The Queen's College Record 2023
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Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
Karen Leeder (German)<br />
I very much enjoyed my first year at Queen’s as the new<br />
Schwarz-Taylor Chair of German Language and Literature.<br />
It has been a busy year: I took over as Editor of Oxford<br />
German Studies from my predecessor Jim Reed and I am<br />
looking forward to shepherding the journal into the future.<br />
My translation of Volker Braun’s Great Fugue, together with<br />
former Queen’s tutor David Constantine, appeared, as did<br />
my translation of Monsters like us by Ulrike Almut Sandig, which was selected as<br />
one of the best translated books of 2022. Together with her poetry band Landschaft,<br />
Sandig premiered in the UK to great acclaim at the Old Fire Station and we also<br />
went to Hay Festival and Ledbury Festival, where a taster-pamphlet of her next book<br />
appeared translated by me with the striking title --- – – – --- (SOS). My edited book<br />
Ulrike Draesner: A Companion was published, and we were delighted to welcome<br />
the writer herself for a remarkable reading here at Queen’s. Trinity Term also saw the<br />
second part of my inauguration, an event at Queen’s entitled ‘German in the World’,<br />
with distinguished speakers from various walks of life including Durs Grünbein, with<br />
whom I also gave a reading. This was my last year as German Sub-Faculty Chair,<br />
so I am looking forward to having more time for my new project, ‘AfterWords’, on<br />
forms of afterness and following sponsored by a three-year Einstein Foundation<br />
Visiting Fellowship in Berlin.<br />
Simon Leedham (Clinical Sciences)<br />
I developed a module on molecular pathology for the new<br />
Genomic Medicine MSc course at the Wellcome Centre.<br />
My research focusses on the regulation of the intestinal<br />
stem cell and I published a number of articles in the area of<br />
colorectal cancer, including three which can be accessed<br />
for free: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37309673/<br />
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37495577/<br />
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35998218/<br />
Kinan Muhammed (Clinical Sciences)<br />
This past year I successfully completed recruitment<br />
for a multi-site clinical trial in dementia. I was the Chief<br />
Investigator for this national study and the results are<br />
now being reviewed. In addition, I have contributed to<br />
research publications in Brain, Brain Communications and<br />
Frontiers. <strong>The</strong>se works explored mechanisms of apathy in<br />
16 <strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong> | <strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong> <strong>2023</strong>
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