Churchill Review 2017 by Churchill College

CHURCHILL

REVIEW Volume 54

FOOTER

2017

Front cover photos. Top left – credit: Churchill Archives Centre CCGB/101/001; top right – credit: SDC; bottom right – credit: Gavin Bateman

CHURCHILL

REVIEW Volume 54 | 2017

‘It’s certainly an unusual honour and a distinction that a college bearing my name should be added to the ancient and renowned foundations which together form the University of Cambridge.’ Sir Winston Churchill, 17 October, 1959

Churchill Archives Centre, the Papers of Baroness Spencer-Churchill reference CSCT 5/3/114

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

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FROM THE MASTER

THE COLLEGE YEAR

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Our Best Tripos Results Ever The Senior Tutor’s Report

Another Stimulating Year among the Graduate Community TAS Report

A Tight Financial Year Bursar’s Report

An Enjoyable but Challenging Year Domestic Bursar’s Report

A Very Busy Year Archives Centre’s Report

An Eventful Year at the Møller Centre CEO of the Møller Centre’s Report

Many Opportunities to Get Involved in College Development Director’s Report

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Donations

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SPOTLIGHT ON …

…THE ARTS AT CHURCHILL ..................................................................................................

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All Academic Subjects are both Creative and Scientific From ASNAC to the Inland Revenue to Shell UK Hindsight is a Wonderful Thing

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Some of the Most Intellectually Productive Years of my Career Studying English at Churchill Transformed my Life Architecture Was Always My Goal COLLEGE EVENTS In chronological order

The Blenheim of the Welfare State Competing for Churchill

Changing with the Times The Evolution of Churchill College Layout and Fabric

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A Worthy Addition to the College’s Architectural Legacy Cowan Court Architectural Competition

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A Model of Commitment Alison Finch’s Retirement Party

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The DNA of a Champion Sir Clive Woodward on Leadership

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Keep the Damned Women Out The Struggle for Coeducation Followed by reviews of Malkiel’s book

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The Nuclear Churchill Churchill and Nuclear Weapons: From the A-Bomb to the H-Bomb

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Far From a Gloomy Conference! What is War Today?

Learning from Success and Failure What It Really Takes to Be a Successful Entrepreneur

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A Fantastic Concert in the Heart of London Churchill College Choir at St Martin-in-the Fields Risk-Seeking and Optimistic Peter Whittle at 90

En Hommage à Sir Winston Churchill Modern French Paintings and Sculptures from the Maisonneuve Bequest Fifty and Counting … Visit of the French Ambassador to Churchill College

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‘The Master in conversation …’ A Kind of Talking cure STUDENT LIFE

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Another Successful and Busy Year JCR Report

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Churchill MCR – A Great Community MCR Report

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A Prominent Role at Churchill The JCR Community

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The Right Balance of Work and Play Supporting our MCR Community

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How Fortunate We Are! Boat Club Report

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A Very Promising Squad Cricket Report

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A Great Privilege in Making Music Happen at Churchill Music Sizar’s report

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Churchill – One of the Best Track Records in Ultimate! Ultimate Frisbee Report

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MCR photo competition Theme: ‘Dynamic Duos’

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FEATURES

Jennifer Brook – A portrait

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Imagining the Future of Medicine A Combination of the Virtual and the Real Demanding but Rewarding A Day in the Life of Dr Andrew Taylor

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Being Part of It Widening Participation at Churchill College

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A Burgeoning New Scheme Postdoctoral By-Fellows at Churchill College

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Holocaust Denial and the Ethics of Librarianship

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Developing Global Leaders in an Ever-Changing World Executive Education at the Møller Centre

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Churchill’s Invisible Hand Living in a Colin St John Wilson House

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GOING FORWARD Alumni and Development News

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Forthcoming Events

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Fifty Years of the Chapel at Churchill College

New Initiatives

Building Projects

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The Tizard Creative Hub

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Supporting our Students

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Giving to Churchill

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The Churchill Writing Group MEMBERS’ NEWS Recent News

Members in the News

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WHO’S WHO 2016–17 Introducing …. The New Bursar

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The New Development Director

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The New Alumni Officer New Fellows 2016–17

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Overseas Fellows 2016–17 Who’s who in Churchill IN MEMORIAM

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The New Director for Executive Education, Møller Centre

Condolences In chronological order

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An Immensely Distinguished Economist Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson

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Passionate about Humanity Jeffrey Rubinoff

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A Truly Great Economist and a Remarkable Person Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize Winner

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A Most Remarkable Woman Brenda Jennison, MBE

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Keep Running A Tribute to Brenda Jennison, MBE

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EDITORIAL

This year saw our best results ever with 34.6% of our undergraduates obtaining a First – the highest since 1989 and probably the highest ever! The figure for final year students was even higher: over 40%, with 79.3% this year of our undergraduates obtaining a II.1 or above, which is slightly higher than last year’s 77.6%. In this issue, the spotlight is on the importance of the Arts at Churchill College illustrated by the Senior Tutor’s instructive piece on the alchemy between the Arts and the Sciences in a college with a 70% Science and Technology student population and a few pieces by some of our alumni – ‘From ASNAC to the Inland Revenue to Shell UK’ by Rob Douglas (U67) for example – aptly illustrate the often little-known fact that an Arts degree can open many (unsuspected) doors. Our College Events section demonstrates the interesting and varied life of the College. These events ranged from talks about firstly the competition to build Churchill College, then the many changes the College underwent over the years and finally a worthy new addition to Churchill with Cowan Court; there was a learned discussion between two eminent experts about Churchill and nuclear weapons; a fascinating symposium that brought together speakers from academia, the military services, politics and diplomacy on the topic ‘What is war today?’; the launch of Prof Nancy Weiss Malkiel’s seminal new book on the struggle for coeducation; an inspiring talk on leadership and an example of such leadership close to home with Prof Alison Finch’s retirement party. There was also a topical debate on what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur chaired and debated by Churchillians; a special High Table to celebrate Prof Peter Whittle’s 90th birthday; a high-profile performance by the Churchill College Choir at St Martin-in-the-Fields; an impressive and delightful exhibition of the Maisonneuve Art Collection; the enchanting visit of Her Excellency Sylvie Bermann, the French Ambassador, to the College and the Archives Centre. And finally the Master was in conversation with another three remarkable women this year: Jackie Ashley, Sally Davies and Alice Roberts. What a wonderfully diverse and eclectic mix!

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Student life is as alive as ever with a mature and supportive JCR ‘A Prominent Role at Churchill’ and MCR ‘The Right Balance of Work and Play’, many college sports (Rowing, Cricket and Ultimate) and a thriving music scene. The Features section starts with a well-deserved tribute to Jennifer Brook by those who have been working most closely with her over the 18 years she has been our Bursar, ‘Jennifer Brook – A Portrait’. It also contains a new addition – ‘A day in the Life of …’ christened this year by Dr Andrew Taylor, telling us what it is to juggle many different activities in a day, which can be ‘Demanding but Rewarding’. There is also a stunning piece by Dr Susan Lim, an alumna, on ‘The Future of Medicine’; a stern and thought-provoking piece by Prof Mark Goldie about ‘Holocaust Denial and the Ethics of Librarianship’; a welcome piece on widening participation at Churchill by Dr Jonathan Padley, our Schools Liaison and Recruitment Officer,‘Being Part of It’; a poetic piece by Natasha Squire telling us what it is to live in a Colin St John Wilson House, ‘Churchill’s Invisible Hand’ – and much more! Another novelty is being introduced this year with a new section ‘Going Forward’, reserved for the Development and Alumni Office in which the Development Director shares with us future events, new initiatives and projects. This is followed as usual by Members’ News – the many Churchillians’ achievements this past year, Who’s Who at Churchill and finally the Review closes with ‘In Memoriam’, and tributes to some of our most prominent members. I hope you will enjoy reading this year’s Review as much as I have shaping it and editing it. It is always satisfying to be able to give a voice to our many talented members and to share their knowledge and experiences with you all. Special thanks to Jennifer for her generous support over the years; many thanks also to the Development Office for their guidance with our alumni; to Naomi Morris and Gavin Bateman for assisting in providing photos on demand. And finally my most grateful thanks to Paula Laycock who gives generously of her free time, advising me on the best photos to choose, assembling them artistically and who at times turns photographer whenever the need arises – and more!

Anny King 8

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FROM THE MASTER

‘If my younger self could see me now, she would view the life I have had with total incredulity. I was very shy. I didn’t expect anything. How could I have imagined I would end up as a Master of a Cambridge College?’

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This year started off with a bang, with the opening of Cowan Court by the Duke of Gloucester. There is more on this wonderful new building elsewhere in the Review (p.86). Suffice it to say here its rooms are generously proportioned, all en suite, its outside blends in well with the rest of the college and the internal courtyard is a silver birch-filled oasis of calm. It’s too early to say quite how many architectural prizes it will collect, but so far it’s doing well from the Cambridge Design and Construction Award 2016 for best new building, the RIBA East of England Award 2017 and a mention in several lists of building of the year. The shared colleges’ boathouse, which I mentioned last year, also won a RIBA East of England Award this year. Personnel changes However, it has also been a year full of wider changes than to the fabric, in particular in key personnel. First and foremost Jennifer Brook, Bursar for 18 years and someone who has given such wisdom, strength and expertise to the College during those years, decided to retire at the end of 2016. Council accepted her resignation with great sadness. I would like to pay my own personal tribute to Jennifer, who inducted this neophyte Master into the ways of the College so excellently. In fact, with typical selflessness, Jennifer continued in post until midFebruary to provide continuity until our new Bursar Tamsin James joined us from Madingley Hall. (There are further tributes to Jennifer elsewhere in this Review, see p.151) Tamsin trained as a lawyer and has worked in various roles within the University as well as in the NHS. She will bring a fresh perspective to the role of Bursar and the workings of the College. In fact Jennifer didn’t manage to retire completely even once the new Bursar was in post, but stayed on as interim Development Director. Our previous Director John Pennant – having had an excellent if brief stint with the College – left last September. Our new Development Director is Fran Malarée, who started in April having previously been in the same role at Clare and before that Girton: she therefore joins us with substantial experience within collegiate Cambridge from which I am sure we will all now greatly benefit.

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However, there is plenty of continuity here too! Richard Partington returned as Senior Tutor last October after a productive year’s sabbatical breaking the back of book-writing, a ‘sport’ that Allen Packwood, our esteemed Archivist, has also been enjoying for the last 6 months. I should take this opportunity of congratulating Sally Boss, both for all her hard work as Senior Tutor during Richard’s absence, fulfilling the role magnificently, and also on the birth of her son Max on 31st October. Admissions process changes Last year’s exam results were not quite so stellar as the year before, but still mightily impressive, accompanied by a good few university prizes including the award of title of Senior Wrangler (Maths Part II) to Leo Lai. Our admissions process last autumn faced the new challenge imposed by changing government policy in the form of the loss of AS-level marks to help inform college decisions. Once more students have to sit an admission exam in almost all subjects, although the details vary from subject to subject. As I write it is still too early to know how all the consequences will play out. We do know that we continue to have applications from an impressively large proportion of extremely talented state school entrants. As yet, the trend of the disappointing number of women applying to Churchill as first choice has not been reversed, but it is a problem we are working on. In the interim, during the admissions process we are paying particular attention to female students who aren’t accepted by their first choice College. How this will translate into admissions, it’s too early to say, but I think anyone who attended the Matriculation Dinner will have been dismayed to spot how few women there were amongst last autumn’s intake. The importance of gender equality As I wrote in last year’s Review, one action I have already taken to highlight the importance the College attaches to gender equality (remember we were the first Cambridge College to vote to admit women, even if just too late for me to avail myself of the opportunity in 1972!) is through my series of public ‘Conversations’ with leading women, primarily academic. All these talks are available to listen/ watch on the College website (this year with Jackie Ashley, Alice Roberts and Sally Davies). You can also read Tim Cribb’s piece in the Review (see p.122). However, much more focus needs to be directed towards the teenagers we wish to attract.The Senior Tutor and I have run focus groups with current students to

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gain their insight, and have worked with alumna and Emmy-winning film-maker Sally Angel to produce some new videos for the website.We still have much work to do to see our undergraduate intake approach a 50: 50 split by gender. Uncertain times Undoubtedly, in 2017 there are many uncertainties facing the College. I am writing this in the immediate aftermath of the 2017 General Election which compounds the uncertainty last year’s Referendum introduced. As a researcher, I am aware that the UK’s strength in science in large part derives from its international nature, and anything that introduces barriers will hurt what we can deliver, which is also likely to have knock-on effects for the economy. More immediately, any changes in visa restrictions may impact on our international student cohort and our ability to attract the brightest minds.The College, like the University, is facing major challenges across these fronts. I have no doubt we will continue to thrive, but we may have to work hard to evaluate how we can continue to stand at the forefront of education. Some positives But, to end with some positives, I feel I should pay tribute to the strength in depth of our fellowship – and of our alumni. Firstly, this year we saw five Fellows and alumni be elected to the Royal Society. Of these, alumna Nicola Spaldin was also awarded the 2017 L’Oréal/UNESCO for Women in Science Laureate for Europe. Amazingly I realised of the five past UK winners, two of us are College Fellows and a third was the student of a Fellow – not a bad proportion for one College. Finally, to return to where I started with College infrastructure, we are well on our way to having the funding in place to start work on a new set of buildings for graduate students at the far end of Churchill Road, to complement and sit adjacent to our existing graduate housing, thanks in no small part to the massive generosity of a few of our alumni. There is still a need to raise additional funds, but we look forward to being able to house more of our graduate students for longer once these are completed.

Athene Donald

FROM THE MASTER

THE COLLEGE YEAR

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Question of Education for modern society is a matter of life and death, because education is what the future depends upon.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ernest Renan

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Our Best Tripos Results Ever Senior Tutor’s Report (2016–2017) In his report Richard Partington, Senior Tutor and a Churchill Fellow, comments on the excellent results our undergraduates achieved again this year, talks about grade-inflation and its many causes, highlights the fact that Churchill hit its target by attracting 36% of female undergraduates for this coming academic year and reflects on the ways the University in general and Churchill in particular are changing for the better, especially in improving student experience. This has been another strong year for the College from the perspective of undergraduate academic results. In the Tompkins Table, which ranks the 29 Cambridge colleges by Tripos performance, we were placed 5th, behind Trinity, Christ’s, St John’s and Pembroke, and this result means that, looking at Churchill’s position relative to other colleges across the last decade, on the 10year average we are a comfortable 4th – in a distinct group with Trinity, Emmanuel and Pembroke. Like us, those colleges have been blessed by consistently strong academic performance in recent years. 2017 Tripos In absolute terms, our 2017 Tripos results were 35% Firsts our best ever, with over 35% of Churchill undergraduates attaining Firsts in their exams, compared with an intercollegiate average of 27%. As I have commented previously in the Churchill Review, grade-inflation is a factor in improving performance, though not the only factor: better recruitment, better studentselection and better teaching, and ever-harder work by students are also factors.The reality that there is some grade-inflation in no way takes away from

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the outstanding performance yet again delivered by our students, with the support, encouragement, inspiration and academic direction provided by my colleagues – our Fellows and By-Fellows – and the excellent supervisors we employ from outside the Fellowship, which include many of our superb graduate students. Coming years’ target This year for the first time I had access to a Targetting fewer breakdown of the results of every other college, II.2s and 3rds appropriately anonymised, which enabled me to see more exactly how we had ended up in our Tompkins Table position, compared with other colleges. Like Trinity, Christ’s and Emmanuel (who were behind us in sixth place), Churchill’s results were characterised by a high proportion of Firsts. John’s and Pembroke had fewer Firsts, but also had remarkably few II.2s and 3rds – as did Trinity, which is essentially why Trinity was the top-ranked college: its distinction was to have the most Firsts together with very few II.2s and Thirds. Christ’s, Churchill and Emma had more II.2s and 3rds than the other three Colleges in the top six, and reducing our proportions of these further will be a target for the coming years.At present around 12% of our students attain II.2s or Thirds; this is a low figure by Cambridge standards, but one we would like to see lower still. Keeping our female undergraduate population over 35% One target that we set ourselves this year, and Pushing towards which we have hit, is that more than 35% of our 40% of female undergraduate intake should be female. 36% of undergraduates undergraduate entrants in 2017 are women (and 77% of UK entrants are state-educated, for the record). I am grateful to the Master for having helped us to focus more effectively on the challenge of female recruitment in the sciences (where too few UK university applicants are female). Our next objective is to keep the proportion above 35% while pushing towards 40%. Of course, in an ideal world we would be 50% female in the sciences and the arts, but gendered patterns of study in UK schools and colleges make achieving parity at university level very difficult indeed, especially in Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering and Physics. To aid the recruitment of women, we are developing women’s pages on our website, which have been initially

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launched with four films on women in Churchill and science, made with the generous assistance and brilliant advice of alumna Sally Angel. Student welfare and discipline Beyond the academic, this has been a year in A sustained which I have spent a good deal of time focused approach to upon the connected questions of student improving the welfare and discipline. The University and student colleges are updating and extending their experience processes and structures in respect of these; and thinking about, for instance, what form confidentiality should take within the context of the collegiate University, or how accusations of harassment should be investigated and dealt with, has been fascinating. In short, as in every area of its operation over time, the University is effectively professionalising what it does regarding welfare and discipline. This is partly an inevitable response to a world characterised by higher expectations and in which there are more opportunities for individuals to appeal to regulators or to litigate; but it also reflects the very great demands now made on academicsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; time in respect of research, as well as a helpful realisation on the part of the collegiate University that the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;gentleman-amateurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; approach to problem-solving is often not the best one. In any case, it speaks to a sustained approach to improving the student experience that we at Churchill embrace and applaud. I should add that, whatever you may read in the media, the students we have here remain fundamentally robust and happy, despite the inevitable hiccoughs involved in any student life: true, there is welcome greater awareness of, for example, the challenges faced by students suffering from mental ill-health or disability; but this means that we are better placed to provide support, not that the current generation of students is less robust or capable. That they are resilient as well as very bright is shown by their results!

Richard Partington

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Another Stimulating Year among the Graduate Community Tutor for Advanced Students’ Report (2016–2017) Dr Barry Kingston, Tutor for Advanced Students and a Churchill Fellow, tells us in his report how privileged the TAS office feels in representing the diverse and culturally rich graduate community of Churchill College. This year a fourth graduate tutor, Dr Leigh Denault, joined the TAS office. Leigh is an historian and her current work focuses on conceptions of social welfare in twentieth-century India. The Conference on Everything One of our highlights of the year was the annual Conference on Everything organized by the College MCR. This year the Keynote Address was given by Professor Jenny Nelson FRS. Jenny Nelson is a Professor of Physics at Imperial College, London, where she has contributed ground-breaking research into relationships between the performance of photovoltaic devices and the physical and chemical properties of the constituent materials. Her book, The Physics of Solar Cells, provides a comprehensive introduction to the physics of the photovoltaic cell. Professor Nelson gave an outstanding talk about her life and work. As in previous years, the Conference was wideA wide-ranging ranging and provided a good snapshot of the Conference on diversity of subjects studied by our students. Everything Examples included presentations from Adam Jermyn about the so-called Hot Jupiters, and Mia de los Reyes’ review of the global star-formation law promulgated by Maarten Schmidt and one of our College Fellows, Professor Robert Kennicutt. From the biological sciences, Flaviu Bulat talked about a new technique for the detection of tumour cell death in early treatment response, and Fernando Riveros Mckay Aguilera talked about the genetic architecture of human thinness. From Engineering we heard about the effects of loading rate on the uplift movements of buried offshore

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pipelines in low permeable sand from Hansini Mallikarachchi and current work and future challenges of combustion noise in air and ground-based turbines from Jocelino Rodrigues. The Arts and Social Sciences were rather under represented but we did have an excellent talk from Amberley Middleton on educational experiences of resettled refugees in the United States, looking particularly at Somali Bantu refugees. Prizes for presentations and poster were awarded to Flaviu Bulat, Mia De Los Reyes, Alex Bastounis and Nabila Idris. Developing Outstanding Careers Our graduates continue to excel. Ninon Demuth appeared in the Forbes 30 under 30 list of social entrepreneurs this year. Ninon graduated from Churchill with an MPhil in Advanced Chemical Engineering in October 2016, and is currently working in Berlin. Nikita Hari has been named in a list of the top 50 Women in Engineering under 35. The list was produced by the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Engineering Society in collaboration with the Daily Telegraph to celebrate International Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day in Engineering on 23 June 2017. Nikita was also a Forbes 30 under 30 UK Finalist, and a Hult Prize Finalist. Nikita is in her third year as a PhD student in the Department of Engineering. The work of some of our other current students An impressive is already making an impressive impact on the impact on the world. For example, Rekha Bhangaonkar is in her world second year studying for a PhD in the Centre of Development Studies. Her work is concerned with water shed management and agricultural development in semi-arid tropical India. She has recently returned from her third field expedition. During her time working away she has led a team of six people. University Post-Graduate Open Day The University held its first post-graduate Open Day on 2 November 2016. Churchill College formed a group with Fitzwilliam, Murray Edwards, Girton, Lucy Cavendish and St Edmunds. Some 3500 students registered for the event and of those around 1100 attended.There were a number of events organized at which the University provided general information about postgraduate opportunities within the University, and attendees had some opportunity to visit Colleges.We had in the order of 40 visitors.This figure was lower than we had hoped for, but

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the attendees were kept busy for much of the day with general open day events and there was perhaps less time than optimal to fit in visits to Colleges. New Graduate Housing The College intends to increase its Graduate Housing stock with the development of the AECOM building on the plot known as 36 Storey’s Way. The development will proceed following the departure of the current tenants at the conclusion of their lease in October 2017. A proposed completion date during the summer of 2019 will allow the property to be ready for occupation at the start of that academic year.The development will be exclusively for Advanced Students and will consist of five self-contained flats and six shared flats, consisting of five bedrooms each, and thus providing accommodation for an additional 35 Advanced Students. Social Events

Chartwell Interior The now well established Advanced Student coach trip to Chartwell, the family home of Sir Winston Churchill, took place in October and was, as ever, a great success.The library and Churchill’s study, arranged almost as he left them, were of particular interest to this year’s group. The study at Chartwell Another happy event during the year was the Advanced Students’ tea party. This year we were entertained by Jacqueline Siu playing the violin, Andrea Case playing the cello, and Jocelino Rodrigues singing and playing the guitar.

Barry Kingston

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A Tight Financial Year Bursar’s Report (2016–2017) This annual report has been written by both Jennifer Brook who retired earlier this year as Churchill Bursar and Tamsin James, our new Bursar. As we have grown accustomed to, we are in the black, even if it may be by a small margin. This financial year 2016–17 has been a tight one for the College but we should end up with a balance on our income and expenditure slightly above breakeven. We are often asked for more information about the College’s finances. Unfortunately the current accounting regulations mean that the Statutory Accounts for the College, which are available on our website and on that of the Charity Commission, are more opaque than ever. So, a brief overview of the College’s finances follow. Our total income will be over £14 million this year and expenditure will be very close to that figure. The College’s income from different sources this year is forecast to be split as shown below:

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Different categories of income The different categories of income can be Benefits from explained as follows. Investment income comes conferences, as a total return drawdown from our meetings and endowment, to smooth the annual amount. other activities Archives income comes from a number of are donated back charitable trusts set up to support its to the College operations, donations and grants from other charitable foundations for specific projects. The College’s commercial income comes from its use of the main College facilities for conferences and meetings. The profits from The Møller Centre, the College Conference Company and a College Property Development company are all donated back to the College. ‘Fees’ includes the proportion of Cambridge fees for undergraduates and graduate students payable to the College and, in addition, some funds from the University and other bodies to support a small number of teaching and research posts in the College. Rents and charges are negotiated annually with the JCR and MCR. Unrestricted donations are donations for unspecified purposes. More than 50% of our income is spent on salaries and academic stipends. An eighth is spent on depreciation, with the next highest amounts being spent on catering supplies and student support (scholarships, studentships, grants and bursaries). Unrestricted donations allow us to keep the College operating without reducing the amount and quality of teaching and maintaining the facilities and services available for the students. In addition we receive donations for specific purposes, such as student support or a named Fellowship or a new building. Cowan Court & the Boathouse Cowan Court was opened formally at the A great success start of this academic year. It has proved to with undergraduates be a great success with the undergraduates and visitors alike who have been fortunate enough to get a room in it, and with all the visitors who have sampled the rooms, including those alumni who have stayed. At the time of writing, both Cowan Court and the new College Boathouse have just received regional RIBA (architectural)

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awards. Cowan Court was also named one of the top ten buildings in the UK in 2016 by the Guardian newspaper and has featured in architectural journals around the world. All our undergraduates can now live in College throughout their degree, if they wish to. The boathouse continues to be a great base and attractive and comfortable training environment for the many students who try out rowing for the first time at Churchill College. New graduate accommodation We have already received planning consent from the local government to construct our new graduate accommodation just west of the Wolfson Flats and we hope to start building in October 2017.The accommodation will consist of 30 en suite single rooms and 5 more studio flats for couples in three buildings which are being designed by Simon Tucker and Priscilla Fernandes, Churchill alumni, in the award-winning firm Cottrell and Vermeulen Architects. Simon also designed Bondi, Broers and Hawthorne Houses (the pepperpots) which were built nearby in 2000â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2001. His team were awarded the design brief for this development in an architectural competition held by the College in 2015.You can see and hear more about this project on the College website at www.chu.cam.ac.uk/graduateaccommodation. A great start has been made to raise the funds to support this development: substantial gifts from the Development Board have provided an excellent head start and it has been agreed to name two of the houses in honour of former Masters John Boyd and David Wallace. Xiaotian Fu garden Work is now underway on landscaping the garden behind the graduate hostel at 72 Storeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Way, accessed from Churchill Road, in honour of alumna, Xiaotian Fu, who is making a significant donation for student support. The donation now includes two substantial rocks, flown over from the Three Gorges region in China, to enhance the garden. A grand opening is being planned for spring 2018.

Jennifer Brook and Tamsin James

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An Enjoyable but Challenging Year Domestic Bursar’s Report (2016–2017) Shelley Surtees, Domestic Bursar and a Churchill Fellow, reflects on this last academic year: the passing of Brenda Jennison, Fellow; the retirement of Churchill Bursar, Jennifer Brook; a new Bursar being appointed and new responsibilities to take on. It was certainly a challenging year but also an enjoyable one. Unbelievably I shall shortly begin my eighth year at Churchill, I really don’t know where the time has gone, and as I often remind the students; whist this is their education, it’s my life! It’s been an enjoyable but challenging year, tinged at times with sadness and on occasion very stressful. A particularly sad moment was the funeral of Brenda Jennison, who was much loved by us all. Just prior to her passing, Brenda invited me to her house to choose some Christmas decorations for the College, thus ensuring that she will remain in our thoughts during the festive period each and every year. The planned retirement of Jennifer Brook was announced at the start of the academic year, sending us all into a spin. Having worked for her for such a long time I knew that hers would be large shoes to fill. Fortunately our new Bursar, Tamsin James, seems eminently capable of doing so and whilst much of my time during the latter half of the year has been occupied with aiding this smooth transition I have no doubt that it is time well spent. As a result of the change of Bursar I am pleased Additional to have taken on operational responsibility for accommodation the Maintenance Department. This is a fairly for our steep learning curve for me personally although postgraduates I am extremely well supported by the competent team, lead by Head of Department, Gavin Bateman, and of course heavily supported by the Bursar. Much of our focus this year in terms of projects has been the development of the land by 36 Storeys Way into additional accommodation for our Postgraduate community. This is a large project which

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comes with an equally large price tag, but will be a much appreciated facility for our growing number of Postgraduates. Working with alumni, Simon and Priscilla, at our chosen architects Cottrell & Vermeulen, is simply a joy as they fully understand what it means to be a member of Churchill. In September I was pleased to be involved in the Association weekend arrangements, hosting the very popular wine tasting on the Friday evening and overseeing the sales of wine for the formal dinner. This new arrangement seemed to work well for everyone allowing all members to participate within their individual budget. In May of this year we were honoured with a RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architecture) East Award for Cowan Court and a matching one for the new Combined Colleges Boat House. These prestigious awards are testament to the very hard work of the team in overseeing and delivering the project as well as our supportive benefactors and their generous funding. Commercially itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a slightly better year than A better year last year, with effective use of Cowan Court commercially during the vacations providing a much needed increase to income. The team continue to work hard to achieve the highest yields possible, whilst maintaining the academic integrity of the environment. We have recently reviewed our five year plan, checking that we are still progressing with our objectives and adding two additional values: communication and courtesy to our already well established care, consistency and communication ones.

Shelley Surtees

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A Very Busy Year Archives Centre’s Report (2016–2017) Allen Packwood was on sabbatical from January 2017 to the end of June 2017. Allen’s responsibilities as Director of the Archives Centre were shared by the members of the Archives Management Team: Natalie Adams, Andrew Riley and Sarah Lewery. Here Natalie relates the many achievements of the Archives Centre and its staff – from events, group visits, and major works undertaken on digitisation and social media – starting with the well-deserved award of an OBE for its Director. OBE for Director Allen Packwood was recognised in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours with an OBE for services to archives and scholarship. The award follows Allen’s instrumental role in organising a programme of events to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Churchill’s death (p.99) in 2015. Events Churchill and Nuclear Weapons: From the A-Bomb to the H-Bomb On 15 November, Dr Helen Curry chaired a discussion to explore Churchill’s role in developing nuclear weapons and in authorising the use of the atomic bomb, and how his views changed over time. The discussion was between the two foremost experts in this area, Dr Graham Farmelo (author of Churchill’s Bomb) and Professor Kevin Ruane (author of Churchill and the Bomb). Please see also Allen Packwood’s piece ‘The Nuclear Churchill’ on p.99. What is War Today? The Archives Centre staged a symposium ‘What is War today?’ on 22–23 November 2016 which brought together speakers from the worlds of academia, the military, politics and international diplomacy for a fascinating debate on the nature of war today. Please see also Dr Adrian Crisp’s piece ‘Far from a Gloomy Conference’ on p.102.

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Thatcher Papers: 1986 release In January 2017, Baroness Thatcher’s 1986 The Lady is for papers were opened. The 1986 material covers turning and the Westland crisis in early 1986 (which led to reversing the resignation of Michael Heseltine) and the key foreign issues of the year, including the US bombing of Libya and the issue of sanctions on South Africa. On a lighter note they document the amusing saga of Mrs Thatcher’s test drive of a new Rover 800 car in Downing Street, including a tricky reversing manoeuvre (prompting the inevitable headline ‘The Lady is for turning – and reversing’). Group visits Several academic and school groups have visited the Centre this year: students from the Cambridge History Faculty; historians at Churchill, and school groups from Longsands Academy, Oakwood Park Grammar School, Chesterton Community College and the Red Balloon education centre.We also welcomed the French Ambassador, Her Excellency Sylvie Bermann, and colleagues from the Imperial War Museum, Cambridge University Library and the Franklin D Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. Loans to exhibitions This year we loaned documents of two pioneering women scientists to major exhibitions in Europe. A selection of Rosalind Franklin’s working notes on DNA and a facsimile of her 1953 laboratory notebook are on display in DNA.The Great Book of Life from Mendel to Genomics at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, 10 February–18 June, and one of Lise Meitner’s pocket diaries can be seen in Luther! 95 Treasures – 95 People at the Augusteum in Wittenberg, 13 May–5 November. Displays in College Heidi Eggington, Natasha Swainston and Julia Schmidt, our Archives Assistants have also put on temporary themed displays illustrating art in the archives, women in science, general elections, and student balls. Collections work: Major projects Gillian Booker is the College Records Manager and her work this year has

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focused on the creation of a records retention schedule for the College. This document will help the College to manage the retention and disposal of its records in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements and with due consideration of the operational and historical value of such records to the College. Implementation of the schedule is due to begin in autumn/winter 2017. A variety of new accessions have come into the A five pound note College Archive from College departments and with a serial also from current students, alumni, fellows and number bearing other donors. Recently catalogued records the College’s include: College Council minutes and papers; foundation year JCR Committee records; spring ball posters; obituaries; matriculation photographs, and oral history recordings. Among the more unusual items to have been catalogued recently was a special edition of the new polymer five pound note featuring Sir Winston Churchill.This bank note was presented to the College by the Director for Banknotes and Chief Cashier at the Bank of England,Victoria Cleland, and has a serial number bearing the year of the College’s foundation. Sophie Bridges and Katharine Thomson have begun work on cataloguing the papers of Sir John Major including his personal correspondence, official correspondence 1990–92, engagement files, press cuttings and photographs. Katharine has been cataloguing Mary Soames’s archive, particularly her literary papers and photographs, which include a lot of original source material on the Churchill family. Sophie has catalogued the papers of Peggy Jay and two small but interesting additions to the papers of Adrian Grant Duff and Ove Arup. Louise Watling, whose position is supported by The papers of Sir funding from the Wellcome Trust, completed Robert Edwards, her three year cataloguing project on Sir Aaron the pioneer of IVF Klug’s papers. The collection ranges from correspondence with distinguished scientists, friends and family, to models and awards, subject files and laboratory notebooks. For those interested in the history of electron microscopy and virus structure the Klug collection will be

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an incredibly rich resource. However, the Klug archive also provides a glimpse at both social and political history, for example the collection includes material on the ‘Refuseniks’. Louise has now begun cataloguing the papers of Professor Sir Robert Edwards, the pioneer of IVF and Fellow of Churchill. She has catalogued the ‘general correspondence’ series and the ‘significant items’ series. Digitisation and digital resources Churchill Photographs The Centre has been working on the digitisation and detailed cataloguing of photographs of Sir Winston Churchill (from the Broadwater Collection and the Papers of Baroness Spencer-Churchill), thanks to a generous grant from Diageo. The images are a fantastic resource which will be available online in due course. Churchill Archive The Centre continues to work on the online edition of the Churchill Papers, especially on the development and expansion of free resources available to school students (churchillarchiveforschools). Studying primary sources is especially relevant to the GCSE environment study and A-level coursework, both of which require students to understand and interpret primary sources. Social media This year Louise Watling and Natasha Swainston launched the Archives Centre’s Twitter account (@ChuArchives) which grown rapidly and now has over 300 followers. It is an excellent way to keep in touch with the Archives Centre and find out information about our collection.The Archives Centre’s blog is available on the college website and has more information on many of the news items mentioned above and of course much more.

Natalie Adams P.S. Natalie, Andrew and Sarah are extremely grateful for the support they received from their immediate colleagues in the Archives team and from the College, especially Jennifer Brook, Tamsin James, Katherine Shirley, Shelley Surtees and Dr Adrian Crisp.

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An Eventful Year at the Møller Centre The CEO of the Møller Centre’s Report (2016–2017) Gillian Secrett, the CEO of the Møller Centre and a Churchill Fellow, looks back at the Centre’s many achievements and in particular at the Centre being voted top centre and winning gold in three categories, namely Best Academic Venue, Best Training Venue and Best Staff. It has been an eventful year at the Møller Centre bringing leadership development and executive education to several key organisations across the globe, to help deal with the challenges their companies face and to develop leaders to be at their best to create positive impact for the organisations which they serve. The Centre has also played its part as host venue to the many international programmes and events from the University, public sector and the corporate world. For example this year we worked with the Marshal Group to develop their senior leaders and we continue to support the healthcare reform in China with our Executive Education Programmes for Hospital Directors. Three Gold Awards This year the Centre was fortunate to win A leading position triple gold awards when our clients voted the in the UK Centre top in the country for all three Meetings and Incentive Travel Awards for ‘Best Academic Venue’, ‘Best Training Venue’ and ‘Best Staff’. The Centre also maintained its leading position in the UK for its Hospitality Assured accreditation which provides an external benchmark showing that the Centre delivers what it promises to its customers as well as maintaining high standards in, for example, its internal strategic planning, marketing, service development, people development and service recovery. We continue to focus on sustainability as a priority and we are accredited with ISO 14001 standard demonstrating our ability to manage the Centre in a responsible way. The Centre is now developing this further in building sustainability into its core strategy as well as its executive education programmes.

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Investing in people This year the Centre has been investing in its Extending our people with a focus on revenue growth in order reach in executive to increase the financial contribution covenanted education to the College. We now have a Director of programmes Executive Education, a Finance Director and a larger client relationship team to deliver the business across our leadership development, executive education and venue portfolio, both in the UK and internationally.There is a great team at the Centre and we are extending our reach through the delivery of a series of open as well as customised executive education programmes, including an exciting modular programme for senior leaders – ‘The Explorer Mindset’ as well as a one-day practical programme – ‘Making an impact as a Non-Executive Director’. Churchill College – the ideal community Being a wholly owned subsidiary of Churchill College it is a privilege to work with the individuals and organisations that are attracted to the Centre and to support delegates to be at their best.The Centre plays host to many significant events and programmes and the College provides the ideal community in which to welcome our international clients. This year the Centre’s Practical Leadership Forum brought together Chief Executives and Scholars from across the globe to discuss,‘the power of purpose’ and considered the questions, ‘does purpose drive shareholder and stakeholder value’? A white paper with the findings will be presented at the International Leadership Association Conference in October 2017 in Brussels. We look forward to the year ahead, to celebrating the Centre’s 25th Anniversary and bringing more programmes and clients to College, and to delivering our strategy of revenue, reach and reputation. We much appreciate that the College Fellowship continue to support and get involved in our work and we are particularly keen to encourage Churchill alumni to connect with us if they are interested to know more about what we do (for further information: www.mollercentre.co.uk).

Gillian Secrett

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Many Opportunities to Get Involved in College Development Director’s Report (2016–2017) Francisca Mallarée, the new Development Director and a Churchill Fellow, looks back at a year when the Development Office organised many events (receptions, dinners, lunches, etc.) for our alumni community whilst continually fund raising for the College. She is urging our alumni to get involved in College as there are many opportunities to do so. September 2016 saw the opening of Cowan Court (reported on in last year’s Review) and its first use in October by students who have been enjoying its amazing facilities. Cowan Court is a great tribute to all those in the College who managed this project and to my predecessor John Pennant for achieving the aim of raising the funds to build it. We are very grateful to Development Board members Michael Cowan (U70), Tony Wild (G68) and Greg Lock (U66) for leading such a major project. We are now at a stage where we are reviewing our operation and planning for the future of the College. Alumni are always welcome back at College and we particularly appreciate their feedback. We are planning to expand the number and type of events we host, both in College, regionally and internationally to bring a bit of Churchill back to you, as well as welcoming you back to Cambridge. In terms of fundraising we have had some excellent results again this last year. However that is not the only contribution alumni can make. There are many and varied opportunities to get involved in College – from mentoring students to taking part in a regional event. Report on Funds raised 2016–2017 We are grateful to all our donors for their contributions.We have had a number of generous gifts in the last year, and the total given to the College in new gifts in 2016–17 was £2.5million.

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As usual our donors are listed at the end of this report. The difference this year is that we have listed in year order, where donors are alumni, to show the percentage of those in each year group making a gift. We appreciate all gifts, of whatever size given to the College. Telethon 2016 & Bursaries Over £500,000 was pledged by alumni phoned by our current students in December 2016. This was one of the largest sums raised in a telethon by a Cambridge College last year. Much of the funding was for bursaries and unrestricted funds. We were delighted that £480,000 was pledged for undergraduate bursaries including a matching gift of $100,000 by Dr Adrian Hobden (U72) given to enable the most talented students to have the same opportunities to study that he had. We have a fantastic video – featuring Adrian – viewable on our website at www.chu.cam.ac.uk/ We have also had outstanding contributions for bursaries from Paul (U88) and Karen Czekalowski, from Dr John Kelly (U72), who has donated to endow a bursary primarily for women from state schools and from Dr Susan Poland (U77) who has created a bursary fund specifically aimed at women. Bursaries are extremely important to us if we are to continue to attract the brightest and best students regardless of their financial circumstances. So we are very grateful for your generosity. Alumni events Last year we hosted a range of different alumni events, and we are always open to suggestions for new events. Enterprise Event: ‘Learning from Success and Failure – what it really takes to be a successful entrepreneur’ – on 30 January 2017 (see article on p.110) Bursary Dinner on 2 February 2017 We invited all the donors who support bursaries to meet those recipients of bursaries who wished to come along. This proved a very successful event. Maisonneuve Exhibition: Local alumni private viewing and reception

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We were delighted to bring together the special collection of 19th and 20th century art and sculpture bequeathed to the College by Pierre Maisonneuve.This was displayed in the Cockroft room and the Fellows’ gallery in March (see article on p. 118) CompSci lecture and Dinner The Annual Computer Science lecture this year held in March was given by Simon Peyton-Jones and entitled ‘Escape from the ivory tower: the Haskell journey’, and was kindly sponsored by Improbable. WSC 1958 Society Lunch We welcomed back over 50 guests for the Winston S Churchill Society legacy lunch on 15 March.This event is possible thanks to those College members and friends who have made provision in their Will. We were serenaded by first year philosophy student (and King’s chorister) James Mickelthwaite, accompanied by Jonathan Morrell on piano.The programme included works by Britten, Schubert, Tosti and Quilter. Alumni Reception in Edinburgh All alumni were invited to join former Master Professor Sir David Wallace, the Chair of the Development Board, Mr Michael Cowan; and outgoing Bursar, Mrs Jennifer Brook along with fellow Churchillians for a drinks reception at the New Club in Edinburgh. Alumni receptions hosted by the Master The Master, Prof Dame Athene Donald hosted a reception for alumni and friends in Sydney, Australia. She then went on to host an event in Singapore, sponsored by Dr Susan Lim and Mr Deepak Sharma. Around 20 alumni attended another event she hosted in Hong Kong which was kindly sponsored by Mr Peter Bennett and which was held in the at Lily and Bloom in the Central district. Shell Research Prize poster session and dinner In May we were delighted to host a reception to mark the awarding of the Shell Research Prize. Shell was one of the founding benefactors of Churchill College and thanks to the longstanding and fruitful relationship with the company we were delighted to be

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Travis Sawyer, Shell Churchill Alumnus Research Prize winner and Brian Graves, Shell Research Prize winner able to run the Shell Research Prize for the second year running. Seventeen Applications were received for research in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects from Post-Docs, Graduate or Undergraduate students at Churchill College. A panel of three College Fellows and three Shell representatives reviewed all the applications. The standard was incredibly high and as a result two prizes of equal value were awarded. Brian Graves (G15, Engineering) was the winner of the Shell Research Prize (kindly sponsored by Shell) for his research in nanotubes. Travis Sawyer (G16, Physics) won the Shell Churchill Alumnus Research Prize, which was kindly sponsored by a Churchill engineering alumnus, for his research in a multi-dimensional imaging system for oesophageal tissue analysis. The College is very grateful to Shell for funding this prize, and we look forward to future opportunities for entrants next year. Donor Garden Party 2017 We were delighted to welcome back over 150 donors to our first Donor Garden Party held to thank those donors who had made a gift in the last two years.The day included a talk by Professor Mark Goldie entitled ‘How Churchill became the first College to admit women’. It was followed by a tour of the

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sculptures and gardens, led by Barry Phipps, and a popular tour of the Møller Centre. Guests enjoyed tea and cakes on the Jock Colville Lawn while being entertained by James Brady’s Jazz trio.The Master gave a speech introducing the new Bursar,Tamsin James and the new Development Director, Fran Malarée.We also showed off the model for the new graduate housing project at 36 Storey’s Way (of which more later). Reunion Dinner 2017 We welcomed back over 200 alumni from the years 1993–1998 to their reunion dinner. We were delighted to be able to include a talk from the Møller Centre’s executive education team and a visit to the Archives Centre in the programme. Global Cambridge Singapore The Development Director, Fran Malarée, was pleased to meet over 20 alumni and friends at a dinner hosted by Dr Susan Lim (G85) in Singapore in July. This was part of the University’s ‘Global Cambridge’ series of events, and earlier in the day some Churchillians also gathered to hear Eilish Ferran, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for International and Institutional Relations speak at the Ritz-Carlton in Singapore. Drinks in Hong Kong Alumni and friends of Churchill joined Prof Sir Mike Gregory for drinks at the China Club in Hong Kong.We are grateful to alumnus KK Chan (G86) for helping us to host this event, which was attended by over 20 Churchillians. Churchill Association Weekend This year’s Association Weekend commemorated the 50th anniversary of the death of the first Master, Sir John Cockcroft with a special archival exhibition and talk on Saturday 23 September on Cockcroft’s life and works, featuring Professor Rolf Heuer (formerly of CERN), Dame Sue Ion (of the Nuclear research Innovation Advisory board) and Chris Cockcroft, Sir John Cockcroft’s son. The talk was chaired by the Master, Prof Dame Athene Donald. There were also tours of the Cavendish Laboratories celebrating Sir John Cockcroft: The atomic scientist who changed the world. And finally, the Association dinner this year featured special guest Dr Jim Al-Khalili

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as our after-dinner speaker. We hope all our alumni and their guests enjoyed the programme of events we organised last year.We are always happy to receive feedback so, please do e-mail dev.director@chu.cam.ac.uk, if you have any ideas for future events or activities. As well as a section on future events in this edition of the Review, you can find out more on www.chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni

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‘Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.’ Martin Luther King Jr.

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Donations 2016–17 We are very grateful to all the following alumni and friends who have chosen to support Churchill College. All those listed below have made a gift during the period 1st July 2016 to 30th June 2017. (N.B. Gifts made after this date will be acknowledged in next year’s Review.) Participation rates are given for each year group and are calculated based on both one-off gifts and regular gifts. 1960 Participation rate: 7.5% Dr J A Haines Dr R K Livesley** Dr F W Maine Professor L J Sham 1961 Participation rate: 17.6% Mr E W Addicott Dr P Barton Mr J H Burton Mr W J Capper Mr P M C Clarke Professor E Cundliffe Mr S T Green** Mr M H Hilder Mr G T Johnson** Mr D E W King* Mr N G Kingan** Dr E A Kohll** Mr T R Latton Mr A E Leigh-Smith** Mr J C Lewis Professor R J Oldman** Mr S M J Peskett** Professor M Pilling Mr C J Tavener* Mr G V Thomas

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Mr A F Thomson Professor D J Thouless 1962 Participation rate: 12.1% Mr W Aitken Mr C M L Argent* Dr G W Bibby Mr R J Davies** Mr D M M Dutton** Dr P A Gait Mr M R P Hayles Mr R Helmer Dr P T Jackson* Professor R M Loynes** Mr R H N Salmon Mr W Silverman Dr M A Stroud** Mr M A Upton* Mr H E Williams Dr D R Woodall** Mr B Yates** 1963 Participation rate: 15.3% Dr R V Aldridge Mr J C Barlow Mr R Barras Dr J H Brunton*

Dr G A Butlin Mr W H Cowell Mr T S Culver* Professor S T de Grey** Mr P B Goldstein Professor G M Heal Dr A Hutton Mr H F A Marriott** Mr J R Mason Mr G C Pyke** Professor R B Pynsent** Mr G K Rock-Evans** Mr J C Q Rowett The Reverend A W Shaw Mr D T Silcock Mr R J Tarling* Mr G R Taylor Mr F E Toolan** Mr R M Walker* Mr D G Watson Dr E D Williams Mr F J Wilton Mr N E Wrigley** 1964 Participation rate: 8.3% Dr A F Bainbridge Mr J A Ballard* Dr R M Carson Mr G M Coomber Professor T W Cusick* Mr N J Denbow** Dr G A Gelade Dr M J Green Mr R J Hine Professor R Jackman Mr R R Loe Professor D E Luscombe** Dr C J Myerscough Mr T L Rees Admiral F P Scourse Mr N R Seymour-Dale* Rt Hon Dr G Strang Mr J Waters* 1965 Participation rate: 10.1% Mr S J Barber Dr A G Burton Mr D S Chapman

Dr J R Crabtree** Dr N W Dean* Dr G J Forder Mr N S Gamble Dr J L Gluza Mr C Harvey* The Reverend J Johnson Mr T A Key** Mr M J Kingsley Mr H S Lake The Rt Hon The Lord Colin Low Mr C P S Markham** Dr T McManus** Dr T L Roberts** Mr G K Sampson* Dr E R D Scott* Professor R C Spear Dr P N Tomlinson Dr P N Trewby 1966 Participation rate: 8.2% Dr R C Barklie Mr A P Docherty** Mr P L Flake Mr I D Graham Dr D R Grey** Mr D H Gye Mr J Hazelden Mr M J Horne Mr T C W Ingram** Professor D B Kittelson Dr E T Libbey** Mr G H Lock* Mr P N Locke** Mr N R E Miskin* Professor D M G Newbery* Mr D B Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Callaghan Mr M K Redhead* Dr D M Schwartz** 1967 Participation rate: 9.7% Mr J E Berriman Mr I Carnaby* Dr A J Cole Mr R H Douglas Mr G R A Gomberg Mr M E Harper** Dr P Hilton*

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Dr M A Keavey Mr R G Larkin Mr L P M Lloyd-Evans** Mr J R Matthewman Dr B R Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill Mr M M Otway** Mr A V Ramsay* Mr I H Rose Mr P J Shakeshaft Mr M R Slack Mr W L Stow Dr D A Taylor Dr A G Tristram 1968 Participation rate: 7.6% Dr G S Booth** Dr N R Brereton Dr R J Crispin Mr M F Dixon Dr G Evans* Mr I M Gardiner Mr C J Grove Mr R J Hamilton Mr A J Hutchinson** Dr M N Huxley Mr R Maslin Dr D J Norfolk** Mr A H Rosenberg** Dr A H Wild* Mr E A Workman** 1969 Participation rate: 7.2% Professor R Adrian Dr C G Chatfield Mr R M Davies** Mr M R Frith** Mr S Green Mr M Kirby-Sykes Dr D C A Mant Mr J M McGee** Professor D T Meldrum Mr P Merson** Mr J M Pocock** Mr G M Rackham Mr R F Squibbs Mr P L Stanton Mr A L Strang* Dr W J Wilson

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1970 Participation rate: 7.8% Mr P G Bossom* Mr N J P Cooper Mr M Cowan Mr T J L Cribb* Mr P R A Fulton** Mr N A W M Garthwaite** Mr W M Kinsey* Dr S A Kyle Professor A V P Mackay** Mr C S Pocock* Mr D Potts Professor P Rez* Mr G R A Sellers** Dr C J Slinn Mr R W Upton Mr I S Wilson** 1971 Participation rate: 7.1% Dr D Armstrong* Dr R H Atkinson Mr T A Cave** Professor A Gillespie Mr P M W Gover Dr J I Grayson Mr J C R Hudson** Mr A Kramvis Dr G J Le Poidevin* Dr P J Mole** Dr I R Scott** Mr W G Taylor* Mr G P F Vincent Dr J M Wenn 1972 Participation rate: 11.8% Professor Emeritus K Bardakci Mr N A J Blades Mr H W Brockbank Mrs V Burkitt (Dowell) Mr H A J Davies* Mrs K V D Dresdner (Dresdner) Dr R Elsdon Dr D C B Evans Professor A Finch Dr A N Hobden Mr J Ingle* Dr M A Johnson*

Mr J M W Jones Mr T H Jones** Professor J Kelly Mrs S A Kramvis (Newcombe) Dr W E Munsil Dr T L L Orr Mrs G M Potts (Black) Professor J Rosenberg Mr I M Summersgill Mr J D M Tickell Mrs S M Walton (Mackinney) Mr R C Wenzel** Mr A R Woodland** Mrs I M Woodland (Waghorne)** Professor P Wright (Wright) 1973 Participation rate: 9.6% Mr C J Aston Dr J S Baldock Mr J G Bennett Ms T M Brown** Dr R P Cleaver Ms M S Dixon Dr C A Elliott (Mills) Professor J Elliott Dr F G Furniss* Mr P M Goodland* Dr J Grzeskowiak (Ellison)** Dr N E Grzeskowiak** Professor Sir John Gurdon* Mr I G Hatfield Ms R Johnston** Ms V C Jolliffe* Mr N M Pinto Professor D B Rutledge* Mr A C Schofield Professor M J R Stark** Dr S E Whitcomb Mr R E Williams 1974 Participation rate: 5.3% Ms C E Blackmun* Mr P R Clarke Professor G Constable Mrs J E Goodland (Terry)* Dr J P Hale Dr R W Holti** Ms A M Kosicka

Professor J H Marsh** Dr S Oldfield* Mr M K Rees** The Reverend R P Symmons 1975 Participation rate: 6.7% Mr D Armstrong Mr P T Bird* Mrs A A Canning (Jarrett)** Mr D F Coates Mr I R Coles Mr A Cullen** Professor D M Gale Mr N J Hazell Mr A R John Professor K Mislow Dr H C Mulligan Dr D E Reynolds* Dr R A Reynolds (Dixon)* Dr T See Mr A P Townend 1976 Participation rate: 8.2% Mrs J Armstrong (Hickman) Mr R P Bailey Dr I L Bratchie Professor V K K Chatterjee Professor D Epel Dr C Fraser Dr D H Jaffer* Professor P A Kalra Professor L Krause* Dr F Lamb Dr P J Littlefair Mr C G McNally Mr A Moore Mrs S Pearce (Bailey)* Mrs L S Robinson (Jacobs) Mr S M Robinson Mrs J E Salmon (Mathie)* Dr P H Tennyson Professor U Tuzun 1977 Participation rate: 8.1% Mrs C Cleaver (Martin) Professor M R J Gibbs Dr C Goulimis**

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Professor A F Heavens* Mr T J Hill Dr S C Inglis Mr W O Kellogg Dr W E Leich Furlong Dr S G Martin** Mr T R Oakley** Dr H E Plaut Ms S L Poland* Dr S A Rawstron Dr E J Rennie Mrs L F Stead (Bibby) Mrs I A Thompson (O’Hara)** Mrs L V Townend (Amer) Mr R C Weeks 1978 Participation rate: 8.1% Ms S C Berwick Dr R D Blank Professor E L Boulpaep Dr D W Butcher Professor C T H Davies (Stewart) Dr R M Dixon* Mrs E D French (Medd)** Mr P C French** Dr S G Goodyear Mr K A Herrmann Mrs I Hull (Clark)* Dr C N Jones** Dr R I Jones* The Hon. Mr Justice Lewis Mr I M Standley** Professor J Talbot Professor M D Thouless Dr D Waterson Dr D B White 1979 Participation rate: 6.9% Ms S J Angel Dr N E Baker Mrs L A Doble (Kendall)* Mr A P Duff** The Reverend J M Dyer (Lloyd)** Professor M A Goldie** Dr D J Graziano Mr M Hammler* The Reverend Dr M Hart Mr S P Henry

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Dr P D Hodson** Dr W Lewis-Bevan Miss J B E Mawson Mr P M Rodgers Mr M W Rudin Mr C E Sweeney* 1980 Participation rate: 7.3% Mr M L Arcus Mr B L Collings** Mr L G D’Agliano Mrs S E de Candole (Thorp) Mr H de Lusignan Mrs J M Donora (Tyrrell) Mr J R Farrell** Mr R A G Fielding Ms C J Grey Mr B A Harris** Professor R P Mason The Hon. Mr Justice Sales Mr M H Schwarz** Mr P R J Smith Mr J C Wainwright Dr A S Wierzbicki** 1981 Participation rate: 7.8% Mr K Bhargava** Dr A Blackwell (Leech-Wilkinson)* Professor A Braginsky Mr M W Cattermole Mrs S M Clements (Burton)* Mr K R Doble* Mr M L Ellis Dr C A Harper Dr J A Horrell Mr I Jones* Mr P A Manley Dr C A McGill** Professor T Remenikova-Braginsky Professor D O Rockwell Mr A S Thomson Dr W Y Tsang** Ms H A Vyse (Ellis)] 1982 Participation rate: 5.1% Mr T Armitage* Mr M K Asardag

Mr T J Bond Ms A Calvert* Mr P A Dornan* Mrs T A Hall (Prosser)* Professor J A Lake* Mr P C Mason Mr S D Rothman** Mr M T Rutter** Mr M Y Watterson 1983 Participation rate: 3.7% Professor A Blumstein Mr R I Coull** Mr C W E Graham Dr A M Lewis Mr R J Miller** Mr D A Pedropillai* Professor T D Pollard Dr C D Scrase* 1984 Participation rate: 4.5% Dr D A Chaplin Dr R T Elias* Mr J J Higgins* Dr S J Kukula** Mr P N Mainds Dr S-X Qin Mr J J H Reilly** Mr J A Stark Mr E M J Steedman** Mr G R Tillman* Dr S F Williams 1985 Participation rate: 7.8% Mr A I Blyth Dr S P Churchhouse** Mr A C B Clegg Mr M A Craven** Mr A C Dean Mr R H T Dixon** Professor O Gingerich Mr A W S Jones** Mrs S H Knighton (Spear) Mr A J Lake** Dr S Lim Mr G P Middleton** The Reverend Dr P G Miller**

Mr K D Morris* Dr J R Norris Mr D P Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien Dr W O Soboyejo 1986 Participation rate: 3.4% Mr A M F Bailey** Dr D Baxter Dr D C Dankworth Dr M W Johnston** Dr V M Kamath Mr R J Thomas Mr A C Worrall* 1987 Participation rate: 10% Dr R J Black** Dr D C Brodbelt Ms V S Connolly Dr S P Harden* Dr J R Hobdell Mr A C Innes* Mr A S Irwin Mr R H Khatib Mr I M Lawrie** Dr C E Lee-Elliott** Mrs C H Narracott (Crocker)* Ms G Nurse** Dr K M Pang Dr J D Parker Mr B J Patel* Mrs I J Tooley (Bush) Mr S M Tooley Ms J Turkington** Mr O M van Nijf Mr J Wadsworth** Mrs S B Wadsworth (Large)** Professor W Zhou 1988 Participation rate: 5.2% Dr A J Brown** Dr W G Burgess** Dr P A Catarino** Professor J R D Coffey* Mr P A Czekalowski Mrs C A Hutchings (Cairns) Mr B Mulvihill Mr S G Narracott*

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Professor E B Perrin Dr K Pichler Mr B H A Robinson**

1989 Participation rate: 6.8% Mrs H C Arrowsmith (Oxtoby) Dr H Ashraf* Mrs S C Galloway Mr J A L Hart Dr C M Hicks** Mrs M E Ker Hawn (Ker) Mr J R Larsen Mr J P Lucas** Dr O D Lyne* Mr S D Morrish* Dr P J Parsons* Professor W Rindler Dr A W Stephenson Mr J P Swainston Mrs J R Wrigglesworth (Cannell) Mr S Yah’Yah

1992 Participation rate: 4.9% Mr S J Aitken Dr D J Bernasconi** Mr L R Brown Dr S J Ford (Masters) Mr M P Honey** Ms E Lopez-Gunn Mr C E Martin Mr J W Palmer Mr D Roberts** Mr R P Smith** Mr I Temperton** Dr S E Wunsch

1990 Participation rate: 6.8% Dr J Adam (Worrall) Mr T B W Adam Dr A J Ball** Dr T A Bicanic* Dr V A Carreño Mr P Chown Dr J Kanagalingam Mr S P Lister Mr R T Milner Mr J R Peters* Mr A D Ponting** Mr I K Richards Mr P G Thwaite Professor A J Webber Dr P J Wilson 1991 Participation rate: 4.5% Dr R Beroukhim* Ms C R Brett* Mr P R A Fidler Mr D M Fineman* Professor B Gough Mr P T W Harrington** Dr J W D Hobro**

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1993 Participation rate: 6.8% Mr A J Barefoot Dr A J Crisp Mr C J A Down Mr J M Gibbs** Mrs J Gwilt (Smyth) Mr A P Hall* Mr A J Lambert* Dr A G Leach Mr R M Little* Dr A J Pauza** Miss A C M Scott-Bayfield** Mr C W Smick** Dr D R Tray** Mr A D Twiss Mr M J Wakeford Mr M H Wallis Mr C M White 1994 Participation rate: 7.6% Mr L Ashton** Mr B O Brierton* Mrs K H Brierton (Pratt)* Ms L E Carter Mrs C Dixon (Strutt) Ms M F Fahey Dr T L Harris** Mr M S Hoather** Mr M J Hubbard

Dr N F Kenny Dr H J Knowles Professor M H Kramer Professor R V E Lovelace** Mr A C Matthews Mr C H Palmer Professor S D Silver* Mr R G Stamp** Professor D L Stern** Mrs S F Tickle (Hanley)** 1995 Participation rate: 3.1% Ms L C Berzins Mr M R Brazier** Mr S P Bridge Miss H Cho Dr D Joinson Mr G C Jones Mr P McCarthy** 1996 Participation rate: 4.3% Professor M Atzmon Mr D B Christie** Mrs S J J Christie (Chou)** Mr P S Gardiner Dr D J Goodings Mr S J Harris* Mr A P C Jones Mr O Kennington Dr E Merson Dr C Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kane** 1997 Participation rate: 2.6% Dr J W J Akroyd Mrs J N Corbett (Banfield)** Mr C Howell* Mrs A Martin (Colabella) Dr O J D Martin Mr I R Thomas 1998 Participation rate: 3.8% Mr D Alafouzos** Mr W J A Courtenay Dr C E Finlayson Dr R K Hansen Dr A P Jardine*

Mr J Justus Mr N I Khawaja Mrs D Resch (Christian)* Dr C Yeung* 1999 Participation rate: 4% Mrs J Brook* Dr L J Cameron Mr D R Deboys* Mrs J Douglas (Hutton) Mr R J E Douglas Dr B S R Lishman Mr D A Mackenzie** Mr S D Spreadbury** Dr C Tubb* Mr P F Ward** 2000 Participation rate: 4.5% Dr P A Booth* Mr R Botero Robledo Dr F Brossard Mr N Crews** Dr M Ferme Mr M Gavin Miss S A Khan Dr L Lake Mr S Y Liu Mr A J Milne* Mrs R Pellet (Orr) Dr N Taylor Dr C Tout Mr P J Watkins Mr A A Weiss Mr T P Whipple* Dr C S Witham 2001 Participation rate: 5% Mr R E Babaev Mr A Bannard-Smith Mrs E Booth (Lambert)* Mr L S Goddard Dr P Gopal Dr S R Griffiths Mr M O Hibberd Professor J Keown Mr M R G Mkushi Dr E J Rees

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Mr H G Rock-Evans Dr D R Williams 2002 Participation rate: 4.1% Dr U Akuwudike Mr A J Chappelow Mr C E Hack Mr D A Jones Dr F S Karababa Mrs H O Mkushi (Balogun) Mr P D Nery Mr A Packwood Dr S E Rose Mr W Tensel 2003 Participation rate: 2.8% Mr G Constantinides Mr B Greenhalgh Professor J Lewandowski Dr G Procopio Miss P L Welsh Mr L Zhou Ms B Zygarlowska (Wroblewska) 2004 Participation rate: 2.5% Dr P M M Achintha Mr R Giniyatov* Dr A L Goater Dr V E Maybeck Dr D Osborne Mr T P F Robson 2005 Participation rate: 3.4% Miss G L Dixon Ms E Gray Mr T E B Rose Dr C L Sequeira Dr J S Silvia Miss L Sparrow Dr J P Wickerson Mr A J Woodland 2006 Participation rate: 3.5% Dr S Boss** Dr J Crang

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Dr B J G A Kress Dr E J Mottram Dr A Taylor Dr J Wagner Dr I Wassell* Dr E H Wickerson (Fulbrook) Mrs C T Willmoth (McElroy) 2007 Participation rate: 1.6% Mr D Gavshon Brady Professor J Hart* Mr A Lee Mr R Partington* Dr E Pauncefort Mr S Richards Dr M Sander 2008 Participation rate: 0.4% Dr X Chen 2009 Participation rate: 0.8% Professor F Komiya Dr C Y Tan 2010 Participation rate: 0.4% Dr H Costello 2011 Participation rate: 0.4% Miss W X Heng 2012 Participation rate: 0.7% Dr M Ghidini Dr L Jardine-Wright 2013 Participation rate: 0.7% Dr M Gotham Dr J Toner 2014 Participation rate: 0.7% Professor Dame Athene Donald Mr J Pennant

2015 Participation rate: 1.9% Mrs R Bhangaonkar Mr R Churchill Dr R Daly Dr M Donald Dr J Keller

Friends of the College Mr J L N Aitken Ms B Bryant Mrs S Burles Reverend C Carson* Miss J D Cockcroft* Sir Merrick Cockell Lady Cockell Mrs K Czekalowski Mr D N Daft* Mrs D H Daft* Mr F J Deegan** Dr M Dixon Mr G Dunlop Mrs V Dunlop Mr D M Evers Mr G Glazer Ms J Gooding Mrs P Grace Mr J Hopkins* Dr M Hughes Mrs S Lee Mrs L Luckevich Mr M McCarthy Mrs M McCarthy Mrs K McManus Dr M Morse Mr D Newton Ms D Papagianni Dr J Principato Professor D J Reynolds** Dr J Rix Mr T Roskill** Mrs E Sellar Professor M Shull Professor G Sorenson Ms E Truslow Mr W Wing Yip**

Organisations Amazon UK Aptargroup Barclays BP Cryptomathic Limited F. Ball and Co. Ltd Government Matched Funding Scheme Jane Street Microsoft Corporation Populus Redcliffe Training Associates Ltd Schlumberger Cambridge Research Limited Schroder Investment Management TomTom Software Ltd. Toshiba* The Walt Disney Co Ltd

Trusts and Foundations Bill Brown Charitable Trust** Daft Family Foundation* Dr Monroe and Sandra Trout Charitable Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region* The GE Foundation John Younger Trust Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Global Impact Funding Trust, Inc Rushbrook Charitable Trust* Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Wellcome Trust Whitcomb Family Charitable Fund + 44 anonymous donations *Donors who have been giving for 5 or more consecutive years ** Donors who have been giving for 10 or more consecutive years

Legacies have also been received by the College from the following Estates: The estate of Dr G H Carruthers The estate of Mrs A Powell

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Donations to the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States 2016–17 We are very grateful to all the following who have chosen to support Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States. All those listed below have made a gift during the period 1st July 2016 to 30th June 2017. (N.B. Gifts made after this date will be acknowledged in next year’s Review.) Dr B S Abella 1992 Dr K Abkemeier 1990 Mr V S Abrash 1986 Mrs J Adrian Mr R J Adrian 1969 Dr J A Ankrum 2007 Dr J A Bagger 1977 Dr C F Batten 1999 Dr M Baldonado (Wang) 1990 Dr C E Beasley 1999 Dr V L Beattie 1988 Dr K M Beck 2009 Dr L K Benninger 1969 Dr R Beroukhim 1991 Mr L E Bigler, Jr. 1967 Dr L Bloom 1985 Dr A Bluher (Wilson) 1983 Mr R Boiteau 2009 Dr D S Bomse 1975 Dr J M Bossert 1996 Dr D M Bott 1990 Dr M Brenner 1965 Mrs D L Brice Mr D D Burrows Mrs N Burrows Mr G J Calhoun 1983 Dr V Callier 2006 Mr R S Chivukula Dr A M Cody 2003 Dr P A Cole 1984 Dr S N Coppersmith 1978 Dr T W Cusick 1964 Dr D C Dankworth 1986 Dr S K Danoff 1985 Mr P C de Boor 1988 Dr N W Dean 1965 Dr A B Declan 2001 Dolby Company Match Dr M V Dorn 1992 Dr J W Downie 1983

Dr R O Dror 1997 Dr A C Durst 1996 Professor R Dutch (Ellis) 1986 Mr B Dyer, III Dr P R Eisenhardt 1978 Dr G Ellison 1987 Dr S Ellison (Fisher) 1987 Dr L R Falvello 1976 Dr W F Feehery 1992 Dr J N Fields III 1971 Dr D A Fike 2001 Mr C Finch 2014 Dr A L Fisher 1978 Ms D Foster Mr D I Foy 1969 Mr J Freeman 2015 Dr S Friedman 1990 Dr C D Frost 1979 Mr M J Gabelli Mr P A Gerschel Dr J N Glickman 1987 Dr L M Gloss-Lessmann 1988 Dr B Gong 1999 Dr N W Gouwens 2003 Dr Y H Grad 1996 Dr D J Graziano 1979 Mr D Green 1994 Ms D L Grubbe 1977 Dr N R Guydosh 2001 Mr R J Hall 1971 Dr J R Hampton 1995 Dr D A Hinds 1998 Dr S P Hmiel 1980 Dr D K Holger 1971 Mr R A Hutchinson 1981 Ms C Hwang Dr J M Johnson 1993 Dr R D Johnson 1988 Ms S R Jones 2008 Mr T H Jones 1972

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Dr Y Kahn 2009 Dr E W Kaiser 1964 Dr K M Kalumuck 1974 Mr W B Kanders Mr D Kang 2015 Mrs A Katz Dr E R Katz 1966 Dr J R Kennedy, Jr. 1987 Dr D B Kittelson 1966 Dr J E R Kolassa 1985 Dr D K Krug 1999 Ms H E Kuhn 2009 Dr J D Kulman 1992 Mrs S Leaf-Herman Dr W A Leaf-Herman 1984 Dr S A Leblanc (Ahsan) 2003 Dr L J Lee 1999 Mr S Lee Dr A D Levine 2000 Dr S R Levinson 1970 Mr J L Loeb, Jr Dr N M Loening 1997 Dr E D Mann 1997 Dr C G McNally 1976 Dr J E Mehren 1997 Dr D E Mesler 1982 Microsoft Matching Gift Ms S E Miller 2015 Professor D A Mix Barrington 1981 Dr P C Monaco 1989 Mrs P Monaco Dr E Q Mooring 2013 Mrs A Mucha Dr P J Mucha 1993 Professor L J Mueller 1988 Dr W E Munsil 1972 Mr N Naclerio 1983 Dr V Narsimhan 2008 Dr M L Neidig 1999 Dr D B Neill 2001 Dr V R Nenna (Mitchell) 2004 Dr K K Niyogi 1986 Dr A B Nobel 1985 Dr M Okumura 1979 Dr J C Olson 1986 Mr D Palm 2014 Dr P Patrikis Mr A Pekker 2001 Dr R F Penna 2007 Dr L M Phinney 1990

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Dr C K L Phoon 1985 Dr W W Phoon Dr D C Plaut 1984 Dr A A Potechin 2009 Dr J H E Promislow 1991 Dr E Rains 1991 Dr J P Reilly 1972 Dr J W Reyes (Wolpaw) 1994 Dr E E Riehl 2006 Dr D P Riordan 2002 Dr M O Robbins 1977 Mr S G Rodriques 2013 Dr M K Rosen 1987 Mr A H Rosenberg 1968 Dr B M Rubenstein 2007 Mrs G Russo Mr T A Russo Dr F M San Martini 1996 Ms J E Schaeffer 1974 Dr S J Scherr 1980 Dr H O Scott 1975 Dr J Seeliger (Chuang) 2000 Dr S J Shefelbine 1997 Dr M Shulman 2002 Dr J S Silvia 2005 Dr E H Simmons 1985 Professor F J Sottile 1985 Dr D R Speth 1972 Dr K A Stoerzinger 2010 Mr D J Strouse 2011 Dr D M Thomson 1994 Dr P M Todd 1985 Dr Y Tseng 2003 Dr R R Tupelo-Schneck 1997 Dr E D Tytell 1998 Dr S Vadhan 1995 Mr A Vavasis Mrs T Vavasis Dr J P Wanderer 2003 Dr C Wang Erickson 2007 Dr K A Weiskopf 2007 Dr J J West 1994 Dr S E Whitcomb 1973 Dr J D Williams 1998 Dr D J Wright 1972 Dr D R Wright 1982 Dr S E Wunsch 1992 Mr J P Yesinowski 1971 + seven anonymous donors

Members of the Winston S Churchill 1958 College Society We are very grateful to all the following who have chosen to support Churchill College by leaving a gift in Will. All those listed below have been formally admitted to the WSC 1958 Society at the annual gathering of members, and have given permission for their names to be listed. Dr E Allan Mrs J K Bacon 1974 Mr N Bacon 1974 Dr A F Bainbridge 1964 † Mrs B Bielstein Dr G Bielstein Sir John Boyd Lady Boyd Mr J H Burton 1961 Mrs M Burton Mr M A Craven 1985 Dr A J Crisp Professor T W Cusick 1964 Dr N W Dean 1965 Mr M G Dixon 1964 Mrs V Dixon Mrs J M Donora 1980 Professor S B Dunnett 1969 Mr D M M Dutton 1962 Mrs S Elliott Mr G Farren 1966 Dr A-M T Farmer 1980 Dr H Farmer Mr P R A Fulton 1970 Mr N A W M Garthwaite 1970 The Rt Rev J W Gladwin 1961 Mrs J E Goodland 1974 Mr R Gregory 1979 Mrs P Green Mr S T Green 1961 Dr S K Greene 1983 Mr S Gupta 1983 Mrs G A Guthrie Mrs D Hahn † Professor F Hahn Professor A Hewish Mr S Higginson 1982 Dr D S Hoddinott 1963

Mr J Hopkins Ms V C Jolliffe 1973 † Professor A Kelly Mrs M Ker Hawn 1989 Mr R G Larkin 1967 Mr M A Lewis 1964 Mr G S Littler-Jones 1965 Mr G H Lock 1966 Mr P N Locke 1966 Dr F W Maine 1960 Mr J R Maw 1964 Mrs M Miller Dr S A Mitton 1968 Dr J H Musgrave 1965 Mr A Peaker 1964 Dr C G Page 1965 Mrs S Page Mr J G Potter 1963 Mr M A W Prior 1974 Mr G C Pyke 1963 Dr P J Reed 1961 Mr M K Rees 1974 Dr S-J Richards Mr A T Richardson 1978 Mrs B Richardson Mrs B Salmon Mr R Salmon 1962 Mr R M Shaw 1972 Mrs N Squire Mr D Stedman Mr V Stedman Miss R C Stott 1987 Sir John Stuttard 1963 Lady Stuttard Dr M Tippett Mr F E Toolan 1963 Dr P N Trewby 1965 Sir David Wallace

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Lady Wallace Dr A J Walton 1960

Dr A H Wild 1968

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;O, had I but followed the Arts!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; William Shakespeare

. . .THE ARTS AT CHURCHILL

All Academic Subjects are both Creative and Scientific The Arts at Churchill College Richard Partington, Senior Tutor and a Churchill Fellow, explains not just the importance of the Arts subjects at Churchill College but also the alchemy that takes place between the Arts and the Sciences in a college with a 70% Science and Technology student population. When I became Senior Tutor in 2007, my predecessor, Alan Findlay, told me that the creative arts were important in Churchill because of the leavening effect they had in a predominantly science-focused community. Alan provided me with a lot of helpful advice, but this particular piece was not one that I then instinctively understood. Nonetheless I mentally filed his comment away for future reference. It duly turned out to be bang on: I came to understand it. This is not to criticise the sciences or comment on a scientific as opposed to an artistic community. Rather, it is to recognise something that the University seemingly recognised when it persuaded Winston Churchill that founding a 100% sciences institution was not the way to go: 70% sciences was enough and indeed preferable; something alchemical would happen in an interdisciplinary community if it spanned the full range of academic endeavour. Doubtless Cambridge would have taken the same line in the opposite direction had Winston wished to create an arts-only College, and with equal validity. This touches upon something fundamental: in the Both creative end, all academic subjects are both creative and and scientific scientific. All great intellectual breakthroughs, whether scientific or artistic, involve imaginative leaps of understanding. Simultaneously, without scientific rigour â&#x20AC;&#x201C; logic, reason, evidence â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all academic work loses its essential character; it ceases to be academic. Within the Arts and Sciences as well as across them, academic

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colleagues (though not so much in Churchill) are sometimes guilty of unfairly disparaging the efforts of people in disciplines other than their own as insufficiently scientific or lacking in creativity. High-quality academia always involves both thoroughness and inventiveness. Among students and Fellows, inter-disciplinary Inter-disciplinary interaction is central to our social as well as our interaction is intellectual community.Talking to people whose central to our work is very different from one’s own is of social and course useful, but it is also interesting. Students intellectual in the Arts and Humanities tend to be notably community active in Churchill in clubs and societies, and in our students’ unions. This brings welcome arts-science engagement in the College around shared endeavour, but this also occurs in sports and in the arts – in music and art in particular. Over the years the College has invested heavily in music and art, in respect of facilities, material and personnel (our Fellow Directors of Music-Making and Curator of Art, and our student Art and Music ‘Sizars’). This has paid strong dividends, fostering many outstanding concerts and excellent art exhibitions over the years. In admissions and recruitment, our provision for music and art is a card we play time and again. One might assume that students whose academic focus is in the arts would predominate where extra-curricular arts are concerned, but in fact this is far from the case. Many of our outstanding musicians and artists, study sciences. This is especially noticeable at graduate level. We attract better scientists to the College by having such good provision for artistic endeavour. Once students are here, the non-academic release provided by music and art, as well as other extra-curricular activities, keeps students grounded and happy, and enables them to perform to the best of their ability. With the College’s planned creation of a ‘Creative Hub’ in the old oil-store at the front of College, we will enter a new phase in arts-sciences cross-fertilisation. There, an art studio and architectural drawing area will share space with an engineering and computing workshop. Who knows what alchemy will be practised there? Richard Partington

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From ASNAC to the Inland Revenue to Shell UK Benefiting from being an Arts Student at Churchill College Rob Douglas, ASNAC (U67), tells us how having studied History in Part I and ASNAC in Part II, his Arts degree took him from the Inland Revenue as Tax Inspector, to joining Royal Dutch Shell first in various senior tax positions, then in a number of senior executives roles and finally becoming Vice President for Mergers and Acquisitions in the Global Exploration and Development Business. Subsequently he combined a consulting career with non-executive roles in the public, private and voluntary sectors. He is the living proof that an Arts degree is of great benefit and does open many doors. I grew up in the north east of England in Newcastle and was at school in Edinburgh when Dick Tizard visited the school as part of his efforts to broaden Churchill’s intake. Persuaded to apply, I secured a place and arrived in October 1967 to read history. I quickly settled in to what I recall was a hugely rewarding and stimulating environment. Having the exposure to people who are world class was just so broadening, so stimulating, it really opened my mind. I completed History Part 1 before switching to Anglo Saxon Norse and Celtic for Part II, something that was a bit of a shock to the College at the time, as I don’t think they’d had anybody study ASNAC before. But I received a lot of support from the librarian who enjoyed sourcing the books I needed! Arts students at Churchill I, together with my fellow arts students, benefited from being in the minority at Churchill.We did very well as we had this beautiful new College, amazingly well equipped, very comfortable, and which was largely empty during the day as all the scientists and engineers and medics were off down the labs. However, it is only now that I feel I truly understand the added value that is on offer to Arts

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students joining Churchill’s largely scientific Choosing community and why they should elect to choose Churchill as your Churchill as their College of choice over and College of choice above the other colleges who don’t have on their statutes the requirement that 70% of the student community should study STEM subjects. Working at the Inland Revenue I had very little idea of what I wanted to do when I left University. I went to the careers service on Chaucer Road and it was suggested that I could be an archivist. So I completed a post-grad diploma in the Study of Records and Administration of Archives at the University of Liverpool. But I soon felt that this was not my future. My wife Hilary had joined the graduate scheme for the Civil Service, and I soon followed when I saw how stimulating she was finding it. Rather to my surprise I found myself joining the Inland Revenue to be trained as a tax Inspector. Working at Shell After several years in the Inland Revenue, I joined Shell and held a number of senior tax posts, including Shell UK Tax Manager, and Head of International Taxation, based in The Hague. I was then given the opportunity to move out of tax and held a number of senior executive roles with Shell including oversight of Shell operations in China and East Asia, Country CEO in Belgium, Country CEO in Italy before becoming Vice President for Mergers and Acquisitions in the Global Exploration and Development Business. After Shell Since leaving Shell, I have combined part time consultancy, mainly in the area of senior executive development, with roles as a non-executive in the public, private and voluntary sectors. These have included being chair of a small oil company, chair of the South East England Development Agency and chair of the UK Space Agency Steering Board. Currently I am chair of a medium sized disability charity. Looking back It is clear to me that I owe a great deal to my time at Churchill. Not only did my experience deliver academically, but I also met Hilary and built a lifelong friendship

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group. Cambridge gave me the self-confidence that helped me secure my first career break in the Civil Service and subsequent roles.

I owe a great deal to my time at Churchill

Both the oil industry and the world of the Space Agency are heavily engineering and science focused and whilst I strongly feel studying the Arts is very valuable because it gives you breadth and gets you to ask the right questions, the reality is we live in a more and more technical world. I think it is very important that if you study the Arts you have some understanding of that. The great thing about Churchill is that it requires 70% STEM intake so you’re in a College which has produced some world leaders across the piece in the Sciences. These people come back and give talks at the College.The Arts students can plug into that and get an additional breadth to their education. That is enriching and will prepare them better for the world afterwards. Studying ASNAC gave me the ability to take information coming from several different strands: literature, archaeology, written history and language, and integrate it into a total picture. Isn’t that integration what scientists do? It’s the same thing. The primary sources or evidence are different but the questioning and the thinking and the intellectual rigour are the same.You look at the intellectual rigour of philosophers for example; that’s no less than what you would find in any science subject. A broad-based education This was certainly my experience at Shell where Benefits of I was able to use my time at Churchill to help exposure to the build a successful career at the company. If sciences people are going to become leaders in their environment then having broad based education is really important – if you come out of Cambridge with an Arts and Humanities degree, having had the kind of exposure to the sciences that a College like Churchill can give, you will immediately make you more sensitive to the environment you are working in. Students studying Arts and Humanities subjects at the College may well be in the minority at 30% but the College itself has one of the largest student communities of any College so they are likely to have more fellow arts students with them than in many of the smaller Colleges.

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I truly hope that my story will inspire other arts students to come to the College rather than ruling it out as an option because of the large scientific community. Arts people coming to Churchill shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel the sense of being in a minority because Churchill is a large college so there are a lot of them and they have a chance to interact with a much wider group of people, people whose subjects they need to have some understanding of for their future.

Rob Douglas

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Hindsight is a Wonderful Thing From Law to Business to Finance Lesley Knox (U72) describes very vividly here how her Law degree led her from law to business and then to finance. Lesley’s career is a great example of how the skills developed in one field can be successfully transferred to others. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. My career from studying law at Churchill to my current role as Chairman and non-executive director of a number of companies looks quite planned, but in fact was the result of that first choice. I had a place at medical school (my father was a doctor) and at the last moment realised it was a huge mistake. Law – a broad Having studied science and not wanting to take enough subject more exams, law seemed a broad enough subject for someone trying to figure out what she wanted to do. I took a wide range of options from International law to Criminology to Philosophy of Law as well as the usual subjects like contract and tort and really enjoyed the course. I can still recall trying to apply Roman Law principles to parking metres. My lawyer years When I graduated I qualified as a commercial My real interest lawyer with Slaughter and May in London. I had was business enjoyed international law while at Churchill so rather than when I spotted the option of going to Amsterdam the law University for a term to study it I applied. I got a scholarship (which was more based on economic hardship than intellect) and that persuaded my firm to let me go. While at Amsterdam I discovered that it was possible to go to the USA and work for an American firm. I got a job with Shearman & Sterling in New York and while there passed the multistate bar exams so could have practiced in the USA. However, in those days, American lawyers

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were involved in business transactions much earlier than UK lawyers and as I learnt more about the various corporate clients and their strategies for their companies I realised that my real interest was business rather than the law. My business and financial years Rather than take yet another course (an MBA) my brother suggested I apply to an investment bank where I would get a good general exposure to business. My US experience persuaded Kleinwort Benson to overlook my lack of an MBA and I spent 18 years doing mergers and acquisitions, privatising companies and giving general financial advice before getting the chance to run the institutional asset management business, which also included a venture capital and a property business. We had to rebuild the record in the UK so while we did that we negotiated a series of joints ventures in Japan, Korea, India, Canada and Poland. Dresdner Bank then acquired Kleinwort Benson but although they offered me a job in Frankfurt I felt it was time for a change and helped put together a management buyout of British Linen, the corporate finance business of the Bank of Scotland. By now I had been a non-executive of a number My training as a of companies and when I was offered the role of lawyer taught me chairman of one I decided that would provide a two key skills better work life balance given I was now a mum. Since then I have been a director of many companies in a range of sectors including computer software, brewing, retailing, oil and gas and financial services. My training as a lawyer at Churchill taught me two key skills â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the willingness to continue to ask questions until I understood the issue and a refusal to be overawed by jargon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; both of which have been invaluable.

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Some of the Most Intellectually Productive Years of my Career Amanda Vickery is now Professor of Early Modern History at the School of History at Queen Mary, University of London. Here she recounts how winning a Junior Research Fellowship at Churchill College in 1989 was a turning point in her career. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t love history. I seemed to spend my entire childhood making peg dolls of the 6 wives of Henry VIII, or sitting on my father’s knee watching repeats of the epic TV series The World at War. Growing up in a northern agricultural village set on foggy marshes I was desperate for the bright lights, so I did my degree and PhD in London. In 1989 I won a three-year Junior Research A turning point in Fellowship at Churchill College, which was the my career turning point of my career. Living, working and teaching in a luxurious modern college felt deliciously privileged after rented flats in far-flung London postcodes an hour from the British library. My new Apple Mackintosh and gallons of red hot bath water on demand felt miraculously generous, though my pleading for a mini-oven and a double bed was regarded as very decadent. It had not occurred to me that the double mattress would have to be carried across the entire college, clapped in by my cheering students. More fool me. My three years at Churchill were some of the most intellectually productive of my career. Pre-internet, I ploughed through every and article book I could find in the UL for a survey article about the shape of women’s history for the Cambridge based Historical Journal (‘Golden Age to Separate Spheres: A Review of the Categories and Chronology of English Women’s History’, Historical Journal, 36, 2 (1993), pp. 383–414) and completed the research that would become my book The Gentleman’s Daughter:Women’s Lives in Georgian England (1998).

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In between, I heard a lot of choral music, searched out every Georgian object in the Fitzwilliam Museum, explored Cambridgeshire on my bike, bought cheap bunches of local flowers from the market, argued in the UL tearoom and scoured junk shops on Mill Road for old china and 50s sundresses. History for me has been an endless fascination, History â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a bridge a rigorous training, both an art and a social to a wider public science, a love affair, a consolation, and a bridge to a wider public. Few careers encompass delving in archives, writing, publishing, engaging with students, meeting scholars with shared interests from all over the world, and showing off on the radio and television. I doubt my mother envisaged this when she dutifully made over my Barbie doll as Elizabeth the First, but the Virgin Queen still presides on my bookcase.

Amanda Vickery

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Studying English at Churchill Transformed my Life Anne Morrison (U78) is today the Deputy-Chair of BAFTA. In this piece Anne tells us how the skills developed at Churchill College have served her well throughout her career. Studying English at Churchill was transformational in my life. Arriving from a state school in Belfast and scarcely having been away from home before, it was both exciting and daunting. I made the experience more daunting still by deciding Both exciting to direct a Gods production of Twelfth Night in and daunting my second term. I learnt the hard way about project management from that production, especially when my Feste dropped out at the last minute.You know who you are! In all the subsequent television programmes I made, no despair was greater or success sweeter than that early experience. It taught me valuable lessons in diplomacy, leadership and resilience. I was lucky to be brilliantly taught by my supervisors in a coaching style, which meant we jointly explored texts.Throughout my career at the BBC and BAFTA, I’ve used those skills of critical analysis, judgement and the organisation of ideas into a narrative. Also useful was learning how to sound knowledgeable about a subject for which I was underprepared! I enjoyed studying an arts subject in a mainly I enjoyed studying science college. I had friends across the subject an arts subject in range and we arty types felt exotic. Like strange a science college birds of paradise, we trotted up and down the Madingley Road in our high heels and fake fur coats – it was the time of the new romantics, after all.

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Some aspects of my later career link directly to Churchill. I wrote my dissertation about Virginia Woolf and I am now a Trustee of Charleston, the Bloomsbury house in Sussex. Other connections are more oblique, but I think of it now as the place I grew up most, formed lifelong friendships and had my mind opened to endless possibilities. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m grateful to Churchill College for making my whole life more interesting.

Anne Morrison

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Architecture Was Always My Goal An Architectural Degree – a Base for Other Professions Simon Tucker (U86) tells us how – through a series of chance conversations – he arrived at Churchill College and never regretted it. He thrived within its inspiring and welcoming community. He came back as the lead architect on the graduate houses (known as the ‘Pepper Pots’) built in 2000–01 next to the Wolfson Flats. He is back again today at Churchill, having been commissioned to design our new Postgraduate accommodation assisted by Priscilla Fernandes, another Churchill alumna. I never really chose to study at Churchill A series of chance College. I had turned down an offer from conversations Emmanuel after an unpleasant interview that only served to reinforce my preconceptions of Cambridge and had only arrived at Churchill through a series of chance conversations. I was therefore not aware that Churchill was predominantly a Science and Technology College or that I might be in a minority as an Arts student. I remember only finding an inspiring and welcoming community. I soon discovered that as a student at Cambridge you moved between the two parallel worlds of College and Department. For architects, the department was not only a place of lectures and supervisions, it was where you spent most of your time, drawing, modelling, talking and socialising. Architects are socially incestuous, quickly developing their own meta-language and shared obsessions. For many the Department on Scroope Terrace was their base of operations and their colleges provided merely a place to sleep.That is, if they weren’t working through the night. My Churchill Years Churchill for me was an important counterweight to the intensity of Scroope Terrace. I had quickly made several close friends who were studying a range of

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different subjects and were from different Part of a group backgrounds. I therefore never felt that I was with diverse part of a marginalised minority of Arts students, interests only part of a group with diverse interests that provided a valuable counterpoint to the focused interests of the architects. The architecture of the College itself has also had a significant effect on my own work and continues to do so. It was an influential backdrop to my first years of study, and a place in which I have been fortunate enough to make my own contribution. One of my first student projects was to analyse, represent and re-interpret our own rooms and their setting.Through this project, I began to appreciate the buildingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; generosity, materiality and interconnection with the landscape. These aspects we have tried to incorporate in our designs for the College. This may not have been immediately apparent to everyone else arriving at the College, particularly when compared to the other Cambridge colleges. It was interesting, however, how at a recent 30-year reunion, friends commented on the beauty of the setting. This may in part be due to a maturing of both landscape and student, but is also a tribute to the architecture of Churchill. Developing key skills for life For many architects our work is a passion before a profession, and increasingly, a career in architecture is only for the truly committed. However, an architectural degree can and often does provide a base for a variety of careers.

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It develops skills in creativity, problem solving and communication. It straddles a number of diverse subject areas, and whilst arguably it affords expertise in none, it can provide a medium for debate and connection between them. Much of our work concerns the resolution of differing technical, economic, social and artistic requirements. There is much discussion in architecture concerning the relationship of practice and teaching. Whilst I feel that there is a necessary and positive difference between these two worlds, an architecture degree prepares you for a working

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life, developing an ability to work both independently and collaboratively as a group. For me architecture was always my goal. Many of my peers, and students I have taught, have thrived in the architecture department and then followed different career paths, ranging from Media and Arts, to Egyptology and CGI for Hollywood blockbusters.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Eleanor Roosevelt

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The Blenheim of the Welfare State Competing for Churchill Professor Mark Goldie, a Historian and a Churchill Fellow, recounts the story of the competition that took place in the fifties to build Churchill College. The architect Richard Sheppard deemed ‘too modern for the conservatives; too tame for the radicals’ won the competition. The College’s buildings are familiar. ‘Typical Sixties architecture’ would be a common response. It is hard to recapture the shock of the new.We forget that, in the early 1960s, the College was the first major Modernist piece of architecture in collegiate Cambridge. It was arresting, radical, unfamiliar, a dramatic new turn in built form. The age of Modernism Until 1960 collegiate Cambridge was architecturally conservative, mostly dull pieces of neo-Georgian.True enough, Churchill wasn’t quite the first. At Queens’ the Erasmus Building went up in 1958, on the river, a sensitive site. Here was a flat roof, and visible concrete, the whole thing raised on piloti.The architect was Sir Basil Spence, who did more than anyone to make Modernism widely accepted, because of his triumph with Coventry Cathedral. It was Spence who chaired the competition to The most design Churchill in 1959. The architectural important single historian Elain Harwood has called it ‘perhaps the post-war most important single architectural competition architectural in England of the post-war period’. It mattered competition in because there was about to be a dramatic England expansion of higher education; because universities had hitherto been timid; and because the cream of Modernist architectural firms, who were refashioning Britain’s cities in the wake of Hitler’s bombs and slum clearance, wanted an entrée into the university sector.

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The Howell, Killick and Partridge Scheme for Churchill College, generally regarded as the Competition runner-up The remarkable thing is that all 20 of the firms invited to compete were Modernists. The impresario was Sir Leslie Martin, the university’s first professor of architecture, a great mover of the levers of architectural patronage. He ran rings around the College Trustees. Sir Winston wanted something classical, no doubt with his birthplace Blenheim Palace in mind. It was said he wanted to hear the sound of chisel on stone; the reply was that he was more likely to hear the ‘gloop gloop’ of a concrete mixer. An immense variety of schemes The competitors offered an immense variety of schemes, some scattering pavilions across the park, some proposing tight-knit urban concentrations, some with high rise tower blocks. What was not built at Churchill is as important as what was. Architects hate to waste a scheme, and unsuccessful projects were reworked. Most of the competitors went on to build the new universities of the Sixties and for many Oxbridge colleges, so that unbuilt Churchill crops up elsewhere. The four shortlisted designs were likewise diverse. Chamberlin, Powell and Bon had the bright idea of uniting Churchill, New Hall, and Fitzwilliam by a large piazza. They had a soaring tall carillon tower.Their buildings are reminiscent of the London Barbican, which they were simultaneously designing. Stirling and Gowan’s scheme

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has been regularly illustrated ever since, because of the cult of James Stirling. A megalomaniac project, it proposed a single vast courtyard raised on earthworks, sheltering towers within.The runners up were Howell, Killick, and Partridge.There exists a perspective drawing that is seductive, marrying jet-age tomorrow with Cambridge yesterday. Spiky roofs and concrete window pods, but also a boating lake for punts and a student sitting on a sward under a tree.The image was used for the dust jacket of Guy Ortelano’s book on the ‘two cultures’ controversy. Too modern and yet too tame It was Richard Sheppard who won. Too Dressing traditional modern for the conservatives; too tame Cambridge collegiality for the radicals. It dressed traditional in new clothes Cambridge collegiality in new clothes. Courtyards and staircases remained the guiding principles. He married domesticity with soaring monumentality in the great dining hall. He included the classic ‘Brutalism’ of that era – bold, bare, expressive concrete; and surely no other college has its foundation ‘stone’ cast in concrete. But he combined it with a terrific feel for traditional materials, brick and wood, and he made the college sit well in its landscape.The most perceptive early essay on the buildings called it ‘the Blenheim of the Welfare State’.

Mark Goldie

You can read more in Corbusier Comes to Cambridge: Post-War Architecture and the Competition to Build Churchill College (2012), available from the Porters’ Lodge. There’s a discussion of the buildings and a fabulous two-page photography of our dining hall in Elain Harwood’s fine book, Space, Hope, and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975 (Yale University Press, 2015).

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Changing with the Times The Evolution of Churchill College Layout and Fabric Professor Marcial Echenique is an architect and a Churchill Fellow. He has witnessed many changes in college over the years. Here he explains how Churchill College evolved over the years – expanding and adapting its buildings to respond to new needs and priorities whilst at the same time safeguarding its uniqueness. As with every institution, Churchill College has evolved during the last 50 years. The initial design of 1960 by Sheppard Robson, as illustrated by Mark Goldie, was based on a programme for accommodating mainly undergraduates. Because of changing demand for education it has expanded its graduates’ and further education accommodation.

Evolution of Churchill Layout – first (red arrow) and second axis (yellow axis): 1 Cowan Court (undergraduate), 2 Wolfson Flats (graduate), 3 Moller Centre (Continuous education), 4 Study Centre, 5 “Pepper pots” (graduate) and 6 Villas (graduate) The initial layout consisted of a series of undergraduates’ residential courts around an axis (red arrow in the figure). The axis contained common functions (administration, dining hall, library, lecture theatre and later on the Archive Centre – expanded by Thurlow, Carnell & Curtis in 2000 – was added). The new Cowan Court (1) designed in 2015 by 6A, as illustrated by Minna Sunikka-Blank, is the final piece of the original programme. It now allows all undergraduates to be accommodated in the College.

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Cowan Court Cowan Court follows the same original design The new court principle for undergraduates’ accommodation – is completely building around a court – but with two important enclosed by differences: Firstly, instead of grouping students’ the building rooms around staircases, the new court has corridors in each of the three floors permitting access to all rooms via a lift for disabled people. Secondly, instead of the ground floor pillars – ‘pilotis’ in Le Corbusier’s vocabulary – by which the internal space of the court flows out through gaps in the building at ground floor level (now some of the gaps have been infilled with rooms), the new court is completely enclosed by the building, which is the traditional form of a court building. The Wolfson Flats The evolution of the original College layout started in 1967 with the development of the Wolfson Flats (2) at the top of the private road to accommodate married graduate students. It is very close to the original Sheppard Flats for visiting fellows which was the first completed building of the College and, arguably, its most architectural significant building. The Wolfson Flats, designed by David Roberts, is in a U shape around a relatively large south-facing open court containing a green space for children to play. The building was built very economically and has been upgraded in 2008 by 5th Studio. The Møller Centre Close to the Wolfson Flats, the new Møller Centre (3) designed in 1991 by the Danish architect – Henning Larsen – was built to accommodate further education activities, such as conferences, seminars and short courses.The Centre was further expanded in 2014 by the Danish firm 3XN. The original cricket pavilion, next to the Moller Centre, was enlarged in 1992 to accommodate lecture and seminar rooms by David Thurlow. Later in 2006 a substantial expansion by DSDHA transformed it into a Study Centre (4) which also incorporated a recital music space and ancillary accommodation. The Pepper Pots Around the Wolfson Flats a new set of graduate buildings (5) – the “pepper pots” – designed in 2001 by Cotrell and Vermeulen has reinforced the area of

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graduate accommodation. It will be further strengthened by the projected new buildings by the same architects in 36 Storey’s Way, forming a kind of village with varying sizes of buildings at the top of the private road. All these new buildings and the villas (6) in Storey’s Way, one of them upgraded by Project 5, accommodate graduate students and have transformed the original layout by creating a new axis (yellow arrow in the figure) where most of the graduate activities takes place. The College should consider improving the paving of the private road (not tarmac) and landscaping it (eliminating the difference between sidewalk and road space?) now that it is an important part of the College and not a back service entrance. Changes over the years During the years a number of changes have taken place affecting the internal and external appearance of the College. The changes have, by enlarge, been respectful to the scale and concept of the original 1960s design, but have reflected the period in which they were done.This strategy is common in older colleges within which the new buildings have been designed in consonance with the original buildings but reflecting the style of each period. This philosophy should be celebrated and maintained for future developments in the College. The most significant alterations to the original building have been the infilling of some of the ground floor voids which have provided additional accommodation at little cost (e.g. administration rooms in the entrance corridor, new rooms with en-suite showers in the residential courts made accessible to disabled people, etc.) as well as providing protection from the wind swept original colonnades. Another example is the buttery by-pass by A successful which fellows now avoid negotiating their path Fellows’ Gallery through inebriated students playing games. This last change also improved the area of the Buttery by providing a more sedate space for relaxing at the same level as the bar area.The creation of the Fellows’ Gallery has been successful in changing a dark small corridor into a good space for exhibitions. This was achieved by moving outwards the ladies’ toilet and inserting a skylight. Many other changes have taken place for adapting the spaces to new demands ranging from kitchen and lavatories upgrading to roofs and staircases improvements.

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Consistency of approach The consistency of the approach for expanding and adapting Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s buildings to new demands and priorities such as environmental concerns has been the product of dedicated Estate Committee members who have maintained the architectural qualities of Churchill. The policy of having a college architect responsible for routine small works has guaranteed continuity of approach when designing new buildings or large extensions.The process has been to pick the best design by running a competition amongst up-and-coming architectural practices.

Marcial Echenique

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A Worthy Addition to the College’s Architectural Legacy Cowan Court Architectural Competition Dr Minna Sunnika-Blank, Director of Studies in Architecture and a Churchill Fellow, here relates the competition that took place for the construction of Cowan Court – the latest addition to Churchill College – that was officially opened on 23 September 2016 by HRH the Duke of Gloucester. Cowan Court was listed as one of the ‘top 5 best architectures of 2016’ in The Guardian, has received the Cambridge Design and Construction Award for best new building 2016 of the Cambridge Association of Architects and finally has also won a Royal Institute for British Architecture (RIBA) East of England Award 2017. The College organised a two-stage architectural competition for our new undergraduate accommodation in 2008. Sheppard Robson, MVRDV, Cottrell and Vermeulen, van Heyningen and Haward, DSDHA and 6a were among the practices invited for the competition. Unlike other proposals that suggested linear buildings or even a sunken, circular underground structure, the concept of 6a was based on a courtyard typology as the existing College. A natural fit for the site From the beginning, 6a’s proposal felt like a In dialogue with natural fit for the site.Their proposal had a strong the existing sense of materiality: it used timber in an original College buildings and contextual way but completely in dialogue with the existing Grade II listed College buildings with their exposed brutalist concrete structure.We felt that the architecture reflected existing proportions of the College buildings, horizontal lines and richly detailed facades of the courts. Several design iterations Cowan Court was funded with generous donations from benefactors and alumni, and the project went through several design iterations during eight years that it took to take the building from fund-raising to completion.This process involved a special College Committee that consisted of Fellow, staff and student representatives.This value engineering process was partly due to rationalising the large number of different room typologies, some of them with mezzanines (very

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unpopular with housekeeping), the unconventional construction in timber both structurally and detailing the reclaimed oak faĂ§ade, and finally employing bay windows rather than balconies that were part of the original competition proposal. The height of the building was carefully studied due to our neighbours and planning constraints in the conservation area.This included building a mock-up on site. It is to 6aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s credit that the original spirit and identity of the proposal was kept much intact during this process, and Cowan Court as it is delivered, feels very much the building we chose in the beginning. A sense of community As a Tutor I learnt that if there is one feature that Churchill students tend to dislike in the existing College buildings, it is the lack of social space in courts and closed staircases. Cowan Court improves the existing typology and introduces a glazed gallery space surrounding its inner courtyard, and its lovely birch forest.The rooms are accessed through this gallery that is beautifully proportioned, light, naturally ventilated and which exposes the structural glulam beams. The gallery fosters a sense of community right at the heart of the building. Cowan Court is a highly sustainable building its energy performance approaching the

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Passivhaus standards. The walls have 350mm of insulation and the windows are triple glazed. It has oversized windows that maximise the natural light and natural ventilation both in student rooms and the gallery. Living in Cowan Court But how do the users like the building then? According to Karen Young, a 2nd year architecture student: ‘living in Cowan Court has been a lovely experience, with spacious, well-illuminated and well-insulated rooms, the college’s signature bay window seats, the bright and happy palette of warm wooden tones, green and white, and the subtly curved facade that intrigues me every time I enter the building’. A worthy addition Cowan Court has been enthusiastically Cowan Court’s received among architects. It has already admirable boldness featured in the most important architectural journals like Domus, El Croquis and AJ, who specifically congratulated the College for its ‘admirable boldness’ in commissioning the project. Cowan Court was listed as one of the ‘top 5 best architecture of 2016’ in The Guardian, received the Cambridge Design and Construction Award for best new building and has won the RIBA East Award 2017. We can be proud of it and it is a worthy addition to the College’s outstanding architectural legacy.

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A Model of Commitment Alison Finch’s Retirement Party On 25 September 2016, the College marked the retirement of Professor Alison Finch with a party, attended by alumni from the last four decades, a group of close colleagues, and her son, daughter and son-in-law. It was an occasion of great warmth, and an opportunity for all present to express their gratitude and admiration. Here Professor Andrew Webber, a long-time colleague and friend of Alison, recounts Alison’s stellar career in Modern Languages (French) and her unflagging support and commitment to college, its students, fellows and staff. Alison was first appointed to the College in A leading figure in 1972, as one of the first two women fellows. Modern and And she has been a central presence since, Medieval Languages apart from those years when, after the appointment of her much-loved husband, Malcolm Bowie, to the Marshal Foch chair in French, Oxford was allowed to share her for a while. During her spell at Oxford, Alison was made Professor and served as Head of the Sub-Faculty of French. When Malcolm was elected Master of Christ’s in 2002, Alison happily returned to Cambridge and to Churchill, confirming the College as her home. She was given the richly deserved distinction by the University of an Honorary Professorship in French and has been a leading figure in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages ever since. Setting high standards Alison is a model of commitment in Held in great everything she does. This goes not least for esteem and her teaching, and the many messages that affection by came in from those who could not be there students for her retirement party attested to that. They spoke with great warmth of Alison’s contribution to their lives as teacher, advisor and role model. This is not to say that she is an entirely soft touch. I remember sitting in admissions interviews, in fear that she might turn some of those fiendish French grammar questions on me. But if she sets high standards, it is always with a very human sense of flexibility and engagement, and a desire to help individuals to achieve their best. This is why she has been held in such

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affection and esteem by generations of students, who have nimbly cleared the grammar question hurdles and benefited by her wisdom and encouragement over the course of their degrees. An unflagging source of support and wisdom What students past and present have said of Fund for Modern Alison, I can echo as a colleague. From the Languages moment she helped to appoint me some twenty-six years ago, she has been an unflagging source of support and wisdom, a great interlocutor, spirited and witty, and with a deep commitment to justice, both in the narrower academic world and the wider social and political one. This is the spirit in which the new Alison Finch and Andrew Webber Fund for Modern Languages has been set up, giving opportunity to Churchill linguists who would otherwise not be able to learn their languages in the countries in which they are spoken. It is a cause that is all the more important as we face up to the challenges of a post-Brexit Britain. Alumni and Fellows have given generously to the Fund, in honour of Alison’s retirement, and the first students have already benefited from its support. Alison’s scholarship I would also like to say a few words about Alison’s scholarship. She made her name with important work on Proust, moving on to nineteenth-century French writing,

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in particular women’s writing, and in her most A distinguished recent book, extending her view to the scholarly career cultural history of French literature at large. She is recognised as a senior figure in the field of nineteenth-century French, both nationally and internationally. To mark her outstanding contribution to the advancement of understanding of French culture, she was awarded the French Government’s award of the Palmes Académiques, at ‘Officier’ level. Her distinguished scholarly record has been celebrated by the recent publication of a Festschrift, nicely enough co-edited by an alumnus – Ian James – now Reader in the Cambridge French Department. The book, with its theme of Lucidity, celebrates one of Alison’s characteristic virtues as a scholar and a person – the clear light she casts. A huge contribution to College life Alison has also been very active in broader terms, not least with her leading role at national level in the Modern Humanities Research Association. And coming back closer to home, she has made a huge contribution to the general life of the College, giving service on many committees and working parties, and as an excellent Vice-Master. All this she has done with little material reward, but with the respect and affection of all who know how tirelessly she has worked, in her combination of good judgement and whole-hearted devotion. She has, in short, been an exemplary citizen of the College, and we wish her all happiness in retirement.

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The DNA of a Champion Sir Clive Woodward on Leadership In October of last year Sir Clive Woodward, the 2002 Rugby World Cup winning coach, gave an insightful talk about leadership and explained how he inspired a mid-ranking England squad into becoming world champions.Tim Hill, Marketing Manager at the Møller Centre, reports. Rugby World Cup winning coach Sir Clive Woodward, patron of the Møller Centre’s flagship young leaders’ programme, Churchill Leadership Fellows, delivered a series of outstanding leadership insights to a sell-out audience of 230 business leaders at Churchill College’s Wolfson Hall in October 2016. The characteristics of a champion Sir Clive shared practical leadership insights Building high into the characteristics of champions in both performance teams business and sport, and how these champions can be coached to build high performing teams. Sir Clive’s presentation focused on ability, teachability, pressure and will: the four criteria he believes characterise a champion in both business and sport, and how champions can be coached to build high-performing teams. Technology, he explained, played a massive role in his and his team’s success. ‘During my business career I learned the saying “whoever wins at IT tends to

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win”,’ he said. ‘When I became England coach one of the first things I did was to give all the players laptops. It got a lot of headlines at the time because these were big tough guys, and only about 5% of them knew how to use a computer. Most of them couldn’t even spell “laptop”.’ Willing to learn Sir Clive noted the reaction and response from his players to the introduction of laptops and this enabled him to identify the players who were willing to learn from those who were not. As Sir Clive put it, this separated the ‘sponges’ from the ‘rocks’. The Pro-Zone software installed on the computers was designed to help players analyse their own performance. ‘We didn’t win the World Cup because of IT, but we used it to leverage the potential of players like Jason Leonard, Martin Johnson and Lawrence Dallaglio,’ he explained. ‘Everyone always says that team had great leadership, but these guys only became great leaders because of the knowledge and understanding they had of their own performance.’ Thinking clearly under pressure – TCUP was Four core strands the acronym of the day – an ability which Sir of a champion Clive sees as one of the four core strands of a champion, along with talent, the ability to learn, and a sound work ethic. An engaging speaker, Sir Clive presented with a clarity, passion and purpose that made it easy to see how he inspired a mid-ranking England side to become world champions. Leaders of the future Equally passionate and purposeful were three graduates of the Churchill Leadership Fellows programme (Cornelius Saunders; Hazel Thornton and Richard Wolstenhulme) who gave the audience an insight into their experiences of how the programme had developed them personally and professionally. Gillian Secrett, CEO, of the Møller Centre said at the event, ‘We first developed our young leaders’ programme as part of an international celebration of the life and legacy of Sir Winston Churchill, designing it to address issues that were close to Churchill’s heart – future generations and leadership. The programme

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equips, models and sustains wise leadership among new generations by developing skills, character and the ability to respond well to change. I hope this event will inspire organisations to sponsor this significant programme and consider exploring opportunities with us to develop the young leaders in their own organisations. Sir Cliveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s practical leadership insights were incredibly powerful.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; For more information see www.mollercentre.co.uk/executive-education

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Keep the Damned Women Out The Stuggle for Coeducation In November of last year Professor Nancy Weiss Malkiel was invited to Churchill College to launch her new book on the struggle for coeducation. Professor Mark Goldie gives us a flavour of her talk which amongst other things puts the momentous decision at Churchill to go coed within the wider context of the times. Professor Goldie reminds us that the then Master was against such a decision and that Sir John Colville remarked to Sir Winston Churchill that accepting women at Churchill would be ‘like dropping a hydrogen bomb in the middle of King’s Parade’. Below Professor Alison Finch, the second woman to become a Fellow of the College, gives us a brief résumé of the book’s reviews. Churchill College is proud of being the first men’s college in Cambridge to decide to admit women. So it is salutary to remember that it was the last Cambridge College to be founded for men only. What was unexceptionable in 1960 had become unthinkable by 1970. A wave of reforms swept through higher education, and coeducation was one element in a multilayered revolution. On the larger canvas, Churchill’s decision in 1969 was unremarkable. In just five years, 1969–74, dozens of colleges on both sides of the Atlantic ‘went mixed’, including Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Vassar, and three Cambridge and five Oxford colleges. The momentous decision at Churchill is set in the wider context in an impressive new book by Nancy Weiss Malkiel, ‘Keep the Damned Women Out’: The Struggle for Coeducation (Princeton University Press). In November 2016 Professor Malkiel spoke at Churchill to launch her book. Diversifying student cohorts She argues that, on both sides of the Atlantic, the move to coeducation was largely inspired, not by high principle, but a desire for positional advantage. Colleges were worried, as ever, about their competitive edge for the best students.Young people

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increasingly did not want to be at single-sex Coeducation – institutions. In Britain, whereas Cambridge inspired by a desire had just 10 per cent women among its for positional undergraduates in 1965, the new universities advantage reached ratios of around 40 per cent. Admitting women was part of a wider move toward diversifying student cohorts. In the USA that typically involved religion and race (Jews, Catholics, African Americans), in Britain it meant school background (grammar instead of public schools). There was little high-minded talk about justice and equality, and, in so far as general principles were expressed, it tended to be the language of national efficiency: avoiding wastage by exploiting a larger pool of young talent.The primacy of the competitive edge expressed itself nowhere better than in Princeton’s chaotic scramble to admit women in 1969 so as not to be upstaged by Yale. Much smoother change in Oxbridge According to Malkiel, the switch to ‘coed’ was Horrendous more difficult in the US than in Oxbridge. misogyny from The alumni were far more powerful and male students controlled purse strings, and the male dining clubs were more intransigent (it took the New Jersey Supreme Court to force the Princeton clubs to open up). Her book is depressingly rich in examples of visceral hostility. A Dartmouth alum expressed the sentiment which she uses for the title of her book.Women students experienced condescension from staff and horrendous misogyny from male students, especially in initiation rituals. She argues that the change in Oxbridge was much smoother (though I think she’s too roseate about the lack of sexism there). True enough, Oxbridge had been educating women for a century, and, similarly, Harvard and Radcliffe had been interacting for decades, whereas at Yale and Princeton the change was more abrupt. One thing certainly made things easier at Churchill: nobody could say that the College’s 600 year heritage was being betrayed. (At Clare, the Master wittily and accurately retorted that in 1870 it had been said that allowing Fellows to marry betrayed a 500 year heritage and would ‘distract’ men from scholarship.) Drivers of change The relative impacts of college heads, faculty, and students varied as drivers of change. In Oxbridge, college heads sometimes set the pace, especially Sir Eric

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Ashby at Clare College. At Churchill, the Dick Tizard leading decision was forced by the Fellows against the way the opposition of the Master, Sir William Hawthorne, with the Senior Tutor Dick Tizard leading the way. When Alison Finch became the second female Fellow in 1972 Sir William told her, ‘Well, Miss Finch, I voted against the admission of women’. In the early coed years,Yale and Princeton maintained caps on female numbers, declaring that the production of ‘leaders’ (which meant men) must not be diminished. There was a cap at Churchill too, with the parallel case that the College had been founded to produce ‘leaders’ for industry and technology. But the quota, like single-sex staircases, and female tutors for female students, soon lapsed. It is good to see a key aspect of Churchill College’s short career now becoming the stuff of history books. Malkiel’s Ch. 21 takes for its title a remark by Sir John Colville to Sir Winston Churchill when Winston dared to suggest that maybe his new College could have women. That would be ‘like dropping a hydrogen bomb in the middle of King’s Parade’.

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Postscript: Reviews of Nancy Malkiel’s ‘Keep the Damned Women Out’: The Struggle for Coeducation Prof Malkiel’s book has been favourably reviewed on both sides of the Atlantic. Here in the UK the Times Higher Education, describing Malkiel’s study as ‘fascinating’, writes: ‘Malkiel’s book must be one of the most thorough accounts ever written of the determination of highly educated and powerful men to keep women away from the places that endorse exclusive forms of power. It is a superb, richly documented study and one that provides vivid insights into the ways in which the privileged seek to retain their power… the misogyny is rife, endlessly present and frequently ridiculous… Complex and tortuous debates, and the

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ingenious concealment of the determination to hang onto every last vestige of privilege, were everywhere… The importance of tradition, and traditional social and intellectual engagements with learning, were endlessly invoked, as were arguments for the sexual seclusion necessary for “higher learning” that would not have been out of place in the monasteries of twelfth-century Europe…’ But, as the reviewer points out, it is also clear from Malkiel’s book that the ‘tortuous progress towards coeducation’ was ‘often helped as much as hindered’ by men, and that we are not simply looking at battles between men and women. In the US, the Washington Post headlined its review ‘How Harvard, Princeton and Yale discovered women’. The reviewer writes that the experiences of the new female undergraduates ‘make up some of the most compelling aspects of “Keep the Damned Women Out” … New female students endured sexism, resentment and outright hostility, and especially in the initial years, they were treated like curiosities. At Yale, women recalled the sensation of being constantly watched, of always being asked for the “women’s point of view”, even in math classes.’ But things have changed: the reviewer remarks on the fact that while in past generations some of the most prominent American women in politics, business and the Arts were graduates of women’s colleges – such as Meryl Streep of Vassar and Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Allbright of Wellesley – many trailblazing women of the next generation hail from those newly integrated prestigious Ivy League universities. And the review concludes: ‘This hefty book offers a compelling study of institutional change that came about because it was demanded, and not because the motives of its agents were pure. More simply, it was about damned time.’

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The Nuclear Churchill Churchill and Nuclear Weapons: From the A-Bomb to the H-Bomb Allen Packwood, the Director of the Archives Centre and a Churchill Fellow, gives us a taster of a discussion between Dr Graham Farmelo and Professor Kevin Ruane – who both wrote about Churchill and nuclear weapons. The discussion took place in the Wolfson Lecture Theatre at Churchill College on 15 November 2016 and was chaired by Dr Helen Anne Curry, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science and a Fellow of Churchill College. ‘Let’s call it a draw’ Kevin Ruane told the audience how a few years ago he believed he had stumbled across the greatest story never told. He could not believe his luck. He signed the contract with his publisher and started work.Then, and only then, he discovered that Graham Farmelo had just published on the very same subject. Kevin’s book was Churchill and the Bomb (Bloomsbury, 2016); Graham’s was Churchill’s Bomb (Faber & Faber, 2013). Fortunately, Kevin kept going, because these Complementary two books, while overlapping, take different views of the subject and complementary views of the subject. Graham’s includes much on Churchill’s early writings about nuclear science and the role of the scientists who made the bomb a reality, while Kevin concentrates on the geo-political aspects and the reasons for the changes in Churchill’s views in the Cold War period. As Graham said, ‘Let’s call it a draw’. This event was a unique opportunity to hear them compare notes. And where better than at Churchill College: an institution founded for Sir Winston Churchill and which holds his papers, but which specialises in the sciences, and whose first Master, Sir John Cockcroft, was one of this country’s atomic scientists and a key player in this story. Helen Curry’s overview of the historical background Churchill Fellow Dr Helen Anne Curry, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science, had the hard task of chairing such a huge subject, and began with a masterfully succinct overview of the historical background. In a few slides and less than ten minutes she took the audience from the Frisch and Peierls memorandum of March 1940, announcing that a bomb could be made, through to the testing of the first American hydrogen bomb in 1954. COLLEGE EVENTS

Graham Farmelo’s arguments Graham’s introductory remarks concluded The political with the Enoch Powell quotation that all Churchill should political careers end in failure, and his have listened to the observation that Churchill was no exception: literary Churchill he failed to see the importance of nuclear weapons until it was too late, and, when he finally did, he lacked the political clout to implement his good intentions by achieving an international agreement. The political Churchill could have acted more wisely and authoritatively if only he had listened to the literary Churchill and read the articles he had written as a younger man about the dangers of atomic weapons. Ultimately, he was more successful as a writer and a sage than as a nuclear politician. Kevin Ruane’s arguments Kevin highlighted the role of the older Churchill as a pioneer of the concept of mutually assured destruction: pointing out that in his final big speech on the hydrogen bomb he anticipated the time when if everyone can kill everyone else, then maybe no one would want to kill anyone at all. He also felt that Churchill’s motivation in wanting to keep the bomb a closely guarded secret, was initially as much about developing the special relationship with the Americans as it was about opposing the Russians.

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This is a taster. The discussion and the questions then covered a whole lot more, and can be viewed in full online via the College website at www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/events/churchill-and-nuclear-weapons-bomb-hbomb/. It was gratifying to hear both speakers talk about the importance of the Churchill archives to their work, with Kevin describing the new online version by Bloomsbury as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;one of the most important and valuable innovations of this digital ageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

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Far From a Gloomy Conference! What is War Today? On 22–23 November of last year the Churchill Archives Centre held a symposium that brought together speakers from academia, the military services, politics and diplomacy on the topic, ‘What is war today?’ It was attended by a wide spectrum of participants. Here is a report by Dr Adrian Crisp, Chairman of the Archives Committee, on the main themes that were debated at the symposium. ‘To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.’ The New York Times of 27 June 1954 credited this to Winston Churchill in a speech at the White House but others attribute it to Harold Macmillan.There was certainly plenty of “jaw-jaw” about ‘war-war’ at this symposium, bringing together speakers from academia, the military services, politics and diplomacy.The audience of about 150 covered a spectrum from students at Long Road College, Cambridge through a strong contingent of postgraduate students from Aberystwyth University to the wide ‘town and gown’ community of Cambridge and further afield. The idea was developed by Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, and Michael Lewis, alumnus and benefactor of Churchill College. Michael most generously supported the project. A key theme was that the best antidote to war is the widest and deepest possible understanding of war – especially as the devastating wars of the first half of the twentieth century become ever more remote from our political leaders. Day 1 of the Symposium Setting the scene Prof Sir Hew Strachan (St Andrew’s War rarely achieves University but with deep roots in the desirable Cambridge, Glasgow and Oxford) set the political result scene with General Sir Nick Houghton (Chief of the Defence Staff 2013–2016). Professor Strachan suggested that the prime purpose of war is to achieve a peace which is an improvement on the pre-war situation. Following Clausewitz, war may be considered a continuation of politics by other means, but war rarely achieves the desirable political result in spite of apparent victory. Poland’s fate after 1945 is an obvious example.War is an act of physical destruction but wars since 1945 have been limited or

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constrained by the combatants. None has resorted to nuclear intervention. Although destructive and expensive, wars can lead to profitable acquisitions – the Napoleonic French Empire and the British Empire made net gains. War is fought by combatants who have rights defined by international law. Noncombatants also have rights though they have become legitimate targets when whole populations are mobilised in ‘total war’. Nick Houghton unsettled the audience by Religious stating that human nature is essentially extremism – a real Hobbesian: competition and the working threat to peace out of grievances are more human traits than peaceful co-existence. Russia and China hold grudges about their world positions. The economic contrast between the West and Africa is a root cause of instability. Religious extremism – which may have arisen from economic grievance rather than from perverted doctrinal purity – is a real threat to peace. Many would argue that the encroachment of NATO and the EU on the very borders of Russia, under the unimpeachable flag of democracy, threatens Russia and provokes rational defensive reactions which offend Western sensibilities. Clearly current Russian strategy with its emphasis on submarine and cyber warfare is designed to disrupt Western alliances which are creaking in the face of recent political changes. ‘How do we learn from the past?’ Hew Strachan chaired the panel considering this question. Gill Bennett (past Chief Historian of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) emphasised the value of direct experience of war to politicians. Failing direct experience, politicians need history.The past does not teach how to manage the present because each new politico-military challenge is unique but deep historical reflection allows politicians and military leaders to ‘look on the other side of the hill’ and read the minds of opponents. Far from being a defence of war itself, a political focus on post-war peace building during and after war can be uplifting after devastation and promote reconciliation. The Marshall Plan of post-1945 European reconstruction and the peaceful application of nuclear technology are examples. Prof Andrew Preston (University of Cambridge) offered insights into the ‘American way of waging war’. He argued that Vietnam was transformational. Before Vietnam, war involved large numbers of personnel deploying powerful

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armaments on military and civil targets. Napalm, which had been acceptable in the Second World War and Korea, became intolerable in Vietnam and helped to create a strong anti-war movement. Since Vietnam, the American technique employs sophisticated technology in the hands of shrinking numbers of personnel. General Sir Roger Wheeler (past Chief Recent conflicts of the General Staff) gave examples of how have ignored the we have ignored the lesson of the past in lessons of the past recent conflicts. A highly integrated and effective organisation of army, police and politicians achieved a convincing victory over the communist insurgency in Malaya in the 1950s. This was not replicated in Northern Ireland until the final stage of the conflict and its complete absence in Iraq led to disaster. As an aside, General Wheeler emphasised that civilian principles of human rights cannot be applied to the military which must be allowed to follow a different but equally demanding code. Who would seek to apply the European Working Time Directive to the military? As a doctor, the present author would argue with equal fervour for the exemption of civilian medical staff from these superficially attractive constraints. Rear Admiral Chris Parry (many senior naval strategic roles in the past) identified four threats in 2006, equally valid in 2016: uncontrolled migration from poorer to richer countries; Russia; China; and the proliferation of unemployed Islamists whose only non-transferable skill is violence. He echoed Gill Bennet’s opinion that historians must explain what happened in the past to politicians and encourage them to ‘horizon scan’ and to think as deeply and laterally as possible before making crucial decisions. The tediously repeated failures of British, Russian, American and again British politicians (a century and a half after their first escapade) in Afghanistan bear witness to a vacuum of historical insight. ‘Why are we fighting today?’ Professor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Hull University) chaired the panel tasked with this debate. Prof Nigel Biggar (Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford) stated that the principles of international and just war allow war in self-defence but do not unequivocally approve of humanitarian war to protect vulnerable people. The United Kingdom, as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, carries shared military responsibility for UN actions but the primary responsibility of the UK is the

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defence of its own people and national Unforeseen interest. Recent demands for retrospective consequences review of past wars, for example the Chilcot Report on Iraq, show an insatiable but inappropriate ‘lust for certainty’. The motivation for war has been blurred by the concept of ‘liberal interventionism’. Most consider the Second World War to have been a just war of self-defence but can the 60 to 80 million deaths and Stalin’s subjugation of Eastern Europe support this conclusion? If Syria were located as near to the UK as France, expending British lives and treasure to defeat so called Islamic State would be an easy decision. It is more difficult to justify a heavy price meeting remote threats. Seeking war for humanitarian motives may bring unforeseen consequences and the proliferation of war as in Syria. Sir John Holmes (past ambassador and UN Under-Secretary-General) reminded us that recent conflicts involving the UK have not been for national survival. The Falklands, Kosovo, the First Gulf War and Sierra Leone have been limited, relatively ‘clean’ and successful military projects. The Second Gulf War, Afghanistan, Libya and Syrian intervention are controversial.There can be no ‘war on terror’. Terror is a method, not an enemy. Sir John stated that decisions on intervention in Libya and Afghanistan were made hastily without deep reflection. The military challenges for sophisticated Western coalitions have generally been well managed but the post war political challenges have been handled ineptly with inappropriate and naive obsessions with democratic elections. Sir Malcolm Rifkind (past Foreign The changing Secretary) illustrated how the nature of war nature of war has changed. Borders, fertile causes of past conflicts, are now well defined. War is no longer nation state versus nation state. One exception – the disputed region of Kashmir – is a threat to peace but the nuclear capability of India and Pakistan has preserved it in recent decades. Tony Blair was a keen advocate of liberal interventionism, the use of power to achieve ethical objectives, but he failed to understand how we are unable to control the political vacuum following military conflict. The West always wants to disappear as soon as the military phase is over. Sir Malcolm contrasted the past, when Britain fought for the Indian subcontinent with the intention of staying in perpetuity. Vladimir Putin threatens Ukraine because he knows that the West will not fight for this remote

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entity but it is too early in the current fluid world dynamic for Putin to judge whether he can assimilate the Baltic States without Western intervention. ‘The strategic and operational reality of war today’ Hew Strachan chaired this session and the audience enjoyed the ‘combined operations’ – or ‘multi domain operations’ in the current jargon – of very senior army, naval and air officers in dealing with this challenge. Admiral Sir Trevor Soar (past Commander-in-Chief Fleet of the Royal Navy and NATO Maritime Commander) contrasted the old Cold War strategy with a dominant antisubmarine bias with the more recent evolution of a more flexible amphibious role in support of regional commitments such as in Sierra Leone. The new large aircraft carriers are evidence of this although the Royal Navy also remains the guardian of our nuclear Polaris capability. Lieutenant General Philip Jones (many Innovation wins senior strategic roles in the army and wars past Chief of Staff of NATO’s Supreme Allied Command for Change Leadership) emphasised the crucial advantages of technical innovation in remaining one step ahead of enemies. Innovation wins wars: the tank and the atom bomb trumpet this. Air Marshall Greg Bagwell (past Deputy Commander and Head of Operations in the Royal Air Force) regretted the dislocation between late political decisions and the military method which thrives on planning and certainties. Military operations are now tri-service, multi-domain operations. He advocates more military personnel in senior government roles, developing well informed policies with politicians rather than the current ‘master-servant’ relationship (the author’s interpretation). Once again the present author sees a clear parallel with the relationship of politicians to medicine. Solid, thoughtful professional cooperation with government is required to counterbalance the anarchy created by superficial political inputs. Day 2 of the Symposium ‘How do we prepare for the future?’ The second day of the symposium was devoted to ‘How do we prepare for the future?’ with a strong emphasis on the prevention of war. Professor David Howarth (University of Cambridge) chaired the session focusing on ‘How do

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we end conflicts?’ Dr Justine Huxley (Director of St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace) favoured building a culture of peace. She hoped that journalists in all media would employ their skills to heal rather than inflame conflicts. The media exerting power without responsibility are a perennial concern. Too little is done to address the root causes of conflicts: perceived economic and environmental injustices and aggressive and simplistic binary choices, which reinforce conflict.

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Alice Musabende (PhD student of Politics, University of Cambridge), with a background in Rwanda, regretted the lack of humility of the powerful political players who have failed to build the peace after conflicts.The Western obsession with elections is often misplaced and divisive. Professor Paul Rogers (Bradford University) argued that we are now about halfway through a new Thirty Years’ War between the established geopolitical world and angry, marginalised insurgents. The current neo-liberal model delivers economic growth but not economic justice.We live in a world of ‘frustrated expectations’ in a dystopia rather than a utopia. The internet portrays the sweet shop that the West offers and the marginalised resent their exclusion from it. Professor Brendan Simms (University of Cambridge) argued that greater Europe remains the pivotal region of the world and central to stability. Russia threatens the UK more than Islamism.

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‘How do we prepare for a new kind of war?’ The final panel of the symposium focused on Cyber power will ‘How do we prepare for a new kind of war?’ dominate the and was chaired by Professor Malcolm future Chalmers (Deputy Director General of the Royal United Services Institute). Prof Ross Anderson (Professor of Security Engineering, Cambridge University and Fellow of Churchill College) reminded us that war is endemic in human society. Successful states control it but failed states allow it to flourish. Cyber warfare is implicit in all modern conflicts and a huge threat to socio-political systems. Energy circuits are especially vulnerable and the ‘weaponisation of misinformation’ is now only just beginning to be appreciated. Lord Ashdown (former leader of the Liberal Democratic Party) disagreed with Brendan Simms that Europe is the focus of world politics – it is a ‘multipolar’ world. He described an historical hierarchy of power: land-based powers were trumped by overwhelming naval power in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Air power dominated in the second half of the twentieth century. Cyber power will dominate the future.The three UK military services run independent cyber units but we urgently need the recently established National Cyber Security Centre to develop a unified, integrated military component. Apparently recruitment will be a challenge through a paucity of appropriate recruits but the development must be a supreme state priority. Prof Christine Chinkin (international and human rights lawyer at the LSE) regretted that the current body of international law is inevitably retrospective and holds no position on cyber warfare. Prof Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Hull University) reinforced the opinion that the West had ignored the disaffected, who have generated a disruptive power of their own with aggressive religious fundamentalism. This was far from a gloomy conference.The sheer weight of historical evidence determines that warfare cannot be dissociated or excised from the human condition. However some wars can be averted and perhaps all can be limited by world vigilance. There was consensus that the energetic development of an expanding body of international law driven by a wider and more inclusive UN Security Council could achieve better informed and enforceable decisions.The development of a first rate cyber security capability could help to neutralise

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future threats to peace. Finally, all individuals and nations of goodwill hope that the calm, reflective and more nuanced media can dowse the flames of their more inflammatory counterparts.

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Learning from Success and Failure What It Really Takes to be a Successful Entrepreneur On 30 January 2017 the College hosted a challenging and topical debate about enterprise and entrepreneurship to a wide-ranging audience of students, alumni and friends from Churchill and the wider Cambridge community. It was introduced by Prof Dame Athene Donald, Master of Churchill College and chaired by Simon Jones (U85). The panel of speakers comprised entrepreneurs with a Churchillian connection; keynote speaker Steve Ives (U77) and panellists Julie Kilcoyne (U&G 90), Paul Higgins (U02), David Holden White (G14) and Brian Moyo. Here Annabel Busher from the Development Office gives us a good summary of the Churchill enterprise seminar and panel discussion. ‘To win big in infotech or biotech, you need to build the best core team then run very quickly with that team. As a Cambridge student and especially as a Churchill student you are in a great place to meet these best people and bounce ideas around.’ Steve Ives (U77) Prof Dame Athene Donald made a welcome address that communicated the clear rationale for holding such an event at Churchill College with its statutory bias towards science and technology – and also gave her approval to one of the key themes of the debate: the fundamental importance of how to learn from failure as well as success, noting Churchill’s own views on the subject: ‘… no boy or girl should ever be disheartened by lack of success in their youth but should diligently and faithfully continue to persevere and make up for lost time.’ – Speech, University of Miami, 26 February 1946 Spotting megatrends The keynote speaker for the debate, Steve Thinking like an Ives, Founder and President of Taptu Ltd, entrepreneur used his many years of experience to tease out insights on how to think like an entrepreneur, distilling his key learnings as follows; spot a ‘megatrend’ early and position yourself to ride it by assembling a top team of the right people with tech / engineering expertise who can build a product to address a customer need in the middle of that trend and just as crucially, identify and negotiate a graceful exit

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at the right time. Noting that some ‘megatrends’ were predictable but others were far less so and would take everyone by surprise he pointed to Koomey’s law – that for any given computing load the amount of battery power you need to drive those computing operations will fall by a factor of two every year and a half – as being a driver of progress that would hold some really exciting business opportunities for the next 15 years, most notably around the internet of things. He also highlighted a different but perhaps Solving one of even more exciting ‘megatrend’ that was society’s biggest opening up, based on the rapid reduction in problems the cost of sequencing the human genome. There were tantalising signs in this data that mutations in critical genes in the nuclear and the mitochondrial DNA caused diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. New diagnostics and drugs developed from these insights could potentially solve one of society’s biggest problems – the cost of managing agerelated diseases. Testing compatibility Steve’s central piece of advice around the importance of recruiting the right senior people was also touched on by panel member and fintech* entrepreneur of Crowd Valley, Paul Higgins, who described his company’s novel approach to avoiding costly and time-consuming recruitment mistakes by testing compatibility. They don’t hold interviews – if you are interested in joining the company you just work with them for five months and then take it from there.

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The importance of a great team Julie Kilcoyne, Founder and joint CEO of Edtech firm Boardworks advised looking for something that you really understood â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for Julie, who started her career as a teacher, electing to build a start-up that produced digital tech for schools was a natural fit. She also counselled the importance of building a fantastic team around you; as important was to understand the roles of each team member. David Holden-White, winner of last The right idea, yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Churchill Enterprise competition and people, money, and co-founder of Biotechspert was the newest organisation entrepreneurial voice on the panel and echoed the need to identify the right idea, the right people, the right money, and the right organisation. He also advised considering whether or not the potential final revenue would be enough to justify the costs, adding that when it came to the right organisation it was important to make use of the free tech available on the market to organise your accounts and software. Finally, Brian Moyo, a qualified psychiatric nurse with a successful start-up in healthcare recruitment, MSM Healthcare also demonstrated the importance of focusing on something you knew about as a great starting point for a start-up and made a final plea to all those in the audience who might have an idea to get on with it and give it a go! The debate was followed by the opportunity to continue the conversation as well as meet with representatives from a range of local Enterprise related groups including Cambridge Enterprise, CUTEC, The Judge Business School Entrepreneurship Centre and Cambridge Network Ltd, over networking drinks. A broad range of College-related enterprise activities is now being planned to build on the success of the event, with the aim of facilitating wider participation amongst the Churchill student population whilst maintaining the chance for alumni to build relationships with potential start-ups. For more information please visit the enterprise page on the College website: www.chu.cam.ac.uk/enterprise

Annabel Busher *Fintech: computer programs and other technology used to support or enable banking and financial services.

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A Fantastic Concert in the Heart of London Churchill College Choir at St Martin-in-the-Fields On 25 February 2017, Churchill’s combined choirs gave their most professional and high-profile performance to date. Director of Music-Making, Dr Mark Gotham, reflects on a grand day out! We could all do with a pick-me-up when it comes to late February and sixth week of the Lent term.This year, a 30-strong choir of Churchillian students, staff, fellows, and alumni got just such a boost with a fantastic concert in the heart of London. Music is a great way to bring those groups of people together, and it was gratifying to have such a range of choir members, from first-year undergraduates to an alumnus from the very earliest days of the college. Brushing aside essay crises and rail replacement services, this intrepid band headed for a Trafalgar square, and to the artists entrance of one of London’s most iconic venues for musical performance. St Martin-in- the Fields is a worldfamous musical venue, providing a musical foil to the illustrious visual arts institutions on the Square. There they met with a professional baroque orchestra and soloists to rehearse Vivaldi’s joyous Gloria for the evening’s performance. This afternoon rehearsal was in a backstage rehearsal space. Such is the pressure on time in the venue that many

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events are rehearsed ‘behind the scenes’ in this way and only venture out into the church for the concert itself. The choir rose admirably to the occasion, and put on a very fine performance to a full and enthusiastic audience (featuring a few more college members!). There were numerous curtain calls and we received many congratulatory remarks, including from the concert promoter.The proof of his sincerity came with an open invitation to return … so here’s to the next time! Sopranos Anna Bennett Fiona Beresford Harriet Cantrell Moira Cox Alison Finch Maggie Frainier Manal Patel Rosie Smith Miriam Wendling Altos Sophie Ip Rachel Leedham Megan McGregor Kim Ward Emma Willmont Tenors Sam Ainsworth Elizabeth DeMarrais

Martin French Simon Lichtinger Mark Miller Siddharth Swaroop James Veale Patrick Welche Basses Giles Agnew Owen Crawford Edward Lilley Justin Malčić Jonathan Mash Ethan McGrath Jonathan Morell John Mullen Sean Telford Max Veit Verner Vlacic Andrew Webber

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Risk-Seeking and Optimistic Peter Whittle at 90 On 27 February 2017, the College celebrated Peter Whittle’s 90th birthday. Here Richard Weber pays tribute to Peter Whittle’s distinguished career by giving us a taste of one of Peter’s research problems and below, Shaler Stidham adds a personal note thanking Peter for the kindness and generosity he has always showed towards visitors from around the world. The economist Paul Samuelson wrote: ‘A scientific problem gains aesthetic interest if you can explain it to your neighbour at a dinner party.’ Peter’s research output contains many aesthetically pleasing problems. Most of you have not read any of Peter’s papers. I thought I would try to give to you a taste of one problem, which I have found entertaining, and whose subject matter resonates with this evening’s celebration of a long life path. I would like to tell you about an example in Peter’s paper entitled ‘Risksensitivity, large deviations and stochastic control’ (European Journal of Operational Research, 1994). Aesthetically pleasing problems In this paper, Peter takes a fresh look at a classical problem in economics known as ‘The optimisation of consumption over a lifetime’. It concerns an optimiser who wishes to maximise his total utility accrued over a time interval (0,T).The optimiser is receiving an income from his capital, and is to choose, at each time up to T, the amount of his income that he should either consume, or reinvest. Consumption brings immediate reward. Reinvestment leads to greater income, to be consumed at future times, and a greater inheritance to bequeath at time T.The problem is modelled by a simple controlled differential equation, and the intuitive solution is that it is optimal for consumption to increase with time: when young one should invest, and when older spend. However, some practical considerations are missing from this model: (1) the endpoint T is uncertain, (2) investment returns are uncertain, and (3) given

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uncertainty, how might optimal control depend upon a person’s optimism or pessimism regarding uncertainty? Peter calls this ‘risk-sensitive optimal control’. A ‘risk-seeking optimiser’ prefers uncertain returns to ones of the same mean, but which are certain. A risk-seeking optimiser has the character of a gambler whose actions look ‘optimistic’, since he behaves as if uncertainties will turn out to his advantage. A beautiful analysis In a beautiful analysis, employing ideas from mathematics of large deviations and the maximum principle, which are now applied to a controlled stochastic differential equation, Peter analyses a model with uncertainties and a risksensitivity optimiser, and concludes that when optimism increases consumption should decrease at each time point. Can you think why? The intuitive answer is that a more optimistic person expects to live longer, and so must husband his resources more carefully. But this is not the complete answer.The problem also holds a counter-intuitive surprise – which requires insight to interpret. It turns out that the optimal control actually depends on the size of the initial capital. If the initial capital is small then conclusions reverse: when optimism increases consumption should decrease. Why? As Peter explains, it is because, with only small initial capital, a person must live at such a low level of consumption that life is not very attractive. His optimism now translates to a hope that his residual life will turn out to be shorter than its expectation would suggest, for then it is rational for him to consume his capital at a rate that would be profligate for a less optimistic person. In summary, we have two quite different optimal paths, depending on the size of the initial: either conservative or profligate. I hope I have illustrated Paul Samuelson’s aphorism as regarding science of aesthetic interest which can be explained at a dinner party, and given you a taste of Peter’s skill in using mathematics to illuminate deep practical questions. The mathematics for this example is explained in 1.5 pages of an 8-page paper – beautifully compact. Peter’s papers and books are ones that for over 40 years have given me much pleasure. For me, his writing style is perfectly balanced in the number of words, mathematical symbols and definitions which he uses to convey ideas.

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Peter has been riding his bicycle through Cambridge, even throughout his 80s. I conclude that he is a risk-seeking and optimistic. Thus, the first of the two solutions, that is, the conservative one, has been best. I thank him for being my teacher, and sincerely wish him long-continuing good fortune on an optimistic life path.

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A personal tribute As Director of the Statistical Laboratory, Peter welcomed many long- and short-term visitors from around the world. In fact, accommodating and entertaining them was no small part of his duties as Director. Speaking on their behalf I would like to thank him for his professional and personal generosity. Although he and I did not collaborate in a strict sense (he once said that the two of us were digging parallel tunnels through the same mountain), Peter supported my research financially and with many insightful suggestions. His endorsement led to my Overseas Fellowship at Churchill in 1982â&#x20AC;&#x201C;83, which began my and my familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happy association with Cambridge and with this unique College. Thank you, Peter, for helping me and so many others, for being a mentor, an exemplar of scholarship, and a kind and true friend. Shaler Stidham

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En Hommage à Sir Winston Churchill Modern French Paintings and Sculptures from the Maisonneuve Bequest During February and March of this year, Barry Phipps, the Curator of Works of Art at Churchill College and a Churchill Fellow, mounted an impressive and delightful exhibition on the Maisonneuve Art Collection. Here he explains who Maisonneuve was and why he left his art collection to Churchill College. Pierre Aimé Alexandre Maisonneuve was born in Paris on 18 July 1898. In 1921 he travelled to London where he ran a textile business in Newman Street W1, which had a showroom on Rathbone Street W1. He remained in England until his death on the 28th March 1965. Maisonneuve also ran an art gallery in London for a time, Galerie Pierre Montal at 14 South Molton Street W1. Every three months the gallery brought works of art by French painters and sculptors to exhibit in London in order to promote their work. ‘The Rivers of France’ was the first exhibition from the 29th January to 22nd February 1958, followed by others such as ‘Paintings of Provence’ 10 April 3 May 1958. Throughout his life Maisonneuve was an avid An avid art art collector who promoted and encouraged collector the work of young French painters and sculptors. He amassed a collection of works by artists: drawings by André Derain, prints by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as watercolours by Maurice Blond and sculptures by Antoine Bourdelle, many of whom had exhibited at the gallery in London. He was a great admirer of Winston Churchill and this admiration was the reason for his decision to leave his art collection to Churchill College where, according to his wife Marcelle, he believed, ‘it would bring pleasure to those interested in this period of history and as a Hommage [sic] to Sir Winston Churchill’. The reasons underlying the bequest go back to the 1940s when Maisonneuve was acting as General de Gaulle’s ‘commercial advisor’,

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supporting the Free French after the fall of France in 1940. The part Maisonneuve played in the War, and the extent to which he was involved in cross-Channel actions, remains unclear. Yet, his admiration for Churchill may well have been as a result of wartime activity. Shortly after the collection arrived at Churchill College in 1987, an exhibition was mounted to celebrate the bequest. It was the first time that the collection had been displayed in one place; which comprised a large collection of books on Napoleonic history, as well as paintings and sculptures. Since then, the artworks have been dispersed around individual rooms in the College. Thirty years later, Maisonneuveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art collection was brought together for an exhibition during February and March this year so that it could once again be viewed and enjoyed in its entirety.

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Fifty and Counting . . . Visit of the French Ambassador to Churchill College On 20 April 2017, the College was honoured to welcome Her Excellency Sylvie Bermann, the French Ambassador, who after meeting a few College members was taken on a tour of the Archives Centre by Andrew Riley, Senior Archivist. The visit was a way of recognising the importance of the French Government Fellowship Scheme (now in its 42nd year). We understand that the Ambassador was glad for the opportunity to explore the remarkable Collection gathered in the Archives and very much appreciated her visit. The French Government have very A practical example generously sponsored a visiting fellow at of the ‘Entente Churchill College since 1974. The academic Cordiale’ year covered by this Review (2016/17) saw the arrival in College of three new sponsored French Government Fellows and brought the total number of visiting scholars supported by this very practical example of the ‘entente cordiale’ to fifty. To help recognise the continued success of the fellowship programme, the College hosted a visit by Her Excellency Sylvie Bermann, the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom, on 20 April 2017. The Ambassador, accompanied by representatives from her Embassy’s science and technology team – and in particular M. Jean Arlat, the French Embassy Science Counsellor – met senior College Officers including the Master, Bursar and Senior Tutor before visiting the Archives Centre to look at some of the key documents highlighting Anglo-French relations across the twentieth century. The display for the group focused on a core of materials used in the Centre’s recent exhibition on Churchill and de Gaulle at the Musée de l’Armée in Paris. Key items included a note by Churchill in 1942 that de Gaulle did not have ‘a monopoly on the future of France’ and also a letter from Churchill, sent in 1961, saying that he was touched by de Gaulle’s recent letter to him and that

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their war-time comradeship and continuing friendship was very dear to him. The group also viewed the magnificent Lurçat tapestry in the College’s Bracken Library which was donated personally to the College by President de Gaulle in 1961.

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The Master in Conversation . . . A Kind of Talking Cure ‘Give me inspiration!’ – The Paradigm Shift In this piece Tim Cribb, former Director of Studies in English and a Churchill Fellow, gives us a social interpretation of ‘paradigm shift’ to suggest that the lives of the remarkable women the Master was in conversation with help not only to ‘shift’ the old paradigm but ‘develop and strengthen’ the liberal one. Readers of this Review will very likely know that, until she was appointed as Master of Churchill, Athene Donald was the University’s Champion for Women. On taking up her new role she has not laid down the weapons of the old. On the contrary, she has taken the fight onto our very own Wolfson stage. During the last two years, that has been the scene for a series of six public conversations with leading women academics – conversations mainly intended to inspire the young going forward, but also providing critical perspectives for those already in career – or even perhaps sombre retrospective reflection for those in recovery afterwards. If numbers are a measure, then the conversations have been a big success, from the excellent turn-out for the first event to a peak of well over two hundred for the session with Alice Roberts. The Paradigm Shift ‘Paradigm shift’ is of course a phrase borrowed from Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, but, although most of the guests were indeed scientists, the discussions were not about science as such; that is, they were not about whether there’s a female way of doing science. Had they gone down that path they would inevitably have become entangled in the philosophic controversies over the nature of fact and truth in Kuhn’s own account of science.Those issues were, thankfully, side-stepped, for there is of course no question of objective ‘truth’ about the variety of ways by which people arrange themselves into societies, which entail values, not facts.These conversations were about careers, about remarkable achievements, and because they were between women they included frankly recounted personal experiences of sexist prejudice.The paradigm at issue was therefore the social one within which women have to work. In this

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context it is not Kuhn’s specific matrix of assumptions supporting an explicit disciplinary practice, but an ensemble of social habits, customs, behaviour, feelings and general attitudes, many of which may be unconscious. The prejudice is the paradigm and, by exposing the unthinking social assumptions that make it up, the hope is to shift it. The conversations were thus a kind of talking cure. Carol Robinson Unconscious attitudes run deep. One such broke surface in the opening conversation, which was with one of the College’s own alumna, Carol Robinson, the first woman to hold the Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge and then at Oxford. In the course of the conversation she expressed her impatience with the well-meaning advice that women need to be be more assertive, since that only reproduces masculinist behaviour, yet confessed to having taken and benefited from just such a course in assertiveness training. Athene matched this with the information that she had been told that she would make herself more effective if she took a course to have her voice lowered. One could not but be reminded of the words uttered by that tyrannical old patriarch, King Lear, over the body of his own daughter: ‘Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman’. That value judgement was uttered four hundred years ago. What runs deep dies hard. Jackie Ashley Far worse exposures were to come.The President of Lucy Cavendish, Jackie Ashley, related that when speaking in the House of Commons she had to put up with jeering men opposite shouting ‘Melons!’ while pretending to juggle imaginary breasts at her. I say ‘had to put up with’ because Parliamentary privilege, here shamefully abused, meant there could be no appeal to a court of law, for Parliament itself – those men – is the source of law. And lest we take comfort in the thought that such primitive sexism couldn’t happen in a place of higher education, Jackie Ashley reported the following question asked in committee by a fellow Cambridge Head of House:‘Why would you want to get more women into tech.? You wouldn’t, if you were a white person, race a black man, because they are good at running. So, similarly, why, if you were a woman, would you try to match a man at science?’

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Uta Frith Such attitudes are engrained in our minds and bodies and institutions and run deeper even than national cultures. Uta Frith’s many honours as Professor of Cognitive Development at UCL include Honorary Dame of the British Empire but she grew up in Germany when secondary education distinguished between schools for boys, which offered the prestige subjects of Latin and Greek, and schools for girls, which trained in useful but low-status subjects, such as modern languages like English. Lucky to have parents who supported her insistence on going to the boys’ school, where she acquired her interest in experimental psychology, at university she discovered that the text books were in English, so had to take a rapid immersion course in London! That secondary school experience echoed that of Carol Robinson in Britain, whose brothers were expected to go to the local grammar school, but failed the 11+, whereas she was expected to go to the secondary modern school, so was not even entered for the entrance exam. There there was no teaching in Chemistry at the secondary modern. All her qualifications to gain admission to Cambridge were acquired at night classes after leaving school and while working for Pfizer. Sally Davies Some of Uta Frith’s research is into Dyslexia. This is a condition of which the Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Dame Sally Davies, has personal experience. As a direct consequence of it she failed her 11+; the condition generally makes learning by rote and various kinds of ‘intelligence’ and multiple choice tests very difficult. If only Sally Davies were now guiding school curricula and regimes of assessment as Minister for Education! Kuhn argued that paradigm shifts occur when the anomalies arising in the practice of a science under a governing paradigm accumulate to the point where the adjustments needed to account for the anomalies become so complex that the paradigm enters a state of crisis, only at which point will a more effective alternative be entertained. Is that how social paradigms work? Does the fact that the College has been staging these conversations indicate a crisis of a Kuhnian kind? Well, if one takes freedom and equality of the individual as paradigmatic values of liberal societies, then sexist prejudices are clearly

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anomalies. But in that case, the effect of these conversations is to expose anomalies inherited from earlier social systems and thereby develop and strengthen rather than shift the liberal paradigm. Alice Roberts & Mary Beard The Head of House who spoke of research in terms of racing (as well as racism) clearly illustrated that lab culture is part of this capitalist paradigm. Here there are clear anomalies between the economic and the social values. Hence contradictions between a career in research and bearing children cropped up repeatedly in the conversations.When Alice Roberts was asked how it had been possible to combine motherhood with a remarkable double career, like Mary Beard’s, as both professor and TV presenter, she replied that it was only by firmly dictating her own pattern of hours for the working day in the contracts with the TV companies. She acknowledged that not everyone is in a position to do that and commented that progress is slow, measured by generations. Governments, responding to their electorates, can accelerate that progress. They can also reverse it. During this series of conversations, the Master appeared along with other prominent women, such as Meryl Streep, in ‘What it takes to lead’ (Guardian supplement of the year, 22 January 2017).The profiles were followed by an article in the form of an open letter from Armando Iannucci to Donald Trump. You couldn’t read it until you followed the rubric, which said: Rotate to read, in a world turned upside down. We can all help. If you need more inspiration, you can find the complete conversations on the College website.

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Another Successful and Busy Year JCR Report (2016–2017) Patrick Deady, JCR President, is a second year Law student and comes from Northamptonshire. Here he describes all the various activities that the JCR have been involved in during 2016–2017 and how successful and busy this last year has been. I am pleased to report that the Junior Common Room has had another successful and busy year. In addition to the usual events and projects, such as organising Freshers’ Week and the JCR Garden Party, committee members have undertaken exciting, new projects and important changes have been made to the composition of the JCR Committee. The year began by welcoming the new Freshers and introducing them to Churchill College. As usual, international Freshers arrived first for International Freshers’ Week which was expertly organised by Maria Copot (former International Welfare Officer). Activities included bowling, punting and a picture challenge. Freshers’ Week also comprised a variety of activities including pub quizzes, live music, nights out, sports taster sessions and the traditional Hill Colleges Garden Party. The Welfare Team’s hard work ensured all Freshers settled in very quickly. Having served on last year’s Committee as Changing the JCR treasurer, I was elected JCR president structure towards the end of Michaelmas Term, succeeding Mudit Gupta. Michaelmas saw the beginning of an important democratic process to change the JCR Committee’s structure. Following consultation and open meetings, the JCR approved the introduction of an Equality and Opportunities Committee and an Ents Subcommittee, each chaired by a JCR Committee officer.

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The new Equality and Opportunities Committee is responsible for improving the representation of minority groups in College. This year the committee has been chaired by Stella Swain who has worked hard to engage JCR members in important university and college campaigns. A highlight from Lent term was the JCR’s International Women’s Day event, organised by Auriane Terki-Mignot (former Women’s Officer) and the Archives Centre. The event included a talk by Natalie Adams, Senior Archivist, on the Centre’s recent research on women’s contribution to the College. The past year has seen several successful entertainment events organised by the JCR Committee. The traditional JCR Christmas Formal was elevated to a Superformal. Following a delicious Christmas meal, attendees enjoyed live music until midnight from four university bands, including Churchill Jazz Band. There was also karaoke and a silent disco in the Jock Colville Hall. Following the inception of the Ents Subcommittee in February 2017, Comrie Saville-Ferguson, Ents Executive Officer, and his team organised another Superformal in Lent term. Following the formal hall, activities included Churchill Casino and music from two Churchill student DJs, Comrie and David Swarbrick. I’m hopeful termly Superformals will become a JCR institution! The Ents Subcommittee also hopes to revive PAV and host comedy nights and film nights. This year’s JCR pantomime, entitled ‘How the Grinch stole Churchillmas’, was directed by Talay Cheema (former Domestic Officer). Nathan Hardisty, former JCR president, returned as writer and guest-starred as Donald Trump. Needless to say, the play’s humorous take on college life was well received and £235 was raised for charity. Looking ahead to Easter term, the Committee Supporting peers has organised several events in the lead up to in the lead up to exams, including mindfulness yoga, dog therapy exams and free food revision breaks. Preparations are also underway for this year’s JCR Garden Party. JCR members have been told to expect live music, a bouncy castle, free food and much more. Hopefully the weather won’t dampen proceedings. In summary, it has been another busy, productive and successful year for the JCR community. As ever, the Committee and I are very grateful for the support

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and guidance from College officials, particularly Shelley Surtees (Domestic Bursar), Richard Partington (Senior Tutor), Tamsin James (Bursar) and Jennifer Brook (former Bursar).

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Churchill MCR – A Great Community MCR Report (2016–2017) Sam Ainsworth, MCR President, is a 3rd year PhD student in Computer Science and he is from Derbyshire. Here he reports on all the various successful activities laid out by the MCR for their community during 2016–2017 and how the MCR want to improve further their offerings so that noone is left behind. We’re now two Too numerous thirds of the way events to list through what has been another fantastic year for Churchill MCR. As is tradition, we started with a Freshers’ Week featuring a variety of events proven to be consistent hits over the years: a college parenting wine and cheese evening (featuring 144 children and 34 parents, matched on the most detailed and insightful parameters, such as subject, society interests, and enjoyment of gossip mags and fake tan), the infamous hostel crawl, a board games night in the bar with Murray Edwards college, a day trip to Chartwell, and countless other events too numerous to list. Matriculation dinner was, as always, a magnificent event, and a very authentic introduction to Cambridge. The rest of the year has been filled by a similarly large variety of events. Our yearly photography competition, based on the theme of ‘Dynamic Duos’ was won by Karolis Misiunas.We had a great Halloween party in the MCR, featuring costumes and apple bobbing, and a festively tacky sweater party for Christmas. Burns’ Night was a great success, featuring a toast to the immortal memory of Robert Burns by Fabian Micallef, along with the usual haggis, neeps and tatties, and a well-received Ceilidh.We’ve had several cocktail evenings to raise money for charities, a concept introduced last year which remains popular. And proving that the true way to any student’s heart is through their stomach, we had a refreshers’ pizza night to introduce January’s new students to the rest of the MCR, where over £200 of pizza disappeared within eight minutes. Our termly Guest Night continues to go from strength to strength, with over 400

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members of the MCR and their guests at each one. Michaelmas featured the theme ‘Technicolor’, with Darwin College Band performing, and Lent was based on ‘Formal from the Waist Up’, featuring the Jazz singer Garance. Both also featured a variety of activities, including karaoke, Nerf gun wars, a silent disco, face painting, and Churchill Casino, along with cocktail bars and a great variety of drinks, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. We’ve also done plenty of work to support Supporting the the academic lives of students. ChuTalks, our academic life academic seminars based on our students’ of students research, have become so popular that they now typically run weekly within full term, and you can view these online on the Churchill website. We have also had another fantastic Conference on Everything, featuring a keynote by Physics Professor and Faraday Medal recipient Jenny Nelson, along with 14 talks by our students, and 20 posters. Part of what makes Churchill MCR such a great community is the set of tried and tested recipes for events, handed down over the years by previous committees. Though I may be biased as MCR President, I absolutely believe that we have the largest number, highest quality, and biggest variety of events for any MCR, and this is largely down to being able to reuse ideas from previous years. However, we’re always looking to do more. I’ve noticed that many of our events are based around the MCR bar, which, wonderful as it is, doesn’t cause such events to reach the entire community. So we’re trying to add in more events which aren’t centred around drinking. We’ve already introduced our first highly successful welfare tea and cake social, at the end of Lent term, which we plan to repeat soon. We’re also adding in events such as karaoke nights, which people can enjoy regardless of whether they like to drink or not. So, all in all, it’s been a great year for the MCR. But, looking ahead, I think it’s getting even better.

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A Prominent Role at Churchill The JCR Community Patrick Deady, JCR President, explains how the JCR is organised and what it does for the JCR community. He concludes by remarking how rewarding and satisfying an experience it has been for him. The JCR Committee has a prominent role at Churchill. Currently, the Committee comprises thirteen officers, each with specific remits. Overall, the Committee is responsible for academic, welfare and entertainment provision within the college community. As demonstrated by this year’s report, a lot of the Committee’s work involves organising and running events throughout the year. However, officers have many other responsibilities. The work of the Access & Academic Affairs, Green, Domestic and Equal Opportunities Officers involves predominantly leading projects and campaigns in College. Recent Green Officers, for example, have successfully implemented an organic waste disposal project for staircase kitchens. Access officers coordinate open days and promote events in College, including the CUSU Shadowing Scheme which enables sixth formers interested in attending Cambridge to shadow an undergraduate for two days. The JCR Committee also has a role to play JCR fully involved in in setting accommodation rents. Last year, the rent review Domestic Officer, alongside the President, Secretary and Treasurer, liaised with College officials to reform the rent system. The JCR had a significant role in creating the new system and consulted all members regarding its structure and the proposed rent fees. Indeed, each year the president consults JCR members on the rent for the year ahead. JCR officers also represent JCR members on several College committees; for example, the President and Secretary/Vice-President attend fortnightly College Council meetings. JCR representatives also sit on the Combined Common Rooms Finance Committee (CCFRC) which assesses funding applications from College clubs and societies.The JCR treasurer is the secretary and junior treasurer of the CCRFC meaning he or she is responsible for advising clubs and societies and processing applications. Inevitably, this involves a lot of ‘behind-the-scenes’ work.

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The work of the Equipment and Societies’ Officer ensures JCR equipment is maintained and available to JCR members. The JCR has a growing inventory of sports and entertainment equipment. Currently, the JCR Games Room is home to pool table and table tennis and the JCR has squash, tennis, basketball and football equipment too. To help fund projects and equipment, the JCR JCR sponsored has been sponsored for 2016–17 by EY, a by a professional professional services firm. On top of this services firm.. additional income, EY has hosted careers events in College for JCR members. Events included an introduction to the work of the firm and an interview practice workshop. Welfare provision is the responsibility of the four Welfare Officers.They organise events throughout the year but mainly in Easter term when JCR members have examinations. They also provide free sexual health supplies on request. I have served on the JCR Committee for nearly two years. The responsibilities are great in addition to academic work; however, it’s an extremely rewarding and satisfying experience. As always, the Committee is keen to hear from alumni and any ideas for supporting the Committee and its work. Please do get in touch by email – jcr-president@chu.cam.ac.uk.

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The Right Balance of Work and Play Supporting our MCR Community Sam Ainsworth, MCR President, reflects that in today’s interdisciplinary world developing strong interdisciplinary community relationships is a very valuable part of education. He also tells us what the MCR does to try and support its postgraduate community and help it reach the right balance between their working life and their social life. The MCR sits in an interesting place in terms of the lives of graduate students. Unlike in the JCR, the college has no direct involvement in the academic part of students’ lives, after all. Nevertheless, it still plays an invaluable role in supporting its students. We live in a world where an increasing amount of novel research opportunities are interdisciplinary. I ask, what better a system to support this than that of the middle common room? Universities that aren’t collegiate feature too many people for strong community relationships to develop, so people inevitably end up only meeting others within their subject. That stifles opportunities. We aim to foster these cross-disciplinary academic relationships using our ChuTalks series and the Conference on Everything: as a computer scientist, I can attend talks within college on topics as varied as the science of clean energy one week, to the politics of the German far-left the next. Similarly, we give our students an opportunity to present their research in a friendly, welcoming environment, with a very wide audience. Similarly, the MCR-SCR mentoring scheme within college allows the

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formation of academic contacts and advice outside the more rigid system of the PhD supervision. Having a strong MCR community doesn’t A melting pot of support students’ academic lives only in a diverse interests direct way, however. Stories of lonely PhD students at other universities, and social isolation for postdocs are so common as to be essentially a depressing cliché. However, the system we have for our postgraduate students ensures this does not have to be the case for them. The melting pot of diverse interests that an MCR brings about ensures that no matter your interests, you will meet a group of people with those same interests. Much as I enjoy the company of my colleagues within my laboratory, my life is much richer for the friendships I have formed, and diverse viewpoints I have observed, as part of Churchill College. I also suspect it is easier for people to be honest about the struggles of their courses with each other, familiar as they are to us all, when these can be discussed with people outside the academic context. We pride ourselves on our strong Freshers’ week events, with strong themes of interaction, to ensure as many people get to know each other within the MCR as possible, for this reason. We also note the importance of similar icebreaking events for students starting at different times of the year, to make sure they integrate and find friendships within the MCR, as it is so vital for the wellbeing of students. As the proverb goes, ‘All work and no play The most makes Jack a dull boy.’ This is doubly true for memorable time our students, I think: we have to work hard, spent at Uni and so we have to play hard as well.The MCR prides itself on fulfilling this part most of all. I’d like to think that, between our MCR formals, guest nights, games evenings, hostel crawl, social teas, karaoke events, quizzes, barbecues, cocktail parties and too many others to mention, that time with the MCR is the most memorable of all the time our students spend at the university. I’m a firm believer in the idea that productivity is maximised when people strike the right balance of working life and social life: I personally have seen this go wrong too many times, in both directions, to believe anything else. So it’s our job to keep the balance from going too far towards work, and the job of departments to keep it from going too far towards play. PhDs in particular can

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be so unstructured, all-consuming, and difficulty-prone, that we need our students to have other things to focus on for the inevitable cases where things don’t go as expected. No article about the work Churchill MCR Socialising in a safe does in supporting its students can be environment complete without mention of the Vicious Penguin, our student-run bar. Our bar relies on the work of its volunteers to provide our students with a place to socialise, and get inexpensive drinks in the comfort of their own college, without having to go out into town and spend over twice as much per drink. It’s so vital to have the bar, as a centrepiece of our community, and as a way for students to socialise without having to spend much of their limited stipends on nights out, and in a very safe environment. For nondrinkers, we pride ourselves on the increasingly high quality of our non-alcoholic cocktails, to make our community as inclusive as it can possibly be. Another important part of the college and the MCR is accommodation.Though not all of our students live onsite, a great many do, and according to the information we have received through surveys, this is incredibly important to them. Students onsite have the opportunities of fair rent, in a city that is becoming increasingly unaffordable, strong community links, and strong support within the college. As an MCR, we are delighted that the College is currently raising money for the building of more accommodation for Advanced Students, as it is widely agreed to be so incredibly vital. We’re lucky to have a strong and well-utilised welfare team within the MCR. For our students, there is always someone to talk to about any personal issues that they may have, and plenty of opportunities for them to make use of this.We also run an anonymous contact system so that people who don’t want to make themselves known can still get the support and resources they need. So, here’s to Churchill MCR. I think it’s invaluable. And I’m sure a very large percentage of almost 400 members agree.

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How Fortunate We Are! Boat Club Report (2016–2017) Jonathan Morrell, Captain of the Boat Club, is a third year (finalist) studying Music and is from Southend-on-Sea in Essex. Here he tells us that this year has seen the highest participation in the sport for some years with many novices to train. As I sit here on a Sunday evening thinking back over the past year, I realise how fortunate we are.We, the Committee, have been able to share our love for our sport with over 80 rowers and coxes (the highest participation for some years) ranging from 17 year-olds to those in their 60s. Of course, this many rowers means a heavy burden on our equipment and Michaelmas was somewhat of a logistical nightmare when we had only 2 boats for 6 men’s crews. Whilst a frustrating term for our seniors, it was very beneficial for our novices, with every crew ranking in the top 6 of their category at Fairbairns. Our entire club is very young, with an estimated 3:1 novice to senior ratio, which resulted in what proved to be a difficult Lent’s campaign. Some bad luck on both sides resulted in a disappointing result, but I’m astonished at the commitment that every person has shown to rectify this in the May’s. Especially on the Women’s side (the girls are vastly outperforming the boys!), there is huge potential for May Bumps. I hope we’ll have your support for them. Our wonderful new boathouse was finished last year, and this is the first year we have been able to make full use of it. In fact, it won a major architectural award from the Royal Institute of British Architects in recent weeks and we are all delighted with it. The club is, as always, desperate for donors and sponsors. Please get in touch with me at churchill.captain@cucbc.org if you think you can help.

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A Very Promising Squad Cricket Report (2016–2017) Mike Gough, Cricket Captain, is a second year Engineering student and is from Liverpool. In this piece he reports that he is very hopeful for the upcoming season. As I’m writing this article, the Cricket Club is yet to play a game this year. So unfortunately there are no dramatic victories or bits of individual brilliance to report on, but I’m confident we will see our fair share of those this season. As always, with a new academic year, we have had to deal with the loss of a few senior players. However, we have good reason to be optimistic for the season ahead. We have added a number of talented cricketers to the team and we look to have a very promising squad for the upcoming season. After having a number of indoor training sessions in the Lent term, I have seen the potential for an aggressive, fastscoring batting line-up, which was one of our weaknesses last year.We have also added to the fine bowling attack that we had last year and we now possess a top class bowling line-up, which I’m sure will cause teams no end of problems over the course of the season. This will surely be an exciting squad to watch this season. We start the season with a visit from Cottenham CC, a local side that plays the game in good spirit, as it was intended to be played. I have no doubt it will be a great game to relax and watch if you find yourself with a few hours to spare on Saturday 29th April. For Cuppers we have been drawn in a group against Hughes Hall,Wolfson and Girton but fixture dates are yet to be finalised. I’m hoping that with the squad we have this year we can go far into the competition. There will be an Old Boys’ game later in the term with date yet to be decided. The season will conclude with a game against A&A on 14th June.

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A Great Privilege in Making Music Happen at Churchill Music Sizar’s Report (2016–2017) Sam Buckton, Music Sizar and a third year Natural Sciences student, reflects on this past academic year when he played a part in making music happen at Churchill and recounts some of the highlights – especially the Churchill Chapel Choir and Chorus performing at London’s St Martin-in-the-Fields (see also p.113) – and new paths forged for the future. Pre-formal recital series ChuMS’ flagship event this year was a candlelit performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria by the Churchill Chapel Choir and Chorus on 25 February at the world-renowned venue of St Martin-in-the-Fields, accompanied by the professional Brandenburg Baroque Soloists, and conducted by Churchill’s Director of Music-Making, Dr Mark Gotham. This was the most high- profile performance Churchill College has ever been involved in, and was a great success: the choir has an open invitation to perform with the BBS again in the future, and there are already plans for the choir to perform the Brahms Requiem in Michaelmas 2017. A particular feature of this year’s pre-formal recital series has been the impressive number of professional concerts: among others, we were privileged to host Shoko Inoue (piano), the Karl Schwonik Jazz Ensemble, The Cantabrigians choir, The Ravilious String Quartet, David Earl (piano) and the Baroque duo of Douglas Hollick (harpsichord) with Férdia Stone-Davis (recorders). Nonetheless, ChuMS has also been able to display the musical talents of current students within the College. Highlights included the Music Bursars’ Recital, solo performances by Churchill’s Accompanist Bursar Jonathan Morell and Harpsichord Bursar Edward Lilley, as well as recitals by two ensembles: the Waterson Brass Quartet, and a welcome reunion of the Churchill College Wind Quintet. Other musical groups and events There have also been numerous musical events outside the main recital series, including an evening of Gilbert & Sullivan with the Wandering Minstrels and a ‘musical lecture’ by the renowned Alexey Brunov on the Russian bard movement

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1960-1980, in connection with the Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society. In addition, the Orchestra on the Hill gave a well-received performance including Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4, with Churchill’s Jonathan Lee and Christopher Leighton as soloists. Churchill’s home-grown jazz scene continues to thrive. ChuMS’ jazz maestro Simon Lichtinger has organised various jazz-themed open mic nights in the Bar, and Joe Westwood’s ‘Marie & the Boys’ have gone from strength to strength, now representing one of the most sought-after bands in Cambridge. The Churchill Ukulele Band has also flourished over this past year, thanks in part to the acquisition of five college Mahalo ukuleles. A successful new relationship of mutual advertisement with other hill colleges has been established during this past year, especially with Fitzwilliam and Murray Edwards Colleges: as a cooperative way of boosting publicity, each college is supporting the other’s musical events by advertising them within their own music society. Looking ahead Music remains at the heart of Churchill College. We are looking forward to the future endeavours of the Chapel Choir in their new rapport with the Brandenburg Baroque Soloists, and the upcoming recitals in the next academic

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year from both professionals and students. I wish to thank Mark Gotham and the Committee for their diligent work this year; as we have clearly seen, this work has paid off in spades.

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Churchill – One of the Best Track Records in Ultimate! Ultimate Frisbee Report (2016–2017) Jess Atkinson, Churchill Ultimate Frisbee Captain, is a third year Natural Science student doing chemistry and is from Lancaster. Here he tells us what ‘Ultimate Frisbee’ is, how it is organised in Cambridge – at both university and college level – and how good Churchill is at it. Ultimate Frisbee, known simply as ‘Ultimate’ by the players, is a fun, fast-paced and non-contact team game played with a disc. Outdoor Ultimate involves sevena-side teams that play on a 100m by 37m pitch with an 18m deep ‘end-zone’ at each end. A point is scored by catching a disc in the opposing team’s ‘end-zone’, just like in American Football, and similar to netball, the thrower can pivot but not run when in possession of the disc. Since its beginnings in 1960s America, Ultimate has resisted empowering any referee with rule enforcement, instead relying on the sportsmanship of players and invoking the ‘spirit of the game’ to maintain fair play. There is a thriving Ultimate scene at Cambridge, with the University teams competing in national tournaments and all the college teams competing in a termly College League. The College League consists of two divisions, upper and lower (currently there are six teams in each), within which there are weekly outdoor matches throughout each term, culminating in a final ranking at the end of each term. Additionally, there is a one-day tournament at the end of each term: an indoor tournament in Michaelmas, a ‘hat’ tournament in Lent and an outdoor tournament in Easter. We are proud to say that Churchill has one of the best track records for a college team, having won or been highly placed in almost all of the college tournaments and leagues over the past five years, and this year has been no exception! In Michaelmas, we had a strong intake of Freshers and although we had a shaky start to the term, we finished the league in second place (behind St. Johns) out of twelve teams! Indoor ‘Cuppers’ at the end of Michaelmas is always a great tournament, and this year Churchill put in a fantastic showing to finish third, behind ARU and Hillslong, meaning we were the best placed Cambridge University college team. Having firmly secured our spot in the top division in

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Michaelmas, Lent saw some very close games against tough opponents, and we lost a few key players to injury and other sports (namely rowing!). However, we managed to finish the term in fourth place, meaning that, thankfully, there was no risk of demotion. This Easter we are looking to continue Churchill Ultimateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impressive track record, and we have our sights firmly set on the Outdoor Cuppers tournament at the end of term!

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The MCR Photo Competition

The theme of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MCR Photo Competition was Dynamic Duos. We reproduce here the three winning photos.

First Prize: Karolis Misiunas

Second Prize: Victor Kang

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Third Prize: Akshath Sharma

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‘As Bursar she was appropriately hard-nosed but always sympathetic to individuals in need.’ Richard Partington on Jennifer Brook

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Jennifer Brook A portrait Jennifer retired in February 2017 after 18 years in her post as Bursar. A special High Table was held in College in her honour on 9th May 2017 at which our Master Prof Dame Athene Donald gave a fitting tribute. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Bidding goodbye to Jennifer from an active role in College feels like a dramatic thing to do, when she has served it so long and so well. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve known Jennifer for much less long than many readers, but my impression is she will find stopping a hard thing to do. She has given the college so much for so long and even after she formally retired as Bursar she stayed on for another 3 months as Acting Development Director to keep our operations afloat. The College owes Jennifer a massive, massive amount for leaving the College in such a strong financial position, for having done so much to bind the community

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together through her encyclopaedic memory of alumni and fellows past and present, and for her interest and support for all of us. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure everyone here will have their own particular example of her kindness. My own particular anecdote comes from close to home when my husband Matthew fell down and seriously injured his leg in the Lodge about 18 months ago. I was in London at the time. It was Jennifer who went to visit him in A+E. Given this was quite late in the evening this was definitely above and beyond Bursarial duties. I think it illustrates exactly how Jennifer always gave far more than the College could reasonably expect and we will miss her greatly. Except, of course, we hope to see her in College frequently at dinners and other events.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ********** I would like to add my deepest thanks and gratitude to Jennifer for the financial and human support she unswervingly gave my tutees whenever the need arose and for her gentle guidance during my first year as Editor. The Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tribute to Jennifer is echoed by many of those who worked most closely with her over the years. Below is a flavour of what they wrote about Jennifer as a person and a colleague, about her approach to the role and work ethic, her encyclopaedic knowledge of the College and its members, her leadership, her ever-present support to students and staff, and finally her legacy and our huge debt of gratitude towards her.

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As a person She is an optimist with genuine faith in human nature, and is fun. (Richard Partington) There are really only two things one needs to know about Jennifer Brook: first, she’s an exceptionally able person; second, she has a heart of gold. (Richard Partington) As a colleague We often healthily disagreed, sometimes publicly. But we were always able quickly to resolve our disagreements and reach a common – and better – position with which we were both happy. (Richard Partington) She never bears grudges. (Alison Finch) Jennifer has been an outstanding colleague. (Barry Kingston) I trusted her judgement. (Richard Partington) Her approach to the role She viewed the College as a whole, rather than as a series of compartments, and so worked hard to integrate the Archives Centre into all facets of College life. (Allen Packwood)

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She has worked for the College, always with its best interests at heart and always with great energy and cheerful optimism. (Ken Siddle) I can illustrate her commitment to value for money for the College by my ready acceptance of the offer of a daily stipend smaller (in real terms) than any I had received for over a quarter of a century! (David Wallace) Her ability as Bursar was rooted in her high cognitive intelligence, her imagination, her capacity for hard and efficient work, and her remarkable memory. (Richard Partington) Her work ethic Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always gone the extra mile. (Alison Finch) I never ceased to be impressed by the huge amount of work undertaken and successfully delivered by her (David Wallace) Nothing was too much or too little for her. (Paula Laycock) Her knowledge Jennifer knows more about the College than anyone else. (Alison Finch) Jennifer has an extraordinary ability to carry large amounts of data in her head. (Shelley Surtees)

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She has a quite remarkable grasp of the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s manifold operations. (Alison Finch) She has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the workings of the College. (Barry Kingston) Her leadership As a leader, she has been inspirational; always available, calm and unflappable and keen to promote the work of those around her. (Shelley Surtees) Jenniferâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s style is authoritative but supportive, calm and above all fair. She has deservedly won respect at every level in the College. (Ken Siddle) She could make things happen. (Paula Laycock) Supporting students and staff She was fiercely protective of students and always sought the best for them. (Paula Laycock) She has shown an exceptionally full commitment to the interests of our students. (Barry Kingston) Her kindness is legion. (Richard Partington)

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Jennifer has always been kind and compassionate when needed and empathetic of every individual’s struggles both in a business and a personal capacity. (Shelley Surtees) She was caring of her staff and would go the extra mile if she could … everybody mattered. (Paula Laycock) Her support and encouragement was invaluable, as it has been ever since. (Allen Packwood) Jennifer’s guidance and mentoring was a key part of my time at Churchill. (Sue McMeekin) Her legacy At the end of (her time as Bursar) she was still having fresh and innovative thoughts and was still taking the College forward. (Richard Partington) Her outstanding good sense, indeed wisdom, have steered the College and shaped it to become the highly successful institution it is today. (Alison Finch) Her Bursarial legacy, in the form of sound finances, appropriate commercialism and professionalism, extensive student support and College buildings, will endure. (Richard Partington)

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She has been, and will continue to be, a sociable and good-humoured presence in College. (Alison Finch) Our gratitude Jennifer has been steadfast in her commitment and her intellectual rigour has served the College exceptionally well in support of what it represents today. Thank you, Jennifer. (Gillian Secrett) I am glad to have this opportunity to express my personal thanks. (Allen Packwood) Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with both admiration and affection that I say: Thank you for everything, Jennifer; we owe you a huge amount and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll miss you greatly. (Alison Finch)

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Imagining the Future of Medicine A Combination of the Virtual and the Real Dr Susan Lim, an Alumna of Churchill College, was awarded a PhD in transplantation immunology at the University of Cambridge in 1988. She is the current Co-chair of the Global Advisory Council of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR). She was the first woman surgeon to perform a successful liver transplant in Asia. In this piece Dr Lim tells us how she imagines the future of medicine and predicts that advances in bio-engineering, 3D printing, material science, nanotechnology, flexible electronics, data science, computing, mobile devices, virtual and augmented reality, and artificial intelligence will disrupt the conventional practice of medicine and re-define humanity. We are becoming the sum of parts: part human, part animal, part synthetic, even robotic. In our quest for longevity and an improved quality of life, we increasingly accept that our body parts can be repaired or replaced. In the late summer of 1985, I arrived at Churchill College to commence postgraduate studies in transplantation immunology. I was also privileged to be included as a member of the Cambridge transplant team, and travelled throughout the UK and Europe, by road and air, often with police escort, to harvest organs from brain dead donors, mostly young victims of road trauma. During my tenure, we celebrated the 300th liver transplant milestone at Cambridge. The field of transplantation has continued to undergo tremendous transformation. Living donors have stepped forward to donate a kidney or a part of a liver, and augment the pool of life-saving organs from brain dead donors. From organs to cells As technological innovation has gravitated toward miniaturisation, so in transplantation, the trend has been from organs to cells. Islet cells, components of a pancreas gland, have been transplanted as an alternative to whole pancreases

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as a cure for diabetes, and intense interest in stem cells, both embryonic and adult, as building blocks to create new tissues and organs has flourished. Stem cells, as undifferentiated, immature cells, can differentiate into a variety of mature cells including cartilage to potentially resurface damaged joints, retinal pigment epithelial cells to treat age-related macular degeneration, and cardiac cells to repair damaged hearts. One of the more recent advances in the field of regenerative medicine, the ability to convert ageing adult cells into youthful stem cells, called induced pluripotent stem cells, won Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. More recently, progress in material sciences and flexible electronics has facilitated the manufacture and 3D printing of bio-compatible scaffolds onto which, cells and stem cells can be seeded to create new tissues and organs. In 2017, synthetic human entities with embryo-like features or SHEEFs, have been created as new forms of synthetic life. Integrating technology Concurrently, the science of xenografting is being re-visited as a potential source of donor organs, though I distinctly recall from my past experiments at Cambridge, that the ferocity of the hyperacute rejection response precluded a viable consideration of cross species transplants. This has changed with the new CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technologies, which enables us to revisit the use of genetically modified pigs as cross species organ donors. Our re-engineered bodies are fortified with Integrating external, smart exoskeletons, clothed in technology into our wearable technology. Ordinary people will body will become integrate technology into their bodies, commonplace electronic sensors, whether as surface tattoos, embedded subcutaneous, intracranial as neural dust, or deeper within our organs, to monitor body functions, and externalize biophysical data through mobile devices. Biohacking for the purposes of human-machine integration will become commonplace. The virtual world of medicine We live in an augmented data-driven world, immersed in a combination of the

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virtual and the real.The delivery of healthcare is shifting to the home as patients quantify and share their health parameters through for example wearables, embedded sensors and apps, and receive medical advice through virtual consultations, and from artificially intelligent doctors. As diagnostics becomes increasingly non-invasive, colonoscopies will be replaced by miniature pill-shaped video cameras, collecting images as they travel through the digestive tract. Ingestibles and smart pills that use wireless technology will monitor internal reactions to medications. The healthcare industry will be populated The virtual and with robotic medical assistants and physical robotics will therapists stronger, able to perform repetitive become the norm tasks, hand out medicines, lift and support the frail and disabled.Wearable robotic exoskeletons and powered soft robotic suits will confer mobility to the frail and disabled. Miraculous advances in brain-computer interfaces are just now enabling the disabled to communicate and move their robotic limbs through brain-controlled robotic exoskeletons. Soft robotics will be internalized, for instance to wrap around the heart to aid contractions of weakened heart muscle. A partnership of man and machine It has happened in my lifetime, from Turing’s landmark article in the 1950’s on machine intelligence, to the present, that we are witnessing a partnership, man and machine, with machine as an increasingly intelligent toolkit. In 2000, the da Vinci robotic surgical system received FDA approval. Shortly thereafter, I trained on both the Zeus and da Vinci robots, humbled as a surgeon to experience my human skills taken to a new level, my vision enhanced in 3D, 10x magnified, and my dexterity empowered with 7 degrees of freedom of movement, tremor filtration and motion scaling to facilitate precision surgery. The quest for longevity Human longevity will become a central Rapamycin – the theme, a movement spearheaded by Craig ‘miracle drug’? Venter, and Google’s Calico, whose mission is to combat ageing. Research on new drugs, and an old one, a drug called

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Rapamycin, which in 1988, I had investigated for its immunosuppressive potential, while working in Sir Roy’s lab at Cambridge, now holds the promise of a longevity ‘miracle drug’, having significantly extended life in rodents. Our body’s defences against diseases and cancer will be augmented through the new CAR T cell immunotherapies. Here, our immune cells can be fortified exvivo to recognize and attack tumor cells, before being infused back into our bodies as armored CAR T-cells to target and kill cancer. Our genome is mapped, and our individual responses to drugs and susceptibility to diseases predetermined, allowing us to proactively take charge of our health. Through the CRISPR technologies, we are able to edit out unwanted genes, even cure single gene defects such as sickle cell anaemia. Our human capabilities are augmented through artificial intelligence, and our memories can be downloaded and stored in synthetic DNA banks, ready to be uploaded and shared. Humanity in transition We re-invent the old, create the new, and in combining the best of both, we accept that humanity is in transition, that our bodies will be integrated with new technologies, pacemakers, insulin pumps, cochlear implants, bionic eyes, and that cyborgism is an inevitable near term fate. And as artificial intelligence becomes more advanced, humans will need to evolve to stay relevant. All of these remarkable transformations oblige us to re-evaluate our existence, who we are, and who we would like to become. Certainly, we are taking the human body’s experience beyond what nature had intended. Through a process of electronic transcendence, we will be able to scan our brains and upload our minds into computer systems. In the coming years, we will be doing a lot of our thinking in the cloud. Beyond our lifetimes, it is impossible to predict.

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A Day in the Life of . . . Demanding but Rewarding A Day in the Life of Dr Andrew Taylor Dr Andrew Taylor, a Tutor and Director of Studies at Churchill College, is also a Churchill Fellow. In this piece he tells us with great humility and humour what a typical day might entail for him: juggling teaching commitments together with administrative duties and committee work without forgetting one’s own personal affairs like whether it is his turn ‘to pick up the boys from school.’ The editors were helpfully brief at the time. What kind of exercise is this? They probably thought I’d seen similar pieces in CAM or other colleges’ alumni magazines.True enough: I am, like many, perhaps, curiously drawn to them as to a distorting mirror on a seaside pier. ‘A day in the life of’ seems unavoidably chiastic, as much ‘A life in the day of’ as a diurnal snapshot. So such ‘days’ can be presented as baldly mundane or wildly over-achieving, an ambitious grant application completed, a troubling tutorial issue resolved, a cutting-edge lecture delivered, lively conversation with the Master over lunch, and a chance collaborative opportunity springing up over late-afternoon coffee between a series of stimulating if not exhilarating supervisions, all making Stakhanov look a bit of a slacker, done on remarkably few wholemeal calories, and kicking off with a rhododactylic half-marathon. Or is this just a selfie in an age of idealising selfies? New challenges However much regular activity and general application is suggested on turning the pages of that week-to-view hardback issued to Tutors, the entries I’m looking at in mine are far from encouraging. I recall noticing a fellow researcher perusing a densely packed Cambridge Pocket Diary of Piero Sraffa, the founder of Neo-Ricardianism, and the strange contrast with the serried bays of august but musty folios running the length of the Wren Library. But that was when I

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had time to get to the Wren. The challenge now is more the syncing of phone to laptop to that redoubtable hardback, the truest record of the vicissitudes of termly life, and the fundamental ‘economics’ of remembering whether it’s my day to get home to pick up the boys from school. A not unusual workload For some Thursday in Lent – not this Thursday, which is the first of Easter Term – I see a typical opening to the ‘Cambridge week’: [7.30–7.45am, 9.00–10.00am, respond to email, get some balls rolling or even in the air, cycle to college] 10am-noon, mark essays; [some lunch c. 12.15pm, as soon as the Hall opens] 1.00–3.00pm, two supervisions [a frantic half hour break to catch up with emails and down another coffee]; 3.30–5.30pm, another couple of supervisions [to 6.30pm, print essays and clear the plethora of afternoon emails]. Those parenthetical interpolations are the unwritten verities that render the day nonstop. There’s a good argument for the explicit inclusion of those and more wholesome injunctions: ‘take a break’; ‘walk the playing fields’; ‘drink water, not coffee’; ‘stretch’; ‘arrange to lunch with X’ (not that pot-luck in the Fellows’ Dining Room isn’t an agreeable principle). Lent Term has been particularly heavy. Four A particularly heavy supervisions imply eight essays, in my current Lent Term state just a little too much to get through – not the reading, although some less assiduous submissions can sometimes make it feel so, but the commenting – in those two allocated and alloyed morning hours. Having noted the noon deadline for the essays from a cohort from another college, which I’ll be supervising tomorrow, I register the chance of getting ahead at the end of the day if the spirit is willing, and open my in-box to find a block of emails with attachments, and one or two lacking them. Not all of the latter intimate apologies or E-mails – adding requests for extensions; there may be a another epicycle to solitary handwritten piece, a rarity now, the complex transit lurking in my pigeonhole, but otherwise of the day students – my supervisees, at least – forego the weekly pilgrimage to the porter’s lodge of the supervisor’s college. I rattle out the emails acknowledging receipt, offer absolutions to the guilty, and check that there isn’t anything else requiring immediate attention. Printing their

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offerings adds another epicycle to the already complex transit of the day, but also the opportunity to apply typed comments for students lacking stronger palaeographical skills. Note in diary: write comments legibly. Supporting students develop more independent literary interests A bell rings, then rattles, and I open the front door to my first pair of ‘Renaissancers’ that afternoon. Lent Term brings twenty or so first years over the threshold at 76 Storey’s Way, the former residence of Wittgenstein’s doctor who cared for him there during his final illness. For the first half of term or so, I tend to meet with them in twos, sometimes threes, and then individually a couple of times over the closing weeks, once they have had a chance to establish more independent literary interests in the ‘English literature and its contexts, 1500–1700’. Next Thursday there will be some particularly pleasing extended work: the hard Miltonists adding Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained to Paradise Lost; some furthering dramatic considerations through Jonson’s The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair; the outworking of the class on metaphysical poetry preoccupying others. Following the students’ leads requires the sudden re-reading of a wide range of literary works; it is demanding but rewarding, and prompts thoughts of what else could have been covered this term, or could be included next Lent. This week everyone’s tackling revenge drama, which, for some reason, never fails to excite these high achievers: ‘“When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good”. Discuss’. Other commitments But how to cultivate further the Welcomed independence, confidence and ambition of interruptions our English students? My diary tells me that offering wider Education Committee sits tomorrow at perspectives on the 2.00pm, so I ponder the framing of this as a College’s projects larger issue for undergraduate studies. The Committee’s conversations with, on this occasion, Directors of Studies across a range of science subjects, set such considerations in a wider context, as do my former stints as one of the Admissions Tutors and on College Council. Currently I also sit on Estates, Hanging (art works, that is), and Tutorial Committees, and am a Fellowship Elector, so each fortnight or so have these

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not so unwelcome interruptions to runs of supervisions, which offer wider perspectives, bring together people from a range of academic and administrative areas, and yield a surer sense of the workings of the college and its projects. I hope ‘Ed Comm’ finishes punctually, as I’m catching up with two tutees between four and five who currently require a little regular support. I sense an increasing amount of time will be devoted to this as the examinations approach. Dreaming of stealing time for research ‘Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time…’: so I read in an essay on Donne the following Thursday. Once the unseasonal hail has passed, the students shepherded attentively towards Tripos, and examining conquered, can summer be far behind? Some documents style the long vacation the research period, and I suppose it should be welcomed as such, even after a hectic year. But I admire my colleagues who successfully preserve at least a clear day a week throughout term to get away to the University Library, if not further afield. When will I get back to those writing obligations, a piece on More’s Utopia, something on literary translation in the renaissance, the return to the edition of Ovid in English? Would writing those things in the diary be a start? Yet if ‘life’s a beech’ (I think it was for the edible dormouse), as some wag put it, I’ll not forego the stealing of time in the shadow of its spreading boughs. So, with a nod to Virgil, who, X tells me over lunch, may well have been a dormouseeater, I write that in my diary.

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Being Part of It Widening Participation at Churchill College Dr Jonathan Padley has been the Schools Liaison and Recruitment Officer at Churchill College for the past six years. Here he explains what schools liaison and widening participation entail and tells us about the pioneering work that both Cambridge and Churchill have been involved in to attract the best students irrespective of their financial situation. He also reminds us that Churchill College was identified as the Oxbridge college with the greatest proportion of students from the state sector in the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission’s State of the Nation 2015 report. Looking back on my near fifteen-year career in education, I realise now that I became a Widening Participation Officer long before I knew that’s what I was. In the middle of the last decade, I was lecturing at Gorseinon (now Gower) College, Swansea, when a colleague and I were asked to develop a support programme for the College’s most academically able students. Our brief was to encourage their attainment and aspiration, particularly for outstanding universities, so we got in touch with lots of universities to ask for advice.The replies we received were gratifyingly positive: lots of exciting people wanted to help us help our brightest students. However, amongst the many responses we received – and there were many! – none provided better information or kinder professional friendship than that from Churchill College, Cambridge. When I then joined Churchill in September 2011 as the Schools Liaison and Recruitment Officer, I felt like I was coming home, because I’d already worked with the College for a number of years through my previous job. Indeed, the reason I applied to work here was that I’d watched Churchill motivate my students year after year and I wanted to contribute to its operation; to support potential university applicants at lots of schools and colleges, not just one.

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To borrow Churchill’s current promotional strapline, I wanted to be part of it. Schools liaison and widening participation At this point, I should say a word about what Fostering an officer of ‘schools liaison’ or ‘widening connections participation’ actually does. Put simply, between HE schools liaison officers foster connections institutions between higher education institutions, like and schools universities, and the schools and colleges that teach and support potential applicants. We work with lots of interested constituencies – including but not limited to teachers, parents and guardians, and students – to ensure that all concerned get the best possible information about what universities can offer and how applicants can access it. Those of us who work in widening participation also reach out to groups that are underrepresented in universities; not for reasons of social engineering but rather from the principle that access to higher education should be available to all suitablyqualified students who seek it, irrespective of everything else.The bottom line of Churchill’s engagement with potential applicants is, ‘if you’re good enough, have a go.’ Irrespective of everything else, the characteristic which defines Churchill students is that they are academically excellent. The Area Links Scheme Contrary to the way it’s sometimes A forward thinking portrayed in the media, Cambridge – and initiative Churchill in particular – has been leading the way in schools liaison and widening participation for years. When these issues particularly started to gain political traction in the early 2000s, Cambridge was quick to capitalise by establishing its Area Links Scheme, which carved up the UK between the Cambridge colleges for the purposes of educational outreach, partly to ensure that all areas of the UK were catered for, and partly to prevent different Cambridge colleges from unwittingly visiting the same schools or colleges. This meant that every Cambridge College had areas of the UK to look after; not to give preferential treatment to applicants from those areas but so that each college could get to know its areas’ schools and colleges, and they could get to know us. This forward-thinking initiative, which remains at the heart of Cambridge’s schools liaison work today, links Churchill with six UK communities: Surrey, Sussex, and

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South Wales, and the London boroughs of Croydon, Merton, and Sutton. Why those? We’re not sure. Personnel have changed and the matter is somewhat lost in the mists of time. But presumably it was because, at the point at which we were bidding, these were areas with which we already had some connections. Cambridge is also greatly advantaged in its educational outreach because it has an undergraduate admissions process which is transparent and defensible, based on rigorously tested and publicly available A transparent research. This means that those of us who admissions process promote Cambridge to potential applicants can clearly describe why the University works the way it does, so applicants can get a realistic sense of what they’re applying to and for. For example, we can explain that Cambridge’s conditional offers are tough because we know that those who meet – or more normally exceed – them are likely to do well in Tripos, which is in everyone’s interest. Again, this clarity was one of the reasons that I, as a teacher, urged my high-attaining students to apply to Cambridge, and again, nowhere was it better explained than at Churchill. During the six years that I’ve worked here, I hope nothing’s changed on that front! Churchill’s schools liaison operation So what’s the scale of Churchill’s schools liaison operation today? We have some 420 secondary institutions in our six Link Areas but we’re regularly in touch with many more schools and colleges. Since July 2016 (I’m writing at the end of April 2017), we have recorded sustained interactions with students, teachers, and parents from over 277 schools and colleges, many of which we’ve met more than once. In that time, we’ve worked with 6329 secondary students, 1164 parents, and 478 teachers, through lectures, seminars, masterclasses, and one-to-one meetings, both here in College and more typically at host institutions in local communities. Indeed, these figures underrepresent our impact because they don’t include large-scale Open Days and UCAS Fairs, etc., where it’s hard to note students’ details with sufficient consistency to record them accurately.

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Beyond this core work, we also collaborate The ‘star’ network with colleagues across a range of related sectors, at the highest level. I was recently seconded to the Department for Education and Skills at Welsh Government, to support a two-year research project fronted by Paul Murphy (now the Lord Murphy of Torfaen, then the MP for Torfaen, sometime UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Wales). Paul wanted to know why the number of Welsh sixth formers progressing to Oxbridge had become smaller than it was historically. He drew together a remarkable coalition of the willing to help find the answer, including representatives from Cambridge (me), Oxford, and Welsh Government. Predictably, we identified a range of contributory factors, from aspiration and applicant attainment through to a need to make sure that robust information, advice, and guidance reached the right people in a timely fashion.We proposed a solution to these challenges, based on a community model of educational outreach called HE+, which has been rolled out UK-wide over a number of years by our colleagues at the Cambridge Admissions Office. Churchill supports an HE+ consortium in Swansea, which is now in its fifth year of operation, and it was to this Cambridge-sponsored, community-driven consortium to which the Murphy project turned as the key model in Wales of best practice for supporting high-attaining Welsh youngsters. The Seren (or ‘star’) Network, a scalable version of HE+, has now been established across Wales and, after its first full year of operation, the number of Welsh applications to Cambridge was the highest it’s been in over a decade. Again, Cambridge and Churchill have helped to lead the way. Promoting Churchill In short, we do a lot. We do our best to Our greatest promote Churchill effectively, and remarkable advertisement – the students from all walks of life apply to study tireless enthusiasm here as a result: not for nothing was Churchill of our ow students identified as the Oxbridge college with the greatest proportion of acceptances from the state sector in the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission’s State of the Nation 2015 report. Support for schools liaison is in the fabric of this place: the Master, the Senior Tutor, our Admissions Tutors, and an army of fantastic Fellows and Directors of Studies regularly give generously of their time to promote our work. In-house events pull together all College departments, from Accounts, Catering, and Conference,

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through to Housekeeping and the Portersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Lodge. We have an exceptional Admissions Officer, who keeps the administration of our admissions work on the straight and narrow, and a remarkable part-time Schools Liaison Officer, who has given us much-needed capacity to extend our provision in ways that would not have been possible without her. Finally, we are enriched by the tireless enthusiasm of our own students, perhaps the greatest advertisement we have to reach out to prospective applicants. In their extraordinary activity, diversity, and community, our undergraduates and postgraduates daily reinforce the bottomline which goes to the heart of widening participation. Irrespective of all else, the characteristic which defines Churchill students is that they are academically excellent. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a privilege to be here with them, being part of it.

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A Burgeoning New Scheme Postdoctoral By-Fellows at Churchill College Karina Prasad, Head of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPdA), at the University of Cambridge and a Professional By-Fellow of Churchill College, is very well placed to talk to us about what the University has been doing for its bright young postdoctoral researchers in general and how Churchill in particular has led the way amongst the Cambridge Colleges in introducing its Postdoctoral By-Fellowship scheme which elects 10 By-Fellows each year for 3 years. Higher education in one form or another is over 2,000 years old and, dating back to European medieval universities; degrees have been awarded for different attainment levels. So the concept of higher degrees (a master’s degree or doctorate) is not new, although the numbers choosing to study for higher degrees have increased greatly in recent decades. A consequence of this increase has been the greater number of those with doctorates choosing to stay on in universities to carry out fundamental research as early career or postdoctoral researchers.This is creating a new category within universities of individuals who have funding, typically on research contracts or personal fellowships for one to five years but without any longer-term job security or tenure – a new form of staff and clearly distinct from students.The numbers have increased dramatically: Imperial College London has doubled its number of postdocs in the last ten years; Cambridge has two-thirds more and the number currently totals about 4,000 (3,000 on University contracts, approximately 400 employed through colleges as Junior Research Fellows and the remaining employed on external funding). The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs In 2013, the University’s Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPdA) www.opda.cam.ac.uk was initiated by the Vice Chancellor. A major rationale for this initiative was that postdocs are vital to and at the heart of the University’s research and its reputation, and so merit full support in their career development

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and practices. Since its inception, the OPdA At the heart has had a significant impact on the well-being, of the University’s recognition and ongoing training of postdocs research and and enhanced the support they receive from reputation University departments and colleges.With its unique overview of the postdoctoral community in Cambridge and beyond, the role of the OPdA is to enable individual Postdocs to realise their potential in their own career and in contributing to the University, colleges and society as a whole. The Office has already made a considerable impact: www.opda.cam.ac.uk/aboutus/progress_review The OPdA is committed to working across collegiate Cambridge and is fully engaged with the Postdocs of Cambridge Society (PdOC) www.pdoc.cam.ac.uk. The Society was established 15 years ago and has evolved representative committees within departments, now representing 85% of the postdoc community and in 2015, with the support of the OPdA and Judge Business School, established the Entrepreneurial Postdocs of Cambridge club (EPOC) www.opda.cam.ac.uk/get-involved/epoc. Within a collegiate university such as Oxford or Cambridge, undergraduates, graduates and Junior Research Fellows are members of colleges. However, there is no such automatic College affiliation for other groups of early career researchers. This is the background to current initiatives undertaken by the University and in many Cambridge Colleges (now at least two-thirds of the thirtyone Colleges) to consider a new form of College membership for Postdocs. Postdocs at Churchill College The OPdA has endeavoured from its Integrating inception to integrate postdocs in the fabric Postdocs in of University life, which includes access to the fabric of colleges. It can be difficult for people coming University life from outside Cambridge to familiarise themselves with the college system and they can feel isolated from the community. Typically postdocs will have contracts that last for 2–3 years. In 2013 Churchill College established one of the first schemes to integrate postdocs into College life and led the way in establishing By-Fellowships for postdocs. While these By-Fellowships do not carry any formal academic

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responsibilities, postdocs are encouraged to engage in all aspects of college life and Churchill has identified key activities where postdocs and colleges are complementary. Churchill offers 10 Postdoctoral By-Fellowships each year, with a 3-year tenure, and together with around 15 Teaching By-Fellows and 10 Junior Research Fellows, this has created a vibrant community of over 50 young research-active postdocs in the College. Churchill has also been instrumental in sharing its best practice findings across the colleges and advocating its key features, which include: • Membership of SCR, recognising postdocs are staff not students • A generous allowance for attending lunch, high table and College special dinners • Mentoring advanced students • Opportunities for undergraduate teaching • Participation in admissions interviews and other advisory roles • Establishing additional postdoc by-fellow post-prandial talks • Establishing an annual induction breakfast for new By-Fellows • Sporting opportunities The OPdA established a small pilot fund to Churchill created support activities arranged by an individual to one of the first act as a ‘Postdoc Research Convener’ within Postdoc Convener the colleges in order to stimulate postdoc facing activities and support their integration. The aim of this pilot scheme is to encourage and support activities in a way that would enable the College to continue to develop and mature their own initiatives over time and that the conveners join a network of other College conveners to share best practice and create a peer-support structure. Churchill created one of the first of these conveners, a role currently held by Dr Laura Dearden. Laura holds a Sir Henry Wellcome Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Institute of Metabolic Science, working alongside Churchill Fellow Professor Susan Ozanne, and her research focuses on how the early life environment influences the development of pathways in the brain that control food intake. Postdoc By-Fellows at Churchill are diverse in research disciplines, embracing philosophy, literature, language processing, art history, engineering, nanotechnology, biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, chemistry, physics, earth

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sciences, maths and astronomy.They are also truly international, hailing from the US, Australia, and South America as well as many different European countries, including the UK of course. The Postdoc perspective Postdocs feel very strongly about College Postdocs value affiliation and value the opportunity to be being part of part of collegiate Cambridge. When the collegiate University undertook its initial research into Cambridge the idea of opening an Office of postdoctoral Affairs (2011–2013) this was a key finding. As one postdoc put it ‘A College affiliation brings opportunities for Interdisciplinary conversations with bright people’. Below we quote two postdoc Churchill By-Fellows. This last year at Churchill has been a great experience. It is a very vibrant college, and all the members share a commitment to engage and progress activities, from the faculty, to postdocs, graduates, and administrative staff. I am constantly astonished at the interest of our students who, regardless of discipline, take a keen interest into international politics, as evidenced at a talk I gave in the MCR. Churchill is a great place to engage in discussions and open up new horizons. Dr Bernhard Reinsberg Postdoc By-Fellow from 2016 My experience in College has been excellent, and I am very grateful to College for this opportunity to participate in the social life of College. Affiliation to College changed my life in Cambridge; in the department there is not much social life for senior researchers, particularly those who come from abroad, and College provided me the chance to socialize in an international, intellectually diverse, rich, and relaxing environment. The interactions with students have been also very stimulating and enjoyable. I currently have three mentees and I am enjoying mentees’ dinners with them, interactions with them have been a very good experience to learn and think about the needs of graduate students, and think about giving them some helpful support and feedback. I was invited to give an MCR talk, and also enjoyed interactions with the MCR. I think that this is a way in which Postdoctoral By-Fellows could contribute to College Life, since we are more involved in research.

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Last year I supervised Neurobiology 1B for three Churchill Part 1B students, and I had a very good interaction with them. Supervisions are certainly a good way to contribute to College by Post-Doctoral By-Fellows. Dr Liria Masuda-Nakagawa Postdoctoral By-Fellow from 2013 Most Colleges would agree that postdocs contribute to the College by adding diversity to the research community and enriching the spirit of intellectual exchange that makes the collegiate system unique and early data indicate that postdocs are making a tangible contribution to college life. Churchill was one of the first Colleges to recognize this, now offering 10 posts per year and we hope to continue offering places for years to come.

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Holocaust Denial and the Ethics of Librarianship Professor Mark Goldie is an historian and a Churchill Fellow, Here he gives his personal views on an on-going debate of whether books on controversial subjects such as the holocaust denial should or should not be kept in libraries and archives. In February 2017, Dr Irene Lancaster, a We should not scholar visiting the Churchill Archives Centre, pretend that bad noticed that a book by the Holocaust denier books have not David Irving stood on the open shelves of the been written and Reading Room. She wrote to the Vice published Chancellor in protest. ‘Naturally, we in the Jewish community are very upset that convicted anti-Semite David Irving is honoured by being included in the Churchill Archive. … [His] presence within the archive is a disgrace.’ We can understand her feelings; and, as it happens, she was in Cambridge in the same month that Holocaust-denying leaflets were distributed on University premises, prompting a public statement from the Vice Chancellor. Here at Churchill, we of course find Irving’s views repulsive. But Dr Lancaster’s phrase, ‘honoured by being included’, is misleading, and her notion that the book’s presence is a ‘disgrace’ is contestable. An archive exists to preserve and study what is said about its subject, however objectionable. The book was not ‘prominently displayed’: it was just one among hundreds of reference books on Winston Churchill. Nor was it housed in the undergraduate library, which is dedicated to Tripos needs; but in the specialist research room of the Archives Centre, where professional scholars study. In response to Dr Lancaster’s protest, the Centre removed Irving’s book from the open shelves. In a statement, the College said that, while absolutely committed to resisting racism, holding books ‘in no way endorses the views or scholarship of the authors’. In other words, we are ready to discuss which books are visible and which should stay hidden, but we resist the idea that libraries and archives should pretend that bad books have not been written and published. In March, Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury and now Master of Magdalene College, declared his backing for a campaign to have Irving’s books

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removed from university libraries nationwide. Guardian columnist Keith KahnHarris responded, arguing that ‘libraries are, ideally, fundamentally amoral places. The presence of works on their shelves is not an endorsement of their views’. He recognised the case for removal from public sight. Free speech (and, consequently, free library access) must sometimes be limited. Which library would keep pro-paedophile works openly on its shelves? Those who worry about free expression and the need to cultivate critical awareness, will respond that students need training in how to judge and assess for themselves the plausibility of arguments and evidence, and should be exposed to bad books. Of course they should. But the problem with Irving’s books is how plausibly academic they seem. It took Professor Richard Evans and two assistants a year of research to build a court case against Irving. Kahn-Harris, in the end, thought banning a book or two opened up cans of worms. Mein Kampf has just been republished by official German authorities in a scholarly edition. (It’s still on the open shelves in our Archives Centre.) What about old volumes advocating eugenics? Or nineteenth-century defences of slavery? Or books denying evolution or climate change? Or old editions of children’s books now judged sexist? Kahn-Harris also added that it was unfair to put librarians in the front line. (By the way, how many professional librarianship courses now have modules in ‘information ethics’? I imagine most do.) In May, Manchester University, challenged by Dr Lancaster and Rowan Williams, resolved to keep Irving’s books available to students. ‘The books are necessary to teach our students how to fight Holocaust denial … We consider it important that these books remain available to students’. The Jewish Weekly (14 May 2017) ran a headline, ‘University Accused of Holocaust Denial’. Meanwhile, neo-Nazi websites are saying disgusting things about Dr Lancaster. We see in all this how a small incident at Churchill College became a lens, a microcosm, for some of the most tricky, contested, and flammable issues in our contemporary cultural-political wars. One thing I hope we can agree on: libraries and archives do need to keep copies of offensive books, albeit under wraps.They are facts of history; and specialist scholars need to investigate them. We can argue about the

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open shelves, but, in my view, it would be absolutely wrong to pretend, by obliteration, that things we find distasteful never existed.After all, at the height of the religious persecutions of earlier centuries, theologians kept copies of heretics’ books, in order to understand, challenge, and refute them. The Irving case has come back into the limelight because of a brilliant film called Denial, which I strongly recommend, a dramatization of the true story of the Deborah Lipstadt libel case. In 2000 Irving sued Lipstadt for libel when she accused him of deliberate evidential malpractice. Cambridge historian Richard Evans was among the witnesses for the defence. One of Irving’s techniques is what historians call ‘quilted quotes’: if you take a phrase from one part of a long document and pair it with another, separated from it by a good deal of text in between, and join the two phrases by ellipses (three dots), then you can make a document say pretty much anything you want. Not often are the methods of historical scholarship the subject of a court case. Irving lost and it cost him dear. But he is still active.

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1 Mark Goldie writes here in a personal capacity.The story can be followed more fully online in various national press reports.

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Developing Global Leaders in an Ever-Changing World Executive Education at the Møller Centre Cathy Butler is the new Director of Programmes for Executive Education at the Møller Centre. Here she gives us an overview of what the multiaward winning Møller Centre has been doing over the years focussing in particular on its bespoke leadership programmes. Not all readers may know that the Møller Centre, Churchill College is a multi-award winning, highly regarded residential conference and leadership development centre, set in the beautiful grounds of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge. On the conference side, we work with a diverse range of people and organisations who organise key residential business meetings, development programmes and conferences, and who are looking to inspire their teams or customers Møller bespoke leadership programmes Møller Executive Education at the Møller Centre focuses on designing and delivering its own bespoke, experiential leadership development programmes to business leaders from organisations around the world. We have been designing and delivering these programmes to global clients for the past 12 years here at the Centre. The client organisations we have worked with range from some of the top Chinese financial institutions as well as Chinese healthcare providers to, amongst others, large global corporates in media, aerospace, automotive to the UK public sector. We have also developed a particular expertise and capability in developing programmes not only for top senior leaders in organisations, but also for younger future leaders.We receive consistently high feedback from our participants on the quality and impact of our leadership development programmes on their performance. Having a positive impact Our goal is to have a positive impact through behavioural and experiential leadership development; we say that ‘leadership’ is what happens when people

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are inspired and motivated to take actions towards a common goal. We think particularly that leadership can embody situations in which dedication to a compelling and deeply held common purpose is the motivating force for leadership. Also that leadership transcends sectors and industries – it is about mobilising people and resources – inspiring a vision of what needs to be delivered and taking teams of people with you on the journey behind a shared, meaningful purpose. The team at The Møller Centre adopts as its approach, a highly customised combination of practitioner, academic and experiential learning to enable leaders to excel and reach their potential for the benefit of themselves, their teams and the organisations for which they work, and through this for society as a whole. The Møller Centre’s vision Our vision is to grow the reputation, reach and revenue of Møller Executive Education to ensure we can return a healthy contribution overall for the benefit of Churchill College. We very much see engagement with Churchill alumni and stakeholders as a key element to our success. Finally, this year we are launching our new residential open enrolment senior leadership development programme, the Explorer Mindset that will help senior executives from around the world and across sectors to develop leadership skills and behaviours that are values based and purpose driven leadership skills and behaviours. It will help global leaders operating in a complex, competitive and unpredictable world to learn from some of the brightest minds, the most engaging facilitators and the most experienced leadership practitioners. The focus of the programme will be on personal growth and team performance as well as organisational innovation and growth and is aimed at senior executives of director level and above. I would be delighted to hear from alumni who would like to find out more about the different ways they can engage with us through our work in Executive Education at the Møller Centre.

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Churchill’s Invisible Hand Living in a Colin St John Wilson House Natasha Squire, a senior member of Churchill College and wife of Dr Peter Squire, a Churchill Founding Fellow, poetically recounts here the early years spent in College while waiting for her dream house to be built. She then goes on to describe in great vivid detail what it is like to live in a Colin St John Wilson house, now a listed building, and regularly featured in books and articles about post-war British architecture. As I reread Mark Goldie’s eulogy for my 85th birthday in last year’s Review (p. 96), his remark about our house and its place in the History of Modern British Architecture brings back a wave of memories, most of which are closely linked with Churchill College even before its physical presence. The present-day world with all its technical progress, almost infinite possibilities offered to so many, was, to no small degree initiated and achieved by members of our College. It is the very period dating from the post-war world of the late fifties and early sixties that saw the rise of Churchill College and the two houses in Grantchester Road built by Colin St John Wilson (known as Sandy) for himself and his first wife, Muriel, and for Peter and me. Peter was appointed Founding Fellow in 1959 and Sandy was one of the early Fellows shortly to follow. They both died within a short time from each other. Life in Cambridge after the war We lived in an interesting modern house We had barely consisting of two flats and owned by Christ’s, enough money to subsequently to be demolished in order to buy the land house the new hospital Department of Haematology. I was enjoying being alive and teaching again after my incarceration at Papworth Hospital for TB. This called for a celebration. Peter and I promptly organised a party at which Sandy was one of our guests. Having heard that we were soon to be homeless, he told Peter that there was a possibility of buying a plot with building permission for two houses in Newnham. Next came houseagents, solicitors and deciding on the side of a coin the distribution of the two plots.The architect was to be Sandy. He won the North plot, but we got the South

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one to my delight and relief. None of the four of us was rolling in cash; we could barely scrape together enough to pay for the land. All of us were engaged in demanding jobs: teaching, lecturing, building up the College, departments and faculties, the administration of the Arts in Cambridge. Unforgettable meetings into the late hours of the night were hastily organised after suppers quickly thrown together by me, or Muriel in their tiny kitchen in Little St Mary’s Lane. No supermarkets, Delis, ready-meals or take-aways, just our emerging creative skills after rationing and virtually no experience of cooking. But there was much laughter, good-humoured discussions, joking, empathy, respect.The dreadful war was behind us.We were alive and despite the Cold War, hope lay ahead. Building for the future Churchill College was proudly rising from the muddy fields. We were young and building for the future. Sandy extemporised, producing with lightning speed a multitude of splendid drawings, exclaiming with a gleam in his eyes: ‘Just look at this one … It is a noble building, spacious and grand, intimate and private’. It was his dreamland made real. Spaces large and small answered different moods and uses, events of all kinds took place here and there, little people moved inside and out into the courtyard and garden … ‘You think there are too many steps? That’s easy.We’ll devise ramps.Yes, we could have a multi-level house?’ Another drawing would appear in no time, a building resembling a modern theatre, or a museum such as the Musée du Quai Branly near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, for the child in us all to slide gracefully down these ramps and discover new worlds created by Sandy.

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We had our dream moments, like adolescents, before turning to the harsh reality of our thin wallets, falls on theatrical ramps and refusals for loans from banks. Life at Churchill By then Peter and I were facing homelessness. Our flat became a Churchill came to our rescue. We were kind of SCR on the allowed to rent Flat 15 in the Sheppard Flats way to Hall with wonderful neighbours – Dick Tizard, Richard Adrian, Archie Howie, John Killen and quite a few others, both British and Overseas Fellows, as well as the College offices, the Bursar’s, the Kitchen and the Dining Hut with a couple of small Common Rooms. A very special, almost magical, invigorating, inspiring, convivial, happy episode in our lives during which our flat became a kind of SCR on the way to the Dining Hut a few metres away. Our houses project In the meantime,‘our houses project’ continued to grow, our meetings to multiply and the first tangible results beginning to see the light of day. Indeed, LIGHT has been a moving and major force in the whole concept, structure and planning of our own and Sandy’s house. The two of them are very similar in many ways, yet completely different in others. Our College architects, Professor Marcial Echenique in Cambridge and Spencer de Grey, eminent architect and partner of Foster, to whom we owe Stansted, both ‘Sandy’s boys’ as we called them, certainly enjoyed their time next door to us judging by the laughter at coffee and tea breaks in Sandy’s courtyard and must still know about technical details of the buildings. So do Professor Richard Smith, one of our Alumni, and his wife, Maggie, now owners of Sandy’s house who lovingly and meticulously restored it com’era, dov’era, as Venetians did for La Fenice Opera House.When I visit number 2, I still feel Sandy’s strong presence and also that of his father’s religious missionary influence. Strangely, he knew one of Peter’s many aunts in East Anglia. He was Bishop of Chelmsford, the equivalent of the French Chanoine Kir, the latter probably better remembered for the delicious drink bearing his name, rather than for his proselytism as Red Dean. The constantly shifting and changing presence of light The powerful concrete stone structures which are at times crushing, and at others raising us towards areas which remain enigmatic, complex, at once beautiful and

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almost ugly, yet again forcing our eyes to Sandy was inspired follow the discovery and transformation of by Le Corbusier’s form in harmony with the constantly shifting Unité d’Habitation and changing presence of light. This is in Marseille particularly evident in Sandy’s house due to the double height living room with its ‘minstrel’s gallery’ overhanging at one end over a heavy fireplace as a focal point, thus creating a strong contrast between a bare stone wall and virtually two glass walls.These features are partially reflected in our more conventional design – one up, one down, no double height, a more balanced interplay between glass, bare stone and plaster-covered surfaces, wooden floors supporting wooden window frames.The fireplace provides the same focus and now houses my plants and flowers and where light creates the unifying force of the whole house. Every first-time visitor is struck by surprise and delight, especially when catching sight of the spiral staircase, one of my dreams, which Sandy adopted and adapted from the grand Corbusier’s Unité d’habitation in Marseille. Dangerous as it may be to the uninitiated and the old lacking feline agility and despite injunctions from cautious friends, I would not give it up for the world and cling fiercely and tenaciously to the two bannisters as I go up and down its

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bare wooden steps many times a day. Good exercise and unfailing aesthetic pleasure from light and shadow patterns on the wall. Wood was a real problem. Sandy would not take any risks and having observed me in my fashionable array of stiletto heels, one day he brought a dozen samples of different wood and made me â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;grind all my enemies into themâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Only one survived. It had been used by ships in their state rooms. I thus shared the naval officer Sandy was during the war! No enemy, but a charming friend. Substance before form The graceful wooden staircase leads to our largish bedroom with its big windows giving Turner-like views of beautiful golden, crimson and red sunsets and our much loved garden. Sandy tried every argument to make me abandon the bedroom plan, but FORM did not win. Do we not spend nearly half our lives there? Should it not be a place of joyous reunion at the end of the day, warm and welcoming, relaxing, open to the evening golden light, comforting and comfortable and spacious, all the more so, as one is ageing or ill, or just enjoying music and reading? The one southfacing window keeps us in touch with all the activity in other rooms, upstairs and down, the terrace, the garden and the sitting room and kitchen, another most

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important room in the house. It still looks quite modern, another Le Corbusier inspiration which has proudly stood the test of time of over half a century and harbours so many happy memories of meals thrown together with ingredients that seemed to fall out of the fridge and merge into delicious suppers. I was reminded of these evenings by Churchillians and others, all these foreign scents and flavours appearing on the kitchen table often presided by a succession of our adopted approving cats after supervisions, meetings and parties. Grade II listed buildings Fortunately, and rightly so, our houses, built of Abergele limestone, granite and white cement, shimmering blocks, dominant, stark and sheer outside, full of surprises and light inside, their limpid glass bricks like pools of undulating water, both respectful of our privacy despite being semi-detached upstairs, now belong to the National Heritage, Grade II listed buildings, thus being spared the fate of contempt for history for the sake of cash. Demolition will not be the cruel fate of these two unique monuments of post-war architecture, one of which was Sandyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family home even before he had reached world-wide fame with the splendid London building of the British Library. I am both honoured and happy to be the first surviving owner of our first home, an eloquent example of attractive social housing, still living the sunset years of my life in Cambridge with the benevolent hand of Churchill College, my other family home, still present, thriving and within reach.

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50 Years of The Chapel at Churchill College John Rawlinson, the fourth Chaplain to the Chapel, reminisces about the 50 years of the Chapel at Churchill College and reminds us of the controversy its planning arose amongst the Fellowship in the late 1950s and 1960s.Today the Chapel has found a place not just in the grounds of the College and in its history, but also in the life of its community. Below Professor John Kinsella, a poet and Fellow of Churchill College, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Chapel in a poem specially written for the occasion. Fifty years ago, in October 1967, there was held a service of Thanksgiving and Dedication at the opening of the Chapel at Churchill College.This event was the culmination of many years of planning and controversy, well presented in Professor Mark Goldie’s history, aptly titled ‘God’s bordello: storm over a Chapel’ (2007). Was there to be, in the new college founded The whole affair to embody the scientific aspirations of midbecame a cause twentieth century Britain, a place of Christian célèbre worship, following the pattern of most of the older colleges in the University? How appropriate was it to include in this bold new institution a representative of a very old institution, the Church.Was a Chapel a necessary part of the vital whole, or was it an anachronism? Was there to be a faithful adherence to the religious cultural tradition of our land or would this be a surrender to the Old Superstition which might stand in the way of academic progress? The arguments for and against the Chapel are well-known and the whole affair became a cause-célèbre of the Science and Religion Interface in the late 1950s and 1960s. Under the Mastership of Sir John Cockcroft the decision had been made in 1960 for a Chaplain to be appointed and the redoubtable Canon Noel Duckworth (of Jesus and St John’s Colleges and the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Singapore) came to that role; he fulfilled it as admirably as he did the coaching of the College Boat Club. There was no Chapel building in existence and so services were held in college rooms and in Westminster College. Seven years later, largely due to the generosity of Revd. the Lord Timothy Beaumont of Whitley, sufficient funds were raised to build a Chapel in the North West corner of the College grounds, beside

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the rugby pitch.The Chapel at Churchill College designed by the architect Richard Sheppard, with a pipe organ made by a local Cambridge firm, E.J. Johnson, and a bell from the aircraft carrier HMS Hermes, donated by the Admiralty, opened its doors and began its pattern of regular services of Christian worship together with its focus on pastoral care including the provision of baptisms, marriages, funerals and memorial services as the needs arose. It is a remarkable building, with an interior A remarkable design of power and beauty; these are building imbued enhanced by the splendid coloured light with power and thrown onto the brick floor through the John beauty Piper windows and the central, suspended cross, the arms of which indicate all points of the compass. Prior to my appointment in 1998, there had been three Chaplains – Noel Duckworth, Richard Cain and Bryan Spinks. As one of my or predecessors wittily remarked our task has been ‘to keep the rumour of God alive in Churchill College!’ The Chaplains have brought their particular emphases, enthusiasms and eccentricities to the ministry here. Noel was a small Yorkshireman with a large voice – especially on the river towpath! Richard produced a blend of superb availability to students in trouble with a fascinating infusion of oriental spirituality.

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Bryan taught Religious Education at a Comprehensive School in Huntingdon and was, at the same time, one of the leading Liturgy scholars in the United Kingdom; indeed, after his Churchill years he took up the Chair of Liturgy at Yale. And the present Chaplain combines medical practice and the teaching of Anatomy with his ministerial duties. So you see, the Chaplains of Churchill Chapel are perhaps not ‘your average parson’! An Evening Service or a Communion takes The Chapel’s ‘light’ place every Sunday in term-time and offerings Morning Prayer is said midweek three times a term. Ash Wednesday is marked by a late-evening Compline and on the Eve of Graduation a service of thanksgiving and dedication is held for graduands and their families and friends. This is, of course, a ‘light’ offering compared with colleges whose chapels, by tradition, are more central to the life of the college; nevertheless our presence alongside the community is valued by many. It is, for example, a particular delight when alumni who have been married in Chapel bring their infants for baptism, as they frequently do. The Chapel is ecumenical; it is not an Anglican institution and the services held within it reflect the spectrum of worship orders used by the mainstream Christian churches. Guest preachers come from many denominations and occupations. In the past ten years the range and quality of music in Chapel, organ and choral, have steadily risen, principally as a result of the energies and expertise of Drs Mark Miller and Mark Gotham. In February 2017 the Churchill College Chapel Choir sang Vivaldi’s Gloria in D in the Brandenburg Concert season at St Martins-in-the Fields in London. An invitation to return in 2018 has been received. Music and liturgy apart, the Chapel is a place A place of quietness of quietness. Frequently members of College and reflection make their way there to seek the comfort that quietness can bring. It is remarkable that when a tragedy, such as an untimely death of a College member, has occurred, the Chapel becomes a magnet and a focus for reflection and the struggle for equanimity. Now at its fiftieth anniversary the Chapel continues to be a resource for the whole College community, senior and junior members and staff. Just as the College serves

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the present age, and moves ever â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Forwardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, so does the Chapel. Under the sound management of the Chapel Trustees it looks set to continue to do so for many years to come.

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Churchill Chapel’s 50th Lighthouse flashing inward — lantern powered by the sun — into recesses where shadow gathers cells shed by souls — never dead, never lost in stretched narrows of windows, Piper glass working light to affirmation. Even misgivings which are humble within the quiet suppleness of brick, wave motion beneath the concrete. Brick and concrete, glass and wood, but variables of light hold inside and out, reflecting green of grass through the western glass — clarity of basilica undercurrent, a giving to make silence more silent, but to say: green woodpecker, robin, jay, to say light and gravity, pipes speaking blue fragments in scales of everyday, a polarity of foliage and feather, liturgy through solidity. Ovals of glass the eye of the gathered, retina of prayer.That burning sunset aftermath — even in corners it alights, warning us to see from behind closed eyes, to hear in silence — looking inward, out.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Let us go forward together with our united strength.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Winston Churchill

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In this new section ‘Going Forward’, the Development Director is giving a list of events planned from November 2017 onwards. She is sharing with us what new initiatives and building projects are on the card; what plans are already under way and finally suggesting ways of supporting our students and giving to Churchill.

Forthcoming Events Alumni Events in the USA: November/December 2017 Event in New York, in the week beginning 4 December, will be hosted by the Development Director. The preceding week, there will be events planned on the West coast. Alumni will be notified about two months before all events. Please make sure your contact details, especially your email addresses, are up to date! German Alumni Meeting (also open to other visiting alumni or those from other European countries): Wednesday 6 – Friday 8 December 2017 You are invited to attend a symposium ‘Brexit means Brexit’ in Mainz, Germany organized by alumna Prof Christa Jansohn (2010). On the 8 December there will be a drinks reception hosted by the alumni and development office open to non-attendees of the conference. Please contact alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Enterprise Pitching Competition: Monday 29 January 2018 ‘Pitch your idea for a business’ competition event for current Churchill students and Churchill alumni The 17th Roskill Memorial Lecture:Wednesday 31 January 2018 This event is run by the Archives Centre. Please book in advance to attend. The speaker will be Professor Margaret MacMillan, Historian. See college website for further details and booking.

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Winston S Churchill 1958 Society Lunch:Tuesday 15 March 2018 – this is the event organised to thank our legacy donors. Compsci Lecture & Dinner:Wednesday 16 March 2018 A lecture and dinner (using High Table dining rights) for Computer Science alumni (other alumni are welcome to attend).The speaker will be Honorary Fellow Chris Mairs CBE. The Reunion Dinner: Saturday 7 July 2018 For those who matriculated between 2005 and 2009. Donor Garden Party 2018: Sunday 8 July An afternoon of entertainment and refreshment on the lawns of the College for all those who have given a gift to College since 1 January 2017. Invitations and further information will be sent to donors in the spring. The Churchill Association Weekend: Friday 21 – Sunday 23 September 2018 The event coincides with the University’s Alumni Festival weekend.The Churchill College Association was established to promote friendship between Fellows, students and alumni. From the day you become a member of Churchill College you are a member of the Churchill College Association.

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New Initiatives This year we are introducing two new initiatives:The Churchill Business Network and the Careers Network. Churchill Business Network With the help of alumnus and Board member Greg Lock (U66) we are starting a Churchill Business Network.The aim is to bring together Churchillians who work in industry and different business areas, including finance and fintech, in London, two or three times a year. We will start with an event in October at which Professor Sir Mike Gregory will speak on his transition from business to academia. Careers Network We have started compiling a list of alumni who are willing to give careers advice and we plan to create an online searchable directory for this purpose in the next year.We had fantastic feedback from alumni who offered to mentor during the telethon, now we would like to make contact between each other as easy as possible.

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Building projects Graduate Accommodation at 36 Storey’s Way With the completion of Cowan Court and Pinchin Riley House in 2016, the next major building project is to provide enhanced accommodation on site for our graduate students. Thanks to the support from Michael Cowan, Tony Wild and Greg Lock and an unrestricted donation of £1million, we have just under £1million remaining to raise for an exciting new graduate housing development at 36 Storey’s Way. We’re delighted that College Council has agreed to name two of the houses after past Masters Sir John Boyd and Sir David Wallace. Housing more students onsite We wish to house graduate students for at least two years, and for the duration of their degree in the case of students with families. The College currently has 208 units of accommodation and between 280 and 330 graduate students at any one time. More than 140 are in their first year or are doing Masters Degrees. Those who came to Cambridge to study for a graduate degree from another country or from elsewhere in the UK will know how important it was to be able to have an accommodation in Churchill College. Comfortable, convenient accommodation among an international community of graduate students, working in various disciplines is a very special part of the experience for graduate students at Churchill College. Churchill College has always had 30% graduate students and this proportion has been increasing steadily particularly with the growth in MPhil students. A shortfall of 50 rooms We built new accommodation (Broers, Bondi and Hawthorne Houses) in 2001 and extended other accommodation on site in 2008, 2014 and 2016 to create a total of 208 units, but we still have a shortfall of about 50 rooms to be able to accommodate most of our graduate students – those on a one year M.Phil course and those on a 3-year PhD.The College spent more than £4.5 million in 2008–10

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renovating its unique Wolfson Flats for students with partners and families.These are in high demand and we allow families to stay for a full three years. Adjacent to our site, by the Wolfson Flats, we have an old laboratory which has been let as commercial offices for the last forty years. We now have plans to redevelop the site to provide a further 30 rooms for graduate students and 5 studio flats for couples. Architectural Competition The architectural competition to design the new project was won by a team led by two Churchill alumni, Simon Tucker and Priscilla Fernandes of Cottrell & Vermeulen Architects. They have designed three buildings linked in the landscape to the neighbouring graduate hostels and the Wolfson Flats, with thirty student rooms clustered in groups of five, around a communal kitchen and the five studio flats for couples on the ground floor. There is an artist’s impression of the new hostels below.This shows the adjoining site and the green roofs (copper) are the three new buildings.The estimated cost is £4.8 million, £2 million has already been donated and the College is seeking to raise a further £1 million. Planning permission was granted in early 2017 and we hope to complete the construction in summer 2019.

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The Tizard Creative Hub Plans are underway for the design of the Innovation hub which Dr Minna Sunikka wrote about in last year’s Review. We are looking to raise at least £3.5million for this project. Vision Creative endeavour is the motor of future success. It is widely recognised that creativity flourishes most readily between existing disciplines, calling for an openness of mind that is best fostered by sharing a common goal with people of contrasting approaches. In this spirit of interdisciplinary thinking and creativity, Architecture, Art, Biochemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Plant Sciences, together with other disciplines, are proposing to bring their collective expertise and experience together to create a new interdisciplinary hub at Churchill College. The Tizard Creative Hub will host a programme of events and create a space aimed towards crossing traditional boundaries between academic disciplines, and forging new collaborations, so that our students can better engage with the challenges of the 21st century. We propose to develop the former oil store, secreted between the bicycle sheds and the squash courts, as a Creative Hub where Churchill College students of all disciplines, undergraduate or postgraduate, have the opportunity to make things together. It will be a place for creativity and innovation, incorporating the Visual Arts Studio, to provide a unique environment to explore, design, test, scale, and build, ideas – technical, social, artistic and more. It is also aimed at engaging a wider audience, both local and national, developing an active communication and exhibition strategy. History In Lent Term 2016 a group of Fellows envisioned a space in College where students could work together on a range of creative projects, rather in the spirit that musicians use the Recital Room or sportspeople use the squash courts and playing fields. Spurred on by enthusiastic undergraduates, not least the newly formed Churchill College Engineering Society, which hoped to engage with others in interdisciplinary projects, these threads merged into the proposed Creative Hub.

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It is important to note that we would be the first Oxbridge College to provide such an amenity. Joe Halligan and Angus McDonald, who are alumni and members of Assemble, an architectural collective that won the 2015 Turner Prize for Granby Four Streets in Liverpool, were immediately enthusiastic about becoming involved with the design of the Hub – having been introduced to the project by Barry Phipps. Malcolm Bolton and Joe Halligan pitched the scheme to alumni attending a Breakfast at the V&A on 30th June organised by the Development Director and hosted by the Master.The reception was extremely positive. A proposal to explore the feasibility of the Creative Hub was accepted by College Council on 5th July 2016, its proposed development of the old oil store was registered on the College’s Site Strategy, and £10k expenditure was authorised to have Assemble create a conceptual design (∼ RIBA Stage 1). Further enthusiastic backing was given by a meeting of alumni organised on the occasion of the annual meeting of the Churchill Association on 24th September 2016. A Steering Group was subsequently formed to guide the project.

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The project costs are comprised of the following: Project Costs Building

£1.0M

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Technical support

£0.5M (endowment to provide £20k p.a.)

Programme development and operations

£1.5M (endowment to provide £60k p.a.)

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Supporting our Students We are constantly striving to ensure we have enough bursary provision for our undergraduates, so that no student is deterred from applying to Churchill because they are fearful of debt or the overall cost of their education. Fundraising to support postgraduates We also are fundraising for studentships to support graduates. There is unfortunately very little funding available from Research councils for advanced students in the Arts and Humanities.We also wish to ensure we do not lose our brightest undergraduates to other colleges who can fund their research.Therefore we aim to endow studentships. So, any contribution to the general endowment funds to support graduates is most welcome.The minimum cost of a fully funded postgraduate is around £18,000 per year. The endowment sums required are therefore around £1million per studentship. This is an excellent way of ensuring an academic career does not become the preserve of the wealthy once more. To be able to achieve this we wish to increase our unrestricted endowment. The Endowment The College’s endowment is around £90 million, held in equities and excluding the College’s property assets. The endowment generates around £2.7–£3million (depending on investment performance) most years which is essential to fund our core activity. The College in FY ending 30 June 2016 spent nearly £5million on educating its students, but income from fees was £3.4 million. The gap in funding of £1.6million is plugged by the endowment and profits made from conference activity. The endowment also includes bursaries and studentships, and the unrestricted endowment amount is more limited. The College is on a secure financial footing, but would have far greater flexibility in terms of its strategic planning if our unrestricted endowment were to grow significantly. It would enable us to face any unexpected expenses more flexibly and give us a greater degree of freedom from the slings and arrows of political interference. Therefore we especially appreciate gifts to the endowment which are not restricted, but which are invested for the long-term stability of the College.

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Giving to Churchill Any gift of whatever size makes a difference. If you have any questions about donating don’t hesitate to email us on development@chu.cam.ac.uk It is easy to donate. You can donate online via our website, by telephone or by post, or via bank transfer. You can also donate non-cash assets. Donating online via our website You can make a one-off gift using a credit card or debit card via www.chu.cam.ac.uk/donate.We accept Mastercard,Visa and Maestro cards. If you have a UK bank account you can also set up a regular gift online (monthly, quarterly or annually). Donating via telephone or by post We are pleased to accept gifts made using a credit card or debit card by telephone. Call +44 (0)1223 331660.We can also accept gifts by post.You can pay by credit card, UK debit card, cheque or direct debit. Please complete and return the enclosed gift form to accompany your instruction. Cheques should be made payable to ‘Churchill College’. Donating via bank transfer Please notify the Development Office by email: development@chu.cam.ac.uk if you choose this option and ensure that the bank quotes your ‘Surname’ and preferred Fund i.e. ‘Grad Accom Fund’ as the reference for the transfer. • Bank: Lloyds Bank, 3 Sidney Street, Cambridge, CB2 3HG • Sort Code: 30-91-56 | Account number: 03114294 • Account Name: Churchill College Bursar’s Account • IBAN: GB24 GB72 LOYD 3091 5603 114294 | SWIFTBIC: LOYDGB2L Donating non-cash assets We welcome gifts of listed shares and securities which attract relief from Capital Gains Tax and Income Tax. Gifts of land or property made during a donor’s lifetime attract the same tax incentives as gifts of shares, and other forms of non-cash gift

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(such as works of art, books, manuscripts and equipment) may also be considered as gifts to Cambridge.Â For further information please contact the Development Office. For more information visit www.chu.cam.ac.uk/alumni/giving-college/making-taxefficient-gift Churchill College Development Office, Storeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS 01223 331660 / development@chu.cam.ac.uk Thank you for your support!

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The Churchill Writing Group Rosie Johnston (U73), the Chair of the Churchill College Association, tells us that the Churchill Writing Group has been going since early 2011 and is free and available to anyone connected with the College (one of these writers is the wife of an alumnus, for example). All sorts of writing are welcome from fiction through memoir to poetry and just anything that arrives on the page or screen. There is no age limit – range is from 20s to 70s – and great friendships have grown amongst group members over the years. We have three pieces on offer in this year’s Review: an intriguing piece by Dr Gervase Vernon (U71),‘Behold the Man Where Hope and History Meet’, a piece about memories and longing, ‘Black Dog’ by Lauren Thomas (the wife of an alumnus) and finally the last piece, a touching story of Mary Beveridge’s great grandmother’s charitable work during the Great War in France, ‘The South of France Relief Association’. Mary is a Senior Member of Churchill College and was its Registrar between 1983 and 1990.

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Behold the Man Where Hope and History Meet Dr Gervase Vernon After lines from ‘The cure at Troy’ by Seamus Heaney I was born in a green and distant land into a family of poets. It was our job to sing praise songs about the king and his warriors.To be a warrior was the finest thing, but to be a poet of the king’s house was almost as good. Our hope, naturally, lay in the strength of the king, but by this we were to be let down. Sea raiders from afar came to our shores; a mere boy, I was taken as a slave. After much harsh treatment I learnt their language. I wrote poems again and they were well received. Once more I placed my hope in military strength. A soldier now as well as a poet, I was sent off to fight the Romans who were encroaching on our lands. But they proved far stronger and again I was captured. Because the Romans had lost so many of their men through disease, we were offered a choice of a position as soldiers in their army or execution. Since I had no loyalty to the sea raiders, I joined up. But I no longer trusted military power; behind its violent face, this I now knew from experience, was hidden eventual defeat. As a Roman soldier you do what you are told, refusal is not an option. As foreign soldiers we were hardly going to get the plum jobs. I ended up on a torture and execution squad. For us it was torture or be tortured, execute or be executed. The main thing was that every day we could eat and drink our fill. I was posted to a hot Mediterranean land. After torture we crucified the prisoners. My job squeezed all hope from my heart; history, on the other hand, I understood only too well. Then, one day, we dealt with a man who stopped us in our tracks. When we tortured him, he did not cry out. On the cross he looked us in the eye and said; ‘forgive them for they know not what they do.’ His words suddenly struck through my defences, for most people died cursing us.Then, as you know, he turned to the criminal next to him and forgave him too. When he died the sky turned dark. Then a centurion pierced his chest and blood and water spurted out from his heart hitting my face and blinding me.

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As the blood and water cleared from my eyes, I could see again; see as freshly as I had when I was a child. From deep within me, without forethought or calculation, I sang out in my native tongue; ‘Behold the man where hope and history meet!’ I sang out a poem of praise to the new king of my heart and my head; ‘Behold my God where hope and history meet!’

Black Dog By Lauren Thomas You used to write me love letters. Sometimes they were great essays, pages scrawled and left beneath pillows.At first I thought it was too much, too soon, that there could be no honesty in such overwrought proclamations in those early days. I pulled away, walking the long way to work so that I wouldn’t have to pass your house. But I came to realise that you could only write truthfully.You found writing words so much easier than saying them out loud, the need to hold eye contact making you rub a nervous hand across one eyebrow. I took that hand and kissed it. Made it mine. After we moved in together the letters continued. Sometimes it was a dirty limerick emailed to me at work, my cheeks burning as I fumbled to close my browser. Other times it was a love heart drawn in the steam on the bathroom mirror. As a wedding gift you gave me a copy of Love Letters of Great Men with a dedication: ‘This. A thousand times this. For when I forget. (But I won’t)’. But you did forget. Three years in, after weeks of paperless silence I asked you about it over a burnt lasagne. You rubbed your eyebrow and laughed, kissing me and telling me not to be silly.That evening I found a post-it between the pages of my book, a hastily scribbled haiku.‘Love is enduring. Like words through a stick of rock. Kiss me quick, my heart.’

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I should have seen that note for what it was.The moment you started to go.Your behaviour shifted. Unreturned phone calls, late nights, raised tempers. I shied away, tiptoed around the obvious because I wasn’t brave enough to ask the questions we needed to answer. Perhaps I should have used your language, written it down and tucked it away for you to find. But I was a coward. I see that now. I still have your letters, including the last one you ever wrote. It was torn from the corner of the newspaper, a fraction of a recipe for an apple pie still visible. In the margin, two words. ‘I’m sorry.’ Every morning when I woke up and found that your smell had faded a little more, I used to wonder what I could have done differently, what I needed to do to keep you. But now that seeing your shoes in the hallway no longer makes me feel like the floor is dropping out from under me, I realise that I always knew that I was never going to be enough.Your path had been laid out long before I came along. Our journey was destined to be short. I’ve never been good with the written word. I always thought I could say more with my voice and gestures. But you were your words, so I’ve written you a final haiku. I’ll leave it among the flowers. We exchanged our hearts.The black dog barked too loudly. Unfinished story.

The South of France Relief Association By Mary Beveridge Clearing the family home after my mother’s death, I found a small wooden crate tucked away in the garage. On further investigation, I found that this contained a jumbled mass of letters, photographs and documents relating to my greatgrandmother, Avise Riddett. One of the first things I pulled out was a slim hardbacked book with a worn red cover, which fell open as I turned it over, to reveal my grandmother’s handwriting. When I read her opening sentence – ‘The following is the story of my mother’s life’ – I realised that there in front of me was the outline of a story waiting to be told.

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Avise was taken by her mother at the age of six to live in the south of France, and spent the rest of her life there. She lived through the Franco-Prussian War, the First World War, and died in the middle of the Second World War, in 1941. I knew that she had done a great deal of charitable work during the First World War for which she was awarded a decoration by the French Government, but it was not until I started going through the contents of the wooden crate that I discovered just what this had involved. One of the many documents I found was a worn black ring-binder full of faded papers, both typed and handwritten, tattered and curling up at the edges, but still perfectly readable.This, I discovered, was the minute book of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;South of France Relief Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, from its formal setting up in Montreal on 1 March 1915 until it was disbanded in 1919.What was this charity? Avise tells us that, when war was declared, The great hotels at Cannes, many of them owned by Germans, were seized for hospitals and the owners interned. These hospitals were administered and staffed by different branches of the Croix Rouge and other organizations.Their need of nurses and equipment was great.The first trainloads of wounded began to arrive on 24 August 1914.The men were lying on straw in cattle trucks with billets of wood for pillows. Their uncared-for wounds on the long journey caused many deaths en route. And before long, many hundreds of refugees, women, children, old men, evacuees from northern France and Belgium, also started to arrive in the Riviera towns, all in need of help and comfort. Few of the original letters which Avise wrote weekly throughout the war to her daughter Olive (my grandmother), who was then living in Montreal, have survived, but the story can be pieced together from the memoir left by Avise in that red exercise book and the ring-binder of minutes. Plunging further into the wooden crate, I found a second equally worn black ring-binder, this one containing many faded Canadian and French press cuttings. Turning the fragile pages, I read how Olive and her friends in Montreal appealed for volunteers to go to the south of France to help nurse the French casualties, and for funds to buy sorely-needed medical supplies. Avise received both volunteers and supplies at the Villa Riddett, her home in Cannes (a house which I was amazed to find is still in existence today), and despatched them from there to the military hospitals and refugee centres in the area.

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After the war, Avise’s work was recognised by the French Government, which in 1921 awarded her the Médaille de la Reconnaissance Française.The medal itself has not come to light, but I was delighted to find the letter notifying her of the award, made to her, pour les services éminents que vous avez rendus à notre pays pendant la durée de la guerre.Tucked inside a small brown envelope I found what turned out to be the little ribbon of the order: a silver star on a white background, with the ‘tricolore’ stripes on each side. And, folded up in a cardboard box, the citation, on yellowed and flaking paper, the wording faded and difficult to read along the folds, but nevertheless still the impressive document which it must have appeared to Avise when she received it almost a century ago.

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Ahmad, Faraz (U02) has been selected to join the World Energy Council’s Future Energy Leader programme.This is limited to 100 exceptional individuals globally under the age of 35. Faraz joins the taskforces on energy efficiency and energy scenarios. Amunts, Alexey (postdoctoral By-Fellow) has won The Lennart Nilsson Award for scientific imaging for his contribution to the visualisation of fundamental biological structures using electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM). Arif, Farrah (G08) was recognised by INSEAD, one of the top business schools in the world. Dr Farrah Arif, Assistant Professor Marketing & Entrepreneurship, Lahore University of Management Science (LUMS), Pakistan co-authored with Dr Amitava Chattopadhyay one of the first Pakistani cases entitled ‘Easypaisa: Providing Financial Services to the Masses’ at INSEAD Case Publishing. Bell,Tony (G71) has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Blackburn, Simon (former Fellow) has been made an Honorary Fellow. Bradley, Donal (G83 and former Fellow) has been made an Honorary Fellow. Burden, Adrian (U89) has published Start to Exit: How to Maximize the Value in your Start-Up with Novaro Publishing. Chatterjee, Krishna (Fellow) has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Cheong, Ben Chester (G14) has been awarded 3 distinctions in Part B of the Singapore Bar Examinations, placing him joint 3rd this year out of 664 students (one of the largest cohorts in recent times). Czerski, Helen (U&G97) was Britain’s voice about the first global World March for Science (with thousands marching in Washington, Sydney, London

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and elsewhere) which took place on 22 April 2017. Interviewed on BBC News she said ‘Science does not tell society what to do. But it does provide a vital foundation of evidence-based knowledge that lets society make good decisions.’ Day, Chris (U78) was elected new Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University. De Grey, Spencer (U&G63 and former Fellow) has been made an Honorary Fellow. Demuth, Ninon (G15) has made this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe Social Entrepreneurs List for co-founding Über den Tellerrand kochen, an organisation that connects refugees with locals through refugee-led cooking classes, street food markets and cookbooks. Dixon, Ruth (U78) has won the Louis Brownlow Book Award from the US National Academy of Public Administration for her book (co-authored with Christopher Hood), A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? It is the first non-US book to receive that award. The work also won the Political Studies Association’s W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize, for the best book in political science published in 2015. Dr Dixon is the first female recipient of this award in its thirty-year history. Eaton, Andrew (U78) was the producer of the successful Netflix series, The Crown. Fu, Xiaotian (G06) was knighted with the Order of the Star of Italy at the Italian Embassy in Beijing on 12 June 2017.This prestigious award was given for her work with senior political figures and her promotion of strong links between Italy and China. German, Christopher (U&G81) has been awarded the Alexander Von Humboldt Research Award, Germany, 2015. His work led to the discovery of seafloor hydrothermal venting in the Arctic Ocean, and hence his election to The Explorers Club, USA, 2015. Chris is now working as part of NASA’s Europa Lander Science Definition Team, targeting a launch in 2024–25: humanity’s first search for life beyond Earth since the Viking Missions to Mars in the 1970s.

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Chris’s final ocean exploration mission might be a three-week study of Europa and its ocean in the early 2030s. Hari, Nikita (G13) has become the first University of Cambridge student and Indian citizen to be featured in the Telegraph’s ‘Top 50 Women in Engineering’ list. King, Julia (Fellow) has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Jacobus, Mary (former Fellow) has been made an Honorary Fellow. Jardine Wright, Lisa (Fellow) has won the 2017 prestigious annual Pilkington Prize award for excellence in teaching. Landeau, Maylis (postdoctoral By-Fellow) on winning the 2016 CorrsinKovasznay Outstanding Paper Award from the Johns Hopkins University Centre for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics for her paper entitled “Core merging and stratification following giant impact”, published in Nature Geosciences in 2016. Mairs, Christopher (U76) has been made an Honorary Fellow. Moya, Xavier (Fellow) has been awarded the Emerging Talent 2017 Award by the Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK) and the Santander Bank Foundation.The Award is for researchers who have demonstrated high potential and strong scientific outputs and leadership qualities. Myers, Imogen (U12) was one of 25 young British authors featured in Young Writers’ Anthology 2016, published by Electric Reads. Nelson, Jenny (U80) has been made an Honorary Fellow. Ritchie, Robert (G66) has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Schultz, Wolfram (Fellow) has won The Brain Prize 2017, the world’s most valuable prize for brain research, shared with two London neuroscientists.

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Shipman,Tim (U93) has published All Out War:The Full Story of how Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class with William Collins. Spaldin, Nicola (U88) was awarded the coveted L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award for the Europe region (for reinventing magnetic materials for next-generation electronic devices), and has also been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Stewart, Ian (U63) has been awarded the Euler Prize by the Mathematics Association of America for In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations that Changed the World. Stroustrup, Bjarne (G75 and former Overseas Fellow) has been made an Honorary Fellow. Thouless, David (former Fellow and Nobel Prize winner) has been made an Honorary Fellow. Van der Linden, Sander (Fellow) has been elected as the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) for prominent contributions to social change research. Vaughan, David (U81) has been awarded an OBE for services to Glaciology. Willis, Anne (former Fellow) has been awarded an OBE for services to biomedical science and promoting the careers of women in science. Wolpert, Miranda (former Fellow) has been awarded an MBE awarded for services to Child and Adolescent Mental Healthcare.

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Members in the News 2016–2017 In alphabetical order Faraz Ahmad Churchill Alumnus (U02) Many congratulations to Faraz Ahmad, Engineering alumnus (U02), for having been selected as one of the 37 global candidates for the Future Energy Leader programme of the World Energy Council. This is a one-year appointment with the possibility of renewal for up to three years. Faraz is joining a task force on energy efficiency that will analyse the role of information and communication technologies in energy efficiency management by reviewing existing implementation and adaptation of efficiency concepts. Faraz views this as being a fantastic fit for his education and experience across engineering, electronics and the energy sector. He hope that his current position on the World Energy Council’s for Future Energy Leaders 100 programme will inspire other students to pursue a career in the energy sector.

Adrian Crisp Book Cover Many congratulations to Dr Adrian Crisp (Fellow 93) for publishing a historical novel which pivots around the hopeless and heroic defence of Calais in May 1940, Colonel Belchamp’s Battlefield Tour, Matador, 2017. Here are a couple of appreciative remarks on Adrian Crisp’s book. This story of love and death pivots on the sacrificial defence of Calais in 1940, ordered by Churchill to demonstrate Britain’s will to fight. Written with personal passion,

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historical vision and clinical insight, it is by turns moving, exciting and illuminating. A novel about one young man’s experience that rivets your attention to its dramatic end. Piers Brendon, historian and author A novel built on sustained historical research and all the stronger for it. A wonderful blend of fact and fiction. Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge

Athene Donald Book Cover Many congratulations to our Master, Professor Dame Athene Donald for featuring in ‘The Female Lead: Women who Shape our World’, edited by Edwina Dunn (Penguin 2017) in which 60 inspirational women, including the Master, and from many walks of life, tell their stories in their own words. For more details: www.penguin.co.uk/books/1109689/the-female-lead

Matthew Kramer Book Cover Many congratulations to Prof Matthew Kramer (Fellow 94) for his book entitled Liberalism with Excellence which enters the debate whether governments are morally required to remain neutral among reasonable conceptions of excellence and human flourishing. The book does not align itself unequivocally with one side or the other, but instead reconceives each of the sides and redirects the disputes that have occurred between them. Here’s an appreciation on Mathew’s book. Matthew Kramer’s book is, unsurprisingly, a highly original, sophisticated, and important contribution to a central debate in political philosophy.

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Jonathan Quong, Philosophy Department at the University of Southern California

Lisa Jardine-Wright Pilkington Prize winner, 2017 Many congratulations to Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright, Churchill Fellow, Physics lecturer, Director of Studies and Tutor at Churchill. Lisa is among thirteen Cambridge academics to have been recognised for their outstanding teaching in the University’s 24th Pilkington Prize awards. The Prize, inaugurated in 1994 and endowed by Engineer and Business man Sir Alastair Pilkington, acknowledges excellence in teaching, and is awarded to individuals who make a substantial contribution to the programme of a Department, Faculty or the University as a whole. Lisa receives high student praise for her undergraduate teaching. She is also the founding co-director of the incredibly successful Isaac Physics project, which offers support and activities in physics problem-solving to help with the transition from GCSE through A-Level to University, as well as Educational Outreach Officer of the Cavendish Laboratory. She comments,‘It is only when you start teaching a subject that you really start to understand it and all of its nuances. The most important thing for me is that my students are willing to make mistakes, and learn from them.’

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Many congratulations to Allen Packwood who was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2016 for services to archives and scholarship. Allen, a qualified archivist, came to the College in 1995 and has been a Fellow and Director of the Churchill Archives Centre since 2002. Under his leadership the reach of the Archives Centre has become fully international, with numbers of visiting researchers

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both within and outside the UK increasing by more than fifty per cent. Allen has also revolutionised electronic availability over the last decade and all the collections of the Archives Centre are now fully catalogued online. This award is a fitting tribute to his exceptional contribution to his field.

Anne Willis Anne Willis with her husband Prof Ken Siddle and their son Edward Many congratulations to Professor Anne Willis for her OBE awarded for services to Biomedical Science and Promoting the Careers of Women in Science. Anne received her insignia from the Princess Royal at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace in April 2017, accompanied by her husband Ken and son Edward. Anne joined Churchill as a JRF in 1988 while working as a postdoc, and stayed for a fourth year as a College Lecturer, supervising for undergraduate biochemistry courses. She is presently Director of the Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit in Leicester. The MRC website adds: ‘Since becoming Director of the MRC Toxicology Unit in 2010, Anne has revolutionised research at the Unit and led the UK-wide Integrative Toxicology Training Programme to help revitalise national capability. Anne is also committed to advancing the careers of women in science and is a strong advocate for public engagement.’

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Introducing . . . Tamsin James, our new Bursar Tamsin is a Law graduate whose career moves show that she likes challenges and being stretched. In her new role as Bursar of Churchill College, she can absolutely expect to be both challenged and stretched! Joining Churchill as only the fifth Bursar in its history is both an honour and a privilege. After seventeen years as Bursar, Jennifer Brook has left a significant legacy and I am grateful for Jennifer’s kindness and patience in supporting my introduction to the College. Churchill was actually my first view of the University of Cambridge. Growing up in St Neots, it seemed a million miles away. I little thought, as an eager student (and I was, and still am, rather a swot), commuting daily on the bus down Madingley Road to attend Hills Road Sixth Form, that I might one day work here, let alone take on such a significant mantle. I feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to build on the College’s strong history and make a significant contribution to an even stronger future. Joining such a large Fellowship is somewhat overwhelming, particularly when your predecessor not only knows everyone, but has been the reliable font of all such knowledge for so long. I remain optimistic that I’ll be able to put all the names and faces together, once I have been through a full cycle! Starting in the middle of Lent Term reminded me very quickly how intense Cambridge terms are. I have been somewhat removed from that experience in recent years, with roles at the Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall

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and before that in the NHS, when one regularly bemoaned the relentless fifty-two week cycle and thought rather longingly of terms. I think the reality is that only with constantly seeking improved approaches to tackling growing pressures can we carve out the necessary time for strategic thinking and planning, regardless of the cycles within which we work. Everyone has been extremely welcoming and supportive. I have a wonderful team to work with and have been enjoying getting to know them as well as seeing once again those I have had the privilege to work with before, in previous roles in University departments and the Old Schools. I hope people will continue to share with me their ideas and concerns so that I can do my very best to support and guide the College over the coming years.

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Introducing . . . Francisca Malarée, our new Development Director Francisca, an economics graduate from the London School of Economics, has always worked in alumni relations and fundraising first for her Alma Mater, then for two other Cambridge Colleges until now. Francisca speaks fluent Spanish. I am delighted to have joined Churchill as Development Director. It’s inspiring to come to a College which was founded in the optimism of 1960 and that remains true to its enlightened principles and motto ‘to know the causes of things’. I have always worked in alumni relations and fundraising, having started my career at my alma mater, the London School of Economics, in its development office while I was studying for a part-time Master’s in modern British political history. Being from a non-UK background I have greatly appreciated growing up in the UK and the opportunities afforded to people of all backgrounds and nationalities through education. It’s contributing in a small way to institutions which transform people’s lives and have a huge impact on wider society and the world which makes working in development and alumni relations so exciting. Churchill’s community is a broad one including current students, Fellows, staff, alumni, donors, conference guests, archival researchers and visitors. My work and that of the alumni and development team is to bring together the various parts of our community and involve them in the future of the College. I am very excited to have the opportunity to meet alumni who are working in such diverse and interesting areas.The Development team’s aim is to introduce a wider range of events to involve and bring alumni back in touch. I hope alumni will always feel able to make suggestions on how we could improve the events and publications we offer.

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I feel privileged to join such a warm community of fellows and students. Unlike other Colleges, Churchill has the feel of a miniature University campus, complete with beautiful vistas, on-site housing, a world-renowned archives centre, conference and sports facilities.The move of more (mainly science) departments to West and Northwest Cambridge affords Churchill great opportunities for the future. Furthermore it is great to join a College true to its founding principles and where people of all backgrounds from all over the world are welcomed and encouraged to excel in whichever field they have chosen. I hope to do what I can to further the College’s mission and help to grow its endowment and financial stability for the benefit of future generations of students. The details of my life are quite inconsequential… I was educated at Chesterton Community College, a local comprehensive school. I’ve been a fellow and Development Director of two Colleges previously, I have a degree in economics from LSE, though I am not an economist, I speak Spanish fluently and have three children whose ages range from 9 months to 20 years old! I also have been the director of a children’s after-school club, and enjoy many sports (including playing and watching football, tennis, and rowing). I look forward to meeting many alumni and friends of this wonderful institution in the next few years.

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Introducing . . . Cathy Butler, the new Director of Programmes at the Møller Centre Cathy, a linguist graduate, recounts the career journey that brought her to the Møller Centre and Churchill College. In November 2016 I was delighted to take up the role of Director of Programmes, Executive Education at Møller Centre Churchill College. I am fully committed to bringing my 25 years’ experience in education and leadership development to contribute to the Møller vision of enabling global leaders to fulfil their potential through innovative, high-impact, values-led and purpose-driven leadership development experiences in our unique residential setting here in the beautiful Churchill College grounds. I have spent the past 25 years working globally in education, talent and executive development areas, spanning public, beyond profit and private sectors. Before joining the Centre, I worked for 12 years at Cambridge Judge Business School, where I was MBA Careers Director for the Cambridge MBA Programme for five years prior to joining their Executive Education department. During my time as MBA Careers Director, over 500 of the brightest and best global MBA students, young leaders of average age 30, benefited from the personal and professional careers development programme that my team designed and delivered. The programme involved a highly personalised approach to careers coaching, advice and guidance whilst focusing on attracting top corporate employers on campus to recruit from the programme. The majority of the Cambridge MBAs were successful in making significant and major career transitions as a result of their educational and careers programme that transformed their careers and lives. Moving into Executive Education at the Business School, my roles spanned from directing the corporate relations area to focusing on developing existing and new client relationships as well as identifying opportunities for leadership and

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management development solutions. Latterly, I had a specific remit for client and programme development activities in the Middle East and Europe. My career prior to the University of Cambridge, included roles in international business development and marketing in both public and private sectors including a large publishing house, an educational trust and an educational consultancy company, as well as the Open University. My particular passion on a personal level is for the culture, language, food, people and places in Italy and Greece, where I have had the privilege of spending some time living. Professionally I am fascinated by leadership development, with a particular interest in peoples’ potential for learning, performance, enjoyment and meaning in their chosen careers and jobs. My vision here in my new role at Møller Executive Education is to work with the team to become steadily more recognised as a top quality provider of high impact executive education and behavioural leadership development programmes. Also to extend even further our reach to attract quality international senior (and aspiring) leaders from global private and public sector organisations to our programmes.

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Introducing . . . Elizabeth McWilliams, our new Alumni and Events Officer Elizabeth McWilliams read English at Churchill from 1992 to 1995, and took up the post of Alumni and Events Officer in January. She can be contacted at alumni@chu.cam.ac.uk I left College in 1995 to take up a job in media research at a media buying agency in London. I remember feeling lucky to have been offered a job, but shocked when I queried the start date (assuming early September), only to be asked when I was graduating, and then given until the following Tuesday to move to London for a Wednesday start.What happened to long summer holidays?! After three years in the industry, I concluded the advertising world didn’t engage me and moved into publishing, which is what I had wanted to do as a student, but had been put off by tales of long hours and low pay at a University Careers Service talk. It turns out that long hours and low pay can be better than long hours and good pay if you feel happier in what you are doing. I stayed with Yale University Press, designing, editing and project managing art books for five years, at which point I became freelance following the birth of my first child, and a few months later we moved back to Cambridge after my husband got a job here and I was no longer tied to the Capital for my work.The flexibility to work at home around the needs of two children was invaluable, and it was hard to imagine returning to a full-time office job, but when my husband left teaching to set up a gardening business, the financial unpredictability with both of us on freelance income became tricky to manage. With my children now at secondary school and more independent, I knew it was the right time to leave the freelance life behind. Since my return to Cambridge I had started to attend the odd alumni event at College and occasionally exercise my dining rights at High Table. It was joining

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the College Writing Group, however, that led me to being asked if I would become a ’90s rep on the [alumni] Association Committee, and which gave me an insight into the work the College does to stay connected with its members no longer in residence.When the post of Alumni Officer became vacant, just as I was starting to think about returning to full-time work (and desperate for a more social working life, having sat on my own at home for 12 years), I realised I couldn’t think of any job in Cambridge that I wanted to do more. Since I arrived back at Churchill, nearly 22 years after leaving, I have often been asked, is it weird to be here as staff member? Well yes it is, but in a really good way. I have been made to feel extremely welcome, and it has felt rather like coming home, albeit to the mysterious corridor in the College that I never had reason to visit as a student. I can understand, however, why some people might wonder why I’d want to come back. Our student days are supposed to be the happiest of our lives, but for many of us this places a rather rose-tinted view on a time when as young people we faced a lot of pressures, some of which we’d never had to deal with before. Those pressures remain the same for our current student community today, and shouldn’t be overlooked. They are not just academic, although it isn’t easy to arrive at a University that expects such high standards, to find that having been used to being at the top end of achievement in school, one is suddenly surrounded by a group of people who all seem to be cleverer (or at least, they did to me!). Many of us will not have known financial worries beyond whether we could afford to go out on Saturday night, taking for granted that parents paid for most of our existence, and I remember feeling anxious as to whether I was using my room heater too much for my budget in the cold fenland winters (despite coming from a distinctly non-tropical Derby). Add to that the sudden need to find a friendship circle among a group of people you’ve only just met (I recall someone saying to me in Freshers’ week:‘move quick or friendship groups crystallise and it’s too late’.) And of course all of these are set against a backdrop of being away from home and parents, which however welcome, is not without its stresses. Given this list, it isn’t entirely surprising that not everyone looks back quite so nostalgically on their student days, and may feel disinclined to retain a relationship with their alma mater. If you are reading this Review now then

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presumably you do have some interest in Churchill, but if you are at all hesitant to come back to visit then please let me reassure you that with that specific set of pressures behind you, and without finals hurtling towards you like an unstoppable train, Churchill is a very happy and warm place to be. I’ve come to feel extraordinarily fond of the architecture, and the food way surpasses my memories. Each time I dine at High Table I feel grateful and proud to be part of a community of such interesting people. The conversation opportunities alone make those earlier tough times worthwhile. Information about the benefits of your lifelong membership of College can be found on our website, but if you have any questions about those benefits, such as using your dining rights, staying in a discounted College room, visiting the Churchill War Rooms at a special rate, please do contact me, I’m very happy to help. I’d love to meet as many of you as possible, whether at specific social events like our Association Weekends each September, or at High Table, or just pop in to the Alumni Office and say hello.The lattes in the Buttery are really very good, catch me around 10am and it’s my round.

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New Fellows 2016–2017 Dr Edmund Birch Title A (Official) Fellow Edmund Birch is a Fellow in French at Churchill. Much of his teaching and research focuses on French literature and culture of the nineteenth century, and he has a particular interest in the relationship between fiction and journalism. He has written on authors such as the brothers Goncourt and Maupassant, and is currently revising his doctoral dissertation for publication as a monograph. Dr Graham Farmelo Title E (Extraordinary) Fellow Graham Farmelo is a science writer, consultant in science communication and an Adjunct Professor in Physics at Northeastern University Boston, USA. He is author of The Strangest Man, a biography of the theoretical physicist Paul Dirac that won the 2009 Costa Prize for Biography and the 2010 Los Angeles Times Prize for Science and Technology writing. His other books include Churchill’s Bomb, which he researched mainly in the Churchill Archives Centre, and the collection of essays It Must Be Beautiful, about some of the great equations of twentieth-century science, with contributions from several distinguished historians and scientists. After taking his PhD in theoretical particle physics at the University of Liverpool in 1977, he was appointed a lecturer in physics at the Open University, where he taught for thirteen years. From 1990 to 2002, he was an executive at the Science Museum, London, responsible for the vision of the Museum’s Wellcome Wing and founding director of the Dana Centre.There, he led many art-science initiatives, including the appointment of Lavinia Greenlaw as poet-in-residence at the Museum, and established the new format of lectures that feature actors playing leading scientists, such as Michael Faraday. Farmelo has co-edited several collections of essays about contemporary museology, including Creating Connections (2004). Since 2004, Farmelo has been a frequent visitor to the

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Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he wrote most of his subsequent books. He writes regularly for the press, notably national newspapers and magazines – including the Guardian, theWall Street Journal, Nature and Scientific American – and has written over six hundred book reviews and feature articles. He has frequently appeared on BBC Radio 4, notably on the Today Programme, In Our Time and Saturday Review. He has lectured on physics all over the world, notably on the life and work of Paul Dirac, and the early history of quantum mechanics. In 2011, he was appointed Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association, and a year later won the Kelvin Prize and Medal for his contributions to the public understanding of physics. Dr Albertine Fox Title B (Junior) Research Fellow Albertine Fox’s primary research lies in contemporary French and Francophone cinema and documentary film. She is currently working on the aesthetics of the film interview with a particular focus on the work of the filmmaker Chantal Akerman. She was awarded her PhD in 2015 from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her doctoral research crossed the disciplines of film studies, film sound studies and musicology, examining the concept of ‘acoustic spectatorship’ in relation to the 1980s films of Jean-Luc Godard. Before this, she completed a BA in French with Music, followed by an MRes that explored Marguerite Duras’s films from a sonic perspective. Alongside her doctoral studies, she worked as a Visiting Lecturer teaching modules on May 68, the Algerian War, early cinema and the 1930s cinema of Jean Renoir. Her other research and teaching interests include gender studies, autobiography, critical theory, ethics and listening. Dr Raphael Lopes Title B (Junior) Tizard Research Fellow Raphael Lopes is an experimental physicist in the Atomic, Mesoscopic and Optical Physics research group within Cambridge of University’s Cavendish Laboratory. Having a solid background in atomic physics and quantum optics, he did his doctoral studies

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at the Institut d’Optique, Palaiseau, France, in the field of quantum atom-optics within the group of Professor Alain Aspect. His main research is now focused on the study of two-dimensional many-body systems using ultracold gases. Professor Jong Min Kim Title C (Professorial) Fellow Jong Min Kim was formerly Senior Vice President and Vice President in Samsung Electronics Corporate R& D centre, Korea for 13 years. Professor Kim was Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of Oxford from 2012–2015. He is now Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Professor Kim’s research areas are display, materials, energy and nanotechnology, with more than 300 journal papers, 253 patents (153 international patents) and several world first inventions, such as quantum dot displays (Nature Photonics, cover article 2009) LEC on glass (Nature Photonics, cover article 2011) and CNT HDTV (highlighted in Science, 1999 and Nature 2001). He is leading EU ERC Advanced Grant and many others. Dr Joseph Paddison Title B (Junior) Research Fellow Joe Paddison is a Junior Research Fellow in Physics. His research focuses on the behaviour of magnetic materials at low temperatures, where the interplay of quantum mechanics and geometry can generate unusual disordered states of matter. He is associated with the research group of Dr Sian Dutton in the Department of Physics. Joe received his doctorate in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Oxford in 2015, under the supervision of Professor Andrew Goodwin and Dr Ross Stewart, having obtained an MChem in Chemistry from the same university in 2011. He joined Churchill from Atlanta, where he was a postdoc in the group of Martin Mourigal at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Dr Tommaso Piffer Title B (Junior) Bodossakis Postdoctoral Fellow Tommaso Piffer obtained his PhD in contemporary history in 2009 from the University of Bologna. Before arriving at Churchill College he was Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Among his publications are an account of the relationship between the Allies and the Italian Resistance during World War II (Gli Alleati e la Resistenza Italiana, Il Mulino, 2010) and the forthcoming collection of essays, Totalitarian Societies and Democratic Transition (with Vladislav Zubok, CEU Press, 2016). His current project investigates the relations between the Big Three Allies and the European Resistance during the Second World War, with a particular focus on Mediterranean Europe. Dr Roberto Svaldi Title A (Official) Fellow Roberto Svaldi earned his MS in Mathematics at Università degli Studi Roma 3 under the guidance of Professor Lucia Caporaso and his Doctorate in Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the guidance of Professor James McKernan in 2015. He is interested in the study of algebraic varieties, geometrical objects described as the zeroes of polynomials, such as parabolas, ellipses, hyperbolas. He studies how these objects change their shape under special transformations and attempts at using these transformations to create new objects with simpler geometry starting from a given one. Dr Sarah Teichmann Title B (Senior) Research Fellow Sarah Teichmann is interested in global principles of regulation of gene expression and protein complexes, specifically in the context of immunity. Sarah did her PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK and was a Beit Memorial Fellow at University College London. She started her

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group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 2001. In 2013, she moved to the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton/Cambridge, jointly with the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI). In January 2016 she became Head of the Cellular Genetics Programme at the WTSI.

Dr Sander van der Linden Title A (Official) Fellow Sander van der Linden is a University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Churchill College. Sander directs the Cambridge Social DecisionMaking (CSDM) Lab and is broadly interested in social norms and social influence processes, human altruism and prosociality, and the psychology of risk, judgment, and decision-making. His research has received numerous awards from institutions such as the American Psychological Association (APA), the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) and the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) and has been widely publicised in the media, including outlets such as Time magazine, the BBC, the Washington Post and the New York Times. Van der linden was nominated by Pacific Standard magazine as one of the ‘top thinkers under 30’. He is also interested in behavioural policy-making and conducting psychological science in the public interest. Prior to his post at Cambridge, he lectured and directed a decision-making lab at Princeton University and was a visiting scholar (2012–2014) at Yale University. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Overseas Fellows 2016–2017 Professor Paola Arimondo Title F (Overseas) French Government Fellow 2016–2017 After a training in Chemistry (Laurea in Chimica, Università degli Studi di Pisa and PhD Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy) and in Biophysics (PhD, MNHN, Paris, France), in October 2001, Paola B. Arimondo was appointed researcher at the CNRS at the Musée national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris coming first in the national competition. Her research focused on the interactions between nucleic acids and proteins and their modulation by small chemical molecules. Initially she developed a strategy to target at a specific DNA site a class of anti-tumour agents directed against human DNA topoisomerases I and II, resulting in site-specific ‘DNA scissors’. The strategy was patented and developed in collaboration with a pharmaceutical company, Sigma Tau, Italy. After a six-month sabbatical in 2005 at the University of California in Berkeley, she started a new project developing an innovative anti-tumour strategy aiming at the epigenetic control of gene expression in cancers and became Director of Research at the CNRS. In 2011, Arimondo started the Laboratory of Epigenetic Targeting of Cancer (ETaC), a joint public-private Laboratory between the CNRS Pierre Fabre Laboratories, in Toulouse, France. ETaC research projects span from the chemistry of the natural products to the discovery of chemical modulators of DNA and histone methylation in cancer. The compounds are also useful tools to better understand the aberrant epigenetic mechanisms in cancer and identify new targets or biomarkers. Arimondo is co-author of 91 publications and of 8 patents. She was awarded the ‘Médaille de Bronze’ 2006 of CNRS section 16, the ‘Prix de l’Encouragement’ (2003) of the French Société de Chimie Thérapeutique and the ‘Marie Curie Excellence Award’ (2003) of the European Community.

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Professor Svante Janson Title F (Overseas) Fellow Michaelmas Term 2016 Svante Janson is Professor of Mathematics at Uppsala University, Sweden. He works mainly in Combinatorial Probability and studies in particular random graphs, random trees and related structures; he is also interested in other parts of Probability Theory, and has earlier worked in Harmonic and Functional Analysis. During this visit in Cambridge, he participated in the programme ‘Theoretical Foundations for Statistical Network Analysis’ at the Isaac Newton Institute. Svante Janson received his BA in 1970 and PhD in Mathematics in 1977, both at Uppsala University. He has remained in Uppsala since then, except for a year in Stockholm and some visits abroad. Svante Janson has been Professor of Mathematics in Uppsala since 1987. He is member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences. He has been awarded Sparre’s prize 1978, the Göran Gustafsson prize 1992, Eva och Lars Gårding’s prize 2009 and Wallenberg Scholar 2011. Svante Janson was also an Overseas Fellow at Churchill College during Easter term 2004, and has made many short visits to Cambridge and Churchill College. Professor Benedikt Löwe Title F (Overseas) Fellow Easter Term 2017 – Lent Term 2019 Professor Benedikt Löwe is a researcher connecting mathematics, computer science, philosophy and the social sciences. He studied mathematics and philosophy in Hamburg, Tübingen, Berlin, and Berkeley. After his PhD, he worked at the universities in Bonn, Münster, Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Cambridge. Currently, his main affiliations are the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and the Mathematics Department at the Universität Hamburg. His research includes mathematical logic, in particular set theory and infinite games, as well as empirical studies of mathematics, in particular with applications to the philosophy of mathematics.

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In the past, Löwe was Fellow-in-Residence at the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences in Brussels (2010–2011) and Visiting Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (2012 and 2015). He is currently President of the German logic society DVMLG and Secretary General of the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the International Union for History of Science and Technology (DLMPST/IUHPST). During Lent term 2017, he was a Visiting By-Fellow, and taught a course ‘Topics in Set Theory’ in Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. Professor Stephen Monismith Title F (Overseas) Fellow Michaelmas Term 2016 Stephen Monismith received all his degrees from UC Berkeley Civil Engineering, completing his PhD thesis with the late Prof H.B. Fischer. Following completion of his thesis, he did a postdoc in Western Australia working with Jorg Imberger focusing on the fluid mechanics of stratified flows in lakes. He has been at Stanford University in the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering since 1987, and served as the Department Chair between 2009 and 2016. His work in environmental fluid mechanics includes studies of estuarine and lake physics as well as near-shore flows with waves and stratification, focusing on mixing and transport processes that are central to ecology, biogeochemistry and environmental management. Through his work on estuarine dynamics, he has been active in San Francisco Bay Delta issues, including helping to develop the scientific underpinnings of freshwater flow regulations. In recent years, much of his efforts (and travel) have focused on the physics of coral reef flows, with fieldwork and modelling carried out on reefs in the Red Sea, and in nearshore waters of Hawaii, Moorea, Palmyra Atoll, American Samoa, and Palau. He has parallel interests studying the inner shelf flows found near and inside the kelp forests of California.

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Professor Jean-Francois Roch Title F (Overseas) French Government Fellow Lent and Easter Terms 2017 Being educated in Africa and in France, Jean-François Roch graduated in physics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and the University of Paris-Sud, with a PhD on quantum nondemolition measurements that he realized at the Institut d’Optique in Orsay (France). He was appointed in 1992 researcher at the CNRS. He continued his quantum optics work at the Institut d’Optique and then moved to the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris to join the group of the Physics Nobel Prize Serge Haroche and Jean-Michel Raimond where he investigated quantum effects associated to whispering gallery modes. In 1998, he became Professor of Physics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan in 1998 which is now the ENS Paris-Saclay. He started a research group on the quantum properties of single light emitters. For the past years, his research has been devoted to the application of single point defects in diamond as quantum sensors. His research stay at Churchill College is dedicated to the development of this technique together with the group of Prof Mete Atatüre at the Cavendish Laboratory. He is also the head of Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, a joint research unit between CNRS, Université Paris-Sud and the ENS Paris-Saclay. He recently settled a joint research structure with the company Thales Research & Technology, which aims to develop quantum sensing techniques and microwave photonics. JeanFrançois Roch is co-author of 135 publications. Professor Mike Shara Title F (Overseas) Fellow 2016–2017 A majority of the stars in the universe are binary. In some cases one of the two stellar components is a super-dense star called a white dwarf, and it may be actively cannibalising its companion star. This leads to dwarf nova eruptions and nova explosions that, using the Hubble Space Telescope, Professor Mike Shara has detected at distances of millions of light years from Earth. The processes that lead to these eruptions, and

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how they cause the stars in such binary systems to evolve, are central to his research interests. He is also trying to determine if these binary stars can produce extremely luminous supernovae at the ends of their lives. Professor Mike Treacy Title F (Overseas) Fellow 2016–2017 Mike Treacy graduated from Cambridge University in 1976 with a BA in Natural Sciences, and in 1979 graduated from Cambridge, with a PhD in Physics, having worked at the Cavendish Laboratory. His PhD topic was in electron microscopy, with emphasis on scanning transmission electron microscopy as a tool for studying heterogeneous catalysts. After postdoctoral positions at IBM Yorktown Heights, and the CNET in Paris, France, he worked at Exxon Research & Engineering Company in Annandale, New Jersey, where he studied heterogeneous catalysts and zeolitic materials. He won both the Barrer and the Breck Awards for his zeolite work conducted at Exxon. In 1990, he joined the NEC Research Institute in Princeton where he worked on electron microscopy studies of carbon nanotubes, amorphous materials, in-situ studies of switching in ferroelectrics, enumeration of hypothetical zeolite structures, and nanophotonic systems. In 2003 he moved to Arizona State University. His two main research interests are: modelling hypothetical zeolite frameworks; the study of disordered materials by Fluctuation Microscopy, a technique he co-invented while at NEC.

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Who’s Who in Churchill This is the list of Fellows as it was on 1 October 2016; also included are Fellows and By-Fellows who joined the College in the course of the academic year 2016–2017. Fellowship Categories: Fellows and By-Fellows Honorary Fellows: honorific positions bestowed on outstanding figures who have normally had a prior connection with the College; Benefactor Fellows: a title bestowed by the Governing Body on major donors to the College; Title A (Official): our main teaching Fellows and senior College Officers;Title B (Research): Junior Research Fellows are early career researchers, usually immediately postdoctoral; Senior Research Fellows are well established researchers, usually with positions in the University or associated institutes;Title C (Professorial): holders of a Cambridge University Chair (but professors who opt to continue with a teaching stint may remain in Title A); Title D: (Emeritus/Emerita): Fellows who have retired from their University position; Title E (Extraordinary): academics or other persons of distinction whom the College wishes to include in its number but who may not be resident in Cambridge;Title F: (Overseas) Fellows staying in Churchill as academic visitors and normally collaborating with Churchill Fellows in the same subject, for periods ranging from a term to a year;Title G (Supernumerary): those who do not belong to any of the above categories but who are performing an important function in the College. Teaching By-Fellows: assisting in specific areas of teaching need (usually postdoctoral status; may also be Fellows of another College); Academic By-Fellows: visiting researchers nominated by the Archives Centre or by a Fellow of the College; Professional and Møller By-Fellows: having professional links particularly relevant to Churchill; Staff ByFellows: non-academic staff members with senior managerial positions in the College; Post-doctoral By-Fellows: drawn from the University’s 3500-strong postdoctoral community. Master Donald, Professor Dame Athene, DBE FRS

Physics

Honorary Fellows Gurdon, Professor Sir John, DPhil, DSc, FRS

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Ndebele, Professor Njabulu, MA, LLD (Hon)

G73; H07

Green, Professor Michael, MA, PhD, FRS

U64; H10

Literature Mathematics

Holmes, Professor Richard, MA, FBA, FRSL, OBE U64; H10

Biographer

Nurse, Sir Paul M, PhD, FRS, FREng

H10

Microbiology

Arrow, Professor Kenneth, MA, PhD

F63–64; H12

Economics

Robinson, Professor Dame Carol, DBE, PhD, FRS B(SRF)03–4; C04–09; H12

Chemistry

Soyinka, Professor Wole

F74; H12

Literature

Vargas Llosa, Dr J Mario P, DLitt

F77–78; H12

Literature

Atkinson, Professor Anthony, CBE, FBA

U63; C92; H15

Economics

Churchill, Mr Randolph

H15

Investment Director

Sales, Rt Hon Lord Justice Philip, QC

U80; H15

Lord Justice of Appeal

Uggla, Mrs Ane Maersk McKinney

H15

A P Møller & Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Fdn

Blackburn, Professor Simon, PhD, FBA

B(JRF)67–69; H17 Philosophy

Bradley, Professor Donal, CBE, FRS, FInstP, FIET, FRSA

A89–93; H17

Physics

De Grey, Professor Spencer, CBE, PhD, RIBA, RA U63; H17

Architect

Jacobus, Professor Mary, PhD FBA CBE

C00–11; H17

Literature

Mairs, Professor Christopher, CBE FREng

U76; H17

Engineering

Mullins, Mr William, FRIBA

H17

Architect

Nelson, Professor Jennifer, PhD FRS

U80; H17

Physics

Stroustrup Professor Bjarne, PhD

F12; H17

Computer Science

Thouless, Professor David J, PhD, FRS

A61–65; H17

Physics

Benefactor Fellows Cowan, Mr Michael, MA

Alumnus (U70)

†Rubinoff, Mr Jeffrey Wild, Mr Anthony

Alumnus (G68)

Lock, Mr Greg

Alumnus (U66)

Luckevich, Ms Lydia

Fellows in order of precedence Siddle, Professor K, MA, PhD

Vice-Master; Biochemistry

Newbery, Professor D M G, MA, PhD, D SCD, FBA, CBE

President of the SCR: Economics

Broers, Rt Hon Lord Alec, PhD, ScD, FRS, FREng

Microelectronics

Boyd, Sir John, KCMG

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Wallace, Professor Sir David, CBE, FRS, FREng

Theoretical Physics

Livesley, Dr R K, MA, PhD

Engineering

Howie, Professor A, PhD, CBE, FRS

Physics

Hewish, Professor A, MA, PhD, ScD, FRS D

Radio Astronomy

Steiner, Professor G, PhD, FBA

Comparative Literature

Brunton, Dr J H, PhD

Engineering

Dixon, Dr W G, MA, PhD

Applied Mathematics

Schofield, Professor A N, MA, PhD, FRS, FREng

Engineering

Craig, Professor E J, MA, PhD, FBA

Philosophy

Westwood, Dr B A, MA, PhD

Computer Science

Whittle, Professor P, MA, PhD, FRS

Mathematics

Tristram, Dr A G, MA, PhD

Pure Mathematics

Palmer, Professor A C, MA, PhD, FRS, FRENG

Petroleum Engineering

Thompson, Professor J G, MA, FRS

Pure Mathematics

Squire, Dr L C, MA, SCD

Aerodynamics

Hoskin, Dr MA, PhD

Pre-History

Abrahams, Dr R G, MA, PhD

Social Anthropology

Cribb, Mr T J L, MA

English

George, Mr H, MA, CMG, OBE

Bursar 1971–1990

Finch, Professor A M, MA, PhD

French

Findlay, Dr A L R, MA, PhD,VetMB

Physiology

Gough, Professor D O, MA, PhD, FRS

Astrophysics

Echenique, Professor M, OBE MA A DArch ScD, RTPI RIB

Architecture

Warren, Dr S G, MA, PhD

Organic Chemistry

Ryall, Dr R W, MA, PhD

Pharmacology

Fraser, Dr C, MA, PhD

Social Psychology

Gaskell, Dr P H, MA, PhD

Physics

Barnett, C B, MA, CB,E FRHistS, FRSL, FRSA

Military History

Wood, Mr H B, MA

Music

Milne, Professor W I, MA, FRENG

Engineering

King, Dr F H, MA, PhD

Computer Science

Goldie, Professor M A, MA, PhD

History

Bolton, Professor M D, MA, PhD, FREng

Engineering

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Ashburner, Professor M, MA, PhD, ScD, FRS

Genetics

Mascie-Taylor, Professor C G N, MA, PhD, ScD

Biological Anthropology

Hurst, Mr H R, MA

Classical Archaeology

Dawes, Professor W N, MA, PhD

Engineering

Green, Dr D A, MA, PhD

Physics/Radio Astronomy

Allen, Mr M J, MA, OBE

English; Bursar 1990–1998

Gregory, Professor Sir Michael, MA, CBE FREng

Manufacturing/Management

Norris, Professor J R, DPhil

Mathematics

Amaratunga, Professor G A J, PhD, FREng

Engineering

Knowles, Dr K M, MA, PhD

Materials Science

King, Professor Dame Julia, MA PhD CBE DBE FRSA FREng

Materials Science

Walters, Dr D E, MA, PhD

Statistical Consultancy

Webber, Professor A J, PhD

MML – German

Chatterjee, Professor V K K, MA, FRS

Pathology

Laughlin, Professor S B, MA, PhD, FRS

Neurobiology

Jennison, Miss B M, MA, MBE

Physics, Education

Crisp, Dr A J, MA, MB, BChir, MD, FRCP

Clinical Medicine

Kramer, Professor M H, PhD, A LLD, FB

Law

King, Mrs A N, MA

Linguistics

Brendon, Dr P, MA, PhD, FRSL

History

O'Kane, Dr C J, MA, PhD

Genetics

Robertson, Professor J, MA, PhD, FIEE

Engineering

Boksenberg, Professor A, MA, PhD, FRS, CBE

Astronomy

Barbrook, Dr A C, MA, PhD

Biochemistry; Admissions Tutor

Kinsella, Professor J, MA, PhD

Poet

Yuan, Dr B, PhD

Chinese and Linguistics

Brook, Mrs J M, MA, MBA

Bursar 1999–2017

Kraft, Professor M, MA, Dr. rer. Nat.ScD

Chemical Engineering

Sirringhaus, Professor H, PhD, FRS

Physics

DeMarrais, Dr E, PhD

Archaeology; Tutor

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Van Houten, Dr P, MA, PhD

Politics

Tout, Professor C A, MA, PhD

Astronomy; Fellows’ Steward

Mathur, Professor N D, MA, PhD

Materials Science

Soilleux, Dr E, PhD

Pathology

Gopal, Dr P, MA, PhD

English

Webb, Professor A, PhD

Plant Sciences; Advanced Student Tutor

Harris, Professor P A, LLM, PhD

Law

Kendall, Miss M, MA

Librarian 1984–2015; Tutor

Packwood, Mr A G, MPhil, FRHistS, OBE

Director, Churchill Archives Centre

Thornton, Professor Dame Janet, PhD, E CBE, FRS, DBE

Computational Biology

Hicks, Dr C M, MA, PhD

Engineering

Fawcett, Dr J, MA, PhD

Computer Science; Praelector and Tutor

Schultz, Professor W, PhD, FRS

Neuroscience

Kingston, Dr I B, PhD

Pathology; Tutor for Advanced Students

Ozanne, Professor S E, PhD

Biochemistry

Englund, Dr H M, MA, PhD

Social Anthropology

Caulfield, Professor C P, MASt, PhD

Mathematics

Reid, Dr A, M.Sc, PhD

Geography; Tutor

Pedersen, Professor R A L, AB, PhD

Regenerative Medicine

Wassell, Dr I J, PhD

Engineering

Ludlam, Dr J J, MA, PhD

Mathematical Biology; Tutor

Taylor, Dr A W, MA, PhD

English; Tutor

Sunikka-Blank, Dr M M, PhD

Architecture

Boss, Dr S R, PhD

Chemistry

Hines, Professor M M, MA, PhD

Social & Developmental Psychology; A S Tutor

Liang, Dr D, PhD

Engineering

Ralph, Professor D, PhD

Operations Research

Kennicutt, Professor R C, MSci, PhD, FRS

Astronomy

Singh, Dr S S, PhD

Engineering

Goldstein, Professor R E, PhD, FRS

Mathematics

Wickramasekera, Professor N, PhD

Mathematics

McEniery, Dr C M, PhD

Physiology

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Spiegelhalter, Professor D J, PhD, OBE, FRS

Statistics

Partington, Mr R J, MA

History; Senior Tutor

Russell, Dr P, PhD

Mathematics; Admissions Tutor

Phipps, Mr B J, MA, MSt, MPhil

Curator of Works of Art; Tutor

Knight, Mr N V, MSc

Economics; Tutor

Frayling, Professor Sir Christopher, MA, PhD

Historian, Critic and Broadcaster

Leader-Williams, Professor N, BVSc, PhD, ScD, MRCVS

Geography

Linterman, Dr M A, PhD

Biological Sciences

Cutler, Dr N, MA, PhD

Geography; Admissions Tutor

Denault, Dr L T, PhD

History; Advanced Student Tutor and Tutor

Monson, Dr R E, PhD

Cell Biology

Ron, Professor D, MD, FMedSci, FRS

Metabolic Science

Rowland, Dr H M, PhD

Zoology

Jardine-Wright, Dr L, MSci, MA, MSci, PhD

Physics; Tutor

Biberauer, Dr T, MA, PhD

Linguistics

Durbin, Dr R M, PhD

B (SRF)

Human Genetics

Secrett, Mrs G, BSc (Hons), CDIR

CEO of the Møller Centre

Stott, Dr K M, PhD

Chemistry

Curry, Dr H A, MA, MPhil, PhD

History & Philosophy of Science Earth Sciences

Davies, Dr N S, PhD

Akroyd, Dr J W J, MA, MEng, PhD

Chemical Engineering

Gagne, Dr C A, MA, MPhil, PhD

French

Hasan, Dr T, MEng, PhD

Engineering

Mei, Professor J, MSc, PhD

B (SRF)

Historical Metallurgy & Materials

Owens, Dr T, MA, DPhil

B (JRF)

English

Toner, Dr J P, PhD

Classics

Alexander-Webber, Dr J A, PhD

B (JRF)

Electrical Engineering

Anderson, Professor R J, PhD, FRS, FREng

B (SRF)

Computer Science

Holmes, Dr M A, MA,VetMB, PhD, FRCVS

Veterinary Medicine; Tutor

Moya, Dr X, PhD

B (SRF)

Materials Science

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Onatski, Professor A, PhD

Economics

Rees, Dr E J, MA, MSci, PhD

Chemical Engineering

Sommer, Dr A PhD

B (JRF)

Philosophy & History & Philosophy of Science

Surtees, Mrs S J B

A (Admin)

Domestic Bursar

Oates, Mr T, MA, CBE

Cambridge Assessment

Ali, Dr J M, MA, MB, BChir, PhD, MRCS

Medical & Veterinary Sciences

Daly, Dr R, PhD

Engineering

Minshall, Dr T H W, PhD

Innovation and Engineering Outreach

O’Brien, Dr C, PhD

B (JRF) Newton Gulbenkian

History

Savory, Dr S PhD

Engineering

Simoniti, Dr V, PhD

B (JRF) Rubinoff

History of Art

Sloman, Dr P PhD

Politics

Svaldi, Dr R, PhD

Pure Mathematics

Young, Dr A PhD

Engineering; Dean

Kim, Professor J M, PhD

Engineering

Wilkinson, Dr T, PhD

B (JRF)

Archaeology

Birch, Dr E, PhD

French

Fox, Dr A, PhD

B (JRF)

Modern & Medieval Languages

Lopes, Dr R

B (JRF) Tizard

Physics

Paddison, Dr J, PhD

B (JRF)

Physics

Piffer, Dr T, PhD

B (JRF) Bodossakis

History

Teichmann, Dr S PhD

B (SRF)

Molecular Biology

van der Linden, Dr S, PhD

Psychology

James, Mrs T M, LLB

A (Admin)

Bursar

Malarée, Ms F A, MA

A (Admin)

Development Director

Farmelo, Dr G, PhD

Biographer and Historian

Overseas Fellows Arimondo, Dr P, PhD

F (French Government) Haematology

Holcman, Professor D, PhD

Mathematics

Janson, Professor S, PhD

Mathematics

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Monismith, Professor S, PhD

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Roch, Professor J-F, PhD

F (French Government) Physics

Shara, Professor M PhD

Astronomy

Treacy, Professor M PhD

Physics

Loewe, Professor B, PhD

Logic and Computation

By-Fellows Tasker, Dr A, MB BCHIR, MRCP

BF (Teaching)

Medical Sciences

Benton, Dr P A, MEng, PhD

BF (Teaching)

Computer Science

Bianchi, Mr A S, MA

BF (Teaching)

Spanish

Hendrick, Dr A, PhD

BF (Teaching)

Biology of Cells

Laycock, Mrs P, BA (Hons), FRSA

BF (Staff)

College Registrar 1991–2014

Abdi, Dr E, MPhil, PhD

BF (Teaching)

Engineering

Bittleston, Dr S, PhD

BF (Professional)

MD, Schlumberger Cambridge Research

Bostock, Dr M, MSci , PhD

BF (Teaching)

Chemistry

Ghidini, Dr M, PhD

BF (Teaching)

Materials Science

Hunter, Dr M, PhD

BF (Teaching)

Earth Sciences

Gotham, Dr M R H, MMus, PhD

BF (Artist)

Director of Music-Making

Hanson, Dr L, MA, DPhil

BF (Teaching)

Philosophy

McMeekin, Mrs S M, BA (Hons)

BF (Staff)

Finance Manager

Amunts, Dr A, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Molecular Biology

Charteris, Dr C, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

English

de la Roche, Dr M, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Cell Biology

Feldman, Dr A, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Epidemiology

Kabeshov, Dr M, PhD

BF (Teaching)

Computer Science

Vecchi, Dr E, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Human Language Technology

Braithwaite, Dr C, PhD

BF (Teaching)

Natural Sciences

Constantinescu, Dr M, PhD

BF (Teaching)

Psychology

Dearden, Dr L, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Biomedical Sciences

Donald, Dr M, PhD

BF (Teaching)

Mathematics

Esconjauregui, Dr S, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Engineering

Izzard, Dr R, PhD

BF (Teaching)

Astronomy

Jullien, Dr J, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Biomedical Sciences

Kolkenbrock, Dr M, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

German

Majeed, Dr R, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Philosophy

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Meroueh, Mr A

BF (Teaching)

Mortara, Dr L, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Pure Mathematics Engineering

Sequeira, Dr C, PhD

BF (Teaching)

Engineering

Sorenson, Professor G, PhD

BF (Møller)

Leadership

Stroobants, Dr K, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Chemistry

Brierley, Dr G V, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Medical & Veterinary Sciences

Christofidou, Dr K, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Materials Science & Metallurgy

Doerflinger, Dr H, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Genetics

Dunbar, Dr S, PhD

BF (Teaching)

Pharmacology

Durgan, Dr J, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Biology and Biochemistry

Landeau, Dr M, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Applied Mathematics

Ming, Dr A, PhD

BF (Teaching)

Applied Mathematics

Morgan, Dr S, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Neuroscience

Nikolka, Dr M, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Optoelectronics

Prasad, Ms K

BF (Professional)

Head of Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

Reinsberg, Dr B, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

International Studies

Ruggiero, Dr M T, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Chemical Engineering

Russell, Dr M, PhD

BF (Professional)

Head of Office of Intercollegiate Services

Savage, Dr L E, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

History of Art

Winpenny, Dr E M, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Neuroscience

Michelin, Dr S, PhD

BF (Visiting: French Govt)

Applied Mathematics

Kelly, Dr S, PhD

BF (Archives)

History

Saenz-Frances San Baldomero, Dr E, PhD

BF (Visiting)

Humanities and Social Sciences

Farmer, Dr G D, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Psychology

Courtice, Dame V A Polly, DBE, LVO

BF (Postdoctoral)

Director, Inst for Sustainability Leadership

Brick, Dr C, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Social Psychology

Lenne, Dr P-F, PhD

BF (Visiting)

Genetics

Bystrova, Dr I, PhD

BF (Visiting)

Russian History

Sowerby, Prof S, PhD

BF (Visiting)

History

Singh, Dr Satpal, PhD

BF (Visiting)

Pharmacology

Van der Bles, Dr A M, PhD

BF (Postdoctoral)

Social Psychology

Rawlinson, Rev Dr J

Chapel Trustees’ Appointee

Chaplain to the Chapel at Churchill College

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Condolences The College extends deep sympathies to the families and friends of the following: Mr Ian Carlisle (G76) Mr E. D. Cave (former Fellow) Mr David Griffiths (U64) Dr William Phillips (G69) Mr Martin Strawson (U96) who died in 2007 Dr Max Lazarus (U61) who died in 2012 Professor Jens Norgard-Sorensen (former By-Fellow) who died in 2015 Mr Samuel Willcocks (U92) who died in 2015 Professor Peter Gay (former Overseas Fellow) who died on 12 May 2015 Mr Peter Cussons (U72) who died in September 2015 Dr Patrick Echlin (U&G64) who died in October 2015 Mr Peter Etherden (U65) who died on 13 October 2015 Professor Herbert Scarf (former Overseas Fellow) who died on 15 November 2015 Dr Wilson Fok (former Overseas Fellow) who died on 31 December 2015 Professor Philip Hill (former Overseas Fellow) who died on 17 February 2016 Dr Henrik Specht (former Overseas Fellow) who died on 26 February 2016 Mr Adrian Robert Goalby (U76) who died on 6 March 2016 Mr Colin Sprakes (U66) who died on 26 March 2016 Mr Anthony Wallis (G74) who died on 20 April 2016 Mr Alexander Lindsay (known as Hugo Lindsay) (U68) who died on 13 July 2016 Professor Robert Blake (G77) who died on 29 July 2016

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Dr Tom McManus (U65) who died on 30 July 2016 Professor Roger Tsien (G72, Honorary Fellow and Nobel Laureate) who died on 24 August 2016 Professor Michael Wilson (U68) who died in September 2016 Mr Keith Stevens (former Schoolmaster Fellow) who died in September 2016 Mr Baird N M Oldrey (U63) who died on 1 September 2016 Mr Michael Barnes (U66) who died on 08 September 2016 Professor Nikolay Kiselev (U66) who died on 17 September 2016 Dr Richard Stephen Williams (U68) who died on 29 October 2016 Professor Guillermo Whittembury (former Overseas Fellow) who died on 19 November 2016 Mr Jonathan Rabone (U93) who died on 22 November 2016 Professor Craig Comrie (G71) who died on 9 December 2016 Professor Sir Anthony Atkinson (U63, former Fellow and Honorary Fellow) who died on 31 December 2016 Mr John Bury (former By-Fellow) who died on 18 January 2017 Mr Jeffrey Rubinoff (Benefactor Fellow) who died on 24 January 2017 Professor Kenneth Arrow (former Fellow, Honorary Fellow and Nobel Laureate) who died on 21 February 2017 Mrs Anne Keynes (wife of deceased Fellow Professor Richard Keynes) who died in March 2017 Ms Brenda Jennison (Fellow) who died on 15 March 2017 Dr Lauren Zeitels (G06) who died on 27 March 2017 Dr Howard Plaut (U77) who died on 2 April 2017 Sir Ronald Hobson (Archives donor), who died on 22 April 2017 Mr Alexander Strang (known as Sandy Strang) (U69) who died in May 2017 Mr Laurence Harvey (former Fellow) who died on 3 July 2017

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An Immensely Distinguished Economist Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson – An obituary by Prof David Newbery Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson, FBA, CBE, an undergraduate of the college from 1963–66, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow of Churchill College, 1992–94, elected an Honorary Fellow in 2015, died on 1 January 2017, not long after his last visit to dine in the college and see old friends in Cambridge. He was taught by Frank Hahn and much influenced by James Meade (then Professor of Political Economy here), whose serious approach to what economists could say about social justice Tony shared. Tony was infectiously enthusiastic and supportive, immensely important in economics, a field that is often characterised by competiveness and criticism. My lifelong friendship with Tony and his wife of 50 years, Judith, started when he returned from working with Bob Solow (Overseas Fellow and Nobel Laureate) at MIT in 1967 to share an office with me for four years. He is sorely missed. Tony Atkinson was an immensely distinguished economist (there is hardly an economics position or honour that he has not received and/or filled with distinction). He was concerned with income and wealth distribution, as well as poverty, his entire professional life and his 23 books started with Unequal Shares – Wealth in Britain (1971), continuing right up to Inequality – What can be done? published in 2015. His name lives on in the Atkinson index – an inequality measure. He was very influential in policy debates and in delivering important reports to governments, serving on the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth, the Pension Law Review Committee and many others here and abroad. His 1995 Lindahl Lectures on Public Economics in Action and his 1999 Munich Lectures on The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State have spoken to, and considerably influenced, academic research and policy debates. He was born on 4 September 1944, was elected a Fellow at St Johns at the age of 23 one year after graduating in Economics and to a professorship at Essex in

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1971–76. He moved to become Professor of Political Economy at University College, London, 1976–79 and then to the Tooke Chair of Economic Science and Statistics at the London School of Economics, 1980–92, before joining us in Cambridge holding the senior chair as Professor of Political Economy, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Churchill College, 1992–94. He left after only a brief stay to become Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford until 2005. After that, while remaining a fellow of Nuffield College, he held a variety of Professorships – in Paris, Harvard, the LSE and Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984 and was Vice President from 1988–90. He was President of the Econometric Society, 1988 (the most prestigious and selective academic economics society in the world), President of the European Economic Association, 1989, President of the International Economic Association, 1989–92 and President of the Royal Economic Society, 1995–1998, as well as of various other international societies. He was knighted in 2000 and made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2001, and was given honorary degrees by at least 11 universities.

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Passionate about Humanity Jeffrey Rubinoff â&#x20AC;&#x201C; An Obituary by Richard Partington Rubinoffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aspiration to place art in conversation with philosophy, history and the sciences brought him into contact with Churchill College. Jeffrey was a Canadian sculptor and founder of the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park on Hornby Island, British Columbia, where he lived and worked. His interest in the interdisciplinary creative impetus of early modernism and understanding of art as a source of insight for the evolution of ideas led him to endow the Jeffrey Rubinoff Junior Research Fellowship (currently held by Dr Vid Simoniti). Jeffrey was one of the great sculptors in steel of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1970s and 1980s, while simultaneously pursuing a successful business career, he exhibited widely in the United States and Canada alongside Anthony Caro, Mark di Suvero and George Rickey, among others. However, in the early 2000s he withdrew from the business and art world and concentrated on creating an extraordinary sculpture park on Hornby Island. Jeffrey dedicated over four decades of his life to building the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park. It is home to over 100 of his collected works. He constructed a place where his sculptures were framed by mountains, trees and the sea. In addition to displaying the work, his aim for the Park was to generate interdisciplinary discussion through an ongoing forum, a dialogue intended for both artists and non-artists. This aspiration to place art in conversation with philosophy, history and the sciences brought him into contact with Churchill College. The Jeffrey Rubinoff Fellowship, which he established here, supports an early career researcher in History of Art and related fields, working in the field of Art as a Source of Knowledge. He was a penetrating and vital person, passionate about humanity, art, his work and his ideas, which were complex and challenging; and he was a great social

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companion, generous and funny. Those of us who visited Jeffrey and his partner Betty Kennedy on Hornby Island, and had the privilege of being introduced to his art by its creator, found ourselves inspired by the scale of his achievement, and embraced by his and Bettyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s warm hospitality.

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A Truly Great Economist and a Remarkable Person

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Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Prize Winner – An obituary by Prof David Newbery Kenneth Arrow, the youngest ever Nobel Prize winner in Economics at the age of 51, died in Palo Alto at the age of 95 on Tuesday 22 February. Arrow had strong links to Churchill College. He was a Title F Overseas Fellow in 1963, 1970, 1973 and 1986, and made many subsequent visits to the college. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the college in 2012. He numbered, with Paul Samuelson, his brother in law, among the most outstanding theoretical economists of the 20th century. Frank Hahn, with whom he co-wrote the definitive treatise on General Equilibrium theory, brought him to Churchill, and on his frequent short visits to England he would often stay with the Hahns in their garden annex. Indeed, I had tea with him when he last visited Dorothy a few months ago, and have valued his amazing warmth, friendship and stimulating discussions since my first visit to Stanford in 1976. 1972 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics Arrow was awarded the Nobel in 1972 for his formal proof of the efficiency of general competitive equilibrium, a subject also central to Frank Hahn’s research. While it is easy to imagine a market price set by demand and supply in a single market, it is no small matter to prove that there exists an equilibrium when the prices in many other markets impact on both supply and demand in each market. Arrow proved that under the restrictive assumptions of full information about all prices, no transactions costs, where no agent acts as if she can influence prices, and production has no non-market impacts on any other agent, if a competitive equilibrium exists, then there is no other feasible allocation of goods in which no-one is worse off and at least one person is better off. With additional assumptions on production technologies, Arrow proved the existence of a competitive equilibrium. While some naïve or politically motivated people might take this to justify free market economics, Arrow’s other major contributions tested the limits of the assumptions needed for this

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efficiency claim to hold, particularly in the practically important fields of health care and insurance, where information on one side of the market is superior to that on the other. Where actions have adverse impacts not reflected in market prices or taxes, markets fail to deliver efficient outcomes. Arrow was an early and effective writer on the problems of climate change and pollution spills. When the tanker Exxon Valdez caused a massive oil spill in Alaska, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, set up a panel cochaired by Arrow and Solow (another Laureate, frequent Overseas Fellow and close colleague of Hahn’s) to assess methods for valuing the impacts of that disaster. His first major contribution Arrow’s first major contribution to economics came from his PhD in the 1951 book Social Choice and Individual Values, in which he proved the Impossibility Theorem – that there is no choice mechanism (voting rule) for constructing social preferences (society prefers A to B) that satisfies obviously necessary criteria, such as non-dictatorship, which would work regardless of the underlying individual preferences.This contribution alone would have earned a Nobel, as this book demolished several centuries of conventional wisdom. It laid the foundations for the whole new field of social choice theory, to which one of our early brilliant research fellows, Robin Farquharson (elected 1964), who tragically died in 1973 at the age of 43, made major contributions. Farquharson’s Theory of Voting, written in 1958 but not published until 1969, very much followed Arrow’s lead. It provided an influential analysis of voting systems and strategic voting that stimulated much discussion within the college on procedures for electing Masters. Path-breaking contribution to economic growth theory It has justly been said that Arrow could have been awarded the Nobel Prize for at least four branches of economics that he either founded or transformed. In addition to General Equilibrium and Social Choice theory, he made an early and path-breaking contribution to the theory of economic growth. In 1962 he published a model in which productivity increases with accumulated experience – learning-by-doing. This laid the foundations for a huge expansion of what became known as endogenous growth theory. It hit the popular press when as Shadow Chancellor in 1994, Gordon Brown made a speech in which he famously

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referred to ‘post-neo-classical endogenous growth theory’. Again, Frank Hahn was writing extensively on growth theory at this time and published (with Robin Matthews in 1964) a hugely influential survey on the theory of economic growth, attesting to the importance of Arrow’s (and Solow’s) contributions. Major contributions to decision making Arrow also made major contributions to the theory of decision making under risk, and one of the standard measures of risk aversion is named after him. In another college link,Tony Atkinson, a former student, professorial and honorary fellow of the college who also died this year, applied the same measure in a different context, known as the Atkinson inequality measure. Arrow developed the foundational field of contingent securities that could be notionally used to complete general equilibrium theory in the presence of risk. If we do not know whether it will rain tomorrow, but know its probability, the value of an umbrella tomorrow will be different if it rains or shines (and can be priced). This way of thinking transformed the theory of finance and led to fundamental innovations in financial markets. Transformed the study of health care and insurance markets Similarly, Arrow transformed the study of insurance markets and the market for health care, with the concepts of moral hazard and adverse selection. If I am insured against all losses, I will take less care avoiding losses (moral hazard), while if I offer health insurance, the very healthy may decide that the premiums are too high, leaving the insurer with the less healthy fraction of the population (adverse selection). In both cases markets may break down or fail to exist, despite their apparent value – insurance really is valuable in shifting a risk which might have a high cost to an individual to a population for which the average risk is known and covered by acceptable premiums. Health care may be better supplied if it covers the entire population, not just the least healthy, as this can greatly reduce the effort and cost of estimating individual risks. Effortless, transparent, and huge fun To all these topics and others, Arrow contributed foundational analyses, and in many created entirely new fields of economics that richly informed public practice.The amazing part of this is that he made it seem effortless, transparent, and huge fun, while always having time to respond to queries from his

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colleagues, and even from those he did not know but who would write to him. I certainly benefited when I dropped into his office in Stanford as a very junior visitor, thinking that I had found a paradox in the analysis of risky agricultural markets. A short conversation allowed me to see how to resolve that paradox, but not before it became clear that Arrow was completely engaged with the problem and willing to put other pressing issues to one side for the while. His work commanded admiration and respect as it was so obviously important for the world outside the lecture hall, whether it was a better understanding of racial prejudice, the value of pristine wilderness, health care reform, the need for financial oversight or climate change action. Many of the obituaries remark how humble, unassuming and engaged he was to everyone who met him, while at the same time leaving everyone with the sense of his extraordinary knowledge about almost everything. Arrow could see through problems more quickly and clearly than seemed humanly possible, while providing his audience the excitement of shared discovery. In short he was both a truly great economist and a remarkable person.

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A Most Remarkable Woman Brenda Jennison, MBE – An obituary by Carole Wilson Brenda was one of the most remarkable women that I have ever met. I feel privileged to have been numbered among her friends, and honoured, but also not a little daunted, to have been asked to pay this tribute to her today. My first real memory of Brenda dates back to the mid-seventies when she brought her PGCE students to visit the headquarters of the Association for Science Education in Hatfield, where I then worked. I have no doubt that she also arranged visits to the Institute of Physics, and other organisations providing resources likely to be of help to them. We never had that sort of visit in my day. Our career paths crossed and intertwined many times after this and Brenda became a very good friend. Brenda’s career On leaving Bedford College, London in 1963, Brenda underwent a teacher training course at Hughes Hall and the Cambridge University Department of Education. From Cambridge, she went to teach at Godolphin and Latymer School in Hammersmith, a London County Council Grammar School for Girls and one of the fifty schools in the country trying out the new Nuffield materials. She described it as a school taking very able girls from a wide social background, and commented that the pleasure of teaching them left one breathless, many of them being brighter than herself. She claimed that she almost did not apply for the physics post as the then Head of Science was a somewhat formidable woman and she was terrified at the prospect of being interviewed by her. I suspect that some of Brenda’s future PGCE students experienced similar feelings! Frances Eastwood may have ‘terrified’ the young Brenda, but she clearly recognised her potential. A friend from the same year as Brenda at Bedford College, who joined the department at the same time, refers to Brenda as an excellent classroom teacher who rapidly made her mark. Brenda really enjoyed her teaching, especially her involvement with the trial Nuffield Physics scheme, and her interactions with her pupils, and because she enjoyed it, she hadn’t really intended to leave. However, she had already

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demonstrated her skills as a teacher of other teachers on Nuffield in-service training courses and her Head of Science, without her knowledge, sent off for an application form for the post of training physics teachers at Cambridge. Brenda applied and was appointed in 1970, becoming the only female physics teacher trainer in the UK at that time. In the 30+ years that followed, Brenda trained nearly 350 physics teachers, which is an impressive figure, but while it quantifies her contribution to physics teacher training, it does not reveal the quality of her work. Well before Brenda retired, I used to say ‘Think of the very best teachers of physics in England and Wales and I will bet you that the vast majority of them were trained by Brenda.’ Characteristics of a good physics teacher Asked once by a student what were the characteristics of a really good physics teacher, Brenda replied: • A love of physics and wanting to learn more • Enthusiasm to hold a conversation with students about physics • A willingness to get involved beyond the school walls, to bring in ideas to keep your teaching alive and lively • Being self-motivated and enjoying your teaching. Brenda exemplified all these characteristics, and more, in her teaching in school and in her teacher-training. She loved physics and never stopped wanting to learn more. She not only had enthusiasm for conversation with her students but she used those conversations to challenge them, and thus deepen their understanding. Getting involved beyond the Department’s walls, Brenda took her students out and about to a wide variety of venues – the Humber Bridge, Alton Towers, the Thames Barrier, power stations, research establishments, museums, etc. – and, more recently, to CERN. Indeed, such was her enthusiasm for the CERN experience that she chartered an aeroplane so that she could take local sixth-form students there as well, having them sleep-over at the Cavendish on a Friday night, in order to make a very early start on the Saturday morning and then to fly back later in the day. Brenda and the Cavendish The Cavendish was a great resource for Brenda in her promotion of physics to

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young people, and I would suggest that she was a great resource for the Cavendish. With the support of the Institute of Physics, she established the Cambridge Physics Centre there, running lectures and other activities for teachers and school students in the area. When the Institute put forward the idea of an exhibition for school students demonstrating the application of physics in industry and research, Brenda embraced it and Physics at Work was born in Cambridge. The 2017 exhibition will be the 33rd and as each exhibition caters for of the order of 2,700 students, that’s a total of over 85,000 students who have benefited from the experience. Brenda’s achievements Time does not allow to speak of all Brenda’s achievements – her support for the Institute of Physics, her contributions to the much-used ‘Practical Physics’ website, her championing of girls in physics, her international links, especially with the

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physics education community in Japan.Whenever she engaged with a project, an initiative or an organisation, she did so whole-heartedly, giving generously of her time and her talents. For the Education Group of the Institute she organised meetings and conferences and served as Secretary and then Chairman. Not only did she herself engage, but she encouraged others to do so and was always looking out for younger people to take over in due time. She served on various education related committees and on Council. In 1996 she was awarded the Institute’s Bragg Medal and Prize for her outstanding service to physics education, and in 1999, she was awarded an MBE. Brenda at Churchill College And I have not touched on her role as Admissions Tutor at Churchill College, nor her role as a personal tutor, the latter which she enjoyed so much and to which she gave so much. Brenda regularly invited all those students to whom she was a tutor/mentor to breakfast on a Sunday and she would turn out at all hours of day or night to help with some emotional or health problem being suffered by one of her students, or to aid, or remonstrate with, a student having a brush with the authorities. Brenda’s global travels As Brenda’s retirement date approached, I was one of those who worried about how she would cope with her new life-style – but she had no intention of settling to a quiet life and took herself off on cruises, trans-continental train journeys and all sort of other amazing global travels. The postcard collection on my kitchen wall boasts scenes from some very remote corners of the world, one even bearing a stamp carrying an image of Brenda. She was an intrepid traveller and loved to talk about her travels. She also liked to journey round the UK in her sports car – Brenda loved her sports cars, her pride and joy – visiting colleagues and former students who had become firm friends. She came to stay with us regularly each summer, enjoying getting to know the East Neuk of Fife and engaging in discussions, or do I mean arguments, with my husband. Both were somewhat forthright and direct, and neither suffered fools gladly, so they developed a healthy and lasting respect and affection for each other. Brenda was planning another big expedition in early 2014 but in late 2013, she suffered a set-back in her health and by the end of January she had been admitted

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to Addenbrooke’s. Throughout the three years of illness and treatment that followed, Brenda suffered very considerable pain and greatly impaired mobility but she was amazingly brave and stoical. She took an interest in all the tests and equipment used as part of her treatment and read widely and deeply to acquaint herself with the relevant medical facts and procedures. While generally impressed by the medical practitioners, she railed against the inadequacies of the administration at Addenbrooke’s and did her best to reorganise elements of it. In this, we recognise the Brenda we knew and loved. A fighter Brenda was always a fighter and she fought against her worsening health.Typically, when I came to visit her in January, she insisted, having booked a room for me in College, that despite the back and other pain she was suffering she would walk across with me, in wind and rain, to make sure that the room provided everything I needed. That was Brenda, a fighter, a stickler for what she thought was right, and a loyal friend. In a chapter of a book about Eric Rogers, the man who laid the foundations of some of the very best physics teaching, Brenda wrote in conclusion ‘His spirit will live on into the next century and his many dedicated “children of physics” are his memorial’. I think we could write similarly of Brenda. She was such a good friend to so many of us and we will miss her greatly, but, her spirit will live on for many years to come, and her many students, who became such excellent teachers of physics, are her memorial.

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Keep Running! A Tribute to Brenda Jennison, MBE by Prof Archie Howie Prof Archie Howie a long-time colleague and friend of Brenda told us that Brenda had apparently left a scribbled note suggesting that, to recognise her love of the Highlands of Scotland, the poem by Burns could be read. Prior to reading Burn’s celebrated poem ‘My Heart’s in the Highlands’, Prof Howie made a few introductory comments. Firstly all Scots should feel flattered by the choice made by this much travelled woman who covered most of the globe first on extensive work assignments later on retirement cruises. This love for Scotland was not something I knew about although normally you would get Brenda’s opinion on anything up straight without any pussy footing around. Maybe she thought that if it became known she would be invited to address the Haggis! More probably she simply thought that the subject of Scotland was not of direct relevance to her main business in hand of trying to improve the teaching of Physics in Schools to which she devoted immense thought and energy. Then with the more recent burden she had to bear with her long illness, one could think that the most appropriate epitaph now would be ‘Rest in Peace’. But it is clear now as the poem suggests that rather than ‘Rest in Peace’, Brenda prefers ‘Keep Running’. My Heart’s in the Highlands My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go. Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;

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Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love. Farewell to the mountains, high-cover’d with snow, Farewell to the straths and green vallies below; Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods, Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods. My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.

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