and the North’ followed by a live Q&A chaired by the new Librarian, Matthew Shaw.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are huge advantages to such events. First, they are accessible to a much wider<br />
audience from anywhere in the world and second, they can be viewed on the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/c/Queens<strong>College</strong>Ox/videos) at any time.<br />
All of this would have been completely unimaginable in 1341 and even today it would<br />
be unimaginable if it were not for the enormous efforts of the Old Members’ Office. So<br />
again, on behalf of all Old Members, I wish to thank Jen Stedman and her team, as<br />
well as Justin Jacobs for the oversight provided as the Director of Development. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
have done some excellent and inventive work in another difficult year.<br />
Tales from the Potting Shed with Head<br />
Gardener Alastair Mallick and Garden<br />
Fellow Dr Lindsay Turnbull<br />
Queen’s and the North event with<br />
Michael Riordan, <strong>College</strong> Archivist<br />
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GAUDIES – FUTURE INVITATIONS<br />
Due to cancellations caused by COVID-19, invitations for the Boar’s Head Gaudy and<br />
the Needle and Thread Gaudy have been rescheduled as follows:<br />
Boar’s Head<br />
Needle and Thread<br />
Old Members’ Activities<br />
Year Matriculation years<br />
2022 1998/1999<br />
2023 1988/1989<br />
2024 2000/2001<br />
2025 1990/1991<br />
2026 2002/2003<br />
Year Matriculation years<br />
2023 2006/2007<br />
2024 1978/1979<br />
2025 2008/2009<br />
2026 1980/1981<br />
2027 2010/2011<br />
Old Members’ Dinner<br />
17 September 2022 All welcome<br />
650 TH ANNIVERSARY TRUST FUND<br />
AWARD REPORTS<br />
Due to the pandemic, no awards were made this year.<br />
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Old Members’ Activities<br />
NEWS FROM OLD MEMBERS, INCLUDING<br />
APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS<br />
1960<br />
Donald Ratcliffe<br />
Awarded the Sally and Morris Lasky Prize for the Best Book on American Political<br />
History in 2016, and the Richard E. Neustadt prize for the Best Book on United States<br />
Government and Politics by a British-based scholar, for his <strong>The</strong> One-Party Presidential<br />
Election: Adams, Jackson, and 1824’s Five-Horse Race (University Press of Kansas,<br />
2015), which was reprinted in paperback in February <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
1963<br />
Tariq Hyder<br />
Represented Pakistan in the 9th EU Conference on Nonproliferation and Disarmament,<br />
wrote two papers in the Hilal military journal on ‘Pakistan’s External Challenges<br />
since 1947’, and on ‘Pak-Russia Relations: <strong>The</strong> Way Forward’. Has spoken and<br />
participated in several webinars; on the NPT & the NSG (Islamabad) and on ‘NFU of<br />
Nuclear Weapons: Asia-Pacific Perspectives’ (Wellington, New Zealand) and remains<br />
a Security Expert at the Centre for Peace, Reconciliation and Reconstruction Studies,<br />
established to counter violent extremism.<br />
1965<br />
Andrew Connell<br />
Re-elected Chairman of Eden District Council, 2020-<strong>2021</strong> and Elected Vice-Chairman<br />
of Cumbria County Council for <strong>2021</strong>-22.<br />
1968<br />
Richard Carwardine<br />
Appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the<br />
Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2019, for services to the study of American history in<br />
the UK and the US. He specializes in the era of the early Republic and Civil War, with<br />
a particular interest in the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Professor Carwardine is a<br />
Distinguished Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. He<br />
was formerly President of Corpus Christi <strong>College</strong>, Oxford and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of<br />
the University of Oxford.<br />
1970<br />
Andrew Myers<br />
Moved to Colorado, and now two-fifths retired.<br />
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1973<br />
Samuel Nan Chang Lieu<br />
Elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy in recognition of his contribution<br />
to the humanities and social sciences. Professor Lieu is the current President of the<br />
International Union of Academies (Union Académique Internationale), an organisation<br />
founded after the First World War to promote peace through research collaboration<br />
among national academies. Professor Lieu’s field is the history of pre-Islamic<br />
Central Asia, especially the history of religions transmitted along the Silk Road (e.g.,<br />
Christianity and Manichaeism).<br />
Old Members’ Activities<br />
1974<br />
(Patrick) Kieran Quinlan<br />
Retired from the English Department of the University of Alabama at Birmingham,<br />
USA, in June, 2020, and has since been appointed as a Professor Emeritus of the<br />
institution. His retirement coincided with his most recent book publication, Seamus<br />
Heaney and the End of Catholic Ireland.<br />
1977<br />
John Morewood<br />
Completed a PhD at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. <strong>The</strong><br />
subject was ‘Henry Brougham and Anti-Slavery 1802-1843’. John was also appointed<br />
President of St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society.<br />
(Peter) Mike Thompson<br />
Awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours <strong>2021</strong>, for services to medicine<br />
supply, resilience, and development. Mike was the Chief Executive of <strong>The</strong> Association<br />
of the British Pharmaceutical Industry from 2016-2019 and is currently Chairman of<br />
Brevia Health, a dedicated division at Brevia Consulting that focuses on Life Sciences<br />
and Healthcare issues. Mike was heavily involved in ensuring that the UK could<br />
continue to supply medicines through any Brexit scenario, and worked in partnership<br />
with the Department of Health and Social Care, bringing forward policy proposals to<br />
ensure the system would cope.<br />
1980<br />
Cathryn Edwards<br />
Awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours <strong>2021</strong>, for services to medicine.<br />
Appointed Visiting Professor to the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of<br />
Cape Town in July <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Dr Edwards is currently Registrar of the Royal <strong>College</strong> of Physicians – the first woman to<br />
hold this position in the <strong>College</strong>’s 400-year history. She is also a consultant physician<br />
and gastroenterologist, working in South Devon. Cathryn was the first female Secretary<br />
of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) and its second female president.<br />
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Old Members’ Activities<br />
Credit: John Cairns<br />
1981<br />
Peter Vicary-Smith<br />
Has stepped down after 14 years as Chief Executive of the consumer organisation<br />
Which? to pursue a non-executive career. He is currently Chair of the Board of<br />
Governors of Oxford Brookes University.<br />
1983<br />
Valerie Gibson<br />
Awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours <strong>2021</strong>, for services to science,<br />
women in science, and to public engagement. Professor Gibson is a professor of high<br />
energy physics at the University of Cambridge. She was a Fellow in the Experimental<br />
Physics Division at CERN (1987-89) and came to Cambridge in 1989 as an SERC<br />
Advanced Fellow, held concurrently with the Stokes Senior Research Fellowship at<br />
Pembroke <strong>College</strong> (1989-1994). She was appointed as University Lecturer and Fellow<br />
of Trinity <strong>College</strong> in 1994, Reader in 2006, held a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust<br />
Senior Fellowship (2007-08) and became a Professor in 2009.<br />
Robert Hughes<br />
Appointed Member of the Executive Editorial Board (Consell de Redacció) of the<br />
Arxiu de Textos Catalans Antics (<strong>The</strong> Archive of Ancient Catalan Texts), an annual<br />
publication of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans and the Faculty of <strong>The</strong>ology of Catalonia,<br />
intended for the edition, study and information of Catalan texts prior to the 19th<br />
century.<br />
1984<br />
Nigel Poole<br />
Appointed a High Court Judge in October 2020 and assigned to the Family Division.<br />
Nigel was Called to the Bar in 1989 and took Silk in 2012. He was appointed as a<br />
<strong>Record</strong>er in 2009 and as a Deputy High Court Judge in 2017.<br />
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1987<br />
Colin Cook<br />
Elected Oxford City Councillor (Labour Party) for Osney and St Thomas ward in May<br />
<strong>2021</strong> and appointed Chair of the Council’s Licensing and Gambling Acts Committee.<br />
1988<br />
Iain Osborne<br />
Installed as Rector of the United Benefice of Ramseys and Upwood, in north<br />
Cambridgeshire.<br />
Old Members’ Activities<br />
1989<br />
Matthew Owens<br />
Released a music album in July <strong>2021</strong>: Johann Pachebel: Organ Works vol.1. Matthew<br />
played the Queen’s <strong>College</strong> Organ for the recording. https://www.resonusclassics.<br />
com/johann-pachelbel-organ-works-volume-1-matthew-owens-res10285<br />
1991<br />
Teresa Bridgeman<br />
Awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours <strong>2021</strong>, for services to flood<br />
preparations in West Somerset. Teresa founded the West Somerset Flood Group in<br />
2014.<br />
1993<br />
Eric Garcetti<br />
Nominated by US President Joe Biden as US Ambassador to India, in July <strong>2021</strong>. Eric<br />
is currently Mayor of Los Angeles.<br />
Laura Tunbridge<br />
Awarded the Dent Medal by the Royal Musical Association in June <strong>2021</strong>. <strong>The</strong> Dent<br />
Medal, created in memory of the distinguished scholar and musician Edward J. Dent<br />
(1876-1957), has been awarded by the Royal Musical Association annually since<br />
1961 to recipients selected for their outstanding contribution to musicology. Professor<br />
Tunbridge has been commended for both her dedication to the historical specificity<br />
and contingency of musical meaning, and her productive intertwining of performing<br />
and cultural histories.<br />
1997<br />
Adam Watt<br />
Appointed Associate Dean for Research and Impact for the <strong>College</strong> of Humanities,<br />
University of Exeter. Prior to this he was the Head of Modern Languages and Cultures<br />
(2018-<strong>2021</strong>) and Director of Research for the department (2014-18).<br />
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2000<br />
Old Members’ Activities<br />
Holger Kockelmann<br />
Appointed full Professor in Egyptology at Leipzig University, Germany. His main<br />
research interests are the cultural history of ancient Egypt, the Egyptian religion, hieratic,<br />
hieroglyphic and demotic texts and the Ptolemaic and Roman temples of Egypt.<br />
Simon Dobnik<br />
Appointed Professor of Computational Linguistics at University of Gothenburg,<br />
Sweden, in September 2020. His research interests include computational models of<br />
language and perception, human-robot interaction, situated spoken dialogue systems,<br />
and computational representations of meaning (semantics).<br />
2002<br />
Ava Lau<br />
Appointed to the judging panel for the UK Pensions Awards <strong>2021</strong>. Ava is Group<br />
Director, Head of Reward Analytics, at the London Stock Exchange Group and won<br />
the Pensions Manager of the Year award at Professional Pensions’ inaugural Rising<br />
Star Awards in 2019.<br />
2005<br />
Esther Daponte Brazil<br />
Appointed by <strong>The</strong> Bishop of Oxford as Assistant Curate at St Mary Magdalen Church,<br />
Oxford, following her diaconal ordination in July 2020. This is a four-year post.<br />
2011<br />
Merryn Davies-Deacon<br />
Appointed Lecturer in French Linguistics at Queen’s University, Belfast.<br />
Ashley Francis-Roy<br />
Directed two award-winning documentary films in 2020. <strong>The</strong> Real Eastenders (July<br />
2020); for which he has been nominated for a <strong>2021</strong> BAFTA Television Craft Award in<br />
the ‘Emerging Talent: Factual’ category, and won the Edinburgh TV Festival Debut<br />
Director New Voice <strong>2021</strong> award.<br />
Damilola: <strong>The</strong> Boy Next Door (October 2020, Channel 4) won the RTS Programme<br />
History <strong>2021</strong> Award.<br />
2013<br />
Charlie Hicks<br />
Elected Oxfordshire County Councillor (Labour Party and Co-operative) for Cowley<br />
Division in May <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
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2015<br />
Guillaume Matthews<br />
Granted a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Department of Materials, University<br />
of Oxford, in the field of Li-ion batteries manufacturing. Awarded a Lectureship in<br />
Materials at St Catherine’s <strong>College</strong>, Oxford.<br />
2016<br />
Will Smith<br />
Awarded the ZSL (Zoological Society of London) Charles Darwin Award and Marsh<br />
Prize, in October 2020, for an outstanding zoological research project by a (then)<br />
undergraduate at a UK university.<br />
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His project was entitled, ‘Are wild rock doves in the British Isles distinct from feral<br />
domestic pigeons? A phenotypic and genetic analysis’.<br />
2017<br />
Myron Phua<br />
Awarded Second Prize by the Judging Panel of the 2020 Society of Construction Law<br />
Hudson Prize for his essay, ‘<strong>The</strong> proper case for the inapplicability of Fiona Trust to<br />
statutory adjudication after Bresco’.<br />
Credit: John Cairns<br />
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PUBLICATIONS<br />
Carey Jones, Paul (1992)<br />
Giving It Away: Classical Music in Lockdown and other fairytales (CJAC Publishing,<br />
2020)<br />
Cecil, Desmond (1960)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Wandering Civil Servant of Stradivarius (Quartet Books, 2020)<br />
Concollato, Luke (2016)<br />
‘Optical observation of needles in upward lightning flashes’, Scientific Reports 10,<br />
17460 (2020), with co-authors https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74597-6<br />
Connell, Andrew (1965)<br />
‘<strong>The</strong> Woman, the Politician and the Will: Charlotte Smith’s Literary Assaults on John<br />
Robinson, ‘<strong>The</strong> Lowest Rank of Human Degradation’, 1650-1850 Ideas, Aesthetics<br />
and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era vol. 26, (Bucknell University Press, <strong>2021</strong>)<br />
Diab, Susan (1982)<br />
‘Spinning in Higher Education: an autoethnography of finding space to be human<br />
in academic life’, in International Perspectives on Innovative Approaches towards<br />
Teaching and Learning: Humanizing Higher Education, eds. Kapur, E. & Blessinger, P.<br />
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, <strong>2021</strong>), with J Moriarty<br />
Elliot, Thom (2003)<br />
Pizza: History, recipes, stories, people, places, love (A book by Pizza Pilgrims)<br />
(Quadrille Publishing Ltd, 2020), with J Elliot<br />
Fleming, Michael (1971)<br />
and Christopher Page (eds.), Music and Instruments of the Elizabethan Age: the<br />
Eglantine Table (Boydell: Woodbridge, <strong>2021</strong>).<br />
Gibson, Anthony (1967)<br />
Westcountryman – a life in farming, countryside, cricket and cider (Charlcombe Books,<br />
<strong>2021</strong>)<br />
Gill, Dipender (2005)<br />
Numerous journal articles, including: ‘Genetic evidence for repurposing of glucagonlike<br />
peptide-1 receptor agonists to prevent heart failure’, Journal of the American<br />
Heart Association, Vol: 10 (<strong>2021</strong>) and ‘Testing for antibodies to SARS-CoV-2’, British<br />
Medical Journal, Vol: 371 (2020) with M J Ponsford<br />
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Gordon, Jean Francois (1971)<br />
Will Purdom, Agitator, Plant-hunter, Forester. (Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, <strong>2021</strong>)<br />
Gotelee, Simon (1984)<br />
‘Brand Bordeaux vs Appellation Burgundy’ in On Bordeaux, ed. Keevil, S (Académie<br />
du Vin Library, 2020)<br />
Hall, Nadia (1992)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Devil (Book 5 in the Leone Scamarcio series, published under the name Nadia<br />
Dalbuono) (Scribe, 2020)<br />
Old Members’ Activities<br />
Hoegfeldt, Cecilia (2016)<br />
‘From attachment to mental health and back’, <strong>The</strong> Lancet Psychiatry vol 7, Issue 10,<br />
Octo 2020, pp 832-834 (2020), with co-authors<br />
Hoffbrand, Victor (1953)<br />
Memoirs of Victor Hoffbrand (Lavenham Press, 2020)<br />
Hollands, Gina-Marie (1999)<br />
Yours, Trudy (Ruby Fiction, <strong>2021</strong>)<br />
Howard, Anna (1995)<br />
EU Cross-Border Commercial Mediation (Wolters Kluwer, <strong>2021</strong>)<br />
Hughes, Robert (1983)<br />
‘Ramon Llull and the Rhetoric of Prayer: A Brief Commentary’, in Qui fruit ne sap<br />
collir: Homenatge a Lola Badia, eds. Alberni, A; Cifuentes, L; Santanachm, J; Soler, A;<br />
(Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, <strong>2021</strong>)<br />
‘Refrain Songs in Fourteenth-Century Catalan Poetry: A Reassessment’, in,<br />
Polyphonic Voices: Poetic and Musical Dialogue in the European Ars Nova, eds.<br />
Alberni, A; Calvia, A; Lannutti, M (SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, <strong>2021</strong>)<br />
Co-translator. ‘Ramon Llull: Cent noms de Déu / Hundred Names of God’, in<br />
Manícula: Taller d’edició i anotació de textos, Online. First ever translation from Old<br />
Catalan into English.<br />
‘Oratio, Verbum, Sermo and “Les paraules de sa pensa”: Internal Discourse in Ramon<br />
Llull (1271/1272-1290), its Sources, Implications and Applications’, Studia Lulliana,<br />
Vol. 57 (online, 2017)<br />
Translator from Spanish into English and revision of English. Extractiones de Talmud<br />
per ordinem sequentialem, Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis CCCM<br />
291, eds. Cecini, U; de la Cruz, O (Brepols, 2018)<br />
Kojima, Andrew (1997)<br />
No Sushi (Away With Media, 2020)<br />
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Page, Sebastian (2010)<br />
Black Resettlement and the American Civil War (Cambridge University Press, <strong>2021</strong>)<br />
Pickford, Eleanor (1993)<br />
Translator of R Muchembled, Smells: A Cultural History of Odours in Early Modern<br />
Times (Polity, 2020)<br />
Price, John Roy (1960)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Last Liberal Republican: An Insider’s Perspective on Nixon’s Surprising Social<br />
Policy (University Press of Kansas, <strong>2021</strong>)<br />
Quinlan, Kieran (Patrick) (1974)<br />
Seamus Heaney and the End of Catholic Ireland (Catholic University of America Press,<br />
2020)<br />
Randall, Oliver (2012)<br />
Editor William Simpson and the Crisis in Central Asia, 1884-5, self published in<br />
conjunction with Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salibsury (<strong>2021</strong>)<br />
Rundell, David (1975)<br />
Vision of Mirage: Saudi Arabia at a Crossroad (Bloomsbury, 2020)<br />
Sagar, David (1965)<br />
Reflections On an Empty Grave: Songs of the Heart and Soul (Lodge Books, 2020)<br />
Sancton, Andrew (1968)<br />
Canadian Local Government: An Urban Perspective, 3rd edition. (Toronto: Oxford<br />
University Press, <strong>2021</strong>)<br />
Scholar, Richard W (2001)<br />
Émigrés: French Words That Turned English (Princeton University Press, 2020)<br />
Strachey, Nino (1986)<br />
Rooms of their Own (National Trust, 2018)<br />
Teague, Anthony (1960)<br />
English translations from Korean, under the name Brother Anthony of Taizé. Hope is<br />
Lonely, Sung-Hui Kim (Arc Publications, <strong>2021</strong>)<br />
Lonesome Jar : poetic fables, Jeong Ho-Seung (Seoul Selection, 2020)<br />
Loving, Jeong (Seoul Selection, 2020)<br />
<strong>The</strong>ng, Brian Hong Seng (2015)<br />
‘Finding the Social Life of Rural Non-Elites in Roman Italy’, <strong>The</strong>oretical Roman<br />
Archaeology Journal 4(1): 2, pp. 1–32. (<strong>2021</strong>, DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/traj.4345)<br />
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Timmis, Ivor (1977)<br />
‘Talking a good game: football language explained’ Late Tackle 73 (online, <strong>2021</strong>)<br />
‘Mass Observation in Bolton, 1937-1940: a case of accidental dialectology?’ in<br />
Honeybone, P. and Maguire, W. (eds.) Dialect writing and the North of England.<br />
(Edinburgh University Press, 2020)<br />
van Bolhuis, Frederik (1969)<br />
Arcs of the Arts? A New Reading of Western Art History (Self Published; available via<br />
www.politics-prose.com, 2020)<br />
Old Members’ Activities<br />
Watt, Adam (1997)<br />
Editor <strong>The</strong> Cambridge History of the Novel in French (Cambridge University Press, <strong>2021</strong>)<br />
Credit: John Cairns<br />
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ARTICLES<br />
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<strong>The</strong> challenges of academic medicine during a<br />
pandemic<br />
Prof Chris O’Callaghan, Fellow in Medicine<br />
From my perspective, the past two academic years<br />
blended into one long disrupted period from which I<br />
hope we are emerging—although I reflect warily that I<br />
expressed a similar aspiration a year ago.<br />
In addition to my <strong>College</strong> duties, I lead a research group, including a laboratory in the<br />
Nuffield Department of Medicine and am clinically active as a consultant in both acute<br />
general medicine and nephrology (kidney medicine and transplantation).<br />
Normally, most of my time is spent on research and teaching and having completed<br />
a 5-year term as Dean of the <strong>College</strong> just before the pandemic, I was eagerly looking<br />
forward to having more time to devote to my research. However, as the pandemic<br />
unfolded the University closed laboratories that were not working on COVID-19<br />
projects, such as vaccines and virus testing technology. In parallel, the University<br />
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encouraged clinical academics, such as me, to support the NHS and for me that<br />
meant playing my part in the acute general medicine service at the John Radcliffe<br />
Hospital. <strong>The</strong> acute general medicine service assesses people who come to hospital<br />
with medical emergencies and cares for these patients if they are admitted to the<br />
hospital. <strong>The</strong>se medical teams in Oxford and elsewhere are usually under great<br />
pressure during the annual winter influenza outbreaks and there was concern that they<br />
would be swamped during the pandemic.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> graph shows that in the first peak in 2020 the number of people coming to our<br />
hospital fell. However, as many of these people had COVID-19, this made the hospital<br />
very busy and sadly many patients and some staff died. Within the University, intense<br />
effort went into developing the vaccine, establishing the Recovery trial of possible<br />
treatments and research on testing and tracking COVID-19 infection. We were able to<br />
recruit many of the patients we saw into the Recovery trial and started to see the real<br />
survival benefit of the trial results as the pandemic continued.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n cases dwindled and hopes were high, but the second wave with new viral<br />
variants hit hard. During the first wave many people with non-COVID-19 conditions<br />
stayed away from hospital, but in the second wave this did not happen to the<br />
same extent and the hospital was overwhelmed. This was exacerbated by major<br />
Graph of COVID-19 in Oxford hospitals<br />
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staff shortages caused by illness or the need to self-isolate because of COVID-19<br />
exposure. <strong>The</strong> situation was very much worse than the previous year and the pressure<br />
on staff was immense, but fortunately with vaccination, personal protective equipment<br />
and infection control measures there were no staff fatalities in our hospital over this<br />
time. It was, for a second year, both a privilege and inspiring to work with such<br />
dedicated and positive colleagues.<br />
It has not been an easy year for research and we are still not allowed to have<br />
all members of our laboratory team on site at the same time, which slows our<br />
experimental work. However, for some time I have been trying to develop academic<br />
activity in acute general medicine and we were fortunate to obtain funding to move<br />
these plans forward through our AcuteCare academic initiative. Acute general<br />
medicine services bore much of the hospital burden of the pandemic, but although<br />
almost all of us will need acute general medical attention, particularly when we are<br />
older, there is surprisingly little academic activity in this area. I am keen that we rectify<br />
this and develop this as an academic strength in Oxford.<br />
Many of the ongoing challenges facing healthcare arise from remarkable improvements<br />
in life expectancy and disease survival, such that on average we can live much longer<br />
than our ancestors. However, as we do so, many of us will accumulate multiple longterm<br />
conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes or raised cholesterol levels<br />
and these can lead to problems such as strokes, heart and kidney disease. <strong>The</strong>se<br />
multiple long-term conditions often trigger visits to multiple disconnected specialty<br />
services and we have obtained further pilot funding to bring multiple teams together to<br />
integrate this care in one place and to develop the latest science and technology for<br />
this healthcare.<br />
In the laboratory, we work on understanding the role of the immune system in disease<br />
and how the DNA we are born with influences our immune responses, especially to<br />
changes in our metabolism. We are particularly interested in how this affects our risk of<br />
atherosclerosis, which underlies many other conditions including heart attacks, strokes<br />
and much kidney disease. We seek to identify new ways of altering these disease<br />
processes to improve health.<br />
Of course, one of our enduring strengths in Oxford is our students (especially those<br />
from Queen’s!). As the chief examiner in medicine, a further pandemic challenge<br />
was to organise the final qualifying BM BCh 6th year examinations—postponing the<br />
examinations was not an option as the NHS needed newly qualified doctors more<br />
than ever. <strong>The</strong> examinations usually include written papers and observed interactions<br />
with real patients, but the latter was not possible with COVID-19 precautions, so we<br />
substituted remote video assessment and direct interactions with healthy actors.<br />
Our students are the future and we need to keep our research and our teaching<br />
relevant and up to date, so that they can hit the ground running when they graduate.<br />
This remains true even during a pandemic!<br />
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Modelling a pandemic<br />
Dr Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, Lecturer in<br />
Probability and Statistics<br />
I recently re-joined Queen’s as a Lecturer in Probability<br />
and Statistics. I am also a Senior Research Fellow at <strong>The</strong><br />
Big Data Institute within the Department of Medicine and<br />
I am affiliated with the Wolfson Centre of Mathematical<br />
Biology within the Mathematical Institute at Oxford.<br />
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I was at Queen’s during my undergraduate and graduate studies in Mathematics at<br />
Oxford University between 1996 and 2005 supported by an academic Scholarship<br />
from Queen’s. I loved my time at Queen’s – studying in the Upper Library, playing<br />
Tennis for the <strong>College</strong> (and University) team, acting in a couple of drama productions<br />
and being part of the Committee in the MCR. Queen’s has always been my “home<br />
away from home”. I have always loved mathematics and my <strong>College</strong> Tutors, Peter<br />
Neumann and Martin Edwards, managed to make learning complex aspects of pure<br />
and applied maths even more fun and enjoyable. Alongside helping me extend my<br />
mathematics’ skills, they also gave me habits which I still keep to this day – marking<br />
students’ scripts with a green pen, always responding politely to invitations and<br />
always doing rough calculations on the “back of the envelope”. I stayed at Queen’s<br />
during my doctoral studies and completed my DPhil in Mathematical Biology under<br />
the supervision of Prof Philip Maini and Prof Helen Byrne in 2005. Following academic<br />
posts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and at UCL, in June<br />
<strong>2021</strong> I joined Christophe Fraser’s Pathogen Dynamics Group at the BDI and took up a<br />
Lecturer post at Queen’s. I love teaching at Queen’s and I hope that I can transfer my<br />
love for mathematics and modelling to my students.<br />
My research is in applied mathematics and statistics with a focus on using mathematical<br />
modelling and statistical analysis to deliver innovative research in infectious diseases<br />
modelling. Over the last 20 months I have been undertaking responsive and timely<br />
modelling to inform and advice decision making in the UK.<br />
An important contribution from me in modelling the pandemic has been in the<br />
development and application of agent-based models (ABMs) as an alternative<br />
to the classic compartmental models for infectious disease transmission. ABMs<br />
allow transmission between individuals, rather than populations, to be tracked and<br />
represent a natural framework in which testing and tracing of infected people can be<br />
modelled. I was part of the team that developed the agent-based model Covasim,<br />
the methodology for which was published at PLoS Comp Biol in July <strong>2021</strong>. I have<br />
impactfully applied Covasim on the epidemic in the UK since the onset. My work,<br />
widely reported in the media, and published in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health in<br />
August 2020, highlighted the importance of adequate Test-Trace-Isolate (TTI) strategy<br />
in controlling the spread of the virus when schools reopened fully in September 2020.<br />
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Follow up work, published in Nature Scientific Reports in April <strong>2021</strong>, highlighted the<br />
importance of mask wearing in schools and workplaces for transmission mitigation<br />
as part of the reopening strategy (Figure 1). Additional work currently in submission<br />
at the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications explored different strategies<br />
of reopening schools in March <strong>2021</strong> (Figure 2). Application of Covasim to the USA<br />
epidemic, published in Nature Communications in May <strong>2021</strong>, added to the growing<br />
evidence of the importance of TTI and mask wearing as part of a safe reopening. As<br />
well as developing ABMs, in late 2020 I also led work on extended compartmental<br />
models for infectious disease spread to include contact-tracing, using probabilistic<br />
theory, highlighting the linking of compartmental with agent-based models; this work<br />
was published in PLoS Comp Biol in March <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Figure 1: Heatmaps of cumulative<br />
infections for different trace (x-axis) and<br />
test (y-axis) levels across the scenario<br />
of mask wearing in parts of community<br />
with and without schools masks’ wear.<br />
Higher cumulative infections are shown<br />
in darker shades of red, while lower<br />
values are lighter colours. <strong>The</strong> region of<br />
a light orange colour where cumulative<br />
infections remain below 500,000,<br />
represents a region where the second<br />
wave of COVID-19 after September 2020<br />
is avoided with combinations of adequate<br />
test-trace and mask usage.<br />
Figure 2: Model predicted estimated daily (a) and total (b) infections in the period from February<br />
22 to April 20, <strong>2021</strong> from the calibrated model across the five different scenarios: Full National<br />
Lockdown (FNL), Staggered Partial National Lockdown, Full-return of schools PNL, Primary<br />
schools-only PNL and Part-Rota schools PNL under the assumption that susceptibility in 0-10<br />
years old is 50% less than across other ages and that community transmission remains the same<br />
as in November lockdown between March 8, <strong>2021</strong> and April 19, <strong>2021</strong>. In (a) we show the point<br />
estimates as well as the uncertainty range around this for each scenario.<br />
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Complementary to mathematical modelling, I have also used statistical analysis during<br />
the pandemic. My work published in Influenza and Other Respiratory Diseases in<br />
September <strong>2021</strong>, identified a number of factors associated with increased risk of<br />
hospitalisation, intensive care unit admissions and mortality in North East London<br />
during the first UK COVID-19 wave. Additionally, together with public health colleagues<br />
in Austria I modelled the COVID-19 epidemic in Austria. Across two papers, in<br />
the Lancet EClin Med in July <strong>2021</strong> and in the BMJ Open in August <strong>2021</strong> we used<br />
statistical analysis to evaluate the accuracy of RT-PCR tests and compare it to Lateral<br />
Flow Diagnostics (LFDs) in diagnosing COVID-19 infection. <strong>The</strong> findings in the BMJ<br />
Open paper suggest that RT-PCR testing in primary care can rapidly and accurately<br />
detect SARS-CoV-2 among people with flu-like illness in a heterogeneous viral<br />
outbreak. <strong>The</strong> Lancet EClinMed findings suggest that LFDs have high sensitivity and<br />
specificity, and hence high accuracy, in capturing early infection when administered<br />
properly in primary care settings.<br />
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As different variants of SARS-CoV-2 started to appear in the autumn of 2020,<br />
genomic surveillance became an important aspect of pandemic preparedness and<br />
response. To explore this, over the last 10 months I have been involved in modelling<br />
and genomic surveillance studies of different variants, collaborating with the COVID-19<br />
Genomics UK Consortium. Collaborative work published in Nature in October <strong>2021</strong>,<br />
reconstructed the dynamics of different SARS-CoV-2 variants in England between<br />
September 2020 and June <strong>2021</strong>. <strong>The</strong> findings showed that while a number of different<br />
variants were circulating in England<br />
in 2020 and <strong>2021</strong>, the Alpha<br />
and the Delta variants became<br />
dominating in early <strong>2021</strong> and over<br />
the summer <strong>2021</strong> respectively, due<br />
to their infectiousness advantage<br />
over other variants (Figure 3).<br />
I am also a guest Editor of a<br />
special issue of the Philosophical<br />
Transactions of the Royal Society<br />
A and I look forward to sharing that<br />
with you in early 2022. My modelling<br />
work is ongoing with current work<br />
focusing on exploring the impact<br />
of different vaccination strategies,<br />
exploring waning profiles of<br />
different vaccines and developing<br />
the next generation of more<br />
capable and adaptive models for<br />
better pandemic preparedness<br />
taking onboard everything we have<br />
learned during this pandemic.<br />
Figure 3: SARS-CoV-2 surveillance sequencing<br />
in England between September 2020 and June<br />
<strong>2021</strong>. a. Positive Pillar 2 SARS-CoV-2 tests in<br />
England. b. Relative frequency of 328 different<br />
PANGO lineages, representing approximately<br />
7.2% of tests shown in a. c. Positive tests (top<br />
row) and frequency of 4 major lineages across<br />
315 English lower tier local authorities.<br />
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Papyri and performance: the problems of ancient<br />
poetry<br />
Prof Richard Bruce Parkinson, Professor of<br />
Egyptology<br />
<strong>The</strong> discovery of the Rosetta Stone during the<br />
Napoleonic wars is a useful reminder for Egyptologists<br />
of how translation is often embedded in colonialism.<br />
Modern translations of Ancient Egyptian poetic texts<br />
have often trivialized and exoticized them, or valued them only as sources of historical<br />
or linguistic data. <strong>The</strong> Life of Sinuhe is the most famous work to survive, written in<br />
the Middle Kingdom around 1875 BCE (contemporaneous with the final stages of<br />
Stonehenge). By 1600 BCE it had become a classic text used in training officials and<br />
was read for at least another six centuries, and it still remains a set text for students<br />
today. Around 575 lines of verse describe an Egyptian courtier’s life in self-imposed<br />
exile in the Levant, as a vivid narrative of adventure but also of psychological trauma<br />
and self-realization. Although extensively studied, the last integrated commentary was<br />
in 1916 by the Queensman, Sir Alan Gardiner (1879–1963), and only now is a new<br />
one being prepared.<br />
Despite Sinuhe’s acknowledged artistry and its ability (in Ben Okri’s words) to speak<br />
about ‘the mystery that makes us human’, translations have often been executed for<br />
a narrowly academic audience: the phrase ‘I was depilated’ in one recent rendering is<br />
technically correct in terms of ancient practices but is a stumbling block for general nonspecialist<br />
readers. Given our incomplete knowledge of Early Egyptian, Egyptologists<br />
have often prioritized producing a single ideal text and a single definitive translation,<br />
rather than exploring poetic ambiguities and emotional impact, or the ways in which the<br />
poetry has changed through time. Much has been lost from this extraordinary poem.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 12th Dynasty manuscript of Sinuhe, copied by an unknown man around 1800 BCE at <strong>The</strong>bes,<br />
rapidly and with many self-corrections (P. Berlin 3022, Frame H). © Ägyptisches Museum und<br />
Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; photographer: Lisa Baylis, the British Museum.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> view from the heights of the Gebel Ahmar in 2019, now built over by Nasser City.<br />
Poetry cannot easily be abstracted from its material or cultural contexts, and it often<br />
uses these to create meaning beyond the literal sense of the words. In terms of literary<br />
form, Sinuhe is modeled on a culturally central Egyptian genre, the official funerary<br />
autobiography that was inscribed on tomb walls. <strong>The</strong> unknown poet plays with this<br />
in order to test the cultural norms of this official discourse against Sinuhe’s imagined<br />
experiences. <strong>The</strong> poem’s complex meaning is created with subtle changes in register,<br />
style and genre, all of which are unfamiliar to modern audiences. This is a familiar<br />
problem for translators dealing with texts from radically different cultures, but it is one<br />
that Sinuhe poses in an extreme form, because it focuses on culturally specific aspects<br />
of being Egyptian. Embedding the poem in its material contexts assists understanding.<br />
One minor and concrete example is a place-name mentioned by the poet: Sinuhe<br />
travels past the ‘Red Mountain’ but this is opaque and meaningless until one has<br />
experienced the physical location, now named Gebel Ahmar on the outskirts of modern<br />
Cairo. When one knows something of this hillside with the remains of desolate desert<br />
quarries, one can start to feel the meaning of the verse. Without a fully contextualizing<br />
approach even the most central aspects of the plot remain unintelligible: the poet<br />
narrates how Sinuhe hurriedly left Egypt at the death of Amenemhat I in a deliberately<br />
oblique manner, and this has caused immense speculation about his motivation since<br />
the poem was re-discovered in the nineteenth century. A commentary can list all the<br />
surviving parallel passages with the same words from contemporaneous texts and<br />
compare them with visual evidence for relevant social practices, and in such a way<br />
reconstruct (albeit rather laboriously) a sense of the resonances that the words had for<br />
the original audience. When the passage is read with an ear for these, instead of only<br />
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the literal linguistic meaning, it becomes clear that the ancient poet is narrating Sinuhe’s<br />
reaction in such a way as to evoke an unspoken sense of grief at the old king’s death,<br />
rather than a sense of guilt at a political assassination that has often been imagined<br />
by modern critics. A commentary, however, inevitably betrays the force of the poem:<br />
parallels and footnotes can reconstruct the context for a specialist reader but they<br />
destroy the immediacy of the original.<br />
Sinuhe provides the modern world with a wonderfully intimate and subjective sense<br />
of an ancient culture seen from the inside. But for an unannotated translation to<br />
communicate these culturally specific aspects to modern audiences it must somehow<br />
re-imagine them in modern terms, becoming in effect a new adaptation rather<br />
than a ‘free’ translation. Recently at the Young Vic, Ben Okri’s Changing Destiny<br />
developed the storyline of Sinuhe’s life into an action-filled drama in order to explore<br />
universal themes about identity and immigration, avoiding any culturally alien forms of<br />
expression. This reworking inevitably shifted the focus away from the original poem’s<br />
presentation of its own specific culture, and lessened the sense of autobiographical<br />
interiority. As with a commentary, something is lost from the original in any free<br />
translation or adaptation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> original text itself was arguably written for performance in the Middle Kingdom.<br />
While starting to write a new commentary, I worked with actress and author Barbara<br />
Ewing on a recital. <strong>The</strong>se experiments confirmed the philological awareness of how<br />
open it is to different readings, and how dramatically it is conceived: in the central<br />
soliloquy, the grammatically ambiguous syntax of a phrase articulates Sinuhe’s<br />
shifting self-realization even as he speaks the words. During rehearsals, Barbara and I<br />
discussed what meanings could be re-imagined from the surviving textual world of the<br />
Middle Kingdom and the degree to which these might be communicated to modern<br />
audiences. We kept close to the original phrases as possible in order to preserve the<br />
original distinctive texture of feeling. Even if the translated words remain remote, an<br />
actor’s voice can convey their emotional tone and intensity, and translate the visceral<br />
meaning with immediacy. Performance offers one way of minimizing what is often lost<br />
in a translation or a commentary.<br />
On a purely textual level, these experiments had an incidental revelation for me as<br />
editor. <strong>The</strong> manuscripts of the poem from a few centuries after its composition show<br />
quite extensive textual variations from the earliest manuscripts. During rehearsals,<br />
Barbara insisted on certain changes to the translation in order to clarify the meaning<br />
for modern audiences, and I was struck that the majority of her alterations exactly<br />
mirrored the manuscript variations, suggesting that these ancient variations were also<br />
interpretative interventions, probably made when the original poem was becoming<br />
remote from its ancient readers. Performance is, after all, another embodiment of the<br />
text as much as any surviving manuscript or modern edition. Working with a skilled<br />
performer can enable a more holistic sense of textuality than is provided by editorial<br />
procedures or academic theory.<br />
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Copyists, performers, editors and audiences all interact to create a poem’s meaning,<br />
and meaning is always diverse and contingent, continually shifting in a work’s different<br />
embodiments. Experiences with both the physical manuscripts and with performances<br />
argue against the traditionally privileged stance of the academic commentator, who<br />
has usually been a Euro-American male intent on rescuing a text from its messy<br />
transmission history at the hand of supposedly incompetent ancient copyists.<br />
<strong>The</strong> scribe who copied the main early papyrus of Sinuhe in ancient Luxor certainly<br />
wrote messily and made many corrections, but an examination of these physical<br />
features shows that he was not incompetent, but deeply engaged with the creation<br />
and transmission of the poem’s meaning as he wrote. Such considerations can be<br />
a step towards decolonizing textual studies and re-valuing the ancient copyists.<br />
As a commentator, I am not so different from that ancient copyist or Barbara as a<br />
performer, all of us having a shared aim of mediation,<br />
helping the poem to interact with new audiences<br />
and create new meanings. From this perspective, a<br />
commentary should not try to determine a poem’s<br />
meaning, but simply to supply the information that<br />
modern readers (whoever they might be) might need<br />
for their experience of the poem to be as coherent<br />
and as open-ended as possible. This role is an<br />
inherently humble one which fits uncomfortably with<br />
the authoritative stance demanded by the modern<br />
academic ethos, but in the end the commentator should<br />
simply tell the reader, in the words of the poet Stevie<br />
Smith: ‘well, here is the poem; work it out for yourself’.<br />
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Barbara Ewing’s recital of Sinuhe: https://podcasts.<br />
ox.ac.uk/life-sinuhe<br />
Barbara Ewing<br />
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Obituaries<br />
We record with regret the deaths of the following Old Members:<br />
1932 Dr T Sutton-Coulson<br />
1941 <strong>The</strong> Venerable A H Woodhouse<br />
1942 Mr J C P Boyes-Watson<br />
Mr K V Jones FRCM<br />
Dr F J Long CVO<br />
1943 Mr T S Acton<br />
Mr K M Leslie<br />
Mr W R Lomas<br />
1944 Mr N G Brodrick<br />
1945 Wing Commander D B D Hamley<br />
Mr E D Wetherell<br />
1948 Mr A B Gwilliam<br />
Capt J H Macdonald<br />
1949 Prof K Davies<br />
Mr M E Herman<br />
Mr R A Higginson<br />
Dr Z A Pelczynski OBE<br />
Dr C J S M Simpson<br />
1950 Mr H T Searle<br />
1951 Mr P M Brannan<br />
Mr A I Obiyan<br />
1953 Mr K J R Capper-Johnson<br />
Mr J R England<br />
Mr J G Glasspool<br />
Mr R S Kent<br />
Mr J W A Okell OBE<br />
Dr A Richmond<br />
Mr J M White<br />
1955 Mr L Harrison<br />
Mr J W Maslen<br />
1956 Mr J S Morris<br />
Mr A W S Mundy<br />
Dr J Place<br />
1957 Mr M H Elliott<br />
Mr G B Jubb<br />
Mr P Swain<br />
Credit: John Cairns<br />
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1958 Mr J E Bellamy<br />
Dr R E Blackburn FRSA<br />
1959 Ambassador H Ahmadu<br />
Mr G M A Barker<br />
Mr H E Fleming<br />
Dr B E Lowe<br />
Dr P M Neumann OBE<br />
(Emeritus Fellow)<br />
1960 Mr M S Harrington<br />
1961 Prof A P Cracknell<br />
<strong>The</strong> Revd M P Wadsworth<br />
1962 Professor A D Barker<br />
His Hon Simon Hawkesworth QC<br />
1963 Dr M J Cullen<br />
1964 Mr N C P Winstanley<br />
1965 Mr D P Ansell<br />
Dr R A Leeper<br />
Mr L N Marcelin-Rice<br />
1966 Mr R L Hartnoll<br />
1967 His Hon Judge Curran QC<br />
1969 Mr D N Wilson FRSA<br />
Mr R Winters<br />
1970 Mr P J Firth<br />
1972 Mr S G O’Mahony<br />
1973 Mr I Drummond<br />
Mr J G Odom<br />
1974 Mr D W F von Bodelschwingh<br />
1977 Mr P S C Gray<br />
1991 Mr D Hilton<br />
Honorary Fellow Prof H A O Hill FRS<br />
<strong>The</strong> news of the deaths of Old Members<br />
comes to the notice of the <strong>College</strong><br />
through a variety of channels. <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> is unable to verify all these<br />
reports and there may be some<br />
omissions and occasional inaccuracies.<br />
Obituaries<br />
ANDREW DENNISON BARKER<br />
My father, Andrew Dennison Barker, was born in Derby<br />
on 24 April 1943. He spent his early years exploring<br />
the wildlife of Hampshire and Sussex with his older<br />
brother George (who also went on to undergraduate<br />
studies at Queen’s, reading Zoology), acquiring a lifelong<br />
interest in the natural world. He gained a scholarship<br />
to Christ’s Hospital, from where he went on to read<br />
Literae Humaniores at Queen’s in the early 1960s. On<br />
graduating, he went to the ANU in Canberra to write<br />
his PhD thesis, on forms of explanation in evolutionary<br />
biology. Before setting sail for Australia, his mother Nancy (a powerful woman) told him<br />
that whatever else he did, he was not to get married out there.<br />
Andrew returned to these shores with his first wife Susan in 1970. She was heavily<br />
pregnant with their first child, Jonathan. Though tempted to try out a self-sufficient<br />
life on a Welsh mountain, that summer he joined the Philosophy department at the<br />
University of Warwick.<br />
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He and Susan settled in Leamington Spa, where their second son, Nicholas, was born<br />
in 1972. Always a keen amateur musician with an excellent tenor voice, Andrew began<br />
researching ancient Greek music and musical theory during the mid-1970s. Working in<br />
this somewhat neglected and frequently misunderstood area, he became the foremost<br />
student of ancient Greek music of his generation, a field of study which engaged and<br />
fascinated him for the rest of his life. Along with various articles and edited volumes<br />
on Greek music, philosophy, literature and science, his seven books and annotated<br />
translations on Greek musical theory and its historiography have transformed the<br />
field. Starting with his two volumes of Greek Musical Writings in 1984 and 1989,<br />
and including his landmark <strong>The</strong> Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece (2007)<br />
and his Ancient Greek Writers on their Musical Past (2014), his work cast new light<br />
on our understanding of Greek culture, and had consequences for our perceptions<br />
of medieval and subsequent musical theory. He was elected a Fellow of the British<br />
Academy in 2005 in recognition of the importance of this work.<br />
Andrew was a family man. He married his second wife, Jill, in 1978. <strong>The</strong>y had 3<br />
children together: Michael (that’s me), Kate and William. Growing up, our house<br />
was filled with music, as well as prototype and model Greek musical instruments<br />
our father had built, and on which he would test his various hypotheses. I’ve been<br />
told from countless sources what a brilliant teacher and supervisor my father was,<br />
and that these home-made instruments often made their way into lecture theatres<br />
for demonstration purposes. <strong>The</strong> collection travelled with us when the family moved<br />
to New Zealand (my father took a Readership at the University of Otago in 1992,<br />
stepping down from his role as chair of the philosophy department at Warwick), and<br />
then re-turned with some further additions when he returned to the UK to become<br />
Professor at the University of Birmingham in 1995. In his years at Birmingham, he<br />
combined teaching and PhD supervision with his research (while doing his best<br />
to avoid university politics, of which he was less fond). He held a British Academy<br />
Research Professorship from 2000 to 2003. He retired in 2008.<br />
In 2007, Andrew co-founded MOISA (International Society for the Study of Greek and<br />
Roman Music & its Cultural Heritage), with which he was heavily involved for 10 years<br />
until his health began to deteriorate. In 2012 he became founding editor of the journal<br />
Greek and Roman Musical Studies (published by Brill).<br />
He is survived by his wife, his children and 14 grandchildren of whom he was very<br />
fond. We will miss him very much.<br />
Michael Barker<br />
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ROBERT BLACKBURN<br />
Robert Blackburn, who has died aged 80, attended<br />
Bolton School from 1948 to 1958. He came from<br />
Chorley (as did many Bolton school boys and girls)<br />
where his father was Borough Librarian, and his mother<br />
a well-known local Infants’ Headmistress. Robert<br />
became well-known at the school as a classical pianist,<br />
playing every year on Speech Days and later in school<br />
concerts. In the sixth form he ran the Poetry Society<br />
and the Philharmonic Society, and was a keen Literary<br />
and Debating Society member. He attended Stratford<br />
Camp from 1955 to 1958, regarded as one of the school’s most inspired outdoor /<br />
educational ideas, instilling a lifelong love of live theatre in Robert.<br />
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Robert went up to Queen’s <strong>College</strong>, Oxford in 1958 on a Modern History Open<br />
Scholarship. After Oxford, Robert took the Bachelor of Music degree at Manchester<br />
University, which was where he met his first wife Barbara. His first post in 1964 was<br />
on the Music Staff at Repton School in south Derbyshire, and in 1968 he and Barbara<br />
moved to Durham, where he became Senior Lecturer in Music at the <strong>College</strong> of St Hild<br />
and St Bede. <strong>The</strong>y lived in the village of Witton Gilbert outside the City of Durham, and<br />
had two daughters, Melissa and Donna.<br />
While in Durham, Robert completed a PhD in early 20th Century German and<br />
Austrian opera. In 1980-81, in a sabbatical year, he took a Master’s degree, again at<br />
Manchester University in Comparative Literature Studies – a year he always said was<br />
perhaps his most purely enjoyable academic experience. Robert taught part-time for<br />
the Open University from 1970-80 in the North East, and again in the Bristol region in<br />
1986 – 1991. Happily, in the spring of 1981 he was appointed Head of Department in<br />
Music at Bath <strong>College</strong> of Higher Education, which later became Bath Spa University.<br />
Robert became Assistant Dean (Research) of the new Faculty of Arts and Music<br />
from 1984, and retired in 2003. He was a passionate and knowledgeable teacher,<br />
particularly around 18th, 19th and 20th century music history and interrelated arts and<br />
literature. A generation of Bath music students knew him affectionately as Dr. Bob.<br />
Robert’s first marriage came to an amicable end, and in 2003 he met Isabel Love and<br />
they married the following year, just after his retirement. Retirement did not slow him<br />
down; he became a voluntary Convenor for Literature & Humanities at the Bath Royal<br />
Literary & Scientific Institution in 2008 and between 2010 and 2019 he organised five<br />
symposia on the historical arts. Robert and Isabel travelled widely, and on moving to<br />
Chippenham in 2008 became deeply involved in the Chippenham Civic Society and<br />
the Wiltshire Victoria County History Trust. <strong>The</strong>y became grandparents to Cassian in<br />
2007, Cora in 2010, and Jonah in 2011, and the children were delighted to have not<br />
two but three grannies as they grew up.<br />
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Robert was lucky to have the loving support of Isabel through his final years and last<br />
illness – theirs was a deep and lasting love. He was an incredibly knowledgeable,<br />
thoughtful, and kind man all his life, and his devotion to music, literature and the arts<br />
has been passed down the generations through his students and children.<br />
Melissa Blackburn<br />
MICHAEL CULLEN<br />
Dr. Michael J. Cullen, a pioneer in the use of electron<br />
microscopy to dissect the minutiae of skeletal muscle<br />
structure and pathology, died on September 8th 2020<br />
from kidney cancer, leaving Anne (his wife of 54 years)<br />
and sons James and Malcolm, as well as a large<br />
devoted group of fellow academics who long admired<br />
his intellect, collegiality and scientific generosity. I am<br />
honoured to be a member of a very select group who<br />
Mike fostered and nurtured as Ph.D students in the<br />
late 1970’s-1980’s, and feel fortunate to be asked to<br />
memorialize him as best I can.<br />
Mike was born at the end of the second World War to James Leslie and Constance<br />
Cullen and grew up in Merseyside with his brother and sister. His childhood curiosity<br />
about the local flora and fauna likely fostered his lifelong fascination with nature. Following<br />
amateur experiments in rearing caterpillars and tropical fish, both he and his brother,<br />
John, went on to study Zoology, John at Cambridge and Mike at <strong>The</strong> Queens’ <strong>College</strong>,<br />
Oxford. Mike was certain Entomology would form the core of his future scientific life, and<br />
following his marriage to Anne in 1966, he relocated to Trinidad to study the biology and<br />
life cycle of giant water bugs under the tutelage of the late, great, J.W.S. Pringle.<br />
Pringle was known for being thoughtful, focused and meticulous in all his scientific<br />
endeavors, and I have always thought that Mike’s essential care and attention to detail<br />
must have sprung from his training during this period. On his return from Trinidad to<br />
Oxford Mike started his formal D.Phil. studies and became immersed in the basic biology<br />
of insect flight and more specifically in the use of electron microscopy as a tool to dissect<br />
the structure/function relationships within the skeletal muscle that allowed insect flight.<br />
Fortunately for biomedical science and more particularly neuromuscular disease<br />
research, Mike was pulled away from the world of academic entomology by the<br />
practical need to feed a growing family. In 1972, he received a job offer from Lord<br />
Walton of Detchant (then simply Dr. John Walton) to lead the electron microscopy<br />
research group at the Muscular Dystrophy Research Laboratories in Newcastle upon<br />
Tyne. His first seminal contribution to the field was to dissect the various stages of<br />
muscle fiber breakdown in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at the ultrastructural level.<br />
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This paper cemented Mike’s position as one of the leading proponents of electron<br />
microscopy as both a diagnostic and “discovery” tool in neuromuscular pathology,<br />
and was continually augmented by serial, thoughtful ultrastructural articles and book<br />
chapters throughout his professional career.<br />
Mike was first and foremost an observer. As a child, and throughout his entire life he<br />
took great joy from exploring and studying nature, whether it was the pond creatures<br />
of Merseyside, the Giant Water Bugs of Trinidad, or the complexities of the human<br />
muscle cell. For him, the electron microscope was simply part of the tool set he used<br />
to examine the world around him. Perhaps his greatest professional asset was his keen<br />
ability to detect minute differences and/or changes in what he was observing. In his<br />
early career he certainly did not adhere to quantitation as an essential tool. In fact, in<br />
the article cited above there were 20 figures with only a single table of measurements.<br />
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Mike was generous both professionally and personally. His career spanned one of<br />
the most exciting periods in the study of Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy, from the<br />
days when description of pathology predominated, through the identification of the<br />
fundamental molecular cause of the disease and the continuing efforts to develop<br />
useful effective therapeutics. Immediately after the cause of the disease was identified<br />
as mutations in a previously unidentified protein (dystrophin) by Lou Kunkel’s group<br />
at Children’s hospital in Boston (3-5), one of Lou’s fellows (Eric Hoffman) approached<br />
Mike to collaborate on the localization of the protein as an obvious step in defining<br />
its function. Rather than taking on the task himself, he told Eric to “go next door<br />
to the Farber and look up one of my former students” (your biographer). Using the<br />
same immuno-gold approaches that Mike would have used, I worked with Eric, and<br />
others on Lou’s team culminating in a series of publications in Nature, the Journal of<br />
Cell Biology and elsewhere which essentially kickstarted my academic career. This<br />
collaboration, and the opportunities afforded by its success, would not have happened<br />
without this completely selfless gesture from Mike.<br />
Mike retired in 2001 and moved to one of his and Anne’s favourite places, Dunvegan on<br />
the Isle of Skye where the stark beauty of the island continued to engage Mike’s love of<br />
the natural world. My last, and among my fondest, memories of Mike in retirement are<br />
of exploring the gardens he cultivated against the stormy, rocky landscape of the island;<br />
and his success in charming the locals into doing crosswords with him over a pint.<br />
Mike Cullen’s career spanned a period in biomedical science when the fundamental<br />
toolsets underwent seismic shifts from observation to quantitation, and from<br />
reductionism to discovery. His contributions to the field of muscle biology and<br />
pathology were timely, consequential, seminal and critical. His approach was<br />
methodical, creative and above all rigorous and sound. Mike was a gentleman, a<br />
dedicated and thoughtful scientist, a caring and supportive mentor and a kind and<br />
deeply valued friend. He is, and will be, missed.<br />
Professor Simon C. Watkins – first published in Science Direct<br />
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PATRICK CURRAN<br />
Obituaries<br />
Patrick was a larger-than-life character in so many ways.<br />
With a loud, infectious laugh and the broadest of smiles,<br />
his sheer joie de vivre was immensely attractive to all<br />
who met him. His smile occasionally got him into trouble<br />
and, on one memorable occasion, he was told by a High<br />
Court Judge to “take that f…..g gwin off your face”.<br />
Generous to a fault and highly sociable, the camaraderie<br />
of the Bar was Patrick’s natural habitat. He had an<br />
endless fund of amusing anecdotes for every occasion<br />
and could recite swathes of Shakespeare and poetry faultlessly. Patrick was an avid<br />
reader with an encyclopaedic knowledge of a wide range of subjects. With an endearing<br />
sense of old-fashioned courtesy and chivalry, Patrick was scrupulously polite and rarely<br />
spoke ill of anyone. He lived by a very clear moral code and could not abide any form of<br />
injustice; always speaking up for anyone he considered to have been treated unfairly.<br />
Patrick David Curran was born on the 2nd March 1948, the fourth of five children<br />
of David Alban Curran and Noreen Curran (neé Cliffe). David Curran was a director<br />
of Edward Curran Engineering, a large engineering company which, during the war,<br />
employed thousands of people including a young Shirley Bassey.<br />
In 1975 Patrick met Anne (neé Pathy) at court when she was an articled clerk.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y married eight months later in the heat of the summer of 1976 and would have<br />
celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary this year. Anne became a solicitor and, with<br />
Patrick’s encouragement, a tribunal judge. She became the Regional Tribunal Judge<br />
(SSCS) for Wales & SW England until her retirement in 2019.<br />
Patrick was educated by the Rosminian Order at De La Salle School, Cardiff and<br />
then at Grace Dieu Manor and Ratcliffe <strong>College</strong> in Leicestershire, where he was<br />
Captain of Boats and Head Prefect in his final year in 1966. Patrick has maintained<br />
his connection with the school via the Old Ratcliffian Association and by visiting his<br />
second cousin, Father William Curran, who taught him history and is currently living in<br />
Surrey with other members of the Order well known to and admired by Patrick.<br />
Patrick became a member of the National Youth <strong>The</strong>atre under the directorship of<br />
Michael Croft from 1965 to 1969, and appeared in several productions with notable<br />
alumni such as Helen Mirren, Timothy Dalton, John Nightingale, John Shrapnel, Richard<br />
Hampton and many others. Patrick took the lead role in Coriolanus in 1969 and toured<br />
with the play to Germany, preceded by Julius Caesar in 1968. Recently Patrick reestablished<br />
contact with Richard Hampton and they enjoyed convivial lunches whilst<br />
reminiscing about their experiences with the NYT. It was at the NYT that Patrick met<br />
Bruce Houlder who was best man at his wedding to Anne. Bruce has remained a<br />
lifelong close friend together with his wonderful wife, Stella, and their two daughters.<br />
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Patrick went up to <strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong>, Oxford in 1967 to read Law. He remembers<br />
meeting a bearded Bill Clinton as they had a mutual friend in common, the late Frank<br />
Aller. Patrick pursued a wide range of interests whilst at Queen’s including directing<br />
the production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night for the Queen’s <strong>College</strong> Eglesfield<br />
Players. Gyles Brandreth expressed a keen interest in a role and played the Sea<br />
Captain, friend to Viola, played by Michele Brown who subsequently became his wife.<br />
Patrick’s extracurricular interests may have had some bearing on the fact that one<br />
of his friends at Queen’s recalled how Patrick discovered with indignation, the day<br />
before his Finals, that the Library closed at lunchtime! Patrick was strongly influenced<br />
by two of his tutors, a young John Mummery and also John Kaye. He maintained a<br />
lifelong and close friendship with John Mummery and was instrumental in organising<br />
a “Conversazione” at Queen’s to commemorate John’s retirement as a Lord Justice<br />
of Appeal in 2014. During his time at Oxford Patrick made many friends with whom<br />
he has maintained regular contact, in particular meeting up for the annual “Fiends”<br />
lunch usually held at the RAC Club in Pall Mall. Whilst at Queen’s Patrick continued his<br />
interest in rowing and was captain of the Queen’s <strong>College</strong> Men’s 1st VIII.<br />
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Patrick maintained a close association with Queen’s via the alumni association and<br />
attended numerous events with Anne including trips to Madrid and Rome. He loved to<br />
visit Oxford with his family and friends, celebrating key milestones at Queen’s including<br />
his 60th birthday and 40th wedding anniversary. He remained a passionate supporter<br />
of the dark blues and took great delight in any notable performances and victories<br />
against their light blue rivals in the boat race and on the rugby field.<br />
Patrick was called to the Bar in 1972 and joined Gray’s Inn, becoming a Bencher in<br />
2005. He completed his pupillage at Farrar’s Building, Temple, where he was fortunate<br />
to be a pupil first to John Leighton Williams and then to John Mummery. After<br />
pupillage, Patrick returned to Cardiff and joined the chambers of David Glyn Morgan<br />
QC at 55 Park Place (now at No. 30) where he established a busy practice in civil and<br />
criminal law.<br />
Patrick was admitted to the Bar of Ireland in 1993. He was appointed an Assistant<br />
<strong>Record</strong>er from 1988 – 1992; Assistant Commissioner Parliamentary Boundary from<br />
1994 – 2007; Legal Member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales from<br />
1995 – 2008; Legal Assessor GMC from 2002 – 2007; <strong>Record</strong>er from 1992 – 2007;<br />
a Circuit Judge from 2007 and also sat as a Deputy High Court Judge mainly in the<br />
Administrative Court until his retirement. Following his retirement, Patrick continued to<br />
sit as a Deputy Circuit Judge and became a member of the Worshipful Company of<br />
Arbitrators. Patrick finished where he had started when he accepted a door tenancy<br />
at Farrar’s Building at the invitation of the Head of Chambers, his close friend Patrick<br />
Harrington QC.<br />
Having taken Silk in 1995, Patrick left Cardiff and joined the chambers of the late<br />
Edmund Lawson QC at 9-12 Bell Yard, London. He prosecuted and defended many<br />
high-profile murder and corruption cases but, more importantly, he embraced life at<br />
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chambers and made a new set of friends whose company he enjoyed particularly<br />
when cases settled early.<br />
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In 1993/4 Patrick began work on a book for personal injury practitioners entitled<br />
Personal Injury Pleadings, the first edition of which was published by Sweet & Maxwell<br />
in 1995. It proved to be successful and the publication of the 6th edition in 2019 was<br />
celebrated by a party at Gray’s Inn generously hosted by Patrick Harrington QC and<br />
Farrar’s. Patrick had a deep commitment to his Roman Catholic faith. A week before<br />
his death he was deeply honoured to receive the Last Sacrament from George Stack,<br />
Archbishop of Cardiff, whom Patrick had known from his time as Administrator of<br />
Westminster Cathedral and whom he regarded as a friend. Patrick always preferred<br />
the Latin Mass (he was a member of the Latin Mass Society) and despaired at some<br />
of the changes wrought by the Second Vatican Council, which he regarded as<br />
diminishing the beauty of the liturgy. He and Anne regularly attended the Latin Masses<br />
at the Oratory of St. Philip Neri at St Alban-on-the- Moors, Cardiff. Patrick was due<br />
to be admitted to the Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem but was unable to attend the<br />
investiture in December because of his health.<br />
Patrick is survived by his four children and four grandchildren Xavier (Xavi), Lucia (Lulu),<br />
Elowyn (Wynny) and Hugo. We have lost a wonderful, dear man and although a bright<br />
light has been extinguished in our lives, his influence runs deeply through each of us.<br />
May he rest in peace.<br />
Anne Curran and family<br />
KEITH DAVIES<br />
Professor Keith Davies was immensely proud of his time<br />
at <strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong>, where he read Modern History<br />
from 1949 to 1952. Indeed, the <strong>College</strong>’s coat of arms<br />
was kept on permanent display in the family home.<br />
His love of history remained with him throughout his life,<br />
yet it was in law that he found his calling. After gaining<br />
his LLB from King’s <strong>College</strong>, London (he was later<br />
awarded an LLM), he was admitted to the bar at Gray’s<br />
Inn in 1959. A friend persuaded him to dedicate his skills<br />
and knowledge to the education of others and he became a lecturer in Law, first at<br />
Southampton University and then, for the remainder of his long and impressive career,<br />
at Reading University.<br />
Highly respected and popular with staff and students alike, he became Professor, then<br />
Head of Department and ultimately Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences.<br />
His speciality was Land Law and he wrote or co-wrote a number of academic books<br />
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which became essential reading for aspiring lawyers across the country. In 1986, he<br />
was granted honorary associate membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered<br />
Surveyors.<br />
Throughout much of his time at Reading University, he also immensely enjoyed<br />
applying his expertise and wisdom as a magistrate, first on the Winchester Bench and<br />
later at Basingstoke.<br />
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Keith’s sharp intellect was balanced with a genuine humility and a strong sense of<br />
fairness. A true gentleman, he was also blessed with a quick yet gentle wit and a kind<br />
heart.<br />
Sadly, Keith passed away in May, aged 91. He is survived by Liz, his wife of over 60<br />
years, four of his five sons, eight grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. His was<br />
a life well led and he is sorely missed.<br />
Michael Davies<br />
ROBIN ENGLAND<br />
Robin England was born on 24 October 1933 in<br />
Bangkok, where his father worked in shipping. He<br />
and his elder brother spent their earliest years in the<br />
care of an ayah. Shortly before the outbreak of war<br />
his mother brought them to England, installing them<br />
in a prep school at Felixstowe before she returned to<br />
Thailand. Confined to the school for both term-time and<br />
holidays, Robin did not see his parents again until after<br />
the war, when his father was released from a Japanese<br />
internment camp. <strong>The</strong> reunited family then moved from<br />
Suffolk to Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks.<br />
At 13 Robin won a scholarship to Bradfield <strong>College</strong>. He made much of his time there,<br />
taking part in the open-air theatre Greek play, the Debating Society, the Shakespeare<br />
Society, the Bradfield Chronicle, boxing and hockey, and was appointed a school<br />
prefect.<br />
After two years’ National Service in the Royal Artillery, and promotion to Lieutenant,<br />
Robin came up to Queen’s in Michaelmas Term, 1953, with an Open Scholarship.<br />
He was one of a group of nine reading Modern History. More mature than some of<br />
the others, he was friendly, easy-going and affable, yet noticeably reticent and selfcontained.<br />
He took his academic work seriously, planned carefully, and read in depth<br />
– which soon won the favour of the exigent History Tutor, John Prestwich.<br />
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His other interests lay within <strong>College</strong> rather than the wider University. He played<br />
hockey enthusiastically and regularly for the 2nd XI. In his second year he took<br />
on organising duties: <strong>College</strong> NUS Secretary, Secretary of the Eglesfield Players,<br />
Secretary of the Food Committee, Secretary of Taberdars’ Room. His efficiency and<br />
drive were rewarded when he was elected President of Taberdars’ Room (the Junior<br />
Common Room) in Trinity Term 1955. He received a Benefactors’ Prize for contribution<br />
to the life of the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Robin was well cast as Sir Toby Belch in the summer 1955 production of Twelfth Night<br />
in the Fellows’ Garden.<br />
It came as no surprise when, the following year, he was awarded a First.<br />
Determined on a career in commerce or industry, he assiduously attended<br />
Appointments’ Board interviews, concluding that BP offered him the best prospects.<br />
He remained with BP all his working life, an oil company executive “downstream” in<br />
marketing and planning, until he retired in 1990 at the age of 57. In earlier years much<br />
of his time was spent in postings abroad – Nigeria, Malta, Gibraltar, Sicily, Sardinia;<br />
latterly, he was at London Head Office. His colleagues recognised him as a canny<br />
operator, financially astute.<br />
He met Gillian Fisher, an HR officer, at an airport on the way to a skiing holiday.<br />
She was booked at a different resort, so Robin, resourceful as ever, changed his<br />
destination to hers. <strong>The</strong>y married in 1972.<br />
In retirement Robin enjoyed the many facilities of the Hurlingham Club, played chess<br />
regularly, and maintained his lifelong close interest in current affairs. He died on 24<br />
April <strong>2021</strong>, leaving his wife Gillian, daughter Katie, son Charlie, and four grandchildren.<br />
Edward Mirzoeff CVO, CBE<br />
PAUL FIRTH<br />
I write with the sad news of the death of my great friend<br />
Paul Firth (Queen’s 1970-73), at the age of 69. Paul<br />
was diagnosed last October with a brain tumour and<br />
underwent surgery, but passed away peacefully on 8<br />
April at his home in Liverpool, with his family by his side.<br />
I will always be grateful that my wife Sue and I were<br />
able to spend some time with him and his wife Ann the<br />
previous week and say goodbye to the friend who had<br />
been the Best Man at our wedding 38 years ago. Paul<br />
was my ‘go-to’ man who could be relied on for sound<br />
counsel on an array of subjects, and as comments from many people on social media<br />
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since his passing have testified, he was terrific company. He leaves Ann, his son<br />
David, daughter-in-law Mel, and his young granddaughter Ellie, of all of whom he was<br />
very proud.<br />
I got to know Paul initially in my last year at Bradford Grammar School, and our<br />
friendship developed after he arrived in Oxford to join me at Queen’s where I had<br />
already spent a year. Paul had a quiet confidence and showed an ability to lead<br />
and inspire others, such that when in my last term at BGS as Head Prefect the then<br />
Headmaster asked me who in the Prefects’ Room I thought should succeed me I had<br />
no hesitation in saying ‘Paul Firth’s the lad you want, Sir. He’s outstanding’. And so it<br />
turned out, Paul taking over from me for his last year at school.<br />
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Paul went to Oxford to read Classics, but had a rethink at an early stage, wanting<br />
to move from studying the ancient world and focus more on ‘real life’, choosing to<br />
switch to PPE, in particular Politics and Philosophy. A football fan from an early age, he<br />
became a regular member of a Queen’s team which valued his robust contributions at<br />
centre-half (unlike some of his opponents who felt the strength of his tackling!). Paul’s<br />
leadership qualities led to him being chosen to represent the JCR as its Food Member<br />
in any necessary dealings with the Domestic Bursar; little did he think when appointed<br />
that the major issue would be a <strong>College</strong>-wide outbreak of food poisoning which was<br />
blamed on a rogue meal of Chicken a la King in the <strong>College</strong> Dining Hall<br />
Not many jobs have more to do with ‘real life’ than the Magistrates’ Courts Service.<br />
Paul carved out a successful career beginning at his local court in Bingley before<br />
moving on to Leeds, Manchester, Rotherham and Liverpool and rising to fulfil the<br />
roles of Clerk to the Justices, Stipendiary Magistrate and District Judge, developing a<br />
facility for rapid analysis and summing up of case evidence, for insightful writing and<br />
for speaking without notes. He had an extraordinary ability to retain facts and statistics<br />
and to quote them at will and on demand. Moving back from the professional to the<br />
personal, this ability was clear to us as young students when he was regularly able to<br />
give us chapter and verse on particular football or cricket matches and players of the<br />
past or present. This went on throughout his life and I recall afternoons at Headingley<br />
being entertained by his memories of previous Yorkshire cricketing ups and downs.<br />
Paul’s major legacy to the football world is his 2005 book Four Minutes To Hell: <strong>The</strong><br />
Story of the Bradford City Fire, sales of which have raised thousands of pounds for the<br />
Burns Research Unit set up at the University of Bradford in the wake of the tragedy<br />
which claimed 56 lives as well as causing hundreds of injuries. <strong>The</strong> match against<br />
Lincoln City, on 11 May 1985, came at the end of a season when City had become<br />
Champions and the crowd were in celebratory mood. I was sitting at the back of the<br />
old wooden stand at City’s ground, Valley Parade, with Paul and his father-in-law<br />
Arnold Whitehead when, just before half-time, small flames started to flicker under<br />
the seats in the next block to us. Within a mere four minutes the whole stand was<br />
ablaze. <strong>The</strong> three of us were lucky to escape. <strong>The</strong> book led to a stage production,<br />
<strong>The</strong> 56, since adapted for radio, and to a TV film, One Day in May. Paul’s book had<br />
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the great merit of enabling those who had been involved on the day in whatever<br />
capacity to process their thoughts and feelings about what had happened, perhaps<br />
for the first time. This year’s commemoration of the disaster on 11 May, in addition<br />
to the important annual agenda, will offer an opportunity for people to remember<br />
Paul and his assistance with the grieving processes of many. In an article Paul wrote<br />
in 2013 shortly before City were due, somewhat incredibly, to make an appearance<br />
at Wembley in a major final for the second time that season, he said this: ‘Some of<br />
those who can remember that day 28 years ago wish they could forget. <strong>The</strong>y need<br />
no reminding. Its aftermath is with them every day of their lives – mentally, emotionally,<br />
physically. For those who can just about bear the pain of thinking back, there is the<br />
enormous comfort that young fans keep us in their hearts, that they offer their silent<br />
thoughts to the injured, the bereaved and, most of all, those 56 supporters of two<br />
football clubs who never returned home.’<br />
Robert I. Hamilton, Modern Languages (1969)<br />
RICHARD LIONEL HARTNOLL<br />
Richard was an international authority in the field of<br />
drug addiction epidemiology, noted also for his work in<br />
many related areas and for his success in influencing<br />
policy and practice at national and European levels. He<br />
was also a talented professional photographer, a loving<br />
husband and father, and a good friend and colleague.<br />
He was one of those rare, charismatic, people who are<br />
fun to be with, yet really touch the lives of others and<br />
make a difference.<br />
Richard was born and grew up in Bristol, the third of four children. He was a bright<br />
child and won a scholarship to Clifton <strong>College</strong>, where he flourished academically and<br />
captained the rugby team while also being competent with a gun and a fishing rod. He<br />
came to Queen’s in 1966 as an Exhibitioner to read Engineering, but quickly changed<br />
to PPP (Psychology and Philosophy). His sharp intelligence helped him to hone his<br />
academic skills, and his lust for life ensured that he took full advantage of all the social<br />
and sporting opportunities available. He was an adept practitioner of the essay crisis,<br />
often staying up all night to prepare for the next morning’s tutorial. Richard was a<br />
prominent and popular member of the <strong>College</strong> and, like many of his generation, he<br />
was also politically committed, though not in mainstream party politics, and was often<br />
to be found at demonstrations.<br />
Further studies at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology and at the London School<br />
of Economics showed him a possible career path as a research psychologist, which<br />
was well-suited to his determination to do socially relevant and rigorous work. He then<br />
followed this path for many years at prestigious London research centres including<br />
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Birkbeck, UCH, UCL and the Institute of Psychiatry. His work at Birkbeck on the<br />
Drug Indicators project was particularly important and opened the door to many<br />
fruitful contacts with counterparts in Europe. His work on drug addiction and drug<br />
dependence attracted widespread interest, partly because even at an early stage of<br />
his career he had ensured that his research, and the work of the groups he led, had<br />
very practical applications.<br />
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As a young researcher Richard attended his first major international conference<br />
on Drugs Policy at the United Nations in Geneva in 1972. <strong>The</strong> conclusions of the<br />
conference clearly reflected his influence, calling for better education and services for<br />
marginalised groups, and promoting a thinking that later became widely known as<br />
the Harm Reduction approach. This was quite a change of direction from the then<br />
prevailing strict and punitive attitude to drug dependency, and it fitted in well with his<br />
voluntary work at music festivals supporting people with drug problems.<br />
Richard’s increasing renown – greater in Europe than at home – and his co-operative<br />
style led first to a sabbatical year as a research scientist in Barcelona and then to<br />
an invitation from the European Commission to lead the scientific preparations for<br />
establishing the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)<br />
in Portugal. He moved to Lisbon as Head of the Department of Epidemiology, and spent<br />
seven very productive years there, during which time he managed to continue with his<br />
own research and writing in such areas as drug prevalence in Madrid and Barcelona.<br />
As the operation of the Centre became more routine Richard was able to give more<br />
time to consultancy, which he thoroughly enjoyed. It enabled him to have a clear<br />
impact on policy while also leaving time for getting to know (and, of course, to<br />
photograph) interesting places in Europe and America. Richard left EMCDDA in 2002<br />
to focus on his consultancy activities. Among many other contributions he kept alive<br />
his links with EMCDDA, assisted the Swiss Government’s evaluation of new narcotics<br />
legislation, worked on a mid-term review of the Irish National Drugs Strategy, and<br />
continued working as a consultant to the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe,<br />
having previously coordinated their epidemiological and training programmes. He<br />
wrote and published prodigiously, with seven books to his name as well as over 90<br />
chapters and journal articles.<br />
All the while Richard had been enthusiastically pursuing his interest in photography,<br />
often wandering round Lisbon looking for that special angle or shaft of light. He came<br />
to realise that keeping one foot in the world of academia was not going to give him the<br />
satisfaction he sought, nor the opportunity to really use his artistic talents, so he made<br />
the break and became a full-time photographer (Please refer to richardhartnoll.com<br />
for some examples of his commercial and artistic work.) This gave him more time with<br />
his family, and enabled him to pursue his, and their, interest in travel, always with a<br />
camera in hand. His work was quickly recognised, and he was encouraged to mount<br />
exhibitions in France, Germany and Portugal.<br />
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Richard had long suffered from breathing difficulties and chest problems, which<br />
he bore with fortitude, but he finally succumbed to a cancer of his lung. During the<br />
final months he read voraciously, with a fine view over Lisbon from his balcony and<br />
surrounded by a rich concert of birdsong. His last weeks were spent peacefully at<br />
home, surrounded by his loving family.<br />
Richard’s vast knowledge of drug epidemiology and policy, his inspiring artistic<br />
production, and his sense of humour will be missed by all who knew him, He is<br />
survived by his wife Dagmar and daughter Noa, and from his first marriage his children<br />
Kate and Sean, and grandsons Arthur and Ivan.<br />
Tony Kerr, PPP (1966) and Paul Willner, PPP (1966)<br />
MICHAEL HERMAN<br />
Michael Herman’s career in British intelligence began<br />
just after the start of the Cold War and ended just before<br />
the thaw. Liberated by retirement to study and lecture<br />
on the thrust and counterthrust of spying, Herman came<br />
to the conclusion that western intelligence agencies had<br />
largely done their job.<br />
At the end of his 35-year career, mainly spent in signals<br />
intelligence at the Government Communications<br />
Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, Herman<br />
attempted to put right the severe lack of literature for young people entering the<br />
service. He had risen to the top of GCHQ by learning from his mistakes and wanted to<br />
pass on a rulebook of sorts.<br />
“We didn’t read books. For most of the time there was little serious intelligence<br />
literature,” he remarked in 2016 of his career at GCHQ, which was punctuated by<br />
a spell as secretary of the Joint Intelligence Committee in the early Seventies. “<strong>The</strong><br />
prevailing attitude was that intelligence books were dangerous and discouraged.”<br />
As a trailblazer in the academic study of intelligence, Herman cracked open his world,<br />
producing a number of trusted works as a fellow of Nuffield <strong>College</strong>, Oxford and the<br />
founder of the Oxford Intelligence Group (OIG).<br />
Michael Herman was born an only child in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, in 1929 to<br />
Kitty and Carl Herman, who worked for the family bacon-processing business and was<br />
also an artist. Michael attended Scarborough High School. National Service from 1947<br />
took him to Egypt as a junior officer in the Intelligence Corps and his first exposure to<br />
signals intelligence. In 1949 he went to <strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong>, Oxford, to read modern<br />
history, graduating with first-class honours.<br />
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His tutor was the medieval historian John Prestwich, who had spent the war in Hut 3<br />
of Bletchley Park, decrypting signals and releasing them to commanders in the field.<br />
Herman joined GCHQ in 1952 on Prestwich’s recommendation to Eric Jones, another<br />
veteran of Hut 3 who had recently taken over from Edward Travis as the head of<br />
GCHQ. Unhappy, Herman was poised to return to academia after a year and was<br />
persuaded to stay only after joining GCHQ’s rugby team.<br />
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Over the years he was put in charge of V Division, responsible for radar signals and other<br />
technical intelligence, and Z Division, responsible for intelligence policy and external<br />
relationships. <strong>The</strong> highlight of his time at GCHQ was running J Division in the late<br />
Seventies and early Eighties, which focused on the Soviet target. “I was running nearly<br />
1,000 people in Cheltenham and half our collection resources worldwide, and with all the<br />
American and other foreign contacts this entailed: the sort of job you dream about.”<br />
Between 1972 and 1975 Herman had been seconded to the Cabinet Office as secretary<br />
of the Joint Intelligence Committee. Much of his time there was spent on Northern<br />
Ireland; such was the threat to the British mainland that it was seen as an equal priority.<br />
In the last year of service Herman worked in the Cabinet Office as adviser to the<br />
Chief of Defence Intelligence. All the while he collected material for his first book,<br />
overcoming fierce resistance in Whitehall with a mixture of doggedness and charm.<br />
On retiring from GCHQ in 1987 he went to Nuffield <strong>College</strong>, Oxford, on a Gwilym<br />
Gibbon Research Fellowship. Nine years later Intelligence Power in Peace and War<br />
was published.<br />
He conceived the work as a “thoughtful textbook”. Anyone expecting the excitement<br />
of a spy thriller would be disappointed by the sober overview of his craft. What it did<br />
do was unpack a subject still considered out of bounds, arcane, increasingly technical<br />
and littered with acronyms, even in the days of more open government. It became<br />
a standard text and Herman began to lecture widely and wrote several more books.<br />
‘11 September: Legitimizing Intelligence’, produced after the 9-11 attacks in 2001,<br />
analysed the acceleration of a new intelligence paradigm: targeting “non-state”,<br />
“partial state” or “rogue state” entities and supporting multinational action.<br />
Herman gave evidence to Lord Butler’s Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass<br />
Destruction in 2004. His recommendation to bolster the woefully inadequate technical<br />
expertise in the civil service (with many seconded from other departments to deal with<br />
intelligence matters) was taken seriously.<br />
His lectures would tell the story of early postwar western surveillance techniques in the<br />
days before satellites with US and UK surveillance aircraft, manned and unmanned,<br />
being shot down by the Soviets, and how embassies, converted into something<br />
resembling medieval castles, became important listening posts around the world.<br />
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Herman’s latest book, Intelligence Power in Practice, will be published this year.<br />
A collection of essays, it also contains recollections on the development of the<br />
Teufelsberg SIGINT station in Berlin, which had been built on a hill made from the<br />
rubble of bombed buildings and was a highly successful surveillance facility, logging,<br />
among other things, the mass exodus of Soviet soldiers at the end of each summer to<br />
help with the harvest in the motherland.<br />
Another gripping tale in the book is the Soviet reaction to NATO’s Able Archer exercise<br />
in 1983, a large-scale wargaming operation. Acting on intelligence from the KGB<br />
double agent Oleg Gordievsky, the West was alerted to the fact that the Soviets had<br />
taken the exercise so seriously that they had readied their nuclear warheads.<br />
Herman married Ann Wedel in 1977. <strong>The</strong>y had met at a sailing club near Cheltenham.<br />
In his eighties he would sail a single-handed catamaran. He was also a regular patron<br />
of the real tennis court in Oxford.<br />
Before his death, Herman called for intelligence to be studied in a worldwide context,<br />
so that different approaches could be compared. “<strong>The</strong> modern challenge is for<br />
intelligence to support international co-operation,” he said, “while at the same time<br />
developing international ‘rules of the game’.” Michael Herman, intelligence expert, was<br />
born on June 1, 1929. He died of frailty of old age on February 12, <strong>2021</strong>, aged 91.<br />
Originally printed in <strong>The</strong> Times and reproduced here with kind permission<br />
ALLEN HILL<br />
Credit: Veronika Vernier<br />
Allen Hill dedicated his life to scientific discovery in<br />
Chemistry. His crowning achievement was the discovery<br />
of a method to measure blood glucose, revolutionising<br />
diabetes measurement via the blood sugar pen tests<br />
used by millions today<br />
Allen was born and raised in Belfast. His father was a<br />
shop-owner and choir-master and his mother a full-time<br />
mother. As a child Allen sang in the church choir and<br />
was keen on rugby and cricket. He studied chemistry<br />
in Belfast at Queen’s University. After graduating he came to Oxford’s Department of<br />
Chemistry in 1962 and became a Fellow of Queen’s <strong>College</strong> in 1965.<br />
On a lecture tour visit to Hungary in the 1960s he met his wife-to-be Boglarka Hill, a<br />
PhD student of pharmacy at the time. <strong>The</strong>y fell in love, and Allen returned to Hungary<br />
a year later to marry her (her family required him to first learn at least 100 words in<br />
Hungarian!). In 2017 they celebrated 50 years of marriage.<br />
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His work at Oxford University in the early 1980s paved the way for the development<br />
of electronic blood glucose sensors which came to market in 1989 and which have<br />
revolutionised the management of diabetes globally. He was fond of pointing out how<br />
the idea for the breakthrough in this work came over knocking around ideas with his<br />
students over a post-work pint in a local pub.<br />
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990 and he received the prestigious<br />
Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 2010. His work in bringing the glucose sensor<br />
to market in the 1980s also paved the way for many subsequent spin-outs from the<br />
University.<br />
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In addition to his work as a research chemist Allen Hill was an inspiring tutor and he<br />
will be remembered for his warmth and good humour by former students. Both his<br />
family and former students and colleagues will remember him for his charm, quick wit,<br />
and mischievous sense of humour.<br />
Outside of work Allen was a talented gardener and would like to spend weekends<br />
applying his scientific rigour to his love of growing flowers. Allen delighted in<br />
introducing his family and others to new experiences, be it food or travel, and was a<br />
generous and loving father.<br />
He is survived by his wife, three children and two grandchildren.<br />
Roderick and Natalie Hill<br />
ADRIAN MUNDY<br />
Adrian William Stenhouse Mundy was born on 20<br />
November 1935 at Famagusta in Cyprus. <strong>The</strong> Mundy<br />
name came from his English father but his mother was<br />
Armenian and from a family numbering at least one<br />
illustrious legal practitioner in Sir Vahe Bairamian, Chief<br />
Justice of Sierra Leone, Judge of Appeal in Nigeria and<br />
the first Armenian to be knighted. So, opting to study<br />
law came with something for my uncle, Adrian, to live<br />
up to.<br />
He certainly rose well to the challenge, leaving school, St Paul’s in Hammersmith, to<br />
take up a National Service commission in the Royal Signals of Corps before his Oxford<br />
matriculation in 1956. <strong>The</strong> Signals had given him the opportunity to travel, to improve<br />
his language skills and to explore the potential in the technology of the day. This last<br />
experience (manipulating anything mechanical) remained a source of satisfaction to<br />
him for the rest of his life and was an expression of his practical and enquiring nature.<br />
His interest in making things work was coupled with dexterity: in his younger days he<br />
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was very able with both boxing gloves and the violin (not at the same time – although I<br />
wouldn’t have put it past him to try).<br />
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Once at Queen’s, Adrian studied jurisprudence under John Kaye (as did I some 25<br />
years later), relishing the Latin parts of the syllabus and the opportunity to test his<br />
logical and rational mind against the facts and judgments in the long case lists. His<br />
dedication to academic study was rewarded with a First.<br />
He qualified as a Solicitor and, after a couple of early roles, took a job in the office of<br />
the Solicitor of Inland Revenue in Somerset House. From this point until his retirement,<br />
he worked for large organizations specialising in tax including Esso (where he was<br />
posted to the US) and the merchant bank Samuel Montagu & Co. He returned to<br />
the Treasury Solicitor’s department at the Inland Revenue for his final role; here at<br />
Somerset House, he was able to enjoy both the historic building and its proximity to<br />
the cultural life of the city.<br />
Law was a lifelong passion and he collected several thousand law books. After officially<br />
retiring from employed practice, he continued his legal career privately, although<br />
this may have been an excuse to retain access to the Law Society library for his<br />
researches. In a wine bar late at night after a few glasses of red wine he would lower<br />
his voice, check if anyone was listening and mention the law book he was writing on a<br />
subject that no one had yet properly covered. Sadly, this was never completed.<br />
Live performance and creativity was something that he fed on to the end of his days,<br />
together with other avenues for enjoyment more numerous than is sensible to mention<br />
here. A smattering would include books and more books, strong coffee, tobacco in a<br />
pipe, observation and keeping a note of things observed, pubs and other gatherings<br />
where conversation thrived, anything made of cast iron (when I arrived at Queen’s he<br />
gave me a substantial, cast iron mantel clock because he thought it appropriate to<br />
my newly acquired student status!), hoarding through viewing disposal as betrayal, ink<br />
and mixing ink, the pursuit of the perfect pen, reducing anything to its essence, finding<br />
value always, keeping things going, not making a fuss.<br />
He displayed many of the best qualities of his generation, being frugal but generous,<br />
patient and durable, independent but not selfish, self-reliant but involved, dignified<br />
but not clinging to the formal, not materialistic but loving materials, balancing a<br />
serious turn of mind with the understanding that to play is essential. Sane, sound and<br />
sanguine.<br />
Adrian spent his retirement years happily in Sussex, not least in the Clown pub in<br />
Hastings, where regulars remember him for his enthusiasm for dancing and practical<br />
advice. He died of pancreatic cancer in London on 11th August 2020 after a short<br />
illness. He is much missed by son, Christopher, and by his wider family.<br />
Edwina Towson, Jurisprudence (1981), with help from Chris Mundy<br />
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Credit: Veronika Vernier<br />
PETER NEUMANN<br />
For my father, Peter Neumann, who has died aged 79,<br />
two things were the overriding loves of his life: family<br />
and mathematics.<br />
Peter continued the mathematical tradition of his parents,<br />
Bernhard Neumann and Hanna (née von Caemmerer),<br />
both professors of mathematics. Born in Oxford and<br />
raised in Hull, where he attended Hymers <strong>College</strong>,<br />
Peter returned to Oxford, to Queen’s <strong>College</strong>, as an<br />
undergraduate in 1959. He remained there ever after.<br />
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At Oxford he met Sylvia Bull, a fellow mathematics undergraduate. <strong>The</strong>y married in<br />
1962, before he graduated. Peter became a Fellow of Queen’s, and he and Sylvia<br />
established a family life in Oxford, where I and my sister and brother were born. Peter<br />
was a familiar sight cycling from home to Queen’s and the Mathematical Institute, and<br />
would sometimes disappear for a long cycle ride, claiming that that was when his best<br />
mathematical thinking was done.<br />
Peter’s research covered areas of algebra, in particular group theory, and the history<br />
of algebra. His own research led to his DPhil and later DSc and he supervised almost<br />
40 DPhil students. Many students remained great friends. Peter enjoyed conferences<br />
abroad, lecturing in German – picked up from his parents and other mathematicians<br />
– as well as English. He took great pleasure in hosting gatherings at home, and in<br />
college, sometimes musical, playing his violin or viola – learned at home and at school,<br />
and continued throughout his life.<br />
Peter retired in 2008 after over 40 years of college and university teaching. He had<br />
held numerous voluntary posts in mathematics and its education for the London<br />
Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association and the British Society for the<br />
History of Mathematics. He was the first chair of the UK Mathematics Trust. For<br />
services to mathematics education he was made an OBE in 2008.<br />
In retirement he continued teaching, lecturing and training new lecturers, but he<br />
was also able to improve his French and to spend time researching another lifelong<br />
interest, which led to the publication of <strong>The</strong> Mathematical Writings of Evariste Galois,<br />
published for the bicentenary of Galois’ birth, in 2011.<br />
A stroke in 2018 limited him physically. He moved to a care home, but remained devoted<br />
to Sylvia, with whom he collaborated daily in person or over Facetime on the Guardian<br />
cryptic crossword. He is survived by Sylvia, their children, Jenny, James and me, by 10<br />
grandchildren and a great-grandson, and by his siblings, Irene, Walter, Barbara and Daniel.<br />
David Neumann, originally published in <strong>The</strong> Guardian (Copyright Guardian News &<br />
Media Ltd <strong>2021</strong>)<br />
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JOHN OKELL<br />
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A gentle giant of Myanmar studies has left us. John<br />
Okell died painlessly at home. At the time of his death,<br />
John was perhaps the English-language world’s preeminent<br />
teacher of the Burmese language. He stood on<br />
the shoulders of other giants, but his many textbooks,<br />
dictionaries and early adoptions of new technology,<br />
such as publishing learning materials on personal<br />
cassette tapes, CDs and MP3s and pioneering the<br />
Avalaser Burmese computer font, uniquely enabled<br />
and opened the study of Burmese to thousands of<br />
new learners. John also created the most widely used romanisation scheme for<br />
transliterating the Burmese language into the Roman alphabet.<br />
John’s name graces dozens of acknowledgements sections in theses, articles, books,<br />
and other publications on Myanmar. He was a true denizen of the scholarly community<br />
as well as a much-loved linguist, teacher, friend, father, and husband. Simply put,<br />
everyone studying Myanmar knew John or wanted to know John. He showed enviable<br />
generosity in helping his friends, colleagues, and students and was deft in assisting all<br />
learners of Burmese in achieving their particular goals.<br />
John was also Chairman of the Britain-Burma Society, where he was widely respected<br />
as a fair and generous host. I remember at one of the Society’s sessions in 2017<br />
which premiered a documentary stridently critical of the military regime, John patiently<br />
listened to the many complaints from elderly British members of the Society who<br />
had had their family’s assets expropriated or nationalised. He was always tactful and<br />
understood deeply the humanity and sadness of the people living in Burma, who were<br />
the real victims of the slide into poverty that the country underwent during the first<br />
40 years of his teaching career. John was committed to teaching Burmese to help<br />
Myanmar reconnect with the outside world, whenever it should become politically<br />
feasible once more, which it did eventually.<br />
John first began studying Burmese in 1959 at SOAS, University of London under<br />
Saya Hla Pe and others. He was sent to Burma in September 1960, where he<br />
quickly moved out from his assigned university dormitory to a homestay arrangement<br />
in Amarapura. John also lived in a monastery for a time, in a rural village out past<br />
Shwebo and he even accompanied a theatre troupe for a month, performing in<br />
Bhamo, Indawgyi, and Mogaung. He roamed to Dawei, Sittwe, and Inle Lake, and<br />
came back to SOAS a year later speaking fluent Burmese. Being made first Lecturer<br />
and Senior Lecturer there, he was eventually hired as Professor of Burmese. John<br />
taught or was connected to SOAS in some capacity until his death.<br />
While he did “officially retire” at age 65, John continued publishing on Burmese and<br />
teaching for the British government and elsewhere.<br />
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John also taught classes in Chiang Mai, Thailand for several years, and beginning in<br />
2009, he started teaching intensive courses in Yangon, Myanmar, which he continued<br />
for eleven more years. John would make an annual remark about the absurdity that<br />
he, a British person, was still being invited to teach Burmese in Myanmar, but there<br />
was an insatiable and growing demand by foreigners living in Myanmar for John’s<br />
inimitable in-person pedagogy.<br />
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In 2018, the British Embassy in Myanmar held an event celebrating the tenth<br />
anniversary of the in-country Bamazaga Burmese intensive language course. John and<br />
his co-teacher Justin Watkins described the early years of running the course, when<br />
Myanmar was starting to “open up” but it was by no means clear that the radical notion<br />
of British linguists teaching Burmese in Myanmar would be tolerated. <strong>The</strong> surreptitious<br />
small class first sat in an improvised environment above an art studio in downtown<br />
Yangon, before moving to the French Institute when the course became official.<br />
<strong>The</strong> impacts of COVID-19 meant the 2020 course had to move online. John still<br />
participated as a teacher from his London home but unfortunately fell ill during the<br />
first week in June, only two months before he passed away. John was a committed<br />
teacher. He taught Burmese right up until he was literally physically no longer able to.<br />
In 2016 John was awarded an honorary doctorate from SOAS. In 2014 he was<br />
deservedly honoured as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to<br />
UK/Burma relations. An incredibly humble person, John was never comfortable with<br />
these designations. I asked him several times over the last five years if I could officially<br />
interview him for the ANU Myanmar Research Centre’s podcast Myanmar Musings. He<br />
always politely refused. “I’m really not that interesting,” he would say.<br />
Well, John, the hundreds and hundreds of people that have had the pleasure of being<br />
touched by your example and conduct, in Myanmar and all over the world, must<br />
disagree with you there.<br />
You not only led a phenomenally interesting life, but you have had an incredible,<br />
indispensable impact on Myanmar studies since you first set foot in Amarapura in<br />
1960. Your humility, friendliness, openness and patience, your lessons, articles,<br />
textbooks and – simply put – your example, will remain with all of us who loved you,<br />
for as long as we shall continue to live.<br />
Luke Corbin – originally printed in Frontier<br />
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ZBIGNIEW PELCZYNSKI<br />
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As a politics don at Pembroke <strong>College</strong>, Oxford, in the<br />
early 1960s, Zbigniew Pelczynski had the opportunity<br />
to meet many distinguished visitors. One was Harold<br />
Macmillan, the prime minister and chancellor of the<br />
university, who visited the college to open a new quad.<br />
Pelczynski found himself alone with him and asked about<br />
the recent “night of long knives”, when Macmillan had<br />
sacked a third of his cabinet. He was a politics don, after<br />
all. A bored prime minister ignored the question and<br />
asked his questioner to mind his glass of wine while he went for a lavatory break. He did<br />
not return. A crushed Pelczynski was later told that Macmillan would almost certainly<br />
have stuck around for the conversation if only he had known about Pelczynski’s<br />
experience of fighting as a partisan in the Polish uprising in Warsaw in September 1944.<br />
His first-year students, too, might have been on the edge of their seats if they had<br />
known that at their age Pelczynski had not been talking about politics but living it, with<br />
a machinegun in hand.<br />
When the teenage Pelczynski’s regiment of the Polish home army fell into Nazi hands he<br />
could hardly have anticipated he would survive the ordeal; still less that he would spend<br />
his long life in Britain, including more than 30 years as a don at Pembroke; or that as a<br />
social entrepreneur he would help in Poland’s transition to democracy in the 1980s.<br />
Zbigniew Pelczynski, who was born in 1925 in Grodzisk Mazowiecki some 20 miles<br />
from Warsaw, had joined the Polish underground aged 18 and within a few months<br />
was fighting to drive out the occupying troops. <strong>The</strong> uprising was a disaster and most<br />
of Warsaw was razed by the Germans.<br />
His group was trapped in a sewer and as they emerged through a manhole they were<br />
seized by German soldiers. <strong>The</strong>y were lucky. Others got out through a different exit<br />
and were immediately shot.<br />
He spent a few months as a German PoW and after the liberation served under British<br />
command in Germany in the first armoured division of the Polish army. He landed<br />
in Britain in January 1946, shortly after his 20th birthday, and it was soon clear that<br />
the Soviet Union’s grip on his native country made a return to Poland an unattractive<br />
prospect. Aware of a strong Polish presence in Scotland, he learnt English, enrolled as<br />
a student at St Andrews University and emerged with a First in Politics and Economics.<br />
He opted to study for a DPhil at <strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong>, Oxford, complementing his<br />
student grant with short-term lectureships at Trinity, Merton and Balliol. Despite<br />
his insecure tenure and inadequate supervision of his thesis topic (few dons were<br />
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interested in Hegel then) Pelczynski was enchanted by Oxford. <strong>The</strong> personal freedom<br />
of the dons and the students and minimal regulation embodied his idea of civil society.<br />
Many years later he was to promote these ideas in Poland.<br />
Having completed his doctorate in 1956, he gained in the following year a lectureship<br />
and fellowship at Pembroke. Known by a bewildering number of nicknames –<br />
Zbyshek, Zbig, ZAP, or Pelch – the new fellow was handsome and charming, and his<br />
accent brought a touch of the exotic.<br />
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In 1960 a friend tried to find partners for Pelczynski and his colleague, the politics don<br />
David Butler, both in their thirties, and arranged for them to join a theatre visit with two<br />
Oxford-educated women who worked at the BBC. <strong>The</strong> thinking was that Pelczynski<br />
might be best suited to Marilyn Evans and Butler to Denise Cremona. It did not work<br />
out like that as Pelczynski ended up courting the Italian-born Denise and Butler<br />
went off with Marilyn. Yet the evening was a success and both men made enduring<br />
marriages lasting, in aggregate, more than 100 years.<br />
Pelczynski married Denise in 1961. <strong>The</strong>y had a son, Jan, a graphic designer and<br />
photographer, and two daughters, Wanda, a medical researcher, and Tonton (born<br />
Antonia) a product designer.<br />
He was a dedicated teacher and generous in making time for students, but if the oneto-one<br />
tutorial system at Oxford suited his style, lecturing to large groups did not, as<br />
he found out when he took visiting professorships in Canada and the United States.<br />
He tutored students with boundless enthusiasm, sometimes while walking them<br />
around the quads. In turn they retained loyalty to him when, as many did, they went on<br />
to senior positions in public life.<br />
One of his students was the future prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, who<br />
studied at Oxford for several months. President Clinton recalled, when interviewed in<br />
1992 about his period as a Rhodes scholar 23 years earlier: “One term I had a tutor at<br />
Pembroke, named Zbigniew Pelczynski. Extraordinary fellow; I loved him; I thought he<br />
was terrific.”<br />
His writings on Hegel, often misunderstood in the early years, did much to revive<br />
interest in the German philosopher among Anglo-American theorists. His book of<br />
essays, Hegel’s Political Philosophy, was published in 1970 to mark the bicentenary of<br />
Hegel’s birth. <strong>The</strong>re followed an edited book (with John Gray), Conceptions of Liberty<br />
in Political Philosophy. His work led from the 1970s to many visiting professorships.<br />
Outside the classroom he increasingly became a man of affairs. He was a driving<br />
force behind the Oxford colleges’ hospitality scheme for Polish scholars, which made<br />
facilities and helpful contacts available to academics. He persuaded the communist<br />
authorities (Poland was still under martial law) to allow scholars, including some of the<br />
leading dissidents, to travel to Oxford.<br />
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For many, it was their first visit to the West, and in its first ten years the scheme<br />
brought some 450 Polish academics to Oxford. <strong>The</strong> impact of the scheme was<br />
recognised by the government and by the American-Hungarian philanthropist George<br />
Soros, who asked Pelczynski to organise an equally successful scheme for one-year<br />
graduate scholarships from all eastern European countries.<br />
With the victory of Solidarity in the elections of 1989, Pelczynski’s services were in<br />
demand in London as a member of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s advisory<br />
board for the Know-How Fund for eastern Europe, and in Poland as an adviser to<br />
the government. <strong>The</strong> years following his retirement in 1993, spent in Barton-on-the-<br />
Heath, Warwickshire, remained productive as he reinforced his ties with Poland. His<br />
networking skills came to the fore in setting up a school for social and political leaders.<br />
It helped young Poles to develop organising skills in workshops and practical activities.<br />
In his late years he received a succession of awards and honorary degrees in Polish<br />
universities, and a visit to Pembroke by the Polish prime minister. He was also<br />
appointed OBE.<br />
After Denise died in 2013 he was cared for by his son Jan. Although blind and less<br />
mobile because of spinal stenosis, he remained intellectually alert.<br />
Friends and colleagues often wondered where his primary attachments lay, to Oxford<br />
or to Poland. He became a British citizen in 1952 when it was clear that he could<br />
not revisit Poland, and was intensely committed to his adopted country. Yet despite<br />
refusing high diplomatic positions offered by the post-communist regime in Warsaw,<br />
he never lost his identification with Poland. Perhaps the best summary of his outlook<br />
came in a speech by a British ambassador to Warsaw who once introduced him as<br />
the “200 per cent man” – 100 per cent British and 100 per cent Polish.<br />
Zbigniew Pelczynski, OBE, academic, was born on December 29, 1925. He died of<br />
prostate cancer on June 22, <strong>2021</strong>, aged 95<br />
Originally printed in <strong>The</strong> Times and reproduced here with kind permission<br />
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HELEN SOWERBY<br />
Helen Sowerby grew up in Cumbria, the oldest of<br />
five children of John and Anne Sowerby. She was<br />
academically gifted and excelled at St Patrick’s RC<br />
Primary School, Workington and St Anne’s School,<br />
Windermere.<br />
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To the great pride of her parents, she became the<br />
first person in her family to attend university, gaining<br />
her place at Queen’s to study history on her second<br />
attempt, the only woman of twelve historians in the<br />
1984 matriculation year. Helen loved her time at Queen’s and was a larger-than-life<br />
character, principled, outspoken and forthright, with a formidable intellect. She threw<br />
herself into college life and was a member of the Ball Committee and the Women’s 1st<br />
VIII that won ‘blades’ in Torpids 1986. She was ideally cast as Lady Bracknell in the<br />
college production of ‘<strong>The</strong> Importance of Being Earnest’. She met her future husband<br />
Steve Thomas in the first term and formed many lifelong friendships.<br />
Both Francophiles, Helen and Steve passed through Paris on the last leg of their<br />
honeymoon and decided to move there for a year before Helen took up legal studies.<br />
One happy, bohemian year became two, with the arrival of their first child. Back in the<br />
UK, Helen qualified as a barrister with one of the top marks in the country in bar finals.<br />
After pupillage she worked as a solicitor for leading divorce lawyers Mishcon de Reya,<br />
but she was drawn back to live in the Lake District, near her parents, and the family<br />
moved to Windermere where Steve ran a bed and breakfast business and Helen found<br />
her passion working in childcare law for Cumbria Children’s Services. Leisurely visits<br />
from old college friends – with a little walking and much drinking and laughter – were<br />
highlights of their life there. Helen was greatly respected for her legal acumen and for<br />
her tendency to ask and pursue the difficult questions, a characteristic that earned her<br />
the nickname ‘the Rottweiler’. When her marriage ended after 21 years, she moved<br />
her job – and later herself – to Manchester.<br />
Helen was diagnosed with multiple myeloma late in 2017. Sadly, it turned out to be<br />
unexpectedly aggressive and resistant to treatments and she faced a worsening<br />
prognosis with remarkable stoicism. Despite gruelling treatment schedules and<br />
increasing physical limitations, she was determined to make the most of her remaining<br />
time, creating memorable experiences with family and friends. This included revisiting<br />
old haunts in Paris with her children, meeting up with old friends at the Queen’s<br />
Summer Garden Party, having been disappointed not to be able to attend the 2018<br />
Boar’s Head Gaudy, and travelling by sleeper train, with wheelchair, to Tuscany for<br />
the annual family holiday that she would never miss. She attended Old Trafford for<br />
England and Lancashire cricket matches when she could and continued to work<br />
in the job that she loved until late in her illness. She became increasingly active in<br />
campaigning for causes that she believed in. As a passionate Remainer, she took<br />
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part in marches and was a vociferous campaigner against Brexit. She also used her<br />
regular enforced inactivity to become active on Twitter where she went by the name of<br />
ManchesterPedant, a reference to her intolerance of poor grammar and nomenclature.<br />
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Helen was in London for a planned trip to the Royal Opera House with her niece when<br />
she became acutely unwell. She died the same day in University <strong>College</strong> Hospital,<br />
surrounded by her family.<br />
Old Members from Helen’s time at Queen’s gathered in August <strong>2021</strong> for a memorial<br />
lunch, sharing memories and paying tribute to our dear friend who was a unique<br />
character, a force of nature and an intellectual warrior who will not be forgotten.<br />
Helen is buried in Salterbeck Cemetery, Workington, next to her beloved father and her<br />
brother Johnny, who was tragically killed in a road accident in 1981. She leaves her<br />
mother Anne, sisters Jane, Victoria and Alex and children Frank, Joe, Stan and Angel.<br />
Katherine Irving and Steve Thomas<br />
ERIC WETHERELL<br />
My father Eric Wetherell died in the early hours of 31<br />
January <strong>2021</strong>, one month after his 95th birthday. He<br />
was a remarkable all-round musician, a fine composer,<br />
writer and biographer, well-respected conductor, jazz<br />
musician, French horn player, sometime filmmaker, as<br />
well as a dearly loved husband, father, and grandfather.<br />
He died peacefully and with great courage.<br />
In the days following his death, I spent time looking at<br />
old photos, letters, and recordings. Leafing through<br />
the 178 pages of memoirs he left behind has been enormously comforting. His<br />
impressions of the musical world live on after he is gone, and we can hear his voice<br />
distinctly through these memoirs, via his classic economy of language and effortlessly<br />
entertaining storytelling.<br />
He came up to Queen’s in 1945 from Carlisle Grammar School, via a post he had<br />
held in his late teens as assistant organist at Carlisle Cathedral. Originally arriving with<br />
a history scholarship, he changed to the music course after a year, and the <strong>College</strong><br />
kindly enabled him nevertheless to retain his scholarship.<br />
Dad went on to train further at the Royal <strong>College</strong> of Music. During the course of a<br />
career spanning well over half a century, he held various positions which included<br />
BBC Radio 3 producer, principal conductor of the BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra,<br />
and a staff conductor at Welsh National Opera. His profound enthusiasm for jazz also<br />
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led to a close involvement with the Welsh Jazz Orchestra and the BBC Big Band, for<br />
whom he both arranged and produced. He was a regular conductor and arranger for<br />
the popular Friday Night is Music Night on BBC Radio 2 in the early 1970s. In the late<br />
1950s he was a repetiteur at ROH Covent Garden, where he came in close contact<br />
with such figures as Britten, Walton, Solti, Giulini, Sargeant, and Kempe. He had<br />
begun his career as a French horn player in the LPO, under Thomas Beecham. One<br />
of my abiding memories of him as a musician will be that he was always interested<br />
in really ‘anything excellent’. This might be a Haydn symphony, a Gesualdo madrigal,<br />
Stravinsky’s neoclassicism, Beatles song, Ella Fitzgerald, the indigenous musicians<br />
he heard whilst on holiday in Botswana or a brand-new song by current digital jazz<br />
wunderkind Jacob Collier.<br />
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He had an enormous passion also for cinema and an encyclopaedic knowledge of<br />
films he had seen, and read about, often decades earlier. His huge library of books<br />
about music and film also contained a typically wide range of topics that interested<br />
him – history, psychology, philosophy, criminology, languages, etymology. Words<br />
fascinated him greatly and he and my mother Elizabeth connected over their common<br />
love of words and a shared passion for the ridiculous. Dad’s passion for language<br />
and his unending capacity for silliness led to such family in-jokes as his renaming the<br />
1930s Cole Porter song ‘When <strong>The</strong>y Begin the Beguine’ as ‘When <strong>The</strong>y Commence<br />
the Commence’.<br />
He officially retired from the BBC in 1985, and so began a new period of productivity in<br />
his career, including frequent composing work, commissions to write the biographies<br />
of various British musical figures, regular performances with his jazz group, and making<br />
his own documentary films. He continued composing until the end of his life, writing<br />
two operas in his eighties and even still writing just three months before he died.<br />
One of Dad’s happiest pastimes, other than music and cinema, was to tell the wealth<br />
of tales of his time in the music business, many of which became the backbone of his<br />
memoirs. Even though church music by no means formed a part of his longer-term<br />
career, vocal music and writing for voices was greatly important to him. After all, back<br />
in Carlisle Cathedral was where he had started his professional musical life. He had<br />
this to say about his first impressions of Oxford, when coming up for interview in 1944:<br />
‘I crossed the road from my hotel and found myself in Magdalen <strong>College</strong>. It was a cold<br />
winter’s evening, at 6 pm, already dark, and the chapel was lit only by the candles on<br />
the choir desks. I realised I was listening to choral singing of a standard I had never<br />
experienced. In a trice I had discovered what Oxford was about; and the magic of that<br />
evening and the sense of a thousand years of history have never left me.’<br />
Anna Wetherell, Merton <strong>College</strong> (1999)<br />
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Benefactions<br />
We are delighted to acknowledge the generosity of those donors who have<br />
given a gift to Queen’s in Financial Year 2020-21 (1 August 2020 – 31 July <strong>2021</strong>).<br />
All care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of this list. However, if you<br />
spot an error please accept our apologies and notify the Old Members’<br />
Office so that we can amend our records for future publications.<br />
QS: Queen’s Society member<br />
Eglesfield Benefactors<br />
Anonymous x6<br />
Dr Brian Savory (1951)<br />
Mr Dick Stewart (1955)<br />
Mr Michael Boyd (1958)<br />
Mr Mike Hawley (1959)<br />
Mr Andrew Parsons (1962)<br />
Mr Anthony Simon (1963)<br />
Mr Rick Haythornthwaite (1975) QS<br />
Mr Paul Newton (1975)<br />
Dr Mel Stephens (1976)<br />
Mr Tom Pütter (1977)<br />
Mrs Julia Eskdale (1987)<br />
Mr Chris Eskdale (1987)<br />
Mrs Barbara Stewart<br />
Philippa Benefactors<br />
Anonymous x1<br />
Mr Mike Woodhouse (1948)<br />
Prof Roger Pain (1949) QS<br />
Mr John Palmer (1949) QS<br />
Revd Canon Hugh Wybrew (1955) QS<br />
Mr Barrie Craythorn (1956) QS<br />
Mr Tim Evans (1956) QS<br />
Mr Walter Gilges (1956)<br />
Mr Barry Saunders (1956) QS<br />
Mr Martin Bowley (1957) QS<br />
Mr Charles Frieze (1957) QS<br />
Dr John Hopton (1957)<br />
Mr David Wilkinson (1957) QS<br />
Prof Yash Ghai (1958)<br />
Dr Ray Bowden (1960) QS<br />
Mr Gordon Dilworth (1960) QS<br />
Mr Michael Lodge (1960) QS<br />
Mr Martin Dillon (1961)<br />
Mr Ron Glaister (1961) QS<br />
Mr Dave Brownlee (1962)<br />
Mr Michael Roberts (1962)<br />
Prof Peter Bell (1963)<br />
Mr Raymond Kelly (1963)<br />
Mr Clive Landa (1963)<br />
District Judge Chris Beale (1964)<br />
Prof Rod Levick (1964) QS<br />
Prof Lee Saperstein (1964) QS<br />
Mr John Clement (1965) QS<br />
Dr Juan Mason (1967) QS<br />
Mr Paul Clark (1968)<br />
Mr Alan Mitchell (1968) QS<br />
Dr Howard Rosenberg (1968) QS<br />
Mr David Seymour (1969) QS<br />
Professor Hugh Arnold (1970)<br />
Mr Alan Taylor (1971)<br />
Mr Richard Geldard (1972) QS<br />
Mr Tom Ward (1973) QS<br />
Mr Robin Wilkinson (1973) QS<br />
Mr Philip Middleton (1974)<br />
Mr David Pitt-Watson (1974)<br />
Mr Stuart White (1975) QS<br />
Mr Fred Arnold (1976)<br />
Mr Mark Neale (1976) QS<br />
Mr Gerry Hackett (1977) QS<br />
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Mr John Ford (1980) QS<br />
Mr John Smith (1980) QS<br />
Mrs Diana Webster (1980) QS<br />
Mr Jonathan Webster (1981) QS<br />
Mr Joseph Archie (1982)<br />
Mr Mark Williamson (1982) QS<br />
Old Members<br />
Anonymous x29<br />
Prof Geoffrey Wilson (1942)<br />
Maj George Brown (1943) QS<br />
Mr Mike Absalom (1945)<br />
Mr Graham Lewis (1948) QS<br />
Mr David Thornber (1948) QS<br />
Mr Charles Henn (1949)<br />
Mr Charles Peter Lynam (1949)<br />
Dr Duncan Thomas (1949) QS<br />
Mr John Hazel (1951) QS<br />
Mr Allan Preston (1951)<br />
Mr Anthony Silcox (1951)<br />
Dr Keith Jacques (1952) QS<br />
Prof Keith Jennings (1952) QS<br />
Dr Tony Lee (1952) QS<br />
Mr John Percy (1952) QS<br />
Mr Geoff Peters (1952) QS<br />
Mr Jim Ranger (1952) QS<br />
Revd Aylward Shorter (1952)<br />
Revd Mike Atkinson (1953) QS<br />
Mr Michael Atkinson (1953) QS<br />
Mr Richard Brimelow (1953)<br />
Mr Bill Burkinshaw (1953) QS<br />
Mr Jim Glasspool (1953) QS<br />
Prof Victor Hoffbrand (1953) QS<br />
Mr Robert Kent (1953)<br />
Mr Eddie Mirzoeff (1953)<br />
Mr David Bryan (1954) QS<br />
Revd Keith Denerley (1954) QS<br />
Mr Mike Drake (1954) QS<br />
Mr Robin Ellison (1954) QS<br />
Mr David Howard (1954)<br />
Mr Gerry Hunting (1954) QS<br />
Mr Strachan Heppell (1955) QS<br />
Dr David Myers (1955) QS<br />
Dr Bill Parry (1955) QS<br />
Mr Jacky Wong (1986)<br />
Mrs Sia Marshall (1990) QS<br />
Mr Cameron Marshall (1991) QS<br />
Mr John Hull (1994) QS<br />
Mrs Anna Hull (1995) QS<br />
Mr Chris Woolf (1995) QS<br />
Mr Philip Thompson (1955) QS<br />
Dr Adrian Weston (1955) QS<br />
Mr Bob Cristin (1956)<br />
Mr Tom Frears (1956) QS<br />
Dr John Frost (1956)<br />
Dr Ian Hall (1956)<br />
Dr Bill Roberts (1956) QS<br />
Mr Brian Sproat (1956) QS<br />
Mr Christopher Stephenson (1956) QS<br />
Mr Graham Sutton (1956) QS<br />
Revd Canon Michael Arundel (1957) QS<br />
Prof David Catchpole (1957) QS<br />
Mr Ian Chisholm (1957) QS<br />
Mr Keith Dawson (1957) QS<br />
Dr Barrie Dore (1957)<br />
Mr Colin Hughes (1957) QS<br />
Prof Laurence King (1957) QS<br />
Mr Roger Owen (1957) QS<br />
Dr Brian Salter-Duke (1957) QS<br />
Mr Martin Sayer (1957) QS<br />
Mr Russell Sunderland (1957) QS<br />
Mr Peter Thomson (1957) QS<br />
Mr Malcolm Dougal (1958) QS<br />
Mr Gerald Evans (1958) QS<br />
Dr Michael Gagan (1958) QS<br />
Mr Nigel Hughes (1958) QS<br />
Dr John Reid (1958) QS<br />
Mr Graham Thornton (1958) QS<br />
Mr Frank Venables (1958) QS<br />
Mr Barrie Wiggham (1958) QS<br />
Mr Robert Adams (1959)<br />
Mr Michael Allen (1959) QS<br />
Mr David Beaton (1959) QS<br />
Mr Michael Brunson (1959) QS<br />
Mr Philip Burton (1959) QS<br />
Mr John Foley (1959) QS<br />
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Prof John Gillingham (1959) QS<br />
Prof David Goodall (1959) QS<br />
Dr Roger Lowman (1959) QS<br />
Prof John Matthews (1959) QS<br />
Mr John Rix (1959) QS<br />
Mr John Seely (1959) QS<br />
Prof Peter Williams (1959) QS<br />
Mr Robin Bell (1960) QS<br />
Mr George Comer (1960)<br />
Right Revd Graham Dow (1960) QS<br />
Mr David Foster (1960) QS<br />
Mr Jim Gilpin (1960) QS<br />
Mr John Price (1960)<br />
Mr Paul Roberts (1960)<br />
Mr James Robertson (1960) QS<br />
Mr Robert Wilson (1960) QS<br />
Mr Chris Bearne (1961) QS<br />
Mr Philip Bowers (1961) QS<br />
Mr Desmond Cecil (1961)<br />
Dr Norman Diffey (1961)<br />
Prof David Eisenberg (1961)<br />
Lord Colin Low (1961) QS<br />
Prof Andrew McPherson (1961) QS<br />
Mr Richard Nosowski (1961) QS<br />
Prof Dr Ralph Raymond (1961)<br />
Mr Godfrey Talford (1961) QS<br />
Revd Graham Wilcox (1961) QS<br />
Prof Nicholas Young (1961) QS<br />
Mr Dave Brownlee (1962)<br />
Prof John Coggins (1962) QS<br />
Mr Martin Colman (1962) QS<br />
Dr Steve Higgins (1962) QS<br />
Sir Paul Lever (1962) QS<br />
Mr Adrian Milner (1962) QS<br />
Mr Richard Mole (1962) QS<br />
Mr Donald Rutherford (1962) QS<br />
Prof Peter Tasker (1962) QS<br />
Mr George Trevelyan (1962) QS<br />
Prof Brad Amos (1963)<br />
Mr Richard Batstone (1963) QS<br />
Sir Brian Donnelly (1963) QS<br />
Mr Rod Hague (1963) QS<br />
Mr Patrick Hastings (1963) QS<br />
Mr Charles Lamond (1963) QS<br />
Prof Ron Laskey (1963) QS<br />
Prof Alan Lloyd (1963) QS<br />
Dr Dennis Luck (1963)<br />
Mr Alan Wilson (1963) QS<br />
Mr Philip Beaven (1964) QS<br />
Dr Stephen Cockle (1964)<br />
Mr John Gregory (1964) QS<br />
Mr David Jeffery (1964) QS<br />
Mr Robin Leggate (1964) QS<br />
Mr Paul Legon (1964) QS<br />
Dr John Lewis (1964) QS<br />
Mr Ian Sallis (1964) QS<br />
Mr Tony Turton (1964) QS<br />
Mr Philip Wood (1964) QS<br />
Mr John Wordsworth (1964) QS<br />
Mr Andy Connell (1965) QS<br />
Mr Peter Cramb (1965) QS<br />
Mr Rodger Digilio (1965)<br />
Prof John Feather (1965) QS<br />
Prof Christopher Green (1965) QS<br />
Mr Peter Hickson (1965) QS<br />
Lord Roger Liddle (1965) QS<br />
Mr David Matthews (1965) QS<br />
Mr Ian Swanson (1965) QS<br />
Mr David Syrus (1965) QS<br />
Sir Stephen Wright (1965) QS<br />
Mr Alan Beatson (1966) QS<br />
Dr George Biddlecombe (1966) QS<br />
Mr Roger Blanshard (1966) QS<br />
Mr Richard Coleman (1966) QS<br />
Prof Peter Coleman (1966) QS<br />
Dr Michael Collop (1966) QS<br />
Mr Peter de Moncey-Conegliano (1966)<br />
Mr Andrew Horsler (1966) QS<br />
Mr John Kitteridge (1966) QS<br />
Dr Paul Schur (1966) QS<br />
Mr Gregory Stone (1966)<br />
Professor Peter Sugden (1966) QS<br />
Mr Derek Swift (1966) QS<br />
Rt Revd Peter Wheatley (1966)<br />
Mr Richard Atkinson (1967) QS<br />
Dr Tony Battilana (1967)<br />
Mr David Hardesty (1967)<br />
Mr John Ormerod (1967)<br />
Mr David Roberts (1967) QS<br />
Prof Philip Schlesinger (1967) QS<br />
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Mr Mike Thompson (1967) QS<br />
Mr Rob Bollington (1968) QS<br />
Mr Peter Burroughs (1968) QS<br />
Prof Tim Connell (1968) QS<br />
Mr John Crowther (1968) QS<br />
Mr David Hudson (1968) QS<br />
Mr Steve Robinson (1968) QS<br />
Prof Andrew Sancton (1968)<br />
Mr Richard Shaw (1968) QS<br />
Mr Jon Watts (1968) QS<br />
Dr John Windass (1968) QS<br />
Mr Neil Boulton (1969) QS<br />
Mr Jim Gibson (1969)<br />
Prof Mark Janis (1969)<br />
Mr Anthony Prosser (1969) QS<br />
His Honour Judge Erik Salomonsen<br />
(1969) QS<br />
Mr Chris Shepperd (1969) QS<br />
Revd Dr Brian Sheret (1969)<br />
Mr Alan Sherwell (1969) QS<br />
Mr Nigel Tranah (1969) QS<br />
Mr Frederik van Bolhuis (1969)<br />
Dr Martin Cooper (1970) QS<br />
Mr Jamie Macdonald (1970) QS<br />
Mr David Stubbins (1970) QS<br />
Mr Andy Sutton (1970) QS<br />
Mr Eric Thompson (1970) QS<br />
Canon Peter Wadsworth (1970) QS<br />
Mr Christopher West (1970) QS<br />
Mr John Clare (1971) QS<br />
Mr Anthony Denny (1971) QS<br />
Mr Winston Gooden (1971) QS<br />
Mr François Gordon (1971) QS<br />
Dr Ulrich Grevsmühl (1971) QS<br />
Mr Philip Hanwell (1971)<br />
Dr Christopher Huang (1971) QS<br />
Dr Michael Hurst (1971) QS<br />
Mr John Peat (1971) QS<br />
Mr Robert Pike (1971)<br />
Mr Anthony Rowlands (1971) QS<br />
Dr Ralph Stehly (1971) QS<br />
Mr Gary Stubley (1971)<br />
Mr Derek Townsend (1971) QS<br />
Dr Stephen Wilson (1971) QS<br />
Mr Alaric Wyatt (1971) QS<br />
Mr Nigel Allsop (1972) QS<br />
Mr Lou Fantin (1972)<br />
Mr Peter Farrar (1972) QS<br />
Mr Stephen Gilbey (1972) QS<br />
Mr Peter Haigh (1972) QS<br />
Mr Will Jackson-Houlston (1972) QS<br />
Mr John McLeod (1972) QS<br />
Mr David Palfreyman (1972) QS<br />
Mr Andrew Seager (1972) QS<br />
Dr John Wellings (1972) QS<br />
Mr Andrew Barlow (1973)<br />
Mr Phil Beveridge (1973) QS<br />
Mr Albert Brenner (1973)<br />
Dr Mark Eddowes (1973) QS<br />
Mr Tony Middleton (1973) QS<br />
Mr Robert Perry (1973) QS<br />
Mr Peter Richardson (1973) QS<br />
Mr Dick Richmond (1973) QS<br />
Mr Martin Riley (1973) QS<br />
Dr Alan Turner (1973) QS<br />
Mr Simon English (1974) QS<br />
Mr Havilland Hart (1974) QS<br />
Mr Philip Middleton (1974)<br />
Mr David Pitt-Watson (1974)<br />
Mr Tim Shaw (1974) QS<br />
Revd Thomas Stadnik (1974)<br />
Dr Jeffrey <strong>The</strong>aker (1974) QS<br />
Mr Oliver Burns (1975) QS<br />
Dr Rhodri Davies (1975) QS<br />
Mr Ian Dougherty (1975) QS<br />
Mr Simon Fraser (1975) QS<br />
Dr Chris Hutchinson (1975) QS<br />
Mr Martin Moore (1975) QS<br />
Mr Nevill Rogers (1975) QS<br />
Prof Peter Clarkson (1976) QS<br />
Dr Nick Hazel (1976) QS<br />
Mr Raymond Holdsworth (1976)<br />
Mr Paul Marsh (1976) QS<br />
Mr George Newhouse (1976)<br />
Dr Martin Osborne (1976) QS<br />
Mr Brian Stubley (1976) QS<br />
Dr Christopher Tibbs (1976) QS<br />
General Sir Richard Barrons (1977) QS<br />
Mr Paul Bennett (1977) QS<br />
Dr Michael Cadier (1977) QS<br />
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Mr Mark Evans (1977) QS<br />
Mr Paul Godsland (1977) QS<br />
Mr Francis Grew (1977) QS<br />
Mr Martin Kelly (1977) QS<br />
Mr John Morewood (1977) QS<br />
Mr Michael Penrice (1977) QS<br />
Mr Mike Thompson (1977) QS<br />
Mr Steve Anderson (1978) QS<br />
Mr Charlie Anderson (1978) QS<br />
Mr Paul Dawson (1978) QS<br />
Dr Mike Fenn (1978) QS<br />
Mr John Gibbons (1978) QS<br />
Mr Peter Hamilton (1978) QS<br />
Mr Jeremy Jackson (1978) QS<br />
Mr John Keeble (1978) QS<br />
Dr Simon Loughe (1978) QS<br />
Dr Howard Simmons (1978) QS<br />
Mr Jervis Smith (1978) QS<br />
Mr Heinz Schulte (1978) QS<br />
Dr Trevor Barker (1979) QS<br />
Mr Chris Bertram (1979) QS<br />
Dr Nicholas Edwards (1979) QS<br />
Mr Philip Epstein (1979)<br />
Dr Ron Kelly (1979) QS<br />
Dr Cath Rees (1979) QS<br />
Dr Chris Ringrose (1979) QS<br />
Mrs Alison Sanders (1979) QS<br />
Mr Gary Simmons (1979) QS<br />
Mr Simon Whitaker (1979) QS<br />
Mr Phillip Bennett (1980) QS<br />
Mr James Clarke (1980)<br />
Dr Louise Goward (1980) QS<br />
Mrs Carrie Kelly (1980) QS<br />
Mrs Caroline Nuyts-Speck (1980)<br />
Dr Tim Shaw (1980) QS<br />
Mr Tim Stephenson (1980) QS<br />
Dr Peter Wyatt (1980)<br />
Dr Mark Byfield (1981) QS<br />
Dr Paul Driscoll (1981) QS<br />
Ms Janet Hayes (1981) QS<br />
Mrs Linda Holland (1981) QS<br />
Mrs Cathy Langdale (1981)<br />
Ms Catherine Palmer (1981)<br />
Mr Donald Pepper (1981) QS<br />
Prof Marcela Votruba (1981) QS<br />
Mrs Cathy Driscoll (1982) QS<br />
Mr Ian English (1982) QS<br />
Mr Graham Jackson (1982)<br />
Mr Richard Lewis (1982) QS<br />
Mrs Janet Lewis (1982) QS<br />
Mr Mark Pearce (1982) QS<br />
Mr David Price (1982) QS<br />
Mr Tom Webber (1982) QS<br />
Mr Andy Bird (1983) QS<br />
Mr Andrew Campbell (1983) QS<br />
Mr Edmund Craston (1983) QS<br />
Mrs Rose Craston (1983) QS<br />
Dr Robert Hughes (1983) QS<br />
Mr Fergus McDonald (1983)<br />
Mr Adrian Robinson (1983) QS<br />
Dr Neil Tunnicliffe (1983) QS<br />
Mrs Antonia Adams (1984) QS<br />
Mr Miles Benson (1984) QS<br />
Mr Mike Cronshaw (1984) QS<br />
Mr Cameron Doley (1984)<br />
Mrs Kathryn Doley (1984)<br />
Prof Phil Evans (1984) QS<br />
Dr Nigel Greer (1984) QS<br />
Mr Richard Hopkins (1984) QS<br />
Dr Katherine Irving (1984) QS<br />
Mrs Rachel Lawson (1984) QS<br />
Mr Robert Lawson (1984) QS<br />
Mrs Liz Patel (1984) QS<br />
Mr Tiku Patel (1984) QS<br />
Dr Jan Pullen (1984) QS<br />
Mr Steve Thomas (1984) QS<br />
Mr John Turner (1984) QS<br />
Dr Udayan Chakrabarti (1985) QS<br />
Mr Steve Evans (1985) QS<br />
Mr Ed Kemp-Luck (1985) QS<br />
Dr Philippa Moore (1985) QS<br />
Revd Matthew Pollard (1985) QS<br />
Dr Ioanna Psalti (1985)<br />
Mr Adrian Ratcliffe (1985) QS<br />
Mr Martin Riley (1985) QS<br />
Mr Juan Sepulveda (1985)<br />
Mrs Julie Smyth (1985) QS<br />
Major (Retd) Matthew Christmas (1986) QS<br />
Ms Jude Dobbyn (1986) QS<br />
Mr Steve Jones (1986) QS<br />
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Mr Simon Miller (1986) QS<br />
Mr Andrew Mitchell (1986) QS<br />
Mr Gerald Rix (1986) QS<br />
Mrs Cathy Sanderson (1986) QS<br />
Dr Susan Schamp (1986) QS<br />
Mr Rob Tims (1986) QS<br />
Mr Charles Adams (1987)<br />
Mr Robert Burgess (1987) QS<br />
Dr Richard Fynes (1987) QS<br />
Mrs Vikki Hall (1987) QS<br />
Mr Mark Highman (1987) QS<br />
Mrs Sarah Kucera (1987) QS<br />
Mr John Morgan (1987) QS<br />
Ms Susan Sack (1987)<br />
Mr Philip Sanderson (1987) QS<br />
Mrs Rachel Thorn (1987) QS<br />
Mr John Bigham (1988) QS<br />
Dr Andrew Carpenter (1988)<br />
Mrs Hilary Corroon (1988) QS<br />
Miss Celestine Eaton (1988) QS<br />
Mr Tim Grayson (1988) QS<br />
Dr Jules Hargreaves (1988) QS<br />
Mr Alastair Kennis (1988) QS<br />
Dr Adrian Tang (1988) QS<br />
Dr Susan Ferraro (1989) QS<br />
Mr Ben Green (1989) QS<br />
Prof Blair Hoxby (1989)<br />
Mr Jim Kaye (1989) QS<br />
Ms Hetty Meyric Hughes (1989) QS<br />
Mr Marc Paul (1989)<br />
Mr Matthew Perret (1989) QS<br />
Mr Ian Tollett (1989) QS<br />
Mrs Penny Crouzet (1990) QS<br />
Mr Jason Hargreaves (1990) QS<br />
Mr Keith Hatton (1990) QS<br />
Mrs Morag Mylne (1990)<br />
Mr Fabio Quaradeghini (1990) QS<br />
Miss Angela Winnett (1990) QS<br />
Mr Nik Everatt (1991) QS<br />
Mr Paul Gannon (1991) QS<br />
Mrs Kay Goddard (1991) QS<br />
Ms Jess Matthew (1991)<br />
Dr Christopher Meaden (1991) QS<br />
Dr Kausikh Nandi (1991) QS<br />
Mr Adam Potter (1991) QS<br />
Mr Stephen Robinson (1991) QS<br />
Dr Christoph Rojahn (1991)<br />
Dr Vicki Saward (1991) QS<br />
Dr John Sorabji (1991) QS<br />
Mr Dev Tanna (1991) QS<br />
Miss Sarah Witt (1991) QS<br />
Mr Jonathan Woolf (1991) QS<br />
Dr Jason Zimba (1991) QS<br />
Mr Jonathan Buckley (1992) QS<br />
Dr Rebecca Emerson (1992) QS<br />
Prof Mike Hayward (1992) QS<br />
Mr James Holdsworth (1992) QS<br />
Mrs Claire O’Shaughnessy (1992) QS<br />
Dr Nia Taylor (1992) QS<br />
Mr Ian Brown (1993) QS<br />
Mr Matt Keen (1993) QS<br />
Mrs Jenny Kelly (1993) QS<br />
Mr Matt Lawrence (1993) QS<br />
Mr Said Mohamed (1993) QS<br />
Mr Neil Pabari (1993) QS<br />
Mr Peter Sidwell (1993) QS<br />
Mrs Helen von der Osten (1993) QS<br />
Ms Christine Cairns (1994) QS<br />
Dr Jo Nettleship (1994)<br />
Prof Tim Riley (1994) QS<br />
Mrs Clare Stebbing (1994) QS<br />
Mr Nick Stebbing (1994) QS<br />
Dr Francis Tang (1994)<br />
Ms Claire Taylor (1994) QS<br />
Mr Alistair Willey (1994) QS<br />
Mr Tim Claremont (1995) QS<br />
Mr Tim Horrocks (1995) QS<br />
Mr Torsten Reil (1995) QS<br />
Mr Adam Silver (1995) QS<br />
Mrs Georgina Simmons (1995) QS<br />
Mr Jeremy Steele (1995) QS<br />
Mr Llyr Williams (1995)<br />
Dr Gavin Beard (1996) QS<br />
Mrs Helen Geary (1996) QS<br />
Mr Alex Grant (1996) QS<br />
Dr Helen Munn (1996) QS<br />
Mr David Smallbone (1996) QS<br />
Dr Jonathan Smith (1996) QS<br />
Mrs Rachel Taylor (1996) QS<br />
Mr James Bowling (1997) QS<br />
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Dr William Goundry (1997) QS<br />
Mr Endaf Kerfoot (1997) QS<br />
Mr Gareth Powell (1997) QS<br />
Mr James Taylor (1997) QS<br />
Mr Gonçalo Abecasis (1998)<br />
Ms Jennifer Armson (1998)<br />
Dr Martin Birch (1998) QS<br />
Miss Marie Farrow (1998) QS<br />
Mrs Nishi Grose (1998) QS<br />
Mr Matt Henderson (1998) QS<br />
Prof. Owen Hodkinson (1998)<br />
Mr James Marsden (1998) QS<br />
Miss Jacqueline Perez (1998) QS<br />
Mr Charlie Sutters (1998) QS<br />
Dr Premila Webster (1998) QS<br />
Mrs Kate Cooper (1999) QS<br />
Miss Kelly Furber (1999) QS<br />
Mr Douglas Gordon (1999) QS<br />
Mr Jim Hancock (1999) QS<br />
Mr James Levett (1999) QS<br />
Mr Jim Luke (1999) QS<br />
Mr Dan Lynn (1999) QS<br />
Mr Gareth Marsh (1999) QS<br />
Mr Michael McClelland (1999) QS<br />
Mr Mark Bowman (2000) QS<br />
Dr Cecily Burrill (2000)<br />
Mr Rory Clarke (2000) QS<br />
Dr Katherine Dammerman (2000)<br />
Dr Brandon Dammerman (2000)<br />
Miss Cécile Défossé (2000) QS<br />
Dr Claire Hodgskiss (2000) QS<br />
Mrs Holly Pirnie (2000) QS<br />
Mr Richard Roberts (2000)<br />
Mr David Ainsworth (2001) QS<br />
Mrs Laura Ainsworth (2001) QS<br />
Mrs Chrissy Findlay (2001) QS<br />
Mr Mark Hawkins (2001) QS<br />
Mr James Klempster (2001) QS<br />
Mr Nick Kroepfl (2001) QS<br />
Mr Oliver Leyland (2001) QS<br />
Ms Alex Mayson (2001) QS<br />
Dr Matthew Osborne (2001) QS<br />
Mrs Cassie Smith (2001) QS<br />
Miss Elinor Taylor (2001) QS<br />
Mrs Zoe Wright (2001) QS<br />
Mr Nikhil Aggarwal (2002) QS<br />
Mrs Kathryn Aggarwal (2002) QS<br />
Mr Matt Allen (2002) QS<br />
Mrs Fran Baker (2002) QS<br />
Miss Sarah Berman (2002) QS<br />
Mr Iain Drennan (2002)<br />
Ms Hannah Drennan (2002)<br />
Mrs Anushka Herath (2002) QS<br />
Dr Fumiaki Ito (2002)<br />
Miss Ava Lau (2002)<br />
Mr Tom Pearson (2002) QS<br />
Mrs Karishma Redman (2002) QS<br />
Mr David Richardson (2002) QS<br />
Mr James Screen (2002) QS<br />
Mrs Rhian Screen (2002) QS<br />
Dr Abigail Stevenson (2002) QS<br />
Dr Ian Warren (2002) QS<br />
Mr Christopher Wright (2002) QS<br />
Ms Ling Zhao (2002) QS<br />
Dr Jessica Blair (2003) QS<br />
Ms Sarah Buckley (2003)<br />
Mr Ahmet Feridun (2003) QS<br />
Mrs Olivia Haslam (2003) QS<br />
Dr Jon Hazlehurst (2003) QS<br />
Ms Rebecca Patton (2003) QS<br />
Dr Enrique Sacau (2003) QS<br />
Mr Dane Satterthwaite (2003) QS<br />
Dr Guy Williams (2003) QS<br />
Ms Claire Harrop (2004) QS<br />
Dr Philippa Roberts (2004) QS<br />
Dr Tony Thompson-Starkey (2004) QS<br />
Mr Daniel Shepherd (2005) QS<br />
Mr Ho Yi Wong (2005) QS<br />
Dr Matthew Hart (2006) QS<br />
Mr George Kanelos (2006) QS<br />
Corporal Tom Whyte (2006) QS<br />
Miss Lauriane Anderson Mair (2007) QS<br />
Dr Caitlin Hartigan (2007)<br />
Mr Tony Hu (2007) QS<br />
Mr Matthew Watson (2007) QS<br />
Dr Emma Adlard (2008) QS<br />
Mr Nicholas Burns (2008) QS<br />
Miss Katherine Steiner (2008) QS<br />
Dr Monica Merlin (2009)<br />
Mrs Maude Tham (2009) QS<br />
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Mr Vincent Boucher (2010) QS<br />
Mr James Dinsdale (2010) QS<br />
Mr Chris Lippard (2010)<br />
Mr Tom Mead (2010) QS<br />
Miss Emily Shercliff (2010)<br />
Miss Amy Down (2011) QS<br />
Mr Tom Nichols (2011) QS<br />
Mr William Kroeger (2016)<br />
Mr Kenichi Oka (2017) QS<br />
Mrs Caroline Howard (2019)<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong> is grateful to the following Old Members and Friends who gave<br />
legacy gifts to Queen’s:<br />
Mr John Whitehead (1931)<br />
Cmdr Martin Richards (1940)<br />
Dr Francis John Long (1942)<br />
Mr Thomas Acton (1943)<br />
Mr Anthony Gwilliam (1948)<br />
Mr John Pearson (1948)<br />
Mr Anthony Petty (1948)<br />
Mr Charles Peter Lynam (1949)<br />
Mr John Douglas Peters (1950)<br />
Dr Barry Hoffbrand (1952)<br />
Mr Robert Kent (1953)<br />
Dr David Littlewood (1968)<br />
Syed Jonathan Zeshaun Ali (1987)<br />
Mrs Ann Henn<br />
Benefactions<br />
We are grateful to receive support from the following people within the <strong>College</strong>:<br />
Prof John Baines QS<br />
Prof Sir John Ball QS<br />
Dr Claire Craig QS<br />
Dr Charles Crowther QS<br />
Mr Chris Diacopoulos QS<br />
Dr Justin Jacobs QS<br />
Dr Ludovic Phalippou QS<br />
Queen’s <strong>College</strong> Senior <strong>College</strong> Fellows<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong> thanks the following Friends for their support:<br />
Mrs Helena Cuthbert QS<br />
Mr David French QS<br />
Mrs Moira Harrison<br />
Mr Henry Head<br />
Mrs Christine Mason QS<br />
Ms Susan Poad<br />
Most Revd Peter Riola<br />
Prof Dana Scott<br />
Mr Eric Wooding QS<br />
<strong>The</strong> following trusts, foundations, and companies have supported the <strong>College</strong><br />
directly, or through matched giving schemes with Old Members:<br />
Amazon UK<br />
Austrian Cultural Forum<br />
Embassy of the Federal Republic of<br />
Germany in London<br />
G F Hamilton Trust & Donal Morphy<br />
Charitable Trust<br />
Institut français du Royaume-Uni<br />
Late Habibur Rahman, Late Rokeya<br />
Khanum and Professor A H M<br />
Shamsur Rahman Welfare Trust<br />
Piper Jaffray<br />
Sannox Trust<br />
Swiss Embassy<br />
<strong>The</strong> Elba Foundation<br />
<strong>The</strong> Waverley Fund<br />
Ward Family Fund<br />
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INFOR MATION<br />
Information<br />
<strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong> 2022<br />
Please submit your news and details of any awards or publications for inclusion in<br />
the 2022 <strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong> here: https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/college-record-2022.<br />
Alternatively, you can send this information by post to the Old Members’ Office in<br />
<strong>College</strong>. <strong>The</strong> deadline for entries is 1 August 2022.<br />
You are also invited to submit obituaries of Old Members. Please send these to the<br />
Old Members’ Office.<br />
Visiting the <strong>College</strong><br />
Old Members are welcome to visit at any time, except during the Christmas closure<br />
period. Please present yourself at the Lodge with an item of ID (preferably your<br />
University alumni card) so that the Porter on duty can check your name against the list<br />
of Old Members. Advance notice, particularly if you’d like to visit the Library, is preferable<br />
although not essential, but if you are planning to bring a group (other than your<br />
immediate family) you will need to arrange this in advance. <strong>The</strong> Old Members’ Office can<br />
assist you with your visit: call 01865 279217 or email oldmembers@queens.ox.ac.uk.<br />
If you require level access, please telephone the Lodge on 01865 279120.<br />
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Degree ceremonies<br />
MAs can only be taken by BA graduates 21 terms after their matriculation date. Old<br />
Members can either attend a University degree ceremony or receive an MA in absentia.<br />
To take your MA in person or in absentia, please email college.office@queens.ox.ac.uk.<br />
Information<br />
Transcripts and certificates<br />
If you require proof of your exam results, or a transcript of your qualifications for a job<br />
application or continuing education purposes, please contact the <strong>College</strong> Office on<br />
01865 279166 or college.office@queens.ox.ac.uk.<br />
If you need a copy of your certificate, then all the information can be found at the<br />
University’s Student <strong>Record</strong>s and Degree Conferrals Office: www.ox.ac.uk/students/<br />
graduation/certificates.<br />
For those who matriculated after 2007, transcripts/proof of degree documents can be<br />
ordered online: www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/product-catalogue/degree-conferrals.<br />
Updating your details<br />
If you have moved or changed your contact details, please complete the online update<br />
form: www.queens.ox.ac.uk/update-my-details or email oldmembers@queens.ox.ac.uk.<br />
Bed and breakfast<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong> is pleased to be able to offer bed and breakfast accommodation to<br />
Old Members at a reduced rate. You can take advantage of the reduced rate when<br />
you use the promotional code, which is available from the Old Members’ Office: call<br />
01865 279214 or email oldmembers@queens.ox.ac.uk.<br />
A number of en suite student bedrooms will be available over the Easter and summer<br />
vacations. Rooms are clean, comfortable, and serviced daily. While not equipped to<br />
a four-star hotel standard, they are provided with towels, toiletries, tea and coffee<br />
making facilities, and free internet access.<br />
To book your room(s), please visit www.queens.ox.ac.uk/bed-breakfast.<br />
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