The College Record 2022

Reports and College Activities
The highlight of the year was the annual dinner, held during Michaelmas Term 2021,
which was attended by over 50 members of QCMS. The evening began with a lecture
from guest speaker Dr John Coates, author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf.
Dr Coates was formerly a Wall Street trader, subsequently retraining and completing
a PhD in the physiology of risk taking at the University of Cambridge. This proved to
be a thoroughly engaging topic, generating much discussion amongst members.
The lecture was followed by dinner in Hall, where it was a privilege to see so many
attendees participating in enthusiastic and wide-ranging conversations.
Additionally, we organised a number of smaller QCMS events across the year. These
were primarily of a social nature, and most recently included a QCMS football match.
Events such as these have helped to foster strong support networks between
medicine and biomedicine students across year groups within the College, and we
hope that these will stand our members in good stead as they continue through
their degrees.
It has been a real pleasure to be President of QCMS this year, and I am grateful for
the support of my fellow committee members Emily Thompson (Vice-President)
and Annie Roberts (Treasurer). The future of the Society will be in safe hands
as the recently elected committee for 2022-23 take up their roles, with Sophie
Payne, Harry Orwell, Grace Jones, and Oliver Meek elected as President, Co-Vice-
Presidents and Treasurer respectively. We look forward to seeing how they facilitate
the continued coming together of QCMS to celebrate our shared interest in medicine
and biomedicine.
NETBALL CLUB
Captain Evelyn Turner
This year saw the return of the first full year of netball, something that QCNC took
full advantage of. Michaelmas term saw a strong start to the year as we welcomed
many new players from the first-year cohort at Queen’s, and after a rocky start losing
our first Cuppers match against Exeter College, the QCNC became a force to be
reckoned with, eventually coming middle of a table which included teams made up
of several blues players and teams that had been together longer and as a result
had been far more experienced.
Our most notable competition series came in Hilary when the College debuted
several new faces with the addition of a B team, which welcomed students such as
Raheema Sivardeen, Katrina Harrison-Gaze, and Miriam Alsop who had not played
before but proved that some dedication and hard work can make a difference.
Also, notably this term we saw the emergence of a solid term that came to dominate
the second division of Cuppers, ultimately triumphing over teams such as St Anne’s,
Lady Margaret Hall A, and Christ Church which led to our elevation into division one.
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