DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS APPROVED

Choral Scholarship: D. Carter. John Duncan Choral Scholarship: J. Jolley; R. Severy. John Etherton Choral Scholarship: C. McLean. Carolyn and David Keep Choral Scholarship: K. Mulheran; A. Wheatley. Queen Anne’s Choral Scholarships: J. Folley; E. Shaw.

In addition, students received support from the E.D. Davies Fund for instrumental or singing lessons, and the Father Brown Chapel Music Fund provided sheet music and individual singing lessons for the Chapel Choir.

Other Awards and Prizes

Other Prizes

Anuradha Bhagwati: J. Peace (MPhil English). Paul Cassidy Progress: R. Krah (Classics). Fitzwilliam Society Stratton: E. Insanally (Economics). John Adams: A. Morland (History). Sir James Holt: F. Manders (History). Bourdeau-Rest: F. Day (MML). Ilsley: J. Gamblin (Theology, Religion & Philosophy of Religion). William French: A. Baston (NST Chemistry). Gibson: L. Supple (Theology, Religion & Philosophy of Religion). John & Jenny Duncan: E. Brain (Geography). Fitzwilliam Engineers’ Prize for Progress: H. Allen; C. Attwood; A. Bin Anuar; B. Bristow; M. Burrows; M. Latham; J. Ma; T. Newton; P. Owen; F. Scott; R. Sewell; D. Stylianou; D. Wong (Engineering). Tony Collinssplatt Cup for Music: A. Sozanska (Clinical Medicine). Tony Collinssplatt Cup for Drama: C. McConnaughie (Geography).

Other Fitzwilliam Society Awards

J.R.W. Alexander Book Awards: D. Fan, J. Griffin, A. Keenan, M. Khan, M. Nawaz. Brewster Prizes (Debating): A. Ng, G. Richmond, T. Andre & S. Watling (Sidney Sussex) (best speakers from the floor). Fitzwilliam Society Milner Walton Awards: E. Beck; A. Birch; B. Goddard. Fitzwilliam Society Research Grants: C. Bodnar; C.W.J. Chan; E. Daxberger; A. Ng; A. Rubio Jimenez; J. Shepherd; L Stephenson; O. Volk; S. Wei; J. Woitischek.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

The following dissertations were listed in the Cambridge University Reporter during the year 2019–2020 as approved for the degree of PhD.

A.M.P. Brown: Modelling the relationship between parental behaviour and childhood skill development: empirical evidence from the UK and Canada

H.K.A. Chiu: Microfluidic techniques for protein detection and manipulation H.W. Chiu: Neural word representations for biomedical NLP

N.G. Fleet: Mass intellectuality of the neoliberal state: mass higher education, public professionalism and state effects in Chile

E.P. Garrison: Graphical pangenomics

M. Gritta: Where are you talking about? Advances and challenges of geographic analysis of text with application to disease monitoring

W. Guo: Remote sensing characterisation of the foresttundra ecotone

S.M.A. Jaulim: Autophagy maintains the homeostatic environment in the male reproductive organs playing a key role in fertility

K. Javid: Physical modelling of galaxy clusters and Bayesian inference in astrophysics

J. Liu: Low temperature Kerr effect study of magnetic topological insulators and other magnetic structures

M.H. Nunes: Leaf and canopy responses to forest degradation and extreme climatic events: a remote sensing perspective

S. Onalbaiuly: Democratisation of local government and local governance in Kazakhstan

J.A. Rubio-Lara: Interactions between molecules and nanostructures using quartz crystal microbalance

D. Runciman: Pastoral care according to the Bishops of England and Wales (c.1170–1228)

D.A.B. Shaw: The ‘apocalyptic’ Paul: an analysis and critique with reference to Romans 1–8

J.W. Smith: Measurement of the CKM angle γ and development of a novel, combined GGSZ analysis of B→D(*)h(*) decays at LHCb

M.E. Strauss: Bayesian modelling and sampling strategies for ordering and clustering problems with a focus on nextgeneration sequencing data

A.R.W. Taylor: Future-proofing the digital world: data centre security and the threats of electromagnetic pulse and space weather

Y. Wang: Model-based experimental investigation of hydrogenase-like electrocatalytic inactivation and activation mechanisms 43