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Reports and College Activities COLLEGE PRIZES Blake Prize: Katerina Zagurova (History) First Bolus Prize: Frederick Foulston (Literae Humaniores) Second Bolus Prize: Joseph J. Wald (Classics and Modern Languages (German)), Cyrus Tehranchian (Classics with Oriental Studies) Third Bolus Prize: Katherine de Jager (Literae Humaniores) Jack Wooding Prize (for greatest contribution to the Boat Club by a firstyear undergraduate): Charlotte H. Rumney (Jurisprudence) Many Prize: Katie H. Bowen (English Language and Literature) Markheim Prize: Elizabeth Cowdrey (Modern Languages (French and Russian)), Annabel Vago (European and Middle Eastern Languages (French and Arabic)) Palmer Prize: Modern Languages (French and Spanish), Megan M. Williams (English and Modern Languages (French)) 34 The Queen’s College | College Record 2023
Credit: John Cairns FROM THE BURSAR Dr Andrew Timms Bursar The past financial year was dominated by concerns about inflation. Energy costs were initially the main worry: they had doubled (from roughly £450k to £900k per annum in an overall operating budget of nearly £11m), and forecasts ranged from the troubling to the terrifying. However, as the year wore on it became clear that the budgeted expenditure on this front was unlikely to be exceeded. This meant that we could get back to a more traditional worry—pay. The cost-of-living crisis has bitten the College’s employees particularly hard: Oxford is an acutely expensive city in which to work and live (particularly in respect of housing costs). The College accelerated several pay awards and in particular brought forward by several months its implementation of the annual increase in the Oxford Living Wage, which is an enhanced version of the national Living Wage Foundation wage for those earning the lowest salaries in College. Our lowest-paid workers have therefore probably not seen their pay eroded in real terms, but, as is common across society as a whole, many other employees are poorer now than they were a couple of years ago, and this comes against a particular backdrop of longstanding concerns about academic pay and conditions. The challenges on this front are very considerable. Reports and College Activities When I became Bursar, my predecessor told me that the College’s financial model was well positioned for periods of high inflation. The general idea is that an endowment that is heavily invested in equities will retain its purchasing power. This sounds plausible but it is not hard to find historical periods when it has not worked well. That is one way of introducing the performance of the endowment, which generated a total return of around 8%; this return comprised solid equity growth (we are almost exclusively a passive investor nowadays: discuss!), a small decrease in commercial property valuations, and a notable uplift in agricultural property. The latter relates in particular to the disposal of two parcels of land for residential development at Keresley, Coventry, which occurred after the year-end and is a pleasing conclusion to many decades of careful and patient work by the College and my predecessors. My working rule is that if an investment goal takes X decades to be achieved, the Fellows will take X minutes to plan to spend it: in that sense it may be reassuring that we have maintained our methodical and disciplined approach to the financial management of the College, noting that ‘windfalls’ like Keresley (which will generate receipts of some £25m) simply increase the amount of income the College can sustainably draw from its investments. Slow and steady wins the race. The word sustainably in the preceding paragraph points to another growing concern. The College does not currently have an express policy on environmental sustainability College Record 2023 | The Queen’s College 35
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