The College Record 2022

Reports and College Activities
Humanities (TORCH). A Knowledge Exchange Fellowship is enabling me to work
with Menagerie Theatre Company on a project about the theatre critic Huntly Carter
and his involvement in the workers’ theatre movement, and TORCH Network funding
is supporting a series of interdisciplinary events about the history and legacy of the
cultural relationship between Britain and the nations that made up the Soviet Union.
Both these projects develop research undertaken for my monograph, Russomania
(OUP, 2020), which was awarded the British Association for Slavonic and East
European Studies Women’s Forum Prize earlier this year.
Credit: John Cairns
John Blair (History, Emeritus)
Professor John Blair was awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus
Fellowship for travel in Germany, Scandinavia, and the
Low Countries. The purpose of his travel will be to gather
material for a projected book on medieval regional cultures.
The book will be about regional identity, buildings, and
material culture in medieval England. It will question
whether, in cultural terms, the concept of 'England' necessarily makes sense, and
will take the different approach of looking at regions in relation to their Continental
neighbours: east Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and East Anglia as part of a North Sea
Region; the south as part of a Channel region; the west midlands as part of an
Atlantic region.
Credit: John Cairns
Jose Carrillo (Mathematics)
My research in the year 2021-2022 has been marked by
the launching of most of the topics of my ERC Advanced
Grant in its second year, some of them postponed due
to the pandemic. I have hired four new Post-Doctoral
Research Assistants (PDRAs) to explore novel aspects of
my research in nonlocal partial differential equations for
complex particle dynamics such as phase transitions,
patterns and synchronization. More precisely, we have worked in understanding the
concentration and properties of local and global minimizers of anisotropic potentials,
phase transitions in neuroscience models, parameter estimation in collective
migration models for cell sorting via adhesive forces, concentration phenomena
in the evolution of aggregation-diffusion models, numerical schemes for collisional
plasma physics, and non-local approximations of nonlinear diffusions among others.
The common point of these research topics is the description of the collective motion
of large ensembles of interacting particles.
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