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The 

Wolfson Review 

2011 – 2012 No.36

Published in 2012 by Wolfson College, Cambridge 

Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB 

© Wolfson College, 2012 

Cover photograph 

Catherine Potterton (2008), Alumna, carrying the Olympic Flame 

Photographer: Keith Heppell 

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Design & print management: H2 Associates, Cambridge

The 

Wolfson Review 

2011 – 2012 No.36

Contents 

Foreword: Editor 5 

From the President 6 

Building Wolfson’s future: Bursar, Senior Tutor and Development Director 7 

Articles 

Food for thought: Vice-President 12 

Fifteen years as Praelector: Brian Cox 13 

The first boat: Norman Toms 15 

Women on the river: a cox’s tale: Madeleine Devey 17 

1970 blade returns to Wolfson: John Hughes 18 

Etched in glass: thirty years on: Nigel Ten Fleming 19 

Olympic Torch Relay: Catherine Potterton 21 

My journey to Wolfson: Curtis Sharma 23 

From Wolfson to Washington DC: Howard Veigas 24 

The Leveson Inquiry: Sinead Boucher 26 

Bong! Reflections on another visit to Wolfson: Kevin and Becky Lewis 28 

Change and continuity in the Lee Seng Tee Library: Jenny Sargent 30 

Wolfson Gardens: Returning to organic ways: Phil Stigwood 31 

Events and Societies 

Events 36 

June Event 36 

Lunchtime Seminar Series 39 

Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lecture 2012: Dickens and Shakespeare 40 

Humanities Society 42 

Science Society 43 

Wolfson Contemporary Reading Group 44 

Thesis Writing Group 45 

Music Calendar 46 

Wolfson College Student Association 48 

Language and Culture Society 49 

Noodle Club 49 

The Emeritus Fellows’ Society 50 

Career Mentoring 50 

Sport 

Wolfson Sports 52 

Badminton 52 

Basketball 52 

Capoeira 53

Cricket 53 

Table Tennis 54 

Volleyball 54 

Rowing 55 

News 

Members’ News 58 

Donations to Wolfson College 67 

Philanthropy in Action 72 

The Morrison Society 74 

Donors to the Lee Seng Tee Library 75 

Books by College Members 76 

Recent University Appointments 81 

Obituaries 82 

In Memoriam 86 

Student Record 

Freshers 2011 88 

Prizes and Studentships 89 

Degrees Awarded 91 

Membership 

College Officers 98 

New Fellows 99 

Fellows 102 

Honorary Fellows 108 

Emeritus Fellows 109 

Senior Members 110 

College Research Associates 113 

Academic Visitors 114 

College Administration 117 

Make a Donation 119 

Contact Details Update Form 121 

News Update Form 122 

Useful Information 123 

Wolfson College Prints 125 

Peter Dowling

Peter Dowling 

Foreword 

Conrad Guettler, editor 

This is the second issue of The Wolfson Review in the 

new design and again I hope you will find something 

of interest in it. As the Review comes out at the end of the 

academic year, it serves almost as a yearbook and annual 

record. For this reason, I have tried to capture, as much as 

possible, the diversity of activities, achievements and events 

at Wolfson over this past year. The Review cannot always 

be ‘of the moment’ but it felt appropriate in the year of 

the London Olympics to celebrate Catherine Potterton’s achievements on the cover and 

in the Articles section. 

This volume would not appear without the time and effort that our contributors put into 

writing their pieces and offering photographs and information. So a big thank you to you 

all! Whilst some pieces are offered, many have been invited. As Editor, I like to give authors 

free range; I try to preserve individual writing styles whenever I can. However, the funds 

for the College publications are not infinite, so I sometimes make cuts and edit texts: I trust 

I am forgiven. 

You will also note links to www.WolfsonPlus.com, our online publications website. Some 

contributions, which in past years would have appeared in print, are now accessible online 

as this mode of delivery allows us to feature more, and more frequent, news than we can 

do in print. As time goes on we would very much like to feature, online, more research news 

or updates about your scholarly interests and activities, so please stay in touch and tell 

us about them. Only then can we offer an even more varied and extensive content to all 

College members. 

editor@wolfson.cam.ac.uk 

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Foreword

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From the President 

Professor Sir Richard evans reflects on the past year 

in College. 

One of the most unusual and distinctive features of the 

College has always been its openness to the world. This 

year, as always, we have welcomed many people from the 

Cambridge community as Senior Members, as well as visiting 

academics who come to Cambridge to carry out research. 

The Press Fellowship has been particularly valuable in bringing 

international journalists to Wolfson to work on projects free from the tyranny of tight deadlines. 

Alumni and other visitors to the College may have noticed a few changes in the College’s 

appearance. Our wonderful gardens have become ever more beautiful under the stewardship of 

Phil Stigwood and his team, and even the shadiest corners of the grounds have been given their 

full attention, with a new small garden occupying the space between the Lee Hall and Toda 

House. The College’s Fine Arts Committee has been taking a close look at the distribution of 

paintings, prints and sculptures around the College, and has put on an exhibition of artworks in 

the Combination Room, with portraits and busts of the people most closely associated with it, 

telling the story of the College from its beginnings. 

Academic life remains, of course, at the heart of the College. Two of our Fellows have attained 

exceptional distinction this year. Gordon Dougan, Principal Research Scientist at the Wellcome 

Trust Sanger Institute, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work on the 

molecular basis of the infection process, genomics and the development of practical vaccines. 

And Geoffrey Khan FBA has been appointed Regius Professor of Hebrew. Our Senior Member 

Matthew Moss, Private Secretary to the Vice-Chancellor, has been appointed a Member of the 

Royal Victorian Order for his services to the University, and the work of our alumni Carrie Herbert, 

for children who are bullied at school, and Michael Harrison, for his services to policing, have 

been recognised by the award of MBEs. 

Like all other educational institutions, Wolfson continues to spend much energy on coping with 

new policy initiatives coming from the government, and a private visit by the Minister of State 

for Higher Education, David Willetts – to a two-day conference held in the College – provided 

the opportunity for some discreet lobbying over breakfast on key policy issues affecting 

universities. It would be too sanguine to hope for U-turns on all fronts, but it remains important 

to keep up the pressure all the same. 

6 The Wolfson Review 2011–2012

Building Wolfson’s future 

As Wolfson College approaches its fiftieth anniversary in 2015, three College Officers report 

on the people and resources that are helping to build Wolfson’s future. 

Christopher Lawrence, Bursar 

The Staff 

Last year we said farewell to Head Porter David Luhrs after 21 years; and this year the College 

Accountant Jonathan Beart retired after the same period. Under Jonathan’s leadership, the 

Finance department has ably administered the flow of income and expenditure, and fulfilled the 

reporting requirements of the College, the University, the Charity Commission and HMRC. 

Another College character also retired during the year: the Butler David Buck. Once you knew 

that David’s previous career had been spent in Her Majesty’s Prison Service, you understood 

better his style of managing unruly diners at Formal Hall! We were also sad to say goodbye to 

our Librarian Anna Jones, who moved to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. 

We recruited excellent replacements for these key staff from other Cambridge Colleges, 

respectively St Edmund’s (Wendy Dyce), Darwin (Ian Smith) and Gonville & Caius (Jenny Sargent). 

But it was not all one-way traffic: our Assistant Clerk of Works Phil Fordham moved to Peterhouse 

(albeit replaced by Neil Newman from Clare); and our Senior Gardener Steve Tyrrell left to become 

Head Gardener at Queens’. 

From left to right: Jane McLarty, Christopher Lawrence and Karen Stephenson. 


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The Buildings 

Wolfson has new accommodation: Barton House in Barton Close. This became available to 

student residents at the start of the 2011–2012 academic year, following extensive refurbishment 

work generously funded by the Wolfson Foundation. This houses six students, and is a welcome 

addition to our accommodation stock at a time of rising student numbers. 

In recent years, the demands on the Porters’ Lodge have increased, and in the core part of the 

day there will be three Porters: the Head Porter and Deputy Head Porter alongside the duty 

Porter. The challenge of a too-small Porters’ Lodge has been met by the creation of a new office 

for the Head Porter under the main stairs; just don’t make any jokes about ‘Harry Porter’! 

The Finances 

The College continues to live within its means, and puts students at the heart of its purpose. 

Annual turnover exceeds £5m and the endowment has passed £10m, but these are modest 

numbers by comparison with other Cambridge Colleges. The investment of the College’s 

endowment in the Cambridge University Endowment Fund continues to reap dividends and 

helps to achieve intergenerational equity between current and future students. We are gradually 

able to increase the amount spent on bursaries, prizes and grants, and we are also investing in 

the upkeep of our buildings and grounds; so important for the welfare of all those who live and 

work here. As always, the pace and scale of these investments, in both people and property, are 

affected by our financial resources. The College’s accounts are available online at www.wolfson. 

cam.ac.uk/accounts (with the 2011–2012 accounts available from mid-November). 

As always, the pace and scale of investments, in both people and 

property, are affected by our financial resources. 

Mike Wignall, Head Porter, outside his new office. 


Jane McLarty, Senior Tutor 

Over this past year the shape of things to come in graduate and undergraduate admissions has 

been emerging. 

Our graduate admissions settled down a little; we still had students without College 

accommodation in October, but fewer than 30, less than half the number in October 2010. 

We agreed a slightly lower target for MPhil offers with the University for the coming year, and 

have reined back our undergraduate offers in a further attempt to balance our numbers. 

Meanwhile, enough Colleges have expressed interest in developing accommodation in North 

West Cambridge to eventually take the pressure off Colleges, like Wolfson, wishing to remain on 

a single site. A working group is exploring the establishment of a new College based around this 

accommodation, which should reduce pressure on us to expand and allow us to concentrate on 

consolidating our position as the leading College (in my view!) for graduates in Cambridge. 

In the face of the fee rise, we saw a drop in undergraduate applications but not to the extent we 

had feared. Nationally the slump in mature applications was about 13%, and about 5% for 

Cambridge. The drop has not been even across the subjects: as one might expect, Arts & 

Humanities have suffered more than the Sciences, which remain strong for us, particularly 

because of our involvement with the Graduate Medical Course. The College will need to 

become more active in outreach if we wish to maintain our UK undergraduate numbers – 

much of our buoyancy in undergraduate admissions has been down to strong overseas 

applications. Changes in funding to Access Courses (for mature returners to education) mean 

that they are no longer Government-funded for people over 24, who from the coming academic 

year will need to take out a student loan to fund their study. We therefore need to convince 

potential applicants that a Cambridge degree is not solely for the 18-year old upper class (still 

the persistent image in the media) and also persuade them of the value even of an Arts degree 

in the workplace. In partnership with the other mature Colleges, we have appointed two Mature 

Outreach Ambassadors (both recent mature graduates) to work with the Cambridge Admissions 

Office in recruiting UK applicants. We have also started work on cementing relationships with 

our local Further Education Colleges by hosting a dinner at which we gave a presentation 

demystifying the applications process. 

From 2015 the first batch of UK undergraduates will embark on PhD 

study carrying substantial debt from their first degree. 

Our re-vamped website will, we hope, help in student recruitment. We have a lot to offer our 

students in both personal and financial support. We have a strong team of Tutors; this year we lost 

Anna Jones, Martin Wolf and Marie Lovatt but gained Michelle St Clair, Martin Vestergaard, Margaret 

Greeves and Anna Bagnoli. We have made grants over the year totalling some £50k for hardship 

and travel, and next year the budget will increase to £65k. There are still challenges ahead; for 

instance, from 2015 the first batch of UK undergraduates will embark on PhD study carrying 

substantial debt from their first degree. Our strategic plan will need to address such challenges. 


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Karen Stephenson, Development Director 

“Be the change you want to see in the world” 

Gandhi’s sentiment could be a watchword for the members of Wolfson College. The changes 

that Wolfson’s students and researchers are making every day are bringing about cures for 

disease, new understandings of history, technological advances and blueprints for political 

improvement on an international scale. 

The work of our students and the collaborations they form at Wolfson – both within and outside 

their fields of study – will bring about change for the good in the UK and around the world. It is 

for this reason that support for Wolfson’s students is the main focus of our forthcoming 50th 

anniversary campaign. 

Much of the moderately increased support which we are able to give to our students – in terms 

of bursaries, prizes, hardship funds and conference travel grants – is only possible because of the 

generosity of our donors. This year, our benefactors have given over £150k to support Wolfson’s 

students. In addition, there have been donations in support of the Library, the musical life of the 

College, the gardens, sport and numerous other areas of importance. 

Much of the support which we are able to give to our students is only 

possible because of the generosity of our donors. A donation to 

Wolfson does not have to be vast to make a real difference. 

Our donors have made the meaningful choice to enable progress and change for the better with 

their support. Many of their gifts take the form of regular donations of £10 or £20 a month: a 

donation to Wolfson does not have to be vast to make a real difference. Our endowment 

fund is well managed but it stands at just over £10m: 27th out of the 31 Cambridge Colleges. 

Every penny we receive has an impact on our ability to improve the lives of those who live and 

study here. 

Without support, we will not be able to fund the brightest students from poorer backgrounds; 

and among them might be the individual who will find the cure for a deadly disease or be a 

peacemaker between nations. 

We must hold our nerve in these difficult financial times, and renew our drive to increase our 

resources for such support. Please help us to continue the excellent work that previous 

generations have started. 

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Food for thought 

John Naughton, Vice-President 

Seventeen years ago, Columbia Professor Eli Noam published 

a prescient essay on ‘Electronics and the Dim Future of the 

University’ in the journal Science (Vol. 270, pp 247–249, 13 

October 1995). In it Noam mused about what would happen 

to the traditional model of the university once networking 

technology really got into its stride. 

As Noam put it, the university was a (physical) place which housed scholars and the knowledge that 

was locked up in their heads or in the books held by the institution’s libraries. If students wished to 

access that knowledge then they had no option but to travel to the university and reside there. 

This, Noam argued, was the template for a ’university’ that had endured for 2,500 years. The 

question he posed was what would happen once technology transformed ways of 

communicating knowledge and dissolved the limitations of geography? What would be the 

justifications for gathering people together, at great public and private expense, in physical 

institutions when most of what they needed – in terms of teaching material and resources – 

could be obtained in cyberspace? 

It was a good question in 1995 and it’s an even better one today. Across the world, public 

universities are having increasing difficulty coming up with a convincing answer. And as they 

struggle, multi-national corporations are avidly contemplating a huge market that they see as 

ripe for exploitation. But, funnily enough, there is at least one place where Professor Noam’s 

question is being answered on a daily basis – the Wolfson Dining Hall. 

Why? Because the main justification for the age-old model of the university is that if you put lots 

of clever people in close proximity, they will learn almost as much from one another as they do 

from lectures. And anyone who comes to breakfast, lunch or dinner in Wolfson sees that process 

in action all the time. 

Of course, this also happens in other Oxbridge Colleges. But one aspect makes Wolfson special: 

we don’t have a High Table to separate Fellows from students, so the interdisciplinary exchanges 

that happen over meals are richer and more varied here than they are elsewhere. And this isn’t 

an accident: when the College was founded, its first President, John Morrison, explicitly 

stipulated that it should not have a High Table. This raised a lot of Cambridge eyebrows at the 

time, but it was one of the wisest decisions he ever made. 


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Fifteen years as Praelector 


Brian Cox reflects on his experiences as 

College Praelector since 1997. 

Fifteen years? I cannot believe that I have 

carried out this role on behalf of the College 

for so long. Calculating the numbers of 

students that I have presented as Praelector 

gave me a big surprise. In the 47 years since 

the College was founded, a total of 6,349 

members have been awarded degrees; of that 

number, 4,614 have been presented in person 

and to date it has been my privilege to present 

66% of these (3,046). When I first became 

Praelector in 1997, the number of degrees 

awarded in that academical year was 163. 

Last year the number had more than doubled 

to 357, and by the end of this academical year 

that total will have been exceeded. 

At my first Congregation I had the Latin required taped inside my square [mortarboard]. As I doffed 

my square to the assembled company in the Senate House, there in front of my eyes was the script 

in large font – but upside down! A rapid re-orientation of the mortarboard was required. 

It has been quite interesting to watch the other Praelectors perform, some with aplomb, some 

with exaggerated gestures and some, for whom it is the first time, with such evident stage fright 

that they lose their Latin crib or forget the words. This indeed is theatre! 

The majority of those reading this article will be familiar with the ceremony, as they themselves 

have taken part. They will also be aware that I go to great pains to make sure that they are 

correctly dressed, as the Proctors will take every opportunity to fine me a bottle of port if there is 

any infringement of the strict dress code or presentation procedure. It does seem to me that the 

Proctors become much more twitchy later in the academical year when their aim is to make sure 

that the requisite number of bottles are available for the end of year dinner! To date, after over 

120 ceremonies, I have only been fined three bottles; and one of those was due to a graduand 

who, when kneeling to receive his degree, revealed that he was wearing odd socks – of course, 

only the black sock had been displayed to me when I inspected him! 

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At each Congregation I hope that there are no disasters. There were two memorable 

Congregations when the unexpected occurred. On one occasion when I was presenting a 

graduand for an MA, a leg fell off the Vice-Chancellor’s Deputy’s throne, and the unfortunate 

incumbent pitched onto the floor. The Esquire Bedell (John Williams – a University Safety Officer!) 

and I rushed forward and assisted the unhurt gentleman to his feet as he muttered he would “do 

the rest standing up”. However a replacement throne was found and the proceedings 

recommenced. 

Then, on an unusually hot day in the Senate House, an elderly lady in the front row fainted due 

to the combination of her medication for high blood pressure and the heat, and was laid out on 

the floor by the St John Ambulance personnel who are now present at all Congregations. The 

proceedings continued unaffected. My anxiety (apart from concern for the lady) was that the 

photographs of the ceremony would show the graduand receiving their degree with the lady 

prone on the floor beside them. But I did not need to worry, the photograph did not, although it 

did show most of the audience looking, not at the person receiving their degree, but towards 

the lady on the floor! 

Fifteen years of arranging the proceedings for Congregations, entertaining the guests and 

presenting the graduands has been enjoyable, if hard work, and I hope to be able to continue to 

serve the College as Praelector for some time to come. 


The first boat 

Norman Toms (1967), Alumnus 

The story of University (now Wolfson) College Boat Club is the story of Kathy Rader – an all- 

American girl who arrived in Barton Close in 1967 determined to live the ‘Cambridge experience’ 

to the full. Kathy was an exuberant girl from Philadelphia – she arrived with her mother (her 

chaperone, social guide and fellow conspirator). Mrs Rader would lay out her plans for the ideal 

social life for Kathy – and herself – over drinks in the bar. The idea of rowing appealed immensely 

to Kathy. The fact that the College lacked a Boat Club, a Boat House, a boat, or anyone who 

would admit to ever having rowed were minor obstacles. So one day early in 1968, Kathy 

appeared in the bar with a senior member of Trinity Boat Club in tow and the promise of a 

boat. Four other women joined in her enthusiasm – Ginny Bunker, Elaine Miller and Suzanne 

Cory were keen to row and Maria Lukianowicz was willing to cox. They felt that some heavier 

muscle in the stern of the boat might be advantageous. Lachlan McDonald and Dave Richardson 

were competitive weightlifters, and we later found that Heinz Lemke had won several high level 

competitions in the same sport. I was heavy and looked as if a bit of training might equip me to 

row, and John Goodman was game for anything. 

As the ‘mixed boat’ became notorious, we received hints that we were not welcome on the 

river. Our presence in Trinity’s Boat House had become an embarrassment to our hosts, and 

they requested that we find another home. Fortunately, John Shaw was a Fellow of University 

College and a respected member of Corpus Christi Boat Club. He managed to procure another 

boat and a home that tolerated us as long as we stayed out of the way of the serious teams. 

We were rowing with blades donated by Corpus, but obviously needed our own colours. 

We decided on blue and yellow (gold); the University College colours and the colours of Maria’s 

native Ukraine. 


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In the meantime, local vicar the Reverend 

R N Evans offered his services as coach 

and began to get our unlikely crew 

into adequate shape for the Mays. We 

were strong, if unskillful, and his patient 

encouragement enabled us, in the words 

of the Cambridge News, to ‘thrash our 

way along the course’ slightly less slowly 

than others. 

Finally on Friday 31 May 1968, the boat 

splashed its way to the start of the 

Getting-On race. There were 15 boats 

and 10 places available, and at the end, 

University College was on the river in 

the penultimate position. We made two 

or three bumps – enough to silence our 

most vocal detractors. 

One positive outcome of the adventure was that, shortly thereafter, female coxes became a 

common sight on the river. 

More on this article is available on www.WolfsonPlus.com 


Women on the river: a cox’s tale 

Madeleine Devey (1970), Former Fellow 

My involvement with College rowing started in the Michaelmas Term of 1970 following 

‘careless talk’ at the Freshers’ party, where I let slip to Geoff Galluzzo (then Captain of Boats) 

that I had previous coxing ‘experience’. This actually consisted of a single appearance as cox 

of an all-women’s Darwin II crew. This was only the third time they had rowed together and 

the second time I had ever coxed. We came last. As far as Geoff was concerned this was 

experience enough, and early the following morning I found myself out on the river with 

University College (UC)’s first boat, a ‘mixed’ eight (well, me and eight men). 

Most of the time, I didn’t have a clue as to what I should be doing, but I had a loud voice and 

seemed to be able to manage the bends! The oarsmen, however, were marvellous: John Olley was 

an outstanding stroke and we had an ‘international’ crew consisting of Roger Tallentire (Canada), 

Juan Bordas (Spain), Peachy Khama (Botswana), Geoff Galluzzo, Peter Markl (Germany), Mike 

Bucknell and Steve Heavens. We had to suffer considerable abuse from the towpath, mainly from 

the Churchill coach, who used to call us ‘hermaphrodites’. In the 1971 Lents, we caught the boat in 

front and made our bump within minutes and this was repeated on the following three days – it 

seemed so easy to win our oars! We had, therefore, very high hopes for the Mays, where we started 

out at 14th in Division Four. However on day one, due to an ‘over bump’ in front, we rowed over. 

The following day, despite a crab at the start and an overlap by the boat behind, we just managed 

to make our own bump first – which was pretty exciting. We made bumps on both the following 

two days, including Caius III; apparently the very first time UC had bumped a College third boat. 

Our second boat also did well in Division Eight, having three bumps and a row over. 

We never managed to repeat our triumph during 1972. It seems from a letter I wrote home 

at the time that we had major equipment problems: “bits keep falling off the boat, which is 

upsetting for the rowers, and it also leaks – being half full of water on several occasions – 

luckily most of us can swim!” 


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1970 blade returns to Wolfson 

John hughes (1969) travelled from Canada to Cambridge 

this year, generously donating his blade from the 1970 May 

Bumps – very well earned with no less than two over 

bumps! here he recounts his story. 

I was delighted to return my 1970 blade to Wolfson. It was a 

long journey – which involved carefully sawing the blade in 

half, securing it in a ski bag, and transporting it by road and air 

from Vancouver to Wolfson College! I am very pleased to hear 

that it will be varnished and hinged, to hang at its full length in 

the Club Room. 

We were the College’s first ever mixed boat to win blades, and the crew was made up of those 

with some previous rowing experience and those who played squash for Wolfson. Clearly a 

winning combination! 


Etched in glass: thirty years on 

Nigel Ten Fleming (1980) kindly hosted a 2011 alumni 

reception for Wolfson members at his home in San 

Francisco. Now living near Barcelona, he tells the story of 

his boat house etchings which still take pride of place on 

the glass door of the Fort St George pub, on Cambridge’s 

Midsummer Common. 

While living in a flat in Chesterton, in 1982, and commuting 

by bicycle to the new Addenbrooke’s Hospital and to events 

at Wolfson, I frequently passed the Fort St George pub. It just 

so happened that an extraordinary group, led by the merry 

publican and his wife, used to sup beer at this venerable 

establishment, sometimes long after closing, and they had invited me into their brewy bosom 

(later, all 20 of them moved as one to the Algarve). I had been deeply moved by the engraved 

glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and started playing with glass engraving. 

I began by fooling with hydrofluoric acid and beeswax, which was devilishly toxic, and gave that 

up. Then the dentist father of my hot-headed girlfriend gave me a dental drill and bits and, 


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together with an old washing machine motor, I crafted it into an 

engraving tool. Not elegant, but it really hummed! I started with 

an ear, nose and throat study for my ENT surgeon neighbour, then 

a host of studies on vases of views through holes in roofs, and other 

peculiarities. I had also been very enchanted by the College boat 

houses along the Cam, and that summer embarked on a lengthy 

sketching project of the boat houses, with a view to a larger piece. 

When I mentioned it to the publican, after at least one or two brews 

late one night, he offered me the grand sum of £25 for the finished 

article. And to my great surprise, the piece still stands! 


Samsung and Jonathan Syer 

Olympic Torch Relay 

Catherine Potterton (2008), Alumna 

Every time that I tell someone that I will be part of the Olympic Torch Relay, I feel a little taller. 

This is a big thing when you are 4’10”. The most important thing to me, though, is that I was 

granted this honour by the University of Cambridge itself. 

When I was 19, I became a Trustee of the Brittle Bone Society (BBS). The Society exists to support 

people with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI, Brittle Bones) – a genetic condition which affects the 

body’s collagen, and causes, among other things, bone fragility and deformity. I have OI, and was 

supported by the BBS during my early years. As the youngest Trustee by at least 25 years, I was 

made responsible for Youth. I consulted with the young people of the Society, and discovered 

that they felt that they were not supported during their transition into adulthood. 

To rectify this, I created an annual youth weekend event called VOICE, now in its third year. 

VOICE is designed to encourage those aged 16–30 living with OI to work towards independent 

living through peer support and expert advice. 

The pilot VOICE event coincided with my second year of reading Politics, Psychology and 

Sociology at Wolfson. Cambridge was the answer to an unspoken prayer, the place where 

I finally felt that I belonged. It is hard to be ‘different’ when everyone is a little bit special. 

I was lucky enough to live in Toda House, which had a wonderful communal atmosphere. 

When raising money for the BBS, I was sponsored by many staff, Fellows and friends 

at Wolfson. 

In 2011, just before I graduated, the BBS 

nominated me for a Student Volunteering 

Award and Cambridge’s Committee on 

Community Activities selected me and two 

other students as Gold Award winners. When 

Samsung were looking for Torchbearers, they 

approached the University and asked it to 

nominate three people who had ‘gone the extra 

mile in volunteering’. We were their choice. In 

December, we attended a dinner hosted by 

Samsung at which I was one of three people 

interviewed by Olympic Medallist Sally Gunnell 

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Keith Heppell 

Afterword: 

Carrying the Olympic Flame was quite an experience. After a quick briefing, my group of Torchbearers 

were herded onto a bus and then shuttled around the route, each person being dropped off at a 

designated spot. Eventually it was my turn to be deposited at the side of the road. As the convoy of 

police officers, sponsors and media approached, I tore myself away from the cameras, and thus began 

the longest and shortest five minutes of my life. I really cannot put it into words. Being cheered and 

clapped by hundreds of strangers just for being me… it felt unreal and undeserved but also 

completely exhilarating. It was truly an unforgettable and once-in-a-lifetime experience. 


My journey to Wolfson 

When Curtis Sharma (2011) arrived in London from Trinidad 

in 2005, he had no idea that, after several years as a busker 

on the London Underground, he would become a member 

of Wolfson College studying for a degree in Linguistics. 

here he tells us about his journey. 

“I believe that as mature students we have distinct advantages 

in that we have lived life to some extent and that our 

experience equips us to make conscious decisions in pursuit 

of our academic goals”, he says. “This has certainly worked for 

me, and I’m now fulfilling a lifelong dream of studying at one 

of the best universities in the world.” 

From 2005, when he came to London from Trinidad, until September 2011, Curtis had been a 

singer/songwriter and a busker on the London Underground. “I found this immensely rewarding 

in many ways,” he said. “However I always regretted not having studied at university. In 2008, I 

decided to do something about that. It being many years since I had left formal education, I set 

about finding out what qualification I would need to begin a BA in Linguistics, my chosen 

subject.” He was able to pursue an affordable and credible Access to Higher Education Diploma 

in Humanities and Social Science in which he obtained a distinction. 

It was his intention to aim high. A Mature Student Open Day at Cambridge early in 2009 proved 

invaluable. “I was able to visit the different mature Colleges,” he says, “and attend talks that would 

prove very helpful in understanding what the University of Cambridge looks for in a student, and 

whether it was right for me. I also attended an Open Day relevant to my chosen subject.” Curtis 

then applied to the College he thought would best suit his needs and desires: Wolfson. 

“It was one of the happiest days of my life when I received the offer of a place at Wolfson”, he 

says. The bursaries he received from the College and the University made, he said, “a strenuous 

financial situation manageable”. He now lives in family accommodation at Wolfson College with 

his partner and child and is “glad to continue to enjoy the amazing support Wolfson provides. 

Every day I wake up with a smile knowing that many years after leaving school, through Wolfson 

College, I am making my academic dreams come true.” 


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From Wolfson to Washington DC 

howard Veigas (2008), a Superintendent with 

Derbyshire Police, graduated from Wolfson with 

a Masters in Applied Criminology and Police 

Management. he fulfilled an ambition to obtain 

a relevant qualification whilst a serving Officer, 

and received an invitation to be a guest speaker 

in Washington DC. 

“I was very fortunate to be selected by my Chief 

Constable (Mick Creedon) to study at Wolfson for 

two years on the Police Executive Programme”, 

he says. “I had plenty of thoughts about my thesis 

but only after speaking with my advisor Professor 

Sherman did ideas begin to form. His decision 

to place me under the supervision of Dr Cynthia 

Lum was the real start of my journey.” 

Dr Lum is Deputy Director of Criminology at George Mason University in Washington DC. In 

August 2011, the University’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy held a symposium and 

leadership workshop, bringing together international academics and a wide variety of USA 

police departments. The goal was to create a training module for police leaders on evidencebased 

policing by making science more practical and practice more scientific. 

The Evidence-Based Policing Matrix (the Matrix, www.policingmatrix.org) was designed by 

Dr Lum and others in 2009. It is a research-to-practice interactive online translation tool that 

categorises and displays all experimental and quasi-experimental research on police and crime 

reduction intersections between three common dimensions of crime prevention. It is constantly 

updated and indicates that proactive, place-based and specific policing approaches reduce 

crime more than individual-based, reactive and general strategies. 

Mr Veigas’ thesis was the first to apply the Matrix systematically across a range of Derbyshire’s 

patrol strategies. This identified a more evidence-based approach to patrol, which could reduce 

officer workload and lead to more judicious deployment. 

“I had applied science in a practical way and this was the basis for our presentation: Dr Lum 

being the scientist and I the practitioner. I adapted the Matrix to allow me to quantify the 


strengths of 22 patrol functions, helping to focus on how my police organisation structured 

its patrol portfolio.” 

Dr Lum elaborates: “We invited Superintendent Veigas to our symposium to showcase these 

innovative efforts to 75 of the top police chiefs and commanders in the region. His presentation 

was very well received and was videotaped for future training.” 

Mr Veigas continues: “My message to the police leaders was simply to apply the Matrix to 

their own portfolio of patrol tactics, increasing the strategic knowledge of their staff in how 

evidence-based policing can assist. It will provide operational managers with another tool 

to reduce crime.” 


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The Leveson Inquiry 

Sinead Boucher (2011) is the Group Digital 

editor for Fairfax Media and runs New Zealand’s 

biggest news website, www.stuff.co.nz. Together 

with her other Press Fellows Chris Arsenault, 

a Doha-based reporter, and Georg Schedereit, 

a journalist from Merano, she participated in a 

discussion at Wolfson on ‘Phone-hacking, media 

ethics and the Leveson Inquiry: an International 

perspective’. here she shares her own views. 

On the other side of the world, coverage of the 

star-studded line-up giving evidence to the 

Leveson Inquiry has titillated and shocked the 

New Zealand and Australian public. The inquiry 

has been almost as well reported there as here 

in the UK. 

But we in the media down-under fear that the impact of the inquiry on our part of the world is 

likely to be more permanent than the public’s interest in who listened to whose messages. In the 

midst of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, the New Zealand and Australian 

governments both launched reviews of their countries’ press industries, currently robustly 

self-regulated. In New Zealand, the government sought to throw a lasso around the ‘wild west’ of 

the internet, as the Minister then in charge put it, in the age of bloggers and the blurring of the 

traditional lines defining who were publishers or journalists. 

But the New Zealand Law Commission did make specific mention of Leveson and phonehacking 

as it laid out the wider context in which it will conduct its review. It has now asked for 

public submissions on its recommendations of a new, government-appointed, body to regulate 

the press. 

Government regulation is not only unnecessary, but also a step away 

from the independence and freedom of the press we value so highly. 

It seems inevitable that the wider perceptions of our media and how it should be controlled will 

have been coloured by the revelations of a morally and ethically suspect relationship between 

the British press, politics and police. No doubt many politicians will also welcome the chance to 

take a hand in controlling the pesky press that can make their lives so uncomfortable. 


Michelle Heydon 

The Press Council is respected and feared in our industry. No editor wishes to have to defend a 

complaint about a story and certainly no editor wishes to be forced to print a correction or 

apology. Beyond that, the press is as subject to the same laws of the land as the rest of the 

population. 

Government regulation is not only unnecessary, but also a step away from the independence 

and freedom of the press we value so highly. 


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Bong! Reflections on another visit to Wolfson 

Kevin and Becky Lewis (Visiting Fellows, January–June 2012) 

Bong! College Butler Ian Smith, well-rehearsed, hits the gong in the Combination Room, 

announces procession into Formal Hall and reminds us, “no cameras, turn off mobiles”. 

Formal Halls are among the many activities Becky and I have come to cherish. We were 

Visiting Fellows here to pursue research and writing, our ‘work’. But College life in its collegial 

richness is what draws us to Wolfson. 

Here for six months, January through June, thanks in part to support from my Provost and 

Arts and Sciences Dean at the University of South Carolina, we luckily landed in the Morrison 

House flat. 

We’ve enjoyed Music and Madeira evenings, Formal Halls, Humanities Society seminars and 

Wednesday lunchtime talks. The Emeritus Fellows’ day trip to the Henry Moore studios was 

a treat. And I even made a clumsy attempt trying to waltz at Susie Hoelgaard’s Tea Dance 

in the Lee Hall! Oh well. 


Becky hosted a punting picnic party for 18 guests on a cold Sunday in May – bringing together 

friends from our year in Durham in 1985–1986, dispersed now in the UK and Canada. 

But ‘work’: in the first three months I completed and submitted to a religion journal a first effort 

in the field of hermeneutics and interpretation theory and worked on early Jacques Derrida, Paul 

Tillich and John Calvin. I benefitted from helpful contacts and seminars in the Divinity Faculty, 

and from attendance at philosophy seminars. 

Becky, our travel blogger, coached over to the Other Place to research a neglected memoir 

by a nineteenth-century writer, Ursula Wylie Roberts. We have both worked up proposals for 

presentations at the next annual meeting of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association, 

in California. 

But, ah, to balance the academic with the civilizing social and cultural. So many renewed and 

new friendships here have helped! Meals in the homes of gracious members drew us around 

Cambridgeshire. We were driven to shop and into the countryside. 

Occasional seminars at CRASSH [Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities] 

and services in St John’s figured on our calendar. Pub curry at The Granta, cheeseburger at The 

Mitre and fish at the Rice Boat: empowering. We are devoted to the friendly deli in Newnham. 

Whilst well-quartered in Wolfson, we managed a nicely-balanced amount of travel; to London, 

to friends and theatre. But also by train to Cumbria and Shropshire to visit dispersed housemates 

from my Cambridge years in the sixties, to friends in Wales, and to present a paper in Ilkley. We 

attended a tribute to our late filmmaker daughter in an arts theatre in Newcastle. And twice we 

took the Eurostar to renew friendships, including Ben-Ami and Lena Shillony, former Visiting 

Fellows, in Paris. 

Not only members of the College made our residence special again, but also such goodhumoured, 

helpful College staff: ever-genial porters, cleaners, Marilyn Motley in Accommodation, 

and the irrepressible Mick Radford among the maintenance crew. Thank you all. 


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Change and continuity in the 

Lee Seng Tee Library 

Jenny Sargent, Lee Librarian, writes about this year’s 

activities in the Lee Library. 

In last year’s Review, Anna Jones (Lee Librarian 2005–2012) 

reflected on the many opportunities our students have to 

access good quality information online, along with the 

challenges of finding, evaluating and organising this 

information. During the Michaelmas Term, Anna hosted 

three lunchtime workshops exploring a variety of online 

tools which can help to overcome these challenges. The first looked at reference management 

tools for storing and organising bibliographical references; the second explored ways in which 

it is possible to keep up-to-date with developments in a particular field online, such as utilising 

social networking sites for academic purposes, and subscribing to email and RSS alerts; the 

third workshop looked at a number of cloud-based (not workstation specific) facilities for 

bookmarking and tagging websites, and for creating notes and lists. Raising awareness of 

such tools is important, as they can help our students to study more efficiently. 

Despite the increasing amount of course and research material available online, the Library 

reading rooms remain popular places to study, and the book stock continues to be used 

heavily. Maintaining and developing the resources and continuing to improve the physical 

space and environment for study are as important as ever. Such improvements needn’t be 

on a grand scale; one very popular innovation this year was the purchase of two dozen 

desk-top book stands, which help readers to study more comfortably. Equally popular has 

been the installation of a dozen lockers in the basement area of the building, to be used for 

temporary storage of belongings for library users, particularly those who live off-site or study 

at Wolfson part-time. The transferral of recreational non-fiction and novels to open-access 

shelving in the Lee Room has created space for volumes in the upstairs reading room, and 

enabled a more intuitive arrangement of the collection. 

At the end of the Lent Term, Anna left to take up the post of Whipple Librarian, across the river 

at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. As her successor, I made the journey in 

the opposite direction, coming to Wolfson from Gonville & Caius College, where I had been an 

Assistant Librarian for five and a half years. My hope is to continue Anna’s fine work, maintaining 

and developing a library service which is a valued resource for the Wolfson community. 


Wolfson Gardens: Returning to organic ways 

head Gardener Phil Stigwood describes recent changes in College gardening practices. 

In the last few years we have been returning to more traditional gardening practices, to improve 

the health of the soil and increase its water-holding capacity. 

Healthy soil contains millions of microscopic microbes (fungi and bacteria) which interact with 

plants and grass roots, making nutrients available and encouraging a bigger, deeper root system. 

We call it ‘feeding the soil’, which in turn feeds the plants. We nourish the soil with organic, 

College-made compost, leaf mould and organic lawn feeds – manure and molasses-based 

nitrogen with added microbes. 

In the past, chemical lawn feeds were used that fed the grass but not the soil, discouraging 

microbial activity and soil fertility. This led to lawns which ‘die off’ in dry summer periods, due to 

shallow rooting and a build up of thatch; a sponge-like, dead layer on the surface that prevents 

air and water penetrating the soil. Lawns are now top-dressed with leaf mould (decomposed 

leaves) to improve organic matter and encourage the microbes to break down the unwanted 

thatch layer. 

When planting new borders, we incorporate lots of home-made compost. This helps the plants 

establish a vigorous root system and improves water retention and microbial growth. It also 

provides a steady, slow-release feed for the plants. Compost is also applied to the soil in the 

borders annually, where the worms digest it and drag it down to the root zone. 

If you have been enjoying the many hundreds of new plants in the College gardens, say a big 

thank you to our microscopic friends in the soil, as well as to the larger members of the garden 

team, for making the gardens look so beautiful all year round. 


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events and Societies 



Events 

This year’s events for Wolfson members and friends began with the alumni reunion in College at 

the end of September. October saw a dinner in the name of our first Bursar, Jack King, with 

honoured guests from the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Foundation, Inc. 

In November, our benefactors Santander Universities hosted a magnificent event in Madrid, and 

in January our annual reception was held at London’s Oxford and Cambridge Club. In February 

we met alumni in Dublin and hosted a Half-Way Drinks party in College for students. March saw 

a splendid, if chilly, boat-naming ceremony, as well as the installation of the new Chancellor of 

the University, Lord Sainsbury, and in April our Beijing Local Group held a lively gathering. 

Summer was equally busy, with our May Bumps marquee, Benefactors’ Reception, Garden Party 

and June Event. 

Thank you to everyone who attended; we hope you made some interesting connections. 

Stop Press: 

We will be holding a Varsity rugby event at Twickenham on 6 December. For further details 

and to book online, please go to www.Rugby2012.WolfsonEvents.com 

June Event 

Tamara hornik (2009), Student 

This year’s theme was ‘Elementa’: air, earth, fire and water. Each 

area of the College was decorated as one of the elements, and 

related entertainments, food and drinks were available. Guests 

feasted on hog roast, barbecue, Thai curry and sushi. Charitable 

donations from this year’s event benefited East Anglia’s 

Children’s Hospices (EACH) and IntoUniversity. 

As well as the usual favourites, such as dodgems and a casino, 

a range of new activities kept guests entertained, including an 

Oxygen bar, helicopter simulator, crazy golf, ice rink and fish 

foot spa. The highlight of the evening was Wolfson’s longawaited 

firework display, a spectacular ten-minute affair from 

the roof of the main building. 


2011 REUNION BEIJING 

BENEFACTORS' RECEPTION HALF-WAY DRINKS 


GARDEN PARTY 

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BOAT-NAMING CEREMONY 

LONDON 

38 The Wolfson Review 2011–2012 

ELECTION OF NEW 

CHANCELLOR 

DUBLIN MAY BUMPS MARQUEE

Lunchtime Seminar Series 

Meredith hale (2009), Fellow 

The 2011–2012 Wolfson Lunchtime Seminar Series featured 22 speakers drawn from the College 

– Fellows, Senior Members and students – as well as visiting academics and guest speakers. As 

always, our speakers represented a wide range of academic disciplines, with lectures covering 

subjects as diverse as the effects of school bullying (Dr Maria Ttofi) and a history of fog in 

literature (Dr Christine Corton) to the gender politics of Tango (Dr Emily Bernhard Jackson) and 

the Taliban in Pakistan (Dr David Gosling). 

The sciences were represented by Dr Virginia Newcombe, who discussed MRI and traumatic 

brain injury; Uven Chong, who considered the air quality and climate impacts of London buses; 

Vojtech Olle, who examined optical sources capable of power generation; Dr Michael Stone, 

who considered the audio ‘Loudness War’; Dr Sam Aaron, who examined the synthesis of music; 

and Dr Peter Sewell on the multifaceted nature of multiprocessors. 

Historical and literary subjects included Dr Christina Skott on Linnaeus and human diversity; 

Dr Felicia Gordon of Anglia Ruskin University on the entry of women into the professions in Belle 

Époque France; Professor Sam Lieu, a Visiting Fellow from Macquarie University, Sydney, who 

discussed Christian and Manichaean art in medieval China; Dr Ian Gordon of Anglia Ruskin 

University on the poet Anne Stevenson; Professor Margaret Pearson of Skidmore College, New 

York, on ancient divination texts and the modern scholar; Dr Michael Hrebeniak on William 

Carlos Williams’ poem ‘The Great Figure’ (1921) and its representation on canvas by Charles 

Demuth in 1928; Dr Margaret Shepherd, who discussed emigration from Cumberland and 

Westmorland before 1914; and Sebastian Keibek, who examined the revisionist view of the 

Industrial Revolution. 

Politics and current events were discussed by Sir Tony Brenton, who considered the possibility of 

a ‘Russian Spring’; Juan Pablo Scarfi, who discussed US hegemony in the Americas from 1898– 

1933; Matthew Harris, who considered the media’s response to the Duchess of Cambridge’s 

choice of charities; and Dr Andrea Cantone, who addressed the subject of how one can turn an 

idea into a commercial success. 




Graham Haber 

Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lecture 2012: 

Dickens and Shakespeare 

Professor Michael Slater, emeritus Professor of 

Victorian Literature at Birkbeck College, University 

of London, delivered the fifth annual Lee Seng Tee 

Distinguished Lecture on 3 May 2012. The series was 

endowed by Dr Lee Seng Tee on the occasion of the 

College’s 40th anniversary in 2005; recordings of all 

the lectures are available at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/ 

seminars/lee-lecture. here are extracts from this 

year’s lecture. 

A dinner guest in Book One of Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend is named only as ‘a poem on 

Shakespeare’. This points us towards Dickens’ irreverent attitude towards the elaborate 

Shakespeare Tercentenary celebrations that were taking place at the time. A reluctant Vice- 

President of the national Tercentenary Committee, Dickens opposed the erection of a 

Shakespeare statue. The poet’s ‘best monument’, he declared, was in his work and he deplored 

‘the hawking about of his great name and fame’. His earlier mockery in Nicholas Nickleby of Mrs 

Wititterly’s fatuous enthusiasm for ‘that dear little dull house he [Shakespeare] was born in’ shows 

what Dickens thought of such Shakespearian shrines. But he did delight in places associated 

with Shakespearian characters or with events in the plays; thus Dickens loved the fact that his 

home for the last 12 years of his life, Gad’s Hill Place near Rochester, stood upon the very spot 

where Falstaff and his followers robbed the Canterbury pilgrims in Henry IV Part One. It was 

Shakespeare the creative artist, the ‘great master who knew everything’, that Dickens 

worshipped, not the historical individual. He rejoiced that so little was known about 

Shakespeare’s life thus allowing it to remain ‘a fine mystery’ and he professed to live in fear of 

new biographical discoveries. He thanked God that Shakespeare had had no Boswell [Samuel 

Johnson’s biographer] ‘otherwise society would not have respected his grave but would have 

had his skull in the phrenological shop-window’. 

It was Shakespeare the creative artist that Dickens worshipped, not 

the historical individual. 

Dickens had an endless relish for Shakespeare’s language and huge admiration for his ability to 

create such a vast array of living characters (‘those great images of nature’) which he delighted to 

see embodied by a great artist such as his beloved and admired actor friend William Charles 

Macready, ‘the eminent tragedian’. Speaking at the Garrick Club in 1854 on the occasion of 


Shakespeare’s birthday, Dickens declared he and his fellow diners were celebrating not only the 

birthday of the Bard himself but also that of Hamlet, Falstaff and a host of other immortal 

characters, effortlessly reeling off a list of names, each one with a relevant quotation attached. 

Dickens would have first learned about Shakespeare from his father, who loved to quote him, 

and from seeing performances (humorously recalled by him in his essay ‘Dullborough Town’) by 

strolling players in the little Rochester theatre during his childhood. Later, he read Shakespeare 

and works of Shakespearian scholarship in the British Museum Reading Room and went 

regularly to productions by Macready, Samuel Phelps and other leading Shakespearian actors. 

Later still, he was to become a passionate admirer of Charles Fechter’s revolutionary version 

of Hamlet. 

All Dickens’ writings, fictional and non-fictional, are saturated with Shakespearian quotations in 

which there are noticeably more references to Macbeth and Hamlet than to any of the other 

plays. These are mostly one-off references, introduced mainly for comic effect, but sometimes 

they take the form of a running joke, like the recurrent references to Mrs Sparsit’s ‘Coriolanian’ 

nose in Hard Times, and sometimes they are woven closely into the events of the story like the 

references to Othello and Macbeth in Oliver Twist and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, respectively. 

Among Dickens’ richest and most fascinating uses of Shakespeare in his own fiction is that of 

Hamlet in Great Expectations, a novel centred, like Shakespeare’s play, on the theme of revenge. 

The relationship between the tragedy and the novel has been brilliantly discussed by Alexander 

Welsh in his Hamlet in His Modern Guises (Princeton University Press, 2001). The scene in which Pip 

watches the ludicrously incompetent performance of his comic double Mr Wopsle as Hamlet is 

particularly rich in irony. 




Humanities Society 

Jane Chapman (1971), Visiting Fellow and Brodie Waddell (2010), Fellow 

This year, the Humanities Society hosted 14 speakers. Their talks explored issues across a variety 

of disciplines and time periods, including history, political science, archaeology, international 

relations and religion. 

In the Michaelmas Term, three distinguished Cambridge Professors offered their thoughts on 

historical events. Martin Daunton explored the possible lessons from the 1940s about our own 

financial crisis and Jonathan Haslam discussed Russia’s experience of the Cold War. We also heard 

from Derek Beales on Mozart’s relationship with his patrons, accompanied by extracts from some 

of his important compositions. 

The seminars in the Lent Term were even more diverse, beginning with analysis from Christopher 

Hill of the impact of fear on foreign policy and civil society. Hans van de Ven showed what 

records of the Chinese Maritimes Customs Service tell us about a nation’s political and economic 

development and Francisco Bethencourt of King’s College, London, illuminated the genealogy of 

racism in Iberia and South America. 

Easter was our busiest Term, launched by Nick Jardine’s talk on the philosophy behind Johannes 

Kepler’s jokes. Three speakers – Mark Hailwood of Exeter, Phil Withington from our History 

Faculty and the College’s own Brodie Waddell – discussed aspects of early modern England: 

alehouses, economic crises and the semantics of peace. David Thompson offered a preview of 

his forthcoming work on the geography of religion in nineteenth-century Cambridgeshire, while 

Andrew Gamble gave an overview of the current political implications of ‘austerity’. We also 

welcomed Nicholas Postgate, Professor of Archaeology, who talked about archaeology in 

Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. 

Next year the programme will be weekly, with 20 speakers who extend the subject scope and 

time periods in a way that aims to reflect Wolfson’s diverse intellectual life. Nine of these are 

College members, ranging from Junior Research Fellows and visiting academics through College 

Research Associates to the Vice-President (on the effects of digital technology) and the President 

(on aspects of nineteenth-century Europe, from his new Penguin history). 

Upcoming events may be viewed at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/seminars/humanities 


Science Society 

Maria Muñoz Caffarel (2009) and David de Sancho (2010), Junior Research Fellows 

Science Society member 

Dr Steve Hoath presents a bottle 

of College port to Professor Ian 

Hutchings (Engineering) after 

his talk on 18 March 2012. 

The Science Society was founded in 2010 and is open to all 

College members. We host a series of lay-friendly talks aimed at 

contributing to an understanding of how science and technology 

have changed our lives and affect our present and future. In our 

second year, we continued to promote all areas of science and had 

the pleasure to host talks by both young and renowned scientists 

from different Departments and Research Institutes in Cambridge. 

In the biological sciences we have had a great panel of speakers. 

Professor Sir David Baulcombe (Plant Sciences) talked about 

epigenetics in plants; Dr Ram Adapa (Clinical Medicine) spoke 

about consciousness and anaesthesia; Professor Graham Burton 

(Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) on the placenta and 

Professor Christine Watson (Pathology) talked about breast cancer. 

This year we have also had talks on how society is directly affected by scientific progress. 

Dr Chris Forman talked on global consequences of nanoscale phenomena; Dr Patrick Welche 

gave a fascinating demonstration of a text-entry system for those unable to use a keyboard; 

Professor Ann Copestake (Computer Laboratory) talked about text processing and Professor 

Brian Moore (Experimental Psychology) explained the every-day challenges of people with 

hearing loss. Research in the Engineering Department was represented by Dr Ivor Day’s talk on 

jet engines and by Professor Ian Hutchins speaking about inkjet printing. We also had two 

excellent speakers from the chemical sciences: Professor Jane Clarke from the Chemistry 

Department told us more about protein folding and Professor Daan Frenkel (ForMemRS) 

delighted us with the unexpected side of entropy. 

All talks were followed by questions from the audience that gave rise to exciting scientific 

discussions. We are grateful to the speakers and all the attendees of the talks for their contribution 

to the promotion of science in College and for having made it very enjoyable and entertaining. 

We are currently organising the seminars for next academic year and we would greatly 

appreciate your suggestions. We encourage everyone in College to join us for the talks and 

for Formal Hall with the speaker afterwards. No scientific background is necessary to follow the 

talks, as they are always aimed at a general audience. 

Forthcoming events will be announced at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/seminars/science 




Wolfson Contemporary Reading Group 

David Goode (2010), Senior Member 

In another active year, the Wolfson Contemporary Reading Group met regularly to discuss what 

should probably be described as a mixed bag of books. An innovation for the last year has been 

to score books, not for their artistic merit or literary value, but simply on whether or not we liked 

them. This is something we intend to continue next year. We were fortunate to have the 

translator of the Némirovsky book, Sandra Smith, along to that meeting to talk about the 

author’s life, work and, in 1942, death in Auschwitz. This gave us an understanding of the book in 

its wider context which we would never have had merely from reading it. 

Author Book WCRG Score 

Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger’s Child 5.0 

Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending 8.4 

Stephen Kelman Pigeon English 3.8 

Irène Némirovsky The Wine of Solitude 6.4 

Andrew Miller Pure 6.7 

Beryl Bainbridge The Bottle Factory Outing 6.0 

Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea 5.5 

During the course of the year, we congratulated Anna Jones, former Lee Librarian who has 

moved to a new post in the University, and we had a little party to thank her for her initiative in 

establishing the group and to wish her all the best. 

We’re a relaxed and friendly group, and everyone is welcome to come along and discuss the 

books over a glass or two of wine. Sign up for the low-volume mailing list wolfson-readinggroup@lists.cam.ac.uk 

to keep up-to-date with books and meeting dates. 


Thesis Writing Group 

James Westbrook (2009), Student 

The Thesis Writing Group’s weekly meetings on Thursdays do not actually involve any writing (or 

very little). In a relaxed atmosphere in the Old Combination Room we gather with wine, soft 

drinks and nibbles with speakers from differing backgrounds, from College Fellows to fellow 

college students. Scientists, novelists and historians; all eager to share their wealth of experience 

through presentations, workshops and round-tables. 

Past meetings have covered varied aspects of academic life to help College members improve 

their skills in areas such as planning, researching, scientific writing, managing data and your 

Supervisor, referencing, managing your academic life online, examination and submitting, from 

protecting your thesis to presenting and publishing it, whether with DSpace or a publishing 

house: all with invaluable tips on finance and funding, overcoming the problems of solitary 

postgraduate study, techniques for working in a self-disciplined way and, just as important, how 

to make your study and writing an enjoyable experience. 

This has also become a venue for discussion and an exchange of ideas and experiences, and a 

platform to try out forthcoming presentations and mock vivas with experienced examiners 

present. As the Thesis Writing Group is designed for students, organisers Sally Church (skc1000@ 

cam.ac.uk) and Lesley Dingle (lmd25@cam.ac.uk) are open to suggestions for future meetings. 

I am due to submit my PhD dissertation within the three-year limit: largely due to being a 

regular attender of this valuable group. Some of the past presentations are provided online via 

www.camtools.cam.ac.uk 




Wolfson Music Calendar 2011–2012 

Lynette Alcántara (1996), Fellow and Director of Music 

This calendar of music activities is supplemented by an interview with outgoing Music Society 

President, James Westbrook, at www.WolfsonPlus.com 

October 

Saturday Lunchtime Recital by Taro Takeuchi of Renaissance lute and Baroque guitar works by 

Dowland, Robert de Visee and Geminiani; Saturday Lunchtime American Song Recital by mezzo 

Lynette Alcántara and pianist Andrew Goldman. 

November 

Music and Madeira with Ulrich Wedemeier on an original instrument playing Romantic Guitar Music 

by Scheidler, Diabelli, Mertz and Coste; Saturday Lunchtime Piano Recital by Shelley Katz of works by 

Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Czerny and Liszt; Saturday Lunchtime Concert of electronic music by Stuart 

Russell; Wolfson College Choir and Chamber Singers with pianists Andrew Goldman and Tom Perski 

and baritone Charles Jones, ‘A Concert for a Consort’, a programme from the Victorian era to 

commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. 

December 

Cambridge University Brass Band perform at Music and Madeira; Advent Carol Service at St 

Mark’s Church. 

January 

Saturday Lunchtime Piano Recital by Maiko Mori of works by Scarlatti, Ireland, Liszt, Rachmaninov 

and Gershwin. 

February 

Pianist Shelley Katz plays Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven Sonatas at Music and Madeira; Saturday 

Lunchtime Piano Recital by Andrew Goldman; Saturday Lunchtime Concert by Junior Prime Brass 

conducted by the Bursar; The Symphona Project: An evening of opera and operetta by the 

Wolfson Choir and the Fitzwilliam Chapel Choir. 

March 

Saturday Lunchtime Recital by flautist Jane Bevan, cellist Philippa Jones and pianist Maurice 

Hodges of works by Haydn, Grieg, Debussy, Lynch and Piazzolla; Saturday Lunchtime Recital by 

cellist Anton Lukoszevieze and pianist Christopher Green-Armytage of works by Fauré, Pergolesi, 

Chopin and Beethoven; Wolfson Choir, with St Mark’s Choir and a professional Baroque ensemble, 


Keith Heppell 

Edmund Potter 

perform J S Bach’s St John Passion, with soloists from the BBC Singers and King’s College Choir, 

conducted by Graham Walker. 

May 

‘Guitar Extravaganza’ Lunchtime Concert featuring Wolfson’s Brian Moore, Ian Cross, Adam 

Solomon, Li-Ching, James Westbrook and special guests; Saturday Lunchtime Piano Recital by 

Patrick Hemmerlé of Preludes by Frank Martin Frederic Chopin; Music and Madeira Song Recital by 

Charbel Mattar of Arie Antiche, English Song and songs by Wolf and Ibert, with pianist Martin Ennis; 

Wolfson Choir provides music for the University Sermon. 

June 

Saturday Lunchtime Recital by Soprano Kyoko Murai and Taro Takeuchi on lute and Baroque guitar: 

Fairest Isle Songs and instrumental pieces from Britain and Japan; Wolfson Choir and Cambridge 

University Brass Band perform at the College Garden Party; the 2012 Mary Bevan Recital by pianist 

Andrew Goldman and harpist Anne Denholm, finalists in the CUMS Concerto Competition. 


July 

Wolfson Choir Tour to 

Thessaloniki, Greece, with 

two invited performances 

of sacred and secular 

songs at the 30th ISME 

World Conference on 

Music Education. 

Debbie Pullinger 




Wolfson College Student Association 

Rasha Rezk (2009), WCSA President, gives an account of WCSA’s activities over the past year 

Since the new Committee’s election, a number of WCSA initiatives have come to fruition and 

our website at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/wcsa now features videos and photos from College 

festivities. A highlight was Wolfson’s International Week, during which students enjoyed a variety 

of culturally-themed events. International bops were well received and attended – both by 

Wolfson students and those from our neighbouring Colleges – as was this year’s ‘Wolfson’s Got 

Talent’ show. We also revived a Tug-of-War competition. 

We initiated networking with our twin St Antony’s College, Oxford and two exchange trips gave 

students a chance to visit each other’s College and city. 

Serving the student body through the WCSA Committee has been a challenging but 

tremendously satisfying opportunity for us all. As the Committee elections for 2012–2013 

draw nearer, on behalf of the Committee I warmly invite all students to become involved. 

www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/students 


Peter Dowling 

Language and Culture Society 

Valia Babis (2009), Society Co-President 

Where could be a better place to learn a foreign language and get to know another culture than at 

Wolfson? In the Language and Culture Society, our members have the opportunity to learn foreign 

languages in a relaxed environment. Languages are a great way to boost your CV and employment 

opportunities, to meet new people and understand other cultures! 

Students come from all over Cambridge to learn one of the many languages offered, including 

French, German, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Sanskrit and Pali. If you are interested in joining us as a student 

or teacher, please have a look on our website https://sites.google.com/site/wolfsonlcs 

Noodle Club 

Naisheng Cui (2010), Student 

The Wolfson Noodle Club is a 

conversation club to help non-native 

English speakers practise English through 

regular conversation with native English 

speakers, and to help members have a 

better understanding about cultures 

around the world. In each session, people 

can enjoy tasty noodles and have an 

opportunity to engage in conversation 

with others on an interesting topic. One 

highlight was a discussion of the modern function of monarchies around the world, inspired by 

the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Noodles symbolise long-lasting friendship in Chinese culture 

and this is what the Noodle Club represents. 




The Emeritus Fellows’ Society 

evelyn Lord (1997), President of the emeritus Fellows’ Society 

The Emeritus Fellows’ Society aims to keep its members in touch with their peers and 

encourage continued involvement with the College. This year’s visits, open to all Wolfson 

members, included the Pepys Library, the Scott Centenary Concert, St George’s English Whisky 

Distillery, the Henry Moore Foundation and King’s Lynn. Society members have a wide range of 

skills and experience in College life and fundraising, which they hope to put to good use during 

Wolfson’s 50th anniversary in 2015. 

Help your fellow Wolfson members! 

We plan to launch our career mentoring scheme soon, but need more volunteer mentors 

before we can do so. We aim to help Wolfson members at all stages of their career. For 

information on this low maintenance, online-run scheme, please contact Kate Hampson in 

the Alumni office: alumni@wolfson.cam.ac.uk 

Keith Heppell 


Sport 

Stephen Bond

Sport 

Wolfson Sports 

Qash Ahmed (2009), WCSA Sports Officer 

Wolfson offers students and alumni the opportunity to participate in 15 sports societies, from 

popular team sports such as football and basketball to martial arts such as Capoeira and Ki 

Aikido. We also have one of the best fully-equipped free gyms in Cambridge. 

Again we have promising individuals who are Cambridge Full Blues or Half Blues and have 

been awarded sports bursaries for their University or College sporting success. Our Full Blues 

are Elizabeth Campbell (Rifle Shooting), Debbie Bin Deng (Volleyball), Thomas Graeber (Athletics 

800m), Christine Seeliger (Rowing) and Constantine Markides (Tennis); our Half Blue is Charlotte 

Chuter (Water Polo). 

The football team played home and away matches against our newly-twinned St Antony’s 

College in Oxford. Both teams enjoyed each other’s College and we hope such sports exchanges 

will become regular events involving other teams as well. 

Regular sessions were also held by the Zumba Aerobics, Ki-Aikido, Tai Chi, Tango and Yoga 

Societies. The Ballroom Society lost its long-standing teacher but ran some beginners’ classes 

in Michaelmas Term. It also held tea dances in the Lee Hall, some jointly with the Cambridge 

Dancers’ Club. 

Badminton 

Maxime Lainé (2011), Captain 

The Wolfson Badminton Club continued to attract players at all levels to its very social but 

also competitive training sessions. This year the Men’s and Women’s teams merged, and our 

team performed admirably in the InterCollege Open League: thanks to very motivated players, 

it kept its position in the Third Division of the League. 

In Term we also hold a social badminton session every weekend open to all College members 

regardless of skill level, age or status. 

Basketball 

Tilman Lesch (2011), Captain 

Our basketball team had an amazing Michaelmas Term, remaining unbeaten for the Term 

and scoring the most points across all divisions. Unfortunately, the Christmas break ended 

the team’s excellent run and the squad lost two games in Lent Term, finishing in third place. 


From left to right: Yanjia Gao, Tao Liu, Zichen Zhang, 

Jin Zhang, Dan Baker, Vaggelis Giannikas, Frank 

Schoofs and Tilman Lesch. 


With our new jerseys, we achieved good wins 

in the first and second round of the Cuppers 

competition but then faced fierce competition 

from Claire/Trinity Hall in the semi-finals. 

Notwithstanding a great effort by all players, 

our opponents were too strong and our season 

came to an end. 

Our thanks go to Frank Schoofs (2008) for his 

deep commitment as Captain for the past 

several years. 

Capoeira 

Torkel Mattesson (2010), President 

It has been another good year for the Society. New students joined us and we have been 

training twice a week at College under our Mestre Chitãozinho of Grupo Capoeira Negaça. 

This spring we enjoyed visits from the Capoeira Society of the University of East Anglia. All 

our training led up to the yearly ’batizado’, held at Wolfson in May, when we spent a weekend 

together with capoeiristas from all over the UK and teachers from Brazil and France, training, 

playing and partying. 

So what is capoeira? There are many definitions, but it is something like a ’combat dance’, 

’acrobatic fight game’ or ’martial arts mixed with dancing’. Do join us to get a real glimpse of 

capoeira, and have a go at it! 

Cricket 

Thomas Stubbs (2010), Captain 

A season of perfection was not to be. Our 2012 cricket season suffered cruelly from the English 

weather and from many injuries. Seven of the 14 scheduled matches were abandoned without 

a ball being bowled. The sole Cuppers match that took place resulted in a narrow loss to Selwyn 

and in injuries to key players. 

In the MCR League, Wolfson achieved a win, a loss and a tie (with one match still pending). 

A relentless pummelling of Queens’ was the highlight of the season, with Queens’ managing 

only 42 all out against our 170/4 amassed in 20 overs. The cliff-hanger of the season was against 

Darwin: with nine required off the last over, Wolfson reduced the task to needing just two off 

one ball, but could sadly only pinch a single. Unfortunately, lacklustre fielding against Jesus 

ultimately cost us a place in the playoffs. 

The Bursar adds: “The highlight of the season for the President’s XI was a consecutive victory in 

the annual match against the Students’ XI, with new Fellow Dr Haider Butt taking Man of the 

Match for his 55 not out, and 4 for 15”. 

Sport

Sport 

From left to right: Xiaoke Yang, Qiang Feng, Xiaojiao Wang, Arsenije, Tiago Duarte, Daisuke, Vaibhav Kalway, 

Patrick Actis Perinetto, Stepan Havranek and Tianyi Ren. 

Table Tennis 

Xiaoke Yang (2010) and Chengcheng Zhu (2009) 

The Table Tennis Society provides a training, entertainment and social platform for College 

members. We hold weekly social sessions for players at all levels including coaching sessions for 

beginners. Members can also book the Seminar Room to play table tennis, with bats and balls 

supplied. 

Our table tennis championship in Michaelmas Term attracted many College members, including 

the Bursar! Vaibhav Kalway came away as the Champion. In Cuppers in the Lent Term our team, 

led by Vaibhav Kalway and Chengcheng Zhu, beat Christ’s College in the first round but failed 

against Caius. We finally ranked eighth in Cuppers, an excellent result for a newborn team. 

Volleyball 

Debbie Bin Deng (2010), Co-captain 

Our Volleyball Team only started this Lent Term when Ariane Hanssum (Higher Education 

Volleyball Officer), Muzaffer Kaser (Wolfson Volleyball Captain) and myself (Cambridge Volleyball 

Class Coach) organised three Volleyball classes, each session attracting more than 30 students, 

staff and local residents. With so many Wolfson participants, Muzaffer and I decided to establish a 

team. This was how the story began. A Wolfson team then took part in the Volleyball Lent 

Cuppers for the very first time, and won the trophy (on display in the Lee Room). The team’s 

intensive training was rewarded with another trophy, the Volleyball Summer Cup 2012. 


The Volleyball team. Back row: Li Su, Dennis Y Q Wang, Hsintzu Ho (Queens'), Muzaffer Kaser, Robert Krakow; 

front row: Adam Bride, Jerome Joaug (Hughes Hall), Francesca Burali D’arezzo (Churchill) and Debbie Bin Deng. 

Rowing 

Evelyn Tichy (2009), Captain 

This year was one of swings and roundabouts for Wolfson College Boat Club (WCBC). Our rowers 

competed in a number of regattas over the summer and made the finals in almost every race 

they entered. WCBC also ran an introductory rowing course for Wolfson’s part-time Criminology 

students, which everybody enjoyed immensely. 

Michaelmas Term started with a strong showing of five novice crews, as well as two senior Men’s 

and one senior Women’s crew. It was great to have an alumni Men’s crew come back for several 

races. As the Cam froze over during Lent Term, red and yellow flags abounded, severely 

disrupting training in the run-up to Bumps, to the extent that M3 and W2 were unable to fulfil 

the ten-outing requirement for Bumps. Going into Lent Bumps with little or no race experience 

led to ‘down three’ for both the men’s and the women’s first boats. W1 made spoon-avoidance 

particularly exciting as they caught a boat-stopping crab on the last day. M2 were our Lent 

Bumps heroes, with two bumps and a total of ‘up one’. 

In the Term break, both M1 and M2 trekked down to London to race in the Head of the River Race. 

While M1 were rather disappointed to finish in position 371, M2 went up 36 places to finish 9.83 

seconds ahead of M1; a truly remarkable result for a crew with only two rowers with race experience. 

After the ice of Lent Term, the Easter Term brought weeks of flooding. Several regattas were 

cancelled and the women’s training weekend at Radley School, which the W1 coach Chris 


Sport

Sport 

Stephen Bond 

Parkhouse had spent weeks organising, turned into a night out in Oxford and a Formal Hall swap 

with the men’s first boat from our sister college, St Antony’s. 

May Bumps saw WCBC come back with a vengeance. After last year’s blades and starting in position 

3 of Division 3, W1 was keen to bump up into the Second Division and bumped Corpus Christi on 

day one and Trinity Hall II on day two. As sandwich boat, they were not able to gain more than about 

half a length on Hughes Hall. After rowing over twice on the third day to cheers and toasts from the 

spectators at the Wolfson marquee, the final day of Bumps was marked by absolute exhaustion and 

a 45 mph head wind. A fresher and much heavier Caius II executed a well-deserved bump on W1. 

M1 put on a strong showing at Peterborough regatta, coming second in the novice IV+, and 

although the Bumps results were not as they had hoped (down two), they held their own, being 

bumped by a Christ’s blades-winning crew on the final day. 

While the race results were not as strong as last year, WCBC has had a great year. Concerted fund 

raising brought in a new IV+ and we also christened two sculls at a well-attended boat-naming 

ceremony in March. Our traditional 24-hour ergo raised over £3,000 for a new set of blades. Together 

with WCSA, we also raised enough money for a new ergo for the Wolfson gym, taking the total 

number of rowing machines up to four. WCBC are currently looking to add a lightweight single 

scull to their fleet. 

WCBC was very proud to have one of their own, W1 rower Christine Seeliger, racing against 

Oxford in Blondie this year. We are also very proud that five WCBC rowers have been accepted for 

the University’s development squads. We wish them the best of luck and hope to see them beat 

Oxford next spring. 


News 

Peter Dowling

News 

Members’ News 

Please send news of your achievements to communications@wolfson.cam.ac.uk 

Dr John Hughes (1969) 

For the past five years Dr Hughes has been involved in a project of restoration 

of the Fort Jaisalmer, a World Heritage Site located in the desert region of 

Rajasthan, India. 

Mrs Barbara de Smith (1970) 

Mrs de Smith, a Constitutional Lawyer, visited Mauritius in September to lecture at a conference 

organised jointly by the University of Mauritius and the University of la Réunion. In 2010, she 

lectured on Constitutional Law topics and had the honour of being received by, amongst others, 

the President, Prime Minister and Chief Justice. She first visited Mauritius in 1979. 

Professor Stephen Dodds (1970) 

Professor Dodds is currently writing a textbook entitled: Feedback Control; 

Techniques, Design and Industrial Applications, due to be published in 2013. 

Professor Martha Harrell (1970) 

Professor Harrell launched a new iPhone app, EmUrg, for users to keep a 

Personal Health Record on their phones for hospital or doctors’ surgery visits. 

The application also features a GPS-connected map, which locates the phone’s 

user anywhere in the world in order to facilitate the quickest healthcare. 

Further information is available at http://itunes.apple.com/app/emurg/ 

id451564321?mt=8 

Professor Gordon Klein (1970) 

Professor Klein was an invited speaker at the tenth International Conference on 

Bone and Mineral Research held in Xi’an, China. He was also a judge at the annual 

Orthopaedic Research Society/Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation 

Resident Research Symposium in Galveston, Texas, and an invited speaker at the 

fifth International Workshop on Advances in the Molecular Pharmacology and 

Therapeutics of Bone Disease held at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. 



Members’ News continued 

Professor Dr Dr Rüdiger Ahrens OBE (1975) 

Professor Ahrens gave a paper on ‘Identity and Alterity in Post-Colonial Film Versions’ at the 

CISLE-Conference: ‘Literatures in English: New Ethical, Cultural and Transnational Perspectives’. His 

talk at Concordia University in Montreal in July 2011 was followed by lectures at universities in 

Québec City, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. In May he received the French Palmes 

Académiques order at the University of Caen, Normandy for his contributions to the cooperation 

between Caen and his home University of Würzburg. 

Ms Lynda Johnson (1977) 

Following her time at Wolfson, Ms Johnson went into teaching then joined the Civil Service and 

had a spell at 10 Downing Street with Margaret Thatcher. She is now lecturing in Business at 

Hertford Regional College. 

Professor Janet Ulph (1979) 

Professor Ulph was awarded a one-year Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, 

running from October 2011. Her work has involved developing new policies relating to cultural 

asset management with the Museums Association. 

Dr Corinne Duhig (1981) 

Dr Duhig has been elected a Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research. 

She continues to run her osteoarchaeology and funerary archaeology consultancy, Gone to Earth. 

Emeritus Professor Yukiko Matsushima (1981) 

Professor Matsushima was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International 

Society of Family Law in July 2011, while at the XIVth World Conference in Lyon. 

Professor David Millson (1981) 

Professor Millson is Visiting Professor of Medicines Management, Keele University, and Principal 

Physician, AstraZeneca Rheumatology Research and co-author of the King’s Fund Inquiry 

into the Quality of Prescribing in UK General Practice (Web publication King’s Fund, 2011, 

www.kingsfund.org.uk/document.rm?id=9215). 

His Excellency Tharman Shanmugaratnam (1981) 

Following Singapore’s General Election in May 2011, Honorary Fellow Tharman 

Shanmugaratnam was appointed Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) in a wideranging 

Cabinet reshuffle. As one of the Republic’s two DPMs, he co-ordinates 

social and economic policies, while continuing his role as Minister for Finance. 

As he put it at a recent conference, “We know that it will get more difficult over 

time to sustain mobility. That’s why we have to do more, and especially to do more upstream. We 

have to try new ways to help kids from disadvantaged families gain confidence in their early 

years, and find their strengths as they go through the school system.” In March 2011, he was also 

selected as Chairman of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), the policy 

steering committee of the IMF. 

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Dr Susan Lifshitz (1982) 

Dr Lifshitz works as a patent attorney in Israel and also spends a good part of 

her time, pro bono, building metabolic models of neurological diseases, in 

particular ALS and MS. This is an area she is particularly passionate about as 

she has personal experience of the effects of MS. Dr Lifshitz presented her 

work ‘Patient-Based Metabolo-Neurology – Time for a Paradigm Shift’ at the 

Integrative Medicine Conference. She is keen to collaborate with free-thinkers to develop testing 

models for potential cures to these diseases. 

Mr Robert Geofroy (1985) 

Mr Geofroy has been appointed Head of the University of the West Indies Open Campus in the 

Cayman Islands. The three-year appointment started in August 2011. The Open Campus (www. 

open.uwi.edu) has centres in 13 English-speaking Caribbean territories but course delivery is 

primarily by e-learning. 

Professor Craig Hawker FRS (1985) 

Professor Hawker is Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and of Materials 

at UC Santa Barbara, and Director of the campus’ Materials Research 

Laboratory. He received the 2012 Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of 

Chemistry which recognises outstanding international chemists who are also 

exceptional communicators. Professor Hawker was cited for his outstanding 

creative development of new strategies for the design of novel polymers, which has 

revolutionised the field of polymer synthesis. 

Dr Carrie Herbert MBE (1985) 

Dr Herbert was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List 2012 for services to education as 

the founder of the Cambridge-based charity Red Balloon which works with bullied children to 

help them return to mainstream education. 

Professor Barry Hymer (1986) 

Professor Hymer has taken up the position of Visiting Professor in Education at the University 

of Cumbria. 

Professor Neil Messer (1986) 

Professor Messer was made a Professor of Theology at the University of Winchester 

in 2011, and continues to serve as Head of the Department of Theology and 

Religious Studies. He is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s 

Science in Culture Theme Advisory Group, and continues to serve on the Board of 

Societas Ethica (The European Society for Research in Ethics). 




Mr Robert Miller (1986) 

Mr Miller, former Wolfson Course member, appeared in a recent 

BBC4 TV documentary on ‘The Grammar School: A Secret History’. 

He was also fortunate to have been selected as an Olympic 

volunteer for the 2012 games and served the British Modern 

Pentathlon team at Greenwich and Stratford. 

Professor Martin Buhmann (1987) 

Professor Buhmann was the Ribband’s Scholar at Wolfson in 1987 and was awarded the Doctor 

of Science degree in October 2010. 

Dr James Fletcher (1987) 

Dr Fletcher was appointed Minister for Public Service (Information, Broadcasting), 

Sustainable Development, Energy, Science and Technology in the Government of 

Saint Lucia in December 2011. 

Mr Peter Hilken OBE (1987) 

Mr Hilken has written a memoir of his father, Captain Norman Hilken RN. Captain Hilken was a 

Founding Fellow of Wolfson (then University) College, and the first Vice-President. He was also 

Secretary of the Engineering Department and first Warden of the University Centre. A copy of 

this short book is in the College library. 

Dr Donald Adamson JP FRSL (1989) 

After being elected Renter Warden at the Worshipful Company of Curriers in the City of London 

in 2010, Dr Adamson was made Upper Warden of the Company in October 2011. 

Mr Roy Rainford (1989) 

Mr Rainford retired from the Greater Manchester Police Force after thirty-one 

years’ service. Since retirement he has assisted the National Police Training 

College Bramshill and various police forces in their training programmes. He 

also lectures to undergraduates at Huddersfield University. 

Professor Paul Murdin OBE (1990) 

Professor Murdin received the 2012 Royal Astronomical Society 

award for service to astronomy in March 2012 (for further details 

see www.WolfsonPlus.com). He is Visiting Professor at Liverpool 

John Moores University and Senior Fellow at the Institute of 

Astronomy at Cambridge University. 

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Dr John Barnes (1992) 

Dr Barnes completed his three-year part-time teacher study visit at Pembroke 

College, Cambridge. It focused on his continuing interest and development of 

e-learning systems within education. 

Mr G I (Lynn) Ockersz (1993) 

Press Fellow Lynn Ockersz became Chief Editor of the Daily News in Colombo 

in April 2011. 

Mr Mark Brown (1995) 

Mr Brown gained an MSc Degree in Counter Fraud and Counter Corruption Studies from the 

Institute for Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth in November 2011. 

Dr Roland Löffler (1995) 

Dr Löffler was appointed Head of the Berlin Office for the Herbert Quandt-Foundation where he 

has worked since 2007. Dr Löffler and his wife Martyna, who worked as Director of the Bayreuth 

Summer University, are pleased to announce the birth of their first son Frederic on 17 July 2011. 

Dr Anatole Menon-Johansson (1995) 

Dr Menon-Johansson, Clinical Lead for Sexual Health at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, 

has been appointed the first National Clinical Director for the young persons’ sexual health charity 

Brook (www.brook.org.uk). He is also the Director and founder of SXT Health CIC (www.sxt.org.uk), a 

social enterprise whose mission is to facilitate access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services. 

Launched in 2011 in Lambeth and Southwark, the service has plans to expand across London. 

Mr David Pepler (1995) 

Mr Pepler received the Stevenson Hamilton Award of the Zoological Society of South Africa in 

2007 in recognition of his efforts in fostering a broad-based appreciation for biodiversity in 

general, and the zoological sciences in particular. In 2011, he received the South African Habitat 

Council Award for outstanding contributions in the field of environmental conservation. 

Dr Anna Bagnoli (1996) 

Dr Bagnoli and Mr Diego Castoldi were married on New Year’s Eve 

2011 in Florence, with a civil ceremony held at Palazzo Vecchio. 

Dr Bagnoli is an Associate Researcher in the Department of 

Sociology and a Tutor at Wolfson. Mr Castoldi is a playleader at 

Cambridge Kidsclub, a student in early-years education at the 

Open University and a basketball coach for the Cambridge Cats. 




Dr Ian Holloway QC (1998) 

Dr Holloway has been appointed Professor and Dean of Law at the University of Calgary. He was 

previously a Professor and Dean of Law at the University of Western Ontario. 

Professor George Salmond FRSE (1999) 

Professor Salmond of the Department of Biochemistry has been elected a 

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in recognition of his research 

contributions in several areas of molecular microbiology, including bacterial 

quorum sensing, antibiotics and virulence. 

Ms Tracey Carver (2000) 

Ms Carver received a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence (2011) in Learning 

and Teaching, Leadership and was promoted to Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, 

Queensland University of Technology. 

Ms Juana Libedinsky (2000) 

In summer 2011, former Press Fellow Juana Libedinsky relocated to New York 

with her husband Conrado Tenaglia and her daughter Tomasa. She gave birth 

to her son the night hurricane Irene hit Manhattan; although the little one was 

immediately dubbed “hurricane baby” at the hospital, he was finally named 

Tancredi. Juana continues to write for the Argentine national daily La Nación 

and the Spanish edition of Vanity Fair. 

Professor Peter Lucas FSA (2000) 

Professor Lucas, Senior Member and Honorary Research Associate in the 

Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, has been elected a Fellow of the 

Society of Antiquaries of London. 

Dr Nicholas Cutler (2001) 

Dr Cutler was appointed Admissions Tutor and Fellow in Geography at Churchill College and also 

College Lector in Geography at Trinity College in September 2011. 

Mr Dilip D’Souza (2001) 

Press Fellow Dilip D’Souza has been awarded the Newsweek & The Daily Beast 

Open Hands Prize for Commentary in South Asia. The prize is for South Asian 

journalists and writers covering the region ‘to celebrate and nurture raw talent 

and find fresh voices’. 

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Mr Paul Kennedy (2001) 

Mr Kennedy is Chairman of the City of London Corporation’s Cycle Club and 

organised a Cycle Challenge to raise funds for the current Lord Mayor’s charity 

appeal theme ‘Fit for the Future’. The Club completed a 68.4 mile ride from the 

Guildhall in the City of London to Jesus College, Cambridge. Alderman Wootton 

is the 684th Lord Mayor hence the distance. The challenge raised over £4,000. 

Mr Sebastiano Barassi (2002) 

Mr Barassi became Curator of the Henry Moore Foundation at Perry Green, Moore’s former home 

in Hertfordshire, in May 2012. He had previously been Curator of Collections at the University of 

Cambridge’s Kettle’s Yard. 

Mr Henning Ringholz (2002) 

Mr Ringholz and his wife Fiona (née McFerran), a Trinity College Cambridge graduate, are proud 

to announce the birth of their son Johan Konrad Ringholz on 24 April 2011. 

Ms Ilaria Accorsi (2003) 

Ms Accorsi and Jorge Huerta Goldman were married on 10 September 2011. 

Professor Timothy Duff (2004) 

Professor Duff has been appointed Professor of Greek at the University 

of Reading. 

Mr Matthew Moss MVO (2004) 

Mr Moss, a Senior Member and Private Secretary to the University’s Vice-Chancellor Professor 

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, was made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in the New Year 

Honours List 2012. 

Mrs Anne Smit-Klijnstra (2004) 

Ms Smit and Sander Klijnstra were married on 2 April 2011 in her hometown of 

Leiden, The Netherlands. They are delighted to announce the birth of their son 

Sybe Jonathan on 5 August 2011. 

Dr Martin Allen FSA (2005) 

Dr Allen was awarded the John Sanford Saltus Gold Medal of the British Numismatic Society for 

2011. This is a triennial award for outstanding published research in British numismatics. 


Dr Luis Briseño-Roa (2006) 

Dr Briseño-Roa, a Post-doctoral Fellow researching genetics and neurobiology 

of C. elegans at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and his wife Dr Katia 

Ancelin, a researcher at the Institute Curie working on the epigenetic bases of 

cancer, are the proud parents of their daughter Clementine Briseño-Ancelin 

born in Paris on 16 January 2011. 

Professor Howard Wolf (2006) 

Professor Wolf published two essays: Growing Up in New York City: A Generational Memoir 

(1941–60) and Imitating Hemingway: ‘After Such Knowledge’ in CITHARA: Essays in the Judeo- 

Christian Tradition in May 2010 and May 2011. He also published ‘Paris and Europe after WWII: A 

Young Writer’s Journey’ in The Mochila Review (Missouri Western State University, 2011) Volume 

13, pages 80–89. 

Professor Anthony Potts (2007) 

In 2011 Professor Potts was awarded the University of Adelaide Dean of 

Education Excellence Award for University Teaching, for outstanding results 

in teaching large undergraduate classes. Currently he lives in St Mark’s College 

where he is President of the SCR. The research he undertook while a Wolfson 

Visiting Scholar in 2008–2009 has now appeared in three journal articles: 

Selling University Reform: the University of Melbourne and the Press, Studies in Higher Education, 

37, 2, 2012, 157–171; College Voices: What Have We Lost? History of Education Review, 40, 2, 

2011, 142–156 and Disciplinary cultures in an Australian college of advanced education, 

Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2010 42: 4, 383–403. 

Professor Gordon Dougan FMedSci FRS (2008) 

Professor Dougan, Principal Research Scientist and Head of Pathogens at the Wellcome Trust 

Sanger Institute, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. 

Mr Michael Harrison MBE (2008) 

Mr Harrison received an MBE in June 2012 for Services to Policing. 



Dr Javier Carrillo Hermosilla (2008) 

On 1 April 2012 Dr Carrillo Hermosilla was appointed Tenured Professor at the University of 

Alcala (Madrid), where he is now based. 

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Mr Victor Annells (2009) 

Mr Annells was appointed HM Consul General at the British Consulate General 

Milan as of 1 April 2011, where he also acts as Director General for Trade and 

Investment in Italy on behalf of UK Trade and Investment. Previously he worked as 

UKTI International Trade Director for the East of England and lived in Cambridge 

while completing a Master’s Degree in International Relations. He is married to 

Barbara and has two sons. More on this story is available on www.WolfsonPlus.com 

Miss Kate Hampson (2009) 

Miss Hampson, Wolfson Alumni Relations Manager, and Mr Simon McKechnie were engaged 

on 13 February. They will be married in summer 2013. 

Dr Joshua Hordern (2009) 

Dr Hordern has recently been appointed University Lecturer in Christian Ethics at the University 

of Oxford. 

Dr Justin Meggitt (2009) 

Dr Meggitt has been appointed Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Ethnology, the History of 

Religions and Gender Studies at the University of Stockholm from January 2012. 

Dr YinYin Yuan (2009) 

In July 2012, Dr Yuan started her own laboratory of Computational Pathology and Integrated 

Genomics (www.yuanlab.org) at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. She will study the 

biological and structural nature of tumours. 

Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA (2010) 

Professor Evans has been awarded a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2012 in 

recognition of his Service to Scholarship. 

Dr Ulf Jensen-Kondering (2010) 

Dr Jensen-Kondering and his wife Dr Hanna Kondering are proud to announce the birth of their 

first daughter, Lotta Liisa Marta Kondering, on 27 December 2011. 

Dr Annu Jalais (2011) 

Visiting Fellow Dr Jalais was married to Dr Vinod Saranathan at Castle Hill in Cambridge on 29 

June 2012. 

Dr Vincent Xiaoguang Qi (2011) 

In May, Dr Qi presented invited papers on Business Anthropology at Sun 

Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou and at Peking University. In 2011 he became 

Honorary Researcher at University College London and is currently studying 

for a part-time Executive MBA degree at the Judge Business School. 


Donations to Wolfson College 

We are grateful to the following, as well as those who made donations anonymously during 

2011–2012 

Mr Nathanael Adams (2009) 

Mr John Adey (2006) 

Ms Amanda Aldercotte (2011) 

Professor Jonathan Aldrich 

(1989) 

Mrs Lenore Alexander (2008) 

Mr Alexander Alexandrov 

(2009) 

Ms Alia Al-Kadi (2010) 

Mr Graham Allen (1999) 


Professor Alfred Aman Jr (1983) 

Mr Robert Amundsen (1979) 

Mr Michael Anti (2006) 

Mr John Arnold (2011) 

Professor Jonathan Ashley- 

Smith (1994) 

Mr Mirza Baig (1996) 

Dr Marian Baker-Barry (2011) 

Mr Dhakshinamoorthy (Dash) 

Balakrishnan (2010) 

Emeritus Professor David 

Barker AM (2005) 

Mr Adrian Barlow (2005) 

Mr Correlli Barnett (2011) 

Dr Susan Barnett (2004) 

Mr Jonathan Beart (1991) 

Dr Peter Beaumont (1990) 

Mrs Barbara Bell (1994) and 

Professor Richard Bell (1994) 

Mr David Bennett (2005) 

Sir Christopher Benson DL 

FRICS (1990) and Lady 

Benson OBE JP DL 

Professor Edward Berman 

(1978) 

Mrs Anna Berzins Forkner 

(2009) 

Mrs Sheila Betts (2002) 

Professor Hugh Bevan (1985) 

Dr Samuel Bieber (1975) 

Mr Johari bin Shafie (1979) 

F Admiral Datuk Ramli bin 

Shamsudin (1990) 

Mr Gregory Blain (2006) 

Professor William Blakemore 

(1983) 

Professor R H A Blum (1984) 

Miss Jeanne Boles (2002) 

Mr Paul Bompas QPM (1988) 

Mr Ernest Bonyhadi (1986) 

Professor François Bovon 

(2011) 

Mr Conor Bowman (1989) 

and Professor Sylvia Draper 

(1988) 

Mr Mark Boyce (1993) 

Mr Patrick Boyle (2005) 

Dr R H Bradshaw (1991) 

Brewer Smith and Brewer 

(Mr John Mills and Mr 

Alistair McMillan) 

Dr Albert Brown (1979) 

Dr Jason Brown (1992) 

Mr Jonathan Brown (1981) 

Dr Richard Brown (2005) 

Professor William Brown CBE 

(1985) 


Mr David Buck (2002) 

Mrs Doreen Burgin (1997) 

Mr Robert Burgin (2011) 

Mr Leonard Burt (1974) 

Professor Robin Butlin (1986) 

Cambridge Commonwealth 

Trust 

Cambridge Overseas Trust 

Cambridge University Press 

Miss Laura Campbell (1988) 

Mrs Dee Carroll (2011) 

Miss Emma Carter (2010) 

The Reverend Professor 

Owen Chadwick OM KBE 

FBA (1977) 

Ms Anita Chakrabarty (2010) 

Mr Chris Chan (2010) 

Miss Lily Chan (2010) 

Mr Thomas Chan (1986) 

Mrs Lilian Chan Keller (1979) 

Dr Carole A Cheah (1983) and 

Putnam H Perry (1984) 

Dr Hong Chen (1987) 

Professor James Cherry MD 

(2000) 

Dr Cyrus Chothia (2002) 

Dr Hui Yen Chua (2010) 

Professor Michael Churgin 

(1992) 

Mr Alexandre Cloutier (2003) 

Professor R S (Dicky) Clymo 

(1996) 

Dr J F (Chip) Coakley (2007) 

Mr Mark Condos (2009) 

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Dr Robert Conti (1990) 

Dr Christine L Corton (2010) 

Dr Brian D Cox (1996) 

Mr Geoffrey Crompton (1980) 

Mr Kevin Crowe (1987) and 

Dr Nicola Totterman Crowe 

(1984) 

Dr Nicholas Cutler (2001) 

Dr Margaret Joy Dauncey 

(1970) 

Mr Rhys David (1985) 

Dr Thomas Davies (1996) 

Ms Mary Beth Day (2010) 

Mr Peter Day (1983) 

Mr G Hugo C de Chassiron 

(2001) 

Professor Nicholas de Lange 

FBA (1984) 

Mrs Barbara de Smith (1970) 

Mr Michael DeFrank (1973) 

Dr Madeleine Devey (1970) 

and Mr Michael Farbrother 

(1976) 

Ms Nele Dieckmann (2011) 

Mr David Dillon (2009) 

Mr Richard Dixon (1988) 

Professor Gordon Dougan 

FMedSci FRS (2007) 

Professor William Dove (2006) 

Dr Christof Drechsel-Grau 

(2006) 

Mr Hugh Duberly CBE, HM 

Lord-Lieutenant of 

Cambridgeshire (2005) 

Professor Timothy Duff (2004) 

Mr Colin Dunnighan (1992) 

Professor Marguerite Dupree 

(1982) 

Mr Robert Durrant (1977) 

Dr Owen Edwards (1977) and 

Mrs Josephine Edwards 

(2007) 

Dr Hannah Elson (1970) 

Mrs Susan Eltringham (2005) 

Professor Donald Engels (2000) 

Mr Farhad Etessami (1975) 

Professor Sir Richard Evans 

FBA (2010) 

The Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. 

Foundation, Inc 

Mr Lou Fioravanti (2011) 

Dr John Firth (2000) 

Ms Anke Fischer (1994) 

Professor Thomas C Fischer 

(1990) and Brenda A Fischer 

Mr David Fisher (1981) 

Professor Peter Fitzgerald 

(2009) 

Dr Anne Forde (2006) 

Mr Aidan Foster (2000) 

Mr John (Jack) Friedman 

(2011) and Miss Elizabeth 

(ZZ) Friedman (2010) 

Dr David Frost (2000) 

Gates Cambridge Trust 

Professor Conor Gearty (1980) 

Professor John Gillroy (2002) 

Dr Quinton Goddard (2006) 

Mr Andrew Goldman (2010) 

Miss Filipa Gonçalves de 

Azevedo (2009) and Mr 

Paulo Gomes 

Mr David Goode FRSA (2010) 

Mr Colin Greenhalgh CBE DL 

(1990) 

Mrs Margaret Greeves (2006) 

Dr Conrad Guettler (1995) 

Dr Audrey Guinchard DEA 

PhD (2009) 

The Reverend Canon 

Dr Maggie Guite (2005) 

Mr D G (Ben) Gunn CBE 

QPM (1979) 

Mr Bryan Guttridge (1996) 

Mr Alexander Gwillim (2010) 

Dr Hannelore Hägele (1998) 


Mr Carlyle Hall (1983) 

David J Hall (1999) 

Mr Philip Hall (1984) 

Mr Håvard Halland (2003) 

Miss Kate Hampson (2009) 

Mr William Hannis (1979) 

The Rt Hon Sir Michael Hardie 

Boys GCMG PC (1985) 

Dr Ulrich Hardt (1983) 

Mr David Harris (1977) 

Dr Catherine Harter (1998) 

Dr Jürgen Harter (1998) 

Mr Nazrin Hassan (2010) 

Mr Graham Hatfield (1993) 

The Reverend Peter Hayler 

(2009) 

Dr Peter Heaney (1990) 

Dr Mellor Hennessy (1976) 

Mr Randolph Henry (1968) 

Professor Shael Herman (1988) 

in memory of Tony Weir 

Professor Mary Hesse FBA 

ScD (1965) 

Mr Frédéric Hévras (2000) 

Dr Susan Hezlet (1987) 

Mrs Lynn Hieatt (2000) 

Dr Alfred Hirt (2009) 

Ms Sayuri Hiwatashi (2001) 

Mr Boon Ho (2010) 

Miss Katherine Holland (2010) 

Mr Rick Holman (1979) 

Ms Vanessa Holzer (2010) 

Mr Anthony Hopkinson (2007) 

and Mrs Sylvia Hopkinson 

(2007) 

Miss Tamara Hornik (2009) 

Professor Donald Horowitz 

(1987) 

Professor Rocco Huang (2002) 

Mr James Hughes (1987) 

Professor James J Hughes 

(2004) 

Mr Tom Hughes (2011)

Mr John Hurst (1987) 

Mr Shin Hung Jeffrey Hwang 

(2009) 

J.P. Morgan Chase Bank NA 

Miss Carmen Jack (2010) 

Professor Larry Jackson (1985) 

Professor Douglas James 

(1994) 

Mrs Penelope Jaques (2011) 

Dr Laura Jardine (2004) 

Dr Oliver Jardine (2004) 

Mrs Anne Jarvis (1999) 

Mr Teng Jiang (2004) 

Dr Gordon Johnson (1993) 

and Mrs Faith Johnson 

(1993) 

Mr Gregory Johnson (1987) 

Mrs Jane Johnson (2009) 

Mr Nathaniel Johnson (2010) 

Mr Orlando Johnson (2009) 

Mr J Ieuan Jones (1996) 

Dr Roy Jones (2003) 

Professor Brian Josephson 

(2005) 

Ms Mika Kaneyuki (2000) 

Dr Kriti Kapila (2004) 

Dr Shelley Katz (2010) 

Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki 

(1985) 

Professor Stanley Kays (1985) 

Mr Zulfiqar H Kazani (2010) 

Dr E Annabel S Keeler (1992) 

Mr Dong Gun Kim (1982) 

Ms Brenda King (1989) 

Mr Jonathan King (2010) 

Mr James Kinnier Wilson 

(1968) 

Mr Bill Kirkman MBE (1967) 

Professor Gordon Klein (1970) 

Mr Jaysen Knezovich (2011) 

Mr Weng-Keong Kong (2010) 

Mr Naveen Krishnan (2008) 

Dr Melanie Kuhn (1992) 

Mallam Abba Kyari (1980) 

Dr Yin-Lok Lai (1968) 

Mr Daniel Lam (2008) 

Mrs Janet Lash (1974) 

Mr Christopher Lawrence 

(2007) 

Dr Sandra Leaton Gray (1998) 

Dr Lee Seng Tee (1974) 

Ms Dawn Leeder (2001) 

Professor Antony Lentin 

(1981) 

Mr Ed Lewis (2003) 

Professor Kevin Lewis (1998) 

and Dr Becky Lewis (1998) 

Mr Alberto Lidji (2007) 

Mr George Liebmann (1996) 

Dr Janet Littlewood (1984) 

Lloyds TSB Bank plc 

Mr Choon Hong Lok (1996) 

Professor Justin London 

(2004) 

Mr Tzeh Ming Loo (2010) 

Dr Marie Lovatt (1981) and 

Dr Roger Lovatt 

En. Johari Low Abdullah 

(2010) 

Dr Eric Yu-En Lu (2003) 

Professor William Lubenow 

(1982) 

Professor Peter J Lucas FSA 

(2000) and Mrs Angela 

M Lucas (2002) 

Mr Henry Lumley (2011) 

Mr Robert Lyford (1976) 

Mrs Merry Lymn (1972) 

Mr Pascal Maas (2010) 

Dr Lesley MacVinish (2004) 

Mr Daniel Magill (2005) 

Mrs Janet Manifold (2006) 

Mr Michael Manley (2009) 

Mr Michiel Marck (2010) 

Professor Ivana Markova FBA 

FRSE (1967) 



Mrs Charlotte Marr (2009) in 

memory of her husband, 

Professor Thomas Marr 

(1980) 

Mr Jon Marti (2007) 

Professor Duncan Maskell 

(1998) 

Miss Marilyn Mathams (2011) 

with thanks to Dr Owen 

Edwards 

Emeritus Professor Yukiko 

Matsushima (1981) 

Mr Ioannis Matthaioudakis 

(2008) 

Mr John McClenahen (1986) 

Mr Gareth McFeely (1996) 

Professor Thomas McGinn 

(1978) 

Marjorie J McKinney (2011) 

Dr Jane McLarty (2009) 

Dr Ella McPherson (2008) 

Mr Richard C Meade (1999) 

Mr Jeremy Meek (2009) 

Dr Barbara Metzler (1990) 

Mr David Mguni (2009) 

Microsoft Research 

Cambridge 

Mr Paul Mignanelli (2010) 

Mr Will Miller (2009) 

Mrs Ann Miller Watkins (1969) 

Dr Louise Mirrer (1975) 

Mr Richard Morgan (1970) 

Dr Steven Morrison (2008) 

Mrs Marilyn Motley (1991) 

Mr Raphael Munro (1996) 

Dr Ronjon Nag (1984) 

Professor John Naughton 

(1992) 

Mr Timothy Newton (2010) 

His Excellency Gabriel Ng 

(2010) 

Professor Irene Ng (2009) and 

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Professor Hatsuko Niimi (2001) 

Professor Celia Nyamweru 

(2003) 

Ms Swati Ogale (1999) 

Professor Masatsugu Ohtake 

(1971) 

Lady (Sally) Oliver (1976) 

Dr Susan Oliver (1998) 

Mr Vojtech Olle (2007) 

Professor Steven Olswang 

(1994) 

Dr Ian O’Neill (1995) 

Mr Michael O’Sullivan 

CMG (1984) 

Professor Miwa Ota (2009) 

Dr Philip Otterness (1977) 

Mr Keith Ovenstone (1997) 

The Oxford and Cambridge 

Club of Kenya 

Mr Ray Palmer (1975) 

Dr Michael Pelt (1973) 

Ms Hilary Perrott (2009) 

The Reverend Dr William 

Pickering (1979) 

Mr Robert Pilsworth (1975) 

Mr Roberto Pistorelli (1978) 

Dr Graham Pluck (2008) 

Professor James Poivan (1975) 

Mrs Olive Polge (2007) 

Dr Julia Poole (1979) 

Miss Breann Preston (2011) 

Dr Jocelyn Probert (1998) 

Mrs Ruth Quadling (1967) 

Mr Connor Quinn (2010) 

Mr Roy Rainford (1989) 

Mrs Stacey Rand (2006) 

Dr John Rees (1989) 

Dr L John Reeve (2009) 

Mr Andrew Reid (2000) 

Ms Rasha Rezk (2009) 

Dr Sandy Richards (1968) and 

Dr Wyn Richards (1968) 

Dr Alan Rickard (2005) 

The Estate of Mr William (Bill) J 

Ridgman (1970) 

Dr Sam Ridgway (1970) 

The Reverend Dr Keith Riglin 

FRSA (1998) 

Dr Peter Roberts (1981) 

Mr Henry Rogers (1974) 

Rolls-Royce plc 

Professor Jerome Rose (1991) 

Mr Erik Rosen (2010) 

Mr Christopher Rourke (1998) 

Mr Michael Russ (2001) 

Dr John Rutter (1988) 

Mr Hasannudin Saidin (2010) 

Mrs Ursula Sainsbury (2007) 

Mr Nicholas Salisbury (2011) 

Miss Marina Salorio-Corbetto 

(2009) 

Dr Robert Sansom FREng 

(2002) 

Santander Universities UK 

Professor Razeen Sappideen 

(2009) 

Professor Susumu Sato (2008) 

and Associate Professor 

Akiko Sato (2008) 

Mr Susumu Satomi (1990) 

Mr Barry Saunders (1986) 

Mr Daniel Saxon (2010) 

Mr Henri Schmitt (2006) 

Dr Henrik Schoenefeldt (2006) 

Ms Marlene Schoofs (1983) 

Mr Lennart Schramm (2011) 

Dr Johan Schreiner (1969) 

Mr Jeremiah W Schwarz Jr 

(2007) 

Professor Charles Scruggs 

(1977) 

Mr Tian Ser Joshua-John Seah 

(2010) 

Ms Christine Seeliger (2009) 


Professor Marshall Shapo 

(1991) and Professor Helene 

Shapo (2000) 

Dr Margaret E Shepherd 

(1985) and Dr John 

Shepherd (2008) 

Mrs Inga and Mr Richard A 

Shervington DL (1992) 

Mrs Frances Huimin Shi (2010) 

Professor Andrew Simester 

(2002) 

Mr Michael Simmons (2005) 

Herchel Smith Fund 

Mr Ian Smith (2011) 

Mrs Jennifer Smith (2008) 

Dr Tyrell Smith (1995) 

Professor Richard Snedden 

(1994) 

Dr Anna Snowdon (1968) 

The Rt Hon the Lord Soulsby 

of Swaffham Prior (1978) 

Sir John Sparrow (1987) 

Edward Speelman Limited 

Mr Robert Spencer (2009) 

Ms Linda Stacey (2006) 

Ms Tamara Steijger (2009) 

Mrs Eileen Stephenson (2010) 

and Mr Leonard 

Stephenson (2010) 

Ms Karen Stephenson (2008) 

The Rt Hon the Lord Stevens 

of Kirkwhelpington QPM DL 

(1996) 

Mr Donald Stewart (1997) 

Miss Zhen Sun (2009) 

The Reverend Margaret Sweet 

(1998) 

Mr Noam Szpiro (2008) 

Dr James Tattersall (1988) 

Mr Christopher Taylor (2007) 

Professor Richard Taylor (2004) 

ThermoFisher

Mr Keith Tibbenham (1974) 

Ms Evelyn Tichy (2009) 

Mr Daniel Tomlinson (2011) 

Dr Gianpaolo Tommasi (1985) 

Dr Christopher Town (2005) 

Mr Todd Treusdell (2011) 

Mr Jamie Trinidad (2007) 

Trinity College 

Dr Gee Tsang (1986) 

Professor Witold Tulasiewicz 

(1983) 

Mr Weston Ullrich (2011) 

Miss A P A van Beek (2011) 

Dr Jan van Dieck (2006) 

Mr Matthis van Leeuwen 

(2010) 

Dr Evy Varsamopoulou (2009) 

Dr Abhimanyu 

Veerakumarasivam (2002) 

Ms Navya Vilangattuseril 

(2011) 

Dr Sivapalan Vivekarajah (2010) 

The Estate of Ms Diane Wales 

(1981) 

Mr Anthony Walker (1981) 

Ms Cecilia Walker (2011) 

Professor John Wall (2002) 

Miss Helen Waller (2009) 

Professor Malcolm Warner 

(1987) 

Dr Ellis Wasson (2003) 

Dr W Jeremy S Webb (2003) 

Mr Robin Weyell (1993) 

Dr Margaret Whichelow 

(2004) 

Professor Victor Whittaker 

(1967) 

Dr Fletcher Wicker (2007) 

Dr Colin Wignall (1992) 

Mr Ashley Wilkins (1989) 

Mr David A R Williams QC 

(2001) 

Miss Lowri Williams (2006) 

Dr Olwen Williams (2001) 

Lady (Sally) Williams (1980) 

Professor W Clark Williams Jr 

(1986) 

Mr Anthony Wilson (1993) 



Dr Lucy Wilson (2007) 

Mrs Rachel Wilson (1990) 

Mrs Sue Wiseman (2002) 

Professor Howard Wolf (2006) 

Mr Paul Wolfson (1993) 

The Wolfson Foundation 

Mrs Joanna Womack (2011) 

Mr Meng Keet Wong (2004) 

Dr Christian Wozny MD (2008) 

Mrs Custis Wright (2000) 

Dr Kevin Xiaoyu Yang (2006) 

Professor Yuhiko Yasunaga 

(1990) 

Mr Nick K T Yip (2010) 

Mrs Karen Young (1987) 

Miss Laura Young (2009) 

Professor Dr Dr hc Horst 

Zimmermann (1985) 

Professor Leo Zrudlo (1990) 

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Philanthropy in Action 

WOLFSON 

COLLeGe50 

What is our fundraising for? Well, it is for many things at 

Wolfson, like the Library, the gardens, the improvement 

of our communal spaces and the musical and sporting 

life of the College. But as we head towards our 50th 

anniversary in 2015, our main purpose is to support our talented and dedicated students. Here, 

some of them tell how grants and scholarships have helped them in their work. We are 

enormously grateful to all our generous donors, whose contributions make such a difference. 

Bahar Maghssudnia (Santander Universities) 

Last September I started the MPhil Economics programme at Wolfson. Although 

I tried to plan the financial aspects of my studies carefully, exchange rates 

intervened. A scholarship from a German foundation and a public credit no 

longer covered my expenses, but the Santander Universities Scholarship helped 

me to cover the shortfall. It really allowed me to concentrate on my studies. 

The Santander Universities Scholarship allowed me to concentrate on 

the programme and have a smooth beginning in Cambridge without 

worrying about the financial side of my stay. 

Jonathan Grant (Santander Universities) 

I was delighted to be given the opportunity to study Pure Mathematics at 

Wolfson. Mathematics has been an important interest for many years, and with 

the qualifications I hope to gain from Cambridge I should be able to take up a 

PhD. My particular field of interest is topology, a fascinating subject that is 

finding applications from general relativity to robotics. As there is no state 

funding for students of Master’s degrees in the UK, the Santander Universities Scholarship is a 

great help with my fees. 

Jenny Mitchell (Santander Universities) 

After my first degree in Human Sciences and working in London for three years, 

I decided to pursue my dream of becoming a vet and was ecstatic when 

Cambridge offered me a place. I was relying on my own savings and my student 

loan. Financing five years of study would be difficult, so the Santander Universities 

Scholarship really took a load off my mind during my first year, and has allowed 

me to concentrate on working hard and making the most of my time here. 


Justinas Badaras (Santander Universities) 

I am studying for an MPhil in Economics and am really glad I have an 

opportunity to be at Wolfson – Cambridge is a great place. I went through the 

toughest year of my life and wrote a thesis on the subject which I am 

passionate about: the stock market. I would like to thank my sponsors, the 

Economics department and Santander Universities: put simply, I would not 

have been able to afford to pursue my passion without their financial help! 

Tilman Lesch (Santander Universities) 

After studying Engineering and Economics, I started my PhD in Neuroscience 

at the Department of Psychiatry. My research is concerned with learning and 

decision-making under uncertainty in healthy humans, and more specifically 

in entrepreneurs. I believe that entrepreneurs think differently about risk and 

behave advantageously in dynamic environments. Since I started my partially 

self-funded PhD, the Santander Universities Scholarship has helped me to really focus on my 

research and get a good start at Wolfson. 

Louise Pickett (Santander Universities) 

My aim has always been to become a vet so I was delighted to secure a place 

on the Veterinary Medicine course. As a self-funded affiliate student, the 

Santander Scholarship has made my first year at Cambridge much more 

comfortable in financial terms, and I am most grateful for their generous 

support. 

Luke Maishman (Conference and Travel Support) 

I attended the 50th Anniversary Spring Meeting of the British Society for 

Parasitology this April. The four-day conference was packed with seminars 

from leaders in research on neglected tropical diseases and other parasites, as 

well as anniversary events. As a second-year PhD student, this was the largest 

academic conference I had attended. It was a fantastic experience to hear 

first-hand the authors of the papers that I have been reading, and to meet other parasitologists. I 

am grateful to those who have given to the Wolfson College travel fund and my other sponsors 

for making it possible for me to attend. 

Tara Cookson (Conference and Travel Support) 

In February I attended the conference ‘Globalisation and Changes in the Cultures 

of Care: Local and Global Dimensions’, hosted by the Institute for African Studies 

at the University of Ghana in Accra. I presented a paper on ‘Women’s Unpaid 

Caring Labour in Post-Neoliberal Latin America: The Radical Promise of Article 88’. 

Academics came from around the world to celebrate the ten-year partnership 

with the University of Bergen focusing on researching care, globalisation and policy implications. I 

am enormously grateful to the donors to the Wolfson College conference and travel fund, whose 

generous contributions allowed me to attend this conference and form collaborations for the future. 


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The Morrison Society 

The Morrison Society, named after the College’s first President, John Morrison, was established in 

2008 for all those who notify us that they have included a legacy to Wolfson College in their Will. 

Members’ names are displayed in a special commemorative book and we are delighted to invite 

Society members to special College events, to show our appreciation during their lifetime for 

this important commitment. We are grateful to the following, as well as to those members who 

prefer to belong anonymously to the Society. 

2008 Dr Peter Beaumont 

Dr William Block 

Mrs Susan Bowring 

Mr Colin Dunnighan 

Dr Steven Hand 

Mrs Carol Handley 

Mr David Harris 

Dr Edward Kessler MBE 

Professor Gordon Kingsley 

Dr John Rees 

Dr Joan M Whitehead 


2009 Mr Michael Albrecht 

Professor Charles Carlton 

David J Hall 

The Hon Justice Susan Kiefel LLM AC 

Mrs Angela M Lucas 

Professor Peter J Lucas 

Mr Richard C Meade 

Mrs Ruth Quadling 


Dr Laurence Smith 

Dr Anna Snowdon 

2010 Dr R H Bradshaw 

Dr Brian D Cox 

Dr Thomas Davies 



2011 Dr Donald Adamson JP FRSL 

Group Captain Bruce Blackney 

Dr Stephen Bragg FREng 

Professor R S Clymo 

Mrs Johanna Crighton 

Dr David Dymond 

Dr Martin Evans 

Professor Thomas C Fischer and 

Brenda A Fischer 

Professor Mary Hesse FBA ScD 

Dr Peter Roberts 

Mr Barry Saunders 

Professor Anthony Swain 

Professor Christopher Todd 

John V Ward 

Mr David Weatherup 

Dr Janet West 

2012 Professor R H A Blum 

Dr David Frost 


Mr J Ieuan Jones 

Mr George Liebmann 

Professor William Lubenow 

Mr John Sanford McClenahen 

Dr Frank K McKinney and 

Marjorie J McKinney

Donors to the Lee Seng Tee Library 

Dr Michael Arnott and Mrs Patricia Arnott 

Dr Samina Awan 

Dr Anna Bagnoli 

Mr Linus Blomqvist 

Mr Conor Bowman and Professor Sylvia Draper 

Mr Jonathan Brown 

Professor Charles Carlton 

Mr Chee Tak Chai 

Dr Jennifer Davis 

Dr Stefan Dorondel 

Mr Colin Dunnighan 

Professor John DuVal 

Dr Owen Edwards and Mrs Josephine Edwards 

Dr Qiang Feng 

Professor Thomas C Fischer 

Mr Sam Forsyth 

Mr Reynaldo Fuentes 

Mr Peter Hilken OBE 

Dr Rex Hughes 

Mrs Anne Jarvis 

Dr Gordon Johnson and Mrs Faith Johnson 

Mr Tuukka Kaikkonen 

Professor Stanley Kays 

Professor Anthony Lavers 


Mr June Lim Lee 

Dr Lee Seng Tee 

Mr George Liebmann 

Mr David Luhrs 

Miss Hala Mahmoud 

Mr Alexander McCarthy-Best 

Mr John McClenahen 

Mrs Marilyn Motley 

Professor Paul Murdin OBE 

Professor John Naughton 

Mr Gordon Pitts 

Professor Pier Luigi Porta 

Professor Michael Redhead FBA 

Mr Henry Rogers 

Mr Christopher Rourke 

Ms Marlene Schoofs 

Mr Tian Ser Joshua-John Seah 


Professor Andrew Simester 

Ms Linda Stacey 

Dr John Walter 


Dr Di Wei 

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Books by College Members 

This year Wolfson members have continued to publish authoritative books on a variety of 

subjects. Please let us know of those you would like to be included next year by emailing 

communications@wolfson.cam.ac.uk. Dates in brackets indicate first year of association 

with the College. 

Dr Omar Alí-de-Unzaga (1996) (ed) 

Fortresses of the Intellect: Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary (Oxford 

University Press, 2011) 

This book offers a biographical sketch and a complete bibliography of Farhad Daftary and 

gathers a number of articles in Ismaili Studies and other Islamic Studies in his honour, including 

philosophy, theology, literature and history. 


Mints and Money in Medieval England (Cambridge University Press, 2012) 

Dr Maleeha Aslam (2002) 

Gender-Based Explosions: The Nexus Between Muslim Masculinities, Jihadist Islamism 

and Terrorism (United Nations University Press, 2012) 

This book is an outcome of Dr Aslam’s postdoctoral research at the Peace and 

Security Programme, United Nations University. 

Professor Charles Carlton (1981) 

This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485–1746 (Yale University Press, 2011) 

This book is dedicated to Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. 

Ms Margaret Carlton (1974) 

From Enclosing Jaws (Kindle Edition, now available on Amazon) 

Dr Filipe Carreira da Silva (2003) (ed) 

G.H. Mead: A Reader (Routledge, 2011) 


Dr Penelope Darbyshire (2005) 

Sitting in Judgment: The Working Lives of Judges (Hart Publishing, 2011) 

Darbyshire on the English Legal System, 10th Edition (Sweet & Maxwell, 2011) 

Dr Penelope Dransart (2009) 

Textiles from the Andes (British Museum Press, 2011) 

Professor Timothy Duff (2005) and Ian Scott-Kilvert 

Plutarch: the Age of Alexander (Penguin, 2012) 

This volume is an annotated translation, with substantial introductions and notes, of 

10 biographies written in the early second-century AD by the Greek author Plutarch. 

The lives selected cover a crucial period of Greek history, roughly 400–270 BC. 

Dr Alistair Fair (2010), C Alan Short and Peter Barrett 

Geometry and Atmosphere: Theatre Buildings from Vision to Reality (Ashgate, 2012) 

Professor Thomas C Fischer (1990) 

Legal Gridlock: A Critique of the American Legal System (Carolina Academic Press, 2011) 

Americans have always placed great faith in the rule of law. Today it may be too much. As the 

volume and complexity of legislation grows, as the cost of litigation mounts and jury verdicts 

skyrocket, legal gridlock becomes a real prospect. 

Professor Peter L Fitzgerald (2009) 

International Issues in Animal Law: The Impact of International Environmental and 

Economic Law upon Animal Interests and Advocacy (Carolina Academic Press, 2012) 

Dr Thomas Jones (2008) 

This Being, That Becomes: the Buddha’s Teaching on Conditionality (Windhorse Publications, 

Cambridge, 2011) 

This book, based on research during Dr Jones’ MPhil studies in 2008–2009, explores the meaning 

and implications of the Buddha’s philosophy of paticca-samuppada or ‘dependent arising’, according 

to which all phenomena arise on certain conditions and cease when those conditions cease. 

Mr Jim Kelly (1985) 

Death’s Door (Severn House, 2012) 

This novel is the fourth in the Shaw and Valentine series. 


Books by College Members continued 

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Mr George Liebmann (1996) 

The Last American Diplomat: John D. Negroponte and the Changing Face of US 

Diplomacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) 

Dr Josef Martens (1988) 

50 Lessons on Innovation: Intended for Your Inspiration (CreateSpace, 2011) 

Dr Martens has brought together, in one volume, fifty of his favourite lessons on 

innovation. 

Professor Neil Messer (1986) and Angus Paddison (eds) 

Respecting Life: Theology and Bioethics (SCM Press, 2011) 

Professor Neil Messer (1986) 

The Bible: Culture, Community and Society (T & T Clark, forthcoming 2012) 

Dr John Mitchell CBE (1972) 

‘Selected Poems’ with Italian translations (Edizioni Il Campano, Pisa, 2011) 

Mr Raphael M Munro (1996) 

Ghost Circuit (www.momentum-7.com, 2012) 10% of profits to be donated to 

Wolfson College 

Though principally a work of fiction, the author draws on his own background as a 

former Military Intelligence Officer, private security contractor in Iraq and 

investigator for a multi-national tobacco company to create a chilling work of 

fiction that has the authenticity and credibility of a first-hand account. 

Professor John Naughton (1992) 

From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What you really need to know about the internet 

(Quercus Publishing, 2012) 

Dr Ubong S Nda (1991) 

The Theatre and Environmental Conservation: Communicating on environmental 

preservation through the Arts of the theatre (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010) 




Dr Stephen Rose (1997) 

The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach (Cambridge University Press, 2011) 

Using little-known novels and autobiographies from Bach’s Germany, this book 

suggests new ways of interpreting the lives and social status of early eighteenthcentury 

musicians. 

Emeritus Professor Colin Russell (1984) 

Michael Faraday: Physics and Faith (Oxford University Press, 2000. Arabic translation, 2004. 

Japanese translation, 2009) 

Saving Planet Earth, a Christian Response (Authentic Media, 2008) 

From Atoms to Molecules: Studies in the History of Chemistry from the 19th Century (Ashgate, 2010) 

Emeritus Professor Colin Russell (1984) and G K Roberts 

Chemical History: Reviews of the Recent Literature (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2005) 

Emeritus Professor Colin Russell (1984) and John A Hudson 

Early Railway Chemistry and its Legacy (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011) 

Dr Nick Segal (1985) 

Breaking the Mould: The Role of Scenarios in Shaping South Africa’s Future (Sun Press, 2007) 

Professor George Siedel (1980) and Helena Haapio 

Pro-active Law for Managers: A Hidden Source of Competitive Advantage (Gower, 2011) 

George Siedel and Helena Haapio (leader of the Proactive Law Movement in Europe) show how 

to use the law pro-actively to achieve business success through reducing costs, minimising risks, 

collaborating to innovate and creating value for customers. 

Mrs Stella Soulioti (1982) 

Fettered Independence: Cyprus 1878–1964 – Volume 1: The Narrative, Volume 2: The Documents 

(University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2007) 

Mrs Soulioti was successively Minister of Justice, Law Commissioner and Attorney General in the 

Republic of Cyprus and has acted as an adviser to the Presidents of the Republic. Her historical 

study presents a large body of evidence and an analysis of the historical events that ultimately 

led to the 1974 invasion of Cyprus by the Turkish Republic. 

Dr Roger Tallentire (1969) 

Shakespeared! (Shakespeare’s Unacknowledged Collaborators) (Kindle Edition, now 

available on Amazon) 

A new look at ‘the authorship problem’ in Shakespeare that reconstructs the 

missing background to the First Folio. 

Professor Janet Ulph (1979) and Ian Smith 

The Illicit Trade in Art and Antiquities: International Recovery and Criminal and Civil Liability (Hart 

Publishing, forthcoming 2012) 

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Dr Karina Urbach (1991) 

Queen Victoria: Eine Biographie (C H Beck, 2011) 

Go Betweens for Hitler: The Anglo-Saxon Aristocratic Network 1900–1939 (Paderborn, 2012) 

Dr Di Wei (2009) (ed) 

Electrochemical Nanofabrication: Principles and Applications (Pan Stanford Publishing, 2011) 


Recent University Appointments 

Election 

Professor Geoffrey Allan Khan, BA, PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, FBA, 

Professor of Semitic Philology, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, elected Regius 

Professor of Hebrew with effect from 1 October 2012. 

Appointments and re-appointments 

University Lecturers 

Law. Dr Richard Lynn Williams appointed from 1 August 2012 until the retiring age and subject 

to a probationary period of five years. 

Associate Lecturers 

Clinical Medicine. Dr John David Firth reappointed from 1 July 2011 for five years. 

Clinical Medicine. Dr Lincoln Alexander Sargeant MFPH appointed from 1 September 2011 for five years. 

Clinical Medicine. Dr Padmanabhan Badrinath FFPH appointed from 1 March 2012 for five years. 

Clinical Lecturers 

Surgery. Mr Vasileios Kosmoliaptsis appointed from 5 October 2011 to 4 October 2015 and 

subject to a probationary period of twelve months. 

Librarian 

History and Philosophy of Science. Mrs Anna Holt Jones appointed from 19 March 2012 until the 

retiring age and subject to a probationary period of nine months. 

Deputy Head of Department 

Computer Laboratory. Professor Ann Copestake appointed from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2014. 

Senior Assistant Registrary 

University Offices (Academic Division – Research Operations). Dr Joanna Dekkers appointed from 18 

July 2012 until the retiring age and subject to a probationary period of nine months. 

Grants of Title 

History. Dr Maria Christina Skott, Dr Anna-Maria Von der Goltz, Dr Brodie Banner Waddell, Dr 

Martin Robert Allen, Dr Isabel Noronha DiVanna and Dr Sarah Howard have been granted the 

title of Affiliated Lecturer from 1 October 2011 for one year. 

Modern and Medieval Languages. Dr David Kenyon Money has been granted the title of Affiliated 

Lecturer from 1 October 2011 for a further two years. 

Music. The Reverend Professor Jeremy Begbie has been granted the title of Affiliated Lecturer 

from 1 October 2011 for a further two years. 


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Obituaries 

Dr Alvaro Angeriz 

College Research Associate 

17 February 1963 – 11 January 2012 

Philip Arestis 

After a courageous battle, Alvaro Angeriz succumbed to leukaemia. 

He was a great colleague and fellow researcher, always happy to help 

and collaborate, and a great teacher much appreciated by his students. 

He will be much missed. 

Alvaro took his first degree in Economics in Uruguay, followed by an MPhil and a PhD in 

Economics at Barcelona University. In 2005 he joined the Cambridge Centre of Economic and 

Public Policy and became a Wolfson College Research Associate. Since 2008 he was a Senior 

Lecturer at Queen Mary College, University of London. 

Dr Alan Burgess 

Emeritus Fellow 

9 November 1933 – 27 December 2011 

Alan Burgess joined Wolfson College in 1966. Until his retirement, he 

was a University Lecturer in the Department of Applied Mathematics 

and Theoretical Physics and Head of the Atomic and Astrophysics 

group. He was an outstanding theoretical physicist well known for 

his fundamental calculations on dielectronic recombination effects 

in atomic, solar and plasma physics processes. Although a quiet mathematician and a modest 

man, as a Fellow he was a very generous supporter of the College. 

Dr Henry Chu 


27 October 1918 – 27 October 2011 

Bill Kirkman 

Henry Chu was one of the first group of students to graduate from the 

Veterinary School. While he was there, the revolution took place in 

China, and he was unable to return. As a matter of principle, he 

remained stateless. 


He did exceptional work on diseases of poultry and he greatly valued his Fellowship of the 

College and regularly attended Governing Body and social events. At one time he had the idea 

that Wolfson might have a campus in China – located on a boat offshore. It was really a fantasy, 

reflecting both Henry’s enthusiasm and his undoubted eccentricity. 

On retirement, he returned to China and taught Chinese students who had missed out on 

education during the cultural revolution. He once commented wryly that after years of lecturing 

in pidgin English he found himself lecturing in pidgin Chinese. When he returned to Cambridge 

he began once more attending College functions. 

Hugh Askew Corbett, Captain Royal Navy CBE DSO DSC 

Senior Member 

25 June 1916 – 19 April 2012 

Bill Kirkman 

Hugh Corbett came to Cambridge in 1967 as warden of the University Centre – succeeding in 

that role another RN officer, Captain Norman Hilken, who had been first Vice-President of 

University College (now Wolfson). Hugh Corbett also became a member of the College, and 

continued to attend College gatherings for many years after his retirement in 1983. 

He joined the Royal Navy in 1933, and had a distinguished naval career. Of his many naval roles, 

it was the final one, as Captain of the newly commissioned HMS Fearless, from 1965 to 1967, 

that gave him most satisfaction. 

Dr John Gage FBA 

Fellow 1978–1989 

28 June 1938 – 10 February 2012 


Obituaries continued 

Gordon Johnson 

John Gage was an exceptionally distinguished historian of art. 

After his doctorate at the Courtauld Institute of Art he held teaching 

appointments at the University of East Anglia and in Cambridge. He 

made his mark with wide-ranging studies of Turner and a major 

scholarly book on the understandings of colour in western art. 

He was an effective Director of Studies for the History of Art Tripos, guiding his graduate 

students to completion only when satisfied that they met his exacting academic standards. 

He was noted for his dry, and often acerbic, sense of humour, and for the lucidity of his 

writing and presentations. 

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Dr John Shepherd 

Senior Member 

7 August 1927 – 14 October 2011 

Gordon Johnson 

John Shepherd had intended to specialise in Paediatric Medicine and 

served as a Paediatric Registrar in London for more than two years, but 

serious family illness persuaded him to return to Cumbria. He joined a rural 

practice at Brough where he remained as a country GP until his retirement. 

John then moved to Cambridge where his wife, Margaret, had decided to study Geography. 

After doctoral studies she became a Fellow and Tutor at Wolfson. The College, with its ethos of 

encouraging the spouses of students to feel at home, was ideal for the Shepherds. They moved 

into a house on Barton Road, and John was thus able to share in as well as support Margaret in 

her College life. He enjoyed being a Senior Member in his own right and was excellent company 

in Hall. He had wide cultural interests, expressed in a vigorous programme of concert and 

theatre attendance and in frequent visits to European cities. He was a kind and generous 

benefactor, and a particularly valuable supporter, in every way, of College music. 

Mr Leonard George Stephenson 

Donor 

16 February 1937 – 17 July 2012 

Karen Stephenson 

Len Stephenson was born in London and served his apprenticeship 

until he was 21 as a draughtsman with Samuel Cutler. His artistic skills 

were reflected throughout his life in an interest in photography and an 

appreciation of art. He married Eileen in 1960, and their children were 

born in 1965 and 1971. 

In 1971, Len, a Structural Engineer, and Eileen set up their own business providing steelwork to 

major blue chip companies. Len then moved into the petrochemical industry, working in 

London, Holland and Norway as an oil rig Weight Control Engineer, and speaking at Weight 

Control conferences. During his retirement he worked as a driver and finally retired in 2008. 

Len was a keen sportsman and had a great love of music and travel. He was enormously 

knowledgeable about wines: his favourites were always from Burgundy. He and Eileen 

frequently stayed at Wolfson and enjoyed attending Formal Hall, as well as being generous 

supporters of the College. 

His illness was diagnosed only seven weeks before his passing. He bore it with great strength, 

courage and dignity and he leaves an enduring legacy that will live on with all those who 

knew him. 


Colonel Peter Storie-Pugh CBE MC TD DL 


1 November 1919 – 20 October 2011 

Peter Storie-Pugh spent most of the war in Colditz, after being wounded in 1940. He returned to 

his veterinary studies and the Territorial Army after his release. He became an influential figure in 

the world of veterinary surgery, serving as President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 

1968 and 1970. In retirement, he lived in France. He became a Fellow of Wolfson College in 1967. 

Air Vice-Marshal Peter Turner CB 


29 December 1924 – 22 March 2012 



Bill Kirkman 

Peter Turner was Bursar of Wolfson from 1979 to 1989. His first year 

was at the end of the presidency of John Morrison, the first President, 

and the rest of his time was during the presidency of Professor Sir 

David Williams. 

Peter had a distinguished, and unusual, Royal Air Force (RAF) career. He joined in the ranks, 

having left school at 14 and he ended his many years of service in the rank of Air Vice-Marshal. 

There was no gap between his RAF service and his period at Wolfson, indeed, strictly speaking 

he joined the College just before his service formally ended. 

He was an unassuming man and he threw himself wholeheartedly into the life of the College, 

moving easily from RAF to University culture. He once remarked that in the RAF there was one 

person in charge of a large number of people, whereas in the College there was a small number 

of people, all of whom saw themselves as being in charge. 

On retiring from Wolfson he spent the rest of his life looking after his wife Doreen who suffered 

from dementia. He accepted this task in the same uncomplaining way that he had accepted 

everything else. Doreen died a few weeks before him, in 2012. 

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In Memoriam 

Professor B G Barr (Visiting Scholar, 1985) 

Professor John Brian Bird (Visiting Fellow, 1984): 20 August 2011 

Mr Matthew Boughton (Alumnus, 1999): 15 September 2011 

Dr Martha Cheo (Visiting Fellow, 2008): February 2012 

Dr Percy Falcón (Visiting Fellow, 1968): 5 January 2006 

Miss Irene Florou (Alumna, 1972) 

Professor Thomas Holdych (Visiting Scholar, 1997): 24 April 2011 

Dr Mary Holt (Alumna, 1981): 6 July 2011 

Dr Paul Karger (Alumnus, 1985): 2011 

Professor Hack Chin Kim (Visiting Scholar): 19 May 2011 

Dr Jaime Litvak (Senior Member, 1967): 2 October 2006 

Mr Louis McCagg (Senior Member, 1996): 3 March 2012 

Professor Frank K McKinney (Visiting Fellow, 1992): April 2011 

Professor Kenji Naito (Visiting Scholar, 1984): 20 February 2012 

Mrs Hilary Nex (née Stevens, Alumna, 1994): 25 December 2010 

Professor Itamar Pitowsky (Visiting Fellow, 1995): 10 February 2010 

Dr P Reynolds (Member) 

Professor Doctor Bernd von Hoffmann (Visiting Fellow, 1976): 9 December 2011 

Professor Robert Woods (Visiting Scholar, 1985): 2011 



Peter Dowling


Freshers 2011 

Full size prints available from www.JetPhotographic.com 


Row 9: N.Dieckmann A.Aldercotte X.Wang L.Pickett M.Lee P.Siriwat K.Hammond T.Cookson S.Grabowski C.Glicksman D.Raghavan K.Albrektsen S.Wickenden M.van Spyk S.Sofer E.Naylor 

P.Scopes W.Lim K.Memarian M.Kariuki X.Xuan L.Xiao Y.Sun S.Ng A.Tan S.Keibek R.Britt J.Lee N.Karambadzakis M.Srivastav 

Row 8 : C.Chai L.Newman R.Hodgson C.Rhoades C.Matthews C.Koay T.Phaovibul A.Tobert G.Williams J.Stockermans A.Tynan O.Caspari X.Fang J.Xu A.Kleine V.Kovaliov L.Li X.Tay S.Lim 

T.Bernard M.Hawley T.Fitzmaurice M.Fournes S.Ternisien H.Rai M.Lind C.Babb Y.Li A.Waller 

Row 7: N.Vilangattuseril S.Zeng Y.Lu C.Kelliny S.Bertrand M.Hung T.Hannant L.Wang Y.Zhang B.Preston H.Middleton A.Bhattacharyya M.Maftei P.Egger C.Maunoury B.Jones T.Woodruff 

Z.Nikonovich-Kahn J.Duan R.Burgin Q.Ma K.Aduse-Poku A.Alcala X.Zhang L.Fioravanti S.Syed E.Rowe V.Kalway Z.Moghal 

Row 6: D.Patel A.Kostanyan L.Utsi G.Giannaros O.Aruch K.Shin P.Yap T.Kaikkonen J.Grant J.Quek A.Vincenzutti L.Ashby P.Schmithausen J.Ruckstuhl G.Bernardi de Freitas S.Wolf 

A.Student X.Qi T.Dennison Y.Hu K.Lau C.Wang S.Seroussi M.Laine G.Grebennikova A.Layton E.Gunay X.Wang 

Row 5: C.Cetin K.England A.Banerjee X.Ibarra-Soria A.Durieux M.Zotos F.Bellei K.Gillam R.Whiter A.Sygrove R.Willemars T.Vrba M.Marin T.Perski N.Salisbury G.Ainebyona S.Hajnassiri 

M.Rowland B.Folit-Weinberg R.Coleman M.Lee J.Zhu J.Hudson W.Suen T.Ren J.Le Pape C.Aristidou F.Thublier M.Wang 

Row 4: A.Miyashita M.Joshevska S.Goh T.Alexander J.Luettich C.Nwankwo L.Zhang R.Choi K.Tam R.Romanos C.Ren S.Havranek T.Williams C.Hellmayr L.Schramm K.Kemppinen 

G.Bickers A.van Beek T.O’Brien B.Shaw I.Williams L.Carlsson J.Brooker Y.Chang R.Hsu E.Petrillo C.Chuter N.Gyeltshen T.Shamu C.Yang 

Row 3: J.Mitchell A.Azizi L.Irfan K.Vuong M.Liu A.Laussen S.Shah J.Godden C.Markides F.Shahzad E.Schlemm J.McTaggart H.Zorba R.Seign M.Ahmadi O.Sevgili J.Ahn G.Zhang 

E.Khokher M.Goschorska H.Matsuyama Masuda E.Soon A.Bovon M.Menjoz L.Appiah N.Nordin 

Row 2: D.Schade B.De Ridder S.Andrade Arevalo F.Saibene D.Undersrud A.Metcalfe J.Brammeld T.Lesch B.McConnell S.Hut D.Baker P.Doran C.Sargeant T.Graeber T.Duarte J.Akubeze 

J.Knezovich T.Moncaster T.Hughes C.Buckingham C.Sharma R.Murkett M.Lee Å.Odin Ekman 

Row 1: A.Chen A.Kaur A.Martin M.Wignall, Head Porter C.Skott, Tutor A.Jones, Tutor A.Bagnoli, Tutor M.Vestergaard, Tutor D.Barrowclough, Tutor J.Dekkers, Tutor G.Yeo, Tutor D.Frost, Tutor 

K.Stephenson, Development Director C.Lawrence , Bursar R.Evans, President B.Cox , Praelector J.McLarty, Senior Tutor K.Greenbank, Tutor M.Greeves, Tutor K.Allen, Tutorial Office Manager 

L.MacVinish, Tutor S.Church, Tutor I.Ilevbare, WCSA A.Dixon, WCSA A.Mukadam, WCSA A.Ruigrok, WCSA P.Haycock, WCSA H.Usieta, WCSA J.Muinde

Prizes and Studentships 

College Prizes 

Sir David Williams Prize 

(for the best performance by a Wolfson student in Part II of the Law Tripos) 

Han Ming Mark Lim (First Class) 

Hugh Bevan Prize 

(for the most distinguished performance by a Wolfson student in the LLM) 

Christopher Sargeant (First Class) 

Jennings Prize 

(for a First Class or a Distinction in a University Examination, awarded to those 

who had not already won a named Law prize as above) 

Gabriel Bernardi de Freitas, Mathematics, MASt 

Thomas Graeber, Economics, Part IIA 

Jeffrey Jian Han Lee, Engineering, Part IIA 

Constantine Markides, Land Economy, Part IA 

Zhao Feng Ng, English, Part I 

Nicholas Plummer, Final MB, Part I, Pathology 

Eckhard Schleman, MVST, Part IA 

Sébastien Ternisien, Mathematics, MASt 

Yew Jia Jerry Thia, Engineering, Part IIA 

Xianghui Toh, Economics, Part IIA 

Taryn Treger, Final MB, Part I, Pathology 

Manfredas Zabarauskas, Computer Science, Part II 

Tunnicliffe Prize 

(for the best performance by a student returning to academic study after a 

break of more than 30 years) 

Mal Peachey, English, Part II 

Named Studentships 

Wolfson Cambridge Commonwealth Trust 

Gordon Ainebyona, MPhil, Criminology 

Lucy Appiah, MPhil, Social & Developmental Psychology 

Lana Ashby, LLM, Law 

Emma Carter, PhD, Education 

Mbutu Kariuki, MPhil, Social and Developmental Psychology 


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Prizes and Studentships continued 

Wolfson Cambridge Overseas Trust 

Andrew Goldman, PhD, Music 

Yuanyuan Hu, PhD, Physics 

Nimit Jain, MPhil, Innovation, Strategy and Organisation 

Iyad Nasrallah, PhD, Physics 

Lan Xiao, BA, Engineering 

Veronica Zamora Gutierrez, PhD, Zoology 

Jiannan Zhu, PhD, Engineering 

Santander Universities Scholarships 

Louise Pickett, VetMB, Veterinary Medicine 

Jenny Mitchell, VetMB, Veterinary Medicine 

Justinas Badaras, MPhil, Economics 

Jonathan Grant, MSt, Pure Mathematics 

Tilman Lesch, PhD, Psychiatry 

Bahar Maghssudnia, MPhil, Economics 

Scholarships given anonymously 

Li Lu, Master of Finance 

King Pui Juliana Tam, MPhil, Real Estate Finance 

Wan Yang, MPhil, Real Estate Finance 

Ujejski-Williams Bursary 

Zubaida Shebani, PhD, Biological Science 

O’May Studentship 

James Westborook, PhD, Music 

Guan Ruijan Bursary 

Xuesheng You, PhD, History 

The College is enormously grateful to Visiting Fellow, Professor Irene Ng, 

who has established a prize for law in the name of her father, 

an eminent lawyer in Singapore and Malaysia. 

The Dato Ng Kong Yeam Prize will be awarded for the best performance 

in Part I of the Law Tripos. 

The first award will be made in 2013. 


Degrees Awarded 

As at 31 July 2012 

Doctor of Philosophy 

Fernando José Russo Abegão: Magnetic resonance studies of temperature and chemical 

composition in trickle bed reactors 

Megha Sambhavi Amrith: Life in Transit: The aspirations of Filipino medical workers in Singapore 

Karim Lourdes Anaya Stucchi: Electricity market reform: Evidence from South America 

Thomas William John Ash: Use of statistical classifiers in the analysis of MRI data 

Eleanor Susanne Betton: Impact and coalescence of ink-jet printed drops 

Nancy Maria Petronella Bocken: Negotiating long-term targets to reduce CO₂ emissions 

associated with consumer products 

Paolo Bombelli: Harnessing solar energy by bio-photovoltaic devices 

Minodora Brimpari: Regulation of MHC class I and II expression in mouse Epiblast stem cells 

Mr Liam Patrick Candy: Kinematics in conformal geometric algebra with applications in strapdown 

inertial navigation 

Bernard Charlier: Faces of the wolf, faces of the individual: anthropological study of human, 

non-human relationships in West Mongolia 

Lei Chen: The question of teaching virtue – A platonic reading of six Shakespeare plays 

Huei-Chun Cheng: A life history study of Taiwanese female teachers’ identities from a poststructural 

feminist perspective 

Amy Kirsten Samantha Chesterton: Heat-treatment of cake flours 

Carmine D’Agostino: Advanced NMR techniques in sustainable chemistry 

Pierre-Louis Becq de Fouquières: Control of quantum mechanical systems through optimisation 

Mark Philip De Lessio: Assessing the complex product design process planning activity 

Nikolaos Dikaios: Respiratory motion correction for positron emission tomography 

Alexander Dixon: High speed and activity stabilised quantum key distribution 

Adriana Duque-Hughes: Knowing in practice in distributed working. A comparative case study of 

single-function, multiple-client teams collaborating through information technologies 

Qiang Feng: Essays in Econometrics 

Ágnes Foeglein: Cell biology of the influenza: A virus polymerase 

Shaenandhoa García Rangel: Ecology and conservation of the Andean bear in Venezuela 

Nicholas Gibbons: Hybrid photonic systems via release roll-up assembly 


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Degrees Awarded continued 

Monika Anna Golinska: The molecular and metabolic adaptations of HIF-1 β deficient tumor cells 

Olga Goulko: Thermodynamic and hydrodynamic behaviour of interacting Fermi gases 

Kunal Gupta: Using human embryonic stem cells to model acute brain injury 

Håvard Halland: Fiscal policy, business cycles and natural resource dependence 

Ying Hao: Design, Fabrication and Characterisation of polymer-based wavelength-divisionmultiplexing 

filters for fibre-to-the-home application 

Jacqueline Fay Hobbs: When the 'Milkbird' comes: Amdo-Tibetan constructions of time in 

Qinghai and Gansu Provinces, the People’s Republic of China 

Shoshanna Chaya Isaacson: Mass spectrometry of noncovalent membrane protein complexes 

David James Johns: Dietary patterns and cardiovascular disease in severe obesity 

Petros Karatsareas: A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and 

dialectological perspective 

Timothy Simon Kelby: Smart brushes on flexible substrates: probing the chemo-mechanical 

properties of stimulus-responsive polymer brushes 

David Arthur Knowles: Bayesian non-parametric models and inference for sparse and hierarchical 

latent structure 

Svitlana Kobzar: ‘The return to Europe’: Ukraine’s foreign policy, 1994–2004 

Kian-Yong Lee: Formation of the midzone microtubule bundles during cytokinesis 

Chea Lu Lim: Investigating the dynamics of nanog heterogeneity in mouse embryonic stem cells 

Martina Mangold: Computational studies of type II 3-dehydroquinate dehydratase 

Cesar Rafael Mares: Extraterritorial prospecting and territory defence in cooperatively 

breeding meerkats 

Barbara Lynn Miltner: The territorial application of treaties in international law 

Alireza Moayyeri: Risk assessment for osteoporotic fractures among men and women from 

a prospective population study: The EPIC-Norfolk study 

William Mifsud: Studies on the ontogeny of the mammalian germ line 

Eva Eustasia Nanopoulos: Judicial review of Anti-terrorism measures in the EU 

Kieron Michael Geoffrey O’Connell: Strategy development for diversity-orientated synthesis: 

A two-dimensional macrocyclisation approach 

Vojtech Filip Olle: Short pulse generation and automated control in quantum well and quantum 

dot laser diodes 

Alison Jane Peel: The epidemiology of Lagos bat virus and henipaviruses in straw-coloured fruit 

bats (Eidolon helvum), using population genetics to infer population connectivity 


João Duarte Tavares da Silva Pereira: The role of the polycomb repressive complex 2 in the 

regulation of neocortical neurogenesis 

Ichitaro Saito: Amorphous selenium photoelectric devices 

Frank Carl Schoofs: Defect-induced magnetism and transport phenomena in epitaxial oxides 

Santosh Kumar Singh: Silicon carbide based inverter for hybrid electric vehicles 

Luke William Smith: Electron interaction effects in quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires 

Anna Dominika Staniszewska: Roles of stat3 in mammary gland development, involution and 

breast cancer 

Susan Elizabeth Swaffield: Head Teachers’ views of external support, challenge and critical 

friendship 

Shadia Salah E-Rahman Ali Taha: Attachment to abandoned heritage: The case of Suakin, Sudan 

Shunyi Tan: Holographic waveguide display 

Benjamin James Taylor: The development of an Algal Oscillatory Flow Bioreactor for biodiesel 

feedstock 

Adrian Gabriel Torres: MicroRNA targeting with oligonucleotide analogues 

Jurgen Van Gael: Bayesian nonparametric hidden Marko models 

Kiran Vijayan: Vibration and shock amplification of drilling tools 

Joanne Elizabeth Wallis: Laying strong foundations: Does the level of public participation 

involved in constitution-making play a role in state-building? Case studies of Timor-Leste and 

Bougainville 

Tian Wei: Identifying and capturing synergies in mergers and acquisitions in the medical 

technology industry 

Lowri Sian Williams: Over-expression, purification and stabilisation of the mitochondrial 

uncoupling protein 

Louise Elizabeth Wilson: Miracle and medicine in medieval Miracula ca 1180-ca 1320 

Zichen Zhang: Phase-only nematic liquid crystal on silicon devices 

Master of Science 

Awais Ahmed Awan: Behavioural analysis of internet traffic 

Master of Letters 

Daria Rakowski: The development of kingship ideologies in late Viking age Norway 



Student Record



Master of Arts 

Sonja Bremauer 

Shaenandhoa Garcia Rangel 

Akua Gyekye 

Nicholas Richard Laugier 

Alejandro Vicente 

Grabovetsky 

Master of Law 

Patrick Actis Perinetto 

Lana Latoya Ashby 

Christopher John 

Buckingham 

Kateryna Busol 

Ece Deniz Gunay 

Thomas William Hannant 

Ming Chung Colin Hung 

Oi Ming Carol Lee 

Merit Lind 

Michael David Marin 

Milana Polimac 

Joel Quek 

Christopher William Sargeant 

Lennart Friedemann 

Schramm 

Joshua Hames Sinnett 

Master of Research 

Alexis Hazbun 

Wenzhe Hu 

Christian Markus Hueber 

Andreas Marouchos 

Barbara Musial 

Timothy Mark Newton 

Master of Philosophy 

Emma Abotsi 

Henry Agbe 

Gordon Ainebyona 

Oluwagbenga Michael 

Akinlabi 

Kristine Albrektsen 

Amanda Aldercotte 

Alia Al-Kadi 

Thomas Alves de Souza Lima 

Salvador Andrade 

Lucy Appiah 

Chrystalleni Aristidou 

Olayinka Abimbola Awolokun 

Azra Azizi 

Siddhartha Bagaria 

Olaoluwa Baikie 

Sophie Isabelle Marie Baril 

Patrizia Battista 

Abhishek Bhattacharyya 

Nathaniel Blakney 

Luca Budello 

Aleksandar Bulajic 

Emma Jane Carter 

Christoforos Chatzikomis 

Zhi Chen 

Chik On Choy 

Gabriel Daly 

Matthew William Davies 

Maria Elisa De Padua Najera 

Jonathan Der Kureghian 

George Derpanopoulos 

Athanasios Detsis 

Athanasios Dimopoulos 

Vasileios Michail Douzenis 

Suvi Kristiina Ellilä 

Martin Elton 

Julius Gerald Valentin Emmrich 

Katherine Elizabeth England 

Xinghong Fang 

Shibo Feng 

Cara Ferrentino 

Sebastian Finnigan 

Benjamin Joseph Folit- 

Weinberg 

Lauren Fulton 

Abhimanyu Gahlaut 

Souvik Kumar Ghosh 

Kirk Patrick Gillam 

Su Kai Goh 

Andrew Jacob Goldman 


Defne Gonenc 

Lorenzo Grande 

David Charles Greatrex 

Ganna Grebennikova 

Thomas James Harrington 

Alexis Joron Hazbun 

Rupert Terrence Horsley 

Manuel Jaeger 

Nimit Jain 

Jun D Jiang 

Suhang Jiang 

Joy Soita Juma 

Arul Jothi Kandiah 

Maheshvaran 

Sahand Karimisani 

Moses Mbutu Kariuki 

Anna Kaxira 

Victoria Louise Keevil 

Varun Khanna 

Tabitha Nduku Kilonzo 

Georgios Kostopoulos 

Daniela Krug 

Alexander Christian Langer 

Jason Jian Sheng Lau 

Colm John Lingard Lauder 

Aimee Laussen 

Michael Andrew Lawton 

Jo-Yu Lee 

Yun-Hsin Lin 

Xuefeng Liu 

Yue Liu 

Qian Ma 

Andreas Bjoern Madsen 

Adriana Laura Massidda 

Alexander Zoltan McKenna 

Michal Meiri 

Tingting Meng 

Alexander David Metcalfe 

Kumari Moothedath 

Chandran 

Feriha Mukuve Mugisha 

Zsuzsa Munkacsi 

Jeffrey Brian Murray

Hussain Nadim 

Lucille Avital Newman 

Timothy Newton 

Lionel Perez 

Breann Marie Preston 

Jose Pablo Puga 

Yu Qiu 

Connor Quinn 

Ebrahim Ahmed Ali Radhi 

Thomas Radinger 

Divya Vaikuntam Raghavan 

Leila Rahy 

Rand Relatores 

Ralph Romanos 

Joanna Milagros Rauseo 

Acevedo 

Nicolas Rubir 

Sonia Sawhney 

Julian Schroeder 

Oytun Sevgili 

Pakkamol Siriwat 

Karol Skrzyszowski 

Konstantin Sold 

Emily Jing Yuen Soon 

Tomás Steinacker Vélez 

Marc Steuber 

Jan Stochl 

Andrew Sullivan 

Ning Sun 

Yifan Sun 

Alireza Tabatabaie 

Deborah Hong Yi Tan 

Matthew Tasker 

Ali Tazi 

Davide Testuggine 

Emily Toops 

Pawel Szymon Walter 

Jinjie Wang 

Andrew Watt 

Meng Qiong Wei 

Wei Wei 

Georgie Victoria Williams 

Stephen Clarke Williamson 

Frederic Victor Pierre Pascal 

Wintzenrieth 

Xinyu Xuan 

Feng Ye 

Dongxiao You 

Lama Mohammad Ata Zaid 

Yuan Zheng 

Jinjing Zhou 

Michalis Zotos 

Master of Advanced 

Study 

Gabriel Bernardi de Freitas 

Lars Robert Carlsson 

Maxime Paul Roger Fournes 

Jonathan Grant 

Joël Le Pape 

Ming Yew Lee 

Yan Li 

Christopher Melgaard 

Noah Pang 

Tianyi Ren 

Sébastien Ternisien 

Master of Business 

Administration 

Oremayi Akah 

Satoshi Awamura 

Nico Boedeker 

Vadim Chekaev 

Ori Even-Zur 

Elena Ion 

Matthew Jenkins 

Judy Hwee Hoon Kang 

Kaloyan Kapralov 

Yair Kaufman 

Daniela Krug 

Ming Kuang 

Han Yee Lim 

Nishit Mehrotra 

Ryo Munakata 

Yan Kai Ngian 



Michal Obloj 

Masayuki Ohta 

Osita Onugha 

Pratik Hirachand Shah 

Samir Girish Shah 

Jin Ho Shin 

Rebecca Streetley 

Eduardo Vila Moret 

Executive Master of 

Business Administration 

Mathieu Gerardin 

Elise Mayumi Sakane Eriksson 

Master of Finance 

Mohammad Abdulhameed 

Alshaikmubarak 

Leonel Mateo Arana Gallo 

Guan Wee Chua 

Master of Education 

Rupinder Ahluwalia 

Rebeka Aylwin 

Tak Wah Bonnie Chan 

Rosalinda Coupe 

Caroline Creaby 

Jenny Fogarty 

Claire Greenwood 

Pauline Hannibal 

Melanie Lester 

Annabel Moore 

Richard Moore 

Philippa Noble 

Catherine Payne 

Shantha Jaya Sharma 

Jennifer Sheppard 

Michelle Solomon 

Jackie Stephenson 

Lesley Stevens 

Vivien Wearing 

Jill Wilcox 

Maria Zegallo-Tufnell 

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Master of Studies 

Nick Adderley 

Adeoye Omotade Adebayo 

Philip John Adiutori 

Victor Graham Annells 

John Richard Barry 

Gary Christopher Beautridge 

Miles Tarquin Bonfield 

Harriet Jane Bradley 

Deborah Miriam Brown 

Andrea Caddick 

Daniel De Mesa Caligayahan 

Robert John Carden 

Muhammad Ehsan Che 

Munaaim 

Georgina Mary Copley 

Jayne Cowell 

Raymond Anthony Craig 

Darryl Dexter Daniel 

John Gerad Donovan 

Richardo Joseph Garcia 

Graham Thomas Gardner 

Stirling Anthony Hackshaw 

David Patrick Healy 

Paul Joseph Ronald Hermans 

Samuel David Hill 

Zebulon Joseph Hoffman 

Ahloy Cecil Hunt 

Neil Thomas Hunter 

Robin Adrian Jarman 

Jane Johnson 

Linda Patricia Kelly 

Philip Ian Kirk 

Richard Walter Paul Klopp 

Jana Kovalăikovà 

Keith John Lomas 

James Lunn 

Nora Jane McCawley 

Kenrick Maharaj 

Michael Vincent Manley 

Darren John Martland 

Daniel John Mayes 

Nora Jane McCawley 

Kenneth Hunter McIntosh 

William David McWilliam 

Laila Mehrpour 

Chris Noble 

Mohamed Ahmed Nanabhay 

Krokhina Olena 

Christy Oommen 

Amanda Jane Marie Pearson 

Kieran Alistair Martin 

Pollentine 

Tracy Ann Potter 

Adam Raffell 

Haroon Rashid 

David John Richards 

Richard Joseph Rowland 

Tatiana Ruchinskaya 

Timothy James Schaitberger 

Dana Allen Siegelman 

Steve Angus Skinner 

Robert John Spencer 

Keith Surtees 

Heng Wee Tan 

Harriet Laura Margaret Torry 

Louisa Yee Ling Tsang 

Polly Turton 

Humberto Valverde 

Andrew Eyton Williams 

Thea Cathryn Willis 

Lin Xie 

Po Jen Yap 

Alasdair Young 

Laura Young 

Qiang Zhang 

Bachelor of Medicine 

Zahid Mahmood Ataullah 

John Joseph Daniel 

Callaghan 

Mark James Davies 

Anushka Patchava 

Lorna Moore 


Bachelor of Surgery 

Marcel Nicola Biscoff 

Phillip Craig Endleman 

Graham Iain Victor Pluck 

Paolo Scollo 

Graeme Wilson 

Ivailo Zhekov 

Master of Natural 

Sciences and Bachelor 

of Arts 

Akiyoshi Shiotani 

Bachelor of Arts 

Paul Charles Aliker 

Samuel Pei En Beh 

Elizabeth Campbell 

Keiran Carson 

Aiden Cope 

Zaneeta Dhesi 

Jonathan Adam Fransman 

Kalle Harberg 

Kamil Kaminski 

Rozelle Kane 

Cynthia Deidre Anne Larbey 

Han Ming Mark Lim 

Christopher O’Donnell 

Mal Peachey 

Peter James Rogers 

Emmanuel Sheppard 

Angelica Sophie Tatam 

Lizhan Tham 

Katie Isabella Trew 

Helen Lesley Waller 

Ping Yip William Yeung 

Manfredas Zabarauskas 

Bachelor of Theology 

for Ministry 

Eileen Khean-Geok Harrop 

Clifford Kay

Membership 

Conrad Guettler

Membership 


College Officers 

President: Richard Evans Kt MA DPhil DLitt FRHistS FRSL FLSW FBA, Regius Professor of History 

Vice-President: John Naughton BE MA FRSA, Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of 

Technology, The Open University 

Bursar: Christopher Lawrence MA MSc ARCM 

Senior Tutor: Jane McLarty MA MPhil PhD 

Development Director: Karen Stephenson MA PGCE 

Praelector: Brian D Cox BSc MA PhD 

Tutors 

Anna Bagnoli BSc PhD 

David Barrowclough MA PhD 

Sally Church BA MA PhD 

Jo Dekkers BSc PhD 

David Frost BEd MA MA PhD FRSA 

Kevin Greenbank BA MA PhD 

Margaret Greeves MA MA FRSA 

Lesley MacVinish MA PhD 

Christina Skott MagPhil PhD 

Michelle St Clair BA MSc PhD 

Martin Vestergaard MSc PhD 

Giles Yeo BA PhD 

Admissions Tutors 

Jennifer Davis BA MSc MA PhD (graduate admissions) 

Michael Hrebeniak BA PhD (undergraduate admissions, Arts and Humanities) 

Lesley MacVinish MA PhD (undergraduate admissions, Sciences) 

College Teaching Officers 

Michael Hrebeniak BA PhD (English) 

Paul MacMahon BA BCL MPhil JD (Law) (to 30 September 2012) 

Brendan Plant BEc LLB MSc (Law) (from 1 October 2012) 

Lee Librarian 

Jenny Sargent BA MA 

Director of Music 

Lynette Alcántara BA BMusEd AMusA MA 


New Fellows 2011–2012 

Honorary Fellow 

Judge Sang-Hyun Song was appointed to the International Criminal 

Court in 2003 and was elected and re-elected President of the 

International Criminal Court until March 2015. From 1972 he taught as 

a Professor of Law at Seoul National University; he has also held Visiting 

Professorships at a number of law schools, including Harvard, New York 

University, Melbourne and Wellington. His legal career began as a 

judge-advocate in the Korean army and he also led initiatives to reform 

the national litigation and criminal justice system. 

Judge Song graduated with an LLB from Seoul National University and, whilst a student at 

Wolfson (1968), he obtained a Diploma in Comparative Legal Studies. He recently visited the 

College and, in his thank you letter to the President, said: “I look forward to seeing Wolfson 

prosper further as it approaches its milestone fiftieth anniversary.” 

Fellows 

Dr Anna Bagnoli is an Associate Researcher in the Department of Sociology and a College Tutor. 

She is interested in developing creative and participatory methodological approaches involving 

the use of visual and arts-based methods. She also teaches visual methods at the Universities of 

Barcelona and Basel. 

Dr Pedro Ballester is an MRC Methodology Research Fellow at EMBL-EBI. His research focuses on 

the development and application of innovative computational tools to analyse and predict 

binding in large and diverse sets of protein-ligand complexes. 

Dr Stefan Baur is a postdoctoral researcher in condensed matter theory at the Cavendish 

Laboratory. He studies interacting ultra-cold quantum gases, a state of matter when atoms are 

cooled down close to absolute zero temperature. 

Dr Uilleam Blacker is a postdoctoral research associate on the Memory at War project at the 

Department of Slavonic Studies. His research focuses on the intersections of cultural memory, 

urban space and literature in Poland, Ukraine and Russia. 

Dr Andreas Bulling is a postdoctoral researcher in the Graphics and Interaction Group at the 

Computer Laboratory where he develops algorithms at the interface of ubiquitous computing, 

machine learning and eye tracking. 


Membership

Membership 

New Fellows 2011–2012 continued 

Dr David de Sancho is a FEBS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry. He studies 

weakly structured peptides and intrinsically disordered proteins using molecular simulations. His 

main research focus is on gaining quantitative insight into the origin of experimental signals in 

protein folding. 

Professor Stephen Evans is Director of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in 

Industrial Sustainability and also Director of Research at the Institute for Manufacturing. He spent 

12 years in industry and now he seeks to understand how industry can develop solutions that 

move us towards a sustainable future. 

Dr Philip Alan Goodwin is Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Earth Sciences 

and investigates how carbon-climate feedbacks affect atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, both in 

the future in response to fossil fuel emissions and as part of natural climate cycles in the past. 

Dr Stephen Hoath is Research Associate in the Department of Engineering Inkjet Research 

Centre, based within the Institute for Manufacturing. He is also Director of Studies in Engineering. 

Dr Chan Woo Kim is a mathematician with a research focus in the field of the partial differential 

equations. 

Dr Wansu Kim holds a Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship and studies algebro-geometric 

questions arising from number theory. 

Dr Svitlana Kobzar is a Junior Research Fellow and an Associate Analyst at RAND Europe. She has 

been researching the re-admission agreements as well as the impact that the EU has on refugee 

protection policy in Ukraine, including the role of international organisations in influencing 

norms and values in this country. 

Dr Harry Leitch is a visiting researcher at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research. His 

research interests are in pluripotent stem cell biology and the relationship between pluripotency 

and the germ line. 

Dr Richard Meiser-Stedman is a clinical psychologist and Medical Research Council Clinician 

Scientist Fellow at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. His research addresses the 

psychiatric reactions of children and adolescents to extreme stressors. 

Peter Phillips MA is the Chief Executive of Cambridge University Press. Prior to the Press, he was 

on the Board of Ofcom, served as Chief Operating Officer for BBC News and Current Affairs and 

read Mathematics at Merton College, Oxford. 

Dr Josana Rodríguez Sánchez holds a Herchel Smith Fellowship at The Wellcome Trust and 

Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute where her research is focused on the identification of new 

genes involved in the polarisation of cells. 



New Fellows 2011–2012 continued 

Dr Michelle St Clair is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and also 

a College Tutor. She studies the distal and proximal causes of psychiatric illness in adolescence 

and is also a member of the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care. 

Dr Martin Vestergaard studies cognitive aspects of the reward system in the Department of 

Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. He previously held a Research Fellowship at the 

Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing in the University of Cambridge. 

Dr Amy Wyatt is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry studying the role of 

extracellular chaperones in diseases of protein misfolding such as Alzheimer’s disease, 

atherosclerosis and macular degeneration. She holds a CJ Martin Fellowship awarded by the 

National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. 

Dr Jiaxiang Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. His 

research focuses on the neural mechanisms of decisions and learning in health and neurological 

disease using functional magnetic resonance imaging and computational modelling. 

Membership

Membership 

Fellows 

As at 31 July 2012, in order of election to the Fellowship 

1981 

Marie Lovatt BA AKC PhD; Senior Fellow, Wolfson College 

1982 

Marguerite Dupree BA MA MA DPhil PhD FRHistS; Centre for the History of Medicine, University 

of Glasgow 

1983 

Brian Moore MA PhD FMedSci FRS; Professor of Auditory Perception and Deputy Head of 

Department of Experimental Psychology 

Joan Whitehead BA MA PhD; University Lecturer in Psychology, Faculty of Education 

1984 

Sheelagh Lloyd PhD; Senior Lecturer in Parasitology, Dept of Veterinary Medicine 

1987 

John Henderson BA MA PhD FRHistS; Professor of Italian Renaissance History, Birkbeck College, 

University of London 

1989 

Duncan McCallum MA; Deputy Academic Secretary, Academic Division 

1990 

Ivor Day BSc MSc PhD FIMechE FASME FREng; Senior Rolls-Royce Research Fellow, Whittle 

Laboratory, Dept of Engineering 

1992 

John Naughton BE MA FRSA; Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology, The 

Open University; Director, Wolfson College Press Fellowship Programme and Vice-President, 


Peter Weissberg MA MD FRCP FMedSci; Medical Director, British Heart Foundation and Honorary 

Consultant Cardiologist, Addenbrooke’s Hospital 

1993 

Ian Goodyer MB BS DCH MD MA FRCPsych FMedSci; Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 

Dept of Psychiatry 

1994 

Donald MacDonald MA PhD; formerly Director of Medical & Veterinary Education in the Faculty of 

Biology, Dept of Genetics 

Ian Cross LRAM ARCM BSc PhD; Professor of Music & Science, Faculty of Music 


Geoffrey Khan PhD FBA; Professor of Semitic Philology, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 

Norbert Peabody AM PhD; Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology 

1995 

Jennifer Davis BA MSc MA PhD; Director of Studies in Law and Graduate Admissions Tutor, 


1997 

Nadia Stelmashenko PhD; Technical Officer, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy 


Fellows continued 

1998 

Duncan Maskell MA PhD FMedSci; Marks & Spencer Professor of Farm Animal Health, Food Science 

& Food Safety and Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine 

Koen Steemers BSc BArch MPhil PhD RIBA; Professor of Sustainable Design and Head of 

Department of Architecture 

Thomas Ridgman MA CEng FIET; University Lecturer, Dept of Engineering 

Sally Church BA MA PhD; Tutor & International Student Liaison Officer, Wolfson College and 

Senior Research Associate, Civilizations in Contact, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 

Peter Sewell MA MSc PhD; Reader in Computer Science and EPSRC Leadership Fellow, 

Computer Laboratory 

Steven Hand BSc MSc PhD; Reader in Computer Systems, Computer Laboratory 

John Sinclair MA PhD; Professor of Molecular Virology, Dept of Medicine 

1999 

Raymond Bujdoso PhD; Senior Lecturer in Molecular Immunology, Dept of Veterinary Medicine 

and Director, Wellcome Trust Summer School 

Michael Bienias MA; Director, Estate Management 

Charles Jones BA MA PhD; Reader in International Relations, Dept of Politics and International 

Studies and Director, Centre of Latin American Studies 

Susan Bowring MA PGCE; formerly University Draftsman, Secretariat 

Graham Allen MA MA; Academic Secretary, Academic Division 

2000 

Anne Jarvis MA MA; University Librarian, Cambridge University Library 

Peter D’Eath PhD; University Lecturer, Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics 

George Salmond BSc MA PhD ScD DSc (Hon) FRSA FSB FRSE; Professor of Molecular Microbiology 

and Deputy Head of Department of Biochemistry 

William Marslen-Wilson PhD FBA; Honorary Professor of Language & Cognition 

John Clark MB ChB MA MD FRCP; Associate Clinical Dean, Clinical School and Consultant Physician, 

West Suffolk Hospital 

Karen Pearce MSc; Assistant Director of Physical Education, Sports Department 

John Firth DM FRCP; Consultant Physician & Nephrologist and Clinical Director of Renal Services, 

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Dean, Clinical School 

David Frost BEd MA MA PhD FRSA; Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership & School 

Improvement, Faculty of Education and Tutor, Wolfson College 

2001 

Ann Copestake MA DPhil; Professor of Computational Linguistics and Deputy Head of Department, 


Membership

Membership 


Markus Kuhn MSc PhD; Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Computer Laboratory 

Andrew Bradley MB ChB PhD FRCS FMedSci; Professor of Surgery and Head of Department 

of Surgery, Honorary Consultant Surgeon and Clinical Director of Transplantation, 

Addenbrooke’s Hospital 

2002 

Nigel Kettley BA MPhil PhD; University Lecturer in Social Science, Institute of Continuing Education 

Lynette Alcántara BA BMusEd AMusA MA; Director of Music, Wolfson College, Singing Teacher, 

Choir of King’s College and member of BBC Singers 

Andrew Reid MA MBA; Director of Finance, Finance Division 

Jin Zhang BA MA MPhil PhD; University Lecturer in International Business & China, Judge 

Business School 

Thomas D’Andrea MA PhD; Director, International Society for Legal & Moral Philosophy, 

Witherspoon Institute and Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Centre for Research in 

the Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities (CRASSH) 

Thomas Grant BA JD PhD; Research Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and 

Public International Lawyer 

Margaret Joy Dauncey BSc PhD ScD FSB; Senior Scientist and Adviser in Nutritional & 

Biomedical Sciences 

Adrian Kent MA PhD; Reader in Quantum Physics, Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics 

Susan Oosthuizen BA MA PGCE PhD FSA; Senior Lecturer for Landscape & Field Archaeology, 

Institute of Continuing Education 

2003 

Nicholas Wareham MB BS MSc PhD FRCP FFPHM; Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Co-Director, 

Institute of Metabolic Science and Honorary Consultant, Addenbrooke’s Hospital 

Jonathan Crowcroft MA MSc PhD FREng FIET FBCS FIEEE FACM; Marconi Professor of 

Communications Systems, Computer Laboratory 

Gillian Murphy PhD FMedSci; Professor of Cancer Cell Biology and Deputy Head of Dept of Oncology 

Peter Jones MD PhD FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci; Professor of Psychiatry and Head of Dept of Psychiatry 

2004 

Vassilis Koronakis MA PhD; Professor of Molecular Biology, Dept of Pathology 

2005 

Lesley MacVinish MA PhD; Senior Teaching Associate, Dept of Pharmacology; Tutor and 

Undergraduate Admissions Tutor for Science and Pre-Clinical Director of Studies for Veterinary & 

Medical Sciences, Wolfson College 

Jonathan Ingham MA PhD; Research Associate, Centre for Photonic Systems, Dept of Engineering 

Zhi-Yong Li BSc MA PhD; Senior Research Fellow, Dept of Radiology 

Christopher Town MA PhD; Research Fellow in Computer Science, Computer Laboratory and 

Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer, Imense Ltd 

Christina Skott MagPhil PhD; Director of Studies in History and Tutor, Wolfson College; College 

Lecturer and Director of Studies in History, Magdalene College; Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of 

History and Junior Pro-Proctor 




2006 

David Baguley BSc MSc MBA PhD; Director of Audiology, Depts of Audiology & Otolaryngology, 

Addenbrooke’s Hospital 

George Vogiatzis PhD; Senior Research Scientist, Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory 

Kevin Greenbank BA MA PhD; Archivist & Administrator, Centre of South Asian Studies and Tutor, 


Jeremy Webb MA MRCP DRCOG MRCGP; Graduate Course in Medicine Tutor, Clinical School and GP 

Richard Fenner BSc PhD CEng MICE FCIWEM; Senior Lecturer and Engineering for Sustainable 

Development Course Director, Dept of Engineering 

Simon Pattinson MBA DipM MCIM; Industrial Systems, Manufacture & Management Course 

Director, Institute for Manufacturing, Dept of Engineering 

Friedrich Lösel PhD Dr Sc (Hon); Director of the Institute of Criminology and Professor of 

Psychology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 

2007 

Christopher Lawrence MA MSc ARCM; Bursar, Wolfson College 

Margaret Greeves MA MA FRSA; Tutor, Wolfson College 

Andrew Simester BCom LLB DPhil; Professor of Law, National University of Singapore; Senior 

Research Fellow, Institute of Criminology and Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Law 

David Barrowclough MA PhD; Postdoctoral Researcher, McDonald Institute for Archaeological 

Research, Dept of Archaeology and Tutor, Wolfson College 

Alice Benton BA MA; Principal Assistant Registrary, Secretariat 

Vincenzo Vergiani PhD; Lecturer in Sanskrit, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 

Linda Wicker BS PhD; Professor of Immunogenetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research 

2008 

Anthony Short MPhys DPhil; Royal Society Research Fellow, Dept of Applied Mathematics & 

Theoretical Physics 

Gordon Dougan BSc MA PhD FMedSci FRS; Head of Pathogen Research and Management 

Board Member, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute 

Viji Draviam-Sastry MSc PhD; Cancer Research UK Career Development Fellow and Group Leader, 

Dept of Genetics 

Karen Stephenson MA PGCE; Development Director, Wolfson College 

James (Chip) Coakley BA MA PhD; Affiliated Lecturer on Syriac, Faculty of Divinity; Affiliated 

Researcher, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies and Manuscript Specialist, Cambridge 

University Library 

Sir Anthony Brenton KCMG MPhil MA; formerly British Ambassador to Russia 

Michael O’Sullivan CMG MA MPhil; Director, Cambridge Commonwealth & Overseas Trusts 

Massimiliano Garagnani Laurea PhD PhD; Investigator Scientist, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit 

Virginia Newcombe BSc MPhil MB BS PhD MRCP; NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurocritical 

Care and Specialty Registrar, Addenbrooke’s Hospital 

Michael Hrebeniak BA PhD; College Lecturer in English, Director of Studies in English and 

Undergraduate Admissions Tutor (Arts), Wolfson College 

James Wood BSc BVetMed MSc PhD MA MRCVS DipECVPH DLSHTM; Alborada Professor of 

Equine & Farm Animal Science and Director, Cambridge Infectious Diseases Consortium, 

Dept of Veterinary Medicine 

Membership

Membership 


Sergey Nejentsev MD PhD; Royal Society Research Fellow, Dept of Medicine 

Stephen Oliver BSc PhD FMedSci FAAAS; Professor of Systems Biology & Biochemistry and Director, 

Cambridge Systems Biology Centre 

2009 

Mark Wills BSc PhD; Senior Research Associate, Dept of Medicine 

Jane McLarty MA MPhil PhD; Senior Tutor, Wolfson College and Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty 

of Divinity 

Meredith Hale BA MA MPhil PhD; Speelman Fellow in Dutch & Flemish Art, Wolfson College 

Joanna Dekkers BSc PhD; Senior Assistant Registrary, Academic Division and Tutor, Wolfson College 

Anna Jones MA MA MPhil; Whipple Librarian, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science 

Giles See How Yeo BA PhD; Senior Research Associate and Director of Genomics & Transcriptomics, 

Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Hospital and Tutor, Wolfson College 

Bonnie Auyeung BA PhD; Research Associate, Dept of Psychiatry 

Elizabeth Blake BA MPhil PhD; Dept of Archaeology 

Joshua Hordern BA DipTh MSt PhD; Associate Director, Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, 

Tyndale House and Affiliated Lecturer and Research Associate, Faculty of Divinity 

Ella McPherson BA MPhil PhD; Research Fellow in Sociology, Faculty of Politics, Psychology, 

Sociology & International Studies and Director of Studies for Politics, Psychology & Sociology, 


Xavier Moya BSc MSc PhD; Research Associate, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy 

Timothy Justin MB BS DM FRCS; Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, West Suffolk Hospital and 

Graduate Course in Medicine Tutor, Dept of Medicine 

Alun Williams BVMS PhD DipECVP FHEA MRCVS; Professor of Veterinary Diagnostic Pathology, 

Dept of Veterinary Medicine 

2010 

Conrad Guettler BSc PhD MA; Freelance Publishing Consultant and Review Editor, Wolfson College 

Anil Madhavapeddy BEng PhD; Principal Engineer, Xensource UK Ltd and Senior Research Associate, 


Julio Saez-Rodriguez Licenciatura PhD; Research Group Leader, European Bioinformatics Institute 

Justin Meggitt BA MTS PhD; Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion & the Origins of Christianity, 

Institute of Continuing Education; Affiliated Lecturer in New Testament Studies, Faculty of 

Divinity and Visiting Researcher, Stockholm University 

Pradeep Nathan BSC PhD MRACI CCHEM FCP; Director of Neuroscience, GlaxoSmithKline 

Pharmaceutical; Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience, Monash University, Australia and Affiliated 

Lecturer, Dept of Psychiatry 

Abderrahmane (Abdul) Kaidi BSc PhD; Research Fellow, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge 

Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz BSc MB BCH PhD FRS FRCP FRCPath FMedSci (1989); Vice 

Chancellor, University of Cambridge and Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College 

Alistair Fair BA MA PhD; Research Associate, Dept of Architecture and Director of Studies in 

Architecture, Wolfson College and Churchill College 

Dominik Heiss Dipl Phys Dr rer nat; Research Associate, Microelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory 

Andong Lu BArch MPhil PhD; Research Associate, Dept of Architecture 

Maria Muñoz Caffarel BSc MSc PhD; Research Associate, Dept of Pathology 


Patrick Narbonne BSc PhD; Human Frontiers Research Fellow, The Gurdon Institute, University 

of Cambridge 

James Riley BA MA PhD; Preceptor of English Literature, Corpus Christi College 

Roland Schwarz Dipl Inf (FH) Dr rer nat; Research Associate, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute 

Maria Ttofi BA BA MPhil PhD; Leverhulme & Newton Trust Early Career Fellow, Institute of Criminology 

Saroj Velamakanni BSc MSc PhD; Senior Research Associate, Dept of Pharmacology 

Oliver Woodford MA MEng DPhil; Research Engineer, Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory 

Yinyin Yuan BSc MSc PhD; Research Fellow, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute and Dept of Oncology 

2011 

Brodie Waddell BA MA PhD; Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of History 

Josana Rodríguez Sánchez BSc PhD; Research Fellow, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge 

Pedro Ballester Aristin Licenciatura MSc PhD; MRC Methodology Research Fellow, EMBL-European 

Bioinformatics Institute 

Stefan Baur Vordiplom MS PhD; Research Associate, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory 

Uilleam Blacker MA MA PhD; Research Associate, Dept of Slavonic Studies 

Andreas Bulling Dipl Inf Dr sc ETH; Research Associate, Computer Laboratory 

David de Sancho BSc BSc MSc Dip PhD; Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept of Chemistry 

Svitlana Kobzar BA MPhil PhD; Associate Analyst, RAND Europe, Cambridge 

Harry Leitch MA PhD; Research Associate, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute 

Richard Meiser-Stedman BSc PhD DClinPsy; MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow, MRC Cognition 

& Brain Sciences Unit 

Amy Wyatt BBiotech PhD; Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept of Chemistry 

Jiaxiang Zhang BEng MSc PhD; Investigator Scientist, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit 

Stephen Hoath BA DPhil MA; Research Associate, Inkjet Research Centre, Dept of Engineering 

and Director of Studies for Engineering, Wolfson College 

Paul MacMahon BA BCL MPhil JD; College Teaching Officer in Law, Wolfson College 

Anna Bagnoli BSc PhD; Associate Researcher, Dept of Sociology and Tutor, Wolfson College 

Martin Vestergaard MSc PhD; Research Associate, Dept of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience 

and Tutor, Wolfson College 

Philip Goodwin MSci PhD; Herchel Smith and NERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Earth Sciences 

Chan Woo Kim BS PhD; Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Pure Mathematics & 

Mathematical Statistics 

Wansu Kim BSc PhD; Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Pure Mathematics & 

Mathematical Statistics 

2012 

Michelle St Clair BA MSc PhD; Research Associate, Dept of Psychiatry and Tutor, Wolfson College 

Stephen Evans BSc PhD; Director of Research in Industrial Sustainability, Institute of Manufacturing 

and Director of EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability 

Peter Phillips MA; Chief Executive, Cambridge University Press. 

All dates denote calendar year, rather than academic year. Dates in brackets indicate the year of 

first election to the Fellowship, where the Fellowship has not been held continuously. 



Membership

Membership 

Honorary Fellows 

As at 31 July 2012, in order of election to the honorary Fellowship 

1977 The Reverend Professor Owen 

Chadwick OM KBE FBA 

1986 Dr Lee Seng Tee 

1987 Sir John Sparrow 

1990 Sir Christopher Benson DL FRICS 

Professor Sir Hans Kornberg FRS 

1992 Professor Hugh Bevan 

The Reverend Professor Ernest 

Nicholson FBA (1966) 

1994 Professor Mary Hesse FBA ScD (1965) 

1995 Professor Leslie Zines AO 

The Rt Hon Sir Michael Hardie Boys 

GCMG PC 

1997 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 

The Rt Hon the Baroness Scotland 

of Asthal PC QC 

2000 Professor Suzanne Cory AC FAA FRS 

The Rt Hon the Lord Stevens of 

Kirkwhelpington QPM DL 

Professor William Brown CBE (1985) 

2001 The Rt Reverend Dr Anthony Russell 

2002 Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz FRCP 

FMedSci (1989) 

Professor Andrew von Hirsch 


2003 Professor Dame Alison Richard DBE DL 

General Sir Michael Jackson GCB CBE 

DSO DL 

The Rt Hon the Lord Soulsby of 

Swaffham Prior (1978) 

2005 Professor David Crystal OBE FBA 

2006 Professor Neil Gorman (1978) 

Dr David Grant CBE (2000) 

HE Tharman Shanmugaratnam 

2008 The Hon Justice Susan Kiefel LLM AC 

Dr Judy McGregor 

Dr Louise Mirrer 

2009 Mr William H Gates Sr 

Miss E Kirsten E Rausing D Univ 

Professor Wang Gungwu CBE 

The Rt Hon the Lord Collins of 

Mapesbury LLD PC FBA (1975) 

2010 Dr Gordon Johnson (1993) 

2011 The Hon Mrs Janet Wolfson de 

Botton CBE 

Judge Sang-Hyun Song 

Dates in brackets indicate the year of first 

election to the Fellowship

Emeritus Fellows 

As at 31 July 2012, in order of first election to the Fellowship 

1965 Mr Frederick Algate 

Professor Mary Hesse FBA ScD (HF) 

1967 Dr David Franks 

Dr Bridget Allchin 

Dr Arthur Jennings 

1968 Mr Richard Nicholls 

Mr Bill Kirkman MBE 

Mr James Kinnier Wilson 

1969 Dr Donald Wilson 

1971 Professor Paul Hirst 

1975 Mr Roger Akester 

The Rt Hon the Lord Collins 

of Mapesbury LLD FBA (HF) 

1976 Dr Cecil Treip 

1977 Dr David Briggs 

Dr Owen Edwards 

1978 Dr Henry Tribe 

The Rt Hon the Lord Soulsby 

of Swaffham Prior (HF) 

1980 Dr R Stuart McGregor 

Dr Eric Miller 

1981 Dr John Cathie 

Mr Edward Johnson 

1982 Professor Tony Minson FMedSci 

Dr Stephen Bragg FREng 

Mr Mike Sharman MBE 

Professor Rudolf Hanka 

1983 Professor John Hughes FRS 

Dr Iain Wilkinson 

Dr Roger Connan 

Professor Witold Tulasiewicz 

Dr James Garlick 

Dr Roy Switsur 

Professor William Blakemore 

1984 The Reverend John Snaith 

Dr David Bostock 

Professor Nicholas de Lange FBA 

1986 Mr Colin Gill 

Dr David Clode 


1987 Mac Dowdy 


1988 Dr Stephen Large 

Professor Michael Redhead FBA 

Professor David Hargreaves 

1989 Dr Alexander Tait 

Dr John Rees 

1990 Dr Peter Beaumont 

Dr John Brackenbury 

Dr Abraham Karpas 

Professor Barry Kemp CBE FBA 

Dr John Seagrave 

Dr Janet West 

1991 Professor Malcolm Burrows ScD FRS 

Mr Michael Richardson 

1992 Dr Patricia Hyndman 

1993 Dr Margaret E Shepherd 

Mr Anthony Wilson 

Dr Gordon Johnson (HF) 

1994 Dr Norma Emerton 

1995 Professor E Stewart Lee 

Dr Tyrell Smith 

1996 Dr Brian D Cox 

Dr Thomas Davies 

Dr John Flowerdew 

1997 Dr Evelyn Lord 

Dr Timothy Mead 

1999 Dr Jeremy Mynott 

David J Hall 

2000 Professor Andrew Pollard 

2001 Professor Martin Bobrow CBE 

Professor Andrew Herbert OBE 

FBCS FREng 

2003 Dr Cyrus Chothia 

2004 Professor Philip Arestis 

Professor Robin Alexander FBA 

Professor Richard Taylor 

HF indicates that this person is also an 

Honorary Fellow 

Membership

Membership 

Senior Members 


Our Senior Members form a vibrant group within College. The list comprises those who are 

holders of University Offices and, in a long-standing Wolfson tradition, distinguished members 

of the local community who have been invited to join the College as Senior Members. 

Dr David Adams 

Mr Peter Agar 

Dr Ismael Al-Amoudi 

Mr Andrew Aldridge 

Mrs Lenore Alexander 

Mrs Kim Allen 

Dr Dawn Arda 

Professor Jonathan 

Ashley-Smith 

Dr Zoltan Asztalos 

Dr Anastasios Avgoustidis 

Mr Mirza Baig 

Mr Sebastiano Barassi 

Mr Adrian Barlow 

Dr Philip Barlow 

Miss Terry Barringer 

Dr Nicholas Baylis 

The Reverend Prof 

Jeremy Begbie 

Mr David Bennett 

Mrs Doreen Bennett 

Mr Ronald Bennett 

Mrs Sheila Betts 

Mrs Pamela Black 

Dr William Block 

Dr R H Bradshaw 

Dr Kathleen Breed 

Mr Allan Brigham 

Dr Roger Briscoe 

Dr Luis Briseño-Roa 

Mrs Patricia Brown 

Mrs Doreen Burgin 

Dr Andrea Cantone 

Dr J Rafael Castrejón-Pita 

Dr Emma Cavell 

Mr Gaston Chan 

Mr Wing-Kee Chan 

Dr Alessio Ciulli 

Mr Andrew Clarke 

Dr Nicholas Clemons 

Mr Richard Collet-Fenson 

Dr Lorenzo Corti 

Dr Christine L Corton 

Mrs Sherry Coutu 

Mr Andrew Cox 

Mrs Johanna Crighton 

Mrs Sally Cullen 

Dr Rupert Curwen 

Ms Jane Cuthbert 

Dr Michael Dales 

Dr Alinda Damsma 

Ms Penelope Davison 

Dr John Dawson 

Mrs Barbara de Smith 

Mr Paul Deal 

Dr Jennifer Deegan 

Dr MariaLaura Di Domenico 

Mrs Lesley Dingle 

Mr Mike Diplock 

Mr Michael Dixon 

Mr Peter Donovan 

Mr Adrian du Plessis 


Mr Hugh Duberly CBE, HM 

Lord-Lieutenant of 

Cambridgeshire 

Professor Timothy Duff 

Dr Corinne Duhig 

Miss Fiona Duncan 

Mr Anthony Dye 

Dr David Dymond 

Professor John Edwards 

Mrs Josephine Edwards 

Dr Patricia Eisenach 

Mrs Susan Eltringham 

Mrs Sonia Falaschi-Ray 

Miss Elizabeth Falconer 

Mr Jan Filochowski 

Mr Richard Fisher 

Sir Ronnie Flanagan 

Dr Derek Ford 

Dr Anne Forde 

Dr Matthew Forrest 

Mr Aidan Foster 

Mr Daniel Fung SBS SC QC JP 

Mrs Briege Gardner 

Professor Conor Gearty 

Mr Joerg Geier 

Mrs Valentine Gelman 

Dr Andreas Georgiou 

Dr Ruchira Ghose 

Dr Siddhartha Ghose 

Ms Janet Gibson 

Dr Hedwig Gockel

Dr Isabel Gonzalez 

Mr David Goode FRSA 

Dr Gareth Goodier 

Professor Philip Goyal 

Ms Lesley Gray 

Mr Colin Greenhalgh CBE DL 

Dr Emmanouela Grypeou 

The Reverend Canon Dr 

Maggie Guite 

Mr D G (Ben) Gunn CBE QPM 

Dr Hannelore Hägele 

Mrs Carol Handley 

Dr Mila Hanka 

Ms Binney Hare 

Mr Roger Harrabin 

Mr David Harris 

Mr Kim Harris 

Dr Terance Hart FRSC 

Dr Catherine Harter 

Dr Jürgen Harter 

Mr Andrew Harvey 

Dr Ralph Hawtrey 


The Rt Hon the Lord 

Hemingford 

The Reverend Christian 

Heycocks 

Mrs Lynn Hieatt 

Dr Karen Hills 

Dr Suzanne Hoelgaard 

Dr Mark Hogarth 

Miss Amanda Hollands 

Dr Theodore Hong 

Mr Anthony Hopkinson 

Mrs Sylvia Hopkinson 

Mrs Beverley Housden 

Professor James Hughes 

Brigadier Sir Miles Hunt-Davis 

GCVO CBE 

Mr Roland Huntford 

Dr Stacey Hynd 

Mr Derek Ingram OBE 

Dr Prashant Jain 

Ms Mary Jennings 

Dr Christopher Johnson 

Mrs Faith Johnson 

Mr Nathaniel Johnson 

Mr Orlando Johnson 

Dr Chris Jones 

Mr J Ieuan Jones 

Dr Roy Jones 

Professor Brian Josephson 

Dr Kriti Kapila 

Mr Jonathan King 

Mrs Ruth King 

Dr Wendy Kneissl 

Dr Jennifer Koenig 

Dr Joanna Kostylo 

Mallam Abba Kyari 

The Hon Justice Bruce Lander 

Professor Peter Landrock 

Dr Ulrich Lang 

Mrs Janet Lash 

Mrs Alison Laugier 

Dr Sandra Leaton Gray 

Ms Dawn Leeder 

Dr Alison Lennox 

Professor Antony Lentin 

Dr Scott Levy 

Mr Christopher Lewis 

Mr Ed Lewis 

Dr The Hon Sir David K P Li 

GBS OBE JP 

Dr Eric Li GBS OBE JP 

Mr David T C Lie SBS OM JP 

Mr A Gordon Lister 

Mrs Pamela Lister 

Dr Janet Littlewood 

Dr Carlos Lopez-Garcia 

Dr David Lott 

Mrs D Judy Lowe 

Ms Yunzhi Lu 

Mrs Angela M Lucas 

Professor Peter J Lucas FSA 

Dr Carlos Ludlow-Palafox 

Dr Mary MacDonald 

Dr Sebastian Macmillan 


Senior Members continued 

The Reverend Dr Timothy 

Macquiban 

Dr Isobel Maddison 

Dr Brian Mahy 

Mr Paul Malpas 

Dr Ferial Mansour 

Professor Ivana Markova FBA 

FRSE 

Dr Lisa Marlow 

Sir Michael Marshall CBE DL 

Mr Alexander McCarthy-Best 

Mr Neil McGann 

Councillor Russell McPherson 

Mr Richard C Meade 

Dr Anthea Messent 

Mr Adrian Miller 

Mr Steven Miller 

Mr Will Miller 

Dr Francesco Montomoli 

Mr Kenneth Morgan OBE 

Mr Roger Morgan 

Mr Matthew Moss MVO 

Mrs Marilyn Motley 

Mr John Mott 

Dr Carrie Mowatt 

Dr Dawn Muddyman 

Mrs Lesley Murdin 

Professor Paul Murdin OBE 

Mr Simon Murray 

Dr Ana Narvaez 

Dr Dmitry Nerukh 

Dr Christine Nicoll 

Dr Richard Nixon 

Dr Claire O’Brien 

Lady (Sally) Oliver 

Dr Susan Oliver 

Mrs Beryl O’May 

Dr Ian O’Neill 

Professor Christine Oppong 

Dr Karen Ottewell 

Dr Stefan Paetke 

Mr Ray Palmer 

Dr William Paterson 

Dr Elinor Payne 

Membership

Membership 

Senior Members continued 

Mrs Hilary Pennington 

Ms Hilary Perrott 

Dr Fabien Petitcolas 

Mr Gautam Philip 

Dr Matthew Piccaver 

The Reverend Dr William 

Pickering 

Dr Julia Poole 

Dr Jocelyn Probert 

Mr Ian Purdy 

Mrs Ruth Quadling 

Dr Ashwin Rao 

Dr Sandy Richards 

Dr Wyn Richards 

Dr Alan Rickard 

Dr Hauke Riesch 

The Reverend Dr Keith Riglin 

FRSA 

Mr David Roberts 

Dr L C (Kees) Rookmaaker 

Mr Simon Ross 

Mrs Susan Round 

Dr Maria Ruiz-Tagle 

Mr Manas Saikia 

Mrs Ursula Sainsbury 

Mr Sumio Saito 

Dr Jennifer Sambrook 

Dr Robert Sansom FREng 

Mr Bob Satchwell 

Dr Alexander Schekochihin 

Dr Jochen Schenk 

Mrs Michelle Searle 

Dr Nick Segal 

Mr Richard Senior 

Mr Andrew Shaw 

Mr Richard A Shervington DL 

Professor Yury Shtyrov 

Dr Neville Silverston MBE 

Mrs Françoise Simmons 

Mr Michael Simmons 

Dr Amit Singh 

Mr James Smith 

Mr Maurice Smith 

Dr Anna Snowdon 

Professor Rosanna Sornicola 

The Reverend Canon Philip 

Spence 

Dr C William Squire 

Dr J Quentin Stafford-Fraser 

Dr Thomas Stainsby 

Mr Thomas Stevens 

Councillor Sheila Stuart 

Dr Li Su 

Mr Richard Synge 

Mr David Tang 

Mr Christopher Taylor 

Mr Donald Taylor 

Professor Göran Therborn 

Mr James Thompson 

Mr Nicholas Tippler 

Dr Andrew Troup 

Dr Tri Tuladhar 

Ms Rachael Tuley 

Mrs Rosemary Turner 


Professor Alberto Varvaro 

Dr Attila Vegh 

Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam 

Mrs Wendy Walford 

Dr Martin Walsh 

Dr Philip Ward 

Dr Peter Webster 

Dr Di Wei 

Mrs Eileen West 

Mr Robin Weyell 


Professor John White 

Dr Frank Whitford FSA 


Dr Olwen Williams 

Dr Richard Williams 

Lady (Sally) Williams 

Dr Lucy Wilson 

Mrs Rachel Wilson 

Mrs Sue Wiseman 

Ms Cynthia Wong 

Dr Kai-Yuen Wong 

Dr Rosanna Yick-Ming Wong 

DBE JP 

Dr Yip-Yan Wong 

Mrs Shirley Wozencraft 

Mrs Custis Wright 

Professor Toshiki Yamamoto 

Dr Kevin Xiaoyu Yang 

Dr Elias Zahar

College Research Associates 


Our College Research Associates are actively engaged in research in the University and its allied 

institutions and contribute to the College in many ways. 

Dr Samuel Aaron 

Dr Martin Allen FSA 

Dr Ana-Maria Blanaru 

Dr Ji-yun Chun 

Dr Jonathan Clarke 

Ms Christine Counsell 

Dr Anton Enright 

Dr Camillo Formigatti 

Dr Enrico Gili 

Dr Jane Goodall 

Dr Thore Graepel 

Dr Grant Hill-Cawthorne 

Dr Sarah Howard 

Dr Sven Huettner 

Dr Ulf Jensen-Kondering 

Dr E Annabel S Keeler 

Dr Julia Krivoruchko 

Dr András Lakatos 

Dr Yinglin Liu 

Dr Nahal Mavaddat 

Dr Karyn Mégy 

Dr Sarah Monk 

Dr Sebastian Mosbach 

Dr Cristina Nombela Otero 

Dr Scott Owens 

Dr Alexander Panayotov 

Dr Joel Peck 

Dr Anabela Pinto 

Dr Anthony Podberscek 

Dr Daniele Quercia 


Dr Dietrich Rebholz- 

Schuhmann 

Dr Stefanie Reichelt 

Dr Alasdair Russell 

Dr Laurence Smith 

Dr Yosuke Tashiro 

Dr Bernard Thienpont 

Dr Dan Tidhar 

Dr Ana Toribio 

Dr Olga Ulturgasheva 

Dr Jinhong Tracy Wang 

Dr Andrew Webb 

Dr Svava Wetzel 

Mr Timothy Winter 

Membership

Membership 

Academic Visitors between 

1 August 2011 and 31 July 2012 

Dr Farid Ahamed; University of Chittagong, Dept of Anthropology 

Professor Robert Aldrich; University of Sydney, Dept of History 

Dr Majid Al-Sadoon Trujillo; University of Cambridge, Faculty of Economics 

Dr Kennedy Amone-P’Olak; Gulu University, Dept of Psychology, Uganda 

Mr Robert Amundsen; University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway 

Dr Carolina Armenteros; University of Groningen, Faculty of Arts 

Mr Christopher Arsenault; Al Jazeera English News, Doha 

Dr Samina Awan; Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Dept of History 

Professor Amiya Bagchi; Tripura University and Calcutta University, Institute of Development 

Dr Rita Banerjee; Delhi University, Shyam Lal College, Dept of English 

Mr John Bangs; University of London Institute of Education, Education International and University of 

Cambridge, Faculty of Education 

Hon Sir Ian Barker; Bankside Chambers, Auckland 

Dr Mary Barker; University of Auckland, Dept of Art History 

Mr Harald Beier; University of Mannheim, The Mannheim Centre for European Social Research 

Dr Sucheta Bhattacharya; Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Dept of Comparative Literature 

Mrs Sinead Boucher; Fairfax Media, New Zealand 

Ms Gaye Brunker; Kawamura Gakuen Woman’s University, International & English Dept 

Dr Michael Carrel; Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge 

Professor Jane Chapman; Lincoln University, Faculty of Media & Humanities 

Dr Anna Danielsson; University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education 

Dr Matthew Davies; British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi 

Professor Robert Dewar Jr; University of Connecticut, Dept of Anthropology 

Professor Dr Tiago Duarte; New University of Lisbon Law School and PLMJ, Public Law & Arbitration 

Department 

Dr Rebecca Empson; University of Cambridge, Dept of Social Anthropology and University College 

London, Dept of Social Anthropology 

Ms Valentina Falco; Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge 

Dr Johannes Flume; Max Planck Institute for Comparative & International Private Law, Hamburg 

Mr Shinji Fukuda; Fukuoka University, Dept of English 

Professor Noboru Fukushima; Nihon University, Japan 

Dr Christian Füllgrabe; Nottingham University, MRC Institute of Hearing Research Section and University 

of Cambridge, Dept of Experimental Psychology 

Dr Ajit Ghose; Institute for Human Development, New Delhi 

Professor Giuliana Giusti; Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Dept of Linguistics 

Professor Shmuel Glick; The Schocken Institute for Jewish Research and Schechter Institute for Jewish 

Studies, Jerusalem 

Dr Solomon Gofie; Addis Ababa University, Dept of Political Science & International Relations 

Ms Anna Goodman; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 



Academic Visitors continued 

Professor Christopher Grey; University of Warwick, Warwick Business School 

Dr Geekiyanage (Panduka) Gunawardena; University of Peradeniya, Dept of Veterinary Pathobiology, 

Sri Lanka 

Dr Alan Guy; Retired Independent Researcher 

Dr Alfred Hirt; Independent Research Fellow 

Ms Vanessa Holzer; Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge 

Professor Ross Homel; Griffith University, School of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Queensland 

Dr Wolfgang Huber; European Bioinformatics Institute, Heidelberg 

Dr Rex Hughes; Cambridge-MIT Institute Communications Research Network and Royal Institute of 

International Affairs, London 

Professor Sarah Hutton; Aberystwyth University, Dept of English 

Dr Masato (John) Ikegami; Matsuyama University, Graduate School of Language & Communication 

Dr Monique Ingalls; University of Cambridge, Faculty of Music 

Dr Victor (Adefemi) Isumonah; University of Ibadan, Dept of Political Science 

Dr Annu Jalais; Jawaharlal Nehru Institute for Advanced Studies, New Delhi 

Professor Margaret (Marga) Jann; Uganda Martyrs University, Faculty of the Built Environment 

Professor Andrew Jones; University of California Berkeley, Dept of East Asian Languages & Cultures 

Ms Allen Kabagenyi; Makerere University, Dept of Population Studies 

Mr Christoph Kamissek; European University Institute, Dept of History & Civilization, Florence 

Dr Tahir Kamran; Government College University, Lahore 

Dr Supriya Kar; Central University of Jharkhand, Centre for English Language 

Dr Shelley Katz; University of Surrey and Queen’s University, Canada 

Mr Carsten Kern; University of Heidelberg, Faculty of Law and Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 

University of Cambridge 

Dr Carolyn King; University of Waikato, Dept of Philosophy, New Zealand 

Professor Menahem Kister; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Jewish Studies 

Dr Hiroyuki Kobayashi; Keio University, School of Medicine 

Dr Michael Kobetsky; University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School 

Dr Harshan Kumarasingham; University of Potsdam, Faculty of Economics & Social Sciences 

Mr Christopher Kuner; Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Brussels and Tilbery University, The Netherlands 

Professor James Leckman; Yale University, School of Medicine 

Dr Sabine Lee; University of Birmingham, Dept of History 

Dr Becky Lewis; University of South Carolina, Dept of Religious Studies 

Professor Kevin Lewis; University of South Carolina, Dept of Religious Studies 

Mr George Liebmann; Liebmann & Shively PA, Maryland 

Professor Samuel Nan Chiang Lieu; Macquarie University, Dept of Ancient History & Ancient India and 

Iran Trust, Cambridge 

Dr Elizabeth Lindley; Author 

Mr Zu’ai Liu; National University of Defense Technology, Humanities and Social Science College, Changsha 

Professor William Lubenow; Richard Stockton College, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, New Jersey 

Dr Christos Lynteris; University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences 

& Humanities (CRASSH) 

Dr Anuradha Malshe; Independent Researcher 

Professor Elizabeth (Lisa) Margulis; University of Arkansas, Dept of Music 

Dr Simon Mills; University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences & 

Humanities (CRASSH) 

Dr Benson Mulemi; The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Dept of Social Sciences 

Membership

Membership 

Academic Visitors continued 

Mr Oszkár Nagy; University of Cambridge, Centre for Applied Research in Educational 

Technologies (CARET) 

Professor Lena Irene Cheng Leng Ng; University of Warwick 

Dr Jenna Pei-Suin Ng; University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences 

& Humanities (CRASSH) 

Professor Mikio Nishioka; Doshisha University, Faculty of Economics 

Professor Gang Peng; Tsinghua University, Dept of History 

Dr Iain Phillips; Loughborough University, Dept of Computer Science 

Dr Monica Popescu; McGill University, Dept of English 

Professor Helle Porsdam; University of Copenhagen, Dept of History 

Dr Achille Puggioni; Banca d’Italia, Trieste 

Dr Ramola Ramtohul; University of Mauritius, Dept of Social Studies 

Dr Malika Rebai Maamri; National School of Higher Education in Political Science, Algeria 

Dr Matteo Rizzo; University of Cambridge, Centre of African Studies 

Dr Peter Roberts; University of Kent, School of History 

Dr Manuel (Alejandro) Rodríguez de la Peña; San Pablo CEU University and University College of San 

Pablo in Madrid 

Mr Daniel Saxon; University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law 

Dr Georg Schedereit; Rai Sender, Bozen 

Professor Aleksander Sęk; Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Acoustics, Poland 

Dr Anupama Sen; Oxford Institute for Energy Studies 

Mrs Huimin (Frances) Shi; Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, School of Foreign Studies, Hangzhou City 

Dr Helen Siedel; Independent Researcher 

Dr Tej Singh; Banaras Hindu University, Dept of Political Science 

Dr Timothy Stanton; University of York, Dept of Politics 

Dr Felix Steffek; Max Plank Institute for Comparative & International Private Law, Hamburg 

Mr Anthony Soon Chye Teo; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 

Dr Meredith Terretta; University of Ottawa, Dept of History 

Professor Dirk Uffelmann; University of Passau, Faculty of Philosophy 

Dr Nicole Ulrich; University of Witwatersrand, History Workshop 

Dr Emanuele Vaccaro; University of Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 

The Reverend Dr Chad Van Dixhoorn; Grace Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Vienna 

Professor Stephen Vargo; University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Shidler College of Business 

Dr Ravi Vasudevan; Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi 

Dr Fabienne Viala; University of Cambridge, Faculty of English and Centre of Latin American Studies 

Professor Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm; Åbo Akademi University, Dept of English Language & Literature 

Dr Anna-Maria von der Goltz; Georgetown University, Dept of History, Washington DC 

Dr Sabina Wachira; International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi 

Professor Kyoko Wakimoto; Okayama University, Dept of English Language Education 

Professor George Walker; Queen Mary University, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, London 

Ms Aiko Watanabe; Waseda University, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences 

Dr Helen Webster; University of Cambridge, Centre for Applied Research in Educational 

Technologies (CARET) 

Dr Kathryn Wegner; Independent Historian 

Dr Andrzej Wicher; Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Acoustics, Poland 

Dr Bernhard Woytek; Austrian Academy of Sciences, Numismatic Commission 

Mrs Catherine Wrathall; Independent Consultant 


College Administration 


Accommodation & Functions 

Accommodation Manager: Mrs Marilyn Motley 

Accommodation Administrator: Mrs Katia Averina 

Housekeeper: Mrs Anne Saunders 

Alumni & Development 

Alumni Relations Manager: Miss Kate Hampson 

Fundraising & Communications Administrator: Mr Thomas Laws 

Catering 

Executive Chef: Mr Ray Palmer 

Head Chef: Mr Salvador Bello 

Butler: Mr Ian Smith 

College Secretary & Registrar 

President’s Assistant & College Secretary: Mrs Sheila Betts 

Registrar: Mrs Michelle Searle 

Personnel & Finance 

Personnel & Payroll Officer: Mrs Sally Cullen 

Finance Manager: Mrs Wendy Dyce 

Accounts Assistants: Miss Barbara Aloi; Miss Katerina Gargaroni; Mrs Elizabeth Paterson; 

Mrs Natalia Ponomarchouk 

Information Technology 

IT Manager: Mr Mirza Baig 

IT Officer: Mr Graeme Dyas 

Lee Seng Tee Library 

Librarian: Miss Jenny Sargent 

Library Assistant: Dr Laurence Smith 


Membership

Membership 

Maintenance & Gardens 

Clerk of Works: Mr Paul Chapman 

Assistant Clerk of Works: Mr Neil Newman 

Head Gardener: Mr Phil Stigwood 

Porters’ Lodge 

Head Porter: Mr Mike Wignall 

Deputy Head Porter: Mr Miles Stratton 

Press Fellowship 

Director: Professor John Naughton 

Administrator: Mrs Michelle Heydon 

Tutorial 

Tutorial Office Manager: Mrs Kim Allen 

Tutorial Administrator (Postgraduates): Mrs Gillian Sanders 

Tutorial Administrator (Undergraduates): Miss Birgit Lintner 

Tutorial Administrator (Part-Time Students) & Praelector’s Assistant: Mrs Janet Manifold 

Student Finance Officer: Mrs Sue Sang 

College Nurse: Sally Maccallum 


Make a Donation to Wolfson College 

The Wolfson Fund ✦ 2012–2013 

We are enormously grateful to all our donors, whose support makes such a difference. 

If you would like to make a gift to your College, please complete the form below. 

I would like to make a gift to: 

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Please send me details for making a legacy bequest to Wolfson College and becoming 

a member of The Morrison Society. Bequests to the College are free of inheritance tax. 

Now please either: 

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Note for UK tax payers 

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that every £100 donated is worth £125 and the difference is paid by HMRC, at no cost to you. 

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declaration below to make this possible. 

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all donations I make from the date of this declaration until I notify you otherwise, as 

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Useful Information 

Contact 


Barton Road 

Cambridge CB3 9BB 

Telephone: +44 (0)1223 335900 

Fax: +44 (0)1223 335908 

Website: www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk 

When arriving by car, please note that the Main Entrance to the College is on Barton Road, not 

Selwyn Gardens as shown on some maps and satellite navigation systems. 

Accommodation 

The College is sometimes able to offer overnight accommodation to members. Enquiries about 

the availability of guest rooms should be made in the first instance to the Accommodation 

Administrator (accommodation@wolfson.cam.ac.uk). 

Dining arrangements 

All members (including alumni) are welcome to participate in College functions and come to 

lunch, supper and formal dinners in College at their own expense as often as they wish, with up 

to three guests. 

Informal meals are paid for with a Visitor’s Card, available from the Porters’ Lodge. If you plan to 

visit regularly, please contact the Alumni Office (alumni@wolfson.cam.ac.uk): they can arrange 

for you to be issued with a College Card. 

Formal Hall is held on Tuesdays from 4 September 2012 to 9 July 2013 and on Fridays in Full 

Term. Please note that there is no Formal Hall during the Christmas/Easter breaks: see overleaf 

for Term dates. Bookings should be made online by noon on the day prior to Formal Hall (or 

earlier) at www.FormalHall.wolfson.cam.ac.uk. Bookings for Guest Night should be made at least 

two weeks in advance, via the form available on the College website at www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/ 

notices. Members may use the Bar and Club Room, the Karen Spärck Jones Room, the 

Combination Room, the Lee Room and the Dining Hall. 

Please let the Alumni Office (alumni@wolfson.cam.ac.uk) know if you are planning to visit the 

College: they would be delighted to see you. 

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Term dates 

This year’s dates for Full Term are: 

Michaelmas 2 October to 30 November 2012 

Lent 15 January to 15 March 2013 

Easter 23 April to 14 June 2013 

For a full list of Term dates in future years, visit www.cam.ac.uk/univ/termdates.html 

Please send any recent news which you would like to share with your fellow Wolfson members 

to communications@wolfson.cam.ac.uk. Your news may be included in the next issue of the 

Wolfson Review or on the College website at www.WolfsonPlus.com 

Congregation (Graduation) 

Congregations take place throughout the year. For more information, please email the Praelector 

at praelector@wolfson.cam.ac.uk. Current students will receive an invitation from the Tutorial 

Office for their relevant graduation ceremony. 

The Congregation Dates for 2012–2013 are as follows: 

20 October 2012 

24 November 2012 

19 January 2013 

16 February 2013 (in absence only) 

23 March 2013 (in absence only) 

27 April 2013 

11 May 2013 

29 June 2013 (General Admission) 

20 July 2013 


Wolfson College Prints 

We are delighted to offer for sale limited edition prints of Wolfson College, the College Boat 

Houses and the Bumps Course, painted by Emeritus Fellow Tom Davies (1996). 

The rowing prints cost £20 each (unframed): they can be annotated with place names for an 

additional £5, and can also include bespoke annotation (such as a personal message of thanks) 

for a further £5. The Wolfson College print is £25 (also unframed). Very many thanks to Tom, 

who has elected that all proceeds are to go to Boat Club funds. 

Please contact the Alumni Office for further information on alumni@wolfson.cam.ac.uk 


Formal Hall for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee. 


The pergola leading away from Norton House. 



Barton Road 

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