Finished copy of annual review by Lucy Cavendish College

Lucy Cavendish College Annual Review 2012

Graduation Ceremonies 2011-12

Extract from Lucy Cavendish College entry in the 2012 Varsity Graduation Year Book. For most undergraduates, university is a developmental stepping-stone between sixth form and the big wide world, whereas most of the students at Lucy Cavendish, the only college for mature women in the country, come to university for the first time with extensive appreciation of the big wide world already under their belts. They face challenges beyond those of the average Cambridge applicant, and respond to the

opportunity to study with an enthusiasm and motivation that makes the Lucy Cavendish experience unique. We think university should represent a life-changing experience, but we are also aware that many students are disappointed, because it fails to live up to those expectations. In our three years at Lucy Cavendish, we have come across obsessive actors with six essays

to write at the end of term, vets too exhausted by lambing to go to lectures, and former queens of industry who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe that university would pose greater challenges than multi-million pound tenders. We have never met anyone who was disappointed that they made the enormous effort required to come to Lucy Cavendish.

Isobel Cohen and Emma Stirling

Contents From the President..................................................................................................................................... 2 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize....................................................................................................................... 5 Women’s Word........................................................................................................................................... 6 Pride & Prejudice........................................................................................................................................ 7 New Honorary Fellows............................................................................................................................... 8 The Scribbling Women Project.................................................................................................................... 9 College Garden Party .................................................................................................................................. 9 Anna Bidder Evenings................................................................................................................................ 10 Lucy Cavendish Singers............................................................................................................................. 10 Fellows’ News............................................................................................................................................. 12 Retiring Fellows........................................................................................................................................ 20 Research Fellows’ News............................................................................................................................ 23 Report on the Library................................................................................................................................ 26 Report from the Silver Steward................................................................................................................. 27 Report from the Curator............................................................................................................................ 27 Report on the Gardens.............................................................................................................................. 28 Report from the Bursar............................................................................................................................. 29 Report from the Domestic Bursar.............................................................................................................. 30 Report from the Steward.......................................................................................................................... 31 Report from the Admissions Tutor............................................................................................................. 32 Becoming a Mature Outreach Ambassador............................................................................................... 33 Report from the Senior Tutor..................................................................................................................... 33 Report from the Graduate Tutor................................................................................................................ 35 Graduate Research Day............................................................................................................................. 38 Development Report................................................................................................................................. 40 List of Donors............................................................................................................................................ 42 Women in Leadership............................................................................................................................... 45 College Sport Report................................................................................................................................ 46 Student News........................................................................................................................................... 48 Student Union Report............................................................................................................................... 52 Alumnae News......................................................................................................................................... 54 Obituaries................................................................................................................................................. 66 Formal Hall schedule for 2012-2013........................................................................................................... 68 Photographs: Philip Maynott, Michael Cameron & Mark Simms Page 1

From the President

Professor Janet Todd

Another good year at Lucy Cavendish. We had immense pride in seeing our students graduate at the Senate House in June. Isobel Cohen’s simultaneous production of a baby girl and First in English made the international press: we are proud of her, along with the other 15 Firsts, making this a record for the College (we had 9 last year). We are just as proud of those, who, often with difficult personal circumstances and little intellectual privilege, managed to achieve good Second Class degrees. In a women’s college in particular, role models have a special place and purpose. Two such are the outstandingly talented Honorary Fellows whom we have inducted into the College Fellowship this year; both wholeheartedly believe in our mission to allow talented women from whatever background to benefit from education when they are ready or able. The wonderful crime novelist P. D. James, author of 22 works of fiction and Page 2

autobiography, is at the age of 92 an inspiration to us all. After her induction ceremony in the Music Pavilion she gave us a talk in which she described her own exclusion from education when a girl and the great value she sets upon it. We are honoured to have among us a woman of such dedication to her craft, and such rare mingling of intellect and compassion. Much younger but also hugely distinguished is our second new Honorary Fellow, Sandi Toskvig, regarded by many—certainly including me – as the funniest woman in the media. She has twice given the talk at the annual Women’s Word dinner, entertaining with a mixture of scintillating comedy, charm and wisdom. We are very fortunate indeed to be associated with two such amazing women. I was able to get to know both of these through Women’s Word, which has been taking place for the last four years. This year partly because I have been dogged with ill health, mine and that of my centenarian father, I did not arrange as many events as usual, but we did have an excellent talk about the craft of life-writing by the author and broadcaster Lisa Appignanesi, who spoke movingly of her childhood and the problem of reconciling truth with memory. Other excellent speakers gave Thursday night lectures throughout the year under the umbrella of Women’s Word, including our generous supporter, Loyd Grossman, our Honorary Fellow, Dame Stella Rimington, and the novelist— and my PhD student from Aberdeen - Natasha Solomons.

Once again the Fiction Prize, inaugurated by Sophie Hannah (who launched her new crime thriller Kind of Cruel in the College on 16 February), inspired a group of very fine submissions. The judges were our English Fellow, Isobel Maddison, and the Daily Telegraph journalist Rowan Pelling, who after the Fiction Dinner gave a detailed and finely honed description of the 5 winning novels. By the end of her address many in the audience felt encouraged to write, and certainly to read. The winner was a Finnish writertranslator Maija Makinen with Good Evening, My Name is Anja Ortelin, her second novel and one that drew on her experience working at a homeless advocacy organisation and as a television camera operator. Rowan Pelling described Makinen’s entry as ‘masterful’ and ‘a haunting piece of work’. The Fiction Prize had further good news this summer, as one of our 2011 shortlisted writers, Vicki Jarrett, told us that her novel (Nothing is Heavy) will be published by Linen Press. Another, now annual, College event was the Women in Leadership seminar in conjunction with Cranfield University and sponsored by Barclays and Addleshaw Goddard. Last year the concentration was on personal experience and role models; this year the specific theme concerned women leaders in the private, public and charitable spheres and how they might enhance their careers through the different stages of life. In addition, two of our Research Fellows, Emanuela Orlando and Tiffany Bergin,

organised an international conference at the College in early September entitled ‘Linking Green Criminology with Law: A Socio-Legal Approach to Environmental Crimes’. The event brought together leading environmental lawyers, criminologists, and practitioners from around the world to design better methods for tackling environmental crime. By all accounts the event was a huge success, as have been the AWISE talks arranged by Jenny Koenig.

Research Fellows, Emanuela Orlando and Tiffany Bergin at the Green Criminology Conference

I have had little time recently for original research but I did complete my Cambridge Companion to Pride and Prejudice with its 15 essays from Austen scholars (two by me: on romance and criticism). With Linda Bree, the Literature Editor of Cambridge University Press, and Peter Sabor, professor of English at McGill University, Montreal, I have also completed a paperback for Broadview Press of Jane Austen’s manuscript writings. Contrary to what this activity suggests, my main research area is not Jane Austen but the English Enlightenment; nonetheless I want to involve the College one more time with my

Austen enthusiasm by next year celebrating the bicentenary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice with an international conference at the College. Outside the academic papers, two of the prime attractions will be P.D. James, whose recent novel Death Comes to Pemberley (2011) was a sequel to Austen’s work, and a contemporary of mine at Newnham College, the actor Miriam Margolyes. Another highlight will be a Regency Ball held in Warburton Hall with music, dancing, songs by the Lucy Cavendish Singers, and contemporary card games for the chaperones (Regency dress optional). The Regency Ball is sponsored by Barclays, while a drinks party before the conference dinner will be hosted by Cambridge University Press. We do not of course spend all our time organising conferences and seminars and hosting dinners. Most of the time supervisions are taught, lectures given, and the College administered and run with commendable smoothness. In terms of structure this has been a good but challenging year. Our new Council has settled in and is working well, carrying on the main business of the College and working with and consulting the Governing Body. Over the year we have begun a thorough review of our procedures and activities, beginning with the staff and now continuing with the Stipendiary Fellows. Our purpose is to ensure that we are using our resources to best advantage, that everyone is working to her strengths, and that all together we can make an environment that is thoroughly

conducive to learning for all in the widest sense. Student expectations have changed over the past years as the educational climate has changed and we need to ensure that we respond to new needs and desires and that we change with a changing world. Even if we wished it, there is no option to stand still and the College must expand and develop if it is to flourish and achieve a firm intellectual and financial foundation. Cambridge University defines itself as a global institution. Today’s students have happily grown up believing there is no limit to what they can achieve and that they can achieve it anywhere in the world. So we must provide an outstanding academic experience that will expose all our students to the world and connect them to a global network in which they will be able to act and interact with full engagement and fluency. This year we have said goodbye to four retirees who have contributed greatly to the College’s development. Jane Renfrew, has been a Fellow since 1984 and has served Lucy Cavendish tirelessly: as Secretary to the Governing Body, as Tutor, as Vice-President, as Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology, as College Lecturer, as Fellow Librarian, as Secretary to the Trustees, as Curator and Garden Steward and much more. In 1987 Jane established the Anglo-Saxon herb garden, which continues to delight the community and visitors. Edith Esch joined the Page 3

Dr. Jane Renfrew and the President

College in 1976 and was elected to the Fellowship in 1993. She was Director of the Language Centre and a Senior Research Fellow in Language Education at the Faculty of Education. Edith has served the College in several roles, most recently as a wise and valued member of the Council. Julie Dashwood, a scholar of 18th- century Italian drama, first came to Lucy Cavendish as Co-ordinator and then Executive Director of the Centre for Women Leaders in 1997 and was elected to the Fellowship the following year. She has been Graduate Tutor, Senior Tutor and, most recently, College Lecturer and Director of Studies in MML. Susan Rawlings has clocked up 29 years of service to the College while working as Warden of Madingley Hall and Deputy Director of the Continuing Education Programme. In 1992 she became the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Praelector, and has livened the annual General Admissions in particular with her style and panache. All of these crucial retiring Fellows will be much missed. Page 4

We are also saying good bye to the Admissions Tutor, Maria Purves, and the Assistant Graduate Tutor and Admissions Tutor for Medicine, Allison Curry. In her short time here Maria has helped raise the standard of undergraduate degrees but now wishes to concentrate on her literary research. Allison Curry has been a dedicated tutor over several years; she now wishes to pursue a PGCE and move into secondary education. We wish both Maria and Allison all the best in their future careers. As some have, sadly, left, others have arrived. Astrid Gall and Tereza Cindrova Davies have come as Newton Trust Time-limited Teaching Fellows, while Chloe Preedy has joined the Fellowship as a temporary Teaching Officer in English. Astrid is part of the Virus Genomics team at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton; Terezaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research focuses on pre-eclampsia; and Chloe studies Renaissance drama and its representation of religious and secular space. A further Newton Trust Time-

limited Teaching Fellow, Jenny Gibson from Developmental Psychology, joined us in October. Meanwhile our current Research Fellow, Sarah Covshoff, has had her position renewed within Plant Sciences and will become a full Governing Body Fellow of the College. Three new and very exciting Research Fellows will be joining us this coming year: Helen Roche, working on the idealisation and use of Greek models by the Third Reich; Eileen Nugent, researching into the genome restructuring properties of nucleoid-associated proteins; and Anke Husmann, working with Professor Ruth Cameron in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. We continue to be richly endowed with Visiting Fellows and Scholars. Susan Phillips has been once more a prime mover in the Women and Leadership Day, while Barbara Wittman has been ubiquitous about the gardens, showing us all what can be done with a pair of clippers and a sturdy back. Selina Mills has been a wonderfully ebullient presence, taking a full part in College life while working on her book on the history of blindness. There is much detail of aspirations and activities in the following pages, in sciences, arts, and education and in singing and sport. I hope you enjoy what you read and that it will make you feel closely connected to the College of which you will always be a part. Warm wishes

Professor Janet Todd

Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2012 Report written by winner Maija Mäkinen Thursday 31st May saw the conclusion to this year’s Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize, with a gala dinner with publishers, for our five shortlisted entrants, and the announcement of this year’s winner. Finnish writer Maija Mäkinen, won with her entry Good Evening, My Name is Anja Ortelin – her novel about a former Finnish beauty queen who emigrates to America in the 1960s and falls on hard times. This year’s guest judge was Daily Telegraph columnist Rowan Pelling who, following the prize, wrote of our shortlisted entrants that: “I predict glowing careers for all of them, because that tends to be the case with Lucy Cavendish women” Winner, Maija Mäkinen recounts her experience of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize below:

‘Recently, after years spent alone at my desk, writing about Carmen, a recluse and former Finnish beauty queen, I wondered where the story might find a home. Noticing an announcement for the Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize, I decided to send Carmen to Cambridge. Hearing that I had been shortlisted was akin to living a writer’s fairytale, a sensation reinforced upon arriving in the enchanted college enclave, facing (for the first time) a menu of sherries and partaking in the benedictions and chair-scraping at Formal Hall. My dinner companions seemed to exemplify everything that is Lucy Cavendish: from the enthusiastic judges to the witty Sophie Hannah, the gracious Professor Janet Todd, and the

troupe of talented shortlistees. As I stood up (miraculously not falling over) to thank the smiling faces greeting the announcement that I had won, I thought: perhaps Carmen has indeed found a home. I’m currently hard at work finishing her story and looking forward to sharing it with you – thank you so much to everyone at Lucy Cavendish.’ We are running the Fiction Prize again this year, thanks to the continued generous funding of Lucy Cavendish Fellow Commoner Sophie Hannah, and are already accepting entries. The final deadline for 2013 entries is Wednesday 27th

March 2013, and this year’s guest judge will be bestselling novelist, columnist and commentator Allison Pearson.

From left to right: Lucy Cavendish College President Professor Janet Todd, Lucy Cavendish College Director of Studies in English Dr Isobel Maddison, Author Sophie Hannah, Guest Judge Rowan Pelling, Katherine Powlesland, 2012 Fiction Prize Winner Maija Mäkinen, Founder of the Prize Jane Shemilt, Kathryn Simmonds, Vairi Mitchell

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College progresses. On the following Saturday morning, celebrated novelist and broadcaster Lisa Appignanesi visited College to give a very interesting speech about her experiences as a writer, and particularly the concepts of love and loss which are so present in her books.

Dame Stella Rimington

The 4th annual Women’s Word Festival was held in June 2012 at Lucy Cavendish College, the weekend festival took place from the 22nd – 23rd of June, but there were also a number of Women’s Word talks that took place throughout the year featuring a wide range of very interesting speakers. At the weekend festival we were delighted to welcome back Sandi Toksvig, who gave a very amusing speech covering topics as diverse as the intricacies of the English language, the British phenomenon of queuing, as well as a very tantalising reading of an extract from her new novel ‘Valentine Grey’ about a girl who adopts her brother’s uniform to volunteer in the Boer War. The dinner was well-attended, with a large number of alumnae taking the opportunity to return to College and catch up with old friends. Before the dinner we were delighted to formally induct Sandi as an Honorary Fellow of the College, and look forward to strengthening our relationship with her as the Page 6

Throughout the year we were delighted to welcome speakers such as Loyd Grossman, whose talk on heritage inspired us all to get more involved in the conservation of our country’s landmarks; Natasha Solomons who came in to discuss ‘why do we want our fiction to be fact?’; we also had ex-Director General of the MI5 Stella Rimington, an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish, in conversation with English Director of Studies,

Isobel Maddison about her career to date and her role as Chair of the 2011 Man Booker Prize judges; we were also honoured that long-time friend of the College Sophie Hannah chose to launch her new novel ‘Kind of Cruel’ in College, including readings and a chance to chat to Sophie. We expect to run even more exciting Women’s Word events over the coming academic year, in the build-up to our major 2013 Pride and Prejudice Festival from 21st to 23rd of June, to celebrate 200 years since the publication of Jane Austen’s most famous novel. Please keep an eye on the College website for more details as they emerge, a provisional programme can already be found at www. prideandprejudice.org.uk.

Lisa Appignanesi speaking at the Women’s Word Festival

Pride and Prejudice Celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen’s best-loved novel Lucy Cavendish College, 21 – 23 June 2013 2013 marks the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, first published by Thomas Egerton in 1813. Pride and Prejudice was Jane Austen’s second novel; described by the author as her ‘own darling child’, it remains one of the best-loved English novels of all time. The book’s popularity with readers is reflected in the extensive attention it has received from literary scholars, the numerous screen and stage adaptations of the novel that have been produced over the past decades, and the frequency with which it has inspired literary spin-offs. From P.D. James’s Death Comes to Pemberley and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, to the famous BBC television adaptation starring Colin Firth as Mr Darcy, Pride and Prejudice has had a rich and varied afterlife in the twentieth and twentyfirst centuries. At the same time academic interest in Jane Austen’s eighteenth-century novel remains equally strong, as recent developments in criticism generate fresh insights into the psychological complexity of Jane Austen’s characters, a clearer understanding of Austen’s place within the literary marketplace, and a newlycharged appreciation of the socio-economic context in which Pride and Prejudice was first written and read.

by uniting the past with the present, considering Austen’s best-loved novel in both its original contemporary context and through the lens of the numerous screen adaptations and literary spin-offs the book has inspired. Exploring the original historical context and modern afterlives of Pride and Prejudice, the conference will feature a series of talks by well-known Austen academics, readings from Pride and

Prejudice by popular modern authors and media figures, and screenings of classic Jane Austen film and television adaptations, as well as a Regency ball and day trip to Austen’s home village of Chawton. The full programme and list of speakers can be found at www. prideandprejudice.org.uk.

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New Honorary Fellows at Lucy Cavendish Baroness James of Holland Park and Sandi Toksvig

Award-winning author PD James (Baroness James of Holland Park) was inducted as an Honorary Fellow on Thursday 10th May. Following the ceremony she went on to give a fully booked talk on ‘Murder and Mystery, the craft of the detective story’ which was fascinating to hear. PD James began writing her first novel Cover Her Face in the mid-1950s featuring the famous police inspector Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard, the novel was eventually published in 1962. She has gone on to write over 20 novels, winning a wide range of prizes along the way including the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, the Grandmaster Award, Mystery Writers of America and the Nick Clarke Award for her interview with Director-General of the BBC Mark Thompson.

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Commenting on her Lucy Cavendish Fellowship, PD James said: ‘No honour which I have received has given me more pleasure. I felt on my first visit that I was in tune with the purpose and spirit of the College and within moments of being welcomed I felt at home. As someone who had to leave formal education at the age of sixteen, I have always been sympathetic to any measure which offers to women of intelligence and ambition, who also had a curtailed education, the satisfaction of acquiring a Cambridge degree. Most, no doubt, will have been prevented either by lack of means or the pressure of personal responsibilities from experiencing these unique years of learning and selffulfilment. I know from my visits to Lucy Cavendish College how much the students value the opportunities now open to them and how much they appreciate the support from each other and from the academic staff.’ We were also delighted to welcome celebrated comedienne, writer and broadcaster, Sandi Toksvig as an Honorary Fellow of the College on Friday 22nd June. Sandi also delivered the sparkling afterdinner speech at the annual Women’s Word Literary Dinner that evening.

Sandi has appeared in numerous plays in the theatre and on television. She is also a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz, as well as being the author of a number of well received books and plays. Sandi graduated from Cambridge, and after taking part in Footlights, has gone on to be one of the country’s favourite performers and presenters.

On her induction as an Honorary Fellow, Sandi Toksvig described her feelings: ‘I am thrilled to be asked to be part of the Lucy Cavendish crew. This is a very important place of education and I look forward to spreading the message about the important role it plays in enabling so many women to enrich their lives.’

The Scribbling Women Project What have women written about – what stories have they imagined? Collecting fiction written by women – any women – from the 18th to the 21st century is the remit of the College’s ‘Scribbling Women’ project. We want to see what women have written about since they took up a new form, the Novel, over two hundred years ago. They have been among the literary giants who developed the form, while the chance to express their interests and feelings has always made women’s fiction phenomenally popular and widely read. Nathaniel Hawthorne recognised this in 1855 when he complained of ‘a damn’d mob of scribbling women’ whose bestsellers were crowding the market. The title of our project celebrates his involuntary accolade. So far we have almost a thousand books – and counting – all contributed by members and friends of the College, to whom a huge thank you. This is an extraordinary collection of women’s writing by a women’s college, so we would urge you all, please, to reach to your bookshelves and approach those

second-hand bookstalls - you know you want to - to search for novels by women, however obscure or populist. We really want all of them, including possible duplicates, to make the project work. The Librarians will welcome whatever you bring or send - do let us know who they are from - and all the books will receive a specially designed bookplate. They are all available in the small relaxation room at the top of the Library – with its comfortable sofas and views across Cambridge, the perfect place to browse

this astonishingly inclusive collection. Next term a new ‘Scribbling Women’ reading group will start meeting there, welcoming the whole College community, so do come if you can. Meanwhile we welcome all contributions to make the collection grow. If you would like to contact Lindsey Traub about the project, her email is lindseytraub@yahoo. co.uk.

Lindsey Traub, Former Vice-President of Lucy Cavendish College

College Garden Party Garden Party took place in blissfully warm sunshine, with the ice cream van, Pimmswielding catering staff and a table full of strawberries on offer to help keep attendees refreshed! In what must have been a first for the College, this year’s

along to the event and it was great to meet so many new faces on such a happy occasion.

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Anna Bidder Evenings We also had a chance to get to grips with Henslow Research Fellow Dr Stephanie Jacquot and PhD student Sara Merino’s talks on probability and the Boltzmann equation. Two of our other Research Fellows Dr Emanuela Orlando and Dr Tiffany Bergin, along with PhD student Bryanna Hahn, gave fascinating talks on the topics of Environmental Law, correctional boot camps and a new approach in offender profiling.

The College hosted five dedicated Anna Bidder Research Evenings last year with a wide range of fascinating topics including the ethical and social debate surrounding egg freezing by Dr Lucy Frith, a look at new medical materials presented by Professor Ruth Cameron, and a discussion between Dr Anna Sapir Abulafia and PhD student Linda Stone on Christian – Jewish relations 1000 – 1300.

The Anna Bidder Evenings are a great opportunity to hear about some of the cutting-edge research being conducted by our Fellows and PhD students and we look forward to another series of talks in the coming academic year. The posters on this page give a good idea of the range of speakers and talks we have enjoyed this year.

Ruth Jones Vice-President

Lucy Cavendish Singers The Singers got off to a flying start in October, boarding their broomsticks for a Hallowe’en flight through the world of wicked women. Borrowing our title from the traditional English ballad The Cruel Sister, our programme of uncanny music and eerie poetry was presented in Warburton Hall, cabaret-style, where audience members could purchase wine and sit at tables arranged to create a central “stage”. Tickets for the Cruel Page 10

Sisters event sold out several days in advance and we are looking at hiring a larger venue for our next cabaret concert. Shortly after the academic year started, I was able to draw together a core group of students to found a new, nonauditioned Student Choir. I asked Zoe Austin, one of the LC Singers, to take the directorship and students Kate McCombe, Nielsine Kronborg-Nielson

and Pu Zhao formed the choir committee. They have all worked very hard and enjoyed themselves hugely and I am pleased that once again there is an opportunity for students to take part in disciplined choral singing but without the very strenuous demands placed on members of the Lucy Cavendish Singers. On Remembrance weekend the Singers sold-out the Bateman

Auditorium at Gonville & Caius College for an early evening concert entitled Remember me, my deir. Our excellent band, made up of two violins, a double bass, guitar and drum, underpinned our jazz and traditional songs and provided the string section for the Handel aria, Piangerò, la sorte mia. Concert tickets included an exhibition in the Bateman Room of watercolours of the choir painted by our resident artist, Lesley Fotherby. One of the Singers’ favourite events is the annual candlelit Advent carols programme at Lucy Cavendish. Advent Carols around the Tree has attracted growing audiences since the President, Professor Janet Todd initiated the event in 2008 and this past year Warburton Hall was packed to the seams with standing room only upstairs. There is something for everyone in this event: Christmas readings, audience carol singing, choral music and even mulled wine and cake. This year I was thrilled to be able to ask the new student choir to join the Singers on stage for two songs. For the past three years a children’s choir has opened the programme and in December 2011 fifteen children between the ages of 4 and 14 took part. If your child loves to sing and is able to learn a carol by heart, we will be contacting you asking for participants.

contribute to this universitywide event and to have been promptly invited back for next year. Come and join us this year in the University Church on Tuesday, 11th December at 3:00 pm. Early March found us in the stunning surroundings of Gallery 3 in the Fitzwilliam Museum as part of their Promenade Concert series. This prestigious series has a regular following and we were thrilled to see that, as we sang, those passing through the gallery stayed to listen. Before long the space was full to capacity with people of all ages sitting on the floor and standing in neighbouring galleries. The Singers embarked on their first-ever tour in early May to give a fund-raising concert for the Parish Church of St Anne in Ings, Cumbria. St Anne’s is a beautiful (warm!) church in which to sing, our audience was delightfully responsive, every ticket was sold and we’ve been invited back. Miraculously,

the weather that weekend was sunny and dry. After a spectacular walk through the spring countryside we all repaired to the local pub for dinner and a knees-up with our talented musicians, violinist Nicky Haire, lutanist Margaret Hiley and guitarist Jon Ward. Michaelhouse on Trinity Street was the scene of our final public concert of the year in mid-June – and we were delighted to see another full house, with standing room only. On 29th June the Singers ended the year with a performance at the Graduands’ Dinner in Warburton Hall. We were proud to help give the graduating students a good send-off and I was particularly delighted to be able to include members of the student choir in our last song – a fitting way to end the Singers’ best year yet.

Katharina Megli Director

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Fellowsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; News Henriette Hendricks on her new role as Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics this new department to be! Of course, we want it to become the best place for students to come and learn about Linguistics (in the whole world, if we stop thinking modestly), and we want to make it the best environment for researchers to explore ever new avenues in Linguistic and Applied Linguistics research. But what does that mean concretely? What to do on a day-to-day basis to make that happen? One thing was clear: it would need to be a team effort all the way. The academic year 2011-2012 has passed in a whirlwind. When I returned from China last year in May, I immediately got back to being involved in the merger of the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics (my former affiliation) and the Department of Linguistics. Why did I get involved, even though my sabbatical was not yet over? I had been asked to take on the Headship for the new department: the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (also called DTAL). I had been Acting Head of the Research Centre in previous years, and that had been quite a job, but it meant working in a Centre that had been running smoothly for some 15 years by the time I took the role. So although a lot of work was involved, it could be predicted quite safely from week to week and month to month. Not exactly the same thing for the Headship of a completely new department! But what fun to be able to sit around the table with your colleagues, and think about what you would want Page 12

We worked on a number of things: regarding teaching, we got the structure for a new MPhil in theoretical and applied linguistics approved, which will run from October 2012 onwards. It will prepare students for further research, by giving them training in the research methods, the understanding of the different theories and research directions, an indication towards what to read, and a lot of practice in formulating their own ideas, research questions and hypotheses. We also prepared a large set of new undergraduate Tripos papers, to make sure that the teaching at undergraduate level will reflect the range and depth of the research done in the department. And regarding research, we structured all the existing research into research clusters, in which permanent staff, research staff and PhD students find each other, discuss problems together, present their work to each other, invite speakers in their domain for the whole department to learn from, etc.

In other words, we have all been very busy in this new department. For me personally, it was interesting to move from an institution independent of any Faculty (or School) to a department that is properly embedded in a Faculty. The support that comes with being in a Faculty is absolutely phenomenal. It has given me a really good feeling (but also, as the inevitable downside maybe, a lot more meetings!). Are you curious about all thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening in DTAL? Then go to the following webpage: www. mml.cam.ac.uk/dtal This year came with one more new responsibility in the University, and another one lining up in the College. The University approved proposals for a Strategic Initiative in the Language Sciences, and asked Prof. William MarlsenWilson and me to co-chair the steering committee of the initiative. The initiative will attempt to give the Language Sciences in Cambridge a stronger profile and better visibility in the University, but also far beyond it. In order to do so, the Initiative is meant to facilitate cooperation of researchers across University Departments, Faculties and Schools, such that they can combine efforts in advancing theories and interdisciplinary ideas, but also in finding new funding to support those ideas, etc. If you are curious about the Initiative, please go to the following webpage: www. languagesciences.cam.ac.uk

The Lucy Cavendish Governing Body elected me to be the new Praelector, to take over from Susan Rawlings. And I am really excited about this. It will be hard to follow in Susan’s footsteps, as I know she was much liked by the students, and of course, she is VERY knowledgeable about all things related to graduations, whereas I am a complete novice! But it will be absolutely fabulous to be part of that one really important and happy day for Lucy Cavendish students, and to take them to the Senate house and (literally) hold their hand when they move up to receive their degree! I have started learning my Latin, and am soon to get my funny hat (I believe it’s called a mortarboard?) so when the next graduation day arrives, I should be all ready to serve the College. Have I done any research during all of the above? Not much this year, I have to admit, BUT I am running a really fun experiment in the last two weeks of the school summer holidays in the context of the VILLA project (Varieties of Initial Learners in Language Acquisition), a project that runs simultaneously in the Netherlands, Germany, France and the UK. The project consists of teaching people (in the

Cambridge case English 10-yearolds) two weeks of Polish, and observing them very closely to know how they break into a new language when learning it from scratch. This will tell us a lot about how language acquisition works, but it can also tell us things about how best to teach a second language, if / why children are better at learning a new language than adults, etc. More information about the project can be found on the DTAL website. Finally, some research from earlier projects also got published this year: Hendriks, H., & Watorek, M. (2012) The role of conceptual complexity in the acquisition of the spatial domain by L1 and L2 learners of French, English and Polish. In M. Watorek, S.

Benazzo, & M. Hickmann (eds.) Comparative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: A tribute to Clive Perdue. Dublin: Multilingual Matters, pp. 400-418. ISBN: 9781847696038. Hickmann, M., Hendriks, H., & Gullberg, M. (2011) How to talk and gesture about motion in French and English: crosslinguistic and developmental perspectives. In: Language, Interaction et Acquisition, 2,1. Grammaticalization and language acquisition: nouns and verbs across languages, 2:1, pp. 129156. Ji, Y., Hendriks, H., Hickmann, M. (2011) Children’s expression of voluntary motion events in English and Chinese. Journal of Foreign Languages, 34, 4. Pp. 2–20.

University Pilkington Prize Winners: Sue Brindley is third from the left

Sue Brindley Lucy Cavendish College Director of Studies in Education Sue Brindley was this year awarded one of the 12 coveted University Pilkington Prizes for commitment to teaching of the highest possible quality.

From her appointment as Co-ordinator for the English Post Graduate Certificate in Education, taking it from an Ofsted Grade 3 to an ‘Outstanding’ in less than a year, Sue Brindley has been noted for her energy, vision and

intellectual leadership. Sue also developed the Faculty’s most successful Masters course – Researching Practice – applying accomplished digital technology skills to new learning modules and teaching materials. Page 13

Jackie Brearley

Jackie attended a number of conferences this year including: • FECAVA September 2011, Turkey • Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists March 2012 Davos Switzerland • VedEd, July 2012 Edinburgh The positions she has held during 2011/12 include: • Senior Vice President Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists

• Member of Faculty Board Clinical Veterinary Medicine • External Examiner (Veterinary Anaesthesia) , Dublin Veterinary School • External Expert, Appointments and promotions board, Royal Veterinary College (July 2012) • Reviewer for Journal of Small Animal Practice, Veterinary Record, New Zealand Veterinary Journal, VetCanis • Reviewer for PetSavers Project Applications • Chairman of Audit Committee, Lucy Cavendish College • Director of Studies for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Lucy Cavendish College • Member of Health and Safety Committee of the Faculty She has also published the following academic papers:

• McMillan, M. W., Seymour, C. J., & Brearley, J. C. (2012, July). Effect of intratesticular lidocaine on isoflurane requirements in dogs undergoing routine castration.. J Small Anim Pract, 53(7), 393-397. doi:10.1111/ j.1748-5827.2012.01233.x • Clark, L., Leece, E. A., & Brearley, J. C. (2012, May 30). Diabetes mellitus affects the duration of action of vecuronium in dogs.. Vet Anaesth Analg. doi:10.1111/j.14672995.2012.00714.x • Michou, J. N., Leece, E. A., & Brearley, J. C. (2012, March). Comparison of pain on injection during induction of anaesthesia with alfaxalone and two formulations of propofol in dogs.. Vet Anaesth Analg, 39(3), 275-281. doi:10.1111/j.14672995.2012.00709.x

community, and clinical trials are ongoing on materials studied. Results from the group have been published in peer reviewed journals and at international conferences.

Schuster, S.M. Best, J.J. Campbell, C.J. Watson and R.E. Cameron

Ruth Cameron

Publications (selected) for the period 2011-12 Ruth’s research in pharmaceutical and medical materials has continued to progress well. Research is ongoing in materials for spinal, dental and cardiac applications, drug delivery and the treatment of blood disorders. Industrial and academic collaborations continue within Cambridge, the UK and the international Page 14

C.N. Grover, R.W. Farndale, S.M. Best and R.E. Cameron “The interplay between physical and chemical properties of protein films affects their bioactivity” Journal of Biomedical Materials Research A, accepted for publication, March 2012 doi: 10.1002/jbm.a.34187 N. Davidenko, T. Gibb, C.

“Biomimetic Collagen Scaffolds with Anisotropic Pore Architecture” Acta Biomaterialia, 2012, 8, 667676 J.J. Fitzgerald, N. Lago, S. Benmerah, J. Serra, C.P. Watling, R.E. Cameron, E. Tarte, S.P. Lacour, S.B. Mcmahon, J.W. Fawcett “A regenerative microchannel neural interface for recording from and stimulating peripheral axons in vivo” Journal of Neural Engineering, 2012, 9(2), 016010

Anna Sapir Abulafia

Anna Sapir Abulafia published ‘Continuity and Change in twelfth-century ChristianJewish Relations’, in: European Transformations: The long Twelfth Century, ed. Thomas F.X. Noble and John van Engen (Notre Dame IN, 2012), 314-37; ‘Guibert of Nogent and William of Flay and the problem of Jewish conversion at the time of the First Crusade’, in Studies in medieval intellectual and social

history. Festschrift in honor of Robert Chazan ed. David Engel, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Elliot R. Wolfson (Leiden etc., 2012), 9-27 and ‘The Bible in JewishChristian Dialogue’, in: The New Cambridge History of the Bible, vol. 2: c. 600-1450, ed. R. Marsden and E.A. Matter (Cambridge, 2012), 616-37. She gave a paper on the ambiguities of medieval Christian relations to Jews at the third Religiosità e civiltà conference in Brescia on ‘Conoscenze, confronti, influssi reciproci tra le religioni (saec. X-XIV)’, 15-17 September 2011. In November 2011 she presented her book on Christian-Jewish Relations at a book launch organised by the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations. She gave a joint presentation with her PhD

student, Linda Stone, at an Anna Bidder Research evening at Lucy Cavendish on 28 February 2012. Anna gave a paper on Jewish service in medieval ChristianJewish disputations at the international colloquium at the Sorbonne on ‘Les dialogues adversus Iudaeos’, 7 and 8 December 2011. She was an invited lecturer at the international colloquium on ‘Petrus Alfonsi und die Religionspolemik: Hintergrund, Kontexte und Rezeption des Dialogus’ held in Zurich on 3 and 4 September 2012. She will also be speaking at an interdisciplinary colloquium on ‘Plualität – Konkurrenz – Konflikt. Religiöse Spannungen im städtischen Raum der Vormoderne’ in Regensburg on 22-24 November 2012.

on pandemic H1N1 (“swine flu”). Currently I focus on HIV-1, and have developed a universal method for high-throughput sequencing of this virus. I apply it to investigate intra-host evolution and the influence of viral factors on progression to AIDS. The work was presented at the “5th Annual Meeting of the Cambridge Retrovirologists” at Lucy Cavendish College, the “Society for General Microbiology Spring Conference” in Dublin and the “Retroviruses” meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, NY. I also attended the “17th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology” in Belgrade in August, undoubtedly a unique opportunity to exchange ideas and meet experts in the field.

Publications

Astrid Gall

I joined Lucy Cavendish College last October and it has been a fantastic experience so far. I enjoy the friendly, multicultural and interdisciplinary environment, and teaching is very rewarding. My research in molecular virology is progressing well. I built on existing and established new collaborations both nationally and internationally. I maintained an interest in influenza virus and co-authored two publications

- Baillie, G. J., M. Galiano, P. M. Agapow, R. Myers, R. Chiam, A. Gall, A. L. Palser, S. J. Watson, J. Hedge, A. Underwood, S. Platt, E. McLean, R. G. Pebody, A. Rambaut, J. Green, R. Daniels, O. G. Pybus, P. Kellam, and M. Zambon. 2012. Evolutionary dynamics of local pandemic H1N1/2009 influenza virus lineages revealed by wholegenome analysis. J Virol 86:11-18. - Bandt, D., S. Monecke, C. Scott, A. Gall, B. Hoffmann, and R. Ehricht. 2012. Economic high-throughput-identification of influenza A subtypes from clinical specimens with a DNAoligonucleotide microarray in an outbreak situation. Mol Cell Probes 26:6-10. Page 15

Christine Howe

Professor Christine Howe’s main research interests are children’s conceptual understanding in mathematics and science, and dialogic processes in teaching and learning. At the same time, she has also been collaborating for many years on projects that apply social psychological theory to racism and discrimination. Recent publications listed below, and mostly stemming from ESRC-funded projects,

reflect all of these interests, as do recent presentations. For instance, Christine spent a fortnight around Easter as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong, where she met with students and gave two keynote speeches covering ‘Everyday physics and school science’ and ‘Peer groups and school performance’. In May, she addressed the question ‘Does multiculturalism prevent the development of shared national identities?’ at a meeting held in Westminster and attended by a large group of academics, politicians and community workers.

Publications

• Howe, C. (2012). Neuroscience and knowledge acquisition in curriculum contexts: Modelling conceptual development in school science. British Journal of Educational Psychology Mono-

graph Series II, 8, 83-98. • Howe, C., Tavares Taylor, J., & Devine, A. (2012). Everyday conceptions of object fall: Explicit and tacit understanding in middle childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111, 351-366. • Durkin, K., Hunter, S., Levin, K., Heim, D., & Howe, C. (2012). Discriminatory peer aggression among children as a function of minority status and school context. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 243-251. • Mercer, N., & Howe, C. (2012). Explaining the dialogic processes of teaching and learning: The value and potential of sociocultural theory. Learning, Culture, and Social Interaction, 1, 12-21. • Fung, D., & Howe, C. (2012). Liberal Studies in Hong Kong: A new perspective on critical thinking through group work. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 7, 101-111.

Jenny Koenig

This year I have been pursuing my interests in biomaths education with a lot of behindthe-scenes work to establish a Biomaths Education Network which was launched at the Nuffield Foundation in London Page 16

on 28th June. I have co-founded the network with Dr Dawn Hawkins, a colleague at Anglia Ruskin University, and the aim is to bring together academics from a range of UK universities to share ideas and innovations in teaching maths within the biosciences. We also work with policymakers and learned societies in particular at the moment on proposed changes to mathematics education postGCSE. After publishing my report “A survey of the mathematics landscape within bioscience undergraduate and postgraduate UK higher education” in June 2011, I

have given a number of talks this year on this topic for Higher Education Academy STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) conference, OCR Science Consultative Forum, the Society for Experimental Biology and the Pearson Think Tank. The highlight of my year was a visit to the USA to attend two conferences. The first was “Making Biomath Happen” in Tucson Arizona which was exceptionally hot but also very inspiring to see the changes that have been made in biomaths education in the USA in recent years. This was quickly followed by a BioQuest workshop at

Goucher College in Baltimore focusing on teaching with large data sets and integrating quantitative skills into bioscience education. I continue to supervise Pharmacology for natural sciences, medical and veterinary students and have been working closely with the British Pharmacological Society to organise a meeting on public engagement in pharmacology. I have given talks for several

Women’s Institutes, travelling around Cambridgeshire to Lode, Cherry Hinton, Orwell, Hauxton and will soon be going to Foxton and Newton. It gives me an opportunity to promote Lucy Cavendish as well as to talk about the history of the development of medicines and explain a little about how they work. Because many of them are derived from plants I also get to include some beautiful pictures of herbs and talk a little about my own herb garden.

Isobel Maddison 2012 edition of First World War Studies, and her book Elizabeth von Arnim: Beyond the German Garden - the first full length study of this writer’s work - is about to go to press.

Dr Isobel Maddison published an article ‘A Second Flowering’, a discussion of Elizabeth von Arnim’s first novel ‘Elizabeth and Her German Garden’, in the March issue of the London Library Magazine. In August 2012 she published a review titled ‘Weaving and Unweaving the Webs of Modernism’ in the academic journal Women: A Cultural Review. An article ‘The Curious Case of Christine: Elizabeth von Arnim’s War-Time Text’ will appear in the October

Dr Maddison interviewed Dame Stella Rimington at the college in February at a fullybooked Women’s Word event. She was also the internal judge of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize for 2012. In addition, she spoke at a symposium in Switzerland in September titled, ‘In the Footsteps of Katherine Mansfield’ organised by the Katherine Mansfield Society.

Popular Romance in Britain, 1855-1925 for Katherine Mansfield Studies. Isobel is also preparing a review of current scholarship into writing considered ‘Middlebrow’ which will appear in an article entitled ‘New Perspectives: Redefining the Middlebrow’ in the Cambridge Quarterly.

Dr Maddison is currently conducting research into Literary Fabianism for a prospective book. She is also writing about Barbara Hardy’s book Dorothea’s Daughter for Women: A Cultural Review and on Martin Hipsky’s book, Modernism and the Women’s Page 17

Orsola Rath-Spivack Propagation and Scattering’ and I enjoy being Director of Studies for our mathematicians. It has been particularly rewarding to see Yujun Qiao gaining a first again - in Part IB, and Zhu Gong achieving Distinction (a starred first) in Part III.

I have resumed my teaching after coming back from sabbatical leave, including supervisions in Part IA and IB of the Mathematical Tripos and a Part III Lecture course on ‘Wave

My time on sabbatical leave allowed me to explore new research, particularly in inverse scattering problems and the related questions of convergence of iterative inverse methods and stability of approximations of unbounded operators. I have started new

collaborations in Boston and elsewhere, and I’m working on both theoretical and numerical studies of some techniques for the regularization of inverse problems, and their practical applications, particularly medical imaging, but also industrial testing of coatings, such as needed for example in the pharmaceutical industry. The main challenge, now that I have returned to my teaching, tutorial and administrative duties, is to find the time to keep up the momentum in my research.

Jane Renfrew for the celebration of 150 years of the Archeaological Survey of India in New Dehli.

This last year I have travelled quite widely: in August I was in southern Burgundy near Cluny, visiting Romanesque churches. In October I visited Washington DC for a conference organised by the National Geographic Society on ancient DNA, and was delighted to find in their museum an excellent exhibition on the Staffordshire Hoard of AngloSaxon goldwork, including many of the best finds. In November I was briefly in Rome for a lecture given by my husband to the Balzan Foundation. In December I visited India for the first time Page 18

Whilst there I gave a teaparty for Lucy Cavendish alumni and was delighted to see Dr Anjana Dev and Ms Purva Khera. Afterwards my husband and I travelled to Chennai (former Madras) to see some of the famous early Hindu temples in Tamil Nadu. In May this year I was again in Hong Kong for the 5th International Contemporary Art Fair directed by my youngest son, Magnus. Whilst there I gave another Lucy Cavendish College teaparty for alumnae which was attended by Professor Wai-Ling Cheong, Ms Gloria Cheung, Ms Julianne Doe,

Ms Sasibi Kumis (from Selangor, Malaysia),and Ms Margaret Yang. We were joined by Ms Su-Mei Thompson of the Women`s Foundation in Hong Kong who is hoping to sponsor students in Lucy Cavendish.

Most recently I have been briefly in France staying near Le Mans and visiting the cathedral of St Julien and the abbey of L`Epau where Queen Beringeria, wife of Richard the Lionheart, is buried.

Publication: Olives and Vines in Sinclair Hood and Gerald Cadogan: Knossos, Excavations 1957-1961,Early Minoan Supplimentary Volume no 16, British School at Athens 2011.

Fiona Walter College, Cambridge on the early detection of brain tumours in January 2012, and the Western Australian Oncology Group on melanoma detection in March 2012.

Fiona Walter has had a very productive year working as Clinical Lecturer in General Practice at the Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care. Her research collaborations have continued to extend across the UK, Europe and Australia with new studies examining approaches to improve the timely diagnosis and management of cancer. As well as presentations at national and international scientific meetings, she has also given invited presentations at the National Cancer Research Institute’s ‘Focus on Melanoma’ meeting at the Royal College of Physicians, London in October 2011, the East Anglian Neuro-Oncology Service meeting at Peterhouse

Fiona has had a number of publications in leading medical and cancer journals including the British Medical Journal, the British Journal of Cancer, and the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy. She has also contributed to other publications particularly an international consensus report on improving the design and reporting of studies on early cancer diagnosis: the Aarhus Checklist.

Publications: • Walter FM, Morris HC, Humphrys E, Hall PN, Kinmonth A, Prevost A, Wilson EC, Burrows N, Norris P, Johnson M, Emery J. Effect of adding a diagnostic aid to best practice to manage suspicious pigmented lesions in primary care: randomised controlled trial. BMJ, 2012; 344:e4110. • Stapley S, Peters TJ, Neal RD, Rose PW, Walter FM, Hamilton W. The risk of pancreatic cancer in symptomatic patients in

primary care: a large casecontrol study using electronic records. Br J Cancer. 2012. • Scott SE, Walter FM, Webster A, Emery JD. The Model of Pathways to Treatment: conceptualisation and integration with existing theory. Br J Health Psychol. 2012. • Weller D, Neal R, Rubin G, Walter FM, Emery J, Scott S, et al. The Aarhus Check-list: Improving design and reporting of studies on early cancer diagnosis. Br J Cancer 2012. • Walter FM & Emery JD. Genetic advances in medicinehas the promise been fulfilled in general practice? BJGP 2012; 62(596):120-1. • Walter FM, Scott SE, Webster A, Emery JD. The Andersen Model of Total Patient Delay: a systematic review of its application in cancer diagnosis. J Health Services Research & Policy 2012. • Usher-Smith JA, Thompson M, Sharp S, Walter FM. Factors influencing the presence of diabetic ketoacidosis at diagnosis of diabetes mellitus in children: a systematic review. BMJ 2011; 343:d4092

Helen Taylor The Cambridge Graduate Medical Course continues to grow in size and achievement. Again this year all our students were successful in Finals and

to date the CGCM has had a higher proportion of firsts than the Standard Course, this is a reflection of the dedication and hard work of all the CGC Students and Staff.

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Retiring Fellows We are very sad to be saying goodbye to four of our Fellows this year – Dr Jane Renfrew, Dr Edith Esch, Mrs Julie Dashwood and Ms Susan Rawlings – who are all retiring. All four have made a huge impact on the College over the many years that they have been at Lucy Cavendish, and we thank them for their years of dedicated service to the College. Below there are short reports about the four Fellows, as well as some thoughts from Jane and Edith about the changes they have observed over their time at Lucy Cavendish College.

later Director of the Language Centre. Most recently, she has been a Senior Research Fellow in Language Education at the Faculty of Education. In addition, Edith has participated in a number of empirical projects and international work since 1990 when she started active participation with Hong Kong and China. Her publication record is lengthy and varied and she has also been responsible for developing a large number of language courses, both in the University and externally. In College, she has served on committees including the Governing Body and the Fellowship Committee (as Secretary).

Edith’s report:

Jane Davies and Edith Esch at the Fellows’ Retirement Dinner in July

Edith Esch – elected Senior Member 29/1/76, elected to Category A Fellowship 3/3/93 (36 years association, 19 years as a Fellow) Edith Esch graduated from the University of Nancy, having studied English Literature. She then worked in Applied Linguistics at the University of Nancy until 1974, focusing on the teaching of English to adults. She came to Cambridge in 1974 to take up a post in the Linguistics Department. She quickly became Assistant Director of the Department and Page 20

Apart from my participation in the College Council, I have been involved in supporting the College series of Thursday events. On my invitation, on Thursday the 20th of October 2011, Prof. Agnes Lam, from the University of Hong Kong, gave a reading of her poems. Professor Lam is a former Visiting Fellow. Dame Anne Warburton and Professor Lam were able to meet at the weekend and had coffee in the Anna Bidder Room.

I’ve been lecturing full-time in the Faculty of Education and thanks to a term sabbatical, published a few things while actively preparing to retire at the end of September. This is not a time for nostalgia, but a moment when I feel proud of having been a member of such a vibrant community and full of enthusiasm for a new life. I can remember the time when ‘Warburton’ evoked the name of the President and ‘Hall’ looked like a secondary school canteen affair with Formica tables in Strathaird. Oldham Hall was being built but the Library building was still in Baroness Perry’s imagination. And throughout, the Fellowship has grown in size along with the student body as well as in academic recognition in the University. I will enjoy keeping in touch and participating in the promotion of the College and its aims.

Publications: Esch E. (2012) ‘English and French Pedagogical Cultures: Convergence and Divergence in Cameroonian Primary school teachers’ discourse.’ ‘Comparative Education’. Esch E. and Solly M. (eds.) (2012) The Sociolinguistics of Second Language Education, ‘Linguistic Insights Series, Vol. 141, Berne, P. Lang In preparation: Evans M. and Esch E. (eds.) Special Issue on Second Language Teacher Development for the Language Learning Journal

Dame Anne Warburton and Professor Agnes Lam

Other: Invited Lecture: ‘Creoles, Education and Identity’ at the 18th Commonwealth Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers, Mauritius, August 2012. Paper on ‘Presentation of Self in discourse and joint construction of professional ethos’ ESSE symposium, Istanbul, September 2012.

Jane Renfrew – elected Fellow Class A 2/4/84 Jane came up to New Hall as an undergraduate in 1961 and following graduation, took up lectureships in Archaeology at the University of Sheffield and the University of Southampton. In 1981, she returned to Cambridge and the Department of Archaeology. Outside Lucy Cavendish, Jane has contributed hugely to life in Cambridge. Jesus College benefited from her enthusiasm and energy for the decade her husband was Master, from 1986. Jane has played a role in the governance of several local institutions and organisations, including the Cambridgeshire Police Authority and the King’s School, Ely. In College, Jane has served tirelessly. As Secretary to the Governing Body, as Tutor, as Vice-President, as Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology, as College Lecturer, as Fellow Librarian, as Secretary to the Trustees and as Garden Steward to name but a few! In 1993 she served as Acting President on several occasions during the absence of then President, Dame

Anne Warburton. In 1987 Jane established the Anglo-Saxon herb garden, which continues to fascinate and delight to this day.

Jane’s report: When I came to the college as a Class 1 Fellow, in 1984, Phyllis Bowden (later Hetzel) was President, and I am lucky to have known her two predecessors, Dr Anna Bidder, and Dr Kate Bertram. The college was small (only 50 students in total), and was housed in the three Victorian houses on our private road. The college offices were all in College House, the library was in two rooms on the ground floor of Barrmore, and the dining room was in the Woodlegh Room in Strathaird. At the top of Barrmore drive there was a coach house, and opposite it were an untidy group of garages, and there was another garage between the coach house and Strathaird. The three houses still had separate gardens, although the barriers between them were being taken down, and there was lapboard fencing along the private road. Soon after I arrived Phyllis Hetzel announced her decision to retire in order to get married and move to America, but before she did so, the College managed to secure Approved Foundation status from the University (up until then it had been an Approved Society), and this was a major step to becoming a full college. She was succeeded by Dame Anne Warburton who is remembered as our builder President. During her nine years our first purpose-built accommodation Oldham

Hall was built (1989), this was followed by De Brye and Bertram, Warburton Hall and the Music Pavillion, following successful fundraising campaigns and some unexpected large donations including Barbara de Brye’s legacy of £1,000,000. Barbara de Brye had previously given the college a house in Windsor which was sold and the funds raised were used to offset the purchase of Balliol Croft (now Marshall House) to be used, eventually, as the President`s Lodge. Dame Anne was succeeded by Baroness (Pauline) Perry and during her Presidency the last major building was added to the site, the purpose-built Library and Archive which was officially opened by our Honorary Fellow, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark in 2000. She had previously unveiled the foundation stone for Warburton Hall. During Lady Perry`s Presidency the College gained full College Status in the University and its own Royal Charter, and this was marked by a visit from our Visitor, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in June 1997. He had previously visited us in the summer of 1985 when Dr Doris Thoday, acting President, had shown him round, and again in 1990 when we celebrated our Silver Jubilee. During Dame Veronica Sutherland`s Presidency a splendid Porter`s Lodge was added to the front of Oldham Hall, and a Conservatory was added to the garden side as an extension of the Paul Paget Common Room. The Anna Bidder Room was established in Barrmore as an elegant Senior Common Room. Page 21

Professor Janet Todd was elected to succeed her as our first academic President and she has established our profile in the world of English literature by holding annual Women`s Word festivals in college. For my own part I have served as Tutor, Secretary to the Governing Body, Vice President, College Lecturer and Director of Studies, Curator, Fellow Librarian and Garden Steward, which has been a great privilege and it is astonishing to see how the college has grown and prospered over these past twenty-eight years.

Susan Rawlings – elected to Class B Fellowship 1/10/83 (29 years service)

Susan Rawlings

After graduating from King’s College (University of London) with a degree in Classics, Susan worked at the University of London Institute of Education, before moving to the University of Cambridge Faculty of English. In 1979 she joined the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education where she held a number of diverse roles including being appointed as the designated Warden of Madingley Hall and the Director of the Continuing Education Programme. Page 22

She continued to teach and contribute in the field of Classics and New Testament Greek and developed an interest in the English Reformation. She has served on all the major College committees, including being Secretary to the Governing Body for five years. In 1992 she was elected as the Praelector of Lucy Cavendish College: a post from which she retires this year after 20 years service.

Julie Dashwood Julie Dashwood, a scholar of 18th century Italian drama, first came to Lucy Cavendish as Coordinator and then Executive Director of the Centre for Women Leaders in 1997 and was elected to the Fellowship the following year. She has been Assistant Graduate Tutor, Senior Tutor and, most recently, College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages. Julie has taught at the Universities of Wales, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Leicester, and has also worked as a translator for the European Parliament in Luxembourg. She has published books on and articles on Realism and Modernism, especially the works of De Roberto and Pirandello, and on modern women writers and playwrights. She was awarded an Arts Council grant towards the publication of her translation of Pirandello’s Berecche e la guerra (2000), and a British Academy grant for the Conference she organised on the work and reception of Federico De Roberto (2007). Her current

research interests are Italian and comparative literature, especially theatre and narrative, from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries; Realism; Modernism; De Roberto; Pirandello. For the Italian Department at undergraduate level she has lectured on modern Italian theatre and taught translation classes. At graduate level she has supervised research on eighteenth and nineteenth century theatre. She has supervised students from a wide range of Colleges in addition to Lucy Cavendish students.

Publications • The Risorgimento of Federico De Roberto, edited, introduced and with contributions by Julie Dashwood and Margherita Ganeri, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2009, 313pp. • Luigi Pirandello, Berecche and the War, translated and introduced by Julie Dashwood, Market Harborough, Troubadour, 2000, 68pp. • Luigi Pirandello: the Theatre of Paradox, edited, introduced and with chapters by Julie Dashwood, Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter, The Edward Mellen Press, 1996, 292pp. • Writers and Performers in Italian Drama from the Time of Dante to Pirandello, eds. Julie Dashwood and Jane Everson, Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter, The Edwin Mellen Press, series: Studies in Theatre Arts, Volume 1, 1991, xii + 186pp

Research Fellows’ News Alice Denton, Greenwood-Bidder Research Fellow I have had a rather successful year of research, with two projects rolling along nicely, as well as attending a small conference on stromal immunology in York. I supervised a part II student, who received a First for his project with our lab, and volunteered to help run a stand at the Cambridge Science

Festival. I also helped organise and host a seminar event at Lucy Cavendish featuring prominent feminist Shere Hite and two College students, Leonora Visoka and Saumya Saxena, who discussed female empowerment and issues facing modern women.

Dr Tiffany Bergin, Sutasoma Research Fellow

The first year of my research fellowship, which began in Michaelmas 2011, was very enjoyable and productive. I am grateful to have made so many friends at the College, and am delighted with the progress I have made on my research. Over the past year I have concentrated on three main research areas: the role of research evidence in policymaking, the prevention

of environmental crimes, and cost-benefit analysis in criminal justice. The first of these research interests is the subject of my forthcoming book, The Evidence Enigma: Correctional Boot Camps and Other Failures in Evidence-Based Policymaking, which will be published by Ashgate in March 2013. I presented my work in this area at both the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting and the Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting in the United States this past summer. The second of these interests, environmental crimes, was the focus of ‘Linking Green Criminology with Law: A Socio-Legal Approach to Environmental Crimes’, an international conference I organised at the College with Dr Emanuela Orlando, also a Research Fellow here. Over the

next few months, Emanuela and I will turn the papers we presented at the conference into an article for the influential legal journal The Modern Law Review, who sponsored the Conference. My third research interest, cost-benefit analysis in criminal justice, is the subject of an article I was asked to submit to InterDisciplines, a peer-reviewed academic journal based at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. This article was requested after I spoke at an academic conference in Bielefeld in February 2012. In addition to research, I have really enjoyed supervising two papers in sociology and criminology. I am excited to assume the additional role of Director of Studies for Politics, Psychology, and Sociology (PPS) at the College for 201213 and look forward to another productive and fun year. Page 23

Dr Emanuela Orlando, Isaac Newton – Dorothy Emmet Research Fellow standards in third countries. In April, I presented the preliminary findings of this new project in a lunch seminar at the University of Cambridge Law Faculty titled “Wider Environmental Governance: expanding environmental norms beyond Europe”.

During my first year as Isaac Newton-Dorothy Emmet Research Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College I have moved forward my research on a number of cutting-edge legal issues at the crossroad between International, European and Environmental law. Building upon my past work experience as legal adviser to the Italian Ministry of the Environment in international cooperation projects in the field of climate change and energy regulation, I have undertaken a critical analysis of the relationship between climate and energy policies from an European Union and an Italian law perspective. The Research Fellowship also offered me the unique opportunity to embark on a new and exciting research project concerning the role of the European Union in promoting environmental norms and

Last, but not least, it is thanks to the open and collegiate atmosphere of Lucy Cavendish College that I started a collaboration, and a friendship, with another Research Fellow, Dr Tiffany Bergin, expert in sociology and criminology. The result of our collaboration is a ground-breaking research project which links together law and criminology in addressing how to best tackle and prevent environmental crimes. This project culminated in an international conference held at Cavendish College in September 2012 for which we received funding from the distinguished legal journal The Modern Law Review.

- “Environmental Governance in Italy”, in Environmental protection in multi-layered systems. Comparative lessons from the water sector (Brill Publisher, October 2012) - “Balancing Climate Change Mitigation and Environmental Protection Interests in the EU Directive on Carbon Capture and Storage” (forthcoming, in Climate Law, Winter 2012) - “The Italian legal framework in the field of renewable energy”, in Le politiche in materia di energie rinnovabili nella prospettiva dello sviluppo sostenibile: dal livello sovranazionale al livello locale (CEDAM, anticipated publication date: 2013).

My most recent publications include: - “Achieving Social Environmental Justice: Human Rights, Sustainable Development and Possible Way Forwards”, in Towards Social Environmental Justice (EUI Working Papers Series, January 2012).

Dr Hong Jin, Ethel Cruickshank Research Fellow Dr Hong Jin has been appointed as Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular and Cellular Page 24

Biology, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Dr Jin will commence her new position in Januray 2013 and the College

wishes her every success and looks forward to working together with her in the future.

New Research Fellows for 2012-13 The College welcomed three new research fellows this academic year: Dr Helen Roche, Dr Anke Husmann, Dr Eileen Nugent.

Dr Helen Roche

Helen Roche is the new Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge specialising in History. From 2004-2012, Helen studied Classics at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where she was a Choral, Instrumental and Senior Academic Scholar. Her postgraduate research focused upon the influence which ideas of ancient Sparta played in German elite education during the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular at the Royal Prussian CadetSchools (1818-1920), and at the Napolas or Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten (NationalPolitical Education-Institutes), a type of Nazi elite school. Helen is a member of Professor Sir Richard Evans’ Modern German History Research Seminar, and is currently researching the impact of philhellenism on politics and diplomacy during the Third Reich. She is also chair of the Classics Faculty’s interdisciplinary ‘Classical Reception Discussion Group’ series of seminars and colloquia. Helen who was kind enough to provide the musical accompaniment which preceded

this year’s Women’s Word Literary Dinner. Our second new Research Fellow is the Daphne Jackson Trust Research Fellow, Dr Anke Husmann, who will be working with Professor Ruth Cameron in her department. Before taking a career break to raise her family, Dr Husmann had a distinguished career as a physicist. She obtained her Masters degree in Physics at the University of Göttingen and Heidelberg, Germany in 1991, following this with a PhD in 1997 from the University of Chicago. She then worked in postdoctoral research roles at Helsinki University of Technology, Oxford University and the University of Chicago followed by working for five years as a research scientist at Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. Over her career she has published over thirty papers in high impact journals including two in Nature and one in Science, and also has two granted patents.

Dr Anke Husmann

During her career break, taken to care for her young family, she maintained an impressive level of engagement with scientific disciplines, graduating with an Open University diploma in Psychology, undertaking teaching as an associate lecturer for the Open University, and acting as

a supervisor for the University of Cambridge’s undergraduate Physics course. During her time as a Research Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College Anke will be undertaking an ambitious research project concerning the creation of tissue engineering scaffolds using the freeze-drying of ice as a template for pore formation.

Dr Eileen Nugent

Our new Lu Gwei Djen Research Fellow is Dr Eileen Nugent. Eileen studied for a BSc in Experimental Physics (1st class), at University College Dublin 1997-2001 and then for an MPhil in Theoretical Physics at Queens University Belfast 2001-2003. She then studied for her DPhil in Experimental Atomic Physics at the University of Oxford 20042007 After working in the field of atomic physics for a number of years, Eileen has made the transition to biophysics where she has applied her technical skills to produce a culturing platform for bacteria. This platform allows thousands of cells to be individually monitored and analysed over many generations giving population-level measurements with single-cell detail. Whilst a Research Fellow at Lucy Cavendish, Eileen’s research

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will focus on the interface of microbiology and polymer physics and will ask questions which are directly related to issues facing the world, such as how does bacterial genome

structure affect the acquisition of antibioticresistance and how do bacteria reshape their genome to persist in adverse conditions. This research addresses the role of physics in fundamental

biological processes inside cells and has the potential to challenge conventional polymer physics models of genome organisation in bacterial cells.

Report on the Library Catherine Reid, Librarian and Dr Jane Renfrew, Retiring Fellow Librarian It has been another busy academic year in the College Library. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;hot deskâ&#x20AC;? system in the reading rooms enabled sharing of the study spaces during the busy exam period and the comfortable seating area in the foyer provided a space for refreshment, group working and relaxing. We were very sorry to lose two valued members of the library team this year. Joan Harris, Assistant Librarian, left the College after twenty years of service. Joan made a huge contribution to the growth of the library and its services, including cataloguing thousands of new additions to the library, helping to supervise the move of the library from Barrmore into the current building and providing help to support a large number of students with their studies over the years. Karen Davies, Archivist, developed and managed the College Archive for 12 years since its very early days. Karen catalogued all additions to the archive and dealt with archive enquiries and visitors. Karen used the holdings of the archive for interesting and thought-provoking exhibitions for numerous events, including Open Cambridge, and also dealt with Freedom of Information Page 26

requests and Data Protection. We wish Joan and Karen well and hope that they will stay in touch. The Fellow Librarian, Jane Renfrew, chaired her last Library Subcommittee meeting in the Easter term, as she retired at the end of September. The Subcommittee expressed their gratitude and appreciation for the tremendous contribution Jane has made to the library since she first joined the Subcommittee in 1984 and as Fellow Librarian since 2000. Jane will continue to keep in touch with regular visits to the library. We look forward to another busy year. In particular we are aiming to further develop our enquiry services and information skills training sessions for our students. We are pleased to welcome to the team Jo Harcus, Library and Information Services

Officer. Jo will be working in Library Services and liaising with the IT Department to deal with enquiries and provide backup support during vacations for the IT and AV needs of conference users. We are very grateful to all who have donated books and funds to the College Library over the past year. We very much appreciate the hard work and enthusiasm of Gill Saxon, Library Assistant and Ursula Lyons, a valued library volunteer. The Fellow Librarian would also like to thank Catherine for all her hard work in running the library so smoothly during the past year. We send our very best wishes to all the students who graduated and we look forward to seeing returning and new students in the library in the Michaelmas Term.

Report from the Silver Steward Helen Taylor The College is fortunate to have a silver collection based mainly on donations from Alumnae, past Presidents, and other Friends and Associates of the College. Over the last year along with help from Graham Reader our Hall Manager and his staff we have had a silver display out at the majority of our Formal Halls. In addition we held Silver Dinner in February 2012 when the whole of the College Silver Collection was on display along with information about the various pieces. As this was deemed to be a successful event we plan to instigate this as an Annual exhibition.

Report from the Curator Sarah Gull These have been reframed and hung in Strathaird. Â We held another Silver Dinner in February, providing a chance to see the College silver collection. The committee also held an Arts and Crafts exhibition in March on the theme of Spring, and would like to thank all those who contributed.

The Fine Arts Committee were pleased to receive two pictures by the late Eileen Clifford, donated by Christine and Brian Bromwich.

Fine Art was revived at the end of the Easter term by a new collection of glass made by Alison Lucas which will be on display in the Anna Bidder room; photos of the new glass bowls can be viewed here. Page 27

Report on the Gardens Vince Lucas, Head Gardener and Dr Jane Renfrew, Retiring Garden Steward This has been a difficult year in the garden due to dramatic changes in the weather conditions. The winter was cold, in the spring we experienced a severe drought and since April it has rained more or less continuously. However we did have a good display of spring bulbs especially of tulips round the Hornbeam tree beside the Porter`s Lodge. It was especially disappointing that the two Sundays at the beginning of the Easter Term when the gardens were open for the National Garden Scheme and for the Red Cross it poured with rain, but despite that a fair number of intrepid visitors braved the elements.

pre-seeded biodegradable mats with 60,000 wild flower seeds on each and planted them along one edge of the wild flower meadow as an experiment. They were very successful and it is hoped that they have spread their seeds into the rest of the meadow. The fritillaries again made a good show, and we were pleased to see the orchids come up again. The Ruby bed outside Strathaird has been successfully restocked with drought resistant plants and some Dahlias planted against the wall are thriving. Dahlias have also been planted along the railings beside Lady Margaret Road. Three large evergreen trees have been felled between College House and De Brye, making the whole area much lighter, and once the tree roots have been ground out the area will be cleared of ivy and replanted.

Retirement Tea Party for Dr Jane Renfrew

The gardeners scarified the wild flower area in the autumn and sowed seed directly into it especially seed of yellow rattle, which is a parasite on grasses, and this has been very successful. We also bought two

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We have received several donations of plants, most notably a pair of ball-shaped box bushes which are now in pots outside the entrance to Marshall House, and two clematis and two climbing roses planted outside the Library. At the end of July the AngloSaxon herb garden was visited

by Professor Timothy Mowl and Dr Laura Mayer who were researching for the thirteenth volume of Historic Gardens and Landscapes of England which will cover Cambridgeshire and is due out next May and they are going to include Lucy Cavendish in their chapter on college gardens. This year sees the retirement of the Garden Steward, Dr Jane Renfrew, who has held the post since 2001, and has been on the Garden Committee for more than twenty years. The Garden Committee gave a special tea party for her and presented her with a beautiful bowl made from wood taken from the yew tree felled outside College House, a climbing rose and a device for extracting dandelions from the lawn without having to bend down, for which she is very grateful. She wishes the gardens and the gardeners all the best for the future.

Report from the Bursar Mrs Lesley Thompson

In common with many other Cambridge colleges, our annual costs after accounting for depreciation still generally exceed our income so that we end the year with a deficit in the accounts. This eats into our general reserves and is not sustainable in the longer term. Other older and better endowed colleges can better support their activities from their investment returns, but our more modest endowment means we have more limited scope to do this whilst seeking to preserve our capital. Over recent years, the underlying financial trend has improved as the College has taken some hard decisions with a view to producing efficiencies and making savings. During the last year we have continued to review and improve systems and processes to ensure that we are doing things in the most cost effective way and we have made appropriate changes. However, it is quite clear that we cannot just cut costs – carried to its logical conclusion, a regime of constant cuts would mean that ultimately nothing would be left! It is very important that

we invest to maintain, adapt and develop our infrastructure –in terms of people, services and estates - so that we can provide the best environment and support for our current students and Fellows as well as laying the foundations for the College’s provision for future students and Fellows. Increasing our income is critical, whether through continuing growth in student numbers, managing our investments as effectively as we can in difficult global economic circumstances or developing other sources of income such as attracting more conference guests. And, of course, the ongoing generosity of our alumnae and other friends and supporters is critical to the College’s future. We know from surveys and discussions that accommodation continues to be an area of major interest to our students. Every year we carry out a programme of maintenance and refurbishment in College properties and during last year we commissioned a professional survey of all the College’s offsite properties to identify repairs and maintenance needs over the next 10 years. We plan to undertake a similar exercise on site next year. As we have grown, and continue to grow, we would like to be able to offer more students the opportunity of accommodation on site, or at least very close to the College as this is what students tell us they want and this promotes collegiality and is more cost effective for the College. Currently, we only manage to house about a third

of our students on site whilst the remainder live in houses elsewhere (some owned and some rented by the College) or privately. Last year we began the process of reviewing our overall estates strategy including a feasibility study to explore options for further development on site. Work has continued on this during the year but any development of this kind will take time given the need to raise capital. We have therefore also entered a partnership with a developer for a project which would provide significant new student accommodation at about ten minutes’ walk from the College, including some flats. We are currently actively working on this development with a view to it coming on stream in 2014 and hope to be able to provide more information about this shortly. Returning to the theme of managing our investments efficiently, I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to Dr Christopher Johnson who stepped down during the year as external adviser on the College’s Investment Advisory Panel after many years of service. Chris, formerly Senior Bursar at St John’s College, has been a loyal adviser, supporter and friend to Lucy Cavendish College since 1970 and we are very much indebted to him. We are fortunate that the gap left on the investment panel has now been filled by Joanna Womack who offers much experience as a former University Treasurer and Bursar in several colleges. We are also delighted to have the insight and support as a second Page 29

external adviser of Helena Kent whose investment experience has already proved extremely valuable in our deliberations. We shall shortly be undertaking a review of our investment managers and it is wonderful that the College can draw on such experience and advice. Finally, during the last year we have completed work on

updating the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Strategic Plan for the period up to the 50th anniversary in 2015, renewing our commitment to our mission of seeking to enable outstanding women aged 21 and over to achieve their academic ambitions within the University of Cambridge at a time of their lives that suits them. We have set ourselves some ambitious

targets and we are already making progress in moving into the next phase of the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s development. Lucy Cavendish College is a great success story, having come a very long way in its relatively short existence, but we need to ensure that we adapt to changing circumstances in order to meet current demands and to plan for the longer term.

Report from the Domestic Bursar Mrs Christine Houghton a Guild, and a Korean group. We also hosted events: Birthday celebrations and weddings. The income from external events continues to be an important income stream to help keep the facilities in good condition for all to enjoy.

After graduation in June when we say goodbye to some of our students, one of the proudest days in College life, we go straight into conferences and 2011 was another busy summer. We welcomed back some regulars; students from all over the world attending Language Summer Schools, teachers from as far away as Brazil attending a seminar hosted by a publishing company, medical conferences, and conferences run by University departments and the Cambridge Admissions Office. We then welcomed some new clients from London companies, Page 30

Terms have been busy with Concerts, Talks, Special Lunches and Dinners. We had a retirement Dinner in June for three of our Fellows who are retiring this year and Students held an excellent June Event at the end of Easter Term around the theme of 1001 Arabian nights. As well as conferences we continue to maintain, refurbish and redecorate buildings owned by College. Work carried out this year included: new furniture, carpets and redecoration in Strathaird, a new kitchen in Barrmore Flat 2, new carpet in communal areas of 88 Chesterton Road, new carpets and redecoration at Albion Yard, and most other buildings had some work completed over the vacation.

There were some changes in departments and Gemma Beevers started in November 2011 to assist me as Conference and Accommodation Manager. Tara Rice started in November 2011 as Domestic Manager and Deborah Curran-Miller in March 2012 as Deputy Domestic Manager. Gemma has considerable experience in accommodation and is developing the conference side of College. Tara and Deborah have built a great Housekeeping Team and are developing procedures and schedules to carry the department forward. Tara is also Compliance Officer and completed her NEBOSH course in Easter Term.

We are fortunate that Martin James heads up our Catering department, assisted by Michael, Naomi, Oonagh, Ales, Tim and other part-time staff. They are always looking at new ideas ranging from takeaway options, ‘Grab-A Bag’, and an extra two Formal Halls on Fridays in Michaelmas and Lent to diverse lunches, suppers and Formal Halls. The compliments of our guests are testimony to the excellent food they produce. We welcome guests to College Formal Hall so please come as often as you can. Saturday Brunch and Sunday Lunch are particularly good days for all

College members to catch up. Graham, our Hall Manager, has built up an excellent ‘bank’ of casual staff and we rarely have to employ agency staff. He continues to develop service standards and presentation for all events and make sure that all diners and guests to College get a very friendly, professional welcome and service John Heslop our Maintenance Officer continues to deal with a myriad of tasks and keeps our buildings on good order. In the year ahead we will continue to support the College

Strategic Plan. We will work towards providing our students with better facilities, attract more conferences and events, and move forward with new innovations and I look forward to taking part in plans for the College’s 50th Birthday in 2015. I was made a member of the Board of Conference Cambridge (the enquiry office for all the Colleges) in February; having been on the Committee that created the office of Cambridge, it is nice to now be a member of the group that is part of the future development of the service.

Do remember College if you have a conference planned or a celebration event. Look under Conferences on our website www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk for further details.

Report from the Steward Formal Halls continue to be a very popular part of the Lucy Cavendish social scene. The fun part of doing the seating plan each week is seeing groups of students asking to sit together, with the same names popping up regularly. Occasionally we get a request for a birthday cake or a special mention. So I encourage everyone to make it a real occasion to bring people together, if you have a birthday or would like a special mention for your group please do get in touch (lcc-steward@ lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk). It’s also an opportunity to bring a group from a sports or social club or to do an exchange with another College: just let me know if you’d like to bring more than the usual

three guests as it is normally possible. Alumnae and Members of the Combination Room are especially welcome to Formal Hall. There is a comments box on the online booking form so do feel free to use that to let me know if you’d like to sit with anyone in particular or just someone from a particular subject.

After the inevitable teething problems the new Formal Hall online booking system seems to be settling down. If you do have any difficulties accessing the booking site, Gemma Beevers, our Accommodation & Conference Manager, is happy to help (Gemma Can be contacted on: 01223 332195 or lcc-formalhall@ lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk).

The Friday Formals have proved very popular. Each term we have one Formal Hall where academic gowns are optional and this coming year these ones will be the Halloween dinner on Friday 2nd November and the Halfway Hall Black Tie dinner on Friday 15th February. Page 31

Report from the Admissions Tutor Dr Maria Purves 2011/12 has been an exciting and fulfilling Admissions year for the College. There have been many developments and successes, and I will highlight a few of them here. When I first started as Admissions Tutor almost three years ago, one of my major aims was to raise academic standards. I am delighted therefore to see a record number of Lucy Cavendish students achieving firsts this year: 15 (11.4%) compared to 9 in 2011, 5 in 2010, and 3 in 2009.

Another of my aims was to increase the number of applicants to Lucy Cavendish. I was therefore extremely pleased that the number of applications to the college did not drop this year when undergraduate fees tripled and the number of mature students nationwide applying to university dropped dramatically (the number of applicants aged between 25 and 39 fell by more than 20%, while the figure for those aged 40 and above was down more than 25%).* Other mature colleges did not fare so well, and I am grateful for the efforts of my team in keeping application numbers at the healthy level of Page 32

previous years. As testament to this, our July Open Days have been well-attended in recent years (we had 73 bookings this year), which is a good indication of the growing popularity of the College. On the same topic, this year I coordinated an application on behalf of the four mature Colleges and Cambridge Admissions Office for some University Widening Participation funding to help us reach more UK mature students. The application was successful and we now have money for two years to employ two consultants â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mature Outreach Ambassadors - to foster relationships with centres of learning and other institutions where there may be potential students, in the South East, East Anglia, and London (in the first instance). If the first two years go well, we may be given more funding to enable our Ambassadors to cover the whole of the UK. Both Ambassadors are Lucy alumnae: Isobel Cohen (2012) who graduated this summer with a double first and, famously, a newborn daughter who came along 28 hours before finals!; and Michelle Tucker (2011) who often represented the College at events whilst an undergraduate, and was a real asset to the promotion of Lucy Cavendish during her time here. Both are passionate about mature outreach and we are extremely fortunate to have them working with us. Entirely separately, and also fortuitously, we have a College alumna working on outreach specifically for Lucy Cavendish, with a focus on students on Access to Higher Education Diploma courses in East Anglia. These students are often unsure of the eligibility of their qualifications and are too infrequently encouraged

to apply to Oxbridge. Judith Roberts, our volunteer Ambassador for Adult Students, is going to go out and give them the support and information they need. You can read more about Judithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work as an outreach ambassador on the following page. In other news, Gaby Jones, our Admissions Officer, has become Tutorial Manager, which means she is now not only the first portof-call for potential applicants but many other things too! And the Visiting Student programme is growing, with interest being shown by universities in the US and in Asia. This year I have been chair of the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mature Students Working Group, which has meant that I have been active in discussing and making university-wide policy decisions in Admissions and Outreach, in a highly significant year for the University (which has been tremendously interesting). I am also a member of the National Scholarship Programme working group, which is managing the process of distributing first year fee waivers to students from disadvantaged backgrounds: an enjoyable task at a time when so many students must be questioning whether they want to take on a significant loan for education. These are challenging times in Admissions: but with our group of Outreach workers in place, and an upward trend in College academic achievement established, I believe the College is in a strong position to continue with its mission of bringing the best and brightest women of 21 and over to Cambridge. *according to 2011 UCAS figures.

Becoming a Mature Outreach Ambassador Judith Roberts, Lucy Cavendish Alumna (1980) Cavendish to complete the four-year Bachelor of Education degree, then a new qualification that combined Tripos papers with Education Studies.

My ventures into early adulthood were decidedly precarious; leaving me aged twenty-five as an unsupported mother of three small children, with no career. I decided to become a teacher, so in 1970 I embarked upon the journey towards qualification. After studying at Hockerill College, which was a constituent college of the now-defunct University of Cambridge Institute of Education, I was encouraged to apply to Lucy

I was thrilled to graduate in a subject I loved and I subsequently became an English teacher in a comprehensive school in Harlow. In those far-off days girls from working class backgrounds were not always encouraged to aim high and this concerned me; people often expressed surprise that someone with my background could study at Cambridge and I was keen to encourage other able young women to realise their potential. After many years in teaching and education management, I moved into a teacher training role at the Institute of Education in London and subsequently with the Institute of Continuing Education in Cambridge as a part-time tutor, before becoming the eastern counties representative of the Institute for Learning.

Now the wheel has turned full circle and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m back at Lucy Cavendish as a volunteer ambassador for adult learners. I go into colleges, talking to Access tutors and students, promoting Lucy Cavendish and the opportunities the college offers. In these meetings I can answer questions that students and their tutors may not want to ask a member of the admissions team, fearing they may sound too trivial. I often point to the inspirational student profiles on the website and in the Annual Review as exemplars of what is possible. There are so many women out there who are talented and hardworking, yet they frequently do not have sufficient faith in their own abilities or the confidence to apply to Cambridge. My job is to provide them, and their tutors, with relevant information and support in order to begin their journey to an exciting new future. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good to be back!

Report from the Senior Tutor Dr Stephanie Ellington The role of Senior Tutor is challenging, frustrating, impossible and enjoyable. There are constantly changing goalposts with for example: visa regulations for overseas students changing yet again this year, completely new funding arrangements for new undergraduates and the introduction, from 2013, of two new triposes.

seeing the changing cohort of students each year and hearing of their aims and successes and also learning of how they are progressing once they become alumnae of the College.

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Academic achievements Our undergraduates achieved record results this year with the highest number of firsts ever, 15 in all (including the distinction in Part 3 Maths). We warmly congratulate these students and hope that others will emulate their success in future years.

The following students gained 1st class honours in tripos examinations this year: Jenny Greveson Part 2 Architecture You Zhou Part 1B Engineering Rebecca Ferns Part 1 English Ann-Marie McManaman Part 1 English Isobel Cohen Part 2 English Katarzna Szubert Part 1 Linguistics Katherine Hodgson Part 2 Linguistics Katharina Ewert LLM Zane Rasnaca LLM Joyce Au Part 2 Law Yujun Qiao Part 1B Mathematics Zhu Gong part 3 Mathematics (Distinction) Flo Slater Part 1A MVST Lily Huang Part 1B MVST Anna Gromada Part 2 PPS

The students on the Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine, who do not take tripos examinations, also had some outstanding success with two Lucy Cavendish students sharing the prize for the top students in year three: Caroline Dixon and Lucy Strong.

Scholarships, grants and awards A very pleasing number of our students also gained scholarships, awards or prizes over the course of the year. Just to mention a few: Both our second year undergraduate Biologists, Ruta Sakalaukaite and Farihah Malik, not only found summer placements in laboratories in Cambridge but also got grants to support their studies and Isobel Cohen was awarded The Other Prize for the best original Page 34

unperformed play written by a Cambridge student. Her play will be produced at the ADC theatre next year. (Isobel also produced a baby born the day before Isobel wrote the first of her finals papers!) Amongst our graduate students Maryam Masood has been awarded a Schlumburger Faculty for the Future grant to pursue post doctoral studies in Engineering and Ana Vjic won a travel award

for young investigators for her work on epigenetics and cardiomyopathy.

Extra-curricular achievements The diversity of our students is reflected in the wide range of extra-curricular activities undertaken by them. Over the course of the year Lucy Cavendish students have

represented the University in a range of sports including basketball, volleyball, ultimate frizbee, rowing and ballroom dancing. Other students have conducted concerts in a

range of College chapels and played in orchestras around Cambridge. The Lucy Cavendish Singers continue to sing both in Cambridge and further afield.

Sciences might be amongst mature applicants. We will need to monitor applications over the next few years before we can judge the effects and remain flexible both in our admission policy and in where we target our publicity. The mature Colleges are still discussing whether it would be advantageous to them to reduce the admissions age from 21 to 20 and how such a change might affect the number and quality of applications.

places is becoming much more competitive the number of students undertaking one year MPhils is increasing. It is thus essential that the College remains flexible in responding to the ever changing external factors and policies influencing the makeup of the student body.

The Future The future of the College is inevitably dependant on funding and student fees are a major source of our funding. We do not yet know either what effects the increased fees for home undergraduates will have on application numbers or whether the rise in fees might concentrate applications in those subjects leading to vocational qualifications. It is also not known how popular the new Triposes in Psychology and Behavioural Sciences and in Human, Social and Political

Although funding for PhD

We continue to do our utmost to ensure that our students are happy in the College and able to fulfil their academic potential in their studies and many form lifelong friendships with other Lucy Cavendish students.

Report from the Graduate Tutor Dr Orsola Rath-Spivack

This year I came back to my role as Graduate Tutor after a 2-term sabbatical in 2011. I am pleased to report that this academic year has seen yet a new record number of graduate students, with 97 new admissions to reach a total of 199 current graduates. This has contributed to a truly exciting

research environment and to greater involvement of graduate students in College life. As usual, the largest cohorts are in Biological and Medical Sciences, Engineering, and Social and Political Sciences and related areas. Many other subject areas also have strong representation, particularly History, Education, and Law and Criminology.

Reid, others are delivered by outside experts, such as the workshop on ‘Professional Voice Production and Presentation Skills’ led by Carole Pluckrose, Artistic Director of the Arc Theatre, who has many years of experience working with education establishments at all levels using drama-based workshops.

The annual Graduate Programme of transferable skills sessions, seminars and social events has continued to evolve to meet students’ needs. Some sessions are delivered ‘in-house’, such as one on the use electronic databases for literature searches, by our College Librarian Catherine

A very welcome new development this year has been the close co-operation with PdOC, the University Society for Postdocs, and the Society for Visiting Scholars. Close ties between our graduates and those of other Colleges have been maintained, as usual, by extending invitations to most Page 35

events to graduates from all other mature Colleges, and our graduates are welcome participants to the equivalent programme run by Wolfson College, and benefit from free weekly Academic English classes during term. Lucy graduates have also participated in the many events held by Cambridge AWISE (Association for Women in Science and Engineering) in College, such as a workshop on career paths from academia to industry and business, another on peer mentoring, and the Career Development Day, focused on ‘Strategies for Success in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and. Mathematics)” New this year was also a series of ‘Anna Bidder Research evenings’, jointly delivered by Lucy Cavendish Fellows and graduate students. It is these, and other events such as the Graduate Seminar Day and the Anna Bidder Research Evenings, and the involvement of Postdocs and Research Fellows from within the College and the wider University which contribute to a lively interdisciplinary research atmosphere in College and have proved a great opportunity for graduates to present their work and network at all levels. The students were also very active in organising events in College. Amongst these, Florence Hazrat organised ‘Lifting the Veil’ - an evening of Iranian poetry and music ancient and modern - including talks and live performances by academics and Iranian Page 36

rappers, and a Persian-themed supper, which attracted a varied audience from the whole of the University and beyond. It was a fascinating experience and a resounding success (I’m pleased to say that I also managed to go!). [You can read more about Florence’s ‘Lifting the Veil’ event on page 53] Other students who were active in organising conferences in the University included:

Hannah Higgin

(Morgenstein), whose PhD in History focuses on ‘Disseminating American Ideals in Africa, 1949-1969’ was involved in organising a conference in December in Cambridge at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities with leading historians from both sides of the Atlantic on the subject of ‘Public Relations of the Cold War.’

Namukale Chintu,

founding member of the Cambridge Africa Business Network, was one of three organisers of the conference “Unlocking Value in Frontier Africa” , which was held in April at the Judge Business School and attracted pre-eminent African statesmen as well as leading academics and business people worldwide. Namukale is a PhD candidate in International Business and Strategy, and her research focuses on the internationalisation of firms from emerging markets in frontier economies.

Graduate Student Prizes Throughout the year many students have achieved prizes and other awards recognising their academic achievements:

Carol Atack was elected

to a University Prendergast Studentship to fund her PhD research in Classics, on the idealisation of monarchy in Greek political thought.

Zuzana Faltyskova, whose PhD in Biological Anthropology focuses on DNA variation in extinct people from Tierra del Fuego, received a C. T. Taylor Studentship.

Sara Merino was awarded

the Rayleigh-Knight prize for her essay ‘Multiscale analysis: from the linear Boltzmann Equation to the diffusion and fractional diffusion equations’. As well as successfully working towards her PhD in Mathematical Analysis, she also managed to get a blue in basketball.

Ana Vujic, who is doing her PhD in the Division of cardiovascular medicine in Addenbrooke’s, won a travel Award for Young Investigators for her work on epigenetics and cardiomyopathy. The award was presented to her in July at the Cardiovascular Science Conference in New Orleans. Siobhan Chomse, who has started this year a PhD in Classics on ‘The Personal Voice in Tacitus and Lucan’, received a grant from the Jebb Fund. I am delighted to report that 3 Lucy graduates are current holders of a Schlumberger

Faculty for the Future Fellowship. These are awards to fund women from developing and emerging countries for advanced graduate study in science and engineering disciplines at top universities around the world. The overriding objective of the program is to see the Faculty for the Future Fellows inspire other female scientists, building on their leadership skills to become influential role models in countries where women are still under-represented in science.

Maryam Masood, PhD in

Engineering, is one of 63 Faculty for the Future Fellows elected worldwide in 2012.

Rana Bilbeisi, PhD in Chemistry, and Bridget Chukualim, PhD in

Biochemistry, are among 65 Fellows renewed worldwide in 2012. College Prizes for the current academic year haven’t been awarded yet. The following prizes were awarded to last year’s graduates:

Kate Bertram Prizes for distinguished performance in non-Tripos Examinations: Sarah Cyriac (MPhil in Screen Media and Cultures) , Kristen Meredith (MPhil in Russian Studies), Maximiliane Von Ruffin (MPhil in International Relations) Alumnae Association Prize for Graduate Excellence: Burcu Bora (MPhil in Industrial Systems, Manufacturing and Managing) Honorary Santander Studentship: Samantha Cox (PhD in Archeology), Elizabeth Forbes (MPhil in Education) Honorary Studentship: Linda Stone (PhD in Medieval History)

Rose Spear, who completed her PhD last year on carbon nanomaterials for biomedical applications and is now a Research Associate in the Engineering Department and a Postdoctoral member of Lucy Cavendish, won Third prize in the Carl Zeiss photography competition with an image which depicts fluorescence staining of osteoblasts on ferromagnetic stainless

Cise Unluer’s photo on the left shows the concrete being ‘cured’, whilst continuing to absorb CO2; the one on the right shows its microstructure.

steel. Her research expertise is in chemical reactions and biological interactions – proteins, DNA, and cells – with materials containing nanoscale or microscale dimensions. She carries out experiments on the interactions of human osteoblasts and monocytes with ferromagnetic metallic scaffolds, which are intended for applications in magnetomechanical stimulation of bone tissue. Her research aims to shorten the time needed for the formation of new bone tissue at implant sites and to extend the lifetime of new implants by stimulating bone growth into implant surfaces Among the many fascinating entries in this engineering photo competition were some by Cise Unluer, PhD in Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering, capturing unexpected beauty in eco-friendly concrete, which absorbs CO2 from the air and is therefore environmentally friendly.

Dr Rose Spear’s photo depicting fluorescence staining of osteoblasts on ferromagnetic stainless steel

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Graduate Research Day – 2 May 2012 The Graduate Seminar Day, which took place as usual at the beginning of May, was again well-attended and proved to be a great success. It showcased a wealth of fascinating research in subject areas as diverse as Anthropology, Politics, History, Engineering and more. The first session included speakers in various Biological Sciences. Tina Eichstaedt (PhD in Biological Anthropology) spoke about how genetic and physiological adaptation to high altitude takes place and evolves over thousands of years, and how phenotype and genotype interact to enable adaptations to live normal lives in adverse environments. Zuzana Faltyskova (PhD in Biological Anthropology) presented preliminary results of her genetic study of extinct people from Tierra del Fuego and explained how she plans to use whole mitochondrial genome analysis to shed light on the timing and number of migrations into the Americas. Olivia Hasseldine (PhD in Veterinary Medicine) spoke about the ever-topical problem of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), which causes a wide range of human diseases, and, since its first appearance in 1961, has become a global health problem, spreading initially through hospitals and more recently into the community and farming industry. It appears that the mechanism by which antibiotic resistance was believed to be conferred does not always apply. In the second session,

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Fellows) gave an overview of their new research project on environmental crimes, which include illegally smuggling endangered species and dumping hazardous waste, and discussed the question of how to best prevent and tackle these crimes from both legal and criminological perspectives.

Mercedes Galindez (MPhil

in Latin American Studies) explained how the Uruguayan media’s portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt during 1933-1945, which highlighted almost exclusively social legislation and democracy, allowed the press to enhance Uruguay’s place in modernity through the deep connection between these key features and the self-definition of Uruguayan national identity, especially because Uruguay was the first country in Latin America to develop a welfare state and an inclusive democracy.

Bram De-Ridder (MPhil in International Relations, Wolfson College) - spoke about his research into the causes of the sudden change in Europe from the semi-permanent state of war during the sixteenth century to the proliferation of treaties between 1598 and 1609 and a return to peace until the start of the Thirty Years’ War. He explained how, by testing the classic notion of ‘International Society’ against the historical records, it becomes possible to provide a critical account of what is considered to be one of the main approaches to the study of International Relations, and to tell the tale of why Europe all of a sudden decided to take a break from violence. The third session focused on

Medieval History, as well as modern problems caused by globalisation. Linda Stone (PhD in Medieval History) gave a new perspective on the glossed books of the Bible, a twelfthcentury phenomenon, known as the Glossa Ordinaria, which have been studied extensively with regard to their authorship, production and provenance, but whose polemical content has received very little attention and promises to be a potentially rich vein of scholarship. Hope Williard (PhD in Medieval History) spoke about her studies of a sixth-century Merovingian letter collection, the Epistolae Austrasicae, which include diplomatic letters between the courts of Austrasia and Constantinople, but also the letters of private citizens, bishops, archbishops, abbots, aristocrats, and kings. She explained her quest to discover, through these letters, how bishops, kings, and aristocrats interacted, and to study roles and identities, filling the gap left by existing scholarship, which is largely silent concerning the letter-writing of the early Middle Ages. Haihua (Helen) Zhang (PhD in Manufacturing Engineering) gave a Chinese perspective on the issues raised by the deep changes in the world we live in, which is becoming borderless, integrating financial markets, sovereign states, and technologies across nations. Using three of the most developed regions in China as the research field, Helen explored how Chinese businesses have managed to ride the waves of dramatic changes and to cope with the heightened turbulence and

vulnerability brought about by increased global level of connectedness and dependency. In the last session Maryam Masood (PhD in Sustainable Engineering) spoke about the challenges of waste management in developing countries in the face of increasing urbanisation and population growth, with a case study in Lahore, Pakistan. She discussed the environmental, economic and social problems which can arise as a result of less advanced waste management systems and proposed improvements to the methods. While Rana

Bilbeisi (PhD in Chemistry)

discussed the applications of tetrahedral metal-organic cages, or molecular capsules, in encapsulating guest molecules which allows their behaviour and reactivity to be studied. The study encompassed the design, synthesis and application of a new class of metal-organic capsules. Pu Zhao (PhD in Earth Sciences) explained the functional properties of a sub-family of metal-organic frameworks and their surprising similarity with zeolites in topology. Her study looked at the phase transitions of one such molecule, using high

temperature X-ray diffraction analysis and discussed the diverse application possibilities, particularly their extraordinary gas storage potential in relation to carbon dioxide capture. The research day was finished off in style by Florence Hazrat (MPhil in Medieval and Renaissance Literature) who discussed how memory plays a key part in the sophisticated use of refrains throughout Renaissance poetry and music, illuminating her theories with entertaining examples from poems, song and dance at the court of Henry VIII.

Launch of the new College Website At the start of the year we launched the new College website – a radical departure from the old version. The new website presents the College in a much more dynamic light, with features relating to upcoming events, and latest news, announcements visibly profiled on the homepage. The College’s digital media presence is also integrated into the website with our latest Twitter and facebook announcements feeding directly onto the homepage. We are also delighted to be able to say that within the University of Cambridge Lucy Cavendish has the first College website to be fully smartphone-enabled, allowing us to remain at the cutting-edge of the technology that today’s prospective students will be using. The website required a lot of hard work from the Development team, the web development agency Chameleon Studios

and other members of the College, and we are also very grateful to the anonymous donor who generously funded this new development. We believe the website has made a big difference to improving the College’s “public face”

and we have already had very positive feedback from potential students applying to the college as well as from colleagues in other colleges. Please visit www. lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk to have a look at the new website.

Switching on the new website, with web development agency Chameleon Studios. In the photo: From left to right – Leon Bienek (Chameleon), Dave Sheppard (Chameleon), Chas Ashford-Hodges (Chameleon), Edward Mather (Lucy Cavendish College Communications & Marketing Manager), Helena Rubinstein (Lucy Cavendish College student), Professor Janet Todd (Lucy Cavendish College President), Dr Ruth Jones (Lucy Cavendish College Vice-President)

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Development Report Caroline Sier

It has been a busy year in the Development Office as we have begun to make some progress with raising the profile of Lucy Cavendish through the new website, the media, publications, and events with alumnae, donors and friends of the College; as well as making a start on generating additional funds for the College, most specifically for student support. Dr Jane Renfrew has been extremely helpful to us in making sure that we keep in contact with Lucy Cavendish alumnae based all over the world by hosting tea parties for alumnae when she and Lord Renfrew make international trips. These have taken place in Hong Kong and India in the past year, and you will find a piece about the happy afternoon in Hong Kong elsewhere in the Review. At the University Alumni weekend in September 2011 we held a ‘Women in Wine Tasting’ at Lucy Cavendish that was open to all University alumni. There are now a significant number of women wine makers all over the world, including the more traditional Bordeaux chateaux. Lyndsey Spellman, the Retail Director of award winning Cambridge Wine Merchants, who has been a judge for the International Wine Challenge, gave us a witty, and sometimes forthright insight into the impact that these Page 40

women are making, and she took us through a tasting of their produce. This event led us to think that we should have a special Lucy Cavendish wine that all members of the College community could enjoy with friends and family, and drink when they were celebrating. The arrangement we have made with Cambridge Wine Merchants, who supply wine and run wine societies for a number of Cambridge Colleges, also benefits the College with every bottle sold by them. As you can imagine the tastings to identify the right wine has been an onerous task for the alumnae, fellows, staff and students who have been involved, but we have now found a wine made by a woman that everyone enjoys, and we will be launching it, with the wine maker, at tastings in Cambridge and London in November. Other events that have taken place in the last year have been the second Conversation on Women in Leadership, which I very much enjoyed developing in partnership with the team from the International Centre for Women Leaders at the Cranfield University School of Management, and the launches of the Allia Charitable Bond in London and Cambridge. The bonds are another way to raise funds for students at Lucy Cavendish, and to offer alumnae and other friends of the College, who are not in a position to make an outright gift, an opportunity to support the College at no cost to themselves. More information about this innovative way of supporting the College can be found on the Allia website: www. allia.org.uk. We are extremely grateful to HM The LordLieutenant of Cambridgeshire,

Mr Hugh Duberly CBE, already an investor in the bond, for jointly hosting the launch at Lucy Cavendish, with the President, on a very snowy evening in February. Baroness Perry of Southwark, the fifth President of the College, then very kindly hosted the London launch at the House of Lords. This happy evening gathered together London alumnae, friends and supporters of the College in the atmospheric setting of the Cholmondeley and Terrace Rooms with wonderful night time views over the River Thames. The event was very generously supported by the Atack van Someren Charitable Trust. Planning has also taken place this year for a programme of activities to celebrate the fortieth anniversary, in 2012, of the admission of the first undergraduates to Lucy Cavendish, which had previously been a Graduate College. 1972 was a significant year in the history of the University of Cambridge as Churchill, Clare and King’s Colleges were the first all-male Colleges to accept female students, in addition to Lucy Cavendish’s first intake of female undergraduates, so we are celebrating this 40th anniversary in partnership with the other three colleges. There will be a tea, concert and dinner in November and a Conversation in April 2013 to discuss aspects of life and world events in 1972, as well as remembering the changing times in Cambridge. Colleges collaborating in this way is unusual, but we all feel that we have developed a strong partnership that we can build on in the future. Working with the Lucy Cavendish Alumnae Association we also planned a full

programme of activities for our alumnae returning for the University’s 2012 Alumni Weekend in September, so that our alumnae have good opportunities to meet up with each other and stay in touch with the rest of the Lucy Cavendish College community. This year we introduced a Reunion Dinner for alumnae who matriculated in 1972, 1982, 1992 and 2002. Dame Anne Warburton, the 4th President of the College, some Emeritus Fellows and senior Fellows who were at College during that time were able to meet up with alumnae from those years. In 2013 the Reunion Dinner will be for alumnae who matriculated in 1973, 1983, 1993 and 2003, and will continue in the same way for future years, and the 5s Reunion Dinner will fall in the year of the College’s 50th anniversary in 2015.

Dame Anne Warburton with the College Silver

There was also a free piano concert in Warburton Hall at Lucy Cavendish open to all University of Cambridge alumni. We were very excited that the concert was performed by the celebrated Turkish concert pianist Gulsin Onay, who is a Member of the Combination Room at Lucy Cavendish College, and to follow the concert, and the theme, there was a Turkish buffet supper especially for Lucy Cavendish alumnae. Sarah Pesonen, as many of

you will know, did a career downscale after the birth of her daughter to become the part time Development Assistant

Gulsin Onay at the Alumni Weekend Concert

here. She was offered the prestigious post of Major Gifts and Legacies Fundraiser at the Papworth Trust. We were obviously very sorry to see Sarah leave in August as she contributed so much to the Development work and College events. Sarah said that although she was looking forward to her new role, she was sorry to be leaving Lucy Cavendish as she had really enjoyed working here and that all the College community were great. As often happens when one person gets offered something new it makes others consider their options for the future. On Wednesdays, when Ed Mather, the College Communications & Marketing Manager did not work in College he volunteered at St Mary’s, his local primary school in Ely, as he is interested in writing books for children. Those who saw him with the children at the party here last December in his role as Father Christmas witnessed how good Ed is with children, and will understand his wish to move into teaching. Ed managed to secure a place to train as a Primary school teacher at the Institute of Education, University of London, and started his life as a student there

this autumn. Ed contributed much to the College, including the mighty task of getting the new College website up and running! Because Lucy Cavendish needs to raise additional support for students in light of the introduction of the new fee regime for undergraduates, in 2011/12 we set an ambitious 2/3rds increase on the previous year’s fundraising income level, and I am very glad to say, that with your generous support we just exceeded our target. However, there is no place for complacency as the amount of monies that we raise are still very low in comparison to other Colleges within the University, though we are, of course, realistic about our fundraising ambitions in comparison to some of the large traditional Cambridge Colleges, but we will make every effort on behalf of the College and its students. You may have noticed that the list of donors to Lucy Cavendish is now on the website, and it is also included in this Annual Review. As well as more recent donors we have tried to include everyone we can find on the records that we inherited here, but the list may not be complete. I would be extremely grateful if you could notify me of any omissions or errors that you spot, as we want to ensure that we recognise and credit all those who have generously supported the College.

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List of donors We would like to thank all those who have already generously contributed towards supporting the College: Mrs Patricia Aarseth, Ms Donna Abercrombie, Dr Anna Abulafia, Professor Juana Acrivos, Mrs Anne Ahmed, Ms Nadiah AlAmmar, Dr Elise Alexander, Dr Patricia Alireza, Mrs S M Allam, Dr L E Allen, Dr P C Allgood, Mrs Margaret Allison, Mrs Dorothy Allison, Mrs P Ambikapathy, Dr Charles Anderson, Mr and Mrs J Armstrong, Ms Helen Arnold, Miss Tina Asgarian, Dr H J Atherton, Miss B Atkins, Mrs Ruth Attarian-Hamilton, Ms Linda Austin, Ms Zoe Austin, Miss Fatima Azzam, Miss Julia Bagguley, Ms J R Baines, Miss Janet Ball, Dr Angela Barbour, Ms Lydia Barnes, Miss Betty Barr, Dr Christobel Barretto, Dr Janice Bates, Miss Rosalind Bax, Dr Mary Baxter, Dr Arin Bayraktaroglu, Mrs Sylvia Beamon, Mrs Gillian Beard, Professor Margaret Beare, Becker Trust, Ms Lorraine Bedwell, Dr J E Beenen, Ms Fazilet Bekiroglu, Dr Hilary Belcher, Mrs Prudence Bell, Ms J K Mactaggart, Professor Catherine Belsey, Mrs Fiona Bengtsen, Ms Sarah Bennett, Dr Veronica Bennett, Professor Irene Bergal, Dr Tiffany Bergin, the late Dr Anna Bidder, Bidwells, Dr Sandra Billington, Dr Eleanor Birks, Dr Erica G Bithell, Mrs Eunice Black, Professor Dame Carol Black, Mrs P M Blake, Dr Felicity Blunt, Miss Marjorie Bocking, Ms Miranda Bolter, Professor Malcolm Bolton, Mrs Kathryn Bond, Dr Eileen Bone, Revd Connie Bonner, Mrs M S Boorman, the late Miss Margaret Bottrall, Dr Maria Bouba-Thompson, Mr Charles Page 42

Boundy, Mrs S A Bowden, Mrs G R Bowness, BP plc, BPW, Dr Bohuslava Bradbrook, Ms P Bradley, Mrs Elisabeth H Bragg, Mr Stephen Bragg, the lateMargaret Braithwaite, Dr Jacqueline Brearley, Professor Gwen Brickett, Mrs Susan Brindley, Ms L Brokenshire, Dr and Professor Brooke, Professor C Brooke, Mrs C Brooks, Professor Sarah Brown, Mrs Maureen Brown, Ms R Brown, Miss S A Brown, Sharon Brown, Mrs E Brumfit, Ms I Brunskill, Kathryn Buck, the late Mrs Margo Bulman, Ms C Burnett, Ms Elizabeth Burney, Mrs Margaret Butler, Ms M F Butler, Dr Martin Buzza, Ms S Byrne, Ms N Bystriakova. Sir Adrian Cadbury, Dr Ann Caesar, Mrs M A Cag, Dr Anne Calabresi, Professor Ruth Cameron, Miss Clare Campbell, Camstead, Dr Clare Carey, Dr Nancy Carlton-Smith, Mrs J R Carne, Dr David Carter CVO, Ms E D Carter, Ms Andre Chadwick, Chadwyck-Healey Charitable Trust, the late Dr Nien-Chuang T Chang, Dr Liz Chapman, Chawton House Library, Mrs R E Chazallet, the late Mrs Mary Cheney, Professor W Cheong, Miss G Cheung, Ms Anne Chippindale, Dr J K Chothia, Dr I C H Clare, Ms P A Clark, Dr Ann Clarke, Ms Ritva-Liisa Cleary, the late Mrs Eileen Clifford, Ms M Coates, Dr Anne Cobby, Miss S Cockburn, Baroness Cohen of Pimlico, Mrs Ann Colcord, Mrs M R Coleman, Dr Jane Collier, Mrs A Collins, Community Foundation of New Jersey, Sir Jolyon Connell, the late Mrs Louisa Connor, Mrs R Constantine, Ms Audrey Cook, the late Dr Pauline Cooper, Mrs Ann Corsellis, Mrs J Cosslett, Ms E S Cotton, Mrs Beverley Cottrell,

Barrie Cottrell, Mrs P M Courtney, Ms Mary Courtney, Miss D Craig, Dr Harriet Crawford, Ms Fiona Crawley, Mr Fred Crawley, Mr Charles Crawley, Mrs Elizabeth B Cruickshank, Mrs J M Culshaw, CUP, Mr John Dabrowski, Dr S Daikou, Dr Anne Dain, Danish Friends of Dame Anne, Ms L Darby, Professor Leonore Davidoff, the late Dr Hilda Davidson, Ms Meryl Davies, Mrs Julie Davies, Lady Davies, Mrs Queenie Davies, Dr Jane Davies, Mrs S V Davis, Mrs P D Dawes, Miss Julie Dawson, Mrs H A Day, Mrs Barbara De Smith, the late Miss Monica Deacon, Mr Felix Dennis, Ms M Dezille, Mr Alan Dickinson, Dr Anne Dillon, Dr Pat Dittner, Mrs I W Dixon, Mr, James Dixon, Mr Peter Dixon, Mrs J Dobbie, the late Professor B J T Dobbs, Mrs K E Dolman, Ms C A Donaldson, Ms Fiona Dorman, Mrs A Doubleday, Ms Catherine J Dougherty, Dr S C Doyle-Morris, Queen Margrethes Dronning, Professor Sheelagh Drudy, Dr C Druilhe, Ms Susan Duerden, Mrs G M Duncan, Mrs Elaine Durham, Mrs F M Dyson. Mrs Jan Eade, Mrs F A R Edington, Mrs Sarah Edmonds, Dr Joan Edwards, Professor Heather Eggins and Professor Jack Simmons, Ms J Eliot-Webb, Dr Stephanie Ellington, Ms C Elliott Byfield, Dr S Elneil, Dr Ernestine Elster, Miss J Elston, the late Prof Dorothy Emmet, Ernest Hecht Charitable Foundation, Dr Edith Esch, Mr George Evans, the late Mrs Jessie Evans, Miss S Eward, Ms Mireille Farjon, Mrs E W Fillipich, Ms F Fletcher, Mrs M Fonceca, Ms I E Foster, Jeanne Foster, Ms Lesley Fotherby, Dr L J Foxcroft, Ms Sarah Frantz, Miss C Fraser, Friends of Lucy

Cavendish College Library, Dr Linda Fritzinger, Mrs D Gaberdiel, Miss Caroline Gaitley, Dr Olga Gandelman, Professor Margherita Ganeri, Dr A Gannon, Dr Joyce Garnier, Rev Dr J S Gay, Mrs Edith George, Ms A Giannousi, Mr John Gibbins, Mrs H M Gibson, the late Miss Phyllis M Giles, Dr D Gilgen, Ms Clare Gilmour, Mrs D Giuliani, Dr Cynthia Glassman, Dr Netta Goldsmith, Dr F Gordon, Ms V K C Graham, Mr David R Graham, Professor Gayle, Graham Yates, Mrs Anthea Grainger, Dr P R Granger, Mrs Theresa Grant Peterkin, Mrs E Gray, Mrs Susan Gray, Professor Rosa-Maria Greave, Mrs L I Green, the late Ms B Green, Mrs G I Gregory-Cullen, Miss S M Greville, Professor Margaret Grieco, Mrs F J Griffiths, Mr Loyd Grossman, Mrs Sarah Gull. H&R Block Foundation, Dr Esther Haines, Miss L Haire, Ms Sophie Hannah, Miss Judith Hanratty, Ms J Hardie, Mrs Mary Hill Harris, Dame Pauline Harris DBE, Mrs S E Harrison, Mrs Rosemary Hartley, Dr, Anne Hartree, Mr Nigel Harvie, Mrs J V M Hastie, Mrs S K Hathaway, Mrs Iola Haverstick, the late Dr Mary Hay, Mr Roger Haydock, Mrs R H Haynes, Mrs J Hazelton, the late Dr Catherine Hebb, Mrs Dorothy Heeneman, Mrs S H A Hefferon, Heffers, Dr Henriette Hendricks, Dr E Hepple, Dr Gertraud Herbert, Dr Judith Herz, Ms L Hesselman, the late Mrs Phyllis Hetzel, Ms Joanna Hewitt, Mrs G R Heyworth, Dr N Heyzer, Dr C M H Hiley, Ms Margaret Hiley, Dr Penny Hill, the late Mrs E J Hill, Miss M S Hirst, Mrs Elizabeth Hodder, Ms T Hodgett, Mrs Margot Holbrook, Miss C R Holloway, the late Lady

Honeycombe, Mrs C E Hopkins, Mrs S J Horne, Mrs Christine Houghton, Houston Crest, Professor Christine J Howe, Mrs M Howes, HSBC Cambridge, Miss Y Hu, Lady Rosemary Hughes, Mrs S I Husain, Dr Janet Huskinson, Mr Alwin Hutchinson, Mrs O J Hutton, Ms F Hutton, Lady Jocelyn Huxley, Dr Anne Ife. Isaac Newton Trust, Ms AF Jackson, Dr Susan Jackson, Baroness James of Holland Park OBE, Professor Mary James, Susan James, the late Madeline Jaques, Dr Christopher Johnson, Ms E O Johnson, the late Mrs Ellen Johnson, Miss L Johnston, Mrs E W Joly, Dr Ruth Jones, Mrs E M Jones, Mrs S M Jones, the late Miss P M E Jones, Dr Valerie Joysey, Mrs E M Jurd, Mrs H Kamon, Dr L S Kaplan, Ms Katie Karnezos, Miss L Kaye, Mrs Eleanore Keenan, Dr Kelly-York, Miss D A Kemp, Mr Guy Kennaway, Mrs Eleanor Kennett, Ms A Khan, Dr L S Khemlani, Mrs Sung-Joo Kim, Mrs F J King, Mrs S S B Kirby, Mr Bill Kirkman, Mrs Anne Kirkman, Ms J Klass, Wendy Klein, Dr Scott Kleiner, Ms Frances Knight, Dr Jenny Koenig, Mrs Susan Koenigsberg, Professor Thomas Korner, Professor K O Kupperman, Professor V La Grand, Ms S La Rotta, Mrs D E L Lamont, Ms M A Larsen, the late Dr Ilse Lasnitski-Glucksmann, Dr M P Latshaw, Laura Ashley Foundation, Mrs C Lavender, Mrs M Lavery Callaghan, Mrs C Law, Mrs Clare Lawrence, the late Dr Marie Lawrence, LCC Alumnae Association, Dr Shirley Lee, Ms Natalie Lee, Mrs Y Lee, Ms H E Lees, Ms Melanie Leggatt, Leonard Cohen Trust, Ms H Levey, Miss C Lim, Dr Ann Limb OBE DL, the late Dr EJ Lindgren-

Utsi, the late Mrs B S Lipke, Mrs Lini Lipton, Miss Elisabeth Little, Dr Alison Littlefair, the late Dr Joan Liversidge, Dr R Livesley, Miss R Loader, the late Mrs Joan Longuet-Higgins, Mrs M Lonsdale, Mrs C Lowton, Mrs Angela Lucas, Mrs Ursula Lyons. Mrs J F Macaskie, Mrs J MacDonald, Miss Anna Mace, Miss M E MacGlashan, Mrs Ellen Mackintosh, Dr Francis Macnaughton, Dr Isobel J Maddison, Ms Mandy Maddock, Mr Keith Maddocks, the late Ms Susan Maddocks, Dr Mirca Madianou, Dr R Mains, Ms Daniela Manca, Ms Paddy Mannion, Professor John Margolis, Dr Patricia Marsh, Ms H Marshall-Quinn, Mrs J Maude, Mrs S C McDonald, Ms C B McGilvray, Dr Jane McGregor, Ms H R McGregor, Professor R P J McIntosh, the late Mr Donald McIntyre, Mrs M McLellan, Ms Lorna McNeur, Dr R McQuillan, Dr J Meade, Merck & Co, Dr L C Mercy, Dr. A B Merrill, Microsoft Corporation, Ms S S C Mills, Mrs N Minshull-Beech, Mrs C Mitchell, Dr Kate Mitchell, Ms Pauline Molyneux, Miss C Molyneux, Mr Philip Moore, Dr A L Moore, Dr Clare Morgan, Miss A Morgan, Ms Mary Morman, Dr Sheila H Morris, Dr W S Morrison, Dr C Moutsou, the late Dame Anne Mueller, Ms C S Muther, Professor Anna Muthesius, Mrs H M Napier, Ms K S Naughton, Lady Newns, Miss H Niimi, Mr and Mrs G Nissen, Dr A Nureddin. Dr P A Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor, Ms Susan Offen, Dr Sarah Ogilvie, the late Dr Barbara Oldham, Ms M E Onwochei, Dr Peter Outen, Miss S L Page, the late Ms Verily Paget, Dr C A Pannell, Ms Elizabeth Parker, the late Lady Page 43

Ruth Parkes, Dr Teresa Parodi, Mrs M A Parry, Mrs J C Payne, the late Professor Carol Peirce, Mrs Caroline Pelz, Dr Margaret Penston MBE, Baroness Perry of Southwark, Mrs A Petrie, Pfizer Foundation, Dr Stephanie Pilkington, , Dr W A Pollard, Mrs S E E Poole, Ms Christina Poole Majerus, Miss J M Potter, Mrs Evelyn Povey, Mrs K L Powell, Ms Carole Price, Dr M L Prior, Mrs P L Purdy, Mrs Brenda Purkiss, Dr Drew Purves, Dr Maria Purves, Dr S G Raban, Mrs J A Rae, Dr Anita Rampling, Mrs Ann Ramsay, Mrs Anna Rankin, Dr Orsola Rath Spivack, Miss Susan Rawlings, Ray Wattles Dyslexia Trust, Ms K J Reddy, the late Miss J M V Reddy, Dr J R Reeve, Ms C B Reid, Dr Jane Renfrew, Research Centre for International Law, Dr CM Richards, Clare Richards, the late Ms Anne Richards, the late Mrs H E Richardson, Mrs A Richmond, Dr S J Ridyard, Dame Stella Rimington, Ms Anita Robboy, Mrs Valerie Roberts, Mrs D H Roberts, Ms J A Roberts, Mrs H Roberts, Mr Duncan Robertson, Mrs D A Roberts-Semple, Mrs Nicole Robinson, Miss K Robinson, Ms P O H Robinson, Ms J E Robinson, Mrs F A Rodgers-Jenkinson, the late Mrs S M Rodwell, Dr Gillian Rogers, Dr J C B Ross, Mrs A Royce, Mrs Elizabeth Rushden, Miss A M E Russell, Mrs J Rutter, Dr A J Rylands. The late Mrs J H Salingar, Dr R C Salzberger, Dr Ruth Salzburger, Mrs Z G O Sanigar, Dr Robert Sansom, Santander Universities , Ms S Santos, Mrs S H Sarginson, Saxton Brampfylde International plc, Ms S E Scarlett, Dr M S Schofield, Ms N F Scrivener, The Hon Dr Jocelynne Scutt, Ms U Shahani, Dr Liudmila Sharipova, Professor C Thurstan Shaw, Page 44

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Lucy Cavendish College also gratefully acknowledges those who have made smaller donations, pledged legacies or asked to remain anonymous.

Women in Leadership – 27 June 2012 Closing the Leadership Gap for Women boards. Women now hold 17.2 percent of directorships, up from 12.5 percent in 2010. Little has changed for the FTSE 250 companies, however, which lag behind the larger firms with only 10.9 percent female-held directorships.

Organisations that have a higher proportion of women leaders have been shown to outperform those with few women at the top. However, the leadership gap for women still persists. This was confirmed at Lucy Cavendish College’s second ‘Conversation on Women and Leadership’, held in partnership with the Cranfield University School of Management, on 27 June. The day was attended by more than 70 women leaders from business, finance, science and technology, education, philanthropy, NGO’s, social enterprise, and universities who came together to debate the issues and identify some ways to address the current situation. The event was generously sponsored by Barclays and Addleshaw Goddard LLP. In his 2011 Report, Lord Davies strongly encouraged Britain’s major corporations to set and act on targets for increasing the proportion of women on their boards. Professor Susan Vinnicombe and Dr Ruth Sealy of the International Centre for Women Leaders at Cranfield, who produce the annual Female FTSE Report, informed participants that some progress has been made for women on the FTSE 100

The leadership gap also persists on the boards of the larger charities in the UK. Norma Jarboe, author of WomenCount: Charity leaders 2012, noted that women leaders are better represented on charity boards than in those of the FTSE companies, but the leadership of large charities is still dominated by men. On public sector boards, women hold about 35 percent of the seats, a percentage that has remained stable over the past five years. Anne Watts, Chair of the Appointments Commission, observed that women have a tendency to undervalue their abilities and downplay their expertise when applying for board positions, in comparison to men. The participants were surprised to learn how little large companies seem to value the skills and talents gained through leadership experience in the public and charitable sectors, and how rarely they actively recruit women directors with this experience, despite

these sectors requiring the same set of skills as commercial organisations to ensure that they operate effectively. One purpose of the Conversation was to consider how women might help themselves and other women acquire the skills and advance into positions of leadership through developing stronger connections and relationships. A discussion led by Dr Deidre Anderson from Cranfield demonstrated how women’s careers vary by life stage, and the need for organisations to match resources to women’s changing needs. Access to stimulating assignments are essential in the early career stage, while mentoring and flexibility become increasingly important to allow women to integrate their work-lives and non-work lives. More senior women have greater latitude to ‘reinvent’ the nature of their contributions and careers, valuing opportunities to coach and develop others, as well as maintaining their own challenges. Barbara-Ann King, who is responsible for the female client focus at Barclays, summed up the thoughts of the diverse group who participated in the Conversation, “It is vital that Page 45

more women are established in positions as high profile leaders. We need leaders that reflect the differences and diversity we see in our society and different leaders will help shape and better our society in varying ways. There is a unique dynamic occurring today in that women from all backgrounds are coming together to take positive steps to impact the future influence of our gender in the world of business. Encouraging women to take leadership positions, to develop stronger networks and to be role models, is a positive message to send to future generations to encourage them

with what is possible and to strive to play their own part in leadership.” Justine Delroy, Partner at Addleshaw Goddard, reflected that “the day was a fantastic opportunity for women across a variety of sectors to share experiences, learn from one another and build their network. We were delighted to be able to support the event for a second year running as improved gender diversity is a priority within our own firm and we are strong believers in the power of collective thought and action in terms of effecting change in organisations across the UK.”

The team from the International Centre for Women Leaders at Cranfield considered that the partnership with Lucy Cavendish College on the Conversation on Women in Leadership had resulted in a productive day, because it had addressed the position of women leaders in a range of sectors, and the stages of women’s careers, “We were very pleased. It was a really interesting day and quite a unique mixed audience, just demonstrating how the issues surrounding women in leadership are important at every level and across every sector.”

Lucy Cavendish College Sport – Annual Report Lucy Cavendish/Hughes Boat Club

Lucy Cavendish Boat Club, photo by Patricia Duff

This year has been an eventful one for the Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club, who row with the women of Hughes Hall Boat Club. Our squad of rowers was very much depleted following the end of the 2010-2011 academic year, of particular note was the loss of two of our former University rowers Cath Blake and Marta Costa. With only five returning women rowers between the two Colleges, the Boat Club launched a very proactive, and ultimately successful, recruitment campaign. Between Page 46

the two Colleges, over twenty novice women were taught to row by dedicated LucyHughes Committee members in Michaelmas term! This allowed us to enter two women’s crews in all of the novice races. Both these crews were extremely successful. In particular, our women’s first boat beat crews from Clare Hall, Magdalene, Clare and Emmanuel to win the first novice race of the year, ‘Emma Sprints Regatta’. They also won the annual costume competition for their fairy tale theme: Snow White, Seven Dwarfs and the Coxing Apple! Michaelmas term ended as it begun for the Lucy-Hughes novices – on a high – as they placed 8th out of 57 crews competing in the novice Fairbairns Head Race, the most prestigious race on the Cam in Michaelmas. After Christmas, all eyes turned to Lent Bumps. Having won blades in the Lent Bumps 2011,

the Lucy-Hughes first boat was in a tough position; surrounded by College first boats with seven of its crew members making their debut in a first boat for Bumps! Despite the challenging circumstances, the first crew moved down only one position overall on the Bumps charts over the course of the four days. Moreover, for the second year running, the women’s second crew earned a place in Lent Bumps, following a competitive ‘Getting On Race’. This entirely novice crew went up one place overall in the Lent Bumps charts. Both crews therefore had the ‘full bumps experience’; bumping, being bumped and rowing over! The women’s first crew preparations for May Bumps suffered a serious setback when a number of Lent Term first boat rowers retired early due to course commitments, including the most experienced rower in the boat. This left a gap

at stroke which needed to be filled and called for some major crew reshuffling. Luckily, Lucy Cavendish’s Jenny Greveson and Fay Farsted, who both learned to row in Michaelmas, were gutsy and committed enough to step up to the daunting task of setting the boat’s rhythm in stern pair! The College first crew gained a foothold in the May Bumps second division in 2010 and secured that spot in 2011. This year’s crew therefore started second from bottom of that division. Unfortunately, despite the dedication of our coach Marta Costa, the excellent steering of our cox Kate Stevens and the lung-busting efforts of our crew members, we were unlucky to be bumped in the last 500m of the course on our first day by a very fast Downing crew. On our second day we dug in deep to row over without bumping or being bumped and we repeated this effort on our third day holding a Wolfson crew who were on course for May Blades at a comfortable distance for the length of the course. On the final day of Bumps we were out-muscled by a Caius crew who had already bumped six times over the four days of bumps...the seventh Bump was inevitable but we held them off to Grassy Corner and were bumped in front of The Plough. The women’s second boat was automatically allocated a slot in the fourth division of May Bumps on the basis of its performance in recent Bumps campaigns and did not have to compete in the getting-on-race. Ultimately this proved to be more of a curse than a blessing, as the crew found itself nestled amongst some excellent boats in a similar position at the top of the division rather than amongst the less consistent (slower!) boats at the bottom of

the division! The second crew therefore breathed a collective sigh of relief on the last day of Bumps when they avoided being bumped and getting ‘spoons’; an honour saved for crews who are bumped on four consecutive days. While the results on the water this year were perhaps less consistent than in previous years, consistency being a challenge faced by clubs like ours with a high turnover of rowers, the women’s rowing squad lacked no consistency when it came to enthusiasm both on and off the water. Lucy Cavendish hosted its second annual Michaelmas dinner at Warburton Hall in November which was once again attended by over 70 rowers as well as President Janet Todd, Hughes Hall President Sarah Squire and former Lucy Cavendish President and Boat Club fairy godmother, Dame Veronica Sutherland. Fortnightly pub meets were always wellattended as was the annual Boat Club carol service, the Hughes Hall Boat Club dinner, erg christenings and the many house parties. Therefore, while we may not have ended the year exactly where we wanted as a Club – in the middle of the Mays Second Division – all our rowers enjoyed the journey. And, contrary to popular belief, most first boat finalists graduated with firsts, proving that it is possible to cultivate a rowing obsession while keeping on top of coursework! As an outgoing Committee member and rower, I am really delighted to hand over the reins to an enthusiastic and capable Lucy Cavendish trio for 20122013. Kate Stevens will take over as President, Erin Townsend as Lucy Cavendish Captain and Jane Dominey as Lucy Cavendish

Treasurer. Finally, some thanks are in order to the Lucy SU which continues to generously contribute towards the Club’s running costs. Very warm thanks are also given to the current member of College staff who anonymously donated towards our ‘boat savings’ for the College’s first IV!

Photo by Patricia Duff

Lucy Cavendish Students participating in University-level sport. Lucy Cavendish student Ariane Hanssum has been playing for the last three years with the first women volleyball blues team in Cambridge. In her first year she was awarded a half blue. In addition Ariane has been playing for the local Cambridge Club (CVC) for the last two years at National League Level. She also took over the role as Club Secretary for the CVC and became the first Higher Education Volleyball Officer for Cambridge University in 2011. The Club received a £650 grant for Ariane’s position, and tasked her with making Volleyball more approachable and fun for beginners. Ariane was able to use the grant to organise and coach a couple of beginners’ sessions, and also a one-day indoor tournament. Ariane has also been responsible for monitoring player levels and reporting everything back to Volleyball England, and has found it very rewarding and fulfilling to work with newcomers to Volleyball. Page 47

Ultimate Frisbee Report Lily Huang Captain of the University Women’s Team and member of the GB Team The Cambridge University Women’s Ultimate Frisbee team won the University Women’s Indoor Regionals (held in Oxford) to qualify for the University Women’s Indoor Nationals. At the University Women’s Outdoor Nationals, the team was placed 8th overall, only losing to the eventual champions in the quarter finals, and winning all other games by a margin of at least 8. It was the first year that we have had twice weekly dedicated women’s practices-indoors and astroturf sessions on Thursday and Friday--in addition to the mixed gender practices on

Tuesday and Sunday. Over the summer, we also ran a womenonly skills session on Wednesday evenings. The extra practice paid off, as many of the University players then tried out for and made the Cambridge/Oxford club ultimate team that competed in UK Ultimate Nationals, placed 6th overall.

The team is called ‘Strange Blue’ and girls who are interested in joining the team can come to any of the Sunday practices or check out the college league teams.

and her Tragedy paper another 24 hours later. At the time she sat her exams, she was heavily dosed up on painkillers, following complications as a result of a postbirth infection and unsure of her baby’s ultimate health, all of which makes her achievement all the more remarkable. Isobel describes how: “Having been unable to revise for about a week before the exam, while I was in hospital being induced, it was difficult to feel confident; a feeling that was only reinforced when, clothed in just a dressing gown and slippers (with catheter still attached!) I met the Senior Tutor dressed in her University gown, outside my Ward to take me to the examination room. I just had to trust in the fact that I had been taught exceptionally well and that I knew enough”. “I was so delighted with my result, a feeling only eclipsed by my joy at the birth of my beautiful daughter who happily is now in full health. Lucy Cavendish College gave

me a huge amount of support in enabling me to sit my exams at Addenbrookes, and throughout the course, and I hope that this first-of-a-kind exam set-up will be easier to replicate for future women who find themselves in a similar situation – although I certainly wouldn’t recommend it!” Stephanie Ellington, Senior Tutor at Lucy Cavendish College, comments: “What Isobel has achieved is a phenomenal result; to gain a First Class Honours on such a tough course, under such remarkable circumstances is truly worthy of applause and a sign of just how far Isobel is likely to go in the future. It has been a recordbreaking year for the College in terms of the number of FirstClass degrees obtained by our students, and Isobel is typical of the remarkable women who come to this College and achieve such fantastic things”. Isobel is already planning her next steps, which will include a meeting with the Literary Manager of the

No previous experience is necessary! Please see the website for my details http://www.strangeblue.org/

Student News Isobel Cohen

Isobel Cohen with her daughter Beatrice

Isobel was the subject of mass media coverage after she gained a First-Class Honours degree despite having to sit her exams in the Addenbrookes Hospital just 28 hours after giving birth to her daughter Beatrice, who lay in the pre-natal clinic at the time, having initially been diagnosed with a digestive tract disorder. Isobel, a final year English student at Lucy Cavendish College, sat her Practical Criticism Paper in the hospital just 28 hours after birth, Page 48

Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) following her victory in Churchill College’s ‘The Other Prize’ for an original, unperformed play of any length. She will meet with the RSC to discuss a production of her play by the Marlowe Society. Following that she will be participating in an Edinburgh Schools Drama Project, and also hopes to help her husband through his Musical Composition PhD, and will try to spare some time for Beatrice in between!

The story was picked up by many local, national and international newspapers, television channels and radio stations and was clearly seen as a standout achievement amongst the huge number of remarkable Cambridge University degree stories that come out at this time of the year. Isobel describes the phenomenon of becoming a media darling for 24 hours as follows: “I’m a bit startled by all the fuss over the story. I think those who

get through a degree with small children, or have a child half-way through their degree are much more remarkable. I only had to hurtle over a finish line, and I’ve since been able to spend all my time with my daughter. But if it helps raise the profile of Lucy Cavendish, and draw attention to some of the other women changing their lives to come to university, and changing their lives while they’re at university, then it is worthwhile.”

conference in Crete. The conference was called 1st International Conference on ImmunoMetabolism: Molecular and Cellular Immunology of

Metabolism. Crystal presented her research on the link between obesity, inflammation and metabolic complications.

countries, and provide funding for advanced graduate study at top universities abroad. The long-term goal of the Faculty for the Future programme is to generate conditions that result in more young women pursuing scientific disciplines. Grant recipients are therefore selected as much for their leadership capabilities as their scientific talents and they are expected to return to their home countries to

continue their academic careers and inspire other young women.

Crystal Mok Crystal was awarded a college travel grant last October which allowed her to present her work in the form of a talk at an international

Maryam Masood PhD student at the Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering, Maryam Masood received a Fellowship from the Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future programme. The Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future fellowships are awarded to women academics in science and engineering from developing and emerging

Maryam is working in the field of waste management under the supervision of Dr Claire Barlow as part of the Sustainable Manufacturing group. Her research focus is on improving waste management in developing countries by introducing integrated waste management systems.

Carol Atack There were congratulations for PhD student Carol Atack who won the Classics Faculty’s Prendergast Studentship for studies or research into ancient Greece for her PhD research into monarchy in classical Greek political thought. The Studentship is awarded to exceptional candidates

who are expected to devote themselves entirely to study or research in the Greek language, literature, history, philosophy, archaeology or art. Carol also presented a paper at the Classical Association annual conference in April on ‘The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Athens’, with College funding and support.

Carol Atack

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Emma Stirling In July 2011 English student Emma Stirling won the Florence Staniforth Creative Writing Prize for the first act of her play ‘The Music Box’, and in March of this year, the full play was performed at the Corpus Playroom, and received very positive reviews.

The Music Box

The Music Box was an ingenious piece of devised theatre that took its audiences on a journey through guilt, absence and reconciliation, and featured live music from Rhodri Karim and original artwork by Anna Moser, to successfully merge poetry, dance and post-dramatic theatre.

University newspaper Varsity described how ‘a large part of what makes The Music Box so wonderfully unnerving is the uneasy relationship established between imagination and reality. Where does one end and the other begin? The questions tease the audience throughout their excursion into the world of The Music Box, a mark of the excellent writing and production that distinguish this play. You cannot help but be immersed in this world, trapped inside this sinister room, forced to watch as events spiral into an increasingly dangerous place.’

Natalie Roberts Natalie completed a PhD studying the link between global deep and surface ocean circulation using isotopes in ocean sediments to reconstruct

the direction of current flow and speed. She has started a Research Fellowship at St John’s College

and works in the Department of Earth Sciences on research in Climate Change and EarthOcean-Atmosphere Systems.

Helena Rubinstein I presented some initial findings from my on-going research on the meanings of menopause at the 22nd Annual Conference of the British Menopause Society on 6th July 2012 in Winchester. The presentation entitled: Higher Levels of cognitive inflexibility relates to Higher Levels of Symptom Reporting at Menopause was well received and won first prize for the best communication at conference. The research indicated that women who score highly on measures of psychological inflexibility and find it hard to accept new situations or take appropriate action are more likely to report higher levels of physical and psychological Page 50

symptoms associated with menopause. The implication for this is that there could be a role for cognitive behavioural therapy or mindfulness training to help some women cope better with these problems. The book ‘The 7 Myths of Middle Age: Implications for Marketing & Brands’ by Crispin Reed and Helena Rubinstein was launched earlier in the year. The book draws on a wealth of academic research to investigate how and why older people are misrepresented in the media and advertising. I also appeared on Women’s Hour on 25th April 2012 discussing the poor representation of older women

in advertising and marketing. In addition, I will be stepping in for Professor Hines at Churchill College while she goes on sabbatical leave, as temporary Director of Studies in Psychology.

Marianne Gokalp The year spent at Lucy Cavendish, completing my Master’s degree in an Erasmus exchange from October 2011 to June 2012, was wonderful and helped me embark on my academic year in Paris in October 2012 in a serene state of mind. And serenity was a precious thing to carry in one’s rucksack: I studied for nine months at the École Normale Supérieure and La Sorbonne Nouvelle for a highly competitive post-master examination, the “agrégation

d’anglais”. The happy few who succeed (around 6%) can then teach English in high school and undergraduate programmes. I am happy to say my efforts were not in vain: next September, I will be teaching the language I enjoyed learning, hoping I will learn to make my students enjoy it too! My warm thoughts go to my DoS, Isobel Maddison, and my supervisors, Dr. Lindsay, Dr. Hrebeniak and Dr. Clifford, whose teaching has contributed to my success in France. Merci!

judged by Lucy Cavendish Fellow Jenny Koenig, keynote speeches, discussion forums and quiz competitions. The theme for the essay competition was ‘Science Education in Sierra Leone, current limitations and

future development’ with the individual and overall school winners receiving money prizes, donated by Professor Mark Carrington from the Department of Biochemistry.

at the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia. This unit is famous for hosting the original criminal profilers, and developing the profiles for murder, rape, and arson that are currently used across the world. I plan to return to work with the FBI, to determine how my profiles can be improved, and perhaps utilised in investigations by American law enforcement agencies. The results of my chapter in which I create the profiles for burglary were recently accepted for publication

in Criminal Justice and Behavior, and will be available to the public shortly.

and particularly on reconciling fundamental rights within it.

competition law and human rights law, she also managed to be captain of the Lucy Cavendish Boat Club.

Bridget Chukualim PhD student Bridget Bannerman-Chukualim organised the first ever Science Education Workshop in Sierra Leone on 24 – 26 April. The two-day workshop included a science essay competition

Bryanna Hahn I am in the final year of my PhD research, in which I study criminal profiling of burglars in the United States. To create the profiles, I use several statistical methods such as Latent Class Analysis, and I am currently running a scientific experiment to test the accuracy and utility of the profiles in an American police department. In order to further my research and learn from those who created the practice of criminal profiling, I spent the Easter term

Orla Lynskey Orla will start a Lectureship in Law at the LSE in September. Her PhD research focuses on European data protection law,

As well as teaching and publishing on EU law,

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Student Union Report Olivia Hasseldine, Student Union President

The Student Union is an elected group of students whose responsibility it is to ensure all students have a great time whilst at Lucy Cavendish! The new committee was elected during Lent Term 2012 and we’ve been busy ever since

looking into the important issues affecting Lucy Cavendish students. Some major issues we’ve been involved in range from changing the SU constitution (it was a little out-dated!), to changing the accommodation regulations, so that from this academic year postgraduates on nine month Master courses will be allowed to live on-site with undergraduate students, to improving environmental / green aspects of College life. In addition, last term the SU applied to College to install a condom machine in the female toilets to better improve the sexual health of our students. On a more social note the SU highlight was the ‘1001

Arabian Nights’ June event, a truly fantastic evening (more information following)! The SU has also arranged numerous ‘bops’ in the College bar throughout the year which have gone tremendously well. We also requested for two Formal Halls to be held on a Friday. As you can see in the previous pages, the students themselves have excelled in a vast range of areas this year, from academic distinctions, to sporting success, to wonderful theatre performances; and we look forward to another exciting year for everyone at Lucy Cavendish. To find out more about the SU and how to get involved go to www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/ people/student-union.

and massage booths and much more. Warburton Hall was totally transformed with exquisite Arabian decor and lighting, while guests were welcomed with a champagne reception, and the Lucy Cavendish chefs must be lauded for the excellent Arabian-themed food served on the day. Overall, the dancing carried on till 3am and it turned

out to be a fabulous event, and we’re looking for an even bigger event next year! Many thanks to Christine Houghton and her team for all her support and my fellow organisers: Aman Atak, Jessie Humphreys and Shelly Gathigia for all their hard work (and those 3am brainstorming sessions!)

June Event

Disha Dewan Lucy Cavendish College hosted a very successful Arabianthemed June Event this year. The highlights of the evening included World Pole Dancing champion Elena Gibson who performed her classic ‘Arabian Queen’ routine, and other entertainment comprised a sheesha lounge, belly dancing acts, DJ, fire juggling, henna Page 52

Lifting the Veil: Iran Past and Present at Lucy Cavendish College Florence Hazrat It all began with Bahman Ghobadi’s film ‘No One Knows About Persian Cats’ shown by the Cambridge Persian Society in January. The semi-documentary tracks the dangerous circumstances in which forbidden yet flourishing Tehran underground music exists. Rappers, heavy metal singers and indie-rock bands struggle to record and perform under repressive laws which comprise flogging and imprisonment for supposed western music. My father is Iranian and it is ten years ago since I was last in Tehran. I was instantly captured by the music – uniquely Persian but in modern styles – and researched the musicians some of whom now live in London subsequent to regime pressure after the film’s 2009 release. I contacted the musicians who were happy to play at Lucy Cavendish and, together with the Student Union’s former International Officer Christina Eichstaedt and Ents Officer Aman Atak, a continually growing ‘Iran Event’ developed. With the help of many people from the College and university, we spread the word about the event to newspapers, community centres, student groups and social media sites. It was a long and arduous process but eventually worthwhile: our early ambition was to bring town and gown together when ‘lifting the veil’ on the secret face of Iran behind political headlines. It was more than fulfilled considering the variety of nationalities, ages and backgrounds of the 150 attendants on April 30. The day started with

‘Ferdowsie meets Rap Farsi’ as the Cambridge scholar Dr Christine van Ruymbeke gave a talk on classical Persian poetry followed by a question and answer session with two modern Persian poets, Tehran-born but London-based rappers Hichkas (meaning ‘nobody’) and Reveal, and archeologist Roya Arab on the impact of war on heritage. The college kitchen prepared a delicious Persian-themed supper after which Cambridge PhD candidate Christos Tsirogiannis presented ancient Persia as scene of a crime, talking about fascinating cases of stolen archeological artifacts from Iran. The theme of Iran Past and Present also determined the second part of the evening in the dining hall where Cambridge A-level student Dara Anoushiravani played the santoor, a traditional yet popular instrument that also features in Hichkas’s and Reveal’s music. The rappers then performed with Roya Arab who sang and played the piano. This combination of voices and instruments perfectly fitted the intelligent songs full of the beauty but also sadness of Iran’s situation today. After a short break, the event ended with the Persian DJs: Take It Easy Hospital in

the conservatory who provided a worthy background for the last Lucy Cavendish bop before Mayweek. Iran Past and Present was an incredible experience for us as organizers and a great opportunity to learn about an unknown side of Iran. It would not have been possible without the advice and generous support of the college, the Student Union, the Lucy Cavendish Law Society, the Cambridge Newton Trust and the Ancient India and Iran Trust. The positive feedback from the audience was worth the hard work from everyone and the memory will surely stay with many for long. Cambridge, at least, knows about Persian Cats now!

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Alumnae News Report by the President of the Alumnae Association – Kelly Smith recipients of this year’s prize. Congratulations to you both.

This year, the members of the Alumnae Association have once again given their time voluntarily to work with the College Fellows to make new connections with existing students and reconnect with alumnae across the world. We are delighted to announce that a new annual Research and Travel Grant is to be funded by the Alumnae Association, to assist existing members of college with the cost of important research trips during their studies. Our annual Alumnae Association Prize was awarded to Kassi Chalk and Charlotte Quinney for their Contribution to the Arts, and I was personally thrilled to see two of my first year creative writing students become the

Our Alumnae Weekend in September 2012 was a great success with alumnae returning to Lucy from as far as Australia, to enjoy a moving Reunion Dinner. I would like to thank Caroline Sier for her inspired idea and for co-ordinating fivedecade’s worth of invitations and bookings during a very busy time in the Development Office, and Janette for all her hard work liaising with our guests and helping with my numerous requests and questions, and especially to Ingrid Dixon and Angela Morecroft who gave two days of their time prior to the event to help me create the gifts, shop for decorations and ensure that every detail was perfect on the night. Even my seven-month old little boy helped on the day by behaving beautifully, as we wrapped chocolates, set tables and ran around the shops! Ingrid and Angela have volunteered their time for two years as Secretary and Treasurer and have shown great commitment, patience

and dedication to both the committee and the college. We have become great friends during that time, and I will miss them both in their roles, but look forward to our informal meetings in Patisserie Valerie continuing for many years to come! Tess Shiels and Julie McDonald have been elected as the new Treasurer and Secretary, and I am so grateful to them for volunteering alongside their very busy careers. I am lucky to work with an amazing group of women on our committee, and I would like to thank each of you for all the work you’ve put in this academic year. Ours is more than the average committee, and we would love to hear from other local alumnae who would like to join us once a term. We will be establishing a working group of alumnae with a wide range of expertise for upcoming events and special occasions, so if you’d like to know more, please get in touch. Best wishes to all of our college fellows, current students and alumnae for the exciting year ahead.

Kelly Smith

Alumnae Weekend 2012 This year, we held a very special Reunion Dinner in Warburton Hall for those alumnae who were celebrating the anniversary of their matriculation in 1972, 1982, 1992 and 2002. The Alumnae Association Committee worked incredibly hard to create a night for everyone to celebrate all that Lucy Cavendish means to those who have studied here, the friendships that were forged Page 54

for a lifetime, the strength of the women they lived and studied with. Handwritten memories were collected on postcards during dinner to form a collection that we hope will grow over the years. Alumnae enjoyed pre-dinner drinks in the specially created candlelit piano bar, and enjoyed versions of the hits from the various anniversary years, played by musician Owen

Chambers, before indulging in a truly delicious three-course dinner downstairs.

On Saturday 22nd September the College hosted a concert for all University alumni by Gülsin Onay, Member of the Lucy Cavendish Combination Room. Originally from Turkey, Gülsin Onay is a world renowned concert pianist whose career has spanned over 68 countries across all continents, from Venezuela to Japan. She has given recitals in the major musical centres of the world such as the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, and the Salle Gaveau in Paris. Gülsin has recorded 20 albums that illustrate the breadth of

The atmosphere was incredible, with specially selected memorabilia and photographs taken from the College archives and alumnae’s personal collections, along with a dazzling display of the Lucy Cavendish Silver. We were delighted to welcome Dame Anne Warburton who was President during the 1992 cohort’s time at the College, and we know her attendance made the evening for everyone there.

her repertoire as well as her interpretive power. Many of Gülsin Onay’s concerts have been broadcast on European radio and television, and in the USA on National Public Radio. At the Lucy Cavendish Concert Gülsin played pieces by Chopin, Beethoven, Haydn and Turkish composer Ahmed Adnan Saygun. The concert was followed by a Turkish Buffet

It truly was a night to remember, and marks the beginning of a new and important tradition for our Alumnae.

in her honour. The reception rooms were decorated with beautiful lamps, throws and cushions where our alumnae enjoyed a range of Turkish dishes created by our very our chefs. We loved seeing all of you, and look forward to welcoming back even more alumnae as all the ‘3’s celebrate their anniversaries in 2013.

Kelly Smith, Angela Morecroft and Ingrid Dixon

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Alumnae Association All those who graduate from Lucy Cavendish are automatically made members of the Alumnae Association. The Alumnae Association Committee works to promote links between the alumnae and currents members of the College. The Committee meets once a term. The Alumnae Association Annual General Meeting is held in September to coincide with the University’s Alumni weekend. Current Members of the Alumnae Association Committee: President:

Ms Kelly Smith (2002)

Treasurer:

Ms Tess Shiels (2002)

Secretary:

Ms Julie McDonald (2002)

Recorder:

Ms Alison Vinnicombe

Patmalar Ambikapathy Thuraisingham (1989) Patmalar continues with her legal research and law reform activities, to discredit jurisprudence supporting physical punishment of children. Research at Lincoln’s Inn

unearthed an original book by Matthew Hale (a Bencher there in the 1600’s), where it was stated that the common law allowed for the physical punishment of women, children

servants and apprentices. Such physical punishment is now assault for all except children, so she questions this rationale in the law.

to train as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and then as a Psychoanalyst. I have been a clinician for two decades with a practice in London. Although I have relinquished ongoing clinical work I remain involved in training and organisational matters and I chair the Council of a Psychotherapy Organisation.

Retirement with time for creative activities singing, painting, Tai Chi, living in France beckons, as well as more time for children and grandchildren. One of my children who lives in Cambridge may well turn to Lucy Cavendish for the next development in her career; I know my late-blooming career owes a lot to the College.

Wendy Cartwright (1984) It is now 25 years since graduation. Now 64, I am working towards what my profession calls ‘professional endings’. I read Social and Political Science, and initially worked as a Research Psychologist at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Cambridge). That enabled me

Attreyee Roy Chowdhury (1995)

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Attreyee has launched a new e-commerce venture – www. luxurionworld.com which is India’s online luxury shopping destination Attreyee Roy Chowdhury has also pursued a Masters degree (MSC) in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics. Previously, Attreyee worked as Vice President (Communications) at Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art Pvt. Ltd., India’s premier

auction house based in Mumbai. Amongst her other professional assignments, she was a Joint Director at the World Trade Centre (WTC), Mumbai as well as the Publications In-charge at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), Embassy of France in New Delhi (India). Her professional experience also comprises of an internship on ‘Women and Culture of Peace’ at UNESCO Paris and two previous stints in Singapore.

Lisa Cooke (1984) Lisa has been working on the historically and scientifically important Corsi Collection of Decorative Stones (1,000 uniform ‘polished’ specimens formed in Rome) for some years and translated 1825 Catalogo and wrote the commentary. This, a lot of work by Monica Price and others, and a generous grant from the Esme

Fairbairn Foundation later, has finally been put on-line www. oum.ox.ac.uk/corsi . Lisa also wrote, delivered orally and had published 9 papers inspired by Corsi.

might like to look at Lorraine Cavanagh’s Making Sense of God’s Love: Atonement and Redemption (SPCK). Lorraine, who read Theology (Tripos and then a PhD) at Lucy Cavendish, addresses some of the difficult questions which many thinking people, who are not necessarily theologians, are asking. Are human beings inherently bad? What is the meaning and significance of the Cross today? Do we have to earn redemption? Her new book, Finding God in Other Christians (SPCK), also written for a broad readership, makes a compassionate case for reconciliation between Christians of different churchmanships or denominations. She explores areas such as ‘radical

hospitality’, ‘loving the same God’ and ‘dealing with difference’. Both books have been well reviewed and are available on Amazon.

I am now a Senior Research Associate of the Institute of Governance and Policy Studies, in Victoria University of Wellington. I am involved in research contracts with the Human Rights Commission and Age Concern New Zealand and my main project for this year is entitled

“Earthquake preparedness in an Ageing Society” This has been commissioned by the New Zealand Earthquake Commission and looks at what we can learn from the impacts of the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes on older people.

John, her husband for 53 years and greatest encouragement and support, sadly died unexpectedly on 25 April 2011.

Lorraine Cavanagh (1994)

Those who are put off Christianity by the way the doctrines of atonement and redemption are often presented,

Judith Davey (1967)

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Ginny Davis (1984) Ginny Davis (formerly Sperryn) continues to write and perform comedic one-woman plays to rave reviews: “Imagine TVs Outnumbered with a hint of Ab Fab.” Stratford upon Avon Herald. Proud of her Lucy Cavendish experience, she also enjoys giving entertaining, motivational talks about career change and fulfilment, illustrated with scenes from a play. Ginny tours her four current plays to venues throughout the UK and loves the variety of spaces she visits which vary from private houses to theatres,

schools and village halls. Audiences vary too; in May 2012 she performed in a Brighton pub theatre. The audience included a dog that slept throughout while in November 2011 she was invited to perform an afterdinner entertainment in Inner Temple Hall to an audience which included the Princess Royal, several Cabinet members and the actor Timothy West. Fortunately they all stayed awake. Ginny’s progress can be followed on her website: www. ginnydavis.com and blog http:// www.ginny-davis.blogspot.com.

Gill Heyworth (1981) As a member of the SW France Cambridge Alumni group, Gill would like to let Lucy Cavendish alumnae know that the group meets twice a year (in May & September) in the Dordogne

with a lunch and a visit to a place of interest, and the opportunity to meet up with other Cambridge Alumni. Gill is yet to meet any Lucy Cavendish Alumnae through this group, so

would encourage anyone to sign up. The group is currently trying to forge closer links with the equivalent Oxford Alumni group, to do a joined-up event.

Writing and Communication, and, a ready reckoner on Bridge – the Club Diamond Convention. I am part of the team (TEFSOL India) organising an International Conference on “Expanding Horizons of Language and Communication: Challenges and Implications” to be held in India from October 4-6, 2012 and am also a featured

speaker and will present a paper on Tertiary Education in India, with specific reference to English. Being of the conviction that it is our students who make us who we are, I am actively involved in mentoring our students in various projects that they undertake as part of their curricular calendar and beyond.

Anjana Neira Dev (1989) My liberal humanist education in India and at Cambridge laid the foundation for my career, now in its third decade, as a teacher of undergraduate and postgraduate students at Delhi University. The last year, 2011 – 2012, has been a very fulfilling one in this journey. The highlights are: a co-authored resource book on Technical

Suzanne Doyle-Morris (1999) Dr. Suzanne Doyle-Morris published her second book; Female Breadwinners: How They Make Relationships Work and Why They are the Future of the Modern Workplace over the last Page 58

year. She continues to speak to corporate audiences at Citibank, Accenture, EDF Energy and Thomson Reuters among others, about developing talented women into more senior roles,

and how organisational culture needs to change to reap the rewards of gender diversity. She continues to grow her gender diversity consultancy at www. femalebreadwinners.com.

Louise Foxcroft (1992) My third book, Calories and Corsets: A history of dieting over 2,000 years (Profile, 2012) came out in January and it’s been very busy since then with literary festivals, journalism, radio and TV, including, wildly, an interview with David Frost on Al Jazeera. The paperback comes out in January 2013, and foreign rights are selling. I am finishing the next book (current title, The Irish Pasha), also with Profile, for publication in June 2013 - a historical biography

of Edwardian Egyptologist, army surgeon, pederast, poet and psychic, Pum GayerAnderson. The research took me to Cairo and Luxor as well as the University Library. I’m also filming in France for an RTE ONE documentary, ‘The Missing Bones of WB Yeats’, and continue to be Company Secretary for Village Underground, a notfor-profit creative space in Shoreditch, East London. www.villageundeground.co.uk

Penny Granger (1998) Lucy alumna Dr Penny Granger was awarded the 2011 Beatrice White Prize for her book The N-Town Play: Drama and Liturgy in Medieval East Anglia (Boydell and Brewer). Professor Beatrice White, for whom the prize is named, was a well-loved and respected academic, interested particularly in medieval and renaissance literature. The prize is awarded annually by the English Association for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English Literature before 1590.

Penny says “I am amazed and honoured to have been awarded the prize. I did the PhD on which the book is based at UEA (and my supervisor Sarah Salih must take a lot of the credit) but it was my year at Cambridge, and support and encouragement from the Faculty and particularly from people at Lucy Cavendish, which really got the project going and made me believe that I could do it. I especially remember giving a paper at a Lucy Tuesday, persuading Pauline Blake and Liz Cruse to do readings from the play – in Middle English.

org). Attracted to its all-inclusive message, I was ordained Priest in St Magnus’ Cathedral, Kirkwall. In 2011 I moved to the Isle of Luing in Argyll and in November I was elected as the first woman Bishop of Scotland. My Consecration took place on June 7 2012 in St. Conan’s Church, Loch Awe www. stconanskirk.org.uk. I am now working on a project to help

people in Scotland who have been wounded by any form of religion.

Helen Hamilton (2003) After reading for my M Phil through the Faculty of Divinity I continued my search for ordination within a church which was totally inclusive. I became Warden of the Cathedral and College of the Holy Spirit on the Isle of Cumbrae, after which I moved to Orkney and worked as a Minister, and heard about the Open Episcopal Church (www.openepiscopalchurch.

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Janette Hill (1988) Janette Hill is the Managing Director and founder of Janette Hill & Co, a Solicitors Practice she started as a sole practitioner in February 2003. Today, Janette Hill and Co is a multi-million pound business and one of the larger employers in Hay on Wye town centre, with 13 employees. The practice has been short-

listed on many occasions for various professional awards, and has achieved the latest version of the Law Society Practice Management Standard, Lexcel 5.0. After successfully running the business for so long, Janette is now looking to “live her dream”

and retire within the next year or so to indulge her passions in life; her two boxer dogs, and photography – a hobby that she is already beginning to be recognised as excelling in, which she combines with a love of travel and wildlife to produce extraordinary pictures.

Valeria de Paiva (1984) I gave a talk at the Infinite Possibilities Conference, entitled ``Edwardian Proofs for Futuristic Programs” where, besides the required description of my career path so far, I also talked about the birth of Mathematical Logic in the early years on the 20th century and how Proof Theory, one of the main strands of Mathematical Logic got a big impulse via the advent of Computing for all, through the (still today!) poorly recognized Curry-Howard Isomorphism and its more mathematical incarnations.

is important because AfricanAmerican, Hispanic/Latina, and American Indian women have been historically underrepresented in mathematics. In 2002, less than 1% of the doctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences were awarded to American women from underrepresented minority groups. Even professionals who have succeeded in completing advanced degree programs in science and engineering fields can face inequities within their professional lives with respect to advancement and salaries.

The Infinite Possibilities Conference (IPC) is a US conference that is designed to promote, educate, encourage and support minority women interested in mathematics and statistics. The conference

In 2012 IPC was called “Building Diversity in Science and Mathematics”, it happened 30-31st March at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD and I had the honour of being one

of the two keynote speakers. Many of the mathematicians I met there seemed to be working with mathematical Biology; I was the only speaker talking from a Computer Science, programming languages perspective.

Soma Sengupta (2002) I am currently in my second year of my neuro-oncology Fellowship at the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute and Mass General Hospital. During the end of my neurology residency, I was awarded an NIH R25 award, which enabled me to study Page 60

a subtype of GABA receptor in a paediatric brain tumor called medulloblastoma, in the laboratories of Dr. F. Jensen (Chair of neurology University of Pennsylvania) and Dr. S. Pomeroy (Chair of Pediatric Neurology, Boston Children’s

Hospital). We are due to publish findings from this work. When I finish my clinical year in July 2013, I will be working as a consultant (attending) of neuro-oncology with research responsibilities at BIDMC, Harvard.

Lizzie Speller (1992) I’ve just ended my last term as Royal Literary Fund fellow at the University of Warwick. I’ve had three very happy, interesting years mostly working with students in the Humanities but also marking essays for the MSc in Business Studies (not a situation anyone would have predicted when I failed O level Maths over 40 years ago) and giving talks to postgraduates in Creative Writing.

My year became unexpectedly busy after my first novel was chosen as Orange book of the month and then as a ‘Richard and Judy pick’. The latter was an extraordinary experience in many ways. My foreign rights were sold to eight countries and a television option to ITV.

support system which addresses the wellbeing and educational needs of Higher Education students.

Clinical Psychology course at King’s College London. During the last decade, she has worked in HE institutions and various health services both in UK and Greece with different clinical groups and she has carried out a number of research projects in different areas. She has already established her own clinical practice in Athens and Rhodes.

However, I’m currently finishing my third novel and life is calmer. I hope to return to writing poetry this year and complete my book on burial places in the English imagination.

Patapia Tzotzoli (2004) Patapia Tzotzoli is the founder of a start-up company, called iConcipio Ltd (www.iconcipio. com). The company was set up last year after she won the Best Pitch Prize in the King’s College London’s Graduate Business Plan Competition. iConcipio Ltd is an e-learning support provider based on web technology solutions. It is an up-and-coming service consisting of an online

Patapia holds a BSc in Psychology (UEL), an MSc in Research Methods in Psychology (Oxford University), a MPhil in Biological Sciences (Cambridge University) and she is currently completing her Doctorate in

Katherine Steele (1993) Katherine Steele – inspired by several Life and Memoir writing courses, the fertile soil of her Normandy garden and a lifelong love of good food – is writing a cookery book. Part recipe, part food writing and part memoir, it includes many photos and should be completed next year. Page 61

Memories of Lucy Cavendish College Sally Cockburn (1972) received the official go-ahead to take in undergraduates. I was invited to lunch at the College.

Sally Cockburn, who graduated from the College in 1974 recently returned to College for the first time since graduating, in the piece below she tells us about some of the changes and a few of her earliest memories. In 1972 I had never heard of Lucy Cavendish College. I was 25 and, encouraged by a friend who had just got into Cambridge as a mature student, I decided to apply to New Hall to read English. It was a long shot and I wasn’t at all surprised when I was rejected as my teachers at St Paul’s had successfully convinced me that I was barely university material, let alone Oxbridge. However, my application was passed to Lucy Cavendish College who had just

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My first impressions were not favourable. In those days it did not look like a proper college at all and consisted of two rather dark and gloomy Edwardian houses. Lunch was served in a room that reminded me of my great aunts’ houses, smelling of polish and mothballs. The members of college with whom I had lunch seemed rather old and Edwardian too and the academic atmosphere in the dining room was formal and quite daunting to a young person. In their august company I felt frivolous and inarticulate, a fish out of water. I was teaching rowdy children in a junior school in the Holloway Road at the time and I think I would have very foolishly opted out if it hadn’t been for Natasha Squire. Her warmth, her glamorous Parisian appearance and exotic background made me feel welcome and less uncertain about my suitability. Only later did I realise just how valiant and heroic these early college members had been in working so hard, against the odds, to enable someone like me to be given a second chance. Recently I returned to Lucy Cavendish to have lunch with Natasha. I hadn’t been there for 30 years. What a shock! An amazing metamorphosis had taken place and here was

a proper Cambridge college with an elegant dining hall and an impressive library. The atmosphere was lively and vibrant, the architecture modern and stylish. It seemed strange and exciting to see so many students; when I joined the college 40 years ago there were four of us who were undergraduates! I was surprised to see the four of us in a large photo on the wall and wished I had not been captured for posterity in my clumsy platform shoes. On the opposite wall I read the inspiring stories of current students and felt proud to have been one of the first undergraduates at Lucy Cavendish, which had previously been a graduate college.

Barbara Wittman (1975) Madingley Road.

Returning to Lucy Cavendish College as a Visiting Scholar on six-month sabbatical leave from teaching at University of Akron (Ohio),(January to July, 2012) the expansion of the physical plant of the college, including the construction of the library, porter’s lodge, music conservatory, living quarters, the dining hall and the magnificent gardens, –in comparison to our original college facilities, -all built in the past fifteen years to accommodate an increased student population exceeded all of my expectations. We are blessed by the centrality of the college to the University Library, the backs, other colleges and faculties, the town centre and nearby teaching departments such as the Veterinary school, and the mathematics and astronomy departments on

Since my student days at Cambridge in the 1970s, I have followed the college’s progress with interest as it has continued to evolve into a high profile learning institution for women coming up to the University. My purpose in returning to Lucy Cavendish - in addition to research - was to understand something of the College’s vision for the future, and as important, how I could best support the work of the college in the longterm. During my stay at Lucy Cavendish, thankfully through a very mild winter, it became all too apparent that the core values established by the early founders including support for women from non-traditional backgrounds as a college priority remain strong and intact. A dynamic leadership, posited in the College’s Governing Body continues to move the College forward, supplying the advice, encouragement and resources needed as Lucy Cavendish forges relationships with other Cambridge colleges and faculties and expands its facilities, including the College library, to accommodate a growing undergraduate population and more postgraduates engaged in important research and teaching projects. Of particular interest to me this past Spring were the spectacular College gardens, surely a treasure worthy of long term cultivation and preservation.

I have always believed that a leader is only as good as the people around her or him. Thus, projects begun by our forwardthinking Garden Steward, Jane Renfrew, including the recent additions of climbing roses and clematis on the walls fronting the library and plans for a pond near the library serve as a permanent reminder of Jane’s expertise, her resourcefulness and commitment to the gardens are qualities highly valued by her friends in the College and University community. The gardens could not go forward without the oversight and leadership of Vince Lucas and the College Garden Committee that together are committed to the development and implementation of long term strategies designed to conserve and protect the gardens. Lastly, it is clear that the college has set a direction for itself and is organized around a purpose. Not to be forgotten in the final analysis of what has been a transforming experience are those dedicated persons responsible for the flawless operation and implementation of the College’s core values and many moving parts, - the Governing Body and President Janet Todd, administrators, managers, the Bursary team and the all-star Porters, all supportive and gracious, an honour to know and fun to be with, I am indebted to you for your friendship.

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Lucy Cavendish PhD student Karen Kupperman (1973) and her research featured in a New York Times article (3.5.2012) England’s first attempt to colonize in North America was at Roanoke, an island within the North Carolina Outer Banks, in the 1580s. Sir Walter Raleigh, the colony’s sponsor, sent an all-male party in 1585. Although these abandoned the colony the next year, Raleigh had included a young scientist, Thomas Harriot, and a gentleman painter, John White, who were tasked with recording a full natural history of America. These two created an incomparable record; White’s paintings are now in the British Museum. In 1587 Raleigh sent a new colony of families with the intention of creating a genuine settlement. The intervention of the Spanish Armada and preparations for countering it meant that Roanoke was not contacted until 1590; three years after the families were left there. The 1590 expedition, led by John White, found that the colonists, including his daughter and granddaughter, the first English child born in America, had left the island. White was not alarmed because he knew they had intended to move inland to a more promising location, but efforts to find them have failed ever since. Thus there was great excitement at the beginning of May 2012 when the British Museum revealed that White’s map of the Outer Banks and Roanoke had a patch on it covering a fort on the adjacent mainland. This find is intriguing, but raises many more questions. Was the fort ever built and what was its purpose? Was it meant to house soldiers who would protect the peaceful farmers inland from Page 64

Spanish attack? Why and when was it covered up? Archaeology done in the last few decades has allowed us to read the early records with far greater understanding and, with the guidance of this find, new digs will surely illuminate some of the issues surrounding the famous Lost Colonists of Roanoke. Roanoke figured heavily in my doctoral research as a student at Lucy Cavendish, which focused on the way English venturers and analysts interpreted and wrote about the American Indians. Although the colony failed, it formed the template for later ventures and Harriot’s

John White’s map of the Outer Banks

Brief and True Report, published in 1588 and then with engravings made from White’s paintings by the Frankfort publisher Theodor DeBry in 1590, influenced all later descriptions of the Americans. White and Harriot presented the Indians as civil people living settled and productive lives centered on their religious beliefs and led by impressive chiefs. Karen Ordahl Kupperman, PhD Cantab 1978, is Silver Professor of History at New York University. Her books, Roanoke: the Abandoned Colony, 2nd ed., and The Jamestown Project were published in 2007.

Hong Kong Tea Party – 17th May 2012 Retiring Fellow Dr Jane Renfrew travelled out to Hong Kong for the 5th International Contemporary Art Fair directed by her youngest son, Magnus. While there, as an attempt to reach out to our Alumnae in the East, the College organized a Tea Party for Alumnae which took place at the Hyatt Hotel in Hong Kong centre. The Tea Party was a great opportunity for alumnae to catch up with each other, and old friendships were renewed. It was particularly delightful to see the happy reunion of Julianne Doe and Margaret Yang who had played duets together in the past and had lost touch with each other. The guests were joined by Ms Su-Mei Thompson of the Women’s Foundation in Hong Kong who are hoping to sponsor students at Lucy Cavendish.

It was great to have such good attendance, and to ensure our more distant Alumnae still feel a part of Lucy Cavendish, even if they cannot pop in for Formal Hall, as we encourage our local Alumnae to do Hong Kong tea party attendees included:

• Professor Wai-Ling Cheong (1987) • Ms Gloria Cheung (2000) • Ms Julianne Doe (1985) • Ms Sasibai Kimis (2001) • Ms Margaret Yang (1992) and • Ms Su-Mei Thompson from the Women’s Foundation

Julianne Doe, Margaret Yang, Dr Jane Renfrew, Su-Mei Thompson,Wai-Ling Cheong,Sasibai Kimis, Gloria Cheung

Dr Jane Renfrew encouraged the alumnae to provide an update: Wai-Ling Cheong

Julianne Doe

Wai Ling Cheong is Professor at the Music Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received the PhD from Cambridge University, where she studied with Derrick Puffett. Her scholarly works on music composed in the twentieth century and, more specifically, those on the music and theoretical writings of Olivier Messiaen have been published by Acta Musicologica, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Music Analysis, Perspectives of New Music, Revue de Musicologie, and Tempo.

I am married and have three children and am a private practitioner in a law firm. At the moment I am a partner at SNR Denton. I also serve on various committees of the Hong Kong Law Society and am a council member of the HK Federation of Women Lawyers and a Fellow of Hong Kong Institute of Directors.

Gloria Cheung

After graduating from Lucy Cavendish in 2002 I obtained a Post Graduate Certificate in Law from the University of Hong Kong. I then spent 6 months studying Japanese in Tokyo, before commencing my training contract with Linklaters in Hong Kong. I am now a qualified solicitor and still with Linklaters.

Sasibai Kimis

After graduating I spent 2 years in Malaysia, working with a railway engineering firm as the Director of Finance. Following that I worked with the UNDP in Ghana on the Ghanaian Presidential election 2004. I stayed in Ghana for 2 years in total, working with a NGO that works with gold mining companies. After Ghana I worked for 2 years with First Avenue Partners LLP in London, a hedge fund & private

equity advisory firm. Following this I headed back home to Kuala Lumpur and worked with Khazanah National (Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund) for 2 years. In April 2011 I left my job at Khazanah and pursued a Christian discipleship course with Youth with a Mission, in Kona, Hawaii. In March 2012 I started my own company: Trinitas Partners (www. thinktrinitas.com)

Margaret Yang

I am still running the Hong Kong Sinfonietta after 12 years. The orchestra is the second professional orchestra in Hong Kong and it performs about 100 times a year, mostly at the City Hall Concert Hall. I studied Law (undergraduate) at Lucy Cavendish and was an intellectual property lawyer with Lovells (now Hogan Lovells) for a few years before taking up the position with the HK Sinfonietta.

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Obituaries Sir Alan Cottrell (17 July 1919 – 15 February 2012)

It was with sorrow that the college learnt of the death of Sir Alan Cottrell on 15th February 2012 at the age of 92. He had played a critical part in the college`s history when, as Chairman of Trustees, he guided it through the difficult process of being granted Approved Foundation Status by the University. He had been Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government from 1971 to 1974, following a distinguished career in metallurgy, becoming Deputy Head of the metallurgical Division of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, and researching into the strength of metallic materials as Goldsmith`s Professor of Metallurgy in Cambridge. From 1973 to 1986 he was Master of Jesus College and

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during this time he oversaw the admission of women to the college for the first time. He served as University Vice Chancellor from 1977 to 1979. At the suggestion of Phyllis Bowden (who had known him in Whitehall), before she became President of Lucy Cavendish, he was invited to join the College`s Trustees, and by 1980 he became their Chairman. His experience in the administrative affairs of the university was to be of enormous benefit to the College. Sir Alan guided the Lucy Cavendish Approved Society with skill and tactful diplomacy through the lengthy processes of reorganising its administration and agreeing on its single objective and then overseeing the application to the University for the increased and more secure status of being an Approved Foundation of the University, the next stage to becoming a full college with its own Royal Charter (which was eventually achieved in 1996). The granting of Approved Foundation Status was by no means a simple formality and it involved, in the final stage, winning the approval of the Council of the Senate following a Discussion of the Regent House on 16th October 1984. It was on that occasion that Sir Alan quietly made a brilliant speech recommending the

recognition of Lucy Cavendish on the basis that an innovative university should offer a superb education to students of all ages, that the college had received financial support from far and wide as well as from other colleges in the university, and that it was appealing for endowment for stipends of its officers and teaching staff “whose rewards during all these years have had mainly to be found in the considerable academic achievements of their pupils”. Finally he thanked the Standing Committee on Applications under Statute H, who had given such detailed thought and attention to the Regulations which govern the college`s management of its affairs, and confirmed that the college had accepted all its helpful suggestions. Although this was followed by a dissenting voice, the report of the Discussion concluded “The Council are of the view that Lucy Cavendish Collegiate Society has now reached that stage in its development at which recognition as an Approved Foundation is appropriate and they are satisfied that the case for this proposal has been satisfactorily made”. Sir Alan`s support throughout this process had been invaluable.

Written by Dr Jane Renfrew

Mary Fedden O.B.E.,R.A.,and Lucy Cavendish College

We were saddened to learn of the death of the artist Mary Fedden in June this year at the age of 96. When the college gained its royal charter in 1996 the Trustees decided that they wished to give a gift to the college to mark the occasion, and they asked Mary Fedden to come to the college to see if it would inspire her to paint a special picture for us. She enjoyed her visit and was impressed by the friendly atmosphere and the aims of the college, but said she could not paint to order. She decided that the college should have a picture which she had already painted and I was invited, as Curator, together with two of the Trustees, Mr George Nissen and Mr David Thomson, to visit her home and studio at Durham Wharf, Hammersmith to choose a suitable painting. The one we chose was the view from a Hebridean cottage window (Rain on Skye, oil on canvas) which now hangs in the Dining Hall. At the same time she said she wished to give the college

a painting herself, as she`d so much enjoyed her visit, and she suggested we should have the large painting of a chair on an oriental kilim carpet (The Pink Room. Oil on hardboard) which was one of her earlier works and one she had kept for herself rather than put up for sale. At the same time the college`s auditors, Laing and Cruikshank decided that they, too, would like to give the college a picture to mark this special event in the college`s history, and so two Fedden pictures came for us to decide on one, and we chose the picture of fruit in a Tuscan landscape (Three Purple Poppies. Oil on Canvas).

by the paintings of Matisse and Braque. Her paintings, which were mainly of still life, often in a landscape background, were exhibited widely and have become very popular. Lucy Cavendish is extremely fortunate to own three splendid examples of her work.

Written by Dr Jane Renfrew

Mary was a delightful person to meet, and a talented and well respected artist. She was trained at the Slade School of Art in London in the 1930s and in 1951 married fellow artist, Julian Trevelyan, who predeceased her in 1988. For a while she taught at the Royal College of Art (she was their first female tutor) and among her pupils there were David Hockney and Allen Jones. She was influenced in her work

The Pink Room. Oil on Hardboard.

Three Purple Poppies. Oil on Canvas.

Rain on Skye. Oil on Canvas.

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Talks and Formal Hall schedule for 2012-13 Michaelmas term 2012 Friday 21 September

Lucy Cavendish Alumnae Reunion Dinner (years 1972, 1982, 1992 and 2002)

Saturday 22 September

Gulsin Onay free piano concert for all UniversityAlumni

Saturday 22 September

Turkish buffet for Lucy Cavendish Alumnae

Wednesday 3 October

Cocktails and Cupcakes Welcome Party

Thursday 11 October

1972 Formal Hall

Thursday 18 October

6pm Talk Dr. Christine Corton, London Fog:Formlessness and Degeneration Partners and Friends Formal Hall

Wednesday 24 October

Festival of Ideas screening of ‘The Science of Sleep’ at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, accompanied by a talk from Dr Isabelle McNeill

Thursday 25 October

6pm Talk – Namukale Chintu, Business and Investment in African Frontier Markets – Converting Challenges into Opportunity Graduate Students and Research Fellows Formal Hall

Thursday 1 November

6pm talk – Mary Tiffen – ‘Friends of Sir Robert Hart’ Veterinary Science Subject Night Formal Hall

Friday 2 November

Halloween Theme Formal Hall

Thursday 8 November

6pm talk – Professor Margaret Stanley OBE, Professor of Epithelial Biology, University of Cambridge “The development of vaccines and immunotherapies against human papillomaviruses, the cause of cervix cancer”. Subject Night for Science, Computer Science, Geography, Engineering and Maths Formal Hall

Thursday 15 November

Celebrating Student Achievement: Bursaries, Awards and Prizes

Thursday 22 November

6pm – College Wine tasting and talk by Eva Plazas Torne, Vilarau Winemaker Formal Hall

Thursday 29 November

6pm Talk – Camilla Batmanghelidjh, Founder of Kids Company, the charity working with vulnerable children and young people. Christmas Dinner

Friday 30 November

Christmas Dinner

Lent term 2013 Thursday 17 January

6pm talk – Ffion Hague ‘David Lloyd George’s Women’ Subject Night for the Library and English Formal Hall

Thursday 24 January

6pm talk – Professor Anna Maria Geretti ‘HIV Persistence during Antiretroviral Therapy’ Burns’ Night Formal Hall Silver Dinner, Fine Arts Formal Hall Display of College silver in the reception rooms of Warburton Hall before Formal Hall

Thursday 31 January

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Thursday 7 February Thursday 14 February

6pm Talk – Mrs Justice Gloster Subject Night for Law and Criminology Formal Hall Chinese New Year Formal Hall Subject Night for Politics, Psychology and Sociology

Friday 15 February

Halfway Hall, Black Tie dinner no gowns*

Thursday 21 February

Subject Night for History, Philosophy, Classics, Education, Land Economy, Economics, Business and Management Studies, International Relations

Thursday 28 February

6pm talk – CamAWISE talk featuring Nessa Carey “Epigenetics” Subject Night for Medicine Formal Hall

Thursday 7 March

6pm Talk – Susan Seller on Virgina Woolf and Vanessa Bell RAG week & International Women’s Day 6pm – Music Recital by Helen Roche Subject Night for Linguistics and Languages, Archaeology and Anthropology, Architecture, History of Art and Music Formal Hall Formal Hall – “A Night at the Movies”

Thursday 14 March

Friday 15 March

Easter term 2013 Thursday 25 April Thursday 2 May

6pm Talk Thomas Hoblyn, Preparing for Chelsea: A Renaissance Garden Gardens and College Community**; St George’s Day Formal Hall Graduate Students and Research Fellows Formal Hall

Thursday 9 May

Partners and Friends Formal Hall

Thursday 16 May

6pm Talk – Sally Vickers RLF Fellow and author Guest Night Formal Hall

Thursday 23 May

Formal Hall

Thursday 30 May

Allison Pearson, Novelist and Dr Chloe Preedy, University Lecturer in English at Lucy Cavendish College are the 2013 Fiction Prize judges. Formal Hall – Fiction Prize Award Dinner

Thursday 6 June

Nearly Final Formal Hall

Thursday 13 June

Final Formal Hall

Friday 21 - 23 June

Women’s Word 2013 – Celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ festival

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