Final 2008 lcc newsletter

Professor Janet Todd New President

Camels and Crowbars An interview with Dr Jackie Brearley

Lucy Cavendish Feast Saturday 7 March 2009

Annual Newsletter 08 Lucy Cavendish College University of Cambridge

The New President

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The Cambridge Edition of Jane Austen

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Lucy Lyttelton Fellow-Benefactor

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Conversation with Isobel Maddison

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Professor Janet Todd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 New President Janet Todd introduces us to some of her work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Wendy Pollard (1992) learns more about the new College Lecturer in English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

First Professorial Fellow

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Finistère

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From Shelley to Storytelling

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Camels and Crowbars

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What Lucy means to me

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SocDocSoc: the making of a society

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The Ethics of Media:

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Art in the Library:

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Lucy Cavendish College Choir

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A Year of Success on the River

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A Final Adventure with Jane and Morag

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Frustrate the Feminine Fanatics

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Professor Christine Howe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Anna Bull (2006) talks with Dr Jackie Brearley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Ellie Gurney and the Cambridge Social Documentary Film Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Philosophical Foundations and Practical Imperatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 A new portrait of Lucy Cavendish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Anna Bull (2006) introduces us to snapshots of resistance to women in Cambridge University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

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The Visiting Fellows

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College Prizes 2007-08

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Fellows’ News

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Research and publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Teaching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Making things happen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Moving on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

English at Lucy Cavendish 2008

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News from around the College

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Carbon offsetting in the College

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The new Strathaird

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Honorary Fellows

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Dr Isobel Maddison, College Lecturer in English, charts the progress of English in College during the year . . . . . . . . 42

Dr Cynthia Glassman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Baroness Cohen of Pimlico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Creativity and Innovation:

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Alumnae News

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In Memoriam

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Personal Strengths and the Shaping of Careers in Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Mary Gwendolen Cheney 1917-2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Lucy Joan Slater 1922-2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Dame Veronica’s Retirement

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Farewell from Dame Veronica

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The College 2007-08

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The Students

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Events in College 2009

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The New President Professor Janet Todd

When I first contemplated Lucy

modes of cross-disciplinary

Elizabeth viewing Pemberley, the

transformation of communication;

Cavendish College I felt a little like home of Mr Darcy:

She had never seen a place for which

nature had done more, or where natural

women’s colleges--and the

or, since Lucy Cavendish students

through the ages. We will be

will increasingly come from

diverse cultural backgrounds, faiths and the interaction of faiths and

beauty had been so little counteracted

secular thought.

them warm in their admiration; and at

Above all I hope the College can

of Pemberley might be something!

identity, as a woman’s institution.

by an awkward taste. They were all of

that moment she felt that to be mistress Ignoring the glaring differences

build intellectually on its core

Let’s continue debates about

work/life balances or the politics of

between myself and Elizabeth

the frequent scientific and quasi-

President of Lucy Cavendish is

difference.

Bennet, I still feel that to be

‘something’. Despite numerous

sequels to Pride and Prejudice, the

the story of imagined and real

thinking: globalisation or the

mockery both have provoked

displaying our exhibits in the

wonderful space of the College

library.

To stay with the library, I hope that all the Fellows in their various

subjects will want to develop our holdings in specific ways. We

would then house distinctive

collections in many areas, as well as

owning a distinctive building. From

scientific studies of gender

my own vantage I’d like to see

enrich individual research and

fiction especially from the late 18th

The debates could

encourage students to think

increasing holdings in women’s

century through the Victorians to

original novel never told us how

adventurously.

the early 20th century (books can be

Pemberley. So I must imagine the

From my talks with the Fellows, I

individually valuable but a

the aid of Jane Austen.

higher profile in Cambridge. My

the new Mrs Darcy fared at

future at Lucy Cavendish without There’s something quite wonderful

about a college like Lucy

Cavendish—a self-selected group of women from many disciplines.

It’s a rich environment for

discussion and encounters, a

fantastic opportunity to make

something different, distinctive and intellectually exciting. In the long run I’d love to see the College

collectively engage with certain

topics or projects, building on

activities already successfully in

place and reaching out to the

University. Perhaps we might

concentrate on topics using new

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know that we all want an ever initial suggestions -- a literary

festival, Women’s Word at Lucy

Cavendish, and an exhibition about the ideas behind the founding of

Lucy Cavendish--have met with

bought and donated: they are not

collection would be so). This is an

area to which I have devoted much of my life and I know there is

considerable room for research in it—and much pleasure. The

Minerva Press gothics and the

sensational novels were not popular

enthusiastic responses. All is now in

for nothing.

Lucy Cavendish in June 2009. See

To do all we wish in the College,

train for the first Women’s Word at

page 11 for details.

we need a firm financial basis and a vibrant student body. I have taught

The exhibition, Rooms of Our Own,

in the US, Africa and India and

Cambridge 2009 Fund which

sure, do many Fellows. I would

already supported by the

sponsors 800th Anniversary events,

is also in preparation for October

have ties in all these places, as, I am hope that we can together forge

more links with colleges in those

2009. Manuscripts and portraits will

countries and encourage them to

Library, Hampshire, to help us tell

and enthusiastic students.

come from the Chawton House

send us more of their well-prepared

We now vigorously reach out to women at FE colleges and on

Access courses, most of whom

know that there is a Cambridge

college that will welcome their

applications. I would like to add

other home groups as well, never

losing sight of our unique

commitment to mature students.

Lifelong learning has become a

reality –and a growth industry -

developing alongside the

extraordinary changes in women’s

working lives. Now, many women

who have enjoyed active careers in,

for example, the Civil Service or

education are choosing to conclude them at 55 or 60, to leave time for

further challenges – like returning to learning within an exciting

environment such as we can offer.

In short I hope we will continue to attract clever women over 21

wherever we find them.

To help support these and continue

our (expensive and rewarding)

method of teaching we must raise

funds externally. The College is

receiving generous donations from alumnae and friends and we are

seeking further funds in other areas and from other groups. It seems to

me that our efforts to recruit more

students and to continue to raise the

intellectual profile of the College

are part of the overall effort to gain external funds. These efforts are

not discrete activities confined to a particular office, however

successful, but ones in which we all play an (enjoyable) part.

Enough of my hopes. I look

forward to meeting those of you

who will visit the College during

please come and do it with us at Lucy.

the year. Lucy Cavendish has

developed greatly under Dame

Veronica Sutherland and is in good shape, as most of you will know. I

hope that in the coming years all of

us, Fellows, Staff, Students,

Alumnae and all members of our wider community can together

make Lucy Cavendish the most exciting and dynamic women’s

college in Britain. So if any of you

have ideas for activities, if you want

to put on a play, sing, give a poetry

reading, organise a debating society or demonstrate an experiment, do

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The Cambridge Edition of Jane Austen New President Janet Todd introduces us to some of her work I’m the general editor of the new

dead king’s possessions ‘a

it in —but we did point out that

in nine volumes, which started

women’s hair - of all colours and

engagement at that time, a fact that

in November of this year. It will be

…still sticking to them...’ ; in

assumption.

Chapman’s in the 1920s and the

1760s, the hair of the dead person

If the reader does not much care

creative works. One volume is

or sprinkled over it when wet and

this detail but simply a good text,

each individual novel is given full

decorative designs.

background within its volume.

Perhaps we don’t need all this —

Cambridge edition of Jane Austen coming out in 2006 and concludes

the first full scholarly edition since

first to include all of Jane Austen’s entitled Jane Austen in Context but

literary, cultural and biographical

The various editors and I had much

discussion about what information

we should provide for the vastly disparate readers of the 21st

century. Something I hope they

want but which Chapman felt little urge to provide is as much of the

texture of Austen’s everyday world

as possible: the medicines, the

food, the artefacts used and the

common novels read. I feel

convinced that Austen’s art is in the detail, and the books are enriched

by knowledge of it.

But where to stop? When Elinor in Sense & Sensibility spies a ring of

hair on Edward’s finger and

wrongly concludes it her own, it

helps to know about sentimental

early 19th century habits with hair.

Leigh Hunt says a literary keepsake should be combined with the ‘most

precious of all keepsakes—hair’; a

braid might be used instead of

ribbon to mark a page; the Duke of Wellington, who acted as executor

to George IV, found among the

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prodigious quantity of hair -

lengths, some locks with powder

mourning miniatures after the

was actually dissolved in the paint worked, with sludgy difficulty, into

and indeed we did not put much of

hair set in a ring would denote throws much light on Elinor’s

about hair and does not want any of then she can ignore the notes and stay in the world which Jane

Austen creates in her own mind—

not, after all, a bad place to linger.

Lucy Lyttelton Fellow-Benefactor In May 2008 the Fellowship was

of the post of College Lecturer in

first Lucy Lyttelton Fellow

“enable the College to continue its

proud and delighted to induct the Benefactor. Major benefactors to the College are eligible to this title and are known as Lyttelton Fellows.

The first Lyttelton Fellow, Dr

Medicine to, as Dr Traub says,

vital, national and international role in recognizing women‘s potential and fostering talent “.

Lyttelton is the maiden name of

Lindsey Traub, was honoured at a

Lucy Cavendish. Lucy Lyttelton

the College’s annual Lyttelton

Cavendish when she married Lord

ceremony which took place before Dinner. Dr Traub first came to Lucy Cavendish as Admissions Tutor

then went on to become College

Lecturer and Director of Studies in English and then Vice-President.

Dr Traub’s donation is in memory of her husband, Dr Micky Traub

and goes towards the endowment

was born in 1841 and became Lucy Frederick Cavendish in 1864. Lord Frederick Cavendish MP was

appointed Chief Secretary for

Ireland in 1892. Within a few weeks of taking up this appointment, he

was assassinated in Phoenix Park, Dublin.

Participation Really Counts Major donations such as the gift

from Lindsey Traub clearly have a huge impact immediately increasing the teaching endowment.

It can be surprising, though, to see how great an effect an

accumulation of much smaller gifts can have.

In our latest phase of

fundraising at Lucy Cavendish College we have raised new

gifts and pledges of just under £2.5 million.

Looking at the gifts coming in it is interesting to see that almost 40% of cash received in that

period is made up of donations of £100 or less.

Collectively our alumnae and friends who make regular

monthly, quarterly or annual payments are making a huge difference and the College is

growing and developing thanks to the contributions of all of our donors.

For information on giving to Lucy

Cavendish, please call Meryl Davies on 01223 764040 or email:

development@lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk

Dr Lindsey Traub, the first Lyttelton Fellow

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Conversation with Isobel Maddison Wendy Pollard (1992) learns more about the new College Lecturer in English

To plagiarize a famous opening in

“Until then”, she told me, “I

English literature, it is a truth

couldn’t believe it was possible to

Lucy Cavendish Fellows and

talking about books.”

understanding of the motivation

She knew that there would be

to academic studies. Isobel

to her changing courses, but there

universally acknowledged that lecturers have particular

which brings mature women back Maddison, who joined Lucy as

College Lecturer and Director of

Studies in English last year, is no

exception to this rule, being able to

draw on her own experience which

mirrors that of many of her students.

Isobel chose not to apply to

university after taking A-levels,

thinking that she would be content

to work, as she did, in a jewellery

shop in her home town of Durham.

However, after marrying and

earn a living reading, writing and

institutional opposition with regard was a small window of

opportunity. Based on first-year

her gentle demeanour, she was

Hertfordshire, suffered a severe survived, but it took many months for him to regain his health, and

carer of both her husband and her

English”, and realized her goal. The

she had to become the full-time

son. She was forced, despite initial

Durham English Faculty can never

reluctance, to apply for

won the prize for the best

still managed to complete her Ph.D.

have regretted its decision; Isobel

Cambridge. Thereafter she tutored

no applicant with only access

(he had been a sergeant when they

first met), and who was by then

worked and worked at my

Therefore, she said, “I worked and

at the University of Durham. This

qualifications had been selected.

ranks of the police from constable

return to work; during this time,

Durham (passed with Distinction),

massively over-subscribed, and that

Peter, who had risen through the

determined to be one of them.

for a joint Honours degree course in

that the English course was

her Ph.D. research. Her husband,

brain haemorrhage. Happily he

Exhibiting the steel that lies behind

First which enabled her to be

was a pragmatic choice; she knew

setback occurred halfway through

single discipline of their choice.

decision at 18, and took an access

English, Philosophy and Sociology

as a mature student applying for

Fellowships. The greatest potential

Deputy Chief Constable of

were allowed to transfer to the

undergraduate dissertation of her

course, which enabled her to apply

competition from younger students

results and appraisals, two students

starting a family, she recognized that she had made the wrong

and later encountering stiff

intermission, yet, remarkably, she

within ten terms. (Again, I doubt

year in her Finals, and achieved a

that she would have mentioned any

awarded full funding for an M.A. at

at that time because Isobel and I

and then for her Ph.D. at

supervisor.)

of this, but I knew of her problems shared the same excellent Ph.D.

simultaneously for the Open

After each step along the academic

before joining Lucy.

would be satisfied to leave it at that,

University and Wolfson College Isobel is far too modest to have

path, Isobel wondered whether she

but her driving force was the desire

to teach. While completing her

Throughout her first year, however,

detailed these accomplishments, but

Ph.D. at Wolfson, she had very

that her future lay in English

appear to have been a seamless

undergraduate dissertations. She is

she became ever more convinced

studies. She remembers the impact

one particular lecturer had on her,

and thinking how amazing it would be to make a career out of doing something you loved so much.

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I prised a C.V. out of her. It would progression from her return to

further education, but, of course,

behind the bare facts lie the all-too-

usual difficulties of combining

studies with family commitments,

much enjoyed supervising

a great enthusiast with regard to the format of the Cambridge English Tripos, seeing Part I as a map of

English literature from 1300 to the present day that opens up the

subject so that students can make

informed choices that mirror their developing interests and

enthusiasms to carry forward to the final stages of their degrees.

Her own research interests focus on modernism and female modernism in particular. When challenged by me as to why modernism should still be, after over 80 years, preeminent in twentieth-century

literary studies, she explained:

“There is still plenty of valuable work to be done on the female

modernists – some remain little

known. Modernism refuses to go

away: many of the preoccupations

associated with modernism remain

we think about modernism – there

of English fresh. The text should

modernism surfaces in

consider.”

also need to be open to new ideas.

topical and the legacy of

contemporary writing, in work like

Ian McEwan’s, for example.” Isobel

really is always something new to Isobel is naturally delighted that

also finds it interesting to trace the

our incoming President is an

those regarded as “high”

aware of the wide range of

connections between the writing of modernists and other authors of the

English scholar, while also being Professor Todd’s interests, manifest

same period. Her work has focused

in her exciting proposal for an

Katherine Mansfield and her

Word at Lucy Cavendish”, to be

in particular on the links between cousin, the popular novelist,

Elizabeth von Arnim. “The forms in which they write differ”, she said,

“but the ideas and preoccupations,

often considered modernist and not

fully accounted for by being

contemporaneous, leach across so that it’s difficult to attach critical

labels or see the writing as wholly

discrete. Unpicking the points of

separation and connection between

writers like these complicates how

always be central, I think, but we

After all, it’s very difficult to think

about modernism now without the

influence of psychoanalysis. I’m not sure interdisciplinarity is new but it certainly could get interesting.”

interdisciplinary festival, “Women’s held in 2009. Isobel is looking

forward to her own involvement

with this, and it led me finally to ask her if she saw Cambridge

English studies in the 21st century perhaps themselves embracing a

more interdisciplinary approach.

She replied that this is, indeed, a

growing area of scholarship and a valuable one. She continued: “It generates imaginative

interpretations and keeps the study

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First Professorial Fellow Professor Christine Howe

In 2007 Christine Howe became

Lucy Cavendish’s first professorial fellow. Christine’s varied research

development, which will synthesize research in this field.

interests centre on children’s

At the same time, Christine is also

development. Having originally

science education that goes beyond

conceptual and communicative

completed her PhD at Newnham

College, she re-joined the

University of Cambridge in October

conducting research relevant to

the paradigm of peer collaboration.

For instance, following from her

1998 book Conceptual Structure in

2006 as a Professor in the Faculty of

Childhood and Adolescence: the

Christine’s PhD was on first

project that will look at the relation

35 Cambridge toddlers and their

object motion that is available from

people in Glasgow’s experiences of

conceptions that are relevant to

to be entitled Racism, Identity, and

Education.

language acquisition, and involved families. Since her return, she has

re-established contact with several

of the ‘toddlers’, all now over 30

Case of Everyday Physics, she is

currently directing an ESRC-funded between the tacit understanding of

infancy, and the more explicit

education. The project will also

longitudinal study into young

racism. A book reporting the study,

Adjustment: Making the Transition

from Adolescence to Adulthood, is

years of age! Christine has always

explore whether the partial

language acquisition, with a paper

knowledge can be exploited for

successful bid for funding from

other colleagues from the Faculty of

ethnic schools: results indicate that

maintained her initial interest in

on topic development in children’s

conversation accepted for

publication a few months ago.

However, she has also developed a range of other interests, mostly lying at the interface between

Psychology and Education. In the

late 1980s, she was one of the first

to recognise the potential

mismatch between tacit and explicit purposes of teaching. With three Education, she has also recently

forthcoming. The study supported a

ESRC to study bullying in multi-

racist bullying is rare, but when it

obtained nearly £1 million of

occurs its implications for

integrated approach to mathematics

serious than with other forms of

funding from ESRC to research an and science teaching in the early years of secondary schools.

Christine’s particular interest is the

psychological adjustment are more

bullying.

Christine is UK editor of the

applicability to science education of

challenge (for teaching in both

journals Social Development, and

collaboration. This resulted in a

the concept of proportionality.

For the past four years, she has

psychological research into peer

series of studies, mostly funded by

mathematics and science) posed by

ESRC, which have informed

Christine spent a large part of her

cognitive theory, as well as having

Glasgow where she was Professor

developmental, socio-cultural, and a significant impact upon

career at Strathclyde University in of Psychology and Vice-Dean for

educational practice. Christine is

Research. Together with ex-

titled Peer groups and children’s

University Christine has been

currently working on a book, to be

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colleagues from Strathclyde involved since 1999 in a

Cambridge Journal of Education.

been a member of ESRC’s Training and Development Board, which looks after postgraduate and

postdoctoral affairs. She is currently Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Developmental Section, and has been elected to the

Academy of the Social Sciences.

Finistère This is the Pointe du Raz,

This poem was a winner in the

the fall, the undertow, the earth’s end where

(http://www.bridportprize.org.uk/

this place is Finistère:

my father’s face is bones beneath the feathers of his blown back hair.

Tears in his mica eyes, spray on his skin

Bridport Prize 2008 history.htm).

here on the Pointe du Raz the salted man leans in to the force of wind and the rough, wet air.

Keep blowing east to landfall, wind

from sea to earth, from dark beyond the razor’s edge of Finistère;

keep him keep all my safety here.

Elizabeth Speller

women’s word voices & creativity | Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge

13 - 27 June 2009 | www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk

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From Shelley to Storytelling As part of the twice-yearly Lucy Cavendish Forum series, Jane Wood (1973) came to College to talk about her career in publishing.

Samuel Johnson said: ‘[The Poet] must write as the interpreter of

nature, and the legislator of

married at 18 and had three

children by the time I was 22.

mankind, and consider himself as

Yet by my mid-20s I was beginning

manners of future generations.’

shrivelling up with all this

presiding over the thoughts and Sixty years later Shelley echoed

to think my brain cells were

mind that I set out – rather late in

become an empty nester. What the hell was I going to do with the rest

of my life? I came back to London –

alone – in 1981 and started knocking on the doors of

publishers, mostly to have them

open a crack and then slam back in break. I had bought a copy of The

do evening classes in English

words of Shelley’s echoing in my

great age of 38 I was about to

a few meagre ‘O’ levels. I began to

unacknowledged legislators of the

It was with those high-minded

time a full-time writer, but by the

my face. I was beginning to lose

chosen to curtail my education after

world.’

with my husband who was by this

domesticity, and I regretted that I’d

those words in A Defence of Poetry

when he said: ‘Poets are the

On graduating I moved to France

literature and then an English ‘A’

heart – and then I got my lucky

Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook – an A-Z of all things publishing. I was

level. I found this literary study

quite prepared to work my way

Dare I take it a step further? Dare I

my lucky break came at A.

deeply absorbing, and I thought: try for a degree? Thinking I

right through to Z if needs be. But

life, I was nearly 40 – to pursue a

couldn’t possibly stand a chance of

Barley Alison ran The Alison Press

understood ‘Writers’, and this

Cavendish.

literary fiction and belles-lettres,

career in publishing. For ‘Poets’ I

notion of literature as a means of

getting in, I applied to Lucy

interpreting the world and our

I entered Lucy Cavendish in

still does, though I’ve slid pretty far

when my children were aged 7, 8

art to popular culture since then.

in Cambridge, so I would run them

place in it meant a lot to me then. It

down the slippery slope from high

Hence my title: From Shelley to

September 1973 to read English

time to pick them up from school whatever they were doing after

enthusiasm, hard work and alcohol.

Once a fortnight there would be a

wine delivery of several cases, and

around 9 in the evening, I would

meeting. Working late – which we

secretarial courses, I met my

was due, I would work all night.

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townhouse in Soho, fuelled by

we’d crack open a few bottles at

supper and bed. At which point,

settle down to work, often late into

husband Christopher Wood, got

the eccentric mavericks. Secker and

school, then home for homework,

my mother died after a long illness.

After taking domestic science and

godmother. Sadly publishing today Warburg operated out of a small

and head off for music lessons or

a family. I left school at 15 when

became, quite simply, my fairy

in, then go to lectures or work in

I grew up with the idea – prevalent to do until you got married and had

notion of a literary career. She

has very few characters like her –

the University Library until it was

was a kind of stop gap, something

which chimed with my idealistic

and 9. The children’s schools were

Storytelling.

for girls in the 50s – that education

at Secker and Warburg, publishing

the night. The day before an essay

noon after the weekly editorial

did quite often – meant raiding the fridge in Editorial Director John

Blackwell’s office with John leading the charge. From time to time staff arriving early would find either

John or Barley sleeping it off on the

Only during my first term at Lucy

memorable occasion both were

than in my first six months at

sofa in reception. On one

found on the sofa, sleeping like babies in each other’s arms at 9

o’clock in the morning. I’m afraid that’s all changed and publishing

was I on a steeper learning curve

Arrow. Again, I learned the job by being thrown in at the deep end.

Sinking would have been utter

humiliation. I spent most weekends

isn’t nearly so much fun now!

at my desk as well the weeks. When

After a year and a half a gap

carried two things with me: one, I’d

opened in the editorial department

I left Arrow three years later I

developed a real love of popular

for a managing editor and John

fiction. The second thing was a

towards the end of my time at

the business of publishing.

commissioning books. So my

has to make money. Publishing

commissioning editor had taken

gentlemen.’ But at Arrow, we jolly

when you think about it.

bigger profit each year

Blackwell offered me the job. Then Secker I was allowed to start

ambition to become a

five years to achieve – not so long At my first visit to the Frankfurt Book Fair I met a man called Conrad Goulden who was

great deal more knowledge about

Because publishing is a business. It used to be called ‘A profession for well had to make a profit, and a

Subsequently as editorial director at

Macmillan I edited five of Elizabeth

authors. An author who also

recently joined Quercus, whom I’m delighted to be working with, is

(Honorary Fellow) Dame Stella

Rimington. I have more freedom in the kinds of authors I buy at

Quercus, but I shall I always look

for storytellers who create multi-

Jane Howard’s books, including her

dimensional characters, who engage

Paperbacks and we hit it off

WW2, the Cazalet Chronicle. Then

compelling narrative.

new editorial director for Arrow

publishing director to run the Orion

Fiction can do so many things: it

in a bar in Frankfurt he offered the

my ambition to run my own list. I

beliefs; it can take us into the past

seemed to be getting younger all

whole of human nature as its

managing director of Arrow immediately. He was looking for a

Paperbacks and in a rash moment

job to me. I told him he was mad

and that my limited experience of

superb quartet of novels set in

in 1994 I was offered the job of

hardback list. It had always been

was 51: publishers, like policemen,

five years with a literary hardback

the time. Maybe I wouldn’t get any

be editorial director of a paperback

at Orion for 13 years, leaving just 6

publisher had not equipped me to

more offers? I said yes, and stayed

imprint publishing upwards of 150

months ago. Over the years we

most of them commercial rather

few unknowns to a raft of

books a year across all genres –

than literary. He said: ‘Nonsense! I

could teach you in six weeks.’ I couldn’t resist the challenge.

built the Orion fiction list from a

the reader and draw them in to a

can question and challenge our

and into the future; it takes the

subject; it travels the world and

exposes us to different countries

and cultures; it deals with the big

subjects – love and death; war and peace; humanity’s capacity for

good, and evil. Novels do all these

bestselling authors.

things and more, but above all, they

Finally last August I joined

would approve.

Quercus, signing up and editing

must tell stories. I hope Shelley

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Camels and Crowbars Anna Bull (2006) talks with Dr Jackie Brearley

Within minutes of meeting Senior

crowded. Everybody turned and

Anaesthesiology and Lucy

then closed the door and walked

Lecturer in Veterinary

Cavendish College Fellow Jackie

Brearley I’m faced with the sight of

27 kilos of anaesthetized dog, limbs

and tongue splayed, while a camera in its lungs searches for the source

of a chronic cough. My

looked at us, and we looked back, away. I just found Cambridge a

really bizarre place to be. I went to a comprehensive school in

Yorkshire, and I found – I still find

– that it’s like living in cloud cuckoo land. It’s a fairytale place. I felt as

introduction to Jackie’s world

though most students here had no

traffic victim being prepared for a

out within six months into a house

continues with watching a feline

leg amputation. One of the joys of

touch on reality at all, so I moved

with five postgrad blokes, and my

being an animal anaesthetist, she

tutor had to come and make sure

with all different kinds of animals -

be sharing a house with.”

tells me, is that you get to work the trouble with giraffes,

apparently, is not so much getting

them down onto the ground but getting them back up again.

Jackie’s also a mean hand with a

crowbar and a horse; possibly a

rather different life to the typical

Cambridge academic.

Having grown up in the Falkland

Islands and Yorkshire, Jackie

Brearley started at Sidney Sussex

College in the first year that women were admitted. “There were 30

women and 300 men. I suddenly

started finding party invitations in

they were suitable people for me to It may be some consolation to the

current students among us that

Jackie took several attempts to pass the infamous and dreaded

point out. Eventually she took a

they say, don’t be ridiculous, but

working as a research technician in

them. I can’t teach most of them,

beginning for a Senior Lecturer, I year out to pass the exam while

the pathology department. “I

didn’t fail an exam thereafter. I just

“My first evening in college another girl and I opened the door into the bar, which was completely

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every day I learn something from they’re so much brighter than I am.

The stage I’m teaching them at is

hadn’t got the hang of the done.”

giving them the confidence to use

Cambridge system – never have

headhunted for a job in

crudely.

to the students, you teach me, and

trying to get them to remember the

quickly worked out they didn’t reproductive organs, to put it

Boredom is no longer a problem,

with teaching being a highlight of

being at Cambridge. “I keep saying

Having planned to become a

want you, they just wanted your

for her current job in Cambridge.

pharmacology exam. An unusual

my pigeonhole from people I’d never heard of, and you very

16 years “I got bored”, so applied

veterinary surgeon, Jackie got

stuff they’ve already learnt, and

their brains as well. They have all

the theory, they just don’t know they have all the theory.”

anaesthesiology and has never

During our chat, a student comes in

Glasgow and Liverpool where she

being operated on. Should it have

in cattle, she moved to the Animal

what she thinks, in a collegial rather

looked back. Following stints in

gained her PhD in stress responses

Health Trust in Newmarket. After

to ask about the white cat who is

an epidural? Jackie asks the student than a didactic way; I can see how

her students would learn to rely on

their own knowledge and take

private jet. Although we wanted to

responsibility for clinical decisions.

start the surgery at 6am because of

While Jackie is somewhat

morning by the time we started.

ambivalent about Cambridge as an institution - “there are a lot of

things I find very frustrating, I’ve never really fitted into the

Cambridge mould,” - being a

Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College

is “the one thing that actually keeps

the heat, it was about 10 in the

Sheikh Mohammed had got all his friends and relatives into the

reception area of the camel hospital to watch the operation on CCTV,

and it was only once the audience

was assembled that we could start.

me here.

“The Sheikh came into the

“Dame Veronica approached me

bodyguards with sub-machine

about joining Lucy Cavendish

operating theatre followed by his guns. A rope was attached to the

College, so I went to have tea with

camel’s foot which went out

she said to me, ‘my dear, where’s

where there was a team of people

her. I walked into her office and

your handbag?’ I said, ‘I don’t have

through the operating theatre doors pulling on it to try and reduce the

a handbag’. ’You don’t have a

fracture. This rope was there for

everything?’ It was like being in an

with a relay of people pulling on it,

handbag? But where do you keep

Oscar Wilde play. So that was my

introduction to Lucy. It’s such a

the whole 6 hours of the operation even after we’d already finished!”

fantastic place to be. I just love it.

Finally I ask, if you weren’t a vet,

away from family, my dogs, work,

answer is immediate: “I’d open a

For me it’s where I can go to get

and just speak to intelligent women about intelligent things. And at Lucy everybody’s got a history.

They aren’t just driven, focussed on

what would you be doing? The cleaning company”. Or ideally,

she’d move back to the Falklands

and have a smallholding. “It’s the kind of place where you need to

being vets or whatever. I’ve never

know how to strip down a

really enjoyed, because I’ve always

killing things to eat them”.

been to a formal hall that I haven’t sat next to someone stimulating.”

The most bizarre experience of her

career to date? It would have to be anaesthetizing the Sheikh

Mohammed of Dubai’s multi-

million dollar prize-winning racing camel. “We were flown out on a

generator, and not be worried about

Where has she gone?

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Considering that Jackie’s just told

me that she has a Canada goose in the freezer and is about to run the Nice-Cannes marathon (“Just to

prove to myself I can do it”), my bet is that self-sufficiency would not be daunting prospect to her – if in fact

anything at all would be.

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What Lucy means to me realised that I needed to take

opportunity that I thoroughly

agonising I decided that I wanted to

equivalent of a first. At the end of

control of my life. After months of become a doctor.

I secured work experience at a

sector, and while working full time,

change in focus from textbook

I applied to Lucy after attending an

wards with patients who make an

open day, which was inspirational.

Students told their stories and

one of the longest standing

members of the student body at

Lucy. In total, I will have done six years by the time I qualify as a

doctor next summer.

At school I was described as a

musical haystack due to the long

interesting job an irreplaceable one.

I have a penchant for surgery and

throughout the process, given

Surgery. Recently, I was also the

encouraged. About two days after

Christmas 2002, I was in a charity shop with my Mum when I got a

phone call from my flat mate,

Papworth Hospital in Cardiac

proud recipient of the college’s Berti Sapir prize for my performance in my 2nd clinical year.

I’m truly in love with medicine; it

saying I had a “large” letter from

encompasses such a great range of

Mum and I danced around the

responsibilities. It combines the

Cambridge – it was my offer, and clothes stands, turning heads!

My course started in October 2003

specialities, roles and

beauty of human biology, the

human psyche and brilliant science.

You get to work closely and

and I ploughed my way through

supportively with people, problem

used the long vacations for further

skilled professionals. It challenges

the tough academic workout. I

work experience, doing placements

blonde hair, carefully positioned

at GP surgeries and, at the end of

soprano singing. I stayed on to do

orphanage in Romania. In my third

over my face and my talent for

science, and it’s great to be on the

am currently doing my elective at

advice on my CV and heartily

standard medical course, makes me

East of England region. It’s a real

guidance was given about making a good application. I was supported

Being a final year student on the

my BA.

My clinical training is based in the

I did science A-levels over 4 years.

she is “truly in love with medicine”.

that amazing year, I graduated with

hospice, a psychiatric rehabilitation unit and in the drug and alcohol

Petra Goldsmith (2003) tells how

enjoyed and I came out with the

my first year, volunteering in an

solving and working alongside

you, it makes you laugh, and by

God, it makes you cry. How can

that be bettered? It has made my

life, and a large part of that is

A-levels in arts subjects, but I got

year I was selected for the

thanks to Lucy for giving me the

university.

university wide programme. I

way and allowing me the space to

poor grades and elected not to go to I worked as a Production Runner

for the TV show Peak Practice and then as a fundraiser for a medical research charity. By my 22nd birthday, trite as it sounds, I

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Cambridge-MIT exchange, a

spent the year at MIT in Boston

doing a range of courses on labbased techniques, tissue

engineering and other medical

topics. It was a brilliant

chance, supporting me along the

grow in confidence to achieve my

full potential.

Donna Ballie (2005) saw that Lucy Cavendish would recognise and value the strengths that come from life experience.

Before I came to Lucy I had spent

many years working as a musician, and then as a freelance sound

recordist in television. But as

interesting as both of these roles

could be at times, neither really felt

like ‘me’. When I was sound

recording, I had a tendency to

watch the director at work and

think to myself, “I could do better

than that”. In my defence, I have to

point out that this is fairly typical

sound recordist behaviour, but one

day I decided to call my own bluff.

And so in December 2001, before I had a chance to think better of it, I

found myself on an airplane with a

borrowed video camera heading for Palestine at the height of the second Intifada. I was scared stiff, but I was moving forward, and had

begun my career as a documentary

filmmaker.

My trips to Palestine and Israel had a profound impact on my life. In

spite of all the research I had done before going out, I was not

prepared for much of what I saw.

The impact of the military

occupation on people’s daily lives

was largely unknown to me; and

although as a filmmaker I was able to use my camera to capture some of these aspects of daily life -

footage of children running a

gauntlet of soldiers while trying to

found a community of students and

graphic and human-sized glimpse

supportive, interesting to get to

get to school provides a very

of the realities of life under military

occupation - I began to feel my lack of academic grounding very keenly

as I grappled with the human rights issues of what was generally

perceived to be an intractable

conflict. This is why I decided to go

to Cambridge and read Social and

Political Sciences.

I chose Lucy Cavendish College

because (1) as a mature college it

staff who have been incredibly

know, and fun to be with. I served as Welfare Officer for the students’ union during my first two years,

which allowed me to become very involved with college life, and to

get to know many students. I was

continually impressed by the wide range of experience and

background of Lucy students – we are definitely a more interesting crowd than most colleges!

provided a much more adult way of

Lucy Cavendish is known as a place

colleges; (2) the college was

And I know that this college – and

living than most of the other

where women transform their lives.

specifically targeting women like

not simply the experience of being

and value the strengths that come

instrumental in helping me to gain

myself, and was able to recognise

from life experience; (3) when I first visited Lucy I was struck by the

supportive atmosphere; and (4) I

took one look at the gardens and thought, “I could live here!”.

Having spent three years at Lucy, I know I made the right choice. I

at Cambridge – has been

a stronger sense of what I might be able to accomplish. The process of transformation at Lucy Cavendish

doesn’t change you into a different

person – it makes you more aware of who you are.

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Oh so quickly my time at Lucy has ended! Although not usually

emotional, I must admit graduation came with some mixed feelings for

me. As I leave to begin my career at Watson Wyatt in London, I take

with me so much more from my

time at Lucy than just my degree. I

am excited and secure in the

knowledge that wherever my future ambitions take me, I will always be

supported by the Lucy family. Most of all, I look forward to furthering the significant friendships I have

formed with various members of staff and students, as well as my

relations with the college.

Onyi Okafor (2005) spent her final term studying, securing a job and

However, confident that this could

have been achieved from any of the

giving birth to her son.

Cambridge Colleges, I particularly

On completing my high-school

oriented environment. As a young

studies, I spent some time traveling

and doing some development work in Africa. I returned to continue

formal education after the birth of

appreciated Lucy’s unique family

student parent, Lucy provided me with a distinct combination of

family- and adult-focused social

occasions, making it easily possible

my daughter, and then joined Lucy

to combine my studies with raising

undergraduate after the completion

my social interests. Take for

point of view, studying Land

was faced with the challenge of

at 21 as a Land Economy

of my A-Levels. From an academic Economy at Lucy fed my interests

in global environmental and

development issues, highly aided

my daughter, without neglecting

example, in my final year when I

completing my studies and securing a job offer, whilst preparing for the

birth of my son, I was again awed

by the daily exposure to

by the level of personal, career and

backgrounds and experiences.

the members of Lucy, especially

accomplished women with different

academic support I received from

from my personal tutor and director of studies.

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Michelle Fossey (2003) on the confidence to experiment.

While furiously writing essays at Lucy Cavendish I became

fascinated by the connections

between writing and drawing. With encouragement from friends at Lucy, and the prompt of the

summer Garden Party exhibitions, I started experimenting; using layers of ink, graphite, acetate and thread onto canvas and glass, to make palimpsests of images which, I

hope, can be open to interpretation.

gardens) and it’s only been a year!

encouraging creative ideas as well

Now working in a studio in

received at Lucy gave me the

www.michellefossey.co.uk

my street, I’ve recently been part of

seriously on my art, and to apply

Brighton with the sea at the end of an art exhibition in the Brighton

Festival, have exhibited in Epsom,

and worked on several commissions.

I miss all the Lucy people, (and

being surrounded by such beautiful

But the support and friendships I

confidence both to start working

as academic thoughts.

for the Creative Writing MA at the

University of East Anglia. Now I’m

looking forward to following fellow Lucy alumna Kelly Smith, and

beginning at UEA in September.

Thanks to everyone at Lucy for

being so supportive personally, and

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SocDocSoc: the making of a society Ellie Gurney and the Cambridge Social Documentary Film Society

guest speakers, holding discussions,

page 17).

projects,” as well as loaning high

Ellie has just graduated and landed

and working on film-making

quality equipment to members.

SocDocSoc was a year and a half

marginalised and deprived areas of

had overtaken its older sibling, and Cinecam could learn a few things

from SocDocSoc’s energy and excitement.

This energy was in a large part due to the ambition and determination

that Ellie brought to the society.

She spent the summer between her

President, which included

social and political sciences.

advertising events, chairing

contacting guest speakers,

meetings and finding sponsorship.

Highlights of the events calendar

included a screening of ‘We Feed

the World’ at the Cambridge Arts

started her own.

Picturehouse, and Q&As with

The Social Documentary Film

BAFTA nominated director Daisy

renowned filmmakers such as the Asquith. More recently the first

familiarly known, is now an

SocDocSoc MicroDocs was set up in

the Cambridge scene. Their mission

Docs and Apple Computers, in

established and thriving society on

is “to establish and maintain a

lively community of documentary

enthusiasts in Cambridge by

screening documentaries, inviting

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SocDocSoc were invaluable in getting the job. Her advice to

anyone else thinking of starting a

society? “It’s a lot of work and will eat into the time you probably

should be using to study, but then so does eating and sleeping! If

running a society is going to help door of the industry you want to

everything from finding and

Society, or SocDocSoc as it’s

contacts she made while running

balanced the demands of her degree Ellie Gurney came to Lucy

society she could join. So she

the world. The experience and

you meet like minded people at

with running the society as

realised there was no university

workshops for children in

first and second years setting it up,

and throughout her second year

passion for documentary film, she

organisation called the World Film

Collective which runs filmmaking

old, Varsity was proclaiming that it

Looking for people to share her

her dream job working for an

Modelled on Cinecam, the general film-making society, by the time

Cavendish College in 2005 to study

was awarded to Donna Baillie (see

organising film-making workshops

conjunction with Channel Four

which entrants were asked to make

a 59 second documentary for a

chance to win Apple’s latest filmediting software. The first prize

Cambridge and get a foot in the

work in then why not go for it!?

Starting SocDocSoc was the best thing I did at Cambridge.”

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/ cusocdocsoc/home.html

The Ethics of Media: Philosophical Foundations and Practical Imperatives

On April 4-5th 2008, Dr Mirca

questions about the ethics of

Prof. Nick Couldry from

reach some consensus about

Madianou organised, together with

Goldsmiths’ College, University of

London, an international conference on Media Ethics at the Centre for

what media institutions do and appropriate answers. Within

media research, discussion of media ethics has, with few

Research in the Arts, Social Sciences

exceptions, been limited until

conference was possible with

detailed codes for journalists;

and Humanities (CRASSH). The

funding from CRASSH, Goldsmiths College and additional support from the Faculty of Social and

Political Sciences. Speakers were hosted at Lucy Cavendish. The

recently to the development of within philosophy relatively few moral philosophers have

discussed the ethics of the media process.

conference brought together two

The imperative for developing a

specialists (whether from sociology,

framework on media ethics is

groups of academics: first, media

anthropology or psychology) who are committed to developing an ethical perspective on media

practice that draws explicitly on

philosophical debates; and second, philosophers who are applying general principles of ethics and

moral philosophy to the areas of media, communications and representation. The keynote

speeches were given by Baroness

Onora O’Neill, President of the

conceptual and theoretical

driven on the one hand by

observations of the ubiquitous

presence of the media in social and

political life with clear implications

for democracy and the ways we live together; on the other hand,

developments in the field of media

and information technologies often raise new ethical problems and dilemmas that need to be addressed.

British Academy, whose talk was

The conference explored the

Other Media Norms? and Prof. John

which philosophical tradition (or

entitled: Does Freedom Trump All

Durham Peters from the University

of Iowa. 18 leading international

scholars gave papers in a series of panels.

The conference sought to address the current lack of academic and

public debate about media ethics,

that is, about the frameworks

within which we can ask precise

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

following questions among others: convergence of traditions) provides the most useful starting-point for framing ethical questions about media and communications?

Should questions of ‘the good’, and of individual virtue, have priority,

The Ethics of Media:

Philosophical Foundations and Practical Imperatives 4-5 April 2008 CRASSH ~ 17 Mill Lane ~ Cambridge For further details please contact: events@crassh.cam.ac.uk or visit: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/ethicsmedia.html

ethical and philosophical problems?

For instance, are accountability and trust still relevant concepts in

assessing new developments such as citizen journalism? How does media ethics interrelate with

questions of political theory’s

concerns with the sustaining of

effective democratic politics and

safe co-existence? How should the media represent otherness in our

increasingly multicultural societies

and how should we assess their role in creating relationships of trust or

fear?

For more information please see: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/ events/67/

or rather questions of duty and

justice? Do mass-communicated media and new interactive

technologies generate new types of

Annual Newsletter 08 | Page 21

Art in the Library: A new portrait of Lucy Cavendish

A spectacular mosaic portrait of Lucy Cavendish created by local artist and businessman Albert Gazeley now hangs in the foyer of the College library.

At the unveiling ceremony of the mosaic, Gazeley said that he wanted to provide the College with a strong sense of the presence of Lucy Cavendish and was delighted to be able to do so with his creation.

The mosaic shows Lucy Cavendish receiving an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Leeds.

In 1904 Lucy Cavendish was the first person to be awarded such an honour and the College displays the photograph of her in her Leeds gown in the Founders’ Room.

Gazeley used the photograph as the basis of his work, consulting Ede

and Ravenscroft on the detail of the colour of the gown and bonnet.

Albert Gazeley who, with his wife Supanee and daughter Anna, has become a firm friend of the College is a retired businessman who has written folk poetry for most of his life and is acknowledged widely among world poets for his outspoken views on politics, current affairs and religion. He is the 14th Baron of Lochfergus.

Recipient of numerous awards, he is now in the process of publishing his second book.

Supanee Gazeley’s artwork is in wax and an exhibition of her work was held at the College in November.

Mosaic of Lucy Cavendish receiving an Honorary Doctorate of Law by Albert Gazeley

From the archives…

In a recent clear-out, this rather startling excerpt was discovered from the 1980 Report on the Inventory.

The Domestic Bursar of the time wrote: “The college suffers a good deal from ‘dumping’: some residents appear to think that they have the right to stuff anything which they wish to store into any corner to which they can find access. The worst example of this is in

College House cellar: the door to this used to be padlocked, but now it has been broken away from the wall, and

inside there is chaos. The objects to be found include human bones (loose in open cardboard boxes1), pantomime

props and clothes, library shelves, three large filing cabinets2, a ‘cello, the glass doors of a book-case, dilapidated

chairs, an oil stove and two gallons of paraffin, and many, many more things. In one corner there is a hole and a pile of rubble. In another place there is an open drain.

1 Mrs Putnam is responsible 2 Mrs Gay is responsible”

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Lucy Cavendish College Choir The Lucy Christmas diners were

entertained with music spanning

L U C Y C A VEN D I S H

almost the whole life of the

University (including the original

INVITES YOU TO THE

thirteenth-century version of O

DRAWING ROOMS OF EUROPE

come, Emmanuel).

FOR A

SERENADE

The Lent Term started with some

background entertainment for the

Benefactors’ Reception which then

hurtled us towards the annual

C O L L EG E C H O I R

PROGRAMME for THIS EVENING. MONDAY, March 3rd, 2008 at 7.30p.m.

PART I

concert, a charming tour around the

Ständchen

nineteenth century. We were

Cantique de Jean Racine

Accompanied on the PianoForte by

Instrumental interlude

Played upon the Harp and Violin by

European drawing rooms of the

accompanied in our tour by the rich contralto voice of Clara Kanter

(whom, being an undergrad in the

University, we hope to inveigle to

alumni, Tanya Houghton and Toby

Hawks. The Choir sang Schubert’s

lovely Staendchen, and three pieces for female chorus, two horns and a harp by Brahms, which really

The Snow

Accompanied on the PianoForte and two Violins by Messrs HAWKS and SUTCH

Shallow Brown

Arranged for various instruments by Mr HAWKS

Grainger

The Long Day Closes

Arranged for Female Voices by Miss KATIE HAWKS

Sullivan

Four Songs for Female Voices, Two Horns and Harp

With Solos for two Horns and Harp played by Miss HOUGHTON, Miss CATHERINE WHITE, and Mr JON WATSON

Brahms

WARBURTON HALL, LUCY CAVENDISH COLLEGE, RETIRING COLLECTION

annual Garden Party with

memorial service was a very

beautifully-sung spirituals.

the life of Joan Simms. The third

donation earlier in the year, the

friends. Because of a generous

at the University Church, took the

Choir was able to buy not only the

Russian Orthodox chant. Although

to keep the music in. We are

memorial services are necessarily

members of the College. The Choir

tinged with sadness, they are also

Eileen Clifford’s long and eventful

individuals who make up this

was a Gilbert and Sullivan fan) and

its members and to the support of

Jelena Obradovic. This service, held

the life, cut tragically short, of

three memorial services for

life with a piece by Sullivan (she

strength, thanks to the dedication of

both the College and its individual

Choir into unchartered territory of

contributed to the celebration of

The Choir is going from strength to

moving experience, remembering

In addition to these, the Choir’s

ordinary duties, the Choir sang at

Elgar

PART II

they also sang at the celebration of

wishing to sound biased)

Saint-Saëns

Miss TANYA HOUGHTON and Mr TOBY HAWKS

At the end of the Easter Term, the madrigals, folksongs and (not

Fauré

Mr TOM SUTCH

A SHORT INTERVAL FOR THE COLLECTION OF REFRESHMENTS

deserve to be better known.

Choir welcomed guests to the

Schubert

Miss CLARA KANTER

Lucy again!), and the luscious harp-

and-violin of two University

Mezzo-soprano solo performed by

music that we needed, but folders always happy to receive support, either in donations or in

great reminders of the wonderful

membership – come and sing!

College, and it is a privilege to sing

Katie Hawks Choir Director

at them.

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A Year of Success on the River The Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club

race. The senior VIII, which also

consisted of many rowers with only one term’s experience, came 19th in Lent Term started brightly with a

In Lent bumps, we were delighted

Although flooding limited our

ladies’ boat and the Hughes Hall

mens’ 2nd boat had beaten off

it was of ultimate importance to

on-race to secure a historical 4

sculling was also tried here, using

for both novice and senior rowers at

Lucy Cavendish and Hughes Hall combined womens’ boat-club.

Everyone concerned - from the

coach; Rosamund Healey, to the new rowers who devoted hours

every week of the year to training, to the Fellows, staff, alumnae and

students who have been incredibly

that both the Lucy/Hughes 2nd

water training to one outing, this

have our first off-Cam event. Single-

triumphant one on and off the river

interested in the sport and racing

for this long.

was a great bonding experience and

This year has been a wonderfully

have kept so many new rowers

the senior division of Fairbairns. training camp in Doncaster.

Lucy VIII in the May Bumps

considered it a great achievement to

equipment we do not have access to on the Cam.

We managed to maintain our goal

of fielding two competing VIIIs

until the end of Lent Term: In the Pembroke regatta, our first VIII

entered division 2, beating

Fitzwilliam II, Emmanuel II and

Clare Hall I, finally succumbing to Jesus II in the final. The 2nd boat

was unfortunately beaten semi-final

by Pembroke III. Nevertheless, we

tough competition in the gettingentries for Lucy/Hughes in the

competition. The ladies’ 1st boat

were unlucky not to get blades after a “technical-row-over” was

awarded on the 2nd day, but

nevertheless gained a division and 3 places to maintain an un-bumped

history since 2004 and secure a 2nd division place after chasing down

Corpus Christi I, Newnham II and Wolfson I. Our 2nd boat were

blighted by daily changes in crew

line-up, but only lost one position

in total and managed to row over,

thwarting Jesus III on the

supportive - can be proud of this

great year in the development and

promotion of our boat club.

The novices did tremendously in all Michaelmas races, the 2 crews entered into the Clare Novice

Regatta beating crews including

First and Third A, Emmanuel A, LMBC B and Jesus B to win the

plate event and reach the final of the cup event. The novices also came a respectable 15th in the

Queens’ ergo competition and 12th

in the end of term Novice Fairbairns

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Dame Veronica Sutherland with Lucy rowers at the Boat Club Dinner

Pre-May bumps training included

One of our graduate Medicine

our crew got an ego-boost by

working hard at CUWBC summer

the Head of the Cam race, in which beating all other crews in our May bumps division. It was an almost

inevitable but fantastic end to a

wonderful year of racing for the club, when we won blades by

bumping teams from much bigger

colleges Darwin II, Magdalene II,

First and Third II and Jesus III. We

turned a few heads on the Cam and

students, Cath Blake, is currently

development squad, giving her the

option of trialling for the blues next year. Good luck Cath! I look forward to seeing new and

returning rowers doing as well next year.

Ailsa Benton LCCBC Captain

everyone was impressed with our

neat and efficient rowing.

Finally, a IV was borrowed to take Lucy VIII in the May Bumps

Wednesday, and to bump Downing

II on Friday.

to the famous Henley Royal Regatta. This competition is

notoriously difficult to even secure an entry for, so we were delighted

to qualify from the trials to face the

University of Aberdeen, with whom

Easter Term saw the first boat go

we put up a good fight but lost

travelled to the biggest race in

respective sizes.

from strength to strength as it

Ireland, the Galway Tribesman

respectably, given our institutions’

Head, over the Easter break, where

we borrowed a boat to have a great

race, coming 3rd out of 6 in the 5km

race. We dedicated this race to

Dame Veronica Sutherland for her

continued support of the boat club.

As the former British ambassador to Ireland, it is particularly fitting that

our first international fixture, an

endeavour she enthusiastically

supported, occurred in Ireland.

Dame Veronica has been as tireless champion of women’s rowing in

general and her support for LCCBC

over the years has been greatly appreciated.

The winning Lucy/Hughes team

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A Final Adventure with Jane and Morag The adventures of Jane and Morag

islands in the Cyclades (Amorgos,

end. 2008 marks the final season of

itself). Were they making the

in the Cyclades are coming to an the Keros archaeological

Syros, Siphnos and Kouphonsi

figurines on the site or somewhere

excavations at the Early Bronze Age

else and why are they all

Kavos on Keros and the associated

sieving all excavated soil either in

(ca. 3200 BC to 2000 BC) sites of

islet of Dhaskalio in the lesser

Cyclades. Over the course of the

three year project we have been

able to answer some of our original research questions and are much

better informed when discussing

the Cycladic enigma that we first

fragmentary? Our methodology of the dry or wet sieve (using sea

water) provided no evidence for a central location of manufacture or

breakage on Kavos or Dhaskalio, so those activities must be happening

elsewhere. Were they living on one site and practicing some type of

...scorpions, hazardous commutes, wind storms, Philip Treacy hats ... all in a day’s work for two intrepid archaeologists from Lucy Cavendish College. set out to investigate. We have

ritual activities on the other? All

questions like: Where did they get

with abundant architecture remains

evidence with which to address

the raw materials for the figurines?

Evidence from the project

geologists, pottery specialist, and

marble experts confirms that much

of material was coming from the

nearby island of Naxos and other

evidence points to this assumption

on Dhaskalio and ritual deposits on Kavos. Were the two sites

connected in antiquity or were

they separated by the Aegean, as they are now? Project geologist

John Dixon, is leaning towards this

hypothesis, with strong tectonic

forces at work in the region and the continued melting of the polar ice caps as supporting evidence. We

hope that we now have a greater

understanding of the inhabitants of

the Early Bronze Age in this region.

As with our previous exploits this

year was no less of an adventure – one that included scorpions,

hazardous commutes, wind storms, Philip Treacy hats and a visit to the

site by two of Jane’s grandchildren Walls on Dhaskalio (M.M. Kersel)

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– all in a day’s work for two

Wet Sieve on Kavos (M.M. Kersel)

intrepid archaeologists from Lucy Cavendish College.

In 2008, archaeological work

continued at both Kavos and at the

steep and rocky island of Dhaskalio.

On the surface of Dhaskalio traces of prehistoric walls were evident and excavation revealed further

structures. The 2007 Preliminary

report (Renfrew et al. 2008) states that Dhaskalio may now be

recognized as a major settlement of the Keros-Syros culture, with extensive architecture, an

impressive array of pottery and

some very interesting special finds – tuyères associated with metal

working, a shell bead necklace and

a few schematic figurine fragments.

In the Special Deposit area of Kavos

South we continued to find multiple Cycladic figurine fragments, marble and steatite vessel fragments all of which support the theory of

project’s Director (Professor Colin

Renfrew) that Kavos was an area of structured deposits of high status

(non-local) materials all purposely broken in antiquity with possible

The pyramidal shaped islet of Dhaskalio (M.M. Kersel)

ritual associations. “Dhaskalio

Kavos may now be claimed as the first major symbolic centre of the Aegean” (Renfrew et al. 2008:3).

And Lucy Cavendish College

contributed to this finding as Jane

continued to work on the cloth and

mat impressions on the bases of the pots that provide invaluable information on the weaving

techniques and types of fibres and mats used in Early Bronze Age

homes. She identified the use of

vine leaves as a base on which to

place the wet clay pots, which left a

distinct impression on the bottom of the pots. Once again I searched for caves and did small soundings in the very high places of the

excavation area in order to

delineate the extent of the site and

to rule out any thought that the

figurines were being tossed from

above the Special Deposit areas.

The recent release of the latest

Indiana Jones film depicts the

glamorous side of archaeology, portraying archaeologists as

swashbuckler adventurers. While

some of our days are like that, most

The daily commute to Kavos (T.Loughlin)

are far more mundane, although we

A scorpion surprise (T.Loughlin)

do have the occasional “hazard” or

experience the wonders of the Early

commute involved jumping on and

hazard here was preparing lectures

two to overcome. Our daily

off of the caique at the site . Some days, when the north wind blew

this could be quite a challenge, on

others it was as easy as crossing the street in Cambridge (if there were no cyclists). In any event I much

preferred this commute to my daily

Bronze Age Cyclades. The only and answering questions from

enquiring minds. The obligations

and professional responsibilities of archaeologists are manifold and teaching is just one of the more delightful aspects of the “job”.

trip on the Toronto subway, where

“Dhaskalio Kavos may now be claimed as the first major symbolic centre of the Aegean” instead of seeing the occasional

Another of our ethical

with 100s of other work-weary

the communities in which we work.

dolphin or seal I just get to stand individuals. At the end of a long field day we came back to our

rooms at the Sorokos Hotel on

Kouphonsi where we sometimes encountered hidden treasures in

responsibilities is interacting with In an effort to include the local

population in our activities we held an annual open-day on site where the residents of Kouphonsi (the

island on which we live) can visit

our dirty socks. The scorpion was

the site and learn about what we do

laundry, reminding us all to “check

with no water or provisions. This

discovered amongst a dirty pile of

our boots and shoes” before putting

and why we are working on islands year Professor Colin Renfrew also

them on in the morning.

gave a public lecture at the local

Due to the great success of last

numerous successes of the project to

year’s field school we decided to

school, where he recounted the

offer the opportunity to students to Annual Newsletter 08 | Page 27

The Next Steps One of the most daunting tasks that face archaeologists is making sense of the data collected and then

writing up and disseminating the result of three years worth of

research. For every six-week field

season it means about a year to a year and a half of analyses and

write up, so we have a huge task

Dr Jane Renfrew with the Keros Archaeological field school students (M.M. Kersel)

an over-flowing room of interested locals.

During this field season, Pat Marsh

(MPhil from the Department of

Archaeology) joined us for four

weeks of excavation. On “vacation” from her regular job as director of

marketing and co-owner of Philip

Treacey (hat-maker extraordinaire), Pat was an enthusiastic participant on the project and we were very

glad to have her as part of the team.

As a parting gift, Pat gave each of

the team members a Philip Treacey hat, raising the style factor on the excavation to new levels.

ahead of us. There will be a number of “study seasons” where the

elite goods functioning in ritual and

pottery, figurine, artifact

two humble archaeologists from

revisit the material either at the

experience being associated with

various specialists – obsidian, illustrators, and ground stone – all Naxos Museum, where the more

fragile and import pieces have been sent or on Kouphonsi. They will

write up their reports and it will be the task of the Director to pull it all together in a coherent manner,

which addresses some, if not all of our original research questions

(easier said than done!). Jane will be writing up the results of her study of the mat impressions and I, with

the geologists, will be collaborating on a chapter on the caves and

sacred landscape of Kavos. The

results of the excavations at these extraordinary sites “promise to

transform our understanding of the Early Cycladic period of the

Aegean” (Renfrew et al. 2008:31)

and we need to get the word out of our amazing findings. The

architectural elements at Dhaskalio

in association with the 500+ figurine fragments from non-funerary Cambridge Blues (T. Loughlin)

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Open Day on Kavos (M.M. Kersel)

associations on Kavos all point to

perhaps pilgrimage contexts. For

Lucy Cavendish it has been a great this project, and while the field adventures come to an end the

adventures in publication are just beginning.

Morag M. Kersel (2002) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Anthropology University of Toronto References Cited Renfrew, Colin, Olga Philaniotou, Neil Brodie, Giorgos Gavalas, Evi Margaritis, Charles French and Panagiota Sotirakoupoulou (2008) Keros: Dhaskalio, and Kavos, Early Cycladic Stronghold and Ritual Centre.

Preliminary Report of the 2006 and 2007 Excavation Seasons. Annual of the British School at Athens.

Frustrate the Feminine Fanatics Anna Bull (2006) introduces us to snapshots of resistance to women in Cambridge University

With the founding of Girton College

Senate, and a protest on the day

When the result was announced

1860s and 1870s appear to be a

“The ‘Varsity for Men and Men for

an observer described how

in Cambridge. In 1881, when the

Girtonites! Non-plus the

fireworks were set off, oranges and

in 1869 and Newnham in 1875 the

golden age for women’s education Senate voted to allow women to sit

Tripos, a New York Times editorial said that “the actual opening of the

university to women, in name, as

well as substance, may now be left

featuring placards pronouncing

the ‘Varsity’”, “No Gowns for the Newnhamites! Frustrate the Feminine Fanatics! Prudent Proctors prance on physical

impossibilities! Satisfied Angels

want to supersede beaten Apollos!”.

to the working of those natural

Special trains were laid on from

and truth-loving people, are always

and vote.

forces which, among all sensible at work to destroy meaningless

London to allow MAs to come up

against granting degrees to women,

“pandemonium broke loose” -

eggs thrown, rockets launched from bottles, and the effigy on the bicycle was decapitated in celebration.

That night an enormous bonfire

was built in Market Square fuelled

by doors, shutters and other timber

ripped from the surrounding shops.

“We sincerely congratulate the

distinctions and imaginary

The Cambridge Daily News described

Reformers began to lobby in earnest

A vigorous cock crowing from the roof

education are not the needs of men,

membership of the University when

enterprising undergrad, and done with

perfect development to their moral

the commencement of operations.

different. Neither in the interest of

boundary lines.”

for women to be given full

Agnata Frances Ramsay of Girton College was the only student to

gain a First in the Classics Tripos in

the scene:

of Caius College, emanating from an

marvellous fidelity, was the signal for Forthwith the occupants of the front

1887.

rooms in Caius [now the Cambridge

But it was at this point that serious

hang out their banners on the outer

University Press bookshop] began to

resistance to women in Cambridge

walls, and a roar of laughter went up as

next have the MA and this would

window the lay figure of a woman with

began. “If given the BA, they must

there slowly descended from an upper

University on this decision” wrote

The Times the following day. “The

needs of women in the matter of

and the training suited to give

and intellectual powers is radically women nor in that of men was it to be tolerated that an ancient University with a long and

distinguished record of service to

English learning should be wrecked by an attempt to adapt it to the

fulfilment of functions essentially

aggressively red hair, dressed in cap

inconsistent.”

fro in the breeze, limp and lank, the

Perhaps not surprisingly, the

the University Library”.

complimentary to the sex…

women was not repeated for some

In 1897 a proposal was put to the

At the corner of the marketplace the

1907 the ‘Steamboat Ladies’

should be eligible for degrees.

bloomers and pink bodice, sitting

to apply for degrees there.

carry with it voting [rights]…”

complained a contemporary. “Even the BA degree would enable them to take five books at a time out of

University Senate that women

Undergraduates were not allowed to participate in the vote but they made their views known with a 2,100-signature petition to the

and gown. As the figure swung to and

remarks made were the reverse of

effigy of a woman arrayed in blue

astride a bicycle, was run out from an

attempt to obtain degrees for

time, although between 1904 and

travelled to Trinity College, Dublin

upper window and received with cheers

Another vote in the Senate was held

News, 21st May 1897)

granted titles for degrees but a

and groans. (Cambridge Daily

in 1921 in which women were

Annual Newsletter 08 | Page 29

proposal for full University

membership was again rejected.

Undergraduates collected outside

Senate House waiting for the

Society had defeated the motion

“That this House would welcome the admission of women to full

membership of the Cambridge

results, chanting ‘We won’t have

Union Society” amid fears that

to shout the same. “Shortly after

contests.’ In keeping with this spirit

women’ and bribing local children the result of voting was

announced” reported Anne Clough,

elections would turn into ‘beauty women were not permitted to

become members of the Union until

principal of Newnham College, “the

1963. Women and men were not

and lasted for an hour and a half.

room until 1956 and it was not until

siege of Newnham College began

allowed to take exams in the same

A crowd of many hundreds of

1972 that King’s, Clare and

break into the college. Proctors and

colleges to admit women.

members of the University tried to

police could do nothing; the crowd of men was too large”.

The wrought iron Newnham

Memorial Gates were smashed, and the residents of the college trapped inside for the duration of the riot.

“The thing that distinguished this affair from the ordinary

undergraduate ‘rag’” according to

Christ’s College tutor Harris

Rackham, “is that they went to

exult over defeated opponents, and it is that which makes it so disgraceful.”

The right for women to wear gowns

was finally granted in 1947,

although the class of 1947 waited to obtain their degrees until Her

Majesty the Queen could be granted an honorary degree in 1948.

However, admittance to University membership by no means afforded

women equality in other areas of the University. In Michaelmas

Term 1935, the Cambridge Union

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Churchill became the first all-male The New York Times in 1881 had

perhaps been over-optimistic that

“natural forces” would in time open up the University to women. It was instead the efforts of those

“frustrated feminine fanatics”, that

finally prevailed.

The Visiting Fellows Each year academics come from around the world to spend time at the College, working in the libraries of Cambridge and sharing in the academic and social life of Lucy Cavendish. For more information on visiting fellowships, please contact the Fellowship Secretary (fellowshipsecretary@lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk).

emphasize her many

accomplishments as well as being a great actress. This is particularly

true of the fragment written by

Duse in 1913, on the half title page

of the fragment of those unseen

In 2007- 08 we welcomed three

‘The Actresses’s House’, in Rome.

Ireland:

as a Visiting Fellow of Lucy

...Chi vive rivive nell’onda infinita’[…]

that what remains of Duse’s

the wave of infinity)

New Hall Library since the death of

which sums up my entire year as

Marchetti Bullough (1886-1961).

College. An unforgettable year !

women from Italy, the USA and Professor Anna Sica works on ‘The

Library of a Great Actress: Eleonora

Duse’

But, during my year in Cambridge Cavendish College I have found personal library has been housed at her daughter, Enrichetta Angelica

(See my recent article ‘The Eleonora

Duse Collection in Cambridge’ at

www.newhall.cam.ac.uk/facilities/l ibrary/DuseCollectionCambridge.

books:

(He who lives once, lives again on

Visiting Fellow of Lucy Cavendish

Professor Karen (Sasha) Tipper

works on Lady Jane Wilde

pdf ).

Since November 2007, with the kind support of Mrs. Julie Dashwood,

Senior Tutor of Lucy Cavendish

Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) is

considered one of the most

outstanding actresses in the history of theatre. She was also a

College and a distinguished scholar in Italian, I have worked on the

Murray Edwards (New Hall) Duse Collection with the aim of re-

establishing its outstanding value.

remarkable intellectual mind. In

Undoubtedly, it is a resource which

d’Annunzio, Arrigo Boito and to

erudition that Duse displayed

when I was a Visiting Scholar at

of those books are rare, and have in

biography of Lady Jane Wilde,

letters and notes written to Gabriele

her daughter Enrichetta Bullough Duse was accustomed to refer to

enables us to understand the

throughout her acting career. Some

her books as her own artistic

their own right a remarkable value

possession.

Cambridge and beyond.

‘wardrobe’ and highly valued

for Italian theatre studies, in

Duse’s biographers have given

Among the pages of these hitherto

library after the dismantlement, in

written notes by Duse; a few of

some rough information about her

1914, of her women’s cultural club,

neglected books I have found handthem are verses in rough, which

During my last sabbatical in 2001

Lucy Cavendish I wrote a critical published by the Edwin Mellen

Press in 2002. A bright and wellread woman, Jane was a strong

advocate of women’s education and equality.

This year, 2008, I worked on

deciphering and editing Jane’s

Annual Newsletter 08 | Page 31

letters to Lotten von Kraemer, an

early campaigner for women’s

the Wildes to the position they

must take into account the place of

merit, I have an article about the

teacher education within higher

Wildean, the journal of the London

education has been affected by

education and women’s rights in

visit in the July 2008 issue of The

Stockholm to view the original

Oscar Wilde Society.

National Library of Sweden. The

The Edwin Mellen have agreed to

used belied the strength of the

have been awarded the Adele

and an orientation towards social

Professor Sheelagh Drudy works on

teaching, are central to motivations

Sweden. In June I flew to

letters which are housed in the

delicacy of the writing paper Jane views she expressed!

I also did research at the Cambridge University Library and wrote an

introduction for my next book: a

publish all the edited letters and I Mellen prize.

the sociology of education

education and the way higher

global changes in its structures and cultures.

I have been able to show that care

justice are vital within the

professional codes and traditions of

to teach and are fundamental to

education and learning. An ethic of

critical biography of Sir William

care should be incorporated in

possessed an extraordinary wide-

Indeed, such an approach should

Wilde. Like his wife, William

teacher education and policy.

ranging intelligence and published

take precedence over any crude

in a number of fields besides

‘performative’ and ‘audit’

practicing as an ear and eye

approaches. A central assumption

surgeon. Without a doubt Oscar

in my work is that teacher

Wilde was raised in an environment

education and educational research

intellectual prowess.

contribution of universities to the

that nurtured and encouraged his

should be crucial elements in the

deepening of democracy and the

Lotten von Kraemer met the Wilde

I do research spanning education

help from Dr. Wilde for a hearing

intertwining foci of my research

The issue of inclusion is a central

around gender, education and

and debates across Europe and

family in 1857 when she sought

science and teacher education. The

problem from which she had

while at Lucy Cavendish were

When I was reading through her

inclusion, and around teacher

suffered for a number of years.

works, I discovered an account of

her visit that presented the Wildes

in a far more favourable light than

that found in biographies written after Oscar Wilde’s incarceration.

She described the brilliance of the

household that lived at 1 Merrion

Square, Dublin, the empathic

relationship between Jane and her

husband, and the affection they had for their children. To help restore

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education and professional

development. Gender, teaching,

teacher education, professionalism,

public good.

element of current education policy beyond. My work on inclusion has

used Ireland - one of Europe’s most rapidly changing societies - as a

case study and has examined

the knowledge economy and the

progress towards an inclusive

been separately explored in the

whether the impact of recent state

knowledge society have generally research literature with relatively

little investigation of the inter-

relationships between them. I have argued that, in order to understand

teaching and teacher education, we

education system, assessing

policy and legislative change has

significantly increased the degree of

inclusion in the education system.

During my research leave I have

prepared an introductory book on

Education Working Group of the

Education, due for publication in

continued to be a member of the

‘Tuning Educational Structures in

Europe’ project. This project is one

Cavendish (where I did my

Autumn 2008.

Gulbenkian Research Fellow in the

of the few projects in Europe that

After a term of office of seven years

the Bologna Declaration of 1999 to

University College Dublin (latterly

links the political objectives set in the higher education sector, with over 170 European universities

participating. The Education

Working Group has compared

programmes in higher education

as Head of Department at Head of School following

restructuring) I was awarded

late 1970s). From the time I arrived

in Cambridge I was treated with the utmost courtesy and hospitality and was made to feel a member of the

College Community. My Visiting Fellowship also facilitated

connections with the Faculty of

Governing Body of Lucy Cavendish

generous welcome from both

felt especially privileged when the

College agreed to offer me a

cycles – Bachelors, Masters and

Easter Terms, 2008. This time has

Education Working Group has

renew my contacts with friends and

Doctoral. To this end, the

doctorate and was a Calouste

research leave by my university and

across Europe in Education Science and Teacher Education at all three

former colleagues in Lucy

comparability of the three cycles in

Visiting Fellowship for the Lent and

allowed me an opportunity to

Education in the University. The College and Faculty made my time in Cambridge a most happy

experience as well as one which

was personally and professionally rewarding.

2009 Celebrations The University of Cambridge was founded in 1209 so next year will be a time of celebration for the University and its

constituent communities in Cambridge and around the world. The celebrations in Cambridge will be spectacular – so

don’t miss the opportunity to come and visit during 2009.

Geoff Morris, Head of the 800th Anniversary says, “800 years is clearly a very long time, doing justice to such a

milestone is no easy task!” It is Geoff’s job to ensure that the celebrations achieve a balance that respects the past,

highlights current academic achievement and offers an insight into the future. Geoff notes that “The creative abilities

that abound throughout the University will continue to transform the lives of people everywhere and the Anniversary

provides an opportunity to thank all the staff for their contributions and remind people of the positive impact

Cambridge has in the world today.”

The focus will be on events in Cambridge and in London but there will also be events across the world. A range of

short films that showcase academic work and everyday life at the University will be available on the University’s website (www.cam.ac.uk/800).

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College Prizes 2007-08 This year our students were awarded Firsts for Social and Political Sciences, Theology for the Ministry, Chemical

Engineering, Medical and Veterinary Sciences and Classics. Zhiyan Lin was top of her year in the Final Examination for

Chemical Engineering, with a starred First and an overall percentage way above that of the next student on the list. She has been awarded the T.R.C. Fox Prize by her Faculty, as well as one of our Marie Lawrence Prizes.

Carol Atack was also awarded a starred First, in Part 1B of the Classical Tripos (with starred Firsts in both Latin and

Greek), and as a result the Craven Scholarship, a University Classics scholarship, for 2008, a Henry Arthur Thomas book prize, and a share of the Hallam Prize.

The latter is a travel award, which must be spent on a visit to Italy, so Carol set

off to Rome in September.

Our medical students have also excelled, as can be seen from the award of three John Butterfield prizes and, for the first year, the Berti Sapir Medical Prize,

generously donated by our Vice-president, Dr Anna Abulafia, in memory of her mother.

The achievements of the graduate students, the award of prizes for sporting

Blues, and the range and versatility of the students who have received prizes for Carol Atack

their contribution to College life show how vibrant and successful we are. My thanks go to all those who make it possible. Julie Dashwood Senior Tutor

Madeleine Jรถrgensen Prize for First Class Results in Tripos

Donna Baillie, Social and Political Sciences Tripos, Part 2B, Class 1 Marie Lawrence Prize for First Class Results in Tripos

Tina Hodgett, Second Examination for the Bachelor of Theology for Ministry Degree; Zhiyan Lin, Chemical Engineering

Tripos, Part 2B, Class 1*; Andrea Lorek, Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos, Second MB; Carol Atack, Classical Tripos

Part 1B, Class 1*

John Butterfield Prize for Clinical Medicine

Suzie McRitchie-Pratt, Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine (CGCM), 4th/final year; Rebecca Marriott, CGCM, 4th/final year; Janelle Ward, Standard Course in Medicine, final year

Berti Sapir Medical Prize for the student with the best results in Clinical Stage Two (first part of Final MB)

Petra Goldsmith

Kate Bertram Prize for distinguished performance in non-Tripos exams

Caroline Akers, MPhil in Criminology; Olivia Rendon, First Class MPhil in Earth Science; Rosa Barotsi, MPhil in European

Literature; Nidhi Chaudhary, MPhil in Land Economy; Mahvesh Jadoon, MPhil in Management Studies; Zoi Roupakia, MPhil in Computer Science; Linda Stone, MPhil in History

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Dr Marie Lawrence

Mrs Phyllis Hetzel, donor of the Myson Prize

Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst

Alumnae Association Prize for Contribution to the Arts Anna Bull and Annabel Banks

Annabelle Dixon Prize for the student who has made the most of her time at Lucy Cavendish Donna Baillie

Emmeline Pankhurst Prize for Contribution to College Life

Nichola Hodges

Myson College Exhibition for Personal Achievement Gem Duncan and Onyinye Okafor College Prize for Sporting Blues

Alice Barnes, Tennis Blue; Rosalind Lloyd, Lacrosse Blue; Emma Yeoman, Orienteering Half-blue.

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Fellows’ News Research and publications

Hospital in Cambridge, Dr Jane

of the ecosystem enables small

From organic crystals to organ

based upon survival in the

autonomy (privacy) including their

Katherine Mansfield, the research

has been an exciting year for Dr

transplantation, climate change to

interests of the Fellows of Lucy

Cavendish College continue to be fascinatingly diverse.

Greatorex has started a project

environment of pandemic ‘flu. It

Director of NHS Blood and

and customisable collaborative

taking up a new role as Medical

space for joint projects. The DE is

have been on steep learning curve

highly sustainable, and stable across

transplantation. The most striking

across the Cambridge and

particularly affects people in black and minority ethnic groups, for

whom it may be difficult to find a

match.” In the animal world, Dr Jackie Brearley is working on

methods of analgesia for neutering,

developing artificial mammary

among other projects.

drugs for breast cancer. Dr Sabine

Dr Jo Stanley’s current research is

Cambridge Centre for

grant. The multi-disciplinary project

Bahn continues her work at the

Neuropsychiatric Research to define the molecular basis of

schizophrenia and bipolar affective

disorder, and Dr Ruth Jones has had a busy year combining Clinical Anaesthesia with teaching and

examining, and has completed an

audit on Airway Management

during Tonsillectomy.

Having moved to the Clinical

Microbiology and Public Health Laboratory at Addenbrookes

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Dr Stanley’s specific interest in this

of organs, with many hundreds of waiting for a transplant. This

gland structures for evaluating new

time.

project is the deployment of

people dying each year while

Department of Pathology on

Open Source software based, hence

have blood shortages in this

country, there is a chronic shortage

project in collaboration with the

time providing a self-maintaining

Transplant last October. “From a

difference is that while we do not

Cameron’s involvement in a new

intellectual property (IP) and their

business models, while at the same

learning about organ

abound, including Dr Ruth

digital holdings related to their

Lorna Williamson starting with

background in blood transfusion, I

Exciting medical developments

firms to preserve their local

Intellectual Property rights (IPRs) Peterborough industry clusters. She has a background in Natural

Science, a PhD in computer science (the formal analysis of IPRs in software), and has written a

Masters thesis on Genome database

design. She has taught US IP Law at LLM level for the last 6 years.

funded by a European Commission team is developing an Open

Knowledge Space (OKS), and its software platform the Digital

Ecosystem (DE). These twin limbs of the new system are initially for

use by the research community, and after trials, by regional small businesses.

The approach to the DE emphasises the fully distributed network

technology used. The service layer

Lorna McNeur has been working with the Department of

Architecture on a consulting basis, as an Affiliated Lecturer, and has

continued as Director of Studies in

Architecture for Lucy Cavendish

College. She worked closely with staff and Fellows this year on the

allocation of new offices and spaces in College House. Lorna continues her research in environment and emotions and had an article

published in March 2008 entitled, “The Intimate Dance of Being, Buildings, Body, and

Psychotherapy”, Body, Movement

and Dance in Psychotherapy, vol. 3, Autumn issue, Chief Editor Dr

Helen Payne, Routledge, London,

ISSN 1743-2979.c.

Turn-of-the-century actress

Eleanora Duse features in the work of two of our Fellows this year.

Professor Anna Sica (see page 31)

and Julie Dashwood are planning a

joint publication and have been invited to the International

Conference on Eleonora Duse, to be held in Venice at the beginning of

In the lead up to the Cambridge Science Festival I developed a workshop for primary school

students from 6-11 years using the water flea Daphnia magna to

demonstrate the effects of drugs such as caffeine and alcohol on the heart rate. Daphnia is a fascinating

organism which is transparent under a stereo-microscope so you can see the heart beating and the gut

moving. I visited ten primary schools

around Cambridge with my

microscope and laptop projecting the

images from the microscope to the

whiteboard. The children were able

pick up the water fleas with a pipette

and examine them with the microscope and research information using some selected websites. I’m also developing an accompanying website for the

Pharmacology department complete with video clips demonstrating the effect of coca-cola on the heart rate and an interactive quiz all about the

biology of Daphnia. Dr Jenny Koenig (http://www.arcojournal.unipa.it/

html) as well as forthcoming articles

in the next (Autumn 2008) number

of essays on her to be published this

year. As well as the work of

former Visiting Scholar) is putting

the finishing touches to a collection of essays on de Roberto, to be

published in the Autumn by Peter

Lang. She has also been invited to

on Federico De Roberto given at the University of Palermo now published at

(see page 8).

Education research has been a

year; and with Margherita Ganeri (a

article (in Italian) based on a lecture

Mansfield, among other projects

of Pirandello Studies, an article on

Anna Maria Ortese for a collection

October. Julie Dashwood has an

Functional Genomics Thickens the Biological Plot. Gewin V, PLoS Biology Vol. 3/6/2005, e219

give a paper at the next (London)

Pirandello Conference in October.

Dr Isobel Maddison will be

travelling to Switzerland to further her research on Katherine

strength at Lucy Cavendish this Professor Christine Howe and

Visiting Fellow Professor Sheelagh

Drudy (see page 32), Sue Brindley’s current work includes the

Researching Practice Schools

Network, a collaboration between ten secondary schools on

developing professional knowledge,

as well as her ongoing work on

teaching and learning with ICT.

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of the regime. She has also

Caribbean transnational families

developments in the ozone regime

technologies in the maintenance of

published an analysis of recent

in Environmental Policy and Law, and a major analysis of the Bali

Meanwhile, Dr Anna Abulafia

Policy and Law, under the title

manuscript of her new book on

“High politics, high theatrics in

Bali”. Joanna is currently working

duties as Dean of College, has been continuing her work in science

education and communication (see

primary long-distance relationships.

Climate Change Conference in

December 2007 in Environmental

Dr Jenny Koenig, as well as her

and the role of new communication

on a paper with the working title

continues working on the

Jewish service of Latin Christendom and Jane McLarty gave a paper at

“Crafting the Copenhagen

Consensus” looking ahead to what

a potential deal emanating from the

box), this year developing four

strands within this area –

workshops for primary schools,

maths e-learning for medics and vets, general pharmacology for

alternative health practitioners and specialised advanced courses for

the pharmaceutical industry and the British Pharmacological Society. Dr

Edith Esch is currently in Cameroon working on Language Education

and Pedagogy, for which she was awarded a British Academy research grant.

Cutting edge research into

international climate change treaty

negotiations is being carried out by

Dr Joanna Depledge. Following her

return from maternity leave last October she published a paper

telling the story of Saudi Arabia’s

new round of negotiations might look like.

Also looking at forces shaping the globalised world is Dr Mirca

Madianou. After returning from

maternity leave in April 2008, she

September, in Lampeter.

Daphne Jackson Research Fellow in

transnational family life’. In this

Prof. Daniel Miller from University

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Literature in Ancient Greek in

and the transformation of

funded research on ‘Migration, ICTs

has, to date, remained largely

influence on the political dynamics

and at a conference on Epistolary

Finally, Dr Erica Bithell, having

three year project (June 2007-May

untold in the literature, despite its

Ancient Novel in Lisbon in July,

resumed fieldwork on her ESRC

role throughout the history of the

climate change negotiations, which

the International Conference on the

2010) together with co-investigator

College London, she is investigating ethnographically Filipino and

completed her first year as a

Materials Science, is engaged in

research on determining structures of organic crystals using electron diffraction data.

Teaching

courses for the Open University,

teaching as well as continuing to

Dr Jane Greatorex has completed

at an observatory on Mallorca. “It

One example this year has been in

her second year as Undergraduate

including an OU Residential Course

Tutor at Lucy Cavendish. “ To say

develop her supervisions website. the use of simple javascript-based

web tools to guide students through

that I have greatly enjoyed this new

complex data analysis. “In the

challenge would be something of an

pharmacology course, students are

understatement. It is a great

required to read and critically

privilege to serve in a well-honed

appraise data from the scientific

some wonderful staff. The learning

about the mechanism of action of

team, supported on all sides by

literature and reach conclusions

curve has been steep and I will take

the drugs involved. This is probably

advantage of this opportunity to

one of the most challenging

say a really big thank you to

everyone who has helped guide me

questions they face and I have

through myriad University

was hard work every night from

ups and downs but for the most

students grow in confidence as they

procedures. There have been many

part we have prevailed and I am

looking forward to seeing students

dusk to dawn, but rewarding to see

put their theoretical knowledge into

developed an interactive tool to help guide them stage by stage through the process with the ultimate aim of them then

becoming independent. My next

practice at the telescopes”.

mini-project is to start to implement

finished this year I have some super

In July Dr Anna Abulafia taught at

mapping tools to help students see

their achievements.”

in Jewish Studies and Comparative

return in the autumn. Of those who memories and feel humbled by Dr Margaret Penston has been

tutoring second level astronomy

the Third Jerusalem Summer School Religion which has as its theme this

the use of visualisation and mindthe “big picture” and the detail at the same time.”

year: ‘Polemics and identity in

Making things happen

and Muslims’. After four years this

Dr Jenny Koenig continues her work

as Admissions Co-ordinator for the

Women in Science and Engineering

cultural context: Jews, Christians

has been Jane McLarty’s final year

Faculty of Divinity, but she

continues teaching New Testament

Greek from scratch to the first years

with the Cambridge Association for organising meetings and

fundraising. The CamAWISE

website, www.camawise.org.uk,

in the Faculty of Divinity (and

now has a wonderful photodisplay

course too), as well as supervising

technologists. There are six Lucy

continuing with a second year

New Testament papers, and hopes

to submit her PhD by the end of the calendar year.

Dr Jenny Koenig has been further

exploring the use of technology in

of women scientists, engineers and women there which demonstrates the strong links between the two organisations.

Dr Jane Greatorex organised the

inaugural Cambridge Retrovirology Meeting.

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In April Dr Mirca Madianou

organising the Seventh Study Day

Full video coverage of the Royal

Couldry from Goldsmiths College,

Greek which this year Lucy

and answer session chaired most

organised (together with Prof. Nick University of London) an

international conference on ‘The

Ethics of Media: Philosophical

Foundations and Practical

Imperatives’ after obtaining a grant from Centre for Research in Arts

Social Sciences and Humanities

for teachers of New Testament Cavendish will be hosting.

As Executive Secretary of the Sue Jackson’s year was the

posium.org/.

Initiative, one of the highlights of Dr

for the Advancement and Support

of Education Summit for

Advancement Leaders in New York in July and took the opportunity to

interdisciplinary workshop,

meet with alumnae and friends of

“Talking about rights in colonial

the College in the US.

India” at Trinity College in April.

This event will be happening again next year and may lead to the

publication of an edited volume.

“Secularism and the Human” will

be held in Switzerland next summer

Leverhulme Symposium on Climate Change which she co-organised.

Around 150 scientists from around

the world gathered in Cambridge to

looking at the current crises of

focus on key issues at the forefront

regimes across the world.

followed by a public meeting at the

governance in a variety of secular Jane McLarty, along with colleagues from other universities, is

of climate research. This was

Royal Society in London which provided a larger forum for

communicating the outcomes of

the Symposium to a more general

audience, including representatives of government, industry,

environmental groups and the

media. Leading experts on past,

present and future climate gave

talks, and panel discussions also

covered socio-economic and policy dimensions.

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http://www.leverhulmeclimatesym Meryl Davies attended the Council

Dr Rupa Viswanath organised an

Research Workshops entitled

is available from the Leverhulme

symposium website

place (see page 21).

Cavendish-Sutasoma Trust

amusingly by Roger Harrabin, the

BBC’s environment correspondent,

Cambridge Environmental

(CRASSH), where the event took

The first of a series of joint Lucy

Society event, including a question

And the unexpected…

Dr Jane Greatorex has been competing at endurance

horseriding, getting up at 4 or 5 am in order to train two horses. This

year she will be competing with both horses in the inter-regional

championships doing 110 km and 65 km respectively.

Fame beckons for Dr Lorna

Williamson who appeared on Radio 4’s File on Four reviewing the latest evidence suggesting the

inappropriate use of blood during heart surgery may make the

outcome worse for patients. Lorna will be giving one of the Lucy

Cavendish Lectures on 30 October, with the title ‘The Gift of Life’.

Moving on Dr Margaret Penston is coming up to retirement and looks back on

“many happy years at the College during which it has grown from

strength to strength. I have gained tremendous pride and pleasure in being part of the Governing Body team over the past 16 years and I look forward to continuing the

many friendships I have made”.

Dr Rupa Viswanath has moved to

the University of Pennsylvania but looks forward to a continuing

relationship with Lucy Cavendish College as well as with the Sutasoma Trust.

Dr Jane Greatorex and Barnabas

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English at Lucy Cavendish 2008 Dr Isobel Maddison, College Lecturer in English, charts the progress of English in College during the year

their own ‘work in progress’. This year they have been fortunate in working individually with the

an aspiring sixteen year old actress,

the 1997 Pen/MacMillan Silver Pen

imagining herself “cast as Tess,

novelist Tobias Hill, the winner of award for his work Skin, and The Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn

Rhys prize for The Love of Stones

in 2002 and for The Cryptographer

the joint recipient of the Alumnae

Association Prize for Contribution to the Arts and Gem being jointly awarded the Myson College Exhibition for Personal Achievement.

In addition to the day to day

business of preparation for Tripos,

the college has continued the Lucy tradition of encouraging and

supporting creative writing with two of our English students

submitting well-received original

compositions in their final exams.

Jane Skelton was awarded a First

for her humorous short story, ‘The Rivals’, and Gem Duncan’s short

prose, ‘No Meat on Fridays’, beat stiff competition to appear in the 2008 edition of the Inprint

magazine. The first years have also enjoyed the opportunity to develop their creative writing and refine

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d’Urberville!”

a tradition of performing arts in

the poets Ian Patterson, Elizabeth

winning college prizes: Annabel as

and Omar Sharif as Alec

At the lively English dinner in

students have progressed well

Annabel Banks and Gem Duncan,

with Tom Courtney as Angel Clare

Lucy Cavendish Players, instigated

February, we welcomed writers of

through the year with two of them,

seemingly a few years ago,

in 2004.

My first year at Lucy Cavendish has been a busy and exciting time. The

is amused to be revisiting the book

in this part. Jessica remembers as

all kinds, including Colin Shindler, Speller and Joanne Limburg as well

as the columnist and writer Michael Bywater and the writer and

broadcaster, Allison Pearson.

Professor Heather Glen, Professor Colin Wilcockson, Dr Sue Asbee

(Course Director for English with

the Open University), and Professor

by students determined to establish College, was formed this year. Fay

Hendry ran a fun and inspirational actor’s workshop that included

games, vocal work, script analysis and improvisation. The first performance was Charlotte

Keatley’s My Mother Said I Never Should in March. This set a high

standard and was followed in the Easter Term by excerpts from

Sarah Brown (previously CTO at

Lucy). Particular thanks are due to Sarah who generously contributed £300 of Blackwell titles to the

college library, specifically for the teaching of English. I was also

particularly pleased to welcome to the dinner the actor Jessica Turner

who has recently become a mature student studying English and who this year appeared as Patricia

Hewitt in the BBC production of 10 Days to War and at the Almedia as Lady Julia Farrant in Waste by

Harley Granville Barker, directed

by Sam West. She played the

mother of Angel Clare in a recent new BBC adaptation of Thomas

Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, and

Jessica Turner

various plays, directed by several

talented students. Annabel Banks

lead scenes from Shakespeare while Astrid Walrant directed episodes

encouraged to join and participate.

warm welcome to me and it has

Pity She’s a Whore at Sidney Sussex

work with all members of the

performance of John Ford’s Tis a

from Oscar Wilde’s The Importance

College, and a well-attended and

to the fore, but by way of contrast,

was organised to celebrate the end

of Being Earnest. Keeping humour scenes from Doctor Who were directed by Katie Woodman,

excerpts from Ionesco were led by

of the academic year. Subject-

information and appropriate

galleries, further performances and

study English at Lucy Cavendish.

related visits to museums and

Stella Jane. Designed as relief from

My own research into the writing of

energetic, diverse and imaginative

contemporaries has continued this

enterprise for all those involved.

On a rainy Sunday in April, the

English cohort visited the Globe

Theatre to see David Calder as an

erasable King Lear. Inspired by the

trip, an English Society was

established in College with Annabel Banks as President. All English

students are automatically members and interested students from across

the college are welcomed and

The Lucy Cavendish Players present

My Mother Said I Never Should by Charlotte Keatley

college. The Open Day, Taster Day,

and wider recruitment initiatives

activities are anticipated.

exam pressures, this was an

been enjoyable and satisfying to

‘vivacious’ picnic on Jesus Green

Louisa Sollner and those from Willy

Russell’s Blood Brothers guided by

Lucy Cavendish has extended a

The society has arranged a visit to a

Elizabeth von Arnim and her

have provided important

encouragement to those wishing to

English will continue to be a

growing, vibrant and intellectually stimulating component of the College.

year following a three week trip to the Huntington Library in

California to consult the Countess Russell Papers. A visit to Crans

Montana in Switzerland to develop this research, and to view material and ephemera belonging to

Katherine Mansfield (von Arnim’s

more famous literary cousin), is also planned and I look forward to

discovering further connections

between these women and their work. I have also very much

enjoyed taking an active role in the conception and organisation of the

Lucy Cavendish 2009 summer

festival, ‘Women’s Word’. The

College exhibition in October 2009,

‘Rooms of Their Own: The Female

Academy from Margaret Cavendish to Lucy Cavendish College’, is providing opportunities for

collaborative research and it is a

pleasure to be involved in planning

an exciting college project that Monday 10th March 7.30 pm Dining Hall, Warburton.

promises to be memorable.

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News from around the College Senior Tutor

to run a series of popular new

much respected within the

this Newsletter, our students and

for Adult Learners’ Week and a

forward to building on our

students to University level

Ms Jane McLarty

As is evident from other sections of graduates in English are as able and talented as any, and can turn their

hands to art, music, creative writing and drama as well as to literature and language. So theatre, in

events in College such as an event ‘Taster Day’, introducing FE teaching.

I’ve also run a short course for

particular, has flourished in the

women returners in conjunction

productions and a clever and witty

Resource Centre, which will I think

College this year, with Christmas performance in honour of our

President among others. Isobel Maddison’s expertise and

enthusiasm are invaluable in helping their efforts.

The range of prizes we have

awarded highlights the fact that our students excel in many areas.

Mrs Julie Dashwood

Admissions Tutor It has been hugely stimulating to

work with Sue Long, our Student

Outreach Officer, this year. The

extra woman hours put into

outreach means that not only have

we been getting out and about to FE Colleges, but we’ve also been able

with the Cambridge Women’s

result in some applications to the College. Largely thanks to Sue’s

sterling work in visiting FE Colleges far and wide, we were able to make more offers (over 50) this year than

we have for a long time. Of course,

Graduate Tutor

Workshops and meetings

throughout the year address the different stages of a research

degree, offering all graduates

opportunities to reflect and review their progress, as well as practice

and acquire skills and plan for their future career.

It’s definitely not all work and no

play for the Lucy graduate students,

this still represents an encouraging

enjoying themselves at graduate

actual students for Michaelmas, but recovery from the last two

as they have been thoroughly

parties in College, joined in the

disappointing admissions rounds.

Lucy Players theatre productions,

We still face a challenge however in

musical and sporting activities,

attracting a high number of quality applicants, a challenge faced by all

the mature Colleges. As I write we are in the midst of two Admissions Reviews - one in-house, the other a

enthusiastically contributed to the including Ailsa Benton who, as

captain of the very successful Lucy

Boat Club, led the Lucy crew to win blades, again!

University review of mature

Of those who were awarded their

Senior Tutors and Admissions

who won the Danckwerts-

student admissions, involving

Colleges, as well as the Director of Admissions. I think both of these

reviews will result in reinvigorated initiatives to attract and support

mature students in Cambridge. We are unique in having four Colleges dedicated to mature students, and Lucy Cavendish has a particular

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achievements in the coming year.

not all these will transform into

Tutors from the four mature

Lucy Cavendish Players

University as a whole. I look

mission within that target group,

degree this year, Susanna Leong, Pergamon Prize in 2006 for her dissertation Alpha-fetoprotein

refolding and bioprocessing. is now an Assistant Professor at Division of Chemical and

Biomolecular Engineering, Nanyang Technological University; Chiara Mazzetta worked for a year as

Research Associate in Mathematical Statistics at the University of Kent,

and will start as a Research Fellow

Jelena Obradovic, who had started

in October at Warwick, working on

working at Teraview in St. Johns

Chain Monte Carlo methods;

completing her PhD in Physics,

Bayesian Inference and Markov

Anupama Deshpande and Karen Halls have joined Biotech

Innovation Park, Cambridge, after tragically lost her life in a road

accident on 27 March this year. A

companies.

memorial service was held for her

They join the growing numbers of

friends and colleagues. She was a

UK and all over the world, some

wonderful mother to her young

successful Lucy graduates in the

Professors, Lecturers or Postdocs in

places ranging from the American

University in Dubai, Harvard, New

York, Bandung, London, Newcastle,

and of course Cambridge, some in R&D and management, or having

on 12 July, attended by scores of

truly remarkable woman: a

daughter, a brilliant scientist and a

true and warm friend to many. She

was loved by all who knew her, and

will be greatly missed.

Orsola Rath Spivack

started their own company, those who are partners in law firms, or

advisors to Governments.

Contributors at the annual graduate seminars day, held jointly with St Edmund’s College: “To what extent can Primary Sector Producers in LDCs move up the global commodity chain? A case study on the Bangladesh shrimp industry” Nazia Habib-Mintz, Development Studies, St Edmund’s “Numerical simulation of accidental explosions in offshore production plant Savio Vianna, Engineering, St Edmund’s “The impact of HIV/AIDS on rural primary education in Zimbabwe: Implications for the future” Siza Mtimbiri, Education, St Edmund’s “Atmospheric chemical measurements: sun, sea and sky” Ailsa Benton, Chemistry, Lucy Cavendish

“Drawing in the Luini workshop” Lucia Tantardini Lloyd, History of Art, Lucy Cavendish “Corporate social responsibility in built environment: incentives, regulations” Tatiana Vakhitova, Land Economy, Lucy Cavendish “Barrier walls for contaminated ground remediation” Kushal Joshi, Engineering, St Edmund’s “A systems approach to medication safety in the National Health Service” Tabassum Jafri, Engineering, Lucy Cavendish

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well as improving facilities and

personal objectives and appraisal

systems have been transformed. All

have a long term beneficial effect

the remarkable contribution of

to retain an edge and raise its

Plan.

should never take that very special

conferences in an increasingly

Bursar

The secret of our success is in the diversity and skills of the Lucy

community. Time and again I see colleagues, whatever their role. We

commitment to Lucy for granted!

appearances. Our I.T. and phone

this – and more - is needed for Lucy

profile with students and competitive marketplace.

2007-088 was a good year, too, for

The College has made progress, too,

refurbishment of student and other

The new Investment Advisory

tackling the backlog of

accommodation, bringing safety

and security to appropriate levels as

in management and governance.

Panel and the I.T. Users’ Group have already made valuable

contributions. The introduction of a

system for members of staff will

and tie in with Lucy’s new Strategic My hopes for the College, medium

term: more students; higher profile; a new multi purpose building; and, of course, healthy finances. All

achieved consensually in a truly

Lucy way and with lots of support from our friends!

Dr David Carter

The Lucy Cavendish Dinner has become

The Lucy Feast An annual occasion for the whole college community to celebrate the past and the potential of Lucy Cavendish College

Saturday, 7th March, 2009, Warburton Hall Black tie

Live music

Booking from January 2009

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Fellow Librarian

Once the cataloguing is completed

year was the arrival of books on the

to a wide range of researchers in

An exciting event in the Library this

the collection will be made available

Garden Steward

As I write we have some especially exciting news for the garden: the

Reformation and early church

theology and history.

BBC programme, Gardener`s World

Dr Peter Brooks of Robinson

The late Mrs Joan Simms left a large

in a programme they are planning

dedicated room in the basement of

considerable estate to the college,

We do not yet know when it will be

Simms Library Endowment Fund,

very encouraging.

help the running of the library and

This year the gardens have received

history donated from the library of College. These are now housed in a

part of the residue of her

the Library on special shelving paid

and this will form the Joan Anne

Friends of the Library. The books are

the income of which will greatly

for from the funds raised by the

currently being catalogued by

Frances Wetherall who is being

its activities.

Abulafia, St John`s College, the

We have also received substantial

and the Library`s special projects

Professor Quentin Skinner, and

funded by donations from Dr Anna

estate of the late Mrs Joan Simms,

fund. I have been pasting the

special bookplates provided by Dr

Brooks into each of the volumes as

they are catalogued. In addition to providing us with this splendid

reseach library Dr Brooks has given us prints of portraits of eight of the

gifts of books this year from

from the estates of Professor John Crook and Mrs Joan Simms: these donations have greatly enhanced

on women gardeners and gardens.

filmed or shown on TV but it is

generous support from Dr Hilary Belcher and Dr Erica Swale who

have funded Mrs Carol Woolsley to help in the garden. Trained in

horticulture at Writtle College, for a

time Carol had her own nursery garden in Girton.

the usefulness of the library for our

The gardeners, encouraged by Carol

As usual it is a great pleasure to

college in the most economical way

Joan Harris and Gill Saxon for all the

have been bought.

students.

key figures of the Reformation,

record my thanks to Catherine Reid,

room and immediately outside it.

hard work they do in the library

which hang on the walls inside the

wish to include the college garden

Woolsley, have devised a plan for

enhancing the plantings round the

possible; new plants and shrubs

and for all the help they give to our students during the year.

Dr Jane M Renfrew

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A stained glass work “Abundence”

by Clare Sinclair, who had taught

some of the life drawing classes last

year, was purchased thanks to a

generous donation, and now hangs against the window in the foyer of

the library.

A collection of five Gwen Raverat

prints was left to the college by the

Due to the good fortune of being

able to use polytunnels in Girton,

thanks to Carol, a quantity of plug

late Mrs Joan Simms, to add to the two which the college already possessed.

plants have been purchased and

Prints depicting most of the key

own time, to introduce more colour

been given to the college by Dr

grown on by the gardeners in their

and interest to the garden, in

particular to add drifts of colour.

The gardens were opened in aid of

figures of the Reformation have

Peter Brooks and now hang in and just outside the room housing the Brooks Collection.

the Red Cross this Spring and we

There was a display of the college`s

gardens under the National Garden

showing the silver left to the college

have been approached to open the

Scheme (Yellow Book) on the afternoon of 8 July 2009.

Our thanks are due to Vince Lucas,

silver in January with a special table by the late Mrs Joan Simms. Many

thanks are due to the Silver Steward

for setting it out and to all those

Walberswick by Sandra Buchanan

who helped to put it away afterwards.

An art day on the theme of Healing

was led by Sarah Gull in March and

was much appreciated by all who took part.

Alison Lucas, Richard Crosthwait

The college’s annual Art Exhibition

work in keeping the gardens in

Sarah Gull and Jane McLarty, and

and Carol Woolsley for all their hard

was held in June, organised by

such good order when they all

was opened on the day of the

work here part time.

Garden Party by the President.

Dr Jane M. Renfrew

After holding the post of Curator of the college’s valued objects for the

Curator

The year started with an exhibition

past 18 years, I am relinquishing it

of encaustic abstract paintings

Mrs Sarah Gull who takes over at

entitled “Dream Art” by Mrs

the beginning of the next academic year, knowing that they will be

Supanee Gazeley.

Abundance by Clare Sinclair

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looked after by a safe pair of hands.

Jane M. Renfrew

particular or someone in a certain

Steward.

subject just put it in the additional information box and I will do my

I have to say that the best parts of

best when I prepare the seating

my first year as Steward have been

plan.

getting to meet and welcome so

many people and occasionally

arrange the seating plan in the most

And the highlights for next

people who might never have met

usual subject dinners (details on the

academic year? We will have the

inspired way to bring together

website) to celebrate our academic

but had a lot in common. The worst

achievements and invite academic

part? Definitely the middle of

Michaelmas Term when we were

trying to get used to the new online

The online booking system, despite

college network crashed, taking

working very smoothly.

booking system and the whole with it all the names of people

the troubles in Michaelmas, is now

booked in to dinner the next day.

There is a link from the College

road as they say, everyone had a

booking website. If you can’t

breathed a sigh of relief. Everything

password, a quick email (lcc-

However, the show stayed on the seat and a meal and the Steward

went so smoothly most people

would never have suspected what

had happened. I’d like to thank all of the staff who have handled

to perform before the music dinner

bursary@lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk) or

phone call (01223 764014) to the

Formal Halls have been very well

tel: 01223 332196) can make

Dame Veronica’s after-dinner speeches have really made

everyone feel welcome. Martin

Dr Jenny Koenig

Beverley Yorke (bjy21@cam.ac.uk or bookings on your behalf. All past

and present students and Fellows

and Members of the Combination Room are most welcome to all formal halls.

A significant advantage of the

highest level. Others may argue, but

you can view who else is already

the chocolate puddings get my vote.

– so get practising!

amount of administrative time but

James, the chef, has developed the art of the chocolate dessert to the

have plenty of volunteer musicians

Bursary will sort that out.

throughout the year.

formal-but-relaxed atmosphere.

students have in their extra-

remember your user name and

if you don’t have web access then

commented on the convivial

(30 April 2009) to celebrate the

successes and enjoyment our

curricular activities. I am hoping to

The website saves an enormous

attended and many people have

we will also have a music dinner

(12 March 2009) and a sports dinner

home page to the Formal Hall

everything so calmly and with great humour behind the scenes

specialists to the college. This year

formal hall booking website is that booked in and you can indicate

your seating preferences. So if you

would like to sit next to someone in

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Carbon offsetting in the College Environment-related research is

but one thing is clear, it makes

across the University from English,

Developed World to reduce our

now a feature of many Departments

History and SPS to Zoology, Plant Sciences, Geography, Applied

Maths, Computer Sciences and

Window’ scheme as a way of

absolute sense for us in the

offsetting some of the carbon

rather profligate consumption of

when taking that cheap holiday

energy”.

emissions I am responsible for courtesy of a budget airline,

although of course it would be

Engineering. Lucy Cavendish

Naturally Dr Jackson has been at

last four years as Executive

College to reduce energy

If you are interested in more

from the Carbon Trust and an

scheme do get in touch with Sue

Fellow Dr Sue Jackson has spent the Secretary of the University’s

Cambridge Environmental Initiative (CEI). This means she attends

numerous lectures and workshops and is exposed on an almost daily

basis to the problems many of us

are likely to face in the future.

Dr Jackson says, “The problems

relating to care of our environment

with an ever expanding population,

and the possible effects of climate change in the future are still the

subject of intensive research efforts,

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the forefront of efforts within the consumption: advice was sought Energy Committee was set up to

monitor energy use and to find

ways to reduce it. Dr Jackson is

now spearheading the ‘Sponsor-AWindow’ scheme, becoming the first donor to fund the doubleglazing of a College window.

“Double-glazing a window can

result, over one year, in a reduction of carbon emissions similar to that

associated with a short haul flight” she says. “I see the ‘Sponsor-a-

better still to avoid flying at all”. information on the Sponsor-a-Window Jackson at sj10001@cam.ac.uk . For more information on giving to the

Scheme please contact

development@lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk

The new Strathaird

The conference rooms in Strathaird

Please remember Lucy Cavendish

Contact Christine Houghton,

conference. As well as the rooms in

or email: mch27@cam.ac.uk for

Vacation we have 50 en-suite rooms

requirements. She is more than

available. Warburton Hall with its

especially for you. More

have been refurbished to refresh

College when organising a

complementing the colourful

Strathaird, during the Long

and lift their look and feel,

gardens which can be seen from the

rooms.

The room can be used as a meeting room, conference room, lecture

room or for a training seminar.

College members and clients have

all been most complimentary on the fresh, modern look.

and 26 single rooms (in sets of 2) spectacular triple-vaulted ceiling

can be booked for many celebratory events and functions from small dinner parties to Weddings, Christenings, Birthdays,

Anniversaries and for many other

Domestic Bursar, on 01223 332181

further information or to discuss

happy to help you plan an event information on the using the college for conferences and other events can be found on the website

at: www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/

pages/conferences.php

occasions.

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Honorary Fellows Dr Cynthia Glassman

Risk Management and

An economist with over 35 years of

Quantitative Economics and

experience in the public and private sectors Dr Glassman has focussed

on financial services regulatory and public policy issues.

Cynthia Glassman read Economics

at Wellesley College, receiving her

B.A. in 1967, before going on to the University of Pennsylvania where

she was awarded her M.A. and

Ph.D. in Economics in 1971 and

1975 respectively. During a period spent in Cambridge, Dr Glassman

Regulatory Practice and the

Statistics group.

In January 2002 Dr. Glassman was appointed to serve as a

Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange

Commission. During her

tenure at the SEC, Dr. Glassman advocated investor education, enhanced disclosure and

increased use of economic

analysis in SEC rulemaking.

She served as acting chairman

was a Supervisor in Economics at a

of the commission during the

from 1974 to 1977, and she was

played a key role in supporting

number of Colleges in Cambridge

elected as a Senior Member of Lucy

Cavendish in 1976.

Cynthia Glassman had already

started her career at Federal

summer of 2005, and she also

efficient capital markets as well as effective implementation of the

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and

other investor protection efforts.

Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and

Dr. Glassman left the SEC in June

Governors of the Federal Reserve

she is quoted as saying that her SEC

the U.S. Department of the Treasury as Senior Economist in the Office of

fulfilling position of my 35-year career.”1

the Carter Administration.

She was subsequently appointed to

After 12 years at the Federal

Economic Affairs at the U.S.

consultancy which included

as the principal economic adviser to

was subsequently on the Board of including a year on assignment to

Capital Markets Legislation during

Reserve, Dr. Glassman moved into

2006, and in a letter to George Bush, term was “the most exciting and

the position of Under Secretary for Department of Commerce serving

appointments with Economists

Secretary Carlos Gutierrez. She has

where she was the Managing

Economics and Statistics

Incorporated, Furash & Company, Director for the financial services regulatory and public policy

practices, and Ernst & Young, in the

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also been the Administrator of the Administration and oversees two major statistical agencies – the

Bureau of Economic Analysis and

the Census Bureau – that gather,

calculate, and disseminate much of the U.S. demographic, social and

economic data. Priorities include advising on economic trends and

policy; retaining and improving the high quality of the nation’s

economic and demographic

indicators; and ensuring the successful preparation and implementation of the re-

engineered 2010 decennial census.

1 http://www.advfn.com/news_RepublicanGlassman-to-leave-SEC-UPDATE1_15422745.html

financial matters, and sits on the

Baroness Cohen of Pimlico

Tax Law Rewrite Committee.

Honorary Fellow Janet Cohen has

As Janet Neel, her first novel,

world of investment banking for the

won the John Creasey Award

been both a prominent figure in the last 25 years and a writer of crime

fiction under the name Janet Neel.

Gaining a law degree from

Cambridge in 1962 Janet Cohen

trained as a solicitor and then

worked as a management

consultant in the US and UK in the mid-1960s before joining the

Department of Trade and Industry

in 1969. She left the DTI in 1982 to

join Charterhouse Bank.

Death’s Bright Angel (1988),

for Best First Crime Novel and

the third, Death of a Partner in

1991, and fourth, Death Among the Dons in 1993, were both shortlisted for the Crime

Writers’ Association Gold

Dagger. The most recent is

Ticket to Ride in 2005. She has also published two novels as

Janet Cohen, The Highest Bidder in 1992 and Children of a Harsh Winter in 1994.

Janet remained at Charterhouse

In October 2005 Janet Cohen was

also held a variety of directorships

drawn from the 45,000-strong

Development Corporation, John

become a GDST Associate. The

until 2000, during which time she including the Sheffield

Waddington PLC, BPP Professional

Education, the Yorkshire Building

Society, and the Defence Logistics

Organisation — the logistics arm of

the Ministry of Defence. She also served as a Governor of the BBC

among the first cohort of 30 women

network of GDST alumnae to

Associates serve as an important sounding board for the charity’s future direction and strategy, as

well as acting as ambassadors for the organisation.

from 1994-1998.

Janet Cohen is one of those talented

She now holds a number of non-

it is possible to combine a

executive directorships and is

women who has demonstrated that

demanding professional career with

Chairman of the Cambridge Arts

family responsibilities, a situation

appointed Life Baroness in 2000 –

College. We are delighted that she

Theatre. Janet Cohen was

Baroness Cohen of Pimlico − and

sits as a Labour Peer in the House of Lords. She chairs the sub

committee of the European Union

Committee, which deals with EU

familiar to many members of this

is now a member of our community as an Honorary Fellow.

Citations by Karen Davies Archivist

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Creativity and Innovation: Personal Strengths and the Shaping of Careers in Science

Just what does it take to be a

Joint Director of the Cambridge

our celebration of International

Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College.

creative and innovative scientist? In

Centre for Medical Materials and a

Women’s Day we highlighted how

Ruth was a complete contrast again

the personal strengths of scientists

with a much more understated style

are important in making successful

but equally impressive. The range

careers and how these personal

of applications in the field of

strengths can be developed. Our

medical materials is immense and

very contrasting approaches.

working became clear as Ruth

three speakers highlighted three

Dr Melanie Lee is Executive Vice President of Research and

the importance of interdisciplinary described the projects and the need Neuropsychiatric Research, and has

Development at UCB-Celltech and a

founded a spin-out company,

Sciences. She chairs Cancer

schizophrenia. Sabine’s approach

Fellow of the Academy of Medical Research Technology, the

technology transfer subsidiary of

Cancer Research UK (CRUK), and

thus has a unique perspective on

industrial and academic medical

research. Melanie gave a very inspiring talk explaining how

important it is to take advantage of

opportunities available, to take risks and to have a positive attitude.

Interestingly she also underlined the importance of listening to

advice but trusting in your own

judgment and asking for help and support when you need it. Good

research leaders are able to be

accepting of and valuing differences between people as this develops effective team-working.

Dr Sabine Bahn is a University Lecturer in Biotechnology and

Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College.

Within the Institute for

Biotechnology she is the Director of

the Cambridge Centre for

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for strong team-working and leadership skills.

Psynova, to develop biomarkers for

This meeting was held in memory

could be summarized by the phrase

Honorary Fellow of the College.

“just do it!”. She has unbounded enthusiasm and a really strong underlying commitment to the

importance and value of her work which is able to drive her through

any obstacles. The juxtaposition of

of Dr. Anne McLaren FRS, DBE, an Anne was a distinguished and

innovative scientist working in

Reproductive Biology. She was also an advocate for women in science and a founder member of AWiSE

and President until her death. She

this with her whole lab kitted out in

was a wonderful role model for

moment of hilarity – Sabine

scientific career.

pink lab coats was a wonderful

underlined Melanie’s comment that you need to keep a sense of

women at all stages of their

This meeting was kindly sponsored by

humour.

The Greater Cambridge Partnership

Dr Ruth Cameron is Reader in

(www.pir-interims.com).

Polymers and Medical Materials,

(www.gcp.uk.net) and PiR Interims

Alumnae News Freida Dyson (formerly Stewart) (Archaeology, 1973)

Beverly Floersheimer (International Relations, 1982)

Beverly lives in the Connecticut

with her children and her husband,

Computing A-Level with one of the major examination boards. She has

also recently published her fourth

book, AQA Computing AS, coauthored with Dr Kevin Bond.

Carol Brooke (Archaeology and

Anthropology, 1985)

Carol was awarded a personal

Chair at the University of Lincoln, UK, in July 2007, where she is

professor of organisational analysis.

Although her first degree was in Archaeology and Anthropology,

her new book is entitled Critical

Freida now paints full time, and has

Management Perspectives on

had her work exhibited in

Cambridge, Edinburgh, and

Dumfries & Galloway, including at

Dan. She is currently involved with

been President of the Dumfries &

opportunities and her husband

the Arts of Alba Gallery. She has Galloway Fine Art Society, and taken part in events including

Spring Fling (Open Studios) in

South West Scotland. Freida

describes her painting as

impressionistic, in that it is the

impression she wants to convey,

but more than that, it is the mood

and atmosphere, and the feelings a particular place has for her.

Beverley Cottrell (Medical Sciences, 1979)

Beverley won the ESU-Essex Court

mooting competition held at the

Royal Courts of Justice in June 2008

with her mooting partner, Daniel

educational and local volunteer

Information Systems (published by Elsevier), and is forthcoming.

Shevaun Wilder (English, 1988)

continues to work with hedge

In 2007/8 Shevaun produced a

equity opportunities.

Cambridge University Marlowe

funds, whilst also seeking private

Sylvia Langfield (formerly

Goodridge) (Education, 1984)

Sylvia is now the chief examiner for

series of events to mark The

Dramatic Society’s Centenary.

These included: convening and

chairing Memories of the Marlowe

with celebrated old Marlovians

John Barton CBE, Sir Peter Hall,

Pippa Harris and Sir Trevor Nunn, introduced by the Vice-Chancellor,

at Lady Mitchell Hall, conducting an Acting and Text Workshop

called Hold the Mirror Up at The Drama Studio in the English

Faculty, conducting interviews for

contribution to a new book entitled

Bloomsbury & British Theatre: The

Berger. The competition was judged

Marlowe Story by Tim Cribb (the

Martin Lau and Mr. Richard Millett

held in King’s College Library), and

by former Law Lord Lord Steyn, Dr.

QC of Essex Court Chambers.

full transcripts of the interviews are

assisting in bringing Cymbeline (the

Marlowe Society Centenary

Annual Newsletter 08 | Page 55

production) to the Cambridge Arts

until September, using these 3

board of the Directors Guild of

proposals and other ideas. Louise

Theatre. Shevaun also sits on the

Great Britain and is Advisor to the

Trust. She produced and hosted the Directors Guild Sir David

Lean Centenary Events at BAFTA in April to mark Lean’s birth.

M Yasmin (Biological Anthropology,

1990)

Yasmin has been working at the

months to construct new book

Elizabeth Speller (Classics, 1992/5)

GB for 3 years, and has been

a book on graveyards and the

Trustee of Alcoholics Anonymous

revising AA literature. She will be speaking at the Welsh National Assembly in October, and has

Association.

writers over 40 who are completing a contracted book). Elizabeth also

held a temporary, part-time lectureship at Birmingham University, which was

unfortunately cut short by illness.

Pain Education for the British Pain

Katherine Steele (Modern and

based, cross disciplinary resource in

newly-formed Education Special

Cardiovascular Medicine,

Society and is currently lead

elected to the committee of the

Medieval Languages, 1993)

Interest Group of the British Pain researcher for a UK-wide study of education practices in pain

July 2007.

medicine for health care workers.

Louise Foxcroft (History, 1992)

year sees the introduction of a

Marcia’s programme for the coming seminar group for patients; a drop-

Cold Science: A History of the

in session for support and guided

Granta in February 2009. She is also

pain multidisciplinary community

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(a trust providing a cottage and an

has also been developing a web-

Excellence in Scientific Research in

place with the Hosking House Trust

Elizabeth held a Hosking Houses income for established women

Society. In November 2007, she was

taking up a writer-in-residence

festival. At the beginning of 2008,

Associate Specialist in Pain

Addenbrooke’s Hospital as an SRA.

Menopause will be published by

won a prize at the Ledbury poetry

Residency at Stratford upon Avon

Suffolk Primary Care Trust. Marcia

Louise’s latest book Hot Flushes,

diverse as The Financial Times, the

Sciences, 1992)

community in partnership with

Cardiology, Vancouver, Canada in

of the Great War. She has written

New Statesman, and Vogue, and

Louise is also now president of the

and Cancer Pain services in the

International Academy of

writing a novel set in the aftermath

Lucy Cavendish Alumnae

Medicine and has been working to

the Field of

imagination whilst simultaneously various pieces for publications as

improve provision for Chronic Pain

She received First Prize for

Elizabeth spent the last year writing

visited Westminster twice. Finally,

Marcia was promoted to full-time

Department of Medicine at

Clinical Waste.

has also been a Non-Alcoholic

Dr. Marcia Schofield (Medical

Clinical Pharmacology Unit,

keyboards with the all-doctor band

movement and a neck and back

clinic. Marcia also continues to play

Katherine has been living in

Normandy and Paris for almost

three years, continuing to delight in

the food, wine, literature, history

Princeton, she moved back to

Judy has obtained her PhD in

its proximity to other parts of

in a village just to the north of the

The topic of her thesis was:

and music of France, and enjoying Europe. Apart from Katherine’s duties as maîtresse de maison,

which include dealing with the produce coming in from the

potager, she is also currently re-

reading Proust, preparing the third edition of her and Nigel’s joint

Cambridge last year and now lives city. In March she gave birth to

and Upper Ouse Valley in the Late

Maria celebrating her 10 year

period.

year old son, Druce. 2008 also sees wedding anniversary to husband Drew.

Dr Jeanne Openshaw (Research

correspondence between her

The book Dr Openshaw was

grandparents during World War I, also conducting relevant research.

Maria Purves (formerly Brown) (English, 1993

Divergent identities? The Middle

Margaret Mary, who joins her 3

Lexique de l’Immobilier, and

editing a number of letters of

archaeology at Leicester University.

Fellow, 1994)

preparing while at Lucy Cavendish College, Seeking Bauls of Bengal

(CUP, 2002; South Asia paperback

2004) has received a Rabindranath Tagore Memorial Award from the

Pascimbanga Bangla Akademi. The

Iron Age and Romano-British

Selina Mills (English, 1996)

Selina Mills is still writing her book about blind women, but also

learning how to be a radio producer for BBC Radio 4 and The Today

Programme. Who knew that getting up at 3am was a laugh?!

Dr Svetlana Kurtes (English, 1997) Dr Svetlana Kurtes is currently

Bangla Akademi is the Bengali equivalent of the Academie

Francaise. It’s a West Bengal (India) Government organisation. The

Fellowship at Lucy was invaluable

for enabling me to complete a book to some kind of standard

(increasingly difficult these days,

what with teaching ever more

students, and, of course, the RAE).

Maria has two publications out this

Dr Openshaw is now Senior

involved in coordinating a research

Religion, Cultural Exchange and the

University of Edinburgh.

additional language, which is

year: The Gothic and Catholicism:

Popular Novel 1785-1829

Lecturer in Religious Studies at the

project on English as a foreign or

hosted by Cambridge University’s

(University of Wales Press), and a

Karen Stephenson (English, 1995)

ghost story writer and provost of

Catharine’s College to become

Psyart. She also has an essay on

at Wolfson College.

Medicine, 1998)

Judy Meade (Archaeology and

Veterinary Centre in Epping, Essex,

paper on M.R. James (the Victorian

King’s) for the online journal

Daphne du Maurier appearing in a forthcoming book of essays on the

Gothic. After five and a half years at

Karen moved from her post at St

Development Director and Fellow

Anthropology, 1996)

English for Speakers of Other

Languages Department (ESOL).

Samantha Bloomfield (Veterinary

Samantha is working at Forest

which is an orthopaedic and soft

Annual Newsletter 08 | Page 57

tissue referral centre. She is still

Sasibai Kimis (Earth Sciences, 2001)

Alison is a writer and editor in

premature and ill puppies, kittens,

Sasibai went back to Malaysia to

New Architecture for Art, Firstsite:

veterinary consultant for the local

to Ghana in 2004 to work with the

finding time for hand-rearing

and this year also foxes. She is the branch of the Fox Welfare Society in Loughton. Samantha and Steve

After graduating from Cambridge,

work for two years, and then went UNDP and OICI (Opportunities

Industrialization Centers

London. Her first book, entitled

Rafael Viñoly Architects, will be

published by Prestel in Spring 2009.

The book is about producing new world-class architecture for

now live in Chigwell with their

International – an American NGO

contemporary art practice opening

Maxim magazine.

London in 2007 where she works at

of architecture from the cultural to

three cats. Steve is Art Editor for Laurel Patterson (International

based in Ghana). She returned to

First Avenue Partners as a private equity due-diligence director. She

Relations, 1999)

recently (August 2007) visited

Laurel works with the UN in

Marianna Papadopoulos (another

Somalia, and is based in Nairobi,

Kenya. She gave birth to a girl

called Ava Claire in November 2007.

Lucy alumna) in South Africa.

Alison McDougall-Weil (History and Philosophy of Architecture, 2003)

up the normally hidden processes the economic.

Avanti Perera (Law, 2003)

Avanti Perera is currently pursuing her D.Phil in Law at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of

Oxford. After graduating from

Cambridge, Avanti returned home

Helen Lawton (Economics, 1999)

to Sri Lanka and joined the

England, but is now an economist

State Counsel. She also taught

Helen still works at the Bank of

for one of the external MPC members, Professor David

Blanchflower.

Alice M. Yaxley (Natural Sciences,

Attorney General’s Department as a English Literature as a Visiting

Lecturer at the University of

Colombo. She is currently taking a break from legal practice to focus

on her research project, which deals

2001)

with the socio-legal context of

at home on the 21st June 2008.

medical professionals.

Alice had her daughter Edith Sylvia

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complaints and litigation against

Patapia M Tzotzoli (Biological Sciences, 2004)

The last two years saw Patapia

working as a clinical psychologist trainee at Maudsley Hospital in

Institute of Germanic and Romance Study, University of London. She is

Director of the Research Project on

the Reception of British and Irish

London. She has now recently

Authors in Europe, and Series

works as a neuropsychologist in the

(Continum 2002-). Those published

returned to Greece, where she

Deep Brain Stimulation team at the

neuropsychological service within

Anthony Mandal) and The

Europe (eds Brian Southam and

Europe (Elinor Shaffer and Edoardo

neuropsychological assessment

paper beginning in October with

after the surgery. She also facilitates

Europe (2002). Two volumes on The

using a battery of tests before and

Zuccato). The Series will go into

The Reception of Virginia Woolf in

rehabilitation and offers supportive

Reception of Charles Darwin in

also established collaboration with

Darwin Bicentenary year), and a

care after the operation. Patapia the Sobell Department of Motor

Neuroscience & Movement

Disorders, Institute of Neurology at University College London.

Penelope Plaza Azuaje (Latin

American Studies, 2004)

From April 2008, Penelope has been professor of History and Theory of

Architecture at Universidad Simón

Europe will appear in 2009 (the

launching Colloquium will be held at Christ’s College (Darwin’s

college) on 26 February 2009.

Elinor’s personal research this year

includes a chapter in the volume

Samuel Butler: Victorian Against

the Grain (Toronto 2007) and two

chapters on Coleridge in the Oxford

Handbook of Coleridge (Nov. 2008).

Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela. She

Prof. Susan Sellers (Member of the

as Arts Coordinator at the British

Susan is a part-time professor of

holds this position alongside her job Council Venezuela, where she has

been working since her return from

Combination Room)

Dr Elinor Shaffer (1968)

been published (by Two Ravens in

and Senior Research Fellow at the

the beginning and herWoolf, sister Virginia Woolf pursue Bell and herVanessa sister Bell Virginia

each other, yet fiercely competitive, sisters fight to realise the and the real purpose of Art.both Susan

Bloomsbury household they create a ferment of free thinking and

lives mostly nearpattern.

Cambridge with reveal an underlying Only at the end of this fascinating wo

of desire, scandal, illness and war. Traced with lyrical intensity, th

relationship between Virginia and and Vanessa become clear. Susan Se her husband, a composer, their

– Woolf’s suicide by drowning – as the two sisters’ life-long rivalry son. new interpretation of one of the most famous and iconic events

An expert on Woolf’s life and work, Susan Sellers is inspired by technique – a sensuous, impressionistic, interior voice – to inhabit and Antje recreatedu theBois-Pedain tale of the two(Former sisters as Vanessa might have to Dr. chronicle of love and revenge, madness, genius, and the compulsio of relentless difficulty and deep grief.

Fellow)

Dr Antje du Bois-Pedain is a

lecturer the Faculty of Law atAvailable direct fro Greenat Willow Croft Rhiroy, Lochbroom Cambridge University, and a Two Ravens Press Ltd.

www.tworavens

Fellow of Magdalene College. She ISBN: 978-1-90612 published Transitional Amnesty in (P&P free within the UK; see South Africa with Cambridge Ullapool IV23 2SF

University Press in December 2007.

English and Related Literature at

nearly 3 decades as a writer of non-

Member of Clare Hall Cambridge,

love and rivalry In a gloomy house inbetween Hyde Park Vanessa Gate, two young girls are raised

the University of St Andrews. After

Cambridge in September 2005.

Dr Elinor Shaffer, FBA, is a Life

After a nomadic chi Paris. She worked as bluffed her way as a a film script with a involved with leadin Helene Cixous, she their work to the Eng mostly near Cambri and a young son, bu literature at St Andr

Reception of S.T. Coleridge in

patients’ selection for Deep Brain

Stimulation and performs the

‘A beautiful, haun rivalry between t purpose of Art. uncanny, utterly sisters, and the w lived

in the past academic year include

The Reception of Jane Austen in

this team. Patapia participates in

Sus

Editor of the resulting publications

Hygeia Hospital in Athens,

employed to set up the

VANE VI

Studies in the School of Advanced

fiction, her first novel has recently

the UK and by Harcourt in the US).

The novel, entitled Vanessa and

Virginia, is a fictional account of the

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In Memoriam Mary published her first article,

‘The Compromise of Avranches of

1172 and the spread of Canon Law in England’ in The England Historical Review.

In 1955 the Cheneys moved from Manchester to Cambridge when

Christopher was elected to the chair of medieval history and a

fellowship at Corpus Christi.

Mary Gwendolen Cheney 1917-2007 Mary Gwendolen Cheney’s lifelong research interest was English

history in the 12th and 13th

centuries, and in particular the

history of the English church. She

was invited to become a Senior

Member of Lucy Cavendish College in 1966, and was elected a Fellow in

1971 becoming the College’s first Director of Studies in History in 1972

Born on 30 July 1917, Mary

Gwedolen Cheney (nee Hall) was

the daughter of Gilbert Hall, who

served in the Malayan civil service.

Mary read History at Somerville College, Oxford (1933-1938),

spending a year there as a post-

graduate student before going to Westfield College, University of London (1939-1940).

Mary married Christopher Robert Cheney (1906-1987), in 1940 and

from 1940-1943 Mary worked in the

Ministry of Supply. In April 1941

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The primary focus of Mary

Cheney’s work was the 12th-

century bishop, Roger of Worcestor, and she published celebrated

articles, the book Roger, Bishop of

Worcestor 1164-1179 (1980), and the

edition of his acta – his charters and other records – English episcopal acta. 33, Worcestor 1062-1185,

which was published a few weeks before her death.1 Mary also collaborated with her husband on two books - The Letters of Pope

Innocent III (1198-1216) concerning England and Wales (1967), and Studies in the Collections of

Twelfth-Century Decretals: from the papers of the late Walther Holtzmann (1979).

As a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish,

Mary Cheney served on the Fellowship & Membership

Committee (1967-1977), was

Chairman of the Senior Members (1968-1971), and was Praelector

(1982-1985). A particularly

challenging role was that of Garden Steward: the clearing, developing and unifying of the three (hitherto

separate) gardens of College House, Strathaird and Barrmore and

associated pleas for more resources

preoccupied Mary in this role.2

Mary resigned from the fellowship in 1985 becoming an Honorary

Member of the Combination Room.

She continued to take great interest in the College and its development

and bequeathed a generous legacy.

She died on 21 December 2007.

1 From address given by Christopher Brooke at Memorial Celebration held on 10 May 2008 2 LR4/2/10 ‘A Treasure of a Garden’: Lucy Cavendish Garden – The First Thirty Years

school but was taught, or rather, left to study on my own, by my parents”.1

Lucy’s academic record was a

Mathematics at University College,

rows, and some long tubes on a

teaching mathematics for a short

time, initially at Winchester County

early development of computing in the days when a calculating

machine filled an entire room. A world expert in the field of

hypergeometric functions, a branch

of mathematics, she was also

interested in the application of

computers to improving the state of

the British economy. Professor Sir Richard Stone (later a Nobel Prize winner in 1984), described her as

someone who “contributed more than anyone else to the ability of

economists in Cambridge to make

use of high-speed computing facilities”.

Lucy Joan Slater was born on 5

January 1922, in Bournemouth,

Hampshire, the daughter of Lucy

Slater née Dalton and John Wardle

Slater, an Admiralty Chemist. In

her unpublished autobiography, she described herself as “the subject of a

rather unusual educational

experiment, as I never went to

laboratory on the New Museums

site less than 60 years ago:

“It consisted of several banks of

Southampton (1942-1944). After

Lucy Slater was a pioneer in the

a room in the old computing

distinguished one, beginning with

her first degree in Pure and Applied

Lucy Joan Slater 1922-2008

Automatic Calculator) which filled

open shelves filled with valves in bench at right angles to the shelves.

There was just room for an oscilloscope and a bank of

High School for Girls (1944-1945)

switches”.

Southampton (1945-1947) Lucy

When her Research Fellowship at

and then University College,

decided to embark on what proved

Newnham College finished in 1956,

in research.

Junior Research Officer in the new

Following her Ph.D. in Mathematics

(DAE) where she stayed until the

to be a long and pioneering career

in 1951, ‘Functions of

Hypergeometric Type’ at the

University of London, Lucy came to Cambridge in 1951. She studied

Lucy took up the appointment of

Department of Applied Economics late 1970s, reaching the grade of

Assistant Director of Research. In

1965-1966 Lucy took a sabbatical to

help set up a computing laboratory

the Confluent Hypergeometric

at the then new University of Essex.

the electronic computers Edsac I

Lucy’s main work at DAE was to

Functions and the applications of

and Edsac II, and was awarded her

take responsibility for the

second Ph.D. in 1953. She also

mathematical structure and the

programming of automatic

for Growth in the British Economy’

taught and demonstrated the

computers in the laboratory, both

for various summer schools and for the Diploma in Numerical Analysis.2

In these days of nanotechnology

and the manipulation of devices so

actual calculations for the ‘Project

under Professor Richard Stone. The Cambridge Growth Project, as it became known, was a large

econometric research project set up

in the DAE in 1960 and ending in 1987 which was used to forecast

tiny that nothing can be built any

economic growth of the British economy in the 1970s.3

Lucy’s first encounter with the

Lucy published widely during her

smaller, it is fascinating to read of computing machine Edsac

(Electronic Delayed Storage

career, beginning in 1951 with the

paper ‘A new proof of Roger’s

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transformations of infinite series’ in

prevented her from taking an active

1994 for the College to purchase

1975 following the death of her

Christian, Islamic and Jewish faiths

the Proceedings of the London

part in the fellowship. However, in

book, Confluent Hypergeometric

mother, Lucy requested to become a

D.Litt from the University of

expressed the wish that she would

Mathematical Society, and her first

Functions, in 1960. She received a London on her published work in

1956, and a Sc.D. from Cambridge

in 1968 for her published work in mathematics and econometrics.

Lucy was elected a Fellow of the

Pavilion.

now “have the time, energy and

She died on 4 June 2008.

opportunity to serve the College

properly in whatever ways you feel I can.” She served on the Finance

Committee from 1975 to 1978, and

started work on computerising the

College membership lists. Lucy

personal commitments which

gave an imaginative donation in

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for the new Music and Meditation

member of the College and

College in 1968 but resigned in 1970

owing to the pressure of work and

religious texts from the Buddhist,

was also generous with gifts and

1 LCC/A2008/043

2 LCC/A2008/047

3 http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/research/cgp/

Dame Veronica’s Retirement THE SONNET OF DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE When the sharp goddesses apprehend you,

In a cloaked, beaked flurry claw and draw you Down towards departure, resist them not.

You will not rage nor roughly leave the light But resolve with goddess-grace of your own To greet the fickle seasons as if one:

Sweet Primavera, resurrecting hope

Or every summer’s rush of eager corn

Or devouring Autumn’s choir of wailing gnats

Vice-President, Dr Anna Abulafia

And even this… This unwanted farewell

led the whole College community

Between we kinswomen can break no bonds;

Veronica for all she had done for

The warmth the lower earth removes by day

in expressing its gratitude to Dame

Love outlives itself and will flourish still:

Lucy Cavendish College during her

It giveth back by night again, always.

seven years as President.

Here we show highlights of the

series of events organised by Anna

and enjoyed by many who admired

Dame Veronica.

Kate Rayner (2004) Sonnet written on Dame Veronica’s retirement by English undergraduate, Kate Rayner

Dame Veronica receiving her blade from the SU President, Dr Sara Jackson (l), VicePresident, Jane Anderson and Gem Duncan (r) who recited the sonnet, above

Professor Alison Richard, ViceChancellor, before the Lucy Cavendish Lecture

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Farewell from Dame Veronica Looking back to when I joined Lucy

which make it special. And I am

Through Lucy I have come to know

Cavendish seven years ago what

constantly surprised by how much

so many interesting and stimulating

sense of purpose. Everyone who

day as their combine their own

University. Membership of the

enthusiasm as they strove to build

of course encouraging our students.

which had so recently achieved full

Our students too are remarkable

warmest of welcomes, and quickly

variety of backgrounds, sometimes

other Cambridge colleges, and is at

from domestic responsibilities, but

struck me most was the common worked here showed real

up our College for mature women,

College Status. I was given the

learnt that Lucy is different from

its best when it follows its own

instincts, introducing innovative

ideas which are often soon claimed

by others as their own then proudly

presented as best practice.

many of our Fellows pack into their

work with family commitments and

people coming as they do from a

from successful careers, sometimes many of them returning to

education after a considerable break from formal study. With the support of their Tutors and Directors of Studies they

Lucy is different from other Cambridge colleges, and is at its best when it follows its own instincts Among the Fellows I have made

many friendships which will I am

sure endure, and I take away happy

nevertheless shine in disciplines as

diverse as engineering and classics, also managing to write poetry and

people, both within and outside the

University Council has given me privileged insights into how this

world-class institution is run, and

the opportunity to admire the skill with which the Vice-Chancellor

balances the many interest groups

which go to make it up. Professor Alison Richard is of course one of our Honorary Fellows, and it has been a particular pleasure to

welcome her and a number of other distinguished women into this group. So many of them have

given us fascinating accounts of

their careers, and amused us with

stories of the times they have been taken as the junior bag-carrier rather than the leader of the

delegation. They stand as role

models to us all and the College is enriched by their association

memories of our times together –

plays, produce films and achieve

House over a glass of champagne;

examples of their outside interests.

If I have received so much in

their company, including tramping

have I in my turn done for the

informal evenings at Marshall

stimulating discussion of esoteric

topics, often the subject of cutting-

edge research or a prestigious

sporting awards – to give but a few I have spent many happy times in the towpath to cheer on the

award; artistic activities including

Lucy/Hughes eight, which has won

exhibition; convivial occasions such

continues to go from strength to

Dinners when the College often

prospect of endowing as my leaving

life classes and the annual

as our Formal Halls or Lyttelton

three blades in my time and

with us.

warmth and friendship, what then College? Of course, as I have indicated, I have joined

enthusiastically in its varied

activities, rejoiced in its many

strength. And so I am excited at the

successes - including the recent

seems to me to show itself to best

present prizes for students who

first Professorial Fellow and helped

from across the University and

forward to hearing of their

advantage as it entertains guests

beyond. It is at such times that Lucy demonstrates that unique

blend of warmth and informality

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achieve sporting blues – and I look successes.

addition to our community of our whenever possible to raise the

College profile. Even more than this, however, I have tried to

strengthen Lucy’s institutional

foundations. This was in fact my

original remit from the Governing

Emeritus Fellow and former Vice-

to me that the College needed a

Lyttelton Fellow-Benefactor, a

Body in 2001 when it was explained period of consolidation. I

undertook to do my best on this,

bearing in mind my management

experience from my earlier career in

diplomacy. Such matters are not

the stuff of arresting headlines, but they are important nonetheless.

President, became our first Lucy special group established by the

Governing Body in 2006 to honour major donors, and we were able to

celebrate her benefaction in support of medical studies at Lucy made in memory of her husband Micky.

And so I have worked to clarify and

And, as the time comes to part, I

members of our community –

a series of magnificent farewell

rationalise conditions for all

indeed we must be one of the few

leave with the fondest memories of parties with most generous gifts

colleges in Cambridge with both a

from the Fellowship, and from

Fellows and an up-to-date Staff

heartfelt thanks to you all. But then

comprehensive compendium for

alumnae, students and staff – my

Handbook. Establishing best

of course the Governing Body have

been particularly important: our

at all. To my delight, they agreed

practice in staff management has loyal staff, who work so hard on

our behalf, deserve nothing less.

Financial matters, including

accommodation, have consumed

much of my energies. The purchase

ensured that I am not really leaving some time ago that Maggi

Hambling should paint my portrait,

so I shall continue to smile down at

to me personally and to the College.

Honorary Fellow myself.

they will give equal support to my

you from that, but now as an

of town houses and the extension of

To have been for the last seven

satisfaction. A great deal of work

is a privilege indeed, but of course

Oldham Hall were matters of much was undertaken to boost our

conference business and to seek out and to attract ever more students.

years Head of a Cambridge college

fortune

1 October 2001 to 30 July 2008

individually at our final meeting,

President

Fellows. I thanked them all

and I am sure they will understand

made, that it is hard to pick out a

if I do not repeat here what I said

a proud moment when at this year’s

each and every one of them has

Lyttelton Dinner Lindsey Traub,

whom I wish the very best of good

support from so many people, and

been achieved in the last five years, single highlight. But it was indeed

successor, Professor Jan Todd to

Dame Veronica Sutherland

would have been possible without

above all the Governing Body

and so many generous donations

And I leave in the knowledge that

none of what I have described

Our development programme has been critical. Here so much has

Dame Veronica in the SOMI Truck

then. I would only emphasise that contributed something special both

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The College 2007-08 President

Sutherland, Dame Veronica Evelyn BA MA (HON)LLD DBE CMG

Honorary Fellow

Black, Professor Dame Carol Mary MD FRCP FMedSci CBE DBE Burbidge, Professor Eleanor Margaret (Margaret) FRS Cohen of Pimlico, Baroness Janet MA Dench, Dame Judith Olivia (Judi) Hon DLitt Hon DUniv OBE DBE CH Ford, Ms Anna BA DipAdultEd FRGS Hon LLD DUniv Glassman, Dr Cynthia Aaron (Cyndi) Grantchester, Lady (Betty) MA Hanratty, Miss Judith LLB LLM OBE Harris, Dame Pauline DBE Hetzel, Mrs Phyllis MA HM Queen Margrethe of Denmark, Hon LLD Oldham, Dr Barbara MA MB CHB MRCS LRCP OBE Owers, Ms Anne CBE Perry of Southwark, Baroness Pauline MA Hon LLD Hon DLitt Hon DUniv Richard, Professor Alison MA PhD Rimington, Dame Stella DCB Hon LLD Tizard, Dame Catherine A (Cath) BA GCMG GCVO DBE QSO Todd, Professor Janet Margaret (Jan) MA PhD Tomalin, Mrs Claire MA FRSL Trumpington of Sandwich, The Rt Hon the Baroness Jean Alys PC DCVO Warburton, Dame Anne MA Hon LLD DCVO CMG

Emeritus Fellows

Collier, Dr Jane BSc MA PhD Hartree, Dr Anne Stockell BA MA PhD Lyons, Mrs Ursula MA Mackintosh, Mrs Ellen MA Morgan, Dr Clare Barnes BSc MA PhD Squire, Mrs Natasha MA Dipolome Superieur de Russe Thoday, Dr Doris Joan BSc MA PhD Traub, Dr Lindsey Margaret MA PhD Treip, Dr Mindele Anne BA MA PhD Tucker, Dr Elizabeth Mary (Betty) BSc MA PhD DSc

Lucy Lyttelton Fellow-Benefactor Traub, Dr Lindsey Margaret MA PhD

Governing Body Fellows

Abulafia, Dr Anna Brechta Sapir MA PhD FRHistS Bahn, Dr Sabine MD PhD MRCPsych Brearley, Dr Jacqueline Chryscillian (Jackie) MA Vet MB PhD Dip ECVA MRCA MRCVS Brindley, Ms Sue MA MA MA Cameron, Dr Ruth MA PhD MInstP CPhyS Curry, Dr Allison MA PhD Dashwood, Mrs Julie Rosalind BA MA Davies, Ms Meryl Grace BA MPhil Ellington, Dr Stephanie Katharine Lindsay BSc MA PhD

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Esch, Dr Edith Marie MA PhD Greatorex, Dr Jane Suzette BTec FMLS PhD Gull, Mrs Sarah Elizabeth MBBS FRCS(ED) FRCOG Houghton, Mrs Margaret Christine (Christine) BA MA Howe, Professor Christine J BA PhD AcSS Jackson, Dr Susan (Sue) MA PhD CEng Jones, Dr Ruth MA MB CHB FRCA Koenig, Dr Jennifer (Jenny) BSc PhD Maddison, Dr Isobel Judith BA MA PhD Madianou, Dr Mirca BA MSc PhD McLarty, Ms Jane Deane BA MA MPhil McNeur, Ms Lorna Anne BArch MA MPhil Penston, Dr Margaret Joan BSc MA DPhil FRAS MBE Rath Spivack, Dr Orsola MA PhD Rawlings, Miss Susan Elizabeth MA Renfrew, Dr Jane Margaret MA PhD FSA FSA (Scot) FLS Scolnicov, Dr Anat LLB LLM PhD Tiley, Mrs Jillinda Millicent MA Vinnicombe, Ms Alison Annette BA MA Dip RSA Williamson, Dr Lorna McLeod BSc MD FRCP FRCPath Wright, Dr Laura MA MA DPhil

Bursar

Carter, Dr David CVO

Research Fellows

Banaji, Dr Ferzina Vistasp BA MPhil PhD Bithell, Dr Erica Grace BA PhD Depledge, Dr Joanna Jane BA MSc PhD Forman, Dr Julia Rebecca AB MPhil PhD Viswanath, Dr Rupa MA MPhil PhD

Fellow Commoners

Corbalis, Ms Judy BA MA Hewitt, Ms Joanna Hoti, Dr Amineh James, Professor Mary Elizabeth BEd MA PhD Muthesius, Professor Anna Maria BA PhD FSA Pearse, Dr Barbara PhD FRS Purkiss, Mrs Brenda A MA Raj, Dr Dhooleka Sarhadi PhD

Member by Election

Dain, Dr Anne Rutherford BSc MPhil PhD Harris, Mrs Mary Hill AB MA Certificat d’Archologie Whear, Dr Rachael BSc PhD

Honorary Members of the Combination Room

Anderson, Dr Helen PhD Arnot, Professor Madeleine MA PhD Barr, Miss Betty Elizabeth Hadley (Betty) LLB Bartholomew, Dr Susan L BA MA MBA Belcher, Dr Hilary J PhD DSc Blacker, Dr Carmen PhD Brinton, Ms Sarah Virginia (Sal) MA Bristow, Mr Christopher (Chris) MA Brooke, Dr Rosalind Beckford BA MA PhD LittD Brown, Professor Sarah Annes BA MA PhD Bryant, Mr David Peter Herbert Clarke, Dr Ann BSc PhD Crawford, Dr Harriet E W MA PhD FSA Hawthorn, Ms Ruth MA Herbert, Dr Gertraud MA DPhil Joysey, Dr Valerie Christine BSc PhD Martin, Dr Jessica Heloise MA PhD Newns, Lady Beryl Wattles BEd MSc Ngubane, Professor Harriet BA PhD Perry, Mr George MA MEd Rampling, Dr Anita Margaret BSc PhD MB ChB Rodriguez, Professor Raquel Emilia Sheppard, Dr Jennifer Mary (Jenny) BA MA PhD Spens, Dr M Teresa (Teresa) PhD Stein, Dr Janet Mary BSc MSc PhD Sutherland, Mr Alex Swale, Dr Erica Mary Forster MSc PhD DSc Tee, Mrs Mary Louise Holden (Louise) MA Vassilika, Dr Eleni BA MA PhD Weatherley, Mrs Helen Wheeler, Dr Joyce Margaret BSc PhD FRAS Worden, Mrs Dorothy Mary (Mary) BA Young, Professor Maureen MSc PhD

Members of the Combination Room Bayraktaroglu, Dr Arin PhD Bocking, Miss Marjorie BSc Bradbrook, Dr Bohuslava R DPhil PhD Bradshaw, Ms Sally Burney, Ms Elizabeth MA BLitt Carlton Smith, Dr Nancy BSc PhD Chapman, Dr Elizabeth Claire (Liz) PhD Cleary, Ms Ritva-Liisa (Liisa) MA HUK Dip LIB ALA Cobby, Dr Anne MA PhD Corsellis, Mrs Ann BA OBE JP Hon FIL Cotton, Ms Geraldine Davies, Mrs Karen BA MA Dawson, Miss Julie De Smith, Mrs Barbara LLB MA Dee, Dr Lesley MEd PhD Dillon, Dr Anne Kathleen PhD Eggins, Professor Heather BA PGCE MPhil Fritzinger, Dr Linda B BA MA PhD Ghosh, Dr Barnali BTech MTech PhD Graham, Mrs Jenny MA Grieco, Professor Margaret Sybil DPhil MCIT

Hampton, Mrs Janie BA MSc Haresnape, Dr Elizabeth PhD Hawks, Ms Katharine Rachel (Katie) MA MPhil PGCE Hendriks, Dr Henriette PhD Hennegan, Miss Alison MA Hill, Dr Penelope Margaret Mary (Penny) BPharm MRPharms PhD Hodder, Mrs Elizabeth BSc Holbrook, Mrs Margot MA Hunt, Mrs Pauline Ife, Dr Anne PhD Kan, Dr Qian BA MA PhD Kleine Staarman, Dr Judith MSc PhD Lee, Ms Karen BA MA Leggatt, Ms Melanie (Mel) HND BA MSc Lichtenstein, Ms Jane Limb, Dr Ann Geraldine BA MA PGCE Hon FCGI Hon PhD Lucas, Mrs Angela M MA Mannion, Ms Paddy BVMS MRCVS Morris, Ms Alexandra (Alex) BA MA Panayotova, Dr Stella PhD Parodi, Dr Teresa PhD Rogers, Dr Gillian Elizabeth BA MA PhD Rushden, Mrs Cynthia Elizabeth (Elizabeth) BA Schiffmann, Dr Victoria Relisse (Vicky) BA MA PhD Sellers, Professor Susan PhD Tipper, Professor Karen Sasha (Sasha) AB MA PhD Tooke, Dr Nichola MSc PhD Vickers, Dr Ilse Renate BA PhD Wallach, Dr Robin PhD Walsham, Mrs Alison MA Wilson, Dr Jean MA PhD FSA Wilson, Dr Anji BSc MSc PhD Windram, Dr Heather Frances BSc PhD Wood, Ms Jennifer Susan Shirley (Jenny) BSc MSc Dip PhD Worsnop, Dr Victoria Mary (Vicki) BA MA PhD

Post-Doctoral Member of the Combination Room Li, Dr Qinling Maher, Dr Lisa A BSc PhD Videler, Dr Hortense (Tennie) PhD

Visiting Fellows

Andersen, Dr Stine LLB LLM MRes PhD Baron Pollak, Professor Patricia BA MRP MPh PhD Drudy, Professor Sheelagh Mary Pattenden, Professor Rosemary Diana BCom LLB PhD Sica, Professor Anna Stanley, Dr Jo Angela Mary PhD Tipper, Professor Karen Sasha (Sasha) AB MA PhD

Visiting Scholar

Kirshner, Ms Jodie Adams BA JD

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The Students First Years

Aswani Morjani, Deepti Banks, Annabel Barnes, Alice Berridge, Zoe Blake, Catherine Brock, Rachael Chen, Michelle Clark, Victoria Cowell, Julia Daniel, Megan De Saram, Michelle Dyer, Adrine Giusti, Sandra Goldsmith, Hannah Huguet Subiela, Nuria Khanom, Rupsana Kolachina, Vidya Krupica, Brittany Lanham, Samantha Matsui, Seiko Menzies, Gillian Padden, Natalie Pellicer, Cristina Plumpton, Kim Ponomarenko, Michelle Probyn, Myfanwy Rice-Tagon, Aissa Rigby, Julia Ritzau-Reid, Daniella Rubinstein, Helena Rudolf, Nichola Sancho, Maria Silva, Esther Stewart, Lara Tanna, Avashinee Thomson, Elizabeth Urbanski, Christine Walrant, Astrid Wartelle D’Herlincourt, Flavie Wiesbeck, Julia Williams, Bethany Zhu, Ting

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Second Years

Atack, Carol Atkins, Bink Bidston, Lorna Blumstein, Anna Bull, Anna Bullock, Sally Carvello, Lesley Cordell, Suzanne Cowan, Laura Faramarzi, Maryam Fonceca, Myra Hackett, Kate Hickmott, Sarah Hodges, Nichola Hodgett, Tina Kohler, Katharina Kranenburg, Hannah Lee, Marchette Lorek, Andrea Loweth, Kirsty Okwu, Ifeoma Orzechowska-Redmond, Malgorzata Poole, Christina Raby, Sophie Shaheen, Mussarat Silva, Filipa Sparsis-Bermejo, Jessica Taylor, Jennifer Thijs, Christine Watson, Eleanor Whitehead, Nicola Woods, Caroline Woods, Kate

Third Years

Adeyeye, Nina Anderson, Jane Baillie, Donna Budanova, Natasha Burney, Jacqueline Button, Brigid Chowdhury, Marie Cousins, Lesley Drummond, Sally Duncan, Gem Gurney, Eleanor Hamilton, Jill Hom-Choudhury, Anindita Jackson, Sara Jenkins, Sarah Johnston, Josephine Juhasz, Judith Lloyd, Rosalind Okafor, Onyinye Pope, Rhiannon Rzechorzek, Nina Skelton, Jane Thatcher, Lannah Thomson, Alison Yeoman, Emma

Fourth Years and above Brokenshire, Lorna Bulman, Philippa Burke, Ailbhe Cross, Deborah Goldsmith, Petra Jenkinson, Rebecca Kemkaran-Thompson, Libby Khan, Aminah Lin, Zhiyan Mahadevan, Meera Marriott, Rebecca McRitchie Pratt, Suzie Paddy, Heidi Parsons, Cheyne Sopp, Hazel Tickell, Carolyne Vincenzi, Giulia Ward, Janelle

Graduate Students Abreu, Maria Ahmed, Sangita Ahsan, Sunjukta Akers, Caroline Allison, Catherine Ang, Jestine Angeles-Tactay, Eloisa Atherton, Helen Atkin, Joanna Badger, Shirlene Barotsi, Rosa Basetti, Suparna Becker, Anna Beeson-Clark, Jane Bentley, Babette Benton, Ailsa Berrie, Jeanette Bi, Bingjing Bolognesi-Winfield, Agnese Boukarim, Rana Brown, Rachel Bystriakova, Nadia Carmen, Ruby Carter, Susan Catania Kulper, Amy Chalcraft, Faye Chaudhary, Nidhi Chen, Ying Chen, Ying Chow, Hang Corsgreen, Patricia Costa, Marta Cuckston, Judith Dautova, Yana Djurkovic, Milja Dunlop, Jennifer Eastwood, Sophie El Ashegh, Hanan Erlund, Mary Faltin, Lucia Francis, Anna Frenkel, Luise Gajraj, Priya Galecki, Marta Gu, Chunjing Gurung, Alka Halls, Karen Hamimeche, Samira Hanke, Veronica Hassan, Saima Haward, Sherry He, Ximin Healey, Rosamund Heard, Shelagh Heflin, Tori Helwa, Racha Howes, Marie Husain, Seham Ingudomnukul, Erin

Jadoon, Mahvesh Jafri, Tabassum Jane, Stella Jonsdottir, Ingibjorg Juss, Jatinder Kalyvianaki, Evangelia Kaneko, Chizuru Kant, Deborah Karl, Alexandra Kesavan, Divya Kittipanya-Ngam, Pichawadee La Rotta, Sonia Laffir, Fathima Laurent, Deborah Lawrence, Julie Le-Guilcher, Lucy Lekawa, Agnieszka Leong, Susanna Leow, Yan Lezama Gonzalez, Lissa Li, Sheng Liao, Yu-chun Lim, Yian Lin, Yvonne Logue, Antonia Lopes Da Silva, Maria Lovell, Sarah Marnerou, Georgia Masada, Nana Massa, Evelyne McFaul, Donnamarie Medani, Mushtaha Mellone, Manuela Mole, Kristine Morecroft, Angela Neokleous, Theoni Nuhanovic, Samira Obradovic, Jelena Ostik, Huigenia Page, Philippa Panvini Rosati, Lea Phochanukul, Nichanun Rana, Uzma Rendon Thompson, Olivia Richards, Morgan Russell, Sheila Sapsford, Francesca Schneider, Birte Singh, Alaka Sollner, Louisa Spear, Rose Stoeckl, Andrea Stone, Linda Sunley, Kate Sykes, Rosemary Tantardini Lloyd, Lucia Vakhitova, Tatiana Von Eye, Maxine Wade, Ann Wang, Yu-Chiao Warakaulle, Charlotte

Waugh, Carole Wendling, Miriam Wilson, Lucy Wilson, Margaret Wimhurst, Tamsin Wu, Tiffany Wu, Xianjie Yang, Yang Yildirim, Umut Yogendra, Shefaly Yu, Jing Zeuthen, Helene Zhang, Qiuhong Zhou, Ying

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Events in College 2009 LENT TERM A 15/01/09 17/01/09 B 22/01/09 B 29/01/09 B B A B

29/01/09 05/02/09 12/02/09 12/02/09

19/02/09 26/02/09 28/02/09

28/02/09

B A A

04/03/09 05/03/09 05/03/09 07/03/09 12/03/09

EASTER TERM 2009 A 23/04/09 A A

30/04/09 07/05/09

Formal Hall – all College community with separate tables for Library Sub-Committee Winter Reception for Benefactors Formal Hall – separate subject tables for Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science Formal Hall – Silver Dinner and separate subject tables for Archaeology & Anthropology, Architecture & History of Art and the Fine Arts Sub-Committee Lucy Cavendish Forum Formal Hall – separate subject tables for Medicine Formal Hall – Law and Criminology LGBT History Month: An evening of women & writing with Manda Scott, Stella Duffy and others.

Formal Hall – following Lucy Cavendish Lecture and Halfway Hall Formal Hall – separate subject tables for English and ASNaC Law Taster Day a recruitment event giving potential applicants some experience of grappling with legal problems “Infant Sorrow”: A one-day inter-disciplinary conference on infant death from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries.

Poetry at Lucy Cavendish: Workshop and Poetry Evening on the theme of Journeys 'The road less travelled' - a Taster Day for potential applicants to smaller subjects Formal Hall – separate tables for Geography, MML, Oriental Studies & Education Lucy Feast (Black Tie Special Dinner) Formal Hall –with a musical theme Formal Hall – all College Community with special invitations to Honorary Members of the Combination Room Formal Hall – Sports Dinner Formal Hall – separate tables for Graduate Students, Research Fellows and members of Garden Sub-Committee Thoughts in a Green Shade: the Garden in history, theology, law and literature Supper Lyttelton Dinner Supper Supper Formal Hall – “Final” Formal Hall of the year Formal Hall – following the CWL Lecture Garden Party Launch of Women’s Word at Lucy Cavendish

09/05/09 14/05/09 15/05/2009 21/05/09 28/05/09 04/06/09 11/06/09 12/06/09 13/06/09 Key to formal halls a open to all members of the College community, including members of staff b open to all College members (Fellows, students and alumnae) and to those who have been offered dining privileges (i.e. everyone on the College List and external Directors of Studies) c by invitation only A C A A A A A

All College Members are always welcome to dine at any Formal Hall, regardless of subject designation, if any.

All College Members and guests who are members of the University should wear gowns for Formal Hall.

Bookings for Formal Hall can be made through the College website at http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/mealbooking/ or by telephone to the President’s PA, Beverley Yorke (01223 332196). Any questions should be addressed to the Steward, Dr Jenny Koenig (jk111@cam.ac.uk).