The Queen's College Record 2023

Rebecca Beasley (English)
This year has been devoted to working on various
collaborative projects. I have just completed a Knowledge
Exchange Fellowship with Menagerie Theatre Company,
which resulted in the creation of a play about Huntly
Carter, a founder member of the 1920s Workers’ Theatre
Movement. The play was performed in Trinity Term in
the Shulman Auditorium, and a film of the performance
will soon be up on the project’s website. The performance was one of the events
organised by the interdisciplinary network ‘Britain and the Soviet Union: Early Cultural
Encounters’, funded by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH):
other events were on dance, socialism, and imperialism (led by Queen’s Politics
Fellow, Dr Nick Owen)—events devoted to music and film follow in the coming year.
Reports and College Activities
I’ve also very much enjoyed being involved in a project researching the modern art
collections of the National Trust, a project to which two recent Queen’s students have
also been contributing. Dr Sean Ketteringham has been the postdoctoral researcher
on the project (before taking up his new post at the Henry Moore Institute), and Molly
Thatcher assisted in our project symposium. We’re working with Dr John Chu, Senior
Curator of Pictures and Sculpture at the National Trust, to bring the very extensive,
but relatively little known, modern art collections in National Trust properties to new
audiences.
Finally, I’m continuing to work on a co-edited anthology of modernist art and
literature by the so-called ‘Whitechapel Boys’ and their circle: Whitechapel Moderns:
An Anthology of Modernist Culture in London’s Jewish East End, forthcoming from
Edinburgh University Press.
Jose Carrillo (Mathematics)
My research in the 2022-2023 academic year has been
focused on advancing most of the topics of my ERC
Advanced Grant in its third year with my team of seven
Post-Doctoral Research Assistants (PDRAs) and six DPhil
students. We have obtained novel results in nonlocal Partial
Differential Equations for complex particle dynamics. More
precisely, we have worked in understanding concentration
and global existence of aggregation-diffusion equations in the fast diffusion range,
long time asymptotics in neuroscience models, parameter estimation in tissue growth
models via adhesive forces, numerical schemes for collisional plasma physics, Cahn-
Hilliard fourth-order models with competing effects, non-local approximations of
nonlinear diffusions, and interactive particle systems applied to inverse problems
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