Lucy Cavendish College Annual Review 2016/2017 by Lucy Cavendish College

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ANNUAL REVIEW 2016/2017

Lucy Cavendish College University of Cambridge

President’s report

Contents

Jackie Ashley, 8th President of Lucy Cavendish College Welcome from the President

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ONWARDS AND UPWARDS: STILL BLAZING THE TRAIL FOR WOMEN’S EDUCATION

SECTION ONE: THE COLLEGE YEAR Domestic Bursar’s report

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Bursar’s report

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Senior Tutor’s report

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Admission Tutor’s report

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Development Director’s report

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Library report

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Garden report

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Staff news

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Other College news

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The Cavendish Chronicle has gone from strength to strength, uncovering some excellent creative writing, while the Cavendish Chorale has continued to delight us at concerts throughout the year. On the subject of creative writing, the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize saw some very strong entries this year. We have watched several former winners and short-listers into publication and in one case, the best-sellers list: huge congratulations to Gail Honeyman for Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.

SECTION TWO: THE STUDENT YEAR Students’ news from website/blogs and SU

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Graduate Research Day

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General Admission 2017

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July Graduation 2017

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SECTION THREE: SPECIAL EVENTS Visiting speakers

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External/other events

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The Fiction Prize

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As I finish my second year as President of Lucy Cavendish I am at last beginning to feel that I am no longer the “new girl”. Our College is moving forward into its second half century with renewed energy, after Governing Body took the decision, for now, to remain as an all female college for women aged 21 and over. It wasn’t a universally popular decision but the vast majority of Fellows were adamant that our mission still has relevance today.

SECTION FOUR: SPORTS AND LEISURE Rowing success

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Other sports

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Our choirs

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Our excellent academic results have shown that we certainly can add value as a College: this year we moved up a stunning 8 points in the Tompkins table, coming on top of last year’s climb of three places. We are now the most successful of all the mature colleges and all the women’s colleges, which is a great achievement and testament to the hard work of Directors of Studies, Tutors, staff and of course, above all, our students.

SECTION FIVE: NEWS FROM OUR FELLOWS Welcome to our new Fellows and goodbye to retiring Fellows

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News from our Resident and Research Fellows

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SECTION SIX: NEWS FROM OUR ALUMNAE News from Alumnae

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SECTION SEVEN: IN MEMORIAM

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SECTION EIGHT: DONORS Thank you to our donors

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Annual Review 2016/17 Editor: Kate Coghlan Contributor: Rachel Hill Photographers: Martin Bond, Kate Coghlan, Helen Kirkby Design: Cameron 01284 725292

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I firmly believe that while academic work is essential, the wide variety of other opportunities offered at Cambridge should not be ignored. This year our students have excelled at sport, drama, journalism, music and much else besides. We are very proud of two of our rowers, Myriam Goudet and Melissa Wilson, who were part of the eight-strong crew which won the women’s boat race this year, in a record time. The Lucy/Hughes Hall boat club also excelled: entering three crews to the May Bumps and W2 winning blades. The boat club has become so successful that we are parting company from Hughes Hall and going it alone. From the autumn, we will be the Lucy Cavendish Boat Club, with our own ergometers in a newly refurbished gym.

We continue to attract speakers of the highest calibre to Lucy Cavendish – highlights for me this year have been the novelists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who write thrillers under the byline Nicci French; Dr Lorna Williamson OBE on “Dead Bodies, Living Organs” and one of her incredible transplant patients, Emily Hoyle; and the French ambassador, Her Excellency Sylvie Berman, on the implications of President Macron’s election. Dr Leigh Stoeber resigned as Senior Tutor in Lent Term whilst undergoing treatment for breast cancer. We were all incredibly sad when she passed away in September 2017 and our thoughts are with her family at this difficult time (please read her obituary later in this Review). We were grateful to Dr Stephanie Ellington for stepping in as Acting Senior Tutor for the remainder of the academic year. Dr Jane Greatorex was appointed Senior Tutor from September 2017. Others leaving us include Professor Christine Howe, Dr Teresa Parodi, Dr Ruth Abbott, Dr Susanne Hakenbeck, Dr Helen Roche, Dr Alice Denton, Dr Karolina Kuckenbaecker, Dr Liz Bright and Sarah Westwood. We have welcomed Hanadi Jabado, who has ushered in a new relationship with the Judge Business School and many great contacts, Dr Victoria Harvey, Dr Emma Howarth, Dr Mary Brazelton and Dr Bogdan Popa (who becomes a Senior Associate rather than a GB Fellow, as he is male). Jo Ryan, our former Head of Fundraising, has been appointed Development Director. We enter the new academic year with more plans for student inductions, exam preparation and student support. Watch out for a major fundraising campaign, some new sessions on careers, more fabulous guest speakers and stop press, we are starting a twice weekly yoga class from October – see you on the mat!

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THE COLLEGE YEAR

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Bursar’s report

Report by Domestic Bursar, Christine Houghton

Report by Bursar, Lesley Thompson

WELCOMING OUR GUESTS, OLD AND NEW

GENERATING INCOME, NURTURING GROWTH

Lesley Thompson

Summer 2016 brought another three months of conferences, summer schools and events, as well as refurbishment projects and general maintenance. We are very fortunate to have built up excellent relationships with a number of companies and organisers, which leads to lots of repeat business: some clients have been coming to us for over a decade. It is always nice to welcome back guests we know, and we are always looking at expanding our portfolio of bookings. This year was no exception, with some new clients joining returners.

Christine Houghton

Domestic Bursar’s report

The income from these events enables us to upgrade facilities for our students. Students are always at the forefront of our minds when planning refurbishments, and the knowledge that our efforts help with projects to enhance their time at College keeps us all focused during the very busy Long Vacation. During the summer of 2016, we undertook two main refurbishment projects: one included the Paul Paget room, bar and conservatory in Oldham Hall, and the other was in the Library, where we carried the Scandinavian theme used in Oldham Hall through to the Library foyer, creating high worktop areas as well as replacing sofas and chairs. In addition, we created a new common room on the lower ground floor from a room previously used as an IT workshop. Available all year, this room is for College members only, meaning that there is a quiet haven available when conferences and summer schools are in residence. We also transformed the old IT suite into another teaching room, for students to work in groups during the academic year and summer schools to use in the summer. We were able to complete all these projects in one year thanks to a very kind donation from Keith Maddocks. In addition to this work, we decorated De Brye and Bertram from top to bottom, and carried out smaller jobs in Warburton, Strathaird, 137 Chesterton Road, St Peter’s Street and Barrmore. The College was fortunate to rent three houses from St John’s College again and these have proved very popular. Their proximity to College means that students use our facilities more, especially in the evenings and at weekends.

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Indeed, income generation is one of my constant mantras. Of course, cost management and value for money are always important - the College runs on a very lean budget; but costs inevitably tend to rise not just with inflation, but also as additional demands are made upon us eg compliance with new legislation. Furthermore, as we try to support the College community with appropriately maintained buildings and improved facilities, funding and services, we need to continue to (re-)invest. For this, growth in our income is essential. Although the underlying financial position of the College has improved over recent years, our accounts still show an operating deficit. All Cambridge colleges make a deficit on educational activities as the full cost of provision is not covered by fee income. Colleges therefore rely on donations and return from endowment/investments to fill the gap. I have mentioned before that this College was founded on a tiny sum (about £60,000 in today’s money) and although our investments are now about £11million, this is still tiny compared with most other colleges. We could really do with at least four times as much to generate the income that we need. This is why we are always grateful for the Colleges Fund, a mechanism whereby the richer colleges give funds for endowment to the poorer; in June 2017 we received a very welcome £735,000 from this fund. We are also particularly grateful to those who donate cash to boost the endowment.

My assistant Katie McNally has been very involved in providing information for and trialling a new accommodation system which will link into new accounting system, wonderfully project managed by our Finance Manager Kate Bash. Once this is up and running we are going to add event and booking modules. It has been another very busy and productive year and my thanks go to the teams that help make it all happen in my department: Katie, Catering, Housekeeping, Gardeners, Maintenance, Porters and IT.

Remember, we host celebratory events, We are still experimenting with breakfast/morning service, and although numbers are not as great as expected, we hope to build on these. My dream is to plan and design a bespoke coffee shopstyle facility, if there is an appetite for it, and of course the funds.

about last year’s finances whilst the Housekeeping and Catering teams look after large numbers of conference guests and visitors, often with short turnarounds. This is critical work for the College, bringing in much-needed extra income.

conferences and business meetings across the year, so please do get in touch if you are looking for a venue for a

I have now been Bursar at the College for seven years and am still hugely occupied managing the range of things in my brief. I was speaking over lunch last term with one of our wonderful Emeritus Fellows explaining how busy I was and she replied, “Well that’s good, because this is a College where we always have to be actively pressing forward – no room for complacency.” In fact, the annual cycle of College life has a rhythm of its own: just now as I write in the Long Vacation, there are relatively few students or Fellows around and the current visitors are quieter than the language school students of the previous weeks. Meanwhile, the staff are here working away - for some, this is one of the busiest periods: external auditors quizzing the Bursary staff

Of course, thanks are due to all who so generously support the College in whatever way – every donation makes a real difference; it was wonderful to see the fantastic support this year when students rang members of the College community in the ‘telethon’; and the extraordinary generosity of alumna, Jane Dominey, and her husband, Jim Warwick, in giving the College shares worth over £500k in order to create long term funds for student support was fabulous. As ever, if you wish to know more about the College finances I am always happy to answer questions and the accounts, including the Trustees Annual Report, are available on the College website: www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/about-us/freedom-of-information/reports-accounts/

family event, conference, meeting, or a special dinner.

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Senior Tutor’s report

Admissions Tutor’s report

By Stephanie Ellington (Acting Senior Tutor)

Report by Admissions Tutor, Victoria Harvey

ACHIEVING ALL-ROUND EXCELLENCE

IMPROVING AND EXPANDING THE ADMISSIONS PROCESS

The academic year culminated with two very special congregations at the Senate House. The first was General Admissions. On a beautifully sunny day our impeccably dressed graduands enjoyed lunch in College with their guests, rehearsed for the Senate House ceremony and then, led by our Senior Porters and Praelector processed through the ancient courts of St John’s College to the Senate House to have their degrees conferred by our own President, Jackie Ashley. This was followed by the July congregation at which our graduands, receiving a range of degrees including MAs, MB BChir s, PhDs, MPhils and Master of Advanced Studies, had their degrees conferred by the outgoing Vice Chancellor, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, at his final congregation. Overall 2016/17 has been a very good year for Lucy Cavendish students. The College moved up eight places on the Tompkins table to be top not only of the mature colleges but also of the women’s colleges in Cambridge. Twenty eight percent of our students gained 1st class results and another 60% got 2.1s with no 3rds amongst the entire cohort. Not only have our students done well academically, they have also excelled in a number of other fields; two of the students in the winning boat of the Women’s Boat Race were Lucy Cavendish students and another was in the women’s lightweight boat. One of our medical students captained the successful University women’s rugby team and other students gained blues or half blues in Rugby, Football and Fencing. Student participation has not been restricted only to academia and sport; the Students Union (SU) organised a number of extremely useful and enjoyable sessions in the induction programme and more recently some highly popular ‘Bops’. The Graduate Representative on the SU has set up, and run, writing sessions and oversees the weekly Tuesday night graduate suppers. 6

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Looking forward to the coming academic year, the College is trying to further build the academic community at all levels. Dr Mary Brazelton, who is currently our Director of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science and a specialist in Global Aspects of Science, Technology and Medicine, will be joining the College as a Fellow. Dr Amber Ruigrok has a Newton Trust Teaching Fellowship tenable at Lucy Cavendish College and will also become a Fellow and supervise for us in both PBS and MVST. Following a very lively and well attended open day specifically for women post-docs working in the University we look forward to having more postdocs in the College in a range of subjects with a view to integrating them not only with Fellows but also with our current graduates and undergraduates in their respective subjects. Looking further ahead, Brexit brings great uncertainties with the continuation of tuition fee loans for EU students, the Erasmus scheme and EU collaborative research all still very much under discussion. The decreasing number of mature students nationally applying to study for undergraduate degrees across the country is also a matter of concern, however the College is working very hard on the development and implementation of a strategic plan to enhance all aspects of the College’s development. We were sad to accept the resignation of Dr Leigh Stoeber in Lent Term due to ill health, and even sadder to hear of her passing away in September 2017 (read an obituary later in this Review). Dr Jane Greatorex will start as Senior Tutor in the next academic year. Many of you will already know Jane, who has vast experience within College having been a Director of Studies and a Tutor for many years. I wish her all the best in the role.

RECRUITMENT Funding is one of the key factors for students when choosing their College, and it has been rewarding to see a growing number of scholarships and bursaries awarded to excellent candidates who have chosen Lucy Cavendish. I plan to collaborate further with the new Head of Development, Jo Ryan, to secure more funding opportunities for undergraduates and postgraduates, focusing particularly on women who wish to return to study to develop their professional career. There is a wide range of postgraduate opportunities to study part-time at Cambridge and companies and organisations with links to Cambridge could be made aware of the opportunity to upskill team members whilst working part-time. OUTREACH I spent my first day at a well-attended outreach event in London organised by Orock Nsoatabe, our Mature Outreach Ambassador, in collaboration with Harris Manchester College, Oxford. It was rewarding then to see attendees from that event arrive for interview in December – and candidates benefited from the already familiar faces of the Admissions team! Stepping into a brand new post, Orock developed relationships with key FE Colleges across the UK, and supported potential applicants and FE tutors with advice and guidance. Orock returned to Oxford in February; we were sorry to see her go, but wish her every success in her new role. Building on Orock’s successes, we were delighted to recruit an Outreach & Recruitment Officer from our own alumnae: Alexandra Oberrotman is putting the final touches to her M.Phil thesis and will join the Admissions team at the beginning of September. Our regular Admissions Clinics and Open Days were well attended with many over 21s visiting to talk about the specifics of an undergraduate application to Cambridge. Mature applications can be very different to the standard school leaver so making contact early enables the Admissions team to offer advice and guidance at crucial stages of the process. The Lucy Cavendish Admissions team also took part in the 2017 Postgraduate Open Day, a new University-wide initiative where prospective graduate applicants participate in a programme of events offered by the University in collaboration with Departments and Colleges.

ADMISSIONS 2017 ENTRY The Graduate Course in Medicine attracted a similarly high number of applications for 2017 entry. The Government’s plans to increase the number of students at medical schools nationally should enable Lucy Cavendish to offer places to an increased number of high quality candidates. It was my first experience of multi-mini interviews: candidates rotate between nine stations, spending five minutes at each before moving on. At my own station candidates were asked to explain an area of their academic work in layman’s terms: I was astonished by the sheer range of topics to which I was exposed: from 20th century philosophy to international relations to drug development and neuroscience. It was a rewarding experience, and revealed the very diverse backgrounds of the University’s CGCM students. Interviews are undoubtedly the most nerve-racking part of the process for our applicants. Unlike school leavers, many over 21s have not benefitted from the support of their current place of study. I am grateful to Gaby Jones and my co-interviewers for making candidates feel comfortable and reassured in order that they can demonstrate their academic capability in their interviews and written assessments. Although in my first year as Admissions Tutor, I suspect the smooth running of the interviews – in particular the multiple Skype interviews in March which involved candidates and interviewers in no less than three time zones on the cusp of BST – is standard practice for Gaby with her meticulous preparation and many years’ experience. ANNUAL REVIEW 2016/2017

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Development Director’s report

Love your Library Report by Librarian, Céline Carty

Report by Development Director, Ms Sarah Westwood

SUPPORTING STUDENTS AND BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS

Perhaps the gift that shows the greatest trust in the College is made by those remembering Lucy Cavendish in their wills, and October 2016 saw Anna Bidder Society members and their guests coming back to Cambridge for a lunch hosted by Jackie Ashley and the Society’s President, Baroness Perry of Southwark, Pauline Perry. The celebratory lunch was followed by a talk from writer Sophie Hannah about her relationship with Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, and will be an annual event from now on.

2016-17 was an extraordinary year for Lucy Cavendish. Our students’ outstanding achievements on the playing fields, the river and in the tripos are featured elsewhere in the Annual Review, but it has also been a year when our supporters made an exceptional contribution to the College. Much of the £860,000 we received in donations this financial year is owing to Jim Warwick, the husband of alumna Dr Jane Dominey (Criminology PhD, 2011). Supported by Jane, Jim gave Lucy Cavendish £520,000 in shares to endow the Student Support Fund, and in recognition of this extraordinary gift Jane and Jim were made Lucy Lyttelton Fellow-Benefactors in a ceremony before Formal Hall on 9 February. Jim’s gift demonstrates the power of our students to inspire, and in March many of our alumnae and friends were moved to make a similar commitment, when ten Lucy Cavendish students formed a team that called our alumnae and friends all over the world to ask for their support as part of the Telephone Campaign. That call was answered in a wonderful way and £36,626 has been received so far, with a further £65,000 projected to come in over the next three years. Many of the gifts that contributed to this total were relatively small regular donations, which demonstrates what a group of supporters can achieve together. We are enormously grateful to each and every one of you.

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Lucy Cavendish has always been open to new partnerships, and our unique mission appeals powerfully to the corporate sector. We are delighted to have built relationships with AstraZeneca, JP Morgan and Aviva over the past year, focused on recruitment and mentoring events, and the sponsorship of research into gender equality in the tech workplace. Fundraising is only part of the Development Office’s mission, and we are equally engaged in keeping in touch with all our alumnae and supporters and bringing them back to Lucy Cavendish whenever we can. For those who cannot get to Cambridge, we have increased the number of our communications in all formats, including a new print publication, the STAR, and the termly email newsletter that complements the Alumnae Association’s Nautilus. We are very grateful for Kate Coghlan’s help in putting these together, and welcome your feedback on all these new initiatives. Writing this report is sadly one of my last duties as Development Director before leaving Lucy Cavendish at the end of this year. It has been a privilege to be part of this unique institution and I wish my successor Jo Ryan well. I know you will lend her your support, and look forward to watching Lucy Cavendish thrive.

LAST SUMMER WAS A VERY EXCITING TIME IN THE LIBRARY AS WE HAD A MAJOR REFURBISHMENT TO CREATE A NUMBER OF NEW SOCIAL SPACES FOR STUDENTS TO WORK AND RELAX. After the IT department moved out of their basement offices, the Barbara Dyer computer room was little used. It was decided to convert this large room into a group study space, where students can work collaboratively. The computers were moved up into the ground floor reading room and foyer, where they are much more heavily used. The Barbara Dyer room got a new carpet, extra power sockets for laptops and devices, a fresh coat of paint and a new projector and screen for presentations. This new inviting space has become very popular, with students booking it to revise together or work on group projects. It has also been used by student societies, for example a creative writing group, editorial meetings of the Cavendish Chronicle and regular evening sessions of the newlyformed Art Society. At the same time, what was originally the photocopy room was redesigned as the new Library Lounge. With comfy seating, coffee tables, beanbags and plants, this social space was designed to be available to students all year round for relaxing and taking a break.

A television gives access to Amazon video, BBC iPlayer and other free players. Students consider this space their own and have asked for cushions, blankets, jigsaws and Lego to make it even more cosy! We also saw big changes in the Library foyer. The bookshelves were moved to a different wall, with the reference collection moved into the ground floor reading room to make space for the new – and fast-growing – Children’s Literature Collection. The looming library counter was removed - it was much too large for the space and acted as an unwanted barrier to the staff offices. These changes have made the whole foyer much more spacious and welcoming. New sofas, armchairs, tables and stools matching the furniture in the Paul Paget Room offer lots of comfortable seating for chatting over a coffee at Library Elevenses. All the changes were finished in time for the start of the new academic year and students were welcomed back to a fresh layout and new social spaces in the Library.

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Our gardens in numbers 5,000 spring bulbs

were planted during September and October 2016 including 1,000 daffodils, 1,000 grape hyacinths, 1,000 crocuses, 10 varieties of tulip, snowdrops and fritillaries.

300 people gathered for our Annual Garden Party in June. Tried and tested favourites included Cava, strawberries and a ‘Guess the weight of the cake’ competition, while new entertainment included space hopper races across the lawn (and not just for children!).

100s of birds visited the gardens including sparrow hawks, greater spotted woodpeckers and green woodpeckers.

83 mature trees

grow in our College gardens including weeping ash, a tulip tree, a black walnut tree, quince, medlars, Persian ironwood, dawn redwood, limes and a Judas tree.

68 herbs are growing in our Anglo-Saxon Garden, which was created in 1987 and brings to life the research of Dr Jane Renfrew and Dr Debby Banham.

11 sculptures

took up residence in our gardens in June, created by the artists Sarah Pirkis, Alexandra Gribaudi and Theodore Plytas. Our sculpture walk was part of the University of Cambridge’s Festival of Wellbeing 2017 and it was curated by Dr Sarah Gull.

2 years after the gardens at Histon Road were first planted, the beds (part designed by Arabella Lennox Boyd) continue to thrive. Lavender, nepeta, alliums, thalictrums and achilleas do particularly well there.

At Lucy the gardens have more of a country house feel than the formalities of other Cambridge Colleges. As a garden-lover, I immediately admired them. There is no Fellows’ showpiece lawn, rather the Lucy spirit reigns all over. No formal lawns, but wildflowers; no borders or edges but quiet corners for meditation; no enclosures or walled gardens but benches and a pavilion for music. If there is a semiosis of Cambridge gardens, then Lucy’s perfectly reflects the spirit of College: nurturing, embracing, egalitarian, friendly and open. Dr Francesca Saggini, Visiting Fellow

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visited for several days, keeping students entertained throughout their exams. Other resident and visiting wildlife included hedgehogs, squirrels (one black), muntjac deer, grass snakes, foxes, and in the pond; newts, frogs, water boatmen, back swimmers and dragonfly nymphs.

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STAFF NEWS Every year, students tell us how much they appreciate the warm and supportive environment provided by our staff. The people that make the College a ‘home from home’ are a very important part of students’ experience of University.

We have welcomed some new faces to the team in the last year, and have bid farewell to others.

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arrivals

Andrew Cleland joined as IT Officer •in July • Mallgorzata Gancarz has joined 2016 alongside Haris Rahimic the Hall team on a permanent basis as IT Technician. Together they have a wealth of IT experience, providing much needed support to the IT team. Williams, Brittany Hazlewood, •AmyAmy Baldry, Angel Aldaria and Nazare Neves joined throughout the year strengthening the Housekeeping team. Rebecca Anderson joined the •Garden team in March 2017.

covering the till at supper times during term time. Greta Bacsa worked for us on a •casual basis over the summer and will remain with us on a permanent basis as Housekeeping Assistant from 4th September following Aimee King’s departure at the end of the month.

DEPARTURES

CHANGES

Julia Moore decided not to return from her period of maternity leave. She will be spending her time with her son.

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• Joanna Trzeciak was promoted to Housekeeping Supervisor in April. has worked at Lucy Cavendish College for three years in the •roleJoofRyan Head of Fundraising. She has recently been promoted to the role

• Meg Cobley who originally joined the College on the Women’s Farm and

of Development Director, following the departure of Ms Sarah Westwood. She will join the Fellowship in October.

Garden Association (WRAGS) scheme left in March to focus on her own gardening business.

Tom Dawson has been promoted to Development Officer, now working full time.

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Housekeeping Assistants Lourdes Mir Ferrera, Lorna Randall, Telmo Neiva, Vanessa Djurdjevac, Patricia Barria and Nittaya Conlon left the College over the past year although we were very pleased that Telmo and Vanessa continued to work for us on a casual basis over the conference period.

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The Development Team will be joined by Gemma Coombs in •September as Development Assistant. Gemma (was Beevers) has worked with the College previously in the Domestic Bursary so we are delighted to welcome her back to the College. Silgram who had been working with us for some years •as aAnthony Relief Porter has joined us on a full time basis as Night Porter. He is joined by Zindy Nyirenda. We are delighted to reintroduce the night porter system on a trial basis for one year.

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Other College News These pages offer a little round up of other news from the year, including news from our Associates.

Julie Spence announced as new Lord Lieutenant for Cambridgeshire

Deborah Pardo departs on all-women expedition to Antarctica

Lucy Cavendish Associate, Julie Spence was announced as the new Lord Lieutenant for Cambridgeshire. The title Lord Lieutenant is given to the British monarch’s personal representative in the counties of the United Kingdom. Mrs Spence succeeds Sir Hugh Duberly, who retires in April after 14 years in the role. Julie Spence was Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire from 2005 to 2010 and since her retirement from the police, she has served as chairman of the Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and as a trustee of Ormiston Families which supports young people from disadvantaged communities.

Lucy Cavendish Research Associate Research Associate, Deborah Pardo left on a month-long Antarctic expedition in December 2016 with 75 other women as part of The Homeward Bound Project, a global networking initiative to promote the impact that women in science can have on ensuring the sustainability of our planet. A documentary called ‘Leading us Home’ followed the project, focusing on the contribution of women scientists towards environmental projects.

Communicating about our College

Lynne Berry OBE receives award for Outstanding Achievement

Visitors to our website and our social media accounts continue to grow, and these remain the fastest way to hear current news from our College community. • Our website won an award at the Cambridge Digital Awards again, this time a Bronze Award in the category of best website overall (in 2015 we won Gold in the Education category). Communications and Marketing Manager, Kate Coghlan collected the award.

Von Wright’s children return to their Lucy Cavendish home In 1949, Finnish philosopher George Henrik von Wright (1916 2003) came to Cambridge to study at Trinity College under the supervision of Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. He lived in Strathaird with his wife and two small children, Anita (b. 1943) and Benedict (b. 1945). Although they found the large house difficult to heat in the winter, they made the most of the 20 rooms by filling them with many famous guests. The most notable guest was Wittgenstein, who stayed with the young family several times despite his desire for peace and quiet. In September 2016, 67 years later, his children returned to their childhood home for an international conference about his work, hosted by the College. Anita von Wright-Grönberg said: “It was wonderful to come back to Strathaird and although the house has changed a lot inside, I do remember the exterior and the beautiful gardens.” Strathaird was built in 1897 on land owned by St John’s College. It was the home of a succession of senior academic staff, and for a time during the Second World War it was used to house Bedford College students evacuated from London.

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The house was acquired by Lucy Cavendish College in 1973 when, with wonderful generosity, Professor Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman, Woodward Professor of Geology, made a gift of the rest of his lease.

• The student takeover of our Instagram account received lots of interest, including mentions on University of Cambridge social media accounts. In the first week after the students took over our Instagram account, we gained 60 new followers. • We reached over 3,200 followers on Facebook and over 4,000 followers on Twitter. • Films of our students were watched over 50,000 times in total via social media and the website (watch some of them here: www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/news-blog/videos/).

The Lucy Cavendish College Alumnae Association The past year has seen much activity in the Alumnae Association, beginning with our AGM and annual dinner in September 2016, which drew in a wide range of alumnae from across the years. We were very fortunate to have a prestigious guest speaker, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, who spoke about her early career in journalism. Our events team has been busy during the past year in arranging enjoyable trips to the Royal Opera House and two Cambridge historic college libraries. We hope that many more alumnae will join us for future events.

Lucy Cavendish Fellow Commoner Lynne Berry OBE was awarded the Daniel Phelan Award for Outstanding Achievement at the Charity Awards 2017, held by the publication Civil Society. Lynne Berry was awarded in recognition of lifetime contribution to the sector, not just in her working life but also by volunteering and contributing to the thinking of the sector. The award was given in honour of the founder of Civil Society, Daniel Phelan. Her lifetime contribution includes leading the Charity Commission and Women’s Royal Voluntary Service. She is the Chair of the newly-formed Breast Cancer Now, Vicechair of the Canal and River Trust, Chair of the Commission of the Voluntary Sector and Ageing, a Fellow Commoner of our College, an Honorary Fellow at Cardiff University, a Professor at Cass Business School in London, and Trustee of four other charities.

Over the year the Alumnae Association has enjoyed a growing presence on social media, and we intend to further develop our online presence through the Lucy Cavendish College Writers’ Hub, to be launched this coming year. We have continued to support students by offering bursaries and prizes and it’s very pleasing to be able to report that this year we are funding a second bursary for graduate students on one-year courses. We again donated two student prizes: one for Contribution to the Arts and the other for Graduate Excellence. All our forthcoming activities are announced in Nautilus, our termly newsletter, which showcases memories, achievements and opinion pieces from our alumnae.

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News from our Students

Jen Aggleton and Jessica Lim establish Children’s Literature Collection

Charlotte Fiehn wins Christine Jones Memorial Prize

Shoko Hirosue sets up Lucy Cavendish Art Society

Report from SU President, Ida Svenonious

Jen Aggleton and Jessica Lim (PhD English) continued to run the Children’s Literature Society this year and ran many events to raise funds for the new collection in the Library. These included a Roald Dahl Supper, a Children’s Literature Formal Hall with an academic panel on Food in Children’s Literature and a conference on The Art of the Children’s Book.

Second-year English student Charlotte Fiehn was awarded the new Christine Jones Memorial Prize of £1,000 and mentoring by Fellow Commoner, poet and crime writer, Sophie Hannah.

Shoko Hirosue (Third-year, Medicine) set up a new Art Society in November 2016 because she wanted to cultivate a vibrant art community at Lucy Cavendish College.

2016/17 was a great success for the SU Since taking over the Presidency at the start of Easter, our main focus has been to promote inclusivity, pride and a vibrant social life. In our first three months, we have implemented a series of strategic changes.

Firstly, we have focused on the inclusion of graduate students. For the first time ever, we hosted an open meeting in the Histon Road off-site common room, as well as a summer BBQ to enable year-round socialising. We are currently developing a graduate welcome pack, making sure all incoming grads feel included in College life. We have also prioritised involvement with the Offer-holders Facebook group and Offer-holders day, after which a future student said: “I felt like I’d found my tribe!” Secondly, we have focused on promoting College traditions and pride. We have proposed a series of annual College events to be trialled next year, and have promoted the use of the word “Lucians” to describe members of the College. To promote College pride, we are helping to develop a college website directory for Student Achievement. The SU has also developed a new workshop series on study skills called “Cambridge 101 Survival Sessions”, which were rated an average of 9.1 out of 10 by students. With this year seeing a record-breaking academic result, many are increasingly proud to be Lucians. Thirdly, we have reassessed the running of SU meetings. In Easter term, we implemented a new meeting and voting structure that lowered our meeting times by 60%, which also resulted in a doubling of student voting participation. Lastly, 2016/17 has been a great year for our social life. Our college parties reached maximum capacity and saw queues down the road. Many more successful events were hosted. We added new plants, textiles and lighting to make the common room a more appealing social space. It has been an honour to serve as President with this incredible SU team, and we all have an exciting year ahead.

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The Society has organised weekly sessions throughout term time including painting, craft sessions and trips to exhibitions. It also worked with the Library and Fine Arts committee to encourage artists at the College to enter the Lucy Cavendish Art and Photography Competition 2017. She will be starting her clinical studies at Addenbrookes this September.

Individually, both students had a busy and successful year too. Jen ran a workshop for teachers at the Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry anniversary symposium in Cambridge. She spoke at ‘Hoffman’s Legacy Conference’ at Anglia Ruskin University, at a conference in Valencia, Spain, called ‘The Child and The Book’, and at the Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature Conference, Dublin. She also organised a conference with Jessica Lim called ‘The Children’s Book as Material Object’. She is currently on a three-month placement at the British Library, where she is creating a web archive of British digital comics. Jessica not only played as assistant organist at Magdalene College. but also had a hugely productive year academically. She published articles in the following publications: Forum for World Literature series 8.3 (2016), Notes and Queries 61.4 (February 2017), Oxford Research in English 4 (May 2017) and The Review of English Studies 68.284 (April 2017). She presented at the British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference (January 2017) and the Literature-Technology-Media Faculty Conference at the University of Cambridge (October 2016). She also co-convened a conference at the Faculty of English called ‘Embodying Media: From Print to the Digital’ (May 2017).

President of the Arab Society and Vice President of the Students’ Union Salma Elnagar (Psychology and Behavioural Sciences) joined the Cambridge University Arab Society to make contact with other students from Arabic countries. As President, she now organises around eight events every term, and the most popular involve drinking tea and coffee and eating Arabic snacks like dates, biscuits, baklawa and sweets. The society also organises formal dinners, sporting events and movie nights. It runs Arabic classes, which are held here at Lucy Cavendish, and some are taught by Salma herself. She is also Vice President of the Students’ Union at Lucy Cavendish.

First year makes directorial debut and wins Memorial Prize

The Prize was sponsored by Sophie Hannah, in memory of her husband’s stepmother, Christine Jones who passed away in May 2016. Charlotte will use the mentoring to help guide her to finish her book, which is about the life of George Eliot. Charlotte, who lives in the College accommodation on Histon Road with her two children, said:

When I found out I had won, I was really delighted. I don’t know what I am going to spend the money on yet, but my kids have a few ideas!

Tildy Stokes launches the Emerging Leaders Forum First-year HSPS student Tildy Stokes worked with three friends to launch the Emerging Leaders Forum (cambridgeleaders.org) This is a group of ambitious students nominated for their proven leadership potential. Members include students who have founded start-ups, started nonprofits, run political campaigns or conferences, and become presidents of the major student societies. The forum brings in speakers on leadership and holds discussion groups to tackle the challenges that students face when leading projects. Tildy’s own leadership project was directing the UK Student Policy Forum, a conference held in London which presented research and ideas from five student think tanks across the UK.

Isabelle Higgins (First-year, HSPS) enjoyed her first taste of the Cambridge drama scene as Director of a play by Gareth Farr called Britannia Waves the Rules at the ADC Theatre. Isabelle had no previous experience of directing, but arrived in Cambridge having always wanted to try it. She attended an open day event at the ADC Theatre before competing with 40 other students to direct one of three plays, as part of the theatre’s programme of ‘Fresher’s Shows’. The role involved carrying out auditions to find her cast, interpreting the play, as creative lead for the production and making decisions ranging from lighting to stage directions. Isabelle was also involved in the College telephone campaign and won a Fulbright Scholarship to spend the long vacation studying in the USA. Isabelle was ranked top of her year in the 1st year HSPS Tripos results and won the prestigious Winifred Georgina Holgate Pollard Memorial Prize.

New President of RAG Julia Nielsen (Third-year, English) has been involved in Cambridge Raising and Giving (or ‘RAG’) since she started at Cambridge. Julia held the roles of College Representative, Publicity Coordinator on the Executive Committee and in her final year as Ticketing Officer, liaising between RAG and Agora (an external ticketing platform). She applied for the full time position as RAG President, as she wanted to use her skills to benefit charities after graduating. She will continue to live at Lucy Cavendish next year, and has ambitious plans to get the whole College community involved.

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Cartoonist and creator of ‘Cambridge Struggles’

Building Bridges in Medical Sciences

Donors, students, Fellows, alumnae and staff gathered on Thursday 9 February to celebrate student

Anna Svegborn (Second-year, Natural Sciences)

Wai Wan (Vivian) SZE-TO (PhD, Medicine)

achievements and the generosity of the donors who support them through College Prizes.

is the creator of a little series of cartoons called

volunteered to be on an organising committee to

Cambridge Struggles, which has become very

run an international conference designed to attract

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popular on Instagram (@cambridgestruggles).

female scientists.

Madeleine Jörgensen Prize for First Class Results in Tripos Helena Edmondson (Linguistics), Annie Hoyle (Theological & Religious Studies)

She is inspired by the everyday struggles of studying in Cambridge, and is motivated to continue by the great feedback from friends and social media followers. She received the judges’ special commendation from the Lucy Cavendish Library’s 2017 Art and Photography Competition, as judges felt her work was “a witty, fun and true to life depiction of student experience”.

Marie Lawrence Prize(s) for First Class Results in Tripos Mizuho Hashimoto (Human, Social & Political Sciences), Harriet Rhodes (Medical & Veterinary Sciences), Adela Ryle (Human, Social & Political Sciences), Ida Svenonius (Human, Social & Political Sciences), Talitha Veith* (Natural Sciences: Pathology) The Simms Prize for best results in Education Ateka Tarajia* (Education with History) Called ‘Building Bridges in Medical Sciences’, the conference was held in March 2017 and welcomed seven speakers from different disciplines, career stages and countries

President of the Marlowe Society Molly Yarn (PhD English) joined the Marlowe Society in her first year at Cambridge, working as an ASM for that year’s big show, Measure for Measure at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.

College Prizes awarded in special Formal Hall

British theatre-makers, including George Rylands, Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn, and Ian McKellen, just to name a few. Now, the Society produces verse drama and new writing. Molly said:

The Berti Sapir Medical Prize for the student with the best results in Clinical Stage Three (Final year) Jane Barraclough Kate Bertram Prize(s) for First Class Results in non-Tripos exams Sayomi Ariyawansa* (LLM), Tala Basil (Development Studies), Lenka Blaskova (Education), Yushu Geng (Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies), Imogen Forbes-Macphail (Medieval & Renaissance Literature), Rebecca Foy* (LLM), Jingting Jiang* (LLM), Angharad Jones Buxton (International Relations & Politics), Natilly Macartney (Education), Alice Maltin (Classics), Lena Morrill (Computational Biology), Louise Raynaud (Theoretical & Applied Linguistics), Emma Rigby* (Veterinary Medicine), Emma Rogers-Smith* (Veterinary Medicine), Florence Slater* (Veterinary Medicine)

Cambridge and professional theatre, and to help students interested in working in theatre to get a the Marlowe Showcase and the Arts Show, are both

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The Emmeline Pankhurst Prize for Contribution to College Life Heather Dorrell*, Polytimi Frangou The Myson College Exhibition for Personal Achievement Om Budha Magar, Gemma Maitland, Romily Mcnulty* Gyll Moore Prize for a Student Gaining a First Class Degree, preferably in Arts or Humanities Romily Mcnulty* (Modern & Medieval Languages) The Florence Staniforth Prize for Excellence in Creative Writing Jody Molloy The Margaret Spufford Memorial Prize Isabel Thornton (Sociology) Janet Todd Prize for Academic Excellence (£100) Elizabeth Williams (Education) Mary Wollstonecraft Prize (£200) Ainul Hanafiah

The Alumnae Association Prize for Contribution to the Arts Gabriella Bird*

COLLEGE PRIZE AWARDED IN JANUARY 2017 Christine Jones Memorial Prize in Creative Writing Charlotte Fiehn

* Graduands who were awarded their prize in June 2016

directed by professionals, and offer opportunities for students to assist and learn from experts

Students hijack the College Instagram account Students hijacked our official Instagram account (https://instagram.com/lucycavendishcollege/) a few times over the year to show potential students what life at the College is really like.

The Annabelle Dixon Prize for the student who has made the most of her time at Lucy Cavendish Olivia Le Andersen*

Our goal is to provide a link between

sense of what that means. Our two biggest shows, She wanted to continue with theatre during her PhD years and she was delighted to be elected as President of the Marlowe Society. The Society was founded in 1907, and over the last century has produced several epoch-defining generations of

The Alumnae Association Prize for Graduate Excellence Selen Uman* (Clinical Science)

The account gained hundreds of new followers by swapping pretty photos for student blogs. Julie Damborg (2nd year HSPS and previous Students’ Union President) kicked off the project with photos of the Library, Saturday brunch, study notes and a game of handball.

Ida Svenonius awarded three prizes for academic performance Second-year HSPS Tripos student, Ida Svenonius was awarded the Audrey Richards Prize for the best performance in the Part I examination in Social Anthropology. She also won the Wyse Prize for the Best Dissertation Proposal for her

entry entitled ‘The Alternative: Danish participatory politics and the road to a metamodern anthropology’, which combines knowledge about the proposed field site with current anthropological perspectives on policy, democracy, and morality in politics. At Lucy Cavendish, Ida was awarded the Marie Lawrence Prize for First Class Honours in Human, Social and Political Sciences for Part I and Part IIa. Ida balanced her academic work with roles including current President of the Student Union at Lucy Cavendish, Co-President of the Cambridge Advertising and Marketing Society and Publicity Lead for TEDx Cambridge University 2017 Conference.

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Graduate Research Day

By Annette Mahon, Assistant Senior Tutor (Graduates)

Marianna Kopsida (Engineering) started the day with a presentation on her research on Automated Progress Monitoring Using Mixed Reality Progress. Monitoring inspection practice is laborious, time consuming and error prone. Inspectors conduct visual inspections and fill several forms, write reports and perform extensive information extraction from drawings and other databases. This research has led to a Microsoft HoloLens app for automating the inspection process of construction progress monitoring. This tool will allow us to bring the digital design model onto the construction site. The app aligns the 3D as-planned model to the real world as-built environment. Once alignment is complete, the 3D model is fixed relative to the scene and remains stable. Also, the scene is not affected by any occlusions. The app then automatically compares the current as-built status with the asplanned data to derive instant progress information for the building under construction by simply walking around the site. This information allows inspectors to detect any schedule discrepancies and take timely corrective actions that could prevent time and cost overruns of the project during the construction phase.

touch. We do not see an image; it is rather the image that seizes us. Briefly, this presentation calls for a reconfiguration of the central to many debates concepts of imagination and the image, and, more importantly, of the way we usually think of their relation with the world and reality.

place them in context with their contemporaries, who remain almost entirely unexamined. The talk demonstrated how primary source documents and textual evidence can combine to resurrect the forgotten lives and work of these early female scholars, and in the process, unearth an alternative history of Shakespeare editing.

Maria Schacker (Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) spoke about ‘Defining the genomic and epigenetic signature of mouse embryonic stem cells with compromised in vivo potential’. She identified several targeted mES cell lines with abnormalities in their capacity to generate chimeric mice. These clones result in embryonic death during mid to late gestation, suggesting that the cells are able to contribute to the embryo but are interfering with normal embryonic development. RNA sequencing identified three genes which are downregulated in our compromised clones. These are the maternally expressed genes Gtl2, Rian and Mirg, located in an imprinted region on chromosome 12. She is now investigating their epigenetic signature and the role they play during development.

Zoi Angeli (French) presented next on ‘The ontology of the image from an anti-platonic standpoint’. Underlying every aesthetic theory is the premise of a fundamental incompatibility between the imaginary and the real world. It is precisely this premise that this presentation attempts to revitalize by drawing on Maurice Blanchot’s key notion of the image, as explored in his major work L’espace littéraire. My paper examines how Blanchot, following Sartre, reverses the aesthetic tradition of incongruity insofar as the reality/imagination relation is concerned. In addition, it explores how the image in Blanchot’s thought, in opposition to a phenomenological approach, is not linked to visibility and the virility of the gaze but rather to invisibility, powerlessness, the sensory and

Molly Yarn (English) presented her paper ‘Ghosts in the Margins: Early Women Editors of Shakespeare’. She spoke about characters like ghosts: characters like Innogen, Hero’s mother, who linger, nearly erased, in the margins of Shakespeare’s plays. Like Innogen, most women editors of Shakespeare prior to 1950 find themselves haunting the edges of editorial history. Modern attitudes regarding the domestic or family-oriented focus of much of their work (illustrated, expurgated, or student editions) facilitate their neglect. Various forms of bias relegate them to a bottom-rung position on the editorial hierarchy. Although some individual editors such as Mary Cowden Clarke have received scholarly attention, further work remains both to elucidate the specifics of their textual work and to

Polytimi Frangou (Psychology) argued that ‘GABAergic inhibition facilitates visual learning in the human brain’. Successful interactions in our environment entail using sensory information to inform perceptual judgements. Our visual system is challenged when searching for targets in noisy backgrounds or when discriminating between highly similar features. Perceptual learning is believed to improve such visual skills, however the exact brain mechanisms involved are currently unknown. Using functional MRI, we find differential activation patterns for these visual tasks, however we are unable to differentiate between excitatory and inhibitory contributions to learning. Advances in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy allow us to measure GABA, the main inhibitory neurotransmitter, non-invasively in the human brain, and investigate inhibitory mechanisms related to brain plasticity. Her talk described a series of experiments that employ multimodal imaging to measure brain activation patterns and GABA concentration changes during visual learning, providing a novel framework for visual cortical plasticity.

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Carole Gardener (Public Health and Primary Care) discussed ‘Towards person-centred care: development of a patient support needs tool for patients with advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)’. Patients with advanced COPD have difficulty articulating their support needs to health care professionals, undermining person-centred care. A new intervention, the Support Needs Approach for Patients (SNAP), informed by, and

Dilar Dirik

Polytimi Frangou

Molly Yarn

Maria Schacker

Zoi Angeli

Marianna Kopsida

A PACKED AND VARIED AFTERNOON AT THIS YEAR’S GRADUATE RESEARCH DAY OFFERED THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY THE CHANCE TO HEAR FROM OUR STUDENTS ABOUT THEIR RESEARCH. A RANGE OF YEARS AND DISCIPLINES WERE REPRESENTED AND THE SUMMARIES BELOW GIVE A SENSE OF THE SCOPE AND VARIETY OF WORK THAT LUCIANS ARE UNDERTAKING.

modelled on, the evidence-based Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool (CSNAT), may enable patients to identify and express their support needs. SNAP is underpinned by an evidence-based tool to help patients consider and express their support needs. A comprehensive range of evidence-based domains of support need were identified and formulated into items for inclusion on the draft SNAP tool. The draft tool asked patients to consider whether they need more support in relation to 15 broad areas (domains) of support need e.g understanding their illness and getting out and about. Patients, carers and clinical stakeholders broadly endorsed the content and wording of the draft tool and the proposed Support Needs Approach for Patients. The SNAP tool has the potential to help patients with advanced COPD identify and express their support needs to clinicians in order to enable delivery of person-centred care. Future work will test tool validity and feasibility in clinical practice. Dilar Dirik (Sociology) presented ‘The women’s struggles in Kurdistan’. As the so-called Islamic State has been launching countless attacks on communities in the Middle East and beyond, its specific use of sexualized violence as a tool of war has been central to its methods. To the astonishment of many, Kurdish women picked up arms and turned out to be the most efficient forces to defeat the ideology and hegemony of ISIS across vast territories. However, women’s militancy with feminist ideologies is in fact a rooted tradition. So who are these women? And what is the social, cultural, and political context in which they struggle? The presentation was based on Dilar’s extensive ethnographic research with Kurdish women militants.

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Photo: Lafayette Photography

List of graduates General Admission 2017 THE SUN SHONE FOR OUR NEW GRADUATES ON SATURDAY 1 JULY. It was wonderful to see them celebrate with friends and family from around the world. We wish them all the very best for the future.

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(Pictured left to right)

Olesen, Adela Ryle, Charlotte Akers

Fourth row: Shi Wan, Carina Mouritsen

Top: Aphiwan Natasha King, Jodie

Dunphy, Isobel Simpson, Lucy Jones

Luxhoj, Dessy Tesha Arisanti, Lucia

Manners, Shoko Hirosue, Cherish Watton,

Third row: Harriet Cantrell, Emma Walter,

Berdisova, Rebecca Parry, Praelector,

Mizuho Hashimoto, Amiya Mehra, Alice

President, Senior Tutor, Linda Gruijthuijsen,

Carlill, Julia Nielsen, Nicole Creasey, Erin

Tasmika Ramkaran, Eva Milne, Chidinma

Second row: Kimberley Searle, Chloe

Tunney, Tanya Brown, Yike Gao, Madeline

Onyebuchi, Lea Christopher

Gamlin, Caitlin Harris, Naomi Young, Ditte

Chan, Rita Pataki

Allysha Michael

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List of graduates

Celebrating Graduation day Dr Annette Mahon, Assistant Senior Tutor (Graduates) GRADUATION IS SUCH A WONDERFUL OCCASION AND THE CULMINATION OF MANY YEARS OF WORK. IT’S A JOY TO HELP OUR STUDENTS DON THEIR HOODS AND MEET THEIR PARENTS AND FRIENDS WHO HAVE GIVEN SO MUCH SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO THEM THROUGHOUT THEIR STUDIES. NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT OF RAIN ON THE WAY TO SENATE HOUSE COULD DAMPEN SPIRITS! ALL OF US AT LUCY CAVENDISH WISH OUR NEWEST GRADUATES EVERY SUCCESS FOR THE FUTURE.

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Darinee Alagirisamy Carolyn Alderson Farah Alimagham Gulya Amanova Eloisa Angeles Joyce Au Milena Bacalja-Perianes Bhavjeet Badesha Sonul Badiani-Hamment Bridget Bannerman Roisin Basquel Lenka Blaskova Connie Bloomfield Anna Bru Revert Edel Byrne Eugenia Cammarota Shalinder Carter Hannah Catalina Michelle Chen Ge Cheng Wei-Ying Chou Kathy Christofidou Isobel Cockerell Irene Cummings Denise Dalbosco Dell’aglio Lily Delimata Elena Demosthenous Lisa Dhesi Amber Evans

Lily Faust Jane Firman Bianca Florea Trisha Garbe Monica Gates Andrea Gayon Yushu Geng Mara Gonzalez Souto Suzanne Goodband Myriam Goudet Myriam Goudet Irina Gucianu Rashmi Gunaratne Lucy Harries Cynthia Hill Clarissa Hoskison Jessica Hostetler Peicheng Hua Jie Huang Jing Huang Zixin Huang Georgia Hume Angelica Jacome Katherine Jagger Angharad Jones Buxton Sauleha Kamal Agata Kurczynska Stephanie La Hoz Theuer Stella Lempidaki

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SPECIAL EVENTS

Thursday evening speakers bring in the crowds We welcomed external speakers to College for discussions and talks almost every Thursday

Andrew Marr and Sarah Smith

Dalia Leinarte

Eleftheria Zeggini

evening during term time last year. These were free and open to all, although many booked out so quickly that our IT Team had to research options to transmit live feeds of the talks into additional rooms. We do receive requests to record our talks, but our speakers generally prefer to enjoy the opportunity to speak more freely ‘off the record’.

Dame Margaret Hodge was our first sell-out speaker in Michaelmas. During her visit, Dame Margaret discussed her time in politics and the current political climate including Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn. She also spoke about her book Called to Account: How Corporate Bad Behaviour and Government Waste Combine to Cost us Millions. The local media turned out in force to report on her visit; Cambridge TV recorded an interview and the Cambridge News published an article and photo from the event. Also in Michaelmas Term, we welcomed Dr Mark Holmes to talk about infection in humans and animals, Ann Treneman who spoke of her journey from Westminster sketchwriter to theatre critic and Eleftheria Zeggini who described her research at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The New Year started with a bang in Lent Term, with a special event to celebrate Burns Night. Sarah Smith (Scotland Editor, BBC) joined us for a conversation with Andrew Marr, and the two discussed Brexit, the possibility of independence in Scotland and other subjects in front of another full audience. Boni Sones OBE came to speak on International Women’s Day in March, and treated the audience to a collection of recordings of interviews with women MPs. She also talked about her recently published third Book When There’s a Woman in the Room: Women MPs Shaping Public Policy – Part Two and why she is an enthusiastic supporter of women’s greater political participation.

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Dr Lorna Williamson OBE

To celebrate the Annual Science Festival, we welcomed Dr Lorna Williamson OBE for a talk on the work of pathologists. She was accompanied by Emily Hoyle, a friend and patient who told the story of her experience of pathologists. Dr Williamson was a Governing Body Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College from 1997 until 2011, and is now a Fellow Commoner. She received her OBE in this year’s honours list for her work in the advancement of organ, stem cell and tissue donation for transplantation. Student Chloe Gamlin (Third-year Medic and President of the Lucy Cavendish

Nicci Gerrard and Sean French with Jackie

College Vets and Medics Society) invited alumna Dr Marcia Scofield and fellow medic Dr Raj Munglani for a discussion on the subject ‘Is pain relief a human right?’ This talk attracted the lawyers as well as vets and medics, and a lively debate followed. Another highlight was a visit by authors Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who spoke about their life together writing novels in their own names, as well as writing psychological thrillers together under the pseudonym ‘Nicci French’. After the Formal Hall that evening, we hosted a drinks party for all those studying English and the

M.Stds in Creative Writing at the college where our students had the opportunity to meet the speakers. During Lent Term, we had the pleasure of welcoming back Fellow Commoner, Professor Dalia Leinarte for a talk on ‘Implementation of Women’s Rights: In between de facto and de jure’. Dalia Leinarte is Chairperson of the UN CEDAW Committee and Professor of Family History at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, and a Fellow Commoner at our College.

Anna Bidder Research Evenings Our Anna Bidder Research Evenings give early career academics an opportunity to share their current research with the College and University community. This year, we were proud to present a talk by Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen on ‘Risk and resilience after childhood emotional maltreatment’. She was accompanied by third-year

undergraduate Nicole Creasey, who spoke about her studies in Psychology and Behavioural Sciences. Dr Katharina Karcher also treated us to a talk on her research on the UK exile of Germany’s iconic student leader Rudi Dutschke and his appeal against the Home Office.

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Out and about In addition to the many visitors and talks here at Lucy Cavendish, we were pleased to collaborate with other organisations and Colleges on a range of events outside the College.

Older and wiser: how women over 50 are making their mark

Exclusive fundraising event with Rory Bremner and Andrew Marr

In September, we joined forces with Newnham and Murray Edwards Colleges for a panel discussion on ‘Older and wiser: how women over 50 are making their mark’. Professor Dame Carol Black, Principal of Newnham, Dame Barbara Stocking, President of Murray Edwards and Jackie Ashley, President of Lucy Cavendish (all of whom became Head of their College after the age of 50) shared their own personal experiences and were joined by alumnae who have made equally interesting decisions. Joining our President on the panel was alumna Suzanne McCarthy (LL.M, 1985) who was Chief Executive of both the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, and is currently Chairman of Depaul UK, a charity concerned with youth homelessness, and a member of the Board of Depaul International.

We offer special thanks to The Club at The Ivy and to alumna Julie McDonald for their help arranging a very special fundraising event in London in January. We welcomed comedian Rory Bremner and political commentator and interviewer, Andrew Marr for a discussion of politics and other subjects in front of a small audience at the private members’ club. We then hosted an auction, which raised over £10,000 for student funds. One prize was a ‘Cambridge Experience Day’, which included rowing with our boat club, a tour of King’s College Chapel, its roof and art gallery followed by attending Formal Hall back at our College. Diana Boulter who won this in the auction, said “We had a superb day - I can’t tell you how many people we have told about it!! I have even thought of contacting our local ladies rowing club…”

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From Kindertransport to Calais: The Story of Child Refugees

In November, Lucy lawyers gathered at a drinks reception at the London offices of Squire Patton Boggs (UK) LLP. We are very grateful to SPB and particularly Dr Michelle Chen (LCC, 2007) for hosting and sponsoring the event. Over 40 current students, alumnae, Fellows (including our first Director of Studies in Law, Jillinda Tiley) and friends came together for an evening of interesting discussion and networking. The event was a great success and we hope it will be an annual fixture in the Lucy calendar.

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The three Cambridge women’s colleges met again for a panel discussion in January 2017, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The discussion was called ‘From Kindertransport to Calais: The Story of Child Refugees’ and focused on reflections on past and present responses to the welfare needs of refugee children. Jackie Ashley chaired the sell-out event, and was joined on the panel by Lucy Cavendish Fellow Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen who spoke about the psychological effects of migration on children. The evening launched a week of events celebrating the work of the largely forgotten group of local volunteers, mostly university women, associated with the Cambridge Children’s Refugee Committee, which served the welfare needs of hundreds of refugee children fleeing Nazi persecution during the Second World War.

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Sarah Ward wins 2017 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize Judging panel

Shortlisted authors

CHAIR OF THE JUDGING PANEL, ALLISON PEARSON COMMENTED ON THIS YEAR’S WINNER: "THE JudGES dECIdEd THAT ‘RESuRRECTION, PORT GLASGOW’ SHONE OuT FOR ITS COMPELLING uSE OF LANGuAGE, SkILLFuL HANdLING OF IdEAS ANd THE VIVId WAy IT EVOkEd TWO dIFFERENT ERAS. THE CHARACTERISATION OF THE ARTIST, STANLEy SPENCER, WAS WHOLLy CONVINCING. SARAH WARd HAS WRITTEN A RICH, FuNNy ANd MOVING BOOk.”

This year we celebrated the many publishing successes of previous entrants by starting a Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize Collection to the Library. This currently includes Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, A Secret Sisterhood by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney and Friend Request by Laura Marshall and soon to be joined by The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr by Frances Maynard. We look forward to adding to it in the future. Judges awarded the 2017 prize to Sarah Ward, for her novel Resurrection, Port Glasgow. The novel was selected from 385 entries, a longlist of 15 authors and a final shortlist of seven. The other shortlisted authors were Bibi Berki, Louise Hare, Francesca King, Victoria MacKenzie, Leslie Sanderson and Laura Shepperson. We announced the winner at a special event on 25 May, attended by all shortlisted authors as well as judges, literary agents and guests. Sarah Ward worked in community education for twenty years before returning to university to study for a PhD in Social Policy, which she

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is due to complete in 2018. She began developing the ideas for Resurrection, Port Glasgow during the MLitt Creative Writing programme at the University of Glasgow, and has continued to write with support and feedback from G2 Writers Group and Skriva Writing School. Sarah has a family connection with Port Glasgow, where her grandparents lived, and where her grandfather worked in the shipyards as a plumber. She lives in Glasgow with her husband and three children. A synopsis and the first chapters of Resurrection, Port Glasgow are available to read on our website. The judging panel this year was chaired by journalist and author Allison Pearson. The panel comprised Nelle Andrew – literary agent at PFD; Sophie Hannah – crime writer and poet; best-selling novelist and Baileys Prize winner, Linda Grant; Gillian Stern – editor and ghostwriter; Dr Lindsey Traub – former Fellow of English at Lucy Cavendish College; Dr Ian Patterson – poet, writer and Fellow in English of Queens’ College, Cambridge and Gwyneth Williams, Controller of BBC Radio 4.

Warm congratulations to Sarah from us all at Lucy Cavendish College. Her novel combines literary merit with ‘unputdownability’ and I look forward to reading it in full.

College President Jackie Ashley

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Key dates

The judging panel welcomes author Nicci Gerrard, journalist Eleanor Mills and literary agent Marilia Savvides from sponsor PFD. Returning to the panel will be Nelle Andrew from PDF, Dr Lindsey Traub, Dr Ian Patterson, author, poet and Fellow of Queens’ College Cambridge and literary agent Gillian Stern. Journalist and author Allison Pearson will return to chair the panel.

Launch of the 2018 Fiction Prize: Closing date for entries:

4 October 2017 12 noon, Friday 9 February 2018

Announcement of the Longlist:

10 March 2018

Announcement of the Shortlist:

26 April 2018

Fiction Prize Winner announced:

24 May 2018

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SPORT AND LEISURE

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The rowing report “WE BUILT ON THE GROWTH OF LAST YEAR BY INTRODUCING MANY NEW PEOPLE TO THE SPORT. WE RACED A LOT OVER THE YEAR, INCLUDING THREE BOATS IN THE LENT BUMPS FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND TWO BOATS IN WE HORRS.

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The May Bumps Lucy Cavendish Boat Club performed incredibly well over the four days of the May Bumps, gaining a Pegasus Cup score of 44, which took them to the top of the league table. W2 qualified for blades by bumping up every day of the race. The final day was celebrated by alumnae, donors, Fellows, staff and rowers with their families at a party on the banks of the Cam, very kindly hosted in a beautiful private meadow by Caroline Stenner and Ray Smith. All three crews bumped up on the final day, W2 timing their collision to occur straight in front of the party to huge applause.

SPECIAL MENTION GOES TO W2 WHO LEARNED TO ROW IN MICHAELMAS TERM, ROWED ON THE TIDEWAY IN LENT TERM, THEN GOT BLADES AT THE MAY BUMPS.” POLY FRANGOU, WOMEN’S CAPTAIN

Widening participation Our dynamic combined rowing club Hughes Hall Lucy Cavendish College Boat Club (HHLCCBC) persuaded more novices than ever this year to try their sport. Club President April Bowman attended all induction events and used her charm (and very loud voice!) to win people over. New rowers included College President Jackie Ashley, newly appointed Senior Tutor Jane Greatorex, Admissions Tutor Victoria Harvey, Communications and Marketing Manager Kate Coghlan and Development Director Sarah Westwood.

Success for our rowers in CUWBC Three of our students, Myriam Goudet, Melissa Wilson and Olivia Jamrog rowed for the Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club crew. Melissa and Myriam rowed in the main crew and we were all delighted to see them win the Cancer Research Boat Race for the first time since 2012, completing in the record time of 18 minutes and 33 seconds. Olivia Jamrog was selected for the Cambridge University Women’s Lightweight crew, and scored another strong win against Oxford at the Cancer Research Boat Race. In addition, Melissa Wilson was selected to represent Great Britain at the World Rowing Championships in Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida this autumn. She will row as part of the British Women’s Pair, with fellow Cambridge student Holly Hill (Downing). We were delighted that our elite rowers also supported the College team. Myriam Goudet rowed with W1 at the May Bumps, Melissa Wilson led a few training sessions for W1 prior to the event and Olivia Jamrog coxed W1 for one successful day during the Bumps.

Caught on camera

Competing on new rivers Captain Poly Frangou wanted to give all rowers the chance to row on different rivers this year, to increase their experience and enjoyment of the sport. In February, W1 and W2 rowed The Great Ouse at the Bedford Head race, navigating new routes and snow to shave 20 seconds off their previous times for the same distance. The club also competed in regattas in Peterborough, St Neots and Sudbury.

Friends from the University joined us at the May Bumps with a drone camera to make a short film, which includes interviews and footage of our rowers bumping. The film quickly got over 20,000 views on social media. You can find it at: www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/news-blog/videos/

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A growing reputation for sport THE SPORTS FORMAL HALL IN MAY GAVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO REFLECT ON THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF SPORT AT OUR COLLEGE. WE WERE DELIGHTED TO CONGRATULATE MANY STUDENTS ON RECEIVING BLUES FOR THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS, AND TO WELCOME MANY SUPPORTERS FOR THE EVENING. ADMISSIONS TUTOR VICTORIA HARVEY PRESENTED THE AWARDS AND SAID:

We have a growing number of elite sportswomen in College, and many more high level and ‘just for fun’ College players. There is much more we can do on a College level to promote women’s sport in Cambridge, and part of that is supporting and celebrating our many successes over the year

Horseriding Lizzie Moore (2nd year, Final Veterinary Exam) is on the Cambridge Varsity Horseracing Squad and has received a Blue this year for some amazing achievements on the race track.

Handball Previous President of our Students’ Union, Julie Damborg (3rd year, HSPS) is now Vice President for the Cambridge University Women’s Handball Club, and she received a Blue this year for her acheivements.

Rugby Alice Middleton and Lara Gibson played in the Rugby Varsity match in December 2016, which was very close, but sadly the women’s team didn’t win. New Captain Lara Gibson has ambitious plans to win the Trophy back though, and many of us plan to go along and cheer her team on.

Cross country running Fifth year veterinary student Noémie Johns, finished first amongst the women runners in the Hare and Hounds Cambridge Boundary run half marathon, a race that takes participants around the boundaries of Cambridge.

Football The combined College team (Christs/Churchill/Lucy Cavendish) won the plate at the University League Cuppers in February. Linnea Gradin, Josefína Weinerová, Lu Liu, Lucia Berdisova and current Cambridge University rugby player, Alice Middleton played on the team. Linnea Gradin (1st year, HSPS) was selected to play in the Cambridge University Women’s Football Club, then was chosen as Vice-Captain of the club and Acting Captain for the pre-season.

Real Tennis Practising what she preaches, Admissions Tutor Victoria Harvey took up Real Tennis in September 2015. In February 2016 she competed for Cambridge in the Varsity Match at Lords, earning her half Blue in the sport, and is currently the Cambridge University Real Tennis Club’s Women’s Club Champion. Undergraduates Linnea Gradin (1st year, HSPS) and Carina Mouritsen Luxhoj (4th year, Natural Sciences) played for Cambridge in the Seconds Varsity Match 2017.

Karate Iulia Comsa (PhD Clinical Neurosciences) joined Cambridge University Karate Club in October 2016 as a novice, and has quickly progressed through the grades to compete successfully in the Central Region Championships in Chesterfield and the Kyu Grades Championships. She has been awarded a Blue for her achievements and currently wears a green belt.

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Sailing Karen Thomas (PhD Research in Public Health and Primary Care) sailed to victory in 100th Varsity Sailing Match as part of the Cambridge University Sailing and Windsurfing mixed squad at Itchenor Sailing Club in July, and was awarded a Half Blue.

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Cavendish Chorale

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Cherish Watton (Third-year, History)

Katharina Megli (Director)

THIS YEAR HAS SEEN THE CONTINUATION OF CAVENDISH CHORALE, A NON-AUDITIONED STUDENT CHOIR

START THE PERFORMING YEAR! A GALA DINNER FOR A TIMBER ASSOCIATION LAST SEPTEMBER SET THE TONE

MADE UP OF STUDENTS BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF LUCY CAVENDISH COLLEGE.

FOR ANOTHER HUGELY REWARDING MUSICAL YEAR AND WE WERE DELIGHTED TO BE BOOKED FOR A RETURN PERFORMANCE NEXT SEASON.

Being a part of Lucy Cavendish Chorale gave me an opportunity to take a break from my course and my research – those 90 minutes every week helped me to relax and clear my mind from all the stressful things that happened in the foregoing days. The Chorale is an inclusive and friendly space with no place for rivalry and to me it was really refreshing considering how many things in Cambridge circulate around competing with one another. Being in the Chorale actually helped me fight my stage-fright that was following me since primary school. Therefore, I would recommend it to anyone who is passionate about signing but was always too afraid of doing anything about it.

Marta Beneda

Despite a busy Easter Term, the Chorale performed at a mini-concert in the library, before singing the following weekend at the annual Lucy Cavendish Garden Party. The choir particularly enjoyed singing three-part harmonies to Leonard Cohen’s beautiful song ‘Hallelujah’. This year, we welcomed our new choir director Chloe Alison, studying for an MPhil in Musicology at Selwyn College. Jennifer Hill became President, Nicole Torelli became Secretary, and Cherish Watton continued as Treasurer. Back in Michaelmas term, the Chorale performed a Remembrance Concert to raise money for Doctors Without Borders. The concert included ‘Futility’, a song composed by Chloe to the words of the famous poem by Wilfred Owen, alongside poems and songs performed by members of the choir in a variety of languages. We also led the college Christmas Carols Around The Tree with a number carols and classic Christmas pop songs.

We and our guests were blown away by the beauty of your voices

The Chorale provides a great opportunity for women of any or no previous experience to enjoy singing in a relaxed and friendly environment. We perform a wide variety of repertoire preparing for at least one concert a term. All our members are enthusiastic and hard working and we have made a great deal of progress this year. I am really looking forward to

During Lent, the Chorale performed a concert before Formal Hall, Cavendish Chorale Sings folk, which comprised of songs such as ‘Loch Lomond’ and ‘Fields of Gold’.

working with the choir again next year. Chloe Allison

In October, the Singers gave a sell-out concert entitled After dark in the striking Queen’s Building, Emmanuel College. Then in December we returned to the village of Linton for a magical, candle-lit programme of Christmas music and readings to a packed audience in St Mary’s Church for the Linton Music Society.

Later in March, the Singers returned to St Paul’s Covent Garden to give our second concert as part of the London Brandenburg Choral Festival and described as one of our best performances ever. Just a few days later we were back at King’s to sing at the Cambridge Evening News Business Excellence Awards dinner!

We were honoured once again to provide the choral music for the University Staff Lessons and Carols at Great St Mary’s, Cambridge – a beautiful annual event that attracts well over 400 University members.

It is always a delight to perform in the Saloon at Madingley Hall, particularly on a warm spring evening. For this May concert, entitled Time of the singing of birds, we were joined by guitarist Dave Niskin who will be playing with us again next season.

Emmanuel United Reformed Church has become one of our favourite concert venues and in March we had huge fun presenting Not just a girl’s night out. Edinburgh violinist Nicky Haire and bass player Ivan Garford joined us for some nifty jazz accompaniments and duets.

In June we returned to EURC for a concert in aid of Send a Cow, a charity that supports farmers in Africa. The season ended in July where it began – in King’s College for a private birthday party where we rounded off the set and the year with How can I keep from singing? How appropriate!

For next season’s concert schedule see: www.lucycavendishsingers.org.uk

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NEWS FROM FELLOWS

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New Fellows and Honorary Fellows “WE ARE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME THESE NEW FELLOWS TO OUR COLLEGE AND WE HOPE THAT THEY WILL ENJOY PARTICIPATING IN THE VARIED ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES HERE.” COLLEGE PRESIDENT JACKIE ASHLEY

Welcome to our new Honorary Fellow, Baroness Shami Chakrabarti Lucy Cavendish College was delighted to announce the induction of Baroness Shami Chakrabarti CBE as an Honorary Fellow on 2 March 2017. Baroness Chakrabarti is the Shadow Attorney General and a member of the House of Lords. She is Chancellor of the University of Essex, Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Manchester, Honorary Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford and a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple. She was Director of Liberty, the National Council for Civil Liberties from 2003 to 2016, and a member of the panel of the Leveson Inquiry, the judicial inquiry into UK phone hacking in 2011. Her first book On Liberty, published in 2014, highlights the many threats to our fundamental rights of freedom, equality and dignity.

I am looking forward to being part of Lucy Cavendish College. There has never been a

Dr Victoria Harvey

Dr Emma Howarth

more important time to invest in women’s

(see her report as Admission Tutor on page 9)

(see News for further details)

education, and in particular in providing women

Dr Harvey joined us as our new Admissions Tutor, replacing Dr Emily Tomlinson. Dr Harvey was a mature student herself and undertook a PhD in Renaissance French Literature here in Cambridge. She has previously worked as joint Schools Liaison Officer for Trinity Hall and Robinson College and has carried out admissions interviews for Kings College.

Dr Emma Howarth is a Senior Research Associate for the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research Care in the East of England (CLAHRC). Her research focuses on developing and evaluating interventions and services to improve children’s mental health outcomes. She has a particular interest in early intervention that targets ‘high risk’ groups, with specific expertise regarding children’s exposure to hostile, coercive and violent family environments.

Ms Hanadi Jabado Hanadi is Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School, and a Director of Accelerate Cambridge. Her work in Cambridge enables a unique platform for entrepreneurship research ranging from case studies of start-ups and scale-ups, all the way to industry reports and longitudinal studies of the underpinning factors of entrepreneurial success from both the entrepreneur’s and the early investor’s perspectives. In 2016 her work to support entrepreneurs earned her recognition as one of the Maserati100, an award dedicated to celebrating the positive impact entrepreneurs have on the economy and society as a whole. She sits on the advisory board of several start-ups at various stages of development and growth and is a director of Pitch@Palace Community Interest Company.

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Dr Kate Williams Research Fellow Dr Kate Williams completed a PhD in Sociology as a Commonwealth Scholar under the supervision of Professor Baert before coming here. Her research interests lie in the areas of sociology of expertise, sociology of intellectuals, social theory, gender and the philosophy and sociology and of the social sciences. She is now working on a book about societal impact in multilateral agencies, on applied social research and sustainable development.

with an opportunity to continue their education at a time that’s right for them Baroness Chakrabarti

Departing Fellows Dr Ruth Abbott

Dr Ana Pulido-Rull (Visiting Fellow)

Dr Elizabeth Bright Dr Alice Denton

Dr Helen Roche will be travelling to Germany to lead a research project at the University of Hanover (see News section for more detail).

Dr Susanne Hakenbeck (see News section for submission)

Dr Francesca Saggini (Visiting Fellow)

Professor Christine Howe (retirement)

Dr Leigh Stoeber (see Obituaries)

Dr Katharina Karcher, Sutasoma Research Fellow (see News for further details)

Ms Sarah Westwood leaves us to take up the role of Development Director at Robinson College.

Dr Teresa Parodi (retirement)

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News from our Fellows Dr Jackie Brearley wins Pilkington Prize Dr Jackie Brearley was awarded a 2017 Pilkington Prize for excellent teaching in her roles as Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, and Director of Studies at Lucy Cavendish College. Dr Brearley regularly lectures nationally and internationally to veterinary and medical groups. She reviews scientific papers for several international journals and reviews grant applications for national awarding bodies. She is active in the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia and the Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists. I am truly amazed at the award. I feel that this prize is not only to me but also to the team I work with, who all have the education of our students at the centre of their work

Professor Ruth Cameron awarded UK Society for Biomaterials President’s Prize Professor Ruth Cameron has been awarded the UK Society for Biomaterials President’s Prize, which aims to recognise outstanding contributions during a lifetime career to the UK Biomaterials field. She received the award and gave the keynote lecture at their annual meeting in June 2017.

Dr Isabel Clare researches Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down’s Syndrome Along with colleagues at the University of Cambridge and elsewhere, Dr Clare has been awarded several grants this year: £2,581,950 from the Wellcome Trust (Collaborative Award in Humanities and Social Science), for which she is a core collaborator and will be the supervisor of a PhD student to be based in the Department of Psychiatry from 2018 to 2021; £1,451,277 from National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA, for a five-year study entitled ‘Neurodegeneration in Aging Down syndrome (NiAD): A longitudinal study of cognition and biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease’; and £62,128 from the NIHR East of England (CLAHRC) to carry out a fifteenmonth pilot study, ‘Can transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) modulation of heart rate variability reduce aggression by adults with developmental or acquired brain injury? A study with people with intellectual (learning) disabilities, autism or acquired brain injury.’ Dr Clare has also been accepted as a mentor for the NIHR/HEE Mentorship Programme for Integrated Clinical Academic Fellows (Nurses, Midwives, Allied Health Professions, etc.). She has contributed to articles published in the following journals: Autism; Intellectual disability Research; International Journal of Law & Psychiatry; and NeuroRehabilitation.

Dr Edith Esch (Emeritus Fellow) awarded a grant from the Cambridge–Africa ALBORADA Research Fund Dr Esch and a collaborator from Makerere University have been awarded a grant from the Cambridge–Africa ALBORADA Research Fund for a research project on translation. Dr Esch made a return visit to Uganda in August for a dissemination conference about the project. She was also an invited speaker at the Turin University Forum in June 2017, giving a talk on ‘Issues of internationalisation in language education’.

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Dr Astrid Gall appointed Research Associate (Bioinformatics) in the Department of Veterinary Medicine Dr Gall has taken up a new post as a Research Associate (Bioinformatics) in the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Laboratory of Viral Zoonotics & Disease Dynamics Unit. She was also an invited speaker at the American Society for Microbiology Microbe 2017 conference in New Orleans, and gave a talk on ‘Evolution of blood borne viruses: Outcomes and challenges of big data analysis’. She has contributed to the following published papers this year: Analysing Within- and Between-Host Pathogen Genetic Diversity to Identify Transmission, Multiple Infection, Recombination and Contamination, bioRxiv; Viral genetic variation accounts for a third of variability in HIV-1 set-point viral load in Europe, PLOS Biol.; HIV-1 fullgenome phylogenetics of generalized epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa: impact of missing nucleotide characters in next-generation sequences, AIdS Res. Hum. Retroviruses; Easy and Accurate Reconstruction of Whole HIV Genomes from Short-Read Sequence Data, bioRxiv; Phylogenetic Tools for Generalized HIV-1 Epidemics: Findings from the PANGEA-HIV Methods Comparison, Mol. Biol. Evol.; From clinical sample to complete genome: comparing methods for the extraction of HIV-1 RNA for high-throughput deep sequencing, Virus Res.

Dr Emma Howarth appointed as a trustee for Safer Places In addition to becoming a Fellow at Lucy Cavendish, this year Dr Howarth was appointed as a trustee for Safer Places, a large independent charity which provides a comprehensive range of services to adults and children affected by all forms of domestic abuse. Safer Places delivers services across west Essex, mid Essex, east Hertfordshire and Southend. In September, Dr Howarth was an invited speaker at a one-day conference from the Royal Society for Public Health and Institute of Health Visiting, on the subject of ‘Strengthening the evidence base on interventions for children exposed to domestic violence and abuse to inform an effective public health response. Domestic abuse – a public health priority for babies, children and families’. She was also an invited speaker at a conference at Coventry University in June on ‘Integrating research and practice to combat interpersonal violence and aggression’, and spoke at the University of Jyväskyla, Finland at a conference on Interpersonal Violence Interventions – Social and Cultural Perspectives. Dr Howarth contributed to articles published in the following journals during the year: BMJ Open; Children and youth Services Review; Psychology, Health & Medicine; and Public Health Research.

Dr Isobel Maddison raises the profile of the writer Elizabeth von Arnim Dr Maddison has had a successful year raising the profile of the writer Elizabeth von Arnim and, as President of the International Elizabeth von Arnim Society, has been working with colleagues on several initiatives to this end. Grants from Lucy Cavendish and the Faculty of English enabled her to travel to California in July for the Society’s first joint conference with the Katherine Mansfield Society, which traced both writers’ literary connections, friendships and influences. Keynote speakers were Professor Christine Froula and Professor Emerita Bonnie Kime Scott. Dr Maddison spoke on ‘Marriage a la Mode: von Arnim, Woolf and Mansfield’ and, with her co-editors Juliane Romhild and Jennifer Walker, launched a special double issue, entitled Re-evaluating Elizabeth von Arnim, published in June 2017 in Women: A Cultural Review ( Vol 28), to coincide with the conference. Dr Maddison’s article, ‘Cross-Currents: Elizabeth von Arnim, Max Beerbohm and George Bernard Shaw’ appears in the new journal. Dr Maddison is also delighted to have been invited to guest edit, with Gerri Kimber and Todd Martin, Volume 11 of the katherine Mansﬁeld yearbook in 2018, which will be based on the joint conference in California, and will focus on Mansfield and von Arnim together. In addition, she has published two reviews: ‘A Voyage out into a New World’ on The Collected Works of katherine Mansﬁeld: Poetry and Critical Writings for Modern Language Review; and ‘Transformations: Citizenship and Narrative’ on Nation and Citizenship in the TwentiethCentury British Novel in Women: A Cultural Review.

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Dr Rumiana Yotova awarded a CRASSH Early Career Fellowship

Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen awarded a 5-year Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship from the Royal Society

This year Dr Yotova was invited to join Thomas More Chambers as an academic door tenant, and in March/April 2017, she was invited to McGill University as a Visiting Professor, where she gave a lecture on the right to benefit from science. She also gave a lecture on genome editing under international law at an expert workshop at Tubingen University. Dr Yotova has published ‘The Principles of Due Diligence and Prevention in International Environmental Law’ in Cambridge Law Journal 1. She was also commissioned to write an expert report for the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on ‘The Regulation of Genome Editing under International, Comparative and EU Law’. Dr Yotova has been awarded an Early Career Fellowship at CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) for 2017–18, where she will be working on her monograph on ‘The Public Policy of International Law’.

Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen was awarded a 5-year Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship from the Royal Society to investigate the neurobiological consequences of child maltreatment. Between 12% and 36% of children experience child maltreatment (i.e. emotional, sexual, physical abuse and/or neglect). Growing up in a very negative family environment has a detrimental impact on later emotional, behavioural and academic functioning. However, some individuals are functioning better than expected (or ‘resiliently’). The goal of Dr van Harmelen’s Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship is to determine what it is that sets these people apart on a neurobiological level.

I feel very honoured to have received this Fellowship. The inspiring academic environment and discussions at Lucy Cavendish have been crucial in my success. I am very grateful for the opportunities that the College has offered me, and am very

Dr Helen Taylor specialises in breast cancer diagnosis

excited to be able to continue my research in Cambridge for the next 5 years

Dr Taylor is a Consultant Radiologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, specialising in breast cancer diagnosis, and is also Clinical Anatomist at the University of Cambridge, teaching human anatomy to first- and second-year medical students. In July 2017, she spoke about current research and hot topics in breast cancer diagnosis and management at the International Breast Conference in Cambridge. In her spare time, she has been learning to play golf and has managed to acquire a golf handicap! She also recently cycled the Coast to Coast cycle route.

Dr Karoline Kuchenbaecker (Research Fellow) appointed Senior Lecturer at UCL Dr Kuchenbaecker has had an exceptionally successful year. She has been appointed Senior Lecturer at UCL, just two and a half years after finishing her PhD, and she and her colleagues have published some very important research related to cancer, findings which have generated a lot of media interest. She was interviewed by journalists from CNN about how the team identified genetic changes related to ovarian cancer, and by Le Figaro about the recent publication reporting the first reliable cancer risk estimates for women who carry a mutation in the BRCA1 or the BRCA2 gene. Published papers include: ‘Risks of Breast, Ovarian, and Contralateral Breast Cancer for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers’ in JAMA; ‘Identification of 12 new susceptibility loci for different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer’ in Nature Genetics (a major genetic study of almost 100,000 people which identified 12 new genetic variants for ovarian cancer); and ‘Evaluation of Polygenic Risk Scores for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk Prediction in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers’ in Journal of the National Cancer Institute (which generated less media attention but was actually most important; it showed that experts could provide better personalised risk estimates for women who carry a mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2).

Dr Susanne Hakenbeck hit the headlines with research on the Huns Dr Susanne Hakenbeck published new information about the Huns in the journal PLOS ONE, also covered in the worldwide media including in the Washington Post and the Sydney Morning Herald. New archaeological analysis suggests people in the Western Roman Empire during 5th century AD switched between Hunnic nomadism and settled farming over a lifetime.

While written accounts of the last century of the Roman Empire focus on convulsions

Dr van Harmelen

Dr Helen Roche joins Volkswagen Stiftung-funded research project From 2017-18, Dr Helen Roche will be affiliated with a large-scale research project at the University of Hanover, exploring the history of Hanover’s Klosterkammer under National Socialism. One of the Klosterkammer’s properties, a former monastic school at Ilfeld, became a Nazi elite-school in 1934. Drawing on research related to her forthcoming book on the Third Reich’s elite-schools, Helen will explore the history of the school at Ilfeld in depth within the framework of the project. In other news, during 2016-17, Helen has already published four peer-reviewed articles - three more articles and an edited volume are currently in press, and a further article, on German philhellenism, has just been accepted without revisions by The Historical Journal, one of the leading periodicals in historical studies. Helen has also published two short educational works for Routledge, four book reviews, and a review essay, as well as presenting at eight international conferences (including one held at the House of Commons).

Dr Yvonne Zivkovic (Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow) studies migrant heritage and literature In July, Dr Zivkovic and Dr Franziska Knolle organised the first Lucy Cavendish Postdoc Open Day, which was a great success. In the same month, Dr Zivkovic was the instructor on a summer course at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, on ‘The Idea of Europe in German Thought and Literature’. Earlier in the year, she spoke at the Pint of Science festival in Cambridge, as part of a special panel on migration, on the subject of ‘My Heritage, your Heritage, our Heritage? How Migrant Writers Challenge the Nostalgia of Home and Belonging’. She was also an invited speaker at Trinity College Dublin, giving a talk on ‘Bohemian Politics and the Crisis of Europe – What Literary Reflections on Mitteleuropa Can Teach us Today’, and gave a talk entitled ‘From Exotic Niche to National Bestseller – The Making of Migrant Literature in Postwar Germany’ at the Unsettling Communities conference at the Institute of Modern Language Research, University of London. Dr Zivkovic is working on a book project on Eastern European migrants in Germany and their construction of intangible heritage. More generally, her research interests include German and Austrian literature from the 19th to 21st century, Jewish writers, and memory studies, as well as transnationalism and migration.

of violence, our new data appear to show some degree of cooperation and coexistence of people living in the frontier zone. Far from being a clash of cultures, alternating between lifestyles may have been an insurance policy in unstable political times

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NEWS FROM ALUMNAE

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News from our Alumnae WE ARE ALWAYS DELIGHTED WHEN ALUMNAE STAY IN TOUCH AND SHARE THEIR NEWS, AND CURRENT STUDENTS ARE FREQUENTLY INSPIRED BY THEIR VISITS. HERE IS A TINY SELECTION OF STORIES FROM THE PAST YEAR. YOU CAN FIND MANY MORE ON THE NEWS PAGES AND ALUMNAE PAGES OF OUR WEBSITE WWW.LUCY-CAV.CAM.AC.UK.

Dr Debby Banham and Professor Martha Bayless awarded a Collaborative Research Grant Dr Debby Banham, Director of Studies in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, and Professor Martha Bayless of the University of Oregon (both Lucy Cavendish College, 1982) have been awarded a Collaborative Research Grant by the American Council of Learned Societies for 2016–17 to work on early medieval bread in all its many aspects: culinary, symbolic, agricultural, gastronomic, nutritional, eucharistic, etc. Both will be based in Cambridge for the duration of their fellowships, and presenting their work at various meetings, including the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at the University of Manoa, Hawai’i.

Lorraine Cavanagh guides people on their spiritual journeys Since leaving Cambridge in 2003, Lorraine Cavanagh (Theology, 1994) has published four books, including her doctoral thesis, published as By One Spirit – Reconciliation and Renewal in Anglican Life. She was Chaplain to Fitzwilliam College while preparing for her viva and, later, Anglican Chaplain to Cardiff University. She is now Acting General Secretary for Modern Church, an international society promoting liberal theology and the main liberal voice for the Church in the UK. Her most recent book, Waiting on the Word – Preaching sermons which connect people with God, was published in January 2017. She blogs at http://jobbingtheologian.blogspot.co.uk and her website is http://www.lorrainecavanagh.net.

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She is available to parishes and dioceses for workshops and quiet days on the art of preaching.

Ginny Davis writes and performs her own plays Ginny Davis (Law, 1984) has had a busy year. Her play, Learned Friends, in which she also acts, was performed at the Old Bailey and Birmingham Crown Court, and won Best Original Piece at Birminghamfest 2016. She has been developing a new talk for the WI and other groups, entitled From the Pillory to the Prison Cell, which is a brief history of judicial sentencing, and she still gives her To The Fringe and Beyond talk. This one is more entertaining and inspirational – Ginny charts her career and illustrates it with scenes from her plays. She says that the basic message is ‘take the plunge’! Meanwhile, she is deciding what to write her next play about. She reports that it’s either going to be about Judy Murray (‘because everyone tells me I look like her’), or a play about lost love and revenge; maybe both! You can read more on her website at www.ginnydavis.com.

Dr Bryanna Hahn Fox researches the key predictors for criminal behaviour Bryanna Fox (Criminology, 2010) served as an FBI Special Agent (organised crime squad in Las Vegas) until April 2016, and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa. Whilst an agent in Las Vegas, she worked in transnational organised crime and narcotics, but had

previously worked as a research fellow in the FBI Tampa field office, and at the Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia. She now conducts research that aims to identify the key predictors of various forms of criminal behaviour (sexual offending, burglary, violence, terrorism, cybercrime), and uses this knowledge to help police and practitioners develop more effective crime prevention and intervention strategies. She also works with local and federal law enforcement agencies across the United States to help solve cases when crimes do occur. She accomplishes this with the help of her fantastic students in the research lab she started at USF, called SPRUCE lab. In the last year, Bryanna has contributed to six publications: Journal of Criminal Psychology; youth Violence and Juvenile Justice; Journal of Criminal Justice; Crime & delinquency; International Journal of Oﬀender Therapy and Comparative Criminology; development and Psychopathology; and Handbook on Measurement Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice. She also spoke on the subject of ‘Developing a typology of runaway youth: A latent class analysis’ at the American Society of Criminology in New Orleans in 2016.

Dr Elizabeth Ann Hooper leads a research project on energy policy analysis Dr Elizabeth Hooper (Economics, 1996), an energy economist, left academia (Loughborough) at the end of 2014 and set up a small consultancy, Hooper Ross Associates, in 2015. In November 2016, she won a prestigious and substantial contract with

the OECD South East Europe Division to provide expert consultancy services, leading a research project on energy policy analysis of the Western Balkan economies, for the flagship publication Competitiveness Outlook 2018. The publication provides policy analysis and recommendations around numerous dimensions (chapters) in addition to energy, for example anticorruption, transport and tourism. Despite the critical importance of energy in national and regional competitiveness, the initial 2016 publication contained no energy dimension. Dr Hooper’s work rectifies that omission. The Western Balkan economies face substantial challenges, but, given their resource endowments, their energy sectors offer considerable opportunities to enhance their economic competitiveness. In particular, there is considerable scope for cost-effective deployment of renewable resources, especially wind and solar PV, and for energy efficiency. Dr Hooper is very familiar with the region, through earlier work with the USAID (with Newbery, Churchill College and Faculty of Economics) and the World Bank (with former colleagues at the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy at UEA). Final publication of the comprehensive report will be in spring 2018. Dr Hooper presented her initial findings and policy recommendations at the OECD Competitiveness Outlook 2018 Week in Paris in July 2017.

to a new four-room studio, employing five fantastic full-time staff writers, two talented content and communications strategists and an extended team of ten specialist writers. Based in Norwich, the first UNESCO City of Literature, their client list extends to New York, London, San Francisco, Antwerp and Copenhagen. Website: www.grafiklangage.agency

Kelly Smith and Charlotte Reid launch writing agency, GrafikLanguage, in the City of Stories

Nenette won second prize for Best Food and Drink Producer at the Leicestershire Muddy Stilettos awards, a great accolade for such a new business. She won a year’s worth of free business coaching with a government-funded scheme, and also has funding for capital investments from the government.

Words brought Kelly and Charlie together (English, 2012). They met at Lucy over 15 years ago. After building separate careers in creative copywriting, academia and law, the best friends formed a maverick writing agency, GrafikLanguage, in September 2016 with the aim of creating meaningful words and doing meaningful work. The team at GL offer content strategy, copywriting, design and training within a range of specialisms and sectors, including Tech, Fashion, Travel and Leisure, Food and Drink, Law and Education. Just eleven months since their agency launched, they’ve moved from a small start up space

Nenette Scrivener produces luxury hand-made chocolates After graduating in 1995, Nenette Scrivener (Economics, 1992) became a chartered accountant with PwC, but now runs her own company, Nenette Chocolates, having turned her chocolate-making hobby into a business. She hand-makes luxury chocolates, using fresh, and where possible, local, ingredients. Her top-selling flavours include Ginger Salted Caramel, and Gin and Lemon. Speaking at food and drink shows and schools has replaced presenting to corporate board meetings, and the audiences are far more enthusiastic. Nenette demonstrates how to make chocolates, and tells stories about the fascinating history of chocolate, and its journey from ‘bean to bar’.

Shevaun Wilder was elected Chair of The Irish Literary Society Shevaun Wilder (English, 1998) was elected this year as first female Chair of The Irish Literary Society, which was founded by WB Yeats, Douglas Hyde, Maud Gonne et al, in London in 1892. She published Aﬃnities a series of interviews with notable figures in the Arts, a project commissioned by British Council Ireland. Shevaun produced and directed The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour, WB yeats performed at The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, starring Sinead Cusack and Bob Geldof , Rudyard kipling at the British Library with Alan Cox, Sophie Cookson, Henry Goodman and Alan Yentob. She spoke at the TS Eliot International Summer School, with Prof John Kelly, Adrian Dunbar and Deborah Findlay and she co-produced the ‘Edna O’Brien Tribute’, at The Embassy of Ireland, London. Her readings and recording as an actress include Poems of Katherine Tynan, for the RTÉ Poetry Programme, ‘Home’ by Frances Ledwidge for the project ‘Poems on the Underground--, Poems of Alice Milligan (1866–1953) at Dr Catherine Morris’ book launch. She performed Louis MacNeice, ‘Christmas by Candlelight’, Hanover Square, with Professor Roy Foster, Professor Bernard O’Donoghue and Petroc Trelawny.

Nenette has had some excellent feedback from her customers, who delight in telling her that her chocolates ‘should be in Fortnum’s’ and that they are ‘better than Hotel Chocolat!’. And they demonstrate their appreciation in their growing recognition of the brand and repeated purchases, for which she is supremely grateful!

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IN MEMORIAM

In memoriam WE REMEMBER WITH GREAT FONDNESS MEMBERS OF OUR COLLEGE COMMUNITY WHO HAVE PASSED THIS YEAR AND OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH THEIR FAMILIES AND LOVED ONES.

Dr Leigh Stoeber | 15 November 1967 to 14 September 2017 By College President, Jackie Ashley We were very sad to say goodbye to our former Senior Tutor, Dr Leigh Stoeber, who passed away on 14 September 2017 at the Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridge. Dr Stoeber, or “Leigh” as she was called by everyone, joined Lucy Cavendish in 2014, but shortly after her arrival she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She underwent a gruelling course of chemotherapy, and returned to Lucy Cavendish in 2015, having been given the all clear. Her energy and enthusiasm made her immediately popular with students and she set about improving many of our procedures, from induction through to the exam period. Determined that no student should feel at sea when first arriving at Lucy, Leigh instituted more social events, such as “pizza and jazz” and “blues and schmooze” evenings, to bring the new arrivals together. She devised and put in place a Freshers’ treasure hunt, to help them learn more about the College, along with seminars on essay writing, time planning, and making the most of all that Cambridge has to offer.

Leigh was a life-enhancer and leaves a big hole in the lives of many of us at Lucy Cavendish. Two of our students summed it up like this: “She has been my favourite College Fellow and the person who was always there for me; I absolutely adored her.” “Leigh was more than a Senior Tutor to us, she was a friend on hard days, a reviewer of my protocols, a sparkle when we needed inspiration and a human who understood that while we strived for academic success, we had lives and families and that these were the most important things, not to be forgotten or ever taken for granted.”

Leigh was a brilliant student herself, having won several international science prizes during her school years, and went to Duke University at the young age of 15, after being moved up several years at school because of her intelligence. Yet she was always aware of the importance of balancing work with social, sporting and cultural activities. She was concerned by the growing number of mental health issues among students and worked hard to alleviate them. Leigh introduced revision classes and the very popular “take a break” sessions during the examination periods, bringing in puppies, ice-creams and massages. She also decided we needed a College counsellor for students to consult on site, and managed to secure one for a day a week. Leigh dealt with countless issues with a ready smile and an endless supply of chocolates. Although she was juggling her demanding job with a young family, she always had time for her students at Lucy and often worked extremely long days. She brought with her an infectious good humour and great enthusiasm for life, throwing herself into our different traditions, from Halloween Formal Hall (she was the best-dressed witch) to the Christmas carol concert and the summer garden party. In February of this year, Leigh was sent for further scans after suffering neck pain. She then received the devastating news that the metastatic cancer had spread. Leigh resigned as Senior Tutor while she underwent several more months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, but retained a passionate interest in the students at Lucy. She was delighted to see our exam results this summer, when the College rose eight places in the Tompkins table. Leigh had managed to come into College for some of this year’s revision sessions and loved working with the Student Union to make the revision period less stressful. During a break from her treatment in July, Leigh and her family went on a carefree, joyous and unexpectedly sunny family holiday in the Scottish highlands. It was a blissful time for her, a short respite from the draining chemotherapy. Shortly afterwards, Leigh’s disease took a turn for the worse and left her too unwell to say her goodbyes to the Lucy Cavendish community. 46

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Leigh’s great passion in life was her family. She would regularly bring her two boys, William and Dylan into College and they became familiar faces around the cafeteria and the pool table. We would enjoy hearing of their successes in chess matches and on the football and cricket pitches. Her husband Kai was a regular visitor too and we send all our sympathy to “Leigh’s boys” for their terrible loss. Before she died, Leigh told Kai that she wanted to set up a bursary at Lucy Cavendish and we are working with the family to achieve this. Leigh’s memory will live on at Lucy Cavendish for many years to come. ANNUAL REVIEW 2016/2017

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Dr Hilary Belcher | 19 November 1929 – 18 January 2017

Karen Anne Hore | 1953 - 2016

By Dr Jane M Renfrew

By Lizzie Speller

The College was very sorry to learn of the death of Dr Hilary Belcher. She had a long association with Lucy Cavendish, to which she had been introduced by Dr Anna Bidder. She was made a Member of the Combination Room in 1970, and a Senior Member in 1971.

Karen was born in Ballarat, Australia and died in the Arthur Rank Hospice, Cambridge last December. Aged just 21 Karen made the long voyage to London, following her dream of working in theatre. The list of productions she worked on as Wardrobe Mistress covers most of the big names of the 70’s and 80’s. She would, subsequently, watch historical drama with an unforgiving eye alert to any anachronism in dress. This passion eventually led her to Lucy Cavendish, where she matriculated in 1993 to read History. Her Cambridge companion was her beloved Bichon Frise, Rags: a dog of deceptively sweet appearance and jealous heart. Karen gained a PGCFE and moved to Wales, Oxford, Brussels and Rome. She adored Rome almost as much as she hated her job in a dodgy language school, so returned across midwinter Europe in her ancient car. Once settled in Sutton she began to teach evening classes. Costume in Film was always the most popular.

Dr Hilary Belcher (left) with Lorna Morrisson

Dr Belcher was born in Stoke Newington and educated at Tottenham Grammar School. After working part-time for a degree at South West Essex Technical College she gained a London External General Degree of BSc in Botany, Zoology and Chemistry in 1950. She became an Honorary Research Assistant to Professor Tony Fogg at UCL, and obtained a BSc (Hons) in Botany at Birkbeck College, followed by a PhD in Botany at UCL. Her post-doctoral research was on the complex plankton alga, Botryococcus. Hilary met her life-time companion, Dr Erica Swale, in 1955 at a scientific meeting at Ferry House, Windermere, and in 1960 both were given the opportunity to work there at the Freshwater Biological Association Laboratory, Hilary as a scientific officer working on the taxonomy of freshwater algae with Dr JWD Lund. Hilary and Erica enjoyed ten years in the Lake District. In 1967 they spent three months in the Botany Department of Leeds University learning electron microscopy under Professor I Manton. In 1969 Hilary was awarded a DSc by the University of London. In 1970, they both took up jobs helping to set up the NERC laboratory in Cambridge, known as the Culture Centre of Algae and Protozoa. Hilary was the Principal Scientific Officer and Deputy Director, in charge of the marine section, and Erica was in charge of electron microscopy. It was at this time that they met Dr Anna Bidder, who suggested membership of Lucy Cavendish College. Hilary became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1972,

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and of the Institute of Biology in 1978. Together Hilary and Erica wrote A Beginner’s Guide to Freshwater Algae, which was very successful. After retiring in 1981, Hilary became Suffolk County Recorder of freshwater algae. Hilary was very ingenious: in her teens, she made a camera out of an old Harpic tin, which she used to make micro photographs. She modelled plastic algae and clay animals, and was a good needlewoman, making a full crinoline outfit, and, for Dr Hilda Davidson, a costume for a Welsh witch!

Her 60th birthday was celebrated in Paris with Cambridge friends but just months later she was diagnosed with a very rare and aggressive tumour. At this point Karen was given three months to live but she was having none of it and through stamina, obduracy and denial, she lived for nearly two years. Karen had no family in the UK but, many years after she had left Lucy, it was mostly alumnae and their friends who became an eccentric proxy family, providing support and affectionate companionship until her death. She threw a splendid “living wake” party at the hospice and died just days later. Her last request was for Catherine Hopkins (m.1991) to make her a copy of an elaborately embroidered C17 shroud.

At Lucy Cavendish, Hilary and Erica made important and much appreciated financial contributions to the Student Hardship Fund, and to the gardens. In 1993 they supported Bosnian student Melica Pasic to come and complete her degree, which had been interrupted by the Bosnian War. In the gardens, they gave the splendid tulip tree on College House lawn, and the grove of silver birch trees between Oldham Hall and Lady Margaret Road. They funded the winter flowering cyclamen beside Oldham Hall, and the labelling of plants in the Anglo Saxon Herb Garden. They also funded Carolyn Woolsey to work with the gardeners for a year. Hilary was a valuable member of the Garden Committee, and she and Erica ran a regular plant stall at the College’s Garden Party. Their quiet support for the College over nearly 50 years has played an important part in its growth and prosperity.

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DONORS

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Thank you to our donors We would like to thank the many donors who generously supported our College between 1 July 2016 and 30 June 2017.

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